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The Mycology TikToker Embracing the Sound of Shrooms
There's pure silence in the air until Noah Kalos stretches his hand into the video's frame and clamps a white wire onto a bowling ball-sized cluster of oyster mushrooms. Pink and fleshy with pronounced gills, they look like they were plucked from a desert garden on Mars — and they sound even more otherworldly. A deep cacophony of bleeps and bloops ensues, and I can only imagine this is what one hears while playing Mario Kart on ketamine.
Kalos is a bespectacled, heavily bearded guy living in rural North Carolina. He's down to earth and used to the quiet life, but he's also a #mushtok influencer with more than 600,000 followers and eight and a half million likes on TikTok, where his name is MycoLyco. Fans of the mushroom-obsessed electronic musician show up to watch him record what happens when he connects synthesizers to fungus. A mushroom's skin, like that of a human, has electrical properties. Unlike ready-to-play synths with keyboards, Kalos' many-wired modular synths aren't preset to make a certain sound when you hit a certain button. Instead, they don't make any sound at all until they are hooked up to something that creates energy. The cellular activity of a mushroom produces a bioelectrical voltage that rushes through the wires and is translated into these wonky sounds. (Think about this: Two instruments can create voltage by playing the exact same note but sound different. What we hear, as explained by Explain That Stuff, all depends on how the instrument — or mushroom, in this case — "vibrates and makes the air around or inside it vibrate in sympathy.")
Sometimes he'll even put two specimens together, and it sounds as if the two toadstools are talking to each other. "It's a creative collaboration between humans, mushrooms, and machines," he tells Rolling Stone from a room he frequents often — the spare bedroom he renovated to become part recording studio, part mycology lab.
One of the first videos Kalos posted on YouTube went viral, clocking in over a million views. "I made like $5,000 in two weeks from it," he says, adding that TikTok doesn't generate nearly as much revenue even though he's now more popular there, though he declines to cite any numbers. "If you say how much you make from it, they can kick you out of the Creator Fund." (Kalos doesn't think that's fair — but he doesn't "want to be the one to have to sue TikTok," he says. "I don't have lawyer money.")
Since going viral, Kalos has popped up on quite a few celebrities' radars. He didn't even realize that SZA had started following him until a fan pointed it out. "I was like, 'Oh really? Let me follow her back,'" he says, bashful. Kalos then messaged SZA about possibly collaborating. "She said yes," he shares. "But I haven't heard from her for like a month, so I don't know what's up with that. She's probably busy — or ghosting me. But the fact that I can say I'm getting ghosted by SZA is cool."
Kalos remembers being fascinated by mushrooms during summer camp, but it was frowned upon. "Wilderness survival people were very mycophobic back then," he says.
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Netflix recently worked with him too; Kalos' music is featured in Vivo, a children's movie that the streaming company released this summer. "They had me connect some wildflowers to my synthesizer for that," he says, explaining that the corporation was "afraid of the mushrooms" — even though they're not psychedelic — in developing a kid-friendly project.
Kalos, who grew up in Massachusetts, studied art at Oberlin College in Ohio. Fascinated by permaculture — a more low-tech, sustainable approach to agriculture — he sought out a good chunk of land he could call his own and ended up with about 1.7 acres a few hours outside of Asheville. With books by Sepp Holzer — the self-proclaimed "rebel farmer" — under Kalos' arm, he took a job as a field instructor for a local wilderness therapy program.
He's always loved the wild. In between college semesters, he worked as a camp counselor. And as a kid himself, he went to summer camp, where he learned about wilderness survival and started mushroom-foraging — much to his counselors' dismay. "Wilderness survival people were very mycophobic back then," he says, explaining many were scared of people eating the wrong mushroom and dying as a result. "I think, in the last 10 years, we've seen a big shift in this country. A lot more people are getting out and foraging, and learning to identify mushrooms."
Kalos isn't wrong in thinking that public perception has changed. Thirteen years ago, renowned mycologist Paul Stamets led what's become a wildly popular Ted Talk, "Six Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World," which now has three and a half million views on YouTube. Stamets also appears in Fantastic Fungi, a cinematic documentary narrated by Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson that came out in 2019 and promptly scored 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. This year, Johns Hopkins received the first federal grant in 50 years for research on psilocybin as a medicinal treatment. And just this month, Detroit decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms, following in the footsteps of progressive cities like Denver and Oakland, as well as the state of Oregon.
But Kalos wants it known that his social media has nothing to do with psychedelia. He's more interested in making art from culinary-grade mushrooms and ingesting immune-boosting mushrooms. He even considered getting a tincture business off the ground, an idea he's been forced to put on hold until he can create an out-of-home facility free of animal hair and other possible supplement pollutants. He was, at the time, particularly interested in cordyceps, which are parasitic mushrooms that often grow on insects, and are known in the holistic community for boosting energy and strength in humans, while supposedly fighting inflammation. "The idea originally was to turn this whole studio into a cordyceps growing room and kind of put the music away for a little bit just to make some money, get the family moved into a bigger house," he says, referring to his wife and two kids — who are two and four, and whose art can be seen hanging on the wall behind Kalos' head. "But I hit some red tape with being able to sell them because I'm drying them in a house with a dog and all that sort of stuff." When social media presented him with a new revenue stream, though, he decided to "go with the flow."
Like many others, Kalos also sees the benefits of mushrooms as a multi-use resource. While Stamets, for example, believes fungi can clean up oil spills, fashion designer Stella McCartney, a vegan who has never used animal skin, feathers, or fur in her lines, sees them as a great leather substitute. In early October, McCartney introduced the world to the first mushroom-leather purse on a runway at her Paris Fashion Week show. The material she used — made of mycelium, the root-like extensions of mushrooms — comes from a startup called Bolt Threads, which focuses on plant-based alternatives and has already partnered with Adidas, Lululemon, and Kering, as well as McCartney. For the fashion show, she hired Stamets to do the opening narration, but she also licensed Kalos' bleeps and bloops. "I wanted to immerse viewers in an entirely sensory experience which led me to discover the incredible Noah Kalos, who was such a natural choice for the show soundtrack," she says. "Noah's practice is phenomenal."
McCartney calls the implementation of "Mylo" technology a "massive milestone" that's been years in the making over email with Rolling Stone. She adds that she's always experimenting with new materials for a more sustainable future but that a viewing of the Fantastic Fungi documentary inspired her: "It was a driving force in my creative process for the Summer 2022 collection."
Kalos says that McCartney and him "might be doing some more work," but that nothing's been set. "There's a potential that her dad might get involved, so that's cool," he says, holding back a smile while the pitch of his voice heightens as if he doesn't want to jinx the situation. If Paul McCartney ends up remixing anything of his, he says, it'll probably only be available inside a Stella McCartney event or store.
A connection being made in Kalos' studio.
While he hopes to hear from the Beatles legend, Kalos continues to create content on a daily basis. He also started applying his process to crystals, attracting the interest of Lizzo. "More crystals plsss," the pop star commented on a video of him playing around with some carnelian. "I was excited about that," he says.
