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Hi there.
I'm currently completing a dissertation on typography and how it has been influenced though it's different mediums.
I was wondering if anybody has any good stories or things i should research on this. At the moment, these are some of the things i have talked about..
Matthew Carter. and how the screen demanded rethinking for typography. (Focussed on Verdana, Georgia) and Bell Centennial for the phone books.
Does anybody know how i can contact Matthew Carter?
Zuzana Licko - 'Matrix' for printers, lo-res etc.. the influence of the macintosh, Susan Kare
...Movable metal type, Road signage, electronic signage, car number plates, typewriters, outline hinting methods, bitmap methods, printing techniques, cleartype, html..
Has anybody here designed typefaces using any strict restrictions, or had to design type for unusal mediums? If so it would be great if i could ask you a few questions about your designs.
Many thanks
Nic Mulvaney
IIRC, there are a few words about this subject on Typoteque's Fedra specimen. Bil'ak mentions Matthew Carter's Charter typeface (like Licko's Matrix, it has straight serifs for 'digital economy', too. See also Haley's 'Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts').
Speaking of Carter, and Bell Centenniall, this PDF is an interesting article, available through Andrew Boag's website.
Contact James Montalbano about his Clearview design for highway systems. He frequents these forums. His website is at www.terminaldesign.com.
I'll e-mail you off-list with Matthew's contact info.
The Bil'ak article is available online, at Typoteque, here.
And, BTW, Martin Majoor designed the typeface used in
the Dutch phone books (see PDF article at Adobe).
Wow, thanks for the quick responses.
Some great links here, this is very helpful indeed
Much appreciated !
One area you might look at is type design for burned subtitles. This is a technology that uses a laser to burn text onto film, and the laser has to keep moving or you get blobs. A very difficult medium for which to design. If you are interested, I can put you in touch with Thomas Milo at DecoType in the Netherlands, who has addressed the very tricky business of making Arabic type for this technology.
When I designed Beaufort, one of its defining features was very sharp serifs. That seemed like a neat idea at the time, something new I could do with PostScript.
In retrospect, the observation arose: nearly all typefaces designed in the digital era could be made using prior technology.
Relatedly, Zuzana Licko had commented, re Oblong, that reductionists of the early modern (eg Bauhaus) era could have made similar designs, but it wouldn't have occured to them.
One of the biggest revolutions in typography happened in the early 19th century, when commercial "jobbing" typography (eg handbills) took off, and new genres such as fat face, shaded, 3d, Egyptian etc emerged. Prior to that typography was bookish and conservative. Pardon the sweeping generalizations!
There are a few paragraphs in Typographia (Hansard, 1825?) where he alludes to this, eg p. 355.
There were a few "Typositor strip" ultralights (eg Lightline Gothic), but the present growth in this genre is due to (a) being able to inspect working files at large magnification on monitors, (b) the fact that there is little degradation of image between font and printed job. (In comparison phototype was reproduced 6 or 7 times during the production process.)
and (c) It's really easy to make an ultralight font -- just draw a path and apply a stroke value.
Perhaps the earliest digital ultralight was Helvetica, but Font Bureau were pioneers in this area. Also check out Luc de Groot's new Hairline. Well, we all get older :-)
Check out:
1) Stencil lettering.
2) Greek lapidary inscriptions.
And some tooting:
1) A long time ago (my first font projects) I made 8x8 bitmap fonts for Armenian and Arabic.
2) I'm currently finishing Mana, a 16 PPEM bitmap font that uses two grays in addition to black and white. It requires a very special way of looking at pixels to get right. Here's the "5":
Eduardo Thanks for the links - The Typoteque article is great, kinda sums up nice viewpoint.
Hrant, I have looked into stencil lettering, but couldn't find much research on it. I suppose it stems from the army and the most convenient way of labeling. Now that it has become an army brand, do the army use a stencil style digital font to print material?
Question time...
For Mana, are you using a seperate font containing only the anti-aliasing, to overlay the original?
