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AIC Canadian Balanced
For many people, balanced Canadian equity funds are where the rubber hits the road when it comes to investments. It is the category in which fund managers strive to provide the best return with the least risk, the perfect vehicle for people who want to both save for retirement and sleep at night.
The winner in this year's Lipper Fund Awards for Canadian balanced equity focus funds is the AIC Canadian Balanced Fund. Over the past three years, returns have averaged 14 per cent annually.
"Our goal for the past four years has been to maximize returns while avoiding volatility," says James Cole, Calgary based senior vice-president and Canadian Balanced Fund manager.
"What we have done is focused on great Canadian companies that have been undervalued then stuck with them.
Economic conditions have been a plus, he adds. Low interest rates have fuelled corporate expansion, while removing the temptation to invest heavily in the bond market.
"We might go there for a very short period, but it doesn't make much sense to invest in bonds when interest rates are just 4.5 per cent," Cole says.
U.S. Small Companies
Three years ago, coming off an award-winning year for its Canadian small-cap mutual fund, AIM Trimark Investments decided the time was right and demand was there for a similar fund aimed at the U.S. small to mid-cap sector; same portfolio management team and the same approach.
"The Canadian small-cap fund did so well we had to cap it," says Patrick Farmer, chief investment officer. "We felt the time was right to offer our investors an opportunity to take advantage of the growth in small-cap companies in the U.S."
That decision has paid off. AIM Trimark's U.S. Small Companies Class fund has won this year's Lipper for the U.S. Small/Mid Cap Equity Funds category. The fund has shown an average three-year annual return of 12.53 per cent as of Dec. 31 and a one-year return of 12.06 per cent. Today, its assets total $176 million.
"The fund's success is based on the approach taken by the portfolio managers and the analysts they work with," says Farmer. "They use the same tests as private equity investors would."
In simple terms, they consider themselves buying the company not buying its shares, he says.
"They look for strong companies with strong management and the potential for long term growth," he says. "We don't mind looking wrong in the short run if we can look right in the long run."
Altamira Bond Fund
Mutual funds focusing on fixed income investments such as government and corporate bonds may have played poor stepsister to equity funds for much of this decade. But not at Altamira Investment Services.
The company's Altamira Bond Fund picked up a Lipper this year in the Canadian Bond category with a performance that has to be rated as stellar in times of stable 4 per cent to 4.5 per cent interest rates.
Its three-year average annual return has been 6.5 per cent, the five-year figure is 7.4 per cent and the 10-year average annual return has been 7.6 per cent.
"Those are really extraordinary figures for fixed return investments," says James Whitman, Altamira's senior vice-president of sales and service. "What they reflect is the fund manager's ability to ride (follow) the index. Right now the average maturity date for our bonds is 12.79 years," which gives managers the leeway to either invest in longer or shorter term bonds.
BMO North American Dividend Fund
For investors seeking that winning blend of cash and capital appreciation, the Bank of Montreal's BMO North American Dividend Fund took top honours at the first Lipper Awards for Canada.
BMO won in the North American Equity category, one of 30 that the awards cover.
What this fund offers is a dividend yield of 2.4 per cent as of Feb. 28 (compared with the category average of 2 per cent) and a three-year average annual return of 14.7 per cent versus a category average of 7.8 per cent during the same period.
The one-year return has been even more impressive: 20.5 per cent, compared with 11.4 per cent for the category average, BMO says. The fund's goal is to invest about 75 per cent of its assets in North American dividend-paying common and preferred shares, including Mexico but excluding Canada. The balance goes to shares of Canadian companies plus cash and cash equivalents.
CI Global Health Sciences Corporate Class
For Andrew Waight, the Lipper Fund Awards shine a welcome light on at least one investment sector that he feels has been sadly overlooked for much of this decade. He is a portfolio manager with Altrinsic Global Advisors LLC and the CI Global Health Sciences Corporate Class fund he manages for CI Investments Inc. picked up this year's top award for the health care category.
"Since the meltdown in the high tech and telecom sectors earlier this decade, investors have tended to overlook some sectors such as health sciences," he says. "I think winning a Lipper award may bring the spotlight back on them once again."
Granted, health sciences returns have not been as spectacular as some other equity classes and have bounced up and down from year to year, but the fund, under Waight's management, has turned in what even the harshest critic would have to admit is a satisfying performance.
The one-year return at the end of February was 9.9 per cent, for two years the figure is 12.3 per cent, for three years the average annual return has been 7.8 per cent, for four years 16.5 per cent and for five years 7.5 per cent.
The fund has about $259 million in assets with about 75 per cent invested in U.S. companies and the balance in their European counterparts.
CIBC International Small Companies Fund
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce knows that small business can mean big investment returns. Its CIBC International Small Companies Fund now has a market capitalization of $2.5 billion. Better yet it has generated annual returns well into and above the teens for the past five years.
In recognition for that pack-leading performance, the fund was named this year's Lipper winner in the International Equity category.
The past year's return was 22.31 per cent, well above the median 17.2 per cent reported by competing funds. For three years the average is 17.2 per cent versus 11.2 per cent annually, and for five years it generated average annual returns of 16 per cent, more than double the 7.3 per cent median.
The fund was launched in 1997 and has been managed by Pictet Asset Management of England since 2002. Since its inception, the CIBC International Small Companies Fund has averaged a 12.29 per cent annual return to unit holders.
DFA Five-Year Global Fixed Income Fund
DFA US Value Fund
The Canada-U.S. exchange rate showed its positive side in at least one category of this year's Lipper Fund Awards. Dimensional Fund Advisors went home with the trophy and bragging rights for its Five-Year Global Fixed Income Fund in the foreign bond category.
The fund was rated top performer, showing an average 3.04 per cent annual return over the past three years. It was one of two awards DFA picked up at the ceremony. The other was for U.S. equity funds, where its US Value Fund took the top prize.
"Exchange rates played a major role in Canada," says Weston Wellington, vice-president of the Santa Monica, Ca., fund manager. Canadians who invested in U.S. fixed income securities, for example, benefited when translating their U.S.-dollar interest payments back into Canadian dollars.
The exchange rate worked the other way when it came to funds that invest in U.S. equities because as the Canadian dollar rose, it ate into U.S. gains. Yet DFA's US Value Fund took top rank in the U.S. equity classification with an average three-year return of 12.54 per cent.
"While the Canadian dollar did indeed erode profits compared with those achieved by U.S. investors, the returns were still something we are justifiably proud of," Wellington says.
Fidelity Far East Fund
Fidelity Focus Financial Services Fund
With wins in two very different categories, Fidelity Investments Canada sees this year's Lippers as a terrific opportunity to show its bench strength.
