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A girl I work with made these cute necklaces for all of our co-workers one year for Christmas. This would also be a great craft for kids. You could even hang one in your car with a note, "Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly."
Approximate Time: 10 minutes
Fold ribbon in half. Tie ribbon onto the paper clip using a half hitch by putting the loop end of ribbon through the center of the paper clip, then pull loose ends of ribbon through the loop and tighten. Add the bead onto the loose ends of the ribbon and slide bead down to the knot. Depending on the size of the hole in the bead, you may need to use a craft needle to add the bead onto the ribbon. You may want to add a drop of glue to the bead to keep it from sliding or tie a knot just above the bead. Tie loose ends of ribbon in a knot and trim ends if necessary. Enclose the following poem with the necklace.
This special angel isAdvertisement
My gift to you.
Blessed with memories
Of friendship so true.
On tiny wings
To you she went.
For like good friends
She's heaven sent.
By Momof1 from Wilkesboro, NC
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This is very cute. I wish I could have made this for our Secret Santa Stockings at school everyone would have loved them. Way to go!
Very nice!
I LOVE this idea! Great gift item for the kids to make for Mom, Grandma, and pretty enough to wear with any outfit. Will be using this next year with my Great granddaughter who is 6 and loves making crafts.
I made them years ago, try putting a halo form a silver or gold spacer makes a big difference. Good job, I had to make about 50 of them for a party.
I just found this website and was delighted to find your angel. I recently started volunteering at the local Senior Center and a bunch of these "angels" were donated by the local Girl Scouts to put into the Meals on Wheels bags for the elderly. I thought they were great...do you have any other ideas for small things like this to go into the bags for each month.
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Fights lie ahead for package of Internet privacy and data-security laws proposed by Obama
12 January 2015. By Mike Swift.
President Barack Obama on Monday proposed what could be landmark Internet privacy and data breach laws during the first visit by a US president to the Federal Trade Commission in more than 80 years.
"We pioneered the Internet, but we also pioneered the Bill of Rights, and a sense that each of us as individuals [has] a sphere of privacy around us that should not be breached, whether by our government [or] by commercial interests," Obama said in a 2,500-word speech that sounded consumer protection themes throughout.
Obama's speech at the FTC marked the first visit to the agency by a president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937, and the president's proposals could boost the profile of a 100-year-old agency that has emerged in recent years as the nation's de facto cop on the beat for the Internet.
Although the privacy proposals marked the first real progress for online privacy rules since the Obama administration nearly three years ago released its consumer privacy "bill of rights", neither privacy advocates nor the Internet industry were prepared to celebrate.
Indeed, with the proposals to be fleshed out in coming weeks, for both sides there is already a sense of needing to play defense.
Privacy advocates fear that strong existing state rules on data breaches in California and other states could be pre-empted by a weaker federal standard that would block consumers from suing companies under state laws for failing to provide adequate security to prevent a data breach, as is being done in the ongoing litigation against Target in Minnesota.
"The state pre-emption is a very serious sticking point. That is a big deal," said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum.
The Internet industry, meanwhile, wants to preserve its ability to use data for new software products that had not yet been created when data was first collected. It wants to avoid new rules that would require companies to get permission from consumers to collect data for a specific use. Large companies such as Apple and Facebook issued cautious and qualified statements of support for the president's ideas.
"When you look at a lot of digital innovation, so much of the innovation comes from using the data for a purpose other than what it was created [for]," such as using sewer data to track water pollution, said Daniel Castro, senior analyst for the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, which issued a statement calling the president's plan "a wrong and outdated approach".
Of course, the fact that Obama's political party is now the minority in both houses of Congress means that the prospects for any of the bills are hardly robust.
"I like what he said about (privacy and data security) being a bipartisan issue, because it is," said Terrell McSweeny, a Democrat who is one of the five FTC commissioners, said following the president's speech. "I have my fingers crossed," she said when asked about its chances for passing Congress.
Obama proposed three key digital privacy and security initiatives:
– Data Breaches: Obama said he will propose a "Personal Data Notification & Protection Act" that would establish a uniform 30-day notification period in which companies that suffer a data breach would have to alert consumers whose data was exposed. The federal standard would replace the current patchwork of 47 state laws that have different breach rules in multiple states. "If we're going to be connected, we've got to be protected," the president said.
– Consumer Privacy: Obama said within 45 days he will send legislation to Congress for a "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights," which would be based on an Internet privacy "framework" proposed in 2012 by the administration. Among those digital rights, the president said, is that "consumers have the right to decide what personal data companies collect from them and how companies use that data."
– A "Student Digital Privacy Act." That bill, modeled on a law passed by California last year would prohibit companies from using data gathered on students in schools to be sold or used to target commercial advertising. "We're saying that data collected on students in the classroom should only be used for educational purposes — to teach our children, not to market to our children," Obama said.
The student privacy proposal appeared to have the most support, though Castro said he's also concerned that the law would forestall the chance to use data for noneducational uses that would help students, such as detecting students who are emotionally depressed.
Privacy advocates are likely to push for legislation that will go even further with the privacy bill of rights, such as a recommendation made by the FTC last spring to give consumers a centralized online portal where they can see information being collected by data brokers, and can opt out of having personal data collected and sold by the industry.
"We are extremely interested to see something about a national data-broker opt-out,"Dixon said. "If it's not included in the legislation, it will be missing some extremely important protections."
Obama did not say what prompted the White House to act, although he did mention "the hack of Sony" Pictures, an act that US officials have said was backed by the government of North Korea over the film, "The Interview," as one reminder of the "enormous vulnerabilities" created by the Internet to go along with its "enormous opportunities."
The White House was rumored to be working on an Internet privacy bill more than a year ago, but no plan emerged. Last May, the White House released two reports on the intersection of so-called "Big Data" and privacy, calling on Congress to pass data breach notification legislation and update an electronic privacy law to ensure greater protections for digital content.
With Europe also looking to modernize its data protection rules, the administration has another reason to act.
US Internet companies want to protect their ability to transfer data about users between data centers in the US and Europe, and European officials have said prospects for the continuation of a trans-Atlantic "safe harbor" agreement would be improved if
the US had a federal privacy law, as Europe does. The preservation of those data-transfer agreements is of vital interest to US companies.
Unless the president's privacy "bill of rights" includes provisions such as a data-broker opt-out, it may not get strong support — even from privacy advocates. Privacy advocates are also concerned that the data breach bill might omit a private right of action for consumers injured by a data breach, a right not available in 17 states.
"If a federal (privacy) bill added something new to the question that wasn't already covered today, that would be something we could get behind," said Justin Brookman, director of consumer privacy for the Center for Democracy and Technology.
