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Final thoughts
What drama at the end. Klinsmann throws his arms into the air in celebration and a gleeful USA troop off the field while Ghana lie slumped. The Black Stars World Cup campaign may be in all sorts of trouble now. When they scored toward the end you'd have put anything on a Ghana siege on goal to see out the game, but instead the USA pushed up tenaciously, and stunned Ghana for the second time in the game, with the most unlikely of set piece winners.
Klinsmann on the Brooks goal: "I said it to the bench minutes before - we're going to get some chances still."
He's also spoken about the "shock" of Altidore's injury, and once the dust settles on this win, that'll be a significant worry. Johannsson played gamely for the rest of the match, but he's not the type of hold up player Altidore is in Klinsmann's system and the USA had to deal with a lot of pressure for the rest of the game and almost let it slip until Brooks' dramatic winner.
But they didn't let it slip and from underdogs in the Group of Death the USA find themselves in second place after their first game. Sunday, and Portugal will be huge. Ghana meanwhile, face the prospect of trying to rescue their World Cup against Germany. Good luck with that.
And good night and thank you for all your tweets and emails. I'm off to write a national anthem.
Final score: USA 2-1 Ghana
And it's over! What a win for the USA! Final thoughts in a moment...
90 mins +5: Bradley powers forward, looking like he's heading for the corner, but ends up floating a ball into the keeper's hands. But there's very little time left...
90 mins +4: Ghana attack a weary USA side again but Ayew's little flick on the edge of the box goes to a red short and Johnson gets the ball forward to eat up the clock. A minute left.
90 mins +3: Johansson runs into traffic on the edge of the Ghana box and the trailing team will attack again, only for Brooks to hoof it clear in the box. Now Beckerman hits it...anywhere. Finally Muntari's shot from distance flies high and wide.
90 mins +2: Another free kick for the USA eats up precious seconds as Muntari swings at Dempsey. He picks up a yellow card. USA slow in restarting, obviously.
90 mins: Two USA subs combining on that goal by the way (for the reading pleasure of Klinsmann apologists).
Now Jones smartly earns the foul by letting his challenger clatter into hime 35 yards out, when there was a half chance to shoot. We're going to have five minutes of added time by the way. Big groans round the ground as that's announced. USA trying to hold the ball up in the corner in the meantime.
Meanwhile, at the viewing party…
88 mins: Brooks almost looked more in distress than delighted after he'd scored. He looked utterly overwhelmed. What a sucker punch!
At the other end Boateng's backheel in the USA box gives them a corner. For once it's a decent one, but Essien's header bounces off the back of Brooks.
GOAL! USA 2-1 Ghana (BROOKS!)
Perfect corner by Zusi. Perfect header downwards by John Brooks from seven yards! The USA may have stolen this!
86 mins: Another comeback in a World Cup full of them and now Ghana look full of running again. Bradley tries to sprint forward but is dispossessed and Beckerman is forced into one, then another lunging retrieving tackles on the edge of the box. US might want to put a foot on the ball here.
Instead they come forward, though not with any great force. Johnson's tired ball across the box is headed clear. Now he harries well though to force Mensah into conceding a corner. The big defenders jog forward...
GOAL! USA 1-1 Ghana (AYEW!)
He's been quiet all night, but now Ayew runs on to a beautiful backheel from Gyan running away from goal, and pokes a perfect shot past Howard with the outside of his boot! 1-1!
Video from that @GuardianUS @Terminal5NYC Viewing Party, in which some shy and retiring USA fans explain and indeed justify their vociferous support for their team…
80 mins: Finally we see the attacking threat of Fabian Johnson as he gets forward down the right and cuts inside looking for the shot. The ball breaks to Dempsey on the edge of the box, and his shot is on target but comfortably saved. Still USA 1-0 Ghana as we enter the last ten minutes.
78 mins: Ghana out-possessing the USA 59-41%. There. And Adomah came on for Atsu.
76 mins: Klinsmann trying to relieve some of the pressure as he'll bring on Graham Zusi for the exhausted Bedoya.
Great cross from the left by Asamoah won't quite fall for Ayew from Gyan's header, and the US hoof it gratefully clear.
Zusi comes on and Bedoya, who's had a very good game, comes out. Zusi, by the way was part of the opening ceremonies for the 1994 World Cup, so has seen from Diana Ross exacrtly how to miss a penalty. Meanwhile Middlesbrough's Albert Adomah comes on for Ghana.
A long time ago, in a Spanish-speaking galaxy not so far away…
74 mins: Altidore's strained left hamstring will be scanned tomorrow in Sao Paolo by the way. The US chose to fly back after each game rather than stay overnight. Sure Altidore will enjoy that flight.
USA dropping deeper and deeper now, and Bedoya has to cover a lot of ground quickly to intercept a beautifully weighted ball wide from Muntari. Bedoya still looking uncomfortable. He's not the only US player to look that way. Something strange going on with the player's conditioning it seems.
72 mins: Jones shows some great tenacity wide left to see off a Ghana attack, and as the ball goes out that's the cue for Essien to enter the game in place of Rabiu. So a lot of experience on the field for the Black Stars now.
Meanwhile Peter Oh has a bone to pick with me:
"I don't need to Google this because I vividly remember Hakan Sukur's goal for Turkey. It was in the WC 2002 consolation match between co-hosts Korea Republic and fellow surprise semifinalists Turkey. Korea kicked off and I believe it was the captain (and now manager) Myung-bo Hong who made a mess of the back pass, allowing Sukur to pounce, race through and put one into the Korea net before the referee's opening whistle was still echoing around the stadium. Thanks a lot for dredging up that memory."
Glad to be of service, Peter.
70 mins: Johannsson picks up a corner for some rare respite for the USA. It's a lovely inswinger to the back post — and Kwarasey flaps and misses the ball completely. Nobody in red on the end of it though and that will be a goal kick.= for Ghana. The USA have worked a variation on that corner a few times in their warm up games. What would they give for that one to have come off? Still USA 1-0 Ghana
68 mins: Ghana subs limbering up for the final assault on the USA goal. We should see more of them soon. In the meantime, the man who's come on already, Boateng, shapes for a shot from distance, but it's spectacularly high and wide. He's been dangerous since he came on though. The USA haven't known how to pick him up.
66 mins: Another shot from distance by Asamoah that has Howard dropping to his knees to save comfortably. Howard will be busy for the next 25 minutes.
Michael Aston doesn't like his chances...
"I know FIFA want to encourage US development (dosh) in world soccer, but I don't think even the officials can help them in this game. Matter of time before the avalanche"
64 mins: Kevin Prince-Boateng makes s mart run behind Beckerman and sets up Gyan for the shot just inside the box. Cameron just gets enough of a touch to send it looping over the bar though. Can the USA hold on here? They have a free kick to defend now. 40 yards out and central.
It's that @GuardianUS World Cup viewing party @Terminal5NYC again…
62 mins: Asamoah plays a sharp one-two on the edge of the US box then slides the ball neatly to Atsu, whose soft shot dips over Howard, but over the bar.
Another pause for treatment now. Johnson down after a clattering tackle from Ayew. Ghana can't clear it fully and Jones has a decent speculative shot that the keeper has to parry.
