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Reason or faith? Darwin expert reflects
This is going to be a big year for evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin: 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book "On the Origin of Species," and Feb. 12 would be his 200th birthday. Throughout the year, Darwin Day events are planned around the world to celebrate the man and his work, and to explore Darwin's legacy of science and reason. (Read about events planned at UW–Madison.)
Ronald Numbers, Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine in the departments of Medical History and Bioethics and the History of Science, is one of the world's leading authorities on the responses to evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution versus creationism.
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On the top of many Darwin Day speakers lists is Ronald Numbers, Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine in UW–Madison's departments of Medical History and Bioethics and the History of Science, two of the nation's oldest such departments. Numbers is one of the world's leading authorities on the responses to Darwin and he has been invited to speak at Darwin anniversary events the world over, including the Vatican in March.
Just a few of the publications to his credit include "Darwinism Comes to America," "The Creationists," "Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew," and "Galileo Goes to Jail, and Other Myths About Science and Religion."
His professional accolades include being named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to name a few.
Numbers' most recent tribute came from the History of Science Society, which honored him with the Sarton Medal, given to an outstanding historian of science selected from the international community in honor of lifetime scholarly achievement. "Receiving the Sarton Medal was an honor, but it didn't earn me any extra respect from my colleagues here," laughs Numbers.
Numbers sees the world through the eyes of a scientist but can appreciate the power and pull of the religious arguments for denying evolution, without dismissing the believers as ignorant or stupid.
Numbers is perhaps the unlikeliest of people to have become an expert on illuminating the interaction of scientific reason and religion. The son of a Seventh-day Adventist minister, he was educated in Adventist schools and grew up firmly believing in creationism and his church's literal reading of the Bible: that God created the world 6,000 years ago and that the fossil record can be explained by the one year of Noah's flood.
Then, while a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, he attended a lecture on the fossil forests of Yellowstone National Park. What he heard that evening sparked a crisis of faith that shook the foundation of his understanding of the world and his place in it. "That was the crack in the dam. I accepted that night the possibility that life had been on earth for 30,000 years," says Numbers. "Once I decided to accept scientific evidence against inspired claims, there was no stopping. I kind of knew it that night. I started questioning everything."
His loss of faith caused enormous pain and shame to his family – some of the old relationships and friendships are still strained. But perhaps it is his background that perfectly prepared Numbers to become a scholar on the history of science and religion. He sees the world through the eyes of a scientist but can appreciate the power and pull of the religious arguments for denying evolution, without dismissing the believers as ignorant or stupid.
Numbers is also respected by both evolutionists and creationists – he's even been asked to collaborate with some young Adventist historians on a book for a conference this October. "Some of my friends think I'm totally nuts to do something like this. But I don't much care about the personal beliefs of the historians as long as they are willing to confront the evidence in a naturalistic way. No miracles," says Numbers.
As for Darwin, Numbers says Darwin was not the first person to write on evolution. An anonymous book, "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation," was published in 1844. Among other things, Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" recounted the scientific observations he made during his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle to South America and the Pacific.
Numbers also says Darwin's ideas are often misunderstood and get muddled with furious debates on human evolution (there was only one sentence in the book on that subject), creationism and intelligent design.
Numbers spoke with Wisconsin Week to shed some light on Darwin and the confusing and conflicting beliefs of antievolutionists.
Wisconsin Week: At the time of its publication in 1859, was "On the Origin of Species" controversial?
Numbers: "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" was much more sensational and it sold better than Darwin. … Geologists had found lots of evidence of different inhabitants, fossils and animals of the past, but they stayed away from humans. It wasn't until the late 1850s that fairly conclusive evidence of human antiquity appeared. That really shook things up. And then Darwin argued that there's no such thing as a fixed species. Darwin, though, still allowed for the possibility of a creator … and showed how, by natural law, God could have populated the Earth by means of evolution. This took the sting out of things so it wasn't a choice between God and science.
WW: What don't we understand about Darwinism?
RN: One of the facts about Darwinism that is not well known is that the one part of Darwin's theory that was least accepted by fellow biologists was the theory of natural selection. He said that his main goal in writing "On the Origin of Species" was to overthrow the dogma of separate creations, which later came to be known as creationism — that God did it. He wanted a natural explanation for the origin of species. He said he was partial to the theory of natural selection as the mechanism for producing species … but he wasn't identifying natural selection as the heart of his theory.
Most people in the 19th century did not equate Darwinism with natural selection; Darwinism generally meant evolution. Within 15 years of the publication of "On the Origin of Species," most biologists had become evolutionists. A consensus about natural selection didn't develop until the 1930s and 1940s. Since then, there's been a lot of reading back into the past, with many biologists insisting that true Darwinism is evolution based on natural selection.
WW: Can you explain why, after 150 years, there is still such resistance to evolution?
RN: For creationists, history is based on the Bible and the belief that God created the world 6,000-10,000 ago. … We humans were perfect because we were created in the image of God. And then there was the fall. Death appears and the whole account [in the Bible] becomes one of deterioration and degeneration. So we then have Jesus in the New Testament, who promises redemption. Evolution completely flips that. With evolution, you don't start out with anything perfect, you start with primitive little wiggly things, which evolve into apes and, finally, humans. There's no perfect state from which to fall. This makes the whole plan of salvation silly because there never was a fall. What you have then is a theory of progress from single-celled animals to humans and a very, very different take on history, and not just human history.
WW: What do Americans believe about creation and evolution?
RN: Since the early 1980s, the Gallup Poll has asked something along the lines whether respondents believed that the first humans were created no more than 10,000 years ago. Responses have varied from 43-48 percent [believing this]. In 2005 or 2006, there was a different question added that asked if they believed in or leaned toward creationism, and 65.5 percent said yes. That's two-thirds of Americans! What we don't know, because no pollster has asked, is how many of these are old-earth creationists [who believe the Earth is old but that humans didn't appear until about 10,000 years ago]. It doesn't tell us much about young-earth creationists [who believe that all life began about 10,000 years ago]. [The poll] does tell us about suspicion toward evolution, especially human evolution. Also, it doesn't distinguish between creationism and intelligent design.
WW: What is intelligent design and where does it fit in?
RN: I suspect most people don't understand what intelligent design is. I've talked to enough people who didn't understand it to make me really suspicious, and there are even people who lecture about it and don't know what they're talking about. I don't define it; what I do is let the advocates of intelligent design speak for themselves. The biggest object of criticism from the intelligent design camp is known as "methodological naturalism."
The term "methodological naturalism" didn't exist until the 1980s, but the movement, based on the idea that scientists should limit themselves to nonsupernatural explanations, existed before then. Thus, if you come to a tough spot, and you say "God did it and there was a miracle," that's not doing science. Under the rule of methodological naturalism, that's cheating. That's a science stopper right there. From roughly 1750-1850, in one scientific discipline after another, the scientific practitioners lined up with the notion that there would be no more miracles in what was coming to be called "science." You could believe in miracles, but it wouldn't count as science. You could, for example, still share your beliefs about the role of God in nature with your church group, but you couldn't invoke God in, say, an article for the American Journal of Science and say, "And here's where God stepped in." This became a fundamental rule, and not just in science. Even historians adopted it and quit appealing to God or to Satan. Christians became avid practitioners of methodological naturalism because it didn't require them to deny their faith.
Now, the founders of the intelligent design movement regarded this as a terrible position. They argued that if the goal of science was to discover truth about nature, why would scientists arbitrarily tie their hands before they started their investigations and say we refuse to mention God even if they find compelling evidence of God or an intelligent designer? Their goal was to re-sacralize science, to turn the clock back 150 years and re-allow the supernatural to count as science.
It so happened that the area where they launched their biggest attack was evolution, but, of course, it wouldn't be limited to evolution. [Evolution is where] they think they have the best evidence for irreducible complexity, where you allegedly need God in order to explain things. Intelligent designers have a huge reservoir of support, in part because people don't realize what they're up to. Close to 90 percent of Americans are theists, who believe that there is a God, and that if there is a God, that God does something. So these people are not generally averse to the notion that God had been involved in creating and running the universe. But when I ask purported partisans whether they mind if science puts in a miracle here or God and Satan there, they say "Oh, that's crazy."
They tend to think intelligent design is benign in the sense of it simply being more open to God. They don't see it as changing the one most fundamental rule for doing science, which has worked very well for 150-200 years, and to go back to the old days when you could talk about God as part of natural philosophy.
Thus, most people don't really understand intelligent design. Besides, many admirers and critics mistakenly conflate it with young-earth creationism, and others embrace it as just another critique of materialistic evolution.
Michael Behe [a leading advocate of intelligent design] claims that this discovery [of irreducible complexity, which argues that some biological systems are too complex to have evolved from a simpler form] should rank in the history of science up there with the discoveries of Newton and Lavoisier and Einstein. If he did find evidence of God, that would be huge, and I would put it up there. However, no one but Michael Behe and his buddies thinks he has discovered evidence of God. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
WW: So antievolutionists quarrel with evolution for different reasons?
