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The Azrael Rants and Reviews
For an Azrael Synopses see "The Story so Far"
Denny O'Neil has come up with an interesting concept that is not being used to it's fullest. While Denny is a great writer he doesn't seem to be doing his best on the regular title, but the Azrael specials that have been produced have been of higher quality. At present the focus is on redemption but the overall storyline has been rather bland even though some stories have been good.
Two stories on diametric poles of quality were issues #33 and #32 they belonged to the same, somewhat bland, storyline but while issue #32 wasn't brilliant #33 was much better. Denny sometimes uses pretty crappy storylines to bring out the most in the characters. For example, the Dr. Orchid story, while the continuity was a bit screwy and the story sometimes edging into irrelevance, Denny used the concept to fully explore Azrael's relationship with Jean-Paul, while at the same time developing his narrative style, and providing entertainment. Azrael's Epiphany in issue #33 had much the same effect on the Azrael/Angel relationship as the Orchid storyline had on the Azrael/Jean-Paul relationship, while issue #32 expanded Azrael's supporting cast with the addition of Oracle and an example of his growth as a hero with his development of detective instinct.
The first year's worth of stories are some of the most consistently good of any title being published at the time, with the sole let down being the art on issue #12. There have been singular issues of good quality since then but the consistency of quality is somewhat lacking.
There are obvious parallels between Azrael and Batman, Both were forcibly removed from their parents, are emotionally damaged, and have personal lives that merely serve as masks for their costmued personalities, both pushed themselves to extremes resulting in their downfall as Batmen, both have built themselves back up and tested themselves against Bane and like Batman over the last couple of years the main character has changed and grown. While still somewhat innocent he has gradually become acclimatised to the outside world and functions much better now as a person than he used to, and as a hero has taken to using his head more. This title has seen subtle evolution of it's characters and their goals and doesn't mind deviating from what it originally was.
The art has seen a few distinct styles, Barry's early work with it's strong lines and Demetrious' beautiful colouring, the exquisite work on Angel at War has very few equals amongst all the bat titles, and possibly the whole of DC. Roger Robinson has improved by leaps and bounds since his debut and in some areas is better than Barry, not the cape but the armour, only Quesada and Kitson can do the cape. As for James Pascoe he has been inking Azrael since #1 and has been responsible for the artistic tone brought to the pencils. His early work was bold and dark before lightening up and recently returning to the darker inking for his collaboration with Roger Robinson.
I love this title, isn't that obvious. Okay it's had it's weak spots, I won't mention issue #32 0r #42 but on the whole Azrael is better than Catwoman and has gained the edge over Robin for now. My main rant is that AZRAEL STILL SELLS LESS THAN CATWOMAN OR ROBIN. I said this would be a rant didn't I. I'm bound to alienate someone reading this because I'm not a big fan of so called "Dark Heros" the vast majority are boring and derivative. Denny needs to get out of his funk and start writing like he did in the early issues. Is O'neil burning out? James Robinson has succumed it's been said Mark Waid has too and apart from Nightwing it recently seemed Chuck had too. You need to be a Top #100 title to avoid getting cancelled and sales haven't been so great recently all of a sudden the title has dropped 20 places in the space of a couple of months.
What can be done to save Azrael? Well adding the bat to the title is bound to boost sales in the short term, and so will Azrael's greater relevance to Batman. There is a side effect though, there may be a backlash from people who aren't hard core Azrael fans or from bat fans who see it as just a sales gimmick. What's needed are some cool story ideas, some continuing story threads, and an expanded supporting cast. Some sort of permanance would be a change, a job and a life could be a better way to interest new readers, although this may be a bad idea given Azrael's hard travelling hero status. Giving an expanded role to Oracle could boost sales as there are a lot of Oracle fans out there.
Azrael's importance to No Man's Land is interesting scince it implies that Batman at least partially trusts Azrael and since most of the complaints about the title are about his percieved sycophantic tendancies (that's sycophantic not psychotic) this new trust could go somewhere towards relieving his desperation for approval from Batman. (Although there's a story I would love to tell about their relationship and Azrael's acceptance called "Not the Nine O'Clock News", I'm not going to say anything else about it other than the title.) As a matter of interest Azrael #50 is in January, the first month of No Man's Land, so it will be interesting to see how this affects Azrael.
I first sampled Azrael when Barry was penciller and I greatly enjoyed his youthful Jean-Paul Valley and his strong lines, and his big hair, yes especially the big hair. That's the one thing I miss scince Angel at War, Lilhy's huge hair, I wonder how Humberto Ramos would have handled Azrael. I really like Rog's treatment of Azrael's shoulder armour, in my opinion it's better than Barry's. As for Joe I like all of his Azrael work although I prefer his more recent depiction of Oracle to his earlier one. There are a couple of artists I'd like to see have a stab at Azrael; Pop Mhan, Darryl Banks, J. Scott Campbell, Mike Deodato Jr., Dan Jurgens, Phil Jiminez, Scott Mcdaniel, Norm Breyfogel and Alex Ross (,Alex Ross is on everyones list :) ).
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Home > Medical Reference and Training Manuals > > Membrane attack unit. - Immunohematology and Blood Banking II
The Classic Complement Pathway - Immunohematology and Blood Banking II
Figure 1-4. The complement cascade (classic pathway). - Immunohematology and Blood Banking II
Immunohematology and Blood Banking II
has enzymatic activity directed against C3. Magnesium ions are necessary for the
formation of the C4b2a complex. C3 is cleaved by the C4b2a complex into two
molecules, C3a and C3b. The smaller C3a (MW 10,000) does not bind to the cell
membrane, but is released into the fluid phase as a mediator of inflammation
(anaphylatoxin I). The C3b molecule (MW 175,000) binds to the cell membrane and
can also bind to its own activation enzyme. As the C4b2a complex is an enzyme, it can
react more than once, and produce a shower of C3b fragments each time. Only the
C3b fragments that become bound adjacent to the C4b2a enzyme, however, are
believed to participate in the next reaction, in which C5 is cleaved.
(3) Membrane attack unit. Some of the C3b molecules combine with C4b2a
to form C4b, 2a, and 3b, which will cleave the C5 molecule into C5a (anaphylatoxin II)
and C5b. This is the last enzymatic reaction in the pathway. C5b appears to bind C6
and C7 by absorption. The resulting trimolecular complex attaches to the cell
membrane and binds C8 and C9. Fully assembled, the membrane attack complex
consists of one molecule of C5b, C6, C7, C8, and up to six molecules of C9. It has a
molecular weight of about one million. The end result of the pathway is lysis of the cell
(see figure 1-4).
d. Electron microscopy shows that lesions start appearing in the cell membrane
after C8 is absorbed, although the cell does not Iyse until C9 is complexed. It is not
understood how these lesions are made. In most instances, the lesions are not large
enough to allow the hemoglobin molecule to escape directly through the lesion, so it is
thought that cell lysis is caused by an osmotic effect. When cells are attacked by
complement, they swell until the cell membrane is ruptured. The cause of the swelling
is salt and water entering the cell. Mayer has postulated a theory he calls his
"doughnut" hypothesis: a stable hole is produced by the assembly of a rigid,
doughnut-shaped structure in the lipid bilayer of the cell membrane. The hole forms a
channel connecting the inside of the cell with the extracellular fluid. The outside of the
doughnut could be composed of nonpolar polypeptides, that is, protein chains that were
hydrophobic; the interior would need polar peptides so that it could be hydrophilic. He
suggests that C5b, C6, C7, C8, and C9 may be the proteins that form the doughnut or
funnel shape, penetrating the lipid bilayer of the membrane.
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Origins of the City of Parramatta Crest
Plaque from City of Parramatta Council Chambers building. Date unknown. Parramatta Heritage Centre collections, 2006.146.
Parramatta was one of the first councils in Australia to depict Aboriginal people as a focal point for a crest which originated in 1862.
A crest is a component of a heraldic display and the City of Parramatta crest uses a variety of symbols to convey the rich history and identity of the local government area. [1]
The origins of Parramatta’s crest began several months after the Municipality of Parramatta was incorporated on November 27, 1861. At the Council meeting in March, 1862, the Council resolved that…
“…the Mayor be requested to obtain a design for the Common Seal for the Municipal Council with as little delay as possible for the Council’s approval.’’ [2]
A ‘Common Seal’ is the equivalent of a signature used to authenticate documents and a requisite of the Municipalities Act in NSW which has evolved over time. [3] The Council commissioned an engraver to produce a decorative seal which would be used to process warrants, fines and other official documents.
Ongoing delays with the design were noted in several Council meetings throughout the year, raising the ire of Alderman James Pye in October 15, 1862 where the minutes recorded the following exchange:
“Alderman Pye asked the Mayor if the Seal was ready and said that the Council was losing a deal of money by its not having arrived. His Worship answered that it was not ready and that he had been every day for a long time past with the engraver who had been unable to finish it.” [4]
The seal was finally delivered by October 29, 1862 and with several modifications since its inception, became an identity for the Council in the form of a crest which has been used in official documents, as a display in civic ceremonies, as an engraving in the Mayoral chains, and is used in the Council’s corporate branding across a variety of communication channels.
Council crest designs, c. 1950 – 2017, Parramatta Heritage Centre archives, A2015/18
The crest features the foreshore of the Parramatta River in the early days of European settlement, with trees described as Cabbage-tree Palms in various Council reports. In an echo to the past, a grove of Cabbage-tree Palms is also featured in plans to provide shading for the public walkway of Parramatta Square which is undergoing development from 2017. [5]
In the foreground of the crest, an Aboriginal male is standing in the water preparing to use a spear with a three-pronged point to catch either a fish or an eel.
The trident spear, also referred to as a ‘fizz-gig’ by early British colonists, was used by Aboriginal fishermen who made the points and barbs from pieces of bird or mammal bone, stingray spines, shell, fish teeth or hardwood. The multi-pronged spear was useful for catching fast-moving fish. [6]
Eels regularly migrated at the head of the Parramatta River and ‘Burra’, the word for ‘eel’ used by Darug Nation inhabitants, was interpreted as the place name in 1791 for ‘Parramatta’ – ‘Burramatta, the place where the eels lie down’. [7]
Elsewhere in the crest an Aboriginal woman, believed to be the fisherman’s wife, is sitting in a bark canoe and may also be fishing by using a line and hook. In the original design there was a small fire in the canoe. These fires were often kept alight on a bed of wet clay or seaweed and allowed people to keep warm in winter and to cook the fish they had caught. [8]
A boat in the distance is a paddle-wheel steamer, many of which traversed the Parramatta River from 1831, carrying both passengers and goods. [9]
It’s believed the Council’s former corporate identity colours of blue and white originated from the regimental colours of the Lancers stationed at the Lancer Barracks in Parramatta, which in turn were taken from Australia’s first independent school, the King’s School colours of Cambridge blue and white. [10]
Left: The main entrance to the City of Parramatta Town Hall. Right: Pavement in Centenary Square. Image: Anna Namuren
Modernisation and influences
The crest remained largely unchanged in design from 1862 until 1939, apart from the words ‘borough’ being replaced by ‘municipality’ and ‘city’ after Parramatta was proclaimed a city on October 27, 1938. [11]
From 1939 to the present day, changes have included adding a red loincloth and beard to the fisherman, simplifying the landscape and elements and converting the image to a high-contrast silhouette.
The City of Parramatta crest has also inspired designs for crests, badges and logos used by local institutions, including the ship badge used to identify HMAS Parramatta from the Royal Australian Navy. In 1913, Parramatta High School applied for permission to adopt the Parramatta Municipal Council’s crest into their school badge. [12]
Left: HMAS Parramatta ship badge on wood. Image by Hpeterswald (Own work) CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Right: Parramatta High School crest & motto, gilt with blue enamel. Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (MAAS), ma.as/59962.
Anna Namuren, Research and Collection Services Co-ordinator & Anne Tsang, Research Assistant, City of Parramatta, Parramatta Heritage Centre 2017
[1] NSW Office of Environment & Heritage (2017). Heraldry. Retrieved on 24/11/2017 from http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/Heritage/research/heraldryexhibition.htm
[2] Parramatta Municipal Council (1862). Meeting Minutes, Monday 31st March, 1862, p.28. Item no. PRS21/001.
[3] City of Sydney (2017). Coat of Arms. Retrieved on 24/11/2017 from
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/learn/sydneys-history/civic-history/symbols-of-the-city/coat-of-arms
[4] Parramatta Municipal Council (1862). Meeting Minutes, Wednesday 15th October, 1862. Item no. PRS21/001. P.77.
[5] Architecture AU (2017). Revised designs for Parramatta Square public domain released. Retrieved on 24/11/2017 from https://architectureau.com/articles/revised-designs-for-parramatta-square-public-domain-released
[6] Australian Museum (2017). Prongs of an Indigenous fishing spear, pre-1884. Retrieved on 24/11/2017 from https://australianmuseum.net.au/prongs-of-an-indigenous-fishing-spear-pre-1884
[7] City of Parramatta (2017). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Retrieved on 24/11/2017 from https://www.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/living-and-community/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islanders
[8] Australian Museum (2017). Indigenous bark canoe from New South Wales. Retrieved on 24/11/2017 from
https://australianmuseum.net.au/indigenous-bark-canoe-from-new-south-wales
[9] Sydney, Leigh (188-?). Parramatta River: steamers & tramways guide.
[10] King’s School (2015). The King’s Herald, Head of the Preparatory School, Issue No. 5, p.13.
[11] Kass, Terry; Liston, Carol; McClymont, John (1996), Parramatta, a past revealed, Parramatta City Council, p.357.
[12] Trove, Parramatta Council, (1913, July 12), The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, p.4. Retrieved on 24/11/2017 from http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/8966869
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1956 Love Me Tender Studio-Issued Oversized Photo of Elvis Presley Playing Guitar
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The story of family separated by war, a twisted love triangle and tragic end, Love Me Tender was released in 1956, marking the very start of Elvis’ acting career and his first motion picture. Although originally quite a minor role, the part Elvis was given was revised to include extra lines and added scenes to accommodate his rabid fan base. The film’s original title The Reno Brothers was changed to Love Me Tender as a result of the young singing sensation’s new hit song of the same title that had just been released. Love Me Tender was the only film in which Elvis appeared and was not given top billing, and was also widely regarded as his best performance. Only four songs were used in the film, “We’re Gonna Move,” “Love Me Tender,” “Poor Boy,” and “Let Me,” which were released on the mini-album LP in November 1956 by RCA. Offered is an oversized black-and-white studio-issued photo of Elvis on stage during the scene in which he is singing “Let Me” in the film. The oversized photo measures 10 by 13 inches (25.4 x 33.02 cm) and is accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Graceland Authenticated.
The oversized photo presents with few defects. NM condition.
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Korean Hospital Workers Plan Desperate Appeal to the Pope
KHMWU president joined 8 other hospital workers who had ended their hunger strike due to the doctors' advice.
Fears for the Health and Life of Hunger-Strikers
Yesterday, Korean Health and Medical Workers Union president, Ms. Cha Soo-ryun, brought her hunger strike to an end after 19 days following strident medical advice of doctors that her life would be threatened if she continues with the hunger strike, and appeal by the KCTU leadership. President Cha, having ended the hunger strike, has, however, refused to be taken to a hospital, as she was wanted for arrest by police.
KHMWU president joined 8 other hospital workers who had ended their hunger strike due to the doctors' advice. On October 10, 8 nurses, who have been on hunger strike at the Myongdong Cathedral since September 25 were taken to hospital for emergency treatment.
They were part of the 30 nurses from three St. Mary's hospitals in Korea who have started a hunger strike in the course of the industrial dispute that began on May 23, 2002.
KHMWU president Cha's decision to end the strike was influenced also by the decision of the KCTU to step up its efforts to bring the dispute to an acceptable resolution, including the dispatch of an appeal mission to Vatican.
KCTU Delegation to the Vatican
KCTU will send a delegation, headed by one of its vice-presidents, to the Vatican to appeal for a special intercession by the Vatican and Pope. This decision is an extension of its efforts to persuade the leadership of the Catholic Church to intercede in the dispute involving the union of hospital workers and the management run by Catholic priests. KCTU will appeal to the spirit of respect for labour and trade union rights Pope John Paul II has outlined in the 1981 Encyclical "Laborem Exercens"
KCTU has been in contact with its sister organisations in Italy to seek their support and assistance in presenting its appeal to Pope and the Vatican. KCTU delegation will head for Rome/Vatican on October 21. The delegation originally planned to set out on supplication mission on October 14, but, local factors in Italy and the consideration for the continuing efforts to bring the parties in the dispute to a dialogue prompted the postponement of the departure.
The Desperate Struggle and Appeal
Hospital workers began protest sit-in on the hill of the Myongdong Cathedral downtown Seoul following a police raid at the Kangnam St. Mary's Hospital on September 11. The police raid, in which plain-clothed police chased striking workers all the way to the hospital's chapel, dragging them out under the main crucifix, ended with the arrest of over 200 nurses, and the imprisonment of 7 union leaders, including Ms Kim Young-sook, chairperson of the Yoido St. Mary's Hospital. The hospitals, cleared of striking workers, are now guarded by a permanent barricade of hundreds of fully uniformed riot police.
Following the police raid which swept out striking workers from the hospitals, the management of the Catholic Medical Centre, to which the St. Mary's Hospitals belong, have rejected all proposals by the union and the KCTU, and even independent facilitators, such as publicly renowned Catholic individuals, to resume dialogue to bring the dispute to a resolution.
