Who is a good tuk tuk driver or guide in Siem Reap?
Threads recommending individual tuk tuk drivers and guides in Siem Reap and Angkor Wat are becoming more and more common -- and not all of them are really by guests -- yes tuk tuk spam has come to Travelfish!
As such, we've set this up as the only thread for tuk tuk driver and guide recommendations on Travelfish. All other threads are being deleted and transferred to this thread.
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Please bear in mind that Siem Reap is awash in really good tuk tuk drivers and guides -- it is NOT necessary to organise one beforehand (which will almost always cost you more than arranging one on arrival).
Myself and my husband had a wicked day in Angkor and had a lovely, reliable tuk tuk driver. He was at our beck and call all day and even drove us to the airport at the end of the day too as part of the price.
We paid $15 and he picked us up at 7.30am and took us to the airport at 7.30pm.
If you want to pre-book him, his name is Saron and his email address is saronotto@yahoo.com.
Looking for a tuk-tuk driver for your visit to Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) - look no further!!!
Soryar Tour - Kim Soryar & Kim Soyean (brothers).
I used Soyean on both occassions, was totally pleased, and thoroughly reccommend.
Contact Soryar and Soyean to let them know you're interested in a reliable tuk-tuk driver for your Siem Reap visit.
Tell Soryar or Soyean that Scott & Doreen from Australia reccommended you to use their services - you'll be more than happy!
Local Siem Reap airport pickup/drop-off if you need.
Taxi ride from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap if you need.
Tuk-tuk or air-con car/van around siem Reap.
I'd like to add my recommendation for Long Dy.
An absolutely delightful young guy, working hard to get himself started. He'll look after you well and go wherever you want to go for as long as you want to go.
I also took off for a long drive out to Beng Melea on his motorbike - an excellent day.
Call him on (Cambodian mobile) 017322519. He'll pick you up, arrange cool accommodation with a pool for 15 dollars and take you around the temples.
Tell him Jackie and Paul from Scotland sent you!
There are a lot of tuk tuk drivers and many of them are great people including clearly all those mentioned here. But I am going to add my two cents here.
My driver, who I used for six days was also a great guy. I am a war veteran and he was a young adolescent when the Pol Pot horrors began. On our third day we opened up to each other with stories from our experiences. I was lucky enough to also get to know his family as I spent a half day in his village to meet his family and share a meal. I was so moved by the Cambodian people in general and his efforts to make a better future for his family that I just put together a website promoting Angkor Wat and maybe getting some more business for Savuth.
$55 for three days is a lot unless you were to go to the temples or locations that are much further away than then area covered by the area Angkor Wat - Angkor Thom - East and West Baray.
Pretty much the normal rates for that area are now $12-$13 so $10 is a good deal indeed. Although I must say, that with the price of gas, the soaring costs of rice and other foodstuffs and the stiff competition between the drivers, those $2 - $3 dollars every day becomes a very big deal to a struggling driver with a family and for many tourists $2 - $3 is really not that much (barebones backpackers and other people to whom that amount is a lot excluded of course). So please don't try and nickle and dime too much.
ALSO VERY IMPORTANT to know is that when you book through the hotel, up to 50% of the fares go to the hotel so as the above author did, you are doing a driver a huge favor to not book thru the hotel.
If you stay near Two Dragons G/H there is a driver called Mr Sith who is very helpful and took us to a lot of the distant temples one of them was 30klm away as well as Angkor Wat & Angkor Thom and trip to airport for $65. I thought this was a reasonable price as I was comparing it to what I would pay at home.
If you go to Siem Reap you will most likely be mobbed my pushy, unfriendly Tuk-Tuk drivers within seconds.
But we found a great guy called Mr Bee (Alex) who doesn't get much business because he is just too nice! Rather then bother us, like the rest of the Tuk-Tuk drivers there, he asked how we were and whether we were having fun.
He took us wherever we wanted to go, as well as coming up with recomendations for where we SHOULD go, and was cheap compared to booking through a hotel.
We spent two of the best days of a three week holiday with him, and would advise anyone heading there to get in touch with him.
Honestly, look him up - and have a great, hassle-free stay in Siem Reap.
Per recommendations here and on Lonely Planet Thorntree, we used Kim San as our guide. His contact info is sourtkimsan@yahoo.com, and his website is http://www.angkor-guides.com/.
Kim San has ample experience as guide (he worked as a guide for 8 years before opening up his own company), and has even worked with the Amazing Race crew when they were in Siem Reap (he gave them their clue).
His price was very, very fair, and his English language skills were good. Overall, he was a great guide!
I have remained in contact with my tuk tuk driver from Feb 2005 ever since and will be using him again in Oct. His name is Sopheak and he is a gem. He charges $12 per day.
I agree with the big tippers. Sopheak told me he was able to go take English and Spanish classes with the extra $ I paid him.
Also, I started running out of cash from giving money away so in the morning before heading out to the ruins, I made a stop at a bakery and bought bags full of croissants to give kids at the ruins for breakfast. It became a daily ritual and I cannot tell you how much fun it was and the kids loved them... especially the ones with chocolate chips.
P.S. Sopheaks's email address... forgot to mention.
His name is Thoeun and he works on archaelological excavations in the area, he knows his ruins!
Another driver recommendation - in case these guys are busy!
Pi Sith (P'Seet) is a 23 year old guy who is trying to support himself and his younger brother while they go to school - he really wants to go to guiding college and is trying to save up. He is gentle, kind and sweet and speaks great English (he is a bit shy - and that's why we were drawn to him - rather than harass us he simply smiled and gestured to his tuk.) He charges 13 USD a day(and that was for 4), a bit more if you go far away. He can also arrange Kompong Phhluk and many other destinations.
He also took my 2 friends to a local Khmer nightclub - no tourists - and he is happy to sit and chat and drink a few beers after the long day of ruins! I really recommend him.
I would like to make a recommendation for a tuk tuk driver in Siem Reap , by the name of Cobra. We landed in Siem Reap (beginning Nov 09) in complete darkness in the middle of nowhere it felt like. We met our tuk tuk driver there...he took us to our hotel free of charge, and making a deal that we would use him the following day - $15 for the whole day. It seems some may be cheaper but I don't mind paying them, they do a hell of a lot of drivng around for $15 - in fact we gave him much more than that, after paying for petrol and he got a puncture, it would have probably left him with less than 10 dollars.
He told us he is trying hard to study English and his English was quite good. He told us he comes from a big family and he is the only one that works.
I just came back from Cambodia a few days ago. Per recommendation by "pippy208" in above post #26, I hired Sra Pon to be our tuk-tuk driver for four and a half days in Siem Reap . He was exactly how "pippy208" described in post #26. He was very reliable. he was always on time every morning and he kept his tuk-tuk very clean and tidy. The seat was very soft and covered in fabric seats (most other tuk-tuks have vinyl seats), which is great when the roads are bumpy and the weather is hot!! He even supplied us with bottles of cold water and wet towels in his ice box everyday. He spoke very good English and he could also read English as we showed him the names of the temples we wanted to visit. He brought us to any place we wanted and he suggested other places also.
He may not be the fastest tuk-tuk driver in Siem Reap but he is the safest and most careful driver in Siem Reap. Everyday we did the morning tour of the temples, followed by 2-3 hour lunch break and rest at the hotel, then did the afternoon tour of the temples. He made good suggestions as when to visit certain temples to avoid crowds. He also took us to different restaurants and other interesting places we wanted to go at night without any complains.
His rates are very reasonable, in fact was slightly lower than the other tuk-tuk driver was asking.
I initially had problem contacting him via email because the email address "pippy208" provided was wrong. It was sra_pon@yahoo.com, not sra-pon@yahoo.com, with underline not the dash. In order to avoid this kind of confusion in the future, I set up a new email address for him.
You will never regret that you hired him to take you around!
We had a great experience with Mr Set - he was lovely, never pushy, waited around for us all day while we explored temples and had a great sense of humour.
We're kicking ourselves for not getting his details, but we found him outside the wonderful Rosy Guesthouse (on the river - # 0074, Phum Slor Kram) and I believe this is where you can normally find him. His tuk tuk says 'Mr Set' and his number is 4691.
Mr Set was our driver for 3 days and I believe we paid him $20 or a bit less a day - money very well spent. On one morning we'd organised for him to pick us up before sunrise so we could catch the rise over Angkor Wat, and slept in... he patiently waited several hours (we felt terrible!) until we came down, and just laughed about it.
We plan on finding Mr Set again when we return to Siem Reap and highly recommend him!
I forgot to mention that Mr Set speaks good English - we were able to communicate without much trouble (sometimes had to rephrase things but otherwise ok - I think our Aussie accents made things a little hard!), and that his tuk tuk is always clean and tidy.
i spent five days in siem reap in dec last year. i browsed through travelfish before my trip and decided to organise a tuk tuk driver for the whole five days.
i contacted one of the tuk tuk drivers recommended on this website. i was not disappointed. the tuk tuk driver was honest and he took me to other places of interests - not just the temples. he was more than happy to accommodate my impromptu itinerary.
We were recently in Siem Reap. The first day at the temples we didn't have a guide, but we got one the next day. While guidebooks provide you with the information you need, I didn't like walking around with my head in a book. The guide we had was very good with excellent English. The price seems pretty fixed at around $25US per day. I would suggest you meet with any guide the day before so you can make sure their English is good.
I would talk to other people in your guest house or hostel to see if you can travel with them or for recommendations on good guides.
You can also get someone is cheaper than this price but terrible English.
Based on recommendations from other travellers we organised our tours around Siem Reap with a driver named Kriss. he is punctual, polite, professional and also provides bottled water from his cooler at every stop along with a couple soft drinks thrown in during the day. He has a comfortable airconditioned car. He is not a guide himself but is very knoweldgeable about the temples and Cambodian life in general and his English is excellent. If you want a guide, he can organise one for you and given the standard of his other services, I am sure they would be excellent (I think he works with David -same David as mentioned in earlier post?) In Siem Reap you will find licensed drivers and licensed guides they are not one and the same. Anyway Kriss's address is http://www.siemreapdriver.travelerforum.net/. We contacted him before leaving Australia and he kept in touch regularly by email to confirm details, reorganise around our many changes of itinerary and check pick up times. Can't recommend him highly enough.
Before I visited Siem Reap in 2008 I researched and shortlisted a few tuk tuk drivers. A week before I arrived I emailed and organised my driver to pick me up at 5am from my accom. on the first day (I invested in a 3 day pass). Given that there are so many recent recomms. for drivers I'll simply advise that you arrange your driver via email only. Settle on costs prior. I gave my driver my proposed 3 day itinerary and then relied on his local knowledge for suggested changes.
Here is another Siem Reap based driver that I have used several times before and that I can recommend to anyone travelling in Siem Reap and beyond. Competitive prices, English speaking, and very service minded.
In siem reap we stayed at the golden temple villa and they had reliable and farley priced tut tuk drivers.
If you travel further on to Battambang, we can recommand Dr Blue, the tuk-tuk driver, to go and see the countryside around battambang and the bamboo-train. His price was very resonable, his english good but more important than that he has a lot of job-joy! Entertaining his costumers with little jokes and magic tricks. His costumers mean a lot to him, wich is very charming. He proudly keeps a book with foto's and notes of them. You can find him at the restaurant Smokin'pot. (also recommanded) On his tuk-tuk is a bat painted. If he is not hanging around there, ask for him at the restaurant, he is a friend of the family.