Otherwise, he said, privacy advocates fear the White House proposals "would be a step backward; they would make the situation worse."
-Additional reporting by Claude Marx

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As it is for many, August is the royal family's usual holiday month, marking a break for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex from their public outings. While Kensington Palace isn't likely to make any comments to the press on their private breaks away, People's royal correspondent Simon Perry reports that the two will likely spend a couple of days with the Queen at Balmoral in Scotland. The Queen expects royal family members to join her at some point during her two-month stay there before she returns to London at the start of October, Perry detailed.
Additionally, Meghan and Harry were already reported to be away from Kensington Palace and London, staying at their leased Oxfordshire country estate in July. Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas reportedly visited them there.
This weekend, the two will return to the spotlight briefly to attend the wedding of Harry's friend Charlie van Straubenzee on Meghan's 37th birthday Saturday.
Meghan's quiet, personal holiday to New York City and Los Angeles is likely to happen this month as well. "She's planning a personal, unofficial trip this summer to see family and friends," a source told Us Weekly earlier this summer. "She'll go to New York, then LA."
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I got this sample mascara from a gift set I got last last Christmas and I am in love with this mascara. It is still in the old packaging, since this was like from 2 years ago. Sorry for the crappy photos. I took the photos using my tablet to see how the pictures will be.
Estée Lauder More than Mascara Moisture-Binding Formula:
Defines, conditions lashes and gives a more black impact.
- Boosts lashes with in-depth moisture that binds to each one and keeps it silky.
- Microscopic beads help prevent friction, so mascara glides on with ease for smooth, even coverage.
- Ophthalmologist-tested
- Fragrance-free
- Suitable for contact lens wearers
- Advanced pigment technology creates the blackest shades possible
- Light is absorbed, reflections reduced, color is visibly intensified.
Ingredients: Purified water, carnauba, silica, stearic acid, polyisobutene, glyceryl, stearate, oleic acid, acrylates, copolymer, aminomethyl, propanediol, pvp/ polycarbamyl polyglycol ester, hydroxyethlcellulose, propylene glycol, trehalose, lauroyl lysine, panthenol, sodium hyaluronate, simethicone, imidazolidynl urea, methyparaben, propylparaben, butylparaben, (may contain: titanium oxide), mica, iron oxides, bismuth oxychloride, carmine, ultramrines, chromium oxide greens, chromium hydroxide green.
Made in U.S.A.
What I like about the product:
- Creates soft, full, natural looking lashes.
- Lengthens
- No clumping, no flaking, no smudging, no smearing, no stinging.
- Dries up fast
- Waterproof
- It is able to reach the hard to reach lashes.
- Contains parabens. Parabens is still arguable whether it really is bad for the skin or not. Some people might strictly not like it, while I am just neutral about it.
What I don't like about the product:
- I don't think it's available locally.
- It only lengthens a little. My eyes are monolid and the effect isn't seen very visible unlike other lengthening mascaras.
- Doesn't volumize.
- Mascara dries up fast, so you have to use it up as soon as possible.
Verdict: This mascara is not for those who are looking to wanting dramatic lashes. This mascara is great for those who wants to keep their makeup on a minimal and great for making natural looks. I like to use this mascara on lazy days when I don't feel like putting on too much but still looking good. One of my major monolid problems is that mascara tend to smudge my lids. What I especially like about this mascara is that it dries up fast. that it doesn't smudge on my eyelids.
Would I repurchase? Yes but no. This costs around USD 22 and that's too expensive for me, maybe when I am on a splurging mode.
To whom do I recommend this to? To anyone who wants to have a more natural looking lashes.
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North East Water will be upgrading water mains in Bright's shopping precinct over the coming months.
The work will take place on Gavan Street between Anderson and Camp Streets starting mid June 2019, for a period of approximately 12 weeks.
The existing water main is approximately 70 years old and this project will significantly reduce the likelihood of breaks and unplanned interruptions to the water supply. North East Water acknowledges this work will be disruptive to businesses along Gavan Street and have chosen a period where the disruption will hopefully be minimised.
During the construction process, traffic management will be in place along Gavan Street with ongoing changes to parking and access to footpaths. There will also be some disruption to the water supply at certain stages of the upgrade. North East Water will work with property owners to ensure these supply interruptions occur at times that are of least inconvenience.
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Beyond Attainment: Impact and Confidence in Maths
We love hearing feedback from the teachers and pupils using Third Space Learning. It's always encouraging to hear when things have gone well and when they haven't, we're always keen to improve.
Teachers report many varied benefits from our online one-to-one tuition but common themes emerge. For example they often tell us that they've seen significant improvements in their pupils' confidence in maths or their enjoyment of the subject.
We believe this change in attitude is a crucial part of development and a significant factor in the improvement of a pupil's overall maths attainment. Much of the academic research too supports the conclusion that motivation and confidence are important factors in pupil success. For example, Marzano (2000)1, suggests that up to 80% of the variance in pupil success can be accounted for by confidence-related issues.
How to prove impact in Maths
However until recently it has been difficult for us to be able to prove quantifiably the impact of our Maths intervention. Last term, however, we implemented a series of pre- and post-intervention surveys with pupils from some of our primary schools. One of the results of these has been that we are now able to quantify the impact our interventions were having on pupils' confidence, attitude to maths and pupils' ability to explain their numerical reasoning.
In the autumn term, around 600 pupils filled out our pre and post-intervention surveys. The pre-intervention survey took place before the pupils' first session and the post-intervention survey took place after the twelfth week of sessions.
Third Space Learning Guide to Effective 1-to-1 Interventions
How to plan, manage and teach 1-to-1 and small group KS2 Maths interventions to make best use of the resources you have
Survey results
For pupils who initially reported low confidence in maths2, 88% reported an improvement in confidenceafter their Third Space sessions. This is a very encouraging improvement. Our tutors work hard to make sure our pupils experience success, so it's great to see them reporting increased confidence.
For pupils who initially said that they found it difficult to explain their mathematical reasoning3, 85% found it easier to do so after using Third Space. Much of this is due to the personal interactions between tutors and pupils. Our tutors will often ask pupils to articulate their reasoning: Why have they chosen a particular operation? How have they come to this conclusion? This allows pupils to practice how to explain their working out.
For pupils who said they disliked maths4, 72% reported that they enjoyed maths more after using Third Space. We hope that as a result of the pupils' positive experience with their Third Space tutor, they will begin to see that maths can be fun and engaging, thus alleviating any negative perceptions of maths.
Although it's a relatively small sample group, we're very encouraged by the results and what they mean for the effectiveness of our one-to-one tuition as an intervention. Our hope now is that in promoting a pupil's positive attitude towards maths and a meaningful improvement in their self-perception, it will have a significant impact on their academic attainment, both now and for the rest of their educational career. How exciting!
