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Welcome to the glossary
By Bill Simmons
Updated: August 14, 2007, 4:03 PM ET
Here are the four most common e-mails I get:
1. Stop being lazy, write more columns.
2. What does the (fill in some theory or saying I wrote about years ago) mean?
3. Have you ever written about (fill in some topic)?
4 Where can I find the column where you wrote about (fill in some random story)?
With that in mind, we came up with the Sports Guy Glossary. Remember, I have been writing for ESPN.com since 2001 -- much of my audience started reading somewhere along the way and couldn't possibly be expected to remember the origin for terms like "The Stomach Punch Game" (from my Levels of Losing column) or "The coach is killin' me!" (from the Norv Turner Theory).
Again, if you've been reading since 2001, this page isn't for you. But if you're a more recent reader, here's some stuff you might have missed along the way.
On to the glossary ...
COLUMNS DEVOTED TO THEORIES
• 13 Levels of Losing
• 20 Most Annoying Baseball Fans
• 20 Rules for Being a Sports Fan
• Baseball Brawls Guide
• Baseball Hall of Fame Pyramid
• Eight Traits for Crappy College Bowl Games
• The Ewing Theory
• Guidelines for Underrated Movies
• The Power of HORSE
• How to Make a One-Sided Fantasy Trade
• How to Spot Casino Trash
• How to Watch Sports With Guys
• How to Win at Fantasy Football and Annoy People
• NFL Playoff Gambling Manifesto
• NFL Simbotics
• Tremendous Upside Potential
• The Unintentional Comedy Scale
• The Vengeance Scale
• Wet Blanket Girlfriends
• Why 1984 Was the Greatest Year Ever
• Yearbook Quotes for High School | Part II
How to Drive a Woman Crazy
A. Compliment Shakira
B. Compliment Mariah Carey
C. Compliment Jennifer Love Hewitt
How to Know if You're Watching a Chick Flick | Part II
• How to Know You're a Super Bowl City
• How to Know You're Watching a Great Series
• How to Avoid the Girlfriend on Sundays
• How to Get a Female/Mother out of the Room During a Game
• How to Spot the Guys Who Wield Just A Bit Too Much Power
The bouncer at any snooty bar ... the deli counter guy who only gives samples to people he deems worthy ... ice skating judges (especially the French ones) ... softball umpires ... the guy at Best Buy who checks receipts before you can leave the store ... sixth-grade gym teachers ... bank tellers ... bartenders in crowded pickup joints ... condo association presidents ... sports radio hosts who hang up on callers when they don't agree ... everyone who works at a video store ... stewardesses on long airplane flights ... movie theater ushers ... the maitre'd at any restaurant in Vegas or Manhattan ... and the hotel worker in charge of the volleyball games at any resort.
• How to Know Your Life Is Jumping the Shark
• How to Gamble at a Baseball Game
• How to Gamble on Non-Sports Things
• How to Go for the Ballpark Cycle
• How to Judge a Jaw-Dropping TV Night
• 'How to Judge a Hot Actress'
• How to Know Your Lady Has Reached "Girlfriend Status"
They reach "girlfriend status" the moment they leave something at your house and it isn't an accident. During those first few weeks, they always try to leave things and pretend it's an accident, like a dog marking its territory ... but once things progress and you have a conversation that includes the sentences "I thought I'd leave a couple of things here for when I sleep over" and "OK, that sounds like a good idea," then you have a girlfriend. That's the bottom line.
'How to Be a Guy'
... General Guy Code
... Three No-Brainer Rules
... Levels of Betrayal
• How to Make a Good Sports TV Show
• How to Make Random Bets at a Wedding
• How to Act in Vegas
THEORIES, TESTS, DEFINITIONS & COROLLARIES
• 150-Minute Rule
This all goes back to my 150-Minute Rule: Nothing should last for more than 150 minutes, unless there's a really good reason. Remember, the MTV Generation totally changed the way we watch TV; three-hour-plus baseball games aren't nearly as appealing as they were 25 years ago, when we only had six other TV channels. And sitting in the stands for that long ... forget it. It's like being trapped on a coach flight from Boston to Vegas.
• The '70s Bad Ass Quadfecta
During the climactic lifetalk with his father, Kelly completes the '70s Bad Ass Quadfecta, which goes like this: If you're under 15, you're appearing in a movie/TV show/Afterschool Special from the '70s, and you ride a motorcycle, smoke butts, bristle at authority, own a bitchin' jacket AND know how to shoot some stick -- all in the same movie/TV show/Afterschool Special -- lemme tell you something, the other kids WILL respect you. That's just the way the '70s worked.
• The Alec Baldwin Club
Jon Gruden is in the Alec Baldwin Club, along with Jeff Fisher, Bill Cowher and Marty Schottenheimer. You know how Alec Baldwin can make crappy movies for a few years, but all it takes is one good movie and you're thinking, "Alec Baldwin, I love that guy, he's great," and forget about the crappy movies? That's what all four of those coaches are like. You can't keep them down for longer than 2-3 years. You just can't.
• The Bed Test
When you watch sports day in and day out on the East Coast, eventually you develop an uncanny ability to correctly answer this question: "If I go to bed now, is there a chance I might miss something memorable?" In other words, "Will I be kicking myself tomorrow morning?"
• The Boof Complex
Remember how Boof improbably became Mrs. Teen Wolf and beat out the Token Hot Blonde Chick after the big game? Well, she gave hope for an entire generation of budding Boofs ... because, in real life, Teen Wolf is going with the Token Hot Blonde Chick 98 out of 100 times. That's just the way it is. I'm sorry. And yet there's an entire generation of Boofs who watched C. Thomas Howell swimming for Lori Loughlin at the end of "Secret Admirer," Mary Stuart Masterson dressing up like a chaffeur and bagging Eric Stoltz over Lea Thompson in "Some Kind of Wonderful," or Ally Sheedy putting on some makeup and landing Emilio Estevez at the end of "The Breakfast Club," and they assume that the world works like this in real life. Which it doesn't. In fact, you could argue that '80s movies owe reparations to an entire generation of aggrieved women in their 30s suffering from the Boof Complex right now.
• Booty Call Contract Rules
Anyway, I think the Booty Call contract comes with six provisions ...
• Booty Call Corollary
• The Channel Flick Test
I'm going to apply my time-proven "Channel Flick Test" introduced last February, when I was arguing the merits of a "Teammate Half-court Shot" at NBA's All-Star Weekend. Forget for a second how dumb it would be to watch teammates like Shaq and D-Wade launching as many half-court shots in 90 seconds, desperately trying to top Kobe and Odom's score of eight. Would you turn the channel? Of course not.
• The 'Cheers' Corollary
Great teams are like great TV shows -- sometimes change can be refreshing, but you never want to rattle your nucleus too much. That's why "Cheers" remained lively to the bitter end, because it successfully integrated new characters (Rebecca, Woody, Frasier, Lilith) while maintaining its core group of stars (Sam, Carla, Norm, Cliff). Shows like "Oz," "ER" and "7 Lives XPosed" couldn't say the same.
• The Cooking Show Test
You might think you're against cooking segments. But see what happens next time you're half-asleep and watching food getting cooked on a late-night TV show. You won't change the channel. I'm telling you. There's something satisfying about seeing the host dig into a seafood primavera that somehow took five minutes to prepare and cook. There just is. And that goes back to a basic problem with TV in general -- for whatever reason, network executives go out of their way to avoid showing things that we actually want to see. They overthink things. They never apply the Cooking Show Test.
• The Dave Campo Corollary
Using the Dave Campo Memorial "Any time you can upgrade from a horrible coach to a good coach, that's worth at least four wins" Corollary. I'm a big believer in that one.
• Dead Man Walking Game
From the "Levels of Losing" column.
• Faldos
Remember the '96 Masters? The one where Greg Norman fell apart in sections and slapped up the 78, so Nick Faldo sneaked in the back door and won the Green Jacket, even consoling Norman after the tournament because it was that bad? That defeat was 10 times more devastating to Norman than the victory was satisfying to Faldo, if that makes sense. It affected one person much more deeply than the other. You could argue that Norman was never the same. There should be an easier way to describe these moments in sports -- only because they happen from time to time, and there's no way to quantify that dynamic when it happens -- so maybe we should start calling them "Faldos." Seems simple enough.
• The Fantasy Cohort
We need to come up with a better word for fantasy partner than "partner," if only because the previous paragraph made it sound like the T-Man and I live in West Hollywood, own two cats and have matching beards. Here's where we really feel the aftereffects of the premature demise of Rich Hall's career, because he definitely could have come up with a Sniglet for this. Anyway, I vote for "fantasy cohort." Much better than "fantasy partner." Um, not that there's anything wrong with that.
