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Letters to the editor, Dec. 29, 2012
Goolsby misses mark on guns
State Sen. Thom Goolsby, in his Dec. 20 column, spouts the traditional NRA arguments against any form of gun control. In light of the horror in Newtown, his stance is appalling.
He uses the worn-out analogy of a drunken driver hitting a school bus. … Society punishes those offenders, by restricting or barring their right to drive. The ridiculous analogy about a "petrol" bomb is so alien to our way of life here in the U.S. as to warrant no reply. …
Hiding behind comments by Mahatma Gandhi is also a repugnant attempt to dress unlimited gun access in the clothing of an avowed pacifist. Perhaps most disturbing is Goolsby's call for a return to the wild west, where "Samuel Colt made men equal." …
The senator should listen to what is really being said … Few reasonable people are calling for a ban on guns. No one is proposing we take away any guns now owned by legitimately licensed holders. What is being said is that we should place more control on access to weapons.
For example, require background checks for all gun purchases. Maybe we should limit access to assault-type weapons. Honestly, who needs those for self protection? It is a sad day when a seemingly intelligent, informed member of the state Senate is revealed, by his own words, to be so ill-informed and unaware of public sentiment.
James G. Miller, Southport
We're nicer to game animals
In a Dec. 20 article, the NRA calls for guards at all schools. I think the NRA members should volunteer to be guards at schools, since they are the ones fighting against gun control (policeman get killed, too).
Guns should have to be registered just like cars, every year and in person at an FBI office where you take a number and wait a long time till they call your name. The annual fees should be high enough so as not to cost taxpayers anything.
Rapid-firing assault weapons should be outlawed and taken away from owners.
Hunters are sportsmen and don't use weapons of mass destruction when hunting. They give their prey an even break.
Jeremy Bickwid, Leland
U.S. has lost its moral fiber
The killings in Newtown are a national tragedy that finds most human beings asking why. The frequency of these horrific events is a sign of a progressive cancer eating at our nation. What needs repudiation in America, the Second Amendment or our neo-culture?
Gun ownership has not changed. It is our moral fiber that is radically changing.
Before his call for gun control the president asked us to pray for the victims and their families. Let us not forget that (government) has led the charge to remove God and the very foundations of our religious heritage from our schools and our community public arenas. …
The senseless murder and cruelty exhibited in the movie "No Country for Old Men" became a symbol of Hollywood excellence while we battle to seek the causes and reasons why Americans massacre defenseless innocent people. Easily available violent video games treat murder as a shooting gallery game. It is time for us to insist that the highest values of morality found in religious and traditional family teachings best taught at home are reinforced, not squelched in our public schools.
… We are not ready for a godless society that puts the rights of atheists ahead of the freedoms of religious expression. Are we now a country lacking a blueprint for the moral basis and dignity of life?
Richard M. Reiter, Wrightsville Beach
Goolsby's disheartening words
I found it very disheartening to read our state Sen. Thom Goolsby's column in support of the nihilistic belief that we as a nation must accept the periodic slaughter of our children as the price necessary to maintain our freedom.
… When the Founding Fathers approved the Second Amendment, it is highly unlikely they were also approving the private ownership of field artillery pieces loaded with grapeshot ammunition, the 18th-century equivalent of a mass casualty weapon.
Does the senator justify the need for these weapons on a belief in the straw man of vast hordes of starving neighbors seeking to plunder our households to gain access to the kitchen cupboards? Or perhaps the more extreme scenario promoted by the gun merchants that we will have to defend our communities from the U.S. government?
Those citizens who fantasize of someday engaging in combat with the United States Army over political partisan issues ought to give consideration to the hopeless insanity of such a concept. Yet of all this madness the most reprehensible is the refusal of one of our elected leaders to confront this devastating situation and instead to promote the prospect of further carnage.
Gustav Dahl, Wilmington
Tired old canard from Goolsby
State Sen. Thom Goolsby, in his column, "Firearms tools for freedom" made a pathetic attempt to justify doing nothing to control the gun violence epidemic raging in our country by using the tired old canard that the government is trying to ban guns.
I challenge him to identify a single instance where there is a proposal to ban any guns other than those military-grade weapons designed to kill large numbers of people quickly. Goolsby should be engaging in the current debate to find reasonable solutions to this growing problem, instead of promoting a totally false assertion that the government wants to ban guns.
Guy Linn, Wilmington
No thanks, NRA
The motive behind the NRA's statement with respect to the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School is blatantly transparent. It is just another effort to assure that the sale of guns of all kinds continues unabated.
To do so it has blamed everyone and everything other than itself for that tragedy and others like it. The only thing in the statement that is true is that at this point every school needs a security officer. Even that won't help in most cases, since one person with a handgun would be no match for a determined person with an automatic weapon that shoots many rounds.
In its effort to absolve itself from blame the NRA is also terminally myopic when it focuses only on schools as targets for mass murderers. Churches, mass transit vehicles, shopping malls, and all other places where groups congregate are equally at risk.
The NRA's response would have to be to put security officers everywhere. Then we would have the beginnings of a police state. Worse, history shows many of those putative security officers would be unreliable protectors of the populace.
The NRA created the assault-weapon problem. Now it is cynically claiming to be the entity that will resolve it. That makes no sense. Its only interest is to assure that as many guns as possible get sold.
Dennis Becker, St. James
Goolsby should reconsider
Let's see if I have this straight: Sen. Thom Goolsby is willing to put people's children in the line of semiautomatic gun fire because he's afraid of being seen as a … worm? It's this sort of immature rhetoric that prevents the sincere, sober, adult discussion we desperately need to have about the role of guns in our society.
We already have laws that prohibit individuals from owning rocket-propelled grenade launchers, armored tanks and nuclear weapons. We the people acknowledge that there is reasonable territory between all or nothing.
For the record, that Colt revolver that Goolsby says made men equal was a six-shooter, not a 66- or 166-shooter. There is such a thing as overkill, such as Goolsby's equating any regulation with taking away people's guns.
Let us take this tragic opportunity to examine reasonable solutions that we can all live with; perhaps Goolsby might reconsider and try to lead the way.
Tom Hicks, Wilmington
Goolsby lacks common sense
We were disappointed in Thom Goolsby's recent column which sounded like he is a defense lawyer for the NRA rather than a North Carolina state senator for the citizens. Apparently, he sees no difference between military-style assault weapons with high capacity magazines and enhanced lethality bullets designed specifically to kill large numbers of people and traditional firearms used for hunting or self-defense.
As far as private ownership of firearms, it seems that anything goes for Goolsby. We are fortunate that private ownership of machine guns is already banned, or no doubt he would include those as well. His suggestion that Mahatma Gandhi, who was killed by an assassin's bullets, would support this position is silly and offensive.
Goolsby's lack of proportion and common sense exhibited in this column is disturbing, particularly as he will co-chair the Judiciary and Public Safety committees in the NC Senate. Somehow, we don't feel safer.
Harry and Barbara Burrell, Southport


