TRANSMITTERS attached to
the backs of albatrosses have pinpointed the places where the great birds go fishing — and found that they choose the same spots as rogue fishing fleets hunting for tuna and other valuable fish.
Not exact matches
This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety
of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style
of play has become a shadow
of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out
of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid
of the
backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out
of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our
backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes
of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play
of Monreal, but none
of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio
of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing -
back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part
of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part
of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature
of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player
of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out
of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front
of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that,
of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a
back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one
of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing -
back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one
of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already
of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs
of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack
of mobility is an
albatross around the necks
of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because
of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits
Morita's work in The Karate Kid is iconographic — the character functions like any number
of old Asian man archetypes from martial arts cinema, but, transplanted to American pop (his arrival softened by Yoda in The Empire Strikes
Back), Miyagi becomes something like an
albatross for Asians in modern Western culture not for its incompetence, but for its tonal perfection.
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Back on the Road / Sheffield Simplex Restoration Lord Riverdale tells
of his search for and ultimate restoration
of the only 45hp Sheffield Simplex / Vauxhall L Velox 1948 —
Back on the Road / Austin Seven Arrow — Back on the Road / History on Albatross Motors in Coventry / Back Numbers Avaliability — Get you back issues here / Meetings Rallies Runs Celebrations Jubilees / The World Hour Record — Bill Boddy looks back on the attempts on one of the toughest records which started in 1907 / Original Silver Ghost, AX 201 from its conception to 1914 — Part one / The Motoring Library The regular appraisal of new and old motoring publications / 1904: Bill Boddy Replies The Sacred
Back on the Road / Austin Seven Arrow —
Back on the Road / History on Albatross Motors in Coventry / Back Numbers Avaliability — Get you back issues here / Meetings Rallies Runs Celebrations Jubilees / The World Hour Record — Bill Boddy looks back on the attempts on one of the toughest records which started in 1907 / Original Silver Ghost, AX 201 from its conception to 1914 — Part one / The Motoring Library The regular appraisal of new and old motoring publications / 1904: Bill Boddy Replies The Sacred
Back on the Road / History on
Albatross Motors in Coventry /
Back Numbers Avaliability — Get you back issues here / Meetings Rallies Runs Celebrations Jubilees / The World Hour Record — Bill Boddy looks back on the attempts on one of the toughest records which started in 1907 / Original Silver Ghost, AX 201 from its conception to 1914 — Part one / The Motoring Library The regular appraisal of new and old motoring publications / 1904: Bill Boddy Replies The Sacred
Back Numbers Avaliability — Get you
back issues here / Meetings Rallies Runs Celebrations Jubilees / The World Hour Record — Bill Boddy looks back on the attempts on one of the toughest records which started in 1907 / Original Silver Ghost, AX 201 from its conception to 1914 — Part one / The Motoring Library The regular appraisal of new and old motoring publications / 1904: Bill Boddy Replies The Sacred
back issues here / Meetings Rallies Runs Celebrations Jubilees / The World Hour Record — Bill Boddy looks
back on the attempts on one of the toughest records which started in 1907 / Original Silver Ghost, AX 201 from its conception to 1914 — Part one / The Motoring Library The regular appraisal of new and old motoring publications / 1904: Bill Boddy Replies The Sacred
back on the attempts on one
of the toughest records which started in 1907 / Original Silver Ghost, AX 201 from its conception to 1914 — Part one / The Motoring Library The regular appraisal
of new and old motoring publications / 1904: Bill Boddy Replies The Sacred Cow?
I think it would be a good idea to bring
back the original «4kids» voice actors such as Jason Anthony Griffith as the Voice
of Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog, and Jet the Hawk, Amy Palant as the voice
of Miles «Tails» Prower, Dan Green as the voice
of Knuckles the Echidna and Storm the
Albatross, Lisa Ortiz as the voice
of Amy Rose, Rebecca Honig as the voice
of Cream the Rabbit, Oliver Wyman as the voice
of Big the Cat, Andrew Rannells as the voice
of E-123 Omega, Kathleen Delaney as the voice
of Rouge the Bat, Jimmy Zoppi as the voice
of Vector the Crocodile, David Willis as the voice
of Espio the Chameleon, Amy Birnbaum as the voice
of Charmy Bee, Bella Hudson as the voice
of Blaze the Cat and Wave the Swallow, and Pete Capella as the voice
of Silver the Hedgehog.
Doing everything possible to ensure high numbers
of nesting Laysan
albatross is key to bringing their population
back.
Learn how biologists managed to bring
back the endangered Short - Tail
Albatross to nest on the atoll; meet Wisdom, a Laysan albatross who has been nesting on Midway for nearly 60 years; find out the strategies being used to eradicate invasive plant and animal species; discover the beauty of endangered Monk seals, sea turtles, spinner dolphins, corals and so m
Albatross to nest on the atoll; meet Wisdom, a Laysan
albatross who has been nesting on Midway for nearly 60 years; find out the strategies being used to eradicate invasive plant and animal species; discover the beauty of endangered Monk seals, sea turtles, spinner dolphins, corals and so m
albatross who has been nesting on Midway for nearly 60 years; find out the strategies being used to eradicate invasive plant and animal species; discover the beauty
of endangered Monk seals, sea turtles, spinner dolphins, corals and so much more.
Our group
of a dozen ecotourists was making its way
back from visiting the Short - Tailed
Albatross chick, only the second
of this critically endangered species to have hatched on Midway in modern times.
Those successes include the monumental task
of eradicating invasive species, establishing a «backup» population
of Laysan Teal, a critically endangered species
of duck, bringing the threatened Short - Tailed
Albatross back to the island through years
of playing sound recordings and setting up decoys and conducting scientific research from monitoring carbon dioxide levels in a a world - wide study to analyzing marine debris washed up on the beaches to understand marine pollution.
And the bits and pieces are everywhere, even in the nests
of albatross chicks, ending up here most likely because a parent brought it
back as food for either its current or past chicks.
The Mike Duffy trial is
back for round three and, while this
albatross was hung firmly around Stephen Harper's neck, its return to the headlines is bound to remind people
of Trudeau's promise to radically revamp the Red Chamber.