Forge Cottage is delectably charismatic, deceptively spacious and desirably positioned within a half hour walk of Sennen Cove at Lands End.
This gorgeous granite cottage combines a fusion of iconic Cornish character and contemporary flair, and boasts a big interior with beams, distant sea views and sits a stones throw from a fabulous foodie pub. Within a short walk from the cottage, Sennen Cove offers a popular stretch of sand and ocean for swimming and bathing, ideal for paddling and picnics.
The arc of sand at Whitesands Beach faces the ocean so the water is good for surfers with a seasonal lifeguard service.
There's a pub, café and surfside restaurant for refreshment, and the sunsets spied here are wonderful.
At the western end of the beach, the dinky harbour retains a timeless quality and the catch of the day can be bought from the small fleet of fishing boats that trade from the quay.
The mile long stretch of sand at Sennen Beach reaches to Gwenver Beach, a much favoured spot with families.
This magical unspoilt corner of Cornwall boasts dramatic and rugged seascapes within easy reach; a real rambler's paradise along the coast path and cliff tops with panoramic views over the Atlantic.
The peninsula is a unique destination promising beautiful scenery, awesome 200 foot granite cliff drops and sandy beaches including stunning Porthcurno.
The Minack Theatre is a must-see attraction with seats and stage carved from the cliff face set against the ocean backdrop. Forge Cottage makes a superb homestay for families, friends and couples, with legroom for all to relax and find their own space.
There are two sitting rooms; a cosy nook with a wood burner for fireside snugness, and a bright and modern glass ceilinged haven for all to gather.
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The bedrooms guarantee distant sea views or country vistas and the enclosed, private garden is a proper suntrap.
Enjoy lazy breakfasts, pasty lunches, four o'clocker cream teas and alfresco evening tipples.
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Russian artillery systems in Donbas start to shell at longer distance
Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 19:11 (EET)
Ukrainian military journalist and blogger Yuriy Butusov claims that Russian artillery systems used against the Ukrainian army in Donbas have begun shelling at longer distances. According to him, two instances of shelling of the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at a distance of about 20 km from the front line have recently been recorded. In addition, the Russian occupation forces have more actively involved unmanned aerial vehicles for air reconnaissance; the number of flights reaching the front line has increased. Moreover, the enemy has stepped up measures to jam Ukrainian drones, Butusov said. "Obviously, there is a correlation between these obvious measures and the deployment of a new 8th combined arms army on the Ukrainian border, which includes the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the occupation forces, as well as the support forces on the border of Donetsk region, namely the 150th motorized rifle division. This evidence has nothing to do with the ceasefire," the journalist wrote on Facebook. Earlier, Russia`s hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 44 times in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as killed in action (KIA) and five as wounded in action...
Section: War in Donbas
Russian troops fired on Ukrainian forces: used mortars and Grad multiple rocket launcher
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - 23:25 (EET) Section: Latest news, Maps, Top stories, War & conflict, War in Donbas
Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 25 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. One Ukrainian soldier was killed and three others were wounded in fighting in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, In the Mariupol sector, the...
Security areas in areas of Donbas, opening of checkpoint Zolote, hostage release to be discussed in Minsk Wed
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - 20:47 (EET) Section: Latest news, War & conflict, War in Donbas
The Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk has on the agenda of its Wednesday meeting the issue of opening a Zolote checkpoint for passage of civilians across the line of demarcation in Donbas, as reported by 112.ua. The main round of talks to be headed by Martin Sajdik will start at 14:00 and be held behind closed doors, reads the report by 112.ua....
The Hague court accepts evidence of Russia`s war crimes in Ukraine
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - 14:51 (EET) Section: International, Latest news, Top stories, War & conflict, War in Donbas
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has accepted the evidence of Russia`s war crimes committed amid the conflict in Donbas, Ukraine`s prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko claimed Tuesday, according to Ukraine Today citing Interfax. "Yesterday at the ICC prosecutor`s office we contemplated the evidence of Russia sending regular troops...
A column of Russian tanks, armored vehicles and rocket systems entered the Lugansk, Ukraine. Full video.
Saturday, May 2, 2015 - 13:49 (EET) Section: Video, War & conflict, War in Donbas
According to the Minsk agreements entire heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems should be withdrawn to 40 km from the boundary line. Lugansk less than 20 km from the boundary...
The Pentagon press secretary said that the United States strongly condemns the movement of Russian vehicles into Ukraine
Sunday, August 24, 2014 - 12:09 (EET) Section: Video, War in Donbas
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Final card: Jerry Buchek
Here is the final card for Mets' 2nd baseman Jerry Buchek (#277). This was the first of three Buchek cards I acquired. Jerry's 1967 card is in the high-numbered 7th series, so I didn't get that until years later.
By the time I jumped on the major-league baseball bandwagon in May 1967, Buchek was the Mets' regular 2nd baseman. I didn't realize until checking his stats for this column that he only became a Met on April 1st that year, about a week before the start of the season. His 1967 card shows him in full Mets' gear, which is an amazing and unexpected feat by the Topps photography department, given their record of lagging behind the curve with updated photos for the 1967-68-69 Don Lock, 1968-69 Woody Fryman, 1968-69 Turk Farrell, 1968 Tommie Aaron, etc, etc, etc.
Buchek was signed by the Cardinals in 1959, and played 4 seasons (1960-63) in their farm system as a shortstop, making brief appearances with St. Louis in 1961 and 1963.
He made the Cardinals for good at the start of the 1964 season, playing in 35 games as a SS-2B backup, as well as a few appearances in the World Series. During the 1965-66 seasons, although still a backup, he began playing much more at 2nd base than in previous seasons.
A week before the 1967 season, Jerry was traded to the Mets (along with pitcher Art Mahaffey) for veteran shortstop Ed Bressoud and outfielder Dan Napolean. Buchek alternated with veteran Chuck Hiller at 2B during April, then started almost every game at 2B during May, June, and July. For the remainder of the season, he alternated between 2nd, 3rd, shortstop, and the bench. In 411 at-bats, he only managed to hit .236, which probably hastened the end of his career.
The emergence of rookie 2nd baseman Ken Boswell severely limited Buchek's playing time in 1968. He was primarily relegated to the bench, although he made a few dozen starts at 3rd base spelling veteran Ed Charles. After the season, Jerry was traded back to the Cardinals, for minor-league pitcher Jim Cosman.
Before the start of the 1969 season, he was flipped to the Phillies in exchange for 1st baseman Bill White. Buchek spent the year with the Phillies' triple-A team in Eugene, Oregon before retiring.
Posted by Jim from Downingtown at 8:16 PM No comments:
Labels: ...debut: 1961, ...final card, .Mets, Jerry Buchek
The Genius that is Bud Selig
Ok, we're going to vote on who moves to the American League. Are there any suggestions?
What? I can't hear you.
What? You'll have to talk over the noise.
Criminy, I just can't hear anyone over the loud protesting by those damn fans. Can't they see I'm busy?
Ok, here's what we will do. Raise ONE finger to vote for the Astros...
and TWO fingers to vote for the Brewers.
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Labels: ...Bud Selig
Back on Topps' Radar: John Boozer
John Boozer (#173) returns to the Topps set after missing out in 1967. John had a baseball card every year from 1963-69, except in the 1967 set. How ironic, since that was his only winning season (5-4).
Boozer was signed by the Phillies in 1958, and spent his entire career in the Phillies' organization. Except for the 1968 season, he pitched in the minors every season from 1958 to 1969, primarily as a starting pitcher.
John made his major-league debut in July 1962. He was primarily a long reliever for Philadelphia, but also made some spot starts. Most of his time in the bigs came from 1963-64, and 1967-69.
I remember that in 1967, he was recalled around Memorial Day, after the Phillies cleaned house of several veteran relievers. After the 1966 season, the Phillies went on a binge, signing aging veterans Dick Hall, Pedro Ramos, and Ruben Gomez to shore up their bullpen. Only Hall panned out, and the other 2 (along with holdover Bob Buhl) were all given an early-season boot.
The Phillies' revamped bullpen that season included Turk Farrell (acquired in May) and Hall as the 2 firemen, along with rookie Grant Jackson (a lefty) and the recently-recalled Boozer. They also reclaimed Dallas Green off the scrap heap, who didn't do too much in his final season except collect days toward his pension.
Anyhoo, Boozer was the right-handed long man and occasional spot starter. Somehow, he managed to stay with the big club for the entire 1968 season. I don't know if it was his performance, as much as it was the Phillies not having many other options. After all, it would be another year or so until their "phenoms" (Lowell "Shades" Palmer, Billy Champion, Barry Lersch, and Billy Wilson) were ready.
Labels: ...back on Topps' radar, ...debut: 1962, .Phillies, John Boozer
Bubba Morton (#216)
The 2nd Bubba for today is Wycliffe "Bubba" Morton, outfielder for the California Angels in the late 1960s.
Morton was signed by the Tigers back in 1955, and spent 6 seasons in the minors before breaking in with the Tigers in April 1961. Bubba spent all of 1961 and 1962 as a spare outfielder, behind starters Al Kaline, Rocky Colavito, and Bill Bruton.
In May 1963, he was purchased by the Milwaukee Braves, but played only 15 games for them before spending most of '63, and all of 1964 in the minors. His minor-league adventures continued in 1965, but this time as a member of the Indians' organization.
Morton was traded to the Angels at the end of the 1965 season, and after spending most of '66 in triple-A, he returned to the majors and played his final 3 seasons with California. He played about 80 games in each of those 3 seasons, but the Angels' roster was packed with outfielders in those days. The 1967 Topps set features EIGHT outfielders on the team. The Angels' 1968 and 1969 rosters also featured 8 outfielders with significant major-league experience. If your name wasn't Rick Reichardt, you pretty much scrambled for playing time.
Morton spent the 1970 season playing in Japan.
Posted by Jim from Downingtown at 11:34 PM No comments:
Labels: ...debut: 1961, ...nicknames, .Angels, Bubba Morton
All-Star Cards
After a 5-year absence, Topps re-introduced All-Star cards in their 1968 set, featuring players selected as 1967 All-Stars by The Sporting News. These choices differed somewhat from the actual 1967 All-Star lineup (which was still voted on by the players that season).
In the actual game, the NL had Juan Marichal, Joe Torre, Bill Mazeroski, and Richie Allen starting at P, C, 2B, and 3B respectively. The AL featured Dean Chance, Rico Petrocelli, and Tony Conigliaro starting at P, SS, and RF. Otherwise, the starters were those you see in the 2 large blocks of cards below. Surprisingly, Joe Morgan, Ron Santo, and Ken Holtzman were not even on the actual All-Star roster in 1967, yet all were picked for the first team by The Sporting News.
Four of the six outfielders started at their natural position, while Hank Aaron and Tony Oliva each started in centerfield.
Oh, The Sporting News selected 2 pitchers in each league, 1 lefty and 1 righty, so...
The backs of these 20 cards formed 2 photos - Orlando Cepeda and Carl Yastrzemski. Contrary to what I would have thought, the 2 puzzles were not made exclusively from the player cards from Cepeda's or Yaz' own league. (My scanner bed is not large enough to hold all 10 cards, hence the cut-off tops.)
Posted by Jim from Downingtown at 10:03 PM 3 comments:
Labels: ...all-star cards, Carl Yastrzemski, Orlando Cepeda
Joe Verbanic (#29)
This is the second of four Joe Verbanic cards. Joe appeared on a Yankees Rookies card in 1967. He also had cards in '68, '69, and '70, all with the Yankees, and all hatless (c'mon Topps!). This same photo below was also used for his 1969 card.
Verbanic grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania, the same sports hotbed that produced Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Dan Marino, Mike Ditka, Tony Dorsett, Babe Parilli, Stan Musial, Ken Griffey Sr, Tito Francona, Doc Medich, and Pete Maravich among others. (In fact, Dorsett, Medich, and Verbanic were from the same town!)
Joe was signed by the Phillies in 1961, and began his career as a relief pitcher with their Miami Marlins farm team in 1962. After another season in Miami, he moved up the ladder and eventually made his major-league debut with the Phillies in June 1966. Verbanic pitched in 17 games for the Phillies that season, but was traded to the Yankees that December for veteran pitcher Pedro Ramos.
Joe split the 1967 season between the Yankees and triple-A. In 1968, he managed to stick with the Yanks for the entire season, compiling a 6-7 record in 40 games (11 starts).
Verbanic missed the entire 1969 season with arm troubles. When he returned in 1970, his career was essentially over. Joe pitched 7 games for New York, and 15 games for AAA Syracuse. He also missed most of the following season, only pitching 5 games for Syracuse. Verbanic wrapped up his career in 1972, back with the Phillies' AAA team for a 39-game stint.
I often thought that Topps should have made another 1966 Phillies Rookies card featuring Verbanic and rookie pitcher John Morris. (Morris was traded to the Orioles for pitcher Dick Hall, and later surfaced on a 1969 card as a Seattle Pilot.)
Here's an internet page for Verbanic.
Labels: ...debut: 1966, .Yankees, Joe Verbanic
Sammy Ellis (#453)
Sammy Ellis had a 7-year career as a starting pitcher in the 1960s, mostly with the Reds. He was signed by Cincinnati in 1961, and although he appeared in 7 games for the Reds in 1962, he spent most of 1961-63 in the minors.
In his rookie season of 1964, Sammy led the bullpen with 52 games, 122 innings, and 14 saves. The following season, he joined the rotation and compiled a 22-10 record, which, along with Jim Maloney's 20-9 gave the Reds a nice one-two punch.
After slipping to 12-19 in 1966 and 8-11 in 1967, Ellis was shipped off to the Angels for pitcher Bill Kelso. His one season in California was more of the same (9-10 record), and Sammy was traded to the White Sox in January 1969 for outfielder Bill Voss. After only 10 games with Chicago, he was traded to the Indians for pitcher Jack Hamilton, and was assigned to triple-A for the remainder of the season.
Ellis' final major-league game was in June 1969. His last baseball card was also in 1969. He spent the next 2 seasons in the minors before retiring.
Labels: ...debut: 1962, .Angels, Sammy Ellis
1969 Baseball Stamps - All the Rest
Here are the rest of my 1969 baseball stamps (well, except for the Padres' Larry Stahl, but he didn't fit into one of the group rectangles!) I got all these in 1969, and they've been sitting in glassine envelopes ever since.
I have no idea who I'm missing (except for the Phillies' Tony Taylor). It's weird that I have no stamps from the 2-time NL champion Cardinals, nor the Yankees, Reds, Dodgers, Braves, Red Sox, Orioles, Angels, Astros, Expos, Royals, or Pilots.
Labels: ...1969, ...inserts
1969 Phillies Stamps
Ok, so these aren't from 1968, but the photos were probably taken in 1968 (well, all but Don Lock. Apparently, Topps was unable to locate Don Lock after 1966!)
I was just reading the latest post by Jim on his Phillies Room blog where he made a reference to the 1969 Topps baseball stamps. I forgot that I had these until reading his post. When I located them, I didn't find any doubles, but I have 76 of these stamps from various teams, mostly Phillies, Pirates, Cubs, Twins, and Athletics. I wonder why out of 76 stamps, I have none from the Red Sox, Yankees, Orioles, Angels, Cardinals, Expos, Astros, or Reds?
Here are the Phillies (I seem to be missing the Tony Taylor stamp that Jim referred to):
And here are 3 recent ex-Phillies. (Cater is actually about 4 years removed from the team, but Topps is still showing him in a Phillies uniform.)
Labels: ...1969, ...inserts, .Phillies
Cap Peterson (#188)
Charles Andrew "Cap" Peterson had an 8-year career in the 1960s as an outfielder, primarily for the Giants and Senators (Topps' two "green" teams, coincidently).
Cap was signed by the Giants in 1960, and spent 4 seasons in their farm system, the first 3 as a shortstop. After a cup of coffee at the end of the 1962 season, and 22 games in May, June, and September 1963, Peterson spent the entire 1964 season with the Giants, where he was used mostly as a pinch-hitter. (The Giants' starting outfield was Willie McCovey. Willie Mays, and Jesus Alou. Even their bench was well-stocked with outfielders Harvey Kuenn, Matty Alou, and an aging Duke Snider, so there wasn't much room for Peterson.)
In 1965, McCovey had moved to 1st base, Snider retired, and Kuenn was pushed to the back burner, so there was more time in the field for Peterson. He played in 60 games, and was the team's 5th outfielder, making 20 starts in left field.
Cap found himself with a semi-regular job in 1966. With rookie Ollie Brown now in right field, Jesus Alou moved over to left field, which became a 3-way job-share with Peterson and last year's regular left fielder, Len Gabrielson. After the season, Cap was traded to the Senators along with pitcher Bob Priddy for pitcher Mike McCormick.
Cap began the 1967 season as the starter in right field. After sharing the job with previous Nats' right fielder Jim King for about a month, King was traded away, giving Peterson more playing time. During the second half of the season, Cap shared right field with Fred Valentine, who would move over from his regular center field spot to give Ed Stroud or Hank Allen some starts in center.
1968 was the beginning of the end for Cap's career. Rookie Del Unser started 154 games in center field, moving everyone else (Fred Valentine, Ed Stroud, Hank Allen, and rookie Brant Alyea) over to the right field melting pot with Peterson. Cap made 37 starts in right, another 11 in left, but was mostly used as a pinch-hitter.
After the 1968 season he was traded to the Indians, where he played for 1 season as a pinch-hitter and backup left fielder.
Peterson played in triple-A for 3 more seasons before retiring. He passed away on May 16, 1980 from kidney disease at age 37.
Labels: ...debut: 1962, ...died too soon, .Senators, Cap Peterson
Bobby Wine (#396)
I can still remember getting this card in 1968, and how I really liked it. Why? I wasn't really a Bobby Wine fan. I think maybe it was the fact that the photo was so crisp, and because there were many hatless Phillies' cards in the 1968 set, this one just stood out as a nice card.
This was Bobby's last card as a Phillie. After the season, the Montreal Expos selected pitcher Larry Jackson in the expansion draft. When he chose to retire, the Phillies sent Wine to the Expos as compensation. It wasn't a great loss for the Phillies. Wine had missed all but 27 games of the 1968 season with a back injury, and the Phils had rookie Don Money waiting in the wings to take over in 1969.
