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Seal Facts and Information
Introduction to Seals
Pinnipeds are found all over the world, and there are 33 known species of them. 19 are seal species. This is due to the fact that they have winged feet. Depending on the species of seal, there is quite a difference from the sizes. The largest ones can be about 16 feet long with the smallest of them being about four feet long. The terminology for seals includes males being called bulls, females being called cows, and the offspring being called pups.
Many researchers believe that there are many species that have died off in the past. However, there is still a great deal of research that has to be done in that field. One of the most common types of seals is the gray seal. There are more of them than any other, and their numbers continue to increase annually. However, there are many other species of seals that are in jeopardy of extinction.
There are many different reasons for such a decline in the number of seals found in the world. One that was quite significant occurred in 1988. A type of distemper virus quickly spread among them and that resulted in the death of 1/3 of all common seals residing within the North Sea. You will find that seals live from the coldest polar regions to the very warm climates around California.
Seals are highly intelligent animals and they have been used in a variety of conservation programs such as those at Sea World. However, it is very important to understand they are still wild animals. They have been known to bite and to attack humans that get too close to them. This is due to their natural instinct to protect themselves, their young, and their surroundings.
Top Seal Facts
They look like very gentle creatures though with their brownish bodies and their small heads. They are mammals due to the fact that they offer milk to their young pups until they are old enough to feed on their own. They are warm blooded too which is why they depend on their layers of fat to keep them warm when necessary.
Some people take the stand that seals are lazy creatures. This is because they can often be seen enjoying the sun as they perch themselves on rocks. However, they are very busy when they are in the water which is most of the time. When they are on land for an increased period of time that means they are breeding, about to give bird, or molting. If you aren’t familiar with it, molting is the process of shedding their skin and this takes place for them once a year.
It can take up to six or eight weeks for the molting period to be completed. They are often very noisy, irritable, and agitated during this period of time. Researchers once though this was due to it being painful for them but that isn’t the case. Instead it is now believed that it is because of the increased levels of hormones. The seals also don’t feed during this period of time but have enough blubber to survive on comfortably.
They are very curious too which is why they will follow boats to see what is going on aboard them. This is a great way for those people on these ships to get to see the seals up close in their natural environment.
There is plenty to learn about seals as a whole, but you can also find out a great deal concerning individual species. Take a look online, in books, and at animal conservation locations to find out all you can. You won’t be disappointed by the great information you come across regarding seals. | {
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Best marathon: 2:23:57 (2007, St. George). Won the Top of Utah Marathon twice (2003,2004). Won the USATF LDR circuit in Utah in 2006.
Draper Days 5 K 15:37 (2004)
Did not know this until June 2012, but it turned out that I've been running with spina bifida occulta in L-4 vertebra my entire life, which explains the odd looking form, struggles with the top end speed, and the poor running economy (cannot break 16:00 in 5 K without pushing the VO2 max past 75).
Short-Term Running Goals:
Qualify for the US Olympic Trials. With the standard of 2:19 on courses with the elevation drop not exceeding 450 feet this is impossible unless I find an uncanny way to compensate for the L-4 defect with my muscles. But I believe in miracles.
Long-Term Running Goals:
2:08 in the marathon. Become a world-class marathoner. This is impossible unless I find a way to fill the hole in L-4 and make it act healthy either by growing the bone or by inserting something artificial that is as good as the bone without breaking anything important around it. Science does not know how to do that yet, so it will take a miracle. But I believe in miracles.
Personal:
I was born in 1973. Grew up in Moscow, Russia. Started running in 1984 and so far have never missed more than 3 consecutive days. Joined the LDS Church in 1992, and came to Provo, Utah in 1993 to attend BYU. Served an LDS mission from 1994-96 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Got married soon after I got back. My wife Sarah and I are parents of nine children: Benjamin, Jenny, Julia, Joseph, Jacob, William, Stephen, Matthew, Mary, and Bella. We home school our children.
I am a software engineer/computer programmer/hacker whatever you want to call it, and I am currently working for RedX. Aside from the Fast Running Blog, I have another project to create a device that is a good friend for a fast runner. I called it Fast Running Friend.
Favorite Quote:
...if we are to have faith like Enoch and Elijah we must believe what they believed, know what they knew, and live as they lived.
In the evening, heard the news about President Hinckley's passing away. What a great life he lived! It is hard to comprehend. He has done a lot in 97 years, and he finished strong with the last 12 years serving as the President of the LDS Church, and being actively involved in the work. He sure practiced the doctrine of enduring to the end.
A.M. The heat wave continues. It was 40 F this morning. A very pleasant temperature. Wore shorts and two long-sleeved shirts. Ran the first 10.1 with Ted. The trail was slippery. We fell behind the 8:00 guy by over 2 minutes in the first 3 miles. Then we got some light and dry ground, and we caught him with vengeance. What a drama! It was more entertaining than a movie. We would hit a dry spot and close 30 seconds on him. Then he gaps us on ice. Then we close again on a dry spot. Finally we are ahead of him, but the battle is not over - there is some ice up ahead. Finally, on the last 0.4 it was dry all the way, so we really showed him who's the boss and beat him by 1:03 finishing 10.1 in 1:19:45. All of this fun while spending no money and building aerobic fitness as opposed to sitting in front of a TV and just getting fat and lazy. Much good can be accomplished when you realize that joy comes from simple things.
Dropped Ted off, ran some more. About 1.7 miles later ran into Tyrel Jensen, a BYU middle distance runner, best mile in 4:05. Ran another couple of miles with him, then headed home. Ended up with about 15.8 in 2:00:39.
P.M. End of the heat wave. Got a nice snow storm, temperatures down to 25 F. Slick roads. 1 with Julia in 11:47, 2 with Benjamin in 17:42, 1.5 with Jenny in 14:27.
A.M. Ran with Ted at 5:00 AM. His knee was hurting, he went only 6 miles. The roads were pretty slow, although they did not look too bad. We ran 6 miles in 54:05, got beat by the 9:00 boltushka. Boltushka is a Russian word that means "talkative woman", but Sarah and I use in a variety of other ways. One of the meanings is "a recreational female runner that runs primarily for social reasons".
Thought I'd be able to go much faster after dropping off Ted, but no luck. Ended up with 2:16:53 for 16.1, 8:30.12 average! Got beat by the 8:30 quicker boltushka.
P.M. 2.1 with Benjamin in 16:58, Jenny joined us for the first 1.75 in 14:35. The funny thing is that Jenny's average pace (8:20) was faster than on my run earlier in the morning. Julia tried to run, made it about 0.1, but her knee was hurting. Cross-country skied, tried the Provo River Trail by Geneva Road, did not like it, tried the Provo Canyon, did not like it either, but got a total of 4 miles in. Ran the church and back later in the evening for the ESL class - it was unpleasantly cold.
A.M. The trail was covered with snow today. Ran with Jeff at 5:10 AM. We got beat by all kinds of boltushkas. 10.1 in 1:26:40, 8:34.85 average.
P.M. 2 with Benjamin in 16:12. The trail was quite clear. Provo City plowed it well. Tried to cross-country anyway, made it to almost a mile out, and then one of the poles got caught in the fence, and it broke the handle. Managed to make it back nevertheless, the broken handle was an annoyance but not as a big of a deal as I thought it would be. Total distance of about 1.7. Then ran with Jenny around the block, 1.75 in 15:43, added another 1.75 by myself in 12:55. A little later 1 mile with Julia in 11:19, plus some errands on foot.
A.M. Had two interesting dreams. In the first one, Google managed to put together a very strong team that beat our team by 10 minutes in Del Sol. I woke up before finding out our finish time, then decided to go back to sleep to find out, but then as I woke up more realized that the next dream would not have that information. The next dream was very different indeed. I was running on the Provo River Trail and saw a tiger. Climbed on a tree, tried to call 911. The cellphone was not working. Finally got through, but the operator was not very helpful. Then some people came and said there was no tiger. Others said there was. I began to wonder who was right, and woke up. There was no tiger indeed.
Cold morning. Ran 5 miles with Sarah around the block in 52:34. Then decided to chase down the 8:00 guy for a challenge. I was 12:34 behind him, but I had 10.1 miles to close the gap. Would not be a challenge on a normal day, but with the snow and ice it was interesting. However, the cold temperature in combination with the abundance of asphalt patches made the task reasonably possible. I decided the 8:00 guy had a name - Ded Moroz, or Granpa Frost, the Russian version of Santa Claus. Half way through the last 10.1 of the run Ded Moroz started getting concerned, because I had closed half of the gap. However, it was getting warmer, and the roads were getting slicker, so he had that to his advantage, and was hoping he'd be able to hold me off. With a mile to go he saw me coming, and knew he was doomed unless he made me trip on ice. He tried, but I was smart enough to slow down under the bridges, and then quickly accelerate on the dry spots. Finished in 1:59:57, beat Ded Moroz by 51 seconds, 1:07:23 for the last 10.1, 6:40.3 avg, 7:56.62 avg for 15.1.
P.M. 2 with Benjamin in 17:34, first 1.5 Jenny was with us (13:28), 1 with Julia in 11:35, then 2 alone in 14:57.
A.M. Tomorrow is going to be a very busy, so I decided to do my long run today. Ran the first 10.1 with Jeff. At first, the roads were so slick that we were trailing boltushkas - 43:37 for the first 5.05. I had never run 20 miles at the average pace of slower than 8:00, and thought today would be the day. On the way back at first things did not look so good, and then we ran a mile in 7:46. I could not believe it, double checked my calculations, yes, indeed it was 7:46! Something happened to the snow and we got more traction. We were able to run 2 more miles under 7:30 and finished 10.1 in 1:22:53.
Dropped Jeff off, ran the second half alone . Now I was excited about catching Ded Moroz, the 8:00 guy. At first things looked great - closed 42 seconds in the first 2 miles, thought I'd get him easily. But then it started snowing, and the trail got very slick again. So for the next two miles I lost ground. I thought perhaps today Ded Moroz would win. But then I got out on a good stretch of road where the snow composition was just right and gave much better traction. I took advantage of the opportunity and ran a 6:12 mile. The rest of the way was decent - it kept snowing, and the snow started covering the ice well enough to be able to run 7:30-7:50 pace. I ended up with 2:39:46 for 20.2, 7:54.55 avg.
P.M. 1.5 with Jenny in 13:28, 2 miles with Benjamin in 17:12, and 1 with Julia in 11:15.
P.M. A very long day, but managed to squeeze in a 15.1 mile run. Warm day, around 35 F, ran in shorts. A lot of snow has melted. First 2 with Benjamin and Jeff in 15:35, Jeff went another 10.1 with me. We did a tempo pickup on a dry section for 1.05 in 5:50, 5:33 pace. Hit 12.1 mark in 1:28:30. Then went for 3 more to finish off 15.1. After about a quarter realized it was dry enough to run sub-6:00, so just went for it. Ran the last 2.75 in 16:07, 5:51.6 avg. Slipped on snow, but then made up on dry ground. Total time for 15.1 was 1:46:22, 7:02.65 avg. Jenny and Julia ran there regular distances with Sarah. | {
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Elgee ParkFamily Reserve Riesling2011CONFIRM 2011 VINTAGE
Elgee Park is the oldest vineyard on the Mornington Peninsula. The picturesque property is situated at the end of Wallaces Road, amidst the protected gentle hills of Merricks North, one of the warmest sites on the peninsula. Established in 1972 by Baillieu Myer and family, the five hectare property was the first in a new era of distinguished Mornington vineyards. The splendid maritime conditions which surround the vines are so very similar to that of Bordeaux. Limited quantities of exceptional wine are released each year under the Family Reserve label.
Available by the dozen
Case of 12
$263.00
Elgee Park vineyard covers the north facing slope of a natural amphitheatre, with a view across Port Phillip Bay to the Melbourne skyline, as depicted on the label. Surrounded by gardens, the vineyard is adorned by a gazebo and sculptures, hand hewn fences and an array of roses at the end of each vine row. There's normally good rainfall throughout the growing season and the climate offers an extended ripening period, ideal for premium grape growing. After being harvested at perfect ripeness, grapes are de-stemmed and crushed, drained, pressed and settled. The free run juices are cool fermented, settled and racked, filtered and bottled to arrive at a wonderfully fresh, crisp and aromatic style. Alcohol 13.0%
Pale straw colour. Perfumed bouquet of lime, passionfruits and rose. Wonderful cool climate citrus and lime, apple and a hint of peach as well as dry, savoury mineral. The palate is crisp, delicate and dry, showing great length, abundant with citrus and floral flavours.
WARNING
It is an offence in Australia to supply alcohol to a person under the age of 18 years. Severe penalties apply to the supplier.
It is an offence in Australia for a person under the age of 18 years to purchase or receive liquor. Severe penalties apply to the procurer and the minor. Liquor Licence 51409215 | Wine is sunlight held together by water -Galileo | Drink More Wine in Moderation | {
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The Repeal of Brown vs. Board-America’s Tragic Return to Segregation
Last summer I railed against the construction and zoning of Shelby County’s all-Black Southwind High School, which the county school board seemed to be using to “whiten” Germantown, Houston and Collierville High Schools. Now the Metropolitan School District in Nashville is undergoing a similar crisis in which Black parents are objecting to a district rezoning that sends almost all of the district’s Black students to all-Black schools. Letters written by white people to the Nashville Scene reveal that many of them applaud the rezoning, and for distinctly racial reasons. One woman asked rhetorically why the “liberals” don’t want white people to be able to preserve their “white heritage”, while another stated that going to school with white people won’t fix what’s wrong with inner city Black youngsters. The tragic truth is that school boards are using neighborhood zoning to resegregate public schools, and they’re getting away with it. At a time when the courts should be more vigilant than ever, they are removing school districts from court supervision, and those districts are then proceeding to resegregate, presumably because most school boards are elected, and this is the politically-expedient thing to do, a popular move with white parents in many districts. Conservatives often argue that Black children don’t have to be in the same classroom with white children to learn- and if we’re talking about learning facts (times tables, history, the law of thermodynamics, etc.) that’s true. But learning also occurs when children interact with other children, especially those from a different background, and that learning is crucial. It is this learning that is lost when parents homeschool, or when children attend one-race schools. The current reality in the tragic situation is highlighted in situations like that of Southwind near Memphis, where the frehsman enrollment this year is down 200 students from projection. Evidently, many Black parents sold their homes and moved rather than subject their children to the indignities of a segregated, overcrowded school. It is a tragedy when people have to sell their homes and move to exercise a right to integrated schools that the constitution supposedly already gave them. If we insist on continuing to separate white and Black children in schools, we will reap a terrible harvest of hate from it in the future. | {
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A Short History of the Body
“Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It’s great. I feel like I’m coming all day…”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
By most accounts, the actual sport of aesthetic bodybuilding (different from athletic competition) is unofficially dated back to 11th century India, where athletes lifted carved stone dumbell weights (called Nals) much the same as modern fitness equipment is used to fatigue and tear our 21st century muscles. In fact, gyms in India have been traced back to this same period, and by the 16th century, it is said that bodybuilding was one of their national pastimes. There must be something intrinsically human about changing the human body, because it seems to be a fairly consistent activity throughout all recorded history, regardless of the method.
Though much has been made of the importance of physical fitness in the ancient Greek (and later, Roman) empires, the specific pursuit of bodybuilding did not yet exist. Instead, the athletes were trained in several sports and were expected to be consistent in each. These athletes were professionals in the truest sense of the word, and enjoyed great festivals in their honour at the conclusion of every sporting event. The very early Olympic games were held between cities, which each supported their own stable of elite athletes.
Unfortunately, quite a large gap exists between those early days and the middle of the 19th century, when bodybuilding began in earnest in North America and throughout Europe. At the first modern Olympics in 1896, there were two weightlifting events, variations of which continue today. Many North Americans were first exposed to bodybuilding through the strongman at traveling circus sideshows and carnivals. The man credited with ‘inventing’ many of the contemporary bodybuilding techniques was a German named Eugen Sandow, who, like many other strongmen before (and since), traveled with sideshows until the 1890’s. Before long, however, he came to see his body as a work of art, and began touring to show off his amazing physique during “Muscle Display Performances.” Hired as the personal fitness trainer to King George V, he was able to reach out to the public and advocate the potential of the human body through diet and increased physical activity. He was very influential in starting up a Ministry of Health, among other initiatives. As early as his influence was on bodybuilding, he is still revered as a deserving pioneer in the body building industry — as a tribute, the Mr. Olympia trophy is a gold statue of Sandow.
By the time Sandow died in 1925, bodybuilding had begun to take on some degree of popularity throughout England and Europe. Weightlifting equipment such as barbells and dumbbells were available commercially throughout the world, and a new generation of (mostly) men began lifting weights to create a more ‘masculine’ physique. To give you an example of the popularity of bodybuilding, who hasn’t heard of Charles Atlas? He was in his hey-day in the 1930’s, and he’s still a household name.
The “Golden Age” of bodybuilding is recognized as the years between 1940 and 1970. There were many new magazines devoted to the sport, and international organizations were in charge of hosting competitions for athletes worldwide. Most of us have an internal image, however stereotypical, of big guys lifting weights on the beach — it’s almost archetypal — but that place existed in Santa Monica, California. It has been referred to as Muscle Beach since the 1930’s. It was during this period when the basic ideology of bodybuilding was laid out: ‘train for health, strength, fitness and refined muscular development.’
For many, the bodybuilders of this period represent the height of masculinity. The competitors were huge, but still had some body fat. They were strong, but the average person could relate to them much more easily than anybody can to today’s ultra-chemically-enhanced bodies. Movies such as Tarzan and Spiderman featured bodybuilders-turned-actors in the roles of amazing super-men. Professional bodybuilders such as Lou Ferrigno and (now Governor) Arnold Schwarzenegger continued this trend from the 1970’s, taking us all the way up to today. For a great (if exaggerated) representation of bodybuilding in the 70’s, see the movie Pumping Iron. For many, that film represents the height of bodybuilding, even though those athletes are much less exaggerated than today’s.
Many believe that the sport of competitive bodybuilding has gone a little too far over the past twenty years. Whatever the case, constantly-improving supplements, steroids, and workout routines will ensure that tomorrow’s bodybuilders will be even bigger, leaner, and stronger. And probably more chemically tanned. And although all the right drugs and supplements help to refine the physiques of these athletes, it is undeniable that such an activity still takes an incredible amount of dedication and hard work. And we haven’t even touched on the subject of female bodybuilders! There are a multitude of resources on bodybuilders, bodybuilding and personal transformations on the internet. I generally try to avoid plugging other websites here, but bodybuilding.com is the BME of fitness.
Progress
It’s now been four months since I started my training, and it’s still going great. I haven’t missed any sessions (except when I’ve been out of town) and I haven’t let myself give up before an entire workout, even though I’ve felt very, very close to doing so. On occasion, the only thing that keeps me there is the thought that I know that I will recover in time. It is very often tough to push yourself without a workout partner, though I am doing my best. I find it’s easiest if I challenge myself to get the most out of my workouts.
What I’d never really considered before this month is how much the outside world can affect your dedication to consistent training. This has been a very tough month for me in many ways, and as we all know, this has a tendency to affect our bodies. I haven’t let this happen, however, and I am better off for it. I remain dedicated to my physical transformation, and though my goals are still formulating in my mind, I know I’m one step closer with every visit to the gym. I find it much easier to resist all the grossly fattening foods I used to feel so guilty about eating, and when I give in to temptation, I’m no longer riddled with that same feeling. I enjoy eating the occasional “cheat meal,” because as dedicated as I am, I still have to enjoy life. This has even rubbed off on my partner, who is now eating healthier than ever before (and seeing results after just a few weeks!) and enjoying herself at the same time. It just goes to show that you don’t have to starve yourself to lose weight — just a conscious decision to make the change for the better.
I now totally understand why “workout people” hate to miss a session. What one person calls obsession is simply dedication to another. If I miss one date at the gym, it sets me back almost an entire week. At this point I’m going to the gym six times per week: weightlifting is twice with my trainer and twice by myself, in addition to the three sessions of cardiovascular exercise I have recently undertaken. On Mondays and Thursdays I work my back, my shoulders and my arms, and on Tuesday and Friday I work my chest and my legs. Aside from having missed one session due to Thanksgiving and having trouble getting back into the swing of things, this “split routine” is going well. Certain areas of my body are reacting well to it, and others are still lagging behind. The problem with an area that’s not developing well is that it won’t improve if you just add more weight — you need to work out smarter, not harder, or the muscle fibers will not heal.
Unfortunately, on my first “alone” session without the trainer, I pushed myself a little too hard. At the time, I felt great. “Wow, I can push more weight than I thought!” But that led to problems at my next session with the trainer, because I could barely lift any weight at all. The same for the session after that. I had torn my muscles so badly that I hadn’t recovered in a whole week. It set me back and I promised myself I’d never do that again. The idea, as I’ve found out, is to stimulate the muscles into growing, not tear them to shreds so that they take forever to heal (and don’t necessarily gain you any strength or size once they have healed). Muscles get bigger and stronger while outside of the gym, and that’s why it’s important to eat plenty of healthy food and get lots of rest. You can tear the muscles all you want, but you won’t see any gains if you over-do it or fail to get adequate nutrition and sleep.
Statistically, I’m improving constantly, which has become my main motivation.
Former refers to July 14, the date of my first workout.
Current refers to November 7.
Again, I keep getting told that my progress has been amazing. Every time I look down at my still-fat ‘gut’, I am reminded that the second phase of my bodybuilding endeavor, the “cutting” phase (losing fat/cardio exercise) is just around the corner. My main priority has been to add muscle to my frame — if I had simply done cardio work from the beginning, I would have lost the fat by now, but I wouldn’t have had any muscle underneath it. And now I do, so I am preparing to start ‘chiselling’ down the fat and working on problem areas. I feel like a science experiment with all this weight gain and weight loss, and it’s only going to get worse, but better at the same time. I am excited to start losing fat, but I still feel like I need to gain a little more muscle (maybe 10lbs) before I do.
Unfortunately, the pictures I took don’t come close to showing the true changes in my body shape. I’ve gained inches everywhere, and muscles are now starting to separate and get bigger at the same time. Hopefully next update will bring a much more improved version of my body!
About Dustin
Dustin is an emerging professional body artist in the Toronto area who apprenticed under some of the best practitioners in the business. He is also one of the original co-founders and early performer's with the influential suspension group iWasCured. More importantly, Dustin is sick of looking down and seeing all those extra pounds around his waistline and feeling tired after climbing a set of stairs. Maybe the fact that as a child, Dustin wanted to be The Incredible Hulk when he grew up has something to do with this. | {
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is a non trivial quantity for a country of our size. Well done John Howard.
Basically, people are good. It's worth remembering. I've dissed John Howard more than once in this blog, but I don't hate the guy any more. The current bitter political fights are very important, but they revolve around some pretty complex ideological issues and its understandable that people reach different positions. I think that what John Howard has done to this country has been harmful and destructive, but i can see why he's doing it, and it's not for personal benefit, he truly believes. Here, where the right action is clear, he's come through and done good, done better than most would have.
I've been, off and on, trying to imagine what a good political party would be like. I think there's a lesson here for that: The speed with which this was put together is very impressive... I try to picture Mark Latham or Bob Brown or Lyn Allison doing something like that, that fast, and I can't. A political system has to be that fast, a political party has to be that fast, when appropriate. Sometimes there isn't time to vote on everything, you have to just rely on having given power to the right people. Not that that need be a jump in the dark, you work up to it, gradually run people in, but once they've proven themselves they have to get real power. Because there are good people who will use power well.
Addendum: Perhaps as important as running people in is running people out. For example, what do you do after being PM? John Howard's spent most of his life working towards gaining that position, can you imagine him staying in politics long after losing an election? Well, he probably can't either, so he's going to be really desperate to hang on to that position. There's no exit strategy. So... 1. maybe we should think of an exit strategy for Mr. Howard. Something nice, something non-token... and 2. this hypothetical party better have some role for honoured elder statespeople that ex-leaders can slip into comfortably... a sort of big-picture, step back from the fray, bask-in-respect type role. | {
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The Spanish directors of the BE festival, Isla Aguilar and Miguel Oyarzun, are backstage at Birmingham Rep, where this year's event is taking place. "This is where we're going to put the bar and cabaret stage," Oyarzun says, indicating the vast scenic workshop. They lead the way into the paint frame, a towering brick silo in which backcloths are suspended on industrial easels. "We're going to have live art performances in here," Oyarzun explains before unfurling the steel shutters that reveal the wing-space that is the auditorium. "And this is where we're going to have the restaurant." I can't help but notice a sign above the prompt corner that says No Food or Drink on Stage. "Ah, well, we can ignore that for a couple of weeks," Oyarzun smiles. "The BE festival is all about bending the rules a little."
Oyarzun and Aguilar have been bending the rules since they came to Birmingham from their home city of Madrid five years ago. In that time the BE festival has grown to become the country's quirkiest showcase for new, experimental European theatre, and is the only international event in which the interval is every bit as important as the performance. Each evening the audience has the chance to sample four half-hour shows from 14 countries; and at half-time everyone – cast, crew and public – sit down for a meal together on the stage. "Last year, we had the director of the Barbican sharing a bowl of soup with a Big Issue seller from the free-ticket scheme," Oyarzun says proudly.
It's no accident that a festival that places such a strong emphasis on food should have been cooked up over a curry. "We had recently come to Birmingham and were invited to an Indian restaurant by some of our new friends, including co-director Mike Tweddle and the guys from [Birmingham-based alternative theatre makers] Stan's Cafe," Aguilar says. "We were discussing our dream for an international festival in which everyone could eat, live and work together and Stan's Cafe immediately offered use of their space at AE Harris engineering works. Within one evening we had a manifesto and a venue."
What they didn't have was any funding, and the first festival in 2010 only took place because of a great deal of sponsorship in kind. "We asked local people if they'd be willing to put the artists up in their homes," Aguilar says. "We were overwhelmed by the generosity that people in Birmingham showed to two crazy Spanish people banging on doors."
This is a watershed year for the festival, as an upturn in AE Harris's order-book meant that it had to ask for its factory back. Birmingham Rep stepped in to offer the festival a home, though it presented the directors with a dilemma. "The Rep has always been a great supporter," Oyarzun says. "But we were a bit nervous about transferring the festival to a 'legitimate' theatre space. We were worried that we might lose our sense of identity."
Aguilar recalls the eureka moment that solved the problem. "I was looking at the vast spaces behind the scenes and it suddenly occurred to me that the scenic workshops are basically a factory for making drama. So then I thought, what if we turned everything back-to-front? It would be a chance for people to experience the industrial side of the theatre they don't normally see."
To keep ticket prices as competitive as possible, the festival has even introduced its own unit of currency. Netherlands-based performance artist Dadara will be present in the persona of CEO of his own financial institution, the Exchanghibition Bank. The only tender accepted at the bar and restaurant will be personalised notes issued by Dadara and known as the karma.
The exchange rate is an easily calculable one karma to the pound, but as Aguilar points out there will be a "bad karma" surcharge for anyone who wishes to use plastic. And if you find yourself short, you could always consider paying in vegetables. Catalonian director Quim Marcé will be coming to Birmingham to reveal how he managed to circumvent a punitive VAT rise on theatre tickets in Spain by selling carrots at the box office.
"It's hard to make a living as an artist anywhere, but particularly in Spain," Oyarzun says. "Back home, you could never have got a festival like this off the ground. Right now, Birmingham is a more exciting place to be than Madrid." | {
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Arden Companies Outdoor Patio Cushions {Review}
I absolutely love spring and summer and during those times of year, one of my favorite things to do is to eat a meal with my family out on our patio. I love being outdoors and sharing a meal with the people I love most. We have worked hard over the years on our yard to improve it's aesthetic qualities (although we have a ways to go!) and one thing that is a blessing is beautiful, comfortable cushions to sit on at our patio table.
I recently reviewed a set of 4 cushions from Arden Companies, a manufacturer of outdoor products for retailers including Lowes, Walmart, Meijer and numerous other stores. We reviewed their Classic Collection Peekaboo Patio Chair Cushion and are very pleased with them. Created by for LIVING, each cushion measures 44"x21" and is made from a polyester-olefin blend that resists fading. Made in the USA, each cushion retails for $39.99.Here's a peak at some of the features we love most about these cushions:
They are padded perfectly. In fact, they are about twice the depth of my former cushions. This makes for a comfortable and relaxing place to sit.
I love, love, love the pattern of the cushions, as well as the detail on the upper portion of each cushion. Having the slightly gathered look with a button in the middle certainly adds class to the cushions.
Each tie on the cushion is a perfect length. On our former cushions they were a tad too short which made tying them a bit more difficult.
I couldn't be happier with these cushions and I'm sure you'd feel the same way. I love dreaming about ideas for our back yard and patio area so if you'd like some inspiration as well, be sure to check out Arden's Bombay Outdoors website for garden ideas and outdoor entertainment ideas. Thanks so much for visiting Purposeful Homemaking. Please take a moment to"Like" me on Facebook, follow me on Twitterand Pinterest or stay connected withGoogle Friend Connectso you don'tmiss a thing!
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559 Bergen Boulevard
Ridgefield, New Jersey
201-943-2445 (Main)
201-943-0612 (Fax)
[email protected]
Former Municipal Court Judge*
Robert W. Avery, Esq.
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WE EVALUATE EACH CLIENT’S NEEDS BASED UPON THEIR INDIVIDUAL CIRCUMSTANCES. TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT TO SEE HOW NJ’S CRIMINAL DEFENSE EXPERTS MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP YOU, PLEASE SEE OUR CONTACT PAGE, OR CALL US AT 201-943-2445.
Teaneck NJ MDMA / Molly Possession Defense Attorney
Drug possession in New Jersey is a very serious crime and is governed by N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10. With the exception of Marijuanapossession, this is a third degree crime, carrying up to a 5 year prison term. Thousands of peoples lives are ruined every year by being caught with drugs. If you have been charged with MDMA / Molly possession in NJ, our Experienced Teaneck NJ Drug Possession Defense Attorney’s are the best in the State and will fight to keep you safe!
There are many avenues of defense, generally these rely on defects in how the police obtained the evidence. The police need probable cause to suspect you to be in possession and to search your person or vehicle. They need a warrant to search your home. If they had neither of these, you may be able to have the evidence thrown out of court and your case dismissed.
It is important to know your rights at all stages of a search, seizure and arrest. With over 40 years experience as Judge, Prosecutor, and Private Defense Lawyer, the Attorneys of Avery & Avery know all the tricks and tactics NJ police use to improperly obtain evidence. As Criminal Defense Lawyers, we have mastered the identification of flaws in the States case, and will work with you to either avoid a criminal conviction, have the case thrown out completely, or have the charges significantly reduced.
In most cases you do have a defense, or a way to avoid or minimize Prison time, Fines, LicenseSuspensions, and a CriminalRecord, and it is important to contact an experienced Teaneck NJ Criminal Defense Attorney immediately to help guide you through our complicated legal system. It is also important to remember that even if there are no affirmative defenses, a Teaneck NJ MDMA / Molly Possession Defense Lawyer can still help by significantly reducing the penalties or entering you into a diversionary program such as Pre-Trial Intervention (PTI) or the Conditional Discharge program.
Use of or being Under the Influence of MDMA
If you are being charged not with distribution, or possession, but merely being under the influence of MDMA / Molly, the charges are far less serious. Being found under the influence of any drug is a disorderly persons offense. In NJ a disorderly persons offense carries a maximum of 6 months in jail, a criminal record, and $1,000 fine.
In these cases it is not necessary for the police to prove you were under the influence of a specific drug, but they must prove that you were under the influence of something illegal. Generally this is done by testimony of a drug recognition expert, except the cases involving marijuana. There are many defenses to these crimes, for a free consultation, call us at 201-943-2445.
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
Very often a client is charged simultaneously with possession of marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine, as well as charged for Possession of certain Drug Paraphernalia such as pipes, bongs, rolling papers, grinders, syringes, spoons, scales, etc. In NJ this is a disorderly persons offense and can add an additional 6 monthjail term, $1,000 fine and possible 2 year NJ driver’slicensesuspension.
Drug paraphernalia charges can be attacked in a variety of ways, including proving they are not for drug use, through plea agreement, that the police seizure was illegal, or through the use of alternative programs such as Conditional Discharge and Pre Trial Intervention (PTI) programs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I be charged with both possession and possession with intent to distribute?
As the name of the offense indicates, it is the intent to distribute that really matters. As long as the prosecutor can demonstrate you intended to and had the ability to sell, manufacture, or distribute the MDMA / Molly, you can be found guilty and you should strongly consider contacting a lawyer.
Does the amount of Molly possessed matter?
While there are no step-up provisions regarding the amount of heroin possessed, a Judge will be more inclined to mandate more than the minimum sanctions should the weight of the drug be in the heavier ranges. If the quantity was sufficiently large the Teaneck police will often also charge the defendant with Possession with Intent to Distribute, which carries much more serious consequences.
What if I had more than one drug, will I be charged for both?
If you have been caught with more than one drug at a time, say Marijuana and MDMA / Molly, you should only be charged with one offense for possession of drugs. If however you have drugs in separate places which were additionally found, you may be charged multiple times. This means if your hotel room was found to have MDMA / Molly, and you were found elsewhere with marijuana, you may be charged twice.
What if it wasn't real drugs?
If the suspected items turn out to be simply baking soda or oregano, you have a solid defense. It is not uncommon for the State to continue to prosecute these matters, even after discovering the ‘contraband’ not to be drugs. Additionally, many times the the State won’t even lab-test the items unless forced to do so in court.
If they have caught me and there are no defenses, what can I do?
In some situations the Teaneck police have caught the defendant dead to rights and there are no defenses. In situations like these we have often been successful in downgrading the offense to a far lesser penalty and no jail time. Another approach is to enter our client into a diversionary program such as Pre Trial Intervention or Conditional Discharge. These programs provide the benefit of no jail time and no criminal record. We have been successful with combinations of the two as well when dealing with high level offenders.
What do I tell the police?
We give the same answer to all clients regarding all criminal charges, say nothing! Until you talk to your NJ Criminal Defense Lawyer.
Is working with the police to have my charges dismissed a possibility?
Sometimes the best approach to avoid prosecution is for a client to "turn state's evidence". This is an opportunity which occasionally can be worked out with the prosecutor and police in order to have our clients charges dropped.
How will my NJ MDMA possession charge affect my immigration status?
This is not a simple question. Depending on what your status is, and what your charges are, there can be vast consequences including deportation from the United States. Generally a conviction under N.J.S.A. 2C:35-5, is extremely hazardous to your immigration status and may result in deportation or ineligibility for citizenship. For more infortmation on the immigration consequences of a NJ MDMA / Molly possession charge, please see here.
It was a cop who bought it from me, is that a defense?
No this is not a defense. This is a classic sting operation. The myth that undercover police officers must identify themselves is simply that, a myth, and has no bearing on the case.
I have been caught on this before, are there any additional penalties?
The courts have a range of authority in sentencing and will generally increase your penalties for subsequent offenses drug / MDMA / Molly possession in NJ. For a first offense you may get the minimums. For second, third, or subsequent under the influence offense the court will be more inclined to impose the maximum sentence, making it even more urgent you contact a lawyer. For subsequent offense the judge may not be so lenient. Additionally if you have been caught before, you may be ineligible for programs such as Pre Trial Intervention and Conditonal Discharge.
I didn't have the drugs on me when I was busted, is that a defense?
It depends on whether you in legal terms "constructively" possessed the contraband. If it was in your house, or arms reach in your car it generally constitutes constructive possession as far as the courts are concerned. It is the job of an experienced lawyer to cast doubt on that in in court.
If your charge was for being under the influence of drugs, then it does not matter that you had no heroin in your possession. The Prosecutor only needs to prove that you were under their influence as demonstrated by your physical or mental state.
It was in a school zone how does that affect the case?
If the offense took place in a school zone, you may face an additional mandatory minimum of 100 hours of community service. This only applies if you are not sentenced to any jail time. It is important to note however, that the court will have the discretion to order community service far in excess of the 100 hour minimum. In Teaneck NJ and many local jurisdictions, much of the town is completely covered within a school zone. It is common for defendant’s to be charge both with MDMA / Molly possession and possession in a school zone.
They found the drugs in the car, what happens?
These cases are just like any other drug possession case. The penalties remain the same, as does the possible 2 year suspension of drivers license. Posession of heroin in a motor vehicle opens many avenues of possible defense however. There are many possible defects in the way the police handled the case that could result in suppression of evdience against you. To determine if this is a possibility, please contact one of our lawyers at 201-943-2445.
What happens when it wasn't mine?
This is a situation that generally occurs in a car. Usually the police will charge every occupant of the vehicle and it is then up to each defendant to prove in court it wasn't theirs or to encourage the actual owner of the substance to plead to the offense.
I've also been charged with having paraphernalia?
There are several facts the courts will consider when deciding whether or not an object truly constitutes drug paraphernalia, these are:
Any statements of those in possession of the supposed paraphernalia;
1. The existance or lack of residue in the object;
2. Evidence of prior use of the object;
3. Instructions for the use of the object;
4. And whether there are any legitimate uses for the item.
5. Any statements of those in possession of the supposed paraphernalia.
Drug paraphernalia charges in Teaneck NJ almost always accompany possession or distribution charges, and serve as additional proof of knowledge by the defendant making the states case easier. With the additional penalties such as 6 months in jail for possession of paraphernalia, it is important to contact a NJ Drug Defense Attorney immediately. For a free consultation call one of our lawyers at 201-943-2445.
What about drug court?
NJ Drug Court works similarly to other diversionary programs, and provides a means for certain offenders to avoid some consequences of a criminal conviction. Drug Court does have many drawbacks however, such as regular court appearances, random drug screens, community service, job training, in and out patient drug detox and rehabiliation, mandatory AA meetings, etc.
Teaneck Municipal Court Information:
The Teaneck Municipal Court is held at 818 Teaneck Road, Teaneck, New Jersey 07666. Criminal Court is scheduled Wednesdays at 9 A.M.. Traffic matters are scheduled Monday-Wednesday at 4:00 P.M. and Thursdays at 9:30 A.M..
Phone: 201-837-1600, Ext. 1800
Fax: 201-833-8047
Judge: Hon. James E. Young, Jr.
Court Administrator: Jill M. Graham
Prosecutor: Deborah Veach
Public Defender: J. Dennis Kohler - 201-487-2800
Teaneck Municipal Court Office Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 8:00 A.M. to 5:15 P.M
Police Records Officer:
Capt. Robert Kaiser - 201-440-1815, Ext 116
For more information on the Teaneck Municipal Court, please visit their website at: | {
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Searches on "420" have been lighting up on Yahoo! and in the twitterverse, with "4/20" and "Mary Jane Day" becoming trending topics.
In Austin, Texas, Willie Nelson (a famous fan of the herb) will help unveil a statue of himself at, you guessed it, 4:20 p.m.At the University of Colorado at Boulder, the college is in a less celebratory mood. Officials will be putting a stop to the annual 4/20 rally that has involved 10,000 celebrants descending on the campus and lighting up.
The higher institution of learning has a reputation for being the top party school in the country, and no more so on 4/20, when people assemble to demand the legalization of the drug.
The university spokesman Bronson Hilliard told the Associated Press, "We don't consider this a protest. We consider this people smoking pot in the sunshine," adding, "This is a gathering of people engaging in an illegal activity."
Student leader Daniel Ellis Schwartz disagreed, saying the university's actions went against the students' First Amendment rights. "I do not see any justification for the university shutting it down." He added that closing the quad would merely push the event off-campus.
Since the 1960s, the pot-smoking holiday has been observed by the counter- culture everywhere from San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, to New York City's Greenwich Village.
The code for pot was spread by followers of the Grateful Dead, but the origins are murky. Urban legends abound: It was a police code in Southern California for marijuana use. It was the time a gang of teenagers would meet to search for weed. However it started, it stuck because square parents and authorities had no idea what it meant.
