The Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs made big moves at the wide receiver position this season. And by “big moves,” I mean “got rid of their team’s best wide receiver.”
The Packers parted ways with Davante Adams, who wanted to be closer to his family and catch passes from his college quarterback, Derek Carr, in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Tyreek Hill wanted more guaranteed money than Kansas City was willing to offer and signed with the Miami Dolphins.
The Packers and Chiefs had some of the league’s best offenses in the past few years, but they went down vastly different paths after losing their WR1s. Green Bay’s offense struggled to find a consistent rhythm all season, while KC will represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. Why did the Chiefs succeed where the Packers failed?
First, let’s look at how these teams fared in 2022.
Kansas City won their division with a 14-3 regular season and made it to the AFC Championship for the fifth-straight season. After narrowly defeating the Cincinnati Bengals, they’ll face the Philadelphia Eagles in Patrick Mahomes‘ third Super Bowl appearance. The Chiefs’ offense was No. 1 by DVOA and second in red-zone scoring, with 70.51%.
Meanwhile, after finishing as the NFC’s No. 1 seed two years in a row, the Packers finished 8-9, good for third in the NFC North. Despite a four-game winning streak that gave them a chance to make the playoffs, Green Bay didn’t end strong. The Green and Gold lost to the Detroit Lions at home, largely thanks to a poor offensive performance. The Packers especially declined in the red-zone scoring, with a 51.85% conversion rate.
Both teams lost their star receiver, and those receivers continued to do well with their new teams. So what’s the difference between the Chiefs and the Packers?
The most obvious difference is that Kansas City has Travis Kelce. It’s easier to soften the blow of losing your top wide receiver when you have the league’s best tight end as your primary target. Kelce finished the season with 1,338 yards and 12 touchdowns, leading the league in both categories by a tight end. Meanwhile, Green Bay got very little of their tight-end group.
Green Bay and Kansas City also took different paths to replace their top receiver. The Packers brought in veteran Sammy Watkins, who didn’t last the full season, and drafted three rookie receivers. Christian Watson and Romeo Doubs saw significant playing time, and they relied heavily upon them. While both did well by rookie standards, they still made rookie mistakes and took time to come into their own. Returning wide receiver Allen Lazard led the Packers in yards, with 788, while Watson led the team in receiving touchdowns, with seven.
The Chiefs also took a rookie receiver, Skyy Moore in the second round, but loaded up on free agents. The Chiefs brought in Marquez Valdes-Scantling and JuJu Smith-Schuster via free agency and later traded for Kadarius Toney. Neither MVS nor Smith-Schuster put up huge WR1 numbers, but they complemented Kelce as No. 2 options.
Green Bay had the better rushing attack, thanks to the tandem of Aaron Jones and A.J. Dillon. Still, Kansas City got a lot from rookie running back Isiah Pacheco, and Jerick McKinnon was second on the team in receiving touchdowns, with nine.
There wasn’t a significant difference in offensive line quality. The Packers had PFF’s third-ranked line, while the Chiefs had the fourth.
In terms of quarterback play, there was a massive discrepancy between Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers. Mahomes’ 5,240 passing yards and 41 touchdowns to 12 interceptions (adding four more TDs on the ground) carved the path to a probable second MVP. Meanwhile, Rodgers had one of the worst seasons of his career, with 3,695 yards, 26 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions (his most since 2008).
Coaching is where Kansas City took the cake this year. Matt LaFleur is a great head coach, but he’s no Andy Reid. LaFleur lost his top two assistant coaches when Nathaniel Hackett and Luke Getsy took promotions elsewhere, which led to stagnation. Reid kept his right-hand man Eric Bieniemy around and built upon their previous years. Reid’s staff has a stronger head coach and more experienced assistants. Reid was simply able to put his players in a better position to succeed.
Both teams took a different approach to replacing their star wideouts. The Chiefs loaded up on veterans, while the Packers rolled the dice on rookies. But the main reasons Kansas City had a better season than Green Bay lie outside the position group. The Chiefs have Travis Kelce, Mahomes played at an MVP level, and Reid’s coaching kept the team evolving. The Packers lacked an impact tight end, and Rodgers and the offense struggled thanks to this year’s coaching changes and inability to adapt.
While this wasn’t a great season for the Packers, they can start to fix their mistakes this off-season. It’s a copycat league, and Green Bay should be closely studying KC’s approach to fix their broken offense.


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In years past, brides and grooms were excited to have very formal, traditional weddings. These days, it’s wonderful to have your wedding stand out and be different from tradition; something that reflects your own style and personality. An art deco inspired wedding can be truly classy, beautiful and fun. If this kind of wedding is just calling your name, here are some great ideas that may help you create exactly the sort of art deco wedding you want!
Locations for an Art Deco Inspired Wedding
Although you could incorporate art deco style into any wedding location you select, there are a few places that would really add character and charisma to your wedding. For instance, a hotel or bed and breakfast with art deco design would work perfectly. If it’s a smaller and more intimate wedding, consider an upscale jazz club or art gallery. There are a lot of options when it comes to an art deco inspired wedding, and even if you’ve already chosen your location – you can create the classic and recognizable look in your wedding décor.
Wedding Décor for an Art Deco Inspired Wedding
The great thing about art deco is that you can use any colors you’d like, although muted colors work really well. Consider orange, white and pale blue for colors – however, any wedding colors you choose could be integrated into an art deco wedding. One popular way of decorating art deco-style is to use peacock feathers, which would make wonderful centerpieces with a little bit of imagination and planning. To tie in the theme, peacock feathers can be added to chair backs and even bouquets.
Printed table linens featuring clean lines and a combination of pale colors and styles would work very well for this type of wedding. For table settings, consider using Fiestaware or similar dishes that are bright and colorful. If you can combine square and circular dishes – even better!
Attire Ideas for an Art Deco Inspired Wedding
Consider wearing a beautiful vintage wedding dress and having your bridesmaids wear vintage-style gowns. If you’d rather not actually purchase a vintage dress, many designers are creating dresses which look antiquated. Elaborate headpieces or beautiful vintage hair clips are a great idea. Black and white are perfect colors for art deco, so consider using this color palette for the wedding party’s attire. If you’d like to get a few more ideas, rent old movies or thumb through vintage magazines – chances are you’ll find some great inspiration.
Favor Ideas for an Art Deco Inspired Wedding
Favors for an art deco wedding can be really fun. For a great memento, consider having black and white pictures taken of you and your soon-to-be spouse bedecked in vintage clothing. Order small prints and place them in silver frames with the wedding date engraved. Not only will this add to the charm of the wedding, but guests will cherish this memento long after the wedding. Favor boxes with paisley prints, black and white checks or modern art deco design are also a great idea.
An art deco inspired wedding is a unique and beautiful way of celebrating your special day in a non-traditional fashion. With limitless options for color and detail, this is sure to be a fun wedding to plan and even more fun to attend!

