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With more than two million copies of his books in print, Anthony de Mello remains one of the world's most popular spiritual guides. In "Contact with God," he draws upon his persuasive lectures and personal parables to guide readers through their own spiritual retreats.
Nowhere is Anthony de Mello's characteristic warmth and insight more evident than in the series of talks he gave while guiding retreats. Known throughout the world as one of the foremost religious guides, de Mello offers here the transcripts from his beloved lectures, inspiring readers going on retreat and including suggestions for how to get the most out of the retreat experience. In "Contact with God" (reissued and available for the first time from Image), he intersperses his descriptions of various types of prayer with stories from his own life, as well as the thought-provoking parables for which he is best known.
- Catalogue Code 395751
- Product Code 9780385509947
- Pages 224
- Department General Books
- Category Spiritual Growth
- Sub-Category General
- Publisher Image
- Publication Date Oct 2003
- Sales Rank 51760
- Dimensions 215 x 139 x 12mm
- Weight 0.275kg
Anthony De Mello
Anthony de Mello, SJ, is the author of many spiritual bestsellers, including "Sadhana," "Awareness," and "The Way to Love. "A native and lifelong resident of India, de Mello taught throughout the world, and his books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. He died in 1987.
Receiving the Holy Spirit
I wish to situate this retreat in the context of the Church and the world today. We have assembled here for a period of silence and prayer and withdrawal at a time when the Church is in crisis and the world in desperate need of peace and development and justice. May we not be rightly accused of escapism? Can we afford the luxury of an eight-day withdrawal when the house is on fire and every available hand is needed to put the fire out?
Are We Escapists?
I want to continue with that comparison. The house is indeed on fire. But too many of us, tragically, have no motivation to put it out; we would rather busy ourselves with our little worlds and little lives. Too many of us are too blind even to notice the fire--we notice only what suits us. And even supposing we are gifted with motivation and proper sight, how many of us lack the strength to work perseveringly on this fire; how many of us lack the wisdom and reflection to find the best and quickest means for putting the fire out? And then there is so much selfishness in the way we set about the task--a selfishness that makes us come in one another's way even when we have good intentions.
The retreat, on the face of it, does seem like a luxury and an escape. But it is the kind of luxury taken by a general who withdraws from the direct line of firing to give himself time to reflect and to come up with a more effective plan of battle. It is the kind of escape that will enable us to strengthen our motivation, to widen our hearts, to sharpen our sight, to energize ourselves to plunge more wholeheartedly into the tasks that God has assigned for us in the world. Dag Hammarskjsld, the mystic who became U.N. Secretary General, was so right when he said in his diary, "In our era the path to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." We contemplate and pray to re-create ourselves and to act more energetically and more effectively for God's glory and the benefit of the world.
The Greatest Need of the Church
The Church is passing through a period of chaos and crisis. This is not necessarily a bad thing. A crisis is a challenge to grow. Chaos precedes creation--provided, and this is a big proviso, the Spirit of God is hovering over it.
The greatest need of the Church today is not new legislation, new theology, new structures, new liturgies--all these without the Holy Spirit are like a dead body without a soul. We desperately need someone to take away our hearts of stone and give us a heart of flesh; we need a fresh infusion of enthusiasm and inspiration and courage and spiritual strength. We need to persevere in our task without discouragement or cynicism, with new faith in the future and in the people we work for. In other words, we need a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
To put this more concretely, we need people who are charged with the Holy Spirit. The Spirit works through people. Salvation comes through people. "There was a man sent from God whose name was John," we read at the dawn of Christ's coming. A person, not a plan, not a blueprint, not a message. "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given"--God saved us, not through a "plan of salvation" but through a human being, Jesus Christ, a man who was mighty in the Spirit. The Holy Spirit does not come down upon buildings but upon people; it is people he anoints, not blueprints; he circulates in the hearts and spirits of human beings, not in the latest machinery.
So to say that the Church's most desperate need is for a fresh infusion of the Holy Spirit is to say that the Church needs a whole army of spirit-filled people. That is why we are making this retreat. We have come here in the hope that we shall become spirit-filled people. We have withdrawn with the attitude and the expectation with which the apostles withdrew to the cenacle before Pentecost.
How to Get the Holy Spirit
There's nothing more certain than this: The Holy Spirit is not produced by any efforts of our own. He cannot be "merited." There is absolutely nothing we can do to get him. He is a pure gift of the Father.
