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Vancouver appears poised to reverse duplex decision, despite housing crisis
A map from the City of Vancouver shows colour-coded areas where duplexes are allowed under the new zoning. Duplexes will only be restricted in the two red areas.
It appears a city council motion to stop allowing duplexes in a huge swath of Vancouver is on the way to passing, even as the city battles an ongoing housing crisis.
Between the five votes of the Non-Partisan Association, including the mover of the motion, Colleen Hardwick, and Green party leader Adriane Carr, the motion appears to have the votes to overcome opposition from the city's independent mayor.
Hardwick bristled at suggestions that the motion, which would undo a change by the previous council on the eve of the Vancouver election, would limit housing options for Vancouverites.
"I'm not putting forward any kind of motion against duplexes," Hardwick told reporters outside the inaugural city council meeting on Tuesday. "I myself live in a duplex. That's not the point. The point is we have a clean slate now and an opportunity to revisit the way we're planning for our city based on the actual needs of the community."
Vancouver's mayor, Kennedy Stewart, had said during the campaign that he supported allowing duplexes in what had previously been single-family homes.
"We'll see where we get to tomorrow," Stewart told reporters. "I was disappointed there wasn't more consultation, but I did say I would support what the previous council passed. We are in a housing crisis here."
Vancouver City Council under Gregor Robertson legalized duplexes in some 99 per cent of previously single-family zones in September – a sweeping change to some 67,000 properties. At the time he said the idea was to include homes in the "missing middle" and allow citizens more options between condos and expensive single family homes, which in Vancouver are often more than $2 million.
The motion was to be debated on the same day the B.C. government put almost half a billion dollars to create 4900 subsidized homes across the province, with some 1,100 homes in Vancouver, which got some $110 million in investment.
It doesn't make sense for Vancouver to limit housing options and preserve legal restrictions that prevent density, said UBC housing economist Tom Davidoff, especially as Vancouver grows.
"One owner for a 3,000 square foot lot is not going to cut it as Vancouver moves forward," Davidoff said. "To go backwards is a bit of a headscratcher."
Adriane Carr of the Green Party told CTV News that she was voting for the motion because she wants there to be a city-wide plan, which could result in more density even without the duplexes.
"The motion is not about saying no to duplexes. The motion is about saying no to a process, which was a very last-minute addition into a plan without any due public consultation," she said.
There hasn't exactly been a stampede of people building duplexes since they were allowed. City staff told CTV News there have been only three applications.
The motion was slated for discussion at Tuesday's council meeting, but will be delayed until Wednesday. If it passes the change will go to public hearing.
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Michel II Le Bouteux (né avant 1623 et mort entre 1696 et 1716) est un jardinier français, fleuriste ordinaire du roi Louis XIV.

Biographie
Fils de Michel Le Bouteux (~1600 - ~1650), jardinier du duc de Vendôme et issu d'une lignée de jardiniers parisiens, il travaille particulièrement au Grand Trianon, chargé des fleurs et des orangeries. Il y développe surtout la culture en pot des fleurs, afin de faciliter leur changement à vue. D'après Le Nôtre, près de deux millions de pots sont utilisés. Il réussit également à y cultiver les orangers en pleine terre, un exploit pour l'époque. Pour les énormes frais nécessaires, il reçoit dix-huit mille livres de gages par an.

En 1692, il succède aux nièces de Le Nôtre aux Tuileries (toujours chargé des orangeries). Il est également jardinier au château de Maintenon et au château de Fontainebleau.

Il épouse en 1647 une petite-nièce de Le Nôtre et est le père de Michel III Le Bouteux (~1648 - ~1694), qui deviendra contrôleur général des bâtiments du roi

Sources

 Dominique Garrigues, Jardins et jardiniers de Versailles au Grand Siècle, Époques, ,  (Voir sur Google Books), p. 140 et suivantes

Horticulteur français
Le Bouteux
Date de naissance incertaine (XVIIe siècle)
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Patriots throw fewest passes in an NFL game since 1974
By JOSH DUBOW - AP Pro Football Writer
New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones, left, hands off to cornerback J.C. Jackson during the first half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, N.Y., Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones (10) and David Andrews (60) walk off the field after getting a win over the Buffalo Bills in an NFL football game in Orchard Park, N.Y., Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex )
The Arizona Cardinals celebrates around defensive end Zach Allen after Allen's pass of Chicago Bears quarterback Andy Dalton during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, in Chicago. The Cardinals won 33-22. (AP Photo/David Banks)
Mac Jones and the New England Patriots played a style of game more reminiscent of a triple-option service academy than the modern NFL.
Jones threw just three passes on a windy Monday night in Buffalo for the fewest pass attempts in an NFL game in nearly a half-century as the Patriots beat the Bills 14-10.
The Patriots relied on the ground game as 40 mph wind gusts forcing the emphasis to be placed on running the ball, with 46 runs compared with just the three passes. The last time a team threw that little in a game came Sept. 29, 1974, on another windy day in Buffalo.
Joe Ferguson threw only two passes — both incomplete — that day for the Bills in a 16-12 victory over the New York Jets. O.J. Simpson ran the ball 31 times for 117 yards and Joe Namath went 2 for 18 with three interceptions for the Jets.
There was only one other game in the last 70 years when a team threw three or fewer passes, with Kansas City having three in a 24-10 win over the Oakland Raiders in 1968.
This was the eighth time in the Super Bowl era that a team threw five or fewer passes in a game, according to Sportradar, with those teams going 7-0-1. The last team to do it was also the Patriots, in the infamous 3-0 Snowplow Game win over Miami in 1982.
TOP OF THE MOUNTAN
If the season ended now, the top seeds for the playoffs would be Arizona (10-2) in the NFC and New England (9-4) in the AFC.
Both the Cardinals and Patriots missed the playoffs last season, with Arizona finishing 8-8 and New England at 7-9. The last time both top seeds were coming off non-playoff seasons was in 1992, when San Francisco (14-2) took the spot in the NFC and Pittsburgh (11-5) in the AFC.
Neither the 49ers nor Steelers made the Super Bowl that season, with San Francisco losing to Dallas in the NFC title game and Pittsburgh to Buffalo in the divisional round.
The Cardinals have gotten into this position by being the NFL's best road team.
Arizona's 33-22 win at Chicago last week improved the Cardinals to 7-0 on the road, with all the victories coming by at least 10 points. The last team to win its first seven road games by double digits was the 1968 Cowboys, who went 7-0 on the road that season. The road success ended in the playoffs when Dallas lost its first game 31-20 at Cleveland when the sites were predetermined by division.
The only other team to win seven straight road games by double digits in the same season was the 1984 Super Bowl champion 49ers, who went undefeated on the road but won the opener at Detroit by just three points.
TURNAROUND TEAM
The Miami Dolphins have been on a quite a roller coaster this season.
After winning the season opener at New England, the Dolphins lost their next seven games. Since then, Miami is 5-0 to become the third team in NFL history to have a five-game winning streak and seven-game losing streak in the same season, according to Sportradar.
