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"If only I was slimmer"
"If only I was happier"
"If only I was more successful"
If only, if only, if only…..
If some of these "if only's" resonate with you, you may be suffering from Excusitis.
By definition, the word "excuse" means, "to try to remove blame from," implying then, that to make an excuse requires thought and intention. It is something we do on purpose, not something that happens to us. Ah ha!
That being said, I'd like to challenge you to view chronic excuse making, a.k.a Excusitis, as a mindset as opposed to internalising it as an illness. Having Excusitis, my friends is a choice!
You might be suffering from Excusitis if you are consistently deferring responsibility, failing to accept greater responsibility, and/or placing every bit of blame on anyone or anything other than yourself.
It may be that you are fearful and underestimate your intelligence and talents.
Maybe you are always focusing on the failures of your past, or maybe you've been thinking so negatively for so long that you actually believe you're inadequate.
But guess what……
Excuses are acutely different from legitimate reasons, and when we aren't careful we can often disguise excuses as reasons, so it's important to both know and understand the difference.
To get a better sense of this, try to separate the following list into two categories: Reason vs. Excuse.
- I didn't exercise yesterday because I didn't have enough time in my busy day
- I didn't exercise yesterday because I didn't prioritise my day properly
- I'll never be able to get a high paying job because I don't have any qualifications
- I'll never be able to get a high paying job because I don't take the time to invest in my future and in myself.
You were probably able to tell that the even numbered reasons were legitimate while the odd numbered reasons were not; they were simply excuses.
I highly recommended these two exercises!
1. Take the time now to list some of the common excuses you tend to make in your life. Now dig deeper and try to understand the underlying reasons you're making these excuses.
2. Next try this: any time you catch yourself about to make an excuse, replace it with a legitimate reason instead.
The minute you make the decision to be honest with yourself and put these exercises into practice, you're laying the right foundation to altering the toxic mindsets that are holding you back in life.
It takes a lot of courage to admit our own pit falls, but awareness is the key to change.
You have the ability to turn "If only" into "I WILL" the moment you kick your Excusitis to the curb!


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Who am I?
Before you notify my next of kin to have me committed, hear me out: Who am I, really?
I have long scoffed at hearing people talk about midlife crisis. I have thought, 'how can a person become so confused about who they are'? I remain skeptical about the behaviors that some attribute to midlife crisis, but I do know what it is to be confused about who I am.
Little Lost Girl
Though ribbons of shimmering light wove through my childhood, most of my preteen years were filled with sooty ashes. Secret shames I carried, plastered over by silly showy behavior. I was all too entirely lost. As I shifted into puberty and the gates of High School enveloped me, I felt swallowed whole by a life that I didn't truly want to live yet lived anyways. I stumbled into college with dreams of escaping the life I had lived until that point. College was miles away from those who might see the shame laced in my smile or might stumble upon some stash revealing my guilt.
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Perfect. Or at least, as perfect as I could get. I aspired to be the perfect student and person and for so long, that is what I thought I became. Yet there was a part of me that knew others who were closest to me could see the blackness of my heart through soot in my tears. I tossed myself into the workforce and church activities, hoping that if I kept on doing the right thing that somehow I would fix myself.
The Day the Wall Crashed: March 12, 2009
I kept up appearances. I got just close enough to people to not be lonely, yet far enough away from them so they couldn't smell my heart rotting inside me. Deep into anxiety & depression I fell – even with medicine, yet I painted the good girl smile on & to everyone else, all seemed fine. Fine & dandy, indeed.
Until. THAT day.
March 12, 2009 holds little significance to most. As I laid in the big city hospital that morning, the doctor chanted to the the specifics of what would happen next. For that morning, I would look at my daughter, Delani Rose, for the last time. Her heart had stopped.
The next morning, I would go through the process to help remove her remains from my body. The china doll I had been for 12 yrs walked into that hospital & came out a corpse.
Alive & Yet Dead
Existed. That is what I did. My desire to pretend scrapped away, and the ashy existence I had always been shone through.
I wish I could say that I did all the right things following Delani's death, but I can't say that with honesty. I knew I needed to reenter counseling, but I just didn't care about getting better.
People began to see the ugly pain that they couldn't understand as some sort of rebellion against what I was suppose to be. 18 months of living with the living dead ended my first marriage, & I found myself where I didn't want to be yet needed to be: ALONE.
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With help from my divorce, I found myself isolated from the earthly family I still had left. All the text books would flag such an occurrence as dangerous, yet it was what I needed – emotionally. Three weeks into the exile, I found Him. I found who I needed.
His name is JESUS.
Now that you have rolled your eyes & scoffed at me, let me share what happened.
When I began my new existence, I had a deep gut knowledge that I needed to be in a church. Church was an all-to-familiar thing to me having grown up as a PK (Preachers Kid), but I didn't just want to find an ordinary church. I hungered to find something authentic.
I found so many white washed tombs filled with the zombies of legality, that I wondered if authentic church actually existed. A colleague suggested a young church startup in a neighboring town, so I decided to visit. It was there I found an authentic church.
There were no expectations of perfection. There was no pretense that all of life is flowers & teddy bears. It was a church that taught GOD's Word straight up & talked openly about how when JESUS saves us, sometimes the process to being made whole doesn't happen it an instant but is rather a process that will bring Glory to GOD & draw others to Christ.
So, on the three month anniversary of me being alone, I stepped into the waters & pronounced to the world that I was ready to find what GOD intended for me to be.
It has been 19 months since I first set foot into that church.