DONT just accept a tuk tuk driver from the guest house when you arrive - we did when planning to visit the temples, and although nice, he spoke almost no English! I would have never looked for driver info before and now I would never travel without looking this up again!!
I have seen these tuk tuk and they are more like the auto rikshaw from Pakistan and India.
They are quite funny though.
Quite handy though, they accomodate around 7-8 guys!!
I had a great experience with a driver I read about here - though for some reason I can't find the post that mentioned him.
His name is Sopheap Chan, he was very easy-going and punctual and in addition to being a great driver (I never feared for my life amid the ludicrous Cambodian traffic behaviors and he had great itineraries to suggest), he also spends his off hours running a charity for local children - getting them supplies and other things.
2 days before we arrived in Siem Reap, we e-mailed a few recommended tuk tuk drivers on travelfish including Kim Soryar & Kim Soyean. Soryar got back to us right away (Kimsoryar@yahoo.com) and we ended up hiring his brother Soyean for 2 days in his tuk tuk. Soyean's English was very good and he gave us endless bottles of cold water and towels. His rates seem to be about the same as everyone else we asked - $13 for the day, plus extra for sunrise and farther sites like Bantrey Srei. There were lots of guides and drivers available even in the high January season although we noticed the quality of English (and French that we could understand) varied quite widely.
A good driver is a very good thing to have in Siem Reap . I live in Siem Reap and some drivers are very rude or overprice. Some also get lost everywhere and anywhere.
My friend cham rouen is a good driver and speaks excellent English. He`s also an English teacher in a local school he set up himself. He enjoys to share his stories and is very nice.
I have just returned from Cambodia after a week. I managed to meet a nice young man by the name of Kimsrun who brought me around the Ang Kor Wat. His contact is +855 12567408 / +855 974812203. You can email him at kimsrun.transport@gmail.com if you are planning this in advance. Otherwise just get your hotel to buzz him. He speaks English, Thai, Cambodian & Japanese. He's did not charge me extra for sunrise or sunset. He would even drop us back to hotel after dinner when he sees us along Pub Street! He gave us a good price because we got him for 3 days.
Always great to hear when someone returns so enthusiastic about their driver. To other readers please let me add some insight and context. No driver will charge you for sunset. Some drivers and guides will ask for a small supplement for sunrise which requires a pickup around 5 AM. If your driver doesn't do that it is because the competition for business is extreme since the economic crisis began a couple of years ago. But your driver will be up around 4 - 4.30 to get into town from his village. He will pick you up around 5 AM and be with you till maybe after sunset around 6 - 6.30 PM. And then you may see him trying to pick up some more business from the after-dinner crowd in town. Not because he has nothing better to do but because even after working all day with a guest, he hasn't made enough money to keep his and his family's head above water.
So don't begrudge a sunrise supplement. Even force your driver to take a few extra dollars if he offers you a free ride home because he sees you in town after you have had your dinner. The driver may not ask, he is far too generous in spirit and in heart and he really does appreciate your business. But believe me, the driver is worth it and has earned that sunrise supplement and a couple of bucks for that trip home.
I recommend you wait until you get to Siem Reap and either ask yourhotel, who will have a bunch of good, trusted drivers, or just talk toa few on the the street and see who you get on with, there are hundredsof drivers all keen for your business and you will be able to get afeel for their language skills etc.
He charged from $7 for a small trip to $15 per day but I wasn't bargaining at all.
I'm not a spammer, but genuine traveller, Saroun asked me to help him so I'm posting his details - a very nice guy who's struggling to survive! Any questions let me know! Patrick.
My wife and I had Mr Rong as our driver and would highly recommend him. We booked in advance to use the free airport pick up. He suggested an itinerary for us based on how long we were staying. He speaks great English and is super friendly and polite. The free cold water came in very handy when visiting the temples!
@ Cocodrilo (#13): I have to weigh in with a countervailing opinion about Mr. Thoeun. Last January (2011) we arranged to hire him for three different days during our week-long stay at Siem Reap. First day was around Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom; second was out to Koh Ker and Bang Malea. We found him to be unengaged and perfunctory, especially on the 2nd day, and always seemed in a bit of a rush. He was, in the bargain, on his cell phone a great deal of the time. It was such a disappointing and unsatisfactory experience, we cancelled the third day with him and went around on our own ... which we found more enjoyable.
I have to agree with Sopheap Chan as a brilliant driver. So genuinly kind and friendly, with a passion for his country. I saw some of the countryside pictures he has taken and they were breathtaking, considering the basic camera he has.
I think the selling fact for me was the work he does in his spare time helping his village. And he goes out of his way to make sure you are happy. He's from the same hotel as Bunhat mentioned above - New Riverside Hotel, also brilliant people I stayed at this guesthouse for 7 weeks while volunteering in Cambodia. Sopheap always made me feel safe and never made me feel like an inconvenience. As someone else mentioned, these men are really struggling to care for their families. This does not excuse the agressive tactics by some, however please remember a couple of dollars means alot more to them than it does to you.
Keep up the good work Sopheap, I hope your business thrives because you certainly deserve it. I love seeing your new photos on facebook.
We were lucky enough to bump into Mr Dara when my friend and I were negotiating our first day in Siem Reap. He helped us out with the map ! We started talking and he gave us a good quote for our 3 day Angkor Wat pass. He was very polite and not pushy at all. We took his phone number and said we'd call. We decided thst his were the best prices for two of our days and so used him.
We arranged to meet up and he was there on time and helped us through the purchasing of our tickets.
He was informative and his English is good - although there were still times of a blank face and lots of smiles. He knew where the best places were for photos and happily stopped for as long as we wanted. He even brought with him an ice box full of water bottles at no extra charge, which he tried giving to us to take at the end of the day.
He didn't rush us and was great company too. He told us a little about his family and we even got to meet two of his sisters.
I hope you get in touch with him.
I just came back from Siam Reap and would like to recomend an excellent driver I had.His name is Same and we used his services for 4 days. His english is quite good, he even carries a dictionary! He also speaks French. Hedrives very safely and is a great guide to Angkor and all surroundingareas. We especially loved the real Khmer restaurant that he took usto. No one there spoke english, so we wood have very hard time to orderanything without Same. We had a great feast for a fraction of the pricesin town. Same Knew where to go best at what time of day, but alsoallways considered what we would like to see the most. You can just lethim plan your day at breakfast and relax as he will give you anexcellent service, explain about temples, stop at good spots to eatalong the way.He works hard, is courteous, does not take advantage of you not knowing your way around. Make sure to tip him well at the end of your tripbecause he really deserves it. He also has great plans of starting an organisation to help Cambodian orphanage Inteligent and plesent. Jonh Stefan sent you.
I also recommend Sopheap Chan, he is an incredibly kind person who is very proud of his country. Honestly he is one of the most trustworthy and generous people I have encountered in Cambodia, as mentioned he does an enormous amount for people in his village through working with a local organisation.
Also Pilot drove me around, he speaks good English & French and is also very trustworthy. He is very funny and took me to lots of non-touristy Cambodian places, he seemed very excited to show me "his" Cambodia. Another really nice and trustworthy man, I had a wonderful time on my trips with Pilot!
I have tried Hai last May 2011 during my second visit to Siem Reap together with my family, and I am booking his services again on our next trip this year.
As a satisfied customer, I have no hesitation in recommending Hai. You can reach him through his e-mail address: haidriver86@gmail.com.
Agreed re: Cobra the tuk-tuk driver in Siem Reap! He was a great guide, very polite (he introduced himself by saying "Hello madame, may I be of assistance?"), honest, and a fun guy to be around. He only charged us $15 for a one-day tour of Angkor Wat, a very fair price. He also hooked us up with a great tuk-tuk driver named Lucky in Phnom Penh to pick us up from the bus station. If you're in Siem Reap, definitely look up Cobra (others have posted his contact info on this page, but he also has a Facebook page called "Cobra's Tuk Tuk Adventures Siem Reap").
Hello, I've contacted Sam Tuk Tuk because of the raving reviews on Tripadvisor, and the price he gave to me is the following, for the itinerary I've asked for.
Does it sound reasonable to you?
Regarding Vengafish's post: Caveat emptor.
Didn't take the name of our Tuk Tuk driver but he was all we needed.
Just wanted to add $15/day is the going rate for a tuk tuk and We bought our tickets for Angkor gate $40 which was $20 a day and you get the 3rd day free.
There was one guy who had his pimped out as the Bat Mobile tuk tuk ( batman style ) all though we never used him he was always amusing to have banter with as we walked around Siem Reap at night.
is it necessery to contact to a guide before we go to Siem reap or Angkor or we can find any Tuk Tuk driver in there?
If there's one guy I would recommend in Siem Reap , then it would have to be Pounn Kong. Pounn is incredibly nice and always provides great recommendations. He took us around Angkor for a day, we just let hime lead us where he thought were the best places and we had nothing to complain about. The next day we asked him to take us to a floating villages. Instead of taking us to the super-touristic and very expensive Chong Kneas, he took us to Kompong Phluk, much cheaper and more authentic. We loved the fact he never tried to overcharge us for anything, and his prices are completely average for a Siem Reap tuk-tuk.
No need to make prior arrangements for tuk tuk drivers. Once in Siem Reap, check with your guesthouse or hotel. They often have relationships with drivers and can recommend someone. If you decide you're not happy with that person, you can easily find someone else. Show up around Pub Street and you'll find dozens of them, ready to take you wherever you want. As someone else noted above, USD 15 is the typical all-day rate. Sunrise trips, rides out to Banteay Srei and so forth, and evenings out all will add to that.
It never ceases to amaze me, how many first-time posters on this thread are such ardent fans of Mr. Sopheap Chan, the tuk-tuk driver. He must be really quite stellar. Or perhaps there's something else going on.
Mr. Sopheap was my driver for 3 days and drove me to visit Angkor Temples last summer. I can really recommend him.
I contacted him via email some months before my trip following some friends' advice. They had hired him in the past and had been entirely satisfied with him.
Needless to say I really appreciated his extraordinary kindness. I couldn't have visited all those places without his help.
Extremely responsible and puntual he made the plan for each day considering how I felt, trying to see the most important places first just in case I could not keep going the following day. In the end I could visit almost all the places included in my itinerary in spite of the many stops we had to make. When visiting the temples, he carefully avoided rush hours and found te best spots to make photos.
He can speak English fluently, I also found his knowledge of the history and customs of his country extremely interesting. On the other hand his tuktuk is not only beautiful but also comfy and spacious for four people.
My visit to the magnificent Angkor temples was an amazing experience thanks to Mr. Sopheap. I am really grateful for my friend's recommendation and want to recommend him myself most heartily.
I had an amazing tuk tuk driver yesterday, some of you might know about him, known as My Why Not. You can read reviews by looking for the Angkor Wonder Hostel which is under renovations now.
He is honest, has been living in the city for 18 years, and not pushy at all. When we asked about the offer he wasnt there making us feel we had to hurry or anything else, like other tuk tuk drivers do.
His English is reasonably good, and knows lots about the temples. Very professional as well.
We went to the Angkor temples from 5 am to 6pm. Great experience and highlighted by a trustworthy tuk tuk driver. I think you might find cheaper ones (we paid 25 usd for the whole day, but take into account we went to the very far away temples (away the grand circuit) and when tuk tuk drivers tell you its 15usd a day (or even 8usd) i think they usually mean up to the grand circuit.


