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Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas, feelings and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean it submit to a new reality – or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what does it reveal about the world that came before it?
Suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these extraordinary times, Intimations is a slim, suggestive volume with a wide scope, in which Zadie Smith clears a generous space for thought, open enough for each reader to reflect on what has happened – and what might come next.
The isolation of the pandemic has created a space for the mind that we've never experienced before. Or maybe I shouldn't say created, maybe it was always there, but in the long-term suspension of anything resembling the sort of life we had always taken for granted has finally become un-ignorable. I think whether this is a good thing or a hellish thing probably depends on the day, and what sort of person you are – in terms of both privilege and disposition. In Intimations, Zadie Smith's utterly absorbing series of essays about pandemic life, she describes us as being "Confronted with the problem of life served neat, without distraction or adornment or superstructure", and Zadie, like us, has "almost no idea what to do with it". So we sit and we think, or we try not to think, and in the grey space between those two goals we reach for books like this, which are like a fresh hot water bottle in a cold lap – they burn a little, but they comfort too.
Rightly or not, I tend to read essay collections with the hope they will 'explain life' to me, to unlock some previously unidentified truth that will make me 'solved' for having read them. The first thing I often do find, but I'm less sure about the second – I think perhaps that will continue to mostly evade me until I pluck up the courage to start writing it for myself. While I definitely went into Intimations with my usual attitude of teach me how to be, Zadie, the profound experience I had with this book – and continue to have when I pick it up from time to time to reread an essay as I have done since I first read it – shook me.
The past year has been a destabilising lurch into the unknown. Before now most of us – the lucky ones, I guess – never understood how living in a real-life disaster movie could be so boring. We've clung to routine, or no routine, great habits and maladaptive ones, obsessive scrolling and Netflix – our coping mechanisms in the absence of any roadmap instructing us How to Deal. This whole time, we should have just been reading Intimations instead.
I'm not saying you'll finish these six essays knowing suddenly how to mark time in some way other than with whatever you're going to eat next (just me?) – like I said, essays don't tend to 'solve' you, much as you might wish them to – but Zadie's words go some way towards lifting the emotional burden. I'm writing this the day after Alexandria Orcasio Cortez's Instagram Live where she revealed the details of what happened to her during the storming of the capital, and before that, how her response to that trauma was informed by a previous sexual assault. During that video she talked a lot about trauma, and how doubt over the legitimacy of our own experience – stoked by the gas lighting of a society that hasn't figured out how to face its own darkness – stops us from talking about it. And this is so counter intuitive, she explained, because research has actually shown that one of the ways that we process trauma is to talk about it, by telling people: This Is What Happened To Me.
That's what Zadie Smith is doing in Intimations.
It's been really hard to figure out how to talk about suffering during the pandemic, when so many of us are in such fortunate positions of privilege. When the entire world is going through the exact same thing, how can you talk about your individual suffering? I don't know about anyone else, but there have been times in the midst of all this when I am having an especially bad day I have found myself berating myself along the lines of – so today you're making a literally global pandemic all about you?
Yep. I guess.
As Zadie writes: "…it is possible to penetrate the bubble of privilege and even pop it – whereas the suffering bubble is impermeable. Language, logic, argument, rationale and relative perspective itself are no match for it." It's an essay that suggests rather than berating ourselves for this sense of our own suffering we might be better served by accepting it, feeling empathy for it – so that ultimately, we might give other people the same kindness.
Intimations is a collection filled with these small truths – the writing brings with it a sort of clarity that you want to sit in conversation with. It is a work that keeps informing your day to day long after you have turned the final page. It's a conversation about quarantine, and time, and the murder of George Floyd – an essay that points towards the other pandemic, the one that has been slowly killing us without half of the headlines: contempt.
She writes: "Patient zero of this particular virus stood on a slave-ship four hundred years ago, looked down at the sweating, bleeding, moaning mass below deck, and reverse-engineered an emotion – contempt – from a situation he, the patient himself, had created. He looked at the human beings he had chained up and noted that they seemed to be the type of people who wore chains. So unlike other people. Frighteningly unlike!"
It is a time of trauma – not equally distributed – and none of us know what to do. We don't know "what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it", and it feels like our identities have been swallowed by that reality. Intimations doesn't have the solution – though for a short while at least does answer the question of what to do with all that time. The solution probably, let's face it, doesn't really exist – or isn't so much one achievable thing as a multitude of shifting and evolving goal posts. But it says something important, all the same.
This is what happened to me.
Author Lydia TewkesburyPosted on February 9, 2021 Categories Non FictionTags book reviews, books, Covid 19, Essays, Intimations, Non Fiction, Pandemic, reading, Zadie Smith7 Comments on Intimations
Trick Mirror
We are living in the era of the self, an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino explores her own coming of age in this warped and confusing landscape.
From the rise of the internet to her appearance on an early reality TV show as a teenager; from her experiences of ecstasy – both religious and chemical – to her uneasy engagement with our culture's endless drive towards 'self-optimisation'; from the phenomenon of the successful American scammer to the extravagance of wedding culture, Jia Tolentino writes with style, humour and a fierce clarity about these strangest of times.
Following in the footsteps of American luminaries such as Susan Sontag, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, yet with a voice and wisdom all her own, Jia Tolentino writes with a rare gift for elucidating nuance and complexity, coupled with a disarming warmth. This debut collection of essays announces her as exactly the sort of voice we need to hear from right now – and for many years to come.
You know when a book is almost too good to review? Where a writer has accessed a level of insight so profound you could never possibly do it justice?
I refer you to Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, a book of essays that blew my mind, made me uncomfortable, made me laugh out loud and, you know, casually reassess basically everything about my life.
In the first piece of Trick Mirror, 'The I in Internet', Jia lays out her thesis statement for everything that is to come – and still, I wasn't ready. Trick Mirror is a book about consequences, and moving the larger part of our lives online has come with some we never could have anticipated. Perhaps the most distressing of which, Jia argues, is the commodification of the self ("capitalism's last natural resource"), and the inflation of the importance of personal identity that followed. As Jia writes, "It's as if we've been placed on a lookout that oversees the entire world and given a pair of binoculars that makes everything look like our own reflection."
In this world, having an opinion is conflated with taking action; feminism isn't about the collective so much as #GirlBoss-style individual advancement substituted for progress – or as Jia puts it, "A politics built around getting and spending money is sexier than a politics built around politics" – and we have generally accepted the notion that maybe the best way a person can spend their life is to identify areas of potential profit and take whatever they can under the guise of 'disrupting' (or, more accurately, "dismantling social structures to suck up cash from whatever corners of life can still be exploited.")
Generally speaking, the only way to make it through the day and remain sane is to have a problematically high tolerance for fucked up things. Trick Mirror lowers that shield, and demands the reader's discomfort as we are brought face to face with the hypocrisies and glaring dilemmas of the system we have agreed to live in. No one is allowed off the hook – not even Jia, who readily implicates herself in a conversation that refuses binaries. It's as refreshing as it is distressing to read.
It's impossible for me to pick a favourite from this collection, because they are so impactful in such different ways, but 'Always Be Optimising' struck particularly close to home. A sprawling essay taking in the history of barre, beauty standards, influencer culture and the failures of the mainstream feminist movement, it lays bare a lot of the bullshit you encounter day to day as a woman.
"It's very easy, under certain conditions of artificial but continually escalating obligation, to find yourself organising your life around practices you find ridiculous and possibly indefensible. Women have known this intimately for a long time."
As the world has expanded we're dealing with not only unrealistic beauty standards, but unrealistic lifestyle standards (My Morning Routine and What I Eat In A Day videos, anyone?), where a relentless pursuit of self-improvement is advertised under the guise of female empowerment and 'self-care'. In one of the many throw-the-book-across-the-room moments (those can be good too) I had during reading, Jia highlights the irony of the rebrand we've gifted the impossible standards women are expected to achieve. It's no longer mid-century magazines imploring us to "spend time and money trying to be more radiant for our husbands, we now counsel one another to do all the same things but for ourselves."
Like I said before, everyone is implicated.
With Trick Mirror, Jia has cemented herself forever as one of my favourite writers. I have already read most of the essays multiple times, and writing this I got lost in them all over again. I really can't recommend this book enough.
Author Lydia TewkesburyPosted on August 18, 2020 Categories Non FictionTags book reviews, Essays, Jia Tolentino, journalism, Non Fiction, Pop Culture, reading, Trick Mirror5 Comments on Trick Mirror
The Lonely City
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art.
Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most compelling artists, Laing conducts an eclectic, dazzling investigation into what it means it be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be redeemed and embraced.
How are you doing, really? Are you on lockdown? Are you a key worker?
I'm at home. In the past two weeks I went from working in an office, to working from home, to furloughed from work until further notice, the magazine I work on suspended from publication. I live with housemates, all men, none I am particularly close to – though we're getting a bit closer, inevitably I guess. I'm lonely, and I am afraid what the total lack of structure in my life will do to my brain, which veers towards the angsty and sad even at the best of times.
I've gotten really into Money Heist. Like, to be honest, that show is my life now and I don't know what I'm going to do when it's over. If you have any recommendations they will be gratefully received.
What I'm saying is that one way or another, it felt like the perfect time to revisit, The Lonely City, a book of essays by Olivia Laing that I read during my months of non-blogging. When I picked up the book and reread a couple of essays this morning to refresh my memory for this very review it felt like a risk – would this make me feel better, or would it make the dread that has been creeping over me since the weekend all the worse?
Fortunately, it was the former. The Lonely City isn't precisely an uplifting read, but it is a cathartic one. Post-break up and in a foreign country, Olivia wrote this book in a period of absolute solitude. During that time, when even ordering a coffee became a challenge because she felt so painfully self-conscious about herself (something I felt on a spiritual level), she found solace and a kind of kindship in the stories of the lonely artists that came before her. She looked at the work they created to fix themselves – or if not that, patch over their worst of it – as a road map for the way out of her own heartbreak, which began over one person and over time grew into something much larger than that.
"So much of the pain of loneliness is to do with concealment, with feeling compelled to hide vulnerability, to tuck ugliness away, to cover up scars as if they are literally repulsive. But why hide? What's so shameful about wanting, about desire, about having failed to achieve satisfaction, about experiencing unhappiness? Why this need to constantly inhabit peak states, or to be comfortably sealed inside a unit of two, turned inward from the world at large?"
The book is filled with stories of artists, a lot of them from the 70s and 80s, and the various ways they did and did not manage to connect in their lives and work. They are painful, bittersweet and comforting all at the same time. Maybe my favourite was the story of Andy Warhol, who, hampered first by his weak grasp of English and second by his paralysing hatred of his body, started to use technology as a means of shielding himself from others. He started carrying a tape recorder with him everywhere he went, recording all of his interactions as part of some wider art project that seemed like it was as much about creating a means of holding himself at a safe distance from his friends and boyfriends as it was the end product, a book called a, which no one read.
These essays are filled with people who lived their lives on the fringes; people of colour, queer people, the mentally ill and those living in poverty, many of them not allowed a voice during their lifetimes. People like Henry Darger, the janitor who spent his entire life in poverty who was discovered to be an incredibly prolific artist and writer when his landlord came to clean out his apartment after he'd been hospitalised for what would be the final time. He may also have been a total psycho (his artwork is scary weird) – but nobody ever knew him, so no one knows for sure.
The Lonely City is an exploration of a subject we're all facing right now in new and frightening ways. What is a world where we can't go around to your friend's place to watch a movie? How do you cope when all you want is a hug from your mum, but she is quarantined miles away from you? What this book does, somewhat paradoxically, is classify loneliness as a community experience – because at some point, to some degree, we've all been there.
Especially right now.
"If I sound adamant it is because I am speaking from personal experience. When I came to New York I was in pieces, and though it sounds perverse, the way I recovered a sense of wholeness was not by meeting someone or by falling in love, but rather by handling the things that other people had made, slowly absorbing by way of this contact the fact that loneliness, longing, does not mean one has failed, but simply that one is alive."
Author Lydia TewkesburyPosted on March 30, 2020 Categories MemoirTags book review, books, Essays, Memoir, Olivia Laing, reading, The Lonely City4 Comments on The Lonely City
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge is the book about race and Britain I didn't know I needed.
So, a weird thing about the British education system – at least, back when I was in it – is that you don't really learn anything about the history of race in the country. The UK's colonialist history, the atrocities it has inflicted on other countries, how those wounds continue to be felt today were – and I am embarrassed to admit this, but I'll be honest about it – things I learned entirely by accident through fiction.
I know how white I sound right now.
And yet even in the last few years, as I've learned chunks of a history that even now my country fails to be held accountable for, a lot of what I have learned about black history in particular has been through an American lens. It's a phenomenon Eddo-Lodge describes in the book, the "heavy focus on Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad and Martin Luther King Jr., the household names of America's civil rights movement felt important" to her, but far away from her own experiences as a black person in the UK.
Eddo-Lodge then sets up the history of black Britain in brief, from the slave ports dotted all over the country (one of them very near where I live that I had no idea about) to the black and brown soldiers who fought in World War One, promised the end of colonial rule in return for their service (a promise England broke), race riots and the utterly horrifying lynching of Charles Wootton – to which Britain responded by 'repatriating' (deporting, basically) 600 black people from the country.
