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A true, American classic. A Perfume Legend.
19th April, 2009
Équipage by Hermès
This is such a warm fragrance and you cannot help but feeling ultra refined while wearing it. Equipage almost makes you want to check into a country retreat and ride horses all day long. To my memory, and while I have not smelled everything in the world, I've smelled my fair share - I haven't really encountered anything else like it. It is a typical Guy Robert concoction, very rich, very dense, and ultra extraordinary. The grogeous rosewood is a big winner for me in this fragrance.
21st February, 2007
Royal Ceylan by Creed
This smells very much like Love in White. So much so that I'm wondering if CREED re-formulated their classic base that is present in most of their compositions.
13th February, 2007
Nouveau Bowery by Bond No. 9
This is one of my favorites from the Bond line. I find it extraordinarily refreshing and beautiful. Quinpus related to lime popsicle and shes right, its definitely there, but I happen to love lime in any form so thats probably why I love this. I do think it comes across as a chypre, though.
11th January, 2007
Dzongkha by L'Artisan Parfumeur
Oh this was just terrible. This was one of the few fragrances that I have ever wanted to scrub off immediately. It smelled like Whiskey from the moment it hit my skin and still smelled like whiskey 3 hours later. Only after 3 hours did it start to evolve and then it just smelled like L'Artisan's Timbuktu so I thought "What's the point?" As far as lasting power goes - it was still there after I showered.
26th October, 2006
Echo by Davidoff
boring. great bottle though.
29th May, 2006
Tiffany for Men by Tiffany
What a fantastic, gorgeous drydown! The drydown reminds me very much of TABU by Dana parfums.
15th March, 2006
Dia Man by Amouage
More so than even Gold, this is the one fragrance that makes me feel like a king. Gold is nice too, but this one is really bang on what I want in a fragrance.
13th March, 2006
Pal Zileri Classic by Pal Zileri
Terribly generic. Nothing that makes it stand apart. It's certainly pleasant enough, but not what I'm after in a fragrance.
13th March, 2006
Dior Homme by Christian Dior
Dior Homme was a big disappointment. Nothing terribly new or innovative from the brand that seems to take innovation to new heights. Started out ok, turned powdery too quickly and did not last long at all. After a while, it went very sour and I had to wash it off.
02nd March, 2006
Eau du Coq by Guerlain
A very nice, comfortable smell that I feel really takes you back in time. Longevity is poor, but it is an Eau de Cologne so you have been warned.
02nd March, 2006


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Gospel Brunch and Tour
March 29, 2015
$80 / $65 Intuit Member
In conjunction with Welcome to the World of Mr. Imagination, join Intuit's staff at the House of Blues for an amazing brunch of Southern specialties while enjoying traditional and contemporary gospel songs selected by legendary artist Kirk Franklin. Following this exhilarating performance, guests will be treated to an exclusive private tour of one of Chicago's largest collection of folk, outsider and self-taught artwork. This historically significant collection showcases the works of many of the country's most cherished folk artists including a large installation by Mr. Imagination.
Event fee covers lunch and guided tour.
This event is now sold out, but we welcome you to visit Intuit's galleries in celebration of Mr. Imagination's birthday on March 29.
MASTER WORKS: The Intuit Plays
April 2-4 & 9-11, 2015
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Use discount code "outsider" for member pricing.
Commedia Beauregard, a theater company dedicated to translating the universal human experience to the stage, turns the spotlight on outsider art when they present MASTER WORKS: The Intuit Plays, six new short plays inspired by pieces of artwork from Intuit's permanent collection.
Curated by company member Clare Kemock, the six plays will be performed at Intuit allowing the audience members to view the works of art firsthand. Guests will also have an opportunity to vote for "Audience Favorite" and "Best Translation." Tickets for MASTER WORKS: The Intuit Plays are currently on-sale at
New Music Concert Series: FLAK
April 16, 2015
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The next installment of FLAK at Intuit will feature three new performance works using music, theater, and visual art by Chicago based artists and musicians Christopher Wood, Lia Kohl, and Shawn Lucas.
Christopher Wood: Strung Quartet Op.773 No. -_- "the feedbag duet" for guitar, cello, bass, electronics and video
Questioning the makeup of cultural trash and treasure, "the feedbag duet" blends theatricality, improvisation, idiosyncrasy, local found-footage and colloquialism in a confrontation of tradition and a call for self-reflection. headwear/masks by Sarah Jane Rennick
Lia Kohl: Too/Not Enough is a performance piece for solo human, video projection and tape. The piece explores dreamspace and dream images as metaphors for solitude, questioning the reality of shared experience, and affirming the reciprocal relationship between identity and the mind at rest.
Shawn Lucas: Oak is a theatrical and musical work based around a single performer (Nick Meryhew – trombone)and varying ensemble/cast. The core of the piece deals with a theme of isolation and utilizes two primary ideas: finding increasing intensity within stillness, subtle motion, and gradual scenic change, as well as how these elements can be influenced by sound and eventually transform into an instrumental performance. Oak uses original sculpture work and lighting to enhance the ideas of the piece by masking the performer and also provide a more intricate visual scenery.
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April 25, 2015
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March 21, 2015
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Led by Blair Thomas, this all-ages workshop introduces basic puppet construction primarily using found object materials. The animistic spirit inhabits all material objects, and this workshop discovers these energies of distinct objects through design and performance. Participants will create a single table-top style puppet, exploring the basic relationship between puppetry design and puppetry performance.
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Thanks Stayathomemommy- do you think because I had pizza and juice before the 1-hr test it could have affected the results?
I drink a LOT of juice on a daily basis, I always did but it never affected my tests before. Do you think I should start cutting down on juice? I never drink soda.