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What do I do now? Who are you? Do you really belong to me? Oh, my word. All this responsibility. How can I be so afraid and so unsure? God help me.
A whole person's well-being happens under your watch.
Diaper changing, toilet training and teaching them how to cross the street safely is one thing. But, caring for a God-given heart? Preparing someone to grow into their destiny?
When there are limited answers to hold onto, fear-filled fists clench tightly.
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We bark orders. We make commands. We say, "do this. "Don't do that." Because when they are small they don't know. But somehow, they grow up and we forget to loosen the cords.
We forget these reins were given with the intent to lead, not whip. At least, I have.
I've barked out expectations to do my every bidding. Years of you're-not-doing-it-my-way added levels of frustration which came out in ripened spews of anger.
I thought I had control. I thought these wild, untamed beings were mine to manage. I thought it was up to me.
For years I prayed over my mom anger. I hated it. I despised reading about the success of women who spoke of having a meek and gentle spirit Because, really, you never yelled at your kids one time in the last decade?
I knew I couldn't continue the pattern I'd lived for so long. Especially if we were ever to foster or adopt. I kept asking God to take it away and he wasn't.
One day, in desperation, I gave a huge mental heave-ho while praying for God's outstretched arm to remove anger far from me. My heart began to soften. I became less agitated by the little things. My hands loosened their grip.
Then God flipped my world upside down. He told us to move to a ranch owned by a foster agency & take care of up to twelve children at a time.
Children came in groups, or they came alone. But they came into our care.
Hanging on to anger wasn't an option anymore. All I could do was tend to theirs.
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We couldn't know the depth of their pain. We wouldn't know if attempts to bring order out of chaos would hurt or heal.
I had no control and neither did they.
All these years of raising children and it suddenly became so clear. What weight I've held onto thinking it was mine to carry. I saw it now. No matter how many commands are given, in the end their future is not in my hands. Never was. Clinging tightly has only cramped my heart and theirs.
I couldn't make it better, but I could help these children know God would hear their cries and their pleas.
It wasn't up to me. It never was.
Surrendered fists lay bare when there's nothing left to grasp, and God's grace lies softly within.


