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More about Jack Compton
29th October 2011Jason Mckeown on The spirit rises as City refuse to beaten
Swindon Town 0 Bradford City 0 At The County Ground in League Two, 2011/12
24th October 2011Jason Mckeown on Robbie Threlfall the comeback kid
20th October 2011Jason Mckeown on Parkinson’s free reign to tinker (but not the Tuesday after if City win)
8th October 2011Michael Wood on The enemies of football as Parkinson’s City claim a first win
Bradford City 1 Torquay United 0 At Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
10th September 2011Jason Mckeown on The show of solidarity
Bradford City 2 Bristol Rovers 2 At Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/12
9th September 2011Michael Wood on Exciting times ahead, but perhaps we want more
Bradford City play Bristol Rovers At Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
31st August 2011Laurence Monaghan on Cooper Provides Perfect Platform for Parkinson to Launch From
Bradford City 0 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (City win 3-1 on penalties) At Valley Parade in Football League Trophy, 2011/2012
30th August 2011Michael Wood on The cost of changing managers
29th August 2011Jason Mckeown on Kyel Reid signs for Bantams, Cooper to undertake key role against Sheffield Wednesday
27th August 2011Jason Mckeown on Implosion avoided as the young Bantams come of age
Bradford City 4 Barnet 2 At Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/12
26th August 2011Michael Wood on The week we lost patience
Bradford City play Barnet At Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
23rd August 2011Michael Wood on Peter Jackson goes there and back again as City look for experience
20th August 2011Michael Wood on Peter and the resources
Bradford City 0 Dagenham and Redbridge 1 At Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
19th August 2011Michael Wood on Jackson veers between Kamara and Jewell
Bradford City play Dagenham and Redbridge At Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
17th August 2011Laurence Monaghan on Managing the Expectation of Progress
Accrington Stanley 1 Bradford City 0 At The Crown Ground in League Two, 2011/2012
16th August 2011Michael Wood on Accrington Stanley and the Bar(ry)ometer
Bradford City play Accrington Stanley At The Crown Ground in League Two, 2011/2012
13th August 2011Jason Mckeown on The speed of progress as City continue to stutter
Oxford United 1 Bradford City 1 At Kassam Stadium in League Two, 2011/12
10th August 2011Jason Mckeown on A victorious night for Bradford City in all but result
Leeds United 3 Bradford City 2 At Elland Road in League Cup 1st Round, 2011/12
9th August 2011Michael Wood on The value of local bragging rights
Bradford City play Leeds United At Elland Road in The League Cup, 2011/2012
6th August 2011Michael Wood on The road from Falkirk to Bradford and on
Bradford City 1 Aldershot Town 2 At Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
29th July 2011Michael Wood on Compton joins City on loan
24th July 2011Michael Wood on Jackson left scribbling out his midfield options
Bradford City 1 Bolton Wanderers 4 At Valley Parade in Friendly, 2011/2012
23rd July 2011Michael Wood on Every man, his dog, and Simon Ramsden play as City lose 3-2 to Bradford Park Avenue
The spirit rises as City refuse to beaten
As a general rule, unused substitutes don’t usually need to join in with the team’s warm down after the match. Yet after spending the entire final 30 minutes at The Country Ground stretching and jogging up and down the touchline, at full time Bradford City’s Jack Compton and Ross Hannah might have been tempted to join their 10 heroic team mates on the cool down.
Substitutes Compton and Hannah were on permanent stand-by in case it went wrong. Under clear instructions from their manager, Phil Parkinson – who at one stage ordered them back to their feet when they had returned to sit down on the bench – to be ready for the call to go onto the field at the shortest of notice. Victim to yet another atrocious refereeing decision that had seen central defender Andrew Davies red-carded after 57 minutes, City were left to defend for their lives with Compton and Hannah ready as Plan C, if their goal was breached. The pair’s failure to get on the field illustrated Plan B’s success.
For although the Bantams has parked the bus in the preservation of a point; once a man down they were left with little realistic alternative, considering their high-flying hosts Swindon Town had, since August 16, failed to score in a game only once. It was a truly outstanding, backs to the wall performance in the final half hour, with central defenders Luke Oliver and Marcel Seip particularly courageous and Michael Flynn and Ritchie Jones superbly protecting the back four. A first clean sheet on the road for six months, and a very, very good point.
That it came to hanging on was the game’s major talking point – and how depressing and frankly boring it is to be writing about a referee yet again. City were on the attack deep in Swindon’s half, but the ball suddenly broke for Jake Jervis who was then fouled inside his own half by Davies. A mistimed challenge for sure, a yellow card perhaps. Yet the referee Oliver Langford instantly pulled out a red to send the on-loan Stoke defender off on the day he’d returned from a three match suspension following a previous controversial red card.
There is some talk that Davies was dismissed for being the last man and denying a goal scoring opportunity. While that does seem nonsense in view of the number of City players around – and the fact Jervis was in his own half – it’s even harder to understand how Langford could believe the tackle warranted a red card. Davies took a long time to leave the field, as team mates supported his protest appeals. Liam Moore – unfortunate to have been left out, but who had been poor at Macclesfield – quickly joined the action with Seip moved inside. A 4-4-1 formation was employed to try and see out the game.
It’s ironic that City were forced to hang on for a point, given the criticism – largely unfair – towards Parkinson for supposedly playing too conservatively in the previous two away games. Plan A today involved two wingers and a 4-4-2 formation which showed clear intentions to attack Swindon. Parkinson’s pre-match comments that City are good enough to beat anyone in League Two had felt dubious but – as they evenly matched opponents who began and ended the day in the play off positions – this barometer reading of how the Bantams compare to a top seven side produced encouraging results.
Swindon certainly had the most chances and possession even before Davies was sent off, but the improvement in defence that has been evidenced for a number of weeks now – even if not always reflected by results – was continued. Decent home build up play was often stopped by the hard-working Jones and Flynn, while new full backs Seip and Luke O’Brien both did well neutralising the threat on their wings. Davies was like Oliver, rock solid. When City had possession they didn’t simply hoof it hopefully to James Hanson or Craig Fagan, but passed the ball around patiently and got wingers Kyel Reid and Michael Bryan heavily involved. Both caused problems and created openings.
City did not look and perform like a team 4th bottom of League Two.
Home keeper Wes Foderingham’s mistake in picking up a back pass gave the Bantams an early indirect free kick inside the box, but Flynn’s effort was blocked. Not long after Fagan shot tamely from Hanson’s knock down and sometime after that City’s top scorer couldn’t get power when heading a Seip cross goalwards. The best chance came when Bryan was played clean through on goal but in a wide position, and the young winger couldn’t get a decent ball into the box towards the onrushing Fagan. Swindon had chances too, but Matt Duke’s only save came, once again, from a shot outside the box (on this occasion a free kick) – underlining the robustness of his back four.
Without Davies’ red card the game would probably have continued in that way: Swindon having plenty of the ball and producing some attractive football, City defending well and a strong threat on the counter attack. Langford’s intervention stopped the game as an even contest, and left Swindon with 30 minutes to make their extra man count.
It was easy to fear the worst, as the home side produced some heavy pressure and fired numerous crosses into the box. Not least when it became clear Duke had picked up an injury which meant he could not take goal kicks. Yet Oliver and Seip seemed to have a magnetic effect on the ball, and time and time again it was one of the pair who would get to it first and clear.
Duke had just two second-half saves to make – and one came when it was 11 v 11, after O’Brien’s slip forced the keeper to make an excellent one-on-one block. Other attempts at goal sailed wide or over the bar, but never really close to going under it.
The threat of a goal remained right to the end, yet Swindon seemed to run out of ideas and perhaps took a lead from their attention-seeking, immature manager Paulo Di Canio. He began to get ridiculously wound up by any decision he didn’t get or whenever his players made a mistake. Sure, all managers get like this to a certain extent too, but with 20 or so minutes to go and Swindon well on top one would have expected more coolness and professionalism from a manager – rather than transmitting obvious panic that it wasn’t going to be their day.
Some people think Di Canio is amusing, me I’d take the more reserved but clearly still passionate Parkinson any day.
The full time whistle was met with a huge cheer from us away supporters, and deservedly so. Applying rationale thinking, it is obvious the corner is being turned and City are moving forwards. At the start of this month we had set off to Burton with such little hope and growing fears about the future. But we produced a great performance that day, followed by a memorable cup victory over our neighbours, two home wins and now this point. The two defeats among this run were frustrating for sure, but it is beginning to come together.
October has ended with City in a much better position than when we started it. Progress might still be too slow to inspire hope of joining Swindon in the play off push, but the foundations of developing a side good enough to be up there ability-wise are starting to come through. City have improved greatly at the back, while Parkinson has a range of attacking options available that not too many League Two clubs can better.
That side of the Bantams had to be shelved for the final half hour this afternoon, but the spirit and determination to cling on to the point stands the club in good stead for the winter months to come.
Date Saturday October 29th, 2011
This is a match report on Swindon Town 0 Bradford City 0 at The County Ground in League Two, 2011/12
More about Jack Compton, League Two, Liam Moore, Luke O'Brien, Luke Oliver, Marcel Seip, Matt Duke, Michael Flynn, Paulo Di Canio, Phil Parkinson, Ritchie Jones, Ross Hannah, Swindon Town.
Robbie Threlfall the comeback kid
Two months on from his shock resignation as Bradford City manager, Peter Jackson has yet to utter one word in public regarding his reasons for departing, other than apparently telling a group of Huddersfield supporters that “two people at City are going to kill the club” for the way they are running it. When the day comes he sees it fit to explain himself, it’s hoped whoever is holding the microphone in front of him asks what his thought process was towards his left backs.
Back in those care-free days of pre-season, a flattering 4-1 win for Premier League Bolton over the Bantams was followed by Jackson revealing he’d told full backs Robbie Threlfall and Lewis Hunt, “they can go if they find a club”. For Hunt – only still at the club because a desperation for a right back forced City to offer him a new contract – being told he could leave was understandable and he’s only featured once this campaign. Yet as Threlfall made his 18th start of the season in the home win over Northampton – enjoying arguably his finest game to date in a City shirt – a question popped into my head concerning why three months ago he was told he had no future at all.
I’ll admit I’m a big Luke O’Brien fan. When it comes to selecting who plays left back between Threlfall and O’Brien, I would always – and still would do – favour Luke because of the greater attacking threat he provides. When Jackson rarely picked Threlfall in pre-season and then made his revelation post-Bolton, I was pleased that O’Brien has apparently won his battle to be first choice.
What happened next – and where Jackson’s honest opinion would be welcomed – was baffling. The final pre-season friendly against Carlisle saw Threlfall brought in from the cold and then starting the season’s opener against Aldershot with O’Brien not even on the bench. An unfortunate own goal wasn’t the greatest of starts, but Threlfall’s superb assist for Michael Flynn’s goal at Leeds will live as long in the memory as the Welshman’s terrific strike.
Yet still, we waited for O’Brien to reclaim his place in view of Jackson’s earlier declaration; and as City made a slow start and Threlfall looked fairly average in those early games, bewilderment grew. When O’Brien was brought on as sub in the Johnstones Paint Trophy win over Sheffield Wednesday – a week after Jackson’s exit – there was a chant of “hallelujah” in support of the Halifax-born player. But neither caretaker Colin Cooper nor new manager Phil Parkinson took Threlfall out of the team.
Which would have been harsh – because with each passing week, Threlfall has quietly gone about his business looking more effective than the last game. Having originally being signed by Peter Taylor in February 2010 and much made of his set pieces during his initial loan spell, he’s again making his mark in this area too. Most notably setting up City’s opening goal at Huddersfield in the superb JPT victory.
O’Brien played that night too, and to date all of his appearances have been as a winger rather than his natural full back role. With his greater dribbling ability and willingness to take people on, O’Brien could make a good career out of this position. Particularly because – unlike your bog-standard League Two winger – he has a much greater awareness of his defensive responsibilities and will regularly help out his full back. In the last two home games Parkinson has started with two out and out wingers and then brought on O’Brien when needing to protect a lead. On each occasion he made a decent impact.
So having apparently won the full back war only to lose the battle quite badly, O’Brien’s City future now appears to hinge on his willingness and adaptability to become a winger. Competition is strong in this area of the team too, but with Michael Bryan and Jack Compton only here on loan for now O’Brien’s aim must be to prove to Parkinson these temporary players are not needed long-term. New rivals, but the same kind of challenge he has been used to at left back.
Meanwhile Threlfall has surely become one of the first names on the team sheet. He was outstanding against Northampton, time and time again successfully tackling his winger and providing good cover for Luke Oliver and Marcel Siep, while showing great positioning. Meanwhile in the less-celebrated side of his game – going forwards – he put in a strong display, linking up well with Kyel Reid. He doesn’t take people on like O’Brien, but his greater passing ability means he is starting attacking moves and then joining in further down the line by charging down the flank. With Chris Mitchell struggling to get back into the starting eleven, Threlfall has taken on the greater responsibility regarding set pieces.
All credit to Threlfall for his attitude. There are more celebrated and eye catching members of the team, but his determination to re-discover his form – after a disappointing 2010/11 campaign – and battle for his future at the club is a shining example of what City are trying to achieve this season.
Improvement in individuals, improvement as a team. Threlfall was supposed to be consigned to the scrap heap, but too often City have given up on players and released them rather than develop them. Told to get lost by Jackson, he has come back stronger than ever. Threlfall’s first team spot is his to lose – and on current form I can’t see that happening anytime soon.
Date Monday October 24th, 2011
More about Jack Compton, Luke O'Brien, Michael Bryan, Peter Jackson, Peter Taylor, Phil Parkinson, Robbie Threlfall.
Parkinson’s free reign to tinker (but not the Tuesday after if City win)
As thoughts turn to Bradford City’s important home game against Northampton Town this weekend, manager Phil Parkinson will be in his rights to make changes to the team that lost 2-0 to Hereford the week before.
Matt Duke can be dropped, Luke Oliver can sit in the stands, Ritchie Jones can warm the bench and Craig Fagan can practice some more on his playstation. And if Parkinson wants to undergo these radical team selections and more, there can be apparently be no complaints from supporters.
Because the Bantams lost their last game, which means the manager has our “permission” to change the team.
Sounds nonsense to drop Oliver? Agreed. But in my opinion so is holding the manager accountable to a daft rule that he is not allowed to change a winning team. After an encouraging win over Torquay United that was badly needed, three changes (one enforced) were made at Hereford and many supporters have since blamed the resultant loss on Phil Parkinson (or Phil Plonkinson, as he was dubbed by one supporter on the Official Message Board) for changing a winning team.
Why is it so bad for him to have done so? Sure, the win over Torquay and the performance by the players was outstanding on the day. But does one victory really mean the previous problems have been fully solved and now all the manager needs to do is pick the same 11 players until the next defeat? Or shouldn’t he be entrusted to make further improvements if – in his qualified judgement – he feels it’s needed?
Let’s look at the two controversial changes. Jack Compton played only 27 minutes against Torquay before he was unfortunately subbed because of Andrew Davies’ red card enforcing a defensive reshuffle. He played his part in the win to a certain extent, but the decision to recall fit again midfielder Adam Reed and move Jones out wide – thus leaving Compton out – seemed reasonable.
Almost all season long – and this includes under Peter Jackson, Colin Cooper and now Parkinson – City’s midfield has been lined up with one out-and-out winger and three central midfielders, one of whom played a wide midfield role. The idea is to enable City greater dominance in the middle of the park, with three midfielders against either an opposition two or three. Over recent years we’ve seen numerous City sides play 4-4-2 with two direct wingers, and rarely has it worked well. Too often they are outgunned and the opposition can claim a draw or win.
Jones – who has played for much of his career as a wide right midfielder – seems a natural choice to take on that wide midfield role. I personally would prefer he stay in the centre with Flynn, and Chris Mitchell recalled wide right, but I can at least see the thinking behind Parkinson’s decision and – in the first half at Burton at least – Reed looked a very clever player. Going into any away game with two out-and-out wingers (which is what Compton and Kyel Reid are) would have left City very open. This approach is more acceptable in home games when the opposition will be more defensive, but not necessarily the best tactic on the road.
I like Compton, but I do think there are better wide players at the club. When he played at Huddersfield, it was notable that his lack of defensive awareness allowed Town’s Daniel Ward the freedom to give Luke Moore a difficult opening 45 minutes. Parkinson eventually swapped Luke O’Brien and Compton – so the left-footed OB played wide right – to nullify this threat. It made a big difference with O’Brien excellent as a right midfielder, and in my view was a negative mark against Compton.
As for the other Hereford change – Stewart for Jamie Devitt – while doubts about his style of play remain, the evidence so far is that Devitt is a quality player at this level who can improve the team. Stewart had a great game against Torquay, but all of his best work came outside the penalty area. So again, there is reason to understand Parkinson’s thinking in making this change, even if you don’t necessarily agree.
Too often there is a compliant in football, heard at City in recent days too, that the manager “doesn’t know his best 11.” Yet in this day and age few managers ever stick with the same 11 players and football is about squads. Form – at this level especially – fluctuates and the theory a manager can decide his best 11 and stick with them for weeks and months is flawed. I’m glad that Parkinson doesn’t seem to know his best 11, because it gives everyone in the squad the opportunity to stake their claim and keep pushing others. Equally the best 11 to beat one type of opposition (say Dagenham) is not necessarily the best 11 to win against another style of play (e.g. Crewe).
We have a squad of 37 players – the ideal that Parkinson cannot choose the 26 who didn’t start the previous game, because it was won, is a restrictive and outdated view of football management.
Date Thursday October 20th, 2011
More about Adam Reed, Chris Mitchell, Jack Compton, Jamie Devitt, Luke O'Brien, Mark Stewart, Phil Parkinson, Ritchie Jones.
The enemies of football as Parkinson’s City claim a first win
The last time he left Valley Parade happy Phil Parkinson was called “the enemy of football” by then City manager Colin Todd after his Colchester United team battled to a point. As Parkinson celebrated his first win as Bantams boss it seemed that no matter what how much of an enemy if the game Todd might think he may be, he is effective against the opposition.
Torquay United came to Valley Parade and were almost entirely neutered in their attempts to win the game thanks to a defensive effort from Parkinson’s side the match of anything seen at City for seasons and despite the Bantams having a man sent off.
Lining up with two rows of four, and Mark Stewart behind Craig Fagan Parkinson’s side were the picture of tight defending and – when they had to be – smart enough to kill off the game when legs got weary with the Bantams having to play over an hour with ten men following the sending off of Andrew Davies in the first half.
Now, dear reader, our views may divert (at least until television reveals more) but from my bit of plastic in the near 12,000 filled seats at Valley Parade Davies went in aggressively on Danny Stevens taking both feet off the floor and even in getting the ball the red card that Carl Boyeson showed was (as little as I like to see City players sent off) the right decision.
(Sunday note: Watching again the only way the Ref could justify a red card is if he believed that because the tackle was two footed that it was automatically either reckless, dangerous and endangered an opponent thus a yellow card even if it got the ball and, by virtue if the goal scoring opportunity denied, a red card. If that is the case Davies would get a one match ban. It was certainly not a violent or aggressive tackle which would merit a three match ban. Having seen it again, and in the context of other tackles in the game, I would not have even blown the whistle for a foul.)
My views were not shared by most and Valley Parade went into uproar and most (including t’other half of BfB Jason Mckeown) thought that Davies had taken ball hard but fair, that Stevens had made a meal of the tackles – he was booed for the rest of the afternoon – and that Boyeson was wrong.
If Boyeson did get the decision right then it was pretty much all he got right all afternoon in which time and time again he showed a near contempt for the rules that he was on the field to enforce. For sure we can all forgive mistakes – one or Jason and myself will be wrong about the red card tackle – but what can not be forgive is seeing offences and ignoring them.
So when Kyel Reid – on a foray into the Torquay United half when City were attacking on the counter – turned Eunan O’Kane on the edge of the box despite the midfielder tugging on his shirt only to be hacked at and pulled down in the box and Boyeson gave only a yellow card one had to wonder which part of the rules he was enforcing. The part that says that denying a goal scoring opportunity mandates a red card was ignored, and thirty years of football tells me that that was one.
Of the goalscoring opportunities City created the lion’s share with Matt Duke having to save once low down to his right but spending most of the rest of the afternoon watching the heroics of defenders Luke Oliver and substitute Guy Branston who blocked and blocked again whenever the ball penetrated the wall which the midfield pair Richie Jones and Michael Flynn had put up which was refreshingly not often.
In a game when plaudits were available for all special mention goes to Michael Flynn who put in a box to box midfield display which makes one wonder why at the start of the season he was seemingly on his way out of the club. His combination with Jones – who is a fine player for sure and one with a great engine – made for a powerful midfield display nullifying the previously excellent O’Kane.
Oliver and Branston – and Davies before his departure – were immense. Again Oliver was on his way out at the start of the season but his performance today looked like the best defender to have taken to the field for City since the slide into League Two. Graeme Lee, David Wetherall, Matt Clarke et al would have all loved to have put in a display like this.
Branston loved it too. Not wanting to dismiss the travelling supporters who applauded him last year he was gracious in victory but his display was the sort of showing which seemed promised when he signed.
Some of Branston’s tackles walked the line for sure, but so did much of City’s play and one was reminding of Todd’s talk of enemies when City got tough. City under Stuart McCall (in his first two seasons) and once or twice under Peter Jackson could be a joy to watch but they could also be a joy to play again for the opposition. A side that wanted to pass and impress an opposition side, Parkinson’s City were more aggressive.
Torquay United will return to the South Coast knowing they have been in a game. Michael Flynn was booked for a hard tackle, Richie Jones lucky not to follow Flynn into the book. Branston cleaned out everything, Oliver put muscle in and Craig Fagan leading the line gave his defender Hell. City, for want of a better phrase, manned up.
Sturdy at the back, giving nothing away, and ending up with a clean sheet all City needed to do was score – not something has been a problem this season – and so the goal came in the last ten minutes of the first half when a cross in from Robbie Threlfall was headed on by Luke Oliver, taken under control by Craig Fagan and struck in with power.
Fagan’s fitness is returning and he is looking like a very good player. He nearly got a second in the second half when he latched onto a the ball when racing against goalkeeper Robert Olejnik and lobbing the ball over the custodian only to see it hit bar and post and bounce away. Threlfall’s had a direct free kick pushed wide by a diving Olejnik later. Another goal would not have flattered City.
Not getting a goal though City played out the last ten minutes at game killing pace and the frustration started to show. Kyel Reid toyed with a few Torquay players and got a couple of kicks for his trouble one of which could not have been said to have been near the ball. Boyeson seemed to be happy to let that – as he did the many deliberate handballs he blew for against Torquay striker Rene Howe go without further censure.
Not one player will have left the field without the warm handshake from Phil Parkinson. Liam Moore battled hard at full back well supported by Stewart who dropped back to the right following the sending off. Kyel Reid turned a performance which seemed to be going nowhere into a great display. Luke O’Brien and Nialle Rodney put in great shifts from the bench. Parkinson has drummed in the need for hard work, and he got it today.
It was a new Bradford City modelled by Parkinson. More canny, a bit more nasty, and victorious. The sort of thing which Colin Todd called the enemies of football but without the ability to trust officials to carry out their jobs as detailed (and I reiterate that the red card, to me, seemed sound but one correct decision does not a performance make) City had to look after themselves today, and did.
Twelve games in and City have moved up the table to fourth bottom but it seems very much like this season has finally got going.
Written by Michael Wood
Date Saturday October 8th, 2011
This is a match report on Bradford City 1 Torquay United 0 at Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
More about Andrew Davies, Carl Boyeson, Craig Fagan, Danny Stevens, Eunan O'Kane, Guy Branston, Jack Compton, Kyel Reid, Liam Moore, Luke O'Brien, Luke Oliver, Mark Stewart, Matt Duke, Michael Flynn, Nialle Rodney, Phil Parkinson, Rene Howe, Richie Jones, Robbie Threlfall, Robert Olejnik, Torquay United.
The show of solidarity
To an outsider at least, Bradford City’s start to the season must appear to be on the brink of being labelled catastrophic. Yet within the four sides of Valley Parade this afternoon and over the past few weeks, it’s hard to recall the last time we felt so giddy with excitement.
Michael Flynn’s successful stoppage time penalty means City have struck a late equaliser two weeks running and stretches the unbeaten run to four games, though only once in this season’s nine league and cup matches to date have the Bantams won outright over the 90 minutes. Yet while in the past such form would prompt moaning, instead there is optimism. We’re not looking at the future with glass-half-empty despair, but with relish. No panic, just patience.
When at half time the players trooped back to the dressing room a goal down to a decent Bristol Rovers side they did so with the boost of a standing ovation from just under 10,000 home supporters. How many times has this scenario happened over the past decade? Typically when losing at the break, the only question is how loud in volume the boos would be; yet today there was a defiant and powerful message delivered to players – we’re genuinely right behind you.
And how richly deserved that standing ovation was. Lining up in a 4-4-1-1 formation which allowed loan signing Jamie Devitt to operate in a free role behind James Hanson, City dictated the tempo right from kick off and produced a display of attacking, passing football that was remarkable to watch. The ball was passed back and forth with great accuracy and some dazzling attacking moves were only thwarted by a strong visiting defence or eventual slight inaccuracy in possession.
For the last four seasons in League Two, we’ve largely become used to a more direct style of football which has proved effective at times but at others was dismal to watch. Today City looked as if they’d spent the week watching DVDs of Arsenal and – dare I say it – Barcelona. Quick fire, one-touch football with the ball knocked across from wing to wing and ending up in the penalty area having remained on the turf on route, rather than hit high. On another day and against weaker opposition City could easily have been three or four goals up.
Devitt is skilful in possession and proved hugely effective in his free role, while fellow home debutant Kyel Reid looked a constant menace on the left wing and regularly had the beating of Pirates’ right back Adam Virgo. With Chris Mitchell again providing that mixture of width and central support alongside the again impressive Ritchie Jones and Flynn, the Bantams dominated the first half through their stylish approach.
Goalscoring opportunities were less frequent, though Devitt was unfortunate to see an overhead kick attempt sail over, Flynn could have gone better with an effort from the edge of the area and Devitt again came close with an excellent run but weak shot. The best opportunity of all fell to Jones, whose late charge into the box saw him meet Reid’s superb cross brilliantly with head and the gangling Scott Bevan pulled off a world class tip over. Aside from a moment of confusion where Bristol Rovers thought they had scored – only for the dismal referee Nigel Miller to eventually realise his linesman had flagged for a foul rather than goal – it was one-way traffic.
So when Matt Harrold got free of Luke Oliver to send a looping header over Matt Duke and into the net, following a superb pass from Stuart Campbell, there was no justice at all. City continued to press, but the downside of Phil Parkinson’s formation – which had been hinted before the goal – came into focus when two brilliant crosses into the box were missed by home players. There just weren’t enough people getting into the box and, as wonderful as the build up in the final third was at times, City lacked options when it came to finishing them.
Hanson bore the brunt of this frustration from supporters. Understandable at times as his work rate seemed to be lacking his usual high standards, but once again it seems a question of feeding him the ball in areas where he can hurt the opposition. Perhaps this new style of play means selecting a target man like Hanson isn’t going to be the most effective approach. But equally more runs into the box from midfield are needed to support him or whoever is selected up front instead, and as the half came to an end with that uplifting standing ovation the question to ponder was whether we are lacking a striker or just missing David Syers.
The quality of City’s play wasn’t as exceptional in the second half – partly because of Rovers’ manager Paul Buckle’s decision to place a deep-sitting midfielder right in front of his back four in an effort to curb Devitt’s influence – but enough of a head of steam was built up to find an equaliser on the hour.
Hanson’s header from a corner struck the post and Devitt’s rebound attempt was blocked by a defender, but as the Hull City youngster looked set to hit another shot at goal he was hauled down for a penalty. Flynn – second-choice penalty taker behind the benched Jack Compton – side footed it casually into the right corner and the strong backing from fans increased further in volume as substitute Ross Hannah forced Bevan into another outstanding save.
Disappointingly the Bantams sat back and Bristol Rovers re-took the lead when Eliot Richards was allowed too much space to send a powerful shot past Duke. It is a source of worry that a back four which looks solid for the most part of games can then switch off and is so often punished for doing so. Guy Branston, Oliver, Liam Moore and Robbie Threlfall couldn’t be faulted during the match, but Parkinson needs to find a way of tightening them up further.
City pressed hard in the closing stages, but just like last week you couldn’t see an equaliser occurring. But then, half way through the four minutes of injury time, a great piece of skill by Devitt lead to him being tripped in the box for another penalty. Compton – who again impressed when coming on – pressed his claim to take the spot kick, but Flynn was given the responsibility a second time, firing into the opposite corner despite Bevan’s best attempts to keep it out.
Another draw doesn’t do much for City’s league position, but there’s no doubt an upwards direction is being taken. From being unlucky to lose games at the start of the season, the Bantams are now somewhat unfortunate to be drawing matches. Parkinson’s ongoing search for a striker might prove to be the final piece in the jigsaw, but if the current standards of performance are maintained the victories will surely come.
And when they do, the joy is everyone’s to share. The atmosphere inside Valley Parade today was superb and while it might not intimidate the opposition it certainly makes a difference to our players. Everyone can see how much they care and are trying for this club, and only an incredibly heartless person wouldn’t appreciate their commitment.
Peter Jackson, Colin Cooper, Archie Christie and Parkinson have or are building a team that we can truly feel proud of, and the half time standing ovation proved how much we care about – and feel inspired by – our players.
Date Saturday September 10th, 2011
This is a match report on Bradford City 2 Bristol Rovers 2 at Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/12
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Exciting times ahead, but perhaps we want more
Welshman John Hartson likes a good rant. When his Wimbledon team conceded a goal at Valley Parade in 2000 he ranted his way to a red card after reportedly nearly ranting his way to one in the tunnel before this game. Something in the last eleven years has convinced the good people at ITV that he should be given the microphone in support of the England vs Wales game in the week and so his rants moved into my front room.
Moving aside from the curiousness of his statements on the English having an Italian manager Hartson declared himself excited by the young Welsh team which claimed a gallant defeat at Wembley casting a critical eye on Fabio Capello’s England who had ended the game as victors, a draw off winning the group and qualifying for the European Championships.
Hartson’s excitement is justified – Wales look like they might have a team capable of undoing the wrongs committed against the country by John Toshack and getting back to the Mark Hughes side of 2004 where they nearly qualified for a major competition – but as a practical concern it misses the rather obvious point that what he is getting excited about has become tedious for the team he criticises.
No matter what one thinks of England’s performance there has become a kind of metronomic precision to the national team’s progression to World Cup’s and European Championships. Since the early 1980s England have missed three summers of what will be sixteen times of asking. While Hartson may be excited about the chance to be a part of one of those tournaments the reality of football is that England will be.
Which is because – as has been proved over the last two games, and the previous World Cup qualifying under Fabio Capello – England are good at winning games and getting results to get to the sort of tournaments which their group opposition aspire to.
Being good at getting results is not always something to get excited about but the last minute conversion of Jack Compton’s cross by Ross Hannah at Morecambe last week has pulses racing. City’s game plan seemed to have been blown away in the blustery coastal winds but Phil Parkinson’s new team showed a character to keep going and a resolve to nick a goal which turned a defeat into a good result.
Again a reality of football is that at all levels an away draw is always a good result and if a team wins home matches, draws away amassing two points a game then it will probably end up promoted. Parkinson is looking to build on that result with his first home game.
Parkinson inherited a City team which seemed to be growing in belief. The 4-2 win over Barnet showed what could happen if the young team got the ball down and passed it. In the league, since Peter Jackson left, City have a home win and an away draw.
Another former England manager – Sir Bobby Robson – said that a team needed a player who scored one in two and another who scored one in three and then it would do well. Up front James Hanson has three in six games and he may be partnered with Ross Hannah who has two in six. Mark Stewart would be unlucky to step down after some very good performances but Hannah has knocked firmly on the door. Nakhi Wells is back from international duty while Nialle Rodney is injured.
The midfield two of Richie Jones and Michael Flynn is growing in effectiveness. It is curious that Welshman Flynn – obviously a player capable enough to be in the side – was being cast aside by Jackson with no more explanation than the idea that the manager “didn’t fancy him” as if that were a reason to lose a good and useful player. Chris Mitchell will hope that his last league performance at Valley Parade has not been forgotten and Jack Compton will hope his pinpoint cross to Hannah wins him a place in the side but Kyel Reid and – especially – Jamie Devitt will be hoping to get places on the wing.
Matt Duke will keep goal behind an increasingly settled back four of Liam Moore, Luke Oliver, Guy Branston and Robbie Threlfall.
The Bantams face a Bristol Rovers team who are sitting in mid-table as they recover from relegation and are smarting from a 4-1 defeat by City’s opposition next week Crawley Town. Rovers have not won since the 16th of August and when a team is not winning then there is always a worry. As City found before Jackson’s surprise exit losing can be softened by an exciting, young team.
How long exciting losing under Jackson could have been tolerated we will never know, but perhaps John Hartson will tell us.
Comments off. Michael Wood is on holiday.
Date Friday September 9th, 2011
This is a match preview on the game against Bristol Rovers at Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
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Cooper Provides Perfect Platform for Parkinson to Launch From
Tomorrow morning City’s new boss Phil Parkinson is due to discuss the futures of the backroom staff and that namely of Colin Cooper. Cooper took the helm to guide City to a second impressive display in four days, that saw the Bantams go through to the second round of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy, via penalties, at the expense of League 1 opposition. On this evidence it must surely be highly tempting for Parkinson to keep him on as his number two.
That is to say if Cooper wishes to remain in the role, because on the back of these two games he has done himself no harm if he was to go looking for a number one spot elsewhere.
His mantra seems to be to get the team passing, using the flanks effectively and pressing teams into their own half. It would be nice to see this ethos continued under the new boss as not only is it pleasing to watch, it has also yielded two positive results in as many games.
Whilst the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy offers an unhelpful distraction from the league to some, it offers others the chance of a cup run with a trip to Wembley at the end of it. City set up with the latter in mind and named an unchanged starting line-up from Saturday’s victory against Barnet. Megson’s team selection seemed to apply to the former, choosing to blood a sixteen year-old centre back, but nonetheless offered the Owls a chance to pick up their first away victory of the season.
Megson’s clear scepticism towards the tournament was further confirmed only minutes into the game when first choice Wednesday keeper, Nicky Weaver, was replaced by second choice stopper Richard O’Donnell. A slight bending of the rules perhaps, which stipulate that six first team players must be included in the starting line-up, and not, one would argue, in the spirit of the game or competition.
To add to this early surprise, after only fifteen minutes Megson made more changes, sacrificing former Leeds midfielder David Prutton and defender Jose Vitor Semedo. The sentiment that you can only beat who is put in front of you seemed to echo around Valley Parade and did not deter City, but surely spurred them on sensing a higher opposition scalp.
With these distractions aside, Bradford started the game brightly and looked to play a passing game through the midfield, feeding the wide men Compton and Mitchell. Compton particularly looked dangerous and increasingly demonstrated the confidence to go beyond his full back, this led to an early pull back for Mark Stewart who had the ball nicked off his toes just before connecting with his shot.
Continuity in selection seemed to be paying off for City as Michael Flynn and Ritchie Jones struck up a decent understanding that saw Flynn playing the aggressor, whilst Jones showed finesse to find a yard of space to push the Bantams forward. Indeed this was a refreshing sight following the midfield being by-passed far too often in recent memory.
Despite early amounts of possession and positive play, the Bantams rarely tested the Wednesday keeper and as the half wore on the Owls seemed to settle into the game and gain more possession themselves, but likewise, without every really threatening Oscar Jansson’s goal.
As the half drew to a close, the tenacity of Mark Stewart carved half a chance for the Scottish striker, his shot ballooned up into the air and straight into the path of James Hanson who could only managed to knock his header into the ground and agonisingly wide of the far post.
Despite the miss the near chance seemed to send the Bantams into the break with positive intent and left Wednesday looking vulnerable at the back.
Vulnerability that nearly proved costly only seconds into the second half, when a loose pass back to his keeper by sixteen year old Ayo Obileye, was nearly seized upon by the alert Compton, who saw his effort deflected wide by the keeper’s legs.
The City forwards continued to hustle the inexperienced Owls backline, Hanson using his brute strength and Stewart his guile to carve out more chances; Stewart’s best effort was pushed wide by keeper O’Donnell, whilst Hanson dragged his late effort wide.
Midway through the second half, City introduced boyhood Wednesday fan Ross Hannah who continued where Stewart left off and continued to pressurise the Wednesday defence. Mitchell was then also replaced by winger Michael Bryan, who again looked a little lightweight when up against opposition fullbacks.
Wednesday continued to pass the ball effectively through the midfield carving few chances on goal and never really testing Jansson, but as the half went on, it was City who finished the stronger.
Firstly, a Luke Oliver header that was cleared on the line (following a watch of the replay on TV it certainly looked over the line), the resultant clearance came to Flynn who volleyed an effort that was effectively saved once more by O’Donnell. Then Compton curled a vicious free kick just wide of the far post; Hannah tried to scramble a shot in on the turn following a Hanson knock down and Jones also had a powerful volleyed effort saved.
With the game drawing towards the last five minutes City introduced prodigal son Luke O’Brien for Compton. Early link up between O’B and Robbie Threlfall saw the Bantams force a free kick on the left flank; the ball was swung across into a dangerous area by Threlfall and was met again by the consistently impressive Oliver, whose header struck the bar and bounced to safety.
It seemed that it was going to be one of those nights for the Bantams, who’s endeavours went unrewarded. With the game finishing level, the lottery of penalties ensued and saw City keeper Jansson come into his own.
Sheffield Wednesday started the spot kick proceedings at the Bradford End, Clinton Morrison blasting his effort way over the bar. Ritchie Jones then stepped up and made it 1-0 with a coolly taken spot-kick. The Owls’ second penalty saw Jansson dive athletically to his right to push the effort wide, then Flynn doubled City’s lead with another well taken effort. Wednesday’s third effort saw the visitors get on the board, only for Ross Hannah to smash City’s third into the top corner. As Wednesday’s fourth taker stepped up, it felt amongst the crowd that the superior City performance was about to be rewarded and duly it was as Jansson dived low to his left to push the shot around the post.
If this is seen as a lesser competition then nobody told the Bantams’ players whose reaction was one of delirium as the arm-linked Claret and Amber stripes stampeded towards Jansson for a good old-fashioned pile on, topped off by a Guy Branston Swan dive (Ouch!). The team spirit was clear to see and it is hoped that Parkinson will now look to continue this in order to build on the confidence gained in the last two games.
The two victories represent a massive step forward for the squad and Cooper’s influence cannot be ignored. So it is hoped that Phil Parkinson’s observatory role tonight has shown him enough to know a good thing when he sees it and does all within his power to keep Cooper on. This will surely aid the transition and maintain continuity, whilst hopefully demonstrating to the new boss, cited in previous articles for favouring a tight 451 formation, that playing an attacking 442 formation can merit its own rewards and do it in style.
It will be interesting now to see how many new recruits Parkinson decides to bring in, as it would be a shame to oust the promising talent that has been on show in the last two games, without first giving it a chance. An experienced striker is still an attractive prospect, but the players handed over by Cooper must at least leave the new man thinking hard before spending Mark Lawn’s newly available funds.
Written by Laurence Monaghan
Date Wednesday August 31st, 2011
This is a match report on Bradford City 0 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (City win 3-1 on penalties) at Valley Parade in Football League Trophy, 2011/2012
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The cost of changing managers
As Phil Parkinson sits down to watch his first Bradford City game as manager already he will have made a signing and put in approaches for others with Charlton’s Paul Benson having talked to City as one of three clubs he is expected to consider joining before tomorrow’s transfer deadline.
Parkinson is unequivocal. He wants to add players to the squad and he wants to do it before Wednesday. This time last week the current squad were Peter Jackson’s team, his lads, hand-picked and with some security. Now some of them are looking at a long time on the sidelines.
Jack Compton is first with his neck on the block. A player on loan from Falkirk having not parted on the best of terms with his manager he worries that he might be sent back to Scotland but the arrival of Kyel Reid casts a shadow over his future. For sure Parkinson might have watched Compton for a couple of games, but he knows Reid from old.
Compton though is a loanee, and such is the life, but what the likes of Nialle Rodney, Nakhi Wells and Ross Hannah will make of Paul Benson’s arrival should it is a little more significant. These players might all have a future at City, but that future is pushed further away when the club start bringing in senior players over your head. Hannah might look at Benson’s record at Dagenham and Redbridge and think that he could do now what Benson did then, but that he might not get the chance to now.
Hannah is bubbling under, and so are James Hanson and Mark Stewart. Performances like Saturday and momentum builds and careers come from that. Sitting on the bench watching players signed over your head is a route back to non-league.
As Benson would probably testify to League Two is a league that makes players and as Stuart McCall would note bringing in the big names often does not work. Watching Saturday’s performance one might conclude that if you put eleven men on the field and got them playing the right way then you have eleven good players.
Nevertheless manager’s want to change things and while three months ago Peter Jackson was feathering his nest with his own squad so Phil Parkinson will do the same. Players come in with signing on fees, players go out with contract termination agreements. It is not cheap and the three rebuilding jobs of the last few season suggest it is not effective either. Peter Taylor’s self assembled team did no better than Stuart McCall’s.
There is scope for improvement at any time of course. The squad needs more wide men and has very limited resources in the holding midfield area. There is also an argument that when the right player becomes available then you add him to the squad. The right player is an example to the younger players in the squad, someone who trains and plays in the right way and with the right professional attitude. A Stuart McCall if you will, a Peter Beagrie. Paul Benson might be that kind of player.
Ultimately Bradford City, once again, pick up the price of changing the squad once more but there is a different cost an a more human one. Peter Jackson went to people like Hannah, Wells, Rodney et al and – on behalf of the club – told them that Bradford City was a way to start your career. The cost of changing managers may end up being those careers.
Date Tuesday August 30th, 2011
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Kyel Reid signs for Bantams, Cooper to undertake key role against Sheffield Wednesday
In what must be the quickest ever first signing by a Bantams manager, Kyel Reid has this afternoon signed a two year contract with Bradford City.
Reid, who played under new boss Phil Parkinson at Charlton, is a 23-year-old left winger and his arrival would appear to place Jack Compton’s future in doubt. The on-loan Falkirk winger is here until January and has impressed, but Reid’s quick arrival is a statement of intent.
Parkinson told the club’s official website:
I watched some of our games over the weekend and I just felt another attacking threat was needed, especially in wide areas. Kyel certainly fits that bit, he’s like an old-fashioned wide player. He’ll attack the full back and get balls into the box.
Reid could make his debut in tomorrow’s JPT game, subject to Football League clearance. He began his career at West Ham, making just three appearances after emerging through the youth ranks. He chose to leave Upton Park in search of first team football, moving to Sheffield United in 2009. However, he only made seven appearances for the Blades and joined Parkinson at Charlton, initially on loan. He has also had loan spells at Barnsley, Crystal Palace and Blackpool.
Meanwhile Parkinson has confirmed assistant manager Colin Cooper will play a big part in plans for the Sheffield Wednesday tie. Parkinson told the official site:
Just to keep the continuity going from Saturday, he has taken training this morning and he will be sorting out all the organisational stuff for tomorrow. I will also be seeking his advice when it comes to the team selection. I think that is the best thing to do for tomorrow and then we will take it from there.
On Wednesday the pair will sit down and discuss Cooper’s future. It would appear up to Cooper – who has ambitions of becoming a manager himself – whether he stays.
City have made a bid for Paul Benson but have yet to be given permission to speak to the Charlton striker. The transfer window closes on Wednesday.
Date Monday August 29th, 2011
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Implosion avoided as the young Bantams come of age
Perhaps Mark Lawn is being economical with the truth over the degree of influence and pressure he and his Boardroom colleagues placed upon Peter Jackson. But as it became obvious it was entirely the departed manager’s decision to quit, uneasy questions began to surface over the squad building he has overseen.
Just how bad were these players, to prompt someone apparently proud to manage them to quit after just five games in charge? Had he detected the ship is sinking and so clambered aboard the first lifeboat available before anyone seriously questions his leadership? When Barnet disrupted 15 minutes of promising home play by taking the lead this afternoon, the despair that flooded across Valley Parade weighed heavily.
Although at least the gloom didn’t last long, because James Hanson headed home an immediate equaliser that – in time – could be looked back upon as the crucial moment in City’s campaign. However, even during such a short period of time losing, the cracks of implosion could be heard. Barnet’s opener was almost an exact replica of Aldershot’s first in the opening day 2-1 defeat of the Bantams, with Guy Branston inexplicably allowing Ricky Holmes time and space to charge into the box and send a low cross that Izale McLeod couldn’t miss from. As the game restarted Branston’s next touch was greeted by a smattering of boos. The team was being turned upon by the loud minority. Yet again. Sigh.
Hanson’s goal halted the boos and frustration in the stands, while on the pitch it breathed belated confidence into a young side that in the past five games had simply been on the wrong side of narrow margins rather than humiliated. It was a goal of genuine quality, with Mark Stewart receiving the ball in the final third and expertly laying the ball off to wide man Chris Mitchell. His cross was superb, allowing Hanson to glance the ball into the net. From seemingly on the brink of panic, the corner was being turned.
In a match up between two teams better going forward then defending, City gradually began to take control with so many of the new faces in particular enjoying a season’s best performance. Stewart looked easily-bullied and weak in his two previous league starts; today he ran Barnet ragged with intelligent running and far greater strength on the ball. Liam Moore recovered from a poor start to enjoy a storming second half at right back. Ritchie Jones linked defence and attack up nicely, while Jack Compton was always a threat on the ball.
Ironically this was the same team set up and almost identical line up to the one which begun the season losing to Aldershot. Mitchell looked lost as wide right midfielder that day, but on his recall gave City the balance in midfield needed to allow them to increasingly dominate. He tucked in alongside Jones and the energetic Michael Flynn when an extra body was needed in the centre, and tracked back well to support Moore at moments Barnet tried going down the flanks. When City attacked, he popped up in different areas that included providing width on the right hand side. On this form he is the answer to a midfield conundrum that has plagued the club since dropping into League Two.
And there were his deliveries. His cross for Hanson’s equaliser was breathtaking. Early in the second half, Hanson’s excellent persistence earned City a free kick out wide which Mitchell delivered perfectly onto Branston’s head for 2-1. (And at this point let us say those who booed Branston had no right to cheer this goal.) Five minutes later Mitchell pick pocketed the full back for possession before firing across another glorious cross that Hanson tapped home for 3-1. It was a genuine surprise he wasn’t involved in the fourth goal that occurred early in stoppage time.
But Hanson was. All four of the goals included him. Substitute Nahki Wells may have robbed a defender, dribbled past another and slammed the ball home for a mightily impressive first senior goal, but Hanson’s bullying of his marker enabled it to happen. It was the kind of low-key contribution many fail to recognise the importance of as they slate target men like Hanson.
It’s hard to remember the last time the former shelf-stacker played as brilliantly as he did this afternoon. Yet still, at 3-1 up, numerous fans continued to get on his back and slag him off in the most derogatory of terms. It should leave every right-minded City fan angry enough to march over to the booers and rip their season tickets out their hand.
If you thought Hanson was poor today and so criticised him – you are a moron. End of. If you don’t like being labelled a moron, don’t read this site. I’m sick of people like you ruining the matchday experience and confidence of players for no obvious reasons other than selfish. The people who booed Branston today – who admittedly was at fault for both Barnet goals, that’s hardly the point – deserve to feel very stupid tonight too.
Back on the pitch, the difference in the players from kick off to full time was colossal. The Leeds game had showed the potential offered by the new-look squad, but doubts over where it really matters were finally eased by the way everyone grew in stature and confidence. Against such a turbulent backdrop in the immediate build up, caretaker manager Colin Cooper deserves immense credit for maintaining the players focus and should now figure in the Board’s thoughts if they haven’t already decided who will be next manager. In Jackson’s final two games he was apparently losing his way in team selection and tactics, Cooper brought back a level of organisation that laid the groundwork to an excellent performance.
A performance that could easily have included more goals. In the first half Compton, Stewart and Mitchell both came close with decent shots that flew just wide, while Hanson should have scored (boo!) from a looping Compton cross. Once 3-1 up in the second half City sat back more, but before Wells’ fourth Mitchell forced a smart save from long distance. The inside of the post was also rattled by Wells a minute after his goal.
Defensively there remain concerns with crosses into the box not dealt with well, though even in this area there was improvement as the game went on. Oscar Jansson made a solid home debut that included three excellent saves, but he was beaten by Mcleod for a second time deep in stoppage time to put a slight dampener on the afternoon.
Though the atmosphere – which grew positive from the moment Hanson equalised – remained stirring to the end. The minority digs at Flynn, Branston and Hanson drowned out by enthusiastic chanting. I can only speak for myself, but after the Leeds game and the brave way the players had attacked our bitter rivals I fell in love with this team. I struggle to recall a more honest, hard-working group of players since those halcyon days of 1998/99. For sure ability wise they are not the best, but for effort and determination I am desperate to see them succeed. We’ve had too many false dawns to get excited yet, but this really could be the start of something special.
Which makes the decision of Jackson to walk out all the more baffling. One wonders how he spent this afternoon and if he now regrets not giving it one more week. But most of all – as we enjoyed Stewart, Mitchell and others prosper instead of being replaced in the team by loan signings – one wonders whether Jackson falling on his sword might prove to be a blessing in disguise.
Date Saturday August 27th, 2011
This is a match report on Bradford City 4 Barnet 2 at Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/12
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The week we lost patience
It was always coming – the loss of patience that has fractured Valley Parade this week – but the surprise was not that it has arrived in such a short space of time but that the harbinger of trouble came from a sight thought consigned to City’s history. Luke Oliver in attack.
Oliver lumbered into the forward line and five days later Peter Jackson – the man who called the job as Bradford City his dream come true – was walking out of the club leaving a stunned playing squad and a lot of questions.
Questions that everyone – including Jackson – will struggle to find answer to. As he woke up this morning the former Huddersfield Town, Lincoln City and Bradford City manager is no longer a football manager. The Bantams pulled Jackson out of retirement – he was literally in a nursing home – and gave him one of 92 jobs in professional football.
And, Jackson said, the job he really wanted over all others. Think about that for a moment. Right up until – as Michael Flynn testified to – Jackson put on his suit and headed to the board meeting at Valley Parade Jackson was a man (according to himself) doing the job he had always wanted. Two hours later he became a former professional football manager now. Before City no one wanted him, and his experience of the last six months will do nothing to add to his employability.
What could have happened in that boardroom which would make a man inflict such a destiny on himself?
Retracing the steps following the defeat to Dagenham and Redbridge on Saturday it is hard to say. During the week Peter Jackson went back on his ideas of building a squad – a squad we are told has been bolstered by additional funding – after a game which had seen his side booed off.
Jackson talked about how great the supporters had been to him, how they had stuck by the team, and in doing so drew a line between the malcontent and those who did get behind his side. There are people who use Valley Parade as a place to vent their spleens and I have made my thoughts on those people known but there are more people who have turned up to Valley Parade regularly over the past decade through some pretty thin thin. Ten years without much manifest progress.
Those people – who Jackson credited as sticking by his team – are wondering what must have happened in that two hour board meeting that means that Jackson lasts only six months compared to the years they put in.
The Daggers game saw patience levels tested. It was the second home defeat of the season in only two games which levelled the number of home defeats which Stuart McCall’s side suffered in the 2008/2009 season, the point being illustrated not being about managers but rather about promotion prospects. For those who – with levels of optimism unjustified – thought that City were in the title hunt this season that was enough to see them lose patience. Perhaps Jackson – or members of the board – were amongst them.
It is said that in one board meeting former manager McCall threw a DVD of a game at a board member after a badgering session. Perhaps there was nothing for Jackson to throw. McCall carried on that season until he felt that promotion could not be achieved, Jackson had 42 games left but – we are told – believed that the club could do better with someone else at the helm.
For Peter Jackson it seemed that his patience with his four strikers was at an end and he declared that he would be bringing in an experienced striker. Jackson’s decision had some logic to it – a team that is not winning because it is not scoring will do no good to the education of any of the squad – but even were one to accept Jackson’s analysis that the problem City are facing is to do with not having enough smarts in the forward line his solution was by no means foolproof.
Recall – if you will – Peter Taylor’s signing of Jason Price – a player who has since moved on to today’s opposition Barnet – who was very much the type of experienced striker that Jackson talked about bringing in. The thirty year old Price looked good at Valley Parade but his presence did not spark a turn around in Taylor’s side’s fortunes and on his exit we were left with the same squad of players we had before his signing, although their noses had been put slightly more out of joint by having someone brought in over their heads.
If Jackson was under pressure to sign a player and did not want to – and there is no indication that he was not keen on bringing someone in or that he had not attempted to do so – then he certainly toed the party line. If Jackson did try a quarter of the managers in football to try find a new player and drew a blank then the suggestion he resigned on a point of principal of the club recommending via Archie Christie a new forward would paint the City boss in the most churlish light. If you have spent all morning being knocked back for players, why get upset when someone else has helped you out? Upset to the point of leaving your dream job.
Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?
It was a chilling sight when all six foot seven of Luke Oliver lumbered into the attack for the end of the defeat to Dagenham. Not that Oliver cannot be trusted to do whatever job he is given as well as he can but that the situation in which – James Hanson having been removed – there was the requirement for a target man seemed to suggest that having taken off Hanson Jackson had – in effect – changed his mind.
Four games into the league season and it seemed that Peter Jackson was flailing. Pre-season was spent with the players playing a tight passing game which lasted but a half against Aldershot Town. Since then there has been a commitment to putting foot through the ball and trying to win anything from James Hanson’s head. Players like Mark Stewart – signed with one way of playing in mind – are decided to be too lightweight for the hustle of League Two football.
There is an irony in League Two football. The teams in the middle of the division play a big man, hit-and-hope type of game splitting the teams in the league who try to play the game on the ground. Those who play a passing game well are able to beat the lump up merchants and so rise to the top while the bottom of the league is full of teams who get muscled out, fail to press their passing game, and suffer under the strength of players in the division.
The best and the worst teams play football in League Two. Playing a physical, hit-and-hope game practically guarantees a place in the division next season. Get a couple of big lads and ping the ball at them and – like Peter Taylor’s team – you will still be in League Two at the end of the season.
Which sounds a good prospect after four games and one point but – in two years time – when City feel they have developed the development squad to such a degree where a promotion push is needed then a new way of playing the game is needed to get above the morass.
City’s best performance of the season to date – the game with Leeds United – was based around the kind of passing game which Jackson did not deploy against League Two teams for fear that his players will be muscled off the ball.
Looking at City’s four goals in five games this season three of them have come from what could be classed as passing football, the other being a set play flicked on by Luke Oliver at Oxford. Jackson needed to have more faith in the players he had brought to the club – and in his own judgement that he could bring them in and put them into a starting eleven which could work in League Two – and perhaps it was the thought of retrofitting muscle into his side which played on Jackson’s mind during that board meeting.
One wonders what was said and between whom. For sure in the days and weeks to come both the departing manager and the joint-chairman Mark Lawn will speak about their versions of events and probably reality will sit between them.
In the back of a Ford
City face a Barnet side who seemingly had no chance of being in League Two this season. Adrift at the bottom of League Two they looked to be relegated but for a late season push which saw Lincoln City cast out of football once more.
Having had a trip to Burnley in the League Cup in the week Barnet arrive at Valley Parade without a win since the opening day and on the back of two 2-2 draws. They are managed by Lawrie Sanchez who twice wanted the Bradford City job and have the aforementioned Price, Steve Kabba and Izale McLeod as a potent strike force.
With Colin Cooper expected to be put in charge of the team it is hard to say what the side would be. Martin Hansen has returned to Liverpool after a loan spell which – if anything – should teach him of the need to shout more. Jon McLaughlin would hope to return having played in a Reserve game at Rotherham in the week but Jackson did indicate that Oscar Jansson will start and that the club want him to sign for a longer loan deal.
Steve Williams was in line to return to the back four and – on form – Guy Branston would have had to be man to step down for him with Luke Oliver putting in excellent displays however news of Williams’ set back in training questions that. Robbie Threlfall and Liam Moore are expected to continue at full back.
Jack Compton will be wide on the left. Michael Bryan has yet to flatter and at the moment he – like most loan players – stands accused of using up a shirt that one of our squad could have. Not to put too fine a point on it but it is hard to see how picking Dominic Rowe in the three games Bryan has been at the club would have seen things pan out differently and Rowe would have been three games wiser.
None of which is to criticise Bryan just the wisdom of bringing him to the club given the long term aims that Archie Christie’s development project has outlined. Far be it from me to side with Mark Lawn but given a choice between what Christie talks of and the reality of signing more Michael Bryans, Ryan Kendals, or Louis Moults I’d side with the man who said that we should take a longer term view. Chris Mitchell could come in on the right.
Richie Jones and Michael Flynn – when they were not watching the ball sail over their heads – put in a good display against Dagenham and Redbridge. Dagenham, home of Ford, prompts a motor metaphor in most men and in this case it is that the pair represent an engine running away without the driveshafts and gears that connect it to the wheels. With Jackson’s 442 having been so static there was power generated but that goes to waste for the want of connections to the extremities.
Which returns us to the subject of Mark Stewart and how he would provide that connection dropping between the lines and allowing for some interplay between midfield and attack but – in a game of hoof ball – his skills are negated. Ross Hannah probably did enough to secure himself a starting place in the side next to James Hanson in the starting line up although Nialle Rodney might get a chance. All four of the strikers would – in my opinion – do well with good service.
Which is why the sight of a long ball being pumped to Luke Oliver is a good reason to lose one’s patience but probably not the reason that Jackson’s patience for the machinations of working at Valley Parade ran out.
There is a rumour that Peter Jackson wanted to bring in Danny Cadamarteri from Huddersfield for a second spell at City and that Mark Lawn blocked that on the grounds that having seen Cadamarteri he was unimpressed. This lacks the validity of being a good enough reason to quit your dream job, and again what could one say about a manager who thought Cadamarteri was the answer the City’s goalscoring problems?
Perhaps the biggest question of Jackson’s departure is how well he would have done in the fullness of time. He leaves an unimpressive record behind him of four wins, four draws in eighteen. There was a sense though that Jackson was just getting started and that things would improve. Would they have improved on the basis that Danny Cadamarteri was coming in to point us in the right direction? We shall never know.
Mark Lawn is expected to make a statement today about yesterday which was a remarkable day in Bradford City’s history and Peter Jackson is never shy of the media so will be getting his version out. Both will tell a story and it will probably involve an argument which got out of hand and a number of men who would not back down.
Patience, it seems, was in short supply.
Date Friday August 26th, 2011
This is a match preview on the game against Barnet at Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
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Peter Jackson goes there and back again as City look for experience
Peter Jackson’s young Bradford City team are more passionate and hungrier than the squad he inherited from Peter Taylor. Take Guy Branston out the starting eleven and the average age of the players is in the low twenties.
The aims that Jackson – and the club – made clear in the summer is that in putting together a young team the manager is creating a future for the club. The last four season – three under Stuart McCall and one under Taylor – have seen four different teams with a half dozen players changed every time. These “overhauls” were the subject of Jackson’s close season planning. They were to become a thing of the past. That is the plan.
Or was the plan. Today news comes out of the club that City are looking for experienced players. Ignore, for the moment, the idea that the Bantams are talking about breaking the budget offsetting that mentally against the £200,000 raised by playing Leeds United which was offered for Romain Vincelot and consider the sort of signings which Mark Lawn is referring to.
Maybe bringing in a couple more experienced players to help the young kids out will help. That’s what we are trying to search for and do – Mark Lawn
Think back less than twelve months to Lee Hendrie’s short time at Valley Parade. An experienced player, one who performed well, and then vanished leaving us with a few more points that we had before he arrived but nothing we could take forward with us. The point of the plans of the summer was to stop short term recruitment. Has this plan really been reversed after five games?
If – as with Hendrie – bringing in old heads gets a few points what impact will it have on the players who were brought in with the promise that they would play
When some players aren’t performing, I know there’s back-up now. We might bring in a young player and put him out on loan. We can still keep a close check on him and bring him back ready to put in the team – Peter Jackson
Which is to say nothing about the fact that the problems that have caused City’s early season form is not the fault of the players but rather of the way they are playing. We could bring in Wayne Rooney but if we whack the ball at him over sixty yards and expect him to do pinpoint knock downs to a single team mate against six opposition defenders then we would get the same return out of him than we do from James Hanson.
Player for player you could swap out someone, and put in someone experienced and not make a massive difference with the players playing in the way – and in the shape – they were in the previous two 1-0 defeats (or rather at the time of concessions in the previous two 1-0 defeats, Chris Mitchell’s midfield role at Accrington was very useful.)
City’s best performance of the season saw a free interchange of the two midfielders David Syers and Michael Flynn with Jack Compton and Mark Stewart. Much of the play which has resulted in few chances has been static with players lacking any dynamics in their performances. Ross Hannah and James Hanson have been pressed against the back line constantly, the midfield has been a straight line, the full backs never getting past the wide men.
Of course Peter Jackson is not standing on the touchline screaming at Ross Hannah to not drop between the lines or Liam Moore to never go beyond Michael Bryan (we hope) but it is the role of the coaching staff to emphasise that need. Perhaps bringing in an experienced player, putting him on the field for a month, and pointing at him while telling Hannah et al that one should “do that” is a way for Jackson to educate his squad but it seems like a big turn around in a short space of time.
Everyone would be a football manager and everyone has their ideas on how a team should play. Mine involve supporting full backs, a drop off striker, one man wide and one tight in the midfield and a holding man to win the ball back. It is that last position – someone to sit deep in the midfield – which Jackson’s side lacks but every other position to play the way I would is covered in the current squad.
The same is true for Jackson. Bringing in Michael Bryan simply duplicated what Dominic Rowe was doing in pre-season. He has four different strikers: One who is superb in the air, one who is rangy and fast, one who drops deep and moves, and one who finishes well and has a stinging shot; but he has no supply to them. Jack Compton could provide that but seldom does he come have options around him when he gets the ball, nor does he get the ball in dangerous positions. Perhaps the players at City could not do the jobs that Jackson wants them to, but they should be given a chance to show what they can do in an organised team.
Poor early season form was expected and the manifestation of that is not especially enjoyable to watch but less enjoyable is the idea that the club is prepared to give up the plans of the summer because of a few bad results.
Date Tuesday August 23rd, 2011
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Peter and the resources
At the end of a week that promised much after the performance at Leeds United and delivered only a point at Oxford Peter Jackson was left declaring that he felt that his Bradford City team deserved more following the 1-0 defeat to Dagenham & Redbridge.
It was hard to imagine what else Jackson could say. He had seen centre forward Ross Hannah barged over in the penalty area in the last minute which seemed to be as obvious a spot kick as one might imagine and was cursing Daggers keeper Chris Lewington who saved a fine strike by the same man minutes before. At that stage – and a point Jackson might want to avoid – Luke Oliver has been thrown into the attack and City had resorted to throwing the ball forward.
Forward to Nialle Rodney who – for twenty minutes – got to live the life of James Hanson. Rodney had the ball fired at him at various hard to control speeds inaccurately and struggled to even get near to holding play up. Hanson had been withdrawn by Jackson after an afternoon where he won more than his fair share of headers – although struggled to link up with Ross Hannah effectively – and certainly won more than the unfortunate Rodney.
The substitution of Hanson seemed well received and one hopes that Jackson enjoyed the glow that comes from such a sop to popularism but on his exit Jackson’s team continued to lump the ball forward, used neither Rodney or Ross Hannah’s talents and were left resorting to throwing a central defender into the forward line.
Increasingly the story of Peter Jackson’s Bradford City team is that of resources – however limited – being used poorly. The midfield of Michael Flynn and Richie Jones performed well in the middle but far too often were watching the ball go over them. The two widemen Jack Compton and Michael Bryan were all but wasted. Compton found some room later in the game but Bryan saw little of the ball and seemed to request it less.
Ross Hannah and James Hanson – then later Nialle Rodney – had virtually no supply from the flanks either deep or at the by-line and – with Mark Stewart a later comer from the bench – the team ended as a very static 442 with no movement between the lines of players, nothing hard to handle, and little inspiration.
As such – and down to a goal by Jon Nurse after half an hour when a corner came in and seemed to be pushed around the back four like kittens patting a wool ball before the Dagenham striker converted it – it was hard to see the Bantams getting into the game and more worrying it seemed that there was no real understanding on the basis of this game and the previous four about how City should go about their business.
For the odd cat call aimed at Peter Jackson the players are the most common target of the ire of supporters that saw the Bantams booed off but it seems that the City manager is no closer to knowing his best eleven today as he was at the start of pre-season. That is acceptable – a young team is full of inconstancy – but there also seems to be no real idea of how City should be playing.
As Dagenham offered little other than defensive solidity City deployed two wingers but seldom used them, had a pair of midfielders ready to go past the strikers but not strikers who came back to engage in interplay for the ball, a striker who is winning things in the air being given hoofs forward rather than crosses into the box.
So while Jackson can say that his team deserved more he might be correct in that they applied the effort but one struggles to recall the moments where City could have had more. Hannah’s two late surges towards goal aside there was no tempo or flow to the Bantams performance.
That can come. Four league games gone is nothing against a plan that is to develop over years but at the moment the players are being jeered and booed while being thrown onto the field without the organisation needed to win games.
This is a match report on Bradford City 0 Dagenham and Redbridge 1 at Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
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Jackson veers between Kamara and Jewell
When the opening weeks of the season were put together by “the fixture computer” – which is to say some ludicrously complex set theory and a few blokes making sure that Hartlepool United get as long a trip away on Boxing day as possible – few people looked at the Bantams’ opening four games with any relish at all.
Aldershot Town looked like they could be tough – they were – and Leeds United away promised little. Following them up with trips on the road to Oxford United and Accrington Stanley and there was a sense that in these opening two weeks it would become apparent if the instant team alchemy which football managers dream of had taken place.
It had not.
Brighton and Hove Albion – now resplendent in a new stadium – and Chesterfield – then resplendent in a new stadium – both seemed to be touched by that alchemy last season with neither favourites for their divisions but both teams clicked quickly and they romped to titles. For everyone else it seemed there was but hard work.
And so there is for Bradford City. As everyone at the club and many in the stands talked about how this season the club would be starting to build long term and to create its own future rather than going all out for promotion. However an unhealthy – but not entirely unforgivable – hope that that future might start with a lightning strike of a team coming together instantly.
The 1-0 reversal at Accrington Stanley confirmed that City have – as was commented within my ear shot on Tuesday night – a long way to go. Having started that “long way” four matches ago that is hardly surprising and is sobering. Those looking at the Stanley team which finished fifth and lost a half dozen players miss the point of what the Bantams – and other clubs – try to build.
A half dozen players leave Stanley but the structures which have had the club progress to the level it enjoys remain, the culture remains, the team spirit remains. In short there is stability which enables Accrington to continue plodding along. This is very much the sort of thing that Bradford City are trying to build.
Bradford City and Archie Christie who arrived at Valley Parade from Dagenham & Redbridge in the Summer as the Bantams interviewed Daggers boss John Still and his backroom team before deciding that Still was the goods in the window and Christie the merchandise out back.
Christie’s plans are the dose of sense which has been missing from Valley Parade for over a decade. The Scot sees City as – perhaps – a better location to repeat what he had done in Dagenham on a bigger scale. The Daggers – fresh from League One – have come far with Still and company at the helm but getting it right at Valley Parade promises more than being a dot on the map of London football.
So Christie builds his development squad with the aim of bringing through three or four players a season who are good enough to press into the City squad. Logic suggests that might have to wait a two or three years to judge such long term plans rather than – as some seem Hell bent on doing – writing them off after that many weeks.
Christie’s work behind the scenes aims to create a stability for City to aid the manager who has struggled in his start to the season. Jackson – the man of Jose Mourinho action at Huddersfield Town – seems a reduced figure in the City dug out at the moment. What – when looking at in the Town dugout – seemed like calculated master strokes (Paul Barnes’ entry in 1998 which turned a 1-0 defeat into a 2-1 jumps to mind) when viewed in the home dug out seem to be random flailings.
Having played a tight passing game in pre-season Jackson’s side too often favour a long punt to James Hanson and while the switches in formation are more noticeable it seems as if Jackson has yet to decide a shape for his midfield.
Consider – if you will – Chris Mitchell who for all the talk of his only being in the team for set plays spend an hour of Tuesday night making sure that when a blue shirt came forward he was standing between ball and goal. He delayed, he stood up, he made sure that Stanley would not get through and all to the tune of people talking about how he should tackle more, even when doing so and failing would have left a bus sized hole in the midfield.
And so it was when Jackson went to a midfield that more evenly distributed the weight between Michael Flynn and Richie Jones rather than had Flynn forward and Mitchell back that Stanley wandered through the middle of the Bantams to get the goal which won the game.
It is hard to find anyone who could say that Mitchell has played well but taking him out of the position he was in brought problems and a pragmatist such as Jewell would see that as justification to have him in the side while the Chris Kamaras – given to flights of fancy – would think that another player who could add more going forward might be trusted to that role on the hope that both could be done. It was such a fancy which Jackson gambled, and lost, on on Tuesday night.
