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Dutch Schnell: Six-Shootin'by Staff Writer / Minnesota Wild
Dutch Schnell, goalie-racer here, and as you can tell by surveying the photo to the left, I am sweating profusely. Since when did the tectonic plates beneath the earth's crust undergo such a seismic shift that St. Paul ended up five miles south of the equator?
Only a refreshing citrus-y drink can cool me down on a day like this, and this time, I'll pass on the Fresca. I need a Five Alive! (Note: I'm quietly, but pompously laughing at that reference and saying to myself just over a whisper, "Atta boy, Dutch! Atta boy!)
My apologies if this week's column is a little later than its usual Friday morning arrival. Andy The Intern
|Andy (left) is caught red-handed delivering a document to former Twins employee Wayne Petersen, when he should be transcribing.
Seriously, I hate to harp on a kid trying to make his way in this world, but that kid is one late Double Cinnamon Mocha Frappucino delivery away from being out on his derriere with no hope of a letter of recommendation from this goalie-racer.
Of course, I know what you're thinking State of Hockey legion, because as I said before, I'm nothing if not a certified mind reader. You're disapprovingly shaking your head as you lament, "Dutch has gotten too big for his britches, he won't even type his own columns."
I assure you, that is not the case.
You try typing a dissertation with a blocker and a catching glove attached to your hands. It's nearly impossible without hitting backspace every other keystroke.
Here, watch this. Let me just…Andy…I need you to move for a sec…just…trust me…LET ME USE THE COMPUTER YOU LITTLE TWERP!
***Muffled noises***
Okay, sorry about that. Ready?
You see that? I just tried to type, "Dick and Jane chased the fox over the grassy meadow." I trust you see my point now.
Let's get back to the column, and let me get one thing out of the way. Many (three) of you are wondering if I'm ashamed, embarrassed and/or disconcerted about finishing third in last week's goalie race, two spots behind puppy-hater Egg Olson.
Listen, I want to win every night, but winning four consecutive goalie races is unprecedented. Do I look like Jacques Lemaire and his band of fiery streak masters who habitually defy the naysayers with five victories in a row?
I'm merely a goalie-racer. The Wild on the other blocker hand, is an emerging juggernaut looking for its sixth consecutive victory tonight against the Jax in a matter of hours.
|If Dutch has his facts straight (which he doesn't), the 1934-35 Montreal Maroons are the last NHL team to win six straight.
The quest for number six begins tonight in Ohio, and you and I both know I can't make predictions in this column, so don't even ask. But I will bring up the possibility of the third shootout of the season between the Wild and the Bluejackets. Two of the three meetings between these two clubs have ended in tear-inducing shootout losses for Minnesota.
Jacques Lemaire and I see eye-to-eye on most world issues, but if there's one thing we agree to disagree on, it's shootouts. Mr. Lemaire is less than enthused by the spectacle as he's said many times in front of a microphone with his smooth French-Canadian accent.
I love 'em even more than I love Fresca! The only problem is, I've only gotten to see four this year, which is way lower than I would have expected. Two years ago, 74 of the Wild's games would have gone into shootouts had they existed back then. Again, I'll have to go back and check on those statistics, but for now, mark it down as fact.
|Aaron Sickman: President of Bon Jovi fan club: chapter 12.
For me, there would be no better sight than to see Pierre-Marc Bouchard sneak a backhander between the legs of Marc Denis in round three of the shootout, setting the stage for a showdown between Trevor Letowski and Dwayne Roloson, who snares a shot bound for the upper corner and holds his glove high for just a second longer than normal as he savors this well-deserved victory.
Again, that wasn't a prediction, just a hopeful vision. But before I go tight roll my jeans and apply mousse to my hair in anticipation of the Bon Jovi show tonight, I'll leave you with this lil nugget.
The Wild has never lost (1-0-0-0) on January 27…ever! Think about that. Lather up the sunscreen before going outside. Then, think about it some more.
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ROD Barker, Vaga Probus Club's current speakers' secretary maintained his astute selection of highly effective speakers when Alistair Neill, the chief executive of Herefordshire Council, addressed 36 club members at their recent fortnightly business meeting.
Members received a brief rundown of Alistair's impressive background and career, covering first his initial roles in business and commerce with major companies, both in the UK and overseas before he moved onto the local government scene. He was also able to gain some political experience through an appointment in Northamptonshire in the Cabinet Office and subsequently as chief executive of Southampton City Council before his appointment in March 2013 which brought him to Herefordshire. An excellent communicator, Alistair clearly laid out in detail the challenges facing all councils and not just Herefordshire, as they cope with the considerable cuts in expenditure required by government while maintaining acceptable standards, notably in health and educational services. He impressed members with his plans to achieve our county's various objectives. Overall there was the feeling that in having Alistair Neill at the helm, Herefordshire people are in capable hands.
What also came across strongly to members was that Alistair is a people person who genuinely cares about others and who recognises the importance of the role required by himself and his valued team in delivering and implementing a viable and sustainable economic plan for the county's future.
It was a privilege for Paul Mason, Vaga's social secretary to introduce and thank Alistair for his fascinating and inspirational presentation.

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British rugby league is going through its own revival of the late 80s and early 90s. To a soundtrack of Chesney Hawkes, Take That and the Stone Roses, Wigan Warriors have returned to the position they occupied as of right from 1988-95 – four points clear at the top of the Super League table, and now odds-on to stay there until the play-offs.
After three seasons of domination by Leeds and St Helens, this has come as a refreshing change, especially with Warrington adding more variety in second. While only a handful of cherry-and-white diehards would want them to reprise the monopoly of old – which ended up becoming tedious, and financially ruinous even for Wigan – there is no denying that they retain the most resonant name in the British game.
The Super League era since 1996 has not been kind to the club that dominated the previous decade, and there have been times when the town's traditional preference for rugby league seemed in danger of being submerged by Dave Whelan's football fairytale. But evidence suggests that both sports can thrive, with Wigan Athletic surviving for another season in the Premier League, and the Warriors – a nickname that still grates, as it was introduced as no more than an alliterative afterthought – attracting bigger crowds to Whelan's DW Stadium than they did throughout the glory years at Central Park.
Few would have predicted such consistency –12 wins from their 14 Super League matches, with one of the defeats coming at home to an inspired Harlequins, and the other after a second-half collapse at Bradford – at the start of the season. Wigan added only one player, the veteran scrum-half Paul Deacon, to the squad that finished sixth last year.
