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'Relaxed' Wenger plays down contract talk. Again.
Arsene Wenger insists he's relaxed about the prospect of signing a new contract at Arsenal but again stressed that it's not a decision he'll commit to just because the option to extend is on the table.
The manager's current deal runs out in the summer and while Ivan Gazidis and Stan Kroenke have both backed the Frenchman to extend his 17 year tenure in North London the 64-year-old has repeatedly played down suggestions he's close to putting pen-to-paper.
Quizzed on the subject for the umpteenth time at his pre-Cardiff City press conference, Wenger responded to suggestions he might commit before Christmas.
"Why? Do you treat that as a present? The fans don't need to question my commitment to this Club. I just want do well and focus on that.
"I want to make sure I am doing the best for this club… I am relaxed about the situation."
Currently top of the Premier League and Group F in the Champions League and having spent a big wad of cash on Mesut Ozil at the tail end of the season it's fair to say the dissenting voices (let's not be revisionist, at times the frustration got to everyone) who wanted #wengerout have been silenced over the course of the last few months.
On paper it would be the perfect time for Wenger to sign a new deal, but you sense the boss is challenging himself after years of having his reputation questioned. It's obvious how much he wants to get back to winning ways and if anything he seems to be using the prospect of a new contract as a motivational carrot for the rest of the season.
(Press conference quotes courtesy of The Evening Standard's @JamesOlley and @Arsenal)
Too wise to talk anything about the contract and give media an opportunity blow any statement of his out of proportion.
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Spot on.
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In Wenger We Trust
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Sign le ting
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He's a clever man, Arsene. Knows how to deflect attention away from himself and back onto the team. I, for one, am hoping he will sign at the end of the season because I don't see anyone doing a better job than him.
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I can't think of a more relaxing thing than having people want to give me millions a year to manage the Arsenal..
Wenger is going no where until he has a champions league in the bag.
This year however
Were gonna win the league tm
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"Deflecting attention onto the team"? I think not.
The only time we want attention on the team is when they score loads of beautiful goals on the pitch.
Wenger is doing the right thing by talking about his own issues rather than Jack's oral or bladder emissions or Bendtner's proclivities to public nudity.
Up The Arsenal!
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He'll assess himself at the end of the season and decides whether he'll sign or not.
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Just so. There's no need to dance some media/press tune. It's his decision not theirs. In the meantime, if we can win some serious silver wear come May, then he will see that as vindications and sign accordingly.
Simple really.
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He has back-tracked on spending big on a striker in January.
Perhaps he is waiting to see if Stan's purse strings are tied before he signs?
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Spot on. Silent Stan's recent interview massively changed my perception of him (his comments exuded passion about our style of play and character), however bottom line I still feel he values the 'bottom line' above all else.
Also, what happens if Wenger signs a lucrative extension in December, only to have won nothing in May? No doubt some fans migth view that cynically.
Wenger's class is in stark contrast to Tottenham's adolescent manager AVB, who tried to flog himself to Paris St Germain and Real Madrid, even before the season even started.
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wouldnt you do all you could to escape shite hart lane too?
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Sorry Mike my big fat fingers missed and I thumbed you down by mistake but it's a massive thumbs up 🙂
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Imagine the following scenario: Wenger signs contract early; big fanfare, etc.; for whatever reason (injury!) Arsenal stumble in the second half of the season. How will the reaction be then?
One might argue he should sign now while he's on top, but I'm sure Wenger is too proud to be like that. If he can, he would rather deliver first. Else he would leave, having made the attempt.
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I suspect, (as I have since he spoke at length about Ferguson going for 'one last shot' at the title last year, and how he (AW) got a sense of that during the negotiations for van Persie and during games), that this might be Arsene's last shot at the title with us. If we win or show that we're closer than ever, he'll commit.
However, I think he's being sensible by trying to deflate the issue as much as possible.
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Agreed. He is essentially saying to the team: "I have given you everything I can to enable you to win the title. If you want me to stay, you will do me proud on the field". Lets hope the players do him proud.
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@ Jagger you are so right , i wish He tells the players this or they understand this and fight on till the end .. IN ARSENE WE TRUST… GOD BE WITH US TILL MAY
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I just get a feeling boss will leave if we don't win anything this year. The players should give a 100 percent in every game this season just for Arsene! Come on you gunners
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Can't spell arsenal without arsen (minus the 'e' unless of course you're illerate.. but lets not worry about the spuds fans)
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Classic irony!
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Thank you dear AW. As you said before,We are now concentrating on our form on the pitch!!!All eyes on the ball!!!We think of the next game and getting the lovely 3 points!!! i have never doubted AW's excellence and far sighted vision.when AW and the club thinks it is the exact time to talk about contract,we will hear from them with respect and i am sure AW will be with us with many more years!!!
In arsene we trust!!! come on you gunnnerssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
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If it was any other manager, I'd be cynical about his reason and think "yeah right, he's just stalling on his contract and itching to go to PSG and splash the cash".
But this is Arsene Wenger, and if his reasoning is that he wants to critically evaluate his own ability to do the best for Arsenal Football Club, then that is absolutely believable. The fact that we're doing so well and going in the right direction (something that van Cunt doesn't seem to like) explains his calmness about the issue, but also shows the quality of the man at Arsenal's helm.
In Arsene we trust!
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Screw each and everybody (including Blogs at times) who ever doubted Wenger and did not want him at the club anymore.
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It's possible, indeed constructive at times to doubt/criticise, but that doesn't mean there was a lack of respect for him – at least from my point of view.
It's also brilliant to see us doing well again and I'm really happy for him too.
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Blogs has never gone #wengerout. He questioned and criticized decisions made, especially in the summer, while offering his reasoning for doing so. I did too. But he never called for his sacking.
It is also okay to doubt somebody, even if it's Arsene. I mean, even he himself is critical of himself. The alternative (blindly following/supporting without thinking why) is always worse.
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I think the "blindly following Arsene" fans withered on the vine when RVP took his badger sex party to manchester
It was bloody hard being on the trust brigade side – i questioned wenger but never lost faith = much like blogs i suspect… you could see the fog but new there was a vision in it somewhere.
you could taste the failure but occassionally got a smell of promise
I waivered for the first time when we were linked with Ozil – i thought (momentariliy) that this was an all mouth and no trousers pretend interest – that would be rebuffed and leave us with no one.
It was the darkest hour before the dawn coz now…
We are gonna win the league tm
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Do you really think that this is all the re-invention of Arsene's doing? Or do you think he finally listened to Steve Bould? Because let's be honest, we were not always very cohesive when defending and our form ultimately turned around when emphasis was placed on the team defence.
I am not a revisionist. I seriously questioned Wenger's ability to change and am happy that he finally did so.
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You got your name right. If things go bad, blame Arsene, and if things go right, give credit to Bould. Where is the consistency? Wenger can take credit for signing Koscielny and Mertesacker, as much as he has to take the blame for buying Santos, Squillaci and Silvestre.
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I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest Bould has had some impact.
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Wenger hired Bould.
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lol JT please dont talk such truths…. it has become custom for the arsenal fan to create blogs, not to support but to critisise like a cynic.
Obviously the fans know more than Wenger and have contributed more to Arsenal than him.