And now, I am ready. I needed time after Christ reclaimed me from the darkness to heal my wounds & to resolve many questions that I had about faith & love. Though my scars remain, I know I have waited long enough & it is time to find who I truly am. In Christ.
I still fight often with my past guilt & regrets, but I must trust them into the hands of Savior who will crumble them & reshape them into something useful in my life. There can be no more pretending for anyone. There can be no more redistributing my load so I can carry more regrets and shame. It is time to delve into greatest adventure of my life: finding out who I am (in Christ) & living that out in a flagrant way.


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I have read and re-read and started processing Chapters 3 and 4 (Language and Time, respectively) in Creating Cultures of Thinking by R. Ritchhart. Mind blowing. (Download it on iBooks to read and discuss with me!) I am beginning to see some recurring themes: beliefs, values, choices, and messages. Passive vs Active student roles (my personal soap box). Its about CHANGING THE PARADIGM so that students and teachers experience different learning stories. (If interested, my visual notes are below.)
Serendipitously, Dan Meyer recently blogged about teacher's beliefs and how our own experiences as students shape our pedagogical choices. He asks,
"What experiences can disrupt the harmful messages teachers have internalized about math instruction?
I appreciate this question for two reasons.* a) the numerous responses were varied and offered sensible ideas I recognize as useful and timely as I find myself gradually drifting toward a mentoring role and b) the question moves us beyond information/opinions about beliefs and pedagogy toward at least a partial yet practical solution to a very real problem: lack of significant and sustainable change. If a person in education (any position, right? This is not just a math thing!) has not yet had a disruptive experience that "breaks the circle", reading or being told about a different paradigm is not too likely to yield a shift in values. If the horse isn't thirsty, it's just not going to drink. Or it may believe a constant state of thirst is the norm and blindly accepts it. Or the horse feels threatened by a top-down decision that it must drink this water, now. Or it might be really OK with a drink if it just could make sense of what the hell that meant and looked like and had genuine and ongoing support in making it a reality.
Change is imperative, and paradigm-altering experiences are definitely one way to get there. Creating Cultures resonates with me because my beliefs already align with the author's because, fortunately, I DID have a disruption in my learning experiences that impacted my beliefs. Cycle broken, singing now possible. Also, I tend to be rather reflective and highly interested educational cultures. But that's just me, and obviously everyone is different. What if this (or another) book was assigned and the plethora information within it overwhelms me so I just keep doing what I always have done? The wonderful suggestions solicited by Dan (video recording with reflective analysis, joining a math teachers circle, imagine something different and plunging in, becoming a learner to gain perspective, shifting from talking to listening, etc.) all seem to share a common trait: these teachers are the horses that already recognized they were thirsty and went looking for water on their own. It seems first-hand experiences are the most powerful, but I wonder about colleagues who are not at the point of seeking water (yet). Not that they are intentionally staying away, they really do care (because they're people, not horses); honestly examining individual or group experiences, actions, messages, and practices is an emotionally challenging endeavor and knowing so may be enough to want to avoid it.
What I wonder is, what are possible, effective ways to invite
horses educators over for a drink, so to speak, so that many more disruptive experiences can take place?
I invite you to share your suggestions in the comment section. This is a genuine question I have, so I am looking forward to your insights!
PS. I find it interesting that for some commenters to Dan's post, drill-based math instruction became the question to discuss. Hot Topic #358. Interesting reading, to be sure. Like all other highly-debated beliefs in education, there seems to be too much polarized "This OR That" going on, and not enough This AND That, carefully and thoughtfully balanced to promote learning. We're not just emoji yellow OR Tardis blue— it is much more likely that most (if not all) of us are some lovely shade of green. Which means instead of an all-or-nothing tug of war more productive discussions (and PD**) could focus on examining beliefs, with honesty and without threat of judgement. Our beliefs shape our actions, our actions send clear messages, both subtle and obvious. What messages are being sent? Are they supportive of or detrimental to learning experiences students have today?
*Also note how Dan's question was open-ended and accessible to everyone, and how he refrained from sharing his thoughts until he had respectfully listened to other voices. I see what you did there, Dan. Smooth move.
**If you're part of a group that examines culture in your classrooms, department, or school you could call yourselves….Culture Club! (If you don't get that lame joke, you're too young. Look it up.)


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Makeup looks better on well nourished skin. The night before prep skin with a serum, eye cream and moisturiser. On race day morning apply a moisturiser with SPF.
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Carry blotting papers in your clutch to take away shine.
Use a good quality whitening toothpaste the day before and on the morning of the races to brighten and freshen teeth.
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GLUCK+ is a New York City-based architecture and construction firm known for its unique approach to Architect Led Design Build. Gluck is widely recognized as a proponent of the responsibility of architects to redefine their role in construction and development. Award-winning projects of note include Duke University Marine Lab's Orrin Pilkey Laboratory, The Stack, Tower House, and The East Harlem School. Gluck's work has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and appeared in numerous publications, including Fast Company's "Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Architecture" list. He has taught at Columbia and Yale schools of architecture, and curated exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Milan Triennale.
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Carol Ross Barney Founder, Ross Barney Architects
Carol Ross Barney
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Neri Oxman Designer and Professor, MIT Media Lab
Neri Oxman
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Chairman, Knoll
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Primo Orpilla
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Cheryl Durst Vice President and CEO, IIDA
Cheryl Durst
Vice President and CEO, IIDA
As Vice President and CEO of the International Interior Design Association, Cheryl Durst is an innovator and visionary driver of progress in the Interior Design industry. Since joining the IIDA in 1997, Durst has helped grow the organization to 15,000 members across 58 countries, curates and publishes Perspective, the association's thought-leadership journal, and directs all IIDA programs, including more than a dozen global design competitions, which recognize worldwide excellence in interior design. She was inducted into Interior Design magazine's Hall of Fame in 2016.