Ok, I've been doing some research on the net... seems like some advise to fast before the 3-hr and some say to eat sugars so your body gets used to them??? Another lady said to "carb up" for a few days and then fast (this was a very old thread that I read so couldn't respond). I am so confused!! I just want to pass this test to there won't be any problems. <sigh>
Hi, this very thing just happened to me this week. Wednesday I go in and take the 1 hour test and big fat FAIL. The cut off is 145 and my level was 165. They had me come back yesterday for the 3 hour test and I pass no problem. I know it's tough not to freak out about it, I know I was worried but it seems to be a common thing.
Oh, and I was told not to fast with the first test just not to eat anything super sugary and for the 3 hour I was told not to eat or drink anything after midnight the night before.
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No. 19 North Carolina beats Boston College 81-63 in ACCs
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) North Carolina's players were in no mood for a repeat of last year's brief stay at the Atlantic Coast Conference, and they didn't want to watch Boston College's Olivier Hanlan have another big game against them.
Instead, the No. 19 Tar Heels slowed Hanlan and led most of the day to beat the Eagles 81-63 on Wednesday in the second round of the tournament, a much better debut in Greensboro than the one-and-done exit of a year earlier.
"Coach (Roy Williams) didn't talk about it a lot but I brought it up today as we coming to the gym, that we lost the first day we played last year," junior Marcus Paige said. "That it was bad and we went straight back home. I was telling the guys, `You don't want that feeling.'"


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What I did with my day........
I'm getting too old for this crap!
But a beautiful day, and a helluva view. William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial (Bay) Bridge, across the Chesapeake Bay, East of Annapolis. One of the longest over-water spans in the world.
About 490 ft from water level to peak, depending on tides. Once up, once down, and 6 hrs of driving. Knees are reminding me that I am a great grandpa now. Really well managed project- very impressed with staff.
Handful of ibuprofen, hot shower, nap. C ya.
What we have here is... failure- to communicate.
Pretty good mornings work.
Definitely a good mornings work there!
Boatme, was on the Westbound span this morning- the "tug" is the workboat and Capn Mike over at the Eastbound waiting to pick up a load of workers.
Back in July a trucker hit two cars on the Eastbound fairly close to the Western shore, rolled one car over the Jersey barriers, and dropped about 40 ft into the water. Young lady got out, swam about 40 ft to a pier abutment and waited for pickup.
If that had happened at center span would have been a different story. Pic 1 and 2 are 200 ft above the bay. We had freighters passing directly under us (and engine exhaust smells)
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Colorado to join other states asking feds to reclassify marijuana
Category: News | Posted on Thu, December, 8th 2011 by THCFinder
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chaffee and Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire have petitioned the federal government to change the schedule of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act, a move they claim will remove the conflict between federal and state drug laws, which will in turn allow for the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries. Colorado will file its own request before the end of the year.
Shortly after filing the petition, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed on as well. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper apparently has no plans to sign the petition, but Colorado will file its own request to reclassify marijuana.
Currently, marijuana is listed as Schedule I by the Drug Enforcement Administration alongside heroin and LSD, which means that the federal government considers marijuana to have no accepted medical use.
"This is a good first step, in that it shows that politicians are catching up with the scientific consensus, which is that marijuana has medical value," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project. "If it succeeds, federal law will finally acknowledge that fact. Rescheduling marijuana, however, will not change the federal penalties for possessing, cultivating, or distributing medical marijuana," he said in a prepared statement. "That is the change we really need. These governors should be insisting that the federal government allow them to run their medical marijuana operations the ways they see fit, which should include selling medical marijuana through state-licensed dispensaries."
Cops Fired For Supporting Marijuana Legalization
Category: News | Posted on Mon, December, 5th 2011 by THCFinder
PHOENIX — Border Patrol agents pursue smugglers one moment and sit around in boredom the next. It was during one of the lulls that Bryan Gonzalez, a young agent, made some comments to a colleague that cost him his career.
Looking for signs of smugglers near Nogales, Ariz., alongside the fence that now marks part of the nation's border with Mexico.
Stationed in Deming, N.M., Mr. Gonzalez was in his green-and-white Border Patrol vehicle just a few feet from the international boundary when he pulled up next to a fellow agent to chat about the frustrations of the job. If marijuana were legalized, Mr. Gonzalez acknowledges saying, the drug-related violence across the border in Mexico would cease. He then brought up an organization called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition that favors ending the war on drugs.
Those remarks, along with others expressing sympathy for illegal immigrants from Mexico, were passed along to the Border Patrol headquarters in Washington. After an investigation, a termination letter arrived that said Mr. Gonzalez held "personal views that were contrary to core characteristics of Border Patrol Agents, which are patriotism, dedication and esprit de corps."
After his dismissal, Mr. Gonzalez joined a group even more exclusive than the Border Patrol: law enforcement officials who have lost their jobs for questioning the war on drugs and are fighting back in the courts.
Wisconsin Medical Marijuana Opponents Are Heartless Idiots
Category: News | Posted on Mon, December, 5th 2011 by THCFinder
OREGON--(ENEWSPF)--December 5, 2011. People like Rep. Scott Krug (R-Wisconsin Rapids) need to do basic research before they talk to the media about medical marijuana policy in Wisconsin. Avoidance tactics and anti-medical marijuana catch phrases might work for people in Wisconsin that aren't educated on the topic of medical marijuana. However, to those in Wisconsin that have done some research, people like Mr. Krug look like neo-con puppets that would rather perpetuate pain and suffering in Wisconsin than take a sensible approach to medical marijuana policy.
Admittedly, I am not from Wisconsin, and I've never been there before. But, as a long time medical marijuana patient from Oregon, and someone that has fought for medical marijuana nationwide since 1998, I know first hand the need for medical marijuana in Wisconsin. My reasoning is very simple. Marijuana has been proven to help alleviate pain and suffering for certain medical conditions such as HIV, AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, etc. If there are people in Wisconsin (or any state for that matter) that are suffering from these conditions, they should be allowed to SAFELY AND LEGALLY consume medical marijuana to alleviate their pain and suffering. I've never been able to understand why neo-cons can't agree with that reasoning.
