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Alexander, Samuel
Alexander, Samuel 1859-1938
Australian-born English philosopher and critic.
Alexander was among the foremost English realist philosophers of the early twentieth century. He is chiefly remembered for his Space, Time and Deity (1920), a systematic metaphysical inquiry into the nature of reality, consciousness, and God. Employing concepts of biology and psychology in addition to the methods of philosophical investigation, Alexander propounded his theory of "emergent evolution," the development of existence from primal space-time to successively higher levels, and posited the existence of God as an extension of the development of mind.
Biographical Information
Alexander was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1859. His father was a saddler who died before Alexander's birth. His mother later moved the family to St. Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, where in 1871 Alexander entered Wesley College. He attended the University of Melbourne for two years, and while he left Melbourne without completing a degree, he had enjoyed a distinguished academic career. Moving to England in 1877, Alexander was awarded a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. In 1882 he became the first Jewish fellow of either Oxford or Cambridge, when he received a fellowship from Lincoln College, Oxford. Alexander maintained his position in Oxford until 1893, when he became professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester. He remained in Manchester for more than thirty years, becoming highly admired by his students and well-known within the wider cultural life of the city. From 1908 until 1911 he was president of the Aristotelian Society, a position to which he returned in 1936-37. He was elected to the British Academy in 1913. During 1917 and 1918, at the invitation of the University of Glasgow, Alexander developed a series of lectures summarizing his philosophical system. Known as the Gifford Lectures, these works provided the basis of his masterwork, Space, Time and Deity, 1920, an extensive consideration of such metaphysical questions as the nature of the space-time continuum and the existence of God. Alexander retired from academic teaching in 1924 but continued to give public lectures and in his later years devoted his attentions to matters of literary criticism and aesthetics. In 1930 he was awarded the Order of Merit. He died in 1938.
Major Works
Alexander's philosophical system is chiefly elaborated in his magnum opus, Space, Time and Deity, which represents the culmination of more than thirty years of academic research and teaching. In Alexander's view, metaphysical inquiry into the nature of reality and of such concepts as space, time, and value must utilize and reflect developments in the empirical sciences, including biology and psychology. In Space, Time and Deity Alexander maintained that neither space nor time can be comprehended without reference to the other and that all properties and values of nature arise out of the space-time continuum; in other words, out of motion.
Central to Alexander's philosophical system as outlined in Space, Time and Deity is the theory of "emergent evolution," a concept that dates from the works of the English philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes in the mid-1870s and which had been developed by Alexander's contemporary, the English zoologist and psychologist Conwy Lloyd Morgan. Rather than focusing on the sources of evolutionary development, emergent evolutionists concentrated on the process of evolution, in which the resulting advancement is greater than and is not reducible to the physical or chemical process through which it has emerged. For Alexander, as space-time reaches successively higher levels of complexity new qualities emerge. The first to emerge are the primary qualities of matter, including size and shape. Such secondary qualities as color then follow. Applying the reasoning of emergent evolution, Alexander posited the existence of God as a "level of existence" that would be realized in the development from body to mind to deity—from physical to mental to supramental. However, because the way in which God would be distinguished from mind cannot be predicted, Alexander maintained that the nature of God is unknowable.
In Space, Time and Deity Alexander also sought to elucidate questions of human perception, and his concept of "compresence" embodies his explanation of the cognitive relation of mind to objects and actions and of minds to other minds. Alexander held that an object may be before a consciousness but is not in it; consciousness of an object is not the same as consciousness of one's consciousness of the object. For example, an object such as a chair may be apprehended by a consciousness, but the chair is not located within that consciousness; and, the contemplation of the chair is distinct from thinking about the act of contemplating the chair. Further, since the contemplation of an object is itself an action, in Alexander's view it cannot be "contemplated" but only subjectively experienced, or "enjoyed."
While Space, Time and Deity represents the highest achievement of Alexander's career, he had earlier published works of philosophy and criticism analyzing the writings of G. W. Hegel and John Locke, as well as essays on evolutionary theory, ethics, and political philosophy. During the 1920s and 1930s he turned to such subjects as the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza and the realm of aesthetics. A posthumous collection, Philosophical and Literary Pieces, was published in 1939.
