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I think you are in danger of confusing the reality of the now with our ideals for what we would like to see.
As I understand it, Lisbon is the first treaty to formally begin the process of embodying a concept of European citizenship - and so without Lisbon, discussion of the EU as a single political entity with a single demos is somewhat moot. Up until now the EU as a single entity has only been embodied in what many would regard as elite institutions - EP, EC, ECJ and Commission. I would welcome such a development, which is part of why I support Lisbon.
So your second comment is essentially correct - the EU - through Lisbon and the development of petition rights, greater qualified majority voting etc. - is in the process of moving from a a Union of Sovereign states, to a Union with a legal personality in its own rights, and some citizen rights deriving directly from that Union and not derived via the constitutions of the member states.
In time this will no doubts lead to a greater focus on e.g. inequalities in health benefits or social welfare entitlements between member states - and so in a post Lisbon scenario, it certainly becomes meaningful for e.g. the Irish criticising the Poles for their poor social welfare system which means that Ireland is paying Irish social welfare benefits to Polish workers, now living back in Poland, because they used to work in Ireland and are thus entitled to Irish rates and benefits for social welfare.
So to answer your first comment point by point:
# Lisbon is sufficiently momentous a development that it justifies - indeed, requires - the use of plebiscites in its ratification.
- No Treaty or common citizenship rights deriving from Lisbon or any other past or proposed treaty gives the right to one member state to demand a plebiscite in another on any issue. We might like - e.g. the UK to hold a referendum on joining the Euro, or giving independence to Scotland, but we cannot demand it, or imply that the UK is somehow failing to live up to its EU Treaty obligations for failing to conduct one..
# Such plebiscites were indeed promised (and in some cases carried out) elsewhere in the Union.
- Yes indeed, and all of those countries have subsequently ratified Lisbon without a plebiscite but in accordance with their own Constitutions and their EU Treaty obligations. If lived in one of those countries I would certainly criticise and oppose any Government that had reneged on a promise of a plebiscite but that is a matter of internal political opposition within that state. E.g. Holland does not have to answer to Ireland for failing to hold a Plebiscite, but the Dutch Government does have to answer to its own electorate for failing to do so..
# When it became clear that the current system of plebiscites would reject Lisbon, those promises were (occasionally retroactively!) withdrawn.
- Again an internal political issue for the state in question. The most obvious example I can think of is the UK which has promised plebiscites on EU membership, the Euro?? (not sure) and the Constitutional Treaty. These are a political promises made by various Government and Opposition parties to the UK electorate - not of any concern to Ireland - although Sinn Fein, as a largely N.Ireland based party can legitimately complain to the UK Government about this. (It does not, of course do so because it doesn't really want to acknowledge being part of the UK in N.I.).
It is hardly a unique situation that a political party fails to deliver on an election promise or resiles from one through the artifice of pretending that the Lisbon and Constitutional Treaties are not the same and so a promise made in relation to one doesn't apply to another.
# This amounts to an ill treatment of the legitimate democratic concerns of citizens of other countries in the Union.
- So lets bring in the Nazis to make it better?
# This should be a concern for the Irish electorate - if not in their capacity as citizens of Ireland, then in their capacity as citizens of the European Union.
- such citizenship does not formally exist prior to the Lisbon Treaty, and even subsequently exists only to a very limited degree, and certainly not on any matter on which (e.g. the UK) has not ceded competence to the EU.
The above discussion relates to where the EU is now, and where it will be post Lisbon ratification.
That does not mean that I wouldn't like to see EU citizenship rights expanded radically - so that e.g. all EU citizens have similar educational, health, social welfare, and employments rights. This might see the development of those rights stalled in some member states whilst others catch up and are provided with scarce EU funding in order to enable them to do so. Thus obviously member states would have to formally agree to this - probably in a new treaty codifying those rights and providing the EU with minimal funding to support it.
However my greater point is that we need to be less woolly about what competencies have and have not actually been transferred or pooled by member states. All such transfers or poolings will be hard fought within each member state because they imply real transfers of resources. Sinn Fein, Libertas, Coir and sundry nationalist groups in Ireland have consistently opposed all such attempts at greater integration in the past and their claim to favour them now is wholly disingenuous.