The others are the 2017 49ers, who lost their first nine games and won their final five, and the 1994 Giants, who started 3-0, lost seven straight and then won six in a row.
With a win next week against the Jets following a bye, the Dolphins will join the 1974 Jets as the only teams to go from 1-7 to 7-7 in a season.
TOM TERRIFIC
Tom Brady is doing things at age 44 that he has never done before.
Brady had his sixth game this season with at least four TD passes, surpassing the five he had in 2007 for the most in a season in his career.
This is the sixth time in NFL history a QB has thrown for at least four TD passes six times in a season, with the other five all winning the MVP: Aaron Rodgers (seven in 2020), Patrick Mahomes (seven in 2018), Peyton Manning (nine in 2013), Manning (six in 2004) and Dan Marino (six in 1984).
Two of Brady's TDs last week went to Rob Gronkowski, giving the pair 90 in the regular season in their careers. That surpassed Philip Rivers and Antonio Gates (89 TDs) for second-most in NFL history. Only Manning and Marvin Harrison (112) have more.
TOUCHDOWN TAYLOR
Indianapolis' Jonathan Taylor scored on a TD run for the 10th straight game last week against Houston.
Taylor is the fifth player ever to run for a TD in 10 straight games in the season and the first to do it since LaDainian Tomlinson did it in 12 straight games in 2004. The others are Priest Holmes (11 games in 2002), Emmitt Smith (11 in 1995) and John Riggins (12 in 1983).
https://www.wnewsj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2021/12/web1_127757324-5974cf23f58e472ba2a9786b364d5d36.jpgNew England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones, left, hands off to cornerback J.C. Jackson during the first half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, N.Y., Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
https://www.wnewsj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2021/12/web1_127757324-cc8f0304abcf415fb279a8ab9dfa0bc3.jpgNew England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones (10) and David Andrews (60) walk off the field after getting a win over the Buffalo Bills in an NFL football game in Orchard Park, N.Y., Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex )
The Arizona Cardinals celebrates around defensive end Zach Allen after Allen's pass of Chicago Bears quarterback Andy Dalton during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, in Chicago. The Cardinals won 33-22. (AP Photo/David Banks)
https://www.wnewsj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2021/12/web1_127757324-e80081c0829c46e1ac67cdb228410dc0.jpgThe Arizona Cardinals celebrates around defensive end Zach Allen after Allen's pass of Chicago Bears quarterback Andy Dalton during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, in Chicago. The Cardinals won 33-22. (AP Photo/David Banks)
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AP Pro Football Writer
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Preamble: This policy was created in 2011 to comply with the Jeanne Clery Act which requires the university to disclose the policy on reporting a missing student, how students can designate an emergency contact person and how the emergency contact information will be used.
A-1: Missing Student: a student residing in on-campus university housing who is reported missing for 24 hours.
B-1. Any member of the University community who has reason to believe that a student who resides in on-campus University housing is missing should notify Campus Security at their 24/7 number at (208) 874-7550.
B-2. Any campus security authority "CSA" who receives a report that a student who resides in on-campus University housing is missing should immediately notify Campus Security by calling (208) 874-7550.
B-3. In addition to registering a general emergency contact, each student residing in on-campus University housing has the option to register a confidential emergency contact person to be notified in the event that the student is determined to be missing for 24 hours. Students wishing to register a confidential emergency contact may do so on VandalWeb.
B-4. If a student has identified a confidential emergency contact person, the University will notify that individual no later than 24 hours after the student is determined to be a Missing Student.
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Diplomat: Iran-Russia Ties Made Stronger Due to Regional Necessities
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanayee said that Tehran-Moscow ties became stronger and bilateral relations increased after the two countries saw common interests in regional and international developments.
Sanayee described the development of Iran-Russia political and security relations after signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as unparalleled, adding that the bilateral ties have yet to use all the potentials to further develop.
He made the remarks in a panel at the Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS) in Tehran.
At the panel, Sanayee first addressed the latest status of relations between Iran and Russia in political, economic and cultural fields, saying relations between the two countries have undergone a major transformation as a result of the growth of mutual needs and regional conditions.
According to Sanayee, since the signing of the 2015 nuclear deal also known as the JCPOA, economic relations between Iran and Russia have multiplied, but the developing relations have yet to reach the desired levels using potentials.
The Iranian diplomat also hailed Iran's cultural activities in Russia. Meanwhile, he described the development of Iran-Russia political, security relations as unparalleled.
The two countries' common approaches and perspectives towards global trends and shared regional interests, specially in relation to the Middle East developments, were the most important force behind the development of political relations between the two countries, according to the Iranian ambassador.
In a related front, earlier on January 16, Iran's Ambassador to Moscow Mehdi Sanayee and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin discussed enhancement of cooperation in the Caucasus region, reiterating that the two countries will further develop their bilateral relations and cooperation in the Caucasus region where the two sides have shared interests and see grounds for mutual cooperation.
During the meeting, both sides voiced hope that level of bilateral relations would be further increased in the said areas.
Russia's ties with Central Asian and Caucasus states and prospects of bilateral relations in various fields were among the other topics discussed during the meeting.
Iran and Russia have established strong relations on areas of security, counter-terrorism, and defense in the past couple of years.
In a related front on December 24, a delegation of the Russian defense ministry led by General Osipov arrived in Iran to take part in a second session of the Russian-Iranian working group for the implementation of a mutual agreement on military cooperation.
The agreement was signed in January 2015. It was inked by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and his then Iranian counterpart General Hossein Dehqan.
The Russian minister said back then that the agreement had laid "the theoretical groundwork for military cooperation".
In relevant remarks on December 25, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri underlined the need for Tehran and Moscow to further increase their military cooperation, adding that both countries were determined to confront existing threats.
"Success of the two countries' Armed Forces in the process of confronting terrorism in Syria and the failure of Takfiri terrorists and their supporters in the region indicates Iran and Russia's will and capacities to confront the existing threats," General Baqeri said in a meeting with General Osipov in Tehran.
"The geopolitical and geostrategic capacities of Iran and Russia necessitate the two countries' Armed Forces to devise and develop fields of cooperation through a long-term view, and manage and plan for them within the framework of the agreements made by the joint military commission," he added.
During the meeting, General Osipov referred to the age-old relations between Iran and Russia, and stressed the abundant areas and capacities existing for mutual cooperation.
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LIVERPOOL boss Brendan Rodgers believes being named PFA player of the year would complete Luis Suarez's journey on the road to redemption.
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Having already served an eight-match suspension for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra, the Uruguayan was desperate to leave Anfield last summer.
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SAS Sells two slots at LHR
Re: SAS Sells of two slots at LHR
slinky09 wrote:
TFFIP wrote:
I know slots at LHR are expensive and hard to come by and I wonder why British Airways has added so many
holiday destinations to their LHR plan rather than those destinations being served by LGW and use the
LHR ones for things that will generate more money than Kalamta and places like that? (Info I get from the
air crew so sometimes it's gossip but mostly what one hears pans out on way or another)
A lot of those routes are weekly or so - planned to use planes and slots at weekends when the need for multiple daily frequencies to some European cities is less than during working days. Smart move by BA when it sometimes otherwise rests the planes and slots.
