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The outdoors has its way of bringing annoying pests and problems into our homes, lawns and gardens.
When conditions are right in the spring, numerous wildflowers can carpet the valley floor — and although they're short-lived, they can be breathtaking.
A beautiful lawn is never an accident. And among all of the strategies for grass care that make a lawn look its best, mowing properly is one of the most important. Keeping your lawn a cut above the rest is really very simple. Just remember these basic rules, and you'll be well on your way to having a picture-perfect lawn.
It's spring! The weather is becoming warmer, and you're ready to get outside and turn your attention to lawn and landscape projects. While spring may seem like a great time to seed some of those thin or brown patches in your lawn, it may be better to wait. Here's why…
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The highlight of Sunday's American Music Awards? Miley Cyrus, obviously. This time, her performance included a two-piece cat print leotard and a massive CGI image of a kitten in outer space, which mouthed the lyrics to "Wrecking Ball" as she sang and even cried diamonds at one point. Admittedly one of her stranger performances, this one is sure to be remembered for a long, long time.
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She was a pop princess at the age of nine and poised for movie stardom by 11, having been cast as Annie in an update of the beloved musical. But right now, just two days shy of her thirteenthbirthday, on Halloween, what Willow Smith wants to be more than anything is a seventh grader. Sitting on a velvet couch in her mother Jada Pinkett Smith's luxe, earthy-chic office at Sony Pictures in Culver City, dressed in a purple vintage sweatshirt with flowers and butterflies on it, striped sweatpants, and Doc Martens, her typically colored and cropped hair now black with girlish bangs, that's exactly what she looks like. As it turns out, seventh grade is "really hard," says Willow. The reality of storing your books in a locker, finding your classes, and "being responsible for your own stuff" is new territory for someone accustomed to tutors. And then there's all the schoolwork. However, she says, "I'm enjoying just being independent and doing my own thing."
This past February, Willow officially dropped out of Annie, which her father, Will Smith, is producing alongside Jay Z, having decided that her heart wasn't in it. "I just wanted to chill, and be at home, and decompress, and just find out what I wanna do and where I stand on this planet, with the little tiny place we have."
These are big, heavy concerns coming from one so young, but then it was her poise and self-possession that had everyone from Justin Bieber to Ellen DeGeneres smitten when "Whip My Hair" first dropped in 2010. Of course her fearless, innate fashion sense didn't hurt either.
"I can never tell what I'm gonna wear," Willow says. "I kind of just put on what feels right. Sometimes that's Converse and a T-shirt, sometimes it's Givenchy heels and leather pants." Karl Lagerfeld and fashion editor Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele certainly noticed. For the shoot featured here they asked Willow to bring some of her own pieces to Paris, so they could mix it up. Boy-drag boxer shorts and oxford shoes? Straight out of her closet. Willow describes Lagerfeld as "very, very friendly and open." She giggles. "I thought he was gonna be really mysterious, like peering over his glasses, evaluating. But he was just awesome. I don't have words, because he's such a huge icon."
Not that she has any plans to do more modeling. "I just wanna do things that make me feel good and not stressed"—these are her rules. After being an active presence on Twitter, sharing her life philosophies and her crush on the literary misfit Holden Caulfield, she has stopped tweeting, preferring to sit in her garden with her Yorkie, Abby, and "meditate and get the energy from the flowers." She doesn't have a meditation practice per se, "I just chill and open my eyes and think, just relaxing and being silent. Because the world is so loud."
It's almost unfathomable that a girl on the cusp of her teenage years would turn away from the very things her peers dream of, but this is the extraordinary being that Willow is. One moment she's a kid, talking about watching Daria after school, eating In-N-Out burgers, and rereading the Twilight series in bed at night, the next she's discussing self-help books and how listening to the '70s all-girl band The Runaways "just makes me feel so powerful, as a woman, just like, yes! I know who I am! Roarrr! Know what I mean?"
She hasn't given up making music; it's part of her daily life, particularly now that her brother Jaden is recording songs and her mother has revived her band, Wicked Wisdom, which Willow describes as melodic heavy metal. But perhaps after the to-do caused by her last single, "Summer Fling," whose subject matter some felt was too grown-up, she says she wants to "keep it for myself." Occasionally she'll put something up on SoundCloud, like the song "Drowning," which she wrote and recorded with her friend Mecca Kalani, but she's being patient and holding her cards close.
"I just feel like I want to do it different than the world's ready for," Willow says. "It's like a pearl—I'm reading that book right now. You put a piece of sand in it, which is the imagination. You close it over a bunch of years, making it awesome, and then Bam! It comes open. And I'm it! I'm the pearl."
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Earl Klugh's 60th birthday is this coming September. As a result he is celebrating with his first solo record since 2006. "A birthday gift to me? I didn't think of it that way," admits Klugh on HandPicked, his first CD release by Heads Up International. It is his third solo effort, but his first "with multiple original solo guitar pieces." The 16-track set hit stores on July 30. Continue Reading →


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Minor actors
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List of all minor actors throughout the movie franchise.
Adamthwaite, Michael
Michael Adamthwaite appears in New Moon as Chet. His official website is here and his Imdb entry is here.
Michael Adamthwaite won his first role in a BBC mini-series entitled Little Lord Fauntleroy while living in England at the age of twelve. He later settled in Vancouver in 2000 to continue Acting. For several years Michael had the fortune of studying under Warren Robertson, renowned Acting teacher and Coach to famed acting teacher Larry Moss. Michael also attended several reputable Vancouver based schools including the Actors Working Academy, William B Davis Centre, and the Vancouver Film School. Since 2000, Michael has received LEO nominations for his work in both CBC's Dragon Boys, and Walk All over Me.[1]
Arender, Tammi
Tammi Arender appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as a vampire witnessing for the Volturi. Her official website is here and her Imdb entry is here.
