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2015 Beijing World Championships marathon silver medalist Helah Kiprop (Kenya) delivered the outstanding performance of the 10th Tokyo Marathon, doing all she could to try to deliver a performance that would score her the win in the Abbott World Marathon Majors. Leading a pack including two-time world champion Edna Kiplagat (Kenya), fellow AWMM title contenders Birhane Dibaba (Ethiopia) and Aberu Kebede (Ethiopia) and three other Ethiopians through halfway in 1:10:41, Kiprop kept it even and ground down the others, never really accelerating or losing pace on the hills in the last 6 km but dropping the competition one by one.
All alone by 40 km it looked like she might take down the fastest marathon ever run by a woman on Japanese soil, Mizuki Noguchi's 2:21:18 in Osaka in 2003, but despite coming up just short Kiprop succeeded in taking nearly a minute off the course record as she won in 2:21:27. Runner-up Amane Gobena (Ethiopia), a frequent face in Japan, unexpectedly dropped more than a minute and a half off her best to take 2nd in 2:21:51, likewise clearing the course record. Kiplagat took 3rd in 2:22:36, a return to form in her first time going under 2:23 in almost two years.
Kiprop's time was the fastest in the last year's cycle of AWMM races by nearly two minutes and, combined with her 2:24:03 for 2nd in Tokyo last year gave her the fastest two-race average among the three contenders for the AWMM title, herself Mary Keitany (Kenya) and Mare Dibaba (Ethiopia). Despite this, the AWMM race directors voted to give the $500,000 bonus to Keitany, winner of November's 2015 New York City Marathon in 2:24:25 and runner-up in London in 2:23:40. Tokyo still has its work cut out for it to be taken as a true equal by the more well-established powers that be and not just a brand presence in a major Asian market, and the absence of any Japanese women in its elite field doesn't help. General division entrant Yukiko Okuno (Team Shiseido) was the top Japanese woman, 10th overall in a PB of 2:31:17.
There was no absence of top-level Japanese men in Tokyo, however, with the race counting in the opaque Rio Olympics Japanese men's team selection process. And like Kiprop in the women's race, course record holder Dickson Chumba (Kenya) had to win and win fast to have a chance of snatching the AWMM title and bonus from series leader Eliud Kipchoge. Tokyo Marathon race director Tad Hayano set up three pacers scheduled to go around 2:58/km, low-2:05 pace, and only that pace. Good for most of the top-level African competition in the field but leaving the aspiring Japanese Olympians, who needed to chase the JAAF's 2:06:30 Rio standard, pretty much high and dry. Need to target a time only one Japanese man has ever run in order to make the Olympics? You'd better go out over a minute faster than that or you're on your own, suckers. The results were predictable, if more dramatic than expected, and apart from the runners themselves the responsibility for it lies squarely on Hayano.
After a relatively conservative downhill first 5 km in 14:59 with both the international and domestic contingents united, the #1-bibbed Emmanuel Mutai (Kenya) got the pacers to up their game as they hit the flat near 7 km. A gap immediately severed the pack into two, the top seven-ranked Africans in pursuit of the pace trio and everyone else behind. Sensing that they weren't coming back, the ambitious Kenta Murayama (Team Asahi Kasei), the twin brother of 10000 m NR holder Kota Murayama and making his debut just five days after turning 23, left the chase pack to enter the orbit of the greats just before 10 km. The lead octet split 29:37 through 10 km, 2:04:58 pace, while the mostly-Japanese chase pack, led by last year's 2:07:39 breakthrough wonder Masato Imai (Team Toyota Kyushu), hit an entirely reasonable 29:57, 2:06:22 pace.
The problem was, there were too many of them together, exerting drag by mutual consensus without a single pacer to keep them on track. Yes, pacers in an Olympic trial race may be questionable, but so is demanding that they run a national record to make the team. While Mutai, Chumba, Murayama and the others up front continued to sail on to higher ground the second pack dropped farther and farther behind. Over a minute by 15 km. Nearly two minutes by 20 km. The leaders 1:02:52 through halfway, exactly on track for the 2:05:42 course record, the chasers 1:04:42, a lowly 2:09:24 pace.
The first big change came after halfway on the trip up to the Asakusa turnaround, with Murayama losing touch before 25 km. After the turnaround at 28 km the pace up front slowed by roughly 5 seconds a kilometer, and with the pacers' departure Chumba took control to try to get it back on track. Only Feyisa Lilesa (Ethiopia), tucked at the back of the pack up to that point, followed, with first Eliud Kiptanui (Kenya) and then Mutai losing touch to leave Bernard Kipyego (Kenya) and London Olymipcs gold and silver medalists Stephen Kiprotich (Uganda) and Abel Kirui (Kenya) in pursuit. Chumba's move proved real, he and Feyisa pulling away and never again challenged. Almost.
Further back, the dismally slow Japanese men's race took a turn for the chaotic and interesting as Arata Fujiwara (Miki House), the fastest Japanese man at the last two Olympic selection-year Tokyos, surged before 30 km to cull the ranks. Imai followed, along with debuting Hakone Ekiden stars Yuma Hattori (Toyo Univ.), Tadashi Isshiki (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) and Yuta Shimoda (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.), Javier Guerra (Spain) and a few others. Hattori, the 30 km national university record holder, took the next big action, dropping a 14:54 split from 30 km to 35 km to get rid of his competition and try to close the gap to Murayama, who began to come back into sight rapidly. Near 35 km he kicked past Murayama, a replay of the 2015 Hakone Ekiden Second Stage, and went up the hills looking strong and confident. Guerra and Shimoda were next to overtake Murayama, who felt the sting to his pride of the 19-year-old Shimoda going past and tried briefly to rally.
Up front, Chumba and Lilesa worked the hills, Chumba taking the lead on the climbs and Lilesa going by on the descents. Near 39 km Lilesa clipped Chumba's foot and immediately apologized, seeming to ask if Chumba was OK. Just over a kilometer later he said goodbye, flexing his biceps at the top of the last hill and cruising on to the win in 2:06:56. Chumba had absolutely nothing left to respond when Lilesa's move came, so little that with just a few meters to go he could only watch as Kipyego went by to steal 2nd in 2:07:33 by a stride. Kiprotich and Kirui took 4th and 5th a short way back, another solid Tokyo showing from Kiprotich and a big step back in the right direction from Kirui.
Back in the Japanese race, Guerra and Shimoda began to gain unexpectedly on Hattori, who went suddenly from smiling and pumping his fist to ghost-faced, but even more unexpectedly the unknown Yuki Takamiya (Team Yakult), a 2:15:38 runner, zoomed into focus and tore past both. Guerra went after him and together they ran down Hattori, but Takamiya was too much for Guerra to take that late in the race. Like Lilesa Takamiya began celebrating at the peak of the last hill before running in unchallenged to take 8th in 2:10:57, a PB by almost five minutes in an Olympic selection race.
Guerra was next across the line in 2:11:01. In the last kilometer Shimoda, already Japan's fastest-ever 18-year-old half marathoner with a 1:02:22 last year, looking fresh and unfazed passed the locked-up Hattori, smiling and waving as he came in to cross the finish line in 10th in 2:11:34, a new under-20 Japanese record by nearly four minutes. His AGU teammate Isshiki, the 2015 World University Games half marathon silver medalist and National University Half Marathon champion, bore down in the home straight to get Hattori on the line for 11th in 2:11:45. With two Hakone Ekiden titles in a row and now two of the top three Japanese runners in an Olympic selection race World Marathon Major there's not much doubt AGU head coach Susumu Hara is the best coach currently working in Japan. Toyo's Hattori clocked 2:11:46, his first-ever loss to his former Sendai Ikuei H.S. teammate Isshiki, with Murayama doing the death march in five minutes later and learning what happens when you go out faster than you're ready for as he staggered home in 2:16:58 for 30th.
