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Here is a love story. A couple is getting married, their wedding to take place at a members-only club in Parkroad, Nairobi. Maybe an aunt will make a speech, maybe an uncle will make a spectacle of himself, maybe the parents will worry whether the guests have had enough to eat. It turns out, at this wedding and others that take place at Sir Ali Muslim Club, there is too much food for the guests to finish. A group of boys living in employee housing for the Ministry of Public Works, opposite Sir Ali, have discovered this and started attending the weddings for the leftover rice. When stopped at the gate by the guards, the boys insist that they are going in to play cricket.

When Peter Jimmy Carter Ongondo ― a former Kenya cricket player who grew up in Parkroad ― speaks of the rice, he laughs and his eyes light up. ‘Ha, that rice! Tito and David and Tom started that habit. You see, Tom had a list. He knew which weddings were of the rich and which ones were of the not-too-rich. Every Saturday there was a wedding and we would sneak in with paper bags.’*

Tito is Edward ‘Tito’ Odumbe, a former Kenya cricket player. His older brother, Kenneth, was the first African to play cricket for the national team. His younger brother, Maurice, is sometimes considered the finest cricketer Kenya ever produced. David and Tom are David Tikolo and Tom Tikolo. Both played cricket for the national team; Tom Tikolo was the first African to captain the national team. Their younger brother, Steve, is in turn sometimes considered the finest cricketer Kenya ever produced. Then there are the Suji brothers, the Ngoche brothers, Alfred Njuguna and Peter Kibaki. Peter Ongondo, himself. Nehemiah Odhiambo, Joseph Angara, Thomas Opondo. The Parkroad boys.

When cricket was introduced in Kenya, with the first match of consequence played in 1899, it was a white sport, introduced by the colonial settlers. In 1910, a three-day fixture was established, Officials vs Settlers, which became ― later joined by Europeans vs Asians in 1933 ― the most important match of the domestic calendar for the entirety of the colonial period, only ending with independence. However, even after independence, cricket remained a white and Asian sport in the country. Concurrently, although a class of Africans were now in power in government, the uppermost echelons of class and prestige were still occupied by Europeans and Asians. The African rulers were disinterested in trying to develop cricket in the country, possibly because of the stigma cricket carried of being a colonial sport. This ensured that the sport continued to be played in the country only because, initially, the white and, later, the Indian folk took an interest in it.

During the colonial period, Sir Ali Muslim club emerged as one of the few places in Nairobi where non-whites could play sports such as cricket, volleyball and tennis. Founded in 1934, the club was named after Hon. Sir Ali bin Salim, a former governor of the Swahili Coast of the British East Africa protectorate, who helped fund the club during its formation. It established itself, early on, as an important force in Kenyan cricket. In 1934, when the club was less than a year old, two of its players were selected to play in the Europeans vs Asians match. When, in 1961, the Asian Sports Association started a cricket league, the club emerged victorious alongside Suleman Verjee Indian Gymkhana (nowadays Nairobi Gymkhana), which was just down the road from Sir Ali. In 1964, the Kenya Cricket Association Knockout tournament was created, and Sir Ali Muslim Club dominated it.

Yet the club’s distinguished history of cricket does run alongside its association with rice.  If one googles Sir Ali Muslim Club, the third item under related searches is ‘Sir Ali Muslim Club hall wedding.’ Located near Kariokor, the club is still a popular wedding venue, something Tom Tikolo’s wedding lists had established for the Parkroad Boys.

Parkroad Estate came a little later. In 1965, the government of Kenya published Sessional Paper Number 10: African Socialism and its Application to Planning in Kenya. In the fifty-six-page document, the government declared that one of the ways of achieving Africanisation was by ‘promoting home ownership through tenant-purchase schemes, self-help housing projects, co-operative housing associations, and mortgage-financing institutions.’ Consequently, the government built a series of housing projects, some owned by the city council and others by different government ministries. The bulk of the estates built in Nairobi were located in and around Starehe: in Starehe itself, in Pangani, in Shauri Moyo, in Kariokor, in Ngara, and in Park Road. While some of these houses had been built by the British colonial government, most of them were built as a direct result of Sessional Paper Number 10.

In the period after the publication of the Sessional Paper, the Ministry of Public Works built houses for its employees in Parkroad. The estate was built on the empty lot opposite Sir Ali Muslim Club. It is doubtful whether the planners of the estate anticipated that its proximity to the club would cause the estate to become an integral part of Kenya’s cricket history. However, often the sport one plays depends on the sporting facilities one was able to access as a child: Rafael Nadal playing tennis on the clay courts of Mallorca; Cristiano Ronaldo’s introduction to football in Madeira; Yelena Isinbayeva taking up gymnastics in Volgograd, before moving to the pole vault. Cricket in Kenya followed similar patterns: Thomas Odoyo grew up in KIE, which was near Nairobi Gymkhana; the Obuya brothers grew up in Parklands, behind Aga Khan Sports Club; and the Parkroad Boys grew up in Parkroad.

Housing units in Parkroad were assigned to employees according to what rank they held in the workplace. Senior employees occupied one side of the estate, while junior employees lived on another side. As their children grew up, sports served as the great equaliser. Alfred Njuguna’s father, for instance, was a senior employee, but on the crease it didn’t matter whose father was whose father’s boss. While cricket had initially served as an excuse for getting rice from Sir Ali during the Saturday weddings, it ceased to be just that. The boys were now playing the game seriously, or as seriously as teenagers could. In 1976, Kenneth Odumbe had become the first African to play cricket for the national team. His younger brothers, Bernard, Freddy, Oriwo and Maurice, used his success to psyche themselves into playing the game. Because they could not compete with the older players, they formed their own team of Parkroad youngsters: the younger Odumbes and the younger Tikolos, Steve and Tom.

Eventually, the who’s-who of the Kenyan cricket community started casting their glances at Parkroad. Two of the biggest clubs, Swamibapa and Aga Khan Sports Club, got enjoined in a rat race for the young talent that was coming out of the Parkroad Estate. The clubs started approaching the boys to join when they were barely teenagers. Since, legally, the clubs couldn’t offer salaries, they offered other incentives: allowances, school fees. When the boys were old enough for high school, the clubs took care of that too. Initially, it was only Sir Ali Club that paid fees, but later Swamibapa and Aga Khan did too. Swamibapa enrolled their boys at Eastleigh High School, while Aga Khan took theirs to Upper Hill.

