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Dutch Spies Exposed Russian Hackers in U.S. Election Meddling — Report
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Dutch intelligence agencies reportedly tipped off the FBI about Russian hackers they had been spying on for years, possibly leading to an investigation into election meddling, Dutch media reported Thursday.
The United States suspects a hacking group with ties to Russia, known as Cozy Bear, of leaking hacked Democratic Party emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. The Kremlin has denied all accusations of government involvement.
The AIVD Dutch intelligence service broke into Cozy Bear computer networks in 2014 and monitored the group’s movements through a breached security camera, Dutch media reported on Thursday, citing six American and Dutch sources familiar with the intelligence.
"That's how the AIVD became witness to the Russian hackers harassing and penetrating the leaders of the Democratic Party [in 2016],” de Volkskrant newspaper reported in a joint investigation with the Nieuwsuur current affairs program.
Jailed Russian Hacker Confesses to DNC Hack
AIVD spooks monitored a team of around 10 Cozy Bear hackers who worked from a university building near Red Square, according to the investigation.
The hackers’ attempts to infiltrate a classified U.S. State Department network in November 2016 prompted the AIVD to alert a U.S. National Security Agency “liaison” based in The Hague, who reportedly passed the information to American intelligence services.
The AIVD intelligence on the Democratic Party hack served as “grounds for the FBI to start an investigation into the influence of the Russian interference on the election,” according to the joint investigation.
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Russian Hackers Targeted New York Times Newspaper — Reports
The Moscow bureau of The New York Times has been targeted by hackers believed to be working with the Russian authorities, the newspaper reported Wednesday...
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If You Are a Dodder Flower Chapter 6 Part 1
February 4, 2019 by The Novelst | Leave a Comment
The reason Xia Rou never got close to Cao Xiong was mainly because of an accidental discovery she had made when she was ten.
At ten years old, boys only really knew how to run in a field and play games with their friends at the arcade, but girls started to have a hazy notion of adulthood.
The day of that discovery, Xia Rou had been sick and didn’t go to class. After lunch, she took some pills and went to bed. When she woke up to look out the window to see the sky turning dark, snowflakes swirling in the air, she couldn’t tell the time.
She was thirsty and her throat was dry, so she went down barefoot to grab a drink.
She didn’t need to put on shoes or even socks in the winter, since the apartment’s marble-covered floor was very warm. Her footsteps were very quiet when she walked through the apartment, like a little cat’s.
As she passed through the living room, she noticed Cheng Wan’s sweater was on the floor, so naturally she went over to pick it up. Raising her head, she saw another article of clothing – a black uniform that seemed to belong to Cao Xiong that was crumpled right in front of the door to Cheng Wan’s bedroom.
Xia Rou, blanking out for a moment, subconsciously went over and picked it up. She then heard a strange sound coming from the direction of the unlatched door…
The silly ten year old opened the door up a crack….
The two shirts fell again to the floor, while Xia Rou ran skittering away using both her hands and legs to climb back up the stairs.
After a while, Cheng Wan went upstairs to take a look at her, noticing Xia Rou lying inside the blankets with a red face and a higher temperature than usual. Cheng Wan thought she was seriously ill, not realizing that the adult interactions between herself and Cao Xiong had been exposed to her daughter.
Ever since that time, Xia Rou had been troubled by the scene burned into her mind – a strong man, moving rhythmically while a woman with slim hands clutched the man’s shoulder like a vine. She finally understood why her mother had insisted on using the downstairs bedroom when there were still many empty rooms upstairs.
From that day onwards, whenever Cao Xiong would come to their house and stay overnight, Xia Rou would hide in her room and not budge at all.
Cheng Wan was very annoyed by this and complained about the matter several times to Cao Xiong, saying that she didn’t know why her daughter had suddenly become so introverted.
The thing was that Cheng Wan didn’t realize, but Cao Xiong was well aware of it all.
He had sharp ears, especially at that time, whe heard a slight noise from outside the room. When he left, he saw their clothing in a pile on the floor. When he asked Cheng Wan who was home, he realized that it was Xia Rou, out sick from school.
To think that a little girl saw him doing that sort of thing, even Cao Xiong felt awkward, so he didn’t say anything to Cheng Wan.
But after that incident, the child who would always hide behind Cheng Wan every time he saw her would lower her head and remain silent. He couldn’t do anything about it.
Xiao Rou didn’t actually hate Cao Xiong. Translated by The Novelst
Starting from the age of seven, she had already started to remember things. How her father cruelly left them, seeing her weak mother attempting to commit suicide, all of these were carved into her heart.
It was Cao Xiong who appeared at a crucial point in time and saved her mother. It was also he who had arranged them a safe place to live.
She could vaguely understand that the only reason she and her mother had such a peaceful life was all thanks to this man. The only thing she never understood was why exactly he would do such things for them, and never thought deeper on the subject.
Once, she’d even hoped that Cao Xiong could be her father. He was reliable and gave her a feeling of security, even sometimes staying overnight at their house.
Seeing him seated in the living room, contentedly staring at her mother making him tea gave Xia Rou a sense of peace she had never had before in her short life.
But after that incident, all these idyllic scenes seemed to have been unmasked. The adult world was forcefully revealed to her.
At she was able to understand the relationship between Cao Xiong and her mother, the source of the peace in their lives.
Xia Rou’s disappointment was inevitable. But the real impact that shook her worldview was due to the housekeeping aunt; the derision she received was a fatal blow.
In the courtyard, Xia Rou had coincidentally heard the housekeeping aunt at her house gossiping with the neighbors.
“Our house owner is actually a mistress of someone else’s husband.”
“That man is a high-ranking official.”
“Speaking of which, she’s already in her thirties. She’s good considering her age isn’t young anymore.”
“That child of hers, I don’t even know if she’s an illegitimate child. But looking at her, she doesn’t really resemble the official.”
“Hahaha, then she must be the mistress’ daughter!” Translated by The Novelst
At that moment, Xiao Rou was still so young that although she heard it all, she didn’t have the courage to argue with them. She could only swallow her shame and run away.
Afterwards, Xia Rou begged her mother to fire the housekeeping aunt, but never told her the reason behind her sudden request. Cheng Wan had been helpless, and had listened to her words and fired her at the insistence of her daughter.
Cheng Wan’s personality had always been as such. When someone exerted force, she would choose to simply be obedient. It was really luck that had brought her to Cao Xiong after she had been dumped by her former husband.
Slowly, Xia Rou learned that her mother was just like a dodder flower. Even if you provided her sunlight and soil, she couldn’t live unless you gave her a tree she could climb on.
No matter how she looked at herself, she felt like she was no different than her mother. So when she had finally started puberty, she felt a growing, enormous fear that she would ultimately become a woman like Cheng Wan.
A dodder flower that could not live without having someone at her side…
Xia Rou, going through puberty, had fallen into paranoia, trying as hard as she could to deviate her path from her mother’s. This paranoia pushed her into a stubborn little girl who didn’t like to take other people’s advice, often covering herself with thorns to keep them away.
Obviously, she didn’t have the ability to back it up, but she’d spent her life trying to act strong.
Every time she struggled to grasp her pride in front of Cao Yang, she would always fall like a drowned mouse, having no choice but to rely on him to clean up her mess…
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November 15, 2019 November 15, 2019 By Our Correspondent
AGARTALA:
The High Court of Tripura today denied bail to former PWD Engineer-in-Chief Sunil Bhowmik and former Chief Secretary Yashpal Singh in an alleged scam of over Rs 600 crore in PWD Department.
A Single Bench headed by Justice Arindam Lodh, after hearing the arguments of counsel for both Singh and Bhowmik and state government, refused to grant bail to the duo.
Both Bhowmik and Singh were accused and also named in the FIR lodged in West Agartala Police Station in the case. While the court remanded Bhowmik to Jail Custody, Singh, who is living outside the state, has not been detained yet. He sought anticipatory bail. On October 31 last, the High Court of Tripura rejected the bail application of former PWD Minister Badal Choudhury in the case.
Justice Lodh refused to grant bail to Choudhury, who was produced before the court of Sessions judge today.
Allegedly, the vigilance probe indicated that the former PWD Minister violated guidelines on finalization of tenders and allotment of infrastructure development projects to PSUs and Private Companies.
Moreover, the Public Works Department (PWD) lodged a theft case recently after vital documents pertaining to the tendering process went missing from its office.
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Pediatric Pre-emptive Strike: Breastfeeding
Hospitalist Melissa Bartick, MD, MSc, became interested in breastfeeding some 10 years ago, as she was preparing for her first child. Her interest leaped to the national stage this month when several news outlets cited a study on which she is co-author and has implications for hospitalists treating lactating mothers.
"The Burden of Suboptimal Breastfeeding in the United States: A Pediatric Cost Analysis” reported that if 90% of U.S. families fell in line with doctors’ recommendations to breastfeed newborns for six months, the country “would save $13 billion a year and prevent an excess 911 deaths, nearly all of which would be infants” (DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-1616).
While breastfeeding isn’t a topic often mentioned by HM leaders, Dr. Bartick, a hospitalist at Cambridge Health Alliance in suburban Boston, points to its ties to preventing obesity, cardiovascular disease, and myocardial infarction (MI) incidences as reasons for hospitalists to keep a keener eye on the issue.
“Breastfeeding affects all kinds of diseases that we as hospitalists see every day,” Dr. Bartick adds. “It makes sense to study it.”
Dr. Bartick pushes physicians to think more about keeping lactating mothers and their infants connected during admissions. She also recommends increased usage of LactMed, a National Library of Medicine-sponsored database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers might be exposed. Too many physicians, hospitalists included, will simply stop breastfeeding for hospitalized women just to stay on the safe side when a bit of research could eliminate complications.
“It’s important to be familiar with the physiology around lactation,” Dr. Bartick says. “It’s important to keep it going uninterrupted even if a woman is in the hospital. ... It’s not going an extra mile. It’s 20 seconds on the computer to go to LactMed.”
Pediatric In the Literature
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A chance for IndyCar fans to see drivers’ POV
Marco Andretti led the procession in the No. 25 Andretti Autosport Honda.
A chance for IndyCar fans to see drivers’ POV Marco Andretti led the procession in the No. 25 Andretti Autosport Honda. Check out this story on thecalifornian.com: http://bit.ly/1N3KSLD
Salinas Published 9:10 p.m. PT Oct. 26, 2015 | Updated 9:10 p.m. PT Oct. 26, 2015
Fans of speed and iconic architecture can sample a free 360-degree view of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco from when IndyCar racers recently drove across the historic span.
The strongly visual event included four competition Indy cars and a special two-seater traveling over the iconic bridge Aug. 27 as a tribute to the late Justin Wilson, who was killed the previous week, and to bring the Astor Cup presented annually to the Verizon IndyCar Series champion to Sonoma Raceway, site of the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, the final race of IndyCar's 2015 season.
Marco Andretti led the procession in the No. 25 Andretti Autosport Honda driven in six 2015 races by Wilson, who died Aug. 24 from injuries sustained in a race the day before.
Other Indy cars were driven across the bridge by Will Power of Team Penske, Josef Newgarden of Carpenter Fisher Hartman Racing and Graham Rahal of Rahal Letterman Hanigan Racing.
James Hinchcliffe of Schmidt Petersen Motorsports piloted the two-seater, carrying the Astor Cup securely in the rear passenger seat.
GoPro positioned hundreds of cameras on the cars, the bridge and around the location to capture the event. The San Francisco-based action camera company produced a three-minute video from the 360-degree spherical cameras.
Viewers using select Internet browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera) can manipulate the video by clicking on the screen while the video is playing and dragging the cursor to different points to show various camera angles. Click here to watch the video.
Speaking of Sonoma Racway, reports surfaced Monday confirming Sonoma will again host the IndyCar season finale in 2016, on Sept. 18. Steve Page, CEO of Sonoma, said in Augustg his 2.2-mile course would again host the finale, but Monday’s news was the first that named a date. Sonoma hosted IndyCar’s season finale this year for the first time since IndyCar came to the track still known to many as Sears Point 10 years ago. The only other California stop for the series in 2016 will be for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 17.
Laguna Seca event
That roar of throaty race engines you hear if near Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Thursday will be a daylong ‘track experience’ hosted by Petaluma-based TRG-Aston Martin Racing, a professional sports car racing organization owned by longtime local racer Kevin Buckler.
Models such as the Aston Martin Vantage GT4 street car, GT3 race car and some of the brand’s latest street cars will be display and doing hot laps.
Fans can watch after paying $8 admission. Buckler, who earned class victories in 2002 in both the Rolex 24 at Daytona and 24 Hours of Le Mans, currently fields Aston Martin Vantage teams in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Pirelli World Challenge and IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge.
Ray Sotero is a twice-monthly, Sacramento-based columnist for The Californian. Submit tips at rayonracing500@yahoo.com.
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Monroe County Education Attainment Charts
This section of charts contains Education data using using the latest 2018 American Community Survey data. In the first chart, Figure 1 shows the number of people age 25 years or older who have graduated from high school or completed the GED or equivalent credential. Monroe County indicates it has 78% percent high school graduates or better which is the 4th in percent high school graduates or better out of 10 total in the area. The county with the highest percent high school graduates or better in the area is Prairie County with a high school graduates of 83% is 6.7% larger.
The number of people aged 25 years or older who have graduated from college with a Bachelor's degree is shown in Figure 2. Monroe County indicates it has 9% percent with a bachelors degree or higher which is the 6th in percent with a bachelors degree or higher out of 10 total in the area. The county with the highest percent with a bachelors degree or higher in the area is Arkansas County with a percent with a bachelors degree of 14% is 51.2% larger.
Figure 4 shows the percentage of people aged 25 years or older who either have no schooling or dropped out of school before completing high school. Monroe County illustrates it has 22% percent who dropped out of school which is the 4th in percent who dropped out of school out of 10 total in the area. The county with the highest percent who dropped out of school in the area is Lee County with a percent who dropped out of school of 30% is 34.2% larger.
In terms of advanced education, Figure 6 shows the percentage breakdown of all people who have received a post secondary education, what is the highest level obtained. Monroe County has the largest proportion of percent of people with a Bachelors degree at 54% of the total and is ranked #1.
Figure 9 provides a detailed comparison between places of educational attainment in large categories. Monroe County has the largest proportion of percent of people with High School (or GED) at 42.7% of the total and is ranked #1.
Monroe County School Enrollment Charts
Figure 19 shows for all graduate and professional schools (such as Law or Medical school) and whether students are enrolled in public or private schools. Monroe County Arkansas has the largest proportion of percent enrolled in a Public gradudate or Professional school at 100% of the total and is ranked #1.
The next chart in Figure 20 looks at the total number of students enrolled in each place shown. (Enrollment includes all students from preschool to graduate school.) Monroe County illustrates it has 1,576 Total population enrolled in school which is the 5th in Total population enrolled in school out of 10 total in the area. The county with the highest Total population enrolled in school in the area is St Francis County with a Total population enrolled in school of 6,122 measures approximately 3.9 times bigger. Comparing Total population enrolled in school to the United States average of 81,751,797, Monroe County is only about 0.0% the size. Also, benchmarked against the state of Arkansas, Total population enrolled in school of 741,993, Monroe County measures only about 0.2% the size.
Monroe County Area Schools Charts
Figure 23 lists the schools in the area along with the school district and other information. Some of the Area Schools are: Clarendon Elementary School, Clarendon High School, C.B. Partee Elementary School, Brinkley High School, and Palestine-Wheatley Middle Sch.. The next illustration in Figure 24 shows the total school enrollment for all grades at the school using NCES Common Core data. Looking at Enrollment for Area Schools we find that Park Avenue Elementary School ranks the largest with a value of 728 enrolled students. The next largest values are for: Stuttgart High School (524), Hazen Elementary School (476), Barton Elementary School (452), and Lee High School (436). The difference between the highest value (Park Avenue Elementary School) and the next highest (Stuttgart High School) is that the enrolled students is about measures 38.9% larger.
Figure 25 show the ratio of the number of students to the number of teachers. Good measures are lower because they indicate less students for any one teacher to educate. Looking at Student to Teacher Ratio for Area Schools we find that Cotton Plant Elementary School ranks the largest with a value of 8.9 Student to Teacher Ratio. The next largest values are for: Marvell High School (9.6), Brinkley High School (10.7), Clarendon High School (10.7), and Hazen High School (11.0). The difference between the lowest value (Cotton Plant Elementary School) and the next lowest (Marvell High School) is that the Student to Teacher Ratio is measures 7.4% larger.
Monroe County, Arkansas Education Data
Figure 1: Monroe County, AR At least High School Education
Figure 2: Monroe County, AR Bachelors Degree or Better Education
Figure 3: Advertisement
Figure 4: Monroe County, AR School Dropout Rate
Figure 5: Monroe County, AR Education Attainment Breakdown
Figure 6: Higher Education Attainment (100%=All People with Bachelor or better)
Figure 7: Monroe County, AR Bachelors Degrees Field of Study
Figure 8: Monroe County, AR Bachelors Degree Obtained
Figure 9: Monroe County, AR Education Attainment by Level Comparison (Age 25+)
Figure 10: Monroe County, AR Education Attainment Detailed Comparison (Age 25+)
Figure 11: Monroe County, AR Detailed Education Attainment Breakout by Age Group (Age 18+)
Figure 12: Monroe County, AR Detailed Education Attainment Breakout by Race (Age 25+)
Figure 13: Monroe County, AR Detailed Male and Female breakdown of Educational Attainment
Figure 14: Monroe County, AR School Enrollment by Aggregate Categories
Figure 15: Monroe County, AR Overall Public vs. Private School Enrollment
Figure 16: Monroe County, AR Public vs. Private K-8 School Enrollment
Figure 17: Monroe County, AR Public vs. Private High School Enrollment
Figure 18: Monroe County, AR Public vs. Private College Enrollment
Figure 19: Monroe County, AR Public vs. Private Graduate or Professional School Enrollment
Figure 20: Monroe County, AR Total Enrolled in Schools
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Figure 22: Monroe County, AR Public vs. Private Preschool
Figure 23: List of Schools in the Monroe County, AR Area (2013)
Figure 24: Monroe County, AR School Enrollment (2013)
Figure 25: Student to Teacher Ratios (2013) - Low Scores Are Better
Figure 26: Monroe County, AR School Racial Mix (2013)
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TRANSIT: Detroit DOT unveils largest bus service expansion in two decades
The expansion is expected to add approximately 1,500 trips per week for customers
Detroit DOT unveils largest bus service expansion in two decades
The Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) is continuing to broaden bus service, putting it on a path to one day match other major cities in urban transit.
Mayor Mike Duggan (D) on Thursday announced what he calls the largest expansion of bus service in the city in at least 20 years.
The phased-in expansion, to be done by January, is expected to add approximately 1,500 trips per week for customers, significantly reducing the average waiting time for a bus, according to a press release. The first of two waves of the expanded service begins Saturday. At that time, DDOT will add the first three of six new 24-hour routes, spanning the city. Three more will be added in January, for a total of 9 new, 24-hour routes.
In addition to the 24-hour service expansion, DDOT will be adding five new express routes to help customers connect to the city’s key job centers, helping to cut commute times each way by up to 30 minutes.
This month, DDOT also plans to begin a new Saturday-only nonstop roundtrip service to Detroit’s Eastern Market from every City Council District, DDOT announced.
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Busse Woods Trail
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Salt Creek Trail (IL)
Illinois - 26.7 miles
The Salt Creek Trail travels nearly 27 miles from the Brookfield Zoo to Busse Woods Forest Preserve. Along the way it connects several beautiful...
Palatine Trail
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The village of Palatine has connected many of its community assets with two long sections of off-road, multi-use trail. The more popular northern...
Paul Douglas and Crabtree Preserve Trail System
The Paul Douglas and Crabtree Preserve Trail System connects two large nature preserves in northwestern Cook County. The trail begins at the Old...
Des Plaines River Trail
The Des Plaines River Trail runs alongside the Des Plaines River for just over 56 miles, protecting watershed habitat and forestland through much of...
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Prospect Heights has very few sidewalks, so biking, inline skating or walking are moved to the streets or in the parks. Don't underestimate the...
Poplar Creek Trail
The Poplar Creek Trail is a 9.5-mile paved loop around Poplar Creek Forest Preserve near Hoffman Estates. The trail has a couple of hills but is...
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The Stearns Road Bike Path is a dedicated sidepath traveling from Hanover Park to the Bartlett, in the Chicago suburbs. The asphalt path sits on the...
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The Deer Grove Trail is one of several great Chicagoland trails located in properties of the Forest Preserve of Cook County. Deer Grove is the oldest...
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The eastern segment of the Great Western Trail in Illinois follows 12 miles of an abandoned railway corridor through DuPage County, between Villa Park...
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The Kuhn Road Trail starts on Lies Road, at Glenbard North High School and continues south along Kuhn Road, past single-family homes and Friendship...
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The Buffalo Creek Trail makes a loop around the scenic Buffalo Creek Forest Preserve in Long Grove. The crushed-gravel trail provides access to...
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Arizona lawmaker tweets fake photo of Obama shaking Iranian president's hand
By: Alex Hider
While defending President Donald Trump's decision to assassinate an Iranian military leader, an Arizona lawmaker shared a doctored photo that shows former President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) tweeted the photo from his personal Twitter account on Monday afternoon.
"The world is a better place without these guys in power," Gosar said in a caption.
According to The New York Times, the doctored photo has been circulating online since 2013. The photo originally showed Obama shaking hands with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Not only was the photo that Gosar tweeted doctored, but it includes a mistake. While the editor likely intended flag behind the two men to be an Iranian flag, it does not include the white Arabic writing that appears on the real Iranian flag.
In addition, Twitter users pointed out to Gosar that Rouhani, the Iranian president, is still in power — contrary to what his tweet implies.
Gosar defended the tweet in a series of follow-up messages Monday afternoon.
"To the dim witted reporters like @dmedin11: no one said this wasn't photoshopped. No one said the president of Iran was dead. No one said Obama met with Rouhani in person. The tweet says: "the world is a better place without either of them in power"," Gosar tweeted. "The point remains to all but the dimmest: Obama coddled, appeased, nurtured and protected the worlds No. 1 sponsor of terror. The world is better without Obama as president. The world will be better off without Rouhani."
Gosar chose not to delete the tweet.
The world is a better place without these guys in power. pic.twitter.com/gDoXQu9vO5
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) January 6, 2020
Gosar's tweet came the same day that Facebook announced it was banning "deepfake" videos in order to reduce misleading content on its site.
Alex Hider is a writer for the E.W. Scripps National Desk. Follow him on Twitter @alexhider.
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Police warns banks over planned robbery attack in Abia
The Abia State Police Command has raised the alarm on a planned attack of financial institutions in Aba, the commercial nerve of the state, by an armed robbery gang.
Woman crushed to death in police station
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Abia State Police Command has impounded a large quantity of military uniforms, allegedly imported from China and stocked at a warehouse in Aba, the commercial hub of the state.
Man’s bid to poison brother boomerangs, kills self
A middle-aged man, Okom Eke, has reportedly died in Akanu Item in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, after ingesting a substance he allegedly procured to poison his younger brother.
Police nab fake military colonel in Abia
A 22 two-year-old man identified as Ukpabi Kenneth is currently in the custody of the Abia State Police Command for claiming to be a colonel in the Nigerian Army.
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No fewer than 142 police personnel in Enugu took part in check-up to ascertain their health status as they carry out their duties and prepare for retirement.
Police bust three suspected child trafficking syndicates, arrest 22
Abia State police command has arrested members of three suspected child trafficking syndicates, including 17-year-old Gift Daniel, who sold her two-day-old baby boy for N670, 000.
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iPhone 4 Orders Give AT&T Its 2nd Privacy Scandal
By Jane McEntegart 2010-06-16T19:10:00Z
Just after the whole iPad 3G debacle comes another privacy breach of potentially epic proportions.
With all the E3 stuff going on this week, we didn't get a chance to write about the iPhone 4 pre-orders, which were said to be disastrous. AT&T's servers curled up and died and shoppers literally spent hours registering for pre-orders in the store (that's after lining up). Things got so bad they started handing out credit card imprints, taking orders with a pen and paper. Things weren't much better for those trying to shop online. However, those of you who didn't manage to place your order may have gotten lucky.
Gizmodo yesterday reported that the mess that was iPhone 4 pre-orders and upgrades had set itself up for a major privacy breach. Several readers got in touch with the site to report being signed into someone else's account after they had entered their login details. Giz cites an AT&T insider who says the login problems may be linked to the server problems and warns users not to upgrade to iPhone 4 as it poses a potential threat to your privacy.
The source says he/she works at a 3rd party order processing facility and that over the weekend there was a major fraud update for AT&T systems that knocked everything out from Saturday night to Sunday morning. The source says this update is the most likely reason people are having issues pre-ordering the iPhone 4 or upgrading to it. The source says AT&T did no testing of the new system before pre-order fever hit and confirms that no iPhone 4 preorders are being processed by phone or automation at his facility. As for users seeing someone else's account when they enter their login and password? It looks like that's a case of 'crossed wires' in the AT&T customer database. Giz's source says it's rare but it's happened before. The scariest thing about this little glitch is that it will give you a new person's details every time you log in, so even if you're not trying to upgrade, someone else could still get your data when they try to.
Full email below:
I work at a 3rd party order processing facility—what AT&T refers to as a 3CC. We process business-to-business, business-to-customer Wireline Indirect, and ACME/PAC (what AT&T calls their iPhone program internally). Agents use AT&T programs called Phoenix, Telegence, Compass, Ordertrack and myCSP to process orders.
No statement from AT&T as of yet but we'll keep you posted.
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On an overcast Saturday in the Valleys, Ynys Park hosted a massive bottom of the table clash between the Bulldogs and an in form Pontypridd Town. The visitors came in to this one in 13th place knowing win would take them 7 points above their opponents at the foot of the table. For Ton Pentre, win was vital to take them out of 16th.
With the North London Derby coming to a dramatic close, a local derby in the valleys was just the perfect match to follow it. Ton Pentre played in red while Ponty played in white – Sound familiar?
The Bulldogs started with intent and endeavour and dominated the first 10 minutes. But as the visitors settled, attacking chances became a rare site for the hosts throughout the half. Though Ponty went on to protect possession for the majority, there was always a chance for a counter. Skipper Leon Jacka got down the left for Ton and played an inviting ball across goal. It was met by a goal-Hungary Callum Hopkins who arrived for what seemed like a tap in. But despite having little to do in the match, Cameron Clarke in between the sticks was wide awake. He came out rapidly to make a fantastic block before diving to his right to deny the rebound.
That was a warning for the confident away side. As half time approached, Ton Pentre began to find their feet again and had their own spell of territory and possession. You thought the home fans would be disappointed to see the break, but it was just before that, when they were silenced. It seemed that goals weren’t coming easy and something special would be needed to break the deadlock. Ponty’s centre forward who had troubled the defence all half had popped up to provide that special moment. A high ball dropped to Luke Gallick who had his face turned away from the goal. He took a touch and struck the ball with his left on the half volley while turning around to watch is magic shot fly into the top right corner.
At the break it was advantage Ponty, but how would Pentre respond after having their efforts wiped away. They came out in the second with intent, but soon the pattern of the first half would re-emerge and Ponty would begin to dominate. It wasn’t long before they doubled their lead. However this time, it was through Aiden Lewis who produced a strike even better than Gallick’s. The ball fizzed out to him and 30 yards out, he tried his luck. If you blinked, you would have missed the ball fly into the net and pass an immobile Ryan Fleming.
The mountain just got steeper for Pentre as Luke Gallick bagged his brace on the 72nd minute to make it 3. He collected the ball on the right cut inside past the last defender and slid the ball past the keeper to top off an excellent solo goal. The three points were made certain 5 minutes after when the gargantuan substitute Gavin Beddard scored a Peter Crouch like diving header a few yards out from a deflected, lose high ball. Ton Pentre were all of a sudden 4 down and knew that all of their endeavour would see them stay rock bottom at the end of the afternoon.
But the fans did have something to cheer about as number 10 Josh Maksimovic netted a consolation 10 minutes before the final whistle. But the final whistle blew to end a widely frustrating day for Ton Pentre and their caretaker manager. For Ponty, another win and another 3 points places the new boys in 10th with 8 games to play.
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It was the boy wizard meeting the batting wizard as Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter on screen, queued for an autograph of Sachin Tendulkar at the end of India’s drawn cricket Test match against England.
Since the seventh and final volume of the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” hit the stands, the whole world seems under the grip of a Harry Potter, but Potter himself seemed a great fan of the Indian batting maestro as he turned up on the final day of the Lord’s Test match.
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Cities: Skylines Video Game Review
Nov 30 Dec 24 Greg Wheeler
A Brilliant Creative City Builder
After the terrible performance from the latest Sim City and a host of sub-standard city builders since, Cities: Skylines is a breath of fresh air. With its polished interfaces, plenty of statistical data and a charming aesthetic, Skylines is sure to please a lot of people. The lack of deep strategy might disappoint the more hardcore real time strategy fans expecting a real challenge, but for the more casual fans of the genre, its hard not to fall in love with this game. Skylines is more of a creative endeavour than a challenging gameplay experience and going into it expecting this, is sure to avoid disappointment. The simple, responsive controls help too, making the process of building a city a relatively stress free one and despite the lack of a tutorial early on, Cities: Skylines is everything you could want from a city builder.
The ability to zoom in to your city is a great addition
Although there’s an option on the main menu to enable unlimited money and unlock all buildings, its a far more rewarding experience to jump into the game without these switched on. Starting with an empty square of land, the game does do a pretty good job of hand holding through the bare basics of setting up a city. Those accustomed to the set up of Sim City will be right at home here, with the general idea relying on building roads and assigning blocks of either residential, commercial or industrial zones off each strip of tarmac. Residential is of course the bread and butter of the game, laying the foundation for citizens to move in, live and populate. The commercial zone act as shopping centres and the industrial zone gives jobs to those in the residential areas. This simple concept is then expanded on late on, with the inclusion of more densely populated areas, fire stations, schools and a slew of other options but the general layout and play style of the game doesn’t really change throughout.
On top of building the foundations for a city, there are a number of other options at your disposal. For anyone accustomed with the old Sim City games, the sheer mention of Water and waste used to leave a bad taste in your mouth. It was a tedious nightmare in the old Sim games, requiring meticulous precision in order to match up the underground pipes and its a massive relief that this process in Cities: Skylines has been simplified and is incredibly easy to set up. Placing a water station and a waste pipe (paying particular attention to the direction of the water to avoid polluting your town with sewerage infested water) then allows you to click and drag pipes across the areas that need water. A large circular area around that pipe allows multiple buildings to be watered from one single pipe and the entire system is a lot better streamlined and easier to work with. The other elements of the game, including powering areas with electricity, works in much the same way – building a power plant or wind turbines and dragging power lines to the general areas that need them. Cleverly, these more tedious and less fun areas of the game are quick and easy to sort out and really help make the game more enjoyable.
Roads lay the foundation for different industries to be built.
Beyond the basics, Cities: Skylines doesn’t really have a definitive end. Although the city itself can only be expanded over 9 extra chunks of land (which can be bought once you reach certain population milestones) and the unlockables end once you reach a population of 75,000, there’s plenty of room and more than enough variety to really let your imagination run wild and build the city of your dreams. Or multiple cities joined together by vast intricately woven highway. The possibilities are endless and the ease of use and simple processes to build this all work harmoniously together. Its great fun too and very easy to sink hours into this game.
For all the positives, Cities: Skylines does lose points for its passive approach to the strategy element of the game. Although the many options in the menus help to show where you can improve and which areas of your city are in the most need for help, there’s no consequences for ignoring this completely. Even a simple on/off slider would suffice to fix this with repercussions turned on for ignoring the issues inherent in your town. Traffic too high? Tourism goes down and the economic structure of your city suffers for it. Not enough police? Crime rate pushes up the death rate and you get monetary penalties for having to fix these issues. No leisure activities in the town? Low happiness drives people away in vast numbers and makes it more difficult to retain people living in the city. The list of possibilities here goes on and on. Ultimately tthough, Cities: Skylines is a real time strategy without much strategy. If you go into this game expecting a relaxing experience of building the city of your dreams without worrying too much about the strategic element, you can’t go wrong with Skylines.
The UI is really slick and makes navigating the various screens easy
Despite the lack of hard strategy and unclear options at some parts of the game, Cities: Skylines is a great city builder. The many menus and options offer a slew of interesting statistical data and being able to zoom right in and follow individual people as they go about their day to day life is a great experience. Coupled with intuitive controls and a simplistic approach to some of the more irritating parts of city building in other games, Cities: Skylines is a wonderful experience and a really well made game. Its not perfect, but if you’re after a relaxing city builder game, you can’t go wrong with this one.
Verdict - 8/10
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Today's Special - - Janna MacGregor
I'm delighted to welcome one of my favorite new authors today to celebrate the release of her second book, The Bride Who Got Lucky. Janna MacGregor was born and raised in the bootheel of Missouri. She credits her darling mom for introducing her to the happily-ever-after world of romance novels. Janna writes stories where compelling and powerful heroines meet and fall in love with their equally matched heroes. She is the mother of triplets and lives in Kansas City with her very own dashing rogue, and two smug, but not surprisingly, perfect pugs.
Welcome, Janna! It’s a pleasure to have you join us to celebrate today’s release of The Bride Who Got Lucky. I adored it!
Hi PJ! I’m so delighted that you invited me here today! Yay!! Emma and Somerton’s story was a pure joy to write. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
What should readers expect from this second book in your The Cavensham Heiresses series?
Chronologically, The Bride Who Got Lucky starts immediately after The Bad Luck Bride. The heroine Lady Emma Cavensham is a bibliophile and a strong believer that women should be valued as much as men in society. While other women are crazy about dresses and social calls from gentlemen, Emma wants nothing more in life than a good book. Years later, after losing her best friend, Lady Lena Aulton, under suspicious circumstances, Emma is determined to find answers. Nothing will keep the strong-willed Emma from making the suspect, Lord Aulton, answer for his crime.
However, a family friend, Nicholas St. Mauer, the reclusive Earl of Somerton, accepts the responsibility of keeping Emma out of trouble. Basically, he thwarts her every move and enjoys every single minute of it. Emma is like a breath of fresh air to Somerton who spends his days in trade with the goal of someday surpassing his estranged father’s wealth. Emma and Somerton clash like titans while fighting their growing attraction to one another. It’s no wonder that their story possesses plenty of swoon-worthy romance as the spirited Lady melts this sexy Scrooge’s heart.
Emma has a special place she goes when she feels the need to, as she says, “seek my own counsel.” Where do you go when you need to be alone with your thoughts?
Oh PJ, what a great question! I have twenty-six miles of wooded walking trails behind my house. Nestled in the heart of Kansas City, these trails are like an oasis. Deer, wild turkey, raccoons, foxes, and owls inhabit the area. When I get stuck in a story or if a character isn’t being cooperative, I find myself walking the trails trying to work out what the issues are in my stories.
Pollie
Truthfully, whether I ‘m stuck or not, I find a daily walk with my pug, Mad Max, helps prepare me for my writing day while my other pug, Pollie, waits for me in my writing room.
Nick and Emma are both fiercely independent people who, for their own individual reasons, have been resistant to the idea of marriage. What convinced you that these two were meant for one another?
These two first appeared in The Bad Luck Bride. Both were the best friends of the couple in that story. It was the christening scene in the epilogue of The Bad Luck Bride that really told me that these two would make a fantastic couple. By then, Somerton had already kept Emma from acquiring a rare book. When the baby Somerton was holding threw a fit during the christening, Emma had to save him-with aplomb and grace! LOL! It was the perfect set up for their story.
I love a redeemed bad boy and I’ve seen tendrils of possibility for a certain secondary character from these books. Do you have any plans for a happy ending for Lord Paul?
Hmmm, I’m actually writing his story now. He’s a hero who has a great heart but has made some bad decisions in his life. Now, he’s determined to clean up all the messes he’s made over the years. When he comes across an estranged friend’s sister, Lady Daphne Hallworth, in need of help, he sees this as an opportunity to make amends with his friend. However, his good intentions with Daphne turn into an attraction that he can’t fight no matter the costs.
Do you have plans for any of the other secondary characters from these books? There are several I find quite intriguing.
Lord William Cavensham’s story is next. He’ll meet a duke’s daughter, Lady Theodora Ainsley, who’s in hiding from her father. I haven’t decided the next one after that. You and I discussed the series in Dallas where we attended the 2017 Buns and Roses. You gave me some great ideas, but if your readers would like to voice their opinion, I’m all for it!
Rapid Fire Q&A:
Homebody or World traveler?
World traveler first, but if I’m writing, I’m a homebody-almost a recluse like Somerton.
Apple Cinnamon or Pumpkin Spice?
Apple Cinnamon-that’s why Emma loves apples, and apple tarts are Somerton’s favorite.
Heels or Sneakers?
Heels-80% of the time; Sneakers-10% of the time; Barefoot-10% of the time.
Favorite new TV show?
I just discovered Versailles. I need to watch the first season to really be caught up.
Book you’re currently reading?
I just finished the Duke of Pleasure by Elizabeth Hoyt. I’m sad as it’s the last full-length novel in this series—one of my favorite series of all time. I believe there’s a final novella though. Thank heavens; Eloisa James has a new series starting with Wilde in Love! I can’t wait to start reading my copy.
Where can readers find you online?
www.jannamacgregor.com
Facebook: Janna MacGregor
Twitter: @jannamacgregor
Instagram: jannamacgregor
The next book in the Cavensham Heiresses series is The Luck of the Bride. This story features March Lawson who is introduced in The Bride Who Got Lucky and Michael Cavensham, the Marquess of McCalpin. I’m currently working on book four in the series—it features Lord Paul Barstow, the Duke of Southart and Lady Daphne Hallworth.
Would you like to add anything else?
I’m so delighted to be here today! Thank you, PJ, for asking me to stop by The Romance Dish! You always make it so much fun. If anyone is attending the Barbara Vey Readers Weekend in April, I’ll be there. Can’t wait to meet you!
Thanks for visiting with us today, Janna! Do you want to ask our readers a question?
If you were a woman living in Regency times and boldly wanted to work outside the home, what profession would you pursue?
I have a signed copy of The Bad Luck Bride for one randomly chosen person who leaves a comment on today's post before 11:00 PM (Eastern Time), November 1, 2017. (U.S. only)
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Carol L. October 31, 2017 at 4:55 AM
I loved The Knickerbocker trilogy. I haven't started this series yet but can't wait.
Janna MacGregor October 31, 2017 at 9:24 AM
Hi Carol! Joanna Shupe is a fabulous author and one of my favorites, too! I hope you love the Cavensham Heiresses! It's a fun series to write! Thank you for stopping by.
Carol L. October 31, 2017 at 2:22 PM
Sorry, forgot to answer the question. Either as a tea who owner or in a library
kmannrn October 31, 2017 at 8:01 AM
This series sounds great. I am adding to my tbr list.
Hi kmannrn! I'm so delighted you're sharing my release day with me. Happy Halloween! Thank you for the kind words. I love writing historicals set in the Regency period, and this series is a blast for me. It's fun to get lost in the Cavensham Heiresses stories!
Patti Wissore October 31, 2017 at 9:31 AM
Loved The Bride Who Got Lucky! If I wanted to work outside the home, I'd have to say I'd want some type of restaurant? Not exactly a bakery, but more along the lines of an Inn. I love to cook and make new dishes!
pjpuppymom October 31, 2017 at 9:34 AM
Welcome, Patti! I think that would be fun. I love to cook too. :)
Hi Patti! That sounds fabulous. As long as I wouldn't have to do dishes, I'd be in the kitchen with you! It's fun researching the historical foods of the time. I try to be as accurate as possible, but some of the food, I just can't stomach! Like kippers (a small salty fish) and beef tongue! Perfect menu for a Halloween feast! LOL!
Welcome, Janna! Happy Book Birthday! I'm so happy to see Emma and Somerton's story launched into the world. As I may have mentioned - a hundred or so times - I loved their story! :)
Hi PJ!!! I'm thrilled to be here celebrating not only Halloween but the release of THE BRIDE WHO GOT LUCKY! Thank you so much for your kind words about Emma and Somerton. They are a special couple and I had an absolute blast writing their story to a HEA!
traveler October 31, 2017 at 10:41 AM
Happy Celebration Janna! I enjoyed the delightful interview. I would work with horses during Regency times, in a bucolic setting and enjoy the lifestyle. Best wishes.
Janna MacGregor October 31, 2017 at 11:47 AM
Hi traveler! Thank you so much for the kind words. Truly, I appreciate it! Ah, the country life! There is something appealing about escaping our hectic lifestyles and really allowing ourselves to enjoy life. I'm with you traveler! I'll be your apprentice!
pjpuppymom October 31, 2017 at 1:24 PM
That sounds so appealing, traveler!
petite October 31, 2017 at 11:13 AM
What a captivating series and this novel sounds wonderful. What a great interview that was very interesting. My work outside the home would be a tutor.
Hi petite! Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm really excited about this book!
An educator! I love it. The men were certainly educated well in the Regency-at least, wealthy men! The women not so much unless they had a forward thinking father or guardian. Just think that most tutors had to teach a wide variety of ages. Now, that would be a handful!
I have the feeling those tutors more than earned their salary!
Kim October 31, 2017 at 11:20 AM
Congratulations on the new release. I think I'd choose an unusual occupation for a woman - a spy. With the Regency period intersecting parts of Napoleon's rule in France, it's an interesting time for spying.
Janna MacGregor October 31, 2017 at 12:03 PM
Thank you, Kim! I love the idea of Regency spies, an unusual but interesting occupation for the woman. What kind of a spy are you thinking? I've got several books on espionage in the era! Not a lot of documents remain from that time as most were burned.
I applaud your courage in choosing to be a spy, Kim. Though I imagine it could have been a fascinating occupation, it was also no doubt very dangerous!
catslady October 31, 2017 at 11:51 AM
I always wanted to be an artist - seems that could be a possibility back then lol.
Hi catslady! I so agree. One female painter from that era is Marguerite Gerard. Apparently, she was widely honored and exhibited her works in salons throughout London! Thank you so much for stopping by!
I think that's an excellent choice, catslady. I don't have a single artistic gene in my body. *grin*
Diane D - Florida October 31, 2017 at 12:06 PM
Congratulations to Janna on her new book release. If I had to work during Regency times, I might do so as a Matchmaker.
Hi Diane! Thank you so much for the well wishes! I love the idea of a matchmaker! Imagine the fun and trouble one could get into with that profession!
I agree with Janna. So much fun...and probably more than a little trouble. ;-)
Lil October 31, 2017 at 4:43 PM
Congratulations on the new book release! If I were to pursue work outside the home during Regency times, I would wish to be able to own and operate a tea room/house in a fashionable shopping area. We would serve exquisite teas and cakes and I would be up to date on all of the latest gossip about town.
janna macgregor October 31, 2017 at 5:04 PM
Hi Lil! Thank you so much for the congrats! I'm delighted to be able to spend my special day with you all! I love the idea of a tea room. Not only would you be able to see all the fabulous fashions, but just imagine the gossip you'd be able to gather! The Midnight Cryer, my fictional gossip rag, would be coming to you for stories! Gunter's Tea Shop would face stiff competition!
Oh, what fun that would be!
girlygirlhoosier52 October 31, 2017 at 5:22 PM
I always like meeting new authors!! Many more years of writing!!!
I hope you enjoy her books as much as I have!
Happy Halloween, girlygirlhoosier52! Believe it or not, my triplets (almost 27 years old now) were born in Indpls! Hoosiers through and through! LOL! Thank you so much for the kind words! I hope I have many more books ahead of me! XO Janna
Annette Naish October 31, 2017 at 5:38 PM
I was blessed to be able to read this book. It is terrific. And I know your next one will be as well. Thanks for the interesting interview.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it too, Annette!
Hi Annette Naish! I just returned from a celebratory dinner with my darling husband! YAY!! I'm so delighted that you enjoyed The Bad Luck Bride! It's near and dear to my heart since it's my first book! THANK YOU for taking the time to let me know! For many of us writers, we have no idea how are our stories are received! Thank you!
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WOW, what a question. I would do something with books - most likely selling. Otherwise I would sell fabric. Congrats on your new release and the success of this series.
Hi Eileen! Fabulous choices! Something with books...always reminds me of Lady Emma Cavensham's passion for books! LOL! Believe it or not, I sew-not a straight line, but curtains and balloon shades are a breeze! Must be why I collect fabric! You and I could open a shop together! A-W Mercantiles has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
If I lived in Regency times I would likely own a book shop. If possible, I would help those who wanted books but couldn't afford them work out some way to come into the store and read the books they wanted. I would have helped those who wanted to learn to read or improve their reading skills. Had there been public libraries at the time, I would have worked at one.
Janna MacGregor November 1, 2017 at 6:30 AM
Hi librarypat! What a fabulous career you've described! I love it! Reading is a way to better the individual and all of society! Lady Emma Cavensham would heartily approve! Thank you for stopping by!
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I have a signed copy--no need to count me ;)
Hi dstoutholcomb! Perhaps you'd meet Jane Austen and become critique partners! Oh, I want to join! LOL! Thank you so much for stopping by!
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Thanks so much for visiting with us today, Janna!
Oh, PJ, it was my pleasure! Thank you for having me and celebrating my new release! Such delightful company! XO
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Jackson column: Welsh regions pay dearly for loss of their stars
Posted on 21st November 2019 by admin in Columnists, Featured, Features, Peter Jackson
Sir Gareth Edwards never missed a match for Wales and yet it still took him more than eleven years to compile his unbroken sequence of 53 Tests.
They came at the rate of five-a-year because that was how it used to be back then, a time when those running the sport preserved the magnetic appeal of international competition by restricting fixtures to a minimum.
Had he started half a century later and reigned over the same period, his cap collection would have reached 150.
Where Wales and the other home countries used to average five matches a year, they now average almost three times as many. The much-spouted concern about player welfare has done nothing to stop the escalation of Test rugby, from ten-a-year to 13 and rising.
For the 12 months from Saturday November 3 last year to the World Cup final in Yokohama a fortnight ago, Wales played 20 Tests, as did England. While England’s clubs are better able to absorb the loss of their best players because of the Gallagher Premiership’s greater commercial clout, the four Welsh regions tend to suffer irreparable damage.
Nobody has given the Ospreys more since their creation than Alun Wyn Jones and yet the ever-increasing demands of the Test arena plus the inevitable wear-and-tear explain why he played no more than six times for his region over the last 12 months.
During that time Jones appeared 17 times for Wales. George North played 15 matches for Wales, six for the Ospreys.
The Scarlets can reasonably claim to have been hit hardest. Jonathan Davies, Ken Owens, Gareth Davies and Hadleigh Parkes all appeared twice as often for the national team as they did for the region. No wonder that the start of another Champions’ Cup season finds Wales farther away than ever from providing a contender good enough to be taken seriously.
It cuts deeper than merely losing players for large tracts of the year. Colateral damage has taken a heavy toll and will continue to do so throughout the seven remaining months of the season.
Gareth Anscombe’s knee injury during the summer money-spinner at Twickenham means that Wales’ No. 1 stand-off will have to wait until next season to make his debut for the Ospreys. None of the other 19 on the starting grid for Europe’s premier competition can have paid a higher price for supporting their national cause.
Instead of introducing Anscombe for a challenging debut against Munster in last night’s opening tie, the Swansea-based region were further handicapped by North’s return from Japan in a hamstrung condition.
Of their World Cup elite, only Nicky Smith and Bradley Davies, members of the supporting cast in Japan, were involved last night and then only on the bench.
In contrast, Munster started with no fewer than seven of Ireland’s heavy-hitters, not that they did enough of it during their journey through the Orient to avoid a depressingly early exit from the tournament. As the lone Welsh qualifier it will take something bordering on the miraculous for the Ospreys to prevent the perennial wipe-out of Wales from the last eight.
Anscombe’s absence is merely the tip of an iceberg. The Scarlets, excluded from the Champions’ Cup for the first time, entered the secondary European event, the Challenge Cup.
They are also feeling the pain of another World Cup near miss.
Rhys Patchell will be missing for three months following shoulder surgery, Jonathan Davies for the entire season after wrecking a knee during the World Cup.
Far from levelling out, the playing field for the four regional teams becomes steeper every winter, a seasonal reminder that the Welsh have become the poor relations of Europe.
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Android App Puts Choir at Your Fingertips
Android users — the app is here! That means Mormon Tabernacle Choir music at your fingertips.
On May 6, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir introduced its app for Android users. With this version of the Choir app in place, anybody, anywhere, on any Android mobile device, can access Choir music, blogs, news and even shop for albums. Just weeks ago, the Choir released an app for iOS users which began a landslide of mobile device users.
The Choir, through its mormontabernaclechoir.org website, blogs, tweets, as well as posts to Instagram and Pinterest, has become tech savvy and in the process, is reaching a much broader and younger audience. “We want listeners worldwide to have access to the Choir and its music,” Scott Barrick, general manager explains. “That is happening. We have a concentrated fan base in the United States but we are seeing significant connections as far away as the Philippines and Peru.”
The app distills content from the Choir’s website into what is most significant to mobile users including the Choir’s 24/7 music stream powered by the Mormon Channel, the Sacred Music Library, the latest news, feature stories, and blog. Choir CDs, digital music albums, books, and DVDs can be purchased from the new app.
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Keanu Reeves to Star in Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Replicas’
Tanya Wexler will direct the film for Lotus Entertainment and di Bonaventura Pictures
Linda Ge | October 28, 2014 @ 10:25 AM
Keanu Reeves is set to star in futuristic sci-fi thriller “Replicas,” Lotus Entertainment and di Bonaventura Pictures announced on Tuesday.
Tanya Wexler will direct the film, with production slated to begin spring 2015.
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After a car accident kills his loving family, a daring neuroscientist (Reeves) will stop at nothing to bring them back, even if it means pitting himself against a government-controlled laboratory, a police task force, and the physical laws of science themselves.
“From my experience working with Keanu on ‘The Matrix’ franchise through our collaboration on ‘Constantine,’ I have always been impressed by Keanu’s ability to bring a genuine level of humanity to the sci-fi genre through his performance,” said di Bonaventura in a statement.
“I am looking forward to collaborating with Keanu once again on this unique take on what lengths a person will go to alter the past, and the implications of those actions.”
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Reeves, best known for his role as Neo in “The Matrix” trilogy, is currently on screen in revenge thriller “John Wick.” He is represented by CAA.
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'MasterChef Junior' Recap: Who Made it to the Top 10?
On this episode of MasterChef Junior, "Blind Ambition," the cooks face a unique challenge when they are asked to replicate a dish. The chefs do their first full restaurant service, catering to some very special guests.
The remaining 12 home cooks enter the kitchen eager to compete in the next Mystery Box Challenge. When they lift their boxes, there are no ingredients, just a blindfold. Gordon instructs them to grab their blindfolds and take a seat up front. Gordon wheels out a huge dining table. There are 12 plates, all covered.
The kids have to eat a meal relying strictly on their sense of taste and smell. After identifying as many ingredients as possible, their job will be to recreate the dish. This news is met with a lot of groans and "oh, nos."
Ian is concerned because he's a picky eater, and he doesn't relish the idea of putting something in his mouth he can't get a look at first.
The kids have five minutes to figure out they are chowing down on pan-seared chicken and mushrooms, rosemary and mustard-infused mashed potatoes, green beans with shaved almonds, baby carrots with a honey-orange glaze and baby turnips, all prepared by Gordon.
The chefs may not all know what they ate, but they agree on one thing, it was delicious.
So it's off to their stations, where the cooks have one hour to recreate the dish. The person who comes closest will earn a huge advantage in the next challenge.
After 60 minutes, and one small fire, the home cooks present their dishes to the judges.
The first order of business is to reveal to the chefs Gordon's dish. After the initial judging, which is based on presentation and content, four cooks are left: Corey, Kya, Kaitlyn and Ian. The final part of the challenge is to determine whose dish most closely mimics Gordon's dish when it comes to flavors.
Kya missed the mushrooms and turnips, but Gordon says the rest of the flavors are spot on. Her presentation is also almost completely identical to the original.
Graham is impressed by Corey's attention to detail. Corey did forget the turnips, the almonds in the green beans and one of the sauces, but Graham is still full of praise.
Ian's chicken breast is almost identical to Gordon's. Christina also says Ian earned his spot because he roasted parsnips. No, there were no parsnips on the plate. But the judges were amazed that at 8 years old, Ian's palate could discern the sweet, roasted root vegetable flavor, and this helped to put him over the top.
Gordon loves the sear on Kaitlyn's chicken but chastises her for missing the carrots and being skimpy with the green beans (3 total).
Kya wins, and Kaitlyn comes in second.
Very Important Grandmas
For the Elimination Challenge, the home cooks will be cooking for some VIP guests, and they will be split into two teams. As the Mystery Box Challenge winners, Kya and Kaitlyn will serve as team captains.
Two large crates are wheeled out, and Christina reveals one team will have to cook with ingredients from New England, while the other will have to utilize items commonly found in New Mexico. Kya is offered the option of picking either a crate or a team member first, and she goes with the New England crate.
Red Team: Kya (captain), Avery, Sam, Corey, Jesse and Ian
Blue Team: Kaitlyn (captain), Zac, Addison, Kamilly, JJ and Amaya
The Red Team's ingredients include: mussels, cod, clams, bacon, celery, Vermont cheddar and parsley.
The Blue Teams ingredients include: chorizo, pork tenderloin, lime, corn, tomatoes and avocados.
Each team has 90 minutes to prepare 31 MasterChef-worthy dishes. The guests will decide the winners, and two cooks from the losing team will be eliminated.
In the midst of the challenge, Gordon finally introduces the 31 mystery guests, and it's a bunch of grandmothers. Yes, these kids are trying appeal to the Early Bird sect. It's both cute and annoying that Avery thinks these women are in their 50s. Ahhh, youth.
These "grannies" have been scooped up from all over the country, and their combined experience in the kitchen totals hundreds of years. I'm pretty sure a few could have been on the Titanic. (Kidding!) The ladies are very excited to taste the dishes prepared by the precocious chefs. I'm guessing they're just happy to be out of the house. (Kidding!)
Dinner is Served
The teams' complete their first full restaurant service, and all they can do is sit back and wait.
The Red Team prepared a mussel and clam bake, served in a broth. There's also a cod cake and roasted corn on the cob.
The Blue Team went with grilled-baked pork tenderloin served with a bean cake and finished with an avocado crema.
Gordon makes the rounds, getting the ladies' opinions, and, of course, it seems pretty evenly split. It also seems some of these women are more interested in flirting with Gordon than the food.
Close but No Top 10
The results are in, and the grannies chose the Blue Team's dish as their favorite. This means two Red Team members are going home.
The judges give Avery and Sam free passes. The remaining four, while talented, were a bit more "fragmented" when it came to teamwork. Jesse and Ian are eliminated, and Kya and Corey live to cook another day.
A new episode of MasterChef Junior airs January 8 on FOX.
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Etowah Station FAQs (Handicap to Restroom)
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Who makes these trips possible?
The Tennessee Overhill Heritage Association (TOHA) is our host through the support of Glenn Springs Holdings Inc. TVRM owns and operates the trains, while the railroad line is owned by our partner, the Tennessee Overhill Heritage Association. This storied line has a rich history.
What is the purpose of TVRM?
The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Inc. (TVRM) is a 501(c)3 non-profit, an educational corporation which is membership based. The mission of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) is to collect for preservation, operation, interpretation, and display railroad artifacts in an authentic setting to educate the public concerning the role of railroads in the history and development of our region. We are honored to be the operator of TOHA’s historic L&N “Old Line” through the scenic Hiwassee River Gorge.
Can I ride a real train?
TVRM runs full-sized, historic trains upon which you can purchase a ticket and take a ride. It is an educational and entertaining experience. The trains are pulled by vintage diesel locomotives, most built around 1950.
Does the train run if it is raining?
Trains operate rain or shine. The coaches are fully covered and enclosed from the elements with heat or air conditioning as needed.
Where do I board the train?
You will report to the L&N Depot and Museum in Etowah, Tennessee. Shuttle buses take passengers on a short ride to the train boarding location near the Hiwassee/Ocoee Scenic River State Park ranger office. It is here that passengers transfer from the bus to the train. Of course, the buses will return you to the L&N Depot and Museum after the ride. The L&N Depot and Museum is located at 727 Tennessee Avenue SOUTH (Highway 411) in Etowah, 37331.
Why can’t the train be boarded at the L&N Depot & Museum?
The current CSX mainline is the only rail line running past the depot and our trains are not allowed on those tracks. CSX handles freight traffic only in this area. The “Old Line” tracks branch off the CSX near Wetmore.
Are there restroom facilities on the train?
Restroom facilities are available on the train and are never more than one coach length or so from your seat.
Is it like riding in a bus?
It is similar as far as boarding because you enter by climbing stairs and then walk down an aisle between rows of seats. Unlike a bus, however, some of the train car seats can be turned to make a group of four.
Can I reserve tickets in advance?
Please purchase your tickets in advance online to avoid disappointment. Tickets are available at the Etowah Depot before the departure times only if the train is not sold out in advance. On peak days, especially during the autumn season, tickets will sell out well in advance. Check availability online and purchase your tickets in advance.
Can we get up and walk around on the train?
Yes, passengers can move about on the train.
Is the train air-conditioned or heated?
The coaches are air conditioned and heated.
If we are running late, will you hold the train for us?
Unfortunately, as much as we try to accommodate all our visitors, we generally can’t delay a train full of passengers. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment. Note that Etowah is in the Eastern Time Zone.
Can I smoke on the train?
Smoking is prohibited on all trains by State law.
Can we bring our pet on the train?
For the comfort of all passengers, only professionally trained service animals are allowed on the train.
Is food available on the train?
You can purchase refreshments on board the commissary car which sells food, snack items, and even souvenirs. Note that snack items are included for those passengers holding tickets in the premium dome coach and dome observation seating areas.
Can I bring food and beverages on the train?
Yes, food and beverages may be consumed while on board all trains. Please help keep our trains clean and use trash receptacles. Report any problems to the conductor or train crew. Alcoholic beverages are not allowed on TVRM trains.
Why are passengers requested to swap seats at the midway point?
We request that passengers move from one side to the other at the excursion’s midway point. Since the train doesn’t turn around, this is the only way to assure that everyone gets the same views. We appreciate your cooperation.
The City of Etowah has several available public lots in the downtown area, none of which are more than three blocks from the L&N Depot and Museum. There is no charge for parking in these lots.
Can I go to the Depot museum?
Be sure to visit the L&N Depot and Museum before boarding the shuttle bus. The Museum usually closes at 4 pm, so don’t be disappointed if it is closed when you return from the train ride.
What are other attractions nearby?
After you’ve enjoyed your train ride, consider visiting the other wonderful attractions offered around Etowah and the Hiwassee & Ocoee Rivers. You can check with the Tennessee Overhill Heritage Association for more information: tennesseeoverhill.com or the Etowah Area Chamber of Commerce: etowahchamber.com. For information about the Chattanooga area, see www.chattanoogafun.com
Where should I stay overnight?
Etowah and the surrounding region have numerous hotel, cabin, and other lodging options. See the Tennessee Overhill Heritage Association website under “lodging” for more information: tennesseeoverhill.com or the Etowah Area Chamber of Commerce: etowahchamber.com. Other options are available around the Ocoee River and in Athens, Tennessee, at I-75 exit 49.
Where can I find information about eating or shopping if I ride the Copperhill Special?
The Tri Cities Business Association has listings for some of the shops and restaurants in the joint towns of Copperhill, Tennessee and McCaysville, Georgia available on their website, www.greatercopperbasin.com.
What if I have tickets for a train trip based in Chattanooga?
All Chattanooga train services must be boarded at Grand Junction Station in Chattanooga (unless otherwise specified.) It is approximately a one hour and 45-minute drive between Chattanooga and Etowah.
Do you accept monetary donations?
All contributions to TVRM are tax deductible and greatly appreciated. We recognize all contributors by a letter of receipt, and a listing in the association’s newsletter, Smoke & Cinders.
I have trouble climbing stairs. What should I do?
Contact the TVRM office to inquire about a parking pass for Hiwassee/Ocoee Scenic River State Park where you’ll board the train. This will allow you to bypass the shuttle bus and avoid climbing stairs.
Is the train accessible for wheelchairs?
Historic rail cars were built before the advent of technology which accommodates people with special needs. Our rail cars were not designed to accommodate wheelchairs safely. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) recognizes the limitations of such historic rail equipment and expressly exempts trains and stations of this type from accessibility requirements. Though we cannot accommodate wheelchair use or access within our historical passenger cars, all persons who can board the train themselves and occupy a standard passenger seat are welcome and encouraged to ride.
Are online ticket purchases secure?
You can rest assured that communications (e.g. credit card numbers) between your browser and this site's web servers are private and secure when the session is activated. You can rest assured that communications (e.g. credit card numbers) between your browser and this site's web servers are private and secure when the session is activated. Your privacy is important to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. Personal information will not be sold, rented, shared, or made available at any time to any outside party.
I still have questions, how do I contact you?
Something else we can help you with? Please contact us!
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Hajati cash assistance effective at keeping vulnerable children in school
A new study shows UNICEF’s Hajati cash assistance is effective at keeping the most vulnerable children in Jordan in school
AMMAN, 26 June 2019: UNICEF’s Hajati cash assistance is effective at keeping the most vulnerable children in Jordan in school and preventing drop out, a new study has shown. The programme supported 10,000 children in the 2018-19 academic year.
Hajati is an unconditional cash transfer for some of the most vulnerable families in Jordan whose children are registered in double shift schools. The programme is accessible to all children, irrespective of nationality or status, with each eligible child receiving 20JD (US$28) a month during the school term.