4/20 has become a pop-culture reference for those in the know: A clock in the movie "Pulp Fiction" is stuck at 4:20. Craigslist ads for roommates often ask for those who are "420 friendly." The publication "High Times" owns the domain 420.com.
As for the legalization battle, 16 states now allow the use of medical marijuana. But smoking and distributing pot is illegal under federal law. Washington state and Colorado are considering laws that would legalize recreational use.
A woman smokes marijuana during a rally to protest for the legalization of marijuana in Toronto April 20, 2012. Marijuana enthusiasts across Canada gather by the thousands every year on April 20 for an international celebration-cum-protest for marijuana legalization. REUTERS/Mike Cassese
A man shares a marijuana joint during a gathering of marijuana advocates at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California April 20, 2012. The event was held on April 20, a date corresponding with a numerical 4/20 code widely known within the cannabis subculture as a symbol for all things.
A women wears glasses with the likeness of marijuana leaves during the annual marijuana 420 smoke off at Dundas Square in Toronto on Friday, April 20, 2012. All around the world pro-marijuana supporters are gathering in support of cannabis.
man dumps his bong water as a businessman walks through the water falls during the annual marijuana 420 smoke off at Dundas Square in Toronto on Friday, April 20, 2012. | {
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Opec forecast forces oil even higher
OIL prices hit fresh highs above $55 a barrel in New York, as Opec raised its forecast for global demand and dealers predicted the price could spiral to $75.
Prices have surged 80% this year though, if adjusted for inflation, they remain around 40% below the peak seen in 1981.
Oil cartel OPEC revised its forecast for global demand in 2004 from 81.58m up to 81.79m barrels a day due to stronger-than-expected economic growth. However, it edged down its growth forecast for 2005, as it expects the high oil prices to hit consumption.
Chicago Board of Trade chief executive Bernard Dan says the US economy will not be hurt significantly by the spike. He reckons most traders have factored a price of $60 to $75 into forecasts.
CBI boss Digby Jones warned that high energy prices threaten recovery in the manufacturing sector while the union Amicus says we could be facing a winter of blackouts and further electricity price hikes. | {
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However, it seems that that was just the concept impression shown by the marketing team. In a recent promotional video, released by a collaboration between Microsoft and Case Western Reserve University we can actually see what the user is seeing, and it’s not a full field of view image that has holographic images. It is a window, in front of the viewer which shows the holographic object.
Hopefully, it is only a viewer version of the Hololens, and indeed us the viewers will be able to see what we were told we will see
In this non stop environment we live in, sometimes it feels like there’s no stopping.
Field studio in London harnesses VR technology for calming the outside mess of tech for an inner experience.
“It’s really calming and it’s a nice pleasant experience. There is no shooting involved,” says Wendt, Field’s creative director, “It’s more like going to a sauna or a spa.” in this interview covering the project.
The VR head mount is so well designed you just want to hold it close. Combined with probably a great inside aesthetic immersive experience, we wish it would go on sale in stores.
TechCruch honors the Best, Worst and Ugly of 2013. And guess who are in the worst – “Android Game Consoles” (like the buzz word of 2013), OUYA (an Android Game Consoles….) and Leap Motion (the marketing shabang that got away…)
I agree with every word, especially on the fact that LG places the turn-on/off and volume button on the back. But why?
Great read. | {
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MANILA, Philippines – Having been in the industry for almost two decades, property developer Suntrust Properties, Inc. understands all too well the importance of using superior construction materials in building sustainable horizontal and vertical residences. And this is why it has been banking on its construction partner James Hardie to deliver affordable, adaptive, and high-quality housing in master-planned and self-contained communities. Among its notable residential projects are Adriatico Gardens in Malate, Capitol Plaza in Quezon City, and Treetop Villas in Mandaluyong. Suntrust also led the revitalization of Sherwood Hills Golf and Country Club, which it further enhanced with the rise of the Sherwood Hills’ Riva Bella Residential Estates.
Mr. Isaias “Sonny” Berdin, Jr., VP-Operations, Suntrust Properties, Inc. poses with a scale model of Suntrust Asmara, one of their projects located in Quezon City.
Durable, cost-efficient, and high-quality building products
Suntrust started using HardieFlex® fiber cement products, which matched the property developer’s durability and aesthetic requirements, more than 10 years ago. Suntrust observed that HardieFlex® building composites are sturdier and less susceptible to damage when compared to other construction materials such as plywood.
“When we used plywood for indoor partitions, there were times when a worker would accidentally hit the walls with his elbow or tools in the course of his work. You could see how easily plywood would get dented. In contrast, when the partitions are made of HardieFlex® boards, they are more resistant to damage,” shared Isaias “Sonny” D. Berdin Jr., VP-Operations, Suntrust Properties, Inc. Made from high-grade cellulose fiber, Portland cement, water, sand and especially formulated additives, HardieFlex® is durable and requires minimal maintenance and repair. And they’re easy to install, too.
HardieFlex® Ceilings, which are resistant to fire, termites, and moisture damage, address Suntrust’s durability issues in condominium projects such as Capitol Plaza and 88 Gibraltar. One advantage of having a strong partnership with James Hardie is that Suntrust is able to enjoy labor support such as installation workshops from the pioneer brand in fiber cement boards and custom-cutting of HardieFlex® boards based on Suntrust’s specified size.
“James Hardie offers convenience, ease of use, and after-sales support. We no longer have to face the challenge of having ill-fitting ceilings that ultimately delay the construction and turnover of houses to our home buyers. James Hardie helped make the installation process as seamless as possible, by cutting the HardieFlex® boards according to the size required. This has translated to significant time and labor savings,” said Berdin.
Consequently, Suntrust is able to shorten the lead-time for activities within the project scope, from 7 days to 3 days, so housing projects are completed within a short time span, and labor costs go down. And given the cost-efficiency of HardieFlex® building products, Suntrust is also able to offer competitive pricing for its housing.
In the specifications sheet given to prospective buyers of Suntrust homes, HardieFlex® is clearly indicated as one of the materials used. “Home buyers appreciate that. They’ve already heard of HardieFlex®–I mean, who hasn’t?—and they know that it would last a long time,” narrated Berdin.
Building a futuristic industrial park
Into building industrial parks, Suntrust intends to continue leveraging on HardieFlex® building products. The property developer is currently involved in the expansion of Suntrust Ecotown, a 200-hectare project in Tanza, Cavite, and it is once again banking on HardieFlex® building composite to transform the industrial park into a world-class lifestyle and commerce hub.
“Suntrust Ecotown is rapidly expanding, with new residential areas and commercial establishments up its sleeve. We are definitely looking forward to a fruitful long-term partnership with James Hardie as we work hand in hand towards creating sustainable workplaces, recreational amenities, and homes that embody Suntrust Chairman Andrew Tan’s ‘live, work, play’ philosophy,” said Berdin. | {
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Warning. You may not want to read this. There may be harsh words, you don't want polluting your ears.
This comes out of my own recent experience that I felt compelled to share with my brethren. This is about a man who seemingly desires the Lord, seemingly reads the Bible, spends lots of time conferencing with the pastor as though seeking personal advice and yet....he is not.
I have said for years, that it seems we have among us some who are not quite altogether human at all. This recent experience has me pondering those thoughts again.
This is one of those posts I can't take to my site at Calvary Corner blog, on that site, I want to minister to the lost not pollute and confuse. On this blog, I expect there are Christians reading and so I will write about things that takes discernment to understand and learn.
This involves a son in law. You don't know my family so I feel I can tell the story without bringing harm to any one particular person. We all belong to the Lord
I'm ashamed, now, to say that I put a lot of money into the marriage situation of my daughter. If it had not been for the fact that she felt she could love and trust this man, I would have run the other direction. But for the sake of family, I helped.
I have a huge tendency to look for the good in all people. I see them through God's eyes and uplift. This also makes me a prime target for cons, manipulators and conniving thieves. I say target but that doesn't mean I fall for every little trick. I thought I was better, or should I say wiser, at pinpointing the liar. In this particular circumstance, I'd have to say the surrounding situation influenced my thoughts.
I've been with my daughter, helping to raise a son, since he was 6 months old. Why? Because I knew my daughter(divorced) and I knew she couldn't make it on her own. Of course, my original intent was to stick it out with her until she found her own feet and stood on her own. I was with her when she met this man and we happened to be living 3 states away from our home town and were miserable in this place.
I struggled for years with the decision to simply run away from the situation, only to realize all over again that my daughter would fall through the cracks if I did and I stayed. There was a child involved and I cared that much about him.
My daughter was miserable and wanted to move back home. I had a choice- I could stay with my present job, knocking down $1000 a week or give up the job and move with the family. The new couple had no money to move and I was well aware of that.
This new son in law most definitely raised my eyebrow, the more I learned about him, but went along with the plans because my daughter seemed determined to be with him. Before they were married, I had asked what he did for a living and the answer I got simply tilted my head. He was 40 years old and going to a college to study graphic designing. He was working in a little ice cream shop that his own sister owned. Don't you know I questioned why a 40 year old man still was fishing around, looking for a direction in his life. This made no sense to me.
It was my daughter who suggested working for Schwann's.Something he had never considered and he did go to work for them. How easy it was for him to simply switch directions in mid-stream. It had seemed to my daughter that this man whom she wanted marriage with, had been held back in life by a manipulative sister and she wanted to help him to find a better world. All seemed very appreciated by my new son in law and he loved his new job. I was still pondering him and his situation, which made no sense to me.
I'm the one that had the money in the bank for a move. When we first moved to this state, we only took essentials because we weren't too sure if this would become a permanent move. Our things were in storage back home, awaiting the next decision. Those things we added to the home didn't amount to the cost of moving it and would make sense to simply sell or get rid of those things. Now, though, there was an addition to the family who had a trailer load of his own. So I was facing moving his belongings and of course, the cost.
I had no intentions of hiring a truck for the move. There just wasn't that much to be moved. There was no way to attach a trailer to my car, so while I worked on the road, I had my daughter seek out a used pickup that could make the trip. At the very least, I would have a vehicle for the money instead of turning it in at some rental.
About that time, my son in law's old car gave out and wasn't worth the money to fix. That of course, pushed up the plans for me to buy a pickup so that he would be driving that to work instead of my daughter making 2 round trips across town, every day, taking him to work.
To boil it down, I footed the bill for a move, purchased a used vehicle to tow a trailer, footed the bill for a trailer to haul his things, not ours. Then, out of necessity, put down a deposit on a rented home and paid the first months rent.
The expenditures didn't stop there. Since I was now stuck with living with the family, as I had no job and was going through my savings, I stayed and put in more than my share each month, on the expenses.
With my dollars, I put in a garden, rented a tiller, bought the seed and spent hundreds of hours tending the garden. So that summer, the entire family ate very well off my efforts.
Over the course of that first year, things began to happen. More than once, my son in law came to me in private to tell me that my daughter had sent him to talk to me about my putting in more money into the family expenses. Each time I replied with something like "$400 wasn't enough?" That plus the $200 per month I was putting into groceries. He would act as though my daughter hadn't told him about that and he was sorry to have to talk to me about this.
It took over a year for the truth to come out on the table and when it was out there for the whole world to see, I was reeling over the fact that my son in law had played me, like nobody else in my lifetime. In fact, I've never known a human being like this one. How he can call himself Christian is beyond me.
You see, I was in a separate building on the property, had created myself a little living space in the corner of a huge garage. I didn't want to become that interfering mother in law and what's more, as far as I knew I would be going back out on the road and seldom see home. So at the time, it seemed to me to be a perfect solution. For that reason, I was not within ear shot of most of the things said in the house.
How was I to know that while this man was eating my food, sitting at the table my money paid for, driving my vehicle to work and using my clothes washer, was threatening to not set a place at the table for me, because he thought I was mooching off him and should be gone?
It was also revealed that every time he came to me in private to talk about more money from me, my daughter knew nothing about it. One particular time, he had told me that if I just at least give my daughter $125 a month that it would help, I told him if that's all she wanted then that's all I would give her. He went to her and told her, 'mom said she would only put in $125 a month from now on'. Of course, this puzzled my daughter because she knew where half the money was coming from all along and wondered why I would say such a thing.
I now realize this was a game this man played. This is how he lives his life. He takes other peoples money, using all sorts of strange whining games. He manipulates.
He was coming to me as though my daughter was asking me for more money and she was not. He was going to her and telling her that her mother didn't want to help out with the expenses. All the while causing all sorts of hard feelings within the family, turning daughter against mother and it worked!
Before long, I was hearing outbursts from my daughter, things like 'living rent free' (in my direction) and then out right 'moocher', as though she had completely forgotten all the things I had done for her and the child, through the years.
At this point, I was trapped. It was my daughter that convinced me to go on disability. Oh yes, definitely but I'm bull headed and would not face the fact that I was suffering from a breathing problem and some horrible name for some arthritis something, in my back. I was a cripple but wouldn't stop. I was pushing myself beyond my capabilities, taxing my heart to the max and most mornings could hardly move. So because of her pushing me toward it, I applied for and immediately was approved for disability. I hate to tell you what that monthly income is but certainly not enough to house a dog, much less a human.
So here I was, trapped with living with the family now that I had spent my savings on them and had no other means of supporting myself, except to continue to help out with the monthly expenses. All I wanted to do was run, go back out on the road driving truck but all these blocks were in my way.
The situation grew and became so intolerable, I was eying my guns and disappointed that I only had a shot gun and a .22 pistol. Neither one, a sure kill and I certainly didn't want to be more of a cripple than I was already and not able to run.
Depression hit its bottom. I couldn't understand why my own daughter could turn against me in this way. Not only had I sacrificed my entire existence for her for the past 14 years, we were Christians!
The truth was finally exposed and healing began in the family, despite what this man wanted and tried and that was his dooms day. I'd have to say that my daughter and I exploded on this man, using text messages while he was working. We bombarded him with the truths we were exposing, sharing little secrets with one another that neither of us knew about. We had come to realize what a manipulative, conniving, s.o.b. he really was.
Now I understood that while he was coming to me for advice, and I pointing him to Jesus all the way, just never seemed to get it through his head - never seemed to change - never seemed to follow any advice. He didn't want to. It was all a game.
As an example of his game playing, this was one story that came out, when my daughter and I began to reveal all his little secrets. He had come to me one day and told me that he and my daughter thought it would be nice is I bought him a cell phone and put his on my service. Since I was already paying for my own service and had put my daughter on mine, it seemed a simple request to add one more.
Now my daughter was telling me her side of the story. He had come to her and told her, "Your mom wants to buy me a cell phone. Isn't that nice?" It turns out that the reason he caught me away from the rest of the family was so that he could lie about my daughters intentions. It was a manipulation.
This game, he took all the way to our pastor, whining at him and thinking he was getting the pastor to agree with him. This game he carried on and on until even the pastor gave up on him. It seemed that no matter how many times you repeated the same message, this guy just didn't have the capacity to understand. Odd things that you would expect a Christian to hear and obey. It just wasn't taking root.
After having been bombarded with the truth from both my daughter and me, via text messages, he just didn't come home that night,nor the next day, which was Saturday. We never told him he wasn't welcome in his own home. I imagine he finally got it through his head that he had been exposed and was afraid to face us.
So somehow, even on a Saturday, or did he do it yesterday, he had a lawyer freeze my daughter's bank account. He had called his sister who is now footing the bill to support him and a lawyer. Presumably now, there is a coming subpoena to retrieve his personal things. Evidently his game has carried over to his sister now, as he can come get his things any time he wants and he knows that but instead, he's acting as though we've thrown him out of the house and barred the doors. That's not true.
As I see it now, this guy is going to come out smelling like a rose, through this situation. He will, and evidently already has, gotten more money out of yet another person so that he can play his games and live like a king while pointing an accusing finger at his wife. Now he's back to soaking his own sister.
If you have delicate ears, you need to stop reading right now.
I'm pretty sure that the reason he didn't come home and is afraid to face me, is the fact that I let him know in no uncertain terms, that my daughter finally told me why she had refused to share a bed with him ever again. He was demanding and getting sodomy and was hurting my daughter and telling her that if she didn't she was going against God. Somehow, I just have a feeling that was the final blow, for him to hear it coming from me.
He's the one that got me involved in the marriage problems, so he has nobody to kick but himself. While he thought he was gaining a cheering team, he was actually going too far with his constantly coming to me for so-called advice. Our family had become so twisted with some evil spirit in the house, that my daughter thought I was siding with her husband and did not share with me, the whole story. Now it was out.
I confess I'm furious with myself. What I could have done with $15000 for myself, so that I could support myself instead of this trap. Instead, I invested in what I thought was a family. Yes, I realize what a fool I was and that I had been played big time.
Now, why am I sharing this story? Simply because if I could be taken in by such an evil spirit, so can anyone else. It seems the enemy is wiser every day. He can wear such a sweet, Christian face while brutalizing, lying, conniving and stealing. It's hard to explain to others that they can be so taken in by such a twisted monster, even while believing they have enough discernment to keep themselves from such harm.
The only symptom, I can offer up, is that of a person who seems to hunger for truth and yet acts as though they didn't understand a word you said and continues down a path that no Christian will follow. They will lean into your words, listen intently, seem to be repentant, then walk away still the same as they were before.
It gets grueling, when they come back again and again for the same advice and you give the same advice over and over and it still doesn't 'take'. This, until you're weary with repeating yourself.
The fact is, this evil spirit is accomplishing exactly what it wants. For you to waste your time on him, and not have time for anyone else. The point, I believe, is to keep your attention on them, so that you can't see something happening just beyond your site. Something like that. This same spirit will use you to get what they want out of someone else.
It's tricky, I know. Boy do I know. But I'm telling you that we are living in a world with this sort. My advice? If it makes you uncomfortable - run. If something invades your home that is causing hard feelings among family members, get rid of it. What ever it is, it's not there for your, it's there to destroy you. There are times when instead of you ministering, you need to protect those around you instead.
Signs and warnings mean something. We tend to overlook them, in favor of seeing the good. Be aware that the devil is on a rampage. His time is running out and he will destroy in any way he can. | {
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Health officials urge whooping cough booster shot
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Health officials are urging parents to have their children re-immunized against whooping cough after an ongoing outbreak at an Albuquerque high school sickened 30 people.
State officials will be at La Cueva High School Wednesday evening to meet with parents and provide boosters shots that prevent infection.
Whooping cough is also called pertussis and is highly contagious. It typically isn't life-threatening for teens and healthy adults, but it can kill infants and people with weak immune systems.
New Mexico infectious disease epidemiologist David Selvage says students can bring the disease home and infect young children, expectant mothers and infants.
The Albuquerque Journal reports ( http://bit.ly/1aDWFrQ) letters have been sent to La Cueva parents about the outbreak and Albuquerque Public Schools nurses are using nasal swabs to quickly diagnose cases. | {
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Ann Reeder
BYRON – Ann L. Reeder, 53, of Byron, died Thursday, March 26, 2009, at Rochester Methodist Hospital, Rochester, Minn. She was employed by Ogle County Educational Cooperative for more than 13 years.
Ann was born April 18, 1955, in Dixon, the daughter of Joseph and Anita (Boster) Hicks. She was a 1973 graduate of Dixon High School. Ann married Rodney Reeder on June 29, 1979, in Dixon. She loved motorcycles, golf, and travel, especially to the beaches. Ann was a loyal friend and her family was most important to her.
Survivors include her husband, Rodney, and two daughters, Rachel and Nicole, all of Byron; her parents of Albuquerque, N.M.; two brothers, Jim (Penny) Hicks and Ken (Carla) Hicks; father-in-law, Lewis (Darlene) Reeder; mother-in-law, Mona (Jim) Partington; one brother-in-law, Rick (Debbie) Reeder; her great-grandmother, Readith Osman; and five nephews, Austin, Evan, Brennan, and Joey (Lori) Hicks, and Cory and Cole Reeder.
She was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Irvin and Sylvia Boster; and paternal grandparents, George S. and Chloe Hicks.
The funeral is at 11 a.m. Monday at Farrell-Holland-Gale Funeral Home, 506 W. Merchant St., Byron, with the Rev. Randy Snider officiating. Burial is at Byron Cemetery. Visitation is from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
A memorials has been established to the Amyloidosis Research Foundation, 7151 N. Main St., Ste. 208, Clarkston, MI 48346.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
And The Winner Is...
Don't get me wrong, I love a good movie, but marathon award ceremonies?
Yawn.
The way I look at it, why waste an entire evening watching an award show celebrating movies you've never seen when you can spend that time more wisely watching movies that nobody ever wanted to see?
The above titles are just a few of my favorites classics that I'm pretty sure will probably never make it to Netflix - and that's really a bummer! If you've never seen the original 1943 Batman or the incredible Eegah from 1962, well, what are you waiting for?
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Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends…
I just started the book “Making Brothers and Sister Best Friends” which was recommended by a friend. We are using it for our morning devotional/Bible time. Today was the first day, and so far I love what this book has to say!
The book is written by three kids! I believe they are homeschooled. It is written so all the kids can enjoy listening to it, and there are some funny cartoons and stories to go along.
Now most of the time my kids do get along. However they sure do have their moments. Grace and John seem to argue the most. Grace also has been down at times about being the only girl. The book right off the bat addresses the issue of complaining about your place in the family or wanting more brothers/sisters, etc.
So far today we read that the family is God’s plan and satan will do everything he can to destroy a godly family. We need to be on guard for this. We also learned family is a blessing to us and God’s gift to us. We are a team and should not be working against each other.
This book looks amazing and teaches kids how they are truly made to be each other’s best friends. The world is often filled with the notions that brothers and sister are supposed to argue and not get along. We should not succumb to that substandard. God created families to do good things for Him and His purposes. I am excited to see how this book can change the kids views of each other and how it can benefit our family.
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2 days agoby simplylivingforhimJust to keep it real. Although I strive for simple, I don’t always attain it. My desk right now is quite cluttered. Yet, living simple helps me to get it cleaned up and prioritize. Like keeping that bowl of candies right there!! Other stuff must go! Ha!!
3 days agoby simplylivingforhimYesterday I did something quite surreal. I was nearby the old apartment that I lived in before my life turned around. I decided to drive by and see it. I parked as close as I could but it was crowded with people and cars. (Quite a difference from my little hobby farm life today.) The second floor above the deli- that was where I lived when God decided to pluck me out of darkness. As I sat there, I felt like it was so much smaller than I remembered. Much, much smaller. And much louder! But then again, every memory | {
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120129-car-logoBest Logo. Aeronne Paul Coronel of Benguet State University, with his winning design for the 'Save Balili River, Count Me In! Logo design contest of the Balili River System Revitalization Coalition (BRSRC) during the awarding program cum Kapihan media forum at the Benguet State University, Thursday. The handing of cash prize and certificate of recognition were La Trinidad Mayor Greg Abalos and Raffy Tallocoy of the Baguio CityMayor's Office. (Photo By Lito Dar/PIA-CAR)
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No human rabies case in Kalinga for 3 years – PESU
by Gigi Dumallig
TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Jan. 2(PIA) -- For three consecutive years from 2009 to 2011, Kalinga has not received any report of human rabies infection in its various health service centers.
Provincial Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (PESU) Officer Jose Pardito Jr. revealed this saying that the Provincial Health Office (PHO) had been persistent in its campaign to end rabies infections as it gears for the declaration of a rabies- free Kalinga in 2015.
He explained that as a policy, declaration as rabies free could only be possible with ‘zero indigenous rabies case in both human and canine for two consecutive years.’
During the interview, he said that there is a need to intensify more on programs advocating canine vaccination to eradicate rabies in dogs for the province to finally achieve a zero canine rabies case.
According to Pardito, the health department had been persistent in its information education campaign advocating for the immediate treatment of animal bites to prevent possible infection.
It is rewarding to note that the public is now more aware of the dangers of rabies and seeking immediate medical treatment after getting bitten, he said.
Pardito bared that at present, there are at least six trained and certified vaccinators in the province, with bite centers now located in Lubuagan, Tabuk City and Balbalan aside from the provincial health office.
He said that with the full coordination of concerned agencies, the private sector, and the public, Kalinga he said could achieve a rabies-free province even before 2015. (JDP/GGD- PIA CAR, Kalinga) | {
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OFA attempted to convey that the left had the momentum on the gun control issue (which is in stark contrast to reality) and manufactured public outcry for pro-gun control legislation. (Polls on gun control measures show that 74% of the American population are against a law that would ban the possession of handguns, except by the police and other authorized persons.)
Twitter watchdog site Twitchy exposed this Alinsky-esque stratagem, which ultimately led to the ploy’s demise.
On March 6, 2013 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) took to the senate floor to filibuster the confirmation of John Brennan as CIA Director. Paul demanded answers from the White House and Department of Justice regarding the use of drones to kill U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. Conservatives and progressives alike were glued to C-SPAN tweeting live about the GOP’s rarely seen political leadership garnering unadulterated enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm stemmed from Paul’s vast departure from President Obama’s continuous campaign of class baiting and big government solutions to a clear articulation of civil liberties and conservative ideology. The state run media could do nothing to stop it. No spinning could be manufactured by the punditry until after the 12 plus hour filibuster. The left, and to be fair the bulk of the GOP, sat idly by while Paul exhibited his authority as a member of the legislative branch to hold the executive branch accountable.
Unbeknownst to many in our number and to the dismay of President Obama, “the Senate has the power to restrain the executive branch.”
Rand Paul had the fortitude to do what GOP leadership has failed to do for decades. He took a stand while the usual suspects compromised yet again under the guise of bipartisanship. (Cue the shot of the GOP #uppers entering the posh dining establishment hands waving, looking optimistic with lights, security and media, flashing reflectively off the windows.)
A deluge of tweets came pouring in either in support of Paul or from progressives pleading with Democrats to make their voices heard on civil liberties as well:
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Former Republican New York Sen. Alfonse D’Amato said on “America’s Newsroom” today that Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio would be a winning Republican presidential ticket.
“If Republicans want to win, stop the nonsense of who stands up and screams and yells the most, look at who gets elected,” he said.
D’Amato said that the GOP must win Ohio and Florida if the party wants a Republican to be the next president of the United States.
“The Kasich-Rubio team is a winning team,” he said.
D’Amato also remarked that anyone who attacks Donald Trump at tonight’s prime-time Fox News-Facebook debate will get name recognition, but he warned, “He who throws the bomb generally blows up with the bomb.” | {
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In 2010, the Cameron Government announced a series of police reforms including local accountability through Police and Crime Commissioners, and the creation of the National Crime Agency and the College of Policing. In 2013, the PCCs commissioned General Sir Nick Parker to review the services that ACPO provided and make recommendations about the requirements of a national policing body following the fundamental changes in policing.[1] In 2014, a group of chief officers and PCCs began working together to implement Parker's recommendations and develop a national body. Chief officers voted in support of the group's proposals in July 2014. Chief Constable Sara Thornton was appointed to chair the NPCC on 2 December 2014. ACPO was closed down on 31 March 2015.[2]
In October 2018 the NPCC threatened to take legal action in the high court against the government's plans to cut hundreds of millions of pounds from police funding. The Treasury plans to increase the money each force pays to the police pension scheme. This would involve forces paying a £420m bill, as well as the 19% cut to police funding since 2010. Police chiefs maintain reductions have make it hard for fores to protect the public. Leaders of three of the biggest forces fear officer levels will drop to those of the 1970s. The NPCC fears if the £420m bill is dealt with only by cutting police numbers, this will mean 10,000 fewer officers.[3]
The NPCC brings together and is funded by police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as the armed services and some British overseas territories. It draws on the efforts and expertise of chief officers: those ranked Assistant Chief Constable and above, or Commander and above in MPS and City of London Police, and senior police staff equivalents. It coordinates police forces' collective operational responses to national threats such as terrorism, organised crime and national emergencies.
The current chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council is Sara Thornton, CBE, QPM, formerly Chief Constable of the Thames Valley Police.[6] Chief Constable of Sussex Police Giles York and MPS Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt support her as Vice-chairs in addition to their day jobs as chief officers within forces.
The Chief Constables' Council is the senior operational decision-making body for the National Police Chiefs' Council. Every police force is represented in the work of the NPCC through the Chief Constables' Council.
The Chief Constables’ Council is the primary decision-making forum for the NPCC. Chief constables (and equivalents) meet quarterly to discuss operational policing issues and agree action. Working with the College of Policing, the council takes decisions on national standards and common approaches with the aim of protecting the public from the most serious and strategic threats.
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Mr. Nick Marinello, Drama DirectorNick is currently in his 5th year of teaching at Chippewa Valley High School. Nick has been an actor nearly all of his life. Starting at age 7 in a Grosse Pointe War Memorial Production of Raggedy Ann and Andy, Nick has been on stage in some form over the last 28 years. Nick is an active member of Grosse Pointe Theater and has done work with the Fine Arts Society as well as Birmingham Players. It was his love of acting that inspired Nick to restart the Drama program at Chippewa. In 2015, Nick began teaching Theater Arts I and Theater Arts II and with the help of some amazing "founding mothers" he began Chippewa Valley Theater. The "Valley Players" have staged two productions so far and are planning to expand to three shows in 2017-2018. Being able to work with students every day in the theater is a privilege that Nick enjoys immensely.
Ms. Olivia Ferguson, Rehearsal Accompanist & KeyboardBachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from Michigan State University in 2010, and her Master of Music degree in the same area from the University of Wisconsin in 2013. Olivia has sung the roles of Barbarina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Michigan State Opera Theatre, 2009) and Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Opera Orvieto, 2012), as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah (Lansing Symphony Orchestra and Michigan State University Chorale, 2010, Seminário Baptista do Cariri, Brazil, 2012), and in various other opera scenes, chamber concerts, and solo recitals. Her favorite composers for the voice are Henry Purcell, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Libby Larsen. She loves cross-cultural opportunity and has sung in such varied places as Chongqing, China; Vienna, Austria; and Crato, CE, Brazil. She has taught private voice lessons since 2007 and has served as a voice teacher the past two summers at the annual “Week of Music” at the Cariri Baptist Seminary in Crato, Brazil. Olivia loves helping students of various ages develop their voices.
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Mr. James Pecar, Vocal Music Director/ProducerJAMES PECAR is currently in his sixtth year as Director of Choirs at Chippewa Valley High School. James graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor’s of Music Education - Vocal, cum laude, from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. While there, James was the recipient of the “Outstanding Music Educator Award”, conducted several university ensembles, and was founding director of the award-winning Hat Trick, an A Cappella men’s ensemble. James also started the A Cappella for Autism initiative with Hat Trick which has allowed for multiple donations from Hat Trick to the Macomb Chapter of the Autism Society of America. He also served as president of the student ACDA Chapter. He has studied with Dr. Andrew Larson, Dr. Peter Durow, Dr. Shelby Milburn Price, and Dr. Alain Raines. He has coordinated tours for two international choral ensembles: The Imuka Singers and the Nairobi Chamber Chorus. He currently sings with the Grammy-Winning U of M Choral Union under Dr. Jerry Blackstone. He is a member of Kappa Delta Pi (International Honor Society in Education), Omicron Delta Kappa (National Collegiate Honors Society), ACDA, MSVMA, and NAfME.
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Cover Feature
MARK PHILLIPS A Revolution in Conceptual ThinkingBy Tony MassengillSifuMark Phillips began his study of Wing Chun in 1986 and is today a well-known name in the world of European Wing Chun, and he is ranked as one of the leading instructors in the UK Wing Chun Kung Fu Association. He is the Chief Instructor of the well-acclaimed London Wing Chun Academy in North London and has appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and television shows over the years. His lineage can be traced all the way back to Ip Man, through Ip Man’s eldest son Ip Chun, and his teacher Sifu James Sinclair. He has taught, demonstrated, studied and trained many times in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Brazil and the United States.
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SECOND NATURE Staying Ahead of Your Opponent Cut off his attack before it happensBy Wayne Belonoha With practice, your sensors will be very finely tuned and will always be turned on. Without gaps in your sensitivity, you can continuously keep your hands in the right position and dissolve an opponent’s attempt to gain the line.
MOON POINTING FINGER There are drills… and there are DRILLS! (Part 1)By David Peterson Whilst the Chi Sau and Paak Sau drills are especially well known and widely practised within Wing Chun, there are several other lesser known, but equally important and useful drills also found within the system.
KEEPING IT SIMPLE Tips ’n’ Tricks Dummies’ Guide to Chi SauBy Shaun Rawcliffe How can you make learning easier and aid teaching? Sifu Rawcliffe shares some of the simple teaching methods he has learnt and developed in order to help new instructors.
THE INNER CIRCLE Gulao Legends (Part 2)By Jim Roselando Jr. In Part Two of this Three-Part series, we continue with more translations from the information contained inside Dr. Leung Jan’s home.
THE STRAIGHT LEAD Wing Chun—Not Guilty!By Jason Korol Many myths grew out of Bruce Lee’s famous fight with Wong Jak Man. Central to understanding Lee’s JKD is dispelling the chief of these myths—that Wing Chun was responsible for Lee’s less than stellar performance.
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PAUL FERNANDEZ A New Era of Wing ChunBy Kleber Battaglia Integrating his experience of studying with different masters of the Ip Man lineage, Sifu Fernandez developed his Wing Tchun Do based on a modern fighting approach while being loyal to the roots of the traditional approach, believing that a new era of Wing Chun is coming.
GINNY CHOW Bringing back the Feminine side to the ArtBy Kleber Battaglia Ginny Chow has been practising Wing Chun since 2010 and is determined to bring femininity back into the art, showing women that they too can be skilled martial artists with lots to say in the modern combat world.
BEIMO PREPARATION Mental ToughnessBy Dr. Mark Phillips So you have decided to test your Wing Chun skills, but how do you prepare physically, and what do you train in preparation for a contest? Regardless of the type of contest, the concept of how you prepare physically and psychologically will always remain the same.
THE SIMPLICITY OF HONG KONG WING CHUNBy Chris CollinsSifu Collins talks about his experiences while living and training in Hong Kong, as well as what he saw and felt at different Wing Chun schools in Hong Kong and around the world.
THE KUEN KUIT TECHNIQUE Transforming Your Chi SauBy Mia Velez The Kuen Kuit provide a key to deepening our knowledge of the Wing Chun system and discovering ourselves. There are many ways to translate these maxims, and the way we personally translate them changes based on where we are in our development.
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THE INQUISITIVE HAND Resistance is FutileBy Alan Gibson How can we learn to go with the force, use the path of least resistance and allow the enemy to show us how to hit them?
DECODING WING CHUN Wing Chun Hands (Part 1)By Danny XuanWing Chun Hands are simple in design and usage, yet practical and powerful. As with every engineered mechanism, every part of the whole must be precisely designed and crafted for it to work economically, efficiently and effectively. However, practitioners often alter and use these hands improperly.
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When will the next credit crisis occur?
By Alasdair Macleod
Goldmoney Insights February 08, 2018
The timing of any credit crisis is set by the rate at which the credit cycle progresses. People don’t think in terms of the credit cycle, wrongly believing it is a business cycle. The distinction is important, because a business cycle by its name suggests it emanates from business. In other words, the cycle of growth and recessions is due to instability in the private sector and this is generally believed by state planners and central bankers.
This is untrue, because cycles of business activity have their origin in the expansion and contraction of credit, whose origin in turn is in central banks’ monetary policy and fractional reserve banking. Cycles of credit are then manifest in variations of business activity. Cycles are the cause, booms and slumps the consequence. It follows that if we understand the characteristics of the different phases, we can estimate where we are in the credit cycle.
With sound money, that is to say money that neither expands nor contracts, cycles in business activity cannot exist, except for plagues and wars which interrupt the balances between money-hoarding, saving and consumption. Any exceptions to this rule are bound to be insignificant and non-cyclical, because with a steady money supply, failures are random instead of cyclically clustered by monetary policy.
Capital is always allocated by entrepreneurs to favour the efficient production of the goods and services wanted by consumers. Allocations of earnings and profits to savings are set by entrepreneurial demands for monetary capital to finance production until the goods and services produced are sold. Failures, the result of errors of judgement by entrepreneurs, are inevitable, but are quickly accepted, and capital is redeployed accordingly. As soon as a non-commercial force, such as the state, corrupts the free market’s interplay between entrepreneurial production and consumer demand, the progression of an economy becomes unbalanced. Variations in the quantity of unbacked money to achieve a managed objective are particularly disruptive. The consequence, not accepted by the vested interests of interventionism, is a cycle of credit expansion leading to a compensating crisis.
This is the outcome of monetary policy. It creates nothing but an illusion of genuine economic activity by debasing the unit of account. In pursuing an objective of economic growth, governments are simply recording the application of the unsound money they and their licensed banks have created. It is our damnosa hereditas, our ruinous inheritance.
The purpose of this article is to establish where we are in the global credit cycle, and to estimate from that the likely time-scale to the next credit crisis. And yes, it is a global phenomenon, made more powerful by global synchronisation of monetary policies through forums such as the G20. Trying to understand where we are in the credit cycle of one particular nation misses out a bigger picture. But we can observe where we are in it by assessing the interplay between business sentiment and monetary factors.
Understanding the credit cycle
The credit cycle can be broken down into the following phases: post-crisis stabilisation, recovery, expansion and finally crisis. The transition from one phase to another is somewhat arbitrary, and each cycle differs in length and character. For these reasons, applying a statistical approach to identifying the different phases usually fails to elucidate analysis. It is far better to have an understanding of shifts in sentiment in the minds of consumers, producers and lending banks, and how they interact.
At the beginning of the credit cycle, central banks exert the most economic influence through monetary policy. They do this by ensuring, as far as they can, that the market does not clear. By this we mean that the accumulation of malinvestments in the previous cycle is protected, thus preserving jobs in businesses that in a free market would have been abandoned as producing an inadequate return. The capital employed in these unserviceable industries becomes locked in, not quickly redeployed as it would in an efficient economy. And by capital we include not just money, but all the other factors of production that must be acquired, including labour.
In today’s interventionist, neo-Keynesian world, prices must never be allowed to adjust downwards to establish new price equilibriums, as they would in free markets. The balance between savings and immediate consumption is encouraged to adjust in favour of immediate spending to shore up falling prices.
This gives us a basic rule, which has always held to date: by debasing the currency and reducing, eliminating or even reversing the time-preference inherent in unhampered free markets, central banks have always stoped the credit crisis from running its full course.[i] There were moments in the last two crises when this nearly did not happen. We all stared into an economic and financial abyss of complete systemic failure, with the potential to destroy the banks and all their customers’ balances. And without banks, the production of all goods and services were likely to cease or be provided through nationalisation. In both instances, the Fed under the chairmanship of Alan Greenspan and then Ben Bernanke came to the rescue.
The first crisis of the new millennia was primarily the result of a credit-fuelled dot-com bubble unwinding and had similarities with the stock market crash of 1929, which preceded the depression. The Fed was not going to allow that to happen again, and stock and bond markets were rescued by aggressive reductions in interest rates. Consequently, monetary expansion regained its momentum, with a new feature developing, the alphabet soup of securitisation, amounting to extra, unrecorded off-balance sheet credit expansion through the growth of shadow banking.
The second crisis followed in 2007-09 (we must be vague about actual dates), this time in residential property markets, which had been puffed up on expanding credit more than any other asset class. The credit-driven boom and bust cycle had developed as one might have expected, similar to the run up to the UK’s secondary banking crisis of November 1973.
At that time, Britain’s credit cycle had evolved in the usual way. There was a well-defined sequence of events, in an economy whose presiding government was running large budget deficits. From late 1970, the then Chancellor, Tony Barber, caused the Bank of England to expand the money supply and reduce interest rates from 7% to 5%.[ii] Initially, gilt-edged bond yields fell, and equities rose. Bond yields bottomed in January 1972 and yields then rose. The equity market peaked the following May, five months after the bonds, and then entered a significant bear market. In June that year, the Bank of England increased interest rates to 6% and then in progressive steps to 9% by the year-end.