"There is a move among investors towards consolidating their holdings in just one or two fund companies," says Jeff Storie, an investment manager with the international mutual fund and pension management giant.
"To attract that business, you have to show that you have the breadth and depth of talent to generate superior returns right across the spectrum of investments," he says. "We think winning these two awards shows we do, indeed, have that bench strength."
Fidelity Canada, which has 54 funds and manages a total of $43 billion in assets, picked up the Lipper in the Asian equity, excluding Japan, category with its Fidelity Far East Fund while its Fidelity Focus Financial Services Fund won in the financial service sector.
The Far East fund showed a three-year average annual return of 17.09 per cent as of Feb. 28. By comparison, the benchmark for the sector stood at 14.04 per cent.
Fidelity's Financial Services Fund has produced a three-year average annual return was 16.71 per cent as of the end of February. The benchmark index for the category was 11.86 per cent.
First Asset Funds TDK Resource Fund
Even market novices know Canada's resource industries have been hot for most of this decade. But hot is one thing and blazing hot quite another.
This year's Lipper Fund Award winner for natural resourcebased funds belongs in the latter category. First Asset Funds TDK Resource Fund reported a 36.86 per cent average annual return for the past three years - the period Lipper was looking at when judging its winners.
"That is just a small part of the picture," though, says Paul Dinelle, First Asset executive vice-president. "To get a real feel you have to look at the fund's six-year history."
His whole picture shows a most recent year-to-year return of 35.4 per cent and an average 33.56 per cent return since the fund was launched six years ago. He attributes its success to Deans Knight Capital Management Inc. of Vancouver, which manages TDK Resource for First Asset.
"Their view is that the industry may have its ups and downs from time to time, but they are essentially long-term investors," he says. The fund mix has been 50 per cent oil and gas, 30 per cent metals and minerals, 10 per cent gold and 10 per cent cash or equivalents.
Franklin Templeton Global Growth Portfolio
Investment advisers are continually urging clients to increase their foreign content, the investment equivalent of "eat your vegetables!" With Franklin Templeton's Global Growth Portfolio Fund, Lipper's winner in the Global Growth category, investors get a truckload of their "veggies" in an easily digestible form - a mutual fund salad composed of nine separate international mutual funds.
The combination is intended to address a number of management styles, geographies and industrial sectors and make the decision easy for investors who are faced with a dizzying array of international fund options.
"We have growth, we have GARP (growth at a reasonable price), we have value and we have deep value so we have the (investment) styles covered, says Don Reed, president of Franklin Templeton's Canadian operations and lead manager in the firm's International Equity Fund, which is part of the mix.
Franklin Templeton's group of nine produced a 12 per cent compound annual return for the year ended December 2006.
GGOF Asian Growth and Income Fund
Buying dividend-paying, blue chip Asian companies and U.S. dollar convertible bonds proved to be a winning formula for Guardian Group of Funds' Asian Growth and Income Fund, which won in the global balanced - equity focus category.
"One of the major points is doing it with low volatility, because if you have dividend-paying stocks, whether it is Asia or Canada, U.S. or Europe, you actually tend to outperform because you are getting part of your return in the form of dividends, which of course are cash," says Gavin Graham, Guardian Group's chief investment officer.
"Secondly, because you have a regular return in the form of income, you actually have less volatility."
As a result, Guardian Group's fund boasts about one-half the volatility of its closest ranked trio of competitors, Graham says.
"For people who want to do Asia and they all love the story, what tends to freak them out is the volatility," he says. "Here's a low-volatility way to buy Asia. If you buy boring but pretty steady dividend-paying stocks which benefit from rising levels of consumer income in Asia, you actually end up outperforming and you do it with less volatility. That works as well in Asia as it does anywhere else."
Investors Group European Mid-Cap Equity
Investors Group came out on top in three-year performance for its European Mid-Cap Equity fund because its Dublin-based investment team believes in picking winners and staying away from sectors it considers losers.
Heavily weighted in just three sectors, the fund uses a "bottom up" stock-picking style, investing in individual stocks and following broader themes "that make sense and would not change overnight," says Martin Fahey, portfolio manager and the head of Investors Group's European operations.
The fund's three-year performance to the end of December 2006 was 25.3 per cent per annum, and 18.5 per cent over the past five years.
The fund's best year was 2006, when it soared 48.5 per cent.
Elliott & Page's Core
Canadian Equity Fund
Manulife Financial's mutual fund division, Elliott & Page Ltd., operates under the premise that most investors spend far too much time worrying about what to buy and far too little time thinking about what to sell.
Most of the top publicly traded companies are well known to analysts and fund managers, so the premise of Elliott & Page's Core Canadian Equity Fund - the Lipper Fund Award winner in the Canadian Equity Pure category - is to always be on the lookout to sell.
"If there isn't a new name out there to track down, then don't spend your time on the buy decision," says Pat McHugh, vice-president and senior portfolio manager of Canadian equities. "Focus more on the sell decision."
A key is what McHugh dubs the cockroach theory. "You find a cockroach in your house, you kill it, but you haven't killed all the cockroaches," he says. "When companies have bad news, the chief executive officer isn't going to talk about the bad news, he or she is going to put a positive spin on it.
"We believe 95 per cent of the time that bad news begets a whole sequence of subsequent bad news," McHugh says. "Anecdotally, what price would you have gotten out at if you had sold Cott when it had its first bad news - or Laidlaw, or Nortel, or Loblaw."
Elliott & Page Core Canadian Equity Fund returned 18.9 per cent for the three-year period ending in 2006 and, at that time, had $200 million in assets under management.
Cdn. Asset Allocation Fund
While most mutual funds are set up to reduce risk and maximize gains, tactical funds were created to allow fund managers to intelligently gamble as to the direction of markets.
"With a tactical asset allocation fund, its role is to position (the fund) based on the (fund managers') view of the market," says Martin Lavigne, senior vice-president product and sales for National Bank Securities.
The National Bank/Fidelity Canadian Asset Allocation Fund (winner in the Canadian Asset Allocation category) used that strategy to produce a three-year annual return net of fees of 12.3 per cent.
"Fidelity did quite well by reducing the bond portion a lot last year and were able to position themselves quite nicely to the Canadian market. That is what made the difference at the end of the year," Lavigne says.
OTG Balanced Fund
Unless you are a teacher, you probably have never heard of OTG Financial Inc.
But OTG (which stands for Ontario Teachers Group), winner of the Lipper Fund Award in the Canadian Balanced category, could put on a seminar with its steady-as-she goes approach to investing.
"We basically look at things that have less volatility and more stable growth," says Marianne Taggio, OTG Financial's president and chief executive officer.
"We also have a split where we have identified that not less than 40 per cent or more than 65 per cent is in equities and the balance, obviously, is in debt instruments."
