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Published Saturday, July 7, 2007
They teach a message of forgiving
Forum shares stories of two who lost loved ones at the hands of others and their capacity to forgive.
Caption - picture on right: Leticia Aguirre spoke about her experiences with forgiving one of her son’s murderers during the Forum of Forgiveness at All Saint’s Church in Pasadena Saturday morning. -- Alex Collins / News-Press
By Ryan Vaillancourt
Leticia Aguirre and Ben Kayumba, strangers to each other whose native countries of Mexico and Rwanda are separated by an ocean and a world of cultural differences, share a tragic bond — both know how it feels to lose a family member to murder.
Aguirre, a longtime Glendale resident, lost her son Raul Aguirre on May 5, 2000, when he tried to break-up a gang-related scuffle outside Hoover High School. Raul, who was not in a gang, got caught in the mix and a knife meant for another boy ended up in the 17-year-old's heart.
Kayumba's mother, father and more than 150 of his extended family members — and the vast majority of those living in their village — were slain by Hutu rebels during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, he said.
Their stories were the focus of Forum on Forgiveness, a two-day event hosted by Glendale-based nonprofit organization In His Shoes Ministries, at All Saints Church in Pasadena on Saturday.
Aguirre has told her story numerous times in the past seven years, but its lesson is timeless, said Fr. Vazken Movsesian, In His Shoes Ministries executive director.
"It is the most profound and moving story I've ever heard," Movsesian said.
For Aguirre, the story begins with dinner preparation on a usual Friday afternoon in 2000.
Raul was late coming home from school, she said. Just as Leticia Aguirre started to worry, the phone rang and brought news that her son was hurt in a fight.
Three hours later, after a team of doctors failed to save the boy on the operating table, Raul died, she said.
"That moment was the most horrible in my life," Aguirre said, through a translator. "I felt that I would die, but the worst is that I didn't die, that I had to live on second by second."
And second by second for three years, Aguirre endured the trials of her son's killers.
"Every day of that trial I was there and I wanted justice to be done," Aguirre said. "In court I saw the mothers of the gang members kissing crosses and praying to God to forgive their sons and I thought how difficult this must be for God."
But when Rafael Gevorgyan, one of three gang members tried for being involved in Raul's death, begged Aguirre's forgiveness on the final day of his trial, she gave it to him, she said.
"I saw a boy, almost a child, in a situation so grave asking for forgiveness," she said. "I felt huge compassion and huge tenderness."
To this day, Aguirre sends and receives letters from Gevorgyan, who is serving a maximum 18-year prison sentence for manslaughter. Aguirre is hoping that a pending appeal that would shorten Gevorgyan's sentence is granted, she said.
Kayumba, who works for a nongovernmental organization in Rwanda, shared on Saturday a similarly tragic account of the death of his mother — who was stripped naked, stabbed in the chest, and left in the village center to be scavenged by dogs, he said.
When Kayumba, who had escaped his village before the raids in 1994, returned to his home, few traces of his community remained, he said.
The only relics were stories of his family members' deaths told by a few survivors, one of which pointed Kayumba to his mother's killer. In a fit of rage, Kayumba found the man, engaged him in a violent scuffle, but held off when he realized that he was moments from perpetrating the same act he sought to revenge.
"What I was going to do is what he did, so I asked him for forgiveness," said Kayumba, recalling his message to his mother's killer. "He was just shaking."
Kayumba and Aguirre's story left many in the All Saints Church audience shaking and teary as well.
"It's actually traumatizing listening to these stories," said Donald Miller, executive director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC, who moderated Kayumba's testimony. "There's a sense that if you let these stories seep into your soul, you're never quite the same."
RYAN VAILLANCOURT covers business and politics. He may be reached at (818) 637-3215 or by e-mail at ryan.vaillancourtlatimes.com.
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AIS addresses the Court of Strasbourg in the absence of both a High Court and a Constitutional Court in the country, asking this court to review the merits of a case, which is now in a process of recourse.
January 3, 2019 /in Events, Homeposts, Press Releases /by admin
On the 19th of November, AIS addressed the European Court of Human Rights, Council of Europe, asking this court to consider AIS claim against Albania as a matter of priority and examine the merits of this case for compliance with Article 6, Article 10, and Article 13 of the European Convention for Human Rights.
Such application comes at a time when the High Court, where a recourse is filed, and the Constitutional Court are non-functional.
The arguments for the case, whose merits are to be reviewed by the Court, are presented to the Court of Strasbourg as follows:
Subject: Request to deal as a matter of priority the application AIS v Albania and to examine the merits of this case for breach of article 6, article 10 and article 13 of the European Convention of Human Rights.
On 9 June 2015, during the local electoral campaign, the Albanian Institute of Science (AIS)[1] – an Albanian NGO – sent an official request to the three main electoral subjects, i.e. the Socialist Party (SP), the Democratic Party (DP), and the Socialist Movement for Integration (SMI) asking them for the following information:
list of donors of non-public funds, from whom they had benefitted since 21 May 2015 amounts above 100 000 (one hundred thousand) ALL or the equivalent value in services or goods;
list of every expense made since 21 May 2015 using the annual funds benefitted from the state budget in 2015.
The above electoral subjects did not respond to our request. Therefore, pursuant to Article 24 of Law no. 119/2014 “On the right (access) to information”, AIS filed a complaint with the Commissioner for the Right to Information and Protection of Personal Data on 7 July 2015.
The Commissioner for the Right to Information and Protection of Personal Data informed us on 25 July 2015 of its decision no. 44, dated 22.07.2015 on “Rejection of complaint”. The Commissioner rejected our request no. 675, dated 9.07.2015, arguing that “the requested information is to be administered by the organizations foreseen by this law and it’s Article 2, which are not defined as public authorities in terms of how they are organized, how they operate, and their regulatory legal framework”.
Pursuant to Article 25 of Law no. 119/2014 “On the right to information”, the Albanian Institute of Science filed a lawsuit with the Administrative Court of First Instance of Tirana.
Upon completion of the court hearings, the Administrative Court of First Instance of Tirana delivered the decision no. 5687, dated 10.11.2015 according to which: “The court rejects the lawsuit of the Albanian Institute of Science against the Commissioner for the Right to Information and Protection of Personal Data, the Socialist Party of Albania, the Democratic Party of Albania, and the Socialist Movement for Integration of Albania, which claims the “Abrogation of decision no. 44, dated 22.07.2015 of the Commissioner of the Right to Information and Protection of Personal Data as a lawsuit not based on evidence or law. The court forces the political parties (electoral subjects), i.e. the Socialist Party, the Democratic Party, and the Socialist Movement for Integration to provide the Albanian Institute of Science with the information requested about the financing of their electoral campaigns as per its (AIS’) request dated 9 June 2015.”
The Albanian Institute of Science complained against the decision of the Administrative Court of First Instance by addressing the Administrative Court of Appeal on 25 November 2015. The Administrative Court of Appeal by decision no 5236, date 22.11.2017 decided to uphold the decision of Tirana First Instance Administrative Court.
The case now is pending before the Supreme Court of Albania.
AIS addressed the European Court of Human Rights on 18 May 2016, asking this Court to express itself on this adjudication process, and whether they constitute a violation of Articles 6 and article 13 of the European Convention of Human Rights.
As you may know on July 22, 2016, the Parliament of Albania approved 17 constitutional amendments required to reform the justice system, aspiring to change its image by making it more independent, accountable and efficient. These constitutional amendments, inter alia represent the implementation of the Vetting Law, known as the temporary re-evaluation of the judges and prosecutors of the Republic of Albania.
The process of reassessing members of the judiciary system, otherwise known as the vetting process, started in November 2017 and will include over 800 judges and prosecutors, as well as a number of other employees of the justice system.
Up to nowadays the results of the vetting process are for the Supreme Court only 4 judges passed the vetting, and two of them are still under review procedures at the Appeal Chamber.
So far, the Constitutional Court is the institution that has been hit hardest by the vetting process. Out of nine members, only two have successfully passed the verdict and one of them is in the appeal process before the Appeal Chamber.
No one in Albania is able to predict when there will be established and become functional, both the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. Consequently no one in Albania can give an answer when the AIS appeal in the Supreme Court and eventually in the Constitutional Court will be judged. Meanwhile the topic of the request and of the whole thing loses the actuality because the request for the transparency of the finances of the political parties in the elections was made in 2015, still has no final answer from the Administrative College of the Supreme Court/ Constitutional Court and meanwhile there are also next local elections to be held in June 2019.
Furthermore we want to add in the AIS application the legal arguments and request to consider the claim for breach of article 10 of the European Court of Human Rights by Albania.
The European Court of Human Rights in the case Magyar Helsinki Bizottsag v Hungary did recognize that such a right to information or obligation to provide information may arise in two categories of cases: (1) where disclosure of the information has been imposed by an enforceable judicial order, and (2) in circumstances where access to the information is instrumental for an individual’s exercise of their right to freedom of expression, and where its denial constitutes an interference with that right.
The Court went on to set out four principles, drawn from its more recent case law relating to access to information, that could be relied on to determine whether a denial of access falls within the second category of case.
– The purpose of the information request: it is a requirement, before Article 10 can come into play, for the information sought to be necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression. The right to vote can be considered as freedom of expression and knowing in advance before the election date the financing of political parties is a precondition for free and fair election. This can be demonstrated where the denial of the information would hinder or impair and individual’s exercise of the right.
– The nature of the information sought: the information to which access is sought must generally meet a “public-interest test” for the disclosure to be necessary under Article 10.
– The role of the applicant: where the individual is seeking access to the information with a view to informing the public in a capacity as a public or social watchdog, this will be an important consideration in determining whether Article 10 applies.
– Ready and available information: the extent to which the information being sought is ready and available will also be an important criterion when determining whether Article 10 is applicable to a case where an individual has been denied access to information.
Based on these conditions, please consider our request to examine also the merits of the case in the application AIS v Albania at the European Court of Human Rights submitted on 18 May 2016 regarding the breach of article 6, article 10 and article 13 of European Convention, and please consider as well the possibility of expediting the procedure for AIS application examination in Strasbourg, as soon as it is possible.
Hoping that our request will be taken into consideration.
Aranita Brahaj
Executive Director of AIS
Legal representative Viktor Gumi Attorney at Law
Prior phases of the Court process of AIS vs Political Parties for transparency on electoral financies
[1] Albanian Institute of Science (AIS) is an Albanian registered NGO. Its mission is to promote scientific activity and applied research in Albania to solve socio-economic problems, increase transparency, and strengthen civic engagement and respect for human rights. Financing of political parties during electoral campaigns and informing the public in a capacity as a public or social watchdog has been for many years one of the main activities by AIS.
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Three Best Places to Listen to Music for Free
Undoubtedly you may have come across hundreds of websites that offer free music online. Understandably, it can be quite intimidating to know which site is the best and which one suits your music preferences. All these sites feature different characteristics and work differently. To save you time, though, here’s a review of the best places to listen to free music online.
Spotify is one of the greatest places to find millions of songs for free. And you can listen to your favourite hits anytime. Create unlimited playlists of both modern and older music. You can play music on a desktop manager, web browser, or mobile device. Additionally, you can create playlists and share music with your loved ones. While the music comes for free, paying a certain fee guarantees you access to more exclusive features.
One of the fastest-growing sites, Google Play Music features libraries of the different genres and forms of music. You find new releases, top charts, and even old school music for free. But occasionally, you may have to view certain ads before getting access to your music. Google Play Music also features podcasts and radio stations where you browse for the station per genre, mood, region, and decade. You may get free plans on this site for the first 30 days, after which you pay to get unlimited access to your music without adverts popping up right, left, and centre.
This is another site where you can listen to your best hits for free. Pandora stands out from the rest, given that it runs on different devices and work well when finding new music. Make up to 100 playlists for free, and all the music is free to listen to. However, you need to create a user account which has a limited number of songs that you can skip. It’s also not uncommon to see a few ads showing up on your screen.
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Lisbon Recognition Convention 1997
Overview: This convention concerned the recognition of qualifications in Higher Education in Europe. It aimed at affirming that degree holders from one of the UK member countries would be recognized, without qualifications, in any of the other signatory countries.
Signatories: The members of the Council of Europe met at this convention in Lisbon, 1997. In May 2003, the UK ratified the convention, which came into force in July 2003.
Mission, Goals, and Achievements: The Lisbon Summit's target is to place the EU at the forefront as a knowledge-based community by 2010.
Mutual Recognition of Qualifications. This convention promotes the mutual recognition, without discrimination, of qualifications among European countries. Those whose qualifications are thus recognized will have the same access to further study and use of an academic title, as do those from the country where recognition is sought. The institution making the assessment must demonstrate that an applicant does not meet its requirements for further study.
Diploma Supplement. All signatory countries were encouraged to have the Diploma Supplement issued to their students upon graduation. This document describes a qualification in a standard format that can be readily understood and compared. The Diploma Supplement also clarifies the qualification and shows how it fits into to its originating academic program.
The Lisbon Recognition Convention Committee has also recently adopted a Recommendation on the Recognition of Joint Degrees. Other methods were developed to facilitate the recognition of professional qualifications internationally. These include the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), the Europass, and the Tuning Project.
Significant web sites:
Europe Unit Home Page
The full text of the Lisbon Convention
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The Diploma Supplement
The European Students Union portal provides a link to the latest version of the Lisbon Agenda Handbook, along with many other useful documents and papers on educational reform.
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All news and updates MEPs back Bashir report on Myanmar
MEPs back Bashir report on Myanmar
MEPs have backed proposals by Amjad Bashir to challenge Myanmar and end the suffering of stateless people.
Today the European Parliament’s influential Foreign Affairs Committee voted in favour of a report by the Conservative MEP calling for unified international action to promote the granting of citizenship to the Rohingya people.
The vote came just days after Myanmar’s leaders denied the ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas
The Rohingyas, considered one of the most persecuted people in the world, have been stateless since the Burmese nationality law denied them citizenship.
Recent weeks have seen mounting evidence that the Burmese military has intensified its crackdown in Rakhine state, where most Rohingya live, prompting the public denial by Aung San Suu Kyi.
Mr Bashir, MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, said: “Today’s vote shows that the Rohingyas have not been forgotten and that their suffering cannot be denied.
“Statelessness makes even simple things in life difficult, such as getting married, getting a job and accessing education or healthcare. At its worst it can lead to hostile discrimination, ethnic cleansing and murder. Sadly this is the case for the Rohingyas.
“My report calls on the international community, including the European Union and the United Nations, to put an end to the denial of citizenship rights. We must recognise progress made in Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam. However there are still millions who are persecuted every day. We must do all we can to end this.”
The report is part of Mr Bashir’s campaign to make tackling statelessness a priority. He recently attended the United Nations Human Rights Council where he called on the UN to do more. His report will now go before the full parliament for approval.
Mr Bashir concluded: “I look forward to Parliament voting on my report. It will send a clear message to the international community to act and provide hope to those who need it.”
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The grassroots movement of Israel Hofsheet that strives for an Israeli society that practices cultural and religious pluralism, protects civil rights, and upholds the principles of democracy and Zionism as put forth in the Declaration of Independence.
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Havaya is Israel's largest non-profit organization for lifecycle ceremonies
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We are battling government sanctioned or enabled religious coercion.
We believe that the presence of women in the public sphere is a basic and necessary human and civil right that should exist in a free and democratic state, and are doing everything we can do fight this terrible phenomenon.
This is a central battle for us at Israel Hofsheet as believe that freedom of marriage is a basic right.
We believe that it is time to advance and guarantee the rights of the LGBT community, as we have seen done in so many countries across the globe.
Israel Hofsheet believes that the Jewish state should be the home of ALL Jews of all of the different expressions of Judaism. If Israel is to remain Jewish it must allow anyone who sees him or herself as Jewish to take part in the religion, and not to allow the religious extremes in our midst to be the gatekeepers of who is and who is not a Jew.
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Decisions that relate to burial and funeral ceremonies are certainly some of the most complex decisions that can be made by the dying and their families. Often, a quick decision is required at the peak of a mourning period. Until the 1990s, in Israel almost no complexity arose concerning burial options. Most of the public was assisted by the burial services provided by religious burial corporations, according to the religion of the deceased. A small minority held civil burials in private cemeteries. From 1996, with the passing of the Alternative Civil Burial Right Law, there has been some revolution in the duties imposed on the state with regard to burial, and it has been determined that the state must allow every person to have a civil burial. In practice, most individuals buried in a public civil ceremony are those who are not entitled to a religious burial, many of whom are immigrants from the Former Soviet Union1. It is therefore important to separate the rights of the individual concerning burial as prescribed in the law from de facto rights. Alongside this, some disputes have also arisen on the question of whether a religious burial corporation is allowed to force religious norms on persons requesting their services, and to what extent. Finally, Questions have also arisen in Israel on other ways of laying to rest, such as cremation, organ donation and donation of the body to science.