The KCTU, having decided to take charge of the current dispute, began to organise KCTU-wide campaign.
As a part of the campaign to achieve a successful resolution of the dispute, the KCTU decided to a send a delegation to Vatican to appeal to the Pope to intercede in the dispute.
As a step in the supplication pilgrimage to Vatican, a KCTU delegation, led by Acting President Yoo Deuk-sang, on October 10, met with Archbishop Giovanni B. Morandini, the Apostolic Nuncio at the Holy See Embassy in Korea, to appeal for his intercession for amicable resolution of the dispute. Vatican's Ambassador to Korea gave a commitment to bring the Korean bishops or any persons in the Catholic Church in Korea or the management of the Catholic Medical Centre with authority to deal with the current dispute to meet with the union to start a process to bring the dispute to a resolution.
On the other hand, the Korean Health and Medical Workers Union is set to launch a general strike of all its members on October 16 to press the Catholic management to return to dialogue with a sincere will to bring the dispute to a resolution.
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Hospital Workers\' Sit-in at the Myongdong Cathedral
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May 17, 2019 7:19 am Dr K K Health Care
Reproduced from http://www.indialegallive.com/health/hips-dont-lie-65357, published May 12, 2019
J&J has been told to pay Rs 25 lakh to each patient who underwent surgery due to its faulty implants. Is this enough and how are compensations calculated?
By Dr KK Aggarwal
The Delhi High Court recently directed pharma major Johnson and Johnson (J&J) to make an interim payment of Rs 25 lakh each to four patients who had undergone revision surgeries after receiving faulty hip implants of the company. The direction was issued “without prejudice to the rights and contention of the parties” in the matter. Justice Vibhu Bakhru said the interim payment should be made before May 29, the next date of hearing. The interim order came after J&J volunteered to pay Rs 25 lakh as compensation to the affected patients.
How do we decide compensation in India in cases of clinical trials? Rule 122 DAB of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules lays down the procedure. The licensing authority, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), is the primary body for the causal assessment of injury/death and compensation amount to be paid to a trial participant. In case of occurrence of a serious adverse event, the Expert Committee communicates its recommendation about causality and quantum of compensation to the licensing authority, which then passes the final order.
The sponsor needs to compensate the participant as per the order of the licensing authority. In case of failure to comply, the licensing authority can take necessary action as per the rule, including suspension or cancellation of the clinical trial and/or restricting the sponsor, including his representative(s), from conducting further clinical trials in India.
The compensation will depend on risk factors such as seriousness and severity of the disease, presence of co-morbidity and duration of disease at the time of enrolment in the clinical trial. It would not depend only on the age and annual income of the participant, as in the case of the Motor Vehicles Act and medical negligence cases.
In cases of hip implants, most people will have co-morbid osteoporosis, age-related heart disease or hypertension and in many cases, limited remaining life span.
In cases of medical negligence, the current formula decided in Dr Balram Prasad vs Dr Kunal Saha & Others is as follows: “70 – (age of patient at death/ injury) x annual income + 30% inflation – 1/3rd as personal expenses”. Example: Suppose there is a 60-year-old patient (average age for hip transplant) with Rs 1 lakh income per month, then the compensation payable would be calculated as: 70 – 60 x Rs 12 lakh + 30% – 1/3 = approximately Rs 75 lakh. The compensation will change based on the age and annual income of the patient.
The age and income-based compensation is discriminatory in nature and is being opposed by the Indian Medical Association. The formula of DCGI in clinical trials is the current formula as it is based on the seriousness of the disease and not the subject’s income or age.
ABOUT HIP FRACTURES
A hip fracture can cause life-threatening complications. People over the age of 65 are most at risk because the bones weaken and the risk of tripping and falling increases with age. A whopping 95 percent of hip fractures are caused by falls. These can also lead to earlier mortality. As per the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, a large proportion of fall deaths are due to complications following a hip fracture. In-hospital mortality rates for hip fractures range from approximately 1 to 10 percent, depending on the location and patient characteristics. The rates are typically higher in men. A year’s mortality rates have ranged from 12 to 37 percent. Approximately half the patients are unable to regain their ability to live independently.
In hip fracture implants, metal-on-metal (MOM) wear is associated with numerous complications. These include early implant failure due to accelerated wear, adverse local tissue reactions and metal hypersensitivity reactions. Adverse local tissue reaction can lead to increased joint fluid in and around the joint and thickened synovium or local tissue necrosis which can be extensive and devastating. In asymptomatic patients (those without hip pain, swelling or dysfunction), only annual orthopaedic follow-up is needed. In patients who develop symptoms suggestive of hip dysfunction, such as pain, swelling or gait abnormality, intervention is needed. If surgical revision is not deemed necessary in such patients, evaluation has to be repeated every six months. So, not all of them will need revision surgeries.
The compensation formula should be transparent and based on the sickness of the patient and not on his or her age alone. As per the current formula for clinical trials calculated by the DCGI, the minimum compensation is Rs 2 lakh and the maximum Rs 45 lakh. There has to be capping of the compensation amount. Remember, if J&J had not come forward about the implant deficiency, all cases would have been decided against the hospitals or the doctors.
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England (and Wales), 5th division: Football Conference National – 2013-14 Location-map, with 2013-14 home kit badges & with 2-and-a-half-seasons of attendance data./ Plus, illustrations for 1st and 2nd place clubs, as of 15 January 2014: Luton Town and Cambridge United.
Filed under: 2013-14 English Football,Attendance Maps & Charts,England & Scotland-Map/Crowds/Kit Badges — admin @ 6:56 pm
England (and Wales), 5th division: Football Conference National – 2013-14 Location-map, with 2013-14 home kit badges & with 2-and-a-half-seasons of attendance data
Conference National – Fixtures, results, tables (soccerway.com).
At the top of the map page are facsimiles of 2013-14 Conference clubs’ home jersey badges. Below that is a location-map. The map page also includes an attendance data chart which shows each clubs’ 2011-12 and 2012-13 average attendance figures (from home league matches), as well as current average attendance figures (inclusive to 12 January 2014), and the numerical change since then (approximately two-and-a-half seasons ago). [Each club currently has played from 24 to 29 matches, and each club has currently played from 11 to 15 home matches.]
Below are the clubs in the 2013-14 Conference that have shown the largest attendance increases, and the worst attendance drop-offs, since 2011-12.
Largest numerical increase in average home crowds since 2011-12 (inclusive to 12 Jan. 2014)…
Increase of +708 per game – Cambridge United (who are averaging 3,512 per game currently/ in 2nd place/ relegated 9 seasons ago [2004-05]).
Increase of +598 per game – Luton Town (who are averaging 6,709 per game currently/ in 1st place/ relegated 5 seasons ago [2008-09]).
Increase of +400 per game - Nuneaton Town (who are averaging 1,179 per game currently/ in 9th place/ promoted 2 seasons ago [2011-12]).
Increase of +204 per game – Grimsby Town (who are averaging 3,512 per game currently/ in 5th place/ relegated 4 seasons ago [2009-10]).
Increase of +202 per game – Salisbury City (who are averaging 935 per game currently/ in 10th place/ promoted 1 season ago [2012-13]).
Increase of +190 per game – Lincoln City (who are averaging 2,537 per game currently/ in 18th place/ relegated 3 seasons ago [2010-11]).
Increase of +164 per game – Welling United (who are averaging 840 per game currently/ in 14th place/ promoted 1 season ago [2012-13]).
Increase of +160 per game – Braintree Town (who are averaging 1,061 per game currently/ in 11th place/ promoted 3 seasons ago [2010-11]).
Worst numerical drop-off in average home crowds since 2011-12 (inclusive to 12 Jan. 2014)…
Decrease of -888 per game – Hereford United (who are averaging 1,665 per game currently/ in 16th place/ relegated 2 seasons ago [2011-12]).
Decrease of -886 per game – Aldershot Town (who are averaging 1,978 per game currently/ in 20th place/ relegated 1 season ago [2011-12]).
Decrease of -510 per game – Wrexham (who are averaging 1,665 per game currently/ in 13th place/ relegated 4 seasons ago [2011-12]).
Decrease of -507 per game – Chester (who are averaging 2,280 per game currently/ in 22nd place/ promoted 1 season ago [2012-13]).
2013-14 Luton Town. First place in the Conference as of 15 January, 2014.
13/14 Luton Town home jersey badge, photo from jdsports.co.uk/product/fila-luton-town-2013/14-home-shirt.
Kenilworth Road, satellite image from bing.com/maps/Bird’s Eye View.
Kits, from ‘Luton Town F.C.‘ (en.wikipedia.org).
Kenilworth Road, photo uploaded by biscuitman88 at footballgroundmap.com/photo/4462/kenilworth-road/luton-town.
John Still, photo from luton-dunstable.co.uk/Sport/Luton-Town-FC.
Luke Guttridge, photo from lutontoday.co.uk/sport/luton-town.
Andre Gray, photo from sport.bt.com/sportfootball/football/englishfootball/conference.
Paul Benson, photo from bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Sport/Luton-Town-FC/Football-Tamworth-v-Luton-Town-in-pictures.
2013-14 Cambridge United. Second place in the Conference as of 15 January, 2014.
Abbey Stadium, photo by Bill Blake at panoramio.com.
Richard Money, photo from cambridge-united.co.uk via bbc.co.uk/sport/football.
Adam Cunnington, photo from dutchamberarmy.com/needham-market-fc-0-v-cambridge-united-1/.
Kwesi Appiah, photo by Keith Heppell at cambridge-news.co.uk [slideshow].
Luke Berry, photo by Pete Norton/Getty Images Europe via zimbio.com
Thanks to kevinstaylor at flicker.com {flickr.com/kevinstalor’s photostream}, for 13/14 Dartford home jersey badge [125th Anniversary year for Dartford FC, shirt here] at http://www.flickr.com/photos/36154472@N06/9328679966/in/photostream/.
Thanks to JD Sports site for photo of 13/14 Luton Town home jersey badge, jdsports.co.uk/product/fila-luton-town-2013/14-home-shirt.
Thanks to the Gateshead FC official site and Jeff Bowren there, for match reports which included GTFC home attendances. Gateshead played at 7 different venues in 2012-13, due to pitch problems at their normal venue, Gateshead International Stadium. From February to May (and comprising their last 11 home matches) Gateshead were basically homeless and played at Hartlepool; at York; at Blyth, Northumberland; at Boston, Lincolnshire; at Carlisle, Cumbria; and at Middlesbrough. Gateshead played 6 of those home matches at Victoria Park in Hartlepool, while they played one home match at each of those other 6 locations.
Thanks to Soccerway.com, for attendance data, http://int.soccerway.com/national/england/conference-national/20122013/regular-season/r18216/.
Thanks to the Football League official site for previous seasons’ attendance data, http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/DivisionalAttendance/0,,10794~201226,00.html.
Thanks to the Northern League for Chester FC 2011-12 attendance, http://www.evostikleague.co.uk/archive-737/.
Thanks to the contributors at en.wikipedia.org, ‘2013–14 Football Conference‘.
England and Wales: Premier League – 2013-14 home kit badges, with 13/14 location-map, and attendance data from the last 2.4 seasons. / Plus, illustrations for: the 2013-14 Everton crest controversy, the new 2013-14 Crystal Palace crest, and the 2012-14 Cardiff City jersey and crest controversy.
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Premier League – 2013-14 home kit badges, with 13/14 location-map, and attendance data from the last two-and-a-half seasons
After 8 home games for all 20 Premier League clubs, the club which is currently filling its stadium the closest to full capacity is Norwich City, who are playing to 99.2 percent-capacity at their 27,033-capacity Carrow Road in Norwich, Norfolk. Last season (2012-13), Arsenal had the best percent-capacity at 99.5 {see this}; two seasons ago (2011-12) the best was a 3-way tie at 99.4 between Manchester United, Arsenal, and Tottenham {see this}.
The biggest numerical increases in attendance from 2011-12 (2.4 seasons ago)…
Crystal Palace, +8,054 per game versus 2011-12 average attendance.
Cardiff City, +5,378 per game versus 2011-12 average attendance.
Hull City AFC, +4,998 per game versus 2011-12 average attendance.
All 3 of those clubs were of course promoted to the Premier League last season (2012-13).
The clubs with the biggest numerical increases in attendance from 2011-12 which were not involved in a promotion since then are:
Everton, +3,276 per game versus 2011-12 average attendance.
Aston Villa, +3,100 per game versus 2011-12 average attendance.
Sunderland AFC, +2,833 per game versus 2011-12 average attendance.
The worst drop-offs in attendance:
Stoke City, down -1,646 per game since 2011-12.
Fulham, down -747 per game since 2011-12.
Below, Everton FC bows to fan pressure, and the club back-peddles on their crest change
From Daily Mail, from 3 October 2013, by Elliot Bretland, ‘Everton reveal new crest for 2014/15 season after original design was met with anger by Blues supporters‘ (dailymail.co.uk/sport/football).
With the ill-fated 2003-14 Everton crest re-design, the biggest issue most Everton supporters had was the dropping of the club motto, Nil satis nisi optimum, (which is Latin for ‘nothing but the best is good enough’). The club explained that they needed to re-design the crest because their crest was appearing in truncated forms at some media outlets, with the shield-shape shown but not the ‘Everton’ text block; and also that the color-shift in the centre of the shield (blue-to-lighter-blue) was not reproducing properly in some reproductions of the crest.
So Everton FC wanted to move the ‘Everton’ text element to within the shield, and streamline the whole image. On the then-new 2013-14 design, the motto wouldn’t fit (nor would the two wreaths). The 1878 formation date remained, as did Prince Rupert’s Tower (aka the Everton Lock-up, built in 1787 [as a holding cell for miscreants], on Everton brow in Everton, Liverpool, and is still standing today/ see below). For the then-new 2013-14 crest, the Tower illustration was also re-worked, and despite what one might think of the modernist detailing of the brick-work on the ill-fated 2013-14 crest, the actual depiction of Prince Rupert’s Tower on the 2013-14 crest was the first time the Tower was accurately drawn on an Everton badge – showing the correct roof details and the correct proportion of conic roof to cylindrical body (the turret). Previously, the turret of the Tower was drawn too tall and thin in the badges from the 1978 to 2013 time period (see below). And on the previous Everton crest before this season – the crest the club had been wearing for the last 22 seasons (1991-92 to 2012-13) – the Everton Lock-up is depicted as multi-storied, with the turret actually above and below a spiraled structure (which has never existed on the actual Everton Lock-up). That fictional spiral structure on the 1991-2013 crest looks for all the world like an exterior spiral staircase. I mean, come on, what else can it be? It is not a fence that is sitting on a slanted hill…because you can see part of the turret BELOW the diagonal staircase structure. That is not the Everton Lock-up on the 1991-2013 crest, that is a three-story structure with a spiral staircase running around the outside of it making it look like a castle’s turret. It is totally made up. The edifice shown on the 1991-2013 Everton badge is an extremely fictionalized depiction of the Everton Lock-up. So is the earlier one (the 1983 to 1991 Everton crest). That one has turned the flat conical roof of the Everton Lock-up into a baroque witches-hat design, the sort of architecture one would find in illustrated fairy tales.
Furthermore, on 2 of the 3 the previous crests (the 1978-1983 crest and the 1991-2013 crest), the pinnacle of the conical roof was depicted not with the actual thing which was and still is there on the Tower – a ball (or spherical-shaped top cap), but with two crossed diagonal bits forming a V-shape (which makes no sense if you convert that to three dimensions). That V-shape did not exist at the top of the Tower. In past centuries the Eveton Lock-up did have a short spire (or maybe a lightning rod) {see this (liverpoolhistorysocietyquestions.blogspot.com)}, but not a V-shaped ornament.
I was honestly starting to think that whomever drew the Tower for the 1978-1983 crest, or for the subsequent two Everton crests, did not even actually stroll over to the Everton brow and have a look at what the Tower really looks like, let alone take a look at any photo of the real Prince Rupert’s Tower. Either that, or the illustrators were told by EFC top brass to not let the depiction look too literal, and err on the side of a more-attractive-looking Tower (ie, taller, thinner, and looking more like a fairy-tale castle than a typical old English village lock-up). It is one or the other, and I am now inclined to believe that 35 years ago, and 30 years ago, and 22 years ago, and 3 months ago, Everton top brass were trying to sugar-coat the depiction of their iconic edifice on their crest by making it look more benign. In other words, they were trying to make the jail house (gaol house) that is on Everton’s crest look less like an old English overnight lock-up for recently arrested common criminals (which it was), and more like a nice-looking turret on some quaint old castle. Or made it look more like a lighthouse, which I initially thought it was when I first started following English football a decade ago.
To prove that there was no change in the shape nor in the pinnacle detail of the actual Prince Rupert’s Tower since those gussied-up and fanciful depictions of the Tower which existed on Everton’s badge from the 1978-2013 era, here is an old photo, ‘Old Police Lockup‘ (photo by Ken Rose at peoples-stories.com), from about 1948, that shows that same squat dimensions of the Tower and the ball at the pinnacle of Prince Rupert’s Tower, and not the fictional elongated tower-shape and the odd V-shape at the top of the Tower. Here is a photo that shows how short and squat the Everton Lock-up is, as you can see that the top of the lock-up’s doorway is only a few feet (not even a meter) from the roof-line {‘Prince Rupert’s Lock-Up‘, photo by Andrew Merryweather at flickr.com)}.