When IAG bought BD from the Lufthansa Group, a large number of LHR slots came with the airline, along with an almost entirely shorthaul fleet of planes (just two widebodies, which soon left). There weren't any LGW slots in the deal, because BD didn't fly there. So BA was handed a batch of short-haul-optimised slots, and a batch of short haul planes to work them. If there were more profitable short haul destinations than Kalamata that the LHR slots could be used for, you'd expect that they'd be flying there, though they probably already are. Over time, BA has managed to juggle the slots around with its existing slot portfolio and create slot pairs usable for long haul, and have grown the long haul fleet to take advantage of this. But this is a slow process, increasing the fleet by dozens of long haul planes a year is beyond IAG's resources.
Suggesting transferring routes to LGW is all very well, but LGW is also slot controlled and slots are traded between airlines, they just don't fetch as much money as at LHR.
The Greek destinations are very useful to British Airways' holiday division, and independent package tour operators also block book seats. There's a surprising amount of transfer traffic too, when I've travelled on some of these flights there have usually been people who have come off overnight transatlantics.
jumbojet
11725Flyer wrote:
jumbojet wrote:
Block wrote:
What about JetBlue they want to enter the London Market and this will reserve their place
Surely you must be kidding. No way they could even afford that, way out of their league. .
Not really. They were willing to shell out a huge amount of money on VX, so perhaps this is is just a recalculation to move forward east, not west. We'll see.
Again, shelling out a huge amount of money for an airline is one thing, but for one slot at LHR is an entirely different animal. Unless B6 has plans on buying a single A380, I just cant see this going to B6. I mean, fares are ridiculously low as they are to LHR from east coast points. A single daily A321 for that kind of money, cant see it happening.
Blueballs
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Are you serious?? US Carriers are awash in cash. If anyone can afford it right now it's a US carrier.
But not for JetBlue flying one narrow body a day into LHR. That kind of cash for so little capacity is senseless. AA and a 77W makes more sense. Won't be B6
Your hatred of JetBlue won't stop them from growing or going east. Delta isn't all you make it out to be. Get over yourself, JetBlue has a lot of money and a real itch to go transatlantic
airbazar
Maybe so but they have to start somewhere. They're not going to start with multiple daily flights, that's for sure. There are airlines at LHR operating a single narrow body per day, and even some that don't even operate daily. There are also lots of airlines operating one less than daily widebody. Just pointing out that B6 operating a single daily narrowbody at first, would not be unusual.
fastmover
You really don't know what you are talking about do you?
Jetblue has some of the best margins out there. They have been paying cash for airplanes and paying down large chunks of debt. I get that you don't like them but they are doing well on the financial side.
cledaybuck
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Trump might use US government money to buy slots on behalf of US airlines.
This is not going to happen.
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see, how much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
aviationaware
Of course. I smell Russian salad dressing.
TheLion wrote:
Mods please could you amend the title - "of" is the wrong word.
Thanks for this, is now fixed
Thank you for fixing it
Blueballs wrote:
I do not remotely see how any supposedly JetBlue hatred should be under discussion here. Why didn't you bother replying to the argument in hand . . . ?
I think he makes a perfectly valid point: How is one going to recoup such heavy investment with so little capacity (assuming the capacity deployed would be the rumoured A321LR)? One would expect that the revenue capacity of at minimum a medium widebody (such as A333 or B777) would be required to share the investment cost over a large number of (premium) seats. Which no matter how efficient, any A321LR version will not be able to offer.
ANFSCD: How about EK throwing another A380 into LHR . . . ?
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As a Brit and also a huge fan of JetBlue I can see them eventually operating to Europe and the United Kingdom in particular but I can assure they will never be flying to the likes of LHR its definitely out of their league regardless of their margins, money in the bank or large profits, you obviously don't know much about Heathrow Airport or the transatlantic market.
If and when JetBlue do announce transatlantic flying the London airport of choice will more than likely be LGW or STN but I would hedge my bets on Stansted considering their will be no competition and slots will be A LOT easier to come across especially as LGW slots will be near on impossible by then.
All this fanciful talk about JetBlue at LHR is ridiculous regardless of what's been said by the management or any others, most airlines executives use LHR as a benchmark for London but that's from major legacy carriers not the likes of a low cost carrier such as JetBlue. The legacy carriers such as AA, BA, DL, US will soon retaliate and game lost for JetBlue after spending absolutely millions on LHR slots before they've even made a profit out of them, it could seriously affect the finances of the airline, a HUGE risk indeed and one the airline would never indulge in especially when their are other alternative London airports, as in LGW or STN.
For their first foray into transatlantic routes and London in particular LHR just doesn't make sense for loads of reasons some of which other members have picked up on.
I see It's only your second post and your calling someone a 'JetBlue hater', you have to be more mature and grown up to accept other people's opinions!
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Cunard wrote:
I've read these threads for years and contribute to the better forums. Jumbojet hates on JetBlue any time their name pops up. He is a troll and I'll call him out anytime I feel like it. Thanks for your mature opinion champ
nadavatar64
I was thinking it would be UA to buy those slots, They could really use some more EWR/ORD/LAX-LHR frequencies or opening DEN-LHR.
Quite. There were unused LHR slots available from the slot coordinator late in the day on Saturday and early in the day on Sunday, all free of any charge. Further BA had LHR based short-haul aircraft sitting on the ground doing nothing at these very times as short-haul business traffic is then almost non-existent.
A couple of years back, apparently in an effort to improve aircraft utilisation BA started to use the parked aircraft in unused weekend slots to operate charter flights out of LHR to Winter Ski and Summer Beach destinations.
This appeared to be successful because more recently they have reduced the number of charter flights using the same slots so they can operate scheduled flights to the same or similar destinations. It seems to me that they have surrendered the bulk of the holiday market to the likes of FR and U2 but are skimming the cream on the top of that market for themselves by operating a limited number of flights to a large number of destinations from LHR. So they may have established a small but possibly high return niche operation for themselves.
As BA do not have a long-haul fleet of aircraft that are briefly under utilised, substituting long-haul for these new short haul rotations does not appear to me to be an option. Indeed even if they did have such aircraft where could they fly them to recognising that the LHR slots used are primarily late Saturday and early Sunday? Other than DME and TLV I can think of none.
Nothing is "out of Jetblue's league." US carriers aren't broke like Euro carriers. After year over year of billions in profits 75m is a pittance for them. "second tier" airlines like Allegiant could pay cash for an A380 tomorrow and fly it anywhere in the world.
London is overpriced and overhyped, but it's far from "out of your league" for a major US carrier.
Re: SAS Sells two slots at LHR
Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:21 am
Slots at LHR sold by SAS probably are not the early morning highly desired type wanted by Asian and North American airlines. They probably are late morning to early evening times so they are desirable by a Middle East airline.
skipness1E wrote:
London City is incredibly hard to make money out of unless you are BA. Lufthansa has tried almost every German market at eon point or another and all were dropped, even MUC, leaving only LCY-FRA. Even BA CityFlyer dropped ARN and CPH from LCY after SAS left.