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The Houston Methodist Research Institute is making mini brains from human stem cells that put researchers on a fast track to repair the nervous system after injury or disease of the brain and spinal cord.
Houston Methodist neuroscientist Robert Krencik, Ph.D., and his team have developed a new system to reduce the time it takes to grow these brain models, which will give them the ability to screen drugs and study what’s behind disease-causing mutations more quickly. Their findings are described in an article titled “Systematic three-dimensional coculture rapidly recapitulates interactions between human neurons and astrocytes,” in the Dec. 12 issue of Stem Cell Reports.
“We always felt like what we were doing in the lab was not precisely modeling how the cells act within the human brain,” Krencik said. “So, for the first time, when we put these cells together systematically, they dramatically changed their morphological complexity, size and shape. They look like cells as you would see them within the human brain, so now we can study cells in the lab in a more natural environment.”

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At first you’re in love.
You got that Corinthians passage memorized and you go in with hope and faith.
You go in thinking you’ve met you’re Jake Ryan.
But then you realize this is not Sixteen Candles and your girlish idea of romance is just that … an idea.
Although … sometimes it pans out and runs the course. You celebrate 50 years, but not just 50 years, 50 good years. Nicholas Sparks romance novel good years.
Other times love gets you to the seven-year itch mark and you find yourself being Diane Lane in any of the Diane Lane-I’m-gonna-dig-myself-out-of-this-disasterous-break-up movies.
But what ends up happening is that you try your best not to be like the lead in Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
This is what’s happened to three of my friends in the last two months.
They say half of marriages end in divorce, my side of the block is up to 75%.
I feel pretty bad about that as none of them did anything to deserve the situation they currently find themselves in, and I couldn’t find the words to express how bad I felt about the situation. All I could do was listen and do my best to make them laugh with whatever personal disaster was happening to me at the moment.
And then I came across a fellow blogger that hadn’t posted in months.
I was happy to see her on my reader until I realized what happened.
They say it’s rare when people get hit by lightning. Extremely low percentage. Even more rare when you get struck twice. But it happens.
And unfortunately for her it happened this way.
However she’s handled it with such strength that it blew me away. What’s even crazier is that she managed to find humor in a completely unfunny situation.
So in an effort to champion my friends back to a better state I sent the posts to them. I was hoping it would give them strength and laughter when they needed it most. And then I realized that there could be others out there living the same quiet moments of sadness who haven’t discovered this blogger. So I thought I would post links Mikalee Byerman’s blog.
Here is her story.
Even if you’re not going through relationship issues, it’s a good blog, full of comedy and heart.
So if you know someone at the end of their Molly Ringwald romance, help them get through their Diane Lane Adventure.
Encourage them to visit Byerman’s blog and read her story.
It will get you out of any funk.

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September issue of ETO available to read online now
Posted: September 3, 2019
The September issue of ETO is available to read online now and its key features include a look back at the trail blazed by Susan Colvin with CalExotics over the last 25 years and an attempt to see if cheap thrills really do ring the tills.
Also in this issue, Dale Bradford and Sebastian Gonzalez reminisce over 10 years of Loving Joy, Paul Smith visits Regulation in Soho, Tabitha Rayne travels to Canada to meet Wanda Cotie of Wicked Wanda’s, Colleen Godin reports on the latest creations from OhMiBod, Violet Fenn discusses the importance of retailers making a good first impression, the Womanizer Starlet enjoys the Spotlight treatment from Kirsty Jennings, we look into the stats generated by Orion’s 2019 Sex Report, and Adam Bernstein discusses reform of Companies House.
Our wonderful columnists include Cara Sutra, Tracey Whitmore, and Topher Taylor, and our Mystery Shopper visits Scotland.
The September issue can be read in its entirety online now by clicking here (registration required).

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BOSTON, June 16 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've developed a technique that might some day allow the growth of transplantable replacement livers.
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers in Boston said they've used structural tissue from rat livers as scaffolding to grow tissue regenerated from liver cells.
"Having the detailed microvasculature of the liver within a biocompatible, natural scaffold is a major advantage to growing liver tissue in a synthetic environment," said research associate Basak Uygun, the paper's lead author. She said the technique of "decellularizing" organs leaves the vascular system intact, facilitating repopulation of the structural matrix and the subsequent survival and function of the introduced liver cells.
The scientists said their procedure is a refinement of an approach to re-engineering replacement rat hearts reported in 2008 by University of Minnesota researchers. Since liver tissue is more delicate than heart tissue, the team developed "a gentler way" of flushing living cells from the liver's structural matrix.
They then reintroduced hepatocytes, the cells that perform most of the liver's primary functions, and those cells penetrated the vascular network and became embedded in the matrix, leaving major vessels clear to carry the blood supply.
The repopulated matrix displayed normal liver function for up to 10 days in culture, and recellularized grafts were successfully connected to the circulation of live rats with minimal cellular damage and normal hepatocyte function.
"Even though this is very exciting and promising, it is a proof-of-concept study only," researcher Korkut Uygun, the paper's senior author, said. "Much more work will be required to make long-term functional liver grafts that can actually be transplanted into humans."
The study appears in the early online edition of the journal Nature Medicine.


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It may seem a teeny-tiny bit too early to be thinking about Christmas – but if you’re an artisan wanting to take part in the Deer Lake Craft Festival, it’s not as crazy as it sounds.
The Burnaby Arts Council has an ongoing call for artisans to take part in the annual festival, which is set for Nov. 22 to 24 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
Artisans must be juried in to the festival, and artisans are considered on an ongoing basis. So, although the deadline to apply is May 1, it’s a case of “the sooner the better.”
“The Deer Lake Craft Festival usually sells out early, with a long wait list for jewelry and soap artisans, so if you are interested in participating for the 2019 festival, book early,” warns a write-up on the arts council’s website.
The festival includes more than 60 artisans and attracts more than 3,000 visitors a year to enjoy shopping, entertainment, kids’ crafts and more.
New artisans can find all the details at www.tinyurl.com/DeerLakeCraft2019.