David Rockwell Founder and President, Rockwell Group
David Rockwell
Founder and President, Rockwell Group
David Rockwell is founder and president of Rockwell Group, an award-winning, 250-person cross-disciplinary design practice based in New York City, Madrid and Shanghai. Known for its large-scale interior and hospitality projects, the firm has worked on a broad range of projects, including restaurants, hotels, airport terminals, hospitals, museums, and Broadway sets. Rockwell's honors include a 2016 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design, the AIA New York Chapter President's Award, the 2008 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Interior Design, the Presidential Design Award; and induction into Interior Design magazine's Hall of Fame. Rockwell Group was named by Fast Company 2008, 2014 and 2015 as one of the world's most innovative design practices.
Joan Blumenfeld Design Principal and Interior Design Director, Perkins+Will
Joan Blumenfeld
Design Principal and Interior Design Director, Perkins+Will
Joan Blumenfeld is a Principal and Interior Design Director at Perkins+Will, a global architectural firm with over 2,200 employees in 20 offices.Recognized as a thought leader in design, she was elected to both the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) in 2005 and 2014, respectively. Blumenfeld serves on the boards of numerous design organizations including, the New York Chapter of the AIA, the Beverly Willis Foundation, the Center for Active Design, NYC Building Congress, IIDA, and Women Executives in Real Estate. She has received over 40 design awards in the past five years, including a 2018 Interior Design magazine Best of Year Award and being named 2018 Design Legend by Contract Magazine.


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The gift of life should not be taken for granted. I woke up today – I am breathing, then I realise how bless I am, that I am still in the land of the living.
Despite the challenges of life during this year, like somethings I may have been longing for, seem far out of my reach … I'm still grateful for the hope that they will come, in due time – it could have been worse!
It is indeed a blessing and favour from God to see today.
Let us take life as a precious jewel, one that cannot be bought. It is so precious we ought to take good care of ourselves. We should live a life of worth – endeavouring not to abuse our body, it's the only one, when it's done, there's no more in this present life. Treat it kindly by presenting your body as reasonable sacrifice and service to God.
Eat right, live right, by doing positive things, guard your mind with positive thinking. Do the things that are just and right in the eyes of God and man.
…..whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue…..Think on these things (Philippians 4:8 KJV).
Be Blessed
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Making of Movies continued the tradition of quality independent filmmaking that David Muir established with his previous production companies, Point Films (Sydney, London and Hamburg) and The Write Direction (Sydney). Since 1961 David and his production companies have earned an impressive number of Australian and international awards as well as extensive television exposure. From its inception in 2006 until it wound up in 2017, his last company, Making of Movies, produced 40 quality videos. David is now retired from active filmmaking, but is still script-doctoring, mentoring, giving lectures and finishing writing his film memoirs – Two Case Man – for publication next year.
As a documentary scriptwriter, director, producer and cinematographer David specialised in perceptive recording and sympathetic interpretation of the making of meaningful arts, community and educational projects.
His work has won many prizes at festivals around the world and the quality of his camera work has been recognised by two much sought after acronyms signifying his peer-approved membership of both the Australian Cinematographers Society and the British Society of Cinematographers.
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David's contributions to filmmaking, film production politics and screen culture earned him induction into the prestigious ACS Hall Of Fame in 2012.
David's public speaking engagements currently range from true story-telling about his experiences filming in 33 different countries and his friendships with film greats - such as Martin Scorsese and Raoul Coutard - to well-illustrated lectures on specific aspects of filmmaking. David's talks entertain, inform and inspire audiences ranging from community groups to academic staff and students.
Francois Truffaut and Raoul Coutard. Photos by David Muir.
Screen education is one of David's long-standing passions. He has taught at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, Macquarie, Melbourne and Latrobe Universities and continues as a sessional lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television (UOM) where he engages with a wide range of students in the Foundation Year course. David's film and video teaching expertise covers theory and practice for students with all stages of prior experience (including absolute beginners) and aged from 16 to 70.
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Sometimes to help those without a voice, you need to raise your own. A group of active older women from Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children work hard to convey their humanitarian message through song.
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Traces the heritage, creative and practical elements involved, from the initial 1970s iconic concept by Sir Roy Grounds, through John Truscott's famous interior iterations and ARM Architecture's outstanding design for the 21st Century - turning the forbidding cultural "fortress" into a welcoming social hub that is finally open to the riverfront.
"Technically image and sound are very good, but what really impressed me was the way they are structured, how the various facets of a large subject are covered, explained and developed. Interesting from beginning to end." – Fritz Suendermann, Associate of principal architect Roy Grounds during the original design of the Arts Centre
This TV half-hour documentary tells the story of the first twenty years of an amazing group of women who have had a remarkable influence in both the Jewish and GLBT communities.
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Wall Street indexes rise and fall but the economic misery index goes on forever as a single-number summary of what is happening on Main Street. I therefore think it is well worth watching as a measure of how the economy is doing. The index (simply the sum of unemployment and inflation rates) rose in June to 10.5, the highest level in 15 years, i.e., since January 1993, the month President Bill Clinton was inaugurated and President G.H.W. Bush left office. Under Clinton the index improved but it has recently climbed back to what it was when he took over.
