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"Very Nice MI, forget TSN 2 I think you should do the race feed for the series!! JRW"
Spokane Motorsports Park, Spokane WA May 30, 2010
Superbike racer Marcel Irnie of Kelowna enjoyed a productive, albeit abbreviated trip to Washington State for a May 30th race at Spokane Motorsports Park. Leading up to the weekend, weather forecasts predicted wet, stormy weather for the Saturday race, but pleasant conditions for Sunday. Irnie opted to skip the Saturday races and instead get set for Sunday. His decision paid off as Sunday turned out to be sunny and relatively pleasant. Irnie had considered saving his resources and skipping Spokane altogether, but felt that he needed to get more racing under his belt before the Calgary Superbike National in a month. As Marcel had not been to the Spokane track in over a year, he would have to relearn the nuances of the technical racecourse.
For the first practice, Irnie rode his 2008 zx-6r for the first time in 2010 under dry conditions. Irnie had been using his 2005 unit for his previous races. The 2008 model had been revamped with a fresh engine top-end courtesy of Scott from Munro Cylinder Heads and front suspension re-working from Dave Anderson of Fluid Suspension Science. Says Irnie, "Riding for the first time on the '08 felt really weird. The bike's springs are much softer then my '05, changing the dynamics of trail braking and mid corner lean angle under throttle application. I haven't been to Spokane in a year, so I had to relearn the track, and figure out how to brake and turn in for turn 1-2; a very tricky section."
The combination of riding the seldom-used '08 and the relatively unfamiliar track left Irnie with a tentative 1:36 lap time in practice one. Before practice two, Irnie removed some preload from the front suspension and increased the rebound damping to the back shock. This improved the feel of the bike and Irnie was able to clock a 1:34.
The first race of the day was the 750 Superbike class. Irnie started from the back of the grid on the 2008 unit. His next race would be the 600 Superbike class which was starting a mere 20 minutes after the 750 race. His 2005 zx-6rr was prepped, fitted with tire-warmers and ready for the next race. Irnie rode a methodical and uneventful race, making up 5 spots and finishing 14th of 20 riders. His fastest lap was a 1:33:789 with a 95.960 MPH average speed. Irnie had just enough time to switch the GoPro cameras and GPS lap timer to the 05 unit. Luckily, Marcel has been training diligently with personal trainer Ryan Brown from World Gym. This has enabled Marcel to race back to back races without feeling too exhausted.
Irnie would also start from the back row for the 600 Superbike race. He executed a magnificent start, passing over half of the pack by the time the race roared through turns one and two. As Irnie moved up to 6th spot, chaos ensued as two riders made contact in turn six. Irnie recounted, "Riders are everywhere; complete mayhem indeed! One rider takes out another rider because he missed his braking point or something." Irnie was running four GoPro Cameras mounted on his bike/helmet and filmed a clear shot of the crash which is included in his race documentary.
As Irnie slowed to film the carnage, Mike MacConaghy slipped by to grab 6th spot, followed by Wendy Leber who drafted Marcel on Spokane's huge straightaway. Wendy made it by Greg Gibson in the hair pin with Marcel following closely. Marcel battled back and forth with Gibson for the remainder of the race. Irnie finally made a pass stick and he towed Gibson to the finish. Irnie's official result was 8th position with a fastest lap of 1:33.450 with 96.308 MPH Average speed.
At the end of the day, the 2005 zx-6rr was .338 faster than the 2008 unit. Irnie offers, "The '05 has more torque, but the' 08 seems to have a good top end. Both excel in different areas, but I think I'll run the '05 in Calgary. More testing is ahead and I'll figure out more in Calgary practice." Irnie looks forward to putting both bikes on the dyno at Calgary to see where they currently stand.
It was then back to Kelowna for repairs and video editing. The next event for Marcel Irnie is at Pacific Raceways, Kent Washington on June 12-13. This will be the final tune-up before the Calgary round of the Parts Canada series.
Irnieracing.com would like to extend special thanks to Todd from Advanced Motorcycle Gear for supplying Marcel with a new set of Falco gloves on warranty after Marcel's Pacific Raceways 130kmph crash at the end of April. Says Marcel, "This is the best warranty policy I've encountered since I learned about AMSOIL's."
Marcel would also like to thank Canadian GoPro distributer Pointofviewcameras.ca for quickly shipping Marcel more cameras before Spokane. This allowed Marcel to run a 4-6 camera setup. "Four cameras was great, but I think I'll run a five camera setup next round. I'm addicted to my GoPro's...everything must be documented!"
Irnieracing.com is supported by: AMSOIL Synthetics, Blue Streak Racing, British Columbia Trailer, EBC Brakes, Fluid Suspension Science, GoPro, Kreater, Magna-Tech Services, Muller Motorsports, Munro Cylinder Heads, Pinnacle Physiotherapy, World Gym Kelowna, and Valley Moto Sport


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Fourteen billion dollars a year. That'show much money outdoors spending adds to the Texas economy via hunting, fishing, and just messing. Motorhomes and Jim Beam, extra. When out in the bush or on the water, everybody's name is Bubba.
Speaking of boys and their toys, have you heard of UglyDolls? They are soft, plush, cute and built for boys. No kidding. Some six year olds tote them to school. Researchers say it dates back to Egyptians. Undoubtedly, some will blame liberals. Somehow.
Prediction: Bill Gates says the Yellow Pages will be just a memory within the next five years. The Internet, you see.
Slate has an interesting article on this piece of paperback American culture, pointing out there has never been a scholarly monograph written about the phonebook:
"There should be one: Its omnipresence has made it a barometer of societal change. In 1906, Jews in Trenton threatened to boycott Bell over a resort listing's promise, "Free From Hebrews and Tuberculosis Patients." Temperance groups in the North agitated to ban brewery ads from directories, while some Southern directories segregated into separate sections for "white" and "colored" numbers. Women's directory struggles are still within living memory: NYNEX's first listings for birth-control counseling only appeared in 1967, while Bell fought well into the late 1970s to deny women equal billing alongside their husbands in household listings, claiming it required too much extra paper and ink."
