Brilliant and inspiring article. At 54 my surfing seemed to be going backwards, and after a busy summer of work last year I headed down to France, Spain and Portugal for three months with virtually no surfing for the previous 4 or 5 months (plus the summer in the UK was just flat, flat, flat). I found to my horror that my pop up had just collapsed! Couldn't get front foot forward enough, taking waves too late and falling. Thank goodness I found your article! Really worked on my hip flexibility as you suggested, with the two links in your article. I've no idea how many hours this winter I've spent on the beach stretching! But it's worked! More flexible than I've been for a long long time and the pop up is back to its old reliable self again.
I really really did think it's time to hang up the surf board, now have just bought a Crowd Killer on my way back thru France to get that wave count up even higher when I get home.
Sir... I thank you..
Thanks for the kind words. It's definitely a challenge, particularly with injuries as you age. In May I got slammed into some newly fallen rocks at Steamer's Lane and dragged 100 feet across table rock. It's taken months of physical therapy but I'm finally back in the water and working on getting strong enough to compete with the young guys again. I'm 70, still riding only short boards, and hope to avoid longboards as long as possible. Many of my friends have given up as old injuries resurfaced. For me, I hope to keep surfing in whatever way possible for the rest of my life.
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Anatolian Neolithic. In Renfrew's (1999) revised model (Plan B), Anatolian remains within the homeland while the rest of the Indo-European languages disperse into Europe which would again permit Proto-Indo-European to evolve separately from Anatolian and Phrygian
While I have concentrated on a single element of the Indo-European family tree, the absence of a fully fleshed out and agreed phylogeny is a serious detriment to evaluating the various homeland models. The interface between the evidence of comparative linguistics and the (pre)historical sciences of archaeology or ancient DNA analysis is already fragile enough. The one way in which the linguistic evidence should be able to converse with that of archaeology is in its ability to provide some broad structural patterning of the evolution of the different Indo-European branches against which the various archaeological solutions might be 'tested'. Without a commonly agreed phylogeny we will always lack an essential key to evaluating the competing hypotheses.
The second cloud involves lexical-cultural data that can be ground-proofed with the evidence of archaeology. All models cited above acknowledge that the Proto-Indo-Europeans possessed an economy based on domesticated livestock and domestic cereals. Earlier models such as those developed in detail by Wilhelm Brandenstein (1936) that suggested a marked dichotomy between arable Europeans and pastoral Indo-Iranians (or Tokharians) cannot really be sustained (Mallory 1997b) and despite a considerable number of differences there is still a substantial amount of shared agricultural vocabulary between European and Asian languages (Table 1 and 2). While the lists of cognates can certainly be criticized in certain specifics and they may well be an over-optimistic summary, I fear that there would still be a sufficient assemblage of words to indicate that both Europeans and Asiatic Indo-Europeans shared inherited words for both livestock and arable agriculture (if someone can prove they did not, this would make things easier for many of the homeland models). Thus, any solution to the homeland problem must be able to explain how we can recover cognate terms associated with farming from Ireland to India. We can again see how each model deals with this requirement.
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MEDIA: Hi, this is (inaudible 14:55) from Bloomberg. I am actually in Korea this week. But thanks for doing this. Just a quick question. Just looking at what has been happening over the allegations that French troops committed sexual abuse against children in the Central African Republic, and there are growing calls about the need to have better reporting mechanisms, or oversight, or maintaining greater quality of troops going--being deployed to U.N. peacekeeping missions. I mean, as the U.S., you know, calls on other nations to contribute more, do you have plans to perhaps seek more reforms in that respect, as we have seen over the sexual abuse allegations? And are there any concerns that have been voiced by Asian nations when you approach them about boosting their contributions?
MEDIA: To avoid military competition and arms races in Asia? I also already emailed this question to (inaudible 29:05) in case I cannot contact to be connected. So can I read it again? What can the U.S. do to avoid military competition and arms race in Asia?
Peter Wilcoxen, Ajello Professor in Energy and Environmental Policy, is one of twenty members and one government observer who have been named as part of the establishment of the committee. The new committee will provide information and analysis to the Financial Stability Oversight Council.
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