60 mins: An hour gone and the USA are entering what may be the most difficult part of the game. Ghana pressing now. USA lead 1-0, just.
And now I'm being quite rightly corrected that it was Hakan Sukor who scored the fastest goal in the World Cup. Sorry. I've been busy.
58 mins: Mensah looks like he's made a hash of a clearance under no real pressure, but gets the foul as Johnson is penalized for fouling him.
Game really opening up now and this time Gyan goes much closer with a beautiful flicked header at the near post, that Howard just gets his fingers too. Immediately Ghana try to up the pressure from the corner as they bring on Prince-Boateng for Jordan Ayew.
56 mins: Bedoya is the latest US player in some discomfort, as he's holding his hip now. Seems like the conditions are playing some havoc with the US line up.
Ghana looking a little frustrated right now. Not a lot of imagination about the approach play. But now Muntari, who can shoot from distance, does so, and his shot fizzes just past the post.
And now he splits Brooks and Cameron with a beautiful ball from the left that curls perfectly to Gyan, but his header flies over. He really should have scored. poor communication between the US defenders there. A real let off for them.
54 mins: We're also hearing Dempsey's goal was the 6th fastest goal in World Cup history. The fastest was scored by Davor Suker (11 secs). So there.
Bradley sitting very deep this evening by the way. Partly because the USA re leading of course, but he's doing a lot more covering than he's done in recent games.
52 mins: Gyan tries to spin and get clear in the box under close attention from Cameron, who's been shadowing him all game. He's judged to have fouled the US defender, who might want a word with Brooks — his giveaway led to that chance for Ghana.
We're hearing "tightness in the hamstring" for Besler was the reason he was withdrawn.
50 mins: Brooks had a good end to the season with Hertha Berlin and played himself back into the USA plans after a poor game against Ukraine almost scupered his hopes. He's been good in team camp. Interesting to see how he does as this game gets stretched. Still USA 1-0 Ghana as Jones steps across to put the ball out for a throw, with Opare bombing forward down the right.
48 mins: Gyan goes down immediately under pressure from Bedoya and Ghana have a free kick inside the USA half, to the left. Another poor delivery from Muntari and now the USA can break. Poor ball from Bedoya though and for an instant the counter is on. But Howard gets to the attempted high ball over the top for Gyan.
Now the USA have a throw deep into Ghana territory. This time Beasley's deep throw can't find anyone.
Peep! We're off again. USA lead 1-0 and they kick off.
Besler out
Whatever the USA get out of this game will come at a price. Besler won't be out for the second half. He's replaced by John Brooks.
An attack of the vapours
Kyle Brown is worried:
"Is it just me, or is this getting a bit rough? No helping hands after fouls..."
I too bemoan the decline in standards. Had Clint Dempsey carried a clean handkerchief onto the field, as Corinthians always used to do, he'd have been considerably less bloody in the aftermath of his injury.
Meanwhile Twitter is having similarly exacting thoughts about timekeeping:
I can talk. I'm slouching horribly as I type.
More email:
James Brown (not that one) sends an email to Graham Parker (not that one) saying:
"Rabble, rabble, rabble. We have a fit striker left. Right?"
Well, there's a decent forward in LA...
Meanwhile, I'm busy setting up my keyboard macro for Wondolowski...
Half-time thoughts
So the USA got off to a dream start — catching Ghana off guard from the kick off and seeing Clint Dempsey becoming the first American to score in three World Cups. After that, the anticipated onus on them to try and dominate in the first 20 minutes, was understandably altered, and Ghana grew steadily into the match, finding particular joy through Christian Atsu running down the right past Jermaine Jones and towards DaMarcus Beasley.
Whatever his form and shortcomings the loss of Altidore is huge for the USA and Aron Johannsson was thrown into his first World Cup game with no warm up, and it showed, as he was left isolated for most of the rest of the half (he's not the same sort of hold up player as Altidore can be), as Ghana began to press forward.
Ghana will be frustrated not to have put better balls into the box and not to have made more of their set pieces. Gyan had one good shot on Howard and kept moving dangerously, but as yet hasn't been able to be a clear goal threat. We'll have to see how serious Besler's injury is to see whether Gyan will be up against the same US backline in the second half.
There are surely more goals in this one.
45 mins +6: Half decent chance there, as Atsu, the Ghana danger man from the first half, wriggles into the box and slips a ball to his left for Jordan Ayew, but he can't get a clean shot off and that will be that for the half.
Half time: USA 1-0 Ghana
Half time thoughts in a minute...
45 mins +5: The USA are ending this half in the ascendancy. Jones checks to his right and slides a ball forward towards Bradley, who's been quiet in this half. Bradley steps over it anticipating a runner, but nobody had followed in behind him and Ghana get the ball back.
Now USA have a corner to defend after Beasley takes no chances on a deep cross to the back post, and heads it over the byline. Again the corner doesn't clear the near post.
45 mins +3: Ball still bobbling around in the Ghana final third for a moment, which will please Klinsmann. Eventually a frustrated Muntari goes in late on Jones, who shares his feelings on the matter. The referee steps in quickly to cool things down before Jones or Muntari can pull a Pepe-lite.
45 mins +1: Now then...USA earn a free kick wide left when Jones is fouled. The center backs jog forward. Bedoya swings it in, but Kwarasey is able to punch it clear. Corner though. We'll have 5 minutes to add on after Altidore's injury. The corner comes to naught as Ghana read Bradley's attempted dummy off the ball in the box.
44 mins: Half time approaches and with it a gift of brief respite for the USA as Boye's ball floats aimlessly forward into the USA box, where it's gathered by Howard.
42 mins: More bad news for the USA as now Besler is clutching his hamstring. He's playing on, but that's a worry.
Nice move for the USA as Bedoya does well to turn a defensive header into an attack, and finds Johannsson ahead of him. The striker holds up well and finds Bedoya racing forward again in a lot of space on the right. His cross is headed clear, but only as far as Johannsson on the edge of the box. His shot is weak, but that was better from the US and Bedoya in particular, who's been their best player so far.
40 mins: Opare down clutching his head after an aerial clash with Johannsson but now he's up and joining another Ghana attack. This one ends with an interception and a lob forward to Johannsson, who runs into traffic on the left. Still USA 1-0 Ghana.
38 mins: Dempsey's goal unofficially timed at 32 seconds by the way. Seems a long time ago now. When US fans were young and full of optimism.
Atsu finds space wide right as that US diamond midfield shows some of its problematic inflexibility when faced with crossfield balls. Now Atsu picks up the ball again and sends an inswinger towards the penalty spot where Gyan's glancing header flies up and over.
36 mins: Dempsey jogs back on to a big cheer after his treatment. Straight away he has defending to do as Ghana have a free kick wide left. Curled towards Boye again, but again he can't do any damage — this time the ball just glances harmlessly off his head near the penalty spot.
34 mins: Nasty...Dempsey is the latest US player on the ground, bleeding from his nose after a high boot from Boye catches him in the face. We'll take the opportunity to check in with Stephen Davenport:
"Writing as an English person living in the USA, I would aver that The Star Spangled Banner is superior to God Save the Queen in two very important
respects: it does not bang on about either God or the Queen every two seconds; and the tune is an old Anglo-German drinking song. The pace and jauntiness with which I tend to try sing it in whatever company. Although I haven't met the President yet"
32 mins: A little bit of a lull now, as Ghana regroup for another attack. Muntaro tries to thread the needle with a pass up the middle towards Gyan, but it runs straight through to Howard. A second later he has to be rather more engaged as Gyan lets fly from the edge of the box, and Howard has to get down very well to parry the ball firmly away out of danger.