However, Wisconsin conservatives are using their classic maneuvers to try to sideline the issue. Let's breakdown a quote from Rep. Krug. In an article that was recently published in the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, Rep. Scott Krug said, "I don't think the science is there yet…" This is a standard defense mechanism that has been used for decades by idiots like Rep. Krug.
Here is a quote from Dr. Donald Abrams, a cancer specialist at San Francisco General Hospital, taken from an article cited in the link. "Every day I see people with nausea secondary to chemotherapy, depression, trouble sleeping, pain," he says. "I can recommend one drug [marijuana] for all those things, as opposed to writing five different prescriptions." The article goes on to quote very reputable scientific studies touting the benefits of medical marijuana.
'Blunt' joke at drive-through leads to arrest of Burger King customer
Category: News | Posted on Fri, December, 2nd 2011 by THCFinder
A Deltona man may have thought he was being funny when he asked for "a blunt and some herbs" – slang for marijuana – at the drive-through lane of a restaurant, but the cashier and Volusia County deputy sheriffs got the last laugh.
Shawn Porter, 32, is being held in the Volusia County Branch Jail near Daytona Beach with bail set at $1,000 on a charge of felony possession of marijuana.
It began with a late-night visit to the Burger King at 2790 Elkcam Blvd. in Deltona, Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said.
Porter and another man were in a white Saturn that pulled into the drive-through lane just before 10:30 p.m. Thursday and when it came time to order, one of them yelled that he wanted "a blunt and some herbs," Davidson said.
"When they drove up to the window, the cashier said she could smell the scent of marijuana coming from the car," Davidson said.
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One of the store's managers could also smell marijuana. She told a 911 operator she was outside in the store's playground when the car passed by.
"I could smell the scent of weed – marijuana," she told the operator.
She then learned about the "blunt" order and said she decided to call with a description of the car and its tag number.
"It's not that it's a major emergency," she told the operator. "It's more of a nuisance than anything.
"I wanted to report their tag number because they are smoking drugs in the car," she said.
A responding deputy ran the tag number through his computer and learned the owner lived less than two miles from the Burger King on Sky Street in Deltona, Davidson said.
He drove to the area and minutes later watched as the car pulled into the driveway and two men got out carrying Burger King bags, he said.
"The deputy also could smell the odor of marijuana coming from the car," Davidson said. "That's when Porter admitted smoking marijuana while in the vehicle."
A search of the car turned up a marijuana cigarette in the ashtray and two plastic bags containing about 28 grams of the drug.
Porter admitted that the drugs were his and was arrested but the other man denied any knowledge of the marijuana and was released, Davidson said.
US governors seek federal marijuana clearance
Category: News | Posted on Thu, December, 1st 2011 by THCFinder
WASHINGTON — A pair of US governors have filed a petition asking the US federal government to allow wider use of medical marijuana by authorizing doctors to prescribe it and pharmacies to provide it.
The petition to reclassify the drug was filed Wednesday by the governors of the western state of Washington and the northeastern state of Rhode Island, which are among the 16 states that have legalized medical marijuana use.
The current federal classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug means it cannot be prescribed by doctors, putting states that allow medical marijuana use at odds with federal law.
"Sadly, patients must find their way along unfamiliar, uncertain paths to get what their doctors tell them would help -- medical cannabis to relieve their suffering," said a statement by Washington governor Chris Gregoire.
"People weak and sick with cancer, multiple sclerosis, and other diseases and conditions suddenly feel like -- or in fact become -- law breakers."
The US Drug Enforcement Agency considers marijuana to have no medicinal value, and the FDA five years ago declined to approve it for medical use.
The Institute of Medicine in 1999 "emphasized that smoked marijuana is a crude drug delivery system that exposes patients to a significant number of harmful substances."
But Gregoire said some medical groups have since changed their minds, such as the American Medical Association which two years ago "reversed its position and now supports investigation and clinical research of cannabis for medicinal use."
Others such as the American College of Physicians, the Washington State Medical Association, Washington State Pharmacy, and Rhode Island Medical Society also support a reclassification.
Gregoire said her petition will require the government agencies to "conduct a new scientific review and analysis of recent advances in cannabis research since the last time the FDA reviewed the matter in 2006."
Report shows fewer traffic fatalities after states pass medical-pot laws
Category: News | Posted on Wed, November, 30th 2011 by THCFinder
The passage of state medical-marijuana laws is associated with a subsequent drop in the rate of traffic fatalities, according to a newly released study by two university professors.
The study — by University of Colorado Denver professor Daniel Rees and Montana State University professor D. Mark Anderson — found that the traffic-death rate drops by nearly 9 percent in states after they legalize marijuana for medical use. The researchers arrived at that figure, Rees said, after controlling for other variables such as changes in traffic laws, seat-belt usage and miles driven. The study stops short of saying the medical-marijuana laws cause the drop in traffic deaths.
"We were pretty surprised that they went down," Rees said Tuesday.
The study was posted this month on the website of the Bonn, Germany- based Institute for the Study of Labor and has not yet been peer-reviewed.
Rees said the main reason for the drop appears to be that medical-marijuana laws mean young people spend less time drinking and more time smoking cannabis. Legalization of medical marijuana, the researchers report, is associated with a 12-percent drop in the alcohol-related fatal-crash rate and a 19-percent decrease in the fatality rate of people in their 20s, according to the study.
The study also found that medical- marijuana legalization is associated with a drop in beer sales.
"The result that comes through again and again and again is (that) young adults . . . drink less when marijuana is legalized and traffic fatalities go down," Rees said.
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Emily has two months to bring their mother around, but so far - even with their minister's support - her plan isn't working. And it doesn't help that she's still mourning the husband she lost and wondering what happened to the baby she gave up for adoption twenty years ago. Sometimes she thinks it would take a miracle to fill the hole in her heart. Softcover, 377 pages.
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Inspired by the artistic vision of world-renowned landscape painter Thomas Kinkade-and imbued with the light of his uplifting message-this heartwarming new novel returns to the quaint town of Cape Light, and the unique residents who call it home...