No doubt that LCY has its challenges but it's worth pointing out that even from LHR, LH only flies to FRA and MUC.
That looks to be the case. SAS doesn't currently have any early arrivals into LHR, unless those slots are leased to someone else. SK's first LHR arrival is at 8:50AM.
London is overpriced and overhyped, but it's far from 'out of your league' for a major US airline[/quote]
I wasn't suggesting London was 'out of your league' for a major US airline I was saying that London Heathrow Airport was out of league for JetBlue and it is absolutely and I'm being realistic, it doesn't mean that I personally don't want to see JetBlue at LHR but it will never happen. To make a viable operation at LHR work JetBlue would have to spend a substantial amount of money and we're talking absolute millions of dollars here to acummilate enough slots to go up against the likes of AA, BA, DL, VS, UA who between them operate multiple flights a day using mostly wide bodies to numerous cities throughout the USA, they won't sit back and allow the likes of JetBlue to succeed on their lucrative transatlantic business from LHR.
Look at how BA are trying to combat Norwegian at LGW by opening up FLL and OAK!
By the time that JetBlue do finally announce flights to the UK LHR will be totally full and any early morning to mid morning slots will be totally gone to those established carriers wanting to expand not allowing the likes of JetBlue to get their hands on them.
if JetBlue flew from LGW the likes of BA and Norwegian will give them a beating that's for sure, considering that they fly with wide bodies how could a A321LR compete in that market.
It doesn't matter how cash rich JetBlue are but buying unessecary slots at LHR for ridiculous amounts of money with no guaranteed return on those assets up against competition from other well established airlines it could severely affect the airline in a big way financially and would not be worth the risk when there are other alternative London airports better suited to the airline, as in LGW and STN.
The only real airport of choice for JetBlue if and when they do start operating from London would be London Stansted Airport, it has the capacity to accommodate JetBlue who would have no competition on any transatlantic routes, it would be able to have the appropriate slots, it has a large modern terminal, it's Ryanair's largest base with a possibility of a link up for connections, JetBlue would never be able to see those benefits at LHR and it would take the airline a decade or so to reap the rewards from any expensive LHR slots.
JetBlue and London Heathrow Airport, NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.
JetBlue and London, YES IT WILL HAPPEN, eventually but just not from London Heathrow Airport.
jfidler
I used to fly SK CPH-LHR on a regular basis a a few years ago, and they used a MD-80/MD-90 for the route. It was a bit out of place to see such a small plane at LHR among all the widebodies. More than once, we pulled up to the jetbridge but had to deplane by stairs, because the jetbridge couldn't go low enough to connect to the plane!
So no surprise they sold it -- it sounds like they'll just reduce frequencies but upgauge the equipment.
SAS used the 'origional' Terminal 2 along with most of the European flag carriers but switched their LHR operations to Terminal 3 in the mid 1990s, Terminal 3 then being the intercontinental terminal was used by the majority of long haul airlines so that's why you were amongst wide bodies, untill SAS got their dedicated stands at Terminal 3 it was quite common practice to disembark by stairs.
SAS have been using the brand new purpose built Terminal 2 at LHR for the last three years still amongst wide bodies though as its a Star Alliance terminal.
VolvoBus
Interestingly,an article in yesterday's Daily Telegraph indicated that there are about 30 airlines waiting for slots. Most may well be existing operators, but some may be new.
That's a very eloquent way of saying, LHR is way out of JetBlue's league. I was never one for long, well thought out explanations like this, I just sort of get to the heart of the matter. I agree totally that B6 into and out just about any other London airport other than LHR is a very good possibility with a real good chance of success.
VSMUT
AirPacific747 wrote:
Apparently they want to operate larger aircraft into LHR to compensate, based on an article I read this morning
What, they don't want to fly CRJ-900s to LHR any more?
AirPacific747
VSMUT wrote:
I would imagine they mean inserting an A330 every now and then? Or dedicating the A321 to the LHR route?
I would think just upgrading to A320, A321 or 738 would be suffice, considering that over the past few years they would operate aircraft as small as the CRJ, 737-600 and 717 on that route.
Okay I thought you meant it as a joke.. didn't realize they would send a CRJ to LHR.. doesn't sound very profitable to me!
Truth be told, I don't know if they still do it, but a friend of mine who flew the CRJ with them certainly had a lot of flights to LHR with it about two years ago. It wasn't even flights in the middle of the day, it was right in the morning rush-hour.
Its foolish for JetBlue to spend 75 million for two slots at LHR especially being that it seems the times are very unfavorable. Just think what JetBlue could do with that kind of money with other London area airports. They could essentially get out of the gate with a big bang.
vfw614
readytotaxi wrote:
Question, does LGW operate a "use it or loose it" policy?
That's not for the airport to decide. The rules on grandfathering of slots are part of the Council Regulation (EEC) No 95/93 of 18 January 1993 on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports.
Abeam79
London is overpriced and overhyped, but it's far from 'out of your league' for a major US airline
[/quote]I wasn't suggesting London was 'out of your league' for a major US airline I was saying that London Heathrow Airport was out of league for JetBlue and it is absolutely and I'm being realistic, it doesn't mean that I personally don't want to see JetBlue at LHR but it will never happen. To make a viable operation at LHR work JetBlue would have to spend a substantial amount of money and we're talking absolute millions of dollars here to acummilate enough slots to go up against the likes of AA, BA, DL, VS, UA who between them operate multiple flights a day using mostly wide bodies to numerous cities throughout the USA, they won't sit back and allow the likes of JetBlue to succeed on their lucrative transatlantic business from LHR.
JetBlue and London, YES IT WILL HAPPEN, eventually but just not from London Heathrow Airport.[/quote]
Who ever said, and why you so sure that transatlantic with jetblue will be with A321's only?
Have you done the research before blasting empty drivel!
http://travelupdate.boardingarea.com/je ... airplanes/
https://skift.com/2016/09/19/jetblue-th ... r-flights/
I bet it will be widebodies to major markets to Europe i.e. London/Paris/Amsterdam/Rome etc and A321LR to smaller markets from the northeast, i.e. BDL/pit-SNN/Lgw. And deeper to carribean/South America from Florida, etc.
As far as Norwegian giving jetblue "a beating", yes there will be a so called '"beating" but I doubt it will on the end of jetblue. Jetblue has double the size of all of Norwegians fleet, mostly owned aircraft, robust strong North American/carribean/upper s. America network, much stronger cash flow and awash in liquidity compared to Norwegians balance sheet which is its fleet is virtually all leveraged. I think Norwegian will be the one taking quite a shalacking when jetblue gets wide bodies. Jetblue has a extremely competeant and astute management, and robin hayes has brought in a slew of his ilk from his days at British airways so they are well experienced on how to operate long haul oceanic. That's what he and his team have cut their teeth on at BA. They are more gearing up for a competition with the big guys over Norwegian or wow air. No one thought they would be able to take on the big US 3 with a premium cabin on trans con, now the US 3 are all scrambling to catch up with the lie flat product across the US to try to compete with jetblue, except for as/vx which basically doesn't even want to try to jump in that knowing how well jetblue has made quite the product to contend with.