Monday, March 24, 2008
Guns, boy dolls and dead phone books
Posted by George Phenix at 9:30 AM
Labels: fishing, hunting, outdoors, telephone books
3 comments:
- The South Plainsman said...
Only a liberal would send a boy to school with a doll. Maybe a GI Joe model, or a Rambo, would be more appropriate. And a Winchester on the gun rack for older ones. LOL
- March 24, 2008 at 1:00 PM
The South Plainsman hit it right! next thing you know objecting to 'ugly' dolls will be a hate crime.
And on the yellow pages! It would be nice if the phone companies were consistent under the catergories they placed listings.------Goose
- March 24, 2008 at 9:27 PM
catagories---sorry bout thet---Goose
- March 25, 2008 at 9:39 PM
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by Diana Chandler NEW ORLEANS (BP) — African American pastors in the New Orleans Baptist Association say the election of Fred Luter as the Southern Baptist Convention's first vice president is important evidence that the SBC has departed from the racial exclusion of its past. They say the SBC has worked diligently to embrace African Americans and other ethnic groups, especially since the convention's 1995 public apology for its past support of slavery. Yet they regard Luter's election as […]Read More
By Mike Ebert ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)–A new role created by the North American Mission Board will help the entity maintain a strong focus on minority ministry needs and facilitate leadership opportunities for minorities throughout SBC life. NAMB president Kevin Ezell created the role of Presidential Ambassador for Ethnic Church Relations shortly after messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention in Phoenix voted to approve a recommendation citing the "need to be proactive and intentional in the inclusion of individuals from all […]Read More
PHOENIX (BP)–If Southern Baptists are going to fulfill their God-given mission in a lost world, they must deal with fragmentation and self-centeredness and recommit themselves to gratitude, trust, unified ministry and honesty, messengers were told during the opening session of the SBC annual meeting June 14. "We have been headed in the wrong direction, in several ways," said Frank Page, SBC Executive Committee president, during the EC's report to the convention. "Our convention is fracturing into various groups, some theological, […]Read More
PHOENIX (BP)–Southern Baptist Convention messengers meeting in Phoenix June 14-15 adopted an historic report encouraging ethnic diversity, witnessed dozens of leaders standing together in support of a landmark unity pledge, and saw hundreds of pastors and laypeople volunteer to lead their churches to embrace one of the world's 3,800 unengaged people groups. It was the lowest-attended annual meeting in 67 years, with just over 4,800 in attendance, but the substance of the meeting led plenty who attended to argue it […]Read More
PHOENIX (BP)–Sensitive to the need for greater diversity in leadership and increased participation of ethnics, the Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly June 14 to ask for greater accountability regarding their involvement in SBC life. During a news conference after the vote, Paul Kim, pastor emeritus of Antioch Baptist Church in Cambridge, Mass., said: "I want ethnic pastors and leaders to also have the opportunity to express their love for Southern Baptists in Christ. We have to work together." It was […]Read More
by DAVE MILLER At last year's SBC in Orlando, Dwight McKissic made a motion to add racism to homosexuality as sins that eliminated one from being in cooperation with the SBC. The motion was referred (as is standard practice) and the convention voted down a follow-up motion to undo the referral and vote on it. Many people (myself among them) were disappointed that the vote was not taken but we were hopeful that the Executive Committee would bring back a favorable […]Read More
PHOENIX (BP)–The multi-ethnic emphasis of the Southern Baptist Convention's 2011 annual meeting has made it "one of the best conventions I've ever been to," James Dixon told participants at the National African American Fellowship June 14. Dixon, in his second year as president of the organization that was founded in the early 1990s, said he chose 33 years ago to cooperate with the SBC. The pastor of El-Bethel Baptist Church in Fort Washington, Md., said, however, he had a concern. […]Read More
by Mickey Noah ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)–"We all came over on different ships, but now we're all in the same boat." That's what Chris McNairy, a leader on the North American Mission Board's multiethnic mobilization team, told about 40 pastors and leaders at the 2011 Ethnic Leadership Summit at NAMB's offices in Alpharetta, Ga. Twenty-seven Southern Baptist Convention ethnic fellowships and networks encompass an array of people groups: African, African American, Cambodian, Chinese, Deaf, Filipino, Greek, Ghanian, Haitian, Hispanic, Hmong, Hungarian, […]Read More
By DAVE MILLER Dwight McKissic said something to me the other day that absolutely shocked me. He had called me about another matter, and but he told me something that really disturbed me. The podium at the SBC Annual Meeting last year was just like me – lily white! When he made his motion to make racism as serious an offense as homosexuality in the SBC bylaws, there was not a single person of color involved in making the decisions. He […]Read More
To President Bryant Wright and the Members of the SBC Committee on Nominations, Race has been a hot topic in the SBC recently. Dwight McKissic offered a motion in Orlando last June to include racism along with homosexuality as a sin that will eliminate a church from SBC participation. Johnny Hunt referred the motion to the Executive Committee who has declined to recommend the change to the c0nstitution. According to one person, the belief is that such a move […]Read More


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'I am Lost'…. I have heard people saying these super magical words often. I call it 'Super Magical' coz, when people say it, they actually make you feel as if they are in totally different (virtual) world, and you are not actually smart enough to understand it. 'I am Lost'… I dont think that this sounds weird.
At times, i have thought that these are one of the funny sets of words. hmmm… may be i should do a Ph.d to understand what people mean when they say that they are lost.