Critical Reception
Contemporary criticism of Alexander generally viewed his writings within the realist resurgence that flourished in American and English philosophy during the early twentieth century. Reviewers of Space, Time and Deity sought to explicate the extensive and systematic inquiry he presented and often praised particularly the comprehensiveness of his metaphysical system. However, within the decade such notable metaphysical works as M'Taggart's The Nature of Existence (1921) and Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality (1929) largely eclipsed Alexander's work, and his reputation subsided in the decades following his death. Some critics have suggested that his diminished status stems in part from the fact that he was connected with no movement or school and thus left no disciples engaged in the work of extending and refining his ideas. Yet Alexander has remained an attractive subject for numerous late-twentieth-century scholars, including Michael A. Weinstein, who summarized Alexander's appeal in 1984, writing, "The spirit of Alexander's philosophy is elegant passion, something that is of vital importance for the sustenance of civilization. The elegance should not be taken to indicate indifference to public affairs .. . or retreatism .. ., but an understanding of philosophy's special role in describing experience comprehensively and reflectively, identifying its pervasive characters, relating them to one another, and judging them according to their importance."
Principal Works
Moral Order and Progress: An Analysis of Ethical Consideration (philosophy) 1889
Locke (philosophy) 1908
The Basis of Realism (philosophy) 1914
Space, Time and Deity. 2 vols. (philosophy) 1920
Spinoza and Time (philosophy) 1921
Lessons from Spinoza (philosophy) 1927
Spinoza: An Address (philosophy) 1927
Beauty and Other Forms of Value (philosophy) 1933
Philosophical and Literary Pieces (philosophy and criticism) 1939
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SOURCE: "Prof. Alexander's Gifford Lectures," in Nature, August 26, 1920, pp. 798-801.
[In the following essay, Haldane considers Alexander's Space, Time and Diety in the context of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.]
Prof. Alexander has written a book which requires more than cursory reading. It deserves careful study. For it embodies a thoroughly modern exposition of New Realism in full detail. Moreover, these two volumes are not merely the outcome of a sustained effort at accurate investigation. They are distinguished by their admirable tone and temper. The author is throughout anxious to understand and to represent faithfully the views of those with whom he is in controversy. His reading of what has been written by the great thinkers of other schools has been closer and more intelligent than that of most New Realists, and he displays no traces of arrogance. He has done all he could to appreciate the materials furnished, not merely by mathematical and physical science, but by biology and psychology; highly important fields for his inquiry.
These very merits of Prof. Alexander's method have, however, produced their drawbacks. They have driven him beyond the current conceptions of the New Realist type into others which are not always easy to reconcile with them. In the second volume, particularly, where the author is chiefly concerned with such problems as those of...
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SOURCE: "Mead and Alexander on Time," in Beyond Humanism, Willett, Clark & Company, 1937, pp. 242-52.
[In the following essay, Hartshorne explicates and identifies weaknesses in Alexander's arguments in Space, Time and Diety.]
George Herbert Mead was a great philosopher and certainly a humanist. Until his Philosophy of the Act has been published it will be too soon to pass judgment on his philosophy. But there are some aspects of his system which seem fairly well defined by his extant writings, and these aspects suggest the following criticisms. In his Philosophy of the Present Mead declares that each age creates its own past—not its own image of the past, for Mead seems to deny the validity of this distinction. The past is the best image we can construct on the basis of present experience in its past-pointing characteristics. The question then arises of how the past which we infer in this manner differs from the future which we may also infer. What is the direction of pastness? To this question Mead's writings seem to give only a cloudy answer. And in any case, it seems contradictory to assert that our efforts to know the past create the past we wish to know.
In Mead's own discussion we can feel the unwished-for but really inescapable naïve meaning of past as the "irrevocable," the settled and done for, contrasted with the future, the unsettled, which can be...
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SOURCE: "The Philosophy of Samuel Alexander (I.)," in Mind: A Quarterly Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 193, January, 1940, pp. 1-18.
[In the following essay, Stout presents the first part of an extended analysis of Alexander's philosophical system, focusing on his concepts of mind, mental processes, and sensory perception.]
According to Mr. Laird "no English writer has produced so grand a system of speculative metaphysics in so grand a manner since Hobbes in 1696 completed his metaphysical journey with the publication of De Corpore". I entirely agree. But this was not the kind of praise which pleased Alexander himself. When the plan of his philosophy first dawned upon him in all its brilliance, he hoped and was strongly tempted to believe that it was destined to be the "philosophy of the future". What he really longed for was confirmation of this estimate of the objective value of his work. Mere praise of its greatness or grandeur left him cold and finally bored him by its incessant repetition. Now I cannot myself admit that Alexander's system will be, or, at any rate, ought to be the philosophy of the future. There seem to me to be flaws in it fatal to any such claim. None the less, I feel strongly that the most promising path to this philosophy of the future is to be found in a critical reconstruction of Alexander's work, with the aim of correcting its defects while retaining its systematic character....