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I was the proverbial one-armed wallpaper hanger. My daughter, Liza, who had run the office for me when my first publishing company was booming, was now married with a baby, so she was rarely around. She was still the president of the second publishing company, Mt Ivy Press, Inc., my title was Publisher. She signed our contracts and she would come in and write checks to pay Mt Ivy’s bills, but just about everything else fell to me.
Besides writing the book itself, a necessity I had not anticipated, I was overseeing all the steps required to get the book ready to go to press. I wanted to go first class. No paper cover for this project; I wanted a hardcover with a full color dust jacket.
After doing some research I came across an illustrator who did pastels of children with lovely, luminous eyes and engaged him to produce our original cover art. The final drawing depicted the face of a little girl surrounded by wolf pups.
As the word-processed manuscript neared completion, I had the graphic designer pour it into page layouts. Because of the technology of the computer, these looked like typeset text but could be easily altered, if necessary, right up to the minute we went to press. Now I had something that looked more "finished" that could be used for promotional purposes.
I could see immediately that Misha had been warmly embraced by the Jewish community around her. She had recently connected with her Jewish roots for the first time and joined a temple. She had been speaking publicly about her Holocaust experiences to small groups. I met her rabbi and members of her congregation who all expressed wholehearted belief in her remarkable story. She said that she had just recently found the courage to speak her truth and relive the pain of her harrowing childhood fleeing the Nazis. I believed her story, too, but still there was the possibility that others might have doubts.
With this in mind, I knew impressive blurbs for the back cover would be crucial. No one I talked with doubted that she was a bona fide Holocaust survivor. However, her account of living among wolves had the potential to make her story questionable. I wanted to know if that piece of the story was credible so I sent the manuscript to Joni Soffron, Education Director of the North American Wolf Foundation. Joni and her husband ran a small sanctuary in Ipswich Massachusetts with a dozen or so full-blooded wolves. They gave lectures on weekends to educate the public and advocate for the protection of the species.
"Could it be possible that wolves would adopt a human child?" I asked her.
Joni said she had no doubt that it was possible, but very rare.
"The Romulus and Remus myth has captured our imaginations for centuries," she told me. "There are some more modern accounts, but they’re not well documented. "You have to remember," she went on, "humans established settlements in wolves’ habitats and hunted them to the point of extinction. European wolves learned thousands of years ago to steer clear of man. Those that didn’t, didn’t live to pass on their genes. People equate wolves with the mean ones in the Three Little Pigs tale and Little Red Riding Hood. We grow up thinking wolves are bad. But wolves are not aggressive toward humans. It’s just the opposite; wolves avoid humans."
"What about wolves and children?" I asked.
"Because they’re so wary there would no opportunity for a wolf to run across a human child," Joni answered. "Only under bizarre circumstances, such as a war, would a child be alone in the forest far away from protective adults. Wolves are social animals who take very good care of their young. Only the alpha pair breeds but the whole pack looks after the pups. There are virtually no documented accounts of a human being attacked by a wild wolf. And, yes, absolutely, it is possible that a small child might be accepted as a pup."
Joni’s blurb said: "Misha’s loving description of the true nature of wolves will dispel many myths and touch the soul of all who read it."
The next person I thought to ask for a blurb was Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, perhaps the most famous name in Holocaust literature. As it happened, he was teaching at Boston University at the time. I called the main phone number at the school and got the direct number for his office.
"Does Mr. Wiesel give blurbs for books written about the Holocaust?" I asked his secretary.
He does, she replied but he was out of the country, at the time. "If you send me a manuscript, I can give it to him and he will be in touch with you if he feels he can offer some words about your project."
I packed up the page layouts and a color copy of the front cover and sent it off that day, hoping Elie Wiesel would get back to me before the book went to press. He did, about six weeks later. In a short note he said he had read the book and found it "very moving." Yeah! Those were just the words I’d hoped for.
One of the feature articles (not a book review) that I had placed in the Boston Globe had said the book contained "…the miraculous material from which fairy tales are woven." Not exactly an endorsement of the authenticity of the story but a good quote, and it went on the back cover, too.
Leonard Zakim, the Executive Director of the New England Anti-Defamation League, was a much beloved figure in the Jewish community. He was young, in his forties, and had been battling cancer for years. I had met him at some function or other and asked him if he would read the manuscript and give us a blurb. What came back was perfect: "A scary ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the Holocaust. Humans acted ‘like animals’ and animals acted ‘humanely.’ Her story is heartwarming and bone-tingling, all the more so for being true."
Lenny’s was the only review that explicitly endorsed the authenticity of Misha’s account.
Lenny died shortly after the book was published but his name lives on. Boston’s famous "Big Dig," the largest civil engineering project in the world at the time, produced its crown jewel in the form of a magnificent suspension bridge that is named in Lenny’s honor.
I got several other blurbs, one from an author in the Palmer & Dodge stable who had a book that was listed in the N.Y. Times Best Books of the Year, 1990, and another from a rabbi who was the chaplain at Brandeis
There was one more blurb that came back just before press time from a woman author of a Holocaust novel. Unexpectedly and at the last minute, she decided she didn’t want her name associated with this project. She gave as a reason reason that she questioned the truthfulness of Misha’s tale. Unfortunately, the cover was already printed so we had bright yellow stickers printed up that said, "AN INSTANT CLASSIC!" and placed them over her blurb.
I also sent off galleys to two Holocaust historians.
The first, Lawrence Langer taught history at my alma mater, Simmons College. I thought he might be willing to give an alum some feedback. He was away, too, but I mailed off the package with a cover letter explaining that we had a deadline and expressing appreciation for any thoughts he might care to share.
The second Holocaust historian to whom I mailed the book was Deborah Dwork, an associate professor at Yale. She had recently published a book of her own, Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe. I had a cordial conversation with her about the project I was working on. I had read her book, I told her, and thought it was very interesting. She agreed to read the manuscript and said she’d get back to me.
I also sent a set of the galleys to Vera for her to review before we went to press.
Though it might be several weeks before I heard back from the historians, I could make final adjustments right up to press time so I wasn’t concerned. I now had a finished cover and pretty clean insides, what’s called in the industry "the galleys." The French and German publishers had been waiting impatiently to get the manuscript so they could start on their translations. I ran off more copies and mailed them abroad.
Sandy called me one afternoon to say the German publisher had contacted Palmer & Dodge to ask assistance in setting up an interview for Misha with a writer from Der Spiegal, Gemany’s most influential newspaper. He was flying to the U.S. in a week and the German publisher, Heyne Verlag, was worried. The Germans had the impression that the reporter was going to write an unfavorable article suggesting that the story was a hoax. The German book wasn’t published yet. I later realized the publisher had given the reporter a copy of the galleys in English that I’d recently sent them. The reporter, it turned out, spoke English fluently.