I have a small incident to share about this topic. It was one of the winter nights, when I was deep into one of the romantic dreams. My mobile vibrated vigorously.. I cursed the mobile, the vibrating mode and the person who turned on the mode, of course it was me. It said 'Sunny Calling'. He is one of my close friends. It was around 2 a.m. I wondered what would have made him to call me at this time. I was bit nervous
I picked up the call and said 'hello?. I heard a deep husky voice replying me with the two set of words ' I am lost'. I was totally taken a back. What is this guy thinking. Calling me around two in the morning to say that he is lost. i was mad and asked him 'what crap?' he said 'am in love and so i am lost'.
That turned me crazy. Is it a rule that people who fall in love should get lost for some reason?. I really didnt understand, and I was not in mood to argue with him at that time, when I was in middle of the sleep. I said that ill talk later and cut the call.
Sunny now always assumes that I am not smart enough to understand his feelings of 'lost'. He tells that he loves the feeling and so on. ok! I dont understand the concept of 'lost world'.
If one set of people say that they are lost coz they are in love, another set of people have their own stories to cook up. Some of the story lines are:
I am lost coz, I have no friends
I am lost coz, I don t have a gf/ bf
I am lost czo, I had a bad day
I am lost coz, I have no money
I am lost coz, I have no one
I am lost coz, of the share market/ business etc
I am Lost simply coz, I wanna get lost!
Fine, I think this is a kind of Phenomenon and people say they are lost simply coz they wanted to!
An appeal to God-
please give a extra sensory part, which can understand the concept of 'I am Lost'
I guess ' I am Lost' now, jus coz am doing a research on it.


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GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Amy Johnson wowed the advertising community with a book chronicling the letters exchanged between her grandfather, William Raubinger, and his youngest brother Freddy during World War II.
Johnson won the student Best of Show Addy award on Thursday, Feb. 20 for her book, "Letters, lost then found," which she designed around the correspondence she found in her grandfather's belongings after he died.
More than 400 professionals and students attended the awards program - the local industry's version of the Oscars - at the Grand Rapids Art Museum by the American Advertising Federation of West Michigan.
The competition is the first level of a three-tiered national competition conducted annually by the American Advertising Federation.
"My grandfather was the bigger winner," said Johnson, who dedicated the book to Raubinger, a circulation manager for The Grand Rapids Press for 30 years, and the Saginaw News for 20 years.
He kept all the letters he received from his brother, Lt. Frederick J. "Buzz Boy Pete" Raubinger, who fought in the CBI (China Burma India) Theater and died in a plane crash as he was returning home. Her grandfather also kept copies of the typed and written letters he sent. Johnson added context to the story by adding historical facts.
Next, she'll set her sights on the publishing industry in hopes of find a company willing to print the book, which she describes as a story about "a 19 year old boy that did not come home, and an older brother that cared so much."
Johnson is finishing up her BFA in graphic design at Kendall College of Art & Design, after a 17-year job working as a contract graphic artist with Steelcase ended in 2007, and her lack of formal education kept her from being considered for jobs in her field.
She spent last summer creating the 202-page book, under the tutelage of Suzanne Jonkman, her professor in her publication design class.
The professional Best of Show went to the firm Eskimo for its two-minute commercial "Brewed for Us" for Founders Brewing Co.
The award-winning commercial, which hasn't aired on television and likely won't, is on the Grand Rapids company's website.
For the third year in a row, Extra Credit Projects took home the most awards. It collected even more awards than last year for advertising campaigns for Zondervan, Mary Free Bed, Singapore Dunes, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and a public service campaign honoring South African leader Nelson Mandela after his death.
For the Nelson Mandela PSA, the firm had only 24 hours to prepare the Outdoor Advertising Association of America campaign, which was shown on digital screens across the country including in an L-train station in Chicago.
"We wanted it to be bold and colorful like his life," said Rob Jackson, the firm's creative director, of the Nelson Mandela PSA campaign. "We made an impact and people loved it."
This year, there were fewer awards given out than last year.
In total, 31 gold and 29 silver Addy awards were given out, along with 6 gold and 8 silver Addy awards in the student category. All the student winners study at Kendall College of Art & Design.
2013 Best of Show Addy Award winners:
• The 2014 Best of Show ADDY Award winners was the agency Eskimo for the Founders "Brewed For Us" Video, and the student winner was Amy Johnson for "LETTERS lost then found"
2014 Judges' Choice Addy Award winners:
• Professional: Public Service Extra Credit Projects, "Nelson Mandela outdoor campaign"
• Professional: Experiential Extra Credit Projects, "Mary Free Bed Groundbreaking Shovel"
• Professional: Agency Promotion DO MORE GOOD @ Hanon McKendry, "Holiday card – Heart Mittens"
• Professional: Point of Sale Meijer, "Rocker Turkey"
• Professional: Photography Mitch Ranger Photography, "Founders Stacks Up"
• Professional: Client Courage Fairly Painless Advertising, "Fox Motors"
• Student: Creative Use of Media Nicholas Tisch, "Iditarod Campaign"
• Student: Best Integrated Campaign Drake Evans, "No Stadiums - Annual Dakar Race Campaign"
Who took home the most awards:
• Extra Credit Projects - 16 awards: 9 Gold and 7 Silver ADDY Awards
• Fairly Painless Advertising - 7 awards: 1 Gold and 6 Silver ADDY Awards
• DRIVEN - 5 awards: 1 Gold and 4 Silver ADDY Awards
Gregg Palazzolo, owner of Palazzolo Design Group, was recognized as the 2014 AAF West Michigan Silver Medal Award winner for his contributions to the West Michigan advertising industry.
A complete list of AAFWMI 2014 ADDY Award winners can be found at aafwmi.org.
Shandra Martinez covers business for MLive/The Grand Rapids Press. Email her or follow her on Twitter @shandramartinez.