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SOURCE: "The Philosophy of Samuel Alexander (II.)," in Mind: A Quarterly Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 194, April, 1940, pp. 136-49.
[In the following essay, which comprises the second installment of his analysis of Alexander's philosophy, Stout discusses Alexander's distinction between the ways objects and mental processes are experienced, his treatment of the knowledge of other minds, and his conceptions of space-time, intuitive knowledge, and the emergent quality of nature. ]
Enjoyment and Contemplation.
Alexander draws a hard and fast distinction between the way in which we experience objects and the way in which we experience our own mental (i.e., subjective) processes. We are said to enjoy the mental processes and to contemplate objects. Let no one suppose that this is only a new way of naming a distinction which can be readily understood and easily verified. At first I myself made this mistake. I took it to be in principle identical with the distinction between actual experience and thought. Then my main difficulty was with the view that only subjective processes and not sensa could be enjoyed, and also with the view that enjoyment and contemplation are mutually exclusive. But I soon discovered my mistake. The peculiarity of Alexander's view emerges with startling clearness in his denial that pleasure and pain are enjoyed. It is nonsense to say that...
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SOURCE: "Professor Alexander's Proofs of the Spatio-Temporal Nature of Mind," in The Philosophical Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 3, May, 1940, pp. 309-24.
[In the following essay, Bateman examines Alexander's proofs of the spatial and temporal nature of mind: his argument from introspection and his argument from the spatio-temporal properties of the neural processes.]
According to Alexander, Space-Time is the simplest form of reality, out of which all finite existents—including minds—are made. Growth and creative process flow from the intrinsic nature of this primordial stuff; and the ensuing spatio-temporal configurations, with their differences of complexity and pattern, give rise to new levels of existents having new qualities, such as materiality, life and consciousness. While an emergent quality is grounded in the 'lower' level of existence from which it emerges, it is a new order of existent, unpredictable from the nature of its components and possessing its own special laws of behavior. For example:
Mind is a new quality distinct from life, with its own peculiar methods of behaviour, for the reason already made clear, that the complex collocation which has mind, though itself vital, is determined by the order of its vital complexity, and is therefore not merely vital but also mental.1
It is important to note...
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SOURCE: "Samuel Alexander's Theism," in The Hibbert Journal, Vol. XL, No. 2, January, 1942, pp. 146-55.
[In the following essay, Laird examines Alexander's views on the nature and existence of God.]
Alexander was, quite certainly, a theist in his own Alexandrian way, a way that was never insincere. Indeed his "nisus theory of deity," to judge for instance from Mr Brightman's Philosophy of Religion (1940), seems by now to have taken its place as one of the accepted types of text-book theism. It has almost achieved respectability, like an eccentric old friend whose ways have become too familiar to startle.
A letter of Alexander's which came to me recently in rather an odd way, since it was sent me by the purchaser of a pamphlet into which it had been gummed, gives a more personal statement than was usual with its author.
"I never was negative in respect of that subject [this letter runs] and never was even agnostic. I date from the agnostic time, but never subscribed to the prevailing belief (or want of belief). I daresay I may have expressed myself coldly (or, being younger, even scornfully) towards what I now call the elements of 'nonsense' in positive religions (I say nowadays [in private] that in spite of its manifest insufficiency I stick to Judaism because it contains less nonsense than the other religions known to me). But I think...
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SOURCE: "Samuel Alexander's Aesthetics," in The Menorah Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 2, July-September, 1942, pp. 145-60.
[In the following essay, Listowel discusses Alexander's views on beauty in art and nature, noting Alexander's emphasis of the role of the spectator in artistic creation.]
Those, like the present writer, for whom the late Samuel Alexander unlocked doors to new realms of wisdom and delight, or who basked in the sunshine of encouragement and kindly advice he gave so readily to younger men, will understand with what alacrity this opportunity was seized of paying a small tribute to the memory of so unusual and attractive a personality. To resurrect the mind that has built of its own fabric a mansion so vast that its chambers have room for every fact of experience and every theory of science will always provide a happy and appropriate memorial to one whose main business in life was the disinterested speculation idolized by the Greeks as the worthiest employment to which the human spirit can devote its powers. My own share in this labor of love is small and limited in scope; I want to fill in one corner of the picture of Alexander's philosophical system, by describing in some detail what he thought about Art and Beauty in their most important aspects and relations.
If one were to venture a conclusion from the sheer bulk and volume of Alexander's philosophical writings, one would...