Data released today shows that Hajati is effective for both children’s education and their overall social economic wellbeing, as well as offering a protective measure against harmful coping mechanisms, including child labour and early marriage.
When comparing children receiving Hajati with a sample of the 45,000 children who stopped receiving the assistance in 2018 due to funding constraints faced by UNICEF, the study found:
78 per cent of children receiving Hajati are attending school regularly. However, more than 1 in 4 children who no longer receive Hajati, are now missing school;
Children who receive Hajati are 25 per cent more likely to be planning to complete their secondary education;
Average school expenditure, including stationery and allowances, is 23 per cent lower in non-Hajati families;
Children no longer in the programme are 34 per cent more likely to go to bed hungry;
The risk of a child engaging in child labour rises 26 per cent when compared to children receiving Hajati;
Low self-esteem is 46 per cent more prevalent in children not receiving the assistance.
“Education is a powerful tool to break the cycle of poverty for children, families and communities,” said Ettie Higgins, acting Representative, UNICEF Jordan. “UNICEF is committed to supporting the Government to provide quality, inclusive education and basic social services for all children, especially the most vulnerable.”
In addition to the Hajati cash assistance, which is largely benefiting refugee children, UNICEF is supporting the expansion of the National Aid Fund to help vulnerable Jordanian children and their families. UNICEF is working closely with the Ministry of Education to increase the number of Kindergarten, primary and secondary school places, as well as continuing to provide non-formal education pathways to help out-of-school children return to the classroom.
The UNICEF Hajati programme is generously supported by the governments of Italy and the Netherlands, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, US PRM and Australian Aid.
UNICEF is appealing for an additional US$25 million to support formal and informal education and Hajati cash assistance for children in 2019.
Claire McKeever
UNICEF Jordan
cmckeever@unicef.org
UNICEF promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child, in everything we do. Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere.
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Three young siblings started a candle company to pay for video games. Now they're giving back to help the homeless.
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Three young Maryland brothers who started a candle company to buy new toys now donate $500 a month from their successful business to help the homeless.
Collin, 13, Ryan, 11, and Austin, 8, Gill founded "Frères Branchiaux," which is French for Gill Brothers, after their mom told them they could either get a job or start a business if they wanted more video games and Nerf guns.
"They surprised me when they started a business and they started selling at their baseball and football games and they've moved on to a vending truck," Celena Gill told Good Morning America.
The three of them have been making the candles in their Indian Head home for the last two years and business is booming, with 36 stores carrying the boys' products and a deal with Macy's in the works. They sell nearly 400 candles a month, priced from $18 to $36, along with other products like diffuser oils, room sprays, soap, bath bombs and salts, according to the Washington Post.
Frères Branchiaux Candle Co. on Instagram: “Happy Memorial Day to everyone! A special thanks to our active and retired members of the Armed Forces! An extra special thanks to some of…”
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Is Harrods Opening In NY?
By Lauren Milligan 12 February 2014
HARRODS could soon have a location in New York, the chairman of the company's executive board, Ahmad Al-Sayed, has revealed - as the company looks to open a long-mooted Harrods hotel. The famous London store is eyeing potential locations in the Big Apple as well as "other prime cities" - but stressed that the landmark Knightsbridge store would not be replicated overseas.
"Everything is for discussion, and we are studying different ways of expansion," he said, adding that Heathrow Terminal Two's new standalone Harrods watch store will "recreate the opulence" if not completely echo the celebrated Knightsbridge site.
Since Qatar Holding, a global investment house founded by the Qatar Investment Authority, bought Harrods in 2010, the firm has invested £250 million, WWD reports, and Al-Sayed says the company doesn't intend to stop there.
"I invest in retail, I invest in commodities, I invest in infrastructure - I invest in different kinds of [businesses]," said Al-Sayed of the investment vehicle, which is also the principal shareholder of supermarket Sainsbury's. "We are like fund managers: When we decide on our investment, we check what suits our portfolio and then we make a decision."
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By Suzy Menkes 30 October 2019
Tiffany & Co Sells To LVMH In Landmark $16.2 Billion Deal
Dries Van Noten Delivers His Enchantment
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Happy Publication Day 24th August 2017!
By Gollancz
Related Categories: Book Birthday, Gollancz News
Related Tags: Adam Roberts, David Gemmell, Mark Alder, son of the night, the real-town murders, white knight black swan
Alfred Hitchcock once said that ‘Drama is life with the dull bits cut out’, and this week we can promise you all the drama, none of the dull stuff. We have Adam Roberts’ latest, a Hitchcockian murder mystery that’s more about the how than the who. A crime book from the legendary David Gemmell that you probably never knew existed. Plus Mark Alders’ ‘What if God and the devil decided to get involved in A Game of Thrones’-esque historical wonder. Enjoy!
The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts
An impossible murder. A ticking deadline. A political coup. A Hitchcockian thriller set in a chilling near future.
Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy to spend their lives plugged in, and the country is decaying.
Alma’s partner is ill, and has to be treated without fail every four hours, a task that only Alma can do. If she misses the five-minute window her lover will die. She is one of the few not to access the Shine.
So when Alma is called to an automated car factory to be shown an impossible death and finds herself caught up in a political coup, she knows that getting too deep may leave her unable to get home.
What follows is a fast-paced Hitchcockian thriller as Alma evades arrest, digs into the conspiracy, and tries to work out how on earth a dead body appeared in the boot of a freshly made car in a fully automated factory.
Out now in hardback, ebook and audio download.
White Knight Black Swan by David Gemmell
A stunning, long-lost and highly sought-after crime novel by the legendary David Gemmell returns to print after twenty-five years.
White Knight Black Swan was Gemmell’s only published crime novel, released under a pseudonym. Building on the world Gemmell saw around him while working as a local journalist in eighties London, it shows a way of life now long gone.
‘Bimbo’ Jardine is a special man – a giant with a heart of gold, generous to his friends, feared by his enemies. His job is to collect money for Reardon, the local gangster, but everyone in this patch of South London knows him to be an honourable man, despite his capability for violence. But when Bimbo stops a homophobic attack, and then takes on the man who ordered it, he sets himself on a collision course with his own boss. Reardon cannot be seen to back down. Bimbo believes he did the right thing and won’t step away.
And when the two men clash, other lives will be at risk.
Son of the Night by Mark Alder
The 100 Years’ War reaches the bloody slaughter of Crecy as Angels and Demons fight for the future of Man, in a series for fans of George RR Martin and Bernard Cornwell alike.
Following on from the success of Son of the Morning, which saw him compared to both Bernard Cornwell for the flair of his historical writing and to George RR Martin for his gripping plotting, Mark Alder takes his history of the 100 Years’ War into France as the war between Heaven and Hell swallows up the ambitions of both the French and English crowns.
As the armies mass around Crecy the rivalries between Lucifer, Satan and God become ever deeper and more violent. Combining a cast of larger than life (yet real) characters and a truthful, deeply researched take on the religious beliefs of the time, Mark Alder has embarked on a truly unique historical fantasy that will ensure you never see the 100 Years’ War and the history of medieval Europe in the same way again.
Out now in trade paperback and ebook.
The Street by Ann Petry
Virago Modern Classics Book Club | Introducing Florence King
Virago Speakeasy at Pages Cheshire St: Empowering Victims
Virago Modern Classic Book Club: Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
Christmas Reads for your Viragos
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2020 KTM 450 SX-F
Manufacturer: KTM
Get yours today for a screaming price! Sticker price not including fixed fees, tax, licensing and setup, freight.
The championship-winning KTM 450 SX-F offers a proven formula that is the industry benchmark. For 2020, this machine continues to deliver superior performance and easy handling. It features an extremely compact, single overhead camshaft cylinder head and together with the efficient electronic fuel injection, it pushes out unrivalled power in the most effective way possible. The KTM 450 SX-F is simply the fastest Motocross bike out on the track.
1-cylinder, 4-stroke engine
Wet, DDS multi-disc clutch, Brembo hydraulics
FRONT BRAKE DISC DIAMETER
REAR BRAKE DISC DIAMETER
5/8 x 1/4"
ENGINE & EXHAUST 4-strokes have taken motocross to unthinkable new extremes in a playground where KTM is the dominant force. Lighter and more compact than ever thought possible, these well-balanced engineering masterpieces deliver class-leading power in the most dynamic way. Straight from the showroom floor, KTM 4-strokes offer READY TO RACE performance of the highest caliber.
ENGINE The 450 cc engine is the ultimate powerhouse when it comes to KTM's competitive motocross range. Its compact, lightweight design features a single overhead camshaft cylinder head, fueled by the latest electronic injection system. This enables the impressive power to be distributed extremely efficiently throughout the rev range. Even with its super-beneficial electric starter, this model is still the lightest 450 cc engine on the MX market.
CYLINDER HEAD The KTM 450 SX-F is fitted with a lightweight, compact SOHC (single overhead camshaft) cylinder head. The design focusses on mass centralization, contributing to overall handling excellence. The overhead camshaft has a friction-optimized surface and valve timing that delivers impressive responsiveness. The four ultra-lightweight titanium valves (intake 40 mm, exhaust 33 mm) are activated via extremely rigid rocker arms. The rockers on the intake side are DLC coated, allowing for impressive engine speeds to 11,500 rpm. Low-friction chain guides further support the high RPM levels. The innovative head configuration guarantees the most efficient delivery of the unrivalled power, maintaining a strong edge over the competition.
CRANKSHAFT The crankshaft on the KTM 450 SX-F is located in an ideal position close to the center of gravity, contributing to better mass centralization. It utilizes a short connecting rod, which allows for a compact motor design and a snappier power delivery. The whole unit is extremely well-balanced, with the perfect amount of inertia for optimal traction and rideability. A plain big end bearing with two force-fitted bearing shells runs directly on the crank pin, with the necessary oil feed for this bearing supplied by the engine's pressure lubrication. This design also enhances durability, allowing for long crankshaft service intervals - resulting in less effort and cost and more time spent on two wheels.
CRANKCASES AND ENGINE COVERS The compact engine cases are manufactured using a high pressure die-cast production process that helps with weight reduction, while retaining strength and durability. The design allows for optimal shaft arrangements close to the center of gravity, resulting in better mass centralization and easier rideability. The engine covers feature a smart surface structure that reduces wear caused by the rider's boots, keeping them looking as fresh as the day you bought it.
TRANSMISSION The transmission on the KTM 450 SX-F is focused on lightweight performance without compromise to durability. There was no need to change the gear ratios as they have been perfectly matched to the power delivery of the large displacement engine, but the secondary drive (sprockets) ratio has been made shorter (13/49) for improved response. All four-stroke engines are fitted with a gear sensor, which provides the option of different engine characteristics for each gear, depending on engine load. An advanced "no-dirt" gear lever design prevents dirt from building up and together with the reliable gearbox, guarantees that the next gear is always an easy click away.
ENGINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM The state-of-the-art KEIHIN Engine Management System, with electronic fuel injection, features a 44 mm throttle body. The injector position guarantees optimal atomization of the fuel and air on the way to the combustion chamber, resulting in instant response and maximum performance when opening the throttle. There are also separate systems for cold starting and idle adjustment. The ECU features maps which have been developed to precisely match the exhaust and cylinder head, with options for regulating traction and launch control. It also provides different maps for each gear, according to the information received from the gear sensor, ensuring maximum power as you shift through the gears.
CYLINDER AND PISTON The 95 mm bore cylinder houses a newly-shaped, lightweight piston, made to the very highest standards by CP, delivering improved performance and reliability. Its design contributes to the engine's low vibrations and overall engine speed strength. Due to the low oscillating masses, the engine is not only powerful, but also displays extremely lively characteristics.
BALANCER SHAFT The multifunctional side-mounted counterbalance shaft masterfully balances all the oscillating forces, while also driving the water pump. It effectively keeps engine vibrations to a minimum, resulting in the smoothest ride, even at the highest engine speeds.
CLUTCH The KTM 450 SX-F is fitted with the extremely durable, KTM-developed DDS clutch (damped diaphragm steel), with a wear-free steel basket and heat-resistant clutch plates. It uses a diaphragm spring instead of the usual coil springs, which results in considerably easier clutch action. The diaphragm spring is also compact enough to allow for a damping system to be integrated into the clutch hub, contributing to better traction and durability. Additionally, the BREMBO hydraulic system provides easy and precise clutch modulation.
E-STARTER The standard electric starter on the KTM 450 SX-F uses a proven starter drive and a strong starter motor made by Mitsuba. As demonstrated time and time again, it provides quick and reliable starting, saving you precious time and energy when you need it most.
HANDLEBAR MAP SELECT SWITCH Within easy reach of the left grip on all four-stroke models, is a multifunctional handlebar map switch, which features the innovative control functions; traction control; launch control and alternative power curves (standard <-> advanced). The TRACTION CONTROL is a unique feature that guarantees more efficient traction and better control when accelerating the bike, especially in challenging track conditions. It can be activated on the handlebar map switch while riding. With a simple push of two buttons at idle speed, the rider can also activate LAUNCH CONTROL, ensuring the most effective launch out of the gate. The map switch also gives the rider the chance to select an alternative power map besides the standard configuration, providing performance options during the race.
CHASSIS The KTM 450 SX-F delivers metal twisting torque and requires a strong frame to handle its immense power and speed. A new lightweight, high-tech steel frame was developed for the 2019 range and the proven formula carries over to the 2020 model. It features refined flex characteristics that ensure the bike soaks up those big hits while also maintaining excellent agility and high-speed stability. The chassis also features additional innovative elements like "no dirt" foot pegs and brackets for mounting an optional composite skid plate. For 2020, the suspension features improved damping characteristics. The reworked settings offer a slightly softer, more comfortable feel that, together with the dynamic, performance-oriented chassis, contribute to an intuitive, high-performance ride like no other.
FRAME As with the entire KTM SX range, the frame on the KTM 450 SX-F is professionally crafted from hydroformed chromium molybdenum steel tubes that are robot welded to ensure the highest levels of consistent quality. The precisely calculated stiffness of the frame delivers responsive handling and works perfectly with the suspension to provide excellent agility and high-speed stability. All 2020 KTM SX frames feature a highly durable powder coating and come with standard frame protectors. The subframe is made from lightweight aluminum and provides great feeling for the rider, as well as easy movement across the seat.
SWINGARM The KTM 450 SX-F's one-piece swingarm is manufactured using a gravity die-cast production process for exceptional strength at the lowest possible weight. It offers a wide range of adjustment for the rear wheel, allowing for a shorter wheelbase on tighter, twisty tracks, or a longer wheelbase for greater stability on longer, more choppy tracks. The swingarm's chain measurement markings are visible from above, making adjustment simpler and more accurate.
ERGONOMICS & COMFORT When it comes to the powerhouse of KTM's SX range, it is imperative that riders are able to shift their weight quickly and easily to counter the forces acting against them. KTM places a great deal of emphasis on creating the optimal ergonomics for high-level performance, making sure the neutral riding position offers the best control. A rider's main interaction with the motorcycle comes through the bodywork, seat, footpegs and handlebars and all these contact points play a vital role in balance and control. There is no doubt that the KTM 450 SX-F packs a serious punch and by ensuring the very best high-performance ergonomics, a rider has the confidence and control to use it as it is meant to be.
SEAT All KTM SX models feature a seat that perfectly matches the range's dynamic performance-oriented ergonomics. The seat cover features silicone strips that provide better feel and grip for the rider. The seat is conveniently fixed to the bike using one long, lateral screw, making it secure and easy to handle.
BODYWORK & GRAPHICS Unloading a KTM 450 SX-F at the track is an immediate declaration of your race-winning intentions. Using feedback from KTM factory riders, the bodywork of the entire SX range achieves complete harmony between bike and rider. The main focus is to provide contact points that allow maximum freedom of movement and improved overall handling. Brute strength at the lowest possible weight is what this bike is all about and can be seen in the details of the intelligent I-beam design on the front and rear fenders, which guarantee maximum stability at no extra weight.
DECALS The new aggressive-looking graphics were designed to send a clear message to the competition that this is not a bike that should be taken lightly.
SOFTWARE & ELECTRONICS With the KTM 450 SX-F's dirt-ripping engine performance, every effort has been made to ensure the power is delivered in a controllable manner. As well as the considerable mechanical effort to produce usable power, there is also an electronics package with the ability to refine it to perfection. Activated by a multifunctional handlebar map switch, a rider has access to important features like traction control, launch control and even alternative power curves. Many hours were spent in development, creating mind-blowing power and torque, making electronics a necessary innovation that ensures power gets to the ground in the most effective way. A proven electric starter gets this dirt-shredder fired up, ensuring the ultimate motocross experience starts with the simple push of a button.
BATTERY All SX-F models feature a capable, super lightweight 2 Ah Lithium-Ion starter battery, ensuring quick and effective starting of the engine, especially in cold weather conditions. The voltage regulator and condenser, as well as all the electrical components, are packaged in a common area below the seat, making the entire system compact and reliable.
TRACTION CONTROL TRACTION CONTROL is a highly beneficial feature that guarantees more efficient traction and better control of the bike when accelerating on wet or slippery hard pack surfaces. It can be activated by the handlebar map switch during riding.
LAUNCH CONTROL By pushing both buttons on the map switch, the rider can activate LAUNCH CONTROL, which ensures a more efficient launch out of the start gate. It reduces the maximum engine speed for the very first moment of the start to give better control. The EFI control lamp mounted on the upper triple clamps flashes when the function is active.
HANDLEBAR MAP SELECT SWITCH With one touch of a button, the map switch gives the rider the chance to select between a standard map setting and a more aggressive map for loamy, high grip dirt conditions. This is particularly useful for changing track conditions or for a rider that is looking for more control as he begins to get tired.
All inventory listed is subject to availability and prior sale. Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) if shown for a vehicle excludes set-up, freight, taxes, title, licensing or other dealer charges, and is subject to change. Individual prices may vary. Please request a quote for specific pricing.
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You are here: Home / Basics / What is a DC Series Generator – Load Test, Characteristics & Applications
What is a DC Series Generator – Load Test, Characteristics & Applications
November 29, 2019 By Wat Electrical Leave a Comment
An electrical generator is a kind of machine that can able to convert the input mechanical energy to electrical energy. It was invented in 1831 by Michael Faraday who worked on several theories of magnetic induction. Finally, it was made to work by the introduction of Electromagnetic Induction. This theory is the basis for the working of an electrical generator. Moreover, this electrical energy generated is used by electrical motors. However, these motors can also be used as an electrical generator by making some minor constructional changes. In this article, we shall discuss what is a DC series Generator, construction, working, characteristics, and load test.
What is a DC series Generator?
It is a machine that works on the principle of electromagnetic Induction and it converts the mechanical input given to electrical energy. The field winding is attached in series with the armature winding of this type of machine. The equivalent circuit of this type is shown in the figure below.
equivalent circuit
From the circuit, we know that
Ise = Il = If
The terminal voltage equation from the circuit diagram is Vt = Ea – Ia (Ra + Rse).
As the winding is in series, the current is more and in order to produce the necessary MMF the winding is wound with fewer turns compared to shunt type machine.
MMF = Nse Ise
It works similar to a normal type generator and the working principle is an electromagnetic inductor. When the conductors placed in the magnetic field are rotated by a mechanical input. These conductors cut the flux and induce a current to flow. This induced current is able to produce a voltage that is used as the output of electrical energy. The working of the DC series type is shown in the figure below.
Generator Working
Load Test of DC Series Generator
The load test is conducted to draw internal and external characteristics. The load circuit diagram is shown in the figure below.
load-test
To know the values of voltage generated with respect to the load current in order to draw the curves vary the input voltage to the rated value and note the respective values.
The characteristics are generally considered to know the performance characteristics of the machine. The internal and external characteristics of the dc series generator are drawn between the voltage generated and load current and terminal voltage and load current. The magnetization curve is drawn between the no-load voltage and the load current. The magnetization curve is shown in the figure below.
magnetization-characteristics
The Internal characteristic curve is shown in the figure below.
internal characteristics
The external characteristic curve is shown in the figure below.
external characteristics
These machines are used in
Thus, in this article, we had studied what is a DC series generator. It is a type of machine whose winding is attached in series with the armature winding such that the number of turns is less in order to produce the necessary flux. Apart from this, we had also studied its working, why load test is conducted, its characteristics, and applications. Here is a question for the readers, Magnetization characteristics curve is drawn between which values?
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Le mot "santeria" (8 points) est valide au SCRABBLE
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Hereditary Chief Na’Moks addresses a crowd at Bovill Square in Smithers on Jan. 10. (Trevor Hewitt photo)
Hereditary chiefs ask BC RCMP not to act with force against gas pipeline opponents
Solidarity rally for Wet’suwet’en took place on Jan. 10 in Smithers
Trevor Hewitt
A spokesman for the Wet’suwet’en hereditary clan chiefs says they have delivered “directives” to the RCMP, and provincial and federal politicians over the treatment of those opposed to a gas pipeline.
Speaking after a rally in Smithers, Na’moks says he and other chiefs have met with RCMP Deputy Commissioner Jennifer Strachan, as well as local New Democrat MP Taylor Bachrach and Forests Minister Doug Donaldson.
Na’moks says the chiefs have asked Strachan to ensure that officers maintain the peace and do not take violent action against pipeline opponents, who have set up camps and felled trees along the road toward a construction site for the natural gas pipeline.
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Coastal GasLink has signed agreements with all 20 elected First Nation councils along the planned 670-kilometre route from northeastern British Columbia to LNG Canada’s export terminal in Kitimat on the coast, but hereditary chiefs say the project does not have their consent.
RCMP spokeswoman Dawn Roberts confirmed that a series of meetings is scheduled and ongoing.
But she says in an email that out of respect for those involved and in the spirit of what they are trying to accomplish, she will not share what is discussed until all the meetings have taken place or decisions have been made.
“We remain hopeful that these efforts will result in a resolution. This has been our focus and continues to be our focus,” she says.
The RCMP issued a statement Wednesday saying it’s investigating traps likely to hurt someone after patrolling the area where trees were felled across the road.
Officers found stacked tires with jugs of fuel inside, as well as bags of fuel-soaked rags. They also found trees along the side of the road that had been partially cut, which the RCMP say could be knocked down by wind.
Na’moks says the trees were felled for the safety of supporters of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary clan chiefs.
Coastal GasLink responded to an interview request with an emailed statement.
“Coastal GasLink is approved, permitted and under construction today with more than 1,000 people working to build it, safely and responsibly,” Suzanne Wilton says in the statement.
She pointed to a news release that says clearing, grading, workforce accommodation, construction and other activities are planned for January between Chetwynd and Kitimat.
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Ben Higgins Says Bachelorette Hannah Brown’s Sex Confessions Are ‘Confusing’
By Jessica Vacco-Bolanos
Ben Higgins isn’t sure what to think. The Indiana native opened up about Bachelorette Hannah Brown’s onscreen sex confessions during a podcast discussion on Tuesday, July 15, and admitted he’s still trying to put the puzzle pieces together.
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“One thing that I think Hannah is doing that is a little bit confusing is in her statement right there, she’s saying things like, ‘We all fall short and we need God’s grace,’” Higgins, 30, said during an interview with Bachelor Nation’s Courtney Robertson while talking about Brown’s open conversations about her sexuality both on the show and social media.
“But, within that speech, she’s admitting to an incorrect decision, which on the show, I’m watching this and can kind of get behind her saying, ‘No, I feel good about this [decision to have sex],’” the former Bachelor continued, and referenced an Instagram post Brown posted last month. “And so is she saying she made a mistake by doing this? Or is she owning it and saying, ‘I’m confident in my decision to do this?’ Because there are two different things that are happening … and that’s the one part that is confusing me with Hannah.”
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Higgins went on to explain that the one thing that he thinks Hannah has “not done well” is say one thing on the show but then take to social media and make posts towards Luke that are “counterintuitive.”
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The Indiana University alum’s comments come one day after an argument between Brown and Parker, both 24, aired on the Monday, July 15, episode of The Bachelorette. The drama began to unfold after the import/export manager shared his belief that if the former beauty pageant queen had sex with the remaining contestants, he would remove himself from the show. The comments visibly upset Brown and caused her to blurt out that she had sex with Weber.
After the rift played out on TV, Brown and Parker exchanged a series of heated tweets about the situation, both of them slamming each other for their religious beliefs.
Though Parker initially posted a lengthy message on Instagram in an attempt to clarify his words and admit that he made mistakes during his time on the hit reality TV dating show, he then took to Twitter to poke at Brown.
“@AlabamaHannah The difference in how we view sin is seen in the response, I’m weeping at mine and you’re laughing at yours. All sin stings. My heart hurts for both of us,” he wrote, which sparked a reaction from Brown.
“Time and time again jesus loved and ate with ‘sinners’ who laughed. and time and time again he rebuked ‘saints’ that judged. where do you fall Luke?” she replied.
The Bachelorette airs on ABC Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
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Chelsea Houska Talks Wedding to Cole DeBoer, Plans for Second Ceremony After Baby Arrives
By Kathy Campbell
Wedding, part 1! Chelsea Houska took to Twitter on Sunday, October 2, hours after her wedding to Cole DeBoer, to thank fans for their kind words of congratulations.
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The Teen Mom 2 star, who’s expecting her first child with her new husband, also said that she and the fitness enthusiast plan to have a bigger celebration next year, after their baby arrives.
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“So as most of you already know, yesterday Cole and I got married in a tiny ceremony just with our parents and siblings,” the 25-year-old wrote.
“Next year, once our baby is here and able to be part of it, we will have a big ceremony and reception with our friends/extended family,” she added.
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As Us Weekly previously reported, the couple tied the knot in a rustic ceremony, and the reality star posted a sweet pic on Instagram that showed the newlyweds kissing as her daughter, Aubree, 7, whose father is Houska’s ex-boyfriend Adam Lind, stood beside them holding a bouquet. Mama and daughter both had flower garlands in their hair.
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On Saturday Houska’s father, Randy, who was at the wedding, posted a sweet message on Twitter, writing, “Today was a very good day.”
The bride also shared a pic on Instagram on Sunday featuring a pic of a little sign that said “Thug wife.”
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The couple, who met at a gas station and began dating in August 2014, got engaged in November 2015. “He’s stuck now!” she joked as she showed off her new engagement ring on Instagram.
The 16 and Pregnant alum announced in July that they were expecting their first child, due in February 2017.
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Duke rolls out $62M solar rebate for North Carolina customers
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Duke Energy proposed a $62 million rebate program in North Carolina that it anticipates will grow rooftop solar by 200% over the next five years. Currently, Duke has 6,000 solar customers on its system with a capacity of more than 50 MW.
The rebate would be $0.60/watt for residential solar systems up to 10 kWh, and an average rooftop installation would see savings of about $4,800. Duke is also offering a smaller rebate for non-residential customers and a larger rebate for non-profits.
The solar rebate program, which still needs approval from North Carolina Utilities Commission, is the first of three programs Duke will introduce this year under the Competitive Energy Solutions for North Carolina law, House Bill 589, which was passed last year.
North Carolina is the No. 2 state for solar energy, and legislation passed last year aimed to build on that success. Duke's proposal offers customers flexibility on financing, and entices schools and churches with a "enhanced" rebate. Customers will also have a solar leasing option under Duke's proposal.
HB 589, which included an 18-month wind moratorium, set a North Carolina solar deployment target of 6,800 MW by 2020 and offered lower-cost financing to developers. The utility will recover the $62 million
Residential customers could see rebates up to a maximum of $6,000 under the proposal. Non-residential customers would be eligible for a $0.50/watt rebate and for nonprofits the rebate rises to $0.75/watt, for systems up to 100 kW. In addition to the rebates, Duke outlined two other programs it will roll out this year in an effort to help customers adopt solar.
A Shared Solar program will offer a community alternative for customers who cannot install or do not want solar panels on their property. Duke's Green Source Advantage is an expansion of a pilot program being run by Duke Energy Carolinas, and will allow large customers to secure solar power to offset the amount of power purchased from Duke.
According to Duke spokesman Randy Wheeless, the utility expects to sign 5,000 customers over the next five years.
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More than 200,000 children used to get whooping cough each year. Thanks to vaccines, that number has dropped significantly.
There are 2 vaccines that include protection against whooping cough:
The DTaP vaccine protects young children from diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough
The Tdap vaccine protects preteens, teens, and adults from tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough
Why are whooping cough vaccines important?
Whooping cough spreads very easily from person to person. Because it usually starts off like a cold, people who have whooping cough may not know they’re spreading it. And it can be deadly, especially for newborn babies.
Babies who get whooping cough can have dangerous complications, like pneumonia (lung infection), convulsions (uncontrolled shaking), and brain damage. That’s why it’s especially important for pregnant women to get vaccinated — and that people who spend time with babies are up to date on their whooping cough vaccine.
Getting vaccinated is the best way to prevent whooping cough.
Whooping cough is caused by a kind of bacteria. It’s named for the “whoop” sound people can make after coughing fits. Learn what whooping cough sounds like.
The early symptoms of whooping cough include:
Mild cough
Low fever
Apnea (a pause in breathing) in babies
Whooping cough can last for up to 10 weeks or more. Later symptoms can include:
Long-lasting coughing fits followed by a high-pitched “whoop”
Throwing up during or after coughing fits
Feeling very tired after coughing fits
Turning blue from not getting enough oxygen
Complications from whooping cough can include incontinence (loss of bladder control) and broken ribs from coughing.
Whooping cough can spread when a person who has it:
Coughs or sneezes
Is close to other people, like when they’re holding a baby
Learn more about whooping cough.
Who needs to get whooping cough vaccines?
Whooping cough vaccines are recommended for babies, children, teens, adults, and pregnant women.
Young children need the DTaP vaccine as part of their routine vaccine schedule. Young children need a dose of the vaccine at:
15 through 18 months
4 through 6 years
See the routine vaccination schedule for:
Preteens and teens
Older children need 1 booster shot of the Tdap vaccine at age 11 or 12 as part of their routine vaccine schedule.
If your child misses the booster shot, talk with your child’s doctor about scheduling a catch-up shot.
If you missed the Tdap booster as a teen, you’ll need to get a Tdap booster to make sure you have protection from whooping cough.
Pregnant women need 1 booster shot of the Tdap vaccine during each pregnancy.
Talk with your doctor about how to protect your family from whooping cough.
Who should not get whooping cough vaccines?
You should not get a whooping cough vaccine if you:
Have a life-threatening allergy to any ingredient in the vaccine
Have had a serious reaction to the diphtheria, tetanus, or whooping cough vaccines in the past
Be sure to tell your doctor before getting vaccinated if you:
Have seizures (sudden, unusual movements or behavior) or other nervous system problems
Had serious pain or swelling after any diphtheria, tetanus, or whooping cough vaccine
Have had Guillain-Barré Syndrome (an immune system disorder)
If you’re sick, you may need to wait until you’re feeling better to get a whooping cough vaccine.
What are the side effects of whooping cough vaccines?
Side effects are usually mild and go away in a few days. They may include:
Pain, swelling, or redness where the shot was given
Feeling tired or irritable
Upset stomach, throwing up, and diarrhea (watery poop)
Fussing (in children)
It’s very rare, but the DTaP vaccine can also cause the following symptoms in children:
Seizures (about 1 child in 14,000)
Non-stop crying, for 3 hours or more (up to about 1 child in 1,000)
Fever higher than 105°F (about 1 child in 16,000)
Like any medicine, there's a very small chance that whooping cough vaccines could cause a serious reaction. Keep in mind that getting a whooping cough vaccine is much safer than getting whooping cough. Learn more about vaccine side effects.
Where can I get more information about the whooping cough vaccine?
Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) have detailed information about recommended vaccines. Read the VISs for vaccines that protect against whooping cough:
DTaP vaccine — protects against whooping cough, diphtheria, and tetanus (for infants and children)
Tdap vaccine — protects against whooping cough, diphtheria, and tetanus (for preteens, teens, and adults)
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60% not ready for outages; half don’t have a preparedness kit
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Some 60% of British Columbians aren’t ready to handle prolonged power outages resulting from harsher weather patterns, according to a new BC Hydro survey.
As well, the survey found that half of British Columbians don't have a storm preparedness kit, and of those without one, only 12% plan to buy one this year.
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The report said that in the past four years, British Columbians have experienced two of the largest individual storm events in BC Hydro history. Each caused extensive damage to the province’s electrical system, resulting in over 700,000 losing power.
Data from 2018 shows customers, on average, experienced more storm-related power outages than ever before, with adverse weather and trees and vegetation coming into contact with BC Hydro equipment, causing customers to lose power for over 11 million hours last year —more than double the five-year average of 5 million hours per year.
The December 2018 storm caused unprecedented system damage, leaving about 750,000 customers without power. About 7% of impacted customers were without power for more than 72 hours.
“The survey found the majority of those impacted by the December 2018 storm felt they could have been more prepared for the storm,” the report said. “However, only half have taken steps to be more prepared for winter storms this year.”
Province-wide, tree-related outages in 2018 were 29% higher than the five-year average.
Broken down by region, those numbers are:
• Up 100% on Vancouver Island;
•Up 16% for the Lower Mainland; and
•Down 13% in the North, Central and South Interior.
BC Hydro Report; Storm Preparedness Nov 2019 by Emma Crawford Hampel, BIV.com on Scribd
The provincial utility suggested people prepare for storm-related power outages by having a fully stocked emergency kit including a flashlight and extra batteries, a first aid kit, needed medications, non-perishable food, 72 hours worth of bottled water for each household member and warm clothing and blankets
BC Hydro also suggested people stay away from downed power lines, as there is no way to determine if one is live or not.
BC Hydro said it continues to prepare for storm season year-round using new technology and processes to improve response times.
The online survey of 800 British Columbians was done Oct. 16-21.
The Preliminary Strategic Climate Risk Assessment for British Columbia released by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy in July said increasing extreme weather events in coming years could cause disruptions to power transmission, transportation and water; other infrastructure services could last for weeks depending on the severity of flood damage and number of people affected, causing a major impediment to day-to-day life.
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Rapid SD-WAN momentum spurs Talari’s appointment of new CEO from SonicWall
Patrick Sweeney of Talari Networks
SD-WAN company Talari Networks has named former SonicWall executive Patrick Sweeney as chief executive officer. Sweeney brings a wealth of executive operating experience in high-growth network infrastructure markets, having served in multiple roles over his 16 years at SonicWall and Dell.
Sweeney helped take SonicWall private under Thoma Bravo in 2010 and in 2012 sold the company to Dell where he served as vice president of security marketing in the Dell Software Group. In 2016 Sweeney helped spin out SonicWall from Dell as an independent company under private equity firm Francisco Partners.
Sweeney succeeds former CEO Mark Masur, who will remain as chairman on Talari’s board of directors. “What attracted us to Patrick was his wide-reaching experience that spans across all aspects of high tech company operations,” said Masur. “His strong track record demonstrates he possesses the leadership capabilities to execute within fast-moving market transitions. As the company grows, and expands its partnerships and solution offerings, Patrick will bring an invigorated sense of purpose that will support and enhance our original vision.”
“Talari is one of the original founders of the SD-WAN space. We have a huge base of loyal customers with thousands of deployments around the world. Our customers have given us an industry-leading Net Promoter Score, validating that our solutions and support are enterprise-class,” said Sweeney.
“Now the market has kicked into hyper-growth gear, timing is everything and we intend to take full advantage of this moment! We will accelerate our success by increasing our sales capacity, implementing a 100% channel model, and continuing to lead with SD-WAN technical innovations in cloud, mobility and the distributed workforce.”
According to Gartner, “In 2014, startups providing SD-WAN products entered the branch office router market… In 2016, they began to achieve market traction beyond the innovators and drove the first wave of disruption. This resulted in 2016 sales of more than $100 million(€85.12 million), forecast to grow to $1.32 billion(€1.12 billion) in 2021, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 59.4% over that period.” (Gartner, “Overlapping Market Disruptions Are the New Normal: How Provider Behaviors Must Change,” Joe Skorupa, Andrew Lerner, 21 August 2017)
IHS Markit reports that the SD-WAN market opportunity is projected to reach $3.3 (€2.81) billion in software and appliance revenue to SD-WAN vendors in 2021. This explosive growth is being driven by the digital transformation that enterprises and service providers are deploying throughout the world. Mobility, cloud and distributed workforces add to workloads, placing greater stress on existing private networks that lack the flexibility and lower costs that can be achieved with aggregating broadband Internet links and intelligently routing packets through dedicated conduits.
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“SD-WAN adoption continues to accelerate, and the list of service providers, VARs, SIs, and regional players lining up to offer SD-WAN services using third-party vendor overlay continues to multiply,” said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., senior research director and advisor of cloud and data center research practice for IHS Markit, a global business information provider.
In a recent IHS Markit report, service provider respondents indicated SD-WAN is a top use case for SDN & NFV, signaling a strong need for SD-WAN vendors to establish strong channel partnerships.
Talari is charting its strategic business growth by expanding its investments in sales coverage and operations focused on the channel. The company committed to engaging more deeply, and working more closely with channel partners, to increase its business opportunities and sales pipeline. An example of this is the introduction of Talari’s Managed Edge service delivery platform that supports MSPs, ASPs and CSPs that want to add managed SD-WAN services for their customers.
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Tags: Andrew Lerner, ASPs, CAGR, Cliff Grossner, CSPs, Dell, Gartner, IHS Markit, Joe Skorupa, MSPs, NFV, Patrick Sweeney, SD-WAN, SDN, SonicWall, Talari
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Injured Triple-A right-hander Trevor May has been replaced by Rochester teammate Alex Meyer on the roster for Sunday’s All-Star Futures Game at Target Field.
The move was announced via Twitter by the Futures Games.
May has not pitched in a game since he was placed on the seven-day disabled list, retroactive to June 26, after a right calf strain in suffered his last start on June 21. On Sunday, before the Twins’ series finale with the New York Yankees, general manager Terry Ryan expressed uncertainty about May’s availability for the Futures Game.
“I don’t want to do something to set him back, I can tell you that,” Ryan said.
The 6-foot-9 Meyer, acquired from Washington in the 2012 trade that sent Denard Span to the Nationals, has a 3.46 earned-run average in 17 starts with Rochester. He has 93 strikeouts over 83 1/3 innings.
Before the injury, May had a 2.94 ERA with 81 strikeouts in 79 2/3 innings over 14 starts.
Meyer will be one of three Twins prospects at the Futures Game. He will play on team USA, which will be managed by former Twins skipper Tom Kelly.
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The Twins announced Monday that Class A Fort Myers right-hander J.O. Berrios, also headed to the Futures Game, had been promoted to Double-A New Britain.
Berrios, 20, went 9-3 with a 1.96 ERA in 16 starts for the Miracle. His final start came on July 4, when he allowed an unearned run on six hits and a walk.
Berrios struck out four, leaving him with a nine-inning strikeout rate of 10.18.
Also promoted to Double-A was Fort Myers left-hander Mason Melotakis, a second-round pick in 2012.
New Britain first baseman Kennys Vargas will be the third Twins prospect to represent the organization at the Futures Game. Vargas and Berrios will play on the World team managed by hall of famer Bert Blyleven.
Staff writer Mike Berardino contributed to this report.
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The Mayor of London's proposal to extend the ULEZ is a clumsy policy that will fail to tackle pollution hotspots and will penalise drivers and businesses in non-polluting areas, a new GLA Conservatives report shows.
'A Breath of Fresh Air', by Gareth Bacon AM, calls on the Mayor to adopt an alternative approach aimed at tackling the worst-hit areas where pollution is actually affecting people's health. A similar targeted policy in Oxford Street saw emissions fall by a third in just 12 months and the original ULEZ, focusing on central London, is predicted to cut harmful emissions by 51 per cent.
The Mayor's proposed extension to the lesser-polluted areas within the North and South Circular would see pollution fall by just an additional 10 per cent. Despite the low impact, the report predicts the cost of the extension at £780million - £220 for every household in London.
Small businesses could be decimated by charges for driving inside the North and South Circular - which TfL figures predict could total £100million a year for drivers within the affected zones.
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In Search of a Concrete Music
by Pierre Schaeffer (Author), John Dack (Translator), Christine North (Translator)
20th Century Music Composition
Ahmanson Foundation Endowment Fund in Humanities
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Need for the implicit. From the ski tow to the noise piano. Wherein the autodidact feels guilty. Wherein chance nevertheless comes to his aid. On the merit of accepting evidence, after denying it. That it is no longer the same. That the most general musical instrument possible is not inconceivable.
1948. January. Sometimes when I write I am envious of more intense modes of expression. Writing is always making explicit at the expense of other things. Mystery is sacrificed, and consequently truth and so everything. At these moments I am overwhelmed by a longing for music that, as Roger Ducasse says, "he likes because it does not mean anything."
February. The change of scenery makes me forget the weight on my mind. Without memories, without worries, I can feel stirrings deep within me. Ideas are seeking outlets other than words: Ta ra ra ra boom-whistlings-the snow-gusts of perfect fullness of sound-no will to conclude. On the windswept plateau, right at the top of the ski tow, iron hooks turn around the wheel, having scraped the frozen snow away. The whirligig of this mechanism injures the frost-crystal. Yet these things must, of necessity, be in harmony. A heterogeneous universe torments us. People today return to nature in bouts of ski tows, half-tracks, Kandahar ropes, superlight alloys. Thus, perfectly equipped, chrome-shod, asbestos-gloved, nylon-clad, they sample the immaculate mountain air. They are caught between two fires that burn and freeze them simultaneously. I must find a way to express this.
March. Back in Paris I have started to collect objects. I have a "Symphony of noises" in mind; after all, there has been a symphony of psalms. I go to the sound effects department of the French radio service. I find clappers, coconut shells, klaxons, bicycle horns. I imagine a scale of bicycle horns. There are gongs and birdcalls. It is charming that an administrative system should be concerned with birdcalls and should regularize their acquisition on an official form, duly recorded.
I take away doorbells, a set of bells, an alarm clock, two rattles, two childishly painted whirligigs. The clerk causes some difficulties. Usually, he is asked for a particular item. There are no sound effects without a text in parallel, are there? But what about the person who wants noise without text or context?
To tell the truth, I suspect that none of these objects will be of any use to me. They are too explicit. Some wrangles with the Administration and, not without signing several authorizations, I take them away.
I take them with the joy of a child coming out of the loft with his arms full of embarrassing, albeit useless, things and not without a powerful sense of my ridiculousness, guilt even.
April 1. We shall better understand the unease of the concrete musician if we compare his intentions and his means. This, for example, is what we find in his notes:
On a rhythmic ostinato, occasionally interrupted by a logarithmic rallentando, superimposition of circular noises; cadence of pure noises (?). Then fugue of differential noises. Conclude with a series of beatings with alternating slack and tight sounds. The whole thing to be treated as an andante. Don't be afraid of length, or slowness.
April 3. The objects are now put away in a cupboard in the Studio d'Essai (Experimental Studio). I need a metronome. The one that was sent to me does not beat in time, nor do the ones that followed. It is incredible how much a metronome can lack a sense of rhythm!
April 4. Sudden illumination. Add a component of sound to noise, that is, combine a melodic element with the percussive element. From this, the notion of wood cut into different lengths, of approximately tuned tubes. First attempts.
April 5. My bits of wood are pathetic. I need a workshop. It's already bad enough trying to cut them to different lengths and from various materials. Afterward, they have to be arranged so that they can be played easily. I'm up against the problem of the piano again. By "noise piano" I mean the pile of materials that are crammed into the studio. Regular visitors to the Studio d'Essai, who are no longer surprised by my eccentricities, now think I am a nuisance. I have been coveting the workbench in the workshop for a week. I'm asking for it to be moved out. It's sturdy and doesn't vibrate. I can nail all sorts of supports to it. I arrange my little bells and a row of bicycle horns on it.
I'm still not sure about these preparations.
April 7. Second illumination. All these clumsy bits of wood constitute a lesson in things; they are nothing other than resonators tuned to half wavelengths: they are fixed at a "node," and an "antinode" vibrates at their free end. My truancy comes to a sudden end; I am led back into the classroom: first lesson in acoustics and music theory. The Conservatory and the Faculty give me a poor mark.
Let us take the experiment as far as it will go. I need organ parts, not "a noise-piano." I go to Cavaillé-Coll and Pleyel. There I find parts of an organ destroyed in the bombing. I return with a truckload of "thirty-two footers" and tongued reeds. My originality will be not to play them like an organist but to hit them with a mallet, detune them perhaps. The war had already taken this on.
April 12. I need some helpers for my increasingly laborious trials. One of them blows into the two largest pipes, which are pleasantly only a "small tone" apart. (We laugh a lot at this expression, small tone or large semitone-as you please.) The second helper, armed with two mallets, covers with great difficulty an octave of xylophonic recumbent effigies. A third is in charge of the little bells. I compose a score of several bars. We rehearse, make mistakes, begin again, record. The result is woeful.
While the sound produced by the large square wooden pipe is curious, varying (according to whether it is struck at different places, on different supports), the score is pathetically inadequate. I now feel as if I'm going backward. I can hardly tolerate the deference that surrounds me. What do they want from me and these trials when I am so deeply convinced that I'm going down a blind alley?
April 15. I retain only two or three curios from these trials: a vibrating metal strip that you can bring into contact with any object. It then produces a "knocking noise." Dampen the vibration of a crystal glass, a bell, with your fingernail, or cardboard, or a piece of metal, and you mingle noise, sound, a rhythm.
Conversely, I am trying to construct an automatically vibrating metal strip (like a doorbell) that I can bring into contact with various sound bodies. In this way I get a mode of attack from these bodies, which superimposes the noise and rhythm of the attack on the sound. The results are profoundly monotonous.
Furthermore, all these noises are identifiable. As soon as you hear them, they suggest glass, a bell, wood, a gong, iron ... I'm giving up on music.
April 18. You can't be in two places at once. I must choose between the Studio and the sound booth. This is where I finally took refuge. A window protects me from the Studio. I am among the turntables, the mixer, the potentiometers. I feel vaguely reassured. I operate through intermediaries. I no longer manipulate sound objects myself. I listen to their effect through the microphone. Which amounts to burying my head in the sand, since the microphone only gives the raw sound with some secondary effects and qualitatively adds nothing. However, the sense of security that I feel in the sound booth gives me strength to continue these experiments for some days more, even though I now expect nothing from them.
April 19. By having one of the bells hit I got the sound after the attack. Without its percussion the bell becomes an oboe sound. I prick up my ears. Has a breach appeared in the enemy ranks? Has the advantage changed sides?
April 21. If I cut off the sounds from their attacks, I get a different sound; on the other hand, if I compensate for the drop in intensity with the potentiometer, I get a drawn-out sound and can move the continuation at will. So I record a series of notes made in this way, each one on a disc. By arranging the discs on record players, I can, using the controls, play these notes as I wish, one after the other or simultaneously. Of course, the manipulation is unwieldy, unsuited to any virtuosity; but I have a musical instrument. A new instrument? I am doubtful. I am wary of new instruments, ondes or ondiolines, what the Germans pompously call "elektronische Musik." When I encounter any electronic music I react like my violinist father, or my mother, a singer. We are craftsmen. In all this wooden and tin junk and in my bicycle horns I rediscover my violin, my voice. I am seeking direct contact with sound material, without any electrons getting in the way.
April 22. Once my initial joy is past, I ponder. I've already got quite a lot of problems with my turntables because there is only one note per turntable. With a cinematographic flash-forward, Hollywood style, I see myself surrounded by twelve dozen turntables, each with one note. Yet it would be, as mathematicians would say, the most general musical instrument possible.
Is it another blind alley, or am I in possession of a solution whose importance I can only guess at?
April 23. This time I am thinking in the abstract: science and hypothesis ... Say, an organ with each key linked to a turntable that would have appropriate discs put on it as required; let's suppose that the keyboard of this organ switches on the record players simultaneously or one after the other, at the moment and for the length of time desired, by means of a mixer switch with "n" commands; in theory we get a mother instrument, capable of replacing not only all existing instruments but every conceivable instrument, musical or not, whether or not their notes are at given pitches in the tessitura. For the moment, this instrument is entirely in my imagination, but, to a certain extent, it can be realized. In any case, as, for practical and economic reasons, it cannot be realized soon, it can act as a working hypothesis, the framework for a theory. What a blessing a scientific education is! Without means of experimentation you are allowed, for a time, to carry on with the experiment purely through the imagination. So for a time I am playing this most general piano possible in my mind-an instrument for encyclopedists. Isn't this the century for a new encyclopedia?
End of April. I spend these days in a state of half belief. If you invent, you must get a patent. A half smile: can you patent an idea? It seems you can.
I experiment tirelessly. It is surprising to note how the same process carried out endlessly and in different ways never entirely exhausts reality: there is always more to be learned, and always some unexpected outcome takes us by surprise. For the principle is everything.
I shall go over what has happened.
Where does the invention come from? When did it occur? I reply unhesitatingly: when I interfered with the sound of the bells. Separating the sound from the attack was the generative act. The whole of concrete music was contained in embryo in this inherently creative act with sound material. I have no particular memory of the moment when I made this recording. At first the discovery remained unnoticed. I give thanks for my stubbornness. When you persist against all logic, it's because you're expecting something from a chance event that logic couldn't have foreseen. My merit is that I noticed the one experiment among a hundred, apparently just as disappointing as the others, which provided a way out. I also needed the boldness to generalize.
Besides, very often we don't get anything from revelations that come from experimental accident. Here is an example: everyone has played sound backward. It's a strange phenomenon, and we sometimes get surprising effects from it. But, as far as I know, no one has ever drawn general conclusions. No one has ever considered sound played backward as musical material that can be constructed and structured. Yet sound played backward already doubles, at least a priori, the number of known instruments. The musical community doesn't care; however, for twenty years the experiment has been taking place every day.
Of course, the experiment only pays off if it gives rise immediately to experimentation: piano chords played backward are only interesting subject to certain conditions. Then you can get organ sounds, or peals of bells from the piano. The instrumentalist is then no longer the winner of the Prix du Conservatoire but the sound engineer.
Pierre Schaeffer’s In Search of a Concrete Music (À la recherche d’une musique concrète) has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer’s pioneering work—at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d’être of “concrete music”—is available for the first time in English translation. Schaeffer’s theories have had a profound influence on composers working with technology. However, they extend beyond the confines of the studio and are applicable to many areas of contemporary musical thought, such as defining an ‘instrument’ and classifying sounds. Schaeffer has also become increasingly relevant to DJs and hip-hop producers as well as sound-based media artists. This unique book is essential for anyone interested in contemporary musicology or media history.
Composer Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) was the inventor of musique concrète music created by combining and manipulating recorded sounds (rather than being played on conventional musical instruments).
John Dack is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Sonic Arts Department at Middlesex University. Christine North is retired as Lecturer in French at Middlesex University.
“Collects Schaeffer’s journals and other writings about his musique concrete, which he created by manipulating recorded sounds.” —Harper’s
“One of the postwar perìod’s most significant (and readable) grapplings with new artistic paradigms.” —Rob Young Frieze
“Completely changed how I hear the world and, after more than 30 years, I am still living with the consequences.” —John Dack The Wire
“One striking impression that emerges from reading this book is that [Schaeffer’s] work merits a perspective with greater nuance. Like most creators aware of the creative and conceptual restrictions of their historical location, we find Schaeffer time and again seeking a way to transcend them.” —Times Higher Education
“Schaeffer’s prose, translated masterfully by North and Dack, captures these uneven rhythms of intuition and perplexity, and his imagination and wit as he sets his observations not only against official and unofficial histories of music, but against contemporary art, poetry, and science.” —Los Angeles Review Of Books
“Recommended.” —J. Behrens, Wolf Museum of Music and Art Choice
"Few books have described with such precision the evolution of thoughts and concepts behind the invention of a new music as A La Recherche d’une Musique Concrete. In this book Schaeffer has unveiled the major philosophical problems of music of the second half of the twentieth century. An excellent translation by Dack and North." —Daniel Teruggi, Head of Institut National Audiovisuel, Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris
“A fascinating glimpse into the mind of Pierre Schaeffer, the creator of the very first kind of electroacoustic music, the Concrete music, here in a stellar translation. In this diary combined with musical considerations, Schaeffer gives the necessary keys and invites the reader to follow, step by step, how Concrete music became a major trend of the twentieth century." —Marc Battier, Professor of Musicology, University Paris-Sorbonne
“Pierre Schaeffer’s writings are fundamental to our understanding of twentieth-century music in general and all the sound arts that use technology. This book reveals a truly experimental journey with its detours and frustrations—yet with determination, dazzling imagination and insight, Schaeffer pieces together a coherent and radical theory of music made through sound as perceived. Christine North and John Dack’s translation brilliantly captures Schaeffer’s painstaking reinvention of the vocabulary of music.” —Simon Emmerson, Professor of Music, Technology, and Innovation, De Montfort University
Translators’ Note
I. First Journal of Concrete Music (1948–1949)
II. Second Journal of Concrete Music (195–1951)
III. The Concrete Experiment in Music (1952)
Chapter 14. The Concrete Approach
Chapter 15. The Experimental Method
Chapter 16. The Musical Object
Chapter 17. From the Object to Language
Chapter 18. From the Object to the Subject
Chapter 19. Inventory
Chapter 2. Farewells to Concrete Music
IV. Outline of a Concrete Musical Training
Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics
Stephen Rumph
Frontier Figures
Beth E. Levy
Luigi Russolo, Futurist
Luciano Chessa
On Russian Music
Richard Taruskin
The Doctor Faustus Dossier
E. Randol Schoenberg
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An International Forum of Enforcement Agents
Leo Netten, 1st Vice-President of the UIHJ and Mathieu Chardon, 1st Secretary Attended the 12th Plenary Session of the CEPEJ on 11 and 12 December 2008 in Strasbourg.
A New Cycle of Evaluation
The semi-annual pleanary session of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), brings together the representatives of the 47 Member States of the Council of Europe as well as the permanent observer members such as the UIHJ and of the representatives of the European Union, the Hague Conference on Private International Law and of the Council of Europe. The UIHJ was represented by Leo Netten, 1st vice-president, and by Mathieu Chardon, 1st secretary.
The plenary session is the occasion to give a report of the whole of the work completed during the year and to envisage an agenda for the year to come.
The meeting was chaired by Fausto de Santis, president, assisted by Stéphane Leyenberger, secretary and Muriel Decot, co-secretary. The meeting was opened by Margaret Killerby, director of the legal cooperation of the Council of Europe, who insisted on the crucial role of the CEPEJ “in the implementation of the fundamental principles and the priority activities of the Council of Europe in the sphere of the Rule of law”.
On the agenda a report was made on the “European judicial systems - Edition 2008 (data 2006)”, which was made public on October 8th, 2008. Every two years, the CEPEJ indeed publishes such a report, which includes an aspect on enforcement of the legal decisions. In this report, which was commented by Jean-Paul Jean, president of the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL (working group of the CEPEJ on the evaluation of judicial systems), the CEPEJ concludes that “It is essential that the enforcement agents have a reliable and suitable training and an adequate qualification to allow the person concerned to efficiently and reasonably apply enforcement proceedings, while safeguarding the fundamental rights and individual freedoms”. A new cycle of evaluation was decided for 2009 on the database of the year 2008. It will be published in 2010. The CEPEJ-GT-EVAL was also invited to start a study relating to the organization of the courts and the legal chart, intended to be published in 2009 in the series “Studies of the CEPEJ”.
Creation of the CEPEJ-GT-EXE
Within the framework of the cooperation with the European Union (EU), the secretariat of the CEPEJ underlined the engagement of the CEPEJ in the Forum for justice of the EU, through the participation in the plenary sessions as well as within the working groups.
Leo Netten and Mathieu Chardon presented an assessment of the activities of the UIHJ for the second half-year 2008 and indicated that the next international congress would be held in Marseilles (France) from September 7th to 11th 2009.
The programme for the year 2009 was adopted. In particular, the CEPEJ-GT-EXE (working group of the CEPEJ on enforcement of legal decisions) must be formed to hold its first meeting on January 29th and 30th 2009. The UIHJ should take part in this work group as an observer member, after the approval of the bureau of the CEPEJ.
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Awurabena Okrah, CEO and founder of Winglow, a textile and fashion business in Accra, Ghana. Many women are venturing into business. Photo: Panos/Nyani Quarmyne
Magette Wade was in her San Francisco apartment getting ready for the day when she had her “light bulb” moment. Although her beauty cabinet was full of organic and natural products, Ms. Wade says she still reached for the plant-based creams made by herbalists in her native Senegal. In that moment, Tiossano, a luxury skin care company, was born.
It wasn’t Ms. Wade’s first attempt at introducing indigenous products to the US market. Before switching hats, she was the chief executive officer of Adina World Beat Beverages, a multi-million dollar company that makes drinks from traditional recipes. The idea for the start-up came from the popular red juice called “bissap”, squeezed from the hibiscus plant.
The two companies, although based in the US, have provided work for African women and have shown that products “made in Africa” could also break into global markets. Presently, Ms. Wade is making plans to move production of her skin care merchandise to Senegal.
Billionaire and oil tycoon Folorunsho Alakija is another woman who has broken several glass ceilings in Nigeria and abroad and made it to the 2015 Forbes’ list of world billionaires. She is the manager of Famfa Oil Ltd, a company she founded in 1991 that has the rights to explore oil and gas on the lucrative Abgami oilfield in Nigeria.
Like Ms. Wade, Ms. Alakija’s first big break came when she won over the fashion industry with her couture label, Supreme Stiches, using local Nigerian fabrics. In her rise to the top, Ms. Alakija inspired and mentored a new generation of designers from her homeland.
But despite evidence that women’s employment is vital to driving economic growth and development, gaps still exist with nearly half of women’s productive potential globally under-utilized or unutilized, says the World Bank. In the words of Bank President Jim Yong Kim, “Investing in women’s employment is not only the right thing to do – it’s essential for business.”
A UN-sponsored study called the Millennium Project estimates that two-thirds of self-employed entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are women. According to the World Bank, the private sector, which accounts for 9 out of 10 jobs in developing countries, plays a critical role in creating better employment opportunities for women.
Occitane en Provence, a global, natural and organic ingredient-based cosmetic firm, has been hiring female shea butter nut pickers and processors in Burkina Faso for over 30 years. The UN Development Programme hails the company as an “exemplary business” for its inclusive business model. The agency states that the economic impact in the West African country has been significant, generating revenue for 15,000 rural women and their cooperatives.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, also runs programmes across Africa to help women gain a foothold in the private sector. For example, the IFC has helped place women in jobs traditionally held by men such as the mining sector in South Africa and Ghana. It is also spearheading the ‘She works’ initiative to create job opportunities for more than 300,000 women.
Ten participating companies have pledged to implement measures such as mentoring, flexible work arrangements and leadership training to increase diversity in management.
The private sector can also develop workplace gender-sensitive policies, and create safe and inclusive environments, argues the UN Global Compact, which has developed a framework for businesses together with UN Women on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and in the community.
According to the director-general of the International Labour Organization, Juan Somavia, increasing evidence shows that gender inequality is bad economics. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund estimates that having as many women in the labour force as men could boost economic growth by as much as 5% in the US and up to 34% in countries like Egypt.
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Shakespeare, Indignation, Orwell, Doublethink, and Corporate Media
Posted on April 18, 2013 by jimmie
“…O, forfend it, God,
That in a Christian climate souls refined
Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!”
(King Richard II, act 4, sc. 1)
Comment. To add adjectives to the Boston horror is useless. That beings supposedly human be capable of such an act voids the very meaning of humanity. Sociologically speaking, however, the event lends itself to some considerations.
To start, the episode soon turned into a frenzy by the corporate media, eager to capitalize on sensationalism and actual hysteria. As of the writing of this article, it is unknown whether the crime was the work of one person or an organization, domestic or foreign.
Still, the nation, including the people of Boston, however saddened and shocked by the event, have remained calm – but the media and their leading agents created a picture of disorientation and panic. This is not accidental, as the media establishment attempts to sow fear and confusion to justify past police state measures at home and wars abroad, carried out in the name of the “war on terror”. It also prepares the way for a further militarization of American society.
Events such as the Boston bombing ultimately reflect the immense social crisis and increasingly toxic contradictions of America. The bombing has left hundreds of families scarred for life. But it just so happens that mass killings, carried out more frequently with automatic weapons than with bombs, are a regular occurrence in the United States.
Furthermore, the mass killing of 11 children by US bombing in Afghanistan last week (see image) has barely made it (if at all) to the corporate media.
That is, the onslaught of heartfelt compassion by the corporate media for the Boston victims is incontrovertible evidence of reflexive doublethink, described by Orwell as the willingness to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.
The front page of the New York Times says, “Boston Bombs Were Loaded to Maim, Officials Say” and the article describes how nails and ball bearings were stuffed into pressure cookers “rigged to shoot sharp bits of shrapnel into anyone within reach of their blast.”
However, in the very recent past, much less crude 1,000 pounds “CBU-87/B” bombs, classified as “combined effects munitions” were unleashed on Serbia. And in the San Francisco Chronicle edition of May 8, 1999 we read, “On Friday, at noontime, U.S.-led NATO forces dropped cluster bombs on the city of Nis, in the vicinity of a vegetable market. The bombs struck next to the hospital complex and near the market, bringing death and destruction, peppering the streets of Serbia’s third-largest city with shrapnel.” And: “In a street leading from the market, dismembered bodies were strewn among carrots and other vegetables in pools of blood. A dead woman, her body covered with a sheet, was still clutching a shopping bag filled with carrots.” And John Simpson, BBC correspondent, wrote in the Sunday Telegraph, “Cluster bombs explode in the air and hurl shards of shrapnel over a wide radius. Used against human beings, cluster bombs are some of the most savage weapons of modern warfare.”
Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times, reporting from Pristina, Yugoslavia, wrote: “During five weeks of airstrikes, witnesses here say, NATO warplanes have dropped cluster bombs that scatter smaller munitions over wide areas. In military jargon, the smaller munitions are bomblets. Dr. Rade Grbic, a surgeon and director of Pristina’s main hospital, sees proof every day that the almost benign term bomblet masks a tragic impact. Grbic, who saved the lives of two ethnic Albanian boys wounded while other boys played with a cluster bomb found Saturday, said he had never done so many amputations.”
The LA Times article quoted Dr. Grbic: “I have been an orthopedist for 15 years now, working in a crisis region where we often have injuries, but neither I nor my colleagues have ever seen such horrific wounds as those caused by cluster bombs.” He added: “They are wounds that lead to disabilities to a great extent. The limbs are so crushed that the only remaining option is amputation. It’s awful, awful.”
And these friendly devices were dispatched by the “democratic” and “compassionate” Bill Lewinsko Clinton.
Still, the U.S. State Department remains opposed to outlawing those weapons, declaring on its official website: “Cluster munitions have demonstrated military utility. Their elimination from U.S. stockpiles would put the lives of its soldiers and those of its coalition partners at risk.”
The State Department position statement adds: “Moreover, cluster munitions can often result in much less collateral damage than unitary weapons, such as a larger bomb or larger artillery shell would cause, if used for the same mission.”
Perhaps the Boston bomber(s) who stuffed nails and ball bearings into pressure cookers were following the State Department “guidelines”.
Still, it is not certain if last week’s murder of the 11 children in the picture was the result of a “cluster” or “conventional” bomb.
Which really, to the perpetrators of this endless series of crimes against humanity, it does not matter. Safe behind massive layer of security, they can very well pretend sympathy for the family of the dead and for the wounded. After all they are safe from bombs and safe from prosecution.
In the play. The Bishop of Carlysle, faithful to the deposed King Richard II, upbraids usurper Bolingbroke and company. ‘Forfend’ = ‘Forbid’.
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London’s only French restaurant with a fully halal menu: Review of La Sophia, Notting Hill
By Leyla Kazim
I know first hand how difficult it can be indulging in particular cuisines when dining out with someone who does not consume alcohol.
My partner does not drink. Not that unusual, and power to him for getting by all these years without the lubricant so many of us feel we need in social situations. But for no reason other than I think he enjoys being a bit of a diva, he will also not eat anything that contains it.
I can't put wine in the ragu, he's never had tiramisu, we've never 'gone for a drink'. He follows no religion, he has no allergies, there were no issues with alcohol in his upbringing. It's just the decision he made many years ago as a child and not a drop has knowingly ever passed his lips.
I actually have little, if any problem with this. The sheer stubbornness alone has its merits and he has no issues with me drinking (and I'm rather skilled at enjoying a few glasses of wine).
The only area that sometimes poses difficulties is dining out; at French, Italian and Spanish restaurants he has to check if a dish contains alcohol and request if it can be made without. Often, it's already included and so he misses out. Indian and Middle Eastern food tend to be the safer bets.
For all of the above reasons, a French restaurant claiming to be the only in London with a fully halal menu is unique enough for me to journey to neighbourhood restaurant La Sophia in Notting Hill to investigate. I asked two friends to join me; a big-eater Muslim along with a lactose-intolerant vegetarian, just to help up their game.
A stone's throw from Portobello Road, the restaurant opened in the summer of 2010 and presents a Mediterranean and French menu with classics from the latter cooked with no presence of alcohol (think confit de canard and escargots de Bourgogne).
Not to mention all the meat is halal (which includes what can be eaten and how it is sacrificed and prepared). Halal snails and foie gras? Who even knew there were such things.
It’s certainly the first time I’ve had a response of, “Would you like the real wine?” when asking for the wine list in a restaurant. They have non-alcoholic options sourced from Kevser Tabak (kevsertabak.com) and whilst I struggle with the concept of non-alcoholic wine, I wish I had tried some - they look like they know what they’re about.
Lamb shoulder croquettes with herbs and fat slices of garlic within were soft and appealing, if a touch dry. Sweet cherry tomatoes, buttery lambs lettuce and slashes of garlic aioli contrasting against the slate made for a pretty plate.
Slices of grilled aubergine wrapped around golden halloumi sported a flourish of sprightly chilli and tomato salsa and a pecan and parsley pesto. The exact sort of thing you would want with a rough dry white at the tail end of a day under Mediterranean sunshine.
The poached smoked haddock main was very competent. Well cooked fish breaking off into meaty flakes topped by a perfectly poached egg lacquered in Benedict sauce, with a cascading yolk pooling around ratatouille and batons of savoury and deep red beef chorizo. Someone should get this on a brunch menu. The wild mushroom risotto with shaved artichokes and truffle oil had a good consistency and depth of earthy flavour.
Bright yellow miniature pansies brightened the plates of well-presented chocolate fondants with surfaces ready to breech at any sudden movement of the plate. They were decadent and dark, although needed a minute longer in the oven for a greater sponge-to-gooey-middle ratio.
La Sophia is a very capable local restaurant with merits beyond their unique halal-French offering. Our Friday night visit included an acoustic guitarist strumming by the entrance and a full restaurant of around 28 jubilant (if not a tad loud) diners.
A la carte might seem a little pricey, but the three courses for £25 set-menu is a good deal. Whether you require a halal menu or not, it’s certainly worth a visit if you’re in the area.
If it didn’t take so long for me to get to, this would likely become a regular that the other half would also approve of.
Liked lots: beef chorizo with runny yolk
Likes less: nothing was unpleasant
Good for: those with halal requirements getting the chance to sample French food; a local regular; trying non-alcoholic wine if that takes your fancy
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Letter: Should be no bus fares
Friday, May 25, 2018 3:01pm
I’ve been an Island County resident for 28 years, and I am a transit rider.
As I understand it, the fare proposal would decrease ridership by 30-40 percent in IT’s own projections, increasing traffic, ferry line waits and pollution; cut service the most for people who can least afford it and people who are least able in their daily lives to navigate complex functions, download apps or carry exact change (they will stop riding as regularly as they do now); and increase wait times at certain stops as people navigate fare collection, decreasing reliability of the schedule, causing more to abandon the system.
All these are contrary to public interest. So there must be a compelling financial case for doing this. But here are the figures from Island Transit’s material:The projection is that, after five years, fares will net around $210,000, and the budget will be about $14 million. $210,000 is 1 and 1/2 percent of $14 million.
So after all these negative effects, contrary to public interest and, I would say, IT’s own mission, the gain is 1 and 1/2 percent. That is not a compelling financial argument.
Regarding their social equity mitigation plan, which is to provide one-day passes to nonprofits and government to dole out to those who meet eligibility requirements, for the last 20 years I have been social services secretary for the Salvation Army in Washington state. We have a number of these arrangements with transit systems. It is a miserable plan. Instead of the dignity of riding the bus at the time and for the purpose of my choosing, if I am low income, I must apply, a humiliating process, prove I deserve it, which in some cases includes proving to a stranger that my ride is something “legitimate” like a doctor appointment or job interview, then I get a pass for one day. It’s horrible.
Someone will say, “But other transit systems do this.” We did not move to Island County because it is like other places. Fare-free transit is part of our character here.
That does not mean we don’t pay for it. We do. Through taxes, public income to serve the public interest. And we all benefit from it, not just the riders.
This proposal, however, keeps all of our taxes and diminishes the product greatly. We get a less efficient, less productive system. That is not a good deal for all of us currently paying for this.
In five years, if IT implements fares, they will still have to raise 98.5 percent of their budget from other sources. I say: Make it 100 percent. Refuse to accept all these negative impacts.
Tell the state lawmakers and DOT, who are there to serve the public, that in Island County, this public service will remain publicly funded, to the benefit of all.
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Old basins are hinted at by roughly circular patterns of mare that occur in shallow depressions. The problem is in defining their rims. Mare Nubium has long been on lists as a suspected ancient basin but there is very little rim topography to confirm it or even its exact diameter. Using topographic maps made from LRO data Juergen has made a new attempt to identify possible rim segments to fix the diameter. His measurement of 675 km (black circle) is essentially the same as Don Wilhelm's 1987 value of 690 km (white circle). The difficulty in deciding the diameter is apparent as you look closely at the shaded relief image (right), where you will see that many of the putative basin rim segments are also rims of craters. One thing that is clear is the depression within the floor of the basin - Juergen finds that the average floor elevation is 1.8 km lower than the average rim. Surprisingly the center of the depression is offset significantly to the west compared to the likely rim. Perhaps the diameter is larger than these circles suggest, extending further to the west. But that would make the northern rim further away from the the deepest parts of the mare than the south side is, leading to another offset. It is fortunate that even with the best modern data some questions cannot be confidently answered, otherwise explorers who finally return to the Moon would have nothing to do.
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Ibeyi, the much-hyped SXSW band from Paris, had finally emerged in San Francisco. Ibeyi, meaning twins in Yoruba, had to be the most adorable twin sisters I had ever seen perform. I guess one word that kept coming to mind while watching them was ‘precious’. And their set was just that (which is not to take anything away from how brilliant they are).
The sisters came out to the stage to a crowd that was beyond excited to finally be seeing them perform. They kneeled down and picked up the candles on the stage and lit them before starting their first African chant. Add some traditional Cuban drums, and the beats came alive with Naomi keeping a consistent beat throughout the show. Coupled with sister, Lisa-Kaindé, singing in Yoruba (a bygone Nigerian and Santeria language) and the show was already that great.
The show felt at times voyeuristic as we watched the sisters perform chants and folk songs for the Yoruba gods. Lisa-Kaindé talked a lot about the gods and who they were and how they were a part of the songs. It felt like we were almost invading this sacred world, but the way they made the audience a part of it was nothing short of special.
The blend of Afro-Cuban, French music set to drum beats was a minimalist sound but simple and beautiful. With the piano playing of Lisa-Kaindé against Naomi’s drum beats and the strong vocals it was so easy to get lost in the music. The sultry dance moves as they glided across the stage just added to the ambience of their music. As the twins went into their single ‘River‘, they dedicated it to the gods (possibly Oshun and Shango – one was definitely for the water and the other earth) and had the crowd sing along “wash my soul again” as they sang “I will come to you river”. The end result was just beautiful as the crowd became a part of their show.
The crowd, who was filled with lots of very polite women (someone even complimented Lisa-Kaindé’s dress), would apologize each time they bumped you or wanted to squeeze in and take a picture. And it felt all too fitting with the sisters on stage who had that same vibe to them. They were all too thankful to be playing and so excited that the crowd was so into them. The crowd was electric and sang along to most of the songs as well as continued with the clapping as instructed. Songs like “Oya” just stood out with the gorgeous piano playing and warm/strong vocals against the simple percussions keeping up the beat. And “Ghosts” is nothing short of spectacular. You can just feel the pain in their voices as they harmonize together and come together as one. The pianos and drums together with their chanting and vocals just makes for a beautiful song.
In short, this is a band to see. While their music itself is simplistic, when they perform together its really something beautiful and magical. The twins come together as one and take us into a world that rarely we get to see. Its usually hard to translate that into a live performance but theyve managed to do just that. In a nutshell, its just precious and will take you out of your own world/life for just a bit.
Opener Flo Morrissey came out to a very loud audience. She was soft-spoken and picked up her guitar and played a short acoustic set. She had some good songs and her vocals are nothing short of impressive – strong and powerful – but she just couldn’t compete with a crowd that was far louder than her. It seemed most the time you could barely hear her singing but Im sure in the right venue she would be pretty awesome to hear.
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Here’s what Israel gained from backing down on the Temple Mount
25th July 2017 yaakovlappin2017 Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, IDF, Iran, Israel, Jerusalem, Middle East, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians, Strategy, Terrorism, Training and threat assessment, West Bank 0
Prime Minister Netanyahu listened to the Israeli defense establishment, and did a U-turn on the Temple Mount crisis. Israel dismantled the metal detection gates it had installed after the deadly terrorist gun attack earlier this month, which occurred after the cell smuggled firearms into the Al-Aksa Mosque compound – Islam’s third holiest site – and used them to murder 2 Israeli police officers.
Below is a list of factors that seemed to drive Netanyahu’s decision to back down.
(Disclaimer: The following is a cost benefit analysis, not a comment on who is responsible for the crisis. As former Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen said yesterday, Israel is not to blame for the violent and irrational reaction of the Palestinian side of this story).
Israel’s decision, taken at the behest of the defense establishment, will probably achieve the following:
Prevent the outbreak of a Third intifada in the West Bank, east Jerusalem, and among some Israeli Arab communities. Prevent the possible unravelling of the Palestinian Authority, which would give Hamas a boost in the West Bank. Netanyahu’s U-Turn dodged a major and likely bloody confrontation, fuelled by religious hysteria, which would have destabilized the Palestinian arena, and taken considerable Israeli resources to deal with.
Avoid a knock-on escalation of the Gaza front, which has been very quiet for the past three years, following the ceasefire reached with Hamas in 2014. This quiet has allowed southern Israel, particularly those areas near the Gaza Strip, to flourish.
Free up the IDF to continue its focus on war readiness and combat training, which the military has placed at the top of its priorities.
Free up the Israeli defense establishment to focus on the top threat to Israel today, and that is the Hezbollah army, deployed across Lebanon and Syria, and armed with 120,000 rockets and missiles – an arsenal of projectiles larger than that of most NATO members.
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Liberman toured the Golan Heights and border with Syria with senior IDF commanders on July 25
Photo by Kobi Gideon / GPO
Hezbollah is part of a wider Iranian-Shi’ite axis, which is, step by step, working to spread its influence and build a land corridor stretching from Tehran to Beirut, via Baghdad and Damascus. A new and avoidable confrontation with Palestinians would serve as a distraction from the strategic threat posed by the Iranian-led axis.
The crisis threatened to destabilize Jordan, which, despite the hostility and hatred of its population against Israel, remains a strategic asset. The Hashmeite Kingdom helps keep Israel’s longest border, to the east, free of incidents, while most of Israel’s other borders could face an escalation at any time.
Here is the main disadvantage of the decision to back down:
It could feed the aggression of radical Islamist elements in the region, which might misinterpret Israel’s move as a sign of weakness. They could try to force more concessions through violence, terrorism, and intimidation tactics.
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America’s Cup: Stars + Stripes chooses Musto
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by yachtracinglife - 27th February 2019
Stars + Stripes team principals Mike Buckley (left) and Taylor Canfield.
Musto, globally renowned for its high-performance sailing gear, has been named the Exclusive Official Technical Sailing Apparel Sponsor of Stars + Stripes, challenger for the 36th America’s Cup presented by Prada.
Co-founded by world champion sailors Mike Buckley and Taylor Canfield, Stars + Stripes’ mission is to build an inclusive, authentic American team to win the America’s Cup and inspire the next generation.
With their sights firmly set on the 36th America’s Cup, the Stars + Stripes team have been busy collaborating with some of the best minds in the industry including American yacht designers, expert strategists, and now, equipping themselves with Musto’s premium and innovative sailing gear.
As the team designs and constructs their next generation, AC75 race boat, predicted to be the fastest monohull ever raced, Musto has the considerable task of making sure that their apparel not only outperforms the competition and gives the sailors its signature “inside edge”, but also keeps the athletes safe.
Building towards the competition’s 2021 start date, the brand will be working closely with the team to develop best in class apparel that both meets and exceeds the demands of the best sailors in the world.
Musto has chosen key pieces from its Foiling Collection to guarantee the optimal levels of performance the team will need for the unique demands of their AC75. By using cutting-edge technologies and its trademark precision-engineering, Musto will help redefine the limits of the Stars + Stripes team as they race at unprecedented speeds.
Paul Stoneham, Executive Chairman of Musto comments, “The new AC75 class is exposing sailors to speeds of up to 60mph and teams are choosing only the best people and companies to partner with. We couldn’t be prouder to give Stars + Stripes our support from Musto’s dedicated and highly experienced R&D, design and development teams”.
Helmsman and co-founder of Stars + Stripes, Taylor Canfield, comments, “Our team has committed itself to victory, but we’re only as good as the sum of our parts – the gear is an integral part of what will help us win the America’s Cup. From training to competing, we need performance clothing that will withstand constant use on the boat and help us go beyond our limits. For this, Musto, with its emphasis on premium design and use of cutting-edge technologies, was an obvious choice for us”.
With a peerless eye for innovation and unflagging commitment to equip Stars + Stripes with the gear they need to redefine their limits, Musto is proud to back this team on their mission to win the 36th America’s Cup.
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Briton Will Harris to take on French Figaro establishment
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by yachtracinglife - 12th December 2018 11th December 2018
It’s great to hear the news that British solo sailor and regular contributor to Yacht Racing Life Will Harris has announced his campaign to compete in the 2019 Figaro Circuit.
24-year-old Harris has partnered with clean energy specialist company Hive Energy for the campaign who have funded the purchase of one of the first batch of 50 brand new Beneteau Figaro 3 one-design yachts.
Englishman Harris who comes from Weybridge Surrey is no beginner to the offshore sailing world having competed on the 2016 Figaro circuit as part of the Artemis Offshore Academy as youngest competitor in the fleet where he won the coveted ‘Best Rookie’ category in La Solitaire du Figaro as well as several other races.
Harris competed on the 2016 Figaro circuit as part of the Artemis Offshore Academy as youngest competitor in the fleet.
In 2017 Harris joined the Vendee2020 Vision project to co-skipper an IMOCA 60 in the RORC offshore series before being recruited as a Race Expert for the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18, providing navigational analysis and safety management for the race.
Shortly after the Volvo Ocean Race ended Harris claimed an overall IRC victory in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland race as navigator aboard the Lombard 46 Pata Negra – owned and skippered Giles Redpath – CEO of Hive Energy.
“I’m ecstatic to have the opportunity to return to the Figaro Circuit,” Harris said. “It is a truly challenging fleet and one that is yet to be broken by a British sailor. With the support of Hive Energy and Giles, who is a very experienced sailor himself, I believe I have an excellent chance of making a mark.
“Hive Energy have also provided me with a platform to build upon towards my ultimate goal of winning the Vendée Globe race. Therefore, a number of smaller partnerships for interested businesses are available for the coming season.”
Hive Energy focuses on developing solar parks in the UK and worldwide. They are behind the development of the biggest grid connected solar park in the UK and the UK’s first Super Solar Park, Cleve Hill.
In 5 years, they have developed 26 sites around the UK, making them one of the biggest solar park developers in the country. Hive Energy now also has a network of 7 global offices with many international projects under development.
Redpath who will race alongside Harris in some of the doublehanded events during the 2019 season said he was delighted to be supporting the talented young sailor on his mission to “beat the French at their own game”.
“The Solitaire next year will include many legends of French offshore sailing, including the likes of Loïck Peyron,” Redpath said. “I look forward to lining up against them on the start-line of some of the two-handed events.
“Having sailed with Will in the Round Britain and Ireland this year I recognised that he is a very talented young sailor who deserves our support. Hive Energy is a developer and investor in Clean Energy projects across Europe, there’s no cleaner energy than the sport of sailing so I’m sure Will can be a good ambassador for our brand.”
The first 50 Figaro 3 boats produced for the 2019 season will even be released from the Beneteau factory on the same day in January 2019, keeping training time equal and ensuring there are no unfair advantages.
The draw to allocate the boats took place this weekend at the Paris Boat Show with Harris drawing boat number 20.
“The brand-new Figaro 3s will mean the one-design racing is back to a completely level playing field as nobody yet knows how to make the boat go quickly,” Harris said. “When racing the Figaro 2 back in 2016, there were sailors who had raced the boats for over 15 years and of course they knew more about the boat than I did.
“Everyone will be training very hard when the boats get released in January.”
The 2019 Figaro circuit features five offshore races; two double-handed and three single-handed. The main solo race of the season, the La Solitaire URGO- Le Figaro, is considered the unofficial offshore world championships.
The Sardinha Cup, a new addition to the circuit, will take its place as the first race of the season at the end of March. The race is set to follow a fishing route between St-Gilles-Croix-De-Vie, France and Lisbon, Portugal and will be sailed double-handed.
You can follow Will’s progress on his social media channels and on his website www.willhsailing.com.
For businesses or individuals interested in a partnership should contact Tor Tomlinson at Hive Energy via victoria.tomlinson@hiveenergy.co.uk.
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As you already know, the British ruled our country for 200 years. So, obviously, they were considered superior. That superiority kind of established prestige to their education system. Rightfully so(not in terms of the slavery, but in terms of their education and universities.) Oxford and Cambridge are consistently considered the best colleges in the world for a lot of subjects. Our country guide gives you a wholistic idea of what it’s like to study in the UK. You can read about everything from Cost and Scholarships, to Popular cities, job opportunities, deadlines, etc. You will also learn about the tier-4 pilot visa. Click the link to read it, go on!
Ah! The land down under! Australia is known as an amazing tourist destination, but something that not a lot of people know is that Australian Universities are highly recognized for their business programs. Our country guide gives you a wholistic idea of what it’s like to study in Australia. You can read about everything from Cost and Scholarships, to Popular cities, job opportunities, deadlines , etc. You will also learn about CAQ and other study permits. Click the link to read it, go on!
A complete guide to what it’s like to study in Germany at a Bachelors, MS or PhD level. This also includes links to detailed articles. The topics covered include Why study in Germany, the Education System in Germany, Cost of studying and scholarships, Life, Health and Safety in Germany for international students, Visa Process, Job Opportunities, Popular cities and courses, Application process, Deadlines and the best universities. Read on to find out all this, and much more in detail in our country guide.
A complete guide to what it’s like to study in France at a Bachelors, MS or PhD level. This also includes links to detailed articles. The topics covered include Why study in France, the Education System in France, Cost of studying and scholarships, Life, Health and Safety in France for international students, Visa Process, Job Opportunities, Popular cities and courses, Application process, Deadlines and the best universities. Read on to find out all this, and much more in detail in our country guide.
A complete guide to what it’s like to study in Ireland at a Bachelors, MS or PhD level. This also includes links to detailed articles. The topics covered include Why study in Ireland, the Education System in Ireland, Cost of studying and scholarships, Life, Health and Safety in Ireland for international students, Visa Process, Job Opportunities, Popular cities and courses, Application process, Deadlines and the best universities. Read on to find out all this, and much more in detail in our country guide.
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A complete guide for international students on how to pursue their Bachelors, Masters & Phd in New Zealand. Providing top quality education and having Universities that rank amongst the Top 3 Universities globally, get a detailed understanding of the education system in New Zealand. Also get an inside look into the lifestyle, health & safety, popular cities & courses, work opportunities, application process, deadlines and the top Universities in New Zealand. Considered a complex and lengthy procedure, get a detailed step-by-step process of the visa application process for international students. Click on the link to know more !!
Netherlands is the second most peaceful country. It is also one of the safest place on this planet. This is not it! There is more to this country other than just peace and safety. The education system is so flexible that it has all the study options to suit every budget without compromising the quality of education. Our country guide gives you a wholistic idea of what it’s like to study in the Netherlands. You can read about everything from Cost and Scholarships, to Popular cities, job opportunities, deadlines, etc. Click the link to read it, go on!
A complete guide for international students on how to pursue their Bachelors, Masters & Phd in Sweden. Having its primary focus set on making education more student centric and having programs crafted to suit students needs, Sweden is presently rising the ranks for its varied and diverse student population and internationally recognized student system. Also get an inside look into the lifestyle, health & safety, popular cities & courses, work opportunities, application process, deadlines and the top Universities in Sweden. The visa application process can be lengthy and we have a detailed step-by-step process to tackle the same. Click on the link to know more !!
A complete guide for international students on how to pursue their Bachelors, Masters & Phd in Singapore. Having a solid focus on research base and universities encouraging students without any discrimination, Singapore has become a top destination for international students to pursue their higher studies. Also get an inside look into the lifestyle, health & safety, popular cities & courses, work opportunities, application process, deadlines and the top Universities in Singapore. Additionaly a detailed step-by-step process of the visa application procedure is mentioned herewith to assist you in your journey. Click on the link to know more !!
A complete guide for international students on how to pursue their Bachelors, Masters & Phd in Switzerland. Having an infrastructure supportive for all streams, standardized fee structure for both local and international students and lower tuition fees than any of the top countries in the world, Switzerland has become the top destination for students wanting to pursue their higher studies. Also get an inside look into the lifestyle, health & safety, popular cities & courses, work opportunities, application process, deadlines and the top Universities in Switzerland. Additionaly get a detailed step-by-step visa application procedure for international students. Click on the link to know more!!
GRE is the most basic exam for Masters students planning to study abroad. Almost all countries require it! If you’re a beginner, read our guide to GRE. If you want to know more about GRE, then read about it in our blog
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Research and Teaching Assistantships are available in the University that you end up going to. They can a great way to work part-time at your university, gain some experience in research fields and some money to help fund your education. Read our guide to help understand them better!
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About Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Erasmus University Rotterdam is one the biggest universities in the Netherlands. It was established in 1913 and has a student population of 29,000. The university was ranked as one of top ten business schools in Europe by Financial Times. Also, it was ranked 20th in Europe and 72nd in the world by Times Higher Education in 2015. At the same time, its social sciences ranked 40th while its clinical health ranked 35th in the world. The university has a total of seven faculties.
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Location at Erasmus University Rotterdam
The university is located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands with its campus in four locations: the Campus Woudestein, Erasmus MC, Erasmus University College, andInternational Institute of Social Studies. The hub of the university is its Woudestein campus. The campus is a 15-minute bike ride from Rotterdam’s city center. The city has a central train station where students can catch the tram or metro.
Infrastructure at Erasmus University Rotterdam
The university can boast of several infrastructures scattered around the campus. These include wide varieties of lecture rooms, seminar rooms as well as research centers. The school offers a wide range of rooms on campus that can be hired to organize a large event or conference. It’s likely that you might need a suitable space for a meeting or training session. The rooms available for hire are located in Tinbergen Building (Faculty Club), Van der Goot building, and Q- Building.
The Van der Goot building (Erasmus Expo and Conference Centre) was opened in 1994. The building has several rooms building that can accommodate 12 to 921 people. Majority of the rooms are also used for educational purposes, such as examinations or lectures.
More so, the school has a Faculty Club which is located on the 17th floor of Tinbergen Building. The club has a restaurant and six prestigious rooms that suitable for 10 to 42 people. There is the Q-Building which serves as accommodation for master programs and meetings. Q-Building has break-out rooms and a range of halls on the first and second floors. The rooms can accommodate between 6 and 41 people.
Residing Options at Erasmus University Rotterdam
The university is not responsible for students housing on campus. For this reason, its students are to bear the responsibility of getting accommodation that best suit their need. Interested students need to arrange for housing directly with landlords. It’s advisable that you give at least three months to start looking for accommodation before arrival to avoid disappointment and stress.
Weather at Erasmus University Rotterdam
The weather in Rotterdam is moderate. It summers are comfortable and partly cloudy while its winters are usually long, windy, and very cold. The temperature usually varies from 34°F to 72°F and is rarely above 82°F or below 21°F.
Alumni at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Cor Herkströter - Former chairman Royal Dutch Shell
Herman Heinsbroek - Former Minister of Economic Affairs; founder, Arcade Records
Maarten Fontein - Former CEO, AFC Ajax
Peter Nijkamp - professor of regional economics, recipient of the Spinozapremie
Jeroen van der Veer - CEO, Royal Dutch Shell
Verdict at Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Erasmus University Rotterdam is one of the best universities for anyone who is seeking excellent education. The school has particular strengths in research. More so, its students tend to graduate with quality research skills for both academic and field placement. The admission procedure is fair and varies for bachelor and master programmes.
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Children's Immunisation Schedule
Here's a checklist of the vaccines that are routinely offered to everyone in the UK for free on the NHS, and the age at which you should ideally have them.
Routine childhood immunisations
When to immunise
Diseases protected against
Vaccine given
Site**
Two months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Pneumococcal disease PCV (Prevenar 13) Thigh
Rotavirus Rotavirus (Rotarix) By mouth
Meningococcal group B (MenB) MenB Left thigh
Three months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Meningococcal group C disease (MenC) Men C (NeisVac-C or Menjugate) Thigh
Four months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Meningococcal group B (MenB) Men B Left thigh
One year old Hib/MenC Hib/MenC (Menitorix) Upper arm/thigh
Pneumococcal disease PCV (Prevenar 13) Upper arm/thigh
Measles, mumpsand rubella (German measles) MMR(Priorix or MMR VaxPRO) Upper arm/thigh
MenB MenB booster Left thigh
Two to six years old
(including children in
school years 1 and 2) Influenza (each year from September) Live attenuated influenza
vaccine LAIV4 Both nostrils
Three years four months old or soon after Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio dTaP/IPV (Repevax) or DTaP/IPV(Infanrix-IPV) Upper arm
Measles, mumpsand rubella MMR (Priorix or MMR VaxPRO)(check first dose has been given) Upper arm
** Where two or more injections are required at once, these should ideally be given in different limbs. Where this is not possible, injections in the same limb should be given 2.5cm apart.
Immunisations for at-risk children
Target Group Age & Schedule Disease Vaccines required
Babies born to hepatitis B infected
mothers At birth, four weeks, eight weeks
and Boost at one year1 Hepatitis B Hepatitis B vaccine
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At birth Tuberculosis BCG
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born in a high incidence country At birth Tuberculosis BCG
There is a good guide on the NHS website which describes various conditions affecting children. There is advice on how to diagnose them, how to treat them and if further advice should be consulted.
NHS childhood illness slideshow
Having an ill child can be a very scary experience for parents. If you understand more about the illness it can help you to feel more in control. This booklet is for parents (and older children) and deals with common infections in children who are normally healthy.
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See the NHS Conditions and Treatments browser for an in-depth description of many common health issues.
These links all come from trusted resources but if you are unsure about these or any other medical matters please contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice
Girls aged 12 to 13 years old Cervical cancer caused by human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 (and genital warts caused by types 6 and 11) HPV (two doses 6-12 months) Upper arm
14 years old (school year 9) Tetanus, diphtheria and polio Td/IPV (Revaxis), and check MMR status Upper arm
Meningococcal groups A, C, W
and Y disease MenACWY Upper arm
The Meningitis C vaccination will be introduced during the 2013/14 academic year and the vaccine supplied will depend on the brands available at the time of ordering
Most symptoms of a fever in young children can be managed at home with infant paracetamol. If the fever is very high, they may have an infection that needs treating with antibiotics.
Bupa - more about childhood fevers
NHS Choices - what temperature is a fever?
Head lice are insects that live on the scalp and neck. They may make your head feel itchy. Although head lice may be embarrassing and sometimes uncomfortable, they don't usually cause illness. However, they won't clear up on their own and you need to treat them promptly
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Nosebleeds (also known as epistaxis) are fairly common, especially in children, and can generally be easily treated.
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Mens' Health
Five health symptoms men should not ignore:
"British men are paying the price for neglecting their health: more than 100,000 men a year die prematurely.
On average, men go to their GP half as often as women. It's important to be aware of changes to your health, and to see your GP immediately if you notice something that's not right." Find out more
Each year about 36,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer, making it the most common cancer in men. It mainly affects men aged over 50.
difficulty in starting to pass urine
a weak, sometimes intermittent flow of urine
dribbling of urine before and after urinating
a frequent or urgent need to pass urine
rarely, blood in your urine or semen and pain when passing urine
These symptoms aren't always caused by prostate cancer but if you have them, see your GP.
Find out more about the symptoms, causes and diagnosis of prostate cancer by using the resources below.
BUPA - Prostate Cancer
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Testicular cancer, though the most common cancer in young men, it is still quite rare. With 2000 new cases being diagnosed each year, this makes it the biggest cause of cancer related death in 15 - 35-year-old males. It accounts for around 70 deaths a year within the UK alone.
The most common symptom of testicular cancer is swelling or a pea-sized lump in one of the testes (balls). There is no current screening test therefore it is important that you look out for the following signs and symptoms.
A dull ache, or sharp pain, in your testicles, or scrotum, which may come and go
A feeling of heaviness in your scrotum
A dull ache in your lower abdomen
A sudden collection of fluid in your scrotum
Fatigue, and generally feeling unwell.
NHS - Information on Testicular Cancer
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It’s estimated that one man in 10 has a problem related to having sex, such as premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction. Dr John Tomlinson of The Sexual Advice Association explains some of the causes, and where to seek help.
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Cervical Screening (Smear Tests)
Cervical screening is a method of preventing cervical cancer by detecting abnormal cells in the cervix (lower part of the womb). Cervical screening is not a test for cancer, but it is a test to check the health of the cervix.
Most women's test results show that everything is normal. But for one in 20 women, the test will show some changes in the cells of the cervix. Most of these changes will not lead to cervical cancer and the cells will go back to normal on their own. In some cases, the abnormal cells need to be treated to prevent them becoming a problem later.
NHS - Cervical Screening
The why, when & how guide to cervical screening
NHS Inform (Scottish Patients)
Cervical Screening information, risks, benefits and tests for patients based in Scotland
This factsheet is for women who would like information about having a cervical smear test for screening. This means having the test when you don't have any symptoms.
Since September 2008 there has been a national programme to vaccinate girls aged 12-13 against human papilloma virus (HPV). There is also a three-year catch up campaign that will offer the HPV vaccine (also known as the cervical cancer jab) to 13-18 year old girls.
The programme is delivered largely through secondary schools, and consists of three injections that are given over a six-month period. In the UK, more than 1.4 million doses have been given since the vaccination programme started.
What is Human papilloma virus (HPV)?
Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the name of a family of viruses that affect the skin and the moist membranes that line your body, such as those in your cervix, anus, mouth and throat. These membranes are called the mucosa.
There are more than 100 different types of HPV viruses, with about 40 types affecting the genital area. These are classed as high risk and low risk.
How you get HPV?
Types of HPV that affect the skin can be passed on by skin contact with an affected person. The types of HPV that affect the mouth and throat can be passed on through kissing. Genital HPV is usually spread through intimate, skin to skin, contact during sex. You can have the genital HPV virus for years and not have any sign of it.
How HPV can cause cervical cancer?
Most HPV infections are harmless or cause genital warts, however some types can cause cervical cancer. Most HPV infections clear up by themselves, but in some people the infection can last a long time. HPV infects the cells of the surface of the cervix where it can stay for many years without you knowing.
The HPV virus can damage these cells leading to changes in their appearance. Over time, these changes can develop into cervical cancer. The purpose of cervical screening (testing) is to detect these changes, which, if picked up early enough, can be treated to prevent cancer happening. If they are left untreated, cancer can develop and may lead to serious illness and death.
HPV Facts and information
NHS - HPV Vaccination Why, how and when is the vaccination given and what are the side effects
This factsheet is for people who would like information about the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK. About 46,000 women get breast cancer in the UK each year. Most of them (8 out of 10) are over 50, but younger women, and in rare cases men, can also get breast cancer.
The NHS Breast Screening Programme invites over 2 million women for screening every year, and detects over 14,000 cancers. Dr Emma Pennery of Breast Cancer Care says: “Breast X-rays, called mammograms, can detect tumours at a very early stage, before you’d feel a lump. The earlier it’s treated, the higher the survival rate.”
Find out more about breast cancer screening
Macmillan Cancer Research
The causes and symptoms of breast cancer in women and explains how it is diagnosed and treated
Symtpoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention & screening information
Seasonal Flu Vaccination
Influenza – flu – is a highly infectious and potentially serious illness caused by influenza viruses. Each year the make-up of the seasonal flu vaccine is designed to protect against the influenza viruses that the World Heal th Organization decide are most likely to be circulating in the coming winter.
Regular immunisation (vaccination) is given free of charge to the following at-risk people, to protect them from seasonal flu:
people aged 65 or over,
people with a serious medical condition
if you are pregnant
people living in a residential or nursing home
the main carers for an elderly or disabled person whose welfare may be at risk if the carer becomes ill
healthcare or social care professionals directly involved in patient care
For more information on flu immunisation, including background information on the vaccine and how you can get the jab, see Seasonal flu jab
HPA - Season Flu Guide
Seasonal Flu Factsheet
Eating Well & Exercise - helping you maintain a healthy body
We're bombarded with scare stories about weight, from size zero to the obesity 'epidemic'. But a healthy body is determined by different factors for each of us.
NHS - Good Food Guide
Information on a healthy diet and ways to make it work for you
NHS - Why be active?
Even a little bit of exercise will make you feel better about yourself, boost your confidence and cut your risk of developing a serious illness.
Both men and women need to look after their sexual health and take time to understand the issues that surround contraception and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
For instance there are some STIs, like chlamydia, that you could be carrying without having any symptoms. This infection can affect fertility, so it's important to make use of the sexual health services available for free on the NHS.
Sex & Young People
A comprehensive guide to the questions you may have about sex from the NHS
Issues, symptoms and treatments
Sexual Health FAQs
Expert answers from a qualified Doctor
Here you'll find tips for a fulfilling sex life plus advice on STDs, contraception and common sex problems.
FPA - The Sexual Health Charity
Sexual health advice and information on contraception, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy choices, abortion and planning a pregnancy.
There are so many different types of contraception available that you should be able to find the right method. You may have to try several different things before you choose the one you like most.
Types of contraception
A Family Planning specialist writes about the different types of contraception, the benefits and pitfalls and how effective they are
Contraception - NHS
Information on Contraception from NHS Choices including why, when and how it should be used and with links to other useful resources.
Hormonal Contraception
This factsheet is for women who are taking hormonal contraceptives, or who would like information about them.
Chlamydia is the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection among under-25s. Often there are no symptoms, but testing and treatment are simple.
Causes and risk factors Chlamydia is usually passed from one person to another during vaginal, oral or anal sex, or by sharing sex toys. It can live inside cells of the cervix, urethra, rectum and sometimes in the throat and eyes.
NHS - focus on Chlamydia Information, videos and advice from the NHS website
This factsheet is for people who have chlamydia, or who would like information about it.
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Proponents of a wind farm project in the south-central part of Marion County received a favorable nod from the district court on its motion to dismiss a civil suit filed in mid-May.
Patrick Pelstring, president of Expedition Wind LLC, said the company, and the more than 100 landowners involved in the project, were pleased with the ruling on Aug 23 by Judge Steven Hornbaker, Marion County Eighth Judicial District.
“The court confirmed that the Doyle conditional use permits issued for this wind project are valid CUPs and have not expired,” Pelstring said.
On the opposite side, there were more than 70 named plaintiffs, with Randy Eitzen initially leading the charge in the mid-May legal action.
Following the court’s decision Aug 23, Eitzen said: “The judge’s decision has not impacted our momentum (in moving forward).
“Ultimately,” he said, “the May 16 petition was filed past the 30-day window to appeal.”
The reasons given as to why Eitzen and others originally filed the lawsuit on May 16 was to invalidate the 2016 amendments and to re-impose the pre-amended Article 27 zoning regulations.
In addition, the plaintiffs wanted the court to declare the Doyle CUPs expired and invalid for failure to obtain a power purchase agreement, to prohibit Expedition Wind from installing the turbine models there propose, to declare Expedition Wind in violation of Article 31 and for a temporary injunction.
Eitzen also said that in the lawsuit they asked the court to declare the CUPs invalid, and they allege there was a violation of the Kansas Open Records Act.
Pelstring cited one of the statements made by Judge Hornbaker, which read: “There is simply no basis for this court to intervene and allow plaintiffs to impose requirements that are not set out in the regulations or the CUP as a matter of law.”
Pelstring added: “Expedition Wind believes this lawsuit was simply a stalling tactic by the few residents of Marion County who oppose the economic benefits that will be received from this project by the county and by their neighbors. It had no merit from the start.”
Other lawsuits have been filed by the plaintiffs, but Pelstring said he believes this is more of “the same improper and unsupportable claims by the people trying to interfere with the project.”
“Expedition Wind will continue to vigorously pursue its project,” he said. “These delays are expensive and divisive for everyone, especially (Marion) county taxpayers.”
Pelstring also wanted to let the public know that Expedition Wind is moving forward with the project given the clear decision by the court.
“It’s time to accept the county’s planning and zoning process as sound,” he said. “Rather than continuing to pull apart, let’s start working together to build a stronger, more economically viable Marion County.”
Pelstring said he would hope that given the court’s findings, the plaintiffs will cease any and all future actions.
Eitzen added one final thought, which was to say that the plaintiffs “fully expect to win the remainder of any other lawsuit(s).”
“We will do whatever is necessary to stop the project,” Eitzen said. “What most leaseholders don’t know is that after the 10-year exempt period, the land within a mile radius of each turbine will be assessed at a commercial rate.”
“Who can afford that?” Eitzen said.
Historically, the original wind farm project to the south was initially started by Rex and Carol Savage of Florence and SunWind, owned by Joe Craft.
The assets and previous companies were purchased by Expedition Wind and in August of 2018, the county’s planning and zoning department presented two separate conditional use permit (CUP) applications for temporary meteorological towers, known as MET towers for Expedition Wind.
Pelstring said Expedition Wind carried over all of the Doyle leases and signing of new leases, along with adding substantial footprint to the original wind farm project.
Source: By Patty Decker | Hillsboro Free Press | September 4, 2019 | www.hillsborofreepress.com
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3rd Ave business owners hope the street can one day be as popular as Broadway
by: Erica Francis
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) -Just blocks from Broadway, a new area is blossoming.
Business owners are hopeful 3rd Ave is seeing new life, just a couple years after many say it was left forgotten.
Missy Sweany, Operations Manager at The Diner says business is booming and is hopeful that 3rd has a bright future, with new businesses opening up, many of them, restaurants and Airbnb’s.
“There’s a lot of new life that’s been breathed into it in the past 18 months,” Sweany said.
New additions to 3rd Ave include ‘Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock & Roll Steakhouse, The Moxy and Black Rabbit.
Keith Zust, co-owner of Sea Salt, took a chance three years ago when he opened his restaurant that has seafood dishes inspired by local ingredients found in middle Tennessee and neighboring areas in this unique Farm to Table concept.
The restaurant sits in a building built in the 1870s. It once housed the first Ford Dealership in Tennesse. In 1977, Boots Randolph opened his own nightclub, Boots Randolph’s, which he operated for 17 years in our very building until 1993.
Sea Salt now follows in his path by bringing live music to the same space that Boots entertained guests for almost 2 decades. But it competes with the Honky Tonks. Zust says Sea Salt offers something different.
The original brick of this historic late 19th-century building is now complemented by blocks of pink sea salt or salt bricks.
With entrances on both 3rd Avenue and Printers Alley, Sea Salt provides a venue with main floor and balcony seating coupled with great food and drinks in the tradition of Boot’s supper club.
“The amount of foot traffic we’re starting to see with all these old great buildings get re-purposed into new things,” Zust said.
Zust added 3rd Ave still has room to grow.
“It’s really blossoming into a cool part of town which isn’t like anywhere else it’s different in a great way,” Zust said.
3rd Ave– a different feel from the Honky Tonks, but Zust says it’s just as exciting.
He and others hope both locals and tourists will explore 3rd Avenue and spread the word that it’s a great street to live, work and play.
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Midwest gears up for potential major ice storm over weekend
Ice accumulation could reach 3/4 of an inch in some areas
Updated: 8:27 AM EST Jan 13, 2017
WEBVTT FIRST, PREPARATIONS.ALEXANDER STONE IS LIVE WITH OURBIG STORY.>> Reporter: FROM THE THREAT OF POWER OUTAGES TO MAKING IT DOWN YOUR DRIVEWAY, RESIDENTS HAVE REASON TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIMPENDING STORM.SO WE'RE CHECKING OUT LOCAL STORES AND TALKING WITH FOLKS ABOUT SAFETY IN THISWEATHER.FOLKS BRACING FOR A POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT WINTER ICE STORM. >> WE HAVE A BIG RUSH.AND WE HAVE T FRONT CORNER ONES.>> NO ONE WANTS TO BE WITHOUT POWER.>> Reporter: THE OWNER SAYS IF YOU'RE PLANNING TO BUY A PORTABLE GENERATOR, THERE ARE THINGS TO DO TO SAY SAFE. >> IF YOU HAVE A PORTABLE, LEAVEIT OUTDOORS.THERE IS A LOT OF CARBON MONOXIDE.SO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING YOU BRING IN IS CORD CONNECTED.IF YOU PLUG INTO THE EXISTING WIRING YOU'RE GOING TO BACK FEEDUTILITY.>> SUMMER SAYS THEY HAVE CUSTOMERS IN BIG STORMS AND I THIS HAS YOU THINKING ABOUT THE PROCESS. >> YOU WANT TO BE PREPARED FOR THE NEXT ONE. >> IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN
Beginning today, an ice storm warning is going out in areas throughout the Midwest, warning of a weekend that could include slick roads, power outages and closures. A warning was issued in the Kansas City area beginning at 9 a.m. and continues through midnight Sunday, as forecasters predict one-quarter of an inch to three-quarters an inch of ice accumulation. The National Weather Service there said icing could develop late Saturday into Sunday morning. To the north, Omaha, Neb., residents are preparing for the storm by stocking up on ice melt for the anticipated weekend weather. Abram Dean, the manager of a hardware store there, said there was a "big rush" on supplies with more truckloads on the way. Possible power outages are also on the mind of residents. Tobias Sommer, owner of Omaha's Generators For Sale, is getting calls from around Nebraska and Iowa. "No one wants to be without power and freezing," he said. "And for out rural customers, they have livestock, cattle." Sommer said some customers have relied on generators for days at a time during winter storms. Oklahoma also is expecting power outages. Gov. Mary Fallin has already declared a state of emergency that covers each of the state's 77 counties. The declaration activates the state's emergency response plan. She also relaxed size and weight restrictions for state roadways to accommodate relief efforts. Forecasters say icy weather is also expected in parts of Illinois, Texas and northern Arkansas. In Iowa, freezing rain is in the forecast to come up from the south Sunday evening overnight into Monday before turning into rain. Forecasters also say icy weather is also expected in parts of Illinois, Texas and northern Arkansas. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Beginning today, an ice storm warning is going out in areas throughout the Midwest, warning of a weekend that could include slick roads, power outages and closures.
A warning was issued in the Kansas City area beginning at 9 a.m. and continues through midnight Sunday, as forecasters predict one-quarter of an inch to three-quarters an inch of ice accumulation. The National Weather Service there said icing could develop late Saturday into Sunday morning.
Chiefs-Steelers playoff game in Kansas City moved to Sunday night
To the north, Omaha, Neb., residents are preparing for the storm by stocking up on ice melt for the anticipated weekend weather. Abram Dean, the manager of a hardware store there, said there was a "big rush" on supplies with more truckloads on the way.
Possible power outages are also on the mind of residents. Tobias Sommer, owner of Omaha's Generators For Sale, is getting calls from around Nebraska and Iowa.
"No one wants to be without power and freezing," he said. "And for out rural customers, they have livestock, cattle."
Sommer said some customers have relied on generators for days at a time during winter storms.
Oklahoma also is expecting power outages. Gov. Mary Fallin has already declared a state of emergency that covers each of the state's 77 counties. The declaration activates the state's emergency response plan. She also relaxed size and weight restrictions for state roadways to accommodate relief efforts.
Forecasters say icy weather is also expected in parts of Illinois, Texas and northern Arkansas.
In Iowa, freezing rain is in the forecast to come up from the south Sunday evening overnight into Monday before turning into rain.
Forecasters also say icy weather is also expected in parts of Illinois, Texas and northern Arkansas.
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barbra streisand chanukah Chappy Chanukah dreidel elf on a shelf hanukah Hanukkah hanukkah house Kellog's Hanukkah Treats Latkes menorah mensch on a bench oy the goyim pt it's bad enough nobody can spell this stupid holiday rice krispies seriously not even Jews know how to spell this holiday
All The Hanukkah Crap To Not Buy This War On Christmas Season
C.A. Pinkham
On the first night of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me: nothing on this list, or we would've immediately broken up.
What? You're surprised I'm a member of the tribe? Don't be stupid; look at my name, of course I'm Jewish. Actually, my grandfather's birth name was Menachim Mordecai Bernstein, and after that, the family pretty much collectively decided we were never going to out-Jew that one, so we just gave up. Anyway, the point is I'm eminently qualified to be the one to share all the kitschy crap the goyim are apparently trying to sell us this year.
How do we know it's the goyim? Just look at this shit, for Hashem's sake.
Hanukkah Krispie Treats Only Have One Little Snag
On Sunday morning, Kellogg's let fly the following tweet:
Oh hey, that's nice of them! Tacky as hell, sure, but those trademarked Hanukkah Treats™ seem quite festive. We're sure there's no underlying issue here that might turn this into a laughable failure or anyth --
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Oh, right. Just one teeny-tiny little issue. Other planned product promotions Kellogg's might want to pump the brakes on include lobster hamentashen, cheeseburgers on afikomen, shrimp kreplach, and Yom Kippur energy bars. Christ (or as we call him, "that nice Josh boy"), this couldn't be more goyishe if it had a ham garnish.
Electric Menorahs, Because Cousin Avi Can't Be Trusted With Fire Safety After The Pesach Incident
Electric Menorahs: for the Jew who cares enough to celebrate Hanukkah, but not enough to light a fucking match. Hey, it's not like lighting the candles is the entire point of the holiday or anything.
This seems as good a time as any to let the goyim in on a little secret: Hanukkah is kind of a shit holiday. None of us really care about it -- it's like eighth on the Jewish Holiday Importance list, well below Sukkot and barely above Barbra Streisand's Birthday. Only the most delusional among us refuse to acknowledge Christmas as the objectively superior holiday. And any Jew shouting "but Hanukkah lasts for eight nights!" to argue superiority is both lying to and embarrassing themselves. Latkes are wildly overrated (you're goddamn right, I said it). Half the Jews working at Wonkette didn't even remember Sunday was the first night of Hanukkah until Kaili reminded us.
For most Jews, Hanukkah is like your Great Aunt Roz. You tolerate her repeated admonitions for you to settle down with a nice Jewish girl (or boy! Roz doesn't want to judge!) and her tendency to passive-aggressively shrug at every restaurant order, while saying "I make bettah," every holiday season because she's family, but you don't exactly look forward to her visits.
There's A Vanilla Hanukkah House For Some Reason
Why should Christians get all the weird, utterly nonsensical fun of building miniature domiciles out of confectionery, spending a week admiring their handiwork, waiting for the whole assembly to get stale, then pretending to enjoy eating them even though at that point they taste like Mr. Potter's butthole?
We've never understood the appeal of building gingerbread houses, nor do we know any Jew who does. Seriously, Manischewitz, you've been peddling us electrified alcoholic grape soda for how long now? How do you not know your audience at this point? And you couldn't even make it chocolate-flavored? Have you ever even met a Jew?
Whatever The Shit This Is
Etsy never disappoints. Granted, that depends largely on one's definition of what constitutes disappointment, but hey, you can't please everyone -- or in the case of this item, anyone. Actually, that kind of looks a little like my Great Uncle Sidney. Let's quote the description, too, because it's really a work of art:
Very cute hanukkah hat for dog or cat
Decorated with a star. Hat comes in one size that fit xs, s, m dogs ( tea cup ,small and medium) Hat stays in place with a adjustable elastic to fit all sizes. Your puppy or kitty wood look adorable in this hat . This is prefect accessory for an " elegant" pet for hanukkah
The whole thing is prefection [sic], but our favorite part is the "for dog or cat." OR CAT. Please, for the love of God, try to put this on a cat's head. Record yourself doing it, too; that's all but guaranteed to be one of the best Vines of the year.
How do we know this was created by a goy? Because we don't care how lapsed a Jew you are, you damn well know the word "yarmulke." There's also the "let's take your religious garb/hairstyle and turn it into adorable kitsch" aspect. That too.
A Preponderance Of Dreidels
There's nothing technically wrong with this picture; those are perfectly normal wooden dreidels. We're just struggling to envision a scenario in which any human being could ever possibly need this many dreidels for any reason. Every Jewish family we've ever seen does the same thing with a dreidel - you spin it once or twice, go "oooh," and then you fuck off and eat some gelt. Who is this product even for? Someone planning to start an underground illegal dreideling parlor?
But as odd as that first image is, we had another dreidel hunch, so we put in another Amazon search. We were not disappointed:
We Don't Think They Thought This One Through
We can spot just a few minor issues here.
Mensch On A Bench Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
That header didn't even really need a joke. Hell, this entire section doesn't even need a joke; we could just shriek "WHAT, NO, WHAT, NO, NO, WHAT" over and over and it'd get our point across. But we'll try.
Some of you are confused as hell right now. This is because you've been fortunate enough to have never been introduced to the Elf on the Shelf, a creation dredged from the darkest depths of human nightmare. Basically, the Elf on the Shelf is an elfin horror clown that sits in a child's bedroom, causing them thousands of future dollars in therapy spying on them to see whether they've been good children (lit. "whether they've been masturbating") before reporting back to Santa. It was conceived as a "Christmas tradition" in ages past, by which we mean 2005. It is exactly as weird and twisted as it sounds. The only good thing that has ever come from the Elf on the Shelf is this post.
Mensch on a Bench is the Jewish version of the Elf on the Shelf, and it apparently comes to us from the TV show Shark Tank. That's disappointing, because previously, the only reason we had to hate Shark Tank was literally every single thing about that show. Now, we can add "exposing Jewish kids to a miniature stuffed Harvey Fierstein in an attempt to feed off their terror" to the list. It's only a matter of time before it fuses with a Furby and starts saying things like "Now, Moishe, be good, or you won't get those nice dress socks you wanted for Hanukkah!"
Presumably, this activity book includes the Mensch's favorite activities. If he's anything like my grandfather, these include a world scramble that's just a long rant about how the Mensch remembers when the movies cost a nickel, a maze based on the I-95 traffic between Brooklyn and Ft. Lauderdale, and coloring in a lot of pictures of diners.
Oy Gevalt
And there you have it. Eight "Jewish Christmas" products -- one for each night! -- no actual Jew will ever buy. Herschel and the Hanukkah Goblins, these gifts are not. You're letting us down, goys. We have to say, with the Christmas-Industrial Complex in full, tacky swing, we'd figure you'd be better at this. Ah, well. There's always next year.
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Flora of Zimbabwe
Home > List of locations > Chimanimani Mountains National Park
Location: Chimanimani Mountains National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Map showing location of Chimanimani Mts National Park.
Photo: Rawdon Goodier
Eastern scarp forests
View over the Bundi River plain
N end of airfield; grasslands on schists and quartzites
Quarzite pavement with Xyris
Ericaceous scrub with Aloes & Calomeria on Dombe
Summit vegetation on Dombe with Ericaceae & Helichrysum
The Corner from Martin's Falls path
View east from Melsetter (Chimanimani)
Quarter degree square: Mostly 1933C3
Habitat: Afromontane forest, woodland, scrub and grassland habitats
Altitude range: 1100 - 2436 m
Annual rainfall: Probably over 1500 mm per year
Location (short): Forming the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Location (detailed): This rugged mountainous park lies in Chimanimani district, Manicaland, where it forms the eastern border with Mozambique. It is managed by the Zimbabwean Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management.
We have taken the National Park to be the area marked as such on the 1:50,000 Chimanimani 1932D4, 1933C1,C3 maps, Edition 1, produced by the Zimbabwean Surveyor-General.
The area around the Outward Bound School and Tessa's Pool (for which we have created a separate location page) is shown as a separate area on the 1:50,000 map but we have included records from this area in the National Park.
The Chimanimani Mountains are an important 'island' of the 'Afromontane archipelago', the chain of mountain groups stretching from the Cape to the high mountains of East Africa. Their peaks rise to about 2,440 m on the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The area, which in Zimbabwe includes the Chimanimani National Park, is of outstanding botanical and ecological interest. The mountains are formed by alternating strata of schists and quartzites. The schist soils bear a flora allied to that of the upland eastern districts generally but the quartzites, and the soils derived from quartzite, bear a very distinct flora including, at the latest estimate, over 80 species which are endemic to the Chimanimani Mountains. These include Protea enervis, Platycaulos quartziticola, Helichrysum africanum, Aeschynomene chimanimaniensis, Disa chimanimaniensis etc. So far it would appear that all the endemic species are restricted to the quartzite areas. These are the only Central African mountains that have a developed ericaceous scrub zone.
[Information and images on this location by Rawdon Goodier]
View a list of records for Chimanimani Mountains National Park
View a list of unique taxa (excluding cultivated plants) for Chimanimani Mountains National Park
View a list of unique taxa (all taxa whether cultivated or not) for Chimanimani Mountains National Park
View map showing records
View a list of recorders who have visited this location
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2020). Flora of Zimbabwe: Location details: Chimanimani Mountains National Park.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/location-display.php?location_id=33, retrieved 20 January 2020
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Galaxy Force (Master System)
Published by Activision in 1989
I often ask myself if the the 8-bit generation was ready to handle arcade ports of rail shooters. Most examples say it wasn't, but when you realize several other rail shooters were also released for less powerful platforms then you can somehow forgive Galaxy Force on the Sega Master System. Never mind the confusion related to the arcade releases of Galaxy Force and Galaxy Force II, which widely replaced the former to the point almost no one ever saw it running. If you'd still like to have a glimpse of what it *looked like* you could try the Master System port, yet from the references I got it probably isn't the case.
Anyway, the only thing one can infer from playing this version of Galaxy Force is that little is to be expected that resembles the frantic, jaw-dropping action of the arcade game. Gone is the thrilling sensation of cruising through space taking down multiple targets. Just the basic framework was preserved in the transition: you fly a spaceship in rail shooter fashion through four different planets in any desired order, shooting down enemies until you enter a tunnel full of turns designed to test your piloting abilitites. For some cinematic flair, in every stage you see your ship taking off from a hangar.
Button 1 shoots single bullets, button 2 fires missiles that target enemies framed by your lock-on indicator. Button 1 has native autofire, button 2 doesn't. Ammo is unlimited for both.
Beware, floating platforms ahead
Stage selection is completely up to the player. The default order is an outer space station, then a volcanic planet, a plant world and a desertic landscape. Once all of them are conquered you will battle the final and only boss in the whole game. Yes, there's only one actual boss. Stages in Galaxy Force have no proper target cores at the end of the tunnel sections, which is one of the main sacrifices made to squeeze the game in the Master System cartridge (bosses are replaced by a brief animation showing the destruction of the planet). Sure, as the back of the box says it's got not double, not triple, but four times the playing power of a regular cartridge - meaning 4 Mega power! But hum... no, you don't get the hottest space combat, nor the baddest explosions. As for the sounds, well... at least we can say the soundtrack is undoubtedly the best thing about this port.
Many enemies are unique to this version, which tries to preserve the feel of the original game by means of the background scenery alone. Nevertheless the enemy gallery is practically the aspect that best conveys some sort of sprite scaling; tunnel sections use a flashing effect over static pillars to achieve the illusion of scrolling into the screen. For all it's worth, the trickery kinda works. The overall frame rate is still apalling and needs some getting used to. You still get to lock onto multiple enemies with your crosshair aim, but never in a reliable, repeatable fashion.
Another concession made on the port is the absence of the stage timer, and by extension the acceleration and break inputs. Everything is much more simple now, and your only concern while moving around in your killing spree is to preserve energy. The energy shield meter is color coded and changes as you get hit. As a general rule, the more red and flashing it gets the closer you are to biting the dust. Shield energy is automatically recovered at the end of the level after your bonus is calculated based on the amount of hits/kills you just achieved. Note that the more enemies you destroy the higher the bonus gets for each enemy in the final tallying.
Cruising the galaxy for justice
(courtesy of YouTube user Old Games Database)
The elimination of the timer element more than offsets the difficulty imposed by the confusing sprite scaling effect and the way the turns behave inside the tunnels. These turns vary a little in length with every new level, which means that each stage tunnel demands a certain tapping strategy for you to perform the movement without hitting the walls. After a while you notice that later levels are actually easier than the starting ones, at least this was my case. In fact, I even consider the first stage to be the hardest of them all by dint of the random nature of the meteors and the lack of ground scrolling for better evaluation of enemy approach. The turns inside the frst tunnel are also the hardest ones to perform.
Though considerably butchered in technical terms, my feeling after playing Galaxy Force on the Master System is that the game isn't a total wreck. It's fun in an awkward, nostalgic manner, with a final message that calls players out for using continues and advises them to beat the game again on a single credit if they want to watch the real ending (not the one where the ship crashes onto the landing platform). All in all, I liked that the difficulty was duly adapted to the console's limitations, unlike what happenened with the remarkably tough Space Harrier port.
Here's the final 1CC score I got for Galaxy Force on Sega's 8-bit machine:
Posted by Edward at 4:38 PM
Labels: Master System, Rail
Thunder Force V (Saturn)
Strike Force Hydra (Playstation)
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Association of Pacific Rim Universities
APRU Global Health Program Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Education & Opportunities
Distance Education Courses
APRU Global Health Case Competition
2019-2020 Advisory Group
The APRU Global Health Advisory Group consists of appointment members whose responsibilities include the following:
Help define the mission of the GHP, provide leadership, discuss the progress and implementation of the GHP and to resolve concerns and obstacles as they arise;
Be actively involved in at least one of the major activities under the Program;
Advocate and champion the GHP at international and regional events and to seek out partnerships and funding opportunities to expand the influence of the Program and its activities;
Actively participate in communications to ensure decisions on governance, funding and strategy are taken collectively and acted upon.