• Field of Dreams Theory
I think the world is separated into two kinds of people -- people who loved "Field of Dreams," and people who don't have a heart. If I were dating a woman and she said she didn't like "Field of Dreams," I'd immediately dump her. I'm not kidding, either. It says a lot about a person where they stand on "Field of Dreams." To answer your other question, when I was single, I never really had one big test for prospective girlfriends. It was more like a series of smaller tests: If they liked "Field of Dreams," "Halloween" and "Hoosiers;" if they got along with dogs; if they laughed at the "Jackie Rogers Jr.'s $100,000 Jackpot Wad" sketch on "SNL"; if they felt comfortable wearing the Bird jersey to bed; if they didn't mind the fact that I watched 12 straight hours of football every Sunday; if they put up a token fight to pay on one of the first few dates; if they liked going to Celtics games; and so on. I was pretty picky. Now I'm married, and I might as well be dead.
• The Four Beer Analogy:
Let's say you're hitting a sports bar with your buddies for Monday Night Football. You could have two or three beers, throw down some chicken wings, play some Golden Tee, wager on the home team, bond with your boys, then head home when the outcome has been decided. Or you could do everything from above, but keep throwing down beers until you're bombed and someone has to drive you home. Either way, it's going to be a good time. Well, unless you have four beers. That kills you. You're not sober enough to drive home. You're not quite drunk enough that you feel like you really let loose; if anything, you're more groggy than anything. And you drank just enough that you'll have trouble getting up for work/class the following morning. The next day, you always end up wishing you had more beers or less beers. Just not four.
• The Four Rules of Life
For instance, three of the four most important lessons I ever learned in life came from my stepdad:
1. The only person you can count on in life is yourself.
2. You can't be happy with someone else until you're happy with yourself.
3. Don't lie and don't break your word.
(Note: The fourth lesson came from my Aunt Jen, who taught me, "If you're interested in a girl, always meet her Mom because all girls end up eventually turning into their Moms, with no exceptions." We may need to have Bill James figure out a formula for that one.)
• High Horse Factor
It all comes back to the High Horse Factor. You know how sports columnists and radio hosts love hopping on high horses and villifying targets like Tyson, how they get all carried away and start gunning for the Pulitzer, how they write lines like "He's the monster in all of us" and say things like "They could be fighting in my living room and I wouldn't watch it"? Nobody rated higher on the High Horse Factor than Tyson, the grizzled sports columnist's wet dream. Just once, I would have loved to have seen one of these media people tell their editors or producers, "You know what, I refuse to discuss Tyson on the radio anymore," or "Please don't send me to cover this fight, because I refuse to write about such a scumbag." Never happened.
• The "How Much Would You Pay?" game
Did you ever play the "How Much Would You Pay?" Game? Like, what's the maximum amount you would pay for a copy of "Madden 2004?" Or, how much would you pay to know for sure who killed JFK? Or, what's the most you would pay to see Zack from "Paradise Hotel" get punched in the face? Well, my buddy Sal and I were playing this game with the NFL Package last week. I decided I would pay up to $2,000 dollars for the package. After that, you couldn't justify the price when we're getting five games a week on free TV, anyway. But Sal claims that no price is high enough for him and the NFL Package; if anything, he would start selling some of his stuff if it came to that. Now that's a true football fan. Even I wouldn't go that far. And yet I digress.
• The "I can't believe you haven't seen that yet!" movie
My buddy Gus has a theory that every person has one "I can't believe you haven't seen that yet!" movie. For instance, Gus hasn't seen "E.T." yet. Impossible, you say? I'm telling you, he has never seen it. And the more people tell him, "I can't believe you haven't seen that one yet!" or "Do yourself a favor and see it, would ya?", his defiance becomes even more resolute. He's never seeing "E.T."
• The "I Have to Call One of My Buddies Right Now to Discuss What Just Happened" Test
• The "I Remember Exactly Where I Was When I Watched This Game" Test.
• The Jeremy Piven Phenomenon
Plus, when you're acting in the same movie with this many non-actors, the Jeremy Piven Phenomenon takes hold. You know how everyone keeps saying how brilliant Piven is on "Entourage?" Well, he's sharing screen time with the likes of Adrian Grenier and the bully from "Rocky V" -- he's good, but he's not that good. Those guys make him look like a young Pacino.
• The Jim Jones Theory
I have a theory on this: I think 90 percent of parents can't believe how miserable they are, so they make a secret pact and try to get everyone else to have kids, just so everyone else is in the same boat and they don't have to hear stories about four-course dinners, Vegas trips, romantic getaway weekends and everything else. They're like Jim Jones in Guyana -- "Drink the Kool-Aid, seriously, it's phenomenal! You have to try this!"
• The Kansas City Roto Corollary
If you have no Royals, you're probably in first or second place. One Royal, third place. Two Royals, fourth place. Three Royals, fifth or sixth. Four Royals, seventh or eighth. More than four, you're in dead last and already preparing for your football draft. And here's why I'm telling you this: My buddy Hench and I have a team with Mike Sweeney, Angel Berroa, Ken Harvey and Andy Sisco. Let's just say we have a stronghold on seventh.
• The Kareem Corollary:
No matter how loathsome an athlete was during his prime, once he hits his twilight years, everything's water under the bridge.
• Keith Hernandez Status
When an athlete reaches "I'm Keith Hernandez" status and their confidence becomes simply outrageous -- that's when you know someone is in the zone. That was one of my favorite Larry Bird moments, the Dallas game in '86 when they were down two on TBS with like 10 seconds left, so he pulled up in the open court and drained a crazy running 3, with the implicit understanding being, "You know what? This is a ridiculous shot, but I'm Larry Bird and I'm on national TV, and I can do things like this."
• The Kitchen Sink Game
Sometimes I wonder if the NFL is less complicated than we think.
• The Anti-Sink Game
There's a flip side to this theory: The Anti-Sink Game.
• The Lacey Underall All-Stars
We've covered this before on the site, but Helen Slater (who played Billie Jean) was a charter member of the Lacey Underall All-Stars for "Hot Chicks From the '80s Who Burst On the Scene, Won Everyone Over and Were Never Seen Again," along with the girl from "Just One of the Guys," Tom Cruise's girlfriend in "Rain Man," Ferris Bueller's girlfriend, the blonde from "Can't Buy Me Love," Axel's hot friend in "Beverly Hills Cop," Phoebe Cates, Justine Bateman and Michael J. Fox's blonde infatuation in "Teen Wolf."
• The Larry Holmes Corollary:
Remember Holmes? He held the heavyweight title for seven years, right after the heyday of Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. If Holmes had come along about eight years earlier, he would have been thrown right into that second tier of "Capable Opponents" along with Jimmy Young, Ken Norton, Ron Lyle, Earnie Shavers and everyone else, the guy's just a notch below the Big Three. As luck would have it, he missed every relevant fighter from the '70s, and his prime crested about two years before Mike Tyson started banging heads. Luck of the draw.
• The Maddox Corollary
• The Reverse Maddox Corollary
• The Marv Levy Theory
After you get the wind knocked out of you enough times as a fan, you never truly bounce back with that particular team. We watched it happen with Marv Levy in Buffalo, or Denny Green's Vikings teams, or even those Browns teams back in the mid-'80s. Once you pass a point where your fans can keep trusting you, it's all over. And everyone dredges up the negative stuff in training camp, and it continues all season, and the fans are waiting to put their guard up any time there's a hint of failure in the air. Eventually, you just have to clean house and start over. There's no other way.
• The MJ/Rodman Corollary
You can only take a chance on a colossal head case if there's an alpha dog around to keep him in check. Just look at Dennis Rodman's career -- he was fine with Isiah and MJ and a time bomb with everyone else. Same with Vernon Maxwell and Hakeem; Dennis Johnson with Bird (everyone forgets that DJ wore out his welcome in two cities); Stephen Jackson with Duncan; even Cassell and Spree with KG last season. Crazy guys suddenly don't seem as crazy when they're playing with someone they respect.
• Mom Status
My Mom has always been a sports litmus test for me. If she's asking, it's probably a big deal. And this Yankees-Sox rivalry has officially reached Mom Status.
• The Movie Test
As far as I'm concerned, New Orleans is one of three American cities that passes the Movie Test. In other words, when you're spending time in a certain city, do you feel like you've been inadvertently thrust into an actual movie? For instance, walking around Vegas feels like the greatest IMAX movie of all-time; the entire experience doesn't even seem real. Same with walking around downtown Manhattan: mammoth buildings, crazy people, stores galore, random celebrity sightings, one recognizable landmark after another ... it feels like you should be walking around with three cameras trained on you, as the director barks out orders and you struggle to remember your lines.
• The No F-ing Way Game:
The game where you've won too many games in a row during a season, and the PlayStation activates that "There's no f------ way you're winning this game" chip.