The new Everton crest for 2014-15 (voted for by Everton supporters in October 2013) restores the club motto and the wreaths to the crest. The Tower, however, is once again erroneously drawn as too tall and too thin, and the fact is for the new 2014-15 badge, the Everton Lock-up is depicted as a two-story structure. But at least the ball is up there at the pinnacle of the Tower like it always should have been.
From 29 May 2013, from The Football Attic – the Football Attic podcast #9, ‘Team Badges [with info and opinions on the Everton FC 2013-14 badge re-design]‘ (thefootballattic.blogspot.co.nz).
Image and Photo credits above –
Everton crests through the years from evertonfc.com/the-history-of-our-crest.
Prince Rupert’s Tower images on Everton crests from footyheadlines.com/2013/05/new-everton-crest-unveiled.
Photo of Prince Rupert’s Tower by ColGould at flickriver.com.
Below, the Crystal Palace FC crest re-design for 2013-14
From Cafe Thinking blog, from 8 May 2013, ‘New Crystal Palace FC badge scores with the fans‘ (cafethinking.wordpress.com).
The new Crystal Palace crest was voted upon by Crystal Palace fans before the decision was made, not after, like at Everton, so no controversy ensued.
I like the 1955 Crystal Palace crest the best (see below). First of all, the eagle never existed in Crystal Palace FC tradition at all before 1973 – when the bombastic Malcolm Allison re-named the club’s nickname as ‘the Eagles’ instead of ‘the Glaziers’, and an eagle-with-football crest was introduced (the club also switched from white jerseys with claret-and-sky-blue trim to blue-and-red-vertical-striped jerseys in 1973-74). So for CPFC, the eagle really was just invented iconography and invented terminology, and is not an organic (or relevant) part of the club’s history, and smacks of the dreaded Americanization of English football nomenclature (see also, currently, the Hull Tigers controversy). And why does a club with so rich a history also need an eagle as a nickname and as the prominent crest element, when the club is named after a unique and storied and innovative and awe-inspiring Victorian era crystal-and-iron structure?
The Crystal Palace in South London was the first home of the club, and several members of the original squad were in fact glaziers and maintenance workers at The Crystal Palace back in the first decade of the 20th Century (ie, circa 1905). That to me is way more impressive than a random-but-supposedly-dignified nickname (the Eagles), which some big shot in a ridiculous big white hat (Allison) simply made up when he was in control there for a brief 3-and-one-quarter seasons spell in the Seventies. First off, he doesn’t deserve all the blame for being the manager who oversaw Crystal Palace’s relegation from the First Division in 1973 (Palace were too far behind that season too be realistically expected to survive the drop when Allison took over there in March 1973). However, Palace did lose 5 of their last 7 games that year, so he gets the blame for that I would imagine. Furthermore, the rest of Allison’s record as Crystal Palace needs to be pointed out. The following season, his first full season in charge at Palace, he got them relegated to the third division, in May 1974. So they went from the first division to the third division with Allison in charge. And they were still stuck in the third tier when he walked away from the job in 1976. And when Malcolm Allison was manager of the club for the second time, in 1980-81, when Crystal Palace were back in the First Division but were once again in a doomed relegation battle, Crystal Palace once again found themselves relegated with Allison at the helm. It must be pointed out that as in 1973, Palace in March 1981 were many points off safety when Allison took over. Palace were relegated to the second division, in May 1981. But then he waltzed off again. And that to me is the most damning. Talk about not being able to finish a job. So let me get this straight – this is the guy who gave Crystal Palace their nickname and their visual identity? A guy who dressed like a pimp and who got the club relegated three times in the 5 seasons he was in charge there at Selhurst Park? But then just left both times, with Palace worse off from when he started?
One could argue that The Crystal Palace is still there in the CPFC crest to this day (as you can see below). But I would counter that The Crystal Palace structure as it appears in the current CPFC crest has become a secondary aspect of the crest, by virtue of it being depicted in pale grey, at the bottom of the badge, dwarfed by the eagle.
Here is an excerpt from the Historical Kits page on Crystal Palace, written by Dave Moor,
{excerpt}…’FA Cup finals were staged at the Crystal Palace in South London a unique football venue set in extensive parkland, between 1895 and 1914. The original Crystal Palace was an enormous glass and cast iron structure built in Hyde Park for Prince Albert’s Great Exhibition in 1851 and represented Victorian engineering at its finest. When the exhibition closed, the palace was dismantled and rebuilt in South London where it formed the centrepiece of the world’s first entertainment theme park, surrounded by landscaped garden, lakes, spectacular fountains and concrete dinosaurs.’…{end of excerpt}.
Before Crystal Palace FC were allowed to join the Football League in 1920, and when the club was initially a member of the Southern League, the club played at The Crystal Palace in South London from the club’s inception in 1905 until mid-1915, when, at the onset of World War I, the ground was seized by the Admiralty (the British Navy) for the war effort. Crystal Palace FC found a ground nearby (at a velodrome), and a decade later the club moved into the nearby site where Selhurst Park was opened, in Croydon Park, South London, in August 1925. The Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire in 1936. ‘The Crystal Palace‘ (en.wikipedia.org).
Old CPFC crests from http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Crystal_Palace/Crystal_Palace.htm.
Below, the ongoing fiasco that is the divisive re-branding of Cardiff City FC
The Cardiff City jersey-and-crest controversy of 2012 can be summed up this way…as soon as Vincent Tan is gone, Cardiff City will wear blue again. End of story. I give it 2 more seasons, then when Tan realizes the extent of the enmity he has created and the lack of actual support he has within Cardiff, then the ego-inflated, sycophant-surrounded, football-clueless Malaysian will get bored with his new toy, sell the club, and slouch off back to the corrupt regime from whence he sprung. In the meantime, Tan’s juvenile insistence on changing Cardiff City from red to blue has distracted and divided the fans during what should be a joyful time for all Cardiff supporters, with the club’s first top flight appearance in 51 years.
From The Guardian, from 2 Nov. 2013, by Daniel Taylor, ‘Vincent Tan’s antics leave Cardiff’s faces as red as their shirts…We’ve seen the sort of boardroom buffoonery taking place before – and it rarely ends well for the fans‘ (theguardian.com/football/blog).
Old CCFC crests from kassiesa.nl/uefa/clubs/html/C; uefa.wikidot.com/england:cardiff-city-fc.
[Template for CCFC crests from last 25 years from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_City_F.C.#Club_logo_history.].
Photo of Tan, from Getty Images via dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2402081/Cardiff-owner-Vincent-Tan-adds-teams-kit-shirt-tie-combo.
Photo of Cardiff City fans from Reuters via mirror.co.uk/sport/football.
Photo of ‘Tan Out’ T-shirt uploaded by mugitmugit at ebay.com, ebay.co.uk/itm/Tan-Out-Cardiff-City-Bluebirds-t-shirt.
Photo of Cardiff City fans’ protest banner from msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/premierleague/story/cardiff-fans-stage-protest-against-owner-vincent-tan-before-boxing-day-fixture.
Here are the photo credits for the jersey badges on the map page –
Photo of Arsenal 2013-14 home jersey badge from dreamsoccerjerseys.com/arsenal.
Photo of Crystal Palace 2013-14 home jersey badge, unattributed at footballkitnews.com/new-crystal-palace-kit-13-14-cpfc-home-away-shirts-2013-2014.
Photo of Everton 2013-14 home jersey badge, unattributed at footballkitnews.com/new-everton-kit-1314-nike-everton-fc-home-jersey-2013-2014.
Photo of Liverpool 2012-14 home jersey badge (liverbird with L.F.C in gold), by Pub Car Park Ninja at flicker.com; Pub Car Park Ninja’s photostream.
Photo of Manchester City 2013-14 home jersey badge, unattributed at footyheadlines.com/manchester-city.
Photo of Manchester United 2013-14 home jersey badge, unattributed at tsmplug.com/manchester-united.
Photo of Southampton 2013-14 home jersey badge from ssl.saintsfc.co.uk.
Photo of Sunderland 2013-14 home jersey badge from footyheadlines.com/sunderland.
Photo of Tottenham 2013-14 homes jersey badge from: dreamsoccerjerseys.com.
Photo of West Bromwich 2013-14 home jersey badge from footballshirtculture.com/west-bromwich-albion.
Thanks to the the contributors at en.wikipedia.org, ‘2013–14 Premier League‘.
Thanks to the following sites for average attendance figures -
Thanks to soccerway.com, for current attendance figures, int.soccerway.com/national/england/premier-league/20132014.
Thanks to european-football-statistics.co.uk, for 2012-13 Premier League attendance figures.
Thanks to the Football League official site for 2012-13 Football League Championship attendance figures, http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/DivisionalAttendance/0,,10794~20127,00.html.
Thanks to Chris O. and Rich J. at the Football Attic site and podcast, for pointing out that the ill-fated Everton 2013-14 badge actually has the most realistic depiction of Prince Rupert’s Tower that any Everton badge ever had (regardless of whether EFC fans liked it or not).
England, 4th division: Football League Two – 2013-14 Location-map, with attendance data & 2013-14 home kit badges, featuring top 4 in the table after 16 games: Oxford United, Chesterfield, Rochdale, Fleetwood Town.
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England, 4th division: Football League Two – 2013-14 Location-map, with attendance data & 2013-14 home kit badges
On the map page
Facsimiles of each clubs’ home jersey badges for the 2013-14 season are shown, in alphabetical order, across the the top of the map page. Below that, at the lower left, is a location-map of the clubs in the 2013-14 Football League Two. At the right-hand side of the map page is attendance data for current League Two clubs from the two previous seasons (2011-12 and 2012-13). Change (by percent), as well as percent capacity (ie, how much the club filled their stadium on average), from last season, are shown. League movement (if any) of the clubs is shown as well.
The 2013-14 League Two
The 2013-14 League Two has been a very tightly-contested affair, with just over one-third of the season having been played so far (16 games played out of 46, for most clubs). To give you but one example of how evenly-matched the clubs in the fourth division are currently – and not just the clubs in the top half of the table – last week’s league leaders Fleetwood Town lost away to last-place Northampton Town 1-0 on Saturday 16th November 2013 (with a goal by the Cobblers in the 93rd minute)…and Fleetwood dropped clear out of the three automatic promotion places into 4th place with the loss, as Oxford United, Chesterfield, and Rochdale all won.
So currently, Oxford United, Chesterfield, and Rochdale all have 29 points and are separated at the top of the table by goal difference. Clubs like Portsmouth and Cheltenham Town, who are currently in 16th and 17th places on 20 points, find themselves in a simultaneous promotion campaign/relegation battle, both being at present 6 points above the relegation zone and 6 points below the play-off places. I wouldn’t say anyone could win promotion this season in the fourth tier, but there are certainly more than a dozen sides with a good chance of being one of the 4 clubs to gain promotion, and there are probably more than 16 sides that could feasibly win promotion.
Below are brief illustrated profiles of the top four clubs in League Two as of 17th Nov. 2013, with: a brief write-up of each club’s manager and 2 featured players; a photo and caption for each club’s manager; a photo for each club’s current top scoring threats; a photo or two of each club’s ground; plus each club’s league history (with Non-League history noted), as well as a look at each club’s home league average attendance from the last two seasons, plus current average attendance listed (current home league average attendance to 17 Nov. 2013 {via soccerway.com, here}).
Below, the top 4 in League Two after one-third of the 2013-14 season…
Oxford United FC, currently 1st place (29 points/+12 goal difference).
46-year-old Sheffield-born Chris Wilder, manager of Oxford United since December 2008 (back when they were in the middle of their 3 season spell in Non-League football), has been managing for over a decade now, having got his managerial start with the then-9th-Level (now Conference club) Alfreton Town, back in 2001-02, when Alfreton were in the Northern Counties East Football League, and the then-35-year-old Wilder got them promoted into the Northern League. Wilder then managed then-Conference side Halifax Town for 6 seasons (2002 to 2008), up until Halifax went broke and were liquidated (the Phoenix-club FC Halifax Town is now back in the Conference as of 2013-14). Wilder then worked as Alan Knill’s assistant at Bury in the first part of 2008-09 before getting the job at Oxford. Flash forward 3 years and 11 months later, and Chris Wilder is currently the third longest-serving manager in the Football League {see this, List of English Football League managers‘ (en.wikipedia.org)}. In Wilder’s first full season at the helm at Oxford (in 2009-10), the U’s won promotion via the play-offs (beating York City in the final at Wembley). Since then, Oxford United have finished in 12th, then in 9th, and then in 9th again last season (2012-13).
Throughout last season there were calls for Wilder’s dismissal by some supporters, and Wilder knows that probably only promotion will keep him at Oxford past this campaign. With a population of around 150,000 {2011 estimate}, Oxford is basically too big a city to only be hosting a fourth division side. Oxford United draw around 6K to 7K and in the past have gotten up to 10.3K (in 1986-7). Oxford fans would feel at the very least that their club should be in the third tier, and there are probably many gold-and-blue fans who dream of their club one day returning to the top flight – where Oxford United played for 3 seasons in the 1980s (86/87, 87/88, 88/89), when they were owned by Mephistophelian media baron Robert Maxwell, and when the U’s won their only major title, the 1986 League Cup.
Oxford United currently feature a striker who has had a longer spell there than Wilder – the Wiltshire-born 29-year-old James Constable, a classic lower-divisions bruiser of a forward, who has shaken off recent injuries and has scored 5 league goals this season so far. Overall, Constable has scored 85 league goals for Oxford in 216 games going back to the start of 2008-09, when he joined the then-Conference side on loan from Shrewsbury Town (Constable signed for Oxford 10 months later in the summer of 2009). Oxford fans will always love Constable for turning down the chance to almost double his wages – if he had went over to Oxford United’s much-hated nearby rivals Swindon Town. Here is what it says about that at James Constable’s page at Wikipedia…’Oxford accepted an improved offer for Constable from local rivals Swindon on 19 January 2012. Oxford allowed Constable to talk to the club, although he refused the opportunity to discuss the move with Swindon manager Paolo Di Canio.’…{end of excerpt}.
Just last week, Constable became only the third Oxford United player to have scored 100 goals in all competitions for the club {see this, ‘Constable’s century joy‘ (oxfordmail.co.uk, from 18 Nov.2013, by David Pritchard)}.
An up-and-coming striker also features in Oxford’s current set-up, the 25-year-old Deane Smalley, who signed for Oxford originally in the summer of 2011, but suffered an injury-plagued 2012, then re-signed with Oxford on less terms following a goal-less loan out to Bradford City. Smalley scored 5 goals in 2012-13 for Oxford (such as the one he is seen celebrating below), and has scored 5 league goals this season so far.
Perhaps the biggest impediment to Oxford United’s progression is their stadium situation – they don’t own the Kassam Stadium, nor does the Oxford City Council. It is owned by a shell company of the former club owner Firoz Kassam, and as such is an ongoing thorn in the side of Oxford United (since 2005-06). A sizable chunk of revenue Oxford United makes on ticket sales gets lost because of rent charges. To make matters worse, for the second season now, Oxford United must endure a stadium share with the second division Rugby Union club London Welsh RFC. So the pitch gets torn up, Oxford are more susceptible to injuries, and any attempts at an on-the-turf-passing-style get bogged down (literally) by mid-season.
In the spring of this year, supporters fought back this way…’Oxford fans successfully safeguard their stadium‘ (wsc.co.uk from 14 May 2013). In October 2013, this happened, ‘Kassam Stadium owners fail with appeal against community asset‘ (bbc.co.uk/sport/football).
Here is a recent article by Matthew Derbyshire from the Two Unfortunates site, about Oxford United’s stadium plight, ‘THE COMMUNITY VALUE OF FOOTBALL: OXFORD UNITED’S STADIUM BATTLE‘ (thetwounfortunates.com).
Exterior-view photo of the Kassam Stadium by nodale at panoramio.com ; photos by nodale at panoramio.com.
Chris Wilder, photo from oxfordmail.co.uk.
Deane Smalley, photo from julianalsopsyellowbanana.wordpress.com.
James Constable, photo from sportinglife.com.
Chesterfield FC, currently 2nd place (29 points/+9 goal difference).
Liverpool-born Chesterfield manager and Football League veteran MF Paul Cook had to wait a while for his second shot at managing an English pro club. Cook had a rough go of it in 2006-07 as manager of Merseyside 5th-division club Southport, this right at the time when the former Football League club had decided to return to professional status after 28 years as an amateur side following their being elected out of the League in 1978. Many players were unable (or unwilling) to make the jump to full-time status, and Cook had to rebuild virtually from scratch, and Southport finished in 23rd and went down to the Conference South (Southport stayed pro and rebounded in May 2010). Cook then signed on as manager of Connacht, western-Ireland-based Sligo Rovers in April 2007, and stayed at the helm of Sligo Rovers for 4-and-a-half seasons, winning two FAI Cups and leaving Sligo in good hands (Sligo Rovers won the League of Ireland title later that season, their first in a quarter century). Cook had left Sligo in February 2012 to take over at his old club Accrington Stanley, and with Cook in charge Stanley survived another year in the League, finishing in 18th in 2011-12. Eight months later, in October 2012, Chesterfield needed a new manager after John Sheridan bolted off to Plymouth Argyle, and they chose Paul Cook to try to get the North Derbyshire club back to the third division (Chesterfield finished in 8th last season).