Since mushrooms are alive, Kalos feels confident that he's capturing fungal frequencies: The hardware is recording what's called "electrodermal activity," which is part of what's measured when humans take a lie detector test. The crystal phenomenon, he confesses, is more perplexing. "A lot of times I don't know if it's the crystal or if it's just picking up my Wi-Fi signals," he laughs, seemingly half-serious. "Now, what I do like to think is that maybe the crystal is somehow modifying the Wi-Fi interference in some ways — and that it's an interaction. Also, in the wire that's wrapping around it, there's a frequency that goes through it, and that induces a magnetic field inside of the crystal — and the crystal is going to have resonant frequencies." He says that creates a unique "feedback" situation.
There's no telling how much audio Kalos will end up sorting through by the time he finishes his next album, which he's currently working on. He also dropped an album last year, but that was basically just a compilation of sounds. "This is going to be more like minimal techno," he says. "Maybe get some bass music sounds… Maybe get a little psy trance-y." He says a London-based record label contacted him about creating a full-length set this spring, but that they gave his tracks to another producer who took his art in an entirely different direction, so he's decided to release independently.
"There is something about [Kalos' process] that is so alien-like and trippy," says Teresa Egbert, a mushroom farmer and content creator who goes by both Herbal.Visionz and Shroomy_Baby on Instagram and has collaborated with Kalos. She recently let him record the biodata sonification that came from her finger being connected to some resinous polypore mushrooms the pair found while camping in the woods. "It's like a form of communication from the mushroom in a musical way. It's not something you see every day."
Egbert admits that she doesn't "fully understand" what's happening in her video, which came together when she ended up in North Carolina on a mushroom-hunting trip and realized that Kalos, who's part of a cordyceps Facebook group that Egbert is in, lived nearby. "I know it's something about electrical signals but I'd rather think that I am becoming One with the mushroom overlords when we are connected through the synth," she says with a wink. A bit of a nomad, Egbert regularly finds herself on the road seeking out fellow "mushroom nerds" to learn from and hike with.
Much like the organisms it praises, the mushroom community is growing rapidly these days. The "mushtok" hashtag has 52.5 million views on TikTok, and that number might have actually been lessened by the platform. "From like March to April, I didn't know what was going on," Kalos says. "Old videos of mine would get flagged and removed." He thinks TikTok employees were misclassifying the mushrooms he uses. "I would appeal them and email, and sometimes I'd get them brought back up and other times not. One time, I got an email saying, 'Oh yeah, we checked your profile and it's all good,' but they never put the video back up."
Kalos says videos about lion's mane — which is used in various homeopathic remedies — were being considered advertisements for "illegal goods and services." While lion's mane is far from illegal, Kalos admits that he "may have accidentally caused a lion's mane shortage last year." He says that a reporter contacted him about a story on a lion's mane farmer, who said a TikTok surge was likely to blame for their inability to keep the product on shelves. "If you look at TikTok, and you see lion's mane, and I have a video with like five million views about how it regrows brain cells…" He shrugs. Luckily, though, lion's mane literally does grow on trees.
And Kalos doesn't think that the demand will drain the supply. He says that his DMs are filled with inquiries about how to build at-home labs: "Honestly, I'm not sure what's growing faster — the people who want to start a mushroom business or the people who are consuming the mushrooms."
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Q: Printing real-time SSH output using Python 3.x I have a script that SSH connects from Windows7 to a remote ubuntu server and executes a command.  The script returns Ubuntu command output to the Windows cmd window in one go after the command has executed and finished.  I am just wondering if there is anyway to return real-time SSH output in my script below, or do I always have to wait for the command to finish before seeing the output.
Here's my working code:
import paramiko

ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
host = '9.10.11.12'
port, user, password = 22, 'usr', 'pass'
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stdin,stdout,stderr = ssh.exec_command("cd /opt/app && ./app-tool some_command")

for line in stdout.readlines():
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ssh.close()

Alternatively, if this is not possible with SSH how would I introduce a spinning cursor icon into the above script? Thanks.

A: Figured it out in the end, I used 'iter' method in the following line:
for line in iter(stdout.readline,""):
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A: The output of your command seems to less than the default buffer size because of which it is getting flushed once the command completes.
By default the bufsize is -1 which means that the system default buffer size is used. If bufsize is set to 1 then it is line buffered.
Use
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Minnesota GOP's Short-Sighted Stance on Tap Water
Marty Seifert campaign consultant, Ben Golnik, thinks my recent take on the MN GOP's anti-Minneapolis tap water stance was "preposterous":
Note: While I think it's preposterous that the MN GOP's would take such a shallow stance, I want to be clear that I don't think all Republicans are anti-tap water. This is just the kind of absurd things that happens when political operatives drink too much non-tap water based Kool-Aid.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm glad to hear that a "slick" PR firm was hired since I'd hate to hear that we hired a banal PR firm.
More to the point, the campaign crowd within the MN GOP seems to be working overtime to find examples of waste in the Minneapolis city budget to attempt to frame Rybak as some sort of spend thrift (a spend thrift with a balanced budget). In this case, they're suggesting that investing in marketing a public utility is a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Why Do We Market Public Utilities?
In Ben Golnik's world, it's apparently okay for cities to provide public services such as safe drinking water for a fraction of a cent per gallon to every tap in city, but if you tell anyone about it, you're wasting taxpayer dollars. This makes me wonder if this applies to other public services as well.
What if a city provided 911 emergency services but never made an effort to educate people about it? I remember police officers visiting my elementary school classroom to explain 911 to me (back when dialing 9 took a lot longer than dialing 1). It certainly isn't free to send police officers out into classrooms to explain how and when to call 911. Would Ben Golnik view that as a waste of money as well?
We also hear cases of 911 emergency services being abused by people who call 911 for non-emergencies, potentially putting people facing real emergencies at risk, while putting a burden on the wrong city department. Would it be wrong for the city to invest in a PR campaign that reminds people what 911 services are for? If spending money to market city utilities is wrong, perhaps this would also be a waste under the campaign mindset logic of Ben Golnik, Luke Helier, or Marty Seifert?
Why Would a City Market Tap Water?
The State of Washington has a breakdown of the common reasons why a municipality might choose to market tap water in their community. First, they explain the challenge:
Many people trust bottled water more than tap:
In a 2007 telephone survey of 1,606 Washington residents, more than half said they trust bottled water more than tap. For young people (under age 35), fully 61 percent said they trust bottled water more.
Yet tap water is arguably more highly regulated and controlled than bottled water. And, in blind taste tests, municipal tap water often meets or even beats bottled water.
Then they explain why this may be a problem long-term for a community:
Why this lack of trust is a problem for utilities:
The lack of trust in tap water creates a downward spiral: When ratepayers don't trust tap water, chances are they will be less inclined to pay for infrastructure improvements and necessary rate increases. This affects a utility's bottom line and, ultimately, its ability to provide safe and reliable drinking water over time.
They also provide a tap water marketing toolkit for use by municipalities who want to get the word out.
It sounds to me like there are some significant long-term benefits to having a high tap water participation rate. And if you want to get the participation rate up, you just may have to invest in public relations.
The interesting thing here, which may be over Ben Golnik's head or something he simply hasn't considered, is that the return on investment may be most heavily reflected in the city's waste stream. Find that here in Part Deux (tomorrow).
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Hey, I got a pretty nice aluminum water bottle out of the deal paid for by Minneapolis taxpayers. Thanks.