Ian Lenagan, who had taken over as chairman after buying the majority shareholding in the club from Whelan 18 months earlier, decided it was the coaching structure that needed to change. After several trips to Australia he headhunted Michael Maguire, a little-known member of the coaching team that had established Melbourne Storm as Australia's champion club, albeit with a little help from administrators who have since been found guilty of systematically breaching the salary cap.
The results have been spectacular, even if they have been achieved by mostly unspectacular rugby. Maguire and the coaching staff he assembled, featuring the former Wigan prop Shaun Wane and a new conditioner with very good credentials, put the players through their toughest ever pre-season to establish the physical and mental resilience necessary for the tough and attritional style of play that Maguire has imported from Melbourne.
That's not to say they are boring, although there has been the odd occasion, notably against Huddersfield at Murrayfield the other week, when they have won very ugly indeed. In a quick rematch against the Giants at the Galpharm last Sunday, it was impossible not to admire the strength of character that Wigan showed to stand up to a real physical battering from the Huddersfield pack led by Keith Mason, and to withstand a heavy penalty count against them as the referee, Richard Silverwood, produced surely his best-ever performance to clamp down on Wigan's wrestling in the first half.
First Joel Tomkins, then Andy Coley, were sent to the sin-bin, but despite playing for 20 minutes of the game with 12 men, Wigan still ran out more convincing winners than the 38-30 scoreline suggested. Tomkins was outstanding again, surely confirming that he must join his younger brother Sam in England's team to face France next month, probably alongside Sean O'Loughlin in the back three of the pack. Stuart Fielden was equally good and, although at 30 he is probably too old to be recalled to the England team Steve McNamara will now start building towards the 2013 World Cup, he and Coley have been as good as any pair of props in the land this year.
However Wigan's success is likely to have a heavy cost for ambitious British coaches. Already, three of the Super League's leading clubs – Bradford, Huddersfield and St Helens – have started searching for a new coach for next season, and others such as Leeds and the Catalans Dragons are soon expected to join them. But the phrase that immediately crops up in any discussion over this raft of coaching vacancies is: "They're looking for another Maguire". Any other NRL assistants who fancy advancing their career with some head-coaching experience while embarking on some foreign travel owe Wigan's Madge-ician a beer.
Finally this week, a couple of plugs. First for Craig Mosedale, formerly of the Moldgreen amateur club, who will take on the Scisscett Sprint Triathlon to raise funds for the RFL Benevolent Fund. Second, for the admirable Conference battlers Bramley, who play Kippax Knights to open the new floodlights at Stanningley on Friday night.


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• Lightning in a Bottle — It's more than an electronic dance music festival – yoga workshops, consciousness-raising seminars and a variety of creative pursuits will be just as prevalent throughout Silverado Canyon this coming holiday weekend. But the biggest draw for this annual gathering in O.C.'s nether regions remains the top-quality DJ culture that LIB attracts.
This year's roster includes previous Coachella stars Bassnectar, the Glitch Mob, Shpongle and Apparat, along with more than two dozen more. Plus, as this is a production of L.A. performance-art troupe the Do Lab, the cirque-style rock and theatrics of the Lucent Dossier Experience will undoubtedly stage some dazzlers.
General admission tickets are $240 to enter the festival starting today, $185 starting Saturday, $100 for Sunday only. Kids under 12 are free, though everyone under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
• Danzig Legacy — Last Halloween at Gibson Amphitheatre, metal maven and horror-punk icon Glenn Danzig made a triple-bill out of himself: one set from his current self-named band, another from his previous group Samhain, and a headlining batch of Misfits classics that reteams him with guitarist Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein. Saturday night that same setup returns, this time to play a place three times as large: Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, 8808 Irvine Center Drive. Tickets start at $13.13 for lawn access and top out at $69.50. Show time is 7:15.
• Glenn Frey — On his just-released album After Hours, the Eagles' chief vocal orchestrator has turned his own sweet tone loose on a collection of love songs, from standards like "For Sentimental Reasons" to '60s pop gems like Bacharach & David's "The Look of Love" and Brian Wilson's "Caroline, No." Hear what else he's got in store for a rare solo appearance Saturday night at 7 at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, 3790 Wilshire Blvd. Tickets are $47.50-$85. 800-745-3000. livenation.com.
• James McCartney — Yes, Paul's only son, who after years of dabbling on his parents' records is developing into a noteworthy singer-songwriter in his own right, one with a growing fan base enthused over two EPs, Available Light and Close at Hand. (They're sold together now.) Check him out Tuesday at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, 33157 Camino Capistrano. Nick Sherwin and Marcus Lane open. Tickets are $15.
Also at the venue this week: Dread Zeppelin, tonight, $15; the Funniest Housewives of Orange County, Saturday, $20; Danny Seraphine's California Transit Authority, Sunday, $20; and the Marshall Tucker Band, Thursday, $35. 949-496-8930.
Daughtry — Still one of the most popular acts to emerge from American Idol, Chris Daughtry and his self-named band are back, touring behind last November's "Break the Spell" and headlining once more Wednesday night at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, 777 Chick Hearn Court. Safetysuit and Mike Sanchez open. Tickets: $36.50-$56.60. 800-745-3000. ticketmaster.com.
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In the Basingstoke and District Saturday League Division Two a 3-3 draw for third placed Bounty United was not really good enough against AFC Aldermaston A.
The draw leaves their chances of catching the two leading contenders Hampshire Irons and DJS Telecoms very difficult. Aldermaston opened the scoring from Kyle Torrill, before Matt Love replied.
Torrill scored again and then Paul Mellor made it 3-1 to Aldermaston 3-1 by the break.
Bounty scored twice in the last 10 minutes from Jordon Willis and Paul Clarke.
They should have scored a winner, just before time but Love hit the post and Willis was unable to put away the rebound.
Twenty-Ten enjoyed a 4-1 win against Labour Club, but only led by a single goal at half-time after Joe Hill scored.
Labour's Mason Lewis equalised just a minute after the break, but Hill went on to complete his hat-trick and Joe Osborne netted their fourth.
Bengal Brasserie returned to winning ways against Basingstoke Athletic with a 5-3 victory.
Kyle Buckland scored four times for Bengal and Josh Taylor netted the other.
Basingstoke Athletic's three goals came from Nathan Read with two and Lee O'Grady netted the other.
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Tales of the Canvas
Boxing History Is Rich with Stories of Courage, Pain and Smoke
It's a sticky summer night at the Blue Horizon in North Philly. Outside this citadel of sweat a patron warns, "If you park your car, pay somebody to watch it." No matter. Didn't Rocky, The Set-Up and countless other fight films show us that boxers spring up from tough, uncompromising neighborhoods? These streets of Philadelphia are hardly streets of brotherly love. But they are familiar streets, especially to 16 pugilists paired off inside for the evening's fights.