APRU GHP Advisory Group Members for 2019-2020:
Sofia Gruskin (Program Chair) University of Southern California
Mellissa Withers (Program Director), University of Southern California & APRU
Judith McCool, University of Auckland
Richard Taylor, UNSW Australia
Masamine Jimba, University of Tokyo
Chang-Chuan Chan, National Taiwan University
Mu Li, University of Sydney
Christina Schönleber, APRU
Juhwan Oh, Seoul National University
Sanjay Rampal, University of Malaya
Erlinda Castro-Palaganas, University of the Philippines Baguio
PinPin Zheng, Fudan University
APRU was established in 1997 by the presidents of California Institute of Technology (Thomas Everhart), University of California, Berkeley (Chang-Lin Tien), University of California, Los Angeles (Charles Young) and University of Southern California (Steven B. Sample). Seeing the rapid economic integration of the region and the formation of APEC, the founding presidents' vision was to establish a premier alliance of research universities as an advisory body to international organisations, governments and business on the development of science and innovation as well as on the broader development of higher education. The vision now encompasses focusing new knowledge on the global challenges affecting the region.
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« Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger Practices in Full; Will Start Sunday vs Chargers
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Darren Sharper Confirms Beef Between Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh
December 6th, 2012 Chris Bach Posted in Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers
If it wasn’t embarrassing enough seeing
a. a 15-game home winning streak snapped
b. a 12-game divisional streak snapped
c. Ray Rice not touching the ball in the 4th quarter
d. the Ravens going into halftime with all three of their timeouts (thus giving away an entire possession)
e. the Ravens not letting the Steelers run in a touchdown when mathematically Baltimore had a better chance of doing that and forcing overtime than a 41-yard Shaun Suisham kick missing
f. the Ravens missing an opportunity to give the Steelers a crucial 6th and become one win or Bengals loss from clinching the North
…Ravens HC John Harbaugh then was brushed off by Steelers HC Mike Tomlin during a brisk and awkward handshake after the game.
Now, here’s Tomlin’s explanation, speaking with the media: “As I moved toward the middle of the field, I noticed to my left the number of guys that were headed toward our locker room. Maybe that happens all the time, but given the amount of effort it took to get out of that stadium with a win, I wanted to get there as quickly as I could. It’s a normal practice for me to welcome guys into the locker room and thank them for their efforts after games and, really, the results of games don’t matter. It’s a general practice for me but, obviously, it took special effort to secure that victory and when I noticed that guys were headed to the locker room I was in a hurry to get there.”
I don’t condone lying in most cases including this one, but this might’ve kept a childish coaching rivalry from growing out of control.
It might’ve, except former Vikings and Saints FS Darren Sharper admitted on Showtime’s “Inside the NFL” that he talked to Mike Tomlin and Tomlin was upset over the post-game speech John Harbaugh gave earlier this season in which he said the Ravens were the mentally tougher, overall tougher team (and I think he mentioned coaching).
Still skeptical? FS Ryan Clark mentioned the Harbaugh speech as he spoke to NFL Network after the game. I get the feeling Tomlin showed it to his players.
I’m disappointed in both Harbaugh and Tomlin for continually peddling these AFC North games to the media as these slugfests that come down to wire and also for bringing an unnecessarily prideful edge to the AFC North rivalries.
You can’t win a Super Bowl on just running the football and defense, so it ultimately doesn’t matter how well and how often these facets flash in an AFC North game. This only encourages John Harbaugh to encourage offensive coordinator Cam Cameron to run all these pass plays with a FB and two slow TEs. I love WR Anquan Boldin, but the strength of the passing offense should be letting receivers Jacoby Jones, Deonte Thompson and La’Quan Williams clear out the middle of the field and the flat for WR Torrey Smith and RB Ray Rice. Having sludgy Leach, Pitta, and sludgy Boldin on the field at the same time condenses the opponent’s defense, allowing them to pin their ears back. It feels like John Harbaugh is the only coach left that wants to play games “close to the vest”. The conservatism on offense, and the inability to maximize Ray Rice, Torrey Smith and Joe Flacco in the primes of their careers is why Harbaugh will probably never win a Super Bowl.
The silly post-game speech and the stupid clichés disappoint me as a Ravens fan. It disappoints me as someone with a lot of respect for the amazing athletes and high-character leaders like Troy Polamalu, Andy Dalton, A.J. Green, LaMarr Woodley, Brett Keisel, Geno Atkins, Ryan Clark, Brandon Weeden, D’Qwell Jackson, Joe Haden, and – yes – Ben Roethlisberger. This isn’t 1992. This is 2012. I enjoy good rivalries, but you gotta know when you’re being childish. A lot of Ravens players are friends with Steelers players. A lot of Browns players are friends with Bengals players. And – for John – you gotta stop pretending Cam Cameron’s offense is working, when it’s clearly not.
It should be enough for John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin to hate each other during the game, but – thanks to John’s comments – there’s now this silly “disrespect” card Tomlin will play, as if John speaks for the whole team. In fairness, I think John was trying to isolate that one performance in his praise (you still don’t need to mention the other team like that), but it really was incredibly perfect bulletin board material.
It would seem inevitable for these two teams to meet again in the postseason, but there’s no guarantee either of them get in.
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President Buhari with Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Senator George Akume and Rt Gen. Lawrence Onoja shortly after his Sympathy Visit to Benue over recent killings in the State on 12th Mar 2018.
Diezani’s ally loses bid to recover property forfeited to FG
MR. Olajide Omokore, an ally of former Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, yesterday, lost his bid to recover his property forfeited to the Federal Government by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, as his suit was struck out.
Omokore had filed the suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, seeking to secure the release of his property temporarily forfeited to the Federal Government by the order of the court.
It’s an allegation to say that IGP flaunted Buhari’s order – Adesina
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, on Tuesday said that the statements made yesterday against the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, by Benue state stakeholders during the president’s visit was an allegation that needed to be cleared by the Police spokesperson or the IGP himself.
He disclosed this on Channels Television programme, ‘Sunrise Daily’ while answering the questions on why the president was astonished on hearing that the IGP did not spend 24 hours in Benue despite his order to do so.
Boat operators urged to avoid night travel on waterways
Mr Ganiyu Balogun, President, Association of Tourist Boat Operators and Water Transporters of Nigeria (ATBOWATON), has advised other boat operators to avoid night travel on waterways due to inadequate signs and illumination.
Balogun gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos.
Zimbabwean doctors on strike over pay, drug shortages
Doctors in Zimbabwe on Tuesday began a nationwide strike and would not return to work until the government meets their demands for better pay and working conditions, a spokesman for doctors’ unions said on Tuesday.
The action is the first major labour dispute under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who replaced Robert Mugabe in November and whose biggest challenge is fixing Zimbabwe’s economy ruined by decades of severe mismanagement.
Plateau govt denies accessing $2 billion loan
Plateau State Government has denied the procurement of a loan facility to the tune of $2 billion dollars.
Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr. Yakubu Dati, in a statement on Tuesday, in Jos, said the state government has been able to reduce the debt profile of N220 billion inherited from Governor Jonah David Jang administration to N122 billion.
Germany sack women’s football coach
Germany have sacked national women’s coach Steffi Jones after a string of poor performances in the SheBelieves Cup in the United States.
The two-time world champions finished last at the meeting of the world’s top women’s teams with a single point from three matches.
Greek Super League suspended after armed PAOK owner’s pitch invasion
Greece’s sports minister says Greek Super League matches have been suspended indefinitely, a day after the gun-toting owner of PAOK marched onto the pitch following a disputed goal at the end of a league match.
Minister Giorgos Vasileiadis, speaking after meeting Monday with the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, said fixtures have been suspended and would not restart “if there is not a new, clear framework agreed to by all so we can move forward with conditions and regulations.”
Zambia is waging a fierce campaign against sex dolls, threatening offenders with heavy jail terms over the dolls which, it says, are “very unnatural”.
“No one sells them openly, no one admits to owning one, and no one has been arrested,’’ report said.
Senate lifts confirmation embargo on CBN deputy govs, MPC members
The Senate has approved that the nominees for the positions of Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and members of the Monetary Policy Committee be screened for confirmation.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, raises a point of order at the plenary on Tuesday to urge the lawmakers to lift their embargo on confirmation of appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari.
FG asks Lagos-Ibadan railway contractor to work day, night
The Federal Government has advised the contractor handling the 150-kilometre Lagos-Ibadan railway project, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, to work day and night to avoid extending its delivery date beyond December this year.
The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, stated this on Monday after the monthly meeting of the Project Steering Committee with the CCECC team at the Papalanto rail/work station in Ogun State.
Senators' Salary: I was resisted when I advocated for lower wages - Ben Bruce
Ben Murray-Bruce, senator representing Bayelsa east constituency, on Tuesday said he was resisted by his colleagues when he advocated for lower wages and allowances for public officials and a higher minimum wage for the Nigerian worker.
Shehu Sani, senator representing Kaduna Central, had disclosed that a member of the Senate receives N13.5million monthly as running cost. Reacting, Ben Bruce in a tweet said he was shut down when he demanded for a higher minimum wages for Nigerian workers, adding that if the legislators are paid higher than European legislators then the workers's salary must be higher than that of European workers.
Palestinian Prime Minister Survives Assassination Attempt
An explosion went off this morning near a convoy carrying Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, who is visiting the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority initially blamed Hamas for the explosion, which it said targeted Hamdallah's convoy.
Later on, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh spoke with Hamdallah and the two agreed that Israel and its collaborators are responsible. The Palestinian leaders also agreed that General Tawfiq Abu Naim, head of Gaza's Interior Ministry, will lead the investigation into the incident.
Policemen protest salary deductions in Lagos
Hundreds of policemen on Monday stormed the Mechanised Salary Section (MSS) of the Lagos State Police Command in Oduduwa, in the Ikeja area of the state, to protest against what they described as “outrageous and unexpected” deductions from their salaries.
The policemen, comprising rank and files, as well as officers, said between N5,000 and N35,000 were deducted from their February salaries, while others lamented that they had not been paid for the month.
Power generators blackmailing govt, planning to disrupt supply – Fashola
Power generation companies are planning to disrupt the supply of electricity across the country, an intention that suggests blackmail against the Federal Government, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has alleged.
Reacting to reports that some of the firms had gone to court to file claims against the Federal Government, Fashola stated on Monday that the move was consistent with the rule of law but stressed that the power firms “must be ready to face scrutiny in the court of public opinion.”
Confirmation: Senate lifts embargo on CBN deputy govs, MPC members
IGP: Court adjourns Isah Misau’s trial till April 25
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday adjourned till April 25, a case of alleged injurious falsehood preferred against Sen. Isah Misau, to enable counsel to address the court on a subpoena issue.
The case was adjourned at the instance of the court with the consent of counsel present in court as well as the defendant.
I won’t dump my son-in-law in gubernatorial race - Okorocha
The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has refused to shift ground in his determination to ensure that his son in-law and Chief of Staff, Uche Nwosu, succeeds him in 2019.
Okorocha, who spoke through his Special Adviser to on Electoral Matters, Chief Steve Asimobi, told journalists that Nwosu would develop the state
Reps Lifts Suspension On Abdulmumin Jibrin
The House of Representatives has lifted a suspension it placed on Abdulmumin Jibrin, a member of the House from Kano.
This followed a letter signed by Mr. Jibrin, allegedly apologising to the House.
INEC dragged to court 400 times in two year - Mahmood Yakubu
The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Monday stated that INEC has been dragged to court 400 times in January 2016 to December 2017 while delivering his speech in a public hearing on “A Bill for an Act to Establish the National Electoral Offences Commission and for related matters.”
Speaking after the former Chairman, Senate Committee on INEC, Senator Abubakar Kyari, remark, the INEC boss said, “We monitor political campaign, conduct civic education, despite the constraints confronting us.
Motorists Rejoice Over Opening Of Section 1 Of Apapa-Wharf Road To Traffic
Some commuters on Monday in Lagos expressed happiness over the opening of the completed Section 1 of the Apapa-Wharf Road currently undergoing reconstruction to traffic.
They said in separate interviews that it was a great relief to them.
Femi Falana Joins Oby Ezekwesili, BBOG Sit Out (Photos)
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN, Today joined the Bring Back Our Girls group as he will lead a legal team to sue the Federal Government for the negligence that has led to the abductions of our Chibok Girls & Dapchi Girls.
Tottenham Star, Harry Kane Pictured With Clutches Following Ankle Injury
Harry Kane has been pictured wearing a protective boot and hobbling on crutches just 24 hours after a nasty ankle injury against Bournemouth. The 24-year-old Tottenham striker limped off after suffering a sickening ankle twist in their 4-1 win over the Cherries on Sunday.
Kane was due to have a scan today to discover the extent of the damage – but it was postponed until the swelling subsides. The injury comes just 99 days before England’s World Cup opener.
Female Airport Security Guard Caught Stealing Money From Passenger’s Handbag
An airport security guard was arrested after stealing £450 cash from a passenger’s handbag just seconds before it went through an x-ray machine. Busakorn Somkwamdee, 26, was caught on CCTV opening the flap on the tourist’s bag which was put into a basket on a conveyor belt yesterday.
She then swiftly pulls out a large bundle of notes in Chinese yen and slips them into her right pocket – despite a passenger standing next to her at the time.
Governor Bello Rocks Military Outfit As He Visits Soldiers In The Forest
Governor Yahaya Bello today stormed a forest in Kogi Central to identify with the military men and women combating criminals in the state. The Kogi governor who rocked a military uniform – visited the troops to boost their morale and also encourage them.
Governor Bello inspected the Military Exercise, Ayem Akpatuma ( Cat Race) at their Irepeni Base.
Trump sacks Rex Tillerson as state secretary
US President Donald Trump has sacked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, replacing him with the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo.
Thanking Mr Tillerson for his service on Twitter, Mr Trump said the new state secretary would do "a fantastic job".
Evans files fresh suit against police, demands N1 billion damages over sealed Lagos property
Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, on Tuesday filed a fresh suit at a Federal High Court in Lagos, seeking N1 billion damages against the Police over alleged unlawful sealing of his property in Lagos.
The suit, filed by his lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, has as the Inspector General of Police, Nigeria Police, Inspector General of Police, Intelligence Response Team, (IRT), Abba Kyari, an assistant commissioner of police and Phillip Rieninwa, a deputy superintendent of police, as respondents.
Kiss Daniel buys his second house in Lekki
Nigerian singer, Kiss Daniel is the proud owner of a new house in Lekki, Lagos. The singer made this known on his Instagram page where he stated that it is the second house he’s bought since joining joing the music industry four years ago.
“All thanks to GOD �� Bought my second house in Lagos from @thehavenhomes just 4years into the business”, he said.
Other firms can now provide meters to power consumers – NERC
Power distribution companies do not have the sole responsibility of providing meters to electricity consumers anymore, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission declared on Monday.
According to NERC, a new regulation, unveiled on Monday, has now introduced another class of operators in the power sector called Meter Asset Providers.
I’m not afraid of the courts… be ready to face scrutiny - Fashola tells GenCos
Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, says he is not afraid of law courts following a suit filed against the government by some power generating companies (GenCos).
The GenCos had levelled accusations against the government regarding “special treatment” that allegedly favoured two power generating companies – Azura Power West Africa Limited and Accugas Limited.
Lagos APC and emerging factional crisis
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is currently embroiled in crisis with a faction that calls itself Broom Unity Movement (BUM) led by a loyalist of the National Leader of APC, Mr Faud Oki. The emergence of the group few days ago seems to confirm existing speculations on the state of health of the party, BOLA BADMUS reports.
Few days ago, Lagosians woke up to the news of the emergence of a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state led by Mr Faud Oki, one of the key loyalists of the National Leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
‘Mentally-Deranged Man’ Invades Ogun School, Kills Two Pupils
A man armed with a cutlass, suspected to be mentally-deranged, yesterday invaded St. John’s Anglican Primary School, Agodo, in Ogun Waterside Local Government of Ogun State and killed two pupils.
The victims are Mubarak Kalesowo and Sunday Obituyi.
52-Year Old Ibadan Man Defiles Minor
A 52-year-old man, Gabriel Olaniyan, was yesterday arraigned at an Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court in Oyo State for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl.
He was arraigned on a one-count charge of having carnal knowledge of the minor.
The prosecutor, Mrs. Folake Ewe, told the court that the accused, on March 1, about 5 pm, in Alapafon, Ibadan, did have carnal knowledge of the minor.
Babies’ bodies with umbilical cords found in bottles during house renovation
Termite exterminators working on a house renovation have uncovered the bodies of several babies preserved in bottles, some with umbilical cords still attached, Kyodo news agency said on Monday.
Three or four such bottles were found beneath the floor of a house abandoned for the past three years in the Japanese capital, where an obstetrician had once lived and which was being renovated by a recent purchaser, Kyodo added.
Husband of late banker releases wife’s ‘suicide note
Mr. Umukoro Akpobaro, the husband of late bank worker, Peace, who allegedly committed suicide at their home at Iwhrekpokpor, Ughelli, Delta State, has denied having a hand in her death.
This is just as the deceased’s family accused Umukoro of masterminding the death of their daughter, saying he had always threatened to kill her.
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All the buzz! Tips for creating an engaging game show company event
The Blinds.com team loves to celebrate – one of our most anticipated celebrations is around our annual contact center awards show. It’s a fun night of camaraderie and creative award presentations, designed to bring us closer together and collectively ‘woo hoo-ing’ our top performers in both core values and traditional business metrics.
But, this year, we wanted to treat our team to something different. Less awards show and more experiential. What better way to rally around our company history and core values than with a customized game show night!
We had a blast testing our product and Blinds.com history knowledge at the CEC Game Night. #blindsdotcomlife
A video posted by Blinds.com (@blindsdotcom) on Feb 26, 2016 at 1:21pm PST
Game show technology for your company event
Technology is important, but why reinvent the wheel when you can discover great solutions on the Web to make your own! In order to support an interactive company game show, we knew what we had to do:
Step 1: Select your game show format
Our hope for this event was for it to be all our very own. What that meant to us was building our own game show and not modeling it off of other famous shows that others may have been familiar with. We leaned heavily on a resident game show guru Joshua who constructed a rule construct, point structure and who also had a huge hand in vetting the questions that were gathered by our event team. The game started off with a huge throw down face-off round where the winner of that round went directly to finals. The biggest challenge of doing our own game theme was that no one had see this game before, one lesson that we learned, it’s easier to get buy in from a crowd when they know what to expect and what they are getting into. Had it to do over again, I think that we would have structured our game after a famous game show.
Ultimately, we needed a system to allow for two contestants to go head to head and buzz in to see who would answer the given question as well as display the results of the rounds of scoring.
Step 2: Discover your game show technology solutions and hacks
I pride myself on being someone who thinks along the edges of the box looking for ways to connect technologies that were never intended to talk to each other, and especially connect or work with each other. Being on the edges of technologies requires me to exist in some unorthodox circles. I keep track of what chip manufactures are producing and what electrical engineering blogs are excited about as they are about a 8 month preview of what major manufacturing will be doing. I keep tabs on design trends in Asia and France specifically as designers tend to draw influences there first. I track ways in which display technologies are used in spaces of worship, and started my career in religious media production. One of the Facebook groups which I contribute is a group for visual media for churches and this group was a huge influence in the design of this project.
After about an hour of searching through the group post I found a video that came out from a company called Crowd Control Games, they specialize in building amazing video applications that allow engaging experiences that are typically used in church youth meetings to break the ice and get people interacting. Not only did they have lot of the mechanics of displaying score and keeping time, they also had a number of tips and how-to videos on building a buzzer system.
Technical Details and Items used to make this work:
Makey Makey – Standard (from Spark Fun)
Crowd Control Games – GameShow Buzzer – There’s a great video that covers how to build this solution and is what we used as a guide.
Step 3: Build your game show tech, it’s fun!
While I love to geek out and build things my new role inside of the marketing team at Blinds.com has required me to take a much more strategic approach to the work that I do. Finding that it not always the work YOU do, but the opportunities that you allow others to step up and take ownership of. This year, I tapped into the IT team and sought out the help of Buddy who had experience with Arduino projects and tweaked the script that the prototyping board used so that the LEDs inside of the buttons would emulate the program that displayed the video. What this meant for the contestants was a visual feedback to know that that got the buzzer.
I also want to give a huge shout out to Stephen who is a skilled carpenter and maker. His design in fitting the button inside of an enclosed case which would not move on the podium; gave life to this project and will allow these to be used by our skills department. The game show was a huge hit the night of the award show, and the technology while simple and elegant worked so well that it was invisible!
Step 4: Test it, baby
Stress testing a new build can be one of the most daunting tasks when it comes to building and then using technology projects like this. This is a project that came together in the night and weekends of many of the players involved but will be used in a very public setting, and we want to make sure that the experience of the crowd is one of enjoyment and fun – not frustration. The night before our annual award show I setup all of the parts and knocked it around to make sure that all of the systems were working. The photo above shows the buttons in place, a 27″ LCD monitor for the crowd to see who would get the question and the small monitor is a duplicate display which was hung inside of podium (upside down) so that our game show host could see who hit the buzzer first.
Step 5: Play like it’s going out of style
The one issue that we had the night of, was my security setting causing the screen saver to come up and forcing me to log back in to my machine each time. While a mandatory and very worth while feature from our IT staff – it kept me on my toes. Other than that our Annual CEC Award & Game Night was a huge success and was a great time had by all that attended.
Want to see more of our Blinds.com game show awards show fun? Check out our photo album here – and peek at our Blinds.com careers page for job opportunities. Who knows, you just might be a winner at our next awards show!
Tagged: building buzzers, game technology, gameshow, Gamification
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The Lake and Nature Reserve of Posta Fibreno
The Lake of Posta Fibreno is a protected Nature Reserve of approximately 400 hectares. The lake is fed by thawing snow and rainwater that has flowed down from the slopes of the surrounding mountains. As the rock is limestone much of the rainwater is channeled underground through karst systems. Where a pool of water collects the water becomes dispersed through a large number of karstic springs into the lake. Thus the water in the lake is icy cold and crystal clear, and remains at a constant temperature all year round. Together with its unique natural beauty and eco-system it provides is an ideal environment for many species of flora and fauna.
At the narrow end of the lake it meets a brook named Carpello and forms the river also bearing the name of Posta Fibreno. It is sometimes known as Cicero’s river as the Roman orator had a villa in this area and wrote about the river in his text “De Legibus”. The river Posta Fibreno flows on until it eventually merges with the river Liri.
The Floating Island
The lake has a curious floating island known la Rota, which has developed over the course of thousands of years due to an accumulation of peat, rhizomes, tree roots, plants and algae. The thick mat of vegetation is not rooted to the bottom of the lake, so it drifts according the undercurrents and the strength of the wind. Pliny the Elder wrote about this back in 77 AD in his “Naturalis Historia”.
The Naue
Local fishermen use flat-bottomed boats, known as naue, which were traditionally made of oak and propelled by the use of a pole or an oar. It is thought that this type of boat was first utilised thousands of years ago by the Samnites. The lake contains an abundance of fish such as trout, carp, eels and freshwater crayfish which thrive in the cold well oxygenated water.
The water is lined by weeping willow trees, rushes, reeds and other aquatic plants. There is a variety of wildlife that inhabit this natural environment. It is a popular haunt of photographers, nature lovers and bird watchers. Several nature trails have been created through the park. The wildlife includes foxes, badgers, squirrels, hedgehogs, coypu, butterflies, damselflies and dragonflies. There are also numerous types of aquatic birds such as ducks, coots, moorhens, cormorants, herons and kingfishers.
Photo Tour of the Lake of Posta Fibreno
The Watermill
The water mill, for the milling of flour, was built in 1810 in the locality of Sorgentina by two noblemen named Lecce and Ruggeri. In 1851 the mill was bought by the Ferrante family of Alvito. Between 1905 to 1908 the structure was enlarged and next to the original building, Giovandiego Ferrante built a small hydroelectric plant, to power the local villages. The mill was still working until the early 1980’s. Then it was purchased by the Municipality of Posta Fibreno, and the structure was restored and the original machines (turbines, generators) put in place to function again. The mill can be visited as part of a guided tour, which can be booked at the offices of the Lago di Posta Fibreno Regional Nature Reserve.
A Virtual Tour of the Mill
The Museum of Local Culture
The Museum of Local Culture and Tradition / Museo Naturalistico Etnografico is divided into five rooms. The entrance hall has a reconstruction of the lake’s ecosystem and an exhibition of fossils and photographic panels that present the nature reserve during all the seasons. The second room contains fishing tools and a typical boat known as the nàue. In the third room there is a model of the municipal territory; in the fourth the reconstruction of a kitchen, which recalls the culinary habits and customs of the past; in the fifth there are more photographic panels and images. The Museum is located in the historic centre of Posta Fibrena in Piazza Cesare Battisti. It is only open by appointment.
A Virtual Tour of the Museum
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Scuba divers also enjoy exploring the lake due to crystal clearness of the water.
In the deepest section of the lake, at a depth of 15 meters, stands a large crucifix constructed of steel and platinum. The cross was placed there in order to protect the lake and all those who visit it.
More photos by the photographer Tonino Bernardelli
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Michelin X-Ice Xi3, a new virtuoso for the winter, guaranteed more
Michelin: new X-Ice Xi3 and winter driving
The world number one tire does not skimp on the means when it comes time to present a new version of its winter tire featuring the X-Ice. Michelin did indeed invite about 350 people to discover the X-Ice Xi3 in the heart of winter and Laurentian late January. Among them, a group of journalists from Quebec and the rest of the continent but also the specialists who will sell this new tire from autumn 2012.
Program, a series of exercises interesting and rather convincing conduct that would never have the same value without the technical session which was one of six stages or "modules" of the day. A clear presentation and full livery by Stephane Beaudoin, images and tables support, with the expert help of Normand Latremouille, head of winter products for Michelin North America.
This man seems to know just about everything winter tires. Own and those of the competition. His answers come easily and instantly. The thing is not trivial since the development of winter shoes for your car is a remarkably complex undertaking. And costly. If you want to excel, to say the least. And it is obvious ambition of Michelin.
Japanese filiere
The French giant was not starting from nothing. The X-Ice Xi2 tire, on sale for several years, had succeeds the first X-Ice, which was created in 2004 for the Japanese and even the factory drivers there. Yes, there is really cold winter. On the island of Hokkaido anyway. Remember the Olympics Sapporo in 1972.
The mission of the first X-Ice was primarily to provide bite on the ice without crampons. The purpose of the X-Ice Xi2 who succeeds him was wider and better versatility but the X-Ice name remains. Already gained notoriety for but also because the word 'ice' inspires confidence, even among us, according to Normand Latremouille. Because ice remains the most insidious and most dreaded enemy.
The X-Ice Xi2 still ranks among the best in the comparative winter tires but since competition is fierce, Michelin has really pulled out all the game for the third generation of its champion. We are not talking here of subtle alterations but rather an overhaul and full recourse to a series of surprisingly sharp complementary technologies.
Arsenal complete technical
First, the use of a more efficient gum silica. Then a tread that better rejoined the forces of acceleration, braking and cornering, which benefits both to the longevity of the X-Ice Xi3 that has its effectiveness. To achieve this, we multiply the changes and tricks once more.
They range from a plurality of slats has all forms blocks or loaves of more 15% gum which provide more edges for biting into the ice and snow. These blocks cleverly Designed Templates rely on their neighbors even when cornering thanks to tiny reinforcements to improve stability and control on wet or dry floor. It was also etched their zigzag edges to add more bite.
The bottom of the vertical slats is now rounded to further improve the rigidity of tread blocks while reducing their shear, which allows for superior speed ratings. There also micropumps, tiny cavities which cylindrical surface water suck like straws. Thin staggered blocks carved in relief on the bottom of the central groove should promote motor skills regardless of wear. Large lateral grooves are also arranged in a V, as in "rain tires" in F1, to better evacuate water and slush formidable.
All these changes have helped improve braking and acceleration of 7% and 17% on ice and 3% and 6% over the snow for Xi3 compared to Xi2 as measured by Michelin. But the performance was certainly not the only objective by creating this new tire.
We will not have to wear, guaranteed
It is particularly impressive to look and feel almost intact Xi3 and another which we tread brings back its original depth of 10.5 / 32 inch to about 4/32 (or 3 mm) to simulate wear bordering the 46,000 km. The differences with rivals who have been subjected the same test are quite surprising. Michelin retains all such strips as they disappear almost entirely on another reputed tire.
Besides rubber Michelin detoure is still impeccably smooth and rough while the gum of another has the appearance of a smooth black plastic which is nothing very reassuring. We then realized that the small blocks as we mold the bottom of the central groove are likely to preserve the Michelin motor skills use.
Michelin believes so has the longevity of its Xi3 it ensures that you can go 60,000 miles before the wear reaches its legal limit of 2/32 of an inch. The French giant is also alone offer such a guarantee for a winter tire. Is added the same Michelin promise that we will refund your tires if you're not satisfied within the first 30 days. They are also covered by a three-year roadside assistance in case of puncture program.
The new X-Ice Xi3 door even the Green X inscription confirming that ranks among the first quarter (25%) of the best for low rolling resistance, all tire types combined. It therefore helps reduce fuel consumption, so the emission of carbon dioxide (C02). This rating also reflect its qualities of durability, performance and safety.
Distribution and demonstration
The distribution of the new winter tire Michelin X-Ice Xi3 will begin in July 2012 for the next winter. It will initially be available in 33 different sizes for rims from 14 to 18 inches in diameter. This offer should fill more than 90% of the needs for North America, according to the manufacturer.
We will return soon on our impressions and conclusions after putting the Xi3 to the test against some of its rivals on the snowy path and ice complex Mecaglisse Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci. As a bonus, the evaluation of some other Michelin winter tires and indisputable benefits of a few hours of driving at the limit of adhesion, safely, in the paradise of winter driving.
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Date: Wed 02 May 2007 22:57:28 -0000 From: "J_Moore" Subject: Real Commentary on Ananda Sutram? BABA "Tumi a'ndha're esecho, alora enecho va'n..." P.S. 2669 Purport: Baba, You have advented Yourself in the darkness. Because of Your arrival, the darkness has vanished and now a flood of effulgence is all around. Nobody knew or understood or imagined that this was going to happen-- that You are going to advent and everything will be changed into positive. In their dark state of body, mind and heart, human beings were sleeping in cimmerian darkness. But You have showered the divine effulgence on everyone's face, and removed their sleep--their slumber of attachment. By Your grace, from the state of negativity, they became positive. Baba, You have come with Your sweet, attractive, and charming appearance. And You have vibrated everyone's mind and heart with Your divine grace. Baba, You Yourself have come and You have shown the path and have also given the permanent solution of all the problems -- physical, psychic, and spiritual-- whatsoever. Baba, You have graced all with Your divine advent...
== REAL COMMENTARY ON A'NANDA SU'TRAM? ==
Namaskar, All Ananda Margiis are fully aware that Baba's entire social and spiritual philosophy is encapsulated in His historic treatise: Ananda Sutram. So Ananda Sutram holds an extremely imporant place in our Marga. And gaining clarity about this text is of tremendous importance as this will shed light on all aspects of Baba's divine teachings which are the panacea for humanity. Side by side you may be aware that there is one "Commentary" about Ananda Sutram that has been floating around our Marga for years. Naturally, one would expect that this "Commentary" would neatly elaborate the truths embedded in Baba's sacred text, Ananda Sutram. Otherwise what is the use of such a "Commentary". So let us take a moment to review Baba's Ananda Sutram and then see how far this "Commentary" is doing its job-- or not.
BABA'S DIVINE TEACHING ABOUT PRAYER FROM ANANDA SUTRAM
While we could start on any number of sutras, let us start with Guru's dharmic guidelines on the point of prayer. In Ananda Sutram, Baba says:
3-11 Pra'rthana'rcana' ma'traeva bhramamu'lam
And the central idea of this sutra is that prayer is not at all good, rather it is harmful. So in Ananda Sutram Baba is guiding us that prayer must not be done. It is against the fundamental teachings of AM.
BABA'S FURTHER ELABORATION ON PRAYER
And here following Baba has beautifully elaborated on the meaning of the above sutra in His Ananda Marga Philosophy book. Baba says, "Prayer is the act of asking for a favour with earnestness. It also means a solemn petition addressed to the Supreme Being for certain benefits. One prays to God for something which one does not possess or thinks one does not possess. One asks God for these favours with the faith that He alone can bestow everything and by His mere wish all wants can be satisfied. By prayer or by begging one wants to awaken His wish so that one may be granted the things one lacks. Does not one's attempt to rouse the wish of God to fulfil these needs, upon careful and rational thinking, appear to be a reminder to God to give one something of which God has kept one deprived? It would otherwise not be necessary to remind Him in prayer of that thing or to try to arouse His wish to give. For instance, if one is in need of money, one would, with the faith that God alone can give, pray to Him for the favour of giving one money. Does not this request show God's fault in keeping one in want of money, when He alone can give it? God alone is blamed for it, and by praying to Him for money one is precisely pointing out to Him His partiality in not giving one the money one needed. Therefore, prayer or asking for favours from God is only pointing out to the Sole Giver His mistakes in the distribution of His favours." (AMEP) So in the above quote, Baba is clearly explaining that prayer is an extremely negative thing and should not be encouraged. Rather prayer is the illogical act of accusing God that He has made a mistake and that He could not provide what was wanted or needed. Hence in clear-cut language Baba outrightly condemns the dogmatic ritual of prayer. In AM we do not engage in any kind of prayer.
WHAT THE "COMMENTARY" SAYS
In the book, "The Spiritual Philosophy of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti: A Commentary on Ananda Sutram", they are giving their own depiction on this point of prayer. Because on page 221 of their "Commentary" they take a completely dogmatic approach. Because about the very same sutra 3-11 which was examined above, this "Commentary" book takes its own turn on the matter. Specifically in the book "The Spiritual Philosophy of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti: A Commentary on Ananda Sutram", it is written: "When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathens do; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking; be not ye therefore like unto them; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him. (Lord Christ)." Here ends the quote from that "Commentary" book. So this is the way the so-called Commentary book explains Baba's divine sutra. In short, this fake commentary is telling a few totally wrong and dogmatic things and trying to impose this as being the meaning of Ananda Sutram. The Fake Commentary says: Absolutely do pray - but do not pray like heathens. Reply: Obviously this is totally wrong as in AM we do not believe in any type of prayer - period. Furthermore we do not believe in heathens. The Fake Commentary says: Christ says pray like human beings-- standard Christian followers-- not like heathens. Reply: Our Ananda Marga is not the approach of Christianity. They pray - we do not. It is that simple. Yet this Didi insists on using this dogmatic Biblical reference as a means to explain Baba's philosophical treatise of Ananda Sutram. Remember, the aim of giving commentary on Ananda Sutram is to project the ideas of Ananda Marga - the entire philosophy of Ananda Marga since Ananda Sutram is our entire AM philosophy in seed form. So this is not commentary of one the ideas of one Dada, Didi, Mr X, or Mr Y,etc. A commentary on Ananda Sutram should be according to the principles and philosophy of Ananda Sutram and not project the mistaken ideas of one confused Didi who employs dogma from the Bible to explain Ananda Sutram. Let us emphasize again that Baba says do not pray. In AM there is no prayer. That is the idea we should project. Thus anyone who writes a commentary book that states "When ye pray...", then they are entirely off the track. So on the one side Baba's dharmic teaching of Sutra 3-11 condemns the use of prayer; but the aforementioned "Commentary" book, in their attempt to explain that very sutra, advocates the dogmatic use of prayer by stating, "When ye pray.." and giving a long explanation about how to pray. Hence one big contradiction is going on. Because in Christ's dogmatic statement that is cited in the supposed "Commentary book", Christ openly supports the use of prayer, i.e. that prayer must be done. And that so-called Commentary book is using Christ's statement as though it supports Baba's sutra. But Christ supports prayer. Whereas Baba's sutra is given to explicitly condemn prayer. Hence Christ's negative & dogmatic statement cannot be used to explain Baba's divine sutra 3-11. Yet that is exactly what that "Commentary" book does. In fact in no case can the dogmatic & problematic religious doctrine of Christianity be used as means to explain Baba's pure AM ideology. Yet that is what they are doing in this so-called commentary book. So you decide, is this a real "Commentary" book or not-- when they are using the dogma of Christianity to elaborate on Baba's dharmic teachings of Ananda Sutram
A FEW OF BABA'S VIEWS ON THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
Actually, we all know that the dogma of Christianity sways far from the truth. Because not just on the point of prayer but on innumerable issues Baba points out the defective ideas of such a dogmatic religion like Christianity: Baba says, "The Day of Judgement or Doomsday argument is illogical. Even the people of old did not really believe the logic of Doomsday. Those who did, did so out of fear and ignorance, but the rational person of today won't accept all this. Those who believe due to tradition do not really accept the idea with their minds and hearts either. They don't have the courage to speak out; that is why they don't say anything." (AV-3, p.68) And here again Baba reveals the truth about Christianity & its dogmatic beliefs. Baba says, "Eternal hell or heaven is a totally defective idea...We should not encourage these approaches. There is no hell or heaven, and no one will go to hell or heaven for eternity after death, or lie in a grave forever; nor will anyone have to wait until any Day of Judgment." (AV-3, p.72) Thus on so many accounts Baba exposes the inherent flaws of the dogmatic Christian doctrine. Yet the book, "A Commentary...", is claiming that what Christ told is ideal. And that book is furthermore proclaiming that Christ's dogmatic statement is equal in meaning and stature to Baba's perfect sutra, 3-11 Pra'rthana'rcana' ma'traeva bhramamu'lam. So this is the confusion, nay contradiction, that this so-called Commentary book is making. Because that book is using Christ's dogma to explain AM Dharma.
MORE ABOUT DOGMA OF PRAYER
To continue then with the point of prayer. As we all know, in Christianity there is nothing but prayer, prayer, and only dogmatic prayers. Yet Baba condemns this idea of prayer itself. Prayer is taken as a very negative thing in Ananda Marga. We never do prayer. We Ananda Margiis do sadhana, Pranayam, kiirtan, bhajans-- and we never engage in dogmatic rituals like prayer. But in the book "The Spiritual Philosophy of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti: A Commentary on Ananda Sutram", in an attempt to explain AM ideology it is written:
"When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathens do. (Lord Christ)"
Here again is that quote from that so-called Commentary book. So overall at minimum there are two basic problems: (1) The Commentary book is telling that we should follow the negative ritual of prayer; (2) And the Commentary book from training centre is relying on Christian dogma to present AM teachings. By this way it become clear that the so-called Commentary book is way off the mark. Because on the one side AM ideology is our polestar star and on the other side the "Commentary books is following the ways of some dogmatic doctrine(s)-- and wrongly using those things to explain AM teachings. We cannot use such dogmatic religions to elucidate Ananda Sutram. Ananda Sutram is the divine philosophy of bhagavad dharma not any dogma like Christianity etc. So just as you cannot find vegetarian food in a meat store, one cannot find dharma in the dogmatic religions. They are two opposite ends of the spectrum. Thus no one should ever use the dogmatic religious texts to explain any facet of Ananda Marga teachings like this Didi did with Ananda Sutram. That will be a bogus approach and will be an injustice to Baba's divine teachings.
IMPORTANCE OF SCRIPTURE
Here Baba gives clear cut guidelines as to who is qualified to interpret and explain His divine teachings. BABA says, "The scriptures should always be interpreted by qualified scholars, competent philosophers, and penetrating thinkers. If one tries to interpret a profound scripture with superficial knowledge, the interpreter appears ridiculous and the audience is confused." "There are some people who are neither scholars, nor philosophers, nor penetrating thinkers, but merely wander about interpreting scriptures as a means of livelihood. They utterly fail to present the proper matter in the correct perspective before the audience...[and] do more harm than good to the society." "[They] interpret the scriptures just to exhibit their intellect--to procure for themselves a certificate of erudition. They remain far from the living spirit of the scriptures." (NSS) So in His above guideline, Baba is issuing a strong warning about who is capable of explaining then divine teachings of Ananda Marga. Indeed, after reading Baba's above teaching, reviewing the point of prayer, then it is quite evident how far this so-called "Commentary" book is proper. Everyone can easily judge for themselves if the person behind this "Commentary" book is up to the proper standard for interpreting Baba's teachings. Because when Baba says in sutra 3-11 that prayer is dogma and when about that very same sutra the "Commentary" book says that prayer is good, then we can all see what is what. That is why many are openly telling that this is just a so-called Commentary book since it strays far from the dharma of AM.
Here below Baba is guaranteeing the welfare of all-- in all the spheres. Baba says, "The people of this world must be saved from oppression, suppression and exploitation by any means so that human misery in the mundane sphere will be removed and thus a proper adjustment in the psychic sphere will be reestablished. As far as the spiritual stratum is concerned, there was no defect in the past nor will there be in the future. Human beings need not worry about this." (AV-6) Namaskar, Kalyanika
Note 1: CHRISTIAN LEADERS OPPOSE THE DHARMA OF AM
Who does not know that when pracar of Ananda Marga started, then the degree to which Hindu dogmatic priests were against Ananda Marga, Christians were more against Ananda Marga. History witnesses all these things. Baba was deported or not allowed to visit different countries & behind the was the conspiracy of the Pope. Why did all these things happened? Why was the Pope against? There are many reasons. But main reason is, their prayer system. Those who look superficially may say that Prout is the main cause of opposition. But that is not at all correct. Prout movement started in 1970. And Prout philosophy itself was given in 1959. But since birth of AM in 1955 Christian/Catholic missionaries started opposing AM. In fact they printed one pamphlet to confuse Margiis and public. And the name of pamphlet was, "Ananda Ka' Marga". The English meaning is 'Path of Bliss'. In that, they wrote many concocted filthy stories of Ananda Marga. I do not have time to write here much, but it is quite clear everybody knows that Christian / Catholic missionaries vehemently oppose our spiritual philosophy. Because of our basic philosophical differences. They believe in the prayer and we treat prayer as a dogma.
Note 2: ONE OTHER MISTAKE...
In the 1996 Edition of Ananda Sutram the editors involved translated the literal meaning of sutra 3-11. But one word they forgot to translate and include in their line meaning. And that word is "ma'traeva" which means "only". So the sutra has a particular meaning that is not fully captured by the editors.
Note 3: WHO WROTE THIS "COMMENTARY" BOOK
The author of the book "The Spiritual Philosophy of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti: A Commentary on Ananda Sutram" is Didi Ananda Mitra.
*************************************************** Speciality of Ananda Vanii
Baba says, "I have already told you in many of my Ananda Vanii messages that Parama Purus'a is with you." "No one today is alone; even the small countries of the world cannot live separately. We will all have to move together in unison - this will be the model for the future." "You will surely be victorious because you possess that inherent dynamism. I say this with great joy, and I anticipate with greater joy that your dynamism will increase more and more."
(Kalikata, 12th November, 1978) ***************************************************
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Who Should Sing Samaj Songs
From: "Divyajyoti Deva"
To: am-global@earthlink.net
Subject: Who Should Sing Samaj Songs
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:59:21 +0000
== WHO SHOULD SING SAMAJ SONGS ==
Everyone knows that Baba has come to uplift the masses and ensure that all are respected and none are neglected. A key element of this endeavour is Baba's samaj theory - and with it His samaj songs. By this way, every community is encouraged and becomes empowered to stand up in a dignified manner.
Clearly, Baba's samaj theory stands firmly on the great pillars of universalism, neo-humanism, and Prout. About this, there is no scope for debate.
The following then is a brief look at His dynamic samaj program - and His samaj Prabhat Samgiita songs - so we can practically see how they serve to bring welfare to each and every community at the expense of none: All are benefited - the entire humanity.
Then each and every disciple and lay person will best understand the inner spirit and force of Baba's special samaj songs.
APPLYING BABA'S SAMAJ THEORY TO TODAY'S GLOBAL COMMUNITY
In this era of extreme capitalism and mass-produced pseudo-culture, a potent tool is needed to protect various peoples and cultures from being enveloped and swallowed up by the dominant, exploitative, economic machine. Already, native populations and minorities have been made to feel inferior by the dominant class. On points of language, dress, finances, and religion etc, they have been taught that they are not as good. Once this type of inferiority complex has been set in the mind, the ruling class can proceed effortlessly with their exploitative machinery. To some or more degree, this has happened with each of the local populations outlined below. The only way out is to inject them with new prana and vital energy.
Baba's samaj movement and samaj songs serve this very purpose. Baba encourages the inherent greatness of one and all and does not allow any community to become depressed, sunken, or lost in the mire of an inferiority complex. Because the samaj songs encourage the dharmic qualities and mother tongue of all of each and every population.
Indeed, it is by this method that we may maintain the integrity and dignity of so many communities that are on the brink of disaster.
(A) The native peoples of North & Central America and Canada have mostly lost their language and are sitting on the outskirts of society or on their allotted reservations, sunk in dismay and depression - over-run by Euro-Americans and western capitalism. One of the main ways to lift them up and restore their courage and confidence is through Baba's samaj system. By celebrating the inherent value of their mother tongue and singing the glory those native leaders who stood up and fought against exploitation, then each of these communities will regain their stamina and once again feel proud of who they are and strive to advance.
(B) Similarly, the aborigines and Maoris of Australia have been steamrolled by the ruling culture and they have lost their pride and dignity. So for them to survive they need a huge injection of positive feeling. And the samaj movement and samaj songs achieve this very goal.
(C) Likewise in the Philippines, or perhaps we should say in Maharlika, the Spanish invaders effectively dismantled much of the local customs and with the imposition of American pseudo-culture, the situation has become even worse. A big boost is needed to preserve the native languages of this area. Baba's samaj songs are the perfect solution to infuse the needed dynamism and hope.
(D) In India also, centuries ago the Britishers imposed their mother tongue on the entire sub-continent, and by that way so many Indian languages were ruined and tossed aside. The situation has become so bad that to this day when any of the Indian languages are spoken - whether it be Bhojpuri, Bengali, Magahii, or Hindi etc - then in any single sentence or paragraph, so many English words are used. Because it is prestigious to use English words and disgraceful to speak only in one's village tongue. By this way, so many local languages have been compromised and even cast aside - and so many communities have been made to feel inferior.
(E) And in Africa, so many nations and innumerable peoples are facing the same epidemic. Their local language, tales of heroism, knowledge, and legacy are just being entirely lost and forgotten as the language of trade and modernity has become either English, or French, or Portuguese etc.
(F) Likewise those descendants of the old slave communities in the US have been crushed to the bone. Today's American black population has not only lost their language, but they are embarrassed by the tone of their skin and the shape of their hair. For this reason, nearly all Black women straighten and uncurl their hair to resemble that of white women. Here again Baba's samaj songs will help instill a sense of pride in this defeated community.
HOW EACH SAMAJ SONG IS FOR ALL
Baba has given one very special yet simple technique for making every samaj song appropriate for everyone to sing.
Here below is a song related with Amra Bengali sama'j (socio-economic unit):
"Madhur ceyeo a'ro madhur a'ma'r ba'nla' bha's'a'..." (PS #4766)
Purport:
Compared with sweetness, my Bangla language itself is even more sweet. This is the language of my pra'n'a. In my arteries and veins and blood, the vibration of this language is resonating...
This was the way in which members of Amra Bengalii would sing and understand this song.
How would this song be relevant for others to sing? The members of various samajas would sing this same song by placing the name of their own language and samaj in the lyrics. That means samaj members would remove the phrase "Bangla language" and insert their own mother tongue like Swahili, Korean, Spanish, or Dutch, as the case may be. This was done in front of Baba Himself in reporting, per His direction.
By this way, each samaj song is universal in nature and all are benefited. Baba's samaj songs inject a sense of well-being and pride within all peoples and all communities, ensuring all have the strength to live side by side, helping one another yet also maintaining their own dignity and culture.
Baba has graciously given His samaj movement of socio-economic groupifications to bring dignity, pride, and well-being to each and every community on this earth. And by this way we are sure to cultivate that great global family bound in sweet ties of neo-humanism and sublime spirituality.
Baba says, "PROUT’s system of socio-economic groupifications is a comprehensive approach to the socio-economic problems confronting society. If people adopt such an approach, society will move along the path of progress with increasing speed, overcoming all bondages and hindrances. Human society will enjoy a bright and glorious future." (Prout in a Nutshell - 13)
Baba says, "The use of non-local languages as the medium of instruction only results in the suppression and subjugation of the local language and inevitably means the suppression of the local culture. This in turn leads to psychic demoralization, inferiority complexes and a defeatist mentality. Whenever the sentimental legacy of a group of people is undermined, they become easy prey to the economic, political and psycho-economic exploitation of vested interests. Such a strategy of cultural suppression was adopted by the English, French, Dutch, Spanish, American and other colonial powers. If local people develop a sublime awareness of their cultural heritage they can readily throw off all psychic inferiority complexes which prevent them from attaining socio-economic self-reliance." (A Few Problems Solved - 9, Socio-Economic Movements)
Divyajyoti
PRABHAT SAMGIITA
"E kii prahelika' e kii kuhelika'..." P.S. 1769
Baba, what is this liila You are making, what is this dilemma. O' my Lord, I know that You are everywhere, but even then my heart is dry. I am surrounded with frustration - by this fog of hopelessness. No doubt, You are remaining with me, but You did not allow me hold You. Even then, by Your grace, this much I do know: You love me. Just I do not feel that in my heart at present. Baba, Your divine effulgence is lost in the oblivion. The resonating melody of the viina is filled with the tears of my life. Baba, please come in my life and remove all my bondages. Please remove all my blackness, impurities, and dogma, whatever I have. Baba I love You. And this much I also know- That You also love me. O' my Lord, please look towards me. I have offered my everything at Your lotus feet. Please do not leave me remaining crying in darkness. Baba, please come in my heart, in my mind, with Your sweet smile. Baba, only You are my shelter...
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Procedure for reducing noise
Every form of transport, be it road, rail or even "the air" entails a certain noise level, particularly in the third dimension. With a little thought and consideration, we as pilots can exert a considerable influence on the noise level ourselves. Please help us to do this.
Man has always dreamed of being able to glide at a great height like an eagle and to see the earth from above. Even though we are doing the same as the eagle, as pilots we do have two further advantages.
Safety: in the event of a breakdown, having enough time to analyse the problem and taking the necessary steps. Therefore, greater altitude means a higher degree of safety and a better chance of reaching an emergency landing strip and first and foremost, less noise.
Noise level: This decreases as square of the distance from the source of the noise. Therefore, if we fly at 4000 ft rather than 2000 ft from the ground, we are only making a quarter of the noise. Therefore ‘fly high’ for the good of everyone.
An Airport with air traffic control has the advantage that arrivals to and departures from the Airport can always be done using the most direct route. When starting in a westerly direction, i.e. 25, and with a destination in the east, a southerly outbound flight will bring the best result. No oncoming traffic through approaching aircraft and a reduction of emission levels at the Airport and in the turning area. Plan your approaches so that as direct or straight an exit as possible can take place while avoiding turning.
Flaps and landing gear settings
In automotive sport, driving techniques are used to achieve the maximum effect possible. When manoeuvring around bends brakes and the accelerator are used at the same time or full power is used to the next bend to then step on the brakes. We are aware that this leads to considerable wear of the brakes and high fuel consumption. Any energy that is built up has to be reduced again. If the delay is too great, this will have to be adjusted again by using yet more energy. We experience this interaction when deploying landing flaps or landing gear. Both cause resistance and require an increase in power. Therefore we operate the landing gear downwind abeam at the edge of the runway and not already in Biel or, in very windy conditions, on setting “one" or “two” and not “fully released”. With all these manipulations we need less power and therefore cause less noise. When making direct or straight approaches always consider where the abeam to the runway would be for "the flight path being processed” and only then configure your approach. In every case observe the regulations in your AFM aircraft handbook.
“Trips with the relatives”
Al these efforts to reduce the effects of noise can come to nothing in just a few seconds if the demon that we know is inside all of us gains the upper hand: demonstrate your "expertise” by FLYING LOW, AT CONSIDERABLE BANK ALTITUDE AND ENGINES SCREAMING. We know better and prefer to take these relatives on a sightseeing flight, allowing all parties to benefit. You simply do not need to fly at low altitude. You prove your expertise as a pilot by remaining professional and sensible.
Mr and Mrs Descent would like to land. Therefore “push ahead” and down they go. Passenger Küsslip practically has to pull in his feet, as the pilot is already flying at low altitude (2500 ft) over Oensingen. Several hundred residents are given a fright and are annoyed. This is easily resolved if the rule of “grandmother’s rate of descent” of 500 ft/min is used. When flying at 8000 ft and with a minimum altitude of 3500 ft at the point where you register to land, a descent of 4500 ft has to be flown. We therefore need nine minutes flying time if we are to use a flying speed of 120 kt, i.e. 2 NM/min. Therefore we need to start to dive before the reporting point. There is no stress and it is pleasant for all the passengers. And noise levels are also reduced. ”Ideal!”
Power settings
Every start is an experience. Turn on the power and you’re off. Pick up speed and away into freedom. At high speed the peripheral velocity of the tip of propeller is close to the supersonic range. If you now ascend evenly with a fixed propeller aircraft, the forward motion causes additional speed that considerably increases the noise level. If we keep to the speed of ascent Vy (best rate of ascent) prescribed in the AFM, this provides an optimal situation even in terms of noise. For aircraft with adjustable propellers the speed remains the same even at different rates of ascent. What is important here is to make the first reduction in power as soon as possible after the start (safety first). Vy is also the optimal speed of ascent even for this category of aircraft. In this way the noise level can be reduced significantly and made more pleasant for us all. Follow the AFM flight manual here.
Keeping to the turns
Noise is often something that is seen rather than just heard. We often hear from residents: “Pilots should also keep to the rules; if we did that on the roads, we would have to pay a fine.” Do you notice something? Yes, correct, even if turns are not tracks, we do everything possible to fly the aerodrome circuit exactly, particularly to avoid the villages. Therefore only avoid making the turn for safety reasons. This is also being considerate. Please also pay attention to the information about critical areas and the remote points of reference that will help you to take off and make the turn. You will also see that approaches and departures from or towards the south must always be made via the outer base or the outer crosswind. And very expert pilots even calculate the wind, so that they are "blown" over the villages. Consideration squared. Thanks too, on behalf of the residents for the much-flown regional Airport with its 65,000 to 70,000 take-offs and landings each year.
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Home / Press Releases/Press Releases/Dunlop and AFT Expand Partnership and Reveal DT4 Tire
2020 will mark Dunlop’s fourth year as American Flat Track’s Official Tire
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (December 10, 2019) – American Flat Track and Dunlop Motorcycle Tires announced today another multi-year renewal to the long-term partnership between America’s Original Extreme Sport and the premier manufacturer of motorcycle tires in North America.
Continuing on as the Official Tire of American Flat Track, Dunlop also announced the development of the first new flat track tire in 40 years – the DT4. The new spec tire for the series, all riders in all three AFT classes will be competing on the DT4 in 2020.
“We are delighted to continue our association with Dunlop,” said Michael Lock, CEO of American Flat Track. “Their R&D and manufacturing here in the USA is an important advantage for us and has resulted in a brand new tire for our sport. Better durability, more rider confidence and a superior performance envelope give the promise of even better racing in AFT in 2020.”
The DT3 has long been the benchmark for professional and amateur flat track racing alike, but the DT4 will feature all new tread patterns for both front and rear tires. The DT4 is also engineered to be used without tubes. The DT4 will be made available in all current DT3 tire compounds, allowing racers to match tire setup to specific track conditions on race day.
In coordination with Dunlop, American Flat Track held off-season testing sessions during which riders were invited to test the new DT4.
“I did some testing early on with the new compounds,” said multi-time champion and member of the Indian Motorcycle Wrecking Crew Jared Mees. “I liked what I felt…they felt good, really consistent.”
“We cannot be more excited to be extending our partnership with AFT,” said Mike Buckley, Senior VP of Sales/Marketing of Dunlop Motorcycle Tires. “The sport is poised to reach new levels and we hope that America’s Original Extreme Sport will attract many new riders to our industry. To be bringing a new product for the first time in over 40 years, one fully designed by the same R&D unit that has brought legendary tires like our Q4 and Q3+ ranges, is particularly gratifying. We believe AFT competitors will appreciate these new tires and we look forward to working with AFT and the competitors to continue to innovate in the area of tire development in the future”
American Flat Track will roar into its 2020 season with its first-ever doubleheader – DAYTONA 200 and DAYTONA TT – at the legendary Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, March 14. Get discounted advance tickets now at www.americanflattrack.com.
For more information on American Flat Track visit www.americanflattrack.com.
To get the latest American Flat Track clothing and merchandise visit www.americanflattracker.com.
How to Watch:
NBCSN and TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold are the official homes for coverage of American Flat Track. For the 2020 season, NBCSN’s coverage of AFT moves to highly-coveted, weekend afternoon programming slots within two weeks of each event. The complete schedule for AFT on NBCSN can be viewed at http://www.americanflattrack.com/events-nbcsn/. TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold – the largest motorsports offering in the digital marketplace – is a cornerstone of AFT’s digital strategy, providing live streaming coverage of every event on AFT’s live page while previous events and exclusive features are available on AFT’s VOD page.
About American Flat Track:
American Flat Track is the world’s premier dirt track motorcycle racing series and one of the longest-running championships in the history of motorsports. Sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing in Daytona Beach, Fla., the series is highly regarded as the most competitive form of dirt track motorcycle racing on the globe. For more information on American Flat Track, please visit http://www.americanflattrack.com, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, check us out on Instagram, live stream the events at TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold and catch all the American Flat Track racing action on NBCSN.
About Dunlop Motorcycle Tires:
Dunlop is the official spec tire of both the MotoAmerica and American Flat Track series, and largest supplier of original equipment and replacement motorcycle tires in the U.S.A. For more information, visit www.dunlopmotorcycletires.com.
AMA Pro Racing Communications, (386) 492-1014, communications@amaproracing.com
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Beautiful Country Beautiful Fruit
Beautiful Country
Beautiful Fruit
South African peaches and nectarines are mainly grown in the Western Cape. The sheltered valleys between mountains are ideal for the cultivation of fruit such as plums, peaches, nectarines, apples and pears.
South African peaches and nectarines are available from December to February in all major UK retailers. Some of the fantastic varieties to look out for during the season are:
Peaches: Excellence, San Pedro, Transvalia, Earligrande, and Novadonna
Nectarines: Alpine, Mayglo, Fantasia and Margaret’s Pride
How to choose: When choosing a peach or nectarine look for a smooth, firm and brightly coloured fruit that is slightly soft when gentle pressure is applied. Avoid hard wrinkled fruit with soft spots, blemishes or green tinges – a sign that the fruit was picked too early.
How to soften: To quicken the softening of the fruit, place in a pierced paper bag with an apple or banana; the ethylene gas given off by these fruits speeds up the softening process.
How to eat: The best flavour and nutritional benefits are derived from enjoying peaches and nectarines fresh and simply sliced. But they are also incredibly versatile and can be cooked, canned, dried, pureed, boiled, roasted, and made into jam. They also make a great accompaniment to a variety of savoury dishes including duck, goose or lamb. For some tasty recipe ideas, visit the recipes page.
Health and nutrition:
One peach or nectarine counts as one part of your 5-a-day and they are also:
A good source of Vitamin C (31mg per 100g), Vitamin A
Low in fat, calories, cholesterol and sodium
High in carotene and potassium
Peaches and nectarines are an excellent source of vitamin C, which helps our bodies to absorb iron as well as neutralising the free radicals that can otherwise contribute to the development of diseases such as cancer. Peaches and nectarines are also good for lowering the cholesterol level in the blood, preventing cardiovascular diseases, anaemia and renal diseases. It is believed that if you eat peaches first thing in the morning, this can help to regulate and maintain intestinal functions.
[Source: The Composition of Foods, sixth summary edition, by McCance and Widdowson]
Refreshingly juicy peaches and nectarines grown in the sheltered valleys of the Western Cape
Fragrant yellow, red and purple plums available from January to March
Granny Smith, Gala, Golden Delicious, Pink Lady and many more; the Western Cape produces beautifully crunchy apples
Pick up delicious pears from February to August when they are most flavoursome
© 2020 South African Fruit
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Movado Black Sapphire Watch
Shop men’s watches, the ultimate symbol of style and sophistication. There’s nothing overly exceptional about the brand, but it’s developed a good reputation for all of its products from polo shirts to watches. I own many of these watches myself and while I certainly wear some more expensive timepieces, I have no qualms about being seen in a Timex or Seiko. But where Swatch’s Sistim51 watches are boldly designed and difficult to make work for everyday use, the Tissot utilizes a clean design in a slim, almost Bauhaus-like package that could dress both up and down.
1920s-1930s: Art Deco styles become popular as wristwatches gain in popularity and pocket watch sales decline. Just kidding, but seriously, their best affordable watches don’t beat around the bush. On the more affordable end of the spectrum are less expensive quartz watches with an analog or digital display, which you can buy for less than 100 euros; digital watches from the Japanese manufacturer Casio are good examples of this type of watch.
Breitling is well known for its pilot’s watches like the Navitimer, but what about their divers watches? Unlike other watchmakers, this company not only still operates in the location where it was founded, Le Locle, Switzerland, but it still makes its watches in the original building. We publish luxury watches news, luxury watch updates and more Swiss luxury watches as well as reporting on new luxury watch and Swiss watch models.
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Home » Rajasthan Travel Guide » Bikaner Tourism Guide
Set on yellow-gold lapidarian Thar soil, somber yet colourful Bikaner has a rich history engraved with countless tales of valour, poise and penitence. The history of Bikaner can be traced back to the Darbar Hall of Rao Jodhaji, the real founder of Jodhpur state. The story begins in an unfortunate afternoon that witnessed the walkout of his second son, Rao Bika, with his uncle, Rao Kandhal and a few kinsmen, because his father piqued him in open, for whispering in court, asking in jest whether the two were plotting against their own kingdom. Bika left Jodhpur in a huff and later settled up his capital in a scrub desert oasis (Jungladesh) on the waterless palms of Thar. As time slipped by, the rulers of Bikaner befriended the Mughals and later, the British. Several of Bikaner's rulers even commanded the Mughal armies, combating with great chivalry from Gujarat in the west to the Deccan in the south. One such great ruler, Raja Prithviraj Singh, a poet and a warrior, in fact became one of the "Navaratna" (Nine Gems) of Akbar's court. Maharajah Ganga Singh, came to be known as one of India's principal rulers and statesman. His 'shikar' diplomacy, won him many credits - the chance to build his own railway and start the ambitious Ganga Canal, that later changed the outlook of the parched desert landscape. Back To Top
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Santhi Parva
Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 02 Apr 2010 09:16 and updated at 02 Apr 2010 09:16
MAHABHARATA, BOOK 12: SANTI PARVA
CCCXLV Nara and Narayana said, Deserving art thou of the highest praise, and highly favoured hast thou been, since thou hast beheld the puissant Narayana himself in the form of Aniruddha. None else, not even Brahma himself who was sprung from the primal lotus, has been able to behold him.
