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Who wants to be an ISA millionaire?!
Adam Rideout
Do you remember the former Army Major Charles Ingram on 'Who wants to be a millionaire'? He correctly answered the million-pound question, but instead won a 20-month suspended prison sentence and a bill for thousands in legal fees! There could, however, be an easier way to make a million…
No 'lifelines' necessary, no coughing accomplice in the audience – you could be an ISA millionaire.
First, a quick reminder of the basics. An ISA (Individual Savings Account) is a tax-free savings wrapper, free of Capital Gains Tax on growth and Income Tax on withdrawals. ISAs have been around for 20 years now, first introduced with an annual contribution limit of £7,000. But that cap has generously increased over the past ten years. Today, you can save £20,000 a year in ISAs, and it's been that high since 2017/18.
There are currently four main types of ISA available:
Innovative Finance ISAs
Lifetime ISAs
You can invest across all types if you want, but the £20,000 limit is shared between them. To keep the maths simple, let's focus on the traditional Stocks and Shares ISA for our million-pound portfolio.
Making your million
We've discussed the relevance of compound growth before, where investment gains attract gains of their own. Over time this can have a profound effect on the value of your savings. Naturally, the sooner you start saving the better, but exactly how long might it take to become an ISA millionaire?
The graph below shows what would happen if you invested your full £20,000 ISA allowance at the beginning of each tax year and includes monthly compound growth. The age-old disclaimer will get a mention here; past performance is no guarantee of future results, but in our hypothetical world, if your ISA returned just 3% p.a. growth, you'd have a million-pound ISA portfolio in a little over 30 years. A 30-year-old with no previous savings, taking very little investment risk, could hypothetically have a million-pound ISA in time for retirement!
If we're a little more ambitious with the growth rate, you can see that 5% p.a. would deliver a million-pound portfolio in just under 25 years – five years less and with £120,000 less contributions.
Better still, 7% p.a. growth (which is perfectly realistic, depending on your attitude to risk) sees the one million milestone passed at the beginning of the 22nd year. Significantly, that isn't just relatively quickly in the grand scheme of life, you will have contributed £180,000 less than at 3%! With a regularly reviewed portfolio, even taking into account a potential recession, the million pounds ISA is certainly achievable.
Of course, these figures assume you have £20,000 readily available to invest every April. And it's worth bearing in mind that inflation would erode the buying power of your savings. I've written about the 'silent wealth killer' quite recently. But it doesn't take into account the ISA limit potentially increasing. If it does and you have disposable income, a million would be reached even sooner.
Becoming an ISA millionaire isn't just an attractive proposition for new savers. You may well be an experienced investor with a diverse portfolio. That doesn't mean the tax benefits don't still apply, and, some circumstances may even force your hand towards ISAs.
The next best pension supplement?
For high earners, the attraction of ISAs may be influenced by increasingly strict pension allowances.
The most you can tax-efficiently pay into a pension annually is £40,000. It used to be as high as £255,000 less than a decade ago. Worse still, if you earn over £150,000 your £40,000 Annual Allowance is subject to tapering. For every £2 of 'adjusted' income over £150,000, your tax-efficient pension contribution limit decreases £1. This can make your allowance as low as just £10,000 if you earn £210,000 or more.
In this circumstance, ISAs are often the next-best, straightforward, alternative. With your tapered pension Annual Allowance, you could tax-efficiently save £30,000 a year, meaning your million-pound portfolio (with a little help from compound growth) would be achieved even quicker!
Ultimately, there is no one-size-fits-all solution, but you must admit, over the long term the numbers to become an ISA millionaire are compelling. No matter what stage in your life you are at, or your existing level of savings, let's try and build that million together!
All the figures shown are for illustrative purposes only and are based on the assumption that the compound growth rates used remain unchanged throughout the term of the savings.
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Epic Games Store is offering GTA 5 for free this week
Get one of the most popular video games of all time without spending a dime.
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May 15, 2020 9:45 a.m. PT
It's a steal.
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One of the most popular video games of all time, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 5, is being offered for free in Epic Games' online store. The PC game is available to download for free until May 21.
The Epic Games Store has been doing game giveaways since December 2018, including popular titles like What Remains of Edith Finch, The Witness and Celeste. New free games are revealed every Thursday.
When GTA 5 became available yesterday, many users experienced trouble accessing the deal, with people reporting 500 errors and slow load times. Epic acknowledged the problems in a tweet Thursday, but appears to have resolved issues later in the day.
We are currently experiencing high traffic on the Epic Games Store.
We are aware that users may be encountering slow loading times, 500 errors, or launcher crashing at this time and we are actively working to scale. We'll provide an update as soon as we can.
— Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) May 14, 2020
GTA 5 was originally released in 2013 and quickly became the second-best-selling game of all time (depending on your count), and it's one of the highest-profile games to be offered. The site's challenges seem to reflect the continuing demand for the title.
Epic Games didn't respond to a request for further comment.
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This is a bright yellow spice made from dry Turmeric Rhizomes. It is a common spice used in Asian and Indian cuisine and gives its food a yellow tinge when added to recipes. It's earthy, bitter flavor is pungent, but works well in spice blends, like ground curry, or added to mustards, relishes, cheeses and butter. This has the same bright penetrating yellow colos as saffron, but a much different flavor profile, with ginger and orange notes. You can exchange saffron for it for visual affect, but it will alter the taste of the dish.
Turmeric Rhizomes used to make the ground spice, grow underground and come from the root of the Curcuma longa plant like fingers that extend from the root. It is a leafy plant in the ginger family. Curcuma longa is primarily grown and sourced from India but can also be found in Vietnam. The rhizomes are dried and then ground to make the the powder.
Turmeric has many benefits and medicinal qualities.
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Turmeric lends a distinctive flavor to many recipes other than condiments such as traditional curries, chicken and rice dishes, and fish soups. Blended in butter it seasons vegetables, potatoes and pasta.
Turmeric powder lends its unique musky flavor and color to ground curry powder used in preparing authentic Indian curry. It is how curry spice gets its well-known yellow. You can also find ground curry for wholesale at Mount Hope.
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Brighton vs Chelsea: Despite his home advantage, Brighton has lost points in six of his last ten games here. With a 100% win record against Chelsea, the hosts have no reason to hope on Wednesday.
Brighton managed to ease the pressure on themselves last week by stopping a four-game winless streak with a victory over Bournemouth at home. It took only three minutes for the hosts to break the deadlock in this final crash, after which they doubled their lead after the restart.
Unfortunately, the home team only has two victories to boast of their last nine PL matches. Currently, they are much closer to falling into the relegation zone than catching Chelsea.
Meanwhile, the Blues have alternated wins and losses in their last four clashes. Their last outing saw them beat an Arsenal team in trouble by a narrow score of 2-1. At home, they were defeated 2-0 by Southampton.
However, the visitors are on a winning streak of two games as visitors at the moment. It should also be mentioned that Frank Lampard's men are the second best visiting player in the group and are just behind Liverpool.
Brighton, on the other hand, has only reached the top once in his last four games here. The hosts have not yet won one of the four best games at home this season.
To build even more misery, Brighton has admitted defeat in each of his last two meetings with this enemy here. Since the return match of this clash also saw Chelsea score two goals with no response, count on the Blues to avoid making mistakes by finishing a double championship this week.