We are investing significant resources in pupil feedback and assessment to track the impact of Third Space, so do look out for further research updates.
Want to run a quick health check on your Maths interventions? Read our blog on how to look at the data, assess progress, and more.
1. Marzano, R. J. (2000). A new era of school reform: Going where the research takes us Aurora, COL Midcontinent Research for Education and Learning
2. These pupils selected 1 or 2 out of 5 for "How confident are you in maths?". 11% selected these options in the pre-intervention survey.
3. These pupils selected 1 or 2 out of 5 for "How well can you explain your workings out?" 26% selected these options in the pre-intervention survey
4. TThese pupils selected 1 or 2 out of 5 for "How much do you like maths?" 13% selected these options in the pre-intervention survey


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It seems that Disturbed is working on a new album and that soon they will return after a four year hiatus.
During the weekend Disturbed have shared a new logo on their Facebook page and a video, which shows "The Guy", the mascot of the band, waking up from a deep sleep.
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gira hanging out with a chalkboard jelly doodle
The next project I tackled, as I continued to get the hang of my new screenprinting studio set-up, had to be the jellyfish drawing I started working on W-A-Y back in 2015! If you've been visiting here for a while (firstly, thanks for sticking around despite an intermittent posting schedule!) you might remember these work-in-progress posts: jellyfish wip [1] and jellyfish wip (2)… cnidaria have been floating about around here for quite some time!
oral arm 'dummies' gathering dust on my studio window back in march 2016
(with a little bull-headed shrike from this project :)
I shelved the unfinished drawings for many months in 2016 while studio set-up and other work/life stuff demanded my attention.
(re)tracing tentacle tweaks
But I kept returning to the drawings, trying to get them to where I wanted them to be. (If you're a drawer/maker of stuff you have no doubt also experienced the disconnect that can sometimes – or often! – occur between what you actually draw/make in the real world and what you imagined it would look like in the magical fantasy world in your head ;-)
Sometimes the drawings and I had effortless fun together…
Sometimes we got caught up in dark, tangled, indecisive 'to-vectorise-or-not-to-vectorise?' webs…
And sometimes things just didn't 'gel' and had to be figured out anew…
heeding the
edict of my furry overlordhelpful input of my studio assistant
But finally I decided it was ready to print! (It still didn't look like the thing I'd imagined in my head, but sometimes you've just gotta move on, right?!)
double vision: film positive and exposed screen on light table
let the printing games begin!: setting up the registration
(finally!) finished print
This project was as much an exercise in perseverance as anything else. I created all sorts of printing headaches for myself by including so much fine detail in the original drawing, but the setbacks and challenges I encountered during the printing process taught me a great deal and hopefully have equipped me to better solve or avoid similar issues in future projects.
finished print: tentacle and oral arm details
Naturally I could not resist incorporating some glow-in-the-dark details…
finished print: patterned jelly bells (and a smattering of marine bioluminescence) glowing in the dark!
The deckle-edged paper I printed on has a lovely knotted watermark which obligingly echoes the tangled tentacles and oral arms of the jellies…
the dutch papermaker's 'van gelder zonen' watermark
This jellyfish print, the third in my ongoing 'Animal Diorama' series (remember the owl and the octopus?), is now available to buy in my Etsy shop >
the jellies' diaphanous qualities enhanced by the late afternoon play of light and (plant) shadows in my studio
jellyfish drawing, work-in-progress
Here are some more jellyfish work-in-progress pics. I'm gradually working towards making a new silkscreen print in this ongoing 'animal diorama' series and, with this future print in mind, have been experimenting with tentacle layering, stippled shading and possible patterning for my jellies…
tentacles… some of my favourite things to draw!
stippling… also a favourite pastime (it's very relaxing)
don't touch the wet ink!
oops… too late
… more stippling (very relaxed now :-)
jellyfish drawing, work-in-progress
I've been drawing jellyfish lately… and I realised pretty early on in my attempts that, despite the plethora of photographic reference material to be found in books and online, without access to a real live model I had no idea how to articulate the twisting, undulating, entwining, knurly oral arms of these compelling creatures.
What's the next best thing to observing a live model (without leaving your desk)? A highly scientifically-inaccurate dummy hastily constructed from scrap paper, pipe cleaners, tape and bits of yarn, of course!
jellyfish stand-in
Fun to make… and it really did help me to figure out how I might draw those tricky, twisty oral arms!
Taped to a window, the overlapping paper 'arms' coupled with the play of light and shadow create some interesting abstract shapes too…
My trusty assistant has been on hand to offer advice on the best brush for inking…
… and to engage in a bit of virtual interspecies arm-wrestling.
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When veteran sports executives Ivan Gazidis and Tom Fox left for the U.K. two years ago to run the business side of Arsenal, one of the most prominent and profitable franchises in the world, the presumption by many in the U.S. was that their American-style management would immediately boost the business to an even higher level.
The results so far are mixed.
Fox, the former head of sports marketing at Gatorade, earned recognition as Arsenal's commercial director for remodeling the club's suites and building out its commercial department. But he's also been questioned as
Ivan Gazidis (top) and Tom Fox have spent the last two years taking steps to position Arsenal to increase commercial income.
"We knew it would be a great challenge and a real learning experience," Fox said. "For eight years, the club was focused on transforming itself through concrete and pouring a new stadium. We're focused on transforming it through people, and none of us thought that would be easy or fast. The changing of a culture takes time. "
U.K. sports executives and Arsenal supporters remain undecided about the duo's performance.
"The perception is that they're doing pretty well," said Rick Parry, the former CEO of Liverpool. "The big issue and the big challenge for Arsenal is to start winning something. That's what fills your stadium and sells your replica shirt. It's that perennial challenge of being run wisely and sensibly, which they clearly are, and spending to have a competitive team."
Tim Payton, a spokesman for the club's fan organization, the Arsenal Supporters Trust, said, "There's definite concern among Arsenal fans about performance of the club both on the field and off the field."
Gazidis and Fox, who opened their third season with the club on Saturday, are acutely aware of that. They face perhaps more pressure than any other club to generate enough revenue to support their team.
Arsenal is the only team in the top seven of Deloitte's Football Money League, which ranks soccer clubs based on total revenue, to be operating a self-sustaining model that pays for players exclusively from the revenue the team generates annually. It does so even as competitors like Manchester United and Real Madrid fund player acquisitions through debt, and rivals like Chelsea and Manchester City fund acquisitions out of their wealthy owners' pockets.