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Cut potatoes into 1-1/2-inch pieces. Place in microwave-safe dish; cover with vented plastic wrap. Microwave on HIGH 6 to 8 minutes or until just tender, stirring once. Cool slightly.
Combine sauce ingredients in 1-cup glass measure. Microwave on HIGH 1-1/2 minutes, stirring once.
Cut squash lengthwise in half. Cut beef steak and squash into 1-1/4-inch pieces. Combine beef, squash, potatoes and 1/3 cup sauce in large bowl; toss. Alternately thread beef and vegetables onto metal skewers.
Place kabobs on grid over medium, ash-covered coals. Grill, uncovered, about 10 to 12 minutes for medium rare to medium doneness, turning occasionally and brushing with remaining sauce during last 5 minutes.


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Coalition to divert renewable energy funding away from wind and solar
Scott Morrison says solar and wind are commercially viable and do not need subsidies from the $1.43bn funding, Guardian, Katharine Murphy and Adam Morton, Thu 17 Sep 2020 The Morrison government will continue to fund Australia's renewable energy agency to the tune of $1.43bn over a decade but overhaul its mandate so there will be less investment in solar and wind, and more focus on investment in hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, microgrids and energy efficiency.The baseline funding for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) will be supplemented by a transfer of funds from the government's emissions reduction fund and a new grants program worth $193.4m – but that represents a funding cut to the agency which was established by the Gillard government in 2011.
The significant overhaul will be unveiled by Scott Morrison on Thursday ahead of the government outlining its next steps in the technology roadmap, which is the government's emissions reduction strategy. The energy minister, Angus Taylor, is expected to unveil the government's inaugural low emissions technology statement during a speech at the National Press Club early next week……..
The Morrison government will continue to fund Australia's renewable energy agency to the tune of $1.43bn over a decade but overhaul its mandate so there will be less investment in solar and wind, and more focus on investment in hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, microgrids and energy efficiency………
The government will also continue to plough more taxpayer funds into carbon capture and storage through a $50m fund, while $70.2m will be allocated for an export hydrogen hub. …….
The overhaul of Arena follows the government outlining first steps in its much vaunted "gas-led recovery" from the economic shock caused by the coronavirus. Morrison on Tuesday pointed to new commitments in the October budget, including funding of $52.9m to unlock more gas supply and boost transport infrastructure.
As well as flagging that the government would back the construction of a new gas-fired power station in the Hunter Valley if the energy company AGL failed to replace Liddell, Morrison held open the option of taxpayer underwriting for priority gas projects, streamlining approvals or creating special purpose vehicles for new investment.
While Morrison and Taylor have been muscling up about the importance of new generation to replace Liddell, the government's proposition has not been backed by a taskforce report commissioned to assess the impact of its closure.
Morrison said this week the government had estimated 1,000 megawatts of new dispatchable electricity generation capacity would be needed to replace Liddell, which owner AGL has announced will close in early 2023.
But the taskforce does not find that 1,000MW of additional dispatchable electricity would be needed. It listed a range of energy committed and probable projects that it found would be "more than sufficient" to maintain a high level of power grid reliability as Liddell shut.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/17/coalition-to-divert-renewable-energy-funding-away-from-wind-and-solar
September 17, 2020 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics, solar, wind

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This indicator plots a CMO which ignores price changes which are less than a threshold value. CMO was developed by Tushar Chande. A scientist, an inventor, and a respected trading system developer, Mr. Chande developed the CMO to capture what he calls "pure momentum". For more definitive information on the CMO and other indicators we recommend the book The New Technical Trader by Tushar Chande and Stanley Kroll.
- The scale is bounded between +100 and -100, thereby allowing you to clearly see changes in net momentum using the 0 level. The bounded scale also allows you to conveniently compare values across different securities.
The main method of interpreting the CMO is looking for extreme overbought and oversold conditions. As a general rule, Mr. Chande quantifies an overbought level at +50 and the oversold level at -50. At +50, up-day momentum is three times the down-day momentum. Likewise, at -50, down-day momentum is three times the up-day momentum. These levels correspond to the 70/30 levels on the RSI indicator.
You could also establish overbought/oversold entry and exit rules by plotting a moving average trigger line on the CMO. For example, if you are using the default 20-period CMO, a 9-period moving average may serve as a good trigger line. Buy when the CMO crosses above the 9-period trigger line; sell when it crosses below.