This photo is from 1965, as that is the only season that Wine didn't wear his familiar #7 uniform. He had switched to #13 for that season in deference to veteran Dick Stuart.
The Phillies signed Bobby in 1957, and after 5 seasons in the minors, Wine made the team in 1962. He shared the shortstop job with Ruben Amaro Sr that first season, but was the clear #1 shortstop from 1963-65, although Amaro continued to start many games at short.
After losing his starting job to veteran Dick Groat in 1966, Wine regained the position for the 1967 season. It was to be his last signifcant time with the Phillies. The 1968 season began with rookie Don Money being handed the SS job. When he faltered in early April, Wine took over for a few weeks until being sidelined for the season with his ailing back.
Moving to Montreal in 1969, Wine was the Expos' starting shortstop for their first 3 seasons. His playing time began to diminish in the final weeks of the 1971 season, and for 1972 he had lost the starting job to Tim Foli. After only 18 at-bats over 34 games, Wine was released on July 10th.
He went on to a long coaching career with the Phillies and Braves, and also scouted for the Braves.
Posted by Jim from Downingtown at 12:16 AM No comments:
Labels: ...baseball father/son, ...debut: 1960, .Phillies, Bobby Wine
Dick Tracewski (#488)
Over the next few posts, I am going to be completing my series on players who retired in the late 1960s (specifically, those players who retired in 1968 or 1969, or whose last card was in 1968).
This post was going to be about 8-year veteran Dick Radatz (who retired in 1969). When I went to my 1968 binder (which is arranged by teams) to retrieve his card, I couldn't find it. Indians? No. Red Sox? No. What the? After consulting my Book of All Topps Knowledge I learned that the veteran Radatz did not have a card in 1968. He was released by the Cubs during spring training in 1968, and spent the entire season with the Tigers' triple-A team, before returning to the majors for one more season in 1969.
I will have to update my list of players without a 1968 card. Meanwhile, on to fellow 8-year-veteran-retiring-in-1969 Dick Tracewski.
Tracewski was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1953. After 5 seasons in the minors, Dick spent 1958 and 1959 in military service. He returned to another 3 seasons in the minors, and made the Dodgers at the start of the 1963 season.
Tracewski had significant playing time during his first 2 seasons with the Dodgers, backing up Maury Wills at SS in 1963, and sharing 2B with Nate Oliver in 1964. In 1965 he received less playing time than before, primarily as Junior Gilliam's backup at 3rd base. Dick saw action in the 1963 and 1965 World Series with the Dodgers.
After the 1965 season, Dick was traded to the Tigers for relief pitcher Phil Regan. With the Tigers, Tracewski was relegated to 3rd-string middle infielder, especially after the arrival of rookie Tom Matchick in 1968. Still, Tracewski played briefly in his 3rd World Series in 1968. He retired after the 1969 season.
Labels: ...debut: 1962, ...high numbers (6th series not sold in my town in 1968), ...I learned something today, ...military service, .Tigers, Dick Radatz, Dick Tracewski
Final Card: Bob Allen
Hooray! Tax season is over. I will now attempt to be more of a player here.
Here is the final card for Indians' pitcher Bob Allen (#176), who had a 5-year major-league career, all with the Indians. Allen was signed by Cleveland in 1956, and spent 5 years working his way up the minor-league ladder, beginning in Class D in 1956. For his first 3 seasons, one of his teammates was future big-league pitcher Jim Perry.
Bob made his major-league debut in 1961, as a member of the Tribe's bullpen. He appeared in 48 games as a rookie. He regressed in 1962, pitching only 30 innings in 30 games, while spending part of the season with triple-A Salt Lake City.
In 1963, Bob returned to the Indians for a full season, logging similar playing time as he did in 1961. Allen was the only lefty in the bullpen, which this year included ace Ted Abernathy and 43-year-old veteran Early Wynn. Allen and Abernathy were the only pitchers on the team not to make any starts.
After the 1963 season, Allen was traded to the Pirates, who returned him to Cleveland before the 1964 season. Bob spent the next 2 seasons with the Indians' triple-A team in Portland, Oregon before finally returning to Cleveland for the entire 1966 and 1967 seasons.
An 0-5 record in 1967 spelled the end of Allen's major-league career. Over 5 seasons, he pitched in 84 games, all in relief. Bob continued to pitch in the minors for the Indians (1968-70), Angels (1970), and the Padres (1971-72) before retiring.
Labels: ...debut: 1961, ...final card, .Indians, Bob Allen
Who didn't get a card, but shoulda...
Today, I'm continuing to pick at the shortcomings my analysis of the 1968 set.
As I posted earlier with the 1966 and 1967 sets, here is a list of some of the players who didn't appear on a regular or rookie card in this set, along with the number of games played in 1968:
Most of these are rookies who made their debut in 1968. Reggie Jackson is a different case. He made his debut with the Athletics in June 1967, but in 118 at-bats in 35 games, he only hit 1 home run. Maybe this caused Topps to write him off as a non-factor. Fortunately for us, our fellow blogger Steve at White Sox Cards has filled the gap.
Bobby Bonds wasn't called up until late June, but he had been tearing up the minor leagues for over a year. Other rookies who grabbed a starting job at the start of the season included Del Unser and Bobby Cox (who both made the Topps 1968 all-rookie team).
Non-rookies without a card were Indians' 1st baseman Tony Horton (who never had a card in his 6-year career), Roberto Pena (a journeyman shortstop who joined the Phillies in late April and took over the starting job in May for the injured Bobby Wine), and Red Sox pitcher Sparky Lyle.
I can't imagine how Topps could have overlooked Reggie Jackson and Bobby Bonds for their teams' rookie cards, but almost all of these players could have been added to the 7th series, which was months away. (Did we really need all those extra Mets cards?)
5-15-2011 edit:
Yesterday, I learned that relief pitcher Dick Radatz didn't have a card in the 1968 set. Radatz (nicknamed "The Monster") broke in with the Red Sox in 1962 and finished 3rd in Rookie of the Year voting. He led the AL in (what would have been) saves in 1962 and 1964. In June 1966 he was traded to the Indians, and in April 1967 he moved on to the Cubs.
From 1962 to 1967, Dick appeared in 62, 66, 79, 63, 55, and 23 games. His last major-league appearance in 1967 was on July 7th. No doubt that was the reason he was left out of the 1968 set. Still, the Braves' Tommie Aaron was afforded a card in 1968 after not having played since the 1965 season, so why didn't Radatz get similar treatment? Dick spent the entire 1968 season in the minors, before resurfacing for 1 final season in 1969 with the Tigers and Expos. His final card was in the 1969 set.
12-27-2011 edit:
In addition to Dick Radatz, these players also had cards in 1967 and 1969, but not in 1968:
Johnny Podres - P (was retired during 1968)
Jesse Gonder - C (1967 was last year in majors)
Bob Chance - 1B
Dave Nicholson - OF
Gary Geiger - OF
Tommie Reynolds - OF
Galen Cisco - P
Fred Newman - P
Tom Egan - C
Chuck Harrison - 1B
Jim Beauchamp - OF
John Kennedy - 3B
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Distribution of teams within the 1968 set
Yesterday, I revisited my earlier post about the lack of a Giants Rookies card.
There were 25 cards for the Giants in 1968. However, in the 598 card set, the last Giant appears on card #545. This means that in the last 53 cards, there were no Giants. Was a planned Giants Rookies card pulled and replaced with someone else? Although the set starts off with each team being represented every 20 cards or so, in those final 53 cards, we have:
5 Mets (!?!)
4 Astros, Red Sox, Senators, and Yankees
3 Angels, Athletics, Indians, and Pirates
2 Braves, Cardinals, Cubs, Dodgers, Orioles, Reds, Twins, White Sox
1 Tigers and Phillies
The Phillies were really cut short, having only ONE card among the last EIGHTY-SIX cards!
A further analysis of the entire set shows that some teams had as many as 5 more cards than other teams:
30 Orioles, Reds, Red Sox
29 Astros, Cubs, Mets, Senators
28 Athletics
27 Cardinals, Dodgers, Pirates, Twins, White Sox
26 Angels, Yankees
25 Braves, Giants, Phillies, Indians, Tigers
20 All stars
12 Leaders
8 World Series
So, my long-time suspicion that the Phillies were short-changed in the 1968 set turns out to be correct. (Trades were not the reason, as the only significant off-season Phillies' trades were Jim Bunning for Woodie Fryman, and Dick Ellsworth and Gene Oliver for Mike Ryan, which gives an imbalance of 1 card.)
Topps' late-series push of excessive Mets, Astros, Red Sox, and Senators cards sent the totals for those teams soaring above the team average.
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When an organization receives a project, it's necessary to find out how worth it will be for the organization in terms of finance if the project is officially accepted. In order to analyze this, the portfolio / project / program management team has to go through a Project Financial Analysis process in order to calculate how much of a cash flow the organization receives throughout the project.
It is a financial analytical method that compares the difference between the profit value and the cost of investment that can be earned and lose via a project . This is calculated as a percentage value. Higher the percentage, better the result.
This is a method used to evaluate investments where the net present value of all the cash inflows and outflows is considered under a given discount rate (which is the required rate of return). The project can be accepted if it produces a positive net present value.
It is the discount rate at which the net present value of all the cash inflows and outflows of a particular project equals to zero. This is almost the same as Net Present Value concept. Higher the IRR, better the outcome, hence it's recommended to select the project with the highest Internal Rate of Return value.
It is the time period required to recover the funds expended in an investment. The payback period will indicate how long it will take for the project / organization to cover / match the expenses from an initial investment. It's recommended to go for the project that will support the organization to recover the incurred expense within a shortest time possible.
According to PMBOK 5th Edition, a stakeholder is an individual, an organization or an entity who will affect, be affected or perceive themselves to be affected by a decision, activity or an outcome of a particular project. Based on the stakeholder category, their interest towards the project and the level of impact they will be exerting on the project or be exerted on them by the project may vary.
It is an essential and a critical requirement to identify necessary stakeholders at the early phases of the project. Once identified, their level of interest, impact and their expectations need to be analyzed with regards to their importance and influential power towards the project. It is important for the project manager to successfully identify all the stakeholders in order to maintain and focus on a good relationship (Refer Stakeholder Management).
If the project is small, then the number of stakeholders is less and if the project is large, then the number of stakeholders is more. In order to manage stakeholders in a large project, it is important for the project manager to maintain a steady communication channel with every stakeholder in order to drive the project towards success.
There are few categories of stakeholders as identified by PMBOK 5th Edition. Among them, Internal and External stakeholders are considered main categories.
Internal stakeholder are groups or individuals who are working within / internal to the project organization.
Apart from internal and external categorization, there are few other groupings named upon project stakeholders.
Direct stakeholders are concerned with the day-to-day project activities while Indirect stakeholders are concerned with the outcome of the project.
Positive stakeholders look at the positive vision of the project and they support to drive the project towards success. Negative stakeholders look at the project in a negative manner and they are less likely to support the project.
Decomposition as defined in PMBOK (5th Edition) is a tool and technique used to divide and subdivide the project scope and deliverable into more smaller, manageable work packages. Once the scope is decomposed, it'll be the lowest level of WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) which can be estimated and managed in terms of cost and schedule. The size of the work package after decomposition will depend on the complexity and size of the project. At the time of decomposing, activities such as assigning identification codes to each work package will take place.
As it's shown in the above figure, the high level task '1' has been broken down into 4 sub tasks (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4) which are further subdivided into smaller work packages.
E.g.: 1.1 has been decomposed into 3 smaller work packages (1.1.1, 1.1.2 and 1.1.3) These work packages are smaller, manageable and can be estimated in terms of cost and schedule.
In addition, when the project deliverables / activities are decomposed into smaller, manageable work packages, the project management team should be aware of decomposing it to a level which is useful for a valid estimation. If over-decomposed, estimating those work packages will not be possible and the effort put on for decomposition will be a waste. Since this is known to be a team work / activity, everyone on the project team is requested to participate in bringing up the most efficient WBS of the project.
This decision making is defined when everyone participating in the decision-making process agrees on a single course of action. There are few methods that can be followed to achieve this. (E.g.: Delphi technique where group of experts respond to the questionnaire anonymously) Apart from that, this method is known to provide the least hassles on project management team in terms of implementing decision making techniques.
Majority relies on most number of votes towards a particular decision. (more than 50%) In order to make this technique more efficient, it's recommended to have an uneven number of people in the decision making panel to avoid resulting in a tied decision.
This is a bit of complicated decision making technique and more challenging to understand. According to PMBOK (5th Edition), it is a decision reached by the largest block in a decision making panel though it's not achieved the majority concept. This method is used when the nominated options are greater than 2, hence the option voted by the largest block of the decision making panel is agreed and confirmed.
This is known to be the least agreed method to be used among a decision making panel. When the project leader acts as a dictator, he / she is not willing to listen to others and coming up with their own decisions which will have a higher probability to drive the project towards failure. A dictator doesn't allow to develop group creativity techniques. In addition, due to the dictatorship, the project lead should be accountable for any future conflicts arising within the project community and tasks.
This is same as interviewing, but recommended to use when there are multiple stakeholders sharing multiple ideas with regards to project / product requirements. This is sometimes referred to as a conference techniques due to the participation of multiple stakeholders.
This method works with brainstorming as a joint process. Once the ideas are generated through a brainstorming session, the brought up ideas / requirements will be analyzed and prioritized based on their value using the nominal group technique.
This is known to be a method of reaching the consensus of subject matter experts (SME). The facilitator has to prepare a list of questions that need to be answered by SMEs and shared among them. Once the SMEs receive the questionnaire, they will answer based on their knowledge and experience and share their opinions with the facilitator. Through this technique, it reduces the bias in the information shared since this technique is mostly following the anonymous techniques where only the facilitator will receive the SME opinions.
Mind mapping is a technique which consolidates several opinions collected via brainstorming sessions from individuals and form a central opinion. This mapping view visualizes the different ideas and opinions carried by different stakeholders which follows different deviations from the centralized opinion.
This is another technique that goes toe-to-toe with brainstorming and nominal group techniques. It takes ideas from different individuals and group them under different categories for reviewing and analysis purposes.
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis technique assigns different criteria for requirement evaluation purpose and rank them with a weighted value. Once the requirements are gathered, they will be rated based on the weighted values assigned to each criteria. This technique is mostly used to evaluate risk levels, uncertainties, valuation and other ideas that can be ranked with regards to the weighted criterion value.
Interviews are Questions and Answers sessions that can be used for information elicitation purpose from stakeholders in when it comes to different project management activities. (E.g.: Requirement collection) An interview can either be formal or informal and it can be defined as one of the strongest and most efficient requirement gathering techniques in project management.
When conducting interviews, it's important to understand who to interview and what sort of questions to ask in order to gather / elicit requirements effectively. Especially, interviewing subject matter experts, experienced project participants and sponsors will help to identify the desired deliverables that need to be produced via the project life-cycle.
What are Enterprise Environmental Factors?
Enterprise Environmental Factors are used as inputs to project activities same as Organizational Process Assets. These factors are not under the control of the project team, in spite of being influential towards project direction. This influential factor may negatively or positively impact towards the project success, hence it's project team's responsibility to use them under all the project processes to ensure that project is guided and followed under the respective factors accordingly.
What are Organizational Process Assets?
According to PMBOK (5th Edition), Organizational Process Assets (OPA) are plans, processes, procedures and knowledge bases specific to a particular organization. Any artifact (formal or informal plans), practice (processes, policies, procedures), any knowledge base (lessons learned, historical information) from any stakeholder group can be included as an organizational process asset to govern or drive projects. Among the project knowledge areas, these process assets are considered as inputs to project activities and they are updated throughout the project life cycle whenever needed and necessary.
The organizational process assets are separated under 2 categories.
Under processes and procedures, the organizational process assets are categorized as follows.
Project Status – High level Summary (Project High level View) can be used to obtain a quick snapshot of the list of projects a particular Project Manager is handling. Mostly, this template is better to be used for your own reference in order to do a quick check-list view to see which project working on which module, who is responsible and the current status of that particular project. (Not recommended to present at the top management / director board meetings). The template can be downloaded using the below URL.