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Must the state provide civil burial services to citizens of Israel?
According to the Alternative Civil Burial Right Law, “a person is entitled to be buried according to his beliefs in an alternative civil cemetery if he has chosen to do so; the choice may be made in a will or in any other way”. The State assumes the duty of establishing civil ceremonies throughout the country, at reasonable distances from population concentrations. In practice, most of the population has no access to civil ceremonies, and the State is hesitant in establishing civil cemeteries, which has been harshly criticized by the Supreme Court and the State Comptroller.2
As of 2013, only three cemeteries have been run as regional civil ceremonies – Menucha Nechona in Be’er Sheva, Menucha Mechubedet in Givat Brenner and the cemetery in Emek Hefer – Mesila. As a result, many citizens of the State of Israel had no chance of being buried in a public civil ceremony, but only in a private civil ceremony.
In light of this shortcoming on the part of the conduct of the State, which has not acted to establish civil cemeteries, or to inform the families of the deceased properly about the opportunities open to them, the court has recently ruled that the State has been negligent in the discharge of its duties towards the public interested in civil burial, and has ordered the State to compensate plaintiffs who have buried their loved ones in private civil ceremonies due to the cost of burial (NIS 15,000-18,000). In other words, in cases in which the State does not provide proper information in real time to the families of the deceased on the possibility for civil burial, or when it is not practically possible to hold a civil burial as required by law, families of the deceased are entitled to compensation for the cost of private civil burial. 3
May payment be charged for burial?
No payment may be charged by the burial corporation for burial, except for regulated amounts that are prescribed in the National Insurance Regulations (Burial Fee), 5736-1976.4 However, in practice, many burial corporations ask for additional payments, often without documentation and records. As a rule, the only case in which a burial corporation is allowed to demand additional payment is for services that are not part of its duties. In this context, it is allowed to charge payment for accompanying the body only if the accompaniment is outside the premises of the burial corporation or if extraordinary services that are not mandatory are provided (such as the provision of a particularly expensive coffin at the request of the family). The burden to prove that services have been provided for which charging payment is prohibited is not assumed by the burial corporation.5
A separate issue is payment restrictions for the purchase of a grave by a living person and the purchase of an adjacent grave. As a rule, the payment for a grave that is purchased by a living person, as well as an adjacent grave, is prescribed in the First Addendum to the Jewish Religious Services Law [Consolidated Version], 5731-1971 and varies with geographic region in Israel. In any case of a service of this type being provided at a charge rate that is not prescribed in the law (such as a grave in a closed cemetery), the prescribed corporation must show that the price is systematic, proportionate and uniform.6 In this context, it is not possible to circumvent the provisions of the law by selling graves to a third party for trading purposes.7
Is a religious burial corporation allowed to compel the family of the deceased to practice religious norms concerning the burial?
Despite religious burial in Israel being carried out by a private corporation (usually Hevra Kadisha), the corporation assumes public duties and is not allowed to force religious norms, and in particular religious norms that are not accepted by the religious public at large, upon persons who are not interested in them. For instance, the burial corporation is not allowed to prevent an inscription on a headstone (for example an inscription of the deceased’s Gregorian dates of birth and death).8 Similarly, the burial corporation is not allowed to force the holding of a religious ceremony with segregation and is not allowed to prevent women from mourning the deceased.9 It would seem that in the spirit of case law, a burial company will not be allowed to force the use of any particular religious service or prescribe any practice whose nature does not contravene the religious ceremony or offend public feelings.
However, the Courts in Israel have never prescribed the exact dos and don’ts in this context. While there is no dispute on the one hand that inscriptions in languages other than Hebrew is permitted on headstones, and on the other hand, ceremonies and customs that offend public feelings are prohibited, the Courts have never ruled on the question of the exact identity of the religious ceremony that the Hevra Kadisha is allowed to force on consumers of its services, and elements that are not in the core of the ceremony, the decision on which is delegated to the family of the deceased. In this context, it would seem that the courts are to consider the question of whether it is a local or general norm (and they tend to allow the family not to hold a local norm that is not applied nationwide); whether it is an addition to the religious ceremony or a reduction in the religious ceremony; and whether there is an alternative to public civil burial for the deceased and more.
May bodies be cremated in Israel?
There is no impediment in Israel to cremation. The underlying principle by which the manner of dealing with the body of the deceased will be decided on is the principle of the wishes of the deceased, which may be learned from the last will or in any other way (including testimonies concerning oral statements made by the deceased).10
When there is a dispute between relatives of the deceased concerning the manner of attending to the body, and the wishes of the deceased are unclear, the wishes of the spouse will first be respected, followed by the wishes of children and after that the wishes of the parents of the deceased.
Unlike civil burial, because the law in Israel does not deal directly with cremation, as of today, the State has no duty to fund the cremation procedure itself, although if relatives ask to bury the ashes, the State will assume a general duty of providing burial services for the deceased (whether in a religious cemetery or a civil one).11 It is noted in this context that case law has not been uniform in the arguments for cremation not being funded by the State, and the issue has yet to be adjudicated by appellate instances or by the Supreme Court.
What of organ donation, donating the body to science and other options for the deceased and his or her family?
According to the Anatomy and Pathology Law, 5713-1951 [sic], a person is allowed to donate his body to science, and is allowed to order the donation of organs after his death, which provision will take precedence over any objections of his family members. However, in practice, ADI organ donor cards are not considered today to be consent for donation, and therefore the consent of family members is required, except in extraordinary circumstances. After ending the use of the body, the academic institution assumes the duty of having it buried according to the wishes of the ceased, unless it has asked for certain organs to be preserved.
Alongside this, a person may ask to hold a different ceremony. For example, a person may ask to have the body buried at sea or cast as carrion. The Supreme Court has ruled that as these actions are not prohibited by law, the question of whether they are to be permitted is to be decided based on two considerations – whether they inherently contravene the dignity of the dead, even if the person has asked for them to be performed while alive, and whether they infringe upon public welfare (for example due to the formation of sanitary hazards).12 In practice, until now there are no alternatives in the State of Israel to burial and cremation. However, subject to absence of damage to the environment and to others, the body of the deceased may be cast into the sea, according to his wishes.13
* The foregoing constitutes a general description of the law and cannot serve as an alternative to receiving a legal expert opinion.
1 Naomi Ben Ami “implementation of the Alternative Civil Burial Law in Israel”, Knesset Research Institute (2007) – http://www.knesset.gov.il/mmm/data/pdf/m01963.pdf; Flora Koch-Davidovich “Alternative civil burial for non-Jewish in immigrant families” , Knesset Research Institute (2010) – http://www.knesset.gov.il/mmm/data/pdf/m02536.pdf; Oriana Almasi “Civil Burial in Israel”, , Knesset Research Institute (2013) – http://www.knesset.gov.il/mmm/data/pdf/m03297.pdf
2 Civil Appeal 6024/97 Shavit v. Hevra Kadisha Rishon le Zion, Supreme Court Verdict 53(2) 600 (1999); High Court of Justice Menucha Nechona Be’er Sheva and Region Society v. the Minister of Religious Affairs (July 10, 2006)
3 Summary Civil Case (Kfar Saba) 29187-05-12 Ginsburg v. State of Israel, the Ministry of Religious Affairs (September 4, 2014).
4 Section 268 of the National Insurance Law [Consolidated Version], 5755-1985 [sic] states that: “Any entity that is authorized under Section 13 of the Jewish Religious Services Law [Consolidated Version], 5731-1971 and the regulations promulgated thereunder (hereinafter – the Religious Services Law) to deal with the burial of deceased will not charge for the burial any payment, including service fees under the Religious Services Law, in addition to the burial fee under this article, unless the payment has been permitted under the conditions and tests prescribed pursuant to Section 266”.
5 Small Claim (Safed) 40110-10-10 Duvrubin v. Avichen – Assistance Services Ltd. (July 28, 2011).
6 Small Claim (Tel Aviv) 60116-07-13 Kariheli v. Hevra Kadisha Tel Aviv Yaffo and District (September 3, 2014)
7 Administrative Petition (Haifa) 44670-04-13 Avior v. Ministry of Religious Services (December 25, 2013); Summary Civil Case (Krayot) 3453-09-08 Ginsberg v. Hevra Kadisha Haifa (May 8, 2012).
8 Civil Appeal 6024/97 Shavit v. Hevra Kadisha Rishon le Zion, Supreme Court Verdict 53(2) 600 (1999)
9 See circular of Director General of Ministry of Religious Services of February 27, 2013 dealing with “the funeral ceremony” - http://www.dat.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/AA25B3DA-4CF5-4C22-A11B-EE6AC7ABFED6/0/022013sp.pdf.
10 Misc. Civil Motions 4230/06 Mirela v. Rosen (December 28, 2006); Civil Case (Haifa) 26568-12-10 A.S. v. L.B. (December 19, 2010).
11 National Insurance (Tel Aviv) 7726/05 Regina v. the National Insurance Institute (January 1, 2008); National Insurance Appeal 160/05 Zander v. the National Insurance Institute (February 20, 2006); National Insurance 7354/05 Raudor v. the National Insurance Institute (January 1, 2007).
12 High Court of Justice 6167/09 Avni v. State of Israel (November 18, 2009); Civil Appeal 1835/11 Avni v. State of Israel (November 17, 2011).
13 Originating Summons (Tel Aviv) 39654-09-10 Avni v. State of Israel (January 16, 2014).
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Daniel Gardner – An Apprenticeship success story
“Would you like milk?”
"Would you like milk?” Every day Daniel estimated he would be saying this over 100 times to customers. He was fed up and needed a change. Now Daniel wakes up for work excited and relishes the chance to get stuck in. He loves being able to work outside on a site and feels valued by Balfour Beatty who are putting so much into his training. Daniel started his apprenticeship journey in February 2016.
Daniel waited four months until he was able to take up post and venture down to the TUCA building to begin his training. Although there was a bit of uncertainty, he was happy to wait knowing the potential this role had.
Before flourishing as a materials technician Daniel had managed to forge a career at Morrisons working as a team leader in their café. Daniel was incredibly proud of his work at Morrisons and was very meticulous when undertaking any task there. This is something he has brought to his new role and combined it with his inquisitive mind, enabling him to deal with subcontractors on site with ease.
It would be easy to assume that Daniel had an excellent educational start in life from the way he has excelled at work, however, this is not the case. Having gone to one of the toughest schools in Malvern he can’t quite believe his luck at finding this apprenticeship with Balfour Beatty.
He is now working on the M6 at Balfour Beatty. Daniel has been an apprentice with Youthforce for 3 years now and has just completed his Level 3 Laboratory Technician apprenticeship, receiving a distinction for his hard work. Now he has come to the end we caught up with him to see how he found things:
“I’m buzzing about completing my apprenticeship, over-the-moon! I didn’t think I was going to get the distinction, especially because I didn’t think the case study in the endpoint assessment went well. But fortunately, as Balfour Beatty are so on point with Health & Safety I was able to apply it to a different type of lab environment.
Completing my apprenticeship has definitely given me more confidence. I was doubting myself at the start but now I’ve proved to myself and the rest of the team that I am up there and am a competent technician.
The support I received during my apprenticeship was 50/50 split between Youthforce and Balfour Beatty. Balfour always made sure the time was there for me to complete my apprenticeship work. My mentor, Allen, always made sure I was getting my 20% off-the-job time. He has always found the time to help me. He will always stop what he’s doing to support me and answer any questions I might have. Allen would also challenge me and make sure I was on top of my work. This is what you need sometimes. Young lads need a boost sometimes and Allen’s provided that for me. You know, sometimes I might be tired and can’t be bothered, but he’d always encourage me to crack on.
I believe a good way to get more young people involved in apprenticeships would be going to schools and colleges and speaking to groups of young 15-16-year-olds to plant the seed early. Like going to local careers fairs. It would be good to have Balfour Beatty senior management, Youthforce staff and some apprentices there to give them a full picture of what it’s like. I didn’t know this job existed before I went along to the assessment centre.
Before my apprenticeship, I worked in the staff-canteen at a large supermarket. I think that it was really encouraging during the recruitment process that Youthforce and Balfour spotted talent in me. I think if I turned up with a different attitude, I might not have got the job. I’ve come a long way as a person. When I was working at Morrisons I didn’t really care what I was doing, now I’ve got a career and I feel like I belong somewhere.
I’ve worked on a joint venture where apprentices at other companies did not always have the same experience as me. Balfour Beatty is a lot better at providing time for their apprentices to work. They also put me on block-weeks for training that was really useful. Apprenticeships in general are really good but the company being supportive is really important. It’s important that they see you as an asset to develop into the future and not just someone that can work for a low apprenticeship wage.
Balfour Beatty has helped me by giving me the time and support to do the apprenticeship. They also put me on additional courses that other more senior technicians, who’d been working for 10-15 years, were on. They treated me like more than just an apprentice.
The next step for me now is to become a senior technician. Hopefully, one day running my own lab as a lab manager. Then later down the line, I’d like to become a materials engineer. I started this out as a career, and I intend to continue that way.
My mentor has always treated me as a normal technician, Allen put as much trust in me as any other materials technician and always treated me the same. Although, I do feel I will gain more respect as a materials technician in the industry now I have completed my level 3 lab tech apprenticeship. Some other people might have looked on me as just an apprentice before.
Now, expectations will be raised, and I expect I will be doing tasks with a higher level of responsibility. In the next three years, I would like to become a senior tech on the HS2 project – the biggest project of its kind in Europe. I’d also like to help other apprentices to grow too – so hopefully, in 30 years time I’ve had a hand in developing the new teams working at Balfour. I’d really like to be involved in mentoring new apprentices. It’s good to have senior techs as mentors but it helps if the person mentoring you has done the apprenticeship or at least their level 3 NVQ like Allen, so they know what you’re going through.”
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M. Shawn Krantz
Experience: Mr Krantz is a founding partner of Brownstone Capital, LLC (dba Brownstone) and has devoted his 25 year career to commercial real estate. Brownstone focuses on representing borrowers nationwide involved in distressed debt situations. Current and recent workout assignments handled by Mr. Krantz for Brownstone total 43 loans aggregating $898 million. Originally organized in 2000 to acquire investment properties, Brownstone sold a majority of its portfolio in 2007-08, allowing it to dedicate itself entirely to advisory work of debt and equity restructures. Prior to co-founding Brownstone, Mr. Krantz worked for 14 years with Bank of America and Banc of America Securities (predecessor banks). In 1994, he was part of the start-up team within NationsBank (later BOA) originating, structuring and securitizing CMBS. In the early years of CMBS, he managed the CMBS origination team for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. During the early ‘90s, Mr. Krantz managed a team of debt workout specialists within the bank. His team successfully resolved $450 million of troubled debt (1990 valuations). During the late 1980s, he was manager of a group originating, underwriting, closing and syndicating real estate acquisition and construction loans for both commercial and residential properties. Mr. Krantz has served as a CMBS expert witness for six special servicers in nine different bankruptcies.
Teaching & Education: From 1995 to the Spring of 2010, Mr. Krantz was a practitioner faculty member at Johns Hopkins University's Real Estate Institute in the M.S. in Real Estate program, where he taught graduate-level courses including Real Estate Finance and Real Estate Investment. Mr. Krantz then became a Capstone Advisor for Georgetown University's Masters of Professional Studies in Real Estate program in the Summer of 2010 and joined the program as an adjunct faculty member in the Spring of 2011, where he continues to teach the program's Real Estate Investments course. Mr. Krantz has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Hamline University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Loyola University.
Mr. Krantz can be reached at 301.654.7400 x103, or skrantz@brownstonecapital.com
Kenneth J. Cusick
Experience: Ken Cusick joined Brownstone as a principal in 2009. He has worked nearly 30 years in commercial real estate, having restructured or originated over $2.4 billion of commercial mortgage debt. He has managed underwriting departments for two major lenders and acquired non-performing debt and equity real estate. For CRIIMI MAE he managed 13 loan professionals in three regional offices. Mr. Cusick also supervised the disposition of a $1 billion RTC loan portfolio in the 1990s, where he was responsible for the complete sales process from advertising, to negotiations, to closings. Mr. Cusick's foundation in commercial real estate began with G.A. Partners/Arthur Andersen and then The Rouse Company where he worked on large retail, office, and planned community developments throughout the country.
Education: Mr. Cusick holds a master's degree in Management with a concentration in finance from the University of Maryland University College. He received two bachelor's degrees: a B.S. in Business & Accounting and a B. A. in Economics, both also from the University of Maryland.