RN: In this context, you have two types of evolution, theistic and nontheistic, and the boundary is very fuzzy. I joke with a friend of mine who writes on theistic evolution, asking him: "How many supernatural interventions does it take to make a creationist?" In the late 19th century, at least one prominent antievolutionist thought that the answer was only three supernatural interventions: for the creation of matter, life and humans. But many self-identified theistic evolutionists thought many more than that. So you can't even tell by the number of supernatural interventions who believed what.
Until well into the 20th century, most critics of evolution were known simply as antievolutionists. The term "creationism" wasn't widely used until the end of the 1920s, because the people who opposed evolution couldn't agree on anything. They were all Bible believers, but they had different interpretations of the Bible. Many of the fundamentalists in the 1920s, at the time of the Scopes trial, believed in the antiquity of life on Earth, that there had been millions of years of plants and animals and that the Garden of Eden occurred 6,000-10,000 years ago. Most fundamentalists who left a record of their opinions accepted the fact of the antiquity of life.
The movie "Inherit the Wind" is a complete skewering of history. William Jennings Bryan always believed that the days of Genesis represented vast geological ages. At the Scopes trial, he testified that antievolutionists didn't care whether creation had taken six days or 600 million years. Age wasn't the issue; the origin of humans was.
A much smaller group of antievolutionists explained the fossil record by attributing it to the one year of Noah's flood. They were first known as flood geologists. Then, in about 1970, they renamed themselves scientific creationists or young-earth creationists — they're all the same people.
WW: How is all this regarded by nontheistic scientists? What's all the hubbub about?
RN: To a certain extent, the controversy has been invented by science writers, to whom I would give very bad grades. Even reputable magazines such as TIME and Newsweek write about how intelligent design is splitting the science community. Over the years, the intelligent design people have kept a list of scientists willing to sign a statement in dissent from evolution – they've gotten about 700 or so to sign it. Is that high or low? You can't get a good figure on how many scientists there are in the world. But I've found a pretty reliable approximation that there are 3-10 million from the president of the International Council of Scientific Unions. From that, I took the lowest possible number, 3 million, and divided it by 700, which gives the intelligent designers less than 0.023 percent of the world's scientists. It's a miniscule percentage.
It's funny, I'd get calls from journalists during the Dover trial [2005 trial in Pennsylvania that challenged a school district's requirement to present intelligent design as an alternative to evolution] and they'd ask if this was the end of young-earth creationism. No, no, no! It just means that this is the exciting event right now. And sure enough, a year and a half later, the creation museum opens [in Kentucky] and everyone says, "That's where the action is now. Was intelligent design beaten in Dover and has it now gone away?" No, they're both flourishing. It's just that the press has to have a court trial or a political battle or something weird, like a $27 million museum, to attract its attention. You can't tell anything about the issues by news coverage.
There's also this understandable, but hair-brained notion, that coverage should be balanced. Well, I guess that we should give the flat-earthers balanced treatment, too. Do we give holocaust deniers balanced treatment when it comes to talking about 20th century history? Do we give astrology or alchemy equal time? That's the defense many journalists seem to use.
I congratulate my friends in the intelligent design movement. They've convinced a large number of people there's a controversy. But the controversy is largely in their own minds and in the news coverage. And then they try to convince school boards to teach this bogus scientific controversy.
WW: How do we teach evolution?
RN: It varies greatly from place to place. Polls show that in some states a substantial percentage of biology teachers don't believe in evolution. So they're not going to be good at teaching evolution. In many places it's so controversial, some teachers just ignore it. It's taught well in some places, but overall, it's not a great achievement of American high school or collegiate education.
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Svendsen Gets No. 2,500 With Veteran Trotter
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - by Mark Ratzky, Publicity – Cal Expo
Lemoyne "Mooney" Svendsen got his 2,500th driving victory in flashy
fashion last Thursday night (March 3), lighting up the tote-board at $39
with the trotter Mighty Kicker in the evening's finale.
Mighty Kicker, who is owned and trained by Robert Bell, is one of those performers who has seemingly been around forever. The 8-year-old Iowa-bred son of Kickin B has earned his $86,000 bankroll the old fashioned way, sporting a 1:58 career standard from four years ago.
"I've had Mighty Kicker for about three years now," Bell related. "He tries to act mean around the barn, but he's really a sweetheart and just likes to play around. On the track, he's easy to drive and what you would call a grinder."
Even with the one-hole for his most recent assignment, Bell felt his veteran trotter might be in a bit deep, as this race came up extremely contentious for the level, and the public obviously felt the same way as they sent him off as an 18-1 shot.
"I told Mooney just to leave out of there and try to follow along, and as it turned out, he was in the two-hole basically cutting out his own mile. He got brave when the leader came back to him and was able to get there in a pretty tight one."
Bell and Svendsen see quite a bit of each other in the mornings, as they toil around the same shedrow.
"Mooney and I both work with the Bob Johnson barn, and he's a real good guy. The fact that he got 2,500 on this horse made the win all the more special."
The 52-year-old Svendsen got into the game in his native Minnesota when he was 16 years old, and cut his teeth on the trotters at the insistence of his father. He dedicated last week's milestone win to his dad and his wife Jodi, who is currently fighting breast cancer.
Alpine Hawk, Big Baller Clashing On Thursday At Cal Expo
Alpine Hawk, who has posed for pictures following four of his six trips to the post this season; and Big Baller, his arch-rival of late, get the top billing at Cal-Expo in Thursday night's (March 10) $4,500 headliner for the trotting set.
A 10-year-old son of Movie Mogul who was bred in New York, Alpine Hawk carries the banner of Jim Winske with Gordie Graham the conditioner and Rich Wojcio in the sulky. He has $145,000 in the bank and sports a 1:56.4 career standard that was established three years ago.
The hard-knocking veteran has been putting his versatility and class on display throughout 2011, getting the job done on the lead and from a stalking position. He came from off the pace to prevail by a head despite slow fractions in his February 10 score, then took matters into his own hands in last week's victory.
Sent off the 8-5 second choice in that affair while Big Baller was the chalk, Alpine Hawk made two moves to the lead at the half. Wojcio took control of things from that point, fighting off a challenge from Big Baller to prove a length best that evening while coming a solid :28 flat final quarter.
Big Baller represents Team Desomer and is looking for his fourth tally from eight trips to the post this season. The Panama Hanover homebred recorded his most recent decision at this level on February 3, making every pole a winning one that night while setting a new mark with the 1:57 4/5 clocking.
Since that outing, he has had to settle for three straight runner-up finishes, twice behind Alpine Hawk and dropping the other to Jam And Jelly, who will again be among his rivals on Thursday.
That 7-year-old mare is trained by George Reider, who also co-owns the distaffer with Rick and Marlene Thomas. Jam And Jelly, a lifetime earner of $144,000 with a 1:56.1 mark, prevailed over this group two weeks ago off a pocket journey with Luke Plano and checked in third in the most recent gathering at this level.
Live racing resumes at Cal Expo on Thursday (March 10) and continues through Saturday (March 12). Post-time on Thursday is 5:30 p.m. (PST). Post-time on Friday (March 11) & Saturday is 6:00 p.m. On Thursday and every live card, Cal Expo offers free admission, as well as free preferred & general parking after 4:30 p.m. Also on Thursday night from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Cal Expo offers a complete Lasagna dinner, which includes salad and bread, for just $3.00. Additionally on Thursday, beer & wine can be purchased for $3.00 each as well.
On Saturdays, Cal Expo offers a reduced 15 percent takeout rate on both the Early & Late Pick-4 with the Late Pick-4 having a $10,000 gross guaranteed pool. Additionally, for winning wagers made on the Late Pick-4 online at TwinSpires.com or on track at Cal Expo, a bonus payout of 17.65 percent of the gross Late Pick 4 mutuel payoff will be paid.


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Who is your Football League Player of the Year?
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake was named as the Championship Player of the Year at the Football League Awards on Sunday evening.
Do you agree that he has been the best player in the division this season?
There is certainly a very strong case for the 23-year-old, who also won the goal of the year for his strike against Charlton last March.
The striker joined Wolves in January 2008 and is the leading scorer this season in the Championship with 24 goals, six clear of Reading's Kevin Doyle.
He is quick, skilful and an increasingly accomplished finisher. His goals are a key reason why Wolves are top of the Championship and closing in on a return to the Premier League with six games left to play.
Unfortunately he is also injured, having picked up a calf problem training with the England Under-21s last week.
The Championship leaders are hopeful that he will be back in action for the top-of-the-table clash with Birmingham next Monday, though his current rehabilitation meant that he was unable to attend the awards night on Sunday.
Wolves assistant manager Terry Connor picked up the award on his behalf and afterwards backed Ebanks-Blake to succeed in the Premier League if the Midlands club do go on and win promotion.