For the home team it was a very hard race to interpret. On the one hand, an unknown had an exciting breakthrough and a large number of university stars had good runs in ambitious debuts. On the other hand, all the experienced pre-race hopefuls, every single one, Imai, Fujiwara, 2:08:09 man Kohei Matsumura (Team Mitsubishi HPS Nagasaki) and last year's 2:09 breakthroughs Hiroaki Sano (Team Honda) and Koji Gokaya (Team JR Higashi Nihon), faltered despite good conditions. Takamiya's 2:10:57 was a great breakthrough, but as the fastest Japanese man in an Olympic selection race it had to have been one of the weakest times in many a long year. Even though it made for great racing late in the game the Japanese men bear responsibility for how slow it got, nobody stepping up to keep it moving. And they were spanked by a teenager and other college kids in return. But 2:06:30 is no joke, not even winner Lilesa able to clear it on the Tokyo
course, and Hayano simply offered Japan's best no realistic options
that would help them achieve it.
The wheelchair division also turned in great races, with Tokyo serving as both men's and women's selection events for the Rio Paralympics. Japan's Wakako Tsuchida (Team Yachiyo Kogyo) went head-to-head with Tatyana McFadden (U.S.A.) through 40 km in the women's race before breaking free on the final hill to win by 10 seconds in 1:41:04. Tsuchida's time easily cleared the Japanese Rio standard of 1:46:00, meaning that in contrast to her marathon compatriots she is guaranteed a place in Rio.
The men's race saw a large pack that whittled down from eight to four after 25 km, Japanese favorite Kota Hokinoue (Yahoo) pushing the pace in pursuit of the 1:28:30 time standard for Rio autoselection. Right behind him, greats Kurt Fearnley (Australia), Ernst Van Dyk (South Africa) and Masazumi Soejima (Japan). On the final righthand corner at 42 km Fearnley attacked, getting past Hokinoue and away for the win in 1:26:00. Van Dyk drew abreast and in the final meters got a hand-width margin for 2nd in 1:26:01, Hokinoue outlasting Soejima for 3rd in 1:26:01 as well. Clearing the time standard as well as the top-Japanese-man-in-the-overall-top-three criteria for Rio selection, Hokinoue likewise guaranteed himself a place this summer. At the pre-race press conference Fearnley said that he had been considering retiring post-Rio, but that with the wheelchair races slated to earn equal billing in the Abbott World Marathon Majors starting with April's Boston Marathon, the chance to score the jackpot bonus just might be enough to keep him on the circuit another year.
10th Tokyo Marathon Top Results
Tokyo, 2/28/16
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1. Helah Kiprop (Kenya) - 2:21:27 - CR, PB
2. Amane Gobena (Ethiopia) - 2:21:51 - PB
3. Edna Kiplagat (Kenya) - 2:22:36
4. Aberu Kebede (Ethiopia) - 2:23:01
5. Birhane Dibaba (Ethiopia) - 2:23:16
6. Shure Demise (Ethiopia) - 2:25:04
7. Ashete Bekele Dido (Ethiopia) - 2:25:50
8. Maja Neuenschwander (Switzerland) - 2:27:36
9. Isabellah Andersson (Sweden) - 2:30:02
10. Yukiko Okuno (Japan/Shiseido) - 2:31:17 - PB
11. Madoka Nakano (Japan/Noritz) - 2:33:39 - PB
12. Miya Nishio (Japan/Hokuren) - 2:34:18 - PB
13. Ayano Kondo (Japan/Noritz) - 2:35:13 - PB
14. Hiroko Yoshitomi (Japan/First Dream AC) - 2:39:30
15. Yuri Kano (Japan/WCF RC) - 2:39:37
16. Risa Suzuki (Japan/Art Sports) - 2:39:57 - PB
17. Ruth Charlotte Croft (New Zealand) - 2:40:59 - PB
18. Kana Unno (Japan/Noritz) - 2:42:06
19. Mitsuko Ino (Japan/Kyuhoji RC) - 2:42:23 - PB
20. Shinobu Ayabe (Japan/Dream AC) - 2:43:37 - PB
21. Sakie Ishibashi (Japan/Kumagaya T&F Assoc.) - 2:44:00
22. Jane Moloney (Australia) - 2:44:23
23. Mitsuko Hirose (Japan/Tokyo Wings) - 2:45:04
24. Maiko Tani (Japan/Morino AC) - 2:45:18 - PB
25. Kasumi Sato (Japan/SRC904) - 2:47:08 - PB
1. Feyisa Lilesa (Ethiopia) - 2:06:56
2. Bernard Kiprop Kipyego (Kenya) - 2:07:33
3. Dickson Chumba (Kenya) - 2:07:34
4. Stephen Kiprotich (Uganda) - 2:07:46
5. Abel Kirui (Kenya) - 2:08:06
6. Eliud Kiptanui (Kenya) - 2:08:55
7. Emmanuel Mutai (Kenya) - 2:10:23
8. Yuki Takamiya (Japan/Yakult) - 2:10:57 - PB
9. Javier Guerra (Spain) - 2:11:01
10. Yuta Shimoda (Japan/Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 2:11:34 - debut
11. Tadashi Isshiki (Japan/Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 2:11:45 - debut
12. Yuma Hattori (Japan/Toyo Univ.) - 2:11:46 - debut
13. Masato Imai (Japan/Toyota Kyushu) - 2:12:18
14. Akiyuki Iwanaga (Japan/Kyudenko) - 2:12:24 - PB
15. Hiroki Yamagishi (Japan/Hitachi Butsuryu) - 2:12:27 - PB
16. Tatsunori Hamasaki (Japan/Komori Corp.) - 2:12:45
17. Mekubo Mogusu (Kenya/Sunbelx) - 2:12:55
18. Hiroaki Sano (Japan/Honda) - 2:13:10
19. Kohei Matsumura (Japan/Mitsubishi HPS Nagasaki) - 2:13:46
20. Yasuyuki Nakamura (Japan/Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 2:13:46 - PB
21. Kazuaki Shimizu (Japan/Yakult) - 2:14:16
22. Chiharu Takada (Japan/JR Higashi Nihon) - 2:14:29
23. Ryo Hashimoto (Japan/Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 2:14:38 - debut
24. Satoshi Kikuchi (Japan/Josai Univ.) - 2:14:54 - debut
25. Ryohei Nishiyama (Japan/Kanagawa Univ.) - 2:15:42 - debut
26. Takehiro Deki (Japan/Chugoku Denryoku) - 2:15:49
27. Toshinori Watanabe (Japan/Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 2:16:01 - debut
30. Kenta Murayama (Japan/Asahi Kasei) - 2:16:58 - debut
38. Benjamin Ngandu (Kenya/Monteroza) - 2:19:11
40. Masashi Hayashi (Japan/Yakult) - 2:19:29
44. Arata Fujiwara (Japan/Miki House) - 2:20:23
45. Satoru Kasuya (Japan/Toyota Boshoku) - 2:20:38
47. Koji Gokaya (Japan/JR Higashi Nihon) - 2:21:05
57. Teklemariam Medhin (Eritrea) - 2:22:36 - debut
80. Jun Hiratsuka (Japan/Team RxL) - 2:26:58
93. Martin Fiz (Spain) - 2:28:29
98. Michael Wardian (U.S.A.) - 2:29:16
117. Koki Kawauchi (Japan/Monteroza) - 2:31:32
153. Yoshiki Kawauchi (Japan/Tokyo T&F Assoc.) - 2:34:27
173. Yusuke Inoue (Japan/Marathon Guru) - 2:35:21 - PB
DNF - Samuel Ndungu (Kenya)
DNF - Tsuyoshi Ugachi (Japan/Konica Minolta)
Women's Wheelchair
1. Wakako Tsuchida (Japan) - 1:41:04
2. Tatyana McFadden (U.S.A.) - 1:41:14
3. Kazumi Nakayama (Japan) - 1:56:58
4. Amanda McGrory (U.S.A.) - 2:10:55
DNF - Mizuki Takasaki (Japan)
Men's Wheelchair
1. Kurt Fearnley (Australia) - 1:26:00
2. Ernst Van Dyk (South Africa) - 1:26:01
3. Kota Hokinoue (Japan) - 1:26:01
4. Masazumi Soejima (Japan) - 1:26:02
5. Tomoki Suzuki (Japan) - 1:26:11
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Monk Linda: The First Lady Monk
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"For many years I had the dream of becoming a monk," muses Monk Linda, "but because this had never been done before, I did not think it possible. Truly, 'with God all things are possible...and he shall give you the desires of your heart.'" (Matthew 19:26; Psalm 37:4).