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I completely agree that Bould has had a significant impact. My issue is with the fact that if this same defense happens to have a leaky patch (hope not), we might see comments like "Wenga shudda fukin bot Cesar" etc.
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Wenger didn't change.
He was steadfast that his vision was correct.
He always maintained that he would spend money when it was available and prudent to do so. He spend 42 million on a real moneyball in ozil
He alwasy tried to find natural defenders who could work together in a simple but effective defensive system.
He always wanted to develop a system that dominated possession and won the ball back quickly.
he always wanted a team built from youth and bolstered by experience
Its not a reinvention, its the inevitable realisation of his vision.
Bould is a year into his first assistant manager job – he is not the brains behind wenger
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Remember all of us gunners fans im really happy a.w has stepped up again from these disasterous seasons of upsets & no cups so peeps went on about i blame the media 2 & certain officials refs & linesmen on certain games anyway look at gunners history i must add a.w sign unless important issue's arise of course even the team want a.w to sign now then look at cesc euro cup winners & world cup winner coyg
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What Leeds United, Portsmouth and Rangers had over the last few years were disasters. All we had was a lack of trophies.
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For Christmas I'm going to buy you a dictionary.
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I think him, the board and the team should just concentrate on this season then go from there.
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If Arsenal does not win anything at the end of the season, Im very certain that AW will not sign the new contract.
But having said that, even if Arsenal wins the BPL or CL or both or the FA Cup, he might still not sign the contract. He might then wanna leave the club on a high.
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to be honest my first thought was contract negotiations take time, they're not 5 minute deals and with games to prepare for hours of football to watch and tactics to hone perhaps he merely dosn't want to distract from that? in which case even more respect for Arsene
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Sign Da Ting.
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I don't think he's using the contract to motivate himself, he's using it to motivate the team and the fans.
1. After years of players making stupid/false demands for a display of ambition and using it to justify leaving, he's letting the players imagine a little bit what they would be without him. Im not even talking about the Dutch cunt btw, unwarranted player cockiness has been on display since at least Vieira. On the current team, Walcott's played this game at least once. There is no coach who adds as much to a players game as Wenger. Not a bad idea to remind them of this.
2. Same applies to fans- abuse (not criticism, thats acceptable) has been well documented. No season is as demonstrative as this one of the fact that losing a talismanic coach is a major setback notwithstanding the players' quality.
I think Wenger will sign if we're top at December end. Basically he wants the extra focus on the fact that this year is the year, but he needs to establish continuity if he wants to sign a striker in January.
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I totally agree, hes kind of saying that he doesnt deserve a new contract if he doesnt bring in silverware this season.. But if he does, then its the perfect time to go on and take Sepp Blatters job instead of singing a new contract..
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Eventhough i know its the best thing to do now, i cant help but feel a bad omen in Arsene delaying the signature. Has he been really affected by the boos of the fans and the letter written by AST who claim to be the representative of all arsenal fans, which publicly insulted wenger asking the board not to renew his contract? Is he considering leaving afterall? Anyway i cant be happy before him signing an extension.. Hope my fears are unreal and he signs at the end of the season after winning us the title.. But i feel the AST should write again asking the board to get wengers signature soon , just to lessen the insult..
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Very clever Wenger…. I suspect he is not signing the contract so when we hit a dip in form (if it does happen) then thr fans won't call for him to be axed and hopefully be more supportive to the team help the dip to recover.
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No one I'd want to be manager more. It's a little concerning that PSG have wanted him for years, and that he was involved in the Qataris buying the club in the first place. But let's hope he stays at Arsenal for years to come.
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Blog out!
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If there's one person on earth I'd love to meet it'd be Arsene Wenger.
Such a philosophy, such a believer, such a genuinely nice person. Any other view on him is just ridiculous.
I remember being in West stand lower last season and some one of our fans was stood up the whole game shouting at him to leave.
Proud to say that everyone else in the crowd was either glaring at him, ignoring him, or telling him to shut the fuck up.
I'll be gutted when he leaves because I can't see anyone else that can replace that.
Going to make the most out of his tenure.
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Apologies for the ambiguity, there were two initially, but one of the quieted down once he realised he wasn't one of the army.
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"that gut at Southampton might be a better bet"
Spoken like someone with a real knowledge of football management and managers.
Arsene has spoken only this year about his love of life in London and how could spent the rest of his life here. That does not mean he won't leave, he may. What need, though, is there for him to sign now? I don't think the players needed added stability at a club with the longest serving manager in the league.
I for one hope that he has a reason to stay; after seeing a very positive season that he believes to be the beginnings of another period of Arsenal domestic dominance with a genuine belief we can go one better than the defeat in Paris.
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End is nigh?
I wish your end was 10 years back!
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That would be before he was born, in mental development years.
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33 people think youre an idiot, they cant all be wrong.
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33? Try the entire population of Earth!
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And its now 43
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I think the fact that he knows Özil only committed the next five years of his life to Arsenal because he is the manager means it's pretty much certain that he'll sign up.
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He is different this season, which Santi confirmed. I think he he has challenged himself and the team more.
Just can't see him quitting after this season after finally (hopefully) keeping all our key players. As much as it hurt the club, each one of those losses hurt him personally, none more so than Cesc (no matter what he says), just like the rest of us.
We can all certainly disagree/criticize him at times, but there's no doubting his passion for the Arsenal. Also, ask Henry, Cesc, and even Jack yesterday: "who's had the biggest impact on your career?" Easy. Wenger.
I desperately want him to be able to leave on a high note with his legacy intact. But not anytime soon.
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What's this Wenger to PSG non sense? Laurent Blanc is about to be extended for a further 2 years…
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I agree.
Wenger will not go there (to PSG), ever. He might go the the Sorbonne but not to another football club.
If he finishes up at The Arsenal he will be retire from managing a football team
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He's not just a coach he's a manager. Even though he is considered one of the best managers of all time I still think he is underated, especially in the last few years.
The last 10 years have been one of the best managerial operations in football history, and it's coming to fruition now.
I hope Wenger stays for a few more years to come. This team excites him, you can see it. I think he'll stick around for a bit.
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The team below cost less than Chelsea paid for Torres. Less than United paid for Rooney+Rio. Less than City paid for Nasri+Milner. Less than Liverpool paid for Carroll+Downing.
Jenkinson Mertesacker Koscielny Gibbs
Walcott Wilshere Flamini Ramsey Rosicky
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Considering that Poldi and Ox come back in a months time, if we have everybody fit I very much fancy our chances in a two-tie champions league match against Bayern.
Wagner who?
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Since nobody seems to have replied to my question:
It is just the guy who assembled the whole team. (No-one really)
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It will all depend on whether we can win something this season. Im praying we do. God bless that team to win the trophies this season.
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God is a Gooner!
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magical Arsene
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Hate to say it, but i think Wenger is leaving at the end of the season. I think he's trying to leave on a high like fergie did. If he does sign a new contract, it'll certainly be his last. I've thought long and hard, it'll be really odd watching Arsenal without him.
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There was an arsenal before wenger and there will be an arsenal after wenger.
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Fuck you and your little piss-poor club of alcoholics and gamblers.
The club belongs to Arsene now. He built it from scratch.
Enough with you jerks and your 'old arsenal'……
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Hang on. At first look that might seem like a plausible thing to say, but it's not.