"The ability to stand on our own two feet and not depend on anyone for our success gives us the ability to plan for the future with confidence," Gazidis said. "It can be challenging because we're in a market not constrained by salary caps, but the reason we believe in it is not just because creating something rather than buying it drives pride, but also because it gives you the capability to say, 'Arsenal will be competing at the top of world football now, five years from now, 10 years from now.'"
Gazidis takes pride in leading one of the few clubs that can say that. The key going forward will be making sure he can continue to say that.
Arsenal's jersey sponsorship is reportedly worth less than half of Manchester United's deal with insurer Aon.
Manchester United and FC Barcelona brought in $133 million and $166 million, respectively, in sponsorship revenue in 2011, while Arsenal brought in just $71 million. Arsenal has just eight sponsors, and its jersey sponsorship reportedly is worth less than half of Manchester United's deal with the insurer Aon.
The state of the club's commercial operations is both Gazidis' and Fox's greatest challenge and their greatest opportunity. The duo knows their commercial operations are underdeveloped compared to their peers, and they've spent the last two years taking the steps to position Arsenal to sustain its matchday revenue and increase commercial income. They have built a sponsorship sales and servicing division, revamped premium seating, enhanced membership packages and taken the club on an international tour for the first time in 12 years. They expect all of those efforts to begin paying off this season with increased revenue.
"We've created a five-year business plan that we're ahead of target to achieve," Fox said. "The real proof will be in the next two or three years as the plan we put in place begins to gel."
Ivan Gazidis had been approached before by Premier League clubs interested in hiring him as CEO, but none of the opportunities interested him until Arsenal came calling in 2008. The club, one of the league's elite, was steeped in tradition and history. It had won 13 first division titles, 10 English Football Association Cups and held the record for the longest unbeaten streak in the EPL.
"Opportunities like that come along less than once in a lifetime," Gazidis said.
He joined the club at an opportune time. Arsenal was three years into a new stadium, it had a manager in Arsène Wenger with a track record of success, and it had a brand that was recognized worldwide. Those pieces gave him a foundation to build on, and he thought they would give him a cushion as he adjusted to his first job as a top team executive.
But when Gazidis arrived in London in January 2009, he discovered Arsenal wasn't in quite as good a shape as it appeared. The team was facing serious financial pressures as a result of the recession.
Arsenal had taken on $500 million in debt to finance its move from Highbury Park to nearby Emirates, and it had planned to pay off those loans by converting the old stadium into an apartment complex called Highbury Square. When the financial and housing markets tanked, Arsenal simultaneously faced pressure from lenders to repay loans and struggled to sell the apartments to generate the money to cover its debts.
Gazidis worked with the banks to reschedule the loans, which bought the club a year to get its fiscal house in order. It went on to sell 362 private apartments at Highbury Square and generate $300 million. The money allowed Arsenal to repay half of its debt by the end of 2010. It finished repaying the loans this year, and profits from the remaining nine apartments now go straight to the club's bottom line.
"That wasn't a strategic issue or an issue of setting a new direction for the club, but it was one of the most pressing," Gazidis said.
Paying down the debt freed Gazidis to develop a strategy for Arsenal's growth. He believed that the next phase would be driven by people, and he wanted to overhaul the staff to position it for the future.
The club that he took over had about 200 employees, but it was so focused on developing its new stadium that it lacked many of the fundamental pieces of an American front office. It didn't have a general counsel, a director of communications, a human resources department or a head of IT, and Gazidis set about filling all of those positions.
One of his most important hires was Fox, who joined the club in August 2009 as commercial director. Gazidis had known Fox by reputation in the U.S. but never worked with him. He wound up selecting Fox from a pool of dozens of candidates because Fox shared his belief that the best way to develop Arsenal's commercial potential was to raise the profile of the brand and then drive revenue through strategic sponsorships with companies that share the club's values.
"We think that's where the value of the brand lies," Gazidis said. "Not in real estate, not in selling impressions, but in real partnerships."
Fox was given nearly 10 months to make sense of the English Premier League and evaluate Arsenal's commercial operation. The learning curve was steep.
Like Gazidis, he had no team experience. The bulk of his career in sports was built on the brand side with marketing stints at Nike, Pepsi and Gatorade. He not only needed to learn the team business, he needed to understand the team business in a different country.
He quickly was overwhelmed by the differences between the EPL and U.S. sports leagues. For example, the EPL plays 380 games a year, with 138 broadcast live and 142 games not shown at all. He could not wrap his mind around the fact that Arsenal games on Saturdays at 3 p.m. weren't televised. Similarly, he saw that the team had a season-ticket waiting list of 40,000 fans and thought the club was leaving money on the table by not maximizing demand.
"You look at those two things as a U.S. sports executive and you think two things: one, you're not charging enough for tickets, and two, you're leaving money on the table by not showing games on TV," Fox said. "I spent a lot of time trying to understand that."
It took Fox time to appreciate that Arsenal had one of the highest season-ticket prices in the EPL, practically double what its London rival Chelsea charged, and to understand that the broadcast restraints were designed because, in a small country like the U.K., it was nearly impossible to develop the type of local territory rights that allowed the Boston Red Sox to launch their own TV network.
Once he developed a sense of the market, Fox began to develop a business plan. He recognized that the commercial department's most immediate need was new personnel. The club had just one sponsorship-sales executive and one sponsorship-servicing executive. Fox added five people in each department, including a new head of partnership, Vinai Venkatesham, who came from the 2012 London Olympic Organizing Committee.
The club's partners immediately began to notice a difference.
"With the success of Arsenal and the excellent Emirates Stadium which they built, it was always going to be difficult for new joiners, like Ivan and Tom, to make a big difference, but for us, as soon as Ivan was appointed, we noticed a modern marketing mentality that would lead the club to the next level, then later with Tom I can say we enjoyed one of our best relationship we have with any of our football clubs, a model all football organizations and clubs must adapt if they want to move on towards better future," said Boutros Boutros, Emirates' divisional senior vice president corporate communications.
The club also began overhauling its premium seating area. Fox recognized that Arsenal's club section had a high amount of season-ticket churn. It was clear to him that the relatively barren look and feel of the clubs had become stale and offered fans little more than a warm place to spend time during halftime of a winter game. He looked to remodel the club level so it would appeal to a wider spectrum of fans.
For the most affluent club member, Arsenal created two high-end restaurants that offer five-course meals before every match at a price of $7,500 a season.
For the club member interested in a bite and a beer before the match, Arsenal converted a barren club room into a traditional sports bar, featuring portraits of past players commissioned from graphic artist Tavis Coburn and rows row of flat-screen TVs. Per caps are up 16 percent in the area since the remodel.
"Arsenal, now with Tom there, are probably the best hosts in London," said Fred Popp, the former CEO of SME and the founder of Teamup, a European sports marketing agency. "The amenities that are available are so much more consumer appropriate for the fan segments they serve."