Barnes, Marlane
Marlane Barnes appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Maggie. Her official website is here Imdb entry is here.
Marlane is a native of Portland, Maine and was raised in Fort Smith, Arkanas.
She was first introduced to acting at the age of 4 in regional shoe commercials - and the shoe fit! She earned a Bachelor's in English Literature at the University of Arkansas, while acting in her spare time. That turned into a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she continued to do film, theatre, and musical theatre.
She likes Shakespeare, Sondheim, Neil Simon, and dancing - but is not a dancer with an "er." Marlane is based in Los Angeles with her filmmaker boyfriend and three cats.
In her spare time Marlane enjoys reading, writing for her design blog MarlaneDesign, and painting.
Barras, Rebecca
Rebecca Barras appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Sulpicia. Her Imdb entry is here.
- The Jack of Spades (2010)
- The Virginity Hit (2010)
- In Purgatory (2011)
- Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
- The Tale of the Pot and the Kettle (2012)
- Swallow (2012)
- Simple (2012)
- She's Sassy (2012)
- A Satisfactory Life (2012)
Beatty, Tanaya
Tanaya Beatty appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as Rachel Black. Her Imdb entry is here.
Belanger, Mariel
Mariel Belanger appears in Eclipse as The Third Wife. Her Imdb entry is here.
Belleau, William
William Belleau appears in Eclipse as a Quileute warrior. His Imdb entry is here.
Boyce, Gregory Tyree
Gregory Tyree Boyce appears in Twilight as Tyler Crowley. He spent most of his childhood living in Southern California. His Wikipedia entry is here and his Imdb entry is here.
Brayden, Jimmie
Jimmie Brayden appears in Breaking Dawn as Collin Littlesea. His Facebook entry is *here and his Imdb entry is here.
Burke, Christie
Christie Burke appears in both Breaking Dawn movies as a body double for teenage Renesmee Cullen. Her Imdb entry is here.
Bushell, Matthew David
Matthew David Bushell appears in Twilight as Phil Dwyer. He has been replaced by Ty Olsson for the Breaking Dawn films. His Imdb entry is here.
Caravaggio, Curtis
Curtis Caravaggio appears in New Moon as an executed vampire. His Imdb entry is here.
Chan, Brett
Brett Chan appears in Eclipse as a newborn vampire. His Imdb entry is here.
Chang, Philip
Philip Chang appears in the Eclipse film as a newborn vampire. His Imdb entry is here.
Chief-Moon, Byron
Byron Chief-Moon appears in Eclipse as the Quileute chief Taha Aki. He is an American actor, choreographer, dancer, playwright, and founder of the Coyote Arts Percussive Performance Association, a dance theatre company. His wikipedia entry is here and his Imdb entry is here.
Chief-Moon was born in Carlsbad, California, and is a member of the Kainai First Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy in southern Alberta. Chief-Moon has made appearances in several well-known American and Canadian TV shows (such as MacGyver, North of 60, Stargate SG-1, Da Vinci's Inquest, Highlander: The Series, and appeared on Walker, Texas Ranger, as well as several feature films.
Some of his dance theatre pieces have included Possessed, Dancing voices and Voices, as well as Jonesing, an experimental video dance piece. He is also known for his choreography work on the documentary Echoes of the Sisters and the dance film Quest.
Chubai, Dawn
Dawn Chubai appears in Eclipse as a reporter. Her Imdb entry is here.
Corbett, Fraser Dean
Fraser Corbett appears in Eclipse as a newborn vampire. He also performed as a stunt for Breaking Dawn - Part 2. His Imdb entry is here.
Craft Regusa, Christine
Christine Craft Regusa appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as a Volturi witness. Her Imdb entry is here.
De Franco, Guilherme
Guilherme De Franco appears in Eclipse as a newborn vampire. His Imdb entry is here.
Deane, Matt
Matt Deane appears in Eclipse as a newborn vampire. His Imdb entry is here.
Dorval, Adrien
Adrien Dorval appears in a deleted scene of New Moon as Bob Marks. His Imdb entry is here.
Egan, Trish
Trish Egan appears in Twilight as Shelly Cope, the receptionist at Forks High School.
Faria, Eliza
Eliza Faria is a body double for Mackenzie Foy as Renesmee Cullen in Breaking Dawn. Her Imdb entry is here.
Faria began acting at the age of two in a Lysol Disinfectant commercial. Hersubsequent TV commercial work includes Cisco The Human Network and Hasbro Scatterpillar. She appeared as a featured background actor in an episode of Smallville and as a victim of a cougar attack in a television documentary, Animal Planet. Faria began working in student and independent films in 2009 and has since completed nine projects and two music videos. For the past six months she has been working weekly with Clint Mayers of First Call Casting, learning acting, directing and editing. She is an active member of Vancouver All Star competitive cheerleading.
Faulkner, Ali
Ali Faulkner appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as Bianca, a secretary to the Volturi. Her Imdb entry is here.
Faulkner grew up in West Plains, Missouri, but later moved to Dallas to earn a BA in Communications. Her professional career began when she played the leading role of Yonah at the Lucrative Theatre Three of Dallas in the musical Children of Eden. Her performance won her the excitement of critics, lending her the eyes and ears of the film industry. Faulkner's progress has extended past Texas into other regional markets, as well as Los Angeles.
Ferguson, Devon
Devon Ferguson appears in Eclipse as a newborn vampire. His Imdb entry is here.
