Australia: A Structural Story
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Around the Curve
Stephen S. Smith
Managing Director, Portfolio Manager
Despite prevailing pessimism, Australian structural realities support a more optimistic outlook.
There seems to be a lot of doom and gloom hanging over markets right now, but structurally bullish cases do exist. Australia is one of them. Sure, Australia's economy has slowed, but sluggish growth is currently a global issue. Against a fairly pessimistic backdrop, what makes Australia stand out are the following structural factors:
Imminent tax cuts
Twin surpluses
Real effective exchange rate (REER) of the Australian dollar
Macroprudential policies
The recently reelected government is expected to pursue a pro-growth agenda; therefore, we expect different sources of stimulus to support the Australian economy. For example, tax cuts could be announced as early as this month. These tax cuts wouldn't be possible—or at least prudent—without the country's twin surpluses, a facet of the economy that inarguably makes Australia attractive from an investment perspective. The country currently runs a budget surplus, and as shown in Chart 1 below; the budget as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) should move into positive territory in 2020.
Source: Cornerstone Macro. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. This information is provided for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect the performance of an actual investment.
Australia also runs a current account surplus, which we think the country will be able to comfortably maintain for two reasons. Firstly, capital expenditures (capex) have increased across all sectors, pushing investment to levels seen in the 1990s, as shown in Chart 2. We are encouraged that companies are committing to capital-intensive projects and believe activity may have found a bottom in 2018.
Secondly, the recovery in capex could partly be explained by Australia's commodity-centric exports, which have received continual support from Chinese demand for iron ore and coal. The demand for these two Australian commodities could remain relatively insulated from other potential headwinds because of the Chinese government's recent focus on environmental policies. Australian iron ore and coal are cleaner substitutes when compared to the resources that can be mined locally; Chinese authorities should continue to import them from Australia as long as the government remains focused on anti-pollution initiatives[RB1] . This baked-in demand could help prop up Australian exports (see Chart 3 below), as well as the dollar.
[RB1]Link to Tracy Chen blog
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Indexes are unmanaged, and not available for direct investment. Index returns do not include fees or sales charges. This information is provided for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect the performance of an actual investment.
The Aussie dollar is undervalued on a REER basis as shown in Chart 4 below—making it one of the most undervalued currencies in our universe based upon this metric.
Source: Brandywine Global. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. This information is provided for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect the performance of an actual investment.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) seems to agree and has projected that the currency could comfortably appreciate to around $0.75 from its current level without hindering growth. Chart 5 illustrates the central bank's projection on the currency:
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. This information is provided for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect the performance of an actual investment.
The RBA also recently cut rates, which implies that Australia doesn't have an inflation problem right now—another constructive sign for investors. Perhaps inflation remained benign as Australia's previously overheated housing market began to cool off. A few years ago, the government required borrowers to undergo stress tests in the event of a rising rate environment. The policy was meant to rein in real estate prices, which have seems to have worked since home prices have been weak for the last 18 months. Now, the government is expected to relax these stringent requirements to reinvigorate the housing market.
We think these collective structural forces could create tailwinds for the Australian economy. The country's twin surpluses afford the luxury to pursue ambitious stimulus efforts as a way to revive the economy without sacrificing the currency or a benign inflation backdrop. However, risks certainly remain as the U.S. and China continue to hash out their trade dispute while the Chinese government continues to implement its own stimulus.
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Tealium CEO: AI, IoT and the ongoing customer data integration challenge
CMO catches up with the global chief of data management technology provider to discuss the changing martech landscape and how to gain a 360-degree customer data view
Nadia Cameron (CMO)
Jeff Lunsford
Ask any marketer what's on their to-do list in 2017, and they'll tell you they have a project underway to achieve a 360-degree view of the customer, Tealium's global CEO, Jeff Lunsford, says.
"Any marketer is going to be looking to pull in data about that customer or a prospect from the myriad points where data is available in this new world," he says. "This could be IoT, mobile devices, or customer care.
"Every marketer will nod yes, they want to leverage all the data they possibly can. So there's vision sync across the industry, the question is, how to do that."
Tealium is one of a growing number of vendors looking to provide that answer with its Universal Data Hub, a software solution aimed at addressing data fragmentation for marketers across online and offline channels. The platform brings together the vendor's AudienceStream and DataAccess solutions with its iQ foundational technology.
It's the latest in an evolution of the company from its early days as a tag management vendor. Since launching six years ago, Tealium has spent several years integrating its offering with more than 1000 applications across the marketing ecosystem, and recently raised another US$35m in capital, off the back of increased investment earlier in 2016, bringing total funding to $112.9m.
Tealium now has 750 enterprise customers globally, from small digital-first companies to the largest, mature organisations. Australian clients include Cronulla Sharks, Nude by Nature, Greenstone Financial, and Melbourne University, while Asia-Pacific clients include Cathy Pacific.
Speaking to CMO during a visit to Australia this week, Lunsford described Tealium as the "neutral layer down the stack of the marketing cloud", and the common management component organisations need in order to be able to exchange data across multiple best-of-breed systems in real time. Rather than competing with the large marketing cloud providers, he sees Tealium's role as being a complementary component.
Not surprisingly, Lunsford sees technology as providing the foundational layer marketers need across customer touchpoints to pull that 360-degree vision off.
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"Companies use multiple software applications to create the customer experience, each has its own idea of the customer, and most don't talk to each other," he says. "The average Tealium customer has 26 software applications that contribute to the customer experience.
"To successfully pull off the vision of leveraging data, and creating a consistent customer experience, you have to have right technology underpinnings. Our thesis in 2011 has proven to be correct: You need an independent data layer that can speak to all 26 applications, in a common language, about the customer."
Lunsford claims being able to process data and take action in real time is table stakes for the long-term survival of brands.
"People targeting customers based on what they looked at 24 hours ago are not going to be nearly as competitive as those targeting customers in real time," he says.
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Tealium isn't the only vendor looking to fill the breach left by the amalgamation of legacy systems, applications, data warehouses and business intelligence in the enterprise with more modern marketing and customer platform solutions and needs. Over the past few years, a plethora of different technology approaches have come to the fore for data management in marketing, including data management platforms (DMPs) and customer data platforms (CDPs).
While Lunsford sees point-based competitors in all three areas of Tealium's focus – client-side data management, data hub layer, and business intelligence/data warehouse integration - he is pitching Tealium as the one bringing all three together.
It's also not just about customer data either. "The reason we call it a universal data hub is you can bring in a lot more than customer and prospect data into that platform, such as supply chain, loyalty, call centre, point-of-sale data, beacons, and data about your enterprise that may not necessarily be customer information," Lunsford says.
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With that in mind, Tealium is now working to ensure its platform integrates with these wider data sources.
"We needed to integrate with the marketing space, but we're also investing heavily in building out ecosystem beyond customer data to leverage points in IoT, or the call centre. Want to be a truly universal hub, not just a customer data hub,"he says.
Lunsford highlights artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning as particular priorities in 2017.
"Every company that's forward thinking is talking about leveraging AI and machine learning. To do that, you need relevant data sets to feed into these algorithms,"he explains. "Any AI expert will tell you the algorithms are proven, and becoming commoditised, you differentiate by the data you pull into these and get the output and take action on that.
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"But few are ready from a data readiness standpoint. IoT is another huge bucket. If you think about all the new data sources for customers – you can now get data about customers in cars, homes, in your stores. There are a lot of clients trying to think through that and we're doing a lot of integration work ourselves on that."