He also told me that the striker's time at Plymouth was crucial in his development. Ebanks-Blake left Manchester United for the Pilgrims in July 2006 and took time to adjust to the realities of life after Old Trafford and the physical demands of the Championship.
Ebanks-Blake himself credits former Plymouth boss Ian Holloway with playing a crucial role in his development and by the time he left Home Park his price tag had increased from £200,000 to £1.5m. If Wolves were to sell him in the summer - extraordinarily unlikely I grant you - he would certainly cost much more than that now.
Leicester's Matty Fryatt walked off with the League One Player of the Year award and Shrewsbury's Grant Holt took the honour for League Two.
Fryatt, whose side lead the League One table, is having a season to remember after a miserable 2007-08 campaign when he managed just three goals in 35 appearances as the Foxes were relegated from the Championship.
This season he has banged in 23 goals in League One and matured under the management of Nigel Pearson.
However, a browse through the Leicester 606 board shows that plenty of Foxes fans would have picked veteran striker Steve Howard ahead of Fryatt.
Fans of Bristol Rovers might suggest that Rickie Lambert, who has scored 25 of his team's 66 league goals, should have taken the honour instead of Fryatt - what do you think?
Fryatt, who notched back-to-back hat-tricks earlier in the campaign, hasn't scored in four games and it could be that his goals are drying up when it matters most, which brings into question the timing of awards such as these.
The crucial final weeks of the campaign lie in front of us and there is still plenty of time for players to really stamp their mark on the season.
In defence of the Football League, I imagine it is more fun running a bank during the credit crunch than trying to gather all sorts of footballing people into one room. And if you tried to do that at the end of the season I strongly suspect mobile phones would remain unanswered.
You don't see too many cash transfers in League Two so more than a few eyebrows were raised when Shrewsbury shelled out £170,000 to buy Holt from Nottingham Forest last June.
Holt admitted when he collected his award that he had felt pressure to deliver but 18 league goals seem to suggest he has done just that - though having said that 10 have come from the penalty spot.
I'm sure that the Brentford fan in our office would be able to make a case for Charlie MacDonald, while Wycombe's Tommy Doherty was also on the shortlist.
I'd like to offer my congratulations to Reading's Graeme Murty for his Player in the Community award.
I was actually on the judging panel for this award and was extremely impressed with the quality of the applications.
Footballers often get a bad press - frequently with justification - and I'm sometimes unsure of the regard in which they are held by the general public.
But some do go above and beyond their obligations in terms of their community work and obviously care passionately about it. I think these footballers deserve recognition.
I mentioned in a previous blog the work Darren Moore does through the charity Faith and Football, often spending his summers undertaking sponsored walks and dedicating a huge amount of his time to an inner-city five-a-side league he helps to run.
Big Dave, as Moore is affectionately know, quite rightly made the shortlist, as did Nottingham Forest's Julian Bennett for the amount of time he spends helping at South Nottingham College. Bennett is currently injured and will soon be heading with students from the college to South Africa to undertake some coaching work.
Picking out a winner was incredibly difficult but Murty just edged it. The Reading defender is, among other things, the patron of charity Swings and Smiles, which provides recreational facilities in West Berkshire for families with special needs children.
He also appears on a BBC Berkshire radio show every Monday, taking calls from Reading fans about the club. Many might have ducked out the day after their team had been relegated from the Premier League but not Murty.
You might not agree with all the winners on Sunday but Murty deserved his award. If more players had his attitude then that crucial bond between player and supporter would be a whole lot stronger.
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Comment number 1.At 16:46 30th Mar 2009, haznick wrote:
Ebanks-Blake hands down over anyone else.
Since we bought him he's scored 36 goals in 59 games. Brilliant record.
Best £1.5m Wolves have ever spent.
Comment number 2.At 17:03 30th Mar 2009, ClarkySparky wrote:
Can't argue with Ebanks Blake for best championship player of the year, it's as blatant as Gerrard for permiership player of the year.
League One vote would go to Fabian Delph. I know he's young but definitely the most watchable player in the division and has been a revelation this season.
League Two vote goes to Paul Benson, been a shining light in an often underimpressing Dagenham team.
Comment number 3.At 17:12 30th Mar 2009, 30STMLCFC wrote:
As a Foxes fan, I feel Fryatt deserves his award. However I presume that Cox and Lambert ran Fryatt close. Surprised Beckford hasn't been mentioned, but I guess that his injury and attitude hampered his chances.
Nice article to read Fletch :)
Comment number 4.At 17:40 30th Mar 2009, ForestForever wrote:
Ebanks-Blake probably deserves his title of best player in the football league having had two great seasons, but I think he was picked because he's an easy choice for goal of the season..
Personally, I think Joe Garner's goal against Southampton for Forest was much better.
To have the vision to look up and shoot from where he was and still find the target so perfectly is a much better goal.
As for the other awards, Grant Holt has scored a hat-full of penalties, and so I think he could be a little undeserving of his title.
Same goes for Fryatt. Yes, he has scored plenty this season, but he's at Leicester who are top of the league, and it smacks of awarding people because of who they play for.
In my opinion, Simon Cox should have won it because he plays for an unfashionable side in Swindon, yet has still managed to score 27? goals.
Comment number 5.At 17:45 30th Mar 2009, GASstrackzYID wrote:
how can fryatt win it ahead of lambert hes got the best team in the division behind him and looks to be greedy lambert also sets up loads of goals and drops back into midfield to help out and if you watched rovers every week you would see we dont have the most creative midfield for anyone who hasnt seen lambert go on youtube and watch his wonder goals
Comment number 6.At 17:46 30th Mar 2009, c0bBlerS wrote:
Seems like an obvious one but Grant Holt has been a massive boost for Shrewsbury Town's play off push in league two so i have to say him for that division.
Comment number 7.At 18:08 30th Mar 2009, Rita Cocking wrote:
I think that Sylvan Ebanks Blake deserves his title ,and I would like to take this opportunity to thank Sylv for his time in Plymouth,when he was at Argyle we got as far up as fourth place at one point.I think that he has the abilty to go all the way,who knows with the current shortage of strikers he might stand a chance of getting into the England squad.
Comment number 8.At 18:10 30th Mar 2009, NandoWolf wrote:
Sylvan's goal was absolutely superb. Pace to pull off the defender, strength to hold him off, audacious skill and belief to nutmeg the centre half and then lash it in the top corner. Absolutely sublime. What a player he is.
Comment number 9.At 18:16 30th Mar 2009, cmr-oafc wrote:
Your blog only really seems to mention strikers.
Best player for Oldham this season is without a doubt Chris Taylor. Scoring 10 goals from the left wing and being a joy to watch. An Oldham lad born and bred, who just wants to play for his home town.
Seems a bit slap dash just to mention all the players around the magic 20 goal mark. Usually your blogs are a very interesting read.
Comment number 10.At 18:18 30th Mar 2009, CodsallWolves wrote:
Ebanks-Blake - the right choice?
All wolves fans are insulted by the blogs ridiculous implication...
Comment number 11.At 18:21 30th Mar 2009, bcfccavecider wrote:
I have never seen the best of Ebanks-Blake because whenever we play him at Ashton Gate or at Plymouth or Wolves but his record speaks for itself.
I think Lambert should have got league 1 player of the year. Even though i'm a Bristol City fan i think he is far better than Fryatt if you had a look at goal per chance i think Lambert would come out on top because my dad who goes to Rovers home and away says he doesnt get many chances yet he still scores regular goals.
But are these awards given due to that position of the club?? Because im sure there are some players who may not play for high flyers but make an impact at their club, for example Marvin Elliot of Bristol City was most wanted by Wolves and Portsmouth in January yet he only got rank 31
Comment number 12.At 19:04 30th Mar 2009, Lupus RSW -10- wrote:
Ebanks-Blake has the making of a great striker, its not just his goal record, he's both footed, deceivingly quick, he works tirelessly for the team, his play is very intelligent and for a guy who is 5'10" isn't bad in the air plus once he has the ball, your not knocking him off it!!!
Well done Wanderers Number 9, potentially two golden boots in two seasons and only just 23.
I'm so proud of my club this year and what it's achieved this year, the Championship title would be the icing on the cake.
Comment number 13.At 19:21 30th Mar 2009, langboyred wrote:
Was goal of the season just for the Championship or all three divisions? Because if so Simon Cox's goal against Walsall was one of the best goals I've ever seen. He also deserved the player of the year award ahead of Matty Fryatt who is playing in a much better team.
Comment number 14.At 21:14 30th Mar 2009, lfc_ftw wrote:
I guess the next thing to ask would be, how long till we see him playing top flight football?
Comment number 15.At 21:43 30th Mar 2009, spiritualwolf wrote:
Not long, lfc_ftw, not long at all!
Comment number 16.At 21:53 30th Mar 2009, Bebe Face wrote:
can you only win player of the yr if you score goals now?? It would be strangly nice to see a keeper win player of the yr for a change!