Other firms rely on similar combinations of common and preferred shares and short-term fixed income, "but (the OTG Balanced Fund) really is a mix of that and the risk, so less volatility and more stable," Taggio says. "We are looking at mitigating risk as, typically, someone who goes in a balanced fund; they are not looking for betting the farm. Their risk tolerance is limited."
The performance of OTG's balanced fund illustrates the strategy works. In 2006, the fund returned 13.25 per cent and generated gains of 16.5 per cent and 14.3 per cent for 2005 and 2004 respectively.
Sceptre Equity Growth Fund
Constant pruning of losing investments is the secret to the multi-year success of the Sceptre Equity Growth Fund, the Canadian Small Cap winner in the Lipper Fund Awards.
"We have had many different winners in many different industries and relatively few losers," says Allan Jacobs, the portfolio manager of the fund with Sceptre Investment Counsel Ltd. "We tend to sell our losers rather than adding to them thinking that the market is wrong."
Unlike many of its small cap competitors, Sceptre does not really care where the good companies come from, as long as they perform. "We've had a lot of good stocks in mining, oil and gas, financials," Jacobs says.
On average, Sceptre's small cap team interviews the management of prospect companies at a rate of two a day, or about 500 annually. Sceptre invests in about one in six companies it regularly follows. (The fund's current holdings include 65 companies).
The fund, with more than $700 million in assets, returned 27.8 per cent annually over the past three years.
Sentry Select Capital Corp. Precious Metals Growth Fund
Although Sentry Select Capital lives and breathes gold mining in the management of its Precious Metals Growth Fund, the investment firm is not blinded by the gleam of the lustrous metal.
"We are not perma gold bugs like many in the sector," says Kevin MacLean, vice-president and senior portfolio manager with Sentry Select.
He notes that unlike most precious metals funds, Select will regularly take cash holdings when it is pessimistic about the prospects of the sector, holding about one-third cash in the fund in 2005 and a "double-digit cash" position last May. "We do tend to play defence now and again if we don't like the prospects of the sector," MacLean says.
The strategy must be working because the Select won the Lipper for the top-ranked precious metals fund.
Benefiting as most precious metal funds did from soaring prices, the fund returned 74 per cent in 2006 and had a three-year return of 27.8 per cent.
TD Canadian Equity Fund
TD Latin American Growth
TD Japanese Growth Fund
TD Entertainment & Communications Fund
TD Asset Management Inc. found itself a big winner in the Lipper mutual fund-rating awards, coming out on top in four categories. Its performance was judged best in the Canadian fund industry categories of Canadian Dividend and Equity Income, Emerging Markets Equity, Japanese Equity as well as Science and Technology.
For TD, the most gratifying win had to be that of its $2.9 billion Canadian Equity Fund, which dwarfs the other three funds.
It produced a 22.7 per cent, three-year return for the span ended in 2006. TD has a three-pronged strategy for the award-winning Canadian fund: quality dividend-paying stocks, "North America's best growth companies" and resource companies that stand to benefit from the rapid industrialization of countries such as China and India, says John Smolinski, the lead manager of the fund.
Of TD's other winning mutual funds, the TD Japanese Growth Fund ($52 million of assets under management) posted a 10.3 per cent average annual return, the TD Entertainment & Communications Fund ($169 million in assets) achieved a 17.2 per cent annual return and the TD Latin American Growth Fund ($190 million) enjoyed a 41.7 per cent annual return over the past three years.


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So I got into a Twitter conversation with Robin Harvey, a person I hope to meet sometime, that lead to a question. What snack recommendations for reading Game of Thrones? What lead to that question was me mentioning I developed an addiction to Amish Friendship bread when I was reading the Hobbit the first time, yes pre-being gluten intolerant. Odd that fiction makes one hunger for food, isn’t it?
One of my favourite authors is Bernard Cornwell, writer of the Sharpe Series which launched Sean Bean’s career. One of the Sharpe Books is actually dedicated to Sean. Cornwell has another series about the Arthur Legend where Arthur isn’t actually ever king, but Merlin is obsessed with cheese, the crumbly kind. All through that series i was craving crumbly cheese. All though I’ve never seen them I know the Sharpe cast has compiled two cookbooks to raise money for charity.
Harry Potter has resulted in numerous butterbeer recipes, a line of jelly beans, and I’m sure other foods or candies. The Hunger Games series has also lead to lamb stew with plums recipes, one of which I found at the YouTube channel Feast of Fiction. What inspired my plum stew recipe however isn’t Hunger Games but the semi-fictionalized HBO series Rome. I used beef though, this recipe actually calls for the anachronistic tomatoes instead of plums.
Many times the fiction I read or watch leads to me wanting the drinks…oh like you’re shocked. Wine, mead, whiskey, strange cocktails and sometimes even cider have been craved after reading or watching. One of my favourite Scotches is Laphroaig, which I first read about in a Len Deighton novel. Non-fiction too inspires me to want to try new drinks and food, such as T E Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom and a TV documentaries making me want to try North African and Arab food. I found a slow cooker Moroccan Chicken recipe I like. I skimp on the carrots though.
As for snacking during reading/watching Game of Thrones and the Song of Ice and Fire series, all that jumps to mind is the dried horse meat. Much of the food is traditional European food from the Middle Ages, the northerners eat stews and roast meat while the southerners seem to dine on Mediterranean foods. I just watched season 1 but haven’t read the books in awhile so I might be missing something. Any suggestions please leave them in the comments.
If you are a fan of Firefly, and you better be or get off my planet, Jewel Staite has a food blog called Happy Opu. Beware before reading it however, you may find a desire to be one of her friends and follow her around the world to the places she finds.
Hmm, wine. Wonder which kind goes well with watching Tudors season 2?

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Scientists have succeeded in producing fully effective blood vessels that can be grafted onto human beings. From samples of blood, the scientists have made blood vessels that were later incorported into the vascular system of three children. The method has proved to be safe and effective such that millions around the globe suffering from vascular diseases might have renewed hope.
The red liquid symbol of life, blood, drains our organs as it flows through countless tubes arranged all across our body. The blood vessels serves as passageways for the liquid to reach all the given body parts. However, if a fundamental blood vessel is missing, or impaired, the very life of the person might be at risk.
Vascular diseases affect approximately 25 million of people from different parts of the world. Some people are afflicted with health problems where they have a critical vein missing. The new research that has also been validated will now serve as a solution to such patients.
Three years ago, researcher Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson and surgeon Michael Olausson produced a new blood vessel for a patient who had the vein linking the alimentary canal to the liver missing. The two scientists had grown the vessel from stem cells obtained from the same patient so that the latter’s immune system would not interfere with the grafting. To harvest the ‘mother’ cells, the researchers had to dig into the bone marrow of the person – a tedious procedure, which is also specially painful. Growing the blood vessel therefore took a long amount of time.