Odd thing, you can see the picture I took here: http://tweetmeme.com/story/252753324/twitpic-share-photos-on-twitter but when you try to get the actual Twitpic, it's gone: http://twitpic.com/9lsqm
Oh and I'm a Republican (not a GOPer) that supports drinking tap water.
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Optical fibers and a theory of things that go bump in the light
University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a theory describing light pulse dynamics in optical fibers that explains how an interplay of noise, line imperfections and pulse collisions lead to the deterioration of information in optical fiber lines. The theory will help to enhance the performance necessary for high-speed optical communication systems like video on demand and ultra-broadband Internet, and the research has helped establish a new field of inquiry -- the statistical physics of optical communications.
The theory, developed by Los Alamos scientists Michael Chertkov, Yeo-Jin Chung, Ildar Gabitov and Avner Peleg, proposes that an understanding of the physics of signal propagation is important for evaluating and optimizing the performance of optical lines since the natural nonlinearity and disorder of optical fibers results in the corruption of signals traveling through the fiber which, in turn, can lead to information loss. The theory enables scientists to do a comparative analysis of different techniques for the suppression of these information outages.
In addition to the theoretical advance, the team developed, and subsequently patented, a new technique called the pinning method that is capable of reducing the negative impact of optical fiber structural disorder and improving high-speed optical fiber system performance.
Besides the Los Alamos scientists, other collaborators include Igor Kolokolov and Vladimir Lebedev from Russia's Landau Institute and Joshua Soneson from the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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Posted on August 24, 2015 | Alec Bruce | 1 Comment
Investments in travel press pay off for Atlantic Canada's destination promoters
Once, when travel journalists accepted freebie accommodations, meals, drinks, and entertainment on the understanding that they would write about their hosts in (presumably) glowing terms, their more journalistic peers derisively described them as "junketeers", hardly worth consideration for all the quid pro quos they gathered in their figurative money belts.
Now, the FAM business is booming, especially here in Atlantic Canada, where research suggests that tour organizers routinely guarantee a multi-fold return on investment for jurisdictions that jump on the international bandwagon.
For the uninitiated, FAM stands for "familiarization travel trips", typically offered to seasoned travel agents, as well as writers for popular newspapers and magazines. According to Ellen Tucker, the Saint John, New Brunswick-based principal of Freedom Tours & Travel, they operate pretty much the same way everywhere in the developed world.
"Generally, media familiarization trips are conducted by tourism boards," she says. "Here, in Atlantic Canada, that would include the provincial departments of tourism. Once in a while, an individual resort will offer something to an individual reporter. But mostly FAM marketing is undertaken by provincial authorities on a group basis in conjunction with local operators of tourism destinations."
Of course, the purpose of these exercises hasn't changed over the years. It's still all about sending the message effectively to a mediasaturated public. Says Ellen: "To get people's attention on anything, these days, is very, very hard to do. We are bombarded with information."
Still, says Don Cudmore, spokesman for the Atlantic Canada Tourism Partnership (ACTP) – an organization that represents the federal government and the region's departments of tourism, along with its major industry associations – it can be done, and done successfully.
"Media FAMs are very important components in what we do," he says. "It's one of those things where whenever you can get someone to visit your market and experience your product, and they go back and write about it. . . well, it's really invaluable."
Ellen Tucker concurs: "This kind of publicity is worth a lot."
The numbers in Atlantic Canada, at least, seem to bear them out.
In an industry that's worth, conservatively, $4 billion a year in revenue and employs upwards of 35,000 people in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, ACTP's investments – mostly on FAM-related activities – have amounted to $421,785 over the past three years, targeting American media. The three-year earned media value (the metric standardly used around the world) tops in at $14.8 million. That's a 35 dollar-fordollar return on investment.
The picture is even rosier in ACTP's 2012-2015 United Kingdom marketing efforts. There, the investment was $492,000 for a return of $21 million (or roughly $42 for every dollar spent on FAM-related activities).
In fact, between 2014 and 2015, the ACTP hosted travel writers from Everything-Everywhere.com, Forbes.com, AOL.com, Huffington Post, Amazon.com, OK!TV, the New York Times, the Sunday Times, Wanderlust Magazine, The Telegraph, and the Financial Times.
Thanks to one of these FAM engagements, Elaine Glusac of the New York Times wrote, "Bruce Miller throttled back the engines of his 27-foot boat and entered the pinched harbor at Ireland's Eye, an uninhabited, rock-rimmed island that lies eight miles off another, much larger island: Newfoundland. Scattered piles of weathered, gray boards dotted the steep, grassy banks like forgotten kindling. The captain held up a black-and-white 8-by-10 photo that echoed the view circa 1940. Back then, the timber stacks were clearly houses, schooners rested at anchor, and on the farthest hill stood a white church. Now, in the church's place, a steeple lay in the tall grass. Worshipers last attended a service here in 1965, before a government resettlement policy forcibly moved the 157 residents of the remote fishing village, or 'outport,' to larger communities in order to centralize the population.
"'It was all about economics to take people from small communities and put them closer to the infrastructure,' Mr. Miller said, his voice modulating between resignation and anger, 'but you can't take a man who's lived all his life on the fishing grounds and put him in a city.' The 55-year-old former cod fisherman, born in the similarly abandoned town of Kerley's Harbour, began guiding outport ghost-town tours three years ago. 'It was often said (that) they moved, but they never arrived,' he said."
Or as British master chef Gregg Wallace wrote in the Sunday Mail last September, "For my first visit to Canada I headed to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick for a ten-day break. I'm not sure what I expected to find: Mounties, of course; the odd moose; perhaps a bear – actually, to be honest, I didn't see any of these. Canada's a big country – the second-biggest in the world, and 45 times the size of the UK. The province of New Brunswick alone is more than twice the size of England, but with a population of just 750,000.
"As I drove around, I began to wonder why they actually bothered to build roads because there was never anybody using them. It makes driving in Canada a sheer delight – especially where we were, in what they call the Maritimes, on the Atlantic coast.
"The country is stunningly, stunningly beautiful. I hired a Dodge pick-up, the sort of thing I'd only ever seen in movies, and it was an absolute beast, a massive truck with a five-litre engine. My girlfriend Anna loved it. I was slightly nervous about the cost of filling it up, but I found out to my relief that fuel is a lot cheaper in Canada.
"It was a journey of surprises, the first being that Eastern Canada was just a five-hour flight from Britain – I had no idea it would be such a short trip. Another pleasant surprise was that the exchange rate with the Canadian dollar is extremely favourable. And, perhaps most importantly for me after all my years as a MasterChef judge, the food is incredible."
Agreed, you can't buy that kind of publicity – not for Yankee sawbucks or pounds sterling, or even Canadian loonies. Or perhaps you can. The question still remains: Is any of this FAM business actually ethical? Do readers know what they're getting from a writer who has taken professional favours in order (potentially) to return them?
It's a tricky question that neither Ellen nor Don duck. This is not, they intimate, the bad, old days of wink-wink, nudge-nudge. Today, they say, travel writers adhere to strict, often self-imposed, guidelines of comportment and behavior. Those who don't simply don't get published – at least, not for long.
Says Ellen: "It's important to recognize that most (FAM arrangements) do not require the writer to submit his or her work to the travel operator or authority prior to publication. Those folks take their chances. . .Most travel writers are very ethical anyway. They don't want to betray their readers in any way."