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A Modest Proposal (1729) has been singled out as the one incontestable example of poetic passion in English Augustan literature. Its pervasive irony, metaphorical contrasts, and paradox have been described as operating on a "grander scale than in any poem of its day." Simultaneously, it has been studied as an early Georgian tract dealing with contemporary mercantilist attitudes toward balance of trade, economic statism, Irish absentee landlords, English policy, the impotent poor, and theories of population. A Modest Proposal is currently employed to illustrate a single department of Jonathan Swift's rhetorical art: his feigning an alien identity and situation, acting in character to achieve his satire. In the universities the present idea of Swift is...
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Happy Birthday, Hugh Grant
Photo and autograph courtesy of the G Archives.
Who would have thought that getting a BJ from a hooker and getting caught would be such a great career move?! Actor Hugh Grant turns 51 today. I'll probably always wonder why Hugh decided to look elsewhere for a piece of action when he was with Elizabeth Hurley, but I also don't understand why it's taken this long for homosexuals to have the right to get divorced.
Also born today: Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Harland Sanders, musicians Billy Preston and Otis Redding, actors Henry Thomas, Adam Sandler and Cliff Robertson and actresses Angela Cartwright and Michelle Williams.


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Need a little spice in your Friday evenings? Ticketmaster service fees got you down? Well, my friend, KEXP has got just the prescription for you.
Starting this weekend, KEXP is teaming up with the good people behind Seattle Center to present a weekly series of free, all-ages concerts on the lawn of the Mural Amphitheater. Come bask in the warm glow of Seattle summer and enjoy live performances from some of KEXP's favorite artists, every Friday from 5-8pm, July 31st through August 21st.
The series opens this Friday with the country-fried power pop stylings of Portland's Blitzen Trapper, followed by the lyrical indie-rock of local outfit Throw Me The Statue. Other upcoming artists include the 206's own Dyme Def and Fresh Espresso – two of the most forward-thinking groups in hip-hop today — along with down-home rockers The Moondoggies and percussive-folkies The Dodos.
As special inclusion to the series, the 7th Annual KEXP BBQ will also be taking place at the Mural stage and is now a free event. This year's BBQ lineup includes breakout bands like Cymbals Eat Guitars and Japandroids, as well as a special headlining set from the legendary Dinosaur Jr.
For the full mural series and BBQ lineup, see below. You'll also find some free tunes from some of the performing artists — check em out!
Friday 7/31, 5-8pm
Blitzen Trapper
Throw Me the Statue
Friday 8/7, 5-8pm
Dyme Def
Fresh Espresso
Saturday 8/8, 7th Annual KEXP BBQ! 2-9pm
Dinosaur Jr
Viva Voce
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Born Anchors
Champagne Champagne
Friday 8/14, 5-8pm
The Dodos
Army Navy
Friday 8/21, 5-8pm
Fruit Bats
The Moondoggies
Johnny and the Moon
Throw Me The Statue – Lolita
Blitzen Trapper – Wild Mountain Nation (MP3)
Dinosaur Jr – I Want You To Know (MP3)
The Dodos – Fools
Fresh Espresso – Big or Small (MP3)


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Bunnahabhain 17 Year Old Westering Home
Posted by Tom
Part of the Bunnahabhain tasting after our tour during the #IslayRoadTrip with Steve (@steveprentice) from Somerset Whisky Blog and Jon (@dvdbloke) from Scotch and Sci-fi
next up on the list was the Bunnahabhain 17 Year Old Westering Home the cream of the crop in relation to this years Feis bottlings and what a dram it is, i really wish i had the money as they still had some of these bottles available at the distillery.
Thanks again to Paul and Andrew from Bunnahabhain for the wonderful tasting.
Theres some initial Minty menthol notes that come first and then lots of chocolate with hints of proper kettle chips seasalt crisps
Sweet menthol and mint with chocolate and lots of gentle spices with banana
Chocolate and mint omg yummy.
Bottle Name: Bunnahabhain 17 Year Old Westering Home
Age: 17
Distiller: Bunnahabhain
Bottler: Bunnahabhain
Type: Single Cask Single Malt
From: Scotland, Islay
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Sam Allardyce once thought he would never get the England job because he did not have a fancy-sounding surname. He thought he was too northern, too unfashionable, too egg and chips. He drank ale and he chewed gum, sometimes at the same time. "Maybe I should change my name to Allardici," he suggested.
He was doing himself a disservice, of course. When Allardyce sat behind the bulging in-tray in his office yesterday, setting out his plans to knock Arsenal out of the FA Cup, it was as the bookmakers' favourite to succeed Sven-Goran Eriksson as the next England manager. Big Sam is probably the people's choice too and he's done it all without access to deed poll. One supporters' poll has him taking nearly twice the votes of any other Englishman.
The only surprise is that anyone should still be surprised. Last season Allardyce was the highest-placed English manager, with Bolton squatting defiantly in sixth position. This season they have lasted longer in Europe than Manchester United, with Marseille to come in the last 32 of the Uefa Cup. They lie seventh in the Premiership, with games in hand. "Teams are starting to play like Bolton because they know it can get them results," he says with great pride, "and that's a great testament to us."
Now that the most important part of the England job seems to be breaking bread with journalists, there is another tick in his box too. Allardyce, a popular man in Fleet Street, could talk for, well, England when a microphone is switched on, and even when his views are controversial he is not afraid to air them. "Theo Walcott's gone to Arsenal for £6m going up to, what, £12m?" he says at one point. "There was a Walcott round every corner 20 years ago in England, Scotland and Ireland."
He does not subscribe to Paul Jewell's view that the England job "comes with too much nonsense attached". True, it would be difficult for him to have his usual Sunday pint or three at his local in Bromley Cross. And his wife Lynne might not take too kindly to paparazzi snapping her on her weekly run to Aldi. Allardyce is maintaining a diplomatic silence, yet word has it he would walk to Soho Square for an interview.