Jetblue has one thing in it's history that's always stayed the same, they succeeded in every way where everyone else said it wouldn't. Don't fool yourself, they will shake up transatlantic. They always expand their beloved customer base everywhere they expand, even Europeans who know the brand from transfer flights via codeshare.
I am a big fan of JetBlue having flown them myself on numerous occasions and think they are a great airline but I will stick with my origional statement without going into the subject any further.
I am sure that JetBlue will do very well on transatlantics I'm not doubting that but what all I am pointing out is reality and your enthusiasm is getting the better of you.
JetBlue eventually flies transatlantic to London YES
JetBlue will fly to London Heathrow Absolutely NO
Jetblue if and when they fly to London be it LGW or STN a Definite YES.
We're have this conversation in a couple of years time and I will be proven RIGHT.
You obviously have no idea of how the London airport system works especially concerning London Heathrow.
VolvoBus wrote:
That quote of 30 airlines waiting to serve LHR has been doing the rounds for nearly six years now, it was initially put out by HAL Heathrow Airport limited to reinforce their plans for runway 3 so is old news and not really substantiated.
A few airlines have started flying from LHR since that initial statement was made, slots obtained by defunct airlines, expensive buyouts of slots, leased slots, transfer of slots, etc.
They include the following 10 airlines.
Aeromexico, Avianca, China Eastern, China Southern, Flybe, Garuda Indonesia*, Philippine Airlines, Oman Air*, Vietnam Airlines*, Vueling.
* denotes origionally flying from LGW transferring to LHR.
To much capacity in the international markets could definitely hold off any growth JetBlue had in mind, especially if it includes the purchases of expensive widebody planes.
Morgan Stanley downgrades airline stocks because too much added capacity will hurt profitability
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/22/morgan-s ... acity.html
Does anyone know who purchased the SAS slots ?
B757capt
This thread is horrible. Lots of shots at DL and B6, who purchased the slots???
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All this fanciful talk about JetBlue at LHR is ridiculous regardless of what's been said by the management or any others, most airlines executives use LHR as a benchmark for London but that's from major legacy carriers not the likes of a low cost carrier such as JetBlue.
What are you? 12? I don't think you're very familiar with B6 or the U.S. market. Heck I'm starting to doubt that you're even familiar with the UK market. JetBlue is no more low cost than the likes of Emirates, Aer Lingus, TAP, Turkish, Icelandair, Eurowings, Vueling, and others, all of which operate at LHR. B6 has its main hubs at JFK and BOS, neither are secondary airport, cheap to operate from, or lack competition.
airbazar wrote:
You are obviously not wrong in your assessment. That being said, JetBlue has yet to clarify its transatlantic strategy. The strategy will determine the airport(s) to which it will fly. If the goal is to partner with a European airline for onward connections within Europe, the location of the partner's base will dictate to which airport it will fly, whether it is a full service European carrier at LHR or a discount carrier at LGW/STN. If on the other hand, the strategy is to rely on US based connecting traffic to O&D specific ports in Europe, then it opens up other options. We could potentially even dream of a C-Series order (which is already being rumoured simply to cover NA routes) to serve LCY from JFK/BOS. The C-Series provides a lower seat alternatives to A321 to JetBlue to launch transatlantic routes if it wished to be more conservative.
So back to the main topic. I doubt JetBlue is ready to buy LHR slots given its transatlantic strategy is pretty much still at the drawing board. Yes they have the money and firepower to do so. but it makes little sense at this stage especially given the slots are not ideal for transatlantic flying. they buyer is most likely middle eastern given the slots or a major transatlantic airline with multiple flights per day looking at hourly flights rather than once a day flights.
What if JetBlue were to choose Luton. Would they have trouble in getting slots, and there is no competition in flying to the USA
toobz
Someone said it best earlier..this is an awful thread. What does B6 have to do with these slots? What aircraft would they use? Why are we even talking about B6?? That's a separate topic. I could see DL behind this. It seems they have been very eager lately to add LHR service. But it really could be just about any airline. The times I saw would be perfect for a US airline. I guess we will have to wait and see
Late Morning and early afternoon slots work for a US west coast flight very well.
commavia
In its first quarter earnings release this morning, AA confirmed that it "entered into an arrangement with Scandinavian Airlines to obtain two slot pairs at London's Heathrow Airport, strengthening American's presence at a key international gateway for American and joint business partner British Airways." AA President Robert Isom was quoted as stating that AA "moved quickly on the opportunity to add two new slot pairs at Heathrow, which we will use to improve service to and from one of the world's most important business markets."
commavia wrote:
I'm surprised this is allowed. What was the point of making BA/AA divest slots to get their ATI/JV if they can just acquire more?
codc10
cledaybuck wrote:
Other companies have access to the slots once they hit the open market. AA either outbid others for them or pulled the trigger sooner.
sagechan
Thanks commavia. Wonder if AA will announce where the slots will be deployed on the earnings call. Honestly they seem to have good coverage from all applicable Hubs except PHX which is served adequately via BA. I could see them possibly running a second daily from there, but would be interesting if they added a couple non-Hubs
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sagechan wrote:
I think it'll be PHX (since it's the last hub with no AA metal service, and the market could handle double daily with connects on both ends) and maybe an extra from CLT. CLT is the only major AA hub without BA and the two daily flights are almost always full.
What was the point of making BA/AA divest slots to get their ATI/JV if they can just acquire more?
The divested slots had to be used to fly between LHR and stipulated US gateways. So the purpose was to provide competition on specified routes where AA/BA had high frequencies and a large market share. And note here that the price of the surrendered slots was not $75 million a pair but nothing. it was never intended to create a restrictive market but solely to increase competition.
If today BA or, as in this case, AA wish to invest large sums of money to buy slots to operate from LHR to existing or new US gateway cities they, like all other airlines, are perfectly within their rights. To not allow this would restrict competition, not increase it. At the same time others, DL UA and VS included, are also perfectly entitled to compete in the market for prime time LHR slots. Indeed the Slot-trade web site run by Airport Coordination Ltd provides a resource to encourage such competition.
Any other arrangement would be a restrictive practice. It would be a return to restrictive regulation. I cannot see any airline not walking away from a deal with the authorities if it included possible future restrictions on their operations by such heavy handed regulation. Here remember that AA/BA were granted IMMUNITY if they transferred the stipulated slots and that they had walked away from their earlier attempts in both 1996 and then 2001 to seek immunity because of the number of slots the authorities required that they surrender. What later changed the ball game was the immunity granted to others (AF/AZ//DL/KL and AC/LH/SKUA) with whom AA and BA were in competition.