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This Sunday's sermon title is "Uncharted - The Call of Abram," by Rev. Catherine Fluck Price (Genesis 12:1-9). Click here for more information on the series.
We would like to take a moment to welcome our two new staff members to the Trinity team. When you see them, please introduce yourself and let them to know how excited we are to welcome them to our team!
Jordyn Cowart is our daytime Receptionist/Administrative Assistant. She is a Gainesville, FL native, whom recently graduated from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA in 2016, with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and a minor in Religious Studies & Philosophy. She is currently earning her Master's Degree in Library & Information Science from Florida State University, and will one day be a Reference Librarian. Jordyn has a cat named Luka, that plays fetch like a dog. If you ever want to talk about books or cats, stop by the reception desk and say "Hi"!
Daniel Pendergrass is our evening Receptionist/Administrative Assistant. Daniel is a senior at UF, studying Economics. He enjoys hiking, playing sports and occasionally binge watching Netflix.
The Mission Box for this Sunday celebrates our veterans on Independence weekend. The HONOR center, a 45 bed facility for men and women provides a place for Veterans to stay as they transition from homelessness to independent living. Your donation will help with many recreational therapeutic activities including Bikes for Vets and Frets4vets (text 2 give keyword: honor).
Tragic gaps are easy for us to see in the world around us and, as Christians, we are called to stand in those places. In this new 6:35 Contemporary Worship Service message series, we will be exploring the stories of the Biblical characters that stood in those gaps. Wednesday evenings, now through July 26.
Spaghetti Dinner: July 5 from 5:30-7pm. Proceeds will help fund the youth summer mission trips. Tickets are available at the door for $5/each and you can either get your dinner to-go drive-thru style, or sit down and be waited on. *** PLEASE NOTE: If you are participating in a youth summer mission trip you need to purchase/sell at least 5 spaghetti dinner tickets. Tickets will be available for pick-up during Sunday School in the Youth Building from 11-12.
GSP: We will be volunteering at the Homeless Coalition in St. Augustine (mostly playing with the children living there). We will leave the youth building at 8am and will return at 6pm. Please come in your swimsuits, and make sure to bring sunscreen, a towel, and an extra change of clothes. We will provide lunch and snacks. You must have a current ER form to come.
Every Sunday through August 6, we'll have a special donation opportunity! This Sunday, please bring men's flip flops for The Honor Center.
Join us for lunch in the Worship Center at noon. This week's menu is sliders, corn on the cob, potato salad, watermelon & cookies. Invite a friend to worship with you and join you for lunch, first time guests of Trinity eat free! Lunch will be served family style ($7/adults, $3/ kids age 6 and up, $25/family cap).
Mark your calendars for the week of July 16 when our Family Promise families will be housed at Trinity again. There are a variety of ways to help and volunteer, so look at the Signup Genius to see what fits with your schedule. This is a great opportunity to serve those who have greater needs than we do, and a way to involve your children by hanging out at dinner one night! For questions or more information, contact Beth Haines (352-283-5026).
Family Worship is THIS Sunday at 9:40 and 11am. Elementary children will join their family for worship in the Worship Center. We will offer childcare for preschoolers and younger.
Upward Soccer online registration is open here. Evaluations will be held at the sports fields on July 9 (2-4pm), July 11 (5-7:30pm), July 23 (2-4pm) and July 27 (5-7:30pm). Practice begins the week of August 14 and the first game is August 31.
Wouldn't you love to make a difference in the life of a child? Serve with Trinity's Children's Ministries Team this summer as an occasional Sunday morning 9:40 or 11am volunteer! Play a part in helping children grow in their faith. No experience or preparation needed - just be ready to have some fun! Email Brian to share how you can serve.
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Art doesn't hurt AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAL MORAVČÍK
Články, English, Read Online
admin 11. 6. 2013 20. 2. 2019
Fedor Blaščák: What do you think about the Berlin Biennale. Did anything about it move you?
Michal Moravčík: Well, actually, it seemed rather dry to me. Perhaps the emotion embodied in the individual pieces and works didn't come across in the shared space. I'd expect a more radical definitionofspacefrom a political biennale – something to challenge the viewer, institutions, the city… It seemed to me that viewers just came to sleep in front of videos – as if that would give them the energy to change the world. In my opinion, the book they published for the biennale, Forget Fear, works better. There are some good interviews there, and the individual pieces work together as a whole. I think Żmijewski is a better editor than a curator, even if he himself wanted to avoid that definition(curating).
FB: Żmijewski generally understands politics as a "form of social interaction" and thinks that it is the "language of people's shared desires", thus acknowledging its symbolic character. At the same time he realizes that real politics as we know it (after the Wikileaks or Gorilla affairs) despises people, is insensitive to them. I don't understand why he's suddenly so radical about drawing art into an area where it has felt at home since the early avant-garde.
MM: Krytyka Polityczna is just excellent, I don't think we have such a clearly formulated voice in this country. That makes it interesting and inspiring to me. Reality itself makes you either take a stand or give up on politics. There's great disappointment, and all the illusions about any "pretty façade" covering it all have been lost. From this perspective, it would look ridiculous if we just dealt with some aesthetic, it would lose meaning. Żmijewski has turned it into something critical – a fight taking many forms, a fight about something.So when you have such a limited biennale. It's legitimate to ask whether it could have been done better. I feel like the entire format was using old language, that it used what are today essentially conventional forms of presenting art, and that it didn't even think about the new audience it supposedly wants to address. I felt the most absurdity in the café of the KW courtyard, where the "weakness" of politics was most visibly mixed with the "desire for indulgence" – there was an object nearby, a giant key to the conflict in the Middle East, and it was just scenery in the background, incapable of arousing any emotion.
FB: Is that naive? Like when we use big words to change a reality better expressed in everyday sentences and the mundane. A person cries out "Revolution or Death!" but in reality he is only hungry.
MM: I don't think fancy words are necessarily out of place. That's just one way to approach it. There are many strategies for changing the world around us, just as there are many worlds and stories in art, but in the biennale you can also find" quieter projects". The problem may be when great words and great gestures meet in the same space. If there had been just one project at the biennale that really got viewers involved, it would have been more powerful than the rest of the engaged art combined.
FB: It's not easy to make political art that isn't boring. Aesthetics in such work is ridiculous, moral appeals are banal, sociological approaches self-serving, descriptiveness is out-of-date. Which political work appeals to you the most and why?
MM: Art naturally also operates in the political realm. Does that bother you? We would have to forget about Beuys, Haacke, Irwin, or, for example, Rafał Jakubowicz, Dan Perjovschi… Just as there is no formula for how contemporary art is supposed to look, there is also no formula for how to make art that deals explicitly with a particular political topic. For example, the scandal over Jakubowicz's Arbeitsdisziplin is also important for other areas of society; among other things, it communicates precisely where we didn't want to be during the period of transformation and what work became for us. It doesn't bother me that this is art that easily dates, and that when the given social issue passes, then the effect of the work itself disappears. Such a short life span and trash aesthetic also have social meaning (for example the Guma Guar Národní tým (National Team) event in 2008).
Art has become a platform where things are happening that would not happen elsewhere, for example the exhibit Meze tolerance (Boundaries of Tolerance) from Guma Guar was also an important experiment. And ultimately, most of your installations and projects as a curator are also of a political nature. The exhibits and discussions you've been having in Žilina are in a certain sense a political performance, focusing on political themes. But back to the question – think about what happened with the Palm Trees in Warsaw. It's been a few years now, and what I findmostfascinating is that the city ultimately adopted them as its own, and this shows quite a change in perspective. The "left-wing" artifacts that were tolerated in the public space have now become an icon for the new Warsaw. I could also mention projects such as Minaret or Oxygenator by Joanna Rajkowska, or Harum Farocki's Videograms of a Revolution, 1992, or Jacek Niegoda's The Dissident, 1995/2005.
FB: It's not whether art is operating in the political realm, but whether it gets buried there. I like your work in New York, where you stuffed cracks in buildings with plastic bags. That piece has everything that I appreciate about political art. A certain decency and imagination – Sancho Panza and Don Quixote, an ephemeral element and a clear emphasis. The political connotation here is pretty vague. What are you working on now?
MM: It's a literary statement. Art doesn't hurt anything if it's not consciously serving evil. For me, art is also a public discussion, a workshop with children, or a radio broadcast. The Suspect Reconstruction project in 2004 was during my stay at ISCP. There was a campaign in New York at the time called If you see something, say something. It was mass-produced paranoia with Bush spin. At the time I wanted to give back all of the plastic bags that had been forced on me with nearly every product, and had taken over a sizeable chunk of my small room. This "strange" nighttime event was a response to the public call for paranoia. In the Alexander the Hero show, which we are currently showing in the Make Up Gallery in Košice, I look at the concept of hero, its public presentation, and also whether the names listed on the memorial could mean something else. It's questionable whether this participation in the past has any meaning and whether in many cases it does not ultimately become a tool for current power structures to project their importance. I also examine the structure of power in the project malé a (small "a"). Rozin's enormous window, where the office window of the "contemporary hero" provides the impetus for examining the current use of Dedeček's Incheba building in Bratislava. The demolished window looking right out at Bratislava Castle is a vulgar gesture in space (while the remodeling of the iconic modern structure was publicly popularized on the Super Star 3 talent show as the background for the judges during auditions).
FB: In my opinion, the name son the list of the memorial are really secondary to the fact that there are millions of other heroes and victims who don't even have a memorial. That means something, at least for me. And there's also a difference between commemorating a time far in the past and relatively recent local events (for example a memorial to November 17th). Aside from this, what else did you think about it?
MM: I've been working on a separate project about November 17th, 1989, which will involve a current poll (anti-monument) of people who had a hand in the change of regime. I'm curious as to whether they will be interested in participating in this exercise of collective memory – we are sending out the same public appeal in the Czech and Slovak Czech and Slovak Republics. In Alexander the Hero, I examined a particular monument to heroes in Tbilisi who fell fighting for Georgian independence in 1921. The names of the fallen are printed on strips of perspex, like when you put books on a bookshelf and you can only see the name of the author on the binding. The flashing monument is unfortunately located in the middle of a roundabout. Some of the white strips are "waiting for a name". The Georgians joke that they are still waiting for the heroes. President Saakashvili, who has designed other public spaces in Georgia in a similar style, publicly declared himself to be the designer of this cheap style of monument. During my stay, a storm blew through Tbilisi and some of the plaques fell off. I found them lying on the ground. Another thing I noticed when I was there was that right across the road there is another monument, to the Abkhazian War, where the regime has again used a list of names of the fallen, and this site has become a place of demonstrations and hunger strikes by veterans. So as you say, there is a living memory, which can record both conflictand the fact thatifa few names of the heroes of the past fall off the obelisk it's no big deal. Since evidently nobody was missing them, I picked them up and reworked them into light boxes at home. So now, these resuscitated names are honored in a new context.
Michal Moravčík (*1974) is an artist and a teacher. He is a graduate of the department of sculpture at VŠVU Bratislava (1998), in 2004 he was awarded the Oskár Čepan prize. In 2010, he co-founded the Public Pedestal Association, which focuses on alternative design of art for public spaces.
Fedor Blaščák (*1975) is a philosopher and critic. In 2008 he founded the memory-kontrol.org initiative. He was the co-editor of the TRANSIT 68/89 publication (Metropol Verlag, Berlin). He collaborated with photographer Lucia Nimcová on a project titled Unofficial.In2011and2012 he was a member of the judges' panel for the Oskár Čepan Prize.
MICHAL MORAVČÍK, Suspect Reconstruction, 2004, site-specific intervention in Fashion District, NYC, photo: Igor Eškinja.
MICHAL MORAVČÍK, Der Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst ihre Freiheit, 2010, site-specific intervention/ sculpture performance, Labour Exchange in Komárno, Slovakia, photo: author's archive.
Suspicious Reconstruction, happening in Fashion District, NYC, 2004, photo: Igor Eškinja;
Alexander the Hero (part of the Memorial to the Heroes of Tbilisi), 2012, installation, photo: Vlado Eliáš.
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Předchozí příspěvek Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition / No. 2 English Issue / Volume II
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Mandragelya, Vladimir, State University of Telecommunications (Ukraine)
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The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi were held on November 8, 2022, to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Mississippi, one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.