In an attempt to finding an alternative, the two researchers then decided to obtain the stem cells from the blood itself. So, 25 mL of blood was taken from three kids for the new study; the three children also had the same deficiency as the first patient with the missing vein. It was then found that growing personalised blood vessels from the blood samples was much easier as it took less time. The process was also accelerated because of the presence of growth-promoting substances already found in blood. The veins thus made were then grafted into the three children. As a result of the transplant, the children had their gastrointestinal tract interacting with their liver efficiently as it would under normal circumstances. Two of them recovered, and are doing just fine, while the thirs one is still under observation.
“We believe that this technological process can lead to dissemination of the method for the benefit of additional groups of patients, such as those with varicose veins or myocardial infarction, who need new blood vessels,” said Sumitran-Holgersson. “Our dream is to be able to grow complete organs as a way of overcoming the current shortage from donors.”

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Saturday, April 29
FitKids Run: 10:30 A.M.
5K: 11:00 A.M.
Fitness Walk: 11:00 A.M.
Post-Race Celebration: 11:15 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Join runners and walkers at the MahoneySabol 5K at the Travelers Championship to race along the Cromwell roads that line the fairways and greens of TPC River Highlands. Both a 5K run and 1.5 Mile Fitness Walk are offered in this HMF charity partner event. Participants receive a short sleeve technical shirt and a great post-race party. HMF FitKids: Bring the whole family and enjoy the kids run with options of a ½ mile or 1-mile!
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WHAT WOULD A TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP INSPIRED RACE BE WITHOUT A JACKET FITTING CEREMONY?
The top overall Men's and Women's finishers will be welcomed into our winners circle and awarded a custom MahoneySabol 5K jacket. Win the race and you'll have a permanent place in our record books!

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I’m sitting on a bench in the back garden of Schloss Almoshof. It feels good to be in Germany for the first time ever, other than when I’ve been on the way to somewhere else.
But am I really in Germany? Yesterday evening, I landed at a modern international airport, a place that one could imagine finding close to any western city. Then, in mid-July heat I associate only with the likes of Athens, I was given a straw hat and a bicycle with which to make the journey of less than a mile to the 16th century castle in which I’ll be staying for the week. If this really is Germany, it would seem to be a toyland version that’s been dreamed up by a child.
Nicola Atkinson-Davidson appears with our coffee. No child, she, but the woman who’s responsible for the Nürnberg I’ve so far been presented with. She’s here as artist-in-residence. The residency will lead to a show in the schloss towards the end of her stay. Green Dot will have a recycling theme. But the residency is also allowing her to get on with an ambitious project that she’s been in the process of developing for some time already.
On one level this project is simple. She wants local people to contribute to shows of mirrors: in Scotland and in Germany. But that is a deceptive and misleading way to describe a project that is being put together so painstakingly. Atkinson-Davidson met Andrea Kusel, a curator at Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, who was and remains keen to add challenging contemporary exhibitions to the fairly traditional programme that exists at Paisley, the museum’s most popular attraction being a permanent display of Paisley pattern shawls. Kusel is supported in this ambition by her colleague there, Susan Jeffrey, and through these two Atkinson-Davidson learned that Paisley was officially twinned with the German town of Fürth. An introduction to Drew Gibson, Renfrewshire’s twinning officer, led to communications being established with Hildegard Langfeld in Fürth, who agreed in principle to lend her support to the idea of some kind of Paisley-Fürth show.
Meanwhile, Marjukka Fryer in the Glasgow International office pointed out to the artist that Glasgow itself was twinned with Nürnberg, of which Fürth is a suburb. So would it not be possible to take advantage of this double-twinning relationship in the putting together of some kind of art event or series of events?
I sip my coffee, trying to keep up with the developing network, knowing that it’s this that is responsible for my presence here, as much as any aeroplane. Indeed, I recall that it was at the launch of MAP issue two, to which Atkinson-Davidson contributed the Diary, that I first met the artist and she talked about her way of working. From that day I’ve known her as ‘Nicola’, so I will revert to that name from now on.
Nicola put together a pre-proposal. She pointed out that Glasgow and Nürnberg were trying to find their 21st century identities, and in doing so had to come to terms with legacies from the first half of the previous century. In the case of Glasgow and its hinterland, the shadow of heavy industry was the problem. In the case of Nürnberg, the Nazi era has left the city’s name linked with infamous laws, rallies and trials. Nicola proposed to explore these identity problems. The British Council in Germany was persuaded to pay for a flight from Glasgow to Nürnberg. The city of Nürnberg’s Internationale office was also persuaded to make a flat available to her for a week in December 2005. Christina Plewinski, who deals with all aspects of Nürnberg’s twinning relationship with Glasgow, ensured that the visiting artist made the contacts she would need in the area. It was during this week of intense research that the project took off, in terms of enthusiasm and commitment on both sides: artist and host organisations. By the end of it, not only was the summer residency in place (thanks in part to a rapport with the director of Nürnberg’s Kunsthaus) but Nicola had found sites in both Fürth and Nürnberg and was excited about the prospect of working in them.
I’ll be seeing both sites this week, as she tries to get the managers fully on board with the project. But I feel it’s important that I get an overall impression of this part of the world first. This afternoon I’m going along to the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, and will visit the Documentation Centre that details the full horrors of what happened here between 1930 and 1945. Then I’ll stand on the very platform where Hitler once stood, addressing his followers, to see if I can bear the weight of guilt for more than a few seconds.
It’s near the end of the week before Nicola secures an appointment to meet the official responsible for the Hangman’s Bunker, (or ‘Hangman’s Tower’ as we now know it’s called). This is a picturesque medieval bridge, punctuated by towers, one of many bridges that stretch over the Nürnberg River, which flows through the middle of the city. Nicola wants to hang the mirrors donated to her exhibition in a closed-off, normally empty corridor that crosses the river. The place has not been used in an art context before, and the negotiation with the keeper of the listed building will have to be conducted with care. Which is why Johanna Urdaneta, from the Internationale office, is with us as a translator. The building’s keeper also has a colleague with him, someone who can give advice on technical matters, so the multi-party discussion gets under way. Rather tensely, but with goodwill on all sides.
Nicola met and briefed Johanna independently a few days ago, asking her to come up with a summary page in German that could be handed to the official, detailing both the artist’s requirements and those aspects of the project for which she would take responsibility. When we met Johanna first thing this morning, Nicola asked her to verbally translate the document back into English, so that she knew exactly what would be communicated when we got to where we are now. Nothing important or diplomatic must get lost in translation. It’s this attention to detail regarding meetings—together with the ability to get on with people in positions of responsibility—which has taken the artist this far towards the realisation of her multistranded project.