Peter Ongondo remembers being in primary school and starting to take cricket seriously. ‘When we first started playing cricket, our parents were concerned that we were studying less and tried preventing us from playing the game. However, when you are in class eight, you tell your parents not to pay fees, because some Indian guy has taken care of everything, the attitude changes.’ As Peter talks to me today, we are in a primary school in Umoja for a cricket clinic with which Ongondo is now helping out. We are speaking in Sheng and it feels odd to be talking about cricket in a language other than English. Ongondo grows wistful. ‘All of a sudden, the folks are concerned that we are playing cricket less and urging us to focus less on the books. Like me, my parents never knew how my much my high school fees were, let alone college.’

In those days, large families were the norm and this explains why there was a seemingly endless conveyor belt of brothers: the Ngoches, the Odumbes, the Tikolos and all the others. While the size of these families meant that the cricket teams would have strong rosters, it also worked the other way: bigger families meant less money to go around. Less money meant that, often, the kids had little chance of going to college, especially as their parents retired and moved back to the village. The clubs understood this and knew that the only way they could get the parents on their side was by promising to take care of school fees.

Even as the boys started playing cricket, they encountered another problem. Cricket, like many other sports, is developmental. One cannot hope to forge a successful career in the sport without taking part in youth programs: for the under 13s, the under 15s, the under 17s. The Parkroad parents could not afford to take their kids to these age-group competitions, many of which happened outside the country. Into this void stepped the Indian parents. It was not necessarily altruism: the age-group teams had both African and Indian kids; since the Indian kids could not fill the teams on their own, without the African kids there were no teams. Now if a team had, say, nine African kids and nine Indian kids, each Indian parent would ‘adopt’ an African player and cover his travel and accommodation during the tournaments.

Joining Aga Khan and Swamibapa and all the other clubs was not just about the game. Most of the boys who joined these teams, and had their fees paid by the club, knew that they would not end up having professional cricket careers. However, since the people running the clubs occupied the upper strata of class in the country, they promised the kids that, after campus, they would get them jobs. Play for us, they said: here your fees are taken care of and then we’ll give you jobs in the multinational companies we own and run.

Kenneth Odumbe had played cricket for Aga Khan, so, naturally, it was to them that the talents of two of his brothers, Maurice and Tito, followed, as well as the Suji family. Swamibapa, on the other hand, acquired the talents of the other Odumbes, Oriwo and Bernard, and the Tikolos ―Tom, David and Steve― as well as Alfred Njuguna, Peter Ongondo, Lameck Onyango and Joseph Angara. Aga Khan Sports Club was a Muslim club, while Swamibapa was a Hindu club. Thus, in time, their matches came to be little adaptations of India vs Pakistan cricket matches. Admittedly, Swamibapa vs Aga Khan matches in the national cricket league had little of the bile that runs through India vs Pakistan games but, on Sundays, the Parkroad Boys on opposing teams did not speak to each other. Some of the allowances that they earned were dependent on wins, so even though in reality they cared little about the politics of Partition or Kashmir, they did care enough about their cricket to internalise these rivalries. Things would get so hot that Oriwo, a fast bowler, would bowl so hard at Maurice that Maurice’s Aga Khan teammates would wonder whether the two were really brothers. Reflecting on those days, Ongondo says, ‘We had grown up with Maurice and those Aga Khan guys, and played with them on the national team, but when it came to this match we were no longer friends.’

Even as the Parkroad Boys were making their mark on Kenyan cricket, within their subset there were those who were a touch above the rest. Ongondo admits this easily. ‘Man, Steve and Maurice, they were a class above everybody else.’ Ongondo and the younger Parkroad Boys would see Maurice, Steve and Tom revving into Sir Ali in their cars, loud music splitting the Sunday calm of Parkroad. They would see these guys with whom they had eaten rice and wish to be like them too, especially like Steve and Maurice; Steve Tikolo and Maurice Odumbe, the two finest cricketers Kenya ever produced. The question as to which of the two was the better player is difficult to answer. Both were right-handed batters and right-arm bowlers. Both captained Kenya. Both made their ODI debut in February 1996, against India. Both celebrate their birthdays in June, ten days apart, though Maurice is two years older. While Maurice had followed his older brother into the Aga Khan team and established himself as the star of the side, Steve had followed his older brother into the Swamibapa team and established himself as the star of the side.

According to Zoeb Tayebjee, a veteran Kenyan cricket journalist, Maurice was the more talented batsman. Maurice was skinny and scrawny, unthreatening in how he looked, but he could do things with the bat that Steve could only dream of. Maurice understood the bat; he understood how the bat connected with the ball and could effortlessly calculate the angle and speed at which he needed to make the hit, to deceive the flailing arms of the bowling team. When he batted, he was an aggressive middle-order batsman and when he bowled he was an accurate off-spinner. Whenever he stood up at the crease, he knew instinctively where the ball would go and how many runs he could make without getting run out. He was a magician, Maurice.

Steve must have understood that Maurice occupied a stratosphere of talent that he could only wish to join. He must have realised that for him, unlike Maurice, talent alone would not guarantee a successful career in the game. How else can one explain the Cristiano Ronaldo-esque dedication Steve put into his game? There is a story that is told about Maurice, that if a random person was to decide to take up the bat, assemble a team of friends and offer to play Maurice and his team, Mauricehaving concluded that he was infinitely better at cricket than this person and his pack of nobodies ― would spend the night partying or drinking or having sex, or a combination of all these activities, then show up at the crease, maybe still sloshed, and proceed completely to whitewash the other team. This attitude was not only reserved for nobodies. Maurice, he did not discriminate. Once, after receiving a hounding from India, Maurice, the then-Kenya captain, had declared, ‘we’re just going to have to get drunk tonight and get this game behind us.’ The team seems to have followed his advice and gotten properly drunk. Five days later, in a game from which Maurice himself was suspended, his boys had delivered a hiding to the Indians, winning by seventy runs, with the standout performer being Parkroad Boy and rice enthusiast Joseph Angara, who did not concede a run off in his first five overs and who claimed Sachin Tenduklar, the most valuable wicket in cricket, for three.

Steve would, however, would take a different approach to Maurice, it is said. Steve ― and this is Steve Fucking Tikolo, Stephen Ogonji Tikolo who was also called Guns because he loved Guns n Roses, though it may as well have been because he could hit ‘em faster than the eye could see― would examine the opposition, then eat, prepare his gear and sleep; maybe pray, brush his teeth and everything and be in bed by eight o’clock. And he would wake up at six the next morning, eat breakfast, probably tea and rice―the way these Parkroad Boys loved their rice―brush his teeth again, shower, take his gear and drive to the cricket pitch. Then, because he was fresher and better-rested and better-prepared and better-trained, he would, with his wide range of strokes and sometime medium pace bowling, sometime Chris Gayle-esque offspin, demonstrate decisively to the pack of nobodies that cricket was no sport for them. And he would do it even better than Maurice could.