In setting up the history of racism in Britain and its manifestation now, as a reader you can't help but reflect on what's changed – but more strikingly, what hasn't. In 1900, the British government decided that the 'solution' to the problem of racist crime in the community was to send black people 'home' (to places they had been forcibly removed from by the British who enslaved them). Nowadays we deal with structural racism with a similar 'out of sight, out of mind' approach – by pretending it doesn't exist. As Eddo-Lodge says, white people "truly believe that the experiences of their life as a result of their skin colour can and should be universal." And yet as she goes onto explain, with the stark disparities in educational opportunities, higher unemployment rates, harsher police responses (for example, black people are twice as likely to be charged with drug possession despite lower rates of use), disproportionate and inappropriate use of the Mental Health Act and generally worse health outcomes for black people, this narrative of equality we have invented quickly falls apart.
Every section of this book is fascinating and challenging, but none more so than the chapter about feminism – specifically Eddo-Lodge's points about white feminism. That is, for the uninitiated, feminism that doesn't take account of race. If you're a white girl born in the nineties, in other words, the feminism that you were brought up on. Eddo-Lodge writes in detail about her experiences with white feminism, and in particular the way that white women often frame themselves as victims in a conversation about their own privilege (think Taylor Swift/ Nicki Minaj VMAs incident from a few years ago) in such a way that paints black women as 'angry' villains, effectively pushing them out of the conversation. As Eddo-Lodge puts it: "The white feminist distaste for intersectionality quickly evolved into a hatred for the idea of white privilege – perhaps because to recognise structural racism would have to mean recognising their own whiteness."
White feminism perceives intersectionality as a threat to its identity. It's the same old racism under new guise, and one that is rampant even in what many white people consider to be progressive circles.
Even if non-fiction isn't your go-to, I think you should read this book. Eddo-Lodge's work is important, powerful and deeply engaged with the political moment without pandering to the idea that racism is something that just happened in the last couple years – she's very clear that it's only white people who hadn't noticed it before 2016. It's a work that also serves as a call to action and a reminder, for white readers anyway, that the job of picking apart structural racism is the responsibility of everyone – most especially those who have spent their entire lives benefitting from it.
Reni Eddo-Lodge is a vital writer and Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race should be at the top of every intersectional feminist's reading list.
Author Lydia TewkesburyPosted on May 3, 2019 Categories Books to Read in Your Twenties, FeminismTags book reviews, books, Essays, Feminism, Memoir, race, racism, reading, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race8 Comments on Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. She vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding that that your mates are always there at the end of every messy night out. It's a book about bad dates, good friends and – above all else – about recognising that you and you alone are enough.
I grabbed a copy of Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton on a whim at the checkout in Sainsbury's. It was £3.99, I was stocking up on yoghurt and pasta. It made sense.
I knew very little about the book besides a few people I follow on Instagram posting about how great it was and assumed from the title that it was probably about boys. And, for the first couple of chapters at least, I was right. Dolly Alderton starts what very much appears to be a book about dating before she pivots into a much more complicated story about friendship, self-destruction, loss, grief, therapy and independence – and cooking. There is a macaroni cheese recipe in there that'll make you lose your mind.
"Sometimes the gap between the little faith you have compared to the unwavering faith of others is a very moving thing."
Everything I Know About Love is a series of funny, heart-wrenching and sometimes cringe-inducing personal essays about Alderton's life, from her beginnings living in the outskirts of London counting down the days until adulthood finally begins, to her discovery of alcohol and its impact on her, some boys and, of course, her personal reckoning – with herself. These essays are broken up by recipes (I know I mentioned this already but the hangover mac and cheese is life changing), made up correspondence on everything from pretentious house parties to the nightmare that is the hen do in the social media age and everything Dolly knew about love between the ages of 21 and 30. From "Men love a filthy, wild woman. Have sex on the first date, keep them up all night, smoke hash in their bed in the morning, never call them back, tell them you hate them, turn up on their doorstep in an Ann Summers nurse's outfit, be anything but conventional. That's how you keep them interested." (21) to "There is a reason why those with shared demons or who had similar childhoods or overlapping ancestry often end up together. I think everyone's deepest emotional fingerprints reach out and touch each other on an unconscious level. This can be good and bad. This can lead to intimacy and connection, and co-dependency and drama." (30). Each list is full of embarrassing misconceptions and deep truths I've been reflecting on ever since.
In 'Being a Bit Fat, Being a Bit Thin', Alderton details how quickly it is possible to fall into disordered eating habits. Always described as "a big girl" by her peers, Dolly hadn't considered her weight in much detail before her first Big Break Up age 21. Struck down by unexpected heartbreak, for the first time in her life, Dolly found herself completely unable to eat. When she shed a stone in the first few weeks she grabbed hold of weight as one aspect of her life she could control. This is a difficult essay to read, as it speaks very directly to how ingrained diet culture is – in young women in particular. We have been so socialised into believing that thin equals happy even the most reasonable person is vulnerable to falling into that belief – and, as Alderton points out, it's one that is incredibly difficult to ever be completely free from. Once you know something's caloric value, it's very hard to forget.
When I saw the title Everything I Know About Love, I assumed the love Alderton referenced was mostly the romantic kind, but the love story at the centre of her memoir is a platonic one. She and her best friend, Farley have known each other since they were children. They always functioned as two parts of a frenetic whole – that is, until Farley met her partner. Alderton writes with honesty and humility about how hard it was for her to see her best friend fall in love. It is one of the lesser spoken of aspects of friendship, but the particular heartbreak of suddenly becoming second to your friend's serious partner is a real and horrible phase of life at whatever age it happens to you. Going from speaking to and seeing each other every day to suddenly having to fit into the newly busy schedule of your bestie can be unmooring, alienating and very, very lonely. But, slowly, you adjust to the new normal. The partner you've resented comes to feel like family.
Alderton illustrates that periods of closeness and distance are all a part of a long-term relationship, something that becomes very apparent when Farley's life takes a completely unexpected and tragic twist – leading she and Dolly back to the kind of closeness they hadn't had in years, under the most awful of circumstances. It's not the kind of unconditional love she had always pictured, but, Dolly comes to realise, she and Farley have it. Alderton spends much of the book lamenting her supposed inability to maintain long-term love. Her life has mainly been without serious romantic relationships, and she wears her independence like a shield. But the idea that she doesn't have forever-love in her life isn't real. Farley is the great (platonic) love of her life – with all the joys, fights, complications and phases that entails.
All I can say to sum up this book is this: I was not ready.
Author Lydia TewkesburyPosted on April 5, 2019 Categories MemoirTags book reviews, books, Books to Read in Your Twenties, Dolly Alderton, Essays, Everything I Know About Love, Memoir, Women15 Comments on Everything I Know About Love
Why A Field Guide to Getting Lost is the book you need in your life right now
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit is a series of meditations on what it means to be lost. Through a combination of her stunning writing, unreal bank of quotes from writers, philosophers and painters and stories about obscure historical figures, she writes a thoughtful and beautiful series of essays on our continuous fascination and fear of stepping into the unknown.
These essays are meandering, switching from rambling (in a good way) stories from history – how painters have recreated the horizon through the centuries, white settlers adopted into native American tribes, an artist determined to capture an image of the perfect leap – and anecdotes from Solnit's life – love affairs with strange desert-dwelling men, the loss of her friend to a heroin overdose, her missing great-grandmother (I also have a vanished great-great-grandmother, so I particularly enjoyed this one).
Solnit's writing has to be experienced. So, I figured, rather than a review I'd select a few choice quotes that best show why A Field Guide to Getting Lost is such a vital read. And not just because Solnit is probably one of the best writers alive today.
(She is though)
"To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away… to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography."
"And some people travel far more than others. There are those who receive as a birth right an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis."
"But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss."
"A happy love is a single story, a disintegrating one is two or more competing, conflicting versions, and a disintegrated one lies at your feet like a shattered mirror, each shard reflecting a different story, that it was terrible, if only this had, if only that hadn't. The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers and occasionally maps and compasses."
"When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't – and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown."
"Movies are made out of darkness as well as light; it is the surpassingly brief intervals of darkness between each luminous still image that make it possible to assemble the many images into one moving picture. Without the darkness, there would only be a blur."
"That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost."
Author Lydia TewkesburyPosted on March 10, 2019 Categories Books to Read in Your TwentiesTags A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Adventure, Essays, Inspiration, Lost, Quotes, Rebecca Solnit4 Comments on Why A Field Guide to Getting Lost is the book you need in your life right now
Too Much and Not the Mood
On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer's Diary with the words "too much and not the mood." She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the "cramming in and the cutting out" to please readers, wondering if she had anything at all that was truly worth saying.
The character of that sentiment, the attitude of it, inspired Durga Chew-Bose to collect her own unconventional work. The result is a lyrical and piercingly insightful cluster of essays-meet-prose poetry about identity and culture.
Informed by Maggie Nelsons Bluets, Lydia Davis's stories, and Vivian Gornick's exploration of interior life, Chew-Bose mines the inner restlessness that keeps her always on the brink of creative expression. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, Too Much and Not the Mood is a lush, surprising, and affecting examination of what it means to be a first-generation, creative young woman working today.
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I read a lot of essay collections written by women. I treat them like instruction manuals for life; I return to them over and over and over again when I need to scratch a particular emotional itch.
You probably know the one I mean.
But in all the collections that line my bookshelves there is nobody quite like Durga Chew-Bose. It makes sense to me that she named her collection after a Virginia Woolf quote because Too Much and Not the Mood flows, bounces and draws up short in a stream of consciousness style that is distinctly Woolfian.
I was thrown off balance as soon as I started reading, finding the first essay, 'Heart Museum' (probably the most experimental of the collection) was 93 pages long. It's Chew-Bose at her most whimsical. You don't so much open the door into her world as tumble, Alice in Wonderland-style endlessly down into her interior life, wondering, all the while, how she managed to paint the inside of her brain in a way that makes introversion feel big instead of claustrophobic. The essay meanders through anxiety, writing, your woman friends who make you feel more connected than anybody else, so called 'nook' people and the purpose and beauty that can be found in, as she calls it, intentionally digressing.
In Too Much and Not the Mood, Chew-Bose is preoccupied by her childhood and her relationship with her parents in particular. In another standout essay, 'D as In', she writes about her experience of being a first-generation kid, and how being a woman of colour comes with 'an assumption that I owe strangers an answer when they inquire' but where are you from from? It is a beautiful piece about finding your identity while living in a society that so often imposes a limited one on people from minorities.
My copy of the book is filled with dog-eared pages. Durga Chew-Bose's writing is like unwrapping a gift or sinking into a hot bath after a long day. There is something luxurious about existing in the interior space that she creates. A great example of this is the piece 'On Living Alone', which she writes of as an exercise in getting to know the person she's spent her whole life avoiding: herself. She writes: 'Living alone, I soon caught on, is a form of self-portraiture, or retracing the same lines over and over – of becoming.'
There were so many moments while reading that I had to put the book down and quietly wonder at her writing. There were other times I had to wave the book in the air and read out passages to the nearest friend or family member I could grab hold of. I took photos of quotes and sent them to my friends, to confused responses mostly. Chew-Bose has such a poetic way of cutting to the heart of a feeling in a way that made me catch my breath.
In the final essay of the collection 'My Least and Most Aware', she recounts meeting up with an ex, and the way that all of the old resentments she thought she'd moved past came rushing back to the surface. She writes:
'We laboured, he and I, over niceties. Listening to him felt like work. It was as though we were both trying to retrieve a mutual tenderness that had fallen from our hands and rolled into a storm drain.'
I already know this is one I'll be reading over and over.
Author Lydia TewkesburyPosted on July 5, 2017 Categories Books to Read in Your TwentiesTags Belletrist, Durga Chew-Bose, Essays, Memoir, Too Much and Not the Mood5 Comments on Too Much and Not the Mood
Birthday Book Haul
On my birthday (November 9th), I woke up to several messages that looked something like this: 'Happy Birthday! OH GOD DON'T CHECK THE NEWS!!!' Despite the good intentions of my friends, as we have all had the horrible experience of learning: Trump is impossible to ignore.
According to every good story ever, hate doesn't win*. How long are we supposed to wait for that outcome, exactly?
Times like this – like when my country voted for Brexit – it is very easy to feel distant from the rest of humanity, to start seeing the whole thing as nothing more than a mass of hatred and misunderstanding.
This is a bad road to go down. Even though I know that – even though we all do, really – it still feels like a cliff I am forever scrambling up the edge of. For me, the footholds are often my books.
Fortunately for me, on November 9th I acquired some new books. (courtesy of my mum – thanks, mum!)
My reading list for the next few weeks is as follows:
After Alice – Gregory Maguire
When Alice fell down the Rabbit hole, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But how did Victorian Oxford react to Alice's disappearance?
Gregory Maguire turns his imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings – and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Caroll's enduring tale. Ada, a friend mentioned briefly in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, sets out to visit Alice but arrives a moment too late. Tumbling down the rabbit hole herself, she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the world.
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays – Virginia Woolf
A while back I read an essay from this collection called 'Street Haunting'. It is about that moment when you feel compelled, for no particular reason, to abandon Netflix and wander the cold streets alone, creeping in the windows of random houses and imagining the lives of the strangers living there. This is the sort of thing I do all the time, so I thought I should ask for the book in order to find out what else Virginia and I have in common.
If you haven't ever read a Virginia Woolf essay, please do. They are almost always absolutely wonderful.
The Pedestrians – Rachel Zucker
As I've recently written, I'm having a poetry moment. I found Rachel Zucker on Stephanie Danler's instagram.
The only real life I know. 🏙 From The Pedestrians by Rachel Zucker. #mypoets #currentlyreading #bookstagram
A post shared by Stephanie Danler (@smdanler) on Sep 23, 2016 at 5:57am PDT
*J.K. Rowling has a lot to answer for, honestly.
Author Lydia TewkesburyPosted on November 12, 2016 November 10, 2016 Categories Book haul, UncategorizedTags Book haul, Essays, PoetryLeave a comment on Birthday Book Haul