This fortress of fistiana is 75 years old, but it looks as if it was built during the Pleistocene Era. The ceilings are cracked porcelain; wooden seats fill the balcony and metal folding chairs crowd the floor, accommodating 1,300 fight fans. Members of the press, athletic officials and a doctor sit at ringside, crowding the canvas. At the center of it all is the square ring, bathed in white-hot TV lights from the USA Network.
Some fans complained about the fumes, so new rules have forced smoking outside. Thus, no Runyonesque reporters bang out copy on deadline with a smoke. But a fire escape just 10 yards from the ring is a magnet for professionals and fight-wizened vets to light up their smokes. From there they can see the action and hear the distant thud of heavy punches. Cheers and whistles greet the ring card girls--Amy and Karyn--who prance about in bikinis. Another card girl, a newcomer to the profession, is showered with boos for not jiggling enough, the crowd chanting "Bor-ing, Bor-ing" in the same cadence that baseball fans mock Strawberry with the chant of "Dar-ryl, Dar-ryl." Philadelphia, you must understand, is the same town that once lustily booed Santa Claus during an Eagles football game.
The Blue Horizon is a last outpost, a throwback, an all-male sanctuary--plus a few females on dates--that brings us back to the kinds of cozy arenas that once dedicated themselves to fistic fury. Light heavyweight champ Harold Johnson fought here in the 1960s, as did welterweight title holder Curtis Cokes. On the streets outside they are the stuff of legend.
While no fighter on tonight's card is a household name, each is a dedicated pro. All fights are between four and 12 rounds and earn a boxer between $400 and $10,000, depending on the length of the bout and whether it is a main event. For such modest fees they fight their hearts out. The sellout crowds come to see war, not some artful dance or display of "sweet science," so extolled by the boxing scribe A.J. Leibling. Fights are short, energy is high, crowds rarely disappointed.
"What makes a good fight is two guys who come to fight like Tyson or Frazier," says Russell Peltz, matchmaker par excellence for the Horizon. "People come out to fights to see people get hit and clocked and see street fights. Not too many are interested in the manly art of self-defense." If Peltz were offered a match between two guys as gifted and elusive as welterweight Pernell Whitaker--regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet--he says he would refuse it.
Believe him. In the sixth bout on the card, lightweight Ivan Robinson lands a glancing blow, cutting Jimmy Deoria's right eyelid. Since the eyelid is the thinnest skin on the human body, the wound causes a fountain of blood--the kind of absurd geyser that Martin Scorcese had spouting from Robert De Niro's forehead after Sugar Ray Robinson's blows in Raging Bull. A local cop and crowd favorite from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, Deoria is not hurt but a ringside doctor checks him out. "Only in Philadelphia would they allow this to continue," says Peltz, who has been matching young fighters since 1969.
Robinson now turns his attention to aggravating the cut with a deft series of right hands. First row notes and scorecards get showered with blood. The doctor investigates again and this time stops the contest. A discussion ensues about whether a head butt caused the bleeding, but after five minutes it is ruled that the cut resulted from punching, and Robinson is declared the winner. Deoria, unhurt, pleads his case to no avail.
A break in the action allows ticket holders to head for the fire escape. An attorney, Scott Cooper, draws on an Arturo Fuente and explains the appeal of the fights. "This is like stepping back into the 1940s," he says. "It's the right kind of place to see this stuff."
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Boxing historian Bert Sugar--he of the wide-brimmed fedora and the cigar--likes to attend boxing smokers. These gatherings for old-time boxers mix fine food, nostalgic tales and cigar smoke as well as live fights. Sugar, who had a bit part in De Niro's fight film Night and the City, resides in Chappaqua, New York ("in a great house overlooking a lovely mortgage"), but today he holds court at his corner table at O'Lunney's, a Manhattan saloon. He puffs on something vaguely green, which may well be the ugliest cigar since fire was discovered. "Made of floor shavings," he says with a laugh, not caring. He kibitzes about baseball ("Don't give me Richie Ashburn in the Hall of Fame; I'm not going to Cooperstown until Nellie Fox gets in."), boxing, football, basketball. "I'm ecumenical," says the author of The 100 Greatest Athletes of All Time; "it's not just boxing I want to talk about. In my cigars I'm also ecumenical." He has smoked, and will smoke, most anything that burns.
Sugar was a fighter as a kid. "I fought at smokers at the CYO [Catholic Youth Organization] in Virginia," he says. "I was known as the 'Great White Hopeless.'" Then he laughs that laugh that travels out to the sidewalk, into the night and into the city.
Sugar just returned from the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon, where a smoker was held for old-time boxers. "You get the best food you've ever tasted and the best single malt Scotch." Another boxing smoker recently was staged in Washington, D.C. "Some boxers smoke, others wear the cigar as an adornment. They smoke to show they are part of the crowd. The people love it," Sugar says. At the Washington smoker, "Colin Powell was at ringside with senators and congressmen. Michael Buffer was the ring announcer. Ingemar Johannson smokes. Joe Frazier smokes.
"You can almost hear when you go out to these smokers to 'Look sharp and be on the ball.' You feel sharp. The fights are evocative, the smoking's evocative. It brings up so many memories," Sugar says.
"Everyone goes away with such a wonderful feeling of nostalgia; it's a boys night out, a phenomenon. Those in attendance not only get cigars the length of a Bobby Foster hook and steaks as red and thick as a pair of Archie Moore's trunks, but also enough booze to toast all the champions present." For $750 a pop, some 2,000 folks in Washington were treated to an evening among 15 all-time greats--including Jake LaMotta, Joe Frazier and Pernell Whitaker--and some live bouts as well.
In the old days, lighting up was just as popular at the gym as it is at the boxing smokers. "'Gentleman' Jim Corbett always smoked," recalls Ring magazine publisher Stanley Weston, one of the sport's most knowledgeable observers and a longtime fight photographer. "At Stillman's Gym in New York, at 54th and Eighth, guys smoked right in the gym. That was the sign of a successful manager, everyone smoking a cigar. It was an entirely different world. I've seen trainers--guys working world championship fights--smoking and blowing the smoke in a fighter's face while wiping the guy and putting a compress on his eyes!"