In the following off-season (last summer), one of Cook’s requests to the CFC board was to sign (on a free transfer) the 28-year-old Liverpool-born MF Gary Roberts, who was playing for Swindon Town then, and whom Cook knew from his latter playing days at Accrington (circa 2005-06). That signing has been paying dividends, as Roberts has scored 4 goals in 14 league matches and has also notched 4 assists this season so far. Another player Cook brought in after past association has also been contributing to the Spireites good form, and that is ex-Sligo Rovers and ex-Hibernian MF Eoin Doyle, who scored 10 league goals in the SPL last season for Hibs. The Dublin-born Doyle is 25. He has scored 3 league goals and made 3 assists this season so far.
Chesterfield, with a population of around 103,000 {2011 estimate} is about 43 km or 29 mi north of Derby and is about 17 km or 10 mi south of Sheffield. Chesterfield FC, which has not been in the second division since 1950, nevertheless has good potential. Both much-larger nearby League clubs from Sheffield – Sheffield Wednesday (in the 2nd division relegation places, currently) and Sheffield United (in the third division relegation places, currently) – are still stuck in the doldrums. So Chesterfield has a real opportunity to attract new fans from the Greater Sheffield/North Derbyshire area, especially because Chesterfield boasts nice new facilities now. After more than a century at the eventually decrepit Saltergate (see photo below), Chesterfield now has a fine new 10K-capacity/3-year-old stadium, which the club itself owns. Currently, Chesterfield can count on a solid 5-6,000-strong fan base, and their support might have the potential to grow. But the Spireites need to get back to the third division, and get ensconced there again, if they expect to grow their fan base any more (their last spell in League One lasted 1 year [2011-12]). Chesterfield first dropped into the 4th division in 1961 (that was the third season that the Fourth Division [est. 1958-59] had existed), and when you add up all their years of League football, Chesterfield are an historically-third-division club, with 52 seasons being spent there, including 12 of their last 20 seasons (going back to 1994-95 and recently having a 6 year stay in the third tier from 2002-03 to 2006-07 {data from CFC-footy-mad site here}). Here is a recent article on Paul Cook and Chesterfield, from Skysports.com from 14 Oct. 2013 by Johnny Phillips, ‘Chesterfield manager Paul Cook could be the next big thing in football, says Johnny Phillips‘ (skysports.com/football).
CFC’s old ground (Saltergate), photo from ciderspace.co.uk/asp/opposition/chesterfield.
Aerial photo of new stadium by Rob McGann (Robinson Steel Structures of Derby) via bullsnews.blogspot.com/2010/08/chesterfields-new-stadium.
Paul Cook, photo from goal.com.
Gary Roberts, photo from chesterfield-fc.co.uk/news/article/20131111-roberts-post-daventry.
Eoin Doyle, photo from thestar.co.uk
Rochdale AFC, currently 3rd place (29 points/+5 goal difference).
Rochdale AFC play at Spotland Stadium, in Rochdale (which is in the north-eastern part of Greater Manchester, but was historically in the south-eastern part of Lancashire). Rochdale borough has a population of around 95,000 {2001 census figure}. Spotland has a capacity of 10,249, was opened in 1920, and was last renovated in 1999-2000. Ownership of the ground is a three-way split between Rochdale Borough Council, Rochdale AFC, and the (just-promoted) second-division rugby league club Rochdale Hornets RLFC. Rochdale AFC, aka the Dale, draw 2.5 K or so in mediocre years and up to 3.5K in good seasons, and have done so for over two decades now {attendances from E-F-S site, here}.
Rochdale AFC manager Keith Hill (age 44), was born in Bolton, Lancashire. Hill was a defender who had 388 league appearances and 11 goals, playing for Blackburn Rovers, Plymouth Argyle, Rochdale (for 5 seasons), Cheltenham Town, Wrexham, and Morecambe from 1987 to 2003. Hill is now in his second spell managing Rochdale, after previously getting the club promoted to the 3rd division for the first time in 36 years (in May 2010, seen in photo below). Following that 4-and-half-year spell running Rochdale, Hill was hired by second division club Barnsley in June 2011, but was sacked in December 2012 as Barnsley languished in the relegation zone (Hill’s then-number-two, David Flitcroft [who was also assistant under Hill at Rochdale], took over, and did a fine job of keeping Barnsley in the Champiionship by the skin of their teeth last May).
Keith Hill returned to Rochdale in January 2013, with one objective – to get the Dale back to the third division. Rochdale currently feature twin scoring threats in the Norfolk-born ex-Colchester FW Ian Henderson (age 28), who has tallied 5 league goals this season so far; and a young potential phenom in the 21-year old striker Scott Hogan, who is Manchester-born and previously played for Conference side Hyde. Hogan has scored 6 league goals so far this season.
Exterior-view of main stand at Spotland, photo by David Dixon at geograph.org.uk.
Photo of 13/14 RAFC home jersey badge from football-shirts.co.uk/rochdale-shirt.
Interior photo of Spotland by 100groundsclub.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-matchday-223-spotland
Keith Hill celebrating May 2010 Rochdale promotion (during pitch invasion), photo from manchestereveningnews.co.uk.
Ian Henderson, photo by Pete Norton/Getty Images Europe via zimbio.com.
Scott Hogan, photo from manchestereveningnews.co.uk.
Fleetwood Town, currently 4th place (28 points/+9 goal difference).
Fleetwood has a population of around 26,000 {2001 census figure}. Fleetwood is just north of Blackpool on the Fylde coast of west-central Lancashire.
Fleetwood Town manager Graham Alexander played 21 years for Scunthorpe United, Luton Town, Preston North End, and Burnley, as a defender and a holding midfielder. Alexander became the oldest player to make his Premier League debut at the age of 37 (when he played right back/defensive midfielder for Burnley in the 2008-09 Premier League). Alexander was also the third oldest goal scorer in Premier League history. A dead-ball specialist, he retired in 2012 with 837 league appearances and 107 league goals (130 goals in all competitions). In Graham Alexander’s final match in April 2012, he scored a 92nd-minute equalizer at Deepdale versus Charlton. Graham Alexander played well over one thousand games in all competitions, second-most as a pro in the English leagues only to Tony Ford {see this ‘Tony Ford (footballer born 1959)‘}.
Alexander made his coaching debut in December 2011 while still a player, as a joint-caretaker manager of Preston North End (along with David Unsworth), following Preston’s sacking of Phil Brown. That position only lasted 5 games, though, as Preston brought in tough guy Graham Westely, to poor results (Westley has slunk back to 3rd-division-but-relegation-threatened Stevenage now). Alexander was appointed manager of Fleetwood Town in December 2012, following the surprise sacking of Mickey Mellon. Mellon had gotten Fleetwood Town into the Football League in May 2012. Fleetwood Town is a former 9th- and 8th-division club which has won 5 promotions in the last decade. This is a club that was drawing just 206 per game nine seasons ago in 2004-05, and now draws in the vicinity of 2,800. Actually, at the time of his sacking last December, Mellon had the Cod Army in the play-off places (in 7th place). But Mellon’s squad had just lost 3 matches in a row including an FA Cup 2nd Round match to Aldershot. Graham Alexander didn’t exactly have too poor a run-in managing Fleetwood for the latter half of last season, but, for all intents and purposes, once the Fleetwood squad knew they were safe from relegation, they coasted, and Fleetwood finished in 13th place in 2012-13, losing their final 4 matches. In the off season there were a few key personnel moves. The headline-maker was the club’s biggest signing ever, of Jamaican-born almost-23-year-old FW Jamille Matt (bought from Kidderminster for an undisclosed sum above £200,000). There was also the signing of 21-year-old play-maker Antoni Sarcevic, a MF with real potential, who was instrumental in getting Phoenix-club Chester FC up into the Conference last season. Both have produced so far, with Matt scoring 5 league goals in 12 appearances and Sarcevic netting 3 times with 3 assists.
Aerial photo of Highbury Stadium, from fwpgroup.co.uk/job/fleetwood-town-football-club.
Photo of Graham Alexander, from skysports.com.
Photo of Jamille Matt, by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Europe via zimbio.com.
Photo of Antoni Sarcevic and Fleetwood teammates celebrating from visitfleetwood.info.
Thanks to footballfashion.org and Igloo Films, at footballfashion.org/wordpress/2013/07/29/portsmouth-fc-201314-sondico-home-and-away-kits/, for image of Portsmouth 13/14 home jersey badge.
Thanks to Football-shirts.co.uk for photo of Rochdale 13/14 home jersey badge, football-shirts.co.uk/rochdale-shirt.
Thanks to Torquay United shop for images which allowed me to assemble a 13/14 TUFC home jersey badge facsimilie {tufcshop.com/tufc-2013-coaster ; tufcshop.com/tufc-replica-kits }.
Thanks to the contributors at en.wikipedia.org, ‘2013–14 Football League Two‘.
England, 3rd division: Football League One – 2013-14 Location-map, with attendance data & 2013-14 home kit badges. / Plus 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place as of 14 Oct. 2013: Leyton Orient, Peterborough United, and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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Note: to see my latest map-&-post of the English 3rd division, click on the following, Eng-3rd Level/League One.
England, 3rd division: Football League One – 2013-14 Location-map, with attendance data & 2013-14 home kit badges
Facsimiles of each clubs’ home jersey badges for the 2013-14 season are shown, in alphabetical order, across the the top of the map page. Below that, at the lower left, is a location-map of the clubs in the 2013-14 Football League One. At the right-hand side of the map page is attendance data for current League One clubs from the two previous seasons (2011-12 and 2012-13). Change (by percent), as well as percent capacity (ie, how much the club filled their stadium on average) from last season, are shown. League movement (if any) of the clubs is shown as well.
Below, top 3 clubs in the League One table, as of 14 October 2013…
Leyton Orient, 1st place as of 14 October 2013.
Photo credits above -
Aerial photo of Brisbane Road from skysports.com.
Interior photo of Brisbane Road by Chris Eason at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brisbane_Road.jpg & at flickr.com/photos/45189308@N00.
Photo of Kevin Lisbie from leytonorient.com.
Photo of Russell Slade from london24.com.
Photo of David Mooney by Simon O’Connor at ilfordrecorder.co.uk/sport/sport-football/orient/orient_lose_perfect_record.
Photo of the old gabled Orient sign at Brisbane Road with a view of Waltahm Forest borough in the background, photo fro Getty Images via independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/giving-the-name-away-stadiums-named-after-sponsors-gallery.
Leyton Orient are a traditionally lower-leagues Football League club that is located in East London and who play at the 9,271-capacity Brisbane Road. Brisbane Road is also known as the Matchroom Stadium, and has, since 2007, multi-story apartment buildings in each of the 4 corners of the ground – see this photo from the following article by John Ashdown at Guardian.com/football, ‘At which grounds can you watch football for free?‘). [Note: the ground is named after Leyton Orient chairman Beary Hearn's sports promotion company, Matchroom Sport.].
The club now known as Leyton Orient was originally formed by members of the Glyn Cricket Club in 1881. The club began fielding a football team in 1888, under the name Orient Football Club. This name change came about on the suggestion of a player, Jack R Dearing, who worked for the Orient shipping line (later the P&O Line). This was a fitting moniker, as ‘orient’ means east and the club has always called East London its home. The club’s name was changed again to Clapton Orient in 1898 to represent the area of London in which they played at the time (their location back then was a few km. west of the O’s current location). As Clapton Orient FC, the club were, along with 5 other clubs, allowed to join the newly-expanded Second Division in 1905-06, when the Football League expanded by 4 teams (from 36 to 40) – with both the First Division and the Second Division expanding from 18 to 20 teams. {See this, ‘1905-06 Football League/Second Division‘ (en.wikipedia.org)}. Clapton Orient finished dead last in their first season in the League (there was no automatic relegation out of the League until 1986-87). Leyton Orient did end up being relegated 23 years later (in 1928-29), to the Third Division (South) [which had been instituted in 1920-21]. While still in the 3rd-division-South, the club (still known as Clapton Orient) moved a few kilometres east to their present location in Leyton, which was at that time a borough of Essex (see 2 sentences below), and into Brisbane Road, where the club have played ever since. A decade later, in 1947, to properly reflect their somewhat-recent location-change, their name was belatedly changed to Leyton Orient. That only lasted two decades, because there was yet another name change in 1966, to simply Orient FC – this after the borough of Leyton (which was at that point situated in Essex) was absorbed into the London Borough of Waltham Forest. 21 seasons later, in 1987, partly as the result of the wishes of many longtime Orient supporters, the club returned to their Leyton Orient name. The club has undergone several crises in its history, and another crisis might be looming on the horizon (see 4 paragraphs below).
Leyton Orient are the second-oldest League club in London, behind Fulham, and are the 24th-oldest club currently playing in the Football League. Leyton Orient have spent exactly one season in the first division. That was in 1962-63, at the early part of the Swinging London era, under the management of Johnny Carey, who got Leyton Orient into the top flight by finishing in second in the 1961-62 Second Division (Liverpool won the Second Division that season). Leyton Orient struggled in the top flight in 62/63, and were relegated as last-place-finishers with only 6 wins in 46 games. But they did defeat local rivals West Ham United at home that season. So there was at least that.
When Leyton Orient played that one season in the first division they wore blue and white colors – Leyton Orient wore blue jerseys and white pants from 1947-48 all the way to 1966-67 (19 seasons). In 1967-68, red jerseys were adopted once again (the club had started out in red jerseys back in the late 1800s/early 1900s, then played for around two decades with white-jerseys-featuring-a-large-red-V [from 1910 to 1931]). In 1970-71, the mythical beast the Wyvern first appeared on a Leyton Orient crest. {See this, Leyton Orient kit & crest history here (historicalkits.co.uk)}.
{note, attendance data for the following two sentences found here (european-football-statistics.co.uk)}.
When Leyton Orient had that solitary first-division season-in-the-sun in 62/63, they drew drew 16,206 per game, which is more than 3 times what the club draws these days. The club’s all-time biggest average crowd was in 1956-57, at 17,524 per game (56/57 was the first season that Leyton Orient were back in the second division after 20 seasons in the third tier [since 1928-29]). Compare that to last season [2012-13], when Leyton Orient drew just 4,006 per game. Last season, Orient started poorly under ex-Brighton and ex-Yeovil Town manager Russell Slade (who has been in charge at Brisbane Road since April 2010), but Leyton Orient’s second-half form was among the best in the third division, and they ended up just short of a play-off place in 7th (4 points behind Swindon). This season, Orient are continuing the fine form they displayed in the latter half of the last campaign. For their first 5 home matches in 13/14, attendance had picked up around 600 per game to a then-average of 4,605 per game. Then Orient drew 6,300 on 12 Oct. 2013, beating the reviled MK Dons 2-1, and so after 6 home matches this season, Orient’s current (12 Oct. 2013) average attendance is 4,940 per game.
After 10 or 11 games played by all League One clubs this season, the undefeated (9-2-0) Leyton Orient have scored the most, with 27 goals. David Mooney and Kevin Lisbie are Orient’s main scoring threats, and they boast a solid playmaker in the French 28-year-old MF Romain Vincelot (ex-Dagenham & Redbridge). David Mooney is a 28-year-old Dublin, Ireland-born ex-Shamrock Rovers, ex-Norwich City, ex-Charlton, and ex-Colchester FW. Mooney has scored 9 league goals for Orient this season so far, and [as of 14 Oct. 2013] is tied for second-most goals in League One along with MK Dons’ Patrick Bamford – behind only Coventry City’s Callum Wilson, who has scored 10 goals {click on the following for 13/14 League One top scorers (flashscores.co.uk)}. Mooney’s strike partner is the 34-year-old East-London-born/former Jamaica international, and ex-Colchester/Ipswich/Millwall FW Kevin Lisbie, who also is among the top scorers in the third tier this campaign – Lisbie has 7 league goals so far, including the winner on 12 October v. MK Dons. That goal, which was set up for Lisbie by Mooney, via a neat through pass in the 67th minute, put the score at 2-1 and kept the O’s in first place. There was 6,359 in attendance at Brisbane Road for that match last Saturday, which is about 2,300 more than Leyton Orient had averaged last season. This bodes very well for the traditionally low-drawing O’s, and if they can keep drawing this well and start to attract folks who don’t usually consider going to Brisbane Road, and if the Mooney/Lisbie strike partnership can continue to find the back of the net, the sky might be the limit for this un-fancied, chronically cash-strapped and oft-ignored East London club. Leyton Orient have not been in the second division in 32 years (since 1981-82). Leyton Orient’s fine form in 2013 is even more surprising when one considers this fact – Russell Slade has not spent one pound on any transfer in assembling his current squad. See this article, ‘Russell Slade: I don’t half get a buzz from a good free transfer – How are Leyton Orient top of League One and unbeaten, despite their manager having never paid for a player?‘ (theguardian.com from 11 October 2013 by Paul Doyle).
Leyton Orient in the League Championship next season would be brilliant, especially when you consider what is in store for this neck of the woods in the coming few years (see following link). From WSC.co.uk, from 19 Sept.2013, ‘Leyton Orient could fold over West Ham move” (wsc.co.uk).
Here is a nice feature (it has lots of photos), on Brisbane Road, from Who Ate All The Pies site, by Chris Wright, from 22 November 2013…’Around The Grounds: Brisbane Road, Home Of Leyton Orient (whoateallthepies).