According to Ongondo, because of this difference in their approaches to the game, while Maurice was the more technically-gifted cricketer, Steve had the better cricket career. In the entirety of his career, Steve scored 3,428 runs to Maurice’s 1,409. While the Maurice diehard would be quick to point that the difference in the number of runs is due to the little matter of Maurice’s five-year absence from the game, then the couch statistician would be quick to point out that five years isn’t enough for one to establish a difference of 2019 runs. Additionally, this armchair statistician could retreat to the hallowed zone of averages and point out that Steve’s ODI batting average supersedes Maurice (29.05 to 26.09), as does his ODI top score (111 to 83), as well as his ODI bowling average (34.20 to 46.33). Additionally, in the course of his career, Steve notched half centuries against all Test-playing nations, apart from New Zealand and Pakistan. Furthermore, Kenya performed much better with Steve as captain than with Maurice as captain. However, what would be the point of such an exercise? The only thing that matters is that both are Kenyan cricket greats and that the Parkroad Boys would have won any Inter-Estate cricket competition in Nairobi, pre-2000.

At the time the 2003 World Cup was coming to town — hosted by Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe — the Kenyan national team was considered a pushover. It was assumed that the team was there merely to make up the numbers, especially given that at their previous World Cup appearance, in 1999, it had lost all its games. In the run up to the 2003 tournament, Maurice and Steve had battled for the captaincy, creating a rift in the side that was only rectified when Aasif Karim, thirty-nine and retired from the game, was convinced to rescind his retirement so as to be a calming influence on the team and bring the two Parkroad stars together. Although Steve was eventually appointed captain for the World Cup, Maurice remained influential. Karim, the veteran left-arm spinner, made sure that the relationship between the two did not freeze.

Before the tournament had even begun, money dispersed by the ICC to the Kenya Cricket Association, had Houdini-ed itself from KCA’s coffers. Thus, the team faced the prospect of not receiving any bonuses, whatever their performance at the tournament. Furthermore, KCA had proposed that the team play the World Cup for free. Because the players were not interested in playing just for exposure, there had been protracted negotiations with KCA about this. In the lead-up to the tournament, The Guardian declared that, for Kenya, ‘a place in the Super Six is as likely as a seat in the next G8 summit.’ All the same, while Kenya wasn’t expected to make a deep run in the tournament given that they weren’t a Test nation, gone were the days when cricket legend Brian Lara would decline to give Maurice Odumbe an autograph because he considered him a nobody. In fact, Kenya had trashed West Indies in 1996, with Maurice winning the Man-of-the-Match award. After taking three for fourteen, he had sauntered into the West Indies dressing room and handed Lara his autograph. The boys were good and they knew it. Steve Tikolo was the captain and he had a stellar team behind him. At the heart of the team were the Parkroad boys: Steve himself, Maurice, Joseph Angara, Ongondo, Tony Suji and Martin Suji.

Kenya’s first game at the World Cup was against South Africa. The Kenyan upstarts were completely destroyed by a Herschelle Gibbs-led South African side, losing by 10 wickets.

However, they bounced back in their next game to beat Canada by 4 wickets (with 9 balls to spare), with Ravi Shah shining with the bat and Thomas Odoyo, the right-arm medium-fast bowler ― the first Kenyan to take one hundred ODI wickets ― proving decisive.

The next game was to be held in Nairobi, against New Zealand. However, the New Zealanders forfeited the match due to safety concerns arising from the bombing of the Paradise Hotel in Kikambala, Mombasa the previous year. However, the International Cricket Council had declared the venue safe following a report from Kroll, an independent risk consultancy firm, who declared that there was no reason for the match to be relocated. Jimmy Rayani, Chairman of the Kenya Cricket Association, accused the New Zealanders of double standards, pointing out that the security arrangements in Kenya were the same as those in South Africa. Kenya was awarded the win.

In their next game, Kenya truly showed up at the tournament. Roared on with a monster performance by the Obuya brothers, Collins and Kennedy, the team claimed the Sri Lankan scalp, beating the team by 53 runs. The mercurial batting talents of Odumbe and Tikolo were yet to be revealed at this World Cup. In their stead, Kennedy Otieno Obuya delivered at the bat, claiming an entertaining 60 off 88 deliveries, while his brother, leg-spinner Collins Obuya, claimed 5 wickets for 24 from 10 overs, showing the sort of performance that would lead people to question Shane Warne’s status as the best leg-spinner in ODI cricket.

Next, the Kenyans faced a woeful Bangladeshi side. A 32-run win ensured that the country would qualify for the Super Six stage of a World Cup for the first time in its history. Odumbe finally showed up at the World Cup, hitting an excellent 52 off 46 balls, while his partner, Collins Obuya, helped himself to 22 runs off 21 balls. As the Bangladeshi side attempted a comeback, Odumbe’s off-spin broke a 46-run partnership between Tushar Imran and Alok Kapal.  He followed up his batting heroics with taking 4 wickets for 38 runs in 10 overs while his rice buddy, Tikolo, contributed 3/14.

Kenya’s last group game was against West Indies, and they suffered a whitewash, going down by 142 runs. But Kenya was in the Super Six stage already.

And to the Super Six it was! After beating Sri Lanka, captain Tikolo had said that the team only had two more games at the tournament. But then, whatever mercurial batting talents Tikolo possessed, he did not have ‘the eye’ and so could not see into the future and know that Kenya had more than just two games left. As Kenya prepared to face India in its first Super Six match, England and New Zealand competed between themselves to see who could come up with the more terrible excuse for Kenya to have reached that stage. The New Zealanders claimed a skewed points system that favoured Kenya, conveniently forgetting their unwillingness to play in the Nairobi wilderness and their abysmal performance at the bat.

It was against this background that Kenya squared up to India. Their 70-run win seventeen months prior notwithstanding, Kenya was not expected to beat the Indians. Still, they held out well, going down by a respectable 6 wickets, a loss largely facilitated by Sourav Ganguly’s century (107 off 120 balls). However, Kenya beat Zimbabwe in their next game to qualify for the semi-finals (Tikolo and company might now have applied for their G8 accreditation passes). Kenya won by 7 wickets (with 144 balls remaining), a win made possible by Parkroad Boy Martin Suji’s impressive 3/19. Oh, and that the Kenyans were good. Before the game, Tikolo had told his team to just go out there and enjoy it and, unencumbered by the favourites tag the Zimbabweans carried, they had done exactly that.