The way that some flash fonts now have a technique for tuned anti-aliasing is quite interesting.
Do you think anti-aliasing will always be a user end thing? or do you think this can be developed into the font platform and controlled by the fontographer? or will greater resolution technology catch up before its viable developing further?
What were some of the restrictions when designing your Armenian and Arabic fonts? I'm not familier with Armenian, but with reference to Maral what were your influences and limitations?
On the topic of anti-aliasing, have you seen Firework MX 2004, with its System and Custom Anti-Aliasing Whadda ya think? I've played with it a bit, but can't get it as sharp as i would like. It also adjusts the kerning if you anti-alias too heavy.
For stencil lettering, check out Eric Kindel (like in Baseline magazine).
Mana will be released as an outline font that renders the intended grayscale bitmaps when set at 16 PPEM only. I'll be making a 13 PPEM version of Mana too, and then a fat little 8 PPEM design called Pantagruel.
Anti-aliasing (the hand-made stuff) yields a large jump in quality. The only real issue with it is gamma differences between platforms: you have to make different versions of the font. As for higher-res screens, I'll take those seriously when they finally show up en masse...
For small Armenian bitmap fonts, the main issue is getting the floating punctuation not to look disasterous. As for Arabic, it really needs a lot of vertical room: 8 pixels (one of which is the talus - internal leading) forced huge structural compromises.
The new Flash features seem great, but they're still only as good as the fonts. And the fonts (especially on MacOS) are too blurry when anti-aliased mechanically. You'll never get a "5" like that.
> http://www.shinntype.com/Assets/Depts/Essays/SeeLight.pdf
The lightest font I can think of is Newlyn's Missionary. I used to think it was lousy, never realizing that even the Emigre catalog couldn't do it justice. Then I saw it in a Conde Naste travel magazine at like 500 point: its beauty hit me like a 747. And what makes it doubly amazing is that it's actually based on OCR-A!!
The 1923 ATF specimen shows four sizes of a typeface called Light Litho Gothic. All four sizes are cast on a 6 point body and the stem weight is less than a quarter point -- lighter even than Lightline Gothic. This sort of thing was only possible in metal after the development of the Benton pantographic punchcutter.
Thanks Hrant, Kent, John, Nick, Eduardo
I've been looking for the subtitle burning thing, but can't find anything related, most of the stuff i find is related to dvd.
All the links have been very useful. My room is covered with printed articles all over the floor.
Thanks Joseph, Stephen
How were the letters in the BVG cut?
Does anyone know a link where you can re-arrange elements of the letters in a numberplate (I think it was german) I remember it a few years ago.
Maybe this?
That's the one.
Thanks Hrant
But it's a "mess" in such a wonderful way.
It's not made for appreciation by graphic designers, after all.
I'm still not convinced if 'FE' does it's job. Reading that because all characters are so different it's hard to tell if they are the right ones at all. It's a great attempt, but i can't see it hard to forge.
Another spoiling aspect is that it has been copied HERE. So now with digital technology it is easily reproduced.
<< ooh, looky that's me
Re: Compare that O to the 0.
Up close there is a difference but at speeds from a distance i think i would wouldn't tell.
Sure i will let your read it when it's done. If I'm happy with it i will make it into a website.
Joe -
Smeijers continues on from Counterpunch
in his new one Type Now. It's nothing like
Counterpunch - more general and also a
collection of his work. Which, amongst a few
dozen never seen before typefaces, includes
his screen work for Philips. A must have. It
can be ordered from overseas right now.
Joe Clark is a subtitle freak. He might be a good source on that front.
Erik Spiekermann once described how the rounded corners of a custom face for the Berlin transportation system saved them truckloads of production time. (I can't recall how much time or even the name of the font, but I remember it helped the transportation people meet their deadline.)