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Benjamin Netanyahu failing to form coalition government; Israel may face election
May 27, 2019 by Paul Linus in Elections
Israel may soon hold national election as formation of a coalition government is still in a struggling phase by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The deadline for his effort is Wednesday.
The Israeli parliament passed a preliminary motion on Monday to dissolve itself and the bill is awaited for approval in a vote on Wednesday.
If approved, the country will go into elections again. People voted for the new government on April 9.
Wednesday's 21:00 GMT is the deadline for Netanyahu delegated by President Reuven Rivlin.
Netanyahu heads the right-wing Likud party and following the last election he said in a televised address that he would continue pursuing coalition talks as new vote would be costly and unnecessary.
He added, "A lot can be done in 48 hours… The voters' wishes can be respected, a strong right-wing government can be formed."
Netanyahu had been in power for past one decade and currently facing potential corruption indictments. He has denied any wrongdoing.
He is struggling striking a deal with right-wing, far-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties to the form the government.
If he succeeds sealing an agreement with the parties, it will be his fifth term.
United States President Donald Trump said, "Hoping things will work out with Israel's coalition formation and Bibi and I can continue to make the alliance between America and Israel stronger than ever."
Mars will soon be invaded: Trump
India omits invitation to Pakistan on Modi's swearing-in ceremony
Amit Shah's road show marred by violence leading to a war of words between BJP and TMC
Wealth tax proposal to get momentum during 2020 presidential election
Democrats bans Fox News; Trump fires back
UK warned against allowing Huawei from setting up 5G network in the country
Prakazrel Michel Of Fugees Charged In Election Finance Case
Tension seems calmed down between India, Pakistan following pilot release
May's Brexit Vote Will Not Work Say German Politicians