You don't get a right, within the EU, to tell e.g. the UK it must do something without conceding the right to the UK to tell you to do something similar in Ireland. That is what pooling of sovereignty and weighted majority voting bis all about, and that is why such Treaties which extend this are so hard fought...
Sinn Fein, Libertas, Coir and sundry nationalist groups want the EU to have no say in many matters on which Ireland has already ceded some sovereignty, and proposes to cede more under Lisbon. That is why they have no right to demand actions of other member states in matters in which Ireland too has ceded no Sovereignty. Whether or not Ireland holds a referendum is entirely determined by the Irish constitution - it has nothing to do with our EU obligations - because the EU has no competence to mandate how member states should conduct their ratification process - and neither does Lisbon change this.
Effectively, in political terms, Sinn Fein, Libertas, Coir and sundry nationalist groups in Ireland are seeking to make common cause with other Nationalist groups in other countries to roll back the trend towards EU integration seen in recent treaties. Their most effective tactic for doing so is to emphasise the unanimity rule - such that Malta could hold up a proposal effecting all of the EU.
In such a situation to law of marginal political pricing applies. It is in EVERY countries interest to be the last man standing and hold the rest of the EU to ransom - even on a proposal that it might want in the first place - Ireland was a major player in the drafting of the EU Constitution).
The EU is a fundamentally unstable and inert body for so long as any 1% can always hold the 99% to ransom. That is the problematic the integration process is slowly trying to address through a series of incremental Treaties, and that is why it is so bitterly opposed by nationalist groups who don't want the EU to develop or even exist in the first place.
It is Sinn Fein, Libertas, Coir and sundry nationalist groups which are being fundamentally inconsistent by claiming to have greater rights to influence other Member state internal ratification procedures than EU statutes actually allow whilst at the same time trying to roll back what integration the EU as established under existing Treaties actually does now permit. In so doing they create the popular illusion of an all powerful, elitist, and meddling institution which interferes with ordinary citizens lives to an extraordinary degree.
The reality is that the EU is in fact only a skeletal structure with very few emergent powers and and with few effective means to defend itself against such rapid populist rhetoric. My concern IS that it is too much like a supranational Weimar - all too easy to stall and even topple by a resurgent nationalism - and all the more so because its proponents have lost any comprehensive vision of what it should be about, and all ability to sell it to into a political market dominated by national chauvinism.
Those who demand that legitimate EU progression can only occur though unanimous support by 27 plebiscites in 27 members know that it is in every one of those members interests to be the last man dissenting in order to secure the greatest concessions from all the others. The EU has to stand up to such electoral blackmail if there is to be any prospect for any future Treaty to be passed. That is the political reality of the EU as it is, perhaps not what we would like it to be. But that is the starting point from which we must begin.
There is an old story told about an American tourist lost in the wilds of Connemara. After many hours driving along country boreens with signs either non-existent or in unintelligible Irish, thy finally come across an old man standing at a cross-roads.
Relieved, they ask him what would be the best way to Galway. "Well" says the old man "If I were going to Galway, I wouldn't be starting from here!"
Regrettably we have no choice but to, and that means having a clearer view of what rights the EU does and does not actually confer, and on what are the real agendas of those who purport to support its future development. notes from no w here
As I understand it, Lisbon is the first treaty to formally begin the process of embodying a concept of European citizenship - and so without Lisbon, discussion of the EU as a single political entity with a single demos is somewhat moot.
European citizenship has been in every treaty since Maarstricht. In point of fact, one of Denmark's four opt-outs to Maarstricht was to Union citizenship (an opt-out that has since been quietly dropped - it is now interpreted an opt-out from replacing Danish citizenship with Union citizenship...).
Even under current rules, I have rights by virtue of being a citizen of the European Union - among them, the right to move to any other Union country with my family. We may debate whether those rules are derived from sovereign parliaments who have entered into treaties binding them to enact such laws, or they arise from a genuine federal mandate. But what is clear is that they are enforced by the various courts at the federal level. And as they say, possession is nine tenths of the law.