So Jackson flits between: a defensive midfielder behind three more attacking players, a tight three midfield with one winger and the unit of five which worked well at Elland Road; but so far he struggles to maintain a shape in a way which gains the upper hand in games. The first half against Leeds and Jackson had everything going right, when Leeds changed he seemed inactive.
On Tuesday night with scores level Naille Rodney came on for Ross Hannah to play a withdrawn role and the midfield to press on which seemed to leave City with far too many players drifting between the Stanley midfield and defensive lines and no one grabbing the ball. Bit by bit Jackson drifts towards Kamara and his hit and miss deployments of players and tactics and one worries that – like Kamara – it might be possible that Jackson finds the right combination at times and then moves away from it not knowing what is good.
In that one recalls the dogmatic Paul Jewell who stuck with the team he wanted to play after it had returned two points from twenty one in 1998. Jewell had an idea of how he wanted his team to play, and who he wanted in that team, and the same at the moment (and at the time) can not be said about Jackson.
So the City manager goes into the game with injuries ruling out David Syers, Lee Bullock and Simon Ramsden but with pressure to make changes to a team which has but one of the five points Jackson might have targeted.
Jackson is under pressure to drop James Hanson for reasons much discussed but doing so would strike one as popularist rather than practical – especially considering the team’s tendency to hit the ball long. Mark Stewart played no part against Accrington a week after looking superb against Leeds United but Naille Rodney – willing worker – has staked a claim and may get the chance. Ross Hannah was praised for his rewardless efforts on Tuesday but one doubts that he will be selected against Dagenham. Perhaps Jackson will use a 433 having tried it against Carlisle United in pre-season.
The midfield could see Jack Compton on the left and Michael Bryan on the right with Michael Flynn and Chris Mitchell in the middle but Richie Jones looks like a capable player waiting to find a role to fill and should Jackson not want a defensive minded midfielder then he may slot in next to Flynn. Bryan started Accrington well but faded.
At the back Liam Moore and Robbie Threlfall are making good at full back – Luke O’Brien’s continued absence is the stuff of conjecture but it seems that Threlfall has made good his chance and is playing well which is more than can be said for Guy Branston who has struggled to put in consistent ninety minute performances since arriving. He is partnered by Luke Oliver who played a superb game at Stanley and if Steve Williams does return to fitness then dropping Oliver would be a very tough decision, although one Jackson would make if he had a clear back two in his mind the excluded the former Wycombe man.
Martin Hansen continues in goal. He shouted on Tuesday night, a couple of times, and that is an improvement and something the keeper can work on. A young lad Hansen has years of improvement in front of him and should not chuck his gloves over just because he has let in a few goals.
Nor should the rest of us.
This is a match preview on the game against Dagenham and Redbridge at Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
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Managing the Expectation of Progress
If the trip over the Peninnes to Accrington was to provide City with the barometer test of their season so far it left a prediction of high pressure and potential storms ahead.
Whilst the pre-season emphasis has been on development, consolidation and forward thinking, the general mood of the City fans stood on the terraces prior to kick-off at the Crown Ground, was that of the familiar expectation of a result from a youthful looking Bantams team that featured Ross Hannah, new winger Michael Bryan and a 442 shape, with Mark Stewart and Ritchie Jones making way.
An undertone of negativity seemed to be present in the away as even before a ball was kicked some ‘supporters’ could be heard slating the likes of James Hanson and Mark Stewart for previous performances deemed ‘not good enough’, citing lack of work ethic and ability as the main downfalls. Hanson in particular seemed to attract particularly virile remarks, which set the tone for a testing night for the Bantams.
Both sides went into the match having collected just one point from their first three games and the slight nerves that come with a slow start to the season were evident in both defences early on.
The first defence to flinch was the home side’s, when in the 2nd minute City were almost allowed to grab the initiative when Stanley keeper Sean Murdoch played a sloppy pass out of defence which James Hanson intercepted and laid off to Hannah who cleverly lofted the ball over the onrushing keeper into the net. Unfortunately for City the linesman had already raised the offside flag against Hannah to save Murdoch’s blushes.
Later in the half it was Guy Branston left feeling fortunate when he switched off to allow Stanley winger, Nat Taylor, to sneak into the box unnoticed, only for Luke Oliver to clear his dangerous cut back.
Oliver’s display was excellent throughout the night, both aerially and on the ground, and the fact that he stood out as City’s man-of-the-match, says much about the midfield and forward threat posed by the Bantams in the match.
The majority of City’s attacks in the first half were to aim for James Hanson and hope that Ross Hannah took advantage of any flick-ons and despite early sharpness from Hannah, his confidence took a knock after being flagged up as offside on several occasions. This lead to the strike force drifting further apart as the half went on, leaving both strikers isolated and in need of support.
With a lack of chances the City fans took their frustration out on the linesman and he received a chorus of boos as the teams walked off at half time and when remerging for the second half.
With the exception of Oliver, both defences experienced a shaky opening 45 minutes and it seemed that a defensive mistake would be the decisive factor in the game in the second half.
A factor that was proved correct when in the 77th minute new Accy loan signing, Wes Fletcher, poked the ball under the onrushing Martin Hansen to trickle home the winning goal for the home side. The mistake in this case was made by Branston, who allowed Stanley sub Ian Craney to turn him too easily and provide the assist.
As the second half progressed the strain on City’s midfield seemed to increase with Scottish recruit Chris Mitchell struggling to have an impact; the play passed him by all too often and left the lively Flynn, who again looked solid, over stretched and in need of support to win the midfield battle.
Even when Ritchie Jones was introduced in the 64th minute and Mitchell pushed out to the right, it seemed that City seemed to lack the energy and industry of David Syers, who will be missed over the next three months.
City went in search of an equaliser and Nialle Rodney looked lively after replacing Hannah, but all too often when the ball was rushed forward a lack of passing composure caused play to break down.
And despite a few promising runs and crosses late on in the game from Jack Compton, City failed to register a single shot on target.
On balance, Accy just about deserved the points and displayed a confidence when passing the ball through the midfield that City seemed to be lacking, choosing instead to rush the ball forward and hoping for the best.
As the players trudged off the pitch following the full-time whistle, the object of pre-match hostility, Hanson, seemed to bear most of the brunt from some fans, but to most it seemed that the expectations were those that Lionel Messi would struggle to fulfil. The perception is that because of Hanson’s size he is expected to chase down and over power all those that stand in his way, even though for the majority of these ‘causes’ Usain Bolt would struggle to catch up with them!
For Hanson his expectations for the season have been set, and as the most experienced striker at the club and at this level, it may be a burden that he will need assistance with from a more experienced forward if we are to see the best of him and City this campaign.
Hanson’s plight seems to reflect that of the club’s in general, we are told that we want to see the development of the team and an improvement on last season would be deemed a success, but the high expectation levels of the past few years seem to be proving a hard habit to kick for some supporters, which only leads to added pressure on inexperienced shoulders.
The success of the season will depend on how Peter Jackson and the club go about managing these expectation levels, and it is hard to predict anything other than stormier times ahead, if the confidence of the Bantam’s fledgling side takes too many more knocks.
Date Wednesday August 17th, 2011
This is a match report on Accrington Stanley 1 Bradford City 0 at The Crown Ground in League Two, 2011/2012
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Accrington Stanley and the Bar(ry)ometer
For those seeking a barometer on events at Bradford City’s the club’s trips to Accrington Stanley’s Crown Ground provide just that.
The first meeting between the teams in modern times saw Joe Colbeck – fresh from his return from loan at Darlington – the hero as City ran out 2-0 winners and Omar Daley tore the home side in two. The hard work of striker Barry Conlon brought praise that visit and there was a sense that four months into his time at the club it seemed that Stuart McCall was starting to get the basis of team together.
Three years ago City were outplayed for eighty minutes and then Stuart McCall brought on Barry Conlon and one might riot some how managed to be the catalyst for a stunning turn around that saw City leave Stanley boss John Coleman with a ruined wedding anniversary and City fans happy.
Happy for a time though because it was though that – eventually – City could do better than Conlon and his manager Stuart McCall and so the change was made to Peter Taylor who with huge fanfare took his City team for their first game.
You might remember the wet ground, the late arriving and early departing Mark Lawn with a vandalised car, and the performance that set the tone for Taylor time at Valley Parade. There was a sense of optimism in the air that day that – probably because the display was away from home and followed not long after by a great 3-1 win at Rochdale – which went undented. Recall, if you will, the people who said that Taylor was going to sort out the mess that Stuart McCall had caused. Try not to look at the top of the Scottish Premier Division.
The optimism of Taylor’s arrival was in marked contrast to last season’s trip to The Crown Ground where City were so badly second best that manager Peter Jackson could find not an iota of optimism. Having taken up a team of the Disunited from Taylor Jackson – following Accrington – could not see how the club would claim another point in the season. At that point Peter Jackson thought Bradford City would go out of the Football League.
So Bradford City go West for the fifth time with Jackson having nailed together a team he has more faith in and which built around the optimism which was in such short supply in April’s visit. A team for which improvement is the aim and the assumption that enough improvement will drive promotion. Seeking a first win of the season following Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Oxford and on the last of three trips away from home that started at Leeds the tone for the return to Valley Parade for three back to back home games will be taken from this barometer test.
A device to measure pressure City’s barometer readings have been troubling for some years. This summer – for the first time since relegation from the Premier League – there seems to be a realism in the club’s aims and that has brought with it a sense of optimism that the club is going in the right direction.
There is a question as to how long optimism can be maintained without victories and – along with that – the merits of optimism. Paul Jewell’s side famously gathered two points of the first twenty-one and got promotion at Wolves with many expecting them to fall at the last hurdle. Any optimism garnered on the last four trips to Accrington have done nothing to stop the club going backwards, often by a route of its own choice.
As long as there is progress in the players then – perhaps – there should be an optimism to match.
Jackson goes into the game with Martin Hansen in goal – there is a rumour that the Liverpool loanee is undroppable in his time at City although there is always that rumour about loan players. Jon McLaughlin is working his way through his interrupted pre-season and once again is being viewed as an answer to all problems. Never wanting to disrespect a player who I believe is a good and serviceable goalkeeper worthy of his place in the squad and team but never has a player sat on the bench performing so well. On the bench he is the human traffic light always on red, the unbeatable keeper, the greatest custodian in the club has had.
Three of City’s back four have been unchanged all season – the other position has rotated to three different names. Liam Moore, Guy Branston and Robbie Threlfall are constant, Luke Oliver, Steve Williams and Lee Bullock have changed. Oliver is expected to retain his place having played his part in the build up to Ross Hannah’s equaliser on Saturday. There was speculation that Oliver pushed Duberry, or at least that is what Duberry said, or was told to say by someone at the club, and he is sticking to but he is not doing twenty months for that, no way…
The midfield presents Jackson with options having favoured a five at Leeds and Oxford with Chris Mitchell at the base of Michael Flynn and Richie Jones with Mark Stewart and Jack Compton on the flanks but the improvement seen with Michael Bryan and a 442 might prompt a change in shape that sees one of Flynn and Jones benched. Jones brings a hamstring niggle into the game and perhaps that will see him sitting the match out.
Stewart – a player still finding his feet but showing some nice feet when he does – would then press forward alongside James Hanson who once again showed the limits of his abilities as the only player detailed to attack on Saturday. Given the thankless task as the only pink shirt in the other half at the Kassam Stadium Hanson has an unfruitful afternoon and sure enough garnered criticism for his play in isolation. Conlon used to suffer criticism too, but his replacement was Stanley legend Paul Mullin and soon Barry was missed. An object lesson if ever there was one.
All of which is expected to leave Naille Rodney and Ross Hannah on the bench – impact substitutes in a Conloin stylee perhaps – but gives Peter Jackson the sort of selection problems which Taylor could have only dreamed of where his has a choice of players who all seem to be keen to show how they are improving.
To show a twitch on the barometer, and perhaps a reduction in pressure.
This is a match preview on the game against Accrington Stanley at The Crown Ground in League Two, 2011/2012
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The speed of progress as City continue to stutter
It’s already clear that patience is going to be a key requirement for this longer-term thinking to prove successful. Yet as Bradford City trailed Oxford going into the closing stages this afternoon – thus facing a third defeat in three – it felt as though a tangible positive was quickly needed in order to defer those nagging fears that the club might still be moving backwards.
So when substitute Ross Hannah latched onto Luke Oliver’s flick on to fire home an equaliser that was dubious in both it’s validity and in how deserved it was on the balance of play, joy was supplemented with relief that the season is finally up and running. Hannah is probably the poster boy of City’s revised player recruitment approach, but until now he’s struggled to make an impression even during pre-season. The intelligence in making the run that was rewarded with a goal on his Football League debut indicated that Hannah can enjoy success this season – and so to can his new club.
There is, however, clearly a long way to go. Oxford’s noisy home support at one stage resorted to chanting about how City’s players were “a set of w**kers”; and the way in which the visitors sought to time-waste and defend deep in preservation of a point was probably sensible but hardly commendable. Oxford were the better team – though far from conclusively – and, but for a magnificently well-timed challenge by Oliver in his own box, would have earned a late winner. Too early in the long-term development of these young Bantams to expect dominant away wins, but the level of improvement needed is substantial.
The performance at Leeds on Tuesday will live in the memory for some time, but the team’s ability to cope with the greater physicality of bread and butter League Two football is lacking so far. Just like against Aldershot, the three players signed from Falkirk – Mark Stewart, Chris Mitchell and Jack Compton – in particular struggled to make an impression on opponents who simply refused to provide them with the time and space they appear to expect.
Stewart especially was anonymous today and, but for his outstanding performance at Elland Road, his lack of form would leave him first in line to be dropped and trigger greater concerns over his ability to make the step up. Mitchell had a very ineffective first half but got better as the game went on. The 23-year-old’s dead ball skills are proving more effective at least.
In the first half, City just didn’t look or function like a team. Manager Peter Jackson kept the same 4-5-1/4-3-3 set up that worked so well on Tuesday; but each unit was badly cut off from the other, leading to huge gaps in key areas of the park that Oxford were able to capitalise on. James Hanson looked a lonely figure up front, though his body language and level of effort was not great and, for the first time this season at least, the criticism he attracts from some supporters was justified. Flynn seemed to be under instruction to support Hanson as much as possible, but in general the midfield five were inadequate both going forwards and defending.
It was this isolation problem that led to Simon Heslop being afforded a sizeable amount of space to run at City’s back four and strike Oxford’s goal, 28 minutes in. A long Oxford clearance had been headed powerfully away by Guy Branston but, with every midfielder committed too far forwards, Heslop was able to charge forwards and unleash a low drive into the corner that the recalled Martin Hansen might have made a better job of trying to keep out. All four of City’s defenders had backed off rather than one looking to make a challenge. A poor goal, which so many people shared culpability for.
At that stage City had probably had the better chances, with Flynn’s fiercely-struck free kick forcing an unconvincing save from Ryan Clarke and former Bantam Jake Wright scrambling the loose ball over his own bar as City players rushed in. The Welshman had another shot from distance sail wide, before Robbie Threlfall took the next long-range free kick and fired just over. Oxford soon began to mount periods of strong pressure, which had City’s back four working hard while lacking enough support from midfield. Cue the Oxford goal, which was followed by even greater home territorial advantage and City fortunate to go in at half time just one goal behind.
Jackson sought to address the positional issues, and the cherry shirts seemed more organised and collaborative as the second half wore on. However the team’s insistence on playing direct balls to Hanson was still leading to possession been easily squandered and supported Oxford’s initial focus on finishing off the contest. So, whether to stop his players from taking this easy option or because of disappointment over his target man, Jackson substituted Hanson and switched to 4-4-2. The momentum began to shift.
Nialle Rodney and new loan winger Michael Bryan came on and had a greater impact than the players they replaced, though U’s manager Chris Wilder reacted to City’s new emphasis on wingers by getting his own to double up with their full backs and central midfielders to sit deeper. Finding space in the final third was a real problem for City, so it was probably no surprise that the equaliser came from a set piece. Hannah had only been on the pitch four minutes when he struck, with the excellent Michael Duberry arguing he was fouled. His enthusiastic celebration in front of us away fans was a joy to experience.
The last ten minutes belonged to Oxford, but they failed to create a meaningful chance and City held on with Oliver in particular outstanding and Branston enjoying his best performance so far. Compton might have snatched a winner when he was played through on goal just inside Oxford’s half, but pace is not his strong point and the defence were able to get back and put him off.
So City are off the mark, but so far in the league at least there’s been more nervous questions than positive answers – and the gravity of the development needed is plain. Clearly some good players have been brought into the club this summer, but harnessing their exuberance and building their confidence are the immediate priorities if City are to become more competitive.
It all comes back to patience. If we fans continue backing these players, they can in time translate raw potential into rewarding results. Yet if, as has happened so often in recent years, we snap and angrily turn on them, we could very easily destroy them.
Hannah’s goal helped the new-look team deliver its first repayment of the faith shown in them by everyone, but they will probably need to produce more reasonably quickly if this long-term thinking is to become truly and widely embraced.
This is a match report on Oxford United 1 Bradford City 1 at Kassam Stadium in League Two, 2011/12
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A victorious night for Bradford City in all but result
With five minutes to go in this 1st Round League Cup tie, all seemed as it usually is whenever this derby fixture takes place. Leeds United were winning, thanks to a slightly fortuitous goal, and looking very comfortable in holding on, as their fans chanted about hating Man United to prove their indifference to us. Bradford City’s players were still giving their all but looking beaten, while we vociferous away fans were beginning to quieten and face up to defeat.
Yet for 70 game minutes and a memorable half time interval this evening, it seemed as though the world of West Yorkshire football was experiencing an almighty earthquake in its status quo; and that, even when the after shocks would have died down, things would have never quite be the same again.
This was an extraordinary night for City. Up against their more illustrious neighbours who sit two divisions above, they twice roared into a lead to threaten a cup upset in front of 17,000 supporters and a national TV audience. Up until Ramon Nunuez fired home a Leeds winner with 15 minutes to play, it would be difficult for anyone to dispute that the Bantams had been the better side. After such a dismal showing against Aldershot last Saturday, the best we could realistically have hoped for in this game was a respectable performance in defeat. We got so much more from the players, which overshadowed the pain of another Leeds defeat.
It was evening that will not be quickly forgotten. When Mark Stewart darted into Leeds’ penalty area and past three defenders 31 minutes into the tie, years of disappointment left you glumly expecting his cut back to fall just out of reach for the onrushing Jack Compton and so be cleared. Yet Compton got their first, lifting the ball effortlessly into the back of the net in front of the Leeds Kop – thus sparking delirium.
For a second we froze, not quite daring to believe it had happened. And then, unreserved jubilation; cheering at the top of your voice and lots and lots of jumping up and down while hugging anyone and everyone.
The feeling of happiness was overpowering – we are leading Leeds United at Elland Road. And no matter what was to happen for the rest of the evening, we’d just enjoyed unadulterated pleasure that no one could take away from us. This may not be on a level with promotion or Liverpool in 2000, but it was genuinely one of the most exhilarating moments I’ve ever experienced following City.
And incredibly we got to do it again. Leeds had woken from their inexplicable first half slumber with an equaliser a minute into the second half; but rather than implode City just continued to play with astonishing self-assurance and guile. Michael Flynn was picked out by the outstanding Robbie Threlfall, before charging into the box and striking the ball powerfully into the top corner. This time it was right in front of us, but still the one-second pause to make sure our eyes aren’t fooling us was required. The celebrations seemed even more manic, and when I began to regain self-awareness of where I was I realised my non-stop hugging and dancing with strangers had left me half way down the gangway and a few rows from my seat.
That City went onto lose the game in many ways didn’t really matter. We’d given Leeds United an almighty scare. We’d experienced two unforgettable moments of sheer ecstasy. We’d played with so much courage and commitment that our prospects in League Two this season now seem so much healthier.
Sure, actually winning the game would have topped it all off empathically. But what a bloody amazing night.
A night where it was impossible not to feel a huge surge of pride in being a Bradford City supporter. 4,100 of us ventured into Elland Road, and the passion and energy put into backing the team through constant chanting and cheering is what the football supporting brochure advertises but rarely delivers. The atmosphere was electric, and – it must be noted – so much more enjoyable than our last meeting with Leeds three years ago.
On that occasion, there seemed to be a greater sense of entitlement that we should be capable of beating Leeds, which led to the usual moaning about players and positive backing evaporating when an early goal was conceded. As for the chanting in that game, so much of it was about expressing our hatred of Leeds that it felt more a sideshow than genuinely fun.
Anti-Leeds chants were aired at times tonight, but overall the choice of songs was all about our love for Bradford City and in support of our players. The volume and regularity of the chanting was outstanding, and all around me at least it seemed no one was unwilling to join in stretching their lungs. Much more productive than wasting our energy moaning and booing.
The response from the players told its own story. Lining up in a 4-5-1/4-3-3 formation that saw Stewart moved to the right flank and Chris Mitchell allowed to play in a more natural central role, the Bantams took the game to Leeds in a display carrying genuine attacking threat that, for the first 20 minutes, saw all the chances occur at one end. Flynn and Stewart fired in a couple of shots each which flew wide of the target, while David Syers continued where he left off on Saturday in linking up the midfield and attack with intelligent running and passing.
At the back Steve Williams’ return added a much greater level of assurance, with Guy Branston alongside him producing the kind of committed performance he’s loudly promised to contribute and Liam Moore looking anything but the novice his age and experience suggest he should be. With new keeper Oscar Jansson looking reliable, a solid base worked well in sniffing out a lightweight Leeds attack and helping the team get forward.
Cue Crompton – in much better form tonight – scoring in front of the Kop and the bedlam in the away end. Leeds attacked with more purpose as the half wore on, but at half time the mood of excitement among supporters on the concourse had reached uncontrollable levels – it reminded me of Wolves in 1999. Just 45 minutes to hold on for a result we’ll never forget.
Sadly the dream was punctured by Nunez producing a curling shot that flew into the net a minute into the second half. But when Crompton fired narrowly wide two minutes later and then Syers robbed the ball from Paul Connelly and raced into the box, shooting just past the post, it was clear this City team is made of sterner stuff than others who have worn claret and amber in recent years. James Hanson was a constant menace all night, and his clever off the ball running helped Flynn find the space to make it 2-1 on 57 minutes. The dream was back on.
Perhaps if referee Colin Webster had awarded a penalty when Hanson seemed to be tripped in the box by Patrick Kisnorbo it would have been game over. Perhaps if David Syers hadn’t collided badly with Andrew Lonergan – causing Peter Jackson to have to replace him with Ritchie Jones – City would have remained more solid. As it was, Ross McCormack headed home a second equaliser on 70 minutes when he was left unmarked in the box. Five minutes later, a loose ball took a deflection off Branston, presenting Nunez with a tap in for 3-2. 15 minutes to play, but it felt like game over.
Leeds finally took control and could easily have scored a couple more, but that would have been harsh on a City side who kept fighting but struggled to rediscover their earlier dominance. Nialle Rodney and Ross Hannah were brought on, but neither really got into the game. Deep into five minutes of stoppage time, a half volley chance for Hannah ended with a tame shot easily saved. The final whistle quickly followed.
No boos from City fans when it did. No significant grumbles about the effort and application. Only warm appreciation and proud cheering as the players came over to applaud back. “Why can’t we perform like that in the league?” is a pertinent challenge that it’s hoped the players will respond to in the right way. But with the disbelief of the half time booing on Saturday still a hot topic, thar challenge is one to also be directed at us supporters.
Tonight everyone connected with the club was united in support of the same cause, and it’s gratifying to note just how much was achieved from it. If we could all replicate such admirable efforts towards the bread and butter stuff, the season will surely prove to be more rewarding. Perhaps, like tonight, the club won’t quite accomplish as much as we’d like this season, but surely we will have more fun along the way.
Our footballing world had returned to sobering normality by the end of this game; yet for 70 game minutes and a memorable half time interval this evening, we proven that we have the collective ability to truly shake things up for the better going forwards.
This is a match report on Leeds United 3 Bradford City 2 at Elland Road in League Cup 1st Round, 2011/12
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The value of local bragging rights
Consider – if you will – Burnley and Burton Albion. Two clubs which have not much to link them other than the fact that they finished the place below Leeds United and Bradford City in their respective leagues last season. Burnley nudged in behind Leeds in 8th in the Championship while Burton wound up just behind the Bantams in the lower reaches of League Two.
Cast your mind forward five years and can one imagine Burton (or a team in a similar position) playing against Burnley in second tier game? The Championship has the likes of Peterborough United, Hull City and Doncaster Rovers in it showing a kind of movement between the leagues which suggests that the likes of Burton playing Burnley has a likelihood to it. Teams like Swansea City and Blackpool have battled – and won – for the play off places which Burnley aim for. Burton are not the close to Burnley, but they are in sight of each other albeit from distance.
In five years time could one imagine Burnley battling with Manchester United for the Premier League title and Champions League? Even with unprecedented investment Manchester City have not been capable of doing that (thus far) and more and more the top of European football where Manchester United reside recedes away from the rest of the game where the likes of Burton and Burnley play. In the world of Oil wealth and Oligarchs the chance of Burnley battling with Manchester United is minuscule.
For sure it would only take a promotion for the Clarets to enjoy the odd game against The Red Devils but that is a long way from competing at the same level which – in the case of Manchester United – would include a top for finish to qualify for the Champions League. The idea of a Burnley/Manchester United Champions League match seems far less likely than a Burton Albion/Burnley play-off game.
Which is to say that Burton Albion are closer to Burnley than Burnley are to Manchester United and by extension that when one considers the idea that Leeds United and their supporters are not concerned with the rivalry with Bradford City because they consider Manchester United to be their peers then one must wonder why they are so keen to be in a contest in which they are so massively the junior partner.
No win, no lose
Of course two years ago Leeds United supporters were celebrating beating Manchester United at Old Trafford – a 1-0 victory in the third round of the FA Cup – but there was no shifting of the tides as a result of that. Leeds went on to promotion, Manchester United console themselves with a record number of league titles. Were City to record a similar win at Elland Road then one doubts too that there would be a reform of West Yorkshire football recognised, but it would be fun. Likewise were City to be defeated then having lost to the team that finished 7th in the Championship is merely an “as expected” in what is on paper one of the most mis-matched ties possible. When it came out of the bag this was 27th in the ladder plays 86th.
In fact it is hard to imagine any situation in which this game can go against the Bantams. The money generated from the gate receipts and the SKY TV coverage funded City’s first six figure bid for a player.
A win and everyone in claret and amber is happy for a time but this time last season City beat a team who finished higher in the league than Leeds – Nottingham Forest but in no way was it a springboard to anything bigger or better and it has no impact on the league form at all, nor did it matter after a month of the season when results faultered.
A draw and resulting penalties offers no shame and a defeat is softened by the estimated £200,000 which goes a long way in League Two. Even if the season gutting 4-0 defeat at Huddersfield Town was equalled then it would be set in a different context. The club is following a plan in which talk of promotion is gone and replaced with Archie Christie setting City as a University for 18-21 year olds looking to learn football. Nothing that happens in the first week of that could change that but the money goes a way to funding it.
Why don’t we all just, get along?
And perhaps that is where I divert from much of the build up to this West Yorkshire derby in which there taunting talk is of Cup Finals and opening day defeats because – to be honest – I find much of the local rivalry of football counter-productive. If we generously exclude the horrors of the 1980s on the grounds that we should all condemn the sort of morons who burn chip vans, riot around the South Coast and generally disgrace their club (and my county and country) and focus instead on the football clubs then from West Yorkshire to the West Country all local rivalry in football does is to distract. While Derby and Forest, Bristols City and Rovers, and Leeds and whomever they feel are falling out then the higher echelons of the game carry on trying to kick the ladder away.
Squabble about who is kings of West Yorkshire all you want, it makes little difference should Manchester City’s Executive Garry Cook’s plan for a ten team Premier League with no relegation come about. Rather than the 72 football league clubs standing as one against this sort of perversion of football there is argument, and there is weakness.
Moreover though I personally find the West Yorkshire derby to be a tedious affair. The games are interesting or course but almost everything around it is not. Try strike up a conversation with another supporter and not have it follow a familiar pattern that involves the words “chip van”. Sadly talking about Leeds United is talking about the racism of the 1980s, the violence and death caused by the infamous, disgusting subset of their supporters, about the equally loathsome subset that sing songs about the fire of 1985. Who wants to discuss such things? Who wants to discuss them with someone who would not condemn them outright?
The end of the season
It look ninety minutes of Saturday’s football for some supporters of both these clubs to declare the season over. The first half display which allowed Aldershot Town to best City and with ten minutes left on the clock and three goals conceded at Southampton you could find a good few Leeds fans on social networks saying that relegation was probably unless Ken Bates left and took his Yes Man (former Bantam and current Leeds manager Simon Grayson) with him. Bates apparently needs to spend some money or get out of Elland Road. Of course Bates has just bought Leeds having taken control of the club from someone who we shall call Ben Kates, who is almost definately absolutely not Ken Bates.
It might be interesting to see how the Leeds supporters – watching a team robbed of Max Gradel to a call up for Côte d’Ivoire and featuring the unimpressive (although I thought he had his charms) former City man Billy Paynter in the forward line – would react to choppy seas in the game but the same is true of City fans with talk of scrapping in the main stand within thirty minutes in an argument about manager Peter Jackson.
Jackson once scored in a thrilling 3-3 draw at Elland Road for City – his best contribution in his second spell at City – and was the subject of a rather amusing rumour that he was in fact a Leeds United supporter. A blood sample would show if his loyalties are East or Pudsey or not.
Jackson’s team is expected to feature a new keeper with Jon McLauglin recovering from illness and Martin Hansen not allowed to play by parent club Liverpool. Spurs man Oscar Jansson has taken up the gloves. The twenty year old Swede arrives at the club on loan from Spursbut coming into the West Yorkshire derby as a late replacement keeper does not bode well. Neville Southall and all.
At right back Liam Moore – another loanee – may also sit the game out giving Jackson the chance to move Chris Mitchell back to right back the position he seemed to end up trying to play on Saturday. Mitchell’s delivery is impressive to say the least and one can expect a place to be found for him in the side. At left back Robbie Threlfall is expected to continue but with Luke O’Brien reported move to Preston North End for £50,000 being but a rumour there is a question as to how the former Liverpool man went from nowhere to the first team so quickly.
Steve Williams will hope to be fit to play alongside Guy Branston but Lee Bullock will stand by to replace him once again.
Jackson is expected to keep faith with the shape his midfield which improved towards the end of the game with Aldershot with Michael Flynn in the middle although if Mitchell moved back then Richie Jones – fitness willing – may look to come into the middle moving David Syers out to the right. Failing that Dominic Rowe may make his first start of the season on the right. Jack Compton is expected to feature on the left supporting Mark Stewart and James Hanson who will test themselves against the fine man marking of former Bantam Andrew O’Brien and the, ahem, robust Patrick Kisnorbo. Stewart was unhappy with his first display for City on Saturday and has a tough night against O’Brien, Hanson deserved to be pleased with his goal scoring opening day and Kisnorbo represents a similar tough test to the six strong men of Aldershot faced on Saturday.
The game is the first of three away trips the Bantams have before returning to Valley Parade on the 20th to face Dagenham & Redbridge while anything that Leeds could gain with a result on this night would be lost should a defeat follow in the league to Middlesbrough on Saturday. A place in the second round of the league cup has some value, and so do local bragging rights, although it is not clear what those values are.
Date Tuesday August 9th, 2011
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The road from Falkirk to Bradford and on
At half time as Peter Jackson looked around his dressing room at a team two goals down to Aldershot Town on the opening day of the season he might have been heartened only by the fact that no matter what happened in the next forty five minutes – or the next forty five games – things would probably get no worse.
Being booed off is nothing new at Valley Parade (although it remains the province of the fool) and it was that sound which rang in Jackson’s ears and perhaps the City manager’s mind went back to the moment when Chris Mitchell delivered a ball from deep wide on the right and David Syers arrived late in the box to head over but probably he was thinking about how his side had inflicted two blows on themselves.
In a first half with a single shot on goal City had conceded a second after a fairly harmless cross came in and Martin Hansen – on loan from Liverpool – confirmed the worrying lack of communication he had shown thus far in his City career. Hansen came out late, flapped and goalkeeper, ball and all landed on Robbie Threlfall and rolled into the goal.
Threlfall’ inclusion at left back marked a rapid turn around from the position he was in two weeks ago when it seemed he had played his last game for the club. His afternoon saw him struggle to connect to Jack Compton who ran the left wing in front of him and for forty five minutes did so with little to no impact.
Compton – on loan from Falkirk – struggled to get into the game against a massive Aldershot defence who seemed to leave no room on the field for the winger. Very one footed with a worrying tendency to try beat men rather than play the ball without the saving grace of Omar Daley which saw him actually beat them Compton was battered around the field and one can only imagine how the reality of League Two football differed in his mind from the second tier of the Scots game.
Compton’s struggle was common for the other players who had arrived from Falkirk. Mark Stewart found space in the final third hard to come by – Aldershot’s brawn and numbers over skill approach to defending paid off but only because City’s giving away of goals rather than their ability to carve out chances – and was withdrawn after seventy minutes.
Third member of the trio Chris Mitchell was deployed on the right flank opposite Compton and alongside Syers and Michael Flynn and it was Mitchell’s loose play on the right which allowed for Aldershot left back Anthony Straker to have the freedom of Valley Parade to swing the ball into the box. Some good work from Alex Rodman saw a low centre to Danny Hylton who finished.
The lessons were obvious for all: Miss your chances at your peril, and pressure the ball because goals are scored not in the six yard box but three passes before.
So Jackson in the dressing room must have wondered what the likes of Falkirk – and for that matter Liverpool – teach the players and if a spell at the University of Bradford City will change anything. Oddly though while hearing his team booed off in his first game must have stuck for the City boss one doubts that he will have found back four of Liam Moore, Guy Branston, Lee Bullock and Robbie Threlfall wanting. The goals aside Aldershot were restricted to pretty much nothing and should have been down to ten men following two bad challenges in a minute by Jermaine McGlashan which seemed to suggest that we were still using pre-season rules.
As it was Jackson did not have wait long for improvement with the second half showing a City side offering more and more through Compton who – joined by Mitchell – started to improve. The side showed little sign of having blended together, but showed signs that it might. David Syers put in a robust display in the midfield and Michael Flynn pushed forward. After an hour it seemed that City had a chance to build a momentum to get back into the game but – disappointingly perhaps – Jackson seemed to watch this chance come and go.
Which is not to criticise a manager for not having Plan B but as City got on top the opportunity for Jackson to push on Naille Rodney into a forward three seemed to present itself but was acquiesced. Rodney came on and slotted onto the left with Compton going to the right and the removal of Flynn seemed to let the Shots off the hook.
There is a theory on Flynn that suggests that he could be improved on but often the evidence of games is that City with Flynn are more dangerous that City without the Welshman and as Aldershot breathed easier the number four was sitting on the bench probably wishing he had not killed Jackson’s dog or whatever it is that sees the manager so keen to sideline him.
Mitchell moved back to central midfield and started getting more of a grip on the game but very obviously his delivery – very dangerous – is needed on the field more than his play on the right hand side and the midfielder needs to get more of a presence for League Two football. Compton’s play is distressingly reactive but there is plenty of scope to work on that and as a player he shows some ability. It was Compton’s who put in a tidy mid-height ball play from the right with his left foot that resulted in City’s injury time goal.
It was too late for sure, and of course too little, it it was well deserved by James Hanson who facing a backline of massive men gave the defenders a tough time and showed a mental judgement which marks an improvement since his arrival at the club two years ago. Give him a good ball and he raced to where it would be, rather than waiting for it to drop, and when Compton put the ball back to Lee Bullock and his mid-height ball in saw Hanson read the play before the defenders and peeled off to head a smart finish. He deserved a goal, but some will disagree. My thoughts on Hanson are that if you are not able to appreciate his efforts today you probably should be watching another sport.
And perhaps the Falkirk Three are nursing bruises and considering how different the sport they are playing is from the one they ended last season in. The learning process has started and one could see the improvement in all three – and in other players – as the game went on but as long as the road from Falkirk to Bradford might be the road from Bradford to success may be longer.
Longer but – with effort and the attitude which saw players up their game in the second half – achievable in time. This would be a first step.
Date Saturday August 6th, 2011
This is a match report on Bradford City 1 Aldershot Town 2 at Valley Parade in League Two, 2011/2012
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Compton joins City on loan
Relations between Falkirk and Bradford City – soured by the question of cash for Mark Stewart – would seem to be at least speaking terms as Jack Compton joined the Bantams on loan until the 3rd of January 2012.
Left winger Compton played twice for City in pre-season showing himself to be an out and out winger in contrast to Jamie Green’s more held back play.
Compton has two years of his Falkirk contract, hence the loan deal, and joins former team mates
Stewart and Chris Mitchell in what shall henceforth be known as The Falkirk Three.
Compton is expected to play one of the two weekend games for City.
Date Friday July 29th, 2011
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Jackson left scribbling out his midfield options
I imagine that somewhere in the depths of Woodhouse Grove that there are any number of crumpled up pieces of paper with teams sketched out on them which Peter Jackson has produced as he tries to permeate his starting eleven for the first match of the season in thirteen days time and most probably the greatest number of changes come in the midfield positions.
The City team that lost 4-1 to Bolton in a performance which had no disgrace – more on that later – has a settled back four of Simon Ramsden, Steve Williams, Guy Branston and Luke O’Brien and while O’Brien was guilty of messing around rather than getting rid in the last minute to give the ball away cheaply and lead to the fourth goal by the visitors which was nicely finished by Ivan Klasnic the back four is stable and has promise.
Likewise the power of James Hanson up front and the movement of Mark Stewart seem to be the pair in waiting. Nialle Rodney bangs on the door after a superb dribble which took him by a number of Trotters and saw him apply a cool finish but it seems that Rodney and Ross Hannah will be bench sitters against Aldershot Town when the season kicks off.
The effectiveness of Stewart and Hanson remains to be seen. Hanson has the ability to dominate defenders but last season often that was wasted for the want of support. Stewart’s intelligent play seems to be a good match the idea being that if Hanson is winning the ball and Stewart running to where Hanson will nod the ball on to. Rodney and Hannah suggest that if Plan A does not work then there is something else in the locker. Looking over at Robbie Blake – playing for Bolton and warmly applauded by City fans – the mind drifted back to how Blake was the second choice to Isaiah Rankin back in 1998. The ability to make that switch in the season proved to be key.
Blake set up a fine second goal for Bolton running in behind the Bantams backline and picking out Darren Pratley who came out of midfield well all afternoon including a moment in the first half where having bested his marker he tumbled in the box under the sort of changeling from Mark Howard which is a penalty in pre-season at Valley Parade but will be a foul on the keeper at Old Trafford or Stamford Bridge.
It was Pratley’s running which will cause Jackson to rip up more paper this week. He and Patrice Mwamba – who for my money should be in the England team – battled tooth and nail against City’s midfield two of Chris Mitchell holding and Michael Flynn attacking the the Bantams pair past muster.
Flynn seems to have gone from being stuck in the stiffs at Silsden and seemingly on his way out of the club to being the best Bantams player on show against the toughest opposition he will face all season.
Flynn’s attitude is obvious and excellent and his play saw him breaking forward and being a threat and he combined well with Chris Mitchell who’s holding abilities are second to his abilities from dead ball situations and one suspects that that second attribute is causing Jackson more scribbles. Mitchell’s corners to Hanson, Williams and Branston were a threat that nearly brought goals in the first half but one wonders if he is strong enough in the holding role to justify his selection.
Flynn too – while looking impressive in his own play – has been over the last two seasons a part of midfields which are soft centred. Was that Flynn’s fault or the fault of those around him, or the previous management, and could Jackson’s deployment of Flynn bring the best out of the player? This is where Jackson earns his money.
Mitchell and Flynn are joined in the mix by David Syers – the criticism of Flynn could be equally applied to Syers – Lee Bullock and Richie Jones. Bullock seems less in the running than the others but one can only imagine the permutations Jackson is running in training to try find an answer to this most pressing of questions. A good team needs a good midfield mix and history tells us that at City a good team needs a good start lest it be dragged down by a chorus of disapproval.
The widemen offer options. Jamie Green did not feature today with a potential third Falkirkian in Jack Compton on the left flank and Compton a more out and out winger than Green who could tuck in to provide strength in the middle. Strangely a lot seems to depend on Dominic Rowe who is improving game by game and if that improvement will manifest itself as quality performances in League Two games.
If Rowe can use his pace to effect and continue his habit of simple improvement of possession – when he loses the ball he does so in a better position than when he gathered it and this manifest itself in corners and throw ins – then he could find himself nailing down a place in the starting eleven. On his performance today that is a risk, but it might be a risk worth taking.
Pre-season matches at City are curious affairs. The crispy £10 handed over to watch the game could be the most that any of us pass to a turnstyle operator to watch the Bantams this year with season tickets making the per match price around £6 yet the expectation is often so low. Bolton’s third goal – like their first – was the sort of decision which they would never get in the Premier League and so seems of limit use to give in this game. If Owen Coyle can see his strikers barge Jamie Carragher and John Terry out of the way in the way that Guy Branston was and still be celebrating a goal as he was after Kevin Davies’ tidy lob then he will consider himself very lucky.
Jackson though will be considering his options. The chassis for a team is built, he just needs to figer out the engine.
Date Sunday July 24th, 2011
This is a match report on Bradford City 1 Bolton Wanderers 4 at Valley Parade in Friendly, 2011/2012
More about Bolton Wanderers, Chris Mitchell, Darren Pratley, Dominic Rowe, Guy Branston, Ivan Klasnic, Jack Compton, James Hanson, Jamie Green, Kevin Davies, Luke O'Brien, Mark Howard, Mark Stewart, Michael Flynn, Nialle Rodney, Owen Coyle, Patrice Mwamba, Peter Jackson, Robbie Blake, Simon Ramsden, Steve Williams.
Every man, his dog, and Simon Ramsden play as City lose 3-2 to Bradford Park Avenue
Forgoing the idea of local bragging rights Bradford City sent a team of trial players and juniors to Bradford Park Avenue losing the 3-2 but seeing sometime captain Simon Ramsden play a welcome 45 minutes in a City shirt for the first time this year.
Ramsden played the first half of the game alongside trialists Maxime Blanchard, Charlie Reece, Tom Elliott and a third Falkirk player Jack Compton and saw Nialle Rodney twice equalise for City. Maxime Blanchard arrived on trail with fellow Frenchman Loic Lumbilla who played the second half along with former City youngster Callum Bagshaw.
Adam Baker, Nathan Lawless, and James Nanje from City’s youth ranks also got to play in the game which was settled by a late Billy Law goal.
Date Saturday July 23rd, 2011
More about Adam Baker, Bradford (Park Avenue), Callum Bagshaw, Charlie Reece, Jack Compton, James Nanje, Loic Lumbilla, Maxime Blanchard, Nathan Lawless, Nialle Rodney, Simon Ramsden, Tom Elliot.
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Debra M. Sachs
Gloucester City, N.J. 08030
sjmoc@comcast.net www.sjmoc.com www.debrasachs.com
I have been a working artist with a focus on sculpture and painting my whole adult life. I also make works of public art in partnership with the artist, Marilyn Keating. We have completed works at the New Jersey Pinelands Commission Office Building, The Vineland Children’s School, Atlanticare Hospitals, Haddonfield PATCO Station, and the Philadelphia PATCO subway station (9th/10th & Locust Sts.). I have received numerous awards for recognition in both sculpture and craft including a George & Helen Segal grant, two NJSCA fellowships, and an NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. I have exhibited in several solo and group shows. I have work in many corporate collections, museums and the US embassy in Thailand.
1976-1978 M.A. in Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.
1971-1975 B.F.A. in Painting, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pa.
1973 Tyler School of Art in Rome, Rome, Italy
2011 Campus Center, Stockton College, Waders and Flockers; 5 carved and painted wood sculptures (w M. Keating)
2009 Moore College of Art and Design, Phila., Pa, “Charm Sticks”; wood and metal sculpture (w M. Keating)
2007 Atlanticare Harmony Pavilion Hospital Lobby, Atlantic City, NJ, wood applique tryptich (w M. Keating).
2005 AtlantiCare Center For Childbirth Emergency Room, Mays Landing, NJ, wood applique (w M. Keating)
2003-04 Haddonfield Lotto; 2004; head house wall is 24”x108”, escalator wall is 72”x72”, remaining wall is 72”x54”; this project depicts specific and general images relating to the town of Haddonfield, NJ. Each 18”x24” image consists of jigsaw mosaic tiles set in steel pans. Inspired by the game of lotto, each wall is designed to look like giant game boards. (with Marilyn Keating) Commissioned by PATCO and DRPA for NJ station.
2002 Checkered Columns: 2002; 90”x22”x22” ea; patinated cast aluminum blocks, which reflect the surrounding architecture, including the scalloped ceilings and steel railings, combined with Mayan imagery. Commissioned by PATCO and DRPA for a Philadelphia subway station.
2002 This Way Out: 9th/10th and Locust Sts. Subway Station, Phila., Pa.; 2002; 10”x3oo’x1”; hand made tiles interspersed with commercial tiles and set in steel pans. Hand carved tiles depicts 20 different styles of shoes exiting the station, as well as signage. The images of feet crowd the area where passengers exit the turnstiles and become increasingly less frequent near the exits. Commissioned by PATCO and DRPA for a Philadelphia subway station.
2003 River Rail Revival, consultant:(art elements for 19 train stations constituting the Southern New Jersey Light Rails, Trenton-Camden, NJ (Marilyn Keating, Katherine Hackl and Hiroshi Murata)
2005 Learn, Thrive, Grow; 2005; 9’x50’x3’; A union between a low relief tile wall mural and a living garden. The mural is made of dimensional tiles applied to three areas of the Learning Center’s exterior wall. Hardy perennial grasses and low growing evergreens were planted to compliment the mural design. Plants are just becoming established and complimentary gardening is being included in the curriculum. Commissioned by the State of New Jersey for the Vineland Children’s School (emotionally disturbed children). (w M. Keating)
2001 New Jersey Pinelands Commission Office Building, New Lisbon, New Jersey), wood applique for vestibule wall and reception desk areas; (with Marilyn Keating)
2000 Consultant to Art Soup; Rutgers University, Camden, N.J., for a tile facade on the entryways of passenger tunnel under Benjamin Franklin Bridge
1999 Consultant to Art Soup; Rutgers University, Camden, N.J., for suspended sculptures at the Walt Rand Transportation Center
AmSouth Bancorporation, Birmingham, AL.
Bell Atlantic, Phila., Pa.
CB Commercial/Interstate Realty Corp, Memphis, Tn.
Camden County Collection, N.J.
Hechinger Collection, Washington, D.C.
Hotel Parisi, LaHoya, Ca.
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tx.
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, N.J.
Johnson & Johnson Corporate Headquarters, New Brunswick, N.J.
New Brunswick Cultural Center, New Brunswick, N.J.
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Trenton, N.J.
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, N.J.
Newark Public Library, Newark, N.J.
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, N.J.
Montclair Museum, Montclair, N.J.
Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J.
Mrs. Smith (Mrs. Smith’s Pies), Pa.
RPR Company, St. Louis, Mo.
South Jersey Museum of Curiosities
Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J.
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Clinical Academic Building, New Brunswick, N.J.
U.S. Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
Jane Vorhees Zimmerly Museum, New Brunswick, N.J.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: SOLO AND TWO PERSON
2014 Going Solo and Tandem, Stockton College Art Gallery, Pomona, NJ, (with Marilyn Keating)
1994, 1991, 1987, 1986 Nexus, Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, Pa.
1990 Hopkins House, Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Haddon Township, N.J.
1982 Kling Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.
1981 Okanagan College, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-GROUP
2020 Cross Currents: Water/Art/Influence: browngrotta arts; Virtual Exhibit; https://www.artsy.net/show/browngrotta-arts-cross-currents-water-slash-art-slash-influence
2019 Artists from the Grotta Collection: browngrotta arts; Wilton, Ct.
2019 Crafting Narratives; Art-In-City-Hall: Bruce Hoffman, juror
2019 Moore Alumni Exhibition; Phila, Pa. Emily Zilber, juror, (Best In Show Award)
2018 Blue/Green: browngrotta Arts, Wilton, Ct.
2016-2018 Art in Embassies, US Embassy, Panama City, Panama
2016 ARTBOOM, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT.
2014 Small…but not restricted, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pa.
2013-2014 Collaboration, Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pa. (with M. Keating)
2012 Retro/Prospective: 25+ Years Of Art Textiles and Sculpture, browngrotta arts, Wilton, Ct.
Materiality, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pa.
2010 Southern New Jersey Artists Redux, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, Nancy McGuire, curator
NJ Arts Annual, 2010 New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Art, “Reality & Artifice.” NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2009 10th Wave III: browngrotta ARTS; Wilton, Ct
2008 Art of the Table: Artifact Design Group; Wilton, Ct.
7 Visions: Wood as Fiber, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
Receive React Respond, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pa., Paul Hubbard, Jeanne Jaffe, Jennie Shanker, jurors
2005 SOFA New York, brown/grotta ARTS, NYC, NY
Palm Beach Contemporary, brown/grotta ARTS, West Palm Beach, Fla.
2004 SOFA Chicago, brown/grotta ARTS, Chicago, Il.
SOFA New York, brown/grotta ARTS, NYC, NY
ISC@GFS, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ., Helen Escobedo, Steve Nash, Carter Radcliff, jurors
The Common Thread, Westport Arts Center, Westport, Ct., brown/grotta curators
2002-2003 100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
2002 SOFA Chicago, brown/grotta ARTS, Wilton, Ct.
Other Materials Other Forms, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, Ct., Jackie Abrams, curator
2001 Wired Works, brown/grotta Gallery, Wilton, Ct.
1999 Handmade For The New Millennium: Messiah College, Grantham, Pa.
Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, N.C.
Art in the Open: The Peters Valley Gallery Without Walls, various sites, Morristown, N.J.
1998 Modus Operandi; A Survey of Contemporary Fiber, Snyderman/Works, Philadelphia, Pa.
N.J. Arts Annual, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, N.J.
SOFA Chicago, Albers Gallery, Memphis, Tn.
1997 Treasures From the Stacks, Albers Gallery, Memphis, Tn.
SOFA Chicago, Albers Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Contemporary Art Baskets, The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio, JoAnn H. Stevens, curator
Baskets Revisited, Nancy Sachs Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
Seven from the Seventies, Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pa., Deborah Allen, curator
Breaking the Mold: New Forms for Traditional Arts, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, N. J.
1996 In and Out of THE BOX (art work using the computer), Nexus, Philadelphia, Pa.
N.J. State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition 1994-95, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, N.J.
Connections: Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art at Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, Pa.
1995 “New Jersey Arts Annual; Celebrating Diversity in Crafts”, The Newark Museum, Newark, N.J.
“I.D.”, Nexus, Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, Pa.
“Dreamscapes for the New Millennium”, Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Camden, N.J.
“In Search of Excellence”, New Jersey Designer Craftsmen, New Brunswick, N.J.,
Montclair State University, Montclair, N.J.
1994 “A Group of Grids”, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.
“Unbound”, Harmony Hall Regional Center, Fort Washington, Md., Jill Romanoke, juror
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pa., Madeleine Grynsztejn, juror
“Experiential Fiber”, Nexus, Foundation for Today’s Art, Phila., Pa.
Images of the Family”, Borowsky Gallery, Phila., Pa., Anne Raman, curator
“Nexus at Viridian”, Viridian Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
1993 “The Art of Dressing: From Costume to Sculpture”, Borowsky Gallery, Phila., Pa., Anne Raman, Curator
“Alternatives”, Nexus, Foundation for Today’s Art, Phila., Pa.
1992 New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts”, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, N.J.
“Visions for the ‘90s”, CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia, Pa.
“SCULPTURE: Explorations”, Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa., Anne Raman, Curator
“Sculptural Variations”, Nexus, Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, Pa.
1991 “Partners in the Arts in Southern N.J.”, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, N.J.
Annual Juried Art Show, Hopkins House Gallery, Haddon Twp.,N.J.,Deborah Jordy,Denver Art Museum, juror
1990 “Nexus Steps Over Jesse Helms into the Nineties”, Nexus Gallery, Phila., Pa.
Amos Eno Gallery, New York City, N.Y.
1989 “New Expressions”, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, N.J., Deborah Allen, Curator
“Art Around the Edges”, Port of History Museum, Phila., Pa.
1988 “Altered Sites”, Fairmount Park, Phila., Pa., Marsha Moss, Curator
Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.,
Valerie Fletcher, Hirshhorn Museum, Juror
Essex County Annual Juried Art Show, Roseland, N.J., Judith Brodsky, Adolph Conrad, Jurors
1987 “Sculpture 1987”, Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, N.J., Vivien Raynor, New York Times, Juror
New Jersey Fellowship Show, Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J.
“Connections and Contrasts”, 1708 E. Main Street, Richmond, Va.
1997, 1996, 95 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, Pa.
1997, 1996, 95, 94 American Craft Exposition, Evanston, Illinois
1999, 1997, 1996, 95 ACC Craft Fair, Baltimore, Baltimore, Md.
1997 Philadelphia Furniture Show
1995 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
2010 George & Helen Segal Foundation, grant for sculpture
2009 Distinguished Alumnae, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pa.
1997 Fellowship Recipient, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, N.J.
Excellence in Creative Concept and Execution Award, Philadelphia Furniture Show, Phila., Pa.
1996 Best of Mixed Media, American Craft Exposition, Evanston, Illinois
Fellow’s Choice Award, ACC in Baltimore, Michael Monroe, juror
1995 NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Fellowship Recipient, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Prince George’s Arts Council Award, First Place; “UNBOUND”, Harmony Hall Regional Center,
Fort Washington, Md., Jill Romanoke, juror
1989 Solo Show Award, Hopkins House Gallery, Camden County, Margo Dolan, Juror
1988 Merit Award Winner, ASU Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Valerie Fletcher,
Hirshhorn Museum, Juror
1987 Purchase Prize for Camden County, Sande Webster, juror
1986 Fellowship Recipient, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
1982 Honorarium, Please Touch Museum, Phila., Pa., in recognition of design proposal for
young children.
1981 Honorarium, Okanagan College, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, for site-specific installation in
collaboration with students.
Blue/Green: browngrotta Arts, Wilton, Ct., 2018
Art In Embassies Exhibition: United States Embassy Panama, 2016
ARTBOOM: Celebrating Artists Mid-Century, Mid-Career, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT., 2016
“Retro/Prospective: 25+ Years Of Art Textiles and Sculpture”, browngrotta arts, Wilton, Ct., 2012
“Reality and Artifice”, NJ Arts Annual: Fine Art; NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ, 2010
“10th Wave III”, browngrotta Arts, Wilton, Ct., 2009
“SOFA New York, 2004”, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY, 2004
“100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints”, RCIPP; Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2003
“WIRED: Fiber-Optic Weavings and Wire Sculpture”, brown/grotta Arts, Wilton, Ct., 2001
“New Jersey Arts Annual; Crafts Transcending Tradition”, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, N.J., 1998
“SOFA Chicago,1998”, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, 1998
“Breaking The Mold: New Forms for Traditional Arts”, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University,
Camden, N.J., 1997
“Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation/National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Visual Arts Fellowships,
1994 & 1995”, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, Md. 1995
“New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, 1994 &1995”, The Noyes Museum,
Oceanville, N.J., 1996
“New Jersey Arts Annual; Celebrating Diversity in Crafts”, The Newark Museum, Newark, N.J., 1995
“Dreamscapes for the New Millennium”, Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Camden, N.J., 1995
“Unbound”, Harmony Hall Regional Center, Fort Washington, Md., 1994
“New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts”, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, N.J., 1992
“Small Designs/Large Visions”, Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission, N.J., 1992
“New Expressions”, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, N.J., 1989
“Altered Sites”, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa., 1988
“Outdoor Sculpture Competition”, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C., 1988-1989
“New Jersey Arts Annual”, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, N.J., 1986
“Ten Southern New Jersey Artists”, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J., 1984
Periodicals:
Johnson, Brent, “Going Solo and Tandem…..”, jerseyarts.com,
http://features.jerseyarts.com/content/index.php/nj-visual-arts/2014/09/going-solo-tandem-south-jersey-artists-debra-sachs-and-marilyn-keating-on-display-at-stockton-art-gallery/
Adelson, Fred B., “Art Season Offers…..”, Courier Post, Sep., 28, 2014, 6E
Riordan, Kevin, Their Museum of Curiosities, Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan 17, 2013, B1 & B8
http://articles.philly.com/2013-01-18/news/36396522_1_mosaic-tile-sculpture-pieces
Allen, Susan, Stockton Now, Winter 2012, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 12-13
Alumnae News, Moore Magazine, Spring 2009, front cover, inside cover, pp. 25-26
Scmertz, Wilma F. & Frances, Scott. “Playing with Tradition”, Architectural Digest, Jul, 2006, pp. 88-91
Baxter,Robert. “The Art of Survival”, Courier-Post, Sun., Aug. 1, 2004, pp. 1A, 7A
Baxter,Robert. “Art and life become one....”, Courier-Post, Sun., Aug. 1, 2004, p. 6A
Haskin, Don & Lacy, Jill. “Public Art a Passion....”, Moore News, Issue XVII, Fall 2003, pp. 18-19
Graham, Kristen. “The House that Art Built”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sun., Nov. 23, 2003, pp. B1,B4
Lunin, Lois. “Wired”, FIBERARTS, Summer 2002, p. 7, 57
Englander, Lisa. “....ACE Evanston Show”, The Crafts Report, Dec., 1996, p. 42-44
Summersgill, Linda. “Museum Quality Crafts”, Courier-Post, Nov. 8, 1996, p. 9 TGIF
Sozanski, Edward J. “Computer Art”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 16, 1996, p. 41 Weekend
Watkins, Eileen. “Extending a Hand”, Sunday Star Ledger, Sep. 10, 1995, p. 1,4 Accent
brown, gerard. “Debra Sachs: Vessels and Woven Objects”, EYE LEVEL, Mar., 1995, p. 4-5
“Reviews, Shows & Events”: FIBERARTS, Jan/Feb, 1995, p. 61
Collins, Karyn. “Who’s Hot”, Asbury Park Sunday Press, Jan. 1, 1995, p. 1, 10 Sec. E
McCoy, Mary. “Galleries”, The Washington Post, July 30, 1994, p. D2
Rice, Robin. “Up, Down & Across”, Philadelphia City Paper, July 28, 1994.
Sozanski, Edward J. MUSEUMS•GALLERIES, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 15, 1994, p. 36 Weekend
Sozanski, Edward J. “Clothing as Sculpture....”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 10, 1993, p. 40 Weekend
Rice, Robin. ART. Philadelphia City Paper, June 26-July3, 1992, p. 15
(periodicals) continued:
Halpern, Joyce. “How Shall I Price My Painting?” ARTimes, June, 1991, pp. 15-16
Nugent Jeanne. “Art Around The Edges”. New Art Examiner, June, 1989, p. 52
Eliot, Robert. “New Expressions by Southern N.J. Art Faculties”. Art Matters, May 1989, p. 12
Baker, Penny. “Noyes Museum Show Proves...”. The Press, Atlantic City, Apr. 23, 1989, pp. D1, D8
Stewart, Patricia. “Art From the City.....”. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mar. 8, 1989, p. 4C
Friedman, Sally. “The Bold, The Brash And The Daring”. Bucks Courier, Mar. 5, 1989
Rice, Robin. “Cutting Edges”. The City Paper, Feb. 17, 1989, p.8
Donohoe, Victoria. “On Galleries”. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 4, 1989, p. 3C
Donohoe, Victoria. “Art”. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 20, 1987, p. 20 Weekend
Raynor, Vivien. “A Rich Array of Summer Art from Newburgh to Newark”. The New York Times,
Aug. 15, 1986 p. 1C
Zimmer, William. “Something-But What?-Is Happening in New Jersey Art”. The New York Times,
Aug. 10, 1986 p. 22NJ
Williams, Kamika LH. “They’re Off and Running...”. Philadelphia Daily Muse, May 2-4, 1986 p. 4D
Donohoe, Victoria. “On Galleries”. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mar 8, 1986, p. 4D
State of the Arts; New Jersey Network, Trenton, N.J.; 12/4/98; Angela Capprio, producer
Radio Times; ArtScape; WHYY Radio, Philadelphia, Pa.; 4/30/97; Karen Turner, interviewer
Kari Lonning, The Art of Basketry (New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2000), pp. 112-113
Jane LaFerla, Making the New Baskets (Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 1999), p.118
GALLERY REPRESENTATIVE
browngrotta arts, Wilton, Ct.
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2002-2013, President, South Jersey Museum Of Curiosities (SJMOC LLP)
2011-2013, Future Artists Now, Inc., Gloucester City, NJ, Board of Directors
2003 Presenter, Public Art Symposium, Gloucester County College, Sewell, N.J.
2002 Panelist for Fellowships in Crafts for Pa., Md. and De., Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, Md.
1993-1997 Board Member, Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Camden County, N.J.
1984-1997 Artist/Member, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, Pa.
1994 Curator, “You Are What You Keep”, an exhibition of artists’ precious possessions for the Camden
County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Camden County, N.J.
1993-95 Grant Review Panelist, Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission Block Grant Program,
Camden County, N.J.
1993 Curator, “Inside Out”, an exhibition of non-traditional portraits for the Camden County Cultural
and Heritage Commission
1992 Curator, “Small Designs/Large Visions”, an exhibition of small sculpture for the Camden County
Cultural and Heritage Commission
1986-1989 Senior Adjunct Instructor of Design and Drawing, Burlington County College, Pemberton, N.J.
1986-1988 Demonstration/Workshop Leader, Teen Arts Festival, Camden County, N.J.
1986 Curator, “Floor to Ceiling”, an exhibition of sculpture for the Camden County Cultural and
Heritage Commission
1985-1988 Treasurer NEXUS--Now Foundation for Today’s Art, Phila., Pa.
1985 Artist-in-Residence, Lakeland Home, Camden County, N.J.
1976-1978 Teaching Assistant, Basic Art and Painting, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.
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Anti-Christian Bigotry and Censorship Tactics Surges, Godinterest an Oasis Online
Godinterest will not BAN users for quoting verses from the Bible unlike other Anti-Christian mainstream social networking sites who have liberal agendas and apply Censorship Tactics.
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Great Denham, Bedford -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/09/2017 -- Social media sites (such as Wikipedia, WordPress, Facebook and Twitter) have played critical roles in real-world revolutions. The ability for the average person to spread news, ideas and general information - without corporate or government censorship has brought about massive power and freedom to people. But what happens when these key websites - the ones people rely upon to spread those messages start censoring that content? Bad things, right? Well, this seems to be happening a lot recently, especially to Christians and most recently to Elizabeth Johnston, also known as "Activist Mommy", who was shocked when Facebook shut down her account for expressing biblical views.
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Godinterest a Christian social networking service created in 2014. Its core purpose is to promote Christian values and facilitate spiritual inspiration through the sharing of photographs and other media in the style of Pinterest and Twitter. Its content includes media about Christian history, personal, family oriented stories and various contents from a Christian viewpoint.
The site was developed by Dean, a 39-year-old Construction Project Director from London. Jones said, "We are a Christian social networking website and are mindful of the values that we as Christian's are bound by. God is the creator, his creation is not only humans but extends further than we can imagine. Godinterest enables users to capture elements of life from different points a view within a Christian environment and will never BAN users for quoting verses from the Bible unlike other mainstream social networking sites who have liberal agendas, including Wikipedia who mysteriously deleted the Godinterest page after a long reoccurring online debate."
Jones said "Although this is the Golden Age of censorship, it's hard to express the degree to which the Internet is changing society. With mobile technology becoming such a huge part of our lives most people couldn't envision life without it. At every point within the bible God made a way for His Church to embrace the opportunities to tell more people of His love, and I believe that the Internet is no different. At Godinterest we couldn't be more convinced that God has a purpose for this technology, and so Godinterest is dedicated to utilising it to empower believers throughout the world to share the life changing message of Jesus."
"Churches can register and share their sermons, videos, photos and updates online. Church members can converse with other likeminded individuals in the safe knowledge that the information shared and stored will not be used for marketing or promotion. Non-Christians are also welcome."
Other reasons to sign up?
1. "Godinterest will not BAN users for quoting verses from the Bible unlike other mainstream social networking sites who have liberal agendas. Godinterest continues to withstand attacks by hackers and censors as the media outlet expands."
2. "There are no adds. I repeat, there are NO ADS. Users will never again click on a sponsored post which inevitably leads to a popup advert."
3. "If users decide to leave Godinterest their posts are deleted from the site forever."
4. "Our users friends won't know your exact location If you've updated your Facebook app recently, you may have noticed that you now get a lovely notification whenever one of your Facebook friends is nearby. Luckily, it won't happen with Godinterest. According to the website's Godinterest collects only anonymous info about a users location, language, referring website and time spent."
5. "Godinterest isn't trying to be the next Facebook, Pinterest or Twitter "Because Godinterest does not sell ads, Godinterest does not consider them to be competitors," Dean said. "Godinterest considers mainstream social networking services as an advertising platforms. Godinterest operate's on a non for profit basis."
6. "Godinterest lets users upload full-screen, high quality photos or animations to their profile."
It's clear that Godinterest values privacy in a way that no other social media site does. Jones said "Godinterest is not trying to sign up everyone in the world, if people are not into what Godinterest provides, they can go use Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter instead. Non-Christians are welcome."
However, if people are ready to see what's happening on Godinterest? Sign up today at http://Godinterest.com.
For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/anti-christian-bigotry-censorship-tactics-surges-godinterest-oasis-online-874270.htm
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Maggie Scherder
Maggie Scherder – Peoria, Illinois, USA (August 2002)
Maggie started swimming at age 9 with the Heart of Illinois Special Recreation Assoc Swim Team (HISRA) who participates at Special Olympics Illinois. While she has competed in soccer and dance, she seemed to be a natural in the water. Her favorite races to swim at a meet are those where she is a part of a relay. Maggie swam several years for Peoria YMCA Swimming and currently swims for Peoria Area Water Wizards (PAWW) and Dunlap High School Girls Swim Team.
Joining the USA DSS team in 2018 at the 9th DSISO World Champions in Truro, Canada, Maggie finished the meet with 2 bronze podium finishes and set 5 Junior Americas SCM records. When she returned from Canada and started her sophomore high school swim season, her teammates nominated her for a local award – Central Illinois Proud Extra Effort Award – https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/sports/local-sports/dunlap-sophomore-swimming-in-praise/
In 2019, Maggie traveled to Sardinia, Italy and competed at the 5th European Open Swimming Championship LCM meet. She made the finals in all 7 of her individual events with 5 podium finishes which included 3 gold. Maggie set 2 World and 4 Americas individual records and was part of 4 relay teams that set Americas Records.
Joey Jurries
Joey Jurries (DOB – August 20, 2002. Arbor Vitae, Wisconsin)
Joey is a varsity swimmer on the Lakeland Union High School Boys swim team in the Great Northern Conference. Outside of his high
school season Joey trains with the Lakeland Loons Swim Club, competes on USA Swim’s Northern Lake Aquatics swim team and in 2018 Joey had his international debut swimming for the USA Down Syndrome Swim Team. In July 2018, Joey participated in the DSISO World Championships in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada where he broke (and still holds) 2 American Junior SCM records (25 Back, 50 Back) and came home with a Junior Division Gold Medal in the 25 Back and Junior Division Bronze Medals in the 25 Back and 25 Free. During the summer of 2019, while competing in USA Swim sanctioned events, Joey broke 8 Junior American Region LCM records (100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 50 Back, 100 Back, 200 Back, 50 Fly, 200 IM).
In September 2019, Joey competed at DSISO’s Open European Swim
Championships where he swam an American Open Senior LCM record in the 200 Free Relay (with teammates Joe Suter, Luke Drumright, Glenn Donovan) and 8 American Region Senior Individual LCM records (50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 50 Back, 100 Back, 50 Fly, 100 Fly). Joey has great support from T-Bird Nation, his hometown swim community where he trains a minimum of 5 days a week. He is coached by Chris and Robert Garcia and their belief in Joey has propelled his talent to be a competitive
international athlete.
In addition to swimming Joey attends high school where he is a very
social young man . Joey loves going to high school football, hockey and
basketball games and the school’s musical productions. Joey loves to
mountain bike, usher at Church on Sundays and enjoys working in our
community through his high school supported WINGS Program. Joey is a
member of the LUHS Pep and Concert Band. He loves to play the drums or
anything percussion.
Caitlin Trevor
Caitlin Trevor (DOB – 22 April 2003. United States of America)
A dual national, Caitlin divides her time between Kingston upon Thames, London, UK and Wilmington, Delaware, USA.
Caitlin joined the Kingston Royals in February 2017 after not being very keen to swim as a young child. Becoming a better swimmer formed part of her Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award. She now swims 5 days a week plus extra training sessions at the London Disability Swimming Club and the Electric Eels in Windsor. Caitlin first represented the United States in Kosovo winning a Gold Medal in Breast Stroke and two bronze medals. She then represented the USA at the DSISO World Championships in Truro, Canada in July 2018. In October 2018, Caitlin was awarded the Disability Sports Achiever Award by Kingston Borough. As a junior swimmer, she currently holds Junior SC & LC Americas records, plus Open Americas records.