I listen to Nicola explaining to the grey-bearded Germans why she doesn’t want to use the interior of the bridge until May 2007. The Bank Sparkasse in Fürth is hosting an event involving all Fürth’s partner twin towns, and has invited them to participate in an exhibition in the Bank. Paisley will promote itself from 14 April to 11 May 2007—that is when Nicola wants to make an installation in the pavement display case of the Saumweber family’s long-established wallpaper shop, right across the street from Bank Sparkasse. And while Nicola is over in Germany installing this, she would like to install a fun house in this bridge cum-corridor.
Johanna translates, listens to a question and puts the question to the artist in English. ‘What is a fun house?’ Nicola lightens up as she talks about all the fun of the fair. ‘Convex’ and ‘concave’ are words that Johanna is unsure about. So Nicola describes the experience of walking through a space full of mirrors where you see yourself made tall, thin, fat, small, pin- and pumpkin-headed. Her own fun houses will be variations on this theme. The one to be installed in Paisley will consist of mirrors lent by the local population, sound pieces produced in collaboration with Hanna Tuulikki—which will reference the innocence of childhood—and something nightmarish, which she has yet to make up her mind about.
When the conversation turns technical, I move off. The windows are curtained on one side—downstream—to keep out the sun. They’re wide open on the other—upstream—to let out the hot air. And wherever there is space between windows, mirrors will be hung. How was it Nicola put it in the full proposal she worked out between her winter week in Nürnberg and this summer residency? ‘Fears and fantasies reflecting back on oneself’ . For a moment I’m back in the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, feeling like the lowest of the low. No-one of my generation in Scotland is to blame for The Holocaust, but if we’re all to feel like part of a single human tribe then we must collectively take responsibility for what we have done to each other. What we keep doing to each other…
I pace up and down. I can imagine what the exhibition here will look like. It will look fantastic! First, people of Nürnberg will donate mirrors. Second, the people of this city will see themselves in those mirrors, and, overwhelmingly, they will take pride in what they see.
This week has been a real eye-opener for me. The people we’ve met in the culture sector have been friendly and knowledgeable. But so has everyone else. School children are taught history in a meaningful way here. People are taught a sense of responsibility and a respect for life. As soon as World War II ended, the citizens of Nürnberg had to decide what to do about their town, which had been flattened by Allied bombing raids. They resolved to rebuild the medieval centre, and one of the first houses to be pieced together again was that of Albrecht Dürer.
A superb draughtsman, realist and religious visionary, Dürer absorbed the Renaissance values of Italy at the start of the 16th century, and moved the centre of European civilisation north a bit. Indeed, Nürnberg has been part of a more-or-less continuous civilisation for a couple of thousand years. And it seems to me that what happened here, and throughout Germany in the 1930s, must have been aberrant behaviour brought on by extreme poverty in the aftermath of World War I. In any case, it couldn’t happen again here in the near future. Why not? Because in every face you come across in Nürnberg you see liberal values and self-awareness.
The show at Fürth in 2007 should succeed too. I only spent a single afternoon in that suburb of the city—a Jewish neighbourhood before Hitler worked his evil; now inhabited by Turks and other immigrant groups. But I enjoyed wandering around, being taken from place to place by Nicola, who’d already identified points of interest and formed bonds of mutual respect with locals.
My fear is for the Paisley show, which opens in just eight weeks. Nicola will be in the Renfrewshire town for a week or so in order to collect mirrors—a process that is already underway, thanks to gallery staff and the local press—but I don’t think it will be easy to get the local population to donate mirrors. Why not? In a nutshell—and I hate to say this—the mirrors of Paisley and Glasgow may have seen too much ugliness over the years. A deeply embedded anti-social attitude—in part caused by a century or so of brutalisation by heavy industry—means that a proportion of the people are beyond the pale. What do I mean? Too many faces reddened by heavy drinking and shame. (I would feel uneasy about donating a mirror to the project for that same reason: I’m not excluding myself from this analysis.) Too many faces bruised by socio-economic violence.
‘But hang on a minute,’ some will point out. ‘The mirror wipes itself clean at every opportunity.’ True enough, but what happens in the mirror-owner’s mind is what matters. And that delicate object retains the pared-down memory of every selfish pose and each despairing glance.
The meeting in the corridor of the covered bridge is over, I realise. It went well (though nothing is absolutely settled, I gather). With all tension gone, Johanna poses happily for Nicola’s camera. And, outside, the artist poses happily for her own camera, marking out her territory in a scintillating way. That’s good: I am all for the success of this project. It will reveal significant differences. And where such differences are revealed, minds can get to work on personal and social solutions. There is far too much energy and humour and capacity for joy in the Glasgow psyche for the people of that city to lag behind their continental cousins in the maturity stakes indefinitely.
It’ll take time but not that long. I have no fears for the Glasgow-Paisley side of a similar show staged in another generation. It’s important for my morale to think so, anyway. And I imagine the scene in the fun house in the following way:
VIEWER (looking into the mirror in either Scotland or Germany ) : Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose is the fairest face of all?
MIRROR (to the equally fair-minded Scottish or German or Jewish or Turkish or Palestinian viewer of the near future ) : Yours is.
But I’m getting ahead of things. Over the next year the development of Nicola’s Nürnberg-Glasgow-Paisley-Fürth project should provide lots to reflect on.
Duncan McLaren is an arts writer

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Neuroreport. 2023 Jun 7;34(10):521-525. doi: 10.1097/WNR.0000000000001918. Epub 2023 May 20.
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Size and Weight
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By considering these factors, you can choose the right camping chair for your next trip to the beach.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best chairs to bring to the beach?
When it comes to choosing the best chair for the beach, there are a few things to consider. Look for chairs that are lightweight, easy to carry, and comfortable to sit in for long periods. Also, chairs that are rust-resistant and made from durable materials are a plus.
Are there any restrictions on using chairs at the beach?
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What should I look for in a beach chair?
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Can I bring a folding chair to the beach?
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How do I choose the right beach chair?
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Some features to consider when buying a beach chair include the weight capacity, adjustable reclining positions, built-in cup holders, and sun protection. Additionally, look for chairs that are easy to carry and store, and made from durable materials that can withstand the beach environment.

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Fill in the Blank Gallery is located at 5038 N. Lincoln Ave. Reception Friday, 7-11pm.
Work by Nancy Rosen.
The Family Room is located at 1821 W Hubbard St., # 202. Reception Friday, 6-11pm.
3. FLAT 7 at Floor Length and Tux
Work by Julie Rudder, Kendrick Shackleford, David MorÃ©, Catie Olson and EC Brown. This fish is not the work, it’s just FLAT’s awesome logo.