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SOURCE: "The Religious Philosophy of Samuel Alexander," in The Journal of Religion, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, April, 1947, pp. 102-13.
[In the following essay, McCreary explicates Alexander's theological views, which posit the existence of God through the principle of emergence, or, the development of nature to successively higher levels.]
Alexander is a representative of that movement of thought which may be termed Anglo-American realism; in his Space, Time, and Deity, he has offered the most complete metaphysical and religious system so far given by that group.1 Much, if not most, of his work is occupied with mind—mind as in the order of realities which begins with mere events in space and time and ends with God. These data are for Alexander at once the most simple and the most complex in the universe. The present study is limited to his view of deity, treating space and time only with such sufficiency as will supply context for his religious thought. Alexander seeks to show what can be known on this subject and known consistently with the whole scheme of things we know and, also, with that sentiment of worship which is directed to God.
Primarily, God may be defined as the object of the religious emotion or of worship. On the other hand, from the metaphysical...
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SOURCE: "The New Realists," in A Hundred Years of Philosophy, Basic Books, Inc., 1966, pp. 259-80.
[In the following essay, which was originally published in 1957, Passmore focuses on Alexander in a discussion of realist philosophers of the early twentieth century.]
In the early years of the present century, it could no longer be presumed that Realism was intellectually disreputable, a mere vulgar prejudice. What a mind knows, Brentano and Meinong had argued, exists independently of the act by which it is known; Mach, and James after him—if they were still, from a Realist point of view, tainted with subjectivism—had at least denied that what is immediately perceived is a state of mind; and then Moore, seconded by Russell, had rejected that thesis which Idealists like Bradley and phenomenalists like Mill had united in regarding as indisputable: that the existence of objects of perception consists in the fact that they are perceived. The 'New Realism' brought together these converging tendencies; it owed much to Meinong, more to Mach and James, and it acknowledged the help of Moore and Russell in the battle against Idealism.
The first, in England, to formulate the characteristic doctrines of the New Realism was T. P. Nunn.1 Best known as an educationalist, Nunn wrote little on philosophy, but that little had an influence out of all proportion to its modest dimensions. In...
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SOURCE: "Spirit and Nature: Alexander's Early Writings," in Unity and Variety in the Philosophy of Samuel Alexander, Purdue University Press, 1984, pp. 12-32.
[In the following essay, Weinstein discusses the development of Alexander's philosophical system from Hegelian idealism in the 1880s to Darwinism and Naturalism in the 1890s.]
May it not be that the inability of philosophy to understand the great body of facts familiar to us as variety, modification, multiplicity, accident, is not due to the weakness of nature, but suggests a problem for philosophy itself. (1886)
The real answer to Hume is given by Darwinism. (1892)
Samuel Alexander's first approach to the problem of unity and variety was from the perspective of absolute or objective idealism. In his middle twenties, as Atkinson Lee reports, when late Victorian culture was reaching its florescence, Alexander "became immersed in the Neo-Hegelian philosophy."1 Lee observes that it was to Alexander that "Mark Pattison gave the famous advice to go and steep himself in Hegel's philosophy, and then to forget all about it." Though Alexander claimed to have taken Pattison's advice and though he became an avowed naturalist in his early thirties, objective idealism exercised a deep, lasting, and, indeed, decisive influence on his thought.
From Hegel...
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Further Reading
Brettschneider, Bertram D. The Philosophy of Samuel Alexander: Idealism in "Space, Time and Deity. " New York: Humanities Press, 1964, 177 p.
Extended examination of Alexander's philosophical system. Brettschneider devotes chapters to such topics as Alexander's concept and categories of Space-Time, his doctrine of emergent evolution, his theory of mind, and the systematic implications of his concepts of value, God, and deity.
Burtt, Edwin, A. "Some Individual Philosophies and Current Trends." In his Types of Religious Philosophy, pp. 409-48. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939.
Concise explication of Alexander's religious views and their relation to his thought as a whole.
Konvitz, Milton R. On the Nature of Value: The Philosophy of Samuel Alexander. Morningside Heights, N.Y.: King's Crown Press, 1946, 119 p.
Analyzes Alexander's writings on the nature of value within the context of the history of philosophy.
Lee, Atkinson. "Samuel Alexander." London Quarterly and Holborn Review CLXVI, sixth series, Vol. X (1941): 412-18.
Appreciative memoir written by a former student. Lee sketches the main tenets of Alexander's philosophy and concludes that together with Conwy Lloyd Morgan and James Ward, Alexander "did most in this country to clear the way for the discussion,...