• The Norv Turner Theory
This also led to Hopper's famous theory that NFL owners should play blackjack with prospective coaches before they actually hire them, just to make sure they're getting the right guy. As Hopper always says, "You can learn a lot about a person when you're playing blackjack with them." In the words of Kurt Angle, "It's true, it's true."
• Oh-My-God Factor:
Of course, the crucial difference between good athletes and great athletes is the "Oh My God!" factor, those occasional moments when an athlete comes up with something so astounding that we can only scream, "Oh my God!" Remember Dr. J going under the basket for that reverse against the Lakers, or Elway's lob pass to Vance Johnson in Cleveland? Oh my God. Michael Jordan is the all-time "Oh My God!" captain. Barry Sanders and Gale Sayers are charter members. Julius Erving, Magic, Dominique Wilkins and Larry Bird are all there. Elway, Marino and Joe Montana. And Favre. Jaromir Jagr, Mario Lemeiux and Wayne Gretzky. John McEnroe and Tiger Woods. Pedro, Randy Johnson and Doc Gooden. There's a special locker for Bo Jackson. Kobe Bryant is damn close. Randy Moss and Michael Vick might make The Leap soon. And we keep room on the list for anyone else capable of making plays that inspire teammates, bring fans out of their chairs, break an opponent's collective back and make you believe.
• The Other Shoe Theory
"The Other Shoe" theory, which centers around the premise that "All women should be considered crazy until proven otherwise." Whenever one of us started hanging out with somebody, the other would always ask, "Did the other shoe drop yet?" In other words, did the new girl have any visible baggage? Was she hiding a trait that could potentially submarine the entire relationship? Was she way too close to her family? Was she secretly nuts? You'd be amazed how many times the other shoe ended up dropping.
• The Over-Clapper
Is there anything worse than an Over-Clapper, the guy in a sports bar who feels the inexplicable need to applaud after every play?
(In case you're scoring at home, I'd rate the most annoying people in a sports bar or lounge this way, in order: The Over-Clapper; the Inconsiderate Chain-Smoker; the "Guy Who Sits Down Right In Front of You And Blocks Your View" Guy; the Guy Who Keeps Taking Cell Phone Calls; the Over-Excited Guy; the "Guy Who Gives Running Commentary and Thinks He's Phil Simms" Guy; the Drunken Idiot; the Guy Who Gets A Little Too Angry; The Guy Wearing Too Much Team Paraphrenalia; and the "Guy Who Won't Sit Down and Watch the Game But Keeps Popping In Every Five Minutes To Ask About the Score" Guy.)
• The Pantheon
That's a term my buddies and I created back in college, defined then and forever as "the highest level of transcendence." Pantheon Guys endure; you remember them, regardless of whether they peaked for two seasons or 20. It doesn't matter how long those guys were on top ... just that they peaked, and we were there, and even if it only lasted for two seasons, you were saying to yourself, "Good Lord, that guy is good."
• "Pulling a Jackie"
My buddy Gus's wife has an uncanny knack for entering the room and starting up conversations during pivotal moments in any sporting event or video game, usually in the ninth innings or with two minutes to go in any third period or fourth quarter, and almost always with disastrous consequences.
(This phenomenon is right up there with the Bermuda Triangle, the Loch Ness Monster and Breckin Meyer's career -- I don't know anyone who can explain it, yet I have at least a dozen male friends with girlfriends/spouses who consistently keep "Pulling a Jackie." It's like some silent radar signal goes off -- important game happening, big moment, must inadvertently sabotage, must fluster my boyfriend ...)
• The Rafael Palmeiro Rule
If anything, the Rafael Palmeiro/steroids saga reminded everyone of a time-worn lesson: Never, ever trust a good-looking guy with a nice mustache. Those are always the guys who sleep with your ex-girlfriend and leave the dinner table three seconds before the check arrives. Always keep these people at arm's length. I'm telling you.
• Rules for a Movie Remake
• The Same Nickname Corollary
I'm cool with Larry Johnson being called "LJ," and here's why: If you have the exact same name as the athlete who made the nickname famous, the I think it's OK to assume the nickname, as well. For instance, if there's another Mordecai Brown some day, we absolutely have to call him "Three Finger" whether he has 10 fingers or not.
• The Schnozzaroo
Don't we need to come up with a nickname for the Broken Nose Mask? What about the Septumator? Or the Schnozzaroo? More importantly, why are they such an afterthought? NBA players care so much about hair, tattoos, shoes ... yet they happily slide on these ugly plastic masks for two straight months, no questions asked. Wouldn't you think they would paint them like hockey goalie masks, or even go with the intimidating Hannibal Lecter-style mask for a big playoff game? We need to spruce up the Schnozzaroos.
• The Shaky Scale (NFL Only)
Here's how it works -- rate every team's coach and quarterback on a Shaky Scale from 1 to 10, with Brady and Belichick being a "1" and the Norv Turners and Patrick Ramseys of the world counting as perfect "10's." When you add the scores for each team's coach and QB, if it's 15 or higher, then that team can't possibly make the playoffs.
• The Shue Phenomenon
Applies whenever a less famous sibling suddenly becomes more famous than their famous sibling (like Andrew Shue surpassing sister Elisabeth during his first few years on "Melrose Place", before she dramatically reclaimed the throne with "Leaving Las Vegas"). And I mention this only because Kevin Dillon's improbable passing of Matt Dillon (thanks to "Entourage") has to be the greatest moment in the history of the Shue Phenomenon ... in fact, Clint Howard would need to direct three consecutive Oscar winners to approach what's happening here.
• SLANFARE
Is there a more underrated SLANFARE (the acronym for "surfing late at night for anything remotely entertaining") cable movie than "Varsity Blues"?
• Spork Flicks
When a chick flick disguises itself as a sports movie ... that's a spork flick. "Bull Durham"? Spork flick. "Jerry Maguire," "Tin Cup" and "Love and Basketball"? Spork flicks. Heck, even "Rocky" could have been classified as a spork flick.
• Stomach Punch Game
• Stouffer's Frend Bread Pizza Syndrome:
Putting together a basketball team is like cooking a Stouffer's french bread pizza -- you have to preheat the oven, wait 15 minutes, slide the pizzas inside, wait another 35 minutes, check to make sure you didn't burn them, let them cook another five minutes, pull them out, then let them cool down for another 10 minutes so you don't burn your mouth ... and then, and ONLY then, do you eat the pizzas. That's how the good general managers build their teams. But these new-wave owners and general managers want to eat the pizza right away, so they slip them in the microwave, zap the hell out them, scarf down in three bites and end up burning their mouths, and the pizza doesn't even taste good as it's going down.
• The Table Test:
It all comes back to my world-renowned Table Test, which can be used for any actor, athlete, writer or broadcaster. It centers on one phrase: "I'm not sure if Person X brings anything to the table." Hey, sometimes that's not a bad thing. We all have friends who don't say much or add much, but they're fun to have around, know when to laugh at the right times and generally fit in with everybody else in your group (the Robert Horry of friends). And maybe they don't bring that much to the table, but they also don't take things off the table -- they aren't rude, they aren't inappropriate, they aren't stupid, they don't act like drunken idiots, and so on. Think of it this way:
Scenario No. 1: Person X brings something to the table.
Scenario No. 2: Person X brings nothing to the table.
Scenario No. 3: Person X takes things off the table.
In certain circumstances, you can get away with bringing nothing to the table (No. 2); for instance, I'd much rather hear a play-by-play broadcaster pull a No. 2 over somebody trying too hard to be a No. 1. That doesn't fly in Breckin Meyer's case -- he pulled the No. 2 routine in "Road Trip" and didn't really affect the movie either way (not exactly what you're looking for from your lead). In the pilot for "Inside Schwartz," Meyer tried to be much more animated -- throwing his arms out, hopping around, making goofy faces, desperately trying to show life -- and ended up filling his pockets with silverware, salt shakers and tablecloths. He calmed down a little in the second episode ... but not nearly enough. In a best-case scenario, Meyer could loosen up and eventually bring nothing to the table (No. 2). And that's a best-case scenario. Not a good omen for the show.
• The Third Man in a Porn Scene
Now I'm killing time (at the blackjack tables) and cheering my buddies, carefully observing the "No running commentaries if you're not playing," "Stay at least four feet away" and "Don't touch anyone's chair" rules. Ever see a porn scene when an actress works with multiple partners, and she ends up settling on two of them while the third guy basically stands next to the action and keeps busy, hoping for a call that never comes? And you have no idea why he's there in the first place? Well, that's me. I'm the proverbial "Third guy in the porn scene."
• Three Rules for the NBA All Star Game
1. As long as Jason Kidd can walk, he's automatically in the game. Even if he's 75 years old.
2. Each team is REQUIRED to have two true point guards on the roster.
3. If we can't find four true point guards, and if Jason Kidd is somehow incapacitated, then John Stockton has to come out of retirement for one game.