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Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius 15 Center
Height: 2.07 Born: 30 November, 1990 Nationality: Ukraine
Career Highs
EuroCup 2014-15 STATISTICS
2FG
Totals 5 0 46:06 14 4/10 0/0 6/9 4 6 10 1 0 4 1 0 9 7 11
Averages 5 0 9:13 2.8 40% 0% 66.7% 0.8 1.2 2 0.2 0 0.8 0.2 0 1.8 1.4 2.2
2 at CSU Asesoft Ploiesti 3:22 1 0/1 1/2 1
3 at Krasny Oktyabr Volgograd 14:45 7 2/4 3/4 2 2 4 1 2 2 9
4 vs Banvit Bandirma 10:34 6 2/4 2/3 1 1 2 1 5 4 2
5 at Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem 6:07 2 2 2
10 vs Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem 11:18 0/1 2 1 3 2 2 -2
5 Totals 46:06 14 4/10 0/0 6/9 4 6 10 1 0 4 1 0 9 7 11
Average 9:13 2.8 40% 0% 66.7% 0.8 1.2 2 0.2 0 0.8 0.2 0 1.8 1.4 2.2
EuroCup 2014-15 individual rankings
This player is not ranked among the Top 25 in any category.
Index rating 27 Szolnoki Olaj vs. Rytas Vilnius 10/20/2015
Points 17 Rytas Vilnius vs. Szolnoki Olaj 11/25/2015
Offensive rebounds 4 Szolnoki Olaj vs. Rytas Vilnius 10/20/2015
Defensive rebounds 4 Rytas Vilnius vs. Szolnoki Olaj 11/25/2015
Total rebounds 8 Szolnoki Olaj vs. Rytas Vilnius 10/20/2015
Assists 1 Besiktas JK Istanbul vs. Szolnoki Olaj 11/4/2015
Steals 2 PAOK Thessaloniki vs. Szolnoki Olaj 10/14/2015
Blocks 2 Rytas Vilnius vs. Szolnoki Olaj 11/25/2015
Minutes 25 Rytas Vilnius vs. Szolnoki Olaj 11/25/2015
Career Notes
Played college basketball at Arizona (2009-12)..moved to Ukraine for the 2012-13 season, signed by BC Azovmash Mariupol.
Played there also the 2013-14 championship.
Moved to Lithuania for the 2014-15 season, signed by Lietuvos rytas Vilnius.
In February'15 moved to Poland, signed by PGE Turow.
Moved to Hungary for the 2015-16 season, signed by Szolnok Olaj.
Member of the Ukrainian National Team.
Played at the 2013 European Championship.
Played at the 2014 World Championship.
Has been member of the Ukrainian U-16 and U-20 National Team.
Played at the 2006 European U-16 Championship.
2012-13 Azovmash Mariupol 6 21 3.5 8/16 50 0/0 0 5/6 83.3 13 1 2 2
2014-15 Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius 5 14 2.8 4/10 40 0/0 0 6/9 66.7 10 0 1 1
2015-16 Szolnoki Olaj 9 94 10.4 31/50 62 6/17 35.3 14/17 82.4 33 3 3 4
Totals 20 129 6.5 43/76 56.6 6/17 35.3 25/32 78.1 56 4 6 7
Averages 20 129 6.5 43/76 56.6 6/17 35.3 25/32 78.1 2.8 0.2 0.3 0.4
Other Competition
Season Team G Pts Avg 2FG
M-A % 3FG
M-A % FT
M-A % Reb St As Bl
2009/10 Arizona 31 59 1.9 20/53 37.7 1/4 25 16/24 66.7 61 6 2 6
2010/11 Arizona 38 71 1.9 25/51 49 4/7 57.1 9/10 90 82 3 12 10
2011/12 Arizona 22 24 1.1 10/24 41.7 1/4 25 1/4 25 35 2 4 2
2012/13 Azovmash 36 151 4.2 63/116 54.3 0/1 0.0 25/45 55.6 96 6 8 11
2013/14 Azovmash-Superleague 32 329 10.3 100/197 50.8 18/45 40.0 75/114 65.8 198 11 28 24
Azovmash-VTB 18 198 10.3 65/126 51.6 8/24 33.3 44/60 73.3 110 7 15 5
2014/15 Lietuvos rytas 13 43 3.3 16/32 50.0 0/1 0.0 11/15 73.3 32 3 3 4
Turow 23 142 6.2 62.2 1/5 20.0 27/33 81.8 102 2 12 9
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Hey, Sky? You do know that the same Google Play Store listing can be used for both smartphone and tablet versions of an app, right? No? You're still going with separate smartphone and tablet apps, like it's 2010? Okay then. The Sky Go tablet app has the same basic features of the smartphone app, but it's restricted to 7" or larger tablets running Android 4.0 or later.
Kidding aside, the feature set of the Sky Go app is pretty admirable, with live TV and streaming TV on demand. According to the app description there are "over 800 movies" and more TV shows than you can shake a sheleighly at across 11 movie channels, Sky Atlantic, Sky 1, Sky Living, Sky Arts, and Sky News, and various sports channels. Users can register two devices and there is no WiFi restriction. Subscribers to Sky Go Extra (£5 a month) get to use the app on up to four devices and get access to live TV on two at the same time, plus the ability to download movies or TV shows for offline viewing later.
The original Sky Go app has pretty dismal reviews, seemingly stemming from serious compatibility and stability issues. Conversely, the tablet app is getting a pretty good response from initial users, currently sitting at 4.6 stars. Naturally you'll need to be a subscriber to Sky's TV service to log in, but like most streaming cable apps, there's no extra charge for the basic app itself. The Sky Go app can't be downloaded outside of the UK and Ireland, and streaming video won't play outside those countries either, but you should be able to download movies or TV shows for international travel.
Fair warning: this FAQ says that root users are left out in the cold, once again thanks to "contractual agreements."