There were two mounting problems. Price inflation was picking up and the Government had difficulties financing its deficit. Periodically, the Bank of England had to raise interest rates sharply in order to sell gilts. Today, we are aware of the potential for price inflation, but generally not so much of the potential for a government funding dislocation.
The irony, to equity investors anyway, was that while equities began in May 1972 what turned out to be the early stages of a vicious bear market (prices fell over 70% by December 1974), companies were reporting enhanced levels of business activity and growing profits. However, by late-October 1973, price inflation fears suddenly escalated when OPEC proclaimed an oil embargo. The Bank raised interest rates to 13% in early November in response to the oil crisis and equities crashed.
Commercial property prices also collapsed, taking banks down in what came to be named the secondary banking crisis. Paradoxically, on the eve of the secondary banking crisis, commercial property was seen to be a cast-iron hedge against price inflation, which had been a growing concern since equities began to drift lower the previous May.
These were some of the defining characteristics of Britain’s credit cycle at that time, which rhyme with those of today, though interest rate levels were very different. The stimulation through deficit spending, interest rate suppression, and measures to encourage bank lending are common to both. The initial effects of monetary stimulation for bond prices and equity markets are similarly observed in both cycles. Bond yields have now started to rise, as they did in early 1972. Equity markets are clearly vulnerable to entering a bear market if bond yields rise further, which puts the fall in equities this week in a sharp perspective.
Therefore, it appears that in its credit cycle today, the global economy is where the UK was in May 1972. At that time, bond yields were rising, because demand for credit from the non-financial sector began to accelerate, as businesses and lending banks became more confident of business prospects. Banks sold down their short gilts to accommodate increasing lending demand, undermining values of financial assets generally. It was rising gilt yields that undercut equity prices, despite the improvement in the business outlook.
Today, in all the major jurisdictions, bond yields are now rising. A bank which bought 5-year US Treasuries last September is now sitting on a painful loss of 4.4%, wiping out perhaps between a third and a half of the core capital allocated to back the investment. Similar stories can be told of banks invested in other government bond markets. Yet, it is only in the last few months that economists and financial commentators have begun to accept that the world is set for a coordinated phase of economic growth. Plainly, we are heading into the equivalent of the period between May 1972 and October 1973, which lasted fifteen months. Except, this time, the scale is global and may not last as long.
The expansionary phase is upon us
We can therefore hypothesise with a high degree of certainty that we are in the early stages of the expansionary phase of the credit cycle, the last phase before the crisis that will end it. We can be sure the crisis will happen, because every credit cycle ends with a liquidation. However, we must now refocus our attention away from pursuing today’s similarities with Britain’s credit cycle of the early 1970s for two reasons: firstly, 1973 ended with a sudden oil shock in November, and secondly, with today’s credit cycle being coordinated globally, the crisis is likely to be all-embracing and far more destructive.
The 1973 oil shock was politically timed, and were suddenly unleashed upon financial markets. This time, oil prices are likely to rise more gradually, driven by growing demand for energy and a falling purchasing power for the dollar.[iii] A synchronised world-wide economic recovery in the coming months otherwise shares the price inflation characteristics observed in 1970s Britain, amounting to a credit-driven debasement of the currency.[iv] It should be noted that this debasement is recorded as an increase in nominal GDP, which simply reflects a larger quantity of money chasing a similar amount of goods and services in the non-financial economy.
In the coming months, globally recorded growth is likely to be higher than during the 1972-73 period, because the potential flows of credit and portfolio money into non-financials from financial markets are significantly greater, and price inflation deflators have been subdued through hedonics and other statistical manipulations. An unprecedented increase in the quantities of base money earlier in the credit cycle is ready to back the redirection of bank credit from financial activities into purchases of commodities and to finance other factors of production. Portfolio money, currently overweight in dollar-denominated financial assets, is also due to be redirected into infrastructure projects, particularly in Asia.[v] Global synchronisation of the earlier credit bubble moving from financial to non financials suggest the price effects ahead of us could be far greater than commonly expected, leading to a rise in interest rates sufficient to trigger the credit crisis sooner, rather than later.
An important factor that led to increases in official interest rates in 1972-74 was the difficulties the UK Government had in funding its deficit. So far, in the current cycle this has not been a problem. While undoubtedly globalisation of credit has made it easier for governments to fund their deficits in the general sense, a prerequisite for ease of funding is that the expansion of credit is confined to the financial sector. So long as that is the case, a central bank can retain some control over interest rates and portfolio flows. When it is not the case, control over interest rates is determined instead by the aggregate actions of the non-financial commercial sector, and the central bank finds it is forced to respond to monetary events, instead of controlling them.
As soon as bank credit and portfolio flows leave financial assets in favour of non-financials, governments are likely to experience severe funding difficulties. Very few of us expect this to become a serious problem, so it will be an unwelcome surprise.
History and mature reflection tell us a global government funding crisis is bound to happen. We can therefore surmise that the central banks which issue the euro, Japanese yen, British pound and the US dollar will have to raise their interest rates above that demanded in the markets in order for their governments to fund themselves. The Chinese, who have a budget deficit of about 3%, also have this cyclical problem, but without the detrimental effect of an escalating long-term welfare burden.
In 1970s’ Britain, raising interest rates to clear a government funding backlog was referred to as the Grand Old Duke of York tactic, after the nursery rhyme. The Bank would raise interest rates to the point where the funding logjam was freed, then march them back down again.
Doing that today would certainly trigger the credit crisis, because of the sheer level of debt in individual economies. Governments are effectively trapped. McKinsey estimated in 2014 that global government debt amounted to $58 trillion, and it has obviously increased markedly since then.[vi] It is not just President Trump increasing borrowing to pay for tax cuts, but for most other governments, borrowing large amounts additional funds to debt refinancing is now business as usual.
The following chart, of the Fed Funds Rate, illustrates the impact of increasing levels of dollar debt on the height to which interest rates can be raised before the next credit crisis is triggered.
The pecked line shows the declining trend of the previous interest rate peaks, where interest rates rose to the level at which a credit crisis was triggered. Thus, a FFR of a little over 6% was enough to deflate the dot-com bubble in 2000, and a FFR of over 5% to trigger the great financial crisis of 2007-09. Today, a FFR above 2.5% would be very dangerous, so even a minor funding dislocation from hereon is likely to trigger a credit cycle crisis. The level of debt outstanding is now truly of cataclysmic proportions.
The next credit crisis will soon be upon us
The current expansion phase is unlikely to last long. The assumption made by nearly all economists is that global growth in GDP will lead to some price inflation, but the dominating factors are hopefully assumed to be beneficial, with corporate profits rising, and therefore tax revenue for governments eventually reducing their deficits. Empirical evidence from the early 1970s suggests this optimism is unwarranted.
Analysis of credit cycles by Austrian economists tend to emphasise the later effects of an earlier expansion of money and credit on subsequent prices over time, and indeed, this is a theme shared in this article. The limit of this approach is analysts risk taking insufficient account of the hangover of unliquidated debt and malinvestments from previous credit cycles. No doubt, the accumulation of economic distortions from previous credit cycles will ensure the next credit crisis will be even more dramatic than the last.
In a modern world of massive portfolio flows, things are even more dangerous. After several credit cycles during which government borrowing has not been disrupted it is likely to become a “crowding out” issue this time round, whereby governments compete head-on in bond markets with private sector borrowers. This conflict seems set to push up the market rate of time-preference, beyond the control of monetary policy. It is also likely to push down the dollar, which is the currency where the bulk of international portfolio money is currently invested. The banking system, being fractionally geared, remains highly vulnerable to these shifts, despite the increase in base money since the last crisis. Eurozone banks are a notable risk, being most highly geared and heavily exposed to falling government bond prices.
Our conclusion is this. Taking into account the combination of price inflation pressures, the fall in purchasing power faced by the dollar, the likely redirection of financial assets by international investors exposed to declining dollars and the potential for a global funding dislocation, we will be lucky if the next credit crisis, taking all this into consideration, does not strike before the year-end.
[i] In free markets, time-preference is the higher value given to immediate possession compared with future possession of property, or a good. It is the basis for interest rates.
[ii] At that time, central bank policy was under the control of the Treasury.
[iii] The assumption here is the dollar will be sold on the foreign exchanges, reflecting a growing US trade deficit, China’s desire to reduce and eliminate the dollar’s role in her trade settlements, and the liquidation of dollar assets in foreign-owned portfolios.
[iv] In 1970s Britain, powerful unions were able to force up wages. In this cycle, wage inflation is absent, a notable difference. Higher wages are now replaced by consumer borrowing.
[v] This overweighting of the dollar in foreign portfolios is the natural result of earlier dollar strength, which is no longer the case. In June 2016, this amounted to a record $17.39 trillion.
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French President Emmanuel Macron's office is delaying the announcement of the new government while authorities check the tax records and backgrounds of potential ministers.
In his first speech in the ministry's courtyard Wednesday, Collomb said Europe and France especially "are being targeted by terrorists", noting that the terrorist threat comes from overseas, but is also "rooted in our territory".
The 69-year-old Jean-Yves Le Drian (John-Eve Le DREE-on) was France's defense minister during the five-year term of former President Francois Hollande.
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Goulard, a centrist member of the European Parliament since 2009, supports a strong federal Europe.
From the right-wing, Bruno Le Maire, a pro-European, was picked as economy minister.
On Tuesday, he and Philippe were finalising a government which Macron says will supersede France's entrenched left-right divide and breathe new life into the country's jaded political landscape. Center-right Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, whom Macron tapped named Monday, is to lead the government at least until the elections.
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Drawing wide support across the political spectrum will be key as Macron seeks a legislative victory in parliamentary elections in June.
Posting on Twitter a picture of the pair in a gilded room of the Elysee presidential palace, Macron called Philippe "the prime minister of a government of unity and renewal to change France".
"I am counting a lot on President Tusk and his leadership to go further in this overhaul".
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The PukGuksong-2 intermediate-range ballistic missile was sacked into waters off the east coast of North Korea on Sunday (May 21). Only on Tuesday, 23 May, North Korea had issued a strong rebuke to the UN Security Council's condemnation of its missile test .
Billionaire Moshiri to spearhead Everton’s Italian job
Indeed, it is only by virtue of Falcinelli’s prowess in the final third that Crotone still remains in contention to survive. In Romelu Lukaku, Koeman has a player with the capability of firing Everton to far headier heights than seventh place.
Man Utd beat Ajax to win Europa League
Football both is and isn't important within the context of what has happened. 'We want peace in the world, we want a normal world. Honestly, I don't know", he said. "I agree with Uefa's decision to play the match now".
The deal Trump is cooking
Solving the Mideast peace riddle is the task of Trump's son-in-law and jack-of-all-trades troubleshooter, Jared Kushner. May your first trip to our region prove to be a historic milestone on the path towards reconciliation and peace. | {
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BRISBANE, QLD – Oct. 15, 2018 –Hand of Fate 2, the acclaimed action role-playing game from Defiant Development, expands today with The Servant and The Beastdownloadable content and the “Combat Reforged” update. Available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Linux, the DLC and free update will also be released soon on Nintendo Switch.
The Servant and the Beast invites players to return to the Dealer’s table once again. Enjoy a brand-new campaign in the Game of Life and Death that sees our hero strike a bargain with a monstrous entity who helps them escape from fighting pits in exchange for blood.
This character, Veles the Shadow Beast, is also included as a companion who can accompany players into combat and vanquish downed foes. Veles also has more dark and terrible powers, along with a vengeful quest chain filled with more encounters to enjoy and gear to unlock.
"The Servant and the Beast is an exciting new chapter to Hand of Fate 2’s growing story,” said Morgan Jaffit, Director, Defiant Development. "When players return to meet Veles and go on an all-new adventure, they will find our most ambitious and expansive DLC to date.”
Arriving in tandem the new content is the free “Combat Reforged” update, which dramatically overhauls how battles play out in Hand of Fate 2 with a myriad of enhanced fighting mechanics. It also rebalances enemies and equipment and contains other improvements that make this the best time to play the game whether it’s for the first time or a repeat playthrough.
Hand of Fate 2’s previous DLC, Outlands and Outsiders, is now also available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Released earlier this year on PC, the new add-on features a story about altering the past, a new goblin companion with a unique quest line, and more cards to acquire.
The Servant and the Beast and Outlands and Outsiders are on sale for $6.99 / €5.99 / £4.99 / A$8.95 apiece on the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, and Steam, and GOG.com. The former currently is also available at a 10% introductory discount via Steam, where the base game is also temporarily on offer for 25% off its base price during the same period.
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Matthew Selt (born 7 March 1985) is an English professional snooker player originally from Romford and now living in Atherstone and playing out of the Atack snooker Centre in Nuneaton. He qualified for the professional tour by finishing seventh on the Pontin's International Open Series in 2006/2007. Selt played in his first professional final in 2014 at the minor-ranking Lisbon Open, which he lost to Stephen Maguire, and has reached five quarter-finals in full ranking events.
Selt began the 2011/2012 season ranked 43rd meaning he would have to win two qualifying matches to reach the ranking event main draws.[3] He did this at the first ranking event of the season: the Australian Goldfields Open by beating Adrian Gunnell and Ricky Walden.[4] In the last 32 he played reigning world champion John Higgins and pulled off the biggest result of his career to date by overcoming a deficit of 1–4, to triumph 5–4 and win a televised match for the first time.[5] He then beat Stephen Hendry 5–1 to earn himself his first ranking event quarter-final, where he lost 3–5 to Shaun Murphy.[6] Selt qualified for the main draw of the UK Championship for the first time in 2011 by defeating Mark King 6–4 in the final round of qualifying.[7] His reward was a tie against former world championGraeme Dott, who beat him 6–1.[8] He failed to qualify for any of the remaining ranking events and finished the season ranked world number 44.[4][9]
He rediscovered his form in World Championship Qualifying by seeing off Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon 10–8 to be just one match away from reaching the opening round of the tournament for the first time.[13] Selt played 1997 champion Ken Doherty and at 9–4 ahead he looked to be heading to the Crucible with ease. However, Doherty came back to trail 7–9, and when Selt lost the next frame from a position of 55–0 ahead all the momentum was with the Irishman. The match went into a deciding frame with Selt again building a 55–0 lead and this time hanging on to seal his place in the first round, where he met world number one Mark Selby, losing 4–10.[13][14] He ended the campaign where he started it, ranked world number 44.[15]
Selt failed to qualify for the opening four ranking events of the 2013/2014 season, but then whitewashed Chris Norbury 6–0 to reach the first round of the International Championship, where he lost 6–3 to Martin Gould.[16] His best result by far in the minor-ranking European Tour events came at the final tournament, the Gdynia Open as he whitewashed three opponents 4–0 and beat Judd Trump 4–1 in a televised quarter-final, before losing by the same scoreline to Shaun Murphy in the semis. After the event, Selt stated that he had been neglecting his game for the last two years by occasionally practising two or three hours and that he believed his ranking of 50 would be 20 or 30 places higher if he had played to his true ability.[17] He finished 32nd on the European Order of Merit, seven places outside of qualifying for the Finals.[18] His deepest run in a ranking event this season came after this at the China Open when he beat Ryan Day 5–2, before losing 5–2 to Ali Carter in the last 32.[16]
Selt progressed through to the semi-finals of the Haining Open, losing 4–1 to Stuart Bingham.[19] His first win at the venue stage of a full ranking event this season came courtesy of a 6–0 whitewash over Hammad Miah at the UK Championship. Selt then knocked out Xiao Guodong and Rory McLeod both 6–4 to face Ronnie O'Sullivan in the fourth round. O'Sullivan made a 147 in the final frame as he won 6–0, with Selt saying afterwards that despite having numerous chances throughout the match he never settled.[20] Selt responded in his next event by winning four matches to reach the quarter-finals of the Lisbon Open and then defeated Judd Trump 4–1 and Barry Hawkins 4–2 to play in his first final in a minor-ranking event.[19] He took the opening frame against Stephen Maguire, but went on to lose 4–2.[21] His first quarter-final in a ranking event this season came at the PTC Grand Final after he eliminated Oliver Lines 4–1 and Chris Wakelin 4–2 and he led Mark Williams 3–1, but could not reach the first semi-final of his career as Williams would knock him out in a final frame decider.[22] Selt's season looked to be ending in disappointment as he trailed Jimmy White 7–2 in the second round of World Championship qualifying. However, he took eight of the nine frames upon the resumption of play and won in the final round 10–8 against Tom Ford.[23] In the first round Selt lost another opening session 7–2 this time against Barry Hawkins. He also went on to be 9–4 behind but then won five frames in a row which included back-to-back centuries and a 94 break. He couldn't win his first match at the Crucible Theatre as he lost the deciding frame.[24] Selt finished a season inside the top 32 in the rankings for the first time in his career as he was the world number 30.[25]
In the first round of the 2015 Australian Goldfields Open, Neil Robertson fought back to 4–4 after Selt had been 4–0 up. The deciding frame lasted 55 minutes and Selt took it on the final blue and then edged past Mark Joyce 5–4 to reach the quarter-finals of the event for the third time.[26] He was unable to feature in his first ranking event semi-final as Martin Gould comfortably beat him 5–1.[27] However, Selt rose to a career-high 27th in the world rankings soon afterwards and credited his improvement in play to his coach Chris Henry, his mentor Stephen Hendry, as well as his own personal fitness.[28] He lost 5–4 on the final black to Judd Trump in the second round of the Shanghai Masters.[29] Despite describing his play as pretty terrible, Selt reached the fourth round of the UK Championship and recovered from 3–1 down against Luca Brecel to knock him out 6–4. He also said that his 6–0 loss to Ronnie O'Sullivan a year earlier had improved him as a player. In his first UK quarter-final he was defeated 6–1 by Mark Selby, but the £20,000 in prize money he earned is the biggest of his career so far.[30][31] O'Sullivan beat Selt 3–0 in the semi-finals of the non-ranking Championship League. He failed to qualify for the World Championship after losing 10–9 to Mitchell Mann in the second qualifying round.[32] His ranking over the course of the season rose five places to world number 25.[33]
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England
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east, the country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. England became a state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the worlds first industrialised nation, Englands terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. However, there are uplands in the north and in the southwest, the capital is London, which is the largest metropolitan area in both the United Kingdom and the European Union. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the name England is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages, the Angles came from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded use of the term, as Engla londe, is in the ninth century translation into Old English of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its spelling was first used in 1538. The earliest attested reference to the Angles occurs in the 1st-century work by Tacitus, Germania, the etymology of the tribal name itself is disputed by scholars, it has been suggested that it derives from the shape of the Angeln peninsula, an angular shape. An alternative name for England is Albion, the name Albion originally referred to the entire island of Great Britain. The nominally earliest record of the name appears in the Aristotelian Corpus, specifically the 4th century BC De Mundo, in it are two very large islands called Britannia, these are Albion and Ierne. But modern scholarly consensus ascribes De Mundo not to Aristotle but to Pseudo-Aristotle, the word Albion or insula Albionum has two possible origins. Albion is now applied to England in a poetic capacity. Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, the earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from 500,000 years ago, Modern humans are known to have inhabited the area during the Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only established within the last 6,000 years
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Pound sterling
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It is subdivided into 100 pence. A number of nations that do not use sterling also have called the pound. At various times, the sterling was commodity money or bank notes backed by silver or gold. The pound sterling is the worlds oldest currency still in use, the British Crown dependencies of Guernsey and Jersey produce their own local issues of sterling, the Guernsey pound and the Jersey pound. The pound sterling is also used in the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, the Bank of England is the central bank for the pound sterling, issuing its own coins and banknotes, and regulating issuance of banknotes by private banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Sterling is the fourth most-traded currency in the exchange market, after the United States dollar, the euro. Together with those three currencies it forms the basket of currencies which calculate the value of IMF special drawing rights, Sterling is also the third most-held reserve currency in global reserves. The full, official name, pound sterling, is used mainly in formal contexts, otherwise the term pound is normally used. The abbreviations ster. or stg. are sometimes used, the term British pound is commonly used in less formal contexts, although it is not an official name of the currency. The pound sterling is also referred to as cable amongst forex traders, the origins of this term are attributed to the fact that in the 1800s, the dollar/pound sterling exchange rate was transmitted via transatlantic cable. Forex brokers are sometimes referred to as cable dealers, as another established source notes, the compound expression was then derived, silver coins known as sterlings were issued in the Saxon kingdoms,240 of them being minted from a pound of silver. Hence, large payments came to be reckoned in pounds of sterlings, in 1260, Henry III granted them a charter of protection. And because the Leagues money was not frequently debased like that of England, English traders stipulated to be paid in pounds of the Easterlings, and land for their Kontor, the Steelyard of London, which by the 1340s was also called Easterlings Hall, or Esterlingeshalle. For further discussion of the etymology of sterling, see sterling silver, the currency sign for the pound sign is £, which is usually written with a single cross-bar, though a version with a double cross-bar is also sometimes seen. The ISO4217 currency code is GBP, occasionally, the abbreviation UKP is used but this is non-standard because the ISO3166 country code for the United Kingdom is GB. The Crown dependencies use their own codes, GGP, JEP, stocks are often traded in pence, so traders may refer to pence sterling, GBX, when listing stock prices. A common slang term for the pound sterling or pound is quid, since decimalisation in 1971, the pound has been divided into 100 pence. The symbol for the penny is p, hence an amount such as 50p properly pronounced fifty pence is more colloquially, quite often, pronounced fifty pee /fɪfti, pi and this also helped to distinguish between new and old pence amounts during the changeover to the decimal system
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Glossary of cue sports terms
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There are also hybrid pocket/carom games such as English billiards. The terms American or US as applied here refer generally to North American usage, similarly, British terms predominate in the world of snooker, English billiards and blackball, regardless of the players nationalities. The term blackball is used in this glossary to refer to both blackball and eight-ball pool as played in the Commonwealth, as a shorthand, 1-cushion See the Straight rail billiards main article for the game sometimes called one-cushion. 1-pocket See the One-pocket main article for the game, 3-ball See the Three-ball main article for the game. 3-cushion See the Three-cushion billiards main article for the game, 4-ball See the Yotsudama main article for the modern Asian game often called four-ball. See the American four-ball billiards main article for the nineteenth-century game, 5-pins See the Five-pin billiards main article for the formerly Italian, now internationally standardized game, or Danish pin billiards for the five-pin traditional game of Denmark. 6-ball See the Nine-ball#Six-ball sub-article for the game, 8-ball See the Eight-ball main article for the game. See the 8 ball entry, under the E section below, See 8 ball for derivative uses. 9-ball See the Nine-ball main article for the game, See the 9 ball entry, under the N section below, for the ball. 9-pins See the Goriziana main article for the game sometimes called nine-pins, 10-ball See the Ten-ball main article for the game. Above Used in snooker in reference to the position of the cue ball and it is above the object ball if it is off-straight on the baulk cushion side of the imaginary line for a straight pot. It is also common to use the term high instead, gambling or the potential for gambling. Lively results on a ball, usually the cue ball, from the application of spin, added Used with an amount to signify money added to a tournament prize fund in addition to the amount accumulated from entry fees. A match format in which a player has to establish a lead of a number of frames in order to win. Aiming line An imaginary line drawn from the path an object ball is to be sent. Anchor To freeze a ball to a cushion, such a ball may be said to be anchored and this term is largely obsolete balkline billiards jargon. Anchor nurse A type of shot used in carom billiards games. It developed to curtail the effectiveness of the nurse, which in turn had been invented to thwart the effectiveness of Parkers box in stopping long
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Century break
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In snooker, a century break is a score of 100 points or more within one visit at the table without missing a shot, and requires potting of at least 25 consecutive balls. Over 20,000 century breaks have been recorded by snooker players throughout professional tournaments, Ronnie OSullivan holds the record for the most career centuries, with over 800 century breaks. A century break is a score of 100 points or more within one visit at the table, the player does this by potting red balls and coloured balls alternately, and when no reds are left, potting the coloured balls in order of their increasing value. Points for a shot by the opponent do not count in a players break. If for example only the colour would be used instead of the black ball. This means that only a century break is possible in a frame of snooker under a limited number of combinations. To score one, there must be at least ten reds on the table when the comes to play since if there are only nine reds left. An exception exists if the opponent fouls and leaves the incoming player snookered on all the remaining reds, Breaks above 147 are possible when an opponent fouls and leaves a free ball with all fifteen reds still remaining on the table. This has happened once in professional competition, when Jamie Burnett made a 148 at the qualifying stage of the 2004 UK Championship. A century of centuries refers to a total of 100 breaks of at least 100 points each, only 15 players had reached this milestone in professional snooker tournaments by December 2001. Only Neil Robertson has achieved the Holy Grail of one hundred 100s in a single season, the following players are reported to have passed 100 breaks and at least the given threshold above this. Career Joe Davis compiled the first televised century break in 1962, the record for most century breaks scored in official tournament play is held by Ronnie OSullivan with over 850. The record was held by Stephen Hendry who compiled 775 centuries over the course of his career. The first player to record 1000 centuries in public performance was Horace Lindrum, stacey Hillyard became the first female to record a competitive century in January 1985. The quickest recorded century break in tournament play was by Tony Drago at 1996 UK Championship, the youngest player to record a century break is Michael White at the age of nine in March 2001. Season The first player to reach 50 centuries in a season was Hendry, judd Trump took the record with 61 centuries in the 2012/2013 season and the record was broken for the fourth successive season in 2013/2014 when Neil Robertson overtook Trumps tally. In total, Robertson compiled 103 century breaks throughout the season, event The most centuries made by a player in a single match during a professional tournament is seven and the record is shared by Stephen Hendry and Ding Junhui. Hendry set the record during the final of the 1994 UK Championship, during this match, Hendry compiled six centuries in a span of eight frames
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Snooker
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Snooker is a cue sport which originated in India in the latter half of the 19th century. It is played on a covered with a green cloth, or baize, with pockets at each of the four corners. Using a cue and 22 coloured balls, players must strike the ball to pot the remaining balls in the correct sequence. An individual game, or frame, is won by the player who scores the most points, a match is won when a player wins a predetermined number of frames. In the 1870s, billiards was a sport played by members of the British Army stationed in India. Snooker gained its own identity in 1884 when officer Sir Neville Chamberlain, while stationed in Ooty, devised a set of rules that combined pyramid, the word snooker was a long used military term used to describe inexperienced or first year personnel. The game grew in popularity in England, cemented by the formation of the Billiards Association and it is now governed by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. The World Snooker Championship has taken place since 1927, with Joe Davis becoming a key figure in the growth of the sport with 15 championship wins from 1927 to 1946. Top professional players now compete regularly around the world and attain multi-million-pound career earnings, the sport has become increasingly popular in China. The origin of snooker dates back to the half of the nineteenth century. In the 1870s, billiards was a popular activity amongst British Army officers stationed in India, one such variation originated at the officers mess of the 11th Devonshire Regiment in Jabalpur in 1875, which combined the rules of two pocket billiards games, pyramid and life pool. The former was played with fifteen red balls and one positioned in a triangle, while the latter involved the potting of designated coloured balls. The name instantly stuck with the players, in 1887, snooker was given its first definite reference in England in a copy of Sporting Life which caused a growth in popularity. Chamberlain came out as the inventor in a letter to The Field published on 19 March 1938,63 years after the fact. To accommodate the growing interest, smaller and more open snooker-specific clubs were formed, in 1919, the Billiards Association and the Billiards Control Board merged to form the Billiards Association and Control Club and a new, standard set of rules for snooker first became official. Davis won every championship until 1946 when he retired. The game went into a decline through the 1950s and 1960s with little interest generated outside of those who played, in 1959, Davis introduced a variation of the game, known as snooker plus to try to improve the games popularity by adding two extra colours. The TV series became a success and was for a time the second most popular show on BBC Two
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Romford
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Romford is a large town in East London, England, and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Havering. It is located 14.1 miles northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. It was historically a town in the county of Essex and formed the administrative centre of the liberty of Havering. It now forms one of the largest commercial, retail, entertainment, Romford is first recorded in 1177 as Romfort, which is formed from Old English rūm and ford and means the wide or spacious ford. The naming of the River Rom is a local back-formation from the name of the town, the ford most likely existed on the main London to Colchester road where it crossed that river. The original site of the town was to the south, in an area known as Oldchurch. It was moved northwards to the present site in the medieval period to avoid the frequent flooding of the River Rom. The first building on the new site was the church of Saint Edward the Confessor. The town developed in the Middle Ages on the road to London. The early history of Romford and the area is agricultural. Several failed attempts were made in the early 19th century to connect the town to the Thames via a Romford Canal. The development of the town was accelerated by the opening of the station in 1839 which stimulated the local economy and was key to the development of the Star Brewery. Initially Eastern Counties Railway services operated between Mile End and Romford, with extensions to Brentwood and to Shoreditch in 1840. A second station was opened on South Street in 1892 by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway on the line to Upminster and Grays, the two stations were combined into one in 1934. Suburban expansion increased the population and reinforced Romfords position as a significant regional town centre. Romford formed a chapelry in the ancient parish of Hornchurch in the Becontree hundred of Essex, as well as the town it included the wards of Collier Row, Harold Wood. Over time the vestry of Romford chapelry absorbed the powers that would usually be held by the parish authorities. Improvement commissioners were set up in 1819 for paving, lighting, watching, the remainder of the parish became part of the Romford rural sanitary district in 1875
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Atherstone
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Atherstone /ˈæðərstən/ is a town and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. Located in the far north of the county, Atherstone forms part of the border with Leicestershire along the A5 national route and it lies midway between the larger towns of Tamworth and Nuneaton and contains the administrative offices of North Warwickshire Borough Council. Atherstone has a history dating back to Roman times. An important defended Roman settlement named Manduessedum existed at Mancetter near the site of modern-day Atherstone, and the Roman road, the Watling Street ran through the town. It is believed by historians that the rebel Queen of the Britons. The Domesday Book of 1086, records that Atherstone was held by Countess Godiva. The ancient St. Mary’s Chapel in Atherstone dates from the early 12th century when the monks of Bec made a donation of 12 acres to a house of friars and hermits, Mary’s Chapel seems to have experienced something of a revival. Its square tower being rebuilt in the fashionable Gothic style in 1782 and this drastic alteration probably aroused some controversy. Although the fine architectural drawing of the chapel made by Mr. Schnebbelie in 1790 prompted Nichols to assert that the new tower provides a good effect, St Marys was further redesigned in 1849 by Thomas Henry Wyatt and David Brandon. It is said that the Battle of Bosworth actually took place in the fields of Merevale above Atherstone, certainly reparation was made to Atherstone after the battle and not to Market Bosworth. In Tudor times, Atherstone was a commercial centre for weaving and clothmaking. The towns favourable location laid out as a long ‘ribbon development’ along Watling Street, by the late Tudor period Atherstone had become a centre for leatherworking, clothmaking, metalworking and brewing. They show Atherstone at this time as a typical Midlands market town, taking advantage of its location. Atherstone was once an important hatting town, and became known for its felt hats. The industry began in the 17th century and at its height there were seven firms employing 3,000 people, the production of felt hats in the town ceased altogether with the closure of the Wilson & Stafford factory in 1999. Atherstone is part of the constituency of North Warwickshire, with the current MP for the area being Conservatives Craig Tracey. The local authority is North Warwickshire Borough Council, which, since May 2015, has been under Conservative control, the town is situated 5.6 mi northwest of Nuneaton,5.6 mi southeast of Tamworth and 14 mi north of the nearest major city, Coventry. Atherstone is close to the River Anker which forms the boundary between Warwickshire and Leicestershire, witherley village is on the opposite bank of the river in Leicestershire, whilst the village of Mancetter is contiguous with Atherstone to the southeast
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Nuneaton
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Nuneaton /nəˈniːtən/ is a town in Warwickshire, England. The population in 2011 was 81,877, making it the largest town in Warwickshire, the author George Eliot was born on a farm on the Arbury Estate just outside Nuneaton in 1819 and lived in the town for much of her early life. Her novel Scenes of Clerical Life depicts Nuneaton, the Nuneaton built-up area, incorporating Nuneaton and surrounding villages including Hartshill and Bulkington, had a population of 92,968 at the 2011 census. Nuneaton is 9 miles north of Coventry,20 miles east of Birmingham and 103 miles northwest of London, the River Anker runs through the town. Towns close to Nuneaton include Bedworth, Atherstone and Hinckley, with Tamworth and Lutterworth a little further afield, the town lies 3 miles from the Leicestershire border,8 miles from Staffordshire and 12 miles from Derbyshire. Nuneatons name came from a 12th century Benedictine nunnery around which much of the town grew, prior to this it was a settlement known as Etone, which translates literally as water-town. Nuneaton was listed in the Domesday Book as a small hamlet, a market was established in 1233, which is still held. The first recorded use of the name was in 1247 when a document recorded it as Nonne Eton. The nunnery fell into disrepair after 1539, with Henry VIIIs Dissolution of the Monasteries, king Edward VI School was established by a royal charter in 1552. From 1944 it became a school for boys and, although it was locally known as KEGS. In 1974 it became a sixth form college, the other grammar schools in Nuneaton in the 1944 to 1974 period were Nuneaton High School for Girls and Manor Park. Nicholas Chamberlaine School in Bedworth was a comprehensive school that had a grammar school stream. Nuneaton grew gradually from the 17th century onwards, due to its position at the centre of the Warwickshire coalfields, at the time of the first national census in 1801 Nuneaton was one of the largest towns in Warwickshire, with a population of 5,000. During the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, Nuneaton developed a textile industry. Other industries which developed in the town included brick and tile making and brewing, by 1901 the population of Nuneaton had grown to 25,000. Nuneaton parish included the settlements of Attleborough and Stockingford, the parish was joined with Chilvers Coton parish in 1894 to form an urban district. Nuneaton was upgraded to the status of a borough in 1907. Due largely to munitions factories being located in Nuneaton, the town suffered heavy bombing damage during the Second World War, as a result of the bombing, much of the town centre was rebuilt in the post-war years
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Stephen Maguire
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Stephen Maguire is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has been a professional player since 1998, ranked in the top 16 consecutively for 11 years from 2005 to August 2016. He has won five ranking tournaments, including the UK Championship in 2004. As a prolific break-builder, Maguire has compiled more than 300 century breaks, Maguire began his career on the UK Tour in 1998, at the time the second-level professional tour. Maguire was the winner of the 2004 European Open. Ranked 41 in the world at the time, he well established top-16 player Jimmy White 9–3 in the final. The start of the 2004/2005 season saw Maguire establish himself as one of the games brightest talents and he performed well at the season opening Grand Prix, reaching the quarter-finals, and things improved further at the British Open in Brighton. Although Maguire lost the final 6–9 to his compatriot John Higgins, he more than made up for it at the next event, the UK Championship, snookers second biggest tournament. Maguire played some superb snooker on the way to the final, beating the likes of Mark King, Mark Davis, Stephen Lee, Ronnie OSullivan and Steve Davis. Davis described Maguire as inspired, while OSullivan was again rich in his praise for the youngster, in the final, Maguire blazed past David Gray with an emphatic 10–1 win. The rest of the season was an anti-climax of sorts however and he lost against defending champion Ronnie OSullivan 9–10 in their World Championship first-round match, despite having led 9–7, but he still moved up to #3 in the world rankings. In the 2005/2006 season, he reached one quarter-final, showing evidence of a loss in form. In 2007, he recorded his best run at the World Championship reaching the semi-final, Maguire again beat Shaun Murphy in the 2007 UK Championship semi-final 9–5 only to lose 2–10 against Ronnie OSullivan in the final. In the 2008 China Open, he compiled a 147 in narrowly beating his friend Ryan Day 6–5 in the semi-finals, before edging out Shaun Murphy once again in the final by 10 frames to 9. The 2008/2009 season he failed to win an event. His best runs were semi-final appearances in the Shanghai Masters and UK Championship, in the Shanghai Masters he lost narrowly 5–6 against Ronnie OSullivan and in the UK Championship 4–9 against Shaun Murphy. Maguire began the 2009/2010 season by winning the first event of the Pro Challenge Series beating Alan McManus 5–2 in the final, Maguire had to withdraw from the first ranking event, the Shanghai Masters, due to shoulder injury. In the Grand Prix he won his first ranking match of the season, defeating Nigel Bond 5–3, Maguires first event of 2010 was the Masters
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Steve Davis
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Steve Davis, OBE is an English former professional snooker player from Plumstead, London.5 million British viewers. He is a known public figure and is generally viewed by his peers as one of the greatest players of all time. In addition to his six titles, Daviss career achievements include three Masters and a record six UK Championship titles. He won a total of 28 ranking events and made over £5.6 million in prize money, Davis compiled more than 300 competitive century breaks, including the first officially recognised maximum break in professional competition, in 1982. During the 1987/1988 season, he became the first player to complete snookers Triple Crown by winning the UK Championship, Masters and his other accomplishments include winning the World Doubles Championship four times with Tony Meo and winning the World Team Classic/World Cup four times with England. Davis won his last world title in 1989, and captured his last major title when he won the 1997 Masters at the age of 39, but he continued to play snooker at a high level into his 50s. He reached the final of the 2005 UK Championship at the age of 48 and was ranked inside the top 16 when he turned 50 during the 2007/2008 season. He reached the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Championship at the age of 52 and he won the World Seniors Championship in 2013. On 17 April 2016, after failing to qualify for the 2016 World Snooker Championship, outside snooker, Davis has competed in pool tournaments, notably playing on Team Europe at the Mosconi Cup between 1994 and 2004, helping the team win the event in 1995 and 2002. He is also noted for his participation in events, having reached the final stages of several televised tournaments. Since 1996 he has been a broadcaster with Phoenix FM and an expert in the progressive rock genres of Zeuhl, RIO. A keen amateur chess player, he co-authored a chess book with grandmaster David Norwood and is a president of the British Chess Federation. He has also published books on snooker, including three autobiographies, one technical book and one comedy book called How To Be Really Interesting. He has appeared on a number of popular British TV shows and he was made an MBE in the 1988 Birthday Honours and an OBE in the 2000 New Year Honours. Davis was introduced to snooker by his father Bill, a player, who took him to play at his local working mens club at the age of 12. They studied the book and built Steve Daviss own technique on it in the 1970s, Hearn became Davis friend and manager. Paid £25 a match by Hearn, Davis toured the country, taking part in matches against established professionals such as Ray Reardon, John Spencer. Around this time he was given the nickname Nugget because, according to Hearn, you could put your case of money on him, Davis won the English Under-19 Billiards Championship in 1976
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John Higgins (snooker player)
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John Higgins, MBE is a Scottish professional snooker player. In terms of titles in the modern era, Higgins is fifth behind Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis, Ray Reardon. His 28 career ranking titles, put him in joint second place with Davis and OSullivan, known as a prolific break-builder, he has compiled 664 century breaks in professional tournament play, placing him third behind OSullivan and Hendry. He has also compiled 8 competitive maximum breaks, placing him third behind OSullivan, for 16 consecutive full seasons from 1996/1997 to 2011/2012, Higgins never fell below 6th in the world rankings, and was world number 1 on four occasions. The WPBSA banned Higgins from professional competition for six months and fined him £75,000 and he returned to the tour midway through the 2010/2011 season. After his return to snooker, Higgins added a third UK Championship title and he subsequently experienced a noted slump in form, and between 2012 and 2014 only won the 2012 Shanghai Masters. He has spoken frequently in this period about his struggles with confidence, however, in 2015, Higgins returned to winning ways, capturing three ranking titles. Higgins turned professional in 1992 and reached the quarter-finals of the British Open during his first season on the professional tour. He rose to prominence in the 1994/1995 season when, at the age of 19, he won his first ranking tournament at the Grand Prix, by the end of the season, he had moved from 51st to 11th in the world rankings. By the end of the season, assisted by two more ranking titles and another ranking final, he had moved up to 2nd in the world. In the UK Championship final in 1996, he recovered from 4–8 down against Stephen Hendry to lead 9–8, only to lose 9–10. In 1998, Higgins won his first World Championship, beating Jason Ferguson, Anthony Hamilton, John Parrott and Ronnie OSullivan and he made a then-record 14 centuries in the tournament. After winning the title, Higgins became world number 1 for the first time in his career. Higgins remained as World no.1 for two years, when Mark Williams replaced him at the top of the rankings at the close of the 1999/00 season and he reached the World Championship final in 2001, but lost 14–18 to Ronnie OSullivan. At the beginning of the 2001/02 season, Higgins became the first player to win the three tournaments of a season, the Champions Cup, Scottish Masters, and the British Open. Higgins then failed to win a title until his fourth British Open triumph in 2004. In the Grand Prix final in 2005, Higgins beat Ronnie OSullivan 9–2, in doing so, he became the first player to record four consecutive centuries in a ranking tournament, with breaks of 103,104,138 and 128 in frames 7 to 10. Higgins scored 494 points without reply, which was then a record, Higgins and OSullivan also contested the Masters finals in 2005 and 2006
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Jimmy White
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James Warren Jimmy White, MBE is an English professional snooker player. Whites non-world championship achievements include the UK Championship, the Masters, a two-time winner of both the World Cup and the British Open, White was also the first left-handed player, and second player overall, to record a maximum break at the World Championship. White was born in Streathbourne Road, Tooting, London, England and he never achieved academic success, as he was often truant from school from the age of eight or nine, spending more and more time at Zans, Ted Zanoncellis snooker hall. The club was known as Zans and after Teds death in 1978 it was handed down to his daughter. It was around this time that White met Tony Meo with whom he would compete in matches in many venues. His natural aptitude for snooker led to an amateur career. With a host of major titles and achievements, including ten ranking tournaments, the BBC describes him as a legend. A left-hander, he reached the World Professional Championship Final on six occasions, nonetheless, his consistency waned in the 2000s and a first-round defeat in the 2006 World Championship saw White drop out of the worlds top 32 player rankings. Whites continued slide down the rankings saw him drop to 65th, White is one of only six players to have completed a maximum break at the Crucible Theatre, doing so in the 1992 World Snooker Championship. He has compiled more than 300 century breaks during his career, White established himself as a top professional in 1981. The World Championship has provided the theatre for Whites greatest disappointments, in 1982, he led Alex Higgins 15–14 in their semi-final, was up 59–0 in the penultimate frame and was a red and colour away from the final. After missing a red with the rest, however, he could watch as Higgins compiled a frame-winning 69 break. Higgins won the frame that followed to reach the final. In 1984 White won the Masters for the time to date. He followed this success by reaching his first World Championship final, trailing Steve Davis 4–12 after the first two sessions, White responded by reducing the deficit to 15–16. He then made a clearance of 65 to take the score to 16–17, but was unable to build upon a 40-point lead in the following frame. White did, however, become a World Doubles Champion later that year when he and Alex Higgins defeated Willie Thorne, in 1986 White reached his second Masters final, but was defeated by Cliff Thorburn. However he won the Classic and also retained the Irish Masters title he won in 1985, White won the Classic when he beat Thorburn in the final frame after needing a snooker