Misery Index in the Last Month in Office of Recent Presidents:
Carter: 19.3
Reagan: 10.1
Bush 41: 10.6
Clinton: 7.9
Bush 43 (as of June 2008): 10.5
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Cleaning Up You'll want your memories of a powder event to stay with you forever. But if you want the color to wash out of your hair and skin ASAP, here are a few tips…
Cleaning Holi Event
Before the Holi Powder Event
- Oiling your hair well on powder event will make it easier to wash out the color later. Coconut oil or olive oil work best. A good leave in conditioner will do the trick as well. This is a particularly useful tip for runners with light colored or highlighted hair.
- Some runners wear a thick scarf or bandana to cover their hair. Others use the bandana to cover their mouth as they run through the color zones or to help wash off after. However you choose to use it, a bandana or scarf is pretty useful at a powder event.
- Wear a good sunscreen and lip balm.
- We suggest some form of powder event eyewear. Some people wear sunglasses or swim goggles. Have some fun with it and try to avoid getting a lot of powder in your eyes.
- Though the color will eventually wash out of just about everything, you may not want to bring your Peg Perego Stroller… Or your $500 running shoes… Or your white suede pants.
After the Powder Event
- You just visited a powder event! Take a few minutes to clean up or color might end up all over your house!
- Dust off as much dry powder as you can before you apply any water. Some colorrun organisations have a Blower station. Take advantage of their "Color Blower Station" at the post race festival for some help. Most of the color will evaporate like magical fairy dust.
- Cleaning your hair: Dust any loose powder out of your hair (Use a hair blower). Rinse out the oil/conditioner you wisely applied before the race with cold water. Most of the color should come right out. Now wash your hair as you normally would. It is not uncommon for hints of some of the color, pink and purple particularly, to stick around for a few washes. Wear it like a badge of honor. Or wear a hat.
- The color is probably not coming all the way out of your white cotton shirt. You should be proud of that. But just about everything else should clean up fine. Remove all excess powder before adding water. Wash your Powder Event gear separately, with COLD water. Oxiclean, or a similar product, will work wonders on your running equipment. Every so often you may look down a see a little trace of pink on your shoe and smile. It'll remind you that we love you. Eventually, it'll all be gone.


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Keyword: free software
Tunneling with sshuttle
2010-12-02, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
In this Lightning Talk, held at the KunterBuntesSeminar, I presented a small tool called sshuttle and compared it to other, more well-known software solutions.
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Hamburg uses, among other things, IP-based authentication for access control. This means that there are some resources, e.g. on the web, which can only be accessed from the Dept. of Computer Science IP subnet. To access these resources from home, it is necessary to create and use some sort of connection to the CS net. This can be accomplished by connecting to the VPN or by establishing an SSH connection. The tool I showcased, sshuttle, promises a new way to solve this problem by tunneling IP traffic through a simple SSH connection using iptables. This idea has several advantages over the alternatives.
What is LaTeX anyway?
2010-11-11, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
This talk was held in the KunterBunteSeminar, a workshop conducted by the students of the Computer Science department, University of Hamburg.
It was conceived as a general introduction to working with LaTeX, primarily appropriate for absolute beginners. I gave an overview of how LaTeX documents are structured and how packages are included. Next, I spent a lot of time going over the most important and well-known packages (such as KOMA-Script and Beamer). Also included were some handy tips and tricks that hopefully help make LaTeX more fun and less daunting.
At the end, we had a look at the LaTeX code of some example documents I prepared: a simple official-looking letter, the current version of my bachelor thesis, and the very slides for this presentation.
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Why don't I have to agree to the GPL when installing Linux?
2010-06-15, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
This is a lightning talk (five minutes in duration) that was held at the KunterBuntesSeminar in the summer of 2010.
In it, I addressed the differences between a EULA (like a lot of proprietary software use them) and a permissive license like the GPL, which is used, among others, by the Linux kernel. Most importantly, I explained why there's no "accept the GPL" screen during a Linux installation.
Ubuntu bug #248619
2010-06-15, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
This is a lightning talk (five minutes in duration) that was held at the KunterBuntesSeminar in the summer of 2010.
I introduced the symptoms of famed ubuntu launchpad bug #248619 and its duplicates and examined the cause of the problem.
Free Software for Beginners
2009-06-16, VMP5, University of Hamburg
This talk was prepared and held by various volunteers (Alexander Beifuß, Kai Hildebrandt, Tim Krämer and me) for the "Bildungsstreik" event in 2009, where regular university courses were supplemented by talks and courses created by students for students.
In this talk, we introduced the audience to the idea of free software and its importance. Afterwards, we played a game of "guess which is copyleft" as can be seen on the slides.


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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Waldo's World
American soccer is still in its growth stages and throughout the evolution of our national team, ESPN and ABC have essentially employed yes men and rally around the flag jingoistic type analysts to cover the World Cup and Major League Soccer. Ty Keough and Jack Edwards were totally shameless in covering both the 2002 World Cup and numerous seasons of MLS. Keough, in fact would never criticize a member of the US player pool while calling MLS games, and would often times inflate the image of average MLS players just to make the league and thus US Soccer look better. Bob Ley who called the 1998 World Cup and many other US National Team games was equally weak despite his excellent journalistic instincts in covering everything but Soccer. Seamus Malin knew the international game well, but he too had real trouble critiquing American players or coaches. Other commentators like Rob Stone, Marcelo Balboa, and Alexi Lalas have been nothing short of colorless and defensive of every mistake or effort of US Soccer or MLS. Colorful Ray Hudson has been kept from working for ESPN/ABC even though his brand of commentary is probably something that could sell American fans on the game.