Fleming-Alvarez, Vivian
Vivian Fleming-Alvarez appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as a the Volturi witness. Her Imdb entry is here.
Fonda, Olga
Olga Fonda appears in Breaking Dawn trailer as a secretary candidate for the Volturi. The scene was deleted for the movie. Her Imdb entry is here.
Forrest, Tyler
Tyler Forrest appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as a Volturi guard. He is also a member of a band called "Say! Don't play". His Imdb entry is here.
Frank, Sabrina
Sabrina Frank is a German actress who won the Mission Hollywood competition[2], gaining her the role of Vera in Eclipse. She only appeared in a deleted scene.[3] Her Imdb entry is here.
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Froehlich, Janelle
Janelle Froehlich appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as French coven's member Yvette. Her Imdb entry is here.
Geldreich, Ben
Ben Geldreich appears in Eclipse as John. Geldreich is also a very successful photographer and started his own photography business in January 2008. His official website is here, and his Imdb entry is here.
Gell, Victoria
Victoria Geil appears in Twilight as a vampire victim in the 1920's. Her Imdb entry is here.
Grimme, Catherine
Catherine Grimme appers in Twilight as the young Isabella "Bella" Swan in the home video. Her Imdb entry is here.
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Hebert, Ashley
Ashley Hebert appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 in a cameo as a Volturi guard. Her Imdb entry is here.
Born in Lafayette, Louisiana, Ashley broke into acting in high school and soon started in her high school production of The Diary of Anne Frank. In addition to modeling throughout high school Ashley, continued to learn the craft, but soon devoted her time to her studies as a student at LSU. She began to get the acting itch again and was soon working on feature films and plays throughout Louisiana. Ashley has also worked with famed FHM and Maxim magazine photographer, Laurens Antoine.
Heggins, Tracey
Tracey Heggins appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Senna. Her Imdb entry is here.
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Hickey, Kimbra
Kimbra Hickey is the hand model who holds the apple on the cover of Twilight. [4] She carries the apple with her to recreate the pose for strangers.
Howard, Lisa
Lisa Howard is the actress who portrays Siobhan in Breaking Dawn - Part 2. Her official website is here and Imdb entry is here.
She is a NYC-based actress who has been seen on Broadway as Rona in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee", Lt. Genevieve Marshall in "South Pacific" at Lincoln Center and Missy Hart in "9 to 5". She was also seen in the national touring company of "Les Misérables". She has guest starred on Ugly Betty and has performed on such shows as David Letterman, The Today Show, Good Morning with Mike and Juliette, The Tony Danza Show and the Tony Awards.
Huston, Jack
Jack Alexander Huston (born 7 December 1982) appears in Eclipse as Royce King II. His Wikipedia entry is wikipedia:Jack Huston|here]] and his Imdb entry is here.
Huston was born in London, England, the son of Lady Margot Lavinia Cholmondeley and Walter Anthony Huston.[5] His paternal grandfather was director John Huston and his maternal grandfather was Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley; his mother's ancestors include David Sassoon, the Treasurer of Baghdad, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who founded the Rothschild family international banking dynasty, and Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.[6][7] Huston is the nephew of actors Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston.[8]
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Hyatt, Krystopher
Krystopher Hyatt appears in Twilight as Embry Call He was replaced by Kiowa Gordon in the subsequent movies.
Jarrett, Paul
Paul Jarrett is the actor who portrays Mr. Biers in the Eclipse movie. His Imdb entry is here.
Jastrzembska, Christina
Christina Jastrzembska appears in New Moon as Marie Higginbotham. She was born in 1948 in Germany to parents Boryslaw and Natalie Jastrzembska.
After World War II, Jastrzembska and her family moved to Jersey City, New Jersey in 1952 to start a new life. She attended St. Peters College, and graduated with a degree in psychology in 1970. In 1972 she moved to Canada to start an acting career, which would last for over 30 years. His Imdb entry is here.
Jones, Trevor
Trevor Jones appears in Eclipse as a newborn vampire. His Imdb entry is here.
Joseph, Sienna
Sienna Joseph, also known as Sienna Joseph-Willie, is the young actress who portrays Claire Young in Breaking Dawn - Part 1. Her Imdb entry is here.
Kosaka, Masami
Masami Kosaka appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Toshiro. His Imdb entry is here.
His character was rumored to be the pastor binding Edward and Bella to their wedding vows.[9] This rumor was cleared up by the movie trailer and confirmation of Angelo Renai playing the priest. However, he has confirmed that his character will be called Toshiro and is a lone Japanese vampire.[10]
Born in Shizuoka, Japan. Played baseball until University, after graduated from Soka University, moved to The U.S. and Studied Acting at numerous schools in Los Angeles. Since then, He is pursuing acting career in LA.[11]
LaBow, Casey
Casey LaBow appears in Breaking Dawn as Kate. Her full name is Samantha Casey LaBow. Her official website is here and her Imdb entry is here.
- The Unknown (2005)
- London (2006)
- Backyards & Bullets (2007)
- Moonlight (2007)
- Skateland (2010)
- A Year in Mooring (2011)
- Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
- Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
LaRose, Erica
Erica LaRose appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as a Volturi witness named Zena. Her Imdb entry is here.
Lee, John Edward
John Edward Lee appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as the English rocker killed by Garrett. His Imdb entry is here.
John began studying photography at the University of Oklahoma and finished his collegiate studies as a theater major at the University of Houston where he studied with Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights Edward Albee and Lanford Wilson.
While at the University of Houston, John worked with the actors of The Alley Theater, Houston's premier regional theater and received the full gamut of classical theater training, ranging from proper stage movement and voice, to stage combat and makeup.