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Fergal O'Brien
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Fergal OBrien is an Irish professional snooker player. A member of snookers main tour since turning professional in 1991, OBrien has been ranked within the worlds top 64 players since 1994, reaching his highest position, 9th, for the 2000/2001 season. He has won one ranking title - the 1999 British Open, OBrien is the only player to score a century in his first frame at the World Championships in the Crucible, which he achieved against Alan McManus in 1994. His greatest achievement was winning the British Open in 1999, beating Anthony Hamilton 9–7 in the final, Hamilton opened with two centuries, but OBrien won five frames on the final black to defeat the Nottingham man. OBrien also came close to winning the Masters title in 2001, after beating Mark Williams, Ken Doherty and Dave Harold, he lost in the final to Paul Hunter after leading 7–3. He has reached one further ranking final, and three semi-finals OBrien peaked at No.9 in the following his sole title. He narrowly retained his top 16 place for the 2001/2002 season, three further falls down the rankings left him at No. OBriens best run at the World Championship is the quarter-final and 2005 he became the first player to beat John Parrott in a World Championship qualifier. OBrien started the 2007/2008 campaign in Shanghai where he had beaten Paul Davies and Barry Hawkins in qualifying rounds, however, OBrien also qualified for the Grand Prix but lost four of his group matches to finish 5th in his group ahead of only Graeme Dott. After qualifying for the draw of the 2007 Northern Ireland Trophy by beating Barry Pinches in a deciding frame. Victories over John Higgins, Barry Hawkins and Ronnie OSullivan, before he reached the second ranking-event final of his career by beating Mark Allen by 6 frames to 3 and he lost the final to Stephen Maguire, 5–9. As of the end of 2009 OBrien had compiled 101 competitive century breaks in his career and he qualified for the Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Finals held in Galway but lost his Last 24 match 0–4 to Joe Perry
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Stephen Hendry
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Stephen Gordon Hendry, MBE is a Scottish former professional snooker player. Hendry became the youngest professional player in 1985 aged 16 and, in 1990, he was the youngest-ever snooker World Champion. He won the World Championship seven times, a record in the modern era, Hendry has the distinction of winning the most world ranking titles and is second on the century break list behind Ronnie OSullivan with 775 competitive century breaks. He has made 11 competitive maximum breaks, second only to OSullivan with 13, Hendry started playing snooker in 1981, aged 12, when his father, Gordon, bought him a child-sized snooker table as a Christmas present. Two years later he won the Scottish U-16 Championship and he also appeared on BBCs Junior version of Pot Black. The following year he won the Scottish Amateur Championship and also became the youngest ever entrant in the World Amateur Championship, in 1985, after retaining the Scottish Amateur Championship, he turned professional. At 16 years and three months old he was the youngest ever professional, Hendry was managed by entrepreneur Ian Doyle. In his first season, he reached the last 32 in the Mercantile Credit Classic and was the youngest ever Scottish Professional champion. He also became the youngest player ever to qualify for the World Championship and he lost 8–10 to Willie Thorne who then applauded him out of the arena. Hendry and Mike Hallett combined to win that years World Doubles Championship, in 1987/88 Hendry won his first world ranking titles, the Grand Prix, beating Dennis Taylor 10–7 in the final, and the British Open. He also claimed three other tournament victories, retaining both the Scottish Professional Championship and the World Doubles Championship, and the Australian Masters, by the end of that season he was ranked world no.4 and was voted the BBC Scotland Sports Personality of the Year. No ranking titles came his way the following season, although he did win the New Zealand Masters, the 1989/90 season saw the beginning of Hendrys period of dominance. The following season, he set a record of five ranking titles in one season and recorded a hat-trick of Masters, beating Mike Hallett 9–8 after coming back from 0–7. However, Hendry failed to retain his title, losing to Steve James in the quarter-finals. In 1991/92, Hendry regained the World title, winning 10 frames in a row to come from 8–14 down to defeat White 18–14 and he won the Masters, too, and achieved his first competitive 147 break, in the Matchroom League. A year later, he retained both his World Championship title and a fifth consecutive Masters crown, the following season, he retained the World Championship, narrowly beating Jimmy White 18–17 in the final. Also in 1997, Stephen Hendry played Ronnie OSullivan in the Liverpool Victoria charity challenge final, the match was best of 17 frames. Stephen raced into a 6-1 and 8-2 lead with breaks of 110,129 and 136, Ronnie won the next 6 frames to level the match at 8-8
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Ricky Walden
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Ricky Walden is an English professional snooker player from Bagillt. Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters and he has since won the 2012 Wuxi Classic and the 2014 International Championship and has been inside the top 16 in the season-ending rankings on four occasions. Walden has reached the stages of the World Snooker Championship on five occasions with his best result being a semi-finalist in 2013. Walden was born in Chester but raised in Bagillt, north Wales and he was one of the Young Players of Distinction in a scheme run in 2000, designed to help young players develop their playing and media skills, alongside Shaun Murphy, Stephen Maguire and Ali Carter. In 2001 he won the World Under-21 Championship, Walden began his professional career by playing UK Tour in 1999, at the time the second-level professional tour. Then he played Challenge Tour in 2001 and entered Main Tour and he started the 2004/2005 season ranked at number 78 in the world, but climbed 30 places that year. He beat John Higgins twice that season, at the Grand Prix and UK Championship, in 2005/2006 his best run was to the last 16 in the China Open, which he achieved by beating Stephen Maguire. In 2006/2007 he had 2 last-32 appearance including the UK Championship and he lost to eventual finalist Mark Selby in qualifying for the World Championship. He reached #36 for the 2007/2008 season and the year he reached the last 16 of the Grand Prix, beating John Parrott in qualifying. He crashed out in the China Open to Mark Selby and in the qualifying for the World Championship, in the 2008 Shanghai Masters he defeated Lee Spick and Ian McCulloch to qualify. At the venue he defeated wildcard Zhang Anda, Stephen Hendry, Neil Robertson, Steve Davis in the quarter-finals and he won his first ranking title by beating Ronnie OSullivan 10–8 in the final. The rest of the season was rather than spectacular, but a qualifying victory over Anthony Hamilton earned him a first appearance at the Crucible Theatre. In 2008 he also won the Six-red Snooker International, beating Stuart Bingham 8–3 in the final, Walden made it to the World Championship for the second time in 2011 as a seeded player, but was beaten by qualifier Rory McLeod 10–6. After the match, Walden criticised McLeod for what he considered to be a slow and boring style of play, McLeod responded to the criticism by arguing that Walden was more responsible for the pace of the match. Walden started the 2011/2012 season slowly, by losing in qualifying for the first two ranking events of the year, however, he qualified for the UK Championship by defeating Jamie Jones 6–2. In the main draw he beat Stephen Lee, Mark Williams, after the first session of the best-of 17-frames match Walden held a 5–3 advantage. However, upon resumption in the evening he lost the four frames. This was Waldens first semi-final in an event based in Britain
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Shaun Murphy (snooker player)
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Shaun Murphy is an English professional snooker player, who won the 2005 World Championship. Nicknamed The Magician, Murphy is noted for his cue action. Born in Harlow and raised in Irthlingborough, Murphy turned professional in 1998 and his victory at the World Championship was considered a major surprise as he was only the third qualifier to lift the title. He has also won seven non-ranking tournaments, including the 2015 Masters, Murphy has won over £3 million in prize money and has compiled more than 400 century breaks in his professional career. His highest world ranking was number three, which he maintained for three seasons following 2007/2008, and he is ranked number four. Born in Harlow, England, Murphy began playing snooker at the age of eight after his parents bought him a table for Christmas. He made his first century break at the age of 10 and practised at the Rushden Snooker Centre, where such as Stephen Hendry, Mark Williams. At the age of 13, he secured a five-year £5, 000-a-year sponsorship deal with the Doc Martens shoe company and stated his ambitions of winning the World Championship and he turned professional in 1998 at the age of 15. Murphy was coached by Steve Prest until the 2006/2007 season, willie Thorne and Ray Reardon also gave him guidance, and when he was 15, he was given the latters old cue by his father. Murphy began his career on the UK Tour in 1998, at the time the professional tour. He was runner-up in the event on the UK tour for the 1997/1998 season and, for the 2000/2001 season, won the third and fourth events on the Challenge Tour. In 2000, he received the World Snooker Newcomer of the Year award and one of six Young Player of Distinction of the Year awards from the World Professional Billiards, in 2000, he won the English Open Championship. Murphy won his first professional tournament at the 2000 Benson & Hedges Championship, defeating Mark Davis 6–1 in the semi-final, and Stuart Bingham 9–7 in the final, recovering from 2–5 down. In the 2001 tournament, he showed promise in his first televised match, defeating world number 15, Marco Fu and he made his first maximum break in the 2001 Benson & Hedges Championship. Murphy first reached the stages of a ranking event at the 2002 World Championship, hosted at the Crucible Theatre. For the 2003/2004 season, Murphy was ranked number 64 and qualified for the stages of three ranking tournaments. In the LG Cup, Murphy defeated Steve Davis 5–4 in the second round, after the victory over Davis, Murphy said This is one of the greatest days in my snooker career. In the British Open, he defeated Dave Harold 5–1 in the first round, in the Players Championship—the new name of the Scottish Open—he lost 3–5 to eventual champion Jimmy White in the second round
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UK Championship (snooker)
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The UK Championship, known as the Betway UK Championship for sponsorship reasons, is a professional mens ranking snooker tournament. It is the second biggest-ranking tournament, after the World Championship and is one of the Triple Crown events, Mark Selby is the reigning champion. The UK Championship was first held in 1977 in Tower Circus, Blackpool as the United Kingdom Professional Snooker Championship, Patsy Fagan won the inaugural tournament by defeating Doug Mountjoy by 12 frames to 9 in the final and won the first prize of £2000. The following year the event moved to the Guild Hall, Preston, the rules were changed in 1984 when the tournament was granted ranking status and all professionals were allowed to enter. Since then, it has carried more ranking points than any tournament other than the World Championship, the tournament has seen many memorable finals. In 1977 and 1979, it provided Patsy Fagan and John Virgo with their first, in 1980, it was Steve Daviss first of his 73 professional tournament wins. In 1983, Alex Higgins beat Davis 16–15 after having trailed 7–0 at the end of the first session, in 1985, Willie Thorne led Davis 13–10 at the start of the evening session, only to miss a simple blue off its spot and lose 16–14. The victory regenerated Daviss confidence after his devastating World Championship loss, Thorne, on the other hand, hendrys 16–15 win the following year, over Davis again, spoke to his unique qualities of nerve. Doherty has appeared in two memorable finals. In 1993, Ronnie OSullivan became the winner of the tournament aged just 17. Eight years later, in 2001, he delivered the finals best winning margin since it had become the best of 19 frames in the 1993 tournament, three years later, in 2004, Stephen Maguire repeated the feat against David Gray. Doherty almost won the tournament in the 2002 final against Mark Williams, the 2005 tournament saw Davis, aged 48, reached his first ranking tournament final for almost two years and make his highest break in tournament play for 23 years. In a match featured the widest age gap between finalists in professional tournament history, he lost 6–10 to the 18-year-old Ding Junhui. The following year, Peter Ebdon won the title and, in doing so, became the first, the event offered £500,000 prize money, with the winner receiving £70,000. In 2007, the tournament was won by Ronnie OSullivan for the time, again with some ease. The tournament was notable for the longest televised frame between Marco Fu and Mark Selby and Ronnie OSullivans maximum 147 break in the deciding frame of the semi-final. The 2009 final saw the world champion John Higgins lose to Ding Junhui, after he missed the brown. The 2010 final turned out to be another dramatic match, instantly described by commentators as an all-time classic
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2011 UK Championship (snooker)
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The 2011 williamhill. com UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 3–11 December 2011 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. This was the first time that William Hill sponsored the event, john Higgins was the defending champion, but he lost in the second round 4–6 against Stephen Maguire. Judd Trump won his second ranking title by defeating Mark Allen 10–8 in the final, the breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below, The format of the 2011 UK Championship was changed from previous editions. All rounds up to the semi-finals were played over the best of 11 frames instead of the best of 17 frames, the semi-finals and the final were played over the best of 17 and best of 19 frames respectively. The changes allowed for every match in the rounds to be played in front of television cameras. During the same interview Allen aimed a four lettered expletive at Hearn, Allen was later charged by World Snooker for bringing the game into disrepute. Hearn, following the comments by Allen, called him a silly little boy. Allen and Hearn later sat down and had a discussion, which resolved their differences and these matches were held between 5 and 9 November 2011 at the South West Snooker Academy, Gloucester, England. Preliminary round Best of 11 frames Round 1–4 Official website UK Championship Qualifiers 2011, Picture Perfect at Pro Snooker Blog
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Mark King (snooker player)
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Mark King is an English professional snooker player. He has also appeared in two ranking tournament finals - the 1997 Welsh Open, where he lost 2–9 to Stephen Hendry, and the 2004 Irish Masters. King has reached the last 16 of the World Championship seven times, in 1998,1999,2001,2002,2008,2009 and 2013, King turned professional in 1991 and advanced steadily through the rankings, reaching the top 48 by 1996. His 1997 Welsh Open final run lead to a top 32 place in the end of season rankings and he remained in the top 16 the following season without reaching a ranking quarter-final, but dropped out a year later. He made a return in 2000/2001, climbing to a career-high of #11. A poor 2002/2003 season ended with him dropping out of the top 16 again after defeat to Drew Henry 10–5 in the first round of the World Championship. In the post-match interview, King suggested that he had lost patience with the game, King later retracted this statement and began the following season in the qualifiers. After the 2004 World Championship, King became involved in a battle with Quinten Hann after his friend Andy Hicks eliminated Hann in a controversial first-round clash. Hann had been making provocative gestures during the match and after Hicks took victory, upset by Hanns behaviour, King challenged the Australian to a boxing match, for which King was later criticised, as Hanns behaviour had already put the game into disrepute. Nevertheless, the bout went ahead and Hann controversially won the fight on a points decision, in December 2004, King beat Mark Williams, Alan McManus and John Parrott en route to the semi-finals of the UK Championship, losing 9–4 to eventual winner Stephen Maguire. At 8–3, a mobile phone went off in the crowd, prompting King to quip if thats my missus, tell her Ill be home soon. In 2005, King beat Ronnie OSullivan 9–8 at the same event, King would eventually lose 9–6 in the last 16 to Joe Perry, but made a career best 146 break at the 2006 Championships. In 2007, King went out to David Gilbert in the round for the event. In the 2008 World Championship, King beat six-times runner-up Jimmy White to qualify, then shocked the previous years runner-up Mark Selby 10–8, after potting the match ball, King showed his delight by shouting Get in. He lost to Peter Ebdon in the last 16, but his place was secure. A consistent 2008/2009 season saw King retain his top 16 spot, at the 2009 Grand Prix King needed three snookers in the deciding frame against Ricky Walden to claim a 5–4 victory. He managed to get them and won by potting the final black, in the next round he lost to Robert Milkins. At the 2010 China Open King defeated Thai player James Wattana 5–4 in the first round after trailing 2–4 and he then won his second match 5–3 against Chinese player Tian Pengfei to reach his first Quarter final since the 2007 Malta Cup
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Graeme Dott
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Graeme Dott is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall. He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001 and he has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship and the 2007 China Open, and was runner-up in the World Championships of 2004 and 2010. He reached number 2 in the rankings in 2007, but a subsequent episode of clinical depression seriously affected his form. He then recovered his form, regained his ranking. In 2011, he published his autobiography, Frame of Mind, after winning the UK Under-19 Championship in 1992 and Scottish Amateur Championship in 1993, Dott turned professional in 1994. He slowly climbed the rankings, reaching the top sixteen in 2001, early successes included reaching the quarter-final of the 1996 Welsh Open and qualifying for the World Championship for the first time in 1997. Dott was a runner-up in the 1999 Scottish Open, the 2001 British Open, the 2004 World Championship and he scored his only competitive 147 break in the 1999 British Open. Dott started his campaign with an easy 10–3 victory over former champion John Parrott and his quarter-final match was against Australias Neil Robertson, and after leading 12–8, he was pegged back to 12–12, before edging through the deciding frame, winning the tie 13–12. In the semi-finals he faced former two-time champion Ronnie OSullivan in a rematch of the 2004 final, at 8–8 after the second session of four sessions, OSullivan failed to win a single frame in the third session and Dott dominated play to win easily 17–11. Dott faced Peter Ebdon in the final for the £200,000 prize and he began the last session of the match leading 15–7, but Ebdon won six successive frames to reduce his deficit to two frames. Dott eventually won by 18 frames to 14, after winning some vital frames with marvellous clearances and it was the longest final ever and was, at the time, the latest to finish. The previous record holder was the final frame last black ball finish 1985 final between Englishman Steve Davis and Northern Irishman Dennis Taylor, which finished at 12,19 a. m. The Dott-Ebdon match finished half an hour later, this despite featuring three fewer frames, reflecting the overall pace of the match. The average frame length was such that both afternoon sessions only had six frames, instead of the usual eight, the victory over Ebdon took his ranking up to number 6 for 2006/07 season, a career high at the time. Dott shone in the 2006 UK Championship as well, reaching the semi-finals, Dott briefly became the provisional world number one in the rankings system after overcoming Jamie Cope 9–5 to win the 2007 China Open, his second ranking tournament win. Prior to this, he disliked going to China, not helped by a match in 2002. Newly crowned world champion John Higgins overtook him, the loss against McCulloch also maintained the Crucible Curse, as Dott became the seventeenth consecutive first-time champion to lose his title the very next year. The 2007/2008 season was more of a struggle for Dott, who described his form as hopeless
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2012 Australian Goldfields Open
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The 2012 Australian Goldfields Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 9–15 July 2012 at the Bendigo Stadium in Bendigo, Australia. It was the ranking event of the 2012/2013 season. Stuart Bingham was the champion, but he lost in the first round 4–5 against Matthew Selt. Barry Hawkins won his first ranking title by defeating Peter Ebdon 9–3 in the final, the breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below, These matches were played in Bendigo on 9 July. These matches were held between 12 and 15 June 2012 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England, official website Australian Goldfields Open 2012 picture gallery at Facebook
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh is a professional snooker player from Thailand. Un-Nooh first entered the tour for the 2009/10 season by winning the 2008 IBSF World Snooker Championship. He dropped off the tour after just one season. He received the Thai nomination to compete on the tour for the 2012/2013 season. As a new player on the tour he needed to win four matches to reach the stage of the ranking events. Un-Nooh lost in the qualifying round in three of the first four ranking of the season. In September, it was announced that his match at the Players Tour Championship – Event 3 against Steve Davis was under investigation due to unusual betting patterns. Un-Nooh moved from an 8/11 odds-on favourite to 11/8 against just before the match started, in November, World Snooker released a statement to confirm that there was insufficient evidence and no further action would be taken against Un-Nooh. He reached the qualifying round for the UK Championship and the World Open. Un-Nooh played in nine of the ten Players Tour Championship Events during the season and his season ended when he was beaten 3–10 by Ben Woollaston in the third round of World Championship Qualifying, which saw him finish the year ranked world number 69. Un-Nooh lost in the rounds for the first four ranking events of the 2013/2014 season. In his first appearance in the draw of a ranking event he thrashed Zhang Anda 6–1. However, the experience seemed to kick start Un-Noohs season as in 2014 he played at the stage of four of the remaining six ranking events. At the World Open, Un-Nooh led Stephen Maguire 3–0, before the number eight rallied to win four frames in a row. The match went into a frame in which Un-Nooh made a break of sixty only for Maguire to get a chance to win. He then reached the last 16 of an event for the first time by beating Andrew Higginson 5–1 and lost 5–2 to Graeme Dott. Un-Nooh advanced to the last 32 of the China Open by whitewashing 1997 world champion Ken Doherty 5–0 and his performances during the campaign saw him end it in the top 64 in the world rankings for the first time as he was placed 59th. Un-Nooh qualified for the International Championship for the year in a row
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Jamie Jones (snooker player)
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Jamie Jones is a Welsh professional snooker player, from Neath. He was the youngest ever player, at age 14, to make a maximum 147 break in competition, at the 2012 World Snooker Championship he reached his first ranking quarter-final. In 2002, he became the player to make a 147 in an official event, making it aged 14. Jones began his career by playing Challenge Tour in 2004. He qualified for the Main Tour for 2006/2007 by finishing top of the 2005/06 Welsh rankings and his best result in his first season as a professional was to the last 48 of the Royal London Watches Grand Prix. After another spell on the tour in 2008/2009, in which, despite strong performances, he again fell away. He started the new season by winning three qualifying matches in the Shanghai Masters, beating Kuldesh Johal, Jimmy Michie and Adrian Gunnell before losing to Stephen Lee. After reaching the final of Players Tour Championship – Event 5, Jones made it to the quarter-finals of three Players Tour Championship events, but failed to progress further in any of them. This set up a match with Andrew Higginson, which he lost 3–4, Jones won two qualifying matches to reach the China Open, but lost 3–5 to Lu Ning in the wildcard round. Jones finished the season by qualifying for the 2012 World Championship and he then beat Shaun Murphy 10–8 in the first round, scoring two centuries. In the second round he beat Andrew Higginson 13–10, included a 135 break in the penultimate frame, Jones made seven centuries during the tournament, with only eventual winner Ronnie OSullivan making more. Jones finished the season ranked a career high world number 29, following his superb run in last seasons World Championship, Jones endured a difficult 2012/2013 season. He could only win three matches in ranking event qualifiers all year, with his appearance in the main draw coming at the Shanghai Masters. He beat Jimmy White in qualifying and Lu Ning in the wildcard round and he finished 67th on the PTC Order of Merit. Jones could not repeat last seasons run to The Crucible as he was beaten 9–10 by Liam Highfield in the round of World Championship Qualifying. His disappointing year was reflected in the rankings as he dropped 11 places to world number 40. Jones reached the first round of the 2013 Wuxi Classic, and he qualified for five more ranking events but was beaten in the opening round of each. He had a good year in the eight minor-ranking European Tour events
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Stuart Bingham
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Stuart Bingham is an English professional snooker player and a former World Snooker Champion. As an amateur, he won the 1996 IBSF World Snooker Championship and he first entered the top 32 in the world rankings for the 2006/2007 season, and first reached the top 16 during the 2011/2012 season. Bingham won the first ranking title of his career at the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open and he followed this by winning the World Championship in 2015, which British media said completed an astonishing transition from journeyman to king of the Crucible. With that, he joined Ken Doherty as the players to have won world titles at both amateur and professional levels. He claimed a ranking title by winning the 2017 Welsh Open. Bingham has also been runner-up in three ranking events, the 2012 Wuxi Classic, the 2013 Welsh Open, and the 2016 World Grand Prix. He has also won the non-ranking 2012 Premier League Snooker and the 2015 Championship League, a prolific break-builder, he has compiled more than 300 century breaks during his career, including three maximum breaks. He also qualified for the tournament in 2002 by beating Nigel Bond, Bingham played Ken Doherty in the first round and almost made the fifth 147 break at the Crucible, but missed the final pink in an attempt that would have been worth £167,000. He went on to lose the match 8–10, in the 2004/2005 season his best runs were two last-sixteen runs in ranking events, including losing in a final frame decider to Ding Junhui in the China Open. In 2005/2006, he had one of his most consistent seasons and he reached the quarter-finals of the Grand Prix tournament, beating then world champion Shaun Murphy along the way. He got to the stage of the UK Championship, losing in a final frame decider to Joe Perry. He also won the tournament for the Masters, scoring a 147 break along the way. He then beat Steve Davis in the round, before losing to Peter Ebdon 4–6. He made a start to the 2007/08 season, reaching the quarter finals of the Shanghai Masters. After finishing 4th in his group in the Grand Prix he then lost his first match in the Northern Ireland Trophy, in the Maplin UK Championship he managed to reach the last 16, losing to Shaun Murphy 9–3, after victories over Fergal OBrien and Steve Davis again. He also reached the stage of the Welsh Open, beating Stephen Maguire 5–4, after being 3–0 down, in the last 32. 2008/2009 was a disappointment for Bingham, who lost his first match in four of the eight events. He was drawn against number 1 Ronnie OSullivan in the first round of the 2009 World Championship, Bingham reached the Quarter final stages of the 2010 UK Championship having defeated OSullivan 9–6 and then Marco Fu 9–2 in previous rounds before losing 9–7 to Northern Irelands Mark Allen
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Ryan Day
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Ryan Day is a Welsh professional snooker player. As a prolific break-builder, he has compiled more than 250 century breaks during his career, Day was born in Pontycymer, Bridgend, and began his professional career by playing UK Tour in 1998, at the time the second-level professional tour. He is named Young Player of Distinction of the season 2000/2001 by the World Professional Billiards and he won the 2001 Benson & Hedges Championship. With this win, he qualified for the 2002 Masters, where he defeated Dave Harold and he also won the WPBSA Challenge Tour in the 2001/2002 season and was named WPBSA Newcomer of the Year in 2002. Due to problems with his liver in 2003, his results suffered badly, Higgins went on to win the frame and the next two for the match. As some consolation, Higgins commented that Day was going to be a top player for years to come. Day reached the quarter-finals of his tournament, the 2005 Welsh Open defeating Allister Carter. He finished this season ranked 33, but as Quinten Hann did not participate in any events, Day was always among the top 32 seeds, meaning one less qualifying match than he would otherwise have faced. Back at the Crucible in 2006, he beat Joe Perry 10–3 in the first round and he narrowly missed reaching the top 16 of the rankings as a result. The 2006/2007 season was the most successful of his career to date, Day reached the quarter-finals of the 2006 Northern Ireland Trophy and was runner up in the 2007 Malta Cup, losing 4–9 to Shaun Murphy. That years performance saw him ranked 16 in the world for the 2007/2008 season, as a member of the Top 16, he automatically qualified for tournaments. His consistent performances took him up to 8th place in the rankings, Day reached the final of the 2008 Grand Prix where he lost to John Higgins, defeating Ricky Walden, Mark Selby, Jamie Cope and Ali Carter. The year ended on a note when he lost in the first round at the UK Championship to Matthew Stevens. He again reached the World Championship quarter-finals in 2009, before losing 11–13 to Mark Allen, however, he continued to move up the rankings, climbing 2 places to number 6, the highest ranked player not to have won a ranking event. A disappointing 2009/2010 season in which he reached only one quarter-final and this continued into the next season where he made a number of early exits which meant that at the first revision under the new ranking system he dropped out the top 16, down to number 20. Day qualified for five of the eight ranking tournaments during the 2011/2012 season and his best performance came at the end of the season in the biggest event on the tournament calendar, the World Championship. He came back from 3–7 down in his match against Gerard Greene to win 10–8, to set up a first round match with Chinas number 1. Day produced another comeback, this time from trailing 6–9 to win the last 4 frames, there he beat fellow qualifier Cao Yupeng 13–7 and held a 5–2 lead in the early stages of his quarter-final match against compatriot Matthew Stevens
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Barry Hawkins
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Barry Hawkins is an English professional snooker player from Ditton in Kent. He has now spent twelve successive seasons ranked inside the top 32 and he reached his first ranking final and won his first ranking title at the 2012 Australian Goldfields Open. Hawkins has played in the stages of every World Championship since he made his Crucible Theatre debut in 2006. He lost in the first round on his first five appearances, Hawkins has since reached the semi-finals the following two years running. Before taking up snooker professionally he was an office clerk and he reached the Top 32 in the rankings in 2004/2005, having reached the semi-finals of 2005s Welsh Open, as well as the last sixteen of three other tournaments. In 2005/2006, he reached the semi-finals of the Grand Prix and the Welsh Open again and this cemented Hawkins place in the Top 16 of the rankings for the 2006/2007 season. At the World Championship in Sheffield, however, Hawkins faced former Champion Ken Doherty in the first round and he told the BBC that I just couldnt perform and I dont know why. Im gutted after such a season to have performed like that. The 2006/2007 season saw Hawkins disappointed following two strong seasons and he had one foot in his first final against Jamie Cope in the semi final, but Cope was able to obtain the snookers he needed to stay in the match and went on to win 6–5. A first-round defeat by Fergal OBrien at the World Championship cost him his Top 16 place, early in the 2007/2008 season, Hawkins won the qualifying tournament for the 2008 SAGA Insurance Masters, beating Kurt Maflin. He won five matches, also beating top-32 players Nigel Bond. He also reached the last 16 at the Grand Prix, UK Championship and he then won at least his opening match in the next four ranking events, reaching the provisional top 16. From 2006–2010, Hawkinss record at the World Championship was unsuccessful, as well as the aforementioned one-sided defeat by Doherty, Hawkins narrowly lost in the first round the following two years as well, to Fergal OBrien and Ali Carter respectively. Coincidentally, on both occasions Hawkins lost by very close 10–9 defeats, having recovered from 9–6 behind each time, in 2009 Hawkins missed out on a chance to take his match with former champion Graeme Dott to a deciding frame, and lost 10–8. The following year, Hawkins led defending champion John Higgins 5–3 before Higgins won seven of the eight frames to progress. Hawkins played well at the World Open in defeating Mark Selby as well as former World Champion Ken Doherty before losing 3–2 to Mark Williams, Hawkins qualified for the World Championship for the sixth year running, where he was drawn against Stephen Maguire in the first round. Having never won a match at the Crucible before, Hawkins led Maguire 4–0, 5–1, 6–2 and 8–4 before seeing Maguire level the match at 8–8, however, Hawkins held his nerve in the deciding frame to finally end his losing run at the World Championship. In the second round, Hawkins was defeated 13–12 by world No.11 Mark Allen, Hawkins reached the PTC Finals in the 2011/2012 season largely thanks to semi-final runs in Event 3 and Event 5
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2013 World Snooker Championship
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The 2013 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 20 April to 6 May 2013 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 37th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible and was the last ranking event of the 2012/2013 season, the event was sponsored by Betfair for the first time. Despite having played one competitive match all season, defending champion Ronnie OSullivan did not lose a session in the tournament. He defeated Barry Hawkins 18–12 in the final to become a five-time World Champion, joining Steve Davis and he broke Hendrys record of 127 career Crucible centuries, finishing the tournament with 131. He also became the first player to make six century breaks in a World Championship final, the tournament was sponsored by online betting exchange Betfair. On 26 April 2013, the first Ladies Day was held at the Crucible, with events designed to promote the sport to girls, debutants at the Crucible were Jack Lisowski, Michael White, Ben Woollaston, Dechawat Poomjaeng, Matthew Selt and Sam Baird. White advanced to the round by beating Mark Williams 10–6. Poomjaeng advanced by beating Stephen Maguire 10–9 in the only match that went to a deciding frame. After a record four Chinese players reached the Crucible in 2012, Poomjaeng became only the third Thai player, after James Wattana and Tai Pichit, to reach the Crucible. By qualifying for the event, Peter Ebdon played in his 22nd consecutive World Championship and they are second behind the record of 27 set by Stephen Hendry. With the match also unavailable on the BBC Red Button service, the CEO of World Snooker, Barry Hearn, apologised to fans on Twitter. The second session of the first round match between Ebdon and Graeme Dott had to be pulled off, with Dott leading 8–6. Following Dotts 10–6 victory, he criticised Ebdon for his slow play. The match between Poomjaeng and Maguire also had to be finished off in a session, with Poomjaeng leading 9–8 when the end was postponed. Dotts second round defeat to Shaun Murphy meant there were no Scottish players in the last eight for the first time since 1988, White reached his first ranking event quarter-final by defeating Poomjaeng 13–3 with a session to spare. Poomjaeng lost the fourth frame of the match after three failed attempts to hit visible red balls whilst using the spider to bridge over the blue, ricky Walden reached his first Crucible quarter-final by defeating Robert Milkins 13–11. Milkins trailed 3–9, but fought back to 10–11 and 11–12, Barry Hawkins also reached his first Crucible quarter-final after defeating world number one Mark Selby 13–10. In the quarter-finals, OSullivan took 12 of the first 13 frames against Stuart Bingham, judd Trump battled back from 3–8 behind against Murphy to win 13–12 after a dramatic 53-minute deciding frame
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Ken Doherty
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Ken Doherty is an Irish professional snooker player, commentator and radio presenter. As an amateur, Doherty won the Irish Amateur Championship twice, the World Under-21 Amateur Championship and this made him the first, and so far one of only two players to have been world amateur and professional champion. The following year, he came close to breaking the crucible curse. In 2003 he reached a final, where he was defeated by Mark Williams. In other triple crown events, he is a three-time UK Championship runner-up, an intelligent tactician and prolific break-builder, Doherty has compiled more than 300 century breaks in professional competition. From 2009 onwards he has combined his career with commentating. After two semi-finals in the 1991/92 season, Doherty reached the final of the 1992 Grand Prix, in the same event a year later, he lost 6–9 to Peter Ebdon. His first ranking title was the 1993 Welsh Open, enough to him into the top 16 in the world. In the 1994 World Championship he reached the quarter-finals, his run past the first round before 1997. Doherty became only the player from outside the United Kingdom to win the World Championship when he beat Stephen Hendry 18–12 in the 1997 final. Ken also reached the World Championship final in 1998 and in 2003, in that championship he played more frames than anyone before or since. In the final, Williams led 11–4 but Doherty fought back to 12–12, in frame 33, Doherty missed the 2nd to final red with a clearance there for the taking. Williams won that frame and the next to prevail 18–16. He is one of the few players to win back-to-back ranking events – the Welsh Open and Thailand Masters in 2001 and this one pot would have seen him win an £80,000 sports car. However, at 140 he did at least have the consolation of the £19,000 highest break prize. In the 2005 World Championship, Doherty beat Barry Pinches in the first round 10–5, winning the last 8 frames, following an average start to the 2005/06 season, Doherty won the Malta Cup in February 2006, beating John Higgins in the final. Doherty had trailed 8–5 at one stage but managed a stirring comeback, Doherty called the victory, which bridged a five-year gap, his most important tournament win since the World Championship. In the 2006 World Championship, Doherty started brightly winning his first match and defeated Barry Hawkins 10–1 and then he beat Matthew Stevens 13–8 and he was favourite in his quarter-final match against Marco Fu but lost 13–10
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Crucible Theatre
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The Crucible Theatre is a theatre built in 1971 in the city centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. As well as performances, it hosts the most prestigious event in professional snooker. The Crucible Theatre was built by M J Gleeson and opened in 1971, in 1967 Colin George, the founding Artistic Director of the Crucible, recommended a thrust stage for Sheffield, inspired by theatres created by Sir Tyrone Guthrie. Tanya Moiseiwitsch, who had involved in designing Guthrie’s theatres, was the designer. The architects Renton Howard Wood Levin Architects were engaged and the building began to take shape in 1969. The audience sits on three sides but no member is more than the length of a cricket wicket –22 yards – from the performer, consequently, although it seats 980 people the spectator has an intimate relationship with the activity on stage. In 2001, the Crucible was awarded the Barclays ‘Theatre of the Year Award’ and it is a Grade II listed building. The building went through a £15 million refurbishment between 2007 and late 2009 – opening during that period only for the 2008 and 2009 World Snooker Championships. The Crucible reopened as a theatre on 11 February 2010 with a production of Henrik Ibsens An Enemy of the People, the Crucible is a producing theatre, meaning shows are designed and rehearsed in-house. These productions are normally overseen by the Sheffield Theatres Group, the World Snooker Championship tournament has been played annually in the Crucible since 1977. The Ladies World Snooker Championship was also held at the Crucible between 1998 and 2003 but was withdrawn due to financial difficulties. The venue has also hosted championships of other sports, such as table tennis
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Mark Selby
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Mark Anthony Selby is an English professional snooker player from Leicester. He is the reigning World Snooker and UK champion, having won titles for a second time in 2016, and is the current world number one. Selby joined the professional snooker tour in 1999 at the age of 16. In 2007, he was runner-up to John Higgins at the World Snooker Championship and his other ranking titles include the Welsh Open in 2008, the Shanghai Masters in 2011, the German Masters in 2015, the China Open in 2015 and the International Championship in 2016. Known as a patient, tough competitor with strong safety play and his nickname, The Jester from Leicester, was given to him by snooker compere Richard Beare after Willie Thorne came up with it during commentary. Selby is also a pool player and he is the 2006 WEPF eight-ball pool world champion and the 2015 Chinese Pool World Championship finalist. Selby was born in Leicester, England, malcolm Thorne, the brother of Leicester-born snooker player Willie Thorne, spotted Selbys snooker ability and provided Selby practice so he could practise every day after school. Selbys father died of cancer when Mark was 16, two months before he joined the professional tour. Mark showed potential as a teenager, but did not consistently shine until his twenties and he began his career on the UK Tour in 1998, at the time the second-level professional tour. He reached his first ranking final aged 19, the Regal Scottish in 2003, where he finished runner-up to David Gray, losing 9–7 in the final. Before that, he had already reached the semi-finals of the 2002 China Open. Selby reached the qualifying round of the World Snooker Championship in 2002 and 2003 losing both times. In the 2007 World Championships, Selby beat Stephen Lee 10–7 in the first round and he then defeated former World Champion Peter Ebdon 13–8, with five centuries to reach the quarter-finals. In the quarter-final, he beat Ali Carter 13–12, from 11–8 up and 11–12 down and he went on to reach the final by beating Shaun Murphy 17–16 from 14–16 down, in another deciding frame which he won thanks to a 64 break. Thus he entered the session only 10–12 down and closed to within one frame at 13–14. It was noted by eventual world champion John Higgins, amongst others, in his victory speech and these performances in the 2006/07 season earned Selby a place in the top 16 for the very first time for the 2007/08 season, where he was ranked 11th. After a moderate start to the season, Selby had a run in the second highest ranking tournament. He led eventual winner Ronnie OSullivan 7–5, fell 7–8 behind, in the deciding frame, however, OSullivan made a 147 break to win 9–8
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Martin Gould
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Martin Gould is an English professional snooker player from Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow. He practises at the Rileys Watford pool and snooker club and he has appeared in three ranking finals and won one ranking title, the 2016 German Masters. Gould began his career by playing Challenge Tour in 2000. In 2002, Gould won his first English Amateur Championship, beating Craig Taylor in the final, Gould reached the semi-finals of the 2002 European Championship. Gould enjoyed a run in the qualification for the 2003 World Snooker Championship, winning 8 matches, beating Alain Robidoux. Goulds campaign ended when he lost to Patrick Wallace, however, he dropped off the Main Tour after this sole season, and barely played for the next four years, having to look after his terminally ill mother. He then won the English Play-offs in Leeds to ensure his return to the Main Tour for 2007/08 season, Gould reached the last 32 of the 2007 Northern Ireland Trophy, beating Matthew Stevens 5–4 from 3–0 down in the last 48. He also won multiple qualifying matches at both the UK Championship and World Championship qualifying events, although he did not ultimately qualify for either event and he finished the season inside the top 64. Gould came through qualifying for the 2008 UK Championship, beating Supoj Saenla 9–1, Tom Ford 9–6, Gould then also reached the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time, at the 2009 Welsh Open, beating Stephen Hendry 5–3 in the last 32. Solid qualifying results in the remainder of the season helped him into the top 48 in the rankings for 2009/10 season meaning Gould had only to win two matches to qualify for events. Despite dismal results during the first tournaments of 2009/10 season, he returned to the Crucible the following year. In the second round he spectacularly led Neil Robertson 6–0, 11–5 and 12–10, playing arguably his best snooker ever, Robertson went on to win the championship that year. He performed successfully during the minor-ranking PTC events, his best result being the final of the Event 6, having qualified to the PTC Grand Finals, in March 2011 Gould reached his first career final, where he was beaten 4–0 by Shaun Murphy. Gould once again qualified for the World Championship, and defeated Marco Fu 10–8 in a repeat of the years first round match. Gould was then defeated by reigning China Open champion and eventual World Championship runner-up and his consistent performances were enough to see him break into the elite top 16 for the first time in October, meaning he would no longer have to qualify for the ranking tournaments. In November, Gould won the Masters Trophy of the variant form of the game, Power Snooker, Gould finished 2011 by reaching the final of PTC Event 11, where he lost to Tom Ford 3–4. He also reached the semi-finals of Event 9 and Event 12 to finish 10th in the Order of Merit and seal his place in the Finals, Goulds recent rise up the world rankings earned him a place in the prestigious Masters tournament for the first time in 2012. Only the top 16 are invited to the event with Gould drawing Shaun Murphy in the first round, after breaking into the top 16, Gould only won two matches in ranking events during the rest of the campaign
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Judd Trump
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Judd Trump is an English professional snooker player from Bristol and former world number one. He enjoyed considerable success in tournaments before turning professional in 2005. On 3 April 2011, Trump won his first ranking title, following this success in China, he reached the final of the 2011 World Snooker Championship where he was defeated by John Higgins. He then went on to win the 2011 UK Championship where he defeated Mark Allen 10–8 in the final, in November 2012, Trump won the inaugural International Championship and in doing so became world number one, a position he held for five weeks. On 18 February 2013, he reclaimed the top spot, in July 2014, Trump won his 4th ranking title at the Australian Goldfields Open after defeating Neil Robertson 9–5. He won the inaugural 2015 World Grand Prix beating Ronnie OSullivan 10–7 in the final, in October 2016, he again defeated OSullivan 9–8 to claim the European Masters title. Trump practises alongside Jack Lisowski and Liang Wenbo at the Grove Snooker Academy in Romford, a prolific break-builder, Trump has compiled more than 450 century breaks during his career. He is currently ranked at no.2, Trump was English Under-13 and Under-15 champion, and reached the World Under-21 Championship semi-finals at the age of 14. At the same age, he became the youngest player ever to make a competitive 147, in the 2005/06 season he joined the professional tour, and at the Welsh Open became the youngest player ever to qualify for the final stages of a ranking tournament. He reached the same stage for the China Open, losing 4–5 to Michael Holt, although this was designated the final qualifying round and was actually played in Prestatyn. Trump played the 2005 champion and 6th seed, Shaun Murphy, in the first round, Trump did not build on this form in the 2007/08 season, only reaching the last 32 of the Welsh Open by beating Joe Swail. He missed out on the World Championship after a 9–10 loss to Swail, things changed for the 2008/09 season when Trump reached the venue stages of the first four events. At the Grand Prix he benefited from Graeme Dotts withdrawal before defeating Joe Perry 5–2 in the last 16, despite admitting to not playing well and Perry feeling that he had outplayed Trump. Then came the biggest win of his career so far, defeating Ronnie OSullivan 5–4 to reach the semi-final and he beat double world champion Mark Williams to qualify for the 2008 Bahrain Championship. He won a tournament to gain entry into the 2009 Masters Tournament as the only qualifier. He failed to qualify for the World Championship, losing 8–10 to Stephen Lee having led 6–3, Lee considered this match to be a local derby, as he is from nearby Trowbridge. He also noted that Trump had not followed the custom of apologising for fluked shots during the match, today he blew a 6–3 lead and hopefully that will stick with him. Trump ended the season in the Top 32 of the rankings for the first time and he was coached for a short time by Tony Chappel
England
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east, the country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain
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Stonehenge, a Neolithic monument
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Flag
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Boudica led an uprising against the Roman Empire
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Replica of a 7th-century ceremonial helmet from the Kingdom of East Anglia, found at Sutton Hoo
Pound sterling
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It is subdivided into 100 pence. A number of nations that do not use sterling also have called the pound. At various times, the sterling was commodity money or bank notes backed by silver or gold. The pound sterling is the worlds oldest currency still in use, the British Crown dependencies of Guernsey and Jersey produce their own local issues of st
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The Hatter 's hat shows an example of the old pre-decimal system: the hat costs half a guinea (10 shillings and 6 pence)
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All frequently used coins. The coins shown are those after the extensive 2008 redesign.