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More than 40 Indigenous communities in Canada have launched guardian programs
Mar. 14, 2019 11:10 a.m.
Growing up in a small, remote First Nations community in northwestern B.C., Jarett Quock found he faced racism and stereotypes from non-Indigenous people whenever he left the reserve.
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More than 40 Indigenous communities in Canada have launched guardian programs, which employ local members to monitor ecosystems and protect sensitive areas and species. At a national gathering in Vancouver this week, guardians raised alarm about environmental degradation and climate change in their territories.
A massive wildfire swept through Quock's community of Telegraph Creek last August, destroying 21 homes and damaging many others. Climate change was partly to blame for the rapid spread of the flames through tinder-dry vegetation, said Quock.
"By the middle of July, we had our green leaves already turning brown. It was so hot with no rain," he said, adding that the fire first broke out near a swamp that would typically have been moist enough to allow firefighters to contain the blaze. "It shouldn't have gotten that big."
Quock helped design the community's first guardian program, which involved helping conservation officers monitor licensed hunters. He also launched an education program aimed at stopping garbage dumping and unnecessary burning in camps, he said.
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    end

    def work
      fill_built_in_actions
    end

    def fill_built_in_actions
      self.categories = {}

      Fastlane::Action::AVAILABLE_CATEGORIES.each { |a| self.categories[readable_category_name(a)] = {} }

      # Fill categories with all built-in actions
      ActionsList.all_actions do |action|
        readable = readable_category_name(action.category)

        if self.categories[readable].kind_of?(Hash)
          self.categories[readable][number_of_launches_for_action(action.action_name)] = action
        else
          UI.error("Action '#{action.name}' doesn't contain category information... skipping")
        end
      end
    end

    def number_of_launches_for_action(action_name)
      found = all_actions_from_enhancer.find { |c| c['action'] == action_name.to_s }

      return found["index"] if found
      return 10_000 + rand # new actions that we've never tracked before will be shown at the bottom of the page, need `rand` to not overwrite them
    end

    def all_actions_from_enhancer
      require 'json'
      @_launches ||= JSON.parse(File.read(File.join(Fastlane::ROOT, "assets/action_ranking.json"))) # root because we're in a temporary directory here
    end

    def generate!(target_path: nil)
      require 'yaml'
      FileUtils.mkdir_p(target_path)
      docs_dir = File.join(target_path, "docs")
      custom_action_docs = "lib/fastlane/actions/docs/"

      # Generate actions.md
      template = File.join(Fastlane::ROOT, "lib/assets/Actions.md.erb")
      result = ERB.new(File.read(template), 0, '-').result(binding) # https://web.archive.org/web/20160430190141/www.rrn.dk/rubys-erb-templating-system
      File.write(File.join(docs_dir, "actions.md"), result)

      # Generate actions sub pages (e.g. actions/slather.md, actions/scan.md)
      all_actions_ref_yml = []
      FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.join(docs_dir, "actions"))
      ActionsList.all_actions do |action|
        # check if there is a custom detail view in markdown available in the fastlane code base
        custom_file_location = File.join(Fastlane::ROOT, custom_action_docs, "#{action.action_name}.md")
        @custom_content = nil # important, as we're in a loop and using @ variables
        if File.exist?(custom_file_location)
          UI.verbose("Using custom md file for action #{action.action_name}")
          @custom_content = File.read(custom_file_location)
        end

        template = File.join(Fastlane::ROOT, "lib/assets/ActionDetails.md.erb")
        @action = action # to provide a reference in the .html.erb template
        result = ERB.new(File.read(template), 0, '-').result(binding) # https://web.archive.org/web/20160430190141/www.rrn.dk/rubys-erb-templating-system

        file_name = File.join("actions", "#{action.action_name}.md")
        File.write(File.join(docs_dir, file_name), result)

        all_actions_ref_yml << { action.action_name => file_name }
      end

      # Modify the mkdocs.yml to list all the actions
      mkdocs_yml_path = File.join(target_path, "mkdocs.yml")
      raise "Could not find mkdocs.yml in #{target_path}, make sure to point to the fastlane/docs repo" unless File.exist?(mkdocs_yml_path)
      mkdocs_yml = YAML.load_file(mkdocs_yml_path)
      hidden_actions_array = mkdocs_yml["pages"].find { |p| !p["_Actions"].nil? }
      hidden_actions_array["_Actions"] = all_actions_ref_yml
      File.write(mkdocs_yml_path, mkdocs_yml.to_yaml)

      # Copy over the assets from the `actions/docs/assets` directory
      Dir[File.join(custom_action_docs, "assets", "*")].each do |current_asset_path|
        UI.message("Copying asset #{current_asset_path}")
        FileUtils.cp(current_asset_path, File.join(docs_dir, "img", "actions", File.basename(current_asset_path)))
      end

      UI.success("Generated new docs on path #{target_path}")
    end

    private

    def readable_category_name(category_symbol)
      case category_symbol
      when :misc
        "Misc"
      when :source_control
        "Source Control"
      when :notifications
        "Notifications"
      when :code_signing
        "Code Signing"
      when :documentation
        "Documentation"
      when :testing
        "Testing"
      when :building
        "Building"
      when :push
        "Push"
      when :screenshots
        "Screenshots"
      when :project
        "Project"
      when :beta
        "Beta"
      when :production
        "Releasing your app"
      when :deprecated
        "Deprecated"
      else
        category_symbol.to_s.capitalize
      end
    end
  end
end