One certainty, after the bland politeness of Eriksson, is that the English public is hankering for a manager who wears his emotions on his sleeve and Allardyce certainly fits the bill. Big Sam is not like Eriksson, going by the word of one of his former Notts County players that "he does not take any shit". He is perpetually irritated, for example, by the tagging of his side as a modern-day Wimbledon and the sniping of fellow managers such as Liverpool's Rafael Benítez and Arsenal's Arsène Wenger, with whom there will be little cordiality today.
"Every time we play Arsenal you can guarantee that Wenger will talk about our physical side. I don't get too upset because when he's complaining about us it means we've beaten them, so I wouldn't want that to end. But it's worth pointing out that, when I first got into the Premier League, it was the size of the Arsenal side that rammed it home to me just how scary it was. I looked at David Seaman, Sol Campbell, Martin Keown, Patrick Vieira - not just six-footers, but six foot two, three or four. In their heyday Arsenal were as physical as anyone.
"Liverpool have gone that way now too. They're much bigger and much more physical than we are. They play off Peter Crouch as much as we play off Kevin Davies but the difference, of course, is that theirs is a 'long pass' whereas ours is a 'long ball'. They've got Steven Gerrard, Momo Sissoko, Dietmar Hamann and Jamie Carragher who can mix it with anyone. Yet Liverpool won't get the same tag as us because they're Liverpool, aren't they?"
His banks of calm were infamously burst a few weeks ago by some more barbs about Bolton's tactics, this time from Alan Green on his Radio 5 Live phone-in. BBC reporters were subsequently banned from Bolton press conferences until Moz Dee, commissioning editor of 5 Live, rang Allardyce last week.
"You will always pick up on people who discriminate against you," he reflects. "But there's more in the media about us that's positive than negative. There are a lot of people who say a lot of good things about us and I haven't lost sight of that. It's the same inside the industry too. People want to know how we do it on such a restricted budget and, most of all, how we've done it for so long. It reaches the stage where we have to keep some of our ideas a closely guarded secret. But the key elements are that we're fit - fitter than most certainly - and we're as detailed and efficient as anyone technically."
As a player, Allardyce was the old-fashioned, broken-nosed epitome of the Seventies centre-half. "He was what I called a ball-playing defender," Dave Bassett once said. "If he wasn't playing with the ball, he was playing with your balls."
Now 51, he still retains that fearsome edge but there are layers to his personality. Beneath the thick-set, gravel-voiced exterior lurks one of the most innovative managers in the English game. Allardyce led the Prozone generation. He was preaching about ice baths, electrolytes, replacement fluids and potassium when most dressing rooms had nothing more hi-tech than a magic sponge. "It's always fascinated me, right back to when I was a player. Everyone would have a cup of tea at half-time, whereas I knew about diuretics and that you should never drink tea before going back out. So I would sneak to the back and have a glass of iced water on my own."
A short while ago he decided it was time to get a hobby, something to take his mind off the strains of football. "I started going to art galleries and I spoke to art dealers. I wanted something totally different to football and art interested me. The only problem is that art needs so much work and research if you are going to do it properly. It's not something you can just dabble in.
"What excites me now is learning about people. How, for example, does Richard Branson evolve into the mega-millionaire businessman that he is? I've been to seminars and I've invited people into the club to speak to the staff. I read autobiographies but I would sooner listen to people. That's what fascinates me."
The worry for Bolton is that they will collapse like a house of cards should he leave. In this part of Lancashire it is not necessarily the England job that worries them but the possibility of a vacancy arising at Newcastle United. Allardyce, art enthusiast and football manager, no longer has the image problem of old, even without a fancy surname.
How Bolton have the edge over Arsenal at the Reebok, by Mike Anstead
Bolton 2 Arsenal 0, Premiership, December 3 2005
First-half goals from Abdoulaye Faye and Stelios Giannakopoulos ended Arsenal's title ambitions before Christmas. An unimpressed Arsène Wenger said: "We had a bad day. This was a frail and tentative performance. Bolton's commitment was superior and no matter how good you are, the first thing you must show is commitment. We were getting beaten in areas of the game where we could not afford to lose the battle."
Bolton 1 Arsenal 1, Premiership, December 20 2003
Henrik Pedersen came off the bench to equalise late on against the league leaders. Robert Pires had put the visitors ahead but Bolton were superior and dominated possession. "This [Bolton] team was a lot more technical and played better football," Wenger said. "Last season we lost the whole season in one day here. At the end of this season this could be seen as a good point." He was proved right as Arsenal secured the title.
Bolton 2 Arsenal 2, Premiership, April 26 2003
Youri Djorkaeff inspired Bolton to battle back from two goals down and secure a draw. Arsenal fell apart in the second half, but Arsène Wenger denied that his team was not mentally strong enough. "It is rubbish to say the pressure got to us," he said. "I will stand by these players in any situation. People who say my team have bowed to the pressure are childish. We are disappointed, and rightly so, because we have made things difficult for ourselves."
Bolton 0 Arsenal 1, FA Cup quarter-final, March 12 2005
Freddie Ljungberg's goal and the dismissal of El Hadji Diouf for lashing out at Jens Lehmann within the opening nine minutes confirmed Arsenal's place in the semi-finals. "It was hard work. If we were not resilient and not determined, we would have gone out," said Wenger, who questioned Bolton's aggressive approach. "You know what to expect when you come here. The sending-off of Diouf did not change the way they played."
Bolton 1 Arsenal 0, Premiership, January 15 2005
Arsenal lacked the appetite to compete with Bolton and Stelios Giannakopoulos, right, headed the winner to finish the Gunners' lingering hopes of catching Chelsea. "I feel that we lacked determined effort in the final third of the field and didn't show much security in our defending," Wenger said. "We have pressure every week. If you don't want to live with pressure, you don't want to win championships."