In addition, Chelsea have scored twenty-four goals on the road so far, which is only three less than the highest score in the group. Tammy Abraham, in particular, has been in the bottom third and is currently the fourth leading scorer in the league with fourteen goals.
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Hacking Retail Gift Cards Remains Scarily Easy
In November of 2015, Will Caput worked for a security firm assigned to a penetration test of a major Mexican restaurant chain, scouring its websites for hackable vulnerabilities. So when 40-year-old Caput took a lunch break, he had beans and guacamole on his mind. He decided to drive to the local branch of the restaurant in Chico, California. While there, still in the mindset of testing the restaurant's security, he noticed a tray of unactivated gift cards sitting on the counter. So he grabbed them all—the cashier didn't mind, since customers can load them with a credit card from home via the web—and sat down at a table, examining the stack as he ate his vegetarian burrito.
As he flipped through the gift cards, he noticed a pattern. While the final four digits of the cards seemed to vary randomly, the rest remained constant except one digit that appeared to increase by one with every card he examined, neatly ticking up like a poker straight. By the time he finished his burrito, he had a plan to defraud the system.
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After years of examining the retail gift card industry following that initial discovery, Caput plans to present his findings at the Toorcon hacker conference this weekend. They include all-too-simple tricks that hackers can use to determine gift card numbers and drain money from them, even before the legitimate holder of the card ever has a chance to use them. While some of those methods have been semipublic for years, and some retailers have fixed their security flaws, a disturbing fraction of targets remain wide open to gift card hacking schemes, Caput says. And as analysis of the recently defunct dark web marketplace AlphaBay shows, actual criminals have made prolific use of those schemes too.
"You're basically stealing other people's cash through these cards," says Caput, who now works as a researcher for the firm Evolve Security. "You take a small sample of gift cards from restaurants, department stores, movie theaters, even airlines, look at the pattern, determine the other cards that have been sold to customers and steal the value on them."
A series of gift cards Caput took from one retailer show how their numbers increment by one, making them predictable after a hacker bruteforces the four random final numbers.
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To pull off the trick, Caput says he has to obtain at least one of the target company's gift cards. Unactivated cards often sit out for the taking at restaurants and retailers, or he can just buy one. (Not all cards change by a value of one, as that first Mexican restaurant did. But Caput says obtaining two or three cards can help to determine the patterns of those that don't.) Then he simply visits the web page that the store or restaurant uses for checking a card's value. From there, he runs the bruteforcing software Burp Intruder to cycle through all 10,000 possible values for the four random digits at the end of the card's number, a process that takes about 10 minutes. By repeating the process and incrementing the other, predictable numbers, the site will confirm exactly which cards have how much value. "If you can find just one of their gift cards or vouchers, you can bruteforce the website," he says.
Once a thief has determined those activated, value-holding card numbers, he or she can use them on the retailer's ecommerce page, or even in person; Caput's written them to a blank plastic card with a $120 magnetic-strip writing device available on Amazon, and found that most retailers accept his cards without questions. (Caput only asks the store or restaurant to check the card's balance, rather than spend any money from the cards belonging to actual victims.) "It's a pretty anonymous attack," Caput says. "I can go in, order food, and walk out. The person's card says it has $50 on it, and then it's gone."
Caput has been warning retailers and restaurants about his scheme since he first discovered it nearly two years ago. Potential targets, including Trader Joe's, Macy's, and Taco Bell, have all responded by either taking down their gift card value-checking web pages and requiring users to check their gift cards by phone or by adding CAPTCHAs to their card value-checking web pages, designed to prevent automated programs from bruteforcing gift card numbers.
But other restaurants, retail outlets, and companies, which Caput declined to name on the record, have either failed to implement security measures against his fraud trick or added a defense that he was able to circumvent. He found that many gift card purveyors now use a CAPTCHA on their card value-checking page that he can strip away simply by disabling javascript elements on the page, using the software tool Burp Proxy. That allowed him to carry out the same bruteforce attacks, find the numbers of activated cards, and exploit them just as he had in 2015. Other one-off retailers and regional chains he's tested haven't added CAPTCHAs at all, or use simple incremented numbers on their gift cards that don't even require bruteforcing.
Some retailers' cards use PIN numbers in addition to the number encoded into the card. But that PIN is only required to check the card's balance, not to spend its value, Caput says. And if a hacker really wanted to determine the value of one of those PIN-protected cards, they could bruteforce it with Burp Intruder just as easily as the card's number itself.
'I can go in, order food, and walk out. The person's card says it has $50 on it, and then it's gone.' —Security Researcher Will Caput
Caput points out that even restaurants and retailers that have added robust CAPTCHAs to their gift card value-checking pages can remain vulnerable. If gift cards are left accessible, he can simply grab the entire stack of cards, photograph the back of them, and later place them back in the tray. Then he simply checks on those numbers periodically via the restaurant or retailer's website until the card's been activated. When it is, he can spend whatever money has been added to it.
The vulnerabilities that Caput found aren't merely theoretical. In May security firm Flashpoint released a report in which the company found hundreds of discussions of "cracked" gift cards on criminal web forums, spiking in the summer of 2016 and again in early 2017, compared with virtually none before 2016. Flashpoint analyst Liv Rowley says one vendor on the dark web marketplace AlphaBay alone had made more than $400,000 in sales between November of 2016 and July of this year when AlphaBay was shut down by the FBI, largely by selling stolen gift cards for more than a dozen brands, including stores like OfficeMax and Whole Foods. When Flashpoint talked with one of the affected retailers, the company's researchers determined that the seller was indeed using an automated tool to bruteforce activated gift cards, just as Caput has shown. "A lot of gift cards are numbered sequentially, and it appears he or she was just checking them like that," Rowley says.
All of the gift card security issues Caput highlights have relatively simple fixes: Implement strong CAPTCHAs that bad actors can't circumvent on gift card value-checking sites, don't leave unactivated gift cards up for grabs at store counters, and use scratch-away coverings on cards to prevent them from being photographed and then replaced in stores.
But until retailers and restaurants make those fixes, consumers would be wise to think twice about buying gift cards that could potentially have their value siphoned away by hackers. Before you pick up that unguarded card from a retail counter, perhaps consider who might have picked one up first—and who else might know that slice of plastic's secrets.
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Born into a family of musicians, he began piano and music theory for 4 years, that instrument study and the classic organ for over ten years.At age 10 he began classical percussion at the conservatory with his cousin Alain Bouchaux, percussionist and jazz drummer and variety. He continued this way for the Conservatoire National de Région de Paris, where he was part of the first graduating class at appointed times for music.
There is also studying to become trombone at that time his main instrument.
After quitting school studies to devote himself entirely to music it continues conservatory percussion and trombone.He plays various classical ensembles (brass, symphony) and jazz (big band) which allows him to play in several European countries. Finally he enlisted in the Navy and the music continues in parallel.
Having traveled extensively and holds two patents State sports instructor, he settled in Aix en Provence and Marseille as an educator working with troubled youth, an activity that allows him to combine music through workshops .