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A pound = 20 shillings = 240 silver pennies (formerly)
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£1 coin (Welsh design, 2000)
Glossary of cue sports terms
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There are also hybrid pocket/carom games such as English billiards. The terms American or US as applied here refer generally to North American usage, similarly, British terms predominate in the world of snooker, English billiards and blackball, regardless of the players nationalities. The term blackball is used in this glossary to refer to both bla
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Racking up a game of seven-ball using the diamond rack more commonly used for nine-ball, but sideways. The 1 ball is about to be placed on the foot spot to complete the rack.
Century break
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In snooker, a century break is a score of 100 points or more within one visit at the table without missing a shot, and requires potting of at least 25 consecutive balls. Over 20,000 century breaks have been recorded by snooker players throughout professional tournaments, Ronnie OSullivan holds the record for the most career centuries, with over 800
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Ronnie O'Sullivan has scored the most century breaks in professional snooker tournaments.
Snooker
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Snooker is a cue sport which originated in India in the latter half of the 19th century. It is played on a covered with a green cloth, or baize, with pockets at each of the four corners. Using a cue and 22 coloured balls, players must strike the ball to pot the remaining balls in the correct sequence. An individual game, or frame, is won by the pla
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2014 World Champion Mark Selby playing a practice game
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Illustration of a game of three ball pocket billiards in early 19th-century Tübingen, Germany
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Game in progress on a half-size table. A red ball about to be potted.
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An extended spider, which can be used to bridge over balls obstructing a shot that is too far away to be bridged by hand
Romford
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Romford is a large town in East London, England, and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Havering. It is located 14.1 miles northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. It was historically a town in the county of Essex and formed the administrative centre of the liberty of Havering.
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Havering Town Hall on Main Road
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Romford in 1851
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The River Rom emerges from underground channels at Roneo Corner
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The market place
Atherstone
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Atherstone /ˈæðərstən/ is a town and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. Located in the far north of the county, Atherstone forms part of the border with Leicestershire along the A5 national route and it lies midway between the larger towns of Tamworth and Nuneaton and contains the administrative offices of North Warwickshire Boroug
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Atherstone Market Square
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St Mary's Church
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Atherstone railway station.
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The ball played in the 813th Atherstone Ball game Shrove Tuesday 21 February 2012.
Nuneaton
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Nuneaton /nəˈniːtən/ is a town in Warwickshire, England. The population in 2011 was 81,877, making it the largest town in Warwickshire, the author George Eliot was born on a farm on the Arbury Estate just outside Nuneaton in 1819 and lived in the town for much of her early life. Her novel Scenes of Clerical Life depicts Nuneaton, the Nuneaton built
Stephen Maguire
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Stephen Maguire is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has been a professional player since 1998, ranked in the top 16 consecutively for 11 years from 2005 to August 2016. He has won five ranking tournaments, including the UK Championship in 2004. As a prolific break-builder, Maguire has compiled more than 300 century breaks, Maguire began h
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Stephen Maguire
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Stephen Maguire at 2013 German Masters.
Steve Davis
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Steve Davis, OBE is an English former professional snooker player from Plumstead, London.5 million British viewers. He is a known public figure and is generally viewed by his peers as one of the greatest players of all time. In addition to his six titles, Daviss career achievements include three Masters and a record six UK Championship titles. He w
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Davis at the 2012 Paul Hunter Classic
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Steve Davis during a match against Ville Pasanen in 2008
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Davis playing a trick shot exhibition during the break of the 2012 German Masters final
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Davis was inducted into the Snooker Hall of Fame in 2011.
John Higgins (snooker player)
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John Higgins, MBE is a Scottish professional snooker player. In terms of titles in the modern era, Higgins is fifth behind Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis, Ray Reardon. His 28 career ranking titles, put him in joint second place with Davis and OSullivan, known as a prolific break-builder, he has compiled 664 century breaks in professional tournament pl
Jimmy White
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James Warren Jimmy White, MBE is an English professional snooker player. Whites non-world championship achievements include the UK Championship, the Masters, a two-time winner of both the World Cup and the British Open, White was also the first left-handed player, and second player overall, to record a maximum break at the World Championship. White
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Jimmy White at the 2014 German Masters
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Jimmy White at the 2011 Paul Hunter Classic
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Neal Foulds and Jimmy White in an interview with Shaun Murphy after his victory against Mark Allen at the 2015 German Masters
Fergal O'Brien
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Fergal OBrien is an Irish professional snooker player. A member of snookers main tour since turning professional in 1991, OBrien has been ranked within the worlds top 64 players since 1994, reaching his highest position, 9th, for the 2000/2001 season. He has won one ranking title - the 1999 British Open, OBrien is the only player to score a century
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Fergal O'Brien at 2015 German Masters
Stephen Hendry
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Stephen Gordon Hendry, MBE is a Scottish former professional snooker player. Hendry became the youngest professional player in 1985 aged 16 and, in 1990, he was the youngest-ever snooker World Champion. He won the World Championship seven times, a record in the modern era, Hendry has the distinction of winning the most world ranking titles and is s
Ricky Walden
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Ricky Walden is an English professional snooker player from Bagillt. Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters and he has since won the 2012 Wuxi Classic and the 2014 International Championship and has been inside the top 16 in the season-ending rankings on four occasions.
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Ricky Walden at the 2012 Paul Hunter Classic
Shaun Murphy (snooker player)
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Shaun Murphy is an English professional snooker player, who won the 2005 World Championship. Nicknamed The Magician, Murphy is noted for his cue action. Born in Harlow and raised in Irthlingborough, Murphy turned professional in 1998 and his victory at the World Championship was considered a major surprise as he was only the third qualifier to lift
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Shaun Murphy at the 2015 German Masters
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Murphy speaking with Mark Selby before the final of the 2008 Paul Hunter Classic
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Shaun Murphy at the 2009 Paul Hunter Classic
UK Championship (snooker)
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The UK Championship, known as the Betway UK Championship for sponsorship reasons, is a professional mens ranking snooker tournament. It is the second biggest-ranking tournament, after the World Championship and is one of the Triple Crown events, Mark Selby is the reigning champion. The UK Championship was first held in 1977 in Tower Circus, Blackpo
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The UK Championship trophy on display at the Alexandra Palace during the 2014 Masters
2011 UK Championship (snooker)
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The 2011 williamhill. com UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 3–11 December 2011 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. This was the first time that William Hill sponsored the event, john Higgins was the defending champion, but he lost in the second round 4–6 against Stephen Maguire. Judd Trump wo
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williamhill.com UK Championship
Mark King (snooker player)
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Mark King is an English professional snooker player. He has also appeared in two ranking tournament finals - the 1997 Welsh Open, where he lost 2–9 to Stephen Hendry, and the 2004 Irish Masters. King has reached the last 16 of the World Championship seven times, in 1998,1999,2001,2002,2008,2009 and 2013, King turned professional in 1991 and advance
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Mark King at the 2015 German Masters
Graeme Dott
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Graeme Dott is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall. He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001 and he has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship and the 2007 China Open, and was runner-up in the World Championships of 2004 and 2010. He reached number 2 in the rankings
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Graeme Dott at the 2011 German Masters.
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Graeme Dott at the 2014 German Masters
2012 Australian Goldfields Open
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The 2012 Australian Goldfields Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 9–15 July 2012 at the Bendigo Stadium in Bendigo, Australia. It was the ranking event of the 2012/2013 season. Stuart Bingham was the champion, but he lost in the first round 4–5 against Matthew Selt. Barry Hawkins won his first ranking title b
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Australian Goldfields Open
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh is a professional snooker player from Thailand. Un-Nooh first entered the tour for the 2009/10 season by winning the 2008 IBSF World Snooker Championship. He dropped off the tour after just one season. He received the Thai nomination to compete on the tour for the 2012/2013 season. As a new player on the tour he needed to win fou
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh at the 2014 German Masters
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (2013)
Jamie Jones (snooker player)
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Jamie Jones is a Welsh professional snooker player, from Neath. He was the youngest ever player, at age 14, to make a maximum 147 break in competition, at the 2012 World Snooker Championship he reached his first ranking quarter-final. In 2002, he became the player to make a 147 in an official event, making it aged 14. Jones began his career by play
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Jamie Jones at the 2011 Paul Hunter Classic
Stuart Bingham
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Stuart Bingham is an English professional snooker player and a former World Snooker Champion. As an amateur, he won the 1996 IBSF World Snooker Championship and he first entered the top 32 in the world rankings for the 2006/2007 season, and first reached the top 16 during the 2011/2012 season. Bingham won the first ranking title of his career at th
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Bingham (right) at the 2015 German Masters
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Stuart Bingham at the 2013 German Masters.
Ryan Day
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Ryan Day is a Welsh professional snooker player. As a prolific break-builder, he has compiled more than 250 century breaks during his career, Day was born in Pontycymer, Bridgend, and began his professional career by playing UK Tour in 1998, at the time the second-level professional tour. He is named Young Player of Distinction of the season 2000/2
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Day at the 2015 German Masters.
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Ryan Day at the 2014 German Masters
Barry Hawkins
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Barry Hawkins is an English professional snooker player from Ditton in Kent. He has now spent twelve successive seasons ranked inside the top 32 and he reached his first ranking final and won his first ranking title at the 2012 Australian Goldfields Open. Hawkins has played in the stages of every World Championship since he made his Crucible Theatr
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Barry Hawkins
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Hawkins playing at German Masters 2013.
2013 World Snooker Championship
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The 2013 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 20 April to 6 May 2013 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 37th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible and was the last ranking event of the 2012/2013 season, the event was sponsored by Bet
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Betfair World Snooker Championship
Ken Doherty
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Ken Doherty is an Irish professional snooker player, commentator and radio presenter. As an amateur, Doherty won the Irish Amateur Championship twice, the World Under-21 Amateur Championship and this made him the first, and so far one of only two players to have been world amateur and professional champion. The following year, he came close to brea
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Doherty playing at the 2012 Paul Hunter Classic
Crucible Theatre
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The Crucible Theatre is a theatre built in 1971 in the city centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. As well as performances, it hosts the most prestigious event in professional snooker. The Crucible Theatre was built by M J Gleeson and opened in 1971, in 1967 Colin George, the founding Artistic Director of the Crucible, recommended a thrust
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The redeveloped Crucible Theatre, 2010. Also visible is the Lyceum theatre (right) and the redeveloped Tudor Square (bottom)
Mark Selby
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Mark Anthony Selby is an English professional snooker player from Leicester. He is the reigning World Snooker and UK champion, having won titles for a second time in 2016, and is the current world number one. Selby joined the professional snooker tour in 1999 at the age of 16. In 2007, he was runner-up to John Higgins at the World Snooker Champions
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Mark Selby at the 2015 German Masters
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Mark Selby with the 2012 Paul Hunter Classic trophy
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Selby with 2015 German Masters trophy
Martin Gould
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Martin Gould is an English professional snooker player from Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow. He practises at the Rileys Watford pool and snooker club and he has appeared in three ranking finals and won one ranking title, the 2016 German Masters. Gould began his career by playing Challenge Tour in 2000. In 2002, Gould won his first English Am
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Martin Gould at the 2015 German Masters in Berlin
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Martin Gould at 2015 German Masters
Judd Trump
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Judd Trump is an English professional snooker player from Bristol and former world number one. He enjoyed considerable success in tournaments before turning professional in 2005. On 3 April 2011, Trump won his first ranking title, following this success in China, he reached the final of the 2011 World Snooker Championship where he was defeated by J | {
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The 8 p.m. CT start in Kansas City meant that Americans in the lower 48 would see the match anywhere from the dinner hour on the West Coast to late prime time on the East Coast.
It may seem a small thing, but for American supporters accustomed to waking up on Saturday morning—or on odd occasions just flipping the City match on after coming home in the middle of the night—this friendly was a rare chance to see City play in the hours normally reserved for sports viewing.
That City put a thrashing on the reigning Major League Soccer champions was just more for City's American fans to love.
Here are six things City boss Manuel Pellegrini took away from Sporting Kansas City 1-4 Manchester City.
Bruno Zuculini's Early Goal a Hallmark of Pellegrini's Manchester City
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Zuculini's rocket volley put City off on the (ahem) right foot.USA TODAY Sports
Pellegrini's iteration of Manchester City not only consists of prolific goalscorers, but often wastes no time getting on the board.
Last season, City scored early goals at White Hart Lane and at Old Trafford that put Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United down early. Neither of City's foes recovered, and both suffered humiliating home defeats at the hands of Pellegrini's rampaging charges.
Against Sporting KC, new City signing Bruno Zuculini's gorgeous and opportunistic strike put City ahead before many of the home team's fans had reached their seats.
It was the same as it ever was for a Manuel Pellegrini City side in hostile environs.
Sporting Kansas City Played at Manchester City's Pace, with Predictable Results
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Sporting Kansas City had no one capable of staying with Navas, whether he had the ball or not.Shaun Botterill/Getty Images
Give Sporting Kansas City this much: They did not play this friendly with Manchester City not to lose.
Sporting KC ran at City and ran with them. The first 15 minutes were so wide open that the match looked less like a friendly between two reigning league champions and more like a weekend pickup game at the local park.
Not surprisingly, the more talented side (City) had the better of things in that carefree opening. Jesus Navas flew up and down the right side of the pitch at speeds that no Sporting KC player could match.
Zuculini's goal was not even City's best look at goal, as Scott Sinclair and Kelechi Iheanacho (more on him later) had better chances that went begging.
Stevan Jovetic had two semi-breakaways thwarted in the 38th and 42nd minutes, but City's ongoing threat of Sporting KC's goal would pay another dividend before the whistle for halftime.
Jesus Navas Did a Passable David Silva Impression
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Navas can make the ball look like it's on a string.Jon Super/Associated Press
City took on Sporting KC shorn of most of the Sky Blues' star power. Of the team that started in City's last match of the 2013-14 Premier League season, only Kolarov made the XI against Sporting KC.
The XI City offered against the MLS champions are unlikely to ever play against a Premier League side or even in an early round of the Capital One Cup.
Against a backdrop of relative mortals in sky-blue shirts, Navas really stood out.
Navas' free kick onto Dedryck Boyata's forehead in the 45th minute was more precise than any American football quarterback could produce with a throw. Navas also assisted on City's fourth and final goal in the 88th minute.
With City resting so many of their stars (including a newly ailing Alvaro Negredo), Navas' David Silva impression was right on time.
Willy Caballero Is an Entertaining Watch, but Joe Hart's Job Is Probably Safe
City's starting goalkeeper, Joe Hart, suffered such a dip in form last season that Pellegrini and City's executives decided it would be a good idea to secure the services of a more capable backup than Costel Pantilimon.
Willy Caballero is certainly better than Pantilimon. But after watching him against Sporting KC, it is hard to see him taking Hart's job unless Hart falls apart again.
Caballero is much more comfortable with the ball at his feet than Hart is, which makes it less harrowing when City's defense plays it back to him. Watching Hart handle a back pass is like watching a grizzly bear play hopscotch.
But Caballero is also pretty aggressive and cavalier with his distribution. Yes, he is probably under orders from Pellegrini to try to ignite a break with a long outlet pass here or a quick outlet pass there.
Above all, though, the goalkeeper's primary responsibility after stopping shots is getting the ball out of his end safely. More than a few of Caballero's chancy passes turned into moments of near panic as Sporting KC stole the ball back and countered quickly.
This is still Hart's job until further notice.
Kelechi Iheanacho
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Iheanacho put on a show in Kansas City.USA TODAY Sports
Even stalwart City fans may not have been all that familiar with Kelechi Iheanacho before the Sky Blues' friendly with Sporting KC.
They probably know who he is now.
Iheanacho was incandescent against Sporting KC. And he seemed to be everywhere. The ESPN2 broadcast team could not stop gushing about his pitch awareness and skill.
Then Iheanacho scored in the 88th minute, a more than just reward for a long and productive night's work.
Iheanacho is only 17, and based on comments made during the match broadcast, this will be all City supporters will get to see of the young Nigerian on this American tour.
But what a debut.
As the Premier League Season Draws Nearer, the Better Players Are Playing Longer
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It was unexpected to see Jovetic on the pitch for so long in Kansas City.Kyle Rivas/Getty Images
Manchester City's recent friendlies against Dundee and Hearts were like City's tangle with Sporting KC in that most of City's real stars were not involved.
Pellegrini favored near wholesale substitutions in Scotland. Against Sporting KC, though, some of the players Pellegrini will be depending on in the 2014-15 season got stretched out.
Jovetic, Fernando, Kolarov, Navas and even Sinclair were all on the pitch for better than an hour. That decision spoke to Pellegrini's desire to win the match.
It also was a nod to the oncoming bullet train that is the 2014-15 season, which will be here before Pellegrini and his players know it. | {
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New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman compared his team to "The Little Engine That Could" after being asked how he viewed the Yankees in relation to their American League East rival, the Boston Red Sox.
The future belongs to Miguel Andujar and Gleyber Torres, but Tuesday's three-way deal added a strong right-now rival to a complicated camp battle.
David Schoenfield ESPN Senior Writer
Aaron Boone said Aaron Judge won't play the first several games when the Yankees kick off their spring schedule on Friday. No concerns, they're just taking it slow after offseason shoulder surgery. He said Judge should play "within the week." Giancarlo Stanton is expected to be in the lineup on Friday.
Coley Harvey ESPN Staff Writer
While Brian Cashman was speaking to reporters in the Yankees' dugout, there was a little commotion in the stands. Fans suddenly cheered as Aaron Judge hit a homer off the top of the scoreboard in BP. Another line-drive homer of his got caught by a young fan holding out a hat. That created some buzz, too.
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Yankees GM Brian Cashman explains why he's been after Brandon Drury for a long time, and why the team traded for the third baseman yesterday.
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Brian Cashman says "we paid a heavy price" in giving up Nick Solak and Taylor Widener for Brandon Drury. The trade was "made with a lot of angst." He said 10 to 15 teams had asked about Solak this offseason and the depth of the minor league system allowed them to make the deal.
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Brian Cashman says Brandon Drury was acquired primarily with the intention to play third base. The Yankees feel he's a very skilled athlete who has yet to reach his potential and they've tried to get him for several years. Drury won't be handed the starting job over Miguel Andujar, but Cashman feels his experience does give him the leg up.
Buster Olney talks to Jerry Crasnick about how Tuesday's big trade impacts remaining free agents, tanking in the state of Florida and more (9:01). Plus, Marc Topkin brings some "Inside Heat" on the Rays (27:17) and Paul Hembekides goes inside the numbers in the debut of "Hembo Knows" (34:51).
Adding Steven Souza Jr. to a new-look outfield in Arizona might help get the D-backs get back to the postseason, but did the Rays get good value?
Marly Rivera ESPN Writer
Yankees make it official: they've acquired infielder/outfielder Brandon Drury from the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Good move by the Diamondbacks to deal Brandon Drury now, because he was one of their players I'd have most expected to suffer statistically as a result of the humidor. In New York, he'll play regularly while getting at least as much HR/FB% help, so his results should be similar.
The Yankees have added versatile infielder Brandon Drury via a three-team trade with Arizona and Tampa Bay. Steven Souza Jr. heads to the Diamondbacks, with the Rays acquiring two prospects and two players to be named.
It's already February, but there are aces and sluggers looking for new homes. We find the best bet -- and a dark horse -- for the top available names.
Marly Rivera ESPN Writer
Aroldis Chapman was able to travel to Cuba for the first time in 8 years this past off-season. Chapman received quite a welcome in his hometown of Holguín.
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Aroldis Chapman signing autographs.
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Aaron Boone on his initial impressions of young infielders Gleyber Torres and Miguel Andujar: "I'm trying to contain my excitement. I think they're both going to be tremendous players. I love who they are. You can tell they enjoy being on the baseball field. You can tell they're confident in their ability, the way they move around, yet there's a humility about them."
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On a back field at the Yankees' spring training complex, fans can get a close-up view of Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Gary Sanchez taking BP. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon. | {
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Saturday, December 6, 2014
On 13-14 May 1940, German tanks crossed the Meuse River under the
command of General Heinz Guderian. The town of Stonne and the woody hills of
Mont-Dieu were the single area where it was possible to try to stop this German
advance. On the night of 13 May, the French moved various elements to this area
to attack the Germans;
Operations near the town involved 90,000 German troops and 300 German
tanks, opposed by 42,500 French soldiers and 130 French tanks. The Germans lost
26,500 men (wounded and killed) and 24 tanks, while the French lost 7,500 men
(wounded and killed) and 33 tanks.
Some historians call it the Verdun of WWII:
The village changed hands 17 times over the course of three days of
fighting between 15 May and 17 May 1940.
The battle
of Stonne; setting up the village
We built
the village with our first "destructible buildings". The houses are made of wood pieces. The other buildings are made of foam
panels. Both are "totally destructible
" as you will see. We also had a
public market to increase the number of buildings.
The battle
of Stonne; French troops going forward
In the real
historical event, there were B1bis tank battalion deployed. Unfortunately, we haven’t done any yet.
The French
tanks used are a mixed of real tanks (like the Renault D2) and "out of our
twisted mind" tanks. Only for the French
army, we did create some.
The battle of Stonne, the end.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Original idea
behind the 152 mm ML20
I chose to build
the 152 mm ML 20 for Petite Infanterie Red army.Ours was poorly equipped compare to its
German counterpart.
Considering that
the historical Red army artillery was a powerful one (it actually contributed a
lot to Russian victory), we cannot live with the status quo.
The choice of
that model is based on a simple thing: it’s both aggressive and slender.
History of the
152 mm ML20
The original
designation of the 152 mm ML was 152 mm gun-howitzer model 1937.
This gun was
design to replace the old 152 mm Pushka obr. 1910 which was unsuited for mobile
warfare because of its weight.Like many
other Russian guns, the 152 mm ML20 was the result of continuous improvements,
baby steps by baby steps and not any kind of quantum leap revolution.
Source: The
Encyclopedia of weapons of World War II. Metrobooks Publishing, 2002.
The best way to
describe the 152 mm ML20 can be found in this Wikipedia quotation:
"The ML-20 was one of the most successful Soviet artillery pieces of World War II. Its characteristics positioned it between classical short-range howitzers and special long-range guns. Compared to the former, the ML-20 has better range (e.g. the German 15
cm sFH 18 had range of
13.3 km), which often allowed it to shell positions of enemy artillery
while remaining immune to enemy fire. Its advantage over the latter was in
weight and cost, and therefore in mobility and production rate. For example,
the German 15 cm
K 39 with range of
24.7 km weighed 12.2 tons and only 61 pieces were built; of the excellent 17 cm K 18 (23.4 t, 29.6 km) 338 pieces were
manufactured; lighter 10.5 cm sK 18 (5.6 t, 19.1 km) was more common (2,135
pieces) but its 15 kg shell was much less powerful than a 44 kg shell
of ML-20. German attempts to produce an analogue to the ML-20 were
unsuccessful. The 15 cm sFH 40 was never produced due to construction
defects; the 15 сm sFH 42 had insufficient range and only 46 pieces were built.
In 1943 and 1944 Wehrmacht announced requirements for a 15 cm howitzer
with a range of 18 km, but none reached production."
Saturday, October 18, 2014
The russian 203 mm howitzer model B4.
The idea: built an 203 mm howitzer for the Petite Infanterie line-up
I knew the weapon but I hadn't any intend to actually built one until I found ..tracks! As you can notice, this gun is on caterpillars which is not common. It's seems that only russian gun were mounted on a track chassis. The reason? The russian state factories had invested a lot in tractor production in the 1920s so to use tracks for a gun was an obvious choice.
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The "beast" on the field somewhere in Europe
Russian 203 mm heavy howitzer in a museum in Russia
The built: a scale model of the russian 203 mm howitzer
The tracks on the gun come from a kit bought at a dollar store. The backhoe kit was at the right scale and a used the tracks to built the gun. Eventhough, I hadn't any scale drawing, the rest of the work was pretty easy to do. I think the overal result is quite good.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
This blog is, a
priori, impossible to classify. Our philosophy can be summed up by "serious fun". It is a heterogeneous mixture of “game” and “history”;
“fiction” and “reality”. The “us”
referes to my brother and I. We both share this hobby and it’s our work
which is exposed on those pages.Genesis of a passion.
In 2004, I received an email from my
brother with a hyperlink to a manufacturer's website of 1/32 figures.
Those “plastic men” were from the First World War.
Immediately, the memories of our childhood
resurface. The epic battles fought
in the sandbox in
the back of the family home with
"green men" were back alive.
The great adventure of Small Infantry begins!
Although originally made the first purchases
based on the theaters of WWI,
our consuming passion for DIY quickly led us
to evolve. WWII was the beginning of mecanized warfare
and it became our new playground. What could be better than an endless list of guns,
trucks and tanks ready to be scratchbuilt out of wood by your humble servants?In summary. If you have any interest in miniatures, wargaming, military history and strategy, you
should appreciate our blog. We apologize in advance for the quality of writing in English. Shakespears language is
not our mother tongue. This being said, pictures is an universel
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Implementing the Green Infrastructure Plan
Environmental Legislation to Implement the Green Infrastructure Plan
On July 29, 2010, The Prince George's County Planning Board approved the Environmental Technical Manual. A listening session was held on December 1, 2010 to receive comments on the Environmental Technical Manual (PDF) that was posted on September 22, 2010. Staff is currently preparing a series of edits to provide clarification to certain sections and additional information where needed. A draft of the proposed edits and additions will be provided here in the near future.
On July 13, 2010, the Prince George's County Council approved 8 bills that comprehensively updated the environmental regulations:
The Environmental Planning Section staff would like to thank everyone who participated in the formulation of these bills. Questions regarding implementation can be directed to the Environmental Planning Section staff at 301-952-3650.
Project Overview
Implementation of the Legislative Recommendations of the Countywide Green Infrastructure Plan
In 2005, the County Council approved the first-ever Countywide Green Infrastructure Plan. This plan's purpose is to provide:
"A comprehensive vision for conserving significant environmental ecosystems in Prince George's County."
The plan includes recommendations to make the vision a reality and a map showing areas of environmental concern.
The draft environmental legislation package has been the subject of two public information meetings (October 30, 2008 and April 22, 2009). Comments have been provided from a variety of sources such as environmental groups, individual citizens and the Maryland-National Capital Building Industry Association.
The proposed legislation implements several of the recommendations of the Green Infrastructure Plan, including updating the Woodland Conservation Ordinance and requiring wider minimum stream buffers. | {
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Riverside ramblings
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” -- Mark Twain
My wife and I recently completed a week-long journey that took us across the Three I’s: Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. We also went through a bit of Missouri and flirted with the idea of a quick jog into Nebraska, but decided that this would be more excitement than we could bear.
We have become furious vacationers since exiting dairy farming some years ago. We take our vacations seriously, packing in as much as possible into the allotted time.
Spending an uninterrupted week with someone can strain even the best of relationships. Tiny flaws that otherwise go unnoticed can be magnified into glaring defects. Conflicts arise; harsh words are muttered.
None of this has happened during our voyages, a testament to the solid relationship my wife and I have forged in the crucible of 30 years of marriage. What I’m trying to say is: we haven’t killed each other by now, so spending a week together is a snap.
My main goal when traveling is to make as many miles as possible. A crucial component of achieving this goal is my patented Fluid Management System. The core tenet of this System involves avoiding fluid intake when traveling and even when anticipating future travel.
My wife, however, has a drinking habit that involves Diet Coke. She continued to consume Diet Coke as we drove along, despite my broad hints that doing so flouted the principles of my Fluid Management System.
Using my Fluid Management System, it logically follows that liquid output will be reduced. This decreases the number of stops needed for bathroom breaks, which equals more miles per day. This would probably also work for solids.
“So if it were up to you,” said my wife after I explained my System, “We would be on vacation, but could die of thirst or starvation!”
“Well, yes. But we would make incredibly good time!”
The downside of ignoring my System is the need for frequent stops at service stations. Such stops are actually necessary when the car is low on fuel, so I try to calculate the ratio between the emptiness of the fuel tank and the fullness of the bladder. It gets rather complicated when one factors in gasoline prices.
Service stations that tend to have low gas prices also tend to have low standards for their bathrooms. This matters not a whit to me, but is a major consideration for my wife. In fact, she judges a service station based solely on the cleanliness of its bathroom -- with no regard for the price differential between Regular and Premium!
In the end, we compromised. Specifically, my wife compromised by totally ignoring my System and I compromised by being OK with that.
One day as we motored meanderingly along the Mississippi, it occurred to both of us that we could use a cup of coffee. We randomly pulled over at a small town coffee shop, planning to get some hot joe to go. | {
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Zimbabwe President elect Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses a press conference at State House in Harare, on August 3, 2018. Mnangagwa defended the landmark election in which he was declared victorious, despite claims from the opposition of vote-rigging. MARCO LONGARI / AFP
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday brushed off allegations that his election victory was tainted by fraud, hailing the vote as a fresh start for the country after the repressive rule of Robert Mugabe.
As defeated opposition leader Nelson Chamisa decried the official results as a sham, Mnangagwa, a former Mugabe ally, defended the vote and called for unity.
“With the eyes of the world on us we delivered a free, fair and credible election,” Mnangagwa told reporters.
He added that while “no democratic process is flawless”, Zimbabwe’s first post-Mugabe election was a far cry from the fraud-tainted polls seen during Mugabe’s 37 years in power.
But Chamisa has insisted he was the winner of an election he condemned as “fraudulent, illegal, illegitimate”.
“We are not accepting fake results,” he said, vowing to challenge the results through the courts.
– ‘Open for business’ –
Opposition allegations of foul play had sparked a deadly crackdown on protesters in Harare on Wednesday when troops opened fire, killing six.
Mnangagwa, who is seeking to end Zimbabwe’s international isolation and attract badly needed foreign investment, said he would set up an independent commission to investigate the bloodshed.
And he stretched out a hand to Chamisa, telling him: “You have a crucial role to play in Zimbabwe’s present and in its unfolding future.”
Mnangagwa was allegedly involved in state violence during the 2008 elections when then opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of the run-off after at least 200 of his supporters were killed in attacks.
Apart from Mugabe, who ruled with an iron fist since independence from Britain in 1980 until last year, he is the only president that Zimbabwe has known.
Chosen to lead ZANU-PF in November after the brief military intervention that deposed Mugabe, Mnangagwa had promised a free and fair vote to turn the page on years of brutal repression.
Mugabe left Zimbabwe’s economy in disastrous shape, presiding over the seizure of white-owned farms and hyperinflation, and Mnangagwa has made investment a priority.
“Zimbabwe is now open for business,” he told reporters. “We want to leapfrog and catch up with other developing countries.”
Charles Laurie of analysts Verisk Maplecroft said that after taking over from Mugabe, “Mnangagwa’s task was not just to win the election, but to convince the international community of a new Zimbabwe by winning it cleanly and fairly.
“The killing of six protestors and questions over his government’s conduct at the polls, means Mnangagwa drags virtually all of Mugabe’s baggage into his presidency,” he added.
‘A new Zimbabwe’?
President Cyril Ramaphosa of neighbouring South Africa was the first key partner to congratulate Mnangagwa, calling on all Zimbabweans to accept the result.
Chamisa has alleged flagrant vote-rigging under the Zimbabwe Election Commission, a body which under Mugabe was frequently accused of helping to fix elections in favour of ZANU-PF.
“Mr Mugabe was at least sophisticated,” Chamisa complained.
ZEC officials have robustly denied allegations of bias or rigging, and international observers have largely praised the conduct of election day itself.
But EU monitors said that Mnangagwa, who enjoyed tacit military support and control of state resources, benefited from an “un-level playing field”.
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network, a non-partisan observer group, estimated Chamisa could have won up to 47.8 percent of the vote based on its monitoring work.
Chamisa urged opposition supporters to refrain from violence as he pursues the legal route — though such a challenge appears to offer opposition party MDC little hope of overturning the outcome.
Soldiers and police came out in Harare in force on Thursday after the deadly unrest, clearing the city-centre, but by Friday the streets and markets were crowded as usual.
In the suburb of Mbare, jubilant ZANU-PF supporters waved party banners as music blared from a car.
“This is a new Zimbabwe, we are happy,” said Tendai Mugadzi, a 32-year-old IT specialist.
He was untroubled that Mnangagwa had won by a wafer-thin margin.
“It just shows that this was a free and fair election,” he said.
ZANU-PF also won a large majority in parliamentary elections held alongside the presidential vote.
On Saturday, 21 people arrested during a raid on MDC headquarters are due to appear in court in Harare charged with “public violence” during post-election protests. | {
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British Values and Culture
Our tribute to Remembrance Day 2015
Together we Inspire and Discover
The Department for Education has recently reinforced the need “to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.”
The Government set out its definition of British values in the 2011 Prevent Strategy, and these values were reiterated in 2014.
As a school we aim to value and celebrate every member of our school community regardless of race, gender, religion and culture.
As part of our British heritage, we aim to celebrate culture, traditions and customs, learning about and from other people and celebrating our exciting history.
Children learn about being part of Britain from different perspectives, looking at the physical and historical structures that have shaped our society as well as the social and political perspectives that continue to change and develop our country. We encourage the children to take part in school excursions to different parts of the country and explore what makes Britain great.