Caitlin attends school full time and enjoys music, working toward her Silver Duke of Edinburgh award, performing with her drama group, Lamda classes and horse riding. A recent highlight was having her photo broadcast in NYC’s Times Square by the USA’s National Down’s Syndrome Society/NDSS. Caitlin is an enthusiastic Harry Potter fan! Becoming a swimmer and achieving success has been tremendous.
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NEW MD AT GOLCAR BAND
Published in Band News on 2014-04-10 by Golcar Band
More news from Golcar Band
Charles Hindmarsh has been appointed as the New Musical Director for Golcar Band and we are delighted.
Charles is originally from Harrogate and began his musical career playing the violin in orchestras and later played the Euphonium, Baritone, and Eb Tuba in concert and brass bands.
After studying music at University, he went on to play for a number of brass bands in the Yorkshire area including Harrogate Band, The Yorkshire Evening Post Band, Lindley Band and most recently, Garforth Brass.
Charles is a well-respected Conductor in Yorkshire and as well as conducting Golcar Band he also conducts Garforth Jubillee Brass Band and Summer Bridge and Dacre Silver Band.
As well as playing conventional instruments, Charles is also known as
‘The Yorkshire Musical Saw Player’ and plays the ‘musical saw’ in a range of events across the country and beyond.
Charles and the band are working hard on our summer programme and building the band up. Charles is so enthusiastic, talented and kind that the standard of the band has improved tremendously over the few weeks Charles has been with us.
Our band just needs some tutti cornets, basses, bass trombone and 2nd baritone to complete our line up. See our website for more details www.golcarband.co.uk
Source: Golcar Band
Article tagged: golcar band, huddersfield, cornet, bass, bass trombone, baritone, yorkshire,
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A Non Competing band in the North West region require Cornet, Horn, Baritone, Trombone, Euphonium, BBb Bass and Percussion players.
A Non Competiting Section band in the West of England region would like Cornet, Flugel, Horn, Baritone, Trombone, Euphonium, Eb Bass, BBb Bass and Percussion players.
A 1st Section band in the London and Southern Counties region require Cornet, Trombone, BBb Bass and Percussion players.
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Posted on September 5, 2020 September 8, 2020 by admin
FEATURE: Promised land – a community unites to save Short Heath Playing Fields and fights to be heard
Words & pics by Ed King
“All we’re asking for is the Council to be honest with people, we’re not asking for the Earth. We’re asking for them to be honest with the community and tell them what’s happening.”
Three weeks ago, Steve Hughes and Estelle Murphy had never met – despite living round the corner from each other, one on Short Heath Road and one on Court Farm Road. A familiar tale of neighbours yet strangers.
Now it Is difficult not to see them together, clearing up the green space between their houses – championing the cause that brought them and the wider community together.
Save Short Heath Playing Fields began as a campaign to do just that.
But the signs, slogans, banners, and banter that now surround this urban oasis have already achieved something else, something powerful – galvanising a community into action. Real action. The kind of action that changes things.
And what started with a simple question – namely, did you know about the proposed development on Short Heath Playing Fields? – is now a clarion call for an increasingly empowered and united neighbourhood.
“Community is what this is all about,” tells Steve. “It’s a community thing, and it’s massive now. And it’s not just here – I’ve just been talking to a lady who lives over there (Streetly Road, Edgware Road, Marsh Lane) and people are talking about it over that side of the park as well.”
“People are stopping us in the street and asking how it’s going, what we’re doing, where we’ve been, who we’re speaking to. Throwing ideas at us,” adds Estelle – after a long weekend with a community cleaning up the park on their own time.
“We’d got kids over here litter picking, old age pensioners litter picking… it didn’t matter if you were 7, 17, 27, or 77, everybody was out – all pulling together.”
“It’s spotless if you walk around it now,” continues Steve, “it’s amazing. We’ve had the Erdington Litter Busters here, and the Short Heath Wombles. Then we’ve joined in and done our bit… people are talking to each other again.”
Since Steve and Estelle joined forces, after both spending several months independently challenging the proposed development of 84 houses on Short Heath Playing Fields, hundreds more local residents have banded together – bringing a unified fight to Birmingham City Council’s plans to ‘dispose’ of the public land, previously earmarked for local schools.
Over recent weekends, and following the correct COVID-19 safety precautions, scores of residents have routinely descended upon the open green parkland – initially to hear about the campaign, and the proposed development, but then turning their hands to maintaining the ground themselves.
From litter picking to landscaping, people power has been filling the void left by over a decade of Council neglect.
“We’ve done everything by the book,” explains Steve, “everyone had safely equipment, everyone had masks. We socially distanced. We’ve done everything to COVID rules. All the people down here were spread across the park – they worked in their family bubbles. We’re being responsible.”
“I’m going to keep coming down to stay in the mix,” add Jamie Stanley – who saw Steve and Estelle back on the parkland earlier in the day and jumped in to help the with more litter picking.
“It’s nice to be able to bring my son down, and he can look around and there’s no litter anywhere. He loves coming here. I told him about it last weekend, that they wanted to build on here, and he was upset. We was like, ‘aw, but I like playing football with you here dad.’ But it benefits all the kids, you know.”
Steve Hughes began with a petition, hosted on the popular Change.org website. At the time of writing, this has amassed 1422 signatures – with a private Facebook group attracting further support.
Estelle Murphy was one of the handful of local residents who heard about, and attended, the public consultation – which took place last year. Although what unfurled at the meeting left her so disillusioned, she began fighting for the clarity and transparency that any local community deserves.
But awareness of the proposed plans has been the sticking point for both, as the due diligence and legally required public consultation that is needed for such a drastic change to a community has been arguably clandestine. And whilst the fight may not be a new one, it is still a fight.
“We’re not political in this,” tells Steve, “we’re doing it from a community perspective, but we’re being forced into a political arena.
“And when you speak to the community, the residents, the people who live right by the park, the problem we all have is that the Council keep calling it ‘consultation’ and they DO NOT consult the people who live by the park – or use the park.”
“The meeting was shocking,” adds Estelle, “they shut (Erdington Councillor) Robert Alden down at every option and just said ‘no, planning will sort that out.’ No… you sort planning out, not the other way around. And when it went to a scrutiny committee, who said no, it’s not up to the Council to tell scrutiny to basically shut up – which is pretty much what they did. It’s shocking, absolutely shocking.”
Whenever Erdington Local goes to meet Steve and Estelle, as they continue tidying up the field the Council states has been ‘unused for 10 years’, a constant stream of dog walkers snake round into the playing fields – taking four legged friends for a healthy ramble across the open green space.
Children come and play in the areas where the grass has been cut back, chasing footballs not dragons – on what has been referred to as ‘a drug den’ for heroin users. (It is worth noting that on a recent litter picking sweep, not a single needle or spoon were found – despite trained healthcare staff rifling through the undergrowth with metal gloves and a spike box.)
Countless local residents also come out and ask about the campaign, commenting on the signs or the work then have seen volunteers undertake – all are curious and supportive, not just of the campaign but of the sense of community it has ignited.
On Erdington Local’s last visit to the site, a man from the neighbouring HMO came out to thank the campaigners and volunteers for their work – asking Steve and Estelle to sign small wooden hearts so he could put them into his new-born babies birth book. You rarely see something that beautiful between strangers.
The notion that this Short Heath Playing Fields are ‘unused’, as declared on official Council documentation, is laughable.
But the backbone of the issue is ultimately political, regardless of how bipartisan the approach of the Save Short Heath Playing Fields campaigners has been.
Erdington Councillor Robert Alden, who has been on site meeting residents and helping with the litter picking, alongside Councillor Gareth Moore, told Erdintgon Local: “Short Heath Playing Fields are vital to the local area.They are a green lung in the middle of our community and it is disgraceful that the Labour Council wishes to rip out that green lung that helps clean our air, helps provide residents with an area to go to help exercise and improve their physical and mental health and wellbeing.
“In the post Covid-19 world even the Council admits that it is vital to provide green space yet despite us making it clear to them at numerous Council meetings and in petitions presented to Council that Erdington and Perry Common have a shortage the Council refuse to scrap their crazy plans to build on this valuable green space.
“It has been great to see residents come together to fight the Labour administrations plans to build on the fields and I have of course been happy to work and support them and will continue to do so in our fight to save Short Heath Playing Fields.”
And moving down the field with this political football, Erdington MP Jack Dromey told Erdington Local: “I have been in dialogue for some time with local residents who have expressed profound concerns about the proposed housing development on Short Heath Playing Fields. I have made it clear to Birmingham City Council that local voices must first be heard.
“It is essential that the views of local people are always considered before any development takes place.
“It is clear the Council have not done a good enough job of consulting with concerned residents, and local people understandably feel that they have been ignored and the sense of anger is palpable.
“I want residents to know their concerns are being listened to and taken seriously. I will be meeting once again with key campaigners and local residents this Saturday (5th September) to hear their views on the proposals for the playing fields.
“Going forward, I will continue to argue that it would be wrong to go ahead with these proposals without proper consultation that involves local voices at every stage.”
But for Steve Hughes, Estelle Murphy, and the many hundreds of local residents that have now put their hands clearly in the air to be counted – this is still firmly about community. The strength in their increasing number is only the beginning too. Doors that were once shut are creaking open and conversations that may be nearly a year overdue are finally starting to happen.
There is hope in Short Heath.
There is conversation, houses that were alien to each other are now borrowing cups of sugar and exchanging titbits about boundaries and planning regulations. There is a sense of community and connection, one that many of the people who live in this pocket of Erdington haven’t felt in decades.
“The whole thing is crazy,” admits Steve – as he and Estelle pack up after a long day cutting back the thorn bushes and overgrown grass at the top end of the playing fields. “All they (Birmingham City Council) do is try and undermine the community and not actually give us the chance to have a say in it. And you know what, that’s all the people really want. What we don’t want is for them not to listen – and that’s the problem.
“Why is it that a politician will promise you the Earth when they’re after you’re vote – but when we’re asking them for something, they don’t want to know unless it suits their agenda. Why should that be the case?
“Why are they not even prepared to do the right thing and talk to the community – to give the community the chance to have their say and say what they would like to happen. But also, to listen and act and what people say.
“Why can Birmingham City Council just run roughshod over people?”
It’s difficult to know.
But what’s certain, is that the residents around Short Heath Playing Fields are not going to be silenced without an answer – and with an ignited sense of community and pride, they’ll want to hear it together.
To sign the petition to Save Short Heath Playing Fields, visit: www.change.org/p/birmingham-city-council-birmingham-education-department-bob-beauchamp-jack-dormey-save-short-heath-playing-fields
To further support the Save Short Heath Playing Fields campaign, you can donate through the official GoFundMe fundraising platform: www.gofundme.com/f/save-short-heath-playing-fields
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Category: Apple Computers PC Software
Mac Comes with iLife and iMovie
Written on October 22, 2010 by R. Cruise
Apple unveiled its newest product called iLife during the Back to Mac event. This new software will make its easier for users to share photos and make movies.
The presentation was headed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. He pinpointed the new features of iPhoto in iLife 11 during the “Back to Mac” event. The new add-ons will make it easier for users to share photos, create photo album plus integration to social network websites. Additional features of the Ilife 11 are the full-screen modes for Places and Faces and Letterpress cards.
On the other hand, the iMovie includes a good audio editing progrma, a “People Finder,” and new tools to create movie trailer. Randy Ubillos, chief architect of iMovie, said that scores of the background music contained in the iMovie software is specifically created for Apple by the London Symphony. In addition, in one click of the mouse, video produced with iMovie can be shared on Facebook, Youtube and Vimeo.
iLife is available for free with any new Mac starting October 20. An upgrade of iLife costs $49.
Tags: Apple, Back to Mac, ilife, imovie, mac, Steve Jobs
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Mac App Store Coming on January 6
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Nokia RM-670 Undergoes FCC Testing
RM-670, the upcoming handset from Nokia, goes through FCC's approval testing. Few features of the phone, revealed as well.
The Nokia RM-670, formerly known as the N7 or 700 Zeta, was first seen through spy-shots and then followed by multiple rumors. Now, the new handset from Nokia seems to be entering the Technology World after taking an official testing under the FCC. Though the listings did not disclose all the features of the phone, the test still serves as a good proof that the RM-670 was real and existing.
According to the FCC paperwork, the upcoming Nokia handset could work on either AT&T and T-Mobile, or might even support both 1,700MHz AWS (T-Mobile) and 850/1,900MHz (AT&T) 3G bands. Nokia has not yet announced any launching date for the RM-670, but it is expected to arrive first in the U.S.
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As We Were. American Photographic Postcards, 1905-1930
David R Godine
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Today, no one seriously doubts the value, both aesthetic and historic, of the ubiquitous American photographic postcard. This was the medium that really brought photography to the masses; these cards were affordable, they were topical, and they could be sent for a penny anywhere in the country. The variety of imagery, much of it developed anonymously in small studios, much of it taken by inspired amateurs (these were the days when anyone could, and many folks did, own a camera) displays America in all its variety and vitality. Most postcards were mass produced and printed in ink by the collotype or halftone process. But a few were original photographic prints, exposed directly from glass plates or film negatives. Known as 'real photos' these were real photographs, aristocrats of the genre and spectacular examples of vernacular photography. In this charming and scholarly book, Vaule selects the best of them, from all over the country, addressing their social and historical contexts, explaining the mysteries of their manufacture and dissemination, and describing the characteristics and identities of their makers, many of whose names and studios are listed in the book. But without doubt, it is the images themselves that still hold us: storefronts and townships, frisky children and sober adults, air ships and barn raisings. Over one hundred are reproduced here, each in fine-line duotone, each as fascinating and compelling today as when first fixed on paper.
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DCTV Crossover Roundtable: "Crisis on Earth-X, Parts 1-4" (How Many People Are in This Again?) [Contributors: Deb and Marilyn]
2:07 PM arrow review, contributor: deborah macarthur, contributor: marilyn, legends of tomorrow recap, supergirl review, the flash review No comments
“Crisis on Earth-X, Parts 1-4”
Original Airdates: November 27 and 28, 2017
Since this crossover was such a massive event — practically a four-hour movie, when you think about it — we've broken the review down by show, rather than trying to shove all of this “crisis” into one linear recap. Based on the shows, we're quickly describing how characters might be affected in the future and their biggest contributions to the plot.
Alex and Kara are in a mutual love life funk, so they make a sudden decision to skip over to another Earth, forget about life for a while, and attend Barry and Iris’s wedding. They chit-chat with their pals, dine on fancy rehearsal dinner food, listen to some lovely speeches, and at the end of the evening, Alex gets drunk and has a one-night stand with Sara from Legends of Tomorrow. Oops!
Alex sort of freaks out about it, but I think Sara is probably the best one-night stand option for her. She’s cool, all about the no-strings-attached, and lives on a different Earth. Perfect rebound, Alex.
During Barry and Iris’s wedding, Kara is the one singing Iris down the aisle, which is a pretty charming reference to the musical episode from last season. Unfortunately, once Kara’s song is finished, Nazis attack the ceremony. Yes. Nazis. That’s a thing that is happening. Since the church is full of superheroes, everyone does an admirable job fighting them off, but two definite leaders — a masked archer and a flying blonde woman — get away.
These two are, of course, doppelgängers of Oliver and Kara, who are a married couple and leaders in Earth-X’s Nazi government. (We’ll call them Oliver-X and Overgirl, for future reference.)
The whole reason why they attacked Earth-X is because they knew, through Earth-1’s Eobard Thawne (who joined Earth-X’s team because he’s evil and I guess he likes being in evil clubs), that it was the Westallen wedding and Supergirl was going to be there. They needed Supergirl because the Earth-X version — Overgirl — has radiation poisoning and needs a heart transplant. Supergirl hearts? Rather difficult to come by, I imagine. But by the end of the crossover, Overgirl explodes. Womp womp!
Kara and Alex learn to put their problems into a little perspective and that everything has a chance of turning out okay, as long as they have each other. It’s a pretty nice lesson for the both of them, but I think they managed to get out of “Crisis on Earth-X” without a whole lot of long-term change... compared to the other shows’ characters.
The major players from Arrow in “Crisis on Earth-X” were Oliver and Felicity and their arc had a lot to do with the state of their relationship. From the scene at the nail shop with Iris and the other girls, to the tux fitting with Oliver and Barry, through the rehearsal dinner and even under the threat of evil doppelgängers from another Earth, the question was: What’s next for Oliver and Felicity’s relationship? Both Iris and Barry both nudge the two toward one another, with Barry outright telling Oliver to “put a ring on her.”
The problem is that Felicity has some residual issues leftover from their last engagement. She tells Oliver it’s because she was shot five minutes after he proposed. But later, she admits to Iris that her problem is really that she’s afraid to rock the boat with Oliver. Things are good for them right now — really good. The last time they were going to get married, that was the beginning of the end for them. She doesn’t want to lose him again.
Oliver agrees, rather reluctantly, to respect Felicity’s wishes not to get married. But then the two are separated: Oliver on Earth-X with a load of other heroes, having to deal with all the Nazi nonsense there. Felicity is in S.T.A.R. Labs with Iris when Earth-X’s “Oliver” comes with his soldiers and Thawne, attempting to kill Kara to save Overgirl’s life. Iris and Felicity fight the good fight (and call in the Legends) as long as they can, and Oliver does the same over on Earth-X. One of the most poignant moments of the crossover came when Oliver posed as Oliver-X to gain access to a gate that could return them to Earth-1, and encountered Earth-X’s Felicity. She was a prisoner of the concentration camp, pulled out for giving starving children food. Oliver could no more kill her than he could his own Felicity.
Oliver and Felicity reunite back on Earth-1, just happy to be together now — married or not. But when Felicity watches Barry and Iris pour their hearts out to one another with some seriously swoon-worthy vows during their impromptu wedding, she changes her mind and asks Dig to marry her and Oliver as well. He’s only too happy to oblige and we end with both couples getting hitched on the spot.
The biggest long-term development for Team Flash is what set the whole crossover off in the first place: the marriage of Barry Allen and Iris West. Their nuptials are what brings everyone together, as all the hero teams do last-second RSVPs and then show up to a rehearsal dinner that definitely should not have been adequately prepared for the final number of guests. Seriously, all Barry and Iris’s super-friends are rude with those super-late RSVPs.
Unfortunately, the Westallen wedding is interrupted by the main plot and The Flash’s favorite couple spends most of the crossover separated. Iris pairs up with Felicity as the overlooked good guys left in Earth-1’s S.T.A.R Labs, making them the only ones capable of thwarting Oliver-X and Overgirl’s evil plans to steal Supergirl’s heart. Barry is transported to Earth-X along with Oliver, Alex, Sara, Professor Stein, and Jax, and they have to fight their way to the portal that can get them home. Once home, everyone has a role to play in the final battle against Oliver-X, Overgirl, and Eobard Thawne. Barry’s critical role is to return to his idiot ways, apparently, because he lets Eobard Thawne go rather than kill him. You couldn’t have speed-scrambled his legs a bit, Barry? Thrown him in jail? Literally anything else?
When all’s said and done, all the heroes go their separate ways and Barry and Iris get a last-minute wedding officiated by none other than John Diggle, who wasn’t invited to the original wedding for some reason that probably has to do with the season and a half of Arrow I haven’t watched. Barry and Iris are adorable and their vows are beautiful and it would have been nice if they got to get married in front of their friends and family, rather than just Oliver and Felicity, but comic book plots, man.
Sara, Mick, Stein, and Jax all head to Barry and Iris’ wedding while the remaining Legends continue cavorting around in time and space. Sara has a one-night stand with Alex before the wedding and Mick, well, Mick is just there for the food. And the beer. The real emotional crux came from Jax and Stein, who are still working on how to separate Firestorm. They finally have an answer — thanks to some help from S.T.A.R. Labs — and Stein plans to take the formula that will finally separate them after the wedding. Jax is feeling less certain about the impending event: What will become of him when he’s no longer part of Firestorm? Can he even continue being a Legend?
There’s an emotional moment where Jax finally admits his concerns to Stein and the older man tries to reassure Jax and let him know that he is important. In fact, Stein thinks of him as a son. It’s truly touching, amidst all the horror of the Nazis.
The rest of the Legends show up when Felicity and Iris call them in. Ray appears at the perfect moment, saving Kara’s life from Eobard’s scalpel. The moment the rest of the Legends arrive is one of the most joyful of the crossover, in my opinion. It’s wonderful to see all my faves show up to help save the day.
The joy is undercut by grief when Stein is shot by Nazis on Earth-X. He uses the last of his strength to open the gate back to Earth-1 and Jax is able to merge with him, keeping him alive. But eventually, Jax starts to suffer from the effects of the shooting as well. The reality is that they will both die unless Firestorm separates.
Stein wants to take the formula and save Jax’s life which leads one of the saddest scenes I’ve ever seen in the Arrowverse. Stein tells Jax how he loves him as a son and will gladly sacrifice his life so that Jax can have a life filled with love, just like he has. After their tearful goodbye, Stein dies. The Legends are distraught, but determined to fight and repel the Nazis from Earth-1 in his honor. Stein would have been proud. After the battle, the team and the rest of the heroes pay their respects at an emotional funeral for Stein and it’s a reminder that things on board the Waverider are changed now, forever.
THE GOOD: The reason why the DCTV episode reviews for this event have been condensed into one large review is also the best thing about this crossover, and that is the near-seamless integration of all the shows. Previous crossovers have attempted delineation between shows, either by having each episode mostly self-contained (see: the Invasion! plot, in which episodes had a clear beginning, middle, and end, even though they bled into each other) or going back to basics and simply having some characters hang out with some other characters for an hour or two. But as the Arrowverse has gotten bigger and the writers have gotten more adept at writing for the multiverse, they’ve managed to figure out a way to blend every show together in a genuine event that reflects the comic book specials on which these crossovers are based.
The characters always, always work well together and they’re a joy to watch interacting on screen, so that’s always a highlight. Barry offering up some smart relationship advice to Oliver (“People like us are always going to be getting into trouble. Having someone we love by our side just makes getting out of that trouble that much easier.”) or Felicity and Iris bravely stepping up to protect Supergirl, of all people, from threats — I think these little moments, rather than big fight scenes, make the crossovers worthwhile. Since the writers have been good about progressing these characters’ friendships, I assume it’s only going to get better as time goes on.
In addition to great character moments and perfect cross-show integration, there was also some snazzy graphics (the introductions of each show/team at the beginning of “Crisis on Earth-X” was probably one of my favorite things the Arrowverse has done) and, of course, cool action scenes.
THE BAD: Uh... Earth-X is run by Nazis. Which is an extremely problematic alternate universe for this show to explore, even considering comic books’ long history of World War II-era storylines. Opening an episode of a stupid comic book show with a swastika flag? Uncomfortable, to say the least, and that level of discomfort doesn’t exactly diminish as the crossover sends a chunk of our heroes to Earth-X itself, to be held captive in a concentration camp.
The imagery the show (and the comic it’s based on, we’re not letting them off the hook) exploits for shock value is nauseating and unnecessary. There was nothing stopping them from making this big crossover about some evil Earth-N, where the world/America is ruled by a totalitarian regime, without pulling Nazis into the mix and unearthing painful associations — especially since the “Nazi” factor of the crossover event is not utilized in any meaningful way. Like I said: it’s done for shock. I would say that it was also done as an easy way to differentiate good from evil, but they kind of fail at that by making the Nazi alternatives to Oliver and Kara married. Comic books usually treat stories like these as black and white, but genuine love adds a moral gray area that we really do not need when we’re dealing with a Nazi storyline.
So the biggest — maybe the only — fault of this crossover is its framing device. Otherwise, this would have been the best crossover in the history of the Arrowverse, hands down.
THE BAD: I agree with Deb — the worst thing about the crossover is the Nazis. I understand that it’s a comic book story. As satisfying as it is to see our heroes beating the crap out of Nazis, the way the subject is introduced and then shown to us throughout the crossover is crass, at best. They could have done nearly the same exact story but with a fictional evil regime. The same themes would be in place without real-world associations.
Nazis aside, I didn’t care for the Overgirl/Oliver-X romance, and not just because I’m a faithful Olicity shipper. It felt very disturbing and pointed — like they were trying to show a more “sensitive” side to actual Nazis. I think there were ways to get the lessons that the characters needed to learn across without that nonsense.
THE GOOD: The relationships! I loved seeing the most important relationships from each of the four shows highlighted and explored. There was real character development taking place and because of that, it felt like there were genuine stakes to the events in the crossover. This wasn’t just a one-off event, as the crossovers often are, but something that would have repercussions and effects felt throughout the rest of the seasons of each show.
I also liked how connected “Crisis on Earth-X” was. It truly felt like one bit movie, spread across two nights. It didn’t even really matter that I’m not very familiar with Supergirl or The Flash; I was able to understand and appreciate what was happening with those characters regardless. It all felt very cohesive and the cast truly did feel like one big family. I generally don’t care for the crossovers; but this time, I found myself really enjoying it as I watched. Shoot, if all crossovers could be like this one, I could maybe find myself looking forward to the next one!
What did you all think of “Crisis on Earth-X”? Sound off in the comments below!
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This just in: My latest book, Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon, is featured in ezvid’s “Thoughtful Books Covering Important Social Issues.” I’m not sure how thoughtful it is. Still….
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The other day I ran across one of my old reporter’s notebooks. In it I found raw notes on a subject I’d long forgotten: the time I met a Buddhist who was working for Donald Trump. This was way back around 1990 when he was bringing his magic touch to the Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. I was in town on another story, wandered inside and discovered that in preparation for opening, the decoration of the “Seventeen Acres of Pure Pleasure” had fallen to Pema Wangyal, a painter of sacred Buddhist imagery. He came from Tibet.
“This is Brahma!” he cried, pointing at a floating emperor with four faces and four arms who was riding a flying goose in the Buffet Room. “A very magical Hindu god!”
Wangyal, I recall, had a thick ponytail and a super-mellow attitude. He was calm even when he was hollering, which he had to do a fair amount amid all the hammering and hubbub. Even though the room was a mess, his murals were almost finished. The artist pointed out panels of sloe-eyed kings, lovers, ministers, hawks, pelicans (“a symbol of fertility”) and more. They were replications, he explained, of 16th and 17th century designs of the Raiput, or southern Indian, style…
I asked if he was surprised to find himself working in a casino.
Having once meditated for five months on the interdependence of cause and effect, he said, very little surprised him. “Besides, I visualize everything as not strange. I visualize it as beautiful. Transform everything into heaven: that’s Buddhist teaching. If I say ugly, ugly, that’s going to bang in my mind. After two days, I’ll drop my brush and take off.”
A buzzsaw started up. Eeeennnnnhh. “You hear that?” he asked unnecessarily. “I visualize that as a beautiful instrument.”
Half a dozen painters were at work in the Buffet Room and elsewhere around the Taj, but Wangyal was boss, the only Eastern artist on the project. To solve a recent squabble — everybody wanted to paint figures, not backgrounds — he had taken a turn doing spiraling vines and clusters of flowers. “That’s ok,” he said. “I bring no ego to this.”
In my hopelessly Western way I was finding it hard to believe that nothing about this scene bugged him. What about the delusional color scheme? What about the strobing acrylics he had to use? “Casino logic,” he said, and shrugged.
Wangyal said he’d been reared a Buddhist in a tiny, ice-crusted village near the Nepalese border. He specialized in Tibetan t’hanka, or scroll, paintings (“portable, good for nomads”). T’hankas, he explained, often depict scenes from the life of Buddha, or mandalas; the colors (outside of casinos) are created from ground-up minerals, including lapis lazuli, malachite, rubies and gold.
He baffled his relatives by leaving town in his late teens. Why the wanderlust? “Karma,” he said. Soon he was painting murals in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, at the monastery of the Swyambunath. Otherwise known as the Monkey Temple, it is famous for its hundreds of frisky baboons.
“The monkeys were my best friends,” he said. “There is a hole in the center of the temple, which sometimes would fill with rain. The monkeys would swim and splash. Leap from trees. It was so beautiful.”
Wangyal led the way out of the Buffet Room headed toward the elevator, chatting through a punishing fire alarm test — wheep wheep wheep — that had others standing with fists clamped to their ears. “Those monkeys would jump on people,” he said. “Especially Westerners.”
On the floor below was the coffee shop with more murals. There was a 17th century prostitute on horseback approaching a luminous palace and a prince in a gazebo being fanned by a slave. “He’s using a peacock feather,” said Wangyal. “Removes all negativity.”
I asked him what he’d do when this job ended. “Whatever God gives,” he said. Then for reasons I can’t remember he took me outside. Heading toward the exit, we passed the Oasis Pub, which he and other artists had also painted with traditional Indian filigree, this time in raspberry and blue to match the rug.
Standing with our backs to the ocean, we contemplated the Taj’s seventy domes and minarets (sixty-six more than its namesake). Wangyal pointed out the raucous candy striping on different domes, the expanses of pink.
“Tacky,” he said. “But kind of interesting.”
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The Changing Face of China
Saw the above graph recently on wechat with a question: where would you locate China? I couldn't help but storming my brain and arrived at the conclusion that a society changing at warp speed must also change in this aspect dramatically from a very traditional, probably even more traditional Confucian society than Japan to something that at least in my humble opinion comes very close to today's America. The GFC could be considered as an important tipping point from non confrontational to confrontational because hiterto supressed aggression started rougly then to be openly shown due to increased collective self confidence.
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Philosopher Ken Wilber explains Trump’s rise to power in Trump and a Posttruth World essentially by describing two dynamics: the increasing aperspectival madness of green, which is stuck in nihilism and narcissism; and the ethnocentric force of amber which feels itself ignored by green. There is though a third dynamic, which I am surprised that Wilber does not even mention with one word: the rise of China, which explains to a large extent both 1. the disenfranchisement of the American middle class being ditched more and more into a growing lower and lower middle class by the merciless breakers of the liberal US labor market and the indifference of America’s elite; 2. the resurgence of ethnocentric amber as an answer to the threats of globalization most clearly identified in the loss of America's leading hegemonic role.
Henry Kissinger did a marvelous job to describe in World Order exactly the latter dynamic using the sleek terminology of a seasoned diplomat. He draws striking parallels between the rise of Germany before WWI and the resulting change in the balance of powers and the rise of China as a new player in the competition for global hegemony. I genuinely believe that one can not fully comprehend the course of evolution without understanding China's history, present conditions and envisioned scenarios for its own future; and although it amounts to heresy to criticize Wilber's broad thinking, I blame him of a US-centric POV.
The leading edge of evolution has in my opinion left the US and will not return, neither through a healing green - a completely irrational thought, because green can not heal on its own terms in a political multi-party system which is poised to create a we vs. them attitude, a fight for resources and voters with the consequence that an integral view can never be attained for reasons of political system failure - nor by evolving into turquoise for the same reasons, in particular though, because the US would have to leapfrog evolution from having regressed to amber-orange to a far away turquoise. A recent talk titled Calexit showed another scenario for the US: California’s pull out from the United States of America; an ethnocentric split of progressive and wealthy Californians from the mainly conservative rest of America (ok, apart from the Northern East Coast). California in the foot steps of Cataluña, which wants to split from the less progressive and less wealthy rest of Spain since eons ago.
Quite on the contrary there is a genuine chance that the political one party system of the PRC must evolve from its current amber-orange state of ethnocentric excellence and profit seeking into an orange world-centric outlook, which would - lucky China - at the present moment - coincide with the Chinese elite's self understanding of China being - again as most of the last two and a half millennia - the gravitational center of humanity; and from there in could continue its fast track evolution (serious China watchers won’t be surprised) to a non ideological integral turquoise, which truly embraces more than only it's own truth, simply because the Chinese mind never believed in absolute truths and could therefore not fall victim to postmodernity’s nihilism; and most importantly because the Chinese one party system provides a political arena, which is trained since 1949 to accommodate different fractions within one decisive power aggregate, and thus is because of its system's structure poised to move towards the next stage, the leading edge of evolution.
But even if China will not manage to take over the leading edge I would bet my money rather on Germany than the US. Germany per se, and Europe in general has already a larger fraction of its population on the integral consciousness level than the US and would therefore and because it did yet not suffer from a collective regression to amber-orange, find it easier to reach the magical threshold of 10%, which is according to Wilber required to tip the consciousness of a society at large.
It is also in the case of Germany important to note the systemic frame conditions. Contrary to China and the US, Germany is not a superpower with no real rival in its vicinity. Germany is surrounded by similar sized nations, itself threatened by the rise of a powerful Turkey and a KGB led Russia, and recalls from two bitterly lost WWs that it can not take the route of ethnocentric amber once again. Germany is therefore on track to take over a responsible leadership role not only for Europe, but probably for the world at large.
The Brits have unconsciously felt that the center of gravity has shifted from Western Europe to Central Eastern Europe, from Brussels-London-Paris (let’s be frank here: Bonn was never a serious contender) to Brussels-Berlin-Warsaw and have therefore, hurt in their imperialistic self understanding, decided to leave a holarchical, to date only commercial empire, which is now steered from the geographical continental center of Europe, not from the periphery of a group of islands. With triggering Art 50 of the EU constitution Great Britain has vaulted itself off evolution's leading edge. It showed preference for exclusion over inclusion and this behavior violated the basic rule of growth holarchies (another of Wilber’s ingenious neologisms): accept and integrate earlier stages of evolution; don't cling on to ethnocentric amber-orange if the general tendency points already towards integrative turquoise.
Again, it is Kissinger who brilliantly explains in World Order that it was the primary interest of French foreign policy, the main political power on continental Europe, for over 300 years to keep the German speaking territories between Denmark and the North of Italy apart; because since Cardinal Richelieu the French knew all too well that a unification of the strongly split Germanic kingdoms would create a political entity which would surpass all others in economic might and could multiply that might with its geostrategic position. Germany has failed twice to achieve this goal by force; the EU has bestowed upon the German speaking lands though for the first time in history a peaceful unification within the larger unification of up to date 28 European nations, and the EU member states have therefore – unconsciously – put Germany into leadership. It is this time though not a leadership which it takes by force, but by assignment. And this is, what I think, the true self-correction of evolution.
Evolution and Education
In any case, if humanity intends to support evolution’s natural growth, rather than continue to obstruct the creative ground individually or collectively, it must reform its education systems, and Wilber has recognized this fundamental system flaw like nobody else. He writes that as the boomers [generation born between 1946 and 1964] themselves began taking over education in this country, and significantly shifting it so that it emphasized, first and foremost, a movement not of "teaching the truth" - because there is no truth" - but instead promoted "selfesteem". And what they discovered - as a Time Magazine cover story reported - is that promoting selfesteem, without anchoring it on actual accomplishments, simply ends up in increasing narcissism. Deeply egocentric and ethnocentric interior worldviews must be fully understood and addressed - through, among many other things, a deliberately developmental education.
Wilber explains that the role of the leading edge of evolution is to define an effective education and provide, indeed, actual leadership. In particular, in a world of aperspectival madness it can be leadership alone that provides a way forward - real leadership stares into the face of a notruth, nodirection, novalues world and says: it is simply not true that there is no truth; there is most definitely truth, and it lies in this direction; and it is so radiantly genuine and attractive as it provides a believable path into an uncertain future, that it galvanizes vast numbers to follow it forward.
The leadership of genuine growth must then take up this responsibility and start its value based work with education combining in its first action towards growth the two most important tasks of a leading edge leadership at once: firstly, reform education based on the integral metatheory with a full shift from a focus on teaching the notruths of the material world to teaching the truth of mankind’s spiritual community, a shift from the AQAL right side quadrants to the left side quadrants, a shift from forcing information into a child's brain (that is the orange education model of the industrial revolution which wants all children to become diligent engineers and scientist to help build a strong nation) to teach children first and foremost the left quadrants wisdom through increased interpersonal amplified social interaction and integration; and then, secondly, based on that help them discover their unique talents and gifts in order to tap into their fullest potential whether this is as a scientist or engineer to build our Earth into our common home beyond imagination or as an artisan, gardener, craftsman, artist, nurse, teacher or caretaker to increase the Good, the True and the Beautiful - of which we have yet not enough.
Ken Wilber thus answers probably the world's foremost teacher's question about the future of education. Ken Robinson recently said that there is a climate crisis, a crisis of natural resources, but there is also a human resources crisis, a crisis in education. I meet all kinds of people who don't enjoy what they do. They simply go through their lives getting on with it. They get no great pleasure from what they do. They endure it rather than enjoy it, and wait for the weekend. But I also meet people who love what they do and couldn't imagine doing anything else. If you said, "Don't do this anymore," they'd wonder what you're talking about. It isn't what they do, it's who they are. They say, "But this is me, you know. It would be foolish to abandon this, because it speaks to my most authentic self." And it's not true of enough people. In fact, on the contrary, I think it's still true of a minority of people. And I think there are many possible explanations for it. And high among them is education, because education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents. And human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves. And you might imagine education would be the way that happens, but too often, it's not. Every education system in the world is being reformed at the moment and it's not enough. Reform is no use anymore, because that's simply improving a broken model. What we need -- and the word's been used many times in the past few days -- is not evolution, but a revolution in education. This has to be transformed into something else.
I paraphrase what I have said many times before: the degradation of our physical world reflects the state of our spiritual world. We first have to clean our minds and bodies in order to build an environment which nurtures not only humans but all living things. This cathartic process is reflected by shifting our educational focus from the right side quadrants to the left side quadrants. In teaching kindness and compassion as the first and foremost social skill, in letting children experience that they usually find their calling and joy only by serving the larger good, not by giving in to narcissistic desires, in shifting our education focus in line with developmental psychology at least during primary years from the top left quadrant to the bottom left quadrant and only during secondary years, once a child has developed a personality permeated with kindness, back to the right and the top quadrants, we can build the future which we all hope for.
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The debate will never be the same after this book.
Straw Man:
Money for me, databases for you.
Jack Balkin:
Privacy is a crucial social value that must be integrated into our national security policy rather than simply balanced against it.
Daniel Solove:
The law frequently fixes on the wrong questions, such as whether privacy should be protected rather than how it should be protected. Privacy often can be protected without undue cost to security.
We can reach a better balance between privacy and security. We must. There is too much at stake to fail.
The debate between privacy and security has been framed incorrectly as a zero-sum game in which we are forced to choose between one value and the other. Why can't we have both?
Eric Schmidt:
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Freeman Dyson:
You must have principles that you're willing to die for.
Launching the U.S. International Strategy for Cyberspace | The White House
Topic: Politics and Law 7:42 am EDT, May 17, 2011
Howard Schmidt:
Today, I am proud to announce the United States' first, comprehensive International Strategy for Cyberspace. The International Strategy is a historic policy document for the 21st Century -- one that explains, for audiences at home and abroad, what the U.S. stands for internationally in cyberspace, and how we plan to build prosperity, enhance security, and safeguard openness in our increasingly networked world.
With our partners around the world, we will work to create a future for cyberspace that builds prosperity, enhances security, and safeguards openness in our networked world. This is the future we seek, and we invite all nations, and peoples, to join us in that effort.
Declan McCullagh, in January:
Howard Schmidt stressed today that anonymity and pseudonymity will remain possible on the Internet.
Nick Bilton, last month:
The Internet never forgets.
Margaret Talbot:
The unobserved life is so totally worth living.
My National Security Letter Gag Order
Topic: Politics and Law 2:03 am EDT, Apr 22, 2011
It is the policy of The Washington Post not to publish anonymous pieces. In this case, an exception has been made because the author -- who would have preferred to be named -- is legally prohibited from disclosing his or her identity in connection with receipt of a national security letter. The Post confirmed the legitimacy of this submission by verifying it with the author's attorney and by reviewing publicly available court documents.
The Origins of Political Order
Newsweek profiles Francis Fukuyama.
As the communist era vanished, he declared history's end. With the Middle East in revolt and China rising, Francis Fukuyama is back. What is he thinking?
Very Tough Love | This American Life
A drug court program that we believe is run differently from every other drug court in the country, doing some things that are contrary to the very philosophy of drug court. The result? People with offenses that would get minimal or no sentences elsewhere sometimes end up in the system five to ten years.
Votizen
Topic: Politics and Law 6:59 am EST, Feb 26, 2011
Like-minded people must form groups and work together to find the most effective way to express their sentiments.
Votizen:
Our approach is simple: we authenticate your existing Facebook, Twitter and email accounts as belonging to a registered voter, and we help match you with other voters who share your views. We then automatically connect you with your specific elected officials, who pay particular attention since they know the opinions are from actual voting constituents.
Stanley Fish:
To be political is to believe something, and to believe something is to believe that those who believe something else are wrong, and after all you don't want people who believe (and would do) the wrong things running your government. So you organize with other like-minded folks and smite the enemy (verbally) hip and thigh. You join a party.
Economist:
Americans are increasingly choosing to live among like-minded neighbours. This makes the culture war more bitter and politics harder.
John C. Dvorak:
The public continues to read about what they already know. And they hang out only with like-minded people. There are huge cadres of people who are practically duplicates of each other. They all think alike, dress alike, and go to the same group-approved places.
Conan O'Brien:
[In the future,] Super-TiVos will arrange marriages between like-minded viewers and will persuade mismatched couples to throw in the towel and start seeing other people.
Nova Spivack:
Twine is a new [now defunct] service that helps you organize, share and discover information about your interests, with networks of like-minded people.
Scott Sassa:
The notion of having like-minded people provide you with a trusted referral is a really powerful marketing concept.
Vint Cerf:
The Internet is for everyone ... I hope Internauts everywhere will join with the Internet Society and like-minded organizations to achieve this, easily stated but hard to attain goal.
Homer:
Can't someone else do it?
Decius:
I said I'd do something about this, and I am.
Teaching Wikipedia as a mirrored technology | First Monday
Topic: Politics and Law 8:09 pm EST, Jan 3, 2011
Colleen A. Reilly:
Digital spaces on the World Wide Web can be consumed as windowed technologies, providing apparently transparent access to information, or as mirrors, multi-layered and complex, requiring critical reflexivity for productive participation. Approaching Wikipedia as a mirrored technology exploits its potential as a pedagogical tool with which students can improve their research practices and writing proficiency in digital environments. Students can learn to grapple with Wikipedia as a complex, living discourse community, whose rhetorical practices and technical conventions they must learn in order to make contributions to it that are accepted by fellow editors of the site and withstand its unique editorial processes. By writing for Wikipedia, students become critical users of this digital resource, develop rhetorical and technological proficiency, and generate texts that prompt real-world response and provide potentially useful information for fellow users of this massive digital resource.
Can Wiki Voter Guide help teachers to build lesson plans around the development and curation of relevant content on local elections?
Voters Say Election Full of Misleading and False Information
Topic: Politics and Law 12:38 pm EST, Dec 20, 2010
Following the first election since the Supreme Court has struck down limits on election-related advertising, a new poll finds that 9 in 10 voters said that in the 2010 election they encountered information they believed was misleading or false, with 56% saying this occurred frequently. Fifty-four percent said that it had been more frequent than usual, while just three percent said it was less frequent than usual, according to the poll conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org, based at the University of Maryland, and Knowledge Networks.
Equally significant, the poll found strong evidence that voters were substantially misinformed on many of the key issues of the campaign. Such misinformation was correlated with how people voted and their exposure to various news sources.
Wendy Kaminer:
I wish the issues were vetted ... but I think they're not, because voters don't have the time, or the energy, or the information.
Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Kevin Bankston:
In a landmark decision issued in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. Closely tracking arguments made by EFF in its amicus brief, the court found that email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy in their stored email as they do in their phone calls and postal mail.
Jeremy Pelofsky:
Officers will start random bag inspections on the sprawling Washington subway system, the Washington Metro Transit Police said on Thursday, a week after a man was arrested for making bomb threats to the rail system.
Metrorail police officers plan to randomly select bags before passengers enter subway stations and they will swab them or have an explosives-sniffing dog check the bags, according to the Metro police.
There is "no specific or credible threat to the system at this time," Metro said in a statement. Passengers who refuse to have their bags inspected will be denied entry into the subway system.
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The Detroit Tigers traded a high-quality starting pitcher for a mediocre package of players and prospects from the Washington Nationals. Cheap Authentic Nike Shoes Wholesale . Numbers Game looks at the Nationals acquisition of Doug Fister. The Nationals Get: RHP Doug Fister. Fister, 29, has been a highly-effective, if underrated, pitcher for the last three seasons. While his record in that span is merely 35-32, Fister has a 3.30 ERA and 1.19 WHIP. Early in his career, Fister wasnt much of a strikeout pitcher, relying on his sinker to generate groundball outs, striking out 5.0 per nine innings over his first two seasons. However, Fister got much better as a strikeout pitcher upon arriving in Detroit, throwing significantly more breaking balls. For example, in his second major league season, with Seattle, Fister threw either a slider or curve on 18.7% of his pitches. Over the last three years, that has increased from 32.6% to 33.6% to 34.6% last season. So, even with lacklustre velocity, including a fastball that averages 88.6 MPH, Fister has seen his strikeout numbers climb. In 70 games with the Tigers, Fister has whiffed 7.2 batters per nine innings, which isnt dominant, but is dramatically better than his first couple of seasons with the Mariners. All told, Fister has a fWAR of 13.3 over the last three seasons, which ranks ninth among starting pitchers in that span. Seriously, ninth! What were indicating here is that, while he may not have the name recognition, Doug Fister is a very good starting pitcher. Fister hasnt faced a lot of National League competition, making five career Inter-League starts, but has a 2.23 ERA, 1.08 WHIP and 35 strikeouts in 32 1/3 innings, an indication (in a very small sample) that the move to the NL shouldnt pose a problem. Fister, who made $4-million in 2013, is arbitration-eligible for the next couple seasons, but is ultimately very affordable for a starting pitcher is of his calibre. Joining a Washington Nationals rotation that already includes Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann and Gio Gonzalez makes it easy for Fister to come in and perform, without any pressure to be the staff ace. Theres a whole lot to like about this deal for the Nationals. Its the kind of trade that could put them over the top as contenders next season. The Tigers Get: INF Steve Lombardozzi, LHP Robbie Ray and LHP Ian Krol. Lombardozzi is a 25-year-old utility player who has played at least 20 games at second base, third base and left field in the course of his two-plus major league seasons. He doesnt hit for power (.342 career slugging percentage) and doesnt get on base (.297 career on-base percentage) so, without notable offensive improvement, hes no more than a fill-in at the major league level. Ray, a 22-year-old southpaw, was a 12th-round pick of the Nationals in 2010. Splitting the 2013 season between High-A Potomac and Double-A Harrisburg, Ray was 11-5 with a 3.36 ERA and 1.25 WHIP, striking out 160 in 142 innings. He could develop into a major league starting pitcher, but hes not there yet and that means there is risk in his projection. Krol, 22, is a lefthanded reliever who pitched 32 games for the Nationals last season, posting a 3.95 ERA and 1.32 WHIP in 27 1/3 innings, striking out 22 and walking eight. Those are respectable enough numbers and, given his age, its fair to expect improvement, but lefthanded relievers have a limited impact on the game as a whole. Krols presence should allow Drew Smyly to move into the Tigers rotation, taking Fisters place. Smyly was excellent in relief last season, posting a 2.39 ERA and 1.03 WHIP, with 81 strikeouts in 76 innings. Even if Smyly is a wonderful addition to the Tigers starting rotation, that wont justify the relative pittance that Detroit received in return for Fister. 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Thanks to all who have made this dream come true.The first match the striker would be available for is the first leg of the cup match against Madrid on Jan. 7.On Saturday, Chelsea sent Torres to Milan on a permanent basis, thus allowing the Italian club to loan him to Atletico.Atletico said the 30-year-old Torres, who was born in the Madrid suburb of Fuenlabrada, returns to his home, where he trained as a player and became one of its biggestt stars. Nike Shoes Wholesale China. Torres played his first official game for Atletico in 2001, when he was 17. He played in 244 games and scored 91 goals.When I was a boy my dream was to play for Atletico, Torres said. I achieved it, and to return now is to fulfil another dream.The club said Torres would be presented to fans on Sunday afternoon at the Vicente Calderon Stadium.Torres joined Liverpool from Atletico and then went to Chelsea where he won the Champions League, Europa League and the FA Cup. 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Discover all the SosBettingTips.com’s editorial team’s Champions League betting tips and forecasts. Reasoned arguments are given for the big matches. To discover them, click "Tip in detail".
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What are the predictions for the quater finals?
After the draw we now have the fixtures for the Champions League quarter finals; two huge draws in Juventus-Real Madrid and Liverpool-Manchester City. Prepare your Champions League predictions!
The Champions League quarter final
Juventus-Real Madrid: odd of 2.55 for Juventus to qualify, 1.45 Real Madrid.
Sevilla-Bayern Munich: odd of 9/2 for FC Sevilla to qualify, 1/7 Bayern.
Barcelona-AS Roma: odd of 1.10 for Barcelona to qualify, 5.75 for Roma.
Liverpool-Manchester City: odd of 2/1 for Liverpool to qualify, 2/5 for the Citizens.
The key Champions League stats
The first Key statistic is theincredible number of goals last season, 3.15 goals on average per match One of the highest numbers in football worldwide. Even higher, was the average which increased to 3.4 goals per game in the knockout phase.
This key statistic is supported by another key figure: About 6 out of 10 games had three or more goals in the previous Champions League season. If you want to place a reliable prediction on the Champions League, choose « +2.5 goals in the match ». Often offered odds are around 2.00, they will undoubtedly be good for your sports betting slips.
Key statistics of the Champions League
The first key figure of the Champions League is its incredible number of goals. In the last season, 3.15 goals were scored per match on average , one of the largest volumes in the field for the football world. Even higher, the average climbs up to 3.4 goals per game in the knockout phase.
We can support this crazy statistic by another key figure: About 6 games out of 10 have had three or more goals in the last edition of the Champions League. If you want to place a reliable bet on the Champions League, then focus on "+2.5 goals in the game". Often offered at odds that revolve around 2.00, they will undoubtedly do good to your sports betting jackpots.
What to know before betting on the Champions League
To make a good bet on LDC, you should know that the teams that play in front of their audiences will inevitably benefit. 44% of the matches have won a place , up to 48% last year, considering the last five seasons. If you are hesitant about a balanced meeting, aim instead for a success of the home team.
If they only represent 28% of victories through the competition, be aware that the teams that are travelling away from home can be still good. For example, last year, 7 out of 10 matches saw a goal from the visiting team , one of the big ratios of the world. In view of the last two statistics stated, the bet "Team 1 wins but team 2 scores" will be one of the good bets to try on your Champions League predictions. Expert Word.
Finally, to be complete on our analysis of the 2017-2018 Champions League, take note of the importance of receiving the return match. Last year, for example, 65% of the clubs that received on return qualified for the next round, between 6 and 7 out of 10. Ideal statistics for your long-term bets.
General presentation of the Champions League
The Champions League is without a doubt the most beautiful of all European football competitions. Every year, it contains the best teams of the world, through group stage and then a knockout stage. To participate, the teams must have been one of the top teams of their leagues the previous year and. Last year, as in the 2015-2016 season, it was Real Madrid who beat Juventus in the final.
As in the last edition, Real Madrid will still be of course favourites. With players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Sergio Ramos and Luka Modric, the club in the Spanish capital seems to be ahead of other European teams, and could be the first to claim the triple since Bayern Munich did it between 1974 and 1976. Bayern will be one of its most serious competitors. Coached by Carlo Ancelotti and equipped with incredible talents (Lewandowski, Neuer, Thiago, Coman, Ribery, Robben), the Bavarian club will not be taken lightly. Chelsea, FC Barcelona, Paris-Saint-Germain and Juventus will also be credible candidates for the final crown.
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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
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Director: John Stewart
Cast: Gregory Scott Cummins, Ross Hagen, William Smith, Cameron Mitchell, Hoke Howell, Barri Murphy
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Action U.S.A. – Movie Review:
Waco-based drug dealer Billy Ray (Rod Shaft) would seem to have it all – a Corvette with a personalized license plate that says ‘Sleek1’ on it, a fancy house, a hot girlfriend named Carmen (Barri Murphy) who just can’t wait to get naked and fuck him on the couch and a bottle of Shiner! ...
Dynamic:01 The Best Of David Lynch.com (Subversive Cinema) DVD Review
Released by: Subversive Cinema
Released on: January 30th, 2007.
Director: David Lynch
Cast: David Lynch
Dynamic:01 The Best Of David Lynch.com – Movie Review:
What is Dynamic: 1? The easy answer is that it’s a compilation DVD that collects some of the short films that director David Lynch shot for his website. A few years back, he decided that he was going to create a bunch of short films using digital video, as it would allow him to work faster and on a smaller budget, and that he’d make this material available to subscribers on his ...
La Femme-objet (Pulse Video) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Pulse Video
Director: Claude Mulot
Cast: Marilyn Jess, Richard Allan, Catherine Marsile, Hélène Shirley, Laura Clair
La Femme-objet – Movie Review:
Wow. This 1981 Alpha France production, directed by Claude Mulot under his Frédéric Lansac alias (his last for the production company), is insane. The film focuses on the exploits of a perpetually horny writer named Nicolas (Richard Allan) who just can’t find a woman with the ability ...
Forgotten Gialli Volume Two (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
Director: Ferdinando Merighi/ Tonino Valerii/William L. Rose
Cast: Howard Vernon, Anita Ekberg, Rosalba Neri, Barbara Bouchet, Robert Sacchi, Evelyne Kraft, Pietro Martellanza, George Hilton, Salvo Randone, William Berger, Patty Shepard, Daniela Giordano, Raf Vallone, John Scanlon, Karin Schubert, Rosalba Neri
Year: 1972/1972/1972
Forgotten Gialli Volume One – Movie Review:
Vinegar Syndrome delivers another trio of ‘forgotten gialli’ in their second boxed set collection.
French Sex Murders:
Italian director Ferdinando Merighi isn’t up there with the hallowed likes of Argento, Bava or Fulci but he did have a few notable contributions to Italian genre cinema, having worked on a couple of Spaghetti Westerns and helmed this goofy slice of sleazy Giallo cinema, French Sex Murders.
The loopy storyline tells the tale of thief named Antoine (Pietro Martellanza a.k.a. Peter Martel, star of Death Walks At Midnight made the very same year) who heads off to a Parisian brothel run by the matronly Madame Collette (Anita Ekberg of The Killer Nun). When the prostitute that Antoine was with gets killed and he flees the scene, ...
The Fernando Arrabal Collection Volume 2 (Cult Epics) DVD Review
Released by: Cult Epics
Released on: February 23rd, 2010.
Director: Fernando Arrabal
Cast: Alain Bashung, Richard Leduc, Juliet Berto, Serge Fuillard, Dominique Pinon, Mickey Rooney, Anick, Jonathan Starr, Ky Huot Uk
Year: 1983/1982
The Fernando Arrabal Collection Volume 2 – Movie Review:
A founding member of the panic movement (along with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor), a chaotic theatre group that performed mainly in Mexico during the 1960s, Fernando Arrabal is not only an accomplished playwright and author, but also a remarkable filmmaker. Cult Epics previously released three of his films and now returns to the Arrabal well a second time with The Fernando Arrabal Collection, Volume Two. The films here aren’t as surreal or as extreme as the earlier pictures but the director’s stamp is still all over them. Here’s what this latest boxed set includes: ...
The Fernando Arrabal Collection (Cult Epics) DVD Review
Cast: Fernando Arrabal, Mohamed Bellasoued, Mahdi Chaouch, François Chatelet, Marie-France Garcia, Hachemi Marzouk, Cosimi Cinieri, Ron Faber, Rocco Fontana, Mariangela Melato, Mario Novelli
The Fernando Arrabal Collection – Movie Review:
A founding member of the panic movement (along with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor), a chaotic theatre group that performed mainly in Mexico during the 1960s, Fernando Arrabal is not only an accomplished playright and author, but also a remarkable filmmaker. Cult Epics has just previously released Viva La Muerte! and I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse and now bundles them up with The Guernica Tree, available on DVD for the first time. Thankfully, they’ve done justice to these overlooked gems of surreal cinema.
VIVA LA MUERTE!:
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Cinema Paradiso (Arrow Academy) 4k UHD Review
Released by: Arrow Academy
Released on: December 8th, 2020.
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili
Cinema Paradiso – Movie Review:
“A celebration of youth, friendship, and the everlasting magic of the movies.”
Set in Sicily before the advent of television, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso introduces us to Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), the projectionist ...
Burning Paradise (Discotek Media) DVD Review
Released by: Discotek Media
Released on: June 29th, 2010.
Director: Ringo Lam
Cast: John Ching, Willie Chi, Chun Lam, Carman Lee, Kam-Kong Wong, Sheng Yang
Burning Paradise – Movie Review:
A criminally underrated Fong Sai-yuk film from action director and megalomaniac extraordinaire Ringo Lam (may he rest in peace), 1993’s Burning Paradise had been long overdue for a proper DVD release in North America until the kind folks at Discotek/Eastern Star offered up a respectable presentation of the film in ...
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (Unearthed Films) DVD Review
Released by: Unearthed Films
Director: T.F. Mou
Cast: Liang Zhang, Yung Pan, Shao-tien Hsiung, Wen-ting Chiang, Wen-tu Pan, Hua Shao
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre – Movie Review:
Unearthed Films gave Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre its worldwide home video premiere in 2004 (excluding a VCD release from Mei Ah that may or may not be a legitimate one). For those unfamiliar with the film, it was made by director of Men Behind The Sun (which focuses on the horrible experiments performed on the Chinese by their Japanese ...
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Released by: Mill Creek Entertainment
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Terry O’Quinn, Brandon Call, Meg Foster, Sho Kosugi
Blind Fury – Movie Review:
Australian director Phillip Noyce (who broke through with Dead Calm then rose to the top with Patriot Games) helms this Rutger Hauer starring action movie. The ...
D.C. Cab (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Kino Lorber
Released on: December 1st, 2020.
Cast: Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Gary Busey, Jill Schoelen
D.C. Cab – Movie Review:
Directed by none other than Joel Schumacher and released theatrically in 1983, D.C. Cab is set, maybe not so surprisingly, in Washington, D.C. and it revolves around a young man named Albert Hockenberry (Adam Baldwin) who decides to embark on a new ...
Blood Vessel (Umbrella Entertainment) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Umbrella Entertainment
Released on: November 4th, 2020.
Director: Justin Dix
Cast: Nathan Phillips, Alyssa Sutherland, Robert Taylor, Christopher Kirby, Alex Cooke
Blood Vessel – Movie Review:
Directed by Justin Dix, who co-wrote with Jordan Prosser and who also served as one of the film’s producers, 2019’s Blood Vessel is set in the later part of 1945, where Allied forces have the Nazis on the run. With a surrender seeming ...
The Big Racket (Blue Underground) DVD Review
Released by: Blue Underground
Released on: April 25th, 2006.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Cast: Fabio Testi, Vincent Gardenia
The Big Racket – Movie Review:
On of a few notable high octane crime films directed by Enzo G. Castellari (The Cold Eyes of Fear, The New Barbarians), and starring the always reliable Fabio Testi (Contraband, Revolver), Il Grande Racket, or The Big Racket as it’s known stateside, is a superior example of the 70s Italian crime film.
Fabio Testi plays a rough and tumble police officer named Nico Palmieri, who gets involved in trying to break ...
Beasts Clawing At Straws (Artsploitation Films) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Artsploitation Films
Released on: December 15th, 2020.
Director: Kim Yong-hoon
Cast: Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Woo-sung, Hyun Been Shin
Beasts Clawing At Straws – Movie Review:
The feature length directorial debut of South Korean filmmaker Kim Yong-hoon, Beasts Clawing At Straws follows Jung-Man (Sung-Woo Bae), a man who works in a public bathhouse. One day, he finds a Luis Vuitton bag full ...
Deep Star Six (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review
Released on: October 13th, 2020.
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Greg Evigan, Miguel Ferrer, Nia Peeples, Taurean Blacque, Matt McCoy, Cindy Pickett, Nancy Everhard
Deep Star Six – Movie Review:
Set at the bottom of the ocean inside a deep sea military station responsible for establishing a top secret navy nuclear facility, Sean S. Cunningham’s Deep Star Six opens with a scene featuring crew members Joyce Collins (Nancy Everhard) in bed with her coworker, McBride (Greg Evigan). ...
Emergency Squad (No Shame Films) DVD Review
Released by: No Shame Films
Director: Stelvio Massi
Cast: Tomas Milian, Gastone Moschin, Ray Lovelock, Mario Carotenuto, Stefania Casini
Emergency Squad – Movie Review:
Eurocult stalwart Tomas Milian (of Almost Human) plays Ravelli, an Interpol agent whose wife is murdered in cold blood by a group of gangsters. With her gone, he falls into a state of depression and despite the fact that others around him like his sister in law are reaching out to him, he's cold, pulling inside himself, and falling completely into his work. While working to track down ...
Amazon Women On The Moon (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review
Director: Joe Dante, John Landis, Carl Gottleib, Peter Horton, Robert K. Weiss
Cast: Arsenio Hall, Monique Gabrielle, Lou Jacobi, Phil Hartman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Forrest J. Ackerman, Syibl Danning, Lana Clarkson, B. B. King, Henry Silva, David Alan Grierd
Amazon Women On The Moon – Movie Review:
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Black Test Car + The Black Report (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Arrow Video
Released on: September 1st, 2020.
Director: Yasuzo Masumura
Cast: Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Ken Utsui, Hideo Takamatsu
Black Test Car + The Black Report – Movie Review:
Japanese filmmaker Yasuzo Masumura is probably best known in the west for his seminal work, Blind Beast, but there's more to his filmography than that. Arrow Video dives a bit deeper into that content with his release, pairing up 1962's Black Test Car with The Black Report, which was made only a year later.
Black Test Car:
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Death Of Me (Lionsgate) Blu-ray Review
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Cast: Maggie Q, Luke Hemsworth, Kat Ingkarat
Death Of Me – Movie Review:
Darren Lynn Bousman, probably best known for directing the first three Saw sequels, directs this horror film that owes a lot to pictures like The Wicker Man and the more recent Midsommar.
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Cast: Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, David Hemmings, Belinda Bauer
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Mark Charles Heidinger of Vandaveer recommends Joe Pug
Charles Heidinger and Joe Pugg
Mark Charles Heidinger’s recommendation: “Joe Pug stops me in my tracks. There aren’t many things I can say about his music or his spirit that aren’t abundantly clear the first time you listen to Hymn #101 (clip below) from his first EP, Nation Of Heat. Joe happens to be a friend, which makes the task of writing about him a great deal harder, getting too syrupy about a buddy and all… Anyway, Rosie and I had the pleasure of touring with Mr. Pug and his Hundred Mile Band last fall, and while we were familiar with his music before said run, we honestly weren’t prepared for the dozen-night heart pummeling that followed. I’ve been trying to pick a few lyrics from Hymn 101 to share here, a glimpse, a sample, something to whet the appetite. But every line is so damn poetic I feel slightly irresponsible pulling any one chunk out of context… I’ll just get on with it, for brevity’s sake if nothing else…
And I’ve come to meet the legendary takers
I’ve only come to ask them for a lot
Oh they say I come with less than I should rightfully possess
I say the more I buy the more I’m bought
And the more I’m bought the less I cost
I read an interview of Joe’s a while back where he mentioned spending a great deal of time playing with words to see which ones sound nice together. It certainly shows, ’cause they all sound very nice together. And the sum is simply arresting. I’ve caught wind that he’s working on a new record this year. I know it’s early, but I know exactly what I want for Christmas.”
MP3: Hymn #101 by Joe Pug from Nation Of Heat
About our guest author, Mark Charles Heidinger: Mark is the frontman and songwriter for Vandaveer, a band whose lineup changes from studio to stage (although Rose Guerin has been a constant in many of the recent press photos). Vandaveer caught tons of buzz when they shared the bill with both Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver and their credibility continues to rise with the release of their latest album Dig Down Deep which was produced by Duane Lundy (Jim James, These United States). There’s been a gush of good press for Vandaveer, including praise from Q Magazine which said that Mark “…mixes French chanson with folk and sounds like an updated Leonard Cohen.” Be sure to check The Vandaveer site to see when they are playing live near you.
MP3: Concerning Past and Future Conquests by Vandaveer
Filed Under: Folk, Singer/Songwriter Tagged With: Joe Pug, Vandaveer
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Rowena Akana
Trustee at Large, Office of Hawaiian Affairs
Millenium Stage
OHA Ownership Program
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To Steal A Kingdom
Tag: President Bill Clinton
The Road to Self-Governance is Rocky and Long
`Ano`ai kakou… During the last of the President Bill Clinton’s years in the White House, I served as the Chair of the OHA Board of Trustees. When Clinton first took office in 1993, many positive things happened for Hawaiians and Hawaii. It was during Clinton’s his first term that he signed the Apology Resolution submitted by then-US Senator Dan Akaka in 1993. There was also a great friendship that developed between President Clinton and then-Governor John Waihee III.
During those eight years, Hawaii’s Native people were treated as equals to the Native Americans and Native Alaskans. We were included in the Native Education Act and Hawaiian health took on a new focus with lots of funding coming from Washington, D.C. The Administration for Native Americans’ funding was also great for us and we still use money from that program today to fund our OHA loans.
Before President Clinton left office, his cabinet created the federal Office of Native Hawaiian Relations within the Department of the Interior so that Hawaiians did not have to go through the Bureau of Indian Affairs to seek monies or recognition the same way that American Indians do.
Also done was a study by the Departments of Interior and Justice on the overthrow and the taking of Hawaiian lands and how Hawaii became a territory and eventually a state. Public hearings were held all over the 50th state and after all the information was gathered they came out with a book called “Mauka to Makai.” Its final recommendation was for the federal government to begin a dialogue with Native Hawaiians to resolve Native claims and issues that were unresolved.
At the time, it was hoped that Democratic Vice-President Al Gore would succeed President Clinton and the work to resolve all of our issues would continue. As we all know, this did not occur and for eight years during the Bush Administration all of our efforts were squashed.
During the Obama Administration, it has been very difficult as well with the Republicans controlling both the House and the Senate. Before the current president leaves office, I believe he would like to see something done for our Native people. That is why we are currently going through the federal “rules” process.
My point to all of this is that, as a Democrat, choosing the right candidate who I believe will help Native peoples the most is my highest priority. To my knowledge, Bernie Sanders has no track record as a champion for Native people, let alone Native Hawaiians. Throughout his campaign, he has not articulated a clear plan to help Native peoples nor has he received any strong endorsements from Native organizations that I am aware of.
Our road to sovereignty is very difficult. I have been in this struggle since 1999. Having people in Congress and certainly the White House that support our efforts is critical to our success. Mahalo nui for your patience and for listening to my voice. Aloha Ke Akua.
Author AdminPosted on May 1, 2016 September 27, 2016 Categories Government, Historical, Legal, OHA, Political, SovereigntyTags Apology Resolution, Governor Waihee, Mauka to Makai, Obama Administration, President Bill Clinton, Sovereignty, U.S. Senator Dan Akaka
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Legacy Acquisitions
About R&Q
Anglo French Part VII Transfer
Liverpool and London Part VII Transfer
Completion of the sale of R&Q Managing Agency Limited to Coverys
On 27 June 2017, R&Q announced the sale of its Lloyd’s managing agency, R&Q Managing Agency Ltd (‘RQMA’) to Coverys, a leading provider of medical professional liability insurance based in Boston, Massachusetts, subject to regulatory change of control approval. We are now pleased to announce that all of the necessary approvals have been obtained and the transaction completed on 30th November 2017. RQMA will subsequently be renamed as Coverys Managing Agency Limited.
As previously announced, the sale proceeds to be received in cash are $22.6m, which, after costs and related incentive and other payments, will result in net proceeds to R&Q of £13.1m. This is expected to generate a gain of approximately £11.8m over the Group’s carrying value of RQMA.
RQMA is currently the managing agent for three syndicates: Syndicate 1991 which writes niche SME property and casualty business with a capacity of circa £127m; Syndicate 3330 which provides reinsurance-to-close and other reinsurance solutions for legacy business within Lloyd’s; and since, 27th October 2017, Syndicate 1110 the former ProSight syndicate which was placed into run-off in 2017. R&Q also acquired ProSight’s corporate members on this date and so participates on 100% of Syndicate 1110’s open years. R&Q has the benefit of substantial adverse development reinsurance from a ProSight group company.
RQMA also provides back office support to Syndicate 2088; the syndicate managed by XL Catlin and backed by China Re.
In addition, Coverys has gained in-principle approval from Lloyd’s to establish Syndicate 1975 which will be managed by RQMA. Syndicate 1975 is expected to commence underwriting on 1 January 2018 and will write both med-mal insurance and healthcare reinsurance.
Ken Randall, R&Q chairman and CEO, commented: “We are pleased to have concluded this transaction with Coverys which is a key element of our strategy to focus on legacy acquisitions and the writing of quality program business, which is mostly reinsured to highly rated reinsurers.
“We have already demonstrated how Coverys and R&Q are able to continue working together through the approval process of turnkey Syndicate 1975 and the ongoing management of the run-off Syndicate 1110. We look forward to continuing to build this relationship and exploring further opportunities to work together in the future. We remain an active participant as regards legacy portfolios at Lloyd’s and have a pipeline of further opportunities which we hope enhance our collaboration with Coverys.”
Gregg L Hanson, CEO and President of Coverys, said: “Through the acquisition, Coverys will inherit the continued responsibility to support the syndicates currently under management with RQMA. The acquisition additionally allows Coverys to assist new underwriting syndicates that seek to launch their business at Lloyd’s, while also maintaining business operations for existing syndicates. We are excited to enter the London marketplace and will look to RQMA’s industry knowledge and expertise to guide us in this prestigious market.”