The problem we face is the problem the apostles faced. They, like us, were in need of the Holy Spirit for their apostolate. Jesus gave them instructions on how to receive the Holy Spirit. He said,
You must, wait for the promise made by my Father, about which you have heard me speak: John, as you know, baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit, and within the next few days. . . . You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will bear witness for me in Jerusalem, and all over Judaea and Samaria, and away to the ends of the earth.
Jesus said, "Wait." We can't produce the Spirit. We can only wait for him to come. And this is something our poor human nature finds very hard to do in our modern world. We cannot wait. We cannot sit still. We are too restless, too impatient. We have to be up and about. We'd rather undertake many hours of hard labor than endure the pain of waiting in stillness for something that is beyond our control; something whose time of arrival we do not know. But wait we must; so we wait and wait and wait--but nothing happens (or rather, nothing we can perceive with our unrefined spiritual sight), so we tire of waiting and praying. We are more at home "working for God" and so we drown ourselves in activity again. Yet the Spirit is given only to those who wait; those who expose their hearts day after day to God and his Word in prayer, those who invest hours and hours in what seems a sheer waste of time to our production-oriented minds.
We read in Acts 1:4: "While Jesus was in their company he told them not to leave Jerusalem. 'You must wait,' he said, 'for the promise of my Father.' " Do not leave Jerusalem. Once again, resist the urge to be up and doing before you are freed from the compulsion to act; the urge to communicate to others what you yourself have not yet experienced. Once the Spirit has come, "You will bear witness for me in Jerusalem . . . and to the ends of the earth." But not before, or you will be lying witnesses--or, at best, you will be pushers, not apostles. Pushers are insecure people who have a compulsion to convince others, so that they themselves will be less insecure.
Jesus said, "You will receive power." Receive is an accurate word! Jesus does not expect us to produce power, because this kind of power cannot be produced no matter how hard we try. It can only be received. I am reminded here of a woman who said, "I have attended dozens of seminars at which I have picked up at least a hundred beautiful ideas. What I need now is not more beautiful ideas. I need the power to put at least one of those ideas into action!" This is the reason why a retreat is not like a seminar: there are no lectures, no group discussions; there is a lot of silence and prayer and exposure to God.
What to Do Concretely: An Attitude
For tomorrow morning's prayer and, if you wish, for the whole of tomorrow's prayer, I want to recommend to you an attitude and a practice. The attitude is one of great expectation. St. John of the Cross says that people receive from God as much as they expect from God. If you expect little you will generally receive little. If you expect much, you will receive much. Do you need a miracle of grace in your life? Then you must expect a miracle to happen. How many miracles have you experienced in your personal life? None? That is only because you weren't expecting any. God never lets you down when your expectations of him are high; he may keep you waiting, or he may come at once, or he may come suddenly and unexpectedly like a "thief at night," to use Jesus' expression. But come he surely will if you are expecting him to come.
Someone has rightly said that the sin against the Holy Spirit is to no longer believe that he can change the world, to no longer believe that he can change me. This is a more dangerous kind of atheist than those who say, "God does not exist," for, while telling themselves that they believe in God, they have blinded themselves into a practical atheism of which they are hardly aware. They say, "God can no longer change me. He doesn't have the will and the power to transform me, to raise me from the dead. I know, because I have tried everything. I've made so many retreats, prayed so fervently, had so much good will--but nothing has happened, just nothing." The God of these people is, for all practical purposes, a dead God--not the God who by raising Jesus from the dead has shown us that nothing is impossible to him. Or, to use the lovely expression of St. Paul who speaks of Abraham in Romans 4; he is the God in whom Abraham put his faith,
the God who makes the dead live and summons things that are not yet in existence as if they already were. When hope seemed hopeless, his (Abraham's) faith was such that he became "father of many nations," in agreement with the words which had been spoken to him: "Thus shall your posterity be." Without any weakening of faith he contemplated his own body, as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb, and never doubted God's promise, but strong in faith he gave honour to God, in the firm conviction of his power to do what he had promised.
What to Do Concretely: A Practice
I suggest that you read Luke 11:1-13 sedulously. Read it again and again and ask yourself: What is my response to Jesus' words, "How much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
Wait till you feel faith enough in Jesus' words to really ask for the Holy Spirit in full confidence. And then, ask! Ask repeatedly, ask earnestly, ask increasingly, even shamelessly, like that man knocking at his friend's door at midnight, refusing to take No for an answer. There are some things we can ask God for only with the proviso, "If it be your will." There's no such proviso here. It is clearly God's will, his clear promise, to give you the Spirit. What is lacking is not his desire to give you the Spirit, but (a) your faith that he means to give the spirit to you and (b) constant asking on your part.