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Kenmore 795.78022 review: Kenmore picked a winner with this bottom-freezer fridge
Ry Crist
May 8, 2015 3:38 p.m. PT
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The Good The Kenmore 78022 shares the strong performance and user-friendly features of larger, pricier bottom-freezer fridges. It offers a respectable amount of storage space, too, with plenty of flexibility for large-sized items.
The Bad The fridge is nothing special to look at, and it's a pain getting things in and out of the swing-door freezer down below.
The Bottom Line This bargain-priced bottom freezer is much better than the basic-looking build suggests. If you can tolerate the hinged-door freezer, it's a solid purchase.
Kenmore 795.78022
The Kenmore 795.78022 is a 22.1-cubic-foot bottom-freezer refrigerator available in black, white or bisque. You'll find it at Sears for $1,100, which, save for a few bottom-tier models, is about as inexpensive as bottom freezers come.
The bargain price and boring looks might make for a ho-hum first impression, but there's a lot more to this fridge than meets this eye. Inside, you'll find a number of helpful features that make it easier to make room for your groceries, along with some of the steadiest cooling performance we've found in this price class. I wish that it had a drawer-style freezer instead of the awkward, annoying hinged door, but still, this fridge is a solid value purchase that deserves consideration.
This Kenmore fridge has a few tricks up its sleeve (pictures)
An LG lookalike
The Kenmore 78022 has an MSRP of $1,500, but typically sells for closer to $1,100 on the show floor at Sears. That price puts it right at the lower end of the bottom-freezer pricing scale (roughly $1,100 to $1,800 for most big-brand models), so it isn't surprising that the design isn't much of a standout.
Aside from the lack of stainless steel or some other kind of premium finish, what the build is really missing here is a drawer-style freezer compartment. Instead, you get a hinged door that swings open from the side -- an easy enough standard when the freezer's on top, but an awkward inconvenience when it's down below. You'll almost certainly need to squat or stoop down low in order to get things in and out of it.
The hinged door isn't as easily accessible as a drawer would be. Tyler Lizenby/CNET
If you want to upgrade from a base unit like this to one with a drawer, you'll need to be willing to spend an additional $300 or so, and that's pretty typical across all major manufacturers. The cheapest bottom freezers from GE, including the $1,200 GE Artistry Series fridge , all have swing doors -- for a fridge with a drawer-style freezer, you'll need to spend at least $1,450. That number is $1,400 with Whirlpool, $1,500 with Maytag, and $1,700 with LG.
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Speaking of LG, you should know that Kenmore doesn't actually manufacture its own fridges. Instead, it acquires appliances from other manufacturers, re-brands them with the Kenmore name, and then sells them at Sears. In the case of the Kenmore 795.78022, you're actually looking at an existing LG fridge with a couple of Kenmore logos slapped on. You can tell by the model number's "795" prefix -- that's Kenmore's code for LG.
You can also tell by comparing the 78022 with another of LG's current crop of bottom freezers, like the $1,800 LDC24370ST , which I reviewed a few weeks back. Sure enough, the interiors are virtually identical -- and that bodes well for Kenmore here, given that I was a big fan of that LG model's steady performance and user-friendly build.
Tyler Lizenby/CNET
I had glowing praise for the helpful features housed within the LG LDC24370ST, and you'll find those same thoughtful touches in the Kenmore 78022. There's the same "Pantry Drawer" beneath the crisper bins, the same spill-proof shelving in the body of the fridge, the same sliding dividers in the in-door shelves, and the same shelf up by the butter bin that folds out of the way to make room for tall things like wine bottles. Simply put, there's a lot to like about this interior, and more than I would expect from a bottom freezer that's about as inexpensive as they come.
None of these touches are the kinds of marquee features that you'd show off to friends and family during a dinner party. There's no door-in-a-door here, no touchscreen controls, and no smart features to speak of. The 78022 is just a basic fridge that gets an awful lot of little things right -- and that's a very good starting point for an appliance that you'll likely be using multiple times per day.
Plastic sliders in the door's shelves help you section things off. Tyler Lizenby/CNET
The only real difference between the body of the 78022 and the body of the LDC24370ST is that the Kenmore fridge is a bit smaller, with 14.8 cubic feet in the refrigerator compartment to the LG's 16.3 cubic feet. It's mainly a difference of width, as the two fridges are both 29 inches deep without the doors factored in. At 30 inches wide, the 78022 is three inches slimmer than the LG model.
As I found with the LG model, the default shelf configuration doesn't offer any shelves in the body of the fridge with enough vertical clearance for a carton of milk. Fortunately, the shelves come in and out easily enough, with enough additional racks to give you a satisfying level of storage flexibility. There's also ample storage space in those in-door shelves, although it typically isn't the greatest idea to store milk in the door, where temperatures tend to run a little warmer. And while we're on the subject...
A close look at cooling performance
The Kenmore 78022 was a very steady performer in our climate-controlled test chamber, with almost identical results to what we saw from the LG LDC24370ST, one of the best performers we've tested. Set to 37 degrees F, the fridge yielded tight averages across all regions, with no worrisome hot spots to speak of. The middle of the door and the right crisper bin crept slightly above 40, a benchmark for food safety set by the FDA, but not nearly enough to have us concerned.
Turning to the minute-by-minute graph from the test, we can see that it shares much in common with the LDC24370ST, particularly the messy-looking nature of those overlapping lines -- something that actually indicates close, consistent performance across all of the regions in the fridge. Both sit at an overall average that's about two degrees north of the target temperature, but they both keep the body of the fridge (the blue lines) well below 40 without letting things get too warm in the doors (the green lines).
On top, the LG LDC24370ST. On the bottom, the Kenmore 78022. The two offer similar performance -- but the Kenmore costs several hundred dollars less. Ry Crist/CNET
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In this week's summary: a new study on immigrants and health care has some surprising results; small businesses are worried about how the ACA will affect them; plus details on a looming health crisis facing our nation's seniors; all that and much more in this week's dose.
Immigrants have contributed billions of dollars more to Medicare in recent years than the program has paid out on their behalf, according to a new study, a pattern that goes against the notion that immigrants are a drain on federal health care spending. The study, led by researchers at Harvard Medical School, measured immigrants' contributions to the part of Medicare that pays for hospital care, a trust fund that accounts for nearly half of the federal program's revenue. It found that immigrants generated surpluses totaling $115 billion from 2002 to 2009. In comparison, the American-born population incurred a deficit of $28 billion over the same period.
USA Today highlights the findings of a recent Congressional Budget Office study on Medicare costs. The report, released in mid-May that shows Medicare costs will continue to decline over time. Innovations adopted and accelerated by the Affordable Care Act will continue to force down overall Medicare costs, even as the economy continues to improve. Those changes include new payment plans, improved efficiency and a move toward consumer-driven insurance plans that started before the law's passage. They influenced the $618 billion drop in projected Medicare and Medicaid spending over the next decade that was reported by the Congressional Budget Office (Kennedy, 5/30).
The Wall Street Journal features a story on how the Affordable Care Act will impact small employers. Many small employers worry their costs may rise sharply under the health law next year. But for some—particularly those with older workers or employees who have been very sick—costs may in fact come down, business owners and insurance brokers say. Under a provision of the Affordable Care Act, which goes into force in January, insurers will be barred from setting rates for health-care coverage based on how healthy—or unhealthy—employers or their workers are at businesses with fewer than 50 or 100 workers, depending on the state (Loten, 5/29).