Peterborough United, 2nd place as of 14 October 2013.
Exterior view of London Road, photo from mobile.swindontownfc.co.uk.
Aerial view of London Road, photo (unattributed) from andrewhowells.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/whats-so-bad-about-the-championship.
Britt Assombalonga goal celebration, photo from August 2013 from peterboroughtoday.co.uk.
Britt Assombalonga, action photo from planetf1.com/Dons-undone-by-nine-man-Posh.
Peterborough United are managed by Darren Ferguson (son of SAF), who is in his second spell as manager of the Posh. In January 2011, Darren Ferguson reconciled with Peterborough United owner Darragh MacAnthony, and replaced current-Yeovil Town manager Gary Johnson. In his first spell at the helm at Peterborough, from 2007 to 2009, Ferguson had gotten the club promoted in consecutive seasons, both times getting automatic promotion by finishing in second (in League Two in 07/08, and then in League One in 08/09). Now back in the third tier, the Posh currently [14 October 2013] sit second in League One, 1 point behind Leyton Orient.
Peterborough entered the Football League from the old Midlands League and into the old Fourth Division in 1960-61, after having been elected into the League in June 1960 {see this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_League_Fourth_Division#Elections_to_the_Football_League}.The club’s home ground is London Road, which has an interesting mix of old stands and a relatively new stand (the Main Stand). London Road, which opened in 1913, has a current [league-game] capacity of 14,640 (with room for around 5,000 standing). A decade ago, Peterborough were only drawing in the 4 K to 5 K range, though around 20 years ago, during their first-ever spell in the second division (2 seasons in 1992-93 and 1993-94), the Posh were drawing around 6,000 per game. Since 2007-08, Peterborough have been drawing in the 6 K to 9 K range. Last season they drew 8,215 per game. Their highest average gate in the modern era was achieved 3 seasons ago in 2011-12, when they averaged 9,111 per game and finished 18th in the Football League Championship. Peterborough’s highest finish was in 10th place in the second tier in 1992-93.
Since 2007-08, when Peterborough were in the 4th division and won promotion (finishing in 2nd place, 5 points behind MK Dons), the Posh have either moved up or went down in 5 of the last 6 seasons (3 promotions and twice relegated). That makes Peterborough a 2nd division/3rd division yo-yo club, and their current form is only cementing that tag. The Posh can score seemingly at will, but they have in recent years fielded a sieve-like defense. It always seems like Peterborough play in 6- or 7-goal matches. In 2010-11, the season after relegation back to the third tier, they scored the most goals in the Football League that season, with 106 (but they conceded 75) – and bounced straight back up to the Championship via the playoffs. In 2011-12, the Posh scored 70 goals and finished 18th in the Championship – they managed to stay up that year despite the 77 goals they conceded (which was tied, with Ipswich Town, for second-worst in the league that season; only Doncaster was worse, giving up 80 goals).
Last season [2012-13], the Posh scored 66 goals and conceded 75 goals and were once again relegated back to the 3rd tier. Peterborough ended up just just one point away from safety, conceding an 89th-minute goal to eventual play-off winner Crystal Palace in the last game of the season. That late goal in south London allowed fellow-relegation-threatened Barnsley and Huddersfield – who were playing each other that day up in West Yorkshire and discovered the Posh’s 2-3 score – to collude a draw by spending the last 5 minutes of the match not attacking each other and passing only sideways-or-back…and thus seal Peterborough’s relegation. Those 77 goals allowed last season by Peterborough was only better than the last-place-finisher, Bristol City (with 84 goals allowed). The 2012-13 League Championship was a very tight affair, with just 14 points separating the play-off places from the relegation places (ie, 6th place had 68 points, while 22nd place had 54 points). {See this, ‘2012-13 League Championship league table‘ (flashscores.co.uk).}. In other words, Peterborough were hardly a typical relegated side last season.
Now, after addressing the squad’s deficiencies, Peterborough naturally splurged not on a defender (what fun would that be ?), but on a striker, breaking the club-record tranfer-fee (price undisclosed) with the July 2013 signing of ex-Watford, ex-Braintree Town, and ex-Southend FW Britt Assombalonga, who is only 20.8 years old and who scored 15 league goals in League Two for the Shrimpers in 2012-13. {See this from bbc.co.uk/football, from 31 July 2013, ‘Britt Assombalonga joins Peterborough in club record deal‘}. Assombalonga has scored 7 times in 11 league games for Peterborough this season. The 2013-14 Posh also feature 28-year-old ex-Crawley Town FW Tyrone Barnett, who has 6 goals so far this season (including the winner in their 0-1 victory in Burslem over Port Vale on 12 Oct.); as well as 24-year-old Winger Lee Tomlin, who previously played for the now-defunct Rushden & Diamonds (I), and who has made over 120 appearances for the Posh since 2010, and who has 2 goals and 4 assists this season so far. Anchoring the Posh midfield is old hand and Northern Ireland international Grant McCann, who is 33 years old (with over 100 appearances for Cheltenham Town, for Scunthorpe United, and for Peterbotough). McCann and has netted 4 times this season, with one assist.
Wolverhampton Wanderers, 3rd place as of 14 October 2013 (with a game in hand).
Speaking of odds-on-favorites for automatic promotion this season in League One, Wolves still have their 18 million pounds per season parachute payments, from when they got relegated from the Premier League in May 2012. They now have a proven League Championship-caliber manager in Kenny Jackett, and Wolves have finally brought back, from loan, Leigh Griffiths (who tore up the SPL last season, with 23 goals for Hibs). If they are not running away with it by the Holidays, look for the Black Country’s biggest club to splurge come the January transfer window.
Photo credits above –
Leigh Griffiths, photo from wolves.co.uk/match-report.
Kenny Jackett, photo from dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/Wolves-calm-waves-anger-faultless-Jackett-moves-hot-seat
From Bradford City fansite/badge pin purveyors Paraders.co.uk, ‘Summary history of club crests and characters adopted by Bradford City AFC since 1903‘ (paraders.co.uk).
Thanks to Bradford City official site for photo-segment of 13/14 City home kit, http://www.bantams-clubshop.co.uk/bc-6-ss-home-jsy-13-14-adult.
Thanks to Crawley Town official site for photo-segment of CTFC kit badge [gold-thread-outer-disc stitching], from banner ad at http://www.crawleytownshop.co.uk/ & for photo of large CTFC home kit badge [~wallpaper], crawleytownfc.com/news/article.
Thanks to Crewe Alexandra official site for photo-segment of Crew Alexandra 13/14 home jersey [background colors of red-&-dark-red-checkerboard] from thealexstore.com.
Thanks to Walsall broadcast journalist Jonathan Sidway for the image of the Walsall 125th anniversary kit badge, ‘Walsall FC 125th Anniversary: One To Remember?‘ (jonsidaway.wordpress.com).
Thanks to Soccerway.com for attendance data.
Thanks to the Football League official site for attendance figures, http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/DivisionalAttendance/0,,10794~201225,00.html.
Thanks to the contributors to the pages at en.wikipedia.org, ‘2013–14 Football League One‘ (en.wikipedia.org).
Thanks to the Footy-Mad sites for league histories -
Leyton Orient League history, http://www.leytonorient-mad.co.uk/league_history/leyton_orient/index.shtml.
Peterborough United League history, http://www.peterboroughunited-mad.co.uk/league_history/peterborough_united/index.shtml.
Thanks to Jonathan Kaye at Leyton Orient Fans Trust site, for information on the shell game that is the Brisbane Road lease arrangement (Brisbane Road is ultimately owned by the London Borough of Waltahm Forest, which was leased to LOFC for 999 years, who then ‘sold’ the lease and naming rights to Matchroom Sport, which then ‘sold’ back a temporary lease to LOFC).
England & Wales: Premier League, 2013-14 – location-map with attendance data. / Plus, a chart of metropolitan-area populations in the UK – the 40 largest Urban Areas in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), with clubs in the 2013-14 Premier League listed.
2013-14 Premier League map & attendance chart (12/13 attendances)
PREMIER LEAGUE – Fixtures, Results, Table (soccerway.com).
2012-13 – a banner year for pro football in Wales.
Of the 20 clubs in the Premier League this season, 2 are based in Wales – the newly-promoted Cardiff City, and the third-year-Premier League-club Swansea City AFC, both of South Wales (and separated by only 55 km. or 34 miles). It is the first time in the history of the English 1st division (which was established in 1888-89) that 2 Welsh clubs are playing in the top flight at the same time. This will be the 16th season in the top flight for Cardiff City (Cardiff City’s total seasons spent in the 1st division: 1921-22 to 1928-29 [an 8 season spell]; 1952-53 to 1956-57 [a 5 season spell]; 1961-62 to 1962-63 [a 2 season spell]; 2013-14). This will be the 5th season that Swansea City are playing in the top flight (Swansea City’s total seasons spent in the 1st division: 1981-82 to 1982-83 [a 2 season spell]; 2011-12 to 2013-14 [a 3 season spell so far]). No other Welsh club has played in the English top flight, but Wrexham spent 4 seasons in the Second Division from 1978-79 to 1981-82; while Newport County (I) played the 1946-47 season in the Second Division. {To see a post I made a couple years back about the 6 Welsh football clubs which are in the English football league pyramid, click here.}
More positive news for Welsh pro football can be seen in the fact that last season, Newport County (II) of South Wales won promotion to the Football League. So after a 25-year absence, the city of Newport, Wales again has a club in the Football League. Newport County accomplished this by defeating Wrexham (of North Wales) in the 2013 Conference National Play-off Final at Wembley. Congratulations to Newport City AFC and supporters of the Exiles. And congratulations to the the Bluebirds’ faithful (I refuse to call Cardiff the Red Dragons)…for their club’s first top-flight-promotion in 51 years. And congratulations to 20%-supporter-owned Swansea City, and its fans, for winning the League Cup, and for demonstrating that playing attractive passing football in the first division – and actually staying up and winning silverware – can still be achieved by modest clubs from relatively small cities. Swansea is a pretty small city to be having a successful first division club, and now Swansea City are advantageously set-up to become the first Welsh club to qualify for a European competition {see this, ‘2013–14 UEFA Europa League/Play-off Round‘.
The smallest cities to have an English 1st Division football club (since 1946-47)
Please note: all populations discussed below are not city populations, but rather metropolitan-area populations (which are also known as Urban Areas, and which are also known as Built-up areas). Why? Because there are not walls around these cities. People who live outside, but still nearby, any given city can and very often do attend home matches of a club in that city. Besides, some clubs (like Grimsby Town) don’t even play in the city or borough they are named after. This exercise is to look at what sort of population each club has as its potential catchment area. If I were to use populations from just within the city-limits of all these settlements, it would not accurately reflect the total population from which the club could reasonably expect (or hope) to draw upon as ticket-paying customers.
Here is my data source for metro-area populations – Source of data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_the_United_Kingdom.
The Swansea Built-up area is the 27th-largest in the United Kingdom, with a metro-area population of only around 300,000 {2011 figure; see the chart I made further below}. (Actually, it might be surprising to some that Swansea’s metro-area is slightly smaller than the metro-area of Newport, Wales.). At present [2013-14], the only Premier League club from a metropolitan-area smaller than Swansea is Norwich City. The Norwich, Norfolk Built-up area has a population of around 213,000, and is the 38th-largest in the UK. It must be mentioned that Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire – home of just-promoted Hull City AFC – is slightly larger than Swansea, as is Sunderland, Wearside – home of Sunderland AFC. Hull has a metro-area pop. of around 314 K, making Hull the 24th-largest metro area in the UK; Sunderland has a metro-area pop. of around 335 K (that figure does not include any part of the Newcastle metro-area), making Sunderland the 21st-largest metro area in the UK.
In the past and recent past (going back to the post-War period [from 1946-47 on]), there have been 8 First Division/Premier League clubs from cities smaller than Norwich (ie, smaller than around 200,000). Below are listed the smallest cities to have an English 1st division football club since the post-War period (1946-47 to 2013-14), with each club’s total seasons and their last season in the top flight noted, and current metro-area populations listed…
{all figures from the following link unless otherwise noted – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_the_United_Kingdom}.
-Swindon Town, 1 season in the 1st division (in 1993-94): Swindon, Wiltshire is the 40th-largest built-up area in the UK at 185,000 metro-population currently;
-Ipswich Town, 26 seasons in the 1st division (last in 2001-02): Ipswich, Suffolk is the 42nd-largest built-up area in the UK at 178,000 metro-population currently;
-Wigan Athletic, 8 seasons in the 1st division (last in 2012-13): Wigan is the 43rd-largest built-up area in the UK at 175,000 metro-population currently;
-Oxford United, 3 seasons in the 1st division (last in 1987-88): Oxford, Oxfordshire is the 45th-largest built-up area in the UK at 171,000 metro-population currently;
-Burnley, 52 seasons in the 1st division (last in 2009-10): Burnley, Lancashire is the 54th-largest built-up area in the UK at 149,000 metro-population currently;
-Blackburn Rovers, 72 seasons in the 1st division (last in 2011-12): Blackburn, Lancashire is the 56th-largest built-up area in the UK at 146,000 metro-population currently;
-Grimsby Town, 12 seasons in the 1st division (last in 1947-48): Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire is the 58th-largest built-up area in the UK at 134,000 metro-population currently;
-Carlisle United, 1 season in the 1st division (in 1974-75): Carlisle, Cumbria is about the 108th-largest settlement in the UK at around 73,000 {that and its city-size-ranking is from 2008, obtained here (citypopulation.de/UK-Cities)}.
Chart: Metropolitan-area populations in the United Kingdom – the 40 largest Built-up Areas in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). With clubs in the 2013-14 Premier League listed.
Click on image below.
Chart: Built-Up Area populations in the UK – the 40 largest Built-up Areas in the United Kingdom, with clubs in the 2013-14 Premier League listed
Source of data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_the_United_Kingdom.
This chart was uploaded onto reddit.com/soccer by iam8mai, one day after I posted it… here is the thread – http://en.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1k9hoh/premier_league_team_population_size/. Thanks to all the 90+ folks who commented there, and thanks to those who spotted my errors, and thanks to that St Mirren fan [portaccio] who pointed out that Motherwell should have been listed in the list of clubs currently in the Scottish 1st division which are located in Greater Glasgow, which he did after he pointed out to the other (disgruntled) St Mirren fan that Paisley is indeed officially considered part of Greater Glasgow].
Thanks to D-maps.com, for the blank map of the UK, http://d-maps.com/carte.php?num_car=5546&lang=en.
Thanks to Soccerway.com for stadium capacities.
Thanks to the Footy-mad sites for their invaluable League Histories of every club in Levels 1 through 5, such as ‘Cardiff City’s complete league history‘ (cardiffcity-mad.co.uk/league_history); and ‘Swansea City’s complete league history‘ (swanseacity-mad.co.uk/league_history).
England, 2nd division: Football League Championship – 2013-14 Location-map, with attendance data & 2013-14 home kit badges.
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League Championship – 2013-14 Location-map, with attendance data & 2013-14 kit badges
Note: to see my latest map-&-post of the English 2nd division, click on the following, category: Eng-2nd Level/Champ’ship.
Football League Championship – Fixtures, Results, Table (soccerway.com).
From bbc.co.uk, from 19 June 2013, ‘Championship fixtures 2013-14: QPR start against Sheff Wed‘ (bbc.co.uk/sport/football).
From bbc.co.uk, from 31 July 2013, by Phil Maiden, ‘Championship 2013-14 season: Club-by-club guide‘ (bbc.co.uk/sport/football
From Historical Football Kits site, ‘Sky Bet Championship 2013 – 2014 [Kits of all 24 Championship clubs in the 2013-14 season]‘ (historicalkits.co.uk).
From The Two Unfortunates, from 24 July 2013, by Lanterne Rouge, ‘TTU GO PREDICTING: A CLUB-BY-CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW‘ (thetwounfortunates.com).
From Guardian.com/football, from 27 July 2013, by Sachin Nakrani, ‘Twenty things to look out for in the Football League this season
How will Brighton fare without Gus Poyet, can Yeovil’s incredible rise go on and can Gianfranco Zola stir up the Hornets again?‘. (guardian.co.uk/football).
League Championship – 2013-14 Location-map, with attendance data & 2013-14 home kit badges.
Facsimiles of each clubs’ home jersey badges for the 2013-14 season are shown, in alphabetical order, across the the top of the map page. Below that, at the lower left, is a location-map of the clubs in the 2013-14 League Championship. Included on the map, this time, I have listed which historic county or metropolitan-area each club comes from. At the lower right of the map page is attendance data from the 2 previous seasons. Last season, of these 24 clubs which comprise the 13/14 Championship, Brighton & Hove Albion drew best at 26,236 per game (and with an impressive 85 percent-capacity at their excellent new two-year-old venue, the Amex at Falmer).