John worked his way through college by working with Youth at Risk, teaching Survival Skills at several Wilderness based programs. Working in Southern Texas, Montana, Alaska, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado helped to teach the fundamentals of Wilderness Survival and the application of these concepts and philosophies in day to day living for troubled teens.
Lemos, Sebastiao
Sebastiao Lemos appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Gustavo. His Imdb entry is here.
Ly, Amadou
Amadou Ly appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2, as Henri, a gifted vampire. His official website is here, and his Imdb entry is here.
Ly was born in Senegal. He attended University to study engineering. Being a shy young man, a friend suggested he could overcome his shyness by taking some acting classes. Ly took his friend's advice and changed his degree to acting.
Ly's mother abandoned him at age 14 to finish his American education. He was left to face a long immigration battle, but Hollywood stars and volunteer lawyers saw his potential and helped grant him his visa. He even had to turn down television shows like Law and Order because of his status.
Ly continued his training in New York with William Esper and upon graduation moved to Hollywood. He soon took to the stage at the Actors Playpen Theatre in Sex, Relationships and Sometimes Love,.
Ly will appear in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as the vampire Henri, a part that was specially written into the movie by the writers. Henri is part of the duo that makes up the French Coven, so having French as a second language made him more prominent to producers.
Marchetti, Roberto
Roberto Marchetti appears in New Moon as a father attending the St. Marcus Day festival in Volterra when his daughter spots Edward in daylight. He is of Italian descent.
Michele, Lauren
Laura Michele appears Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as a socialite. Her Imdb entry is here.
Mooney-Fu, Caitlin
Caitlin Mooney-Fu appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as Kim.
Mooney-Fu grew up in Vancouver, BC and Mancora, Peru. She is currently studying Liberal Arts & Science in Quest University, Canada.
Mooney-Fu likes outdoor sports, especially surfing and snowboarding, and clothing design and singing. She's an athletic-track star, she has done work study with Paris designers, and she is very social conscious. Mooney-Fu has had many good works since her tweens.[12]
Mora, Richard
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There are supposed to be criteria but not sure what they entail. Would make a difference to if Hammersmith get in for instance if juniors are required.
Any ideas on criteria for such a league , juniors for example , or is it envisaged it will purely be on playing standard of the team and percieved willingness to travel?
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Posted 26 November 2012 - 09:27 PM
There are supposed to be criteria but not sure what they entail. Would make a difference to if Hammersmith get in for instance if juniors are required.
At the meeting desirable standards were discussed, and various criteria explained. All clubs have to actually apply to join, justifying why they should get a place, what junior work is being done, clubmark status etc etc. One of the big things was running more than one team. Could be having an 'A' team, or be a team closely linked to a pro club structure (see Skolars, Hallam, Hemel etc).
Some criteria will be set in stone, others will be added over time to get closer to NCL criteria. The idea is high standards as clubs, rather than just decent playing personnel.
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And when you drill into what is actually quantifiable in the NCL criteria, they won't be that far apart.
Quite right, too. I'm sure all the clubs, as well as the RFL, this to be a "proper" Tier 3 division with high standards on and off the pitch.
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Who's the best person to talk to about to learn about the club's experiences. We're doing a similar thing later next year and would be keen to hear some advice.
I'm sure I can write one of those classic self-published RL books about Aouth London one day. The sort that get about 25 readers...
The issues aren't difficult. Essentially, South London were run very well for a long time because there were sufficient development officer resources in there to effectively pay a body to run the club as part of a development officer job (obviously it wasn't full-time club admin, and involved lots of youth work etc). As a result, the club attracted good coaches, good players and offered a top-notch matchday experience (within the limits of Streatham-Croydon RFC's changing facilities !). Then the following happened, much of which happened simultaneously :
- The funding which continued was solely focussed on youth teams. Therefore the open-age side started to get less attention.
- The club somehow began to fall out with their Union landlords, to the extent that the landlords turned down the opportunity to have the new pitch installed for use by both codes at Streatham-Croydon rather than accept a dual code club with some guaranteed league presence. The Union club then attempted to hugely increase the rents, forcing Storm out.
- The decision was taken to build the new pitch at a school in Croydon. This was probably a big mistake, but hindsight is always 20-20
- During a transitional period of a year, Storm based themselves at a different, even more junior, Union club in an area which was much less accessible than Streatham-Croydon. With poor transport links and facilities (pitches open to dog-walkers, hostile locals not above pinching post-protectors and flags), player numbers and quality began to drop off alarmingly. In addition, whereas at Streatham, Storm had been reasonably well integrated as the top of a pyramid of junior sides, it was effectively divorced at the new home, and so received even less attention from development officers, leaving it a one-man band.
- At the same time, the one-man band Storm had become (Gio) was running out of steam. From being essentially paid full-time to manage Storm as one of his jobs, Gio had become a volunteer club admin with no real income for himself. This led to rapid disillusionment, and after a fall-out with a group of players, Gio literally disappeared.
- A group of old Stormers, including myself, Dave Bold, Paul Brown and last-year's manager, Camerdon Paul, stepped back in to try and keep the club going in 2011. We managed to fulfl the season, and even got a few second team games played (although me and Graeme ended up playing again, which was probably not advisable at our great age). But there were already serious problems emerging.
- The pitch is great. The location is terrible. It's a school. There's no bar and no kitchen we can use. There's no pub nearby. Transport links are pretty bad if you're coming from anywhere central. It was hard to attract and keep the sort of player who works in central London, and not being a Union club, we didn't pick up much in the way of interested union players. There was simply no reason for rugby players to be there.