As a tourism authority, Don confirms that the ACTP has no opportunity – nor does it demand one – to approve what FAM writers produce. In fact, he says, "Sometimes we don't even know what they're doing until our media trackers tell us about that."
All of which suggests, for now, that the days of the junket – the freebies, the mutual backscratching sessions – are over. Enter the FAM boys and girls, with no apologies to make.
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Helen Earley // October 1, 2015 at 3:01 am // Reply
I am a travel writer who has participated on organized FAM trips and self-directed press trips, and I prefer the latter. FAM trips or media junkets can be jam-packed with as many activities as the tourist board can fit into a day's itinerary, whereas self-directed trips, if a writer can engage an agreeable host, can offer an authentic experience, worth sharing with readers. The best "freebie" I received this year was a $45/night stay in a tent at a Campground in Digby Neck, which I arranged with the owner directly after hearing murmurs about the place. It was hardly luxurious, but an amazing place; well-worth writing about! I always promise to write a piece that is "positive in nature". If something negative happens, I leave it out and contact the host directly to explain why I could not address that aspect of my stay. That's sort of standard, I think. There's definitely no mutual back-scratching, but there's no bridge-burning either. You can heck out my stories on the Travel Website, Family Fun Canada 😉
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In this session, we will go deeper into the Windstyle practice in terms of technique, requirement, and meaning; getting closer to the way that Aragorn and his company are regularly practicing it in life, and using it in their artistic works.
Indeed, born 15 years ago, the Windstyle tends to become a lifelong practice that shows no limit in progression or benefits so far. Always centered around the basics of fluidity and flow of the movement, at this step, the practice encloses more discipline, more opening, more awareness activated, to sharpen the tool for self-progress.
At this step, we will invoke infinity, harmony, and inner peace. We will seek deeper in our behaviour and reflexes. To attend this workshop you must have been through a Windstyle level 1, or ask AragoRn directly to apply.


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Retailers putting livelihoods at risk by delaying post-Brexit investments warns Worldpay
Retailers that delay investments in their business in the wake of the Brexit vote could be putting their long-term prospects at risk warns Worldpay, as a new study from the payments processor reveals widespread uncertainty about trading conditions across the sector.
According to data from the CBI, retail sales volumes grew at their best levels for six months in August1. This follows above-forecast July retail sales number from the Office for National Statistics2. Yet despite buoyant economic data from across the retail sector, just under half (46%) of UK retailers surveyed still believe there will be a drop in consumer spending over the coming year, versus 26% who believe trading conditions will remain unchanged with 27% remaining undecided.
Retailers in London were more than twice as likely to believe conditions will become more challenging in the coming twelve months than those across the rest of the UK. This stark contrast in attitude suggests voter preference could be influencing business behaviour as much as available data.
Worldpay warns uncertainty over how Brexit will impact trading conditions is causing many retailers to delay vital investment needed to modernise the sector and meet rapidly evolving consumer shopping habits.
Nearly half (44%) of UK retailers say the outcome of the Brexit vote has led them to reconsider planned investments in new technologies and channels to market, something which Worldpay believes could limit retailers' ability to grow if left unchecked.
Dave Hobday, UK Managing Director, Worldpay said: "Whilst it's too early to tell what the long term effects of Brexit will be, the fundamental principle of retail will remain the same – focus on the customer. The businesses that will thrive in the post-vote environment will not be those that batten down the hatches, but those that invest and innovate to deliver the type of technology driven experience and service their customers are demanding."
According to Worldpay's research, businesses selling through online channels were far more confident about post-Brexit trading conditions than those with only a bricks and mortar presence, suggesting that recent interest from overseas shoppers taking advantage of currency fluctuations and boosted online spending from non-UK cards, which increased by 5.3%3 in the month following Brexit, have served to reassure web based retailers.
Hobday continued: "Recent high street data suggests the UK retail economy remains buoyant following the Brexit vote, and there are clear opportunities for businesses to thrive in post-referendum environment. In particular, multi-channel strategies which allow retailers to broaden their customer base and appeal to non-UK shoppers will enable businesses to capitalise fully on the current competitiveness of UK products internationally."
About the research:
Survey of 500 UK retailers conducted by Toluna, on behalf of Worldpay. Fieldwork was conducted between 12th and 18th August. The survey was conducted online.
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Worldpay UK has a 42% market share in the UK and helps businesses of all sizes sell more to their customers by accepting card payments in-store, online, via mail or telephone, and on the move.
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1CBI August Retail Survey
2ONS Retail July 2016
3 Analysis of non-UK card transactions processed by Worldpay among UK based online retailers. Percentages have been calculated on the basis of comparison between the rate of year on year growth in the month prior to the referendum (27th May – 23rd June) and the rate of year on year growth in the month post the referendum (24th June - 21st July).
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The History of the 192nd Tank Battalion
Many of them were kids. Some were still in high school. Others had been in the National Guard for years. It was 1940 and the new men had joined the National Guard because a federal draft act had recently been passed, and they knew that it was just a matter of time before they would be drafted into the army.
Having heard that the federal government was going to federalized National Guard units for a period of one year of military service, these men decided joining the National Guard would be a good way to fulfill their military obligation. Many believed that in a year, when the companies were released from federal service, they could begin planning their lives.
Company A came from Janesville, Wisconsin, Company B from Maywood, Illinois, Company C from Port Clinton, Ohio, and Company D from Harrodsburg, Kentucky. On November 25, 1940, they traveled to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where they came together to form the 192nd GHQ Light Tank Battalion. The battalion was what the U.S. Army termed, "an independent tank battalion."
They trained together and, at first, often fought each other. They came from farms, small towns, and the big city. Finally, they took pride in the fact that they were the 192nd Tank Battalion.
In January 1941, since none of the tank companies wanted to give up their tanks, Headquarters Company was formed by taking men from the four letter companies of the battalion. After this was done, the army attempted to fill the vacancies in the companies with men from the home states of each of the National Guard companies.
After taking part in the Louisiana maneuvers in the late summer of 1941, on the side of a hill at Camp Polk, they learned that they were being sent overseas. So much for one year of military service. Those 29 years old or older were given the chance to resign from federal service. Many of those who were left went home on leave to say their goodbyes.
Replacements were sought to fill the vacancies created by the resignations. Many of these men came from the 753rd Tank Battalion which "just happened" to have been sent to Camp Polk from Fort Benning, Georgia. None of the soldiers, who remained or who were new to the battalion, had any idea what lay ahead of them.
Traveling west over different train routes, the companies of the 192nd Tank Battalion arrived in San Francisco and were ferried to Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. One soldier recalled thinking, as they passed Alcatraz Island, that they too were prisoners on an island. At night, they looked across the bay at the lights of San Francisco. For many, this was their last image of the United States.
Sailing from San Francisco for the Philippine Islands, they stopped at Hawaii. Many noticed that the climate there was one of preparation for war. Posters warned of unintentionally providing information to spies. Other posters asked that men volunteer for fire brigades.
West of Hawaii, the ships sailed under complete blackout. One member of the battalion got into trouble for dropping an apple core into the ocean. An officer yelled at him that the apple core could reveal their location to the enemy. What enemy was he talking about? The United States wasn't at war. Only after convincing the officer that apple cores didn't float, did he get out of trouble.