No Treaty or common citizenship rights deriving from Lisbon or any other past or proposed treaty gives the right to one member state to demand a plebiscite in another on any issue. We might like - e.g. the UK to hold a referendum on joining the Euro, or giving independence to Scotland, but we cannot demand it, or imply that the UK is somehow failing to live up to its EU Treaty obligations for failing to conduct one.
But we can refuse to enter into further commitments with them until and unless they do. Just as we could refuse to enter into further commitments with Belarus until and unless they start holding elections. I happen to think that, on balance, rejecting Lisbon on the argument that the rest of Europe lacks sufficient democratic credentials to entrust further Irish sovereignty to it is probably A Bad Idea. But I recognise that the case can be made (albeit probably not so convincingly by Libertas...).
So lets bring in the Nazis to make it better?
I'm gonna call Godwin on that one. Unpleasant as Ganley is, he is no Hitler.
On the larger point, I thought that you were the one who argued that the referendum on Lisbon should not be treated as a vote of confidence in the flagship parties of the "yes" campaign?
Of course that's true, which is why the requirement for unanimity is silly. But doing away with unanimity does not mean doing away with referenda - one could, say, move towards a double-majority system. But you're still trying to have it both ways - as long as Ireland cannot formally object to the ratification procedures of other member states, Ireland ought to retain its veto rights. For myself, I would be in favour of doing away with unanimity and further standardise ratification procedures in order to prevent precisely this kind of impasse in the future.
- Jake Austerity can only be implemented in the shadow of a concentration camp.
The central argument of my previous diary was that Lisbon was now a confidence issue for the Irish Government and that merely fixing the "presenting problems" presented by the Irish Government was not going to be sufficient to secure a YES majority..
But doing away with unanimity does not mean doing away with referenda - one could, say, move towards a double-majority system. But you're still trying to have it both ways - as long as Ireland cannot formally object to the ratification procedures of other member states, Ireland ought to retain its veto rights.
I have never advocated doing away with referenda - merely that Ireland doesn't have a right to demand that other EU countries hold them.
Neither am I arguing that Ireland or other member states shouldn't retain some veto rights.
My arguments relate to the merits of the arguments made for and against Lisbon - and Lisbon has no relevance to Member Treaty ratification processes and only impacts veto rights on very specific issues where it mandates the use of qualified majority voting.
For myself, I would be in favour of doing away with unanimity and further standardise ratification procedures in order to prevent precisely this kind of impasse in the future
Yes but that is an entirely separate argument - not related to Lisbon - and would require a new Treaty - and you can be sure that Sinn Fein, Libertas and Coir would oppose such a Treaty even more bitterly. notes from no w here
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My third trip to the US is almost over, as I'm flying back to good old NZ tomorrow. I thought I'd write a quick post about my experiences from this trip. In particular about the 3 conferences I went to: Supernova, BloggerCon and Gnomedex. In reverse chronological order...
Gnomedex, in Seattle. It was a lot of fun and I think host Chris Pirillo (pictured at left) was a major reason why! The man is a human ball of energy and this rubbed off on the conference as a whole. The content was eclectic and fun, as were the party venues and the 'little things' - like the free food/drink, a place for us World Cup fans to hang out and watch the quarter finals, the cool quasi-Maori themed Gnomedex tee-shirts, and more. Sessions I enjoyed included Dave Dederer (part of the rock band Presidents of the United States) and Ethan Kaplan, who both discussed the music industry on the Web. Dederer opened by singing two songs from my favourite band of all time, The Velvet Underground. He sung 'We're gonna have a real good time together' and 'Waiting for The Man' :-) Most of the sessions were great - and a bit out-of-the-ordinary (e.g. Susan Mernit's talk), which is always a good thing IMHO. There was some fiery discussion in Blake Ross' session, about Firefox, but everybody ended up friends afterwards. Plus getting US Presidential nominee John Edwards to speak was a master stroke.
The most enjoyable conference for me wasBloggerCon
BloggerCon was great, although the turnout was surprisingly small. Perhaps due to the overlap with other events - including Supernova and a San Francisco Bar Camp. Nevertheless there was a nice community feel to BloggerCon and host Dave Winer made sure all the discussions were relevant and thought-provoking. The one issue I had with the "unconference" format was that it tended to favour the extroverted personalities in the crowd, which meant the same old people were doing the talking all the time. I guess it's up to us quiet thinkers to summon up the courage to pitch in, but maybe the Discussion Leaders could do a little more to encourage that to happen? An unconference should include the introverts too :-) Oh and BloggerCon was yet another conference where my friend and BBM boss Marc Canter fell asleep (pictured)!