We met him at Misha’s home. Misha and Maurice had prepared a lovely lunch and we ate outside surrounded by many species of birds who also were dining at the assortment of feeders set up around the yard. The man was charming and friendly, but he asked questions, and then follow-up questions, and then follow-ups to follow-ups. I had the uncomfortable feeling that he was doubtful of Misha’s story. We said cordial goodbyes at the end of the afternoon and he went back to Germany. Several weeks later Sandy sent me a copy of the article from Der Spiegel. It was in German but someone had translated it. Heyne Verlag, it said, was soon to release a book about a Holocaust survivor who claimed to have lived with wolves. The story they were about to publish, according to the article, appeared to be a fake.
Misha was angry about the article but she was resigned. "Let them not believe if they want not believe. I don’t care what they think. I know the truth."
I had also sent a set of galleys to the French publisher, Laffont, and I soon learned that there were problems there, too. Just before the layouts were to go to the printer, they faxed a list of historical inaccuracies several pages long. Sandy called me to tell me that Charles Ronsac, the head of Laffont, had himself caught the errors and was concerned lest our book had already gone to press.
"Are they thinking of canceling their book?" I asked, worried.
"No, they’re rewriting those sections right now to make them accurate."
Thank heavens our book hadn’t been printed yet. I studied the list. The discrepancies and glaring errors were mostly related to known historical facts and dates.
For instance, Vera had written: "Germany’s surprise attack on Russia in December 1941..…"
Ronsac caught the error: "This is incorrect. It took place in June 1941. (December 1941 was the date of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl harbor.)"
And Vera had written: "Belgium, Winter 1945 "The war was still going on…"
Ronsac noted the mistake: "Belgium had been liberated for a long time. Liberation of Brussels, September 3, 1944"
I called Misha. "Did Vera ever plot your path on a map of the countries you passed through?" I asked.
"No, she just write down like I tell her from my memory," Misha replied.
"Did she ever make a timeline of the events going on in those places, like particular battles, at the time you were passing through?" I asked.
"No, I just tell her from what I remember. Sometimes I not remember so good."
I was taken aback. This was the work of a scholar on whom I had relied completely? During the writing of the book Misha and Vera had quarreled over the date when her journey began. Vera insisted that it had to have begun a year earlier than Misha's memory of it. Out of unquestioning trust, I supported Vera. Now I wondered how many more inaccuracies were imbedded in the text.
"We have to make a map and a timeline," I said to Misha. I was again worried about meeting our deadlines. "I’ll go back and check the entire manuscript for discrepancies, not just the ones the French found," I said.
I then attempted to contact Vera. Vera had told me that she spent time at the library doing research but she had not provided me with any of her research materials or even the titles of books she’d used in her research. I got no response from my phone calls and knocks on her door. It appeared that Vera had gone away. I could see her car in the driveway between our houses and it hadn’t moved for days. I would not hear from her for a period of almost six weeks after I sent her the galleys.
I worked day and night on the manuscript and made all the revisions and corrections requested by Laffont with no help from Vera. I fact-checked every tiny detail. I researched the vegetation and animals of the regions Misha traveled as well as animal behavior, the foods available at relevant times and places, the clothing and scenery, farming and weather conditions and survival techniques applicable to extreme conditions. I read Holocaust survivors’ accounts, spoke with survivors themselves, obtained a tape of a TV program based on photos of the Warsaw ghetto and interviewed its producer. I read books on wolves and interviewed more people who worked directly with them.
Maurice agreed to get a map of Europe and trace Misha’s path. I began matching up the map of Misha’s journey with a historical time line. I was surprised at how much documentation I was able to find that coincided with Misha’s story. In one encyclopedia I found a drawing of the Warsaw Ghetto and the surrounding area that showed the Jewish cemetery, the train tracks running nearby, and the lake in which she bathed, exactly as she had described them to me.
Another book, an old, worn tome entitled They Fought Back, described a resistance fighter named Misha Gildenmann. He had operated in the forests of the Ukraine around the time that Misha described meeting up with a camp of resistance fighters led by a man named Misha. (She said she never knew his last name.) I mailed her the book and didn’t hear back from her for almost two weeks. When I finally reached her, she told me she was speechless when she saw the book with a photo of the man whom she so admired. She expressed no interest in trying to contact him, however. Later I was to pursue that line of inquiry myself.
At first I was thrilled to discover all this corroboration. Then it occurred to me that if I so easily could find this information at my local library, Misha could do so as well. She could have used it to fabricate a very convincing story. However, Misha herself barely spoke English, let alone read it. But Maurice, who never left Misha's side during interviews, meetings, or anything connected with the book, was completely fluent, both in spoken and written English.
Everybody who knew of her story called it “incredible.” I heard the word over an over. As time went on I began to realize that the word "incredible" has contradictory meanings. On the one hand it means so extraordinary as to seem (but not to be) impossible; on the other it means not to be believed. Was it possible that people used that word, consciously or not, to hedge their belief in the veracity of the story without seeming to do so? After all, what greater injustice could one inflict upon a Holocaust survivor who bares her soul to bear witness than to disbelieve her?
Misha insisted that her story was the absolute, literal truth. I once asked her if she had ever contacted Yad Vashem, the organization in Israel that maintains a database of over three million victims of the Holocaust. She answered that she didn’t know her family name and thus had no way of searching the records. She only knew her mother was called "Gerusha" and her father was "Reuven". She knew her mother was a Russian Jew, her father a German Jew. But she didn’t know any last names. She was never told her surname, she insisted, because it would have identified her to the Nazis as Jewish. She was called only Mischke, which she later changed to Misha, she said, in honor of the resistance fighter.
She also said she didn’t know her date or place of birth but she "had the impression" that she was seven years old in 1941. After her parents were arrested by the Nazis, she was placed with a family that gave her the name Monique Dewael, which she continued to use after the War for lack of her true name. She said she went to "town hall" to try to research her name but was unsuccessful. In the early 1960s, she had a son by a previous marriage, she said. His surname was Levy.
The absence of any surnames was an insurmountable obstacle to conclusively documenting her story. But that didn’t make it untrue, I thought. Surely in the chaos of the Holocaust many people’s identities were lost. Charles Ronsac, himself a Holocaust survivor, had accepted Misha’s story and gone ahead with publication of the French book as an authentic account. Most of the people who met Misha were persuaded by her charisma and the sheer force of her personality alone.
I didn’t know what to believe. Did she live with wolves? Or were they just big dogs that seemed like wolves to a young child? Did she see and experience all the things she recounted or did she only hear about them second-hand and incorporate them seamlessly into her own memories. What was true? What was not? My truth was that I had no idea what the truth was.