The elections were the first under Mississippi's new congressional map after redistricting completed by the state government. All four races were considered uncompetitive in the general election and turnout from Mississippians was the lowest out of the entire United States, measuring in at 31.5%. Republican Representatives Michael Guest and Steven Palazzo faced competitive primaries, where both went to runoffs; Palazzo was ultimately ousted by Mike Ezell in the runoff, mainly in part to an investigation into Palazzo's supposed misuse of campaign funds. Republican Representative Trent Kelly was the sole representative of the Mississippi delegation to receive a Trump endorsement and faced no serious challenge. The partisan composition of the delegation remained the same after the election.

District 1

The 1st district takes in the northeastern area of the state, including Columbus, Oxford, Southaven, and Tupelo. The incumbent is Republican Trent Kelly, who was re-elected with 68.7% of the vote in 2020.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Trent Kelly, incumbent U.S. Representative

Eliminated in primary
Mark D. Strauss, Libertarian nominee for  in 2018

Endorsements

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
Dianne Black, hair salon owner

Eliminated in primary
Hunter Kyle Avery, manufacturing worker

Results

Independents

Filed paperwork
James McCay

General election

Predictions

Results

District 2

The 2nd district encompasses the Mississippi Delta, taking in most of Jackson, the riverfront cities of Greenville and Vicksburg, and the interior market cities of Clarksdale, Greenwood and Clinton. The incumbent is Democrat Bennie Thompson, who was re-elected with 66.0% of the vote in 2020. Thompson cruised to re-election in 2022 as expected, though Brian Flowers did give him his toughest race since 2004 when Clinton LeSueur achieved 41% of the vote.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
Bennie Thompson, incumbent U.S. Representative

Eliminated in primary
Jerry Kerner, gun dealer

Endorsements

Results

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Brian Flowers, nuclear plant technician, U.S. Navy veteran, and nominee for this district in 2020

Eliminated in runoff
Ron Eller, physician assistant and U.S. Army veteran

Eliminated in primary
Michael Carson
Stanford Johnson

Endorsements

Results

General election

Predictions

Results

District 3

The 3rd district is located in eastern and southwestern Mississippi, taking in Meridian, Starkville, Pearl, Natchez, and most of the wealthier portions of Jackson, including the portion of the city located in Rankin County. The incumbent is Republican Michael Guest, who was elected with 64.7% of the vote in 2020. Guest managed to flip Kemper County, which gave Joe Biden 61.02% of the vote in the 2020 presidential election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Michael Guest, incumbent U.S. Representative

Eliminated in runoff
Michael Cassidy, U.S. Navy veteran

Eliminated in primary
Thomas Griffin, businessman

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
Shuwaski Young, political organizer

Withdrawn
Rahim Talley, businessman, Iraq war veteran and progressive activist

General election

Predictions

Results

District 4

The 4th district encompasses the Mississippi Gulf Coast, including Gulfport, Biloxi, Hattiesburg, Bay St. Louis, Laurel, and Pascagoula. The incumbent is Republican Steven Palazzo, who was re-elected unopposed in 2020.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Mike Ezell, Jackson County sheriff and former Ocean Springs police chief

Eliminated in runoff
Steven Palazzo, incumbent U.S. Representative

Eliminated in primary
Carl Boyanton, produce store owner and candidate for this district in 2020
Raymond Brooks, police officer
Kidron Peterson
Clay Wagner, banker
Brice Wiggins, state senator

Endorsements

Polling

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
Johnny DuPree, former Mayor of Hattiesburg; nominee for Governor of Mississippi in 2011 and Secretary of State of Mississippi in 2019

Eliminated in primary
David Sellers, pastor

Endorsements

Results

Libertarian primary

Candidates

Declared
Alden Patrick Johnson, firefighter

Independents

Candidates

Declared
Graham Hudson

General election

Predictions

Endorsements

Results

Notes

Partisan clients

References

External links
Official campaign websites for 1st district candidates
Mark Strauss (R) for Congress
Trent Kelly (R) for Congress

Official campaign websites for 2nd district candidates
Ron Eller (R) for Congress
Brian Flowers (R) for Congress
Jerry Kerner (D) for Congress
Bennie Thompson (D) for Congress

Official campaign websites for 3rd district candidates
Michael Cassidy (R) for Congress
Michael Guest (R) for Congress
Rahim Talley (D) for Congress
Shuwaski Young (D) for Congress

Official campaign websites for 4th district candidates
Carl Boyanton (R) for Congress
Raymond Brooks (R) for Congress
Johnny DuPree (D) for Congress
Mike Ezell (R) for Congress
Alden Patrick Johnson (L) for Congress
Steven Palazzo (R) for Congress
David Sellers (D) for Congress
Clay Wagner (R) for Congress
Brice Wiggins (R) for Congress