Appointment of Broker
Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. (“Randall & Quilter”) today announces the appointment of Barclays Bank PLC (“Barclays”) as its joint corporate broker with immediate effect. Barclays will work alongside Randall & Quilter’s existing corporate broker and nominated adviser, Numis …
The Company has been notified that on 6 January 2021 Alan Quilter, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, sold his interest in 400,000 ordinary shares in the Company. Mr Quilter continues to hold 2,078,091 ordinary shares which represents 0.93% …
Regulatory Approval of UK Legacy Acquisitions
Further to its announcements on 19 August 2020 and 21 August 2020, Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. (“R&Q”), is pleased to announce that its wholly owned UK subsidiary, Randall & Quilter II Holdings Limited, has received regulatory approval and …
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February 4, 2015 · 12:09 am
Who’s Sorry Now? The ABIM, That’s Who
The lyrics of the 1923 song go like this: “Who’s sorry now, who’s sorry now? / Whose heart is achin’ for breakin’ each vow?”
And today, it was the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) who said they were sorry for breaking the hearts of all the cardiologists in the U.S. of A.
They wrote specifically: “We got it wrong and sincerely apologize. We are sorry.“
What the ABIM had gotten “wrong” was the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) changes passed a year ago. Many physicians had objected to what they felt were onerous, time-consuming, worthless and expensive requirements that, if not fulfilled, resulted in a tag on their medical records to the effect that Dr. X was “certified, not meeting MOC requirements.” Would you go to a doctor that didn’t meet the requirements of an organization called the American Board of Internal Medicine?
All of these issues reached a boiling point as an all-out assault on the ABIM’s MOC program was launched over the last couple of months by a number of cardiologists (that’s the achin’ heart part). You can read all about this controversy, the criticisms, and the creation of an alternative certification organization, the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS), in my post from last month, “Scalpel…Suture…Suction…Pencil?”
You can also read the complete apology from ABIM that they emailed to over 200,000 physicians and broadcast as a press release.
The all-out assault on the MOC program had been simmering in the blogs of Dr. Westby Fisher, Dr. John Mandrola, and others. Dr. Fisher, in particular, turned investigative journalist and delved pretty deeply into the financial records of the ABIM, including their purchase of a $2.3 million condominium in Philadelphia. If you’re interested, you should go to his blog, Dr. Wes, and look through the last couple months of posts.
And then there’s The Twitter! Social media erupted with the hashtags #MOC, #ABIM, especially when in the same week a damning editorial, penned by Dr. Paul Teirstein of Scripps in La Jolla, appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, while an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times by Dr. Danielle Ofri of Bellevue in New York, stirred the flames further. Coast-to-coast criticism. And, oh yes, there were petitions, too.
We also know that the ABIM was feeling pressure from the professional cardiology organizations, such as the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) which had been smoldering for a while, but just add a little oxygen and….
So “Uncle” was said today.
And while there was a cheer heard ‘cross the interwebs, those on the ramparts are keeping up the pressure. For example, this statement from the ACC President Dr. Patrick T. O’Gara:
“However, as the ABIM itself notes, actions will speak louder than words. How it works with both medical societies and physicians to evolve and improve the MOC process further will be key…. The ACC leadership will continue to be heavily engaged with the ABIM in this upcoming period of reconsideration and evolution.”
Hmmmm, “heavily engaged….”
Likewise, Dr. Charlie Chambers, President of SCAI, wrote:
Though today’s news is encouraging, SCAI recognizes there is still work to be done. Our fourth request, to require one recertification exam in the physician’s primary (sub)-specialty, still needs to be addressed…we hope that the ABIM Cardiology Council will require interventionalists to stay current only with the interventional cardiology board exams.
When I first tweeted the news yesterday, I asked the Twittersphere if the ABIM’s apology was accepted. I got many retweets from doctors (mainly cardiologists), and the following comments from Dr. Westby Fisher who is most definitely posting to his blog as I write this. Dr. Fisher asked (via his Twitter feed) :
“Is it okay to make physicians human subjects in the name of Part IV w/o their consent? No. Okay to have non-transparent financial dealings w/coercion of MDs while leadership pockets millions? No. Is it okay to have a shadow organization as a “watchdog” when they have no accountability themselves? No. Is it okay to require MOC because you’re bleeding money, then claim it’s for patient benefit? No. Is it okay to purchase a $2.3M condo on MD testing fees, then sell it only after pressure at huge loss? No. Is it okay that 10 years of literature propaganda was published by ABIM on MOC w/o critical review? No. Is it okay that most media have ignored this story of coercion & corruption to this extent? No. While I appreciate [ABIM’s and Pres. Richard Baron’s] efforts to change and divert attention, many other questions remain.”
I thought that the apology letter from ABIM read as pretty sincere. They really said they were sorry. The question now is will this end like the song does?
Right to the end, just like a friend,
I tried to warn you somehow.
You had your way, now you must pay.
I’m glad that you’re sorry now.
As they say (ahem), stay tuned….
(Updated at 1:00pm on February 4, 2015):
As I had assumed above, Dr. Wes in fact posted his article on the ABIM reversal just minutes before this one went online. It’s called, “ABIM Pleads for Mercy.” Ouch! Dr. John Mandrola’s post has also gone online at theheart.org/Medscape. It’s titled, “Three Thoughts on the ABIM Reversal—and a Message to the ACC” and it has some very specific recommendations to the ACC! And, another example of the intense interest in this subject: an article about the ABIM apology on theheart.org/Medscape, has received over 230 comments as of this posting…and they ain’t pretty!
(Updated at 12:15pm on February 6, 2015):
The National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS) has also responded to the apology by expanding its certification program.
(Updated at 6:32pm on March 10, 2015):
The ABIM-MOC controversy finally hits the mainstream media: Kurt Eichenwald publishes a scathing account of the whole re-testing controversy in his article, “The Ugly Civil War in American Medicine.“
Filed under ACC, Media Coverage, Medical Education, SCAI
One Response to Who’s Sorry Now? The ABIM, That’s Who
Paul Kempen
The battle is NOT over! Until these board return to lifelong certification they will continue to rely on regulatory capture (Street term=Extortion). MOC is not certification but a whole new and very unproven “product” that no one wanted and will not survive in a competitive environment alongside traditional CME as the index of life long learning!
The whole ABMS certification industry is archaic and passe’ in modern medicine where government, insurance and about 15 other oversight agencies are controlling practice and collecting data. See: this video on YouTube. How much waste will we tolerate-ABMS boards costing over $400 million already.
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Kraken Decommission FAQs
1. Why was Kraken retired?
A. The funding for the Kraken supercomputer ended on April 30th, 2014. As a result of this, Kraken was shut down and brought back up in a limited state to allow access to HPSS and /lustre/scratch data. This limited state ended on August 27, 2014.
2. What happened to my HPSS data?
A. Data residing on HPSS is accessible only via Darter or Nautilus.
3. What happened to my /lustre/scratch data?
A. The media holding this data was taken out of service and scrubbed, permanently deleting all data that resided on these drives. Data on /lustre/medusa remains until it is subject to purge under the NICS data purging policy.
4. What are the recommended ways of transferring data from HPSS?
A. All useful data should be transferred from HPSS to /lustre/medusa and moved using commonly available tools and transfer mechanisms. A recommended transfer utility depends on the utilities available at the destination institution. For all XSEDE institutions, users should be encouraged to use gridftp and/or Globus Online file transfer mechanisms. A list of file transfer utilities that are available on Kraken is located at http://www.nics.utk.edu/computing-resources/data-transfer.
5. What happened to my Director Discretionary Kraken allocation(s)?
A. PI's can request a new allocation on other NICS resources at https://portal.nics.tennessee.edu/accounts/request.
6. What should I do with my NICS token if no longer needed?
A. Users should hold on to their token if they need access to HPSS or other NICS systems. Otherwise please return the token to:
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For more information on Kraken's History and Infrastructure, click here.
For a broad, by-the-numbers picture of the Kraken supercomputer's contribution to open scientific research, view the infographic.
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Some of the Inside Museums participants exploring Nail Theory.
Networking on Steroids – Fraser Hale
‘Join the “Inside Museums” training course’, they said. ‘Come and learn more about why, what, and how museums are, they said. What they could have added was ‘by the way you’ll meet a dozen new, highly engaged, inquisitive and intelligent people who will gladly share their experiences, perspectives and insights with you while you learn together.’ Who wouldn’t want to do that?!
‘Inside Museums’ – led by Nick Winterbotham, and impeccably organised by SHARE Museums East, was an interactive and thought-provoking guided learning exercise. The two days included museum visits, object handling, group discussions, and plenty of time to network with both the students and the course leaders. What it did not contain was one single moment that wasn’t fun, interesting and useful.
When you hear the call to attend a SHARE event – heed it, you will not be disappointed!
What is a museum anyway? – Catherine Rizzo
Never having written a blog before in my life, and subtly being encouraged to produce one for SHARE Museums East, I had to ashamedly consult the omniscient ‘Google’ to find the answer to ‘What is a blog anyway?’.
The nature of queries, however, aptly resounds with the questions raised in the recent course run by SHARE – ‘Inside Museums: Your Part in Their Future’. The essence of the course encouraged participants to reflect on the overarching idea of ‘What is a museum anyway?’ What is their purpose? Why bother? Are they still relevant? Questions like this that make you stop and contemplate are we, in the museum sector, making a difference to people’s lives? To society?
In the day to day hustle and bustle of museum life, it can be easy to forget to stop and reflect on the purpose of museums. Certainly, changing a toilet seat for the second time in a week because the visitors have managed – yet again – to somehow work the hinges loose can, occasionally, make you wonder why you changed career and chose to work in a museum. Or, spending too much time worrying that your museum must be the only one that seems to be having issues with money, staff, visitor numbers etc. can certainly take one’s eye off the big picture.
Furthermore, perhaps it is useful to ask ourselves: ‘How do we keep ourselves challenged and inspired in our work?’ It is easy to forget how important and valuable our own continuing professional development is to keeping that vision for our museums and the narratives we tell alive.
This is why it is important to have courses such as this to be able to connect with others in order to help us think creatively and approach our own museums with a fresh perspective. The value of ‘Inside Museums: Your Part in Their Future’ is that opportunity to connect, share, collaborate with other creative thinkers and practitioners whether they be trustees, front of house members, curators, volunteers etc. This way we can create a ‘supermind’ – a collective understanding of what makes a great museum – museums which showcase the wonder of collections and exhibitions and inspire curiosity.
Maybe our part in the future of museums is to continue to discover new ways of connecting and collaborating for the success of all.
Inside Museums – Chris Strang
We have just attended Share Museum East’s two-day training programme ‘Inside Museums’, a fascinating and thought-provoking interactive course on customer engagement in museums and galleries.
The course treats you to great insights, guest speakers, practical sessions, fun challenges and visits to museums, while providing ample opportunity for collaboration between the participants. Our participant group comprised enthusiastic and creative trustees, volunteers and interpretation staff who all brought interesting perspectives from their own museum experience.
The broad agenda covers the management of museums and exhibitions, collections interpretation and exhibition, customer engagement and inclusion, and how to keep the offering relevant for today’s audience.
The course is amiably and expertly led by the impressive Dr Nick Winterbotham, whose deep knowledge of museums really helps bring to life discussions on how to keep exhibitions and story-telling relevant for changing expectations.
I have found the SHARE Museums East training to be of a consistently high standard: courses such as this are worth committing the time to attend and will definitely help your exhibition strategy.
Give it a go!
As you’re no doubt by now aware, the funder formerly known as HLF has had a shiny new rebrand and is now called the National Lottery Heritage Fund. This rebrand coincided with the launch of the new strategic framework for 2019-2024.
The rationale behind the new framework and rebrand is to respond to considerable consultation work with National Lottery Players about their perceptions of Lottery funding, and to address the outcomes of the DCMS tailored review. The new brand foregrounds the National Lottery, putting Lottery players at the heart of the work done by the Lottery Good Causes.
There are some key changes as well as many similarities with the new framework, which I will outline here for you.
New, focussed outcomes:
Every heritage project has to be environmentally friendly
This is proportionate to the type and scale of the project, but an important consideration. It could for example be fitting bat boxes for bat roosting, using compostable disposable plates and cups, planting trees or encouraging people to use public transport.
A wider range of people will be involved in heritage
Again, this is proportionate to the grant size and as appropriate to the project, but aims in particular to reach under-represented groups to engage with heritage and to encourage new partnerships.
With our investment, people will have greater wellbeing
Projects should demonstrate how they will help people feel more connected with one another or help them feel useful or valued.
Grant funding:
There are three levels of grant funding:
£3,000 – £10,000 £10,000 – £250,000 £250,000 – £5 million
Projects up to 1 year
No deadlines, apply when ready
Decision in 8 weeks £10,000 – £100,000
Decision in 8 weeks
£100,000 – £250,000
Quarterly deadlines:
5 March 2019 for a decision in June 2019
28 May 2019 for a decision in September 2019
20 August 2019 for a decision in November 2019
19 November 2019 for decision in March 2020
Minimum of 5% match-funding required Submit an Expression of Interest form first
Development phase up to 2 years, delivery phase up to 5 years
Up to £1 million – minimum of 5% match-funding required
£1 million or more – minimum of 10% match-funding required
Applications for funding over £5 million will be processed and decided at Board level.
Themed Campaigns
These are being introduced to encourage projects that target specific themes. The first two will be:
Digital capability
Capacity building and organisational resilience
More information about these, including the time frames, will be released soon.
The Heritage Fund is concentrating on 13 areas of deprivation and low uptake of funding opportunities across the UK. For the East of England the areas of focus are Luton and Tendring. This does not mean applications from those areas will get preferential treatment, it means more support will be directed to those areas to encourage more high-quality applications.
For applications of £10,000 – £250,000, send a Project Enquiry form first to get advice to help develop your ideas.
For applications of £250,000 or more, send an Expression of Interest. This is a brief proposal only. Eligible projects will then receive an invitation to apply. Priority will be given to organisations that have not previously received Lottery Funding
New Approaches:
National Lottery Heritage Fund will be a strong thought leader and change maker for the full breadth of heritage.
There will be new models of investment – more details will be released shortly:
Cross-cutting project themes will be encouraged, for example projects that encourage international engagement and support digital campaigns.
What’s staying the same?
The main activity will still be grant giving
Funding still comes from the National Lottery
#ThanksToYou ideas to thank National Lottery players
£1.2 billion of funding to be distributed over the next 5 years and £200 million in the next year
Grants will continue to support the full breadth of heritage
For funding under £100,000 there are rolling deadlines, apply when ready
What’s different?
In addition to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, there will be 3 new area committees that will make decisions on grant funding of £100,000 – £5 million. East Anglia sits in the Midlands and East area. The other 2 new areas are North, and London and South. With more grant-making decisions being made at area committee level, there will be greater connection with the communities in those regions.
The Board will handle applications for funding over £5 million.
It is essential to keep the Heritage Fund’s 6 strategic objectives in mind when planning your project and applying:
Bring heritage into better condition
Inspire people to value heritage more
Ensure that heritage is inclusive
Support the organisations we fund to be more robust, enterprising and forward-looking
Demonstrate how heritage helps people and places thrive
Grow the contribution that heritage makes to the UK economy
For more information, visit the National Lottery Heritage Fund website
Melissa Kozlenko, Royal Anglian Museum, reflects on the training day held at IWM, Duxford
To be honest I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this day of training, but I figured that learning how to advocate for my museum could never hurt! What I got from the day was more than I had expected.
It was really interesting to learn about ways to look for funding or people that may want to donate to your museum, especially from the perspective of how it would also benefit them. The course was really helpful to allow me time to think of a concise message I would like to give about my museum, what I do and how we are unique. Furthermore, as I am not a Cambridge local, it was nice to have the opportunity to sit down with other people and identify businesses and prominent figures in the area who may wish to support us. As we are most likely moving from our present site in the next decade, it gives me more things to think about as a long term plan to fund this or garner more support for the future.
Although some of the ideas could not work for me as a partner museum to the IWM, there were definitely many ideas I took away with me, especially when it came to the annual planner ideas of advocacy tasks to do that didn’t involve money. The brainstorming with other museums in this area definitely also a helpful exercise as when ideas are being thrown around there is usually something that you did not think of.
The segment we did on goals or ways to read your impact was also quite helpful as I do check some of those, but it is always a good idea to have a measure of your success so you have the information at hand if asked about it by any potential donors or even your other museum staff!
After the day of training I definitely had some new ideas and was excited to hopefully start some projects based around ideas from the Advocacy training.
Miranda Ellis, SHARE Accreditation Advisor
Arts Council England’s revised Museum Accreditation Standard launched on 1 November after a long period of consultation and planning. Natasha and I went along to a training session in Birmingham to find out what the revised standard means for museums in our region.
5 Year Cycle
A change that we’re sure will be very welcome is that Accredited status will now last for 5 years from the date it is awarded. That means you will be invited to re-submit 4½ years after your successful award. During this time it will be as important as ever to keep your policies and key documents up to date and relevant, which will make life easier for you when your resubmission invitation arrives. You’ll also need to work on any ‘Areas for Development’ identified in your previous assessment (previously called ‘Areas for Improvement’), so that you can demonstrate your progress in these areas.
Revised Schedule
The revised Accreditation Schedule is now available online. Please have a look at this and check when your next return is due. If you have any problems with this, please contact your county Museum Development Officer (MDO) or the Regional Accreditation Adviser (Miranda Ellis or Ruth Burwood) for help.
Museums wishing to apply for Accreditation for the first time will complete an Eligibility Questionnaire as before, but this is a little different from the previous version. The questions are a little clearer, to identify the person who will be the main contact, for example. There will be a greater emphasis on having an appropriately constituted governing body from the start – see ‘Appropriate Governance’ below.
The initial eligibility assessment will be carried out by the Regional Accreditation Adviser, who will make a recommendation to the Arts Council. The Arts Council Accreditation Team will make the final decision. Museums not considered eligible will be supported by the Regional Museum Development service (SHARE Museums East, the Regional Accreditation Adviser, Museum Mentors and County MDOs) to make the necessary changes if they still wish to apply. Eligible museums will then be registered as ‘Working Towards Accreditation’.
Working Towards Accreditation
In order to standardise this phase of the process, museums will be given up to 3 years in which to submit their first full Accreditation Application. Regional Museum Development services (SHARE Museums East, the Regional Accreditation Adviser, Museum Mentors and MDOs) will support museums during this phase.
Appropriate Governance
The revised standard places greater emphasis on museums having an appropriately-constituted governing body. As mentioned above, to be eligible for Accreditation, museums will need to demonstrate this from the start. The following are eligible legal structures:
Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee (CCLG)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
This is not a full and exhaustive list – there are several other eligible structures (including Local Authorities and Universities), but for the sake of simplicity, these are the structures that museums in the region are most likely to have. Other legal entities like Charitable Trusts may also be eligible, provided they meet the main criteria to demonstrate they are appropriate for managing a museum. That is, constitutions must specifically refer to:
Ownership and protection of collections – it should make clear that the organisation has the power to operate a museum
Nature and status of the governing document (i.e. state the organisation’s legal constitution – CCLG, CIO or otherwise, set out the organisation’s objectives and how its governance is structured to achieve this)
Oversight by an appropriate regulatory body (e.g. the Charities Commission, Companies House)
The benefit to the public through access to the collections
However, we know that there are lots of museums that are already Accredited that probably don’t have this. Don’t worry if your museum falls into this category. The Arts Council is not looking to remove any museums from the scheme, so you will not be penalised on your next assessment if you can’t demonstrate appropriate governance. However, you are likely to be asked to review your constitution before your next return, as an ‘Area for Development’. It is, in any case, best practice to review the constitution of any governing body on a regular basis to ensure it is still ‘fit for purpose’. I’d recommend doing this around every three years. This is also very important for succession planning.
SHARE Museums East regularly offers workshops for Trustees, which we highly recommend Trustees to attend. Your County MDO can also offer support with governance review, so talk to them or the SHARE Museums East Team to ask for help.
The revised standard is more specific about the use of Spectrum procedures for collections documentation and management. If you are not already using Spectrum, have a look at our forthcoming workshops with the Collections Trust and book yourself a place to learn more.
Access Policy and Plan
There is a new requirement to have an access policy and plan in place. This is not just about physical access but should also cover anything you are doing to enhance sensory and intellectual access to collections. For example, this might be about layered interpretation or providing autism friendly access.
Again, this area of the standard has been made clearer in its requirements. The requirement is to understand who uses the museum and who doesn’t, using user feedback to inform development and planning for developing the range of users.
The standard specifies provision of ‘stimulating learning and discovery activities’ that help a broad range of people to access the museum and its collections. Plus ‘effective communications’ with audiences though a range of appropriate media. This could include audio-visual interpretation, digital access to collections, and audience engagement via social media, for example.
Accreditation Mentors
Accreditation Mentors (formerly known as Museum Mentors) are experienced museum professionals who provide support for museums with the Accreditation process, where the museum does not have an experienced museum professional member of staff. The requirements for becoming a mentor have been relaxed to reflect the broader range of skills needed for Accreditation. Mentors need to have at least 3 years’ experience working at a senior level in museums (this used to be 5 years). There is no longer a requirement to have a professional museum qualification since the Arts Council recognises that other skills backgrounds are equally useful, for example business skills and qualifications.
Additional Information We recommend having a look at the following resources on the Arts Council’s website:
The new Accreditation Standard
Eligibility Questionnaire – for museums wanting to apply for Accreditation for the first time
Quick Reference Guide – this flowchart sets out the constitutional requirements for Accreditation
There is also a supporting guidance document that deals with Museum Constitutional and Governance Arrangements, which may be helpful for some museums. However, it’s quite a long, complex document. It will probably be quicker and easier to speak to the Museum Development Team at SHARE, the Regional Accreditation Adviser your Museum Mentor or County MDO before delving into this document.
The launch of the revised Standard represents the beginning of a process of improvement, not the end. There are still more supporting documents to come and the new online submission system, via Grantium, will go live in the Spring. The Arts Council will be continuing to assess how the Accreditation process is working and monitor the impact of the changes.
We will be working on some further guidance resources for you over the coming months and will publicise these as soon as they are available. In the meantime you might like to familiarise yourself with the new standard and check the schedule for your next submission date.
Remember, we are here to help you. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
I will be in post until January 2019, when Ruth Burwood returns from maternity leave and will take over again as Regional Accreditation Adviser.
SHARE Accreditation enquiry email – accreditationeast@norfolk.gov.uk
Miranda Ellis – miranda.ellis@norfolk.gov.uk
Ruth Burwood – ruth.burwood@norfolk.gov.uk (from January 2019)
Or call us on 01603 495881.
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Helen Ingles1
F, #166621, b. 23 June 1881
Helen Ingles was born on 23 June 1881.1 She was the daughter of Rear-Admiral John Ingles and Catherine Sophia Glennie.1
[S126] George Snell, online unknown url, George Snell (No longer available online), downloaded 29 August 2005.
Belinda Bateman1
Last Edited=17 Mar 2020
Belinda Bateman was the daughter of Major Rowland Bateman.1 She married Richard Yeilding, son of unknown Yeilding.2
Her married name became Yeilding.2
Children of Belinda Bateman and Richard Yeilding
Frances Yeilding+1
Richard Yeilding+3 d. 1771
James Yeilding+3
[S47] BIFR1976 Blennerhassett, page 138. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S47]
[S8547] John Falvey, "re: Macdonnell Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 12 May 2018. Hereinafter cited as "re: Macdonnell Family."
Isabella Maria Glennie1
Isabella Maria Glennie was born on 20 December 1841 at Bitton, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.1 She was the daughter of William Glennie and Elizabeth Catherine Barker.1
Alexander William Glennie1
M, #166624, b. 31 December 1843, d. 21 May 1886
Alexander William Glennie was born on 31 December 1843 at Sampford, Arundell, EnglandG.1 He was the son of William Glennie and Elizabeth Catherine Barker.1 He died on 21 May 1886 at age 42 at Yokohama, JapanG.1
Mary Elizabeth Glennie1
F, #166625, b. 15 February 1846
Mary Elizabeth Glennie was born on 15 February 1846 at Dawlish, Devon, EnglandG.1 She was the daughter of William Glennie and Elizabeth Catherine Barker.1
Gavin Henry Glennie1
M, #166626, b. 3 February 1848, d. 16 March 1848
Gavin Henry Glennie was born on 3 February 1848 at Plymouth, Devon, EnglandG.1 He was the son of William Glennie and Elizabeth Catherine Barker.1 He died on 16 March 1848 at Plymouth, Devon, EnglandG.1
Margaret Gavinia Glennie1
Margaret Gavinia Glennie was born on 27 February 1849 at Plymouth, Devon, EnglandG.1 She was the daughter of William Glennie and Elizabeth Catherine Barker.1
Elizabeth Anne Glennie1
F, #166628, b. 22 May 1851
Elizabeth Anne Glennie was born on 22 May 1851 at Plymouth, Devon, EnglandG.1 She was the daughter of William Glennie and Elizabeth Catherine Barker.1
Lt.-Cdr. George Frederick Glennie1
M, #166629, b. 6 January 1855
Last Edited=1 Jan 2012
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He gained the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy.1
William Bligh Barker1
M, #166630, b. 28 July 1807, d. April 1862
William Bligh Barker was born on 28 July 1807 at England.1 He was the son of Henry Aston Barker and Harriet Maria Bligh.1 He married Martha Lucas in 1833.1 He died in April 1862 at age 54.1
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Pullbox Previews: X-O Manowar #14
Valiant is proud to announce X-O MANOWAR (2017) #14 – a STAGGERING STANDALONE MILESTONE and ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT that will return Aric of Dacia to his home world after a year of cosmic conquest…and finally answer the monumental questions that have shadowed Earth’s most powerful hero at every turn! On April 25th, the heart-wrenching revelation at the center of New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt’s relentless sci-fi epic will be laid bare, as veteran artist Ariel Olivetti (Incredible Hulk) comes aboard for a blockbuster finale to X-O Manowar’s blistering first year…and a new chapter begins as HARBINGER WARS 2 looms beyond the horizon!
After a brutal year spent waging war on the far side of the galaxy, Aric of Dacia must now face the one thing he yearned to leave behind: planet Earth. But as the man called X-O Manowar prepares for a world-shaking homecoming, he must come to terms with a savage awakening inside himself…and the obligations that still await him on our world. Just as the forces of HARBINGER WARS 2 – Valiant’s seismic 2018 crossover event – begin to vie for Aric’s loyalties, a long-awaited reunion might just shatter everything we’ve come to believe about the fallen warrior-king in control of the universe’s most powerful weapon…
“[X-O MANOWAR #14] will cast the first year into a new light,” writer Matt Kindt told Inverse. “It’s not a twist, like, ‘I tricked you.’ It’s more that it reveals something that happened to him that will give new meaning to everything he did in those first 13 issues. Not just why he’d run off to another planet, but, also, why he buried the armor in the first issue. What led to that? Those questions, which I think as you read the series you get distracted by all the politics and action, you forget he was mad at that armor. Him and his relationship to his armor is one of the things that caused his break from Earth.”
The comics odyssey of a lifetime comes full circle on April 25th, as Matt Kindt and Ariel Olivetti begin the countdown to HARBINGER WARS 2 with an inescapable turning point for the Valiant Universe’s unrelenting man of war, only in X-O MANOWAR #14 – featuring covers by Kaare Andrews (Astonishing X-Men), Raúl Allén (SECRET WEAPONS), Keron Grant (Fantastic Four), and Felipe Massafera (Shaper)!
Then: This May, two of the most powerful creative minds in comics today – New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (X-O MANOWAR, DIVINITY) and Academy Award nominee Eric Heisserer (SECRET WEAPONS) – join the powerhouse artistic team of Tomás Giorello (X-O MANOWAR, NINJA-K) and Raúl Allén (SECRET WEAPONS) for the coming of the summer’s biggest comics event in HARBINGER WARS 2!
For the rare and immensely powerful subset of humanity known as psiots, their unique abilities have come with an enormous cost. Once, their existence was known only to a select few. Now, the revelation that thousands of these latent telekinetic “harbingers” secretly live among us…with the potential to become active any moment…has led the American government to a dramatic tipping point…
Armed with new extra-governmental authority, the deep-black military contractor known as OMEN has been authorized to identify, evaluate, and, if need be, eliminate all super-normal threats to the homeland. H.A.R.D. Corps units have been deployed into cities and towns across the United States to enforce their orders.
In the east, one of the most powerful minds on Earth, Peter Stanchek, is leading his band of Renegades across the country, activating any potential psiots willing to join them, and building an insurrection force of ultra-powerful and unwieldy new powers that will soon bring war to OMEN’s doorstep…and the unstoppable force known as X-O Manowar raging back to Earth…
In the west, Livewire – the telekinetic technopath with the ability to bend machines and computers to her will – will be forced to choose between her former allies…or her newfound team of Secret Weapons. As the situation escalates beyond human control, the United States will be plunged into darkness from coast and coast, launching Bloodshot and Ninjak into a dangerous mission to neutralize their one-time teammate – and setting the stage for the most shocking, most violent, and most consequential clash of powers ever witnessed in the history of the Valiant Universe!
This summer, the blockbuster comics event of the New Year erupts in full force as X-O Manowar, Livewire, the Harbinger Renegades, Bloodshot, the Secret Weapons, Ninjak, and a cast of thousands draw their battle lines for HARBINGER WARS 2 – featuring covers by J.G. Jones and an all-star cast of comics powerhouses soon to be revealed!
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X-O MANOWAR (2017) #14
Art by ARIEL OLIVETTI
Cover A by KAARE ANDREWS
Cover B by RAÚL ALLÉN
Variant Cover by KERON GRANT
X-O Manowar Icon Variant by FELIPE MASSAFERA
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Updated: January 17, 2018 — 7:43 pm
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DEBATE AT LOLITA BAR: Does Christian Rock Suck?
“Does Christian Rock Suck?” — with former rock singer Brian McCarter (yes) vs. Rapture Ready! author Daniel Radosh (no). Michel Evanchik moderates, and Todd Seavey hosts. Wed., April 2, at 8pm.
Just to keep things interesting, you’ll note we have a rocker and God-believer from South Carolina arguing yes, it does suck and arguing no, it does not suck will be self-proclaimed “ignostic,” Jewish, New York humor writer (author of a book on his tour of Christian pop culture, which will be my Book Selection for April Fool’s Day, when it’s released). And expect some singing/playing from McCarter and song samples from Radosh.
Free admission, cash bar. The debates, usually pitting two opponents against each other (in a civil and often humorous fashion), take place on the basement level of Lolita Bar at 266 Broome St. at the corner of Allen St. on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, one block south and three west of the Delancey St. F, J, M, Z subway stop.
I think Radosh will make the case for Christian rock narrowly defined — stuff by self-consciously Christian-first rock bands — but I must say, his case would become “all too easy” (as the Sith Lord once said) if he included Christian-themed songs by mainstream rock bands, like “All You Zombies” by the Hooters, “Sanctify Yourself” by Simple Minds (whose “Don’t You” I just sang in karaoke last week), “I Still Believe” by the Call, or “Gloria” by U2 — which has Latin, no less.
On a related note, here’s video of rock-writer-turned-Christian Dawn Eden giving away a bunch of stuff from the days when she rocked — with atheist cameo by me. And on a non-religious note from the heathen nation of France (a magnet for fabulous babes), here’s Nouvelle Vague doing their “Girl from Ipanema”-style rendition of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.”
Weirder still, here’s an amateur montage from Silence of the Lambs accompanied by a great song inspired by it — done in the style of the 60s rock Dawn Eden loves, as it happens — the Greenskeepers’ beautiful and creepy “Lotion.” Gives “eat of my flesh” a whole new meaning.
Labels: Culture, Debates at Lolita Bar, Music
how about mr. mister’s “kyrie”? it’s quite catchy… (and as a person totally lacking in theism of any flavor, whose only exposure to organized religion comprised of slightly more than a year in a school run by evangelists, it was only with the advent of the interwebs that i learned “kyrie eleison” had any religious significance whatsoever. didn’t make the lyrics any more interesting, though.)
And a fascinating (to me) crossover case (that you may recall from our WBRU-listening days in Providence) is Sam Phillips (the recent female one, not the old male one), who started out Christian rock, turned alternative rock, and retained hints of her real themes in anti-materialist songs like the lovely (yet ass-kicking and Patti Smith-like) “Holding onto the Earth”:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8CG34gEx8-M
Weirder, though: despite her delicate beauty and lovely voice, she also played a tough, mute assassin in Die Hard 3. I love a weird media resume.
E5 said...
How do you have a post on Christian Rock and not mention Stryper???
Also, doesn’t this violate your month without god – or was that February?
That was February — but there’s no God regardless of the month. This weekend will wrap up my “Month Without Buckley.”
So Buckley comes back in a week?
p.s. what about Stryper?
Koli said...
For that, he would have had to die for everyone else’s sins… smacks of collectivism… not very Buckleyesque.
I see you guys are continently ignoring the yellow-and-black-elephant in the room:
STRYPER!!!!!
I haven’t written anything about Stryper, but I did mention their evil twin Slayer in this recent entry, if that helps:
http://toddseavey.com/2008/03/12/carneys-vs-chaos/
radosh said...
Not to get technical, but as I’m arguing the negative, I’m not the one who needs to “make the case.”
Anyway, without tipping my hand as to any speculation about tactics, I’ll just say that I do have a response prepared in case anyone plays the Stryper card.
PS: Would a link be too much to ask for, Seavey?
Ah — your banner for the _Rapture Ready!_ site hadn’t been added to Radosh.net last time I checked, and I thought you might be waiting until the 1st. It’s now happily added above — and Radosh.net to the blogroll in the right margin. May all goodhearted people do likewise with ToddSeavey.com.
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Good Samaritan DGUs
Posted By TGM_Staff On Monday, July 30, 2018 03:30 PM. Under Featured
By Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor
There are two items in this issue of TheGunMag that are meaningfully connected.
They are the report by Dave Workman on Page 17 about the Good Samaritans whose intercession terminated an armed attack at a Walmart store in Tumwater, WA: Jesse Zamora and David George. Both armed men had stepped in to confront the active shooter, but George was able to act first. Both men demonstrated the importance of defensive gun uses (DGUs) by legally armed citizens.
The other article by Dr. Robert B. Young, MD on Pages 24 and 25 discusses the truth about the number of times American citizens rely on firearms each year defensively. Dr. Young follows up on the 1990s study by Prof. Gary Kleck and his associate Marc Gertz, PhD that put a number on the importance of DGUs in American society. Their study results showed that guns are used defensively in America about 2.4 million times a year. That figure was largely ignored by politicians, the media and other scholars who claimed there was no supportive evidence. As Dr. Young points out, the Centers for Disease Control had conducted similar studies with similar results but had not published their data.
The linkage is simple. Many of those defensive gun uses are by Good Samaritans who use guns to save other people’s lives.
But before providing more examples to add to Workman’s article, I’d like tolook at the term Good Samaritan as referred to first in the New Testament parables.
The Samaritans of Jesus’ day were of mixed race and strict monotheists. Because of their imperfect adherence to Judaism and their partly pagan ancestry, the Samaritans were despised by ordinary Jews. Rather than contaminate themselves by passing through Samaritan territory, Jews who were traveling from Judea to Galilee or vice versa would cross over the river Jordan, bypass Samaria by going through Transjordan, and cross over the river again as they neared their destination. The Samaritans also harbored antipathy toward the Jews.
That the Samaritans were separated from and looked down upon by the Jews makes them important in the New Testament. Jesus indicated a new attitude must be taken toward the Samaritans when he passed through their towns instead of crossing the Jordan to avoid them, when he spoke with a Samaritan woman, contrary to Jewish custom, and when he said a time would come when worshiping in Jerusalem or on Mount Gerazim would not be important. When asked whom to regard as our neighbor, Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan precisely because Samaritans were despised.
The apostles recognized that in the Church Samaritans must be accepted as equal to Jews.
Today a few Samaritans survive, not having lost their identity through intermarriage. According to Wikipedia, there are about 300 active practitioners of the Samaritan religion today.
In more up-to-date use of the term Good Samaritan we are generally referring to a stranger who risks his life—with or without guns—to protect people he or she did not know before their paths crossed. The Good Samaritans are honored as civic heroes.
Sometimes these heroic latter day Samaritans act without the aid of guns, like James Shaw Jr., who ended a deadly shooting at a Tennessee Waffle House before more lives were lost. He wrestled the gun away from the mass killer.
“I just want to be put out there like a regular person,” he said later in eschewing the hero label. Maybe then, if people find themselves in dangerous situations, they’ll find “that same thing within them that they can project out,” he said.
However heroic Shaw’s action may be deemed, more often than not, guns are the principle tools of modern Good Samaritans and used more frequently than most imagine or even suspect. In the last few months, there have been many examples. And more often than not, these Samaritans stop mass murders.
When an assailant opened fire in an Oklahoma City restaurant, he was shot and killed by an armed citizen at the scene.
Four people were injured in the shooting at Louie’s Grill & Bar, including a young girl. However, only the suspect died, after he was confronted by a civilian with a handgun.
And it isn’t always average citizens who are saved by the actions of armed citizens.
A Good Samaritan with a concealed carry permit shot a man who was attacking a Lee County, FL, deputy on an I-75 off-ramp not long ago.
When two people attacked a woman in a Shawnee, KS, Wal-Mart parking lot near Kansas City recently, two Good Samaritans came to her aid.
When it was over, one attacker was dead and one Good Samaritan was taken to a nearby hospital, but later recovered. The woman victim also recovered after hospitalization.
In this real life drama, the woman was struck in the back of the head in the initial attack. When she screamed, one Good Samaritan came to her aid, and one of the attackers shot him multiple times.
Then, a second Good Samaritan shot and killed one of the attackers, and the second attacker ran but was later arrested by a K-9 police team.
There are many such Good Samaritan stories to be found in local news reports but they seldom get major media attention, and when they do, little attention is paid to the fact that the Good Samaritan was armed.
One exception to the lack of media interest is the report about Stephen Willeford and Johnnie Langendorff, his driver. Willeford pursued the suspect and ended the horrific mass murder at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, TX, last November. Willeford was the Good Samaritan who shot the gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, using what the anti-gunners like to call an assault weapon, while Langendorff was the Good Samaritan drove the truck while chasing Kelley.
There are a lot of modern day Good Samaritans taking action to protect strangers, just as the one in the Gospel parable, only nowadays, they involve defensive uses of guns. You might have to search for them on the Internet.
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TV Guide 2017-06-24
Missing David Dickinson? Name Your Price (2) (ITV, weekdays) is his latest antiques show. Rylan narrates Spa Wars (ITVBe, Wed). A new run of Catchphrase (ITV, Sat) starts with a celebrity edition. New episodes of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (R4, Mon).
Finals weeks for Great Local Menu (BBC2), Countdown (C4), and Fifteen-to-One (C4).
Last week | TV Guide This Week | Next week
Schedules are accurate at the time of publication; check against EPG for late changes.
1 Saturday 24 June
1.1 Primetime
2 Sunday 25 June
3 Weekday Daytimes
4 Monday 26 June
5 Tuesday 27 June
6 Wednesday 28 June
7 Thursday 29 June
8 Friday 30 June
9 Sign language interpretation
Saturday 24 June
Either/Or (Radio Ulster, 10.30).
Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12 noon).
Great British Menu (BBC2, 12 noon) Two episodes, repeated from last week.
Fferm Ffactor (S4C, 4.50).
Pointless Celebrities (BBC1, 5.55) Child stars, repeated from 11 September last year.
Catchphrase (ITV, 6.25) A celebrity edition, with Ashley Banjo, Jake Canuso, and Lorraine Kelly.
Blind Date (C5, 7pm) Better than we feared.
Pitch Battle (BBC1, 7.30) Not as good as we hoped.
The Voice of This Territory Kids (ITV, 7.30).
Big Brother (C5 and 3e, 9pm).
Love Island (ITV2, 9pm; 3e, 10pm).
Sunday 25 June
Masterchef Us (W, 7am) Five episodes.
Great British Menu (BBC2, 11.30) Three episodes, repeated from last week.
Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12.15).
The Voice of This Territory Kids (ITV, 2pm) From last night.
Celebrity Mastermind (BBC1, 6pm) Shappi Khorsandi. Cancelled if the tennis is delayed by rain or goes over time.
The Bachelorette (ITVBe, 7pm) With Doug E Fresh, Gilbert the Alien, and the Get Fresh crew.
Y Talwrn (R Cymru, 7pm) Continuing the poetry competition.
The Crystal Maze (E4, 8pm) Last Friday's celebrity edition.
Love Island (ITV2, 9pm; 3e, 10pm) Followed by Aftersun on ITV2 at 10.
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (C4, 10.10) Last Thursday's edition.
Weekday Daytimes
Tout le Monde Veut Prendre Sa Place (TV5, 10.43).
Couples Come Dine with Me (C4, 12.05).
Two Tribes (BBC2, 1pm, not Mo, Tu).
Countdown (C4, 2.10) Colin Murray steers us through Finals Week.
!mpossible (BBC1, 2.15).
Name Your Price (ITV, 3pm) David Dickinson hosts an antiques show.
Fifteen-to-One (C4, 3pm) The series final is on Friday. They've not just thrown this schedule together.
Questions Pour un Champion (TV5, 3.28).
Tipping Point (ITV, 4pm) Repeats.
The Chase (ITV, 5pm) Also in repeats.
Four in a Bed (C4, 5pm).
Pointless (BBC1, 5.15; 3e at 7pm) Repeats, of course.
Come Dine with Me (C4, 5.30) Repeats from Essex-Suffolk.
Eggheads (BBC2, 6pm) Yep, more repeats.
Curious Creatures (BBC2, 6.30) But these are new.
Great Local Menu (BBC2, 8pm) The final choices, a bit later and an hour long.
Masterchef Us (W, 8pm).
Love Island (ITV2, 9pm).
Big Brother (C5 and 3e, 10pm; Th 9pm) Bit on the Side follows at 11.05.
The 3rd Degree (Radio 4, 3pm) Liverpool.
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio 4, 6.30) New series of the comedy game, with guest panelists Andy Hamilton and Jo Brand, but guest host Jack Dee.
Would I Lie to You? (BBC1, 8.30) A classic episode with Claudia Winkleman.
A League of Their Own Us Road Trip 2.0 (The Satellite Channel, 9pm) New York.
Mock the Week (BBC2, 10pm) From last Thursday.
Go 8 Bit (Dave, 10pm) Russell Kane and Lolly Adefope. Followed by Go 8 Bit Dlc.
8 Out of 10 Cats (E4, 10pm).
Spa Wars (ITVBe, 8pm) Three rival salon owners compete.
Room 101 (BBC1, 10.45; Wales 11.10).
Your Face or Mine (Comedy Central, 8pm) Kaio and Modina.
Master of Photography (Artsworld, 8pm) Street fashion.
Cythrel Canu (S4C, 8.25) Elain Llwyd, Emyr Gibson, Dylan Dernyw, Cefin Roberts.
Big Brother (C5 and 3e, 9pm) This week's exit is on Thursday. Bit on the Side follows at 10.35.
Mock the Week (BBC2, 10pm; NI 11.15) Angela Barnes, Ed Byrne (comedian), Milton Jones, Nish Kumar, Romesh Ranganathan.
Celebability (ITV2, 10pm) Stars include Keith Duffy, Will Best, and Ola Jordan.
A Question of Sport (BBC1, 7.30).
Blind Date (C5, 8pm) Another chance to miss Saturday's show.
The Crystal Maze (C4, 9pm) With Steve Jones (2), Scarlett Moffatt, David Coulthard, Joey Essex, and captain Jodie Kidd.
Kerwhizz (Cbeebies, 2.45pm Sat)
May the Best House Win (ITV3, 3.25am Mon) Two episodes.
Bake Off Crème de la Crème (BBC2, 8am Thu).
Great Local Menu (BBC2, 8am Fri; not Wales).
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"Hamilton" is the story of America then, told by America now. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, "Hamilton" has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theatre-a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education. Filmed at The Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway in June of 2016, the film transports its audience into the world of the Broadway show in a uniquely intimate way.
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Cause I'm helplessReviewed byr_me_wife73Vote: 10/10
I really did feel like I was in The Room Where It Happened. Even though the only flaw if I can call it that is some continuity errors like the ever changing flower. I've seen Hamilton in the U.S. tour and it was amazing but I missed a few minutes because I ran to the bathroom when it wasn't packed. I'm also poor so my daughter and I were in the mezzanine which binoculars came in handy ??So, it's so amazing to feel up close and personal with the original cast. Jonathan Groff might want to work on that shower he spews or Broadway won't invite him back in the time of COVID
Electric, entertaining, witty and cleverReviewed bychrisgordonVote: 8/10
I really enjoyed this.
Lyn-Manuel Miranda is widely and deservedly regarded as a genius and this musical/film adds more evidence to support that.
Clever, funny, rapid-fire lyrics blend with an (until this musical was created) under regarded figure of US history. But his genius is even more evident in his decision to pitch a musical where most of the white historical cast are portrayed by Black American performers... with hip hop music at its spine. Originality is king if you want to make memorable art.
The cast in this production are luminescent. They may not all be names theatre goers will readily recognise but you've seen many of them on TV and film. There's even a key figure played by a semi-regular from Glee (singing a song that sounded very Tim Minchin to me).
As a huge fan of musicals I was always going to like this. The flip-side of this is that I judged it against the others I've seen and loved.
So yes, its hands don at least 8 stars (and most people say more than that, and that's fine) but some of the things I regarded as flaws held me back.
Relationships - no real kick-arse relationships of emotional depth except for the one who dies midway through the second act. And while it was portrayed and told well, I felt it failed to resonate as much as it could have by the lack of foreshadowing the bond. The relationship with his wife seemed tacked on and the hinted relationship with another woman (won't add a spoiler here) never delivered. The fact it was never established as fact in the real life story of Hamilton was no doubt part of the reason, but including the hint that goes nowhere served little purpose.
The story - Some stories are light by nature (Grease, Little Shop of Horrors) but they at least have a powerful relationship at their base. Some are significant because of the story they cover (Les Mis, Rent)... and they also mostly have a powerful relationship or two in the midst. I know the purpose of telling Hamilton's story was to share details of an almost forgotten figure, but I kinda feel like he deserved to be forgotten. Definitely an intellect, but his role in the War of Independence was bureaucratic, his additions to legislature were significant, but again bureaucratic. If they had hung some of the story on a significant moment rather than to provide a greatest hits package of his life, maybe there was more power to be had? Having seen it and enjoyed it, I still wonder "why Hamilton?"
Anyway, those are just some of my personal misgivings and I DID love the film/musical. Miranda is the genius in this case and while it's very easy for people on the sideline, like me, to critique or fiddle with the idea, there's no idea at all without his amazing mind.
You really should see this.
"The Story of America Then, Told by America Now"Reviewed byThekeybaldemasterrisesVote: 10/10
The time has come. The lights go down. King George III welcomes us to the show. Hamilton has finally arrived in a beautiful HD presentation! You've heard of it, you've listened to it more times than you can count, you've bopped to it and belted the words on your friend's aux to their absolute shock/confusion. Now we can FINALLY enjoy it on loop over and over again on a non bootleg copy, that's right NO MORE SLIMETUTORIALS! Considering it's called a "Hamilton film I would say it's right in my ballpark don't you?? First of all, the show is amazing. It's among the best the stage has to offer in the modern age. The music, the performances, the writing, the production, it's all BEAUTIFUL, if you haven't seen it yet WATCH IT NOW, but what truly makes it SO good? In the words of Lin Manuel Miranda, "It's a story about America then, as told by America now." The Founding Fathers are played by actors of color, among other characters featured in the story. The show is having us leave whatever cultural baggage we have about these historical figures at the door, and embracing this story through the eyes of America NOW. Yes it does leave some factors out, yes it's not all historically accurate, but people need to realize the point isn't to tell an IN DEPTH biographical story of Hamilton, but rather show us how his life and the events that he took part in helped form the foundations and ideals of what this country was built upon. This show is very Patriotic but it reminds me of what America is SUPPOSE TO BE. WHAT IT COULD BE. Much like the young people of my generation going out and marching for the racial injustices in this country, Hamilton was a 20 year old immigrant that fought for the freedom of this land and helped shaped the principles in which we aspire to uphold. This show isn't going to acknowledge our systemic racism roots with people like Washington and Jefferson who factually owned slaves, but it challenges us to contemplate our OWN feelings about this country and where we came from. How far have we come? What has changed and what could WE do better? Could our founding fathers have done more to abolish slavery? Absolutely, but think about what they did try to create and lay the foundations for. Who knows what they could've done if they had more time? It's not meant to idolize these people, it's a piece about the birth of America, and what people like Hamilton did to help a struggling new country find its own identity. When I watch/listen to this show, I believe in that. I believe that America WAS already great, we just lost sight of it and let the wrong people get in charge. If you want to know why, watch Hamilton. The story of an immigrant that fought in a war, and made a name for himself in a ludicrous political game, is a story that will be remembered for generations. Miranda and his team found an incredible medium to tell these people's stories, and that's what it's all about, who tells our story? How will we be remembered? Hamilton's now available on Disney+, I highly suggest you watch it for your 4th of July this weekend and many days after... But as a final reminder don't forget, this is at its heart, live theatre. Hopefully when Covid ends we can actually experience it all together the way we're suppose to, in front of the stage, LIVE. But for now, this will of course do! 10/10.
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Title: Hubbard a malingerer, not hero, Armstrong says
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Tags: Barrett S. "Barry" Litt • California • Clearwater Sun (Florida) • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • George-Wayne Shelor • Gerald "Gerry" Armstrong • Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr. • L. Ron Hubbard's credentials • Lawsuit • Michael J. Flynn • Sanford "Sandy" Block
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LOS ANGELES—According to a former high-ranking Scientologist, L. Ron Hubbard was never a war hero; never commanded a squadron of Navy ships; never saw combat and was not crippled and blinded, later healing himself with his theory of Dianetics.
Instead, Gerald Armstrong testified Monday that documents sealed by the California Superior Court will prove Hubbard's career was one of "a recurring pattern of malingering, feigning illnesses and false reporting to his superiors."
Armstrong said the documents will prove that widely held beliefs about Hubbard's background are largely false.
Armstrong's attorney, Michael Flynn of Boston, began a slow process Monday of introducing as exhibits many of the 10,000 documents under seal pending the outcome of trial. Armstrong, a former sect archivist, is defending himself against Church of Scientology charges of theft because he took reams of papers, pictures and recordings.
But the 37-year-old Armstrong says he "did not steal" the contested documents. Other documents seem to verify Armstrong's contention that Hubbard appointed him to collect the historical papers to aid in the production of a biography of the reclusive 73-year-old founder of Scientology.
Most of the documents already introduced to Judge Paul G. Breckenridge pertain to Hubbard's military career in the U.S. Navy during the early 1940s. If, as Armstrong claims, they are authentic and accurate documents, then it appears Hubbard did not have the honored career some of his biographical sketches have attributed to him.
"(These documents) show conclusively that he was not crippled and blinded ... did not graduate from George Washington University," Armstrong said during his third day of testimony. "They show to me part of the fraud being perpetrated on the Navy, the Veterans Administration and later on all Scientologists and potentional Scientologists."
Armstrong said he went to Flynn with the information because for 11 years he had placed great faith in Hubbard's claims but was disillusioned and devastated when he discovered the contradictions.
Among them, Hubbard claimed he:
* Was the provost marshal of Korea.
* Was a war hero awarded 28 medals.
* Has a bachelor's degree from George Washington University.
* Was the first World War II combat casuality in the Far East and was flown home aboard the Secretary of Navy's personal aircraft.
A document submitted Monday indicated that not only was Hubbard never in combat, but when he left the war theater he was sent stateside aboard a boat and labeled "not suitable."
Hubbard's claim of having commanded a squadron of corvettes, Armstrong said, is an elaboration of fact.
"He had two commands," Armstrong said referring to a document. "The first he lost before putting out to sea. And he lost the second one on a shakedown cruise when he fired (three) shots over the Mexican border.
"(Hubbard) caused problems for his superiors ... would not follow orders and did not leave (his post in) Australia in good graces."
However, Sect spokesman the Rev. Sandy Block said, "Most of what he (Armstrong) has said is taken out of context. Here you have a thief. He stole documents which are very valuable."
Block said that in addition to the papers under seal "there are other naval documents which tell a somewhat different story, so we'll see what happens. I don't think anything he said is earth-shattering."
Judge Breckenridge cautioned Armstrong Monday morning for talking to the press about specifics of the sealed papers. The judge's warning came after sect lawyers gave the court a copy of Sunday's Clearwater Sun.
Sect attorney Barrett Litt said a story in the edition, based on an out-of-court conversation with Armstrong, contained information from "the most sensitive of the sealed documents. He asked that Armstrong be ordered not to talk to the press.
But Breckenridge noted no gag order was in effect, adding that Armstrong "has a vivid memory," and declined to muzzle the defendant. He did, however, caution him to watch what he says.
The sect wants the court to return the documents unpublished and also is seeking an unspecified amount in monetary damages.
The civil trial continues today with Armstrong still on the stand and Flynn introducing more documents.
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The Great Arif (Gnostic) from Deccan, India who kept fasting for forty years in Holy City of Mashhad, Iran
The Great Arif (Gnostic) from Deccan, India who kept fasting for forty years in Holy City of Mashhad, Iran October 14, 2020 Adminstrator
Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah Mansoori (Ibn ar-Reza)
Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah Mansoori (Ibn ar-Reza), the Great Arif (Gnostic) from Deccan who kept fasting for forty years in Holy City of Mashhad was the great grandson of Syed Burhanuddin Shah Khaleelullah, the only son of Syed Shah Nuruddin Nimatullah Wali buried in Mahan near Kerman in Iran.
Shah Nuruddin Nimatullah Wali was the Doyen of Nimatullahi Sufi Order which flourished in Iran and Deccan, India. Syed Shah Khaleelullah, the only son of Syed Shah Nuruddin Nimatullah Wali and the great scholar of Iran after the heavenly departure of his father, Syed Shah Nimatullah Wali on the invitation of Ahmad Shah Wali Bahmani, the famous and powerful ruler of the Bahmani Kingdom in Deccan (South India) migrated from Mahan, Kerman and came to Muhammadabad Bidar, the capital of Bahmani Kingdom in Deccan, India.
In Muhammadabad Bidar, Syed Shah Khaleelullah was given a royal welcome by the Bahmani King and he was greatly respected by the Bahmani ruler and the people of Deccan. When he died he was buried in Muhammadabad Bidar and his beautiful grand mausoleum on a hill top outside the Muhammadabad Bidar fort is respected and visited by the people of Deccan. In the Annual Urs of Syed Shah Khaleelullah thousands of people from Bidar and different parts of Deccan visit the shrine of Syed Shah Khaleelullah in Bidar now situated in Karnataka State, India.
Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah Mansoori, the great grandson of Syed Shah Khaleelullah was the 18th descendant of Syed Shah Nimatullah Wali. Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah Mansoori in 1878 when he was only twenty years old on the orders of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) which he got in a vision left Muhammadabad Bidar (Deccan) for the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.) in Mashhad, Iran. Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah Mansoori told that he saw in a vision the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) ordering him: “Shahsawar! Go for the Ziarat of Eighth Imam in Mashhad”. The next day he left his relatives in Muhammadabad Bidar and went walking to Mashhad, Iran.
On his arrival in Mashhad, Iran he started fasting which he continued for a period of forty years. He prayed regularly daily for long hours for a period of more than fifty years in the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.) while keeping fast continuously for a period of forty years and only did not fast only on Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Adha and Ashura day. By his incessant worship for a period of more than fifty years in the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.) he obtained great spiritual favors and position. He always had the honor to perform the job of a sweeper in the Holy Burial Chamber (Zarih) of Imam Reza (A.S.). Whenever he used to enter the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.) he used to convey Salaam (Salutation) to Imam Reza (A.S.) and he listened to the reply of Salaam from Imam Reza (A.S.). He used to cure lunatic persons by reciting Dua (supplication).
Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar, the famous monarch of Iran from the Qajar dynasty when visited the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.) honored Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah Mansoori with the royal title “Mansoor al-Tawliyat” and thus his family became famous as Mansoori.
When Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah Mansoori, entitled himself with the title of Abd al-Reza “the Slave of Imam Reza”, Imam Reza (A.S.) in a vision ordered him to change his title to Ibn ar-Reza “Son of Imam Reza” and Imam Reza (A.S.) ordered him in the vision “You are my son and call yourself Ibn ar-Reza” “Son of Imam Reza”. From then onwards he started writing Ibn ar-Reza after his name.
He is the author of the book titled “Miraj al-Mumineen Tuhfah tul Ruhaniyun”. This book was calligraph by Abdul Ali, the famous calligrapher of Astan Quds Razavi (The Holy Shrine of Imam Reza) during that period.
One month before his heavenly departure he gathered his children and family members and told them that last night he has seen Imam Musa al-Kazim (A.S.) in dream in iron chains.[Imam Musa al-Kazim (A.S.) during his imprisonment in the Baghdad prison, Iraq for a period of fourteen years by Harun al-Rashid, the Abbasid Caliph was kept in iron chain. Harun al-Rashid also martyred Imam Musa al-Kazim by poisoning in the jail in Baghdad, Iraq.] Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah Mansoori told that Imam Musa al-Kazim (A.S.) in that dream had ordered him to wear the iron chain like him and told him that he will die on 25th Rajab [the day of martyrdom of Imam Musa al-Kazim(A.S.)].
Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah Mansoori ordered an ironsmith in Mashhad to make an iron chain which he saw in the dream and he put it around his body. His family members took his photograph wearing the iron chain. He called Iftikhar al-Zakirin, the famous orator of Mashhad to his residence and asked him to recite the events of martyrdom of Imam Musa al-Kazim(A.S.). He also constructed a grave in his house and made a will to his children that he should be buried in that grave. He died on 25th Rajab [the day of martyrdom of Imam Musa al-Kazim(A.S.)] in 1934 and his grave is situated in his house which is situated in the Mansoori Alley in Khosravi Avenue in Mashhad.
When he died it was the period of the despotic rule of Reza Khan Pahlavi, the King of Iran who imposed martial law in Iran. Reza Khan Pahlavi had issued strict orders that nobody should be buried in his house. A day before his death he called his son Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori, who was Alim (religious scholar) and told him to recite a Dua (Supplication) which he dictated to him and said when he will die he should meet the Governor of Khorasan province and recite this Dua and take the written permission from the governor. When he died on 25th Rajab, 1934, his son Maulana Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori went to meet General Mahmood Jam, the Martial Law Governor of Khorasan province and recited that Dua which was dictated by his late father and the Martial Law Governor in spite the government ban order issued the written permission allowing dead body of Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah to be buried in his house.
Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah versified his genealogical tree in a poem of 114 verses tracing his genealogy to his great grandfather Imam Muhammad Baqir (A.S.). This genealogical tree in a poem of 114 verses was republished in Hyderabad Deccan in 1974 by his son Maulana Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori, who was the Imam Juma and Imam Jamaat of Darbar Husaini Iranian Hyderabad Deccan. He also composed poems in praise of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) and the Holy Imams (A.S.) which was published with the title “Kulliyat Qasaid Mansoori”
Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah visited Hyderabad in 1912 along with his four sons on the invitation of Mir Osman Ali Khan, the Seventh Nizam of Asif Jahi Kingdom who ruled Deccan, India from August, 1911 till September, 1948. He was invited by the King of Hyderabad Deccan Kingdom to pray for the safety of Hyderabad city which was badly devastated in ‘The Great Musi Floods’ of September 1908 in which more than fifteen thousand inhabitants of Hyderabad city were killed by massive floods in the Musi rivers which flows through the Hyderabad city.
Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah along with his four sons were given audience in the royal Durbar in Chowmahalla Palace in Hyderabad city. In the royal Durbar in the presence of Mir Osman Ali Khan, the King of Hyderabad Deccan Kingdom he recited the famous couplets in Persian language praying for the safety of Hyderabad city which is recorded in the Hyderabad city history annals as below:
حیدرآباد دکن شود از جمله بلایا محفوظ
عطرت حیدر(ع) و زهرا (س) چون از ایران آمد
رود موسی نکند شورش و تغیان هرگز
با عصای نبوی (ص) موسی عمران آمد
Hyderabad city will be safe from all the calamities
The children of Hyder (A.S.) and Zahra (S.A.) have come from Iran
The Musi River will never be flooded and deluged
Because Moses of Imran have come along with the walking stick of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.)
In 1911 the Czar Russian army invaded the holy city of Mashhad and bombed the holy shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.) which damaged the golden dome of the holy shrine and the historical Masjid Gowharshad situated in the holy shrine. Syed Shahsawar Ali Shah predicted inevitable overthrow of Czar Monarchy in Russia which was eliminated in peoples uprising in March 1917.
When his son Maulana Agha Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori was young he requested his father to give him an advice so that he would follow it all his life. Syed Shahsawaar Ali Shah Mansoori replied: Perform midnight prayers ‘Namaz-e-Tahajjud’. But again Agha Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori asked his father the same question but three times he replied him: Pray ‘Namaz-e-Tahajjud’ and from that age when Agha Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori was 25 years old he started performing ‘Namaz-e-Tahajjud’ and continued it until his death.
Syed Shahsawaar Ali Shah Mansoori used to send his eldest daughter Shah Bibi to Maktab (Islamic School) in Mashhad, Iran for Islamic learning but Imam Reza A.S.) in a vision ordered him to teach his daughter himself in the home. Syed Shahsawaar Ali Shah Mansoori trained his daughter in Islamic Studies perfectly in such a way that whenever Maulana Agha Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori, who himself was a learned Alim from Hawzah Ilmiyyah of Mashhad and Najaf Ashraf, used to face any problem regarding the understanding of the Islamic rules, laws and history, he used to confer with his elder sister who was educated by his father in Islamic Studies.
After the heavenly departure of Syed Shahsawaar Ali Shah Mansoori in 1934 in Mashhad, Iran, Maulana Agha Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori used to take care of his elder sister Shah Bibi. Shah Bibi taught Islam, the stories of the Prophets and Holy Imams to all the children and grandchildren of Agha Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori. Shah Bibi used to gather the children to recite Nawha and Marsiya for the Shuhada (Martyrs) of Karbala and Shah Bibi used to recite Majlis of Imam Husain (A.S.), and the Alams ‘flags’ of the Shuhada of Karbala were erected in the house of Maulana Agha Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori in Hyderabad Deccan. Shah Bibi passed away in December 1973 when she was eighty years old and buried in the historical Dairah Mir Mumin cemetery in Hyderabad, India.
Maulana Agha Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori opposed the anti-Islamic acts of Reza Khan Pahlavi, the despot King of Iran and for this reason Maulana Agha Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori along with all his family members were deported from Mashhad to British India in 1935 after the massacre of the people of Mashhad by Reza Shah in Masjid Gawharshad in the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.). On 13th July, 1935 people of Mashhad gathered in Masjid Gawharshad in the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.) to protest against the government ban on women wearing Islamic Hijab. The army of Reza Shah entered Masjid Gawharshad and massacred the innocent people in the Masjid and the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.).After deportation from Mashhad, Maulana Agha Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori went to Hyderabad Deccan and became the Imam Juma and Imam Jamaat of Darbar Husaini Iranian in Hyderabad Deccan.
Maulana Agha Syed Shah Abbas Mansoori passed away on May 1992 and he is buried in Dairah Mir Momin Cemetery in Hyderabad.
The younger son of Syed Shahsawaar Ali Shah Mansoori by name Syed Ali Reza went to Najaf Ashraf from Hyderabad Deccan and after the deportation of Reza Shah from Iran during the Second World War, he came to Tehran and became the Imam Jamaat of Masjid Hujjat in Sar Asiyab Dulab locality in Tehran and became famous as Ayatullah Syed Ali Reza Quddusi. He died in Tehran in 2007 at an age of 102 years.
Another younger son of Syed Shahsawaar Ali Shah Mansoori by name Syed Husain Mansoori who migrated to Hyderabad Deccan was a very pious person who died during a religious ceremony on the night of 21 Ramazan (Shab-e-Qadr) 1955 in Hyderabad Deccan.
Compiled by: Fatima Zabeth Beenesh, Hyderabad Deccan, India
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Crazy Mad Max Rip-Offs That Are Worth Your Time
Marvelous Videos presents ten Mad Max rip offs actually worth your time…. Like so many 70s and 80s science fiction films, Mad Max imprinted itself on film audiences. There was something about a lone cop turning into a vigilante for justice that appealed to people, especially against that gorgeous desert backdrop and dystopian themes. Unfortunately, lack […] More
by Yossarian January 15, 2021, 10:10 pm
bitchy | Ivanka Trump wants to attend Joe Biden’s inauguration & her dad is so mad
There’s nothing in the Constitution about an outgoing president attending his successor’s inauguration. It’s just one of those historical norms, a precedent which is usually – but not always – followed, to signify one of our great American traditions, the peaceful transfer of power. Donald Trump will not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration and Donald Trump […] More
by Gossip January 12, 2021, 1:11 pm
bitchy | Ivanka Trump is big mad that Karlie Kloss dissed her in tweet after the Capitol siege
Words cannot describe the depth of my contempt for Ivanka Trump. It’s festered for years now, and I’m worried that one day, very soon, it’s just going to come tumbling out in a barrage of profanity which will get me banned from every social media site. As we saw last week, Terrorism Barbie tweeted-and-deleted a […] More
Before he wrote the score for MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, Junkie XL collaborated with Michael Buble on a pretty great cover of the Spider-man theme for Spider-man 2.
Before he wrote the score for MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, Junkie XL collaborated with Michael Buble on a pretty great cover of the Spider-man theme for Spider-man 2. View Reddit by lridge – View Source More
Is Hakeem Jeffries a Raving Lunatic or Is He Just Mad Because Someone Peed in His Office?
I posted earlier on a tweet from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declaring that any member of Congress who refused to vote to remove President Trump was not fit to serve in the Congress and promising no quarter for “white supremacists.” The latter we know means anyone who will not plant their lips in a public venue on […] More
by Normal January 9, 2021, 11:34 pm
Mad Max Fury Road – ‘Dead Weight Baby’ deleted scene sheds light on Warboy selection process
Mad Max Fury Road – ‘Dead Weight Baby’ deleted scene sheds light on Warboy selection process View Reddit by mandrayke – View Source More
by USA January 8, 2021, 10:25 am
Recently heard about a Black & Chrome edition of Mad Max: Fury Road.
Gives me an entirely new appreciation for the film itself removing the visually enriching colorful nature. I wondered if anyone else likes to do this manually for old films, or knows of other movies that have released a black and white edition? Btw, its just a monochrome version. The director George Miller original WANTED the […] More
by USA January 7, 2021, 9:45 pm
Marvel’s WandaVision is in a “mad sprint” to finish the series before it premieres says director
Matt Shakman, the director of WandaVision on Disney+, says that the show is in a “mad sprint to the finish” due to how late they wrapped filming. The global health crisis has had myriad consequences for the film and TV industry and this includes the first MCU show to arrive on Disney+, WandaVision. Even though […] More
by Yossarian January 7, 2021, 2:53 am
Mad Max Meme 2021? Not according to the films.
Mad Max Meme 2021? Not according to the films. View Reddit by avecaucasianmale – View Source More
Barbara Shelley, British Horror Film Icon and “Queen of Hammer,” Dies at 88 – Shelley starred in ‘The Gorgon,’ ‘Dracula: Prince Of Darkness,’ ‘Rasputin: The Mad Monk’ and ‘Quatermass and the Pit,’ appearing alongside Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
Barbara Shelley, British Horror Film Icon and “Queen of Hammer,” Dies at 88 – Shelley starred in ‘The Gorgon,’ ‘Dracula: Prince Of Darkness,’ ‘Rasputin: The Mad Monk’ and ‘Quatermass and the Pit,’ appearing alongside Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. View Reddit by chanma50 – View Source More
by USA January 5, 2021, 9:57 am
Rep. Jim Jordan Is Really Mad About Gender-Neutral Pronouns, Also Doesn’t Know What a Pronoun Is
Now that the new class of freshman lawmakers have been sworn in, the House of Representatives is set to revise its official rules. The new rules package includes ethics reforms, introduces new protections for whistleblowers, establishes a new subcommittee to investigate economic disparity in the U.S., and other sweeping changes. The new rules also swap […] More
bitchy | Kumail Nanjiani is still shredded & chiseled, and people are mad about that
When Kumail Nanjiani was cast in The Eternals, he went to Marvel and asked if they would help him get into superhero shape for the movie. They agreed, helping him out with dietitians, food-preparers and fitness trainers. All of it changed his life in profound ways – he’s still the same cat-cuddling gamer and comedy […] More
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'Please turn yourself in': Connecticut murder suspect's family pleads for his surrender
DERBY, Connecticut -- A lawyer for the family of a Connecticut murder suspect pleaded Monday for his surrender as police involved in a multi-state search for the 23-year-old college student circulated a photo of a person matching his description walking along railroad tracks in Pennsylvania.
Peter Manfredonia, a University of Connecticut senior, is suspected of killing Ted DeMers, 62, and Nicholas Eisele, 23, before forcing Eisele's girlfriend into her car and fleeing the state with her.