Essentially, the letters were to be cut out of vinyl sheets. Each individual cut for a given glyph would take time to setup and make. By designing rounded corners most glyphs could be reduced to one or two cuts. (A v, for example, with square terminals would take 6 cuts. With rounded terminals and corners it would only require a single cut. The characters with counters or dots would require only 2 or 3 cuts.)
Sorry if I don't have all the facts in tidy order, but that's the gist of it. You can see a photo here. Note, the BVG is the face in question. The other faces in the family do not all have rounded corners.
A font for Qualcomm's Brew platform (a mobile device operating system) are represented in a single bitmap. A wider font requires a larger bitmap -- larger in dimensions and thus file size. The speed of the interface is directly tied to how big the font is and therefore, how wide the actual alphabet is. So, while a wider font may be more readable on these devices, one has to consider the trade offs to make so that the interface speed is acceptible.
(Jared worked on the project. Jared, do you recall if this was the Brew platform as a whole or for specific devices only?)
Not a specific example, but Smeijers has something to say about it. In the final chapter(s) of Counterpunch he includes a call to designers to embrace the particular challenges brought by new technologies. I would add; if it's not type designers who take on these problems, the engineers/technologists surely will. =)
I imagine like most vinyl signs are cut: by a programmed
swing-arm device affixed with a blade or a laser.
(I was hoping I could find an excuse to mention the
pantographic arm we saw at TypeCon, but I can't. =)
Re: the EU license plate fonts.
There are some pieces of that face that are pretty cool, but
altogether it's a mess. See another German EU numberplate.
Compare that O to the 0.
Oh, and you'll have to let us read your dissertation when it's
done. Or at least the PowerPoint. =)


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In addition to choroba's excellent answer, I'd like to point out that you can replace code with data like this:
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While teaching Natural Family Planning, I realized that fear really needs to be addressed. Often we have lovely, young couples register for our course to fulfill a marriage preparation requirement. Or sometimes they've attempted to self-study and feel the need for more instruction. Patiently they sit through our witness talk and intently they follow along with the training, but sometimes I can see it in their faces or detect a hint of it in their questioning. The fear, the fear that they are not smart enough or vigilant enough to learn and apply the method of fertility awareness so as to prevent an unintended blessing.
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4/30/2013 (1 year ago)
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Keywords: Natural Family Planning, NFP, fear, fertility
ZEBULLON, NC (Catholic Online) - Typically a coward of heights, I never dreamed of spending my days balancing atop an extension ladder, but the chipped and peeling exterior of our house begged for attention. My dutiful husband is a jack of many trades from fixing appliances to building chicken coops, but he proclaims a particular aversion to painting; therefore, the task of revitalizing the outside of our 1920's home fell squarely on my shoulders.
After choosing the perfect hue of buttery yellow, which my neighbor equated to the color of "cheap vanilla yogurt," I commenced the jobs of scraping and repainting the easy-to-reach portions. However, it didn't take long before my arms-reach, as well as, my three-step ladder were insufficient. Lacking the superhero trait of Mr. Fantastic, I had to engage some problem solving skills. Without the gift of stretchable appendages, a ladder seemed my next best option.
It took a little self-hypnosis of sorts to talk myself up that first ladder, but work awaited and the time of a busy, home school mother is fleeting. I let go a little and convinced myself that a fall from a standard ladder couldn't inflict too much damage.
Now our lovely little home was built on a downgrade, so while the front door was a mere three steps from the solid ground, the rear was two-stories above stable earth. That standard ladder only raised my stature to the lower heights of the our home's backside and painting only half of the house didn't appear sensible. An extension ladder became unavoidable.
As far back as I can remember, heights have posed an unwelcomed challenge. I was the kid who scaled the jungle-gym only to become paralyzed at the summit and tearfully beg for rescue. Ferris wheels are totally off-limits and even today escalators require a mental strategy.