The charming sea-coast village of Cape Light is the kind of place where neighbors help neighbors and people have the time to appreciate God's blessings every day. Their lives are not without disappointment-even heartbreak. But there's something special about this town-and the people in it. Like Cape Light mayor Emily Warwick, who can't remember the last time she let herself dream. And her younger sister Jessica, who is about to walk down the aisle with a man their mother despises. Emily has two months to bring her mother around, but so far-even with their minister's support-her plan isn't working. And it doesn't help that she's still mourning the husband she lost and wondering what happened to the baby she gave up for adoption twenty years ago. Sometimes she thinks it would take a miracle to fill the hole in her heart.
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A blog about Oxford United
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Unlocking the code
Actually, DNA isn't a bad analogy to use if you apply it properly. DNA is frequently presented as a mystery of the universe, a light-force, a product of some unknown power. This isn't surprising because what DNA does is remarkable.
However, DNA is a molecule containing a code, a sequence of instructions that, astonishingly, give us life. Now, given that logic is the product of us humans and humans define what science and logic is, then DNA isn't a mystical thing, it is the origin of logic and rationality. Finding the right DNA is not channelling some mythical power source, its applying logic, solving a code which will result in success.
To illustrate where Michael Appleton has got it wrong is to look at how codes work, how DNA works. Matthew Syed in his book Bounce talks about this in the context of learning. Here's a code which is a sequence of eleven letters:
If I asked you to remember that code, you would probably be able to remember perhaps 4 or 5 of the letters. Moreover, if I asked you to tell me what it meant, you would have no idea.
Here's another eleven letter code:
If I asked you to remember that code, then chances are you would be able to rattle them off without a second thought. Not only that, you would probably be able to tell me what the code meant.
That's because we have developed a sophisticated set of tools to interpret that code, we understand them as letters, group letters together to make sounds, we group sounds to make words, and then we have a reference library of meanings to attach to those words.
Football management is infinitely more difficult than this, of course, the number of variables run into billions when you combine players' attributes with injury and age with opponents and available resources and so on. Nobody should pretend this is easy.
However, the point still stands, because there is one utterly critical and controllable fact that has made establishing our DNA, our code to success, virtually impossible.
I chose eleven letter sequences in the above because there are eleven players in a football team. Say each letter represents a player, the order in which the players play should be recognisable if we're to decode a team's DNA. We know the first syllable is ABB, we know, because of the letters around it the 'e' is pronounced 'ee' and the second 'a' as 'ay'. Each letter has meaning, but each letter also gives meaning to the other letters. A word is a surprisingly sophisticated code when you think about it, but we can solve it in a flash through endless hours of learning.
But, what Michael Appleton is doing is changing the code constantly by signing more and more players, replacing one with another. The changes are bewildering; it's like asking the team to solve a code where a letter changes constantly. Keeping up with the letters in the code is hard enough, giving it meaning is impossible.
While we can provide endless arguments about resources and the pitch, the swapping of players is utterly controllable. Even if you take the difficult code above, with enough time you would begin to remember it, I could even give it meaning – like having a code to unlock a padlock. So, even a sub-optimal code is better than one which is changing all the time.
Of course in the perfect world you stumble across a DNA that works straight away, but we seem to have changed almost everything about the team on a continual basis. Quite how that is expected to deliver success, I have no idea.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Standard response
But Roget's first season was terrible, he was gangly and awkward, not a patch on his predecessors. If he used his height it wasn't to dominate strikers, it was to fall on top of them. The following season he improved, in fact, he was a stand-out player. Fans seemed to like him and sang his name. By the end of that season, though, we'd been relegated from the Football League. So, did Roget really improve or did our standards drop? Did he play better or did he have to do more defending and blocking because we were getting worse?
Presumably one day Michael Appleton will be sitting in an interview for a new job and his prospective employer will ask about his achievements at Oxford. He may have to think hard, but perhaps he will cite this season's highlight; the double over Bury.
That it: the highlight of our season so far is doing the double over Bury. In fact, up until Tuesday night, we were considered to be 'in form'; a form which had seen us win 3 in 10, score 8, climb to 17th and be 9 points clear of relegation. Of relegation.
The fact is that the win at Bury shouldn't have been a reason for celebration; it should have been a wake-up call. As decent as Bury might be this season, we should be expecting to pick off at least a couple of promotion chasers away from home, more if we have ambitions to go up ourselves. We should be expecting to win against Plymouth and we should definitely, definitely, definitely beat Hartlepool.
This is not because we deserve better because of who we are, progressively as the season has passed we've allow our standards to drop. At first it was good performances but bad results, then it was wins against poor teams, then it was a sense of celebration that our relegation fears were easing. Draws were celebrated as wins because we never seem to win. Now we're losing at home to the bottom team in the division and Michael Appleton is applauding our 'effort'.
He knows he is defending the indefensible now. I agree with him that the players put in a lot of effort against Hartlepool, but the merry-go round of players throughout the season means that for all the effort we remain utterly listless. There is no system. Does anyone know how Roofe or Gnanduillet want the ball in order to score? Well, no because neither have played more than a handful of games for Oxford and neither have the players passing to them. No wonder it's so disjointed.
Appleton, by his own admission doesn't have an angry gear, so he's going to be objective and look for learning points and positives. It's a good quality to have if you're coaching youngsters who make lots of mistakes in the process of learning, but managing experienced professionals who are tired, demoralised and battle weary is different. Managers need to show players where they can go if standards do drop whether that be through a volcanic temper or whatever. Plus, they need to show it as the merest inclination of a problem; like the time Chris Wilder (yes him) criticised us for winning 4-0 against Eastbourne after being poor in the second half.
Slowly but surely corners have been cut, standards have slipped and the previously unacceptable has become acceptable.
A spineless defeat to the bottom club in the division – who are in dire trouble on and off the pitch - removes any last shred of credibility Appleton had in claiming that his philosophy will work given time. It's like going down a hill with worn brake pads; you just have to hope something will stop you because you can't rely on what you thought you had. This has been coming for a long time, but any lingering hope that we're going in the right direction has been cast into the dustbin.