Raised in a Christian home, with born-again parents, Monk Linda accepted the Lord at age five. Her mother was from Leon, Guanajuato, in Mexico. Monk Linda grew up speaking both Spanish and English. _______________
(Athens, Greece; February 4, 2001) Monk Linda visits the ancient Orthodox monastery of Kesariani in Greece. A fifty minute climb up Mt. Hymettus brought her to the monastery, set in a serene forest overlooking both the Parthenon and the modern city of Athens.
Women in the Bible
Unlike most religions; and contrary to the popular beliefs of those who are unfamiliar with it; the Bible gives a high place to women, one far ahead of its time. Nearly 2000 years ago, inspired by the Holy Spirit, the Apostle Paul wrote; "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28).
Almost 4000 years ago, before Israel had a king, God raised up Judges to deliver his people from their enemies. Judges like Gideon, Samson, and Deborah. "And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time...and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment." (Judges 4:4, 5). Deborah led the army of Israel against their enemies. They won the battle, but Sisera, the Captain of the enemy army, escaped. He was killed by another woman, Jael, the wife of Heber. (Judges 4:21). _________________________________
There are many wonderful stories of women in the Bible. Women play prominent roles in the stories of Elijah, and throughout both the Old and the New Testaments. After his resurrection, Our Lord first appeared to Mary Magdalene, although Peter and John were both nearby (John: Chapter 20). The first European Christian was a woman named Lydia (a businesswoman, "a seller of purple"). The first church in Europe met at her house (Book of Acts 16:14,15). In the time of the Celtic Church, women like Brigit, Ita, and Hild were founders and Abbesses over "double monasteries" containing both men and women (see also: Why Lady Monks?).
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Clementine woke to a hazy sunlight sprawled across her face. A heavy greyness clouded the sky and the remissed that another one had been burned at the stake. An insistent tapping at the door roused her from her bleary state.
"Who is it?" she exclaimed. "Don't enter, I am not decent."
A warm, honeyed voice filtered through the tapestry adorned door. "I am most sorry to disturb you Miss Airis, but there is a boy at the door who claims that it is a necessity that he speak with you directly. Master and Madam Airis are out and I know not what else to do,".
"Could you have not sent him away, Lillian? It's far too indecent for me, still a young lady, to welcome any guests with my parents away as they are."
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"Merryn? Is it Merryn?" she bade, scrambling out of bed. "Come in, come in. Tell me everything Lillian."
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It seems that those who are privy enough to get a listening session of Adam's new tracks are simply blown away. If you can make it through all of the colorful adjectives and adverbs in this write-up, you may have a mind-blowing experience yourself! Actually, I'm quite happy that Lyndsey Parker of Reality Rocks Yahoo Music Blog is so unabashedly impressed. But where is the listening session for a Glamb? Sniff, sniff…
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Preview Alert!: Reality Rocks' Adam Lambert Listening Session
Okay, dear readers, please excuse any typos in the following blog entry. I am to be excused, since my brain is so boggled after getting to visit the 19 Entertainment offices and privately preview three Adam Lambert songs from his upcoming superglamtastic and very aptly titled debut album, For Your Entertainment (out November 23). My black-fingernailed fingers are quivering in almost too palsy-stricken a manner to type, but at the same time I am too excited about the audio glitterbombs that have been blasted directly into my unsuspecting ear canals to wait until I'm fully coherent to share my giddy thoughts. I'd be waiting a good long while, really.
Yes, the music was THAT good, people. It was EXACTLY the extraterrestrial electro-opus I hoped and dreamed it would be. You know how the Glamerican Idol recently told Entertainment Weekly that his album would sound "as if a '70s time-capsule blasted off into space and you're watching it through a holographic filter"? Well, yeah, that sums it up pretty awesomely; I honestly don't know if I can actually top such brilliant wordage. Perhaps Adam should just have my job…if he weren't so busy reinventing the pop wheel, being fabulous, making plans for world domination, daring to dance in the path of greatness, etc.
Now, I know some fans (including myself, to some degree) were thrown a curveball by "Time For Miracles," Adam's classic-rock-leaning, Aerosmithian 2012 power-ballad that didn't seem all that spacey or holographic, to be honest. Certainly that song especially appealed to Adam fans partial to his Idol performances of hoary perennials like Zep's "Whole Lotta Love," U2's "One," Aerosmith's "Cryin'," and Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild," but it was hardly the "rock-pop-electronic-dance thing" Adam once titillatingly promised.
However, Adam Lambert is a complex man with a multiple musical personality, and so I can tell you all, based on the three tracks I heard, For Your Entertainment sounds NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, like "Time For Miracles." These freaky-deaky songs, in all their wondrously neon-lit, mirror-balled, future-shocked, robot-rockin' glory, almost don't even sound like they were recorded by the same artist, the same human being…except for the fact that that voice is unmistakable, of course.
The time for miracles really has arrived now, in the fierce form of these sneak-previewed tracks:
"Entertainment" – The default title track and statement of intent, masterminded by Dr. Luke (Katy Perry) and Claude Kelly (Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson), Adam opens this one up, Rocky Horror-meets-Robbie Williams-style, with the audacious declaration: "I'm here for your entertainment!" And he ain't kidding. This is an ultra-caffeinated party-starter (imagine if Mika, Sam Sparro, and Kevin Rudolf had a threesome that resulted in the conception of a glittery alien baby…if you dare), and it's just begging to be remixed by everyone from Calvin Harris to the Neptunes to Justice–even though it sounds like a shiz-hawt remix already, as is.
"Winners" – A slinky, sexy, salacious dance-rock grinder with a keening, near-orgasmic vocal reminiscent of Adam's watershed "Ring Of Fire" performance, this Rob Cavallo-produced cut cracks open in the middle like a giant whitechocolatespaceegg to reveal a colossal, fist-pumping, Gary-Glittery chantalong chorus that seems lifted straight out of "We Will Rock You 2: Electric Boogaloo." So my guess is Queen's Brian May will be impressed by this massive masterwork, too. A winner, indeed.
"Music Again" – Okay, this is the song, also produced by Rob Cavallo, largely responsible for my current lack of coherence or composure. The minute this glammy tour de force forced its way out of the 19 Entertainment office's speakers, it was so white-hot I was instantly reduced to a puddle of melted spandex and runny eyeliner. A falsetto gang chorus like something off a lost Sweet outtakes album, squalling guitar riffs, pumping "Funkytown" beats…my head was pretty much exploding at this point, but I managed to hold my cranium together long enough to turn to a nearby 19 employee and jokingly state, "This sounds like the Darkness, if the Darkness were remixed." To which the employee answered, "That's funny you say that, because this song was actually written by [legendarily unitarded Darkness frontman] Justin Hawkins, and that's Justin on guitar."
Please read that above sentence again closely, people, and allow the full weight of its awesomeness to sink in. Adam Lambert + Justin Hawkins. ADAM LAMBERT + JUSTIN HAWKINS! Best. Collabo. Ever. Two of the most righteously rockin' and elastically vocal-corded rock gawds of the past 10 years, two of this decade's lone keepers of the glam-rock flame, together at last. As a diehard Darkness fan, I still believe in a thing called love…and I loved this song so much that at this point in the listening session, what was left of my poor throbbing head exploded, and shards of my caved-in skull went flying in all directions across the 19 office like the debris from a busted piñata. I apologize to the 19 office's evening cleaning crew in advance. But hey, I could not help it. Let me state this again, just to be clear: Adam Lambert + Justin Hawkins. Such a skull-shatteringly awesome duet even deserves a new name-smash: Hawkbert. Or maybe Lamkins. Yesssssss.