Boutros agreed, adding, "We like what they have done in the new commercial hospitality areas, and the product offering at Emirates Stadium is second to none."
The other incremental change Fox made after coming on board was to restructure Arsenal's multimedia operations. Before his arrival, the media operations were divided into two businesses: a print publication business and a broadband venture. Under his direction, Arsenal created a single content group and signed an agreement with MP & Silva. The international sports media company pays Arsenal an upfront, multimedia rights fee, and they co-produce and distribute digital content. The deal has helped Arsenal expand its content, which Fox and Gazidis believe will drive the type of Web traffic that will keep fans connected to the club and allow them to increase revenue.
"What you're seeing us do is … using modern technologies to find ways to engage with our global audience personally," Gazidis said. "These are ways we can create communities, Arsenal communities, and we're finding those communities can connect fans with the clubs very personally."
This season, Arsenal eliminated the company's broadband subscription offering, which had 30,000 subscribers paying approximately $70 a year, and added broadband service to the club's membership service by increasing the price $8 on average to approximately $60. The hope is that the additional content will reduce churn among members, who buy in order to have the opportunity to buy individual match tickets, and expand the 190,000 membership base to include international fans.
"Suddenly, membership's become about more than getting access to the stadium," Fox said. "Now, they have another reason to be a member."
For all of Gazidis' and Fox's recent efforts, Arsenal's soccer business saw its revenue decrease from $364 million to $360 million between 2009 and 2010, and the pressure to improve revenue significantly has increased.
Fan criticism has soared since last season, when Arsenal won only one league game in March and April. Fans are unhappy with the team's delay in selling player Cesc Fabregas, who wants to join FC Barcelona, and its struggle to sign new players to fill holes in the defense and midfield. The club's manager, Arsène Wenger, has come under fire, as well.
Fans know Gazidis doesn't control the on-the-field product, which is managed exclusively by Wenger, but he still is held accountable for the team's performance because the more money the front office generates, the more the club will have to buy players.
Gazidis has said sponsorship revenue is the most important growth area for Arsenal, but the club has been slow to increase its list of sponsors in the last two years. It signed its first new partner in two years when it closed a multimillion-dollar deal with home appliance manufacturer Indesit last spring.
The Indesit deal gives Arsenal a total of eight partners. By comparison, Manchester United, which generates the most commercial revenue of any Premier League club, according to Deloitte, has 21 partners, including separate telecom partners in India, South Africa, Malaysia and other markets.
Arsenal's opportunity for sponsorship growth is limited by both external and internal restraints. Externally, the club is locked into its two biggest deals with Emirates, its jersey sponsor, and Nike, its uniform supplier, through 2014. Internally, Gazidis and Fox have advocated taking a slow approach in which they have a limited number of blue chip corporate partners.
"We want to find the companies that fit with us, our values and approach, and there's the other side of that, which is we believe we'll do the best jobs for those companies if our values are aligned," Fox said. "We're not trying to sell inventory as much as we're trying to identify what their businesses need to be successful and how we can help get them there."
The combination of the long-term agreements and the executives' business strategy has put Arsenal in a difficult position and made the fan base restless.
"Liverpool has moved past us (in commercial sales)," Payton said. "(Tottenham Hotspur) have new deals. It will get worse and worse for us until 2014."
It's also led observers to advocate waiting a few more years to evaluate the performance of Gazidis and Fox.
"I would judge them on what foundation is being created to be successful long term," said Jeff Plush, the president of the Colorado Rapids and a member of Arsenal's multimedia board. "There's no question that's happening."
As they work to grow Arsenal's commercial revenue, Gazidis and Fox will benefit from the club's new ownership stability. Stan Kroenke, who owns the St. Louis Rams, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and Colorado Rapids, this year put an end to a protracted struggle for majority ownership by accumulating a 62 percent stake in the team.
Kroenke supports the Arsenal executives' vision for the club as Gazidis and Fox try to catch up with Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester United by taking the Arsenal brand into new markets. They convinced Wenger this summer to take the club on its first international tour in 12 years.
"That's real progress that they managed to get the team on an Asian tour," said Bruce Bundrant, Liverpool Football Club's head of commercial partnerships. "It strengthens your relationship with fans in core markets around the world and helps grow fan base."
The tour helped the club collect data from 260,000 fans across Asia. Fox's department is marketing to those people in hopes of convincing them to become club members. The department also is selling the passion of that Asian fan base to international companies.
Fox said the trip changed several sponsorship discussions because it underscored the value of the Arsenal brand overseas. He credited the trip with helping them close a deal with two new partners. It last week announced a new deal with Carlsburg, its first global beer partner, and expects to announce another partnership this week. It also closed a renewal, Fox said.
"It was a very successful overseas tour," Payton said, but he added, there's still "huge pressure" on Gazidis and Fox.
After two years, the two imports from the U.S. are fully aware of the pressure, but it's not something that they spend time worrying about.
"We've put together a five-year business plan for a reason," Fox said. "We knew we had to upgrade the infrastructure and change the culture. We think we're headed in the right direction and at the right pace. We're incredibly confident we'll get there and reach our goals."


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It's time to announce our Queen for September's The Pinterest Project linky party. This winner was voted on by you guys from a pool of our most clicked links and each of the co-hosts favorites from the month. The lucky winner is going to get not only the title as The TPP Queen, but she also wins ad space on all three of our blogs!
And the winner is....
Autumn from The Busy Bee for her mug cake!!!
Uh, yum.
I've tried this recipe and it's good...really good. There are quite a few variations all over Pinterest and I've made a few of them myself. Some were kind of bland and boring, while others were ridiculously rich and too sweet for me. This mug cake recipe is pretty close to perfection. I love how easy it is to whip up when you have a crazy chocolate craving!
Everyone make sure to hop over to Autumn's blog, The Busy Bee, and check Autumn out, or you can tweet her here. Make sure you follow myself, Amber, & Sarah while you're at it too! We tweet throughout the week for TPP & we might just RT you if you link up & follow us too.
Hold up!!!
After some discussion, my co-hosts and I decided that it was time to change our linky's name (due to another blog having the same name, and various linky parties & groups with similar ideas). So without further ado...
Get it? Pin-spiration?!
So Autumn, you can be the first queen to grab one of our new TPP Queen buttons!
(By the way, I love that it's still TPP, even with the name change!)
Come back & link up your Pinterest inspired creations on Tuesday. It's a lot of fun and I have some fun projects in the works for the weeks to come :)
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This week my kids got super excited for Halloween. The costume ad came in the mail!
stole borrowed my daughter's Rapunzel socks when my toes got cold
I got some reading done on my son's bottom bunk bed. He was up reading one night & invited me in to sit with him while we read our books together & it just melted my heart. I love that he loves books as much as I do.