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Could a Tea Party Occupy Wall Street?
The Daily Reckoning
What a difference nearly three years makes. On Inauguration Day 2009, 2 million people converged on Washington, D.C.
"Two million people don't gather in one place unless things are really good, or really bad," we observed that day. "We're having trouble telling the difference these days… One thing is certain: Obama sure has a lot of hype to live up to. Guess that's inevitable when you allow the nation to project all their fears and hopes on you."
"I am new enough on the national political scene," wrote the president two years after his election to the U.S. Senate, "that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views."
"As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them."
Well, at least he had some idea what he was getting into. But he couldn't shake the delusion that the solution to whatever ails "the economy" lies in politics.
Thus, nearly three years later, the palpable disappointment is manifesting itself, like the now-dashed high hopes, outdoors…
The "Occupy Wall Street" crowd is marching uptown today to protest at the homes of J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Koch Industries chief David Koch, among others.
"Objectively," writes retired CIA station chief Haviland Smith, "the demonstrators seem broadly preoccupied with their own powerlessness. They decry the inordinate amount of power and influence held by our very rich and our corporate enterprises and the power of lobbyists to further their goals in a Congress that is essentially for sale."
Reading this assessment, we're struck — and we know we're going to make people uncomfortable saying this — by the parallels between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.
Both movements are born in part from outrage over the 2008-09 bank bailouts. Both feel the "American dream," however they define it, is out of their reach. Both feel left out by a ruling class.
The Tea Party drove one long-time Republican operative to quit after 30 years as a Capitol Hill staffer. But Mike Lofgren recognized where their grievances came from.
"Historical circumstances," he wrote last month, "produced the raw material: the deindustrialization and financialization of America since about 1970 has spawned an increasingly downscale white middle class — without job security (or even without jobs), with pensions and health benefits evaporating and with their principal asset deflating in the collapse of the housing bubble. Their fears are not imaginary; their standard of living is shrinking."
How different is that, really, from the motives impelling the OWS protesters to the streets? For all we know, the OWS protesters are the college grads with no jobs stuck living in their Tea Party parents' basement.
Heck, even some of the Tea Partiers might support the OWS protesters notions of "tax the rich."
Eight out of 10 Americans support raising taxes on households earning more than $250,000 a year, according to a new Bloomberg/Washington Post poll.
That includes 81% of Democrats, 67% of independents, and 51% of Republicans.
The poll also finds 82% ruling out any cuts to Medicare, and 83% opposing any cuts to Social Security.
Presumably that would include the Tea Partiers who were insisting two years ago, "Keep your government hands off my Medicare."
Sure gets ugly when people can no longer project their views onto the president.
Addison Wiggin
for The Daily Reckoning
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When it comes to customer service, social media is always right. Today, social media is changing the way consumers interact with companies to such an extent that industry experts predict social media will be the future of customer service. According to a new infographic by Go-Globe called "Social Media and Customer Service: Statistics and Trends," a whopping 90% of businesses will use social media for customer service by 2020. And with more than a billion consumers on Facebook and hundreds of millions on Instagram and Twitter, social media provides a phenomenal forum for direct communication between consumers and brands. No wonder customer service interactions have soared 250% on Twitter over the last two years. Along with serving as an effective way for consumers and brands to communicate, social media is also surprisingly efficient. To understand the growing popularity of these platforms for customer care relations, Business 2 Community reported on why social responds so well to customer service.
It's no longer enough for a business to listen to a consumer complaint, customers now demand a response directly from the company. This used to cost businesses a lot of time, money, and resources because they had to build, staff, and operate customer call centers. Also, it cost customers time waiting to reach the proper departments and speak to the right representatives.
But social media slashes those costs significantly by providing an inexpensive platform for direct access and communication. With the explosion of multiple messaging and smartphone apps in recent years, consumers now have countless ways to communicate with brands right at their fingertips. These technological tools make it much faster and easier for consumers to reach customer service representatives, which is making the platforms so popular among consumers.
Responding to customer service matters on social media casts a favorable light on brands. According to the infographic, customers that have a satisfying social media experience are three times more likely to recommend the company to others. Companies that fail to respond to a customer issue are perceived as insensitive and arrogant. Simply responding to a customer service issue in a timely manner on social media can greatly improve a company's image and convey the brand's integrity.
According to the infographic, using social media for customer service saves brands time and money, while making customers spend more time and money. Handling customer care on social media costs only a fraction of call center interactions which is why many companies already favor dealing with customer issues on social platforms instead of by traditional telephone methods. Social media also saves time for consumers by letting them leave a comment or message on a brand's social media page instead of spending hours on the phone.
Just as important as the savings, is the rise in consumer spending that results from a positive social media experience. The infographic showed that consumers spend up to 40% more with a business when they receive a prompt customer service response.
Social media is clearly the future of customer service, so brands would be wise to connect with the customer-centric concept today.
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I am super excited about some the recipes I am trying out this week and weekend! I have been going out into the blogging world and discovering new sites I have never been to. These different people are so brilliant it is amazing all of the creativity that is out there. Like I have said before I draw inspiration from so many people, places and things and I love now being able to draw inspiration from all of these different bloggers and utilizing it to do something that I love to do! So stay tuned for the up and coming recipes I will be posting! Enjoy, thank you for reading and as always Happy Treats!