Comment number 17.At 22:00 30th Mar 2009, NandoWolf wrote:
Scholes-Perhaps because he deserves it.He doesnt just score goals, he's an all round team player and would walk into many Premiership teams
Comment number 18.At 22:48 30th Mar 2009, RyanAFCT wrote:
Comment 9: Its not Fletch's fault he only mentioned 20-goal strikers, they're the only ones who won any awards, hes not gonna do a blog on players that didn't win anything is he?
Comment number 19.At 23:16 30th Mar 2009, Briggsy-swfc wrote:
For me the goal of the season should of either been Steve Watsons for Wednesday V's United or Marcus Tudgays in the return fixture, both world class goals. Although I can see why Ebanks-Blake got it as his goal was quality and he has been brilliant all season.
Suprised no mention of Lee Grant though, possibly one of the best keepers in the league and at one point was linked with an England call up!
Comment number 20.At 23:38 30th Mar 2009, CarefreeCoors wrote:
I know this is off topic but if Steven Gerrard wins the Premiership Player of The Year, as ClarkySparky (post # 2) suggested, that is an absolute joke and a farce.
Nemanja Vidic is the most deserving by quite some distance, followed by Frank Lampard. Just because Steven and Liverpool have played well over the past couple of months doesn't mean he is deserving of the Player of the Year accolade.
Back on the topic, Ebanks-Blake has been superb this season and is fully deserving of the award. I really hope that he can take this form into the Premiership, he really is one for the future.
Comment number 21.At 01:10 31st Mar 2009, Jack wrote:
I didn't know the football leagues season had already finished.
Comment number 22.At 06:42 31st Mar 2009, haznick wrote:
That's why the awards are "of the year" Jack. You donut!
Comment number 23.At 07:57 31st Mar 2009, HonestDeclanLFC wrote:
I am a Liverpool fan myself so maybe i shouldnt comment here but my father is a Leeds United fan so i do always have a close eye on what happens in the Football League and enjoy watching it as a neutral fan as there are always exciting matches and some good football... well usually!
Personally Ebanks-Blake was probably the best choice for Championship player of the year but as an Irishman i would've loved to have seen Doyle get it but he has been a little too hit and miss throughout the season.
But one question... why on earth was Matty Fryatt named League One player of the year!?!?! He is nowhere near the best player in the division. Ricky Lambert should have won hands down. He is playing for an unfashionable side in the division and has scored a hatful as why he is top scorer in the division whereas Fryatt plays for the top team, the pre-season promotion favourites and yet hasnt been anything to particuarly write home about. I think Fabian Delph and Jermaine Beckford should've been in with a shout but maybe thats just in my opinion.
Grant Holt League Two player of the year? Not by a long shot! Scoring penalties doesnt make you the best. Wee Charlie MacDonald gets my vote. With all due respect he is too good for League Two football.
Comment number 24.At 08:07 31st Mar 2009, Peterl wrote:
Why are footballer of the year chosen with 2 onths of the season to go?
What happens if someone scores hattricks in every game from now on in to win promotion for his club?
Or a goalkeeper keeps a clean sheet for the rest of the season including the playoff final in the penalty shoot out?
Comment number 25.At 08:49 31st Mar 2009, andyn4040 wrote:
As his old PE teacher i'd like to say i taught him everything he knows .... but it wouldn't be true!! 'The boy done good' as they say.....
Comment number 26.At 09:06 31st Mar 2009, olddog_newtricks wrote:
I daresay each of the winners has been a great player this season.
But how is their performance measured?
And why are the awards so soon?
And -if this is the "correct" time of year- why not the Premiership aswell?
It looks just a little like they are given by schoolboy fans who love their goal-scoring forwards; and are too impatient to wait until the end of the season to deliver a measured and measurable decision.
If I were one of the winners, I'd feel great, over the moon etc. But I'd also have a nagging doubt that the timing of the awards, and the lack of clarity of the scoring system had cheapened my award.
Thanks for listening :-)
Comment number 27.At 09:34 31st Mar 2009, MikeyElmes wrote:
League one Player of the Year should have gone to Simonn Cox, the lad has scored 24 goals, including 3 hat tricks in a team fighting for relegation. Look up the videos for his goals against Walsall and Fenerbache (pre-season) on you-tube, and most will agree that this striker will be playing Championship football next season.
To finish top scorer when your team is quality throughout is easier than carrying a team.
Comment number 28.At 09:42 31st Mar 2009, richthehammer wrote:
I've come across Simon Cox at Swindon due to his goalscoring exploits this season but I've never actually seen him play until reading this blog. I checked out his goal against Walsall (look on YouTube) and I would urge anyway who hasnt seen it to have a look- quite sublime!!
Oh and btw how can Ebanks-Blake win goal of the season for his strike against Charlton when that was during last year's campaign?
Comment number 29.At 10:00 31st Mar 2009, marco491 wrote:
SEB was probably the best player in the first half of the season, but at the current time it would be fairer to rank him equal with a group of three or four others, or in the team of the season, say.
I always have doubts when strikers are named as "best player" just because they have something they can be easily measured by. Anyone keep stats on the number of point-blank saves a keeper makes, for example? Thought not. The busiest goalies are often at the wrong end of the table, anyway.
Probably the real best player of the season is a lesser-known stalwart who holds together a team struggling at the bottom, or an ever-present surrounded by constant changes. For example, you take Ebanks-Blake and put him in the Charlton team, say, or back at Argyle, and he wouldn't be winning the best player award even if he was exactly the same player he is now.
Comment number 30.At 10:08 31st Mar 2009, olddog_newtricks wrote:
Thanks "marco491" for making my point much better than I was able to :-)
Comment number 31.At 10:23 31st Mar 2009, Jimsan *22* wrote:
I don't think there is a case against SEB. He has been truly awesome since his arrival at Wolves.
Thoroughly deserved and hopefully he can add a league winners medal to finish off a fantastic couple of seasons for him
Comment number 32.At 10:31 31st Mar 2009, ridingtrucksy wrote:
CAREFREECOORS are you on this planet? Gerrard is the best player in the world right now along with Messi, and would be the right choice for player of the year! dont get me wrong Vidic has had a good season but Gerrard has single handedly drove Liverpool to where they are today! also i think Vidic would be embarressed picking up the award after GERRARD MADE A FOOL OF vidic at Old Scumfard! o an i forgot to mention the Fact Torres megged him in that stroll in the park liverpool had in Manchester just confirmed Gerrard should win the award!!
Comment number 33.At 11:14 31st Mar 2009, cant-tame-the-shrews wrote:
from all the comments about holt only scoring penalties - so you're all saying you have to be a high scoring striker to be player of the season? I doubt any of you who have commented on here have seen holty play for the shrews this season - what he brings to the team is so much more than his goals, his link up play and work rate has been the catalyst for many a good shrews performance, whether he scores or not.
Comment number 34.At 11:23 31st Mar 2009, BognorRock wrote:
Its a myth that its easier to score if you play for a better team. Yes, in theory the service to the front man is better, but teams are also far more likely to defend deep and put more players behind the ball against you if you play for a good side making it tougher if anything to score.
Comment number 35.At 11:40 31st Mar 2009, allabouttowler wrote:
As a Burnley fan I believe that an honourable mention should go to Graham Alexander. Not suggesting for a moment he should've won the award, but at 37 years old he's played every single minute of every game Burnley have played this season, which due to various cup runs is considerably more football than anybody else playing in the football leagues, and is the lynchpin of what's been the best season we've had in my lifetime.
And last weekend he trotted out at right back for Scotland with the unenviable (and unfortunately not particularly succesful) task of marking Robben...
He's a model professional who just never seems to tire (did I mention he's 37?!) and an example to anybody!
Comment number 36.At 11:41 31st Mar 2009, allabouttowler wrote:
Also Robbie Blake - form of his life and made some premier league defences look distinctly average!
Comment number 37.At 11:51 31st Mar 2009, DJL WOLF wrote:
Ebanks Blake is Wanderers number 9!
What a fantastic striker this boy is. It's such a shame that these days, if a striker (or a player of any position) is playing in the football league, they automatically don't get a look in for England. This didn't happen years ago when Bully banged in 2 goals against Scotland when playing in the 3rd tier of English football. I'd have Blake ahead of nthe likes of Carlton Cole/Bent any day.
What is great about SEB is the way he absolutely lashes the ball when he is given an opportunity. He doesn't really buy into any of this side-footing into the corner - if he gets a chance he will make sure he hits the target and make sure he hits the ball as hard as he possibly can!
SEB really does remind me of a certain Mr.Shearer!
Comment number 38.At 12:37 31st Mar 2009, ReadingJamie wrote:
I think Kevin Doyle should have won the award for the best player in the championship this season.
Comment number 39.At 12:58 31st Mar 2009, HALLDA-Y01 wrote:
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Comment number 40.At 13:14 31st Mar 2009, VoiceofJoe wrote:
Beckford is the first player to 30 goals in all four divisions - 31 goals now in 30 games in a season when he has had two managers - he doesn't take penalties (he does - but badly!), he's scored throughout the season and has stepped up at the business end of the season (unlike Fryatt). Its a shame that his disciplinary record hs cost him but Fryatt
isn't in the same class.