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The so called "Mothership" - the first of by now four stores in Berlin from Frank Rademacher - is the store "Pauls Boutique"
in the Oderberger Strasse in Prenzlauer Berg.
The streetwear / vintage shop is packed with sneaker, jeans, t-shirts, vintage leatherjackeds, dresses and pretty much everything else that one can wear. You should bring some time to rifle through the shelfs.
The walls and shelves are filled with toy robots, boomboxes and Star Wars Collectibles - the shop a world of its own.
sneakers by Adidas, Nike, Puma, Converse, Reebok, New Balance ... used denim by Levis, Nudie, Lee, Wrangler, Cheap Monday ... shirts and jackets by Fred Perry, Stüssy, Carhartt, Irie Daily and many many other brands.


It searches the Tweets of Twitter around Chatham-Kent, Chatham-Kent Division, Ontario 10km.
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@chile_pepper B's not dominating. Leafs D is horrible. Poor passing. Can't get puck out of zone.
And how are Canadians better off with Trudeau?
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Let's Go Raptors. You've got this!!!
The shop is open! BDHS spirit wear can now be ordered online. Check out the link for details.
Once A Blue Blazer Always A Blue Blazer !!!
RT @KHope73: For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. Back to the jungle Tuesday!
RT @HooksHalligans: Chatham-Kent Fire & Emergency Services, units 18-11, 18-14 and 11-22 responding as 18-12.
Chatham-Kent Fire & Emergency Services, units 18-11, 18-14 and 11-22 responding as 18-12.
Way to go Raptors. Woot Woot!!
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. Back to the jungle Tuesday!
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Guess what I am relaxing to tonight? Name that Canadian track?
@lpollard1959 That's about what we have gotten in Blenheim as well.
@UrbanFarmher @andrewtompsett Yes it does.
A large piece of artwork is finished. It's built with a reinforced frame on the back because it's quite big.
Defining Passion - Sports - Reading - More Sports - Mixed Bag... Events & Grey Cup for @CFL... Opinions are very much my own.
Is it just me or is it not weird when fans wear basketball jerseys without t-shirts underneath at a game??
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Klein Doortje è un film muto del 1917 prodotto e diretto da Friedrich Zelnik.

Trama

Produzione
Il film - che fu prodotto da Friedrich Zelnik per la Berliner Film-Manufaktur GmbH (Berlin) - venne girato negli studio della Fern Andra-Film .

Distribuzione
Il film fu proiettato per la prima volta a Berlino il 7 settembre 1917.

Note

Voci correlate
 La piccola Dorrit, romanzo

Collegamenti esterni

  Early Cinema

Film basati su opere di narrativa

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If only people could get over the "ick" factor, they might see the potential of an ancient food source: bugs.
Insects are a great source of protein, and experts say they could be a way of beating hunger as the world population grows. Now a pair of Minneapolis writers have produced a graphic novel called "Meal," which delves deeper into the practice of eating insects.
In her Minneapolis apartment, graphic artist Blue Delliquanti leaned into her freezer and pulled out a box. It contained bee larvae she was about to put in an omelet.
"Just like little frozen bee babies," she said.
Her friend and collaborator Soleil Ho laughed. "They are about the same sizes as the wasps I brought home," she said.
The wasps she was talking about came from a wasp festival in Japan — that is, a wasp-eating festival. She was recently named the San Francisco Chronicle's restaurant critic. But she is also well known as the host of the "Racist Sandwich" podcast, which explores the cultural history behind the things we eat.
Ho said eating insects, or entomophagy, has a lot of baggage — and it's not just the yuck factor.
"Ugh! Where do we start?" she asked, rolling her eyes for comic effect. "In 2013, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization released a paper that got a lot of people in the West thinking of entomophagy as a practice."
• Read more: Bugs are sustainable food, but how do you convince people to eat them?
That paper said eating more insects, which pack a lot of protein, could not only combat world hunger but boost nutrition and reduce pollution. It attracted a lot of attention. But some people in Western countries were just grossed out.
However, the report also spawned a host of startups in the U.S. looking to cash in on everything from cricket flour to mealworm farms for home use. Ho said that across the world, entomophagy is not unusual and is, in fact, a cherished part of the culture. She hopes their graphic novel can help spread awareness — at least a little.
"To this day we still don't really think about it in a mainstream way, especially in the media, especially in food media," she said. "The perception of it as being either gross or 'the future of food' divorced of any indigenous context or things like that is still really persistent. And I think 'Meal' is one little, I don't know, a beacon of light in all that confusion."
"Meal" is the story of Yarrow, a young woman deeply interested in entomophagy. She moves to Minneapolis because she has heard a well-known chef is about to open a restaurant offering an insect-based menu. Yarrow wants to learn all she can about the cooking side of things but soon finds herself plunged into learning the cultural history of eating grasshoppers and tarantulas.
While the diverse employees at the restaurant want it to be a financial success, they also see it as an important expression of their origins.
Delliquanti wrote and drew "Meal" with Ho's input. Delliquanti wanted to reflect experiences she had while traveling.
"When I got introduced to eating crickets, it wasn't because my hosts in Thailand were pushing it as a 'future food,'" she said. "It was a community activity that they brought together because they loved it and they enjoyed it and they wanted to share something special."
"Meal" follows the drama accompanying any restaurant opening. It also touches on Yarrow's search for romance. But it always gets back to the bugs.
"So have you eaten bee larvae before?" Ho asked.
Delliquanti marinated the larvae in soy sauce and sake. After that, the omelet came together quickly.
It smelled great. Then came the moment of truth. Sure enough, the omelet was tasty. To my admittedly undiscerning palate, it tasted a little of lobster.
Besides the story, "Meal" also comes with recipes for dishes with crickets, mealworms and tarantulas. If this all sounds a little far-fetched, Delliquanti pointed out that Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, began serving chapulines, toasted grasshoppers in chili lime salt, in 2017. They were so popular with fans that the vendor had to introduce a per-game order limit.