• Throwbacks That Never Should Have Happened | Part II
I hope Mitchell & Ness releases a collection of throwbacks called Uniforms That Never Should Have Happened, featuring Franco Harris' Seahawks jersey, Steve Carlton's White Sox jersey, Bobby Orr's Blackhawks jersey and dozens more anticlassics. Someday, Rice's Broncos and Seahawks jerseys will join that illustrious list. So be it.
• Tiki Barber/Reuben Theory
I've never had Tiki on my team, but everyone who has him raves about the experience afterward. You know what he's like? Ever had lunch with someone who ordered a Reuben? You think to yourself, "Grilled rye bread, butter, mustard, swiss cheese, greasy corned beef -- that's terrible for me, I'm not getting that." And then you watch your buddy happily mauling the Reuben and you want to jam a fork in his eye and steal it from him. That's Tiki Barber. He's the Reuben of running backs (no offense to Reuben Droughns).
• The Tony Campbell Corollary
There are like 50 guys in the league trapped on benches who could put up stats if they ever played, as witnessed by the Mo-Pete Era in Toronto right now, or even Kendrick Perkins's 13-rebound game last month. I had a reader call this the "Tony Campbell Corollary" once. Remember when Campbell was wasting away on the Lakers bench, then Minnesota grabbed him in the expansion draft, and he ended up scoring 23 a game? As long as you have one skill -- like Dickau (who can shoot), or Andersen (who can jump out of the building) -- that's usually enough if you're getting enough minutes.
• The Two Pacinos
Can you think of another actor with a career quite like Pacino's career, where the guy from 1972-1983 (Godfather 1 and 2, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Cruising, And Justice For All, Scarface) seems like a completely different human being than the one from 1992-2005 (Scent of a Woman, Heat, Donnie Brasco, Insomnia, Devil's Advocate, The Recruit). I'm not even talking about different actors; I'm talking about different human beings. Like how Pittsburgh Barry Bonds and San Fran Barry Bonds seem like two different people, right?
• The Tyson Zone:
"I think Ron Artest has entered rarified air now. He's officially a person who, if a friend said, "Did you hear that (fill in celebrity's name) just (fill in the insane behavior: urinated on a police officer, began breeding unicorns, etc.)?", I would have no problem believing it was true. I think this space is occupied by Mike Tyson, Michael Jackson, Courtney Love, and the late, great ODB. Can you think of any others?"
-- Brendan Quinn, Philadelphia, PA
SG: First of all, fantastic theory. I think we should call this "The Tyson Zone." Others who qualify: Dennis Rodman; Omarosa; R. Kelly; Landon from "The Real World"; Najeh Davenport; Suge Knight; Flava Flav; Brigette Nielsen; anyone in G Unit; Billy Joel; Andy Dick; Lindsay Lohan's Dad; Anna Nicole Smith; Margot Kidder; Tara Reid; Lil John; Gary Busey; Ricky Williams; any pregnant female; the late Bison Dele; Liza Minnelli; Paris Hilton; and Henry Winkler.
• The VCR Clock Test
As I wrote a few weeks ago, "Entourage" always managed to leave me disappointed, but I was always disappointed when it was over, if that makes sense. The show started at 10 p.m., kept me absorbed for a good 20 minutes ... and somewhere around 10:23, I always found myself glancing at the VCR clock and thinking, "Shoot, it's almost over." That's the VCR Clock Test.
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The COMMIT guide to be a CT Giga Chad
How to act cool on twitter without burning yourself?
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It's never too late to take part in a community, even more when it comes to public goods. You are starting your journey in crypto land and you don't want to look like a virgin crypto-incel ? So if you want to be a CT Chad then take your sword, strap your armor and never give up on anything!
Being a Chad can be hot. Whether you're doing it on Reddit or Twitter you are looking for attention but most importantly you are here to share quality and useful information to the plebs. The roots of the Chad are deeply settled in the meme culture from the past decade. It basically comes from the Wojak and Nordic / Mediterranean meme formats. Although Nordic / Mediterranean has a different origin from other Wojak memes, it currently comprises an essential part of Wojak Comics. Wojak, also known as Feels Guy, is an MS Paint illustration of a bald man with a sad expression on his face. It is often used as a reaction image to represent feelings such as melancholy, regret or loneliness. The Chad is a personification of alpha-masculinity through memes, but hold on, The Chad has his own twin, Stacy.
Let's get some obvious but necessary disclaimers out of the way: You will never shill projects you have never tried personally and you won't ever push people to try things they are not willing to. The NFA statement is pure bullshit, honor your commitments.
Now, here are some ways to be a CT GigaChad without burning yourself.
A Chad is not a sucker
Crypto Twitter is a bustling community of individuals who are passionate about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Many of these individuals, known colloquially as "Chads," are characterized by their strong opinions, unwavering dedication to the crypto cause, and willingness to engage in heated debates with those who disagree with them.
Being a CT Chad is not for the faint of heart. It requires a thick skin and a willingness to stand up for what you believe in, even in the face of intense criticism. It also requires a deep understanding of the complex and rapidly-evolving world of cryptocurrency, as well as the ability to effectively communicate your ideas to others.
For many Chads, the key to success on Crypto Twitter is to establish themselves as thought leaders in the space. This often involves sharing their insights and opinions on the latest developments in the crypto world, as well as offering advice and guidance to those who are new to the scene.
But being a CT Chad is about more than just sharing your thoughts and opinions. It's also about engaging with others in the community, whether you agree with them or not. This means jumping into conversations and debates, offering counterpoints to others' ideas, and generally contributing to the ongoing dialogue about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
Of course, being a Crypto Twitter Chad is not without its challenges. The fast-paced nature of the community can be overwhelming at times, and it can be easy to get caught up in the heat of the moment and say something you later regret. Additionally, the Crypto Twitter community is known for its sometimes-toxic nature, and Chads must be prepared to deal with trolls and other unsavory characters who may try to derail conversations or harass others.
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Despite these challenges, many Chads find being a part of the Crypto Twitter community to be incredibly rewarding. It's a place where they can connect with like-minded individuals, share their passion for crypto, and help educate and inform others about the many exciting developments happening in the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
In short, being a CT Chad is not for everyone. But for those who are willing to put in the time and effort, it can be an incredibly rewarding experience that allows them to be a part of something truly special.
Being a CT GigaChad is an art that needs to be mastered at all cost. You must adapt your attitude according to the situation, fit it in any environment and make others think that being in your company is a blessing. You will be able to see how easy it is to find followers, even if your fundamentals are shit.
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The identity of the true "fifth Beatle" has been hotly debated for half a century, but the strongest case can be made for Sir George Martin. The band's trusted and loyal producer, Martin served as expert and conspirator, taskmaster and mad scientist, friend and father figure throughout the band's studio life. He shaped their songs in ways that are seldom appreciated but impossible to forget.
Unlike most producers of his era, his creative daring fostered an environment where it was acceptable to explore and expand the realm of the possible. He played with the Beatles, in every sense of the word — by picking up an instrument, or merely indulging their curiosity and translating their abstract musical fantasies into reality. "He was always there for us to interpret our strangeness," recalled George Harrison. It's difficult, and frightening, to imagine the Beatles' artistic trajectory had they been paired with anyone else. His role as a confidant, advocate and realizer cannot be overstated.
As we mourn his death at age 90, we remember his life and the incredible work he did with "the boys." These are 10 of our favorite moments in the Beatles' catalog that we owe to George Martin.
When John Lennon and Paul McCartney first played "Please Please Me" for George Martin during their second EMI recording session on September 4th, 1962, the song was miles away from the uptempo tune that would become their first Number One. "At that stage 'Please Please Me' was a very dreary song," Martin recalled to historian Mark Lewisohn. "It was like a Roy Orbison number, very slow, bluesy vocals. It was obvious to me that it badly needed pepping up." He suggested they speed it up double-time, and suddenly they had a hit on their hands. "We were a bit embarrassed that he had found a better tempo than we had," admitted McCartney in The Beatles Anthology.
When Paul McCartney first completed the song he literally dreamed up, the rest of the band were at a loss for what to play on it. The somber tone and mournful lyrics didn't really lend themselves to an effective drum pattern, jangly guitars or even vocal harmonies. Martin convinced McCartney to grab an acoustic guitar and just sing the song by himself, a first in Beatles history. He also suggested another Beatle first: a string quartet. At first the notion conjured up thoughts of syrupy Mantovani schmaltz, and the young man resisted, but Martin assured him that it could be done tastefully. The part was the first of many elegant arrangements the producer would create for their songs.
Lennon knew he had something special when he completed this introspective lyric, born out of a poem about his Liverpool childhood. Space had been left for a solo, but an electric guitar felt out of place on such a delicate track. He knew he wanted "something baroque sounding," but the actual instrument eluded him. Martin took it upon himself to deliver the desired result. "While they were having their tea break, I put down a baroque piano solo which John didn't hear until he came back. What I wanted was too intricate for me to do live, so I did it with a half-speed piano, then sped it up, and he liked it."