Wham, bam, thank you Madam, for the glam. I can't wait to hear (and write about) more, if my head can take it…
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That is the main conclusion to be drawn from England's absorbing, but rarely enthralling goalless draw with Croatia on Wednesday night.
While Croatia were disappointing and England's inability to take their chances frustrating, there was nothing to justify the knee-jerk criticism of some observers. It seems that the Croatian emphasis on a patient build- up was misread as lack of interest.
As Steve Stone, who is fast learning the international game, noted: "If we'd taken our chances, everybody would be saying what a great performance it was. I prefer to watch the hurly-burly of the Premiership, but if you go helter-skelter against a team like Croatia, you get punished."
The Nottingham Forest midfielder added: "This may be a test of patience to watch, but it is the only way."
Terry Venables, the England coach, announced himself "encouraged" and had every right to be. There were no bad performances, chances were created - if not scored - and the three-man defence coped admirably with the new shape.
Beforehand, Venables was anxious to play down the fundamental change in tactics, but he admitted afterwards: "They were tentative for the first five minutes, but to expect players to do something so different is asking a lot when you do not have them every day.
"I've been surprised myself at the development of some players and I think they are finding out things about themselves."
Chief among those were the defensive flank players, Gary Neville and Stuart Pearce. Neville's rise to fame has recently stuttered. From being the best young right-back in the country, he is now not even the best young right-back in his own family.
The new position could have been made for him. As a central defender he has good awareness, but a lack of height. As a full-back he is sound, but not spectacular moving forward. Playing this new role accentuates his strengths and hides his weaknesses.
Pearce, while one of those players you would always want in the dressing- room, is not usually thought of as someone you would want playing the ball out of defence. On Wednesday, he played within his limitations and rarely gave it away. His defending was as tenacious as ever and, in the absence of Graeme Le Saux, his place now seems assured.
In front of them, Stone and Steve McManaman showed good concentration in defence while still being involved further forward. Between them, Mark Wright belied his four years' absence. He was as commanding as in Italia 90.
A full assessment of the defence will have to wait until it is put under greater pressure, which will not happen until the championships. What does seem certain is that if Venables, or his ideas, remain - and Bryan Robson appeared to have ruled himself out yesterday - the traditional twin towers will no longer form the heart of England's defence.
The shape of the future has flank players mobile enough to act as full- backs with a ball- playing central defender between them. Alongside, or in front of that defender, will be someone capable of playing in midfield or defence. Paul Ince filled the role at Wembley, Gareth Southgate or Sol Campbell are other possibilities.
This means the partnership of Tony Adams and Gary Pallister, once the core of Venables' team, may not be seen again. While Venables said Pallister could play on the left of a trio, the memory of his match against Norway in 1993, or against Barcelona's Romario a year later, suggests he was being polite.
Wright is better equipped technically than either for the central role, although Adams, in particular, could do it. That is, if he is fit. Venables said if Adams is not ready by Paul Merson's testimonial on 8 May, he would not be considered.
The match made happier viewing for absent forwards. Alan Shearer may have watched Robbie Fowler blazing the ball over from six yards and thought: "It's not so easy, is it?"
Les Ferdinand, whose goal in England's last game seemed to have been forgotten in the pre-match hysteria, will also be feeling less vulnerable.
Not that Fowler did badly. Unexpectedly, it was his finishing that let him down, but his all-round play was thoughtful and promising, although his first touch, like that of most other English forwards, did not stand up quite so well to the greater scrutiny of international football.
Venables now has several selection posers for the next match, against Hungary at Wembley on 18 May. That will be followed by the Asian tour, part of which is now in jeopardy.
Venables has been concerned for some time that the pitch in the Workers' Stadium in Peking is not good enough. It is the same pitch on which David Seaman injured his ankle last May, and according to a Football Association spokesman: "It has not got much grass".
Venables is going to China in early May. If he is unhappy with the state of the pitch, England are likely to play both their matches in Hong Kong.
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Mike Bobo announces Will Friend and Marty English as first two staff appointments
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Marty English is in his fifth season at Colorado State in 2016, and has returned to his role as the Rams' defensive coordinator after serving as linebackers coach in 2015 under head coach Mike Bobo. English, who also will continue to coach the Rams' linebackers, served as co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach from 2012-14 on Jim McElwain's staff.
English, a 29-year coaching veteran with significant experience along the Front Range, has been part of the Colorado State staff that has led an impressive return to prominence over the past four seasons, highlighted by three consecutive bowl appearances for the first time since 2001-03 and a 10-win season in 2014 for the just the fifth time in school history. The Rams' 18 wins over the 2013-14 seasons were their most in a two-season span since 1999-2000 (also 18), and tied for second most in school history.
The play of the Rams' linebackers in 2015 helped the defense rank 10th among all FBS teams in passing yards allowed (177.6) and 26th in third-down percentage defense (34.5%). Under English's tutelage, senior Cory James was named second-team All-Mountain West and junior Kevin Davis earned honorable mention. James finished his career with 24.0 career sacks--all with English as his coach--to rank fourth all-time at CSU, and was drafted in the sixth round (194th overall) in 2016 by the Oakland Raiders.
In 2014 the Rams' defense allowed just 23.4 points per game in the regular season (3rd MW/34th FBS), the fewest by a CSU defense since 2006 (21.9). Two of English's linebackers, seniors Max Morgan and Aaron Davis, finished their careers in 2014 ranked among the top seven tacklers in school history. Morgan finished his CSU career with 348 tackles to rank sixth on the school's all-time list, and the most in a career since Rick Crowell tallied 370 from 1996-2000, while Davis, a second-team All-Mountain West choice, finished with 345 tackles to rank seventh all-time. James and Morgan earned honorable mention All-MW.
English helped lead a Rams defense in 2013 that ranked third in the MW and 30th in D1 FBS in rushing defense (140.6), fourth (46th FBS) in sacks (2.3 per game) and fourth in scoring defense (29.8). Three CSU defenders earned All-MW recognition in 2013, including MW Defensive Player of the Year and first-team linebacker Shaquil Barrett, who signed as a rookie free agent with the Denver Broncos. Cornerback Shaq Bell earned second-team honors while Morgan earned honorable mention. In his first season at Colorado State three Rams defenders earned All-MW honors: Defensive end Lanston Tanyi (2nd team), Barrett and Bell (honorable mention). James was named to Phil Steele's national All-Freshman second team and set a Colorado State freshman record with 7.5 sacks in 2012.
A Colorado product, English had spent the previous nine seasons at Wyoming (2003-11). He had served as the Cowboys' defensive coordinator, linebackers and special teams coach from 2009-11. The senior member of the Wyoming staff when he joined the Rams, he spent his first six years (2003-08) in Laramie as Joe Glenn's linebackers coach.
English helped the Cowboys to two bowl appearances in his three seasons at the reins of the defense, including 2011, when Wyoming led the Mountain West and tied for 10th in the nation with 31 takeaways. DB Blair Burns, a Freshman All-American, was one of six all-conference players on English's 2011 defense. As the Cowboys' linebackers coach, English helped Wyoming finish ninth nationally in 2006 in total defense, and No. 8 against the pass. In 2004, the Pokes ranked 13th in the country with 28 takeaways, a key part of a season that concluded with a win over UCLA in the Las Vegas Bowl. All told, English has served on coaching staffs that led their teams to the postseason on 15 occasions.
English spent 16 seasons (1987-2002) at his alma mater, Northern Colorado, in Greeley, serving as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach (2000-02); special teams, linebackers, strength and conditioning coach and recruiting coordinator (1990-99), and graduate assistant (1987-89). At UNC, English and the Bears won a pair of NCAA Division II national championships (1996-97) and went to the national playoffs eight times, including the 2002 national semifinals.