Flip the switch – cvs2bvs!
We can now turn on The Switch.
Switch from FLAT earth … to … ROUND earth, for example, just like Columbus.
The Switch is the Universal Brain Software known as cvs2bvs. The Switch is the simplest and fastest key to better thinking. cvs2bvs is a powerful perception switch. Also popularly known worldwide as CVS TO BVS.
cvs2bvs allows you, the brainuser, to think outside the square.
The Universal Brain Software also allows the brainuser to switch from one parallel universe to another. It empowers you to explore the cognos, the multiverse of thinking.
Just flip the switch! cvs2bvs.
In tough economic times, our exploratory science programs — from space probes to the LHC — are first to suffer budget cuts. Brian Cox explains how curiosity-driven science pays for itself, powering innovation and a profound appreciation of our existence.
Physicist Brian Cox has two jobs: working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and explaining big science to the general public. He's a professor at the University of Manchester.
The Edge Question 2010: How is the internet changing the way you think?
He wonders "will books end up back where they started, locked away in monasteries and read by a select few?".
– Technology analyst Nicholas Carr wrote , "Is Google Making Us Stupid".
Has the use of the Web made it impossible for us to read long pieces of writing?
Sleeping on a problem really can help solve it, say scientists who found a dreamy nap boosts creative powers.
They tested whether "incubating" a problem allowed a flash of insight, and found it did, especially when people entered a phase of sleep known as REM.
Volunteers who had entered REM or rapid eye movement sleep – when most dreams occur – were then better able to solve a new problem with lateral thinking.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has published the US work.


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Forthcoming World Resources Report Will Focus on Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
by Brian Lipinski and Craig Hanson - October 16, 2012
Today is World Food Day, a chance for people all over the world to focus on approaches to end global hunger. Celebrated each year to commemorate the founding of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), this day provides us with an opportunity to assess where the world is today in regard to food security – and what we'll all have to do in the future to achieve it.
Adaptation in COP17 Durban: Opportunities for Clarity and Consolidation
by Heather McGray - November 26, 2011
The Cancun Adaptation Framework agreed during COP16 provides potential for a new action orientation to adaptation under the UNFCCC. COP17 in Durban presents a big opportunity to resolve several critical pieces of the Cancun Adaptation Framework, to integrate and streamline the many strands of adaptation negotiations, and to move forward on helping countries around the world adapt. Expectations of significant progress on adaptation are high – especially since Durban is an "African COP," taking place on a continent where vulnerability to climate change is palpable and affects so many people's future. But the Durban adaptation agenda is long, and negotiation time limited, so Parties have no time to waste. Key issues are summarized here:
Making effective decisions in a changing climate
by Manish Bapna and Kelly Levin - November 02, 2011
A third of Thailand is under water. Epic floods have taken people's lives, destroyed businesses and crops, and are now sweeping into Bangkok. As the capital braces itself, some people are beginning to point fingers at various culprits: the unusually heavy rains possibly linked to climate change, ineffective communications within government, and poor infrastructure decisions.
Seven Billion: The Real Population Scare is Not What You Think
by Manish Bapna - October 26, 2011
If you believe the doomsday merchants, the scariest thing about this Halloween is the fact that the world's population will pass seven billion on or near October 31.
World Resources Report: Decision Making in a Changing Climate
Conditions are changing in our world. Some are feeling the impact now, from the heat wave and wildfires in Russia of the last two years, the devastating floods in Pakistan and Australia, tornadoes in the United States, mudslides in Brazil, drought in China. Others are worrying about the impacts to come: the tea growers in Kenya's highlands who are seeing cases of malaria they didn't see only five years ago; the cocoa farmers in Ghana who think about how changes in rainfall will affect their sensitive crops; the rice farmers in Vietnam who are increasingly concerned about rising water levels.
A New Approach to Feeding the World
by Janet Ranganathan and Craig Hanson - September 23, 2011
Can the current food production system feed a growing population in a changing climate while sustaining ecosystems? The answer is an emphatic "no." A new approach is imperative and overdue, one in which the world feeds more people—an estimated 9 billion by 2050—with less ecological impact. To be successful, this new approach must address both how we produce and how we use food.
Learning Lessons from Wildfires, from Texas to Brazil
by Kelly Levin - September 15, 2011
This statement from the director of the Texas Forest Service makes it clear that the recent wildfires that scorched Texas belong in a new category of disaster. Already, the state's wildfires this season have consumed 3.6 million acres (an area the size of Connecticut), swallowed over 1,500 homes, and killed at least four people. According to NOAA, the current wildfire is costing more than $1 million per day and exceeds $5 billion in overall damages across the Southwest. These are costs that will be borne by government, business and residents, alike.
Report from Bangladesh: Turning Local Adaptation Lessons into National Policy
by Heather McGray - April 27, 2011
How can national policies support communities to adapt to climate change?
Ghana and Vietnam Scenarios Foreshadow How Decisions on Climate Adaptation Are Made
by Philip Angell - March 17, 2011
Scenario exercises look at the how and why of decision-making for climate change.
Towards a Climate Safe Common Future
by Gro Harlem Brundtland, Special Envoy on Climate Change for the UN Secretary-General - February 28, 2011
The two defining challenges of this century are climate change and poverty. Our challenge is to find a way to deal with both, at the same time.