As an example of how different data sources are now coming together for marketing purposes, Lunsford says several Tealium customers are leveraging weather data and feeding it into AudienceStream, then modifying customer experience activities and communications based on local weather conditions.
Other customers are bringing in loyalty program data, so that when a customer lands on their website or mobile app, they're getting an experience in line with where they are in the loyalty program.
"Some customers have bricks-and-mortar stores, and when their customers come into the store, the store concierge is notified by software of what else they looked at online, and can pull that out and present," Lunsford says.
A large US healthcare provider, meanwhile, is serving data back and forth between the call centre and online systems, again with the aim of improving customer service and personalisation.
Ongoing data hurdles
But while technology might be vital, what is also stopping organisations from harnessing customer data across the spectrum of marketing, communications and support is their legacy operational models and culture, Lunsford says.
"The larger the company, the bigger the challenge because these companies have organised around different channels and software packages such as email, media buying, Web analytics," he explains. "They have their own ideas of the audience or customer. It's a functional challenge – the bigger the company, the harder it is to change that inertia. When they do though, they get a high economic benefit."
Best practice starts has to start with good data hygiene, Lunsford says. From there, organisations need to a clear definition of what they view as VIP customers and higher value prospects.
"You have to start with that. If you have that agreement at a business level, can easily drive that at a technology level," he adds. "It's the single biggest best practice that is foundational."
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A Langford woman spotted a rare spider while walking around Langford's fire hall on Peatt Rd. The Royal BC Museum identified it as a Pacific Folding Door spider, a non-venomous species related to tarantulas that is native to Vancouver Island. (Courtesy of Krysten Leigh)
Rare spider sneaks out of hiding in Langford
Pacific folding door spiders are native to Vancouver Island, non-venemous
Aaron Guillen
May. 1, 2020 5:00 a.m.
With eight eyes staring up at her, a spider stretched out on the sidewalk stopped Krysten Leigh in her tracks. Leigh was walking her dog in Langford on April 24 when she noticed the eight-legged critter out of the corner of her eye.
"I couldn't believe my eyes," she said. "I thought it had to be fake 'cause I'd never something that big."
Leigh was staring at a Pacific folding door spider, also known as Antrodiaetus pacificus. It wasn't moving, but had its legs outstretched on the pavement outside Langford's fire hall on Peatt Road.
She quickly pulled her dog behind her as she grabbed a photo and started circulating it to local pest control agencies – who couldn't give her an exact answer on its origin.
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"This was quite an unusual find," said Royal BC Museum entomology collections manager Claudia Copley, who knew exacly what it was. "These spiders are rare to see because even though they're native to Vancouver Island, they usually stay in their burrows underneath lawns and in old growth forests most of their lives."
They're called folding door spiders because they use a door made from silk and dirt to surprise prey. They usually grow to about five centimetres or just about two inches. They're related to tarantulas and some females can live up to 20 years.
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What makes it more unusual is that this one was a female, as apparent with its bigger abdomen.
Notably, males come out of hiding during mating season in the fall. Copley believes something disturbed the spider's burrow, perhaps a sprinkler that flooded the home or someone dug it up accidently.
"They pose no danger to us because they aren't venomous," said Copley. "They eat pests like earwigs, [insects and smaller spiders]. To be honest, they're pretty impressive."
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The Trump administration tries to subvert yet another agency mission
The Donald Trump administration is likely to be headed to the courts again, this time over the leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This was an agency set up to police the consumer financial markets and protect the rights of consumers against big banks and was championed by senator Elizabeth Warren as one means of preventing another financial crisis. Its first director Richard Cordray was quite effective in that role but his term ended in 2018 and he wanted to step down this year, reportedly to run for the governorship of Ohio.
Donald Trump and the oligarchy absolutely hates the CFPB because it slightly hinders their ability to rip off people and so Trump was planning to do what he does with every agency whose mission he loathes, and that is appoint as its head someone opposed to the mission itself so that the person can undermine it from the inside. In the case of the CFPB, Trump was planning to appoint his budget director Mick Mulvaney, a political hack and a complete pawn of business, as acting director when Cordray stepped down. You can see why Trump thought Mulvaney was good for the job.
< Mulvaney himself, while in Congress, savagely attacked the bureau, calling it in 2014 "a wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody." He added that the CFPB has been a "sick, sad" joke.< p>
But Cordray, in his last act before leaving yesterday, appointed a career professional Leandra English as deputy director and according to the law creating the CFPB, that person automatically becomes acting director in the case of a vacancy at the top.
But Trump has gone ahead and appointed Mulvaney anyway so now there are two acting directors and the issue will likely go to the courts to see who should be the rightful head.
Ichthyic says
"his term ended in 2018"
Hey, you mind if I borrow your time machine?
have Americans not figured out yet that the traditional checks and balances no longer apply, and haven't for at least 6 years?
do they not realize that sitting around waiting for shit to get worse is not going to make shit get better?
*shrug*
John Morales says
Ichthyic, aren't you an American?
(Or did you change citizenship?)
NZ citizen.
Kiwi now, eh? No worries. Grats.


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Sequel to Morning Report For Tommy Bradley, a hand working on the Lost Cow Ranch in rural Texas, admitting his sexuality is impossible, even if his bosses, Luke and Simon, are gay-Tommy has spent his entire life hiding the truth from his homophobic parents. Then Tommy meets pastor Noah Taylor in Luke's father's hospital room, and his difficult secret becomes that much harder to keep. Noah is unlike any man of God-or any man-Tommy's ever met. For one thing, his congregation is made up primarily of GLBT individuals and their families. For another, he isn't afraid of the attraction he feels toward Tommy, and he makes his intentions very clear. But Noah won't hide his sexuality or his love from the world, and he won't start a relationship with Tommy while Tommy hides his, either. Faced with the choice of losing Noah or coming out to his parents, Tommy takes his first steps out of the closet. But Tommy isn't the only one facing challenges. Thanks to an outpouring of hatred from Pastor Jackson and a group of ranch owners, Noah must cope with the possible loss of his church and his livelihood.
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Publisher: Silver Publishing (April 30, 2012)
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Detectives Scott Turner and Will Harrison are sent undercover after an apparent murder/suicide in Laurel Heights, an exclusive gay housing community. Will the two closeted officers be able to hide their attraction while each believing the other is straight? And is there a killer amongst them waiting to claim his next victim?
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Publisher: Fallen Bros. Publishing (May 1, 2012)
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From a wealthy cul-de-sac in Hillsborough, California to a dusty village in Central Mexico, Tio Jorge gives us an emotional portrait of a young woman who cannot move forward until she silences the ghosts of her tragic childhood. On her graduation day from Stanford University, she thinks she sees in the crowd the man accused of her mother's death sixteen years earlier, but he flees before she can speak to him. Believing he is the key to unlock the mystery of her father who abandoned her, she sets out to track him down, and in the process discovers the Mexican side of her family. Heartened by the love and warmth of her Mexican relatives, she has the courage to confront her mother's family and seek justice for the man who had been her father's secret lover.
314) Ron J. Suresha & Scott McGillivray - Fur, The Love of Hair
Publisher: Bruno Gmünder (May 1, 2012)
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Gone are the times when sprouting hair on a man's chest was considered to be unstylish. Chest hair and beards are popular again! This fact was also proved by the success of our anthology HAIR two years ago. But since so many of you obviously just can't get enough, we produced a comprehensive follow-up: Fur - The Love of Hair offers you sexy men en masse - and they all show their hair roudly. The pictures by various artists are complemented by informative and entertaining texts.