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Casablanca will be introducing a new helmet called the "NEU" which meets PAS015:2011 with a target launch date of 1st November. La Martina are also bringing out a new helmet (no name released) and testing procedures are to be conducted at the end of September. Falcon have decided not to certify their helmet.
Please note, there is a new standard, BSEN1384:2017 which has just been published. Our policy is to follow the BHA helmet standards.
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Tommy Emmanuel is postponing his concert on September 20 in Midwest City at the Hudiburg Chevrolet Center at Rose State College. He is having a health issue that requires medical attention and rest. Tickets purchased will be honored for the new performance date on April 15, 2020. Tommy would like to thank his fans for the love and understanding, and he is truly sorry for any inconvenience. He looks to returning to the road soon.
"If you like guitar playing, it simply doesn't get any better than Tommy." – Jason Isbell
Tommy Emmanuel has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. Or at least they would if he was the kind of artist who was ever satisfied. At the age of six, he was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n' roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a Certified Guitar Player by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins. Today, he plays hundreds of sold-out shows every year from Nashville to Sydney to London. All the while, Tommy has hungered for what's next. When you're widely acknowledged as the international master of the solo acoustic guitar, what's next is Accomplice One, an album of collaborations with some of the finest singers, songwriters and, yes, guitarists alive today – a list including Jason Isbell, Mark Knopfler, Rodney Crowell, Jerry Douglas, Amanda Shires, Ricky Skaggs, J.D. Simo, David Grisman, Bryan Sutton, Suzy Bogguss and many more.
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Barring the two losses on this road trip, the Mets are looking like a team difficult to keep down. And those two losses (blowing a 7-0 lead to Philly and Aaron Heilman walking in the winning run in Florida) were games in which they beat themselves more than anything. What a difference it's been from last year and earlier this season; they no longer seem like a team that's ready to roll over and die. And that in itself is some kind of victory.
Tangible actual victories are even better. And what has been so encouraging over the last few months have been the Mets' propensity to bounce back after a difficult loss. They've done so again on this road trip, coming from behind to beat the Phillies and now winning three in a row since Heilman's blunder in Florida, two of which against the probable Wild Card winner Milwaukee Brewers (who, I'm sorry, I'm not altogether convinced by, and I thought the same thing last year when they were the hottest team for two months) in a possible NLDS preview. Monday's game saw them come back from a 2-0 deficit to take in late innings–when did this team learn how to score in the late innings (LOLGagne)? Yesterday they spotted a 5-1 lead to Defiance, OH's Jon Niese, making his major league debut. Niese, at least this night, turned out to be no prizewinner, as he worked in and out of trouble for three innings before being pulled in the fourth with the score 5-4 and runners on base. He'd be charged with all five Brewer runs when Nelson Figueroa gave up a bloop single that could have been worse without Beltran's tremendous throw to cut down JJ Hardy at the plate. The defense was sharp all night; in the eighth, Endy Chavez replaced Nick Evans in left field and promptly threw out Rickie Weeks trying to stretch a single into a double, and David Wright atoned for his miserable hitting by recording the final out in the ninth as Corey Hart hit a hard shot off Joe Smith that proved all for naught with Wright smothering the ball and throwing a beaut to Delgado.
How is it possible that this nausea-inducing (I seriously almost threw up last night when Ayala was facing Weeks) bullpen has thrown thirteen scoreless innings? Were they just waiting for the September call-ups, for fortification, for increased backup? Figueroa is the only call-up whose pitched; otherwise we've seen the normal parade of Smith, Feliciano, Sanchez, the increasingly reliable Stokes, Schoeneweis, and Ayala. There's something to be said for strength in numbers, and thirteen arms is a nice-looking luxury.
Schneider, sometimes I wonder what the hell your value on this team is, but I've decided I love you.
I haven't watched a Mets game in forever. As my three loyal readers may know, I listen to games on the radio because I don't have a television (not for any hippie condescending reason, mind). While I enjoy hearing the game and imagining the players in my mind during every play, it's easy for me to forget how much I love the sport on a visual level: the aesthetics of a double play, the arc of a home run, the velocity of a pitch. Or just the entity/deity we call Daniel Murphy.
Matt Cerrone hosted a viewing party at Butterfield 8 last night, so I went to hang out and view the game with him, Zoe, Coop, and their new colleague Dysktraw, Corey, and a whole host of screaming Mets fans. It not only reminded me of the pleasure of viewing, but the pleasure of viewing with a crowd. I've gone to far less games in person this year as well, so much of my experience has been stewing and pacing alone in my room as Howie Rose and Wayne Hagin call the action. And each scream or exhortation of delight seemed to almost exorcise what had transpired the night previously. Or we were all just drunk, who knows.
It was all about the lefties, but specifically Carlos Delgado. I feel like I've apologized to Delgado enough in the past few months (along with just about every other Met fan), but I'd like to say it again. After his first bomb I turned to Coop and said, "There's no way he isn't coming back next year, right?" And after the game-tying blast in the eighth inning, with two out and none on, I screamed at the television "I'M SORRY!" Beltran would follow with a side-spinning infield hit, and Ryan Church was intentionally walked, bringing up Murphy. I remarked to Matt and Zoe earlier that Murphy's hitless slide coincided with my trip out of town. Obviously, he missed my attention and was just waiting for a big moment to prove his love for me. OBVIOUSLY. So our Murph and Savior smacks a double to plate the go-ahead run, and Brian Schneider bloops one for insurance.
And finally the bullpen held down the fort. Finally it was the Mets coming back with late inning runs. Finally it was the Phillies bullpen that blew a lead. And the Mets are back in first and, oh yeah, they just won the season series against the Phils. Nice way to go into an off-day, I'm sure.
I didn't experience any of last night's apparent demolishing of the Nationals, as I was at my requisite Wednesday night nerd hole of trivia at Pete's Candy Store, which early on was packed to the gills with Wilco fans having drinks before heading over to McCarren Park Pool. All of which made the nerdy trivia regulars all wacky and mad. I suggested we shout, "Hey look it's Jeff Tweedy!" at any schlubby white guy walking down Lorimer Street. Then we pretended like Wilco was going on early. Then we just tried singing Wilco songs, realizing that, um, we couldn't remember any.
Anyway, at a certain point I saw some dude in a Mets hat and said, "Oh I should check the score." Seeing the 8-run third inning, I shouted "It's all cos Daniel Murphy is Jesus!" And a few Mets fans and I in the bar talked for a bit. Only later did I find out that it was true, Daniel Murphy was Jesus last night. Again.
SIGH. There's got to be a Murphy bed pun I can make but I am too hungover right now. I held a boy's hand last night to boot. A+ night all around I suppose.
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Kick-starting the green innovation machine
Reinhilde Veugelers, Philippe Aghion, David Hemous 09 December 2009
Mitigating climate change while maintaining economic growth will require a wide portfolio of technologies. This column says too little has been done to turn on the "green innovation machine". It says governments in developed economies should price carbon, subsidise research, and facilitate technology transfer to developing countries.
The reality of climate change is no longer a contentious issue. The debate concerns the growth consequences of climate-change containment. Economists have not tackled this debate very well, largely disregarding the innovation factor by ignoring the fact that the portfolio of technologies available tomorrow to adapt to and mitigate climate change depends on what is done today.
Technology is the key
Recent economic simulations (e.g. Bosetti et al 2009) suggest that technology will be the key. To keep the costs of mitigation and adaptation manageable while maintaining reasonable economic growth, we need to put into operation a sufficiently wide portfolio of technologies. "Backstop technologies" – those that are zero-emission and not dependent on constrained resources – are particularly important for dealing with the longer-term and worst-case scenarios of climate change. These technologies are not yet available or still far from commercialisation.
Unfortunately, too little has been done so far to turn on the "green innovation machine". In Aghion, Veugelers, and Serre (2009), we take a look at the recent performance of the private green innovation machine. The available empirical evidence is disappointing. Despite a recent spurt, only 2% of total patents applied for worldwide are environment-related (2001-2006). Japan is the clearest positive outlier, holding 35% of all environmental patents; the US accounts for "only" 15%. And when it comes to the diffusion and adoption of green technologies, little is happening. This is particularly (but not exclusively) true in the field of electricity generation and distribution, the business sector accounting for the highest level of CO2 emissions.
New insights for the green policy agenda
The private green innovation machine is not up to the challenge. It needs government intervention to address a combination of environmental and knowledge externalities. Economists have long emphasised the importance of carbon prices as policy instrument to use. Properly factoring in directed technological change, i.e. taking into account that research will be directed to the most profitable projects, delivers new insights for the green policy agenda. Building on an endogenous growth model on innovation and environment developed by Acemoglu, Aghion, Bursztyn, and Hemous (2009), we discuss how government intervention should be designed to effectively turn on the private green innovation machine and, more generally, to fight climate change at the lowest possible cost for growth.
