By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has labored as a securities lawyer and a derivatives dealer. She is at the moment writing a e-book about textile artisans and ending her first novel, Demise within the Deep Purple Sea.
Pricey Readers: I used to be touched by the numerous form ideas and heat needs you expressed following the announcement by Yves of my retirement from posting for Bare Capitalism, A Fond Farewell to Jerri-Lynn.
Yves had beforehand recommended I would need to write a farewell put up.
Certain, I stated – not realizing simply how tough that job would show to be.
Writing the put up led me to take an extended meander down reminiscence lane. I spotted I’ve been writing about public affairs for publication for the reason that fifth grade when our instructor, Dale Ziegenfus, helped our class produce a newspaper. I used to be chosen to be the editor-in-chief and I bear in mind rigorously penning copy onto a ditto stencil, to be mimeographed and distributed. This was lengthy earlier than photocopiers turned widespread and earlier than individuals had their very own private printers.
We determined to promote copies of our newspaper to purchase books for Annandale – a juvenile jail situated in a close-by city. My father, a highschool steering counselor, and an area minister periodically visited the power to conduct group counselling periods.
Our mimeographed newspaper netted us about $28 in revenue, a sum that purchased fairly just a few books in 1971 – particularly as my aunt and uncle owned the native bookstore and offered their very own contribution to our trigger. I bear in mind Dad driving me to the bookstore, the place I rigorously chosen a stack of paperbacks. I had sufficient cash left for maybe yet another when a tough cowl copy of I Am Third – the autobiography of Chicago Bears operating again Gale Sayers – caught my eye. That e-book impressed the 1971 ABC Film of the Week, Brian’s Track. One forgets what an enormous deal a film of the week was again then. With solely three main tv networks, there weren’t that many issues to observe at anyone time. My Uncle Bob smiled and added that costly e-book to the pile.
By means of highschool, after which college, grad college, legislation college, and ever since, I’ve continued writing about present affairs. The truth is, even on my marriage ceremony day, I discovered time to scribble out some work for publication – dashing off some copy earlier than I headed out to get my hair dressed. I’d been overwhelmed with issues to do this week, and I knew if I simply completed up a few hours of writing, the examine for my work would arrive in regards to the time my husband and I’d return from our honeymoon. We have been grad college students on the time and positively may use some extra cash.
A Not-So-Fast Look Again at Some Favourite Posts from the Final Six Years
Over the last couple of weeks, I went again and reread lots of my posts to pick out some to debate right here. Let me start by mentioning some posts I wrote in the course of the first yr of the pandemic. A few of what I posted has been outmoded by subsequent occasions. But a few themes from these posts are nonetheless very a lot germane. Reminiscent of that many different nations initially coped much better with COVID-19 than did the U.S. And second, that the Democrats – e.g., particularly Andrew Cuomo, who all through a lot of 2020 was being hailed as a Second Coming character – was, truly not doing an excellent job in any respect, when New York’s efficiency was in comparison with locations equivalent to Hong Kong, which at the moment was. The truth is, he would finally resign in shame, not alas, held accountable for his mishandling of the COVID-19 scenario in New York state’s nursing houses – as he ought to have been. As an alternative, it was Me-Too allegations that precipitated his downfall (see A Story of Two Cities: How Hong Kong Has Managed its Coronavirus Outbreak, Whereas New York Metropolis Scrambles; Story of Two Cities Redux: HK to Ease its COVID-19 Restrictions, Whereas NYC State of affairs Stays Dire; No, We Don’t Must Place Our Religion in Downloading Some Untested, Privateness-Infringing App because the Solely Attainable COVID-19 Slayer; Why Don’t We Look to Locations that Have Efficiently Restricted Illness Unfold and Copy Their Insurance policies?; COVID-19 Errors to Keep away from: Don’t Conflate Contact Tracing with Contact Tracing By App; and COVID-19 Errors to Keep away from: Don’t Combine Up Prophylaxis and Remedy and Why Don’t We Examine International locations That Have Had COVID-19 Success?).