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Publisher: JCP Books (May 17, 2012)
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Every day, Daniel Schroeder breaks his father's heart. While forgetting your problems won't solve them, it does seem like it would make life a heck of a lot easier. Daniel thought so once. Now he knows better. He and Big Dan have always been close, which makes it all the more difficult to break the daily news: the last five years were nothing like his father remembers. They're both professionals in the memory field-they even run their own memory palace. So shouldn't they be able to figure out a way to overwrite the persistent false memory that's wreaking havoc on both of their lives? Daniel thought he was holding it together, but the situation seems to be sliding out of control. Now even his own equipment has turned against him, reminding him he hasn't had a date in ages by taunting him with flashes of an elusive man in black that only he can see. Is it some quirk of the circuitry, or is Daniel headed down the same path to fantasy-land as his old man?
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Publisher: Silver Publishing (May 21, 2012)
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Phil thrives on the danger and excitement of his job, and he trusts his partner with his life. Until Ryan kisses him. It's a diversionary tactic, but the kiss shakes Phil to his foundations. He doesn't need or want a long-term lover, but now it seems his heart does. A short time later, Phil finds himself trapped in his wrecked car, drifting in and out of a dream-haunted coma where he's living a parallel life. Centuries in the past, someone's trying to kill Caius Marcellus Valens, and nothing is the way it seems. When the dream invades Phil's waking life, he must separate past from present before it tears apart his world--and the best relationship he's ever had.
317) Piper Vaughn & M.J. O'Shea - One Small Thing
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (May 4, 2012)
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"Daddy" is not a title Rue Murray wanted, but he never thought he'd have sex with a woman either. Now he's the unwitting father of a newborn named Alice. Between bartending and cosmetology school, Rue doesn't have time for babies, but he can't give her up. What Rue needs is a babysitter, and he's running out of options. He's on the verge of quitting school to watch Alice himself when he remembers his reclusive new neighbor, Erik. Erik Van Nuys is a sci-fi novelist with anxiety issues to spare. He doesn't like people in general, and he likes babies even less. Still, with his royalties dwindling, he could use the extra cash. Reluctantly, he takes on the role of manny-and even more reluctantly, he finds himself falling for Alice and her flamboyant father. Rue and Erik are as different as two people can be, and Alice is the unlikeliest of babies, but Rue has never been happier than when Alice and Erik are by his side. At least, not until he receives an offer that puts all his dreams within reach and he's forced to choose: the future he's always wanted, or the family he thought he never did.
318) Lewis DeSimone - The Heart's History
Publisher: Lethe Press (May 5, 2012)
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This is Edward architect, friend, lover, mystery. Everyone has their own Edward a kaleidoscope of images struggling to define a man who has never let anyone get too close. But now, Edward is dying, and all of his loved ones are desperate to understand him, to connect fully with him, before it's too late. In this beautiful and haunting novel, Lewis DeSimone, author of the acclaimed Chemistry, explores the hidden depths of love, the struggle to maintain a balance between connection and individuality. Edward's illness is set against the backdrop of a sea change in gay culture, a time when AIDS is assumed to be simply a manageable condition, and when the drive for assimilation through marriage, or the military has begun to trump the distinct characteristics that were once a source of pride. Deftly shifting perspectives to paint a compelling portrait of a man and a community on the cusp of a critical transition, The Heart's History gives hope that, despite the impossibility of ever achieving true oneness with another person, it is the attempt itself that gives life its greatest joy.
319) Charles Raines - Stranger In Translation
Publisher: Charles Raines (May 5, 2012)
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An opinionated young linguist signs a six month contract to translate a 'Bestseller' from English into French, on the condition that he can do the job in France. He has nothing but contempt for the book's author, hates the dull, routine work he has to do, and despises the banality of his own life. Something is missing. Hesitant and frustrated, his ambivalent sexual desires are untapped, but always bubbling below the surface. Feeling like an outsider, the only way to cope is to find a distraction, try to blend in, and strive to fully embrace the French way of life. The local cemetery offers shelter and serenity, and the backstreets of Marseilles offer danger and excitement. Balancing the two, he meets a succession of men and has a series of erotic encounters which gradually mould him into exactly the man he secretly always wanted to be.
320) Amy Lane - Gambling Men
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Quent Jackson has followed Jason Spade's every move in business and in poker since their first day as college freshmen. Eight years later, when Jace finally decides Quent is the one man he can't live without, he sees no reason for that to change. But as much as Jace believes that poker is life, no one gave Quent the same playbook. After their first passionate night, the real game of love and trust begins, and Jace has been playing alone too long to make teaching the rules easy. Jace only speaks two languages: one of them is sex, and the other one is poker. Between the two, he needs to find a way to convince himself to take a chance on love—and Quent to take a chance on him. It's a lucky thing they're good at reading the odds, because they're playing for keeps, and this is one high-stakes relationship that's definitely worth the gamble.
321) J.L. Merrow - Hard Tail
Publisher: Samhain Publishing (April 2, 2013)
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Finding love can be a bumpy ride. His job: downsized out of existence. His marriage: on the rocks. It doesn't take a lot of arm twisting for Tim Knight to agree to get out of London and take over his injured brother's mountain bike shop for a while. A few weeks in Southampton is a welcome break from the wreck his life has become, even though he feels like a fish out of water in this brave new world of outdoor sports and unfamiliar technical jargon. The young man who falls—literally—through the door of the shop brings everything into sharp, unexpected focus. Tim barely accepts he's even in the closet until his attraction to Matt Berridge pulls him close enough to touch the doorknob. There's only one problem with the loveable klutz: his bullying boyfriend. Tim is convinced Steve is the cause of the bruises that Matt blows off as part of his risky sport. But rising to the defense of the man he's beginning to love, means coming to terms with who he is—in public—in a battle not even his black belt prepared him to fight. Until now.
322) D. Jackson Leigh - Touch Me Gently
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (May 8, 2012)
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Secrets lead to nothing but trouble and heartbreak. Newly arrived in the small Southern town of Oakboro, Salem Lacy is planning to keep a low profile after an ill-timed step out of the closet cost her the corporate job and high-powered friends she had in Atlanta. That plan derails when Salem meets the mysterious and beautiful Knox Bolander, a woman who is whispered to cause odd and sometimes dangerous things to happen. When a fire that occurred twenty years earlier on the Bolander estate threatens to destroy Salem's chance to rebuild her life, she must decide if she will risk everything again for this secretive woman who has been rarely touched and never loved.
323) Nell Stark & Trinity Tam - Sunfall
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In the final installment of the everafter series, Valentine Darrow and Alexa Newland work to rebuild their relationship even as they find themselves at the heart of the struggle that will determine a new world order for vampires and wereshifters. To survive, they must defeat the growing threat posed by Balthasar Brenner, who has been a thorn in the side of the vampire-wereshifter Consortium for centuries. The search for Brenner leads Val and Alexa deep into the heart of the Alaskan wilderness, where they must confront Brenner's forces and either secure peace between the paranormal races, or die in the attempt.
324) Terri Richards - Mission of Desire
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Quiet and introverted graduate student Nicole Kennedy has always longed to do something far more adventurous than study politics from used textbooks. But when she spontaneously sets off for Africa to volunteer as a teacher over the summer, she gets more excitement than she could have ever imagined. Within hours of arriving in Kenya, Nicole finds herself at the center of an international conspiracy involving millions of dollars and being rescued by beautiful but infuriatingly arrogant government agent Kira Anthony. Despite her suspicions that Kira may not be who she claims to be, Nicole can't seem to fight her growing attraction to the beguiling blonde. Could it be the thrill, the danger, the close proximity that explains her feelings—or is it a glimpse of something she's never known and can't bear to lose?