30 mins: The anthem issue is not going away judging by my inbox. Meanwhile in less important matters, Gyan cuts inside on the edge of the box and is fouled by Beckerman, but when the referee plays the advantage, Atsu sends a tame shot over. A minute later Beckerman gets clattered in the air by Rabiu, who picks up a yellow for his troubles. Still USA 1-0 Ghana
Live from Guardian World Cup party central…
28 mins: Another Ghana corner after a Besler block, but yet again it's not a great one, and doesn't get beyond the near post. Meanwhile USA fans on witter sounding understandably anxious.
26 mins: Now it's Beckerman sprawling on the turf as Jordan Ayew crunches him with a striker's tackle. He's fine, but that was a clumsy challenge, and maybe could have been a booking.
How will the USA handle the loss of Altidore in these next few moments? Encouraging sign there, as Bedoya steps wide then shapes for a shot from distance. Confident. But it flies over.
24 mins: Whatever the problems with Altidore up front, he was still the USA's main hope up front coming into the tournament.
Ghana have a croner and again Boye gets a header, this time at the back post, but again he heads it down and harmlessly wide.
22 mins: Uh-oh, if you're a USA fan. Bradley just lobbed a long ball forward for Altidore down the left flank and the big attacker pulled up sharpply grabbing his hamstring. This looks bad for him...
Aron Johannsson coming on, as Altidore is carried off. Only his 9th cap.
20 mins: Jordan Ayew is penalized on the edge of the USA box and now the US go on the attack. Bedoya gets his head up and sees Johnson galloping forward on the right. His low cutback is behind Bradley, but retrieved by Altidore. He turns and gets something like a shot off, but Ghana had just about got men between him and the goal and it's blocked. Similar move to the USA's goal against Nigeria last time out though. Still USA 1-0 Ghana
18 mins: On the touchline, Klinsmann's gone from looking delighted to looking his more familiar pitch-side pensive, as he leans on the dugout roof like a worried knitwear model. He could have a long evening if this pattern of the game remains.
Ghana inching their possession ever further up the field, and now Opare floats in another cross to the back post, but it's over Gyan's head.
16 mins: Ghana ambling forward when suddenly Atsu changes pace to send a dangerous low ball between Beasley and Besler towards the onrushing Gyan. Howard's out smartly to block though, and kicks the ball clear at the second attempt.
14 mins: Brian Cook is gloomy about Geoff Cameron:
"America's/Stoke's answer Pepe, he has all the psychosis of the Portuguese but even less subtlety. Will be culpable for at least a goal here."
Not quite been the version of Cameron we've seen at international level Brian, but the game is young. Awkward up and under cross from Opare just claimed by Howard there. USA fans in full voice right now. Some 20,000 of them in NAtal apparently.
That goal in full…
12 mins: More anthem demographics:
Meanwhile Ghana beginning to slowly play themselves into the game after a horrendous start. Just having a little more possession, though not yet forcing anything from it. Atsu runs onto a wide ball on the right, but he's flagged offside as he shapes for the cross.
10 mins: Bradley drops deep to pick up the ball and sprays the ball forward for Johnson bombing forward down the right. He can't get to it though and Ghana will have a goal kick.
Atsu makes a decent run to the edge of the USA box now, but the move breaks down and it's still USA 1-0 Ghana after ten minutes.
8 mins: USA throw midway inside the Ghana half on the left now. It's worked wide right where Bedoya swings in a cross that Altidore gets his head to, but he can't direct it on target. All USA at the moment, but now Gyan gets forward down the right and sends a teasing cross towards Ayew in the box, but Howard comes out to claim comfortably.
6 mins: The anthem debate rumbles on, while the rest of the world ponders Ghana's terrible defense of the throw that led to the goal.
Now Ghana have a free kick after a foul by Bedoya midway inside the USA half. Muntari will take it. Boye gets a head to it on the edge of the box, but it's well wide.
Never mind Obama…
4 mins: Klinsmann looked something resembling delighted on the sideline there, at that emphatic start by the USA. Ghana get on the ball and try to settle down after that stunning start now, but there's a lot of space among their lines. jones scampers forward wide left and tries to square a ball to Bradley. A better pass could have given the US another chance. It wasn't a better pass.
GOAL! USA 1-0 Ghana (DEMPSEY!)
Lordy! Beasley and Jones with some neat interaction down the left, then it's slid into the box for Dempsey, who strokes the ball in off the far post! That'll be that good start then.
Kick off
Peep! Ghana get us underway!
USA win toss...
...and choose the word "soccer".
Ready? Next word you'll read will be "Peep!"
Well-timed music criticism
Julia Kite knows there's a game on, but really, she can't let this go:
"Oh, Tim Booth, just look at the preceding and following lyrics of the US anthem to figure out what it is they're talking about when they say "o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming." It is that "what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming," namely, "that star-spangled banner." It's a long, convoluted sentence of a song lyric; it could really use a semicolon or two. Love your music but you need to work on reading comprehension!"
Anyone else? OK, we're nearly ready for kick off. Your face is as painted as it's going to get.
Teams coming out
This means that children all over the world are catching sight of Kyle Beckerman for the first time. His hair looks magnificently unruly in the breeze, as the anthems play.
Speaking of breezes, and weather in geeneral, there's a pparently a strom system just off the coast of Natal right now, that may move in as the game gets underway.
And speaking of anthems:
Team News:
Ghana: Kwarasey; Opare, Asamoah, Mensah, Boye; Mohammed, Atsu, Muntari, A Ayew; J Ayew, Gyan,
USA: Howard; Beasley, Besler, Cameron, Johnson; Jones, Beckerman, Bedoya; Dempsey, Bradley; Altidore
Referee: Jonas Eriksson (SWE)
More email
We like nothing more than to reward those who never look up from their screens. Hence this contribution from Daniel Stauss:
In my bid to be published in 3 MBM's in one day, here are my top three biggest pre-match freak-outs, in reverse order: Will the US backline fold like a cheap suit under Ghanaian pressure? Will Jozy Altidore show up to play? Will Jermaine Jones go full-on de Jong and actually kill a man on the pitch today? Of the three, Jermaine Jones is my biggest dread. The man is a walking red card.
I believe Pepe may have actually trademarked the phrase "Walking red card" Daniel. but enjoy your moment of glory.
This is my final bid to salvage some kind of credibility...
So if that Ghana line up is indeed true, then it means that Michael Essien may have finally creaked out of the starting line up in the center of midfield. It was one area of the field that the Ghana team had looked a little slow in despite his undoubted quality, but as it stands it looks as if Muntari will indeed be partnered by Rabiu.
It still looks like that's the area of the field that could decide this game, with Jurgen Klinsmann's endless midfield tinkering with how best to exploit Michael Bradley's strengths, getting its most pronounced test yet.
I previewed Bradley's importance to the USA before the tournament began — noting the importance of the player's time in Italy on his development.