He then decided to focus on new music and mainly the Drums.
For 7 years, he leaves several weeks a year in New York to studie with Ian Froman, professor at Berklee College of Music and had the chance to study with Bernard Purdie, Ari Hoenig and Jim Black.
He also has luck to study with Bernard Purdie, Ari Hoenig et Jim Black.
Very active drummer, he contributes to various projects in different styles. He play with a lot of musicans and singers, like Véronique Mula, Michel Montoyat, or the american bluesmans Jonathan Kalb, Adrian Byron Burns and James Pace.
Carl Bouchaux has played and/or recorded with Bernard Abeille, Ben Aronov, Julien Baudry, Christian Bon, Jacques Boulan, Eric Casanova, Francesco Castellani, Manu Decormis, Jean Dionisi, Laure Donnat, Arnaud Farcy, Jean-Christophe Gautier, Mélodie Gerstenecker, Lucie Jean, Jonathan Kalb, Franck Lamiot, Eric Le Cardinal, Roger Mennillo, Véronique Mula, Jean-François Merlin, Michel Montoyat, Vincent Nasri, Florence Tu Hong, Corinne Van Gysel…
While pursuing his instrumental research and projects, he uses his musical knowledge and his experiences as an educator and pedagogue teaching drums, cajon and musical training.
He comes to M.J.C. Venelles, privately and regularly gives master class for drummers.
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Red Army General
Author: Tony O'Neill
Publisher: Milo Books Ltd
Category: Social Science
Manchester United's Red Army was the most notorious hooligan mob British football has ever seen. Thousands strong, this huge tribe of disaffected youths laid siege to town centrees and soccer grounds across the country and became a byword for violent disorder. Tony O'Neill was there from the beginning and became its most prominent face. Barely in his teens when he set out from the largest council estate in Europe to follow the Red Devils, his ferocity in street combat and his force of personality soon made him a leader. Running trips in his infamous War Wagon, he became so renowned that he was invited to a sit-down meeting with the Government to discuss the hooligan problem. After serving a jail term, O'Neill emerged to lead the 'casuals' of the 1980s against an even tougher generation of opponents: West Ham's ICF, the Chelsea Headhunters, the Leeds Service Crew and the scally armies of Merseyside. Police intelligence files labelled him a 'prime mover' and he became the target of a huge undercover investigation. Red Army General is the most authoritative account ever written of the wild years when terrace terror reached its peak. "BRITAIN'S No.1 FOOTBALL THUG" Daily Mirror "BRITAIN'S WORST SOCCER YOB" The Sun
Captured Soviet Generals
The Fate of Soviet Generals Captured by the Germans, 1941-1945
Author: Aleksander A. Maslov
Publisher: Psychology Press
"In this work, Maslov relates the fate of those generals who fell into German captivity. After relating the grisly circumstances of their ordeal in German prisoner-of-war camps, Maslov then tells the sordid tale of how an ungrateful Soviet state condemned for treason against their homeland many of those who had served it loyally both in combat and in German prisoner-of-war camps. By exploiting unprecedented archival materials, Maslov demonstrates how Stalin and the Soviet security organs condemned and shot many of the returnee-generals, most on trumped-up charges, in part as scapegoats for the real crimes committed by Stalin and the Soviet military leadership during the tragic initial period of the war."--Publisher's description.
The Red Army, 1918-1941
From Vanguard of World Revolution to America's Ally
Author: Earl F Ziemke
Supported in large part by evidence released after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book follows the career of the Red Army from its birth in 1918 as the designated vanguard of world revolution to its affiliation in 1941 with 'the citadel of capitalism', the United States. Effectiveness of leadership and military doctrine are particular concerns here, and Josef Stalin is the dominant personality. On the basis of the Russian Civil War (1918-20), the Red Army began to bill itself as 'an army of a new type', inherently superior to all others. However, in late 1920, the Poles trounce it soundly. Later, Soviet intervention in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) reveals widespread obsolescence in armament and equipment. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939 gives Germany and the USSR a free hand to act against Poland. However, slack performance by the Red Army in the unopposed occupation of eastern Poland and the bungled war with Finland in the winter of 1939-40 necessitate sweeping military reforms. Germany was an enemy in 1918, ally in the 1920s, enemy again in 1933, ally again in 1939, and the enemy once more in 1941, following the German invasion on 22 June 1941. This brings on a catastrophe that by the year's end has consumed nearly the entire pre-invasion Red Army. The United States' entry into the war on 7 December 1941 and the Red Army's subsequent recovery raise the question: Who won the Second World War?
The Battle for Kursk, 1943
The Soviet General Staff Study
Author: Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡a. Generalʹnyĭ shtab
This volume contains an unprecedented level of detail about the Red Army's preparation for and conduct of the famous Battle of Kursk. Prepared by the Red Army General staff in 1944 from combat reports and other top-secret archive materials, the work is an eminently practical and candid document, which was written to educate the Red Army in the intricacies, demands and pitfalls of modern warfare. As a treasure trove of fresh material, this book addresses aspects of the battle that have puzzled commentators since 1943. It provides new information on subjects ranging from overall Soviet strategic intent and military planning, engineer preparation of the battlefield, and the oft-neglected question of logistical support. Juxtaposed with the vivid details of the struggle leading up to the combat crescendo at Ponyri and Prokhorovka are such unusual matters as the employment of remote-controlled mines, electrified barbed wire and ant-tank dogs. The Battle for Kursk 1943 opens up new horizons on the operations of the Red Army at Kursk, the nature of the war on the German Eastern Front, and, in general terms, the new range of horrors that have characterised warfare in the twentieth century.
Fallen Soviet Generals
Soviet General Officers Killed in Battle, 1941-1945
No war has caused greater human suffering than the Second World War on Germany's Eastern Front. Victory in the war cost the Red Army over 29 million casualties, whose collective fate is only now being properly documented. Among the many millions of soldiers who made up that gruesome toll were an unprecedented number of Red Army general officers. Many of these perished on the battlefield or in prison camps at the hands of their German tormentors. Others fell victim to equally terrifying Stalinist repression. Together these generals personify the faceless nature of the war of the Eastern Front - the legions of forgotten souls who perished in the war. Covered up for decades, the saga of these victims of war can now be told and in this volume, A A Maslov begins the difficult process of memorializing these warrior casualties. Using formerly secret Soviet archival materials and personal interviews with the families of the officers, he painstakingly documents the fate of Red Army generals who fell victim to wartime enemy action.
The Fate of Soviet Generals Captured in Combat 1941-45
Author: A.A. Maslov
The true story of the fate of the captured Russian Generals after World War II, explaining how these officers endured horrific prison conditions and were then tried and executed when they returned home.
Belorussia 1944
Author: David M. Glantz
A new edited translation of the Soviet Staff study of the Red Army's Belorussian operation in the summer of 1944, which was unprecedented in terms of its scale, scope and strategic consequences. The Soviet Stavka had planned a campaign consisting of a series of massive operations spanning the entire Soviet-German front. Four powerful fronts (army groups) operated under close Stavka (high command) control. Over 1.8 million troops acomplished a feat unique in the history of the Red Army: the defeat and dismemberment of an entire German army group. This book is a translation of the Soviet General Staff Study No 18, a work originally classified as 'secret' and intended to educate Soviet commanders and staff officers. The operation is presented from the Soviet perspective, in the words of the individuals who planned and orchestrated the plans. A map supplement, including terrain maps, is provided to illustrate the flow of the operation in greater detail.
The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army
The Memoirs of Eugene G. Schulz During His Service in the United States Army in World War Ii
Author: Eugene G. Schulz