Meanwhile, the lowest-drawing club that is in the 2013-14 Championship is, of course, second-tier-debutantes Yeovil Town, of Yeovil, Someset (population of around 52,000 {2002 figure}). Yeovil Town drew 4,071 per game last season in League One. 72 other clubs in the Premier League or the Football League (the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th divisions) or the Conference (the 5th Level) drew higher than Yeovil Town drew last season {note: you can see each club’s 12/13 attendance-rank at the center of the attendance-data-chart on the map page]. Yeovil Town, nicknamed the Glovers, tried for years and years to get elected to the Football League back when you couldn’t play your way in (pre-1986-87). They found other ways to get their foot in, by turning into a Cup-specialist club (once beating Sunderland in the 4th Round of the FA Cup [in 1949]). 11 seasons ago, in 2002-03, Yeovil Town finally got into the League, winning the Conference National, led by a young Gary Johnson during his first spell (2001-05) as Yeovil’s manager. Then when Gary Johnson got them promoted to the 3rd tier, in 2004-05, folks were saying this little club from the West Country were punching above their weight. Now, a season after Johnson’s return and another promotion, the Glovers are REALLY punching above their weight. One usually does not see such a small club in the English second division…certainly not in the last 25 years. We haven’t seen such a small club from such a small town as Yeovil in the 2nd tier since current-4th-division-side Scunthorpe United were relegated from the Championship in 2011 (and Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire is a bit bigger – it has a population about 20,000 larger than Yeovil, at around 72,000 {2010 figure}). Before that, Crew Alexandra of Crewe, Cheshire were in the second division from 2003-04 to 2005-06 (Crew has a population of around 65,000 {2011 figure}). Before that, Bury FC of Bury, Greater Manchester were in the second division for a 2-year-spell from 1997 to ’99 (Bury has a borough population of around 60,000 {2001 figure}). Before that, Shrewsbury Town, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire were in the second division for a couple of spells, last in 1988-89 (Shrewsbury has a population of around 70,000 {2011 figure}. Before that, Carlisle United, of Carlisle, Cumbria were in the second division for a 4-season-spell from 1982 to ’86 (Carlisle has a population of around 71,000 {2001 figure}. So that is going back 30 years, and all these towns just listed above are all bigger than Yeovil. You have to go all the way back to 1982-83 (31 years ago) to find a second division club from a city smaller than Yeovil – and that is Wrexham, North Wales, home of the current-Non-League-side Wrexham FC (Wrexham, Wales has a population of around 42,000 {2001 figure}).
[sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_League_Championship ;
http://www.myfootballfacts.com/Second_Division_Tables_1946-47_to_1991-92.html; http://www.footymad.net.]
For Yeovil Town FC and their supporters this season, there will be good times in store at the 9,565-capacity Huish Park, there in south Somerset… even if the green-and-white hooped Glovers, led-by ex-Latvia and ex-Bristol City gaffer Gary Johnson, go straight back down (please don’t).
As to the kit badge facsimiles I have assembled, one club – Bolton Wanderers – have a new design for their official crest and their kit badge. It is actually a re-working of an older design, with those silly streaming red-and-blue ribbons now gone, and a more traditional horizontal-red-ribbon-with-red-rose-of-Lancashire device added, see this, ‘The Rose returns: Bolton Wanderers’ brand new badge is real‘ (lionofviennasuite.com [SB Nation]). Another club, the just-promoted AFC Bournemouth, have re-vamped their official crest {see it here at their Wikipedias page, but have kept the old one on their 13/14 kits. With the Cherries’ new crest, gone is the ribbon-banner that contained the club’s name, and gone are the red/white vertical-stripes. With the new crest, the shield is larger and contains the club’s name, which is now at the top of the shield and in a modern gold sans-serif font; also there are now some red/black vertical-stripes (to reflect the home jersey-style of recent years). Bournemouth’s main crest element – the player’s-head-with-stylized-motion-streaked-hair-who-is-heading-a-ball – remains, but now the red in the crest is darker and very slightly more raspberry-reddish – to reflect the shade of red that the Dorset-based club has been wearing the past few years {see this, http://www.afcb.co.uk/news/article/2013-06-01-cherries-launch-championship-kits-851694.aspx}.
Not counting background color or colors, this season, the League Championship has 9 clubs which sport home kit badges that are different from their official crest – here they are…
-Barnsley: a dark-red-bordered shield device frames the distinctive crest of the Tykes of South Yorkshire.
-Blackpool: the usual color-reverse for the text elements on the outer-rim of the Seasiders’ crest.
-Derby County: like last year, the Rams sport just the minimalist-ram-in-profile, shown larger and without the framing disc or the text elements. With black collars on their traditional whites, its a great look.
-Huddersfield Town: as with the last couple of seasons, the Terriers of West Yorkshire have a shield framing their crest, plus a three-star device at the top (the stars are for the cub’s 1923, 1924, and 1925 English titles); this year the shield has a dark blue border and the stars are gold (last season both were black).
-Ipswich Town: like last year, the Tractor Boys of Suffolk, East Anglia have a white three-star device at the top of their work-horse-in-crenellated-shield crest (the stars are for the cub’s 1962 English title, their 1978 FA Cup title, and their 1981 UEFA Cup title).
-Millwall: celebrating 20 years at their Bermondsey, South London home of the New Den, the Lions have a disc encircling their rampant-lion-crest, with the words [in all-caps] ‘Twenty Years At The New Den – 1993 -2013′; plus the home jersey features a nice double-thick-pinstripe effect in white-on-navy-blue.
-Nottingham Forest: as the club did last year, atop their singular modernist-tree-on-river crest [which is a color reverse of their official crest], there are 2 white stars for Forest’s two European titles (won in 1979 & 1980 when the legendary Brian Clough was their manager).
-Watford: here is the club’s announcement on their new kits: ‘Watford’s new kits for 2013/14 will feature stylish monochrome club crests – although the official club crest will remain absolutely unchanged’. So, this season, for the Hornets of Hertfordshire, in their home kit there is no red trim (besides sponsor logo), and in the club’s head-of-Hart-of-Hertfordshire-in-a-polygon crest their home kit badge has no red – only black-and-yellow. Why? Maybe their Italian owners think the stag on their crest looks more stylish this way.
-Wigan Athletic: this is the second straight year Wigan have featured a gold-disc-outline on their Wigan-Tree-in-crown badge. The disc-outline of the Latics’ official crest is in their ‘electric blue’ color; but actually, Wigan are sporting a darker shade of light royal blue this season, and have a thinner-vertical-stripe-pattern on their nice-looking home jersey {see this from (laticsshop.net) – old school style, harking back to Wigan’s late ’70s/early ’80s-first-years-in-the-Football-League era.
The just-relegated Wigan Athletic, of Wigan, Greater Manchester, have now become the only club in the history of association football to have won the FA Cup title and to have been relegated in the same season. Manager Roberto Martinez has moved on to a bigger club nearby (Everton), and ex-St. Johnstone, ex-Burnley, and ex-Bolton manager Owen Coyle is at the helm. Maybe another new arrival, burly-but-deft-touch-striker Grant Holt, will power Wigan right back to the Premier League so they can reclaim their 4-out-of-8-seasons’-status as the lowest-drawing top-flight club (QPR were the lowest-drawing club in the Premier League last season and in 2011-12, while in 2005-6 it was Portsmouth, and in 2010-11 it was Blackpool).
From en.wikipedia.org, ‘2013–14 Football League Championship‘ (en.wikipedia.org).
Thanks to Football League site for 2012-13 attendance figures, football-league.co.uk//DivisionalAttendance. Thanks to European-Football-Statistics.co.uk, for the 2012-13 attendance figures of the 3 relegated teams (QPR, Reading, Wigan), european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm.
Thanks to Derby County online store for the photo segment of the 2013-14 home kit, dcfcmegastore.co.uk/item/mens-replicakit-homekit_1314-home-shirt.
Thanks to garibaldired for uploading a photo of the 2013-14 Nottingham Forest home kit at forestforum.co.uk/thread [image later scrapped, see comment #1 & 2 below]. / Thanks to nottinghamforestdirect.com for the Nottingham Forest 13/14 home kit badge photo, http://nottinghamforestdirect.com/stores/forest/products/kit_selector.aspx?selectorid=302&CMP=KNC-Google2&portal=nottppc&cur=USD..
Thanks to bogdan at lufctalk.com/forums for uploading a photo of the Leeds United kit badge at lufctalk.com/forums/index.php?topic=5589.
Thanks to FootyHeadlines.com for this gallery of the new Middlesbrough kits, http://www.footyheadlines.com/2013/05/middlesbrough-13-14-2013-14-home-and.html.
Thanks to FootyHeadlines.com for the photo of the Millwall 2013-14 badge, http://www.footyheadlines.com/2013/06/millwall-13-14-2013-14-home-and-away.html
Thanks to QPR shop, http://www.shop.qpr.co.uk/gb/item/adult-pre-match-jacket-102508.
Thanks to Footballkitnews.com, for photo of Watford 2013-14 kit badge, http://www.footballkitnews.com/9112/new-watford-kit-2013-2014-puma-watford-fc-home-shirt-13-14-138-com-sponsor/.
Thanks to htafcmegastore.com at htafc.com for 2013-14 Huddersfield Town kit badge.
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Biography – MCGREGOR, JAMES DUNCAN – Volume XVI (1931-1940) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
McGREGOR, JAMES DUNCAN, businessman, livestock breeder, rancher, and office holder; b. 29 Aug. 1860 in Amherstburg, Upper Canada, son of David McGregor, a livery-stable owner, and Annie Smith; m. 10 April 1883 Elizabeth (Lizzy) Murphy (d. 1902) in North Cypress, Man., and they had three sons, one of whom predeceased him, and one daughter; d. 15 March 1935 in Winnipeg.
Educated in Windsor, Upper Canada, James Duncan McGregor left school at age 15. In the spring of 1877 he moved with his parents and siblings to Winnipeg, where his father and uncle opened a sale-and-commission business dealing in horses, oxen, feed, harnesses, wagons, buggies, and carts. Two years later McGregor set himself up as a trader in the frontier settlement of Portage la Prairie. In 1881, when the Canadian Pacific Railway decided on the route through Brandon, McGregor arrived there before the line was completed and was soon in business, outfitting settlers with horses and cattle. In 1885 he created J. D. McGregor and Company, which auctioned horses, cattle, and sheep. Four years later, he co-founded Munn, McGregor and Company with Henry Toke Munn; its primary function was to purchase western range horses, tame them, and sell them to Manitoba farmers. They dissolved their partnership in 1893, probably at McGregor’s insistence, because of difficulties in collecting money owed to them by poor farmers, most of whom purchased on credit. Nevertheless, McGregor’s original firm stayed in business until at least 1895 and was quite successful. By 1889 he had built for his family a residence that the Brandon Mail described as “one of the handsomest” in the city.
McGregor’s dream was to find a breed of cattle that would “produce quality beef economically.” He first encountered such animals at the farm of Hiram Walker and Sons [see Hiram Walker*] in Walkerville (Windsor), Ont. He saw similar cattle at the Quorn Ranch [see John Ware*] in the District of Alberta. In 1889 Walter Frederick Campbell Gordon-Cumming, a shareholder in the Quorn, had imported 40 Aberdeen Angus heifers and 3 bulls from his farm in Scotland. Later that year McGregor brought 2,000 cattle to the Quorn Ranch to be fattened and noticed the Aberdeen Angus herd, which he subsequently purchased and moved to one of his farms south of Oak Lake, Man. In the early 1890s, under the firm name Glencarnock Stock Farms, he established several farms, among which were two main properties, Glencarnock Farm proper, three miles south of Brandon, and Griswold (Deer) Farm, 35 miles west of the city; as well, there was Gwenmar Farm, near the community of Kemnay. During the same period he also acquired fillies from California and prize-winning stallions, Shropshire sheep, and Tamworth hogs from England, either to sell in Canada or to improve his own stock.
With the creation of the Yukon judicial district on 16 Aug. 1897, McGregor was appointed one of two inspectors of mines, with an annual salary of $1,500, by his close friend Clifford Sifton*, federal minister of the interior. He left soon afterwards for Dawson. Now 37 years old, McGregor stood six feet tall, had broad shoulders, and weighed over 200 pounds. He was a strapping and courageous man, well suited for the rigours of the trek to the Yukon and life among the miners. A natural leader, he confronted tough situations head-on and built a reputation for being honest, forthright, and fair.
McGregor’s time in office, however, was not without controversy. In 1899 he was acquitted of charges of accepting bribes and illegally using official information. That year Sifton named him liquor commissioner for the Yukon, at which time he left his post as mining inspector. He would stay in the territory for about eight years in all, regularly returning to Brandon and his farms.
In 1901 McGregor obtained a lease of more than 47,600 acres of land near the junction of the Bow and Oldman rivers, west of Medicine Hat (Alta). Arthur H. Hitchcock, a banker from Moose Jaw (Sask.), took a lease for a slightly larger acreage adjoining McGregor’s holding. To manage the Bow River properties, they incorporated the Grand Forks Cattle Company on 28 Aug. 1903 with the help of other investors. The firm was successful, and by 1906 it had almost 6,000 head of range cattle, 875 pure-bred cattle, and 951 horses. McGregor, Hitchcock, and British partners began to organize a massive irrigation project. They established the Robins Irrigation Company to acquire additional land nearby. In the fall of 1906 ownership of the cattle and the irrigation companies was transferred to the Southern Alberta Land Company, which was funded by the Canadian Agency, a British investment firm. McGregor became manager and oversaw the diversion of water from the Bow River to an artificial reservoir (now McGregor Lake) and the building of canals, dams, and flumes to irrigate more than 95,000 acres. Construction began in 1909, but three years later, after the collapse of diversionary works, the chief engineer, Arthur Grace, resigned and McGregor was replaced as manager. He would remain with the company as its farm operations adviser.
The quality of the animals bred by Glencarnock Stock Farms, which McGregor had continued to oversee despite his absences, improved significantly in 1902 when he and James Bowman of Guelph, Ont., a noted breeder of doddies (as Aberdeen Angus were called), imported an outstanding bull from Scotland named Prince of Benton. In 1909 and again three years later McGregor arranged for significant importations of cattle from Scotland. The foundations were now laid for a breeding program that would produce one of the leading Aberdeen Angus herds in North America. Between 1908 and 1925 McGregor would show his cattle extensively across the continent, and during that period they were awarded “more prizes than any [other] herd in [Canada].” On 2 Dec. 1912 at the Chicago International Livestock Exposition his Aberdeen Angus steer Glencarnock Victor won the grand championship for the best fat animal. The following year McGregor won the same competition with Glencarnock Victor II. His success in Chicago did more than anything else to draw the attention of Canadian cattlemen to the merits of the breed. In 1923 he won his third grand championship, on this occasion with Blackcap Revolution, one of the greatest breeding bulls of his time. McGregor relied on the prepotency of the Aberdeen Angus bull “for the improvement of the common cattle of the country.”
In McGregor’s view expositions and fairs would “set the standard for [the] requirements of intelligent production and marketing [and serve as] an advertising medium for the producers of Canada.” This conviction gave him a strong motive for establishing, in 1907, the Brandon Winter Fair and Livestock Association, later the Manitoba Winter Fair and Fat Stock Association. The fair, over which McGregor would preside for 15 years, was first held in March 1908; it became the prime testing ground in Canada for the Aberdeen Angus breed and its crosses.
McGregor became famous within the beef industry for developing an innovative breeding technique: instead of using pedigreed cattle for reproduction, he selected bulls based on their individual characteristics, choosing ones whose aggregate of distinctive features matched those of the foundation cows. He gradually convinced prairie farmers of the importance of raising quality stock. In 1929 Maclean’s magazine applauded his method: “Shaggy, rough hides became smooth and glossy. Former canners were transformed into prime beeves.”
By urging farmers in Manitoba to stop depending solely on wheat and those in Saskatchewan and Alberta to cease concentrating on livestock, McGregor also played a role in diversifying western Canada’s monocultures. He pioneered the general cultivation of alfalfa there and helped establish the growing of sweet clover and fodder corn in Manitoba. In recognition of his “development of agricultural thought and practice, and in appreciation of his efforts as a breeder and exhibitor of Aberdeen Angus cattle,” the Agricultural College of Manitoba presented him with an honorary diploma on 3 April 1925. On 2 Dec. 1928 his portrait was hung in the Saddle and Sirloin Club of Chicago, the highest honour conferred by stockmen. The following year, on 25 January, McGregor succeeded Theodore Arthur Burrows* as lieutenant governor of Manitoba, a position he reluctantly accepted “as a compliment to the whole farming industry.” He would use this office to further the agricultural interests of Canada. Former business partner Munn described him as “a man of tremendous drive and energy, and with a remarkable imagination and vision as regards the development of the Canadian West.” With what the Winnipeg Evening Tribune described as “mingled benignity and quiet authority,” McGregor used the office as a platform for spreading his vision of Canada’s future, which involved building railways and roads to exploit the vast mineral resources of the north.
McGregor sold off his entire herd of cattle in October 1930. Although his sons and others had taken over Glencarnock Stock Farms, incorporating it a year and a half before the sale, the enterprise failed to flourish after the patriarch left, and the family had divested all their interests in the business by 1935.
An important influence on the development of the stock-raising industry in Canada, McGregor had been a member of the Canadian Aberdeen Angus Association and was its president from 1911 to 1921; he was also an organizer and president of the Manitoba Stock Association and a member of the Western Canada Live-stock Union. In 1918 he was appointed to the Canada Food Board as director of agricultural labour. In 1929 he became the founding president of the Canadian Council of Beef Producers, and the following year the Nor’‑West Farmer awarded him an honorary Master Farmer Medal. In addition, he headed the Dominion Agricultural Credit Company Limited, established in 1931 to help farmers diversify their production by raising livestock, but he resigned in 1934 because of ill health.