As a player, English was part of another national championship, when his Idaho State team won the 1981 NCAA Division I-AA title. English then transferred to Northern Colorado, lettering three years as a linebacker. As a 1985 senior captain, he garnered all-North Central Conference recognition.
A 1986 and 1989 graduate of Northern Colorado, English owns a bachelor's degree in recreation management, and a master's in physical education in 1989. He grew up in Lakewood, Colo., and earned all-state honors at Alameda High School.
Marty and his wife, Suzie, have one daughter, Kelsey, and one son, Tyler. Kelsey is a graduate of the University of Wyoming, while Tyler is a graduate of Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colo.
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The Omnivore food festival takes place September 16 to 19 in association with the Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]. 2016 marks the fifth year this traveling celebration of gastronomy hits Montréal. This year's theme highlights "young cuisine", as noted by founder Luc Dubanchet. In an editorial on the official site, Dubanchet acknowledges the culinary landscape in Montréal forged by the likes of Normand Laprise, Au Pied de Cochon and the guys of Joe Beef. However, this year's festival focuses on the new generation of culinary talent whose prowess is fortified year after year—as exemplified by some of their popular establishments. Masterclasses The Masterclasses are one of the most highly anticipated events of the festival. They showcase cooking demonstrations and lectures by some of the most creative culinary minds, both locally and internationally. Some of this year's masterclass hosts will be Leigh Roper (Foxy), John Winter Russell (Candide), Johnathan Rassi (400 Coups), Juan Lopez & Samuel Pinard (Farine), Patrice Demers (Patrice Pâtissier), Aaron Langille (Le Diplomate) as well as international guests such as Pedro de Artagao (Irajà), Daniel Burns (Luksus) and Daniel Eddy (Rebelle). Tickets for the Masterclass demonstrations are free, but they sell out fast. Reserve here. Extra Dinners… / Read More →
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The month ends of a high note with delicious bites throughout the city, the year's most striking imagery and more stylish finds than you'll be able to fit into your carry-on. And you thought the summer fun would start slowing down! (glorious food) After Deauville, France, Rio, Istanbul and London, the annual Omnivore World Tour Montreal edition is happening NOW! It's filling foodies' bellies and inspiration until August 24 with master classes, a huge tasting party and dozens of collaborative dinners combining the talents of local and international chefs. During the two days of back-to-back half-hour culinary demonstrations at SAT, you can catch Montreal chefs Stéphanie Labelle, Julien Joré, Segué Lepage, Guillaume Kittel-Ouimet, Fabien Maillard, John Winter Russell, Michelle Marek, Marc Cohen, Marc-Alexandre Mercier, Simon Mathys, Michael Ruel, Matthieu Gauthier, Minh Phat, Samuel Pinard, and Farine and Marc-André Leclerc. PHEW! Plus some great visiting chefs from around the country and globe. Save up space for the Omnivorious Party on August 22, hosted by 15 participating chefs who'll prepare over 6,000 dishes to taste. (Reserve your spot early.) (world-class photos) The World Press Photo exhibition celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, returning to Marché Bonsecours in Old Montréal to wow image… / Read More →
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"More than anywhere else in the world, Omnivore and Montréal are in love." This quote from the Omnivore World Tour Festival website rings as true for us Montréal food lovers as it does for the Omnivore team. The 2015 edition of the Montréal Omnivore food extravaganza takes place August 20-24 in partnership with the Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]. It will be the 4th time the festival has touched down in our fair city, and the lineup for this year's gastronomic celebration is impressive! Take a masterclass with great local and international chefs, enjoy a unique dinner, or head to the hopping Omnivorious Party. Masterclasses This, to me, is the best part of the Omnivore World Tour. The masterclasses include demos, conferences and talks by some of the best chefs and food purveyors in the world. Sit in on sessions from local chefs such as Ségué Lepage from Le Comptoir charcuteries et vins, Marc Cohen from Lawrence, Julien Joré and Stéphanie Labelle from Cirkus, and the wonderful FoodLab Michelle Marek. This year's event also hosts some great Canadian chefs, like Todd Perrin from Mallard Cottage in St. John's, and international stars, including Anton Kovalkov from Moscow's Fahrenheit and Pascal… / Read More →
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OneCache is a distributed key/value store that is accessible via the memcached protocol. OneCache nodes natively support clustering and best effort replication. Adding nodes into the cluster effectively increases the in-memory storage capability of the cache. Replication of keys minimizes the impact of a single node failure as requests will transparently be forwarded to the new key leader.
OneCache's architecture is built around the concept of a one-hop distributed hash table. Many DHT algorithms are designed for a very large number of members, such as bitorrent DHTs, and trade lookup efficiency for per-node storage and communication. However, OneCache is built for a much smaller cluster size (<100) and as such, every node holds the full state of the underlying consistent hash ring. This is advantageous because every node is capable of forwarding requests to the correct node, which is why it receives the term one-hop.
OneCache's name then becomes a play on its one-hop DHT architecture and memcached protocol support.
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If it's about NHS culture, it's about leadership
There are plenty of issues to keep NHS leaders awake at night: financial concerns, the winter crisis, the junior doctors' strikes and experiences of poor-quality care are all in the news. But what about some of the underlying issues behind the headlines?
NHS leaders are concerned about staff reporting high levels of bullying and harassment and are considering strategies to deal with this. They are also concerned with high levels of discrimination reported by some groups of staff and are considering strategies to deal with this.
And there need to be strategies to deal with high levels of staff stress and absenteeism. And then the ambition for the NHS to be the largest learning organisation in the world requires a strategy for ensuring continuous improvement. And there is a need to develop system leadership, which will require yet more strategies. Plus the need to address the shortage of leaders throughout the NHS, which requires a further strategy. So what we end up with is a patchwork of strategies, sewn more or less together in a diffuse set of responses to these important concerns.
If we want to deal effectively with all these issues, then, first and foremost, we need to develop organisations with cultures that deliver high-quality, continually improving and compassionate care. Research shows that such cultures are sustained by organisations that have:
- an unwavering commitment to providing safe, high-quality care
- a commitment to effective, efficient, high-quality performance
- behaviours characterised by support, compassion and inclusion for all patients and staff
- ways of working that focus on continuous learning, quality improvement and innovation
- enthusiastic co-operation, teamworking and support within and across boundaries.
We see these values and behaviours in high-performing trusts such as Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust; Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; Northumbria NHS Trust; East London NHS Foundation Trust; and Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. These organisations have seen considerable improvements in patient outcomes and staff wellbeing as a result of their efforts.
If one can achieve it, all can achieve it. The question is, how? To find answers to this question, The King's Fund and NHS Improvement are working on a two-year programme to help trusts to identify their cultural issues and to take appropriate action to develop a culture that enables and sustains safe, high-quality, compassionate care.
Research reveals that leadership is the most significant influence on culture. Every interaction by every leader, every day, shapes the culture of the organisation. So we need leadership that is focused on ensuring constant commitment to all the elements that contribute to a nurturing culture. And we need to ensure we have leaders, and a pipeline of leaders, in place to provide that focus. Not interim leads, vacant leadership posts and make-do-and-mend approaches to leadership that are now commonplace in parts of the NHS.
Ultimately we need one strategy – a leadership strategy. This must ensure we have the right number of leaders in each area of an organisation over the next five years to nurture and sustain caring cultures. We need to identify the qualities these leaders need in order to meet challenges and we need to recruit, develop and select accordingly.
We must develop and continually reinforce the right leadership values and behaviours – such as developing and empowering people, encouraging shared learning and continuous improvement, building trust and co-operation, supporting inclusive climates, and managing performance – needed to nurture these cultures.