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The Amazing Yiddish Album Nominated for a Grammy
Feb 9, 2019 | by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
Suppressed for a lifetime, this music was discovered and recorded, and then nominated for a Grammy.
One of the entries nominated for the 2019 Grammy Music Awards is a remarkable collection of songs that was lost for over 70 years. The songs in Yiddish Glory, nominated for "Best World Music Album", were written by ordinary Jews in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust. Together they describe a lost Jewish world full of religious yearning, tender family love, and also fear and horror during the war.
Their authors include a ten-year-old orphan boy and a 73 year old woman, factory workers, soldiers and resistance fighters. That this music, suppressed for a lifetime, was discovered and recorded and then nominated for a Grammy is nothing short of miraculous.
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Soviet Union was home to an official Cabinet of Jewish Culture, which encouraged and recorded Jewish artistic expression. During World War II it was led by Dr. Moisei Beregovsky, a Jewish ethnomusicologist from Ukraine who painstakingly documented Jewish musical traditions throughout the USSR. With the Soviet annexation of Poland in 1939, two million Jews became citizens of the Soviet Union. By 1942, the majority of Jews still alive in Europe lived in the USSR. Most of these Jews were Yiddish speakers, and the songs they penned capture the last moments of vibrant Jewish life in much of Europe.
Dr. Moisei Beregovsky
While World War II raged, a Soviet Yiddish newspaper carried an article about Dr. Beregovsky's music research. Soon, letters were pouring in from all corners of the Soviet Union and beyond containing personal, amateur songs. The researchers soon had many letters from soldiers and civilians, refugees and survivors of Nazi massacres, who'd each written Yiddish songs about their experiences.
Dr. Beregovsky gathered together hundreds of these Jewish songs, preserving their words and beauty for posterity - or so he thought.
After World War II, Soviet leader Josef Stalin became increasingly anti-Semitic and many Jewish artists and intellectuals were arrested, imprisoned in Siberian gulags, tortured and murdered. Dr. Beregovsky's office was shut down in 1949 and in 1950 he too was arrested and imprisoned in Siberia. His unique manuscripts were lost, presumed destroyed. Dr. Beregovsky died believing the songs he'd documented and transcribed were gone forever.
In 1993, library workers at the Vernadsky National Library in Kiev, Ukraine, made a startling discovery. Inside a collection of unmarked boxes lay hundreds of Yiddish songs collected by Dr. Beregovsky and his colleagues. The workers did nothing with the music, but about ten years later, when Professor Anna Shternshis, who directs the Anne Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, visited the museum, they showed her the manuscripts. Prof. Shternshis was stunned. "Initially, I thought about writing a book based on the archive," she explained. In time, though, Prof. Shternshis thought of a more dramatic way to bring some of these songs to a wider audience. She started bringing together musicians to record the songs.
Since only the songs' words were recorded, Prof. Shternshis needed to find a musician who could create tunes to go with the lyrics. She began collaborating with Russian musician Pavel Lion, who goes by the stage name Psoy Korolenko. "Sometimes we had clear references in the lyrics. The use of specific words let us know exactly which known Yiddish song the song was supposed to be sung to," Lion explained. Other times he had to use his imagination. He borrowed freely from Yiddish melodies, Russian and Ukrainian folk tunes and Soviet anthems in crafting music to go with the historic words.
Prof. Shternshis in Toronto
Prof. Shternshis chose 18 songs to record and assembled a team of five singers and five instrumentalists. One of the singers, Sophie Milman, was born in Russia and had a grandfather who served in the Soviet army and whose life seemingly mirrored some of the experiences in the Yiddish songs.
The resulting album is called Yiddish Glory, released by Six Degrees Records in February 2018. Its 18 tracks range from upbeat to haunting. Each one tells a crucial story about Jewish life.
In 1945, a researcher recorded a song called "My Mother's Grave", written by a ten-year-old Jewish orphan named Valya Roytlender who was living in Bratslav, Ukraine. "Oh mama, who will wake me up? Oh mama, who will tuck me in at night?" are its haunting Yiddish words. (In the album, this song is performed by Prof. Shternshis' son Isaac Rosenberg; he was only 12 when he recorded it, making him one of the youngest Grammy nominees ever.)
In Kazakhstan, another researcher near the close of World War II transcribed a Yiddish song probably written by a Polish or Ukrainian Jew who fled to Central Asia to escape the Holocaust. Its title is caustic, "Purim Gifts for Hitler', and it describes an earlier attempt to annihilate the Jews when Haman tried to wipe out the Jewish people in ancient times. "You're not my first enemy" the song asserts; "before you I've had many others… Your bleary end will be on Haman's tree, while the Jewish people live on and on."
Another song by a Jewish refugee in Kazakhstan records, "I've already suffered endlessly.. Look, I've arrived here naked and sickly only with little pieces of scraps. I've run away from the murderers and the slaughterers from that cursed German, Hitler. And the mountain speaks to me, it speaks to me: 'Enough of this crying and complaining, Al tirah avdie ('don't fear' in Hebrew) Yaakov, don't have any fears…."
The song "Babi Yar" was written after the war by a 73-year-old Holocaust survivor named Golda Rovinskaya. In it, she describes the massacre of over 33,000 Jews in Babi Yar, near Kiev, over two days of killing in 1941. "Oh, blood gushed out from all sides. The earth was stained red from blood" her song describes.
Some of the songs on the album are about fighting the war. The song Afm Hoychn Barg (On the High Mountain) makes fun of Hitler's inability to capture natural resources in Ukraine. Shpatsir in Vald (A Walk in the Woods) is about a soldier saying goodbye to the woman he loves. Chuvasher Tekhter is about the nearly one million women who fought Hitler for the Soviet Union during World War II.
The urgency in the songs reminds us that the Jews who wrote them were living with the ever-present specter of death, as they were targeted by the Nazi killing machine. Their message speak for the millions of Jews who never got the chance to record their thoughts and feelings during the Holocaust. The song "Taybil's Letter to Her Husband at the Front" was written by a 28-year-old Jewish woman who worked as a tailor during the war sewing uniforms for Soviet soldiers. "Slash them, smash them, have no mercy, take revenge for us all" she urges her husband fighting Nazis.
The song Mayn Pulemyot (My Machine Gun) describes a Jew who fled the Holocaust and now is fighting with the Soviet Army against Hitler: "I lie beside my machine gun and softly sing a Yiddish tune. All around me, everything is quiet, the only sound is the swish of the grasses. I remember the joy of my shtetl; who wouldn't recognize it? Now it's been emptied out, there are no people left. Oh, all the houses have been burned."
"They don't have any parallels in other collections of Holocaust music," explains Prof. Shternshis. The songs give us a unique glimpse into the last years of Yiddish life and culture in eastern Europe. Whether or not the beauty and power of Yiddish Glory wins at the Grammys, these songs deserve to be heard and remembered, along with the life stories and experiences of their authors.
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Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
Dr. Alt Miller lives with her family in Chicago, and has lectured internationally on Jewish topics. Her book Angels at the table: a Practical Guide to Celebrating Shabbat takes readers through the rituals of Shabbat and more, explaining the full beautiful spectrum of Jewish traditions with warmth and humor. It has been praised as "life-changing", a modern classic, and used in classes and discussion groups around the world.
(6) Anonymous, February 20, 2019 11:38 AM
Where can one buy a copy of Yiddish Glory
I live in Johannesburg South Africa. Where an I obtain a copy of Yiddish Glory?
(5) barbara singer-meis, February 11, 2019 6:58 AM
Where & how can I get the CD?
Nancy, February 12, 2019 7:16 AM
Amazon has it:
https://smile.amazon.com/Lost-Songs-World-War-II/dp/B079FJ669D/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549955733&sr=8-1&keywords=yiddish glory the lost songs of world war ii
(4) Anonymous, February 10, 2019 9:30 PM
Am Israel chai thru this music
Music lives even when people perish. Never again!!!!!!.....
As a regular reader of your Newsletter, it's most gratifying to read Dr. Miller's
comments. They adds greatly to the background on Prof. Shternshis's amazing discovery & work in re-creating these priceless songs.
All the more as Prof. Shternshis is associated with a Canadian university.
Todah Rabah
(2) Morton Winner, February 10, 2019 5:27 PM
How/when may I hear this blessed music?
Outstanding article,deeply appreciated,deeply affecting.As we mourn,we must remember,therefore we must listen.So,how do we get to hear this blessed music? Anent one of the titles,there might have been a typo- it should read "Chushever Techter", I respectfully submit.
zlate 1, February 11, 2019 2:02 AM
Amazon had it
Amazon had it. Right now it is out of stock. I am sure they will get it back in especially if it wins.
Sarita, February 12, 2019 8:39 PM
You can can it in Amazon
easy, just order it!
Very moving and inspiring article.
The theme and content of the article are an important addition to Holocaust resource literature. To my mind it is an additional record to the tribulations and horror suffered by our people suffered just 75 years ago. Also the album is important as a reflection of the world wide renewed interest in Yiddish language, literature and history.
Anonymous, February 12, 2019 8:40 PM
Easy, Amazon has it.
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STEVEN WILSON'S The Raven That Refused To Sing: The Legacy Of Progressive Rock?
By Nick Leonardi on June 16, 2013
The Raven That Refused To Sing (and Other Stories), released in 2013, is the third album by progressive rock artist Steven Wilson, most poplar for being the frontman of Porcupine Tree, easily one of the best Prog Rock acts of the last twenty years or so. After a few side projects such as Blackfield, and a few collaborations with other artists, Wilson started a solo career, and released "Insurgentes" in 2008. But it is with "Grace For Drowning", in 2011, that Wilson stepped up his game in a way nobody expected, and crafted one of the most beautiful and personal progressive albums ever made. Some might consider such a statement far too much of an exaggeration, but this man, without being afraid of showing his influences, mixed the past with the present in an outstandingly sophisticated way; it's not an album that is destined to be an important point in musical history, but rather one that represents a complete portrayal of an artist, a swan song of his own.
"The Raven That Refused To Sing" comes a year and a half later. Steven Wilson seems to have already expressed his emotions in the best and most complete way possible, so it is only natural that this new album doesn't have the touching melodies and the haunting, roaring emotions of "Grace For Drowning". Even though Wilson does tend at times to repeat his sound throughout his albums, he does have the common sense not to repeat them too often. Instead, "Raven" stays as distant from his inner feelings as possible: this is the tribute to vintage prog rock some fans were waiting for, and others were hoping not to hear. It is by far the jazzier, musician-oriented album yet from this artist. The songwriting is more studied and a little more distant, but it is exactly what Wilson needed to do. He unleashes on "Raven" all the love he has for progressive music, without even looking within himself. Although it does sound like a bad premise, the songwriting, song structuring, and musicianship are so, so good, that there isn't really much that feels missing. Everything that needs to be in such kind of album is here in the most complete way. It is, in other words, a fun record for whoever is a fan of the genre, and a not-so-good record for those who are not fans enough to love progressive rock in any form, of any era.
What sticks out the most probably is in fact the musicianship: Steven Wilson surrounds himself with some outstanding players, including drummer fiend Marco Minnemann, bass player Nick Beggs, keyboardist Adam Holzman, flute and sax player Theo Travis. This ensemble all playing together do miracles, and Wilson himself has improved so much in both his vocal harmonies and guitar playing. With such a punch of virtuosity to the music, traces of Porcupine Tree's sound are at the minimum, unlike previous works by SW.
With six tracks, three of them above ten minutes, the other three under ten, the Porcupine Tree frontman structures his work with great sophistication, making these two kind of tracks alternate, starting with eleven minute "Luminol", easily one of the best Wilson songs ever: the opening minutes are mouth-dropping, Jazz-rock influenced passages, while the core of the track softens a bit, until slowly the song picks up momentum until it closes stronger than how the track started. The several melodies and hooks repeated themselves at the right pace, at the right time. Same thing can be said for the third track, the even jazzier and vivacious "The Holy Drinker", that with its frequent organ usage has somewhat of a hard rock edge to it. The last of the long songs is "The Watchmaker" perhaps the weakest of them, because of its terrible resemblance, structure-wise, with Genesis' "the Cinema Show", but it's still a great track that boasts gentle, acoustic verses that give a perfect musical variety to the album's whole. Now, the songs that divide up these three titans: the second track, "Drive Home" is a nice and calm song that has some great solos and good songwriting, while "The Pin Drop" has one of the greatest hooks of the entire album, and some of the best musicianship as well on behalf of Wilson's playing. The final track, the title track, is for sure the one that sticks out the most of the shorter songs, for its little amount of drums and incredible atmosphere that closes the album with a vibrating tension you wouldn't expect to hear.
"The Raven That Refused To Sing" is an excellent example of a modern prog rock album that tributes the past with newer, more elaborate sounds and great, lush production. Steven Wilson skeptics will be, for sure, multiply after this album, because of its nature, on the other hand, it might turn on some that never really were into Porcupine Tree, because almost all traces of the band's sonic characteristics are gone. Steven Wilson seems to be maturing, abandoning his roots more and more, straight towards a brave, new direction.
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I was in San Francisco last week for Dreamforce, the yearly confab for Salesforce that has had a major focus on social business the last couple of years. There's little doubt that Marc Benioff clearly sees the very near future of business, and it's something he calls the social enterprise. While you can read my blow-by-blow of the opening presentation, which was one of the most impressive cases for becoming a social enterprise yet made in my opinion, the process of social business transformation is a complex one and isn't going to be made so explicitly by many firms.
That's not to say that some organizations, either by inclination or through gifted leadership (or both), won't naturally adopt social business methods. To them, the patterns, tools, and modes of participation are even easier ways of working than what they do today and there are relatively few obstacles. Those aren't the companies that will ultimately have a dark night of the soul as they look at what their competitors are starting to accomplish and wonder how they can get there too. As the evidence mounts that socially engaged workforces, along with their trading partners and customers, result in more productive, efficient, and profitable enterprises, it will be — by definition — the organizations less likely to be able to make the transition that will have the most challenges and the longest path.
This was a key point made at Dreamforce, namely that there is a growing "social divide" between 1) our customers and workers, and 2) our organizations, the latter of which have been much slower to adopt social methods of engagement, both internally and to the world at large. Like Benioff, I've long predicted that the gap between how we've changed as a culture and society will become untenable with the relatively slow rate at which many of our businesses are adapting to these changes. Benioff has gone so far as to seriously suggest that there will be a "Corporate Spring", analogous to what's happened in the Middle East this year, that will change the status quo positively from companies to governments as aging and obsolete methods are cast aside by workers for better social ones.
Frankly, this loss of control is evident in many organizations when they do any kind of application audit these days: Workers are using the means that pose the least barrier for them in getting their work done. Social media is increasingly winning the growth game with shadow (unsanctioned) social tools for collaboration, for example. These are technology and behavioral shifts that just about every CIO is closely tracking at the moment.
But the transition to the social enterprise, as inevitable as some (including myself), think it will be, will not be as simple as buying the latest social software solution — no matter how good — and declaring victory. For starters, the process involves genuine cultural change even more than than it requires technology enablement. Then there is the sheer size and variability of the enterprise itself to contend with. The truth is that as compelling as comprehensive platform visions such as what Salesforce articulated last week are, the journey towards social enterprise involves conscious decisions to change organizational behavior, business strategy, and technology.
Moving from some participant channels, then to all separately, and finally together. Right now most organizations are just developing their social engagement capabilities for B2C, B2B, E2E, and E2B. They will develop them separately for the most part, then learn the importance (and need) to cross-connect them strategically and then begin unifying the platforms, organization roles, resources, and processes so that there is consistency, reduced duplication, better governance, and higher business impact. The organizations that can do this in the fewest steps will be the winners and they will be aided by increasingly mature platforms from the largest vendors, though some companies will roll their own.
Going social generally first, then connecting social activity to work processes. Those that have been following the extensive discussions recently in the social business community are becoming more aware of how important that social activities be integrated with high value work streams. If business applications for customer care, product development, operations, and so on are isolated from social tools, then by definition there will be limited impact. Most organizations will adopt general purpose social communities (internal and external both) and then begin the hard work of integrating them to line of business applications as well as producing new kinds of socially-enabled applications that didn't exist before, such as social intranets, location-based apps, and much more. Lesson: Those that can put social to work with business apps via a more direct and meaningful route will generate substantially more business value than those that don't.
Starting at the departmental level and then creating enterprise-level social business capability. This is the story around the social business unit and CIO-level programs to provide the strong technical support. Unfortunately, cultural support for change will lag in many organizations that don't have strong social business leaders at an executive level, as serious a hindrance as not having social business capabilities themselves.
Top-down leadership and grassroots initiatives meet in the middle, then sort it out. Most organizations have blogs, wikis, social CMS and other social media lurking in the margins, some even that are quite successful. At the same time, many organization are indeed pushing out official efforts but ones that don't necessarily have support and buy-in from workers. Very often, the issue is with different parts of the organization at approximately the same level will engage in internecine conflict until their approach, platform, or preeminence wins out. While this is what happens at first, slow in same cases, though more quickly for high functioning organizations, the issues get resolved and the various parts of the organization generally becomes "calibrated" in the same direction, resulting in a unified approach to social business in general.
It's clear that social business can be an arduous and difficult road for some, but it's also a profoundly rewarding one as organizations consciously update their digital strategies for the 21st century to reflect the realities of and changes in the modern world today. The good news is that we now know more than ever before what the broad outlines of the transition to being a social enterprise will look like. I think you'll find that aids like the list above helps see the context and the eventual end point to aim for. There are also many other valuable lessons learned accumulating in places like the Social Business Council and the Community Roundtable. Fore now, smart and forward-thinking organizations will begin looking more holistically at how they are evolving and develop strategies to make the transition with the least disruption, fewest steps, aimed at the most constructive and valuable outcomes.
What else are you seeing in terms of convergence of social business activities in your organization?