Their last Super Six match, against Australia, was meaningless, as both teams had already qualified for the semis. Still, this did not mean that it lacked for entertainment value. Australian opening bowler, Brett Lee claimed an early hat trick of Kennedy Otieno, his brother David and Brijal Patel. However, Tikolo and Ravindu Shah piled on the runs and added a modicum of respectability to Kenya’s run score. Their partnership was broken by Brad Hogg on 79, when he caught Shah out just 4 runs short of a fifty. Tikolo at least reached his fifty, but then he was caught out by Darren Lehmann. Peter Ongondo, now bowling, turned the screws on the Australian batters and with Aasif Karim — who delivered 12 balls before conceding his first run, and after 4 overs had more wickets than conceded runs —  ensured that while the Kenyans lost, their reputations were not besmirched.

Next up were the Indians. Again. The same team that had already battered Kenya. As if to prove that the first time had been no fluke, they battered the Kenyans again. The match was over when the Indian captain, Ganguly, won the toss. Of course, he elected to bat. No Indian side has ever not been great at batting. Tenduklar reached 83, before he was caught by the off-spin of Tikolo. Ganguly did better, racking up an unbeaten 111 ― his second century against Kenya during the tournament ― treating the deliveries from the Kenyan spinners and pacemen with similar disdain, hitting five sixes in Durban, his left-handed batting twice tossing Obuya’s hitherto tricky leg spins onto the roof of the Old Kingsmead Grandstand. The Indian total of 271 runs was too much for the Kenyans to catch up. Although Tikolo managed a healthy 56, the Kenyan dream was over. Yet, since the opening day debacle, the Kenyan team only lost to India and Australia for the rest for their run. That wonderful Indian team that only lost to one team during the entire tournament: the Ricky Ponting-led Australia team, maybe the greatest ODI team in ICC World Cup history. The Australians lost to nobody, winning 11 out of 11 games. They trashed India in the final, winning by 125 runs.

From the highs from 2003, Kenya suffered an astonishing collapse. They only won two games in the next World Cup in 2007, none in 2011 (after which Tikolo retired from the national team) and failed to qualify in 2015. While fifteen years ago, the conversation was about whether Kenya deserved Test status, nowadays the national team languishes in Division Three, trying to see if it can plummet even lower. Nobody knows what happened. According to Zoeb Tayebjee, the blame lies with Cricket Kenya, particularly former chair Samir Inamdar. Tayebjee says Inamdar was simply not competent enough to run a national cricket federation and that his replacement ―Jackie Janmohammed, with her ‘hole-in-the-shoe’ way of doing things― annoyed other cricket professionals and destroyed relationships with them by ignoring their advice. But the explanation I like is that the Parkroad Boys grew old. Steve retired, Maurice was banned then retired, Ongondo retired, Angara retired, the Suji brothers retired. The Parkroad Boys stopped playing cricket and with them Kenya stopped playing cricket.

To get to Sir Ali Muslim Club, one takes the Number Six bus from the CBD in Nairobi. I go there on a Saturday, with two friends. It is a hot Saturday and we are wearing sunglasses, tourists in a part of Nairobi unfamiliar to us. The bus is black, rickety and old, and filled with women clad in buibuis. We get there early and start walking. One of my friends, BM, is our tour guide for the day. This used to be elite housing in the city, he says, pointing to a row of hostels. This used to be the hottest reggae joint in the city, pointing to an old three-story building. We pass open-air garages. We pass boys jabbering in Somali. And this, he says as we pass a corner, is Sir Ali. Sir Ali Muslim Club is green and white and, though it is a Saturday, there is no wedding, no rice.

A few days later, when I come back to Sir Ali, pupils from Muslim Academy, a school that shares a wall with Sir Ali, are playing football on the grounds. I watch them for a bit, then go talk to the groundsman. As we walk to the cricket crease, I ask him what the empty lot opposite Sir Ali is. ‘Oh, hiyo? Hiyo ni Parkroad Estate.’

Parkroad Estate is now desolate land. Two years ago, the government of Kenya announced a plan to build to build new housing in Parkroad and demolished the old buildings. The gate is locked and there is no sign of construction going on. I think about what Parkroad must have been in the 70s and in the 80s and how it must have felt to be a young boy there, venturing into Sir Ali Muslim Club for rice. This is where Maurice Odumbe and Steve Tikolo grew up, the greatest players in Kenya’s cricket history. Maurice has since coached the Kenya national men’s cricket team, while Steve is the tactician for Uganda. Joseph Angara is the coach of Zambia’s national team. Lameck Onyango coaches the Kenya national women’s team. Martin Suji and Peter Ongondo have each had spells with the national men’s team. Tom Tikolo is a senior Cricket Kenya official. But the Parkroad Boys, they retired as players, Parkroad Estate was demolished and Kenyan cricket is dead.

*Quotes originally given in Swahili/Sheng have been translated into English by the author.

All scores according to ESPNcricinfo.

“Parkland Boys” was first published in adda, 2018 by Commonwealth Writers, the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation, London, UK.


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Tuesday 12pm - 7pm
Thursday 12pm - 7pm
Friday 12pm - 6pm

Shop Access

The machine shop is only accessible to students who have building access by way of enrollment in a hybrid class such as ME 195b, ME 180, ME 154, or some sections of ME 299/295a/295b. Additionally, access is only allowed for students who have completed ME 41 Shop Safety or an equivalent course. (Occasionally, students who have gained machine shop experience outside of a course will be approved. If you think that applies to you, email Roger Jue at Roger.Jue@sjsu.edu. He will need to evaluate your skills.)

In previous years, we gave out door codes to people who had completed ME 41 and the Canvas safety course. Because fewer people are in the building in case of emergency and because of additional oversight needed due to Covid 19, door codes will not be issued at this point, so you will need to come during open hours. The names of students approved to use the shop will be given to the shop supervisor. Check in with him when you enter the machine shop.

There is a two-step process for getting approval to use the machine shop.

1) Fill out this form to gain shop access. You will be enrolled in a Canvas safety course that you will need to complete before using the shop.

2) After you have been approved and passed the Canvas safety course, you can sign up for an appointment to use the shop by going here. An appointment is important because only five students (plus the shop assistant) can be in the shop at one time, and we don't want people coming to campus if the shop is going to be full. The time slots are one hour in length. If you need to be in the shop for longer than an hour, you can sign up for several slots back-to-back. Delete your appointment from your calendar if you need to cancel.