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Gennum receives Technical Emmy for its Serial Digital Interface
Gennum has been awarded a Technical Emmy Award by The National Television Academy for its Serial Digital Interface (SDI) chip-set technology, which allows broadcasters to transmit uncompressed, unencrypted digital high-definition signals quickly across a networked infrastructure.
The company's SDIs are found on studio cameras, monitors, mixers and recorders, and enable producers to route information without compressing the data, which preserves image quality during the entire process.
The Technical Emmy award ceremony will be held at the International Consumer Electronics Show, Jan. 8, 2007, in Las Vegas.
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Still here, trying to translate the story in my mind into words on the page. Trying to find the words to my story has left me few words for blogging. I've also been fannying about more than usual because I've been so immensely tired the last three days and have no concentration. It's almost as if my thyroid levels dropped, which would be strange because I took a blood test last week and my doctor called Tuesday to let me know that my thyroid level was finally back in the normal range. Yay! It only took 4.5 months. I feel like I'm 90% back to normal, but she said this is typical too, and it may take a few more months for my body to catch up to my thyroid. Woo and indeed hoo. I'm betting my energy levels this week have more to do with increasing exercise and cutting calories than with a drop in my thyroid levels, but thanks to that pesky thyroid, I need to cut the pounds I gained when my thyroid wasn't working properly. Vicious cycle. Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, trying to get my story onto the page. Better get back to it instead of blathering on here. Carry on, then.
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Pesky words and hormones
5 comments:
- hellojed said...
Hope you feel better very, very soon! Great news about your thyroid level, I hope you can see the end of the tunnel?
- Helen said...
I had/have a thyroid problem too. I bought a book called Your Thyroid and how to keep it healthy by Dr Barry Durrant - Peatfield. Anyhow, he recommended an atkins type diet or a low GI one...(as opposed to cutting calories) - which is what I'm doing now and you know what it is working AND i still have energy. He does detail the science bit as to why it is good for people with thyroid problems but I won't repeat that here 'cos I don't understand it!. I also took some vitamin supplements too which really work. I've lost two stone since:)
Apologies if you have already explored this route and I'm giving you advice you already know. x
- Angie said...
Hellojed, thank you. It is great news and I can see the light dimly in the distance - however, 90% is SO much better than how I felt last winter/spring!
Helen, I appreciate the advice and will look into that book. Sounds interesting. It's amazing how many of us are out there! I bought two thyroid books and they have commentary on diets for hypothyroids, but I haven't gotten that far.... I'm a bit anti-Atkins, but I think some of the other low-carb diets are sensible, and actually I've discovered that while cutting calories I'm adding more veggies and proteins and cutting more carbs to get my count lower. I can't give up bread and pasta completely though (I'm part Italian, don't you know :), but I switched to healthy unprocessed whole grains years ago, so I don't think it's necessary. All things in moderation. That said, you've had brilliant results and it sounds like something I should look into. Btw, how long did it take for you to feel normal again?
Ang x
- Jen said...
A bit of a blog blather sometimes works wonders for loosening the fingers.
Keep positive and be kind to yourself - you'll be 100% before you know it.
- Angie said...
Jen, that's true, I should use the blog to blather when I'm struggling with getting words out. Thanks for the encouragement!


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It is commonly alleged by those in favor of "secularism" that one of its great selling points is that it can bring peace and stability to society, while non-secular societies are going to be rife with conflict and strife. Let's take a look at this idea just a little more closely and see if it holds up in theory.
For our purposes, secularism refers to the idea that civil
government should avoid taking sides in worldview/religious disputes.
Secularism implies a state that refuses to endorse or reject any
particular worldview or set of beliefs that belongs to any worldview.
In other words, secularism implies a religiously neutral civil
Let's consider the various kinds of societies, in broad outline, that
can exist, and see if we have any reason to believe that secularism's
claim to be the ultimate producer of peace and stability can withstand
1. First of all, we can imagine what I will call a pluralistic, pietistic, tolerant, non-secular
society. What I mean by this is a society full of citizens/residents
where there is a large amount of significant worldview-diversity (pluralism)
among the citizens/residents, but where the citizens/residents (can I
just call them "citizens" for short from now on to save space?) have no
real concern to have their own ideals, beliefs, values, or goals
reflected in the actions and policies of the governing institutions (pietism). The society is non-secular,
and so the civil government does not claim to be neutral but
straightforwardly and honestly adopts a disputed set of beliefs and
values and bases its laws and policies on them. However, it also
displays a great deal of tolerance towards those who do not share the official government worldview.
It would seem that such a society is likely to be very peaceful and
stable, at least with regard to disputes that might originate from
differing worldviews. Since the citizens in the society are allowed to
live their own private lives in accordance with their own beliefs and
values due to a policy of broad toleration, while they have no desire to
have their views reflected in government policies, there is no recipe
here for significant conflict. (Of course, one can raise the question
of whether an entire population in the real world is likely to be pietistic to this extent.)
2. Secondly, we can consider a society that is pluralistic, non-pietistic, tolerant, and non-secular.
The key difference between this society and the first one is that the
citizens are not content merely to live out their private lives in
accordance with their own beliefs and values. They also have a strong
desire that the civil government follow their own beliefs and values in
policy-making and law-making. They hold their values and beliefs to be
important not just to themselves but to the general good and the
well-being of society, and they want society's policies and laws to be
wise and just (as they count wisdom and justice).
This society is going to be prone to conflict and will lack stability.