Eugene G. Schulz was born on a farm in Clintonville, Wisconsin in 1923. He graduated from high school in May, 1941, and worked on his fathers farm and at a truck manufacturing plant until he was drafted into the army in January 1943. Schulz received his basic training at Camp Young, California at the Desert Training Center, and later at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. He was assigned to the IV Armored Corps (later named the XX Corps) where he was a typist in the G-3 Section. His duties included the typing of battle orders developed by Colonel W. B. Griffith, the G-3 of XX Corps Headquarters. The XX Corps sailed to England in February 1944 on the Queen Mary with 16,000 soldiers on board, completing the voyage in five days. After final training in England, the XX Corps landed on Utah Beach in Normandy on D+46. His unit was attached to General Pattons Third Army and spearheaded the drive across France, through Germany and into Austria where they met the Russian Army on V-E Day. Schulz was awarded the Bronze Star medal when the war ended. He served in the Army of Occupation in Germany, then returned to the States and was discharged on December 1, 1945. He enrolled at the University of WisconsinMadison taking advantage of the GI Bill of Rights, and earning Bachelors and Masters degrees in Business Administration. Schulz met his wife, Eleanore, at the University and they were married in 1949. Schulz worked as an investment research officer at the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee for 36 years. The Schulzs have been retired since 1988 and continue to live in Milwaukee. They are world travelers. They have five sons, all married, and sixteen grandchildren.
The Battle of Moscow 1941–1942
The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter-offensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction
Author: Soviet General Staff
Publisher: Helion and Company
"The Battle of Moscow, 1941–1942: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counteroffensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction" is a detailed examination of one of the major turning points of World War II, as seen from the Soviet side. The Battle of Moscow marked the climax of Hitler's "Operation Barbarossa," which sought to destroy the Soviet Union in a single campaign and ensure German hegemony in Europe. The failure to do so condemned Germany to a prolonged war it could not win. This work originally appeared in 1943, under the title "Razgrom Nemetskikh Voisk pod Moskvoi" (The Rout of the German Forces Around Moscow). The work was produced by the Red Army General Staff's military-historical section, which was charged with collecting and analyzing the war's experience and disseminating it to the army's higher echelons. This was a collective effort, featuring many different contributors, with Marshal Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov, former chief of the Red Army General Staff and then head of the General Staff Academy, serving as general editor. The book is divided into three parts, each dealing with a specific phase of the battle. The first traces the Western Front's defensive operations along the Moscow direction during Army Group Center's final push toward the capital in November–December, 1941. The study pays particular attention to the Red Army's resistance to the Germans' attempts to outflank Moscow from the north. Equally important were the defensive operations to the south of Moscow, where the Germans sought to push forward their other encircling flank. The second part deals with the first phase of the Red Army's counteroffensive, which was aimed at pushing back the German pincers and removing the immediate threat to Moscow. Here the Soviets were able to throw the Germans back and flatten both salients, particularly in the south, where they were able to make deep inroads into the enemy front to the west and northwest. The final section examines the further development of the counteroffensive until the end of January 1942. This section highlights the Soviet advance all along the front and their determined but unsuccessful attempts to cut off the Germans' Rzhev–Vyaz'ma salient. It is from this point that the front essentially stabilized, after which events shifted to the south. This new translation into English makes available to a wider readership this valuable study.
Winter Warfare
Red Army Orders and Experiences
Author: Richard N. Armstrong
Based on German and Soviet military archival material, this book provides an insight into the tactics and planning for combat in a winter climate. It also studies the mechanisms for change in an army during the course of battle. The first part of the book looks at the tactical pamphlet 'People's Commissar for Defence Order No. 109', as passed by Red Army units on 4 March 1941, which provided regulations for combat in Winter. The second part of the book, using material from the Soviet military archives, reveals Red Army General Staff supplements to the winter regulation.
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Orange - Eps. 1-3
Written by Clover Harker on 27 Jul 2016
Distributor Crunchyroll • Certificate N/A • Price N/A
Orange opens with 26-year-old Naho Takamiya narrating how many regrets she has from decisions she made ten years ago. As if she were talking to her younger self, she warns young Naho to not make the same mistakes.
Orange then flashes back to 16-year-old Naho Takamiya, who overslept and is late for school for the first time in her life. Naho finds a letter in her schoolbag, signed by her future self. She brushes it off at first, but after the letter describes her entire day accurately – from being late for school to a new transfer student being introduced in the class - Naho can't help but believe the letter.
At school, Naho is part of a close-knit group: Azusa Marusaka is an outgoing, energetic girl, whereas Takako Chino is her opposite as calm and reserved (just don't get her angry). Hiroto Suwa is an avid football player who gets teased for eating a lot, and Saku Higata is his opposite as a quite stoic, non-athletic character. When new transfer student Kakeru Naruse is introduced to the class, Hiroto immediately invites him to hang out after school. The somewhat quiet Kakeru seems to enjoy spending time with his newfound friends, slowly opening up. With the mysterious letter in mind, Naho keeps to the background – the letter warned her not to invite Kakeru after school, and Naho is worried whether or not she should have listened to her supposed future self.
The next day, Kakeru is absent from school, and doesn't return for two weeks.
Now truly convinced the letter is real, Naho follows the advice from her future self, trying to avoid the mistakes and regrets her future self described. These seemingly small things, such as preparing lunch for Kakeru or participating in a softball match, positively influence the life of both Naho and Kakeru. But then 16-year-old Naho makes a shocking discovery: future Naho reveals Kakeru will soon die.
With the major plot twist revealed early on, the story is clear and straightforward, yet enough mystery remains to keep viewers captivated. As Orange is directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki, who also directed the wildly popular sci-fi anime Steins;Gate, nothing less is to be expected - it will come as no surprise that the sci-fi aspects seamlessly flow and blend in with the general slice-of-life feel of the series.
Occasionally, the series shifts to the group of friends in their mid-twenties, who after unearthing a time capsule they made as teens reminiscence over days of the past and their lost friend. Orange is a beautiful homage to youth and highschool life, even to a point where the underlying sci-fi theme could easily be forgotten. Therefore, it almost feels like a rude awakening when viewers are reminded of Kakeru's impending doom. This excellent blend of elements captivates and engages viewers – will teenage Naho be able to change fate, and if so, how will this impact the future?
The title 'Orange' is likely chosen because Naho receives an orange juice from Kakeru. Receiving orange juice is one of the many seemingly unimportant, small details 26-year-old Naho writes to her younger self. This is exactly what gives the serie its charm – instead of huge life-changing events, viewers are reminded it's the small things that matter most, such as spending time with friends during careless summer days.
Befitting the serious undertone of the series, the art style is realistic. Orange treats its viewers to lively, beautiful backgrounds and a vibrant cast, whose voice actors further bring the characters to life. The banter amongst the group of friends feels natural and the way their lives are depicted realistically. Added with the good use of background music throughout the series, Orange is both visually and audibly a delight to watch.
Despite only three episodes aired at the time of writing, expectations are set high. Perhaps Orange will be another masterpiece about time travelling on par with Steins;Gate. Time will tell.
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Die A 197 ist eine russische Fernstraße in der Oblast Kaliningrad. Sie verläuft von Bolschakowo (Groß Skaisgirren, 1938–45: Kreuzingen) im Rajon Slawsk (Heinrichswalde) südwärts über Tschernjachowsk (Insterburg) bis Krylowo (Nordenburg) im Rajon Prawdinsk (Friedland (Ostpreußen)). Ihre Gesamtlänge beträgt 75 Kilometer.