Comment number 41.At 13:19 31st Mar 2009, pigeonwolf wrote:
Hooray for SEB. He's been the most consistent player in Wolves squad this season and is the reason we are top of the league. Other players have been hot and clod, but he has been outstanding.
As for the prem, Garrard will win the award. He IS Liverpool. Good luck to him anyway. Nice to see English players winning accolades...
Comment number 42.At 13:22 31st Mar 2009, ArgieWizard wrote:
re: 37. He's currently injured after international duty with the U21s, so it's not like he's off the radar. He's working his way up and one way or another will find his way into the EPL again. He's got a couple of years yet to earn a chance of an England career.
The reason players are rarely selected from teams outside of the top league, I would guess, is the standard of the opposition. Bent's not been firing on all cylinders, sure, but Ebanks-Blake plays against defences like, with the greatest respect, Burnley's, whose top performing 37-year old Graham Alexander was completely outclassed by a top league international winger on saturday.
On another note, I would go with Simon Cox for League One as his goals (including what is easily goal of the season against Walsall too, in any division) are single-handedly keeping STFC out of relegation. Wih maybe a little help from Billy Paynter.
Comment number 43.At 13:25 31st Mar 2009, NandoWolf wrote:
Doyle? Are you having a laugh? From a player who has been linked with 8m moves to Villa throughout the season I expected a lot more. Playnig in what everyone seems to be the best team in the league he should have scored more.
SEB is superb, he's got the arrogance infront of goal as well as being a supreme team player-his work ethic is second to none.
Comment number 44.At 13:38 31st Mar 2009, brfc1954 wrote:
I think league 1 should of gone to lambert or cox.
lambert is top goalscorer in the league on 25 and also has 11 assists to his name. That is on top of hitting the woodwork 11 times this season. He is an all round team player that isnt there just to stick it in the back of the net.
Cox, 24 goals to his name for a team that has really struggled this season is mightily impressive.
These two should have been above Matty Fryatt, with Lambert getting the award (bit of bias there)
Comment number 45.At 13:47 31st Mar 2009, elokobioncrutches wrote:
SEB is by far the most deserved winner of the award, the closest runner up being kightly (although i'm slightly biased!).
Although i havent seen much of him Cox, or even Lambert sound more deserving of the League 1 award. As for Beckford he's an absoloute idiot thats prob why he didnt win! Although you cant argue with his goals he goes missing alot of the time.
Gerrard should defo win the premier league player, and if anyone else wins it its a disgrace! Vidic is nowhere near, take him out of Man Utd's side an they wont miss him. Gerrard on the other hand...
If your talking best defenders in the league players you have to think of players like Jagielka and Lescott have done extremely well in a lesser team.
SEB'll have all of those in his back pocket next year mind! Premier league watch out!
Comment number 46.At 14:22 31st Mar 2009, 1980ajw wrote:
I'm a Plymouth fan and I agree with Ebanks-Blake for player of the season and goal of the year. I only wonder how we would have done if he hadn't have left :(
Comment number 47.At 14:33 31st Mar 2009, AH84 - Arenberg forest madness wrote:
I don't think many could argue that the championship and L2 player of the year went to the right players but in L1 I feel the same as others that Lambert or Cox should of got the award which i said on a 606 thread yesterday.
On a different note I am a bit annoyed that a non-striker didn't get the awards. For instance (a bit of bias here) Bristol Rovers captain Stuart Campbell has been truly fantastic for us this season. He plays Central Midfield and protects the backline with some of his amazing challenges and energy. He is just as important to Rovers as Lambert IMO but in a different way. I remember Fulham fans being extremley impressed with him over our 2 fa cup games against them last season. George Boyd has been another that has impressed me as well as beckford (although he's an idiot).
Comment number 48.At 14:50 31st Mar 2009, Theledge20 wrote:
I think the Championship Player of the Year should have gone to Chris Eagles he has been immense this season, Also Jason Scotland has been fantastic in this divison his strength and his sharp shooting has earnt him rave reviews and rightly so
In League 1 Simon Cox has been the starlet of the divison by a country mile, anyone who saw his goal again Walsall would i agree that took my breathe away, Gary Hooper has been quality considering he is only 21 and still learning .
In League 2 Jack Lester has been quality he is far to good for that divison and im sure he will move up the leagues elsewhere, Tom Craddock is trying his best to keep Luton in the football league he should have been looked at.
Comment number 49.At 15:14 31st Mar 2009, Englandcollapsed wrote:
Kightly deserved the award, he is the main supply line and is more likely to succed in the Prem than Ebanks-Blake.
Comment number 50.At 16:11 31st Mar 2009, edwardthelewisgas wrote:
The way Lambert was overlooked for the L1 award just shows how only the 'bigger' teams have a shout in this category. yes Leicester are a better team (league standings show) but for an individual award to go to Fryatt is a mess. Lambert is a far better all round player. I'm looking forward to the L1 team of the season- as i expect Lambert will be omitted for Beckford (former premier league Leeds Utd) and Fryatt (former premier league Leicester).
Comment number 51.At 16:27 31st Mar 2009, Blakey1882 wrote:
Chris Eagles???
I'm a Burnley fan and he wouldn't even be in my top 10 Burnley players for the season and has recently struggled to even make the team.
Problem with these awards is hardly any of us see anywhere near enough to make an informed opinion.
Comment number 52.At 16:46 31st Mar 2009, danib25 wrote:
So close to being the top goalscorers in each league. Why does this not surprise me?
Comment number 53.At 16:47 31st Mar 2009, NandoWolf wrote:
It is a credit to Michael Kightly that despite the general concensus amongst us Wolves fans that he hasnt been at his best this season he has 21 assists and 8 goals. No other midfielder can get anywhere near that in this division.
Comment number 54.At 17:40 31st Mar 2009, Adrievdm wrote:
biggest underachievers goes to Brighton :(
i was so confident we were gonna go up before the season started but ignorant Thicky Adams has destroyed us =[
Comment number 55.At 17:40 31st Mar 2009, Paul Fletcher wrote:
Now then,
Thanks for all your comments.
I fully agree that strikers tend to walk off with these kinds of awards. I guess they have the sort of job that really does grab the headlines as goals win games. On the flipside, when they aren't scoring they certainly get a lot of grief. Then we hear all their team-mates saying how there is alot more to their game than goals. Blah, blah, blah.
Lambert and Cox have had brilliant seasons in teams that might have done better than they have.
I guess the fact that very few have argued with Sylvan Ebanks-Blake winning the award shows what a worthy recipient he is.
cmr_oafc - I am all in favour of players in less heralded positions going home with the award and many thanks to those who have come up with some suggestions.
By the way, the goal award was for the year 2008, hence the goal that won it was scored last season.
Comment number 56.At 21:51 31st Mar 2009, bragantino wrote:
No dispute over SE-B winning and congratulations to him for the award, my gripe is couldn't the FA wait and have their awards when the season had actually FINISHED, then the season would be well and truly belong to Sylvan.
Comment number 57.At 23:08 31st Mar 2009, CarefreeCoors wrote:
ridingtrucksy & elokobioncrutches
I didn't want to get into a debate over this because I can imagine the frustration of Championship fans seeing a Premiership converstion on a blog devoted to them.
Gerrard has been immense these past few months, there's no denying that.
But over the entire season (barring one game) Vidic has been nothing short of incredible.
Vidic is the most worthy winner and I'm a Chelsea fan.
Comment number 58.At 13:19 1st Apr 2009, cambridgesaint wrote:
I think it is a massive shame that this award is all about strikers. It's not about the player of the season at all, it's pretty much a golden boot award. Whilst all of the award winners are worthy of mention I'm really disappointed that not only all the winners but pretty much all the nominees were strikers, it shows a short-sighted kind of playground mentality amongst those making the decisions!
Comment number 59.At 13:36 1st Apr 2009, icemlloyd01 wrote:
I think that yes he has played well...but look at Watford now....Tommy Smith has been there everytime when Watford have looked like it was over he provides that final pass or the shot him self which gets Watford the point or all 3 points....You can rely on Tommy Smith to turn the bad weather into sunshine....
Comment number 60.At 21:51 2nd Apr 2009, haznick wrote:
"Probably the real best player of the season is a lesser-known stalwart who holds together a team struggling at the bottom, or an ever-present surrounded by constant changes. For example, you take Ebanks-Blake and put him in the Charlton team, say, or back at Argyle, and he wouldn't be winning the best player award even if he was exactly the same player he is now."
Sylvan hasn't only scored goals for Wolves in one of the "top teams" though.
When we signed him in January 2008 he had already scored 13 goals for Plymouth. He then scored another 12 for Wolves in the 2nd half of the season. Just goes to show what a consistent goalscorer he is.