The woman, 23, was located Sunday at a rest stop near Paterson, New Jersey, with her 2016 Volkswagen Jetta, police said, and was not hurt.
🚨UPDATE🚨
SUSPECT was last seen yesterday (Sunday) afternoon in East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, PA. Description:
White Male, 23 years old, dark colored shorts, white t-shirt & carrying a large duffel bag.
If seen, DO NOT APPROACH, ARMED & DANGEROUS ➡️ CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY!
⤵️ pic.twitter.com/uuj3vTYBIB
— Trooper Petroski (@PSPTroopNPIO) May 25, 2020
Manfredonia, who is believed to be armed with several guns stolen during a home invasion, was last seen Sunday wearing a white T-shirt, dark shorts and carrying a large duffel bag near train tracks in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
Paterson is about a 90-minute drive from Derby, Connecticut, where Eisele was killed. East Stroudsburg is about an hour farther west on Interstate 80.
A lawyer for Manfredonia's family, Mike Dolan, said the suspect has struggled with mental health issues and has "sought the help of a number of therapists."
"Peter, if you are listening, you are loved," Dolan said at a news conference Monday. "It is time to let the healing process begin. It's time to surrender. You have your parents' and your sisters' and your family's entire support. So, Peter, from your parents, we love you, please turn yourself in."
***WILLINGTON HOMICDE UPDATE***
Most current photos of the suspect, Peter Manfredonia. Last seen in East Stroudsburg, PA. PA law enforcement agencies are actively looking for the suspect. Do NOT approach, he is ARMED AND DANGEROUS, call 911 immediately. pic.twitter.com/cOnvHh9EiQ
— CT State Police (@CT_STATE_POLICE) May 24, 2020
Connecticut State Police plan to hold a press conference Tuesday.
Manfredonia, a finance and mechanical engineering major from Sandy Hook, is suspected of killing DeMers and assaulting another man, possibly with a sword or machete, in Willington on Friday after they found Manfredonia walking along a road and offered him a ride back to his motorcycle.
The second victim, Nicholas Eisele, was found dead at his home Sunday in Derby, which is about 60 miles (96 kilometers) southwest of Willington and just west of New Haven. Eisele, a 2016 Newtown High School graduate, worked with his father in a landscaping and irrigation business. State police described him as an acquaintance of Manfredonia's.
Earlier on Sunday, a Willington man reported being held against his will by Manfredonia, who then left with food, several guns and the man's truck, which was later found abandoned near Osbornedale State Park, about a mile from Eisele's home.
Eisele's family set up an online fundraiser to help cover funeral expenses and far exceeded the goal of $10,000 in just a few hours. On the page, friends and family shared memories, including his love of his mother's German shepherds, Trooper and Sandy.
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Restauration Mahogany Drawing Room Commode or Sideboard
RESTAURATION CARVED MAHOGANY COMMODE
In the Manner of Isaac Jones (1794-1868, active 1818-1840)
Philadelphia, c. 1835
With oblong Carrara marble top above a conforming cavetto frieze, supported by scrolled supports with elliptical mirrored bosses with lotus carved and gilded frames, flanking a pair of glazed cabinet doors with brass astragal, opening to a shallow cabinet with two shelves, on a straight plinth with a concave cove front edge with gadrooning, raised on acanthus-carved lion's paw feet.
H: 41" W: 60¼" D: 22¼"
Condition: Excellent: Retaining original marble top.
In 1833, Isaac Jones made a highly impressive suite of gilt-stencil decorated mahogany and rosewood bedroom furniture for his client Elijah Van Syckel (1788-1855), a wealthy wine and liquor merchant, comprising a tester bedstead, bed steps, pair of armoires, bonheur de jour, dressing bureau and marble-top wash stand.[1] Although the present table has elements in common with furniture made by other Philadelphia makers, it is noteworthy that both the scroll supports of this table relate to the documented Jones/Van Syckel wash stand, and its lion's paw feet relate closely to those on the Jones/Van Syckel dressing bureau. This double connection to Jones's work offers a compelling argument for tying the present commode to him. Jones appears in the Philadelphia city directories from 1818 through 1840 at various addresses but was located at 75 and 77 North Front Street in the 1830's when this commode and the Van Syckel suite were made.
Plate CII in George Smith's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (London, 1826 [1828]) is the likely inspiration for this commode. It illustrates a cabinet with scrolled pilasters of related design to the present example, except that the Philadelphia cabinetmakers tended to invert the S scroll supports putting the large scroll at the base. Smith describes this form as a "Drawing Room Commode," “intended for filling up the piers between the windows of a drawing room.” T-P-GEB-183106
[1] The Isaac Jones suite of furniture made for Elijah Van Syckel is in the collection at Winterthur and is illustrated in Alison and Jonathan Boor's Philadelphia Empire Furniture (West Chester, PA.: Boor Management, 2006), 441, 469, 480, 496, 547. The boneur de jour is the only labeled piece in the suite and is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Dealer Carswell Rush Berlin, Inc.
Origin Philadelphia
Artist/Maker Isaac Jones
Measurements H: 41" W: 60�" D: 22�"
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Hurricanes Irma and Harvey cause Goldman Sachs to slash its outlook for the US economy
September 12, 2017 Pujol Blog 0 Comments
by Joe Ciolli September 12, 2017
Goldman Sachs has cut its third-quarter GDP forecast following a pair of catastrophic hurricanes.
The firm now sees GDP expanding by 2% during the period, down 0.8 percentage points from its previous forecast.
Goldman currently estimates that Hurricane Irma will result in $30 billion in total losses, adding to the $85 billion of damage already caused by Hurricane Harvey, which rocked the city of Houston last month.
“The uncertainty around all of these figures is high, but there is little doubt that the combined impact of Harvey and Irma will be particularly severe,” Spencer Hill, an economist at Goldman, wrote in a client note. “We continue to expect a sizeable drag from hurricanes on Q3 growth.”
One way that Goldman measures how a natural disaster will affect economic growth is by assessing the share of the population that’s ultimately impacted. At present time, Hurricane Irma has affected 6.1% of the populace, making it the 10th-most impactful natural disaster in US history by this measure. That makes Irma’s effects even more widespread than Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and last month’s Hurricane Harvey.
Hurricane Irma has affected more than 6% of the population of the US, making it the 10th-most widespread natural disaster in the nation’s history. Goldman Sachs
“While property losses and evacuations do not directly enter the GDP accounting, major hurricanes and natural disasters have nonetheless been associated with a near-term slowdown in many major growth indicators,” Hill wrote. “We believe the huge property losses and relatively broad-based societal footprints of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma suggest a relatively large impact on near-term growth.”
So which areas will be most adversely affected? Goldman predicts that consumption, inventories, housing, and the energy sector will suffer the most.
For energy in particular, the post-hurricane implications for oil demand could reduce GDP. Meanwhile, the sheer number of people impacted by both disasters will surely weigh on consumption, the firm says, highlighting that just five out of 403 Walmart stores in Florida were open on Monday morning.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin weighed in on the potential GDP effect in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, agreeing that the measure will take a hit in the short run, but argued that “we will make it up in the long run as we rebuild.”
As more information comes in, keep in mind that Goldman’s GDP forecast is a moving target. Its estimates and inputs could change at any time, most notably if damage totals shift in any meaningful way.
In their words: “If Irma’s damages are significantly higher — or if Florida flooding continues to weigh on consumer spending and housing/investment activity into late September and October — we would expect additional downside to near-term growth.”
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Space Has Never Been More Exciting
Aerospace President and CEO Steve Isakowitz discusses why there's never been a more exciting time in space at Loyola Marymount University's Seaver Spotlight series.
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A new generation of launch vehicles lowering the cost of access to space. Cutting-edge technologies being packed into ever-smaller satellites. A burgeoning commercial industry that’s opening new frontiers in low-Earth orbit and beyond.
These are just a few of the examples Aerospace President and CEO Steve Isakowitz gave as he made his case for why there's never been a more exciting time in space to a packed auditorium at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in February.
“Today is the most exciting time ever in the history of the space program,” Isakowitz said. “Whether you’re young or old, everybody has a role to play.”
Weaving personal anecdotes from his own career with a dynamic survey of the current space industry landscape, Isakowitz shared an enthusiastic vision with students and faculty about the untold opportunities that await in space.
Isakowitz’s remarks came as part of the Seaver Spotlight series, a biannual speaker event hosted by the LMU Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering that features leaders making great impacts in their fields.
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Apple Cobbler Is A Fall Favorite, But This Time We Did Something A Little Different…
We never thought to put cookies on a cobbler, but we’re so glad we tried it!
Chris Foster
Cobbler is a traditional dessert that really can’t be topped…or so we thought. Generally consisting of a buttery biscuit-topped fruit filling, it’s an example of a dessert that isn’t overly sweet, letting the fresh fruit speak for itself. While it always hits the spot, we’ve got a serious sweet tooth that just can’t be sated, so we wanted to find a way to kick this cobbler up a notch – and so we did.
Why everybody’s so obsessed with biscuit cobblers, we’ll never understand; we topped ours with snickerdoodle cookies and it was quite possibly the best life decision we ever made. We used boxed cake mix to make the cookies, so this dessert comes together in a flash, and then all we had to do was form the cookies and put the whole thing in the oven! You need to try this, ‘cause it’s definitely a new favorite!
Snickerdoodle Apple Cobbler
8 apples, peeled, cored and sliced
1 package super moist white cake mix
Preheat oven to 350º F.
In a large bowl, toss apples together with brown sugar and cinnamon.
Transfer them to a large, 9×13-inch baking dish and set aside.
In a separate bowl, combine cake mix with unsalted butter and egg and mix until dough begins to form.
Using your hands or a spoon, begin forming 1-inch balls and transfer them to a plate.
In a shallow dish, whisk together 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon until thoroughly mixed.
Roll each ball in sugar mixture until completely coated, then place cookies evenly on top of apples.
Place baking dish in oven and bake for 40-45 minutes, or until apples are tender and cookies are golden brown.
Remove from oven and serve hot, garnished with vanilla ice cream.
Recipe adapted fromBaked By Rachel
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What You Can Learn From the Best Quarterback Ever.
January 13, 2017 /2 Comments/in Body, Leadership, Performance Lifestyle /by Head Trainer and Coach John Allen JAM JAM
This is an article by By Mark Van Deusen of Whoop—Enhancing your performance lifestyle. Automatically.
It’s a great article highlighting what arguably (and it’s not a tough argument) the greatest quarterback ever does to stay at the top of his game at 39 with the potential to play at that top until he’s 45!
It’s a great article highlighting what arguably (and it’s not a tough argument) the greatest quarterback ever does to stay at the top of his game at 39 with the potential to play at the level until he’s 45!
No one has ever played football better, for longer, than Tom Brady; and it should not surprise you that he’s not only a model citizen for living a performance lifestyle, it’s what he emphasizes that matters most.
You can learn from this, even if you’ve never even stepped on a football field and know nothing about the game.
What’s your game in life, business, maybe even a sport? That’s the questions. We are all athletes, and if you adopted this mindset and the lifestyle performance skills you’ll learn here, you would see yourself rise too.
Sixteen years ago, the New England Patriots finished in last place with a 5-11 record. The following season, a 24-year-old backup quarterback and former 6th-round draft pick helped guide the Patriots to their first Super Bowl title in franchise history (pictured below). After making his NFL starting debut on September 30, 2001, Tom Brady has never looked back.
Now 39 years old, Brady has the chance to bring a fifth championship trophy home to New England. No quarterback has ever won five Super Bowls before (Brady, Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw are each tied for the most with four). Brady already owns the record for Super Bowl appearances by a quarterback, with six.
Earlier this season, Brady passed Peyton Manning (200) and Brett Favre (199) for the most all-time victories by a QB, now at 205 and counting. His 14-2 Patriots just captured the AFC East division title for a record eighth straight year, but their streak is much more impressive than that. Since Brady first took over the starting job in 2001, New England has had the best record in the division every season (tiebreakers kept the Patriots from being awarded division championships in 2002 and 2008).
Over the past 16 years, New England has averaged slightly more that 12 victories per regular season (12.25 to be exact). To put that in perspective, six NFL franchises have never had a single 12-win season in that time.
Including the playoffs, Brady has a career record of 205-61. His .771 winning percentage is easily the best for QBs who’ve played more than one full season in the league. Brady has won 144 more games than he’s lost–only four other quarterbacks have ever won 144 games, total (Manning, Favre, John Elway and Dan Marino).
Additionally, Brady has never had a year where he threw at least 15 interceptions. For comparison, Manning did it nine times, Marino 10 and Favre 14.
While fans of Manning, Favre, and Montana might argue who the best quarterback of all time is, there’s no question that Brady is better at his age than anyone has ever been before. Montana retired at age 38. Favre played till he was 41, but in his age-39 season, he led the league with 22 interceptions. Manning retired last year at 39, and while his team won the Super Bowl his injury-plagued season featured just nine touchdown passes and 17 INTs.
And 39-year-old Brady?
Physically, Brady looks fitter now than when he entered the NFL.
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What Denver Broncos Coach Kubiak’s Sudden Retirement Can Teach Us About Lifestyle
January 6, 2017 /0 Comments/in Body, Leadership, Performance Lifestyle /by Head Trainer and Coach John Allen JAM JAM
My good friend and associate Shawn Phillips, a pioneer in fields of performance lifestyle, and known as the Philosopher of FIT (focused intensity training) penned an amazing article on the implications of Coach Kubiak’s recent retirement as head coach of the Denver Broncos.
It’s revealing, to say the least, and leaves us wondering what might have been if Coach Kubiak could have expanded his awareness and development and seen another way to stay in his position of leadership that didn’t drive him into the ground.
I took the liberty to edit where a quote from me that was paraphrased.
Enjoy the read and here is the original article on My Strength For Life.
Much gratitude and respect for a job well done to coach Kubiak.
As you may have heard, Gary Kubiak (aka Kube’s), coach of the World Champion Denver Broncos, stepped down. Retired this week.
No question, by all players and everyone he’s worked with, Kube’s is a good a human as you’re gonna find anywhere. Certainly the NFL. And he’s done a hell of a job for his two years at the helm here in Denver.
By all surface accounts, Kube’s retirement looks like a typical story: An ever-mildly aging coach has a few health issues and just decides it’s time to hang up the whistle.
Makes perfect sense. Right. Well… maybe a little too much so.
Let me tell you, as a coach, a student and an advocate for men; and of course a man not much younger than Coach Kube’s, there is a vital lesson hidden in this seemingly ordinary walk-away. One that every over 40-year-old man had best understand.
It’s a pattern. A programmed way of being and justifiably achieving that we—both men and society—have so thoroughly accepted, for so long, we don’t even see it. It’s only become so ordinary, even expected, that when another 48-year-old man drops dead on his fifth sales call this week, we don’t even notice it.
We eulogize the loss. We celebrate their spirit and drive, and yet we never bat an eye at the obvious pathology playing out here. The one killing father’s, brothers, and sons all across this country—every damn day.
Think about this. By the time a man loses a battle with cancer, we’ve tried like hell to save him. We’ve invested loads of money and will raise more money to find a cure. We fight and fight and learn.
A man drops dead from his “life, ” and we mourn and shake our heads. And life moves on.
Unless you’ve read my Owners MANual to Living Your 40’s at Full Strength or listened to my podcasts, chances are you still have no idea what the elephant in the room is… Aka what it is that is taking men down.
And what is has to do with Coach Kubiak…
Most people call it “drive,” the will to win. Another name is “performance addiction.” The inability and unwillingness to put self-care before success and sacrifice. A “macho” strength and invincibility.
I know, you’re already thinking, “Wow, that sounds cool! Noble shit…”
Yep, you’re right. That’s the story. This is the stuff of myth, of books, of life that boys are raised to men on. All the best warriors die.
And as a result, for all the selfish, ignorant, stupidity that men can bring to life they are strongly inclined to take care of themselves last. You know, “women and children first.” Which equals, men die.
This drive for achievement, to be enough, to give everything you’ve got is celebrated throughout life. And it usually only causes a few relationship issues up through your 30’s. Hell, it even works to get ahead—sometimes.
Then you turn 40… the game changes and so do you.
At your best, you don’t have an extra 10,000 KW of excess energy to waste every day. Your ability to remain so focused that you forget to eat, is no longer your ally. The overall lack of self-care, your shitty diet, your desire to live like you’re 29 until you die is delivering you all too quickly. Yet, perform you do. Because it’s what you do.
A health scare or two. The annual diet attempt. A few weeks—maybe a month of consistent working out and you are feeling so much better that you go back to the old way.
Now, carrying the “midlife” scarlet letter, other factors are driving you. No longer is it just your desire to win but the fear of losing. Youth wants to take your job away. Time is causing you stress.
Rather than stepping into the middle third of life awake at the wheel and in control, most men arrive more resolute to stick their head in the sand and mash their foot to floor, than ever.
It’s like trying to get your car unstuck from a snowbank by flooring it. Makes for good sound effects but that’s about all.
I recall studying the fate of top executives and high-powered CEOs years ago. I can’t recall the exact number but it was something in the 80% range, that once retired, were divorced within a year.
Why? Because their spouse had set up a life without them. And when the “boss” retired he came home to a place he’d never been and interrupted what was otherwise a pretty good life.
This is the ultimate example of The Performance Addict. Perform, perform, perform… and then I’ll have a life one day. He is all performance, no life. He figures he’s got time to make up for it later. He’ll sacrifice for the kids now, and they’ll love him later.
Performance or Lifestyle = Fail | In Harmony Win!
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The Rise of a New Lifestyle Part 2
January 1, 2017 /0 Comments/in Body, Lifestyle, Performance Lifestyle /by Head Trainer and Coach John Allen JAM JAM
Lifestyle Optimization
Most players in the wellness, health and performance spaces focus on just one element of lifestyle — like meditation, nutrition or fitness — but here at Performance Lifestyle Inc, we offer a “science-based, integrative view of the whole lifestyle,” with opportunities to have a deeply human connection with our team, trainers and coaches.
The 25-year process of putting together the Performance Lifestyle® approach during years of strong energy output as a fitness entrepreneur turned tech entrepreneur turned lifestyle entrepreneur has always been about the quest to move away from a fragmented, confusing and incomplete “first tier” market of weight loss programs, nutrition, and fitness plans.
That usual cast of characters all pose as lifestyle solutions, and they are, but only parts of one. To create a whole lifestyle training solution primed for the “second tier,” all essential lifestyle skills need to be included in the training.
What does second tier mean? There are several integral definitions, but basically, it’s when solutions are fluid, clear and complete (integrative) and in the case of defining lifestyle, nowhere is this more important.
Identifying “Performance Lifestyle” as the name of this approach, was a godsend.
You see, your lifestyle is the way you live. It’s your master routine. It’s not just how you eat or exercise, meditate or plan; it’s all of that and more. It’s every routine you have to help you function and perform well in the world.
All of your routines roll up into your lifestyle.
The thing is, there are many aspects of your lifestyle and most people don’t know them beyond nutrition, fitness and getting more sleep, which is less then 25% of the lifestyle equation.
If you’re trying to improve the way you look, feel and perform but are pulled in multiple directions trying to find compatible solutions, and you do not yet know the breadth, depth, and context of your lifestyle; the attempt itself can wear you down.
And that, in 2017, is what we intend to shed light on and usher into the public discourse in January. It’s the rise of a new lifestyle, a wholistic approach to living where you learn and apply all the essential skills that enable you to live with more energy, higher levels of health and performance or “like a pro” as we like to say given Performance Lifestyle was born in elite athletics.
That is our mission, and to live success in today’s world without having to trade your health and well-being for it, you need to live like a pro.
As the founder of Performance Lifestyle Inc., I had a proverbial Ph.D. in living like an amateur for an extended period in my life. At times I would go deep into aspects of my lifestyle, but never really brought it all together until I started Performance Lifestyle training.
This training will help you resolve the hidden lifestyle challenges that are holding you back from performing at a higher level, and evolve with a new lifestyle mindset and skills set so you can better achieve your goals.
The rise of the a new lifestyle is your lifestyle now optimed for energy, health and performance.
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December 28, 2016 /0 Comments/in Body, Energy, Lifestyle, Performance Lifestyle /by Head Trainer and Coach John Allen JAM JAM
After years of working with achievers, there is one thing that holds true. With rare exception, every one of the entrepreneurs, business professionals, business owners, executives or managers that we have worked with, ALL wanted to have more personal energy, and more time to get their energy back after intense outputs of life force.
That is, a universal desire and its the reason why this year, in Performance Lifestyle training, we are including Performance Living 101 – The Secrets of Optimal Energy.
We are also recommending you learn The Energy Blueprint by Performance Lifestyle Advisor Ari Whitten.
There is also a sister truth to that finding, and it reveals the essence of a bad habit and what you’ll want to learn as early as possible in the new year.
All sub-par lifestyle habits are to a significant part “poor” because of a low grade (in some cases high grade) fatigue that creates performance anxiety. Combine that fear and the desire for pleasure to cover it up (usually based on bad habits established by the market) with the lack of a strong, knowledge-based routine that ensures you’ll maintain optimal energy levels, and you have a real challenge.
Poor energy leads to lack of a capacity to process information, to decide and act optimally. This is the etiology of a poor habit.
That making of a bad habit is not surprising, An excellent and typical example is how we see today’s driven, goal or success-oriented person carrying a cup of coffee, almost as if it was a mainstay object on their person, like a watch or an iPhone.
See how the above model holds up and plays.
What It Means to Reboot at the End of the Year
December 5, 2016 /0 Comments/in Body, Energy, Performance Lifestyle /by Head Trainer and Coach John Allen JAM JAM
One of the key things I do at the end of each year is taking a break or at least slowing way down. I dramatically reduce my stress levels, for like two weeks, and not at the very end of the year — meaning, not after I’m so wiped out tired after the end of the year closeout, but slightly before.
I’ve done this for years with few exceptions, and last year, I was reminded of why it’s so important.
In December of 2014, I was flying fast in November and December and just kept pushing harder and harder. I had big goals to hit in 2015, and I was not going to be denied.
Yes, I had my stories, and they were driving me harder than usual. We were launching a new product line called Superfood Infusions™(which will now be available at PerformanceLifestyle.com in 2017), and it was the first time my company had ever launched a natural product.
For years, clients had asked me to produce products that helped them eat a whole-foods, plant “based,” (not necessarily vegan) nutrient-rich diet (I know, great eating requires lots of descriptors) and this was one of my biggest challenges to date.
I was preparing for a big talk to a national organization, and my adrenaline was running high. Well, I think it clouded my judgment because by-the-time the clock struck 12:00 on January 1, I was so wiped out tired, I couldn’t even think straight.
I was not the best way to start a New Year, because in January when you want to ramp up, you have slow down to recuperate.
You know what happens next. Tired, I was not present, I was preoccupied, moody and the like; and the sheer thought of ramping up to speed in a New Year felt daunting.
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November 29, 2016 /0 Comments/in Body, Performance Lifestyle /by Head Trainer and Coach John Allen JAM JAM
We’ve all heard about work-life balance—prioritizing between “work” (career and ambition) and “lifestyle” (health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development/meditation)— but while a useful concept, this lifestyle choice also sets up an impractical duality.
Today, with access to more information and opportunity than at any other time in history, and the loss of traditional boundaries, we are mostly “working” all the time.
So we need to take time out to take care of our “Self,” our body and life, which needs to happen in the way athletes do it—all the time, just in time, for the right amount of time, in the ways we need, at the level we need as best as possible.
Knowing how to get all your needs met in the process of performing and serving in the world, not in retreat from it, becomes the new definition of “balance.”
And that art starts with being grounded in the unshakable absolute; the big Self, not our busy little energy-draining brains that can lead us to live caught up with so much going on we’re barely hanging in.
Live in that spiraling mind, and the experienced of “balance” is fleeting at best.
Meditation along with a lifestyle strategy that has all the essential skills to live in balance with vibrant health and peace of mind, while achieving our goals, is vital.
So, how do we create a lifestyle that balances worldly achievement with the inner fortitude we all want to maintain? I think you’ll agree, a life that’s richly lived includes both.
To answer that question, it helps to embrace the new idea of whole life performance; where you’ve got the balanced integration of meditation and spiritual (not religious), or simply Self development with the lifestyle skills to navigate the world and from that authentic posture. This ultimate foundation makes resilient living possible as you gain the right relationship with your mind and the brain that directs it. Also, direct access to the unlimited source of renewable energy we depend on to stay both healthy and productive.
Meditation is not just one of those lifestyle skills; it’s the universal life practice that enables you to practice all others from the very best part of yourself.
Meditation clears your mind, sources the vital energy you need to function and perform well, even in the middle of a busy day, simply by being still, relaxing, paying attention and having no relationship to the content of consciousness—the stream of thoughts of any kind we can simply let go.
From this grounded place, we can also contemplate—and mindfully, with presence, choose to engage with thoughts and actions that make sense.
Meditation is the practice that immediately awakens you to the primary source of wellbeing and confidence we long for yet we’ve always had. We were never divorced from it, but for many of us, we’ve gotten separated.
Meditation may start for us as a spiritual or stress management practice; but if you give yourself enough time to awaken, it becomes your natural posture to life itself and the secret sauce maintaining a foundation for balance in your life.
The rest is both science and an art and it’s the result of not just one, but the array of lifestyle skills you’ll learn and connect the dots around in Performance Lifestyle training.
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The Myth of Motivation Part Two
What’s can seem like a cruel joke at times, is the epic irony of energy.
It’s the perplexing reality that we feel good when we’re spending energy, not so good when we’re recuperating it.
That irony is a dilemma my friends; as it can sell most of us short in life if we are not aware. It may be why we spend so much time trying to motivate ourselves in every way short of what will truly motivate us with relative consistently. That is, learning how to harness and proactively maintain optimal energy levels.
Today, we’re living under the grand delusion that we can keep going each day, and take on more and more of what the market throws at us. On top of life and career, we now have Facebook, which deserves it’s own mention, iPhones and Androids, which give us unprecedented access to information and opportunity to stimulate ourselves and keep going in the face of our tiredness.
The result is we get more and more fatigued.
Besides the obvious coffee and energy drink markets, “motivation or psychology” itself, in the way the market sells it, is to a stimulant today. We listen to people to pump us up through all variety of useful and insightful ideas that will keep us going. Through our toughest periods, we seek stories highlighting heroics that inspire us to keep going; some of which are downright inspiring indeed, and potentially necessary in a cloudy situation.
Inspired thinking is essential to motivation but is only part of the equation.
When it comes down to it, if you’re tired, meaning running low on vital energy; unless you’re faced with an emergency and or a motive that is so compelling, chances are even with all the inspiring stories and insights in mind, you’ll likely to procrastinate until you feel more “up” to it; when you have a surge of energy to drive you through.
The exceptions to that natural pattern that may drive you forward, even in a state of exhaustion or fatigue, are…
To avoid a negative consequence, you can’t live with, or
Being faced with a rare opportunity in plain sight, to achieve a positive outcome that you just can’t resist or avoid taking.
I’m not criticizing motivational speakers as this is a useful service. I do my share of it and enjoy it. It’s also why I tend to talk about motivational ideas in the context of lifestyle. It’s for the very reasons I am talking about in this post series; divorced from the energy to act, motivational thinking only goes so far.
I actually refer to motivational talks more as inspiration, because only a person can zero in on the real motives that are driving them dynamically; and more importantly, only the individual can take the steps to reenergize their body/mind to act on such motives, which is real-world motivation.
Taking the steps to re-energize one’s body-mind is the vital but often missing piece in the realm of motivation and it’s why this post calls attention to The Myth of Motivation—Psychology can’t cover up fatigue. If thought is not attached to proactively renewing your personal energy and power, it’s hard to stay motivated.
It’s why the core messages in a Performance Lifestyle are about…
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You Are an Athlete Part 4
INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMANCE LIFESTYLE®[PL] ESSENTIALS AND HOW IT WORKS
Performance Lifestyle [PL] Essentials is a direct path, a plan and a system providing all the key insights you need to be proficient at living an energy-rich, fully engaged yet balanced lifestyle that supports what you’re up to in your life and career. It’s essentially what a professional “elite” athlete has working-for-them in their lives that give them the energy, high-level health, and performance that can outpace and out succeed almost any other population on the planet.
It starts with learning the secret science of optimal energy or what we refer to as Performance Living 101 and then mastering the 12 lifestyle skills you need to know to perform, look and feel like a pro in what we call PL365.
The combination of this essential “hub and spoke” approach to living a performance lifestyle you can call your own will enable you to transform your lifestyle and change your life for the better forever.
Unlike other emerging training on this all-encompassing topic of Performance Living, in which most are just beginning to explore and connect the untapped areas of the lifestyle equation; Performance Living 101 digs deep into the subject so many people are talking about, but so few know how to “talk” about first before the lifestyle equation even comes into play. That is the science of optimal energy.
That is the science of optimal energy.
It’s secret, literally, because most professionals don’t even know it let alone the people they serve. They are so hell bent on addressing your symptoms with pseudo-science, you never actually learn how to solve the top of mind problem of tiredness and fatigue that more than 50% of the population suffers. It’s the #1 reason why people visit the doctor.
If that’s true, then you know it’s affecting their wellbeing, health, and performance.
So you need to learn Performance Living 101, first. It’s how to harness optimal energy in your life at a quantum and cellular level first. When you do, you’ll then find out how to maintain it at the lifestyle level. The fact that most people do not know the science is why they’re all over the map when it comes to their lifestyle and relying on sustainability and longevity-killing tactics to keep going.
This science is the key to optimizing the way you live for more personal energy and the power to create the desired results you want in your life.
Simply put, it’s like getting into business; but before you get into the “business,” getting to know what business you’re in. And optimizing the way you live for high-level health and performance starts with knowing how to harness optimal energy levels. And you won’t ket alone “can’t (one of the few times where that word makes sense) do that effectively until you understand the science simplified.
Once you know this, that’s when performance lifestyle management, comes in. Once you know what energy is, where it comes from and how to harness it, now you’re ready to maintain your energy; and you need the lifestyle skills that will help you manage stress through your life, successfully.
In PL365 you’ll unearth the exciting and opportune insights across the broad yet still the essential range of subjects that form a “balanced” lifestyle approach. The experience of “balance” is the result of your breadth and depth of lifestyle skills, not anything else.
Energized by Performance Living 101 and now empowered with a diverse-yet-synergistic approach to whole, human performance, you will soon have the never-before-assembled lifestyle formula to resolve the hidden lifestyle challenges that distract and hold you back. You’ll know how to move forward and evolve from a position of strength in your life and career and achieve even your most ambitious goals while living in balance, with vibrant health and peace of mind.
You’ll know how to move forward and evolve from a position of strength in your life and career and achieve even your most ambitious goals while living in balance, with vibrant health and peace of mind.
The net effect of which will leave you with the most innovative strategy for uplevel your personal and professional path of success.
Performance Living [PL] 101
Get out of energy Debt–the hidden variable that undermines all health and success initiatives.
Tap into the unlimited supply of energy and learn how to embody as much of it as possible.
Sync up with the natural cycles that are affecting your energy levels whether you know it or not.
Learn how to turn overwhelm and fatigue into renewable personal power, the way athletes have learned to do it—even if you’re not a sports or fitness buff.
Gain mastery, not weight, of the key methods for getting your energy back so you’re ready to fully engage with life.
Start fueling your body in such a way as to experience your peak energy at it’s best.
Train your body so you are fit, for the personal power, you’ll soon have access to.
Direct your energy, in ways the underly the best success strategies.
Performance Lifestyle [PL} 365
Immerse yourself in coherent principles and practices that optimize all the basic fundamentals of successful living.
Deeply integrate the 12 essential keys to a high-performance life that’s fully-engaged, whole, and balanced.
Turn trouble spots into areas of ease and vitality.
Streamline, simplify, and structure.
Get every aspect of lifestyle working for you—innately, as second nature as breathing.
Gain a mindset and a skillset that enables you to be fully engaged in the world, truly focused, and at the top of your game.
Achieve even your most ambitious goals in life, business with your health and well-being intact.
The best thing about a Performance Lifestyle is that in a very short time, it brings together an entire integrated suite of attributes, best practices, learnings, applications and lifestyle changes that could otherwise take a very long time to master.
Many people spend 10, 20, 30 years learning how to eat, or meditate, or figure out their life purpose—the core, burning ambition that drives them to do everything else.
But if you spent decades years on each of those things—and all the other life areas you need to handle in order to optimize yourself for full-capacity living—it would take well over 100 years!
What’s more, it would cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars in education and training—and the lost time in trial-and-error detours.
A Performance Lifestyle is robust and comprehensive—but it doesn’t make more out of things than they need to be.
Instead, it streamlines and simplifies the process of living a radiantly healthy, enviably successful life.
It boils down the essentials and delivers them in a context that is whole, makes sense, and powerfully inspires you to engage them.
This entire wholistic set of essentials can be something takes years or even decades to learn and truly embody. It took lifestyle and fitness expert and Coach John Allen Mollenhauer at least 25 years—through study, teaching, experimentation, and his own experience as an athlete and business owner.
John Allen Mollenhauer is a lifestyle entrepreneur, certified trainer, certified nutritionist, former bodybuilder, and author/co-author of several books including The Curse of the Capable (with Harvard psychology instructor Arthur P. Ciaramicoli PhD and foreword by Super Bowl MVP Phil Simms). He passionately promotes a vital, unique path to achieving your highest goals in life, business or sport—with superior health and well-being intact.
For more than two decades, through his own practice, research and inquiry and teaching/coaching hundreds of others, John has been identifying and refining the 12 essential fundamentals of a lifestyle that delivers high performance with balance, vibrant health and peace of mind.
Today, he and his team support, inspire, train, and educate achievers to unleash the full potential of their lifestyles—the way professional athletes do—to look, feel and perform brilliantly.
You can integrate these fundamentals in under a year.
But you’ll feel the difference immediately.
We’re so confident of that, we offer a guarantee. If in 30 days of Performance Lifestyle training you don’t feel you’re already on track to living a radically upleveled life in which your vibrant health and well-being are serving your deepest purpose, we’ll offer you a full money back guarantee. We simply ask that you prove it doesn’t work and you’ll find this is part of your training.
This is the life you’ve known deep down is possible—but that has eluded you until now.
You’ll no longer be held back from your goals, your dreams or life itself back by stress, lack of endurance or stamina, energy deficits, sleep issues, negative psychology, insufficient support, lack of balance, or unclear expectations or purpose.
You’ll be charging on every cylinder, with every part of life and your health working in seamless and harmonious concert.
You’ll know your goals and your game with crystal clarity. And you’ll know how to plan, perform, and achieve—with ease and full confidence, health, and peace of mind.
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A Personal Story About Fatigue Part I
September 23, 2016 /0 Comments/in Body, Energy, Lifestyle, Performance Lifestyle /by Head Trainer and Coach John Allen JAM JAM
In the late 80’s and 90’s; I went from being a gym owner, trainer, and health seminar speaker, to becoming an Internet entrepreneur. For ten long and relentless years, my lifestyle underwent a radical transformation in the wrong direction and unfortunately so did my body.
I started the decade fit, vital, and strong; I ended overwhelmed, exhausted, and overweight even though I knew volumes about nutrition and fitness. The pace of my work life far outpaced my ability to take care of myself. Living with a chronic energy deficit led to overeating and inactivity, an inability to perform well, and health complications.
Despite eating relatively “healthy” and exercising fairly regularly I remained on a “downward trend,” fatigued, and progressively more overweight. Week after week, I contemplated how I would change my life – but I kept moving forward tirelessly – over-engaging and taking on more and more to overcome what I thought were “motivational,” or “psychological” issues, (well maybe there was some of that) but wasn’t.
I had everything going on but was barely hanging on, either far too busy or just too worn out to make the changes I knew needed to be made but couldn’t quite put my finger on. I was keeping commitments to everyone, but myself. I felt stuck. I spiraled down and eventually couldn’t take it anymore.
At 30 years old, I was fat, fatigued, and burnt-out and given my prior career experience that was hard to accept. It wasn’t until the dot-com crash of 2000 eventually lead to my personal crash late that same year, when I finally said enough; “it’s time for a better way.” I needed to set up a lifestyle that was balanced and healthy, amidst the high-achieving life I tended to live.
That was my first real bout with burnout, and it’s consequences, and it would not be my last.
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Why You Experience Constant Fatigue
September 21, 2016 /0 Comments/in Body, Performance Lifestyle /by Head Trainer and Coach John Allen JAM JAM
Have you ever wondered WHY, even though you’re currently on a fitness program and currently eating “healthy” foods for your well-being, maybe even getting that “extra hour” of sleep here and there, you’re still run down, tired, frustrated, and all-out exhausted beyond belief at the end of the day?
Ever sat down and really thought about all the things you’re doing for your health, that are supposed to make you more productive, have more energy, and enjoy every second life has to offer? Then end up asking yourself, “If I’m doing all of this, then why in the hell am I so overwhelmed and tired all the time?”
Do you sometimes feel like you’re doing everything in your power to stay in motion, to stay healthy, to be successful in your professional and your personal life, and to ultimately be ecstatically happy… But for some reason, a reason you can’t quite put your finger on, you sometimes feel like you’re barely hanging on, with a small sampling of the personal energy you once had?
Do you sometimes dread waking up the next day to have to do it all over again, even if you like what you’re doing?
Ever feel like you don’t know what to do next to change course?
If you answered Yes to any of the above, then, I’ve got some bad news for you…
You’re likely steeped in personal energy debt.
Chances are you’ve worked hard to be as successful as you are today. Maybe you’ve achieved more than you thought you ever would, in both your business life AND in your personal life – maybe many times over.
And, chances are, you’ve been worn down, even during some of your strongest hours… only to have to pick yourself up over, and over again to keep going.
You’ve always made a strong comeback, every single time because you’re a winner… even if you haven’t achieved some of the goals you think about…
“Blood, Sweat, and Tears” is your silent but driving mantra…
You live and die by this very phrase. And you’re proud of it, as you should be…
But here’s the bad news…
Even though you make a strong comeback, each time you’re worn down, you become increasingly tired with each successive round. Tiredness becomes ‘distress,’ and this low grade ‘distress’ transforms into what most people think of as “burnout,” because they’ve been overspending your personal energy for far too long, and they’re now in what’s called “personal energy debt.”
In debt, you fall into the never ending cycle of picking yourself up to give it another go – time after time again, but you never solve the real problem.
…and “most people” descend into this downward trend or spiral because of one or more of the following reasons:
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NEW MUSIC: The Shadowed Diamond – Key Nyata
Key Nyata is one of Seattle rap’s new young guard. He’s a contributing member of the ubiquitous Raider Klan and a burgeoning blog darling. The Shadowed Diamond is his latest release and features production from P Smoov and guest appearances by Nacho Picasso, Avatar Darko and Dave B, among others.
As an aside…
There’s much hand-wringing around Town about the “Seattle sound” with the general consensus being that there isn’t one. Key is a prime example of that: he strays far from virtually all of his peers with deeply experimental beats that are more mood and feeling than typical rap set pieces. There’s never been a better time for Seattle rap to come into its own; hip hop is democratized to its greatest degree in history which rewards a fiercely independent spirit like the one we have here.
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The Story of Lil Carl and the Arithmetic Series
Lil Carl bounced into kindergarten on a warm spring morning– energetic, but bored. Not one thing Ms. Artwaller had thrown at him that year had come close to testing his abilities. Exasperated Ms. Artwaller had had enough of Lil Carl disrupting class and decided to put an end to his shenanigans. “Find the sum of the first 100 whole numbers,” she said. At long last, Ms. Artwaller was finally able to teach the class without Lil Carl doing Lil Carl things…
After just a few moments Lil Carl was back: “5050. You did want me to add whole numbers 1 to 100, right?”
(This story is based on a legendary tale of one of the greatest mathematicians of the 18th and 19th centuries, Carl Friedrich Gauss. Read more here.)
How Did He Do That?
Even though the numbers are sequentially 1, 2, 3, and so on, you don’t have to add them in that order. In fact, the addition is much quicker if you change the arrangement. Add 1 and 100; add 2 and 99; continue with that pattern.
Step 1: Wrap the second half of the series below the first half, and then add.
Now, we have a bunch of 101s. In fact, we have 50 of them. So, instead of adding 100 terms, we can now multiply!
Step 2: Multiply!
We have fifty 101s now, so multiply:
50 • 101 –> 5050
The sum of 1 + 2 + 3 + … + 100 is 5050. We folded the series in half, so that we added the first half of the series with the second half of the series. This eventually allowed us to multiply to get the sum of the series.
What about Other Arithmetic Series?
Suppose we wanted to add 5 + 12 + 19 + … + 75. (Hint: The difference between consecutive terms is 7.)
Step 1: Fold the series in half.
Step 2: Find the number of terms after the series is folded in half.
a. From the first term of 5 to the last term of 75 is a jump of 70.
b. The jump between each term is 7, so there are 10 total jumps.
c. There are 11 terms in the original series of 5 + 12 + 19 + … + 75. (10 jumps and the first term)
d. After the series is folded in half, there will be five full pairs and an odd term in the middle without a pair. We will call that 5 ½ pairs.
The pairs add to 80. There are 5.5 pairs.
80 • 5.5 –> 440
Arithmetic Series Formula
Arithmetic series can always be added with the method shared above. If had rather use a formula, however, here it is:
where n = # of terms in the series, t1 is the first term in the series, and tn is the last term in the series.
Please note: The formula mirrors the method used above. The first and last terms are added (t1 + tn) and then multiplied by half of the number of terms in the series (n/2).
How Will This Look on the ACT?
Try this example from the 2014-2015 Preparing-for-the-ACT Guide (property of ACT Inc). If needed, start by writing out the terms in the sequence.
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What is Writing For?
This lecture explains some of the limits of defining writing as a skill, offers alternative ways of understanding what writing is and how it works, and explains why embracing these alternative understandings can help us become better writers.
Faculty Member: Tisha Turk
Discussion Date: Oct. 28 at 4 p.m.
Meet Professor Turk
Tisha trains Grinnell's writing mentors, coordinates the Writing Mentors program, collaborates with the Writing Lab's professional staff, and consults with faculty across campus about how best to assign and respond to writing in their classes. Prior to joining Grinnell, she was writing center director and associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota Morris, Minnesota's public liberal arts college.
As a scholar, Tisha studies transformative works: texts that transform other texts. Her current research questions have to do with how and why media fans make and watch vids, short videos that combine clips from movies or television with carefully chosen music to celebrate, interpret, or critique the original texts. Most scholarship about vids has been grounded in media studies or literary studies; Tisha looks at vids through the lens of composition studies and digital literacies, analyzing vidding as a multimedia writing process through which fans both respond and contribute to fan conversations about film and TV narratives.
Tisha's fan studies research has been published in journals including Transformative Works and Cultures and Music, Sound, and the Moving Image and in collections including the Routledge Companion to Media Fandom and A Companion to Fandom and Fan Studies. She has worked with legal teams from the Organization for Transformative Works and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to win Digital Millennium Copyright Act exemptions granting vidders and other remix artists the right to break copy protection on media files.
When she's not geeking out about writing, Tisha is usually reading, cooking, gardening, biking, listening to music, or watching sci-fi TV of dubious quality.
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Velocity (Impulse, Book Three)
Reaching Optimum Speed
For Detroit handyman Derrick Chance and his lover, Gavin Hayes, the holiday season is filled with the promise of new beginnings. Gavin’s officially moving in, and after the New Year, they’ll begin house hunting. But they both know all the talk of gift exchange, whose holiday ornaments go where, and what repairs and remodels will be needed to put Derrick’s house on the market is only a smoke screen.
Before the month is over, Gavin will have the final verdict on whether or not his dangerously delusional ex, Lukas, infected him with HIV. No matter how good Gavin’s chances appear with the three-month hurdle already passed, neither he nor Derrick knows what the future holds for them.
The holidays have always been a time of loss and mourning for Derrick, but now he has to stay strong as Gavin’s own fears and doubts assail him relentlessly. And when Lukas returns, unexpectedly penitent amid troubling revelations, Gavin has to ask himself whether he can offer Derrick the future he deserves, or whether these first few months of happiness are the best they will ever get.
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As far as new holiday traditions went, Derrick decided spending Black Friday being fucked blind was a pretty good one. Especially when the only shopping involved was an emergency run to the pharmacy for more condoms.
That evening after Gavin returned from services, he and Derrick lounged on the sofa. The lassitude of too many good leftovers and too much incredible sex made their limbs heavy and their thoughts slow. Derrick lay with his head on Gavin’s lap, one of his arms hanging lazily over the edge, petting the folds of Chelsea’s jowls where she lay at Gavin’s feet.
“Oh, I almost forgot to ask,” Gavin murmured. He ran his fingers through Derrick’s hair, releasing at the end of the stroke with just enough of a gentle yank to have Derrick on the verge of purring.
Derrick was aching and sated and reasonably certain neither of them could get it up again if they wanted to, but damn if that didn’t make him willing to try.
“Hmm?” Derrick dragged his wandering attention back to Gavin’s words.
“I have to go to a holiday party on the sixteenth, for work. Want to go with me?”
“Sure,” Derrick answered automatically. Then his hand stilled on Chelsea’s fur. “Wait. How formal a party?”
“Well, it’s not black tie, if that’s what you’re wondering.” Derrick felt the shift as Gavin shrugged. “Suits. Maybe a little nicer than I normally wear for work, I guess.”
Derrick turned his head, lifting an eyebrow. “I’ve seen the way you dress for work. Short of a tux, I’m not going to be able to get sharper than that.”
Gavin grinned, giving Derrick a cocky, unrepentant look. “Well, of course not. No one has that much style. Suit and tie. You’ll be fine.”
“Gav, you’ve seen the ties I wear to church. Last time I bought a suit it was for Devon and Hannah’s wedding — seven years ago. And that was because I couldn’t bring myself to wear the one I’d worn to my grandparents’ and brother’s funerals.”
Gavin’s hand stilled in his hair. “Just tell me it’s not polyester.”
“What? Am I supposed to know the difference?”
His lap vibrated as he chuckled and dropped a kiss on Derrick’s temple. “It’s a good thing I’m not attracted to you for your fashion sense.” He straightened and resumed stroking Derrick’s hair, shrugging again. “Wear whatever feels comfortable.”
Derrick’s mouth pulled down at the corners and Gavin looked back at him. “What?”
Derrick shrugged. “Just don’t want to make a bad impression.”
Gavin blinked. “Well, now, that’s unexpected. I didn’t think you’d care much what people thought of how you dress.”
“Usually I don’t.” Derrick squirmed, unable to explain how his pride pricked at the thought of appearing unpolished by Gavin’s side. “I never have before.”
“Want me to help you shop for a new suit?”
“Shop. You do realize what season it is?”
“Gotta do what you gotta do.”
Derrick sighed and made himself relax, his head returning to rest on Gavin’s thigh. “Yeah, I guess so. That’d probably be best.”
Gavin chuckled knowingly, scratching his fingers through the stubble along Derrick’s jaw. “Okay. We’ll do that this week, then. It’ll give us enough time to have it properly tailored.”
Derrick rolled a wary look up at Gavin but refrained from commenting. He couldn’t exactly ask for Gavin’s help and then complain about his methods.
“So what do you usually do to celebrate the holidays?” Gavin asked as the ten o’clock news began.
“Um, let’s see. I put up a few lights outside — just enough to avoid looking like a Grinch — and I help Miss Ingrid put up her lights and her tree. She usually makes dinner for us on Christmas night but I don’t know if she’ll be well enough this year. If she’s not, I think I’ll get her Swedish meatballs recipe and make our traditional dinner for her instead. Of course, this year Christmas falls smack in the middle of Chanukah. Hannah usually invites me over to dinner for those eight days, but she’ll understand if I miss a night. You’d be welcome, but I imagine you do that with your mom?”
“Yeah. Mom would love it if you came too. She likes you.”
Derrick smiled. “And I like Leora, but maybe I’ll do every other day? I don’t wanna ditch out on Hannah completely.”
“Sounds like a good compromise. You don’t get a tree yourself?”
Derrick shook his head. “Never seemed worth it just for me. Devon’s firmly agnostic, so the only person I had to celebrate Christmas with was Miss Ingrid, and she already had one.”
“That’s a shame.” Gavin frowned, looking toward the corner by the fireplace where Derrick’s grandparents had always put up their tree, which must have seemed like the obvious Christmas tree spot, the way Gavin zeroed in on it. “I was looking forward to having one again.”
“You had a tree?”
“We did. My dad grew up Methodist. Not all that devout, but we still had a secular Christmas, too, while he was alive.”
“I didn’t know that.” Derrick caught Gavin’s hand, drawing it toward his lips and kissing it. “We can get a tree if you want. Might be fun. I haven’t had one in years.”
“Would you mind? If you don’t have any decorations anymore, I can see if Mom still has ours. Or we could run up to Bronner’s in Frankenmuth—”
“I’ve got ours in the attic still, but why don’t you get yours too? We should have both.” Derrick smiled, looking over at the corner as though envisioning the tree. For the first time in years, the upcoming holidays didn’t seem to be something to tiptoe around, but rather to embrace. It would likely be his last Christmas in this house, so it was fitting that it should be celebrated much more joyfully than it had been in the past.
“I’ll do that.” Gavin leaned down and pressed his mouth to Derrick’s. It felt good. Easy. Right.
How had he ever managed to convince himself he was content with his life alone?
There was only one dark spot to mar the happiness.
Derrick swallowed hard. “When do you get tested again?”
“I haven’t decided.” Gavin sighed, straightening and laying his head on the back of the sofa. “The six-month mark since last exposure is the fourteenth. I thought I’d try to get the results back by the nineteenth, before Chanukah begins, but then…maybe that’s not something I want to know, right before the holidays. Maybe I should wait until after. But I’m not sure I want it hanging over my head any longer than necessary. I don’t know.”
“It’s not going to be bad news. We’ve done the research, talked about the statistics. If you’re negative at three months, the six-month results are mostly a formality.”
“And if it is bad news?”
“Then we’ll deal with it.”
“You’ve had enough tragedy around the holidays.” Gavin caught Derrick’s chin and turned his face, commanding his attention. “You really want to throw that into the mix?”
The thought made his chest tighten. Derrick forced it aside. “You think it’s gonna suck any less come January?”
Gavin laughed without much humor. “Good point. I’ll think about it, okay?”
“Okay.” Derrick pushed himself up. The activity roused Chelsea, who abandoned her post by their feet in favor of her bed in the corner. Derrick pivoted to straddle Gavin’s lap and pinned Gavin against the cushions, leaning down to kiss him. “But it’s not gonna be bad news.”
“Because you say so?” Gavin tried to smile as his hands crawled down Derrick’s bare ribs to rest on his hips.
“Exactly.” Oh, yes, he’d done plenty of research after Gavin had told him there was a chance he might be HIV-positive. It helped his precisely ordered mind to know exactly what they were facing. He knew the stats by heart. Most people tested positive within twenty-five days. Ninety-seven percent of cases were detectable at three months.
The chances really were more than good that Gavin had nothing to worry about.
Yet that didn’t reassure either of them much. The burden of waiting was a physical weight. If Derrick could feel it dragging him down, how much worse was it for Gavin?
Seeking to turn anxiety into passion, he kissed Gavin again slowly, deliberately. His tongue dipped into Gavin’s mouth, sliding along Gavin’s lips. “And someday — it doesn’t have to be immediately after you get your results, just someday when you feel comfortable with it — I wanna go down on you without a condom. I want to taste you. Just you.”
“God, I want that, too.” Gavin groaned, his hips lifting under Derrick’s body, his hands tightening on Derrick’s waist. “I just” —he turned his mouth away from Derrick’s, his brow furrowed and his eyes uncertain— “What if I can’t ever give you that?”
Derrick shrugged, shaking his head. His mouth sought Gavin’s neck instead. “It doesn’t matter. I said I want it, not that I need it.”
“I know.” Gavin moaned softly as Derrick’s lips and teeth traveled down his neck. “I just want to give you what you —”
“You do.” Derrick’s mouth moved over his again and Gavin gave up the argument.
Wrapping his arms around Gavin’s shoulders, Derrick slowed the kiss, softening, drawing Gavin’s head to his shoulder afterward to hold him.
“I’m scared,” Gavin murmured after a moment, his voice muffled against Derrick’s neck.
“I never should have trusted Lukas.”
“He’s a scam artist, Gav. He told me himself — he paid his way through college hustling ass and freeloading off wannabe sugar-daddies for a few months’ room and board. It’s his gig. You couldn’t have known.”
“He what?” Gavin jerked back, the color fleeing his face. His freckles stood out in dark, shocking contrast
Derrick blinked at him. “What?”
“Yeah.” Derrick nodded, frowning. “He said his parents disowned him when he came out to them, so he had to pick up businessmen in hotel bars to pay the bills.”
“Get off me. Get off me!” Gavin shoved at Derrick’s shoulders and Derrick scrambled off his lap. Gavin sprang to his feet, his hands twitching into nervous claws. “He never told me that. He never said a word. He told me his parents were fine with him being gay!”
Derrick shook his head, watching Gavin pace with alarm. “Well, he could have been lying to me. Trying to make himself more sympathetic.”
“Or he was lying to me!” Gavin spun toward Derrick, his eyes wide with panic. “He knew I’d never have taken a chance on him if I’d known he’d been involved in that sort of high-risk behavior, so he didn’t tell me!”
“Stop. Gav, just stop. Your three-month test was fine. Whether he turned tricks or not doesn’t change that.”
“Yes, it does. If his risk factor is that much higher, there’s a far better chance that he is HIV-positive, and if he is, there is no way he didn’t infect me after that many times without a condom. My three-month test just means I didn’t have enough antibodies yet.”
“No. No, Gav.”
Derrick shook his head vehemently, pushing himself off the sofa. Gavin flinched away from the first brush of his hand, but relaxed at Derrick’s second attempt to reach out, letting Derrick draw him in.
“It doesn’t work that way. You’re the math guy; you know statistics better than that. Think about the numbers. Whatever Lukas did or didn’t do when he was younger, there’s only a three percent chance you’re gonna turn up positive at this point. Maybe he was smart enough to use protection with all his johns. And even if he is infected, he might have had really low viral load when he was with you. You don’t know. This is fear talking.”
Which, really, Derrick ought to have expected at some point as he became familiar with Gavin’s tendency to react strongly to things. He should have been preparing himself for this sort of freak-out all along.
He tightened his arms around Gavin. “We just gotta make it through these last few weeks and then we can put this behind us. Or, hell, get tested tomorrow if you need peace of mind sooner. A couple weeks can’t make that big a difference. Either way, it’s almost certain the test will be negative. And if it isn’t, we’ll deal with that. We’ll get you on the anti-retroviral drugs early; keep your viral load low and your T-cell count high. You’ll be okay. We’ll be okay.”
Gavin sighed and some of the tension seeped out of his posture. He leaned into Derrick, his head bowed and his brow resting on Derrick’s shoulder. Derrick pressed a kiss to his hair, stroking the back of his neck.
“We’ll be okay,” he repeated.
“Right.” Gavin lifted his head and nodded, trying for a wan smile and falling short. “I think I’ll go to bed.”
“Okay,” Derrick said softly, caressing a thumb down Gavin’s cheek.
“Alone.” Gavin dropped his eyes. “For a few minutes, at least. I want to get myself in a better mood before you join me.”
Derrick blinked, nodding in cautious agreement. “Well, you don’t have to do that for my sake, but sure. Why don’t I take Chelsea for a quick walk?”
Chelsea jumped to her feet at the word walk while Gavin frowned.
“It’s freezing out.”
“I’ve got a jacket.” He smiled and kissed Gavin’s temple. “I’ll be back soon.”
The heavy feeling returned as Gavin disappeared down the hall. His normally straight, proud shoulders were hunched in a way that made Derrick’s throat ache. For once, though, he didn’t question his own ability to help Gavin bear that burden. A week apart had been enough to make it clear that whatever the future held, he’d rather face it with Gavin than without.
He could do this.
They could do it together.
Chelsea nudged his thigh and Derrick stooped to rub the skin drooping down her brow. Her velvety brown eyes looked as sober and concerned as Derrick felt, searching his face for reassurance.
“He’ll be okay,” Derrick murmured to her, the words becoming a mantra in his own mind as he grabbed his leather jacket. “We all will.”
Derrick lay on his back doing bench presses Saturday morning as Gavin came down the stairs, white socks covering his feet below charcoal-gray flannel pajama bottoms. Always chilly in the morning — even in Derrick’s house, where the in-floor heating system kept the house a comfortable, consistent temperature all night — he’d pulled on a long-sleeved thermal shirt. The waffle-weave cotton clung to his torso like a second skin, allowing Derrick to admire Gavin’s lean form. His dance training lent his footfalls an easy grace and he descended the stairs lightly even when heavy with sleep. He clutched a coffee mug between his hands and Derrick knew from experience those fingers would be icy until he’d been up and around for a while.
“Morning.” Derrick blew out his breath with an explosive puff, hefting the bar up above his chest. His arms were just beginning to quiver with effort and beads of sweat rolled off his temple into his hair.
“Mmm, I get a show with my breakfast today,” Gavin hummed, grinning as he sipped his coffee. Derrick silently thanked God his face was already flushed with exertion.
“Not much to see,” he murmured, resting for a moment before bringing the barbell back down toward his chest slowly, controlling its descent.
“That’s what you think,” Gavin said with an appreciative smile. Derrick huffed a breathless laugh, tightening his core muscles to press the barbell up again. The quiver in his arms became a tremor, and he settled the bar in its cradle just as he felt ready to hit muscle failure. Gavin gave another low hum and Derrick lifted an eyebrow at him, panting.
“You’re so gentle most of the time, it’s sexy to be reminded just how strong you are.”
Derrick laughed, burying his face in the towel he pulled off his shoulder. “I have no idea what you’re going on about.”
“What? I’m not allowed to appreciate your hyper-masculine alpha-male moments?” Gavin shrugged, looking unapologetic as he crossed over to the dryer to lean against it, setting his coffee cup on the surface. “I do. They make me feel all dainty and swoony.”
“Do they, now?” Derrick smiled, running the towel briskly through his hair to soak up the worst of the sweat near his scalp.
“Mmm. Like I want to rip open my bodice and scream, ‘Take me now, you manly beast!’”
Derrick stared incredulously for a moment before he burst into helpless peals of laughter.
“You think I’m joking?” Gavin’s eyes twinkled behind his glasses as he continued to grin.
As he caught his breath, Derrick slanted a look at Gavin, studying him. The last time Gavin had come onto him this obviously, it had been pure bravado, laid like thick, clumsy bandages over the wounds Lukas had left him with.
Once he took time to look, it became apparent. There was a tension at the corners of Gavin’s eyes and mouth that belied his easy teasing, and his index finger tapped a silent, rapid beat against the edge of the dryer. Seeing it, Derrick wondered just what sort of nightmare Gavin had awoken from.
Would he even remember if Derrick tried to cut through the posturing and ask? Or was all that was left the anxious fidgeting he tried so hard to suppress?
Or maybe he simply didn’t want to talk about it. Maybe the come-hither joking meant he wanted a diversion, instead. Derrick could respect that.
He set aside his questions, along with his towel, and pushed himself off the weight bench. His stride was slow and deliberate as he stalked toward Gavin, his smile fading.
Gavin’s own smile fled the closer Derrick drew, until he was trapped between Derrick and the dryer.
“I think if you were serious, you’d have brought more down here with you than coffee and sass.” Derrick ghosted his lips across Gavin’s, too light a brush even to be called a kiss, and his hand delved into the pocket of Gavin’s pajama bottoms. His knuckles bumped Gavin’s rising cock through the flannel cloth without paying it any particular attention, and Derrick tutted. “No condoms? No lube? I think you may be all talk.”
Gavin’s eyes widened, his pupils growing large in the faint morning light filtering through the ground-level windows. His breath hitched and then trickled from him in a slow sigh as his tongue darted out to lick his lip.
“I…obviously didn’t plan this well.”
He grabbed Gavin’s shoulder and spun him to face the dryer, pressing close, grinding against his ass.
“And just how,” he growled, “am I supposed to bend you over this dryer and take you now if you don’t come prepared?”
“That’s a…really good question.” Gavin moaned softly as Derrick’s lips found his neck, gliding along the tendon. His hand slid down Gavin’s belly to grasp his cock through his pajama bottoms as it grew beautifully erect, lean and pulsing under the layer of flannel.
Gavin groaned, his breath leaving him in a whoosh as Derrick planted a palm between his shoulder blades and shoved him down over the dryer with more force than necessary. He seized Gavin’s hands and wrapped them around the control panel.
“Don’t let go of that.”
Gavin groaned, nodding and laying his head against the surface of the dryer. Derrick grabbed the elastic waistband of his pants and jerked them down Gavin’s narrow hips to his knees. He grasped Gavin’s buttocks with both hands, squeezing and kneading, letting some of the strength Gavin had spoken of tell in the rough caresses.
It felt good, listening to Gavin’s moans as Derrick knelt behind him, nipping at the taut muscles of his ass cheeks before pushing them apart. Good to fulfill the need behind Gavin’s roundabout joking. Good that he’d even picked up on the clues to begin with. Good that he had the confidence to take charge now, rather than relying solely on Gavin’s experience to lead the way.
Good to taste Gavin, to feel the responsive wriggles and shifts as he rocked back to meet Derrick’s swiping, probing tongue. Good to hear his increasing desperation, the sounds he made swelling the longer Derrick worked.
“Oh, Lord…Derrick, please…”
“That’s what I wanna hear. Only thing I wanna hear from you…” Derrick murmured, nibbling on the soft flesh at the top of Gavin’s ass. He delved up under the tight thermal shirt, nails scraping lightly down Gavin’s torso. “Is my name as you beg me to fuck you.”
“Yes.” A high, plaintive note rode the edge of Gavin’s tone. “Please…yes…”
“Upstairs. Now.” He gave Gavin’s ass one last firm squeeze before pushing the pajama bottoms down to Gavin’s ankles and rising.
Nodding, Gavin pushed himself up off the surface of the dryer and kicked them off, scooping them up and hurrying toward the stairs. Derrick followed fast on his heels, stripping off his t-shirt as he went. He tackled Gavin to the bed once the bedroom door had closed behind them, catching Gavin’s wrists and pinning him to the mattress. Gavin groaned, meeting Derrick’s hard kiss even as he struggled against the grasp.
Derrick knew the reaction intimately — the need to test the restraint. Not to escape, but to feel more held. He’d done it himself dozens of times since he and Gavin had begun seeing each other.
“Oh, you’re gonna fight me now?” Derrick taunted, grinning wolfishly. “Go right ahead.”
Gavin’s eyes narrowed in challenge. Pinned under Derrick’s weight and grasp, his efforts didn’t amount to much. He fought harder than Derrick had expected, though, beyond merely testing. He strained against Derrick’s grip, twisting and writhing, unable to buck Derrick off. He glared and spat curses, his breath coming in rapid pants as Derrick smiled down at him.
Derrick waited out the resistance patiently, secure in the advantage of his position and leverage. He let Gavin exhaust himself.
“Isn’t this what you wanted?” Derrick asked huskily, dropping a soft nip to Gavin’s throat without letting up on the force of his grip. Gavin made a pained sound as he tried to twist his wrists out of the manacles of Derrick’s strong fingers. “To be thrown down and taken?”
Gavin’s struggles slowed, his whimper rising to a moan as the nip became a bite. Derrick ground his hips deliberately against Gavin’s, rubbing the cotton knit of his sweatpants against Gavin’s erection.
“Yes,” Gavin hissed. His head fell back, baring his throat to Derrick.
He held the bite, tightening his grip on Gavin’s wrists when Gavin’s body tensed in resistance. Then the tension melted away, leaving Gavin moaning beneath him. When Derrick released Gavin’s wrists, the bands of his fingers left red marks behind. Still, Gavin reached for him, grasped at him.
“Please…Derrick, please,” Gavin whispered, shifting under his weight.
“That’s more like it.” Smiling in satisfaction, Derrick pushed himself up, shoving his sweats and briefs down his hips before reaching for the condoms and lube.
Something unspeakably beautiful crossed Gavin’s face as Derrick worked into him, letting the thread of roughness carry through into that as well. Had that look always been there, each time he topped Gavin? Had he missed it before? Or was it just now, this mood, this undercurrent of need from Gavin, pulling on Derrick like invisible strings?
He didn’t know, but it made him both yearn to shelter and protect Gavin, and also to claim him, to carry him even closer to desperation. He held nothing back, not in the hard drive of his hips or the brutal grasp of his hands. He hooked his arms under Gavin’s thighs and loomed over him, jerking him into each rough thrust.
If he lacked Gavin’s glib tongue and penchant for dirty talk, Gavin didn’t seem to mind.
In the aftermath came tenderness, as Derrick covered Gavin’s body with his own, engulfing him. Gavin buried his face in Derrick’s neck and clung to him, gasping and shuddering. Derrick held him, with soft, nonsensical murmurs and soothing strokes of his hands.
For a moment, his chest began to ache. A hard, familiar knot of fear formed, paralyzing Derrick’s vocal cords — fear of having too much to say and no words to speak it all. Fear of needing someone, fear of admitting weakness, fear of the unknown, fear of loss.
He made himself speak past it.
He pressed his lips to Gavin’s temple and the knot loosened and let him breathe again. Since the first time he’d blurted those words in a near panic, it had become easier to make that admission and lay bare all the vulnerability inherent in it.
Gavin smiled up at him, and his eyes were calmer than they had been when he’d come down to the basement.
“Thank you,” he answered, tucking his face against Derrick’s throat again.
Derrick didn’t bother to ask what for.
It didn’t disturb Derrick that Gavin didn’t say it back. He didn’t want meaningless, reflexive reciprocation. When he said it to Gavin now, he did it for himself. He did it because it was liberating for him to release that overwhelming, tumultuous feeling that welled up inside. And because each time he said it, he got a little better at accepting it, and the reality of loving anyone again — especially Gavin — became less terrifying.
He didn’t do it to hear the words mirrored back at him.
Gavin had reasons for being more cautious, and Derrick couldn’t blame him. Sometimes he wondered just how Lukas might have abused those particular words to make Gavin so leery about speaking them. I think I love you was all Gavin had dared admit so far.
It was enough that Gavin needed him.
Derrick could wait for the rest.
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I remember seeing Daren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream in the theater—through splayed fingers—and praying for it to end. Not because I thought the movie was horrible. Rather, the characters’ destructions and degradations were simply unbearable.
Similarly—though really not similarly (as there most definitely wasn’t a refrigerator monster)—was when I first saw Our Town. I couldn’t help but check my watch as the slow-paced, bare-set play started. Yet after a while, the sparseness ebbed, and the impact settled in.
There are pieces of theater and cinema that are simply hard to get through—sometimes so tedious, so anguishing, that you don’t think you will ever make it. Yet somehow, once you’ve reached that last moment, that last beat, all the work seems worth it.
Of course there are those pieces of “art” that torture but provide no redeeming value. Like Jane Seymour’s Open Heart Necklace, Justin Beiber, or the storylines on Glee.
Like the former, the Abbey's production of Terminus at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is a raw and powerful event. For two intermission-less hours, we look into a mirror (or window) that has exploded inward, listening to verse monologues of three characters named A, B and C. We listen to A’s story of her ill-fated attempt to save a pregnant ex-student; B’s supernatural, last night of her life; and C’s death at the hands of a Demon.
I use the verb “listen” because that is what is required. Each inhabits their own space for the entire piece—only moving when it is their turn to take up their monologue once again. Never once do they physically interact with the other actors. Only verbally, as their lines overlap at the end of one’s section and the beginning of another’s.
It is the immense skill of the actors Olwen Fouéré (A), Catherine Walker (B), and Declan Conlon (C) and the writer/director Mark O’Rowe (writer of the indie film Boy A) that you are never bored. With razor-sharp script and the actors’ dexterity, these violent and visionary stories come to life.
By the end, I felt exhausted (and a little relieved). But also energized.
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A meeting of the NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs taking place via videoconference confirmed the importance of pursuing a dialogue with Russia, while continuing the policy to deter it, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference on Tuesday following the consultations, APA reports citing TASS.
"We all agree that we must continue to pursue the dialogue with Russia," Stoltenberg said. However, "We are adapting NATO deterrence posture to address Russia's destabilizing actions," he stressed.
The foreign ministers "discussed Russian continued build-up in our neighborhood," the secretary general said after the last for this year meeting.
"We see how Russia has deployed troops in violation of the wishes of the different governments in our close neighborhood," including "in part of Georgia (NATO does not recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia declared after Georgia’s aggression in 2008, continuing to see them as part of Georgia - TASS) and Eastern Ukraine and also in Moldova and Transnistria," Stoltenberg said.
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The Deathwatch or Watchlist is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.
New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on Category:Closing projects.
(The content of the Getting Things Done table, merged with the In Progress table, can now be found on Small projects.)
1 Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die)
1.1 Sunset Happy
1.2 Just When You Least Expect It
1.3 Other endangered species and misc ideas
2 Pining for the Fjords (Dying)
3 Dead as a Doornail
3.4.1 Because we know better
4 Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations
5.1 Other Sites Remember the Dead
5.2 Tragic
5.3 Humorous
Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die)
Sunset Happy
Archive Team officially proclaims Yahoo! the least trustable host and its arch-enemy. Prove us different, Yahooligans. Or... don't. Expect anything in this list and this list to shutdown (if it already hasn't).