Finally though, a breath of fresh air has appeared on our television screens, in the form of Eric Wynalda. Not only is Waldo the leading scorer in US History, which makes him particlularly qualified to comment on the National Team, but he scored both (arguably) the most spectacular goal in modern US World Cup history off a free kick against Switzerland in 1994 and he scored the first ever MLS goal in 1996. Unlike his former Men's National teammates turned commentators, Wynalda holds no punches back. During an early season MLS Game involving Chivas USA he took on former teammate and current ESPN/ABC collegue Alexi Lalas for firing Coach Bob Bradley while Lalas was the GM of the franchise formerly known as the Metrostars, and called out John O'Brien for being too injury prone and a potential liability if included on the 23 man US roster for Germany 2006. Alexi Lalas in a public comment soon after attacked Wynalda and impuned his ability to pass judgement on Lalas' decisions, but isn't that what a commentator is paid for? Two months later, the two seem to be getting along fine on the World Cup Live set, although it maybe just that Rece Davis, who has plenty of experience controlling opinionated anaylsts from his College Football and Basketball work has been able to keep the peace.
Eric Wynalda's World Cup commentary has been the first consistent critical analysis of the USA team on Disney Networks since we became regular participants in the World Cup. Wynalda has criticized Bruce Arena, suggested replacing Claudio Reyna as the captain and holding midfielder with Pablo Mastroeni (who was a teammate of Waldo's with the Miami Fusion), and called out Landon Donovan for his unwillingness to take guys on and exercise leadership. Wynalda even rightfully implied that Donovan has become too Hollywood with all the magazine covers and billboards, something I privately griped about in the lead up the World Cup, but something I thought would never be aired by former national team player on the Disney payroll. After all Donovan, along with Reyna and Arena seem to be sacred cows for the soccer media in this nation.
My hope is that Wynalda fills a needed role for soccer commentary on the network. The lead analyst role has been a revolving door for ESPN/ABC since MLS began in 1996 as have the play by play announcers. (Dave O'Brien is a marked improvement over Rob Stone and Jack Edwards though) Waldo has the potential to be soccer's Johnny Miller or John McEnroe if the Disney networks just keep him on the air.
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As a somewhat indifferent and occasional soccer watcher, I have to say that Wynalda's analysis is a pleasure to listen to, as it is presented very calmly and objectively, without hyperbole. He is a credit to American soccer. I also have to compliment Julie Foudy on her knowledge of the game.
I have much to my surprise watched 90% of the matches played so far and have to say as a Marlins fan, that Dave O'Brien is incredibly disappointing, not only in his play by play (limited knowledge), but also by mispronouncing the names of some of the countries.
I have enjoyed seeing the national pride and support shown by the people at the matches and the polite salutations and camraderie between the teams, even if it may only be on the surface. It is certainly a good example for all the kids who may be watching.
- June 14, 2006 6:49 PM
- Federico said...
Wynalda is one of the few US players who toiled in Germany before the USA was recognized as a soccer power. At time he was in his early 20s and was best known for getting a red card in the first half of the 5-1 blowout to the Czechs in Italia 90. Before he got sent off the USA was holding its own down only 1-0, but as a young side made up of college kids, once they were a man down the floodgates opened. He was 19 at the time, but probably already the US player with the most potential.
Wynalda was almost too good a player for the MLS in its early days. He struggled to get effective service from poor midfielders. Frustrated he went to Mexico and scored 2 goals for Leon in a match with my team, Chivas before being injured. The Mexican and German game was played at a pace more to his liking. He then went back to the MLS for Miami before going back to Germany and then back to Miami.
Wynalda is my all time favorite US Soccer player. He was the dagger in the heart of my Mexican sides and he always was animated and told it like it is, even as a player. Maybe that's why he was run out of MLS and the US National Team by the age of 30 and now at 37 has been on TV for what seems like an eternity, while Reyna who he criticizes at 34 I believe is still captain of the national team.
I agree, he is fantastic and unlike Lalas and Balboa both whom I consider mediocre players and even worse commentators, I listen to Wynalda has to say. I watch most game on Univision, but flip to the English TV just to hear his thoughts.
- June 14, 2006 7:09 PM
I agree, Wynalda has done a good job.
Somewhat disappointing is the duds that the heavily hyped England and USA games were. England was on ABC on the first Saturday presumably drawing the interest of some "on the fence" fans. The game put me to sleep. Then USA gets a decent rating on ESPN2 and lays an egg.
It may not be fair, but the lack of excitement generated by these two games really hurts the growth of the fan base of soccer here in the states.
A good performance by USA this Saturday is crucial to hooking some new fans.
- June 14, 2006 7:20 PM
Wynalda is totally out of line for calling out Reyna and Donovan. His criticisms of Arena are fine, but those two guys were the only two who showed up on Monday and yet he seems to be laying the poor effort on their shoulders while exempting Kasey Keller who is a buddy of his and longtime teammate.
Wyanlda was one of the boys who didn't like Reyna when they played together- he, Harkes, Ramos and the others "boys of mission viejo" or more aptly named "bora's boys/teacher's pets" resented Reyna's skill and the interest big Euro clubs had in him and Jovan Kirovski, who has since flopped.
Waldo is now getting his revenge on Reyna and it's totally out of line.
- June 14, 2006 7:45 PM
- Kartik said...
I agree with usa06. I am unhappy that the England game turned out to be a total dud.....hopefully some people watched Sweden/Trinidad which was a more exciting match, but ABC had promoted the English match figuring it would be a draw for casual fans.
Soccer can never seem to get a break in this country. For the first time anticpation gripped segments of the population here and we got an awesome TV rating (the match was ESPN2's highest rated program thus far this year) and fell flat on our faces. Hopefully the impatient,and demanding American public will give us another shot and tune in this Saturday versus Italy on ABC.