That foremost of Purushas, endued with puissance and holiness, is of unmanifest origin and incapable of being seen. These words that we say unto thee are very true, O Narada. There exists no one in the universe that is dearer to him than one that adores him with devotion. It is for this, O best of regenerate ones, that he showed himself unto thee. No one can repair to that realm where the Supreme Soul is engaged in the observance of penances, except we two, O foremost of regenerate persons. In consequence of that spot being adorned by Him, its splendour resembles the effulgence of a thousands Suns collected together From that illustrious Being, O Brahmana, from Him who is the origin of the Creator of the universe, O foremost of all persons endued with forgiveness, springs the attribute of forgiveness which attaches to the Earth It is from that illustrious Being who seek the welfare of all beings, that Rasa Taste hath arisen. The attribute of Rasa attaches to the waters which are, again, liquid. It is from Him that Heat or Light having the attribute of form or vision has arisen.
It attaches itself to the sun in consequence of which the Sun becomes able to shine and give heat. It is from that illustrious and foremost of Beings that Touch also has arisen. It is attached to the Wind, in consequence of which the Wind moves about in the world producing the sensation of touch. It is from that puissant Lord of the entire universe that Sound has arisen. It attaches to Space, which, in consequence thereof, exists uncovered and unconfined. It is from that illustrious Being that Mind, which pervades all Beings, has arisen. It attaches to Chandramas, in consequence of which Chandramas comes to be invested with the attribute of displaying all the things. That spot where the divine Narayana, that partaker of the libations and other offerings made in sacrifices, resides with Knowledge alone for his companion, has in the Vedas, been called by the name of the productive cause of all things or Sat The path that is theirs, O foremost of regenerate persons, that are stainless and that are freed from both virtue and sin, is fraught with auspiciousness and felicity. Aditya, who is the dispeller of the darkness of all the worlds, is said to be the door through which the Emancipate must pass.
Entering Aditya, the bodies of such persons become consumed by his fire. They then become invisible for after that they cannot be seen by anybody at any time. Reduced into invisible atoms, they then enter Narayana in manifested form and residing in the middle of the region covered by Aditya into the form of Aniruddha. Losing all physical attributes and being altogether and transformed into Mind alone, they then enter into Pradyumna. Passing out of Pradyumna, those foremost of regenerate persons, including both those that are conversant with Sankhya philosophy and those that are devoted to the Supreme deity, then enter Sankarsana who is otherwise called Jiva. After this, divested of the three primal attributes of Sattwa, Rajas, and Tamas, those foremost of regenerate beings quickly enter the Paramatma Supreme Soul otherwise called Kshetrajna and which itself transcends the three primal attributes. Know that Vasudeva is He when called Kshetrajna. Verily shouldst thou know that, that Vasudeva is the abode or original refuge of all things in the universe. Only they whose minds are concentrated, who are observant of all kinds of restraint, whose senses are controlled, and who are devoted to One, succeed in entering Vasudeva. We two, O foremost of regenerate ones, have taken birth in the house of Dharma.
Residing in this delightful and spacious retreat we are undergoing the austerest penances. We are thus engaged, O regenerate one, being moved by the desire of benefiting those manifestations of the Supreme Deity, dear to all the celestials, that will occur in the three worlds for achieving diverse feats that are incapable of being achieved by any other Being. In accordance with such ordinances as are uncommon and as apply to us two only, O best of regenerate persons, we are duly observing all excellent and high vows fraught with the austerest penances. Thou, O celestial Rishi, endued with wealth of penances wert beheld by us in White Island when thou wert there. Having met with Narayana, thou hast made a particular resolution, which is known to us. In the three worlds consisting of mobile and immobile Beings, there is nothing that is unknown to us. Of good or evil that will occur or has occurred or is occurring, that God of gods, O great ascetic, has informed thee Vaisampayana continued, Having heard these words of Nara and Narayana both of whom were engaged in the practice of the austerest penances, the celestial Rishi Narada joined his hands in reverence and became entirely devoted to Narayana. He employed his time in mentally reciting, with due observances, innumerable sacred Mantras that are approved by Narayana. Worshipping the Supreme Deity Narayana, and adoring those two ancient Rishis also that had taken birth in the house of Dharma, the illustrious Rishi Narada, endued with great energy, continued to reside, thus employed, in that retreat, called Vadari, on the breast of Himavat, belonging to Nara and Narayana, for a thousand years as measured by the standard of the celestials
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Another New Season
welcome to the four seasons
Now seems to be an odd time for Nick Cushing to leave Manchester City
Nick Cushing (right) will now work under the former Celtic manager Ronny Deila at New York City FC.
Walsh is one who has thrived, such a lot so her young age is usually overlooked. “I actually love Nick as a teacher ,” she said. “He’s always had my back throughout everything, since i used to be 17 years old. He’s always trusted me to play and always put absolute faith in me to try to to employment for him.”
Her, Georgia Stanway and Lauren Hemp are a testament to Cushing’s dedication to developing young English players. that’s a legacy, perhaps, of the way during which Manchester City have nurtured him. His move to ny City, one among the various teams within the City Football Group fold, despite interest from National Women’s Soccer League teams, keeps him under the business’s wing. He started as a City schools coach then became a part of the Manchester City academy coaching staff with the 12-16 development phase before being handed the reins of their revamped women’s team.
But moving mid-season is questionable. Yes, he doesn’t leave until after City’s league fixture against title rivals Arsenal on 2 February and it’ll enable him to require part in pre-season in ny , but he abandons the women’s team once they are during a three-way fight for the championship with eight WSL games remaining – including league ties with Chelsea and Manchester United – and still involved in both domestic cup competitions.
It is hard to imagine an almost four-week period with a departing manager in place , then a run of eight games with an interim boss within the current assistant, Alan Mahon, won’t affect the team.
It is seemingly a move driven by Cushing, who tweeted: “I feel the time is now right to require subsequent tread on my footballing journey and therefore the project presented to me at @NYCFC is one that excites me and offers an excellent environment to progress my career at an excellent club. it’s with an important heart I depart Manchester and I’d wish to thank the whole @ManCity team for the memories & success we’ve shared. https://www.maxbetsbobet.org agen sbobet terbaik
Though it’s hard to not feel that, as he leaves for a team within their circle, the town Football Group could have found how to try to to more to limit the impact on the women’s team. it’s difficult to begrudge Cushing a move after what he has achieved and it’s a loss to women’s football that he departs for the men’s game.
But perhaps the apparent willingness to facilitate a move which looks to prioritise the event of the Eastern Conference champions, who reached the MLS play-off semi-finals, over their WSL project hints at where the women’s team fits within the City Football Group empire.
Published by Dylan Graham, in Football.
Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend
José Mourinho’s life in football are often measured call at vendettas. There are two clubs he reserves a special enmity for, and for much an equivalent reason. Both Barcelona and Liverpool omitted his services, choosing instead to show to Pep Guardiola and Rafa Benítez, by little consequence two managers he has most enjoyed getting the higher of.
Only recently received Tottenham, his latest club are near powerless to prevent Liverpool’s procession to the Premier League title, but performing the unlikely act of ending the leaders’ unbeaten run. to try to to so would be one among the shocks of the season. Where Liverpool have suffered a good share of injuries, with James Milner’s muscle injury adding to a shortfall in midfield, Tottenham are completely riven, with Moussa Sissoko out until April and Tanguy Ndombele succumbed to a hip injury that within the words of Mourinho offers “no continuity in his development”.
And, crucially, there’ll be no Harry Kane, an enormous loss for a manager with such a tactical reliance on centre-forwards, and no obvious replacement within a squad he already appears dissatisfied with. JB
• Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool (Saturday, 5.30pm, all times GMT)
While several clubs affect midwinter injury crises, Chris Wilder declared in the week that at Sheffield United “everybody is fit and prepared to go”, an achievement as remarkable as any in what has been an astonishingly successful reintroduction to the highest flight. Bramall Lane should be the location of a managerial mutual appreciation society, with David Moyes praising Wilder’s path to the highest (though mainly for being not dissimilar to his own) – “I quite enjoy seeing managers who need to earn their stripes, prove themselves within the lower leagues, then they move up” – and Wilder doing likewise in return: “His record, from Preston to Everton, was incredible. For the overwhelming majority of his career he’s been hugely successful and they’re definitely a special proposition with David Moyes in charge”. https://www.judibolaterbaik.co judi bola terbaik
• Sheffield United v West Ham United (Friday, 8pm)
The humiliating elimination from the FA Cup by Liverpool’s reserves proved to be the aggravation for a posse of Everton fans, who turned up at the club’s training ground in the week to offer players and staff some forthright feedback. How will the players react to all or any that? and the way will Carlo Ancelotti answer the flop at Anfield, aside from by scouring the transfer market even more frantically than before? Everton’s lineup and attitude are going to be revelatory on Saturday once they face Brighton, who are one point below them within the table, have spent far but Everton and have a way clearer idea of what they’re doing. PD
• Everton v Brighton & Hove Albion (Saturday, 3pm)
Having been thrashed 9-0 by Leicester reception in October, Southampton are going to be motivated by revenge but scared of further failure. Still, there’s hope: the Foxes may only have lost this season to Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool, but they did draw reception against Norwich last month and against a weakened, striker-less Aston Villa on Wednesday, once they kept possession well but were largely muted within the final third. Besides, as Ralph Hasenhüttl says, his team now “looks completely different” and “are during a different moment”. Wednesday’s match saw James Maddison and Jack Grealish come head to go within the battle of in-form English midfielders vying for Gareth Southgate’s affection; this one sees Jamie Vardy and Danny Ings meet within the battle of in-form English strikers. SB
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Anthony Eterovich
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Bringing Home Cleveland's Own
On April 15th, 2016, "A THRILLING ACT: The Art of Anthony Eterovich (1916-2011)" will open at Tregoning & Company Galleries, 1300 West 78th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. This retrospective exhibition will be the first time to view his artwork collectively in 60 years. Its April opening marks the 100th anniversary of the Cleveland artist's birth.
Painting is "a thrilling act...It encompasses a battleground of contradictions all to be resolved without compromise."
Anthony W. Eterovich, 1916-2011
"A Thrilling Act: The Art of Anthony Eterovich" opened to the public on Friday, April 15, 2016 at Tregoning & Company galleries in Cleveland. This centennial retrospective had two extensions and closed on July 30, 2016. Mr. Eterovich's work is represented by Tregoning & Company and is available for touring.
Read our review by Josh Usmani in Cleveland Scene.
Listen to Cleveland Arts Prize Winner Dee Perry's interview with Bruce Checefsky, CIA Reinberger Gallery Director and Gallerist, Bill Tregoning on IdeaStream's Sound of Applause.
Listen to Vivian Goodman interview NEA Grant Winner, George Kozmon on WKSU 89.7.
Watch our PBS Documentary produced by #Dennis Knowles & the IdeaStream "Dream Team" here.
Please click on the painting-detail buttons above for more information.
The purpose of this site is to share the paintings, drawings and philosophy of Mr. Eterovich with the public and to promote the Anthony W. Eterovich '38 Memorial Scholarship, which provides support to exceptional drawing students at the Cleveland Institute of Art. If you would like to make a contribution to this scholarship, please contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at the CIA at 216.421.7410 or giving@cia.edu.
The Always Running Art Critic, oil, 60
"Always feeling kingly, with righteous opinions, he finds himself constantly on the run - is there a cutting edge out there? Where? Echoes of the past? What yardstick to apply? Will flying messengers give him a clue? On what pedestal should he place it? With lyrical drawing and contrasting color, while adjusting his bow tie with one hand, the other hand moves on the ruler for a numbers rating system. Echoes of early to present pay masters are in his mind from which he projects future evaluations."
Copyright 2015, anthonyeterovich.org
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Lovesick Teens Summon Fake Mexican Demon With Charlie Charlie Challenge
Tiny Heathens
The “Charlie Charlie Challenge” is Twitter Ouija for the social media age—too bad its origin story is as authentic as Señor Frog’s.
Amy Zimmerman
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 10:47AM ET / Published May. 26, 2015 2:07PM ET
Photo illustration by The Daily Beast
There’s something scary going on in today’s trending Twitter topics. And no, it’s not just the concept of sourcing stories from trending Twitter topics. We’re talking about the Charlie Charlie Challenge, a sort of DIY Ouija-board craze that’s sweeping Hot Topics and junior Satanist circles across the nation.
The script is simple: Cross two pencils over a piece of paper decorated with “yes” and “no” boxes (there’s also a more complicated six-pencil alternative for especially eager heathens). Make sure your eyeliner is on fleek while your BFF/fellow demon worshipper checks the lighting and frames the shot. Next, summon your local suburban spirits with the invocation “Charlie, Charlie, are you here?” If Charlie is down to party, the pencils will point towards “yes,” and you can proceed to ask him any yes/no question. After thoroughly freaking yourself out and/or FINALLY figuring out which One Direction member you’re going to marry, proceed to upload your voodoo vid to Twitter/Instagram/Vine/ any other social media site your parents have definitely never heard of it. Now you’re a minor Internet celebrity riding the wave of an extremely stupid Twitter trend. Take a celebratory Snapchat/refresh your page views/retweet your friends’ Charlie Charlie Challenges/eat a snack.
Of course, these tweet-happy tweenagers aren’t just Hogwarts rejects employing the dark arts to ascertain the exact date of Justin Bieber’s upcoming album release. They’re also revisionist historians and cultural appropriators! One Charlie Charlie Challenge creation myth that’s been making the rounds claims that the exercise, which is also referred to as “The Pencil Game,” “is a traditional Mexican ritual wherein players (usually children) are said to contact the spirit of a child named Charlie.” But a little fact-checking reveals that “Charlie” is about as authentically Mexican as Señor Frog’s. According to Maria Elena Navez of BBC Mundo, “There’s no demon called ‘Charlie’ in Mexico.” Navez reports that most Mexican legends derive from Aztec or Mayan mythology, and have names to match—think “Tezcatlipoca,” not Timmy. Even if this legend was conceived post-Spanish conquest, the demon would be called “Carlitos,” not Charlie, proving Navez’s point that “Mexican demons are usually American inventions.”
As befitting a fickle tween trend, the Charlie Charlie Challenge is already facing backlash. One popular screenshot details Charlie’s sinister motives while emphasizing the importance of ending every seven-minutes-in-hell session with a polite “Charlie, Charlie can we stop?” Apparently not saying goodbye is a foolproof recipe for a good old-fashioned haunting. This practical PSA has been floating around Twitter, often with the caption “RT to save a life.” While Charlie Challengers have clearly been looking out for their own, a Philadelphia priest has taken matters into his own hands in an open letter to his student. Father Stephen McCarthy warned his pupils “the problem with opening yourself up to demonic activity is that it opens a window of possibilities which is not easily closed.” He then ordered them “to NOT participate” in the challenge and “encourage others to avoid participation as well.” Because if there’s one way to combat a demonic adolescent trend, it’s a religious authority figure promising actual supernatural contact. With a Catholic priest already taking this challenge seriously, teary parent testimonials and calls for increased border patrol can’t be far behind.
But before you hide your kids from the sinister grasp of yet another Internet fad, try hitting the books. Back in the day when the Ouija board was still the hottest paranormal activity around, Dr. Chris French spoke to Smithsonian Magazine on its legitimacy. Dr. French explained that “it can generate a very strong impression that the movement is being cause by some outside agency, but it’s not… with Ouija boards you’ve got the whole social context. It’s usually a group of people, and everyone has a slight influence.” The Charlie Charlie Challenge is basically the Ouija’s board’s kid brother—and while these phenomena might seem otherworldly, they’re actually the direct result of the groupthink and expectations of the participants involved. In other words, the only things tweens have to fear are tweens themselves.
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‘15 GOLD CUP: GOING FOR SVRA GOLD AT VIR!
Posted on October 2, 2015 May 15, 2017 by MartynL
Mike Matune stays dry long enough to bring us coverage of the wet and wild
Gold Cup weekend at VIR.
With a nod towards poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the story of the 2015 Gold Cup weekend at Virginia International Raceway (VIR) could be wrapped up in the phrase, ”Water, water, everywhere …”. The point is illustrated by David Pintaric’s Corvette, above, with its grille full of VIR landscape and water teaming off every inch of the car as it drags a cloud of spray behind. A torrential downpour covered all three days of the race weekend. SVRA and Trans-Am competitors carried on through frequently arduous conditions to provide visuals only seen during wet weather racing.
David Nettleship splashes through Turn 6 in his Crossle 45F Formula Ford, right, throwing rooster tails off all four wheels. Normally in this corner racers ride the curb, sometimes all the way over to the “Gator Teeth” but the rain line required them to move further from the apex to avoid the standing water.
A rain tire can pump a considerable amount of water off the road surface; one source claiming that a Formula 1 rain tire displaces something like 60 liters (15 gallons) per second. Looking at the spray behind Chip Vance’s Lola T87/90 (Indy Lights) confirms this.
Rain can be the great equalizer on a racetrack, frequently resulting in the emergence of Giant Killers. The role is often taken by small, closed, FWD sedans like Shea Brown’s Fiat 128. Brown’s car started off as a “Chump Car” he found and decided was much too nice to spend its life in that venue. Since its conversion to a vintage racer, it has shown increasing speed as driver and car development have progressed.
Logan Dernoshek drove his Dad, Warren’s Yenko Stinger in its debut appearance. The car has actual Stinger DNA, although it was re-bodied when the rust worm proved to be too pervasive. Its preparation level mirrors that common when the cars were new with allowances for modern safety issues. The elder Dernoshek’s affinity for Stingers comes naturally as he served as one of Don Yenko’s race mechanics during the heyday of racing at Yenko Chevrolet.
Mike Unger describes his Datsun 240Z as an “Old Soldier” having been run in the 1980s in ITS, before he acquired it about 15 years ago and began its conversion to an SVRA Group 8 vintage racer. Along the way it made occasional forays into SCCA E/P. Watching Unger on track reminded me just what an impact these cars made on the racetrack and on the street, helping Datsun (Nissan) in particular, and Japanese manufactures in general, establish themselves “up market” from the econo-boxes for which they were initially known.
Production car racing is constantly evolving with series, sanctioning bodies, cars and manufacturers coming and going. But along that journey some stand out, like the Motorola Cup and the Cobra R. The Motorola Cup featured frequently televised events with close racing. The Cobra R was Ford’s contribution to the factory Special. Bill Foster deserves Kudos as he and his Cobra were frequently on course carving up VIR while making wonderful noises despite the continuous rain.
As mentioned, Trans-Am cars shared the bill with SVRA’s vintage racers. Today’s Trans-Am is a 12-race series for three classes of cars categorized by preparation levels. Both American and international manufacturers are represented. Kerry Hitt’s Cadillac CTS is an example of the fastest class. These cars feature 850 horsepower engines, tube frames with live rear axles and facsimile fiberglass bodywork.
Words & Photos: M.M. “Mike” Matune, Jr.
For more racing information, please visit: http://gotransam.com/
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People’s vote on Arsenal skipper?
OPINION: Nearly anybody other than Granit Xhaka would connect better with the people coming through the turnstiles
07 November, 2019 — By Richard Osley
Former Arsenal skipper Tony Adams
THE story goes that they all had a vote, came to a decision, but when the terrible consequences of the result became apparent to more people, something had to be done.
But you’ve probably heard enough about Brexit by now.
Switcheroo! I was, of course, referring to Unai Emery’s inability to himself choose an Arsenal captain in pre-season and hid decision to hold an internal election for the post.
The squad, we are asked to believe, selected Granit Xhaka for the armband.
I haven’t actually trusted the published results of any vote since 2007 when it was revealed that Blue Peter had named the studio cat “Socks”. An awful name, obviously, but worse because viewers had been invited to take part in an online poll and the “will of the goody-goody children not watching Knightmare on ITV” was that the cat should be called “Cookie”.
The CBBC smallprint, no doubt, said the vote was only an advisory referendum, as it should’ve been when the Arsenal players were scrawling down names and handing them back to Unai.
It is one thing to ask Arsenal fans – paying some of the highest ticket prices in the country – to watch Xhaka’s performances each week, but a bridge too far to accept him into a role which Tony Adams held with pride and power.
I’m assuming footballers, largely brimming with self-confidence from the fat cheques paid to kick a ball around a pitch, simply all voted for themselves, meaning they all had one vote each. But Saka’s handwriting looked like he was voting for Xhaka, and the rest was history.
As botched as Arsenal’s captaincy election was – Xhaka was removed from the role on Tuesday evening – a bit more democracy in football is not a bad endeavour.
Last month, Jeremy Corbyn suggested that if he becomes prime minister he will somehow order Premier League clubs to have supporters on the board.
Presumably, he doesn’t mean any of the guests on Arsenal Fan TV whose industrial language and explosions of anger may be running before we can walk.
But it’s ironic that as social media gives everybody a platform, the relationship between fans and the governors of their clubs seems more remote than ever.
It wouldn’t have needed the most expansive consultation survey for somebody from the stands to politely advise that nearly anybody other than the frustrating figure of Xhaka would connect better with the people coming through the turnstiles. Some advisory help might be beneficial, as Arsenal keep picking the wrong man.
Hector Bellerin, and one day in the future Matteo Guendouzi, and even Francis Tierney, given the attitude he has already shown, seem like choices which would sit more comfortably with the supporters.
A people’s vote, then, and let’s all have a say.
Gunners reach Cup fourth round as Nelson gives Arsenal victory
07 January — By By Paul Cowling
A welcome kick up the backside for Arsenal
09 January — By Richard Osley
Arsenal to get a place on the political map
Arsenal boss ‘not expecting big things’ in transfer window
10 January — By Steve Barnett
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Banks and Hedge Funds -- Trading Places: Matthew Lynn (Correct)
Sep 08/03
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Canadian Hedge Fund Manager J.C. Clark Ltd to Participate in New Investable Hedge Fund Index
Aug 14/03
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Tremont Capital Opportunity Trust Exercises Over-Allotment Option
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OSC reprimands hedge fund "adviser"
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J.C. Clark closes hedge funds to new investors
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Feb 19/03
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"...As flashes of their faces go black and white and fade to yellow in a box in an attic..."
My amazing new vision insurance allowed me to get a second pair of glasses this past weekend. I picked them up last night and after a few hours of wearing them I realized they might cause me to resemble Ben Folds a little bit. Which is funny, because 5 minutes after that revelation when Andrew walked in the door and saw me he said the exact same thing. Considering that Ben Folds has been one of my favorite musicians since as long as I can remember, I'm thinking that maybe there were some subliminal factors that made me choose these frames. Andrew told me that I should take a picture to match one of Ben Folds and then put them side by side, which is pretty funny, so I did a little searching and ended up finding some sort of Twitter photo page that he has. I really enjoyed his photography that was in the Songs for Silverman album. It was one of the reasons I purchased the book version of the album. I didn't realize that photography was something that he pursued, but from the photos on this page I can tell that it's a little more than a hobby for him. He even seems to have his own dark room. I think these are really beautiful images. Most of them are very quiet personal moments. Something that I'm often drawn to in photography. The images from Tokyo remind me so much of Lost in Translation.
Seeing these have reminded me that I have a few rolls of film that need to be developed. Maybe this weekend. Oh, and yes, that's Shatner in the last one.
Bean-Bag Buccaneers.
Yarrrgh! My dad got us this game from the 60s for Christmas and we played it for the first time last night. The point of it (or at least we think) is to sail to the island, collect your treasure, and sail back before the other opponent does. On top of that, each turn you get chances to hit the other opponent's ship with bean-bags shot out of a spring loaded cannon to keep them from moving in the next round. Due to the fact that the original instructions were missing, and no complete instructions could be found online, my dad made up his own rules for us that worked out pretty well. We had a lot of fun. And did I mention that you have to wear eye patches?
Oh, and Andrew won.
Paper sketch.
A recent page from my Moleskine. I've been working on some ideas for a new piece or two. I'd like to have something to submit to the American Greetings Spring Fine Art Show in March. It's nice to have a personal project to focus on when all day I'm swimming in Taylor Swift card designs.
I wish that you would have called it the iSlate like the rumors said. iPad just sounds...funny in too many ways. Either way, I still think it's pretty awesome.
Cheryl Andrey (should be Cochran but this whole name change thing is rather difficult.)
(Check it out: www.apple.com/ipad/)
Image via NPR.org
Twenty five degrees and riding the bike.
Andrew and I invested in a bike trainer not too long ago. We'd both been desiring to work out in a way that was a bit more challenging than the yoga dvds we typically follow along with. All summer long we rode our tandem bike but since it's far too cold for leisurely bike riding in Cleveland we decided to bring one of the bikes inside. There's something really rewarding to me about getting warmed up and worn out in a good bike ride. Since we're not actually traveling anywhere though, Andrew and I have found ways to stay entertained while riding. I've started reading Frances Mayes' A Year in the World - Journeys of a Passionate Traveler and Andrew figured out that he can still play Mario.
"...and we lived beneath the waves in our yellow submarine..."
This made me smile. Found here: http://www.monkey-bus.co.il/Product.aspx?CategoryID=3&SubCategoryID=0&ProductID=225.
Wedding season.
Andrew and I are planning on attending three weddings this summer. Three! I've had pretty things on my mind today, so I decided to go on an imaginary shopping trip. If money were no object, these are the dresses I'd be wearing to those weddings.
(Anthropologie)
(J Crew)
(Mod Cloth)
And a runner up...
La PhotoCabine
Taking a break from work to de-stress and sketch.
(http://www.laphotocabine.com/)
Florida and back.
Some snapshots from our recent trip to Florida. We left the SD card for our camera down there and just got it back today.
Bowie says goodbye.
Snow on the airplane window.
Breakfast by the sea.
Friends.
Finds.
An altered deck.
Overheard in the bathroom:
Stall A: "I stopped at McDonald's on the way to work."
Stall B: "Oh really?" (laughs) "I can't believe you would do that!"
Stall A: "Yeah, I didn't get any fries though."
Stall B: "Well that's good." (pauses) "We're all gonna die anyways."
Little Wings.
I keep seeing this necklace on Etsy and in the mornings sometimes I think about it going quite well with the outfit I put on. I may have to make it a birthday present to myself.
Necklace by: Lauren Haupt.
I was glad that when I drove home tonight it wasn't dark already. The shorter days can be depressing.
Holiday Shores.
A friend of ours gave us this album while we were on vacation in Florida and I've become quite fond of it since then. It wasn't surprising to me to find out that this band actually comes from Florida. Their music has a warm, summery vibe and at times reminds me of Fleet Foxes and Animal Collective. I think it will be making it's way to my frequently played list, especially when spring arrives.
Wii love it!
A lot of vacation time was spent playing (and beating) this game with the Tomlinsons. The yellow Toad is my favorite.
Play time at the pet store.
Flying.
- First coat of plane de-icer looks like pink ooze from Ghostbusters 2.
- Second coat of de-icer looks like green slime from the original
Ghostbusters.
- Man across the isle from us orders two beers...at 10 am.
- Kings of Convenience "Mrs. Cold" playing over the airplane radio
while we are settling in.
- Woman next to us is tweezing her nose hairs and wiping them on her
lime green fleece.
- I imagine that this is what the landscape of Antarctica might look like:
Snowbirds.
Tomorrow morning we board a plane to Florida. I don't particularly like flying, or Florida, but I'm excited to spend time with friends and family for the next week. Plus the warmer temperatures are nice this time of year. A little sunshine is good for everyone.
Sleep mode.
Play mode.
On the couch.
Thanks IKEA!
I've been making imaginary desk combinations on the IKEA website for quite some time now but have resisted getting a new desk mostly due to the fact that I love my old desk. I've had it for years and it previously belonged to both my dad and aunt. It had several coats of chipped paint on it, nicks and gashes almost everywhere, but it was me. When it really came down to it though, the desk didn't offer me nearly as much space as I really need to work and it ended up looking like a complete mess 99% of the time. My husband, the neat freak, finally convinced me that it was time to get a new desk. So we made our long trip through the snow and ice to the Pittsburgh IKEA this past weekend and this is what I ended up with:
What really excited me about this desk was that it has a built-in light table. It's covered up by my cutting mat in the picture, but it's really nice and something I will definitely use frequently. I also got a new desk chair to replace my previous one that had multiple duct tape repairs to it's vinyl upholstery, and a fancy orange paper organizer (Andrew's idea, but I'm really starting to like it for more reasons than just that it looks nice).
Also, Bowie helped with the assembly.
Finishing Christmas.
This past weekend was the end of Christmas for us. I took down the garland and packed away the ornaments and tree for next year.
I also had the time to finish the quilt I made my dad for Christmas. The type of quilt is called a "rag quilt" because of the frayed edges that are left on one side. Typically the frayed edges are on the side with the patterned fabric, but I thought it would be nice to make the plain side a little more interesting.
I'm really happy with how it turned out. It was my first attempt at a traditional quilt. All of the fabric I used is upcycled, the green is a set of old flannel sheets that I only used once or twice before Andrew and I got our big bed and all the fabrics on the opposite side are pieces of thrifted flannel shirts.
Feeling crummy today.
But this is making my ears happy:
"King sized beds are what people buy before they decide to get divorced. It's because they don't want to sleep together anymore."
-Andrew (in bed last night after telling me I had a lot of empty room on my side of the bed)
A Simple Curve.
I found this movie on Hulu yesterday while looking for something to watch while I crocheted a scarf and was pleasantly surprised. I didn't realize until today that it's a part of the Film Movement collection. I've gotten a few other films from this collection from the library and have really liked them. I'm going to have to pursue more of them in the future.
One of the first scenes in this movie features a float plane soaring over the mountains of Canada with "What the Snowman Learned About Love" by Stars playing in the background. It was really beautiful and want along with the imagery I typically find in my head whenever I listen to that song. It has long been a part of a winter walk soundtrack for me. The movie is about a young man, Caleb, who is attempting to manage the failing woodworking business of his father. While Caleb appreciates, and practices the woodworking skill that he and his father both have, he struggles with the idea of settling into "hippie" lifestyle he has grown up in. The plot develops when an old family friend shows up and changes everything for Caleb.
This isn't your typical blockbuster movie, there are no big stars and I can't say it's for everyone. However, I think this movie is a great portrayal of a complicated parent/child relationship and how they struggle within that. The soundtrack and photography are amazing and I can say that I really enjoyed it.
Top 10 of '09.
According to my LastFM account, these are my top 10 artists of the past year. I'd say it's probably pretty accurate, although I don't remember listening to Kaki King that much. It's also lacking in any Ben Folds which was surprising because he's one of my favorites, but I figured the results were skewed by the fact that his counts were split between Ben Folds and Ben Folds Five. Discovery and Kings of Convenience were both bands that I just started listening to this year. I think they're both pretty fantastic and would recommend them to almost anyone. And, the fact that Mark Mothersbaugh is on the list is pretty clear evidence of how much I love my Wes Anderson soundtracks.
1. Kings of Convenience
3. Animal Collective
4. Michael Jackson
5. Andrew Bird
6. Discovery
7. Margot and the Nuclear So & So's
8. Kaki King
9. Jens Lekman
10. Mark Mothersbaugh
(P.S. The photograph is from a table top jukebox at a great little diner that we went to this summer. I loved the times when Weezer was still good.)
Twenty Ten.
We celebrated the beginning of 2010 with family, a little cosmic bowling, tasty food and drinks, Taboo, crazy party hats, glow sticks, a giant fiberglass walleye and too much silly string. Not much more we could ask for. And yes, Andrew is wearing a 1999 hat. You can't go wrong with a classic.
I'm not really one to make resolutions, but I suppose I do have a few personal goals for this next year:
- start and (ideally) finish a quilt for our bed.
- get the piano tuned and remember how to play.
- learn how to play Andrew's violin, at least some scales if nothing else.
- do more yoga.
- continue to learn how to be a good wife.
- get Andrew to go camping.
- finally pursue some publishers for my book.
- read more.
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MOIDA is a cultural heritage-themed augmented reality (AR) app game. It is part of a system I conceptualized to work towards solving a social problem in South Korea. The problem I identified was the prejudice that Native North Koreans (NNK's) face in South Korea. For these groups to peacefully coexist after reunification, there should be a mutual understanding of how to work together.
Seoul hosts the MOIDA system. It combines traditionally styled MOIDA board game cafés, at which points accrued from MOIDA app gameplay can be redeemed, with a MOIDA community that exists virtually and is formed in reality at MOIDA cafés and events.
MOIDA cafés employ a 1:1 ratio of Native South Koreans and NNK's. South Koreans who are biased against NNK's have typically never interacted with them. A long-term pedagogic goal of MOIDA is to help demolish the othering of NNK's.
MOIDA app gameplay takes place collaboratively in and around the Seoul subway system, allowing users to play without going out of their way. Geofenced objectives activate push notifications from the app. Geofencing places virtual boundaries on physical spaces. Players who enter into these spaces are matched with anonymous partners to complete time-sensitive AR objectives.
Date 2016–2017
Category Branding, Illustration, Photography, Service Design, Social Design, Typography, UX/UI
To view the full project book (pdf), click here.
MOIDA Project Overview
MOIDA (모이다) is a Korean verb meaning to converge or come together. The logotype color palette is adapted from Korean national colors.
MOIDA Color Study
MOIDA (모이다) is the coming together of groups from different parts. To generate a color palette, I conducted a visual ethnography of unifying characteristics of the North and South Korean traditional landscapes–from architecture and patterns to clothing and symbols. I used some of my photos from South Korea, and I referenced North Korean imagery from the few Instagram accounts of photographers, such as David Guttenfelder and Jaka Parker, who have had access to take photos in North Korea in recent years.
On my third and fourth visits to South Korea in 2016 and 2017, I partnered with PSCORE, a North Korean human rights NGO in Seoul, to volunteer English tutoring with Native North Koreans. Meeting these beautiful people and learning about some of the ways they have struggled to integrate into South Korea prompted the MOIDA project.
The direction of this project was inspired by many places and games from the Games for Change movement; and notably by the model of Mad Priest Coffee, a café in my hometown of Chattanooga that employs refugees. MOIDA was also largely informed by Korean cultural heritage, as well as Korea’s modern coffee and gaming cultures. The placemaking that MOIDA strives to achieve capitalizes on these existing strengths to build community.
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Rogue/Gambit
Other X-Men
Quotable Rogue and Gambit - X-Men
X-Men #1
"I must confess, infuriating and arrogant as Gambit can be...those eyes, that grin, the body - it takes a girl's breath away."
"Oh really? When next the opportunity presents itself...remind me to drop a truck on him." ~ Jean Grey and Cyclops
"Been a while, Magneto. Never called, never wrote, ah was startin' t'figure you'd forgotten all about me. That's no way for friends to act." ~ Rogue, to Magneto
"That, sir, is no way to treat a lady."
"Or Rogue neither, hein?"
"Myomy, talk about a man who loves to live dangerously." ~ Beast and Gambit, on Rogue
"...a prize worth the winnin'! You may have lost the game, you an your furry partner...but for you, at least there is a chance to claim somethin' from the day! Champagne. Candlelight. Magic time, chere."
"Er...Gambit...maybe you should curb that romantic soul of yours."
"Yeah! The lady's not interested, Big G." ~ Gambit (to Rogue), Cyclops, and Jubilee
"Keep your slimy paws off'a me, Gambit! You know ah can't make flesh to flesh contact without drainin' all your powers anyway!"
"Perhaps. But don' nobody know how Gambit loves a challenge." ~ Rogue and Gambit
"Where is dat girl? She's goin' learn I don't wait too long for...Hm? Hel-lo. Now what's this? Chere...for me?"
"You wish. A lady has to look her best when she goes out on the town, Gambit. After all there might be some real gentlemen at the restaurant."
"Restaurant? You'll be lucky if he takes you to a Taco Bell, Rogue." ~ Gambit, Rogue, and Jubilee
"Alors! I thought I'd joined the X-Men...not the Brady Bunch! There are some things I prefer not to do in a group!" ~ Gambit, to the X-Men who're planning on tagging along on his date with Rogue
"Seems t'me I took this man out three times already, no?"
"Don't fret, Gambit - after a while all these ninjas start t'look the same. Present company excepted, Psylocke." ~ Gambit and Rogue
"Lookee here, mes amis...another bad guy with his hair pulled into a pony-tail. Is there some dress code nobody tell me 'bout." ~ Gambit
"Ah can't speak for the rest of the team - but it kinda tickles. I mean, as bio-electric furies go." ~ Rogue, after being hit with a bio-electric bolt
" 'Insulting.' Eh? Chere, didn't know you cared."
"Ah'm sorry...did y'all get the impression ah cared?" ~ Gambit and Rogue
"I thought you'd appreciate me makin' you an ol' fashion Cajun meal with muh own two hands."
"If I made a list of things to do 'with your own two hands'...stirrin' gumbo wouldn't be on it." ~ Rogue and Gambit
"Gambit, please! Ya know even the slightest physical contact means ah'd absorb ya' mind and powers!"
"Worse fates spring to mind, chere."
"That's all ah'd need - thoughts o' you running through my head twenty four hours a day."
"How'd dat be any different than now?" ~ Rogue and Gambit
" 'Oooooops'?! I spent four hours sweatin' ovah a hot stove - - an' the best you can offer is 'OOOOOPS'?!"
[Bishop and Gambit laugh]
"Is this wise?"
"Keep laughing or she'll kill us." ~ Rogue, Bishop, and Gambit, after Gambit accidentally hits Rogue in the face with a charged pie he was aiming at Bishop
"Ya' mean somebody was actually desperate enough to become - Mrs. Gambit?" ~ Jubilee
"So yer the skirt that tamed the Cajun?"
" 'House-broke' to be more acc'rate."
"Nice t'see everyone's havin' their ha-ha's at my expense." ~ Wolverine, Bella Donna, and Gambit
"Kinda fun ta see you all fidgety an' scared, Remy."
"I assure you, gal, that I am the definition a' calm." ~ Rogue and Gambit, when is Gambit acting as a blinded Rogue's "eyes" as she flies around the mansion
"This is how I've wanted it t'be since I first looked at you, Roguie. Beyond the flirtin' an' teasin', past all the games an' all the uncertainty - I know we can be hurt, girl. Physically as well as emotionally. I know one kiss from you - one touch, flesh to flesh - might give me some serious hurtin' - but I'm willin' t'take the risk for you...you willin' t'do the same for me?" ~ Gambit, during a carriage ride through Central Park
"...ah want to, but ah can't. Ah'm so afraid ah might hurt you...like ah hurt Cody ...when ah was so little...an' ah kissed him...it was the first an' last time ah kissed someone out of passion...an' if ah kiss you...an' if ah hurt you...ah know - ah just know - ah'd want to die."
"Then we don' kiss, Rogue. Simple as that. Maybe thas' jus' fine right now for you an' me. Maybe we both have t'learn there's more t'love than th' physical." ~ Rogue and Gambit
"Maybe we'll both end up learnin' what love really means. An' I can't think 'bout anyone else I'd rather try t'learn with, Rogue."
"Remy - mah real name...it's..."
"Hush. Names don'mean nuthin' t'me. Names don' make us what we are inside. An' I know what's inside you, chere...an' that's all that matters." ~ Gambit and Rogue
"We all miss 'im, chere."
"Even you, Remy?"
"Like havin' jambalaya without the spice, girl." ~ Gambit and Rogue, on Wolverine
"The only thing LeBeau feels in his heart is the need to break yours That's the thing he's best at...stealin' people's hearts...their trust...you should find out for yourself, Frail. You should start t'trust him, start t'care, t'fall head over heels f'r him...then watch as he takes everythin' you have to give. An' I mean everythin' X-Man..." ~ Sabertooth, to Rogue
"Now, mes amis...y'didn' think I'd give anyone else a chance t'slip this on the little lady, did you? I t'ink not." ~ Gambit, on catching Jean's garter after Rogue caught her bouquet
"Guess I still am a kid at heart, neh?" ~ Gambit
"Why take what someone is willing to give? That's what the Frail said as she died in his arms. So Gambit stole what she would've handed over t'him - the pendant, her love. But it was all a game t'him. Too bad I raised the stakes. Think about that girl, next time the Cajun whispers in your ear...tellin' you he'd give anythin' t'be with you...when you know, deep down, you know...Remy LeBeau has never given away anything in his life...without reason." ~ Sabertooth, to Rogue
"It's about us! I'm in love wit you...an' I'm afraid you don't know what that word really means!"
"What happened with Sabertooth an' the girl was a long time ago, Rogue. I was a different man back then."
"An' what kinda man are you now, Remy?"
"Dat's why I need you...to help me find out..." ~ Rogue and Gambit
"REMY!!! Uhm...an' Betsy too, o' course. Ah guess...uhm, y'all took care o' Riptide?"
"Guessed right, mon amour. Never mind your pretty little face 'bout gettin' here a little late, Rogue. Like Elisabeth said...it's the thought dat counts. An' you were worried about me, weren't you?"
"Jus' doin' my job, Cajun." ~ Rogue and Gambit
"You are deader than a snowman in July! An' ah mean TV-movie of the week, CNN all-day coverage kinda dead! No...wait...better yet...ah'll just let you live...since everyone knows just bein' you is punishment enough!" ~ Rogue, to Iceman after he froze the pool water as she dove in
"It's no secret you and Gambit are having problems - and we've all noticed how miserable that's made the two of you..." ~ Iceman, to Rogue
"Best way t'beat you down, Creed, ain't t'beat you up. I worked too hard, care too much 'bout bein' here - learnin' how t'love for real - an bein' an X-Man - t'let a loser like you take it away from me. So I know the best way t'win the fight against you, is for me an' Rogue to be happy together."
"Is that a fight we can win?"
"Rouge...? I didn't know you were - how much did you hear?"
"Enough. Ta realize how wrong ah was...ta blame you for the things you did in your past when my own is just as messed up. But Gambit..ah also know that you an' ah won't ever work right until we both accept what we've done in our lives."
"An when's that gonna happen, girl?"
"Soon...ah hope. 'Cause ah can't run anymore from who ah was...if it means ah keep runnin' away from who ah wanna be." ~ Gambit and Rogue
"Kinda sad, isn't it, Rogue?"
"What, Remy...?"
"Lilandra's bein' just a holographic projection. The professor an' her can watch what's comin' together - but they can't even touch - or hold - each other. Jus' thought that was sad, is all."
"Remy, toss the cigarette away...an' please come closer to me..." ~ Gambit and Rogue
"What has love done t'you, Remy LeBeau. Ev'ryone I grew up with, the entire Thieves Guild, dey'd be havin' a good laugh on you now, boy. Standin' in the rain, pretending it's that - and not tears - runnin' down y'face..." ~ Gambit's thoughts
"It's a pretty swift shot t'the guts - knowin' y'lousy past cas caught up t'ya. Jus' when y'thought - y'hoped - that ya'd gotten away from it...worse when it's d'woman dat you love, who could be d'one t'ruin it all. Even worse still, it's all d'result ...of one stolen kiss. One helluva kiss, at dat. The kinda kiss a gambler would risk d'pot for..." ~ Gambit's thoughts
"Ah know what comes next, Bobby. Ah've heard it a million times! 'You can't touch anyone - ever, ever...EVER!'" ~ Rogue
"...ah just couldn't die without kissin' you once, Remy."
"I felt the same way."
"But now...well, now ah can't live thinkin'...that ah'll never be able to kiss you again."
"...Look. I can kiss your tears. I can taste your sadness. We'll find ways t'touch, body and soul." ~ Rogue and Gambit
"I want you t'touch me. Be inside me again - become me - let me become you - no secrets, no shame - so we can get past this an' go on from here de way I want us to - together - as one. Choice is yours." ~ Gambit, to Rogue
"An' she's gone, snap, jus' like dat. An' look what she leaves behind - Gambit prince of t' Thieves Guild, left standin' like a fool, pain in his chest...cause she stole my heart....gaspin' for air...cause she took my breath away..." ~ Gambit's thoughts
"Gambit...you're about to blow off your hand..." ~ Rogue
"Gee, Rogue, in this light, you almost look like that chevrette, Logan."
"She's back at the house, LeBeau...waitin' fer you."
"Well, I'd hate to disappoint the lady..."
"Gambit...listen good, 'cause I don't plan t'rehash this. Xavier's is a place for second chances. Even after all the lies...the trial...it's good that you're back. But...you play us all for fools, or break that girl's heart again...we're gonna have words. Strong ones, you dig?" ~ Gambit and Wolverine
"Ah don't usually make it a habit t'beat the snot outta girl who obviously got mental problems, Kali...but you couldn't have picked a day where I felt less sympathetic." ~ Rogue, to the mysterious woman trying to kill her and Gambit
"And den sometimes...tryin' not t'hurt anyone...you make things worse. Rogue...what you said...about Antarctica...dat wasn't you. It was my fault, chere."
"No, Remy...leaving you there...I can't forgive myself..."
"Rogue, when you kissed me, at de trail...absorbed my mind...you absorbed my self-hate along with it. You left me because I wanted to be left...'cause I wanted to die. But the truth is...once I came face to face wit' it...I din't want to go. I couldn't...because I couldn't bear the thought of dyin' wit'out seein' you again...I don't hate you Rogue...I could never hate you..." ~ Gambit and Rogue
"...you ever notice you and I can't go on a date without bein' jumped?"
"Maybe someone's tryin' t'tell us something." ~ Gambit and Rogue
"You dreamed about dis? Really? An' what did I do in this dream?"
"Well, in one version you came crawlin' in like a dog, ah punched you across the state an' back, then walked away, free of your spectre."
"Uh...are we goin' there, chere? If so, I'll save you the trouble an' start walkin'..."
"The other has you swoopin' in like hellfire...all eyes and arms and lips...pullin' me to you, and tellin' me that the past is past and the future is open, and you...and you still love me...like I still love you." ~ Gambit and Rogue
"I'm sorry...ah shouldn't have pushed so far so fast...you need time, fine...just don't expect me to wait forever." ~ Rogue, to Gambit
"Considerin' that you used t'be an overgrown PC gatherin' dust in our basement - you sure are full of yourself." ~ Rogue, to Cerebro
"No, Rouge Lady...I felt him...he's hurt..."
"Hurt? How badly?"
"Bad. I can see inta his mind. He's thinkin' 'bout you..." ~ Nina and Rogue, about Gambit
X-Men #109
"Rogue, when you're hurtin' bad as dis...it ain't the time t' shut out those who care for you, or drive us away."
"Don't you get it, Cajun?! My power is out of control. Ah'm dangerous! You stay close t'me, you're gonna get hurt."
"My risk. My choice. I can take care of myself." ~ Gambit and Rogue
"You'll place your friends at risk, but not me? Chere, dat's crazy!"
"Right now, so am I. Fact is, they get hurt, it'll break my heart. But if it's you - ah'll die. Ah can't work through this, Remy, if ah'm worried all the time about you."
"An' how'm I s'posed t'live wit' you gone from my life?" ~ Gambit and Rogue
"Shaking, I reach out to take Remy's hand. It's instinct. It's natural. It's impossible."
"Roguey, you okay?"
"Fine, considering someone just blew their brains out in front of us..." ~ Rogue's thoughts, Gambit, and Rogue, after a tragedy
"Glad to have you back, sweetheart."
"I leave you guys for two minutes and look what happens!" ~ Gambit and Rogue, after she tries to absorb a catatonic victim
"Did you get anything from the zombie?"
"Yep. I got weirded out." ~ Havok and Rogue, on absorbing the catatonic victim
"We seem to be dealing with two kinds of mutant here. Burnt-out zombies...and raging psychopaths."
"And the dead. There're lots of dead, remember? They're the bloody ones with the funny expressions who don't move around much."
"Okay, smarty pants...three kinds of mutant." ~ Gambit and Rogue, on their situation
[The group finds another survivor, who bites off his own tongue so he can't talk to them.]
"Look, I know last time wasn't exactly an unqualified success...but I think I can get something from this guy, Alex."
"For God's sake, Rogue, he's a psychopath."
"I'll be absorbing his memories, not going on a date with him."
"Glad to hear it." ~ Rogue, Havok, and Gambit
[Everyone starts "freaking out" due to some kind of psychic attack.]
"Can't stand it down here no more. Look! I'm s-sweating. What's happening t' me?"
"Relax, dude. I'd feel like that too if my girl didn't let me touch her."
"Wha' was that, Drake?"
"Bobby, ah'm disappointed in you. How could you say something so...so heartless? So downright nasty?"
"I...I didn't mean it, Rogue...I don't even know why I said it...it was like someone else said it." ~ Gambit, Iceman, and Rogue
"Hey, Remy...real sorry about what I said back there. Second-rate locker-room B.S. I was a jerk."
"Nah, maybe you were right, Bobby. Maybe dis no-touching thing is getting t' me...more den I thought. Though that don' make ya less of a jerk for saying it." ~ Iceman and Gambit
"This no-touching thing."
"Rogue, I..."
"That's how you described our...unique predicament to Bobby. Maybe it's getting to you. D'yall ever consider that it might be getting to me too?" ~ Rogue and Gambit
"As I reach out to take the weird trinket I touch him. And I feel it. The memories. The ancient stories handed down from generations...stories of a creature that lived inside the rock shaped like a skull...a creature they named...Golgotha." ~ Rogue's thoughts, as she absorbs a man trying to sell an oddly shaped trinket
"See ya later, darlin'."
"Ah will expect a present." ~ Gambit and Rogue, saying good-bye before the team splits up
"Leave him, man. He ain' worth it." [Wolverine attacks Gambit.] "Mon dieu...Logan, what's got into you?"
"Don't you ever put your filthy Cajun hands on me again."
"Agh-hem. You hurt a hair on my man's head and ah swear I'll kill you!"
"Hah hah hah hah hah...this is how the fun begins. Friends falling out...tiny enmities blown all out of proportion! Those demons you keep buried in the dark...crawling out...like maggots...towards the light..." ~ Gambit, Wolverine, Rogue (all acting a little off), and Boy
"Darling, listen carefully. This ain't you talking, it's...it's that thing..."
"Mais non, ma petite. For once, it is me. And now I see. I'm glad we can't touch. I'm thankful that we're non-tactile, pretend lovers."
"Please, Remy don't do this...just go..."
"Not touching is the only thing that's kept us together. It's what adds the sparkle. Without that...we'd be bored with each other. You'd just be another one-night stand. I'll leave you two alone. I know you've always had a thing for each other. You make a perfect couple. The old letch and the maiden..." ~ Rogue and Gambit, who has fallen under Golgotha's spell and leaves Rogue with Logan
"Leave him. He doesn't mean anything he said. It's the craziness talking."
"Is it?"
"Logan, please..."
"Is it craziness to say we always had a thing for each other? Craziness to say I always wanted to do this..."
"This is crazy..."
"I don't care."
"Darling..."
"Rogue...I've wanted you for so...so...ghhh...Ro...gg..." ~ Rogue and Logan, right before he kisses her and she absorbs him
"Oh my God, what have I said? What have I done? Think straight. Rogue. Do you really love her? How much easier would life be without her? With a normal mutant girl. A girl you could roll around in the hay with. Face it. You don't love her. And...and she probably doesn't even love you. She doesn't know what love is. How could she? Not being able to touch has arrested her emotional development. She's trapped somewhere in kindergarten. It's puppy-dog love. Make-believe romance." ~ Gambit's thoughts, still under Golgotha's influence
"But this is gonna be dangerous, cheri. I'd hate to go out there with a cloud still hanging over us."
"You sayin'...you're sorry."
"How can I be sorry for something I didn't mean to say?"
"Those words came from somewhere, Remy."
"And what about you and Logan? Where did that kiss come from?"
[An awkward pause follows, then they put on the helmets of their space suits.]
"Take care sweetie."
[They "kiss" through their helmets.] ~ Gambit and Rogue, before going out into space to fight alien creatures
"We could just hold hands. We don't have to, ah, do anything."
"I want to do...everything. If you're willing to take the risk..."
"You know I am."
"And it's been an age since we tried. So maybe...maybe...this time...this time will be different..."
"And it's worth any risk. It's worth dying for."
"Swear ah'll die if we can't do this."
"But what a way to go. The big death. La grande mort."
"I don't want to hurt you, darling. If it starts happening, we'll stop..."
[Gambit cups Rogue's face in his hands and leans towards her.]
"Nothing's happening. Nothing bad, anyhow..." ~ Gambit and Rogue, during a "psychic" therapy session, right before she absorbs him (in her mind)
"I remember...like it was yesterday. The first time we met. That stupid game of ball. Of course, there were others there, too. Not that I noticed them. Then the first time he held me in his arms. He took me for a ride on his bike. My feet haven't hit the ground since..." ~ Rogue's thoughts, as she's accidentally absorbing Gambit during her psychic session
"Your thought patterns seem to be normal, Remy. At least, as normal as your thought patterns ever are. There's been no harm done."
"Dat is a matter of opinion. You promised us, Emma. A telepathic answer to our problem."
"I promised to help. That's all."
"And you failed."
"Actually, you failed. Or one of you did. Even in telepathic form you were unable to escape the reality of your situation."
"Reality? The reality is I died last night. I got sucked dry, just as I reached a romantic crescendo. Dat's a very special kinda traumatic experience."
"I'll give you both more telepathic therapy. We can try again."
"Maybe..." ~ Emma and Gambit, on the failed attempt at therapy with Rogue
"Don't get sore, darlin'. I'm just sayin' he seemed particularly violent today. Like a man getting rid of his frustrations."
"Maybe you're just projecting some of your own pent-up emotions, Logan."
"That's unkind."
"And suggesting that Gambit is some kind of sexual neurotic ain't?"
"Well - I'm sorry."
"Me too."
"There's talk about Emma tryin' to help you guys."
"This place is full of talk."
"So it doesn't worry you that Gambit is spending some of his day wrestling with a little sex doll?"
"Why should it worry me? Gambit would never be unfaithful." ~ Logan and Rogue
[Gambit is taking a shower when he is approached by a naked Foxx.]
"What are you doin' here?"
"That depends on you, Gambit."
"Foxx, I don't know where you got the idea that you and I..."
"I got the idea from you. You can't disguise your hunger."
"Not true."
"You want me. You can't admit it to yourself just how bad you want me."
"I love Rogue."
"Yet still you want me. It doesn't make you a bad person. You're a virile man, you have needs. Needs that my...needs that Rogue cannot satisfy. I want you to think about it. I'm here for you, Gambit. No questions asked. No one need ever know...shall I show you how sharp my teeth are?"
"No! Stay away. This ridiculous conversation is over."
"All right. But think about it. Your prime was several years ago. And every celibate day moves you further away from that peak. Your libido fades by the hour."
"Mon dieu. And they say romance is dead."
"Just think about it, Gambit. And think about me."
[Foxx leaves, and Gambit turns the shower to cold.] ~ Gambit and Foxx
[Back in the showers...] "Foxx. No questions asked. It won't mean I love you. I won't mean I'm promising you anything."
"Guilt free. Risk free..."
"Physical..."
[They kiss, then Gambit wakes up screaming.]
"Ahhhhh!"
" 's up, honey?"
"Uhh. N-nuthin'. Nightmare. Yeah, a nightmare."
"Maybe it's the shock of waking up in the same room as me?"
"Uh-uh. Ain' dat. Emma said that sharing the same quarters might help our situation, and I'm fine with the arrangement."
"So why don't you tell Rogue all about your bad nightmare."
"Know somethin', cheri? Maybe I won't."
"Oh, come on, it'll be fun. I'll analyze you. Try to figure out what your nightmare signified."
"I think I'll just hit the sh-shower."
"Suit yourself. But don't forget, we got another appointment with Emma in the morning. Hope you're ready to take a beautiful young damsel in your arms!"
"You bet!" ~ Gambit and Foxx in his dream, then Gambit and Rogue discussing it
"Would you like an apple?"
"What is dis? Le Jardin D'Eden?"
"I like to think it could be paradise. But I'd rather not get too hung up on any strict biblical interpretation of this."
"You mean...no snakes hidin' in da grass?"
"Snakes? Trust a Cajun boy raised in a Catholic household to bring up the subject of sin."
"Oh? What kinda' sin did the southern Baptist girl have in mind?"
"It ain't no sin if y'all truly love each other."
"But it won't mean I love you. It won't mean I'm promisin' you anything."
"Wuh?" [Foxx is now in Rogue's place, choking him.] "What're you talking about?"
"Snap out if it, Remy. Come on." ~ Rogue, Gambit, and Emma (last line) during another psychic session
"I think we should call it a day. In fact I'm not really sure you two are ready for this degree of telepathic platforming."
"I'm ready. It's the snake in the grass who's got a problem. Though I'm sure he wouldn't have a problem with that Foxxy new student."
"Wouldn't have to go through this telepathy thing with the Foxxy new student..."
"Tres bien, mon brave. Make her feel even more insecure than she already is."
"I didn't mean dat, cheri!"
"Go cheri yourself." ~ Emma, Rogue and Gambit, on the failed psychic session
"I don't like this. So why can't I stop it? What's so special about her? It's not as though Rogue and I have suddenly been unable to touch. And Foxx ain't the first pretty girl to make herself available to me. But..." ~ Gambit's thoughts, contemplating his attraction to Foxx
"Not exactly a garden of paradise, ah know. But it's nice. And ah don't believe there are any snakes. Not poisonous ones, anyhow."
"You moved all your things from my room."
"Sorry to be so sneaky, but I wanted to do it when you weren't there. I only moved in with you because Emma said it might help with the telepathy. But it ain't helping."
"But it's been beautiful...waking up together, watching you come alive in the morning..."
"It just makes this feel even more like a mockery of a real relationship."
"We'll keep workin' with Emma. I'll try harder. I won't mess up next time. I promise."
"You can't promise that, Remy. You can't promise me anything. And I can't promise you anything...except increasing frustration. And if or when we give into that frustration...death. Horrible, agonizingly slow, life-sapping death. Not really much of a dowry, is it? So I've been thinking, why don't you and Foxx get together?"
"What? Are you crazy?"
"Why not? You seem to like each other. You're both attractive people. You'll be able to touch. Kiss. Love."
"But I don't want Foxx."
"Oh?"
"I don't want any other woman. I want you. I want Rogue."
"You...do? Really?"
"I'll prove it." ~ Rogue and Gambit, on their recent problems
[When Gambit tells Foxx he's transferring her to another class, she changes into Mystique.]
"Foxx? Foxx is a woman I created to seduce you."
"Mystique?"
"Blandly beautiful. Insipidly sexy. Foxx was made for you..."
"In the name a' God, Rogue is your own step-daughter...! You're twisted. Crazy...completement mauvais."
"But I underestimated you, Remy. Maybe I always have."
"You're wasting your breath, Mystique. Now get out before I throw you out."
"Please, Remy. I know you think I'm evil...and maybe Foxx was a mistake...but I'm only trying to help."
"By messing wit' my mind? By trying to sleep with your own daughter's boyfriend?"
"The idea repels me as much as it does you. But I want my daughter to be happy. And she can't be happy while you two are tearing each other apart. So if one of you had some physical release..."
"That's enough! I want you out of this school."
"Come on, Remy, I know what you want. I've got what you want. Take a look."
[Mystique morphs into Rogue.]
"Stop using that voice. It's...no..."
"How long have you dreamed about taking Rogue in your arms? A night of unbridled passion?"
"Pu-p-please, Mystique. Don't do this to me."
"Come now, Remy. You won't be doing anything wrong. You've proved that you only want Rogue. You're a one-woman man. I respect you for that. You didn't succumb to Foxx. But this is different. This is Rogue. It won't be like cheating..." ~ Mystique and Gambit, when she reveals that she is Foxx
"The way you hit the ground right between us. Without hitting either of us. Dat was magnifique. Dat was de work of an artiste."
"Wipe the stupid grin off your face, Remy. I was aiming for your butt." ~ Gambit and Rogue, after she used a plasma blast to separate Gambit and Mystique
"Ah've built a life for myself here. A good life. Why did you come here? To spoil it?"
"I...I just want to be close to you, Rogue. To make up for all the times I wasn't there in the past..."
"I've had enough of your lies. Now I want the truth. The truth, Mystique! Or I'll beat it out of you."
"Fine...I came here to...to seduce Gambit."
"That's why you created Foxx?"
"I fashioned her to appeal to his crude tastes. And when that didn't work...I offered him the one thing you can't give him...you."
"A-and. Did that work? Did you give yourself to mah man...?" ~ Rogue and Mystique, in Mystique's "cell" beneath the mansion
[Rogue chases away one of Gambit's students during a session with him.]
"See what you've turned me into?"
"Cheri..."
"Call me that again and I'll burn your throat out."
"You've been talking to that liar who calls herself your mother."
"She said you were tempted by her. 'How many nights I've lain awake thinking about what I'd like to do to you...' "
"An' I guess you went ahead and believed her."
"No. I went ahead and absorbed her memories. I almost sucked her dry trying to get down to the truth."
"And?"
"And nothing. It...it was all confused. A wall of white mental noise. She's had something...done to her, or..."
"Nothing happened between me and your mother. Rogue, dat I swear."
"But you knew Foxx was Mystique and you didn't tell me."
"I...I hoped she'd go away."
"She tried to seduce you. You still didn't tell me."