Supernova in San Francisco had its moments, but at other times was a little disappointing. I felt that in too many cases, panelists and speakers talked mainly about their own products or companies. The Future of Search panel was the best illustration of this - the 5 panelists all talked about their own search products at every opportunity, which left me none the wiser about the future of search by the end. I really hope Kevin Werbach and his team addresses this issue for the next Supernova, because I really want to hear technical issues being discussed - I don't want product pitches. The panel called The Future of Desktops was more to my liking, as a lot of thought-provoking information came from that panel. Somewhat ironically then, one of my favourite moments of Supernova was Mike Arrington's Connected Innovators session - so I guess little 5-minute product spiels I can deal with :-) The Supernova backchannel was interesting too, with Valleywag (pictured) a prominent snarker, along with David Weinberger.
There are lots of other things I enjoyed about all 3 conferences (and stuff I've forgotten to mention I'm sure), but no time to go into it all. I want to thank all 3 of the conference organizers: Kevin Werbach, Dave Winer, Chris Pirillo and Ponzi. It's a lot of hard work to do conferences, so I've got to give big wraps to those people.
p.s. sorry about the lack of blog posts here recently. Once I'm home I'll get back to my normal blogging routine!
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I'm sure that the majority of the television-watching American public made sure to take in the Super Bowl yesterday and the highly publicized half-time show with Madonna, Nicki Minaj & M.I.A. And while the half-time performance was chock-full of set changes, choreography and guest stars, I thought that the incomparable yet still somehow under appreciated Kelly Clarkson really stole the show with her above-average performance of the National Anthem.
It seems to be a trend nowadays for stars to butcher/lipsynch/vocally complicate the National Anthem, so I found it extremely refreshing to see Ms. Clarkson sing it not only correctly, but also with genuine emotion and talent. Leave it to Kelly and her American Idol-winning pipes to score a touchdown (yeah..that was corny, I know). Check it out below and let us know what is one of your favorite renditions of the National Anthem.


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Dear colleagues,
I realized (sigh!) that my previous mail on aligners could also be
interpreted as a specific criticism of ParaConc.
I had not that in mind, since I don't even know the last version of it.
So let me try to counterbalance the (possible) harm done by pointing out two
- the approach I suggested for alignment, with EasyAlign, could actually
also be used to produce aligned texts for ParaConc
- Michael Barlow has told me that parallel corpora providers can use
ParaConc embedded in their CDs, and this is obviously a good (probably even
better) alternative to having the resources on the Web. IMS-CWB samplers
also exist that are run from a CD, but here again we have the irreducible OS
difference, the former running in Windows and the latter in Unix.
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know, they may be not so different in capabilities dealing with parallel
corpora after all (except that IMS-CWB does have an aligner and not
ParaConc, and this is why all this mail exchange started). I have no way of
looking into this now, but maybe Sampo will, after all...
And now some Gricean comments:
Should one answer just the question that was posed, or try to help the
person who is asking it, BEYOND what was actually asked?
And list-Gricean: should one answer to the person who asked the question to
the list, or should one answer also the potential readers with a "parallel"
To be honest, I had someone telling me that alignment was a
difficult/unsolved problem the other day, with the justification of the
"recent discussion on the corpora list". That was why I became aware of the
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to post to the list.