- The school became increasingly unco-operative landlords. They were hiring out the pitch to 5-a-side soccer teams and making a mint. They became very keen to see us give up our training nights so they could make more cash. In part of the deal which to this day I will never understand, the RFL had not insisted on free RL use of the pitch they'd put so much money into. So despite the fact it was paid for by the RFL, Storm were paying large amounts of cash to use their own pitch. In addition, we had several match days when it was dificult to get into and use the changing rooms (and often only one small set of showers worked), and the guys had to produce a heroic effort to bring along a BBQ to provide post-match food and drink. Without a clubhouse though, or indeed anywhere inside, both home and away players didn't tend to hang around long after a game, so there wasn't much of a club atmosphere.
- Last year, Paul and I couldn't continue. Paul because the travelling time was killing him (he lives hours away in East London), and me because my young kids didn't really allow me the time to do training nights and match days. Cameron and Dave kept it going for another year in 2012, but player numbers dropped off dramatically, and there was clearly a downward spiral in evidence. I ended up reffing Souths in a couple of games where they hadn't managed to get the full 13. That's just not what the club has been about since the earliest days.
- As a result, negotiations started with Wests, who had withdrawn from the league after hitting their own player-numbers problem, with a view to forming a joint club playing out of Clapham Common. That seemed a sensible idea to me, but I don't know where negotiations have got to.
1) Location matters. The decision to place the pitch at a school (especially at a school in this location) was a mistake in hindsight. It's just completely unsuitable to supporting an open age club. In London, travelling time is a killer. Couple that with a near complete lack of social facilities, and high costs to play on a pitch your own sport bought, and you will find it almost impossible to sustain an open age club.
2) Club management. The perennial issue in London has always been the impermanent nature of club admins. If you're lucky, you get a few guys who live in a specific area, whose jobs are secure and predictable, who have spare time and whose passion for league means they'll be able to take on the job of running a club. But more often in London, you get clubs bouncing from one admin to the next, with few lasting more than a couple of years. Not many clubs down here have that sort of base. I really wanted to be able to do that for Storm, but I discovered I simply didn't have the time. Cameron's job took him to Hertfordhire, and Paul Brown's business and location limits what time he can commit. None of us live close to Storm's school ground.
I do think it's sad that two of the real solid, bedrock clubs of London RL, Wests and Souths, have both essentially gone to the wall in the same year. Not least because the development officer funding even for kids' rugby is coming to an end next year, and without an integrated senior and junior club system, I'm not at all confident that the junior clubs will survive in south London. Indeed, I think that there could quickly be a RL desert between Elmbridge in the southwest and Greenwich in the southeast (assuming Greenwich pull through).
In terms of what to do, I'm not really in a position to preach, because I can't commit the time to do anything other than referee for a couple of hours each weekend. But I'd say the following offers the best hope :
- Storm should relocate to Streatham Croydon again. I don't know exactly what that row was about, but I think there might have been personalities in there who are now gone. If there's any possibility of a return, then that's the place to go. Transport links, rugby players and decent facilities. I don't know why a separate Croydon club would be set up there. Far better in my view for the people thinking of doing that to simply move Storm in there and take on an existing club with some existing players, and preserve the South London name and tradition.
- If the RFL is in any way interested in preserving the RL scene it has built up over the last decade in south London, then it will need to invest. I think one of the biggest problems of the last five years has been that the RFL-funded bodies on the ground have been focused almost solely on kids' rugby, which means countless development officer hours have been put into maintaining a youth system while the open age club at the top of that youth system has been withering and dying. At least one of those development officers should have had the maintenance of the open age club written into his contract. If there's any funding at all for the area, then that needs to be a priority.
- As for the club in Beckenham, I wish it well. There's a lot of rugby union clubs and players in that area (where I live, as it happens), and they could well get something going that needn't clash with Storm.
- The new pitch in Croydon ? Well I reckon that school's done the deal of the century. They got someone else to pay for an absolute goldmine, and within three years of it being installed, it's going to be essentially wholly owned and operated by the school with no rugby league being played on it. I reckon any aspiring clubs wil be able to buy the rugby posts off them within the year, because the RFL has basically funded a fantastic school 5-a-side soccer pitch.
Posted 07 December 2012 - 09:35 PM
West London Sharks seem to have had their juniors leave London to move to Staines start their decline. But totally agree about linking juniors to open age as South Wales didn't either and have lost the entire open age league as a result.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 09:49 AM
Thanks for that explaination.
Something worrying me about this is that £250.000 was put into a project without security of tenure or being bled dry to play on it. I would question about how throughly this process was checked.
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 01:34 PM
The RFL need to get some funding back into these grassroots to maintain their existence. They should cut the SL money now the clubs are not needing it for their under 20 teams.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 03:53 PM
At a lower level best to work around more localised leagues to help attract more clubs. With the best will in the world neither the merit leagues nor U18 leagues work. Cumbria and North East have much better open age structures without them (although the NE are planning on having a small merit league next year)
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:03 PM
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 05:31 PM
At tier 4 level yes. You still want ideally 2-3 sides in Conference South plus the pro clubs.
It seems to me that London would be better off rationalising resources (playing, financial and personnel) into 8-10 sustainable clubs spread across the city. Too many teams, not enough clubs.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 08:56 PM
The £250,000 down the toilet beggars belief, although I am aware of another example of the RL Foundation getting hoodwinked in this way (albeit on a smaller scale).
I just hope this situation can be rescued
Posted 10 December 2012 - 12:31 PM
Potentially we could have a London division of say:
It seems to me that London would be better off rationalising resources (playing, financial and personnel) into 8-10 sustainable clubs spread across the city. Too many teams, not enough clubs.
