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Football: Chuba Akpom
Arsène Wenger's new preference for British rather than foreign youngsters could be easily explained, when he has players as good as Chuba Akpom on their way up at Arsenal.
Akpom is the most exciting English prospect to emerge at Arsenal since Jack Wilshere. Four school years younger than Wilshere, centre- forward Akpom signed his first professional deal at the club on his 17th birthday in October.
Just two months later Akpom found himself taken to Olympiakos as part of the first-team squad, making the substitutes' bench.
Akpom has always been ahead of his age group. Last season, at 15 and 16, he was playing for Arsenal Under-18s. This year, as well as for England Under-19s, he has been starring for Terry Burton's Under-21 team, leading the line against opponents older and more experienced than him with confidence and authority.
Akpom scores goals, with six to his credit so far this season. He is a fierce physical presence – dangerous in the air and running beyond defenders – but is also sharp in the box and cool with penalties. But it is the intelligence and maturity of his hold-up and link-up play that mark him out against his peers.
Wenger recently praised Akpom's "personality and quality". He has enough of both to make his first public impression in 2013.
Jack Pitt-Brooke
Football: Suso
A manager doesn't always entirely know what he has in a player until the moment on the biggest stage arrives and that much is certainly true of Jesus Fernandez Saez, known at his club Liverpool as Suso.
The 19-year-old Spaniard, signed by Rafael Benitez from Cadiz in 2010, offered hints on the club's United States pre-season tour, when his intelligence and cultured left foot were in evidence. His performances were arguably the biggest positive of Liverpool's trip, with a shining performance in Toronto. But it was only when Liverpool managed the calamity of allowing Andy Carroll to leave with no replacement, during August, that he sensed an opportunity might be coming.
Fairly diminutive, though with a very powerful left foot finish, he would get his chance before January's reinforcements arrived, said his manager, Brendan Rodgers. The display in the Europa League against Young Boys was something: a neat one-two with Joe Cole allowed Cole to set up Jonjo Shelvey to score. But a teenager possessing the coolness to set up a goal against Manchester United, as Suso did, is a rarity. His temperament for the big occasion also led Rodgers to select him from the start in the Merseyside derby.
There were a few bids for him on deadline day, after he had started every game for Spain in this year's Under-19 European Championship and only after the season began did work get under way to extend his contract. But Rodgers has shown the courage to give Suso a good go. Liverpool's owners, Fenway Sports Group, want the academy to begin delivering. There'll be more of Suso on show next year and expect him to take the chance.
Ian Herbert
Golf: George Coetzee
Here comes George Coetzee, another South African comet poised to blaze a golfing trail. Last year it was his compatriot Branden Grace who claimed a first European Tour victory in January, then added three more. Don't be surprised to see 26-year-old Coetzee follow him into the winner's enclosure in 2013.
Typical of the breed, Coetzee emulated his hero Ernie Els in forgoing a serious talent for tennis to devote his career to golf. Four top 10 finishes in the closing seven tournaments of 2012 lifted him to 13th in the Race to Dubai table and into the world top 50 for the first time to secure his debut at the Masters in April.
The Pretorian combines attacking flair with fierce commitment. He was barely able to hold the club with his left hand in Dubai a year ago after trapping a finger in the door of his courtesy car, but he managed to complete all four rounds without a murmur.
Coetzee is acquiring judgement to go with cool cavalier instincts, which in his early days led him to go for everything. As a result, his driving accuracy and greens in regulation have shot up during his three seasons on tour.
Kevin Garside
Boxing: Frank Buglioni
Frank Buglioni looks and fights like a boxer from London's East End in the Seventies. It is, trust me, a compliment.
Buglioni, from Enfield, has been a pro for just over a year after deciding that he would probably get overlooked for an Olympic opportunity, and he was right. He is better suited to the pro game, a sport where a bit of thought goes a long way.
Buglioni is 23, unbeaten in seven fights, with five ending quick, including three in the first round. He has so far only beaten men that he was matched carefully against, which is how all quality boxing careers start.
The edge for Buglioni is his fans and he now attracts just over 700 punters whenever he fights. They arrive smart, early and lively. They Poznan in victory and change the shape of a night with their noise and laughter.
Frankie can fight, he likes to fight, which is not always a sensible thing, and his Italian roots have made him de rigueur on the espresso circuit. Boxing fans like a fighter who goes for the knockout, who lives in the ring a bit dangerously and in Buglioni they have a boy they can trust.
Steve Bunce
Rugby League: Alex Walmsley
A year ago, Alex Walmsley was studying to be a quantity surveyor and wondering whether he might get a few first-team games at Batley. Now he is surveying a Super League career at St Helens.
The 22-year-old prop is a classic example of the way a talent can sneak under the radar.
For his first two years at Leeds Met Carnegie he did not even play for his university team, preferring to concentrate on his amateur club, Dewsbury Celtic.
Once the Met's coach, Paul Fletcher, got hold of him, however, his progress was rapid. He was the Student Rugby League player of the year and caught the attention of semi-professional Batley. "Their coach, John Kear, told me he was taking a gamble on me and I only expected to play the odd game now and again," Walmsley says.
Neither player nor coach need have worried. Walmsley played almost every game last season, was Batley's player of the year and the Championship young player of the year.