"I didn't want to worry you..." ~ Rogue and Gambit, on Mystique
"She speaks convincingly. You know...if she'd been different, she might have been such a power for good."
"Isn't that what they said about Adolf Hitler?"
"I'm wit' Rogue. Let's remember she used to be a terrorist. She tried to put us all in the ground on several occasions."
"Ah, you're only saying that to cuddle up with your girlfriend. Who actually turned out to be a real good X-Man herself...even though we used to say some pretty bad things about her, too." ~ Beast, Rogue, Gambit, and Iceman, on Mystique's request to join the X-Men
"Unbelievable."
"I'll go wit' you...c'mon, Roguey...it's for the best. Having her around will let you see..."
"Just drop it, Remy, please."
"...there's nothing between her and me. In any of her shapes or forms..." ~ Rogue and Gambit, on Mystique being accepted into the X-Men
"I don't know what ya want - an' I don't know what my crazy mother told you, Agustus...but me and Gambit are happy..."
"Glad to hear it, Rogue."
"Sure we have our problems, but who doesn't?"
"Me, actually, I don't have problems."
"An' I don't know what these 'special attributes' are that Mystique said you had, but..."
"Was that embarrassing or what? For all her modern ways, Mystique is pretty antiquated. She still thinks marriages should be arranged. I simply promised Mystique I'd meet you. I owe her, you see. I don't really expect anything to happen. So let's try to be friends, at least. There's enough war and strife in the world without us two fighting." [Pulse puts his hand on her arm.]
"Mister, I wouldn't put your hand there..."
"You going to slap a suit on me for sexual harassment?"
"No...but I might just suck out your life force till you're not anything but an empty husk."
"Don't worry about that."
"Why not? Hey - what's up with your eyes?"
"Don't worry about that, either."
"H-how long has your hand been there...with nothing bad happening?" ~ Rogue and Pulse, during their first conversation
"It's something to do with his eyes. When they spin...or pulse...he creates a field...that disables us. Us mutants. It stops the power. It also works on burglar alarms, which has led him into bad ways."
"Tell it ta someone who cares, Mystique."
"He can touch her, Gambit. Hold her. Kiss her. Anything. He stops her power."
"You t'ink Rogue is dat shallow? All it'll take to get her away from me...is a man she can hold without killing?"
"I think Rogue is a good person who would sacrifice her own needs and desires so as not to hurt you. But what about you, Gambit? Do you love Rogue enough....to let her have a chance of real happiness?" ~ Mystique and Gambit, while boxing
[Apocalypse appears and tries to convince the X-Men to join him.]
"Well, he's right about one t'ing."
"Mama used to say the devil sometimes spoke the truth. 'S what makes him so dangerous."
"Yeah...guess you right, girl." ~ Gambit and Rogue
"You told yourself that everyone can get along. Mutant and man. We can all live in peace..."
"I believed it..."
"But now you start to realize these dark days...require darker ways."
"I don't seem to be listened to anymore."
"They're scared to listen."
"Somehow...I've been relegated..."
"Because you're better than them. Here - let us drink, mighty Gambit. To a new partnership...to a new world." ~ Apocalypse and Gambit, on his joining Apocalypse
"My fourth horseman. Freshly imagined...newly minted..." [Gambit comes out of the smoke.]
"Oh...oh no..."
"DEATH!" ~ Apocalypse, introducing his newest follower, and Rogue
"No painkillers."
"I would recommend something to deaden the pain. At least in phase one of the transformation, when the instruments burrow deep into your..."
"Mais non! I must be conscious the whol' time. I want to be fully aware of just what you're doing t' me, Apocalypse."
"As you wish." ~ Gambit and Apocalypse, before Gambit's "transformation"
"You...you're wrong...I'm...I'm not doin' this because I hate the X-Men. I'm doin' it because...I love the X-Men. I almost believe you when you say you're on the mutants' side this time! I can tell you've changed. M-Day has brought out the best in you. We need you. Your strength. Your...indefatigability. But if you're lyin' - schemin' - if behind this mask, the old self-serving Apocalypse waits to pounce...I'll be right by your side. Watchin' and waitin'." ~ Gambit's speech to Apocalypse during his "transformation"...right before he starts screaming
"Come, Scribe, let us leave the transformation machine to its work."
"Very well, master. But you heard what LeBeau said. How do we feel about having a fully empowered X-Man standing sentry over you?"
"Oh, that's what he says now...but the creature that emerges out of that machine will not be the one that entered." ~ Apocalypse and Scribe, on Gambit's speech
"Remy! What have they done to you?!"
"He saw that mutantkind needed a leader...and he wished to serve that leader."
[Rogue blasts Apocalypse with her powers.]
"Ah wasn't talkin' to you, Apocalypse!"
[Gambit slaps Rogue across the face, knocking her down. He stands over her, holding his foot over her head.]
"R-Remy? D-darlin'! Don't you know who I am?"
"Don't you see?! Remy's 'out to lunch'!!"
"Bobby's right, Rogue. Until we can do something about it, that isn't Gambit."
"But I saw something! Remy's in there! Ah swear!" ~ Rogue, Apocalypse, Iceman, and Havok, on first seeing Gambit as Death
"Bobby, please! Don't hurt him!"
"Yeah, I'll see what I can..." ~ Rogue and Iceman, right before Gambit slams him to the ground
"R-Remy. Come home with me. Please."
"I am not Remy. I am Dea..."
"No! I don't believe that! There must be some part of you that still loves me. No matter what awful things Apocalypse did to your body...he can't have completely crushed out all that love..." ~ Rogue and Gambit, as she tries to convince him to come back to her
"Now enough of this, Death! Use the gas on her!"
"The gas..."
[Gambit releases a green gas that begins to suffocate Rogue.]
"NO!" [Mystique punches Gambit in the face.] ~ Apocalypse, Gambit, and Mystique
"Ah shouldn't have left. Ah...ah should have stayed with him..."
"We've made it through worse than this before, Rogue. We'll find a way to help Remy...somehow." ~ Rogue and Iceman, as they escape Apocalypse's ship
"...like looking through a fog - at another person. But now, I begin to see - I am still Remy LeBeau - still Gambit. Gambit and Death. And part of me...still...loves...her...still..."
"Death does not love. Death is a force of nature, like a desert storm, a flood, an earthquake." [Apocalypse grabs Gambit by the throat.] "We will have to put you back on the transformation machine for readjustment."
"Release me, or I'll be the death of you. I will turn the air inside your lungs into noxious gas - as you taught me!"
"Very well. But no more talk of love. Or I will surely put your new powers to the test, horseman." ~ Gambit and Apocalypse
"And perhaps it is hard to find someone else...when you cannot find yourself, Death. Or should I say - Gambit? I placed an Achilles' heel in your flesh, horseman...remember that, if you aim to betray me like my scribe." ~ Apocalypse, disciplining Gambit for not being able to find his scribe
"...he's lost his mind."
"Treacherous words, horseman."
"The truth. Apocalypse taught me that Death speaks the truth. And I am...without a doubt...Death..." ~ Gambit and Gazer (now the horseman War), on Apocalypse
"Remy!" [Gambit hits Havok on the back of the head, and so Rogue kicks him in the chin.] "Remy, dahlin', don't y'all know who I am?"
"Ro-Rogue...?"
"Remy...?"
[Mystique kicks him in the face.]
"Don't be fooled, darling. He's rotten all the way through." ~ Rogue, Gambit, and Mystique
"Come on, Rogue. Standing out here all night isn't going to make Gambit come back..."
[Pulse takes her hand and takes her inside.]
"I had a dream, Gus...that he was trying to find his way back to the institute...but kept getting lost...I wonder where he is." ~ Pulse and Rogue, on Gambit
"Apocalypse gave you back your dignity, turned you from a shuffling half-man into a god. And he put the meaning back into my life, gave me the spark the helped me leave the X-Men. Now you tell me we have to turn our backs on him?"
"No, Remy, no...I tell you - we have to kill him. Lenji, of the venerable Rinzai school, said that if you meet the Buddha, you must kill the Buddha. If you meet the patriarch, you must kill the patriarch."
"I thought Zen preached peace and humility."
" 'Kill' is not to be taken literally. What we must kill is our attachment to teachers, masters, external things...for us, that includes Apocalypse."
"Nous sont horsemen - created to serve our master - we must...remain loyal."
"You had doubts, Remy. You were a half-formed horseman at best."
"Those doubts are no more."
"We are something new. Something other. Neither horsemen nor any longer true X-Men..." ~ Gambit and Sunfire, on what to do now that they've left Apocalypse
"If only I could stop thinking about him, Gus. I wish I could...could exorcise Gambit clean out of my mind."
"As my mother used to say, Rogue, before they carried her off to the sanitarium - there's nothing that time, whisky, and the novels of Virginia Woolf won't heal."
"Did your mama really say that?"
"She was an enigmatic soul."
"I can't tell you how much of a help it's been havin' you around these last weeks..." ~ Rogue and Pulse
"Don't you love the way he talks? It's like having warm sherry poured down your ear-holes."
"Why are you still doing this? You only brought Gus here because you hoped he'd come between me and Remy. I'd have thought you'd ease off...now that it's clear Remy ain't ever coming back..." ~ Mystique and Rogue, on Pulse
[Gambit punches Rouge in the face, and she falls back against the wall.]
"B-but, Remy - we...we love each other."
"That's why I gotta kill you. You're my greatest attachment to my old self." [He holds her by the throat, pushing her up against the wall, and raises his other hand.] "Adieu, cheri...w-weak...so...weak..."
[Pusle appears behind Gambit, holding him back.]
"I c-can't depower this ox for long, Rogue. Hit him! Come on, he was trying to kill you, Rogue!"
[Rogue hesitates, then winds up and punches him.]
"You actually...wanted...to kill me!" ~ Rogue, Gambit, and Pulse
"I want to thank you for what you did today, Gus. You saved my life."
"Maybe I was just doing myself a favor. After all...with the Cajun hunk out of the picture, there's nothing in the way of our romance now."
"Gus, no!"
"I-I..."
"The love of my life just looked into my eyes and told me he wanted to kill me so I don't wanna hear one word about romance! I doubt if I ever will again..." ~ Rogue and Pulse
"...you must kill the Buddha. Y-yes - I understand now. Apocalypse, Rogue, the X-Men...I am free of all of them now."
"Which leaves us to decide what to do next, now that we are alone."
"But you are not alone."
"That voice!"
"I am glad you both feel able to move on from the past...for I am your future." ~ Gambit, Sunfire, and Sinister
"Just give me the bottom line, Bobby. How serious is it?"
"Scott, I wouldn't be talking to you if it wasn't serious. Rogue absorbed eight billion minds, and her power is out of control."
"In what sense?"
"In a 'one-touch-and-you're-stone-cold-dead' sense. But that isn't half of it. You remember what she was like when she first came to us? After she absorbed Ms. Marvel? Well, it's like that, only worse. She's falling apart, Scott. I'm scared for her."
"All right. We're on our way..." ~ Cyclops and Iceman, discussing Rogue's current condition
"Penny for 'em."
"Your thoughts. Usual market price."
"This is...where she lived. That's all I'm thinking. This is somewhere Rogue thought of as home."
"You really don't think of yourself as...being Rogue?"
"Sometimes. Sometimes not. She's in here somewhere. But she can barely make herself heard. Too many voices. Most of them shrieking or pleading. She's...trying, but she's not...holding together all that well..." ~ Cannonball and Rogue, on her condition
"Sleep. Sleep deeply. Without dreaming. Without any sense of time passing. If you feel anything, feel peace. Feel calm. Can I add a few stipulations about her accent and her choice in men?"
"Stick to the script, Emma."
"All right. I'm going in." [Emma telepathically enters Rogue's mind and is faced with a disturbing sight of a huge crowd of people fighting each other.] "Scott? It could be worse than I thought."
"Give me specifics."
"The alien minds haven't been integrated at all. They're all still in here. Separate. Complete. Mostly terrified..." ~ Emma and Cyclops, as she tries to help Rogue
"...but if there's no medical solution, our only option may be brute force. Skin contact with Logan."
"Whenever you're ready, bub."
"That's a last resort. We know Rogue would absorb Wolverine's healing factor, but we don't know if he'd survive. We do it when we've exhausted all other avenues." ~ Beast, Wolverine, and Cyclops, on the virus Rogue has been infected with
"This is like sifting a desert for a single grain of sand. Except that sand doesn't scream. Rogue's consciousness - as far as I can tell - is still intact. But it's been backed into a corner by these countless other minds. Her sense of her own identity is breaking down under the strain."
"You mean she's going insane?"
"She could easily drift into psychosis, yes. And then catatonia or amnesiac fugue."
"Then do something. Don't just stand there and talk about it."
"Can you do anything?"
"I can try to build some psychic floodwalls. But it won't be easy. To extend the metaphor, there's no dry ground to build on..." ~ Emma, Mystique, and Cyclops, on helping Rogue
[Scalphunter aims a gun at Rogue, and Mystique punches him.] "You don't shoot my daughter..." [She raises her arm and aims it at Rogue herself.] "...nobody else can do that for me." [Mystique shoots and Rogue falls, unconscious.] ~ Mystique, right before she admits to being one of the Marauders
"We've also completely neutralized at least one of the X-Men's combat teams...and damaged their infrastructure badly enough to cripple them."
"You damaged other things along the way too, chere."
"Rogue will live..." ~ Mystique, making her report to Sinister, and Gambit
"Emma Frost was unable to locate Rogue's consciousness among the eight billion minds she absorbed from the Hetacomb. I assumed that your resources would be more...adequate."
"You speak lightly about things you don't understand, Mystique. If Rogue's mind were still intact, I would have found it by now. But it's broken into pieces. A memory here, an impulse there. Keeping her alive may have been a wasted effort, after all."
"But to kill Rogue, homme, you got to go through me. So you're saving a little effort there."
"A very little. Don't try my patience, Gambit. You'll find it has limits." ~ Mystique, Sinister, and Gambit, on Rogue's condition
"So our best bet is to take the fight to him. Get Rogue back at the same time, and finish this before it even gets started." ~ Wolverine's suggested course of action
"I was wrong about Rogue. Her choices didn't pan out. I put her in a role she couldn't handle."
"That's garbage."
"Bobby, I warned her about Creed..."
"I know you did. I was there. And it doesn't change a damn thing. Mystique wasn't Rogue's mistake, Scott. You led the vote on that. And Karima isn't an enemy, any more than Lorna was when she was possessed by Malice."
"What's your point?"
"Just this. Rouge chose the team she had to choose, to get the job done. And we did get it done. We saved the school, when the Children of the Vault attacked - we stopped Hetacomb from eating the minds of every living thing on Earth. So if you disband us now, it won't be because Rogue got it wrong..." ~ Cyclops and Iceman, discussing Rogue's role as a leader
"So here we are again, chere. Like I never left you. It's a pity you can't hear me, because I was looking to apologize. Yeah, I know, not something I was ever any good at. Even before I went and had that talk with Apocalypse. I went a long way away from you, Rogue. Without explaining, without saying goodbye. And then I went a long way away from myself. Now I come back and you're already gone. But you gonna survive this, je te jure. Even if you spit in my face. Even if you never let me explain. You don't end here. And you don't end like this..." ~ Gambit, spilling his heart out to a comatose Rogue
"R-Remy! Oh God, ah had this sick, stupid dream....(indistinguishable rambling in another language)...dark, it's too dark I can't even...(indistinguishable rambling in another language)...by five lateral from galactic core, we found..."
"Rogue! Can you hear me? Chere..." ~ Rogue and Gambit, for the few moments she woke up
"You should take off the gloves, LeBeau. Think about it. Touch Rogue's bare skin and you'll die, instantly. But a part of you will live on, inside her mind. That's your happy ending right there."
"Dat's very funny, Mystique..." ~ Mystique and Gambit, as she gives him some words of advice
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A Re-START of Contemporary Art
EDITORIAL: HOW START FAIR’S EMERGING ARTISTS MIGHT HELP CHANGE THE CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET
Six years ago, on 1st July 2010, Charles Saatchi announced his intention to gift over 200 works of art and the Saatchi Gallery to the nation, upon his retirement. The gallery would be renamed MOCA London, which stands for Museum of Contemporary Art, London, a polite nod to MOCA LA – the Californian precursor of contemporary art museums, which had been granted a $30M infusion from its founding chairman, Eli Broad.
Mr Saatchi’s decision came on the heels of refusal from Tate Modern’s Sir Nicholas Serota, who had rejected Saatchi’s entire collection donation offer back in 2005. Thus, in the summer of 2010, Tate Modern found itself not only celebrating ten years of existence as London’s highly valued contemporary arts museum, but also witnessing the emerging presence of a major competitor in the heart of Chelsea. Things have gone uphill for the Saatchi Gallery ever since, its exhibitions actively fuelling global art sales and propelling hot new names to the international stage for contemporary arts.
Installation view of Skipwiths Gallery, London (Photo Credit: START Fair / Saatchi Gallery)
The global art market has witnessed a bit of a decline lately. However, the issue wasn’t the slump in prices as some reports may have stated – most of the artists mentioned in these publications had seen their prices artificially hyped in the first place, so that bubble was due to burst one way or another. The problem seems to stem from a decrease in supply, rather than the supply or value. Sellers are nervous about the market, particularly after Brexit and its impact on the international markets, and are thus holding back, which reduces sales totals for auctioneers and makes it difficult for the latter to provide more financial guarantees. The absence of financial guarantees will thus set sellers back, and so the vicious circle goes.
Despite the overall sentiment of caution, the contemporary art market still belongs to those with money – as crude as that may sound, the economic growth across certain parts of the globe encourages more of the young elite to engage in art purchases. They have money to burn and a keen eye for new art, so placing bold estimates on some lots is not considered madness. On the contrary, in combination with fairs designed to showcase new and incredibly talented artists, succulent pricing on artworks will ultimately revive the somewhat sluggish art market.
Beso Uznadze, The Fragrant Orchard of My Mother, 2016 (Courtesy of the Artist and Project ArtBeat)
One such fair is the Saatchi Gallery’s START Fair, which is organised every year in collaboration with Parallel Contemporary Art. Though still young, with its inauguration in the autumn of 2014, START has made a habit of creating the best setting for emerging galleries and artists to showcase their artwork in museum-quality spaces. Complete with a very strong marketing and PR strategy, as well as a well-stocked set of bars on all gallery levels, this year’s edition of START Fair brought forth an unspoken but downright inspiring promise – its ensemble of trend-savvy exhibiting galleries and exceptional new artists seem hell-bent on providing superb works of art that will be well worth the price bumps from auctioneers in the near future.
Saatchi’s greatest advantage perhaps lies in its strong network of well-to-do art aficionados and its longstanding relationships with art collectors worldwide – reminding the world that despite government cuts to public funding for the arts, the real muscle lies on the side of the private collectors; many of those are well acquainted with Saatchi’s offers, and are always willing to invest.
Installation view for Future Island (Courtesy of Mehta Bell Projects / START Fair / Saatchi Gallery)
Chances are that START will succeed where Kensington Olympia’s ART16 (and its previous editions) seem to have failed, even though it was considered the most international of contemporary art fairs, hosting galleries from every continent but ultimately being so mixed that it never really stuck. ART17 has, in fact, been postponed for the moment. On the other hand, START Fair boasted some 70 galleries, highly ambitious not only in size but also in its mission to bring forth names that not even art market insiders have yet heard of.
The works presented by START in mid-September come from different corners of the world and their prices range from hundreds to tens of thousands of British pounds. However, their undeniable prolific quality will soon put most of these pieces in the hands of auctioneers ready to please their quiet audience of eager private collectors. Soon enough, further pricing on artworks exhibited at Saatchi’s START will most likely soar, enough to reinvigorate the art market.
Vasilis Avramidis, Architect, 2016; oil on canvas, 60 x 40cm (Courtesy of the Artist and The Contemporary London)
The psychology behind this process is relatively simple. It starts with bottom prices; the artist’s presence at Saatchi adds the much needed notoriety that grants sellers the power to increase the value of the works later down the line; and so a work that was worth £25,000 last year will see its value tripled over the course of a few years. It doesn’t come as a surprise that START can truly generate healthy sales, with names like Faig Ahmed and Lai Chiu-Chen on the roster. The added kick is the excellent potential application of these artworks in interior design projects. These days, a beautiful and unique work of art will make the difference between a good interior and a stunning one – and these private collectors pay as much attention to their homes as they do with their curated collections, after all.
On that note, we’re comfortable with drawing attention to several names that we felt show great promise from START’s exhibitors, like Michelangelo Bastiani for example, featured by Aria Art Gallery at START Fair. The gallery itself emerged in Italy, evolving as a strong presence on the Florentine art scene and a frequent contributor to the European art market. Bastiani’s sculptural installations show a certain awareness and artistic identity that transcend into hypnotic visual experiences. For those looking to put something of cinematic flair into their home décor or private gallery, Bastiani’s The Tempest, for example, would make a fine collector’s piece.
Michelangelo Bastiani, The Tempest, 2015; steel, 19” LED screen, glass bottle, 52 x 42 x 55cm (Courtesy of the Artist and Aria Art Gallery)
As expected, Korea continues to effortlessly export impressive amounts of incredible talent. Atelier Aki from Seoul has been supporting emerging artists since 2010, and specialises in consulting for corporate collection and art marketing. The gallery’s fearsome instinct allows it to select the very best in their fields of work, with artists like Ji Yong Ho and Kim Nam Pyo on the roster. Ji’s stainless steel and used tire Lion 7 and Kim’s Instant Landscape – Leopard #1, for example, exhibit a mixture of primal and yet stylish artistry that not only resonates with a gallery that has worked with Salvatore Ferragamo and Daum Kakao, but also offers something entirely different and downright exhilarating for any self-respecting art collector.
Kim Nam Pyo, Instant Landscape, Leopard #1, 2016; charcoal on canvas, 145.5 x 112.1cm (Courtesy of the Artist and Atelier Aki)
Ji Yong Ho, Lion 7, 2012; stainless steel, used tire, 500 x 150 x 200cm (Photo Credit: START Fair, Saatchi Gallery)
More and more art aficionados are looking to expand their collections by exhibiting a growing interest in cultures that were previously overlooked. South African art has been leaving stronger footprints each year, particularly since the end of the Apartheid – the country’s rattling tales of racism and intolerance have given birth to powerful visuals. Erdmann Contemporary has made a name for itself as a specialist in advising clients who seek to build comprehensive and quality collections of South African photography and fine art. One of the gallery’s emerging talents is, without a doubt, Eleanor Turvey, whose profound collages of iconic figures like Seretse Khama and Steve Biko, among others, inspire and invite viewers to understand the history behind the canvas.
Eleanor Turvey, The Words of Sir Seretse Khama, 2014; mixed media collage on canvas, 91 x 91cm (Courtesy of the Artist and Erdmann Contemporary)
Switzerland brings its own fair share of talent at events like START. A country whose elite thoroughly enjoys piling up comprehensive contemporary art collections should not be absent anyway. Originating the heart of Montreux, Laurent Marthaler Contemporary is a very young gallery with just three years in the art world. Now holding a successful second showroom in Zurich, Laurent Marthaler Contemporary represents both new and established artists from Switzerland, UK, Germany, Uruguay and Argentina. A show-stopper at START (and most likely in every future gallery or collection) was the ‘La Ballade du Fou’ series of paintings by Charlotte Hopkins Hall, one of the gallery’s ‘prodigies’. Her hyper realistic renditions of luscious hair and textile patterns exude a kind of graceful femininity that is never easy to convey. They’re every designers dream, if in pursuit of a ‘piece de resistance’.
Charlotte Hopkins Hall, La Ballade du Fou II, 2016; acrylic on canvas, 90 x 70cm (Courtesy of the Artist and Laurent Marthaler Contemporary)
Taipei’s interior design and contemporary art scene are both extremely well developed and might often throw shade at their American and European counterparts. With international icons like Marcel Wanders and Zaha Hadid having their names inscribed on sumptuous projects, Taipei is a city that represents Taiwan’s bold gaze into the future. Lin & Lin Gallery has established itself for years as a pioneer on both the Taiwanese and Chinese art markets, often enabling meaningful conversations between the ‘de facto’ separate nations’ artists and the rest of the world.
With showrooms in Taipei City, Taiwan and Beijing, China, Lin & Lin is never in short supply of surprising, unconventional and enchanting art. It focuses on establishing the classics of tomorrow, with its infusion of Chinese aesthetics into contemporary art – it’s no wonder the gallery constantly records a very high success rate, with artists like Lai Chiu-Chen and his cartoon poster-like acrylics – which are valued between £7,500 and £15,000.
Lai Chiu-Chen, The Little Bear Who Is Pouring Out All the Stars in the Sky, 2015; acrylic on canvas, 93 x 68cm (Courtesy of the Artist and Lin & Lin Gallery)
Lenticular artwork has all the hype these days, as more scientific approach to the art medium that successfully offers new experiences to its viewers. The world has already fallen in love with Chris Levine’s lenticular portraits of the Dalai Lama and Kate Moss, to name but a few of the many icons that stood before his camera, so it’s almost natural to see more artists turn to lenticular art. It promises great things, not only visually but also financially – more and more interior designers from the luxury sector look to transplant alternative but equally extraordinary pieces of art into their high end projects, and lenticular artworks seem to meet this demand.
On that note, The Cat Street Gallery from Hong Kong knows how to play the field and adapt to pivotal changes – it was initially founded in 2006 as a means to promote Australian contemporary art in Asia. Today, The Cat Street Gallery holds an impressive palette of international artists and makes its own contributions to the global art scene trends. Its ‘key players’ include The Connor Brothers and their downright ‘wicked’ hand-painted poster art, and Derrick Santini, who takes lenticular art to the next level with fabulous pieces like ‘Teardrop’ and ‘Seven for a Secret’.
Derrick Santini, Teardrop, 2016; lenticular, 119 x 83cm (Courtesy of the Artist and The Cat Street Gallery)
The secret in running a successful gallery does not dwell in size or funding necessarily, but rather in the curator’s instinct versus the art market’s whims. Identifying the artists that could generate immense figures is no easy task – but some galleries do a damn good job of it, like Montoro 12 / Sapar Contemporary. With offices in Rome and New York, the gallery’s most impressive contribution to START Fair this year came in the form of Faig Ahmed, an Azerbaijani artist who applies quantum physics (at least visually) to handwoven carpets to produce mesmerising works of art. Ahmed could easily be considered the ‘poster-boy’ of innovation in art, if one is to review the entire fair through specific highlights. His Azerbaijani rugs are priced between £16,000 and £25,000 at the moment, but we do expect these figures to grow significantly over the next few years.
Faig Ahmed, Singularity, 2016 (Photo Credit: START Fair, Saatchi Gallery)
After the financial crash of 2008, people started to be a little bit smarter with their money and their investments. This mindset has already been acknowledged during PAD London this year, and it will continue to shape how the art market evolves in the future, especially with the political and economic changes set to take place in the UK. But one thing will never change unless a global catastrophe throws us back into the Middle Ages or earlier – people will always spend money on art.
Lee Yun Hee, Allegory II, 2010; porcelain, 35 x 35 x 60cm (Courtesy of the Artist / START Solo)
Andres Barrioquino, Tiger, 2016; oil on canvas, 121 x 121cm (Courtesy of the Artist and One East Asia)
After the aforementioned crash, however, people have started spending money on art in a more cautious manner. They require clarity, and they demand high quality for their investments.
And that is where START Fair equally succeeds – unlike other similar events, it provides focus in a setting designed to connect sellers with buyers through very intelligent networking; it provides clarity as to what is being shown, where it comes from and what makes it exceptional, without cluttering the potential collector’s visual field; and it showcases a carefully selected and curated selection of galleries and artists – only the best of the best will be considered to exhibit in the Saatchi Gallery.
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Matters of Circumstance
By Gary Kleiban 289 Comments
Who ‘makes it’ versus who doesn’t is just as much a matter of circumstance as it is a player’s quality.
Ben Lederman wasn’t some phenom, out of this world, player.
But before we proceed, let’s get something clear: he was a player with good qualities and potential before he left to Spain. And having seen him train with our U12s this summer, and most recently at the U14 National Team camp, I can say he’s gotten much better. Only the untrained eye would question his call-up to Hugo Perez’s camp.
Now, the rest:
He was playing in Southern California. What if, instead, he had been playing in Montana?
His team manager made a connection with a little club that, at the time, happened to have a relationship with Barcelona. What if that connection didn’t happen?
The decision was made (and possible economically) to take Ben’s team to compete in Barcelona. What if that didn’t happen?
Barcelona agreed to play a match against Ben’s team. What if they hadn’t agreed for whatever reason?
Barcelona rolled out their B-team for this match (pretty sure they thought they were going to destroy this ‘fan club’ from America). Ben’s team jumped out to a 3-1 lead. Barca then rolled out their A-squad. Final score 4-1. Spanish eyes were opened! So … the what if’s:
What if Barca rolled out their A-team from the beginning? What if Ben’s team was not as talented individually as it was? If Ben’s team was not of sufficient level and they got thrashed, would he have been identified? Would a trial have been arranged the following year? Or what if … Barca had an outrageous crop of players on that team already – would they have made room?
After the trial, how important was the relationship between Barcelona and us in determining whether they offer Ben a spot?
What if Ben’s family didn’t have the wherewithal and the brass balls to uproot the family and move to a foreign country?
And so on … ad infinitum.
Yes. You need to have a requisite quality or potential as a player. But there’s so much more to it than that:
How many other players across the nation could be in Benny’s shoes if their ‘Matters of Circumstance‘ lined up? (Don’t all you parents jump on that boat at once.)
How many former college players would have been drafted if their team had made it to the college cup instead of not even making the tournament?
How many current MLS players wouldn’t be pro if they hadn’t landed on the right college team?
What player would not have been released from their pro club, if the coach were someone else?
Would Jermaine Jones ever smell the National Team jersey if Marcelo Bielsa were the coach?
Would Dempsey have been playing Champion’s league with a top 10 club if his ‘Matters of Circumstance‘ were different?
How many players would have been recruited to a top D1 school if only their club coach had more initiative and influence?
I mean, we could do this all day.
It seems to me that it’s difficult to appreciate the magnitude of these things. Human beings tend to simplify the world around them, so they may navigate it. We are creatures of generalizations – particularly when it comes to topics we’re ignorant or novices in.
It’s far easier to have a blanket worldview where the ‘cream rises to the top‘, than to take the difficult journey of acquiring domain expertise.
It’s far easier to believe Josh Gatt got to where he is because he’s among the very best produced American players, than say he’s primarily there due to ‘Matters of Circumstance‘.
How much is a particular player’s situation due to quality, versus circumstance?
Well, that requires some expertise in what quality means and an appreciation for what the field of circumstances are, doesn’t it?
Every time you reach another level of domain understanding (or sometimes just experience), you realize things aren’t as simple as they seem from the outside.
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Very thought provoking as always, Gary. The old adage, “if you are good enough they will find you” isn’t as cut and dry as people make it out to be. And especially when it comes to identifying footballing talent.
That’s exactly right.
You won’t just “be discovered” if you’re legit.
It’s an unfortunate conclusion to think:
“if the US has all these badasses, Europe and South America would be ringing our phone’s off the hook”.
Logical? Sure.
But as I try to hammer home over and over and over …. just because there’s logic behind something, doesn’t make it true. Not even close.
How does Mexico fit into the picture? I’m hearing that some Mexican clubs are looking for US players at U13 & below for their youth academies. Any truth?
Do you agree that US kids < 14 years old are competitive with the ROTW (i.e., "donut" problem)?
Jhun says
There are several American born Mexican players on Xolos youth teams. Even had recent article on Soccer Nation about a Surf player who does that. And I know from my son playing U14 that this is the case with others his age.
From my experience, it’s true.
It may have all started with a gentleman by the name of Dennis de Klose, who use to run Chivas USA’s youth academy around the 2006 – 2008 time frame.
Incidentally, when the US Development Academy formed, the Chivas USA teams were comprised primarily with Barcelona USA players who left to join the newly formed league. And from that crop, Dennis hooked many of them up with pro clubs in Mexico.
It was during this time that we were coaching in the U18 age group at a now defunct club. And we regularly set up ‘friendlies’ with Chivas USA since our team was the best there was outside the academy. Anyways, as a result of those friendlies we formed a relationship with Dennis, who shortly after left Chivas USA and joined Tigres of Mexico.
Long story short, he also provided opportunities for 2 of our players at Tigres. And from that point forward we’d regularly see him or another from the Tigres organization scouting players at Surf Cup and other high-level competitions.
Currently, Dennis is the main guy for youth development in the entire Mexican Federation. Something akin to Claudio Reyna’s post here.
Nuno says
It would seem Chivas USA has good incentive to invest in proper youth set-up
Dennis Te Kloese
http://ntxfutbol.blogspot.com/2010/03/dennis-johannes-te-kloese-tigres-uanl.html
Juan de Dios says
That’s what I was thinking, I know Dennis, he lives in my old hometown in Monterrey, neat guy…But didn’t know he was in charge of the whole youth development in Mexico…
Gary do you attend these?
http://www.nscaa.com/convention/clinicians
Even though he’s been working with Tigres for a long time, their rival’s Monterrey, has been forming more and more complete players than Tigres, in the past 4 or 5 years…
barcafan says
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mbnbpPdHnA
Alec says
I think this will always be the situation to some extent, but we need to work on creating a better system. I think of American soccer like I think about a 3rd world economy. The idea that the best will make it – is like saying that the kid who survives out of poverty in Africa, goes to college and ends up running a muli-million $$$ business is proof that the system for education and talent identification is GREAT!! No it’s not a good system and it’s obvious that tons of talent is going down the drain, because of the system that is being used. This is the situation in U.S. soccer in my opinion and the solution like Africa is complex. Glad Ben is doing well and I think we are seeing development in the U.S., so it’s not totally all bad news.
dabes2 says
Some of these same questions would have to apply to a kid growing up in Brazil or Holland or Spain. There is luck everywhere.
For now, I actually think the NCAA system (which is often criticized as useless) is crucial. It’s flawed, but it’s the only “fat funnel” we’ve got. Until the professional development infrastructure (lower divisions/reserve/academies) mature, it’s the primary way that 18 years olds can keep playing and developing. The Universities may not get all the right players and the development system may be bad,………but at least there are a lot of kids still playing the game.
” it’s the primary way that 18 years olds can keep playing and developing”
For most it’s too late by then.
Cameron Minnis says
Although I appreciate your hopeful optimism in our collegiate system, I have to express that our dependence on it is probably the number one problem with the development of U.S. football. First and foremost, I don’t believe that the collegiate system will ever be able to escape the stigma of needing to fit into the culture of our other American sports. Football is a totally different animal, and if we’re honest, completely un-American. Soccer in the U.S. HAS to find it’s own way, and the restrictions of culture the college leagues place on the game will never allow for the production of quality we are hoping for. The MLS unfortunately is basically in the same situation. The only way football in this country is going to grow into a respectable professional/international system, is if we can change our perspectives on what it means to be a footballer, and that requires us to stop applying credentials to organizations such as the colleges and the MLS teams (in general) who do not produce quality individuals nor a quality style of play. Let’s be honest, if we continue to try and convince ourselves that we have something we do not, we will never lift the football “vail” from our eyes and discover our true potential. BUT, that said, it will be the task of the Academy programs in this country to properly enlighten young players to what truly excellent football is, and that will be up to us coaches to figure out. If the possibility and desire to play professional football outside of the U.S. is not coached and ultimately encouraged by enough parents, I’m afraid we are only going to continue kidding ourselves that U.S. soccer can indeed be financially thriving, as well as a vehicle for producing quality. We may have to wait many many years to have an internationally recognized professional league stateside, but I believe we have the ability to be a nation that produces top level players that are sought out worldwide in numbers, in as soon as 20-30 years. But, to me, it will largely be the responsibility of our coaches to set themselves apart from the status quo and “educate” players, and not just make winning teams.
Simon Cooper UK says
Amen to this about player progression, Its about being in the right places at the right time as well as development. YOU GOT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Yes, and that includes shameless promotion of your player as Gary and Brian continue to do. After his stint at National Camp it is clear to many that he is above average but not a stand-out.
John, do you have something to brag about?
“Show us the product”
So you don’t see what La Masia sees. We get it.
Kg says
So John, what you have determined is the people that are what is wrong with US soccer have determined he is above average but not a stand-out. Really the point might just be that is actually a compliment as their assessment has created the embarassment that is US soccer on most levels……..
“Yes, and that includes shameless promotion of your player”
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Same reason English style does not change.
Lost my so-called “best” players because the parents didn’t see possession soccer as visually appealing. According to the parents it was detrimental to their son’s future career and success.
pulguita says
You probably think Busquets is fucking average too. You’re part of the problem in the US. You wouldn’t know talent if it bit you in the ass.
Finally, someone who has the guts to separate the wheat from the chaff. Let’s see who’s right in about eight months when Barca makes their decision.
Very interesting and true. When I played in college we had a teammate who was from Madrid. He came from a family of 5 sons and he was the middle brother. All 5 of these guys played for the infantile and juveniles of Real Madrid and the oldest played one game with the first team at 18, at which time Real sold him to Burgos. He played 13 years in La Liga. When I met with him we discussed my friend, the middle brother. He said he was the best of the 5 sons by a long shot but suffered from lack of “circumstance.” That was the word he used. Player selection and identification will always be flawed by the circumstance or lack thereof.
John Pranjic says
So…………. did you finally read Outliers?
No I haven’t John.
You really need to man. This post makes complete sense to me. Especially because of the examples that have already been given (and proven) in Outliers concerning all facets of life, business, sports, and the list goes on. And I agree that the non-competitive infrastructure plays a big part when discussing soccer specifically.
Brian Kevin Johnston says
***MASTERPIECE*** Gary… I Look Forward To Hooking Up At Nationals Or Before… Blessings To You and Yours This Holiday Season.. Brian/-
Coach says
But this is the case in life everywhere. Not just soccer.
Musicians, signers, actors, athletes, artists, inventors, engineers, managers even coaches.
Same question would be asked as well, how many coaches from the US are being wasted coaching some rec teams or useless club team here and there, and they could be better than our National staff or even as good as leading a team overseas.
Aside that from lets call all the mentioned above in the article the “Right Factor” = RF.
Aside the from RF, the person has to be strong willed to rise in life in everything. This what makes a good talent to a great talent.
Is the US System missing, yes its missing compared to Germany, Spain, Holland, ..etc. But in England they miss tons as well.
Yes, I believe this to be applicable in all walks of life.
But in soccer, particularly in this country, the “circumstance factor” is exacerbated due to a closed anti-competitive architecture.
An architecture where we compete not on the production of quality, but rather with politics and marketing. When that’s the case, quality loses.
There will always be players that are overlooked. Here and abroad. The difference is here that we select players based on the wrong criteria. Then stunt their development by having them spend more time traveling than training (either with their team or on their own) Not to mention flawed systems of play that force these players to play within themselves.
I was at a tournament in Dallas this past weekend and witnessed these so called ‘elite’ preacademy teams…the level was disappointing. Our best players from our little independent, east Texas teams were as good if not better than these preacademy players and ‘top’ club teams.
And we had 4 kids playing up…and making an impact!
Great article, Gary. It reminded me of an Albert Einstein quote, “Things should be made as simple as possible but not one bit simpler.” The untrained eye makes this topic simpler than it is and you’ve done a great job of making sure it has not been made simpler than it is. Keep up the great work.
It’s tough. It’s challenging for us to face the possibility we know essentially nothing of the world around us.
That if we’re truly passionate and committed, we may only achieve a level of expertise in 1, maybe 2 things. Whether it be road construction, light bulbs, batteries, cooking, the piano, or whatever.
Sure one can say a light bulb is ‘simple’. You can read about light bulbs till you’re blue in the face, buy every kind you can get your hands on, have anecdotes from personal use, etc ….
But do you understand? Can you do lightbulb physics? Can you design and innovate lightbulbs? Do you understand the lightbulb industry? Do you understand the challenges in bringing your product to market? Among a million other things.
People do Ph.D theses on ‘lightbulbs’, and spend there entire lives doing lightbulb research.
Yeah … “simple”.
We are all essentially forced to ‘make simple’, those things we have little expertise in.
This is life in general..work ( 10,000 hours)and opportunity with correct circumstances. Indeed Gladwell sends a great deal of time providing examples of this ( Bill Gates..etc) in Outliers and other variations on the theme in Tipping Point too. Its worthwhile for any parent to read.
In our big country for a youth soccer player its definitely an issue. A concrete example is that I have a friend who has a son 🙂 who is a top shelf player. Even if I’m completely wrong on the assessment lets just pretend he’s near Lederman level as an 11 yo. Its a good soccer state but not California or Texas. ( BTW, why is the U-`14 team 60% California, 20% Texas and other NY Redbulls–thats also circumstances)
Greater Metroplitan area of a million, nearest academy 2 hours or so, 4-5 different US academies within 4 hours in different directions.
We’ve now seen the State ODP pool and he’s top shelf..I could go on but we’ve heard enough about parents legends in their own minds.
So now the decision will be do we take that 2-3 hours drive starting at 13 yo for training. 2-3x week. Thats 10 hours in a car at minimum/week. I know Dempsey did it. I know Gary has said suggested that if you even ask the question you’re not ready. Maybe thats my anwser. Lederman’s were willing to relocate to another country.
But the circumstances are such that he could spend some of those 10 hours not on the road but training . The training is excellent locally at the club. He can train with older kids. The quality of club teams his age and one up is excellent- they even been mentioned in this blog. Also Hispanic futsal club locally ..etc. He gets quality training with some free (unstructured play) 4-5 times a week.
So do you ignore this locally, stick him in a car to “improve circumstances” to have him play in the academy. Heck, I’m not even convinced the training improves (uptic in depth and quality of boys he’d be training with but thats it; I’ve seen the training with my eyes) buts its really about improving visibilty. And unfortunately this is part of “circumstances”. I need some clarity soon. Yeah, i know prepubescent and much can change
Neeskens, I say absolutely not. Not at 11, 12 or even 13. If there is adequate unstructured play and decent club teams (where he can play up) then I say stay where you are.
I don’t care what anyone says, at this age, if you spend more time commuting to training/games than you do actually having a ball at your feet…then it’s a big mistake.
Maybe at 14/15. But not before that. No need.
Brandon says
We began driving a year ago sometimes up to 4 hours one way to train with the academy and state pools. Its been hell on the car and the budget. But its improved technique and confidence dramatically… and I have never heard one complaint… actually in today’s fast paced world it gives some quality time as well. Many kids only have to drive 15 minutes down the road for this opportunity. With regards to the US identification process… they are trying to find the best one’s but nobody is perfect. In my humble opinion… the reason Ben was brought in was because they are trying to change the way we play soccer in the US. The US are just infants in this game but we are not stupid and there is a serious push to get better… when we see Barca playing we get excited because we see intelligence and perfection on the pitch consistently. So if you have a kid (Ben) playing in this system as the magician… why wouldn’t you bring him over and let him try to pull his strings? I think it is a very wise move by Hugo. But if you really want to embrace this style of play then you must… must change the way to identify the rest of your team. Embrace technical ability and touch and you must never compromise or be J-wowed by size and speed that is lacking technical ability. At this age I firmly believe that you must have the insight and wisdom to look ahead see what they will become. With regards to the topic of this post. I believe outlier’s has covered this very well. Not everyone is an outlier… some people just keep on pushing.
Hall..thanks for the follow up.
At this point I am staying local because I think the training environment and the quality of players around him is excellent. They have had success getting a couple boys to the national level who are now older ( 15-17yo) and eventually went to academy. I’ll keep looking for experiences through camps so he can understand how high the ceiling really is..this really motivates him
That’s good to hear neeskens. Good luck.
My take away is, that if you don’t understand the complexity you can’t improve your “chances in matters of circumstance”. Sure you have to be at the right place at the right time… but it helps to at least know where the place is and what kind of timing is required.
You have to be proactive. As a parent, I know there’s way way more that I don’t understand, than I do. But at least I’m getting my head around it while my son is 8 and not 12. Wish I had started when he was 6.
Steve, relax. he’s 8. The next thing you know we will have elite training for toddlers…before potty training.
Seriously, this whole ‘programming mindset’ is getting ridiculous. Encourage him to go outside and play…especially on his own.
Ha. I meant, understanding what the lay of the land is, so to speak.
At this point, just want him to be in a good environment where he’s having fun, and one that teaches good technique. He already plays up, which is good and bad. Actually thinking of having him play at his age level instead. I’m sure I over think it.
Rivelino says
Its funny there has been some debate here and in bigsoccer about how well Lederman was showing. Which is crazy. I don’t consider myself knowledgeable but his quality and sense of himself on the field are so far above everybody else that anybody should see it- just watching the videos.
What’s funny is watching him not get frustrated by the things his teammates are screwing up. How many times does he have to watch them turn the ball into a crows instead of make a simple pass. He seems to be good at just accepting it and stil try to play his game.
Are there links to him playing with the USYNT? I haven’t seen the latest vids.
Rivellino says
This guy has a bunch of vids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORPgUCygnnU&feature=youtu.be
Thanks. Wow. The sun is just not cooperating.
fast forward a bit, there are a lot of good bits.
hawk says
Anyone know who #33 is?
What # is Ben Lederman in the u14 national team video’s? Is he #16 with the A team or #7 with the B team, or am I way off?
I believe he was 7 on the B team.
Thanks for posting the link! Ben Lederman is clearly the best midfielder in the few videos that I have seen. He still makes an ocassional mistake from time to time but he slips into space with ease & plays simple & effective soccer as a center mid. I’m going to show some of these videos to my 9 year old son to help illustrate how a top class youth center mids turn and/or twirl into space with the ball. Though, it does seem as if Benny would prefer short passes to his feet though but can impact the game no matter how his team plays 😉
Chris Swope says
Just curious is Ben a natural lefty? Looks like all his passes and his assist were off his left foot.
He had some nice through balls. And I recognize those tight circles away from the defenders… where have I seen that before?
ThePremierLeague says
How the story could have been different
“Cruyff or Mulle”, Matters of circumstance:
http://www.martiperarnau.com/firma/la-decision-que-marco-al-barca/
Of course missed r on the torpedo 🙂
“Cruyff or Muller” how the world’s soccer story could have been so different:
http://www.martiperarnau.com/wp-content/uploads/Cruyff-o-M%C3%BCller.pdf
“How the story could have been different?”
Yes, your mother and father could not have met and you would not exist.
Nuno, good stuff!
not bad…about this one from Ranieri “Si mi abuela tuviera dos cojones, seria mi abuelo”…classic
heeheee…cabron 😉
In the book “Barca” (by Graham Hunter) I just read, is chock full of discussion of how Xavi, Messi, Guardiola, Busquets, Pedro, and even Cruyff (to name a few) were mistreated and forces aligned against them. They came close to never getting a chance. They played wrong position, chances never came, the club wanted to trade them, thought they weren’t La Masia or first team quality, and so on.
A quote from the book: “. . . fate, chance or fluke – has an enormous influence on how the greatest achievements develop.” This is where I was going with my comments about the US U14 National team. Dozens of players in USA who are good enough, but fate, chance and fluke have not been kind to them.
The story of how Iniesta got is break is a good example. His team played a tournament they got into at last minute because another team dropped. Gets noticed by Barca scouts and the rest is history. And even then, he came close to not joining Barca because it was not his favorite local team.
The book explains how one person’s good fortune (such as Cruyff joining Barca) set into motion a long chain of events that enabled opportunity for people years and decades after. Without Cruyff, there would be no Guardiola, Xavi, Iniesta, Messi and the on –field success we see today the book explains.
Looks like US Soccer need it’s Cruyff. But maybe things are changing subtly. And we won’t see it for 4-6-10 years.
So MLS says it loud and clear: It doesn’t want a Barca in the league:
http://m.si.com/455142/garber-talks-mls-future-beckham-goal-line-technology-more/
Is it time to stop kidding ourselves?
He means letting teams dominate with unlimited budgets. Do I think MLS is good? Nope. Good for US Soccer? Only that it seems to be growing the sport in the US. I think it’s horrible for young players, the minimum pay is ludicrous. At least make joining a team a viable option rather than going to college. There’s so much wrong with the MLS, but Garber would kill for a club that the world pays attention to. Don’t read too much into that quote.
I try not to read too much in any quote…I read more in the product that is delivered…so far it’s way subpar…but this kind of quotes don’t give me any indication that it will get much better any time soon
“So MLS says it loud and clear: It doesn’t want a Barca in the league:” That’s too bad.
Parents you don’t need to move outside of US borders to get quality training. Xolos has training centers in San Diego and Chula Vista.
Who knew we had top Mexican professional coaching centers in the US?
Well he said we didn’t want a Barca, Man U or a Yankees in the league. The financial dominance creates instability. Has nothing to do with the style of play.
La Liga has lots of good teams, but Real Madrid and Barcelona make most of the money. The MLS could mature to a more free market league. But it’s not mature enough to handle it. Not mature enough to even have a really relavent academy system for that matter.
AS says
That is a misreading of what he was saying. Garber is being consistent with the structure of the league, saying that they don’t want a league where 1 or 2 teams dominate year in, year out.
Would it have made you feel better if he said “We don’t want a Glasgow Celtic in the league”?
1) true competition throught the system: that’s exactly what MLS does NOT want
2) quality product: a factor of #1… (and they don’t care either…they would care if people demanded it with their $)
They want a league of 20 teams. Eventually two tiers and have 40. Unfortunately it’s modelled after the NFL. It’s franchises. It’s a problem. And yes it has nothing to do with the level of play. What do you expect when starting rookies make 40k A YEAR. Sure you could have 2 clubs with millions to burn and a roster that makes more than all the other clubs. But that wouldn’t make the play any better. The other clubs would still suck. Unfortunately soccer can’t grow organically in this country. The NASL burned out because it didn’t make money, despite being a few clubs with money.
Garber knows MLS can’t compete with clubs in Europe based on what they pay. But they could do better.
And he means based on spending on players. Not because a club has a dominating style of play or system.
Mario says
From my playing and coaching experience the following is usually the formula to success at getting to the highest level.
QUALITY (you simply have to have the credentials of a good footballer)
LUCK (no or few injuries, or anyting of the sort that stalls development)
THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME (you have to be good and lucky when the right people are watching)
If you miss any one of those 3, it is tought to get there, i am sure there are exceptions and we all have our own stories, but that is pretty much how it shapes up at the end of the day.
It’s the simple things that are so difficult to understand and do well. It’s the simple things that make all the difference.
Some more quotes from “Barca” related to this post:
“The life of a footballer is packed with coincidences, quirks, lucky and unlucky breaks which determine those who make it and those who don’t. Azar in Spanish, fate or luck in English.”
“The history of La Masia is littered with stories of kids, often far older than Iniesta, who had not been able to cope. Those stories are replicated in academies in every major footballing nation. Loss of society with friends, parents or siblings, immaturity, indiscipline – these are all recurring themes.”
The book also chronicles how Iniesta made it while an equally talented contemporary, Jorge Troiteiro, is now in Spain third division. Troiteiro was frustrated with lack of chances at La Masia, so he left and none of us know who he is. Iniesta was also frustrated and plagued by injuries, but stayed at La Masisa. And you know rest of the story . . . .
As Gary properly states in his post, “Who ‘makes it’ versus who doesn’t is just as much a matter of circumstance as it is a player’s quality.” If you read “Barca”, an underlying and recurring theme is how heavily circumstance played a role in La Masia, club success, and the careers of first team players who the world knows and idolizes.
so what is a motivated and knowledgeable soccer parent to do if circumstances haven’t worked in your sons favor? I’ve watched countless U15, U16 national team / ODP camp videos and I firmly believe my son can match up against any of these kids in terms technical ability and soccer IQ. He will definitely play in college but wonder if their is better route. How do you change the circumstance?!
Bill, I’m in the same boat. Rightly or wrongly or even unrealistically. Your geography plays a huge part. And of course the club he is affiliated with.
It is very difficult (if not impossible) for a parent to be intellectually honest about their son’s ability.
Depending on position, role, ‘relative age’ etc. the possible answer is to put him in situations where he can be seen by enough of the right people.
If you youtube Ben Lederman you will see many videos of his Barca team playing ( without the sun )
I’ve seen those already. I wanted to see what the U14s looked like playing with him. I thought they looked good. Goalie did a good job distributing from the back.
NYC2BCN says
where there is a will there is a way…I think if a kid truly has level, they should move to play in Europe where they can increase their changes
My son plays U14 for a USDA club. His team is pretty good. They have maybe one player who has top-notch ball skills, movement, and ability to play multiple positions. That kid often makes excellent passes and plays right, but never gets visibly upset with teammates around him playing jungle ball or poor passing. My son and I often talk about this and how there are precious few players who are at next level. And like the title of this post, I know a few other kids like that who never had right circumstance. Yet we know some big players (my son is admittedly one) who got to ODP tryouts but pale against other kids in same position (I’m being honest and my son admits it too) who are far better. And players are pretty honest, even at 14. I’ve heard kids talking at games how good so and so is and amazed at how he’s not ODP and some other kid is simply due to size (at least that’s what they think). Matters of Circumstance is very real. Funny how life works.
Giving up is wrong thing. I try to tell me son “if soccer is your passion, chase it with all your heart. If you don’t make it, at least you can’t blame yourself for lack of trying.”
Besides the circumstance of luck or fate, another critical factor can be circumstance of being on wrong team. For example, there are excellent players on not so good teams. They may be surrounded by others who don’t pass well, have poor tactical knowledge, play Route 1. The skillful, tactically smart player is lost in the crowd. Similarly, average players on excellent teams get noticed. I’ve seen both of these over the years. I know players who made it to OPD or National team tryout out because they played on so and so top ranked team but they were really average and never made ODP or National team. I also know some truly skillful, smart players who don’t get a whiff of ODP or national team becasue they are on lesser teams. Lost in anominmity due to circumstance.
As an example, George Clooney and Paris Hilton are supposed sex symbols. Why? Becasue they are popular. Popularity gives some false luster and more appeal than if they were bagging groceries at Ralph’s. So being on right soccer team helps very much. Gets you in shop window.
Agree. Very much like a 2nd and 3rd option receiver on the superbowl winning team (american football). They look great because they’re playing with the best receiver in football and with a great quarterback. They sign a big contract with a different team the following season and look average at best.
Send them to Europe to tryout! 🙂
Wolfgang says
There are kids in every city in the USA with the potential to be a TRUE world class player. Potential is only one ingredient. “Matter of Circumstance” is another ingredient. Someone to cultivate the potential is also needed and then someone to harvest it when sufficiently ready. There also needs to be a place to consume that talent once developed. I think a lot of what Gary is pointing out in this website is that outside of that first ingredient “potential” the USA is missing or poorly under developed in supplying all the other ingredients.
Crollaa says
I have a U14 player who is by far the best player in our league in eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and western Idaho. This kid tried out for the ODP program in Portland and made the squad, but elected not to participate because it is a 4-hour commute. The kid is already better than me technically and is getting close to the limit of what I can teach him tactically within the confines of the rest of our squad.
We are a small town, already pulling kids from within an hour’s drive into our club and just fill a squad if we combine U13 and U14 to compete. There’s another club about 75 minutes away with better players than mine (honestly if we combined squads, no more than 5 of my players would even make the team) but I think I’m a better coach than their coach at this age level. U14 is the oldest age we have for club because we actually play in a league in Washington for better competition, but they have no club season above U14 in the spring because that’s when their high school season is and our high school season is in the fall. The lead coach at the high school is the typical ex-college/semi-pro player who plays kick and run with the biggest/fastest/strongest kids available.
How do I approach and how blunt am I with the parents in telling them they should move/commute to give their son a better shot at going somewhere? Do I try to move in to a role at the high school? Do I try to take to tournaments in Portland some of the players from the other nearby club that has good players or get them to take my top 2 or 3 players with them?
Rossi NJ says
A timely article for our recent discussions on the US soccer’s “donut hole”-
http://www.ussoccerplayers.com/ussoccerplayers/2012/11/fixing-us-soccers-donut-hole.html
“There’s a gap in terms of where we are when our players are 15, 16, 17 years old,” U-20’s National Team coach Tab Ramos told me in September. “I think we stay pretty competitive [to that point]. I think there’s a gap from that age group until the players go into the pros, between the players we have and the players that play overseas with clubs. Players overseas … are going into an environment where they’re training six days a week and they’re playing games. And that continues over the next couple of years.”
The hole that is high school soccer, I suspect. We have a hole from 17-21 too, college.
“So we’re spotting the talent, and grooming it reasonably well enough to a certain point.”
There are thousands of talented players 14 and under!!!!!!!!!!!!
You’re not doing jack shit. The real work begins at 15.
Tend to agree with your Dr. Loco. So many talented kids at U14 and under who pass well, are “tidy on the ball”, and understand tactics and able to execute on the pitch for their given age. They separate dramatically in next 1-4 years.
Players are ready to learn at 15 but there is no one to teach them. You need hardcore intelligent training between 15-18 otherwise forget it. It’s too late by college for most.
Rossi et al,
my take away from this article & the following comments is ..
The US youth development falls behind the ROTW after age 14 years old.
Does this imply that we’re on par with the ROTW until age 14?
If this is true, where is the data?
Been reading this forum for a few months. This topic got me to post pent up frustration I have with US soccer.
The worst circumstance is being born in USA if you are a footballer. The circumstance of being surrounded by simpeltons (US Soccer, college soccer, ODP) who cannot comprehend. They were born an ass and will die an ass. Like a father who has an ugly son, his blindfolds cannot see defects. Rather, the father sees beauty. What a monstrous absurdity US Soccer is. Miserable creatures. Fraud, malice, and deceit cloaked in false pretense.
Wanted to comment on philosophy. Something Gary has rightly championed on this forum. Philoysophy drives player id, recruiting, how a coach coaches, how a coach trains players, and playing stle. Philosophy influences who gets onto the conveyor belt of player development and scouting for higher levels such National Team. Philosophy influences circumstance.
Philosophy is why Brazil is Samba and Spain tiki-taka! It’s why they develop the players they do. A function of, not random outcome. Philosophy is the DNA that imprints a sense of direction onto a country’s footballing purpose and well-being.
Coaching, player id, philosophy: the big 3 problems of US soccer. Culture and tradition are also influenced by philosophy. Any young boy in Spain or Brazil have samba, tiki-taka, beautiful football in their DNA. It’s supported by culture, tradition, and footballing philosophy. I’m not sure USA will have proper philosophy any time soon because it lacks the tradition and culture to cultivate the proper footballing philosophy (possession over Route 1, tiki-taka over long ball, skill over size, smarts over braun). The cowboy, Rambo mentality is deep in American society.
ag says
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtXo-8tThAg
(possession over Route 1, tiki-taka over long ball, skill over size, smarts over braun??
a long ball executed with perfection and intelligence against a disorganized defence and the end product…very skillful..Newbies always jumping on the new flavor of the month and have no clue what they are licking.
ag — Yes, I am a naive newbie licking today’s chocolate. However, there is an antidote for everything. Sure Route 1 can work. A philosophy that favors possession, good passing, intelligent play is what I belive is “beautiful soccer”. Route 1 is also a philosophy and requires different types of players. Which is better? Depends is always the answer. Keep in mind that there are numerous other ways of playing. Mexicans play differently thatn Brazialns, than Argentines, than northern Europeans, than Germans, than Italians and so on. In AC Milan’s heyday, they were flavor of month. Tiki-taka has surpassed it. What will replace tiki-taka? Nothing lasts forever.
For now, I chose to lick chocolate and you can enjoy vanilla. Thanks for your warm welcome.
And keep in mind ag, there is nothing wrong with an occasional long ball. Keep defense guessing, change point of attack. Tito Villanova is doing that now in Barca. They are evolving. Things change as I said. If you are suggesting Route 1 with no mid-filed or back line build up, then I guess we are from different planets. If you are suggesting an occasional long ball, then nice! Posessoin soccer doesn’t mean you don’t play attacking soccer. But putting on the attack from constant pressing and taking shots inside 18-yard box has higher probabilitry than the youtube you posted. If a team can one day dominate at highest levels with that kind of play, I’m sure you will have disciples. Until then, Hala Barca!
Keep in mind that there are numerous other ways of playing. Mexicans play differently thatn Brazialns, than Argentines, than northern Europeans, than Germans, than Italians and so on…..really?? wow…thank you for the lesson in culture..please tell me something I dont know…been teaching possession based long before it was the new flavor of the month.I really dont need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows…I havent made any suggestions except this ..There is nothing new under the sun…just dont throw the baby out with the bath water with clueless statements because someone else has said them. ..you still have another 30 flavors to go.
Barcelona has elevated the game for sure…just as other fantastic teams clubs countries have in the past.
MG says
Good points, Jhun. The core of the Dutch team, whose goal ag posted, consisted of players who went through Ajax system and they played possession-oriented soccer.
Not sure why all the anger ag? If you don’t like this site, why bother posting? You seem like such an agry person. Anger typically comes from inability to achieve your own goals or some other failuers in your life. So what is your failure that you need to take out on others?
what anger? again you just make assumptions …
Yes that long ball was perfection for less than 1 min. What about the rest ~90min? Should we watch 89min of awful passing and errant shots?
Perfection?? no such thing…Barcelona plays to their strengths as every team tries to do..and kudos to them!.The game of soccer is made of mistakes waiting for a moment of brilliance to be created…you talk of possession as if you just reinvented the wheel…give me a break.
No one claimed to invent anything. And Barcelona doesn’t play possession because that’s their “strength”… they develop their players to play that way.
Is ag our first troll?
Of course because that is what they believe in..yes i am that troll you dread to disturb..LOL!
“The game of soccer is made of mistakes waiting for a moment of brilliance to be created”
Interesting? Is that how you play football, basketball, and baseball as well? I am searching for universal truths.