The fact that the board chose to hire a relatively unknown guy, managing at the time in some exotic eastern country – a concept utterly absurd at the time – and then supported him through thick and thin, suggests that there was something indeed special about the pre-Wenger Arsenal.
The board has done for Arsenal as much as Arsene has done for the club; the man himself admits as much.
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There were no invincibles before Arsene. There will be no invincibles after Arsene.
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Just taken a look on the latest training pictures. Bendtner is in two of them, while Giroud in none. Giroud must be carrying a knock. Fucking doomed!
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Theo must start up front if this is true
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If Wenger decided to leave, we only have ourselves to blame. All the shit we Fans have thrown at him for the last 8 years will haunt him in deciding his future.
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I think it is possible that Arsene may be considering retirement if he can manage to win the Premier or Champions league this year and that is why he is reluctant to sign a contract extension. If Arsenal fail to do this, only then he will then decide if he wants to give it another shot next year.
I cannot see his moving to another club as a possibility.
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I think Arsene was managing in second gear since our move to The Emirates. His body language was of a man under orders, taking one for the team. You just need to look at the difference this year, he has his mojo back, he has the tools and you feel he can smell success is a real possibility. Last season i had given up on him totally and thought he had been left behind tactically but this season he has been so astute tactically and has reinvented the team with a new work ethic and solidarity. I love how the team is playing, the way its playing and its personality. All down to the manager who has shown how adept and adaptable he is. I'm happy for him and I'm happy for me cos i get to watch this shit every week
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I've said this before and I'll say it again. I want Arsene to stay on until 2023. That's as long as he realistically could. Ferguson had 10 free years before Wenger arrived to challenge him. It's time for Arsene to enjoy being The Boss of the premiership. He's top dog now, I want him to leave only after a decade of success that he deserves with this team, and when he leaves he will leave a much greater legacy than Ferguson. In terms of off the field innovations and achievements Wenger is better than almost any manager in history.
It's time for him to finally build a dynasty and get the on field success, Red Nose's exit has paved the way for Arsene to knock those fuckers off their perch.
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(let's not be revisionist, at times the frustration got to everyone)
not everyone….only the fools
those who know football and understand its complications and what this club went through had no frustrations other than watching a bunch of criminals either breaking our players legs or criminals with whistles blocking our way.
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I still want a new manager at the end of this season and I have always said that I would love for Wenger to go out in a blaze of glory. I hope he will and I believe, regardless of my opinion, that this is his last season as manager.
I would love if he remained in the club after his managing career as head of youth development to keep his, and the clubs, traditions.
That said I wouldnt mind if he signed a new conntract but I dont think he will.
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Yup, Arsene should be the head of youth development, for someone like Mourinho to loan them all out to Vitesse Arnhem.
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Yeah 2007 should have been our title but went tits up when Eduardo got savaged and 2003 title should have been ours but for that gimp ref sending of sol in the manure match for what? Oh yeah fergie had the ref in his pocket
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Doesn't Wenger always delay signing a new contract?
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Arsene is a great man. He has been at Arsenal for 17 years and has the complete trust of the Board. His contract is a non issue. Its like any other job where you know your valued and the contract becomes secondary while the job comes first. He could sign the thing today tomorrow or at the end of the season it doesnt matter, since it doesn't really affect his position and thats a good thing. For me the managers contract thing and timing doesnt apply on Arsenal as much as it didnt at Man U when Fergie was incharge.
Secondly I'm when of the few who always backed Arsene. But I am not afraid to admit that he made a few mistakes in last few years specially with signings which cost us. Yes money was tight but he made few mistakes, add to that the unbelievable disloyalty of some of his players and we struggled. He has been incharge for 17 years, and in the last two seasons he has showed that he may have leant from his mistakes. I can surely see Gunners winning it Championship this season cuz we are too mature to drop points at low ranked teams anymore. The ruthlessness and discipline of our midfield (defense and attack) will ensure that. COYG.. Loving this season!!
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Dont get me wrong i am pleased that wenger has built a good team again. I was only stating that when he does eventually leave arsenal will still be arsenal.
I am grateful for what he has done for our club and hope he can win a few more.
Yes i have questioned his judgement over his tenure but am very happy to be being proved wrong. Long may it continue
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They want to pay me.
I want to get me on a free.
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Friday, April 13, 2007
Where's all that global warming?
This is not a political post, honestly. But after spending the last two nights at Shea Stadium, I'm finding it hard to believe in the concept of global warming.
Before the Mets' 5-3 win over Philly, Mets manager Willie Randolph recalled Game 1 of the 1976 World Series, when he couldn't feel the baseball on a grounder that was hit to him. And that was in a day game, back when they played those during the World Series. I was young then, but I do recall that during Game 2, which was at night, the late Bowie Kuhn didn't wear an overcoat over his suit. The then-baseball commissioner was trying to show us how warm it was. Didn't work.
It was cold then, and it's cold now. A lot of solutions have been proposed--play early-season games in domes and/or warm-weather sites. Of course, one that won't be proposed is to move the season back about a week or two and actually schedule doubleheaders and give the fans some more bang for their buck.


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Where We Serve
Where the Stories of Our Faith Live
Today, Franciscans serve in the following countries: Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and the islands of Cyprus and Rhodes. Some 300 friars are present in these countries, working in collaboration with about 100 sisters from various congregations.
The Franciscans serve the principal shrines of the Redemption, among which the Holy Sepulchre, the Nativity at Bethlehem and the Annunciation at Nazareth hold pride of place.


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GIPA to MIPA
GIPA – Greater involvement of People Living with HIV and AIDS
MIPA – Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV.
In December 1994, at the Paris Summit, 42 nations, including the Philippines, declared their support for greater involvement of people living with HIV (PLHIVs) in prevention and care, policy formulation, and service delivery. Signatory governments to the Paris Declaration undertook to "support a greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS through an initiative to strengthen the capacity and coordination of networks of people living with HIV/AIDS and community-based organizations. By ensuring their full involvement in our common response to the pandemic at all national, regional and global-levels, this initiative will, in particular, stimulate the creation of supportive, political, legal and social environments (Paris Declaration, 1994)." Since the Paris Summit, GIPA has been endorsed in numerous international statements, most recently by the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, which acknowledges "the particular role and significant contribution of people living with HIV/AIDS, young people and civil society actors in addressing the problem of HIV/AIDS in all its aspects and recognizing that their full involvement and participation in design, planning, implementation and evaluation of programs is crucial to the development of effective responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic (United Nations, 2001, paragraph 33)."
People with HIV/AIDS always ask what we can do to make a difference, to make life easier for myself and others with HIV/AIDS. We also often hear that GIPA is regarded as a best practice, but it does not answer the question WHY involvement is good, nor does it address the issues that make involvement so difficult.
"In this note, I would like to address that question by looking at the reasons for involvement, the factors hindering involvement, and the actions we persons with HIV/AIDS can take to become active players in the national response to HIV/AIDS".
a) Reasons for involvement.
b) Factors impending involvement.
c) How to involve PLHIVs.
d) The scope of our involvement.
Decision Makers: PLHIV participates in decision making, or policy making bodies; and their inputs are valued equally with all the other members of these bodies.