With credentials like that, Saints were persuaded to take a look and liked what they saw. Although he had not come through the usual channels and had been, by his own admission, a fat, unfit teenager, they could see Super League potential in him.
They offered him a contract and Walmsley told the firm that had already offered him a job when he graduated that he would not be taking it up.
Saints do not expect him to make an instant impact at the top level. The plan is for him to be loaned back to Batley when he is not needed for Super League.
But those who have watched his development over the last 12 months do not expect him to play very much more Championship rugby.
Big, mobile front-rowers with good hands and a dash of aggression do not grow on trees and Fletcher is already on record predicting that Walmsley could go all the way to full international honours.
Dave Hadfield
Cycling: Chris Froome
Chris Froome was the man that 2012 forgot. He was there and played an impressive part – runner-up in the Tour de France, Olympic bronze medallist – but it was reduced to little more than that of a walk-on thanks to the man who won the Tour and won the gold medal in the same Olympic race. Froome was Bradley Wiggins' right-hand man throughout the Tour, always in the picture but rarely the centre of attention. There was one notable occasion when he was, on the 11th stage when all of a sudden he rode away from Wiggins, only to be barked back to the leader's side by angry instructions from the team car. This year it could be very different.
The 2013 Tour de France is predicted to favour the climbers, something which will suit the Kenyan-born Briton. The battle – for that is was it will be, and an intense one too – to receive the nod from Dave Brailsford to lead Team Sky into the Tour will in itself be one of the sporting contests of 2013 – except it will be largely unseen by us as it will happen in training. Froome desperately wants it, as of course does Wiggins and, if the 27-year-old gets it, another British triumph in France's great race will be a real possibility.
Robin Scott-Elliot
Athletics: Adam Gemili
This time last year Adam Gemili had yet to get into his stride as a sprinter. He had only just made the decision to give up a career in football as a right-back with Dagenham & Redbridge to concentrate on athletics. He had just turned 18 and had a promising 100 metres personal best of 10.38sec.
Twelve months on, the 19-year-old from Dartford has clocked 10.06sec for second place in an Olympic 100m semi-final and 10.05sec for a World Junior Championship record. He is a faster teenager than Usain Bolt or Yohan Blake were. Indeed, if Gemili maintains his progress under the guidance of coach Mike Afilaka in 2013 he will become the first teenager ever to break the 10 seconds barrier for 100m.
That is the measure of the exceptional talent British athletics has found on its hands in the wake of London 2012. Promisingly, Gemili did not just cope with the pressure of being thrust into the home Olympic arena, with an 80,000 crowd cheering for him; he positively thrived on it.
Britain does not have the best of records for nurturing junior world-beating sprinters through to success at senior level, but here's hoping...
Simon Turnbull
Formula One: Lewis Hamilton
I'll be watching Lewis Hamilton's progress at Mercedes like a hawk in 2013.
There's been so much negativity about his switch from McLaren to Michael Schumacher's old team, much of it based on the fact that the great man was unable to do anything with them for the past three years. But I believe Hamilton will make a huge difference on many levels.
"Aerodynamics for sure is the key performance area," the Mercedes team principal, Ross Brawn, acknowledged this year, "and because of that we have done a substantial amount of work to improve the strength and capacity and facilities of our aero group."
Mike Elliott, the former chief aerodynamicist at Lotus who created this year's impressive E20, joined Mercedes AMG as head of aero in July and the new W04 car will be the first to reflect his influence.
There are other big changes afoot and the "retirement" of Norbert Haug as Mercedes' head of motor sport is surely just the start of a reorganisation Niki Lauda is going to effect as the newly appointed "non-executive chairman".
Lewis will be on a mission, not just to drag Mercedes to the front, but to demonstrate that he made a good decision. How well the team gels, and how much progress they can make, will be fascinating to monitor.
David Tremayne
Football: Jack Grealish
Yet another promising Aston Villa kid from Kevin MacDonald's prolific academy production line. Given Paul Lambert's faith in young players, Grealish looks like he could get his senior debut before the end of the calendar year. At the age of 16 he was named on the bench for Villa in their Premier League game against Chelsea in March.
Now 17, he is very highly regarded within the club and is already on his first professional deal, which contracts him to Villa until 2015. He operates as a wide player but can also play in behind the striker and is a regular in Villa's Under-21 side.
Grealish comes from Solihull and was born in England, but has so far elected to play for the Republic of Ireland, whom he qualifies for through Irish ancestry, at junior level. However, Football Association coaches still hold out hope that he will play Under-21, and possibly senior, football for England.
Lambert's Villa project remains one of the most intriguing in the Premier League. If he can make Villa competitive with a young side and a core of players primarily from the academy there will be others trying to follow suit. With players like Grealish in their academy, however, Villa know they are in a stronger position than most to pursue this policy.
Sam Wallace
Tennis: Laura Robson
The fact that she alerted the world to her talent four years ago at junior Wimbledon makes it easy to forget that Laura Robson is still only 18. There have been times, particularly when she has struggled with injuries and growing pains, when her potential has been called into question, but 2012 underlined her outstanding ability and 2013 has the makings of a memorable year for the current world No 53.
The youngest player in the world's top 75, Robson has the big-hitting game that has become so important in modern women's tennis.