Note here that when SK decided to sell this slot pair they were in partnership with AF, DL (and hence VS), KL, LH and SN amongst others. It seems unlikely that they sold the slots to competitor AA in secrecy from their partners like of DL, LH and VS.
jbs2886
vv701 wrote:
I see your point, but the counterargument is that by allowing AA/BA to add to their slot portfolio increases the dominance of AA/BA to the competitive detriment of LHR. For example, the US often prohibits dominant carriers from increasing their holdings (see UA at EWR, but allowed JFK for DL, and IIRC limited how much US Airways got from DL at DCA). In addition, at what point does the acquisition by slots by AA/BA begin to restrict competition - if you say their acquisition of slots increases competition - what if they get to 90%, etc.
Personally, I haven't concluded whether I care or whether AA/BA shouldn't or should have been allowed to get the slots - just throwing in an alternative argument.
codc10 wrote:
That argument doesn't seem to be working for WN at DAL.
usairways85
And it's worth noting that the slots AA/BA had to give up at LHR to increase competition at PHL only have to be used specifically on LHR-PHL for a set number of years, 5 maybe? So it will not be too surprising if DL moves it's "barely hanging on" 4-5x weekly 752 LHR-PHL somewhere else that might not promote as much competition as intended.
Yeah, the required slots to be divested was an absolute joke. The stipulation that they be used for specific airport pairs where AA/BA were the dominant players set up other airlines for failure.
Gates are the issue at DAL, coupled with a lack of supply. WN has the overwhelming majority of DAL slots and is not interested in selling. The other companies with slots lack the gates to service their flights, hence the inability to add more.
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Mickey's Polo Team
January 4, 1936 available in Mickey Mouse In Living Color
It's funny that I like this one. Generally, I dislike the old cartoons that reference ancient movie stars. There are a couple Looney Tunes that do these caricatures that drive me crazy because I can't figure out who is who because the satire is a bit too subtle (or I just haven't watched enough old movies).
This one, however, actually makes the characters themselves funny. There is Laurel and Hardy doing their shtick, Charlie Chaplin and Harpo Marx hamming it up, it's really quite delightful even if you don't know the actors because it encapsulates their gags into the storyline.
In that way, it's almost brilliant. It manages the contemporary references while still actually being funny to people who might not get those references.
Orphans Picnic
This is cute. Mickey and Donald take a bunch of orphans on a picnic, during which they torture Donald for 8 minutes.
It's ok. This is the first short that is largely just bad things happening to Donald Duck, which I understand becomes something of a theme in the later Donald Duck cartoons.
Mickey's Grand Opera
March 7, 1936 available in Mickey Mouse In Living Color
This is a classic. As it starts out, you think it's going to be another performance-based musical piece, but it quickly turns into something else as Pluto discovers a magical hat that plays tricks on him.
That is one of the two plots in this short. The other one is what I expected, Mickey conducting and orchestral opera featuring Donald Duck and Clara Cluck. Of course these two gag-filled stories intersect and it's delightful.
This isn't as funny and gag-filled as the best in the "classical music put to goofy cartoon" genre (that would be "Rabbit of Seville"), but it's also an early participant. And we get to see the animators really start to give Donald a little more personality.
Elmer Elephant
A little elephant named Elmer goes to Tillie the Tiger's birthday party and, after putting the moves on Tillie, is mocked by the other party-goers for his nose. Humiliated, Elmer retreats from the party, where a kind elderly giraffe tells him it's ok to be different.
Meanwhile, Tillie is trapped atop her treehouse by a fire and other mocking animals are helpless to save her. In comes Elmer to save the day and presumably marry Tillie to have tiger-elephant babies that will destroy all life on earth.
It is a tragic tale, to be sure. It's fine. Mediocre for a Silly Symphony, whose standards tend to be pretty high.
Three Little Wolves
Apparently Disney's problem with over-extending a cinematic universe is almost a decade old. This short is another extension of the Three Little Pigs story, this time with the wolf's three little cubs in on the act.
It is, of course, up to the brick-laying pig to save the day. It's fine. Decent music, the final wolf-pwning scene has some cute gags. Ultimately it's a paint-by-the-numbers addition to the "Big Bad Wolf" series.
Thru the Mirror
May 30, 1936 available in Mickey Mouse In Living Color
Mickey falls asleep reading Alice in Wonderland and then walks through his mirror to a world of anthropomorphic furniture.This is pretty fun. Good music, great visuals, there is a lot of joy in this one.
It really kicks into high gear when Mickey gets involved with the playing cards and ends up in a duel with the king of hearts (over the queen of hearts, because Mickey is totally a player).
There is some really extravagant animation in here. Amazing work with the playing cards, with perspective shots. Really a high quality short.
June 20, 1936 available in Mickey Mouse In Living Color
Peg Leg Pete threatens to evict Mickey, Donald, Goofy and their haunted piano from their house over unpaid rent, which inspires them to panic and pack up all their things as quickly as possible.
I'm most interested in Donald Duck in this one. This is the first short with the Donald we are most familiar with. I'm not sure what happened between Mickey's Grand Opera and this short (they are only 3 months apart), but Donald has gone through some significant revisions as a character, both in style and tone. But this is the Donald that we come to know over the next 2 decades.
Mickey's Rival
Minnie's old flame Mortimer swings by Mickey and Minnie's picnic in his fancy car and proceeds to humiliate Mickey in front of Minnie. Thin, tall, and funny, Mortimer impresses Minnie until the moment when the danger is real, at which point he chickens out.
This is a great short. It has a classic narrative of the peacock guy who is ultimately worthless, it even has a good parallel narrative where Mickey and Mortimer's cars have a bit of a rivalry. And the gags are stupendous. Just top notch all the way around.
Alpine Climbers
This is so good. Mickey, Donald, and Pluto ascend an alpine peak to plunder the riches thereof. Donald gets tricked by a mountain goat. Mickey gets attacked by eagles. Pluto is rescued by a St Bernard who feeds him an enormous amount of brandy to revive him, whereupon Pluto falls drunkenly in love.
I love this one. It's just delightful. A near-perfect balance of gags, narrative, and character jokes. We really see Donald coming into his own here as both hero and agitator. It's a fun short.
Mickey's Circus
Interesting that "Mickey's Circus" is really just about Donald's sea lion act. It's another short that contrasts a hyper-competent Donald in the early part of the short against a deeply dysfunctional and put-upon Donald as the short progresses.
Even so, this short is plenty of fun, very slapstick with great gags all the way throughout.
Toby Tortoise Returns
I assume from this cartoon that the tortoise and the hare cartoon that I didn't much care for was a hit that demanded a sequel. I prefer the Bugs Bunny renditions of this story and, indeed, a lot of the gags and humor seem like they would be more at home in a Looney Tunes piece than a Disney short.
Toby Tortoise, the hero from the Tortoise and the Hare short, is having a rematch with the hare, this time in the boxing ring. Whereas the lesson of the Tortoise and the Hare is that perseverance pays off over flashy outlandishness, the lesson here is that the Hare is stupid and self-destructive and sometimes random chance turns out in your favor.
The cartoon itself isn't bad, just different from the Disney style.
Three Blind Mouseketeers
This is a perfect cartoon. It's got all the best elements of early animation and early film making. The visual gags are absolutely superb, combining humor, suspense, and vibrant characters and colors.