PLHIVs are recognized as important sources of information, knowledge and skills who participate on the same level as professionals; in design, adaptation, and evaluation of interventions.
PLHIV carry out real but instrumental roles in interventions (e.g as carers, peers educator or outreach workers).
Activities involves the PLHIVs only marginally, generally when the PLHIV is already well- known.
PLHIV are used as spokesperson in campaigns to change behaviors, or are brought into conferences or meetings to " share their views" but otherwise do not participate.
Target Audience:
Activities are aimed at or conducted for PLHIV, or address them en masse, rather as individuals. They can provide important feedback which in turn can influence or inform the sources of the information.
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GI Schmo
How low can Army recruiters go?
Three months ago, I wrote that the war in Iraq was wrecking the U.S. Army, and since then the evidence has only mounted, steeply. Faced with repeated failures to meet its recruitment targets, the Army has had to lower its standards dramatically. First it relaxed restrictions against high-school drop-outs. Then it started letting in more applicants who score in the lowest third on the armed forces aptitude test—a group, known as Category IV recruits, who have been kept to exceedingly small numbers, as a matter of firm policy, for the past 20 years. (There is also a Category V—those who score in the lowest 10th percentile. They have always been ineligible for service in the armed forces and, presumably, always will be.)
The bad news is twofold. First, the number of Category IV recruits is starting to skyrocket. Second, a new study compellingly demonstrates that, in all realms of military activity, intelligence does matter. Smarter soldiers and units perform their tasks better; dumber ones do theirs worse.
Until just last year, the Army had no trouble attracting recruits and therefore no need to dip into the dregs. As late as 2004, fully 92 percent of new Army recruits had graduated high school and just 0.6 percent scored Category IV on the military aptitude test.
Then came the spiraling casualties in Iraq, the diminishing popularity of the war itself, and the subsequent crisis in recruitment.
In response to the tightening trends, on Sept. 20, 2005, the Defense Department released DoD Instruction 1145.01, which allows 4 percent of each year's recruits to be Category IV applicants—up from the 2 percent limit that had been in place since the mid-1980s. Even so, in October, the Army had such a hard time filling its slots that the floodgates had to be opened; 12 percent of that month's active-duty recruits were Category IV. November was another disastrous month; Army officials won't even say how many Cat IV applicants they took in, except to acknowledge that the percentage was in "double digits."
(These officials insist that they will stay within the 4 percent limit for the entire fiscal year, which runs from October 2005 through September 2006. But given the extremely high percentage of Cat IVs recruited in the fiscal year's first two months, this pledge may be impossible to keep. For the math on this point, click
Some may wonder: So what? Can't someone who scores low on an aptitude test, even very low, go on to become a fine, competent soldier, especially after going through boot camp and training? No question. Some college drop-outs also end up doing very well in business and other professions. But in general, in the military no less than in the civilian world, the norm turns out to be otherwise.
In a RAND Corp. report commissioned by the office of the secretary of defense and published in 2005, military analyst Jennifer Kavanagh * reviewed a spate of recent statistical studies on the various factors that determine military performance—experience, training, aptitude, and so forth—and concluded that aptitude is key. A force "made up of personnel with high AFQT [armed forces aptitude test] scores," Kavanagh writes, "contributes to a more effective and accurate team performance."
The evidence is overwhelming. Take tank gunners. You wouldn't think intelligence would have much effect on the ability to shoot straight, but apparently it does. Replacing a gunner who'd scored Category IV on the aptitude test (ranking in the 10-30 percentile) with one who'd scored Category IIIA (50-64 percentile) improved the chances of hitting targets by 34 percent. (For more on the meaning of the test scores, click here.)
In another study cited by the RAND report, 84 three-man teams from the Army's active-duty signal battalions were given the task of making a communications system operational. Teams consisting of Category IIIA personnel had a 67 percent chance of succeeding. Those consisting of Category IIIB (who'd ranked in the 31-49 percentile on the aptitude test) had a 47 percent chance. Those with Category IV personnel had only a 29 percent chance.


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I have to confess that only one of my 5 has had their eyes properly tested by an optometrist, two have had eye screening at preschool and two haven't had their eyes tested at all. Growing up both my sister and I had glasses and patches for our lazy eyes and I still bear the scar from when I ran down the hallway, tripped on a straw mat and had my metal glasses go through my cheek and ended up with stitches. It was plastic glasses all the way after that and my mum saying ' that's why I told you not to run down the hallway'.
If you're a bit like me or haven't had any eye testing done then you are going to love this. Penny the Pirate is a brand new book from OPSM to help parents screen their little one's eyes. It's a world first and of course it doesn't replace a full eye test but helps you identify any problems with your child's vision so that you can book them in for an eye test if necessary. The book is recommended for children aged 3-10 and I used it on my eldest 3 since my littlest miss 3 has special needs and would be unable to recognise the shapes. So if your child can recognise shapes and follow simple instructions then this book will be great to use at home.
It's all very simple – you can download the free app or order the book for free from OPSM here. If you download the app you will be sent out the kit for free once you place the order.
And when you use the book or app there are 3 things being screened. Distance vision, colour vision and depth perception.
I tested the 3 big kids. It took less than 10 minutes for each of them and I had to 'politely tell' whoever wasn't being screened to leave the room several times so they couldn't see what was going on or hear answers. There was a lot of excitement and everyone wanted a go so I had to tell them a few times to leave the room. And don't let the little ones read the book until you've done the screening with each of them as it could affect the results. At the end of the screening you simply enter the code in your booklet as well as the results you have written down. Then you will see the overall results appear as well as receive an email.
All 3 of mine had trouble with the patch and spyglass and seeing things from a distance so I'll be booking them an eye test each. This wouldn't surprise me as both my sister and I have trouble with seeing things in the distance.
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Barbaro - a tribute.
Insight and commentary on the world of thoroughbred horse racing.
Thoughts and opinions about the fascinating sport of thoroughbred horse racing from a racing insider.
January 31, 2007
For the last twenty years or so, I've spent the winter and early spring months searching for the winner of the Kentucky Derby. In 2006, Barbaro found me. More than once actually.
The first time I heard the word 'freak' and 'Barbaro' in the same sentence was last February. A co-worker of mine, Mike, had seen Barbaro on a trip to Florida and came back to Kentucky raving about him.
'Yeah, ok,' I thought, 'he's a nice grass horse and he handled the slop in the Holy Bull'.
I kept on looking.
Last March, I accepted an assignment for The Horseplayer magazine and was asked to do a short profile on Barbaro and his chances in the Derby. For the project, I went back and reviewed all his races and I was struck by how competitive, yet responsive, he was. I was impressed at how he kindly rated behind horses, even though it was clear that he couldn't wait for Edgar Prado to say 'go'. And when he was let loose, as odd as it sounds, he seemed to enjoy running away from the other horses.
In Horseplayer I wrote of Barbaro:
I turned in the Barbaro profile a few days after the Florida Derby and I still had five weeks to make a final Derby decision. My search continued.
One of the perks of working for a Central Kentucky stallion farm is having the opportunity to 'meet' some nice horses. After Barbaro proved he could handle a dry dirt surface in the Florida Derby, he became a much more intriguing stallion prospect. So our Stallion Director, Byron, arranged a viewing while the horse was stabled at Keeneland last April.