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Wellss the invisible man was translated to the big screen. Additionally, because the narrator relates the story in the first. The upcoming film starring elisabeth moss isnt the first time h. Invisible man is a novel by ralph ellison, published by random house in 1952. Invisible man cliffsnotes study guides book summaries. An interactive data visualization of invisible man s plot and themes. The invisible man claims that marvel tried to run away with his things, including his research notes. After being presented with about a million and a half variations of what hes supposed to be, how hes supposed to act, and how he comes across to both colleagues and random people. Ralph ellisons novel invisible man has been banned from school libraries in randolph county, n. Read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. So he organizes cliftons funeral on his own initiative. Invisible man ends with the protagonist being chased by policemen during a. The plot is simple, we follow the invisible man as his identity gets discovered and.
Then brother jack turns out to have a false left eye. So, if he writes a novel and calls it the invisible man, its not too tough to figure out what the story will be about. The plot of the book was great but it was also very cunfusing at times when the narrator wiuld almost break off to talk about something. His early training prepared him for a life of humility before white men, but through injustices large and small, he came to realize that he was an invisible man. Although hardly unique in this regard, ralph ellisons invisible man shows how affirming the capacity of a work to speak to all times or, at the very least, to our own time might stand at odds. Not only does our narrator physically grow up during the duration of the invisible man, but he also matures psychologically. An extremely powerful story of a young southern negro, from his late high school days through three years of college to his life in harlem. If theres a war between two worlds, hell call the book you guessed it the war of the worlds. This story is an excellent piece of science fiction literature by one of the worlds most reknown scifi authorsh. He also plays the role of the invisible man, as the whole book is revolved around him and what he experiences throughout the plot, while being figuratively invisible.
The invisible man goes on to break all of the windows at the inn and cut the telegraph cable. Invisible man is a novel by ralph ellison that was first published in 1952. When wells was a child he broke his leg, and while resting he read an enormous about of books, which inspired him to become a writer. A beautiful girl once told me of a recurring nightmare in which she lay in the center of a large dark room and felt her face expand until it filled the. The invisible man offers an excellent, reinvented plot that is exciting all the way through including its thrilling ending. Here are a few questions for study and discussion, related to invisible man.
Why, if they follow this conformity business, theyll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Invisible man is an important 20thcentury novel by ralph ellison. His threats keep marvel at his disposal for a time. Writing center topic finder 9 writing steps tutorials. Spinetingling and entertaining, the invisible man is a science fiction classicand a penetrating, unflinching look into the heart of human nature. Invisible man study guide from litcharts the creators of sparknotes. Invisible man is one of the big daddies of comingofage stories. The invisible man study guide from litcharts the creators of sparknotes. The invisible mans weirdest plot holes, explained cbr. Because the people he encounters see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination, he. At the beginning of the book, he has already turned himself invisible and wears bandages over his face and body just so he can be seen. One of the most important american novels of the twentieth century. See a complete list of the characters in invisible man and indepth analyses of the narrator, brother jack, and ras the exhorter. Told in the form of a firstperson narrative, invisible man traces the nameless narrators physical and psychological journey from blind ignorance to enlightened awareness or, according to the author, from purpose to.
Because invisible man is a bildungsroman a type of novel that chronicles a characters moral and psychological growth, the narrative and thematic concerns of the story revolve around the development of the narrator as an individual. Wells, the novel was as compelling as a good gripping dream. Invisible man study guide from litcharts the creators of. But i also agree that this is really speculative territory now and it might very well be a little plot inconsistency where the book author got his clues from. Invisible man, ralph ellison invisible man is a novel by ralph ellison, published by random house in 1952. Ralph ellisons invisible man as a parable of our time. Invisible man is certainly a book about race in america, and sadly enough, few of the problems it chronicles have disappeared even now. Sparknotes is here for you weve got everything you need to ace or teach. Cecilia breaks in and sprays the figure with a fire extinguisher, revealing his shape before unloading on him with a fallen officers pistol. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Invisible man by ralph ellison goodreads share book.
He plays a big role in the book because hes the one that narrates the story. With that been said, i have to said that the invisible man is in the same vein as the book. The narrator is not invisible because of a physical ailment or a freak accident. James tries to intervene but is beaten horribly in front of a terrified sydney.
Reverend barbee gives a crowdpleasing speech praising the founder of the college only to later reveal that he is a blind man. Invisible man by ralph ellison penguin random house canada. The new invisible man, een mexicaanse film uit 1957. Together in one indispensable volume, the time machine and the invisible man are masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from h. I still stand by the point, though, that the movie most probably wants to imply mr. What the invisible man is about and why its become a. Although this invisible man was never transmitted, plot elements and footage from it were reused in the episodes secret experiment, picnic with death and bank raid. Discover librarianselected research resources on invisible man by ralph ellison from the. Thats a brilliant way of keeping you waiting for more. If the most important thing in a story is a time machine, hell call that book the time machine. She ultimately deduces that he has acquired the ability to become invisible.
Mugs and pitchers fly off the walls and counters at the. The book is considered by many to be an masterful novel dealing with race in america. It is praised for its unflinching look at racism in america, and for its plot, which approaches surreal without tipping over to absurdity. Created for a book club final project in 10th grade english class. James explains that the evidence suggests that tom used his brother to get at cecilia but she is still convinced that adrian and tom were. Buy invisible man by ralph ellison, john callahan from waterstones today. The novel is considered influential, and helped establish wells as the father of science fiction. In this version, elisabeth moss stars as a young woman named cecilia kass. A milestone in american literaturea book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by the african. Fiction finder is a worksbased based application that provides access to millions of works of fiction. Its here that the film stumbles as there are many instances of a character or the world not recognizing the impact modern technology or even just common sense could have on the plot. The invisible man enlists marvel to help him get clothing and necessities.
He then stays in an inn that is owned and run by the husband and wife george and janny hall. The invisible man is a reimagining of the book by science fiction master h. Well go through a brief biography of the author, a summary of the book and the list of characters in the story. One of the major characters in the book the invisible man is the invisible man. For used books, we cannot guaranteed supplemental materials such as cds, dvds, access codes and other materials. The invisible man was released in the united states on february 28, 2020, by universal pictures. He is an invisible man, he proclaims, and has taken to living unknown underground, sucking electricity from the state of new york into his many light bulbs that he has hung in his lair. It follows a woman who believes she is being stalked by her abusive and wealthy boyfriend even after his apparent suicide. Every book on your english syllabus summed up in a quote from the office. The narrator witnesses cliftons racially motivated murder at the hands of white police officers. At the beginning of the story, the invisible man appears or not. Wells 1897 novel, the 1933 film, and the 2020 version all focus on a man who manages to turn himself invisible. Adrian is found tied and walled up in his house when a swat team storms his place.
Invisible man, novel by ralph ellison, published in 1952. When marvel gets a chance, he breaks away from the invisible man. The invisible man is a 2020 science fiction thriller film written and directed by leigh whannell. But ellisons first novel transcends such a narrow definition. A guide to reading invisible man with a critical and appreciative mind encourages analysis of plot, style, form, and structure, and includes background on the authors life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. Wells doesnt try to make things hard for his readers. He also has marvel keep several books in which he has recorded his experiments. But to generations of readers, the terrible and evil experiment of the demented scientist, griffin, has conveyed a chilling nightmare.
Invisible man is the story of a young, collegeeducated black man struggling to survive and succeed in a racially divided society that refuses to see him as a human being. When theres a lot of talk about eyeballs in a book called invisible man, you know somethings up with sight. In the new movie, its thanks to a hightech suit not a scientific accident like in the book and earlier film. Eliot, particularly the waste land, was a major influence on the novels style. His invisibility, he says, is not a physical conditionhe is not literally invisible but is rather the result of the refusal of others to see him.
Originally serialized in pearsons weekly in 1897 spinetingling and entertaining, the invisible man is. And only then does he reveal the story behind the origins of the invisible man. Here are the biggest plot holes in the invisible man, and why they each break the story of the film. Ralph ellisons invisible man by harold bloom chelsea house, 1999. An interactive data visualization of the invisible man s plot and themes. See a complete list of the characters in invisible man and indepth analyses.
Invisible man won the 1953 national book award for fiction, and is considered one of the greatest american novels. Its also a book about the human race stumbling down the path to identity, challenged and successful to varying degrees. The invisible man book spoilers popsugar entertainment. The novel opens with a prologue describing the depressed state of the narrator, who remains nameless throughout the novel. He gathers his books and notes and passes them through the window. The story the invisible man is about a scientist who finds away to turn things invisible.
Beautifully described, well thought out characters. The invisible man pilot is included in its entirety on the network dvd release of the series. Told in the form of a firstperson narrative, invisible man traces the nameless narrators physical and psychological journey from blind ignorance. The narrator, an unnamed black man, begins by describing his living conditions.
The narrator not only tells the story of invisible man, he is also its principal character. In the story of the invisible man, a mysterious man goes to a village called iping, which is in the middle of a snowstorm. As the detective goes to sign some papers the ink well moves around on the table by itself. Invisible man by ralph ellison, john callahan waterstones. Having learned how to make himself invisible, griffin begins to use his invisibility for nefarious purposes, including murder. List of books and articles about invisible man by ralph ellison. Invisible man, een roman van ralph ellison uit 1952. Invisible man is the fictional memoir of an unnamed black narrators journey to selfdiscovery.
Cecilia unmasks the invisible man, revealing him to be tom. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing african americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and marxism, and the reformist racial policies of booker t. Librivox recording of the invisible man free, humanread audiobook. Plot overview t he narrator begins telling his story with the claim that he is an invisible man. Bbc culture how invisible man eerily foreshadowed the. Find out the summary of the invisible man in this article. The narrator of invisible man is a nameless young black man who moves in a 20thcentury united states where reality is surreal and who can survive only through pretense. The next chapter begins with the invisible man yelling at marvel.127 1302 633 816 1407 120 1465 445 1550 1129 1537 1398 1613 392 1048 1040 1351 202 1203 1665 1604 1547 1209 1479 286 212 791 378 316