So don't hesitate to invest a lot of time in just asking and asking tirelessly. Say something like "Give us the Spirit of Christ, Lord, for we are your children;" or, "Come, Holy Spirit, Come, Holy Spirit." Any ejaculation will do: say it slowly, with attention, with earnestness. Say it a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times.
Or ask without words. Just look up to heaven or at the tabernacle in silence and in a spirit of supplication. If you are alone in your room, you may want to make this supplication not just with your eyes, but with your whole body--raising your hands to heaven, perhaps, or prostrating yourself repeatedly on the floor.
This may not be "meditation." It may bring you no great insights or "lights." But this is prayer. And the Holy Spirit is given in answer to earnest prayer, not in response to cleverly thought out meditations. Pray, not just for yourself, but for all of us--for the whole group. Don't say just "Give me," say also "Give us."
And, if you wish your prayer to have its maximum power and intensity, do what the apostles did when they waited for the Spirit before Pentecost--pray with Mary. The saints assure us that it was never known that anyone who sought her intercession or fled to her protection was left unaided. You can make this experience of the saints your own by having recourse to Mary in all of your needs. Then you will know this not because of what the saints say but because of what you have personally felt and experienced. Consecrate this retreat to Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Seek her blessing as you embark upon it. You will notice what a difference it makes.
Finally, here are some psalms that may help you to put into words your petitionary prayer for the Spirit tomorrow: Psalm 4:1 Only the light of your face can bring us happiness. Psalm 6: But you, O Lord . . . how long? Each night I weep. Return, Lord . . . how long? Psalm 12: How long will you hide your face? Psalm 15: My happiness lies in you alone. Psalm 23: (second half) Let him enter, the king of glory. Psalm 26: This is one thing I ask of the Lord. For this I long . . . One thing I long for--to live in the house of the Lord. It is your face, O Lord, that I seek. Psalm 32: Our soul is waiting for the Lord. In him do our hearts find joy. Psalm 37: Lord, you know all my longing; my groans are not hidden from you. Psalm 41: My soul is thirsting for God. My tears have become my bread, by day, by night. Psalm 42: Why are you cast down? Hope in God. Psalm 62: My body pines for you like dry, weary land without water. On you I muse all through the night. Psalm 120: My soul is longing for the Lord more than the watchman for daybreak. Psalm 136: By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept remembering Zion.
You may want to fasten upon one or other of these lines from the Psalms and pour your heart out to God in the words that God himself has given to us with which to address him. They will have the power to give you faith and obtain for you what you are asking for.


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The successor of nForce 570i SLI is faster, the ASUS board is sometimes faster with CR2T compared to the MSI P6N-SLI Platinum with CL4-4-4-12-CR1T settings, especially with very high CPU-clocks. CR1T was not possible with higher clocks then 800MHz, some benchmarks will crash. The same downside comes to the chipset-cooling compared to the P6N-SLI. Temperatures do easily exceed 60°C especially during overclocking, but ASUS doesn't provide any additional fans, to cool it down.
ASUS has choosen an AMI BIOS, which looks still beta. The CPU multi won't work on our CPU, it shows correct frequency on boot up, but does boot with full multi. So we could not test FSB 400 or more. The overclocking settings are in different menues, standard for ASUS, but user-unfriendly. The rest is fairly common nothing special.
FSB overclocking:
As mentioned above, without a lower multi, we where not able to check out how high the FSB can go. We tried the usual 373MHz, which worked fine, but the CPU was not stable to complete our benchmarks. The same CPU was used with the MSI P6N-SLI Platinum where all benches worked.
memory overclocking:
The board worked with 1000MHz but did not boot up with our rated 1200MHz kit. The CR1T setting is not possible with clocks above 800MHz, synthetic benches do work, but Gordian Knot/XVID is always crashing.
CPU overclocking:
Due the BIOS multi-bug we could only reach stable 3666MHz, but we doubt we would have reached more. The worst problem ist the VRM. "Eight-phases" sounds cool, but that's it. The VDrop was above Intel specifications of 5mV. While the MSI run the 3666MHz with a VCore of 1.5000V, ASUS needed 1.53750V. As you can see VCore drops to 1.472V. This is not exactly the voltage, because the sensor is only able to give 8mV granulars, even when you can set the VCore in 6.25mV steps.

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Spy plane program ditched as National Defence eyes extra U.S. planes
Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. (The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick)
OTTAWA -- The Harper government has ditched a proposed competition to buy as many as four sophisticated spy planes -- but with the U.S. looking to sell off surplus aircraft in the wake of the war in Afghanistan, the project may not be entirely dead.