Floor Length and Tux is located at 2332 W Augusta Blvd, 3F. Reception Saturday 7-10pm.
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LVL3 is located at 1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3. Reception Saturday, 6-10pm.
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He said, She said is located at 216 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park. Reception Sunday, 2-4pm.
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Golden Gallery is located at 816 W. Newport Ave. Opening reception is Friday from 6-9pm.
2. Alumni at David Weinberg Gallery
I went to SAIC for grad school, but I don’t believe that gives me a complete bias for SAIC grad work. However, when I see good work from my fellow alums, I got to give it a shout. David Weinburg is putting on an exhibition of “recent” SAIC grad work, including that of Amy Mayfiled, Noelle Allen, Helen Maurene Cooper, & Michael Ratulowski. If you haven’t seen their work yet (which, if you’ve been in Chicago a while, is unlikely) make sure you stop by. If you already know their work, head over for a refresher on why they’re awesome.
David Weinberg Gallery is located at 300 W. Superior St. Opening reception is Friday from 5-8pm. Read more
I was a bit behind the curve when it came to checking out The Object of Nostalgia, up through this Saturday, February 12th at Columbia College’s A+D Gallery, having only learned about it last week in conjunction with the CAA panel on the same topic. The show’s central organizing question–what is worthy to speak about when one is making “important” art?–is of great personal interest (I’m also keen to apply that same question to criticism, but that’s another post). So any exhibition that takes an unapologetic look at our (so-called) “nostalgic” connection to the object in contemporary art-making, or as the curators put it, contemplates the nature of “sentimentality and its conflicted relation to contemporary art” is a most welcome thing for me to behold and overall, a project to which I’m pretty much automatically sympathetic.
Curators Rene Marquez and Lance Winn invited four artists to participate in the show, and asked each of them to select another artist whose work resonated with the exhibition’s themes. This all worked quite well, and the result is an exhibition filled with strong pieces, in which aesthetic genres such as portraiture, ceramics, the family snapshot (framed and resting on shelves, no less) and even 19th century dog paintings make a return. I especially liked Dawn Gavin‘s altered paper map pieces, which serve to remind us that in the age of augmented reality, the two dimensional map has already gone the way of the LP record. Although I tend to think maps alone are compelling enough to contemplate as-is, Gavin’s delicate incursions into the map-as-physical object changed my mind. They’re surgically precise yet seem to tremble with unspoken feeling.
I also thought Clayton Merrell’s paintings were terrific (the one featured in the catalogue is actually not in the show). They’re old fashioned plein-air type landscapes in oils and egg tempera, but their surfaces have been brushed over, scratched and scraped and otherwise distressed, if you will, in a manner that suggests a desire to caress the surface, perhaps to the point of being unable to leave it alone.
What’s more, Merrill adds all manner of abstract geometric as well as biomorphic forms to his open skyscapes–sunbursts, droplets, along with numerous fractal elements that skitter and unfold and otherwise ladder their way across his compositions. Like all great paintings, Merrill’s look better in real life than they do in reproduction, so try and see them in person if at all possible.
There’s not a single bad piece in the show. I would, however, have liked to have seen a lot more of Julia Lothrop’s tiny oil portraits — there are only two on view here, not enough to make the impact that I’m betting a whole long row of them would have made. Also: if this is the same Julia Lothrop who is a RISD alumni and makes cloth dolls out of vintage fabric — someone made a very grave error in not including those dolls in this show as opposed to the more acceptable little oil paintings. I shouldn’t have to elaborate why – take another look at the show’s main argument. But if it’s not the same Julia Lothrop, then, uh, scratch that.
I also liked Elaine Rutherford’s installation very much, but wished that the small video screen of lapping waves wasn’t part of it. It’s not that I’m against the presence of technology in a show like this, I just didn’t want my attention to be taken away, even for a second, from the gilded porcelain cabbage leaves strewn on the wooden shelf before me. Read more
This week: Guest interviewer Anna Kunz (accompanied by Pamela Fraser) talks to Carroll Dunham about his show at He Said/She Said and more!
American painter. He completed a BA at Trinity College, Hartford, CT, in 1971 and later settled in New York. Initially influenced by Post-Minimalism, process art and conceptual art, he was soon attracted to the tactility and allusions to the body in the work of Brice Marden, Robert Mangold and Robert Ryman. Spurred on by the revival of interest in Surrealism in the 1970s, Dunham began to make abstract, biomorphic paintings reminiscent of the work of Arshile Gorky and André Masson, executed with a comic twist enhanced by lurid colours and the suggestion of contemporary psychedelia.
In the 1980s he began to paint on wood veneer and rose to prominence in the context of a broader return to painting in the period. Age of Rectangles (1983-5; New York, MOMA) is a highly abstract composition of differing forms, symptomatic of his work at this time: geometric sketches co-exist with eroticized organic shapes while the forms of the wood veneer show through the surface of the paint to suggest surging forces.
Towards the end of the 1980s he began to move towards single, dominating motifs; wave-like forms were particularly common. In the Integrated Paintings series he applied paint-covered balls and chips to the surface of the canvas to further develop the sense of organic life. Mound A (1991; priv. col.) is typical of Dunham’s work of the early 1990s in which his forms began to resemble mounds of live matter, covered in orifices. Around 1993 his paintings began to feature schematic, cartoon figures which suggest the influence of Philip Guston. Read more
This week Pamela Fraser of He Said She Said joins Duncan in interrogating Meg Cranston about being cool, getting punched, smashing sculptures and the substance of air.
Meg Cranston (born 1960) is an artist who works in sculpture and painting as well as a writer. She has exhibited internationally since 1988. She received and M.F.A in Studio from California Institute of the Arts in 1986 and a B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology in 1982. She also attended the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands in 1988. She is on the Faculty at Otis College of Art and Design.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards including a New School of Social Research Faculty Development Grant, an artist grant from the Penny McCall Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship,a faculty research grant from the Center for Asian American Studies at UCLA, Architectural Foundation of America, Art in Public Places Award, and a C.O.L.A. Individual Artist’s Grant from Los Angeles Cultural Affairs.


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GOVERNOR Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State, has ordered immediate release of all persons arrested by the military over the incident in Bosso Local Government Area of the state that claimed the lives of 12 military personnel and some civilians to the police for thorough investigation.
This came as the governor said the government was setting up a judicial commission of inquiry to look into the circumstances leading to the incident. It will be recalled that 11 soldiers and two air force personnel were killed in a shootout with gun runners and armed bandits in three villages in Bosso Local Government area last week.