This means a move away from command-and-control leadership – still the dominant style in the NHS – to collective leadership. Not because of ideology but because international research evidence demonstrates that collective leadership is associated with high-quality care. Collective leadership is where staff at all levels act to improve care – within and across organisations. It means 'leadership of all, by all and for all'.
The two-year programme announced today will pilot new online tools to support trusts to diagnose their cultural issues, develop collective leadership strategies to address them and implement any changes. Culture change and leadership transformation must happen at all levels of the NHS, from national bodies through to all provider organisations if we are to achieve and sustain consistent cultures of high-quality, continually improving and compassionate care. We hope this work will play an important part in supporting this.
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Hi Michael - Regarding the two year pilot, what was the rationale for pilots with high performing trusts. Would it not have been useful to have included under performing trusts as well? Kind regards
This is great but will only work if local government and primary care use the same approaches to ensure whole system sings from same sheet
So we need a whole system leadership strategy
This is great but will only work if local government and primary care use the same approaches to ensure whole system sings from same sheet
So we need a whole system leadership strategy
Excellent article, which outlines a key issue if the right style of leadership bring in place across the NHS, but I can't help but consider how the many very good leaders are stymied by the lack of a cohesive overall single strategic direction of the NHS. The fact is, the NHS is an industry, a brand, not a single organisation. It has 6 'leads organisations, NHS ENgland, Monitor, the TDA, the CQc, Public Health England and Heath Education England attempting to get the many different organisations to work together in a market driven system that was designed to create competition to drive up standards. As improvements are needed in almost every part of the system, despite the many reforms, increased scrutiny and a daily set of negative press, it is fair to argue that the system that the NHS operates within is fundamentally flawed and no amount of good leadership will fix that, unless someone somewhere is brave enough to address the issue and create a single responsible body with one set of strategic intentions, one board and one set of people with the courage to open up the debate about what the 21st century NHS needs to be and needs to deliver.
There is no doubt that the care delivered daily on the ground is of good quality; caring, compassionate and effective. When things go wrong, it is normally as a result of 'system' failures rather than anything else, as the machine of change grinds very slowly through the individual priorities of the many different organisations, professional bodies and vested interests. The NHS, as things stand, would be bankrupt within weeks without the constant and increasing flow of funding, and despite the funding is increasingly under financial pressures - yet overall the staff still go out of their way to care, look after vulnerable people and heal the sick and injured.
In conclusion, collective leadership in the NHS is an unattainable utopia, a symptom rather than a cause, in a system that has been assembled and modified to create a commercial market place that is not fit for purpose.
Michael i have read quite carefully what you suggest -------As a Secondary School educated person there are comments made about your article i find quite typical of why the system is not working -- plain speaking and straight forward do and don't will work ---why because unless communication is clear to all ---the system stays broke --every person who as the power to make changes in Leadership ARE PRECISELY THE SAME PEOPLE who are part of the same old school from before 2010 who cannot and do not understand that it is precisely themselves who have and are still creating -- completely the wrong culture to make the NHS work any where near how it should --FRANKLY speaking
i know a lot of your readers will raise there eyebrows when i say bodies inside NHS do not want culture change ----why because they have no interest in making things work ,because they come from a culture of our pensions and retirement packages making them safe no matter if the NHS goe's under -----INNOVATION and the courage to carry plans through needs supporting
It seems we have some highly intelligent and innovative management in the NHS --but because once again those at the top of management have once again failed to take notice of those S/USERS and CARERS not EXCLUDING staff at the bottom of the ladder
I could bore some people with my findings
Yes i am a director of financially struggling recovery org
my credentials follow
20yrs in engineering ---- while i had early signs of MH probs
25yrs as a small business promoter in music
during this time i recovered from heart by-pass
and many years operating in MH and GOVERNOR of a TRUST
Without salary !!!
Please consider my points when writing about new changes
but it seems that people like myself have to take a back seat
while some people come up with plans without thinking them through ---why because it is easy to talk than actually talk the talk
Please understand this is not a attack on you MICHAEL but I hope I have given pause for thought -----if only for the NHS
I do find this an astonishingly inward-looking blog, and in that respect it actually typifies one of the major failings of the NHS today. Out here in the real world, there is a culture that is very different from that within NHS management (including commissioning) circles - different in terms of attitudes, expectations and ways of communicating. Out here it's non-hierarchical, non-deferential, questioning, jargon-free and straight-talking. Please check out my recently-published piece 'Involving the public in NHS commissioning: A culture clash in Cornwall' to see what I mean: http://bit.ly/1WMIlYE
PS to the above: From which it follows that the most urgent task today is to find means of bridging the culture gap between NHS organizations and the outside world. I think that may well provide a whole new take on 'leadership' issues.
Agree. This nebulous idea of "leadership" as a cure for all ills is just a sideline/distraction from the fact that the NHS is bust. These type of ideas are just dancing around the elephant in the room that we can't afford the NHS as it stands. More wasted money in leadership courses etc etc but why not just put the right people in the right job with the right qualifications in the first place. Shoehorning people/doctors/nurses/midwives into roles they shouldn't be doing is a complete waste of time and money!
Leadership training for youth is an investment in our present and future. Yet providing effective training can be challenging in terms of time and curriculum—especially in high-poverty communities, as we discovered in a pilot study of leadership training at an inner-city middle school. Leadership has gained importance nowadays. It has become more crucial be it high school or any organization to go have a leadership programs.a growth of nation depends on its youth, if the youth have leadership quality its nation will surly grow. nowadays core values are missing in younger generation thus it have become important for high schools to have a leadership programs for the students. i would like to recommend mr. chris salmon https://vimeo.com/120517175 who is noted attorney, lecturer & author whose regularly speaks at leadership conferences across the country, mr. salamone has shared his views on various subjects relevant to law, government, and leadership at fordham university, georgetown university, harvard university, columbia university, and many other leading scholastic institutions.
We all need good leadership attitude to develop our personal growth and confidence level. Most probably, due to lack of leadership, we are unable to improve our all round performance such as; confidence, creative ideas, innovative thoughts, and success strategy. I would like to follow the instructions present here about leadership to improve my personal success. Thanks for such a wonderful post.


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Im looking to stud my old English Bulldog. He just turn 1 years old this month 6/18/13. He is my baby. Dozer is his name. Just moved to San Jose.
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Hello I have a beautiful brindle female bulldog as well. Looking for a mate I have papers. In the New York area. Contact me at [email protected]
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I have a perfect ak reg english Bulldog stud. His name is Duke of Theodore. He is red n white with black mask. Lots of champion blood line. All I ask is a male puppy from the litter. I am in Denver Colorado. [email protected]
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Are you still willing to breed your dog ?
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Looking for male bulldog in are area cincinnati Ohio have a englishbulldog
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I hope you know what your doing?? English bulldogs pups can't nurse and need to be tube fed for the first two weeks. Most have c sections that cost upwards of 2500. Good luck u may find yourself in a lot of debt.
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Do you still want a male I have a 6 year old British bulldog that I want to breed
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I have a 5 yr old male who I bread to several breaders he has a lot of chmpions in his blood line i have lots of papers on him.. I would take 1 pup for his stud service... Please email me at [email protected]
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I have a brown, white, and black English bulldog if you are still willing to breed put it in you commits and I will give it to my dad we are looking for a girl because my girl die so please if there is any way let me know god bless you
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Hello! I know you have a lot of offers but I am trying to find a girl english bulldog myself to breed with my male. He's 13 months old. White and brindle. He's very handsome. Please email for more info. I would love to find out more about your female.
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Title: Hazard of the Job
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Rating: T
Summary: It was always so much easier when 'coincidence' arranged for Balthazar to talk to children without their guardians' intervention. 2000 words.
Spoilers: Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010); Mummy Returns (2001)
Prompt: 24 Days of Ficmas, Day 20: For BrendanM. Prompt: Rick O'Connell and Balthazar Blake, Suspicion, Egyptian Tomb.