Researchers choosing to direct their innovation activities at improving either clean or dirty technologies will typically target innovation towards the most profitable sector, taking into account the current state of technology in both sectors and government taxes and subsidies. In this directed-innovation perspective, governments need to address not only the standard environmental externality but also imperfections in the research sector, particularly those whereby past advances in old, dirty technologies make future production and innovation in clean sectors relatively less profitable. This introduces a new cost-benefit analysis to policy intervention. The cost of supporting the cleaner technology is slower economic growth while innovation switches from the more technologically advanced dirty sector to the technologically immature clean sector. These costs will be born initially. It will take a certain period before these losses will be recovered through their benefits in the form of higher and cleaner growth, once the clean sector is innovating.
Factoring in directed innovation will change our assessment of
the costs of delaying policy intervention,
the optimal mix of policy instruments required for efficiently fighting climate change, and
the terms of a global policy dialog and coordination between developed and developing countries.
The cost of delaying policy intervention
Factoring in directed technical change reinforces the case for immediate intervention. Delaying intervention not only leads to further deterioration of the environment, it allows dirty innovation to continue to outpace clean innovation, widening the gap between dirty and clean technology. That lengthens the time required for clean technologies to catch up to and replace dirty technologies. As this catching-up period is characterised by slower growth, the costs of delaying intervention, in terms of foregone growth, will be higher.
Calibrations from the Acemoglu, Aghion, Bursztyn and Hemous (2009) model show the cost of delaying intervention, computed as the "lost" consumption in each period expressed as a percentage of the level of consumption which would result from "best-timed" policy intervention, can amount to 6% for a delay of 10 years and a discount rate of 1%.
Instruments for green intervention: Carbon prices and directed research subsidies
The Acemoglu, Aghion, Bursztyn and Hemous (2009) model shows that the optimal policy involves using (i) a carbon price, an input tax (or cap–and-trade policy), on dirty technologies to deal with the environmental externality; and (ii) direct subsidies to clean R&D (or a profit tax on dirty technologies) to deal with the knowledge externality. Relying on the carbon price alone leads to excessive consumption reduction in the short run and would therefore be a more "costly" policy scenario. And because the two-instrument policy reduces the short-run cost in terms of foregone short-run consumption, it reinforces the case for immediate implementation even for values of the discount rate under which standard models would suggest to delay implementation.
Calibrations show that the cost of using only a carbon tax instead of the combination between a carbon tax and a subsidy to clean R&D, can amount to 1.33% for a discount rate of 1%. This cost is again expressed as the percentage of reduced consumption every period from the optimal policy equivalent.
The good news is that government intervention (pricing carbon and subsidising clean technologies) can be reduced over time. Figure 1 shows that (i) subsidies for new clean technologies should be allocated immediately but can be quickly reduced as soon as innovation has taken off for these technologies and (ii) the carbon price can decrease over time. With the emergence of perfectly clean backstop technologies that have zero emissions and with the innovation gap between clean and dirty technologies eliminated and the stock of past emissions diminishing, the environmental externality gradually disappears, thus reducing the need for a carbon price over time. Unfortunately, totally clean technologies will take time to become available, which in turn implies deferring the phasing out of carbon pricing.
Figure 1. Phasing out green intervention
Source: Calibrations from the Acemoglu, Aghion, Bursztyn and Hemous (2009) model.
Results are for a discount rate of 1.5%. Taxes and subsidies are proportional. Scales should be read as follows: for input taxes 0.015 reflects a tax of 1.5% on the price of the dirty input; for subsidies 1.5 reflects a 150% subsidy to profits derived from clean technologies
Developed countries should smooth access to clean technologies for developing countries
At the heart of the current environmental debate in the run up to Copenhagen is the issue of how to organise the international coordination of policy interventions. What if other countries are not intervening to support a switch to clean technologies? Does it still pay to intervene unilaterally? This holds particularly with respect to the developed countries' commitment being made conditional on the engagement of large emerging countries like China, India, and others.
Factoring in a directed technological change brings new light on how should debate and negotiate on the implementation of a global environmental policy. First, the transfer of clean technology from more to less advanced countries deserves consideration. While some emerging economies, like China or Brazil, are part of the global innovation machine, most of the "South" can at best only imitate/adopt green technologies previously invented in the developed countries.
Developed countries directing their own technical change towards clean technologies and then facilitating the diffusion of new clean technologies would go a long way towards overcoming global climate change. In particular, it may not be necessary to tax dirty input production in the "South" in order to avoid a global environmental disaster; unilateral government intervention in developed countries would turn on the green innovation machine there, which would activate the green "imitation" machine in the "South" to adopt cleaner technologies developed elsewhere. The higher the spillovers from the developed green innovation machine to the developing green imitation machine, the more active the green "imitation" machine in the "South". This makes a case for unilateral policy intervention by the developed countries even if the developing countries will not take any actions, greater technology transfer, and improved absorptive capacity in developing economies.
Factoring in trade introduces a more cautious stance on unilateral climate change actions. In a free trade world, having a country or region adopt unilateral environmental policies by taxing its dirty technologies, might create a pollution haven effect in other countries or regions (de Melo, Grether, and Mathys 2009). We should prevent such perverse effects by making clean technologies available and affordable to all countries worldwide. Once clean technologies are made available to all countries at low cost, carbon tariffs (or the threat of them) may come into play to prevent countries from specialising in large-scale production and export of dirty goods, which would defeat the whole purpose of the unilateral environmental policies.
Are governments currently deploying the right policies?
We examine in detail the record of green government policies and conclude that we are still a long way off. Overall, public budgets for climate change R&D are very low, with only a few promising signs coming very recently. These low budgets come on top of the lack of clear long-term consistent price for carbon. Environmental taxes in the EU27 averaged a mere 6.4% of total tax revenues in 2006. In addition, there is high dispersion in the level of carbon taxes across EU countries, thus jeopardising their effectiveness. At EU level, the first phases of the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme have established a carbon market, but the carbon price is low and volatile. The carbon price, as measured on the ECX EUA Futures Contracts, reached their highest level of €32.90 in April 2006 but were only €8.20 in February 2009.
Figure 2. The EU price of carbon
Source: ECX Historical Contracts Data (Daily Futures, Futures & Options)
Long-term consistency is particularly important for the carbon price to serve as an incentive for green innovations. The US and other major emitting countries are even further away than the EU from establishing an innovation-inducing carbon price. And the limited evidence available suggests that insufficient action is being taken with regard to technology transfer to developing countries. Although the Clean Development Mechanism framework was designed to trigger technology transfer, only a limited number of these projects in fact involve technology transfer.
Although past evidence on green private R&D and innovations showed low activities and not much dynamics, there seems to be a momentum being created more recently, most clearly observed in the market for clean-tech venture capital. Deloitte's 2009 survey on Global Trends in Venture Capital reports that, despite the crisis, 63% of surveyed venture capitalists anticipate an increase in their investment in clean-tech, the highest percentage among all sectors considered. But as this optimism of venture capitalists seems to be based on anticipated government support for clean-tech, are we merely looking at a bubble that will collapse when governments do not get their green policies right?
Acemoglu, D., P. Aghion, L. Bursztyn, and D. Hemous (2009), "The environment and directed technological change," NBER Working Paper 15451.
Aghion, P., D. Hemous and R. Veugelers (2009), "No green growth without Innovation", Bruegel Policy Brief, 2009/07, Bruegel Brussels.
Aghion, P., R. Veugelers and C. Serre (2009), "Cold Start for the Green Innovation Machine", Bruegel Policy Contribution, 2009/12, Bruegel, Brussels.
Bosetti, V., Carraro, C. Duval, R. Sgobbi, A. and M. Tavoni (2009), "The Role of R&D and Technology Diffusion in Climate Change mitigation: new perspectives using the WITCH model", OECD, Economics Department Working Paper 664.
De Melo, J., J-M. Grether, and N. Mathys (2009), "Trade, pollution, and the environment: New international evidence", VoxEU.org, 28 November.
Deloitte (2009), "Global Trends in Venture Capital 2009 Global Report".
Helm, D. and C. Hepburn (2009), The economics and politics of climate change, Oxford University Press.
Topics: Environment
Tags: climate change, innovation, Copenhagen
Reinhilde Veugelers
Professor of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the KULeuven and CEPR Research Fellow
Philippe Aghion
Professor, College de France and London School of Economics; CEPR Research Fellow
David Hemous
Assistant Professor of Economics, INSEAD


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"It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part." - Federalist Paper No. 51
"The Liar's Ball" by Vicky Ward
One-paragraph review: A surprisingly entertaining book about the "life" of the General Motors Building, a large office tower just off Central Park in New York City. The building has a complex history of ownership, including periods in the hands of real-estate cowboys and promoters like Donald Trump. The book takes its title from the name of an annual event celebrating the real-estate titans of New York City, and a reading of the book offers a very good idea why the name is so appropriate.
Verdict: You won't emerge with a better opinion of high-flying real-estate developers, but it's a great look into their world.