Governor Bello in a state broadcast in Minna, yesterday said: “I have directed that all persons arrested by the military be released to the Police for thorough investigation. I have also visited the affected communities to commiserate with the people and have on-the-spot assessment of the situation. I have directed the Police to provide adequate security through regular patrol of the affected areas.”
While assuring citizens of the state of security of lives and properties, the governor revealed that based on preliminary investigation and Security Council meeting, government was setting up a judicial commission of inquiry. According to him: “In view of the preliminary reports of the ad-hoc committee and decisions reached at various meetings by the Security Council, machinery has been put in place to constitute a judicial commission of inquiry to further look into the matter. In keeping faith with the oath that I swore to as your elected Governor, I remain committed to ensuring safety of all in Niger State; after all, every life, whether civilian or military is important. We are determined to providing a safe and secured Niger State for all.
So I call on all Nigerlites to remain focused especially at these trying times in our collective efforts to transform the state using our shared vision with unlimited opportunities.” The Governor commended effort of the security agencies and urged them to be professional in carrying out their professional responsibilities, saying “Let me at this point call on the security agencies to be professional in carrying out their Constitutional responsibilities. I enjoin them to intensify their efforts in sustaining peace and security of the state through inter-agency collaboration and intelligence gathering. I urge the security agents to build a new and robust, mutually beneficial relationship with various critical stakeholders in the state. “It is clear that since this unfortunate incident occurred, our focus as a government is to find peaceful resolution.
We know when states or nations face challenges either security or economy; leaders join hands to proffer solution. That is what we have been doing. That is what we will continue to do. This is no time politics and blame game.”
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/killing-13-gov-bello-orders-release-persons-arrested-calls-probe/


Canadian fight cards are cursed.
The MMA gods just don’t like it when the UFC brings events into the Great White North. Additionally, it turns out that the Ontario Athletic Commission doesn’t like Viking beards either, as they asked newcomer Emil Weber Meek to shave his signature facial hair in advance of his fight with Jordan Mein.
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With Anthony Pettis missing weight and the main event now turned into an interim title fight for Max Holloway only – forcing everyone to rescind all the jokes they made about other organizations doing “one can win, but not the other” title fights over the years – all the rearranging at the top of the featherweight division feels even more disappointing.
But even with all that, this is still a solid fight card and the pay-per-view action should be worth the ticket price.
Here are our picks.
These are the UFC 206: Punch Drunk Predictions.
(Note: Patrick submitted his picks before Friday’s early weigh-ins)
Max Holloway vs. Anthony Pettis
Pat: As bummed as I initially was after learning Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson wouldn’t be squaring off in the Octagon again at UFC 206, this is a fight that deserves five rounds and I think we see these two featherweight contenders make full use of their 25 minutes together.
When you think of Pettis, you always think “Showtime.” You think of the guy with an explosive highlight reel of crazy strikes and nasty submissions. While he certainly suffered a setback losing three straight at lightweight, Pettis made good on his 145-pound debut and choked out a Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist in Charles Oliveira. The athleticism and talent are still there, now it’s more about his mental game and whether he can really dig deep to reach championship status again.
In Holloway, you have a 25-year-old who is hell-bent on running the featherweight division and has all the skills to do so. Unbelievably tough with unmatched pressure, “Blessed” has nine wins in a row and deserves a title shot more than any other featherweight in the game. He’s intensely aggressive with great striking and a slick submission game, easily one of the best-rounded guys in his division.
I see this being a dog fight. I think Pettis will come out of the gate strong and try to get off some his unique strikes to really throw his opponent off his game, but in the end I think the constant pressure of Holloway will be the difference. Pettis doesn’t like getting hit and Holloway is going to do just that and often.
Prediction: Max Holloway by Unanimous Decision
ESK: Given the benefit of putting this together this morning, I get to make the jokes.
Like you know how Patrick said above that when you think of Pettis, you think of “Showtime” and all the flashy stuff he does? Now I think of his struggles to make the featherweight limit and the fact that he was on camera chowing down on a steak (with a fried egg on top) on the first episode of Embedded.
The two aren’t necessarily directly related, but you have to admit it’s a bad look.
Anyway, I don’t think the weight issues change the outcome of this fight. I thought Holloway would wax Pettis from the get-go – and told Patrick so via text the day it was announced – and my expectations are that “Blessed” goes out there and really puts it on “Showtime” on Saturday night even more now.
Prediction: Max Holloway by TKO, Round 3
Donald Cerrone vs. Matt Brown
Pat: To me, this is a more compelling matchup for Cerrone than his original fight against Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 205. While I think there’s certainly a difference skill-wise between “Cowboy” and Brown, there’s an element of uncertainty with “The Immortal” in that he’s a notoriously difficult fighter to finish even for someone as seasoned as Cerrone.
Overall, I do think Cerrone has the tools to win this fight. I think he’s faster and will make use of leg kicks and jabs to pepper Brown from the outside. There’s always a chance Brown could get in nice and close and catch “Cowboy” with a big hook, but my guess is we see a strong outing from Cerrone that will propel him into another big fight at welterweight.
Prediction: Donald Cerrone by Unanimous Decision
ESK: Cerrone has looked amazing since moving up to welterweight, using his entire arsenal to keep opponents off balance and unable to get comfortable in the cage. His domination of Patrick Cote and Rick Story highlighted how dangerous he can be when he puts it all together and I don’t see any reason why that would change here.
Brown is a tough out, as Patrick said, but he’s struggled over his last five outings after a great run of success. He’s been fired up about fighting Cerrone all week and I think that will work against him in this one.
While Brown looks to make it a brawl, “Cowboy” will keep moving, picking at him in space until he rocks him before putting him away on the ground.
Prediction: Donald Cerrone by Submission, Round 3
UFC 206 means everything to Max Holloway
Cub Swanson comes full circle
Misha Cirkunov's coming out party
Cub Swanson vs. Doo Ho Choi
Pat: Pure fireworks. These are two of the most exciting featherweight strikers in the game right now and I’m just happy this is actually a thing we’ll get to watch.
There’s no question “The Korean Superboy” is hot right now. Three straight first-round finishes since joining the UFC was enough to draw a top-tier opponent in Swanson, who is looking for his third straight victory. As much as I believe Swanson’s best days might be behind him at 33, he’s still extremely dangerous and has far more experience than his young opponent.
That said, I have a feeling we see another level of evolution in Choi’s game as he collects yet another exhilarating finish on his way to four straight inside the Octagon.
Prediction: Doo Ho Choi by TKO, Round 2
ESK: I love fights like this – a talented, complete veteran squaring off with an up-and-coming prospect in need of a signature victory – but I don’t think it will end up being the exciting, all-action affair everyone anticipates.