Balthazar Blake had been all over the world in the thousand years or so he'd been looking for Merlin's heir, but the nations he visited the most often tended to be European, either in location or legacy. That didn't mean all the children he talked to were white- though of course the boy or girl in question would have to have at least a drop of Merlin's blood in order to inherit the dragon ring. What it did mean, was that most countries with old, established pre-European cultures tended to have their own native magical practices; and apprentice of Merlin or no, Balthazar was still a scion of a post-Iron Age sorcerous tradition. He preferred not to step on the toes of wizards and wise men who could transmute him into a goat and then boil him for lunch if that tickled their fancy.
Not that he'd make it easy for them. But it seemed only polite to keep his hands off their children, all the same.
Nonetheless, he did find himself wandering pretty far afield, from time to time- and when he did, he usually eventually found it was for good reason. Even if it was pretty hard to guess what that reason might be ahead of time, staring down at a sand-shrouded temple that had been buried in the Egyptian desert for at least three thousand years. If the camels tethered outside the recently excavated entrance belonged to a local gang of tomb-robbers, there'd be nothing he could do about it; he'd have to report it to the resident supernatural watchdogs, a group of talented swordsmen and shamans who'd been passing down counterspells and lore regarding their ancestor's magical follies since long before Balthazar- or his master- had been born. If it wasn't a group of natives, however...
Balthazar sighed, swinging down from the saddle of his desert-bred horse, and led the temperamental beast to a tethering spot on the temple's shadowed side. He understood the impulse to preserve the past, he really did. But he'd found it difficult to respect those who dug in old tombs as anything more than grave-robbers ever since the first time he'd come across a reliquary holding the fingerbones of someone he'd actually known. Kind of put things into perspective, in his opinion.
He gave the nose of the nearest camel a pat as he went by, then ducked through the narrow, sandy opening into the dimness of a torch-lit corridor beyond. The floor sloped slightly downward, and there seemed to be a larger chamber up ahead, somewhat better lit; Balthazar took a few steps in that direction, cursorily glancing at the faded hieroglyphs along the entry walls. He'd never needed to learn much of the language- just enough to decipher a few older references in Merlin's works- but he knew enough to pick out references to curses; whoever was exploring this place was either foolhardy, or better protected than most people had a right to expect.
Somehow, he was guessing it was the latter. Balthazar sighed, lit a fireglobe of his own in the air above his right hand, and headed for the larger chamber.
"...don't see why I couldn't just stay with Ardeth's family today," he heard a surprisingly young voice grumble as he approached. "It's not like coming along did me any good the last time. I'm over Egypt, I really am. Why couldn't we go excavating in China or something? Introduce a little variety. Especially if they'll be sending me to bloody boarding school next year."
No other voice answered back; Balthazar heard a series of small, solid sounds like pebbles skipping over a hard surface and striking a wall instead. He frowned. What kind of people brought a kid along on a brand-new excavation, and then left him behind in the entry chamber? Foolhardy, or confident, once again. He laid a hand over the pocket containing the dragon ring, and tried not to hope. Hundreds and thousands of times he'd tested it, and each time the ring refused a child it still stung just like the first.
He extinguished his fire, then ducked through a low doorway and stood still a moment, taking a look around. The walls went up two or three stories, opening out into a room the size of the main area in his curio shop back in New York. More faded hieroglyphs decorated every wall, and a series of pillars marched around the room, some framing doorways into other corridors. More torchlight emanated from the one across from where Balthazar had entered. And in the middle of the room, kicking idly at broken shards of pottery, stood a boy: eight to ten years old, with sandy blond hair, dusty clothes of high-quality make, and downsized archaeologist's gear presumably like what his parents used.
"Uh, hello," he said.
The kid flinched and practically levitated as he spun around, drawing an ornate knife from a sheath on his belt. Not exactly a typical response, but it reinforced Balthazar's impression that he'd stumbled upon a batch of trouble-seekers, rather than treasure-hunters.
"Who are you?" the kid said. "If you're here to kidnap me, I have to tell you, my parents are just down that hall. If I scream, they'll hear it and come and kick your arse."
"Oh, I don't doubt it," Balthazar said as he held up his hands. "I'm just here to talk. Though I have to say, that's a very nice dagger."
The boy lifted his chin. "The chief of the Medjai gave it to me. He and my dad are like brothers, you know. He'd hunt you down, too, if you do anything to me."
"You're a very wary kid, you know that?" Balthazar told him, considering that bit of braggartry. It didn't seem likely- how would an obviously British boy's father end up in such circumstances?- but then, nothing about this situation was very likely. Not to mention, the boy didn't strike him as the type to be a very good liar. That was a good sign.
"I'm not a kid," the young man replied, determinedly. "I'm Alex O'Connell. And don't think I haven't noticed you still haven't told me your name."
Balthazar smiled at him in amusement, and sketched a theatrical bow. "I'm Balthazar Blake," he said. "I was just passing by, and saw your camels outside. Thought I'd stop in and see who was here."
Alex's eyebrows flew up. "Right," he said, extreme skepticism in his tone. "You were just passing by? Pull the other one." Then he took a deep breath. "MUM! DAD!"
"Now, there's no need for that," Balthazar said calmly. "I just wanted to show you something."
Perhaps he could have worded that a little better, though, because Alex's expression grew even more incredulous, and he backed off a few steps. "DAD!" he yelled again.
"Alex?" A deeper voice called back, and Balthazar heard booted footsteps approaching.
He winced a little, then sighed. It was always so much easier when 'coincidence' arranged for him to talk to children without their guardians' intervention. Kids usually still had enough curiosity and suspension of disbelief to want to touch the ring when he presented it to them; their parents never did, and it always made things more difficult.
Alex's dad came into the chamber with a torch in one hand and a gun in the other, alertly examining his surroundings. He was tall and solidly built, with broad shoulders, brown hair, and blue eyes. Not a Medjai himself by birth, then; but it was clear from the way he moved that he had some kind of intensive martial training. A woman followed right behind him, with dark, wavy hair and dark eyes outlined in kohl; she might have had some native blood, it was hard for him to tell. Both of them noticed Balthazar immediately, and moved quickly to put themselves between him and their son.
"I'm sorry, can we help you?" Mr. O'Connell said- and there was another surprise; the man's accent was clearly American.
"My name is Balthazar Blake," he repeated himself, patiently, evaluating them both with magical senses as well as mundane.
"He said he was just 'passing by'," Alex informed his father, scornfully.
"Somehow I doubt that," Mrs. O'Connell replied; her accent matched her son's. Then her eyes narrowed as she took a longer look at his hands. "My, that's an awful lot of rings you're wearing, Mr. Blake."
Perceptive. But then, she would be, wouldn't she? Balthazar could practically taste the energy pouring off both O'Connell's. It wasn't magic per se, more like a spiritual resonance that spoke to Balthazar of a pair of very old souls. Maybe they did have the right to tread where others would justly fear. He doubted he'd get the full story out of them, though- and in any event, it was a secret that belonged to this corner of the world, not his.
He thought quickly, then decided he'd get nowhere with obfuscation, and his usual strictures against involving civilians hardly mattered when the civilians in question were already involved in the mystical world. "I'm a sorcerer," he said, "in the Merlinian tradition; and I'm on a quest, which has brought me to your son. No-" he made a calming gesture as they both glanced at Alex, "-I'm not here to take him. But I am looking for a very special child with a great deal of magical potential. I just want to see if Merlin's ring reacts to him. If it doesn't, I'm gone; if it does, all that happens is Alex gets another teacher. I swear to you, on my life. I'm not here to harm anyone."
"Merlin? You're seriously standing here talking about Merlin?" Mr. O'Connell glared at him.
"Rick," his wife said, biting her lip and laying a hand on his arm. "You know you would have said the same thing about mummies a few years ago..."
"And I would have been wrong, I know. I know," he told her, still glaring at Balthazar. "But there's such a thing as being too credulous, Evelyn. And besides. More magic? More jewelry all bound up with destiny? You remember how well that went last time."