While she is unlikely ever to match the athleticism of her fellow Briton Heather Watson, Robson has taken her fitness levels to new heights this year and added a steely determination to chase every ball. Those qualities were particularly evident in her remarkable victories over Kim Clijsters and Li Na at Flushing Meadows in the US Open last autumn.
Robson loves the big occasions. Wimbledon and the US Open are the Grand Slam tournaments where the courts suit her best, but she loves returning to Australia, the country of her birth, and Maria Sharapova's triumph in the French Open at Roland Garros this year proved that even players who lack the natural movement for clay can eventually learn to win on the surface.
Paul Newman
Football: Nick Powell
The word had gone out that Crewe Alexandra had found another gem and sightings on television of Nick Powell bursting from the England midfield at the Under-17 World Cup in Mexico appeared to confirm it. In March, in the humble setting of Priestfield Stadium, came proof.
Midway through the first half, Powell, leggy and elegant, picked up a loose ball just outside the centre circle. He spun away from an opponent, glanced up, then dipped a magnificent 30-yard drive into the Gillingham net. The goalkeeper he beat was no mug either – a few months later Southampton paid £1m for Paulo Gazzaniga.
Powell moved on too, to Manchester United for £4m, taking with him all five Crewe end-of-season awards, including one for that goal. He has made two brief appearances for United, during both of which he showed his class, but is otherwise continuing his football education away from the glare and pressures of the first team.
United are determining where to play the level-headed, hard-working 18-year-old. Crewe played him in attack, England Under-17s used him in midfield, but his best position may be as a No 10. Expect to see more of him at Old Trafford, and at the European Under-21 Championship during this summer.
Glenn Moore
Football: Will Hughes
Off the pitch at Derby County, they have a fairly innovative ticketing system to maximise attendances. On it, they have a more old-fashioned way of pulling in punters, a young, stylish footballer catching the eye of everyone in English football. And beyond.
The queue for the young midfielder Will Hughes is long. Arsenal, Fulham, Manchester City, Liverpool and even Barcelona have been credited with having their heads turned by the young central midfielder.
Hughes uses the ball well, can protect his back four or play behind a front two. He has been integral to Derby's season and has a left foot that suggests he has a real future at higher levels of English football.
Hughes was unfazed by the step up to Championship level and that temperament is appealing to Premier League clubs sniffing around a player who stands out with his almost white shock of hair.
The 17-year-old has already become the second-youngest player ever to pull on an England shirt for the Under-21 side. He got the call-up after an A level class. That was reward for how effortlessly he has stepped up from youth football to reserve football and to the second tier of English football.
The price tag, after just 25 Championship games, is already beyond £5m. That has been the level of his impact. Those in the know expect Hughes to go on to play for England, already. Nigel Clough, his manager at Derby, could play. He has already drawn a comparison with Liam Brady – that is some praise.
Martin Hardy
Rugby Union: Kyle Eastmond
Kyle Eastmond must be fed up to the back teeth with suggestions that he is Jason Robinson's doppelgänger: there are similarities, certainly, but rugby men who cross the divide from league to union have quite enough on their plate mastering the complexities of the 15-man game without worrying about trying to emulate the unfathomable. Bath are far from fed up with Eastmond, however: having seen their latest cross-code trickster nail a place at right wing after a brief fling on the left, the West Countrymen are now wondering whether his innate understanding of space, width and tempo might be of most benefit in midfield.
Generally speaking, rugby league types are most effective in union the further they are away from the pack. Eastmond may be different: Bath have already shown trust in him at outside-half and they gave him a run at outside centre earlier this month. Even if he ends up as a full-time wing, he is certain to interest the national selectors sooner rather than later and is a decent bet for a summer tour place when England, shorn of their Lions, travel to Argentina. What he might achieve there is anyone's guess. Jason who?
Chris Hewett
Cricket: Ben Stokes
Part of the trouble with modern sport, apart from the fact that there is far too much of it, is that the stars are all known from about the age of two (and getting younger).
It will not do to be sniffy about this because it was a fair bet from a long way out that Denis Compton was going to be big. But academies, programmes and scholarships have made the left-field pick extinct.
Before his formidable innings of 73 in Nagpur a fortnight ago the choice would have been Joe Root. To choose him now would be almost cheating.
Ben Stokes, of Durham, it is then. Stokes is still only 21 but looked a little special at 18 (and probably at two) when he scored a rumbustious 161 at Canterbury. His batting has flair. He can bowl a reasonably nippy brand of right-arm seam and the all-rounder that England are looking for may reside in his talent.
As part of the Performance Programme Squad in India, Stokes has just acquitted himself well in all three forms of the game. A sparky chap, by all accounts, injury in 2011 impeded progress but a good start in 2013 at Chester-le-Street may compensate more quickly than generally presumed.
Stephen Brenkley
Racing: Kingsbarns
In most years, too much excitement about a young colt like Kingsbarns would represent a triumph of hope over experience. After all, it is never hard to find a two-year-old who has ended his first season with the persuasive glister of a champion in the making. It is less common, however, to find one able to see through all that promise in the Classics.
In this case, however, precedent suggests only encouragement. Kingsbarns bolted up in the Racing Post Trophy on only his second start – just like Camelot last year. The two physical paragons share the same trainer, Aidan O'Brien. And, like Camelot, Kingbarns was preceded from Co Tipperary by expectations that went far deeper than a brief public career.