325) Rebecca Buck - The Locket and the Flinklock
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Will the masked outlaw who stole Lucia's locket also claim her heart? When Miss Lucia Foxe is robbed by a band of shadowy highwaymen, she does not realize this frightening event will change her life forever. Her brave quest to retrieve her stolen locket brings her into close contact with the thieves and their dashing and fearless masked leader, Len Hawkins. But there is more to Len than meets the eye. Beneath the robber's mask lies a woman who, in her heart, is not really so very different from Lucia. As their unlikely love grows against the backdrop of the poverty and violent protest of Regency England, Lucia learns how much more there is to the world than her upbringing has taught her. Len flirts with death every day, and eventually, an attempt at exacting revenge on her cruel father threatens to snatch her from Lucia's arms. Will Len survive her encounter with death and avoid the retribution of the agents of justice? And can respectable gentlewoman Lucia love Len enough to sacrifice everything she knows?
326) Lesley Davis - Dark Wings Descending
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Goodness may appear in many forms; evil need only take one. The Chicago PD Deviant Data Unit specializes in the dark and cruel aspects of criminal behavior. When a serial killer who leaves his victims oddly posed starts terrorizing the city, Detective Rafe Douglas leads the team tasked to find this sadistic killer. Still recovering from severe injuries sustained in the line of duty, Rafe's tenuous hold on what is real is further tested by someone who wants in on the case and won't take no for an answer. Private Investigator Ashley Scott experiences the world through unveiled eyes. She alone can see that Hell's inhabitants are breaking free from their confines and are bringing their evil to Earth. She believes the killer isn't human and knows she has to convince Rafe there are more things happening in the Windy City than anyone could possibly realize. Only together can they solve the secrets revealed in the killer's brutal slayings.
327) Logan Zachary - Calendar Boys
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Over the years, boys grew up sneaking peeks at the Calendar Girls when their fathers brought the family car in for service, while others saw them in Dad's garage working on projects around the house. But now it's man's turn to be the object of desire. Hot young men caught each month, a man a month, who could want anything else? Calendar Boys celebrates each month with a unique story. January's "Pucking Prince Charming" finds a fairy tale with a happy ending in the hockey rink. While St. Valentine's Day Massacre gangsters help a couple find lost gold and love in "The Grandfather." March Madness comes in like a lamb, but goes out like a lion when a silly bet forces a player into "Taking It For The Team." Zombies come out with April showers in "Jay Of The Dead." The hot, humid, dog days of summer sees the "Lumber Jack Off," while fall horrors wait at a haunted frat house with a "Halloween Hard On," but the year isn't complete until "Santa's Big Package" arrives. Four special seasons fill out the year, adding extra action and a lot more hot men. You have to love the Calendar Boys, each and every day of the year …
328) Steve Berman - Boys of Summer
Reading level: Ages 13 and up
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Walt Whitman referred to a "Mad, naked, Summer Night!" In the pages of Boys of Summer, acclaimed editor Steve Berman's latest anthology, talented authors and fresh voices reveal the allure and excitement of the season for gay teens. June always promises romance. July entices with its raw heat, and August offers a languid fire that will burn out before autumn's approach. These are stories of young love and adventure, when the sky's ceiling is a bright blue marvel, when another boy's laughter at the beach can distract from dull summer jobs.
329) Sasha L. Miller - Saving Liam
Publisher: Less Than Three Press (May 8, 2012)
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Leyton lived a quiet, simple life as a prosperous, thriving merchant alongside his twin brother Liam. But that life is shattered when Liam goes missing, and Leyton is told that the only way to save his brother's life is to seduce a king. The task proves to be even more difficult than Leyton feared, and soon he is swept up in a tide of political machinations, betrayal, and a looming threat of execution once the men who blackmailed him are caught. But the threat of his pending death is nothing alongside the constant fear for his missing brother's safety-and the tangle of intrigue in which he is caught is nothing like the tangle he put himself in after breaking the heart of a king...
330) Megan Derr - Burning Bright
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Nine gods ruled the world, until the ultimate betrayal resulted in their destruction. Now, the world is dying and only by restoring the Lost Gods can it be saved. In the land of Pozhar, the people fear the return of Zhar Ptitsa, the god of souls and rebirth who nearly destroyed them nine hundred years ago in a terrible rage. To prevent his rebirth, the people hunt down and sacrifice Vessels, those born with a piece of Zhar Ptitsa's soul within them. The Sacred Texts say that one thousand such Vessels will be born and all must be sacrificed to destroy Zhar Ptitsa once and for all. Now, only two pieces remain in the bodies of two thieves who will not go to the Flames without a fight.
331) Steve Turtell - Heroes and Householders
Publisher: iUniverse (May 9, 2012)
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HEROES AND HOUSEHOLDERS pays tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Edward Field, Joan Larkin, and James Schuyler, and documents the life of an ordinary, everyday householder in poems critic Marjorie Perloff calls "charming and subtle".
332) Eden Winters - Fallen Angel
Publisher: Torquere Press (May 9, 2012)
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Ten years of rescuing lost youth from the streets wear a man out, and Noah Everett buckles under the pressure of being "The Angel." What began as a two-man mission is now going corporate, meaning rules, regulations and inexperienced volunteers needing guidance in a field Noah makes up as he goes along. On top of this, his latest prospective rescue doesn't seem to go to plan. Is he losing his touch? Normally he'd turn to his mentor, Doc, in times of trouble, but the old man's strength isn't what it used to be. Noah's lover would be the next most obvious choice to share this burden with, but Jeremy Kincaid is about to leave for college. After all Jeremy's endured to achieve this goal, Noah won't stand in his way, even though he fears losing the man to the joys of student life. Jeremy may be young and caught up in his own fights, but he's not blind to Noah's plight, and now questions his own choices. Four years at State with a full ride will launch his future, but his present includes Noah--and a meth addict who's become Jeremy's own personal mission. When a physical attack sends Noah spinning out of control, Jeremy must reevaluate his life and plans before the man he knows and loves disappears forever.
333) Avril Ashton - Love the Sinner
Publisher: Ellora's Cave (May 9, 2012)
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Detective Gabriel Ashby has never looked twice at another man, yet the criminal across from him, the man he's interrogating, isn't like any other. Gabe can't deal with the sudden, intense need he has for one of NYPD's Most Wanted. Everyone close to Angelo Pagan ends up dead, with the smug gang leader standing amid the rubble. Gabe would love nothing more than to bust Angelo's ass and lock him up. So why is he seeing the bastard in his dreams at night? Angelo Pagan knows attraction to Gabe is suicide. He's resolute to ignore the chemistry…until a police raid goes wrong. He critically injures Gabe, changing the trajectory of both their lives. Now the two can't get close enough. They settle into a forbidden affair threatened by lies and betrayal, living on different sides of the law with no way of breaching the gap between them. With the authorities looking to make an example of Angelo, Gabe has to decide if it's really worth it to hate the sin but love the sinner.
334) Rob Kaufman - One Last Lie
Publisher: Rob Kaufman (May 10, 2012)
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Philip and Jonathan have had the perfect life together for ten years - fulfilling every dream except that of having a child. Along comes Angela, Philip's college friend who apparently conquered her old demons of obesity and manic-depression. After reacquainting and becoming good friends, the three decide to have a child together through artificial insemination of Jonathan's sperm. From that point, Philip and Jonathan's idyllic life begins to unravel. Angela's mask of deceit gradually slips as her pregnancy awakens psychological and physical problems, leaving Philip and Jonathan regretting ever allowing her into their lives. Told from an elderly Jonathan's hospital bed, Angela's tangled web unwinds into heartbreak, deception, legal battles, and finally murder – with a surprise ending no one could have ever imagined.