Prior to the 1960s, fighters in New York could be found at more than a dozen clubs. The Pelican or the Irving, the Pioneer or the Greenwood, the New Polo or the Atlantic Gardens, the Bleecker or the Lion--all were dimly lit dens hosting the best young fighters. Fighters had to prove themselves before fighting on the greatest stage, the old Madison Square Garden. How a boxer was doing could be measured by the venues where he fought.
A rookie might start at the Ridgewood Grove, off Myrtle Avenue in Queens. If he graduated from that school of hard knocks, he headed for the Broadway Arena in Manhattan and then on to the St. Nicholas Arena at 66th and Broadway.
"St. Nick's" opened in 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake and the year that Tommy Burns beat Marvin Hart in 20 rounds for the heavyweight championship of the world. Sam Langford and Joe Walcott, Stan Ketchel and Kid Chocolate, Harry Greb and Jack Britton--all warred at St. Nick's before the blow of a wrecking ball knocked the joint out in 1962. Lillian Russell attended fights there with Diamond Jim Brady. Milton Berle could be found ringside with a cigar that seemed long enough to reach the ring apron.
Spirited boxers of lesser ability with names like Bill "The Fist" Devor and "The Pugilistic Parson" also gave their best at St. Nick's. If bouts consisted of dancing but no action, a mocking, effeminate cry would go up in the crowd: "Don't you hit him!" In the '40s and '50s you might get a card of 10 good fights for two bucks. Fights at St. Nicholas were eventually televised, sponsored by El Producto cigars.
The better pros might find their way to the Roman Coliseum of boxing, Madison Square Garden, then at 50th and Eighth. Weston recalls that legendary venue vividly, long before smoking became off-limits: "When you walked into the lobby on a Friday night fight, there was a fog in there. The cigar smoking was as much a part of boxing as the ring itself. Women didn't mind. The big shots would walk their ladies to their reserved seats, smoking their cigars and blowing it into their ladies' faces."
Through Weston's lens one sees history, and the history shows that cigars and boxing have gone together like canvas and rope. It is a long-running marriage, which only recently suffered a separation. The fighters, the managers, the crowds themselves--all get lumped in with cigars.
Weston proudly displays photos showing boxing's two greatest Jacks--Johnson and Dempsey. Both are smoking cigars, smiling, enjoying the rewards of a full life. "I knew Jack Johnson," Weston recalls. "He always had a cigar, always in a holder; the tobacco never touched his lips. Jack Johnson was the greatest heavyweight champion of all time [and] he was more of a cigar smoker than anyone I know of."
Jack Dempsey, whether between fights or after his career in Dempsey's Broadway Restaurant, always had a cigar to smoke or chomp on. When he and Georges Carpentier squared off in July 1921 at Bayles 30 Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey--the first $1 million gate--promoter Tex Rickard smoked away as he watched Rockefeller, Ford, Vanderbilt and Astor take their ringside seats.
Another boxing luminary who loved to light up was Al Weill, the colorful manager of many world champions, including Rocky Marciano. He especially enjoyed smoking in his office at Madison Square Garden, where he was matchmaker for six years.
In the places where these greats honed their craft, a cloud of smoke was as constant as the faint smell of industrious sweat. Johnson and Dempsey, Louis and Marciano--all helped to make boxing such a celebrated sport. Can any sporting event draw our attention like a main event fight? Ali-Frazier I, II and III, Dempsey versus Tunney, Louis and Schmeling II--these were among the most alluring sporting competitions of any time. And why not? Boxing is the ultimate contest of man versus man. It is in that sense, as George Foreman said, "the sport that all sports aspire to." And it has always been the sport of survival.
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Boxing originated in England with the bare-knuckle brawls of the 1700s. But while the sport had an air of sophistication in Great Britain, it ran afoul of civic ordinances in the United States. On this side of the Atlantic, the budding "sweet science," as it was dubbed by Pierce Egan in his 1812 book Boxiana, was viewed as barbaric. American judicial opinion, especially in the North, consistently ruled boxing to be illegal.
Throughout these forbidden years, lovers of pugilism either paid off or dodged the police, often pursuing the sport surreptitiously on an anchored barge or in a barn. But the renown of men like John L. Sullivan, the "Boston Strong Boy," eventually elevated boxing to respectability. Although Sullivan later brought gloved contests to prominence, he defended his heavyweight title three times with bare knuckles. When he agreed to fight a younger man--Jake Kilrain--in Richburg, Mississippi, America had its first great bout, and its last championship bare-knuckle contest.
The fight, which carried a $10,000 side bet, began at 10:30 a.m., July 8, 1889, and before it ended the temperature had soared to over 100 degrees. Some 3,000 spectators paid up to $15 each to see the contest. Under London Prize Ring (bare knuckle) rules, the two men wrestled, clinched and threw each other to the ground between occasional punches.
First blood came from Sullivan in the seventh round as the result of a Kilrain right to his ear, and heavy money changed hands. Blood flowed from the champion again when a spiked shoe, used for traction in the earthen ring, pierced his foot. When Sullivan vomited in the 44th round, the crowd took it as a sign that his stomach was gone. But the brawny Bostonian regained his strength. After the 75th round, Kilrain's trainer, Mike Donovan, "threw up the sponge." According to the New Orleans Picayune, "He did not wish to be a party to murder." The bout lasted two hours and 16 minutes. (At that time, a round ended when a man went down on one knee.)
With such a raw beginning, professional pugilism took root in America. While the Marquis of Queensbury rules brought gloves to boxing, making it somewhat kinder and gentler, boxing has always been a blood sport.
Even smoke could influence the outcome. Consider the little-known story of Pete Herman as recounted in a 1949 article in The American Weekly magazine. Herman was the bantamweight champion of the world from 1917 through 1920. When America entered the First World War, Herman enlisted in the Navy. In a charity boxing show for the Navy Tobacco Fund, he fought Gussie Lewis in Philadelphia. During a heated exchange of punches, Herman's right eye was closed, never to reopen. "I could still throw punches as fast as ever," reminisced Herman, "and I never lost my confidence."
Late in December 1920, in a bout at the old Madison Square Garden, Herman was matched with challenger Joe Lynch. "There were 14,000 persons at the fight and 10,000 of them were smoking," said Herman. "I got by the early rounds well enough, but the heavy smoke got to my weak left eye. I couldn't see well enough to throw punches and I lost my title."
Herman asked his manager, Sammy Goldman, to get him a rematch with Lynch, but this time outdoors, where the smoke would not be so tough. The match was held at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn and Herman regained the title, taking 13 of the 15 rounds.