I took advantage of our rare sunshine and I touched up a few painting projects.
Saturday nights in our house mean sleepovers in brother's "fort" on the bottom bunk
They are so stinkin' cute
My little cutie got crafty yesterday!
She decided to give her step stool a makeover.
And finally...look what I got done!
Yes, it's an empty room, basically. But you should have seen it a few days ago. It used to be full of half unpacked boxes and was basically the catch-all area for the entire family to just dump their junk if they didn't have a place for it yet. I moved all the extra boxes to the garage, unpacked the rest, compiled a few & organized everything all day Friday & Saturday. It was exhausting but it's done, and now, drum roll please...
This is my new sewing/crafty room!
It's also going to be my husband's drawing/office area. We can share I guess.
First thing on the to-do list? Buy furniture! I'm going to be hitting up garage sales and thrift stores looking for awesome junk to turn into some really cool pieces of furniture & decor. This is going to be a fun project, and then after it's done I can sew my little heart out all winter. Hooray!


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"On Earth today, it's Thanksgiving. If the crew has to eat
synthetic meat loaf, I want it to look like turkey."
First appeard on "Eideard"
Would synthetic meat be better for us and the planet?
A pioneering group of scientists are working to grow real animal protein in the laboratory, which they not only claim is better for animal welfare, but actually healthier, both for people and the planet. It may sound like science fiction, but this technology to create in-vitro meat could be changing global diets within ten years.
"Cultured meat would have a lot of advantages," said Jason Matheny of research group New Harvest. "We could precisely control the amount of fat in meat. We could make ground beef with an ideal fatty acid ratio — a hamburger that prevents heart attacks instead of causing them."
But it isn't just the possibility of creating designer ground beef with the fat profile of salmon that drives Matheny's work. Meat and livestock farming is also the source of many human diseases, which he claims would be far less common when the product is raised in laboratory conditions.
"We could reduce the risks of diseases like swine flu, avian flu, 'mad cow disease', or contamination from Salmonella," he told CNN. "We could produce meat in sterile conditions that are impossible in conventional animal farms and slaughterhouses. And when we grow only the meat we can eat, it's more efficient. There's no need to grow the whole animal and lose 75 to 95 percent of what we feed it."
In this context Matheny believes his project could significantly cut the environmental impact of meat production — using much less water and producing far fewer greenhouse gases.
"We could reduce the environmental footprint of meat, which currently contributes more to global warming than the entire transportation sector," says Matheny.
Between mediocre sci-fi movies and timorous vegetarians it will take an advertising campaign comparable to that which introduced the navel orange – or the hybrid automobile – coupled with lower prices to achieve any success. Not that I'm pressimistic – just cynical.
Just look at how many years we've been farting around with irradiated food – always seeking another excuse to put off a cost effective solution to a great deal of food spoilage.
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Lady gaga meat dress hall of fame
When I heard that Lady Gaga's most famous dress was going to be showcased at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for its Women Who Rock exhibit, I had a slight beef. Didn't the designer promise that the dress was destined to become jerky? More importantly, how has her meat dress possibly been preserved? She wore it to the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12, 2010. It didn't exactly seem fresh then — and that was nine months ago! Has it been in the freezer since then? (I assume Gaga has a walk-in freezer closet, don't you? The meat dress hangs right next to her Klondike Bar pajamas.)
I can't imagine the Hall of Fame will keep the dress under glass for too long. The U.S.D.A. might take an interest after a few days. Where do you think the dress ultimately ends up? Back in Gaga's cooler? EBay? Oooo, what if Meat Loaf purchased it? Would that kill irony once and for all?
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Playing hardball: the trouble with Harry
WHEN Todd Viney rates a fellow footballer "tough", he probably is. Few AFL players of Viney's era (the late 1980s and '90s) are better qualified to make such a judgement.
Among the players of his day worthy of the tough tag, says the rugged former Melbourne ruck rover, is Carlton ruckman turned Victorian Planning Minister Justin "Harry" Madden.
In the footy world, Madden was known as an oversized, good-natured dinosaur but more Brontosaurus than Tyrannosaurus rex. Viney says there is no doubt Harry is a beaut bloke. But that image can be deceptive. On the field, Madden could get mean.
The Adelaide assistant coach recalls a wintry afternoon at the MCG when he accidentally-on-purpose stood on the hand of the Blues' lanky veteran. "A quarter later, I was following the ball in the air, and out of nowhere he came through and gave me a shirt-front. It took the wind right out of my sails. It was a matter of: 'Take that, young whippersnapper, I've got a long memory."'
In politics also, Madden has traded on his apparently unshakable affability, crooked grin and ever-ready laugh. A celebrity politician parachuted into a safe western suburban seat, he has also enjoyed a cleanskin reputation: a pollie free of the skeletons and baggage that come with paying one's dues, especially in Melbourne's wild west.
But last month's Ombudsman's report on the dodgy dealings around the City of Brimbank side-swiped the ALP and even took the smile off Madden's friendly face.
The Opposition has used Brimbank to target Madden, to rough up his goody-goody persona and paint him as a shady Labor wheeler-dealer. Last week, he took the bait, revealing on radio a defensiveness and bad humour that only made matters worse, and had ABC talkback callers in a lather.
For the first time in his decade-long political career, Madden's credibility has been a hot topic around Spring Street. A cloud now hangs over a political innocent. Could the nice guy of Victorian politics really be a dirty player?
On this, opinion is mixed within and outside the ALP. However, the doubt that has been raised in the context of Brimbank is arguably misdirected. For when it comes to Madden, the bigger and more substantial questions, and problems, relate to his portfolio and, in particular, the headache of balancing Labor's commitment to local democracy with the pressures of the global financial crisis, climate change, a population explosion, creaking infrastructure, the appetite of the development lobby, and a boss who fancies himself as "action man".
For Madden, politics at the moment must feel like one of those long, bone-chilling afternoons at Waverley or the Western Oval, getting crunched by the likes of Viney, Dermott Brereton and the other tough nuts of his playing days. Last week he was the subject of the first successful censure motion in the Victorian Parliament for 20 years and a gruelling six-hour assault on his political honour. The Opposition even turned its collective back on him.
The no-confidence resolution followed the Brimbank report, which fingered Madden's electorate secretary and local Right faction warlord Hakki Suleyman for meddling inappropriately in local affairs. Along with arch enemy and Keilor MLA George Seitz, Suleyman has also been a key player in embarrassing branch-stacking controversies on Madden's home turf.