In another incident, an escort cruiser took off after a ship that was spotted in the distance and had failed to identify itself. One man recalled that the front of the ship came out of the water. As it turned out, the ship belonged to a neutral country.
Arriving in the Philippine Islands at Manila, they were rushed to Ft. Stotsenburg and Clark Field. Upon arriving at Ft. Stotsenburg, they were greeted with chants of "suckers" from other American soldiers. It was Thanksgiving so their Thanksgiving Dinner was the leftovers from the 194th Tank Battalion.
It was at this time that D Company was attached to, but not transferred to, the 194th Tank Battalion. Since their barracks were unfinished, they lived in tents. For a little over two weeks they worked to prepare their tanks for the maneuvers they were expecting to take part in; What they were about to take part in was totally unexpected.
On Monday, December 8, December 7 on the other side of the International Dateline, just ten hours after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, they lived through a surprise attack on Clark Field. The attack wiped out the American Army Air Corps, and the first member of the battalion was killed during the attack.
At Lingayen Gulf on December 22, 1941, a platoon of B Company's tanks engaged enemy tanks. This was the first time American tanks fought enemy tanks in World War II. Another soldier died during the engagement and four battalion members became Prisoners of War. A little under two weeks later, C Company's tanks would engage and destroy a company of Japanese tanks.
For the next few weeks, the members of the battalion fell back toward the Bataan Peninsula with the other Filipino and American troops. At Plaridel, the tankers fought a frantic battle against the Japanese to allow the southern forces to withdraw into Bataan. They were asked to hold the position for six hours to allow most of the Filipino and American troops to cross the Pampanga River; they held the position for three days.
As they fell back, they were constantly strafed and shelled. Since they had no air force, no place was safe from enemy planes. The 192nd Tank Battalion was the last American military unit to enter the Bataan Peninsula just moments before the last bridge over the Pampanga River into the peninsula was blown up by the engineers. There, they would continue to fight without food, without adequate supplies, without medicine, and with only the hope of being reinforced. There was always talk that American ships had been seen off the coast of Bataan.
The belief that reinforcements were coming was also lost when they heard the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, on the radios of their tanks. In his speech, he spoke of how some Americans had to be sacrificed if the war was to be won. The soldiers knew Stimson was speaking of them. It was at this time that many made the decision that they would rather fight to the death than surrender.
On April 8, 1942, General King sent his staff officers to meet with the Japanese for terms of surrender. One of the jeeps was driven by a member of the battalion. The white flags on the jeeps were extra bedding from A Company.
At 6:45 in the morning, the order "CRASH" was given. Upon hearing it, most of the tankers destroyed their tanks and other equipment before surrendering to the Japanese. It was on the morning of April 9, 1942, that many of the members of the battalion became Prisoners of War. Having heard that the Japanese were looking for them, they stripped their uniforms of anything that indicated they were tankers.
Some of the soldiers wondered what people at home would think of them because of this. Others escaped to the Island of Corregidor to fight on for another month. Three joined the guerillas. Two of the three would be killed by the Japanese, while the surviving man spent the entire war as a guerilla fighting the Japanese. The rest made their way to Mariveles at the southern tip of Bataan. It was there that they started what became known as the Bataan Death March.
The march was long and hot. The Japanese had not expected such a large number of prisoners and were not prepared to handle this number of prisoners. Most of the POWs, if not all, were sick.
Many of the POWs went days without food or water on the march. Some of the members of the battalion died of exhaustion or were executed simply because they had dysentery and had tried to relieve themselves. As one member of the battalion said, "We were all sick. It was more of a trudge than a march."
The battalion members trudged their way for days attempting to reach San Fernando. It took some of them two weeks to complete the march. Often they marched at night. At times, they stumbled over the bodies of Filipinos and Americans who had died or been executed.
At San Fernando, they were crammed into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane. They were packed in so tightly that those who died remained standing. At Capas they disembarked, the bodies of the dead fell out of the cars as they did so. The POWs walked the last few miles to Camp O'Donnell.
Camp O'Donnell was an unfinished Filipino Army base that the Japanese pressed into service as a prison camp. Disease and the lack of food and medicine took their toll on the weak. There was one water spigot for the entire camp. As many as 50 men died a day. The burial detachment worked nonstop to bury the dead.
To escape the camp, members of the battalion went out on work details to rebuild what they had destroyed weeks earlier as they had retreated. Others worked recovering scrap metal that was sent to Japan.
When a new camp at Cabanatuan opened, the "healthier" POWs were sent there. It was in this new camp that they were joined by the battalion members who had escaped to Corregidor. Most of those POWs who remained at Camp O'Donnell died. For some battalion members, Cabanatuan was where they would spend the remainder of the war.
Other battalion members were sent to satellite camps in other parts of the Philippines. Still, others were boarded onto cargo ships and sent to Japan or another occupied country.
As the war went on and American troops got closer to the Philippines, most of the members of the battalion, who still remained there, were sent to Manila for shipment to Japan. This was done to prevent them from being liberated.
Many members of the battalion died in the holds of Japanese cargo ships. Some died from the heat, some passed out and suffocated, one was murdered by another American for his canteen. Most died when the ships they were on were torpedoed by American and British submarines. The reason this happened was that the Japanese refused to mark the ships with "red crosses" which indicated they were carrying Prisoners of War.
After the American armed forces landed in the Philippines, four of the battalion's members were burnd to death on Palawan Island, with other POWs, by the Japanese. They simply did not want the POWs to be liberated by the advancing American army.
The luckier battalion members were freed when American Rangers liberated Cabanatuan on January 30, 1945. Some were freed when Bilibid Prison was liberated on February 4, 1945. They were the first to come home and tell their stories of life as Japanese POWs.
Those battalion members who had been sent to Japan, or another Japanese controlled country, were used as slave labor. They worked in factories, they worked in condemned coal mines, they worked in copper mines, they worked in steel and copper mills, they worked as stevedores loading and unloading ships, and they hauled hazardous chemicals. They worked for weeks without a day off and with very little food.
What kept them going were the rumors and the planes. The bombings of Japanese cities became more frequent. American planes flew overhead both day and night. At night during an air raid, one member of the battalion recalled peeking out of the window of his barracks to watch the fires from the bombing. He thought they were beautiful.
One day, a member of the battalion watched an American bomber circle above the shipping docks where he was working. The plane dropped leaflets to the POWs working on the docks of the Japanese port. The leaflets indicated that the Americans knew where the prison camps were located.
The POWs began to sense that it was just a matter of time before the war would be over. The only question they asked themselves was, "Would they be alive to see the end of the war?"
Rumors began to fly that the war was over and that Japan had surrendered. Some of the POWs had heard the Japanese emperor on the radio. Others had witnessed a great explosion over Nagasaki. Even after being told by interpreters that Japan had surrendered, they did not believe that the war was over. It was only when the guards vanished from the camps that they knew the rumor might be true. This belief was confirmed when American B-29s appeared over the camps and began dropping food and clothing to the men in the camps.
Most of the surviving members of the battalion were returned to the Philippines to be "fattened up." The United States government did not want them to be seen until they were healthier looking.
Many of the surviving members of the battalion returned home, married, and raised families. They tried to get on with their lives. Some were successful at doing this while others never really recovered from their years as Japanese POWs.