Ratcheting the extension ladder far above my comfort-level, I offered myself a pep talk. First I attempted flattery, telling myself how brave I was and how beautiful the house was going to look. Next, came reasoning, if we couldn't afford to hire a painter, I simply needed to finish the job I'd begun and set the right example for my children. Lastly, disillusions of Supermom grandeur flitted across my brain, but they were too readily refuted by the reality that I'd never been able to scale a tall building nor race anything much faster than a speeding toddler headed for an open outlet.
Step by step, paint supplies balanced in my right hand as my left hand secured its death grip on the metal side rail, I inched ever higher toward the firmament. Positioned at the ladder's apex, I briefly dared to look down, a long, long way down. The flattery suddenly flattened and that reasoning seemed less, well, less reasonable. My previous risk estimations made from atop the standard ladder somehow didn't ease my mind because from this height surely parts could break that might not be mendable.
Surrender and prayer were my last and best resorts. "Let go," I persuaded, "let go of the fear." Fear constrained me to the ground, but surrender could loose its hold. Reciting a prayer, I offered up my terror and released myself to the care and keeping of my guardian angel.
It's amazing how fear has the potential to overpower in some cases or to protect in others. Years ago I read a book by Gavin DeBecker called The Gift of Fear. In it Mr. DeBecker gave real life examples of how people's natural-born fear mechanism or intuition set off red flags and sirens in the presence of serious dangers. Those who listened typically avoided entering the danger zone or quickly fled before a perpetrator could inflict harm. Those who over-rationalized away their instinct generally paid a painful price. In those cases, fear was a gift bestowed on the individual, a signal by which they could gauge a circumstance or assess a stranger's unspoken intent.
While teaching Natural Family Planning, I realized that fear really needs to be addressed. Often we have lovely, young couples register for our course to fulfill a marriage preparation requirement. Or sometimes they've attempted to self-study and feel the need for more instruction. Patiently they sit through our witness talk and intently they follow along with the training, but sometimes I can see it in their faces or detect a hint of it in their questioning. The fear, the fear that they are not smart enough or vigilant enough to learn and apply the method of fertility awareness so as to prevent an unintended blessing.
The simply admonishment, "Be Not Afraid' would do little to help alleviate their worries. Instead the first step is to help them face their fear, to understand what misconceptions it may be tied to. Quite often the newly engaged or married women have been controlling their cycles through the use of hormonal birth control or contraceptive devices. These "outside forces" have led to the perception that fertility, or at least its suppression, is the responsibility of some "thing" not the individual woman.
Under the supposed control of a contraceptive, a woman may feel relinquished of her role in her own "healthcare" beyond the routine exam and prescription refill. If an unexpected blessing comes along, she can "blame" the little one on a contraceptive failure. Our current culture has led her to surrender herself to doctor's orders, so she typically never feels obliged to consider the risks (unfortunately too often doctors don't even bother to disclose the very real risks).
Here we, NFP teachers, are describing the difference between more fertile and less fertile, fertile mucus. Calculating 4/10� temperature shifts while determining the position and firmness of the cervix. Observation, charting, cross-checks, and prayerfully discernment are all necessary steps to becoming naturally aware of the signs and wonders of the female fertility cycle. NFP can scientifically claim an effectiveness rate of 99%, among other benefits, but it does require personal responsibility.
In the words of Spiderman's uncle, with great power comes great responsibility. The power to plan a family is definitely great, a great honor, a great blessing. But, our culture isn't much interested in personal responsibility, especially when profit can be made off of the notion that power comes from a pill or injection.
Fear, in the case of our students, isn't a helpful natural instinct, but an emotion fueled by a man-made distortion. Truly, the effectiveness rates of NFP are equal to the best contraceptive rates (though that doesn't mean they are morally or ethically equal). If a couple discerns a serious call or reason to postpone a new pregnancy, they are able to apply their knowledge to figure out what days of abstinence are required. Every couple is smart enough, every couple can learn to be vigilant enough to achieve their goal of postponement when necessary.
What is really at stake is the fear that a baby, an eternal soul, will be conceived and that they will not be able to care for or welcome the new member of their family. Like the extension ladder, they realize they might need to ascend above their comfort-level. They must accept total responsibility for their marital embrace, it must become something more than a carnal pleasure alone.