(Alexi) Lalas, a fellow American traveller to Italian football, concurs. "Michael's 10 times the player I ever was, but I benefited so much from playing in Serie A, because of the way they think about the game – the tactical discipline and devotion and passion and love for the tactics of the game. And I think when he got to Italy he found he was immersed in a culture that thought like him to a certain extent. And he grew as a person, as a player, being in that culture, because that's the way he thinks about the game. He has the tools to implement that on a consistent basis."
Such incremental edges will be crucial to the USA's hopes in Brazil, where they can expect to play a lot of their three group games, against Ghana, Portugal and Germany, on the back foot – hoping to take advantage of rare opportunities. To those without confidence, it's the sort of game dynamic that can breed timidity. For Bradley, who relishes the well-timed counterpunch and who in a recent interview called possession "the most overrated stat", fighting on the defensive suits him fine.
Tellingly, Bradley's role model was once Roy Keane, but changed to the subtler long-and-short passing vision of Demetrio Albertini during his time in Italy.
More innovations
This is the type of forward thinking Visionary Jurgen™ would approve of.
Guardian viewing party
If you're in New York by the way, and want something other than my droning on for company, you could do worse than head to the Guardian World Cup viewing party at Terminal Five (that's the name of the venue — don't go to the airport). We'll hopefully have some updates from Kayla Epstein, who's there, working, and definitely not just sneaking out of the office early.
More singing
Our man on the spot, Paolo Bandini, just posted this Vine of the Ghana players looking not terribly concerned:
Sunderland strikers
It will doubtless be a source of endless reassurance to all concerned that both teams' fortunes in this group of death may be determined by the form of Sunderland strikers, past and present, in the form of Asamoah Gyan and Jozy Altidore. Here's the Guardian's North East football correspondent Louise Taylor on the fortunes of the latter
And in the name of balance, here's a perspective from someone who hasn't had to spend a year watching Altidore in a freezing Wearside press box, but has watched the international version up close.
Anthems (part two)
And yes, the USA are singing too. Here's Tim Booth of James, whose most recent album was called "La Petite Mort". Of course had he known in advance of his particular role in this World Cup, James could have called the album "The Group of La Petite Mort":
It's a decent melody, actually quite rousing. Like most anthems it's intended to create unity in the face of adversity, coming from a time when America was a new country trying to forge its identity. It's certainly better than God Save the Queen, because it's less sturgy and ploddy, but my theory is that anthems should be changed quite frequently so they reflect the times we live in, in a language we understand. "O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming" – what does it mean? It's a martial national anthem and maybe in peacetime, or something close to it, we should be having more forward-thinking anthems, with lyrics that inspire us to be more inclusive of races and genders.
I think in Britain we're aware that our country has seen better days, and we're a bit more cynical about the flag-waving thing. America's a younger country, with more naivety and innocence to it, and they believe they were born into the best country on earth. They do what humans do when they're extremely fortunate, which is to say God gave it to them, or that they earned it in some way, when in fact there's a lot of luck involved, and these things are always cyclical.
I find the World Cup fascinating. I'm less interested in the tribalism of soccer, but I watch Barcelona every week and when they play at their best it's with a shoal mentality. They're like a murmur of crows, they seem able to read where their team-mates are going with something close to telepathy. Watching it can touch you, in a way some artists can when the ego disappears into the creation. And Barcelona at their best are art, and Spain, Brazil, Holland have been, and other teams will be.
Booth of course, once advised us to sit down next to him. Probably best to check that Pepe isn't in the vicinity first though...
Almost forgot. Yes, yes, events on the field, best start to a World Cup ever, blah, blah, blah. What about the anthems, man?!
Never fear. As has become the theme in this Guardian World Cup, not a ball is kicked without the world of pop weighing in on the anthems. Here's no less an authority than Nik Kershaw poking his head out of a snood to take on Ghana's effort:
Apparently, this was adopted to take over from "God save the Queen" when Ghana stopped being a British colony in 1957. Ironically, you'd be hard pushed to find anything more British. Sounds like it was rescued from Elgar's recycling bin. I'm struggling to understand why they couldn't come up with something a little more "independent" sounding to celebrate their Independence. That said, it contains all the elements required to stir the loins: a glorious and triumphant opening string and brass salvo, followed by a regal and stately middle section (to the manor born), building to a rabble rousing climax. Classic stuff. Looking forward to hearing Michael Essien belt this one out.
Pay attention everyone. Nik Kershaw invented the false nine back in 1984, in "The Riddle", when he discovered that defenders could be misled by getting "an old man of Saran" to run around in a hole (in the ground).
Rabble rousing
This is just irresponsible...
It's only a game. Calm down sir and think of the message you're sending...
Some Ghana team news
So much for Waris then... A report on the Ghana FA's website is suggesting that Waris is indeed out of the Ghana attack, and that Ghana have gone with Jordan alongside Gyan up front — with no Prince-Boateng or Essien. Truly a changing of the guard if true (though both had been injury doubts in the lead up, as well)
So that means a World Cup debut for Rabiu Mohammed alongside Sulley Muntari in the center of midfield. He's one of six players in that XI who'll be making their first World Cup appearances.
It also means Asamoah and Atsu running down their left flank and trying to get at Fabian Johnson — the USA right back who likes to get forward himself. Keep an eye on that flank.
Some USA team news
So, as you were for the US, who keep the line up they put out against Nigeria last time out. 4-4-2 diamond? 4-2-3-1? 4-3-2-1? A bit of all of these depending on what phase of play we're in...
Before the World Cup started, the Guardian assembled a network of experts to break down the tactical prospects of the competing teams. Here's Godfred Akoto Boafo on Ghana:
The Black stars manager, Kwesi Appiah, has a disdain for systems. According to him players should be allowed to play free of tactical restraints to get the best out of them. He also believes in sticking with what works and is not known for experimentation.
In qualification for the World Cup, he stuck to the same group of players in a rigid 4-4-2; for so long Ghana have been masterful proponents of the 4-5-1. Appiah discovered the best way to get more out of his team during qualification was to give his captain and striker Asamoah Gyan some support. That came in the form of the diminutive striker Abdul Majeed Waris, whose willingness to run at defenders and take them out of position opened up space for Gyan. Nine goals were scored between the pair in qualification.
It is not certain that Appiah will continue with this gung ho approach considering the deficiencies in the team's defence and goalkeeper, as well as the fearsome attacking talent in the Group G opponents: Portugal, Germany and USA.
More on Jozy Altidore in a moment…
A pundit tweets…
The bomb pop
Scott Bassett emails:
"Hi Graham! Is the USA wearing their Bomb Pop outfits tonight? I hope so. It's grown on me."
They will indeed be in their ice lolly kits. Ghana will be playing in white for this game, while USA will be in said eye-popping change kit. To help explain how these arrangements, and other such joys as Spain taking on Holland while both teams turned out in neon green, or whatever it was, you could do worse than read this little insight from the kit room, by Alexander Abnos
Paolo Bandini is embedded
He's traveled to Brazil with the USA supporters group, the American Outlaws. Here's his report from Natal in advance of the game , presumably typed while repeatedly pushing back a fresh-from-the-packet stars and stripes bandana out of his eyeline (Bandini is Method):
Seems it's been raining there. Like, nine-inches-in-one-day raining.