Mi pasión es el fútbol! Keep searching as Diogenes did…
Cynic?
κύων = Cynic Greek for dog.. not the way we use it in modern terms….
because he lived his life as a dog and questioned everything.
What’s the Greek for smart aleck?
LOL think think..surely you can look it up!
Barcelona plays to their strenghts, yes. But they didn’t always have that. The modled the team to what they envisioned as a better way to play. Are you a Madrid troll? Pissed that the Royal Whites are 11 points behind? Not sure if you are pissed at Barca, tiki-taka, or us know it all bloggers who happen to love posession soccer? Is your wife not satisfying you ag? Is the team you coach frustrating you? Or are you just an ass?
And by the way, Barcelona didn’t invent possession, just perfected it.
temper temper dont take things so personal…fanaticism ignorance immaturity not a good combination. No no I am not a Madridista …what a typical response…yes I love possession. There is no perfection…
“The result of the long pass is usually a chaotic scramble for the ball as it bounces back and forth while both teams try to win headers or “get stuck in.” Not only are these sequences highly ineffective, they’re incredibly ugly and boring to watch. ”
Possession style has been around for over 100 years. We are just rediscovering it in America. Blame the English not the Spanish.
Learn your history of the game before you put blame on the English …John Jack Reynolds The Man Who Taught Ajax Total Football
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSd_DvCZagI
That English link in a chain of circumstances…
Apparently Reynolds brought the long ball to Ajax too… according to Wim.
John Jack Reynolds…interesting. Have you told Cruyff?
layers upon layers keep on digging…he influenced Michels as Michels influencced Cruyff so forth…each bringing something special to the table.BTW Cruyff fired by Chivas…
Chivas is a mess. Cruyff is probably happy he’s out.
Apparently he didnt even know he was sacked…
I know. I think it’s cuz Cruyff was an absentee coach collecting a big paycheck. I was hoping for a long-term effect on mexican soccer.
The owner hasnt a clue but again a clash of cultures..
this too …
“each bringing something special to the table”
No I get it. It’s like Obama has to thank Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Bush, Clinton. Let’s just forget about slavery since it’s not relevant.
Long ball could help Ajax right about now. Real Madrid 3-1.
“long-ball football done in a clever way’ wins matches”
Not sure what your point is it looked like a possession pass to me. Ball was put on his foot, collected, 1 touch , shot – goal. The pass had purpose, it did not put the player into a 50/50 contest, it was not put into space with no thought. There was very much thought and the risk/reward was very high reward with very little risk. Seems pretty much to fall in line with possession theory.
my point..but lack of understanding seems to cloud some folks thinking.Thanks
Why does this feel like Gary is trolling his own blog. 😉
First of all I am not Gary…I think he would be very up front with his thoughts and I do respect his passion for the game and his understanding, secondly I am not a guy ,thirdly I am not a Madridista and yes I love possesion based futbol played with intelligence.
AG well said through out. Continue to promote deep understanding in place of clone discipleship (save clones for Jim Rome). The last thing Gary is looking for is a bunch of worshipers.
Jhun – Wow, this get testy! Welcome to the forum! Not sure what’s up with ag? I think he’s a newbie too as I don’t recognize him. A Madrid troll as someone suggested? The goal by Bergkamp and long ball was nice. What does it prove? As Dr. Loco says, what did they do other 89 minutes and 50 seconds? I’m sure we could find videos to prove one point or another. So what? There is nothing inherently better in one philosophy over the other. Depends on getting right players who are best at it. Also subjective and in eye of beholder based on their personal prejudices and footballing culture. The more successful you are in a particular style of play, the more disciples you have. Barca play how they do for a reason. Wasn’t always like that. They transformed.
Soccer is fairly static, very true. Same ideas executed differently or more effectively. Differences in the margin. Barca has perfected possession and tiki-taka. That is beyond discussion.
Can someone tell me which team has perfected Route 1 or any other style of play? Which club is has raised the bar on another style of play? Who besides Barca is pushing the envelope, and over such a long period of time, and so successful in the form of trophies? Which club is so successful in last 20-years at developing and identifying talent to best fit their system? You can hate possession soccer or love it, but in Barca it is without question the most successful style of play in last 5-years. Be in La Liga, Champions League, World Cup (to include youngres), or in individual players (as exampled via Balon de Oro).
Every club wants to hire Pep. Why? Do you think it’s because they want him to champion Route 1 or to establish tiki-taka possession? Yes he’s a winner, but it’s because of style of play and the supporting system. If he tries to replicate the Barca success, he won’t without the right players and academy system. Does that mean tiki-taka is a failure? No! Right idea, wrong place.
ag — Can you please tell us which club reflects soccer at its highest level and why? Madrid, Ajax, other? It’s easy to destroy, but can you do some building and let us know your thoughts on playre id, youth development, and club. What is your drugstore philosophy of the antidote to Barca?
do not care for ignorant blanketed statements and assumptions and really I think Barca is fantastico.
Here’s a pretty good example of Barca replicating it in the Super Copa, Mash to Pedro minute 1:50. Not quite as long as the Dutch Option 1 but the skill on both ends is outstanding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuHr4ENU2m0. How Barca will crash the bus.
diagonal balls always cause problems be they in the air or on the ground. But people brush everything a long ball statement.
You seem to not understand the difference between salida(long pass with a purpose) and pelotazo(hopeful, desperate, searching).
Of course teams always play to their strengths. Did Pep’s Barca play the same as Cryuff’s or Rijkaard’s?
Is this a salida or pelotazo?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdnEQ4RhNY
Oh but I do understand..Both sabroso first one pelotazo…but someone with lesser abilty and understanding it would be garbage. First one could have easily been a hopeful wallop but it wasnt.Does the Brazil of today play the same as the one 20 30 40 years ago…of course not but some traits remain which is part of what makes them Brazil. somebody earlier said Barca has perfected possession and then says they are evolving in regards to a diagonal ball…when you have players who can do it and at the right time ….it does not take away from possession based style.
also Juan..using it correctly keeps the other team honest…
also look at the back 4 a mac truck could go drive through..the pass from Marquez caught them in la la land and pulled them further apart..the last pinged pass diagonal with fullback blindsided.
Juan just reposting Pulguitas post…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuHr4ENU2m0
How Barca will crash the bus.
Yes I agree you need depth and width. This is a basic principle.
The point is there is very few if any American coaches with the desire of having their teams playing as such.
Are there players available for it? Only one way to find out.
oops it must be ok to do if Barca are doing it!
Uhg. Stop acting like we’re all stupid. We hate long ball as a style of play… endless bombs from the defensive 3rd. Sure well placed long crosses are genius, how many do you see in U12 ball? U14?
I really dont know why you get all sensitive when all i have pointed out that there is a difference between walloping the ball forward kick and rush style and a 30 40 yard diagonal ball …I havent tried to make anyone feel stupid. That is your assumption.Dont know what ability of kids you are working with but the U13 team I work boys can ping one when they see it and it isnt just walloping… and yes we work on possession..but in general I think that north American kids cant strike a ball well nevermind pinging one.
No shit. Pointing out something we already know. Who’s angry?
we? I beg to differ…is that why most keep referring to an aimless long ball and diagonal as one and the same?
Who has referred to them to one as the same? You assumed they were.
not a chance..
College soccer is the ‘default’ destination of the vast majority of “1 percenters”. American parents don’t seem to comprehend that pursuing a professional playing career and simultaneously a college degree are not mutually exclusive.
There have been some exceptional American players that have come out of the collegiate environment. We all know that. College soccer is not the kiss of death…but it certainly needs to be improved. Either that or the MLS has to invest in a truly vertical development system. U20 and even U23 teams.
And I’m not talking ‘summer ball’ for college players either. (PDL)
Also, it is important to point out that even the MLS academies aren’t selecting the best players. They are selecting or attempting to select the best players in their given geographic market. They have to institute a true ‘residency’ program and scout players outside of their metro areas.
MLS Academies seem think they can’t protect or get compensated by their investment in a player’s development…= child labor laws…big issue
Kephern says
Exactly Nuno, they cannot protect them. If the US starts to really develop a conveyor belt of talent MLS has no chance of keeping the top top players and ever making a dime. So in the end development is only a word to them, not a prioritiy.
Red Bulls managed to use the Homegrown Rights to an Akron player in a trade with Porter and the Timbers. I thought that was interesting.
I wonder how many people would relocate to bring their kids to an MLS academy if they were given the change to join one of their teams?
I don’t think having a residency program is a determine factor…not all pro teams have residence programs.
Also, I think it is important to take an honest look at the MLS academies that do concentrate on developing players. For example, DC United has academy players in their first team and are developing a strong program for youth.
‘NYC’, a residency program is a big factor. Because that way, you are truly bringing in the best players. And otherwise aren’t limited by geography.
The vast majority of European clubs bring players into residency. Or at the very least, they arrange for players to live with host families.
Not everyone can or even should uproot their families in order to relocate to an MLS market. Especially given how MLS academies currently operate. No true ‘vertical’ system in place.
DC United didn’t ‘develop’ Najar…they found him. I’m not saying they don’t have a quality academy program…but let’s be intellectually honest. Players in this country basically have to ‘develop’ themselves.
In spite of the current youth system.
“Players in this country basically have to ‘develop’ themselves.”
So true. But I think it’s true in most countries. The difference is other countries have a natural environment to create players in local neighborhoods and schools. In the US everything is artificial including the fields. It’s a cultural/social problem in the US.
Most top athletes in any sport 14 and under primarily developed themselves with a little help from parents, friends, coaches. Kids just need proper guidance to learn on their own by mimicking top players. Money, professional coaching, elite clubs, etc none of this matters in developing quality players 14 and under. It’s all about the individual skills and talent. Work on the simple basics and fundamentals.
Youth coaches move on to HS and above. Stop charging naive parents for no development. Unless you are a top national team like Gary’s everybody else is just RECREATIONAL.
Hall 97,
Players in EVERY COUNTRY have to develop themselves.
In Spain, the youth top leagues are very demanding and it is extremely difficult to stay in one team.
Barcelona recriuted a lot of players from other top team in Catalunya too; they did not developed each so called Masia player from the ground up. For example Cuenca (reus/Santes Creus), and Jordi Alba (Cornella) were kicked out of FC Barcelona (they said Alba was too short).
Being at a residency program doesn’t guarantee anything for a player.
NYC, I agree with you that residency doesn’t guarantee a player anything. I think most academy coaches abroad go out of their way to explain this to parents and players as well.
And I also agree that young players develop themselves…but the difference is that the coaching is infinitely better (even if by ‘osmosis’..ie footballing culture and experience)
That’s precisely why the MLS academies have to bring players into residency that are spotted outside of their metro area.
Arsenal, Bayern Munich, etc. don’t just bring local players into their academies. Generally by age 15/16 (depends on country) they have to start expanding their ‘reach’ and looking beyond their general area. In that sense, Barca is somewhat of an anomaly in that the vast majority of their players are from Catalonia.
Academies simply are a mechanism for clubs to identify and groom players in their style of play. It is essentially a business investment. Even the players released become diehard lifelong supporters of the club. (Grassroots marketing.) The ones that do make it are sold for a profit or eventually make the first team and consequently make millions for the club.
I’d venture to guess that Ajax probably now makes as much or more off of transfer fees than ticket sales.
I’ve often made the point that there have been plenty of cases where players have achieved greatness without a strong youth background. It can be argued that, in the majority of cases, academies can actually do little to make a player ‘great’.
No team, coach or club (especially in the us) is going to make a player great.
I would say 80-90% of it is strictly up to the player. Through their own hard work and what God gave them. At best they may be able to give the player some exposure they otherwise wouldn’t get.
When parents understand this, we will see a major paradigm shift in pay-to-play. And when that happens, we will let the natural order of footballing things take over.
See Africa and South America for examples.
Hall97 et al,
African and South American pay to play too.
Also, I find it ironic that people on this blog knock MLS academies down or would demand/recomend they open residency programs, etc. Yet they wouldn’t pay to go top an MLS game.
I think too many parents have unrealistic opinions on how great their kids are and expect teams in the US teams to start subsidizing programs but they aren’t willing to support those teams by attending their games.
I go to 4-6 Red Bulls matches a year. My son has participated in a Red Bulls RDS. They’re very active in the region. Their teams do well. Their players get recruited into good college programs and they sign them to homegrown contracts. I think it fails though. Rarely do they make it to the first squad. There’s no incentive for the coaches to start them. They fail to see the value in starting local talent. The mls structure is a problem.
There a lot of teams that have a bad record of using their homegrown talent but nevertheless end up succeding; Real Madrid, the Best Team in the planet of the XX Century is a great example of that.
I think Red Bull, DC United, NE Rev, etc. are instituting programs that did not exists decades prior in the U.S.
Yes, there is a long way to go, but how long did it take Spain to become a world power in soccer?
I think Red Bulls follow the European model despite the fact they can’t really can’t benefit that greatly from it. It serves the region well. Creates goodwill towards the team. They supply 2-4 players to every age group in the YNT. Wish the first team and management would get it together though.
‘nyc’, you are making assumptions. I’ve been to plenty of MLS games. If you think pay to play is the same everywhere else, well, you are certainly entitled to that opinion. But I disagree. I have spoken to many expats and that is the one thing they say they notice first about the American youth game.
The reality is that, the better the player is (in the states) the more money the parents have to shell out. I’ve heard state DOC’s/TD’s admit to this.
Now, perhaps in the northeast, where you have a very large player population in a more confined area, maybe there isn’t the perceived ‘need’ for bringing players into residency.
But in the south, midwest and west, geography is a huge issue.
Now, we can debate whether homegrown players are given ample ‘chances’ with the first team all week.
But, look at how the rest of the footballing world operates, and then try to hash out a viable argument that MLS is ‘doing it right’ when it comes to youth development.
Now, I can certainly agree that the vast majority of parents ‘overestimate’ their son’s ability. But that doesn’t have anything to do with the ‘residency’ argument. If an MLS academy finds a player that will is exceptional…then finding room and board for that player shouldn’t be an issue.
Again, this is how it is done everywhere else in the world. Especially at 15+.
Unless the MLS looks at their academy as more of a community outreach/PR component than it does developing players for the first team and/or to sell.
Bottom line is that if they aren’t developing players good enough for the first team by the age of 19, 20…then they aren’t doing their job.
Look at the level of Japan’s J-league. I believe it is around the same age as MLS…now look at the number of Japanese impact players making their way into the top teams in Europe.
While things may be improving in MLS…they’ve had 17 seasons…and they still have a long way to go.
I really like that input… very nice point.
That was directed at hall97… not sure why it went to the bottom.
Cameron Baker says
This reminds me of a quote that I heard Arsene Wenger said years ago to kids on trail at Arsenal. It was in a video i saw somewhere.
“Football is a constant battle, a constant audition, seize your chance.”
It’s holds very true. My best friend in high school was a good athlete and decent player, or so he thought. I made him come with me to try out for a good club team near our home town. He hemmed and hawed about it, but eventually came. He made the team his and now is playing in college. He did really well at the D3 college this year and is considering a move up to D2, most likely SVSU, who just lost in the National Championship game if i”m not mistaken. I always think that if i never forced him to come with me, he wouldn’t have had those dreams or ambitions. I’m really glad i did. The kid had the talent but need a kick in his ass to show him that he could do it. Once he figured that out he had this unrelenting drive to better himself and be the best player he could be for his team.
Collin has worked for where he is and i think that holds true for all the top players in the world, but it takes hard work along with good fortune to reach these levels. Take Messi for an example. I know that he has Human Growth Hormone Deficiency. This disorder stops a gland from producing growth hormone, not allowing that individual to grow properly (hence why he is small). Messi had to take injections daily to replace his deficiency and this medicine costs over $10,000 a month (at least it did for my family and I). He moved to Spain because Barcalona agreed to pay for his medication. Imagine if Messi never had this opportunity to train at La Masia. What is Messi was never properly treated for his disorder? Crazy to think about. No doubt in my mind though that Messi trained his ass off once he got there to prove himself.
pg 19 says
Circumstance.
I remember a debate I had with a co-worker years ago. It was about how many Michael Jordans we thought there possibly were in that given point in time when there were no other players like Michael Jordan. Between the two of us, we felt a good estimate would be around 100 or so possible people that have the physical capacity and genetics to be the next Michael Jordan. The reason they were not was because they either lacked ambition, drive, motivation, work ethic, mentors, coaches, opportunities, life experiences, etc, etc, etc or all of the above.
The point was Michael Jordan wasn’t special in the sense that he was a one of kind. He became a one of kind through his mentors, his coaches (even the one that cut him from the Varsity HS team), his life experiences, his resolve and attitude all contributed in making him, him.
How many potential Ben’s do you think are out there right now? My guess, there are more potential Bens that are out there than there will be Jordans. However, the actual ones that become a “Ben” will be exceptionally small because of circumstances.
Interesting post. How to use it in the corporate world? How about interviewing your boss or your boss’s boss to find out how they got to where they are? Often their start isn’t much different than yours. Often the decisions they make could/can be the ones you consider moving forward. In many ways, this blog is similar to that interview, only with other coaches instead of bosses.
pg19 — Agree with you that there are many “Ben’s” who for whatever reason haven’t gotten a chance. In terms of workplace, timing and networking / right connections is significant factor. And like soccer, those at top levels wanted to get there and had the motivation, committment to lay groundwork to make it happen. Same true in soccer. Of course, there is a mountain of people in soccer or any walk of life who had the desire and committment and better than those who “made it”, however, matters of circumstance didn’t work out for them for whatever reason. What’s the saying about thousands of beautful, talented Hollywood stars waiting tables?
Guys… Nike ID2 national camp starts tomorrow… A few of the kids are from the u14 national team… but the vast majority are from those same circles…. but just not able to be included in the national camp. It will be interesting to see this group compared to the National team group. Hopefully some video will be posted.
http://www.usclubsoccer.org/main.aspx?sec_id=19&guid=2b543392-296c-4864-8051-cb16d331870e
Soccerman15 says
Watch G’town in Fridays college cup semi vs MD.
They play a nice possession style ball. MD has some good skilled players as well. Uconn dominated Creighton with skilled passing and moves but could not finish, so they did not make it. Never seen Indiana play.
My first and only post (I’m too old to be blogging and arguing). I’m from England and coached for 36-years. Coached numerous teams in English and continental Europe tournaments. Coached few years in USA at end of my career, but was mostly for fun and keep active. Now retired.
Circumstance is part of life and soccer. Some of the best players I coached or coached against never made it. Many I didn’t think had the talent somehow made it. Luck, timing, key relationships. The adage about do your best and you will be noticed is not entirely true: it’s often who you know.
Below article best sums up my feeling on soccer and difference between USA and Europe:
“The biggest difference between American youth players and those in other countries is passion and patience, said Franc Carbó, a coach with Barcelona’s youth development program. Americans tend to focus on moving the ball toward the goal, even if that means forcing bad passes.
“Sometimes they think a playback is a bad decision,” said Carbó. “We believe that when we pass back, it is the best option to find a better option.”
Americans bring a tremendous amount of size and athleticism to the field, Carbó said, and can often out-muscle their European counterparts.
But size is secondary when it comes to scouting young players with serious potential, he said.
“They need to be really intelligent, with high technical skills,” Carbó said. “Then, if they are also fast, that is the perfect combination.”
It’s seldom spoken about on this forum, but regardless of philosophy or playing style (formation is not a playing style, but influences it) – the best teams I’ve coached and competed against have commonalities: discipline, patience, accountability, understanding. They do as coach asks. They know their role and responsibilities. Players are accountable (sit the bench) if they do not play as their role and responsibility requires. When I came to USA, that was biggest difference (refer back to above article).
Proper player id is so important. When I first started out, the bigger and stronger was better. I was taught that. After licking my wounds in continental Europe tournaments to better skilled teams, I had to rethink. Be independent and not “drink the Kool-Aid”. I could write a dissertation on it. But refer to above article instead. In fact, it’s worth repeating: “They need to be really intelligent, with high technical skills,” Carbó said. “Then, if they are also fast, that is the perfect combination.” The USA has the talent. They are not being identified. Especially at the U12 – U15 where bigger kids are more than often preferred. The diamonds are overlooked. Once you are in the elite system (e.g., ODP or national pool), you tend to stay and those who are unnoticed tend to stay that way. The wrong players get misplaced attention and development.
I can also tell you that as a coach and player, the most difficult teams to defend were not what we are calling Route 1 soccer – it was skillful, fast, intelligent teams. Route 1 is easy opponent. I’m English and not ashamed to say I love tiki-taka (I watch more German and Spanish football because I think it superior technically and tactically than EPL and Champions League is proving that time after time in recent years and as late as yesterday).
There is nothing wrong with USA players. It’s the mentality and lack of understanding by the soccer community (coaching, scouting, ODP, USSF, college, MLS). When these disparate groups align for common good / goal, matters of circumstance should align to proper compass setting.
This was a great post to read. Well put and totally legit..
mike S. says
Ian, I agree completely. I would like to add that the US often gives lip service to the small vs big mentality in the U12 -U15 age group. A prime example is the recent US BNT camp completed this November – there were about 30 1999’s and 6 2000’s invited to the camp. I have to say these 99’s are some of the biggest 99’s I’ve ever seen! There are exceptions but the majority of these kids were 5′ 5″ or bigger. You don’t have to believe me – just look at the YouTube videos of the games (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ArjYfafkoQ) and compare the size of Ben Lederman (who is not small for a 2000- he is 5′ tall) to the other players in his team. Sadly, it’s still more about winning games that’s more important than it is to develop the most talented players.
Actually 5″ seems average or below for a 12 year old. I watched the same video and only a couple of the players seemed huge for U14. I don’t think you can look at how that team played and who was on the field and say it was lip service.
These were 99’s by CALENDAR year only- so not club year U14s which can include Aug 98 thru Dec 98. These kids were towering over Ben- at least 5 to 8 inches. 5′ is average for a calendar year U12, even by American standards (just look at any US growth chart – it’s in the 50th percentile.) They obviously favored the bigger 99’s (with a couple exceptions).
Player #17 is at least 7 or 8 inches taller than Ben and if Ben is 5′, that makes this kid 5′ 7″ or 5 8″ . I see at least 7 other kids on the US team about the same size as #17 so 5″7 to 5′ 8″ is the typical height of these ’99s. If this is calendar year 1999s, I agree these boys are very tall for their age. I’m not surprised though. Deep in their hearts size matters more. I see it all the time at the club level, ODP level and id2 level so why would it be any different at the National team level?
It seems to me that the “style of play” requires these type of players. Did Hugo get define the “style of play” & choose all the players?
There’s a podcast over at football garden where they talk about that team and the style of play. Jacques and Gary and or Brian were there.
Edfoot says
I have no problem with tall players, but I don’t see the point of choosing big kids just because the are big. For example, I know a lot of teams in Catalonia (including FC Barcelona) pick very tall kids for some positions. Nevertheless they have level; that can actually play.
I’ve seen some of the kids in the U14 BNT and U15 -in the past- play with smaller players in ODP and against them at games. THEY HAVE VERY loW level. There are many more players with much higher level, stronger, faster, and more inteligent than them.
US Soccer appears to live by a self defeating profecy where American players aren’t as avoid as kids in other countries so we must rely on size to have a chance to do OlK. Meanwhile regular size and smaller players are playing at a higher level overseas against big kids with actual talent.
I’m not implying that All the kids in the pool are bad, but there is a significant minority of players that don’t belong in a National pool.
Campos did not choose players just because they were big.
Arsenal_Fan says
Been following the posts and seems like US take a bad rap for choosing big players. I have been to some websites for youth teams in big clubs in Europe and tried to see the average size of players being selected. Barca don’t post size and weight. I have noticed that most players in the calendar year 1999 are born between January and July of that year. Real Madrid actually posts size and weight and they only have a limited amount of small players and also some very huge players that wieght up to 145lbs
http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/es/Cantera/1193040566189/Plantilla/Infantil_A.htm
So don’t think that USA are the only ones guilty of this trend of picking big players.
While many teams outside the US are guilty of looking/choosing taller,bigger. And stronger player; the huge difference is that many of these teams actually take the time to develop these players. And, they don’t look exclusively at size. If you look at many teams from Spain competing in Alevin tournaments, there are some big kids, but the majority would look small compared to their u11/u10 counterparts in the US. Perhaps more importantly, the technical level is much higher. There is no point in recruiting big kids to simply run after the ball like horses.
Edfoot it just seems that at these age groups U12 to about U15 there are serious differences in physical and physicological development amongst kids. I never said that these kids are not technical but just seems based on what I have seen that taller and older get the nod in the 1999 age groups, since most are born between January to June of that calendar year. Awhile back I got to talk to a youth coach from the mexican youth national teams and he thought that Brazil was addressing this issue by having two national teams by age group until they get to the U16 level. One team for the first half of the calendar year, and a second one with the latter half of the calendar year.
Edfoot, continuing on what I said before on the calendar year 1999. Barca’s infantil A has only 5 out of 20 players born after July of 1999 http://www.fcbarcelona.com/football/formative/detail/card/fc-barcelona-infantil-a
Real Madrid only has 4 players out 24, and AC Milan has 5 out 24 http://www.acmilan.com/es/teams/youth_teams_roster/543/players. This might not be a large number of teams to get a correct average of how kids are getting selected, but its safe to say that 80% of the players being selected are the ones being born on the first months of the calendar year and of course the bigger and most mature.
I think it’s worth seeing these kids actually play to see their level and height. When you see them live, you can see it is not about height or strengh, but it is about skill.
There is a great tournament coming up which will be broadcast live for free (U10/U11) here is the schedule. Let me know if you folks want to see it can compare them to the current U14 BNT. You will find a huge discrepacy in height and skill.:
BBVA Futbol & Tourney
Grupo A: Real Madrid, Espanyol, Juventus y Liverpool
Grupo B: Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla, Málaga y Borussia Dortmund
Grupo C: Barcelona, Valencia, PSG y Betis
Edfoot, again, I never questioned their skill level. I recognize that the USA is behind in that department. I was just making a point that the USA chooses to develop players just like any other county, and that is be picking the most mature at that particular age level. Some times the most mature ones are not the tallest, in many cases they are, and of course some skill needs to be displayed. But just looking at birthrates, it is eye catching how most of kids in european clubs are born in the first 6 months of the calendar year. Ben’s team, birth year 2000, only has 2 kids out of 22 born after july of that year.http://www.fcbarcelona.com/football/formative/detail/card/fc-barcelona-infantil-b
Found this article in the internet, it does a good job of explain this situation.http://www.sportsscientists.com/2009/01/matthew-effect.html
Maybe being born in the first quarter of calendar year should also be included in matters of circumstance
I understand your point. I had made similar observations in the past; other countries pick taller kids too.
I should’ve made my point clearer and say that while you are correct about coaches in Spain and other countries picking taller/older kids in a particular age group, the difference I see between US coaches and their counterparts in Europe is that they teach the kids to play better instead of using them as chest pieces to win matches based on physical attributes alone (sorry about the run on sentence).
Moreover, these countries have so many youth teams competing at the top level against the larger teams that there is a place for smaller talented players to still compete and do well until the time comes for all the kids to develop and catch up.
I think Germany might be the only country that is trying to separate age groups into kids born early in the year and the rest. I don’t know enough about it, but I think they started implementing the new age brackets this year to avoid loosing on talented players that might be smaller in their earlier years. Perhaps someone else knows more about this; goes in line with what your had commented before And might be a smart solution.
Arsenal et al,
This is sort of off topic but educational and entertaining nonetheless ( I didn’t know whereelse to put it in case people want to see it). Here is a link for the Futbol 7 International tournaments. These are not highlights; they are the fulll games. This tourney has “introduced” some of the best up and coming young athletes including Iniesta, Llorente, and Pique to name a few. This is going on this week (started today). While you might be able to view this in another page,you won’t have to worry about any spolier alerts since the scores are not posted. This is an Avelin tourney and it includes kids born in 2000. Each team pick the best players from their a,b, and c futbol base teams and merge them into a small pool (18-22) to compete at this tourney.So here you will see the VERY best of the best players born in 2000 and younger from FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Espanyol, Valencia and more. Enjoy:
http://oxsportusa.webs.com/futbol-7
Edfoot, for being 2000’s there are many that are huge and very mature looking, some little ones. Looks like some teams depend to much on individual skills of thieir bigger players, for example the Valenica team. They had 2 or 3 boys that looked like 15 year old’s. Have you seen the USA Barcelona U12 team play? Did not see any team play like that.
Edfoot, I meant the ATthletico Madird team.
One of the reasons I wanted to show these games were to address your point about the larger players and my point about those players being at a higher level.
I cannot comment on the Barcelona USA since I haven’t really seen them other than one or two videos posted on line. It would not be appropriate for me to judge. I understand Barcelona USA is a team from one of FC Barcelona’s Penyas (fan clubs) in the US. The Fc Barcelona kids playing at this tournament are the Academy players. One could assume the actual academy players (as a whole) are better than the fan club team players spread all over the world. Also, the boy that came from Barcelona USA is not playing with the team at this tourney -I wish he would; i think we need to get behind any US player competing in Europe
I did see the BUSNT and I think, as large as most of them are, it would be very difficult for them to beat any of these teams. I’m making the assumtion the BUSNT is better than the Barcelona USA since they are suppossed to be a national team.
There are a lot of African/African descent players in European teams right now. Fc Barcelona Infantil (99) has this kid that looks like an 18 year old 🙂 I think they develop a lot faster because they come from a region that is closer to the Ecuador -I least that what I’ve been told by people in Catalonia-. . But they are not just big 2000sThey are also very talented players. I remember seeing Llorente at this tournament, he was just as big at that age but the reason why he stood up was because of his talent. I have not seen players of that age and that caliber in the U.S.; mostly because there is no national stage for them, really-
I will be posting other games throughout the week. I hope you and others enjoy them.
Arsenal_Fan
Just wondering, what parts of the USA have you been evaluating talent? My kid plays out of northern california, and I can assure that there is big pool of skilled and talented players up here at those age levels. And we also have 12 year old’d that look like 15 with skills, but they usually play up a year or 2. They are not going to european clubs, but are leaving to mexican clubs..
We evaluate kids mostly from the West/Wesy coast, North East Coast and Florida; not too many from the Midwest -not because there is no talent, the opportunity just hasn’t come out.
You are correct about there being many talented player in the West Coast (of all sizes). I actually think the East Coast is very underrated; there is a lot of level too.
But there are other doing the same (evaluating players to go to Europe); not just for Spain but Holland too. And, as you mentioned, Mexico.
BTW, I just uploaded the the PSG vs Barcelona game; I think it’s the most technical game so far in the tourney. PSG is very good. Also, there is a boy from Valencia that FC Barcelona “snatched” who is very good too (tall kid).
Listen to the Football Garden podcast with Bryan Wallace at around the 31 min mark (although the entire interview is definitely worth a listen). Bryan Wallace is the coach of the United FC team that scrimmaged the U14 Nat “A” Team and he had some terrific insight on the “size” trend of the selected players as well as some high praise for the team in general.
http://footballgarden.tumblr.com/post/37247061554/podcast-bryan-wallace
Yes, all other factors being equal, size does make a difference but so do other physical attributes like quickness, strength, foot speed, etc.- like they do in all competitive clubs around the world. I’ve seen most of the Red Bull Academy players and many of the DA teams in my area play and most wouldn’t be described as giants.
“If I have two players, one big and one small, with the same technical skill, I will keep the small one as he will overcome the big one. He will have to work harder and he will be more resourceful. He will need to come up with clever strategies to compensate for his lack of size. The bigger guy won’t try as hard. Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Pedro are all like this.”
http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/sport/football/good-things-come-in-small-packages.19199866
“In a 2012 study by the Professional Football Players Observatory of the top-flight leagues in 33 nations, Barcelona’s squad was the smallest in height. ”
Just coincidence??
Went to watch UCLA-Stanford PAC-12 final. One roster is like 50-80 players (not sure exactly too many to count) but there were only 3 players under 6ft.
I could be very wrong but I think player selection in soccer favors the dominate cultures in the US and those in charge of USSF. We tend to like players like our kids and us — matters of circumstance.
That article had lots of insight. Unfortunately we have a bias against shorter athletes in this country for most sports although I think there exist different regional attitudes also due to various demographic and ethnic factors.
Connor Lade of the Red Bulls and a product of it’s academy is only 5’6″. Not necessarily a creative magician in the Barca/Spanish mold but Thierry Henry’s favorite nonetheless.
http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/the-red-bulls-little-big-man/
I think more and more parents will seek overseas opportunities for their talented kids especially if they have an ethnic background. Many see the general soccer landscape in this country i.e. hs, college, mls, player selection although improving, they still can’t relate to it or might be excluded by it. There was a U11 player from De Anza Force that just trialed with Real Madrid and the list will just get bigger and bigger.
Speaking of dual nationals, Juergen Klinsmann spoke about scouting players with U.S. eligibility in the Washington Post.
“We want to make sure we don’t lose the next Giuseppe Rossi [the Italian-American from New Jersey who chose Italy]. It doesn’t mean we jump on [a player] and invite him right away but we are looking at them to get a better idea. So maybe two, three, four years down the road, something has been established. It’s the player who has to make the decision with his family. That’s why we have not pressured Timothy Chandler. I wanted him in May-June, but this is huge, this is the final call about where you want to go. All we can do is build those relationships.”
Not relly a “trial” but regardless a fantastic experience for the young kid. It’s great when american clubs can maintain relationships with international clubs.
Hi Rossi NJ,
Thanks for link to the podcast w/ Bryan Wallace. I listened to the podcast & watched a large chuck of the YouTube video of the u14 BNT vs United FC. my take always .. 1) SoCal needs to get better; 2) u14 BNT is on the right track ie Hugo & others are doing a good job; 3) Calab Porter is still the right guy for u20/u23 MNT.
Lastly, I think Bryan is good spokesman for u14 us boys soccer.
Xolos says
I from time to time read this blog. Had to give some comment on Bryan Wallace. Bryan is a superior coach. I wish every coach took his occupation as serious as Bryan. His tiny-tike BU14 team has dominated much bigger stronger competition in SoCal for a few years now. Through intelligence, patience, passing. Fellow SoCal coaches should be ashamed of their far inferior abilities. Bryan’s players aren’t most athletic (far from it), tallest (tiny-tikes mostly), strongest (not even close), most skilled. But they are disciplined and patient. Bryan doesn’t yell on sidelines. Lets kids play.
There are dozens of BU14 teams (my son plays BU14) who recruit best youth physical specimens to win. They do win, but not against the mighty-mite UFC BU14. And guess what, I think Bryan is a bit outspoken (as he admitted). Don’t’ know him personally, but he’s a bit arrogant. I’m ok with that (his team is a competitor of my son’s, but UFC has our ticket . . . better coached I’ll admit).
There are maybe a dozen or so BU14 kids in SoCal with the talent to be on national team.
Ian, I greatly appreciate your insight. it reinforces what I have suspected for quite some time now.
if a kid makes it into the u14 and u15 ynt’s, they generally stay there through u17/18.
Occasionally you see new players coming in at u20 level.
It seems these problems are happening world wide an upheaval be it in England or North America.Great post Ian and what you said about Discipline, patience, accountability, understanding it is so very true.
Alberto says
Ian, sorry to learn that you won’t be posting more.
Almost all coaching (can only speak to U14) is shit in SoCal. Bryan Wallace’s team is rare breed that actually builds from the back. That forces defenders to develop foot skills and tactical awareness to build up to mid-field. And that domino effect of positioning and movement has to be in the mid-field and forward positions to make it work. Now you’re talking attacking possession soccer, with smart passing! But you need disciplined, patient players to do that. 99% of players art U14 don’t have it. They want to bum rush to goal at 5th gear each and every time. That’s coaching and instilling accountability, not youthful exuberance. They players will revert to jungle ball is you let them. Our coaches are too liberal in what they allow. But 99% of teams (including my son’s) never get there because the keeper just whacks up field as far as he can for a 50/50 ball and the coach doesn’t give a shit and parents wooo at how far the keeper can kick it. This is incubator for jungle ball. Stupid parents ooing and aaawing at how far the keeper can kick the ball and watching a man-child forward chase down balls. Morons! Build from the back! I don’t think I’ve ever hear a coach get pissed at not building from the back. They should! They should get real pissed. Let the keeper know it. In fact, any player on the pitch should get pissed. “Why the fuck are we playing 50/50 jungle ball! You can’t play possession, attacking soccer with a 60-yard whack from the back! And sadly, so many stupid ass parents who are clueless.
Inability to build from the back. Keeper trying to set world record punts. You’re talking about my son’s team? Building from the back will go a long way to cure jungle ball. Not sure why coaches don’t mandate it as it’s a critical component that aides in touch, positioning, thinking, movement.
And how many teams cheaply give away the ball within 1 – 3 touches from start of play in center circle? Impatient and undisciplined play at its finest! An educated / experience-based rough guess is 66% of U14 teams have pass sequence of 1 – 3 times 66%,6 3 – 5 times 33%, 6 or more less than 1%. The UFC team you mention is the exception. Coincidence they won Nationals, Dallas, Far West, and close to a dozen other tournaments in last two years? And they truly have some vertically challenged players on roster!
I’ve never seen Gary / Brian’s team play, but I bet they are in that 99th percentile of teams that average 6+ passing sequences as the norm. The video of USMNT U14 team also plays this way, and agree with the Bryan Wallace podcast that they may be signaling our transformation to different playing style. How long will it take for other coaches to figure this out? But some people like to ignore the truth. Still mired in old ways since it’s so embedded in their DNA and psyche.
Just realized my percentages read funny. 66% of passing sequences are between 1 – 3 succssful passes; 33% between 4 – 5 successful passes; and 1% of passing sequences are 6 or more successful passes. Other opinions / observations welcome.
Matters of Circumstance – heartbreaking.
For 3 consecutive tournaments we have reached the finals but come up short to a faster, stronger, more athletic team. I know this is probably not the right place to ask but anyone with feedback on how to overcome this problem would be a savior.
We build from the back, play attractive soccer, complete 4-6 passing sequences. Under high pressure against stronger players we chock, turn over the ball, and get countered. I don’t want to park the bus.
Well first of all keep your patience even though it can be hard. Beyond that, if you are filming your games really try to breakdown why the goals on counters are happening. Are to many numbers going forward, is nobody recovering? Are you getting pressure on the ball? Are you tracking runs? How is the line that your back is holding? It’s hard doing things the right way and not just relying on athleticism, but it’s the best way long term. You just have to look into depth at why these things are happening, these other teams are taking shortcuts, and it might be frustrating now but down the road they will suffer for stealing results while playing bad soccer when they were younger. Trust me, I know. I won tons of shit when I was a little kid, the older I got, the less I won.
Our age group is U11. I know our players limitations and they get exposed against stronger teams. I have made huge progress in 1 year but it’s still not enough. Gary and others tell me it’s possible so I keep pursuing excellence with these players. Ultimately I am completely responsible since I selected them and took on the challenge of training them.
Player Qualities:
Average to low ball/foot skills
Average to low intelligence
Average athletic skills
Average to low strength
Average to low mental speed
Average to low pure speed
Average passing
Average to low shooting
Average decision making
Even with all these areas of weakness we still manage to compete with 80% of teams. In the past 2 years we have played something like 80 different teams and perhaps only 1-2 teams come close to playing our style. It is so fun to watch but the wins don’t come as easy. We mainly lose because the other teams have strong shooters or we get pressured and foolishly pass to the opponent and get countered with speed.
I know Gary is too busy but I would like to hear more from youth coaches who have experienced raising the level of average players. Most teams we play against have “pro” coaches with impressive rosters recruited to win.
How do I radically improve my players’ qualities?
I believe the solution is technical/physical and not tactical but don’t know for sure because I lack experience.
Dr. Loco,
At U11, you need to worry about technical and tactical. Physical will come with age and maturity. Instead of waiting on Gary / Brian, just blaze your own path (as you seem to be doing). You seem to be on upward trend with recent successes. Just keep doing what you’re doing and taking your own initiative. If you already build from back, play attacking posession — you are already on right track. I think you spin wheels waiting for Gary / Brian or anyone else to show you the way.
Kana, thanks. I do need a mentor because I want a more direct path to the gold standard. I just can’t be aimlessly training along like everyone else. I believe my methods are not traditional and 99% different from anyone in my area. Only time will tell if I’m better than the establishment.
It is absolutely possible to take a team full of sub-par players playing route-1 jungleball to a team that at least attempts to play possession-based soccer and find some success with it. I moved to a small area and got pulled in to help coach a U10 pre-club team (basically just elite rec) that happened to have the association president’s son on it. We had the bottom of the barrel kids for the 4 teams. We lost every game the first half of the season but teaching them to basic proper technique and just simple 1-2 wall passes paid off at the end when we were passing around other teams and ended up just one point shy of third. They asked me to take over the BU14 club team.
The kids I inherited for BU14 had never won a single game in 3 years despite being full of good athletes and taught the “try hard, run fast” jungleball style. I took over and started instilling the value of possession and actually taught them how to properly pass and receive the ball (some were still toe-punting everything prior). We ended up 3-3-4 that first season, first games these kids had ever won. This fall, half those kids moved up to the high school and half stayed with me. Of those that moved to high school, six of seven made varsity as freshman and their coaches thanked me for giving them smart players.
The half I kept were joined by another group full of athletes-but-not-soccer players who had no tactical awareness and low technical skill. We ended up going undefeated and winning our league by playing possession soccer. The boys I had in the spring were completely bought in to my style and so the new group did as well. My area doesn’t have the population base to ever have enough talent to play true possession soccer as we have to combine U13 and U14 just to field a squad. However, getting the talented players to stop trying to dribble through everyone and getting the less-talented players to just play simple passes to feet (instead of kicking it as far as they can) has been completely successful in just one spring and one fall season. We will never be as good as Barcelona USA, but we beat the “elite” teams from cities with 10-20 times the population-base by playing quality soccer despite other teams being bigger, faster, and stronger than us.
Vitale says
Dr loco- you’ll probably see improvement over the most of those categories if you focus on 2 of them: Speed and strength. I suggest you mix into your practices: sets of 25 sit-ups and run sprinting drills like relay races. Most kids that age haven’t had any coaching of sprinting technique or done regular fitness exercises. If you could add that to all your practices over a season you will see stronger faster players. And if possible- add an outdoor futsal practice so you have 3 practices a week. You can make it “optional” but let it be known you are selecting players for a futsal team…just some ideas I have used with that age group.
Interesting. I need to rethink my training. We are not ready for 3 practices/week at the moment.
How do I improve these areas? Is fitness the solution? I must investigate further.
Not until after the players reach age 16 is there fitness training.
Gary:
12. Running (ie physical fitness) should absolutely be incorporated (in the US landscape) at the early ages. Not for reasons of ‘fitness‘ or ‘winning‘, but rather the development of mental fortitude.
Perhaps I have been misunderstanding American players.
Dr. Loco — Indoor futsal i’ve found to be quick way to build touch and quickness of thought. Do that once or twice a week during winter months. Works wonders, I promise. Find a school gym or YMCA. Windsprints builds quickness, especially windsprints uphill. Also works on stamina. I’m not a fan of physical strength at young ages before puberty. Teach proper positioning and using your body to defend. If an opponent is big but has poor ball skills, a smaller player can force a bad touch. Barcelona does this very thing. If a player is slow, then teach him to read the game and react quicker. Build their strenghts and not try to make every kid big and strong just to compete with other big and strong kids. If we focus on proper way to play at younger ages, they will be much better as they enter puberty and beyond when natural physical maturity and strenght will complement their smart play.
What age Dr. Loco? Up to about U13, smaller kids are intimidated by bigger, faster, stronger types. At U14 and above, if players still “choking”, I’d be very concerned if it was due to fear. Hopefully not. Could be as simple as not used to the high pressure. If so, keep doing what you’re doing and they should get used to higher pressure with bigger stronger types. Worst thing to do is throw in the towel. If your team plays as you say, it will pay off and you’re developing a better brand and eye s/b on how they are when they are 18 and opening doors in college, not what they win at U14, U15 or whatever the age.
Making a few assumptions.
Going to assume its just a handful of players, possibly two or just one player that are the speedsters, playing up top for the opponent. The team has figured out how to play into their own strengths by launching the ball forward quickly, without much thought for the breakaways. Without a thought is a misrepresentation as it is intential and the quicker they can do this (without thought), the more likely they can catch an opponent off guard or even to where their speed advantage can be used.
Key is to take away the advantage. Does your team, upon loss of possession, have a moment of delay before recognizing the transition from attack to defense? Can that be shortened through training? Your center back, are they good at commanding? Can they hold a line against the opponent working a trap? If not, is your center back fast and or quick? If non of these fit your defense, then you need someone that has decent speed but can read the clues of that moment of trasition and pick up clues as to the long ball being played.
This player will need to recognize when the long ball is going to be played. What are the clues? Typically the opponent about to kick the long ball has space (little to no pressure), will check for the space on the field to kick to, then they will put their head down and they will draw their leg for the big kick. There is a one second to a second and a half wind up for a 30+ yard kick. Your center back needs to recognize these clues then make the retreating run to take away the long ball advantage before it is kicked. They also have to recognize the clues as to where the ball is going to be kicked judging by the body anglle of the opponent kicker and where they may have looked up before putting their head down to launch into the ball. You are giving up space by compromising the offisides line, but your player will have position relative to the ball and the opponent player making the run onto the launched ball. If this player can read the clues of a long ball, he also should have the ability to know how to ride the shoulder of the opponent and force him wide of goal, but still encourage the opponent to dribble, to which he’ll be slower than your other fullbacks making a recovery run centrally. The key is to avoid making an open field tackle against an opponent that may be faster than you. Better to maintain position and angle to the ball protecting goal (goal side) than to risk winning the balll (outcome either win or lose, you want win or win).
Finally, when the ball is recovered I would dangle it a bit in front of the opponent player that just made the big run and failed. Toy with them a little with your team’s superior possession abilities. Make them the monkey in the middle. I’ve tried that on two occassions and in both, succeeded in making that player puke. We didn’t win those games, primarily because I didn’t recognize the clues on how to get the ball into the opponent half of the field or trust that my team was ready to be offensive against a team that was supposed to be significantly better than us in speed, size and aggression.
Did the kid really puke? No fibbing on this blog!
She did and I made sure to point her out to my bench who was yet to get into the game. From that point on we looked for this to occur on the sideline. The second person dry heaved, but I still counted it.
Just a follow up: To date we have played two opponents to which a player from the opponents’ team had to be carted off the field due to exhaustion, hyper ventilation (carted might have been an exaggeration, but definitely play was stopped as if it were an injury).
We are starting to really get into the swing of full possession soccer. I think the disconnect right now is in our scoring as often we are rushing our shots or trying to force a shot through a goal keeper versus the dish off to an open player to far post (aka German NT, Bayern). We are off to the best start of our program’s history beating teams we’ve never beaten before.
Last night’s game we almost exceeded the 500 passing attempts mark with a 78% conversion rate. In looking at stats a high game for Barcelona is just above 800; do not know what their success rate is. Will have to observe their next game. Our goal is 1000 just to see if it can be done in a Varsity match. At 480 players of our opponents are dropping.
There is also another thing to note. Last night’s game for us was tied 1 all and we went into golden goal OT. Our possession was remarkable in spite of playing on a highly crowned “football” field to which we had to fight gravity near the touch lines and a variance in the density of vegetation as the grass was 3 inches taller and thicker along the sides making havoc to the pace of our passing and our runs off the ball. As the first OT was nearing an end, it was obvious the opponent was starting to choose to block passing lanes versus pressuring the ball. Our “10” was encouraged to keep dribbling which started just shy of the midline. She dashed through 3 defenders, to which the 3 defenders collided with each other. She then drifted right all the way left to out flank two other defenders. She reached the end line then dashed towards the goal, the keeper in position to block an impossible angled shot. The ball was struck low, driven and knuckled its way through everything for the game winner.
Without the possession element of our game, that “Messi-esque” play would not have been possible. The opponent was conditioned to stop the pass forgetting the most fundamental of rule of soccer; the player with the ball is what you must prevent from advancing. As the opponent was physically more exhausted than us and we relatively “fresh” we could make the run of approximately 80 yards to goal, zig zagging up the field. Timing was critical as the OT period was nearing an end, there was not much risk in making that attempt as the opponent struggled to connect more than two passes in a row. In addition, had we ignored the fundamentals of establishing good 1v1 technique a couple of years ago, there would have been no skill to go at pace with the ball against our opponent picking them off one by one for the win. I’m a big believer in order to have a good possession game, the team collectively has to have superior 1v1 skills compared to their opponent. You must be superior to your opponent in 1v1’s before you can be at 2v2’s all the way up to 11v11’s. Possession individually and as a team is critical to play Tiki Taka soccer. Obviously I have a ton to learn but those are my two cents regarding what I’ve learned so far.
http://www.youtube.com/user/dimacora
This is a perfect example of a kid with some skill and abiltiy but playing against “crap” and with ” crap” and most likey coached by “crap”. This is the slowest soccer I’ve ever seen at this age group. Is it the YMCA league. Why is everyone walking? Why is the grass so high? It so hard to watch because it’s sooooo slowwww. My concern is he’ll be absolutely shell shocked when he finally plays with and agaist equal quality kids his own age. Again, it appears the kid has ability but its in slow motion. WIll he be able to play at speed? Not unless he’s exposed to it, and soon. He wasn’t playing against even 1 kid with defensive understanding let alone a team full of kids understanding press and cover. Good luck and next time start making video’s with him playing against other soccer players. I noticed a kid in the futsal vid wearing basketball hightops.
Not YMCA. Misc. footage some from ODP. Some from pre-academy.
The FC Delco team didn’t look all that sharp. If you just watch him it looks great, but once you notice how bad the opposing players are… makes it less impressive. Horrible defenders.
You’re right a lot of “better” teams had defenders that started to lunge and flail when he did his thing. It does have to do with what he does contrary to what you might think. His game is 90% mental.
I’m not questioning his skill just the level of his opponents.
Is There A Difference Between MLS and Club Academies?
http://www.soccernation.com/u-s-soccer-development-academy—is-there-a-difference-between-mls-and-club-academies–cms-3627
CSO says
Didn’t know where else to put this rant and since it starts with a Hugo Perez quote from Jacques Pelham’s interview of him for the Football Garden podcast, I thought I would put it hear since there has been a lot of talk about the U14’s and Perez. Check out these comments by Perez:
The biggest thing we need to improve here in our country is coaching education. Without that we can’t help our kids. The talent is here. No doubt about that. At the younger ages it is. The issue becomes that the coaches who are working with those kids daily, do they see the football that those players can probably play one day, or are they restraining from doing that because they want to get results? This is what I think is difficult here in America because it is a country that is more keen on results in tournaments which help coaches get paid better and attract more kids to their clubs. I would say we are failing in the sense of really concentrating more on the development of a talented player or talented players that you have in a club and that’s what’s been hurting us for years.
– Hugo Perez, U-14 Boys National Team Head Coach (Stated in an interview by Jacques Pelham, Football Garden Podcast, Aired December 14, 2012, at 36:55)
I agree with Coach Perez that the biggest problem in American youth soccer is the overemphasis on winning (most of what youth coaches do to produce winning teams – and it’s not rocket science – is detrimental to individual development). Coaching education, while a part of the solution, will not solve the problem.
Let’s not put all the blame on the coaches and clubs. With a few exceptions, I’m confident that most coaches I personally know here in my area (Central Ohio) would do things differently if it weren’t for the pressure to win that comes in tsunami-sized waves from the customers (a.k.a. parents). For the good of the players, however, thoughtful and hardworking coaches and clubs should invest significantly in “parent education.”
To me, this simply means giving parents two things that most don’t have due to lack of a soccer background: (1) A genuine understanding of how to evaluate their child’s individual developmental progress in ways other than team success, and (2) A set of very high and long-term goals by providing a vision of their child’s future in the game that extends beyond this season’s team standings and culminates years (like a decade) down the road with their child ultimately making it to the very highest level.
If parents truly buy-in on these two points, they can reach the right conclusion (I’ve seen it work), and free up coaches and clubs to do things the right way. A well educated, thoughtful parent isn’t going to ask how many U-15 or under State Cup winning teams a club or coach has produced. He or she is going to ask how many players from the club have gone on to play division I, or professionally, or for his or her country in international play.
How is your club doing in that department? Does it even have mission statement that includes the aspiration of producing players capable of reaching that high? If not, why? Maybe it’s because it is trying to run a successful business and knows its customers aren’t capable of that kind of delayed gratification.
Let’s not forfeit our kids’ chances to reach their true long-term individual potential by forcing our youth coaches to care too much about producing winning teams.
We have to be really careful.
The presumed direct causal relationship:
pressure to win => reason for non-elite development
is severely flawed.
I certainly like your points on parent education.
I knew you, or someone would say that. And your right, the causal link is illogical in certain limited circumstances. It is only flawed if the pressure to win does not cause coaches to select the biggest, fastest, strongest players and then play U9 jungle ball. High pressure to win, ASSUMING that a coach will teach a team to win in the context of a possession oriented, tactically choreographed system, clearly would help elite player development. You do realize, though, that you guys are the exception. In my community, pressure to win = jungle ball because especially at the younger age groups it works if you have the athletes to do it. I think that is what coach Perez was saying. It’s the norm. You are not, unfortunately.
biggest, fastest, strongest …
Don’t forget late birthday kids which may the most profound effect on winning and perversely the least to do with any outcome in the long term quality of the player or club (good, bad, postional advantage… nothing!). What a cruel joke to put these kids on the pedestal at the formative U9-U12 years and then, boom, pull the rug out from under them when their 6 month advantage means less and less. In the meantime, think about all of those early birthday kids who come from soccer families, love soccer and had their confidence shaken at U9 and 10 while they warmed the bench with the shorter mediteranean spawned kids… the kids who do not do any sport other than soccer… AKA NOT the biggest, fastest, strongest…. there’s you soccer future there USA… sitting on the bench… while on the field are those that will likely despise the game more each day as quality in the eyes of the coaches, parents and peers becomes more elusive to them. Some will rise; i.e Donovan, Dempsey. Vast majority will fail. None will feel fulfilled.
hincha says
Your assumption is flawed: pressure to win= select big players= jungle ball. Our team is one of the most succesful teams ever in our state, multiple time state champs. We NEVER selected based on size and were usually one of the smaaler teams but we almost always beat bigger more physical jungle ball teams because we possessed the ball and scored. A highly skilled small team can normally beat a bkg unskilled team. If they are not than they are in reality a small unskiilrd team being coached by someone who only thinks they are skilled and doesnt knoew the difference
^This is one of the harshest slap downs that I’ve seen on this Blog! You’re good .. real good 🙂
Curious Larry, I’m a little slow on the uptake, so forgive the question: that was sarcastic, right?
it was trying to be funny (being facetious with a mix of sarcasm). I hope this helps! 🙂
We need less of that here, and more serious discussion.
This site will not turn into that pile of shit like others.
Hi Gary (& Hincha),
I’m sorry but I felt it was a good time for us to laugh at ourselves instead of trying to bridge two diametrically opposed view points.
Yes. I’m guilty for throwing up my arms i.e., using humor in an attempt to diffuse a situation before feelings were hurt.
Have a nice week end.
Larry .. still curious 😉
What kind of training program would you recommend to improve unskilled players/team?
Most coaches I know just recruit skill not develop it.
NOVA Mike says
“A highly skilled small team can normally beat a bkg unskilled team. If they are not than they are in reality a small unskiilrd team being coached by someone who only thinks they are skilled and doesnt knoew the difference.”
That is a great point Hincha. I think a lot of coaches using the “winning vs development” false dichotomy as an excuse for consistently poor performances are really hiding from that fact – the bottom line is that they and their players simply aren’t good enough.
Pressure to win + coaches who don’t know what they are doing — > select big/strong –> jungle ball & short term success but long term dead end for both team and players.
Pressure to win + good coaches –> select skilled smart players –> intelligent possession soccer & winning teams in both the short and long run.
One of the most important things I’ve learned from this blog is to put excuses and really focus on improving my coaching – part of which means accepting responsibility for the team’s performances. I’ve told my U8 parents that if the team us not not playing dominant possession soccer and winning most of their games by Spring of U10 season then I will consider myself a failure and step aside. I have no intention of failing so the self-imposed ultimatum provides daily motivation to make sure I am doing absolutely everything I can to develop the players to achieve that goal. It would be a lot easier to say “we aren’t worried about results b/c we are just focused on development,” but in reality that’s nothing more than a cop out.
Nova Mike,
I have no doubt you will be a successful coach. Striving to improve yourself everyday, learning from mistakes (which are normal for any coach to make as any player- so cut yourself some slack), and reaching out for sources of information, and putting in the time (10,000 hours to become a master coach just like any other skill) are critical to become good at anything, including coaching, so don’t give up after 2-3 years.
You are exactly right about the supposed false dichotomy between winning vs.development = winning vs. playing possession soccer. If big and strong beats small but skillled and smart, how come the U.S. doesn’t win at the senior level? Real skill and soccer smarts have been shown at every level to consistently beat big and strong, yet people make the excuse somehow that at the youngest ages in the U.S., somehow that it does not apply. Of course it still applies.
For me as a coach, development vs. winning applies more is at the micro level than the macro level. Do I switch players to different positions where they are not as naturally comfortable or pigeonhole them into the position that seems to fit them more naturally at the time (as Barca mostly does). In a close game, how do I sub certain players which may give me an advantage in the particular game, but give some players a little less time in that particular game. Forcing players to practice their weaknesses during a game (and accept that they might make some errors while working through the process). Individual development vs. team development (not necessarily the same thing all the time). The answers sound easy from a couch but become much more difficult and nuanced when you are coaching (especially in a prestigious tournament).
Thanks Hincha. I’ve been at it for 10 yrs now and there were already many lessons learned, but it’s a never-ending process. I have no intention of giving up in the next 2-3 years. I actually think we will hit that goal by the Fall of U9 with our A team, Spring of U9 with our B team, so giving myself until Spring of U10 was kind of being conservative.
You are spot on in identifying the really difficult decisions faced by a coach who is committed to playing the right way, not willing to use the “we’re-focused-on-development-instead-of-winning” excuse for poor (coaching) performance, but is ultimately focused on long-term development. The dilemma is not whether to resort to kick and chase but do I keep kids in positions which play to their strengths or move them around a bit more to challenge them, work on weaknesses, help them develop a more complete understanding of the game, …? Do I keep my stars in all the time or try to balance playing time to give everyone a chance to develop?
A couple of ways I’ve tried to address these issues:
1) Keep rosters small. B/c the bottom line is that kids want to play and parents want to watch them play. No one is happy sitting on the bench. We are a small club without a large marketing budget in a very competitive market, so we are not going to be able constantly draw significant numbers of good players from other clubs. Player retention is critical for us.
2) Differentiate b/n regular season league games, and tournaments. Our travel league (NCSL in DC metro area) helps by not keeping standings b/f U11. So for league games for the 1st couple of years I have said we will rotate positions and try to keep playing time within the 35-45 min range (out of 60). For tournaments though, I’ve made it clear that we will be playing to win. That means players will be asked to play where the coach thinks they will best help the team, and playing time will not be as close to equal as during the season.
The winning vs development debate cropping up here kind of seems like a hi-jack of the original post topic – matters of circumstance — but it actually isn’t. Team performance — getting into and then doing well in prestigious tournaments, — is a critical “circumstance that matters” in terms of which players get an opportunity and which ones don’t. It’s not about winning for the sake of padding your resume or fluffing your ego, it’s about getting your players seen. Scouts don’t show up to watch the consolation game of the bronze division in a low-level tournament, they watch the championship game of the premier division. As coaches I believe we owe it to our top players to give them the opportunity to showcase their talents on as big a stage as we can hoist them onto. For the most part those players have put in double or triple the amount of work as some of their teammates, and at some point is only fair that all that hard work gets rewarded.
I’m particularly more interested in finding coaches that can produce players that can leave their teams to move on to bigger and better teams (e.g. pro farm team, national team, etc.) instead of coaches a a long list of trophy collections.
I think there is a huge misconception about development when people say that adopting development over winning is a cop out for poor coaching.
In all honestly, aside from the National Premier League (US Club Soccer), there is no tru structured league that comes close to mirrowing true competitive leagues in Europe and elsewhere. Even the NPL is behind, but at least they are making the effort to move towards a more comprehensive struture.
For example, in Catalonia there is one league where there are several division (1st, 2nd, 3r..) all top teams play in the same league and compete for 1st, but more importantly, they play to keep their team in the dividion in which they compete. This is a better structure to teach kids about being competitive. I know some local league in the US have so call “1st and 2nd division” but there are structured like in Europe.
I think developing players that can move onto a top farm team, pro team or national team is a bettter indicator of good coaching than a bunch of medals from an adhoc soccer system.
I’m starting to believe that 99.9999% of coaches do not know how to develop world-class players. In order to believe someone they actually have to do it.
“As coach of the University of North Carolina women’s soccer team, Anson Dorrance has won more than 90 percent of his games, groomed far more All-Americans, and captured more NCAA championships than any other coach in the sport ten times over”
Yet ask Anson Dorrance and he might tell you that the UNC team that won the NCAA was his worst ever. What is he developing?