I'd be less than honest if I said I went along solely in my official capacity of evaluating Barbaro as a potential stallion. I was, after all, still looking for the Derby winner and here was a chance to get up close and personal with this unbeaten son of Dynaformer (this freak?).
It was one of those perfect, sunny, Kentucky April days when Peter Brett led Barbaro out of his stall and up the slight incline to the walking ring. I don't know why I wasn't immediately awed by the horse. He was certainly classy, all class really, with the brightest of eyes and coolest of demeanors. And he was a big horse, but his size didn't seem to come at the expense of athleticism. I also remember thinking that he was dead fit and that the five week gap between the Florida and Kentucky Derbies wouldn't make the slightest difference.
Mr. Brett gave us the obligatory parade; Byron analyzed Barbaro's confirmation and walk with high end breeders in mind. I eyed Barbaro closely with Derby Day in mind. We had a nice chat with Mr. Brett afterward as Barbaro calmly grazed on some fresh spring grass. The bond between that man and that horse, which I would read about later, was clearly evident. Not long after everything went wrong on Preakness Day, I thought of Mr. Brett and how beyond devastated he must have been.
I walked away from Barbaro that day a little confused, though, saying to Byron: 'He's a really nice horse, but I just don't know….' So the search continued.
About 10 days later, and exactly one week before the 132nd Kentucky Derby, I was on the backside at Churchill Downs, standing at the clocker's stand where the chute meets the main track. I happened to turn my attention from the horses galloping by and noticed a horse, accompanied by a pony, standing in the middle of the chute.
'Who is that?!,' I remember excitedly thinking.
"Oh, that's Barbaro… Barbaro!," I said to myself after recognizing Michael Matz on the pony.
Barbaro's awesome presence hit me like bolt of lightning. I quickly realized that I wasn't skilled enough to see it in the docile surroundings at Keeneland. But, on the track, ready for business, he oozed greatness, and even a hack like me could see it then.
I would see Barbaro again about 15 minutes later as he galloped around the first turn after his final pre-Derby workout. The horse never was the prettiest mover, but I was again amazed at how much he enjoyed what he was doing, reaching out with his forelimbs and neck, as if he thought he take off and fly. And that was while he was being geared down by the rider.
The backstretch during Derby Week is pretty chaotic and my attention was drawn away from Barbaro for a moment, maybe two. But when I turned back to where I thought Barbaro would be, where he should be after that moment or two out of my sight, he wasn't there. I craned my neck a bit to see more of the track and there he was, way up there, well beyond where my instinct told me would be.
I'll never forget saying to myself: 'Wow, that horse just covered a lot of ground'. My search for the winner of the 2006 Kentucky Derby ended right there.
Barbaro's racetrack resume is short, but to me, he was the ultimate manifestation of the thoroughbred racehorse. He was talented and athletic and fast to be sure. But it was those brilliant bright eyes that let us look inside and revealed that incomparable spirit, that desire to conquer and vanquish his rivals. There was almost something human about Barbaro, and all the outpouring since May 20 leads me to believe a lot of other people sensed that too.
I was heartened whenever I saw video or photos of Barbaro during his recovery. He still had that look. Even though his legs could no longer carry him into battle, those sparkling eyes told me he was somehow the same horse. He had accepted his new challenge and was determined to beat it, just as he had beaten every single horse he was able to run against.
If I could see it, then I know the Jacksons and Dr. Richardson and the New Bolton staff could see it. As long as those eyes still illuminated the room, he had a chance.
I suspect after the last ditch surgery over the weekend, the lights faded off. Just as Barbaro's eyes reflected his spirit and courage, telling his handlers it was ok to go on, they just as certainly told them the long fight was over.
At the press conference on the Monday of Barbaro's death, Dr. Richardson said that Barbaro 'had a lot of good days' since his breakdown. I smiled when I heard that, teared up a bit too, to be perfectly honest.
Barbaro gave a lot of people a lot of good days. He has left us with the memories, the framed pictures, the disposable camera and cell phone photos, the mental images to hang on to and they will help us measure future immortality. It will no longer be enough for a horse to run fast and run far and win grade one after grade one by wide margins. From now they will have to show us inside, perhaps through the window of the eyes, perhaps in some other more subtle manner. Before we put another horse in the pantheon of true greatness, they must show us the same fortitude and class we saw in Barbaro.
I can only hope that I'll be lucky enough to again see what I saw in Barbaro. And if that day should ever come, I hope I notice it the first time.
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Hello Gina,
I am not sure I am replying to you correctly. So far you have looked at my books of.. Southern India Iran and Sri Lanka.
I have not made my books "PUBLIC" before so this is a new learning curve for me. For example........did you get my reply to you about Iran??? I think I may have sent my reply of into the 'NEVER NEVERS"
I also suggested you can contact me by email at...email@example.com My wife and I live in Sydney Australia.
If you have not been getting my replies about countries we have visited, it would be easier to explain by email.
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Hello Gina,
First let me say 'thank you' for your kind comments about my 'SOUTHERHN INDIA" book.
I have looked at your books which have some wonderful photos. I did notice in your book "WUSTENTRAUME" (?) a two page spread of a camel convoy crossing a desert with mountains in the background. The mountains on the right hand page are not lined up with the left hand page. I made the same mistake when I first started photo books. Fortunately I had help from a professional photographer/teacher. So I quickly learned to watch my two page spreads. The teacher also taught me to leave space around photos and not to butt them hard up against each other, unless it was a continuing photo in a two page spread.
I hope these suggestions will help with your next book. They are not meant to be criticisms.
I am off to Japan in October, so there will be another photo book to create.
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River Blindness
The Army Corps of Engineers' continuing campaign to pour concrete into the Mississippi.
In February 2000, the Army Corps of Engineers got busted cooking its books to try to justify a $1 billion lock-expansion project on the Mississippi River. It became a juicy scandal—not because make-work disguised as public works was so shocking, but because corps officials had left an amusing paper trail of their efforts to "get creative" with their economic studies in order to "grow the program" with porky boondoggles. The corps was humiliated, and the Mississippi study, the largest in corps history, was sent back to the drawing board.
Now it's back from the drawing board, and the corps is no longer pushing a $1 billion project to improve navigation on the upper Mississippi. Instead, it's pushing projects that could cost more than $10 billion to improve navigation and the environment on the upper Mississippi. It's as if Arthur Andersen had stayed in the auditing business—and decided that Enron was doing even better than it had thought.
For decades, the corps has built ecologically harmful and fiscally wasteful water projects based on outlandish economic studies, channelizing rivers and deepening ports for barges and ships that never materialize, defacing the American landscape with levees, jetties, and dams that never produce their promised benefits. The corps gets away with it because members of Congress and powerful interest groups love water projects, and because few others care about water projects, and because water project studies can be somewhat complex. But the upper Mississippi fiasco may be the ultimate test of a bureaucracy's ability to spin the unspinnable.
The Mississippi is one of the few waterways that barges do use in large numbers, and Midwestern barge operators have complained for years that they waste too much time lining up for undersized locks on its upper reaches. So in 1993, a corps economist named Don Sweeney was assigned to lead an economics team to study lock expansions. Sweeney knew his agency had a long history of overestimating the demand for big navigation projects; for example, it had forecast 27 million tons of barge traffic for the first year of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, which was 25.3 million tons too high. The "tow-cost" economic model the corps had used to justify its boondoggles was laughably primitive; it assumed that shippers would use barges regardless of their price. So Sweeney developed a more sophisticated but less rosy analytical model that was hailed by transportation economists as a great leap forward.