He is going to win 2 Golden Boots for scoring 47+ in consecutive seasons. Any player is always a shoe-in for the award when you score that many goals no matter who you play for.
Comment number 61.At 00:26 3rd Apr 2009, RDNRoyal wrote:
Not to take anything away from him but isn't this a bit early? What if in our remaining 7 games Jimmy Kebe gets 7 goals and 5 assists and single handedly gets us promoted.
Alright I'm done laughing but my point is shouldn't the player of the season be decided once the season is completed.
Not that it probably wouldn't be Ebanks-Blake anyway so this comment is perhaps redundant..
Comment number 62.At 10:21 3rd Apr 2009, Wolf82 wrote:
SEB is definately player of year, Goals, Team play and confdence in his ability. Sign of a good striker is doing well during bad periods. Coventry penalty miss was an example, could have been a real turning point but scored in next home game and scored his next pen.
Special mention to other Wolves players- Iwelumo, no-one would have predicted the early season impact he had. Kightly-pure class. Jarvis- when fit Wolves most dangerous player.
Finally on Wolves, Jody Craddock. A true Pro, knows he wont have a contract end of year and been in and out of team at times during MM reign. But come in and been absoloutley superb.
On players that impressed me, Carsley, S Hunt and J Scotland
League 1, cant believe beckford didnt win it, amazing strike record.
League 2, don't really know but i know Holt has been excellent for Shrewsbury
Comment number 63.At 12:47 3rd Apr 2009, haznick wrote:
RDNRoyal - You need to read things properly mate. It's Player Of The "YEAR".
Comment number 64.At 16:37 3rd Apr 2009, Andy wrote:
Sinc when, pray tell, was 'the League Player of the Year' always a striker?
Seems like the easier way out if you ask me, plenty of midfielders and defenders have been outstanding this year, but just because a striker is the one who nets it at the end, they get all the praise and awards?
Comment number 65.At 21:12 3rd Apr 2009, dolfwolf wrote:
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GUYS!!! It's Player of the YEAR(2008), not season. It's not that hard to work out
Comment number 66.At 09:17 5th Apr 2009, ForeverGreenAndWhite wrote:
Nice to see a hefty mention to his time at Plymouth. It's great to see how well he's done since leaving, and I've no bitterness towards him. His departure was always going to be an inevitability rather than a possibility, given the sell-out clause we had to tag onto his contract so that he would come to Plymouth and not newly-relegated Watford.
Comment number 67.At 15:40 5th Apr 2009, hackerjack wrote:
At this point in the season I agree with all of them, but as you mentioned the timing is just stupid.
What if Jason Scotland now gets another 6-7 goals in the games remaining, single handedly putting Swansea into the playoffs and then scores anotehr couple to get them promoted, would he not have as good if not better case for POTY ?
It just seems unnecessarily silly to make the awards with up to 10 games remaining of the season.
Comment number 68.At 17:04 5th Apr 2009, Nasicdo Para Jogar Futebol wrote:
I personal disagree with the choice of Ebanks-Blake as championship player of the season. As the only reason he has been choosen for this is because he is top goal scorer in the league at this moment in time, and even then quite a few of his goals are from penalties. Out of his 24 goals 4 have been directly from penalties, and one maybe even two have been from penalty rebounds.
Where as a player like Kevin Doyle, doesn't take penalties for Reading and is on 18 goals, and as Reading have slotted away 6 penalties this season if doyle had of taken them he could quite easily be in the same position as Ebanks-Blake, and as he has play in 3 less games as Ebanks blake aswell makes his record even better in my opinion.
But why does it have to be a goal scorer why can't it be a defender like Franck Queudrue, who has been instrumental to Birmingham City only conceding 33 goals this season and has scored two of their forty-seven which in 20 games isn't bad for a player who plays at left back one week, centre-half the next and gets put on the bench even though he's their best defender.
Or Even a midfielder Preston North Ends - Ross Wallace. Who doesn't score goals but creates them, and assists don't really get accounted for. As without Ross Wallace, Preston North End could and probably would be in a position to slip towards relegation.
In close I beleive the award should have gone to Doyle, and Wallace would have come second, with Kightly coming third.
What does every body else think?
Comment number 69.At 21:18 5th Apr 2009, drewjoy123 wrote:
Claude Gnapka
Anyone who went to Wembley on Sunday will understand!!
Comment number 70.At 08:17 6th Apr 2009, Nadaliator wrote:
An oddly ambiguous title for this article............
Hats off to Blakey, he's a brilliant player who shows fight and commitment on and off the pitch, that's one of the many reasons he won this award I would imagine.
Personally, I would have gone with Michael Kightly or Karl Henry but I can't deny Blakey the award, he is head and shoulders above any striker in the league.
Let's hope he bangs a couple in tonight against the Blues.............


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Foxwarren fell 5-4 to the Central Plains Capitals in Saturday's AA final Saturday at Westman Place. Keenan Lewis led the Falcons with two goals and one assist. Dylan McCaughan had one goal and one assist for the Capitals.
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Notre Dame Hounds 6
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In Sunday's all-star game, Westman Cougars' Billaney had one goal and one assist to lead Team Black to victory. Brandon's Connor Gutenberg added one assist. Brandon goalie Josh Peterson was in net for one period for Team Red.
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Bills make changes in fan behavior policy
The Buffalo Bills are trying to the make the game day experience more enjoyable.
The team announced Tuesday two changes to their Fan Behavior policy that will take place for the 2011 season.
In order to become more in line with the NFL's recommendation for stadiums opening their parking lots, the Bills lots will now open four hours prior to kickoff. In previous years, the lots opened five hours prior to kickoff.
Last year the organization began closing the lots two hours after the game concluded and that element of the policy will remain intact for 2011.
The second change really makes sense when you look at the landscape across the United States in recent years in regard to cigarette smoke. The majority of fans clearly want to have a smoke free environment on game day.
And with that, the team is making Ralph Wilson Stadium a smoke-free facility. There will no longer be designated smoking areas as in past years. This change will take effect beginning with the new uniform unveiling ceremony later this month.
"We have listened to the vast majority of our fans who want to enjoy the game day experience in a smoke-free facility and we wanted to notify all of our fans well in advance of our first home game of this change in our Fan Behavior Policy. It is important that everyone understands that there will be zero tolerance on this element of our policy," Bills CEO Russ Brandon said.
The Bills Re-Entry Policy states that when a fan leaves the stadium he/she is not permitted back in. In simple terms, if a fan leaves the stadium to smoke, he/she cannot gain entrance back into the facility.
Bills officials are planning for additional signage to the fact that the stadium is now a smoke-free facility.
The Bills organization is also currently working with law enforcement agencies to change some of the game day traffic patterns to improve the egress process for fans leaving the stadium both in terms of pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Bills officials plan to make those announcements at a date closer to the opening of the 2011 season.


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Hi I'm Jess!! I'm from Sydney, Australia & I own a Graphite Black 2003 Subaru WRX sedan (2.0L, 5-Speed) - Just thought I'd introduce myself, Lol..
So I've come across a little problem as of late..
I go to turn my car on, It turns over slightly but the engine does not ignite. Battery is brand new & new spark plugs. There is a new fuel filter & pump too.. Anyone else had a problem like this? I thought that it could be the petrol but I only use premium? It's happened 4 - 5 times now.
It was only serviced last month (It has 90,000km on the clock)
The mind boggles!!


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Fumes from vinyl tile abatement
I had an asbestos abatement crew in yesterday (Wed, Dec 5) to remove some asbestos-containing vinyl tile and mastic. When they were done, they washed the floor with trisodium phosphate and then rinsed with water, apparently several times. The fumes from the mastic remover were still pretty strong, so they left their negative air machine running overnight.
It is now Thursday night, they've removed the machine, and the fumes are still very noticeable and permeating the whole house. It smells like paint thinner or mineral spirits. The bottom edge of all the drywall in the area where the tile was removed is stained brown/black from the mastic remover (and I'm guessing the brown/black is the mastic) wicking into it. Could this be a significant source of the smell?
The mastic remover they used was MastAway MA-33. Here is the MSDS: http://masticremover.com/pdf/msds/MA-33-L.pdf.
Just reading through that makes me nervous enough (lines mentioning lung damage), and then reading up on one of the ingredients being a carcinogen makes me even more nervous. I have a pregnant wife and want to tear my hair out. I feel like I have nobody to go to.
Tonight was our first night using our gas range after the abatement, and a strong charcoal/lighter fluid-like smell permeated the kitchen, and we couldn't pinpoint the source. I know it's unlikely, but I have to wonder if it's the fumes combusting (which the MSDS warns is toxic)?
How have others' experiences with VAT abatement gone? Is this expected? Do I just need to be patient and give it a few more days for wherever the fumes are coming from to dry up? Unfortunately I can't leave the windows open all night because it's getting below freezing.
I have a fan, a dehumidifier, and a HEPA/charcoal filter running in the basement. I'll be calling the abatement crew tomorrow and seeing what they can do, but I think they're annoyed. All they say is that they're used to the smell so they don't notice it.