Don’t get me wrong, I like winning. But as someone who tried out for the olympics 3xs, competed at the world level many times in my own sport, I know I was able to win WHEN IT TRULY MATTERED thanks greatly to coaches that taught me that competitions many times was for learning so I could win when it was important to win. Without values ther is no progress
CSO et al,
I think the whole winning hungry attitude is a vicious cycle promoted by teams, and nurtured by parents.
for Example, I have worked with a small soccer school in Las Vegas, NV since it’s establishment in 2008. Since the beggining, they adopted the motto “Education, Development and Values Through Sport.” http://www.universalfc.com/ They were ridiculed my many “big” clubs in the area whose whole message in their Websites and other marketing material was “we win” “where champions are made” and so on. This was the only soccer school that made a point of putting development before winning in the area. Consequently, they have produced players now playing in academies including Chivas USA, DC United, and in Europe; as well as ODP players who have been part of Region VI champion teams. I think a key to their success has been parent education. They really make a point to say that regardless of the game results, the important thing is development. There have been times when their teams have finished their season undefeated. And, instead of making a big deal about it, they tell parents something is wrong if you are always winning and that the level in Las Vegas is not big enouhg to serve as an indicator of success. They also began researching MLS academies that truly teach development. Even with academies in Europe, they colaborate only with academies that promote development.
It’s funny how the “big” teams in the area started using the words :academy” “development”, etc. only after it became a new marketing trend. Yet they continue to care only about winning as shown in this local article http://vegasseven.com/latest/2012/06/07/soccertown-usa
Clubs have to condition parents to understand the value of development. While other clubs that compete with Universal continue to push the win, win, win, attitude as the key to a future in soccer; paying frachise fees to MLS clubs to attrack naive parents thinking that’s going to get ther kids in a pro team, this little school continues to develop players and shipping them away to larger teams. Soon they will have a 6 year old going to Barcelona in a trial with RCD Espanyol…
kids playing in Europe, and MLS academies without having a huge franchise and a “winning attitude”…yes, it is possible but it need to be part of a club’s strategic plan and core values. Check out this radio interview in Las Vegas NPR about soccer…Interesting http://www.knpr.org/son/archive/detail2.cfm?SegmentID=7027&ProgramID=1994
Very helpfully EdFoot. While I completely understand (and agree) with the points made by most of those who “pushed back” in response to my original post, it is good to hear that there is someone “in the room” who appears to understand where I’m coming from. Looking forward to checking out the stuff you link to.
Gary, after looking at what coach Perez says, it was exactly the causal link you warned against: pressure to win ==> lack of elite development. Obviously, what a coach does with that pressure to win can be bad or good. My entire point is that most of the coaches I have personally observed believe (right or wrong) that jungle ball is the surest path to winning, so that’s what the pressure to win produces: jungle ball. Can you explain your objections a little more? As usual when you comment I’m left feeling like you’re holding out, that there is something you have to say but aren’t saying it. So out with it man!
Curious Larry: no need to make attempts to diffuse elevated emotions. If we don’t get elevated emotions about this stuff, then we don’t care enough. I for one appreciate that my ideas expressed here are going to rigorously examined and “publicly” disected. I have been following the blog for only a short few months and my mind has been changed is some significant ways. In large part, I post my beliefs here to test them.
“My entire point is that most of the coaches I have personally observed believe (right or wrong) that jungle ball is the surest path to winning, so that’s what the pressure to win produces: jungle ball. Can you explain your objections a little more?”
Several things for now:
1) I am going to reduce my participation in discussing topics outside the premise of the main article.
2) Observing coaches does not mean you know what coach’s ‘believe’. Neither does speaking to them. Not even reading 200+ articles they’ve written (again, this site is a pitiful representation of what we do & what we believe).
3) How do you KNOW if relaxing the pressure to win would lead to elite level development?
Of course I am ‘holding out’ on most responses.
A enormous part of football is philosophical. That is, the ‘answers’ aren’t simple one-liners or deduced with these superficial logic trails. It would be a terrible injustice to what I know for me to respond like that. I would feel disgusted with myself, particularly when it’s not the topic of the main post.. Teaching philosophy is difficult.
Most people have been conditioned to the back and forth one-lines. You have your worldview, I have mine, and we proceed to throw our tired little logic at each other. That’s no way to teach.
And all I want to communicate for now in regards to this ‘winning vs development’, is that it’s conjecture. And sadly, most people aren’t looking for real soccer solutions for the development of the elite player. Most are looking for explanations that make them feel better about their current situation.
Thanks for responding Gary. I will look for, (or wait for) a more appropriate article to respond, ask some questions that come to mind and otherwise flesh out some of these issues. Sorry to be off topic.
“Most are looking for explanations that make them feel better about their current situation.”
So true. We want solutions to our curent problems. They really have nothing to do with development of the elite player. We have yet to define ‘elite’. Few if any coaches will ever see an elite player especially since we don’t know what to look for. From a coaching stand point if we don’t know what the purpose is it doesn’t matter what we do.
Here is a scale that could work to define an elite player. It is not self serving and it involves development over winning:
Rec Player- self evident
Local Player: currently playing in a local or state league
State Player: Currently part of his state’s ODP team, id2 pool in his state
Regional Player: Currently part of his Regions ODP pool or id2 Regional pool
National Player: currently competing at the National Premier League (whatever region) in a U.S. Development Academy or Pre-academy Team; or currently part of a National Team pool/national camp
International player- currently playing in an international farm team/academy outside the U.S. (example: Catalonia Federation 1st division)
Elite Player: Currenty playing in a profesional league (i.e. getting paid); or an amateur player representing the U.S. at an international event sacntioned by FIFA
*sanctioned
Check out these threads for more discussion on what constitutes an “elite player.”
http://blog.3four3.com/2009/08/24/elite-player-yes-or-no/
http://blog.3four3.com/2010/10/01/is-it-difficult-to-identify-elite-soccer-players/
Something I read once but can’t ever seem to find again, is a quote from Jose Antonio Iniesta to his son when Andres was a boy: “Learn to never lose the ball, and you might find yourself playing for Barcelona one day.”
NOVA Mike, thanks for taking us back…way back.
cameron says
I’m a new reader and coach and can’t tell you how grateful I am to discover this forum and what I’ve seen/read that you and your brother are doing for soccer in this country!
Regarding Matters of Circumstance, I’m curious what you think about this. I’ve recently discovered that there are u13 and below kids in the U.S. that are developing skills and understanding the game at a much higher lever than I ever remember growing up. One thing I’ve also recently heard even from coaches who have trained some of these kids is that they aspire to give the kids a shot at college scholarships. Not that this is bad, but do you have an opinion on whether or not the future talent in the U.S. will be stifled if players are more conditioned to see college as the end game and not the professional leagues (namely Europe)? Hope this fits into the topic of the discussion.
Good stuff. We play in both Ligas Americanas and Ligas Mexicanas. Why is it necessary to play in organized, expensive leagues?
If clubs and coaches were honest to parents the majority of players would choose other options
I guess a better logical depiction than the one you derived from my post would be this
pressure to win ==> jungle ball ==> reason for non-elite development.
I made a comment which is ” is awaiting moderation”
I hope you like it, if it ever gets published
Of course you need to have the right priorities depending on the circumstances and moment but pressure to (or just plain playing to) win as an impediment to playing the right way is one of the biggest red herrings in the business…in a snap it goes from “they are too young to be taking things too seriously, let’s just have fun” to “now it’s too late, their fundamentals are so poor, we just can’t play that way”…and voila the recipe for mediocrity is served!! …a popular alternative is “we are losing because we are playing the right way”…isn’t all this a dandy way to “explain” so much?
How can we separate the wheat from the chaff? We have to look at the product on the field…meaning we need an educated base…yes I wish it was easier, but that why we are here 🙂
I like the “winning is for the team, development for individual” mindset. As well as the “our goal is development but we always try to win by playing the right way” mentality. And finally, “you can’t separate winning from development, they aren’t mutually exculsive.”
I think the catch is to not 100% favor big and strong (if you’re talking youngers) and skinny Johnny on the bench in important games. Skinny Johnny, slow Paul, or weak Pablo SHOULD get onto the pitch in “important” games (and how many games are truly “important at U18 and under . . . i mean really?). Even if it’s for 15-20 minutes, they should get the chance to make mistakes and pressure of high level competition. That will make them better won’t it? Certainly sitting them on the bench entrie game won’t build confidence or impart learning. Ideal world. But fact of matter is most coaches don’t think like that, at least teams my son has played for.
And I’m not a fan of 50/50 play time. That’s for rec. Kids needs to work towards getting better and not handed play time.
This is painful. Matter of circumstance… you live in PA and never learn how to play the game the right way. This is painful to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l9EZVMJtT0
Such gangsta tracks for suburbia.
We will be posting the games for the BBVA FUTBOL 7 AVELIN INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT.
This is a great opportunity to witness the best up and coming player in the world (U10/U11).
Thursday Dec 27- Saturday Dec 29
http://www.facebook.com/OxSportsMarketing
Young player from Las Vegas, Nevada invited to trial with RCD Espanyol de Barcelona Academy Team, 1st Division LFP Team in Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.nevadayouthsoccer.org/page/show/103772-nevada-youth-soccer-association
This boys family need to raise fund to bring their kid for his 2 month trail at RCD Espanyol Academy. Please help him out! The more American players we can get to Spain, the better 🙂
Sounds like a money making publicity ployt to me. OXSportsMarketing?
Hincha,
OX Sports Manages players.
We are simply trying to help this kid get to Barcelona for his trial.
Like this particular blog talks circumstances,
It appeared appropriate to mention it here.
People keep on talking about American kids playing Europe, how money should not impede kids from getting a chance if they have the talent, and so on; We figures this would give some people an opportunity to support someone who actually has a chance. We’ve done it for kids from Brazil too.
Anyway, the information about OxSport is on line should you ever want to review it before making a statement about the company in the future.
Good luck with your players. I hope that if any of them ever show talent, they can have people around them to help them get as far as they can.
Here we go again talking abouut 8 & 9 year olds. This kid was born in 2005 so he’s probably 8. If he makes a team is the family moving over there? If not then he’s raising money for a family vacation which is honestly difficult to support. How much talent can a kid demonstrate at 8? The greatest player in the world was signed at 13, not 8. I don’t mind the parents doing this but asking for money is not appropriate. How was this kid spotted? How was he given a trial or tryout? This doesn’t add up. Press release looks like all hype for marketing company. Sounds like you got this kid a week to train with the club but besides that it’s just good marketing, nothing more.
Tim et al,
If the kid passes the the trial, the parents would have to move there.
We did not get this kid a week trial. A week would not be long enough for a serious trial.
This kids was “spotted” through tapes and live evaluations (a common practice).
There are several youth players represented by OXSport currently playing in Spain. Some families need help, some are able to manage on their own. This is the first time we are trying to help a player in the US with fundraising.
It is interesting that many people in this blog celebrate families that move their kids to Europe to play for top academies (some as young as 8) and then critizice others for doing the same.
I don’t want to mention names because it would not be appropriate and I wouldn’t want to get into how I know this. But many of the top youth foreign players in Barcelona (the provice) had to do some fundraising to spend a moth (or more) in Barcelona for their young kids to be undergo trials. I know the case has been the same for other foreign players in other European countries.
Many people have had to find ways to raise funds to finance their kids training tours, and summer camps. While OxSports provides these type of events for lower level players (training tours, etc), this is not the case.
Great point regarding celebrating some while critizicing others. I guess I find the age of 8 young for a trip like this. I wouldn’t question a 12 year old for the same reach. It appears to be a significant sacrifice for the family and I applaud that and also have no problem with fund raising. I just think 8 is young for a trip like this. Not sure of the impact.
Taking the chance for an 8 year old is not the right thing for everybody.
I usually advise parents to wait till 12 or 13 to make the move. And, only after going to train with a team that would give a player the chance to participate in 1-2 pre seasons -preseason is usually a month long and they don’t need to be registered with the team to participate. That way they know what they are getting themselves into, adjust to the languages, etc.
But for some kids, it is worth the while -very few-
http://www.futbolstage.com/quisom.php
After a little digging on the net, this seems to justify my last comments. It appears to me that Oriol Olivé Duñach, who is inferred to be the main scouting director of the Espanol, is in reality affiliated with a program that different than the club’s main academy, much like FCBEscola is different from La Masia in Barcelona (FCBEscola is run by the marketing arm of the club while La Masia is run by Sporting Director and the team’s professional coaching staff tied to the first team). It appears to me that Olive Dunach runs a program that is more part of a marketing arm of the club that makes money for the club offering training sessions for players and teams from overseas. EDFOOT, for the purpose of clarification and transparency can you tell me where Oriol Oive Dunach and this program falls under Espanol’s heirarchy? Is he part of Espanol’s professional youth academy (the equivalent of Barcelona’s La Masia) or an adjunct program?
Espanyol Stage runs international programs: the academy, which is aim is more for brand expansion (eg. international schools in other countries); Escola summer programs, whic runs similarly to the Barca Escola (as Hincha has stated, more of a money making stream for the club), and international trial for players with level to go onto futbol base (what people in English call academy teams). Oriol is the person from who we get invitations for the futbol base trials. He also manages the other internatinla programs I mentioned.
I appreciate your interest in transparency. If you care to know, OX Sports currently represents 3 players currenly playing in the futbol base (the latest passed the draft trial this past summer).
I hope this puts things to rest, but if you are more interested in “got ya” cheap shots, I don’t think this will be exchanges will be productive.
Sorry, I was talking about RCDE Futbol Base. We also hav had other players in other Pro, 2-3 divison teams, and the equivalent of development academies.
Here is the latest kid that passed a trial: http://oglobo.globo.com/serra/um-talento-do-tipo-exportacao-5599009
Like I said in a prior post to someone else, we offer all three services: brand expansion; training tours at the Escola and the futbol base teams; and actual team trials for futbol base.
The kid in question is doing an actual trial.
Edfoot,
What are the names of the three players that you currently represent that are currently playing in the Espanol futbol base and what age groups are they?
I sent you a link to one of them already, he’s a ’97 but is in the reserved team (not the Cadete).
I would lik eto put this to rest. I think I’ve been as transparent and patient as possible. I also think is funny that people with fake names are asking questions in the spirit of transparency.
Typical answer from a huckster, deflect questions about your own legitimacy by some stupid counterclaim (what fake name am I using other than what is normal on these blogs where no one uses their real name?) Why are you so defensive? Why won’t you answer the questions straight up? Are your players on Espanol’s Professional Academy (base) teams or not? Why can’t you just answer questions straight up? A sure sign of a scam artist.
Here’s how it works: you make money of these people who send their kids to these tryouts, mistakingly believing that they are being offered a tryout by Espanyol’s professional academy (base) when in fact, they are being evaluated by the Escuela, a whole separate program than the professional base.
No where in Espanyol’s professional academy (its base as opposed to its Escuela) is there mention of Oriol Olive. His only link seems to be with the Escuela and the Espanyol stage, both under the marketing arm of the club, not the academy (base).
All your answers above, equivocate, are not clear and clearly designed to mislead. Just be honest, and upfront on what you are about. I have no agenda here other than the truth. You are the one who made the original claims on this blog.
People have every reason to be wary of these claims after a boy in British Columbia raised money because he claimed he had been given a tryout with La Masia FC Barcelona when in fact, he was going to tryout with FCB Escuela.
Of course you are going to ignore this under the guise that you have answered these legitimate questions (which you have not).
Here are examples of your unclear answers:
“he’s a ’97 but is in the reserved team (not the Cadete).” What does this mean? Is he on Espanyol’s academy (base) team or not?
“Sorry, I was talking about RCDE Futbol Base”. What are you talking about the Escuela or the professional academy (the real base)?
Sorry, I assumed you knew more than I thought.
I’ll spell it out for you:
Cadete= Academy Team (futbol base)= what you wrongly call professional Academy team
Reserve team are players who play in division 2b or 1a Catalana.
In other words the real teams not the Escola.
I’m disappomited at your calling me a scam artist because you are simply not smart enough to understand what I’m telling you.
If you are dumb enough to ignore the link of the player and his name and still beating on the dead horse, there is no point on continuing talking to you.
Feel free to respond whatever you want. I’m won’t answer your your questions anymore to you. It doesn’t make sense.
Now I have no idea what the hell you are talking about some BC kid; and honestly I don’t care it has nothing to do with me.
The comment policy please:
http://blog.3four3.com/comment-policy/
I apologize for loosing my cool.
I enjoy exchanging post with people inetersted in learning and development. I will measure my words and address those who are commenting in the spirit of this blog.
You are a cule and I’m a perico, but I respect what you do here.
There are bad practices/apples everywhere. No fairy tales. A question of level/degree and system, culture:
Atletico Madrid won the tournament with Federico Arona child protagonists and Solomon
The triumph of the brothers Obama taunts and suspicions generated
“We removed 25 centimeters and 20 kilos each child … Brutal!”
José Pablo González, December 30, 2011 at 00:23 “The Obama want to dedicate the win to his family and children” The Obama brothers led to victory by Atletico Madrid in the 2011 season at the Madrid autonomous division of juvenile category. His meteoric progression is football, and a few months later at the XVI International Children Football Tournament held in July in Arona (Tenerife), returned to lead his team to success in the championship and Solomon filiales.Fede include, among children his age, not his exquisite technical game, or for his football intelligence, but by its powerful and larger bodies, more developed than usual in its category. Obama Guineans, midfielder and striker, are too much for any team rival.Sin But wasting his game and physical difference with the other players is such that the suspicions are constantly revolve around two young footballers Atletico Madrid.”
http://www.periodistadigital.com/24por7/futbol/2011/12/30/hermanos-obama-atletico-arona-infantil-salomon-fede-guineanos-anos.shtml
El Atlético de Madrid gana el torneo infantil de Arona con Federico y Salomón como protagonistas
El triunfo de los hermanos Obama genera burlas y suspicacias
“Les sacan 25 centímetros y 20 kilos a cada niño… ¡Brutales!”
José Pablo González, 30 de diciembre de 2011 a las 00:23 “Los Obama quieren dedicarle el triunfo a su familia e hijos”Los hermanos Obama llevaron al triunfo al Atlético de Madrid en la temporada 2011 en la madrileña división autonómica de categoría alevín. Su progresión futbolística es meteórica, y sólo unos meses después, en el XVI Torneo Internacional Infantil de Fútbol 7 celebrado en Arona (Tenerife), vuelven a llevar a su equipo al éxito en el campeonato de filiales.Fede y Salomón destacan, entre los niños de su edad, no por su exquisito juego técnico, ni por su inteligencia futbolística, sino por sus potentes y grandes cuerpos, más desarrollados que lo habitual en su categoría. Los guineanos Obama, mediocampista y delantero, son demasiado para cualquier equipo rival.Sin embargo, el derroche de su juego y la diferencia física con el resto de jugadores es tal, que las suspicacias no cesan de girar en torno a los dos jóvenes futbolistas del Atlético de Madrid.
Nuno,
Are you saying these kids are cheting and are not ’00 players?
I know there is “controversy” in Spain about this. Truth be told, if having big black kids in academy teams would be a practice of some bad apples, FC Barcelona and the Eto Foundation would be the one of the most rotten apples of them all 🙂
Look, just like in the states, there are people who will make up stories to justify their favorite team loosing. I think the obama twins and many other large African players in Spain are playing at that level because they indeed have level, not just size.
I agree with the idea that these kids should be playing up to benefit their development. But like in the US, many teams fall victims of their need to win all the time, which limits some kids development in the interest of winning. But Atletico MAdrid is hardly the only one that does this.
These questions have been around for decades…mostly involving African precocious phenomenon but not only:
Mexico Given Ban in Soccer
Mexico was banned from all international soccer competition today, including the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.The Federation Internationale de Football Association, soccer’s world governing body, banned Mexico for two years because a Mexican junior team in a recent world championship qualifying tournament used four players who were over the age limit. The severe sanction byFIFA’s executive committee means Mexico is out of the soccer tournament at the Seoul Games, for which it had qualified, and is effectively disqualified from the 1990 World Cup. Mexico’s replacement in theOlympics and the 1990 World Cup qualifiers will be determined later, FIFA officials said. The Mexican under-20 junior squad was also disqualified from the junior world championship in Saudi Arabia next year. Mexico’s berth was awarded to the United States.The two-year ban is retroactive to April 25
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/sports/mexico-given-ban-in-soccer.html
How old is Fredie Adu? Really? Why haven’t we seen another young kid breakout on to the scene at 14 year olds, anywhere? My guess was Freddie was 17 and not 14. Still a wonderful player for a 17 year old but not the “pheonom and prodigy” he was held out to be. Just my opinion anyway.
terry malloy says
I disagree about Adu’s age. Back in ’03 I went to see the U.S. U17s scrimmage Mexico’s U17s in Lancaster, CA. Like many others I was curious about this “phenom” named Freddy. Oddly enough, they allowed spectators to stand right on the touch line, so in addition to seeing all the players at a short distance, I was actually no more than 5-10 feet away from Adu during several moments of the game. Beyond watching the game, and how Adu played, i was interested in his age, as much was written about him being older than his stated age (he was 13, about to turn 14). During warmups I not only observed Adu, but paid close attention when he stood near his teammates. What was striking was how different he was from his teammates. He not only was slighter in build, with less development in his musculature, his face was also much, much younger, with none of the characteristics of someone closing in on adulthood, as were all his teammates. The way he moved both on and off the field, were also characteristic of someone in the 13-14 age group. Unfortunately, I have no photos or videos to prove what I saw, but that game convinced me that Freddy Adu is his stated age. As for why he never became the “star” many thought he would become, that’s a whole different discussion.
*cheating
Chuck says
I read this just after replying to an online comment about Ben Lederman that has everything to do with matters of circumstance. The original comment related to Ben’s recent training for the U14 USMNT. “You have to be kidding me. There are hundreds of kids like him, he made some mistakes on the field, and it didn’t matter if Ben was playing for the Barca Academy or the Harlem Academy. ” First, I watched the video and I doubt there are hundreds like him (although there are and hopefully will be some others) and despite any flaws I thought Ben did very well. More importantly, it does matter to me that he is playing for the Barca Academy and I think the original comment is entirely missing the forest through the trees. Ben may benefit from circumstances, but he is also paving the way for others in the USA maybe even ultimately a kid from the Harlem Academy. That benefits us all and it matters. Why can’t people set aside their inclination to be jealous for a moment and realize the power of what this kid is doing? Moreover, it cannot be understated that your effort has helped create the circumstance for this kid to go a long way and the platform will hopefully do the same for many others. Kudos. As for the hundreds, you have to start somewhere and start with one. I hope others can follow in time. I see one new player joined your U10 squad I want to keep an eye on. Knowing of you both independently, I thought he would be a really nice fit for you about a year ago and now it will be interesting to watch. Juan Pablo Angel’s (Colombian ex Aston Villa&NYRB striker) son is the most tenacious and talented little kid I have seen; 10X better than his dad. I had the pleasure of watching him a couple years ago before they moved to LA. Hopefully he has continued to develop (I’m guessing he has and will) because he could be a handful for the Barcelona Academy team this year. Good luck!
Chuck. What do you think of this kid?
Another big pet peeve (besides lack of focus on ball skill at younger ages) is player id. I would guess Ajax and La Masia would be closed to 80-90% objective in player id. There is always some element of subjectivity, an eye for talent based on experience. We need that human element.
We often hear people questioning how so and so made ODP or National Team pool. I do same. Maybe 20-40% of time. Why such variability? Some picks are downright jaw-dropping. Is it based on 80% subjectivity, little to no objectivity? Politics, old boy network, or just plain dumb scouts?
Ajax and La Masia have lengthy scouting and vetting process. I’d bet their national teams to as well. Have to meet fairly stringent objective technical criteria. Have to show tactical understanding. Must have physiological / mental capacity. Meet physical characteristics. Must fit into system and type of playing style fore given position.
Who makes it and who doesn’t is largely a case of subjective circumstance. How do we move towards a more objective situation like Ajax for example? How effective is ODP or USMNT scouting? Can it be improved?
Player id is a topic I think worthy of a post by Gary. Player id is like the raw material of a product. Get it wrong, and end product is of less value.
Besides better coaching, I’m convinced player id for elite levels is an easy way to improve success at highest levels without upsetting the apple cart too much. I also think clubs/teams need to be more selective, but this gets into cash flow. Thorny issue! Improving coaching, longer league seasons, pro-centric youth development, moving away from pay to play, revamping college are all significant challenges fraught with politics and deep rooted interest.
I definitely appreciate the importance of player ID much more than before I started reading this blog. If you don’t pick the players that can perform the roles you need your style will not be successful. Similarly when projecting players for the future and whether they can learn/adapt to playing the way you want.
From my experience at state and region ODP levels, there are two main flaws – lack of game model/philosophy and poor ability to evaluate talent. When there is no direction at all throughout the age groups in terms of how the teams should play it’s hard to pick the right players. You can’t find what you aren’t looking for. When there’s not even a general idea of how to play, it’s left to the coaches and evaluators to pick players based on how they see the game. From what I’ve seen, it’s usually the typical explosive athlete that gets picked. The reason is that kind of player ‘stands out’, which is a nice way of saying the person evaluating can’t actually understand the subtleties of the game well enough to see anything other than someone who runs hard and fast.
And that brings me to the second issue. Many can’t tell the difference between a quality player and a dumb athlete. I had someone helping evaluate at ODP tryouts this year and we had to ignore all of his notes because he was so far off in his judgment. Similarly, I was helping to evaluate at the regional level a few years ago and had to almost beg the coaches to take this one player. They eventually took a good look at him near the end of camp and about a year later he was getting called into youth national team camps and made an MLS academy. But he would have been overlooked had I not kept telling the coaches how good he was. That shouldn’t be the case.
Until player develop programs like ODP establish some criteria for player selection on a macro level rather than allowing the coaches free reign will the situation begin to improve. Too much is left to chance by giving all coaches that much freedom in player ID. There are some solid coaches within these programs, but I feel their work is offset by the ineptitude of others. There also needs to be a lot better coach development going on to help improve the coaches, but that’s a whole different topic.
“I’m convinced player id for elite levels is an easy way to improve success at highest levels without upsetting the apple cart too much.” You might be called a racist.
I would like to see each state with a YNT, larger states with 2. They can eliminate themselves to represent the USA internationally…similar to Miss USA Pageant.
Luis says
Gary, I see clearly your points on the importance and role of circumstance in a player’s fate. However, I must say that, as a parent of an 04 kid, the trouble is that most of the clubs with the right connections (circumstances) fail miserably to teach/develop their players, while a small club, with less stature, might actually be the better or right learning environment for the player. In short, parents are left to choose either a USSDA club with possible connections (right circumstances) but no real learning or a smaller club with no connections but with a real development purpose and environment. In my case, my son played USSDA this past year, 2016-2017, but I took him out because the club failed miserably in the responsibility of aiding his development. At his age, I value development over exposure/ or so called connections.
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Garments Against Women
Anne Boyer
Ahsahta Press, 2015
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It’s hard to figure out exactly how to praise Anne Boyer, not because she doesn’t leave copious evidence of brilliance, diligence, wit, and ethical rigor, but because I can think of no poet who has less interest in or greater distrust of the ideas of praise, brilliance, and all those wee glittering bourgeois items to be found in the gift bag of literary acclaim. Boyer’s writing is rewarding in the ways it smites the reader for wanting to be rewarded, but the exchange is never a hierarchical one; she’s right there with the reader, thoughtfully guilty even as she makes her charges, assessments, and accusations, most of which manifest as the best questions anyone could possibly ask of the bad situation that is the present moment. Garments Against Women is a rich thicket, one bent of making the cost of its making apparent, but also making those costs worth more than just that report. Indeed, it questions the very idea of cost—of money, time, effort or sanity—measure of experience.
If it’s hard to determine the appropriate register of praise for this work, that difficulty dwindles in comparison to the difficulties Boyer forces language to admit, including the inadequacies of language itself. Out of respect for this insufficiency, aspects of Boyer’s diction suggest a tone somewhere between cautiously vague and authoritatively clinical: she’ll use “attachment” to describe a complex of feelings normally described with words more sentimentally rich; “arousal” for the enactment or inhabitation of those feelings. She often makes the logic behind these replacements explicit:
What is the difference between happiness and pornography? I mean what is the difference between literature and photography? It would be easy at first to confuse that which makes us happy and that which makes us aroused.
Both the terminology and the method of this passage approximate science or history as a form of science: fundamentally impersonal, driven by inquiry, concerned with distinctions, with getting things right. None of these ambitions—happiness, pornography, or photography—remotely impersonal, of course; Boyer’s use of “I mean” immediately reveals that this is an actual person using a method, not a perfect instantiation of the method itself. The adoption of clinical remove is the desperation of someone in all ways and at all times bottled, baffled, or battered by the systemic conditions that infect their own analyses. A book like Garments Against Women isn’t something that gets written because the writer has a lot of faith in how and why things get written in the first place; it’s a record of the conditions that make it impossible to write.
What are these conditions, that make writing impossible for the person of Anne Boyer, and what are these conditions that make living impossible for so many? Look, their signature attribute is that whatever the conditions are, neither she nor we can get out of them, and the belief that we can is part and parcel of the trunk of the trap itself. Generally or particularly, the conditions look like this: hardship, which is neither just nor fair. We know it is unjust because it is distributed unevenly, so conspicuously unevenly that only a fool or a churl could regard the pattern of injustice and not immediately identify which groups were targeted and why. For example, from “Venge-Text”:
There’s a man. He tells me he does not like the version of the story in which he is like Simon Legree who ties me down to the railroad tracks. This is because he is like Simon Legree who ties me down to the railroad tracks. He is the man who looks at the blue sky and says “Do not remember this blue sky as blue.”
Despite the reality of the sky, that it is blue, a woman with any interior is trumped by a man with any exterior.
This is an elegant and funny and infuriating example of a dynamic that, if we extrapolate out from the initial scene, perfectly encapsulates a mechanism of injustice. Any member of those Boyer calls “the un-free” could offer an equivalent, whether the locus of oppression is gender or race or class or any of many other markers.
But scenes like these show inequity in addition to injustice, because even if the outcomes were distributed randomly, the conditions themselves are paradoxical, perverse, brutalizing.
For anyone with a mind to go looking, our social order presents intimate and infinite opportunities for righteous complaint. An encouraging plenty of contemporary poetry concerns itself with naming these systemic injustices. But one of the most difficult of the system’s traps to avoid is the temptation to describe the condition of the prison while also presenting a perspective that seems… free. I’m suspicious of any criticism that suggests that any condition that isn’t malignant enough to prevent its articulation can’t really be that malignant at all. But I’m equally suspicious of work that leaves no apparent evidence of the effect of the problem it indicts. Craft that so perfectly sunders itself from subject privileges the very idea of making, and the hazards in that idealization are abundant. And contradictory. Especially regarding its effects on our attitude about subjects altogether. Boyer neatly notes this in an examination of how to write about things as things,
But what you really asked was another question: is it possible to write about objects—way things look and feel, the garments on bodies and in furniture in the gardens and in the rooms without somehow also provoking a desire to acquire more things, or even if one writes about making things it is possible to write about making things without also provoking desire for them?
It’s just as worth asking if writing itself doesn’t create a sort of narcotic aesthetic that inevitably comes at the expense of the thing written about, regardless of whether the thing is material or abstract. If, for example, I want to tell you about the exhausting cost of living in constant fear, there’s always the suspicion that if I’m capable of articulating the fear at all, then it can’t really be that bad; I may even create a pleasure in or a desire for representations of the very thing I’m trying to put forward as not just undesirable but unbearable. It’s a paradox: How do you talk about—through, during, about—your jaw perpetually broken and wired shut? Silence is an option, but one into which it’s possible to project anything, up to and including an implication that neutralizes the motivation to remain silent.
Some attempt to solve this problem in gestural terms, or (in poetic language) via the lyric. I sympathize with this approach, but it only works insofar as the lyric is sometimes assumed exempt from the bird’s-eye paradox elaborated above. The hope of this exemption is best expressed in the dark thrill of the fragment of Akhmatov’s “Requiem” where she asserts her ability to describe those horrors that allegedly defeats those lacking requisite poetic powers. This places poetry— writing, really—“above” both its content and whatever occasions it. I don’t think it is. I think “the world” is brutalizing; I think it manufacturers cruelty by teaching and inflicting cruelty. And I don’t think poetry is immune to this cycle. Or—Boyer herself writes—
Poetry was the wrong art for people who love justice. It was not like dance music. Painting is the wrong art for people who love justice. It is not like science fiction. Epics are the dance music of the people who love war. Information is the poetry of the people who love war.
Twitter and text messaging may not be the best way to gauge the resonance of any given sliver of poetry, but I have seen the sentence “Poetry is the wrong art for people who love justice” recur many, many times, and if nothing else, this suggests that whatever suspicions Boyer has about the possibilities of justice and/or poetry, she’s not alone in having them. As she says elsewhere, “There is no superiority in making things or in re-making things,” a judgment that encompasses art, artificing and analysis.
But the whole sequence of claims is fascinating to examine, initially setting poetry and dance music as opposites only to note that love of war itself can turn dance music, nominally the genre of the justice-loving, into something poetic, something ill-suited to justice. Even poetry itself has a dark doppelganger: information. Subjection to and experience of self–as-data is yet another way of being un-free, but this too raises questions about how one can name a problem without furthering it, since lack of information (or resistance to information) is no better than subordination to information:
Often what is perceived by one party to be an over-reaction to circumstances is the case of that one party not having sufficient information because the information being reacted to is the inadmissible information of the other.
To feel deeply, or to admit to feeling deeply, is also inadmissible, though not as inadmissible as to admit to having been un-free.
If paradox appears here as a pattern, it might help to know that substantial portions of Garments Against Women simply list all the books it isn’t, all the things Boyer isn’t writing, all the reasons why you are reading something composed mainly of elaborations of what she hasn’t done, doesn’t want to do, doesn’t believe can be done. Boyer is extraordinarily good at painting herself into corners with a minimal number of brushstrokes. For example,
I think of all those things conferring authority and exclude them one by one, an experiment in erasing importance. I thought there would be no better game to play than the game set up already, the game called “voice in a crowd of voices.” I didn’t mark a piece of paper all month long. Here, an erasure of whatever partakes of dominion inevitably results in silence, but less radical efforts to avoid reproducing tyranny are no more effective; the downshift in scale from “Some of us write because there are problems to be solved” to the observation that “Sometimes there are specific, smaller problems” identifies something true in that particular, detailed, person-sized problems do in aggregate constitute larger, general problems. But also: trying to solve those smaller problems discretely can grow as absurdly inadequate as trying to solve them in toto, all at once.
And yet. The book that she is not writing and cannot write is the one we are reading; the lives that seem impossible to live are the ones we are living. Impossibility doesn’t prevent being.
It’s impossible for me to see so many problems articulated so precisely without wondering how to solve them, but since all efforts to solve them run, at the very least, the risk of reproducing them and, at the very worst, the risk of inviting new and even worse problems, Boyer doesn’t really try. Or, if she tries, she does so by attempting to do the one thing that does seem possible, which also happens to be the one thing central to bigger and bolder efforts to name and fight these injustices: she tries to communicate what it’s like to live with them and under them, the task so basic and elemental that the paradox of its possible enactment is the very first problem we started with. She writes because she can’t; not being able to do it is her technique.
The key, here, is Boyer’s understanding that the agents of injustice are large, both in that they are distributed widely and composed amorphously or concretely (depending on what serves power at any given moment). But the basic unit of injustice is the self, the person who is harmed, reduced, compromised, imprisoned. Knowing that subjection to injustice creates suffering, but that confronting the asymmetry that enables injustice with a practice that lends itself so treacherously to asymmetry is also a kind of suffering. Poetry is the wrong art for people who love justice, but once you know this, what’s left? In lieu of suffering, happiness? No:
And happiness had always seemed the province of the idiotic and the immoral, which is why I wanted it so-much so-often so-all-of-the-time. There are many things I do not like to read, mostly accounts of the lives of the free.
Boyer puts the problem as simply as she can:
I wanted to be ordinary like an animal. I thought it was my writing that was making me sick.
But even assuming an abandonment of writing could solve one of her problems, it would not and cannot solve the bigger one, which is that while the individual is the unit of suffering, no individual can ignore the reality of other individuals without reproducing the harm she is trying to avoid for herself. Again, one can change what one says by electing silence, but into that silence may rush more of the voices in and of the crowd, and in those voices one will hear what one refuses to say, thereby obviating both the ethos and the utility of remaining silent. Or, as Boyer says of herself, “I am the dog who can never be happy because I am imagining the unhappiness of other dogs.”
Maybe the paradox resolves itself that simply. Happiness foreclosed, but imagination is eternally active, even if resolutely committed to the real, and whatever the real compels that imagination to do.
This concept is brought into action at one point in Garments Against Women when Boyer narrates a brief conversation with her daughter.
Around that time my daughter and I had this exchange:
Anne, imagine if the world had nothing in it.
Do you mean nothing at all—darkness—a world without objects?
I mean a world without things: no houses, chairs or cars. A world with only people and trees and dirt.
What do you think would happen?
People would make things. We would make things with trees and dirt.
I think it’s fascinating that the terms of this hypothetical are, for her daughter, so social. She isn’t wondering what she would do in this world she’s imagining; she’s wondering what people would do, and the assumption is that she would do as they did, as would anyone, as will everyone. It’s possible to regard this belief that we would make things with trees and dirt as a grim, prophetic distillation of the impulse that would inevitably result in houses, chairs and cars, but for me, what matters isn’t whether that fatalistic interpretation is accurate. I’m struck more by the equipoise of the belief itself. Whether stupid or dangerous or beautiful or necessary, we would make things. Whether constrained or compelled, free or un-free. We were never going to be free to decide whether or not we are free, and that will inevitably change what and how we make. But the things made thereby—like Garments Against Women, the book that is because it can’t be—sometimes the expansion of what freedom we can have. Limits challenged or eased or even broken, by living and making right up against them.
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Reminiscences of the Civil War
OP THE CIVIL WAR 239
"So we return these banners to the State, from Avhence Ave received them. They are bruised and torn and tattered; but, thanks be to God, there is no stain of dishonor upon one of them!
"Receive them, sir, from our hands, and deposit them with the archives of the State. Let us always ful¬ fill our sacred obligations to those who are maimed or who fell in their defense, and to their helpless families; and as we gaze with affectionate veneration upon these sacred symbols of our national faith, let us never forget the lessons of patriotism and of fidelity to duty which their history inculcates."
Title Reminiscences of the Civil War
Source Title William Penn Lyon's Reminiscences of the Civil War
Regiment 8th Infantry; 13th Infantry
Author/Creator Lyon, William Penn, 1822-1913
Description Republican attorney William Penn Lyon (1822-1913) was representing Racine in the Wisconsin Assembly when the war broke out. He formed a company in the 8th Wisconsin Infantry and served as its captain until 1862, when he was appointed colonel of the 13th Infantry. This volume was assembled by his wife from letters and diaries, supplemented by her memory of months spent with him at the front. It covers his entire service, from raising a company after the First Battle of Bull Run to his post-war service in Texas. It describes the battles of Fredericktown, Farmington, and Corinth, the drowning of Governor Harvey, and the War Eagle "Old Abe." Slavery is a common theme, and the letters describe refugees, African-American soldiers, and difficulties encountered bringing a black woman to Chicago with officers' wives. After the war, Lyon served on the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1871 to 1894 and moved to California in 1903.
Source Type personal narrative
Place of Publication San Jose, Calif.
Source Publisher Press of Muirson & Wright
Full text OP THE CIVIL WAR 239 "So we return these banners to the State, from Avhence Ave received them. They are bruised and torn and tattered; but, thanks be to God, there is no stain of dishonor upon one of them! "Receive them, sir, from our hands, and deposit them with the archives of the State. Let us always ful¬ fill our sacred obligations to those who are maimed or who fell in their defense, and to their helpless families; and as we gaze with affectionate veneration upon these sacred symbols of our national faith, let us never forget the lessons of patriotism and of fidelity to duty which their history inculcates."
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- Introductory
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Chapter XI: In Memoriam
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A narrative of service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry
ENLISTMENT AND TRAINING
devouz at Fond du Lac as soon as camp equipage could be furnished.
The former officers of the company were re¬ tained, with the consent of the newly-enlisted men, and additional non-commissioned officers were elected. Among the latter I was chosen First Sergeant, which position I held until promoted to a Second-Lieutenancy.
We boarded at the best hotels in the village, until ordered into camp. We were drilled several hours each day, and prepared for the work in store for us by the study of tactics and army regulations. At length, after what seemed to us in our im¬ patience an interminable delay, we went into camp at Fond du Lac on June 15, and for the first time lived in tents. We now had daily company and battalion drill, together with officers' school in tactics and sword exercise. Colonel Thomas H. Ruger, our commander, was a West Point gradu¬ ate, and under his efficient direction we became, before we had been very long in the service, as thoroughly drilled and disciplined as any regiment of regulars. Indeed we all felt sure, while we
Title A narrative of service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry
Source Title Julian Wisner Hinkley's A narrative of service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry
Regiment 3rd Infantry
Author/Creator Hinkley, Julian Wisner, 1838-1916
Description Julian Wisner Hinkley (1838-1916) was a school teacher in Waupun when the war broke out. He immediately enlisted in Co. E of the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry and rose to become its captain. Hinkley fought at the battles of Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and in the Atlanta campaign. He describes draft riot duty in New York and newly recruited European immigrants and Ojibwe Indians as well as commenting on slavery, Southern life, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This book was assembled with his approval in 1912 from his letters, diary, and a manuscript memoir. It is one of a series issued for the 50th anniversary of the Civil War.
Source Type personal narrative;
Place of Publication Madison
Source Publisher Wisconsin History Commission
Event Date 1861-05-08
Month May
State WI
Place Fond Du Lac
Topic camp life
Full text ENLISTMENT AND TRAINING devouz at Fond du Lac as soon as camp equipage could be furnished. The former officers of the company were re¬ tained, with the consent of the newly-enlisted men, and additional non-commissioned officers were elected. Among the latter I was chosen First Sergeant, which position I held until promoted to a Second-Lieutenancy. We boarded at the best hotels in the village, until ordered into camp. We were drilled several hours each day, and prepared for the work in store for us by the study of tactics and army regulations. At length, after what seemed to us in our im¬ patience an interminable delay, we went into camp at Fond du Lac on June 15, and for the first time lived in tents. We now had daily company and battalion drill, together with officers' school in tactics and sword exercise. Colonel Thomas H. Ruger, our commander, was a West Point gradu¬ ate, and under his efficient direction we became, before we had been very long in the service, as thoroughly drilled and disciplined as any regiment of regulars. Indeed we all felt sure, while we [5]
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Wisconsin History Commission
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Editor's Preface
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Departure For The Front
Service In Maryland
On The Trail Of Stonewall Jackson
The Tables Turned
At Cedar Mountain
The Army Retreats Northward
Moving Toward The Enemy
Battle of South Mountain
In Winter Quarters
A Cavalry Expedition
On Draft Riot Duty
With The Army Of The Cumberland
The Third Veteransizes
Reorganizing Lincoln County
Opening Of The Atlanta Campaign
Wounded In The Hospital
The Siege of Atlanta
In Front Of Savannah
In Savannah
Marching Northward
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Honoured Clan
Atholl History
Scotland's Heartland
Structure of Society
The Time of Change
Strathbraan & Dunkeld
Inver
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Blair Atholl
Bruar
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Execution of William Robertson
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Poet Chief
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Clach na Bratach
Struan's Charr
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The Battle Of Culloden 1746
"An incident in the rebellion of 1745" by David Morier
The Lairds of Clan Donnachaidh at the Battle Of Culloden
In Support of the Jacobites:
Auchleeks
Duncan Robertson was one of the core Atholl Lairds most loyal to the Jacobites. At the battle he was wounded, but it was said that he was one of the last of the Atholl brigade to stop fighting.
Balnacree
James Robertson was the only Laird from the area north of the Tay to Pitlochry to fight for Prince Charles. He was a Jacobite supporter right from the start, but he and his son were killed at the battle.
Baldarn & Drumchaldane
The brothers Hugh and Alexander Reid. Hugh died at the battle; Alexander survived and hid out in the countryside until things became safer.
Blairfettie
James Robertson was out in the ’15 and was one of the most influential Atholl Lairds. He strongly disapproved of the cattle lifting activities of his fellow clansmen who followed the Chief, Struan. A vassal of the Duke of Atholl, Blairfettie was one of Lord George Murray’s most trusted men and was promoted to major in the 2nd Battalion. It’s thought that he escaped to France.
Bohespic
John Robertson was a neighbor of Stewart of Kynachan and was a keen Jacobite. He died at Culloden.
Drumachuine
Duncan Robertson, a Laird trained in the government’s Highland Companies. He was a cousin and successor to Struan Robertson. He was appointed colonel and governor of Atholl during the Rebel army’s campaign in England. Much of his time was spent recruiting and chasing deserters. After Culloden he was advised to stay in Scotland to secure his succession to the chief’s estates. Consequently he was forced to spend seven years hiding out in Atholl and beyond before escaping to France. His son had the estate of Struan restored to him in 1784.
Easter Bleaton
David Reid was a vassal of the Duke of Atholl from Glenshee and worked hard to raise and keep reluctant men from the hills of his own glen and Strathardle. While on the march south, he plunged into the Tweed with Lord George Murray to show the Highlanders that the river was safe to ford. After the battle he hid in forests around Glenshee, but was captured in January, 1747, and thrown into Dundee prison.
Fascally
George Robertson held his estate from the Crown, rather than the Duke of Atholl. Perhaps to encourage his tenants and vassals, he was made a Lieutenant Colonel in the 3rd Battalion of the Atholl Highlanders. After Culloden Captain Menzies of the Black Watch was stationed at Castle Menzies when word came that a group of Rebels including Fascally were hiding out at Aldour. Menzies set out to capture them, but made so much noise as he approached that his rebel friends made good their escape. Fascally then hid in an oak tree which still stands on the south fringe of Pitlochry.
Invervack
Rob Ban (fair) Robertson rescued his cousin and Chief Alexander of Struan when he was captured at Sheriffmuir in 1715. Rob Ban was over seventy when he marched with the Clan to Prestonpans and commanded on their return to Atholl with Cope’s Coach. In the autumn of 1746 he jumped from behind a bush on the road to Trinafour and bluffed eight government soldiers into surrendering their weapons to him. He had, in his time, four wives and the current chief is descended from him.
Killiechangie
James Robertson and his son returned home with Struan after Prestonpans and was then given charge of 113 prisoners in the courthouse at Logierait. His son died at Moness in 1820, aged 95. The last Atholl officer to have served in the ’45.
Lude
The widow Charlotte Robertson of Lude was a daughter of Lord William Murray, 2nd Lord Naime, and a cousin of the Duke of Atholl. She was a great admirer of Prince Charles and hosted him at Blair castle. She threatened to hang any of her tenants who refused to join the rebels. She had the honour of firing the first cannon at the siege of Blair castle. After the rising she moved to Edinburgh under the name of Mrs. Black and died in 1787.
Alexander Robertson of Struan. ‘The Poet Chief’ led the Clan at the Battle of Prestonpans. After this battle his men bore him back to Atholl in the grand coach captured from Sir John Cope. The road ended at Tummel Bridge so the men removed the wheels and carried the coach, with their Chief in it, on their shoulders over the last few miles to his home at Dunalastair. Struan died in 1749, and two thousand men marched a dozen miles behind his coffin to his grave at Struan Kirk. Struan was the only Chief to be at every Jacobite uprising, the first being in 1689.
Trinafour
Patrick Robertson was too old to fight, so was appointed Jacobite Governor at Dalnacardoch, where the two roads through Atholl met. His son led his tenants throughout the campaign.
Woodsheal
Donald Robertson of Woodsheal was the son of Invervack. He took over command of the Clan from Struan with a commission of Colonel in September, 1745. He was left for dead at Culloden where two of his brothers were killed. He was badly wounded but eventually escaped to France where he became a Captain in the French army. He returned to Scotland three years before his death in 1775. His nephew James was killed by government troops at Fealar in the hills north of Blair Atholl in the summer after Culloden.
Robertson of Balnacraig | Robertson of Balnaguard | Robertson of Eastertyre | Robertson of Kincraigie
In support of the Government:
Robertson of Balnakeilly | Reid of Pitnacree | Reid of Straloch
This article is reprinted from the Newsletter of the Clan Donnachaidh Society of the North Island of New Zealand
Clan Donnachaidh Centre,
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The Galaxy Note 8 Will Almost Certainly Sport a Dual Camera Setup
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Ming-Chi Kuo from 9to5Mac is famous as the most prominent (and accurate) analyst in the world when it comes to Apple and its products, but every once in a while, he does give out some pretty interesting details about other famous brands like Samsung as well. As it happens, Ming-Chi Kuo has just made some interesting revelations which assert previous rumors that all of us had been hearing for a while about the Note 8. He believes that the Galaxy Note 8 will sport its "most important upgrade" in the form of a dual camera setup at its back.
Although we were pretty much all expecting that, he goes on to add quite a few exciting details to this little "revelation" as well. Apparently, the cameras will comprise of a 12-megapixel wide-angle CIS 2PD lens and a 13-megapixel CIS dual 6P (six element) telephoto lens. Along with dual optical image stabilization, there will also be the option to use 3X lossless optical zoom. He even excitedly predicts that the camera setup will produce images that will rival those taken by the upcoming OLED iPhone.
Kuo also goes on to mention that the Note 8 will sport a display with an 18.5:9 ratio and 1440 x 2960 resolution, just as the one seen on the S8+, but even bigger at 6.4-inches. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and the Exynos 8895 will likely be powering the Note as well.
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Debate: Falkland Islands, return of
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Should the United Kingdom return the Falkland Islands to Argentina?
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1. Should the United Kingdom return the Falkland Islands to Argentina? |
3. Legality: Is it legal for Britain to occupy Falkland Islands? | | | |
4. Self-determination: Do the indigenous want to be ruled by Argentina? | | | |
5. Strategic Value: Is it necessary for Britain to continue its occupation of the islands? | | | |
6. Diplomacy: Will returning the islands improve Britain’s relationship with Argentina and Latin America? | | | |
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The Falkland Islands are a British Overseas Territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean. They are about 300 miles from Argentina and lie just above the Antarctic circle. Their population is about 2500 with an economy based upon agriculture, fishing, tourism and oil exploration. The islands are claimed by Argentina, where they are known as ‘Las Malvinas’. Attempts by Britain and Argentina to reach a diplomatic agreement in the mid-twentieth century failed. Argentina’s military junta launched an invasion of the islands in 1982 but this was defeated after a major British military operation. About 500 British military personnel are now stationed on the islands. Britain and Argentina restored diplomatic relations after Carlos Menem became President of a democratic Argentina in 1989. Argentina agreed not to press its demands for sovereignty, in return for cooperation on fishing, oil exploration and transport links. There has been less cooperation since Nestor Kirchner became President of Argentina in 2003. For example, flights between Argentina and the islands have been stopped. Kirchner, supported by Hugo Chavez (President of Venezuela), demands that Britain return the islands. Many British commentators think that Kirchner has adopted his tough stance to gain domestic political support. Some understanding of the islands’ history is important in this debate. The islands first appear on European maps in the early-sixteenth century. This suggests that Spanish explorers may have spotted them. John Strong, an Englishman, is the first European known to have actually landed, in 1690. The first European settlement of the islands was by France in 1764. A British settlement was established separately the next year. The islands appear to have been uninhabited at this time, but archaeology shows some previous human activity. Spain purchased France’s rights in the islands in 1767. Britain voluntarily abandoned its colony in 1774, but left a plaque asserting its sovereignty. Spain ruled the islands from Buenos Aires (now the capital of Argentina) without opposition until 1811. Spain then withdrew, leaving the islands uninhabited. A significant reason for the dispute is that Britain and Spain simultaneously held claims to sovereignty over the islands from 1767. Argentina gained independence from Spain in 1816 and asserted its sovereignty over the Falklands/ Las Malvinas, organising some settlement of the islands in the 1820s. In 1833, Britain militarily evicted the Argentinean settlers and permanently colonised the islands.
Legality: Is it legal for Britain to occupy Falkland Islands?
Britain’s occupation of the islands is illegal.
Both Argentina and the islands were ruled by Spain. Spain ruled the islands from Argentina – they were therefore part of the same territory. Upon independence from Spain, Argentina rightfully asserted sovereignty over the former Spanish territory. Britain did not claim sovereignty over the islands when Spain left them in 1811. Nor did Britain immediately challenge Argentina’s assertion of sovereignty in 1816.
Britain never abandons its sovereignty of Falkland Islands.
Britain never accepted the Spanish claim to sovereignty, based on the purchase of the islands from France. Britain asserted sovereignty when it left the islands in 1774, leaving a plaque. It therefore had no need to re-assert sovereignty when Spain left in 1811. Britain’s claim far predates Argentina’s. Argentina had no right to assert sovereignty over the islands in 1816.
Self-determination: Do the indigenous want to be ruled by Argentina?
Argentina built public facilities on the Islands.
Permanent settlements were built by Argentina in the 1820s. Previous settlements by France, Spain and Britain had been impermanent. Britain did not protest when the Argentinean settlements were first established. The Argentinean settlements were only ended by illegal British military force. Britain’s subsequent settlement of the islands was therefore illegal.
The Islanders consider themselves British.Argentina had no right to settle the islands in the 1820s. Britain has continuously settled the islands since 1833. The wishes of the current inhabitants of the islands should be paramount. The islanders overwhelmingly consider themselves British and do not want to be ruled by Argentina. Their right of self-determination should be respected. Unless and until the islanders want to be ruled by Argentina, Britain should not abandon them.
Strategic Value: Is it necessary for Britain to continue its occupation of the islands?
Economically, the islands will be an energy asset to Britain.If military costs are excluded, the islands are self-supporting. They are of great value because they bring rights to fishing and oil exploration. If the oil that has been detected in the islands’ territory can be extracted economically, the islands will be an even greater asset to Britain.
Strategically, the islands is a NATO airbase in the south Atlantic.
The islands no longer has strategic value to Britain. The islands are of minimal value to Britain. In an era of satellites and long-range ships and aircraft, the islands no longer have strategic value. Maintaining a garrison there is an unnecessary expense. Jorge Luis Borges (an Argentinean writer) likened the 1982 conflict to ‘two bald men fighting over a comb’.
Diplomacy: Will returning the islands improve Britain’s relationship with Argentina and Latin America?
It would help build ties between Britain and the region.
Returning the islands vastly improve Britain’s relationship with Argentina and Latin America as a whole. This would help Britain’s diplomatic and economic ties with the region.
It would be consisted with Britain’s post-war policy of decolonisation.
It would also be consisted with Britain’s post-war policy of decolonisation, which has seen it withdraw from almost every other colonial possession since 1945. Not only has Britain withdrawn from India, Africa, Malaysia and much of the Caribbean, it has also handed back Hong Kong to China – surely a similar case to that of the Falkland islands and Argentina.
Relations with Argentina are not important to Britain.Britain already has a working relationship with Argentina. In 2001, Tony Blair became the first British prime minister to visit Argentina since the 1982 conflict. The agreements made with the Menem government show the potential for peaceful cooperation without returning the islands. Kirchner’s sabre-rattling will probably decline after the presidential election in 2007. In any case, direct relations with Argentina are of little strategic or economic importance to Britain, except where they affect the Falkland Islands. Trade policy is handled on both sides at a supra-national level, through the EU and Mercosur respectively. The Falkland Islands are simply not like other examples of decolonisation. Elsewhere Britain has given independence to the indigenous peoples of its former colonial possessions, responding to their desire for self-determination. The Falklands have no indigenous population – their inhabitants regard themselves as British in identity and have no desire to be ruled by Argentina.
Returning the islands would not be a sign that violence and threats are legitimate. It would be recognition of the justice of Argentina’s claim and the illegality of Britain’s occupation of the islands. In fact, it would show that illegal acts of violence, like that of 1833, will eventually be overturned.
Returning the islands would imply that violence and threats are legitimate ways to conduct diplomacy. Britain would be giving in to the invasion of 1982 and Kirchner’s more recent rhetoric. This would set a dangerous precedent that Britain will abandon its interests if threatened.
Britain sent its soldiers to fight an unjust war. Their sacrifices do not make British occupation of the islands legal. Indeed, Britain’s conduct of that war has been much questioned, in particular the sinking of the Argentine ship General Belgrano when it was many miles from the combat zone and heading away from it, and the mysterious deaths of some surrendered Argentine soldiers.
6. If Britain returned the islands, it would be a profound insult to the soldiers who fought and died to liberate them in 1982. The campaign was honourably fought in defence of the rights of the people of the Falkland Islands to determine their own future. It was fought against a military dictatorship which used the campaign in a cynical attempt to divert domestic attention away from its oppressive, corrupt and incompetent rule. One of the positive consequences of British victory was that the military junta fell from power and Argentina became democratic. So Britain, Argentina and the Falkland islanders all have cause to celebrate the outcome of the 1982-83 war.
This House believes Britain should return the Falkland Islands
This House would let Argentina say ‘Gotcha’ about the Falkland Islands
This House believes that one bald man should give the comb to the other
That Britain should cede control of Las Malvinas to Argentina
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See also on Debatepedia:
The Argentine Seizure of the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands: History and Diplomacy
Falkland Islands Government
Falklands-Malvinas Discussion Forum
Historia de las Relaciones Exteriores Argentinas - in Spanish
Malvinas/Falklands
The Future of the Falkland Islands and its People
United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association
Framing the Falklands War: Nationhood, Culture and Identity : James Aulich
The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years on: Lessons for the Future : Stephen Badsey
The Falklands War : George Boyce
The Falkland Islands/Malvinas: The Contest for Empire in the South Atlantic : Barry Gough
The Sovereignty Dispute over the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands : Lowell Gustafson
The Falklands/Malvinas Case: Breaking the Deadlock in the Anglo-Argentine Sovereignty Dispute : Roberto Laver
Key to an Enigma: British Sources Disprove British Claims to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands : Angel Oliveri Lopez
Toward Resolution? Falklands/Malvinas Dispute : Wayne Smith
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Ed Hale first showed his skill as a musician and songwriter with the Broken Spectacles and has in the new millennium reaffirmed his status as a thoughtful, progressive, top-notch musician fronting culture-blending rock outfit Transcendence. Thanks to him, some FTAA demonstrators enjoyed the use of a media center any politician would be proud to call campaign headquarters.Unbeknownst to police and media, many groups of protesters set up shop in Transcendence headquarters, a two-story building in the Design District. Phone lines were installed, cubicles erected, and laptops were ported after a local musician who knew a protester told Hale that the demonstrators needed housing space. The media liaisons for the various protest groups, whose main purpose was disseminating info to the mainstream media, had been operating out of a downtown ”convergence center,” where space was at a premium.
After seeing this pathetically bare-bones arrangement — a note on one wall listed pens as a necessity — Hale opened his doors. He met and talked with reps from some of the groups — including steelworkers, ecologists, lawyers, and publicists — who would soon be conducting secret meetings to, among other things, prepare for a Wednesday afternoon press conference at
City Hall.Hale’s biggest contribution to the preparations was probably the hammering he gave the phone company after being told it would take five days for phone lines to be installed in his building. After explaining the purpose of the phones — to create a real media center for people demonstrating — Transcendence HQ had, within a few hours, all the phone lines necessary. And a DSL to boot. (”The lady was so nice. She even gave me her cell number in case I had trouble installing the DSL,” Hale said with a touch of awe.)Their operation up-and-running, the protesters’ City Hall strategy worked. All sorts of media showed up at the event: English- and Spanish-language, print and TV, mainstream and not so. But there were no cops and no problems, even when protesters went into the City Hall building itself, demanding to see a ghost: The invisible Mayor Manny Diaz had supposedly left his office after meeting with Commissioner Angel Gonzalez. (Side note: Has anyone ever actually seen Manny Diaz?)
Transcendence just released a new CD, Sleep With You, and has been working to make it a success. ”Fourteen hour days,” Hale said, describing his recent schedule. ‘Talking to station people, sending out press kits. On Tuesday [November 18] I got an e-mail telling me that we’d [begun receiving airplay] on 100 stations. But I was so absorbed by `The Matrix’ — people putting their lives on the line for what they believe in, people taking action, the way the [demonstrators] worked together, like one person working the phones while another goes to buy food for everyone else, while someone else takes the phone — that I hardly had time to notice.”
‘Spending time with these people and listening to them really opened my eyes. The AFL-CIO guys were so cool, and they were thanking me for letting them use the space, and I’m saying, `No, no, thanks for coming and talking with me.’ Long after the demonstrations, the indie media guys were still here disseminating info. The cops try to spin the media, so it becomes necessary to defend the truth.”
If all the protest groups in the Matrix combined forces — as many did here — the organization would be too much for cops, too much for cities, too much maybe even for George W. If The Matrix were real (and who’s to say it isn’t?), America could become a nation of high moral standards and beneficent behavior.Adam Hurter, a demonstrator who traveled from Massachusetts specifically to denounce the FTAA, said, “The key thing is people coming together and working co-operatively for a world not run by corporations; people who come together with a spirit of hope that we can change the corporate system and who try to build communities to replace the corporate power structure. And we were really interested in connecting with the people of Miami. “Ed Hale made the connection. In more ways than one. And The Matrix grows.”
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TRANSCENDENCE in concert performing the song Junkie from the Sleep With You CD to a packed house in a small club in Miami, Florida. November 2003. Then-keyboard player Jon Rose couldn’t make the show so the band played as a four-piece. Junkie is a song that was not normally a part of the band’s regular sets and the band had never performed it live until this particular night. Ed had been pushing to add the song to their sets but the band was concerned that because of the repetitive nature of the song and because there is no set pattern to the transitions between the verses and the choruses except through the lyrics that there was potential for the band to get lost. Hence bassist Roger plays it pretty safe and sticks close to Ed to hear the lyrics and to cue the drummer.
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A friend just sent this classic shot he found. This is the head #Rabbi/Priest of the oldest surviving Jewish sect in the world, the original #Samaritans from the bible. They also claim to posses the only copy of the actual map of the #Exodus of #Moses and
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