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With the number of new clubs it would be best to go for 10 games and semi regionalise to cut down on cross London travel.
Posted 10 December 2012 - 01:17 PM
I know a few years ago a couple of friends and I were looking to get something going in west/central London. The thinking was that the sharks, then based in Osterley, were too far west for us to realistically get to. Anyway, when we approached the London ARL they were concerned about us spreading the resources too thinly. In the end we couldn't find a place to play so it didn't get off the ground, although Hammersmith have since filled the general area we were looking at.
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Posted 10 December 2012 - 06:31 PM
Have they drawn in a high proportion of Aussies and Kiwis who might otherwise have bolstered other clubs around the capital, without actually adding any sustainable long-term benefits (eg, links to the community, local juniors etc)?
Not a dig at HHH, just an honest question.
Edited by Pottsy, 10 December 2012 - 06:32 PM.
Posted 17 December 2012 - 12:09 PM
As an ex-Souths player, Julian's post made enlightening but depressing reading.
The £250,000 down the toilet beggars belief, although I am aware of another example of the RL Foundation getting hoodwinked in this way (albeit on a smaller scale).
I just hope this situation can be rescued
I;m with you on this Rob.. and its very sad that when you think of a few years earlier we were really moving somewhere.. wish i could have helped out the last few years but couldnt do it from so far away. You think of those around in the mid 2000's there arent many of us back in London but all of us would have helped if we could and it tends to show the difficulty Julian mentioned of London, longevity and admin staff.. the amount of htat team no longer in london is massive, all of us loved the club but all of around the same age so have young families and moved away.. London is a very tough place to get things going, once established they are great but it takes more than 10-15 years to establish something in london becuase of this transcience, its a strange old place.
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The perspectives I can provide on schizophrenia are not those of a psychiatrist, psychologist or licensed clinical social worker, but rather those of a consumer and a family member. I have walked the walk on both sides of the street. As such, I can speak with experiential authority. It is my objective to share with you, as best I can, what my experience with schizophrenia has been like on a day to day basis, i.e., to compare notes with you. I will also make observations about being a family member and advocate based on my own experience. Any observations or comments you choose to make in return will be of great value.
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The first symptoms of schizophrenia I experienced were thought insertions.
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In the U.S.A. And a couple other countries they celebrate a holiday called Columbus day. Columbus day is a celebration of the European discovery of North and South America. Some people think its a celebration of Spanish and Italian heritage holiday. People have been debating if the holiday should be celebrated or not. In my opinion there are multiple reasons why we should celebrate Columbus day.
My first Reason is its an American heritage holiday. My second reason is people think because Columbus found by mistake its bad but, he discovered one of the leading manufacturers in the world. My third reason is that its a celebration of the of our country. My reasons are heavily supported.
My opinion is based of heavy research. Some bad things happen but that creates a lot of good things. People may disagree but read my essay please. This is one of the few U.S. Holidays so lets just celebrate it. That is why I celebrate Columbus day.
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The world changed after Columbus found the new world in 1492. 1920 is when Columbus Day was first celebrated. It is on the second Monday on October. People are now starting to question if we should still celebrate Columbus Day. People are wondering if we are celebrating the right thing. In my opinion I don't think that we should celebrate Columbus Day and for several reasons.
When Columbus landed in the new world he didn't respect the natives. The natives gave him gifts and welcomed him to the New World but Columbus didn't show any affection to the natives. When he first saw the natives he thought that they would make good servants. He took some natives as slaves. He made them tell him what they new. He thought that he could take them as slaves and make them do whatever he wanted because he thought he was the first to find the New World. He wasn't even the first to find the New World. The vikings visited the New world and also the natives lived there so they knew about it. Columbus wasn't even the first European to find the new world. He says that if he didn't show them the technology then they would be dead but they have been alive for a long time. They were just fine before he came along. They weren't getting sick before he came along. He bought a disease down there and almost killed all of the natives. He didn't help them he only killed them.
Columbus thinks he helped the natives but he only killed them. He killed more than half the natives. They did not need him to survive because they were alive before he came and now they are dead. In my opinion I think we should not celebrate Columbus Day. He is not worthy a day in my opinion.
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Should the US continue to celebrate Columbus Day? It is a question that is being greatly argued recently. This argument debits whether or not we celibate the man that discovered two new continents and would change the world forever. Some say that Columbus should have never discovered the Americas, but what world would we live in if we did not find the Americas all of Europe would not have found the large amount of wealth later found.
There are some that what Columbus did was not worth it, that north America would have been better with out Columbus's discovery, but think of this, the native Americans had yet to develop the wheel let alone the gun or any kind of armor. Also Columbus reintroduced the horse and provided the cow, pig, and many other animals that had never been seen before that would change the way they live for the good.
Some of the people in America believe that we should not have come here but what good would have that done for the world. Were the conquistadors greedy, yes, but that was not even his fault, he could have chosen what would have happened. In all I think that we should celebrate Columbus day because he found the Americas and changed history and how we thought of the world forever.
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Should we keep celebrating Columbus Day? I think yes we should. Every Second Monday in October, we celebrate that we have a country that has been discovered and we are to be thankful for what we have. Some people say no its a bad idea to celebrate Columbus day. But I think yes we should.
One reason why I think we should celebrate Columbus day is that if Christopher Columbus didn't sail onto the Bahamas, we wouldn't even be living here. If he didn't, we wouldn't even know about the new world which we live on. Another reason, is that people say when he came he ruined the land by cutting down all the trees. But really, he didn't ruin it. Look at what is going on in the world now. Global warming and a oil spill. Yeah and he ruined our world. No he didn't we are ruining it more than he is. One more reason is that we have been celebrating this holiday since 1866. Why would we stop celebrating it after so many years of celebrating it. Also why would we stop celebrating it just cause the people who say we shouldn't doesn't mean we have to stop it. For those people you don't have to celebrate it but we want to.