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Maharashtra poorly carried out amongst a number of states on vaccinating senior residents

Maharashtra has poorly carried out amongst a number of states on vaccinating senior citizens as in comparison with different states. Maharashtra has vaccinated solely 32% of its senior residents aged above 60 and it’s effectively under the nation’s nationwide common which is at 33%. This worrying statistic was flagged off as an space of concern within the Prime Minister’s covid evaluation assembly with officers and consultants held on Friday.

States like Rajasthan have managed to vaccinate 68% of their senior residents and even states like Chattisgarh have managed to vaccinate 59% of their senior residents, Himachal Pradesh has managed to vaccinate at 54%, whereas Gujarat has managed to vaccinate at 51%.

Delhi at 40%, Odisha at 39%, Karnataka 38% and Goa at 37% have additionally not performed effectively in vaccinating these above 60 years of age, nevertheless they nonetheless appear to have performed higher at vaccinations than Maharashtra. The information is necessary because the senior residents are thought of extra susceptible in the event that they get contaminated with the covid 19 virus.

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Before reading this article make sure that you have read and understood the clarification about the incorrect information regarding dangerous airports HERE!!!

Unfortunately Skiathos airport became very famous not for the beauty of the scenery of the aircraft flying low through and above you head, but due to the jetblast at finals runway 02.

St. Maarten is offering much more jetblast since the most powerful commercial jetliner in the world, Boeing 777, is operating regularly there. Also till the end of October 2016 Boeing 747 is operating regular flights to St. Maarten. But St. Maarten is famous for the low landings of jetliners and not for jetblast!

People those days are doing crazy, sometimes stupid, things in order to upload something on social media and increase their audience. The stupid part of this is that humans put their lives into danger for no particular reason.

From the other hand traditional media are no longer searching for information in order to transmit news. Instead they are using a much cheaper method, the copy/paste method, by transmitting anything that looks interesting or strange that is found in social networks. The combination of stupid people doing stupid things for some “likes”,  and unreliable media, is transmitting extremely wrong information to the public.

This situation with the social media became the best ever advertisement for the island all around the world. This kind of advertisement through social media is million times stronger than any campaign the Greek state ever did.

However a lot of people still ignore the danger of jetblast. There is a number of people who stand behind the jetblast, knowing what to expect. But dangerous situations are rising up while people, who don’t know what will follow, and stay behind an airplane that is about to take-off, just because they see the others doing it, or because they want to try the challenge. The fact that so many people stay there while a jetliner is turning at the end of the runway before take-off, is also convincing unsuspectingly other people to stay behind.

This is the most dangerous part of the story.

We have noticed all these years parents with infants in their arms standing behind a Boeing 757 just before take-off. We have noticed tourists with expensive cars making sort stops just behind the aircraft, ignoring totally the damage that the jetblast can cause.

We highly recommend to all:

But let’s go more into jetblast story.

Bellow there are some contours showing jetblast temperature and force (wind speed) during idle power and take-off thrust of a Boeing 757-200, the biggest aircraft operate at Skiathos airport.

Boeing 757-200 Thrust – Source: Aircraft manufacturer/Boeing

Boeing 757-200 Temperature – Aircraft manufacturer/Boeing

Those calculations are used for airport planning in order to ensure safety on the ground between aircraft and servicing vehicles, employees and passengers of course. They are calculated from computer data and not from actual measurements.

In reality, the jet blast effect can be less than the computed one which is always computer from the safe side. If those calculations were actual, and the values are realistic, we should have something like 10.000 deaths due to flying tourists at Skiathos every year after every departing Boeing 757 from runway 02, other 5.000 blasted by B737NGs/Airbus A320 & A321, 5.000 by Boeing 717 etc…

But all these years we have only very few injuries, little bit more damages on vehicles, hundreds pair of sunglasses in the sea with similar amount of beach towels, hats and other “light” summer equipment, enough to open a huge tourist shop!

According to our estimations the number of incidents compared with the amount of people standing on runway finals every day is less than 0,3% (don’ t try to convince us for something else than that, because we are aware of incidents that are never reported to the local Medical Center, so our data are much more precise…). And the biggest amount of injuries were not behind a departing Boeing 757 but mostly behind  of a Boeing 737NG and behind the much more under powered (compared with the other two) Boeing 717! (Photos of B717, B737 and B757 engines at the bottom of this page)

Boeing 717 Jetblast – Source: Aircraft manufacturer/Boeing

Let’s clarify this

Here is a video of 1993 at San Francisco airport. For safety training the authorities drove a towed vehicle behind Boeing 767-200 engines with take-off thrust set.

This specific type of aircraft (Boeing 767-200) landed just once at Skiathos airport. Usually the bigger jet that operates at Skiathos airport is the Boeing 757-200. As mentioned above, you will realize that smaller aircraft may look less dangerous but actually their danger is bigger. The B757 has Rolls Royce RB211-535E4 engines of 40.100lbs thrust each and the B737NG (-700 for i.e.) has two CFM56-7B22 of 22.700lbs each.

Jetblast Boeing 757 vs 737 – Source: Aircraft manufacturer/Boeing

The end of 150Mph blast area is limited to 25 meters behind a Boeing 757 and 34 behind Boeing 737NG!

This is why more incidents occurred by (smaller) Boeing 737s than by (bigger) Boeing 757s. And a last example is the even more under powered Boeing 717 with 20.000lbs tail mounted engines. According to the manufacturer calculations (see image below) the maximum speed of a 717’s jetblast is 150Mph, much lower than the other two examples above. But because Boeing 717 is a fuselage-mounted engines aircraft, its jetblast is affecting much more the area behind…

Let’s make an example with a Boeing 737-800NG in Skiathos with actual data, distances and calculations and forget the theory. As mentioned earlier, jet blast speed is calculated by “clean wing”, meaning no flaps, and with “clear surface – area”.

We used a wind speed meter behind a Boeing 737 in Skiathos, to calculate the jet blast speed. The speed meter was placed at the position shown on pictures below, at 40 meters away from the exhaust of the CFM engines of an XL Airways Boeing 737-800 aircraft (The specific flight was too heavy and performed a back track very close to the road. Usually the exhaust of the engines in Skiathos are more than 60 meters from the public road).  Our speed meter was placed within 100mph area, that is indicated on the Boeing charts. But we got a measurement of just 65.2kts = 78.25mph. This 25% reduction is not because Boeing calculations are wrong (LOL) or they lie to us (LOL)…

It is because the area between engines and the top of the fence is not flat or even clear. If you make the same calculations in the middle of the public road, expect to have more than 50% reduction of 100mph zone due to friction with obstacles. You can notice on the video with the Boeing 767 at San Francisco that the surface from engines exhaust till the towed track is flat and clear and jet blast effect is direct.