Jurgen Klinsmann's played down the significance of that, but if the surface is slippery that may favor Ghana's pounce-and-counter instincts.
Other Graham Parkers are available
Yes, my name is Graham Parker. No it's not a rumour. Somewhere in England there are 100 40-something monkeys with typewriters cranking out puns by the barrel load, while listening to "Squeezing out Sparks", if the emails currently being forwarded to me by Jacob Steinberg (in some kind of gleeful revenge for being made to watch Iran vs Nigeria) are anything to go by.
Fun fact: I also went to university with someone called Phil Collins. Not that one either.
Twitter awakes…
That's the kind of standard that's been set, Twitter. This is a World Cup.
Group of Death
Nigeria and Iran finished 0-0. Sorry to all the children watching their first World Cup who didn't know such a thing could happen.
Earlier today there was the small matter of the other game in Group G, during which Pepe ensured himself a comfortable seat for Portugal's next game, thanks to his masterclass in how-not-to-even-nearly-get-away-with-it headbutting of Thomas Muller while the German player was sitting on the ground. More significantly, the Germans scored three first half goals en route to starting this group with a thrashing of the Portuguese, and indeed a possible thrashing of the concept of death itself, in this group that's supposedly defined by it.
Of course that's absurd, since we're all defined by death, marching forward, distracting ourselves from the inevitable as the reaper hovers wi…(notes incredulous look from Guardian sports editor, rummages vainly for cheerful crowd shot made up of people whose grinning faces will live forever).
Anyhow, Germany looked perfectly prepared for Portugal, while Portugal, despite key decisions going against them, looked awful in the first half and exhausted in the second half, not helped by an ambling sulk by an isolated Ronaldo and his horribly wilting hair gel. They can only get better. You'd think.
Either way, both these teams will be looking at Portugal's suddenly woeful goal differential, then back at each other and thinking this game just got even more important. Or insignificant when faced with the great void that awaits etc etc...
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Welcome to our coverage of USA vs Ghana — though frankly I'm surprised to see you here so early. Shouldn't you be over following Jacob Steinberg's liveblog of Nigeria v Iran?
Actually, since I've been keeping an eye on that game, I can tell you that you might be better sitting here twiddling your thumbs and staring into space, as that's what the two teams are apparently doing, in defiance of the BEST.WORLD.CUP.EVER memo. Jacob's earning his money over there. I'll be back as soon as that game's been put out of its misery...
Graham will be here shortly. In the meantime you can read his preview of this evening's game, while waiting for your face-paint to dry:
While Portugal taking on Germany is Group G's undoubted marquee game, the USA's match against Ghana is what the US coach, Jürgen Klinsmann, has called "a final of sorts".
You can see his point. This is a game that both teams need to take something out of to have a realistic chance of progressing, given what follows for both. Klinsmann may like to point to World Cup history and note that "nobody will panic" if the USA do not get a win against Ghana, since they have already beaten Portugal in a World Cup finals in 2002, but there's a flipside to that sort of logic. If we are looking at World Cup history, Ghana have been the USA's nemesis in the last two tournaments.
In 2006, Ghana were "just" the latest first-time qualifiers out of Africa when they came up against a USA team quietly confident of building on their quarter-final run in 2002. Instead the US were bundled out with defeat to the Ghanaians, and when given the chance of revenge in the second round four years later they were bundled out again, by an Asamoah Gyan goal in extra time.


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"Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." Hebrews 10:22.
The cross and victory
1. After Jesus' severe conflict in the desert and in Gethsemane, where did He achieve the greatest triumph over sin?
Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
"Without the cross, man could have no connection with the Father. On it hangs our every hope. In view of it the Christian may advance with the steps of a conqueror; for from it streams the light of the Saviour's love. When the sinner reaches the cross, and looks up to the One who died to save him, he may rejoice with fullness of joy; for his sins are pardoned. Kneeling at the cross, he has reached the highest place to which man can attain. The light of the knowledge of the glory of God is revealed in the face of Jesus Christ; and the words of pardon are spoken: Live, O ye guilty sinners, live. Your repentance is accepted; for I have found a ransom." –Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 1133.
2. What great result did Jesus achieve in the relationship between God and man through His tremendous sacrifice?
Romans 5:10, 11 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Colossians 1:21 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
(See Ephesians 2:16.)
"The apostle exalted Christ before his brethren as the One by whom God had created all things and by whom He had wrought out their redemption. He declared that the hand that sustains the worlds in space, and holds in their orderly arrangements and tireless activity all things throughout the universe of God, is the hand that was nailed to the cross for them…. 'And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in His sight.'" –The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 471, 472.
Jesus' ministry in the heavens
3. Following His sacrifice on the cross, what ministry did Jesus take up in the heavenly sanctuary?
Hebrews 7:17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Hebrews 8:1, 2 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Hebrews 7:25, 26 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.
"As our intercessor, Christ's office work is to introduce us to God as His sons and daughters. He intercedes in behalf of those who receive Him. With His own blood He has paid their ransom. By virtue of His own merits He gives them power to become members of the royal family, children of the heavenly King. And the Father demonstrates His infinite love for Christ by receiving and welcoming Christ's friends as His friends. He is satisfied with the atonement made. He is glorified by the incarnation, the life, death, and mediation, of His Son." –Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, p. 14.
4. What wonderful work is Jesus doing in the heavenly sanctuary constantly for us?
Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
1 John 2:1, 2 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
"What is Christ doing in heaven? He is interceding for us. By His work the threshold of heaven is flushed with the glory of God which will shine upon every soul who will open the windows of the soul heavenward. As the prayers of the sincere and contrite ones ascend to heaven Christ says to the Father, 'I will take their sins. Let them stand before You innocent.' As He takes their sins from them, He fills their hearts with the glorious light of truth and love." –(Manuscript 28, 1901) Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p. 930.
A work of judgment
5. What is Jesus' ministry, beyond that of forgiveness?
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Romans 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
"Now is our time to prepare to meet Christ. God has given us this time, and if we use it in self-gratification instead of in helping others and honoring God, we shall come up to the judgment unprepared. In that day many will plead as an excuse that they did not know that Christ's coming was near. But the excuse will not be accepted. They did not know simply because they did not want to know. God gave them abundant opportunity for knowing, but they closed their eyes, that they might not see, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear." –The Signs of the Times, April 12, 1905.
6. Depending on our attitude and action, what can God do?
Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Exodus 32:32, 33 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin–; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
Hebrews 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
(See Psalm 51:1, 9.)
"Beginning with those who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate presents the cases of each successive generation, and closes with the living…. Names are accepted, names rejected. When any have sins remaining upon the books of record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of the book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book of God's remembrance…
"All who have truly repented of sin, and by faith claimed the blood of Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had pardon entered against their names in the books of heaven; as they have become partakers of the righteousness of Christ, and their characters are found to be in harmony with the law of God, their sins will be blotted out, and they themselves will be accounted worthy of eternal life…." –The Faith I Live by, p. 212.