The New York Times reports that officials in the Obama administration are claiming that the Affordable Care Act is creating more competition in the health insurance marketplace around the country. At a White House briefing Thursday for health reporters, the administration insisted that in most states at least, competition will be far greater than it is today — with 120 companies having applied to offer insurance on the exchanges that are set to be up at running in October. Administration officials said in a memorandum that they expected around 90% of the seven million people expected to sign up for their own coverage through the insurance marketplaces next year would be in states with products available from at least five different insurance companies (Pear, 5/30).
The New York Times reports that hospitals are employing new tactics to improve hand washing by health care professionals. Hospitals are using high-tech sensors, training hand-washing coaches and issuing gold stars. Hospitals across the country are using video snooping to monitor workers and giving out rewards like free pizza and coffee coupons in order to encourage staffers to wash their hands (Hartocollis, 5/28).
USA Today profiles the findings of a new study that examines how senior health fares in each state. The report found that growing rates of obesity, diabetes and other chronic conditions are setting seniors up for a looming healthcare crisis. The report focuses on 34 measures of senior health, including physical inactivity, obesity, self-reported health status, poverty, drug coverage, hospital re-admission rates and flu vaccinations. The data analyzed is from more than a dozen government agencies and private research groups (Healy, 5/29).
The Washington Post reports that the Department of Health and Human Services issued new rules to prevent firms from discriminating against employees through corporate wellness programs. The programs, which have gained in popularity in recent years, provide incentives for employees to improve their health. Some give medical insurance discounts to workers who meet specific metrics for blood pressure and body-mass index. The rules would require companies to provide "reasonable alternatives" to employees who cannot meet health benchmarks but still want the discounts. They also allow for workers to involve their physicians to help tailor programs with their employers (Somashekhar, 5/29).
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STRAW: Perez must master the delicate art of the F1 wingman
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By Edd Straw December 21, 2020 10:18 AM
By Edd Straw | December 21, 2020 10:18 AM
Dubbing a Formula 1 driver 'a good number two' feels like damning with faint praise. As Valtteri Bottas once famously said when informed of how Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff described him after the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2018, "wingman hurts".
But while the rarest commodities in F1 – or any auto racing category for that matter – are the gold-standard drivers – the support acts are also highly valued. That Bottas heads into a fifth season as Hamilton's teammate in 2021 is proof of that, as is Red Bull's struggle to find the right partner for Max Verstappen.
Sergio Perez has justifiably been deemed the solution to Red Bull's problem, and he ticks many of the boxes. Hugely experienced, with 10 F1 seasons under his belt, and a consistent force in the ultra-competitive midfield – not to mention now a proven winner. He's also a driver who sits in that tier just below the superstars, which is the well teams must draw from to find the right support act.
Perez has not been signed to fight with Verstappen or to challenge for the title. But he is there to be a regular feature at the front, pick up consistent podiums and ensure Red Bull has a second bullet in the chamber in races. Over the past two years, Red Bull has lacked this, as first Pierre Gasly then Alex Albon proved to be too far behind Verstappen, and too often caught up with the front of the midfield.
So his targets will be clear. His job is to qualify, on average, within 0.3s of Verstappen and to be there in the front pack in the race. But as Gasly and Albon have shown, that isn't as straightforward as it might sound. It's the value of a driver like Bottas – who on adjusted qualifying average was within a tenth of Hamilton over the 2020 season. By contrast, Albon only just dipped inside the 0.5s mark behind Verstappen.
Perez can certainly achieve this, although having to measure up to Verstappen in the same team will be the toughest challenge of his career. Yes, he went up against Jenson Button at McLaren in 2013 and did a better job than people remember – although his approach and attitude didn't endear him to the team in the first half of the season before improving too late to save his place – but this is a new level. The McLaren break should have been his shot in a frontrunning team, but the car wasn't competitive. The Red Bull will be, and in Verstappen, he faces a difficult yardstick.
The pressure will be on Perez to justify his appointment. He's certainly got the skillset, as he's a decent – though not extraordinary – qualifier, but he is a driver who executes superb race performances. Not only is he the master tire-manager, with what Racing Point technical director Andy Green has called "built-in traction control", but within that ability to pace himself he's also capable of making key passing moves and deploying the pace when it's most needed. There's a touch of the Alain Prost about his Sunday capabilities, which makes him perfect for the style of racing in F1.
The key question is how good the car will be. The Red Bull RB16 had some fundamental limitations in faster corners that led to compromises that caused limitations elsewhere. The car was tricky to drive, and as a result, was at a disadvantage to Mercedes when it came to tire management. The cars are frozen, but enough can change to iron out these weaknesses next season. Perez can also play a part with his set-up philosophy, which has always been to privilege the race over qualifying. But first and foremost, he must be – and can be – a consistent presence in the lead group in qualifying and the race.
At the same time though, a good support must not be too quick. While there are obvious benefits to having two absolute top-liners, such partnerships are rare in F1. They can also prove fractious, as was most famously showcased by the alliance of Prost and Ayrton Senna at McLaren in 1989-90. There are other examples, such as Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet at Williams in 1986-87 and Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton at McLaren in 2007.
Having two centers of the universe sharing the same garage can have huge upsides, but it can also create problems of its own – as McLaren learned with Prost and Senna. Tee/Motorsport Images
What's often misunderstood about number two drivers – whether they are defined contractually or by performance – is that in the long-run the stronger driver always becomes the leader. Performance is at a premium in F1, and teams will only ever contain the perceived number two in a support role for a short time. That's why every driver goes into a team expecting to assert themselves as the leader. This is exactly what Charles Leclerc has done at Ferrari, ending teammate Sebastian Vettel's time at Maranello in the process. It just takes an extraordinary driver to do this given the level that the very best drivers operate at.
But there have been some formidable support players in F1 history. Bottas is the great exponent of the role for this age, with Hamilton and Mercedes winning four titles in his four seasons at the team. That makes him the latest in a long line of strong number twos. As Bottas might say, "that hurts", but it's a role that requires huge ability.
Rubens Barrichello is statistically the greatest of them, having spent six seasons in his long grand prix career as teammate to that year's world champion. It happened five times at Ferrari alongside Michael Schumacher, with history repeating itself at Brawn in 2009. Of course, Barrichello's number two status was clear, with the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix, where he had to hand victory to Schumacher, the most famous example.
Before Barrichello came Irvine as Schumacher's number two. A surprise choice for Ferrari to recruit for 1996, especially given it had to pay $5million for the privilege, his approach fitted in well with Ferrari. He even had his unsuccessful shot at the title in 1999 after Schumacher broke his leg, but just fell short. But he then translated that into a lucrative three-year stint with Jaguar, just as Barrichello would leave Ferrari to join Honda.
The secret to Barrichello's long tenure at Ferrari was that he knew his place relative to Schumacher – which was right on the German's rear wing. Motorsport Images