Actual jetblast speed indication of Boeing 737-800 during take-off from runway 02 at Skiathos airport on 2 August 2004

Actual distance from blast at Skiathos during take-off thrust

So having in mind the results of those calculations, why we have incidents. How is possible the jet blast is blowing out ATVs? Actually it is NOT. Let’s see what the truth is and what the reasons of the incidents are.

How many of you stand or walk during a windy day against a wind of 10 Beaufort speed? Standing behind a take-off at Skiathos is about the same. BUT: standing against 10 Beaufort wind is something you are prepared to do. If you try to stand against a wind stream rising suddenly from calm to 10 Beaufort, you will probably fall down. This is somehow the problem with the blast. Many people are not aware of what will happen in the next few seconds. People who are not familiar with the sudden noise, the hot air temperature, and worse of all, the flying gravel, end up acting with panic, running away from it, instead of protecting themselves, and falling down. For a “familiar” with jet blast person, the problem you cannot solve is the flying gravel. But even if you are “familiar”, if the departing plane holds parking brakes and keeps take-off power for several seconds (the pilots don’ t spend fuel for fun, there are standard operating procedures sometimes for safety reasons that they have to follow), after 15-20 seconds you will probably cannot breath, so you get in a kind of a panic situation….

Flying gravel is the most dangerous problem. See this car glass! It looks like gunfire! But they are just flying gravel. And the most important, the damage was NOT during take-off but during a back track!!! The can was NOT parked aligned with the runway center line (click to enlarge).

According to ALL the above you can realize that the jet blast speed is not a direct problem but an indirect cause of incidents that may possibly lead to injuries, even DEATH. A fall on a rock or on the street may kill you in just a moment.

In aviation world, aircraft, humans and vehicles are moving in the same environment (airport) under procedures that ensure safe in-between them distances. The original construction design of those airport environments was based on specifications that are compatible with those procedures. However existing unique environments around ariports like in St Maarten, Skiathos, Taipei Songshan (and many other airports around the world) were never a part of an airport master plan, and were not meant to be so close to airport runways. This happened gradually during the years due to urban expansion. Even ICAO recognizes those exceptions and has a relevant legal framework for those airports.

The conclusion of all these is one simple think:

JETBLAST effects are unpredictable. There is no reason and no fun at all put your body in danger.

Finally as aviation specialists we suggest you to stay on a safe distance from airplanes, not only because of jet blast. Ask your doctor about the negative effects of burned JET A1 fuel to your lungs. If you have a pilot or aviation related friend, ask him how many aircraft systems are active/operating during a take-off and landing and what kind of irradiation is transmitted around. Enjoy your drink from a sort/safe distance for you and your family!

Boeing 737-800NG ready for take-off from runway 02 at Skiathos airport, with more than usual extended flaps (due to short runway). The jetblast flow in conjunction with the flaps position creates Bernoulli’s effect with the ground.

Boeing 757-200 during take-off from runway 02 at Skiathos airport. Notice the higher position of engines and flaps, than a Boeing 737. This value of height is major coefficient for jetblast, as seen also and of Boeing diagrams.

Tail-mounted engines making Boeing 717, even if they are higher enough than other jetliners, very dangerous. This because jetblast from take-off thrust is consetrate to a very short line. Volotea Boeing 717 is about to take-off from runway 02 at Skiathos airport.

Airbus A320 is something between Boeing 737 and Boeing 757. But Airbus A320NEO (operated till now by SAS) is much more powerful and dangerous. Take-off from runway 02 at Skiathos airport.

This photo is a good example of all we wrote above regarding computing calculations and “real thing”. It is an MD-80 of Inselair during take-off at Saint Maarten. As everyone can understand, a Boeing 747-400 with 396.000kg of the-off weight is extremely much more powerful than a 72.600ke MD-80. According to the “papers” it looks impossible to stay behind a 747, but most possible behind an MD-80. In real, If you stand behind a Boeing 747-400 you will survive. Due tail-mounted engines, there is no way to do it behind an MD-80. Many people try but none of them hold his position for more than 10 seconds. Notice the jetblast distance on the sea…!


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2020 was a year we’re all ready to put behind us, and there’s little doubt that a return to normal life in 2021 has Australians champing at the bit. Some have been forced to adjust to working from home as a result of the pandemic, while others have been put out of work entirely. As the economy endures a bumpy recovery and businesses attempt to reopen, the nation’s workers are being asked a crucial question: are they equipped and ready to get back to work?

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Now that Australia appears to be emerging from the pandemic, businesses are focusing less on strategies for short-term survival and more on permanent improvements to their operations. Do we need to pay for all this office space when staff can work part-time from home? Can we accelerate our transition from traditional retail to ecommerce? How can we future proof our brand in case this happens again? Do we need to change how we offer our services?

From trades to finance, virtually every industry is grappling with the conditions of a changing world and how we can continue to work through and beyond the pandemic. It’s not just to cut costs: many businesses will need to overcome these challenges to ensure their very survival. For Australian workers, the most important changes concern how these businesses are reshuffling staff and hunting for new recruits with diverse, adaptable skill sets.

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We’ve already touched on why now is the perfect time to certify your skills, thanks to a variety of factors including a hyper-competitive job market, a surge in upskilled workers, decreased job security and rising demand for versatile staff. Australia is ready to start moving forward in 2021, but we’re already seeing employers push through a teething process as they figure out how to adjust to the new normal.

Workers who can survive an evolving landscape and apply their knowledge to multiple roles are increasingly sought after, while technology and innovation is cutting demand for more rigid candidates. Having your skills certified gives potential employers a clear indication of what you can offer, particularly if you’ve gained these skills through hands-on experience or learning overseas.

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Melasma is a common skin problem that causes brown to gray-brown patches on the face. More likely to affect women and people with darker skin tones, melasma affects more than six million women in the United States.1 Although the exact causes of melasma are unclear, common triggers include sun exposure, pregnancy, birth control pills, and cosmetics.

“Melasma usually appears on the cheeks, forehead, chin, bridge of the nose and above the upper lip, but it can also appear on the forearms or neck,” said Bethanee J. Schlosser, MD, PhD, FAAD, assistant professor of dermatology and director of Women’s Skin Health at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “Although it is not harmful, many people dislike the way melasma looks and seek treatment to make it less noticeable.”

If you have melasma, Schlosser recommends the following tips for achieving a more even skin tone.