It is full of people who have completely different ideas of the true and
the good, all of whom wish their ideas to be reflected in official law
and policy. The problem, of course, is that there can only be one set of
laws and policies for a unified society, and those laws cannot reflect
everyone's conflicting viewpoints. As the state is non-secular,
it will have a straightforwardly-acknowledged official worldview guiding
its public policy. The citizens whose views coincide with this
official public worldview will be likely to be satisfied with this state
of affairs, while those whose views are at odds with the reigning
paradigm are likely to be dissatisfied with the situation, even if the
state tolerates their dissident views in private life. Conflict
may be significantly diffused if the state allows some kind of legal
processes, however long-term, by which dissidents can work within the
system to try to alter the overarching constitutional order and thus the
reigning paradigm of the society (such as by allowing amendments to the
Constitution to be made by a certain number of votes). However, this
will be unlikely to resolve all societal tension. Even with a legal
process for change in place and available, it will be difficult in a pluralistic
society to get the society to permanently and with stability endorse
anyone's particular point of view. As all sides of a particular dispute
can use the same legal channels, it will be hard for one group to
establish any kind of permanent dominance for its views over other
existing views. A pluralistic society of this sort is thus
likely to forever be like a see-saw, constantly going back and forth
between conflicting views and policies. If the disputed matters are
highly important to the parties (think of something like abortion, where
both sides feel crucial, fundamental rights are at stake), there will
likely be an increasing frustration as the parties realize they will
never really be able to make the society what they want it to be so long
as it remains non-pietistically pluralistic. This seems likely
to eventually lead either to the breaking up of the society or to
serious and even violent conflict, assuming the pluralism remains in place.
3. Now let's imagine a society that is pluralistic, pietistic, tolerant, and secular. This society is like the first society except that it is secular--that
is, it claims not to have an established official worldview but to be
neutral between contested worldview beliefs in the society.
This society, like the first, will likely be prone to peace and stability, for the same reasons as the first society was. If secularism vs. non-secularism has any effect at all, it will likely be towards slightly decreasing the amount of peace and stability. A secular
society claims to be neutral between viewpoints and to treat all
viewpoints equally. However, it is actually impossible for a state to
be neutral in this way (especially in a pluralistic society).
Different worldview beliefs lead to different values, and different
values lead to different ideas as to what is good, worthwhile,
beneficial, etc., both at an individual level and on a societal level.
Therefore, a pluralistic society will have differing ideas as to
what laws and policies in a society are truly good and wise. The state,
in embracing some particular set of values, priorities, goals,
policies, etc., will of necessity end up endorsing the ideals of one or
some groups of people over others'. Especially in a deeply pluralistic
society (like the modern USA), there simply will not be enough items
agreed upon between those with differing worldviews to provide a
sufficient foundation for governmental law and policy without the
government having to add to those items other controverted ideas and
ideals. So religious or worldview neutrality is really impossible for a
single society. (For more argumentation on this point, see here, here, and here.) Therefore, any promise of neutrality made by a secular
civil government will be necessarily deceptive. It will promise a kind
of equality to all the citizens and their views that it can't really
deliver. The society, as it must go on and make laws and policies in
order to survive, will in fact adopt some set of controversial ideas and
ideals anyway, all the while claiming it is not doing so. It will
encourage citizens who don't share the concealed official viewpoint to
think that their views are equally honored in the society when they
truly are not. This situation is likely to bring resentment, as
citizens with minority worldviews come to expect society to be more
congenial to themselves and their values than is really the case. There
would be less resentment, and thus less tension, if the society would
simply come out and declare honestly and straightforwardly what its
official viewpoint is and thus encourage its pietistic minority citizens to remain pietistic and not get their hopes raised too high.
4. Next, we can imagine a society that is pluralistic, non-pietistic, tolerant, and secular. This society is like society #2, except that it is secular.
This society is going to be prone to conflict and instability, for the
same reasons as society #2 was. Will the society's being secular
help? I don't really see how. In society #2, the civil government
adopted a contested point of view as the basis upon which to make law
and policy. The conflict arose because the non-pietistic
population was not content to let views contrary to their own dominate
political policy. The same situation will be in play here, the only
difference being that the civil government will be pretending not to have a controversial official worldview while in reality
it does. I suppose this might appease a few very stupid people who
also don't really care all that much about what is true and good, and it
also might make those with a majority viewpoint who don't think too
deeply feel better about themselves, as if their views aren't being
favored any more than anyone else's (though they really are). But it is
more likely to exacerbate the problems had by society #2 for the
reasons I mentioned when discussing society #3: A non-secular government might take views at odds with your beliefs and values, but at least it is honest and straightforward about it. A secular
society, on the other hand, may just as much hold views contrary to
yours, but it will disingenuously try to make you think that it is not
doing so, that it is treating your views fully equally with all other
views. This is likely to increase rather than decrease tensions among
those with minority viewpoints. Also, a non-secular government,
because it is fully aware and up-front about its controversial
positions, is likely to be more aware than a naive or disingenuous non-secular
government will be about the possible desirability of allowing societal
tension to be diffused by means of putting in place legal processes
towards change that minorities can avail themselves of. A secular
government, on the other hand, may be less likely to consider carefully
such an idea, since it denies outright that there are any minority
views in the society (after all, how can there be views that are out of
accord with the official viewpoint of the civil government--which is
what I mean by "minority views"--if the civil government is neutral?).
Thus, I must conclude that the secularism of this society is likely to make it less rather than more stable and peaceful than the otherwise comparable non-secular society #2.
5. OK, now let's consider a society that is pluralistic, pietistic, non-tolerant, and non-secular.
This society, for obvious reasons, is going to be prone to strife and instability. Even though the citizens are pietistic,
yet they still hold beliefs and values that they consider important to
their private lives. Insofar as the state refuses to allow them to hold
and practice these beliefs and values, there is likely to be conflict.