Mr. Cusick can be reached at 301.654.7400 x106, or kcusick@brownstonecapital.com
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2005-06-01 Pavelló Olímpic De Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
"State Trooper" remains in the set, with a normal vocal. Piano songs are "The River", "Real World", "Racing In The Street", and "Jesus Was An Only Son". "Reason To Believe" is with the bullet mic. "My Beautiful Reward" and "Dream Baby Dream" are on pump organ. "Paradise" is on electric piano and piano. "Land Of Hope And Dreams" is dedicated to Tom Morello. First ever performances in Spain of "Reason To Believe", "Devils & Dust", "Long Time Comin'", "Silver Palomino", "Real World", "State Trooper", "Maria's Bed", "Reno", "Paradise", "Further On (Up The Road)", "Jesus Was An Only Son", "Leah", "The Hitter", "Matamoros Banks", and "Dream Baby Dream".
MY BEAUTIFUL REWARD
DEVILS & DUST
LONESOME DAY
SILVER PALOMINO
MARIA'S BED
THE RISING
FURTHER ON (UP THE ROAD)
JESUS WAS AN ONLY SON
THE HITTER
MATAMOROS BANKS
LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS
DREAM BABY DREAM
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Audience tape.
01.06.05 Barcelona (Badalona), Spain, intro to ´´Long Time Comin´´´
´´Yes, gracias, hola….uh, let me see, uh, I know….I´m gonna do my best (asks the crowd in Catalan to not take pictures, then dedicates the songs to mothers and fathers) this is ´Long Time Comin´´….´´
01.06.05 Barcelona (Badalona), Spain, intro to ´´The River´´
´´Thank you, I, uh….when I was, uh, young, I didn´t write a lot of love songs so, uh, my father told me they were government propaganda so, uh (chuckles) uh, but my mother was very romantic, very romantic (chuckles) so I got caught in the middle so what I did was when I first started to write, I, I hid my love songs in other songs and, uh, this is kind of one of those, I think….´´
01.06.05 Barcelona (Badalona), Spain, intro to ´´Real World´´
´´Gracias….this, uh….this is a song from ´Human Touch´ that, uh, I didn´t quite get on the record so….I have this version….´´
01.06.05 Barcelona (Badalona), Spain, intro to ´´Nebraska´´
´´I wrote this figuring that….everybody knows what it feels like to be condemned….here´s ´Nebraska´….´´
01.06.05 Barcelona (Badalona), Spain, intro to ´´Racing in the Street´´
´´Thank you, wait a minute….got men at work (chuckles) gracias….´´
01.06.05 Barcelona (Badalona), Spain, intro to ´´Jesus Was an Only Son´´
´´Alright…gracias…ok (?) I will try this (chuckles)(speaks Catalan)….what I was trying to say is, uh, I don´t know if I said it or not (chuckles) but our choices are given weight and value by the things that we sacrifice, by the things that we give up, that´s where they get their meaning and their gravity and, uh, ok, let me see (speaks Catalan)….this is a song I wrote, I was interested in, uh, I see my, my, my Catalan is so bad, I get a round of applause after I try anything (chuckles) but, uh….this was a song I wrote, I was interested in Jesus as Mary´s son, as, uh, as somebody´s boy, first thing that strikes you as a parent is how you want to protect your children, how, how essential and fundamental that feeling is and uh….and yet they have their own destiny, they have their own lives, they make their own choices….this is ´Jesus Was an Only Son´….
(….) at His mother´s feet….the first thing that strikes you as a parent is your desire to keep your children safe from harm….it comes so sudden and is so shocking….if you´ve lived a very self-involved life….
(….) shall pierce your dreams this night….so are choices are given weight by what we sacrifice, by what we give up….and I always figured….Jesus must´ve felt….that Galilee was pretty nice in the summertime….Mary Magdalene could tend bar, Jesus could manage the bar ….could preach on the weekends….and you could get to see your children grow and you´d see the sun fall on their faces….and feel the air in your lungs….´´
01.06.05 Barcelona (Badalona), Spain, intro to ´´Leah´´
´´Yes, yes, we carry, uh…..we carry the seeds of our destruction….along with the seeds that ….bring good things into the world and, uh….with this hand we create, with this hand we destroy….a big tug-of-war, I wish everyone luck (chuckles) this is a song called ´Leah,´ a love song about a man who figures out how to come down on just the right side of that equation….´´
01.06.05 Barcelona (Badalona), Spain, intro to ´´The Hitter´´
´´(?)….this is a, uh….song, uh, the other side of that story, the seeds of your destruction…. about a young man who travels to New Orleans, becomes a, gets in trouble, leaves home, becomes a great champion and steals from himself, steals from himself his best opportunities, uh….I grew up in a house that was touched by fortune and touched by a very harsh hand of fate and uh….that ended up being the parameters of my songwriting so this is, uh….this is ´The Hitter´….´´
01.06.05 Barcelona (Badalona), Spain, intro to ´´Matamoros Banks´´
´´Thank you, this is, uh….let me see, this is, uh….uh, if I can read….(speaks Catalan to himself) I will try (chuckles)(speaks Catalan)…I´d better say it in English too (chuckles) every year, uh, this was a song I wrote as a sequel to, uh….´Across the Border,´ it tells a similar story of a man who makes the same journey trying to cross the border between Mexico and the United States and every year hundreds of people die trying to cross our borders in the rivers and in the mountains and in the deserts and uh….this was a song that I wrote, I wrote backwards, begins with the body in the river, a walk across the desert till he´s standing at the banks of Matamoros across from Brownsville, Texas, this is ´Matamoros Banks´….´´
01.06.05 Barcelona (Badalona), Spain, intro to ´´Land of Hope and Dreams´´
´´I do this for, uh….my good friend and brother-in-arms, Tommy Morello from Audioslave …´´
01.06.05 Barcelona (Badalona), Spain, intro to ´´The Promised Land´´
´´Uh, gracias, I want to, uh, thank, uh, thank everyone for coming to the show tonight….. this is, uh, un publique fantastic (chuckles)….I always keep Spain close to my heart….and, uh, I also wanna thank you for giving me the room and the graciousness to perform like this, it´s, uh …it´s a lovely gift, I appreciate it….´´
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Chicago Tea Party
"How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage?" asked CNBC's Rick Santelli on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. The floor traders booed the idea of their tax money being used to pay the mortgages of others. Santelli went on to say how un-American the whole concept was, and spontaneously called for a Chicago Tea Party to protest the government's misuse of our tax dollars.
Within 24 hours the video of "Rick's Rant" (as it has become known) was the most-watched video on YouTube (see LINK below) and a website had been set up to organize "Tea Parties" on the Fourth of July in Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston (see LINK below to sign up). I have no doubt that "Tea Parties" will spring up all over the nation. If you'd like to join one in South Florida, shoot me an email!
The CNBC anchor kidded Santelli about going into politics. Rick said, "I don't want to have to take a shower every hour. The last place I would want to be is Washington, DC."
Rick is not a politician, nor is he a political commentator. Like me, he used to be a financial professional. Today he does interviews and commentary on US Treasuries for CNBC, the largest financial news channel.
Which brings up an interesting point. When Santelli asked the traders what they thought about Obama's latest bailout, he had a pretty good idea of what their response would be. One trader mockingly asked, "Should we all stop paying our mortgages?" - a reference to the notion many have that if they don't pay their mortgage, the government will have to bail them out.
The point is that Santelli knew that most, if not all of the traders would feel the same way he did. That's because most people who understand money, whether they have any or not, are very conservative. People who understand how money works, and who understand the erosive effect government has on productivity, want the government out of their lives.
On the other hand, people who have no understanding of money think that the government has answers for economic problems. (Actually, the government does have answers, but unfortunately they're the wrong answers.) So they accept, actually embrace, government control in exchange for their welfare payments; for "rebates" of taxes they never paid; and for a myriad of other government handouts. They accept these payments, which are actually bribes to vote for the party that provided them, with never a thought for where the money will come from.
The people who understand money know that, "There ain't no free lunch!" They know that the 2% of Americans that Obama calls "rich" can't pay for the other 98% forever. They know that as Obama's new taxes eat away at the "wealthy" 2%, the jobs they produce will be lost and millions more will be unemployed. And they know that Obama's repeated claims that no American who makes less than $250,000 will see his taxes increase is a LIE!
In his first five weeks in office, Obama has proposed an amount of government spending that is greater than all the money the US Government has spent from the time of the Revolutionary War until he was inaugurated. Unless there is a populist revolt that forces a good percentage of Democrats to jump ship (all but 3 Republicans voted against Obama's plan), Obama's spending will increase our national debt so much that we will not be able to pay the INTEREST on it.
Economists have been saying that our children and grandchildren will pay for Obama's spending spree. This is only partly true. Our great-grandchildren and their children will be paying for it.
So to say that the taxes of most Americans will not go up is simply a lie. Inflation will skyrocket as the realization that the US is printing worthless money to pay for Obama's orgy of spending. Inflation is one of the cruelest of federal taxes. As higher and higher taxes on the "wealthy" force thousands of small businesses into bankruptcy, people in lower tax brackets will have to pay the taxes the businesses used to pay.
And (here's a very important, very basic principle that Obama doesn't seem to grasp), EVERYONE BUT THE BUSINESSES will actually pay the taxes Obama imposes. Does he think that businesses will not pass the taxes on to consumers in the forms of higher prices for goods and services? Is the guy that ignorant of basic economic principles?
Obama and his flunkies attack the messenger to avoid facing the truth. Have you heard of any other president in history that issued an official statement from the White House every time someone said something about him that he didn't like? Instead of dealing with the substance of what media personalities have said, he or his press secretary have attacked Rick Santelli, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter BY NAME.
Folks, this is not done. Presidents have complained about the media in general. But it has always been considered beneath the dignity of the Office of the President to attack individuals by name. (Obviously it is not beneath Obama's dignity.) He doesn't seem to realize that he lowers the office when he engages in this kind of name-calling. It's very similar to his naïve attitude of negotiating face to face with dictators; he puts himself (and by extension, our nation) on their level.
Like so many of our freedoms, freedom of the press is being eroded under the Obama administration. How many in the press will feel free to comment honestly if they are afraid the President of the United States will attack them? And even if they have the courage to stand up to Obama, as these five have done, will their bosses allow them to expose their station or publication to vengeful attacks from the White House? Obama has even had the gall to "warn" Republicans not to listen to Rush!
White House spokesmen mentioned Rick Santelli BY NAME nine times in the first day after he spoke out on CNBC. This is what Robert Gibb's, Obama's press secretary had to say about Rick Santelli's observations about Obama's "housing plan":
"I've watched Mr. Santelli on cable the past 24 hours or so. I'm not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives, but the American people are struggling every day to meet their mortgages, stay in their jobs, pay their bills, send their kids to school. I think we left a few months ago the adage that if it was good for a derivatives trader that it was good for Main Street. I think the verdict is in on that."
(Of course Santelli is not a trader of any kind. He is a reporter, and Gibbs knew that. He just wanted to whip up more of the class hatred that Obama is so fond of.)
Lawrence Kudlow called this, "...an unprecedented White House assault on the press, and asked "Is this how the Obama presidency is going to bully the press?"
Unfortunately, Mr. Kudlow, I think we can expect a lot more of the same. Obama is firmly committed to implementing a socialist style of government. In order to accomplish this, he needs to get more and more Americans addicted to government money. And he can't afford dissent.
The Republicans proposed a stimulus plan that would have cost half as much as Obama's, and would have created twice as many jobs. Obama rejected it because it didn't contain the pork he needs to pass around to pay back all the pols who got him elected. I think the Republican plan spent too much money we don't have, but it was 100% better than the one that was passed.
Conservatives have offered realistic plans to fix the housing crisis that would not require responsible taxpayers to pay the mortgages of people who have not been responsible. (I realize there are people who are in trouble through no fault of their own. But Obama's plan primarily bails out people who bought more house than they could afford, and does little or nothing for people who acted responsibly.) Of course, Obama rejected these plans because they didn't meet his political objectives.
Obama is on track to more than double the deficit with the spending he has already proposed, and he has told us that he will be coming back to Congress for even more money. But he also claims that he will "cut the deficit in half" by the end of his first term. That would be a neat trick. It reminds me of the dress shop that doubled the price of its products, then threw a 50% off sale...
Rick's Rant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiCOb49vVVM
Santelli on the Kudlow Report
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1041856849&play=1
An Eyewitness Account of the Boston Tea Party
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2005_winter_spring/boston_tea_party.htm
Copyright ©2009 Tom Barrett
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Cybersecurity Spotlight 2018: Where Are the Highest Paid Jobs?
Posted on June 28, 2018 by Sarah Overmyer
If you’ve turned on the TV, listened to the radio or picked up a newspaper lately, you know that cybersecurity is a huge issue. From breaches of privacy to election controversies, it can impact us all. In one 2017 incident alone, 143 million Americans were directly hit by this issue when an Equifax data breach exposed their sensitive personal information.
Because of the seriousness of these threats, every organization, whether private or nonprofit, needs professionals who can protect its data. The recent implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which gives individuals more power over how their data is used, only increases the stakes. Noncompliance with GDPR can result in fines equivalent to around $27 million or 4% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher. Meanwhile, we have seen a 261% increase in job postings for data protection officers on Indeed since May 2017 (and an 829% increase since May 2016).
So we know it’s important. But what’s the state of cybersecurity hiring today? We can learn a number of things from Indeed data, including where jobs are located, how much they pay and which roles are most in demand. Here’s what we found.
Where the jobs are
Recently, we have seen some growth in both supply and demand for jobs related to cybersecurity: between March 2017 and March 2018 postings of roles in this field increased by 3.5% on Indeed, while job searches for cybersecurity roles increased by 5.7%.
But where are they located? Our analytics team scrutinized job postings by metro area and ranked the cities with the most cybersecurity jobs.
As the table shows, no one geographic region is dominant—the cities with the most cybersecurity jobs represent the East and West Coasts, as well as the Midwest and South. When we compare the metros with the most cybersecurity jobs to the list of top tech hubs in the US as identified by the Indeed Hiring Lab, the cities that appear on both lists are Washington, DC, Baltimore, Boston, San Francisco and San Jose.
Coming in at number one for the most jobs is Washington, DC, where many cybersecurity professionals are protecting data for our federal government, the defense industry and other large nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations; Washington, DC was also number two on Indeed’s top tech hubs list. The city with the second most job postings in cybersecurity is New York, the financial capital of the US.
Dallas-Fort Worth, Baltimore and Chicago round out the rest of the top five—cities that may not typically be associated with tech in the popular imagination. But the need for cybersecurity professionals applies to all industries, and the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area is home to no fewer than 22 companies on the 2018 Fortune 500 list, including AT&T, American Airlines and ExxonMobil. Dallas and Fort Worth both made the list of fastest-growing cities between 2016 and 2017, coming in at numbers three and four, respectively.
Baltimore, which places fifth for the most cybersecurity jobs, also made the Indeed top tech hubs list, coming in at number three. Baltimore is home to over 15,000 social security and centers for Medicare and Medicaid services employees, as well as a number of universities and medical centers.
Meanwhile, although San Francisco and San Jose may be tech giants (numbers six and one on Indeed’s tech hubs list, respectively), they round out the bottom of this list, with Los Angeles joining them in 9th place.
Metros that pay the most for information security specialists
Cybersecurity professionals with the right skills are in high demand, and these jobs typically pay well—but high salaries can be deceiving, unless adjusted for the cost of living.
To better understand how far a cybersecurity dollar stretches, we calculated average salaries (“unadjusted”) for information security specialists—a role that includes the design, implementation, monitoring and testing of different types of cyberdefense. The results were then adjusted for the cost of living using the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s (BEA) Price Parity Index, which accounts for price differences in goods, rents and other services, such as transportation. The result is our top ten metro areas that pay the most for these jobs.
When you look at unadjusted salary, San Francisco places highest at $148,621. But because the cost of living in San Francisco is so high, money doesn’t go as far to cover costs like rent, groceries and transportation as it does in other cities.
Once adjusted, the picture is very different: This year’s number-one best-paid city for information security specialists is Charlotte, North Carolina, with an average adjusted salary of $125,173 per year. With a population of just under a million, Charlotte is the headquarters for a number of companies, including Bank of America and LendingTree.
High cost of living may also explain why Washington, DC and New York didn’t make the list of metros that pay the most for cybersecurity jobs, despite placing at the top of the list for the number of opportunities. Money goes further in a lower-cost city like Charlotte, which explains why it is ranked higher.
This information is helpful not only to job seekers trying to get the biggest bang for their buck but also to employers. Knowing how salaries compare to other cities while considering cost of living can give employers a sense of how competitive their offers are.
Most in-demand cybersecurity roles
Finally, to get a sense of the cybersecurity roles in the highest demand, we tallied the job titles with the most postings in the US. The top five are listed below.
The role with the most postings in 2018 is IT security specialist, followed by information security analyst (#2) and network security engineer (#3). Security engineer (#4) and application security engineer (#5) round out the top five.
The infamous Target breach of 2013 occurred when attackers gained access to the retailer’s network; though it’s been five years since this happened, network security engineers remain as important as ever, and the position made it to number three on our list of most in-demand cybersecurity roles.