Of the 596 soldiers who left the United States in late October 1941, 325 had died. Some in combat, some were executed, but most died from disease or malnutrition while Japanese Prisoners of War. Many died in the holds of ships that were sunk by Allied submarines.
Today, all the surviving members of the 192nd Tank Battalion are gone, and those who chose to share their stories with us have since passed away. Often, doing this was a very painful experience. As one member of the B Company said to us over seventeen years ago, "You're asking me to tell you about something that I've spent the last fifty-five years trying to forget."
It is our hope that this project keeps their story alive just a little longer.


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Podcast Fan: Why are you Here?
So you landed on this blog. You were searching. For something. Something podcast-related. Was it a specific episode? A particular podcast program? Are you new to podcasts and typed "podcast" into Google and somehow Pursuing Podcasts showed up?
This is a small blog. Despite having a huge backlog of episodes I've curated that I think are worth listening to, I post irregularly. People show up but don't comment. It takes time to write each post, but if no one reads them or comments or engages, meh, I'll keep my thoughts to myself.
Should I keep curating and posting? Are there things that would improve the posts? Make them shorter? More akin to signposts pointing to good episodes rather than trying to summarize the whole thing?
Or maybe just include a few holy sh*t! takeaways. Little morsels; temptations.
I look at my WordPress stats and more people stumble upon this blog than my other one, despite posting more regularly on the other one. I've concluded that searches for "podcasts" or specific episodes are more common than searches for, well, what I write about on my other blog.
If you landed here and read some posts, let me know. What did you like? Not like? Did you listen to an episode after reading about it here? Were you glad for the suggestion?
Is there a podcast show or episode you thing is hammering it that I should check out?
Make some noise in the comments; let me know you're here. And why.
I love podcasts and love telling people about great episodes. If you appreciate my curation efforts, let me know. It could be just what I need to start posting more regularly.
Help me figure out if I'm writing in a void. Or not.
I love trees and forests. I've loved them since I was a girl, when I'd wander in the woods that backed up to our yard, build lean-tos, and feel some magical sense of wonder being around the trees. Even today, out on a walk, I'll stop next to a tree, lean against it, touch it, and experience the bark. There's a connection I've always felt, but never understood.
This Radiolab episode feeds right into those feelings and makes me suspect my feeling of connection is grounded in the trees themselves.
The episode introduces the idea that trees are not just single organisms doing their own individual thing, but part of interconnected forest networks, communicating not just with other trees—including other tree species—but also with underground fungi. It's a network of exchanged resources, the trees depending on the fungi for minerals and the fungi depending on the trees for sugar.
If you think you know how emotions work, this podcast will turn your world upside-down. Enough so that you may find yourself arguing that what's being presented can't be possible.
Before hearing this, I had a hope that we have more control over how we respond to things than we sometimes think. It's one of the reasons I started meditating: to learn to not get hooked as much by emotions.
Yet it often feels as if an emotion takes me over, as if I have no "choice" in feeling something. But what if emotion is the interpretation of a physiological feeling? What if it's a way our body tries to "make sense" of a sensation? What if we do have control?
That's the idea this episode presents.
This #podcast from Hidden Brain is, for me, an exploration into men and the characters they're allowed to display. We encourage the existence of certain "male traits" within the men of our culture, and we disallow others. The episode is an exploration of how some characters that are present in young boys—friendship, openness, sensitivity and friend-love—are often destroyed by the time boys become men. There's a powerful "masculine" cultural tide in which children are raised, a tide that can be difficult to swim against. Parents are "worried" that their boys are "too sensitive," a trait that flies in the face of "masculinity" in the U.S.
This is not a post about podcasts.
It's a post about another blog. A blog I'm writing. That, so far, is completely unrelated to podcasts. Although, they may find their way into it.
It's called Walk the Goats.
My other blog is about mindfulness, personal exploration, the world being a stage and us being characters. But not just being one character, being a bunch of characters.
We sound like our (mother) (father) (teacher) (fill-in-the-blank) who we swore we'd be different from.
We get upset when we don't want to.
We drive cars, intent on going to destination A, only to find ourselves pulling into destination D.
None of these things are things we intend to say or do. So if we aren't planning on saying or doing them, who is doing the saying and doing?
Who are all those characters?
In my blog I explore these characters. And how viewing them as characters helps create some mindfulness space; space between the character who shows up, and the place from where I actually want to respond.
It's an under-cover story: become a wealth manager so you can learn about the uber-wealthy world, based not just on your own experience, but by talking to others doing the same work.
Brooke Harrington, author of the book Capital without Borders, offers a compelling peak into a world most of us can't comprehend. A world where passports and visas aren't needed when traveling by private jet from one nation to another. Where, for the super-rich, the laws "are nothing; they might as well not exist." Where people test the commitment and connections of their wealth managers by sending them off in search of smoked salmon and lost jewelry.
Shakespeare, war, PTSD and healing. Brilliant program that completely grabbed me. Host Laicie Heeley talks with Stephan Wolfert, an army Vet, about his program, De-Cruit, which helps veterans heal through Shakespeare.
Wolfert unexpectedly attended a performance of Shakespeare's Richard III in Montana, where the words broke through to him in a way he'd never experienced. It was so profound he had a catharsis and was sobbing in the theater. His openness about this experience was moving.
I listen to podcasts to stir things up. To challenge my beliefs and add new-idea-pebbles into my fishbowl. I live in a capitalist-based nation where the very infrastructure celebrates and lionizes the belief that "trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state." The only other apparent options—socialism and communism—are vilified.


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TO celebrate international Vinyl Record Day on April 16 we take a look at Glasgow's most popular independent record shops for keen music buyers.
SATURDAY April 16 marks Vinyl Record Day and where better to celebrate it than in Glasgow. There are several thriving record stores in the city where lovers of good music can gather to make a purchase. Vinyl sales are, of course, on the up. 2015 saw a record twenty year high, with figures up by 55% on the previous year.
Breaking away from the mainstream, these charming and often eclectic record stores are where real music can be found. Some of these hidden gems are places you could truly spend hours thumbing through the hoards of records for sale. So indulge in the nostalgia of putting the needle on it with our guide to the best independent record stores in the city.
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Photo courtesy of Richard Ransley and Steven Heald.
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Above is the Basket Factory as it appeared circa 1910. It was located on the north side of State Street in Sodus where the RG&E building is currently located.
This building was originally the Presbyterian Church building and was moved in the 1860's to this site. Over the years, the business was owned by the Granger, Fish and Hulett families.
The baskets that were made here were primarily used by area farmers for produce.


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On the other hand, these are NOT the kinds of ads you want to see from one who would be governor
Yesterday, I praised Henry McMaster for his latest campaign ad. Yeah, the praise was pretty damned faint, and I disagreed strongly with a great deal of what he was saying, but at least it was done with a tone and attitude that made you feel good about South Carolina — or at least got the impression that Henry felt good about South Carolina. And that's too rare these days from our friends in the GOP.
Take, for instance, the pair of videos unveiled today by the Nikki Haley and Gresham Barrett campaigns.
We have Nikki labeling her rivals with the GOP cusswords "Bailouts," "Stimulus spending" and "Career politicians" — about as neat a job of giving opponents short shrift as I've ever seen (as if those terms sum up the totality of who these men are) — before going on to say, in that hagiographic way she has, that SHE is the one true "conservative." Whatever the hell that word means anymore. (It certainly doesn't mean what it did when I was coming up.)