Of course, toleration comes in degrees. We can think of a
society that allows dissident beliefs and values to be held and
practiced in private life, but not in public view. (Imagine, for
example, if Jews were allowed to be Jews and live as Jews in their
private lives, but were not allowed to go outside in Jewish dress, erect
publicly-visible synagogues, etc.) We can think of a society that goes
further than this and outlaws even private beliefs and practice
(insofar as such things can be witnessed enough to come to government
attention). And we could imagine other forms of non-toleration as well. I think we can say, generally, that the less tolerant a pluralistic society is, the less peaceful and the more unstable it is likely to be, all other things being equal. A pluralistic
society is a society full of people with different worldviews,
different beliefs and values. If we make the way of life of a large
group of people illegal in a society, we are courting serious resistance
and thus conflict. For example, some people in Germany and the USA,
and probably other western countries, want to outlaw male infant
circumcision, including for religious reasons. What baffles me is how
they never seem to realize just how impractical that idea is. Jews, and
those who would sympathize with Jews if persecuted, make up a
significantly large part of the populations of these countries. To ban
an essential practice of Judaism (and apparently Islam as well, or so
I'm told) would result in mass unrest and chaos.
6. Now, a society that is pluralistic, non-pietistic, non-tolerant, and non-secular.
Need we say much here? Obviously, this society is going to be significantly more unstable and chaotic than society #5.
7. What if we make the society pluralistic, pietistic, non-tolerant, and secular?
It's hard to see how making the society secular is going to have any influence to make the society more stable or peaceful. Again, as we saw earlier, a secular
society is one that is disingenuous towards those with minority views,
and thus, if anything, is simply going to increase rather than decrease
tension. Secularism might even possibly have the effect of encouraging a society towards more non-toleration: A non-secular
society knows and acknowledges that it disfavors certain views, and
thus it is likely to consider how those holding such views should be
treated. On the other hand, a secular society denies that it
disfavors anyone's views (while doing so anyway), so it might be less
inclined to consciously consider how tolerant its policies are towards dissidents in some cases. It might be less tolerant in some cases without noticing, due to a naivete arising from its secular philosophy. On the other hand, perhaps secularism might be more likely in some ways to be tolerant than a non-secular
society, in that a society can only go so far in terms of
discriminating against minorities before the illusion of neutrality
comes to be in grave danger of bursting.
8. How about pluralistic, non-pietistic, non-tolerant, and secular?
Again, I don't see how secularism would make this society any more stable than society #6.
9. Now, let's imagine some non-pluralistic societies. I'm going to look at these more briefly and in a single point, because once we've gotten rid of pluralism, we've removed the basic cause of worldview conflict, as is evident from what we've seen.
Obviously, a tolerant, pietistic, non-pluralistic society is going to be prone to peace and stability. But a non-tolerant, non-pietistic, non-pluralistic
society will also preserve overall peace and stability, because there
will only be a very few people in it with minority views. All societies
are intolerant towards some ideas and actions of some members of the society. For example, in the modern USA, we are intolerant
towards theft and human sacrifice. Are there people in our society who
want to steal, think it's OK to steal, and actually steal? Obviously.
Are there people in our society who think it is good thing, or even a
religious virtue, to practice human sacrifice? I would be surprised if
there weren't. However, these ideas and ideals are enough of a minority
that those who have and practice them do not make up a significant
portion of the population--or, to put it another way, the society is not
really significantly pluralistic with regard to these ideas and practices. Therefore, we can be intolerant
towards them (by making them illegal) without undermining our overall
peace and stability as a society. And this will be the case generally
with such uncommon views. In a biblical theocracy, for example, where
the public expression of idolatrous worship would be outlawed, so long
as the population does not become significantly pluralistic
regarding such matters, the outlawing of these things will not tend to
decrease peace and stability. More likely, it will increase peace and
stability, as it will discourage pluralism in these areas from
developing and reinforce publicly-shared values. (Of course, throughout
this whole examination, I've been looking at these things from a purely
human point of view, not taking into account how God would bless a
society favorable to his will and curse a society non-favorable.)
It seems to me it would make little difference whether a non-pluralistic society were secular or non-secular. It would have little practical reason to be secular, as there would be little point in pretending to be neutral.
So let's consider what we've learned through this little exercise. Our
goal was to examine more closely the theoretical claim that secularism
will tend to make human societies more peaceful and stable. We have not
seen any reason at all to think that that is the case. If anything,
secularism might, in some circumstances, make a society somewhat less
stable and peaceful, but it's hard to see how it would be at all likely
to make it more so. I think we can conclude that if it is peace and
stability we are after, secularism is a useless dead-end. Getting rid
of pluralism, on the other hand, would seem to be a very good move, if
it could be done in a peaceful way (such as through large amounts of
voluntary conversions to a single worldview ideology).
Some accuse those of us who hold to the Establishment Principle--the
idea that all societies ought to be explicitly Christian (and even
embrace some specific form of Christianity and some specific church) and
base laws and policies on the revealed will of God--as promoting a
political philosophy that will tend to produce chaos, unrest,
instability, and violence in a society. However, our investigation
showed no reason, humanly speaking, to think that the promotion of the
Establishment Principle will do any such thing. Certainly, much depends
on how biblical law will be promoted in a society. If we attempt to
use violence and civil coercion to suddenly enforce an entire Christian
societal moral code on a population like the modern USA, yes, that will
be highly likely to lead to serious chaos and conflict. However, if we
work in more peaceful, moderate, and long-term ways to influence people
in the broader society to share our point of view, and/or if we engage
in creating our own distinct societies populated by Christians and based
on Christian values (such as is envisioned in the New Plymouth Project
of the Reformation Party), there is no reason to think that the pursuit
or attainment of these goals will produce chaos and unrest in society.
On the contrary, insofar as we succeed in reducing pluralism and
shaping a society in which the vast majority of the population agree on
the same basic beliefs and values and see those values enshrined in the
common laws, we are most likely to create a society that is much less
prone to conflict and chaos and that is much more stable than anything
we see today in the secular western world.


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