But Schumacher is not the only one to have benefited from the support of number twos. Sebastian Vettel had Mark Webber at Red Bull from 2010-2013, although the Australian came close to taking the title in the first of those years, while a few years before that Fernando Alonso had Giancarlo Fisichella as his Renault wingman. The list goes on – David Coulthard to Mika Hakkinen at McLaren, Riccardo Patrese to Nigel Mansell at Williams and Nelson Piquet at Brabham, Gerhard Berger to Ayrton Senna at McLaren, Francois Cevert to Jackie Stewart at Tyrrell. You can even stretch back to 1959-60, when Bruce McLaren was a strong support act for Jack Brabham at Cooper.
What's remarkable when you look at the list of most frequent title-winning teammates – at least, before you get into the 1950s and line-ups become larger and more muddy – is how rare it is for these drivers to be championship winners in their own right. Since 1960, only 11 drivers who have won the world championship have been teammates to a title-winner in a season. Considering the top drives are usually monopolized by the best drivers, that's very telling. That list includes Hamilton and Nico Rosberg thanks to the upset of the 2016 season, Prost, Senna, Mansell and Lauda. But beyond that, it's mostly a collection of drivers with good, race-winning, reputations but firmly regarded in that second tier of drivers.
Most importantly, they are usually – although not exclusively – drivers who their former team-mates speak highly of. After all, while the perfect number two is there to rack up points in the constructors' championship and take them off rivals of the lead driver, they are also there to be helpful. Hamilton speaks highly of Bottas because the Finn is a very good driver capable of pushing him in qualifying in particular and contributing to the team, but not quite at his level. Ask any driver and that would be the perfect profile for a teammate.
It also requires a good temperament. As Bottas exemplifies, you usually need a driver who sees themselves as a potential world champion to ensure they keep pushing themselves and don't slide into a cruise and collect mode. In order to do that, it requires an admirable robustness of personality. At times in his stint as Hamilton's teammate, Bottas has seemed like a broken man – most famously at the end of the 2018 season – but every time he picks himself up and goes again. Far from deserving ridicule, he should be given enormous respect for that quality. There are some, such as Irvine at Ferrari, who accepted their lot – but they are rarer beasts.
This determination must fall short of ruthlessness, of the willingness to destabilize a team for personal gain. This is recognized as a necessary, if not especially attractive, quality in a star driver, but can be disastrous in a number two who can't back it up with team-leading performances as they attempt to usurp the established order. That's the tightrope that Perez must walk – he can't simply cruise and collect, and you can be sure he will head into 2021 wanting to, probably even expecting to, beat Verstappen. That's simply the mindset of the competitive animal in elite sport. But he must ensure he channels that drive into maximizing his own performance and certainly ensure he avoids some of the on-track clashes he had with former teammate Esteban Ocon in their days together with Force India/Racing Point.
Perez doesn't quite have the magic that Verstappen does, despite being a superb driver in his own right. If he gets it right, he could set himself up as the ideal partner for Verstappen over the coming years, which will give him the chance to rack up more wins and perhaps, if circumstances allow, even a title bid. If he gets it wrong, there's a whole gaggle of Red Bull juniors in the queue to take his place.
Perez will most likely make it work. He's no longer the less mature driver he was when he drove for McLaren, understands how the world works and is capable of channeling his competitive drive into maximizing his own performances and racking up the points.
And if he does become the perfect number two to Verstappen, history tells us that's an achievement to be celebrated rather than derided.
After all, plenty of drivers given such a chance have ended up being more of a 'number three' driver in a two-driver team.
Sergio Perez, Formula 1, Insights & Analysis
Edd Straw
Edd Straw is a Formula 1 journalist and broadcaster, and regular contributor to RACER magazine. He started his career in motorsport journalism at Autosport in 2002, reporting on a wide range of international motorsport before covering grand prix racing from 2008, as well as putting in stints as editor and editor-in-chief before moving on at the end of 2019. A familiar face both in the F1 paddock, and watching the cars trackside, his analytical approach has become his trademark, having had the privilege of watching all of the great grand prix drivers and teams of the 21st century in action - as well has having a keen interest in the history of motorsport. He was also once a keen amateur racing driver whose achievements are better measured in enjoyment than silverware.
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War: October 2004 Archives
fascism, but it's all-American
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Fascism, it's so US. Are there still any doubters out there?
The Bush campaign is now asking followers to swear allegiance to Bush, right hands extended. The pledge:
"I care about freedom and liberty. I care about my family. I care about my country. Because I care, I promise to work hard to re-elect, re-elect George W. Bush as president of the United States."
The principle established, the words can easily be rearranged in the future as needed.
[image from Chemtrails]
October 30, 2004 12:08 PM | Permalink | Cults, General, Politics, War | Comments (2) | Comments
election night gatherings
"Sooo . . . What do you wear to a civil war anyway?"
A week ago I wrote that I would probably post a list of progressive spaces which are encouraging visitors to hang out next Tuesday evening, on the [first?] day of our federal election agony.
I ended up contributing to a list which Barry assembled and has now posted on his own site. We haven't yet decided what we're going to do that night ourselves. The only thing I've done so far in the way of preparation is to get half way through a good apartment cleaning, the remainder to be completed tomorrow. I just knew I wouldn't feel like doing anything once the street fighting began.
Having also done tons of laundry this week, I'm now free to think about the balloon in the last box of the latest "get your war on."
[image from "get your war on"]
October 30, 2004 1:16 AM | Permalink | NYC, Politics, War | Comments
American Fine Arts must not die
American Fine Arts [no website] opened a smashing new show, "Election," last night, but the legendary gallery founded by Colin de Land (and currently located in the last home of the equally fabulous gallery created by Pat Hearn) will close when this show is taken down November 18.
This is a very big loss, but I can't imagine a gallery scene without Daniel McDonald around and I don't expect we're going to lose sight of him.
Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln really enjoyed the show in the space Daniel has been managing full-time at least since Colin's tragic death last year (just three years after we had grieved for his wife, Pat) is fully worthy of its history. She adds that it's a must-see, and preferably before the momentous [civil?] war-time election going down just eleven days hence.
The show was organized by James Meyer. There's no gallery checklist yet, so the images I can show below have only a skeletal description.
Hans Haacke Star Gazing
Carl Andre and Melissa Kretschmer Welcome to Bushworld detail
Claire Pentecost Molecular Invasion detail of installation
John Waters Have Sex in a Voting Booth
Paul Chan Baghdad in No Particular Order still from video
October 23, 2004 12:19 AM | Permalink | Culture, NYC, Politics, War | Comments
Democracy is Fun?
This evening we stopped in at the opening reception for White Box's new group show, "Democracy is Fun?," the latest in a series of intense installations they've been mounting as a response to our republic's desperate cries for help. We stayed longer than we had originally intended, and here are some of the reasons why. I should point out that, as is usual on these pages, the images which appear in the post are those the camera seemed to like. They are definitely not the only interesting works in the show, which was curated by Michele Thursz and Defne Ayas.
The gallery will be open election night with screenings and performances, and I'm sure there will be cable for the actual returns. Many of us will be more comfortable with the crowd which is going to be drawn to 26th Street than we would almost anywhere else. [As we get closer to November 2, I may post a list of the spaces which will be welcoming people who would not really be comfortable in either candidate's headquarters.]
This work near the entrance went straight to the core of America's funny democracy:
Hug and Magnan Escape (2004) duraflex printed mounted on aluminum, installation view
These political footballs were the kinetic sculptures we found rolling underfoot throughout the gallery space; they would occasionally meet a smartly placed toe which launched the scary Bush heads across the floor:
Kendell Geers Kicking Against the Pricks (2004) 11 political latex masks, footballs, detail of installation view
Michael Anderson had eight collages made up of reconstructed "posters" along the west wall:
Michael Anderson Empire Strikes Back (2004) street posters from NYC 32" x 24" detail
Hug and Magnan again - just because it says it so well and looks so good doing it:
Hug and Magnan God Bless America flashe on found object, installation view
October 21, 2004 11:25 PM | Permalink | Culture, Politics, War | Comments
M26: justice has a conniption fit
Innocent until proven guilty? Not anymore. One of the most basic principals of our law has been trashed regularly and systematically by our courts since September 11th. While what is happening to four peace activists here in New York at this moment may not be the most egregious examples of a justice system turned upside down and striking out at people all around the world, it's no small thing for the victims themselves and for the broad and fundamental evil of the judicial precedent it establishes.
Sixteen people were arrested in Manhatan on March 26, 2003, for (intentionally) tying up rush hour Midtown traffic in a protest against the murder of American peace activist Rachel Corrie by an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip, as well as the U.S. attack on Iraq. They were all convicted on March 22 this year on the outrageous, Orwellian charge, "obstructing governmental administration."
Twelve of the codefendents have been sentenced to community service and fines. Four have not been sentenced yet, because the Manhattan District Attorney had a judge unseal their older records. The D.A. then cited their previous demonstration arrests, most of which resulted in all charges being dismissed, as a reason for the judge to sentence them to an (unspecified) jail term (under the law the judge can sentence each of the four to anything from 0 to 365 days in jail). The twelve codefendants who were earlier given sentences far less severe did not have their records unsealed.
The four remaining now face posssible jail time for alleged acts in the past which were never proven in a court of law.
Every citizen, whether active in political demonstrations or just unfortunate to be arrested for any offense, however minor, and including misdemeaners, must be made to understand that there is no longer any assumption of innocence in the American courts. If you have appeared before a judge at any time in the past, not been tried but rather had your case dismissed and its record "sealed," the fact that you had been in that court may be used against you years later in order to determine your sentencing for a conviction totally unrelated to the previous offense.
The D.A. and the judge merely have to be really mad at you, and they don't have to tell anyone why.
The corollary to this incredible development has to be that from now on no one will be able to afford to accept a "dismissal" of his or her offences, regardless of the practical attractions of such a resolution, but must instead pursue every charge all the way through the courts. Of course neither the individual nor the judiciary is actually going to be able to live with that burden; something will have to give - or explode.
Like so much else that falls under the rubric, "everything has changed since 9/11," the politicization of our courts is swiftly contributing to the destruction of the society we think we are defending.
The four M26 defendents (the name refers to March 26, the date of the action for which they were arrested) who still await their fate have already gone through two appeals, and both have been rejected. The outcome of a third appeal will not be known prior to November 18, the scheduled date of their sentencing.
The range of possible outcomes runs from the best-case scenario - fines and community service, despite their "records" of dismissed charges - to the worst case scenario - taken directly from the courtroom to Rikers Island Penitentiary.
They've put out an appeal for people to be with them in the courtroom on the morning of the sentencing, since it's vitally important to show the judge that they have community support. And of course some of the media will be there.
The people who await the disposition of their cases have one more request to make of their supporters, and it's characteristically thoughtful and generous. This is Steve Quester:
AP4 will see many cases that day, not just ours. Please come at 9 am so you can get a seat in the courtroom before it fills up. And please keep in mind that there will be many defendants and their families and friends present. Unlike the four of us, few if any of those defendants will be White. Unlike the four of us, none of those defendants will benefit from an outpouring of community support. If you are able to stay for some of the cases that follow ours, please do. I cringe at the thought of an exodus of hundreds of mostly White people from the courtroom as soon as we're sentenced.
THE LOGISTICS: Go to 100 Centre Street, which you can locate here. They will be on the 4th floor, in Arraignment Part (AP) 4. The nearest subways are the J, M, N, Q, R, W, Z, and 6 trains to Canal Street. You can also take the 4 or 5 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, or the B or D to Grand Street. The closest stop on the A, C, and E trains is Canal Street; Franklin Street on the 1 train, and Chambers Street on the 2 or 3.
Check www.m26.org in the days leading up to the sentencing, to learn about any (unlikely) possibility of a further delay in sentencing.
October 18, 2004 7:54 PM | Permalink | NYC, Politics, War | Comments
the House and Peter Hort
Benjamin Henry Latrobe Design Proposed for the Hall of Representatives, U.S., Section from North to South (1815) ink and watercolor on paper
For weeks now Barry and I have both been dismayed by the strange candidacy which Peter Hort has mounted for Representative of our local Congressional district.
I believe what is happening only shows that even supposedly sophisticated New Yorkers are naive when it comes to politics, or that money can persuade otherwise good people to act quite badly. Both explanations are pretty disturbing, but each is still better than some of the other possibilities.
For his reading of the subject, including both background and foreground, see Barry's post of last night which links to his previous entries, to Hort's own site and a number of other relevant sources.
[image of the old House chamber from Library of Congress]
October 18, 2004 1:03 PM | Permalink | Culture, NYC, Politics, Queer, War | Comments
"Arna's Children"
The powerful documentary, "Arna's Children," is now at the Quad Cinema here in Manhattan. I'd be much more excited if it were playing in every town in the U.S., but unfortunately it's not going to happen. If you want to know why, see what I wrote last May.
I just noticed that of the four films currently being shown at the Quad, Barry and I have actually seen three. This is pretty amazing, since the two of us rarely get around to slipping into a movie theatre in the crush of so many seductive live (therefore more time-sensitive) performance offerings. Like "Arna's Children," the other two films would not be described as directed toward mainstream audiences (whatever that means), but I can recommend both "The Child I Never Was" and, most enthusiastically, Bruce LaBruce's "Raspberry Reich."
If these films have anything in common, it's the ability of each to re-arrange minds which might have thought everything was already nicely in place.
October 8, 2004 7:13 PM | Permalink | Culture, Politics, War | Comments
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It probably doesn't come as a shock that "word-of-mouth" marketing is one of the strongest drivers of new retail business, globally. Fully 74% of shoppers say that they will invest in a brand or product, because a friend, family, or other trusted source recommended that they do so.
This sort of brand evangelism is the "holy grail" for almost all business owners, managers, and marketers and entire sections of your local book store's "entrepreneurship" section are probably dedicated to different ways in which to accomplish it.
While you may provide an amazing service beloved by all of your customers, that's often not enough. How do you prompt them to sing your praises? The ability to inspire this kind of referral based business is one of the primary tenants of loyalty marketing.
It makes sense then, that the same software that drives almost all loyalty-based marketing programs, can be leveraged to incentivize those people who take the time to recommend your business to their friends, family, and customers. Fortunately, the same tools that make it easy for your to reward consumers are also incredibly useful for rewarding people who might be in a position to recommend you.
As a restaurant owner in a tourist area, you might be interested in prompting a local hotel's lead concierge to recommend your establishment when hotel guests ask "where to go for dinner".