Where now? It's so hard to imagine a scenario now where Appleton not just turns this round but sustains an upward trajectory toward the play-offs and beyond, this season or next. The squad is a mess of panic signings and loanees, players we've bought or haven't bought, players that we've announced and never seen sight nor sound of. These are his players working to his confused philosophy stuck in a vortex between what is 'right' and what is needed. In order to change, he's going to have to back down admit he's been wrong – wrong players, wrong tactics. Not only will he lose face, this is going to take time or money or both to sort out. People are going to get hurt. I can't see him doing that.
But, he's not going to resign either; his managerial career has become an absolute wreck with not only this debacle on his CV, but also some of the football league's greatest basket cases – Portsmouth, Blackburn, Blackpool – all with his name on them. It's not all been his fault – far from it - but he knows how it's difficult to shake a reputation.
So, we're left with one option… Mark Ashton, over to you.
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Plan B?
The quality of pitches this season seems to have become more of an obsession than in the past. Perhaps it is because of the ubiquity of the lush, green carpets of the Premier League that we have come to believe is the norm. Maybe it is the product of extreme weather resulting from global warming. Maybe it's the London Welsh obsession, although the obsession doesn't seem limited to the state of our pitch. Maybe it's a hidden product of the economic downturn where clubs are cutting corners to save costs.
Certainly the expectation that pitches should be green and lush throughout the season is a modern phenomenon. In the 70s and 80s, rutted, muddy pitches in January and February were the norm, it became a great leveller that ensured FA Cup giant killings were more likely. Football, perhaps, wasn't viewed through the filter of the aesthetic, as it is today, but instead through one of dour pragmatism. It was less important that a game was good and played the right way, more important that it simply happened.
Some seem to be under the odd illusion that lower league players cannot play football on grassless pitches. And that this is at the heart of our problems; because the quality of pitches is awful, we cannot play our way. On the contrary, this is surely much more of a norm for most of them.
Michael Appleton applauded his team's 'combativeness', 'organisation' and 'professionalism' in the draw against Portsmouth. All terms that wouldn't have been out of place in a Chris Wilder post-match interview. Incidentally, for those who don't track this kind of thing, Mr Wilder, with his dull, defensive football, is currently at the helm of the division's leading goalscorers, the boring sod.
Like last year's memorable 4-1 reverse, the occasion of the Pompey game probably overstated the result on Saturday. Away draws at Morecambe or Wimbledon - teams directly above and below Pompey - would have been considered solid results rather than some something akin to a win. The 12th Man of Fratton Park is probably the complete opposite at the moment as the visitors thrive on the novelty while the hosts whither with fear. Something we know about only too well.
Organisation and combativeness are both qualities that take you far in League 2, particularly on pitches which won't allow the ball to run true. It has become more evident in our game in recent weeks and it seems little coincidence that Jake Wright and Ryan Clarke, amongst other warrior types, have finally found some form. It seems that they are relying on their instincts and strengths - honed on the awful pitches of League 2 and the Conference - rather than obsessing over playing the game the right way.
Is this the emergence of a Plan B? A conscious move away from the FA's training text book towards the cold realities of the lower leagues? Appleton is not clear on the matter. My instinct would say that it's a happy accident, although the signing of the lanky target man Armand Gnanguillet might suggest otherwise. The key is whether Appleton will learn from this year's experience or stick pig-headedly to the philosophy. Will he be fooled by the return of beautiful lush turf come August?
Morecambe update
I have some sympathy for Michael Appleton after the draw against Morecambe. This 'trench warfare' football never looks good when you're losing. We were far from outplayed, as we were against Shrewsbury, Wycombe and Southend, and in the end the same performance could easily have produced a defeat, a win as well as the draw we got.
The problem he has is what got us here in the first place; too many signings, too much rhetoric, too many false dawns and corners turned. People were quick to jump on his pre-match comment that this was the group of players he wanted all along. That was a daft comment - similar the 'no plan B' statement at the start of the year - which was always going to come back to haunt him.
Because he is so backed into a corner with his previous statements about not being one for compromise, it's difficult to know whether he is genuinely learning from this season's experience - as it appears on the pitch - or whether, as his interviews seem to imply - he's blind to the realities of what he's dealing with.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Feed the fans and the rest will follow
Followers began to notice that, when read quickly, the 'Clive' bit stuck out. It became a running joke that the club's Twitter account was actually someone called Clive. 'Clive' played along; he became our mate at the football. Even the top brass at the club got involved with Kelvin Thomas once playing the role of Clive for a pre-season game in the US.
Then, recently, without warning, the club changed its handle to OUFCOfficial. There was consternation; Clive, our mate at the football, became 'official'; and as we know, nothing in football that is 'official' is any good - referees, police, stewards.
It's been suggested that it was changed for the club to appear more professional. A hashtag was introduced; #together; which, in the current climate seems a bit passive aggressive to me. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, that sort of thing. Context is everything; if the club had used the hashtag #believe during the Malcolm Boyden campaign in 2009, I would have been on board. Ultimately, these things work when they reflect how you feel rather than tell you how to feel. I did 'believe' in 2009, I don't really feel 'together' in 2015.
Clive was a rare piece of fan-driven PR that worked well, and the club's drive for so called professionalism wiped it out. Football clubs, particularly in the lower leagues need to recognise and capitalise on the wonkiness of football clubs not try to eradicate it to present a facade of credibility.
With every new regime or manager, history tends to get wiped out and everything starts again. Apart from in the fans, of course, we treasure the past. Successive manager's have vocally criticised those who are nostalgic, but it's a key driver for why we turn up each week; we want to try and recreate or build on the magic of the past that has made us supporters in the first place. If it were a wholly logical decision based on the quality of the service being provided, our crowds would be so low the club would be able to phone everyone to check if they were coming each week.