Democracy
There are many opportunities for the children, staff and parents to share their voices, views and opinions here at Rendlesham Primary School.
At the start of each year, children work together as a class to establish a set of class rules which are drawn up and signed by all members of the class.
The children have an active school council where they share the thoughts of their peers, accept responsibility for any changes that need to be implemented and make decisions for the whole school. The school council is elected in a class vote where candidates are encouraged to give a short speech as to why they would be suitable for the role of councillor. This is then followed by a secret ballot to determine the winner.
We also have an ECO- council who work to raise issues related to their school environment and strive to make us aware of the impact we have on the planet. They have their own action plan, raise money and lead assemblies to raise awareness. Again the council is elected after a democratic vote.
The Governing Body provides representation for parents and teachers alongside appointees of elected local authorities. Governors have considerable responsibilities and their decisions are significant in many aspects of school life.
For the parents, the Senior Leadership Team lead a Parent’s Forum monthly, enabling them to share their views and discuss any issues surrounding their children and the views of others. They have set up class social media pages where issues can be discussed and these are managed by groups of parents within each class.
The FORS (PTA) group plan and lead events in the school which include traditional Spring and Christmas fairs, discos and other events within the community. The committee is elected through a voting system and all parents are encouraged to become involved. The committee is re-elected/ reviewed annually.
Pupils are always listened to by adults and are taught to listen carefully, respecting the right of every individual to have their opinions and voices heard. We encourage pupils to take ownership of not only their school but also of their own learning and progress. This encourages a heightened sense of both personal and social responsibility and is demonstrated on a daily basis by our pupils. Children in key stages 1 and 2 can talk confidently about how to challenge themselves in their learning and can recognise when they need to move their learning forward.
The Rule of Law
The importance of laws, whether they are those that govern the class, the school or the country, is consistently reinforced and referred to.
From an early age, pupils are taught the rules of the school through our Rainbow Rules, classroom rules and our school values. Pupils are taught the value and reasons behind rules and laws, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves, and the consequences when laws are broken. Through our whole school approach, we enable children to develop the language and strategies to solve conflict and to right wrongs. Visits from authorities such as the Police and Fire Service help to reinforce this message.
At Rendlesham, we offer a wide range of exciting opportunities for children to be leaders in many contexts, and they understand that the rules they have created are there to keep them safe and happy in all the learning they take part in. This extends to visits and learning outside of the school, acting as ambassadors while on school trips. This level of responsibility and understanding from our children means that teachers can organise engaging and exciting school trips, such as a residential in France and visits to historical sites in London.
Individual Liberty
Alongside rules and laws, we promote freedom of choice and the right to respectfully express views and beliefs. Within the supportive environment and an empowering education programme, we provide the boundaries and opportunities for our families to make choices safely; choices about their learning, choices of activities and choices around their participation in extra-curricular activities.
We encourage children to take responsibility for their behaviour as well as knowing their rights. We aim to ensure the protection of vulnerable pupils and implement a strong anti-bullying culture. We advise how to use the internet safely through e-safety sessions across the school and explore rights and individual responsibility through PSHE and citizenship lessons.
As a school we believe in the importance of forgiveness and trying to put things right if they go wrong.
Mutual Respect and Tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs.
Mutual respect is at the heart of our school ethos. Our pupils know and understand that it is expected that respect is shown to everyone, whatever differences they may have, and to everything, whether it is a school resource or personal belonging. Children learn that their behaviour choices have an effect on their own rights and the rights of others. All members of the school community treat each other with respect.
We help pupils to acquire an understanding of, and respect for, their own and other cultures and ways of life. Within the curriculum, we explore different places of worship and discuss differences between family situations in the different faith communities.
Due to the fact that we do not serve an incredibly culturally diverse area, we endeavour to promote and celebrate different backgrounds and beliefs through our curriculum, assemblies and teaching.
Commitment to charity work:
The school encourages families and pupils to participate in and support charities nationally and locally, taking part in events for Children in Need, Comic Relief, cancer charities and local projects. This reinforces that there are large numbers of people both at home and overseas who are much less fortunate than ourselves who need our support.
Sadly, no school can guarantee that there will never be instances which are contrary to this value however, at Rendlesham such instances are extremely rare. Any instances are treated seriously in line with our Behaviour, Discipline and Bullying policy. | {
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books.google.com - Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communities, of bone fragments, hair, teeth, and other bodily bits said to come from the historic Buddha? Early European and American scholars of religion,...https://books.google.com/books/about/Relics_of_the_Buddha.html?id=_KLAxmR8PZAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRelics of the Buddha
Relics of the Buddha
Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communities, of bone fragments, hair, teeth, and other bodily bits said to come from the historic Buddha?
Early European and American scholars of religion, influenced by a characteristic Protestant bias against relic worship, declared such practices to be superstitious and fraudulent, and far from the true essence of Buddhism.
John Strong's book, by contrast, argues that relic veneration has played a serious and integral role in Buddhist traditions in South and Southeast Asia-and that it is in no way foreign to Buddhism.
The book is structured around the life story of the Buddha, starting with traditions about relics of previous buddhas and relics from the past lives of the Buddha Sakyamuni. It then considers the death of the Buddha, the collection of his bodily relics after his cremation, and stories of their spread to different parts of Asia.
The book ends with a consideration of the legend of the future parinirvana (extinction) of the relics prior to the advent of the next Buddha, Maitreya. Throughout, the author does not hesitate to explore the many versions of these legends and to relate them to their ritual, doctrinal, artistic, and social contexts.
About the author (2004)
John S. Strong is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Religion and Philosophy Department at Bates College. He is the author of several books on Buddhism, including The Legend of King Aśoka and The Legend and Cult of Upagupta (both from Princeton). | {
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Even those without physical scars still feel effects of Regan assassination attempt
By
THOMAS FERRARO , UPI Feature Writer
WASHINGTON -- The Press Secretary
Five years ago, on March 30, 1981, a burst of bullets outside a downtown hotel forever changed the lives of the people frozen into that horrifying moment of attempted assassination.
President Reagan now lives behind metal detectors and his assailant, John W. Hinckley Jr., is confined to a mental hospital. White House news secretary Jim Brady is crippled and former policeman Thomas Delahanty is retired on disability. Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy has a Medal of Valor and a chest scar.
Reagan, Brady, Delahanty and McCarthy were hit by volley of six bullets that exploded from Hinckley's gun, in less than 2 seconds, at about 2:25 p.m. EST.
In rapid succession, countless others -- from law enforcement officers who swarmed a would-be assassin to surgeons who saved a president's life -- joined the American drama.
Today, all are marked by that gray day when Hinckley suddenly began shooting at Reagan in front of the VIP door of the Washington Hilton Hotel.
The President:
Ronald Reagan, 75, is the only president to survive a bullet.
In an effort to reduce the chances he will ever have to endure another one, the Secret Service has multiplied its security measures and his wife, Nancy, prays.
'She says a prayer when he goes out,' said Elaine Crispen, the first lady's news secretary. 'She doesn't dwell on it, but (the risk) sits in he back of her mind.'
With Reagan's approval, the Secret Service has installed metal detectors at all the entrances to the White House and takes the devices on all his trips.
His public exposure has been reduced and his daily schedule is no longer published in advance. Five years ago, the FBI found in Hinckley's hotel room a copy of The Washington Post that had Reagan's schedule for the day, including his speech to a labor group at the Washington Hilton.
While leaving the hotel, Reagan was hit with a bullet that richocheted off the presidential limousine, pierced his left lung and came to rest next to his heart. He lost about half his blood.
Afterwards, Reagan told reporters that the bullet wound was 'the most paralyzing pain, as if someone hit me with a hammer.' He said that from then on, when in public, 'I have a hunch I'll be more alert.'
As for Hinckley, he said, 'The feeling is, indeed, I pray, that he can find an answer to his problems.'
The Assailant:
'Petitioner is committed to St. Elizabeths Hospital (in Washington, D.C.) pursuant ... to having been found not guilty by reason of insanity of the offense of attempting to assassinate the president.'
So wrote John W. Hinckley Jr. last month in asking U.S. District Judge Barrington Parker to let him transfer to a 'less restrictive ward' at the facility and to allow him to leave the grounds alone once a month.
Parker ruled firmly against Hinckley on March 24, despite Hinckley's argument that he was no longer a 'threat to myself or others.'
At the hearing, Hinckley, 30, looked substantially thinner than during his trial 4 years ago and his sandy blond hair was longer. He did not appear to react when Parker turned him down.
In opposing the request, Hinckley's psychiatrists said his condition has improved somewhat, but that his 'mental illness is not totally in remission.' They said he still takes prescribed antipsychotic and anti-depression medication every day.
They also said if he were allowed to leave the hospital alone, 'It is not possible to state that Mr. Hinckley would not present a danger to the community.'
Hinckley, the son of a former Colorado oilman, has been confined to a maximum security unit since his 1982 trial that included evidence he shot Reagan in an effort to impress Jodie Foster, an actress he had never met.
Since being committed indefinitely, he has been a frequent writer to the news media, likening himself to a political prisoner.
'I'm doing damn well,' said Jim Brady, 45. Seated at home in Arlington, Va., he has no use of his left arm. His left leg is in a brace. He just returned from horseback riding, part of his treatment program.
'Next thing I want to do is levitate,' Brady said, his near-legendary sense of humor surfacing with a slight smile. 'They haven't taught me yet, but they promise to teach me how to levitate.'
Doctors say it's a miracle he is alive. When brought to George Washington University Hospital, a bullet through his head, it didn't look like he would make it to surgery.
Brady had three major operations and had a portion of his brain removed. He still gets daily speech and physical therapy. He can walk with a cane, but often uses a wheelchair.
He retained the title of White House news secretary, but works just once a week. His activities are generally limited to answering mail and attending briefings.
He is involved in several charities, and said he rarely thinks of Hinckley.
'If I spent a lot of time on thatit would be negative energy. I can't say anything goodabout the boy.'
Brady's son, Scott, 7, raced into the house.
'He doesn't have a lot of good things to say about Hinckley,' Brady said. 'He feels Hinckley took his daddy away from him.'
'She spends a lot of time on this gun control issue,' Brady said. 'And I'm glad she does. It's an outlet for her. Every now and then I want to kick a wastebasket or something like that. She doesn't have a wastebasket to kick.'
Secret Service Agent No. 1
Timothy McCarthy was also hit by a bullet meant for Reagan. McCarthy, however, took his deliberately. He stepped in the line of fire and receved a Medal of Valor.
'For extraordinary valor in protecting the life of President Ronald W. Reagan on March 30, 1981,' reads the inscription on his medal, the Secret Service's highest award.
Today, McCarthy, 36, a 14-year veteran of the service, guards Nancy Reagan. He is assistant special agent in charge of the first lady's protection detail.
He was promoted to the post in late 1984 after serving 2 years as the agent in charge of the Secret Service's counterfeiting squad in his hometown of Chicago. When he took the bullet, he was assigned to the president.
McCarthy, a former University of Illinois football player and the son of a Chicago policeman, was hit in the chest. The bullet passed through his right lung and lacerated his liver.
He was hospitalized for seven days and back on the job in three months.
In September 1981, McCarthy told Parade Magazine, which named him as one of its 'Policemen of the Year,' that he heard the first shot just after opening the car door for Reagan.
'I didn't know exactly where it came from, but I was looking. The adrenaline was pumping, but fear never entered into it. There was only time to react. .... I believe it was the third shot that got me.'
The Secret Service says McCarthy has given no interviews since. It says as a matter of policy, only special agents in charge talk to the news media.
'Timothy McCarthy is not interested in basking in the glory,' said Robert Snow, assistant to John Simpson, the Secret Service's director. 'He just wants to do his job.'
The Policeman:
Thomas Delahanty, 50, is retired on full disability.
His last day as a D.C. patrolman, after 18 years of service, was when a bullet from Hinckley's gun struck him in the neck, lodging near his spinal column. He suffered nerve damage in his left shoulder.
He doesn't want to talk about it, either.
'Officer Delahanty is camera shy.' a police spokesman said. 'He is refusing all interviews. He doesn't wish for his whereabouts to be known. He did his part by getting shot.'
As a K-9 officer, Delahanty had never before been assigned to the president. Bup on March 30, 1981, Delahanty was available for the detail because his police dog, Kirk, was sick.
After the shooting, Washington Mayor Marion Barry visited Delahanty's hospital bedside. Barry told reporters Delahanty 'said he wish he could have done more' to protect the president. A picture in newspapers nationwide the next day showed Delahanty looking the 'wrong way' -- at Reagan instead of the crowd. Yet later, the Secret Service saw a picture by an amateur photographer that showed Delahanty scanning the crowd just a fraction of a second before the shots rang out.
Secret Service Agent No. 2
'That's me,' said Dennis McCarthy, 51. He was sitting in his townhouse in Springfield, Va., watching his own video replay of the shooting. It shows him leaping some 8feet onto a pistol-wielding Hinckley.
'I was on him in 1.5 seconds -- at the sixth shot.' said McCarthy. 'That shot went high into the building across the street. Anybody's guess where it would have gone if I hadn't gotten him.'
McCarthy, no relation to agent Timothy McCarthy, was the first Secret Service agent to touch Hinckley. He retired from the agency in 1984. Today he is a best-selling author.
His book, 'Protecting the President,' came out last fall with an inside look at his 20 years of service. It has caused some consternation in the agency by those who complained he broke the 'code of silence.' They also say his stories of womanizing reflected poorly on the service.
'Siver Fox' was McCarthy's nickname in the Secret Service. 'For two reasons,' he wrote -- 'my prematurely gray hair and my reputation, sometimes deserved and sometimes not, as a ladies' man.'
McCarthy stands by his book and maintains he revealed nothing that would endanger anyone. But he revealed the psyche of agents who must be willing to sacrifice their lives for the president's.
'You know what you're supposed to do, but you don't know whether you will do it. You wait for that day.'
For two days after the shooting, McCarthy had doubts if he measured up.
'I was afraid that maybe I had waited until after the shooting was done and then I jumped. I would have been a coward had I done that.'
The replays showed that he reacted instantly.
'If I hadn't respondEd, I don't think I'd be alive today. I wouldn't have been able to live with it.'
Secret Service Agent No. 3
Jerry Parr was the Secret Service agent in charge of the protection detail the day of the shooting. He is now the vice president of a private security company and a lecturer on the college circuit. His speeches include recollections of the attempted assassination.
Parr, like both McCarthys and agent Ray Shaddick, received the Secret Service's Medal of Valor for their actions that day.
'Our lives will never be quite the same.' said Parr, seated in a restaurant a block from the White House. 'There are no open wounds, but there are scars -- memories of what could have happened if the right decisions weren't made.'
At the sound of gunfire, Parr and Shaddick shoved Reagan into a waiting limousine. Initially, Parr thought Reagan was uninjured; there were no visible wounds.
Just seconds later, however, the president spit up blood and complained of chest pain. Parr ordered the driver, agent Drew Unruh, to turn right and go to George Gashington Hospital instead of the White House*
'I think forever the president and myself and Drew Unruh will be locked together in that ride to the hospital,' said Parr. 'It was one of those events in life when you live at the edge.'
Some medical experts have said Reagan might have died had he arrived at the hospital from 8 to 20 minutes later.
Parr, who looks like actor Walter Matthau, retired from the Secret Service in February 1985. He joined the security company and began speaking to college groups about terrorism, security and the history of assassinations.
Upon leaving the restaurant, Parr, a student of pastoral counseling, extended his hand, smiled and quietly said, 'Peace.'
The Surgeons:
Autographed pictures of President Reagan hang in the George Washington University Hospital offices of Dr. Benjamin Aaron and Dr. Joseph Giordano, the surgeons who removed the bullet from the president's chest.
Both doctors, with the bluntness typical of surgeons, acknowledge that they relished the challenge and their success.
'I enjoyed it,' said Aaron. 'Let me say, I enjoyed it after I was sure he was going to live.'
He said, 'I can't say whether it brought me any more business, but I must have heard a thousand times, 'If you are good enough for the president, you are good enough for me.''
Giordano has heard similar remarks. He said, 'I still consider it one of my most interesting and gratifying experiences. It was a fun thing to be a part of.'
Aaron, 52, is chief thoracic surgeon at the hospital, and Giordano, 44, is head of the trauma team. THey agreed that once Reagan was in surgery, the president was never in serious danger. But their own careers could have been.
'There's not a thoracic surgeon living who couldn't have done that as well as I did,' Aaron said. 'As a point of fact, however, every doctor who has been involved in a previous presidential wounding has ended up in big trouble, one way or the other -- mainly because the other presidents died.'
In 1984, Giordano took a political swing at Reagan after the president praised him in a campaign speech as the 'son of a milkman' who worked hard, achieved success and 'saved the life of a president.'
Giordano, a Democrat, replied that he achieved success, in large part, thanks to low-interest student loans that Reagan has sought to cut.
Flipping through newspaper clippings about the exchange, Giordano, said, 'I like the man. But I don't agree with a lot of his policies.'
The Spokesman:
Dr. Dennis O'Leary, 48, displayed a soothing bedside manner in the hours and days after Reagan's surgery. He stood before television cameras, told a concerned nation its president was doing well and emerged as a media star.
Next month, O'Leary, dean of clinical affairs for the past decade at George Washington Hospital, starts a new job as president of the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals in Chicago. He said he may have gotten the post, at least indirectly, because the role he played in comforting America.
'Maybe my career would have moved ahead without this, but there is no question that the name recognition I had out there in the health industry helped enormously,' he said.
The Actress:
One of Jodie Foster's few film appearances since the shooting was on a videotape played at Hinckley's trial. In it, she said, 'I don't have any relationship with John Hinckley.' The line prompted Hinckley to stalk out of the courtroom.
During the past few years, Foster, 24, has spent more time as a student than as an actress. In 1984, she graduated from Yale University.
The year before, while on an eight-month leave of absence, she appeared in a made-for-television movie, 'Svengali.' Since then, she has been in just one other movie, 'Hotel New Hampshire.'
An official at International Creative Management, a California company that represents Foster, said flatly, 'She doesnt want to talk about Hinckley.'
The Parents:
Hinckley's parents, John Sr. and Jo Ann, both 60, have spent the past few years crusading for a better public understanding of the mentally ill.
At their son's trial, John Hinckley Sr. broke into tears and testified, 'I am the cause of John's tragedy.' He blamed himself for forcing John Jr. out of the family home three weeks before the college dropout shot the president.
Subsequently, the elder Hinckley sold the oil company he founded, declared himself 'completely through with the business world,' and, with his wife, wrote their story, 'Breaking Points.'
Proceeds go to the American Mental Health Fund, an organization they established in Fairfax, Va., in 1983 to raise money for research and public education on the issue of mental illness.
A spokesman at the fund said the couple now lives in Williamsburg, Va. Once a month they travel the more than 150 miles to Washington, D.C., to join their son in family tHerapy at St. Elizabeths Hospital. | {
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Persian Gulf-Black Sea Corridor: A Major Change in Iran’s Geopolitical Position
Date of publication : November 10, 2017 21:12 pm
Pioneering Spirit is seen at the construction site of TurkStream and Russian company Gazprom gas pipelines offshore of Anapa city in the Black Sea on June 23, 2017
In order to facilitate the transit of goods across their territory, countries try to create favorable conditions for regional exchanges.
These attempts will eventually result in revenue for the transit country and help strengthen its political and geopolitical position in the international arena while increasing the dependence of destination countries on the transit country.
Therefore, the benefits of transit corridors are multi-faceted. If a country has the potential to become a transit country, due to its geographic location, and aims to employ this potential to enhance its international standing, it should create the appropriate legal and political environment and set up the proper physical infrastructure.
News of the final approval of the Persian Gulf -Black Sea corridor project, which was conceived a few years ago during discussions on the transit of goods across the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran - is encouraging. Those in the transport and transit sector who are concerned about the decline in transit volumes via Iran due to the establishment of rival corridors, can now seriously plan on operating on this corridor.
In the current situation, where the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway has recently become operational, some concerns have been raised about limitations in Iran’s transit capacities. Iran’s eastern neighbor (Afghanistan) is now defining the Azure Route corridor project through Turkmenistan to bypass Iran and connect with Europe. There is also the TRACECA corridor project which links central Asia to Europe through the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus. At this point, the efforts of Iranian transport and transit officials to develop the Persian Gulf -Black Sea corridor is appreciable.
Following the recent meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan, Russia and Iran in Tehran, the development of the Persian Gulf-Black Sea corridor which crosses the territory of Azerbaijan and then Georgia to reach the Black Sea region gains significance. The Russian president’s visit and his meetings with high-ranking Iranian officials and the seriousness of the negotiations to put the North-South corridor into operation are of great importance. Iran, on the other hand, has been looking for routes other than the Turkish land route to connect with Europe. The Persian Gulf-Black Sea transit route is one of the alternatives. It is hoped that in the near future, with the establishment of stability and peace in Iraq and Syria, the Iran-Iraq-Syria-Mediterranean Sea corridor will also be devised and operational.
The Persian Gulf-Black Sea corridor, which is defined as a corridor linking the Persian Gulf region to the Black Sea and European countries, provides for freight transport between the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean states and Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Black Sea states, Ukraine, Poland, and other European countries through Iran. It can also provide a basis for the transportation of goods from Europe to Iran and the exchange of goods between the member states. | {
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The saying goes that there is no place like home. The Lobos hope that proves to be true.
In Albuquerque, four University of New Mexico track and field athletes are aiming high against the nation’s best at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships Friday and Saturday.
Lobos Luke Caldwell (5,000-meter run), Adam Bitchell (5000),Elmar Engholm (mile) and Kendall Spencer (long jump) are looking to score when they compete at their home facility, the Albuquerque Convention Center, for the UNM- and Albuquerque-hosted national championships.
“I’d like to get the people that are in the meet in position to score,” UNM head coach Joe Franklin said. “That’s the goal: can you score at the national championships, can you be top eight?”
All four Lobos competing are capable of scoring this weekend, and have the experience — both at the national championships and at their home facility — to produce the requisite top-eight finish.
They will also have the added benefit of competing on their home track.
“It’s a huge deal whenever you have a chance to run at home on your home track,” Franklin said. “… There’s going to 1000 people that know you who you are, and that’s a positive.”
With a hometown crowd and home-field (and home-track) advantage, the Lobos are in position to continue their trend of scoring at the national championship, which includes a tie for eighth place in 2010 and a tie for 15th in 2012. UNM tied for 49th last year.
Luke Caldwell
Over the last five seasons, the New Mexico men have scored at each NCAA Indoor Championship, a streak only bested by a six-year stretch from 1975-80.
But the Lobos can tie that run this year behind their four top-notch athletes.
Caldwell, a three-time track and field All-American, is one athlete with designs on a fourth scoring effort at this year’s championships.
The senior from Betchworth, England, was eighth in the 5,000 at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships in Arkansas, and could better that this time on his home track.
He enters the competition with a season-best time of 13 minutes, 42.50 seconds, which led the Mountain West in 2014 and ranks sixth in the nation.
“I think [the key is] just being in a position where [he] can challenge,” Franklin said of Caldwell. “He’s been pretty conservative at the last couple of championships.”
Nonetheless, he’s a definite threat to score and owns a personal record of 13:40.39 that doubles as the New Mexico and Mountain West record over 5,000 meters.
Bitchell will also competing in the 5000 Friday night alongside his teammate.
The Aberystwyth, Wales, native carries a personal-record clocking of 13:44.70 into the championships, which is third all-time in school history and ranks fourth all-time in MW history.
He is the No. 14 seed in the championships, and has performed strongly in past cross country seasons and during this season in track, where he placed top-four in the mile, 3,000 and 5,000 at the MW Indoor Championships two weeks ago.
“I think Adam can be right with Luke,” Franklin said.
Caldwell and Bitchell just the second pair of teammates in school history to qualify to the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 5000, joining Rory Fraser and Chris Barnicle in 2010.
The top seed in the field is Wisconsin’s Reed Connor (seed mark of 13:37.42), but Franklin points to Oregon freshman Edward Cheserek (13:40.51) and Arizona senior Lawi Lalang (13:41.58) as the pair to beat.
Also getting in on the action on the track is Engholm, one of just three athletes in UNM history to run a sub-four-minute mile.
The Stockholm product holds a personal-record time of 3:58.90 in the mile, making him the second fastest miler in UNM history behind two-time NCAA mile champion Lee Emanuel.
His mark ranks 12th in the field and led the MW in 2014.
“Elmar is very fit,” Franklin said. “He has not had a hiccup the last five weeks. … I think him making the final is realistic and that’s the goal.”
Unlike his teammates, Engholm set his personal record in Albuquerque on the same track on which he will be racing Friday. He registered that time at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational on Feb. 15, which gives him the fifth-best time in the mile by a collegian in Albuquerque Convention Center history.
Arizona’s Lalang has the top seed time of 3:52.88.
The final Lobo competing, Spencer, is aiming to recapture his title as NCAA Champion.
The 2012 NCAA Champion in the indoor long jump, Spencer is advancing to his third-straight national championship indoors, an unprecedented feat in New Mexico history.
The San Mateo, Calif., senior enters with a season-best mark of 25 feet, 9 ¼ inches in the long jump, achieved when he won his third consecutive MW title in the long jump at the MW Championships.
His personal record, which is also the school record, is 26-3 ½.
“He’s in a very good spot right now and he’s having a lot of fun,” Franklin said.
Despite not registering a mark at last year’s championships, Spencer has been more consistent lately, including a sixth-place showing at the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships last month.
“This year is very similar to the year he won [the NCAA championship],” Franklin said. “If you look at his jumps early in the year, they were all similar to those jumps when he won. His jump at the conference meet was similar to what he did at the conference meet the year he won.”
His mark ranks seventh in the field, with Rutgers’ Corey Crawford leading the field (26-11 ¾).
With the four athletes accepting bids for the NCAAs, the Lobos are sending four or more athletes to the indoor championships for the sixth consecutive year, extending the longest streak in program history. The indoor high is eight athletes, reached in 1978 and 2009.
The Lobos' four entrants are also significant in relative to the rest of the Mountain West. Seven male athletes from MW institutions are competing at the NCAAs, one each from Air Force, Colorado State and Wyoming.
The meet starts Friday at 10 a.m. with the beginning of the heptathlon and continues Saturday at 11 a.m. with the conclusion of the heptathlon.
The Lobos will compete on Friday at 6 p.m. MT with the long jump and the semifinals of the mile and at 8:25 p.m. MT with the 5000.
Live results will be available on RecordTiming.com and the meet will be streamed live on ESPN3 on March 14 starting at 5:55 p.m. MT and March 15 starting at 5:50 p.m. MT. A tape delay of the championship will air Saturday, March 22, starting at 4:30 p.m. MT on ESPNU. | {
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Married cleaner cleared of rape charges after Kingston incident
A married cleaner has been cleared of raping a 17-year-old in a car park on New Year’s Eve.
Soki Macanda, from Surbiton, was acquitted on both counts of rape against him after telling jurors he believed the sex was consensual.
The 30-year-old, who works at Claf Ohlson in Kingston and DSD Solutions in Surbiton, was cleared at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, October 25.
During the trial, jurors heard the teenager describe what she alleged had happened on December 31, 2010, in the Bittoms car park in Kingston.
The prosecution alleged that Mr Macanda led the girl away and attacked her after she collapsed in the street and vomited from drinking too much.
But Mr Macanda, who came to the UK as a refugee from Angola 11 years ago, told the court he walked arm in arm with the girl to the car park after she accepted his offer to “make her happy”.
He said: “She said ‘make me happy, do whatever you need to do to me’. When we was walking I said to her: ‘Did you have a good time?’. I saw the car park and said: ‘Can I take you there?’ and she
said: ‘Yes’.
“I was thinking we just go there for kiss each other, but when we started kiss each other she was moaning and then afterward she had her arm inside my pants.”
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During the trial, the jurors also heard the girl said she slipped in and out of consciousness while in the car park, but remembers asking Mr Macanda to get a condom and later staggering back to the
nightclub in High Street, Kingston, where she had been with friends.
The jury also heard that at least two text messages had been sent from the girl’s mobile phone to her ex-boyfriend prior to the incident.
The defendant’s lawyer, David Jubb, suggested the messages indicated the girl was trying to “get back” at her ex-boyfriend, with whom she had broken up shortly before. | {
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Bag that refers to the album Tintin in the Congo. The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by Belgian artist Herge the pen name of Georges Remi (1907 1983). The series first appeared in French in Le Petit Vingtieme, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle on 10 January 1929. | {
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The Hibernian Australian Catholic Benefit Society (HACBS) was a church-based support network. It was founded in 1868 by a group of Irish immigrants, including Mark Young.[1]
In 1857 Young arrived in the colony of Victoria from Ireland. He moved to Ballarat, where he worked in a variety of occupations, including keeping a store with his brother. In 1861 he joined a gold rush to Otago, New Zealand, returning to Ballarat in 1862. Young ran the White Hart Hotel in Sturt Street and became very active in local affairs. He assisted other Irishmen in the foundation of the Ballarat Hibernian Benefit Society and later worked to achieve the amalgamation of that society with the Australian Catholic Benefit Society to form the Hibernian Australian Catholic Benefit Society. He was elected as its first president.[1] | {
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List of selfie-related injuries and deaths
This is a list of serious injuries and deaths in which one or more subjects of a selfie were killed or injured, either before, during or after having taken a photo of themselves, with the accident at least in part attributed to the taking of the photo.
The United States Department of Transportation estimated that during 2014, the so-called "year of the selfie", 33,000 people were injured while driving and using a cell-phone in some fashion, which can include talking, listening, and "manual button/control actuation" including taking, uploading, downloading, editing, or opening of selfies. A 2015 survey by Erie Insurance Group found that 4% of all drivers admitted to taking selfies while driving.
The Washington Post reported in January 2016 that "about half" of at least 27 "selfie related" deaths in 2015 had occurred in India. No official data on the number of people who died taking selfies in India exists, but reports show from 2014 up to August 2016, there have been at least 54 deaths in India while taking selfies. The Indian Ministry of Tourism asked states to identify and barricade ‘selfie danger’ areas, its first national attempt to deal with the selfie deaths. Mumbai Police identified at least 16 danger zones after a man drowned attempting to save a selfie-taker. No-selfie zones were also established in certain areas of the Kumbh Mela because organizers feared bottlenecks caused by selfie-takers could spark stampedes. | {
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“We know that both the CIA and the FBI were told by Russia, their counterparts, ‘You got to look at this guy, we think he’s been radicalized. We think he’s a terrorist,’” the “State of the Union” host told panelists. “Then we have the fact that up came these, at some point after a trip to Russia and before it, up came Islamic videos — or, I’m sorry, terrorist videos on his website. … At least one department, Homeland Security I believe, knew he’d either come or gone to Russia. And he’s putting up, you know, in praise of terrorism. Why in the world didn’t anybody think, oh, wait, this is a danger sign?
CNN reported last week that Tamerlan Tsarnaev “posted and then removed a video of a jihadist leader” who had ties to an Islamic militant group. | {
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Chesapeake Must Face Ohio Lawsuit Over Unpaid Royalties
Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) must face an
Ohio lawsuit over allegations the company underpaid gas
royalties for years, an appeals court said, reinstating the
case.
The lawsuit, brought as a class action on behalf of Ohio
leaseholders, alleges that a Chesapeake predecessor company
began by 1993 to “deliberately and fraudulently underpay the
full gas royalty due” and that Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake
continued the practice after taking over the leases in 2005.
An Ohio trial court dismissed the lawsuit in 2010 citing a
state law that requires filing such claims within four years
after the cause of action occurs. The U.S. Court of Appeals in
Cincinnati reversed that decision today, agreeing with the
plaintiffs that allegations of continuing underpayment meant the
claims aren’t time-barred.
“The plaintiffs are permitted to pursue their breach of
contract claim pertaining to any underpayment of royalties that
occurred within four years prior to the filing of their
complaint in September 2009,” the court said.
The leaseholders may also be allowed to pursue earlier
claims if they can prove they weren’t able to discover
underpayments before the four-year period because of
“fraudulent concealment” by Chesapeake, according to the 23-page decision.
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The Ohio lawsuit isn’t the only case against Chesapeake
claiming underpayment of royalties. Chesapeake’s record in these
disputes has been mixed. Courts in Kentucky and New York have
rejected such cases. A suit in Virginia was allowed to proceed
and the parties settled.
Michael Kehs, a Chesapeake spokesman, declined to comment
on the decision. James Lowe, an attorney for the leaseholders,
didn’t immediately return a call and e-mail seeking comment.
The case is Lutz v. Chesapeake Appalachia, 10-4538/11-3034,
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Cincinnati). | {
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I'm 90 Percent American and 10 Percent Canadian, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty: "I know that among many of my libertarian friends, it's not "cool" to have any nationalism or even any patriotism in you. But one of the hardest lessons I learned early in life was not to disown my feelings. Under the influence of Ayn Rand's weird ideas about love, I told my brother that I didn't love him, in the last real conversation I had with him before he committed suicide. Of course, I did love him, but I had adopted Rand's and Nathaniel Branden's idea that you couldn't love someone who didn't share your philosophical views. And, boy, did my brother ever not share my philosophical views.
So, even if it's not cool and even if get criticized for, gasp, celebrating as a hero a government worker who was, gasp, protecting other government workers, I won't disown that feeling." | {
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ALL HANDMADE was employed by Richard Hooper in association with UNIVERSAL STUDIOS (UK) LTD to produce the proto-type weapons for REAPER, SARGE and the B.F.G.
After the basic proto-type fabrication process, manufacture of the 'HERO' weapons moved to an isolated under ground armoury bunker situated near Pinewood Studios.
This image shows the original concept design for REAPER'S gun illustrated by Dan Walker.
This was the original proto-type for REAPER'S gun. The basic model was made from chemical modelling board.
A three dimensional proto-type conveys the true size, weight and texture of an object which is invaluable when it comes to fabricating completely new models for feature films or commercial projects.
A selection of unique bullets were made for SARGE'S character played by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. These bullets were massive compared to regular ammunition and were sadly cut from the final feature.
Close-up of SARGE'S unique bullet.
In order to fabricate the final 'HERO' guns for the feature film, chemical modelling board was used again to create the outer shape of the new weapons over existing, live firing G37 assault rifles. These were then moulded and cast in a hard polyurethane foam/resin and painted with a metal two pack paint system.
The final weapon design with the G37 assault rifle inside the cast shell.
Close-up of the final weapon used by REAPER played by Karl Urban. These pictures show the weapons as they were before the dirtying down process carried out on stage in Prague prior to filming.
All of the weapons were thoroughly tested on the firing range with blank firing ammunition prior to filming.
Each of the weapons carried various lights either in the form of military Mag-Lights housed in the front barrel grip section of the rifle or the L.E.D. units mounted into the sides of the guns.
The final gun used by Karl Urban's REAPER character in the film adaptation of the game DOOM. | {
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This is in ON, Canada, out front of the police station in town here… dude literally just wanted his weed and bong back. Not everything is a political protest here, ya Yankees. He’s just try’na get high. | {
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“Mystery of Israel” Radio
This is the home for Mystery of Israel radio broadcast. The program began streaming LIVE on Friday mornings from 7:45am to 8am EST on Asheville, NC’s WSKY 1230AM radio station on Nov 10th, 2017 and will end on Nov 9th, 2018.
These broadcasts are not to be confused with highly recommended mysteryofisrael.org website featuring the writings of Reggie Kelly. The Mystery of Israel radio program, with Tom Quinlan as host (while certainly inspired by the website of the same name) was started to be a local outreach to the Asheville, NC area. We believe that we are living at the climax of this age, and that the plans and purposes of God for this generation MUST be declared before men are held accountable. Our prayer is that a people from this local community will be prepared to love and serve God even while the prophesied flood of iniquity sweeps through the land. We also desire to be a witness of the coming mercies to the chosen descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Below you will find links to the video and audio archives of each session. Additionally we will endeavor to provide links to download any of the music or other items referenced in each broadcast.
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From the Song of Moses
“They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities:
I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.”
Deuteronomy 32:21 | {
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'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!' Charles Dickens’ ghostly tale of sour and stingy miser Ebenezer Scrooge has captivated readers, listeners and audiences for over 150 years. This Christmas, Audible Studios brings this story to life in an audio drama featuring an all-star cast.
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Starring Montgomery Cliff and Joan Lorring - The classic novel by Emily Bronte comes to life in this audio play. The story of Heathcliffe and Cathy tells the story of love, lust, hatred, and the life and death struggles of the characters. The vivid descriptions of the Yorkshire Countryside in which it is set create a powerful gripping drama you will not want to miss.
One of the Classic Radio Theatre productions you will want to listen to over and over again! | {
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The Devil's Elixir
What if there was an herb, previously lost to history in the jungles of Central America, capable of inducing an experience so momentous it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization? What if powerful forces on both sides of the law got wind of that herb, and launched a violent, uncompromising pursuit to be the first to exploit it? And what if FBI agent Sean Reilly and his girlfriend, Tess Chaykin, were, unknowingly, the only two people who could keep the lid on this existential Pandora's box, one that's capable of destabilizing the world? | {
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Accolades have been flooding social media since the untimely passing of longtime socialist activist, writer and professor Jim Laxer on Friday. Below are two articles about Brother Jim written by friends who knew him for decades. The NDP Socialist Caucus wishes Jim’s family and friends heartfelt condolences during this period of great loss.
It was a shock, and very saddening to learn that James Laxer passed away at age 76 while traveling in Europe. He was one of the most articulate, honourable and courteous figures of the English Canadian left in the second half of the twentieth century. I had the pleasure of working with Jim in the Waffle Movement, inside the New Democratic Party in the early 1970s. Along with his father Bob Laxer, and Mel Watkins, Jim was a co-founder in 1969 of the left-nationalist current. I got to know him when I was president of the Ontario New Democratic Youth — even going out on a limb for the Waffle when I passed along an ONDP membership list after the party brass refused to share it with the insurgent body.
Those were the days of profound, stimulating ideological debates in the labour-based party — driven by the Waffle Manifesto and its associated resolutions on manufacturing, energy, culture and foreign policy. The Waffle galvanized a generation of New Left, Vietnam anti-war and student radicals, with Jim emerging from the latter milieu. His stunning bid for the NDP leadership in 1971, capturing one-third of the votes at the Ottawa convention, demonstrated the potential impact of socialist ideas in a mass labour-based party, and on the larger body politic, at a time of rising rebellion against the capitalist order worldwide. Notwithstanding his economic nationalism, Jim Laxer was an anti-imperialist and internationalist in his world outlook. He marched for global peace with justice. He championed Quebec’s right to self-determination, in the shadow of the 1970 invocation of War Measures Act by Pierre Trudeau.
We parted ways politically when the Waffle gave up the fight inside the NDP, following the ultimatum issued by Ontario Leader Stephen Lewis. The Trotskyists continued the struggle inside the party, aiming to win its working class base to a revolutionary, anti-capitalist perspective, while the re-christened Movement for an Independent Socialist Canada waged an unsuccessful electoral campaign. It soon after dissolved — a left-reformist current of intellectuals lacking a class base. Indeed, the Trudeau Liberals co-opted Canadian economic nationalism with the Foreign Investment Review Agency and Petro Canada.
James Laxer focused on his work at York University where he was a professor of political science for almost fifty years, and engaged in some public broadcasting.
Like many other Wafflers, ironically Jim rejoined the NDP. In 1981, he was hired as director of research for the federal NDP, but quit in 1983 when he published a report unpopular with the party tops for critiquing the NDP’s economic policies as being “out of date”.
In a certain way, Laxer was an early edition of Jeremy Corbyn. His dynamic, charismatic personality was, for a time, a lightening rod for a wide, dissident social layer.
James Laxer will be remembered far longer and with much more fondness than most of his antagonists in the right wing of Canadian social democracy.