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Active State Support for Criminal Activities in Canada
Marcellus: "Something is rotten in the State of Denmark". Horatio: "Heaven will direct it." (Hamlet, Act One, Scene Four)
In the State of Canada and the Province of British Columbia… something seems rotten … and Heaven seems tardy in "directing" it.
We know that two unfortunate converts to Islam (repairing heroin addicts) were allegedly entrapped by the RCMP in order to create what is called a "False Flag" – a fake terrorist event – this one on the legislature grounds of British Columbia on July 1, 2013 (… growing to be a long time ago!).
Before an application was made to Justice Catherine Bruce of the B.C. Supreme Court to erase the jury verdict of guilty against Amanda Korody and John Nuttall – the two unfortunates were removed from their modest apartment (most of their belongings disappearing); they spent time in jail (remands); and since 2013 have been subject to forces, pressures, and actions that no innocent Canadian should ever face.
The 217 page judgement of Justice Catherine Bruce leaves almost no question whatever that a gigantic RCMP action (involving more than 200 police officers and a huge budget) operated in B.C. and Ottawa to "create" a Terrorist Event that, otherwise, would have had no possibility of existing.
That alarming event must be placed with two others that, coincidentally, occurred during the term in office of the Stephen Harper Conservative government. In October of 2014, a highly dramatic series of events occurred culminating in the shooting of a soldier at the Ottawa Cenotaph. And then in High Hollywood Style a shoot-out followed in Canada's Parliament Buildings, killing another person.
The RCMP: Misuse of Power and Strange Behavior … Again
The Search for Justice in British Columbia
The Brainwash Machine: We're all in it
Brenda Lucki's Instruction: "Deal with Anything But the Criminalities of the RCMP"
If … as some suggest may be the case … the whole matter was – like the B.C. event – a prepared charade, a Major False Flag (terrorist event) … no progress is possible so far in the matter since Canadian Government is not lifting a finger to investigate and there is no Catherine Bruce on the scene, operative, in that picture. In addition … as reported to me … there is no cooperation extended to responsible people asking questions of responsible (?) authorities in Ottawa.
In that case, too… Heaven is taking a very long time to direct matters ….
The third event seems unrelated but, in the large picture, probably is not. The attacks on Senator Mike Duffy for an alleged battery of wrongs (leading to trial in 2016) involved RCMP investigators and a court case. Working closely (of course) with the Prosecutions Office and the whole panoply of related authorities, the RCMP provided "evidence" that led to a truly "never before in history" number of criminal charges against Mr. Duffy, a sitting parliamentarian. The mass of Canadians would be perfectly reasonable in believing Mr. Duffy must have engaged in grievous wrongs to have thirty one (31) criminal charges laid against him by the Canadian Crown.
In the widely trumpetted trial that followed every one of the thirty-one charges was thrown out. Something is very clearly rotten in the State of Canada! ! Following the outcome of that trial no federal authority lifted a finger to inquire, to find the "source of error", or to punish any of those who apparently mischievously (and maliciously) intended to do major harm to the person and reputation of Mike Duffy.
We may fairly ask – in relation to every one of the cases,if government policy was shaped in such a way as to facilitate – and instigate – major criminal actions against Canadians living in good faith?? Those are questions that should be asked and should have been (and should remain persistently) front and centre – relentlessly – (until answered clearly) from the major press and media of Canada and from sitting members of the Canadian Senate, the House of Commons, and from every Provincial legislature in Canada.
The questions have never been asked from any one of those centres.
The truth is almost impossible to believe: major legislators and major press and media actors willingly close their eyes to the possibility (and the strong likelihood) of active State support for criminal activities.
That means, in fact, that we have press and media and legislatures across the country stuffed with people who (from failing to fulfil their commitment to Canadians) are "accessory" to the crimes committed. If they believe their silence demonstrates their innocence … they are wrong. Their silence poisons the name of democracy and pollutes the legislatures and news organizations in which they serve….
As if to underscore the statement that something is rotten in the State of Canada and the Province of British Columbia, in apparent self-defence … the RCMP (through "the Crown") began an appeal against the judgement handed down by Justice Catherine Bruce that the pair - Amanda Korody and John Nuttall - are innocent of wrong-doing in the so-called July 1, Terrorist Event in Victoria, B.C., in 2013. The Appeal was begun on January 15, 2018 and the Court meeting ended on January 18, 2018 so that the three Appeal Court judges appointed to the case could review the whole matter and present their conclusions about the Appeal.
Needless to say, the three Appeal Court judges have to review all of the evidence (which includes filmed activities). And one may believe – indeed, one must believe that the three Appeal Court judges have been pursuing the matter with proper diligence. Except… except … in a few weeks (on January 18, 2019) the three judges will have had the task in their hands for a full year without any judgement coming from them. I do not wish to dilate upon what I see as the significant stress and discomfort under which John Nuttall and Amanda Korody must live in the waiting period – since a guilty judgement against them (in the light of Terrorist law in Canada) could see them both jailed for life.
But I suggest the Appeal procedure is taking too long. If the reason is not in the power of the appointed judges to control but is a function of an over-loaded Appeal Court … my conclusion is that the Appeal procedure is taking too long. If the delay is a matter of one of the three judges having had serious medical reasons for delay … my conclusion is that the Appeal procedure is taking too long.
The meaning of the findings by Madam Justice Catherine Bruce cannot be more important and more disturbing: that the National Police Force in apparent collaboration with others undertook a major criminal action to deceive Canadians and to 'trap as criminal' an innocent and more-than-ordinarily defenceless couple who might then spend life in prison. That is not a matter of interest solely to the two principals in the case: Nuttall and Korody. It is a matter of absolutely key importance to all Canadians. The immensity of the implications can hardly be grasped….
[When I wrote to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Ralph Goodale, on the matter, his reply referred to the RCMP's "major crime technique". Fortunately (for him) his remark is not one the Appeal judges must review in the work they have undertaken.]
The three Appeal Court Justices on the case have a deep obligation to the two "entrapped" Canadians and – even of greater importance - to the Rule of Law and to the people of Canada. Canadians can only hope that what appears to be an unseemly delay is, in fact, the judges exerting every power within their skill, their expertise, and the high trust placed in them by the Canadian people to produce a clear, direct, and unshakeable judgment ... in a reasonable time.
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Robin Mathews
Robin Mathews is a retired professor who taught English literature at Carleton University in Ottawa Ontario and at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC. He is well known for his campaign to Canadianize the faculty and curricula of Canadian universities.
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Concourse 3 Will Be Completed By 2011
Concourse 3 at Dubai International Airport will be finished by 2011. A top official said the new airport will help boost the airlines passenger capacity from the originally planned 70 million to 80 million. The world's largest airport is in Atlanta and has a passenger capacity of 80 million. CEO of Dubai Airports company said that phase one of the Dubai International and Dubai World Central Al-Maktoum International in Jebel Ali will be open by June 2010.
Upon completion Dubai International Airport will have three terminals and three concourses, two mega terminals for cargo, an expo center containing three huge exposition halls, and an aircraft maintenance hub.
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The Trail to the Medeu Ice Skating Rink
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€164.80+ The Minecrafters (MeanGreen) and (BlueIce) Built in February 2014!!!!
€44.95+ think I forgot to post this one!
Plenty of room for cable management, can fit massive GPUs, and can have 5 fans, whats not to like?
Only complaint with this case is that I wish there were more places to put drives and SSDs, but if you're not using a 240mm rad it's fine.
This is a really nice case considering how cheap it was. It comes with plenty of features, good airflow, and looks sleek. The case itself is also pretty sturdy, and comes with everything you need for mounting your components.
The only reason I didn't give this case five stars is because the back of the case has VERY little room for managing your cables. Even if you do a good job, your still going to have to compress the cables as much as possible and wrestle with the back panel to get it on. Other than that though, this is a pretty solid case.
This case is awesome! it looks nice, has good cable management, good airflow, and plenty of spaces to mount 2.5 inch drives.