We also see solid demand for application security engineers, as the role places fifth on our list. And as more and more devices connect to the internet and each other, we can expect that securing information will remain a top priority for individuals and companies alike. This is good news for those in the cybersecurity space, as demand for their products and services will likely continue to increase and lead to more jobs.
Where will the trends lead next? We’ll be watching.
Methodology: For metros with the most cybersecurity job postings, Indeed calculated each metros’ % of national postings and clicks, and local shares (per 1M) of postings for IT security job postings over the last year. For metros that pay the most for information security specialists, Indeed calculated the average salary for information security specialists and determined the metros that had the highest salaries for that same job title over the last year, then adjusted for cost of living. For in-demand cybersecurity roles, Indeed calculated the share of (per 1M) of job postings postings and clicks on cybersecurity job titles in the US for those IT security over the last year. For supply and demand of searches and job postings, Indeed calculated the percentage increase of job postings and job searches for cybersecurity roles per million from March 2017 to March 2018.
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Posted by NOSA on Sep 18, 2017 10:45:00 AM
Granted, this could be a matter of opinion but it’s a reality that showing (in other words, demonstrating), is usually the most effective way to teach others ‘best practice’. We’re talking about videos.
Today’s blog takes a look at how this specific social media tool can be applied – both internally and externally – as a force for promoting safety.
Videos as safety triggers
Videos can be useful teaching tools to:
introduce new topics,
raise issues, or
set up situations for discussion by participants.
The use of videos as triggers is one method for engaging your audience and encouraging participation. A good trigger video presents a scene, problem, or a situation without providing specific answers to open-ended questions a training facilitator will pose. This leaves plenty of room for discussion and encourages an active learning process.
Topics currently covered on YouTube
YouTube currently contains over 1 000 historic films and film clips on a wide range of workplace and environmental health and safety topics. These films and film clips are excellent triggers for discussions and will liven up training, especially refresher classes.
But YouTube isn’t the only option… it’s one of them.
9 HSE video sources to create triggers your workplace safety training
YouTube workplace and environmental HSE video clips
These films and clips show the rich history of workplace and environmental health and safety, and can help in understanding today’s issues. Most are in the public domain. A keyword search tool is available on the channel homepage. Below each video on its page is a section for written material describing the original source, historical information and how the clip continues to be relevant. Links to additional sources of information are also provided.
US Chemical Safety Board (CSB)
The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) videos are based on actual CSB investigation findings, determinations of root causes, and safety recommendations. The CSB has produced 28 safety videos as part of its mission to prevent accidents. CSB videos can be downloaded from its website’s ‘video room’ and their channel (YouTube.com/USCSB). CSB safety videos are not copyrighted or copy-protected, and you are free to duplicate use and distribute them as you see fit.
The EPA’s Environmental Response Television (ERTV)
This site contains more than 50 documentary-style videos showing:
unique hazardous waste sites and emergency responses
alternative clean-up and treatment technologies
hazmat exercises.
The site was begun by the EPA in1998 and is a great source of videos for hazardous materials training. Several new videos are added each year. Video topics include the 2001 anthrax investigations and clean ups, meth lab investigations, the EPA’s responses to the Katrina and Rita hurricanes, radiation site remediation and its response to the Libby Asbestos tragedy. The videos are available for free (with a limit of six per order).
The Health and Safety Executive
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness. It acts in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces. It offers links to several safety videos, covering a range of topics.
Napo is an idea conceived by a small group of HSE communications professionals in response to the need for high quality information products to break down national boundaries in Europe and address the diverse cultures, languages and practical needs of people at work. The films are not designed to provide comprehensive coverage of a topic, nor should they be seen as training or teaching films. The role of Napo and is to provide an appetiser to HSE through engaging characters, amusing story lines, and a humorous and light-hearted approach. ‘Safety with a smile’ is Napo’s contribution to safer, healthier and better workplaces. Each film is co-produced by a number of European Institutions. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work in Bilbao, Spain has funded the development of the website.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness. NIOSH videos cover a variety of topics related to safety and health, including many on mining. Some describe new processes developed by NIOSH research programmes. Others provide excellent content that can serve as the basis for training exercises. NIOSH videos can be ordered from the NIOSH Publications Office, downloaded, or viewed online at their website. NIOSH also has a YouTube channel.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is the United States federal agency responsible for assuring safe and healthy working conditions, by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. OSHA has a small but growing number of videos covering a range of issues and workplaces. Unfortunately, the videos are not collected in one place but are scattered throughout the website.
WorkSafeBC (Canada)
WorkSafeBC is dedicated to promoting workplace health and safety for the workers and employers of British Columbia, Canada. It consults with, and educates, employers and workers, and monitors compliance with the BC Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. WorkSafeBC has a large collection of several hundred videos, many of which can be useful for workers across the globe. It also has a useful YouTube channel.
Internet Archive Moving Images Library
The Archive's Moving Images Library contains tens of thousands of digital movies uploaded by users, which range from government and industrial films to classic full-length films, to newsreels, to cartoons and concerts. More are added each day. Many of these videos are in the public domain and available for free download. A search engine allows for navigating this enormous collection of digital films.
3 tips for compiling your own videos
You need not rely solely on those clips compiled and created by others. But, if you are going to venture into making your own safety films, keep this advice in mind:
Beware of falling into well-worn techniques when compiling your own videos: The traditional use of video relies heavily on a ‘how to’ approach to providing information and specific answers. Try avoid doing this, as it almost always guarantees that participants will become passive, resulting in incorrect assumptions of how much viewers are learning.
Videos used for triggers should be short, generally not more than a few minutes in length.
It needn’t be a lengthy or expensive process: If you’re a facilitator, using current digital technology, you can readily create original video triggers. Clip appropriate scenes from existing digital video, using simple and widely available editing software, such as Microsoft’s Window MovieMaker. Inexpensive digitising hardware can be used to easily convert older videos in VHS and other formats, common before 2000. Just remember to credit anything taken or borrowed from someone else’s efforts.
http://www.ishn.com/blogs/16-thought-leadership/post/104628-is-social-media-dead-for-safety-professionals
http://www.coshnetwork.org/using-social-media-promote-workplace-health-safety
http://www.coshnetwork.org/sites/default/files/Social%20Media%20Workshop%20Creating%20Video%20Triggers.pdf
http://www.coshnetwork.org/sites/default/files/Social%20Media%20WorkshopHistoric%20Workplace%20and%20Environmental%20Health%20and%20Safety%20Films.pdf
https://www.napofilm.net/en
http://www.hse.gov.uk/resources/videos.htm
Topics: work safety, HSE, HSE best practice, HSE and social media, social media
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Looking Back and Looking Forward: Increasing the Impact of Educational Research on Practice
The focus of this conference is to carefully examine past and current research with an eye toward improving its impact on practice and to create concrete steps that could shape the nature and impact of mathematics education research.
The focus of the proposed conference is to carefully examine past and current research with an eye toward improving its impact on practice. This conference is designed to create concrete steps that could shape the nature and impact of mathematics education research for years to come. A diverse group of 50 participants will be invited to participate. Participants include 10 experienced K-12 educators whose perspectives will be used to anchor the conference in problems of practice. Other participants represent senior through more junior scholars who have demonstrated a commitment to addressing the disconnect between research and practice, along with technology experts to advise participants on capabilities and innovative uses of modern technologies for instruction, assessment and data management.
The overarching goal for the conference is to help the field of mathematics education think deeply about the most productive ways to answer the following questions: [1] Why hasn't past research had a more direct impact on practice? What can be learned from this historical analysis for future research? [2] What is a possible vision for research that would have a more direct impact on practice? What questions should be asked? What methods should be used? What concrete steps can be taken to launch the new research programs? [3] What are the implications of adopting new kinds of research programs? If they gain traction, how will such changes affect the broader education community and infrastructure, including preservice teacher education, teacher professional development, and the training of future researchers? How should the roles of researchers and teachers change? What incentive structures might motivate these changes? How will new programs of research interact with existing programs?
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Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club
1877, as St. Luke's
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Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (commonly referred to as Wolves) is an English professional association football club that represents the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region. They are members of the Football League Championship, the second highest level of English football, after they were relegated from the Premier League during the 2011–12 season.[1] The club was founded in 1877 and since 1889 has played at Molineux. Historically, Wolves have been highly influential, most notably as being founder members of the Football League, as well as having played an instrumental role in the establishment of the European Cup, later to become the UEFA Champions League.
Having won the FA Cup twice before the outbreak of the First World War, Wolves consolidated their reputation as a top side under the legendary management of ex-player Stan Cullis after the Second World War, going on to win the league three times and the FA Cup twice between 1949 and 1960. It was at this time that the European Cup competition was established, after the English press declared Wolves "Champions of the World" following their victories against such top European and World sides as South Africa, Racing, Spartak Moscow, and Honvéd in some of football's first live televised games.[2]
Wolves have yet to match the successes of the Stan Cullis era, although they did contest the first UEFA Cup final in 1972 against Tottenham Hotspur, and won the League Cup in 1974 under Bill McGarry and again in 1980 under John Barnwell. However, a decline set in and they found themselves in the Fourth Division by 1986, before a revival and back-to-back promotions under manager Graham Turner and record goalscorer Steve Bull saw them finish the decade in the Second Division, winning the Football League Trophy along the way.
Their 19-year exile from the top flight ended when manager Dave Jones guided the club to promotion to the Premier League for a solitary season. A new approach under former Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy saw the club promoted back to the Premier League in 2009 as Football League Championship champions where they have remained for three seasons. McCarthy was fired in February 2012,[3] a decision that eventually led to assistant manager Terry Connor being placed in charge for the remainder of the current season that saw their relegation.[4] He will be succeeded on a permanent basis by Ståle Solbakken.[5]
1.1 Early cup triumphs & inter-bellum adventures
1.2 The Stan Cullis era & the birth of European football
1.3 Cullis sacked, Wolves American champions
1.4 The Seventies resurgence
1.5 Decline and rescue
1.6 The Hayward years
1.7 A new regime, a new start
2 Colours and badge
3.2 Fluctuating attendances
3.3 Present day stadium
3.4 Current redevelopment
3.5 Training ground
4.1 First team squad
4.2 Academy
4.3 Other teams
5 Club officials
6 Former players and managers
6.2 Managerial history
7.1 Fans' Parliament
7.2 Fanzine
7.3 Songs
7.4 Hooliganism
8 Sponsorship
10 Honours
10.1 League
10.2 Cup
10.3 Minor honours
11 References and notes
This article or section may be slanted towards recent events. Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective. (July 2009)
Further information: List of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. seasons
Graph charting Wolves' performance from the first season of the English Football League in 1888–89, to 2007–08, when they finished seventh in the Championship.
The team were founded as St. Luke's in 1877 by John Baynton and John Brodie, after a group of pupils at St Luke's Church school in Blakenhall had been presented with a football by their headmaster Harry Barcroft. Two years later, they merged with local cricket and football club The Wanderers, to form Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The club were initially given the use of two fields – James Harper's Field and Red House Park – both off Lower Villiers Street in Blakenhall. From there, they moved to a site on the Dudley Road opposite the Fighting Cocks Inn in 1881. The club then became one of the twelve founders of the English Football League in 1888 and finished the inaugural season in a creditable third place, as well as reaching their first ever FA Cup Final, losing 3–0 to the first "Double" winners, Preston North End.
Early cup triumphs & inter-bellum adventures
The Wolves team that won the FA Cup in 1893
In the first year of the Football League, Wolves benefited from the first own goal in the league's history, scored by Gershom Cox of Aston Villa.[6]
Wolves remained as members of what became the First Division from 1888 until relegation in 1906, winning the FA Cup for the first time in 1893 when they beat Everton 1–0 at Fallowfield Stadium in Manchester. Two years after relegation the team enjoyed another FA Cup win, as a Second Division club, surprisingly beating Newcastle United 3–1 in the 1908 final. After struggling for many years to regain their place in the top division, Wolves suffered relegation again in 1923, dropping into the Third Division (North). Wolves' first promotion was won just a year later, narrowly claiming the Third Division North title at the first attempt ahead of Rochdale.
Following eight more years back in the Second Division, Wolves finally achieved a return to top division football in 1932, claiming the Second Division title and another promotion. In the years leading up to the Second World War, the team became established as one of the leading club sides in England. In 1938, Wolves needed only to win the last game of the season to be champions for the first time, but were beaten 1–0 at Sunderland and Arsenal claimed the title. They again finished as runners-up in 1939, this time behind Everton, and endured more frustration with defeat in the last pre-War FA Cup Final, losing 4–1 to underdogs Portsmouth.
The Stan Cullis era & the birth of European football
"Many say Manchester United would have won the championship in 1958 if not for the Munich air crash in February 1958. They were a great side, but even if the crash had never happened, they could not have caught us. Even after the disaster we didn’t drop enough points for that to happen."
Malcolm Finlayson,
Wolves goalkeeper and Title winner, 1958 & 1959[7]
When league football resumed in 1946, Wolves suffered yet another heartbreaking failure in the First Division. Just as in 1938, victory in their last match of the season against title rivals Liverpool would have won the title but a 2–1 defeat gave the 1947 championship to the Merseyside club instead.
That game had been the last in a Wolves shirt for Stan Cullis, and a year later he became manager of the club. In Cullis's first season in charge, he led Wolves to a first major honour in 41 years as they beat Leicester City 3–1 in the FA Cup Final, and a year later, only goal average prevented Wolves winning the First Division title. The 1950s were by far the most successful period in the history of Wolverhampton Wanderers. Captained by Billy Wright, Wolves finally claimed the league championship for the first time in 1954, overhauling fierce rivals West Bromwich Albion[8] late in the season. Two further titles were later won in successive years, as Wolves cemented their position as the premier team in English football and became globally renowned[9] for their on-field success as well as high-profile floodlit friendlies against top European club sides and the pioneering development of the Cullis “kick and rush” style of football.
Building upon Buckley's principles of hard work in training, exceptional physical fitness coupled with early pioneering use of sports science, strict discipline and a doctrine of all-out attack on the field, Cullis's kick and rush method incorporated long passes and speed of execution, hitting the opposition penalty box faster and more frequently to apply the percentage principle to goalscoring. The method was characterised by a defensive resilience, built as it was around the England internationals Bert Williams in goal and Billy Wright at half-back, but also incorporated quick movement of the ball and swift attacking support for the player in possession, particularly around the wing play of Johnny Hancocks and Jimmy Mullen.
Their innovation on the pitch was matched elsewhere, as Molineux was one of the first grounds to provide their team with floodlights in the summer of 1953, as the club also blossomed financially thanks to high-profile friendlies with top sides such as Real Madrid who all came and suffered defeat at the hands of Cullis’ men. The following series of famous "floodlit friendlies", beginning with a game against a South African XI, had a huge effect in raising the profile of the club, enthusing many such as the young Wolves fan George Best[10] and others who were lucky enough to be able to watch the games on the BBC in some of football's first televised games. Other major club games at the time included victories over Borussia Dortmund, Valencia CF,[11] and a 3–0 victory over Real Madrid achieved 'by indefatigable tackling, by the characteristic longflung pass and by a directness of approach that showed the Spanish the virtues of traditional English football'.[12]
These high-profile games continued against top national sides such as Racing Club of Argentina and Spartak Moscow of the USSR, before meeting Honvéd of Hungary in a landmark game for English football, televised live on the BBC.[13] Faith in the English national team was at an all time low, and Wolves faced a Honvéd team that included Ferenc Puskás and many other members of the "Magical Magyars", 1954 World Cup finalists and one of the historically great sides that had recently humbled England twice. In front of the watching nation, Wolves came from two goals down at half time to beat the Hungarian side 3–2, which coupled with their previous European exploits, lead the national media to proclaim Wolves "Champions of the World". This was the final spur[14] for Gabriel Hanot, the editor of L'Équipe, who had long campaigned for a Europe wide club tournament to be played under floodlights.
“ Before we declare that Wolverhampton Wanderers are invincible, let them go to Moscow and Budapest. And there are other internationally renowned clubs: A.C. Milan and Real Madrid to name but two. A club world championship, or at least a European one – larger, more meaningful and more prestigious than the Mitropa Cup and more original than a competition for national teams – should be launched. — Gabriel Hanot, editor of L'Équipe[15] ”
The UEFA congress of March 1955 saw the proposal raised, with approval given in April of that year, and the kick-off of the first European Cup the following season. The 1959 title win saw Wolves play in the European Cup for the first time, being only the second English club after Manchester United to enter. Later, Spartak Moscow, Dynamo Moscow and Real Madrid all came to Molineux and were beaten, as Wolves saw mixed successes in the European Cup against teams such as Red Star Belgrade, Schalke 04 and Barcelona, during Real Madrid's period of domination. Wolves were also League Champions in 1958 and 1959, and in 1960 became the first team to pass the 100-goal mark for three seasons in succession. Coming agonisingly close to a hat-trick of titles and the first double of the twentieth century,[16] Wolves finished just one point behind Burnley and had to make do with a fourth FA Cup win, beating Blackburn Rovers 3–0 in the final.