Yes, they should set their ladder on stable footings by learning how to accurately read the woman's bodily signs of fertility and infertility. Indeed they'll have to map out the location by communicating their dreams, and plans and needs. They'll raise their spiritual ladder by praying together and seeking God's Will each cycle. And ultimately, they will need to step up by assuming responsibility individually, through self-mastery of their sexual desires, and together, through a unified commitment to remain open to life.
At times they may need to surrender themselves, to surrender their fears, to surrender their man-made plans. Because often God will change a couple's heart. He'll challenge their limited notion of happiness. But while a fall from the height of my extension ladder had the potential to inflict fatal harm, a careless slip in NFP can result in the gift of a brand new life.
Tara K. E. Brelinsky is a home schooling mother of seven living children, with six more heavenly ones who intercede (and a little soul expected to arrive in August). Married to her childhood sweetheart, they make their home in North Carolina where they teach Natural Family Planning, grow a garden, raise two dogs, a cat, a fish, ducks, roosters and a flock of hens (in addition to all those wonderful kids). Tara studied journalism a lifetime ago in college, but now she writes simply for the the glory of God. You can read more of her musings and inspirations on her blog "Blessings In Brelinskyville" (www.http://brelinskyville.blogspot.com/).
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He might of lost less soldiers, ony because we killed our own in the Battle of the Bulge.
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Obviously I can't provide all of the information in Manchester's book here on a forum . MacArthur lost so few men because of his strategy . His retaking of the Phillipines is one example : His forces knifed into the Japanese, separating and confusing their units .
In taking Rabaul...wait ! Oh, right. He never took Rabaul, rightly judging it to be too well defended .
He bypassed some islands instead of taking one after another . He let the Japanese suffer malaria and starvation to weaken them before attacking . He used flank attacks . He thought everything out, employed sufficient forces, argued with his superiors for more resources and led from the front . MacArthur's incredible mind contained every scrap on information on Japanese order of battle etc.
There are no "maybes" about it.
Re : Your claim----- When did we kill our own troops in the Battle of the Bulge ?
My understanding is that we lost so many men in one battle due to second-rate troops defending a quiet area and surrendering easily, intelligence failure facilitated by Hitler's radio silence orders, German timing of the attack for bad weather to ground our air forces, German concentration with heavy tanks, surprise and SS ruthlessness / murders .
[QUOTE=HockaLouis;1176361] His worst decision was to force the M-1 Garand to be a .30-06 instead of the .276 Pedersen which I think we'd STILL be using in the military today if he hadn't screwed that up. [QUOTE]
McArthur vetoed the .276 because he had the foresight to realize that we could not replace all of the 1903s with the new Garands, and replace all machine guns and the tens of billions of rounds of .3-0-06 ammo in the war reserve before WW2 started. Adopting the .276 would have resulted in two different "standard" calibers on the battlefield. This would have been a logistical nightmare.
It was an excellent, and correct decision.
William Manchester was one of the very best biographers of the 20th century. Read "American Caesar."


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KIRKLAND, Wash. and BEIJING, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- INRIX®, a leading international provider of traffic information and driver services, and CenNavi, a leading provider of traffic information services in China, announces a partnership for delivering premium real-time, predictive and historical traffic services across China.
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The collaboration leverages INRIX's sophisticated Traffic Intelligence Platform, vertical market expertise and connected services technologies with CenNavi's abundant real-time traffic information and advanced technologies, deep domestic experience and automotive relationships. The partnership furthers both companies' efforts to deliver premium traffic information, traffic-powered applications and analytics to help automakers, government agencies, mobile app providers, wireless carriers, and media companies improve mobility for travelers in one of the fastest growing and most traffic-choked automotive markets in the world.