Quick ahead to at the moment, when Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Dr. Rochelle Walensky have managed to botch the present U.S. pandemic response – to the purpose the place I’m nostalgic for the Trump administration’s relative competence. To make sure, there was a little bit of a deer-in-the headlights really feel to early Trump coverage. A minimum of Trump and his minions managed to roll out vaccines shortly (leaving to 1 aspect how efficient these could be). And Trump himself appeared open to contemplating that vaccines weren’t the be-all and end-all of a complete coronavirus response. Bear in mind how he was ridiculed for touting hydroxychloroquine as a potential therapy for the illness, going as far as to strong-arm the Modi authorities to ship Indian provides of the drug to the U.S.
Word I’m not right here opining on the efficacy of any explicit COVID-19 therapy protocol; that’s a query approach above my pay-grade. My level is merely this: at the least Trump appeared to acknowledge {that a} vaccine-uber-alles coverage wouldn’t suffice to halt the pandemic. It’s been stated many occasions however I’ll nonetheless repeat it right here: if Trump had made even among the outrageous selections taken since January 2021 – I’m pondering of the untimely mission completed stance and dropping masks mandates as a reward for getting vaccinated – he would have been crucified by the media.
Transferring alongside from COVID-19 to India, many readers stated they appreciated my posts on this fascinating a part of the world. Let me point out some favorites. My first India put up for Bare Capitalism launched readers to a perspective on India not typically featured within the non-Indian press. I wrote about what India has to show the U.S. about free and truthful elections, with its a lot greater charge of voting turnout and the dedication the nation has made to creating certain everybody has an opportunity to vote (see What India Can Train the US About Free and Truthful Elections). Later, I highlighted one other Indian coverage success: the federal government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi shortly disbursed COVID stimulus funds to India’s poorest in April 2020. I in contrast that coverage to the sluggish U.S. response (see India’s Poorest Now Have Entry to Primary Financial institution Accounts, and Many Already Obtained their First Money Stimulus Cost By Final Saturday; In the meantime the IRS Might Get You Your $1200 Examine in 5 Months).
Not all my Indian posts have been laudatory ones. Something however. I used to be visiting India when Modi launched his disastrous demonetization coverage. A coverage that shaved share factors from India’s development charge and which haven’t been recouped to this present day. To Indians, that occasion was extra momentous than the election of Donald Trump as president on the opposite aspect of the wrld on the exact same day. I wrote a number of posts inspecting this notebandi insurance policies. I’ll solely point out the primary and final posts right here. readers can learn all these posts, in the event that they’re so inclined, by going to the final, which hyperlinks again to all of them (see India Strikes to Severely Prohibit Use of Money, Forcing A lot of Economic system Into Barter (first); and India: Demonetization Debacle (final)).
Because the Russian invasion of Ukraine, India has emerged as a pacesetter of the International South because it seeks to pursue a international coverage of multi-alignment within the rising multipolar world order – a subject I’ve posted on severaltimes since March. If you happen to solely have time for a few these posts, I’d advocate two. Within the first, I wrote about Indian minister for exterior affairs, Dr. S. Jaishankar’s 2020 e-book, The India Manner, wherein he outlined a basic course for a impartial Indian international coverage (see India: Pursuing its Nationwide Curiosity within the Multipolar World). Within the newest, posted simply final week, I wrote about how India and its corporations are taking advantage of their willpower to pursue their nationwide curiosity within the new multipolar world by not kowtowing to calls for to impose financial sanctions on Russia (see Pursuing Its Nationwide Curiosity within the New Multipolar World: India to Enhance Sakhalin-1 Oil Output). Because the failure of the U.S.-EU-Japan sanctions coverage turns into more and more apparent, the Indian financial system might outperform these of different nations which have dutifully fallen into line with the sanctions regime. Equally, Indian corporations are poised to revenue as effectively.
My curiosity in textiles led me to introduce readers to the scourge of quick trend (see The Excessive Hidden Prices of Quick Vogue) That led mein flip to assume extra significantly about waste – significantly the issue of plastics and to develop a Waste Watch beat. It’s a miserable space to discover. When I discovered them I attempted to share some constructive tales, such because the venture launched by my pal, Norwegian dive information Renee Sørensen, to wash up Maafushi island and rid it of plastics. Renee didn’t let obstacles cease her. As an alternative, she rolled up her sleeves and set to work. Sadly, her story didn’t have a contented ending. She caught dengue fever and died lengthy earlier than her time – yet one more sufferer of the world’s failure to concentrate on illnesses of poverty (see Dengue on My Thoughts: Spending on ‘Illnesses of Poverty’ Not Sufficient to Create Efficient Vaccines)
One supply of considerably constructive information in an more and more miserable world is the restricted success of the proper to restore motion (see this current put up, Waste Watch: Colorado and New York Move Proper to Restore Measures). I’m significantly eager to see how far the Federal Commerce Fee below the management of chair Lina Khan pushes this subject.