Purification of God's people
7. In the past, just as in the present, what is God's desire for His people?
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
"God is leading out a people to stand in perfect unity upon the platform of eternal truth. Christ gave Himself to the world that He might 'purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.' This refining process is designed to purge the church from all unrighteousness and the spirit of discord and contention, that they may build up instead of tear down, and concentrate their energies on the great work before them. God designs that His people should all come into the unity of the faith." –Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4, p. 17.
8. If we will not permit God to purify us from every sin, what consequence will we eventually face?
Revelation 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
"When the work of the investigative judgment closes, the destiny of all will have been decided for life or death. Probation is ended a short time before the appearing of the Lord in the clouds of heaven. Christ in the Revelation, looking forward to that time, declares: 'He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.' Revelation 22:11, 12." –The Great Controversy, pp. 490, 491.

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Faure and Madden Win 2014 Milward Simpson Award
The best overall athletes from the graduating class of 2014 have been named.
Ricky Faure of Rock Springs and Avery Madden of Torrington have been named the boys and girls winners of the 2014 Milward Simpson Award.
The award is considered to be the highest honor that an athlete can receive, because they excelled in multiple sports in all four years of their high school career.
Ricky Faure - Rock Springs:
Faure won 7 all-state awards in cross-country and track, as well as 3 all-conference titles.
He set a new overall Wyoming high school state record in the boys 800 meter run in May 2014, with a time of 1 minute 48.14 seconds, which is currently the fastest in the nation for 2014, and 5th best high school time in history. (Click here to watch Faure's 800 meter run from Day 2 of the 2014 State Track meet)
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Faure won the Gatorade Cross Country Runner of the Year award during his junior year in fall 2012.
He will attend the University of Wyoming on a track scholarship.
Faure is the 2nd Milward Simpson Award winner from Rock Springs. The award was first handed out in 1976, and Gerald Mattinson won it in 1977.
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In basketball, Madden won 2 all-conference awards and 1 all-state award.
In track, she competed in the Wyoming Track Classic all 4 years, won 7 all-state certificates, and broke the school record in triple jump 5 times, and the long jump once.
Madden is going to the University of Wyoming and is considering a track career.
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Dormer, Spota clash over Gilgo case
The top two law enforcement officials in Suffolk County clashed openly Thursday over whether it was likely a single or multiple killers who dumped the remains of 10 victims near Gilgo Beach and other places along Ocean Parkway.
Minutes after Police Commissioner Richard Dormer reiterated his recent single-killer theory in testimony at a county legislative hearing, District Attorney Thomas Spota took the witness chair and contradicted him.
"I very, very much disagree with that theory," Spota said.
The split between Dormer and Spota over one of the biggest and most baffling serial murder investigations in Suffolk history surprised lawmakers at the hearing. Public Safety Committee chairman Jack Eddington (I-Medford) said he was "blown away" by the dispute.
It also upset family members who marked the first anniversary this week of the discovery of the first four Gilgo victims.
Hours later, County Executive-elect Steve Bellone announced a shake-up of top police brass, naming veteran police official Edward Webber as interim commissioner, effective Jan. 1.
Regina Calcaterra, co-director of Bellone's transition team, said, "As soon as Steve takes office, we're going to aggressively push forward a comprehensive investigation to make sure that family members get closure and justice is served for the victim."
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy declined to comment on the differences between Spota and Dormer on the investigation.
Dormer said, "We still believe it's one killer at this point, unless we get information that would change that."
Dormer left before Spota took his turn. The DA stood by the theory he first unveiled at a May news conference with Dormer standing beside him: that there were at least three killers who used the brush off Ocean Parkway on Long Island's South Shore as a dumping ground.
"The commissioner and I went through this in May," he said.
The DA said he was surprised last month to learn of Dormer's current view.
"To this date, from the day he [Dormer] made that announcement, he has never ever mentioned it to me," Spota told the legislators. Spota said that some of Dormer's own homicide detectives disagreed privately with the commissioner's single-killer pronouncement.
To Dormer's assertion that all of the victims appear linked to the sex trade, Spota noted five of the victims remain unidentified. "We don't even know who these people are," he said.
Dormer refused to answer questions as he was leaving the hearing. Later, the Suffolk police public information office issued an email saying there would be no comment on Spota's remarks.
The unsolved homicides date to 1996, but the first of the remains strewn near Gilgo were uncovered Dec. 11, 2010, while police conducting a training exercise and searching for Shannan Gilbert, a New Jersey woman working as a prostitute who disappeared after seeing a client in nearby Oak Beach in May 2010. In the following months, the remains of 10 people were found -- eight women, one man and a female toddler.
After a renewed search of Oak Beach in the past week, investigators found human remains Tuesday in a marshy area that they believe will be identified as Gilbert, although the medical examiner has not yet made a finding. Police believe Gilbert died from an accident and was unconnected to the Gilgo slayings.
Dormer told the legislators that he believed there was a single killer because several were prostitutes, DNA from a toddler was linked to a female victim found 7 miles away, the Asian male victim was wearing women's clothing, and "the Asian male looked like he was connected to the sex business."
Spota said he believed there was more than one killer because no effort was made to hide the identities of four female victims found near each other last December. In contrast, two female victims whose other body parts were found in Manorville years earlier indicated the killer was trying to make identification difficult.
A third killer is suggested by the method used to murder the Asian male, which was unlike that of the other slayings, he said.
"The manner in which he died, the cause of death, are absolutely different from all the others," he said.
Dormer said different methods didn't necessarily mean different killers.
"It looks like the killer may have evolved," he said. Dormer added that "it's not unusual with killers to change the way they dispose of bodies."
The meeting of the Public Safety Committee had been billed as a routine update on the investigation for legislators. Eddington said later that he had not realized Dormer and Spota were at odds.
"But now it really seems like he [Dormer] hasn't been open and communicating with the DA," Eddington said. ". . . I thought he was being open, when in reality he's not communicating with the other important person in our criminal justice system."
The county legislature's presiding officer, William Lindsay (D-Holbrook), said after the hearing that he had known about private disagreements over the years between Dormer and Spota, "but it's been pretty covered up.
"This is becoming very open," he added.
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One of the most deliciously useful bits of knowledge I have gained so far in my time in London: how to roast a perfect pork shoulder, complete with addictive crunchy little strips of crackling on the top. At Rambling Restaurant a few weeks ago, chef foodrambler made a classic Sunday roast from the excellent River Cottage MEAT book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. While flipping through the cookbook, I happened upon this recipe for Aromatic Shoulder of Pork 'Donnie Brasco,' so named because you can put it in the oven on low heat overnight and 'fuhgeddaboutit.' Oh Hugh F-W, you are hilarious. Also, a meat genius.
Since the mere reading of the recipe made my stomach grumble with longing, we decided to make the pork shoulder for three consecutive Rambling Restaurant suppers. After a day's worth of roasting, you pry apart the brittle outer shell of crackling and dig through a shuddering layer of burning hot pork fat to find the most perfect, tender, juicy, falls-apart-with-the-tug-of-a-fork meat. Shredded with two dueling forks and bathed in an impromptu soy-hoisin-chili-garlic-leftover spring roll dipping sauce mixture, we had guests raving that it was the best pulled pork they'd ever tasted. And so I recreated it for my family back home in Boston, introducing them to the joy that is garlic and spice-rubbed, high heat-blasted pig skin. Here's the recipe so you can do it yourself, very very slightly adapted from Hugh F-W's recipe in ingredients and time, should you decide at lunch that pork shoulder is essential for dinner, without quite enough time to 'fuhgeddaboutit.'