George Martin took a very collaborative approach when working out arrangements with his young charges. There are many instances of Martin transcribing musical notation on the spot, wrestled from the Beatles' impromptu whistles and hums. But perhaps the most memorable occurred during the recording of this Revolver track. When singing the solo that he wanted from a French horn, McCartney unknowingly hummed a note that was off the scale of the instrument and technically impossible to play. Martin informed him of this, yet the Beatle was undeterred. "George saw the joke and joined the conspiracy," McCartney said later. But session man Alan Civil was such a pro that he proved able to hit the high note, giving the song its emotional climax.
McCartney meticulously discussed arrangements for his songs with Martin, but Lennon was much more impressionistic in his approach. After pulling the lyrics for "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" from an antique circus poster, he told Martin that he wanted to give the song a carnival atmosphere, allowing him "to smell the sawdust on the floor." It was up to Martin to actually figure out the specifics. To achieve this effect, he took recordings of various fairground organs, chopped them into small pieces, and reassembled the tape fragments. The result was tremendously effective — a disorienting swirl evoking a demonic carousel.
The Beatles had recorded the bitter George Harrison composition "Only a Northern Song" during sessions for Sgt. Pepper, but Martin's intense dislike of the song (he later called it "the song I hated most of all" from Harrison) caused him to block its inclusion on the album. Instead, Harrison submitted the regal "Within You Without You" to his musical comrades about a month later. Martin oversaw a gorgeous East-meets-West arrangement that blended Indian instrumentation with a swooping string section. Its inclusion on Sgt. Pepper cemented Indian music's place in the soundtrack of the sixties.
Though all of the Beatles' piano skills vastly improved during their recording career, none tickled the ivories like Martin. When McCartney's "Lovely Rita" required some slick honky-tonk piano, the producer's hands were enlisted to provide the tricky parts. He also did similar duties on the bar-room ballad, "Rocky Raccoon."
The Beatles had lavished more studio time on Lennon's hallucinatory new song than nearly any track to date, recording take after take and eating up 55 hours worth of tape. Ultimately, the decision came down to two distinct versions — a faster one backed by George Martin's bombastic orchestral arrangements, and a gentle, dreamier run-through. Lennon was torn — he liked the quiet beginning of the latter and the raucous end of the former.
"He said, 'Why don't you join the beginning of the first one to the end of the second one?'" Martin explained. "'There are two things against it,' I replied. 'They are in different keys and different tempos.'" While easy to fix today, this was a serious problem in the analog age. But the technologically illiterate Lennon wasn't fazed. "'Well,' he said, 'you can fix it!'"
Armed with little more than two tape machines and a pair of scissors, Martin and his star engineer Geoff Emerick performed a minor mechanical miracle by adjusting the speed on both takes and literally cutting the two tapes together at the 60-second mark. It's become one of the most famous edits in rock history.
The Beatles recorded this Summer of Love anthem live on a worldwide television special broadcast by satellite. For the fade out, Martin composed what could be considered an orchestral proto-mashup, with fragments of "Greensleeves," Bach's Invention No. 8 in F Major and the big-band swing classic "In the Mood" all weaving in and out. But it was the last title that nearly got Martin in trouble for copyright infringement.
"EMI came to me and said, 'You put this in the arrangement, so now you've got to indemnify us against any action that might be taken.' I said, 'You must be joking. I got 15 pounds for doing that arrangement!' They saw the joke." The label thankfully didn't make Martin pay and compensated the "In the Mood" publishers.
The strangest title in the Beatles canon this side of "Octopus's Garden," this White Album track owes its name to George Martin, who brought a magazine into the studio one day. "He showed me a cover of a magazine that said 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun,'" Lennon told Rolling Stone in 1970. "It was a gun magazine. I just thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you just shot something."


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Introducing the Great Strides Capital Campaign
The Bethany Christian Schools community is excited to kick off the public phase of the Great Strides Capital Campaign to upgrade athletic fields, add a track, and increase safety and accessibility to the athletic complex.
Athletics provide one of the best opportunities to connect to other students and to the greater Bethany community, and students will be more supported in their academic and athletic successes with additional and improved facilities, the school said.
"We have been blessed with a community that cares deeply about the spiritual, emotional and physical wellbeing of our students, and are excited about an outdoor athletic campus that is not only visually appealing but safe and accessible to all fans," said Head of School Tim Lehman.
Along with athletic and safety upgrades, the Great Strides Campaign will accommodate an extension of the Winona Trail, a City of Goshen bicycle and pedestrian path. The new extension will unite Winchester Trails, Prairie View Elementary School, Waterford Crossing and area neighborhoods.
Bethany Christian Schools will become a trailhead, offering parking for public access to the trail.
In April, the Community Foundation of Elkhart County awarded Bethany Christian Schools a challenge/matching grant award of $390,000. The city has since been working with Bethany and the neighboring Winchester Trails community to complete plans for the trail extension through their properties.
"By partnering with Bethany Christian Schools, with the support of the Community Foundation, on this project we are saving the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars in finding an alternate route and creating a new crossing, Mayor Jeremy Stutsman said. "This is truly a Good of Goshen project."
More information on the Great Strides Capital Campaign is available at bethanycs.net/capital-campaign.
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The real cost of air travel to the environment
by Rebecca Macfie / 26 November, 2017
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Our love of travel is contributing to global warming, and airlines are under increasing pressure to limit their climate-damaging emissions.
Another climate change report, another cause for alarm about the kind of future we are bequeathing to coming generations. New Zealand's glaciers have shrunk by a quarter in the past four decades, and the seas around our shores have risen by as much as 22cm in a century. Frosty mornings are becoming rarer; soils are getting drier. Our oceans are becoming more acidic as they absorb higher loads of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, threatening marine ecosystems.
All this bad news is contained in a new report entitled "Our atmosphere and climate 2017", published last month by the Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand. It confirms that almost all the trends are in the wrong direction.
Our net greenhouse-gas emissions have risen 24% since 1990, and average temperatures are 1°C warmer than at the start of the 20th century. Last year was the warmest in New Zealand since 1909, and the five warmest years on record all occurred in the past 20 years.
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The future of food is set to slash carbon emissions – and disrupt the economy
Even the sex ratios of tuatara are being disrupted by the changing climate. Warmer temperatures during embryonic development favour the males of the species and on North Brother Island in Cook Strait, the number of males has increased markedly relative to females in the past 30 years.
If New Zealand's emissions are divided equally among all 4.8 million Kiwis, we rank as the fifth-worst greenhouse-gas polluters in the OECD.
What's the climate-conscious person to do? This writer decided it was time for a long-overdue audit of my own household's emissions to find out whether we were working hard enough to shrink our comfortable, urban middle-class footprint down to a future-friendly size. One by one, I ticked off the areas that contribute most to personal carbon reductions:
Eliminate food waste. They say that if we added up all the edible food that goes to waste between farm and fork, it would account for 8% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Well, I can't do much about misshapen carrots or wrong-size cabbages left to rot in the field, but there's zero food waste to landfill from our house: the worm farm gets the peelings and scraps.
Get out of the car and onto a bike. Kiwis have the highest rate of car ownership in the OECD, and road transport accounts for 78% of the increase in New Zealand's emissions since 1990. My conscience is pretty clear on this, too: my e-bike takes me everywhere around town.
Cut down on red-meat consumption. Ruminant livestock are responsible for 14.5% of global emissions, and it's universally agreed that we won't reach global climate goals unless the citizens of the over-fed rich world cut back significantly on meat-eating. Tick. Red meat has become a rarity in our kitchen; lentils are now the default protein source.
Get an electric vehicle. And charge it off-peak when there is renewable energy to spare on the grid. Yep, done that too (although a fossil-fuel car is kept in reserve for long trips).
I put the details of our household of two into the online carbon calculator, and felt a virtuous glow as our waste, energy and local transport emissions came in well below the New Zealand average.
But then I had to confront the jumbo jet in the room. The computer program asked for the details of all flights I had taken in the past year: London; San Francisco; a couple of cheap hops from Stansted to Scandinavia; numerous domestic flights from Christchurch to Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, Nelson.
The computer didn't care whether the flights were for terribly important work, to visit elderly family members or to attend a funeral or a wedding (or even, in the case of my flight to London, to research climate policy). It just added up the volume of planet-warming emissions produced.
Suddenly, our household carbon footprint swelled from modest to enormous. All our recycling, waste-reducing, lentil-eating, cycling and EV-driving efforts were undone by the 20 tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents produced by two people who fly a lot.
What do 20 tonnes of greenhouse gases look like? Imagine a stack of three shipping containers; that's one tonne. Now imagine that bulk multiplied by 20.