As a florist, you know that much of your business is referral driven and encouraging your active customers to recommend your services for weddings, parties, and more can be a vital source of new business.
As a credit card processing company, you may want to increase your value to a particular client by incenting your customers to shop at that client's business. This is a reverse ambassadorship where in you are acting as the referrer in order to gain a secondary reward. Many of the same principals apply, however.
No matter what business you're in, the common thread is that in all of these scenarios, you're rewarding someone for recommending your business, vs. shopping at it. Loyalty platforms, like bLoyal, can help you administer, manage, and analyze these ambassador programs more effectively.
Assuming you've already got a loyalty platform in place, the first thing you'll need to do is create a way to recognize the customers that are being referred to you and where they're coming from. This can look a bit different, depending upon the type of business you have but the most common method of tracking your ambassadors is through assigned gift cards.
In this scenario, you might give a concierge 50, "$5.00 Off" cards and say, I will give you $1 for any item of your choice, for every card I get back. These gift cards would come back to you by way of referred customers redeeming the cards at your business.
You can accomplish the same objective through trackable coupons, landing pages, and any number of other tools… depending on the specific features that your loyalty program offers. The important factor is being able to track your discounts through your retail CRM.
Know Your Customer – In the case of a referral program, the ambassador is your customer, not the end user. Give your ambassador some incentives to play with, but make sure that the brunt of your allocated resources are focused on the person bringing in new business. They are already playing the role of trusted advisor to your end user and they shouldn't need a whole lot more than that in order to send new customers your way.
The value of a new customer – It's difficult to quantify the exact cost of acquiring a new customer, but we know that it isn't cheap. Whatever marketing expenses you may incur while building your referral programs, if nurtured, tend to pay off in spades as each successive customer then recommends several new ones and so on. Don't be afraid to invest.
88% of Americans say that they would like some sort of incentive (money, product or service, loyalty points, early access, swag) for sharing product via social media or email.
We know that ambassador programs work. But what separates the flubs from the success stories? In short, the key to building a great program lies in providing value to your referrer. As we mentioned, earning new customers can be notoriously expensive It's a good idea to make referrals, among one of your top loyalty program KPI's, even over direct purchases. Here are some proven strategies for successful loyalty based ambassador programs.
Building a cumulative point system is a great start. Try awarding successively larger amounts of value to an ambassador's account, the more people they refer. Adding point multipliers during high traffic periods, like holidays, against certain high-margin purchases, and return customers, can also create a big uptick in revenue, right when you need it.
Setting goals for your ambassador program members can be a powerful motivator and is one of the fundamental premises behind gamification. Try using "ghost points" that only vest when the ambassador has referred a value threshold, as measured by revenue, customers, number of items purchased, or anything else.
As the phrase goes, "I got a guy". Your ambassadors want to feel like they have something exclusive to offer and the end user wants to feel like they are getting an inside deal. Empowering your ambassadors with personalized gift cards, landing pages, and exclusive discounts can help them feel like they are part of the club, and the end user, like they are getting something truly special.
We can't say this enough: Make it easy for people to recommend your business! The best way to do this is to make sure that your ambassadors have a resource center to go to for questions and feedback. This may be as simple making sure that you regularly update your ambassadors with new menus, the most recent group rates, etc., through email. More advanced user sometimes build partner portals through their websites.
If you have tiered programs, make sure that the ambassador's role for selling higher value products, is clear and open.
Anytime someone is a referrer for your business, you should think of them as an extension of your staff. Prompting them to drive business is not enough. Genuinely acknowledging them when they do send a new customer your way, with a "Thank You" is vital to building referral relationships. Long term points programs work well for this, but try to think outside of the box. Instant rewards are a great way to let your ambassadors know when their referrals are working.
Just like you would market to your end-users in a loyalty program, you want to make sure that you stay in regular touch with your ambassadors. They are a key part of your strategy. Channel marketing (or marketing to the people that are in a position to recommend your products), is essential when launching a successful loyalty based referral program.
Just because you've told someone about your program, doesn't mean they'll start using it without a little nudge. Segment your ambassadors off into a group on the back end of your loyalty platform and email them exclusive referrer discounts. Once you download their emails from your software, it's not difficult to generate a social media based paid remarketing campaign which only your ambassadors will see. The overall point is, keep reminding them that you're there. As with most marketing efforts, your goal is to be top-of-mind at the "zero moment of truth", when they've been asked for a recommendation.
If you have the resources, contests can be an incredible way to drive participation in ambassador based referral programs. Offering some kind of large scale prize for contests ranging all the way up to six months in length, can pay itself off very quickly. This strategy works especially well for enterprise level customers where economies of scale shrink the cost of one-time loyalty program incentives compared to the overall net gain in business. To gain traction in this area, you'll probably need to "go big".
Most importantly: Remember that your ambassadors reflect on you and you on them. No ambassador wants to send you business and then hear that their referral didn't enjoy the experience. Pay special attention to these new customers. Make sure to keep your referrers in the loop on what's going on at your businesses, so that they can best inform the customer.
What's your loyalty-based ambassador program worth at the end of the day, anyhow?
A simple way to figure this out is to segment all of the tickets where an ambassador program discount has been applied. Remove the value of the discount you applied to your end user (in our starting example, a $5 off coupon) and then remove the value of the reward you applied to your ambassador's account on the same ticket.
Depending on your industry and vertical, standard marketing and advertising expenses tend to run about 5% to 10% of gross revenues, in any given month.
Simply divide the dollar value of the discounts you gave by the total revenue earned from referral based revenues and you should end up with a percentage cost on your program.
If your program is running a little cold and you're not sure what to change, the first place to turn is always the analytics / business intelligence dashboards that your loyalty platform provides. This data should tell a story about who your most valuable referrers are, the type of customers they're sending you, and where to focus your attention.
Here's a couple more quick tips to make sure that you're investing wisely.
It may make sense for you to require a minimum dollar value spend in order for ambassadors to accrue points. That is, the cutomer must spend at least 'x" amount before you award points. This will help ensure that you're not giving out lots of benefits on small ticket items.
Similarly, you may want to tack the number of points an ambassador accrues to the final spend of the end user or create accrual tiers in which your ambassador earns blocks of points based on a minimum spend.
You may want to consider adjusting the value of your offers to the end user. Remember that they shouldn't need a lot of extra incentive beyond their trusted source referring you.
Marketing! Marketing! Marketing! Remind ambassadors of why they should be recommending your business and what's in it for them.
If you're looking to invest in a loyalty-based ambassador or referral program and need some help choosing a platform, bLoyal builds seamlessly integrated loyalty solutions for organizations at all stages of business growth. Contact us or request a demo, below.