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I don’t understand why our state legislators want 70-year-old me to pay a poll tax to vote by absentee ballot.
I’ve been legally registered to vote for decades and have for years voted with an absentee ballot. Senate Bill 29 requires me to locate a place to pay to have a copy made of mine and my disabled husband’s driver’s license to exercise a freedom we’ve enjoyed since being old enough to vote. When my husband was in the Army during Vietnam, he didn’t have to jump through a bunch of hoops to vote. Why does he now?
Back in my parents’ day Georgia charged a $1 poll tax to vote — which mostly kept black people from voting, but poor farm families also got excluded. It will cost about a $1 or more to have photo IDs copied. What was old is new again.
Have Republicans decided they can’t win when voters participate in our election process? Has the party given up on winning elections by its ideas and values that it has to resort to a modern-day poll tax to keep old people, disabled people and poor people from voting?
Documents required for voter registration all have some kind of number associated with them. Why can’t one of those numbers be used to prove we are who we say we are for absentee ballots? No printer or copier required. That is, unless the true intent is to keep certain people from voting.
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May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced that data evaluating several investigational compounds in the company's oncology pipeline will be presented at the upcoming 2013 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting,
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Updated Results of a Phase I First-In-Human Study of the BCL-2 Inhibitor ABT-199 (GDC-0199) in Patients with Relapsed/Refractory (R/R) Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL); J.F. Seymour, et al.; Abstract 7018; Poster Discussion Session; June 1, 2013; 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Updated Results of a Phase I First-In-Human Study of the BCL-2 Inhibitor ABT-199 (GDC-0199) in Patients with Relapsed/Refractory (R/R) non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL); M.S. Davids, et al.; Abstract 8520; Oral Presentation; June 3, 2013; 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
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A phase I and Biodistribution Study of ABT-806i, an 111 Iindium-Labeled Conjugate of the Tumor-Specific Anti-EGFR Antibody ABT-806; H.K. Gan, et al.; Abstract 2520; Poster Discussion Session; June 4, 2013; 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
ABT-199 is a selective inhibitor of B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2) proteins. The B-cell lymphoma 2 gene prevents apoptosis of some cells including lymphocytes, and can be highly expressed in cancers in the lymph nodes, spleen, and other organs of the immune system. As a BH3-mimetic, ABT-199 is designed to block the function of the BCL-2 protein by restoring the communication system that tells cancer cells to self-destruct. Jointly developed by AbbVie and Genentech, the companies are pioneering BCL-2 research with ABT-199, which is currently in Phase 1/1b clinical trials for the treatment of CLL, the most common leukemia in
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently accepted AbbVie's amended clinical trial protocols for studies of ABT-199 in patients with CLL and enrollment for ABT-199 clinical trials in CLL, NHL and multiple myeloma has been re-instated. AbbVie and Genentech expect to move ABT-199 into later-stage clinical trials in the near future.