Cullis sacked, Wolves American champions
The early 1960s saw Wolves begin to decline, and Cullis was sacked in September 1964 at the start of a dreadful season during which the club was never out of the relegation zone. Relegation meant the club's first spell outside the top division in more than thirty years; however, the exile would last just two seasons, as an eight-game winning run in the spring of 1967 led the way to promotion back to the First Division as runners-up to the 1966–67 Second Division Champions Coventry City.
During the summer of 1967, Wolves played a season in North America as part of a fledgling league called the United Soccer Association. This league imported twelve entire clubs from Europe and South America to play in American and Canadian cities, with each club bearing a local name. Wolverhampton Wanderers, playing as the "Los Angeles Wolves", won the Western Division and then went on to earn the League Title by defeating the Eastern Division champions Washington Whips (Aberdeen of Scotland) in the championship match. (This FIFA-sanctioned league merged the following season with the non-sanctioned National Professional Soccer League, which had also begun in 1967, to form the North American Soccer League).
The Seventies resurgence
The club's return to the English top flight heralded another period of relative success, with a squad that included stars Derek Dougan, Kenny Hibbitt and Frank Munro finishing the 1970–71 season in fourth place, qualifying them for the newly created UEFA Cup. En route to the 1972 UEFA Cup Final, they beat Académica 7–1 on aggregate, ADO Den Haag 7–1 on aggregate, FC Carl Zeiss Jena 4–0 on aggregate, Juventus 3–2 on aggregate in the quarter-final and Ferencváros 4–3 in the semi-final. Wolves lost the home leg of the two-legged final against Tottenham Hotspur 2–1 (goal from Jim McCalliog) and drew at White Hart Lane 1–1 with a goal from David Wagstaffe.
Two years later in 1974 they went on to beat Manchester City in the 1974 League Cup Final, taking the trophy for the first time. Despite relegation again in 1976, Wolves were to bounce back at the first attempt as Second Division champions. By 1979–80, things were again looking promising for Wolves: the club finished sixth in the First Division and reached the 1980 Football League Cup Final, where record-signing Andy Gray scored the decisive goal which defeated the reigning European Champions and League Cup holders Nottingham Forest, thus bringing League Cup glory to Wolves for a second time.
Decline and rescue
Wolves went through a bad spell in the 1980s. The Molineux Street stand, built in 1932, was demolished, along with 71 terraced houses on Molineux Street, in 1979, and a new stand built at a cost of £1½ million ready for the 1979–80 season. However, the cost of this redevelopment, combined with the economic recession of the early-1980s (which hit match attendances hard), triggered serious financial difficulties for the club. These difficulties almost resulted in the club's extinction in 1982. The club was acquired at this dark juncture by the now infamous Bhatti brothers, who did not invest in the club, and three consecutive relegations in 1984, 1985 and 1986 saw a financially moribund Wolves slide into the Fourth Division for the first time in the club's history. By 1986 the club's existence was hanging by a thread and two sides of the by now decaying Molineux stadium were condemned and closed to spectators, meaning the atmosphere at matches was decidedly peculiar; however, the Bhattis finally relinquished ownership of the club at this point and a long and at times painful rehabilitation of the club started.
The 1980s had not begun badly for Wolves. The club won the Football League Cup and finished sixth in the First Division in the 1979–80 season. They also reached the FA Cup semi-finals in 1981, as they had also achieved in 1979. When John Barnwell, who had suffered serious injuries in a car crash in 1979, felt obliged to resign as manager in 1982, Wolves made an attempt to recruit Alex Ferguson, manager of the successful Scottish side Aberdeen, as Barnwell's successor. However, the club was in poor financial health and Ferguson declined the offer and Graham Hawkins was appointed instead. Meanwhile, Ferguson enjoyed another four years of success with Aberdeen before he moved to England to take over at Manchester United where he remains to this day.[17]
Wolves suffered relegation to the Second Division at the end of the 1981–82 season, and then almost went out of business just before the start of the 1982–83 season with £2½ million debts. The club was saved from liquidation when former player Derek Dougan helped formalise a takeover deal as a front man for the Bhatti brothers. Promotion back to the First Division was achieved (as runners-up) at the first attempt.
With just a few months of the 1983–84 season gone, the future already didn't looking bright for Wolves as they had failed to win any of their 14 opening First Division games, but even then few could have imagined just how steep the decline would be. There were some bright spots even in that campaign, the first coming on 26 November 1983 when Wolves finally won a league game at the 15th attempt, breaking their win-less run in style with a 3–1 away win over local rivals West Bromwich Albion. Their second win came on 27 December when they beat Everton 3–0 to record their first home league win of the season. Perhaps the best result of the season came on 14 January 1984 when they won 1–0 at Liverpool – the dominant side of that era, who were in the process of winning their third successive league title (and also the European Cup and Football League Cup) that season. On 18 February they held title chasing Manchester United to a 1–1 draw – a result which contributed towards their opponent's ultimate failure to win the title. A 1–0 home win over Nottingham Forest on 3 March followed, but Wolves were still a long way off survival and would win just one more league game after this, going down in bottom place. They had also lost star striker Andy Gray to Everton in November.[18]
The 1984–85 season didn't begin particularly badly, with the first few games producing mixed results, but a 5–1 defeat at Barnsley on 29 September 1984 was the first real sign that Wolves could face a second successive season of struggle. By early November, they had actually managed to put together a three-match winning run[19] which saw them occupy 13th place and suggest that they were more than capable of survival, if not promotion.[20] But a seven-match losing run followed, dragging them into the relegation zone by New Year's Day 1985.[21] Wolves failed to win another league game until 8 April 1985, but they were still in the relegation zone.[22] On 6 May 1985, they were relegated despite a 2–1 home win over Huddersfield Town. As well as declining in their league standing, their attendances were also in a downward spiral by this stage. Nearly 15,000 had watched their opening game against Sheffield United, but during the second half of the season they were struggling to attract half that figure. A mere 4,422 fans watched their final home game of the season – the game where relegation was confirmed.[23]
Wolves began their first season in the national Third Division on 17 August 1985, losing 2–1 to Brentford at Griffin Park. A week later, they took on one of the division's weakest sides – Newport County – at the Molineux, but lost 2–1. The next game ended in a 4–2 defeat at promotion favourites Derby County, and Wolves finally managed to claim points at the first attempt with a 3–2 home win over York City. Four defeats followed before another victory. By the time Wolves were crushed 6–0 by Rotherham United in the FA Cup first round on 16 November 1985, a third of the league season had already gone and Wolves had still yet to put together a run of good results, so a third successive relegation – a humiliation which only Bristol City four seasons earlier had so far suffered – was now looking a real possibility. A 3–1 home win over Gillingham the weekend after the FA Cup exit raised hopes that survival might be achieved, but Wolves never managed to put together a good run in the league and their relegation to the Fourth Division – for the first time in their history – was confirmed on 26 April 1986 despite a 3–1 home win over Cardiff City, who had gone down with them the previous season and would also suffer a second successive relegation.[24]
On 2 July 1986 the Bhatti brothers era came to an end when the official receiver was called in at Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club. However, the club was saved from extinction when Wolverhampton Council purchased Molineux for £1.12 million, along with the surrounding land, while Gallagher Estates Limited, in conjunction with the Asda Superstore chain, agreed to pay off the club's outstanding debts, subject to building and planning permission for an Asda superstore on land adjacent to the stadium being granted by the Council.
Wolves played their first game in the Fourth Division on 23 August 1986, at home to Cambridge United. They lost 2–1, but were victorious in their next game on 30 August when they travelled to Aldershot and won 2–1. Mixed results followed during the autumn as Wolves were some way off the automatic promotion and new promotion/relegation playoff places – though at least they were comfortably clear of the bottom place in the league, which for the first time would mean automatic relegation to the Football Conference.
Following a succession of different managers during the crises of the previous three years, a new era of managerial stability began on 7 October 1986 when Wolves appointed Graham Turner as their new manager. He would remain at the helm for more than seven years.[25] His arrival was orchestrated by a new Board led by Jack Harris (Former Walsall Chairman)and Dick Homden who skillfully directed the club back to winning ways while maintaing a tight control of their limited funds. The Jack Harris Stand is an acknowledgement of this period and it is questionable that Wolves would have survived to the Jack Hayward era had Harris and Homden not brought their considerable experience into the board roomhttp://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~2236790,00.html.
20 November 1986 saw the arrival of 21-year-old striker Steve Bull from West Bromwich Albion for £64,000. Over the next 13 years, Bull would score more than 300 goals for Wolves and despite never playing in the top division, he was capped 13 times for England and scored four goals. His first Wolves goal came on 13 December 1986 in a 1–0 win at Hartlepool United.[26]
By the turn of 1987, Wolves were still mid table in the Fourth Division and promotion was looking doubtful. However, the second half of the season saw Wolves take off as Bull and his strike partner Andy Mutch became regular goalscorers. Wolves were now playing some of their best football in years, their biggest successes being a 5–2 win at Burnley (another former giant who were now struggling in the Fourth Division and would only narrowly cling onto their Football League status at the end of the 1986–87 season), a 4–0 home win over Swansea City (who had also experienced First Division football earlier in the decade) and a thrilling 4–3 away win over Halifax Town. By 20 April 1987, Wolves had won seven matches in a row and looked good bets for promotion. Their season ended with a 4–1 home win over Hartlepool United, in which Steve Bull scored his first Wolves hat-trick, and they finished fourth – one place short of automatic promotion, which placed in them in the promotion/relegation playoffs. They won 2–0 at Colchester United in the semi final first leg, and went through after a goalless draw in the second leg. However, they surprisingly lost the final first leg 1–0 at Aldershot, and another 1–0 defeat in the return leg three days later meant that the promotion dream was put on hold for another season.[27]
1987–88 began with a visit to Football League newcomers Scarborough, who held them to a 2–2 draw. However, they soon found their winning ways and ended the season as Fourth Division champions.[28] They also won the Sherpa Van Trophy, beating Burnley 2–0 at Wembley Stadium in front of more than 80,000 spectators – well over half of them Wolves fans. Steve Bull was instrumental in this very first stage of the club's revival, scoring 34 league goals and a total of 52 in all competitions.[29]
The 1988–89 season began with Wolves losing 3–1 to Bury at Gigg Lane, but they soon found their winning ways and by the time of their 6–0 home win over Preston North End on 26 November 1988, in which the still prolific Steve Bull scored four goals, a second successive promotion was looking increasingly likely. It was sealed at the end of the season, as Wolves won the Third Division title and became the first team to be champions of all four English Football League divisions. Bull totalled 37 goals in the league and 50 in all competitions, making him the first English league player to reach the 50-goal margin in successive seasons.[30]
In 1989–90, there were frequent signs that Wolves could challenge for a unique third successive promotion. After a five-match win-less start to the season, they won 3–1 at Ipswich Town on 16 September 1989 and two weeks later crushed Portsmouth – who had been in the First Division when Wolves had been in the Fourth – 5–0. On New Year's Day 1990, Wolves began the new decade on the highest possible note, winning 4–1 at promotion chasing Newcastle United with Steve Bull scoring four goals. Bull's first season for Wolves at this level saw him maintain his reputation as a first class goalscorer with 25 goals in the league and 27 in all competitions, but Wolves just missed out on promotion – a disappointment which the fans would become accustomed to over the next two decades – having narrowly missed out on the playoffs.[31]
The Hayward years
In May 1990 Wolverhampton Wanderers was bought by lifelong supporter Jack Hayward, who immediately set about funding a comprehensive rebuild of the club's mostly decrepit ground to meet the new government regulations of the early 1990s, with the Stan Cullis Stand erected on the site of the North Bank in 1992, and the Billy Wright Stand replacing the Waterloo Road Stand in August 1993. The renovated stadium was officially opened on 7 December 1993, marked by a prestigious friendly with Honvéd, the Hungarian team who had been beaten in one of Molineux's most famous original floodlit friendlies.
With the stadium completed, Hayward gave the club its first substantial investment into its playing side since the late 1970s. While stadium work was prioritised in the early 1990s, the club under manager Graham Turner had consolidated in midtable but failed to make any inroads toward promotion to the top flight (now the newly formed Premier League). The summer of 1993 saw the first recruits in a heavily funded bid for promotion that would characterise much of Hayward's reign, although by March 1994 their play-off chances were fading and Turner quit, making way for the tenureship of former England manager Graham Taylor.
Wolves under Taylor completed their best finish in the Football League structure in over a decade, but they were denied promotion after losing 2–3 to Bolton Wanderers on aggregate in the play-off semi finals, and Taylor was soon ousted under fan pressure in November 1995 after only one full season as Wolves – now bearing the burden of being promotion favourites – made a slow start to the 1995–96 season. His successor Mark McGhee inspired a brief turnaround in fortunes and as late as March they were just outside the play-off zone, but poor form returned and by the end of the season they had finished 20th – just two places above the drop zone and their lowest league finish since they slipped into Fourth Division a decade earlier. The 1996–97 season was far stronger, but they were pipped to the second automatic promotion place by Barnsley and lost to Crystal Palace in the play-off semi-finals.
Although reaching the FA Cup semi-finals a year later, McGhee was dismissed in November 1998 as Wolves were slipping out of contention for the play-off places. His assistant Colin Lee took over but the club just missed out on the play-offs. With a far more limited budget than his two predecessors enjoyed, Lee could only guide the club to a second successive 7th place finish in 1999–2000. He was dismissed in December 2000 after a poor run of form left Wolves just a few places above the drop zone.
Former Southampton manager Dave Jones was named as Lee's successor in January 2001, and Wolves improved during the second half of the 2000–01 season, but their dismal early season form counted against them and they were unable to achieve anything more than a mid-table finish. The close season saw heavy investment into the team, which helped them spend much of the 2001–02 season in the top two places. However, an end of season slump saw them pipped to automatic promotion by arch rivals West Bromwich Albion. Defeat at the hands of Norwich City in the play-off semi-finals finally put paid to their promotion hopes.
Wolves experienced sporadic form during the early part of 2002–03, and thus were never in contention for the automatic promotion places. The team turned the corner with a thrilling 3–2 FA Cup win over Newcastle United, going on to lose just two of their 20 league games after this, securing them 5th place and a play-off semi-final clash against newly promoted Reading. Victory in both legs earned Wolves a place in the Play-off Final against Sheffield United, their first play-off final at their fourth attempt. In the Millennium Stadium-staged final, three first half goals from Mark Kennedy, Nathan Blake and Kenny Miller, respectively, were enough to earn Wolves a long awaited place in the Premiership, after 19 years in the lower echelons of English football.
Their debut season in the Premier League was tough, with key players Matt Murray and Joleon Lescott injured for the entire season, and several others absent from the start. Their spending power to strengthen the team was relatively low as Hayward instead opted to put the club up for sale. Despite these setbacks, Wolves overcame their seven game winless start to eventually achieve some commendable results, in particular a 1–0 win over Manchester United. However, failing to win a single away game meant that their relegation battle was ultimately lost, and they finished bottom of the table on goal difference, bracketed together on 33 points with the two other relegated teams.
Despite hopes for an immediate return to the top flight, their 2004–05 campaign began dismally, and at one point the side sunk as low as 19th place. Following a 0–1 defeat at Gillingham, a side Wolves had beaten 6–0 just eighteen months previous, Jones was sacked at the beginning of November.
Another former England coach was hired the following month, as Glenn Hoddle was appointed on a rolling one-year contract. Under Hoddle, Wolves lost only one of their final 25 league games, but drew 15 to finish ninth in the final table – not enough to qualify for the play-offs. Wolves then finished a disappointing seventh in 2005–06 as fan discontent grew, disenchanted with the lack of passion and pride from the team, including from Hoddle himself who had not moved to the area. Though the board expressed no displeasure with Hoddle publicly, with Jez Moxey affirming his faith in the under fire manager, the season had been frowned on by both local media and the fan base. However, few had anticipated Hoddle's sudden resignation mere moments before England's World Cup quarter-final clash with Portugal.
A new regime, a new start
Following the exit of Hoddle in pre-season in 2006, Wolves staged a complete clearout, stripping the squad and wage bill down and appointing former Republic of Ireland and Sunderland manager Mick McCarthy. Wolves therefore commenced the 2006–07 season with only the bare bones of a first team squad and with the lowest expectations around the club in years.
McCarthy acknowledged the challenge, stating to local media "The initials MM on my top stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician",[32] and quickly scraped together a squad, largely from the club's youth ranks, out of contract players and loan signings. After an inconsistent first half to the season, an impressive run of form followed and the club eventually made the play-offs, despite earlier expectations. They were paired with local rivals West Bromwich Albion in the semi-finals, where they lost out over two legs.