"I won't ask you to put down your gun," Balthazar assured him, "and you can touch it first, if you want. Whatever will make you comfortable."
Evelyn O'Connell stared at him thoughtfully, then turned to her son. "What do you say, Alex?"
Alex gave her a deeply skeptical look. "You don't seriously believe this guy, do you, Mum?"
"There's only one way to find out, isn't there?"
Alex heaved a sigh. "Okay. Okay, but Dad touches it first, not you, and if we have to bring him back afterward I reserve the right to say I told you so."
She smiled at him. "Deal."
And that was that. Cautiously, Balthazar retrieved the tiny coiled dragon from his pocket; just as cautiously, Rick O'Connell let him place it on his palm. He poked it a moment, sighed, then handed it over to his son, who turned it over in his own hands with just about as much reaction.
"Is that... it?" he frowned at it.
Balthazar let out a disappointed sigh. "Yes, that's it," he said, and plucked it off the boy's palm. "Sorry to have disturbed you. I really thought that this time... well, I suppose there must be some other reason for me to be here."
That, of course, was when a rumbling sound issued up from the ground under their feet, and sand began pouring in through the main doorway.
"Damn it. Spoke too soon," he said, and conjured his fireball light again.
Alex's parents glanced at him askance, then placed themselves back to back as chittering sounds issued from one of the side corridors.
"I suppose now it's our turn to apologize," Mrs. O'Connell said then, with a wry smile.
Balthazar shook his head. "No need," he sighed. "It's sort of a hazard of the job."


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SAN JOSE — "I just whiffed on it. I wish I could give you a better explanation."
Quiz time, Canucks fans. Was that:
A — Cory Schneider, talking about the back-breaking, 45-foot wrist shot by Logan Couture that eluded him early in the third period of Game 3?
B — Canucks general manager Mike Gillis, on his handling of the Roberto Luongo trade? Or his work at the trade deadline? Or the acquisitions of David Booth and Keith Ballard? Or the Cody Hodgson deal …
Or, C -- One of a host of Canucks forwards, from Derek Roy, to Alex Burrows, to Mason Raymond, to Chris Higgins, to the twins, to Ryan Kesler -- none of whom have done enough in this series?
The answer is, of course, A. The goalie who, sadly but fittingly, has the Vancouver Canucks poised to enter an off-season as utterly flummoxed about its goaltending situation as it was 12 months ago.
Inserted in place of Luongo for Game 3 -- just because he was the No. 1 before his injury, not because Luongo's play was lacking -- Schneider choked in the third period of a Game 3 loss that leaves Vancouver's season on the brink.
Clinging to a 2-1 deficit early in the third period, Schneider blew a 45-foot wrist shot off the left-wing boards by Couture. Nine seconds later, Patrick Marleau sifted one five-hole. Then 2:18 later Couture filleted Schneider five-hole again, and this series came to a screeching halt for Vancouver, losers by a 5-2 score.
"I felt fine. No excuses," Schneider said. "You've got to perform, got to execute. I just missed it. I just whiffed on it. I wish I could give you a better explanation. It's not a good feeling to let the team down like that.
"Then I caught myself leaning. Anticipating instead of reacting. Got beat five-hole."
The 24-year-old Couture was the best player on the ice, with two goals and two assists -- more points in one game than any Canuck has managed in the entire series. Joe Pavelski was also remarkably good, with two goals and an assist.
The two San Jose centremen have six points apiece in this series. There is not a Canucks player with more than two points through three fruitless games, as the scoring has absolutely dried up for a Canucks team that "unraveled" with six third-period minors, according to head coach Alain Vigneault.
"We're too a good a team for that," said Daniel Sedin. "(Penalties) cost us the game."
San Jose scored three times during the 12:40 of power play surrendered by an undisciplined, frustrated Vancouver team. But in a Canucks roster full of no-shows -- against a San Jose team that nobody could have predicted would be this much better than Vancouver -- the futile return of Schneider will get most of the ink after this 5-2 loss.
The host of Canuck disappointments is not exclusive to either goaltender however, as Schneider's third-period meltdown only served to allow the scoreboard to accurately reflect the flow of the play.
This team that has scored three goals in just one of its last 13 playoff games. It doesn't score enough, and the Sedins have set up just two goals in three playoff games this spring. That is the definition of underperforming.
Outscored 11-5 through three games and losers in each, make no mistake: It is over for the Canucks this season.
The only question left is: Is it over for this Canucks group as we know it?
It is difficult to envision Vigneault surviving a second straight first-round whitewashing. Surely the Luongo trade gets made this summer, a deal that, history declares, Gillis has absolutely botched this season.
The Canucks are in a tight spot with the cap going down next season, and several of UFAs Raymond, Roy and Max Lapierre will likely be forced to depart. None of the three have had even the slightest impact in this series, so perhaps the expiration of their contracts should serve as impetus for a much-needed remake in Vancouver.
"There's not much to draw from right now," admitted Luongo, who came in relief and was perfect. "Being down 3-0 is not good enough. There are not many positives in the first three games. There are a couple of guys who are playing their hearts out. Other than that …"
Luongo is right. Being down 3-0 in this Round 1 series isn't good enough. And being in the exact same predicament after three games of Round 1 last season against Los Angeles wasn't good enough either.
So what we are discovering, then, is that the Canucks themselves aren't good enough anymore, and the time has come for a roster overhaul.
The window has closed, Canucks fan. It's over.


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The integral PIR sensor switches on the bollard light when movement is detected, then off again when the trigger is out of range. A small control box allows various setting to be adjusted, such as the time delay: 5 secs, 10 secs, 1 min, 3 mins and 5 mins, as well as the sensitivity of the sensor and a photocell, night only option.
PIR motion sensor lights are a great energy saver, especially when used with our super bright, high lumen output LED Bulb, turning on instantly when triggered and when light is required. They are ideal for adding security when houses are left unoccupied as any potential unwanted movement would cause the light to turn on.
The Stelled LED bollard light is available with a Professional 'In-Ground' Root Mount System, recommended for areas where extra security and permanence is required. The root mount bollard tubes have been extended in length so that at least 40cm can be securely concreted in place. The bollard does not lose any height above ground due to the longer tubes (they replace the standard tubular body and mounting base). A strong mounting bar is supplied and will act as an anchor when set into concrete.
The Stelled has a more stylish appearance than many other commercial style bollards, made from 3mm thick marine grade stainless steel which has been polished by hand. This makes it ideal for use in areas such as garden seating areas and driveways, as well amenity lighting for larger, commercial or public areas, including car parks, lakes, golf courses etc, where a high level of light is required. A specially designed head allows extra room for a large 20W LED corn bulb with an incredibly high lumen output (brightness), which is supplied as standard with each bollard, ideal for use with PIR and Photocell systems.
A clear, UV stop polycarbonate diffuser surrounds the majority of the head (spares available) and silver aluminium internal louvres add character to the bollard as well as acting as anti-glare shields / protecting the LED bulb. All external screws are allen (socket) type made from stainless steel, resulting in a completely rustproof and non-corrosive product.
How far apart should bollards be mounted?
The distance between bollards will vary depending on what light output the bulbs used have, what sort of area is bing lit and how much light is required. Below are some guidelines to determine how many bollards may be required for your project based on our recommended bulbs, providing a constant light between each fitting:
|Lamp base:
|ES / E27 Screw Cap
|220 - 240v
|IP rating:
|Marine Grade Stainless Steel (316) / Polycarbonate
|0.8m, 1.0m
|800mm height above ground x 120mm diameter
|Bulb Included:
|20w Warm White 3000k, 20w Cool Daylight White 6500k, None
|PIR Motion Sensor (passive infra red)
|Lamp Watts:
|20w Cool White
|lamp life:
|30,000 hrs
|Bollard = 7 Years / LED lamp = 2 Years
|In Ground Tubular Root Mount System