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In 2011, three top US government scientists penned an opinion piece in The Washington Post arguing why research modifying highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) was a worthy undertaking. At the time, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was facing blowback over having funded experiments that modified the virus to be transmissible among ferrets. The scientists argued that eliciting potentially dangerous mutations in the virus was necessary to protect humanity, should those mutations evolve naturally.
“We cannot predict whether or not something will arise naturally, nor when or where it might appear. Given these uncertainties, important information and insights can come from generating a potentially dangerous virus in the laboratory,” wrote Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Francis Collins, the head of NIH, and Gary Nabel, then a top official at Fauci’s institute.
Amid the controversy generated by this influenza research, the US government implemented a “pause” on federal funding in 2014 for selected research reasonably anticipated to increase transmissibility or pathogenicity of influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses. These were experiments that fell within a subset of scientific study called “gain-of-function” research. In 2017, the government lifted the pause and put in place a requirement that the US Department of Health and Human Services conduct a risk-benefit assessment on research that could confer these attributes to potential pandemic pathogens.


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The smaller lifts in Lessach, St. Michael-Petersbründl (race and training slope) and the National Park Village of Zederhaus, are ideal for beginners and families with small children. These ski resorts are characterized by hills that are generally easy.
"Easy slopes characterize these ski resorts."
The lift (550 m long), the blue and red hills are ideal for business, school and private races. The lift in Lessach can also be booked privately for the use of family or friends.
- Adult: € 20,-
- Child: € 12,-
T +43 (0)664 4110451
From mid-December until mid-March between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. if there is sufficient snow. The FIS slalom hill is especially suited for race events and training purposes.
- Adult: € 19,-
- Child € 9,50
In addition, the easy accessibility provided by public ski buses enriches the winter sporting experiences in Salzburg's Lungau. Ski passes including the Salzburg Super Ski Card, LUNGO and SkiLungau are also accepted here.
Smaller lift, 500 metres long, the smaller lift with "Liftstüberl" is also ideally suited for beginners and families with small children. Special rate for children and adults per hour € 1
Infostelle Zederhaus T +43 (0)6478 801
for 3 hours € 5,00 / adults & children
Schönfeld is away from the mass tourism a gem for the winter vacationer.
Experienced skiers prefer the 600 meter long Mattehanslift, for beginners and the little guests there is a magic carpet as well as a practice lift.
Due to its altitude (bottom station at 1,730 m), the lift operates from December to the end of March from 09:00 - 16:00 without any problems.
Prices: Adults € 28,- / Children € 16,-.

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THOUSAND ISLANDS REGION, NEW YORK (WWTI) — Conservationists in the Thousand Islands Region have been awarded millions of dollars to restore wetlands on the St. Lawrence River.
In late September, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that $34 million in grants was approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission. This funding was made available through the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. The grants will also be matched by $74 million in partner funds.
As detailed in the North American Wetlands Conservation Act Summary Cycle 2022-1, the St. Lawrence River and Thousand Island III Region will receive $1.32 million from the NAWCA. It will also receive a matching grant from Ducks Unlimited totaling $2.84 million.
This area covers 4,721.30 acres. It is also considered a coastal project as it covers areas spanning from the shores of Lake Ontario in Central New York through to where the St. Lawrence River crosses into Canada in Northern New York.
The St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario are home to extensive coastal wetlands. Conservationists have noted that these wetlands provide filtration for runoff, flood retention and provide food and shelter for wildlife.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, funding through the North American Wetlands Conservation Act aims to increase bird populations and wetland habitat while supporting local economies. Wetlands protected by the Act are claimed to provide “valuable benefits” which include flood control, coastal erosion reductions, water and air quality improvements and groundwater.
The NAWCA was first enacted in 1989. Since then it has funded over 3,100 projects totaling over $1.9 billion in grants. It operates in two cycles per year. With each cycle, eligible proposals are reviewed and ranked by the North American Wetlands Conservation Council.
Program funding comes from appropriations, fines, penalties, and forfeitures; and from interest accrued on the fund. Funds from U.S. Federal sources may contribute towards a project, but are not eligible as a match.
A full breakdown of recent funding can be found on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife website.


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FUJIKURA Ltd has announced it has developed a Leaky Coaxial Cable (LCX) suitable for implementing 2×2 MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output).
The company has been working on research on the 2x2 MIMO system, which uses an LCX that also serves as two antennas, in cooperation with Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International and Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
The data traffic through wireless communication such as cell phones or wireless LANs has been increasing. Consequently, shortages of radio resources caused by many users in places like stations or meeting rooms results in the lower data rate and poor connection. Two LCXs are considered to be needed to double the transmission capacity of an LCX. The research, however, has theoretically enabled an LCX to have twice the transmission capacity. It is expected to be applied for responding to the increasing volume of transmission.
The research was conducted under the Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme of Japan’s Ministry of International Affairs and Communications.
Earlier, Fujikura revealed it developed a new USB 3.0 cable assembly that is flexible and easy to be stored.
“High frequency signals for increasing data traffic require some shielded-pair cables, but they have a lack of flexibility. We resolved the problem by utilising design, manufacture and evaluation technique for high-frequency cables, which we have been cultivating in developing small-diameter cables used for electronics devices. In addition, we improved its flexibility and its usability by newly designing materials and structures for shielded layers and jackets,” the company said in a statement.
Even when the cable is connected to a wearable device, which has been increasingly miniaturised, the device is not lifted by the cable. The cable fits unobtrusively on wearable devices such as head-mounted displays to provide more comfort. Assembly including connectors can be customised to customer specifications or transmission standards. The cable is expected to be used in robots for FA (factory automation) and medical use as it is suitable for use in a device’s moving part, where mechanical stress is applied.
In September of this year, Fujikura disclosed it had developed multiplex optical connectors for ultrahigh definition imaging devices that can be used in 4k/8k broadcasting studios for the first time in the world. The company has started delivering them.
This innovative products meet the standard of “Interface for UHDTV Production Systems B-58 ver 1.0” that Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) has established. Attached to both ends of 24-fibre optical cables that link 4k/8k super-high vision bradcasting devices, the connectors contribute to the realisation of high-density optical interconnection and reductions in time needed for connecting and disconnecting.
These optical fibres were exhibited in October at Ceatec Japan 2014.