"Our partnership with CenNavi advances our global automotive customers' efforts to deliver premium, traffic information and drivers services vital to their continued growth and success in the world's largest automotive market," said Bryan Mistele, president and CEO of INRIX. "By providing a singular global data format and technical interface, we're simplifying auto manufacturers' efforts to provide drivers with high quality traffic information services worldwide."
Traffic congestion across China's major cities is among the worst in the world and the unrivaled rapid pace of car sales is creating severe gridlock and pollution. The Beijing Transportation Research Board recently estimated registered vehicles in Beijing will grow to over 7 million in 2015, straining the current road network's capability.1 INRIX's advanced technologies and traffic information in the car, on smartphones, on broadcast news reports and in intelligent transportation systems helps drivers not only avoid costly delays but supports municipalities efforts to better manage traffic congestion across their road networks.
"We look forward to working with INRIX applying our combined expertise to solve one of China's biggest problems," said Haijun Tao, president of CenNavi. "This problem presents us with a significant market opportunity to deliver to automakers, mobile app providers and municipalities high quality traffic information and applications that improve urban mobility for everyone in China."
INRIX offices in Beijing are led by General Manager Dr. Harry He. Dr. He and Director of China Business Development He Bing (Bill) offer customers a combined 30 years of experience in information technology, telecommunications and mobile embedded software markets as well as an in-depth understanding of local transportation networks and the complex Chinese regulatory process.
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I have a Persian lime tree about 4-5 years old and last year it we had a pretty bad wind storm. The thorns cut up some of the leaves pretty bad and I was wondering if trimming the thorns would be OK for the plant. Any input would be appreciated.
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Waiting on any discounts for February. Anyone else??
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Here too!! Want to surprise hubby for his 50th birthday, so PRAYING we get some kind of offer. He and our daughter would be SO happy!!
Me! This will be our first trip to WDW; super excited.
I'm hopeful - I won't be able to convince my husband to stay at Poly if we don't get some sort of discount. I'm disappointed that the package prices aren't out yet. We went in Nov 2011, and we had our PIN and reservations by the end of February, I think.
YES, we are going the end of February for my dd's 10th bday and I'm hoping for a PIN. So excited!!!
We are looking at the week for Feb 9th for our 4th family trip. I am hoping for free dining, but any discount would be nice!
I have always gotten FD in Feb. I am hoping next year too. This year I even got it for Prres week. Our school system just bumped vacation up a week, so I am hoping it all works out.
Hope they release discounts early this year like they did last year
Good luck everyone
Planning an early February trip. Watching for discounts!
We are keeping an eye out for (hopefully) the extention of the current military discounts. My folks are coming out and we would love to be able to get their tickets for them at a discount.
We are waiting too.....rather impatiently.
LovinPooh, we are looking at President's Day week too. Would so love to get a free dining discount for that week.
YES! I'm with you all. Got FD in 2011 by arriving Thursday before Pres Day, hoping to do the same this time. Fingers crossed!
We will be arriving end of January and staying into February. In Jan/Feb 2011 we had a 30% off at moderate or free dining, we went with 30% hoping for this again! We stayed at Wilderness cabins which had a kitchen we used and everyone had a designated sleeping spot, my kids didnt have to share beds!
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Me too. We just went dec of 2011 and I'm hoping to get a discount so I can convince dh to go. The kids and I want to go, but he is being wishy washy.
I was thinking about booking a Feb 2013 vacay. Is disney not taking reservations yet? The website wont let me.
Watching for President's Week here too. Booked free dining for this year but ended up changing plans. DH has a conference in Orlando that week so we are hoping for a bit of family vacation time too. Looking for free dining or a better discount than the AAA rate we are holding right now for the Dolphin. It is much higher than the rates I've booked at the Dolphin in the past- even for President's Week.
Us too! We're hoping for free dining the beginning of February.
Me too!!! Me too!!! How early do discounts generally come out?
Us too!
Hoping for FD as we have 5 people (4 of which are disney "adults") so FD would be the best discount for us.