Christopher Columbus has so many impacts on our world today. Some of us dont agree that he changed the world forever. Imagine if he didn't come. What would we do? Where would we be? Those are just some questions I want to know about Christopher Columbus. From honoring our world that we live in to honoring this day since 1866. I think we should celebrate this holiday. We are not going to stop just because others say we shouldnt.
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There recently has been a question that has been asked, "Should theUS continue to celebrate Columbus day?". Well I personally don't think Columbus day should be celebrated and I don't think that Columbus should be taking someone else's discovery and having a day made for him and yet the other man didn't get any credit. Christopher wasn't even the first to reach America, people where living there before he had arrived. I have many reasons to decide why we shouldn't continue to celebrate Columbus day.
Christopher Columbus enslaved the natives and forced them to work and labor in his plantations and all the profit went to the Europeans. Christopher took many of the diseases he gained in America and took them back to Europe and the Europeans didn't have cures or any idea how to save people from these diseases. We are celebrating a man who failed to discover Asia and appeared in America, but we are basically celebrating a failure.
The holiday includes many pro's and con's about why its good to celebrate this holiday. Most of the stores and restaurants stay open having specials and sales which would increase profit. The schools close for the day, which means kids, and teachers can sleep in for a day. So I think that's why we shouldn't continue to celebrate Columbus Day.
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Should the U.S celebrate Columbus day?
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Every year we Americans, Europeans, and Spanish celebrate Columbus day, but why do we celebrate that day? Columbus day is in celebration of an European explorer who sailed to what he thought was Asia but reached what is Cuba where he and his crew found the Native Americans. which they brought back to Europe on there month long voyage. Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas but he was the only navigator from another continent to find more land, so why are we celebrating what he didn't do. We celebrate this Holiday because of the different opinions between the Americans and Europeans fighting to have this holiday.
By Columbus "discovering" the Americas it led to conquest with the Europeans, which destroyed the Americas culture. What he did bring though was western culture, he also brought Christianity, and new technology for the Native Americans. Though the Native Americans already had advanced cultures and were being dishonored by this explorer. He also found different food supplies that he brought back to Europe Christopher Columbus did help the Native Americans but also destroyed they culture and way of living. He was a famous explorer to the Europeans and Spanish because it helped them with more discoveries of this new world, with more food supplies and other techniques from the Native Americas. The Columbian exchange also led to more cargo and other supplies for the Europeans.
The reasons of Columbus exploring led to more exploration by other navigators. Columbus came to help but mostly hurt the way of life for the Native Americans by making them change the government and way of life. Columbus was one of the many explorers who shaped how we live today, but I think we shouldn't celebrate this holiday. Though most kids in America today see this as another day off of school it also is about describing the beginnings of how our great nation was discovered, and how it came to be today.
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In 1492, 3 ships, the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa-Maria came upon land previously almost unknown to Europeans. The man commanding this ship was named Christopher Columbus, an Italian sailor working for the Spanish. He had discovered the Americas for Europe, for better or for worse. Now, in America we celebrate the day Europe discovered America, though some of us believe that we should not. I, however, believe that Columbus's achievement and spite the nitpickers that believe otherwise.
One of the reasons these people say that Columbus Day should not be celebrated is that the culture of the Native Americans was pretty much destroyed. Well I say, why do you care? It's not as if they had a civilization of great ideas and genius thinkers. With a few exceptions, they were hunter-gatherers, who lived in roaming tribes that didn't have the wheel or even a written language. They may have destroyed a culture, but they replaced it with a highly sophisticated and technologically advanced civilization built on geniuses such as Plato and Socrates, ideas from across more than 20,846,000 square miles. Though there were some civilizations and two very large empires, they lacked the genius that Europe had achieved.
Columbus haters nitpick over some other small reasons. They say that African slavery increased because they needed workers in America. This is untrue. By the time Columbus had returned and sparked the excitement for the New World the Portuguese had already started the slave trade which was cheaper than servant workers and therefore would have expanded anyway. They also talk about how peaceful and good the natives were. Here's the problem with that, they weren't! Humans are a violent race by nature and there were wars fights and death. They bash Columbus again and again for reasons that don't even make any sense.
The worst thing is that when they attack Columbus, it's not just Columbus they're bashing. They're bashing all of Western Culture, our culture! Columbus day isn't a memorial to a European accidentally finding a new landmass, it is honoring our European forefathers that made the Americas into a place of technology. It's honoring the fact that the Europeans brought culture to a level in mere decades, that would take the Natives millenia to achieve on their own. And among us, we have people who are saying that this is bad? If I follow them correctly they want to set us back, say, at the least millenia, the Natives would be at about Roman technologic and cultural age, right now.
So, should we celebrate Columbus Day? The Natives lost all their culture and were destroyed, but what is the loss of a few, small, non-technologically advanced civilizations compared to the gains given from Europe. Maybe slavery did increase, but not because of Columbus. We didn't lose the peace-loving Natives, they were human and thus susceptible to violence. Why do these people want to drop back into the Roman era. We should celebrate Columbus and the Western Culture he brought, and not spite the good they did. Go America, Go Columbus.
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In 1492 Christopher Columbus brought the Eastern Civilization to the Americas. And since 1934 it's been a federal holiday. Everyone gets the day off. They can have the whole day to themselves. They can think about Columbus' great feat. But who does? Do you think about him while you enjoy your day? It's a big question, whether or not we should continue to celebrate it. In reality, most people only know that Columbus came and took the Americas for the eastern civilization. But he also in the process killed of thousands of natives and exploited land that wasn't his to begin with.