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PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY – COVID 19
There has been a significant level of discussion on social media and other media
outlets on the use of public rights of way during the current Covid-19 restrictions.
Governments and their agencies have updated their guidance and in the specific
case of Wales, new laws published on 24 April, as follows:
Natural England Operational Update – Covid-19 (last updated 23 April) -


Parish Council News for May 2019
New Parish Council takes shape:
Beckington Parish Council held its Annual Meeting on May 14th this was the first meeting of the new Council after the May elections. Councillor Mark Wilson was elected as Parish Council Chairman for 2019/20, Cllr Wilson will take on the responsibility for getting the Allotments and the Association up and running (along with the Parish Clerk). The Council divides up the responsibilities across its Membership so that the Chairman that is not responsible for everything:
• Cllr Roland Kelly is responsible for Councils Planning and Development Portfolio, this means he coordinates the Parish Councils response to all tree and planning applications made to Mendip District Council.
• Cllr Kevin Bishop holds the Highways & Transport Portfolio, meaning that he looks after any issues relating to the same for the Council.
• Cllr Liz Wright is the Councils Rep to Rudge, as well as the Footpaths and Rights of way rep.
• Cllr Clive Winterbourne will continue to look after the Environment Portfolio. Clive helps keep an eye on all the new dog bins and is the fly-tipping supremo as well as looking after the Council assets.
• Cllr Paula Fox - S106 local developer money coordinator.
• Mr Simon Pritchard - Rep / Trustee to the Memorial Hall.
Full contact details for all the Members can be found on the Parish Council website. If you wanted to contact the Council about an issue not covered above, then please contact the Clerk in the first instance.
Looking for a new member:
The Parish Council is also on the lookout for one more member to join the team. You may already be interested in one of the areas that have been outlined above or have a completely different interest to bring to the Council. Maybe you would like to kickstart a project for raising funds to replace the playground or maybe you want to see more land obtained for recreation / allotments. If you have drive, energy and a good plan the Council would be pleased to hear from you - please contact the Clerk.


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New Models and New Markets: Smartgyro at Boot Dusseldorf
More intuitive graphical user interface and new gyro units at the top end of the size range are set to open up large cruiser market for vessel stabilization experts Smartgyro
Smartgyro: Hall 10, Stand A40, Boot Dusseldorf: 21-29 January 2023 – Stabilizer design innovator Smartgyro will for first time exhibit its range of gyro stabilizers on a new-look stand, alongside YANMAR, Maxwell, VETUS and Flexofold to present the increased options and complete solutions the synergy between the brands offers, to visitors and boat owners.
As part of the refreshed stand layout Smartgyro will showcase the NEW SG150 model, its biggest to date, as part of a full line-up of technology on display including the SG20, SG40 and SG80 models as well as the Smartgyro Graphical User Interface (GUI) at Europe’s leading maritime trade fair.
LARGER YACHTS CAN NOW EXPERIENCE THE MAGIC
The SG120 is aimed at 70-85ft vessels, while the SG150 covers 80-95ft, both slotting in neatly at the top end of the existing SG20/40/60/80 range. The SG range of stabilizers are ideal for new builds and refit installations on a variety of recreational powerboats, superyachts and superyacht tenders.
It is anticipated that these models will also help fill an increasing demand from the yacht charter market where the amazing benefits of gyroscopic marine stabilization open up the seas to clients who may not have chartered before due to concerns around motion-related discomfort.
EASY INTEGRATED MONITORING
Thanks to the new Smartgyro GUI (Graphical User Interface), available for demonstration at Boot Dusseldorf this year, it is now possible to view, control and monitor the boat’s stabilization status and activities more accurately than ever before.
Based on an Exor Xa5 display, but also compatible with Garmin’s OneHelm system along with Raymarine and Simrad MFDs, the interface promises ever greater integration with the future capability of controlling VETUS, Smartgyro, and Maxwell systems from a single place with just a few taps to switch from one to another.
ENHANCED CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
2023 marks an exciting time for Italy-headquartered technology company Smartgyro with a recently launched new website offering a more effective digital presence through easier, faster mobile-friendly navigation through the SG models and an interactive map to easily find the nearest dealers and distributors. Additionally, by developing a specific dealer portal on the new website, Smartgyro is committed to providing its distributors, dealers, and partners all over the world with the necessary tools, allowing them to operate efficiently with technical information just a click away, benefitting owners with a premium support and after-sales service.
Sander Gesink, Marketing Director at Smartgyro explains: “The return of Boot Dusseldorf offers us a great opportunity to introduce Smartgyro’s brand new GUI, already in preview specification here, together with our latest models the SG120 and SG150, to new markets and customers. We welcome all to come and talk to us about how Smartgyro can help you to “feel the magic” from gyroscopic stabilization and maximise your time on the water, at Stand A-40 in Hall 10.”
+31 6 1550101
+31 6 20611959
+44 (0)1202 669244
About Smartgyro – The Future of Marine Stabilization
Smartgyro is a gyro stabilization technology company with a mission to elevate the entire boating experience with its complete range of advanced gyro stabilizers. Ideal for new builds and refit installations on recreational powerboats and light-duty commercial vessels, the leading Smartgyro stabilizers offer significant performance, efficiency, installation and maintenance benefits for boat owners, vessel operators and boatbuilders. The Smartgyro range consists of the SG20, SG40, SG60, SG80, SG120 and SG150 bringing boat stabilization for vessels from 30ft to more than 80ft.
“Feel the magic” with Smartgyro. More information: www.smartgyro.com.