This isn't just romantic whimsy, there's money to be had in nostalgia-porn; on Saturday I went into the club shop, I had an itch to spend some money, I've no idea why. I couldn't find anything but generic polyester leisurewear. I've been looking for a copy of the 2010 Wembley DVD for ages, but nothing, what about a t-shirt with some oblique in-joke? I would buy something that said, for example, 'Right side for life' or 'Ford, Elliot, Gilchrist, Robinson'. There's value in the past; it's a rich seam with a lot of potential; the club should use it.
Then, I walked into the stadium to hear the iconically gravelly voice of Nick Harris commentating on a Peter Rhodes-Brown goal coming over the PA. There were others, a Beauchamp goal, Alfie Potter at Wembley. They played Use Somebody by Kings of Leon and If The Kids Are United by Sham 69. It's a shame that Gary Glitter's Do You Wanna Be In My Gang is kind of inappropriate these days, if they played it, I reckon I would have been able to smell the London Road. While, I don't care much for any of those tracks musically, I don't come to football to hear new music, they are songs which evoke memories of the past. As far as I can work out, it was a conscious effort to generate some momentum in the face of a potential relegation battle. I was stirred, it felt important to support the club at the moment, not because I like what's happening at the moment, but because we need to preserve the club and its memories.
It was a masterstroke, we were immersed in the club; it's history and it's purpose. If they can sustain and build on it in the future, we may indeed come #together as a club.
But we still need to slot a successful team into this environment. It was probably fitting that the buzzier pre-match atmosphere drifted into the ether once the actual game got underway. It's probably an appropriate metaphor that the club appears to be finding its feet while the team stumble. The crowd fell into such a silence it was possible to hear the players shouting at each other from the South Stand Upper. It was scrappy and uncomfortable, the application was there, but we still lack quality.
The win was both needed and welcomed, but it didn't suggest any kind of tuning point in our fortunes. Like a recovering alcoholic who just needs a quiet night in rather than an evening in the pub resisting the optics behind the bar, we needed a normal, comfortable, home win like that as a reminder that we could do it. It was important in that respect. All in all, it confirmed my suspicion that while our league position is deeply uncomfortable, there are just about enough teams in the division who are notably poorer. Despite our woes, relegation shouldn't be a threat. Nobody is 'too good to go down', but avoiding relegation is in our hands. The problem is that while there are six or seven teams notably worse than us, there are still way too many that are notably better.
A good day, with signs of hope, but still a lot to do.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Intensity breeds instinct
There's a fairly simple explanation for this. As you get older, pretty much every experience is a repeat of a previous experience. If you were to do something genuinely remarkable, then it would last longer as a vivid memory providing the illusion of a extending the year. For most of us, through necessity, life cannot function if all you are doing is having unique experiences; life is more likely to become one long groundhog day.
To break the mundanity, it helps to have something to focus on or look forward to, particularly if you follow Oxford United. Otherwise the season's blur into one; the kits change, slightly, the players change, slightly, but otherwise, it's much the same from one year to the next. If you can't rely on having a decent cup run or, heaven forfend, a successful league season, then it's the moments, the single fixtures, that make the effort worthwhile.
Saturday's game against Luton was probably the one banker of the season; a mutual dislike, two teams, not that far apart geographically, with similar histories. The only fixture to have been played in all five of the top divisions in English football. Not a derby, but with some of the characteristics of one. A quarrel neither of is prepared to resolve or back down from; no matter where one of us is, the other one will hunt them down and start the argument again.
It lived up to its billing. A nice big bank of away fans and a vociferous response from the home fans. Niggle, rabbit punches and bickering on the pitch. Good stuff. Intensity was the watchword; the way we played, the atmosphere; it was a fixture unlike any we've seen this season.
We benefited from it because we had to play football rather than dwell on The Philosophy. Jake Wright made tackles rather than misdirect cross-field passes. Luton's fans brought the intensity, their players took it onto the pitch by getting into our players' faces and opening petty feuds. But, it did them no favours, where others have absorbed us and then gently picked us off while we drowned in our own self-importance, they badgered us to play on instinct.
Even on the touchline there was more animation; Derek Fazackerley kicked over a water bottle in frustration, Michael Appleton remonstrated with a linesman after a petty foul late into injury time. Everyone seemed to be enjoying it.
But, that's pretty much it for the season in terms of an external stimulus triggering us into action, how will we re-create the intensity we need to perform? Mansfield are next at the Kassam, nobody is going to be fired up to teach Junior Brown a lesson. It's unlikely to come from the touchline; many managers are borderline sociopaths who frighten players into playing at the right intensity regardless of the occasion, Appleton prides himself on his detachment. This has it's place, of course, but it can leave us needing something else to get us going. It is too much to ask the fans despite what some say (more of that in a minute). A lot of expectation is being placed on this creative midfielder to drive the team forward, it might work, but it's a big job.
In cyclist Michael Hutchinson's book Faster, he describes what happened when he tried to use the psychological technique of visualisation to improve his time trialling. Because he spent so much time thinking through what he did rather than rely on his physical conditioning, his anxiety and stress levels increased and he actually got slower.
With us, without the intensity, there is the tendency to overthink everything rather than simply execute deeply imbedded subconscious ability. The net impact is that performance is more likely to drop than go up; particularly if it repeatedly appears to fail.
And another thing...
The first person on the phone-in was berating Oxford fans for not backing their team despite 'the chairman's investment'. The first point is that investment is spending money to get a return; by my reckoning Appleton has brought in 17 players since he started, of which six are still at the club (and none of those have played more than five games). The return has been average so it's not investment, it's just spending. The second thing is that regardless of the cost of bringing in these 17 players; it hasn't yet materialised into results - despite Saturday's encouraging display, we haven't won at home since 13th December (with a last minute goal) and before that it was Tranmere in October. So, in fact what the caller was telling Oxford fans to do is attend in less-than-once a month possibility of seeing a win. Results draw crowds not investment, I'm sure the club are aware of that even if the said fan isn't. Oh, and he claimed we all supported Kassam when he was chairman; I think I must have missed that game.