The Three Blind Mouseketeers engage with Captain Cat in a game of (I'm sorry) cat and mouse with nice elaborate gags and traps. As is typical in the Disney shorts, the good guys win and the bad guy loses, but it's an entertaining trip along the way.
Mickey's Elephant
October 10, 1936 available in Mickey Mouse In Living Color
I've come to a deep appreciation of the Pluto cartoons. This one combines the zaniness of the best Plutos with the jealousy that Pluto has for Mickey's attention.
Mickey has, for reasons unexplained, a new pet elephant and this new pet drives Pluto crazy. After a visit from his friendly neighborhood shoulder devil, Pluto becomes something of a bully to the poor elephant in order to drive him away.
I have to confess I don't much like the Pluto angel / devil device since the power of Pluto is that he is entirely inarticulate which requires the animators to communicate through body language and facial features. That is when Pluto is at his best.
The Country Cousin
October 31, 1936 available in Silly Symphonies
These are some of my favorites… the ones without dialogue. This is a nice rendition of the city mouse / country mouse story. It's pretty gag-heavy, with just the barest plot to move the action forward, but we get a pleasant enough short with good visuals and music.
Mother Pluto
A chicken has taken up her nest in Pluto's dog house and the chicks hatch while she is out chasing down food., making Pluto their default mother.
This short is interesting due to the fact that so many of the scenes have a dozen individual characters in them, with lots of bits of personality coming out of the chicks. That's a lot of animation work, a lot of attention to detail on the part of the animators. The result is perfectly adorable.
Donald and Pluto
November 25, 1936 available in The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 1
The gags on this one are absolutely top notch. Donald is fixing a pipe in the basement when his magnet comes loose from the pipe and utterly ruins Pluto's day. Then the entire short is one great magnet gag after another for 7 hilarious minutes.
More Kittens
The kittens from the "Three Orphan Kittens" short are back and this time they're getting kicked out of the house by the mammy character and take up bothering the long-suffering family dog in the back yard.
This is like the Disney equivalent of posting cat gifs because they get clicks. Everything these kittens do is adorable, so I'm sure this was a big hit. But there isn't any plot or real continuity outside of the three baby kittens are super cute.
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Discussion in 'SciFi & Fantasy' started by Plazma Inferno!, Apr 21, 2016.
Way to kill a thread, Bells. I personally think the Dragon Queen will swoop down and incinerate the lot of 'em. But who knows, she might be the next to die.
Spoiler alert! Some of the dead come back, like Sandor Clegane.
The Dog is back, as he's pissed off.
I remember mentioning this series in a thread years ago about fantasy novels people liked.
1. Y'all got the attention span of mayflies.
2. No one reads books anymore.
3. No one pays any attention to me.
4. I understand quality before anyone else does.
5. You weren't around back then.
Would this be the appropriate place to share in the sense of superiority that comes from having read the books before the TV series was thought of?
One of these days, somebody will get around to making a TV series or movie of Lord of the Rings. Just wait until those people who never read the books get a load of ... Oh wait. Ok. Forget I mentioned it.
Arghhh! We have Spoiler tags for a reason, you know.
It is from my perspective, certainly. That post was tongue in cheek, though.
Meh. GoT TV series isn't bad either. Nor is the LOTR movies series.
That admission can't even really be labelled "grudging".
I'll never picture Jon Snow as anyone other than Kit Harrington again. I'll never picture Arya as anyone other than Maisie Williams.
I can only vaguely remember how I previously pictured them.
By and large, they got the casting right.
That says something, doesn't it?


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Home / Featured / Frayer looks for first U.S. win at 145.5 pounds in five years in 2012 Olympics
Frayer looks for first U.S. win at 145.5 pounds in five years in 2012 Olympics
By Mike Finn
(Editor's Note: This is the seventh of 11 weekly previews of the of this summer's Olympics in London. In last week's WIN eNews, we looked at the 132-pound weight class in men's freestyle after first examining the 121-pound weight class and all the women's freestyle and Greco-Roman classes in previous weeks. Next week, WIN will preview the fourth of seven men's freestyle weight classes — 163 pounds — before the start of the Games on August 5. A complete preview of America's entries in London can be found at http://www.win-magazine.com/2012-olympics-preview)
66 kilos / 145.5 pounds (Competition held August 12)
U.S. Entry: Jared Frayer, 33, Norman, Okla.
Jared Frayer was left bloodied after he defeated Brent Metcalf at the Olympic Trials in April.
Not only will this former Oklahoma University All-American try to win a medal at the London Games, he will also try to do something no American has done at this weight class since the 2007 World Championships: win a match.
Since Doug Schwab finished fifth at the 2007 Worlds in Baku, Azerbaijan, the U.S. team has not had a 145.5-pounder seen his arm raised in victory in five straight matches at this level of competition:
• in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, Schwab finished 0-2, losing to eventual silver medalist Andrey Stanik of Ukraine and bronze medalist Sushil Kumar of India;
• in the 2009 Worlds, Trent Paulson lost his only match to eventual bronze medalist Leonid Spiridonov of Kazahkstan;
• in 2010, Brent Metcalf dropped his only Worlds bout to Otar Tushishvili of Georgia;
• during the 2011 Worlds, Teyon Ware also lost to the Ukrainian Stanik in his only match in Istanbul, Turkey, last September.
In Frayer, the U.S. does not feature an Olympic or World veteran, but instead a veteran wrestler who spent a collegiate and post-graduate career just falling short of his yearly goal; finishing as high as second at the 2001 NCAAs at 149 pounds for Oklahoma … and settling for the runner-up spot at the 2006 and 2009 World Team Trials.
But the current Sooner assistant coach put it all together this April, when he first defeated Teyon Ware in the semifinals of the Olympic Trials before he defeated Iowa crowd favorite Brent Metcalf in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Frayer also has held his own against international competition since the Trials, winning three of five matches at the World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, May 12-13, earning a bronze medal … before scoring an exciting five-point move to defeat Russia's Dzalaludin Kurbanaliev during the "Beat The Streets" Gala in New York City's Times Square on June 7.
• Mehdi Taghavi, Iran — This level of international competition has been a hot and cold experience for the 25-year-old Iranian. In the 2008 Olympics, Taghavi finished 10th in his first year on the Senior level, winning just one of three bouts. In the next three years, he won two World championships — in 2009 and 2011 — but was forced to settle for 11th place in the 2010 Worlds, where he lost in the quarterfinals to Cuba's Geandry Garzon, who defeated him in the 2008 Olympics. Among his victories in six matches in the 2011 Worlds were wins over 2008 Olympic gold medalist Mavlet Batirov of Russia and Japan's two-time World medalist Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu in the championship bout.
• Sushil Kumar, India — This will be the third Olympic experience for the 29-year-old Indian, who first made a name for himself at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where he first defeated American Doug Schwab en route to claiming a bronze medal. (In 2004, Kumar split his two Olympic bouts in Athens.) Then in 2010, Kumar won his first World championship in Moscow, where he defeated Russian Alan Gogaev in the championship bout. Unfortunately, Kumar fell back in the pack during the 2011 Worlds, where he lost to 2008 Olympic silver medalist Andrey Stadnik of Ukraine in a second-round bout.
• Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu, Japan — Since taking over the spot on the Japanese team since the 2008 Olympics, the 26-year-old has earned two World medals: claiming a bronze medal in 2009 in Herning, Denmark, where he defeated India's Sushil Kumar for third place; and securing a silver medal in the 2011 Worlds, where his only loss in five bouts was to Iranian Mehdi Taghavi. It should also be noted that Yonemitsu did not medal in the 2010 Worlds in Moscow, after losing a first-round match to Cuba's Geandry Garzon, a four-time World medalist who also finished fifth in the 2008 Olympics.
• Yabrail Hasanov, Azerbaijan — The 2009 Junior World gold medalist also competed in the Senior-level Worlds that year and finished seventh in Denmark. Since then, the 22-year-old Hasanov has captured bronze medals in the last two Worlds: losing only to India's Kumar in the semifinals (after beating former Oregon State wrestler Heinrich Barnes, representing his native South Africa) in 2010; and last September when he lost a quarterfinal bout to Japan's Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu but came back to win two consolation bouts.


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This Woman Has Gone Viral On TikTok For Pointing Out Some Wild "Twilight" Theories And It Is So Interesting
Finally, somebody who can tell us what Edward did when Bella got her period.
by Trishna Rikhy
BuzzFeed Contributor
TikTok user twilight_talk has gained a cult following in the past year, and with good reason. Under the pseudonym of Elizabeth, the TikToker is bringing back all the nostalgia and unhinged glory of the beloved Twilight saga, sharing her own deep-dive theories and opinions on the series.
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In doing so, Elizabeth's account has ended up answering many of the questions we've all had about the series — and gives us new details to ponder.
It all started in August 2020, when Stephenie Meyer released Midnight Sun. Elizabeth told BuzzFeed she was "shocked that people were still as interested in Twilight" like she was, having been a fan of the series since she read them as a grad student in 2008. Her account started as a guide to the fashion in Twilight.
@twilight_talk
Reply to @jackiellolz You're right, this needs to be addressed #edwardcullen #twilight #bellaswan #booktok #twilightsaga #fyp #robertpattinson
♬ original sound - Twilight Talk
"Initially it started as just kind of a niche," Elizabeth explained. "I was pointing out fashion trends in the series, and then it grew pretty quickly. I think the first video that garnered a lot of views went up in February. When the movies came out on Netflix in July, things really blew up. I went from 50,000 followers to 150,000 followers in just a couple of weeks because people were seeing the movies for the first time in a very long time."
When she made a video about how short the entire timeline of the series is (just two years!) it blew up to 3.7 million views. Elizabeth felt she had found a community within TikTok — one where the niche details of Twilight were coveted content.
I've seen 90 day fiancé couples who've spent more quality time together!!! #twilight #twilightsaga #edwardcullen #bellaswan #booktok
People began leaving comments with suggestions on what Elizabeth should talk about in her videos, including takes on popular fan theories or analyses on details about the books.
Reply to @lady_loula her writing this in the illustrated guide has always been in another level for me #twilight #twilightsaga #booktok
"It really is a continuation of the conversation about Twilight," she said. "So when people started saying, 'You need to talk about this, have you talked about this? Can we hear about this?' It was more like I was just responding to the community. That's how my content has transitioned into theories and stuff — it's really the community of people that I connect with that are coming up with these ideas and pointing these things out."
Now, with nearly 244K followers in just a year, some of her most viral TikToks are theories that fans have given their own life to — like this TikTok that explains how the vampires of Twilight aren't actually vampires at all, but rather, faeries.
#stitch with @heyitsashe_ WE GET TO DECIDE #twilight #booktok #edwardcullen #twilightsaga
The "Cullen faerie" theory happens to be Elizabeth's own favorite, too. It poses that, due to some of their faery-like tendencies (being glittery in the sun, living in a lush and wooded area, being uncommonly beautiful and fascinated with humans, and even drinking humans' blood), the vampires of the Twilight world are actually faeries who just allow everybody to think they're vampires for fun.
Other viral videos answer the questions we've all been curious about for a long time. Like, what does Edward do when Bella gets her period? (Which happens to be the #1 thing Elizabeth gets asked to talk about.)
Answer to @vannamoon the day has come, let's talk about Bella's cycle! ☠ #twilight #booktok #edwardcullen #twilightsaga
Here's a hint: It has to do with dead versus fresh blood.
Or even what-if speculations, like what if Twilight was animated?
No disrespect to the actors but maybe twilight should have been animated?!? #twilight #twilightsaga #booktok #booktoker
Or if they'd been true to the books, what if Bella was played by a different actor other than Kristen Stewart after being turned into a vampire in Breaking Dawn Part 1?
Reply to @milvers619 Go check out the video that @corinnieeeee made about vampire Bella! #twilight #twilightsaga #booktok #booktoker
Elizabeth goes back to the text to fact-check every video she posts, and even now, keeps finding tidbits that pull her right back into the series.
Reply to @lightyearspatula_ kar3ning was LJ user who went through these criteria #twilight #twilightsaga #booktok #edwardcullen
"When I initially was reading Twilight, I think it was very much this kind of intoxicating feeling of first love, right? That's what drew me in the first time I read it, because I was there," she explained. "I was a big Edward fan. And I think now when I look back at them, I can see the toxicity in the relationships. I just find the whole thing fascinating now. 'Cause I'm trying to figure it out. I'm still pulled in, but I'm also looking at it."
"I love it so much, but I also can't stop picking apart all of the crazy things that are within it. And I think it's something that we just can't let go of. There's so much material there, and I feel like we're finding new, weird things every day, and there's a nostalgic feel to it."
The thing is there never seems to be enough content for Twilight fans, whether it's pulling apart Bella's (questionable) fashion choices or uncovering whether or not Bella and Edward had an abusive relationship.
"We will be talking about Twilight forever," she said. "It's been 15 years. We're still talking about it; I think that I could keep talking about it forever, probably. I have branched out a little bit lately, just because I can't read Twilight over and over forever, so I was starting to read some other young adult vampire books. On TikTok, I started talking about the Crave series, which is also totally unhinged."
But with the new life Elizabeth and other TikTokers are giving to the book come new discussions, too, ones that weren't being had in the first wave of Twilight mania back in the 2000s.
Reply to @corinnieeeee visit truth vs. twilight and donate to mthg.org. Link to both in linktree! #twilight #booktok #jacobblack #twilightsaga
"Now you have older fans coming back to it with new eyes and new fans being like, 'What is this? This is crazy," said Elizabeth. "Whereas we didn't do that the first time. I think we're noticing problematic things in the books that we just didn't notice before. I have a really good time engaging with people about the things that are problematic that we should call attention to as well. And I think that that's been really surprising, that we can have these serious discussions about something that wasn't really serious the first time around."
If you have literally any questions or theories about the Twilight universe, there's a good chance Elizabeth has discussed them on her TikTok — and if she hasn't, leave her a question for her to answer! Tell us your favorite Twilight theory in the comments below.
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