Zwischen Korolenkowo (Oschkin, 1938–1946 Oschern) und Kamenka ((Groß) Pentlack) verläuft die A 197 mit der R 508 auf einer gemeinsamen Trasse.

Der Straßenabschnitt von Bolschakowo bis Tschernjachowsk verläuft auf der Trasse der ehemaligen Reichsstraße 137, während der Straßenabschnitt Tschernjachowsk bis Krylowo die Trasse der früheren Reichsstraße 139 befährt.

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Oblast Kaliningrad:

Rajon Slawsk (Heinrichswalde):
 00 km – Bolschakowo (Groß Skaisgirren, 1938–46: Kreuzingen) (→ A 190 und A 216 / Europastraße 77)
 06 km – Pridoroschnoje (Groß Asznaggern, 1936–46: Grenzberg)

Rajon Tschernjachowsk (Insterburg):
 13 km – Kalinowka (Aulowönen, 1938–46: Aulenbach)
 19 km – Lipowka (Schacken, 1938–46: Schackenau)
 28 km – Perelesnoje (Pagelienen)
 32 km – Majowka (Georgenburg)

~ Instrutsch (Inster) ~
 34 km – Tschernjachowsk (Insterburg) (→ A 229 / Europastraße 28)

~ Angrapa (Angerapp) ~

X Bahnstrecke Kaliningrad – Nesterow (→ Litauen) der Russischen Eisenbahn (ehemals Preußische Ostbahn) X
 44 km – Telmanowo (Didlacken, 1938–46: Dittlacken)
 48 km – Swoboda (Jänischken, 1938–46: Jänichen)

~ Jutschinka (Schwalbe) ~
 53 km – Wolodarowka (Jodlauken, 1938–46: Schwalbental)

Rajon Osjorsk (Darkehmen, 1938–46 Angerapp)
 58 km – Sadowoje (Szallgirren/Schallgirren, 1938–46 Kreuzhausen)

Rajon Prawdinsk (Friedland (Ostpreußen)):
 64 km – Belkino (Abelischken, 1938–46: Ilmenhorst)
 66 km – Korolenkowo (Oschkin, 1938–46 Oschern)
 68 km – Ostrowki (Trotczin, 1938–46 Trotzenau)
 72 km – Kamenka ((Groß) Pentlack)
 74 km – Nekrassowka (Nordenthal)
 75 km – Krylowo (Nordenburg) (→ A 196)


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Fraser Islands Regional Park Reserve protects more than 200 hectares of important river island habitat. Three islands make up the reserve – Douglas Island, near the junction of the Fraser and Pitt rivers, as well as Don Island and Lion Island, farther downstream near the western end of Annacis Island.
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Spring deal looks bright for Divine Flavor
Tad Thompson
Divine Flavor is set for a strong spring Mexican vegetable deal.
This will be refreshing, since the Nogales winter vegetable deal was challenging for Nogales distributors, and this included Divine Flavor, according to Michael DuPuis, quality assurance and public relations coordinator.
"Things have been a little tight" in the West Mexico vegetable business, DuPuis indicated at the end of January. "It's been challenging for a lot of the industry, with low volumes. It was not what we were expecting. The produce has been finicky. So, it's been tight on most of our vegetable commodities; not just for Divine Flavor. But it was a rough January for us."
Looking toward a brighter market situation in February and March, DuPuis pointed to Divine Flavor's close alliance with Hortifresh S.A. de C.V. and Agricola Chaparral, two major Mexican vegetable grower-packers. Both companies are based in Culiacan, Sinaloa. "They have taken their success in Sinaloa to also produce in Jalisco and Nayarit."
He added that the allied companies also share Divine Flavor's commitment to social responsibility, which places a high value on good working and living conditions for all employees.
DuPuis said Divine Flavor has the longest working relationship with Hortifresh and that cooperation "and that has pretty much allowed us to get where we are. They have invested in the packaging, greenhouse technology" necessary to excel and persevere, even in difficult times.
Hortifresh and Chaparral both have the experience and resources to respond very quickly when the industry doesn't operate smoothly. So, DuPuis added, as the West Mexican deal rolls into February and March, "things will come into fruition to meet expectations." If a company has not the infrastructure or ability to react to the market, an entire season could be lost, he noted.
DuPuis said Roma, Beef, grape and vine ripe tomatoes, like Bell peppers, are all an important part of Divine Flavor's winter and spring vegetable offerings.
"We want to assure that we are a reliable one-stop shop for conventional and organic products for our retail and wholesale customers. We will be strong for February and March."
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Divine Flavor is a long-established leader in shipping Sonoran spring table grapes.
The firm's parent company, Grupo Alta, has invested a great deal of money to develop, plant and market special new, flavorful and colorful varieties.
DuPuis notes that customers asked for these varieties well beyond Sonora's May-to-July production period.
In 2019 for the first time, Divine Flavor started shipping from a new vineyard in Jalisco to extend the early side of Mexican table grape production.
Also, in recent years, Divine Flavor has made alliances with growers in Peru and Chile to produce these and other special varieties for distribution by Divine Flavor in North America.
Divine Flavor seasonally moved Peruvian grapes in November and December, with volumes slowing in January 2021.
In late January, DuPuis noted that "we're starting our first shipments from Chile." Those were being received in Philadelphia and California seaports.
For Divine Flavor, strong proprietary varieties arriving from Chile include Autumn Crisp, Sweet Globe and red-green hybrid Muscat Beauty.
Other special new varieties are a high-end type of Thompson Seedless and "a very, very nice Sable Seedless, which is black."
DuPuis said Divine Flavor's already-famous specialty varieties, such as Jellyberries and Cotton Candy are also arriving from Chile.
DuPuis said the 2021 Jalisco deal will mark the second season of commercial volumes.
Jalisco has an unusual climate in that it can potentially produce grapes 12 months a year. But the best time to harvest grapes in Jalisco is in April, which happens to be the ideal time to be in the market before Sonoran volumes begin in May.
DuPuis noted that Divine Flavor's Jalisco vineyards are in a beautiful location. The plantations are separated from the Pacific Ocean only by one mountain range. And the vineyards are planted on scenic rolling hills.
Antonio Escobar
DuPuis noted that since Carlos Bon, Jr., was promoted to become Divine Flavor's vice president of sales last year, Antonio Escobar, newly promoted to table grapes category manager, has moved to carry many of Bon's previous responsibilities. Escobar, who has worked his way up through the company over many years, has a broad and deep knowledge of the table grape business.
DuPuis emphasized that expectations for the Divine Flavor sales staff go beyond simply moving product to market.
The company needs for the sales team to communicate quality and flavor "and now how to get the best product to our customers."
As Escobar is focused on building grape sales, Bon is focused on Divine Flavor's entire commodity list.
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Q: Construction of a characteristic function Is it possible to construct a characteristic function (for a distribution) $\phi(t)$ such that $\phi(t) = t^{-1/4}$ for $16\leq t \leq 20$?
I tried the inversion formula, but didn't know how to prove that the resulting set function is a probability measure.

A:
Is it possible to construct a characteristic function (for a distribution) $\phi(t)$ such that $\phi(t) = t^{-1/4}$ for $16\leq t \leq 20$?

Pólya's theorem can be used to construct such a $\phi$.  Here's a simple example:

$
\phi(t) =
\begin{cases}
1 - \frac{t}{32} & \text{if } 0 \leq t < 16  \\
\\
t^{-\frac{1}{4}} & \text{if } t \geq 16  \\
\\
\phi(-t) & \text{if t} \lt 0
\end{cases}
$
It's easily verified that the conditions of the theorem are met, so this $\phi$ is the characteristic function of an absolutely continuous symmetrical distribution.