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You are here: Home / Sources / Overhead power lines / Factors affecting the field from a power line / Clearance
How the clearance affects the field produced by an overhead line
The actual field produced by an overhead line depends on several factors. This page illustrates this for one standard line, a 400 kV L12 transmission line with typical loads. Our detailed calculations of fields all specify the conditions they were calculated for.
Both electric and magnetic fields depend on the clearance of the line. The minimum ground clearance of a 400 kV line is 7.6 m, dropping to 5.2 m for low-voltage distribution lines. See a full listing of minimum clearances for high-voltage lines under different circumstances. But in reality it is rare for lines to be this low, and the ground-level field falls rapidly with the height of the line above ground.
The maximum fields that are produced by a line occur directly underneath the line, underneath the lowest point of the conductors, which is usually towards the middle of each span. Actual conductor clearances above ground would generally be higher than this (and therefore the fields produced near ground level would be lower) for two main reasons. Firstly, for most of the length of a span, the conductor clearance is higher than it is at the lowest point. Secondly, the actual ground clearance of the conductors depends on their temperature. For the vast majority of the time they operate at less than their rated maximum temperature and therefore sag less, resulting in higher ground clearances.
This graph shows the clearance makes more difference close to the line. Because the maximum field depends so much on the clearance, fields expressed as a percentage of the maximum can be misleading - see more details below.
We give two graphs here to illustrate the effect. Both are for 400 kV lines as these produce the highest electric fields. The first shows the electric field for three representative designs of UK power line with their respective standard conductor bundle. The lower group of solid lines are for the common transposed phasing, the upper group of dotted lines for the much rarer untransposed phasing, which produces higher fields.
The second graph takes just one of these line types, the L6, and shows the effect of different conductor bundles. (The field from the smaller of the two quad bundles is almost identical to that from the triple bundle so the lower of the two red lines and the green line are practically superimposed on each other.)
These graphs can be used, for example, to read off what clearance is required to achieve compliance with electric-field exposure limits. We also provide a table giving the result below.
Quad bundles: zebra conductors. L6 twin and triple: araucaria conductors. L2 twin: zebra conductors. The field from triple bundles may depend on the orientation of the triangle. L6 lines were mostly built in the 1960s with a quad bundle spaced at 305 mm, but many have subsequently changed to a larger spacing of quad (400 mm or the 500 mm we illustrate here), or to twin, or, more recently, triple. New lines are likely to be triple conductors on a tower design similar to the L12.
Clearances required for field to be below 9 kV/m for 400 kV lines
We discuss above the effect of the clearance of the conductors above ground on the electric field. The higher the clearance, the lower the field. Because the electric field exposure limit for the general public in populated areas in the UK is 9 kV/m, we list here the clearances required for the field to be below 9 kV/m. If the clearance is greater than the stated value, the electric field will be below 9 kV/m.
The field depends on several factors as shown in the table: the tower design, the conductor bundle, and the phasing (transposed, T, or untransposed, U - other phasings lie between these values).
number of conductors
conductor type
L13 triple Araucaria 500 mm 8.4 m 9.3 m
L12 twin Araucaria 500 mm 7.8 m 8.8 m
Redwood 500 mm 7.9 m 8.9 m
triple (pointing sideways) Araucaria 500 mm 8.3 m 9.7 m
L8 twin Rubus 400 mm 7.5 m 8.5 m
Sorbus 400 mm 7.6 m 8.5 m
Matthew 400 mm 7.5 m 8.5 m
L6(M) quad Zebra 305 mm square 8.5 m 9.2 m
500 mm horizontal
300 mm vertical 8.7 m 9.5 m
500 mm square (L6(M), BICC and BB) 8.9 m 9.8 m
500 mm square (BK and JLE) 8.8 m 9.9 m
triple (pointing down) Araucaria 500 mm 8.3 m 9.1 m
twin Araucaria 500 mm 8.0 m 8.5 m
L2 twin Zebra 305 mm 7.2 m 8.3 m
Rubus 500 mm 7.5 m 8.8 m
All calculations for 400 kV, 1 m above ground level, and using the infinite-straight-line approximation in accordance with the Code of Practice on demonstrating compliance. Clearances are at 0.1 m resolution (the first 0.1 m increment of extra clearance needed to reduce the field below 9 kV/m, not the nearest 0.1 m).
Different ways of presenting the effect of clearance
This graph shows the way the field falls with distance for two different clearances of the line above ground. As expected, close to the line, the lower clearance produces the higher field.
This graph shows exactly the same data but presented as percentage of the maximum field for each case rather than as the actual field value. This makes it look as if one field is falling much more rapidly with distance than the other, but this is just a consequence of plotting as a percentage rather than as the actual value.
Fields presented as percentages of the maximum have sometimes been used to suggest the calculations are unreliable because the field falls too rapidly, but this comparison is not valid unless the clearances are the same in each case.
The fields from the different voltages of power lines
These pages deal with the size of the field - see also the direction of the field