As a three-year-old, Camelot won not only the 2,000 Guineas, over a mile, but also the Derby, over a mile and a half – and came within three-quarters of a length of becoming the first Triple Crown winner since 1970.
At Doncaster, Kingsbarns showed the same beguiling blend of speed and stamina. The one difference is that sons of Camelot's sire, Montjeu, can be mentally delicate. Kingsbarns is by Galileo, whose progeny tend to be as robust as they are brilliant. All in all, the hoofprints he might follow could not be imprinted more clearly on the paths of glory.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan attempted to withdraw from the World Snooker Championship last week, such is his loss of appetite for the game.
The world No10 rang the organising body last Thursday asking to be left out of the tournament, which starts this weekend, but when he was asked for a written confirmation he had a change of heart and decided to go through with his first-round match against Dominic Dale, which starts on Monday.
However, he will now work with Dr Steve Peters, a psychiatrist who helped the highly successful Great Britain cycling squad at the 2008 Olympics and also has a role with Team Sky. "A friend said to me in China that I should see this bloke. I'll try anything that might work," O'Sullivan said.
He is hoping that Peters will help him rediscover his appetite for the game following the four least productive months of his career and mount a serious challenge for a fourth world title. A spokesman for Peters said the two had yet to meet to discuss their way forward.
Since taking the Premier League title in late November, O'Sullivan has not won a match and has this season withdrawn from two major ranking events, the Shanghai Masters and the German Masters, and 10 of the 12 minor ones that comprise the new Players Tour Championship.
When he has played, his form has been patchy, his resolve easily broken. He has shown a desire to play only if the result is immaterial, such as when he made six centuries in eight frames in an exhibition he co‑promoted in Blackburn.
Away from the table, his relationship with Jo Langley, the mother of his two youngest children, ended in a protracted financial dispute, which has hardly helped his preparations.
Peter Ebdon, the world No13, felt it would be good for the game if O'Sullivan could recapture his best form. "If the real O'Sullivan turns up against the real John Higgins, or the real Ding Junhui, or a number of other top players when they're really playing on top of their game, we really could have fireworks," the 2002 champion said yesterday. "This could be one of the best world championships we've ever seen, and I think it's very, very open."
O'Sullivan's problems appear to stem from his father's 18-year sentence for murder in 1992. The 15-year-old was in Bangkok as the hot favourite for the World Amateur Championship when news of his father's arrest came through and he lost in the last 16 to a player he should have beaten comfortably.
His problems, whatever their tangled roots, have added to the already huge pressures of championship play and have often been too much for him. In 1996 he admitted to assaulting a media official at the world championships and was handed a two-year suspended ban and a £20,000 fine with an additional £10,000 donated to charity.
At the 2006 UK Championship, trailing 4-1 to Stephen Hendry, he missed a red then shook hands with Hendry and the referee and walked out. "I got annoyed with myself and lost my patience," he said, before being fined £21,000.
More recently, after a 5-4 defeat to Marco Fu in Beijing in 2008, O'Sullivan simulated a sex act on the microphone at his press conference, asking a reporter "Do you want to suck that?" He later apologised.
Nevertheless, he has been world champion three times, in 2001, 2004 and 2008, and has been the world's No1 player on five occasions, winning 22 ranking titles.

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Courtney from A Little Glass Box shares her favorite tips for taking holiday photos.
I don't know about you guys, but sometimes the idea of a holiday photo can be a bit overwhelming. The idea of trying to get everyone dressed up and having a positive attitude throughout the process seems daunting to this mama. So for the past few years I have decided to shoot my own photos with a more casual feel in order to alleviate some of the self-induced pressure. Here are a few tips I have learned along the way to creating a fun and family-friendly holiday photo.
1. Don't stress too much on the dress. I always try to dress in coordinating colors and keeping patterns to a minimum, but leave the formal attire at home. I like to use bright and cheerful colors for holiday photos (like red) so it pops against a more neutral background.
2. Try and use a prop. I have also found that using some type of prop is fun and makes the photos more interesting. This can be as simple as the glow of a strand of Christmas lights twinkling in the background, using a beautiful wintry scarf as a whimsical focal point, or using a special holiday sign for the kiddos to hold.
3. Location. Location. Location. One of the most important tips is investing time in finding or creating the perfect Location for the backdrop of your photo. I find shooting outside to be the most successful (in terms of beautiful color/lighting). (Be sure to shoot out of the sunlight and in a place where people are not squinting in the photo). I like to photograph outdoor shots because it helps to tell the story of where we are living and what we are surrounding ourselves with, during this time frame of our life. It can be as basic as a fence, a favorite tree, a beautiful statue or fountain in your town, or even the beautiful brick siding of a building. Everything has potential to create a beautiful backdrop for a family photo. *If scenery is lacking, try hanging some type of wrapping paper or fabric in the background to create a fun backdrop.
4. Texture is everything. The texture in the background of a photo is very important. I like to use the rough exterior of rocks, trees, or even a wooden barn to create depth and texture in the photo. It can really help make an image pop. It can be especially beautiful with a black and white image.