James Duncan McGregor was a bold and enterprising figure in the development of the beef industry in western Canada and in agriculture more generally, internationally known for his pioneering methods in stockbreeding. On 15 March 1935, shortly after retiring from the lieutenant governor’s office, McGregor died at his Winnipeg residence. He was buried in Brandon cemetery four days later, the opening day of the city’s 28th winter fair. In 1979 he was inducted into the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame.
Peter Hanlon
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Home » Interviews » THE BLACK SHEEP INTERVIEW: JAKE GYLLENHAAL (END OF WATCH)
THE BLACK SHEEP INTERVIEW: JAKE GYLLENHAAL (END OF WATCH)
Posted by Joseph Belanger on Sep 22, 2012 in Interviews | 0 comments
HE IS NOT HIS HAIR.
An interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, for END OF WATCH.
“And what was that other question you asked?” I heard a very relaxed and a very handsome, Jake Gyllenhaal, say to me early one morning during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. A very tired and a very frazzled me, sheepishly replied, “Uh, I was wondering if it was difficult for you to grow your hair back out after the shoot.” He smiles directly at me with those big, blue eyes and says, “Yeah, I just had to make you repeat that one.” Wow. Jake Gyllenhaal had just messed with me. Heaven.
To be fair, I preceded that hair question with a serious one about whether his time on END OF WATCH, his new badass cop film co-starring Michael Pena and written and directer by David Ayer (TRAINING DAY), was any more difficult to shake off at the end of each day.
“I’m just happy being in Toronto promoting this movie and having made this movie,” Gyllenhaal continues. “To me, honestly, this movie was not about vanity. I totally respect the intention of the question but it’s very hard for me to talk about hair when I feel like the police officers I worked with have much more important issues to think about. I feel like I’d be doing them a disservice.”
The great thing about Gyllenhaal, or what I can assess of him from the scant fifteen minutes we shared a room together, is that his earnestness is as plain as the nose on his face. Well, there’s nothing really plain about his nose but you get where I’m going with this. And it’s not like he didn’t give me a wealth of great material for my previous question.
“The process of making the movie, 22 day shoot in all, was probably the least intense part of the whole journey,” Gyllenhaal explains. He and on-screen partner, Pena, spent two to three nights a week for five months riding along with Los Angeles Police Department officers in preparation for the part, a lengthy prep period by any Hollywood standard. “When I would be driving home at 5:00 in the morning, having worked in South Central, it would take me a couple of hours just to get to sleep. I would also think, it’s not my job but i’m observing it and i’m continuously observing it. And yet you’re not really involved so there is this strange middle ground where you exist. This can make you weirdly feel even more alone.”
Aside from exposing Gyllenhaal, an Oscar nominee and Los Angeles native, to the harsh reality of the unfamiliar streets in South Central, the purpose of the ride alongs was to bond him to Pena. Ayer’s script called for Gyllenhaal and Pena to be so much more than mere partners; the script specifically refers to them as brothers.
“You have to have that brotherhood in order for the movie to work,” Pena explains, when asked about his chemistry with Gyllenhaal. “We didn’t get along like brothers instantaneously but after all that time together, I knew that Jake had my back.”
In Gyllenhaal’s mind, if they didn’t get this camaraderie just right, then END OF WATCH would not have worked at all. “To me, the movie is about a relationship, the movie is about a friendship, the movie or the reason I wanted to do the movie is not because it was about cops,” Gyllenhaal exclaims. For him, the buddy cop genre is entirely irrelevant in this case. “I think you can take these two guys out of uniform and put them in another context and it would still be an interesting movie to watch.”
Of course, if it were an entirely different movie, like if Gyllenhaal and Pena were playing say, I don’t know, extreme cupcake partners, or something just as equally ridiculous, I’m not sure END OF WATCH would have had the same impact on his life.
“I had never approached a film or a character in this way. It was really informative to me as an actor and really as a person,” a very appreciated and seemingly genuine Gyllenhaal reveals. “The relationships we made along those five months, the experiences we had together, they changed my life as a person. The movie for me almost feels like an after thought. It was a very special process for me. Michael and I will always share that and always be close because of that.”
Gyllenhaal is a self-professed actor’s actor, having worked opposite some of the best of them, from Heath Ledger (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN) to Natalie Portman (BROTHERS). “I love actors!” I have no issue presuming an exclamation point there; he was that enthusiastic when he said. “I love watching them work. I love seeing somebody just kill it. It is the biggest joy that I have weirdly as an actor, that I get to be inside that process.”
Perhaps my favourite shot of Gyllenhaal, from BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
At just 31 years of age, and with upcoming projects as varied as Oscar-nominee, Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up to INCENDIES, ENEMY, in which he plays two polar opposite characters, to appearing an original off-Broadway play called, “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet”, Gyllenhaal shows no signs of slowing or easing into simpler roles. This not only bodes well for his future but it means there will be plenty more opportunities for him to mess with me again. Either way, as long as he continues, Gyllenhaal will be happy.
“To me, playing a character and making relationships with people, really learning about their stories, is what I love to do. And hopefully that’s what will be it for the rest of my life.”
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Thus Spoke Montezuma: Luca di Montezemolo Unfiltered.
Above is an extended version of the interview Luca di Montezemolo gave to Italy's RAI. It's in Italian, which will make it hard on many of you, but I thought it was important to have the complete interview rather than have it filtered. The tendency sometimes is for creating headlines so after LdM's CNN interview you saw plenty of "Alonso is not number one at Ferrari" titles. That was not exactly what he said.
Of course since not everyone speaks Italian, like most F1 drivers apparently, I will try to bullet point as extensively as I can.
On 2013:
-Good thing it's over because it was a year to forget
-The issues of 2013 were three: Our inability to develop the car in the second half of the season. The change in tires damaged Ferrari which had designed the car around the original specs. Massa did not produce points towards the Constructors Championship.
On Ferrari's supposed diminished political power within F1.
"I've been hearing this theory every since I started working with Enzo Ferrari in the 1970s. We have signed an accord with Ecclestone and the FIA making us the only team with a right to veto any decision so, more power than that you cannot have" "We are also very conscious of out weight in F1 because F1 without F1 would be a very different thing" "but in the end, power comes from creating a winning car and that has been missing from us, everything else is just talk"
On losing second place in the Constructor's because of Massa's penalty
"the penalty was out of proportion with the offense, as was Hamilton's. Sometimes FIA stewards are just people with gold buttoned blazers who show up at these races and want to make a splash and have some rather ridiculous attitudes, this is something the FIA needs to address. When you have teams that invest so much and drivers who risk their lives, you cannot have someone with a little blue jacket trying to make a splash is not right"
On Alonso's frustrations
"Alonso is the strongest race driver in the field, he has lost three championships at the last race, I understand his frustrations, we have to give him a better car. I gave hims an 8 out of 10 but that's because one needs to keep 10 in your pocket to motivate"
"I was mad when he said he wanted an RB9 for his birthday, but I was mad because, mostly he was right! but he should not have said it publicly"
"Alonso is mistaken when he says he's competing against Newey, his real adversaries are other drivers, starting from Vettel who's a great driver, but also Hamilton and Rosberg and Raikkonen who will be there to try and win, to push Fernando and to get us more points"
On Raikkonen
"Raikkonen, like Alonso and in the past Schumacher and Barrichello know that whoever has the honor to drive for Ferrari will never be able to damage the team. No driver starts the season as number one. Alonso deserves an important role for all he's done and for being the strongest driver during a race I have ever met. We took Raikkonen because of his experience and popularity, he will get an equal chance to win for Ferrari. it will be a very strong team"
On Vettel
" A great driver, a serious kid, when a driver wins as much as he has won, he deserves respect. My compliments to him and Red Bull, but more to him."
"Will he land at Ferrari in the future? the ways of the Lord are infinite.... we'll see. For now our drivers are not the issue, we need to build them a better car and we hope that the new regulations will give us a chance to compete in areas where we are traditionally strong like, for example, engines"
On Alonso's Tweeting
We are going to not allow it, he can tweet all he wants, but not about team matters because things can be misconstrued and built up into issues that can damage the harmony of the team"
On The Future of the Sport
"We need fairness and openness, we need clear rules that are enforced fairly but also that on track penalties are handed out with more common sense, especially in cases where no advantage was gained. I expect Todt to work on renovating and improving the FIA in his second term."
On Ecclestone suggesting Christian Horner as his successor
"Ecclestone, as years pass enjoys making jokes more and more. I'm glad to see he's still having fun"
Labels: Formula 1, Formula 1 2013, Luca di Montezemolo at 12:21 PM
AxisAC Wednesday, November 27, 2013 8:43:00 PM
He had to eat some crow there regarding KIMI given some of his past statements about the Finn. I'm sure Kimi's happy to be back at Ferrari but I'm not sure how on board he is with the whole "Ferrari comes before the drivers" bit. That goes for Alonso as well, or any pure racer type.
Doc_V Sunday, December 01, 2013 2:16:00 AM
Agreed, Kimi most definite will not be anyone's monkey. And is it me, or is he relegating Kimi to the no. 2 driver here?
"Raikkonen, like Alonso and in the past Schumacher and Barrichello know that whoever has the honor to drive for Ferrari…" I have no idea what he means by, "not harm Ferrari", but it felt like he was saying Kimi would be like Rubens. Can someone clarify this?
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Ozzfest
Went to Ozzfest this Saturday. I missed two of my fave bands, Shadow's Fall and Killswitch Engage, but oh well...Cradle of Filth made up for it! They totally slayed. Voivod left a lot to be desired, but I did get to meet them and thank them for two great albums (Nothingface and Dimension Hatross). Finally, I was impressed with Marilyn Manson (I was expecting it to suck), but he put on a very good show. I was most disappointed with Disturbed (very average music and nothing to write home about...and what's the deal with beating up your mother?) and Korn (pure noise, hell, I wanted to beat up the singer after hearing his tripe and his really bad band). Finally, there was Ozzy and Zakk came out as a pimp. I could not stop laughing! Zakk and crew put on one hell of a show, but unfortuantely, try as he might, I think Ozzy is way over the hill. It was painful watching him, but the excellent backing band more than made up for it. Rusty, my bud that went with me, commented that Ozzy should only 2 songs per Ozzfest and then, I backed that up with Black Label Society being the headliners...Zakk is quite the showman and it would be great to see a full set of BLS...And hey, he can even throw in some Pride and Glory (which by the way, we stood in line to meet him, but he never showed! I wanted to beg for another P&G album!!!!!) Good time overall!
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LISWire: arXiv Now Part of EBSCO Discovery Service™
~ Cornell University’s e-print Service Included in Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service™ ~
IPSWICH, Mass. — January 27, 2010 — arXiv is the latest content source to become available via EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing. arXiv is an e-print service owned and operated by Cornell University offering an extensive archive of scientific papers. Metadata from arXiv will be added to the EDS Base Index, the most comprehensive and robust collection of metadata from the best content sources.
arXiv serves as an archive for more than 650,000 electronic preprints of scientific papers. The metadata from arXiv is a valuable resource for those with interests or research needs in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
arXiv joins a long list of publishers and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content, such as: the British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, JSTOR, Alexander Street Press, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association, ABC-CLIO, ingentaconnect, Mergent Inc., Government Printing Office, ECONIS and for mutual customers Web of Science & H.W. Wilson—a growing list of information sources available to EBSCO Discovery Service users.
EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin.
EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.
The EDS Base Index forms the foundation upon which each EDS subscribing library builds out its custom collection. Beginning with the Base Index, each institution extends the reach of EDS by adding appropriate resources including its catalog, institutional repositories, EBSCOhost and other databases, and additional content sources to which it subscribes. It is this combination that allows a single, comprehensive, custom solution for discovering the value of any library’s collection.
The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the world’s foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers. Although constantly growing, today the EDS Base Index provides metadata for nearly 50,000 magazines & journals, approximately 825,000 CDs & DVDs, nearly six million books, more than 100 million newspaper articles, more than 400,000 conference proceedings and hundreds of thousands of additional information sources from various source-types.
About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search™, Business Source®, CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Literary Reference Center™, MasterFILE™, NoveList®, SocINDEX™ and SPORTDiscus™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database™, EconLit, INSPEC®, MEDLINE®, MLA International Bibliography, The Philosopher’s Index™, PsycARTICLES®, PsycINFO® and RILM™. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world.
EBSCO is the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ a core collection of locally-indexed metadata creating a unified index of an institution’s resources within a single, customizable search point providing everything the researcher needs in one place—fast, simple access to the library’s full text content, deeper indexing and more full-text searching of more journals and magazines than any other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
Kathleen McEvoy
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com
LISWire: LibLime Welcomes Senior Software Engineer Dr. Robert Phillips to the Team
Bethesda, MD – January 25, 2011 – LibLime, a Division of PTFS is proud to announce that Dr. Robert Phillips has joined the LibLime Development team as a Senior Software Engineer.
“I am excited to have Dr. Phillips join our engineering and development staff. He brings a broad educational background, including not only a Ph.D., but a J.D. from a prestigious university. His experience and interest in computer systems and software development has been constant throughout his professional career, and his knowledge of databases, Linux and associated tools will be a great complement to our current staff,” said Brett Smith, Vice President of Operations at PTFS.
Phillips, with a strong background in computational psychology, began applying this science to software development. As a student, he designed, developed, and sold a computer gaming software application to CBS Toys. During his graduate school years at the University of Florida, he developed a Cloud Computing Platform for Law Practice IT, which was widely used by the students in the UF Law School. He also holds a number of U.S. patents on other software applications.
Phillips began his corporate development work as lead developer in the AT&T Credit and Collections Systems. While there, he designed and developed a state of the art database validation system for credit security. He then moved to Lucent Technologies of Bell Labs as a Systems Engineer developing and maintaining several secure Apache websites. He was then recruited by Avaya Communications where he held several positions including Systems Engineer, Research Scientist, and Project Lead.
“Working in an agile development environment is fun,” said Robert, “I’ve been spending some time with Koha prior to learning about PTFS’ work with the application. I think this is a good fit for me here, working on such a challenging open source project with the LibLime team,” he finished.
About LibLime - PTFS
LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in open-source solutions for libraries. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, The PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.
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The Garver Board of Directors announces that Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Dan Williams has been named president and chairman of the board, effective August 13.
Williams succeeds Wm. Brock Johnson, who is transitioning to retirement after a nine-year tenure as president. Johnson will remain chief executive officer and will work a reduced schedule as he focuses on health issues that have arisen. Williams will also continue to serve as COO.
Brock Johnson
"I'm delighted with Dan's appointment—he brings strong technical and administrative experience to the position, and I'm confident he will build on our successes here at Garver," Johnson said. "Throughout his career, Dan has served Garver with strong leadership and the highest ethical standards. Dan has been at my side and aided me in leading transformational growth at Garver. Garver will continue to grow and prosper under his leadership. Dan’s new role as president will free me up to spend some more time with friends and family as I focus on my health."
Williams has served as executive vice president and COO since April 2008. Prior to that, he served as executive vice president and chief engineer for three years. Williams has spent more than 30 years with the company.
Posted by Jon Hetzel at 3:30 PM
Labels: Corporate news, Employee recognition
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Gawn Grainger Replaces John Hurt in Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's 'The Entertainer'
Broadway World, 12 July 2016
By BWW News Desk
Thanks Jude
Gawn Grainger has joined the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production of 'The Entertainer', which began rehearsals this week. Gawn is playing Billy Rice and replaces John Hurt who, on the advice of his doctors, recently had to withdraw from the production.
Preview performances for Rob Ashford's production at the Garrick Theatre begin on 20 August, with an official opening night on 30 August. Kenneth Branagh will play Archie Rice alongside Phil Dunster as Graham, Jonah Hauer-King as Frank Rice, Crispin Letts as Brother Bill, Sophie McShera as Jean Rice and Greta Scacchi as Phoebe Rice. Further casting also includes Lauren Alexandra, Yasmin Harrison, Pip Jordan and Kate Tydman as dancers.
Gawn Grainger began his career as the Boy Prince in Ivor Novello's 'King's Rhapsody' at the Prince's Theatre when he was twelve years old. Recent stage credits include 'The Cherry Orchard' (Young Vic), 'Macbeth' (Shakespeare's Globe) and 'The Recruiting Officer' (Donmar Warehouse). Other work in the West End includes 'Onassis', 'Absolutely Perhaps' and 'The Crucible'. Gawn was also a company member in Laurence Olivier's inaugural season at the National Theatre's South Bank venue in 1976. Previous productions at the National Theatre include 'A Woman Killed With Kindness', 'Some Trace Of Her', 'Sing Your Heart Out For The Lands', 'The Passion', 'The Seagull' and 'The Misanthrope'. At the Almeida Gawn has appeared in Harold Pinter's productions of 'No Man's Land', 'Party Time' and 'Mountain Language' and Rupert Goold's 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'.
Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne's modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.
In partnership with Picturehouse Entertainment, 'The Entertainer' will be broadcast live to cinemas worldwide on 27 October 2016. Participating cinemas and further information about Branagh Theatre Live can be found at branaghtheatrelive.com
'The Winter's Tale', 'Harlequinade / All On Her Own', 'Red Velvet', 'The Painkiller', 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'The Entertainer' make up the year-long Plays at the Garrick season for the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company. For more information and to buy theatre tickets for these productions please see www.branaghtheatre.com
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FREDDIE NELSON To Release Debut Shake The Cage In July
May 10, 2017, 2 years ago
news riff notes freddie nelson
Guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer Freddie Nelson first came to international attention in 2010 when he collaborated with guitar virtuoso Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big) on their album, United States. Together they wrote, performed, and produced the recording that was released on Mascot Records and toured Japan and Europe shortly after.