And, by the way, I know many other aligners... Not everyone who is working
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though. [And nobody should feel forced to do it, either!] So, I think it is
quite good that there are commercial programs out there, where by definition
people is interested in "sharing" the programs with us. I see absolutely
nothing wrong in discussing commercial systems in this list. What I reacted
to was the narrow subject: "aligners for a particular commercial system,
without reference to alignment in general and parallel corpora systems in
And I definitely promise that even if the present message is thoroughly
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Reverb pedals... what do you folks like
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I'm after a reverb pedal. I do dearly love the those real spring reverb units, but I'm not a complete died in the wool purist either (plus, they're bloody massive for my space). Without getting into a bunch of requirements, I'd like to just narrow them down to a list of what I'm seriously looking at. Here's the list: *Neunaber WET reverb *TC Electronics Hall of Fame reverb *Van Amps Sole-Mate / Reverbamate reverb (these actually are real spring units, but I've heard they're pretty delicate) *Digitech Hardwire RV-7 *Strymon BlueSky I'm not much of an Electro Harmonics fan so I'm leaving them out of my options. Just personal experience on that. So, I'd love to hear from those that actually own or have spent time with these units. Ideally, how they've held up and if there's been any issues with them. I'm not really into a certain verb sound/type and actually... the more simple, with gorgeous reverb mind you, the better. I'm leaning towards the WET at this time, but I'm still open to others. Cost is a factor, but ultimately I'm after a great reverb pedal (I own a '73 Silverface Champ and a '65 Gibson Hawk all tube amps for reference). Oh... and yes... I own Fender Tele (and a few others as well) |
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I've had the Wet effects reverb for some time now (2 years?). I haven't let it go yet so that is saying something. I pretty much set it and leave it on all the time with or without other effects. It just gives a very pleasing airiness to my sound. It can also give you long decay sounds or a slapback type effect. I guess you know which one I would recommend! I owned the digitech pedal for a couple weeks, I found that I like very simple pedals with straight forward controls. It didn't sound very natural to me either. Good luck!
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BYOC has a great reverb kit. It is based on the "Belton Brick", which is the same module used in the Neunaber WET and the Hermida. IMO, any reverb that uses the Belton Brick is going to sound great. The kit is not that tough to build and the spring reverb sound is outstanding. I play in a surf band and a good spring reverb sound is very important. The BYOC sounds as good as the reverb in my 70 Twin Reverb.
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How does this pedal sound with an OD pedal or distorted amp?
Someone on this forum states it sounded great with a clean signal, but weird (or something to that effect) with dirt...I like the idea of this pedal, and have heard great demos. My Fender amps have Reverb so I don't need a reverb pedal now, but this seems like the one I would want if I ever did want one; always wanted to try the Fender (outboard) tube Reverb out on my amps as I know it would be deeper than the amp's reverb (for surf, old R&R and blues) This pedal seems like an affordable alternative! |
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Not to hijack but yeah - I thought it sounded weird with an overdriven amp.
Subtle OD - no issue sounded pretty good. Start raising the gain and it started o sound really tinny. As for being in front of a clean amp - awesome! I've since moved it on and use an EH Nano. |
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I ordered some DIY reverb kits which are based on the "Belton Brick," as well, but they have not yet arrived. The pedal that seems to sound the best to me (based on video demos, not personal experience), definitely has to be the SolidGold FX Surf Rider.
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+1 for the Hermida. It sounds great and I like the fact that it only has one knob - no fussing, no tweaking, just set the amount of reverb you want to mix with the dry signal and you're done. Works great with my ZT Lunchbox and Bandmaster.
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I have a WET and absolutely love it - you rarely hear anything bad about it). My only other experience is with amp reverbs (never tried any other pedals), but the WET kills them. Having said that, if you are after a spring reverb sound it may not be the best choice. If you want anything from room through to cavern, it's awesome.
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A plant germ found in Europe for the first time is killing off centuries-old olive trees in southern Italy's Apulia region, and researchers haven't yet figured out how far the pathogen has spread.
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Recognizing the tremendous increase in the area of agricultural microscopy, The Manual of Microscopic Analysis of Agricultural Products, Fourth Edition provides a more inclusive approach to the microscopy of agricultural products. The area of animal protein products and their detection in light of recent outbreaks of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or "Mad Cow Disease," as well as other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs), requires a much more detailed methodology for detecting the presence of animal protein products. Returning to our roots, so to speak, we have included coverage of fertilizers and expanded the number of unusual feed ingredients. Agricultural microscopy is both an art and applied science that draws from many academic disciplines. Plant and animal anatomy, feed technology, and analytical chemistry are just a few that have contributed. This manual is designed as a study guide for the beginning microscopist and as a reference for the more experienced. microscopists and others working toward common goals of agricultural product identification. |
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Chapter 1. Methods of Agricultural Microscopy
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Chapter 4. Feed Ingredients of Marine Origin
Chapter 5. Detecting Animal Products in Feeds and Feed Ingredients
Chapter 6. Fertilizer Microscopy
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We hear all too often that the economic consequences of MS delay or prevent qualified students from attending college. The National MS Society strongly believes that MS shouldn't stand in the way of an education. This is why the scholarship program exists ― to help highly qualified students achieve their academic potential. The Scholarship Volunteer Leadership Team is a group of self-directed volunteers who develop and manage a plan to expand the scholarship offerings made by the Chapter to first-time college students living with MS or the children whose parents live with MS.