Then we have Gresham Barrett promising to be the meanest of all to illegal immigrants (the scoundrels!), and pass "a common-sense Arizona law."
Sorry, folks, but neither of these glimpses of your values or your attitudes toward the world in general make me feel good about the idea of you being my governor. Not that you're trying to please me, I realize; but that's all I have to go by…
The comic stylings of Vincent Sheheen
Nikki and the neo-Confederates
Have you seen that absurd McMaster 'vulture' ad?
Yes, Henry, THAT's the way you do it…
Woulda Coulda Shoulda: Could Sheheen have won with a better campaign?
"Conservative," that surprisingly malleable word
Is that the best Haley can do? Bring up Obama? Wow, that is truly lame…
'I am not a moderate.' That just says it all…
I'll TRY to be more colorful, if that's what it takes
I'm just not believing this stuff from Henry
This entry was posted in 2010 Governor, Civility, Elections, Immigration, Marketplace of ideas, Republicans, South Carolina, Video, Words on May 18, 2010 by Brad Warthen.
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10 thoughts on "On the other hand, these are NOT the kinds of ads you want to see from one who would be governor"
Kathryn Fenner May 18, 2010 at 4:19 pm
"Not that you're trying to please me,"
or me, either, but I reckon the consultants think this will get the people who *will* vote for them out….
What a pity that it will likely work…
Matt May 18, 2010 at 4:41 pm
I'm going to give a purely political analysis of Haley's ad and say why I think it's a good one.
It accomplishes three things:
1. It defines her opponent's in a negative light. When you're considered the fourth candidate in a three-way race (although new polling may otherwise…?) this is what you have to do. It's part of politics.
2. It offers the standard biographical tidbits that usually come with a candidate's first intro to voters (wife of military man, accountant).
3. It gets her basic message across that she is running on–and even includes the veiled reference to being a break from Sanford ("government we can be proud of").
Not bad for a 30-second spot.
As for Barrett, well, me and some fellow political friends were taking bets on which candidate would come out with an illegal immigration ad first…looks like I won. It is after all the ad du jour of like every GOP primary out there.
Brad May 18, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Matt, you could be right that some of the intended audience would get that impression, but it would NEVER occur to me that she is trying to say she would be a break from Sanford. She is THE Sanford candidate, which is why Jenny and ReformSC are backing her to the hilt (Jenny always having been the brains of the Sanford cabal). Her reference to clean and transparent government is a shorthand reference to the Sanford "reform" agenda (some of which would have been reform; some of which would not have been). If you'll recall, Sanford was all about transparency — until he started working so hard to hold back the info the ethics commission had on him.
But that's me. I know too much. I know exactly what she means, for good or for ill. You're right. Someone who knows a whole lot less could get a very different impression, and she's banking on that.
I think her campaign is banking on the fact that different people will "hear" those words in different ways. I agree with what you are saying though.
But the beauty is that she can go out there, say "I want to give you a government we can be proud of", and some people hear "anti-establishment/reform agenda/responsive to taxpayers/etc." and others hear "a leader who's not going to embarrass the state like the current governor did recently". As a candidate, she can say one thing and get two different messages across that are both selling points to her campaign.
It's like being the "Sanford" candidate without being the Sanford candidate.
"But the beauty is that she can go out there, say "I want to give you a government we can be proud of", and some people hear "anti-establishment/reform agenda/responsive to taxpayers/etc." and others hear "a leader who's not going to embarrass the state like the current governor did recently"."
and the latter would be true of just about any candidate except possible Andre…
You Talkin to Me? May 18, 2010 at 6:11 pm
The Haley ads are a perfect example of how the current crop of Republicans have no idea of how to govern. You'll cut spending? Where?
Michael P. May 18, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Barrett gets my vote if the primaries were held today. Fact is 7 out of 10 AZ natives support the immigration law put into place… and many of the citizens of AZ are Hispanic (more than 3 of 10). Hopefully AZ is just the first of many states who will implement similar laws. I hope SC puts pressure on employers of illegals which will include both fines and community service and/or jail sentences for those who employ them.
Good point, Kathryn.


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Gage Zieske of Osakis has committed to wrestling for Augsburg in 2018-19.
Zieske was a Class A 138-pound state entrant in 2017 as a junior and a state entrant as a sophomore at 120 pounds. He has a current career record of 121-22.
Zieske is projected to wrestle at 141 or 149 pounds for the Auggies.
Tagged Augsburg Auggies, Gage Zieske, Osakis, Recruiting.


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A Guide to English Puns and Wordplay
Here in the UK, we love a good pun.
8 British Stereotypes and Why They Are (Mostly) Inaccurate
19 Ways to Improve at English Spelling
You'll probably notice them in tabloid newspaper headlines, but you might also hear them in everyday conversation, emails, social media, television and any number of other situations in which the speaker wishes to present themselves as comical or witty. They're not the only prevalent form of wordplay you'll encounter in the English language though; there are plenty more plays on words that contribute to the richness of the spoken and written language. In this article, we start with an introduction to English puns and wordplay and then take you through some of our favourite examples.
What is a pun?
A homophone-based pun on the word 'escapee'.
A pun is a form of wordplay that creates humour through the use of a word or series of words that sound the same but that have two or more possible meanings. Puns often make use of homophones – words that sound the same, and are sometimes spelt the same, but have a different meaning. Puns are generally jokes – but not always; we tend to write "no pun intended" in brackets if we've inadvertently chosen our words in a way that could be construed as a pun.
As with any kind of comedy, timing is crucial to the telling of a good pun, and if you're able to think of one on the spot then you're bound to get a laugh for your ready wit (it won't look so good if you take several minutes to think of one, by which time the conversation has moved on!). For example, you might be having a conversation about what you had for breakfast, and your friend tells you that they had boiled eggs for breakfast. You could then retort with "were they eggstraordinary?" – accompanied by a cheeky grin in acknowledgement of the poor joke, of course. More subtle and sophisticated puns don't modify words in this way, but make use of homophones. For example, in a conversation about cooking fish for a dinner party, one might say "do you think we should scale back on the number of guests?" (playing on a fish's scales and the expression "scale back", which means to reduce).
British newspapers love puns.
Puns have a slightly poor reputation as forms of humour go, and often elicit a groan from the person on the receiving end of one (though that might just be because they wish they'd thought of something that witty to say). They're generally considered to be a fairly basic form of humour, though they can also be very sophisticated and funny. Shakespeare was famously pretty big on puns; perhaps, it's recently been suggested, even more so than previously thought; apparently if you read Shakespeare in an Elizabethan accent, you spot many more puns. These days the tabloids are known for their use of puns in headlines; for example, you might see a headline like "Otter Devastation" in an article detailing the decline of the otter (this plays on the similarities between the words "otter" and "utter").
Other forms of English wordplay
Puns aren't the only form of English wordplay – they're just one of the most popular. Here are some of the other kinds of wordplay you might encounter when you're learning English, whether in everyday conversation, in the newspapers or in works of English literature.
You may read that 'cop' is an acronym for 'constable on patrol', but this is a folk etymology; 'cop' in fact comes from slang meaning 'to take or arrest'.