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Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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On motion by Mr. WALKER, Senator Traylor'se bill [S. 311] defining the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of the State of Indiana an defining the judicial years in said Circuit, and fixing the time of holding of Courts therein, was read the second time, and the bill laid on the table.
The Special Committee appointed to investigate the Insane Hospital reported that they had organized by electing Representative Berryman as Chairman. Not having time to complete the work, they recommend the Committee be continued through the special session.
Mr. NEFF moved to lay the report on the table.
Mr. BERRYMAN said in explanation at the recommendation of the Committee, that they could not attend to the requirements fully and be in attendance at the House during this term, therefore it would be necessary to continue the Committee during the extra session.
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DTotD: Romanian striker suffers gruesome leg break
Ryan Bailey at Dirty Tackle7 hrs agoBotoșani drew 2-2 with Gaz Metan in the Romanian Liga I on Thursday afternoon, but the game was marred by a horrific injury.
Around five minutes after he had given the visitors a 1-0 lead, Gaz Metan striker Dan Roman went on another run towards goal. Just before he reached the penalty box, however, he was brought down with a clumsy lunge from Botoșani centre-back Ciprian Dinu.
Most players then proceeded to put their hands on their heads in disbelief as they saw Roman's right foot was pointing in a direction it was not supposed to. The referee initially gave Dinu a yellow card, but upon inspecting the damage, upgraded the punishment to a sending off.
Roman suffered a double fracture of the tibula and fibula and according to Romanian site Pro Sport, he will be out for between ten and twelve months.
Everything you need to know about Club World Cup finalists Raja Casablanca
Brooks Peck at Dirty Tackle13 hrs agoBayern Munich reached the FIFA Club World Cup final. This was expected. What wasn't expected: their opponents will be Moroccan club Raja Casablanca. The following is everything you need to know about the people's club.
-Raja means "hope" in arabic and they actually are considered the people's club. A popular tifo display from Raja fans includes the words "vox populi," which is latin for "voice of the people." So I didn't just make that up.
-This is their second Club World Cup appearance (the last was in 2000, when they lost all three of their group-stage matches). They qualified this time by winning the 2012/13 Botola title — Morocco's domestic league — to claim the host nation exemption and join the six confederation champions. Which was handy since they didn't even qualify for the 2013 CAF Champions League won by Al-Ahly, who were knocked out of the Club World Cup in the quarterfinals. Football is weird.
Futsal wizard shows off dizzying moves in Belgian match
Brooks Peck at Dirty Tackle21 hrs agoIsmael "The Hitman" Hamdaoui can do things with the ball that human eyes can barely comprehend. The kind of stuff that requires repeat viewing in slow motion to fully appreciate what's happening. In a recent Belgian futsal match, he punished his opponents with these skills, giving them little chance to fight back.
First up was an intricate and lightning fast akka 1000 (a move of his own creation) flick around his opponent. This didn't lead to a goal, but Hamdaoui was just warming up.
To score, he pulled off a tornado backheel that got the goalkeeper to go the wrong way. And then, to prove that he truly he is the boss, he didn't even bother to celebrate.
Hamdaoui's moves caught the attention of Dutch international Eljero Elia, who posted them to his Instragram account. But this is just the beginning of what The Hitman can do. Here's a highlight reel of some of his best...
Top video via Joe.ie
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Ronaldinho scores wonderful free kick in Club World Cup semifinal, opponents take his shoes
Brooks Peck at Dirty Tackle1 day agoHe did it in his first match back from injury last week and now he's done it again — Ronaldinho scored a brilliant free kick to in the second half Atletico-MG's Club World Cup semifinal against Raja Casablanca in Morocco. The local side took a surprise 1-0 lead in the 51st minute, but Ronaldinho worked his magic to equalize 12 minutes later.
He pinged his free kick off the far post, freezing the goalkeeper and bringing joy to the large Atletico-MG contingent that made the trip for the tournament. It was short lived, though, as Raja regained the lead in the 84th minute from the penalty spot and scored again in added time to make it 3-1.
After the match, the Raja players were so enamored with Ronaldinho and desperate for souvenirs from him that they took his boots right off his feet. Being the amiable guy that he is, he just stood there and let them.
Sacked Andre Villas-Boas still listed as Head Coach in Spurs' matchday program
Brooks Peck at Dirty Tackle1 day agoAndre Villas-Boas was sacked by Spurs first thing Monday morning. Even though they lost 5-0 to Liverpool the day before, it was still a controversial move and one that goalkeeper Brad Friedel said the players weren't happy about. In the 48 hours since then, Tim Sherwood has been named interim manager and the names of potential candidates have filled the papers. Papers that whoever edits the club's matchday program apparently doesn't read.