The NDP Socialist Caucus, which continues today the fight for socialism and a Workers’ Agenda, albeit on a program that differs substantially from that of the Waffle, extends its heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of James Laxer at this moment of profound loss.
I received the news of Jim’s death from the Facebook post of his son Micheal. It is always a shock when someone who was a vibrant, outgoing and very funny person is suddenly no longer there.
I first met Jim Laxer and his first wife, Krista Maeots, when I wandered into the office of the Queen’s Journal in the autumn of 1965. I was a freshman English major straight out of the boonies of northern Nova Scotia, a little bit political and a cultural radical. It was in the evening, the office was buzzing, and I saw this strikingly blonde dynamo who seemed to be in command, so I asked her: “Who’s in charge?”
“We all are”, she said. “This is a collective effort”.
“How do I join”, says I.
“You just did”, says she. “My name is Krista”.
A few minutes later I was introduced to a young hairy looking guy named Jim. The thing I remember most about that first meeting was a joke he was sharing in a loud voice with a person named John Smart. All three, Jim Laxer, Krista Maeots, and John Smart, along with economist Mel Watkins and a group of NDP radicals like Jackie Larkin, Varda Kidd, Don Mitchell, Bev Currie, Don Kossick and a long list of other political activists, came together over the next four years to define a political current which was, and to some extent, still does, define the Canadian left.
In 1969, at the Winnipeg convention of the New Democratic party, a Manifesto for an Independent Socialist Canada written primarily by Laxer, Watkins, Maeots and Smart, but with input from socialists across Canada, was debated and argued as the centerpiece of the convention. It was a dramatic and stirring debate, where Tommy Douglas, the saint of Canadian social democracy was forced to enter the fray opposing the document. He was booed when he tried a line which said: “What kind of nationalization are you talking about? Are you planning to nationalize the farmer’s barn?”
Delegates took it for the red baiting which his phrasing implied.
I was a delegate from the federal secretariat of the New Democratic Youth of Canada, a position to which I had been elected earlier that summer in Ottawa. It was there that the NDY adopted the Waffle Manifesto as it had come to be known, against the opposition of the right wing. But the youth convention itself was a harbinger of things to come as it overwhelmingly was animated by the left, not only by the Trotskyists of the Young Socialists, or the young workers influenced by the Young Communist League, but a broader layer of politicizing youth from across the country.
The influence of the Manifesto was dramatic. I was at a meeting in the basement of the Skyline Hotel in Ottawa where the finishing touches were being put together with a broad group of people representing the left. Among the attendees was Ed Broadbent, who got into a debate with Jim Laxer about the economic effects of nationalization on Canadian relations with the USA. While Jim won the argument at the economic level, the elephant in the room was the reaction by US imperialism for a takeover of the oil industry, as an example. Neither was able to give a satisfactory answer to that problem, as I remember. Suffice it to say, Ed Broadbent didn’t endorse the Manifesto, but he was forced out of the leadership race at the 1971 convention by the Laxer-Lewis showdown.
Someone who did endorse the Manifesto at the 1969 convention was the leader of at that time the largest section of the NDP, Woodrow Lloyd of Saskatchewan. He rose to vote in favour of it, while his younger political opponents, Roy Romanow and Jack Messer, voted against it. Woodrow was in a majority in the Saskatchewan delegation, but Romanow and Messer were to manufacture his ouster as Leader a year and a half later.
In the race to replace Lloyd, the Waffle represented by Don Mitchell, came in third, and the candidate of the center, Allen Blakeney, beat Romanow. Blakeney was later to adopt many of the Waffle proposals as Premier of Saskatchewan. He nationalized the potash industry, which became a cash cow for the provincial treasury. He established SaskOil as a publicly owned competitor to the international oil cartels.
This is not meant as a history of the Waffle, but it is a method of showing the impact that a group of leaders with a vision can accomplish. Jim Laxer wasn’t the Waffle, but he was its articulate and human face, with a sense of humour which showed itself often, and was one of the compelling traits with which Jim was associated.
Jim and I ended up on the opposite sides of the leave or stay-and-fight debate within the Waffle. I believe it was one of the few political mistakes I saw him make in not challenging Stephen Lewis regarding the decision of the Orillia provincial council meeting. Nevertheless we remained friendly whenever we bumped into each other, usually through something arranged by our mutual friend Joe Flexer.
Finally, a note on Jim Laxer and Canadian nationalism. Jim argued that in the context of North America, Canadian nationalism was progressive and anti-imperialist. His prescription as an anti-imperialist was nationalization. In that, his theory was very analogous to the Lazaro Cardenas government in Mexico, which nationalized the oil industry.
Nearly 50 years have gone by since the Manifesto for an Independent Socialist Canada was first published. At that time the strength of Canadian imperialism was not as apparent as it is today, so that the comparison between Canada and Mexico had at least a superficial attraction. Since that time, the evolution of the relationship between the two imperialisms has been towards a greater integration in a whole range of sectors (oil and gas, mining, aerospace, auto parts) and the development of a range of mechanisms which smooth out the frictions which can arise from time to time, but which, like NORAD, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, and the harmonization of immigration policies of Fortress America, are designed to manage the common orientation of the two capitalist classes.
Capitalist accumulation through a common orientation, despite tactical differences, in foreign policy, military partnerships, and a whole host of semi-state and non-state organizations has resulted in a situation which Jim Laxer, and his colleagues, fought against all his political life: an independent, capitalist Canada as part of the imperialist states of North America.
As a friend of mine commented yesterday; “Oh what a difference it might have made if we had adopted the Waffle”. I am pretty sure Jim would agree with that.
I join with the thousands of other comrades in the struggle in bringing condolences to Jim’s family. He touched us all. | {
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Moisten rim of chilled glass with a lime wedge and dip in ground Demerara sugar. Coat inside of glass with absinthe. Place mint in shaker and gently muddle for 15 to 20 seconds, coating bottom and sides of shaker with oils from mint. Add rums and gently muddle for another 15 to 20 seconds. Add remaining ingredients to shaker. Add 1 cup of cubed ice and shake vigorously for 15 to 20 seconds. Strain drink into glass.
I have a copy of The Official Mixer's Manual, by Patrick Gavin Duffy. It is apparently a 1940 reprint of the 1934 edition...
...I suspect the Zombie was inserted for the 1940 printing, because it differs in style from the other recipes...
I confirmed my suspicion. The Zombie recipe was NOT in Duffy's original 1934 version. I found a Google image of that same page (209) from the 1934 edition. After the 'Sunshine Cocktail', there was just empty space. The Zombie was added in the empty space, beginning with the 1940 edition.
page 209, 1934 and 1940 versions _________________"The rum's the thing..."
Thanks for confirming that. It was my assumption as well that Duffy would not have been so on the ball as to have had a Zombie recipe in 1934 if that was the very year Donn invented it.
_________________"If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel."
Robert Louis Stevenson
I have an 1980 edition of David A. Embury's Mixing Drinks (originally The Art of Mixing Drinks) but I'm not sure if the Zombie appeared in either the 1948 or 1953 editions. He actually has an interesting, if a little controversial, write up on the Zombie:
That's in the original 1948 version, according to someone who has it. Amusing, although a bit overblown. _________________David J. Montgomery
Professor Cocktail
I'll vouch for the Duffy version (as reprinted in the 1st ed of Grog Log). It may be way off from the original, but it will zombify you nonetheless. Also introduced me to the wonders of Applejack; gotta love that!
I'm guessing this was one of AdOrAdam's first references: http://wiki.webtender.com/wiki/ZombieIt gives a pretty good picture of some of the earliest publications referencing this recipe, although it looks like they got the date wrong on Duffy. Even still, would Duffy's 1940 edition be the earliest appearance of a zombie recipe in a bartender's guide? I'm guessing that 1938 Winnipeg Free Press reference was from a newspaper and the next appearance so far is 1941. My guess is that Duffy's was the first in print to include a fruit brandy (apple brandy, which seems to have translated into apricot-flavored brandy from there) and pineapple and papaya juices, which certainly became common in printed recipes thereafter. However, I assume this recipe was based on widespread imitations that would have been popping up all over in the mid-to-late 30s, especially after the 1938 World's Fair. I wonder how much influence these imitations had on Donn's amended 1950s recipe, or was it just that he felt tastes had changed? This discussion seems familiar and is probably already summed up in another thread. Let's keep on track here! Any clues on how some of the other big temples were doing their zombies back in the day?
BTW, readers of this thread may wish to dip back into this earlier Zombie Recipe discussion. It begins before, and continues after, Berry acquired the loose-leaf pocket drink notebook of Dick Santiago, who worked at Don's between 1937-53, with its Zombie Punch recipe.
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=3892&forum=10&start=0I've updated it with my discovery that the Zombie recipe was NOT in the initial 1934 edition of Duffy's The Official Mixer's Manual, since that was also a controversy within that thread.
On 2013-08-19 15:41, TikiTacky wrote:That's quite the endeavor! I'll be curious to see what contributions you get... TC has been around for a long time and I'm sure for most if the old timers it seems like lots of topics have been discussed to death. I, for one, appreciate your enthusiasm!
Sadly, I have nothing to contribute
Cheers TikiTacky, much appreciated comment for a 1st poster. I second the motion: Tiki Central needs a 'I, for one, appreciate your enthusiasm! Sadly, I have nothing to contribute' button
I subbed the overproof rum & brought apricot brandy specially for the occasion... I was severally disappointed! In fairness, I knew how to make cocktails back then but tiki requires a bit more 'something' I have more of now. I didnt try another Zombie til I got Sippin Safari about a year ago.
I read that post before creating this thread - cheers to you Mr Limbo Lizard Note the post by Alnshely on page one - pretty much the 1934 Zombie isnt it? Considering it was posted in 2003, four years before Sippin Safari was posted...
We're up to 32 recipes now (chronologically ordered on page 1) _________________Dry January is over, long live wet February! | {
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Second City of The Empire: 1830s to 1914
Learning and Beliefs
Disruption
The 19th century was a century of turbulence for religion in Scotland. The Established Presbyterian Church in Scotland was split by the Disruption of 1843 in which the inbuilt tensions between the claims of religion and the claims of the state came sharply to a head.
Industrialisation had produced a powerful new manufacturing class that was to become active in politics both in Edinburgh and in London and was to take a new interest in religion. At the same time there was a series of Evangelical revivals within the church. A new party, the Evangelicals, had a majority in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from around 1834.
The Reform Act of 1832 raised issues about at least limited democratic participation in government. What did this mean for the Church? The tradition had been for new ministers to be presented to parishes by a patron, sometimes from the old landed classes, but often by the Crown. Two Acts of the General Assembly of the Church in 1834, the Chapels Act and the Veto Act, challenged the status quo. Parishes would now have a right to refuse ministers they did not want. The Courts ruled the Church's actions illegal. In May 1843 a third of the ministers and almost half the members walked out of the Assembly to form the new Free Church of Scotland. Now there were two parallel Presbyterian churches, one stressing the freedom of the Church, the other supporting continuing responsibility for the whole community. There were large gains and large losses.
One of the leaders of the Free Church was Thomas Chalmers who had been minister of the Tron Church (1815-1820) and then of St John's (1820-1823). The Free Church and the Church of Scotland re-united in 1929 and the main reminder of the Disruption is the Free Church, Trinity College in Lynedoch Street. | {
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Troy Polamalu’s Legacy
"And the fact that Polamalu was one of the players who were able to transcend part of the transition of the NFL to a quarterback league says enough about what type of safety he was." (Dave Eulitt/Kansas City Star/MCT)
After 12 seasons of playing in the National Football League – all with the Pittsburgh Steelers – Troy Polamalu decided to retire on April 10. Examining Polamalu’s place in the history of the NFL is tricky: his legacy is both delicate and certain. On one hand he was one of the most important pieces during the revival of one of the most successful franchises in NFL history, helping the Steelers of the early 21st century to two super bowl wins after the Pittsburgh franchise went more than 20 years without a championship. But, on the other hand, Polamalu played as a safety, one of the many positions on the defensive end that are overshadowed by the pomp and glamour of their offensive counterparts.
Polamalu’s career runs parallel to the career of his now former teammate Ben Roethlisberger. They were drafted only a year apart and were both on the super bowl winning teams of 2006 and 2009. But Roethlisberger’s career seems to be shrouded by controversy (which is often forgotten because of his entertainment value,) while Polamalu’s skill at the safety position was sometimes overlooked in favor of the flashier quarterback. Then again, this is the Pittsburgh Steelers, a team with a city that values its long line of strong defensive teams, going back to the “Steel Curtain” of the 1970s.
In a way, Polamalu’s legacy hinges on the fact that the NFL of the 21st century is a “quarterback driven league,” whereas in the past there was more room for a defensive player to make an impact. League rules limit – perhaps for the better, considering the safety concerns – what a defensive player can and cannot do on the field. If he played in the 1970s, Polamalu may have been able to hit harder, play at a faster pace more recklessly than he did in his career.
So what will Polamalu’s legacy be? As it is now, there are brackets around it, brackets that limit the scope of what he was able to accomplish as a safety. This impacts every defensive player, particularly those who play in the secondary. And the fact that Polamalu was one of the players who were able to transcend part of the transition of the NFL to a quarterback league says enough about what type of safety he was.
Polamalu was able to have an important career at a defensive position because he gave up his body on every down. Such a use of the body is common for great defensive players, who often sustain a lot of damage to their bodies in order to dominate opponents.
But Polamalu was also able to act as a model for defensive players with more exposure than normal, using his hair to promote certain products. Maybe his true legacy lies in his million dollar insured hair. | {
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Or, have been open for decades here in Washington. The Whore of Babylon…open for business…with barbarians at the Gates.
Like Watergate.
Or Debategate (the Reagan-Bush campaign had a mole in Carter’s campaign passing along Carter’s debate briefing books).
How about Iran-Contragate, sometimes called Irangate.
Remember Iraqgate? Yes, there was an Iraqgate.
Can’t blow by Monicagate, can we?
And the latest Gate…Foleygate.
In fact, we should have Jackgate for Abramoff. WMDgate. Gatesgate, although the only “scandal” regarding the confirmation of Robert Gates is that he was confirmed. Scandalous? Yes, but not really a scandal.
Actually, the Democrats’ big election victory portends an opening of many new “Gates.” At least, that’s what the voters want…or said they want according to exit polling. See, the amazing thing about the election was that “corruption,” not Iraq, stood out as the number one issue for voters.
Okay, let’s try that again…just for kicks.
Corruption beat out Iraq as the issue of greatest concern to voters.
The media, and the blabbering heads that dominate it, have focused on Iraq as the number one issue. They proclaim daily that the vote was a rejection of Bush’s Iraq fiasco.
True enough. But imprecise.
Because “the people” actually had corruption on their minds and housecleaning on their agenda. Really, isn’t it possible that Iraq is just a subset of the idea of corruption: the lies and propaganda that got us there; the no-bid and cost-plus contracts; the lack of Humvee armor and flak jackets; billions of reconstruction dollars gone missing.
The Iraq war is a study in corruption.
Still, the point is that the angry mood of voters requires some bloodletting, some redemptive retribution. Crime cannot be allowed to pay. And there is some crime to pay for. Hey, if lying about fellatio is worthy of impeachment…how about lying to get into a war?
Enter the Democrats. They’ve been given the sheriff’s badge by the American people and they’ve been told, “Clean up that town and get rid of those varmints.”
They’ve got subpoena power and a mandate that grows daily in direct proportion to Bush’s failing approval ratings.
They won’t do it.
Already we have their first, submissive volleys across the stern of the GOP ship of corruption.
Pelosi rules out impeachment, wants to work together for the American people. She may not be able to restrain Rep. Henry Waxman or Rep. John Conyers. But she’s set the tone. Move forward.
Funny, that’s what W keeps saying about Iraq, “We need to find a new way forward.”
Okay, Dems…now you’ve had a week of so-called “truth-telling” by Gates, Jim Baker and the omnipresent Democratic guide through scandals…Lee Hamilton.
Now what?
Investigate the big lies on WMD and intelligence malfeasance? Stop filling the military-industrial trough with our tax dollars? Stop spreading the American people over a pork-barrel? Follow the trails of corruption from K Street lobbyists of all stripes…trails that lead to every major Department in the executive branch and right into the halls of Congress?
Unlikely. They want to set a positive agenda for the future, not get mired in the past.
But it’s the past that gives us the clues to the future.
Iraqgate is a good example…a lesson from history. The lesson being that when given a perfect opportunity to consign to the dustbin of history those scandalous dirty-dealers in the GOP the Dems will do nothing.
After the great, ballyhooed triumph of George the Elder in the Gulf War some disturbing facts started to rear an ugly, opportune head out of a sand of patriotic fervor.
As it happens, the elder Bush’s Administration had been illegally funneling weapons to Saddam throughout his tenure in the White House. Weapons that would be used on Kuwait and the American-led forces that expelled him. Illegal cluster bombs and pre-cursor chemicals for nasty WMDs. You know, those WMDs that terrorized the Kurds…that keep Iraq in sanctions for a decade…that provided a phantom menace against which Bush the Younger predicated his invasion.
It’s all there in a great, meticulously reported…but widely-ignored…book called Spider’s Web:
Congress had moved to curtail and, in some instances, stop arms shipments to Iraq after the cessation of the Iran-Iraq War. Saddam relied on the Reagan-Bush White House to keep up his end of that bloody conflict throughout the 1980s. He was “our” boy in the Middle East…much like Manuel Noriega was “our boy” in Central America. Saddam attacked Iran, urged on by the incoming Administration in 1980. Saddam had come to power with CIA assistance. Remember the infamous video of Saddam at a Ba’ath Party Conference calling out names, the named then being led away for execution? Many were “internal threats” called “Communists.” Commies who had been identified by the CIA. Saddam gratefully took that list and eliminated Iraqi pinkos.
And we’ve all seen that famous handshake…one that led to a decade of sales: military, biological and chemical.
And Saddam gassing the Kurds? Well, our Cold War friends the Turks gave us regional base of operations and had more than a minor problem in there eastern region with Kurdish nationals…rebels who called themselves the PKK. Saddam had Kurds, too. So, he took some of those nasty chemicals we were shipping him and attacked the Kurdish menace. A menace the Turks were failing to control. It was a big help to there drive to crush Kurdish nationalism in Turkey. Which they did.
Coincidence? Perhaps.
But it’s the Iran-Iraq War that exposes some of the darkest corners of the American Way in foreign lands.
As Saddam was unleashing hell on Iran with our support, assistance and weapons, Reagan-Bush was covertly selling weapons and spare parts to Iran. They were selling to both sides of the war that, it is strongly suggested, the Reagan-Bushies asked Saddam to start. In fact, they goaded Saddam into attacking before they formally took office and, not coincidentally, we know the arms pipeline to Iran was established in covert meetings before the 1980 election.
Iraq, though, was openly favored…nothing covert about it. Foreign Minister and eventual Iraqi bad-guy Tariq Aziz was welcomed to the White House by the Gipper himself.
The relationship between Washington and Baghdad was strong and rooted in a history of cooperation when Bush the Elder took over. This, despite the fact that Saddam saw the same Iran-Contra reports that showed his ally in DC was also arming his enemy.
Which, by the way, was our “enemy.”
When Poppy took the hand-off from the Gipper, he was more than willing to sustain the pipelines between the Whore of Babylon and the ancient home of Babylon…oil in and weapons out. Congress tried to use legislation to stop the weapons side, but Bush knew ways around trifles like “law.” He was the “point man” on intelligence in the Gipper’s White House. Make no mistake; he was not “out of the loop” on Iran-Contra.
So the weapons and chemicals kept on keeping on, despite its illegality.
There was a problem, though.
The Kuwaitis were slant drilling into Iraq’s southern oil fields. This pissed off Saddam. In fact, Saddam and many Iraqis considered Kuwait a geographical fiction. They referred to Kuwait as “Iraq’s 19th Province.” Little Kuwait…a country created by post-Colonial mapmakers and, coincidentally, saw its oil industry created with the help of a young, enterprising oilman named…George Herbert Walker Bush.
So there is Saddam…an ally of America…beneficiary of our chemical and military technology. He’s got Kuwaitis drilling Iraq’s oil and, according to Our Boy in Baghdad, driving down oil prices by flooding the market.
Enter April Glaspie…Elder Bush’s representative in Baghdad.
She chats with Saddam about oil prices and the issue of Kuwait comes up.
GLASPIE: We have many Americans who would like to see the price go above $25 because they come from oil-producing states.
HUSSEIN: The price at one stage had dropped to $12 a barrel and a reduction in the modest Iraqi budget of $6 billion to $7 billion is a disaster.
GLASPIE: I think I understand this. I have lived here for years. I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait.
Was that the go ahead? Well, if Bush the Elder was still arming Saddam almost to the day of the invasion of Kuwait and then Glaspie says we don’t have a dog in your fight with Kuwait…and Saddam had done so much to kill Iranians…why wouldn’t he think he had a green light?
That’s Iraqgate…because all of this started to come out after victory and the press and Congress began asking questions. Questions that persisted.
Now we get to the problem.
Bill Clinton was elected President. Of course, Poppy pardoned the Iran-Contra gang. Not much one can do about that. But Iraqgate was a unique opportunity to root out the Secret Team, the oil and war profiteers who had manipulated events and flaunted the Constitution since 1980. Clinton was taking control of the Justice Department. The foggy stink of the Reagan-Bush years could finally be lifted and crimes punished.
So, what did Bubba do?
He did George the Elder “a solid.”
When asked about investigating Iraqgate at a 1994 White House power party:
Clinton “didn’t feel that it was a good idea to pursue these investigations because he was going to have to work with these people,” Sender told me in an interview. “He was going to try to work with these guys, compromise, build working relationships.”
Given a chance to investigate, prosecute and tarnish indefinitely some of the biggest names in the GOP….to stop the Secret Team and keep them from, say, coming back into government…Bubba passed. He said no. He wanted to work together.
Work and play together.
It’s just that simple. Which is why it is hard to have confidence in Congressional Dems. The country has been ravaged, the government corrupted and tax dollars spent wildly by many of Iran-Contra’s and Iraqgate’s cast of characters…people who slithered right back into the Executive Branch when Bush the Younger got his turn.
We get Lee Hamilton on the 9-11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group. Hamilton stopped Congressional Inquiries into Iran-Contra before they could get to Poppy or the cocaine-dealing Contras working with CIA elements. No, Ollie was enough.
And the language coming from Congressional Dems in leadership positions is all about looking forward, forwarding agendas and moving forward.
Forward, forward, forward.
It’s the Great American Dreamworld…forgetting the past and moving forward. And, in so doing, consigning us to infinite repetition.
Democrats should look back to the election that put them where they are today. Just one month ago the American people said, “Enough is enough!”
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The Professor Watchlist, a site just two just two weeks old, has already touched off heated debate in and out of academe. It is the brainchild of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, a politically conservative youth movement founded in 2012, and has the declared mission “to expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values, and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”
The Watchlist was immediately condemned as “pernicious and misguided” by Heterodox Academy (HXA), a non-aligned site but normally a de facto ally of conservatives in working to open up the dominant leftist culture of the campuses to more diverse viewpoints. The group’s executive committee said: We call on everyone who is concerned about the state of higher education to stop devising ways that members of an academic community can report or punish each other for classroom speech.
Some members disagreed, including Robert Mather, a social psychologist at the University of Central Oklahoma who wrote on the Psychology Today site that the HXA statement “is an example of being out of touch with conservative students and faculty. Conservative students and faculty have been marginalized in the ivory tower. I agree with the Heterodox Academy that such a watchlist does not facilitate collegial discourse.
Indeed, this watchlist is a response to events such as the bias response teams and trigger warnings that have covered many campuses and predominantly silenced conservative but not liberal discourse.
For conservative students, speaking in class already registers you on the informal watchlist in the predominantly liberal academy. For conservative professors, offering their perspective does the same. The idea of a watchlist is similar to the informal blacklisting that occurs for conservative faculty.”
Noelle McAffe, professor of philosophy at Emory helped set up a notably unfunny satirical website, Professor Redux, listing as similar radicals who should be on the conservative site as troubling: Socrates, Jefferson, Alan Turing, Gandhi and Jesus. Other wags submitted complaints about Indiana Jones, Professor Plum or other fictional academics.
The New York Times pointed out that Melissa Click and Julio Cesar Pino of Kent State are on the watchlist. She is the journalism teacher fired after calling for “some muscle” to prevent a student photographer from covering the University of Missouri protest. Professor Pino is listed as having “faced investigation by the FBI for connections to ISIS,” though the Cleveland Plain Dealer was unable to confirm that.
Pino has repeatedly denounced Israel. In 2014 he posted an “open letter” to “academic friends of Israel” that said they are “directly responsible for the murder of over 1,400 Palestinian children, women and elderly civilians.”
Charles Angeletti, a tenured professor at Metropolitan State University Denver, who rarely withholds his opinions from his classes is on the list. He pushed his students to recite a pledge that describes a racist, sexist, homophobic America: “I pledge allegiance to and wrap myself in the flag of the United States Against Anything Un-American and to the Republicans for which it stands, two nations, under Jesus, rich against poor, with curtailed liberty and justice for all except blacks, homosexuals, women who want abortions, Communists, welfare queens, treehuggers, feminazis, illegal immigrants, children of illegal immigrants, and you if you don’t watch your step…”
Also on the list are Mireille Miller-Young, an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was sentenced to three years’ probation after attacking a 16-year-old pro-life activist on campus.
Of course, except for the hard-core ideologues burrowed into the academy, there is no way to know from this skimpy Watchlist whether conservative opinions can be aired or good marks for conservative students can be achieved in these classes. Heterodox Academy has a point that we should be wary of inventing new ways to report and punish professors. On the other hand, knowing what you are likely to get in politicized classes is just basic consumer information.
John Leo is the editor of Minding The Campus, dedicated to chronicling developments within higher education in an effort to restore balance and intellectual pluralism to our American universities. His popular column, "On Society," ran in U.S.News & World Report for 17 years, and was syndicated to 140 newspapers through the Universal Press Syndicate.
Calling all college students: Do you love the intellectual climate on your campus? Or do you sometimes wish that a broader range of viewpoints was represented in the classroom, and by invited speakers? Are some students reluctant to speak up in class because they are afraid they’ll be shunned if they question the dominant viewpoint?
American college campuses have been growing more politically purified since the 1990s. Professors and visiting speakers who are not on the left, politically, are becoming increasingly rare. This should concern you—especially if you are on the left. Political orthodoxy impoverishes everyone’s education. Exposure to a diversity of viewpoints (i.e., heterodoxy) is the best way to expand your mind and improve your ability to deal with the politically diverse world you’ll find after graduation.
Heterodox Academy is, therefore, launching an initiative to empower students who want greater viewpoint diversity on campus. Working with students at several universities, we have drafted three short resolutions that you can use or modify as you please. Click here to see the resolutions, along with advice about how to get started.
As John Stuart Mill wrote, in On Liberty:
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion… Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them…he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
If you would like to reduce political orthodoxy at your school, then please consider introducing a resolution to your student government to declare your school a “Heterodox University.” The first school to do so will earn a great deal of positive media attention, attract a much larger number of applicants, and gain a national reputation for independent thinking. It will also have a much more open and exciting intellectual climate.
(This is the first of a suite of new tools and resources we’re releasing this fall to promote viewpoint diversity on college campuses and in academic disciplines).
On January 11, John Leo, editor of “Minding the Campus,” interviewed social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, one of the editors of the five-month-old site, “Heterodox Academy,” and perhaps the most prominent academic pushing hard for more intellectual diversity on our campuses. Haidt, 52, who specializes in the psychology of morality and the moral emotions, is Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU’s Stern School of Business and author, most recently, of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012).
JOHN LEO: You set off a national conversation in San Antonio five years ago by asking psychologists at an academic convention to raise their hands to show whether they self-identified as conservatives or liberals.
JONATHAN HAIDT: I was invited by the president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology to give a talk on the future of Social Psychology. As I was finishing writing The Righteous Mind, I was getting more and more concerned about how moral communities bind themselves together in ways that block open-minded thinking. I began to see the social sciences as tribal moral communities, becoming ever more committed to social justice, and ever less hospitable to dissenting views. I wanted to know if there was any political diversity in social psychology. So I asked for a show of hands. I knew it would be very lopsided. But I had no idea how much so. Roughly 80% of the thousand or so in the room self-identified as “liberal or left of center,” 2% (I counted exactly 20 hands) identified as “centrist or moderate,” 1% (12 hands) identified as libertarian, and, rounding to the nearest integer, zero percent (3 hands) identified as “conservative.”
JOHN LEO: You and your colleagues at your new site, Heterodox Academy, have made a lot of progress in alerting people to the problem that the campuses are pretty much bastions of the left. What kind of research did that prompt?
JONATHAN HAIDT: There have been a few studies since my talk to measure the degree of ideological diversity. My request for a show of hands was partly a rhetorical trick. We know that there were people in the audience who didn’t dare or didn’t want to raise their hands. Two social psychologists – Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers short did a more formal survey. And they found that while there is some diversity if you look at economic conservatism, there’s none if you look at views on social issues. But all that matters is the social. That’s where all the persecution happens. They found just 3-5 percent said they were right of center on social issues. .
JOHN LEO: Have you gone into the reasons why?
JONATHAN HAIDT: Oh, yes. After the talk, I was contacted by a few social psychologists who were interested in the topic. None of them is actually conservative. We looked into a bunch of the reasons. And the biggest single reason is probably self-selection. We know that liberals and conservatives have slightly different personalities on average. We know that people with a left-leaning brain are attracted to the arts, to foreign travel, to variety and diversity. So we acknowledge that if there was no discrimination at all, the field would still lean left. And that’s perfectly fine with us. We don’t give a damn about exact proportional representation. What we care about is institutionalized disconfirmation – that is, when someone says something, other people should be out there saying, “Is that really true? Let me try to disprove it.” That is now much less likely to happen if the thing said is politically pleasing to the left.
JOHN LEO: But what about the argument that things are really tough for conservatives in academe now? After they get through college, they have to find a mentor in graduate school, keep swimming upstream and try to get hired somewhere by a department head who’s looking for another leftist. And conservatives can run into cruel and aggressive people in academe.
JONATHAN HAIDT: Yes. That’s correct.
JOHN LEO: To many of us, it looks like a monoculture.
JONATHAN HAIDT: Yes. It is certainly a monoculture. The academic world in the humanities is a monoculture. The academic world in the social sciences is a monoculture – except in economics, which is the only social science that has some real diversity. Anthropology and sociology are the worst — those fields seem to be really hostile and rejecting toward people who aren’t devoted to social justice.
JOHN LEO: And why would they be hostile?
JONATHAN HAIDT: You have to look at the degree to which a field has a culture of activism. Anthropology is a very activist field. They fight for the rights of oppressed people, as they see it. My field, social psychology, has some activism in it, but it’s not the dominant strain. Most of us, we really are thinking all day long about what control condition wasn’t run. My field really is oriented towards research. Now a lot of us are doing research on racism and prejudice. It’s the biggest single area of the field. But I’ve never felt that social psychology is first and foremost about changing the world, rather than understanding it. So my field is certainly still fixable. I think that if we can just get some more viewpoint diversity in it, it will solve the bias problem.
JOHN LEO: Oh, that shows up on your site, “Heterodox Academy.” It’s had a big impact in the small time you’ve been open. Why is that, and how did you do it?
JONATHAN HAIDT: We started the site back when we knew that our big review paper would be coming out. Five of my colleagues and I worked to write this review paper, beginning after my talk in 2011. It took us a while to get it published. Paul Bloom at Yale was the editor at Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He thought that it was an important paper. So we knew that it was coming out in September. And we thought, we don’t just want a little bit of attention and then it’ll go away. We want to keep up the pressure. And, along the way, we were contacted by people in other fields — a grad student in Sociology, Chris Martin, who now runs the blog, a professor of law at Georgetown, Nick Rosenkranz – both these guys had written about the absence of diversity in their own fields. And one day last summer, I was having lunch with Nick here in New York. And we thought why don’t we get people together who are concerned about this and make a site? And Nick thought of the name, “Heterodox Academy.” I loved it. I thought it was just perfect
JOHN LEO: It says what it stands for.
JONATHAN HAIDT: Yes. We had no idea that the universities were about to commit suicide. We had no idea that they were going to blow up just a few weeks after we launched the site. So we launched in September. I wrote a post about our big review paper in social psychology. And we got a lot of attention the first week or two. Then it died down. And then we get the Missouri fiasco, the Yale fiasco, the Amherst fiasco, the Brown fiasco. You get place after place where protesters are making demands of college presidents, and college presidents roll over and give in.
JOHN LEO: So you got a lot of attention.
JONATHAN HAIDT: Since Halloween, especially. Look, I graduated from Yale in ’85. Yale is very devoted to social justice. It’s very devoted to affirmative action. Now no place is perfect. But it’s probably among the best places in the country. And to have protesters saying it’s such a thoroughly racist place that it needs a total reformation – they call the protest group ”Next Yale”– they demand “Next Yale”!
JOHN LEO: Everybody saw that.
JONATHAN HAIDT: And these were not requests. This was not a discussion. This was framed as an ultimatum given to the president – and they gave him I think six days to respond, or else. And I am just so horrified that the president of Yale, Peter Salovey, responded by the deadline. And when he responded, he did not say, on the one hand, the protesters have good points; on the other hand, we also need to guarantee free speech; and, by the way, it’s not appropriate to scream obscenities at professors.
JOHN LEO: Or the threat to one professor: “We know where you live”?
JONATHAN HAIDT: I didn’t even know about that. The president was supposed to be the grown-up in the room. He was supposed to show some wisdom, some balance, and some strength. And so we’ve seen, basically what can really only be called Maoist moral bullying – am we saw it very clearly at Claremont McKenna. The video is really chilling–the students surrounding this nice woman who was trying to help them, and reducing her to tears. As we’ve seen more and more of this, I’ve begun calling it, “the Yale problem,” referring to the way that left-leaning institutions are now cut off from any moral vocabulary that they could use to resist the forces of illiberalism. As far as I’m concerned, “Next Yale” can go find its own “Next Alumni.” I don’t plan to give to Yale ever again, unless it reverses course.
JOHN LEO; How did they cut themselves off?
JONATHAN HAIDT: They’re so devoted to social justice, and they have accepted the rule that you can never, ever blame victims, so if a group of victims makes demands, you cannot argue back. You must accept the demands.
JOHN LEO: Michael Kinsley once referred sardonically to one unhappy student as “another oppressed black from Harvard.”
JONATHAN HAIDT: Did you see that website, The Demands.org? Lots of people know how ill-conceived the demands are and what would happen if our universities all set out at the same time to reach 10 or 15 percent black faculty.
JOHN LEO: Are you a Democrat?
JONATHAN HAIDT: No, not anymore. Now I’m non-partisan. I was a Democrat my whole life, and I got into political psychology because I really disliked George W. Bush. And I thought the Democrats kept blowing it. I mean, in 2000, 2004, they blew it. And I really wanted to help the Democrats.
JOHN LEO: So you voted for Obama.
JONATHAN HAIDT: Twice. I no longer consider myself a Democrat today. But let me be clear that I am absolutely horrified by today’s Republican Party – both in the presidential primaries and in Congress. If they nominate Trump or Cruz, I’ll vote for the Democrat, whoever it is.
JOHN LEO: To get back to the lopsided faculties – -what are the chances of cracking anthropology or sociology?
JONATHAN HAIDT: Anthro is completely lost. I mean, it’s really militant activists. They’ve taken the first step towards censoring Israel. They’re not going to have anything to do with Israeli scholars any more. So it’s now – it’s the seventh victim group. For many years now, there have been six sacred groups. You know, the big three are African-Americans, women and LGBT. That’s where most of the action is. Then there are three other groups: Latinos, Native Americans….
JOHN LEO: You have to say Latinx now.
JONATHAN HAIDT: I do not intend to say that. Latinos, Native Americans, and people with disabilities. So those are the six that have been there for a while. But now we have a seventh–Muslims. Something like 70 or 75 percent of America is now in a protected group. This is a disaster for social science because social science is really hard to begin with. And now you have to try to explain social problems without saying anything that casts any blame on any member of a protected group. And not just moral blame, but causal blame. None of these groups can have done anything that led to their victimization or marginalization.
JOHN LEO: No. Never.
JONATHAN HAIDT: There used to be this old game show when I was a kid, called “Beat the Clock.” And you had to throw three oranges through a basketball hoop. Okay, that doesn’t look so hard. But now you have to do it blindfolded. Oh, now you have to do it on a skateboard. And with your right hand behind your back. Okay. Now go ahead and do it. And that’s what social science is becoming.
JOHN LEO: Well, but there’s always a possibility of truth and accuracy. I mean, why is the professoriate so…
JONATHAN HAIDT: Spineless? Nowadays, a mob can coalesce out of nowhere. And so we’re more afraid of our students than we are of our peers. It is still possible for professors to say what they think over lunch; in private conversations they can talk. But the list of things we can say in the classroom is growing shorter and shorter.
JOHN LEO: This sounds like the Good Germans.
JONATHAN HAIDT: Yes. Exactly. It is. It’s really scary that values other than truth have become sacred. And what I keep trying to say – this comes right out of my book The Righteous Mind – is that you can’t have two sacred values. Because what do you do when they conflict? And in the academy now, if truth conflicts with social justice, truth gets thrown under the bus.
JOHN LEO: Talk about The Righteous Mind a bit. How did you develop this system of three moral foundations among liberals, versus six or eight for conservatives?
JONATHAN HAIDT In graduate school, I was very interested both in evolutionary psychology, which seemed obviously true, that we evolved and our brains evolved; and in cultural psychology, which seemed obviously true – that morality varies across cultures. One of my advisors was Alan Fiske, an anthropologist. And my post-doc advisor was Richard Shweder, another anthropologist. And they both had developed accounts of exactly how morality varies. And they were both brilliant accounts, but they didn’t quite square with each other. And so I, I tried to step back and build up a case from evolutionary thinking – what are likely to be the taste buds of the moral sense? Things like reciprocity, hierarchy, group loyalty. So the theory grew out of ideas from Richard Shweder, in particular, and then it’s been developed with my colleagues at YourMorals.org.
JOHN LEO: When conservatives read this, they’re going to say, gee, we have more moral foundations than they do. Is there an advantage in having more?
JONATHAN HAIDT: Well, it certainly isn’t a game where more is necessarily better. One of my conservative friends argues that having one moral foundation is dangerous, because you’re much more likely to develop a kind of a mania about it. And, since the Halloween eruption at Yale, I now think much more that he’s right. That if you make anything sacred and, in this case, if you make care for the vulnerable your sacred value, and that becomes more important than anything else, you’re liable to trample all the other values. So I do think there’s a danger to having a one-foundation morality
JOHN LEO: So how did you assemble the team you have at “Heterodox Academy”?
JONATHAN HAIDT: It started with lunch—myself and Nick Rosenkranz. And then I right away emailed an introduction of Nick to the various other people I’d come across, especially my five co-authors on the BBS paper. And that was the core. And then we just talked about, like, okay; who’s in political science? Well, there’s, you know, some guys who were just writing a book about the experience of conservatives in the academy. Let’s invite them. So we just used our network of people we know. We’re up to about 25 people now. We don’t actually know how many conservatives are in the group. We know it’s less than half.
JOHN LEO: What about libertarians?
JONATHAN HAIDT: I think we’ll have more libertarians. When you find diversity in the academy, it tends to be libertarians. You rarely find social conservatives. And so I’m thinking of doing a survey of our members. Because I think we ought to know. Paul Krugman recently referred to our site and described us as “outraged conservatives.” I looked back through all the essays we published and failed to find outrage. Krugman just assumed outrage because we think there should be more diversity in the academy.
JOHN LEO: What happens to the academy now? You used the word ”die.” Is it dead or dying? Most academics think it’s just aflutter. They seem to have no idea that something important happened at Yale.