I used to be happy to see reader RA’s touch upon my work:
Amongst posts I most loved have been ones the place she shared her views on a fellow Harvard Legislation College pupil — the Obamamometer.
I feel it started right here:
Don’t Be An Obamamometer: Help Bare Capitalism and Crucial Considering
Certainly it did. That was one among my favourite posts too. And if I have been ever to transform that materials one factor I’d make clear is the way to pronounce Obamamometer (maybe by riffing playfully on the well-known opening sentence of Nabokov’s Lolita).
Right here’s the way you pronounce the phrase:
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One of many many poisonous legacies of my HLS classmate’s failed presidency was Donald Trump. The Democratic Get together’s fealty to the pursuits of its donors quite than the wants of its voters led on to his election – in addition to to different spectacular coverage disasters that proceed to reverberate.
Thoughts you, at one stage, I harbor a grudging respect for the Republicans. I detest most of their insurance policies. But one ought to acknowledge their capability for comply with by. They don’t simply announce some beyond-the-pale coverage. They then play an extended recreation to implement it.
Distinction that to the efficiency of Democrats, who’re eternally preventing for one thing – and passing the hat to get you and me to pay for it – however by no means appear to get something carried out. Subsequently I maintain Democrats at the least partially answerable for the newest Republican coverage successes, together with the Supreme Court docket’s current overturn of Roe v. Wade (see Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group: U.S. Supreme Court docket Overturns Roe v. Wade by 5-4 Vote, Thereby Leaving it to States to Make Their Personal Abortion Legal guidelines).
To not point out the Court docket’s gutting of local weather change regulation (see Supremes Kayo Local weather Change Regulation: West Virginia v. EPA). And at a time the place composition of the present U.S. Supreme Court docket continues to loom massive, I’d like to spotlight one among my first NC posts about simply how slim the membership of our Supreme Court docket is – a put up written effectively earlier than Trump nominated his three justices (see Doing Time: Jail, Legislation Colleges, and the Membership of the US Supreme Court docket.).
Indulge me a bit additional right here, as I don’t need to finish this part on this altogether miserable be aware. Some readers preferred a few of my posts about gardens – my Mother’s in North Carolina or our Brooklyn one – and meals. These weren’t some easy try to create a Bare Capitalism life-style part. There was normally a bigger thematic level to those posts – e.g., meals safety, sustainability and seasonality, farmers markets, composting, encouraging bees and different pollinators. What was most satisfying about writing them was the reader responses they elicited. You shared your individual gardening tales and cooking suggestions. I discovered a lot in regards to the Bare Capitalism neighborhood from the feedback on these posts. How readers attempt to dwell lives of integrity on this troubled world.
Earlier this week, I used to be speaking to Mother – as I do most days – and he or she was happy to see that readers had commented about her backyard. She requested me to inform readers that she’d harvested 100 cherry tomatoes that exact same day. Furthermore, 2022 is shaping as much as be an excellent summer season for eggplant in North Carolina. Let me point out one put up right here – not a gardening or cooking put up per se, however one wherein Mother makes an look, in a put up about how robocallers prey on the aged and susceptible. In that put up I additionally mentioned my first and solely union job – as a phone operator in the summertime of ’79 in Newton, NJ, one of many small enclaves the place Ma Bell didn’t provide ‘telephone service. And I additionally featured video clips of nationwide treasure Lily Tomlin’s obnoxious Ernestine, ‘One ringy-dingy…’ Plus ça change. Fifty years on and all of us nonetheless hate our ‘telephone corporations. The one distinction being that in Ernestine’s day there was just one dominant participant. Now there are a number of (see Robocalls: Your Quantity, Please).