Acronyms involve making a word using the first letters of a series of other words. This type of wordplay is popular in company names. You might not have known, for example, that the popular budget furniture shop IKEA is actually an acronym; it stands for Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd. The first two words are the founder's name, the third the farm on which he spent his childhood, and the fourth his Swedish hometown. "IKEA" has become such a common word in everyday use that very few people know that it stands for something.
We accidentally use spoonerisms all the time, to the point where it's debateable whether they can legitimately classed as 'wordplay', with the connotations of intentional wit that that word entails. A spoonerism – named after a chap named Reverend Spooner, who supposedly fell foul of this slip of the tongue frequently – is when you switch some of the letters between two words. For example, you might say "a slight of fairs" instead of "a flight of stairs". There's a joke that relies on Spoonerisms:
Question: Why did the butterfly flutter by?
Answer: Because it saw the dragonfly drink the flagon dry.
While this isn't exactly a laugh-out-loud witticism, it's an excellent example of the Spoonerism.
Originally intended to make typing a bit quicker, internet abbreviations have almost become a language in their own right – and some abbreviations have actually entered the spoken English language as well. Perhaps the most famous example is "lol", which means "laughing out loud". Some people – particularly among the younger generation – now say "lol" out loud, pronouncing it as "loll" (traditionalists frown upon such behaviour, however, so you're advised to avoid it if you want to be taken seriously).
Take part of one word and its meaning, and combine it with another word and its meaning, and you have a portmanteau. For example, the word "brunch" is a portmanteau that combines "breakfast" and "lunch" to create a word for a meal one has in between, and often instead of, breakfast and lunch. Portmanteaus are very popular with tacky gossip magazines, who use them to refer to celebrity couples, such as "Brangelina" for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. They were actually popularised by Lewis Carroll, who used the word "portmanteau" for the first time in Alice Through the Looking-Glass.
Alliteration and onomatopoeia
The railway station cafe uses a pun and onomatopoeia (based on the sound of a steam train).
Alliteration is when you use two or more words in a row beginning with the same letter or using the same sounds, and it tends to be used for emphasis or to make something more memorable. You might hear it in a brand name – such as the Automobile Association (AA) – or newspaper headlines, such as "Persecuted for Praying". You'll also see it used in English literature, particularly poetry, as it can be helpful for emphasising a point or creating a particular sound. For instance, a piece of writing about a snake might use words beginning with or containing the letter 's', because, when spoken aloud, this echoes the sound a snake makes when it hisses: "the sly snake slithered stealthily". A similar concept in wordplay is onomatopoeia, which is where a word sounds like what it describes. For example, animal noises are usually onomatopoeic, such as "oink" to describe the noise a pig makes, "moo" for a cow, "woof" for a dog, and so on. This type of wordplay is also common in poetry, as it means that the poet can create certain sounds to add meaning to what they are writing; a poem about fireworks, for example, might allude to the sounds a firework makes using onomatopoeic words, such as "bang", "crash", "fizz", "whoosh", and so on.
Jokes, headlines and other witticisms involving puns and wordplay
Finally, we give you some more examples of how cunning use of words can make great jokes and newspaper headlines. Puns are particularly popular in tabloid newspaper headlines because they are eye-catching and memorable, drawing attention to a story that might otherwise not spark the curiosity of a passerby.
"Why did the scarecrow…"
Many shops use puns in their signs.
Question: Why did the scarecrow win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: For being outstanding in his field!
This excellent joke makes use of clever wordplay to great comic effect, centered around the word "outstanding". Clearly Nobel laureates are outstanding in their field of expertise, but you wouldn't expect a scarecrow would be – these are, after all, simply effigies put in fields to scare birds away from crops. But the word "outstanding", when separated into two words, takes on a different meaning: the scarecrow is "out standing in his field", meaning that he is "outside, standing in his field".
A Queen-based headline
A newspaper headline did the rounds on social media a while ago for its clever play on lyrics from the song Bohemian Rhapsody by the rock band Queen in a story about hikes in rail prices. This is explained below with the original lyrics included in italics beneath the headline words.
Is this the rail price?
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught up in land buys
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from bureaucracy!
No escape from reality.
This example illustrates an example of witty wordplay that doesn't involve homophones, and it's been hailed as headline writing at its very best!
"I wondered why the baseball…"
This one, delightfully, works best if you read it in a Jamaican accent.
The joke goes like this: "I was wondering why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me." The punchline rests on two meanings of the word "hit". It can mean physically being hit by something being thrown at you, but it can also mean a thought or realisation suddenly occurring to you.
"Why did the fly fly?"
This one's a staple of the Christmas cracker and makes use of homophones.
Question: Why did the fly fly?
Answer: Because the spider spied her.
The question exploits two meanings of the word "fly"; it's a small, irritating buzzing insect, but it's also a verb – "to fly" – meaning to be airborne. The answer relies on the fact that "spied her" – meaning "saw her" – sounds like "spider".
"What do you call a small midget fortune teller…"
Here's a joke that's both groan-worthy and quite clever wordplay.
Question: What do you call a midget fortune teller who just escaped from prison?
Answer: A small medium at large!
The comedy here hinges on the fact that the answer includes the common sizes of small, medium and large, but they all mean different things. A midget is a small person; another word for a fortune teller is "medium", as in a psychic medium; and when someone has escaped from prison, they're described as being "at large".
"A cigarette lighter"
Three men are on board a boat and they have four cigarettes, but nothing to light them with. What do they do? They throw one overboard… so that they become a cigarette lighter!
The humour here relies on the two different interpretations of "cigarette lighter". Clearly it's something used to light a cigarette, but the boat itself can also said to be "a cigarette lighter" in weight, because it has shed the weight of one cigarette.
A long joke to end with
Another lovely punning business name.
Let's end with a longer joke that relies on clever wordplay for its punchline. This is a popular joke and comes in a number of versions; this particular rendition comes from here.
"The big chess tournament was taking place at the Plaza in New York. After the first day's competition, many of the winners were sitting around in the foyer of the hotel talking about their matches and bragging about their wonderful play. After a few drinks they started getting louder and louder until finally, the desk clerk couldn't take any more and kicked them out.
The next morning the Manager called the clerk into his office and told him there had been many complaints about his being so rude to the hotel guests….instead of kicking them out, he should have just asked them to be less noisy. The clerk responded, "I'm sorry, but if there's one thing I can't stand, it's chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."
The punchline at the end – "chess nuts boasting in an open foyer" – is a play on the words of a famous "Christmas Song", which begins "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire". "Chess nuts" are people who are "nuts" or crazy about chess; boasting rhymes with roasting; and the "open foyer" that sounds like "open fire" is another word for a reception area. We bet you didn't realise you could do such clever things with the English language when you first started learning!
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Any ideas what the jettison switch on the Centurion collimator is used for?
A collimator is a boresighter.
The collimator in this case is (if I'm right) synchronising the sights between commanders and gunners periscopes.
External fuel tank was my first guess as well, but the cables don't seem to go there, hence being a bit stumped. The cables run + to - via a fuse, and into the collimator itself, which only seems to connect to the turret.
D'oh silly me. That'll be an explosive fuse on the wiring diagram, not an electrical one.
It's not a wreck, it's a beautiful butterfly in kit form.