Please follow the feeds! [1] [2]
Nokia has recently been shutting down services at an alarmingly fast rate. Back up your data, Nokia users!
AOL has decided to follow in Yahoo's footsteps by mass-closing websites at an alarmingly fast rate. Be careful not to leave any important data with them!
Just When You Least Expect It
Archive Team keeps a list of "healthy sites" that could be fine today and not so hot tomorrow. We focus on ways to back your personal data off these sites so you don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.
Other endangered species and misc ideas
We have even more small tidbits of information at Deathwatch/Misc.
Pining for the Fjords (Dying)
Websites (notable or ones with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on Fire Drill.
January 25: Google Code is shut down.
January 21: Google Maps Coordinate is shut down.
Date Unknown: Picasa content will increasingly be killed as Google Photos was launched on 2015-05-28 and will need users.
Date Unknown: AOL apparently has plans to kill a bunch of sites, including with Joystiq, MyDaily, and ParentDish.[1]
Date Unknown: MyTVShows gets turned off.
Date Unknown: Bad Juju has filed for bankruptcy, which might mean an end to Desura and Indie Royale, which hosts a large amount of games not hosted anywhere else (some of which is free), as well as forums and various user-generated content. [2]
September 30: Club Nintendo will shut down worldwide. (although this page also mentions July 1, 2015)
September 30: Yahoo Pipes gets clogged up.[3]
September 10: Sony discontinues Playstation Mobile[4].
August 25: Blingee dies and deletes 9 years of user content.
July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).[5][6]
July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.[7]
June 30: Freebase shuts down.
June 12: XFire social profiles are burnt up.[8]
May 31: Gitorious is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab[9]
May 30: Foodily recipes vanish in space void.
March 31: Trovebox gets looted.[10]
Dead as a Doornail
July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.[11]
June 13: Hungarian image hosting service keptarad.hu goes down with nearly 80,000 (or, according to inner source, 1.6 million) pictures, one week after it was scheduled to.
June 9: Pomf.se staff decided to go down with 1.6 million files (and thousands of pastes). Fortunately, they contacted ArchiveTeam and let them get a copy.
May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.
April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data can be requested by email until May 8th.)
April 30: Google Helpouts shut down.
April 30: Grooveshark shut down due to years of copyright issues.[12]
April 17: Yahoo's URL shortener y.ahoo.it drops its YQL table.
April 10: FriendFeed shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.
April 9: Yahoo Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. [13] [14]
March 31: RapidShare shut down.
March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history[15].
March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc is no-go and takes its anime offline[16][17].
March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)
March 15: Google Business Sitebuilder became a business sitebreaker.[18]
March 15: CloudOn was cloud-offed after getting acquired by Dropbox.
March 12: Ovi Store is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.
March 12: Roon (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.
March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.[19]
March 7: Target Ticket expired.
March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.
March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.[20]
March 3: Internet Centrum deletes its phpcities.
February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.[21]
February 26: Apple crashes TestFlight.
February 23: Odysee shuts down.
February 16: Google Talk is shut up.
February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists[22].
February 13: MediaCrush got crushed.
February 11: Spot.us has lost us[23].
February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.
February 3: The Unofficial Apple Weblog is officially dead[24].
February 1: Molto melts away.
February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.
February 1: Inkblazers will be Inkerasers[25].
January 31: Transformers Universe collapses[26].
January: AOL Autos is shut down.
January 26: Brace.io has been acquired by Squarespace[27]. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)
January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media[28]
January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.
January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.
January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.
January 15: vStreamers goes offline.
January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost[29].
January 12: Nokia Memories is forgotten[30].
January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.[31][32][33]
January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed[34].
January 2: Nokia Trailers, which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.
January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.
January 1: tvtag was untagged.
December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.
December 31: nRelate closed.
December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.
December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.[35]
December 27: Yahoo! Directory shut down 5 days early.[36]
December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.
December 23: Magneto shut down.
December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.
December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.
December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.[37]
December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness[38]
December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.
December 16: Google News shut down in Spain.[39]
December 15: Viddy and Epic, video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.
December 15: Relay.im, bought by Kik, shut down.
December 12: BigPond Music shut down.
December 12: Allgame.com ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot here (and available in the Wayback).
December 10: ZipList got zipped up.
December 9: The Pirate Bay was raided. (Back online February 1, 2015.)
December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.
December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.
November: OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking[40]. (Back online[41].)
November: Jux went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.
November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.
November 1: Easel shut down.
November 1: Qwiki slowed down.
October 30: Listn was shut down by Beatport.
October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.
October 11: OhLife became NoLife.
October 1: Quizilla fizzled away.
September 30: Verizon Personal Web Space shut down.
September 30: Orkut got kut, Google thankfully left a public archive.
September 30: Yahoo! Education dropped out.
September 30: Petition Online shut down.
September 30: The National Atlas died.
September 25: TwitPic shuts down.
September 17: TuneWiki (not a wiki)
August: Hungarian microblogging service Mommo disappeared.
August: Blogter.hu died after long illness.
August 31: Svpply and Want by Svpply were shut down.
August 31: The Yahoo! Contributor Network is destroyed by Yahoo!.
August 15: Heello said goooodbye.
August 10: Fotopedia leaves a photo finish.
August 5: Justin.tv shuts down completely.
August 1: Yahoo! Voices, formerly Associated Content, is shut up by Yahoo!.
July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by Transcontinental.
July 31: Shortmail shut down.
July 31: Snapdisk got snapped.
July 31: Yahoo! Shine went dark.
July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com
June 30: Hungarian iWiW social network closes; data not available from this date at all.
June 30: Me2Day, a Twitter-like social network, kicks the bucket.
June 15: Rawporter enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)
June 1: Ubuntu One shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.
May 20: Nintendo shut down Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).
May 6: Userscripts.org mysteriously vanished. A mirror popped up not long after.
April: JDEREF.com is served a takedown notice by Oracle.
April 30: qik.com shut down.
April 18: Twitter Music shuts down.
April 15: Beats shuts down MOG.
April 7: Vizify.com was acquired by Yahoo!. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)
March: Kephost.hu stepped off with half a million pictures.
March 31: IntoNow, a Yahoo! acquisition, will ceased to function.
March 31: Mochi Media realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.
March 28: Readmill, a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.
March 19: Full Disclosure (http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/) is a security/hacker mailing list that was suddenly suspended.
March 17: doo shut down.
March 11: Intel AppUp shut down.
March 3: My Opera closes its member profiles.
February: Videogum is shutting down.
February 28: Outbox shuts down to rebuild itself.
February 21: Yahoo! crashed Cloud Party.
February 14: Gatsby, not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". Frontpage says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting response as to what happened to the data.
February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)
January 21: DrawQuest and Canvas shuts down. moot writes his shut down notice.
??? dl.tv [3] There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. [4]
December 26: Wretch and Yahoo! Blog is closed by Yahoo!.
December 21: ClanBase is no more. The company that bought the website in 2004, Global Gaming League, decided to "move on" after basically running the website into the ground.
December 20: WinAmp, home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.
December 18: Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning closes.
December 15: Everpix, a photo-sharing service, shuts down.[5] [6] [7], rest lost
December 12: Hyves closes it social network, but it's now got games!
November 18 (and back through 2012): Disney nuked a bunch of online games: Pixie Hollow Online, Cars Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Toontown Online. The futures of the large fan forums and an extremely completist wiki are doubtful. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] The Pixie Hollow fan forum specifically announced that they will not be archived, and the Cars Online forum seems to have a similar warning, while the other forums for the shut down games will apparently be migrated into this: [14]
November 11: Bre.ad is dead.
November 7: Dopplr drops out from the web.
November 1: Zapd deletes its user data from the website.
November 1: iGoogle shuts down.
November: BerliOS is barely alive.
November: Bitmit, a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.
November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: Legacy Locker promises lifetime control of your data and return of your data to loved ones for just $300 for "lifetime", or $30/year. [15] Archive Team says to just say No.
October 31: Nintendo shut down Full Screen Mario. It's GitHub repository should be archived in case it goes down.
October 21: isoHunt was always going to shut down after an MPAA settlement. However, it did so earlier than expected to prevent archival efforts, claiming that 95% of torrents were available elsewhere. No mention of the metadata though.
October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to theoldcomputer.com [16]
September 30: OMGPOP shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a petition to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.
September 30: MSN TV, aka WebTV, no longer accessible.
September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site.
September: Freeblog.hu closes without noticing their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.
August-September: FileDen.com, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.
August 31: Rockmelt shuts down after being acquired by Yahoo!.
August 21: Amplicate vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.
August 20: Catch closes its doors.
August 19: Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.
August 9: Google Latitude shut down.
August 5: Astrid is shut down after being acquired by Yahoo!.
July 31: All third party downloads disappear from Yahoo! Downloads.
July 25: Yahoo! Stars India is shut down.
July 24: Snapjoy, acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.
July 19: Google shuts down Alfred.
July 9: Yahoo! Neighbors shuts down a day after it was supposed to.
July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.
July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.
June 30: Yahoo! demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.
June 28: Yahoo! shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.
June 28: Nintendo shuts down all of it's WiiConnect24 services, except for the Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Mario Kart Wii Channel, and the Wii Speak Channel.
June 4: Adrenaline Vault, a video game review site, has this posted on their Facebook profile: "Over the past weekend hackers hit the site with a DoS attack. Everything had been wiped and with no backups, everything was lost. It has been decided that Avault will remain closed. Rest in Peace, Avault."
June: Omploader, an anonymous file upload site, has announced that they are about $2500 in the hole on hosting costs, and that there is possibility of their shutting down if donations do not improve. It stands to reason that there are some files among their database that are worth saving. An attempt to contact the administrator for more information and to be given a dump of the site was made, and he responded saying he'd be happy to rsync a copy of the data after some legal issues have been settled.
April 30: Posterous, a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.
April 30: Circalit decides in March that deleting is easier than migrating its prose-writing users.
April 20: Microsoft Collection Book, a site dedicated to collecting information about Windows betas, shuts down due to a C&D from Microsoft. It reopened on May 5 as The Collection Book.
March 31: Zug.com, a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.
March 29: http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/ Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down
March 25: Epinions locked out its users.
March 24: The OpenSolaris Hub and all sites under opensolaris.org, including the site hosting the OpenSolaris source code, were decommissioned by Oracle. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris and originally created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.
February 28: Stickam, a major video chat service, shut down. Users were emailed and given the ability to download any recorded videos for 3 weeks in advance of the closing date.
February: Regretsy shuts down.
January 31: Do.com shuts down.
January: http://go.to, an URL shortener, has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.
December: Piczo, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.
October 29: Gamecorner.pl, a Polish video game news portal, was closed in May, and later wiped entirely on October 29. The articles have been retained at the publisher's other video game portal, Polygamia.pl, but the article comments and the forums are gone (It also had user blogs, but they seemed to have been erased much earlier.)
August 17: Ponibooru, a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, shut down by August 17. All of the images themselves (but not the comments) were available to download via torrents, though it is unknown if the torrents are still available. Currently the most popular/upvoted images are available via another imageboard, Derpibooru, but their copy is incomplete.
August: Parodius Networking, which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died
July 30: Kasabi, a data publishing platform created by Talis was announced to be closing on July 30, 2012. While the service has only been around for ~2 years it represents a unique look at services for Linked Data, and contains a variety of datasets. Kasabi has a blog post that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.
July 26: noob.hu doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.
July 1: The Polish social network Grono.net has disappeared, replaced by a file hosting service grono.net.pl on July 1, 2012. Most content from the old site was supposed to be migrated, but, according to a message on the main page, technical difficulties have delayed the migration by one or two weeks. It's getting increasingly late...
June 30: Apple MobileMe, iDisk, iWeb, and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in 2012, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". [17][18]
April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.
April: convore.com shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.
February: Hungarian free hosting provider Eplanet stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.
January 19: The popular file hosting service Megaupload has been shut down in January 2012; with it, Megavideo too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.
Because we know better
Fileplanet [19]. Already fully archived.
End of 2011: Ghost Cloud Computing became a ghost of itself[20].
Late October/November: It Died by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the RSS Feed around in case that changes, though).
September/October: The closure of Google Buzz was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called Google Takeout: https://www.google.com/takeout/ Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html
August/September: Google Labs (http://labs.google.com) closed. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH and many great/experimental one of a kind tools vanished. Among many others "google sets" that had been around since a long time, "City Tours" some includeing user generated content and the exciting "google squared" http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png that was an approach to pass more artificial intelligence to the user than conventional searchengines (compareable to wolframalpha) but seemingly based on a bigger/vast pool of data just like standard google searchresults). Since there is hardly any obvious rationale(?) for closeing down "Google Labs" it pictures google as beeing either less supportive or even hostile to new inoventions and less responsible with usergenerated content or more secretive about their ongoing projects than one might thought before or than Google might was before indeed. 1 Jan 2011 Whatsgoingonwithgoogle 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
June 3: Forums.starwars.com: StarWars.Com[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] announced[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] the closure of their forums[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) tf.n report[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
June 1: Prodigy Pages shut down on June 1,2011.
May 31: MyPhotoAlbum.com closed on May 3, 2011 and deleted everything on May 31, 2011. Users who heard about the closure were given the options of either transferring their photos and videos over to dotPhoto.com or purchasing a DVD with their content for $15.00.
May 24: Yahoo! has announced[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] that MyBlogLog will be closed on 24 May 2011. UPDATE: Yup.
April 16: Encyclopedia Dramatica shutdown on 16. April 2011 without warning. Ongoing reconstruction Efforts. A lot of Images and Articles are probably lost. (The replacement OhInternet is a very strongly sanitized Version of ED.) ED is claiming that they are in danger of shutting down. Despite the controversial nature of many articles hosted on the wiki, this would be a big loss of historical records.
A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.
March: Gaia Community shut down at the end of March.
March 31: Yahoo! Video shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.
March 16: Microsoft closed Windows Live Spaces on March 16, 2011. Spaces owners had the option to migrate their blogs to WordPress or to make copies. As of January 4, 2011, they could no longer edit their existing Spaces.[21]
February 22: The Insurgency Wiki is a wiki with a community that created multiple guides and raids for Anonymous, in a similar manner to Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's status has always been unclear, with many mirrors coming and going. But as of Feb. 22, 2012, the last mirror, Partyvan.info, looks like it has some damning database error. Just in case, the Bibliotheca Anonoma has made a full backup, including all available images available.
January 17: The Sims Carnival: [22]
January 1: ProHosting (http://free.prohosting.com) closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011
January: The wiki hosting site wik.is, hosted by MindTouch, shut down on the first week of January 2011; the explanation being that "in order to continue to support the growing needs of our MindTouch Express users, we are offering MindTouch Cloud", which "opens up additional features and functionality that are not available in Wik.is.". The only way you'd know all that is if you receive a warning e-mail from MindTouch. They offer to keep your site running by "upgrading to our paid Cloud version by filling out this short form."
December 17: The Symbian Foundation will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010[23][24].
December: Machinima.com was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles.
November: BrightFuse was a small social network started as a side venture by CareerBuilder.com in August 2009. It was quietly shutdown November of 2010 without much fanfare. At its height it has 100k users.
October 31: isweb lite, the Japanese Geocities, shut down on October 31. Thousands of personal homepages of artists and illustrators were deleted forever. A tiny sample of the pages deleted: [25] isweb itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. [26]
September/October: Vox shut down at the end of September 2010.
Mid-2010: JuniorNet, a subscription based online portal for children, was quietly shut down nearly a decade after it dot-bombed and was acquired by former employees.
April/May: Kid Radd was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. here.
March 31: Extra.hu, largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.
March 1: Storytlr, a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.
March: Platinum, once a popular Finnish web site associated with electronic dance music, clubbing/raving, and the other related things was closed in March after been running for years. All the content posted to the forums of the site was, however, obtained and made available by Klubitus, another related portal popular in Finland.
December 6: favrd, a website that aggregated favorite tweets from twitter, abruptly shut down on December 6, 2009 with absolutely no warning, killing off thousands of highlighted entries added by group-consensus over significant months. As a reward for their efforts, founder Dean Allen wrote this helpful message: "Alas, stars on Twitter have become mere take-out menus hung on the doors of other restaurants. There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is no longer a challenge â you already follow your sources. Sites like this one now serve mainly as fuel for emotional up-fuckedness in the guise of a game. Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it a note telling them so. Even better, explain why. Take care!" Advice to people who want to work with Dean Allen's projects in the future: don't.
November: here.is seems to permanently off-line. It ceased to re-direct email for some time ago and as per 11-23-09 it doesn't redirect even URLs any longer.
October 31: Microsoft Encarta, the online encyclopedia with a 15+ year history, is being shut down. The US version will shut down on October 31, 2009 and the Japanese version on December 31, 2009. [27]
October 26: GeoCities: Shock! Repeat Offender Yahoo announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." [28]. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the Geocities project page for more details.
August 31: Microsoft's SoapBox has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. [29].
August 30ish: ArchNacho's & TortillaGodzilla's Quality ROMs, a site that hosted ROMs for NES, SNES, and Genesis games, which has announced its effective death back in January of 2006, is now finally completely inaccessible, both on its original domain (http://www.qualityroms.com), and on the site that the domain masked (http://home.no.net/qualrom/). Archive.org has mirrors of the site up through August 30, 2007, which is after all updates to the site ceased. All ROMs hosted on QualityRoms are included in the mirror and can be downloaded from there.
August 24: Microsoft's Popfly [30] pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.
July 13: Yahoo! 360 announces [31] that they are closing up shop on July 13, 2009. Of course, you can still register an account but that's the first thing you're told.
June 25: Imeem, a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, announced on June 25, 2009 that they were "simplifying" things and deleting all user-generated photos and videos uploaded by users. They gave everyone five days to get their photos off, and then extended it to twenty days from the ensuing hue and cry. The uploaded videos had no way to extract them back.
June 15: Jumpcut.com became the latest example of Yahoo!'s awesome respect for history and data, announcing the closure of the video hosting and editing site, for June 15, 2009. A software utility has been released to allow you to download the movies from Jumpcut. Otherwise, you are not in great shape - Yahoo says you can move your videos to Flickr, but Flickr cuts off at 90 seconds. A lot of homemade video is going to disappear.
May 31: Rejaw, a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 [32]. It's gone.
May 21: MSN QnA Beta closed on May 21 [33]
April 20: Coghead, " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. [34]. It did.
April 17: Furl was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17. Diigo blog post; Techcrunch post.
March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: Upline, a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.[35] They almost immediately turned off the backup process, and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!
March 31: Google acquired Etherpad on 4th December, 2009 and immediately announced a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to open source the Etherpad codebase, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are numerous alternatives.
March 30: Yahoo Briefcase, a positively ancient site run by Yahoo that provided you with 25 free megabytes of storage space for your junk, sent a mail to what were likely years-old contact addresses to tell them they had a little more than a month to get their files out, March 30, 2009. After that, the files would be deleted. What, Yahoo doesn't have a spare memory stick to store what must be the amount of files in this service for the next year?
March 25: Yahoo! Farechase, an airline fare aggregation and searching site, was shut down on March 25, 2009. It had previously been it's own company, founded in 1999, and purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. [36]
March 20: Spiralfrog, "a FREE service that lets you download over 3 million songs and videos, legally and safely", pulled up stakes in the night and completely shut down on March 20, 2009. [37] Things looked so promising in 2006: [38] Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. [39]
March 17: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer was put up for sale, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. [40] Initially, reports indicated it would shut down the website as well as the paper, but a plan was apparently in place to run a "skeleton crew" on an internet-only site, which continues to operate.
March 11: Videosift had a combination database and backup failure, losing: "All votes, ever. All member usernames who registered later than around 12 months ago. All member rankings. Your member profile info (e.g., bio, favorite sift, etc.), if any. All activity that happened on the site yesterday, March 11." This is unlikely to kill the site, but an awful lot of data was lost.
March 6: Scoopt, a "citizen journalism" site run by Getty images to allow the uploading of images by citizen journalists and the chance to be licensed to news organizations, announced they would no longer take any new imagery after February 6, 2009, and will shut down completely on March 6, 2009. Some content uploaders "may" be contacted about being absorbed into the main Getty site.
Sometime between February 28th and March 23d: music.download.com was redirected to Last.fm. The free music it offered does not seem to have been transferred, however (the band Ancient Teknologi had several tracks available on music.download.com, but only one available on Last.fm). As of 28 February, it claimed to have 111.052 MP3s.
February 28: Lycos Europe shut down their Tripod hosting service on February 28, 2009. [41] [42] Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. Lycos Europe is also shuttering the social networking site Jubii as of February 15, 2009. [43] A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.
February 27: The Rocky Mountain News has shut down as of February 27, 2009. [44] We're watching to see what happens with the website (and the material, and the newspaper itself). With a 150 year history, there's a lot of backstory, and how this chronicler of history will end up, so too will many others. There is an excellent documentary about the last days of the Rocky Mountain News here.
February 23: Windows Live shut down the MSN Groups on February 23. They extended their original date from February 21st to give Group owners the weekend to prepare. [45]
January 31: ma.gnolia.com had a catastrophic disk corruption/failure on January 31, 2009. From the message on the main site: "As I evaluate recovery options, I can't provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours." Ma.gnolia had an excellent export feature... hope you used it and did the backups they didn't!
January 28: Domino Magazine, a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. My Deco File, one of the site's heavily used social bookmarking features (somewhat like delicious for images) will remain up for a few weeks to allow users to save their stuff.
January 28: Culture11 ran out of money.[46]
January 27: Yahoo Pets was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. [47]
January 17: totse.com closed its doors on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror exists, alongside a repository of the totse text files.
January 15: Ficlets.com (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. [48]
January 15: Circavie.com (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. [49]
January 14: Several Google services have shut down. [50] Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.
January 11: Co.mments.com closed down on January 11, 2009.
January 9: AOL Pictures said so long on January 9, 2009. To their credit, you can still yank your stuff into other photo services until June of 2009. (At least, according to their goodbye letter.)
January 6: Electronic Gaming Monthly has recently shut its doors. [51]
Overview of 2008 Technology News
Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008
October 31: AOL Hometown (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. Jason wrote about it.
The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.
October 27: Digitalrailroad.net, a photo hosting site, gave their users a 24-hour eviction notice on October 27, 2008. They shut down 10 hours after the 24-hour notice. [52]
Other deaths of 2008
December 31: Pingmag, the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.
December 31: Lively, a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.
December 27:Mixwit said goodbye on December 27, 2008. [53]
December 23: Castle Cops put away their badges on December 23, 2008. [54]
December 19(?): Google Research Datasets, shut down on December 19(?), 2008. [55]
The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.
December 18: Yahoo! Kickstart, a social network for college students revealed in 2007 [56] got expelled on about December 18, 2008. [57]
December 16: Flip.com, a social network for teenage girls, shut down on December 16, 2008. Users were advised to print out their digital scrapbooks as backups. [58]
December 15: Pownce was closed on December 15, 2008.
December 8: I Want Sandy (WEBCITE) was shut down on December 8, 2008. A lot of people complained about this one, while others thanked the site for shutting down and wished the founder well!
December 3: Yahoo Live! died on December 3, 2008. [59]
October 31: OurWorld slipped into history on October 31, 2008.
October 29: BlogRush.com failed to provide bloggers with the traffic they so desperately desired, and the creator admitted on October 29, 2008 that his 4AM idea may not have been so brilliant. [60]
September 29: ScribbleWiki wikis go offline. Apparently their servers crashed and they didn't have a backup.
September 28: Yahoo! Mash, a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. [61]
September 26: Uber.com was a social blog site that died. [62]
Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.
September 18: Wallop, Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. [63] [64]
May 21: Virtual Magic Kingdom closed its gates on May 21, 2008. [65] The amount of broken hearts and anguish over this move was amazing, and a warning sign to any family-oriented site that encourages families to join up.
Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including MyVMK, VMKRevisted (a memorial site), and OpenVMK (although OpenVMK shutdown due to internal squabbles.)
February 14: Think Secret was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. [66]
July 31: Social.fm couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. [67]
May 15: Brijit.com, a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. [68]
February: Yahoo! Design, a showcase of designing and information aesthetics related to the Yahoo! properties, got revised into oblivion in February, 2008 as part of a 1,000 employee layoff. [69]
October 31: Yahoo! Podcasts, a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 [70], was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. [71]
October 23: OiNK's Pink Palace Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. [72]
September 20: Yahoo! Photos, a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos by Rohit Sud, Download Yahoo! Photos by Kent Brewster, and Yahoo! Photos Grabber by Yandao.com
March 20: BBC Jam was suspended March 20, 2007 and will not be coming back.
http://IUMA.COM (Internet Underground Music Archive), of Santa Cruz, California, the actual first website to offer free hosting of bands including MP3 files of music offered by the bands, was mostly archived by John Gilmore before going down. At least one IUMA founder now has a copy of that archive. This ~800GB collection has been uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive.
http://mp3.com went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.
SixDegrees.com, a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001
The Useless Pages (at IA)
Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations
TwitPic's founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.
Video host Viddler announces in an e-mail newsletter that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.
Chanarchive.org - A site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, running since 2006 and containing 500GBs of important material. It has shut down entirely, as the owner was banned from Paypal and has no means of paying for the site in it's current state. In a 4chan thread, the owner explains that backups will be made available, but there is no guarantee of who, where, and for how long.
Berlios.de will shut down at end of 2011. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc). Instructions for exporting a project. Berlios is still open and they are now partnered with sourceforge to keep things running.
Citizendium's finances constantly cry for money[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. WikiTeam archives it on a regular basis.
Delicious[73] will be shutting down soon. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. Slashdot link. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.
Cli.gs, another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."[74] In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.[75] All aboard the TinyURL project.
Duck.co, the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their own platform and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum.
Earbits bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.
Filefront.com is closing up shop [76]. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. UPDATE As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront. According to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service [77], the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering.
Formspring (now called spring.me) announced they'd be shutting down on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.
GitHost announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.[42] However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.[43][44]
Google Video threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.
Home of the Underdogs went under on Feb 9th[78]. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway [79]. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online [80]
JPG Magazine announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 [81], but the site lives lives on under new ownership. Feel free to download the torrent
Jux announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013. UPDATE On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.
KeygenJukebox, which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.
MobyGames, the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by GameFly in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by Blue Flame Labs, who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. It seems that the site is going back to full health again.
WebCite – Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.
Word Count Journal (http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 UPDATE The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) UPDATE2: Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)
Other Sites Remember the Dead
Ghost Sites of the Web by Steve Baldwin. RSS Feed
Techcrunch's Deadpool is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.
Deletionpedia saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and Wikidumper preserves a selection of them.
"Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News
"Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald
↑ http://recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/
↑ http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/
↑ http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement
↑ http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971
↑ Google Moderator is shutting down on June 30, 2015
↑ https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub
↑ http://emoj.li
↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/
↑ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/
↑ https://trovebox.com/shutdown/
↑ http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking
↑ https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/
↑ http://transliteration.yahoo.com/
↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150410211347/http://transliteration.yahoo.com/
↑ http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html
↑ https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608
↑ https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj
↑ https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405
↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/
↑ https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login
↑ https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273
↑ http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html
↑ http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding
↑ http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/
↑ http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226
↑ https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214
↑ http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/
↑ http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505
↑ http://www.dreambook.com/
↑ http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076
↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shuts-down-right-media-exchange-2015-1
↑ http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/yahoo-retires-genome-and-right-media-brands-simplifies-around-yahoo-ad-exchange/
↑ http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72591025021/introducing-the-new-yahoo-advertising
↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn
↑ http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997
↑ http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784
↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/
↑ http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/
↑ http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1
↑ https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/
↑ http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/
↑ https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down
↑ https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab
↑ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/
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Talking Tech: Identity Management Essentials
By Associations Now Staff / Apr 1, 2019
Your members trust you with their data. How can you protect this sensitive information while ensuring a seamless online experience?
Juan Silva, chief technology officer at the software firm Wicket, says many organizations are turning to identity and access management software, which can standardize user access controls securely and efficiently.
What’s the biggest challenge in managing members’ data?
The goal for any association should be to create a technological ecosystem where the identities of members and staff are securely shared over a number of different platforms and tools. However, it’s challenging for IT administrators to manage users’ data, credentials, roles, and access levels for disparate in-house and cloud-based software. This often leads to the duplication of records, a lack of data control, reduced cybersecurity, and a bad user experience.
How can an identity and access management software safeguard member data?
Identity and access management consists of organizational processes and policies ensuring that the right people have access to the right resources in a timely manner. And it’s enforced through an IAM software system. The two main benefits are increased security and productivity. An IAM policy ensures that users have access only to the resources they need, reducing the risk of cyber attacks. IAM software supports the seamless integration of enhanced security, like two-factor authentication, and helps ensure that members and staff can gain easy access to a variety of technology systems.
What are some things to consider when planning for IAM implementation?
Make sure to involve all pertinent business units in your association and set clear organizational objectives. From a technical perspective, evaluate the compatibility of communication protocols between the IAM software tool you are considering and your existing technology systems. In the end, a good IAM implementation is one that appears seamless and secure for your members and at the same time is easy enough to deploy and maintain by IT staff.
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TV Antennas – the New Technology
Changing technology can sometimes leave consumers in a race to catch up with newest innovations. While we reminisce about our cassette players, VCRs and CD players, we never let sentimentality stop us from rushing out and buying the biggest, shiniest new thing that technology has created.
I would bet that the majority of you reading this article receive your television programming through a cable or digital provider such as Dish or DIRECTV. There is no argument that these providers have an enormous amount of programming. The channels offered are endless. But, let's be honest, all those channels come at a price.
Rising costs of programming and limited channels available on budget-friendly packages somehow make the idea of relying solely on cable or satellite programming a bit archaic, not as technologically advanced as we sometimes believe. In addition to the rising costs associated with cable and satellite providers, many local networks find themselves disputing over the terms that allow networks like CBS and NBC to deliver local programming on their affiliate networks. Just recently, I experienced the pain of missing two weeks of my CW programming because of such a dispute. Please don't hold my love affair with the CW against me. Sometimes we need a mind-numbing television experience.
How does one compensate for the holes in cable and digital technology? It is as simple as going back in time and reconsidering the benefits of the trusty old television antenna.
Don't misunderstand me. I am not suggesting you deflower you 50- …
Why Do You Need a Robot Floor Vacuum in Your Home?
What if you could leave the cleaning job on a robot and finish other important household chores? It would help you in saving a lot of time and keeping your home clean all the time. This might sound like a scene from a Sci-Fi movie, but those robots are available now! Robot floor vacuums are real and these devices are quite effective, when it comes to cleaning the floor.
A robotic vacuum cleaner is a round-shaped device, which may look small but it cleans quite effectively. It is equipped with sensors, which you can program to vacuum clean rugs, wooden floor, and tiled floor.
Is it effective?
Robot floor vacuums are quite effective. You can choose a robotic vacuum cleaner in different sizes and with different features. Consider it as a home appliance designed to tackle floor cleaning work. It operates pretty great because it can find and remove dirt and contaminants from your rugs or floor.
This vacuum cleaner does not require human intervention. You can turn it on and leave it on the floor. Soon, you will realize that your robot floor vacuums have cleaned the whole area. Now you just need to pick it and remove the collected dirt and pollutants out in a garbage can.
Why you should buy a robotic vacuum cleaner?
You might wonder that the regular vacuum cleaner also works great, then why to buy a robotic vacuum cleaner. The following reasons will show you why it is quite essential for every …
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Technology and How it Has Affected What We Do Now
I remember when I was a child growing up on a farm in Northern California and getting up, packing the car and leaving way before sunup to arrive in the San Francisco Bay area in time for dinner at my grandparent’s house, after riding the ferry across the bay. We packed our meals, water and toilet paper in the car, because we always left on a Saturday when my father was off work and the gas stations, stores and restaurants were all closed for the weekend. A rest stop was on the side of the highway or behind a tree or bush.
Now, that same trip takes around two hours on the freeway and is served by enumerable convenience stores, restaurants, rest areas, 24 hour stores and a bridge where we rode the ferry.
It’s true that the speed limit of 60 to 70 mph is considerably faster than the 35 mph limit that was on the highway back then. But the freeways are wider, smoother, better maintained and more accurately engineered as well as the vehicles that drive on them have been refined and made more aerodynamic, fuel efficient and speedier. Although my 1953 Ford Fairlane flattop V-8 could go 120 mph when pushed. But that was not the usual.
I remember waiting our turn to use the phone due to the party line, listening for our particular ring to answer it. The phone wasn’t used much because it was still a novelty and was very expensive to use. …
The Power of Channel Partners in Technology Business
From a macro perspective, technology vendors always love to talk about the importance of channel. They say things like, "Channel means everything to us," "We run 100 percent of business through the channel," "The channel partners are an extension of their company." From a micro perspective, sometimes what people say and do can be much different. Think about it, is everyone a team player? Does everyone like to work in groups? Do some people have control and trust issues? These are all things that can lead to a single person not wanting to leverage the channel for support. To help showcase some of the values of a channel from both a macro and micro level, I listed three reasons why you should leverage channel from each level.
Raising an "army" – Look at a company like Cisco. They have essentially raised an army. They have provided the army with information on how to use Cisco products and why Cisco products are the best. Cisco has thousands of channel partners all over the world and hundreds of thousands of certified Cisco sales and engineering people. This makes it very hard to compete with them.
Branding – When one organization partners with you, they typically market and advertise by leveraging your brand. This can give you increased brand awareness as partner numbers increase.
Contracts – When dealing with Government, there are hundreds of contracts. When you dive into the state, local and education levels, the number increases dramatically. Why try to
A Brief Look at Features and Apps of the New Apple IPad; Shipping Will Begin on April 3rd, Pre-order Yours Now!
For tech enthusiasts, the new Apple iPad will be available for purchase on April 3, 2010 in the U.S and pre-orders were available starting on Mar. 12th. The iPad is expected to hike tablet sales to 10.5 million, according to PCWorld. The iPad is supposed to be a different type of tablet than the ones introduced in the past. The features and apps are numerous and the price affordable starting at only $499. The first version of the iPad released will have Wi-Fi capability only and the 3-G enabled iPad would be released in late April or early May. Is the iPad for you? This article will cover some of the many neat features of the new iPad to help you decide if it is for you.
Features and Apps of the new Apple iPad
Large Touch Screen: The iPad has a large multi- touch screen for viewing web pages utilizing just the flick of your fingers. There is no actual keyboard. There are thumbnail views on a grid with all open pages which allows easy access when switching back and forth.
Email: The iPad makes viewing and touching your emails easier than ever. The iPad is turned horizontally or to (landscape) to view opened emails and messages in a split screen view. Turn it vertically or to (portrait) and the screen fills with just the opened emails. With just the tap or roll of your finger, in either landscape or portrait position, you can compose new emails, …
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Top 10 Gmail Desktop Apps
Crazy about using Gmail email service, but wish it was more versatile? For those with Windows, lots of terrific applications at no cost to you can let you make better use of your bottomless inbox.
Pidgin may not actually be too useful with Gmail, but it allows you to chat with other users logged in for that purpose. The latest incarnation is equipped with Google Voice and Video tech support as well. Check it out at http://www.pidgin.im/.
GPhoto Space offers you an additional location where you can save and share your photos on the web. What for? Perhaps you prefer not to start an album with Flickr or Picasa Web. You may merely wish to keep your pictures in a secluded spot where only you can see them. Go to http://www.gphotospace.com/download.html.
Digsby permits you to chat with your contacts as well – all that's necessary is to install Tokbox to use voice and video chat functions. Digsby will, though, notify you of incoming mail. In any case, we suggest getting hold of the alternate installer. Find it at http://digsby.com/.
GBridge assembles a Hamachi-like VPN and can give you an assortment of nifty features suitable for a Windows desktop, such as file sharing, backup, synchronizing, and remote control through VNC. The developers have contributed support for Google Apps domains, making this a wonderful means to organize your office team communications. See it at http://www.gbridge.com/.
Affixa provides a simple means of notifying Windows that Gmail is your default mail provider, and lets …
Google+ Developer Apps for “Hangouts” Starting to Take Off
Back when Google first launched Google+ what most users heard was that it was simply Google copying Facebook, and to some extent that appears to be a fair assessment. But, in all the noise about the posting to circles and all that, little notice was made of something called "Hangouts" in Google+ which might just be the nudge that kicks Google+ into a successful social media site. Mike Swift, of the San Jose Mercury News has written an article that has been syndicated all over the web, about the rise of Google Hangouts, and where it might be going. And Uberizmo after giving Hangouts a second look has some thoughts about it as well.
The big deal about Hangouts, which is basically video conferencing for the home crowd, is that users can write apps for it, just as they do for Smartphones. And that's what is driving the new publicity. Say you'd like to play cards with five of your buddies, but nobody wants to drive. All you and your buds have to do is fire up Google+ Hangouts, download an app that's been written for just that purpose, and just like that, you've got your card game. The app recreates cards onscreen, similar to Microsoft's ubiquitous Solitaire, for all to see, thus eliminating any chance of cheating. Players can see one another though, so bluffing is still the most important skill a player can have. Likewise, another developer created a simple drawing program that allows her mother to draw …
Throw an Eco-Friendly Baby Shower
A baby shower is an exciting time for an expectant mother. Family and friends gather to celebrate and help the mother prepare for the arrival of the baby. A growing trend is to plan a baby shower with an eco-friendly theme. It is a great way to keep the environment healthy for the future of the baby. Below is a list of ideas that will benefit in planning this themed baby shower.
Invite Baby Shower Guests Through Technology
Take advantage of technology and send invitations electronically. Websites such as Evite provide shower invitations which can be sent to guests via e-mail.
This is a great way to save paper and money on a postage stamp. Send actual invitations to guests who are not computer literate by using invitations printed on recyclable paper. Design the invitations so that guests will know that the shower has an organic theme.
Suggest Guests Purchase Organic Clothing or Toys
Recommend that the mother register for gifts that are natural and organic. Many brand name stores are starting to carry organic clothing and toys. Suggest to guests in the invitation that they wrap gifts using earth-friendly materials such as newspapers, paper bags, a baby blanket, towels or reuse old gift bags. When sending thank you cards after the shower, choose cards made from recycled material.
Choose an Eco-Friendly Atmosphere
If the shower is going to be outside, choose an eco-friendly location such as a garden or an aquarium. When decorating, use materials that are biodegradable and …
The Social Shaping of Technology
The �social shaping' of technology is a concept asserting that technology – which can be defined as �all methods and means devised by humans in pursuit of their practical ends' (Chant & Goodman, 1999) – is to some extent influenced by social or cultural factors. In particular relation to building technology, this means that how and what people build is influenced to a greater or lesser extent by such factors as the way their society is organised or whether religion is important in their culture. Social shaping can be seen as attempting a synthesis between two opposing theories of historical change, technological determinism – which claims that technological innovations cause societal change – and social constructionism – which counters that change is not inevitable when technology develops; rather, the effect of a technological development depends on negotiating the best solution for all social groups involved.
Ancient Egyptian society was hierarchically organised under the rule of the Pharaohs, absolute monarchs who owned all land and controlled trade. They believed in the after-life and that it was important to ensure dead rulers' comfort in it. This focus led to technological progress in several areas. Mummification techniques were developed to preserve the bodies. The need to build funerary structures to house the dead and their possessions meant that the simplest form, mastabas (underground burial pits topped with a �bench' of mud bricks) evolved into complex and massive stone pyramids. These required innovations in quarrying and stonemasonry, as well as in human-powered transport to …
Technology Masks Reality
I love to talk. I like to think I'm wise in certain areas. So do other people. However when asked for advice or when someone tries to strike up serious conversation, once I get talking, a ringtone shatters the flow of topic. It's not an important call. It's a data message with a dancing turd singing "My Heart Will Go on". Total I.Q. descent after that. The dancing turd must be seen and heard.
The forwarded text message telling the latest sexist joke takes priority over "What should I do about my alcoholism, or addiction to paint thinner?". We are too busy driving while texting or talking to care that we just cut off someone, and ticked them off royal. We're too busy listening to Mp3 players to hear the old lady down the street screaming, or to hear a car horn blowing to say "Get outta the way!".
I love the idea of this Apple iPad sweepstakes, it draws more people to this awesome site. You see, I don't have many things that drive me except for writing what needs to be said. Hubpages gives me the chance to do that. And no hubpages, I'm not trying to kiss your butt, haha. I digress.
Do we really need the iPad, and smart phones, and the pieces of equipment where we play first person shooters, check our e-mail, look at porn, and make calls all at the same time. When we should be working? Or fishing? Making love? Going out …
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By Thinh Nguyen | Published 10/12/2012 | Miscellaneous | Recommendation:
Thinh Nguyen
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Many foreigners have difficulties with Vietnamese name because of its structure. Normally, a Vietnamese name is spoken and written in such order as Surname + Middle Name + First Name, e.g. Nguyen Van Nam, where Nguyen is Surname, Van is Middle Name and Nam is First Name. Sometimes, a middle name does not exist in someone's full name, e.g. Le Dung, where Le is Surname and Dung is First name.
Psychologically, a name is very important to a Vietnamese as it will stick to him/her in his/her lifetime. A name is used not only to distinguish one person from the others but also to express a desire of his parents, relatives or family. For this reason, linguistic and meaningful aspects are always taken into consideration in the naming process, e.g. parents may choose a name Hung, Dung or Manh etc. to name his son in the expectation of a strong, brave and successful man in the future.
Unlike people from some other countries, the Vietnamese always call someone his or her first name, e.g. if I want ask for someone's help whose name is Nguyen Duc Hung, I will say "Hung, could you help me please!". The Vietnamese rarely call someone his or her surname but sometimes call his or her full name.
The most popular surname used in Viet Nam is Nguyen. According to a statistic conducted in 2005, Nguyen accounts for nearly 38%, Tran accounts for nearly 11% and Le accounts for 9.5% of our population. Other popular surnames include: Pham 7.1%, Hoang/Huynh 5.1%, Phan 4.5%, Vu/Vo 3.9%, Dang 2.1%, Bui 2%, Do 1.4%, Ho 1.3%, Ngo 1.3%, Duong 1% and Ly 0.5%.
The most popular middle names used in Viet Nam is "Van" for male and "Thi" for female which are always between Surname and First Name. If you see a name of someone in a list who you have never met before, you may know the sex of this person by the middle name. Nowadays parents tend to use other middle names or longer ones (for example Le Hoang Minh Thao, where Le is Surname, Hoang Minh is Middle Name and Thao is First Name) when naming their children as they want names of their children to be more strange and unique.
First name is always at the end of a full name and given in consideration of geographical locations, sex, family, society, parents' desire etc. Traditionally, it is not allowable for someone to be named after his or her parents and older people who are relation to him or her. This tradition may derive from our feudal society and remains unchanged in many parts of Viet Nam.
According to a recent statistic, young parents pay more attention to names of their children than previous generations. They believe that proper names may bring their children good luck or help them avoid bad things in an ever-changing society. The belief has created more jobs for some fortune-tellers who can tell you about your future fate based on your name.
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Home Arseblog, the arsenal blog Ever Banega links make sense as Arsenal midfield still needs some work
Ever Banega links make sense as Arsenal midfield still needs some work
June 21, 2018 - 0 arses
The departure of Jack Wilshere, as covered yesterday, was hardly unexpected but still leaves us a little light in central midfield.
It is expected we’ll be signing Uruguayan Lucas Torreira from Sampdoria to fill that particular gap. I’m guessing that deal will be done once his nation’s participation in the World Cup is complete – and yesterday they won 1-0 to ensure passage into the knock-out rounds, so it’s likely to be another week to ten days at least.
Assuming he arrives, our options for that area of the pitch will be Aaron Ramsey, Granit Xhaka, Mohamed Elneny, Ainsley Maitland-Niles and Torreira. Alex Iwobi can play there, and has played there in the past, but generally it’s been during a game when we’ve shifted things around to get as many attacking players on the pitch as possible. I can’t recall too many starts, and I’m not sure it’s his best position anyway.
So, when you consider the fact we have the Premier League and Europa League to contend with, as well as the FA Cup and League Cup, just five ‘established’ central midfield players seems a bit light to me. Especially as one, Maitland-Niles, is in the nascent stages of his career and we have to factor in the fluctuations in form/confidence that young players often go through.
That kind of schedule, the Thursday to Sunday demands of domestic and European football, injuries, suspensions and the vagaries of football itself, mean we need a bit more depth in that area of the pitch, which would go some way to explaining rumours of a move for Sevilla’s Ever Banega.
The Argentine’s links with new boss Unai Emery are well established. The Spaniard managed him at both Valencia and Sevilla, and at 29 (although he’s 30 at the end of this month but until then remains 29), he’s got plenty of experience for club and country. It’s often the kind of signing that a new manager likes to make, bringing in somebody they know well, a trusted lieutenant kind of thing.
If not quite Arsene Wenger and Remi Garde, it wouldn’t be dissimilar. So far the signings we’ve made have been driven by Sven and his team. Stephan Lichtsteiner is an experienced right back, brought in as cover for Hector Bellerin, but his deal was in the pipeline before the announcement of Emery and had nothing to do with him.
The expected arrival of Sokratis Papastathopoulos is Sven going back to what he knows best, Borussia Dortmund, and the German Head of Recruitment brought in a German goalkeeper that he championed above all other potential candidates this summer, believing in his potential.
We’ve been linked with other players currently playing in Germany, such as Caglar Soyuncu and Benjamin Pavard, and it all feels very Sven. As Sven as Sven can be, which is fine, that’s his job, and much like Arsene Wenger raided the French market he knew so well when he first arrived, I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with Mislintat using his connections back home to find us players. There’s time for the scope of his scouting to expand and right now Arsenal are in rebuilding mode.
However, while the new structures seem very defined, a manager or a head coach or whatever you want to call him, has to have some input into his playing squad, and someone like Banega makes a lot of sense on a footballing level, but also from Emery’s point of view too.
He might have fact files and scouting reports and video analysis and data and everything else about this current crop of players, but he doesn’t really know them yet. That will only come from working with them day in, day out, for weeks and months. Banega is someone he knows well already. He knows what he can do on the pitch, he knows that kind of character he is, he knows how to get the best out of him and how he might benefit others in this Arsenal squad.
Some have suggested that rumours around him suggest another departure, and the worry of course is that Aaron Ramsey’s contract situation has not yet been sorted. He has just over a year left on his current deal, and should he decide not to renew, then we’re going to have to make a decision there. Given how valuable he is, the only option if he won’t sign is to sell, but even with the signing of Banega, we’d left in the same situation in terms of numbers and depth if that happened.
There isn’t even an obvious up and comer from the youth academy. Although Joe Willock played some games last season, he strikes me as someone who could do with a season on loan somewhere to develop as player as well as physically (he’s only 18), before he can really be considered a realistic option.
The ideal scenario is Ramsey signs on and we bring in Banega. I think that would provide us with the options and numbers to see us through a season, as well as creating a good level of competition within the squad. This summer has been so far so good in terms of recruitment, and there’s obviously a bit more to come, so hopefully the midfield issue is one we address properly because it has, for so long, been something of an Achilles heel.
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Right, that’s that no. There’s no specific Arsenal interest at the World Cup today, although Banega could play for Argentina against Croatia which is the tastiest of today’s fixtures.
Back tomorrow with an Arsecast, and all the rest. Until then.
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The Take Care Act
Joel S. Nolette
Yesterday, Senator Lee introduced a nine-page bill that would, following the next presidential election, eliminate all existing for-cause removal protections from “principal officers” who head administrative agencies, subjecting them instead to employment at the President’s will. This structural modification to the nation’s bureaucratic apparatus would be a meaningful step to re-constitutionalize the administrative state. To appreciate how so, one must first appreciate the design of the Constitution and its erosion over the past century.
I. The Design of the Constitution
Article II, Section One of the Constitution vests “[t]he executive Power” in one president, whom the Constitution tasks with the responsibility to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” In Federalist 70, Alexander Hamilton explained that the Framers chose a unitary executive rather than an executive council or the like to ensure that there would be one head of state who would ultimately be responsible for decision making within the Executive Branch. The Framers understood, as President Truman famously quipped, that the buck had to stop somewhere within the Executive Branch so that the people could hold someone accountable and better maintain control over their government.
Of course, the President could never perform the functions of the office singlehandedly, which is why Article II envisioned the creation of “executive departments” and the appointment of “principal officers” and “inferior officers” to assist the President in faithfully executing the laws. As the responsibilities of the executive branch have grown over the years, so have the number of officers serving under the President. Without robust presidential oversight, the Executive Branch could easily fracture into a bevy of administrative fiefdoms, each headed by an “officer” or “officers” functionally autonomous from the President, resulting in the de facto “multiplication of the Executive” that Hamilton warned against and the Constitution knowingly rejected.
Now, one of the most effective oversight tools in the workplace is the ability to fire a subordinate. So, too, in the Executive Branch: as the Supreme Court recognized in Edmond v. United States, “[t]he power to remove officers . . . is a powerful tool for control.” However, though the Constitution prescribes the means by which these officers would be appointed, the text is basically silent as to how they might be removed. As documented in the Supreme Court’s 1926 decision in Myers v. United States, an extensive debate ensued shortly after the founding, with the prevailing view being that the President’s constitutional responsibilities implicitly carried with them “the exclusive power of removal” of these officers. This “power of removal” was an “indispensable aid” for “effective enforcement of the law,” without which the President could not “discharge his own constitutional duty of seeing that the laws be faithfully executed.”
II. The Rise of the Headless Fourth Branch
Less than a decade after Myers, however, in 1935’s Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, the Supreme Court basically abandoned this position. Instead, the Court held that, where Congress vests officers with “quasi-judicial” or “quasi-legislative” powers within an administrative agency, Congress could make those officers “free from executive control” by protecting them from presidential removal. Rejecting Myers’s thorough analysis and reasoning as “dicta” and “expressions . . . beyond the point involved,” the Humphrey’s Executor Court swallowed whole the Progressive and New Deal Era belief that having “a body of experts” making and implementing policy “free from ‘political domination or control’” was of paramount importance, overriding even the need for meaningful political accountability.
With this judicial imprimatur, Congress has created a number of “independent agencies” directed by “principal officers” who, being insulated from presidential oversight by for-cause removal protection, are functionally autonomous from the President. No wonder, then, that President Truman also once quipped, “I thought I was President, but when it comes to these bureaucrats, I can’t do a damn thing.”
Thus emerged this “veritable fourth branch of the Government,” grafted sloppily alongside the three constitutional branches and warping fundamental constitutional theory in the process, as Justice Robert Jackson recognized in his 1952 FTC v. Ruberoid Co. dissent. Trouble is that, as the Supreme Court recognized in 2010’s Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, if power within the Executive Branch has “slip[ped] from the Executive’s control,” it has also slipped “from that of the people.” This not only defeats the design of the Constitution but also undermines the premises of a republican form of government—rule by “we the people” rather than by an unaccountable “body of experts.”
Little wonder, then, that by the 1930s, the President’s Commission on Administrative Management in the Government of the United States had already warned of this “headless ‘fourth branch’ of the Government, responsible to no one,” calling it a “challenge” that “cannot be ignored.” Yet, ignored it went, for the most part. Coupled with the accretion and concentration of federal power in the Executive Branch over time, the administrative state today consists of a dizzying array of bureaucracies making and enforcing policies while largely insulated from meaningful oversight.
III. The Take Care Act
Given Congress’s longstanding penchant for delegating away its core prerogatives to the Executive Branch, the thought of expanding an already-powerful President’s powers may fairly give one pause. However, Congress’s surrender of its Article I responsibilities does not warrant permitting it to erode Article II’s structure in the process. Perhaps, in fact, if Congress cannot continue to undercut the unitary design of the Executive Branch, it might think twice before surrendering its powers to an unconstrained President. Regardless, Congress’s evasion of political accountability through delegation should at least be met with an Executive Branch structure ensuring that some accountability remains in the system through some avenue.
To that end, Senator Lee has introduced the “Take Care Act,” designed to eliminate the administrative regime Humphrey’s Executor allowed to flourish. Section 3 of the bill eliminates any existing for-cause removal protections for principal officers, subjecting them instead to at-will removal by the President. Section 4 requires any future for-cause removal protections to be made explicit in the text of whatever law such protection is included, rather than left to judicial surmise as has happened before (see, for instance, Justice Breyer’s criticism of the Free Enterprise Fund majority for “assum[ing] . . . that the SEC Commissioners . . . are removable only ‘for cause’” even though the law at issue said “nothing about removal”). Section 5 restores “the President’s power to supervise and direct the exercise of . . . discretionary decision-making authority” Congress has otherwise given to “principal officers” and the like. Section 6 specifically repeals a number of for-cause removal protections in various federal statutes, closing with a sweeping clause that makes clear that all such existing for-cause removal limitations in federal law should be deemed abrogated by Section 3 even if not explicitly repealed in Section 6. And Section 7 provides that the date the law would take effect is noon on January 20, 2021—when whoever wins the next presidential election takes or retakes office—forestalling any criticism that this bill is just some partisan attempt at expanding the current President’s power.
The “Take Care Act” takes seriously Hamilton’s recognition in Federalist 70 that “the unity of the executive” is “one of the best of the distinguishing features of our constitution.” This restructuring, to be sure, would not be a panacea for the constitutionally-infirm status quo in Washington. Much else needs to be done to restore constitutional order, but the reform Senator Lee has proposed in the “Take Care Act” is a critical step to that end.
Take Care Act Floor Remarks
Click here to read the press release for the bill by Sen. Lee’s office.
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‘This wonderful Doc…’
Posted on July 3, 2009 by beenasarwar
NOTE: A slightly longer version of this article was published in ‘The News on Sunday’, July 5 2009 – http://tinyurl.com/tns-doc – also uploaded at This wonderful doc (2) at the Dr Sarwar website . The title is borrowed from Ali Jafari’s tribute posted at the Dr Sarwar site which also contains contributions by I.A. Rehman, Dr Badar Siddiqi, S.M. Naseem, Eric Rahim, Salima Hashmi, Drs Anwar and Abdullah Mangi and Dr Asif Ali Hameedi and others.
PERSONAL POLITICAL
Newly weds circa 1962: Zakia and Sarwar at Karachi beach
She is not the grave-visiting sort. A white-haired dynamo with luminous eyes she pioneered teacher training and teaching English as a second language in large classrooms with limited resources. The activism she brought with her from Pratapgarh in UP, India, to Pakistan in the late 1950s has remained, nurtured and encouraged by the life partner she found.
Zakia met Sarwar after moving to Karachi from Lahore in 1961. The unconventional, dashing, long-limbed Allahabad-born doctor was known as the ‘hero of the January movement’. He came to Karachi after Partition and joined Dow Medical College. There, he started Pakistan’s first student union, catalysing the first nation-wide inter-collegiate students’ body. When the government ignored their demands related to fees, lab and hostel facilities, the students held a ‘Demands Day’ procession on January 8, 1953. Confronted by armed police, Sarwar tried to stop the students from surging ahead. Police opened fire. Seven students died on that ‘Black Day’. Several, including Sarwar, were injured.
Sarwar and his even taller older brother Akhtar were jailed (Sarwar received his final MBBS results in 1954 while in prison for a year) during the crackdown on progressive forces, after Pakistan and America signed a military pact.
Akhtar’s sudden death (pneumonia) in 1958 at the peak of his career devastated his circle of progressive writers, poets, activists and journalists. Sarwar, who had been particularly close to Akhtar, insisted that everyone get on with their work and not sit around mourning.
Zakia’s older brother Zawwar Hasan was also close to Akhtar. They had played field hockey for rival college teams in Allahabad, re-connecting as sports journalists in Karachi. Some years later, when Zawwar’s young children were ill, Zakia would take them to Sarwar’s clinic nearby.
Defying the dictatorship: 1983 mushaira at PMA House – Dr Badar Siddiqi, Faiz, Dr Tipu Sultan & Dr M. Sarwar (then General Secretary PMA)
Their romance included outings like seeing off the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz to receive the Lenin Peace Prize. “As a comrade, his relationship with Abba was an unspoken clear bond based on a shared understanding of the universal struggle for a just human order,” says Salima Hashmi, Faiz’s daughter.
Sarwar and Zakia married in September 1962, overcoming parental apprehensions about religious differences (Shi’a, Sunni). Neither was religious. Akhtar would have approved, as Zawwar did.
As their eldest child, one of my earliest memories is Zakia and other college teachers on hunger strike, demanding an end to the exploitation of teachers. Sarwar supported her against the muttered disapproval (‘women from good families out on the streets’), as always, giving her the space to develop her potential.
He practiced as a general physician for nearly fifty years from a modest clinic in a low-income area, treating struggling workers, journalists, artists and writers free. He was contemptuous of doctors who charged high fees, prescribing costly tests and medicines where less expensive ones would do. He helped launch the Pakistan Medical Association and its affiliated Medical Gazette – platforms that have played a significant role in Pakistan’s progressive politics.
Diagnosed with cancer in August 2007 (‘stage four’, pancreas, metastasis to the lungs), he remained characteristically calm and good humoured. “Look,” he reasoned, “everyone has to die. If this is how I have to go, so be it.”
He refused to give up drinking or smoking, reminding us of friends who died early despite giving up such habits. When a cousin’s mother-in-law was diagnosed with lung cancer, he asked wryly, “And does she also smoke?”
He defied doctors’ predictions of ‘maybe six months…’. “To look into the eyes of a killer disease, and yet not roll over is something that the bravest could envy,” wrote Zawwar in October last year.
Friends flocked to ‘Doc’, hosting parties at his home when he was too weak to go out. Emerging from anaesthesia after getting a blocked bile duct cleared this April, one of his first questions was about the Indian elections. At home, when his breathing became dangerously obstructed, doctors suggested suctioning out excess fluid in intensive care, with the risk of lung collapse and life support if the procedure failed. He waved his hand and pronounced, ‘No point, no point’.
He died peacefully in his sleep that night, half an hour after I kissed him goodnight. “Sleep well Babba,” I said.
“Goodnight,” he replied, clasping my hand back. “Go to sleep.”
Zakia now takes time out from her work to sit by his last resting place. It gives her peace.
This article was first published in HardNews, New Delhi – http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2009/07/3060
1983 mushaira at PMA House: Dr Badar Siddiqi, Faiz, Dr Tipu Sultan & Dr M. Sarwar (then General Secretary PMA)
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The report was submitted to the Board of The Centre on Philanthropy, which was designated the fiduciary agent of a planning grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies, to facilitate the process. Believing that the outcomes of the process might influence its own planning and development, The Centre contributed to the planning and feasibility work. Requests for proposals to support a planning process were sought from November to January 2011, partially based on recommendations solicited from field experts that had been working with a set of community foundations involved with Atlantic’s US Ageing Programme.
In April 2011, capping 18 months of sub-committee and taskforce research, the Bermuda Community Foundation Taskforce contracted with the consulting firm of Sutherland~Edwards, LLC, Consultants to Philanthropy to assess the feasibility of establishing a community foundation for Bermuda. The feasibility study involved a series of one-on-one interviews with approximately 38 stakeholders. Stakeholders represented a cross-section of business leaders, high net worth philanthropic individuals, trust officers and other professionals and nonprofit leaders.
Field interviews were conducted during the week of March 14-21, 2011, using an interview protocol but encouraging open feedback on the feasibility of establishing a community foundation for Bermuda.
In general, there was broad support for the concept of establishing a community foundation for Bermuda. Of the 38 interviewees, 14 of the respondents (37%) were very positive about the concept and sustainability of a potential community foundation. They said they believed that a community foundation could provide:
a great service to the island by pooling resources and engaging donors who otherwise might not yet be involved in philanthropy in Bermuda;
a way to tap into new philanthropic markets;
a potential benefit to some international corporations and businesses that need, and would like, help with their charitable giving.
Many hoped that the community foundation would help build individual philanthropic giving to match the level of well-established corporate giving in Bermuda. A few saw it as a way to attract donors from the black community, which is perceived as charitable but only to a defined and limited number of organizations. A few interviewees thought that a rational, due diligence process for helping determine where philanthropic grant dollars should go would be an excellent role for a community foundation.
In addition to these responses, another 16 (42%) were also positive about the community foundation but expressed concerns or had questions or issues that they felt needed to be resolved before they would be completely comfortable supporting a community foundation. Of the remaining respondents, three (3) individuals were “neutral” on the concept, and two (2) were categorised as “skeptical, requiring a great deal of work to be convinced.” The remaining three (3) interviewees were very negative and saw no benefit in establishing a community foundation for Bermuda citing concerns about loss of donors’ direct contact and control of their funds, potential for high fees and costs to operate a permanent charitable fund and concerns about board governance, structure and composition. Combined, these last three groups represented 21% of the total number of interviewees. In summary, nearly 80% of respondents viewed the creation of a community foundation favorably and expressed appreciation for the many benefits a community foundation would bring to bear to support donors and nonprofit organizations in Bermuda.
Based on these findings an enhanced taskforce was formed in late 2011, led by Graham Pewter with Myra Virgil, Brian Madeiros, Amanda Outerbridge, Peter Durhager, Nikkita Scott, Michael Brace, Dominic Powell, Peter Pearman and Gil Tucker as advisors.
In 2012, with a view to forming a founding Board of Directors for Bermuda’s first community foundation, the taskforce formalised as a steering committee, chaired by Peter Durhager with members being Myra Virgil, Amanda Outerbridge, Nikkita Scott, and Michael Brace. Brian O’Hara joined the steering work in late 2012. The team began assessing:
the extent to which a core group of early investors would commit to leading the effort to rollout and, eventually, help develop plans for sustaining the community foundation over time
whether potential donors—including corporations, banks, individual philanthropists, estate planners, and others — would use the community foundation to oversee and manage their charitable contributions
primary initial roles of the foundation in the larger community, i.e., a donor support organization, a community convener and problem-solver or both.
unmet needs, gaps, or opportunities in which private funding and philanthropic leadership could play a particularly important role
the most promising set of financing and recurring income strategies for sustainability.
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Five Questions with a Fight Director
Our 2018 BMO Mainstage productions, As You Like It and Macbeth, are filled with an array of choreographed pieces — from dance sequences, to wrestling moves and sword fighting. And they’re all performed by the same cast members!
It takes actors with great discipline and versatility to be able to master multiple moves, and an even more talented Fight Director to design and teach these techniques for the stage. Jonathan Hawley Purvis, Fight Director and Choreographer for both shows, does just that. And now he takes you behind the scenes…
Q 1. You designed the choreography for AS YOU LIKE IT, and the fight sequences for MACBETH. Which is closer to the work you usually do?
A. The combination of the two shows this season provided a delightful challenge for me as a choreographer. The sword fights in MACBETH certainly feels like it was closer to my comfort zone. As far as choreography is concerned, I’ve certainly done more sword work than anything else. In AS YOU LIKE IT, building the “Pro Wrestling” scenes was a first for me. It required a combination of researching actual techniques and adapting standard stage combat to create the illusion of those wrestling moves. Although Pro Wrestling of that nature has always been “staged”, those practitioners are outstanding athletes who push their bodies to the limit. The actors and I were tasked to try and emulate that style while keeping everyone considerably more safe. It was a blast!
Lindsey Angell & Nadeem Phillip, As You Like It | Photo: Tim Matheson
Q 2. (For AS YOU LIKE IT) How were you influenced by the culture of the ‘60s, as you decided how the actors should move?
A. The 60’s was all about the movement towards love, tolerance, and individuality. Dance of that era really reflects that. I wanted that feeling to come out in the choreography. It was also very important that both the singing and dancing drive the story forward. I tried to make the moves reflect that. The director, Daryl Cloran, and I also wanted to highlight the difference between the characters from the “court” and those out in the country. Orlando and Rosalind dancing with very popular moves from the era, while Silvius does a lot of line dancing and country style moves.
Q 3. What classic ‘60s wrestling moves have you included – and do you have a favourite?
A. Wrestling in the 60’s often used a lot of “submissions” and “hip throws”. I tried to include as much of that as possible. I also snuck in some more modern moves for their theatrical effect. My favourite is Orlando’s finishing move against Charles. The move is called a “Tilt-a-whirl”, made famous by the wrestler Rey Mysterio. It’s a spectacular looking move and fairly easy to execute with two athlete performers.
The Company of As You Like It | Photo: Tim Matheson
Q. 4. (For MACBETH) How do you work with an actor who hasn’t done much sword-fighting, and needs to get good in a short period. Do you have special tips and tricks?
A. This is a really great question, and it’s a situation the comes up often in this business. The simple answer is: we work slow. It takes time, but we have to build a fight very slowly the ensure that the timing and precision of each move is understood and executed. This is doubling true for anything where weapons are involved, such as MACBETH. Though the blades are dulled, they could still inflict damage. Over time we increase our speed as our confidence with the routine improves. All this while, it’s important to be layering on character motivation. I often say “The characters are trying to kill each other, but the actors are dancing together.” It requires a lot of discipline to keep both of those intentions running at the same time. I also cater my choreography directly to the actors performing it as often as I can. I spend a lot of my time watching how an actor moves, how their own physical nature can come to life. I find this helps actors feel more confident. Which in turn, makes for a better fight.
Ben Carlson & Harveen Sandu, Macbeth | Photo: Tim Matheson
Q. 5. Is there some particular thing, in either production, that you’d like audiences to watch for and appreciate?
A. Honestly, just watch the outstanding talent and versatility of those actors on stage. That same group of performers go from trying to hack each other to bits with broadswords, to throwing themselves around in a wrestling ring, to playing multiple instruments, to dancing and singing to Beatles songs. All the while, speaking Shakespeare’s remarkable words as honest and very human characters. It’s simply outstanding!
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Posted on August 10, 2014 | by Rich Johnston
"The story is way too big for just two words!" – Steve Ellis on Monsterwood
By David Gallaher
Steve Ellis has worn many hats working as an illustrator, author, art director and concept designer. Over his varied career he has created artwork and conceived projects for companies such as Wizards of the Coast, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, AMC, and Scholastic. For the last seven years, we have partnered together – as Bottled Lightning – to work on projects like the Harvey Award-Wining High Moon, The Only Living Boy, Box 13 and more. Steve is currently illustrating Monsterwood – a three part epic – with writer Jason Rosen – which is currently fundraising on Kickstarter. I took some time to talk to Steve about the project and it's inspiration.
David Gallaher: First of all, Steve, congratulations on the recent Harvey nomination for The Only Living Boy.
Steve Ellis: Thank you. It's awesome to be nominated for Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers. We've worked really hard to create a fun series – and to see it nominated alongside Battling Boy and Adventure Time – it feels like an honor.
DG: Okay, so let's talk Monsterwood. Can you describe the project in two words?
SE: OH GOD.
That's two words, right? The story is way too big for just two words! It's like a dramatic epic played out with monsters! You've got usurpers and stolen birth rites, thrones to fight for, powerful and fearful gods–it's part Hamlet, part Richard III, part Rings of the Nibelungen! It's about grand movement of power and a boy and a girl at the center of it, navigating and moving powers themselves.
DG: What would you say is your biggest stylistic influence for the series?
SE: Probably a lot of the influences are Moebius and Jim Henson and Brian Fraud's stuff from The Dark Crystal. I would also say a lot of the design of the world is helped by Jason Rosen, who is a sculptor. A lot of the vision of the world comes from observing his 3D sculpts.
While Monsterwood definitely has some brutality and darkness, the world is also full of wonderful people surviving through it. So, I wanted a slightly gentler feel to the artwork than on a project like High Moon. That doesn't mean that horrible things don't happen to those people! But the world around those people should feel warmer.
DG: Besides the general aesthetic, what sets Monsterwood apart from other fantasy epics?
SE: One of the feelings when you look at classic fantasy stuff like the Lord of the Rings books (which I love!), female characters tend to get pushed to the side. Our women are strong and have every bit as much to do with the story as the male characters, as opposed to being window dressing or plain romantic interest. The character of Jocasta is the kind of character I would want my daughter to look up to! All the collaborators on this project (myself and Jason, plus screenwriters Louise Gikowand Sally Anne Syberg), on this project have put a lot of thought into giving the women equal footing in the story, since it tends to lack in these big fantasies.
DG: What made Jason and yourself choose Kickstarter over other crowdfunding platforms?
SE: That was more Jason's call than mine, but Kickstarter has a great high profile! It really gets your project out there. It's the Kleenex of crowd-funding; everybody knows what a Kickstarter campaign is, and can understand and trust the way they do business.
DG: What are the biggest challenges so far for Monsterwood? Any interesting anecdotes about the creation process where things didn't go as planned?
SE: We've been working on this for a number of years, and it's gone through some MAJOR changes in that time! They're all good changes, but it's always challenging to scrap and start over. The stuff that you're seeing on the Kickstarter is probably the fifth or sixth draft of the material we started with. It's unusual because normally you get the script, make the image, and it's set in stone. I'm glad to have had the opportunity to go back and revise and really perfect the end product. We've been able to look at the options and pick the best one, something you don't have time for on a typical monthly schedule.
DG: What advice can you offer creators when stepping into the crowdfunding arena?
SE: Start with a crowd, have a masseuse on hand, take your meds if you take meds–but seriously! Have a solid plan and loads of advice. Do your research, know where your audience is, and make sure you have finished material to show! Educate yourself in the system you're using beforehand–basically be prepared! Any good entrepreneur knows how to do their research.