- June 14, 2006 9:17 PM
Eric Wynalda was probably the best player the USA has had. He was a clean finisher, good on the ball and physical enough to win 50-50 balls. Probably the only semi world class striker America has produced. Too bad for you that he's on the tube and not on the pitch.
- June 14, 2006 10:19 PM
- Rafael said...
We all agree Wynalda was a great player. I recall seeing him as well playing for Leon. He broke his leg and never played in Mexico again, but was a force before he got injured. He was also outstanding at Copa in 1995, when the USA without expectation went very far in the competetion. They were eventually defeated by Columbia.
- June 14, 2006 11:01 PM
Andres Cantor the legendary spanish language announcer for univision used to scream WALDO, WALDO, WALDO, GOOOOOOOOOL, GOOOOOOOOL, GOOOOOOOOOOL. WALDO! Cantor would almost never call him Wynalda.
- June 15, 2006 9:14 AM
- Torres said...
Wynalda is very good but has yet to criticize Arena's player selection which to me is the real crime.
Where is Taylor Twellman or Steve Ralston? What about Pat Noonan? Why is Brian Ching on the roster?
- June 15, 2006 9:55 AM
What did everyone think of Crouch's great goal yesterday?
How about Gerrard's strike? A great day to be a merseysider!
Passage through to the knock out stages.
- June 16, 2006 10:35 AM
If it werent for Joe Cole, Frank Lampard, and John Terry, Peter Crouch wouldnt have even sniffed the goal.
From a team that had such few English stars, Chelsea players now dominate the England National Team.
- June 16, 2006 11:48 AM
We own Chelsea. We are Liverpool. European Champions 2005, FA CUP Champions 2006
- June 16, 2006 1:00 PM
- Xavier said...
I am a big fan of Ericx Wynalda. I think he has done about as good a job as anyone both as a player and now a TV host to promote soccer in this nation. Too bad USA doesn't have a striker of his caliber right now on the squad.
- June 16, 2006 1:11 PM
- Gregg said...
I have to agree that Wynalda has brought a breath of fresh air as a commentator. I really like his opinions and the fact that he doesn't kiss up to every player on this roster.
But please, please, do not annoint this guy as a "great" player. He was a good player at best and is better known to me as being Eric "Whine" alda.
- June 16, 2006 6:11 PM
- Gregg said...
Adding the guys you suggest would not make a difference on this team. While Twellman and Ralston are nice players they've had plenty of national team call ups and could not consistently play at a good enough level.
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There's a meeting to make final arrangements for the TdY visit to Ellerker (in a week's time) – tonight (25th) in the village hall at 6pm
Category Archives: Parish News
2019 Tour de Yorkshire in Ellerker
Stage 1 of the 2019 Tour de Yorkshire will pass through the centre of Ellerker on 2nd May
The official route on the TdY website showing the Doncaster to Selby stage is shown here
The riders and entourage will pass through the
village from left to right on the map below
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There will be a meeting for those who wish to contribute to village arrangments on
Thursday, 4th April at 6pm in Ellerker Village Hall – see you there!
Local Road Works
Where are you?
Police Surgery – 5th January
I am holding two Police Surgeries this month:
Ellerker Garden Centre (Ellerker Lodge) on Saturday, 5th January 2019 between 10am – 11am
Morrisons coffee shop on Monday, 7th January 2019 10am – 11am
You are welcome to pop along if you would like to discuss any issues/concerns or need any advice.
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Village Hall AGM – 23rd Nov
The next Village Hall Annual General Meeting is in Ellerker Village Hall at 7.30pm on Friday, 23rd November – all village residents are welcome
Ellerker Heritage Exhibition – including the Original 1776 Ellerker Enclosure Award
Parish Council – 13th September
The next Parish Council meeting is in Ellerker Village Hall at 7.30pm on Thursday, 13th September – all village residents are welcome
Police Surgery – 22nd September
Police Surgery at Ellerker Lodge Garden Centre on Saturday, 22nd September 10.00 to 11.00 am
Beware – "Bogus Postal Worker" scam
From Ellerker Neighbourhood Watch:
Humberside Police have asked me to send this information to you, please share.
"Postal Scam – between 25/7/18 -14/8/18 there have been 7 police incidents in Cottingham, Willerby and Beverley area.
A male dresse in a red post office t shirt, black shorts and shoes.
This male is believed to be a bogus post man, the male says he has a parcel for this address ( the person's name is on the parcel) and there is an outstanding 68p to be paid for it. If the house owner states they will pay by cash the bogus persons says he can only accept card. The male produces a card reader and once the bogus male has the card he tells the person it did not work as the signal was no good the male states he is going to go round the corner so that it would work. Now the male has the bank card/details. Once around the corner he joins a male in a vehicle waiting in a black land rover freelander 1997 – 2006 model. They then drive off and go to a nearby ATM and withdraw £200 and £50. The same scam is then repeated in the same area then they move on and turn up a few days later and repeat the scam.
If anyone becomes suspicious or can get the registration of the black car phone police 999."
John May's Funeral
Service to celebrate the life of JOHN MAY at St Anne's, Ellerker at 2pm on Friday, 13th July 2018 – please wear bright colours!


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Jerusalem Under Siege
Did Sennacherib attack twice?
Now that so much attention is being focused on the new excavations around the Gihon Spring and Hezekiah's Tunnel—which was built as a defense against a siege by the Assyrian leader Sennacherib—it may be time to look at the siege itself...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1999
Odd Tomb Out
Has Jerusalem's Essene cemetery been found?