5. Don't underestimate the power of creativity. Refrain from simply looking at the camera in the photo. Be creative. Use a chair and stand on it, kneel down, or step to the side to take the photograph. Use all sorts of interesting angles to create a more interesting photo. I like to take pictures of my family looking off into the horizon, or down at their shoes and really capture what they do in these moments of vulnerability, instead of just staring at the camera and smiling.
Allowing yourself to think outside of the box and get creative with your family not only will help to produce a wonderful picture but it may just give you some wonderful memories while making the photo as well. At the end of the day you know your family best. So why not be the one to capture the beauty of your family behind the lens? I wish you and your loved ones a very happy holiday season filled with lots of amazing pictures.


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Glenn Beck's Anti-Violence Pledge: A Transparent Trap For Democrats
Politico reports [1] that Fox News producer Virginia Grace is "reaching out to members of Congress to try to get them to sign on to the pledge denouncing violence that Glenn Beck unveiled on the air yesterday." In the email, Grace states that Beck will "publicize the list of participating members tonight on our show as a message of unity."
(As an aside, according to her LinkedIn page [2], before working for noted unifiers Glenn Beck and Fox News, Grace was an aide to then-Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and the far-right Club for Growth.)
It's pretty easy to predict what's about to happen. Democratic members of Congress, who likely realize that Beck is toxic, won't sign on to his letter; conservative Republicans, who love/fear Beck, will do so.
Beck will probably spend this evening's program alternatively feigning shock that any member of Congress would refuse to sign his pledge, and attacking them for their failure to do so, while praising the members of the Beck Caucus who have signed on. He will ask what in the pledge they could possibly object to. He will suggest that the real reason Democratic members of Congress won't sign on is because they refuse to denounce the Cloward/Piven strategy, or because they don't want to alienate their supposedly violent union allies. He will demand to know how anyone could possibly accuse conservatives of violent rhetoric when they are willing to sign his pledge.
In reality, Democrats will be refusing to sign the pledge for two reasons:
1) As noted above, Beck is a cancer upon the body politic who constantly uses violent rhetoric [3], race-baits [4], and furthers bizarre [5] conspiracy [6] theories [7].
2) Part of the pledge implicitly slams virtually every Democratic member of Congress, along with President Obama, and conflates them with violent revolutionaries.
The pledge states:
I challenge all Americans, left or right, regardless if you're a politician, pundit, painter, priest, parishioner, poet or porn star to agree with all of the following.
- I denounce violence, regardless of ideological motivation.
- I denounce anyone, from the Left, the Right or middle, who believes physical violence is the answer to whatever they feel is wrong with our country.
- I denounce those who wish to tear down our system and rebuild it in their own image, whatever that image may be.
- I denounce those from the Left, the Right or middle, who call for riots and violence as an opportunity to bring down and reconstruct our system.
- I denounce violent threats and calls for the destruction of our system -- regardless of their underlying ideology -- whether they come from the Hutaree Militia or Frances Fox Piven.
- I hold those responsible for the violence, responsible for the violence. I denounce those who attempt to blame political opponents for the acts of madmen.
- I denounce those from the Left, the Right or middle that sees violence as a viable alternative to our long established system of change made within the constraints of our constitutional Republic.
I will stand with anyone willing to sign that pledge. Today I make a personal choice. I urge leaders of both sides and all walks of life to join me as all Americans joined hands on 9.12.2001.
Note how "those who wish to tear down the system and rebuild it in their own image" are just as bad as those who "call for riots and violence to bring down and reconstruct our system" and those who make "violent threats." Who has Beck accused of trying "to tear down the system and rebuild it in their own image"? Basically every Democratic member of Congress along with the President of the United States.
You see, according to Beck, Democrats, led by President Obama, have spent the last two years embarking on a mission of "fundamental transformation" of the United States. Pivoting off Obama's statement during the presidential campaign that "we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America," Beck has claimed that "fundamental transformation" means "collapsing the system as we know it and rebooting it as a progressive utopia." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 1/5/10, via Nexis] Beck has said this purported effort must be stopped in order to "save the republic." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 7/31/09, via Nexis]
In March, right before every single Democratic senator and the vast majority of Democratic members of Congress passed historic health care reform, Beck declared [8], "If this passes, the fundamental transformation of America is complete."
I can't imagine why anyone would accuse [9] Beck of "playing politics."
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Mrs Grundy
Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person,[1] a personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety. A tendency to be overly fearful of what the respectable might think is also referred to as grundyism.
Although she began life as a minor character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798), Mrs Grundy was eventually so well established in the public imagination that Samuel Butler, in his novel Erewhon, could refer to her in the form of an anagram (as the goddess Ydgrun). As a figure of speech she can be found throughout European literature.
Original appearance[edit]
Curiously for so famous a character, Mrs Grundy never actually appears in the play which introduced her, but is the continual object of the boastful Dame Ashfield's envious watchfulness, as is shown in the very first scene:
- Ashfield. Well, Dame, welcome whoam. What news does thee bring vrom market?
- Dame. What news, husband? What I always told you; that Farmer Grundy's wheat brought five shillings a quarter more than ours did.
- Ash. All the better vor he.
- Dame. Ah! the sun seems to shine on purpose for him.