Air New Zealand CEO Christopher Luxon: emissions are an "epic" challenge for global aviation. Photo/Getty Images
Flying into disaster
According to the UK Committee on Climate Change, if the world is to keep within the Paris climate accord goal of less than 2°C of warming, average carbon emissions per person need to reduce to two tonnes a year by 2050 (currently the global average is about five tonnes). Yet in one return trip to London I'd pumped three-and-a-half times that much into the atmosphere. Keen on a mid-winter break in Bali? That'll be 2.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents. Tempted by a cheap flight to Sydney for a show or a weekend of retail therapy? Add 816kg of climate-warming emissions to the bill.
A recent paper by researchers Seth Wynes and Kimberly Nicholas, published in the open-access journal Environmental Research Letters, says that avoiding airline travel is one of the four most important things you can do to limit global warming (the others are having one less child, going car-free and eating a plant-based diet).
Although aviation is responsible for only about 2% of total greenhouse-gas emissions, it is one of the fastest-growing sources, particularly as the expanding numbers of the middle class in developing economies join the ranks of globe-trotting holidaymakers and business travellers.
Christopher Luxon, Air New Zealand's chief executive, acknowledges that aviation emissions present his company – and the global industry – with an "epic" challenge. According to the European Commission, international aviation emissions will be about 70% higher by 2020 than they were in 2005, and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) – a United Nations agency – forecasts that by 2050 they could grow a further 300-700%.
And aircraft emissions are not limited to CO2: according to an OECD paper, Green Growth and the Future of Aviation, planes also produce nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide and black carbon, all of which affect climate. The emission of aerosols and water vapour also form contrails (the long white streaks that mark a plane's passing), which also have an effect on the climate, "albeit one that has proven extremely difficult to quantify". The Aviation Environment Federation, a UK non-profit group, says it is estimated that these additional effects will increase the global warming impact of aviation by about 1.9 times that of carbon dioxide alone.
Technology has delivered big improvements in aircraft design over the decades – the airline industry says planes are 80% more fuel-efficient than in the 1960s – but those gains have been outweighed by the overall growth in demand for flights. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), in 2017 there will be 37.5 million flights and 4 billion passenger movements, up from 25 million flights and 2.1 billion passengers in 2005.
The number of passenger aircraft in the air is set to double by 2025 and IATA forecasts that demand for air travel will almost double again to 7.5 billion passengers by 2035. The biggest growth will come from the Asia-Pacific region: China is expected to become the world's biggest aviation market by 2024, and India is predicted to become the third biggest.
The end of the runaway
And all that flying is primarily done by privileged people like me; most people in the world never set foot in a plane. According to an estimate by a retired Air Transport Association of America director of safety, Tom Farrier, on the crowd-sourced data site Quora, as little as 6% of the world's population takes a flight in any given year.
So, what's the future for frequent flyers? Can aviation move beyond its dependence on fossil fuels? Will we have electric planes? Do we just need to stop flying, or at least fly less? For New Zealand, which relies on tourism and international trade connections for its economic survival, the second possibility would present a profound challenge.
Since taking the top job at Air New Zealand in 2013, Luxon has pushed hard to boost the airline's sustainability credentials. It has a partnership with the Department of Conservation to support intensive predator-control work, it backs Antarctic research and it helps with the reintroduction of rare native birds into the wild. It has lobbied for a tougher and more comprehensive emissions-trading scheme (it currently covers two-thirds of Air New Zealand's and Jetstar's emissions from domestic flights, and is forecast to reach 100% by 2019).
Its light-vehicle fleet has been converted to electric cars and it is electrifying ground service equipment such as loaders and pushback tugs. It's reducing inflight waste, by diverting unopened consumables back onto flights and finding a way to recycle its wax-coated inflight coffee cups.
Rather than pushing for endless growth in the number of tourists coming to New Zealand – with an associated increase in emissions – Luxon says the company is trying to position this country at the premium end of the tourism market. He says the airline wants New Zealand to be "the Switzerland, not the Cancún, of tourism", and thinks it's possible to extract an additional $9 billion in value from the tourists coming already by selling "richer experiences" and higher-quality itineraries.
The airline has also spent $3 billion on modernising its fleet of planes and will spend another $1.5 billion in the next two or three years. The fleet, seven years old on average, is "the most modern, fuel-efficient, lowest-average fleet age of any airline of our type in the world", says Luxon. "Most airlines have a 10-20-year aircraft age. And the older the aircraft, the less fuel-efficient."
But still the emissions keep rising. This year, Air New Zealand pumped about 3.4 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. A 6.3% growth in its network has been accompanied by a 5.1% growth in emissions, despite all those modern planes that, Luxon says, are typically 20-25% more efficient than their predecessors, and despite fuel-efficiency measures such as a new scheme to run planes' air conditioning and lighting on electricity when they are parked at airport gates rather than on auxiliary power units burning jet fuel.
It's been a decade since Air New Zealand ran a test flight using fuel derived from jatropha nuts grown in Africa. The chief executive at the time, Rob Fyfe, described it as "a defining moment" in the development of a more sustainable future for aviation. It was predicted that biofuels would be a reality for commercial flights within five years. But it hasn't happened.
"I have exhausted and gone through every single global proposal from everywhere in the world, and nothing is scalable," says Luxon. "There is not an example in the world where we have scalable biofuels."
The problem is simple, he says: aircraft use a huge amount of fuel – it takes around 100,000 litres to fly from Auckland to Los Angeles – and no one has been able to come up with a steady supply of biofuel that could meet the demand.
Last year, Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia called for proposals from the biofuel sector for the supply of 20 million litres by 2020. They heard from 30 companies, but Luxon says none could meet the requirement, although Air New Zealand's head of sustainability, Lisa Daniell, is continuing to work with two of them. The airline is also talking to Z Energy, the fuel company behind a new Auckland plant that makes biofuel from tallow, a waste product from the meat industry.
Luxon lived for years in the US when vast tracts of the Midwest were turned over to corn production for ethanol, so he is well aware of the unintended consequences of biofuels and their potential to displace food production. In the long term, he thinks, woody biomass from forestry waste is the most likely option for New Zealand biofuel development, "but, again, there is no scalability to any of those efforts".
The development of a sustainable biofuels supply hasn't been helped by the fracking boom in the US, which has kept the price of oil low and made it harder for alternative fuels to compete, he says.
In October, Qantas announced a major biofuels push, declaring that its Los Angeles-based aircraft will be powered by biofuel from 2020. Over the next 10 years, the Australian airline will buy 30 million litres of fuel from US bioenergy company SG Preston, to be used on flights from LA to Australia. The fuel will be 50% renewable from non-food-plant oils, blended with normal jet fuel, and will emit half the CO2 emissions.
Meanwhile, the Queensland Government has announced that Brisbane Airport will become a hub for aviation biofuel: in a two-year trial, a partnership between Virgin Australia and US biofuel company Gevo, "biojet" will be delivered through the airport's normal fuel-supply infrastructure. The fuel, made from sugarcane waste, molasses, wood waste and agave, will initially be imported from the US, but Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is pushing for the development of a local biofuel sector and the state government has published a "Biofutures Roadmap", which envisages a A$1 billion ($1.12 billion) biofuel, bioplastic and biochemical industry over the next decade.
What about battery technology? Could it revolutionise flying in the way it is transforming the car industry? Low-cost UK airline EasyJet recently announced a push towards electric battery-powered commercial planes for short distances, which it says could be in the air within the next 10 to 20 years. It has partnered with US start-up Wright Electric, which says it will build a plane capable of flying 335km and carrying 220 passengers.
EasyJet chief executive Carolyn McCall was quoted as saying she could see "a future without jet fuel … it is now more a matter of when, not if, a short-haul electric plane will fly".
And Seattle start-up Zunum Aero – backed by Boeing and JetBlue – recently announced plans to build a small hybrid-electric commuter plane capable of carrying 12 passengers. It has longer-term ambitions to develop a 50-seat electric aircraft that can fly 1000km.
Such developments have piqued Luxon's interest, particularly as Air New Zealand flies so many short-haul domestic routes.
"It's very nascent, very emergent technology," he says. "We have been reached out to in just the past two months by people who could do electric planes. And we are in a better position to explore it because New Zealand has primarily renewable energy, and we are also unique because we fly small planes – everything from 350 seats down to 50-seaters. If we could move the [regional] turboprop fleet to fully electric planes, that could be a technology breakthrough that could really work for us."
At any given moment, thousands of planes are in the air, each spewing thousands of tonnes of CO2.
Offset programmes
But the prospect of a techno-fix for aviation's emissions is still a long way off. In the meantime, the only way to reduce the impact of flying on the climate is by offsetting – paying someone else to reduce emissions by, say, planting a forest or building a windfarm or solar array.
Airlines offer offset programmes, but few customers take up the option. Jetstar New Zealand says 3-8% of customers tick the offsetting box when buying a ticket online: the money goes to projects such as rainforest protection in Papua New Guinea and wildfire prevention in the West Australian savannah.