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After two successful runs of VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE at The Guthrie Theater and Arizona Theatre Company, Ali will be making her Broadway debut in Larry David's new play, FISH IN THE DARK. Previews begin February 2nd at The Cort Theater.
"Ali Rose Dachis's Nina is a vision of pure and unspoiled youth and innocence."
"Ali Rose Dachis is all sweet innocence as Nina, a ray of sunlight in this grumpy family."
"Ali Rose Dachis adds a dose of bubble-headed charm as Nina"
Ali was named best solo performance of 2011 by Lavender Magazine for her work in "The Edge of Our Bodies"
"Absolutely mesmerizing performance by Twin Cities native Ali Rose Dachis"
"Ali Rose Dachis gives the kind of performance in "The Edge of Our Bodies" that can be a career touchstone"
"The 24 year old Twin Cities-bred actor with a penetrating gaze, easy manner and quick smile has the ineffabe mix of feral hunger and craft, honed in the University of Minnesota / Guthrie Theater BFA program, that casting directors zero in on when trying to find a star."
"Rapp has crafted a complex, breathing creation that is, in turn, fully inhabited by Dachis."
"That Dachis can evoke these powerful emotions while simultaneously maintaining a composed calm is the essence of this assured and compelling performance. "
'the talk about his production will be Dachis' performance."
"Ali Rose Dachis gives, despite her youth, a riveting performance, the best thing in this gorgeously acted show."
"Ali Rose Dachis is remarkable in the difficult part of a sixteen-year-old ,who, in spite of being the youngest character also has the most layers."
"Thankfully, Dachis subtle acting grounds her character."
"(Ali)'s been rising higher with each new role."


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Police Crime Commissioner
The offenders sentenced at Truro Magistrates' Court this week
As usual, there have been plenty of drink drivers among the offenders punished
Another week has passed and another hoard of drink drivers have been banned from the road for endangering the lives of themselves and others.
This week hasn't been the busiest at Truro Magistrates' Court with an absence of the usual court regulars but there have still been some interesting cases.
Cornwall's magistrates' courts deal with a huge variety of cases, ranging from petty crimes such as shoplifting to serious offences that eventually end up in long prison sentences.
Between Bodmin and Truro, the courts handle all the criminal cases in Cornwall. Everyone who has been charged with an offence, from the least to the most serious, appears first of all before the magistrates.
All offences come before the magistrates, although the most serious ones are sent up to the crown court.
If a defendant pleads guilty they could be sentenced straight away or have the matter put back for a pre-sentence report. If they deny the allegations against them the case will be adjourned for a trial.
There are typically two or even three courts running just at Truro Magistrates' Court.
The courts are open to anyone and our reporters attend just like any other member of the public. As most people have jobs and cannot spend their time at court, the media has always acted as the eyes and ears of the public.
Cornwall Courts latest
Prolific burglar taken off the streets
Thug has sentence extended
Ex cop jailed again for animal sex pics
Baby-faced dealer sold Class As
Young dad jailed for hammer attack
Hammer attack lookout sent to prison
Man glassed ex and threw phone over roof
Man punched ex in face after chance meet
Here's who's been sentenced this week...
Ryan Michael Morcom
Lamorak Close
Aged: 26
On September 9 in Par assaulted a male.
Discharged conditionally for 12 months. Restraining order made. To pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £21. To pay costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Robert Anthony Sharp
Roscadghill Parc
On May 28 on the A30 at Penzance drove without due care and attention.
Fined £162. To pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £30. To pay costs of £200 to the Crown Prosecution Service. Disqualified for holding or obtaining a driving licence for 14 days.
Anthony Keith Bradford
Predannack Property and Leisure
On April 12 in Plymouth failed to stop when required to by police.
Fined £660. To pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £66. To pay costs of £500 to the Crown Prosecution Service. Driving record endorsed with six points.
The gate to Truro Magistrates' Court
Frayne Elliot
On September 27 in Penzance used towards a man threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.
Community order made. Must complete rehabilitation activity requirement. Fined £80. To pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £90. To pay costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Richard Whittaker
On October 12 in Helston drove on Coinagehall Street whilst over the drink drive limit.
Community order made. Must carry out 200 hours of unpaid work. To pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £90. To pay costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service. Disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 30 months.
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It's the place to find a wide range of crime related coverage, including sentencings, plea hearings, ongoing trials, crimes that shocked Cornwall through the years, crime stats and more besides.
The content will primarily relate to hearings at Truro Crown Court, Truro Magistrates' Court and Bodmin Magistrates' Court but every now and then we will publish police appeals or pull in content from further afield with links to Cornwall.
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Robert James Williams
Bulwark Road
On October 12 in Helston failed to provide a breath specimen.
Fined £300. To pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £32. To pay costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service. Disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 15 months.
Charlotte Dawn Louise Young
Menadue Court
Reawla
On March 2 in Hayle damaged a silver Peugeot 306 at a cost of £350.
Discharged conditionally for two years. To pay compensation of £175.
Paul Lynch
Trafalgar Fields
Madron
On October 5 drove on Creakavose, St Stephen whilst over the drink drive limit.
Community order made. Eight-week curfew from 7pm to 7am. To pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £90. To pay costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service. Disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 24 months.
Our in court section is supported by the office of Alison Hernandez, the elected Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. To find out more about their support for victim's click here http://www.victimcaredevonandcornwall.org.uk/


The 067-0616-00 Tek Flexible plug in extender Extender /Test / Fixture is an versatile tool for maintaining and calibrating the plug in modules for Tektronix products. This fixture is very useful as it allow the service person to change the position of the unit under test with it still powered and connected to the mainframe it may or may not serve as a final calibration fixture. This fixture will service Tektronix 7000-series for such modules as vertical amplifiers such as 7A26 variable time base such as 7B93 7B85 voltage comaparator such as 7A13 logic analyzer such as 7D01 7D02 spectrum analyzer such as 7L12 7L5 7L13 7L14 7L18 digital sampler such as 7S11 ETC. and may service 11000-series plugins.