- Ash. Come, come, missus, as thee hast not the grace to thank God for prosperous times, dan't thee grumble when they be unkindly a bit.
- Dame. And I assure you, Dame Grundy's butter was quite the crack of the market.
- Ash. Be quiet, woolye? aleways ding, dinging Dame Grundy into my ears — what will Mrs Grundy zay? What will Mrs Grundy think — Canst thee be quiet, let ur alone, and behave thyzel pratty?
- Dame. Certainly I can — I'll tell thee, Tummas, what she said at church last Sunday.
- Ash. Canst thee tell what parson zaid? Noa — Then I'll tell thee — A' zaid that envy were as foul a weed as grows, and cankers all wholesome plants that be near it — that's what a' zaid.
- Dame. And do you think I envy Mrs Grundy indeed?
Although later usage positions her chiefly as a feared dispenser of disapproval, the Mrs Grundy of the play is, in Dame Ashfield's daydreams, not so much a figure of dread as a cowed audience to the accomplishments of the Ashfield family. As the play progresses, Dame Ashfield and her comical musings soon drop from sight to make way for melodrama.
A real Mrs Grundy[edit]
During the reign of William IV (reigned 1830–1837) a Mrs Sarah Hannah Grundy (1 January 1804 – 30 December 1863) was employed as Deputy Housekeeper at Hampton Court Palace one of Henry VIII of England's most famous residences. Her husband, John Grundy (1798/1799 – August 1861), was keeper of the State apartments. Mrs Grundy became Head Housekeeper on 22 April 1838, a year after Queen Victoria ascended to the throne, and she served in that position until 1863 when she retired. Her duties included the care of the chapel at Hampton Court.[2]
Royal families stopped using Hampton Court as a residence in 1737, and from the 1760s onward, it was divided up for "grace-and-favour" residents who were granted rent-free accommodation in return for great service to the Crown or country.[3] These private rooms numbered in the hundreds. Much is revealed about the Victorian ladies living at Hampton Court Palace through their letters, particularly their correspondence to the Lord Chamberlain's Office as the Ladies attempted to get around the regulations — to exchange their apartments for better ones, to sub-let their apartments for profit, to keep dogs, or other matters of convenience. Equally revealing are the letters from the Housekeepers to the Lord Chamberlain, complaining about the Ladies' behaviour.[4]
This excerpt from an Australian newspaper reveals the possibility that Hampton Court's Mrs Grundy was a real-life moral regulator who had an impact upon London society, or at least upon the residents of Hampton Court:
- Ernest Law, chief historian of Hampton Court, points out that a "Mrs Grundy" did really exist. "That lady was, as a fact, embodied in the housekeeper of that name at Hampton Court Palace in the late 'forties and early 'fifties of last century. Her fame is perpetuated in a dark space — one of the mystery chambers of the palace — the door of which is rarely opened, and which is still known as 'Mrs Grundy's Gallery.' Here she impounded any picture or sculpture which she considered unfit for exhibition in the State rooms; and here she kept them under lock and key in defiance of the authority and protests of the Queen's surveyor of pictures. The story goes that on one occasion the First Commissioner of Works, on a visit of inspection, sent for Mrs Grundy. In answer to the First Commissioner's request, she declined to open the door for him. It was not until the early 1900s that a leaden statue of Venus, which had been sent from Windsor, and was stored in Mrs Grundy's Gallery, was brought forth to adorn Henry VIII's pond garden. "What would Mrs Grundy say?" [5]
However, in a book published in 1836, The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife Of An Emigrant Officer, Illustrative Of The Domestic Economy Of British America, by Catharine Parr Traill, she writes: "Now, we bush-settlers are more independent: we do what we like; we dress as we find most suitable and most convenient; we are totally without the fear of any Mr. or Mrs. Grundy; and having shaken off the trammels of Grundyism, we laugh at the absurdity of those who voluntarily forge afresh and hug their chains." This appears to show that the modern concept of "Mrs. Grundy" was current before the Mrs. Grundy of Hampton Court began her reign.
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- C. S. Lewis's character Mark Studdock in That Hideous Strength refers to her in a ghost-written article for an unnamed British periodical. "If you hear anyone talking about the liberties of England (by which he means the liberties of the obscurantists, the Mrs. Grundies, the bishops, and the capitalists), watch that man. He's the enemy."
- Aldous Huxley refers to her in the essay "To the puritan all things are impure" in his book Music at Night.
- Aimée Crocker refers to her throughout her biography And I'd Do It Again.
- John Stuart Mill refers to her in chapter IV of The Subjection of Women.[6]
- P. T. Barnum refers to her in the preface of his non-fiction booklet Art of Money Getting (1880).
- Charles Dickens mentions her in his novel Hard Times.
- William Makepeace Thackeray mentions her in his novel Vanity Fair.
- William Gilbert refers to her in the patter song "At the outset I may mention it's my sovereign intention" from the second act of The Grand Duke, and in the (cut) song "Though men of rank may useless seem" for the Duke in Patience (opera).
- Fyodor Dostoyevski refers to her in his novel The Idiot.
- George Gissing wrote a novel which was never published and is now lost called 'Mrs Grundy's Enemies'.
- G. K. Chesterton mentions her in chapter III of Orthodoxy.
- G. K. Chesterton titled a chapter "The Humility of Mrs Grundy" in his book What's Wrong With the World.