Luxon says the uptake of Air New Zealand's offsets – the money from which goes to projects run by the Native Forest Restoration Trust – has increased since it took a leaf from the behavioural economics textbooks and elevated the profile of its offsetting option on its online booking site. In September, customers offset 10,000 journeys, compared with only 100 in September last year. Luxon also wants to see more corporate travellers ticking the offset box.
But the era of untrammelled growth in aviation emissions is almost over. For years, international aviation and shipping were left out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change because they were not easily managed within individual countries' carbon targets. The International Civil Aviation Organisation and International Maritime Organisation were given the job of figuring out how the respective sectors would control their emissions, but little progress was made.
The 2015 Paris climate agreement also excluded the two sectors. But in October 2016, a new global agreement was struck to develop a scheme to ensure that future growth in international flights will be carbon-neutral. From the baseline year of 2020, airlines that comply with the scheme – which will be voluntary until 2026 – will have to offset any increase in emissions.
The agreement followed mounting pressure on airlines to do something about their contribution to climate change, says IATA chief economist Brian Pearce, who also sits on Air New Zealand's sustainability advisory panel. The European Union has been moving to include international airlines flying to European airports in the region's emissions-trading scheme, and opposition to a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport has focused on the impact that the increase in air traffic would have on the UK's strict carbon budget.
"There was a growing realisation from the industry that it really needed to get on the front foot," says Pearce. "The constraints on the industry were growing, and it made sense to have a global scheme that didn't have competitive distortions."
The upshot of the deal will be a major increase in demand for carbon credits to offset the expected growth in emissions. Pearce says airline ticket prices will go up as a result of the global deal. "The extent of increase will depend on how much it costs to [buy] carbon offsets, but most calculations suggest there may be a 1-2% increase on ticket prices." Given that the global price of carbon is widely tipped to rise substantially in coming decades, however, it seems reasonable to assume that impost will increase.
The global offsetting scheme is called the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (Corsia). Daniell says airlines representing 90% of international air traffic have already agreed to enter the scheme during its pilot and voluntary stages. Measurement and verification processes are being developed, but decisions are yet to be made about the type of carbon credits that airlines will be able to use to defray their emissions above the 2020 baseline.
Depending on the price of carbon, the annual cost to Air New Zealand could be $10-20 million "easily", Luxon says. "So it's a big commitment, but you have to do it, and you want to do it and it's the right thing to do.
"Sometimes we can intellectualise these things, and it might be imperfect and messy at the beginning, but the big thing is we actually are going to make a start and learn by doing. We have declared the goal, and now we have to work out how we are going to do it. But you can't socialise the cost and commercialise the benefit."
He says Air New Zealand would prefer to buy its offsets from New Zealand programmes, particularly those that fund the regeneration of native bush and not only soak up carbon but also have benefits for soil conservation, water quality, biodiversity and local communities. But there are difficulties: it's hard to find enough property owners willing to turn large enough areas of unproductive land over to natives, which are slower-growing than exotics such as pine and therefore generate less income from carbon credits.
"We have an opportunity to put all that money into New Zealand if we can. But otherwise we will have to assemble it from quality [schemes] offshore," he says.
Green globetrotting
In the longer term, the international aviation industry has a goal of halving emissions by 2050 compared with 2005 levels. By then, says Luxon, it's hoped that developments in fuel technology, aircraft design and electric planes will be able to deliver those reductions.
So, can we look forward to a future of clean, green globetrotting? Not necessarily. Lobby groups such as the Europe's Transport & Environment argue that the notion of "sustainable" flying is a myth. "Talk of flying green and the dawn of sustainable aviation is misleading and misplaced," wrote the group's aviation expert, Andrew Murphy, in an article highlighting the dubious history of international carbon credits, which have often been found to lack integrity.
"Even if offsetting can be made to work, it can only ever be a temporary solution as the Paris Agreement requires all sectors and all states to reduce their emissions, not just pay others to reduce theirs."
Also, the global Corsia scheme deals only with CO2 emissions, not the other climate-damaging gases emitted by aircraft.
A 2015 report to the European Parliament also advised that merely stabilising aviation emissions at 2020 levels is "clearly not enough", and that by 2050 the sector's CO2 emissions needed to be 41% below 2005 levels to meet global climate goals. If aviation's non-CO2 gases were also taken into account, "those targets would need to be even more stringent".
And some say the aviation sector's long-term ambitions for a massive scale-up of biofuels should be treated with caution. The International Coalition for Sustainable Aviation – an alliance that includes groups such as the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Transport & Environment and the Environmental Defence Fund – says the strategy overstates the environmental benefits of biofuels and understates the risk that they could trigger food insecurity and human rights violations if customary land users are squeezed out to make way for fuel crops.
For some climate-conscious citizens, there's only one solution to the problem of air travel and its contribution to global warming and that is to stay on the ground.
UK climate scientist Kevin Anderson depicts it as a matter of climate justice: given that there is a finite budget on how much carbon can be dumped into the atmosphere without pushing the temperature above the 2°C guardrail – let alone the more ambitious goal of a 1.5°C limit – every time someone takes a carbon-spewing flight, "someone else has to reduce their emissions to compensate".
"Given that the wealthy in society are the principal drivers of increased aviation, it is the poorer communities that are essentially forced to pay this compensation," says Anderson. "When we decide to fly to another essential climate-change conference, undertake field work or visit family, we are telling poorer communities to cut back on the energy they use to provide basic needs."
Like Anderson, US scientist Peter Kalmus is part of a group called Climate Scientists Who Don't Fly. In a recent book called Being the Change, he describes how he has reduced his personal carbon footprint from 20 tonnes a year to two, partly by deciding to stop flying to scientific conferences. He writes of the cognitive dissonance he experienced as his knowledge of climate change deepened, but he continued to live a high-carbon lifestyle with a greenhouse-gas footprint dominated by flying. One of the triggers for change was imagining his kids asking him in the future: "Dad, how could you keep flying around the world giving 20-minute presentations on your research when you knew the impact?"
As for me and my share of that gigantic carbon footprint from just one year of flying, I haven't followed Anderson and Kalmus's path. For now, offsets help assuage the guilt. As for avoiding frivolous flying, it helps that I'm happier to go tramping in the hills than hopping over to Sydney to go shopping. But the online carbon calculator has spoken and shattered my climate-conscious halo. From now on, I will think before I fly.
This article was first published in the November 4, 2017 issue of the New Zealand Listener.


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1.2 This test method covers braked wheel measurements obtained with less than 100 % slip. It does not cover side force measurements.
1.3 This test method provides a record of the skid resistance along the whole length of one track of the test surface and enables averages to be obtained for specified test segments.
1.4 This test method is used to measure skid resistance on a wide variety of surfaces in a wide variety of circumstances. Consequently, there are many different designs of continuous reading, fixed-slip measuring equipment (CFME) and as many different test procedures governing their use.
1.5 This test method does not attempt to detail these different equipments and procedures but does set out the essential common principles.
1.6 CFMEs function by creating and measuring a frictional force between a test tire operating at a selected slip and the test surface. Different types of CFME do not necessarily create the same frictional force between their particular test tire and a common test surface and do not necessarily use the same method to measure this frictional force.
1.7 CFME measurements are obtained at a selected steady test speed. This speed may vary according to the application.
1.8 The test surface may be contaminated or clean and dry. If it is clean and dry, a measured amount of water is normally deposited on the surface just in front of the test wheel.
1.9 The measuring apparatus may be built into a vehicle, built into a trailer that is towed by a vehicle, or built into a device that is manually pushed.
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By Henry Kuo
Body Politics, History, Justice
The Banality of Oppression: Memory, Theology, and the Suffering of Chinese Comfort Women
Remembering a future that is habitable for humanity and receptive to justice requires remembering the inconvenient past that, when surfaced, can threaten the status quo.
The history of the "comfort women" – young women who were forcibly conscripted as sexual slaves for Japanese Imperial Army soldiers – intersects with histories of Empire, sexual abuse, military-industrial complexes, patriarchal and misogynistic practices, poverty, and dehumanization. But as documentation efforts for the survivors' testimonies expand, it increasingly becomes clear that the narratives are not quite so simple. In this short reflection, I make both an observation and an argument, focusing on two testimonies from Chinese comfort women survivors. First, my observation is that those narratives demonstrate habits or patterns that move beyond a Japanese-oppressor/non-Japanese-oppressed essentializing binary. Deploying Johann Baptist Metz's concept of dangerous memory, I argue that the remembrance of various diverse contributors to the militarized system of sexual slavery not only facilitates the quest for restitutive justice but, more importantly, interrupts alibis for other avenues of injustice that persist today.