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Ignacio Castro García (Avilés, España, 30 de junio de 1971), más conocido como Nacho Castro, es un exfutbolista y entrenador de fútbol español. Actualmente está libre.

Trayectoria como jugador

Fue un centrocampista formado en la cantera del Real Avilés CF con el que debutó durante la temporada 1988-89 y en la siguiente temporada lograría el ascenso a Segunda División con el conjunto avilesino.

En 1992 ingresó en la cantera del FC Barcelona para jugar en el filial en Segunda División. Tras tres temporadas en segunda división con el FC Barcelona B, firmó por el Real Club Deportivo Fabril en el que estaría durante una temporada, antes de comenzar una peregrinación por multitud de equipos de Segunda División y la mayoría de Segunda División B como serían Real Avilés CF, Real Murcia CF, Real Jaén CF, Real Ávila CF, Zamora CF, UD Lanzarote, UD Fuerteventura, Logroñés CF, Club Deportivo Orientación Marítima, CD Eldense y Ateneu Deportiu Guíxols en el que se retiró en 2010.

Trayectoria como entrenador

Tras colgar las botas, empezaría su carrera de entrenador en las filas del Ateneu Deportiu Guíxols, club en el que se había retirado, al que dirigiría durante la temporada 2009-10.

En la siguiente temporada dirigiría al equipo juvenil de la EF Sant Feliu.

En 2011 se convierte en entrenador del CF Peralada al que dirigiría durante 4 temporadas.

En su segunda temporada dirigiendo al CF Peralada en la Primera Catalana lograría el ascenso a la Tercera División de España y estaría durante otra temporada más dirigiéndolo en el Grupo V de la Tercera División de España, en total hasta 2015.

Durante la temporada 2015-2016, el CF Peralada firma un acuerdo de filialidad con el conjunto del Girona FC y Nacho se convierte en entrenador del CF Peralada - Girona B.

En verano 2017 firma con la UA Horta de la Tercera División de España - Grupo V, al que dirige durante 3 temporadas, en concreto hasta febrero de 2020 cuando abandona el conjunto para firmar por el FC Andorra. En su primera temporada en  Horta consigue que el equipo juegue la final de la Copa Catalunya Absoluta.

Durante la temporada 2018-19 conseguiría jugar play-off de ascenso a Segunda División B quedando apeado por el Moralo Club Polideportivo en la vuelta de la primera eliminatoria del play-off de ascenso a la Segunda División B, tras haber terminado en tercera posición la liga regular.

En febrero de 2020, se convierte en entrenador del FC Andorra del Grupo III de la Segunda División B de España, propiedad del jugador de fútbol Gerard Piqué, para sustituir hasta el final de temporada al destituido Gabri García.

El 6 de julio de 2021, firma como entrenador del San Fernando Club Deportivo de la Primera División RFEF. El 20 de septiembre de 2022 es sustituido por Salva Ballesta.

Clubes

Como entrenador

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Ficha de jugador en BDFutbol
 Ficha de jugador en transfermarkt

Futbolistas de Asturias
Futbolistas del Real Murcia Club de Fútbol en los años 1990
Futbolistas del Real Jaén Club de Fútbol
Futbolistas del Real Avilés Club de Fútbol
Futbolistas del Real Ávila Club de Fútbol
Futbolistas del Zamora Club de Fútbol
Futbolistas de la Unión Deportiva Lanzarote
Futbolistas del Logroñés Club de Fútbol
Futbolistas del Real Club Deportivo Fabril
Futbolistas del Fútbol Club Barcelona Atlètic
Futbolistas del Club Deportivo Eldense
Entrenadores de fútbol de Asturias
Entrenadores del Fútbol Club Andorra
Entrenadores del San Fernando Club Deportivo
Futbolistas del Unió Atlètica d'Horta

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PopGap #22: My Dinner with André (1981)
By dorrk, December 31st 2016
I really feel as if everything I've done is horrific, absolutely horrific.
My Dinner with André could be uncharitably described as the story of a wealthy intellectual with too much time on his hands who invites a poor friend to an expensive dinner only to accuse him of leading a meaningless existence. There's more to it, of course, but too little of the analysis I've read focuses on what a creep André is, something he himself tries to laugh off during the course of their 100-minute conversation.
Written and performed by André Gregory and Wallace Shawn, Louis Malle's quintessential art house movie of the 1980s is about two old colleagues, a successful director (Gregory) and and a struggling playwright (Shawn), who meet for dinner and talk. For the first hour, Gregory shares his experiences as part of an assortment of eccentric living-art projects, the essence of which simulate and amplify the experiences of birth, life and death through communal activities. Even though Gregory is self-aware enough to joke that his stories sound insane, and likens himself to Nazi architect Albert Speer for his apologetic role in such bizarre rituals, Shawn finally ceases politely nodding and engages in the underlying philosophical discussion, which is Andre's assumption that ordinary lives spent in comfort or a routine of economic survival are devoid of value. Despite some vigorous argument, Shawn leaves the dinner stimulated and reflecting on his life, which had become a pattern of small pleasures.
It's not clear what effect the conversation has on Gregory, who is a chronic seeker for whom the search for enlightenment is also the end, if there is an end. the benefit is all Shawn's, which suggests either an authorial endorsement for Gregory's obnoxiously exclusionary brand of smug mine-not-yours "mean ing," or merely that talking about ideas can be invigorating, even when the person who does most of the talking is a privileged monster.
MovieLens suggested that I watch My Dinner with André based on its similarities to Woody Allen's 1977 classic Annie Hall. Aside from the New York setting, both films are dialog-centric and feature characters who are questioning the meaning of their lives. Annie Hall is quite a bit more dynamic (aren't most movies?), but it's a fair enough connection considering how few movies are anything like My Dinner with André.
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As this is my last Bristol Wine Blog of 2016, I thought I'd like to share some highlights of a very busy year with you.
Here, a group from the local village are retrieving manure from cow horns. The manure is packed into the horns in the autumn and buried all winter. It is then recovered in the spring, mixed with water and spread in the vineyard to promote growth. Surprisingly, the manure smelt quite sweet – not at all what I was expecting.
But this visit was also memorable for the extraordinary warmth shown to us by the locals the day after the result of the British vote to leave the European Union was announced.
A September visit to Lugano in Switzerland just happened to coincide with the local wine fair! I really didn't know this in advance – honestly!!
But I took advantage of the opportunity to taste a few bottles that I've never seen in Britain. I'm not convinced that White Merlot – one of the local specialities – has much of a future beyond the region!
Perhaps the best wines I tasted during the year were at the dinner organised by Great Western Wine at Bath's Allium Restaurant to mark the 40th Anniversary of the so-called 'Judgement of Paris'. This was the blind tasting held in 1976 at which a group of French wine experts preferred a selection of top Californian wines to those from Burgundy and Bordeaux.
Sadly, despite this result and even 40 years on, there are still some who think that only France can make top quality wines.
And then, as the leaves fell to mark autumn, a superb overnight stay at Three Choirs vineyard in Gloucestershire. A delightful walk up through the vines from our room followed by breakfast looking out over this view. Could anything be more perfect?
So now, as 2016 comes to an end, all that remains is to thank you for your continuing support and wish you a very happy and peaceful New Year.