I don't think we should celebrate Columbus day because in my opinion he did more damage than good. The diseases his men spread had a horrific result and those alone killed off most of the natives. It's true that without him, it's possible that other voyages wouldn't have been made, and new discovery's would never have happened. But it's also possible that another explorer would've found the America's instead and we would be celebrating another 'hero'. If Columbus had never come, we might not be where we are today. However another strong possibility in that scenario is the Native population would still be the dominating people. Many of them were killed off from diseases that the Europeans weren't aware they were carrying. Another small part were actually killed by the Europeans. Columbus' people were cruel and selfish. They thought the Indians weren't human because they weren't Christians and they were different than the Europeans. Columbus' and his completely dehumanized them and took from they what they wanted. To the Europeans the Natives didn't deserve their land because they refused to exploited they land they lived on. Christopher himself wrote that the Natives were very trusting people and they would be easily turned to slaves. And now America thinks were should celebrate that act of cruelty.
Columbus enslaved, killed and dehumanized innocent people on a land he discovered. He had no respect for the land or the people who inhabited it. He thought they weren't deserving of the land because they refused to ruin it. So we shouldn't celebrate Columbus Day because he really was a cruel man who brought cruel people to ruin a land that wasn't theirs to begin with.
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Columbus Day
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Right now, the US is debating whether we should celebrate Columbus day or not. Of course we should celebrate it if we want to. My family really does not do anything for this holiday except for taking advantage of the no school day and go away for the long weekend. We should celebrate it because we are just celebrating the fact that Columbus ventured to the Caribbean and traded with the natives and started the age of exploration.
Columbus Day should be celebrated for many different ways. He brought over and spread Christianity and lots of Christians would say that was a very good thing because he made them worship a single god and not many gods. He also brought over the horse which for the Native Americans in the great plains is an awesome thing because some living creature that is trainable and fast is good for killing buffalo on. If Columbus had not sailed over, we probably wouldn't have wild horses in the great plains and the southwest. He set sail in 1492 for the Far East of Asia. He was looking for a rout to the exotic spices by going west and not east. He had started the age of exploration and the Colombian exchange. This trade brought over corn and potatoes. Potatoes became a staple crop for the people of Europe.
If you don't want to celebrate it than don't, but we have been celebrating Columbus Day since the 1890's. We can't stop celebrating it now. It is apart of our history and changed the lives of people forever. We celebrate it to remind ourselves of the past history and the stories of explorers. Columbus helped us see the world and it's people. There can be bad things about the finding of the Americas from the Europeans but see it in a good way. He sailed all the way from Spain and sailed for months and risked his life to see the world for the people. Let's keep it that way.
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Every year the U.S.A celebrates a federal holiday called Columbus Day. A federal holiday is a day where most people get o ff from work and many government agencies are closed. I think we should celebrate him because in 1492 when he set sail with his three ships he made a huge impact on history in the New World. So here is the big question in the social studies world should we or should we not celebrate Columbus Day?
People say that he brought everything bad like sickness, witch he did but he did not even know. He actually gave the people of the new world better technology and life like the wheel, armor and the spinning wheel. Also people say all he brought was war and that is why we should not celebrate him. If we do not celebrate him because of war why should we celebrate the 4th of July? These are similar because they where both wars and people got killed and we still celebrate the 4th of July. Last thing he brought was new foods to the Europeans and to the new world he brought foods and also brought trade. The foods that he brought to the Europeans where corn, potatoes and many more staple crops. The fact is we do not celebrate the losers we celebrate the winners and exploring and settling the New World. His voyage helped start European exploration and settlement of the New World.
I hope I convinced you that we should continue celebrating Columbus Day. Not everything he brought to the New World was bad. He brought many good things to the natives and started a new economy with trade from the New World to Europe. His exploration of the New World is the reason that we are here today, and that is why we should celebrate it.
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In 1492 Columbus set sail expecting to go around the world but accidentally ended up discovering North America. Ever since the early 20th century we have been honoring that day. Having Columbus Day has been a very controversial topic for many years. Some recognize it, some don't pay attention to it and some just think of it as a day off from school. I believe that Columbus Day should not be celebrated.
My first reason why we should not celebrate this national holiday is because he didn't really set foot on North America, the closest Columbus got to the place was Cuba! Besides he wasn't the first to discover North America so when you think about it we are celebrating a guy (one of the many) who discovered North America. I'm not saying we should call it cultures day, I'm just saying we should think more deeply into the discovery of North America.
My next reason has to do with what Columbus did to the people and the animals of North America. His discovery started the mass spreading of extinction, decease and genocide to animals an people. Hundreds of thousands of Native Americans were killed and enslaved, not to mention how he forced Christianity on them. Some arguers might think that forcing Christianity on these people was a good thing. If you think about it he came to this place which already had developed cultures until he ruined them by enforcing his beliefs.
Definitely, if I were to research everything about Columbus the cons would definitely out weigh the cons. Everything that Columbus did was wrong. He meant to sail around the world but failed and went off course and he came to North America and took, killed and enslaved anything he saw. So I'll leave you to ponder this thought, should we really celebrate a man who killed, enslaved and decimated people already living in north America.
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AX Paris Curve womens Abstract Dress in black. This pleat front sleeveless dress with its middle waist band is a flattering shape. The blotch print is eyecatching and has a back zip fastening. Approx. length from shoulder to hem: 37". Shell: 65% Nylon, 35% Polyester. Lining: 100% Polyester. Hand wash.
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