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Analysis: Con Lucey report to influence the future of the IFA
Margaret Donnelly
Tim O'Leary, Bryan Barry and Con Lucey.
Con Lucey will today present the findings of his report to the IFA Executive Council in the IFA's Headquarters at the Farm Centre in Bluebell.
The former Chief Economist of the IFA has been tasked with a monumental job and his recommendations will guide the organisation through the coming months and perhaps even years – if it takes them on board and acts on them.
Lucey is to look at the implementation of recommendations around remuneration and other observations in he originally made in 2015 in his letters to the then President Eddie Downey.
He is also set to make additional recommendations on corporate governance or other areas which he considers relevant.
While much of Lucey's review will look at the remuneration package of the former General Secretary of the IFA Pat Smith, he will also look at salaries of other IFA staff. It has been rumoured that a number of other significant pay packages may be announced this week.
There will be full transparency and accountability from now on – Tim O'Leary
While it is understood that Lucey will not be involved in determining the actual remuneration of senior members of the IFA, one of his main issues was the improvement of financial oversight in the Association.
Further, submissions made to Lucey by IFA members – the number of which one expects to be significant – will have to be addressed – perhaps not directly by Lucey in the report, but by those tasked with implementing Lucey's report.
It may not be explicitly stated in the report, but one of the underlying themes of Lucey's review and recommendations will be to help the IFA identity and address what it will take to restore confidence in the organisation's decision-making structures.
Lucey has also pointed out that there should be clear accountability for all major decisions in relation to the governance of the Association.
To quote Lucey himself, in his second letter to then President Eddie Downey in 2014 when he stepped aside, the IFA must be above suspicion, if it is to maintain the confidence of its membership.
And it is hoped by many within IFA that Lucey will look at the role of the General Secretary and its remit.
However, Lucey's report may even be underwhelming for a lot of people. It's unlikely that he will go as far to say whether the senior salaries are justified or not.
In fact, it's quite likely that the Lucey review and recommendations may not provide the answers that many IFA members are looking for, it will no doubt provide a lot of questions for the senior staff and volunteers within IFA – questions that are being asked around the country by the membership.
And these questions must be addressed and fully answered by the IFA.
Future Ambitions in IFA
The meeting will also see the county chairmen and possible presidential candidates back in the one room for the first time since its 17-hour marathon meeting.
Today will be a day where many may go to Bluebell hopeful of the support of others and confident about the future.
What Lucey and others will no doubt be hopeful of is that the majority will leave with a fresh confidence about the future of the organisation, whatever about their own personal ambitions, which should take a far second place to the task at hand of rebuilding the organisation.
Con Lucey's remit
Lucey's remit is quite broad and will focus on the main issues and make practical recommendations, he has said.
The recommendations will reflect that the times and corporate governance standards have changed; with businesses and organisations now subject to greater scrutiny as regards how they operate.
He will look at all aspects of the remuneration package of the General Secretary, the President and the Deputy President.
Lucey will also make recommendations around the IFA's Remuneration Committee, which will be responsible for setting the pay and remuneration of these senior positions.
According to the letter he wrote to then IFA President Eddie Downey in August 2014, Lucey had concerns that he wanted addressed. These included:
Review the level, timing and method of financial reporting in IFA, taking account in particular of the primacy of the Executive Council.
Review internal financial controls to ensure that all expenditure is authorised and that the method of authorisation is robust.
Review IFA's code of practice and training programmes for Committee Chairmen and Staff in order to minimise the risk of litigation by Regulators and Commercial firms.
Review the maximum time limits for payment of expenses to ensure that claims can be verified (currently €1.2m of estimated expenses by Committee and County Chairman are unclaimed).
Examine the issues that may arise from changes to accountancy standards which are to apply from January 2015.
Lucey will also look at the expenses of voluntary officers within the IFA and the levels of executive staff salaries in the organisation, as well as making recommendations around these.
Con Lucey Eddie Downey IFA Pat Smith