The Bare Capitalism Commentariat Is the Finest Commentariat
As I’ve written earlier than, the Bare Capitalism commentariat is the most effective commentariat. Your shut studying of my work and your pointed feedback have made me a a lot better author than I used to be after I first began posting right here (see Ode to the Commentariat: Why Bare Capitalism Issues). And also you’ve opened my eyes to issues about my writing I hadn’t observed earlier than. Or quite extra precisely, opened my ears to sounds I hadn’t fairly heard earlier than. Thus, in one other touch upon my retirement discover,JustAnotherVolunteer dug up this nugget from my previous, the July 9 1982 version of The Tech, MIT’s oldest pupil newspaper, which has offered steady information service since 1881. I served because the paper’s editor-in-chief for quantity 102. See my opinion piece on web page 4 – written simply over 40 years in the past.
Certain volumes of all my writing for The Tech lurk someplace in my basement. I haven’t checked out them in a long time. What I discovered from JustAnotherVolunteer’s remark is that even in 1982 I’d already developed a recognizable voice. One which hasn’t actually modified all that a lot. My column in regards to the Equal Rights Modification was a bit extra naive, maybe, and optimistic about what was potential in politics than I’d write it at the moment. I used to be simply 21 years previous after I penned that column. And as lots of you who bear in mind these years would acknowledge, the political world of 1982 was very totally different than the one we dwell in now. What was thinkable – and potential – hadn’t but shriveled to a neoliberal core. So thanks for prompting me to take this journey down reminiscence lane.
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Deal with Fiction: Introducing Durga Roy
A few of you may ask, if writing for you, the readers of Bare Capitalism, is such an important gig, then why am I retiring?
Reply: I’m not retiring from writing completely. As an alternative, I need to focus completely on my fiction. I’m practically completed with Demise within the Deep Purple Sea, the primary in a deliberate collection of seven mysteries that includes non-public detective Durga Roy. Some years earlier than the pandemic struck whereas I used to be on a Purple Sea diving safari, a briefing for a dive on the Thistlegorm wreck sparked a novel. As I ready to enter the water, I questioned whether or not any munitions bales that went down with the ship when the Luftwaffe sank it throughout World Warfare II nonetheless posed a hazard. Might they explode? In spite of everything, bomb disposal groups are often referred to as upon to take away unexploded bombs from fields in Flanders and central London, amongst different locations. What about underwater munitions?
On the similar time, I additionally occurred to be studying Agatha Christie’s Demise on the Nile.
Voila! I started to put in writing a locked room thriller set on a diving boat. One factor that attracted me to this story was that by setting the explosion underwater, I may kind of ignore trendy forensic strategies. I didn’t need to write some CSI spin-off.
As an alternative: Growth! Individuals die. And any forensic proof washes clear away. Leaving my detective free to make use of ‘little gray cells’ to unravel the thriller: who carried out it? And why?.
Again to that detective, Durga Roy. She’s the individual you name if you suspect there’s been foul play however can’t work out how or why against the law occurred. An excellent Oxford science undergraduate, who earned a starred double first, the query for her tutors wasn’t whether or not Durga would earn a Nobel Prize sometime, however wherein self-discipline it will be awarded. Alas, as an alternative of heading to MIT for PhD research, she detoured into the detection recreation after her dad and mom and brother died in an ‘unintended’ elephant stampede in India. Durga’s father, an Oxford physicist who had as soon as helped India develop its Bomb later switched course to develop into a pacesetter of the anti-nuclear motion. He was referred to as again to India to take care of a household matter when Durga was sitting her Oxford finals. Durga is aware of who’s answerable for the dying of her family- everybody does – and backbone of the thriller surrounding their dying is one I’ll return to in my deliberate seventh – and closing – novel within the collection. Till then Durga has re-oriented her life’s mission to pursue one aim: nobody ought to get away with homicide.