335) Red Haircrow - Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World
Publisher: Flying With Red Haircrow (May 10, 2012)
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An imaginative collection of memories and observations written from the perspective of a young man who was orphaned early, who was gay, deaf and Russian. He was simple and complex, light-hearted and serious, whimsical and infinitely strong, and when he loved, he loved with all his heart and soul. A former sex worker and later a husband, he was an amateur activist and philosopher, a startlingly intelligent, passionate individual able to intensely appreciate even the small wonders of the world and the people for whom he cared. Part diary, part dialogue, and part rhetoric, "Silence Is Multi-colored in My World" is based on actual experiences. It is a literary portrait of a man with nothing to hide and everything to reveal. It is a slice into the willing veins of a mental and emotional free bleeder. A memoir/biography with photos.
336) Mickie B. Ashling - Cleave
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (May 11, 2012)
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Sequel to Vessel On New Year's Eve, Cole Fujiwara stands vigil at his father's deathbed while his surrogate wife, Noriko, gives birth to twins. As Cole contemplates his future, he acknowledges that he's living his father's dream... and that he's probably destroyed his chance at happiness with Sloan, the love of his life. Finding harmony in an emerging D/s relationship has not been without issue for Sloan Driscoll and his Master, Trent Hamilton. Their journey has been littered with mishaps, but their powerful love and sexual connection continue to bind them together-until Sloan comes face to face with Cole for the first time in nine months. The meeting means different things to each of them. To Cole, it's the first step on the path to a reunion. To Sloan, it's a terrible mistake, one he confesses immediately. As for Trent, the bitter realization that a connection between the former lovers still exists forces him to issue an ultimatum. Is Sloan willing to do anything to prove their relationship is worth saving, including becoming Trent's 24/7 slave? And if Sloan stays with Trent, how can Cole ever hope to find happiness again?
337) Amy Lane - The Talker Collection (3 novellas)
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One day, Tate "Talker" Walker sits next to Brian Cooper on a track meet bus-and sees him like nobody else on the planet has ever seen him before. One day, Brian Cooper looks at Talker's bright punk facade and listens past his constant chatter-and knows him like nobody else on the planet will ever know him again. One day, two boys meet, and even though they fall in love, it's still a long and bumpy ride. Tate needs to learn to listen, Brian needs to learn to speak up, and the event that teaches them both exactly what they need from each other almost destroys Tate and leaves Brian no recourse but violence. For their love to survive, Tate and Brian have to overcome the pain of violation and the repercussions of revenge. Even more difficult, they have to hold each other steady while one finds his peace and the other his voice, because a dream boy isn't really a dream boy if he doesn't know his own worth. Talker (September 2010), Talker's Redemption (January 2011), and Talker's Graduation (October 2011) were previously published individually in eBook format by Dreamspinner Press.
338) Erica Pike - Absolutely Eric
Publisher: MLR Press (May 11, 2012)
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Twenty year old college student Eric Wesley is looking for love, but instead of choosing Mr. Right, he goes after Mr. Wrong. Eric Wesley is short and snazzy, hot and happy. Or that's what he thought. After three years of living on the wild side he's tired of being a playboy and wants to find love. Eric, however, has never been in love before and doesn't see that the guy who's been gazing at him all summer might be Mr. Right. Alexander Centauri isn't only style-less and clumsy, but also terribly awkward. After a miserable date, Eric plants Alex on another guy's lap and goes after Mr. Wrong...who looks so right. When Eric realizes his mistake, it might be too late.
339) Andrea Speed - Infected, Shift
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Book 5 of the Infected series by Andrea Speed In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds. Between his mutating virus and his rocky relationship with his artist boyfriend, Dylan, Roan has enough problems to solve without taking on other people's, but that's the nature of his work. Someone has to look into the case of the murdered trans woman, and if the perp is the dirty cop Roan suspects it is, the police are not the right people for the job. But now Roan has a new obstacle to overcome: someone caught part of his transformation on video, and the media frenzy is making it hard to do his job. One case nets him a hockey team full of new friends. Another leads to an attempt on his life. And Roan's hustler sidekick drags him on a quest for revenge. With his world and his body both in turmoil, Roan is finding it harder and harder to see the line between justice and vigilantism.
340) Rodney Ross - The Cool Part of His Pillow
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The mid-40's are that time in a gay man's life when his major paradigm shifts from sexy to Sansabelts. But when Barry Grooms's partner of twenty years is killed on Barry's forty-fifth birthday, his world doesn't so much evolve as it does explode. After navigating through the surreal conveyor belt of friends and family, he can't eat another casserole or swallow much more advice, and so, still numb, he escapes to Key West, then New York. He embraces a new mantra: Why the hell not? First, he gets a thankless new job working for a crazy lady in a poncho, then has too many drinks with a narcissistic Broadway actor. Next, it's a nude exercise class that redefines flop sweat, and from there he's on to a relationship with a man twenty years his junior, so youthfully oblivious he thinks Karen Carpenter is a lesbian woodworker. Yet no matter how great the retreat from the man he used to be, life's gravity spins Barry back to the town where he grew up for one more ironic twist that teaches him how to say goodbye with grace.
Rainbow Awards: Next season... a feedback
I ask to Dusk permission to share the feedback he gave me, since I think it's important and something that really, I have difficult to have perception of in other way.
Dusk Peterson is an independent author, and last year he won the Rainbow Awards for Best Gay Fantasy with The Eternal Dungeon.
this is what he wrote to me:
"Some of us spend $0 publishing our books, because we're low-income. Twenty-five dollars is about 25% of my monthly income at the moment, which is why I don't submit my books to any other fee-requiring contest. (Also, when I was growing up, lots of the articles aimed at new writers warned them not to submit to literary contests that required fees. Back in those days, at least, most fee-requiring contests were scams.)
BUT I'd be willing to pay that much for *your* contest, and I'm especially pleased to hear that most of the money is going to charity. Heck, I've earned much more than $25 from "The Eternal Dungeon," which rose in sales right after it was honored in your contest."
I really appreciated this feedback, other than for the kind words that Dusk used for the Rainbow Awards (and for me by connection), also since, being an independent author he has the chance to check the up and downs of his sellings, and I trust him when he said one of those up is connected to the Rainbow Awards.
Moreover I hope I was not insensitive when I told that 25$ was a small amount in comparison to what an author has to face when publishing a book, that is what was referred to me (I'm not an author nor a publisher), but probably it's not the same for all authors, and what seems few money to one could be an huge amount to another one. Forgive me if I was too direct, it was not my intention to hurt anyone.


Time to ring the bell
In 1986, the Thatcher government deregulated public transport, especially of our bus services.
Its 1984 White Paper stated there "has been too little incentive to develop markets, to woo the customer" and that without "the dead hand of restrictive regulation" fares could be reduced, new and better services would be provided and more people would travel. That White Paper also said "if the customer has the final say, bus operators will look keenly to see where and when people want to travel. If one operator fails to provide a service that is wanted, another will."
Of course, the opposite has happened.
Between 1986 and 2016, bus patronage in England outside London declined by 35%.
The decline in S Yorkshire has been almost twice that. In 1986, 286 million bus journeys were made. Today, that figure has fallen by 62% to 102 million.