- Lewis Carroll often refers to "Mrs Grundy" in his personal letters as the characterization of those who may disapprove of his friendships with children.
- James Joyce refers to her in the "Eumaeus" chapter of Ulysses. Gifford's Ulysses Annotated characterizes her as "the ultimate arbiter of stuffy middle-class propriety."
- Robert A. Heinlein also mentions her, for example, in his novels The Number of the Beast, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Stranger in a Strange Land, and in the second intermission of Time Enough for Love. "Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite."
- Philip José Farmer's characters in the Riverworld series also refer to Mrs Grundy as prudishness incarnate in a negative way.
- Peter Fryer's book Mrs Grundy: Studies in English Prudery concerns prudish behaviour, such as the use of euphemisms for underwear.
- Jack London uses Mrs Grundy in his books The People of the Abyss and The Sea-Wolf. In the former he describes the early twentieth century attitude of the English working class towards drunkenness: "Mrs Grundy rules as supremely over the workers as she does over the bourgeoisie; but in the case of the workers, the one thing she does not frown upon is the public house ... Mrs Grundy drew the line at spirits." In The Sea-Wolf, on the 1st page of chapter 10, the protagonist says of his race that it's, "...sober-minded, clean-lived, and fanatically moral and which in this latter connection has culminated among the English in the Reformed Church and Mrs. Grundy".
- Louisa May Alcott alludes to Mrs Grundy in her book Little Women when speaking of the changes Laurie undergoes as a result of Amy's admonitions to him (1868).
- Martin Seymour-Smith refers to Mrs Grundy throughout his biography of Thomas Hardy.
- Thomas Hardy disparages the "Grundyist" in his essay "Candour in English Fiction" (1890).
- Mrs Grundy was satirized in the advice book for teens, Mrs Grundy is Dead (New York: Century, 1930).
- Walter Lippmann dismisses the "exploded pretensions of Mr and Mrs Grundy" in his A Preface to Politics (1913).
- On the television show Absolutely Fabulous, a character Saffie is called a Mrs Grundy by Patsy.
- A long-time character in Archie Comics is the teacher Miss Grundy. When first introduced, she fit the Mrs Grundy archetype well, being judgmental and old-fashioned. However, the character has been softened considerably over the years, and her current incarnation is not particularly Grundyesque.
- P G Wodehouse's lyrics to the song "Till the Clouds Roll By" from the musical Oh Boy! contain the line "What would Mrs Grundy say" in Verse 1.
- H. G. Wells's character Ewart in the novel Tono-Bungay, during a long dialogue about the Grundys says, "There's no Mrs Grundy." (book 1 chapter 4, section iii)
- Vladimir Nabokov refers to Mrs Grundy in his novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941).
- Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy refer to "Mrs Grundy" in Chapter 12 of The Ethical Slut (2nd Edition, 2009).
- Harry Turtledove refer to "Mrs Grundy" in Chapter 3 of Colonization: Down to Earth.
- E. M. Forster - The Clever Lady says "If it is Mrs Grundy who is troubling you..." in Chapter 2 of A Room with a View, and "Grundyism" generally in Two Cheers for Democracy.[7]
- Patrick O'Brian in "Treason's Harbour" describes Jack Aubrey's wife as "...completely different. She was not a prude, and she cared no more for Mrs Grundy than Diana..."
- Vesta Tilley's song 'Bazaar Maids' refers to all the pretty, witty girls being 'under Mother Grundy's laws'
See also[edit]
- ^ http://wordcraft.infopop.cc/eponyms.htm
- ^ The Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, Royal Household Index, collected in 1995 by Dr Penelope Christensen.
- ^ http://www.hrp.org.uk/learninganddiscovery/Discoverthehistoricroyalpalaces/thebuildinghistories/HamptonCourtPalace/uptothepresent
- ^ Heath, Gerald Duncan. Hampton Court Palace 'Grace and Favour' in the Nineteenth Century, Borough of Twickenham Local History Society, 1988, page 4
- ^ Western Argus (Kalgoorlie, WA: 1916-1938), Tuesday 12 October 1926, page 35
- ^ Mill, John Stuart (1869). The Subjection of Women (1869 first ed.). London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer. p. 167. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ Forster, E. M. (1972). Two Cheers for Democracy. London: Edward Arnold. p. 26. ISBN 0713156589.
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- Australia Trove - Digitalised newspapers and more http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article34403421


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Westwood - Roxhill - Arbor Heights Community Council discusses Metro cuts and traffic issues
The Westwood/Roxhill/Arbor Heights Community council tackled a series of issues at their most recent meeting on July 9 including potential cuts in bus service from King County Metro, adding a traffic circle at 41st SW and SW 104th Street, traffic calming on Roxbury Street and speed humps on 30th SW near Roxhill Elementary.
Here are their meeting minutes:
King County Metro cuts; writing a letter to the city advocating action:
We discussed the upcoming possibility of King County Metro cuts. The state legislature in Olympia failed to give the county the taxing authority it needed in the last special session. It's entirely possible—maybe—that something could come up in September in Olympia. However the political climate and obstruction against King County and Seattle is evident at the moment, was the consensus.