There was further change when businessman Steve Morgan took control of the club for a nominal £10 fee in return for a £30million investment into the club, resulting in the departure of Sir Jack Hayward (who remains as Life President and Club Hall of Fame member) after 17 years as chairman.[33] The protracted takeover was finally completed on 9 August 2007, upon which the club set out their future ethos:
“ It is intended that the new capital, over a period of time, will be used to help re-establish Wolves as a Premiership club. Although this is a significant amount of money there will not be an ’open cheque book’ approach to signing players; instead the club will build on the current strategy of steadily and progressively developing a team of young, hungry and talented players. — Club Statement[34] ”
Despite Morgan's arrival, the 2007–08 season ultimately brought more disappointment as the club failed to match the previous campaign's playoff finish. Poor form around Christmas saw them slump to mid-table and only a late rally, aided by the goal power of new signing Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, put them back in the promotion hunt. They finished just outside the final play-off spot on goal difference, one goal short of Watford.
Wolves Football League Championship trophy presentation at Molineux on 3 May 2009
The 2008–09 season saw the club's strongest start since 1949–50, as an opening day draw preceded a run of seven consecutive wins. Fired by the goals of Ebanks-Blake and new signing Chris Iwelumo, the club hit the top of the table for the first time in years by the end of August and never left the automatic promotion spots after. A second run of seven consecutive wins tightened their grip on the lead by Christmas.
Despite a dismal start to 2009, the equally faltering form of their rivals allowed Wolves to retain the top spot. March saw a return to form with 13 points from a possible 15, strengthening their position at the top of the table that they had led since October. Promotion to the Premier League was finally confirmed on 18 April 2009 with a 1–0 win over Queens Park Rangers. The following week, Wolves clinched their first divisional title since the 1988–89 season.
The club's return to the Premier League saw their highest league position in 30 years, with a 15th place finish granting survival. This marked the first time Wolves had survived a season at the highest level since 1981. This achievement was built on a solid defensive element to the team, countering its lack of goal-power, despite the addition of striker Kevin Doyle for a club record fee.
Their second consecutive Premier League campaign saw a closer brush with relegation, as they finished only one place above the drop zone. Wolves survived on the final day despite suffering a defeat, as relegation rivals Birmingham City and Blackpool both lost. However, despite being more seriously threatened by relegation, the overall points total was an improvement on the previous season.
The 2011–12 season was a poor one for the club, ending with the team in last place and relegated back to the Championship.[1] Manager Mick McCarthy was sacked in February 2012 after a five-and-a-half year reign[3] and replaced for the remainder of the season by, Terry Connor,[4] but Connor failed to bring any upturn in their form, failing to win any of his 13 games in charge. The day before Wolves' final game of the season, the club announced the appointment of former Copenhagen manager Ståle Solbakken, with Solbakken taking over from Connor on 1 July 2012.[35]
Colours and badge
Coat of arms of Wolverhampton City Council
Original colours
The first badge to be worn on Wolves shirts was the coat of arms of Wolverhampton City Council, usually worn on special occasions such as cup finals. In the late 1960s, Wolves introduced their own club badge consisting of a single leaping wolf, which later became three leaping wolves in the 1970s. In 1979, Wolves changed to the now modern wolf-head badge.
The club's traditional colours allude to the city council's motto "out of darkness cometh light" with the gold and black representing light and darkness respectively.[36] In the club's early days the team sported various versions of these colours including gold and black stripes and gold and black diagonal halves. It remains one of the most famous and recognisable strips in British football today.
Wolves' traditional away colour is all white, although the current away kit is an all-black outfit.[37]
Main article: Molineux Stadium
Molineux Stadium, home of Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolves began as St Luke's FC in 1877 and, two years later, after merging with the local cricket and football club known as The Wanderers, they became known as Wolverhampton Wanderers. Wolverhampton Wanderers have played at Molineux, Whitmore Reans, since 1889. Their previous home was in the Blakenhall area, and although no signs of the ground remain, a nearby road is called Wanderers Avenue. The Molineux name originates from Benjamin Molineux, a local merchant who built his home on the grounds. Northampton Brewery, who later owned the site, rented its use to Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1889, who had previously lacked a permanent home. After renovating the site, the first ever league game was staged on 7 September 1889 in a 2–0 victory over Notts County before a crowd of 4,000.
In 1953, the stadium became one of the first to install floodlights, at an estimated cost of £10,000. The first ever floodlit game was held on 30 September 1953, as Wolves won 3–1 against South Africa. The addition of the floodlights opened the door for Molineux to host a series of midweek friendlies against teams from across the globe. In the days prior to the formation of the European Cup and international club competitions, these games were highly prestigious and gained huge crowds and interest, the BBC often televising such events.
The old South Bank at Molineux is also historically the second largest of all Kop ends closely followed by Aston Villa's Holte End, both of which regularly held crowds in excess of 30,000.
Fluctuating attendances
When Wolves were at their height of success during the 1950s (three League Championships, book-ended by FA Cup glory in 1949 and 1960) Molineux regularly held over 50,000 mostly standing spectators. By the time of their sharp decline during the 1980s, only the 9,500-seat John Ireland Stand (now the Steve Bull Stand), built in 1979, and the much reduced South Bank (15,500) were in use. This reduction in capacity was due to the fact that the other two stands were wood-built and declared unsafe following the Bradford City stadium fire, in which a wood-built stand caught fire and killed 56 people in 1985. In the days before the Taylor Report, which required British football stadia to provide seating for all those attending, the ground had a capacity of over 60,000; the record attendance for a match at the ground is 61,315 for a game against Liverpool in the First Division on 11 February 1939.
Present day stadium
Between 1991 and 1993, Molineux was comprehensively redeveloped. The Waterloo Road stand was replaced by the all-seat Billy Wright Stand, the North Bank terrace was replaced by the Stan Cullis Stand, and the South Bank terrace was replaced by the Jack Harris Stand. By the 1993–94 season the Molineux had a 28,525 all-seated capacity making Molineux the twenty-sixth largest in English football. But by the time of the 2003 promotion, Molineux was the fifteenth largest Premiership stadium. In the previous decade, many of the smaller stadiums had either been expanded or replaced to hold a capacity of between 30,000 and 67,000 seated spectators.
As a result of Wolves' promotion to the Premier League in 2009, Wolves reinstated the temporary seating stand in the southwest corner of the stadium (officially titled the Wolves Community Trust Stand) raising capacity to 29,195.[38] This had previously been employed between 2003–2006, after their previous promotion to the top flight (then known as the Graham Hughes Stand).[39]
Wolves lease the land on which their current stadium stands from Wolverhampton City Council. In 2010, the club extended this peppercorn rental agreement from 125 years to 999 years.[40]
Current redevelopment
Further information: Molineux Stadium#Current redevelopment
Plans were announced in May 2010 to begin an extensive multi-million pound programme of redevelopment to enlarge the stadium's capacity and develop its facilities.[41] The project has four potential phases in total, but only the first phase of the redevelopment has currently been confirmed and set a definite timescale.[42]
Phase 1, the demolition of the Stan Cullis stand to be replaced by a new two-tier structure that extends into the north-east corner (seating 7,798) began in May 2011. The bottom tier was ready for use from mid-September 2011, lifting the stadium's current available capacity to 27,828.[43] The upper tier is scheduled to be fully completed by July 2012 and will create an increased stadium capacity of approximately 31,700.[44]
The second stage involves the rebuilding of the oldest stand at the stadium, the Steve Bull Stand (built in 1979), which would raise the stadium capacity to around 36,000. This two year project was initially set to begin in summer 2012,[41] but has since been postponed with no revised start date yet set.[45] Phases 3 and 4 are potential phases only with no timeframes yet confirmed, that involve the redevelopment of the Jack Harris and Billy Wright stands.[41]
The Sir Jack Hayward Training Ground, opened in 2005, is a £4.6 million development located in Compton, Wolverhampton. The modern two-storey building stands approximately one mile to the west of the stadium, and features five high-quality under-soil heated training pitches, eleven changing rooms, a fully equipped gymnasium, and a hydrotherapy pool – one of only a handful of English clubs to own such equipment.[46] The training ground's medical and physiotherapy facilities made it the first (and so far only) British sports club to establish a fully accredited professional sports laboratory, based on AC Milan's Milanello model.[47]
In July 2011, plans were announced for a redevelopment of the Compton Park area, situated in the green belt, where the training ground is currently located that will enable Wolves to build a new indoor pitch and improve facilities to create a 'Category 1' Premier League football academy. The £50 million project involves the football club, the University of Wolverhampton, St. Edmund's Catholic School, the Archdiocese of Birmingham, and Redrow, the construction company founded by Wolves owner Steve Morgan.[48][49]
As of 18 May 2012[50][51]
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
1 GK Wayne Hennessey
3 DF George Elokobi
4 MF David Edwards
5 DF Richard Stearman
6 DF Jody Craddock
7 MF Michael Kightly
8 MF Karl Henry
9 FW Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
10 FW Steven Fletcher
11 MF Stephen Ward
12 MF Stephen Hunt
13 GK Carl Ikeme
14 DF Roger Johnson
16 DF Christophe Berra
17 MF Matt Jarvis
18 FW Sam Vokes
19 MF Adam Hammill
20 MF Nenad Milijaš
22 MF Eggert Jónsson
23 DF Ronald Zubar
24 MF Jamie O'Hara
25 DF Danny Batth
26 MF David Davis
27 FW Sam Winnall
28 FW Leigh Griffiths
29 FW Kevin Doyle
30 DF Matt Doherty
31 GK Dorus de Vries
32 DF Kevin Foley
34 MF Adlène Guedioura
35 FW Jake Cassidy
37 MF Anthony Forde
39 DF Michael Ihiekwe
41 MF Jack Price
43 DF Jamie Reckord
44 MF Nathaniel Mendez-Laing
45 GK Aaron McCarey
46 MF Johnny Gorman
47 DF Ethan Ebanks-Landell
–– DF Steven Mouyokolo
–– FW Frank Nouble
-- DF Jamie Tank
-- FW Bjorn Bergmann Sigurdarson (joining after July 13th)
Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy has produced several high profile graduates including Robbie Keane, Joleon Lescott, Matt Murray and Lee Naylor. Many other players have gone on to play first team football at Molineux, including current players Wayne Hennessey, Danny Batth, Anthony Forde, Johnny Gorman, and Carl Ikeme. The academy is managed by Kevin Thelwell and is based at the club's Sir Jack Hayward Training Ground.
Wolverhampton Wanderers Reserves play in the Premier Reserve League South. They were promoted into this division as part of the first team's promotion to the Premier League in 2009. Home games are staged at AFC Telford United's New Bucks Head home.
Wolves Women became the club's official women's team in 2008. They currently play in the Midland Combination Women's Football League, at the third tier of women's football. Their home games are held at Goodrich Sports Ground in Wolverhampton.
Coaching staff[52]
Manager: Ståle Solbakken (from 1 July 2012)
Assistant manager: Terry Connor
Development coach: Steve Weaver
Goalkeeping coach: Pat Mountain
Academy manager: Kevin Thelwell
Professional lead coach: Mick Halsall
Chief scout: Dave Bowman
Medical staff[53]
Head of medical department: Steve Kemp
Fitness and conditioning coach: Tony Daley
Physiotherapist: Phil Hayward
Club doctor: Matt Perry
Club executives[54]
Owner / chairman: Steve Morgan
Chief executive officer: Jez Moxey
Honorary president: Sir Jack Hayward
Honorary vice-presidents:
Steve Bull, Rachael Heyhoe Flint and Robert Plant
Directors: John Bowater, John Gough and Bob Laslett
Club secretary: Richard Skirrow
Former players and managers
Statue of Billy Wright outside Molineux Stadium
Notable players
For details on notable former players, see List of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
The club has been represented by numerous high profile players over the years, most notably Billy Wright, who captained England a record 90 times and was the first player to win a century of international caps, as well as earning the Footballer of the Year Award, an accolade also won by Wolves half-back Bill Slater in 1960. In total, 35 players have won full England caps during their time with Wolves, including the club's record goalscorer Steve Bull, the last of the club's England internationals to appear at a major tournament.
Andy Gray, Emlyn Hughes, Paul Ince and Denis Irwin are all previous League Championship medal winners who have also represented Wolves. Current international players Joleon Lescott and Robbie Keane are also former players.
The Wolverhampton Wanderers Hall of Fame has inducted the following former players:[55]
Mike Bailey
Peter Broadbent
Steve Bull
Stan Cullis
Derek Dougan
Ron Flowers
Billy Harrison
Kenny Hibbitt
Jackery Jones
Jimmy Mullen
Derek Parkin
John Richards
Bill Slater
Roy Swinbourne
Billy Wright
Managerial history
Main article: List of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. managers
Wolves' most successful manager is Stan Cullis (who also served the club as a player), who was at the helm during the club's title-winning era of the 1950s. Other notable managers have included Bill McGarry, John Barnwell, Graham Taylor, Dave Jones, Mick McCarthy, Glenn Hoddle and Club Hall of Fame member Graham Turner. Both Taylor and Hoddle managed the England national team before their arrival at Wolves. Forthcoming manager Ståle Solbakken will be the club's first manager from outside the United Kingdom.[5]
Wolverhampton Wanderers has an international support base, with supporters' clubs in Australia,[56][57] United States, Sweden,[58] Spain, Germany,[59] Republic of Ireland, Malta,[60] Iceland and Norway[61] amongst others. They have an especially large Scandinavian fanbase, due to Scandinavian television coverage of Midlands football during Wolves' dominant period in the seventies. They also have numerous supporters' clubs across the United Kingdom.
Fans' Parliament
Wolverhampton Wanderers' supporters are able to put themselves forward for selection to the Fans' Parliament which sits for two year periods at a time. The initiative, implemented in 2006, invites approximately 30 independently selected candidates to attend meetings at Molineux every two months. Meetings are usually attended by CEO Jez Moxey, alongside a variety of other club personnel.
Wolves' fanzine is called A Load Of Bull (ALOB), in part reference to Wolves legend Steve Bull. The publication was founded in 1989 and is written voluntarily by ordinary Wolves supporters. ALOB is currently edited by long-serving editor Charles Ross.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the club's signature tune was "The Happy Wanderer".[citation needed] Later "The Liquidator" by the Harry J. Allstars became very popular, although use of the song ceased following a request from the West Midlands Police who claimed that obscene lyrics used by some fans[62] during the chorus could lead to hooliganism.[63][64] The tune has made occasional re-appearances at important promotion and play-off matches over the years, and a groundswell of support still exists among many supporters for its reinstatement as club anthem.[citation needed]
However, the club has since used "Hi Ho Silver Lining", a 1967 rock song by Jeff Beck, modifying the lyrics of the chorus to "Hi Ho Wolverhampton!".[citation needed]
As with all large city teams the club attracted a number of hooligans in the 1960s. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, a group of teenagers calling themselves "The Subway Army" would ambush fans in the subway adjacent to the ground. They attended only selected games and many of the members claimed that they were not actually Wolves fans. Indeed, on visits to several away fixtures, including Leeds, they stood apart from the travelling Wolves supporters, and the vast majority of Wolves supporters have never had any involvement with hooliganism.
The Subway Army were eventually dissolved due to the large number of arrests and were replaced by other groups. Many of this faction were arrested in one of the nationally organised police dawn raids, under code name Operation Growth or "Get Rid of Wolverhampton's Troublesome Hooligans".[65]
The club are sponsored by internet gambling company Sportingbet. In addition to becoming the official gambling partner of Wolverhampton Wanderers, the deal sees Sportingbet.com branding on the home and away kits, as well as the club website and in prominent positions around Molineux. This partnership began in June 2009 and will run until the end of the 2012–13 season.[66]
Previous shirt sponsors include Tatung (1982–86), Benjamin Perry (1986), Staw Distribution (1986–88), Manders Paint & Ink (1988–90), Goodyear (1990–2002), Doritos (2002–04) and Chaucer Consulting (2004–09).[37]
Wolves Aid is the biggest club charity in football,[67] supporting both the local community in Wolverhampton and abroad[68] with specific focus on the disadvantaged and disabled.[69]
The Wolves in the Community scheme, which began in 1991, seeks to encourage more people to support, be involved in and play football in the community. Its initiative formed, and has sustained, the Twilight and Midnight Leagues in 1998, a social inclusion football project in areas of the city that aims to reduce levels of anti-social behaviour.[67] The project has its own Development Centre to which it invites youngsters at Under 7/8s, 10s, 12s and 13/14s levels. The teams take part in friendly matches against other development groups and teams.
Main article: List of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. records and statistics
In the all-time table since the league's inception in 1888, Wolves sit in the all-time top four, behind only Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal in terms of all time league position.[70] Cumulatively, they are the eighth most successful club, behind Chelsea, with thirteen major trophy wins (see English Football Records).