The mystery deepens. As if the perplexing graves at Qumran were not enough, the same unusual type of tomb has now been discovered in southern Jerusalem. None of these tombs looks remotely like the typical Jerusalem tomb from the same period,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1999
Everything You Ever Knew About Jerusalem Is Wrong (Well, Almost)
To say that you should throw out all your books on the archaeology of Jerusalem would be going too far, especially since I wrote two of them.1 But it is true that books on the archaeology of Jerusalem, including my own, now contain a lot of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1999
Who Lies Here?
Jordan tombs match those at Qumran
Not whodunit but whoisit? The mystery deepens. I mean the mystery of the cemetery at Qumran with its 1,200 graves. Who was buried there? The conventional wisdom is that it was the Essenes. The reasoning goes like this: Sectarian manuscripts...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1999
Bought on the Market
A gallery
In putting together this issue's article on the Antiquities Problem ("The Great MFA Exposé"), our thoughts turned to unprovenanced objects that can now be studied by scholars because they were bought on the market. If these important remnants...
Archaeology Odyssey, May/June 1999
Did a Rolling Stone Close Jesus' Tomb?
We should have a very good idea what Jesus' tomb looked like, with the references in the Gospels and our knowledge of contemporaneous tombs found in and around Jerusalem. Yet until now, most of the reconstructions of this most famous of tombs...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1999
Searching for the Better Text
How errors crept into the Bible and what can be done to correct them
Ancient versions of the Bible are far from error-free. Happily, a better understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls and of how manuscripts evolved has helped resolve some of the vexing textual problems.
Bible Review, August 1999
I Climbed Warren's Shaft (But Joab Never Did)
Dangling on a rope ladder in a subterranean shaft, 30 feet below the City of David, the oldest part of Jerusalem, and 45 feet above the bottom of the shaft, I wondered whether I was being foolhardy. At 69, should I really be trying to re-...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1999
A Mickey Mouse Operation
Annual Meeting convenes in Disney World
Query: Why is Disney World like Kansas City? Answer: Both proved hopelessly inept and inadequate in hosting the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR).a It will be a long time...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1999
Come to the Annual (Additional) Meeting
For several years, we at the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) have been organizing sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). Our sessions have been...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1999
Biran at Ninety
The excavator of Dan recalls growing up in pre-state Israel, great archaeologists he's known and why he's a Biblical archaeologist
On October 23, 1999, Avraham Biran, director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, will celebrate his 90th birthday. He will also...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1999
Triumph over Temptation
The historical core behind the testing of Jesus
Three gospels tell of the devil testing Jesus in the wilderness, an incident so remarkable as to seem almost certainly unreal. But is it? Our author suggests a historical core to the tale, a substratum reflecting struggles Jesus faced in his lifetime.
Bible Review, August 1999
Caught Between the Great Powers
Judah picks a side … and loses
Rarely do Biblical texts and extra-Biblical materials supplement one another so well as those that describe the last two decades before the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem, which marked the end of the Judahite state in 586 B.C.E. As a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1999
Sacred Geometry: Unlocking the Secret of the Temple Mount, Part 1
Longtime BAR readers know that two theories vie with each other regarding where the Temple once stood on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. The first was advanced by Asher Kaufman, a Hebrew...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1999
Why 2K?
The biblical roots of millennialism
January 1, 2000…The biggest birthday any of us will ever live through," trumpeted the New York Times in announcing the Millennium Series in its Sunday magazine. Newspapers predict that as many as 1.5 million people will crowd Times Square at midnight, December 31, 1999, watched...
Bible Review, December 1999
Floating in the Desert
A pleasure palace in Jordan
For more than a century after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., his heirs, the Seleucids in Syria and Mesopotamia and the Ptolemies in Egypt, fought for control of the portion of southern Israel known as Judea. Early in the second century B.C.E., a Jew named Joseph stepped into the...
Archaeology Odyssey, Winter 1999
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Warren's Shaft theory of David's conquest shattered
We thought we understood the complicated waterworks beneath the area of Jerusalem known as the City of David, the oldest part of the city. But new excavations near the Gihon Spring will...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1999
"Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land"
The economic roots of the Jubilee
According to biblical law, every 50 years a Jubilee year is to be proclaimed—debts are to be canceled, and property is to be returned to its original owner. How such a year could avoid...
Bible Review, February 1999
Sacred Geometry: Unlocking the Secret of the Temple Mount, Part 2
We have already established the location of the Herodian Temple in Jerusalem and the altar that once stood in front of it (see the previous installment of this article in "Sacred Geometry: Unlocking the Secret of the Temple Mount, Part 1,"...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1999


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Here comes the cavalry!
I can't sleep again. It's got to be the jetlag, though I think I only woke up because I was hot (the power went out again). Fortunately this time it came back on a few minutes after I awoke with a loud click and hum. I think the neighborhood generator is right behind our house.
Anyway, yesterday was a really fun day with everyone arriving. The 2 Chrises and I got up around 9am and went out to grab some breakfast. We walked about 3 blocks before finding an autorick taxi. Whaley asked how much it would cost to take us from Sector 44 to Sector 18. 50 rupees.
"How about 30?" Whaley demanded, more than asked, with his usual tough negotiating tactics. The guy came back with 50 again. "Fine, 40?" Nope – still wanted 50. "Forget it, let's go guys." We piled out of the vehicle.
Chris was a bit ticked the guy wouldn't negotiate. "If we were Indian we would have gotten that ride for 25." I'm not so sure – but I'm more generous (perhaps foolishly) than he is. At any rate we found a manual rick-taxi who gave us the ride for our desired 30 rupees and we headed off to Sector 18.