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Squad of thrones
In simple terms, our squad is made up of two houses; Wilderians and Appletonians, with Danny Hylton being part of neither. Or both, perhaps? It would be easy to assume Michael Appleton is simply dismantling the House of Wilder to replace it with the House of Appleton. It certainly seemed like it might be that way when he arrived. Gary Waddock was thrown out the door and Eales and Ashton stepped into Ian Lenagan's shoes while he was practically still wearing them. Revolution, it seemed, was inevitable.
But, this transfer window, the first in which we've seen the House of Appleton in full battle mode has been baffling. Wilderians have gone, but so to have Appletonians, Appletonians have arrived to replace other Appletonians, some Appletonians didn't even appear to be Appletonians in the first place. So, where the hell are we?
Well, as of training this morning, the raw stats say that we signed six (including Jamie Ashdown this morning) and lost or let go nine. So, in pure numeric terms, we have a squad with three less players than we had at the start.
Starting at the back, Ashdown seems an odd signing, unless there's something we don't know about Ryan Clarke's fitness. Clarke's form hasn't been quite what it's been in the past, but he's hardly a risk. Max Crocombe is an able replacement on the rare occasions he's needed. Is Ashdown going to replace Clarke? Or sit on the bench vacated by Crocombe? If it's the former, it would seem an unnecessary shuffle, if it's the latter, what's the point of that?
At the back, we've got a bewildering merry-go-round to deal with. Michael Raynes has gone, although it's difficult to know what he did wrong. He wasn't Bobby Moore, but he was a willing squad player and solid enough at the back when needed. In his place is Chey Dunkley, who was shakiness personified against Southend. In terms of net gain, at best it's a zero, perhaps a little worse.
Right, full-backs. Hunt and Newey's days were probably numbered even under Chris Wilder. They were originally brought in to shore things up after the marauding of Liam Davis and Damien Batt gave one too many heart palpitations. They were pragmatic and dependable, but hardly thrilling. You got the impression they were managing their fitness and effort, not being in the first flushes of youth. Holmes-Dennis and Riley seemed to indicate a loosening of the full-back roles, an introduction of youthful exuberance and attacking flare, part of the New Philosophy. But then… well, we seemed to lose them, which was a bit complacent. Are Skarz and Brindley better? Different? Almost impossible to tell in the short term, but on paper they seem more robust than what we've had in the past. I'm sticking my neck out and saying this is an improvement.
Into midfield; Junior Brown was an early Appleton signing who sparkled like a damp firework before disappearing from view. It seems a long time since he was even on the radar, so it's difficult to know whether we've lost anything through his departure. That said, we certainly haven't replaced him or improved that area in the window.
Up front, Campbell fell victim to shambolic contract negotiations, it seems. He was always a long shot and I for one am not that concerned about his departure. Burns had a fine debut, but like so many before him, his form quickly fizzled to nothing. Potter's departure wasn't really a surprise as sad as it was to see him go. I suspect Wilder or Waddock would have come to a similar conclusion eventually. I couldn't say that Burns was an effective replacement for Potter, both had patchy form. McDonald may be a better and more permanent solution. On the face of it, he does seem a good acquisition . That leaves Hoban, who was brought in, I assume, as a banker in the absence of the club securing a deal for Tyrone Barnett, which turned into the most over-blown non-event we've had in years. Hoban, like Campbell, was a risk and we can't say he's been a risk worth taking; not yet, at least.
So, we're weakened in numbers, and probably fractionally ahead in terms of quality per head. We should be able to stay up, though I, for one, don't think that's ever been as big a concern as others have suggested. We're vulnerable, however, because injuries and loss of form could make things very uncomfortable. Particularly as some players will be starting to think about where they will be playing next season, when that disengagement starts, who knows where we might end up?
Above all, a lot of energy has been wasted in deals that never came off, deals that came off but didn't stick and deals for players that were barely better than what they replaced. All told, a slight gain but a shambolic way to do business.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Realising Lenagan's dream
Granted, that vision; which forecast a successful Oxford United driven by a core of homegrown talent, was probably borne out of the financial reality he faced rather than some dewy eyed prescience along the lines of Martin Luther King - only Michael Duberry could do that. However, as visions go, it was the most cogent I've heard come from the club in forty years. Yes, we've had owners stressing the importance of building and then owning a new stadium. But in terms of turning that into a playing reality, that vision rarely stretched much beyond "... and then, um, something something something beat Real Madrid in the final of the Champions League!". Lenagan's visions was realistic, tangible and above all attractive.
Long, Ashby, Ruffels, O'Dowda and Roberts were pivotal in digging Appleton out of yet another mess. It demonstrated what rude health the development system is in. The work done to date is an credit to Chris Allen, who was the player you'd consider least likely to turn out to be a top class coach.
But, is Lenagan's vision the solution to this season? Well, no, not at the moment. The second half against Exeter proved that much. We were bright and switched on in the first half but became conservative and sluggish in the second. Fitness was a factor; it's asking a lot for a young team to put in a 90 minute shift at the intensity of any League 2 game, let alone one demanding the high technical component that Appleton insists on. 'Game management' was another factor. Nathan Cooper persists with this topic week after week with Michael Appleton. He has a point; we seem to approach the natural phases games go through exactly the same way, rather than assess and adapt as the game progresses. Is this part of Appleton's 'No Plan B' philosophy?
Appleton, when pushed on the subject, seemed to imply that organising teams to manage games was difficult, that is, almost impossible to train. And yet, organising a disciplined unit seems a darned sight easier to train than, say, teaching Jake Wright to play like Glenn Hoddle.
And this seems to be at the heart of the problem; while the emergence of Lenagan's dream should give everyone heart, what we need is a core of players who are going to manage the game on the pitch. In the past we relied on the likes of Wright, Mullins, Clarke, Whing, but these are looking a shadow of their former selves, and, if you add Hunt, Newey and even Constable and Kitson from last year, you have to question why do we seem so devoid of leadership now?