In the publication for Wednesday's Capital One Cup quarterfinal against West Ham, Villas-Boas' name defiantly sat under the Head Coach title. The Independent's Sam Wallace shared a picture...
Andre Villas-Boas, gone but not forgotten (in the Spurs programme tonight) pic.twitter.com/GDjtYFH5Zq
— Sam Wallace (@SamWallaceIndy) December 18, 2013
Of all the things to double check two days after sacking the manager, that was probably it.
PSG coach Laurent Blanc asks female journalist if she 'knows what 4-3-3 means'
Ryan Bailey at Dirty Tackle1 day agoParis Saint-Germain manager Laurent Blanc has embroiled himself in a sexism scandal after mocking a female journalist's football nous during a press conference.
Swedish reporter Johanna Frändén, who covers all things Zlatan Ibrahimovic for Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper, posed a question to Blanc about his decision to switch from a 4-4-2 formation to 4-3-3. Rather than sensibly deal with the query — like he would any other journalist in the room who wasn't an attractive blonde Swede — the former World Cup-winning defender gave a diminishing response (via The Metro):
'I mean, women talking football tactics, it's so beautiful,' the Paris St-Germain chief told her in a press conference.
'I think it's fantastic. You know what 4-3-3 means, don't you?'
Franden replied by saying that it 'is my job to know what it means', before Blanc continued his sarcastic answers.
'I mean, there's a lot of ways of playing. Haha – just joking.'
This is how you win all of the crossbar challenges
Brooks Peck at Dirty Tackle1 day agoThere have been many crossbar challenges over the years and they have had many different winners. But the man in this video is now the true winner of all of them.
Celtic let the freestyle masters at the STRSkillSchool YouTube channel attempt the ultimate crossbar challenge shot at Celtic Park and as a result, they were able to pull it off. From deep in the stands behind the goal, Mr. STR dropped the ball right on top of the crossbar. His reaction was rather subdued given the degree of difficulty, which likely means either he was surprised he did it or this is so low on the spectrum of things he can do with a football that it barely brings him any joy.
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Gennaro Gattuso threatens to kill himself in the street if found guilty of match fixing
Brooks Peck at Dirty Tackle1 day agoFormer Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso was surprisingly linked to an ongoing match-fixing investigation in Italy. His house was raided by police, as was the home of former Lazio midfielder Cristian Brocchi as four other men were arrested and charged with sporting fraud in the calcioscommesse probe.
Gattuso has always seemed more inclined to beat the pulp out of match fixers than to conspire with them, but contact between him and one of the four men arrested has drawn him into the investigation of several Milan matches in 2011, the last year the club won the Serie A title. The 2006 World Cup winner is vehemently denying any wrongdoing, though. And in characteristically violent fashion, he has threatened to kill himself in public like a samurai if he's not cleared.
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Quoted in La Repubblica Sport, Gattuso told Sky Sport Italia: "Never have I ever had the slightest thought about possibly fixing a game.
Brazil U-17 team protest referee decisions in loss to U.S. by refusing to play
Brooks Peck at Dirty Tackle2 days agoThe U.S. U-17 team beat Brazil 4-1 to win the Nike International Friendlies tournament in Florida, but the match came to an undignified and premature end. Though it was only an informal competition organized by a shared sponsor, the match proved feisty with a few scuffles and two red cards for Brazil, which led to the two teams standing still at the end and prompting the ref to blow the final whistle before the 90th minute.
Brazil could have won the competition with a win or a draw. The U.S. opened the scoring in just the seventh minute, but Brazil equalized in the 16th. From there, it was all bad news for Brazil. After going down 2-1, they were shown their first red card in the 38th minute. They continued to fight for a comeback, but the second red came in the 86th minute, after Brazil had already gone down 4-1, and that proved too much for them to take.
DTotD: Marco Reus collides with linesman
Brooks Peck at Dirty Tackle2 days agoFootballers might not always be fond of linesmen, but they are apparently good for at least one thing: human cushions. During Hoffenheim's 2-2 draw with Borussia Dortmund at the weekend, Janick Vestergaard knocked Marco Reus out of his way as the two challenged for the ball, sending Reus careening into the linesman.
With a little shove, Reus used the linesman to regain his balance, sending the official to the ground in the process. There were no hard feelings, however, which was good for Reus since he was already on a yellow from the 14th minute.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.