Sector 18 isn't much to look at that early in the morning, with most of the shops closed and people seemingly just wandering the streets getting a lazy start to the day. We tried to go to the mall, which is a huge glass building about 10 stories high, but it didn't open until 10:30. Instead, we found a little coffee shop across the road (a chain, though the name escapes me). It was there that I was reintroduced to the stark contrasts of India. Walking in from the street, which is cluttered and dirty by western standards, I was surprised to find myself in a trendy little coffee shop that may very well have existed in San Diego. It was almost as if we had gone through some kind of portal that kept the inside in a pristine state of existence despite the world around it. I ordered a paneer wrap (I don't even know what paneer is – some kind of vegetable) and a Gatorade. I also had some of Whaley's coconut and chocolate breakfast treat. I enjoyed everything very much. As we stepped back in to the street and my grogginess from the previous night was subsiding, I felt myself on the road to comprehending this richly interesting country.
Back at the house we arrived just at the same moment Garland, Tony and Waylon were pulling up. We all greeted eachother and helped carry bags up. The servants tried to help but everything was just too heavy for them. I think those kids should be in school somewhere.
Tony and Waylon looked a little shell-shocked. They said they were just hungry but it was obvious they were taken aback by the ride across the city and the arrival into Noida. We hung out on the roof for a bit while waiting for the car to come pick us up and take us to the office. We were going to eat at the cafeteria and explore the exercise and sports facilities before setting up our computers and getting settled in.
The company we are partnering with is very large – about 4 lac people (a lac is a thousand). Most of them work from 4pm on to be closer to the western working day. Even so, the exterior fortress-like walls were already lined with literally hundreds of motorcycles. We got some visitor badges and went to eat. I got the guys to try some Indian food instead of pizza and they liked it.
I was really happy because I got to talk to Rachel for a few minutes on Skype Video. She had taken the Wong Nuggets to the Del Mar Fair earlier that day and shared pictures. So cute! It will be nice when we have internet at the house so I can communicate with the U.S. more easily. Now I'm restricted to doing so at work, when everyone is asleep.
We did a few things around the office but didn't have any monitors, so we took off for the local mall which is mostly a food court and some entertainment (a lounge and arcade). Chris Efford was complaining about his hair and disappeared to get it cut. The rest of us got some Baskin Robbins ice cream while Whaley got chinese for lunch (he hadn't eaten earlier). The ice cream was tasty, especially the mango/vanilla I got. It was vegetarian ice cream, not made with cow milk. Maybe soy milk? I'll have to find out.
Efford had been gone awhile so we took off to find him. We passed by a salon clearly marked "ladies only" with heavily frosted windows. Despite these obvious deterrents, Whaley pulled open the door and peeked his head in. I half-expected to hear screams of surprise coming from within! Typical rude American.
The guys found a nice billiard hall and bowling alley at the mall.
We found Efford in the unisex salon in the back corner of the top floor. Suddenly I felt like I needed a trim, too. I asked the price and it was 100 rupees! That's a little over $2 USD. Literally 1/10 the cost of my San Diego haircuts. But that isn't the amazing part. This was the most thorough haircut I have ever received in my entire life. This guy was good, and dedicated. He could have used clippers but stuck with scissors the whole time. For about 30 minutes he went over the same spots on my head, seemingly making sure that no hair was even a millimeter longer than any other. The end result could have only been achieved with clippers, or so I had previously thought. I was thoroughly amazed and tipped the guy an extra 20 bucks (rupees, that is – it's weird saying "100 bucks" when it really means a little over 2 U.S. bucks).
When we left the mall it was pouring rain, but we still hopped on manual rick-taxis back to the office. We had meetings about cell phones and monitors, but didn't end up with either (we'll try to take care of that today). We talked about work stuff for a few hours before calling a car to take us to dinner.
Piling into the car 30 minutes later would have been pretty uneventful had my toe not been crushed under the latch for the middle seat when it slammed down. I don't think anything is broken, and no skin was pierced, but now I walk with a limp and have some nice swelling.
We headed back to Sector 18 for dinner. I picked out a very nice-looking Indian restaurant for us to eat at (I had been threatening an Indian dinner all day). It was really expensive, about 550 bucks per person ($12 USD), but the food and atmosphere were great with a talented band and nice décor. I ordered my old favorite "butter chicken" with naan bread, as Waylon and Efford followed suit. Garland got Chicken Tikka and Whaley and Tony got a lamb masala and vegetable dish, respectively. Everyone loved their food and it was a huge success!
After dinner we tried to go shopping for monitors and phones but the stores were closed. Even so, Sector 18 really came alive at night with lights and people everywhere. It actually felt quite fun!
We explored the huge mall for a bit but found the Nokia store closed and the other stores in the process of doing the same. We called the car and headed back to the house after buying 6 bottles of water at McDonald's for 14 bucks each. Get this: an ice cream cone at McDonald's is only $0.15 USD. Pretty crazy.
I conked out right when we got home. When the power went out around 2am I went outside to take some pictures. The power outages here never seem to effect the lights or fans, so there must be some limited backup capability. The landlord is supposed to install a huge generator to power the house in the event of a power failure, mostly to keep the AC running.
Now it's about 9:30am and I don't think anyone is awake yet. I slept another 3 hours since I started writing this but I was awakened by another power outage about 30 minutes ago. I'm going to take a shower and see about getting some breakfast, though it's raining lightly. Today I'll pick up a cell phone. I'm excited to go out and about – staying cooped up in the house is the worst!


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