In 1998, Sweeney concluded that the cost of lock expansions to taxpayers would far outweigh the benefits to farm and barge interests and suggested that delays on the river could be eased with modest low-cost measures like scheduling changes, congestion fees, and new moorings. But that was not what his construction-minded bosses wanted to hear. So Sweeney was yanked off the study.
That's when corps officials started sending e-mails demanding "reasonably plausible" rationales for construction and ordering study team members to consider themselves navigation advocates rather than objective analysts. There's no need to rehash them here ... except that it's fun! "The team should determine an alternative ... that appears to be most likely to justify large-scale improvements in the near future," one memo reported. "If the [economics] ... do not capture the need for navigation improvements, then we have to figure out some other way to do it," Sweeney's replacement declared. Corps generals actually devised a secret "Program Growth Initiative" designed to boost the entire agency's budget. "We have been encouraged to have our study managers not take 'no' for an answer," one memo announced. "The push to grow the program is coming from the top down."
The corps brass had violated the first rule of politics: Don't write down anything you don't want to see on the front page of the Washington Post—which is where all those e-mails ended up. Scandal ensued. A Pentagon investigation concluded that corps studies were systematically biased in favor of massive construction projects. The National Academy of Sciences, General Accounting Office, and Office for Special Counsel all savaged the corps, too. The new corps commander promised reforms and vowed that the agency's days of trying to grow its program were over.
But when the corps restarted the upper Mississippi study, its initial strategy was to reinstate the discredited tow-cost model and blame the scandal on Sweeney. This didn't fly. President Bush's budget office publicly trashed the tow-cost model, and the corps had to go back to the drawing board yet again. So now the corps has adopted a new strategy: It plans to recommend politically correct environmental as well as navigation improvements. It also plans to base its recommendations on "scenarios" rather than forecasts, which would insulate the corps from criticism when additional barges don't materialize. In recent public meetings, the corps has floated a Chinese menu of possible project combinations: six navigation options, ranging from nothing to $2.3 billion for six new locks and five lock extensions, along with five environmental options, ranging from nothing to $8.4 billion worth of habitat restoration. The corps will recommend one option from both columns to Congress next year, and it clearly hopes that the prospect of billions of dollars for restoration will persuade enviros to soften their opposition to billions of dollars for navigation.
I can't say much about the various environmental options; they're still vague, although the corps, with typically ludicrous precision, has announced that the most expensive would restore 83 percent of the river's ecological functions. But it's worth noting that the corps is already spending $8 billion to restore the Florida Everglades and wants to spend $14 billion to restore Louisiana's coastal wetlands, plus billions more on other ecosystems, and that none of these efforts are uncontroversial, even among enviros. Let's just say that environmental restoration has become an excellent Program Growth Initiative for the corps.
But take a closer look at the navigation side, the crux of the scandal in 2000. Back then, the case for lock expansions was based on a study by a corps economic consultant, the Sparks Cos., predicting huge increases in corn and other grain shipments on the river. But over the last 20 years, grain shipments on the Mississippi have been consistently flat, and the original Sparks forecasts have already turned out to be wildly overoptimistic, as these graphs illustrate. The National Academy also pointed out that even if the Sparks fairy tales of booming traffic had come true, there would have been no economic justification for expanding the locks for at least a decade, until the traffic was actually booming. In fact, corps officials admit that unless grain traffic increases dramatically on the Mississippi, there is no need for major navigation improvements. "You'd need significant growth to justify a project," says Denny Lundberg, the new study leader. "If it's just a flatline, you wouldn't want to recommend doing anything."


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Many people have stopped drinking through the 12 Steps of the programme of recovery of Alcoholics Anonymous. Can active 'Jdubs' join AA to get over their addiction?
The Watchtower and Alcoholics Anonymous
by maputo95 19 Replies latest jw friends
In this area it is left to the choice of the jw. Not all rehab programs have an AA component. It is not necessary to chant the Lord's prayer either, but the Serenity prayer may be substituted. There are many atheist/agnostic alcoholics in this area who have no desire to add religion to the mix and substitute "higher power" for "God" to accommodate such members. I have known jws to go to AA and it helped them in a way that the WTS never did but the jw did not leave the organization. The elders were relieved they were getting help and that it did not involve any time on the part of the elders.
*** g05 10/8 p. 11 Breaking the Chains of Alcohol Abuse ***
There are many treatment centers, hospitals, and recovery programs that can provide help. Jehovah's Witnesses do not endorse any particular treatment. Care must be exercised so that one does not become involved in activities that would compromise Scriptural principles. In the final analysis, however, each will have to decide for himself what type of treatment is needed.
The actual figures on how many persons RECOVER while under treatment attending Alcoholics Anonymous is the SAME as the number who are successful going "cold turkey" all by themselves.
About 12%
AA hides their success rate as best they can.
They are really a religious organization.
I would imagine the Watchtower has a similar recovery rate.
(p.s. 88% failure rate)
In addition to what Terry said, there are secular recovery groups for those who want to join a group to help in their recovery.
What is more important than peer support groups is professional treatment, which the dubs hate even more than AA!
I used to be a counselor and I have always felt the religious-based groups and/or treatment models can be a harmful to former members of religious cults. I wrote about it in a treatment manual for clinicians here.
I knew a dub who attended AA as part of her court-ordered recovery plan. The elders were really dismayed & felt it was an inappropriate compromise of xian values [or whatever the lingo was]. She didn't participate in the prayer part of the AA meeting. The dubbies undermined everything she learned at the AA meetings, basically saying they were wrong about everything. (I mean, come on, they're not wrong about everything.)
Above I posted a link to other rehab groups. I'll post it here again if you are interested in looking at it.
I will add that over the years several jws have attended AA meetings without being harassed or pressured to stop by the elders or rank and file jws. Every BOE is different. But as the quote above from the publications says, it is officially a personal decision.
AA is not the only way to stop drinking and start living! Many have stopped by using other therapies and none at all. However, it worked a treat for me and opened my spiritual eyes. I am very grateful to AA but I would not push it down anyone's throat, never!
Addictions can be likened to a locked door.
You keep trying different keys until the door unlocks and you can escape the room you're in by walking through it.
For 12% of the alcoholic population AA is the key.
My father was an alcoholic. I only met him twice. I searched and found him in Detroit when I was 25.
He once looked me up when I was living in California (I was now 33). He came over to spend the night, ate supper with me and my wife and said he had to "go buy some socks".
He left around 7 in the evening and didn't return until 3:00 in the morning drunk as the skunk he truly was.
He never reformed. Never tried.
Terry. your story touches me deeply. I am so sorry about how alcoholism has affected you and really hope your father finds sobriety and serenity. I was truly hopeless and lost cars, families and jobs. I got a sponsor and 3 months later the compulsion suddenly left and touch wood has never returned. Your Dad is suffering from a mental. spiritual and physical disease for which there is a cure. If the cure is not affected then the ONLY outcome for the practising alcoholic is insanity or death or both.
I knew of numerous witnesses who had a serious drinking problem - including more than one elder.