Champions: 1953–54, 1957–58, 1958–59
Championship / Second Division
Runners-up: 1966–67, 1982–83
Play-off winners: 2003
Third Division (North) / Third Division
Champions: 1923–24, 1988–89
Fourth Division
Champions: 1987–88
Runners-up: 1972
Winners: 1893, 1908, 1949, 1960
Runners-up: 1889, 1896, 1921, 1939
Third-place: 1973
Semi-finalists: 1889, 1890, 1893, 1896, 1908, 1921, 1939, 1949, 1951, 1960, 1973, 1979, 1981, 1998 (of these 14 appearances, 8 resulted in progression to the Final)
Winners: 1974, 1980
Semi-finalists: 1973, 1974, 1980 (of these 3 appearances, 2 resulted in progression to the Final)
FA Charity Shield
Winners: 1949*, 1954*, 1959, 1960* (* joint holders)
Winners: 1988
Minor honours
Football League War Cup
United Soccer Association
Champions 1967 – playing as Los Angeles Wolves
North American Soccer League International Cup
Winners 1969 – playing as Kansas City Spurs
The Central League
Winners 1931–32, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1957–58, 1958–59
Winners 1891–92, 1892–93, 1893–94, 1899–1900, 1901–02, 1923–24, 1986–87
Runners-up 1888–89, 1896–97, 1897–98, 1903–04, 1906–07, 1908–09, 1912–13, 1998–99, 2003–04
Birmingham Football Combination
Winners 1934–35
Birmingham & District League
Winners 1892–93, 1897–98, 1898–99, 1900–01, 1953–54, 1957–58, 1958–59
Worcestershire Football Combination
Winners 1887–88, 1893–94, 1966–67
Runners Up 1884–85
Wrekin Cup
Winners 1884 (First ever Trophy)
Gothia World Youth Cup
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^ The Daily Mail, as a prime example, published the headline "Hail Wolves, champions of the world"
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^ a b "Connor appointed to end of season". Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. 24 February 2012. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~2622201,00.html.
^ a b "Wolves appoint Norwegian Stale Solbakken as new manager". BBC Sport. 11 May 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18030227.
^ "History of the Football League". Football League. http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/History/HistoryDetail/0,,10794~1357277,00.html.
^ Boyle, Peter; "Caught in Time: Wolves, 1958–59, pioneers in Europe" TimesOnline.co.uk,12 November 2006 (Retrieved: 17 July 2009)
^ Main local rivals are West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa and Birmingham City; with lesser rivalries with Stoke City and Walsall
^ "Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club – History". Talkfootball.co.uk. http://www.talkfootball.co.uk/guides/history_of_wolverhampton_wanderers_fc.html. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
^ "the headlines belonged to my favourite team, Wolves. Even then kids liked to follow the successful team: they always appear more glamorous for that reason. I must have filled up half a dozen scrapbooks, and I wish I still had them. It was reading those reports of the Wolves games that got me hooked. I became aware of the great traditions of the Wolves team and their exploits domestically and internationally...I was originally inspired by Wolves, because of the glamorous international ties they were involved in...Wolves were one of the first to play under floodlights, and there was just an extra-special feeling about a game being played in the evening. It was sheer theatre." George Best, Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths: The inside story of football's golden era: Ebury Press
^ A 4–3 win. Young, P.M. 'Centerary Wolves' pp. 134, 1976, Sunderland Press Ltd.
^ Young, P.M. 'Centerary Wolves' pp. 134, 1976, Sunderland Press Ltd.
^ "Wolverhampton Wanderers v Honved 1954 Official programme". Footysphere.tumblr.com. http://footysphere.tumblr.com/post/238325838/wolverhampton-wanderers-honved-1954. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
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^ George Best, Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths: The inside story of football's golden era: Ebury Press
^ This was later achieved by Tottenham Hotspur in 1961
^ http://www.wolves.stats.btinternet.co.uk/seasons/1980s/1983_84.html
^ "Snapshot Tables 1984 1985 3 Feb Wolverhampton Wanderers – Wolverhampton Wanderers FC – Wolves Mad". Wolverhamptonwanderers-mad.co.uk. http://www.wolverhamptonwanderers-mad.co.uk/footydb/loadgen.asp?day=03&month=Nov&ssnno=114&teamno=572. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
^ "Snapshot Tables 1984 1985 1 Feb Wolverhampton Wanderers – Wolverhampton Wanderers FC – Wolves Mad". Wolverhamptonwanderers-mad.co.uk. http://www.wolverhamptonwanderers-mad.co.uk/footydb/loadgen.asp?day=01&month=Jan&ssnno=114&teamno=572. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
^ "Snapshot Tables 1984 1985 8 Feb Wolverhampton Wanderers – Wolverhampton Wanderers FC – Wolves Mad". Wolverhamptonwanderers-mad.co.uk. http://www.wolverhamptonwanderers-mad.co.uk/footydb/loadgen.asp?day=08&month=Apr&ssnno=114&teamno=572. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
^ "Snapshot Tables 1984 1985 6 Feb Wolverhampton Wanderers – Wolverhampton Wanderers FC – Wolves Mad". Wolverhamptonwanderers-mad.co.uk. http://www.wolverhamptonwanderers-mad.co.uk/footydb/loadgen.asp?day=06&month=May&ssnno=114&teamno=572. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
^ "Graham Turner | Latest Betting Odds". Soccer Base. http://www.soccerbase.com/managers/manager.sd?manager_id=558. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
^ "Wolverhampton Wanderers | Club | Golden Oldies | Golden Oldies | Steve Bull MBE". Wolves.co.uk. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/GoldenOldies/0,,10307~65346,00.html. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
^ "STEVE BULL MBE : Official Website". Bullybully.net. http://www.bullybully.net/biography.php. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
^ "McCarthy wants to sign old heads". BBC Sport. 24 July 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/wolverhampton_wanderers/5210290.stm.
^ "Morgan completes Wolves takeover". BBC News. 9 August 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/wolverhampton_wanderers/6937817.stm.
^ "Wolves sell to Morgan: club statement" DailyMail.co.uk, 21 May 2007 (Retrieved: 17 July 2009)
^ "Wolves appoint Norwegian Stale Solbakken as new manager". BBC Sport. 11 May 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18030227.
^ Arrowsmith, Aidan; "1984: Wolves' recurring nightmare" Guardian.co.uk, 25 May 2003 (Retrieved: 17 July 2009)
^ a b "Historical Football Kits: Wolverhampton Wanderers" HistoricalKits.co.uk (Retrieved: 17 July 2009)
^ "2010–11 Premier League handbook". Premierleague.com. http://www.premierleague.com/staticFiles/7c/53/0,,12306~152444,00.pdf. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
^ "Ground capacity raised". wolves.co.uk. 11 June 2003. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~390175,00.html.
^ "999 more years for Wolves at Molineux". Express & Star. 31 March 2010. http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2010/03/31/999-more-years-for-wolves-at-molineux/. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
^ a b c "Wolves unveil Molineux redevelopment plans". wolves.co.uk. 28 May 2010. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~2060349,00.html.
^ "Wolves confirm plans to redevelop Molineux ground". BBC News. 10 February 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-black-country-12416700.
^ "Stan Cullis safety certificate granted". wolves.co.uk. 9 September 2011. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~2445571,00.html.
^ "Major clear up operation underway". wolves.co.uk. 8 June 2011. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~2373291,00.html.
^ "Wolves to postpone Steve Bull Stand redevelopment". wolves.co.uk. 19 January 2012. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~2581694,00.html.
^ "New training ground unveiled". Wolves.co.uk. 9 November 2005. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~738806,00.html.
^ "The appliance of sports science". Wolves.co.uk. 23 February 2010. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~1973466,00.html.
^ "City boost with £50 million Compton Park investment". Wolves.co.uk. 11 July 2011. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~2391060,00.html.
^ "Compton Park". Wolves.co.uk. 11 July 2011. http://www.molineuxpride.co.uk/wt/compton_park/home.
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^ "Craddock invited back". Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.. 18 May 2012. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~2775919,00.html.
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^ "Medical staff". wolves.co.uk. 25 July 2011. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/BackroomStaff/0,,10307~2400906,00.html.
^ "Board of Directors and Presidents". wolves.co.uk. 18 August 2009. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/WhosWho/0,,10307,00.html.
^ "Hall of Fame". Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.. http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/HallOfFameIndex/0,,10307,00.html.
^ "New South Wolves" NSWolves.com (Retrieved: 12 August 2009)
^ "Melbourne Wolves Supporters' Club" Members.Optusnet.com.au/~willisam (Retrieved: 12 August 2009)
^ "Swede Wolves" SwedeWolves.com (Retrieved: 12 August 2009)
^ "Berlin Wolves" Geocities.com/BerlinWolves (Retrieved: 12 August 2009)
^ "Wolverhampton Wanderers Supporters Club (Malta)" MaltaWolves.blogspot.com (Retrieved: 12 August 2009)
^ "Viking Wolves" VikingWolves.com (Retrieved: 12 August 2009)
^ The offending lyrics were "Fuck off West Brom"
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^ "Wolverhampton Council (Licensing and Environmental Protection Panel) Meeting" Wolverhampton.gov.uk, 21 May 2003 (Retrieved: 12 August 2009)
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10 Years of Diffusion
Submitted by Giles Lane on September 17, 2010 – 1:10 pm4 Comments
10 years ago this month we published the very first series of Diffusion eBooks, Performance Notations, launching our particular brand of hand-made hybrid digital/paper publishing on an unsuspecting public. Over the past decade we have followed that series with several others of our own (and a few by partners and collaborators) such as : Species of Spaces, Liquid Geography, CODE, Short Work, Topographies and Tales & Transformations and published well over 400 eBooks (and nearly 200 StoryCubes too). In 2002 we published the design schematics allowing others to create their own Diffusion eBooks (with recent updates for all 4 design variations and right-to-left reading too) and followed that in 2006 with the first version of our online web application for creating eBooks & StoryCubes, the Diffusion Generator. Hundreds of eBooks and StoryCubes were created (not all published here) by its users over a two and a half-year period. For a more in depth history of Diffusion read this post from 2007.
In 2008 we won a small grant from the Technology Strategy Board to build a new prototype service that would be vastly more powerful and flexible than the old Generator – what eventually became bookleteer.com. The alpha version was launched at the end of September 2009 and we now have several hundred users who have created almost one thousand eBooks and StoryCubes with it during its first year, including some in languages such as Arabic and Hindi. In the past 6 months we’ve rolled out lots of new features, such as new sizes, customisable front covers and our exclusive Publish & Print On Demand service. We have also created a crowdfunding scheme for collaborators, partners and friends to support bookleteer’s technical development, Alpha Club. We’ve run a series of events, Pitch Up & Publish, introducing bookleteer to new users – both in our own studio in Clerkenwell and around the country with the Empty Shops Network.
To kick-off Diffusion’s next decade we’re devising a new series of events, Pitch In & Publish, and adopting a new model of participatory publishing for our curated series. Rather than selecting individuals to create eBooks as we have done for previous series we will host events where people can collaborate in designing and creating a series of publications with others. Proboscis will define the series theme and individual topics for each issue, which will be put together during a one-day event. We will be publishing the collaborative publications (which could be an eBook or a series of StoryCubes) on this site and we will be inviting the participants to use bookleteer to create their own personal contributions to the series. A limited edition run of the publication will be printed using the PPOD service for participants. Pitch In & Publish will launch in October 2010 with the first series, City As Material. Topics will include: river, streetscapes, skyline and underside.
Details on dates, guests, topics and how to participate – http://cityasmaterial.eventbrite.com/
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Pitch Up & Publish
Submitted by Giles Lane on September 21, 2009 – 12:41 pm4 Comments
Starting in October we will be running regular informal evening workshops for people to literally pitch up and publish using bookleteer.com. Initially these will be held at our Clerkenwell Studio for up to 15 participants – all you need is a laptop and some content (text /photos/ drawings etc) you’d like to create and share as eBooks or StoryCubes (shareables). We will provide free user accounts to bookleteer and guide you through the steps of preparing and generating your shareables to share online, via email or as physical publications. Once created you can publish them on your own website or, if appropriate, we can publish them on Diffusion.
The first workshop will be held during the week beginning October 12th 2009 (date tbc) between 6.30-9pm.
To reserve a place please email us at diffusion (at) proboscis.org.uk
Participants will be asked to make small donation to cover materials and refreshments.
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Diffusion Generator: latest news (May 09)
Last month we completed our Feasibility Study for the Technology Strategy Board to investigate the potential for third parties to use Diffusion Generator to create and publish eBooks and StoryCubes via an API. As part of this process we developed a completely new platform for the Generator which makes it much more flexible – the prototype now includes numerous new features:
creation of portrait and landscape eBooks
use of both ‘classic’ and ‘book‘ binding methods for eBooks (see our design schematics)
creation of single and double sided StoryCubes
offline content design ability for eBooks & StoryCubes (via PDF upload)
ability to flow HTML content into eBooks & StoryCubes
Unicode support for non-Roman typefaces for languages such as Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Aramaic and many others
eBook templates supporting right-to-left languages (e.g. Arabic)
support for personalised/branded eBook & StoryCube templates
support for future shareable designs to be incorporated into Generator
We have been testing the system since late March and shortly will publish some eBooks created recently using the new Generator to demonstrate some of the new formats (e.g. landscape and ‘book’ binding options). Meanwhile we are fundraising for the next stage of development to build a web interface for individual access, as well as some demonstrator projects with 3rd party partners (a museum, a university, a data aggregation platform, a visitor attraction centre) exploring how institutions might use the Generator to offer “tangible souvenirs” of digital experiences.
The “tangible souvenir” concept has been developed by Proboscis over the last couple of years based on our own experiences of creating projects that engage people with digital technologies (e.g. Urban Tapestries, Snout, Feral Robots etc) but which require digital technologies (e.g. a web browser) to review. We frequently find that people want to refer back to an experience with others but are often in a place (the pub, a cafe, over the dinner table etc) where they don’t have access to a suitable screen or fast web connection for showing what they experienced. The idea behind “tangible souvenirs” is simply to create physical outputs culled from digital assets created or engaged with during a ‘digital’ experience (such as using an interactive museum guide). A personalised eBook or StoryCube is then provided which can be kept in a pocket, passed around, given away and re-created as often as the person likes.
More updates next month…
Generator developments
In Autumn 2008 Proboscis won a Feasibility Study grant from the Technology Strategy Board to investigate the potential for third party sites to add access to our Diffusion Generator online software to their systems, enabling their own users to be able to create and publish eBooks and StoryCubes directly from their sites. Over the next couple of months we will be developing a re-engineered prototype of the Generator designed to allow 3rd parties to hook into it through an open API (Application Programming Interface) and offer their own users eBook and StoryCube creation.
As the popularity of Diffusion grows – we have now passed an average of 110,000 downloads per year – Proboscis needs to develop sustainable revenue streams (e.g. from licensing the API to 3rd parties) to keep Diffusion going, and to create successful and meaningful partnerships with potential users (museums, galleries, universities, companies etc) who wish to add this unique publishing system to their own sites. The feasibility study and the re-engineered Generator will enable us to model these potential revenue streams and demonstrate a functioning service to other potential partners.
Later this year we aim to unveil the new Diffusion Generator and welcome expressions of interest from organisations and institutions who would like to test the API. I’ll be at BookCamp on January 17th and would be delighted to hear from anyone interested in working with us.
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Publishing as a conversation
Submitted by Giles Lane on March 6, 2008 – 12:53 pmNo Comment
One of the most transformational aspects of Diffusion as a platform for publishing-on-demand is our ability not only to commission and publish new writing and ideas, but to enable other people to participate by creating their own eBooks and StoryCubes through the Generator and have them included alongside commissioned authors; publishing as a conversation rather than a privileged monologue.
We have been interested since the late 1990s in utilising network technologies to create alternatives to the traditional ‘centre to the margins’ nature of the media; the broadcast and publishing model sustained since the 19th century and only beginning to be seriously challenged in the late 20th Century through the rise of the internet and its distributed network structure. We have been exploring how, through concepts like ‘public authoring’ and ‘cultures of listening’, we can create new ways for people to participate more widely in the creation of the cultures and societies they live in – such as in our Urban Tapestries project and Social Tapestries research programme, as well as our current Anarchaeology projects (with Render in Canada & ICE in Australia).
A key feature of future series of Diffusion commissions will be this conversational aspect – where we will be inviting the public to participate in the series by using the Diffusion Generator to create eBooks & StoryCubes of their own – the best and most relevant of which we will include in the series alongside the authors we commission directly. This will be different to the kinds of conversation that happen through blogging and commenting – creating an eBook or StoryCube is a much more considered affair, requiring time and reflection to create what is, after all, a publication that exists not only on the web but as a physical entity too.