Bu,t in London, where bus services remained regulated, bus patronage rose by 99%.
Bus fares in England outside London rose by over 156 per cent between 1995 and 2016, whilst the retail price index (RPI) rose by 77 per cent, which means bus fares have risen more than twice inflation.
The market is now dominated by five big bus operators – locally First and Stagecoach - with bus services run effectively as private monopolies. Unsurprisingly, they have high operating profits.
Today, about 40% of bus funding is public, but there is little local say about services.
So, the result of deregulation is that fares rose massively, passenger numbers fell dramatically, the number of routes fell, service frequencies suffered and congestion increased exponentially, at great cost to local businesses as well as to commuters.
Given the current considerable concern about adult social care, it is also worth recalling that the bus deregulation changes led to a significant increase in demand for care services, as many relatives and friends found they were unable (increased costs, cuts in frequency) to continue to give the voluntary care they had previously provided.
As the Bus Services Bill goes through Parliament, the government still needs to be persuaded that local transport and city region authorities must have greater powers to improve local public transport, through franchising and, if necessary, by establishing their own bus companies.
Racing to stay ahead
Self-employed shambles
Not another broken promise?
Forget what they say; consider what they do


Harvick swipes Sprint Cup Series win from McMurray at Talladega
Al Pearce
Richard Childress Racing recently lost a longtime sponsor, and one of its marquee drivers is openly trolling for another gig. So just how important was it that Kevin Harvick--the driver in question--won the record-setting Aaron's Sprint Cup 499 at the Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday afternoon?
"This is about as sweet as it gets," said team owner Richard Childress, a six-time Cup-winning owner. "This is as good a race as you'll ever see at Talladega. This is great for our company. This is just what we needed."
And it was especially great for crew chief Gil Martin. "This shows everybody exactly what we were talking about going into the season," he said. "This shows that our cars are good. I hate that Shell Pennzoil is leaving, but the fact of the matter is, we've got a top-notch team, so we're looking for somebody to come on board and start the next chapter at RCR."
Despite its recent mini-slump, RCR remains one of NASCAR's most-storied organizations. It's been shaken lately with news that Shell Pennzoil is leaving Harvick's No. 29 Chevrolet for Penske Racing. And Harvick has made no secret of his relative unhappiness at Childress and his interest in perhaps driving for owner-driver Tony Stewart next year.
But his attitude didn't affect his performance at Talladega, where he snapped his 115-race losing streak with a textbook last-second pass of Jamie McMurray. The race was scheduled for 188 laps and 499 miles, but turned into a record three-overtime show for 200 laps and 532 miles. It was the first win for Harvick since the 2007 Daytona 500 and the first for RCR since Jeff Burton won at Charlotte in the fall of 2008.
The finish was about a spectacular as it gets. Harvick patiently followed McMurray to the white flag on the third overtime and pushed him around the 2.66-mile track. Their breakaway separated them from a large pack that had been chasing them for a lap. Harvick stayed close enough through the tri-oval on the last lap to briefly get McMurray loose nearing the checkered flag. Harvick deftly swung low and made the winning pass as McMurray guessed wrong.
"I was guarding against him going to the outside," said McMurray, who won last fall's Talladega race and this year's Daytona 500. "I thought he'd go up there because I thought I was close enough to the yellow [out-of-bounds] line that there was more racetrack to the right. When he got up behind me and went left, it really loosened up my car. It was like I'd pulled a parachute. It literally feels like you lose 3 to 5 mph. When that happens, the car doing the passing has the momentum. Once he got under me, all I was doing was side-drafting and hoping I could stall him out."
Harvick wanted to be second approaching the checkered flag because he knew he'd get only one shot to win. "It was all about timing and it worked out perfectly," he said of his 11/1,000th-second margin of victory. "I stayed up against his bumper, and it slowed him up when I went to the inside. It slowed him for the few hundred feet that I needed."
McMurray finished second, followed by Juan Pablo Montoya, Denny Hamlin, Mark Martin, David Ragan, Clint Bowyer, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch and Mike Bliss. The race featured a record 88 lead changes among a record 29 drivers. The old NASCAR standards were 75 lead changes (also at Talladega) in May of 1984 and 28 leaders (also at Talladega) in October 2008.
Harvick led only twice, at lap five and then at 200. His teammate, Burton, led the most laps, five times for 28, but was eliminated in a late-race crash that also took Jeff Gordon from contention. McMurray led four times for 27 laps, Kyle Busch eight times for 22, Hamlin nine times for 19 and Brian Vickers four times for 13 laps. Seven drivers each led once for one lap and 17 others led between two and nine laps. Harvick's pass ended McMurray's race-high stretch of 23 laps in the lead.
The race was unusually calm until the final 23 laps, when four of the eight cautions waved. There was a minor two-car incident at lap 177, a five-car incident at 183, a nine-car melee at lap 190 (in the first overtime), then a two-car incident at 196 in the second overtime. The first four cautions were for oil on the track, a single-car, noncontact spin, a competition caution to check tire wear and a 10-car accident in the front stretch.
The list of drivers in the six accidents is longer than the list of those who weren't. Those involved included Hamlin, the Busch brothers, Johnny Sauter, Max Papis, Michael Waltrip, Marcos Ambrose, Joey Logano, Ryan Newman, Brad Keselowski (last year's winner), Elliott Sadler, Burton, Jimmie Johnson, Brian Vickers, Paul Menard, Bobby Labonte, Gordon, David Stremme, Matt Kenseth, Sam Hornish Jr., David Reutimann, Bliss, Kasey Kahne, Scott Speed and Greg Biffle.
Top 10 Finishers:
1. Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet
2. Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet
3. Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet
4. Denny Hamlin, Toyota
5. Mark Martin, Chevrolet
6. David Ragan, Ford
7. Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet
8. Kurt Bush, Dodge
9. Kyle Busch, Toyota
10. Mike Bliss, Chevrolet
1. Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 200 laps at 150.590 mph ave. speed; 2. Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 200; 3. Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 200; 4. Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 200; 5. Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 200; 6. David Ragan, Ford, 200; 7. Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 200; 8. Kurt Busch, Dodge, 200; 9. Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200; 10. Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 200
11. Carl Edwards, Ford, 200; 12. Martin Truex Jr. Toyota, 200; 13. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 200; 14. David Reutimann, Toyota, 200; 15. Scott Speed, Toyota, 200; 16. Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 200; 17. Greg Biffle, Ford, 200; 18. Travis Kvapil, Ford, 200; 19. A. J. Allmendinger, Ford, 200; 20. Robby Gordon, Toyota, 200
21. Kasey Kahne, Ford, 200; 22. Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 200; 23. Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 200; 24. Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 200; 25. Paul Menard, Ford, 198; 26. Robert Richardson Jr., Ford, 198; 27. David Stremme, Ford, 197; 28. Matt Kenseth, Ford, 196; 29. Brian Vickers, Toyota, 195; 30. Kevin Conway, Ford, 195
31. Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 194 (accident); 32. Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 191; 33. Elliott Sadler, Ford, 188 (accident); 34. Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 188 (accident); 35. Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 188 (accident); 36. Joey Logano, Toyota, 188 (accident); 37. Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 188 (accident); 38. Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 100 (engine failure); 39. Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 84 (accident); 40. Max Papis, Toyota, 83 (accident)
41. Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 83 (accident); 42. Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 47 (rear gearing); 43. Dave Blaney, Toyota, 33 (rear gearing)
TIME OF RACE: 3h 31m 58s
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 0.011s
PURSE: $5,982,252; winner's share: $344,501
POLE STARTER: Johnson (by points; qualifying rained out)
PROVISIONALS: None
DID NOT QUALIFY: Terry Cook and Aric Almirola
STARTED AT REAR: None
LEAD CHANGES: 88 among 29 drivers
CAUTION PERIODS: Eight for 32 laps
POINTS LEADERS: 1. Johnson, 1,323 2. Harvick, -26; 3. Biffle, -86; 4. Kenseth, -99; 5. Kyle Busch, -160; 6. Martin, -169; 7. Kurt Busch, -177; 8. Earnhardt Jr., -181; 9. Hamlin, -185; 10. J. Gordon, -193; 11. Bowyer, -237; 12. Burton, -241.