I have seen lots of alphabet mats that are really neat, but I wanted to make one that posed a bit more of challenge. So rather than only including a bunch of items that start with the letter on the page, I decided to include some objects that start with the letter on the mat and some objects that do not.
Kids can then search around for the objects that have the correct beginning letter sound and cover them with play dough balls or circle them with dry-erase markers, etc.


The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California.
I've been visiting the Getty Center for sixteen years on visits to my recently passed mother. I've taken hundreds of images of the place. My wife, however, had never been there so we took some time to visit on our recent trip to LA.
It's tough to remember to look down at the Getty but in fact, the floors are all made out of limestone, some of which is intricately detailed with fossils and other remnants of its earlier life as sandstone in another time.
One of the many things that's great about the Getty is the juxtaposition of steel siding with stone on walls and ceilings. This alcove is one of my favorite such places.
Richard Meier's Getty architecture is quite stark so finding a wall of ivy there is almost a welcome relief.
Richard, thank you very much for posting these beautiful shots which made me to think you and Frances visiting there. Very emotional for me.
Jonne, thanks for acknowledging that. We were there both to show Anne what I'd been so interested in for so many years and to remember my mother who enjoyed it too. It was emotional for all of us too.
Thanks Martin. If I ever get back there I'll try to remember to look down more, these tiles are everywhere.