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Some went to the Chertoff Group, a national security consulting firm in Washington. Others targeted intelligence contractors, gas pipeline executives and industrial-control security specialists. Each note came with the personal touches of a friend or colleague.
"Attach[ed] is a quote for the Social Media training we discussed," said one message sent on July 3 to the vice president of EnergySec, a federally funded group in Oregon that focuses on the cybersecurity of the nation's power grid.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Thursday condemned a U.S. church's plan to burn the Quran and said this has been planned by Israel, local satellite Press TV reported.
Mottaki warned of the reactions of Muslims and the followers of other religions, the report said.
"Such actions will ignite the reaction of not only the world's Muslims but the followers of other divine religions," he was quoted as saying.
The U.S. officials should carry out their duties to guarantee the basic right of American Muslims and prevent the promotion of such offensive acts, Mottaki said.
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It's said that understanding the subtleties of a sport allows you to excel in it. To see how Bobby Cassidy Sr. understood the subtleties of boxing, you can look at Donny Lalonde's successful title defense on May 29, 1988.
The afternoon fight took place outdoors in Trinidad and Tobago, and Cassidy picked up quickly that the sun would shine on the fighters as they fought. He also saw spots of shade where the sun's glare was hidden.
"I said to myself, 'Why is this ring so bright?'" he said. "It's a two o'clock fight, obviously, but I said to myself, 'We can work this to our advantage.' We did, and it worked perfectly."
Cassidy had Lalonde work his opponent, Leslie Stewart, into spots that hid the sun's glare. Stewart still had to deal with the glare while Lalonde unloaded on his opponent. Lalonde ended up a winner by technical knockout.
"He'll hug me to this day and say that I helped him win the championship," Cassidy said. "He'll give me the glory that I deserve."
Boxing is an emotional sport, and Cassidy is an emotional man. As a trainer, he was attached to his fighters, and was emotionally invested in their success or failure. When one of his fighters, Godfrey Nyakana, lost a title fight, Cassidy took it harder.
"Who knows what happened to him when he went home, but I was crying my eyes out then," he said. "I get close to my fighters. It's good and it's bad. You feel their pain."
Cassidy focused on getting his fighters to trust themselves. "Training is more of a reconditioning of [a fighter's] brain, so he really believes in himself," he said. "All of a sudden, you point out something in the gym, you do this or that and they're believing in you."
The boxers he trained were learning from a man who knew some of the sport's legends and saw them fight firsthand. He fought an undercard bout before the second title fight between the recently deceased Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in 1974, and he saw both fight on separate occasions.
What Cassidy remembers most was Frazier's contempt for Ali, which stemmed from Ali's public discrediting of Frazier. "I started watching the commercials for the fight," he said. "He just belittled him and treated him like he was nothing. I knew some guys [that knew Frazier], and they kept saying that this was the worst thing this guy could do, that Frazier's going to try and kill him in the ring."
"He never forgave him," he added. "He never will forgive him. They won't be hugging each other."
Cassidy's boxing résumé is impressive; he trained two champion fighters and finished his own boxing career with an impressive record of 59 wins (26 by way of knockout), 16 losses and three draws. But his career, to him, was incomplete.
"I should've gotten a title shot," he said. "I fought enough contenders and beat these contenders where I should've been fighting for a title. That still annoys me to this day."
"Kid Shamrock," an off-Broadway play based on Bobby Cassidy Sr.'s life and career, is running through Dec. 4. For more info on the play, check out our article from last week.


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