DG: Speaking of fantasy epics, are there any titles that really excite you right now? Comics or otherwise.
SE: I'm really enjoying Lord of the Rings with my son right now! We're also reading Lloyd Alexander's Prydane series together, which is a blast. But I try not to read the genres that I'm working in, because I don't like to be tempted to be too derivative! If anything, I've been reading a lot of Robert Bly and Joseph Campbell.
DG: What is your favorite part of Monsterwood to create? Is it a particular character or the environments? Or something else altogether.
SE: I really love drawing bad guys. A lot of the time, the bad guy is the most fun part of the project to design! Like Darth Vader (pre-Phantom Menace of course) is way more visually interesting to me than Luke Skywalker! Tiberius and gigantic Og are both in the rewards prints on the Kickstarter page, and I loved making both of those images.
DG: What's the longterm plan for Monsterwood? I'm going to leave this ambiguous so you can spill some secrets.
SE: Much of the world of Monsterwood is based on Jason's 3D work. He's a special effects artist and sculptor, and a lot of his background is in film. As follows naturally, there's already a screenplay in the works, written by an Emmy-award-winning writer. Suffice to say, big things are down the road…
Monsterwood is currently soliciting on Kickstarter. You can learn more about the project at: monsterwoodcomic.com. The Only Living Boy is serialized every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at: olbcomic.com. Steve Ellis' work can be found on his website. He can also be found on Twitter at @Hypersteve. David Gallaher is a contributor to Bleeding Cool. He can also be found on Twitter at @davidgallaher.
Title: Monsterwood Graphic Novel Kickstarter.
Campaign End Date: Sun, Aug 17 2014 9:00 PM PDT.
Project Publication Date: March 2015.
Monsterwood is a coming of age, fantasy story, set in an ancient, haunting, and beautiful world of Magog.
Contributors: Jason Rosen / Steve Ellis / Louise Gikow/ Sally Anne Syberg
About Rich Johnston
Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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City State of the Invincible Overlord (1976)
AD&D First Edition (1e) Compatible Products
Basic D&D Compatible Product
Original D&D Compatible Products
Wilderlands of High Fantasy
Generic / Universal
City State of the Invincible Overlord
Campaign Setting (game world)
Bob Bledsaw
Sheryl England
Ed Perry
Ken Simpson
Norma Bledsaw
Greg Geilman
Kara Geilman
Judges Guild
Fans: 10
Publisher: Judges Guild
Saddle Stapled (modules/pamphlets)
1981-1983 Revised Version; three printings
Product Code: 62-S8
1977 First Printing
Size: Digest
User Summary
The City-State of the Invincible Overlord was the first fantasy RPG setting ever published (1976). It features a huge walled city that is ruled by the eponymous (lawful evil) Overlord and the surrounding environs that are full of adventure possibilities. What was so striking at the time that it was first released was the incredible level of detail that the product contains. Hundreds of streets are mapped, named, and populated with shops, temples, inns, taverns, brothels, houses, barracks, and the like. Hundreds of NPCs are listed along with their stats and rumors they know (for starting adventures). The history and political system of the City State is described along with relevant laws the PC's must abide by while inside the city. It includes dungeon levels beneath the City State and detailed information for nearby adventure / dungeon sites: the dwarven fortress "Thunderhold" and the "Sunstone Caverns".
The City State was designed for Dungeons & Dragons (Original Edition) but was not officially licensed for D&D until 1978. The license ended in 1983. It was printed many times over the life of Judges Guild and changed in size and configuration in subsequent editions.
The first "edition" was spread out across several different publications / releases throughout 1976:
City State Map: A 34" x 44" map of the City State
Initial Guidelines Booklet I: A 16-page booklet with charts, rules and background data for the City State such as NPCs, crimes and trials, etc.
City State Player's Map: A 17" x 22" map of the City State (originally printed on four 8.5" x 11" sheets) that was blank inside for players to fill in details as they explored the city
Dungeon Level Maps I 1-5: Five dungeon levels beneath the City State
Guide to the City State: A 56-page booklet detailing hundreds of shopkeepers and other NPC's, background information, special buildings, and additional rules for running campaigns in the City State
Thunderhold & Sunstone Caverns Maps: 11" x 17" map with the dwarven fortress on one side and the caverns on the other
Initial Guidelines Booklet J: A 12-page booklet with additional charts, rules and background data for Thunderhold and Sunstone Caverns
Dungeon Level Maps J: Four dungeon levels beneath Thunderhold
In 1977 the above items were bundled together into one heat-sealed baggie with a cover sheet entitled City State of the Invincible Overlord.
In 1978, Judges Guild compiled and edited all of the information from the various booklets into one 80-page book and released it as a "Revised Edition". Included in this release were two 22.5" x 28.5" maps of the City State (judge, player), an 11" x 17" judge's map of Thunderhold/Sunstone Caverns, and an 8.5" x 11" player's map of Thunderhold/Sunstone Caverns. This configuration was reprinted, potentially with minor edits, in 1979 and 1980.
In 1981 the Thunderhold/Sunstone Cavern maps were incorporated into the main book, which grew to 96 pages to incorporate a new layout and illustrations.
In 1983 the cover was changed to remove the "Approved for use with Dungeons & Dragons" claim.
In 1999 the product was reprinted, nearly identical to the 1981/1983 printings, but with a blue cover and updated "Booty List" (product listing) in the back.
The setting also has received two major version revisions:
City-State of the Invincible Overlord (Mayfair) in 1987 by Mayfair Games, as the foundation of Invincible Overlord (Mayfair)
City State of the Invincible Overlord (Revised d20) in 2004 by Necromancer Games
A successfully funded Kickstarter ran in early 2014 to revise and republish the material for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (1st Edition) - to date, this has not appeared.
Lair of the Demon Queen
White Dwarf (Issue 7 - Jun 1978)
A difficult but rewarding section of the Greenlands Dungeon for D&D, by Don Turnbull. For around ten
Malevolent Character Modules
Judges Guild Journal (Issue 17 - Oct/Nov 1979)
Concise NPC descriptions for denizens of the City State.
Review: City-State of the Invincible Overlord
White Dwarf (Issue 3 - Oct 1977)
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Terri Schiavo: A Life That Matters— Introducing audiences to Terri Schiavo, her family’s fight for her right to life, the central role of the media in shaping public opinion, and the lasting impact of her public fight. Appropriate for any audience.
Caring for Disabled and Medically Vulnerable Loved Ones— Teaching audiences how to be an heroic advocate for disabled and medically vulnerable loved ones, with a focus on Advanced Directives, medical power-of-attorney rights, and stories of hope and recovery. Appropriate for any audience, but particularly for Christians and families.
Catholic Health Care: Ordinary v. Extraordinary Care— An introduction to the distinctions between ordinary and extraordinary care, using Terri Schiavo and other prominent persons to demonstrate how to respect human dignity without artificially sustaining life past its natural conclusion. Appropriate for any audience, but particularly for Catholics in churches and schools.
The Basic Right to Food and Water— Exposing audiences to the incredible fact that food and water is regulated by healthcare providers and considered “medical treatment” when delivered by feeding tube. This is a treatment relied upon by millions of Americans annually, and countless Americans die each year from the fatal withdraw of basic food and water. Yet, hope exists to change how healthcare providers regulate access to this basic and ordinary care. Appropriate for any audience, but particularly for political audiences and pro-life advocates.
Considering Human Dignity— Introducing audiences to the basics of human dignity, medical ethics, and proper bioethical perspectives on delivering basic and ordinary care including the issues of “personhood” theory, “futile care” rulings, and the “quality of life” diagnosis. Appropriate for any audience, but particularly young people and medical/law students.
“Your presentation was excellent, and we owe you a debt of gratitude for your stand on life and your life dedication to proclaiming the truth about life. Your witness is powerful.”
“Overall the weekend was amazing. Many people, including me, were moved to tears.”
“The talk by Bobby Schindler was outstanding and very informative, something I will always remember.”
“Bobby Schindler’s talk was very moving and powerful.”
“Especially enjoyed Bobby Schindler – moving and astonishing.”
“Thank you for being a part of our life issues conference. Your presentation was very moving. It is amazing what the media has done to Terri’s story. Thank you for speaking out for those who cannot.”
Previous Speaking Events
Bobby Schindler and his family have spoken widely, including:
Austria: Linz, Vienna
Australia: Brisbane, Sydney, Toowoomba, MacKay, Melbourne
Canada: Chatham, Dunville, Edmonton, Hamilton, Kirkland Lake, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg
England: Derbyshire, London, Swanwick
Germany: Bamberg, Fulda, Mainz
Ireland: Dublin
Israel: Jerusalem
Mexico: Mexicali, Mexico City, Queretaro
New Zealand: Auckland
Alabama: Birmingham, Irondale
Alaska: Anchorage, Kenai, Wasilla
Arizona: Phoenix
Arkansas: Little Rock
California: Anaheim, Bakersfield, Fresno, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Visalia
Colorado: Boulder
Connecticut: Cromwell
Delaware: Newark
Florida: Brandon, DeFuniak Springs, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Lehigh Acres, Naples, Oreland, Orlando, Ormond Beach, St. Augustine, St. Petersburg, San Antonio, Tallahassee, Tamarac, Tampa, Valrico, Venice, Vero Beach
Georgia: Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Warner Robins
Hawaii: Hilo
Illinois: Aurora, Galesburg, Lisle, Rockford
Indiana: Indianapolis, South Bend
Iowa: Carroll, Des Moines
Kansas: Kansas City, Lawrence, Overland Park, Wichita
Kentucky: Frankfort, Highland Heights, Louisville
Louisiana: Baton Rouge, New Orleans
Maine: Portland
Maryland: Annapolis, Baltimore, Bethesda, College Park
Massachusetts: Agawa, Boston, Mashpee
Michigan: Bay County, Brighton, Caledonia, Dearborn Heights, Detroit, Flint, Jackson, Monroe, Lenawee County, Orchard Lake, Southgate, St. Joseph, Traverse City, Troy
Minnesota: Duluth, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Silver Lake
Missouri: Kansas City, St. Louis
Nebraska: Hartington, Lincoln, Omaha, Wayne
New Hampshire: Bedford, Hanover, Manchester
New Jersey: Clark, Medford, Newark, Princeton, Piscataway, Morristown, Newark, Red Bank, South Orange
New Mexico: Albuquerque, Farmington
New York: Albany, Bronx, Ithaca, Medford, New York, Syracuse, Verona
Nevada: Reno
North Dakota: Dickinson, Hankinson
North Carolina: Elizabeth City, Charlotte
Ohio: Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Kettering, Newbury, Oxford, Steubenville, Troy
Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, Shawnee
Oregon: Portland
Pennsylvania: Ambler, Broomall, East Norriton, Erie, Essington, Everett, Fort Washington, Downingtown, Greensburg, Kennett Square, Lower Merion, Malvern, Merion Station, Mifflinburg, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Oreland, Richboro, Scranton, Shamokin, Springfield, Southampton, Valley Forge, Villanova, Warminster, West Brandywine, Wilkes Barre
South Carolina: Charleston, Columbia
South Dakota: Aberdeen
Tennessee: Chattanooga, Nashville
Texas: Amarillo, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Longview, Lubbock
Utah: Salt Lake City
Virginia: Lansdowne, Virginia Beach, Williamsburg
Washington: Kennewick, Kirkland, Seattle, Vancouver
West Virginia: Morgantown
Wisconsin: Appleton, Brookfield, Cable, Eau Claire, Nashotah, Milwaukee, Osceola, Ripon, Superior, Walworth, Wisconsin Dells
Wyoming: Cody
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University of Notre Dame Law School
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The College of William & Mary
Philadelphia School of Osteopathic Medicine
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Franciscan University of Steubenville
St. Gregory’s University
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Student Internship project with Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center
A success story for the Business and Entrepreneurship Sector in FY 19-20 was the partnership with the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, a non-profit arm of the Nasdaq, to place student interns and faculty externs at Nasdaq early stage companies. Funded by an Industry Sector Project in Common (ISPIC) grant from the Chancellor’s Office, twenty colleges were selected to participate in the project. Stipends were provided to faculty to act as coaches to the students and as liaisons with the Nasdaq startup companies.
Faculty served as coaches to the student interns putting in an estimated 25-30 hours over the course of the program. Mark Keene, a business instructor and director of the hospitality program at Pasadena City College said, “The extra investment was absolutely worth it for the experiences his students gained. Each student was working directly with a founder or a startup. They worked on projects related to marketing and research, but also learned how to develop an entrepreneurial mindset.”
Rafael Cardona, a business instructor at Glendale College, said the experience and Nasdaq’s brand recognition made the program a success. “I think it’s progressive and wonderful that the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center decided to work with our community college students,” Cardona said. “It’s validating for the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center to see the abundant talent that exists in our students. And in turn, the magnitude of this internship opportunity positively impacts the professional aspirations and lives of our hardworking students.”
Glendale College students Jennifer Mendoza-Coronado and Nyah Gaitan interned at Winnie, an app that connects parents with child care providers. Mendoza-Coronado, who graduated from Glendale College this spring, worked on compiling information on attractions and services for families to display on the Winnie app and the company’s blog — things like museums, zoos, and family-friendly events. She said the program gave her valuable experience working in startup culture and would recommend the experience to other students in a heartbeat. “It can seem scary to work for a startup company because they’re still in the trial and error phase, but it’s the best thing you can do if you want to major in business,” Mendoza-Coronado said. “You can see how much work it takes and how focused and driven and organized you have to be. I 100 percent recommend this program and am grateful to Professor Cardona for introducing me to it.” Winnie was so impressed with the Glendale students, both were asked to stay on as interns after the program had ended.
Pasadena City College students interned at Honeyfi, a finance app for couples; Fanalyze, a sports data app; String, an app which adds superpowers to your phone number; and Stache, modern solution to self-storage. Honeyfi’s team said the work of intern Richard Gallegos directly influenced its marketing strategies and materials. “He completed some competitive research/analysis on App Store promotional videos that helped us make the decision to invest in a video,” the founders wrote in an evaluation. “He also was a team player and teamed up with our other intern to create social media content.” Two Pasadena City College students were offered jobs at the end of their internship experience.
Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Program Coordinator, Isis Torres grew up in Los Angeles and was happy to support students in her hometown through the internship program. “The students demonstrated the ability to develop quickly, think on their toes, and utilize resources to be productive in the tasks that they were assigned,” Torres said. “We believe having students participating in a wide array of entrepreneurial programs provides a unique talent pool for talent hungry startups.”
Student Testimonials from Internmatch Winter 2020
“During the three-month internship, it was the communication with my mentor and the founder that inspired me the most, as it showed me how different it is to project based on the theoretical knowledge learned at school compared to the operation in reality.”
-Fa Zheng, Pasadena
“The experience from this program working with startups is a business major’s dream. You get to apply your skills with an actual company and learn very important info that is priceless. Applying the skills I’ve learned from college with the experience from the program will benefit my future greatly as I plan on using everything I’ve learned for an actual business and feel more confident doing so.”
-Andrew Medina, Reedly College
“Through the Internmatch Program, I have learned about my value and confidence. At the beginning of the program, I felt I did not have any value to offer to Start-up companies and I also did not feel confident in myself. However, those feelings shifted when I realized it was my choice to feel valuable and confident.”
-Juan Ochoa, Reedly
“During this program I have learned to trust my instincts. Despite the stress of current world circumstances, I have been able to apply myself and excel in my work. By doing so my confidence has grown and I am able to see my potential. The most valuable part of the program has been working with mentors. Being able to consult and collaborate with those who have more experience than I do, has been invaluable. I know I have learned things that will stay with me throughout future endeavors.”
–Madison Smith, Mt. San Jacinto Community College
“As business student, any kind of experience in the field that you’re pursuing would be beneficial. By being a part of this internmatch program, I have tackled tasks and projects that challenged me to step out of my comfort zone. I believe that I have learned more technical skills, but also strengthened soft skills like time management and communication during a remote internship.
–Pauline Maninang, City College of San Francisco
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EDUCATION DURING COVID-19 – LEARN MORE
Welcome from HOS
Our Progressive Mission
The Blue Oak Difference
BOS at a Glance
Diversity and Democracy
Un vistazo a la Escuela Blue Oak
Affordability and Tuition
Lower School Application Process
Middle School Application Process
FAQs (English)
FAQs Preguntas Frecuentes
7 Core Principles
Importance of Play
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Afterschool Enrichment Programs
Annual Fundraising
Building Dreams FAQs
High School Readiness
Blue Oak School’s Middle School is a small community designed to inspire and care for our sixth, seventh and eighth graders as they transition into early adolescence, an important time of change in the lives of children.
Blue Oak’s Middle School classes are small, which allows us to provide our students with individual attention and small-group instruction. This is a key ingredient in Middle School learning, which depends on a strong personalized relationship between the student and teacher. The Middle School schedule is built on long blocks of time, recognizing that students learn best when time in school is organized to promote student-directed inquiry and experiential learning. The Middle School day also includes time for rest and relaxation during planned breaks and an all-school lunch period.
Blue Oak’s Middle School teachers continue to challenge our students with meaningful academic work at the same time as they nurture each student’s non-cognitive tool-set – important behaviors and dispositions including social resilience, academic perseverance, and a what psychologists call a flexible “change mindset.” Through our attention to the needs of the whole child, Blue Oak nurtures well-rounded individuals and prepares our students to succeed.
Middle School Advisory
Every Blue Oak Middle School student is a member of a small advisory group, the cornerstone of our learning community. Advisors are attentive to our Middle School students’ social-emotional well-being and their overall academic growth. Advisors forge significant relationships with their students to help them succeed both inside and outside of the classroom. Advisors are also the main contact person for parents, and they make sure parents are aware of successes and problems that might arise at school.
In advisory meetings, students engage in activities designed to develop a greater sense of awareness, a greater sense of self, and a greater sense of community. Advisors help students learn how to set academic and social goals, and they encourage students to reflect on their goals. Advisory group members also support each other and they celebrate each other’s successes throughout the year. Blue Oak’s advising program develops students’ leadership skills that are then practiced in larger grade level and school-wide meetings. The Advisory group is also the center for community service for the Middle School.
Blue Oak sixth graders take classes in math, science, humanities, studio art, Spanish, PE, music, and drama. Students also participate in our electives program which enables students to explore non-traditional classes in a wide array of subjects. Sixth grade enjoys the chance to explore off-campus with trips around Napa and regular experiences at the school’s partner farm.
The sixth-grade curriculum is a well-paced, integrated exploration centered around the connections among ancient civilizations, math, science, and art. Humanities (integrated social studies, literature, and language arts) begins the year with an adventurous exploration of the Silk Road and the diffusion of cultures via languages, dress, medicines, religions, food, music, and traded goods. Students spend the year exploring maps, investigating life in ancient China, Persia and the Roman Empire. Sixth-graders develop their voice as writers, practice writing techniques, and present their work for critique. Reading takes a two-fold approach as students hone their skills of reading for understanding and explore new genres, styles, and types of literature.
Like humanities, sixth-grade math is multilayered and challenges students to become mathematicians through hands-on projects and integrated assignments. Students encounter and explore many traditional math concepts such as fractions, decimals, percentages, positive and negative numbers, and multi-step equations through projects integrated with humanities, science, and art.
In science class, students learn to use the scientific method to direct and shape their explorations of their local world, the larger modern world, and connections are made to the science of cultures along the Silk Road. Through hands-on projects and experiments, students become familiar with seeing their world as scientists, and they begin to understand other peoples and other perspectives. Students apply their newly acquired skills, techniques, and perspectives to better understand and gain new knowledge while engaged in off-campus field work. Sixth-grade science ends the year with students practicing their skills as scientists by developing their own Science Fair Research Projects and presenting their findings to the Blue Oak community.
Blue Oak seventh graders continue to take classes in math, science, humanities, studio art, Spanish, PE, music, and drama. They also participate in our rich and varied electives program that allows students to discover new interests. All Middle School students participate in our advisory program which enables them to develop a more meaningful community with their advisor and with fellow students.
In humanities (integrated social studies, literature, and language arts) class Blue Oak seventh graders investigate humans and their geographical surroundings through map-making, interpreting charts and graphs, studying census data, and creating their own country. Students read independently outside of class and track their progress with reading responses, blog posts, summaries, and book reviews. Blue Oak seventh graders become skilled authors of persuasive essays and they learn to craft a speech.
Seventh graders apply their skills by tackling a real-world problem and developing a tenable action plan. Through this project, students write, edit, and revise plans, blogs, annotated bibliographies, and reading responses to strengthen their writing skills. In some years this project has connected Blue Oak students to other young scholars through organizations like NAIS 20/20 and the World Savvy Challenge.
Blue Oak’s Middle School students’ natural sense of curiosity serves as the foundation from which they build an increasingly sophisticated understanding of scientific concepts. The seventh-grade science program provides a wide variety of hands-on laboratory experiences that continue to challenge our young scientists to inquire, hypothesize, research, measure, analyze, collaborate, and test science concepts. Seventh-grade investigations include the exploration of such exciting topics as the density of solids, the Big Bang theory, the Earth’s seasons, seismology-epicenter location and magnitude determination, and Napa Creek hydrology.
In the seventh grade, Blue Oak students engage in a year of pre-algebra study beginning with getting organized through the study of data interpretation. Students go deeper into the study of integers and their use in mathematics, and they explore probability through games and story scenarios. Students begin the formal study of algebra by writing algebraic sentences and they learn to solve them through a variety of strategies.
Blue Oak’s eighth graders continue their studies in math, science, humanities, studio art, Spanish, PE, music, and drama. They also explore their personal interests in our elective classes, and they continue to enjoy a personalized relationship with their advisory group. Our eighth-graders also take a class in High School Readiness that introduces them to their high school options and prepares them for application processes and placement tests.
In eighth-grade humanities (integrated social studies, literature, and language arts) our students investigate the roles of United States citizens and its democracy. Through the study of history, current events, and literature, students explore our nation. They examine how our government formed in the 18th century and assess how well it functions in the 21st century. Roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens are scrutinized with an emphasis on social justice. Students use primary and secondary sources for research, and they investigate how history is told and retold, made and maintained. Through the reading of literature and literary nonfiction, students gain familiarity with literary and cultural knowledge, they learn how to probe texts for deeper understanding, and they obtain social and emotional insights into human nature. Students write with a keen focus on essays, research papers, and creative work (both fictional and nonfictional). Presentation skills are honed on an on-going basis as students publicly present their learning in a multitude of ways throughout the school year.
The eighth-grade science program continues to challenge students to be scientists. Areas of study include gravity, Newton’s laws of motion, thermal energy transfer and the energy stored in food, and physical and chemical properties and changes. A highlight of our eighth graders final semester at Blue Oak is the class trip, a multi-night trip that provides a hands-on science experience. In the past, these trips have involved paleontological digs and the study of marine biology.
In math, Blue Oak eighth graders continue to study the concepts of algebra. They start the year with a review of algebraic expressions and equations and go on to apply their skills to real-world problems and intriguing situations. Students practice solving for two variables in two equations, investigate polynomials, and become familiar with the quadratic equation. Blue Oak students are given lots of ways to practice math and as they take the time to reflect in writing as they review their work and select pieces for display.
The 8th-grade school year culminates in a Capstone Project, a sustained investigation of a pointed research question. Capstone projects have ranged from building a computer to learning to read X-rays. Whatever the area of inquiry, students are challenged to research both secondary and primary sources, and every student must identify and interview an expert. Eighth graders present their projects to the community each May.
The Middle School Elective Program
Each year Blue Oak Middle School students take four electives from a rich selection of classes, one from each category: Art and Expressions, Scientific Inquiry, Play & Movement, and Community Engagement. These classes are designed to be hands, heads, and hearts on. As we like to say at Blue Oak, they challenge our students to “go deep.”
Elective classes also provide students with the opportunity to discover a new interest. By design, Blue Oak’s Middle School electives are multi-age giving students the chance to develop friendships with students in all the grades. The elective catalog is published and shared with the community every spring. Students discuss their options with their parents and their advisors before making their requests.
Visual art is a core component of a Blue Oak School education. At Blue Oak students develop a visual literacy and a love for the visual arts through an enjoyable, broad-based curriculum. Our teachers design activities that challenge students to problem solve and take risks while exploring a wide variety of techniques and media.
Our Middle School students more deeply explore the elements of art and design which are often integrated with other subjects. Projects are designed to promote creativity — there is never one right answer or one right way. Students are also encouraged to tinker and build as they explore the connections between visual creativity and introductory robotics. In addition to traditional media and materials, the middle school studio’s hand tools and power tools introduce students to industrial arts. Students also use iPad apps and computer programs to create sophisticated digital artwork, graphic designs, and animations.
Music is a key component of the Blue Oak experience. In the Lower School, activities build on what children naturally love to do: sing, move, dance, play instruments, clap, and keep a beat.
Frequent music-making in the early years provides the solid foundation needed for deep, musical understanding. Instruction is eclectic, combining the best practices of Orff Schulwerk, Education Through Music, and Kodaly. By the time our students arrive at our Middle School, music is a natural part of who they are.
Blue Oak Middle School students take a band class where they study the basic elements of blues, rock, soul and funk through an applied approach of playing and listening. Students learn about basic instrumentation, song structure, composition, musical expression, and music theory as they try their hand at bass, guitar, drums, keyboards, and of course, vocals. Musical study in the Middle School is often integrated with the humanities through investigations into the history of music. Students work in groups to learn complete pieces that are performed for the community. Interested students are encouraged to enroll in specialized electives.
Blue Oak students are also introduced to formal dramatic study in the Middle School. Our Middle School students explore character through improvisation and creative dramatics, and they learn to deliver monologs and to work as members of an ensemble. Students also explore the connections between theater and literature, culture and history as they learn to appreciate the important role of the arts in society. Seventh- and eighth-grade students are encouraged to audition for the Middle School production, which marries music and drama.
Blue Oak’s developmentally appropriate method of scaffolding technology use provides our students with the strong foundation they will need to succeed as savvy citizens of an increasingly digital society.
In Middle School, Blue Oak School students use various types of technology to gather information, communicate, illustrate and solve problems. Students in our upper grades also practice the thoughtful and responsible consumption of information by learning to access, evaluate and appropriately use information from online sources.
All Blue Oak students and parents are asked to sign an Acceptable Use of Technology Agreement. While not required, we encourage parents to purchase their Middle School student a Chromebook for use at school. The Chromebook is lightweight, has a long battery life, offers quick and easy access to the Internet, Blue Oak Mail, and Google Apps, and gives students an essential keyboard to improve their skills and speed at typing. For students who do not bring their own device, a variety of tools are available for use at school.
At Blue Oak we view the transition to high school process is an opportunity for self-discovery and as a chance to learn the art of decision-making. Our primary goal in our High School Readiness class is to help your child reflect on their aspirations so that they find their best high school “fit.”
The high school transition process officially begins in the late spring of the seventh-grade year when parents are invited to an evening meeting to learn about what lies ahead and their role in the process. High school placement and entrance exam preparation also begin in the spring of seventh grade and continue in the fall of eighth grade in the High School Readiness class, which meets weekly.
Students develop skills to write their essays for applications in the High School Readiness Class. They also practice interviewing skills and have a mock interview before heading off to prospective high school visits. Each year admissions officers and school administrators visit Blue Oak to speak to our community about their schools. Each Blue Oak family has the chance to meet with our high school readiness teacher to receive individualized advice and support.
Blue Oak maintains positive relationships with a wide-range of high schools and educates them about Blue Oak’s philosophy, mission, and our students. Letters of recommendation are completed for students by our math and humanities teachers, and the High School Readiness Director. All required application materials (transcripts, letters) are sent to the appropriate high schools.
If you would like more information about Blue Oak School’s High School Matriculation Program, please contact Melinda Cooke, High School Guidance Director, at mcooke@blueoakschool.org.
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“We’re a small group of film enthusiasts with a sense of humor and a low tolerance for stupidity.”
The Cinephobe
The real ones, they start out trolling and get all sincere later on. That’s the story of The Cinephobe, an absolutely vital “pirate”-style movie channel that popped up during the pandemic borne out of @TheCinephobe, a sharp, shitposting—and anonymous—Instagram account that has, for a few years now, mocked the arthouse movie business and its obsequious snobs.
“We’re a small group of film enthusiasts with a sense of humor and a low tolerance for stupidity,” The Cinephobe told BmoreArt.
The world of funny-mean-and-sometimes-sad movie meme-ing is familiar to all of us here in Baltimore, home of @ericallenhatch, and both Hatch and The Cinephobe use the same blueprint, though The Cinephobe tends to take aim at the industry and the absurdities of New York’s multi-varied repertory and arthouse film scene. Posts on their IG offered up other uses for defunct movie ticket scam MoviePass’ card (you could use it cut up lines of blow for example), placed the cartoon cast of Space Jam (plus Wayne Knight) in the A Clockwork Orange milk bar, and bitched about rising ticket prices at Manhattan’s Metrograph via a still from ultimate World War II Belarussian bummer Come and See.
“We began as a meme account that pokes fun at some of NY film culture’s glaring absurdities. But because film scene people tend to be sad, thin-skinned, and easily provoked, we figured life would just be easier if we didn’t put our names out there,” The Cinephobe said. “Back when there were theaters, we still wanted to go see movies in peace.”
And then the movie theaters all shut down, the group began developing an online livestream screening movies. They used The Cinephobe name, they explained, “because we had this built-in following of film-obsessives, and also because part of our concept was to fill the gap left by the mostly great curation of movies that play in NYC on any given week.” Launched on March 29, The Cinephobe, similar to Baltimore’s QuaranTV, is programmed like a television channel, with a set schedule each day posted online guided by a passionate, discerning, and decidedly inclusive approach to movies.
High-Ballin'
“When the theaters reopen, we greatly look forward to being able to sit with friends and enjoy movies the old-fashioned way again. What we’re doing is merely a stopgap until that time comes.”
“We hope that our programming on Cinephobe in some small way makes up for all the viewing opportunities missed while repertory theaters around the world are shut, regardless if you just watch one film a week or four a day,” The Cinephobe said. “When the theaters reopen, we greatly look forward to being able to sit with friends and enjoy movies the old-fashioned way again. What we’re doing is merely a stopgap until that time comes.”
A recent favorite was a screening of 1978’s High-Ballin’, a gritty Canadian trucker justice movie starring Peter Fonda and Jerry Red. Cult stuff from the ‘70s is a specialty (earlier this week, they showed Cotton Comes To Harlem) because there’s just so much of it and even the most low-budget and raggedy tends to have something rewarding—a performance, a fascinating bumfuck location, cool music—but that’s mixed in with plenty of more “respectable” international cinema and gritty American stuff you may have missed out on. California, a Gold Rush actioner with Barbara Stanwyck singing (or “singing”; she lip syncs, it’s still glorious) some cowboy songs and Canyon Passage, Jacques Tourneur’s wild technicolor Western that makes room for a touch of radical politics surrounding Native Americans’ rights were part of a themed “Dawn of the West” double feature early one recent morning.
“The concept of ‘curation’ has devolved into a total joke because of the abundance of ding-dongs in every creative field who have assumed the title of ‘curator’ as an easy path to notoriety through very little work and insight of their own,” The Cinephobe said. “Hopefully, what we’re doing demonstrates that curation is still meaningful when done with genuine knowledge and appreciation.”
Obscurity and rarity are defining characteristics of what The Cinephobe shows but that’s mostly because most of the other stuff is out there already on Amazon Prime or Hulu or Netflix. And watching something when it’s on and watching with others around the world, especially when it’s likely the easiest or only way to see it, feels purposeful and closer to going to the movies.
The group has been gathering digitized copies of movies for decades—“back in the days of Usenet, eMule, Soulseek”—and on into the private torrenting era right now where exclusive communities facilitate ripping hard-to-find stuff and DIY subtitling them, a dogged, unofficial sort of archiving effort. Still, to see a lot of those movies, you need to know what they are in the first place and you need to know how torrenting works, so putting these movies on a channel makes access and discovery easier. And again, it is a bulwark against snobbery—The Cinephobe’s enemy since those IG days.
“There are some deluded people who think these films should stay on those private networks, seen only by the people who have access to them. Because we’ve decided to exhibit the work publicly, they’ve accused us of somehow being disrespectful to the pirates who ripped/subtitled the work in the first place,” The Cinephobe said. “These people view their deep knowledge of film as a form of cultural currency and they’ve built their lives around the anemic sense of power that comes with possessing it. This is as incorrect as it is pathetic.”
Last month, The Cinephobe showed STOP!, a 1970 movie from Black director/actor/writer Bill Gunn (maybe you’ve seen his ambling, experimental vampire movie Ganja & Hess). STOP!, a living theater sort of riff on the “the bourgeoisie are awful” strain of melodrama full of hard-to-watch couples’ quarrels and explicit sex never released, likely was seen by more people on The Cinephobe than have seen it in decades.
“We showed Bill Gunn’s notoriously impossible to see film STOP! just a few days after it leaked online to some private torrent trackers. Afterward, we were bombarded with messages of thanks from people on both coasts and overseas who were thrilled to have been able to see it,” The Cinephobe said. “It actually felt like an event, and as we continue to deal with this new reality, any sort of communal experience and taste of normalcy is welcome.”
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TOLULOPE AROTILE: TOO EARLY FOR HANGAR IN THE SKY
When a pilot dies, the colleagues say he or she has gone to the hangar in the sky. Hangar is a place where aircraft are housed, but it was way, way too early for Nigeria’s first female helicopter fighter pilot, Tolulope Arotile, to go there. Not a time for parking yet. Not at 23, not when her life and career were just starting.
Tolulope died on Tuesday, curiously not in terra incognita, which the sky is. But rather on terra firma, solid ground. She was involved in an auto crash at the Nigerian Air Force Base, Kaduna, suffered head injuries, from which she never recovered.
What a grief, what a tragedy. I saw Tolulope in February, when the Nigerian Air Force was presenting its newly acquired hardware to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Eagle Square, Abuja. So young, so tender, almost too innocent to be a fighter pilot. Deftly, she explained the features of the new attack helicopter to President Buhari, and that was just about five months after she was winged as the first helicopter fighter pilot in the history of the Air Force.
Too early to house your chopper in the hangar, Tolulope. Why was Heaven so much in a hurry to have you? You were serving nation and humanity, flying several combat missions for Operation GAMA AIKI in the North Central area of the country, particularly Niger State, infested with bandits from the pit of hell. You did your bit in enforcing peace in that area, giving those fiends a black eye. Now, no more. No more thrills, no more rush of adrenaline, as you soar into the azure sky in your nimble machine, a wonder of technology in warfare.
Tolulope lived and died for the sky. Primary education at Air Force school. Secondary, too. Then, enlistment into the Air Force, commissioned an officer, and further training abroad to hone her skills. She was decorated in October last year, with Women Affairs Minister, Dame Pauline Tallen assisting the Chief of Air Staff. It made a lot of Nigerians proud, particularly her parents, Engineer Akin and Mrs Arotile, from Iffe, in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State.
After the decoration exercise, a delighted Mrs Arotile (which parent won’t be over the moon, despite the risky nature of the career) took to her Facebook wall, and posted: “On behalf of my entire family, Engr. Akin and Mrs Arotile, I will like to sincerely appreciate everyone for honoring the invitation to celebrate with Pilot Officer T. Arotile. I am indeed grateful and pray that God will reward you all exceedingly and abundantly above all you would think or ask of Him. Once again, thank you and God bless.”
Most parents would be proud to produce a pilot. I can tell, because I have one. That day, in 2017, when my pilot son flew me in a Boeing 737 from Lagos to Abuja, with me sitting with him in the cockpit, is one one my happiest. Forget the knot of fear and anxiety in the bottom of my belly, as he manipulated the winged bird through the sky, pointing out landmarks to me, and touching down gingerly at our destination about 50 minutes later. It was the experience of a lifetime.
My son first indicated his desire to be a pilot at just four years old. I thought he would outgrow it. But the older he got, the more resolute he became. He went to flying school, got his private pilot’s license, then the commercial license, and then type rated on Boeing 737.
Tolulope must have known no other world, except flying. Like the parents of every pilot, the Arotiles must have had their times of anxiety, but also trusted firmly in God. What can we do without faith in God? Nothing. I say again; nothing.
God, what then happened? How did an auto crash at NAF Base claim such a tender soul, turning her family, the Air Force, the nation, into mourning. President Buhari recalled the young lady that took him round, explaining the features of the fighter helicopters at the Air Show held in Eagle Square. He mourned her deeply, condoling with her family, the Air Force, and the nation at large. God, we should not question you, but what really happened? As mere mortals, we don’t know. But we will surely understand it better by and by.
I recall a story told us in church long ago by my then pastor, Rev Felix Meduoye (now retired General Overseer of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria). He said his young daughter used to pray: God don’t let us die in our sleep. Don’t let us die when we are awake. Don’t let us die when we are on the road. Don’t let us die when we are flying in a plane. Don’t let us die when we are in our car. Don’t let us die…
My pastor laughed, and said we at least have to die somehow. True. But not like Tolulope did. Too sad.
“There is no armour against Fate;
Death lays its icy hands on kings;
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.”
So wrote James Shirley in his poem, The Glories of Our Blood and State. And death has no shame. It takes the young and the old. The firm and the infirm. The poor and the rich. But I am glad that death itself shall die one day.
John Donne, in his poem titled Death Be Not Proud, declared:
“Death, Be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so…
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
Yes, death shall die. The Holy Bible reinforces it for me. Revelation 20, verses 13 and 14.
“And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them; and they were judged every man according to their works.
“And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire.”
Death has denied the nation a potential wife, mother, grandmother, accomplished fighter pilot. Her body will soon be interred, and like John Brown’s body, it will “lie a-mouldering in the grave.” But her soul will go marching on.
For now, we mourn with the Arotiles. We weep, we sorrow, but not like those without hope. Our hope is that one day, Tolulope will rise to life eternal. And Death, the enemy of man, shall die.
Death, thou shalt die. It’s not a curse. It’s just your inevitable end.
*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity
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Honestly is too early, very young Lady, rest in perfect peace.
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Home Betting News Brentford vs Middlesbrough Predictions & Betting Tips
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Brentford vs Middlesbrough Predictions
After a couple of days of discussion, it was decided that duel between Brentford and Middlesbrough is going to be played on Saturday afternoon despite the fact visitors are having huge troubles with sidelined players. Who will advance to the next stage of the FA Cup?
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Over 2.5 FT
Brentford are looking rock-solid in the last couple of weeks. The Bees have managed to find a way to League Cup semi finals where they finally got knocked out by Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham. Situation in the Championship has been improving every week, so fans definitely have a lot of reasons to feel optimistic. Considering the current state of the visitors, home win at 1/2 rate shouldn’t really surprise anyone. Read on our FA Cup betting tips and predictions below.
Middlesbrough’s head manager Neil Warnock was not happy because of recent events, and he openly talked about Boro’s predicted lineup. It will mostly be made by U23 squad players due to absence of all standard roster members. Team is doing well on the journey to secure one of the top six spots in the Championship this season. Squad from Riverside is currently 7th with 36 points won in 22 games. The most recent appearance was at Adams Park versus Wycombe Wanderers. Boro won three easily points there, winning the match 3-1. That was fourth victory in the last five fixtures.
As for their opponents and hosts, Brentford got up to the 4th place, just two points behind Swansea City who are second. It’s quite shocking to see they were not defeated in the last 15 appearances in the Championship.
Five out of the last seven head to head meetings between these teams ended with high number of goals. We are going to back Over 2.5 option at 1/1 rate.
Home win at 1/2 rate is surely going to be one of the biggest banker bets available in the FA Cup this weekend. Middlesbrough are mostly going to use U23 squad.
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BattleTech Quick-Strike Game: Part One–Set-up
I’ve been doing this on www.monstersinthesky.com for the Leviathans community and it’s been going over really well, so I thought I’d do the same thing here (not to mention the number of “photo or it didn’t happen” comments on twitter when ever I talk about a game I’m putting together).
Bryn and I are setting up for the largest game of Quick-Strike I’ve ever played (and while not even close to the largest number of BattleTech miniatures I’ve deployed on a playing area, it’s the biggest in a very long time), and I thought I’d share the experience. Obviously this is for the community, so if you guys don’t want to see such things, by all means, let me know. (And yes, next week I’ll be getting back to IO dev blogs as well.)
Okay, right out of the gate some of you may be wondering what “Quick-Strike” is: the Quick-Strike Rules system is a simple adaptation of the BattleForce gameplay system using more flexible tactical-scale miniature rules. While the full BattleForce rules are found in Strategic Operations, players can download a free PDF of the BattleForce Quick-Start Rules to get a feeling for that tactical game system and how it meshes with the Miniatures Rules to create the Quick-Strike Rules. Additionally players can check out the free Quick-Strike: Introductory ‘Mech Cards (record sheets) to get a further feel for how this system works.
To date, we’ve released four volumes of Quick-Strike Unit Cards (Record Sheets) that are for use with that system (3039, 3050U, 3055U, 3060).
While Bryn and I have been hard at work assembling a slew of new miniatures, most of them are still only base-coated. However, I’ve a huge swath of Technical Readout: 3055 Update BattleMechs that I painted way back in the day and with the coming Catalyst-branded reprint and having the Quick-Strike: Technical Readout: 3055 Update Unit Cards just released, sparked a big desire to play a really big game with all of those units.
Now the last few games we’ve played with these rules we almost always had a Clan element, so this time around we wanted just Inner Sphere. So we split up the 40-ish 3055 ‘Mechs I have, then filled them in with 3039/3050/3060 units I have; as this was simply about playing the largest game we could get away with at this time, there’s no faction or setting involved…just freaking big.
We ended up with a battalion of ‘Mechs with a separate command lance and then as many vehicles as we had miniatures and record sheets for: in this case, just under two companies each.
Below is a photo of my “small gaming table” with all the minis assembled and the Quick-Strike record sheets pulled.
If you look behind the minis you’ll see a big 3-ring binder, filled with baseball card-sized sheet protectors. The Quick-Strike sheets are designed to fold in half and fit in one of those, so double-sided you can fit 18 record sheets to a single sheet protector, which means all four Quick-Strike record sheet volumes noted above all fit in there. (It’s several hours of work to fully print out a RS volume, cut them out–I simply use my wife’s scrapbooking paper cutter and work on around 10 sheets at a time–fold them and insert them…but the end result is so user friendly for building a game it’s absolutely worth the prep-work the first time out.)
We’ve wanted to increase our gaming table size significantly for a while and just hadn’t gotten around to it; though part of that was I didn’t have room for it until 2 months ago when I completely re-organized my office and got rid of a ton of stuff. To increase game table size on the cheap, all I did was run to Loew’s and spent $16 on a 4 x 8 plywood and a 8 x 1.5 x .75 to create runners underneath the plywood that would lock it into place when placed on top of the desk below it.
Worked liked a charm and you can see we’re starting to build the map below. Unfortunately by doubling our gaming area we’ve far out-stretched our current supply of Heroscape…we’ll be working on getting some more of those each month heading down the line, so in the mean time we used some HexPack maps and HexTiles to fill in the area, leaving a small strip on either side to assemble the minis and to easily hold record sheets during game play.
Here’s a shot of my forces, along with the record sheets. Note that I took a dozen or so sheet protectors and using the paper cutter, sliced them into strip of 3 pockets, which allows you to field sub-forces of lances (4), Stars (5), or Level IIs (6) in a single slip.
Since Bryn and I use a slightly modified version of the Quick-Strike rules (namely still using hexes and moving a sub-force at a time to speed up play), this makes it exceedingly easy to track what units have moved and then ultimately what units have fired.
Here’s a top-down view of the completed map (yeah, we’ll just have to play it fast and loose with the gap between the terrain and HexPack material), and all my forces on the far side and Bryn’s forces on this side.
Here’s a long view of the table with all forces deployed. If you look close you’ll note an absolute silly level of close-packed units. First, this is an experiment to see what size of battles can be fought on our new 4 x 8 surface; obviously having enough terrain to push all the way to the full 8 feet will make a difference. Second, however, this isn’t straight-up BattleTech, but the Quick-Strike rules, which are based on the BattleForce rules that are used to emulate larger scale conflicts…as such, while it might be a little too big at the end of the day, I’m confident it’s gonna be a blast to play.
I’ll be taking photos as the game progresses and posting updates every couple of turns, perhaps once a week.
See ya next time!
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Bible > NASB77 > Leviticus 7
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The Priest’s Part in the Offerings
1‘Now this is the law of the guilt offering; it is most holy. 2‘In the place where they slay the burnt offering they are to slay the guilt offering, and he shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 3‘Then he shall offer from it all its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, 4and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver he shall remove with the kidneys. 5‘And the priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt offering. 6‘Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. 7‘The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. 8‘Also the priest who presents any man’s burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has presented. 9‘Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in the oven, and everything prepared in a pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest who presents it. 10‘And every grain offering mixed with oil, or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to all alike.
11‘Now this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which shall be presented to the LORD. 12‘If he offers it by way of thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of well stirred fine flour mixed with oil. 13‘With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving, he shall present his offering with cakes of leavened bread. 14‘And of this he shall present one of every offering as a contribution to the LORD; it shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.
15‘Now as for the flesh of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it over until morning. 16‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a votive or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what is left of it may be eaten; 17but what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. 18‘So if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings should ever be eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, and it shall not be reckoned to his benefit. It shall be an offensive thing, and the person who eats of it shall bear his own iniquity.
19‘Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh. 20‘But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the LORD, in his uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from his people. 21‘And when anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the LORD, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”
22Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep, or a goat. 24‘Also the fat of an animal which dies, and the fat of an animal torn by beasts, may be put to any other use, but you must certainly not eat it. 25‘For whoever eats the fat of the animal from which an offering by fire is offered to the LORD, even the person who eats shall be cut off from his people. 26‘And you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings. 27‘Any person who eats any blood, even that person shall be cut off from his people.’”
28Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 29“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 30‘His own hands are to bring offerings by fire to the LORD. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be presented as a wave offering before the LORD. 31‘And the priest shall offer up the fat in smoke on the altar; but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons. 32‘And you shall give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 33‘The one among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, the right thigh shall be his as his portion. 34‘For I have taken the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their due forever from the sons of Israel.
35‘This is that which is consecrated to Aaron and that which is consecrated to his sons from the offerings by fire to the LORD, in that day when he presented them to serve as priests to the LORD. 36‘These the LORD had commanded to be given them from the sons of Israel in the day that He anointed them. It is their due forever throughout their generations.’”
37This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering and the ordination offering and the sacrifice of peace offerings, 38which the LORD commanded Moses at Mount Sinai in the day that He commanded the sons of Israel to present their offerings to the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org
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5 takeaways from the first round of Brexit talks
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Brexit chief negotiators Michel Barnier and David Frost didn’t shake hands at the end of the first round of talks on a post-Brexit relationship — but it was because of coronavirus, not because the negotiations went badly.
After years of speculation on what a post-Brexit relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union could look like, this week more than 200 people from both sides got together to begin work in earnest.
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Here are five takeaways from the first round of negotiations.
1. They got off to a good start
Never mind the handshakes, it didn’t stop the two sides getting to know each other and their positions. Both teams applauded the competence and professionalism of those on the other side of the table. “We understand each other’s positions. That hasn’t always been the case in the past,” one negotiator said.
The U.K. promised to live up to its promises on Northern Ireland — a crucial demand from the EU side. British media had reported that the Brexit team had been ordered to come up with plans to “get around” the Northern Ireland protocol in the Withdrawal Agreement, which foresees checks on goods passing from Great Britain to Northern Ireland to avoid a hard border between the latter and the Republic of Ireland.
Barnier got reassurances from the U.K. that it will keep this promise. “It was a question of trust that we needed at this point to start building our future relationship,” Barnier told reporters on Thursday.
From the EU side, Barnier made clear that nobody disputes the U.K.’s independence. The former French minister stressed that this mutual respect and not going back on earlier commitments are two possible keys to success.
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20 Scary Country Song Costume Ideas
I’ve never been one for Halloween. As a kid in a Catholic family, it was more lighting candles at mass than getting sweets from strangers. Then, as an adult, I could never muster much enthusiasm for being a sexy pumpkin. I’m whatever the Halloween version of The Grinch is.
But if I could be persuaded to get into the spooky spirit, country music provides plenty of ghosts and other terrifying characters for costume inspiration – though it’ll take a real country fan to get all of these song references in this Halloween costume idea list.
1. The devil on his way to Georgia
2. Carrie Underwood wielding a Louisville slugger
3. Earl
4. Hell on heels
5. Brandy Clarke wearing orange stripes
6. Ghost riders in the sky
7. A crazy ex-girlfriend
8. A bowl of black-eyed peas
9. The Highwomen
10. The Highwaymen
11. A tornado
12. A runaway train (especially if it looks like Cam)
13. The ghost of Lucias Clay
14. Andy’s ‘Little Sister’
15. Cotton-Eyed Joe
16. Miranda Lambert carrying a can of Kerosene
17. A bull named Fu Manchu
18. A trucker named Big Joe
19. Two women in two black veils (bonus points for arriving in a black Cadillac)
20. A bottle of whiskey…
…because we all know how many disasters and untimely death’s they’ve caused in country songs. Who or what would you go as? I’d wear Carrie Underwood’s Two Black Cadillacs video outfit (pictured above) at anytime of the year.
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Amid Rumors of Aliyev’s Succession, a New Generation Comes of Age in Azerbaijan
Paul Stronski
Summary: While Azerbaijan will not become a Western-style liberal democracy anytime soon, recent trends point to a society that is changing—and a government that may now recognize the need to change along with it.
Azerbaijan’s parliament voted to dissolve itself last week, triggering legislative elections on Feb. 9. Some observers speculate that the move sets the stage for President Ilham Aliyev to eventually hand over power to his wife, First Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva. She has assumed a much higher profile on policy issues in the past few years, most recently highlighted by a six-day solo diplomatic mission to Moscow in late November. It is unclear why Aliyev would want to transfer power, but he has been in office for more than 15 years, and the opposition has peddled unsubstantiated rumors about his health.
Azerbaijani politics are opaque, and dynastic succession has been the norm: Aliyev took over as president from his father, Heydar Aliyev, in 2003. The recent dissolution of the largely rubber-stamp parliament could be the first stage of another undemocratic transfer of power. But behind the rumors of succession, there are a series of deeper and more revealing shifts taking place in Azerbaijan today. While the country will not become a Western-style liberal democracy anytime soon, recent trends point to a society that is changing—and a government that may now recognize the need to change along with it....
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Home Bazillion Points Books Sat 12/6, Portland, OR: SUB POP USA Party at Reading Frenzy/Beacon Sound...
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Sat 12/6, Portland, OR: SUB POP USA Party at Reading Frenzy/Beacon Sound w/Bruce Pavitt & Selector Dub Narcotic
Sub Pop USA‘s celebration of local and regional independent music comes to Portland, OR, the night of Saturday, December 6, as author Bruce Pavitt lays down the law with Selector Dub Narcotic, aka original Subterranean Pop contributor Calvin Johnson.
WHEN: Sat. 12/6/14, 7PM
WHERE: Reading Frenzy, 3628 North Mississippi Ave.
AFTER-PARTY: Beacon Sound, 3636 North Mississippi Ave.
Many people don’t realize that years before there was Sub Pop, the legendary indie record label, co-founder Bruce Pavitt ran a radio show and produced a zine called Subterranean Pop. Sub Pop USA is a complete collection of Pavitt’s zine and Sub Pop USA columns for The Rocket.
Bruce Pavitt currently lives in Seattle, Washington. He keeps engaged in music by periodically speaking at conferences and festivals, consulting with artists and music labels, and as a DJ. A true music fan, Bruce continues to study music history in every genre.
Selector Dub Narcotic hails from Olympia, Washington and is the pseudonym of choice for Calvin Johnson when he is engaged in spinning records. Drawing largely from a stack of 45s, he is known to mix the genres dancehall, soul, punk, garage, R&B, rock steady, bubblegum and rockabilly with assorted curiosities of the current underground music scene.
Books, beats, and beers with two of the founding fathers of U.S. independent rock!
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Tag: Estelle Ishigo
Estelle Ishigo Drawing from JANM Collection Featured in National Constitution Center Exhibition
December 30, 2013 December 30, 2013 Collections Management & Access Leave a comment
Estelle Ishigo’s drawing All In One Room, as it was prepared by Collections Staff for travel to the National Constitution Center
The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia is currently featuring the drawing All In One Room by Estelle Ishigo in their permanent exhibition The Story of We, the People. The drawing will be on display through November of 2014.
Estelle Peck Ishigo (1899-1990) is most well known as an artist who chronicled the experience at the Heart Mountain concentration camp.
Estelle Peck was born in Oakland in 1899 to parents of English, Dutch, French ancestry. Her family moved to Los Angeles and Estelle attended the Otis Art Institute, where she met Arthur Ishigo (1902-1957), a San Francisco-born Nisei who was working as a chauffeur for California Lieutenant Governor Robert Kenny. As anti-miscegenation laws at the time prohibited interracial couples from getting married, Peck and Ishigo took a trip across the border to Tijuana to be wed in 1928. Hoping for a career as an actor, Arthur worked as a janitor at Paramount Studios while Estelle worked as an art teacher. Shunned by her family, the couple lived among the Japanese American community.
Gift of Mary Ruth Blackburn, Japanese American National Museum [2000.103.12].
With the outbreak of World War II and the removal of all West Coast Japanese Americans to inland concentration camps, the couple faced a dilemma. As a Nisei, Arthur was required to be removed while his wife was not. Though he wanted her to stay behind, she accompanied her husband, first to the Pomona Assembly Center in California, and then to Heart Mountain, Wyoming.
Throughout the war years, Estelle drew, sketched, and painted what she saw, providing a valuable document of life in the American concentration camps. “Strange as it may sound, in this desolate, lonely place I felt accepted for the first time in my life,” she later wrote of her time at Heart Mountain. She and her husband remained at Heart Mountain in order to record the last days of the camp until it was officially closed. The Ishigos were given $25 and put on a train to the West Coast. “I felt as if I were part of a defeated Indian tribe,” she remembered later.
In 1990, filmmaker Steven Okazaki made a documentary of Estelle Ishigo’s life titled Days of Waiting. Estelle passed away before seeing the film, which went on to win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Estelle Ishigo’s story and drawings comprise an important aspect of the permanent collection at the National Museum. The Estelle Ishigo Collection can be seen on the Museum’s website at: janm.org/collections/estelle-ishigo-collection
Learn more about Estelle Ishigo on our Discover Nikkei website >>
Submitted by Margaret Zachow Wetherbee, Collections Manager
Producing Japanese American History
June 18, 2012 June 18, 2012 Vicky Murakami-Tsuda Leave a comment
We published a wonderful series of five articles by Dean Ryuta Adachi on our DiscoverNikkei.org site about various artifacts from JANM’s permanent collection. Dean is a PhD candidate in American History at Claremont Graduate University and is an active volunteer at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose. I “met” him through the Discover Nikkei Twitter account several years ago and have kept in touch. When he found out that he would be down in Los Angeles last fall to be a lecturer of Asian American Studies at Harvey Mudd College, he offered to come in as a volunteer during his spare time.
Gift of Indiana Bessho (92.81.2)
Dean worked with Programs, Discover Nikkei, and Collections staff to go through some of the little-known collections in our archives, and then share about them through Discover Nikkei. Here are links to the five articles in the “Producing Japanese American History: An exploration through the JANM archives” series. They include images of various artifacts from the collections.
Part 1 – History is Made: Namyo Bessho
Did you know that there was an Issei in the US Navy during the Spanish-American War?
Learn about how Namyo Bessho became a citizen in 1919 and then had it taken away >>
Part 2 – History is Told: S. John Nitta
John Nitta played a significant role in the establishment of the chick sexing industry in the United States, but as Dean looked past the many awards in his collection, he found “plenty of unrelated hidden gems.”
Learn about his story >>
Gift of Mary Ruth Blackburn (2000.103.12)
Part 3 – History is Ignored: Estelle Ishigo
Estelle Ishigo was a Caucasian artist who went with her Nisei husband to Heart Mountain in Wyoming during World War II. She authored the book Lone Heart Mountain which included the drawings she did while in camp. She was the subject of Steven Okazaki’s Academy Award winning film Days of Waiting (1990). Yet, most of what we know is about her art. Dean’s exploration of JANM’s collection revealed artifacts that shared aspects about her personal life, and especially her deep love for her husband Arthur.
Read Estelle’s story >>
Gift of Joyce MacWilliamson (2001.120.1)
Part 4 – History is Lost: Joyce MacWilliamson
You may recognize the radio in part 4 from the American Tapestry exhibition. It is a beautiful shortwave radio, with a mysterious past that will most likely never be known. Left with Ramon “Mac” MacWilliamson by a Japanese American friend during World War II, he and his daughter always hoped to be able to return it the original owners after the war. After the story was posted on Discover Nikkei, Joyce MacWilliamson, the person who donated the radio to the museum, posted a comment, “Thank you for keeping hope alive that the rightful owner or his family will be found.”
Learn about her search and why she decided to donate the radio to JANM >>
Gift of Jane Van Blaricom (2001.72.58)
Part 5 – History is Found: Sumi and Masao Shigezane
The final part of the series ended with a surprising connection to a UCLA student’s project on Discover Nikkei. His search through JANM’s archives started with James G. Lindley, project director of the Amache camp during WWII, and led to the Shigezane family.
Read about this emotional journey >>
I’d like to thank Dean for his work on unearthing and sharing these amazing stories. Many thanks also to Patricia Wakida who initiated this project, Yoko Nishimura for working so hard to get the stories online, and to JANM’s collections staff (Nikki Chang, Tomi Yoshikawa, Jane Nakasako, and Yoko Shimojo) for all their help in providing access and working with Dean during his time at JANM. Our CMA staff are the unsung heroes that work really hard behind-the-scenes at JANM!
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Like Compost for the Creativity Plant: An Interview with Jason Jay Stevens
Jason Jay Stevens is a museum exhibit designer and artist based in San Antonio, Texas. He and his wife, Leslie Raymond, have been making award-winning video, and multimedia art installations since 1999 under the moniker Potter-Belmar Labs. At the beginning of this year, they formed Flutter & Wow Museum Projects, joining their unique talents and experience, consulting on, designing and implementing exhibits projects for institutional and private clients.
Jason's essay, "Rationally Entertained: Non-museological foundations of the contemporary science center," appeared in the most recent issue of The Exhibitionist (Spring 2011). He is currently serving on the board of the National Association for Museum Exhibition, and recently completed a three year run on the board of San Antonio's Contemporary Art Month.
What’s your educational background? Shortly after receiving a degree in writing, I decided to devote myself to an adventurous life in special fabrication. Always and unceasingly curious, for many years I sought jobs working with sculptors, designers, engineers and craftspeople, studying every material and process I could along the way. Early on, I participated in several museum projects with designer Jeff Bernstein and sculptor Blake Ketchum, but also worked with custom fine furniture makers, puppet makers, and stage designers. I consider this five year period of my life my true 2nd education, however informal.
In 1998, I went to the University of Michigan to study new media art, but after a semester, began working for my professor there, and also joining the staff of the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, where I would work for eight years as an Exhibit Designer. I am indebted to dozens of teachers, formal and otherwise, foremost being John Bowditch, Exhibitions Director at the Hands-On Museum, who with unjustified patience and unrelenting trust provided many opportunities for me. UM Professor of New Media Micheal Rodemer opened my eyes to the possibilities of physical computing and helped me learn that my geek'ness could be cool.
What got you interested in Museums? So many things. For instance, I recall my parents dragging the family around antique fairs every summer, and, you know, it was always like a trip to a big open-air museum where you're permitted to (gently!) touch everything, and spend your allowance on things like baseball cards from before you were born.
For as long as I can remember, I was the kid who was trailing the rest of the group during the museum field trip because I was reading every word of every label and studying every exhibit. I even designed my own museum as a child (it was more of a bubble chart and layout) in addition to all the maps of imaginary places, comic books and original computer games I would program. Somebody like me is very lucky to find themselves working for museums decades later.
How does “tinkering” to create exhibits inform your design process? I'm in that tinkering stage right now, in the earliest phases of a project that will include eleven pseudo-scientific instruments, including amongst them video and audio components, atmospheric sensors, logic circuitry, electromechanics, and networked synching. Did I mention knobs? Lots of knobs, too. But right now, I'm exploring some new areas of the Max/MSP/Jitter programming environment that will enable some of this machinery to function, and that means a lot of exploring and experimentation, a.k.a. "tinkering." It's a great way to learn.
What are some of your favorite online (or offline!) resources for people interested in finding out more about exhibition development? I'll give a shout out to print catalogs. Clicking webpages just doesn't compare to flipping bound pages--in function as much as tactility-- for coming across something you never knew existed, and that might even adapt into a solution. That's the same reason I frequently stroll surplus shops, antique malls, used bookstores and flea markets. Our brains are actually wired to learn and discover very efficiently in the process of wandering, the same as tinkering. It's like compost for the creativity plant!
Tell us a little bit about how your “non-museum” (ie: art) activities inform your exhibit design work? My partner and wife, Leslie Raymond, and I do artwork by commission and through grants as Potter-Belmar Labs, and client-based museum projects as Flutter & Wow. Our artwork is often site specific, and sometimes participatory, finding clever uses for audio and video and media processing tools. Both enterprises are of the same stone, mutually informing and benefiting, and sometimes causing friction between each other. The people with whom we ultimately share the work is the same in each: everyone.
The artwork benefits from a project management attitude that is critically important in any client-based job. And the kind of intense and immersive creative development that goes into the art is good practice for overcoming limitations and dodging fireballs in design projects.
What advice would you have for fellow museum professionals, especially those from smaller museums, in developing their exhibitions? There are few fields where disillusion is rarer and where passions are better served than the museum field. When things get frustrating, we all just need to spend a little time in the gallery during open hours, observing and enjoying.
What do you think is the “next frontier” for museums? There is a lot of innovative and even experimental programming out there, some of it having to do with new media, but more than anything, I think the most intrepid educators and interpretation staff are really combing the beaches for new ways to engage. Social media has helped spur this, but now that every museum tweets and has a thousand "likes" on Facebook, we've become familiar with the media, and are now looking anew at the "social" part of that. It's hardly a new question, "What does it mean for a museum to be a part of a social network?"
I think this is critical, stepping back and taking a historical look. Museums are in part a symptom of the "object-itis" of the wealthy class. Obviously, as those collections were shared, those of us in other classes enjoy the benefit --- one of the few undisputed benefits for tolerating a wealthy class to begin with. As those collections have been handed over to the public trust, the institutions surrounding them carry the burden of justifying broad public support. This loop is closed by programming, and the way I see it, that's the experiment we've been working on for the last hundred years: making sure the museum is indispensable to everyone.
I hope we will see a stepping back from the emphasis on building "family attractions" out of our museums, which is not to disparage real families --- only those cartoon families generated in marketing research reports--but to focus more on the individual --- an admittedly much more wide ranging, ambiguous target. I hope that in the future there will be more well-trained docent and staff activity on the floor, more high schoolers and undergraduates on tightly-focused field trips, more long-term programming for home school groups, alternative visitor-generated audio tours and other layered content, more hosting of meet-ups, lectures, and late night events. And more emphasis on public space.
What are some of your favorite museums or exhibitions? Oakland Museum is a breath of fresh air. Sadly, I never saw the museum before the renovation, but on the merits of the post-it note community timeline alone--it's like the museum has gone porous. I'm a sucker for alternative curation styles and anti-classical juxtapositions.
I remember the Detroit Institute of Arts hanging art in half a dozen or so galleries--including the shining armor hall--in radical placements eight or ten years ago; I've forgotten who was responsible, but those galleries felt exciting, burgeoning with intimacy. The DIA is doing a lot of exciting interpretative stuff nowadays, too. Paul, you know that place like I do, having grown up with it; overtime I go back, it's like an old friend, and it is always looking better with age!
My list goes on and on. We pay attention to everything the MCA Denver does. And I love the two institutions I consider to be the opposite ends of the great science museum bell curve, Albuquerque's ¡Explora! and the City Museum of St. Louis.
Can you talk a little about some of your current projects? This spring we somehow managed to have something going on at each of the three big local arts institutions in San Antonio. So, the McNay Art Museum just hosted a retrospective screening of video work that Leslie and I have made over the last twelve years. At Art Pace, we're showing a pair of custom peephole cabinets that display time-lapsed panoramic video scrolls--a pretty major artwork we'd been working on for several years. And the San Antonio Museum of Art has an exhibit we designed for them in which visitors can send text messages and images associated with the concept of peace that get formatted, shuffled and displayed on two giant video monitors in the main gallery.
Right now, we're very much in proposal mode, and the early early "tinkering" phase of a couple of projects.
If money were no object, what would your “dream” exhibit project be? I'd like to cast a set of giant ceramic upright bells.
For centuries, the Chinese used hand bells to measure the volume of dry goods in the marketplace; there were strict regulations for the making of the bells and particular notes represented particular quantities. I love this overt correspondence between two seemingly disparate things: sound and quantity. So each of my giant bells would correspond to a particular standard volume ("one cubic meter," "one hundred bottles of beer," "boot space in a 1954 VW Beetle"). We can call the exhibit "The Well-Tempered Volume."
Is money really no object? The bells would be mounted on gimbal yokes of solid oak, installed beneath a great pavilion, surrounded by gardens organized in a taxonomic maze, and full of sonorous sculptures activated by wind and water.
Really really no object? I would like to make a second set of these bells and install it in the Antarctic. Wouldn't it be nice to know there is a set of giant upright bells on the bottom of the world?!
Thanks again to Jason for taking some time away from tinkering to share his thoughts with ExhibiTricks readers!
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Posted by POW! (Paul Orselli Workshop, Inc.) at 3:17 PM
Labels: Exhibit Design, Interviews, Jason Jay Stevens, museum exhibit design
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Home » Blog » The St. Jude Kidney Stone Center Comprehensive, Multidisciplinary — and Convenient
The St. Jude Kidney Stone Center Comprehensive, Multidisciplinary — and Convenient
While kidney stones have long been considered one of the most painful conditions, they are quickly also becoming one of the most common. One in 10 Americans will develop these solid concentrations of minerals in the kidneys — a number that continues to rise, especially among women and children.
Fortunately, advances in diagnosis, treatment and prevention are more than keeping pace — all of which can be found at the newly created St. Jude Kidney Stone Center.
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Small “pebbles” of salt and minerals build up in the urine creating kidney stones that can range in size from a small grain to a golf ball. Medications can help speed the passage of smaller stones and new noninvasive procedures use high-energy sound waves or lasers to safely and painlessly break apart larger stones. Although many kidney stones are treated non-surgically or minimallyinvasively — often as a simple outpatient procedure — the center also offers specialized experience in complex cases, including one of the region’s only surgeons trained in kidneysparing robotic surgery procedures.
A multidisciplinary approach means that while the Kidney Stone Center’s urologists bring specific expertise to treatment, board-certified nephrologists focus on the overall kidney health of patients. A nutritionist works handin- hand with patients on a personalized plan to reduce the risk of future stone formation.
Most kidney stone patients will develop another one, making prevention — including metabolic evaluation to identify the source of the problem — a key part of the center’s focus. “Today we know so much more about how and why stones form,” Dr. Tygenhof explains, “allowing us to tailor treatment and prevention to the individual.”
To make an appointment with the St. Jude Kidney Stone Center, please call (714) 446-5551.
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No-Li Brewhouse introduces beer in a convenient, new package
No-Li Brewhouse just introduced a new packaging format for some of its beers, one that provides a nice option for consumers: four-packs of 12-ounce bottles. Three of the company’s beers are available in four-packs: Mosh Pit Tart Cherry Ale, Rise & Grind milk stout, and Born & Raised IPA.
Each of those beers serves as a canvas to showcase the quality of local ingredients, some not typically associated with beer: cherries and cranberries grown in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, coffee roasted less than 2 miles from the brewery, and of course hops from the Yakima Valley. Look for No-Li four packs at bottleshops and better beer retailers around the region.
IF WE BUILD IT, BEER WILL COME
No-Li Unique 4-Pack Portfolio Brings Visions of a New Hometown Brewery Into Focus
(Spokane, WA) No-Li Brewhouse prides itself on brewing Spokane-Style beers with no boundaries. That is, taking local, fresh and distinct ingredients from the Pacific Northwest and creating innovative recipes that serve as a remedy for the redundancy that has flooded the craft beer industry. Their 4-pack line up is no exception.
Mosh Pit Tart Cherry Ale allows drinkers to experience a 100% all natural fruit beer without artificial flavorings, preservatives or adjuncts. The balanced sweet and tart flavors are courtesy of cherries and cranberries grown in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Rise & Grind milk stout features Gemelli coffee freshly roasted less than 2 miles from the brewery. Born & Raised IPA builds its bold flavors and aromas solely from Yakima Valley hops.
With No-Li’s 4-packs serving as a canvas to showcase the diversity, uniqueness and exceptional quality of Northwest ingredients, it makes perfect sense that the landscape of the Inland Empire will serve as home to No-Li’s new brewery.
“No-Li was Born & Raised in Spokane and it’s humbling to be a part of the evolving craft beer culture here,” says John Bryant. “No-Li is a platform for exploration in beer creation and we need to make more to explore! With each success we have, we see it as an opportunity to highlight what our hometown has to offer. Building Spokane’s first independent, regional brewery since Prohibition would be our way of paying homage to our roots while looking ahead to the future.”