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Battle of Pasir Panjang
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Part of the Battle of Singapore, World War II
Royal Malay Regiment infantry with their mortar.
13th February – 14th February 1942
Pasir Panjang, Singapore
Japanese Victory
1st Malay Brigade
44th Indian Brigade 18th Division
J.R.G. Andre
H.R. Rix †
Adnan bin Saidi † Renya Mutaguchi
159 killed Unknown (Singapore claims heavy casualties)
Battle of Singapore
Sarimbun Beach – Kranji – Bukit Timah – Pasir Panjang
The Battle of Pasir Panjang initiated upon the advancement of elite Imperial Japanese Army forces towards Pasir Panjang at Pasir Panjang Ridge, on February 13, 1942, during World War II in the Battle of Singapore. 13,000 Japanese troops had made an amphibious landing in the northwest part of Singapore, near Sarimbun, advancing south towards Pasir Panjang. They had already captured Tengah Airfield en route. The 13,000 attacking Pasir Panjang comprised a significant part of the total strength of 36,000 Japanese troops attacking Singapore as a whole.
Great Britain's presence in Singapore began in the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company ruled. Great Britain had an interest in controlling the Malay archipelago for its key importance of protecting trade to China. European colonial powers had their way in Southeast Asia until Japan became a Pacific Imperial power. Japan was awoken to Western military might when Admiral Commodore Perry forced the nation to sign a treaty of trade in the 1850s. That spawned an upheaval in Japan between the factions that wanted to continue Japan along traditional lines and those who advocated modernizing along western lines. In 1868, the pro-modernization forces succeeded in installing the Meiji emperor during the Meiji Restoration. From that time, Japan dedicated itself to modernization of government, military, education, and society.
1 Preparations
2 Battle
2.1 Battle of Bukit Chandu
2.2 Failed Japanese trick
2.3 Last stand
3 Casualties
4 Aftermath
Japan imitated not only the West's technology and society and determined to become the colonial power of the Pacific. Japan noticed that the western powers used their might to carve out colonial empires throughout Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and China. They became determined to create the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, a Japanese empire that spread over the islands of the Pacific, Southeast Asia, Korea, and China. Immediately after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they attacked the Malay Peninsula. Japan completely conquered the Malay Peninsula by the end of January 1942, poised to launch the Battle of Singapore. The Battle of Pasir Panjang took place in the context of the greater Battle of Singapore. Japan won the Battle of Pasir Panjang, as well as the Battle of Singapore. The courage displayed by the Singapore troops, especially Adnan bin Saidi's force on Bukit Chandu, became a source of national pride for Singaporeans.
The 1st Malay Brigade (together with the British 2nd Loyal Regiment), commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel J.R.G. Andre, consisted of less than three sections of the Mortar Platoon and the Anti-Aircraft Platoon, with the Bren Gun Carrier Platoon under Captain R.R.C. Carter held in reserve. They received orders to defend the approach to Pasir Panjang ridge, known as "The Gap." The 44th Indian Brigade positioned on their right flank.
A Malay platoon, consisting of forty two infantry, commanded by 2nd Lieutenant Adnan bin Saidi, took part in the defenses of Bukit Chandu. He and his men would take the brunt of the Japanese assault.
The first battle between the Malay Regiment and Japanese soldiers occurred on February 13, at around 1400 hours. The Japanese 18th Division started to attack the South-Western coast along the Pasir Panjang ridge and astride Ayer Raja Road. The Japanese 56th Infantry Regiment, supported by a considerable force of artillery, attacked the ridge during the morning.
B Company of the Malay Regiment numbered among the units defending the line. Under heavy fire from the Japanese troops supported by artillery and tanks, B Company moved to the rear. But before that could be completed, the Japanese army succeeded in breaking through B Company's position. In the battle, the troops fought hand-to-hand combat using bayonets against the Japanese. A few from B Company managed to save themselves while the Japanese caught others as prisoners-of-war. That penetration led to the withdrawal, after dark, of both 44th Indian and 1st Malay Brigade to the general line Mount Echo (junction of Raja and Depot Road) Buona Vista.
Battle of Bukit Chandu
On February 14, the Japanese again launched a heavy attack at 8:30 a.m., supported by intense mortar and artillery fire, on the front held by the 1st Malay Brigade. The defenders held off that and a number of other attacks. The fighting included bitter hand-to-hand combat, with heavy losses on both sides. At 1600 hours, an attack supported by tanks eventually succeeded in penetrating the left, and the defenders on that flank fell back to a line from the junction of the Ayer Rajah and Depot Road through the Brick Works and along the canal to Bukit Chermin. Owing to the failure of units on both its flanks to hold their ground, the 1st Malay brigade withdrew at 2:30 p.m. At that point, C Company of the Malay Regiment received instructions to move to a new defense position, Opium Hill.
Opium Hill or Bukit Chandu, in Malay, had been named after an opium-processing factory located at the foot of the hill. At that place, C Company of the Malay Regiment made their final stand against the Japanese attack. Opium Hill constituted a key defensive position for two important reasons. Situated on high ground, the vantage point overlooked the island to the north; and secondly, if the Japanese gained control of the ridge, it gave them direct passage to the Alexandra area. The British army had its main ammunition and supply depots, military hospital, and other key installations located in the Alexandra area.
A big canal separated C Company's position from D Company. Oil burned in the canal, which flowed from Normanton Depot. The burning oil prevented C Company soldiers from retreating further south. Captain H.R. Rix, a British officer, commanded the company. He encouraged the men to defend Opium Hill down to the last soldier, and died together with many of his Malay Regiment soldiers in the last defense battle at Pasir Panjang.
Failed Japanese trick
Japanese troops pressed their attack on Opium Hill in the afternoon under the guise of a deception. They sent a group of soldiers, dressed in Punjabi uniforms, passing themselves off as Indian soldiers in the British army. C Company saw through that trick, as they knew that soldiers of the British army usually marched in a line of three whereas the Japanese disguised soldiers marched in a line of four. When they reached the Malay Regiment's defense line, C Company's squad opened fire, killing at least twenty men. Those who survived escaped downhill.
Last stand
Two hours later, the Japanese launched an all-out banzai attack in great numbers. The attack overwhelmed the allies, and the defense line finally shattered. Greatly outnumbered and short of ammunition and supplies, they continued to resist the Japanese. The troops used all kinds of arms, such as grenades, small arms, and bayonets. Soldiers engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat using bayonets. Yet, they stood their ground, frustrating the Japanese. Adnan suffered serious wounds, but he refused to retreat or surrender, instead encouraging his men to fight to the end.
After a bloody battle, Pasir Panjang finally fell to the Japanese. They captured Adnan bin Saidi, wounded and unable to fight. Instead of taking him prisoner, the Japanese continuously kicked, punched, and beat the lieutenant. They then tied him to a cherry tree, bayoneting him to death.