  1. Wear sunscreen daily. One of the most common treatments for melasma is sun protection. Since sunlight triggers melasma, it is important to wear sunscreen every day, even on cloudy days and after swimming or sweating. Choose a sunscreen that offers broad-spectrum protection, a Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of 30 or more, and zinc oxide and/or titanium dioxide to physically limit the effects of the sun’s rays on your skin. Apply sunscreen 15 minutes before going outside and reapply at least every two hours.
  2. Wear a wide-brimmed hat when you’re outside. As a recent study in the journal Nature illustrates, sunscreen alone may not give you the sun protection you need. Whenever possible, seek shade and wear protective clothing in addition to applying sunscreen.
  3. Choose gentle skin care products. Choose skin care products that don’t sting or burn, as products that irritate the skin may worsen melasma.
  4. Avoid waxing. Waxing may cause skin inflammation which can worsen melasma, so it’s important to avoid waxing areas of the body affected by the condition. Ask a dermatologist about other types of hair removal that may be right for you.

“Sometimes melasma will fade on its own, particularly if it is triggered by pregnancy or birth controls pills,” said Schlosser. “After a woman has her baby or stops taking the birth control pills, melasma can fade. However, if your melasma does not go away or you want to keep taking birth control pills, see a board-certified dermatologist to discuss available treatments for melasma, such as prescription medications or in-office procedures.”

The “Melasma: Tips to Make It Less Noticeable” video is posted to the American Academy of Dermatology’s (Academy) website and the Academy’s YouTube channel. This video is part of the Dermatology A to Z: Video Series, which offers relatable videos that demonstrate tips people can use to properly care for their skin, hair and nails. A new video in the series posts to the Academy’s website and YouTube channel each month.

1. Pandya, AG, Guevara, IL, Disorders of hyperpigmentation, Dermatologic Clinics 18(1) 91–98 (2000)

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Faro Wall lamp HOTEL 1 light E27 H 50 cm

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Type: Wall lamp
Materials: Metal, fabric
Structure: Metal
Lampshade : Fabric in black and white
Lights: 1 x E27 15W + 1W LED spot light
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Degree of protection: IP20
Dimensions: Height 50 cm diffuser height 14 cm length 28.5 cm thickness 27 cm

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SMi’s 13th Annual Conference
RNA Therapeutics
9-10 February, 2022 | Conference
SMi is proud to announce the 13th Annual RNA Therapeutics Conference taking place on 9 - 10 February 2022

The RNA therapeutics industry has grown at an exponential rate in recent years, with an increased spotlight following the industry’s leading role in developing vaccines against COVID-19 in response to the global pandemic. This year’s conference will reflect on how the industry has adapted and played a pivotal role in global health over the past year and will discuss the takeaways for future mRNA therapeutic development. Furthermore, the 2022 agenda will explore innovations in novel and targeted delivery, RNAi innovations and antisense oligonucleotide therapeutics. Global experts from big pharma and leading biotechs will explore the emerging therapeutic applications of RNA with case studies on the treatment of cardiovascular disease, neurological diseases and oncology.

RNA therapeutics is a rapidly expanding industry with increasingly growing potential for immunotherapy, personalised medicines, and treatment of genetic, infectious and chronic diseases. This is reflected with the value of the global antisense & RNA therapeutics market expected to reach USD 1.81 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 7.5%. Furthermore, the recent advent of CRISPR, an RNA-guided gene-editing technology, as well as new strides in the delivery of messenger RNA transcribed in vitro, have triggered a major expansion of the RNA-therapeutics field.

Join us in February 2022, as SMi’s 13th annual RNA Therapeutics Conference brings together industry experts from leading RNA therapeutics companies to gain an expert and holistic view on the latest developments of the industry.

  • Explore how mRNA vaccines have led the way in the response against COVID-19 and key takeaways for the industry
  • Understand the potential of RNAi and antisense oligonucleotides for the treatment of  cardiovascular and neurological diseases
  • Delve into the latest innovations in novel RNA delivery and target specificity
  • Engage in the growing advances and development of RNA tools for vaccines and anti-infectives

Key Job Titles include:

Research & Development Directors/Managers/Scientists
Heads of Clinical Development
Heads of Pre-Clinical Development
Head of RNA Biology
Head of RNA Formulation and Drug Delivery
Head of Pre-clinical R&D
Head of New Modalities
Head of Discovery
Senior Scientists
Chief Scientific Officers
Chief Medical Officers

Global Presence:

Attendees from all over the world attend our events, gain hands on insight from representatives from UK, Europe and USA.

Advanced Cell Diagnostics, A Bio-Techne Brand; Aldevron; Aldevron Llc; AMBR Consulting Ltd; AmpTec GmbH; Asahi Kasei Corporation; Astrazeneca; Bachem; BianoGMP; BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals; Bio-Techne Ltd; Chiesi Farmaceutici spa; eTheRNA; Ethris GmbH; F.Hoffmann-La Roche AG; Galapagos; GE Healthcare; Genevant Sciences; Genmab A/S; GSK; himed; Imperial College London; Inabata France S.A.S.; Independent; InteRNA Technologies BV; Intertek; Intertek Pharmaceutical Services Manchester; JSC R-PHARM; MHRA; Miescher Pharma GmbH; MiNA Therapeutics; MiNa Therapeutics Ltd; moderna Therapeutics; Nanogenics Ltd; New England Biolabs; NHS Blood and Transplant; NHS Blood and Transplant Authority; Nippon Fine Chemical; Nitto Avecia; Nitto Denko Avecia; Norinnova Technology Transfer AS; Pantherna Therapeutics GmbH; Polyplus-Transfection; Roche Diagnostics Deutschland; Roche Diagnostics Deutschland GmbH; Roche Innovation Center; Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; Sanofi; Sense Biopharma AS; Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services Limited; Thermo Fisher Scientific; TranSINE Therapeutics; Univeristy of Gent – Gene Therapy; University Gent; Vaccitech Ltd;

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London, United Kingdom

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eTheRNA immunotherapies is a private clinical-stage company driving mRNA technology and therapeutic product development to deliver an innovative generation of RNA chemistries, RNA process technologies and a new and advanced generation of therapeutic and vaccine products. eTheRNA uses its established R&D foundations and in-house GMP manufacturing facilities and builds on its proprietary mRNA, mRNA adjuvant and mRNA formulation platforms to progress technology innovation and product development.

eTheRNA was established in January 2013 as a spin-off company from the ‘Vrije Universiteit Brussel’ (VUB), following the development of its TriMix mRNA technology.

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CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development’. It is essentially a philosophy, which maintains that in order to be effective, learning should be organised and structured. The most common definition is:

‘A commitment to structured skills and knowledge enhancement for Personal or Professional competence’

CPD is a common requirement of individual membership with professional bodies and Institutes. Increasingly, employers also expect their staff to undertake regular CPD activities.