Only one JW that I am aware of was disfellowshipped for this - she was the mother of a girlfriend back in the 1960s. As with most JW DFings, it was more about the fact that she was nonresponsive to the committee and really could care less about being a witness anyway.
In no case whatsoever was any effective assistance offered or given.
...a mental. spiritual and physical disease for which there is a cure.
While I won't deny that there is some mental issue that causes one to be prone to alcoholism, I have never accepted that alcoholism is a physical disease. One can't go to the doctor, get some blood work done and then be told you're an alcoholic.
The effects of being an alcoholic can cause physical diseases but alcoholism as a physical disease? No. Not any more than smoking is a disease.
An unpopular opinion, I know, but I think too many people want to blame something outside of their control for their problem. I have family members who are alcoholics. And they go to AA meetings and they pretend that it's something they were born with and can't change. As long as they have that attitude, they'll never change. If you think it's something out of your control, it's too easy to blame it on your genetics or your 'disease'. But if you realize that you have the power to beat this, then your odds improve immediately.
I think we do people a disservice by giving them the out of blaming it somewhere than their own behavior. It's not an easy thing to conquer, I know, but having that ready made label of "disease" just perpetrates a helplessness that is defeatist.
The fantasy of the alcholoic trying to 'conquer' the addiction on their own is the basic one that councelors and 12 groups must work to dispel first.
If he can do it on his own, why get help? You see? It's that idea of doing it on their own that keeps them from getting help often times for years and years... Doing it on his own is what got the addict where they are. Doing it on his own and never actually doing it is classic addict behavior and thinking.
Alcholoics and addicts need help. They need guidance, support and advice from people who know how to stay sober.
It's not about being helpless because you have a dissease. It's about being strong and doing what you need to do to take care of yourself because you have a disease.
It's about getting out of denial.
Maybe a touch off topic, but when I read what Undercover posted on the "disease concept" of alcohol - I had to think of the "sex addiction excuse" over Tiger Woods.
Wonder if a JW caught in some hanky-panky could play the sex addict card on the committee?
I had to think of the "sex addiction excuse" over Tiger Woods.
I was watching Bill Maher's Real Time on HBO a few weeks ago and he kinda went off on the sex addiction thing. He claimed (of which I never bothered to verify) that sex addiction is not listed as a "real" addiction on whatever official list the medical authorities have.
And I have to agree with his rant. Addiction to sex isnt so much a disease as it is a behavorial problem. A problem I should be so lucky to have...
+++ Undercover. My personal feeling is that a lot of this is just excuse making.
As long as we are on the topic, it probably is worth mentioning again that the WTS has put up with some very drunk people in very high places for years in the past:
Judge Rutherford and the lawyer Haden Covington are two that come to mind. The only time I met Covington was at a Kingdom Hall friday night meeting in Oklahoma City and he was practically falling down drunk at the time. He was handling the draft case of a witness friend, and not surprisingly lost the case (after being paid over $10,000 in fees) and after then wandering off to represent Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali. I don't know exactly how true it is, but the inside information I had on Covington was that he was eventually disfellowshipped more for the Ali case than for the drinking.
More than one story here has represented circuit overseers (and especially some of their wives) as being some pretty enthusiastic drinkers, as well.
The actual figures on how many persons RECOVER while under treatment attending Alcoholics Anonymous is the SAME as the number who are successful going "cold turkey" all by themselves.
About 12%
AA hides their success rate as best they can.
They are really a religious organization.
I would imagine the Watchtower has a similar recovery rate.
Terry, with all due respect, you just don't get it. Part of the "Anonymous" part of AA is not keeping names and full statistics on members. AA is not hiding a "success" rate. Plus it's not only about "success." The only requirement to membership is a desire to stop drinking. That doesn't mean all the members have done so, nor will do so for the rest of their lives or for the rest of their involvement in AA. Unlike Jehovah's Witnesses, if a member of AA fails to live up to "the ideal," they are welcome to come back over and over again. No shunning, no taking away of some magical "privileges."
I mean, if a dentist works with older adults who constantly need those teeth pulled, and success was determined by some group to be "teeth retention," then the dentist would look like an utter failure, despite the great need for him in that community. He's just helping people who need help. Success to him is being there for those that need him.
Many probably do find a self-applied "Cold Turkey" method. That's great. AA isn't needed for them. I imagine many people overindulged in alcohol as young people, especially in college, but can cool their own jets when life demands it. Continuous AA membership is for those that really cannot stop that easy. They need help. Many learn to be properly controlled social drinkers. AA isn't for them either.
It can be likened to religion because just like eastern philosophy was ruined and made into religion, so was AA (sort of). I will give you that. But each member is free to think as he/she wants and dismiss the stuff they don't agree with. Atheist/Agnostic AA is available in my area and I benefit greatly from it.
Can active 'Jdubs' join AA to get over their addiction?
It isn't against any JDub rules, but it might just be frowned upon in the local congregation. I started in AA and going to the Kingdom Hall. The "brothers" especially might come down on a male for going to AA, saying that they can have "the truth" and Jehovah's spirit so they don't need AA. I managed to stay sober just because the cult taught me that Jehovah hates drunkenness, at least 99% of my time as an active-believing Dub. Does the fact that I fell down about 1% of the time mean that Watchtower statistics should list me as a failure? NO, they generally put enough fear in their members to find a way to stop being drunk. But I have heard of those that don't manage to stay sober being kicked to the curb (DF'ed) because they just don't apply what the elders say to stay sober. They just don't read their WT material enough to get it right. While WTS doesn't officially say "NO AA," they don't encourage real help to the members either. They only know the mantra for any given situation of members not doing what WTS wants them to do: "Do more field service, more praying, more meetings, more reading. Jehovah will then be with you."
Thanks, OTWO, well written and explained. I had mentioned early that in some areas AA had groups that were made up of atheists/agnostics. I guess things get lost in the large number of posts. I find too that we can tend to have an opinion about things we have no experience with.
I don't care about right or wrong anymore- I just do what works. I stumbled through the doors of A.A. ten years ago and I wished I had got there sooner. Of course the Dubs will pour scorn on A.A.- it represents a challenge to their 'spiritual' monopoly. If I was an active Dub with a serious drinking problem I would sneak off quietly to A.A. and not tell anybody; at least not for a few months. I've heard A.A. described as a cult, but it is a fellowship of people with a common goal, and it has a spiritual program far superior to anything the Dubs can offer. Worked for me.
I had a lot of support at the few meetings I went to...not AA, but a related group for survivors of abuse of any sort, A.C.O.A. Adult Children of Alcoholics. Everyone listened to my story there with no interuption and no judgment. There were people there who didnt have alcoholic parents, but addicted ones of one sort or another, and "religiousity" is considered an addiction. Booze not required. Yes, ACOA considers groups like JWs as cults and as encouraging religiousity or religious addiction. That is where you keep feeling compelled to perform acts of sacrifice,(giving, money or unpaid service, excessive attendance) ritual(obsessive prayer or other rituals your church uses) for a church, sect or cult out of fear, guilt and or compulsion. I'd say JWs qualifies myself.