Thanks very much in advance.
Follow-up: it seems like the lighter fluid smells coming from our gas stove are indeed from combustion of the mastic remover fumes. Apparently this happens with other oil-based products (varnishes, paints, etc.). Many anecdotes online attest to this, and my gas utility company came in and tested things and confirmed this suspicion as well. Wonderful.
I suspect the lingering smell is due to the mastic remover wicking up into the drywall. Any ideas how long this might take to dry? How toxic this might be?
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For sale is a set of 219 OEM M3 wheels with two used Michelin PS2 front tires. Wheels came off my 2011 e90 M3 @ 8500 miles. Although used, these wheels are in excellent condition and have NO cracks or curb rash. Price $1000 /OBO. Located near Philadelphia, Pa
Note: BMW OEM wheels, NOT aftermarket
Does not include TPMs and center caps
Tires have not been plugged or patched
Wheel Spec:
Front- 18"x 8.5", 29mm offset
Rear- 18"x 9.5", 23mm offset
Tire spec:
Front- Michelin Pilot sport 245/40/18 (approx. 70%-80% tread left)
Wheel fitment:
e90 2008-2011 M3
e92/e93 2008-2012 M3
e90 3 series 328/330/335 (please view link http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=633527)
thank you for you interest.
MMMMmmmmm Tasty!
Will you ship?
I'm not sure how much shipping will cost, so shipping will be at buyers expense. Please send me your zip code so I can get a quote. Thank you
I live in Cleveland and have been looking for the 219 wheels, but really want the gunmetal ones (am open to considering yours as they look to be in great shape). I already have tires too...
I'm going on vacation coming up this weekend and could drive up to get them. As mentioned, I"m really looking for the gunmetal ones and don't mean to lowball, but would you be able to let them go for $700? $800 if we meet halfway?
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- Stamps: Vintage Picnic, Beautiful Blooms 2
- Paper: White Cardstock
- Ink:Black, Raspberry Fizz
Friday, October 29, 2010
14 comments:
- Kathy Martin said...
Sweeot card! LovE those tiny flowers!
- October 29, 2010 at 2:35 PM
- cg said...
Such wonderful simplicity. Can't wait to try it out!
- October 29, 2010 at 5:22 PM
- Jess said...
You guys always know how to inspire me!! I'll be giving this one a go!
- October 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM
- Gisèle said...
This was another excellent challenge. One layer clean and simple - gotta love it! Thanks!
- October 29, 2010 at 8:54 PM
- MelissaS said...
this was harder than it looks! Love the samples :)
- October 30, 2010 at 3:21 PM
- Michelle /Eliotstamps said...
Love this week's sketch! Thanks for the inspiration.
- October 31, 2010 at 5:10 PM
- Billie A said...
Nice challenge, I like the simple style I just have a hard time but glad for the challenge because they are stunning when done right.
- October 31, 2010 at 7:11 PM
- Lindsay M. said...
LOVE This card!!! Gorgeous!! I think I will try this challenge!!
Thank you for the inspiration!
- November 2, 2010 at 3:53 PM
- Willa Jean Coates said...
This is my first challenge, not totally sure I have followed proper procedure. If not, please let me know.
- November 2, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- Bonnie said...
Mine got flipped and has some ghosting. Didn't start out that way, but this card had a mind of it's own! Love all the submissions. There is so much inspiration there.
- November 2, 2010 at 6:20 PM
- Chrysalis said...
Phew, Natasha! You were right when you said this type of card can be the most difficult. It's been such good practice for my stamping skills (well, lack of them really!LOL) to attempt a challenge like this - so thank you! x
- November 3, 2010 at 3:24 PM
- Nancy said...
I LOVE this one!
- November 19, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Karen said...
Fantastic sketch! I was able to whip off nine thank you cards for my daughter's birthday presents in no time flat. Thank you!
- December 4, 2010 at 2:05 PM
- Debgem said...
I really like your sketches - have saved a few!! And my new card see here http://debsgems.blogspot.com/2011/02/circle-circus.html is loosely based on FTL114!! Thanks.
- February 19, 2011 at 1:45 AM


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It has an ingenious design with a Plexiglass splash guard that allows for perfect propping of cookbooks, recipe cards and magazine cut-outs. A useful conversion chart makes measuring much easier, it has a deep storage space to keep your favorite recipes handy, and best of all it folds down to save space when not in use. Oh
We're in love with Pomaireware! And well, how can you not love this adorable three-legged pig serving dish? Perfect for salsas and dips or nuts or olives or just to stare at.Tags: home, kitchen, cooking, baking, entertaining, dishes, home decor, patio, home accessoriesAdded 8 Years Ago from Delight.com
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Happy Sunday! Yep, a weekend blog post, I know, I know, I am overcompensating now!
I spent part of the weekend with my Mom for her birthday. I took the train to the airport and a shuttle bus the rest of the way. It's only an hour and 20 minutes to her house and the shuttle dropped me off across the street from her office!
I spent much of my time on the train, reading entries from a little daily devotional called "Starting your Day Right." It was VERY encouraging focusing on God's GREAT love for us & keeping our attitudes positive. One of the best ones I read that day was titled: God Works While you Rest. It was about remembering to enjoy our lives and to be assured that GOD is at work in our lives and when he starts a good thing in your life, he will finish it!
Since I was sitting on the train and the shuttle for quite a while, I made sure to use the stairs at the airport--these were a doozy! It took just as long as the people riding the escalator next to me and I got a nice burn in my legs.
It's one of those little tips and tricks you always hear about integrating fitness into your daily rountine:
Take the stairs
Park farther away on purpose and walk
Clean with fervor - lunge and vacuum
Carry your own groceries-do a few curls with cans!
Make your trip to work, store, library a walking trip 3 times a week....
There were some Alexander Calder prints in Mom's work place and they were fantastic! I love Calder. There were also a number of Dale Chihuly glass pieces as well.
The installation in the lobby
Right after I arrived, we went out for an impromptu steak dinner! Someone on the shuttle told me that a certain supper club in town offered a birthday special, so we dug in my suitcase for something other than my workout clothes and Mom's work uniform and enjoyed life medium rare!
OK, well I did it! I had a 40 cent Mountain Dew from the same pop machine I used all through out high school! It was ....
Not quite like I remembered!
In High school I drank A LOT of Mountain Dew, so much that my dentist told me to lay off.
1 can: 170 Calories
46 Grams Sugar
With the first sip, I remembered why I kicked the habit. It used to be that I couldn't have just one, so I did this in part to know I could have one and walk away!
My time home was short, but very fun! It's always good to be around Mom, she helps build me up and encourage me. It's a great reminder of what is really important in life and to, of course, enjoy our lives and our days. That seems to be the lesson of the week! I am off to try some HOT yoga for the first time!!
What little thing do you do to up your fitness like take stairs or walk to the store?


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Greetings from Minnesota
Last September I purchased a 1936-Ford 4dr/sedan/Street Rod in New York City and drove it back home to Minnesota. The trip was a good one, traveled only about 250 miles per day. I was surprised, the car with it's 327 engine w/overdrive, got an average of 23 miles per gallon. I think that is pretty good considering I traveled on Interstate I80 across many states including the Pocono and Appalachian Mountains. The car is a dream come true , it has air-condition, power windows, tilt steering wheel, aluminum wheels, all leather interior, electric bucket seats, etc... I really did not have any problems until I hit a bump near Chicago and the air-condition went out. I have not had time to check to see what happened. I found I80 across the eastern states to be a very rough ride. It is used by many truckers and most signaled with their diesel horns that they approved of my ride.. lol...If you perhaps were one of those truckers, thanks for keeping me alert while driving..The interstates got much better when I traveled through, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. I have the car parked in my garage and looking forward to summer so I can go cruising.
My best wishes to all Street Rodders in 2006 and beyond.. take care..
God Bless,
LuCa :)
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Over the Weekend
Another great family weekend for the LaGreca's, and the best part…we were HOME!
Impromptu walk down to the Jolliffe's on Friday evening — and fresh, juicy oranges had picked and peeled with love. (Thanks Mr. Jolliffe!!)
Dinner out at a local Mexican food place. Some of you would be awe struck if you saw my boys eat. At 5 and almost 3 yrs old…I am positive they could out eat some women.
***Saturday was our day of visitors, games and food!!***
The weather was so perfect on Saturday (in the 80's at our house!) Joe and Neal BBQed pizza on the grill and it felt (and smelled) like SUMMER! We called our neighbors over to join us in the pizza . Grampy & Della were with us the whole day (and played a LOT with the two Littles). We finished off the night with Dani, Neal and vicious game of SkipBo 🙂 It doesn't get much better.
We topped off the weekend with church,
a 'day date' to RoadRunner to get new shoes (both Joe & I) while Grandpa LG took the boys/Otis to Dog Beach, and a family hike up the mountain…and, I think all of the means; that we will all sleep well tonight (parents can hope).