Undertaken over a period of time, CPD ensures that educational qualifications do not become obsolete, and allows for best practice and professional standards to be upheld.

CPD can be undertaken through a variety of learning activities including instructor led training courses, seminars and conferences, e:learning modules or structured reading.

There are approximately 470 institutes in the UK across all industry sectors, with a collective membership of circa 4 million professionals, and they all expect their members to undertake CPD.

For some institutes undertaking CPD is mandatory e.g. accountancy and law, and linked to a licence to practice, for others it’s obligatory. By ensuring that their members undertake CPD, the professional bodies seek to ensure that professional standards, legislative awareness and ethical practices are maintained.

CPD Schemes often run over the period of a year and the institutes generally provide online tools for their members to record and reflect on their CPD activities.

Professional bodies and Institutes CPD schemes are either structured as ‘Input’ or ‘Output’ based.

‘Input’ based schemes list a precise number of CPD hours that individuals must achieve within a given time period. These schemes can also use different ‘currencies’ such as points, merits, units or credits, where an individual must accumulate the number required. These currencies are usually based on time i.e. 1 CPD point = 1 hour of learning.

‘Output’ based schemes are learner centred. They require individuals to set learning goals that align to professional competencies, or personal development objectives. These schemes also list different ways to achieve the learning goals e.g. training courses, seminars or e:learning, which enables an individual to complete their CPD through their preferred mode of learning.

The majority of Input and Output based schemes actively encourage individuals to seek appropriate CPD activities independently.

As a formal provider of CPD certified activities, SMI Group can provide an indication of the learning benefit gained and the typical completion. However, it is ultimately the responsibility of the delegate to evaluate their learning, and record it correctly in line with their professional body’s or employers requirements.

Increasingly, international and emerging markets are ‘professionalising’ their workforces and looking to the UK to benchmark educational standards. The undertaking of CPD is now increasingly expected of any individual employed within today’s global marketplace.

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One shapely, beautifully Danish presentation, this Tomato from Erik Nording hails from the legendary carver's Valhalla line. Though it may be short and broad of bowl, it's anything but squat in style. Indeed, it presents a profile with an active and graceful flow, which just happens to be backed up by quite a lot of substance as well.

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  • Length: 4.84 in./122.81 mm.
  • Weight: 1.20 oz./33.92 g.
  • Bowl Height: 1.47 in./37.31 mm.
  • Chamber Depth: 1.23 in./31.12 mm.
  • Chamber Diameter: 0.71 in./18.13 mm.
  • Outside Diameter: 1.73 in./43.86 mm.
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In the COVID and post-COVID environments, consumers will demand safety, transparency, and accessibility from brands, products, and retailers. They will also be seeking simplicity and comfort as antidotes to the uncertain journey to the “new normal.”

Many new products slated to launch are already in production, and driving trial is essential to any successful innovation. But what happens when you can’t actually get the product on shelf? CPG and brand manufacturers, particularly within food and beverage, should look beyond the traditional supermarket channel, and consider potential foodservice partnerships they’ve minimized or ignored altogether.

It’s no secret that the restaurant industry is also struggling in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. However, fast food, fast casual, and other restaurants—already expert in the take-away and/or delivery game—present new launch pads for innovative products and flavors. By leveraging established relationships between their foodservice teams and national restaurants chains, CPGs can not only still launch new products, but also test it in-market before spending trade dollars to buy distribution. Food delivery services can further promote the new product or meal, increasing impressions and potential for trial.

Another option would be to cancel the launch—accept the sunk cost and move on. Consumer demand and need should be the first metric when considering whether to kill new products. Marketers consider line extensions and new flavors to be great ways to bring “new news” to grocery retail partners, expand categories, and gain facings on the shelf, hopefully at the expense of the competition. But, when it comes to many everyday items, from lunchmeat to salad dressing, consumers tend to stick with classics—oven roasted turkey or ranch dressing. While they are willing to try new flavors, repeat rates often quickly drop as folks return to their staples.

It is too early to accurately predict exactly how COVID-19 will change consumer purchase behavior and how long some, or all, of those changes will last. It is however probably safe to assume, at least in the near term, that it is far more likely shoppers will reach out to trusted and comforting brands and products faster than they will grab the latest line extension.

An honest reflection on the part of brand marketing teams should uncover whether their core consumers need additional options during this time of uncertainty. It will likely be more productive to double down on the classics that people know and love. And, if a new product is launched at a price premium, consumers will be hard-pressed to purchase it given declining disposable income.

While this may be a solid option for food manufacturers, it likely does not have legs for producers of household or personal care goods. Instead, they can revisit the option of building out a direct-to-consumer (DTC) model as an additional testing ground for planned new products. A DTC model has been top-of-mind for many manufacturers for years, even before the internet was around to facilitate it, but hasn’t scaled because of cost and the fear of alienating existing retailer relationships. Today, DTC can be leveraged to de-risk product introduction, testing out new options or variations and enabling a stronger story for retailer sell-in, by establishing proven success metrics.

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  • Revised styling and fit
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  • 2 YKK AquaGuard zipped, A-line chest pockets
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  • Centre back length (Size 12): 75cm/29.5inch
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The Women's Firewall Jacket from Rab is a fully featured, versatile, stretch waterproof jacket using Pertex Shield 3-layer, designed for year round active use. Stretch fabric and highly breathable design provides high levels of comfort when active. Technical features include a helmet-compatible hood, YKK AquaGuard zips throughout and a regular fit to comfortably allow layers underneath. With a hem drawcord and hook and loop cuffs you can ensure the perfect fit and keep the weather out.

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The Rab story began in 1981 in the attic of a small, terraced house in Sheffield where Rab Carrington made the first sleeping bag to bear his name. Hand-stitched and devised with his own ingenious eye, Rab's experience from years spent in the mountains was apparent in his designs, and soon there was popular demand from Rab's friends and the growing local climbing community. Now, decades later, those honest, hard-wearing designs can be found all over the world; wherever adventurous individuals face up to the elements. From Himalayan peaks to cold, crisp evenings around a camp fire. This began as the brand's story, but it also belongs to those who've loved and cared for each and every one of our products. Who've made them their companions on long trips and expeditions.

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Grit Shorts, Grunge

Our Grit paintball shorts are 100% dye sublimated with amazing high quality color saturation onto a lightweight, moisture-wicking polyester fabric. Each pair of shorts has two pockets, with one that is zippered for your valuables. They are loose fit, light, comfortable, and provide great breathability, allowing moisture vapor to be transmitted through the material. This results in keeping you cool. So now you can look cool and feel cool, literally. Perfect as an every day short or as a post-practice cool down short.

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