Due to this, we are going to draft the wording of a letter to the Mayor and City Council, advocating that they do whatever is legally allowable to mitigate any cuts to Metro services on the city side. The only practical or feasible solution here would be the city funding Metro service in-city. As far as we're aware, and already demonstrated by the money the city already has authority to give Metro, this is a possibility.
The discussion quickly added on that this is something we would want to get as many groups on board as is possible, who are like us. That would likely involve driving this, after the draft is done, through the District and CNC levels of the city system. We'll get an initial draft written as soon as possible and post it for feedback on Facebook and the site.
Traffic circle in Arbor Heights needed:
A traffic circle on 41st & 104th is needed. The neighbors are going to drive this through the city's Traffic Calming Program, that Yun Pitre reminded us of.
By-laws discussion and adoption:
We discussed the proposed by-laws for our community council (previously posted as version 1.0, here). We are going to add some language and a section for a voting process and ratification process for ongoing issues that will involve online quorums (between sources like online surveys, Facebook, email, the website, etc). We get much more participation online than in-person. Traditional, classic methods — a physical meeting — have their place, but it's also 2013.
The updated version will be posted soon and we'll begin the ratification of this online, and hope to adopt a final version by our August 2013 meeting.
Traffic calming on Roxbury:
Chris Stripinis on the Infrastructure Committee has been working with SDOT on the ongoing Roxbury safety concerns we keep hearing about, and has drafted a letter to SDOT asking for a traffic safety review of Roxbury, from 35th east to White Center. We posted about this on June 14 last month for feedback with some early statistics we had gotten from SDOT. Now that the draft is done, there was some minor feedback in the meeting for a few adjustments and there was nearly unanimous agreement to advance this by the end of August to SDOT.
We would along thew ay engage with the Delridge, Highland Park, North Highline and White Center community groups on this project, with the goal of getting additional endorsements for the requests from these groups. We would also reach out to the schools (the various day care/pre-schools, Holy Family, Roxhill Elementary) for endorsements if possible. Also, we would reach out to the senior housing facilities on the route as well.
The time frame for things to happen would look something like this, we believe: Green Lake and Wallingford asked for basically this same thing last year on some of their streets. SDOT held open houses for public feedback recently, so remediation timing could be months or a year or so to take action. A safe guess would be if we submit the initial request by August 31st to SDOT, that in 'months' we would have a study completed. An open house for community feedback could be a few more months down the road. SDOT would then come back with a list of solutions (more months) and then the local groups would endorse the solutions, or not.
One important note: if the study turns up something particular bad, the city may be compelled to address it in a given way by local, state, or Federal law even if the community doesn't care for it.
The group last night voted to move forward with this.
Speed humps on 30th by Roxhill Elementary:
While Chris has been discussing Roxbury with SDOT, a parallel push by residents on 30th by Roxhill came to the city outside of our group to get speed humps put in by the school. This would be like the speed humps by Highland Park elementary, along 10th. They asked Chris to bring it to the meeting, and they will send him the specific petition form. We will then post this here on the site and Facebook as a PDF so we can go ring doorbells. The city wants approximately 60% nearby neighborhood support in order to make it happen. That seems to be the standard way of it happening.
PACE, Small Sparks, and an idea for a Roxhill Park event:
The city runs a program called the People's Academy for Community Engagement (PACE). Amanda Helmick, WWRHAH's chair, and Joe Szilagyi, it's Secretary, both applied for this year's session. Amanda was accepted and Joe was asked to facilitate a session on social media. Along the way of the program, the attendee along with others applies for a Small Sparks Fund Grant from the city, for a neighborhood project. It's like the grant that got us Roxhill Park rebuilt, but on a much smaller scale.
There was a request that a project be submitted — on very short notice — by July 18th. It's still in development, and Amanda's idea was to do a sponsored cleanup of the massive overgrowth in Roxhill Park that is always backlogged. This would bring together WWRHAH, the Friends of Roxhill Park, and hopefully other groups. Since it was such notice, time sensitive, and a good idea, there was unanimous support to do whatever we could to help out.
One idea that came up was to use the budget to obtain the tools needed from locally owned hardware stores, like the Ace in the Junction and McLendon's in White Center. After the clean up, the tools would be donated whole to the West Seattle Tool Library, a local non-profit. The project would benefit Roxhill, the neighborhood, the local businesses, and a valuable non-profit all in one shot. To draw more people out — you need carrots, after all — there are ideas being floated to tie the clean up event into other activities with local businesses that day in the park.
"Help clean the park or donate a new tool to the tool library, and you get to participate in this fun thing!" — that sort of idea. We'll have more details hopefully soon! This particular clean up and event would be next spring, in 2014.
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The "Save the Last Dance" dame wore a loose-fitting black dress as she mingled with the film's handsome director, "Mad Men" star John Slattery.
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This interactive installation uses viewer's body movements as an input to affect an animation flow on screen. It combines the use of two different disciplines – interactivity and animation. This installation demonstrates that both disciplines can benefit from this integration. Interactivity can use certain qualities of animation to make content more appealing and interaction more interesting. The interactivity, on the other hand, helps the animation to turn passive viewer into an active participant, thus the old principles of animation take a new form.
This is my graduation project from Master Animation at AKV|St.Joost, Breda, The Netherlands. Here you can find thesis paper.
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