I noticed this year there was a blackout Feb 3-10. What was going on that week? I know there's President's Day later in the month, but is there something that typically goes on at disneyworld during that time frame?
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Season just won't be the same with Jon gone
It's not often in this line of work that you get to spend the better part of a decade being teammates with the same player. Though there are more than 50 players on a professional football team in the CFL, average careers are less than four years and in conjunction with free agency, trades, cuts, and injuries, to spend 10 years with anybody is unusual and happens infrequently.
Jon Oosterhuis and I had a strange association as teammates from the get-go. Back in 2001, Calgary traded my rights to Winnipeg for first- and third-round draft picks and in 2002, the Stampeders selected Jon with that first-round pick (eighth overall) out of the University of New Hampshire. Later that same year, he was snatched from the Stampeder practice squad and put on our active roster, which essentially meant that the Bombers only ended up giving up a third-round pick to acquire my rights and got a non-import, unheralded contributor in Jon to boot. Brendan Taman still considers this one of his slickest personnel napkin moves of all time.
Through our time together in Winnipeg, where we were locker-room neighbours and road roommates, we won and lost many a game together, hosted playoff contests and went to the Grey Cup. He sequestered himself in the bathroom of our hotel room and slept in the bathtub when I was breaking up with my now ex-fiancée. He always saved a chair next to him in our team meeting room for me, and he unwillingly gave me full access to the toiletries in his locker. Jon has been my moral compass and sounding board on countless occasions, and when I couldn't get my garage door open to make it to practice one day, he was the player I called who came over and freed me from the trappings of my own house without hesitation.
To fully appreciate the kind of impact a player like Jon Oosterhuis has on an organization, and in the community, though, we need to better examine the words selfless and unsung.
This community-owned football team has a lot of players on it that do an extraordinary amount of charitable work, but a lot of these deeds are initiated by the football club and recognized and rewarded in the press. Sometimes our involvement is mainly superficial, where our names end up carrying most of the weight and our expenses are almost always covered. Jon is the type of person that involves himself in activities and charitable causes on his own accord that bring him little or no recognition. He simply does good things for the good of doing them.
For instance, you probably didn't know that Jon volunteered as a Big Brother for years, taking high-risk kids out on his own time and dime, and also that he volunteers to coach the defensive line on the junior varsity football team at St. Paul's High School. Jon was never the highest-profile player, so his good deeds in the community weren't as publicized as a Milt Stegall or a Khari Jones, but that never impeded his efforts. The dictionary tells us that being selfless means "having little concern for one's own interests" and unsung can be defined as "not praised or acclaimed." That is Jon Oosterhuis' legacy as a professional football player in Winnipeg, always putting everyone's interests ahead of his own and expecting nothing from anyone in return.
Buck Pierce and Chris Cvetkovic have already come out and said that the reason they are in the best shape of their lives going into this season is because they trained with Jon. For the last four years of his career here, in the off-season he would go from working nights at the airport straight to the stadium at eight in the morning for a gruelling workout with our athletic therapist and whatever in-town guys that showed up. Some players require workout clauses or constant prodding just to get them to go through an off-season conditioning program when they have nothing else to do. Jon would work through the night clearing snow at the airport and show up at the gym at the end of his shift because he cared that much about his craft.
Free Press sports writer Ed Tait, who covered the Bombers for 20 years, called Oosterhuis a 'glue' guy because what he does to help a team stick together is immeasurable.
In the decade that Jon had his locker next to mine, I never knew him to have a riff with another player. Of course he has taken issue with other athletes, but he always managed to keep his opinions to himself and be the consummate teammate. Whether he was on the defensive line or working as a fullback or a tight end, in the nine training camps I participated with him he never got in a fight with another player.
As hard as he played, studied and practised, he was just too good of a guy to ever take exception with anybody. This 2011 season will not be the same without him.
Doug Brown, a hard-hitting defensive tackle with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and even harder-hitting columnist, appears Tuesdays in the Winnipeg Free Press.
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