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December 4, 2013 11:20 AM - Robin Blackstone, ENN
Boasting a savings of 12% whole house energy consumption savings it is tempting to immediately order new highly insulated windows for the whole house. But before you do, consider the payback. Sure, you will be snug as a bug inside the house but according to the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), it takes two decades or more for these highly insulated windows to provide a utility bill return on investment.


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Boston Red Sox left fielder Darnell McDonald and center fielder Ryan Kalish (55) bump as they leap after beating the Toronto Blue Jays 10-4 Wednesday in Boston.
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BOSTON - Two months ago the Red Sox hit bottom. Now they're playing sky high.
Boston won its fifth straight series with a 10-4 win Wednesday over the Toronto Blue Jays with six runs in the first inning against a wild Ricky Romero and with the help of David Ortiz's 399th career homer.
After blowing a nine-run lead and losing to the New York Yankees 15-9 on April 21, the Red Sox were at 4-10 and Manager Bobby Valentine said, "If this isn't bottom, we'll find some new ends to the earth."
They immediately turned it around with six straight wins and have the AL's third best record, 36-25, since that low point.
"I wasn't sure" that would be the bottom, Valentine said after Wednesday's win, "but I believed it. Things were going so wrong and we couldn't catch a break. ... I think things turned around because guys believed it, too."
Believing and improving, though, are two different things.
"We all knew that that was the cellar and it was not going to get any worse," Cody Ross said. "You still have to go out and play and perform and since then we've been having fun. Our main thing is to win series. We did that here. Now we can go on the road with some confidence and make a run before the All-Star break."
The Red Sox are at their highest point in the standings, a season-best five games over .500 at 40-35. They're tied with Tampa Bay for third place in the AL East, the first time this year they're not in fourth or fifth.
Boston went 7-2 on the homestand, starting with a three-game sweep of Miami, after opening 14-19 at Fenway Park.
"We got off on the right foot against the Marlins and just kept going, scoring runs, pitching well, playing good defense," Ross said.
Adrian Gonzalez had three RBIs and finished the homestand at 12 for 36 to raise his batting average to .296. Mike Aviles drove in two runs as the Red Sox improved to 9-2 in their last 11 games.
Jon Lester (5-5) fell behind 1-0 in the first when he allowed a run-scoring single to Colby Rasmus, but the Red Sox scored all the runs they needed in the bottom half as Romero (8-2) threw 16 balls on his first 19 pitches.
"I'm just embarrassed in myself more than anything. I feel like I let the team down," Romero said.
Boston went ahead 7-1 in the second when Ortiz and Ross walked on 3-1 pitches and Gonzalez hit an RBI single.
Jose Bautista hit a solo shot, his major league-leading 25th homer of the season, off Lester in the fourth.
"We're up 7-0," Lester said. "At 3-and-2 I'm going to challenge him and take my chances. ... I'm not going to walk him. I'm not going to give him a chance to get on base and bring up (Edwin) Encarnacion and give up a two-run homer. I'd rather give up a solo shot."
The Red Sox struck back with two runs in the bottom of the inning. Gonzalez singled in one and Aviles doubled in the other.
Ortiz made it 10-2 in the fifth with his 21st homer of the year. His 399 career homers are tied for 49th with Andres Galarraga and Al Kaline. Duke Snider is 48th with 407.
Lester, who was just 1-2 in his six previous starts, retired eight straight batters before running into trouble with two outs in the sixth. He allowed a double to Bautista followed by Encarnacion's 22nd homer.
Lester pitched seven innings, striking out four with no walks, seven hits and four runs.
Romero, however, was in trouble from the start.
"He never really had a chance to establish any kind of rhythm ... against a team that can obviously swing the bats really well," Toronto manager John Farrell said.
On Wednesday, Romero left after giving up six walks, seven hits and nine runs in three-plus innings.
He walked leadoff batter Daniel Nava on four pitches in the first then threw two balls to Dustin Pedroia before his first strike. Pedroia then doubled in Nava and Ortiz walked on four pitches.
Ross then singled, loading the bases, and Gonzalez reached on an error by third baseman Encarnacion, allowing Pedroia and Ortiz to score. Will Middlebrooks followed with an RBI groundout, Aviles singled in one run and Darnell McDonald singled in another, making it 6-1.
NOTES: Gonzalez has an eight-game hitting streak. ... Toronto, in last place in the AL East, dropped two games behind Boston. ... Romero was 4-0 in his last seven starts but had given up at least four runs in each of his last six games.