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Source: Adjei-Kyeremeh, Nathanael
The USMNT defeated the Black Stars for the first time in the world cup by two goals to one. In the two previous encounters the Ghanaians recorded 2-1 victories. The country is yet to come to terms with this defeat, because in our estimation, 'Ghana always beat US' and that was the cliché until we lost.
When the draw was announced, many thought that our main challenge will be how to win against Germany and Portugal. Pundits however were unanimous that our group was a tough one that none could be written off.
The US came with revenge in mind, Goalkeeper Tim Howard had said: "I think the memory will still be very fresh of the loss (to Ghana) in the Round of 16 in 2010. I think that will help us more than it will them. We're a much stronger team than we were, and they'll know that going into the game. We'll look to set that result right."
From the game it became obvious that the U.S had learnt their lessons well and their determination to set the result right paid off.
Unfortunately their win came against a fractured and ill prepared Ghanaian side. Outlined below are factors that contributed to our defeat.
The Preparation
In the warm-up matches ahead of the tournament, the U.S. won all three of its games -- against Azerbaijan, Turkey and Nigeria. Ghana lost two of its three -- to Montenegro and the Netherlands. (It beat South Korea).
In the match against Montenegro a David Addy foul after just 15 seconds gave Montenegro a first-minute penalty goal and the only goal in the match.
Against the Netherlands a fifth-minute goal from Manchester United forward Robin Van Persie was all the Netherlands needed to down the Black Stars in Rotterdam.
Any serious coach with the knowledge of these two facts will seek to unsettle the Black Stars through an early goal. It was for the Ghanaians to have appreciated this weakness and worked hard towards preventing its repeat, but that didn't happen, Dempsey capitalized on a poor marking and scored a goal in just 30 seconds of play
Unsettled appearance fee negotiations
According to media reports and contrary to perceptions that the stars had been sorted out financially, negotiations for an increase in the appearance was still ongoing even a day before the game. The stars were demanding $100,000 instead of the $75,000 offered. Government had maintained the $75,000 appearance fee paid in 2010 as part of general 'austerity measure'. But it seems the stars are not in sync with this decision.
How do you go into battle with such unresolved business?
Questionable Patriotism
In the past few months what has become topical is how broke the economy of Ghana is, coupled with erratic power supply. The Ghana cedi has been the worst performing African currency in the first quarter and for the third year running is expected to suffer a double-digit fiscal deficit. If JPMorgan Chase & Co is to be believed the currency could depreciate another 20% this year as foreign-exchange reserves recede and inflation accelerates (see: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-28/jpmorgan-sees-ghana-s-cedi-dropping-20-on-inflation-reserves.html )
Against this bleak financial forecast, citizens have been asked to tighten their belts and bite the bullet. Sadly the Black Stars are not seen to be doing what the ordinary Ghanaian has been asked to do.
From the demand of the players, one questions their motive for playing for Ghana and may surmise that it has little to do with sacrificing for the country. Sadly they have to be induced with huge sums of money before they do their best for their country.
Our divided support
Just when Ghanaians were trying to put aside politics, economic hardships and erratic power supply to cheer the Black stars on, the Deputy Minister of Sports made an unfortunate statement that angered many Ghanaians. The Deputy Minister Joseph Yammin had said that majority of the supporters government will be funding to go and cheer the Black Stars in Brazil will be from the National Democratic Congress Party, because according to him the party supporters worked tireless to bring the party to power and they have to benefit.
The Graphic dedicated their June 13, 2014 editorial to give a caution to the Minister not to "politicise the only pastime that makes all of us truly Ghanaian". The editorial described the Ministers statement as a "threat to national unity and cohesion" arguing that sporting events have become the unifying force as partisan politics has deeply polarised our society.
Unfortunately the Honourable Yammin's statement had already caused the harm. Some have become indifferent about the fortunes of the Stars. Others openly supported USA. In our two previous encounters the nation was solidly behind the Stars, unfortunately there isn't a genuine nationwide support for our current team.
That Ghanaians were complacent going into the game is undeniable. All sorts of permutations and score lines came up by pundits and fanatics alike. Many were even thinking about how we were going to match the Germans on Saturday instead of our yet to be played match.
With predictions flying from everywhere the dominant theme was steeped in superstition. That God has always blessed Ghana and will bless us with a victory. There were even those who made it a pro-gay versus anti-gay match and that because God hates homosexuality, He was likely to give Ghana the victory. This complacency no doubt reflected in our play on the day. Even after being down by a goal, we played and squandered opportunities as if the chances we were missing amounted to nothing and that at the end of the day victory will be ours regardless.
Tactical Bankruptcy and Indiscipline
Many have questioned Kwasi Appiah's starting line-up. He has been defending his choices but unfortunately to say he benched his experienced players because he thought the USMNT will be tired in the second half was unfortunate. A huge chunk of blame will be placed at the doorstep of our technical team. They failed to map out a strategy that will bring out the best from each player; they failed to get our boys to concentrate from the blast of the whistle. Our substitutions were more programmed than tactical, and our players were also tactically indiscipline. There've been several reports of dressing room indiscipline among the playing body as well, but it seems little have been done to curb it. Post-defeat you have players granting interviews and questioning the tactics of their coach? These don't augur well for the team.
Ghana lost a game that we could have won if we had approached the match with the right attitude. We have an opportunity albeit a difficult one to right most of our wrongs on Saturday. In our subsequent encounters (even after this mundial) we should avoid our 'business as usual' attitude, boastful talk, exaggerated hopes, and baseless superstition and adopt hard work, determination and focus. These we must do for victory, if we really don't want to be served with such defeats again.


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Lenin's theoretical legacy suggests that the attainment of the appropriate level of cultural development and the existence of general cultural prerequisites are among the most important conditions to building a new society. This problem was raised by V. I. Lenin when he was examining many questions of socialist construction of a general as well as of a more specific nature. In his opinion, a certain cultural level was necessary not only for social revolution ("On Our Revolution") and for building the foundations of socialism ("The New Economic Policy and the Tasks of Political Education Workers," "On the Cooperative System"), but also for the proper government of the nation ("Letter to V. M. Molotov for the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party [of Bolsheviks] Together With a Draft of a Political Report to the Eleventh Party Congress," "Speech at the Opening of the Eleventh Congress of the Russian Communist Party [of Bolsheviks]").
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Performers are constantly honing their communication skills, and yet they insist on flipping the bird.