Madden was not named in the Ombudsman's report, and has claimed ignorance of much of Suleyman's history, including a criminal record. The Opposition counters that this is unbelievable, given that concerns have repeatedly been raised in Parliament and media, and by local residents to his office.
On this the Opposition has a point. It does beggar belief that Madden did not know of Suleyman's questionable reputation. And he probably should have acted on it. But the minister's failure to tame his offsider is no hanging offence. He inherited Suleyman as part of a web of a factional deals through which parliamentary seats and "electoral" jobs are divvied up among party powerbrokers. Some, but not all, western suburban Labor figures say that, as a party "outsider", Madden probably knows little and cares even less about the parish pump shenanigans of his local comrades.
In an exclusive interview yesterday, Madden told The Age he had been unaware of the extent of Suleyman's meddling in council business, as revealed in the report. And if people had concerns evidence rather than simply accusations they should have gone to the Local Government Minister or the police. Madden says he has never engaged in the "machinations" of grassroots politics. "I have more important things to do." He acknowledges he tends to place great trust in those under him to do the right thing. "Sometimes that comes back to bite you, and it did on this occasion."
Asked if he would be more vigilant about local matters and his own office if he had his time again, he says he would have to reflect. "But I couldn't guarantee it would be a whole lot different."
The Liberals are well aware of his lack of local involvement. One senior Liberal told The Age he suspected Madden had not been near his electoral office for years. They joke that the minister does not even have a desk there. The parliamentary attacks have hurt, nonetheless, with one senior Government figure last week describing the minister as "rattled".
Madden, 48, and two older brothers grew up in Essendon and were raised by their adored mother, Thelma, after their father died when the boys were young. Thelma died early last year. Madden plays down the personal impact of the past few weeks, stressing he is more concerned about the effect on his family and friends he lives in Essendon with his wife and four children. But brother and former champion Bomber ruckman Simon acknowledges his younger sibling has been affected, but not because of the public humiliation.
"He's had 100,000 people having a go at him at the MCG, and some of them his own supporters," he says with that Madden laugh.
Simon Madden says his brother was upset only because his integrity had been questioned. And integrity, he says, is everything to Justin. "He's got more integrity in his little finger than half the people in Parliament on both sides."
If that's the case, Madden probably needs to keep a closer eye on his electoral backyard. But even more so on the direction the Government is taking in planning. Madden finds himself in charge at a volatile point in Victoria's planning history a point at which two key themes in Labor policy are at odds like never before.
On one hand, there is the old union-based commitment to growth and jobs, heightened in the face of a dramatic economic slump. On the other is the more middle-class interest in amenity, the environment and residents' rights that grew out of the 1970s the sorts of concerns enshrined in the Cain government's 1987 Planning and Environment Act.
Labor in opposition campaigned hard on the latter, hammering the Kennett government and its controversial planning minister, Rob Maclellan, for over-riding local decisions. It vowed to leave councils alone, and largely did, with notable exceptions, under Thwaites and Delahunty.
But since the mid-2000s, and especially under Premier John Brumby, Labor has started to wind back objector and appeal rights, over-riding councils in a way that would have seemed unbelievable a decade ago. Crucial factors have been the Government's concern with housing affordability, higher than expected population growth and now the global financial crisis.
Last year, Madden announced that planning decisions for 27 key commercial centres including Coburg, Frankston and Footscray would be taken from councils and given to specially appointed development assessment committees. The program was to begin with five centres. So far this year, he has also seized planning control for 11 major housing and commercial developments, mainly in inner and middle suburbs. Among them is the large riverside industrial plot in Fairfield known as the Amcor site, the future of which was under consideration by the left and green-leaning City of Yarra.
Other projects include the contentious proposed conversion of the Northcote Bowl into apartments, and the troubled redevelopment of Pentridge in Coburg, currently in the hands of the Labor and Greens-dominated Moreland City Council. Such actions are viewed with real suspicion in the gentrified streets of this former Labor heartland.
Last month, the Government also announced it would fast-track $3 billion in housing and education projects as part of the federal stimulus package, denying councils and residents the right to object or appeal. Under the Government's guidelines for the program, hundreds of largely private housing developments could be rubber-stamped if they contain a component of social housing. No stated minimum of social housing has been stipulated, sparking concern that it will be used as a smokescreen for poorly planned public-private development.
Notable too is the recent ascendancy of Madden's Development Facilitation Unit. Just a few years ago, the unit was a minor office in planning, a one-man operation focused on trouble-shooting projects with problems, such as the Pentridge revamp. Now it has grown into a major part of Madden's department.
While the minister insists he is a "reluctant interventionist", when The Age suggests that "planning" has largely given way to " facilitation", he says he does not apologise for that. "The great challenges at the moment are in housing and, because of the economic circumstances at the moment, jobs," he says. "We're committed to delivering housing and jobs in this state. The Opposition and the Greens are anti-growth, anti-housing, and anti-jobs."
While known as a strong advocate of urban consolidation two years ago he got into tabloid hot water with cracks about "McMansions" and "housing obesity" in the suburbs Madden is set to oversee yet another relaxation of the urban growth boundary set in 2002 for the purpose of containing that sprawl.
On one hand, the Government is overriding councils in support of higher-density housing in established suburbs. On the other, it has repeatedly redrawn the city boundary to cater for unconstrained fringe expansion. This apparent contradiction has been attacked by the likes of RMIT University's Michael Buxton as allowing developers to have their cake and eat it too.
There is some doubt within Government about Madden's true feelings about the boundary changes. Behind the scenes, he is one of the cabinet's green champions, strongly backing initiatives including tougher energy standards for new housing. He also stood firm on water tanks in new housing when senior Government figures attempted to weaken requirements in the name of desalination.
He will not discuss his personal views on the looming boundary change, preferring to stick with the Government position that both apartment living and fringe growth are important for housing diversity.
That said, developers on the whole speak glowingly of Madden. One development industry figure with strong Government connections says the minister "has a bit of steel about him", "and he's quite prepared to pull on some controversy where others (planning ministers) were not".
An often overlooked influence on his attitude is that he is, by training, an architect. Like developers and builders, the architect's instincts are hostile to consultation with those who do not understand "the profession". Objections and appeals only frustrate creativity, and money-making.
The Victorian president of the Australian Institute of Architects, Karl Fender, is a fan. "The first thing about Justin is, he's an architect, and therefore he brings an intelligence based on his education to the portfolio and to the discussion of urban design, urban renewal and sustainable development for Melbourne. So I think he's a minister who's in command of his portfolio."