So what does it mean to have a grooved golf swing? This is a golf swing that is repeatable and can be executed almost without thinking about the body mechanics that produce it. It's a golf swing that has been committed to muscle memory. It's a consistent golf swing, and for weekend golfers might be considered the perfect golf swing ... sort of golf swing heaven. So grooving your golf swing is the mental and physical process of achieving a consistent golf swing.
For weekend golfers in search of the perfect golf swing it is the dependable consistency of a golf swing groove that motivates efforts to find the perfect golf swing. So what is a perfect golf swing? This is a question asked by weekend golfers all over the world, and the answer surely varies based on the level of play already achieved, but includes the notion of achieving a grooved golf swing.
One of the most common thoughts that comes up in this conversation is the word consistency. Most week end golfers want to hit the golf ball farther and straighter … and do this more consistently. The more grooved their golf swing is the more they will experience the consistency they are seeking.
The discussion usually comes down to a desire to hit longer drives more accurately into the center of the fairway over and over again … consistently. Just swinging harder at the driving range or out on the golf course has probably produced discouraging results. The interesting thing about the perfect golf swing is that it's never about swinging harder.
It's about developing a subconscious repeatability in your golf swing mechanics. This leads to better ball striking which inherently achieves more distance and accuracy. Grooving your golf swing inherently leads to improved golf ball striking consistency. Improved ball striking leads to reduced strokes on the golf card.
Maybe you are a relatively new golfer striving to break 100 on a regular basis. Chances are you've not yet developed your full swing groove. It's exhilarating when you break 100, but then you may follow that up with a couple stinker rounds of golf. Too many miss hits, some which may even result in penalty strokes. Penalty strokes can really stress the score card and the golfer quickly. You are what I have referred to on this site as a Level 3 Weekend Golfer.
Let's say you're consistently shooting in the 90s and actually brake 90 every once in a while. Your swing feels pretty good most of the time, but sometimes you have to really concentrate on it. The moment you get distracted, for what ever reason, you are subject to really bending a drive or totally miss hitting a shot. Sometimes this can lead to a penalty stroke or two causing your stress level to go up. You are a Level 2 Weekend Golfer.
Then there is what I have called a Level 1 Weekend Golfer . You feel pretty good about your golf swing and you shoot mostly in the 80s. There is still an occasional round where for some reason you struggle to break 90, and you would love to get a little more distance off the Tee and with your fairway clubs. You've spent a lot of time at the driving range getting your swing to where it is, but admittedly you don't seem to have the time to do that as much as you used to.
These three golf swing scenarios have different golf swing improvement challenges, but improvement is totally possible if you stop thinking about swinging harder. Instead start relating consistency with the notion of becoming a better ball striker.
A good golf ball striker refers to a golfer who excels at making dead solid contact with the ball using the driver and fairway clubs. Their consistent, repeatable golf swing mechanics produces "sweet spot" contact with the golf ball on every full swing shot. This produces maximum yardage and accuracy for the swing speed achieved.
Golfers who tend to miss the sweet spot by making contact more towards to heel of the club will tend to struggle with a slice. Those who miss the sweet spot towards the toe of the golf club will tend to struggle with a hook. The ideal is, of course, to hit the ball in the middle of the club face where the club sweet spot is located as often as possible... and the more you can do that the better golfer you will be.
Most lists of great ball strikers will include such names as Lee Trevino, Nick Price, Justin Rose, Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, Adam Scott, Ricky Fowler, and Rory McIlroy. I could list many, many more. Let's not forget the LPGA has some great ball strikers as well, Annika Sorenstam, Lorena Ochoa, Lexi Thompson, Michelle Wie, and Lydia Ko just to mention a few.
Most will agree that the best full swing ball striker was Ben Hogan … after he recovered from a serious automobile accident that almost ended his career. It was after his return to the PGA in 1950 that the golfing world started to take notice of his dramatically improved ball striking skills. He spent months in rehab after the accident rebuilding his golf swing in secret practice sessions.
The great ball strikers mentioned above all have something in common. They tend to have single plane golf swings. It's a more natural swing motion and is simpler than the two plane golf swing because there are fewer moving parts. Sometimes referred to as a "flat swing", many contemporary pro golfers today have embraced the single plane golf swing, or versions of it.
Back in the 70s and 80s almost all professional golfers had golf swings that were more of a two plane golf swing by comparison, and this included some great ball strikers such as Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus. They hit thousands of practice shots to perfect the body mechanics of their more upright golf swings which served them well. During this golf era, two of the most notable single plane ball strikers were Gary Player and Lee Trevino.
The simpler body mechanics of the single plane golf swing make it easier to properly time the body movements needed to consistently achieve proper contact with the golf club sweet spot. These mechanics put much less stress on the lower back, which explains why some Pros with back problems have gravitated to the single plane golf swing. Fred Couples and Tiger Woods come to mind.
The simple explanation of the one plane golf swing is the plane of the back swing and the down swing are essentially the same where as in the two plane golf swing they are not. For right handed golfers, the left arm will be in contact with the chest and more or less parallel with their shoulder line at the top of the back swing.
There is a focus on a rhythmic rotation around the angled spine while keeping the head very still during the back swing and down swing. This is followed by a smooth explosion into the ball consistently striking the club head sweet spot. The single plane body mechanics inherently put less strain on the lower back than the body mechanics of the more traditional two plane golf swing.
The two plane golf swing starts with the golfer's hands typically closer to the body at set up and standing more erect as the back swing is initiated. This results in the hands being noticeably higher at the top of the back swing and requires a plane adjustment in the down swing in order to make proper contact with the golf ball. The resulting lifting, twisting motion at ball impact puts tremendous strain on the lower back. The single plane is a more "stress free" golf swing than the two plane golf swing.
Ben Hogan is not only considered one of the best ball strikers of all time he also had what might be considered the purest single plane golf swing to ever play the game. He was in a horrific automobile accident right at the peak of his career in 1949. Injuries included broken ribs, severe chest injuries and a broken back.
His rehab was a slow process and included long hours of practice essentially in secret. What emerged in the pro golfing world was even an improved Ben Hogan. Some adjustments were made to his golf swing during the rehab that reduced the physical strain on his body. The stress free nature of his rehabbed golf swing very likely helped extend his career after the accident.
1953 – The Masters, US Open & British Open.
This gave Ben a career grand slam with two Masters Titles, four US Opens, two PGA Championships, and a British Open Championship played at the famous Carnoustie golf course in Scotland. Carnoustie has long been recognized as one of the toughest golf courses to play in the world. His Scottish fans at the 1953 British Open affectionately called him "Wee Ice Man".
Most PGA golfers in the 50s and 60s were using the more traditional two plane golf swing. So Ben Hogan was a little different, but the results he achieved speak for themselves. Fast forward to the PGA today, and we see the single plane golf swing much more frequently. There is a growing list of pro golfers who have adopted their version of it, including PGA Pros Ricky Fowler, Graeme McDowell, Justin Rose, Jason Day, Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy just to mention a few.
The same can be said for women pro golfers on the LPGA tour, especially the Asians on the tour. Asian women pro golfers tend to be relatively short … typically less than 5 feet 7 inches tall. The single plane golf swing is more naturally suited for shorter golfers, and I believe this is what we are seeing on the LPGA tour. Plus there is the Se Ri Pak effect on golfers from South Korea which still might be the main reason Asian representation on the LPGA tour continues to be so strong. Se Ri had a strong, athletic, single plane like golf swing.
But taller Pro golfers do just fine adapting to a version of the single plane golf swing. Michelle Wie of the LPGA, mentioned above, is very tall at 6'1" for the LPGA and Ernie Els is tall at 6'3" for the PGA. Both of them have a effective versions of the single plane golf swing that serves them well.
So what is Best for the Week End Golfer?
Although it's great fun to watch the Pros swing the golf club, they play an entirely different game than week end golfers do. They have developed their golf swing under constant personal coaching and have hit thousands of practice shots to get where they are. They hit hundreds of shots a week as they tune up for the next tournament. This is just different golf than that played by week end golfers.
Most week end golfers are self taught with maybe a few pointers from friends who are better golfers. It's important that golf swing be kept as simple as possible. The single plane golf swing is a simpler golf swing than the two plane golf swing. With fewer moving parts, the body mechanics are simpler. Once some consistency is achieved it is an easier golf swing to keep tuned up.
There's a lot week end golfers can learn from Ben Hogan's simple, single plane golf swing, the one he deployed after his extensive rehab recovering from the horrific automobile accident in 1949. The changes he made in his golf swing were prompted to reduce lower back strain, and likely helped extend his career.
Many of the Pros Ben competed against in the 50s said there was something different about his golf swing. The most noticeable result was he no longer was fighting to control the tendency to hook the ball which plague him earlier in his career. Ben became the master of the stress free golf swing.
The process of grooving your golf swing has never been easier for the week end golfer who is serious about improving their game. Will it require some concentration and practice ... of course it will. But the cost of the added enjoyment and satisfaction from playing the game of golf we love is really ... well priceless.