Injuries are always factors; Clarke, Wright and Whing have all suffered recently and each bounce back is inevitably going to be a little less bouncy. There is an issue of playing style; anyone criticising Wright this season is ignoring the style of football he's suddenly being asked to play. Ask him to be a defender, and he excels, ask him to be a playmaker and he looks deeply uncomfortable. And then there's an issue of age and authority. Appleton isn't that much older than some of those he manages so it would be far easier for senior players to not respect his authority or ability. This was, apparently, a factor in Dave Kitson's sudden decision to retire once Appleton arrived at the club. Perhaps some of those older heads, frustrated by how we've stalled this season, are doubting their manager's ability and approach.
If that is happening, Appleton, has the right to bring in people he can work with, but while so many of the core Wilder squad have left or hit poor form, those signed to replace them have been at best patchy, at worst woeful - Riley and Barnett were both established, and then slipped through our fingers, Junior Brown, Carlton Morris and Alex Jakubiak didn't look ready, Will Hoskins and Brian Howard were spent forces before they even appeared at the club. Only Michael Collins and Tareiq Holmes-Dennis have sustained success so far; and Collins was dropped shortly after telling Radio Oxford we were in a relegation fight. Even, Holmes-Dennis, looks in need of a rest after an extended run of games; again, it's a lot to ask of him.
Of the four signed prior to the opening of the window, Campbell and Hobarn have yet to come to terms with the rigours of League 2, Wes Burns seems another with bags of potential but not the endurance to sustain it, and Chey Dunkley looked decidedly shaky against Southend. It's an uninspiring batch of signings so far.
For all the potential we now have at first team level; perhaps the best crop of youngsters I've seen at the club in terms of both quality and numbers, we are woefully lacking in leadership (and the motivation to lead) that experience gives, with the transfer window winding shut, time is running out in terms addressing the issue.
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France and Germany have pressed for a rapid deal between Greece and its private creditors that would cut its rising debt to sustainable levels.The two countries said at Monday's meeting in Brussels that they remained committed to sealing a new bailout deal for Greece by March to avert a disastrous default which could push Greece out of the 17-member eurozone.
Before the meeting of eurozone finance ministers in the Belgian capital, Francois Baroin, the French finance minister, said that a deal to convince banks and investment funds that own Greek debt to accept deep losses on their holdings appeared to be "taking shape".Baroin's German counterpart, Wolfgang Schaeuble, on the other hand, said that any deal must help Greece cut its debt to "not much more than 120 per cent of GDP" by the end of the decade.
Greece's current debt rate stands at roughly 160 per cent of its gross domestic product. Many economists believe the much-needed 40 per cent drop will not be achieved by the existing plan."The negotiations will be difficult, but we want the second programme for Greece to be implemented in March so that thesecond [bailout] tranche can be released," Schaeuble said in Paris, speaking alongside Baroin and the heads of the German and French central banks.
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Referring to calls by the finance chiefs that Greece's public creditors take bigger losses on bonds, Maria Fekter, the Austrian finance minister, said: "We know that the banks are not overly happy, but a crash is far more expensive than such a long-term plan".
The finance ministers were expected to discuss a treaty, known as the fiscal compact, at Monday's meeting.
The original draft of the treaty imposed stricter budget rules on member states to secure firm backing for the agreement from the European Central Bank (ECB).
Joerg Asmussen, an ECB board member, spoke on January 12 of a "substantial watering down" of discipline in the latest draft of the treaty due to the inclusion of an "escape clause" allowing countries to overspend in extraordinary circumstances.
The ECB warning falls in line with the words of Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who said at a Berlin speech on Monday that several countries party to the 17-member eurozone "have no choice but to tighten finances tightly, sharply, and without compromising".
Asmussen also said Mario Draghi, the ECB president, met the president of the European Council and the chairman of the EU summits earlier in the day to discuss his concerns about the wording of the treaty.
Draghi had originally supported the central points of the treaty based on the agreement at the last EU leader's summit in December. However, the original text has seen an overhaul by the European Commission and the eurozone's member states.
ECB support of the compact is critical amid concerns that the central bank could scale back, or not deliver on, its purchasing of Spanish and Italian bonds based on disatisfaction with the steps taken by the nations in question.
Of its plans to address the nation's financial woes, Luis de Guindos, the Spanish economy minister, said his country was embarking on "a two-pronged approach: austerity on the one hand and economic growth on the other."
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Against this backdrop, in another of the eurozone's heavily indebted nations, police said on Monday that they had uncovered more than $65bn in undeclared revenues last year after cracking down on tax cheats.
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In religiously conservative Brazil, women risk jail time and their lives to undergo the procedure that is illegal but commonplace.
Health, Human Rights, Latin America
Trash is a fast-growing import in the Scandinavian country, which turns it into heat for people's homes.
Environment, Europe, Sweden
Critics say the UK's home secretary is using Muslims as a 'political punchbag' in a bid to shore up right-wing support.
Human Rights, Politics, Racism
2014 was the worst year in more than a decade for polio infections, with at least 306 new cases reported.
Polio, Asia, Pakistan
Election commission declares victory for former military ruler, Muhammadu Buhari, over incumbent Goodluck Jonathan.
Politics, Africa, Nigeria, Nigeria Decides
Legally installed government in Tripoli removes Omar al-Hassi as the head of National Salvation Government.
War & Conflict, Middle East, Libya
It is a source of sustenance but also of tension and new political realities are now increasing uncertainty.
Egypt, Sudan, Middle East
A media post-mortem into the UK's surveillance report. Plus, why five years on in Argentina the media looks so familiar.
Media, Edward Snowden, Security
The untold story of how the Lebanese community overcame the odds and found their place in multicultural Australia.
Asia Pacific, Australia, Lebanon
How to keep a telenovela profitable and demanding sponsors happy while inspiring the production team to stay passionate.
Arts & Culture, Mexico, Latin America