As No-Li realizes their dream of a new brewery, one 4-pack at a time, one thing remains certain: Spokane-Style beer will continue to feature the best of the Northwest to break down the boundaries of redundancy and reinvigorate beer!
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‘Tiger King’ Star Joe Exotic in Coronavirus Isolation in Prison
Joe Exotic, the subject of the Netflix docuseries Tiger King, is currently being isolated from other prisoners in an Oklahoma correction facility after being potentially exposed to coronavirus.
The 57-year-old (real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage) is serving a 22-year prison sentence for paying a hitman to kill a woman he felt was a rival. His husband, Dillon Passage, told Andy Cohen — host of the SiriusXM show Radio Andy — about Exotic's isolation, adding that he has not talked to his husband in quite some time when they had previously been speaking several times each day.
“We speak like three to five times every day, but since he’s been moved to this new facility, they are putting him on a COVID-19 isolation because of the previous jail he was at, there were cases,” Dillon says (per People). “I’ve yet to speak to him since he moved.”
Exotic hasn't necessarily been diagnosed with having coronavirus, and it's not clear if he's showing any symptoms. The move may be a cautionary measure. Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness is focused on Joe Exotic, a one-time country music singer who owned a big cat sanctuary in Oklahoma.
Joe Exotic was also convicted of killing big cats to make room for other big cats. He's currently serving time in the Grady County Jail in Chickasha, Okla.
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Meet the Secretariat
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REFLECTION PAPER: Incorporating just transition strategies in developing country Nationally Determined Contributions
Incorporating just transition strategies in developing country Nationally Determined Contributions
The Russian Coal Sector: Challenges and transition opportunities from national, regional, industrial and public perspectives
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As we approach COP26, parties to the UNFCCC are questioning how to increase ambition in Nationally Determined Contributions while addressing domestic issues of inequality and unemployment, particularly in developing countries.
Read our press release here / Leer nuestro comunicado de prensa aquí
Climate Strategies produced this reflection paper to explore how developing and least developed countries can incorporate just transition principles into their revised NDCs, enabling more ambitious and equitable emission reduction strategies.
Reflections in this paper are derived from:
Background indicators drawn from a literature review
Initiatives of various international bodies
A Climate Strategies Policy Roundtable of high-level representatives from a range of interested stakeholder groups held at COP25
Case studies of four Latin American countries.
The paper explains the concept of a just transition in the developing country context; provides guidance on the drafting of just transition language in NDCs; suggests a timeline for each stage of the process; and identifies the resources available to assist in implementation. By following this guidance, developing country governments can deliver on their commitments to the Paris Agreement and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all, as well as manage social challenges that may arise from their climate strategies. International climate agreements have begun to acknowledge the social impacts of climate change policy.
The Paris Agreement requires parties to acknowledge the imperative of a just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs as part of their commitments to the agreement’s emission reduction goals. The audience for this paper is those responsible for the development of NDCs in developing countries.
Author: Glynn, P.J.; Błachowicz, A.; Nicholls, M., 2020
Type: Reflection Paper
A selection of Climate Strategies' supporters and collaborators
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Home › Human Rights › Censorship, Our Enemy
Censorship, Our Enemy
Posted on January 31, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 4 Comments
By Andy Carloff
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -- George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire (1906)
"It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves." -- Thomas Paine, On First Principles of Government (1795)
"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." -- Heinrich Heine, Almansor (1821)
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." -- John Morley, On Compromise (1874)
If we want to know if someone believes in freedom and liberty, the prophets of creativity and passion, we may simply tell them, “When I told a person my opinion, they resorted to threats and physical violence.” If the person we are telling this to believes in freedom, they will express their absolute horror at such a situation, but if the person does not believe in freedom, then they will ask, “What was the opinion?” As true liberty and freedom does not have borders or restrictions, unless another’s liberty is at risk. If a man becomes the chorus of freedom and sings the songs of happiness, but states it ought to be illegal to express some opinion they believe to be heinous or ghastly or an abomination, then this man is nothing but a hypocrit and a traitor to the advancement of civilization. When a leader says, “You can say anything you want, but you may not say this or this or this,” then it is the beginning of Censorship and the devaluation of opinion. And as they make it illegal for us to open our mouths, they make it illegal for everyone else to open their minds. Shackles attached to the strings of the heart as much as they are bondaged to the sentiments of the mind, and civilization, and its institutions of art and love and community and peace and freedom, as Censorship advances, civilization becomes crippled and debilitated. When we can no longer sing the song which has enchanted our hearts, unless we are rigidly following the notation of a biased authority, then we are no longer living in freedom, but in the foul chambers of Censorship.
There is nothing more obscene when the cry is made that literature is obscene in nature and should be censored. What can honestly be said of a person when they say we are not allowed to think a certain way, or to express our opinions in a way they dislike? What can be said when a Conservative states all Liberal texts should be banned, or when a Christian states all heretical texts should be banned, or when a person states that a radical opinion should be supressed and not heard? If a person wishes to prove that a theory is correct, they should do so openly and using evidence. To silence your opponent and not allow them to argue their case is to disable the advancement of truth and liberty. Those who are desirious of learning the truth and expanding their knowledge of both sides will be disheartened to find that they cannot find a text of anyone who opposes one theory. The government which approves of Censorship does a disservice to society.
The crime stipulated by Censorship is not one of action, but one of knowledge. It is in knowing that we become criminals. And in all of the Totalitarian nations where Censorship is in full force, artists and writers and comedians and musicians and thinkers, or any individual that is part of a creating class, will find themselves to be criminals. Not criminalized because they are the source of some evil, or that they cause misery or distress, but solely because they hold opinions, that they have thoughts, that they are capable of judgments. The members of the criminal class then are not only the poor who have no means of production, but the thinkers, the geniuses, the researchers, the scientists. And as Censorship masquerades as protection, as it continues its love affair with ignorance, all classes of men who find themselves allured to liberty, will detest Censorship against any group, in any form.
There have been thousands who have been persecuted for holding an opinion, let alone expressing the opinion. The church has been notorious for killing heretics all the way into the 20th century, with the death of Francisco Ferrer. The Red Scare and Senator McCarthy spent his political career by destroying others. And there came to be no more smug and cruel an institution as the Unamerican Activities Committee in our modern world. Lives were destroyed and futures were crushed, as the persecutors gained in fame, glory, and wealth. As the bog-god, terrorist machine of government crushed more souls into consumerist fodder for its never-ending goal of control and oppression, the world was thrown into a madenned craze. Even investigation of theories of Communism was tantamount to being recognized as a Communist in the eyes of the government.
What have our lives come to, when there are laws and regulations that say we cannot read certain things, that we cannot think certain things, that we may not question and understand certain things? Can there be any ideology, any belief system, any religion, or philosophy that is so taboo or foreign, that we must not permit anyone to know about it? The idea that is so dangerous that it must be banned from the mind is the idea that does not exist. Censorpship of an idea proves nothing. It only proves that someone must resort to physical force to put down their opponents. When someone cannot disprove their opponent with argumentation and evidence, they will resort to Censorship. And it is true that the censor-morons have been responsible for Censorship in all its forms, whether it is the destruction of the printing presses or killing those who hold an opinion.
The gluttonous beast of tyranny will do all in its power to disable and handicap the progression of civilization. It may try to crush our hearts, destroy our desires, and fill us with the idea that hope is vanity, truth is vice, and lust is sin. But before the cruel servants of brutality do anything — before they construct their prisons, before they enforce compulsary education, before they force us to work in dangerous factories, before they tax us so they can support their luxurious lifestyles, before they massacre us in the streets — before the cyclopse of iniquity raises his fist to take a blow at civilization, the first thing he will do is to put a clamp on our lips and our minds. He will burn our libraries, control all means of communication, and will make it punishable to hold or express a taboo opinion. And once Censorship is in place, all sorts of injustices and unfairness may be committed upon the tender flesh of innocense, upon the crying infant of life.
Can it not easily be predicted that these with enough brazen attitude will be met with healtfelt sorrow when they discover tha their questions are illegal? What kind of country would we be living in if questions and their answers are illegal? There may be those in full support of Censorship who will claim that we should remove obscenities from books, and allow only material to be published that respects sacredness. There can be nothing more sacred than liberty and freedom, the mother of inquiry and justice. Among the cruelty of the Censor-morons, there is the villification of the human body. The Fig-Leaf Campaign is notorious for this. In their never-ending quest to destroy freedom and creativity, only the greatest artists, be they Renassaince men or pornographers, have been persecuted. And by what writ can they claim that our bodies are obscene? Of all things, it is the least obscene! We are all born into this body, this bundle of loosely connected nerves, given the hormones of lust, allowed thought and contemplation. Such a magnificent machine and such a wonderful experience, but upon inspection of this spectable, the Censor-morons claim it is an obscenity! There is no expression more sincere in its cruelty and outright ignorance, when it claims that we are obscene, disgusting, vile, terrible, horrible, based on the way our bodies look to others. Perhaps if it were humanly possible, they would pass laws making it ilegal to see our own nudity.
The question really presented to us is this: can any idea, based on how radical or altrenitave, be so dangerous that we must silence it? If our means of communication and thought are free, then the journey to truth is only given permission to pass. When we can question everything, present ideas, and express evidence, only then will we have a free nad clear view of everything. The just courts of the world will not supress evidence. By what writ can a just society supress a view? It is not a question as to who is right or wrong. Many who censor Racists may say it is because they cannot be right. But if it is true that Racism is wrong, then allow it to be observed and investigated. If it is untrue, it’s publication will be detrimental to its cause. But to supress the opinion, disallow investigation of any opinion, is slavery off thought and destructive to truth.
As the noose around our mind tightens, with government regulation, we will find that our liberties in all areas of our lives are degrading. With excessive harshness, trying to govern what we are allowed to think and what we are allowed to say, we will become indoctrinated into a drone-like trance, without humanity, with creativity, with love or hate. Becoming mindless fools following a set path determined by an unjust power, the ability to carry out justice and fairness will be severly debilitated. Deviation will be punishable. As the crimson sky of vitality and knowledge darkens to a lifeless, breathless mass — as it becomes illegal to investigate and pose questions — as the book fires reach further and further towards the skies and the condition of life sinks lower and lower — and as intelligence becomes a sign of criminality, we wil discover that our lives are without freedom, our minds full of barriers, and the never-ending journey of education has turned into a slug-race. Censorship is our enemy, so much as ignorance, cruelty, and brutality are our enemies.
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Gippy Grewal & Farhan Akhtar’s First Look from Lucknow Central (Video)
Ajay Deep 23/04/2017
Gippy Grewal and Farhan Akhtar are currently shooting for Lucknow Central – a much awaited Bollywood movie. The first look of Gippy Grewal and Farhan Akhtar standing in jail premises has been leaked on the internet and is making their fans go crazy.
Lucknow Central is a Hindi movie and both Gippy Grewal as well as Farhan Akhtar have a major role to be played in lead roles. If we talk about Punjabi singers then after Diljit Dosanjh, it is now Gippy Grewal who is being featured in Bollywood movies. This is his second Bollywood movie. Lucknow Central shooting began a long time back and till date, there had been no clue about the movie and also no poster was released. This is the first image from the movie that has been leaked and has got Gippy Grewal & Farhan Akhtar fans talking.
Gippy Grewal First Look from Lucknow Central
The image reveals that Gippy Grewal is a bit angry while looking at Farhan Akhtar. The background shows the jail premises and Gippy is dressed as a Punjabi guy.
While standing in front of Farhan Akhtar, Gippy Grewal is holding a cup of water. the cup is similar to the one as used by prisoners in jail premises.
Lucknow Central Farhan Akhtar First Look
Farhan Akhtar’s first look from the movie Lucknow Central makes us believe that he is acting to be a Bhojpuri singer. Farhan is seeing holding a plate of food. It is a steel plate with 4 partitions similar to the one used by prisoners of Lucknow central jail.
Farhan Akhtar is seen eating rice with his hands.
Farhan Akhtar is looking at Gippy Grewal in the Lucknow Central movie scene that has been leaked online.
Lucknow Central – All we know about the movie
Lucknow Central is being produced by Nikhil Advani and is being directed by Ranjit Tiwari.
The movie is set to release on 15 September 2017.
The lead actress in Lucknow Central is Diana Penty.
Other actors in the movie include – Deepak Dobriyal, Ronit Roy and Rajesh Sharma.
The movie is being shot in Lucknow and later scenes are from Mumbai. a majority of the movie scenes are from jail premises.
According to sources, the 2 actors – Gippy Grewal who plays the role of a Punjabi singer and Farhan Akhtar who plays a Bhojpuri singer form a band within the jail.
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SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — More than one thousand inmates escaped from their prison cells across the United States Wednesday following the release of a volatile computer bug used mainly in the hijacking of nuclear weapons control systems.
Last week at Defcon, the hacker conference, a technological flaw in prison security software was discreetly showcased before a handful of onlookers, provided spectators promised not to say anything about it.
The massive breakout occurred just before 3 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. Latest reports say 1,233 of the more than 5,000 prisoners awoke to their cell doors opening. Usually that means breakfast, but guards were nowhere to be seen. All but two fled and only seven were captured alive. Many were fatally wounded.
CITIZENS: LOCK YOUR DOORS. BE ADVISED: The cell blocks affected by Wednesday’s hack housed only inmates serving sentences in excess of 25 years. In other words, there are violent criminals roaming the streets of Southern California, as usual.
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These include more than 1,000 convicted murderers, rapists, gang members, blacks, and worst of all, Mexicans likely inhabiting the barren lawless California desert of San Quentin. If anyone in an orange numbered jumpsuit ask you for a ride, just say no, unless you think he looks legit.
San Quentin State Prison Warden Mike Martel said, “Sure, we might lose a few prisoners, but those .commies will fill their places. I fucking hate kids, and their damn computers. So when are we doing this interview?”
One prisoner who escaped by way of the hacked beta version of the hack-in-progress said he is grateful for the efforts put forth by anonymous computer hackers, “whatever the fuck that means.”
Many dozens of prisoners scrambled over top of each other just to get through the open doors. Video surveillance tapes played back scenes of utter chaos as a herd of inmates bottlenecked, taking gunfire at the open bay doors near the front of San Quentin State Prison.
Scooter McLintock, 39, is serving two life sentences for the 1997 rape and murder of his two elderly South Beach neighbors. McLintock – along with many others – opted to take their chances and bum rushed the open front doors to the prison, where outside, freedom awaited survivors.
“We was thinkin’: what if we jus all rush out dat door at once, ya know? The guards can shoot at us, but they can’t kill us all. They ain’t kill me. But I had this big colored man on top a me get shot an’ he was screamin’ like a lil’ bitch. Like a scared little bitch wit blood squirtin’ out his mouf an’ shit.”
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Last year, a cyber worm known as Stuxnet disabled Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, slowing or possibly crippling their once-thriving nuclear weapons program. The Stuxnet worm is still considered the most sophisticated cyberweapon ever made. It disabled the centrifuges by attacking a “programmable logic controller,” which is the same type of computer used, ironically, in America’s prisons.
Martel explained why they use such sophisticated, yet flawed technology in San Quentin’s holding facilities. “In America, prisoners are considered a commodity where prisons are privately operated. That’s why we treat them with the same level of protection as Iran treats its controversial nuclear program. Because we care. About money.”
David Blanche of Lebal Drocer Correctional Authority said the most recent outbreak is the largest in world history, and authorities are actively searching for someone to blame. Critics of hacker culture point at Defcon for condoning cybercrime, but “mainly because they are older, they still blame MTV.”
A group of unidentified and highly-skilled hackers – not to be mistaken with the club of misfits going by “Anonymous” – bought a programmable logic controller for testing purposes. Such computers are commercially available for less than $2,500.
Using this hyperrealistic computer simulation, hackers were able to determine the possible effects of remotely opening a prison door.
Within days of testing, hackers achieved success by way of a simulated attack on their own machines using their newly developed cyberbug.
Chronicle.SU editor and Anonymous insider Kilgore Trout abused his anonymous credentials and dug into their possible involvement. Once again, his skepticism proved itself.
You read it here, folks: Sabu has openly admitted to orchestrating the Antisec cybercrime of the century.
While talking with Sabu in a private IRC, Trout bragged about the completion of his latest cyberbug. Because all anons care about how cool people think their fake online identity is, Sabu’s inner anonfag came crawling out to bite the hook. He said, “That’s one hell of a bug, but guess who just released a bug into San Quentin State Prison?”
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Sabu instructed Trout to “Keep it on the dl bro,” but the Chronicle.SU is not some pussy collective that respects the meaning of ‘off the record.’ “I’m not trying to get v&,” Sabu pleaded. But Trout said, “Tough shit.”
The bottomless compulsion to achieve notoriety based on a seemingly endless stream of pointless, shitty attacks caused many in the hacker community to doubt whether the world may ever again blame Anonymous for anything outside of ruining an online forum. But Sabu came through.
While anons and fanboys fapped mercilessly upon their prepubescent penises with thoughts running through their heads of meth lab informants being hunted down and killed after mass d0xing of police contacts, more people are now being raped and killed – this time because of criminals they helped free from prison.
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Prison guard Antonio Rueda, 43, responded with force to the security breach. He said they tried to preserve lives, but then were just like, fuck it. “Following the ineffective use of non-lethal bullets and pepper spray,” Rueda said, “we resorted to rifle fire and rape sticks. Still, some escaped and we’re really kicking ourselves for failing to run autoupdate on Windows XP Home Edition.”
After news of the breakout went public, prison technicians around the globe began looking into alternative security measures and solutions that couldn’t be so easily hacked.
“We’re going to take a look at our router settings, make sure NAT’s turned off. That’s probably the issue.”
This breaking coverage was brought to you graciously by your friends here at Lebal Drocer, Inc. We are pleased to announce the Grand Opening of our Megajail™ next week. It will feature brand new locking mechanisms designed using the latest in Iranian lockdown technology, operated directly by the mind of dead Lebal Drocer president, Raleigh Theodore Sakers. Megajail™ reminds you, once you’re in, you’re in. We own everything that matters, and now jails.
(disclaimer: Lebal Drocer, Inc., is not responsible for limbs lost by closing cell doors. The system is fully automated, as is our transcendental President’s brain, and the prisoners must learn to adhere to the times doors open and shut.)
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AFFLECK BOUNCES ONTO NEW MIKE JUDGE MOVIE
Justin Waddell
When I first saw the headline that Ben Affleck had just signed onto Mike Judge’s new movie Extract, I got a little worried. Sure, there are other bigger and more important things to worry about in life, but I grouped it in with the rest of the things that trouble me – like the possibility of seeing a ghost in my basement or falling asleep while driving (or putting). It’s not that I dislike Affleck. I think he can be great. Sometimes. (Rarely.) It’s just that I got nervous that Jason Bateman, the guy who was supposed to be starring in Judge’s latest comedic venture, had been chucked to the wayside. Bateman’s casting is consistent with the kind of laid back funny folks that Judge likes to see topline his flicks. Well, all my hand-wringing was for naught. Affleck is in talks to join the movie as either (depending on the source you read) the best pal of Bateman’s character or an ambulance-chasing lawyer. Or both?
Anyway, whew!
A few years ago, you really couldn’t imagine Affleck taking a secondary role in anything. He was busy fronting big budget misfires like Gigli and Daredevil. And Paycheck. Wow. 2003 was a rough seas kind of year for him. But after a constant smackdown in the press and a string of box office nightmares, the actor pulled back and reassessed. And it was a smart decision. The Affleck that returned from that sabbatical (or from a body-snatching) was and is more interesting. Not only did he helm last year’s very, very good Gone Baby Gone, but he seems to be picking more interesting projects to perform in. Look for him later this year in the remake of the UK’s excellent mini-series State of Play. He’s got the most challenging role in that movie, and he’ll be sharing drinks and butting heads with none other than Russell Crowe. A complex role + acting opposite a terrific actor = the toughest assignment of Affleck’s career. But at least he’s taking risks, right?
Signing on for a role in Extract returns Affleck to the ticklish embrace of the comedy world. And the actor has always been better at yucking it up than pressing the right drama combo on his inner Xbox controller. The movie, which sounds a little like the Coen Brothers soon to be shot A Serious Man, is about a flower extract factory owner(!) who has to deal with an assortment of troubles at the office and at home. For example, his wife (played by the very funny Kristen Wiig) is cheating on him with a gigolo. The incredibly pretty (and pretty funny) Mila Kunis and the always welcome Clifton Collins, Jr. will also appear in the movie.
The movie sounds promising. Heck, I think anything Mike Judge does is promising. The guy is brilliant, and it’s great that he’s back on track so soon after what happened to the simply wonderful Idiocracy. It would just be nice to see this movie get to theaters without any release hiccups, you know? I wonder if he and Terry Gilliam ever traded horror stories over beers. Extract is set to arrive (cross your rabbit feet and rub your fingers) sometime next year.
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Rare 1936 BMW R5: An Affleck Family Legacy
When Dwayne’s grandfather Ken Affleck passed away at age 95 in 2014 he also left behind his pride and joy – an extremely rare BMW R5. Just 2,632 were built between 1936 and 1937 and only a handful remain. Dwayne now has the honour of restoring his Papa’s legacy.
Rod (left) and Dwayne (right) are lovingly restoring a rare R5 family heirloom
Dwayne, you’re an avid motorcyclist. Is a love of riding in the genes?
I would say, “yes” but not just a love of riding – it’s a love of all things automotive, mechanical and engineering. My grandfather and my great grandfather even built their own plane, back in the day. Papa later worked for ESSO as the Head of Oil and Fuel Engineering which lead to him being involved with F1 drivers like Jim Clark and Jack Brabham. My father Rod is a retired mechanic and I’m an auto electrician. We’ve all had (or still have) involvement in two and four-wheeled motorsports. I have definitely discovered motorcycling more in the last five years which has taken me all over Australia and to the other side of the world by competing in and finishing Red Bull Romaniacs in 2019.
Pictured far left: Ken Affleck with the Esso Team at Warwick Farm
Your grandfather Ken has left you with a very special motorbike. What does his rare 1936 BMW R5 mean to you?
It means everything! It’s been so cared for and loved; in fact, it’s pretty much as it came off the floor with the exception of some minor marks and aging paint as it was used as a bike should be ridden and enjoyed. Being so entrenched in the family, it’s also significant that I’m working on it alongside my dad and my twelve-year-old son, Harry. It is very much a family affair.
Ken on his way to a VMCC Meeting
Do you know of any other R5’s in Australia?
Currently we’ve been unable to track down any other complete R5s in Australia, apart from one in pieces awaiting restoration. Shannons and Lloyds couldn’t either when approached for an evaluation of my grandfather’s bike. We know some R5s have been here in the past, but have then been sold to overseas buyers. There are those that haven’t seen the light of day so they have lost track of them and don’t know if they still exist as a whole bike. To my knowledge there seems to be only a few known of world-wide, one of which is owned by Lord March – Founder of the GoodwoodFestival of Speed. I believe BMW themselves have three in different states of condition (one restored, one in their bunker and one unrestored). There are a few in the US and a handful throughout Europe, but being a pre-World War 2 and only 2500-odd made, a lot would have been scrapped for materials during the War or lost to the fighting.
“To my knowledge there seems to be only a few known of world-wide,” says Dwayne of the rare BMW R5
Ken was a new father when he purchased the R5. Was it his first motorcycle?
His first bike was second-hand 1925 BSA 250 round tank 2-speed which he later sold. He then got a DKW motorcycle. In 1948 he purchased the BMW R5 Sydney dealer called Arncliffe & Homebush Motorcycles. My grandfather knew the owners and learned the R5 was for sale there on behalf of an Air Force personnel. Then in the early 2000’s he bought an R27 BMW 250 single cylinder. This was because he wanted to attend the early VMCC Easter Bike Rally at Bathurst and couldn’t get some parts in time for the R5.
Ken’s first motorcycle was a BSA
Given its age, this R5 is in remarkable condition. Is it true that when Ken married your grandmother he wasn’t allowed to ride it?
Mama definitely wasn’t fond of the bikes, but when the kids came along and were growing up Papa decided to give up bike racing and general riding. He stored the R5 until her passing in the mid-1990s, then dusted the bike back off. He pieced a few bits back together and started riding again in his mid-70s all the way up until he was 93 years old. Papa was a very active member of the Vintage Motorcycle Club NSW during his later years.
Ken with daughter Annette (Dwayne’s Aunt) aboard his R5
Back in the day, why do you think the R5 was such a gamechanger for BMW?
After riding it around the streets when we first picked it up I would have to say it’s an amazingly balanced bike with a great riding position. I’ve ridden a few other newer bikes (1960s models ha ha ha) and they ride nowhere near as well as the R5 does. The, design and engineering in the bike is astounding in my eyes for its era, too plus in its day it rivaled cars for top speed performance.
What type of work is involved to get your R5 project on the road?
Surprisingly not much has been needed. We aren’t there one-hundred percent just yet, but it’s just some perishables like fuel hoses, some carburettor gaskets and oil seals as we did have it running when we picked up the bike. We’ve kept it in storage for four years until we were in a position to give it proper attention it deserves. With the recent world situation and travel restrictions there’s been delays unfortunately. We expect it to be finished towards the end of May or early June.
Dwayne says working on the BMW R5 is “very much a family affair”
Many aspects of BMW’s new R18 have been based on the R5. What are your thoughts?
Personally, I absolutely love the new R18; the efforts that they’ve gone to, to give it the old-school character while working with modern regulations for emission, etcetera are huge. I can only imagine how hard it is to make a bike stand out today, especially in the cruiser market they (BMW Motorrad) are targeting. It’s a tough task with very well established competitors .
The R5 is the main inspiration for BMW’s new R 18 cruiser (pictured)
Tell us about Ken’s scrambling days:
Papa was involved with the Dulwich Hill Motorcycle Club as they had a track situated on his large Kellyville property. He was a multiple trophy holder with the Two-Stroke Club of NSW in 1939. He and was involved with a trials club who held events at Castlereagh on the rocks and banks of the Nepean river; the idea was having to ride over the boulders without putting feet down to not lose points.
Ken was the 1939 Two-Stroke Club of NSW Champion
Later in life Papa loved to run with the VMCC who used to hold average speed rallies and navigational events; this included him having a minor off while riding down a dirt road and he couldn’t slow the bike quickly enough and ended up having a soft lay down of the bike in the grass just off the road. He was so mad because he finally got to pass this “young, slow annoying rider ” who was holding him up. We found out this “young” rider was in their late 70s and my grandfather was in his early 90s at this stage (ha ha ha!) Another time he was enjoying his riding a little much and ran wide going under a viaduct out at his favourite event near Bathurst, scrapping the side of himself down the guard rail just enough to leave some bruisers – but not enough to knock him off the bike or even leave a mark on it.
Do you have any future plans for the R5 or R27?
The R5 will be kept in the family forever. It’s one of those special bikes that we’re the only custodian of as my grandfather will always be the owner of the bike. The R27 just needs a blinker/horn combination for registration and my parents will be looking to sell it soon after. It never had any real significance to my grandfather who only kept it as a backup for his beloved R5.
Special thanks to Dwayne and family
for sharing Ken Affleck’s R5 legacy.
Discover how the R5 was the inspiration for BMW’s new R18 cruiser in A Bavarian Soulstory – Episode 1.
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Career Profiles and Employment Projections
Computer Hardware Engineers: Jobs, Career, Salary and Education Information
Computer Hardware Engineers
Career, Salary and Education Information
What They Do: Computer hardware engineers research, design, develop, and test computer systems and components.
Work Environment: Computer hardware engineers usually work in research laboratories that build and test various types of computer models. Most work in computer systems design services and in manufacturing.
How to Become One: Most computer hardware engineers need a bachelor’s degree from an accredited program.
Salary: The median annual wage for computer hardware engineers is $117,220.
Job Outlook: Employment of computer hardware engineers is projected to grow 2 percent over the next ten years, slower than the average for all occupations.
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Computer hardware engineers research, design, develop, and test computer systems and components such as processors, circuit boards, memory devices, networks, and routers.
Duties of Computer Hardware Engineers
Computer hardware engineers typically do the following:
Design new computer hardware, creating schematics of computer equipment to be built
Test the computer hardware they design
Analyze the test results and modify the design as needed
Update existing computer equipment so that it will work with new software
Oversee the manufacturing process for computer hardware
Many hardware engineers design devices used in manufactured products that incorporate processors and other computer components and that connect to the Internet. For example, many new cars, home appliances, and medical devices have Internet-ready computer systems built into them.
Computer hardware engineers ensure that computer hardware components work together with the latest software. Therefore, hardware engineers often work with software developers. For example, the hardware and software for mobile phones and other devices frequently are developed at the same time.
Work Environment for Computer Hardware Engineers[About this section] [To Top]
Computer hardware engineers hold about 64,400 jobs. The largest employers of computer hardware engineers are as follows:
Computer systems design and related services 22%
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing 12%
Research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences 11%
Federal government 7%
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing 7%
Computer Hardware Engineer Work Schedules
Most computer hardware engineers work full time.
How to Become a Computer Hardware Engineer[About this section] [To Top]
Get the education you need: Find schools for Computer Hardware Engineers near you!
Most computer hardware engineers need a bachelor's degree from an accredited computer engineering program.
Education for Computer Hardware Engineers
Most entry-level computer hardware engineers have a bachelor's degree in computer engineering, although a degree in electrical engineering or computer science also is generally acceptable. A computer engineering major is similar to a major in electrical engineering but with a heavy emphasis on computer science.
Many engineering programs are accredited by ABET. Employers may prefer candidates who have graduated from an accredited program. To prepare for a major in computer or electrical engineering, students should have a solid background in math and science.
Because hardware engineers commonly work with computer software systems, a familiarity with computer programming is usually expected. This background may be obtained through computer science courses.
Some large firms or specialized jobs may require a master's degree in computer engineering. Some experienced engineers obtain a master's degree in business administration (MBA). All engineers must continue their learning over the course of their careers in order to keep up with rapid advances in technology.
Other Experience for Computer Hardware Engineers
Some students participate in internships while in school so that they can gain practical experience.
Advancement for Computer Hardware Engineers
Some computer hardware engineers can advance to become computer and information systems managers.
Important Qualities for Computer Hardware Engineers
Analytical skills. Computer hardware engineers use computer programming tools to analyze the digital circuits in hardware to determine the best design.
Critical-thinking skills. These engineers use logic and reasoning to clarify goals, examine assumptions, and identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions.
Problem-solving skills. Computer hardware engineers identify complex problems in computer hardware, develop and evaluate possible solutions, and figure out the best way to implement them.
Communication skills. Engineers often work on teams and must be able to communicate with other types of engineers, software developers and programmers, as well as with nontechnical team members.
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The median annual wage for computer hardware engineers is $117,220. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $68,460, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $185,240.
The median annual wages for computer hardware engineers in the top industries in which they work are as follows:
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing $140,840
Research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences $132,450
Federal government $113,430
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing $113,050
Computer systems design and related services $111,610
Job Outlook for Computer Hardware Engineers[About this section] [To Top]
Employment of computer hardware engineers is projected to grow 2 percent over the next ten years, slower than the average for all occupations.
Demand for these engineers is expected to grow as more industries outside of the computer and electronic product manufacturing industry begin to research and develop their own electronic devices. However, centralized computing and networking services may mean fewer engineers will be needed because these worksites cover large networks and geographic areas.
An increase in hardware startup firms and the ongoing increase in the number of devices with computer chips embedded in them, such as household appliances, medical devices, and automobiles, may also lead to some job growth for these workers.
Employment projections data for Computer Hardware Engineers, 2019-29
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Projected Employment, 2029
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Aerospace Engineers
Aerospace engineers design primarily aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, and missiles. In addition, they create and test prototypes to make sure that they function according to design.
Computer and Information Research Scientists
Computer and information research scientists invent and design new approaches to computing technology and find innovative uses for existing technology. They study and solve complex problems in computing for business, medicine, science, and other fields.
Computer and Information Systems Managers
Computer and information systems managers, often called information technology (IT) managers or IT project managers, plan, coordinate, and direct computer-related activities in an organization. They help determine the information technology goals of an organization and are responsible for implementing computer systems to meet those goals.
Computer Network Architects
Computer network architects design and build data communication networks, including local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), and Intranets. These networks range from small connections between two offices to next-generation networking capabilities such as a cloud infrastructure that serves multiple customers.
Computer Programmers
Computer programmers write and test code that allows computer applications and software programs to function properly. They turn the program designs created by software developers and engineers into instructions that a computer can follow.
Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Electrical engineers design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacturing of electrical equipment, such as electric motors, radar and navigation systems, communications systems, and power generation equipment. Electronics engineers design and develop electronic equipment, including broadcast and communications systems, such as portable music players and Global Positioning System (GPS) devices.
Mechanical engineers design, develop, build, and test mechanical and thermal sensors and devices, including tools, engines, and machines.
Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Computer networks are critical parts of almost every organization. Network and computer systems administrators are responsible for the day-to-day operation of these networks.
Software developers are the creative minds behind computer programs. Some develop the applications that allow people to do specific tasks on a computer or another device. Others develop the underlying systems that run the devices or that control networks.
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Alpha Flight #6
Writer: Scott Lobdell Artist: Clayton Henry, Mark Morales Publisher: Marvel Comics Critic Reviews: 1
YOU GOTTA BE KIDDIN' ME! PART 6 The action-packed finale you demanded! It's the All-New, All-Different Alpha Flight vs. the alien Plodex with the original team's life hanging in the balance!
Comics Bulletin - Jason Cornwell Aug 13, 2004
While it has nothing really to do with this issue, I have to say that my enthusiasm for the upcoming issues dropped considerably when I got peek at the cover images for the upcoming issues which look downright freakish. However, Clayton Henry is a pretty solid artist, and while his background could use a little more detail, his figure work is pretty sound & his characters have a nice expressive quality to them that helps sell the more humorous aspects of the issue. There's also a nice double-page shot of the new team heading off into the sky, with the personalities of the characters being nicely reflected in this group shot. Read Full Review
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Butler Rule - How to Move a single card from one list to another list
Butler Rule - How to Move a single card from one list to another list Edited
Marc Pfeiffer I'm New Here Nov 11, 2020
I am trying to set up the following rule.
If List "Doing" has zero cards assigned to me
Move the topmost card assigned to me in the List "This Week" into the "Doing" List.
This will then allow me to hide all the lists on my board except for the "Doing" List (using the chrome extension Trellist) and whenever I complete a card by moving it from "Doing" to "Done" the next one I've already prioritized in the List "This Week" will show up in the "Doing" list I have.
Ryan Atlassian Team Nov 18, 2020
The trigger for the rule should be possible, however, there isn't a way to create an action that finds the top card of another list and then to move this. Would it be possible for you to set up a button that you can press to pull cards into your list? This way you could use an action such as this to move a card from one list to another: https://share.getcloudapp.com/o0uqbgwb. Once again, there isn't a way to select the topmost card, but this would bring a random card across from that list.
I realise this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but I wanted to give you some other options to think of other ways that you could automate your workflow.
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Last chance to own a home with a pool like you've never seen before
As far as a home with a pool goes, this floating sky pool at Nine Elm's Embassy Gardens takes some beating
Fancy a home with a pool in the sky? Swimming in it may not be for everyone, deep pockets or not, but who wouldn't marvel at the spectacular floating sky pool at Nine Elm's Embassy Gardens development.
EcoWorldBallymore, the developer has recently announced the launch of the final residential building at Embassy Gardens, The Modern, marking the last chance to become part of one of London’s latest riverside neighbourhoods.
The Sky Pool is the world’s first ‘floating’ swimming pool. Once installed, the 25-metre long acrylic pool will allow members of the development’s exclusive Eg:le Club at Embassy Gardens to glide between buildings 35 metres up in the sky.
Completing this regeneration project for Nine Elms, The Modern will offer 160 apartments designed for 21st century contemporary living.
The Modern will consist of one and two bedroom apartments in addition to two Penthouses, with starting prices from £695,000. These light filled apartments are positioned, so each has a spacious private balcony with breathtaking views over the river, the city and the greenery of Embassy Gardens.
All apartments have been designed by design duo Benningen Lloyd; blending individuality with bold colours and a modern style for residents to call home.
Interior fittings and finishes are inspired by 21st Century craftsmanship and by the vivid colours of the New Covent Garden Flower Market, nearby.
The bathrooms feature rare marble, crafted tiles, mood lighting, luxurious mirrors and designer fixtures from Ma by Starck and others.
Residents of The Modern will also have access to Embassy Garden’s top notch amenities. These include access to the Sky Deck and Orangery rooftop bar, private cinema, indoor swimming pool, co-working areas and meeting rooms, two gyms, spa and steam rooms.
The Sky Pool is due to be installed later this year. Developed by the world’s leading experts in engineering, the transparent 25m-long pool will allow residents to swim between two Legacy buildings 35m in the sky.
On a hot summer's day in 2013, the team at Ballymore gathered to discuss where to locate Embassy Gardens’ outdoor swimming pool. When they decided the space on top of the new Legacy Buildings wouldn’t be sufficient, they had an idea – one that would lead to a world first in engineering.
‘We decided the only space large enough was between the buildings,’ says Tristan Stout, Senior Development Manager at Ballymore. ‘So we started to research images of aqueducts. If those structures could span valleys, we believed we could build a structure to span two buildings.’
‘There are other examples swimming pools like aqueducts connecting two buildings, like Marina Bay Sands in Singapore,’ says Brian Eckersley, structural engineer at Eckersley O’Callaghan ‘But there’s never been something transparent spanning two buildings like this. Once you swim off, you can look right down. It will be like flying.’
The Sky Pool is due to be installed next year.
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London Girl Granted Anonymity to Bring TikTok Privacy Suit
A London judge granted a 12-year old girl anonymity so she can take TikTok to court over allegations the social-media company violated the European Union’s strict data protection rules.
The London child “intends to go to a court asserting -- rightly or wrongly -- that her privacy rights and those of others like her have been infringed in ways that call for a remedy,” Judge Mark Warby said in a decision Wednesday. Not granting her anonymity could “have a chilling effect on the bringing of claims by children to vindicate their data-protection rights.”.
TikTok has come under increased scrutiny by several EU data watchdogs over children’s data. The EU’s data-protection chiefs in June pledged to coordinate potential investigations into the Chinese company, establishing a taskforce to get a better understanding of “TikTok’s processing and practices.”
The planned suit is at a “very early stage,” but the intended claim “involves serious criticisms of what may be key aspects of the platform’s mode of operation,” Warby said. Given the popularity of ByteDance Ltd.’s social media app, such a suit could lead to “strongly-worded” opposition
TikTok’s press office didn’t immediately return emails seeking comment.
The Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, who would bring the case on behalf of the London girl, said the minor would risk “direct online bullying by other children or users of the TikTok app” and “negative or hostile reactions from social media influencers,” if her identity was known, according to the ruling. The judge said such behavior “is reasonably foreseeable.”
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MRFF Files IG Complaint against Christian Blog on Incoming Academy Commandant
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An anti-Christian group has filed a complaint with the Defense Department’s Inspector General’s Office to investigate a blog, christianfighterpilot.com, and its alleged owner, Air Force Lt. Col. Jonathan C. Dowty, claiming it is in violation of Air Force standards, Military.com reported.
Mikey “Mikey” Weinstein, president and founder of the anti-Christian Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), who battles against anything that is Christian in the military, said his organization believes the blog is in violation of Air Force standards and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and is seeking a full investigation after the blog published a piece insinuating incoming Air Force Academy commandant of cadets Brig. Gen. Kristin Goodwin may have lied to join the service.
Christianfighterpilot.com responded by saying:
Mikey “Mikey” Weinstein discovered the power of the Inspector General complaint process way back in 2007. By using the IG, Weinstein is able to loudly file a complaint (a step necessary for fundraising, which pays his salary) and possibly get a reaction from the military — and whether he does or not, he can still claim victory.
The best part? It’s free.
Mikey Weinstein used to say “tell it to the judge,” but it seems even he realized how impotent that made him look, given how long it’s been since the MRFF has seen the inside of a courtroom and how ineffective his “charity” was when it was there. (Weinstein has zero wins and six losses in military/religion cases.) Plus, lawsuits can be expensive, even if the MRFF insisted on finding attorneys who would work pro bono. Now, Weinstein’s rallying cry has diminished to a weak “I’ll file a complaint……….!!!1!1”
Speaking for the MRFF, Weinstein’s research assistant Chris Rodda recently threatened to file an IG complaint against ChristianFighterPilot.com.
Care to know what happened another time the MRFF filed an IG complaint about ChristianFighterPilot.com?
Back in October of 2011, MRFF associate and former USAFA faculty member R. David Mullin was involved in a kerfuffle with the Air Force Academy over accreditation. An article here noting the weakness of Mullin’s complaint (he had essentially outed himself as one of the “anonymous” complainants) apparently raised his ire, so he emailed the Air Force Inspector General — and five other Air Force Generals, including one now known to have been an MRFF “insider.”
While the MRFF was clearly involved in Mullin’s complaint, they never bothered to announce the outcome — because the IG tossed them out on their backs.
This is the way the Air Force IG summarized Mullin’s complaint under the “Nature of Complaint”:
Complainant does not appreciate the subjects [sic] religious views presented on the “Christian Fighter Pilot” blog.
That is an astute summary by the Air Force Inspector General of pretty much everything the MRFF complains about. “Mikey doesn’t like it. Make the Christians stop.”
The accusations reportedly made by Mullins are quoted below, and they should look familiar, as they contain the broad, wild-eyed drama and world-ending panic of a standard MRFF complaint. Naturally, in the Weinstein technique of “throwing mud against the wall and seeing what sticks,” the complaints contain far more than allegations about the USAFA accreditation controversy.
Who is Mikey Weinstein? Read His Own Vulgar Words Hating Christians and Jews in the U.S. Military. Michael “Mikey” Weinstein and his Military Religious Freedom Foundation have been going after everything and anything related to Christianity since the mid-2000s.
In 2013, President Obama’s Pentagon reportedly confirmed consulting the anti-Christian activist before officially threatening to court-martial soldiers who talk about Jesus Christ.
In 2012, Weinstein reportedly sued to force the military to silence Christians five times, and failed in all five lawsuits, with none surviving to trial. Despite his failure he feigns expertise on the Constitution, threatening to sue again.
Weinstein reportedly told one interviewer, “The biggest crime I accuse the religious right of and it’s a blood libel, a crime against humanity is torturing that concept…My response is: F**k you. F**k you. How dare you?”
And in 2008, Weinstein reportedly threatened violence, allegedly saying, “When I see anti-Semitism, I don’t f**king care if I live or die, someone’s going to get a f**king beating.”
Furthermore, the most amazing and disgusting comment by Weinstein was in 2009 when he said, “It’s a fundamentalist Christian-Constitution fight…This represents a perfect, quintessential example of the fact that our United States military has become infused, essentially, with the Christian mirror image of the type of Islam that is pushed by al-Qaida and the Taliban.”
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Poll: Majority of gun owners feel safer with gun in home
Dave Workman
A new Rasmussen survey reveals that a majority of gun owners feel safer because they have a firearm in the home, while only six percent feel less safe and 36 percent say the gun makes no difference.
A majority of American gun owners say they feel safer with a gun in the home. (Dave Workman)
The survey found that 58 percent of gun owners think having a gun in the home makes them feel safer. However, that number suggests a downward trend because an earlier poll found that 63 percent of American gun owners felt safer when the survey was taken in 2015.
There are some other revealing numbers in the survey, which comes at a time that gun rights are once again under attack in the wake of mass shootings and mounting pressure by Democrats to add additional restrictions. According to Rasmussen, “Whites are more likely to have a gun in their household than blacks and other minority Americans. But 63% of other minorities feel safer because of the gun, compared to 58% of whites and 52% of blacks.”
Another revelation that really isn’t surprising is that 51 percent of Republicans have a gun in the home while only 31 percent of Democrats admit to having a gun. Thirty-six percent of independents have guns in the home.
The survey was conducted among 1,000 American adults Aug. 8 and 11 with a margin of error of +/- three percentage points.
Among Democrats, only 45 percent feel safer with a gun in the home while 58 percent of independent gun owners feel safer.
One lingering problem relating to firearms ownership is that only 18 percent of Americans trust the federal government to fairly enforce gun laws, Rasmussen said. In a survey taken late last year, Rasmussen found that 48 percent of American adults favor a mandatory federal license for owning guns, and 39 percent are opposed. Licensing of gun owners was more popular among Democrats (67%) than Republicans (32%) and independents (42%).
But now comes the dilemma. If some gun owners feel less safe, why do they own a firearm at all? And if Democrats who own guns vote for Democrat politicians who want to restrict gun ownership, how does that make any sense?
Rasmussen found that people under age 40 are less likely to have a gun in the house than their elders. However, at the same time and even in the same sentence, Rasmussen said younger adults “feel safer about it.”
Guns are a hot, perhaps even toxic subject these days, and the nation appears to be getting tired of high-profile shooting incidents. But are such incidents more alarming than, say, the May 17, 1974 shootout in Los Angeles that resulted in the deaths of six members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) including leader Donald DeFreeze. That was broadcast live, in the days long before there were cable news channels operating around the clock.
The gun control debate is gathering steam, and there is every likelihood that it is going to erupt when Congress returns next month following the August recess. The gun control crowd is preparing for battle, while gun owners may be lethargically preparing for the fall hunting season.
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Titan’s leaders today … Bruce Whiley, Jan Coton, Owen Whiley and Vaughan Clark.
The Titan group suffered a crisis after the death eight years ago of its legendary and charismatic founder, Max Whiley. Now, on turning 50, Titan is celebrating “the good years, the tough years, and the future”. GAVIN RILEY reports.
Ten years ago construction-equipment supplier Titan Plant Services and its crane-hire offshoot Titan Cranes held a glittering 40th birthday celebration at a top Wellington hotel. Company founder and industry legend Max Whiley, though visibly ailing, was in attendance to smilingly greet staff and customers, many of them friends of long-standing, because that’s the kind of friendships the charismatic Max forged.
Fast forward to Queen’s Birthday this year in the same hotel and a much quieter function is underway. The occasion is the Titan group’s 50th birthday and it is largely for staff only – a staff that numbers less than one-third of the 300-plus total of 10 years earlier.
Yet there is much for those present to celebrate. After several crises that brought Titan to the brink for some time after Max’s death at 76 in 2007, when it relied on leaders recruited from outside, control of the group is firmly back in the hands of Whiley family members.
If Max were around today he would not be surprised that sons Owen and Bruce are operations manager and property and marketing manager respectively. But he would be astonished (and, one hopes, delighted) that daughter Jan Coton, whom he first employed as a receptionist in 1978, has been the group’s managing director since 2013.
A 94-page illustrated booklet, 50 Years of Titan, available to staff only, quotes Judy Whiley as saying her late husband would be proud now the family are running the business. “He would be very surprised, especially with Jan,” the book adds. “Max was old school where women in business were concerned. He would be chuffed that they have pulled it off.”
Levin-born Max was Wilkins & Davies’ Lower Hutt-based equipment division manager when he took the offered opportunity in 1965 to buy the division, which was already called Titan and included the buying and selling of heavy machinery, and crane hire.
He acquired the business with £2500 of his own money (he sold his wife’s car) and £5000 loaned by five business associates. The new Titan Plant Services had 10 staff, some used construction equipment, six mobile cranes for hire, workshop equipment, servicing vehicles, and crane spares.
Max bought plant from Ministry of Works auctions and private sources, refurbished the equipment, then sold it. He had a remarkable memory, kept records, and knew who had what for sale and who wanted it. He regarded his often-cluttered yard as “profit waiting to happen”.
His astuteness in business and networking abilities went a long way to building the company and successfully undertaking ventures that were a big stretch. He demonstrated strong people skills with staff, customers and advisers. He took pride in employing experienced hands-on people who helped the business grow. And staff not only stayed but were as loyal to him as he was to them.
Max expected sons Owen and Bruce to join the company, but not too soon. Jan was actually first on board, but after two years as receptionist left in 1980 to become a full-time mum. She returned in 1997 as sales coordinator, took leave in 2001 to obtain a business degree, became human-resources manager in 2003, and later also took on responsibility for health and safety.
Owen joined the company in 1982, worked in Titan Plant Services’ heavy equipment workshop, was promoted to workshop foreman in 1987, and in 1989 became equipment manager for Titan Cranes.
Bruce started in the Lower Hutt workshop in 1991, spent two years in the group’s Taupo branch, attended Massey University for three years to obtain a degree in marketing, and became general manager of Titan’s Volvo trucks distributorship in 2003.
The Titan bandwagon gathered considerable pace during the Think Big energy-related infrastructure projects of the 1980s. It continued to roll on so successfully that at the time of Max’s death eight years ago the group had a staff of more than 300 and an annual turnover of $150 million.
Titan had branches in major centres from Auckland to Dunedin, was the New Zealand importer and distributor of Volvo, trucks, buses and construction equipment, as well as Yanmar and Dynapac construction equipment, and its nationwide crane-hire company was the largest in the country with a fleet of more than 60.
But all was not well. Max’s lack of a succession plan had been apparent to all who knew him. Former Downer managing director Alex Swainson tried to address the problem after he assumed the Titan board chairmanship in 1991. However, though Max had a lot of time for Alex he was not keen to think about the future structure of the company and Alex died in 1998 without being able to persuade Max to initiate a plan.
After some pressure from inside and outside Titan, former Downer senior executive Brian Kennedy had been appointed group chief executive in late 2005. But his corporate style was not a good match for the Titan team and he resigned after a year. Max died seven months later, in June 2007, and directors John Rowell and Trevor Taylor acted as interim joint managing directors until former Gough Gough & Hamer head Brian Hogan was appointed chief executive in August 2007, shortly after which Jan Coton joined the board to represent the Whiley family.
Brian Hogan recruited 11 mainly sales people whom he had worked with at Gough’s and began an aggressive capital-intensive sales campaign. At first it was successful but by the fourth quarter of 2008, with the global financial crisis biting, the Titan group was out of cash and sales started to dry up.
More cash was injected, Titan Plant Services and Titan Cranes were separated (with Gordon Stone heading the latter) and assets were disposed of over a period, including the closure of branches and sale of the Volvo and Yanmar agencies. When Brian Hogan’s contract ended in May 2010, Darryl Sutton was appointed chief executive of Titan Plant Services, and he and a hard-working team succeeded in bringing the company back into the black.
Under a new board, which included not only Jan Coton but Bruce and Owen Whiley, a debt-free Titan group was able to start anew. In 2012 Titan Plant Services was renamed Titan Construction Equipment and was appointed the New Zealand agent for Terex cranes. Titan Cranes, under general manager Vaughan Clark, now has a hire fleet of 50, having bought NZ Cranes’ Wellington branch in 2012.
In a foreword to the 50 Years of Titan commemorative booklet, Jan Coton says: “It feels like we can say, yeah, 50 years, we made it. What better time to reflect on the good years, the tough years and the future.”
She goes on to salute the many staff who have contributed to the group’s 50 years – “from the original men who took the risk and joined Max in 1965, through the early years, the Think Big projects, and the heady days of Volvo Truck and Volvo Construction Equipment when we employed over 300 people, [through to] the difficult years and all those people who stuck with us and helped rebuild the company back to something we can all take pride in.
“Max was well known for his charisma and drive; however, his greatest achievement was no doubt the ability to build a team of like-minded successful people around him. Even without Max, Titan’s strength today is due to our ability to work together in effective teams.”
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Premier League reports 36 Covid infections and postpones match – Latest News, Breaking News, Top News Headlines
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La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, January 12, 2021, p. a10
London. The Premier League released a total of 36 positives to Covid-19 after the tests carried out last week, which represents a slight decrease compared to those infected in the previous seven days.
The calendar of the event and of the FA Cup, the two main tournaments in England, are being altered by the strong rebound in infections in the last 15 days, related to the discovery of a new variant of the virus in that country, much more contagious.
That has led the British government to decree a new general confinement.
Shortly before this announcement, it was reported the suspension of the match of matchday 18 of the Premier League between Aston Villa and Tottenham scheduled for Wednesday, after nine footballers and five members of the Birmingham club’s coaching staff were infected of coronavirus.
The Villains had already been forced to play with a reserve team last Friday against Liverpool, corresponding to the 30th finals of the FA Cup, which ended with the defeat of Aston Villa 4-1.
The Premier League, which has tightened the protocols to fight Covid-19 in accordance with the 20 top-flight clubs, warned that it would be more severe with those players who break the rules.
But voices have also begun to rise against continuing to play in those conditions.
Financially it’s good to keep playing, but for me, morally, it’s probably a bad thing, said Newcastle manager Steve Bruce on Friday, whose club was the first to ask for a championship match to be postponed and had to shut down its center. practices at the beginning of December as a result of the numerous positive cases in their campus.
The NBA, for its part, postponed another couple of games due to contact tracing for Covid-19, Dallas and New Orleans, which was played on Monday, and Chicago against Boston, scheduled for today.
The postponements were announced a day after Miami’s game against Celtics was not held due to contact tracing in the Heat ranks.
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Army ready to deal with all types of challenges: COAS
* Corps commanders reiterate commitment to defend motherland against any misadventure
* Show serious concern over irrefutable evidence of India's financing of terrorism inside Pakistan
It is the Armed Forces’ duty to transform challenges, faced by the country, into opportunities for stability and prosperity of the nation.
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday said this while presiding over the 237th Corps Commanders’ Conference at General Headquarters here, said an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release.
“Pakistan Army, with support of state institutions and the nation, is fully prepared to thwart all internal and external challenges, ” the COAS said. He specifically directed all commanders to ensure measures to support the national effort.
The forum reviewed the geo-strategic, regional and national security environment and discussed internal security, the situation along borders, Line of Control (LoC) and the atrocities in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K).
It also took a comprehensive overview of the positive progress in the Afghan Peace Process.
The forum showed serious concern in the wake of irrefutable evidence of Indian state-sponsored terrorism and efforts to destabilize Pakistan. It emphasized that Indian efforts to sabotage CPEC, involvement in financing and training of terrorist organizations for fomenting unrest in Pakistan, especially in AJK, GB and Balochistan, were an affront to peace and security in the region.
Deliberating upon the recent surge in ceasefire violations by the Indian Army, the forum resolved to take all measures, necessary to protect the innocent population living along LoC from Indian firing deliberately targeting the civil population.
It expressed strong will, resolve, and determination to defend the motherland against any misadventure.
The forum also deliberated upon the COVID-19 situation and measures required to confront the pandemic in the wake of the second wave.
The ISPR on Twitter said the military commanders “showed serious concern in the wake of irrefutable evidence of Indian state-sponsored terrorism and efforts to destabilize Pakistan”.
FO: Pakistan has dismissed the “baseless speculations” that the country is contemplating to normalise its ties with Israel.
“Responding to media queries, the spokesperson [Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri] categorically rejected baseless speculation regarding possibility of recognition of the State of Israel by Pakistan,” the Foreign Office said in a statement on Tuesday.
The statement came amid speculative media reports that Pakistan might be considering recognising Israel as Arab countries are gradually embracing the Jewish state.
“I have seen press reports about a purported meeting between HRH the Crown Prince and Israeli officials during the recent visit by @SecPompeo. No such meeting occurred. The only officials present were American and Saudi,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said in a tweet.
There have been reports that Pakistan has been under pressure from the United States as well as a ‘friendly countries’ to recognise Israel.
The FO spokesperson, however, underlined that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statements in this context had been clear and unequivocal. “The prime minister has made it clear that unless a just settlement of the Palestine issue, satisfactory to the Palestinian people, is found, Pakistan cannot recognise Israel.”
He further said Pakistan steadfastly supports the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination. “For just and lasting peace, it is imperative to have a two-state solution in accordance with the relevant United Nations and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) resolutions, with the pre-1967 borders, and Al-Quds Al-Sharif as the capital of a viable, independent and contiguous Palestinian State.”
Meanwhile, Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, describing the purported briefing by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs as “yet another attempt to mischievously implicate Pakistan in some alleged planned attack in the IIOJK”, said on Tuesday that Pakistan would continue exposing India and not let the world community be misled by the Indian propaganda.
The spokesperson stated that following the presentation of the Dossier by Pakistan containing irrefutable evidence of India’s active planning, promoting, aiding, abetting, financing, and execution of terrorist activities in the country, the Indian government had escalated its anti-Pakistan campaign, marked by false narratives, concocted evidence, and orchestration of false flag operations.
“The purported briefing by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs is yet another attempt to mischievously implicate Pakistan in some alleged planned attack in IIOJK,” he remarked.
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Episode 1152: The Truth of You
August 13, 2018 Gordon Russell, November 1970fire, kaiju, smart people, vacation plans, voodooDanny Horn
“I have never harmed anyone simply for the sake of harming them.”
And what do Barnabas and Julia have to do with all this warlock malarkey? Practically nothing, I’m sorry to say. Barnabas might be vaguely aware that Quentin has something on his mind, but it’s certainly not keeping him up all day. The simmering tensions between Quentin, Gerard, Daphne and Desmond, which we might call Plot A, have entirely escaped our gentleman vampire, who’s been focusing his attention on Plot B, a cul-de-sac sidequest involving Roxanne, Julia and Angelique.
I’ve had to speak sharply to the main characters in the past about this unfortunate tendency of theirs to drift off into side issues. Two months ago, Barnabas and Julia traveled to the 19th century hoping to avert the Collinwood-closing catastrophe of summer 1970, and practically the only thing that they understand about those future events is that they involve shady gun-runner Gerard Stiles in a prominent role. But Gerard has been permitted to run roughshod over the entire show for weeks and weeks, getting possessed by warlocks and working his wiles on Daphne, entirely unchallenged by the two characters that the audience has presumably tuned in to see.
We last saw Barnabas on Thursday, when he brought a day player named Randall to a nearby crypt, handed him a hammer and stake, and gave him instructions on how to kill the lady vampire heading in that direction. Then Barnabas sprinted off towards his own coffin, leaving this pop-eyed nonentity to handle the protagonist duties. And where is Barnabas now?
Well, that’s what local undertaker and part-time detective Lamar Trask wants to know, observing to Julia that Barnabas is still missing. “No, he is not missing,” Julia sniffs. “He was grief-stricken about Roxanne, and he is in seclusion for several days.”
“I hardly think the circumstances warrant going into seclusion,” Trask scowls, and I agree. What we need right now is for Barnabas to shake that B-plot off his shoes, and get himself involved in the main story.
But seclusion is where he’s going to stay, I’m afraid, because Jonathan Frid is taking a two-week vacation. Barnabas won’t be back until episode 1159, when he’ll walk into Collinwood and act like he just stepped out for a breath of air. You’d never accept that kind of behavior from a main character in any other medium, but this is daytime soap opera, a genre composed of 15% creative storytelling and 85% logistics.
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Episode 1113: The War Doctor
December 18, 2017 Sam Hall, September 1970doctor who, impostor, lies, sherry, smart people, tricksterDanny Horn
“I have to go back and try to change history, so that this terrible night couldn’t have happened!”
She calls herself a Collins; they usually do. She says that she’s from England, by way of Pennsylvania, which is just as good of a cover story as anything else. She’s Barnabas Collins’ daughter, apparently, and she’s also Barnabas Collins’ sister, and frankly, given the chance, she’d be his wife as well. It’s complicated.
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Episode 1103: The Center of the Light
November 24, 2017 Gordon Russell, September 1970hypnosis, jane, medallion, smart people, writers, yellingDanny Horn
“If Gerard stays dead, he’ll haunt us for the rest of our lives!”
“Daphne, I’ve been trying to identify something,” Julia says, waving an ornament in the young woman’s face. “I wonder if you would help me. This medallion — look at it, have you ever seen anything like it before?”
Nonplussed, Daphne says, “No, I don’t think I have. Why?”
“Well, look at it more closely,” Julia urges. “It’s very old, I thought it might be familiar to you.”
“I’m certain I’ve never seen it before,” Daphne says, but I have — a bunch of times, back in 1967.
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Episode 1098: The Lie Lock
November 11, 2017 Joe Caldwell, September 1970haunted, smart peopleDanny Horn
“This possession is only part of a larger plan.”
Dark Shadows is trying to fracture the cosmos, I think; that’s the only possible explanation. Their movie just came out and they don’t really want to be on TV anymore, but they’re too proud to admit it, so they’re going to burn down the world and take everything else with them. Somebody ought to do something about this. Not me, obviously, I’m too busy arguing with my television.
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Episode 1015: You Were Murdered
April 29, 2017 May 1970, Sam Hallidiot, kaiju, smart people, tarot, voodooDanny Horn
“We must find out whose hand that was!”
Attic, Angelique’s room, attic, Angelique’s room, attic, drawing room, Angelique’s room, Angelique’s room, attic, attic, drawing room. If you like watching people walk back and forth between one room and another, then Dark Shadows has an episode made just for you.
But guess what? Sinister twin Angelique Collins is just as anxious as the rest of us to move this storyline along, so she’s cast a spell on her ex-husband, Quentin, to make him fall in love with his new runaway bride, Maggie. Now, as far as I know, Quentin already loved Maggie — at least, he married her, which is a pretty solid piece of evidence — but Angelique has decided that he doesn’t love Maggie enough, so she’s giving him an unasked-for upgrade.
She’s got a plan, you see, a wicked plan, and it’s hard to talk her out of it. If Angelique can make Quentin fall even harder for Maggie, then he’ll call her and ask her to come home, and when she does, Angelique will get Quentin to fall out of love with Maggie, and back in love with Angelique, who’s actually dead and impersonating her twin sister Alexis, but somehow he won’t mind, and I’m afraid that’s about as watertight as plans get around here.
But this brilliant scheme has backfired, quelle surprise, and Angelique’s potion has pretty much driven Quentin straight out of his mind. He’s just had a hallucination that suggested that he’d killed Maggie remotely by attacking her portrait with a letter opener, and now he’s headed for the attic, just like everybody else today.
Sensing that things may have gone mildly awry, Angelique settles down with a tarot deck to summon up some news. She deals out a simple arrangement of cards, and then flips over the middle card which is really the only one that matters, and — it’s the Hanged Man!
Shocked, Angelique leaps from the table and dashes for the door, convinced that the card is conveying up-to-the-minute bulletins. What’s that, Tarot? she cries. Quentin’s about to hang himself in the attic? Gosh, if I can only get there in time! Lead the way, girl!
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Episode 964: Julia Fixes Everything
December 4, 2016 March 1970, Sam Hallcamp, lies, sherry, smart people, tricksterDanny Horn
“Send someone to Collinwood for my medical kit, if your servants haven’t destroyed everything.”
Sky: Would you care for a glass of sherry?
Julia: No, I would not.
Sky: You don’t mind if I have one, do you?
Julia: I don’t care what you do.
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Episode 916: The One of Us
August 24, 2016 December 1969, Gordon Russelldreams, hypnosis, mystery box, smart people, trumpDanny Horn
“There are two things you’ve got to know. One is that I think he’s slightly mad.”
And we’re back! Yesterday’s Dark Shadows episode was recorded three weeks out of sequence, and slotted into place in order to signal an upcoming storyline course correction. This is a situation that does not occur in nature.
They had this idea, you see, where Barnabas Collins, the main character of this daytime creeps machine, would suddenly swear allegiance to some kind of interplanetary invasion force of shapeless pre-prehistoric essence, which is plotting to replace the human race with a population of quick-growing four-headed snake monsters. Or something. It’s hard to explain, which I guess is the problem.
The kids who hang around outside the studio door after school said that a) they didn’t understand the storyline, and b) they wouldn’t like it even if they did, so the producers said I know what let’s do, let’s make a special episode where we explain that Barnabas doesn’t really want to be doing all the things that he’s been doing lately, and stick it in three weeks early, to signal to the audience that we’re aware that our story doesn’t make any sense, and we’ll change it as soon as we can. And then they went ahead and did it.
What I’m saying is, that’s a really not-normal way to run a television show, especially a high-rated show like Dark Shadows. Yes, the ratings have been slipping a bit since they started the Leviathan story, but that’s coming down from an all-time ratings peak that they hit only two months ago. There’s still a lot of people watching this show.
So what just happened was that the main character of a television show went to sleep, had a dream where the show apologized for the current storyline, and then woke back up and continued on as usual. I can’t think of anything to compare that to. That’s an approach that begins and ends with Dark Shadows.
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Episode 899: The Fam Dram
July 13, 2016 December 1969, Sam Hallbetrayal, get out, hurt feelings, smart people, yellingDanny Horn
“It’s a creature without a soul, that has to find one to be real.”
They say that art should hold a mirror up to nature, but the problem is there’s an awful lot of nature, and who has the time to just stand there and hold up mirrors? Plus, you go buy a mirror, and then you rustle up a decent patch of nature to hold it up to, and after all that hassle, what do you have? Backwards nature. Meanwhile, everybody else is holding mirrors up to superheroes and car chases.
But what the hell, just for today, let’s leave the blasphemous starbaby in his box, and partake in some good old-fashioned fam dram. Today’s slice of life begins with faithless father Paul Stoddard, recently returned to Collinsport, as he discovers that somebody has tattooed an ancient cult symbol on his inside left wrist, without his knowledge or consent.
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Episode 889: It’s From the Past
June 27, 2016 Gordon Russell, November 1969butler, junior detectives, mystery box, secrets, smart people, supercouple, the pastDanny Horn
“You mustn’t touch this, Julia. It happens to be very old.”
Barnabas was boring, is the problem. Around this time last year, they wrapped up all of his storylines — Angelique was banished back to Hell, Adam ran away, and all the other villains just burned or fell to powder. At last, Barnabas was triumphant — free from his vampire curse, surrounded by friends and family, universally respected and trusted. It was a nightmare.
With nothing else to do, he became Barnabas the butler, a facilitator for other people’s story progression. The show always faces a crisis when they don’t know what to do with the star attraction, and their usual response is to visit a different time period. When “toxic Barnabas” was getting too hot to handle in November 1967, we went back to his origin story, and when “tame Barnabas” ran out of story potential in March 1969, the show packed him off to 1897.
Barnabas is at his best when he’s on the defensive, struggling and scheming and making terrible mistakes. His trip to 1897 put him on the back foot immediately — no allies, a vampire once again, and generally confused about what he was even supposed to be doing. He had to ingratiate himself with a whole new family, and learn everybody’s secrets without letting on about his own.
And it worked! Even a month-long vacation didn’t diminish his charms; his miraculous return gave the show its all-time best ratings. But now he’s heading back home, where the outlook is even more drab than it was before he left: Quentin’s evil spirit is gone, and Collinwood is more or less at peace. The immediate future looks even more butlery than before.
So the writers, in their infinite lunacy, have decided to dodge the butler problem by making Barnabas the bad guy again. Instead of a happy homecoming, they’re giving him a mysterious new agenda, which splits him away from his friends and family.
It’s a risky idea, with the potential to squander all the good will that they’ve built up with the audience. But what is Dark Shadows except a string of terrible ideas, which sometimes turn out to be amazing?
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Episode 888: Little Shop
June 26, 2016 Gordon Russell, November 1969antique shop, lookalike, make a friend, pig weasel, smart people, something terribleDanny Horn
“Something terrible is going to happen to us if we stay here!”
We’re back in the swinging sixties, and just in time. Barnabas’ trip to the nineteenth century was held over by popular demand, and if they’d kept it up for another six weeks, then by the time he came back it would be the 1970s, because of how time works.
The new storyline is just getting started — this is actually the first episode that takes place entirely in 1969 — so they’re still lining up the plot points. So far, Barnabas has been hijacked by some kind of ancient pyramid scheme death cult, Julia is anxiously awaiting Barnabas’ return from the past, and Carolyn is wearing a terrible clown skirt.
But today, we get our first big shock: Jason McGuire is back!
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Blumhouse Asks "Truth or Dare?" in Gruesome Debut Trailer
Truth... or dare? Make your choice.
By Ray Morse
January 4, 2018, 10:35 AM EST
Fresh off the massive success of Happy Death Day and Get Out, Blumhouse Productions – in partnership with Universal Pictures – dropped an impressive debut trailer for Jeff Wadlow’s upcoming film, Truth or Dare.
Tugging on the nostalgic strings from our youth, writers Christopher Roach, Jillian Jacobs, Jeff Wadlow, and Michael Reisz take an all-too-familiar childhood game and flip it on its head into a supernatural, slasher-thriller which is sure to have fans squirming in their seats this spring.
The film’s synopsis reads: “A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someone – or something – begins to punish those who tell a lie or refuse the dare.”
Set to be released April 27th 2018, Truth or Dare stars Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf), Lucy Hale (Scream 4), Violett Beane (The Flash), Landon Liboiron (Hemlock Grove), Aurora Perrineau (Freaks of Nature), Sam Lerner (The Goldbergs), Sophia Ali (Walking with the Dead), and Nolan Gerard Funk (Arrow).
So, what’s it going to be: Truth... or Dare?
Ray Morse
Filmmaker. Podcaster. Writer. Geek. "A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." Raised in the wastelands of New Jersey, Ray Morse is a passionate film enthusiast/maker and aspiring creative. When he is not embodying the essence of the Mungus on his weekly live podcast or consuming mass amounts of cinema/television, he can be found re-writing his Dead Entertainment bio, avoiding general responsibility, and talking at length about the things he plans to do instead of doing them.
Weekly Horror News Round-Up October 10: The Stand, Resident Evil, The Witcher
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