Ridiculously Delicious Roast Pork Shoulder With Crackling
What You Need:
A large hunk of pork shoulder with skin – mine was about 8 pounds and fed 8 people
Five cloves of smashed garlic
A thumbsize piece of peeled ginger, if you had impressively large thumbs
1 tbsp chili flakes
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tbsp Chinese five-spice
4 tbsp salt
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tsp white pepper
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp soy sauce
Also helpful if you want gravy:
Stock (in a perfect and happy world, freshly homemade from the carcass of the ever-giving Samson the Turkey of the previous day's Thanksgiving extravaganza)
A few shakes of flour
Soy sauce
Red Wine
Chili Sauce
What You Do:
1. Take a very sharp knife and score the pork skin into parallel lines about a centimeter apart, which means attempting the slightly awkward process of cutting into the skin deep enough to reach the fat but not so deep to cut into the meat. It feels sort of wrong, but it will make you happy in about six hours when you have crackling in hand.
2. Dice the garlic and ginger and mix with the spices and liquids to form a chunky paste. I did this by hand, but even better if you've got a mortar and pestle.
3. Give the skin side of the pork a nice deep tissue massage with half of the tasty paste, then place it skin-side up on a rack in a roasting tray. Then you can make tasty gravy with the meat juices below. Blast the meat for half an hour at 450º.
4. After what Hugh F-W calls the 'half-hour sizzle', grab a pair of oven mitts and flip over the shoulder. If you have the ability, it is particularly amusing to make your little sister stand by the oven holding the scorchingly hot hunk of heavy meat while you do something, I can't remember what. Once you allow her to put the meat back in the tray upside down, rub the other side with the rest of the, um, rub. In case you have no common sense, I will remind you not to do this with your bare hands and to use a wooden spoon instead.
5. Pour a glass of water into the roasting tray, bring the temperature down to 300º and leave the meat to slowly increase in tastiness for about six hours. Adjust temperature accordingly depending on how much time you have – Hugh F-W does 16-24 hours at 110º, I increased the heat because I only had 6 hours instead of overnight. If you're not sure, just make sure the internal temp is at least 165º before pulling the shoulder from the oven. Regardless of cooking time, flip and baste the meat halfway through.
6. About 45 minutes before you're ready to eat, turn the heat back up to 450º to get your crackling all crispety crunchety.
7. When the meat is done and cooling, you can make a quick and meaty gravy by heating some of the pork fat from the roasting tray and whisking with a few shakes of flour to make a roux. Then pour in the rest of the pan drippings, stock, some soy sauce, a bit of chili sauce, some red wine, whatever you've got around that tastes good. The sauce will thicken and become awesome.
8. Eat pork, audaciously bathed in prodigious amounts of spicy, meaty sauce. Allow to melt into mouth. Crunch into a few happy little strips of crackling. Serve, if at all possible, with leftover stuffing/mashed potatoes/cheddar and scallion scones/homemade bread and finish off with leftover pie. Feed (and impress) your whole family with pork and happiness. Oh, how I love the holidays…


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4 ways marketers can regain consumer trust
Online consumers are more jaded than ever. With 62 percent of Americans saying they trust brands less than they did a year ago, according to the 2009 Edelman Trust Barometer, marketers seem to be asking themselves: What can we do to recapture people's attention and regain their trust?
Creating likable ads in a user-controlled space is no easy feat. In order for brands to find a way back into the hearts of their customers, they must create a true value exchange by providing something that people want, or better yet, need. According to Sarah Fey, former CEO Aegis Media North America, "We have to think in terms of content, not advertising. Advertisers and marketers have to pass the content-worthy test -- is there something in it that is entertaining and useful for the end user?"
eMarketer's October report "Americans Want Brands that Inform" states loud and clear that consumers want brands to give them information.
By delivering genuinely useful information such as music, search results, local information, articles, white papers, recipes, games, videos, and more, brands can win back attention and engagement -- but content alone won't make you likable.
Here are four core ingredients that can transform an old-school online ad campaign into a valuable, new-school user experience.
1) Always keep it relevant
Above all, we have to address the fact that users have little tolerance for information that is irrelevant to them. And by relevant, I mean content that's either relevant to the page the user is on, or relevant to their personal interests. The most powerful ads provide relevant, timely information that relates to what users are currently reading about, or what they are actively interested in. eMarketer's bold "Seven Predictions for 2010" forecasts that "the classic interruption/disruption model of advertising, whereby marketers insert unwanted, usually irrelevant ads as a price the consumer must pay to view desired content, will erode, if not fade away."
2) Use live data feeds
Using a live feed will transform ads into informative, hyper-relevant, and timely vehicles for a great user experience. For example, during the 2009 U.S. Open, main sponsor IBM tied its ads to player names when they were mentioned inside sports coverage. These ads provided real-time player stats streamed live from the U.S. Open. How convenient -- live coverage around the individual player while I'm reading about the U.S. Open. Thanks IBM! This useful, real-time content unit led users to live video streams, live score updates, and live chat sessions of the U.S. Open, perfectly aligning the IBM brand with the tournament -- and the notion that they can make anything a smarter, easier, more enjoyable experience.
Another example is YellowPages.com, which links its ads to a database of current local search results while users are reading relevant content on the web. This smart-ad sniffs out a user's ZIP code and conveniently supplies the names and addresses of local "art galleries" as they read relevant art reviews, or as they are searching for museum locations. Lee Doyle, CEO mediaedgie:cia, says: "Our YellowPages.com ad gave you an application that allowed you to automatically find local listings in your immediate area; it was a benefit to the consumer, not an interruption to the consumer."
3) Deliver informative, useful or entertaining content
Developing great content is no easy feat, but it's probably easier if you think in terms of these three buckets.
- Informative -- As mentioned above, IBM kept users informed with valuable real-time content, player's stats, and live video coverage as they read articles about the U.S. Open.
- Useful -- Providing utility within an ad is more than simply supplying additional details about the product, brand, or service being advertised. Utility conveniently fulfills a need. In the case of YellowPages.com, it provided customers with geo-targeted, live local search results in context.
- Entertaining -- Video clips, album art, sample tracks, quizzes, surveys, and interactive games can have a life beyond their simple marketing objective. Entertaining ads can take hold and captivate audiences who barely know they're being marketed to. A recent Zune campaign provided a real-time music feed to attract its audience and featured a live online radio stream of relevant music that some users never wanted to turn off.
According to Josh Stinchcomb, executive director, Condé Nast Business Group: "Brands should be in the business of creating content, of creating a relationship with their customers. You do that by providing information and accepting information from them... I like seeing brands think of themselves as content producers or creating content other than blunt advertising messages. It implies a desire for a more long-term relationship with the consumer."
4) Be helpful, not intrusive
Find the right design balance between your brand message and the content. More often than not, the utility of content is overshadowed by the glam and glitter of the brand messaging. If your ad is providing something that looks and feels like content, why dilute it with too much branding? Become a true resource and let the usability take the lead, framed by the brand messaging.