Flash forward to 2017 and it’s now time for Pittsburgh’s Freddie Nelson to Shake The Cage with his self-produced debut solo album, due out July 7th. The album’s first single, “Hey Doll,” will be available at all digital retail outlets starting Friday, May 12th. The album will be available for pre-orders starting May 19th on iTunes, which will include an instant gratification track. Pre-orders for CD copies will be available on his official website the same day.
We live in an age where reality shows create superstars and the technology that once revolutionized music has become the crutch of the creative process. In an oversaturated industry where anyone can be discovered, we have lost sight of the unseen magic that embodies iconic musicians. The music of Freddie Nelson is here to remind us of that magic.
“The record is called Shake The Cage, because I feel that a lot of music has become one dimensional with tools such as pitch correction and formulated songwriting. There is no substitute for hard work and honing your craft, and it’s time to challenge mediocrity,” Nelson says.
With unprecedented attention to detail, Shake The Cage is truly a solo effort. All of the writing and producing was done by Nelson as well as all of the musical and vocal performances, with the exception of drums performed by the legendary Thomas Lang (who has played with Peter Gabriel, Kelly Clarkson, John Wetton and countless others). It was mixed by Rob Hill of X Music Studios in Los Angeles, CA and was mastered by Maz Murad at Metropolis in London, England.
Shake The Cage is a collection of eleven hook driven rock songs displaying Nelson’s impressive four octave vocal range and notoriously ferocious guitar playing. Intertwining elements of punk, pop, and blues, he has the uncanny ability to weave memorable melodies alongside intelligent lyrics to create a body of work that appeals to the masses.
“I let my instincts guide me,” Nelson explains, “and this album is the result of living in the moment.”
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You are here :: CES In the News » L.A. Plans to Reduce Rental Aid for the Poor
L.A. Plans to Reduce Rental Aid for the Poor
By Jocelyn Y. Stewart, Times Staff Writer
More than 44,000 low-income families in Los Angeles whose rent is subsidized by a federal program will be forced to rent cheaper units and contribute more of their monthly income to housing costs under changes proposed by HUD and recently approved by the city housing authority’s board of commissioners.
The measure, which is part of an effort to address funding problems that have threatened the Section 8 program, decreases the monthly subsidy the program makes to house poor families.
Section 8 families that are planning to move will be affected immediately; subsidies will be lowered for all participants within the next two years, housing officials said.
In Los Angeles, about 95,000 people live in subsidized houses or apartments. Advocates and tenants worry that lower subsidies will make it tougher for families to find a place to rent _ and harder to make ends meet each month.
“That means I don’t get to have lights, gas and a phone,” said Delilah Bowen, a former social worker who is disabled and lives on welfare.
The change is just one of many underway at the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles.
On Monday, the Housing Authority’s board approved a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Housing and Urban Development that calls for the federal agency to play a greater role in its affairs.
The agreement calls for several changes, including the appointment of a new director of Section 8. Steve Renahan, the current director and a 20-year veteran of the agency, is expected to remain with the Housing Authority but not as the director.
At a meeting last week, Renahan told the agency’s board that the decrease in monthly subsidies and other changes were recommended by HUD officials as something “we should do promptly to reduce costs.”
The actions are in response to funding problems with Section 8. Under the program, participants pay about 30% of their income toward rent and the federal government pays the rest.
In February, the housing authority suspended the vouchers of 1,500 participants, citing a lack of funds. An additional 5,000 families in subsidized housing could have had their rental contracts canceled.
Local housing officials sought ways to reduce costs without displacing families, Renahan said.
“We want to try to find the balance between these two objectives,” he told the board.
The decision to lower monthly payments is a significant, and some say troubling, move in a high-rent market like Los Angeles.
In past years, tenants with housing vouchers struggled to find landlords willing to accept the vouchers at a time when much higher rents could be charged on the open market.
The agency launched an aggressive outreach program to property owners and increased rent subsidies to mirror rents on the open market. As a result, more families found housing and poor families rented higher-quality units in neighborhoods with less crime and poverty, according to an authority report.
Because of budget constraints, that strategy is no longer viable. Families will be notified of the proposed decrease in payments at their next annual review. The decrease would go into effect the following year, officials said.
For a family renting a two-bedroom apartment, for example, the subsidy would decrease from $1,204 each month to $1,005.
For a family renting a three-bedroom apartment, the subsidy would decrease from $1,625 to $1,276.
Tenants who already pay about 30% of their income would be forced to move or cover a greater portion of the rent, provided the total amount they paid did not exceed 40% of their income.
But many tenants may be unable to pay that much. To participate in Section 8, tenants must be designated under federal guidelines as either “very low income” or “extremely low income.”
In Los Angeles, a family of four, for example, with an income of $29,750 or less is considered very low income, according to HUD. A family of four with an income of $17,850 or less is considered extremely low income.
“This will make it more difficult for tenants to find landlords who will accept Section 8,” said Larry Gross of the Coalition for Economic Survival, which organizes tenants of public housing. “It will force Section 8 tenants into a smaller area, helping to ghettoize Section 8 tenants.”
Bowen, the former social worker, is already experiencing difficulty because her subsidy has been reduced. Bowen originally received a voucher that allowed her to rent a two-bedroom apartment for up to $1,250 a month.
“I was very fortunate to find [an] apartment,” Bowen said. “I did everything they asked me to do. I completed all of the paperwork.” But last week, housing authority staff informed her that the agency would pay only $1,125 for a comparable apartment in Pacoima, which is a 10-minute walk from her current one in Lake View Terrace.
“Because they haven’t accepted the voucher, I’m trying to come up with the extra money to cover the voucher,” said Bowen, whose arthritis and degenerative joint disease forced her onto disability, then welfare.
She and her 13-year-old son live on a monthly $511 welfare check while her application for Social Security is being processed. So far, she has not found the money to move to the new apartment, but has told the current owner she would move by Friday.
“I’m walking by faith, and I mean that,” she said.
Irene Molina, 75, has already experienced her share of stress. City officials and owners of the apartment she lives in wrangled over the Section 8 program. The owners, who had sought to remove the building from the program, last year agreed to accept vouchers from Molina and other tenants. Now she has new problems to anticipate.
“It’s a real big concern for her, because she is on Social Security,” said Molina’s daughter, Patricia. “She gets very little income as it is.”
Paying more rent would be tough, “but if she would have to move, it would be devastating,” said Patricia Molina, whose mother has lived in her apartment for 30 years.
Arnie Corlin, a property owner who sits on the board of directors for the Apartment Assn. of Greater Los Angeles, criticized both the decision to lower rent subsidies and what he called the inefficiencies of the Housing Authority. Lowered subsidies might push away owners, said Corlin.
“I don’t feel it’s fair to the tenants,” Corlin said.
“I also don’t think it’s fair to the owners.”
In other action, the authority’s board last week imposed a minimum rent of $50, which will affect about 500 tenants who pay less than $50 each month because their incomes are extremely low.
The board also voted to limit the annual increase to 3% for owners who rent to Section 8 tenants and whose buildings are under rent control.
Linda Williams, a housing advocate with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, said the changes will hit especially hard because of the city’s housing shortage.
“The quick fix they are trying to implement is on the backs of individuals who can’t afford it: the elderly, the disabled, single moms with kids,” she said.
* Irene and Patricia Molina are CES members and tenant leaders
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Hopewell Music raises $50K in six days to keep school open 9:16 a.m. by Keith Harris
Next Dog hangs, a winter luau, clothing swap at Fair State: 30 free things to do this week
Walker's Out There series kicks off with civil disobedience and fallout in the Trump era
Friday, January 10, 2020 by Jay Gabler in Arts & Leisure
Paula Court courtesy of The Kitchen Half Straddle
"We're sitting on the stage?"
Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
In the Walker Art Center lobby on Thursday night, one member of a group of young people attending the first performance of this year's Out There series could be heard learning that at Out There, you can't take anything for granted.
As it happens, Is This a Room is one of the most accessible, gripping productions in the recent history of the progressive performing art series. Reality Winner, the former U.S. intelligence specialist who's the subject of the show, once received a picture drawn by a 10-year-old who was moved by the production.
You may not want to bring your own schoolchildren to the show, but children even younger than 10 could pick up on the essence of what's happening in director Tina Satter's taut production, created under the auspices of the New York company Half Straddle.
Is This a Room is a dramatization of an encounter that unfolded in Augusta, Georgia, on June 3, 2017, when federal investigators arrived to search the home, car, and person of Reality Winner. Yes, that's actually her name; if it sounds familiar, it's because she subsequently pleaded guilty to a charge of leaking classified information. The 28-year-old is currently serving a five-year prison term.
The leaked information was a report on Russian attacks on American voting software during the 2016 election, part of that country's now-infamous campaign to disrupt the U.S. engine of democracy. Apparently frustrated by public debate over whether Russia was culpable, Winner mailed the report to The Intercept; clues in that publication's reporting put investigators onto Winner's trail.
That brings us to the hour-plus of Is This a Room, which takes the transcript of Winner's initial interrogation as its text. Frank Boyd and T.L. Thompson play FBI agents who arrive at Winner's home with a search warrant and some questions that they're pretty confident they know the answers to. As Winner, a stunning Emily Davis is ostensibly cooperative, though initially denying she did anything seriously wrong. By the end of the interrogation, Winner knows her life has changed forever.
At this harrowing moment in public life, the theatrical presentation of documentary evidence is becoming something of a trend. Last fall, Mixed Blood Theatre hosted a theatrical adaptation of the Mueller Report, with an all-star cast performing "a search for the truth in 10 acts."
Is This a Room, though, isn't a report: it's a verbatim account of a pivotal moment in the life of an American who committed an act of civil disobedience because, it seems, she thought U.S. taxpayers deserved to know what their government knew about Russian election interference.
The show may be especially difficult for animal lovers to watch. Much of the early business involves Winner's cat and rescue dog: first, securing them in safe spaces while the house is searched, and ultimately, figuring out who's going to take care of the animals if Winner goes into custody. At a terrifying moment, Winner thinks first and last of her vulnerable pets.
It's a bravura demonstration of the power of live theater, with Satter and her cast paying careful attention to every detail. Alternately friendly and aggressive, the agents obliterate Winner's bubble of personal space to dramatize the fact that her private world is no longer private. She hands over her keys, her phone, her computer password. No lawyer is present.
Throughout, actor Becca Blackwell paces around the lengthwise platform where the action transpires (a block of audience seats is positioned behind the platform on the McGuire Theater stage, across from the rest of the audience), filling in for an unnamed agent or agents heard on the interrogation recording. Thomas Dunn's lighting design underlines moments like the utterance of the show's title, a disconnected phrase that comes across like an absurdist nod to Kafka.
Is This a Room is a uniquely powerful show, easy to recommend to anyone. You're bound to come out of it with a complex stew of thoughts and feelings, and a new way of understanding the stakes of the challenges we're all facing together as the 2020 election approaches.
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Regarding Trump's statement, Winner — who told her FBI interrogators she'd complained about the NSA televisions being constantly turned to Fox News — said, "I can't thank him enough."
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An interview with Comet ISON's co-discoverer
on Friday, August 2, 2013
A few weeks ago, our friends at Levenhuk Telescopes conducted an interview with Artyom Novichonok, who, along with his colleague Vitaly Nevsky, discovered Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) in 2012. Levenhuk has graciously allowed us to reproduce the interview here.
Artyom Novichonok is one of the discoverers of Comet ISON (C/2012 S1), which will be brightest in November. // all photos courtesy Levenhuk Telescopes
LT: Artyom, stargazers the world over are looking forward to the arrival of Comet ISON. However, we hardly know anything about the person behind this discovery, apart from the fact that, following your discovery, the University of Cambridge bestowed the Edgar Wilson Award on you. Can you tell us something about yourself?
AN: With pleasure! However, I’d like to point out that Vladimir Gerke and I were given this prestigious award for the discovery of Comet Novichonok-Gerke (P/2011 R3) in 2011. This was the first comet discovered in the Russian Federation since 1989, and my first comet discovery, as well. The ISON comet is not named after the people who discovered it, so we can’t receive an award for its discovery.
I can’t remember how I became so fascinated with astronomy. I think it all started when I was a little kid, and the interest slowly grew into something more.
When I was young, we lived in a small village in the northern part of Karelia, where winter days are short and nights are extremely long. I remember lying in the snow, staring at the stars – the mysteries of the universe beckoning and inspiring me.
The night skies were always clear, with myriad stars shining bright, and I spent hours just lying there, watching. I was lucky, I guess, growing up in a small village. I know that most amateur stargazers live in cities, where light pollution is always a big problem. I didn’t have to worry about it back then.
When I learned how to read, I found Stars and Planets for Kids by Efrem Levitan, which we had at home, a fascinating read.
At some point, when I was in junior high, I learned that the universe is infinite. I was very much frightened by that notion, trying to understand it and unable to do so. I mean, how do you comprehend infinity? This question worried me so much that my interest in astronomy lessened.
LT: So, how did you become a professional astronomer? What made you want to solve the mysteries of the universe? When did you see the night sky through a telescope for the first time?
AN: It wasn’t until senior high that I returned to astronomy. We had just bought a PC and, for some reason (I can’t remember why), I had installed Red Shift 3 — a popular planetarium software. My interest was rekindled at once! Stars and planets were as close as ever, and once again I became enchanted. Around that time, my grandma gave me my first telescope as a birthday present.
The first object I observed was the Moon — the easiest object to observe. Most amateur stargazers begin their journey through the universe with Earth’s satellite. I did observe the Moon before because we had powerful binoculars at home, but with my new telescope, I was able to see so much more!
When I was in college, I became fascinated with comets. The interest grew over the years, and soon became my true calling. Nowadays, I’m studying comets at the Karelian Observatory, which I founded.
LT: When exactly did you realize that solving mysteries of the universe would become your career?
AN: Well, I did choose biology as my major in college. There was no astronomy college in Petrozavodsk, and I was scared of moving to a bigger city in pursuit of my dreams. I wasn’t really certain I was capable of seeing those dreams through. I was about to graduate, when I realized that there’s nothing to be afraid of, that there’s no denying this fascination.
It was then, about four years ago, that I made my first asteroid discoveries, started working with remote telescopes, and founded the College Astronomy Club.
Last year has seen the opening of the Petrozavodsk University Observatory. Currently, we are working closely with the management, constantly bringing new ideas for improvement. I sincerely hope that many more people will become interested in the field.
Artyom Novichonok begins an observing session by setting up a Levenhuk Skyline 90x900 EQ Telescope.
LT: Can you tell us about your first comet discovery? How did it happen, and what did you feel once you realized the significance of this discovery?
AN: I’ll be honest, I never even dreamt of discovering a comet. Certainly, even back in college, when I only began taking interest in comets, I was fascinated with stories of their discoveries. Just with basic telescopes, sometimes even binoculars, people searched the night sky, discovering these wanderers of the universe. But I never considered that I could make such a discovery myself.
Back in 2009, when I started doing CCD observations and photographing comets, I realized that such discoveries were well within my reach.
It took us some time to figure out the best way to image comets. The method that we have come up with has proven to be quite efficient, and by now I have performed about 1,500 observations of hundreds of comets.
You could say that I’m an avid collector – comet descriptions, photometry, tail measurements, etc. – I collect everything.
As I was observing comets, I was also searching for new ones. That was made possible by the Tzec Maun remote observatory. My colleague Dmitry Chestnov and I have discovered dozens of asteroids while working in the observatory. I was always searching the night sky, trying to find something new – it was as if I was enthralled. It was then that I realized there’s so much unknown in the universe that discovering a comet is not that hard.
Vladimir Gerke and I were working with a remote telescope of the Ka-Dar observatory. It had a field of view of only 0.28°, but had a high limiting stellar magnitude. One day, we were observing the sky, when suddenly we noticed an unknown comet that was a little bit brighter than 19th magnitude. To be honest, we did not expect this to happen.
I now realize that comet discovery is not that big of a deal. The way technology has advanced, with equipment we now possess, it is hard to miss an object in the night sky. Even though our comet was no brighter than 17th magnitude, I’m certain that someone would’ve discovered it sooner or later.
It was the same with Comet ISON — we discovered it only a day earlier than LINEAR. We got lucky both times, and now I know it. It turns out that luck plays a major role in most discoveries.
LT: I bet most readers of Astronomy.com would love to be in your shoes. Can you tell them about your life after the discovery?
AN: The comet discovery has been like a rite of coming of age. It’s as if I became older and wiser after this discovery. Most astronomers continue their search for unknown objects after their first find, but it’s different with me. I have already discovered two comets, and I do not feel the urge to continue the search. We are still scanning the sky for new objects, but it has since ceased to be my calling.
My discoveries gave me the sense of accomplishment, the desire to improve, to try my hand at something different. The experience is invaluable, but I’m slowly moving on.
Thanks to Levenhuk Telescopes, you can ask Artyom Novichonok a question online. Just visit Levenhuk.com.
And for everything Comet ISON related, visit www.Astronomy.com/ISON.
Tags: Michael Bakich , comets , Comet ISON
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