Yet one more level: I like Durga, she is, in any case, my creation. However I really like her sidekick – Rabbani-bhai a personality very loosely primarily based on a pal of mine, Ghulam Rabbani, the doorman on the (very modest, regardless of the grand title) Resort Heera Worldwide in Kolkata. Rabbani-bhai is barely a meter tall and within the greater than a decade that I’ve identified him, I’ve observed that most individuals ignore him – both resulting from his stature, his class, his faith, or his lack of schooling. That’s a mistake – he speaks a number of languages, is charismatic, jolly, a beautiful mimic, and in addition terribly resourceful. Instance: within the wake of Modi saying India’s demonetization coverage, when not a single one among my different Kolkata associates – together with a financial institution supervisor, varied businesspeople, and so on. – had been in a position to receive any of the brand new Indian foreign money, Rabbani-bhai managed to attain me a pair hundred {dollars} price of the brand new rupee notes. I bear in mind exchanging {dollars} for the brand new foreign money from him on the lodge – nobody had seen the brand new notes but, and folks crowded round us within the foyer when he handed over the dosh. I may see them questioning: why was I, a foreigner, in a position to receive what nobody else may get their arms on? The easy reply: Rabbani-bhai is my pal and he knew I wanted some new Indian cash. So, he discovered some for me.
An awfully sleek man, he’s additionally an important dancer. His fictional avatar soaks up data, gaining the belief of individuals intimidated by Durga’s apparent brilliance. Oh, and he additionally has a black belt in judo – the baddies see him coming and whereas they’re apart from themselves with laughter, he’s already tossed them onto the ground.
As soon as- or possibly I ought to say – if I handle to discover a writer, these novels will come out below my actual title: Jerri-Lynn Scofield. Reader Martin Oline questioned whether or not Jerri-Lynn Scofield is a pseudonym. Nope. That’s my actual title. Who of their proper thoughts would select Jerri-Lynn Scofield as a pseudonym?
My subsequent deliberate novel within the Durga Roy collection is ready in Istanbul, a metropolis I do know effectively and to which I’ll quickly be returning to conduct additional analysis. This novel jumps forwards and backwards between the nineteenth century and the current and facilities on the reappearance of a beforehand unknown sister – or maybe extra aptly ‘brother’ portray, the male counterpart to Gurtave Courbet’s The Origin of the World. It’s nonetheless early days but for this work and I have to give you a title – as a result of as Colin Cotterill, the writer of the great Dr. Siri Paiboun collection as soon as instructed me, you don’t actually have a e-book till you will have the title. Then you already know what your e-book is about. (He’s proper about that: I didn’t actually make any progress on the e-book I’m simply ending till I discarded my authentic obscure, cliched title – Blood on the Water – and changed it with Demise within the Deep Purple Sea.
Commit!
Sufficient in regards to the fiction I’ve written or hope quickly to put in writing. As I transfer into this subsequent section of my life, I’ll shut this put up by sharing a lesson I discovered in the course of the winters I spent as a ski bum in Whistler, British Columbia – snowboarding by day, writing at night time.
I rang up my good buddy Justin Abel the opposite day. I first met Justin in 1996 I feel, simply after he’d chucked in his boring previous life as a chartered accountant to pursue his ardour for snowboarding. He discovered to ski effectively, moved to Whistler, and purchased a small apartment. This was effectively earlier than Whistler actual property costs present their current loopy heights. From when he made that transfer till at the moment, Justin has taught snowboarding in the course of the winters and takes on short-term accounting gigs in the course of the summer season.
Anyway, I organized time for a Skype chat after he despatched me birthday greetings and I used to be reminded of an remark as soon as made by Christopher Hitchens IIRC: you’ll be able to’t make previous associates. We picked up as if we’d final spoken simply days and never years in the past. I used to be already mulling the ending of this put up, and he jogged my memory of some points of ski method that I hadn’t considered a lot since I hung up my skis in Might 2003. (I made a decision that was my final season as a ski bum, and I didn’t need to ski as a civilian. I knew what it felt prefer to ski fairly effectively – at the least in addition to I may ski. I may solely obtain that evel of efficiency if I skied most every single day, quite than as a weekend warrior or a vacationer jetting in for a few weeks’ vacation. I logged a couple of hundred days every season and as I stated, did my writing at night time. In contrast to Justin, nevertheless, my ardour for snowboarding had waned and there have been different pursuits I needed to pursue.