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I have 20 something pairs of shorts, one of my two favorites is from Roxy, with flap-back pockets and dark wash. The other are ZCO, with star cutouts over the back pockets, possibly both bought from Tilly's online. I ride bicycle everywhere i go, i live near downtown Austin, everything is accessible by bike. I have clean shaven, tanned, toned legs. My build is athletic to average. It doesn't stop me from wearing 2" inseam shorts out, although it seems that everyone has a problem with it. Does everybody else follow social standards for dress and fashion?! Who sets them? Am I the only one who doesn't follow?
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I my self like to wear cutoff short shorts with 1" or zero inseam and off course no underwear coz, i'm a freeballer and I don't own any pair of underwear. I usually wear them at home and doing some activities outside home.

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5 Things to Expect From an Amazon Smartphone: 3D Display
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Maybe it could be used in gaming, as with Nintendo's (NTDOY) 3DS, to offset the considerable lead the iPhone and Android smartphones would have in game apps. Maybe Amazon is just trying to find some feature that will make its entry stand out in a crowded and mature smartphone market. After all, it would have to compete against lightning-fast processors, high-pixel-density displays, killer cameras and fingerprint sensors.
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Brian Gordon
Brian Ernest Gordon
- Bats Left, Throws Right
- Height 6', Weight 205 lb.
- High School Round Rock High School
- Debut September 18, 2008
- Final Game June 22, 2011
- Born August 16, 1978 in West Point, NY USA
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Capping a journeyman's career, Brian Gordon got a chance to return to the big leagues in June 2011, when the New York Yankees' starting rotation was crippled by injuries. In his first major league appearance since 2008, he held his former team, the Texas Rangers, to 2 runs in 5 1/3 innings on June 16th. He had been signed by the Yanks from the Philadelphia Phillies' AAA affiliate, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, where he was 5-0 with a 1.14 ERA, the best in the International League. The Yankees went on to win the game, 3-2 in extra innings. The developing fairy tale came to a crashing stop in his next start, in the second game of a doubleheader against the Cincinnati Reds on June 22nd. He gave up a homer to the first batter he faced, Chris Heisey, who would go on to hit three in the Reds' 10-2 win. Gordon gave up two more long balls in taking the loss.
Gordon didn't last long in the majors and finished the season with the SK Wyverns in the Korea Baseball Organization. He went 6-4 with a 3.81 ERA in 14 games. After doing well in the postseason, he was called on to start game 5 of the 2011 Korean Series. He lost a 1-0 duel to Woo-chan Cha, serving up a 4th-inning homer to the Samsung Lions' Bong-kyu Kang. That gave Samsung its 5th title, beating defending champions SK 4 games to 1.


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Chyna Phillips Wrote "Hold On" To Keep Herself From Becoming A Hollywood Statistic
"When I wrote 'Hold On,' I was 19 years old and was really at a crossroads in my life … I knew that if I didn't make some really significant changes in my life, I'd end up being another Hollywood statistic. So those words – 'hold on for one more day' – were literally what kept me going because if I had to look at everything at once, I don't think I would have been able to do it. But if I said, 'just for today, I'm going to see my therapist. Just for today I'm going to not smoke a cigarette. Just for today I'm not going to hang out with that crowd,' then I was able to handle it. I never imagined writing down words that were meant to help me, would help so many people along the way and become this iconic song."
—Chyna Phillips on her 1990 hit "Hold On," which is having a serious comeback thanks to the pivotal role it plays in "Bridesmaids." Just in case you're wondering, I have the tune on my iPod and I still find it inspirational, even if it is a tad bit cheesy. Sometimes you just need to be reminded to take it one day at a time. [ONTD]


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The Catz Pajamaz Consignment Shoppe debuts near Donegal
A local family recently opened a new, high-end consignment shop in Donegal Township.
Husband and wife Gary and Joy Monticue of Stahlstown, along with Joy's daughter, Julie Dolton of Ligonier, on Dec. 1 opened The Catz Pajamaz Consignment Shoppe located at 3782 state Route 31 in the Donegal Village Shoppes.
The business features high-end, gently used clothing for men, women and children, along with shoes, accessories and antiques.
They items range from T-shirts to fur coats.
"They have to be mall brand names or designer names," Joy Monticue said. "We are really picky about what we take in."
The store also features new clothing, including clothes and scarves from the Sacred Thread brand, which Monticue said is a fair trade company,
The business also carries new clothing and other items from American Eagle, Holister, Aeropostale and Abercrombie & Fitch.
"We are able to sell them at half off the mall prices and they are brand-new," Monticue said.
In addition to the apparel, the store also features new, antique reproduction furniture made by Gary Monticue and pewter picture frames and other pewter items made by T & K Casting of Stahlstown.
Monticue said customers can give her their name, phone number, sizes and she will call when new items arrive.
Regina Tinkey of Cook Township shopped at the new store recently.
"I think the shop is adorable. They have quite a variety of items and they even have Aeropostale and other brand names. Their prices aren't bad for what you're buying and everything was a real good quality," said Tinkey.
The store accepts checks, cash, credit and debit cards as payment.
Consigners must schedule an appointment to bring items in. They are permitted to bring in 15 to 20 items per appointment.
"We are still accepting winter and fall clothing and, at the beginning of March, we will begin accepting spring and summer clothing," Dolton said.
Consigners make 50 percent on their items when sold at the store. Monticue said consigners are paid by check or they may also opt to take a store credit.
Dolton said she and her mother set the price unless the customer has an expensive item they want to make a certain amount of money on.
After 90 days items can be picked up or marked down 50 percent.
The shop is open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. and closed on Monday and Tuesday.
"Some days I'll stay open later, especially on weekends; it depends on the crowd," Monticue said.
The women are planning a special promotion that will begin in February.
Every Sunday, customers who show up in an actual pair of pajamas will get 10 percent off of their purchase.
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Some montana trout
Everyone seems to love Montana, and i dont blame them. The fishing right now is awesome. Here are some trout to look at. Enjoy
First fish of the day
First brown of the day.
These fish are all stocked but its hard to tell.
My friends first brown on a fly
A big whitefish. Some of them had us trying to remember the record.
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Verrry nice...what a great way to spend the day! I'll be there in Sept. Seems like an eternity to wait...-m
Re: Some montana trout
Good day. Where are you fishing? You don't have to say if it's a special spot, just curious because Montana doesn't stock trout in many rivers anymore.
Re: Some montana trout
Ive fished in Idaho before and it was always a let down when you thought you had a nice trout and it turned out to be a whitefish.
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Dont hate on whitey! I mean its no trout but it is a greyling species and to me when you get a 16" whitefish on its a fight, even if its not as hard as a same sized brown. Not to mention these guys will save you on a cold spring day untill you do catcha brown/rainbow and its that much sweeter!