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Forest on TV: Derby County through the decades
First published in "Forest Review" on Monday, 25th February, 2019 versus Derby County
It's fair to say that our dearest rivals have enjoyed the better of the entertainment in recent years when our fixture has been regularly broadcast live on Sky.
We treasured the breath-taking moment when our Derby-(Os)born favourite rifled home in injury time at Pride Park in January 2015 but our A5-2 rout in December 2010 wasn't televised and, regrettably, there have been some unmentionable defeats too.
Looking further back in the archives, there is plenty of televised action to reflect on and some matches where a lot more than local pride was at stake.
On Easter Saturday 1979, ATV's Star Soccer covered our 2-1 win which took us third in the First Division, just three days after our epic 3-3 draw against Cologne in the European Cup Semi-Final.
This was an archetypical Baseball Ground scene, with no confirmed sighting of grass and the pitch reminiscent of Blackpool beach in the April sunshine.
Derby were 18th in the league and undone by our exhilarating forward play, with the pace and verve of Tony Woodcock, Garry Birtles, Trevor Francis and co prompting Hugh Johns to observe: "This Forest forward line is rampant".
After 27 minutes, Woodcock expertly evaded three desperate lunges before delivering a vicious cross diverted home by Birtles' twisting, near post header – the 24th goal of his remarkable breakthrough season.
Just seven minutes later it was Forest legend, and future manager, Martin O'Neill benefitting from Woodcock's irrepressible play down the left, with Martin heading home at the far post.
The Rams struck back through Dave Webb before half time and were unfortunate in striking the woodwork three times.
However, the pitch was conspiring against as Hugh Johns used a phrase rarely heard in modern football to describe Francis' second half shot: "The sand took the pace off the shot".
One year later, we were preparing to travel to Amsterdam for our European Cup Final Semi-Final second leg but summoned the energy to all but relegate our rivals from the First Division.
Again, Star Soccer's cameras were present with Hugh Johns, as Frank Gray scored the only goal, rifling home a free kick at the Bridgford End in a similar fashion to his goal against Leicester a few months later. "What a whacker!" exclaimed Hugh.
We then lost touch with our woolly friends in the league for much of the 80s but the Baseball Ground could still be seen if you watched ITV's children's programmes.
Dunmore United - of "Murphy's Mob" fame - unceremoniously relocated from Watford's Vicarage Road to the BBG, with controversial accompanying change of kit. Franchise football anyone?
Back in the real world, we immediately retained the upper hand when league battle recommenced in the late 80s and early 90s.
In April 1991, we were preparing for an FA Cup Semi-Final with West Ham and Derby were, again, unsuccessfully trying to stave off relegation from the top flight.
Unusually, Central's midweek highlights of the match were broadcast at the same time the BBC were showing an extended – and rather entertaining - interview with Brian Clough on Sportsnight to preview the Cup Semi-Final that coming weekend.
Not often that we've been primetime on both major terrestrial channels simultaneously and it provided a dilemma as video recorders could only handle one recording at a time.
On Central, the other half of O'Neill's future management team was in his first season and causing quite a stir with his rampaging runs.
"What an exciting young player" commented Alan Parry on the little-known Irishman named Roy Keane.
Young Roy inevitably scored the winner, heading the only goal of the game midway through the second half past our old favourite Peter Shilton – 22 years his senior.
"It just had to be the young player whose skills have shone throughout the game" said Parry.
Central mischievously cut to a banner in the crowd bidding farewell to our rivals. Derby eventually finished bottom, thirteen points from safety in an unusual season when only two teams were relegated from the top flight.
It was a forgettable season for The Rams, albeit not as bad as the nadir of 2007/08 (which we're prone to reminding them of occasionally).
That game was the pre-cursor for an amazing purple patch for our fresh-faced team, with their neat passing - and haircuts - woven around the "Number 9".
In the space of just ten days, we smashed 16 goals without reply - hammering West Ham 4-0 to reach Wembley, dispatching Chelsea 7-0 with the minimum of fuss or media fanfare, before a seemingly routine 5-0 against Norwich.
When we resumed hostilities with Derby we enjoyed the dark farce of the Gary Charles match at the Baseball Ground in our 1994 promotion season.
But in the 33 matches since that memorable evening, we've only mustered seven wins.
Sky's "EFL Greatest" series of 15-minute highlights packages currently includes one memorable win for us each.
Tonight would be an ideal moment to take a 2-1 lead on Sky boxes across the land.
#nffc #nottinghamforest #derby #derbycounty #therams #atv #centraltv #starsoccer #hughjohns #martinoneill #roykeane #benosborn #murphysmob #petershilton #baseballground
Forest on Betamax: "And Nottingham Forest are in the dark shirts"


Hendrik Hertzberg wrote about the controversy surrounding the proposed "Park51" building in the current issue of the magazine, and discussed it in a live chat with readers.
On the Political Scene podcast, Hertzberg and Peter J. Boyer debated whether the project's developers should find a new location. And on his blog, Hertzberg outlined the flaws with comparing the Holocaust to the September 11th attacks and with likening the Park51 developers to Nazis.
At Close Read, Amy Davidson offers another reason that "Auschwitz is not Ground Zero" and responds to a New York Times article alleging "early missteps" by the Park51 organizers. She also rebutted an ad by the National Republican Trust PAC and applauded Michael Bloomberg's speech defending the community center as an important test of the separation of church and state.


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package com.lithium.flow.filer;

import com.lithium.flow.access.Access;
import com.lithium.flow.config.Config;
import com.lithium.flow.config.Repo;
import com.lithium.flow.config.repos.Repos;
import com.lithium.flow.filer.chain.CachedFilerChain;
import com.lithium.flow.filer.chain.ReadOnlyFilerChain;
import com.lithium.flow.filer.chain.SubpathsFilerChain;
import com.lithium.flow.filer.chain.TempWriterFilerChain;
import com.lithium.flow.filer.hash.HashFilerChain;
import com.lithium.flow.filer.lucene.LuceneFilerChain;
import com.lithium.flow.filer.remote.ClientRemoteFiler;
import com.lithium.flow.key.KeySource;
import com.lithium.flow.key.Keys;
import com.lithium.flow.shell.Shells;
import com.lithium.flow.shell.Shore;
import com.lithium.flow.streams.BufferedStreamer;
import com.lithium.flow.streams.CompressStreamer;
import com.lithium.flow.streams.CryptStreamer;
import com.lithium.flow.vault.Vault;
import com.lithium.flow.vault.Vaults;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;

/**
 * @author Matt Ayres
 */
public class Filers {
	private static final FilerFactory factory = buildFactory();

	@Nonnull
	public static FilerFactory buildFactory() {
		return new FilerFactory()
				.addScheme("file", LocalFiler.class)
				.addScheme("har", HarFiler.class)
				.addScheme("hdfs", HdfsFiler.class)
				.addScheme("rmi", ClientRemoteFiler.class)
				.addScheme("ssh", ShellFiler.class)
				.addScheme("sftp", ShellFiler.class)
				.addScheme("s3", S3Filer.class)
				.addStreamer("buffered", BufferedStreamer.class)
				.addStreamer("compress", CompressStreamer.class)
				.addStreamer("crypt", CryptStreamer.class)
				.addChain("readonly", ReadOnlyFilerChain.class)
				.addChain("subpath", SubpathsFilerChain.class)
				.addChain("temp", TempWriterFilerChain.class)
				.addChain("cache", CachedFilerChain.class)
				.addChain("lucene", LuceneFilerChain.class)
				.addChain("hash", HashFilerChain.class)
				.attempt(ff -> ff.addProvider(Configuration.class, HdfsConfiguration::new))
				.attempt(ff -> ff.addProvider(Access.class, Vaults::buildAccess))
				.attempt(ff -> ff.addProvider(Vault.class, Vaults::buildVault))
				.attempt(ff -> ff.addProvider(Shore.class, Shells::buildShore))
				.attempt(ff -> ff.addProvider(KeySource.class, Keys::buildKeySource))
				.attempt(ff -> ff.addProvider(Repo.class, Repos::buildRepo));
	}

	@Nonnull
	public static Filer buildFiler(@Nonnull Config config, Object... provided) throws IOException {
		return factory.buildFiler(config, provided);
	}
}