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Do we need regulation, rule-books and new codes of practice to keep boardroom executives in check? Corporate-governance specialist Elaine Sternberg says not. The keys to getting on-the-ball, responsible management are competition and shareholder empowerment. Her punchy report takes on the regulationists and shows how to achieve good governance without politics.
Customers must be offered an alternative to the service which has been constantly interrupted by unofficial action, and which now threatens them with a total stoppage, argues Madsen Pirie.
Simon Read's report anticipated much of what Ron Sandler came up with in his official government review of long term savings. Read proposes that products rather than the advice process, should be regulated - as they are in every other market. He argues for a simplified and standard tax structure covering all sorts of savings and investments, and simpler products that will allow charging structures to be simplified and charges reduced.
Around the world - Sweden, New Zealand, Germany, Netherlands - postal services have been liberalised and the public is getting better services at lower cost. Yet the UK - the pioneer of privatisation in the 1980s still lumbers along with a state-owned post office that is now losing large amounts of money. Ian Senior says it's time for the Post Office to embrace competition, develop new services, and start making money...and he identifies some precise opportunities to that end.
Are conspiracy theories a hallmark of the right? Or, asks Chris Snowdon, do th really big conspiracy theories go hand in hand with a grandiose statism?
Read more...The only booming sector in the UK seems to be the public sector. We've skimmed the Guardian's jobs pages and added up the cost of all those community awareness co-ordinators (30,000 of them each year, at nearly a billion quid in salaries). Our report, by Jonathan Woolham, shows exactly where your hard-earned tax money is going.
Published one year on from the part-nationalizations of Lloyds-HBOS and RBS, this report by John Redwood MP pins the blame for the financial crisis squarely on bad monetary policy from the Bank of England and misguided regulation and inadequate crisis management by the UK government . Redwood attacks the notion that the UK economy was well run in the period leading up to the crisis, and that its problems were imported from the US, making clear that while Britain's crisis may have had much in common with America's, it was in fact very much home grown. In addition to analyzing the financial crisis and its causes, Redwood also makes a series of recommendations for the future of the banking sector, as well the broader economic policies of the next government.
In this think piece, Terry Arthur explains why the Left and the Right are both wrong about crime and punishment. As he puts it, "All three of the main parties remain incorrigibly statist, and at this rate, almost any action will soon be classed as either banned or compulsory."
Released to coincide with a seminar event at the Conservative Party Conference on 7 October 2009, this paper argues that while Governments and regulators invariably claim that regulations are introduced for the most laudable of reasons, regulations often have unforeseen and highly damaging consequences. This paper discusses some striking examples of this trend across a spectrum of business and social sectors, ranging from banking and finance to health and safety regulations.
If we cut out Whitehall and local bureaucracy, we could give front-line head teachers another £1350 per pupil to spend. And wouldn't we get a more responsive, more local, more parent-focused school system as a result? Thinker and journalist Stephen Pollard argues that in value for money terms, when you add in all the bureaucratic costs, state education is now actually more expensive than private education. Why? Because too much of the education budget is wasted on inappropriate spending by distant officials. The answer? Devolve the budget to front-line managers. And do the same in health and social services while you're at it!
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By Drew Brooks Staff writer
The city of Fayetteville is getting an $8 million federal grant to cover more than half the cost of a new transit center downtown.
The office of Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., said the Federal Transit Administration awarded the grant for the multimodal center and bus headquarters at Franklin and Robeson streets. The grant is from the administration's Bus Livability Program.
The transit hub has been controversial because of its placement downtown, which forced some businesses to move.
Mayor Tony Chavonne said the city is excited by the news of the grant.
He said the project is more than six years in the making and that demolition of some of the properties is set to begin later this year.
The city has used the power of eminent domain to acquire some of the land.
Chavonne said the city has obtained all but one parcel, and officials are in negotiations for that one.
He said the transportation hub represents a "huge investment in downtown." The grant is a vote of confidence from the federal government, he said.
Last year, the city failed to win a construction grant from the same agency. But officials said they would reapply and believed their chances would improve once the city acquired the land.
The new bus headquarters and transfer station will be a short distance from the Amtrak railroad station and City Hall.
The project's price tag is estimated at $15 million.
Chavonne said the city will try to obtain other grants to cover the remaining costs.
Hagan's office said the project would enhance transit in the city and feature a highly energy-efficient design.
"This project is another example of a North Carolina community embracing an innovative transit project that will generate economic development," Hagan said in a statement, "and I will continue to support investments in infrastructure that strengthen our economy and create jobs."
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MEK Saka Slim Boot Stretch Jean 1 1
love'em love'em They fit really nice was able to go down one size January 1, 2012
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