BTW I cought my fist whitefish on a streamer in a local tailwater this spring. I wasent aware they would take a streamer. So when I caught 20 whitefish on a dry, nonbeadhead nymphs and streamers in 40 degree weather in one day im happy... Whitey has a Bad rap? I think so.
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I totally agree shorty. Whitefish get a bad rap. They save many fly fisherman's days and the big ones can give you a good fight.
I don't understand why some call whitefish trash fish. Whitefish are good indicators of the health of a stream. They can only live in the cleanest streams unlike trout.
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A whitefish is a whitefish is a whitefish. It is a salmonidae, or in the trout family. Grayling are also salmanidae.
Mountain Whitefish - Montana Field Guide
When your trout fishing, you just have to accept catching some whiteys. I can usually tell within 3 seconds of hooking one that it is whitey, so the disappointment factor is low. But the other night I casting to rising fish all around me on glassy hole of the Clark Fork; I drifted my parachute over a close riser and was pretty surprised to find it was whitefish, and decent sized one. I counted that one as legitimate catch that night. When you nymph one after the other, then I get frustrated.
But (rolled up and) smoked, they are tasty little suckers!
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Whitefish are more than trout angler's consolation
The awesome color of a arctic graylings dorsal makes graylings one the coolest fish to have on a fly imo. My first was out of the bighole area, then another out of west rosebud lake and that its VERY RARE to actually catch one out of that watershed. Very very cool fish to admire.
I agree that our Mountain whitefish are great eating too. Since every one considers them trash fish no one seems to glare at me for keeping 1 or 2 now and then. Though I do practice catch and release for the rest ;)
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Outbound 376 reopened after man on exit sign caused closure
A man threatening to jump from a sign overlooking outbound Interstate 376 in Green Tree caused major traffic delays on Saturday morning until Allegheny County police negotiators coaxed him down.
So began a day that officials had expected to become a traffic nightmare with nearly overlapping sporting events and a popular rib fest, all on the North Shore.
But thousands of fans left Heinz Field early from a game with a noon start as Pitt trounced Delaware 62-0. That seemed to free up parking for arriving Pirates fans, whom officials warned to get to PNC Park early for a 4 p.m. game and plan to park elsewhere even if they had a prepaid parking pass.
"No traffic whatsoever, and I came down (Route) 279," said Barry Mansell, 49, of Ellwood City, who arrived at the North Shore at 3:30 p.m.
Shortly before 5 a.m., Green Tree police officers spotted a man sitting on a concrete barrier along the Greentree Road overpass spanning the interstate, police Chief Bob Downey said.
He told police that he was OK, so police departed, Downey said. A short time later, the man apparently climbed a chain link fence lining the overpass and climbed onto a lighting shelf for the exit signs hanging above the overpass, he said.
PennDOT closed the outbound lanes, funneling traffic onto the Parkway Center Mall ramp, and then back onto the interstate at the Green Tree entrance, causing lengthy backups on Greentree Road and other nearby areas.
A PennDOT traffic camera showed the man alternately pacing, holding his head, sitting and crouching as negotiators talked to him from about 20 feet below on the highway.
Green Tree firefighters used a bucket lift on a firetruck to get the man down from the sign shortly before 8:30 a.m. Downey said it wasn't clear why the man was threatening to jump. Medics took the man, who wasn't identified, to an area hospital for observation.
"It's just one of those things," said Malcolm Seaholm, 79, of Green Tree, who found himself briefly delayed on Greentree Road as he drove to the borough's park just as emergency officials were reopening roads and ramps. "It's just an incident. Things happen."
Traffic for the noon Pitt-Delaware football game wasn't affected by the Green Tree incident, with traffic flowing smoothly throughout the morning on the main arteries into the city.
Jeff Finfrock, 55, of Peters threw a football with family members in the lot at Reedsdale Street and Tony Dorsett Drive. More than 200 spaces remained open in that lot by 11:30 a.m., and Finfrock said that's been common over the past couple of years.
"I am shocked this lot isn't full," Finfrock said. "It's pretty empty for all the horror stories we've been hearing."
Paramedics treated 20 people on the North Shore for heat-related medical issues Saturday afternoon, including the Pitt mascot, spokeswoman Sonya Toler said. Six people were transported to hospitals, she said.
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Purchased My First HandGun Today
Well I finally got my Ruger Mark III Target .22 Pistol and I am going to the range shortly to try it out.
Congrats! Awaiting the range report!
Congrats, tht is a fine piece... U wont b disappointed, cant wait to see the range report
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Had a great time today and I learned a lot from the Range Master he really took his time to show me the basics and most importantly about safety.
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Fired off one round and the noise (no 'ears') and recoil scared the crap outa me!
Walked back to the house ... put the 92F away ... drove down to the LGS and purchased a Browning Buck Mark ,22. Learned to shoot it well, qualified well enough and then got my CC several years later with the 92F 9 mm.
Still have both guns and enjoy shooting both.
Enjoy the sport!
Nice pistol and it looks like you did well at the range. They are fun shooters. Enjoy, Ed
Congratulations. You picked an excellent pistol and it will serve you well.
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Oxford, England — A Catholic bishop in war-torn Mali whose diocese lies in the path of Islamic insurgents said "people are hiding in their homes, unable to venture out."
Bishop Augustin Traore of Segou, Mali, told Catholic News Service by telephone: "Although our churches are still intact, people are becoming afraid to enter them. Our entire Catholic culture will clearly be in danger if this conflict drags on.
"Until the havoc caused by the French bombing ends and the hostilities cease, no one will be in a position to know what has happened," he said after noting that the country's churches could face destruction if conflict continues.
Traore spoke to Catholic News Service on Wednesday as French combat troops prepared to engage government rebels at Diabaly, 90 miles north of Segou.
Meanwhile, Helen Blakesley, regional information officer for Catholic Relief Services, said more than 200,000 Malians had migrated to the south since a March 2012 military coup, while a similar number had fled to Niger, Burkina Faso, Morocco and Algeria.
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Blakesley said a tradesman from the rebel-held town of Tombouctou, or Timbuktu, a world heritage site, was renting rooms with 40 members of his extended family in Mali's capital, Bamako, helped by CRS cash donations. She said the man told her more family members were arriving weekly.
She added that the tradesman, Ibrahima Diallo, had been robbed by armed rebels during the five-day truck drive to the capital, which he had made with his blind sister and five small children.