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Meteor showers light up August nights in the Pacific Northwest
Stargazers can track Perseids at sites around Washington state.
By Sarah Fox • August 8, 2022 2:50 pm
Perseid meteor shower in August 2021. Photo courtesy of Nasa.gov/Bill Ingalls
A dark sky full of stars stretches to the horizon, the scent of baked grass and pine fills the air, and dozens of pinpricks of light flash across the summer sky.
Throughout each year, there are many stargazing opportunities in the Pacific Northwest — including three meteor showers during August.
One of the most popular celestial events is the Perseid meteor shower, which takes place this year between July 14 through Sept. 1, peaking Aug. 13.
The peak of a meteor shower is the projected time when the most meteors can be seen.
At the Battle Point Astronomical Association (BPAA), the Perseids can be viewed at their monthly stargazing party on Aug. 13 at the Edwin E. Ritchie Observatory on Bainbridge Island.
The stargazing party will begin with a presentation about the meteor shower, presented by BPAA President Frank Petrie and BPAA Chief Astronomer Cole Rees.
The star party takes place on one of the projected peak days of the Perseid shower, but there may not be many meteors visible because of the nearly full super moon on the night of the event.
"Even though it's the peak [on Aug. 13], we're not going to see a lot of meteors because of the moonlight. So you might actually have a better chance of seeing meteors before the full moon or after the full moon," said Petrie.
He said there will still be sights to see at the star party, specifically some famous planets and star clusters.
"If people want to stay out late, they will be treated to some nice views of Saturn and Jupiter, even though the moon will be full," said Petrie. "There are star clusters that we can look at — the Great Cluster in Hercules [constellation] is a summertime favorite … There's always stuff up in the sky that we can look at."
Saturn rises around 10 p.m., and Jupiter follows at about 11:30 p.m.
Aside from the Perseids, there are two other meteor showers in the coming weeks. The Alpha-Capricornids, Delta Aquariids, and Perseids are observable until Aug. 15, Aug. 21, and Sept. 1, respectively.
These meteor showers get their names from the constellations they appear to originate from, otherwise known as their radiants: Capricorn, Aquarius and Perseus.
"If somebody were to go out any time in this next week, before the full moon starts to interfere, if you go out after midnight and just look up, you're likely to see meteors from any of these three showers flying across the sky," said Petrie.
One of the most important things to consider when planning a stargazing trip is to find a location with minimal light pollution, according to the NASA website.
A few good locations in Washington state to observe meteor showers are Sunrise Park at Mount Rainier, Olympic National Park and Hurricane Ridge on the Olympic Peninsula, and Mt. Constitution on Orcas Island, according to the BPAA website and earthsky.org, an astronomy website recommended by the BPAA.
BPAA is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 that constructed and put to use the Ritchie Observatory, which was completed in 1997 on Bainbridge Island. The observatory houses the 27-inch Ritchie Telescope, a planetarium, workshop, library, and meeting room.
The observatory enables the public to take in the infinite sights of space through the Ritchie Telescope, the largest telescope accessible to the public in the Pacific Northwest.
BPAA is raising money to purchase a new planetarium projector so they can continue to give shows when the sky is too cloudy to use the telescope in real-time.
To find out more about the Perseids meteor shower and BPAA's stargazing events or to make a donation, visit bpastro.org.
Kids looking through telescope at Edwin E. Ritchie Observatory in Bainbridge Island, WA. Photo courtesy of Battle Point Astronomical Association.
Edwin E. Ritchie Telescope at Edwin E. Ritchie Observatory in Bainbridge Island, WA. Photo courtesy of Battle Point Astronomical Association.
Silhouette at Edwin E. Ritchie Observatory. Photo by John Benjes, courtesy of Frank Petrie.
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Cardinal Burke addresses truths of marriage, family
By: Lauren Ramseyer
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"We live at a time where the fundamental truth of marriage is under a ferocious and indeed a…diabolical attack, which seeks to obscure and sully the sublime truth of the married state as God intended it from the creation," said His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, standing before a crowd of nearly 1,000 people in Franciscan University's Finnegan Fieldhouse.
Burke's nearly hour-long keynote address on the evening of Sept. 8 focused on the "Instrumentum Laboris," the draft document for the XIV Ordinary General Synod of Bishops, which will meet at the Vatican in October to address the mission of the family in the church and in the world.
"Marital infidelity, divorce and contraception are sadly commonplace today, and now society has gone even further in its affront to (God) law by claiming the name of marriage for liaisons between persons of the same sex," said Burke, who holds a doctorate in canon law and studied for years in Rome.
He continued, "Even within the church there are those who would obscure the truth of the indissolubility of marriage in the name of mercy, who would condone the violation of the conjugal union by means of contraception in the name of pastoral understanding, and who in the name of tolerance would remain silent about the attack on the very integrity of marriage as the union of one man and one woman."
For many years, Burke served in the Roman Curia in the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura — the Church's highest court. He currently is the Cardinal Patronus of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Burke, one of the foremost authorities of Roman Catholic law, addressed many of the main issues concerning marriage in the Catholic Church through 10 themes: "The 'Instrumentum Laboris' and the Matrimonial Nullity Process"; "The Nature of the Synod of Bishops and the Question of the Marriage Nullity Process"; "The Risk of Sentimentalism"; "The Relationship Between Faith and Culture"; "The Relationship Between Doctrine and Discipline"; "Confidence in the Natural Law and in the Grace of Matrimony"; "Natural Law and the Formation of the Conscience in the Family"; "Natural Marriage and Sacramental Marriage"; "The Liturgical Rite of Marriage and the Favor of the Law"; and "A Note on a Penitential Path."
Quoting Pope St. John Paul II's apostolic exhortation, "Familiaris Consortio," Burke said, "The Christian family, in fact, is the first community called to announce the Gospel to the human person during growth and to bring him or her through a progressive education and catechesis to full human and Christian maturity."
He showed how Pope St. John Paul II stressed the importance of the church witnessing to the truths about marriage and the family because "the wellbeing of society and her own good are intimately tied to the good of the family."
He acknowledged that often times popular presentation gives the impression that the work of the Synod of Bishops will be altering the church's teachings and practice by the majority vote of the Synod fathers, but the Synod of Bishops has no authority to change doctrine and discipline.
The purpose and nature of the Synod of Bishops is described and explained in canon 342 of the Code of Canon Law, which states, "The Synod of Bishops is a group of bishops who have been chosen from different regions of the world and meet together at fixed times to foster closer unity between the Roman Pontiff and bishops to assist the Roman Pontiff with their council in the preservation and growth of faith and morals and in the observance and the strengthening of ecclesiastical discipline and to consider questions pertaining to the activity of the Church and the World."
Burke stressed that the Synod is not convened by the Roman Pontiff to suggest changes in the doctrine or discipline of the church, but rather to "assist the Roman Pontiff in safeguarding and promoting sound doctrine regarding faith and morals and in strengthening the discipline by which the truths of the faith are lived and practiced."
Burke also spoke on the risk of sentimentalism, "there is a risk of falling into a sentimentalism which, while it seems compassionate, is deeply harmful because of the lack of the respect for the objective situation of the person involved."
He explained that this false compassion blocks the sinful person's encounter with Christ because this sentimentalism sees the truth of Christ as something hurtful, and without this life-giving truth, the person is not capable of abandoning the sin in question.
Burke said people need to ask themselves if sentimentalism or false compassion has inspired the suggestions to modify radically the declarations of the nullity of marriage in order for the people involved to receive such a nullity more easily and rapidly.
He said many have suggested that the church should update practices and its language in order to address the secular culture.
"Some have gone so far as to assert that the Church can no longer speak of the 'natural law,' 'intrinsically evil acts,' 'irregular unions'… (because) the language itself already makes the culture hostile," said Burke.
Burke continued by saying that people cannot shy away from church doctrine, but that the church must always speak the truth with love, "manifesting the greatest compassion which necessarily involved respecting the truth of the cultural situation which many times is marked by confusion and error regarding the most fundamental truths of human life and its cradle, which is the family."
He said that honest individuals who live in such a secularized culture have a thirst for the truth and for its "proclamation with charity."
Burke commented on the proposed changes for the nullity of marriages in the church by saying if the process for determining whether a marriage can truthfully be considered annulled was shortened and, thus, became inadequate, it would bring a lack of due respect for the "indissolubility of Holy Matrimony."
He said the process of annulments is not in need of modifications, but the practice of certain bishops who do not "provide well-prepared and just workers for their tribunals." Burke also said that the process is extensive for an "important and delicate matter, salvation of the souls involved."
"In our culture, there is confusion about the meaning of human sexuality which is bearing the fruit of profound personal unhappiness," said Burke. "It often leads to the breakup of marriage, to the corruptions of children and young people and ultimately to self-destruction."
He called for the witness of the distinct gifts of man and woman through a chaste life: "Christian marriage is the first place of such necessary witness in our culture."
Burke also said that without a sound and stable family life, the culture will never be transformed.
Burke called on the examples of St. John the Baptist, St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More who were defenders of marriage to show the Church the way during these trying times. He told those in attendance to invoke their intercession so "the great gift of married life and love will be ever more revered in the church and in society."
Burke closed his keynote address by saying, "The mission of the Synod on the Family is clear: the … heroic witness to the splendor of the truth about marriage. The Synod fathers and all faithful Christians must be ready to suffer as Christians have suffered down the ages to honor and foster Holy Matrimony."
Following Cardinal Burke's address, eight panelists gave short presentations summarizing their essays on different aspects of the "Instrumentum Laboris."
Panelists included: the Rev. Sean O. Sheridan, TOR, JD, JCD, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville and an expert on canon law; Donald Asci, STD, professor of moral theology at Franciscan University; John Bergsma, Ph.D, professor of biblical theology at Franciscan University; Pia Crosby, Franciscan University MA theology student; Stephen Hildebrand, Ph.D, professor of theology and chair of the department of theology at Franciscan University; Michael Sirilla, Ph.D, professor of systematic and dogmatic theology and the director of graduate theology at Franciscan University; Patrick Lee, Ph.D, McAleer professor of bioethics and the director of the Center for Bioethics at Franciscan University; and Peter Kwasniewski, Ph.D, professor of theology and philosophy at Wyoming Catholic College.
Connor Chywski, a student from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, travelled two hours to hear Burke speak.
He said, "I enjoyed his last comments on the universal call to martyrdom for every single Catholic, how you just have to live every day for God. And it is as simple as that, you don't have to over-complicate it. … It's going to be hard, but it's fine because he is going to help you if you pray."
Chywski also commented on Burke: "He is fearless, he is absolutely fearless. He is not on a mission to please anyone; he is on a mission to save souls. He is not trying to make you happy; he is trying to get you to heaven, and there is a distinct difference."
Sarah Freddino, senior Franciscan University student, said, "I see that there is such a crisis going on right now in everyone's understanding of what marriage is … I am still trying to grow in how I can defend it and how I can explain it to others. … I came tonight so that I can be informed myself because I feel like there is such a need for all of us to go out and to share what the church teaches."
Another senior Franciscan University student, Alexandra Hamar, said, "I don't think it was any one thing that any one in particular said, but just the fact that they had this event and to see … one of the most orthodox cardinals in the church here at our university and to see all of our philosophy and theology professors sitting on a panel defending the perennial teachings of the church was so beautiful and fulfilled such a desire in my heart to see that truth upheld on our campus. I was just so enlightened and enriched by it."
Burke's address and the subsequent panel discussion with Franciscan faculty and other academic experts can be viewed at http://www.franciscan.edu/Henkels-Lecture/Burke.
The evening's events were preceded by a very well-attended Pontifical High Mass, celebrated by Burke at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Steubenville earlier that morning.
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Brother killed older brother using Samurai sword
By: Stephanie Johnson
Posted: Nov 24, 2014 9:49 PM EST | Updated: Nov 25, 2014 1:31 PM EST
Bradley Arndt, 47, is accused of using a sword to kill his older brother Sunday afternoon.
Witnesses say 50-year old Thomas Arndt went to Bradley's home on Sunday and after an argument, things got deadly.
It is a town of just 2,000 people, many of whom are life-long residents who inherited their parents' homes.
"See I grew up here my whole life, there used to be a lot of kids, but we're all grown up now," said neighbor Samuel Bohlim.
He was outside putting up Christmas decorations when he said he heard a yell.
"This is a quiet, peaceful area so things like that, don't happen," said Bohlim.
A neighbor called 911 and when first responders arrived, Thomas was lying on the front yard with multiple stab wounds.
That sword was found in a neighboring yard.
As of Monday night, there was no court date scheduled for Arndt, but he is being held on $1 million bond.