For the entire Malayan Campaign, but largely on February 12, 13, and 14, 1942, in Singapore, the Malay Regiment suffered a total of 159 killed. Six had been British officers, seven Malay officers, 146 other ranks and a large but unspecified number wounded. About 600 surviving Malay Regiment soldiers reassembled in the Keppel Golf Link area. Here, separated from the British officers, they later joined POWs from the Indian Battalions at the Farrer Park concentration area. The number of Japanese casualties remains unknown today, but Singapore history books claim the Japanese suffered heavy casualties.
The Malay Regiment . . . showed what esprit de corps and discipline can achieve. Garrisons of posts held their ground and many of them were wiped out almost to a man [1](Lieutenant General Arthur Percival).
The battle of Pasir Panjang had little strategic significance. The allied units posted there actually had been in reserve, but instead had to withstand the main Japanese invasion force, and received no reinforcements whatsoever.
Many Singaporeans and Malaysians today describe Adnan bin Saidi as a hero for his actions on Bukit Chandu—he encouraged his men to fight to the death without surrendering. Their school history books credit him as the soldier who caught the disguised Indian troops' marching ploy. Some people today believe that Bukit Chandu has Paranormal activity, claiming they could hear Malay soldiers repeatedly shouting, "Fight on!" On February 15, 1942, General Arthur Percival surrendered, ending the Battle of Singapore.
↑ A. E. Percival, "The war in Malaya" (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949), p. 284.
Barber, Noel. A Sinister Twilight; the Fall of Singapore, 1942. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. OCLC 364560
Percival, A. E. The war in Malaya. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949. OCLC 4469132
Smith, Colin. Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II. London: Viking, 2005. ISBN 978-0670913411
Thompson, Peter. The Battle for Singapore: The True Story of Britain's Greatest Military Disaster. London: Portrait, 2005. ISBN 978-0749950682
All links retrieved January 16, 2022.
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YouTube: The Battle of Bukit Chandu (Pasir Panjang).
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Chandler HS playoff loss leaves best rivalry game in 3A
Art Preuss November 19, 2010
The two big re-matches in Arizona high school football, expected to take place in season-ending state championship games, are now down to just one.
Players – and their fans – have been looking forward to a Hamilton HS vs. Chandler HS finale in 5A-I and a re-match between Blue Ridge HS and Show Low HS in 3A.
But the suspense isn't playing out as scripted.
The first meeting between Blue Ridge and Show Low four weeks ago was between two unbeaten teams, a huge rivalry that included hard feelings arising from accusations of recruiting violations. It was considered by many to be perhaps the biggest game in the history of the rivalry and one of the tops in Arizona small-school football. Blue Ridge won that game before an overflow crowd, 36-18.
The Hamilton-Chandler game was so big it was televised nationally on ESPN2 and drew a college-like crowd at the game that was estimated at 9,000. Top-ranked and unbeaten Hamilton won that game against No. 2 Chandler, 38-20.
But Chandler won't be going to the championship game for another shot at the Huskies. They were upset last week in the first round of the playoffs by a Desert Ridge HS team that piled up 462 yards of offense and came from behind to squeek out a 38-35 win. Junior running back, Joey Counts, fueled the win with 213 yards rushing and QB Jordan Becerra ran for another 139 yards.
Now Hamilton, which rolled over No. 16 seed Westwood, 62-6, last week will square off next in a Dec. 4 game against No. 8 Mesquite HS, a 49-7 winner over North Canyon HS.
From the looks of things in the first round, Hamilton isn't yet feeling the effects of being without perhaps their best player in offensive tackle, Christian Westerman, the anchor for the Huskies' huge line. Westerman, a 6'5″, 295 lb. five-star recruit who signed with the University of Texas, may be out for the entire playoffs after suffering small fractures in his knee during practice 10 days ago.
But for a team that hasn't lost in the last 36 games, the Huskies may not need Westerman to get the job done this year. They've been one of the two teams involved in the state title game seven times in the last 10 years, and this year likely won't be any different.
But the good news for high school football fans up in the high country of the White Mountains is that Blue Ridge and Show Low are still alive and working toward a re-match in the 3A championship game.
However, both have to get past some really good teams in tonight's semifinals to get there.
Blue Ridge, still unbeaten at 11-0, takes on Florence HS, a 12-1 team that is averaging 42 points a game – almost a mirror image to Ridge's 43.5 points per outing. Both teams rely heavily on the run, with Florence's offense averaging nearly 400 yards a game, 265 yards of that on the ground. Ridge is even more oriented to the run, with rushing accounting for 333 of its 419 yards total per game.
A trio of senior ball-carriers account for most of the output for Blue Ridge. Chayse Russell is leading the charge, averaging 10 yards a carry; Jordan Morgan, who splits time at QB, has collected 10 touchdowns on the ground; and Alex Stebbins is producing at a clip of seven yards a carry.
Florence relies on its senior running back, Kyle Washington, to get the job done – in a lot of ways. Washington has accounted for 11 touchdowns on the ground and another 10 in the air. Together, it adds up to 1,429 all-purpose yards this season. He also returns punts, kickoffs, and has even thrown a few passes to keep the other team off-balance… and is a force on defense.
Senior QB Hulsey Jace isn't the offensive weapon that Washington is, but he's throwing for 142 yards per game.
On the other side of the playoffs bracket, Show Low will try to contain the balanced attack of Snowflake HS, which is averaging 336 yards and 31 points a game.
The Lobos are 9-2, thanks to a three-pronged attack that includes senior quarterback, Trevor Reddick, who has 1,149 passing yards this season. And he's supported in the backfield by senior Ammon McKinlay and junior Tyler Johnson, who have combined for 1,654 yards rushing.
But Show Low will continue to ride the strong arm of its record-setting senior quarterback, Rathen Ricedorff, who is coming off an eight-touchdown performance in a 62-42 rout of Winslow HS in the quarterfinal game. Ricedorff, who is averaging 333 yards a game in the air, needs just two more scoring passes to reach 50 and claim a new single-season state record.
He threw for "just" 168 yards in the earlier meeting with Blue Ridge, and tossed a couple of second-half interceptions. He is probably anxious to get back on the field against their White Mountain rival in a championship game.
But first he has to take care of business tonight – and hope that Blue Ridge does the same.
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Friday, 14 February 2020, 03:16 am EST
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Society, one of the most popular shows on Netflix. The American Teen Mystery theater series is about to return with the second season. For the people who haven't followed the craze, the story is about a union of teenagers who return from a canceled area trip only to find their town taken off. The story begins again as the youngsters try to survive all by themselves. Thus, they establish society.
The first season of the series was broadcasted in May 2019. Soon after that on 9th July, the show was renewed for the second season. Though, we cannot specify a date yet. However, we anticipate that Netflix would discharge it by May 2020. We aren't sure about the date but if you have an adequate impression, you can put it down in the comment section.
Who Might Appear on Screen?
Since the cast of the event is prohibited, most of them are anticipated to return except the ones dead. Thus, Rachel Keller, Seth Meriwether, and Chloe Levine aren't anticipated to return.
It has various star casts that are expected to appear.
The people expected to return are as follows:
Kathryn Newton, Jack Mulhern, Sean Berdy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Jacques Colimon.
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What Might Happen?
Society Season 2 is supposed to expand the understanding of the show. In this season we might discern the youngsters striding forward in the path of survival. Moreover, at the ending of season 1, Grizz establishes a new land to be developed and new animals to be maintained. Thus, it convinced now that the town would not die of hunger.
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