JONATHAN HAIDT: The big thing that really worries me – the reason why I think things are going to get much, much worse – is that one of the causal factors here is the change in child-rearing that happened in America in the 1980s. With the rise in crime, amplified by the rise of cable TV, we saw much more protective, fearful parenting. Children since the 1980s have been raised very differently–protected as fragile. The key psychological idea, which should be mentioned in everything written about this, is Nassim Taleb’s concept of anti-fragility.
JOHN LEO: What’s the theory?
JONATHAN HAIDT: That children are anti-fragile. Bone is anti-fragile. If you treat it gently, it will get brittle and break. Bone actually needs to get banged around to toughen up. And so do children. I’m not saying they need to be spanked or beaten, but they need to have a lot of unsupervised time, to get in over their heads and get themselves out. And that greatly decreased in the 1980s. Anxiety, fragility and psychological weakness have skyrocketed in the last 15-20 years. So, I think millennials come to college with much thinner skins. And therefore, until that changes, I think we’re going to keep seeing these demands to never hear anything offensive.
JOHN LEO Like micro-aggression, trigger warnings, safe spaces and different forms of censorship for anything that bothers them?
JONATHAN HAIDT: Yes, that’s right. Even much of the gender gap in STEM fields appears to result from differences of enjoyment-–boys and girls are not very different on ability, but they’re hugely different in what they enjoy doing. Anyone who has a son and a daughter knows that. But if you even just try to say this, it will be regarded as so hurtful, so offensive. You can get in big trouble for it. And that’s what actually showed up in the article I have online where I gave a talk at a school on the West Coast, and a student was insisting that there’s such massive institutional sexism, and she pointed to the STEM fields as evidence of sexism….
JOHN LEO: Where the girl stood up after your talk and said, “So you think rape is OK?”
JONATHAN HAIDT: Yes, that’s right. It’s this Marcusian rhetorical trick. You don’t engage the person’s arguments. You say things that discredit them as a racist or a sexist.
JOHN LEO: How do they learn that? The young don’t read Herbert Marcuse.
JONATHAN HAIDT: I don’t know whether they get it from one another in junior high school or whether they’re learning it in diversity training classes. I don’t know whether they’re modeling it from their professors. I do believe it’s in place by the time they arrive in college. And colleges are teaching this. Now, some colleges are much, much worse than others. We know from various things we’ve read and posted on our site, that liberal arts colleges – especially the women’s schools – are by far the worst.
JOHN LEO: Women’s schools are worse?
JONATHAN HAIDT: Nobody should send their child to a women’s school any more. And that’s especially true if you’re progressive. The last thing you want is for your progressive daughter to be raised in this bullying monoculture, and to become a self-righteous bully herself.
JOHN LEO: Well, that’s one of the things I learned from your site. I kept debating with friends whether the closed mind, all the PC and the yen for censorship were there before they arrive at freshman orientation. But I hadn’t see it written about until Heterodox Academy came along.
JONATHAN HAIDT: I wouldn’t say the game is over by the time they reach college. I would just say, they’re, they’re already enculturated. But that doesn’t mean they can’t change. Kids are very malleable. Kids are anti-fragile. I would say there’s some research suggesting that by the time you’re thirty, your frontal cortex is set. So after thirty, I don’t think you can change. But at eighteen, I think you still can. So my hope is that universities will be forced to declare their sacred value. I hope we can split them off into different kinds of institutions–you know, Brown and Amherst can devote themselves to social justice. Chicago is my main hope. The University of Chicago might be able to devote itself to truth. They already have this fantastic statement on free speech, making very clear that it is not the job of the university to take sides in any of these matters. The university simply provides a platform.
JOHN LEO: Yes, that’s just one university though.
JONATHAN HAIDT: But that’s fine. As long as you have an alternate model, then other universities can copy it. But more importantly is this – here’s the one reason for hope – almost all Americans are disgusted by what’s happened to the universities.
JOHN LEO: You mean the micro-aggression, the trigger warnings and the censorship?
JONATHAN HAIDT: Yeah. The craziness on campus. Almost everybody says, you know, shut up, grow up, stop complaining. And this is even true for people on the left. And so, there’s a gigantic market of parents who don’t want to send their kids to Yale and Brown and Amherst, and they want to send them someplace where they won’t be coddled. And so my hope is that if there are some prestigious alternatives where their kids actually could learn how to survive hearing things they don’t like, and that market forces will lead a stampede to less coddling schools.
JOHN LEO: But what about the craving for elite credentials, no matter how bad the school really is. A lot of parents will send their kids anywhere, to the mouth of hell, if they can get a Yale degree.
JONATHAN HAIDT: Columbia is very PC. Columbia’s not, going to be it. So, another reason for hope is that more and more progressive professors and presidents are being attacked. And each time they’re attacked, they usually feel quite bitter. And at some point we’re going to get a college president who has been attacked in this way who sticks his or her neck out and says, enough is enough; I’m standing up to this. I also hope and expect that alumni will begin resisting. That’s something we’re going to do at “Heterodox Academy.” We’re going to try to organize alumni and trustees.
Because the presidents can’t stand up to the protesters unless there is extraordinary pressure on them from the other side.
JOHN LEO: After the Duke fiasco, I made a point of looking into the alumni reaction. Resistance at Duke fizzled out very quickly. Stuart Taylor, Jr., co-author of Until Proven Innocent, the classic study of the Duke disaster, predicted that Brodhead would never get another term as president of Duke, or any other college. Not so. Despite the mess he made of things, they gave him a big, new contract. The forces upholding dereliction and folly are very strong.
JONATHAN HAIDT: Yeah. Duke was one outrageous case. This, “The Yale Problem,” is a much more existential threat to the whole system. It’s very hard to organize alumni for collective action. But if there’s a widespread sense of revulsion out there, then I think it might be more possible. You asked, how has “Heterodox Academy” been able to be so successful so quickly? And the basic answer is, we’re pushing on open doors. Most people are horrified by what’s going on. And when we ask people to join or support us, they say, yes. If we can find an easy way to organize alumni and get them to put their donations in escrow, or otherwise stop giving to schools that don’t commit to free speech and free inquiry, we may begin to see schools move away from illiberalism and return to their traditional role as institutions organized to pursue truth.
Just how much viewpoint diversity do we have in social psychology? In 2011, nobody knew, so I asked 30 of my friends in the field to name a conservative. They came up with several names, but only one suspect admitted, under gentle interrogation, to being right of center.
A few months later I gave a talk at the annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in which I pointed out the field’s political imbalance and why this was a threat to the quality of our research.
I asked the thousand-or-so people in the audience to declare their politics with a show of hands, and I estimated that roughly 80% self-identified as “liberal or left of center,” 2% (I counted exactly 20 hands) identified as “centrist or moderate,” 1% (12 hands) identified as libertarian, and, rounding to the nearest integer, zero percent (3 hands) identified as “conservative or right of center.” That gives us a left-right ratio of 266 to one. I didn’t think the real ratio was that high; I knew that some conservatives in the audience were probably afraid to raise their hands.
Some of my colleagues questioned the validity of such a simple and public method, but Yoel Inbar and Yoris Lammers conducted a more thorough and anonymous survey of the SPSP email list later that year, and they too found a very lopsided political ratio: 85% of the 291 respondents self-identified as liberal overall, and only 6% identified as conservative.
That gives us our first good estimate of the left-right ratio in social psychology: fourteen to one. It’s a much more valid method than my “show of hands” (which was intended as a rhetorical device, not a real study). But still, we need more data, and we need to try more ways of asking the questions.
A new data set has come in. Bill von Hippel and David Buss surveyed the membership of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. That’s a professional society composed of the most active researchers in the field who are at least five years post-PhD. It’s very selective – you must be nominated by a current member and approved by a committee before you can join. Von Hippel and Buss sent a web survey to the 900 members of SESP and got a response rate of 37% (335 responses). So this is a good sample of the mid-level and senior people (average age 51) who produce most of the research in social psychology.
Von Hippel and Buss were surveying the members’ views about evolution to try to understand the reasons why many social psychologists distrust or dislike evolutionary psychology. At the end of the survey, they happened to include a very good set of measures of political identity. Not just self-descriptions, but also whom the person voted for in the 2012 US Presidential election. And they asked nine questions about politically valenced policy questions, such as “Do you support gun control?” “Do you support gay marriage?” and “Do you support a woman’s right to get an abortion?”
In a demonstration of the new openness and transparency that is spreading in social psychology, Von Hippel and Buss sent their raw data file and a summary report to all the members of SESP, to thank us for our participation in the survey. They noted that their preliminary analysis showed a massive leftward tilt in the field – only four had voted for Romney. I then emailed them and asked if I could write up further analyses of the political questions and post them at HeterodoxAcademy. They generously said yes, and then went ahead and made all the relevant files available to the world at the Open Science Framework (you can download them all here).
So here are the results, on the political distribution only. (Von Hippel and Buss will publish a very interesting paper on their main findings about evolution and morality in a few months). There are three ways we can graph the data, based on three ways that participants revealed their political orientation. | {
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Google’s decision to buy Motorola Mobility is a shrewd move. The level of device and software fragmentation has shown Google’s struggle to control the Android hardware ecosystem since it launched with.
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This is the multiplied thanks to software fragmentation – selecting which ‘desert’ version of Android to optimise for, and which handsets is a headache for developers across the world.
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Chemical dispersants, a mixture of emulsifiers (surfactants) and solvents, breakup oil slicks into smaller droplets and enhance the oil’s bioavailability by increasing the surface area upon which oil-degrading bacteria can adhere. However, the curvature of the interface between oil droplets and water alters the area available to surfactants, complicating predictions of bacterial adsorption.
To better understand bacterial adhesion processes (using Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, a marine organism implicated in biodegradation) with different surfactants, the team prepared dodecane oil-in-water emulsions using co-flow microfluidic devices with droplet diameters observed during Deepwater Horizon. Using 3-D fluorescence images taken over times of up to three hours by a confocal microscope, the team counted the number of bacteria that adhered to the interface.
The authors noted that their laboratory experiments represent simplified conditions compared to actual marine biodegradation and that the results should be considered for optimal (i.e. minimal) application of surfactants or dispersants early in an oil spill scenario. For longer time scales, oil-metabolizing bacteria may be able to grow on the oil-water interface and continue modifying interfacial tension, further complicating predictions of oil biodegradation. They suggest that future research investigate how growth, bacterial exudates, motility, flow, and organic matter affect bacterial adhesion to the oil-water interface.
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Leprechaun: Origins, which stars Hornswoggle, will be released theatrically on 2/28/14.
WWE Studios are developing a sequel to “The Call.” If you’ve seen the film, you can tell that the last scene allows for a sequel. The film is actually worth checking out.
“See No Evil 2″ will begin shooting tomorrow in Vancouver, British Columbia. Added to the cast of the film are Greyston Holt (pictured; “Bitten,” Lost Boys: The Tribe), Chelan Simmons (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil), Kaj Eriksen (Ice Twisters), and Lee Majdoub (Soldiers of the Apocalypse). The original plan is for the film, which will star Kane, was to go straight to DVD next year but there’s been rumblings about going theatrical with it as well. If and when we confirm, we’ll note it here on the site. | {
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1 Comment for the Sunburn Home Remedy
carrie
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:35:04 GMT
hey, fellow sufferers.
even though I am a brunette, I have paler-than-porcelain skin and my skin either goes SIZZLE in literally 15 minutes... Obviously suncream is great... but I was putting on the highest factor available six plus times a day...and i still got sizzled.
SO! a fool proof remedy with a bit of science too!
skin burns because the UV denatures vitamins and omegas and things in the outer layers of the skin, which then turns into a total barbeque. so after cooling the sunburn (cool compresses, cool shower...) you need to restore the vitamin and omega balance.
a great way to do this is to create a (rather ugly, admittedly) paste. Try oatmeal, aloe vera gel (preferabley your own), a DROP of tea tree oil (to protect against infection that can happen during peeling- it's anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungul)crushed vitamin E tablets (they're fab at cell renewal crucial to healing). I guess you can add other anti-inflammatory things too, but this works for me.
I recommend rubbing this into the skin (as much as you can bear) for as long as possible, and then following this with a super good moisturiser like cocoa butter, which is a total godsend for hydrating skin and reducing the risk of scaring.
Omega 3 is rich in a lot of things now, since the government are promoting it (in England at least)...and it's in a lot of things like butters and things. However, since the whole hoo-ha about saturated fat, we don't have a lot of omega 6- which skin uses to protect against sunburn. So try and get your fair share of these omegas to protect your skin in future.
I don't really understand the salt water theory, as this will dry the skin out- which is the total opposite to healing it. But hey- if it works for you, go for it!
best of luck.
Charlie
Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:26:22 GMT
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Happy 40th Birthday – Norridge!
Times change, and places come and go. But the Norridge Theater is a survivor.
NORRIDGE, IL — On June 26th 1970, M & R Amusements opened the Norridge, a then two screen theater located 5 blocks from the Harlem-Irving Plaza (H.I.P for short) in northwest suburban Norridge, Illinois. This theater quickly became a northwest side institution that has now outlived its predecessors that were once in the surrounding areas, such as the Mercury, Golf Mill, Lawrencewood (aka Niles Square), and Old Orchard (the ladder two being fellow M&R theatres). It has also outlived the Harlem Outdoor Theater, which stood directly across the street from the H.I.P. That opened 24 years before the Norridge, and closed in 1976. That is now the site of a busy strip-mall.
As a movie theater, 40 years in the business is no small feat, especially in this day and age, when you hear of megaplexes closing after a few years. Take the AMC Grand in Dallas, which is closing after 15 years operating. Or the Empire 20 in San Bernardino, which lasted just 8 years.
The Norridge didn’t make it to 40 years with just two screens. Around 1973-74, M&R added a third screen in the building. And by late 1976/early 1977, it became a four screener. 1977 was a memorable year for the theater, because Star Wars began a 27 week run (in 35mm) here on June 17th. I may be wrong, but that might be the longest run a movie has ever had here.
Around 1981-82 it became a 5 screener. Now here’s where it gets convoluted; it not too long after 1984, the building had 6 screens (and this side still does). But looking at ads from early 1986, it operated as a 7 screener. In 1987, M&R built 4 screens in another building next to the original. While this should’ve made it an 11 screener, it now had 10 screens. Perhaps they un-twined a screen the original building during the 1987-88 remodel?
In the later part of 1988, this theater along with the rest of M&R was bought by Loews, and then it became a part of Loews-Cineplex ten years later. In 2006, AMC took over after acquiring LC. The change in management hasn’t been too kind to the place, as it is in many ways, outdated compared to other state of the art multiplexes that have opened up in nearby suburbs, such as the Cinemark in Melrose Park, the Showplace 12 in Niles, or the Muvico in Rosemont. It’s less-than stellar appearance could be in fault of AMC, which has let many former Loews-Cineplex locations get run down. And being four decades old with no stadium seating, or 3-D projection, it may not fit in AMC’s business model.
It was recently threatened with closure/demolition when Costco announced plans for a store in the surrounding property. This land included Maurice Lennell cookies, which closed because of the announcement. Since then, Costco has moved on from their plans at Norridge, and is now looking to build on the site of Kiddieland in Melrose Park.
This announcement could mean good news for its future, but it would need a major remodel to keep up with the times. Not having stadium seating isn’t a death knell, but it’s a great cover story for money men who would want to replace the ‘old’ with what they see fit. But for now, it has made it to 40 years. It is a multiplex without having been torn down & rebuilt, it has shown movies (some in 70mm) that are now classics, and it has been around for 8 presidencies. What an accomplishment!
AMC could let the lease run out and close it this year or next, who knows. But for now, happy birthday! And here’s hoping that if AMC doesn’t remodel or close it, another operator can take the keys and give it a major makeover.
35mm presentations at the Norridge
The following films opened here on the dates listed. Some are considered classics. Readers may find that a few of these films however, are classics for the wrong reasons. | {
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This restaurant chain has been gluten-free friendly for a while, but with the recent introduction of gluten free buns for the burgers, you can now finally enjoy a good burger the "real" way! Fries are gluten free (but just confirm with the manager to make sure they're always fried in a dedicated fryer), and there are other options on the gluten free menu, too. You can get different types of "burgers" (beef, turkey, chicken breast) made all sorts of ways with all sorts of combinations of toppings. Just confirm gluten free status of the fixin's you choose. | {
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Denver’s first 99-cent vinyl pop up sale
Ryan Dykstra taking vinyl to a new level
Photo credit: Sarai Nissan
With the 99-cent sales taking Fort Collins and Boulder by storm, Denverites have been anxiously awaiting the chance for their own city to hold a pop-up sale for vinyl. Opportunity graced Denver on Feb. 3 at Lincoln Street station. Ryan Dykstra, of Ryan Dykstra Records, held Denver’s first pop-up 99-cent vinyl sale. These pop-up vinyl sales have been becoming increasingly popular thanks to local business owners.
With the resurgence of vinyl-collecting in the past few years, crowds scrambled at the chance to get a 99-cent record. Dykstra said the sale exceeded their expectations, selling thousands of records.
“I’ve been a fanatical record collector myself for about 20 years,” Dykstra said. “In December 2016, I opened up a boutique with a friend of mine who owns Mile High DJ Supply in Arvada. It worked out really well, and since December, I have opened 12 locations throughout Colorado with four more coming in March.”
Vinyl connoisseurs young and old flocked to the bar to drink and leaf through thousands of used records of every type of music genre imaginable. Each record was priced at 99 cents on the first floor, and on the second floor they offered a “buy one, get one free” deal.
Attendees were pleasantly surprised by how well Dykstra records was able to organize the event. “I thought this sale was going to be filled with chaos like Black Friday is,” Tony Vohs, a burgeoning record collector, said. “But everyone’s been super chill with letting people take turns. I think the beer helps with that.”
Dykstra opened his record company in order to share the wonderful world of vinyl with people of all ages. “You have this new generation of millennials and younger folks, and their whole life they’ve had MP3s, streaming, and iTunes,” Dykstra said. “With vinyl, you can touch, hold, and see the vinyl and album art. You can feel the music in your hands, which is one of the many characteristics that makes vinyl unique.”
Vinyl records give the listener an experience that CDs and streamed music cannot. It brings a sense of nostalgia. The crackles and warmth that come from a record player gives vinyl its own personality.
“What spawned my inspiration to start these pop-up sales was buying vinyl from collectors,” Dykstra said. “I wasn’t taking all the records at first; I was only taking the best of the best. I realized there was an outlet to sell all types of vinyl at every level.”
These 99-cent vinyl sales have popped up all over Colorado, including Fort Collins at Intersect Brewery and Music-Go-Round in Aurora. “I made a Facebook event for the Denver sale. Within a couple of days there were thousands of RSVPs,” Dykstra said. “We knew it was going to be a lot bigger than any of our events before. It was a huge success.”
Dykstra is positive about vinyl records maintaining their momentus popularity. “I hear people always say how the vinyl sounds better,” Dykstra said. “To me, it’s the greatest way for music to be portrayed.” | {
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Middleton to Lead Archbold Foundation
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Archbold Medical Center is proud to announce that Edward “Vann” Middleton has been named president of the Archbold Foundation, an independent, not-for-profit, charitable organization that supports programs, services and capital expansion projects for the health system. In his new role, Middleton is responsible for planning, implementing and coordinating the full range of stewardship and fundraising activities for the Foundation.
“I am truly excited to join Archbold,” said Middleton. “Archbold’s reputation in healthcare is stellar. The organization is a pillar in our community and a tremendous asset to our region.”
Middleton comes to Archbold after a 12-year career with Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy in Tallahassee, an organization with a deep history rooted in the culture of some of Thomasville’s most beloved philanthropists.
“Archbold and Tall Timbers are alike in many ways. Both are organizations that people are passionate about supporting because of their mission and purpose,” said Middleton. “The hospital has a long history of generous supporters, beginning with John F. Archbold’s gift in 1925, building a hospital in memory of his father.”
Middleton said his experience in fundraising has taught him if you are truly passionate about your cause, it becomes much easier to convince others to invest in its future.
“Archbold is a passionate cause—one that most people in this region will end up using or experiencing in their lives,” said Middleton. “As president of the Foundation, my job is to help find those passionate supporters who are willing to give of their time, talent or treasure.”
According to Middleton, the Foundation plays an integral role in helping provide the best healthcare in our region.
“State of the art facilities like the new North Tower and Lewis Hall Singletary Oncology Center provide for the very best in patient care delivered in a warm and welcoming environment,” said Middleton. “And in addition, over $300,000 in annual scholarships for nursing students and other healthcare related career paths is helping train the next generation of high quality healthcare providers in our community. Financial support of the critical needs of programs like hospice, dialysis and oncology provides assistance to those in need who cannot qualify for other assistance programs. These are just a few examples of how the Archbold Foundation provides critical financial support that really helps make a difference.”
As president of the Archbold Foundation, Middleton said his goal is to build on the good work of the past and increase the visibility and presence of the Foundation within the community.
“It’s important for us to spread the word that the Archbold Foundation plays a critical role in our community. The Foundation helps provide much needed financial support of critical healthcare programs in the region. I look forward to telling the great stories of the good work by the Foundation and getting others involved in supporting such an important and meaningful cause.” | {
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It looks like there's a chance that three Canadian teams (Quebec City, Halifax & Saint John) might jump ship from the PBL (yes I know you've never heard of it) next season and are now looking at joining the NBA D-League as a possibility. This would be an amazing development for basketball in Canada, and I would think could be a great way of leveraging the "Canada's Team" marketing the Raptors have been using by adding the ability to send players to D-League teams within the country. The only stumbling block right now is the franchise fee ($2.5 million a year), but apparently even the owner of even the smallest market team, Saint John, thinks there's a business case. Frankly I'm pumped at the possibility!
I know we don't have many east coasters on the board, but I thought this news would be of interest to hoops junkies across the country. Any thoughts?
Chamberlain you should check out the Rainmen in Halifax no matter what league they play in, the quality of play is better than you'd expect, there are a bunch of former NCAA guys on the team and they play decent basketball for less than the cost of going out to see a movie. The Metro Centre sucks as a venue for basketball though, Halifax deserves something a lot better, cause that's one of the worst arenas I've ever been in (this is my way of saying Saint John has a much nicer facility than you Nova Scotian bums ).
It looks like there's a chance that three Canadian teams (Quebec City, Halifax & Saint John) might jump ship from the PBL (yes I know you've never heard of it) next season and are now looking at joining the NBA D-League as a possibility. This would be an amazing development for basketball in Canada, and I would think could be a great way of leveraging the "Canada's Team" marketing the Raptors have been using by adding the ability to send players to D-League teams within the country. The only stumbling block right now is the franchise fee ($2.5 million a year), but apparently even the owner of even the smallest market team, Saint John, thinks there's a business case. Frankly I'm pumped at the possibility!
I know we don't have many east coasters on the board, but I thought this news would be of interest to hoops junkies across the country. Any thoughts?
If the Quebec Kebs move in the D-League, they must change the logo, because right now... | {
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Saturday, 24 May 2014
Advice to Players Part I
The following was originally written as part of the Player's Guide for RCFG. This was my attempt to include a section of advice for players akin to what Gary Gygax included in the back of the 1st Edition Player's Handbook. I have updated it to reflect the Dungeon Crawl Classics game system. I hope that some find some useful bits of advice therein.
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate
and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
– Edgar Rice Burroughs, A
Princess of Mars
At its heart, Dungeon Crawl Classicsis a game about exploration and
adventure.This doesn’t mean that the Judge is a “story teller” whose job it is to devise a plot for Player Characters to
follow, nor does it mean that Player Characters are necessarily destined to be
heroes.
Your Judge will
certainly throw out “hooks” that may lead to adventures. Some of these will be red herrings, some will
lead to riches, and some will lead to great adventures. It is up to you, as a player, to set
goals.
Some characters may
indeed grow to become great heroes.
Others might die or become incapacitated through poor judgement or worse
luck. When things go against you, try to
remember that its part of the game. Dungeon Crawl Classics characters are pretty easily made,
and it shouldn’t take long to get back into the action. You can also use henchmen and hirelings to
take part in adventures where your primary character has been killed or
incapacitated.
Preparing for an Adventure
When you are
preparing for a game session, there are some steps you can take to increase
your success, regardless of what sort of adventure is in the offing, or where
it takes place.
Set a Goal: There is
nothing more important than setting a goal for each game session. You don’t have to be bound by this goal – if
circumstances change, your goal can change too.
Having a goal, however, helps to keep things moving during the
game. Anything can be a goal:Locating a new dungeon level, guarding
pilgrims en route to a shrine, finding some specific area or treasure, or
whatever else you can think of. It’s completely okay to have more
than one goal, so long as you know what your primary goal is.Likewise, everyone in a group can have
personal goals, so long as there is some goal that unifies all the characters.
Update Your Character Sheet: This is a
simple expedient – make sure that your character sheet is up-to-date. This is especially true if your character has
gained a level. Did you gain some
treasure you haven’t marked on your sheet yet?
Did you discover some clue as to what that magic gem does? Now is the time to mark it down.
Check Equipment: While you’re
updating your character sheet, check your spells and your equipment. Considering the goals you set, do you have
the equipment that you need? If not,
make a list, know how much you have to spend, and be ready to perform the
necessary transaction(s) within as short a time as possible. With your Judge’s permission, you may be able to
do much of this before the actual game session begins. If you know that you will be
scaling the vast pit of offal known as Filthfall Middens, and you fail to bring
rope and spikes, it is
not simply bad luck if you fall into a deep pool of refuse.
Contact the Other Players: All the
personal preparation in the world is of little avail if you fail to contact the
other players who will be sharing your expedition and ensure that you share a
common goal. Brainstorming sessions are a
perfect time to review clues from previous sessions, make connections between
characters and past events, and to plan how to deal with problems that you know
you will encounter. Talking about the game with the other players will not
increase your chances of success, but it may also increase your excitement –
and hence your fun – in the actual game session.
Death is always beckoning
in Dungeon Crawl Classics. Your job is to avoid answering, as often as
possible!
These tales, of course, are obsolete and ridiculous; because they
come down from very old times.
– H. P. Lovecraft, The
Dunwich Horror
The Role of Intelligence
It is said that
knowledge is power. This is certainly
true in Dungeon Crawl Classics. The more you know about an adventuring area
or an encounter before you commit to it, the better your chances are of
profiting from the game session.
There are many ways
of gaining information in the game. The
simplest is to gather whatever rumours may exist about the adventuring
area. Be ready to spend a few coins to
do this – loosening lips in the inn with a pint or two is a time-honoured
tradition among adventurers. The guards
at the city gates, and watchmen on the night patrols, often see or hear of
unusual happenings. Beggars sometimes
know things that others do not.
Consider also, Who is affected?, and What might they know? For instance, if the Baron hires you to
hunt down an ogre that has been stealing sheep from local farmers, those
farmers might well have seen the creature’s tracks, and know what direction it
was heading in. They might even know where
its lair is!
Sages often know
more, but can be expensive to consult.
Local legends should
not be entirely ignored. At the same
time, beware misinformation. Rumours
that contain a grain of truth might also be misleading. The haunted house might be an abode of
smugglers, rather than of the un-dead.
Divination spells are
probably the most powerful, and most reliable, source of intelligence available
to Dungeon Crawl Classicscharacters. Use them!
Although there are spells and effects that can skew the outcome, and the
answers can sometimes be cryptic, they are included to be useful, and a good Judge will keep this in mind. Even if no PC
can use divination magic, there may well be an NPC witch or oracle in the
milieu. A wizard or elf might be able to gain information from her patron - but there is always a price.
Finally, pay
attention to your surroundings. Few
creatures live in a vacuum. Monsters
leave signs of their existence – “footprints” either figuratively or literally. Even constructed opponents can affect the environment
around them.
If nothing else, the
presence of a victim indicates that something – trap, spell, or monster – was
the victimizer. Listen to your Judge’s
descriptions, and don’t be afraid to ask questions.
"Do you know what you are
asking?" said the Fairy of the Desert, frowning, and looking at him
suspiciously. "Do you want me to
employ my art against the Yellow Dwarf, who is my best friend, and take away
from him a proud princess whom I can but look upon as my rival?"
– Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf
Friends in All Places – High and Low
After your first
successful adventure, you might be tempted to keep your share of the treasure,
or to spend it all on new equipment and upkeep.
Of course, gaining XP means gaining power. And kept gold can be used to better your
equipment, which also means bettering your chances of survival.
Yet I would urge you
to spread some of that wealth around. Consider
giving that emerald as a gift to the Duke.
Pass a few pieces of copper, and even silver, to beggars. Buy a round of drinks at the tavern. If the innkeeper’s daughter is marrying, give
something of value to the happy couple.
These are the actions
that win you friends, and you cannot know ahead of time when you might need
them.
When the beggars warn
you that the militia is coming to arrest you, and the magistrate must take into
account your friendship with the Queen, when the gaoler lets your friends in to
see you, and the gate guards refuse to recognize you as you escape the city,
you will know that your money has been well spent.
If you have never
seen The Godfather (1972), I urge you
to rent it and watch it. The film
explores a microcosm in which politics and the exchange of favours is fully
illuminated. It is, of course, also a
very fine film!
Friendship is a
two-way street. Just as you might find
yourself in need of aid, so might your friends need your help. Many Judges delight in using danger to friends
as adventure hooks. Good Judges also have NPCs
approach your character with offers of friendship and gifts as they gain power
in the milieu – you will have to sift carefully through these offers to
determine who you wish to associate with, and who are nothing more than
sycophants.
But friends are worth
it. Good allies are worth more than gold.
The day seemed to wear away without anopportunity for the
deadly combat, until they halted at a ford abovewhere the village of Unadilla now stands. Here they held a parley, asthe stream was swollen and rapid.
– Hervey Keyes, The Forest King
Giving Them a Good Talking To
Sometimes it is
possible to speak with other creatures, even if they are otherwise
hostile. This is called a parley.
Characters may be able to come to terms with other creatures, accepting
surrender, surrendering, paying or accepting a bribe or ransom, or coming to
terms in a truce.
The key to a
successful parley is to determine what the other creature(s) want.
Sometimes the Judge will
have creatures tell you that they don’t want to talk. Unless such a statement is followed up by an
immediate attack or retreat, you should take it as a clue that you simply
haven’t discovered what they want yet. Many Judges enjoy the
opportunity to role-play that comes with a parley, and reward their players
accordingly. Remember that no creature
has better intelligence about what a dungeon contains than one who lives there.
Remember, too, that
by willing to speak to creatures less powerful than your characters, you are
setting a precedent that might one day save your characters’ lives.
In the meantime, there was no doubt of one thing; they kept an
infamous bad watch. If it had been Silver and his lads that were now creeping
in on them, not a soul would have seen daybreak.
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure
Island
Keeping Watch
Keeping watch during
an adventure is an important consideration.
Characters need to rest in order to heal and regain spells, but lying
down to sleep in the middle of a dungeon or the wilds, with no one to watch for
danger, can bring a sudden halt to a promising career.
There are two
important elements to a proper watch:
staying awake and keeping alert.
Your Judge might require a check for either or both. Staying awake usually
requires a Fort or Will save.
DC 5 is average – although if the day’s events were particularly
strenuous, or the characters are close to their last legs, the Judge is justified
in raising this to 10, 15, or even 20.
Remaining alert
requires a Fort save with a similar DC. Failure may result in the watch being surprised regardless of being awake.
House Rule: Awakening
It is a DC 10 Luck check to awaken due to nearby shouting. Newly-awakened characters are
groggy, taking a –2d on the dice chain penalty to all rolls (including attack
rolls, initiative, and saves), as well as a –2 penalty to AC. These penalties are reduced to –1d and –1 to AC with a
successful Fort or Will save (DC 15), and thereafter removed with
another successful Fortitude or Willpower save (DC 10). A character who spends an Action Die trying to wake himself up gains an extra save with a +4 bonus
"Woe to the rash mortal who seeks
to know that of which he should remain ignorant, and to undertake that which
surpasseth his power!"
–
William Beckford, The History of the
Caliph Vathek
Beware the Classic Cons
If something seems
too good to be true, it often is.
Judges delight in
setting up situations where the PCs are faced by classic cons. This has been going on since the first die
was rolled in the first session of the first role-playing game, and you can be
certain that it will go in any game you play.
Some of the “classic”
cons in adventure role playing are:
The
quest where vital information is left out. Especially when it turns out that the PCs are hired by the villain.
"Free
treasure" that turns out to be a monster or a trap. Again, if it seems too good to be true....
Creatures
that look like other, far more dangerous, creatures. Actually, this is a classic con in nature,
too, called mimicry. Likewise, dangerous predators may attempt to pass themselves off as something harmless, the way a crocodile might appear similar to a floating log.
Thank you. It was really intended for my own pet project initially, and should work with any game where there is a sustained and well-thought-out milieu. Moreover, following this advice should encourage the GM to maintain such a milieu.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
kids ad layouts - utilitarian but fun
What's the most important thing about cartoons you need to sell? The characters, of course!So the covers of these comics have a big picture of the main characters. That way you can see them from across the store. But they also have smaller images of the other characters in the book to tease you and let you know there is more stuff inside.The big picture attracts your attention, then the smaller ones keep your attention. Logical and appealing.These ghost characters in white line act as a nice design as well as tell the story.
cereal boxes and cereal ads
More logic of design. The biggest pictures are the main characters. The biggest type tells the important points. The smallest type nobody really reads and they know that. That's why they try to get the message across with big headings.All elements are logically and neatly arranged around the page. Most elements are horizontal or vertical. The odd element is on a diagonal and that draws attention to it. If everything was on an angle, there would be no focus on anything.All the header lettering is cartoony. The body text is generic and easy to read.Certain sections of text or ideas are separated by a lined box or a box of color behind it. These lines and boxes are really handy for breaking up the natural monotony of too much text. It makes it seem like there is less to read and that's important.
comic ads
USE HEADINGS!
I'm a real fan of headings. They instantly let you know what the text is about and then you can decide whether you want to spend your time reading the details underneath or not.This kind of layout looks easier to do than it is-especially the ads that have a lot of information on them.This could easily be cluttered, but careful arrangement makes it all fun to look at and easy to read.
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Bruce Forsyth becomes a Sir
TV legend Bruce Forsyth has been given a knighthood after 72 years in the entertainment industry
Bruce Forsyth has been given a knighthood.
The 'Strictly Come Dancing' host - who has been in showbiz for 72 years - will now be known as a Sir after being named in the queen's birthday honours in recognition of his services to TV.
The 83-year-old star - who has been repeatedly overlooked for a knighthood - said: "I'm over the moon. Very proud, very honoured.
"I thought it would never happen."
Bruce - whose other hit shows include 'The Generation Game' and 'Play Your Cards Right' - admitted he and his wife Wilnelia never thought it would happen because the rumours have been going on about it for such a long time.
He said: "My wife Wilnelia is abroad at the moment but comes home tomorrow. I can't wait to go to the airport to welcome her back and call her 'My Lady'.
"We were doubtful because it's been going on so long, the speculation. We thought it might be a hoax so we did check all the way down the line that it was real."
BBC One controller Danny Cohen led the congratulations, saying: "Bruce Forsyth is a TV legend and a true gentleman. He is an incredible entertainer and this is a wonderful recognition of his 70 years in showbusiness." | {
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Israeli society is standing by as settlers take the reins
Even if some day the right is no longer in power or Israel is forced to give in by dint of international sanctions, policy in the territories will not change substantially, because the rioters are in control.
Like every year during the days around Yom Kippur, the big question arises once again: How is it possible that we didn't notice the signs of the approaching war? But not only wars have early-warning signs - destructive social and political events do not come like a bolt from the blue either.
There is a growing tendency for the right to distance itself from "price tag" hooligans and to make us forget the fact that these belligerent groups, which are increasingly reminiscent of phenomena in Europe in the interwar period, are only the vanguard of the entire settlement movement. Of course, the vast majority of people living on the other side of the Green Line are disgusted by the torching of mosques, but I don't recall that many of them went out to demonstrate against the pogrom that took place in Anatot at the end of last week, nor that they condemn the daily harassment of Palestinian farmers, the uprooting of trees or the daily reign of terror in Hebron.
They consider the torching of mosques unnecessary and harmful, but daily control over the lives of Palestinians helps to perpetuate the occupation regime, and here the hilltop gangs play an important role in the service of the settlements: The hooligans' activity is living proof of the hopelessness of contemplating any change in the territories. After all, these gangs are drawing the boundaries of the government's power: Even if some day the right is no longer in power or Israel is forced to give in by dint of international sanctions, policy in the territories will not change substantially, because there the rioters are in control, in cooperation with the police and the army and with the general consensus of silence. They hold all the cards; threatening the possibility of a violent uprising against any government that does not serve their interests.
Under these circumstances, any negotiations for an agreement with the Palestinians, whether direct or indirect, are no more than a sad joke. The truth is that Israeli society and its governmental institutions are standing by helplessly in the face of the settlers' regime of fear and blackmail.
The other arm of the pincers closing in on Israel is that of the "respectable right." The two arms combine symbolically in the person of the justice minister: Well ensconced among Israel's wealthiest citizens, Yaakov Neeman serves in the present administration as the envoy of secular and "socially oriented" Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and, at the same time, does not conceal the fact that he hopes for the implementation of a halakhic (religious ) rule of law.
The religious community and the secular ultra-nationalists do, in fact, have a common basis and common objectives: They all consider the principle of Jewish supremacy as the only basis for Zionism and for Israel's existence. Just like ultra-nationalists in Europe during the dark period of the previous century, just like racists all over Europe today, the Israeli ultra-nationalists nurture ethnic solidarity by means of xenophobia and hatred of the other.
In their eyes, a community of all the citizens of the state, which includes the Arabs, is an artificial community, just as the concept of citizenship is artificial, and therefore inferior to the ethno-religious community, which they consider natural. Religion serves as a tool to exalt the privileged Jew and to trample those inferior to him. In this overarching concept, human rights and universal values are seen as infantile principles.
In this situation, signs of disintegration are multiplying in all areas of life. Antidemocratic legislation that has already been approved in the Knesset, with the support of Kadima, and legislation yet to come, is encouraging the erosion of liberal components of state education. That is also how we have come to accept as self-evident the expulsion of foreigners whose children were born in Israel and - according to accepted practice all over the Western world - should have been considered Israeli to all intents and purposes.
These are only a few examples that make radical, Israeli ultra-nationalism seem retrograde and alienated from the best of the democratic tradition. We can reasonably assume that there will be a continuation.
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// My answer looks like ('Doe', '3/14/85')
// I want to know why it put parentheses and commas. I just want it to print out the last name and date of birth
question = "Enter your date of birth:"
print (question)
answer = raw_input()
question = "Enter your last name:"
print (question)
response = raw_input()
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//This is my code, It looks kind of complicated. I didn't think about using "X and Y"
// My answer looks like ('Doe', '3/14/85')
// I want to know why it put parentheses and commas. I just want it to print out the last name and date of birth
question = "Enter your date of birth:"
print (question)
answer = raw_input()
question = "Enter your last name:"
print (question)
response = raw_input()
print (response, answer)
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anonymous
5 years ago
//You do java too? :D
# You use the "#" symbol in python to comment out lines
Ok, I am still pretty new to python, but here's the way I would change/rewrite your code:
#this line has the exact same meaning of the first 3 lines of your code
date_of_birth = raw_input("Enter your date of birth: ")
#this has the same purpose as your next 3 lines, all combined into one
last_name = raw_input("Enter your last name: ")
#the way you had your print line worked fine, but this also will work
print date_of_birth, last_name
anonymous
5 years ago
Thank you so much!!! I do use a little java, i had to use it in my senior design project for college. I was just commenting out my questions so people would know lol but i did not know # was used for commenting in python. I am really new to this , I want to expand my knowledge in coding languages, that's why I am trying to learn python . Thanks again, I really appreciate it. That was so much easier to do the way you showed me. | {
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