Lei Guiying was conscripted into the comfort women system when she was thirteen, but she had already been aware of the atrocities since she was nine. Unfortunately, her family situation took a turn for the worse. Her father passed away and the year after, her mother was kidnapped to be a bride. As Lei described, "At that time, a poor man who could not afford a wedding would snatch a woman to be his wife." Resigning to her circumstances, she tried to bring her two children – Guiying and her brother – along but, as she recalled, the men in her mother's new husband's village only allowed the brother to accompany her because of his gender. Girls were considered deadweight. Guiying, now orphaned, was frequently denied adequate care and even being married into a family did not spare her from abuse due to her gender and social status. She ran away and, after begging for some time, Guiying was offered a job as a maid for a Japanese couple who owned what she thought was merely an inn by the highway. Only later did she realize it was in fact a military brothel, a comfort station for the army base nearby. But by then, she had come of age and was forced to service the soldiers.
Yuan Zhulin's story has several similarities to Lei Guiying's. Crushing poverty forced Zhulin's husband to work in a distant city and the Japanese invasion foreclosed the likelihood of his return. Again, being financial deadweight, she was sent away by her mother-in-law, forcing her to remarry and work unsteady jobs. In 1940, however, a local Chinese woman named Zhang Xiuying came to recruit women, ostensibly to be maids for cleaning hotels, attracting Zhulin to flee her second husband to pursue steady employment and escape poverty. Unfortunately, like Guiying, she discovered that Xiuying was the owner of a comfort station and was recruiting comfort women. The knowledge that Xiuying was a fellow compatriot serving the Japanese oppressors doubled Zhulin's sadness. After the War, Zhulin returned to her home city near Wuhan where she encountered Zhang Xiuying – "the woman who had tricked me and the other girls into the living hell" – and reported her to the local policemen, only to be turned away because "those things are hard to investigate." The desire for social harmony overrode the necessity for justice, the lack of which was compounded by her own public humiliation when her slavery as a comfort woman became public. Derided as a "whore working for the Japanese," local officials accused her of being a voluntary sex worker for the Japanese Army and exiled her to the northern Heilongjiang province.
Testimonies of Chinese comfort women victims are few, although scholars such as Peipei Qiu are trying to document as many as possible. Their work and those like it enabled Zhulin to return home to Wuhan many years later. All twelve testimonies recorded in her book, Chinese Comfort Women, are worth reading. I suggest, however, that it is important to read their stories, not just as history but also as dangerous memories. Johann Baptist Metz describes dangerous memories as those in which "earlier experiences flare up and unleash new dangerous insights for the present … like dangerous and uncalculable visions from the past." Such memories interrupt prevailing narratives, often of material progress or harmony, which hide concrete realities of suffering underneath its gild. In the Metzian imagination, future hope is inscribed into past truths. Remembering a future that is habitable for humanity and receptive to justice requires remembering the inconvenient past that, when surfaced, can threaten the status quo.
Reading the testimonies as dangerous memories opens up two concerns. First, they remind us of the intersectionality of oppressions which implicates a wider circle of peoples and structures than simply the Japanese Imperial Army. Without a fuller inventory of the comfort women stations' depravity, the Japanese Army can quickly function as an essentialized alibi that deflects attention from naming oppressions not linked specifically to them. For instance, systems of patriarchy and socio-economic inequality ensured that women were not only deprived of their rights but also evacuated of their human dignity. As another victim in Peipei Qiu's study, Zhou Fenying, explained, "girls were unwanted and were called 'money-losing goods' since they would serve another family when they were married and their parents had to spend a fortune to pay for the dowry." This was not a Japanese Imperial import into Chinese culture, but one steeped in historical Chinese habits that made the women even more vulnerable to exploitation by the comfort women system. Hence, discussion of justice for comfort women should include interrogations of current practices that marginalize and dehumanize women.
The second and related concern hearkens to Hannah Arendt's phrase, "the banality of evil." Arendt introduced the term in her reporting on Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem to highlight Eichmann's utter un-exceptionality. In doing so, Arendt reminds us of evil's multiplicity and ordinariness. Eichmann, a critical contributor to the Final Solution, was not an ideologically-driven fanatic but a humdrum bureaucrat with hopes of career advancement, much like most people. Thus, in a similar vein of consideration, among the most dangerous memories that Guiying and Zhulin's elicit is not only the unfathomable totality of what the women have suffered, but also the shocking ordinariness of some of their oppressions. While the comfort stations system may be exceptional in its organized cruelty, there was nothing unusual for the times with a classist society that marginalized the peasantry and a patriarchal worldview – those habits of thought were a de rigueur definition of social order.
Hence, the Japanese found some Chinese individuals like Zhang Xiuying to be willing participants in ensuring that the cogs of the military-industrial sexual system continued to grind. Outside of China in Malaysia, a comfort woman survivor testified how soldiers in two Japanese trucks entered her village outside of Kuala Lumpur and proceeded to abduct a few girls after attacking the men. The Japanese soldiers were led by a Chinese informant, a relatively common situation, as Maki Kimura suggests. That Chinese informants may unthinkably participate in the dehumanization of their own peoples is less surprising – albeit no less justifiable – given the marginality of the forcibly conscripted women. This realization troubles one dichotomy – the Japanese oppressor/non-Japanese victim binary that often typifies superficial analyses of the comfort station system. The closer and more disconcerting truth may be that the efficacy of the Japanese oppression was only enhanced thanks to the opportunistic collaboration of Chinese (and other local) enablers for whom conscripting poor nobodies barely registered as an ethical consideration.
Reading the testimonies of Guiying and Zhulin as dangerous memories acknowledges how the silent cries of many comfort women victims who died without having testified to their personhood deferred and humanity denied also call for us today to remember a future that encourages the development and flourishing of whole persons. Dimensions of dehumanizing women and poor people persist today in China and elsewhere. Their memories do not leave us the option to remain idle as forms of evil metastasize today. Without being in concrete solidarity with those suffering from evil, informed by the fullness and complexities of memories past, we risk being examples of the banality of oppression.
Henry S. Kuo is assistant professor of theology and ethics at Greensboro College in Greensboro, North Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. in systematic and philosophical theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California; an M.Div. with a focus on Christian ethics from Princeton Theological Seminary; and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on questions in ecclesiology, applied ethics (particularly business and legal ethics) and has published articles on the matter in Reformed World, Religions, the Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, and Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology.
Revisiting Comfort Women in Light of Political Theology
Symposium Essays
By Sun-Ah Kang
A Redemptive Reading of Proverbs 31:10-31 in the Context of the Comfort Women
The survivors were oppressed and deprived of their freedom, dignity, identity, womanhood, and youth. However, they are now human rights movement activists, teachers, living testimony of the painful history, and much more.
By Hye Hyun Han
Objectification of Comfort Women and the Theology of #WithYou
These protests, the victims' testimony, and the courage of survivors remind us that it is time to turn off the powerful sound of the perpetrators' dominant voices and tune in to the voices of the oppressed.


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A 'Techniques' forum could nicely sort things between discussing the merits/demerits of the hardware, and how to actually use said hardware more effectively.
Good idea. I'll put that in or something like it.
Yes, but in the Kayaks group there are subsections for each kayak brand (plus Other Boats, plus "What Boat for Me" in General section). Also, in the Accessories section there are subsections for "Paddles", "Camping gear" etc. When people are asking about stoves or sails or paddles in the relevant subsectin, they discuss and compare that hardware as much as they can, - both the merits/demerits of the actual item and all imaginable ways and techniques of using it.
I agree. Every time you discuss equipment, you end up touching on technique, every time you discuss technique, you are drawn toward the equipment.
The way I see it, is a matter of intent. If you are shopping for a new paddle it is an equipment question, even if the discussion runs around how easy or hard is to do x, y, and z (techniques) with brand X. If you want to know how to best steer the kayak with a paddle, it is a technique question, even if the discussion becomes about how easy is to do this or that with a particular paddle.
As a newbie I have a lot of questions as to 'how' to do something.


Thank you so much for all of the wonderful compliments on my coat the last two days. You are all so sweet to take the time to comment. I really appreciate it! I am still in the honeymoon period with my coat, having worn it three days straight and still in love. My eagle eye has not detected any flaws and my body feels super comfy and warm in its sweet embrace.
Now that fall is here, I am yearning for my own sewn clothes to permeate my fall wardrobe. I want tweedy goodness like tweed sheath dresses worn over turtlenecks. How about some suit jackets to mix and match? Maybe a plaid skirt thrown in.
Right now, I am considering the turtlenecks (BWOF 9-2010-121 turtleneck) from one of the last two issues of Burda that Karen made up. And using my B5147 sheath dress pattern for a tweed and maybe a suiting.
Oh and I'll probably get to all the other stuff on the list except for the pants. That project is probably going to be complex like the coat. And I will need a vacation and some wine fortification before trying that. I'm still on the fence about Jack's sweater. Not sure if there's enough time.


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