I used to be stunned when he instructed me individuals nonetheless remembered me – partly for internet hosting events the place I shared selfmade food and drinks with my impecunious ski professional associates. A few of them taught snowboarding in the course of the day and labored as cooks in Whistler restaurant kitchens within the evenings. At my events, they fortunately pitched in as sous cooks. One such pal: Dragan Lausevic, an incredible mogul skier who fled Sarajevo and ended up in Whistler, alongside along with his childhood pal, Radmillo Sarenac, who’d been a documentary filmmaker earlier than his homeland fell aside. He too ended up in Whistler instructing snowboarding. These two have been actually into the movies of Andrei Tarkovsky and watched them obsessively, virtually shot by shot. One yr, the movie du jour was all the time Nostalgia; the following Stalker.
My annual Oscar events have been particularly standard. Some individuals would costume up a bit – that’s, costume up by Whistler requirements, the place one other pal as soon as remarked, “In Whistler, now we have fleece – and now we have ‘costume fleece’”
The opposite factor I’m remembered for is inventing the idea of the refundable $20 (invoice). That, nevertheless, is a narrative for one more time – maybe I’ll share it in feedback.
Which brings me to the purpose I need to make with these ski bum reminisces. Typically my ski professional associates would ask me to ski with them on their off days. If situations have been proper, we’d find yourself on the sting of what everybody referred to as ‘The Saudan’- aka the Saudan Couloir – named for the Swiss excessive skier Sylvain Saudan. Alas, the mountain needed to change the official title of the run to Couloir Excessive after years of internet hosting an excessive ski race sponsored by huge Canadian corporates as a result of nobody had bothered first to ask for permission to make use of Saudan’s title. (I perceive that Saudan and the present house owners of the mountain have since settled their variations and the race has been resurrected, see Saudan Couloir Ski Race Excessive: The Legend Returns to Whistler).
I attempted to discover a video that conveys simply how terrifying it’s for even good skiers to ski that run for the primary time. A lot of the movies present prime skiers snowboarding nimbly down the slope. However these are distinctive skiers. What about these of us manufactured from extra atypical stuff – or like Justin, who discovered to ski effectively comparatively late in his life. (If you happen to be taught to ski as a bit tyke, you don’t fear a lot in regards to the penalties of taking a foul fall within the fallacious place.) Now that I give it some thought, not solely did Justin grasp the run, however approach again in 1995, he entered the race within the novice class and lived to inform the story.
The highest of the run is a slope of practically 50 levels. Which means when you’re standing on the slope together with your skis dealing with arduous proper your proper elbow touches the slope. That’s steep.
Anyway, that is undoubtedly a scenario the place you don’t need to fall. That Saudan race was as soon as marketed as ‘2500 vertical toes of thigh burning hell’. If you happen to fall, chances are you’ll slide a really great distance. Perhaps in your again, headfirst. with the occasional rock to dodge on the way in which down.
So, rule #1 for tackling the Saudan: don’t fall. How pray inform, do you handle that?
The one most vital lesson I discovered from snowboarding on steep slopes was all of your intuitions about how finest to outlive are fallacious. Say for instance, you have been mountaineering down a steep slope in the course of the summer season. It’s pure to be cautious, possibly lean again a bit. No sane individual would launch herself down the hill.
However to lean again and be cautious if you ski places you in precisely the fallacious place – within the so-called ‘again seat, the place your skis may jet out forward of you and also you’ll fall, presumably ragdolling down the hill.
Studying to ski steeps effectively requires that you just be taught – whether or not you understand it or not – that the forces you’re coping with are reactive forces. It’s not your physique that must be in the proper place a lot as you could just remember to assault the hill so that you just set the perimeters of your skis in a approach that every ski works because it’s designed to do. You have got one job and one job solely: set these edges.
How do you do this? You should launch your self off the hill, committing to that first flip. One thing I needed to discuss myself into time and time once more throughout these first ski seasons till it was second nature. As soon as I nailed my first flip, I’d chill out, and proceed the sample, onto the following flip, after which the following, the following, and but once more, dancing all the way in which down the slope.
However that essential first step of launching myself into area: That took some convincing. So, I’d psych myself up, after which launch throughout the autumn line, screaming Commit!
My ski professional associates thought I used to be demented. But my tactic bought me off the cusp of the hill and down the slope. I by no means as soon as fell whereas snowboarding the Saudan.
It labored for snowboarding. And now it’s time to use that lesson to my writing and decide to this new course: writing fiction.
So, expensive readers I bid you adieu.
It’s been a beautiful privilege to put in writing for this viewers. Thanks!