The first of these ‘conversation series’ will be Transformations – we will be announcing the initial commissions in April and publishing the outcomes later in the year, inviting contributions from the public once the first 3 or 4 are available. Watch this space.
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Diffusion Discussion Day, 30/11/2007
Submitted by Orlagh Woods on December 18, 2007 – 10:15 pm3 Comments
On Friday 30th November, an informal evaluation of the Diffusion Generator Case Study Residency programme took place at the Proboscis studio. Those who participated included Bev Carter, artist and community development consultant; Paul Goodwin, a writer, curator and urban researcher; Andrew Hunter, artist, writer and the Director/Curator of RENDER, University of Waterloo, Canada; Michelle Kasprzak, curator, writer, artist and the Programmes Director of New Media Scotland and finally Tony White, a writer – author of novels including Foxy-T (Faber and Faber), and the non-fiction work Another Fool in the Balkans (Cadogan). They were hosted by Karen Martin who facilitated the residency programme, Phil Ayres, an architect, programmer and lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture (programmer of the Generator), Giles Lane, Alice Angus, Orlagh Woods from Proboscis.
The day began with an informal look at the different approaches and processes taken by each of the participants in the residency programme, exploring and sharing how they each used the Diffusion Generator to create and publish eBooks (as well as the occasional StoryCube). These included two way communications between children in the UK and Nigeria, a way to collate research for a book creatively, as a means to document an exhibition and research programme, as a visual journey through the city, as a series of interviews with curators and as a storytelling device.
In the afternoon, several other people were invited to take part in a larger discussion to explore other ways the Generator could be used. Among our guests were Linda Doyle of Trinity College Dublin, Michael Bhaskar of Pan Macmillan, Ellie Smith and Charles Beckett of Arts Council England, London.
Some of the various ideas for future uses of the Shareables and Generator included:
as an evaluation tool for conferences or events
within galleries or museums as interpretation tools
for community engagement projects
for internal marketing within organisations
as a brand consulting tool
to collect conversations and feedback dialogues
for a short story competition
to promote emerging writers alongside mainstream first publications
for sampling ideas
for rapid publishing of poetry slams
and as educational tools
A more detailed evaluation will be published as an eBook in the new year.
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eNotebooks: learning diaries, field notebooks and evaluation tools
In addition to using the Diffusion eBook format to publish essays and artists books, Proboscis has also been using it to create notebooks for specific activities and projects. The eBook format allows us to design and distribute a notebook that participants in a project or workshop can fill in by hand (writing, drawing or adding stickers as they wish) which can then be scanned and turned back into a PDF file for sharing – either within the group or more widely. This ‘virtuous circle’ moving from digital to material to digital is at the core of the ‘Shareables’ concept. We have designed the Shareables so that they can be used without always needing a computer, but still providing a path for capturing and sharing digitally.
Proboscis has successfully used ‘eNotebooks‘ in our schools projects as learning diaries (e.g. Sound Scavenging, Everyday Archaeology and Experiencing Democracy) and, in our community projects as a simple means of gathering local knowledge and information (e.g. Robotic Feral Public Authoring, St. Marks and Conversations and Connections).
Learning Diaries
The eNotebooks have been very effective for the schoolchildren participating in our projects, giving them a single place to record and reflect on what they have learned from the different activities and how they are integrated into everyday learning. Over the three years we have collaborated with the Jenny Hammond Primary school on Social Tapestries projects, we have worked ever more closely with the teachers to use the learning diaries to make the bridge between the activities of the workshop and what the children are learning as part of everyday school. The diaries themselves are also an invaluable tool for the teachers and us to gauge each child’s engagement with the project and its concepts – some children choose to do the minimum whilst others spend considerable time and effort embellishing their drawings and writings. This serves an additional function in helping to assess the impact on learning that the workshop has had – the diaries show how the children are absorbing new ideas, vocabulary and improving their spelling as the project progresses.
Examples: Sound Scavenging, Everyday Archaeology, Experiencing Democracy
We have also used the eNotebooks in community-based projects and workshops to record knowledge about places and communities. The eNotebooks offer a familiar ‘interface’ and technology (paper and pens) that is very inclusive and engaging – allowing people to write, draw or stick photos into them. In communities and situations where access to computers and broadband internet was not possible the eNotebooks allowed us to design a simple and effective means of asking open (but targeted) questions and enabling people to complete them there and then or post them back to us at their leisure. We see many other possible uses of this kind of eNotebook for researchers in the field doing ethnographic or anthropological studies.
We have also speculated on using the Diffusion Generator in brainstorming activities, where the eBooks are used to create iterations or snapshots of the process in situ. This would both provide an immediate outcome to the activity, but also document the creative processes along the way.
Examples: Robotic Feral Public Authoring, St Marks, Havelock Community Mapping
Proboscis has begun to experiment with creating structured notebooks for people to give feedback and evaluation on an event (such as a conference or workshop) or project. The StoryCubes have also been used in this way – at the Enter Festival in Cambridge (April 2007) conference delgates helped create a landscape of ideas, images and themes relating to the event. Futurelab also used the StoryCubes to engage delegates at their Why Don’t You… conference (October 2007) in mapping and exploring ideas relating to new education practices and uses of innovative technologies in schools and learning. Proboscis also uses the StoryCubes as a notetaking tool (instead of taking minutes) for its own advisory group meetings, enabling us to combine the questions and observations that the group members note down in an ever-growing and evolving landscape.
Examples: Enter Conference,
One of our key aims for Diffusion is to explore its uses in places (such as developing countries) with poor access to publishing technologies (both traditional print and electronic). A Diffusion eBook can, of course, be made with nothing more than some blank sheets of paper which can then be written and drawn on – or even have sections of typwritten text pasted onto them. Once made, these unique handmade books can be scanned and turned into Shareable eBooks (PDF files), endlessly reproducible and distributable through email and web downloads.
Examples: we plan to make some illustrative examples available soon
New! Improved!
Submitted by Karen Martin on November 10, 2007 – 1:50 amNo Comment
Welcome to the new look Diffusion website. This blog will track all of the various projects, publications, authors and collaborations which take place around the DIFFUSION eBooks, the DIFFUSION Generator and the StoryCubes. On this site you will find posts about each eBook we have published (and in the future StoryCubes too), posts about the authors as well as the various series of eBooks we have published over the years. The site also has a page with details on how to make eBooks and StoryCubes, as well as the Library listing all the published eBooks in a single, browsable page. There is also information about Proboscis’ DIFFUSION Generator – a prototype publishing-on-demand service we are currently testing (examples of which are listed on the blog), with details about how to join our private beta trial.
We are also inviting people to add reviews of their favourite eBooks as comments to individual posts, as well as comments about how people are using them; for instance we know of one example where the Performance Notations series was used as a ‘set text’ for students at an art school. As we add new eBooks and StoryCubes to the site we hope that it can become a more useful forum for sharing ideas about how they can be used as well as a site for downloading the publications themselves. Enjoy…
A brief history of Diffusion
Diffusion began life back in 1999 as a response to the increasing difficulty that I was having in distributing the books and journals I was then publishing – both for Proboscis and for the Royal College of Art‘s Computer Related Design Research Studio. The bookselling world had been changing rapidly in the previous few years – from the collapse of the net book agreement to the increasing consolidation of bookshops into chains and closure of independent outlets and distributors. These shifts affected the practice of bookselling too – large chains became less willing to stock niche publications and ordering became computerised across the chain rather than by buyers in individual shops with responsibility for specific subjects. In short, our publications were becoming harder for our readers to find and more expensive to print, warehouse and distribute.
Working for an interaction design research lab and having previously investigated the nascent printing-on-demand systems then available, it occurred to me that it would be possible to create an ‘eBook’ that could be downloaded from the internet and printed out on home printers to be folded into a paper book format. I was also skeptical that electronic books would take off in the form that was then being touted – who would want an ugly device with a small screen and poor resolution costing hundreds of pounds, and then have to pay for the ‘books’ to read on it? It seemed so odd considering the obvious pleasure and tactile enjoyment that people derive from handling physical books, as well as their relative low cost, to replace them (as was being widely prophesied) with a much poorer experience.
Diffusion then became a research project to devise a paper folding and layout format that could be used to create small files using Adobe’s PDF file format. A conversation with an officer in the Arts Council of England’s Combined Arts department led to a funding proposal and grant to develop the format and a first series of commissioned publications – Performance Notations. In the Autumn of 1999 Paul Farrington (my design assistant at the RCA) and I set down to develop the format. Over the next six months we looked at a number of ideas before Paul devised the unique Diffusion folding format (experts at the British Library informed us later that they had nothing similar in their collection). The first series of eBooks was completed and published in September 2000.
From this beginning we began to develop ideas for many different uses that the eBooks could have, but lack of time, funding and other commitments meant that Diffusion developed slowly. With further assistance from the Arts Council’s Collaborative Arts Dept, we developed and published the design schematics for the eBooks as a way of ‘open sourcing’ the format in Spring 2002 (with the help of Nima Falatoori). However we quickly realised that very few people would be able to benefit from them as they needed some graphic design skills to interpret and make use of, not to mention access to costly professional desktop publishing software (such as Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress). This meant that very few of the people we thought might make most use of Diffusion could do so, as they would not likely be designers themselves.
So in 2003 I began researching whether we could create our own software application that would enable people to create eBooks simply and without needing graphic design expertise. I discovered the Reportlab open source software solution for creating PDF files and a summer intern from Kings College London’s computer science department (Diab Al-Kudairi) developed a working proof-of-concept prototype for the Diffusion Generator which we demonstrated at the People Inspired innovation conference in September 2003 (held at BT’s Adastral Park research campus). It then took a while to find a programmer who could use the prototype to develop a proper application, and in Spring 2004 I was introduced to Phil Ayres, who was teaching at the Bartlett School of Achitecture and developing a python-based intranet for the school. Phil soon began to develop a framework combining Zope, the Plone content management system and Reportlab. A first stage prototype was tested from March to June 2006, followed by a second stage in November 2006. The current prototype (stage 3) is in private ‘beta’ testing and has been used extensively during the 2007 case study residencies, which have been ably facilitated by Karen Martin, who also developed the new diffusion website.
Our next aims for Diffusion are to advance the Generator from its current state towards being a public online service and to focus on creative projects using it in the developing world.
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Ahead in the Line by Tony White
Submitted by Giles Lane on November 9, 2007 – 3:51 pmNo Comment
About : Ahead in the Line is part of the Balkanising Bloomsbury project for the Generator Case Studies. The story was created by cutting up, remixing and re-narrativising fragments from various sources including the Richard Burton translation of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, the letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and transcripts from the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Ahead in the Line was written for Barbara Campbell’s 1001 Nights Cast project.
Tony White is a writer. He is the author of novels including Foxy-T (Faber and Faber), and the non-fiction work Another Fool in the Balkans (Cadogan). Editor and co-editor of the fiction anthologies Britpulp (Sceptre) and Croatian Nights (Serpent’s Tail/VBZ). Tony White has edited and published the artists’ book imprint Piece of Paper Press since 1994 and contributed to numerous magazines and journals – he is also literary editor of the Idler magazine. Tony is currently working on another novel and undertaking research into creative writing in interdisciplinary and research contexts which is supported by Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
Gobbledegook by Tony White
About : Gobbledegook is part of the Balkanising Bloomsbury project for the Case Study Residencies. The story was created by cutting up, remixing and re-narrativising fragments from various sources to tell a completely new story. Sources include Alan Burgess, Lawrence Durrell and transcripts from the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Further titles and the first version of a rolling, iterative bibliography for the whole series will be published shortly.
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Reflecting back on the past decade, we have had quite a few memorable films about clerics wrestling with their faith, such as Martin Scorsese’s 2016 masterpiece “Silence”, Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed”, and Xavier Beasvoise’s complex 2011 film “Of Gods and Men”. All three films explored existentialism within faith and the convictions and suffering that dogma creates from it. Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles’ latest film, “The Two Popes”, only hints at a fraction of such complexities; a prestige Oscar season movie that merely scratches at the surface of topics it only wishes it fully explored. The result feels whitewashed and unearned: a deeply watered down indictment of the Catholic Church and religious affliction that suffers from hero worship for Pope Francis and romanticization of his progressive beliefs.
Which is odd because the Brazilian filmmaker behind the 2003 masterpiece “City of God” prevented sugarcoating the harrowing lifestyles of poverty and crime in his debut feature, yet ever since, Meirelles seems to only craft Oscar-baity prestige pictures like the overrated bore “The Constant Gardener”. He then went on to direct two huge critical and commercial flops with “Blindless” and “360”. Meirelles hasn’t made a picture in almost 8 years, yet “The Two Popes” feels just like another unearned awards season picture that is designed only to pick up some Oscar nominations and soon after be forgotten.
“The Two Popes” starts out as something like a sophisticated and verbose variation of “My Dinner with Andre”: two people coming together for an extended conversation. Meirelles’ and screenwriter Anthony McCarten’s film adaptation of the latter’s own stage play about two popes from different backgrounds and viewpoints–one liberal, the other conservative–debating and eventually finding compromise and earning each other’s respect may sound engaging and timely on paper, and it indeed holds some merit with its sharp exchanges and two strong performances by its two leads, yet the film doesn’t amount to anything nearly as compelling or complex as it should. Sure, one can point out that it captures the current state of the polarized Catholic Church, but the film never truly resonates or succeeds with its explorations. The film declines in quality after it begins using a clunky and unwarranted flashback structure that only fuels its heavy-handed soap-boxing.
The film is about Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce, who is indeed memorable here) deciding to retire from the Catholic Church. Haunted by his persecution he suffered by the military dictatorship led by Jorge Rafael Videla, he’s recruited by Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins), who wants Bergoglio to travel back to Vatican City in hopes of persuading him away from retirement. Pope Benedict also has retirement on his mind as he anticipates Cardinal Jorge becoming his successor. While they hold vastly different views–quite a few topics like child sexual abuse scandals, climate change, contraception, and gay rights are earnestly debated and discussed–these men of faith and vastly different social views end up generating an improbable friendship together. This would put Jorge, who placed second in 2005, back in competition in the clergy election of selecting a new Pope, putting a damper on his retirement plans.
While the film indeed touches on some hot-button issues, this quickly gets passed over as the film tends to work more comfortably when it operates more as a light comedy with the two popes sharing screen time and exchanging banter together. Pope Benedict is portrayed as being literal minded–someone who doesn’t understand pop culture and jokes–while Cardinal Jorge Bergolglio, who eventually becomes Pope Francis, is viewed as being humble, down to earth, and in touch with the changing social norms. This sort of mismatched odd couple actually does shine and generates laughter along the way, thanks mainly to the onscreen chemistry between Pryce and Hopkins.
Once the film explores Jorge’s controversial past in Argentina as being a political exile who cooperated with the military dictatorship of Videl to spare the lives of his own clergy, it explores the extent to which Bergolglio was an enabler for Videl’s dictatorship through flashbacks. While certainly aesthetically unique from rest of the movie, these flashbacks feel unwarranted and calculated.
As the flashbacks unfold you just want to get back to Vatican City with the two leads because of just how jarring and uninvolving the flashbacks really are. The film does explore the flaws Pope Francis, so it doesn’t paint him as too much of a saint, yet it becomes jarring once again as it goes for too many cutesy moments involving Jorges teaching Pope Benedict about the Beatles, sharing pizza together, and watching the 2014 World Cup final. It is then when one realizes that the material’s only aim is to be more of a crowd-pleasing Oscar bait movie than a film that is more complex or morally ambiguous.
The film carries on with the great chemistry between the two leads as noted above–the two hold many deep philosophical discussions. Yet there is seldom any mention of corruption and scandals. There are no direct exchanges dealing with how to handle the child-abuse scandals and cover-ups that still plague the Catholic Church today. These controversies merely end up becoming lightly sketched topics, as if Meirelles and McCarten were too timid in confronting these hot-bottom issues and ultimately playing it too safe. One particular moment has Meirelles drowning out the sound as Pope Benedict asks Bergolglio for forgiveness; this stylistically works in just how overbearing the truth is, yet it almost feels like a cop out on Meirelles’ part as the whole film becomes an exercise in concealing from us any uncomfortable level of candor. What could have felt complex and sophisticated instead comes off as tactless and ungainly.
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About the Author: Robert Joseph Butler
Robert Butler is an award-winning filmmaker whose most recent feature length movie, "Love Immortal," won Best Horror Feature Film at the 24th annual Indie Gathering International Film Festival. His favorite films include: Mulholland Dr., 2001: A Space Odyssey, Persona, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Sunset Blvd., Lost in Translation, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, and Contempt.
Billy O. 12/19/2019 at 8:17 pm - Reply
Movie was cloying and false, I just couldn’t get into. Agreed that Meirelles hasn’t done anything of real quality since “City of God”.
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