As much as I think Choi is a legitimate talent, I’m siding with the veteran on the “you’ve got to show me you can beat him” rule. Starching Juan Puig, Sam Sicilia and Thiago Tavares isn’t the same as beating a seasoned, savvy competitor like Swanson and while “The Korean Superboy” might get it done, I need to see it before I can back him.
My guess is that Swanson mixes in takedowns and looks to work from top position, rather than trying to trade with the heavy-handed South Korean.
Prediction: Cub Swanson by Unanimous Decision
Tim Kennedy vs. Kelvin Gastelum
Pat: It’s great to see Kennedy back in the Octagon again because I really think he was done dirty in his last fight against Yoel Romero at UFC 178. The 37-year-old has long been an underrated member of the middleweight division, with a win over current champion Michael Bisping standing out as the biggest on his resume.
Kennedy will have to put his great wrestling to the test against another great wrestler in Gastelum. After missing weight yet again at UFC 205, Gastelum is now back at 185-pounds and has a tough test in front of him that will be an impressive feat should he win.
While I feel their skillsets are similar in some ways, I think Kennedy’s motivation and drive to get back in the Octagon and win is higher than Gastelum’s. He never wanted to go out on his loss to Romero and I think he gets it done against a very tough but sometimes not-so-motivated Gastelum.
Prediction: Tim Kennedy by Unanimous Decision
ESK: This is a huge opportunity for Gastelum, as Kennedy is a terrific fighter who doesn’t get enough credit for how good he is, as Patrick said. However, just as he’s shown he’s not professional enough to make the welterweight limit routinely and without issue, I don’t think Gastelum has put his considerable skills together properly yet to be able to take advantage of his opportunity.
Kennedy is a physical specimen with a great motor who isn’t going to give Gastelum a chance to get comfortable or breathe. While the former TUF winner was successful the last time he was banished to middleweight, Kennedy will push the pace and put Gastelum on the defensive more than Nate Marquardt did and should find his way back into the win column.
Prediction: Tim Kennedy by Unanimous Decision
Jordan Mein vs. Emil Meek
Pat: Listen, at 27, Mein has already been in a ridiculous amount of fights and I think a little time away from the sport was actually good for him.
Meek is a UFC newcomer from Norway who has some hype thanks to his beat down of disgraced submission artist Rousimar Palhares back in May. Impressive as that performance was, Mein has way more experience against better fighters and usually comes out of the gate swinging.
We might see a little rust early on, but I think Mein ends up catching his opponent with a shot that ends Meek’s little aura of hype.
Prediction: Jordan Mein by TKO, Round 2
ESK: You knew Mein would be back; a guy that starts fighting at 16 and is as skilled and talented as he is wasn’t going to stay away long-term. As much as I still worry/wonder about the miles he’s accrued over the years and his defensive instincts, he should be fine here.
Meek has potential and could round into being a solid “middle of the division” guy with tons of personality and fan appeal going forward, but Mein has a considerable skill advantage here and should put it to use.
As long as he doesn’t get into a straight up firefight, the returning Canadian should find an opening to land something nasty and get a finish.
Prediction: Jordan Mein by TKO, Round 2
Preliminary Card Picks
Pat: Cirkunov, Aubin-Mercier, Letourneau, Gagnon, Vannata, Khabilov, Makovsky
ESK: Cirkunov, Aubin-Mercier, Letourneau, Gagnon, Vannata, Khabilov, Makovsky
2016 Punch Drunk Predictions Scoreboard
(not including results from UFC Albany on Friday night)
Pat: 246-194-5 (1)
ESK: 262-178-5 (1)


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Happy New Year. As we enter 2022 with Covid restrictions still in place, the hope must be that the peak of this outbreak has been reached and a return to some semblance of normality can be achieved over the coming weeks. Learning to live with the virus will not be without its challenges, but is surely what must now be done.
Part of that process will involve a painstaking focus on recovery. Economic recovery, certainly, given the toll Covid has taken on businesses and the country’s finances, but recovery too in relation to key public services, notably health and care. These were already under pressure pre-Covid, with serious capacity issues and waiting time targets that were seldom met, but the pandemic has exposed structural weaknesses that must be addressed as we look to rebuild.
In that context, it is baffling to hear the First Minister and those around her talking up the importance of making progress over the next 12 months towards another independence referendum. When ministerial responses routinely include explanations of why Covid is to blame for delays in everything from introducing RET and rolling out broadband to tackling the drugs death crisis and procuring new ferries, it’s hard to fathom how officials and Ministers can spare the time or resources for drafting legislation and White Papers on independence.
In terms of priorities, I strongly suspect most people in Orkney, and across Scotland, are rather more concerned about the growing energy and cost of living crisis, alongside the aforementioned pressure on public services.
As a result of a sharp rise in global gas prices, households have already seen fuel bills jump over recent months. With the price’ cap’ due to be lifted again in April, those bills are expected to climb higher still, potentially by many hundreds of pounds. Even the prospect of this is causing understandable anxiety, not least here in Orkney where levels of fuel poverty are disproportionately high already. That anxiety, however, is not limited to those traditionally seen as more vulnerable.
To date, both the Scottish and UK Government have been slow to react, but both have a part to play. Longer term, we need to reduce our reliance on gas, particularly imports, by investing in renewables and improving the energy efficiency of homes and businesses. This will be costly, but not as costly or painful as failing to invest.
In the short term, though, steps must also be taken to mitigate the impact of price increases. This will involve scaling up and broadening the eligibility for existing schemes, while also looking at other targeted interventions. Funding this, in part, through a tax on businesses that have enjoyed windfall benefits during the pandemic and the rise in gas prices does not seem unreasonable.
At the same time, recent events offer a warning about the limitations and risks in ‘capping’ prices. However well-intentioned, the ‘cap’ forced many small energy companies into bankruptcy, reducing competition in the market, and ultimately leaving customers with unaffordable bills.
In some respects, this mirrors what we’ve seen with local government funding, where years of an SNP government ‘freeze’ on Council Tax left local authorities in a financial straightjacket, unable to raise funds needed to pay for key services. The latest SNP/Green budget now leaves Councils £370m out of pocket, forcing councillors to carry the can for cuts to services or large increases in Council Tax.
One can only imagine how the First Minister would react were the UK Government to behave towards her government the way she seems happy to treat Scotland’s local Councils. Council leaders of all political persuasions are rightly furious, with COSLA condemning the Scottish Government’s behaviour as an ‘attack on local democracy’.
There is still time for the SNP/Green coalition to rethink its approach to the budget, as well as work with UK counterparts to address the cost of energy crisis, both in the short and long term. These are the issues that matter most to people in 2022. Rather than exhausting time, energy and resource in stoking constitutional divisions, the First Minister should be making recovery her new year’s resolution.