The moral of the story? The best advertising is real content. It's not a matter of disguising advertising as content -- it is using advertising as a vehicle to deliver relevance, utility, information, and entertainment.
Anna Kassoway is senior vice president, global marketing and creative solutions, Vibrant.
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We have programmes designed to support individual, team and service development provided through an extensive network of associates that includes experts at SLaM and the Institute of Psychiatry. We are a social enterprise involved in both commissioned and philanthropic activities, with the aim of improving global mental health.
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'A classic tale, thrillingly re-told for the stage' GREAT EXPECTATIONS chronicles the life of an orphan named Pip following his encounter with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. As part of the international Charles Dickens bicentenary celebrations, GREAT EXPECTATIONS comes to the West End's Vaudeville Theatre for the first time in February 2013. The popular novel has been repeatedly adapted since its publication 150 years – the most recent film version starring Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes – but has never been presented as a full length play in London's West End or on Broadway.Adapted by Jo Clifford and directed by Graham McLaren, GREAT EXPECTATIONS arrives on the West End having toured the UK in Autumn 2012 to critical acclaim. Book your tickets to see GREAT EXPECTATIONS today!
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Women's experiences of Domestic Violence and Abuse
Going into a women's refuge
For women who are eligible, housing benefit will normally cover the cost of a place in refuge. It can be harder for women who are working to secure a refuge place as the costs can be too high. They, and other residents, might also be at risk if the abusive partner follows them home from their place of work. In the past, the location of refuges was a closely guarded secret. However, today, some are known to the police and other services, others are part of their local community, whilst some still remain secret.
Women generally found out about refuges from other professionals such as the police, the housing department, a Domestic Violence and Abuse Agency, the Women's Aid helpline or a doctor, but occasionally via a friend. Tasha described how a support worker from her local Domestic Violence and Abuse Agency helped her to ring daily until she could secure a place in a refuge in a different town away from her abusive ex, following a serious assault to her and her new partner. The support she got was 'brilliant'. Kanya had been 'kicked out' by her partner and entered a refuge. She felt relief at telling her abuse story for the first time, and receiving help with re-housing and all the paperwork involved from an 'amazing' support worker.
Philippa found a refuge in a town away from her abusive partner, where she stayed for nine months with her children. She appreciated the one-to-one and group counselling, activities and care for the children, but she found it hard to live with a mixture of people and a lot of coming and going. Refuge workers were able to reassure women about their decision to leave their abusive partner, since years of controlling behaviour typically led women to doubt themselves.
Impact on children
A stay in a refuge with other women and children brought its own stresses. Jane felt that entering a refuge was a 'backward step' but found it helpful to talk to other women in similar circumstances. Her children disliked being crammed into one room on bunk beds in an unfamiliar place that was 20 miles away from their schools, a journey they had to make twice a day.
Sara's children stopped bedwetting once they were in the refuge and away from their father. For Sara this was an amazing, positive sign. However, Sara herself likened the refuge to a 'prison' where she could have no visitors, and no-one knew where she was, in an unfamiliar area with new schools for the children. Sara would like to see an 'advice guide' for women entering a refuge listing all the things to sort out like applying for housing, benefits and child custody. For some women like Kanya and Ana, entering a refuge meant separation from their children when they stayed full-time or part-time with their father. Difficulties
Many women said that access to a support worker was minimal, often one hour a week. In some refuges there was neither an office nor staff on site. Accommodation was cramped and often dirty. Getting a refuge place in the area they wanted, usually away from their abusive partner, was sometimes problematic. Lindsay was terrified when her ex traced her at the refuge and turned up with a shotgun. Behaviour could be challenging in a refuge, where everyone had experienced abuse. Migrant women had particular difficulties entering a refuge and having to deal with unfamiliar systems for housing, money, benefits and work, shopping and cooking, having left controlling partners who had denied them independent access to the outside world.
Yasmin and Khalida, both migrant women from Pakistan, had a difficult time in refuge. Yasmin knew little about how to live in the UK, she had no money or belongings, and lived in fear of her partner finding her and killing her and the children. She had constant flashbacks of her partner threatening her with a knife and felt her life had sunk to 'below human life', yet no-one recognised it. Ana, a migrant woman from Europe, married to a UK citizen, tried to flee from her controlling and physically abusive husband, who had attacked her when she was pregnant. She rang the National Domestic Violence Helpline and discovered she could not access funding for a refuge place because she was on a spouse visa and not eligible for public funds. It took her another seven years to change her status, leave her husband and enter a refuge.Many women had to deal with ongoing harassment and threats from their ex-partner after leaving the refuge and they felt that support after leaving was missing. Tasha, for example, was offered a place back in the refuge but she resisted as it felt like 'going into hiding' rather than getting advice on how to stay safe.
Refuge workers helped women to find somewhere to live once they left, and supported their applications for social housing. Many women described moving around temporary accommodation for some time, before finding a permanent place to live.


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Mrs Silverman is the 2001 winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. As Wikidata had only two statements for her, it was appropriate to add more information. The Wikipedia article is a stub but it had two categories for a university where she studied and one where she worked. Adding this fact to all the people in a category is relatively easy.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson award was given for "Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art". It makes Mrs Silverman an author and consequently there is a VIAF registration for her. Adding this has an effect when the {{Authority control}} template is available in the article.. I added it to the Wikipedia stub and was pleasantly surprised with the WorldCat information from the OCLC.
It is wonderful to find such quality information provided as a consequence from having VIAF information in Wikidata. That is actionable quality!


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mini cakey oreos
makes approx. 30 cookies
1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk (or milk)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter , room temperature
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1 egg
preheat oven to 350 degrees.
in a large bowl, add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. whisk together until well combined and set aside.
in a small bowl, stir together the buttermilk and vanilla and set aside.
in the bowl of an electric mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the butter and the brown sugar until creamy and fluffy. about 3 mins. add the egg and beat until well combined. add the flour mixture and buttermilk in batches, starting and ending with the flour. scrape down the bowl several times, ensuring that everything is well combined. mix just until all the ingredients are combined, do not over mix.
using a pastry bag fitted with a large circle tip, pipe out the batter in 1 1/2 inch circles on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, leaving at least 1 inch between each.
dip your finger in water and shake off excess. with your wet finger, gentley press down the top of each cookie.
bake in 350 degree oven for 8-10 mins., until they are puffed. using a metal spatula, transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.
vanilla buttercream
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons cream
in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the butter and sugar. start on low speed until combined and then increase speed to medium and beat for approx. 3 mins. add vanilla and cream and beat again. about 1 min more.
match up cookies in like sized pairs. pipe out or spoon buttercream on one side and sandwich with the other.
bon appétit~!


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March 17-21, 1999"A Mountain Quiltfest"
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, sponsored by City of Pigeon Forge, Department
of Tourism
Classes by internationally recognized quilting instructors; quilt exhibition and competition with cash prizes; quilt appraisals by American Quilters Society; vendors; quilting supplies; daily door prizes.
Location:Smoky Mountain Convention Center, 4010 Parkway, Pigeon Forge
Hours: 9 a.m.-7 p.m. March 17-20; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. March 21
Admission: to displays is Free; Nominal charge for classes and lectures.
For more information contact: Alice Watson, P.O. Box 1390, Pigeon Forge, TN 37868 423/429-7393