The scaling back of planning democracy is not unique to Victoria, or even Australia. Nor is it simply a response to the global financial crisis. It has been a trend across the Western world as deregulation has permeated all spheres of public policy since the 1980s. Other states are moving in the same direction, South Australia in particular. But under Brumby and Madden, Victoria is now among the national leaders in sweeping aside obstacles to development. And given the potential ravages of the world economic woes, few in Labor ranks dare question the jobs-at-any-cost dictates of their leaders.
But privately, some Labor insiders worry about the sidelining of councils and residents, and fear that in the drive to get billions of dollars "out the door", projects are being called in and signed off at a dizzying pace without the usual checks and balances. Corruption flourishes in such conditions.
Labor councillors are among a group of concerned local government figures who this week published an open letter in The Age accusing Madden of demolishing a cornerstone of Victorian planning "the rights of residents to have a say about their neighbourhood The use of the economic downturn to justify the denial of these fundamental rights is short-term thinking with disastrous long-term consequences."
Madden acknowledges that to speed up the process, he is delegating much decision-making to bureaucrats. He is quick to stress, however, that unlike his electoral office, there are adequate checks and balances in his department.
It will not surprise Todd Viney that despite the gravity of these policy questions, and all the protests around them, Madden shows not the slightest sign of squeamishness. On the contrary, he seems to be revelling in it.
As one seasoned commentator put it, Madden was the perfect person for the job, because he could override councils and resident groups with the most disarming smile. As brother Simon notes: "You have to be careful about that big, affable smile, because there's a very smart man behind it. He uses it very well."
Irrepressible Camberwell activist Mary Drost is one who finds it hard to dislike Madden, despite disapproving of his pro-development stance. Asked her opinion of Madden, she immediately reels off a string of kind words before pulling herself up. She says she'll have to think and phone back later with criticism. When she calls, she opens with: "You know, I really like him personally."
Most Spring Street observers agree that Madden did well in his first portfolios: youth, sport and the Commonwealth Games. He faced some grillings in the house, but they never did the minister much damage.
Partly this was because even his political enemies find it hard to be awful to the big fella. One Opposition MP summed up the dilemma of tackling Madden when he confessed that attacking him was like "shooting Bambi".
An ALP elder notes with satisfaction that the Madden is a rare and valuable political commodity: a celebrity politician and former footballer, popular among both sexes. He is a "vote winner", says the party insider, "remarkably for an AFL footballer, with women because he's a softie".
Well, sort of.
But the controversy surrounding Madden and Brimbank over the past month has revealed that the minister does make real mistakes of judgement, including being too trusting. This could prove fatal for a minister in charge of a gung-ho development spree verging on cavalier.
Yet his footballing foes would no doubt argue he is up to the task.
"He was a very competitive player," says Viney. "He was pretty tough when he had to be. He was certainly one of the best ruckman I ever had to play against. It was always hard to know what to do. He had so many tricks."


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Art Set in Stone
DM Contemporary presents solo show by Michael Kukla
Michael Kukla New Works
On view from March 18th until April 29th, 2011, at 39 East 29th Street, #2B; Wednesday through Friday 12.00 – 6.00 pm; Saturday 12.00-4.00pmMichael Kukla, "Beneath Sky," 2009, marble, 16 x 26 x 3.5"
On the surface, Michael Kukla New Works, an exhibition of recent painting, drawing and sculpture of Kukla, depicts an abstraction of natural life … Continue reading »
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The World Is Super Flat: Ultimate Art (Part 1 of 3)
The formation of authentic identity has prevailed as a common goal in Japanese art since the Edo period; yet more specifically, the tension between an unfolding dichotomy of social axioms and dissident ideologies has rendered a subjacent art lineage, incongruent with politically-influenced commissions. Both periods' subcultures offer a severe artistic approach countering enforced conformity, but each responds to a different political circumstance and technological advancement. In both periods, the usages … Continue reading »
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Veiling the American Female Artist
"The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artist Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991" (referred to as "Deconstructive Impulse" for the purpose of this review) is on view at Nueberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, from January 15th until April 3rd, 2011. The exhibition has been funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., and also by the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of … Continue reading »
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Re-written in the Feminine: The Films of Vivienne Dick, Or: Justifiable Matricide, the Contemporarily Unspeakable and the Return of the Repressed
Through the sold-out clamor of the crowd at Judson Church, just moments before Yvonne Rainer received a standing ovation for her virtuoso performance Trio A: Geriatric With Talking, I overheard someone whisper, "It has to be about more than the nostalgia of a bunch of old-fogies." At the roundtable that opened the previous evening, titled A Sanctuary … Continue reading »
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Interview with Robert Storr
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Generation Shift/ Generation Rift
In the 1970's, new approaches to image making challenged the long held notion that painting was the highest form of visual expression. Many critics suggested that painting no longer had the ability to effectively communicate or hold a meaningful message. Pronouncements about the death … Continue reading »
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When a couple with children divorces, child custody and child support are often two of the most important issues that the couple has to work out. The court tries its best to work with parents to create a custody arrangement that meets every family member's needs. Under the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the court may make the final decision regarding a child's custody arrangement following his or her parents' divorce. There are various guidelines that the court follows when making this decision. These outlines are also part of the Act.
It is important that a child have contact with both of his or her parents following their divorce. In fact, unless there is a compelling reason to award one parent sole custody of the children, the court usually makes sure that both parents have regular custody time with their children. A child's parents are his or her biggest influences. Studies have shown that children who have consistent, positive relationships with both of their parents have higher self esteem, better communication skills, and a lower chance of becoming addicted to alcohol and other drugs.
Factors to Consider When Developing a Custody Arrangement
There are many factors that have to be considered during the development of a custody arrangement. The child's emotional, medical, physical, and mental needs must always come first. Although the court may consider any or all of the following factors when developing a custody arrangement, each child and family's needs are unique. Thus, certain factors might play a larger role for some families than they do for others, including:
- Everyone who lives in each parent's household. This includes all other children and their ages as well as adults and the child's relationships with all of them.
- The child's educational needs and whether living primarily in either parent's household will require him or her to change school districts or otherwise receive a substantially better or worse education.
- Each parent's income and financial stability.
- The child's personal needs. If the child requires speech therapy or another type of ongoing treatment, each parent's proximity to the treatment center is considered.
- The child's relationship with each parent.
- If the child is able to form a logical opinion about his or her custody, the child's opinion may be considered. Usually, this is only a consideration for older children and adolescents who have demonstrated the ability to make a sound decision regarding their care.
- Any history of domestic violence in either parent's household.
In certain families, other factors might also play a role as well. Talk to your former spouse and your attorney about your child custody arrangement. Your child's needs should always come first.
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Working through your divorce can be difficult. You might feel like you're losing your children along with your marriage. This is not the case. Let our team of DuPage County family attorneys at the Andrew Cores Family Law Group advocate for you and your children.