Blakesley said two women, Fanta Poudiougou and Mariam Dembele, had described fleeing their hometown of Gao, 200 miles southeast of Tombouctou, without their husbands to avoid the threatened rape of their young daughters.
She added that both women were "praying negotiations will work," fearing military intervention could place civilians in the crossfire.
Traore said relations between Christians and Mali's Muslim majority remained "good at local level" and had not been damaged by the Islamist insurgency, adding that people of all faiths were "vigorously committed" to maintaining the country's secular character.
"People are deeply anxious and longing for this turbulence to end," Traore said.
"The needs are great everywhere, and they include securing places of worship," he said.
Ethnic Tuareg rebels seeking to establish a separate state overran most of northern Mali during 2012, operating alongside the Islamist group Ansar Eddine, which is believed linked to al-Qaida.
African forces were expected to join French troops Wednesday in an attempt to drive insurgents back from central parts of the landlocked country, after French jets began bombing rebel-held towns Jan. 11.
Sean Gallagher, CRS country representative in Mali, said the U.S. bishops' international development agency was providing help to people fleeing from rebel-occupied parts of Mopti Diocese.
He added that many northern inhabitants had fled to Segou but were now moving south to Bamako as the insurgent threat to Mopti and Segou increased.
"Conditions aren't so bad in the rural towns, where the autumn harvests were good and there's food available," Gallagher told CNS on Wednesday. "Since most of the displaced are women and children, it's much harder in urban areas like Bamako, where the priority is to ensure they have enough to eat and can maintain their dignity."
The Catholic church has six dioceses and makes up less than 2 percent of Mali's predominantly Muslim population of 15.8 million.
In a July statement, the country's Catholic bishops' conference and the Association of Protestant Churches deplored the robbing of Christian families and occupation of churches in Tombouctou, Gao and other northern towns.
In a New Year's message, Archbishop Jean Zerbo of Bamako said all of Mali seemed "possessed by demons of division," which had brought a wave of "robberies, rapes, persecutions, mutilations, profanations of places of worship and sacred tombs, and death sentences."
He urged local Christians to avoid "discouragement, despair and indifference," and remember "nothing is impossible with God," adding that people should find signs of hope in "the joy of children" playing at refugee camps in Bamako and the welcoming of new-born babies.
He noted that the international community was helping, but said "the ball is in the court of Mali's own people, and it would be dangerous to defer indefinitely the responsibilities belonging to us."
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UK Public Sector pay freeze
Many workers in the UK have experienced an extended pay freeze. Being told over and over again that they are lucky to have a job is not constructive. Inflation may be starting to fall but that does nothing to redress the prices which have increased so much over the last couple of years. VAT being increased to 20% by the Coalition government meant that most people felt the effect.
In March the UK will hear what Chancellor Osborne will do to help the country balance its books. Even before such a budget though, it has been announced that Public Sector workers in the UK will continue to suffer a pay freeze. Whilst the "big wigs" in the public sector may receive hefty pay packets many ordinary workers do not. With continuing pay freezes they soon end up earning less than the minimum wage.
Of course no doubt Osborne has his eye on that too. One way to ensure that a population will work for a pittance is to abolish a minimum wage. During the Thatcher years employers could pay as low as they wanted too. In fact it was almost as if some were playing "how low can we go". We do not want to return to such times. Employers paying a couple of quid an hour as some did in the 80s and even the 90s. Frankly it may be safe to say we will not let such times return. People are less liable to sit back and take such austere measures, especially when hypocrisy is all around.
The government has approved RBS banking bonus payments this week which will total £785 million.
It does not want to offer though a worker on a few pound an hour, a few pence an hour increase.
The pay freeze for the third year on the trot was expected. That does not make it any more palatable. It is generally felt this is being done to keep the Tory Council Tax down. This tax was Maggie Thatcher's baby after the country violently rejected her poll tax. Council tax was a compromise. It does not work though. It is often used by all parties as political weaponry. Keeping the cost of council tax payments down for members of the public may sound great in principle but at the expense of working people? Not such a good idea.
Pay freezes do nothing to help the economy. When you have less money to spend you tighten your belts. Simple. The knock on effect to the economy is disaster. People become hard up lose properties and so much more. Does Osborne not understand this or does he just not care?
The government reforms to welfare payments mean that there is little respite for those who are struggling to survive financially. A recipe for more economic doom and gloom it would seem. That is unless you are part of the banking fraternity. Then you become part of a privileged few. No wonder the word Banker in the UK has become a dirty word.
1.6 million local government employees will receive no pay rise for the period 2012/13. Others will of course lose their jobs as part of the government's austerity plans. Would a pay rise for them have cost anything like the £785 million RBS bankers are going to receive in bonus payments? No!
Are such stringent measure essential to keep the UK budget on track? Well if you read Bloomberg the UK is currently in a fairly healthy financial position.
It may not yet be time to relax fully but perhaps it is time to show some compassion. It is OK looking after the big boys and girls who backed you but they do not make up the majority vote. Perhaps the Tories and Lib Dems feel there is still time before an election to play with us now and then dangle a carrot and watch the idiots grab it.
A better course of action is for voters to note the current hypocrisy and double standards for when election time comes round again. The current behaviour is expected from the Tories but the Lib Dems have politically shot themselves in the foot. Hypocrites one and all.
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|From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Thu Sep 29 14:28:57 EDT 2011
Just now, Robby Findler wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote: > > Just now, Robby Findler wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote: > >> > Just now, Robby Findler wrote: > >> >> I don't think that what I said implies this. A compatibility layer > >> >> using Neil's new library is what was offered (or so I thought). I > >> >> think we just want something that has the same Racket-level UI and > >> >> something reasonably close in the pictures you get out, as discussed > >> >> earlier. > >> > > >> > If it's just that layer (rather than keeping the C code in), then it's > >> > not completely compatible anyway. (And I don't see a point in keeping > >> > a "strict" backward compatibility if it's not strict anyway.) > >> > >> We seem to be miscommunicating. I'm saying that it seems likely that > >> people have scripts and things that use the API of the plot library > >> to build graphs and things in various places. I'm saying that it > >> seems unlikely that people have programs that depend on a > >> pixel-perfect rendering. > > > > The issue is not pixel placements, it's keeping the C code that was > > ripped out of gnuplot. > > So I guess I don't understand. Why would we want to keep that? (I > can see why we would want to get rid of it.) Because you wanted to have a completely compatible interface? (Excluding pixels.) My point was that if you don't keep it (which I very strongly prefer), then you don't have a compatible interface to plot anyway, and changing the name from `plot' to `plot/compat' makes more sense. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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