Oh – and it's MARCH?!?! Is anyone else thinking "Whoa! Where did the first 2 months of 2013 go???" — Although I am shocked we are already in March, I am REALLY looking forward to everything that is coming up.
Stay tuned for stories & pictures 🙂


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Should you be finding out this textual content learn more, it is really realistic to mention which you have already got a crucial ingredient that is definitely needed to discover out a 2nd language: ambition. The will to understand is, definitely, a crucial ingredient in mastering a next language – and you have it. But what specific difficulties is it doable to complete to further improve your English language abilities?
Beneath, you can learn a short checklist of important suggestions – some stunning and many not – which will assist you to together with your system to extraordinary language abilities. Give by yourself a validate mark for every around the subsequent difficulties you've both equally done or are presently doing.
1. Generate Your Level of Capacity
In case you are a rookie, then, this is often typically clear-cut to carry out; but, if you are not, you should have a language assessment verify which will assist you to establish the approximate degree in just your language competencies. Language faculties commonly offer this supplier without spending a dime, but if you find yourself hunting for a a great deal more easy different without strings hooked up, look for a cost-free English examination across the online. Definitely, no look into can notify you every little thing regarding your language competencies but attaining an approximate awareness of one's stage will empower you to definitely certainly track down the appropriate courses and discovering out aspects for yourself.
two. Be involved in an ESL Class that has a Able Teacher
This suggestion would not shock you, will it? Effectively, it mustn't. Collaborating in an English system using a knowledgeable teacher and likewise other persons who're in the course of the similar circumstance when you is sweet on your own and your language competencies. In these a course, you may carry out with attempted out and analyzed identifying aspects underneath the steerage in the qualified ESL trainer along with provide the opportunity to practise your language qualities inside of a very comfortable studying natural environment. Not every just one, nonetheless, has adequate time, dollars or probability to engage in classroom courses. If this is applicable to you personally, you'll need to be sure you are executing an additional details on this record.
3. Go On-line
If, for just about any to the explanations described previously outlined, you will be not able to head to an English research study course specifically particular person, you should maybe choose to believe that with reference into the opportunity of undertaking an on-line English class. You can find several excellent on-line programs to pick from they typically commonly are inclined being far more cost-effective than regular classroom lessons. A reference with the mate or even a dependable instructor will assist you to uncover the system that's ideal for you individually; but bear in mind that, just like all duration education and learning classes, on-line courses demand a large amount of self-discipline. Also never fail to keep in mind which the net gives a great deal of cost-free sources. Weblogs (like types specifically supposed for ESL learners) in addition to on-line publications and newspapers present a prosperity of newest vocabulary and may never established you again only one cent.
4. Use Fantastic Discovering out Provides
Every ESL learner genuinely ought to have remarkable researching resources. A very superior dictionary is critical. Dictionary applications are superb because they may have audio recordings they usually are quick to acquire in any way occasions – specially in periods of want! In addition to some great dictionary, you happen to be going to also need to have to obtain what I discuss with like a 'holy e e book of grammar' – a book which incorporates the basics of English grammar. Various males and females like grammar, however it is the muse of speech and there might be, in fact, no way all-around it. Consider this actuality early on and procure you the very best grammar reserve which you'll. Include a e guide or two on idioms and collocations and you will have the chance to boost your vocabulary as well.
5. Test out English Television set Ideas
Positive, you study me – take a look at Television established! After i was very first finding out German (my next language), I viewed a great deal of German television apps. No, they have been not, generally, psychological exhibits which i had been looking at. They wound up converse reveals, match reveals, information programs and so on… – they usually are overall of the terrific deal of every day, authentic language. Tv established packages are comparatively rapid when compared to movies and, although they don't often integrate the language of Cambridge and Oxford, they involve the language that is certainly surely spoken round the road, at do the work and amid the mates, that's what you may need becoming prepared to understand. So sit back and evaluate a Television plan or two each day and proceed to keep your dictionary shut by so you can hunt for textual content if you really need to really have to.
six. Do Your Research
Whether or not it really is investigation from an ESL process or out of your extremely own impartial assessment – do your study! Do the grammar and vocabulary workout routines and, most likely, even greatly enhance them with all the own flashcards, notes or game titles.
seven. Undergo
Read as a result of English texts you prefer. By no means find to browse incredibly lengthy English novels on matters that don't curiosity or unwind you. I occur throughout wanting by means of journals and fast content material in just the entire world wide world wide web one of the most fulfilling. This type of posting content are manageable and, given that you have decided on the topic, exciting. Once more, keep a dictionary along with you once you end up looking at and search for the phrases you do not know as you take a look at.
8. Speak
To primarily find out a language, you are going to have to have to have the bravery to talk it. My guidance for you, as an ESL trainer, is usually to stay away from yes-no solutions to difficulties – as you can. Yes-no responses hinder or stop dialogue. You'd like to practise dialogue, so hold the braveness to increase in the responses and query considerations.
9. Achieve Out in direction of the Earth
Hunt for get hold of with people who discuss English. Must you reside within an English-speaking state, head out and practise your English any time you do your daily actions. In any other case, be described as a component of English-speaking internet site boards (with each of the internet, the earth is at your finger ideas), neighborhood golfing tools, groups, educational facilities or lessons. Perhaps, when the prospect lets it, consider the opportunity to travel to an English-speaking country.


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James Harden might enjoy the spotlight.
But the flashlight?
Not so much.
When the Rockets' All-Star guard stepped to the free throw line late in the third quarter Monday night, something in the crowd got his attention.
I noticed a flash and figured it was a fan taking an ill-advised photo. So did Harden.
Turns out it was something more.
"Some guy was lasering me," Harden said, according to the Houston Chronicle. "I saw it the first time and I thought it was a picture being taken. I went to the foul line again and it happened again. The referee caught it before I did. That's the first time that happened to me."
The game was stopped for several minutes while ushers and arena security looked for the perpetrator. In the end, it was a fan with a flashlight who was found to be the culprit, according to a Jazz official. The fan was escorted out of the arena and will receive a one-year ban from NBA arenas.
Harden, meanwhile, went on to score a game-high 30 points and dish out seven assist in a 93-91 win for the Rockets.
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NYC Marathon Roars Back
The New York City Marathon charged back to life on Sunday as more than 48,000 runners streamed across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at the race's start. About 21,000 of them were holdovers from last year's race, which was cancelled because of Sandy.
Also back were spectators like Chip Fernandez in Brooklyn, who shared a message for his fiancee, runner Eileen San Felipe. "Sweetheart, you got this. It's gonna be easy for you," he told a reporter. Then added: "And hurry up so we can have some barbecue!"
Security was tight along the 26.2 mile route in response to the Boston Marathon bombing. New York Road Runners, which puts on the marathon, says it spent a million dollars, more than twice as much as last year, on security this year.
Geoffrey Mutai was the men's winner and Priscah Jeptoo won the women's race. Both runners are from Kenya.


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Howdy, and welcome to the Wednesday Rundown. This week we have a couple killer shoots. One is an industrial shoot and the other a really cool boxing shoot that turns out great. There is also a video on wedding work flow. A reader takes us through his steps when shooting and editing a wedding. It can give you a good idea what you are getting into. If you have a video that you think we might like to post, please click on "submit content" above.
Industrial Shoot:
I just love these industrial shoots. Something about the human body being around cold steel, or hanging off a building that just makes me thing what we are capable of creating. Check out this cool shoot and final images.
Boxer Shoot:
Another great video sent in. This shoot makes it rain inside the studio and they shoot the boxers practicing on the punching bag. The final images are solid.
Wedding Workflow:
This video takes us through the steps a photographer goes through for his weddings. This is good to give you an idea of what to expect and really how much time you will be giving to your projects, so make sure you price enough to put those hours in.
Flashlight lighting Shoot:
This is something that is becoming more popular, shooting with continual lighting. It gives you the ability to see what the image will be like with out having to fire up the flashes and take the shot. This shot turns out really good, however I have never seen one done with this kind of flashlights, they have some serious power but they work in the end.
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Nice collection this wednesday. But one question about the logic in video 2 (the boxer): why must there be rain? No clue, sorry.
That wedding video is excellent. When you work for yourself, it can be difficult to keep track of the hours you spend on work, and for me it also becomes a low priority.
@Manuel -- not sure either but maybe it's because if it's raining and their hands are STILL on fire it means they're that much more badass? :-)
For my two-cents, I really liked the wedding photographers video. I'm not a wedding photographer and I appreciated a breakdown of the REAL time-investment. Even better, Magnus's video was cleverly done.
Rain on a boxer? Sure, why not? Just like those videos of wax and paint on plexiglas. It's just something new and different.
Agree with Manuel - great collection this week. I wish my future clients watches the wedding video so they can understand why a photographer doesn´t work for peanuts. =)
I like the Wedding Workflow video to. Perfect for too economical clients. ;)