Do copies of Jace, Cunning Castaway die when copied by Brudiclad?
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Hey! I've considered Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer but I don't really know what I would cut for him. Any suggestions?
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Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer is nice to amass what you need to win.
If you're going wide with thopters I'd cut these cards: Swiftfoot Boots , Urza's Tome , Endless Atlas , God-Pharaoh's Gift .
Since most of your artifacts will be tokens, I don't think Padeem, Consul of Innovation and One with the Machine will be that effective unless you just want hexproof from Padeem. Same with Metalwork Colossus (not much cost reduction) and Traxos, Scourge of Kroog won't trigger that much. I don't think Ancient Stone Idol and Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer really fit the theme.
I don't think you need as many mana rocks since Saheeli discounts everything. I'd shift more to be 2 cost mana rocks if anything so Saheeli gets out faster. You don't really need the ones that cost like 6 and make 3.
Magmaquake is a great card that doesn't wipe your thopters - if you need more board wipes I'd do more like that. Deprive is bad just use Counterspell instead.
Some recommendations: Ghirapur AEther Grid , Pia Nalaar , Broodstar , Darksteel Juggernaut , Steel Overseer , Lodestone Myr , Blinkmoth Urn and Gravitational Shift . Check out cards with Metalcraft too, there might be some good ones and you'll basically always have it active.
It is not that much a question about priority, but rather about steps.
Beginning of combat step - effects that trigger on beginning will trigger here Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer . The each player gets priority to do stuff, if all pass proceed to next step.
Declare attackers step. Once in this step declaring attackers it doesn't use stack to make a creature attack. For example you declare Ballista Charger as an attacker and its trigger goes on the stack. While in this phase the opponent can't say wait I'll kill it so it doesn't deal me 1 damage. If he wants to avoid the damage he has to kill it in the previous step. After attackers are declared players get priority, and may case something like Gideon's Reproach to kill a creature. Another important point in your case if your opponent wants to block with Smuggler's Copter he has to crew it in this phase or before it, any crewing after that will render it unable to block.
Declare blockers phase. Again doesn't use the stack. Creatures that are alive in this phase can be assigned as blockers. Once you declare a creature as a blocker for an attacking creature, it is considered blocked for the rest of the combat. The opponent can do something like, I'll kill your creature so my creature suddenly gets unblocked and damages you (if it has trample it can still damage you if blocker is removed), or enables ninjutsu Ninja of the Deep Hours . Also if the opponent crews Smuggler's Copter in this phase it will be once blockers are declared and it will be alive but not assigned as blocker.
So in other words your opponent has to crew Smuggler's Copter in declare attackers phase or before it, but can't assign it as a blocker until the next step. You can freely exile it once priority gets back to you at the end of the crew action.
in this example, only 1 token is actually entering the battlefield, and thats the 2/1 myr that Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer makes at the beginning of combat. but it does not enter as a planeswalker. Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer creates a 2/1 myr token, and then your myr tokens become copies of the Jace, Cunning Castaway tokens. since none of the tokens are entering the battlefield as planeswalkers (rather, their card type is merely changing), they do not gain any loyalty counters, and would immediately be sent to the graveyard.
I use Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer to copy the tokens created by Jace, Cunning Castaway while I have Oath of Gideon on the battlefield. Do the tokens enter the battlefield with 1 loyalty, and therefore survive?


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Survey: TV advertising, a steady sales driver in Germany
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TV advertising is still a powerful money maker in Germany as its sales impact and success factors have not declined in recent years. This is the conclusion of a recent survey by GfK Marktforschung that analyzed over 160 TV advertising campaigns for consumer goods and their ability to convert into sales. The research reviewed purchases made by a test group of households exposed to TV spots and compared them with parallel results from a control group to accurately determine sales success.
Research of TV ad analysis data for the past 20 years shows an average 20% increase in market share fueled by a TV campaign, yet as it was primarily generated by an increase in consumer numbers, it shows a steady effect of TV advertising. Focusing the analysis on the 2001-2011 period yielded the same conclusion – TV the average sales impact for TV commercials has remained the same.
While the general results for TV advertising are similar, the survey also showed that the most popular TV spots aired in the past decade have led to less significant increases in market share and penetration and thus were less successful than those aired at the beginning of the analyzed period. What's more interesting is that in recent years, TV ad campaigns are back to the former glory and are able to deliver and maintain steady results.
Overall, the average sales impact of TV commercials has remained unchanged over the past 20 years and new forms of advertising, powered by the Internet, have not shattered its position. At least in the German market, GfK managed to prove wrong the common belief that TV ads are becoming less and less successful.
The survey also concluded that the budget allotted to a certain TV campaign determines its degree of success. Larger amounts invested translate into a larger average market share growth and better penetration. Advertising pressure also has a significant impact on how a TV ad performs. Other influencing factors, although slightly less powerful, are an ad's creativity and message.
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West Ham greats do their charity bit for Great Ormond Street
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A team of Hammers legends took to the turf at Upton Park again on Monday night to raise money for charity.
A team of West Ham legends helped raise funds for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's charity.
Hundreds of supporters descended on Upton Park to watch the legends team, managed by Tony Cottee, defeat a team from the charity 6-3 on Monday night.
Fans got the chance to watch the likes of Julian Dicks, Steve Potts, Stuart Slater, Don Hutchison, Ian Pearce, George Parris, Nigel Winterburn and Kevin Keen don the claret and blue once again in the fundraiser.
On the event, manager for the night Cottee said: "Some good friends of mine asked me to put a team together to play at Upton Park and I am pleased to say I managed to get 15 of the lads together, which I must say wasn't too hard because all the boys try to do their best for charity and good causes.
"Don Hutchison looks exactly as he did as a player and Dicksy looks exactly the same as well and Stevie Potts is another who doesn't seem to age or look different."
The West Ham team (pictured) were: Back Row (left to right) Tony Hoskins (organiser Jeff's right-hand man), Tony Cottee, Don Hutchison, Paul Allen, Allan McKnight, Julian Dicks, Nigel Winterburn, George Parris, Ian Pearce, Jeff Garner. Front row: Kevin Keen, Mark Ward, Mark Robson, Kenny Brown, Stuart Slater, Keith Rowland, Geoff Pike, Steve Potts.
Picture: Steve Bacon.