Interestingly, having a parent who is a "religious extremist" or part of a cult and trying to force it on you or brainwashing you with it is much like being the child of an aloholic or drug addict, from what I was told. The symptoms in people who are brought up this way are identical. Anxiety, depression, PTSD, obsessive behavior, alcoholism, all sorts of things are connected to that. So, it's a very good idea to get some kind of help if you think you're suffering from anything like that.
ACOA is good if you're without insurance to cover more usual kinds of therapy, it's free. Donations are asked for but required.
I felt more of the same spirit with those women than I did anyoene at the KH. Religion was optional...you don't have to believe in anything but the group if you like. The way the meeting is set up gives everyone a safe place to talk about whatever they wished.
They have their own terms for things, but psychologically speaking, it's pretty sound stuff.
I think sex addiction can be real, but it's not nearly as common as all these celebrities who are just exploiting women (or vice versa, I'm sure) would like to think it is.
The sexual addiction I'm familiar with is where couples cannot relate to each other except sexually...they fight all the time, never get along or talk otherwise, but have a lot of sex and actually can get off on the opposition and even violence. Sex based on conflict or hate is one form. Anything done out of rage, fear, guilt, coercion or compulsion isn't good. That's what sexual addiction is.
Unfaithfulness can have it's roots in sexual addiction at times, but it's not just about a person being unfaithful. Married or committed couples can have sexual addiction without unfaithfulness, as per above.


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CS Northridge 74, Toreros 71
On Wednesday night against Northern Kentucky, USD somehow found a way to win against a team playing its first game as a Division I program. On Thursday night, against the youngest college basketball team in the land, USD found too many ways to lose.
Cal State Northridge, with a roster loaded with freshmen and sophomores, beat USD 74-71 to give the Toreros (2-1) their first loss of the season. Northridge (3-0) plays Siena (1-1) this afternoon at 4:30, followed by USD's third game in three nights against Tulsa at 7 p.m. in the National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation Challenge at Jenny Craig Pavilion. Tulsa beat Northern Kentucky 76-56 in the early game.
USD was outrebounded, outhustled, outshot and flat-out outplayed by a young and athletic hoop team from Northridge.
"I'm extremely disappointed with the way we lacked toughness in this game between the ears and physically out there," USD head coach Bill Grier said. "We just have to get tougher and better. We have some tough kids, but as a whole I'm concerned about the toughness of this group."
To their credit, the Toreros clawed back into a game they never seemed to be in from the beginning when junior Dennis Kramer committed the first of the team's 20 turnovers on the first possession. USD was mauled on the glass, with the Matadors outrebounding the Toreros, 40-24, including 14 offensive boards to the Toreros' seven.
But when Northridge head coach Bobby Braswell was called for a questionable technical foul with 59.6 seconds to play, USD sophomore Johnny Dee made two free throws (part of his team-high 16 points) to get USD to within 67-65.
Against Northern Kentucky, Dee and fellow sophomore guard Christopher Anderson sparked the comeback win, but on this night, when Anderson, who had 15 points and eight assists, missed a jumper with 39 seconds to go, the game went the other way. Junior Josh Green hit two free throws with 2 seconds left to put Northridge up 74-68 before Anderson hit a 3-pointer to finish the scoring.
"We missed seven or eight layups tonight," Grier said. "This team just needs to learn how to compete and battle. They dug a hole and dug themselves out and were battling, but they're not doing it consistently for 40 minutes."
With Toreros senior 6-9 forward Chris Manresa missing his second game with a sore back, it was up to USD's other big men, Kramer and Simi Fajemisin to work the post. But Kramer had an off night with just two points and two rebounds, and Fajemisin got into foul trouble and played just nine minutes. Freshman forward Jito Kok had 10 points and four rebounds and sophomore forward John Sinis finished with 10 points as bright spots for USD.
Cal State Northridge's sophomore guard Stephan Hicks led all scorers with 25 points. Sophomore forward Stephen Maxwell added 14 points.
Recruit signs
Brett Bailey, a 6-foot-6, 205-pound wing from Spokane, Wash., signed a national letter of intent and scholarship agreement Thursday with USD. Bailey is in his senior year at University High in Spokane, Wash. As a junior he averaged 16.2 ppg and 6.5 rpg and led his school to the state tournament playoffs for the first time since 1985.


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ORANGE – A priest at St. Norbert Catholic Church has been placed on leave pending an investigation into allegations of allowing a minister from another faith to have an active part in Mass services.
Ryan Lilyengren, a spokesman for the Diocese of Orange, said Father Augustin Escobar is alleged to have allowed a Presbyterian minister to receive and distribute communion during Mass on Sunday, Feb. 13.
"We do a lot of interfaith activities and have several Ecumenical services," Lilyengren said. "When a traditional Mass is celebrated, the church has rules to follow."
Lilyengren said allowing ministers of other faiths to take part in a traditional Mass is called concelebrating, a somewhat serious offense.
"If another minister is up there with the priest that is celebrating the Mass and they're kind of helping out, that's concelebrating," Lilyengren said. "They're involved in the application of the Mass."
Escobar, 56, has been part of the Diocese of Orange since 1996, according to a biography provided by the Diocese of Orange.
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"He's very spiritual. You see him early in the morning praying and meditating," Cunningham said. "He gives good sermons. I think he's a good priest."
Lilyengren said he does not know how long the review process into the allegation will take.
"I don't think it will take that long," he said. "There may be some sort of censure that could take place at the end of the investigation."
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TONKIN Thomas married Grace MARTIN 1878
Information & Research Journal.
Marriage details for Thomas and Grace:
Groom: Thomas Rowe Tonkin.
Age: 24 years.
Status: Single.
Father: Thomas Rowe TONKIN.
Bride: Grace Stephens MARTIN.
Age: 17 years.
Status: Single.
Father: John MARTIN.
Date married: 18 September 1878.
Place: Residence of William TONKIN, Moonta, South Australia.
Thomas died 29 October 1890, Eastwood, South Australia, aged 36 years.
Grace died 14 November 1942, Parkside, South Australia, aged 82 years.
Grace (aged 37 years) remarried a widower, Philip BARTLE (aged 41 years) on the 14 April 1898. No children located for this marriage.
Six children located South Australian records for Thomas and Grace.
Adeline Lillian TONKIN.
Born: 20 September 1879, Moonta Mine, South Australia.
Died: -
Married: Joseph ALI.
Date: 30 August 1899.
Place: Residence of groom's sister, Parkside, South Australia.
Charles Sidney TONKIN.
Born: 08 February 1883, Eastwood, South Australia.
Died: -
Albert Percy TONKIN.
Born: 14 January 1889, Eastwood, South Australia.
Died: 20 October 1885, Eastwood, aged 9 months.
Albert Percy Cleveland TONKIN.
Born: 20 July 1886, Eastwood, South Australia.
Died: 21 December 1888, Eastwood, aged 2 years and 5 months.
Ruby Pearl TONKIN.
Born: 18 September 1888, Eastwood, South Australia.
Died: 25 November 1891, Eastwood, aged 3 years.
Olive Myrtle May TONKIN.
Born: 20 August 1890, Eastwood, South Australia.
Died: 15 January 1892, Eastwood, aged 15 months.
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, South Australia.
Corrections and further details to help complete this family record would be appreciated. Thank you.
on 2011-09-29 13:42:05
TONKIN lives in Victoria, Australia.
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