Last year, Canada's Department of Public Works asked the defence industry for ideas on the possible purchase of manned airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planes.
But a formal bidding process won't go forward because of concerns over "security and technical feasibility," according to a notice posted this week on the government's procurement website.
Instead, the government plans to hold a future competition for some surveillance "elements" and "obtain the others directly from the U.S. government," the notice said.
The Americans are in the process of selling some of their MC-12W Liberty aircraft, which were used by the U.S. air force and army in Afghanistan to monitor the border with Pakistan and track Taliban fighters in remote, mountainous regions.
The turbo-prop planes were equipped with the same sensor suite as MQ-1 Predator drones and were similar in configuration to the Beech King Air 300, which is owned by the Department of Public Safety, but operated by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
It is just the latest twist as the federal government struggles to re-equip the military with a much leaner defence budget.
The government's 2008 defence strategy, which is in the process of being updated, called for the purchase of spy planes capable of monitoring vast swaths of territory with not only sensors and cameras but infrared technology as well.
They would be used not only to keep tabs on remote regions of the country, like the Arctic, but also foreign battlefields.
That role is partly filled today by the air force's CP-140 Aurora, which the government planned to replace.
But earlier this year they decided against retirement, opting instead to keep the 1980s vintage Auroras flying until 2030 with a multi-million dollar life-extension program.
The decision was made even though published reports in some technical journals speculated the air force could save up to $2 billion over the next 20 years by going ahead with the replacement -- a calculation the military disputes.
The Conservatives had initially set aside $3 billion to replace the planes -- the leading candidate was the Boeing P-8 Poseidon -- but deep defence cuts forced a re-evaluation.
Senior executives with the U.S. defence giant pitched defence officials on the merits of the turbo-prop plane in October 2011, according to internal defence records.
At the time, the government was still undecided about whether to buy new aircraft or extend the life of the CP-140s for an estimated $630 million.
Boeing officials assured National Defence they could deliver a brand new fleet for $3.1-billion, just slightly more than the budget envelope -- planes that would be cheaper to operate and less expensive to maintain, according to briefing material prepared for the military's second-in-command.
Air force planners were skeptical, especially of claims that the per-hour flying cost would be $8,000 per hour, a little more than half of the current rate for the older planes.
"While the impressive capability of the P-8 cannot be denied, there is also little doubt that the upfront cost estimates by (the evaluation) team are more than currently allocated for (the) project," said a May 2012 briefing obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
"The fact we cannot afford to buy the aircraft renders moot any comparison in operating costs."
Maj. James Simiana, an air force spokesman, said this week defence planners are standing by their position that there "no overall cost savings by replacing the Aurora fleet with the P-8."
During the Libya bombing campaign, the CP-140s were updated with an advanced surveillance suite and flew along the country's northern coast to help NATO warplanes target forces loyal to dictator Moammar Gaddafi.
They also flew surveillance and mapping missions over Afghanistan.


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Go Concurrency: From the Trenches
Our Current Implementation and its Weak PointsOur goal was to improve the efficiency and performance of some web crawler scripts that have been running in production for over two years with increasing performance problems, primarily due to CPU usage. Currently we are managing these crawlers to grab data from various web sites. The crawlers were written in Ruby, and the method used is straightforward: first get a page URL or account ID, parse the page content or invoke an API call, persist data to the db, and repeat. The benefits of this approach are that it is simple and straightforward; anyone can easily understand the structure. However, when the size of a task queue grows to be very large, weaknesses emerge. The queued jobs can get backed up waiting for responses, which in turn extends the execution time of a batch significantly.
Built-in Concurrency SupportThere are two possible paths to improve our code, one using multiple threads, the other using non-blocking IO and callbacks. After reading some code, I chose to use threads since I find such code to be more readable and maintainable.
goroutinesGolang has a built-in concurrency construct called a goroutine, based on the CSP model (It is said the model is Newsqueak-Alef-Limbo, which has some differences between original CSP, please refer to this slide for some extra information). Here is a brief instruction to goroutines, from the official slides.
- An independently executing function, launched by a go statement.
- Has its own call stack, which grows and shrinks as required.
- It's very cheap. It's practical to have thousands, even hundreds of thousands of goroutines.
- Not a thread.
- There might be only one thread in a program with thousands of goroutines.
- Instead, goroutines are multiplexed dynamically onto threads as needed to keep all the goroutines running.
- If you think of it as a very cheap thread, you won't be far off.
package main
import "fmt"
import "time"
func main() {
fmt.Println("START 1")
for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
fmt.Println("END 1")
fmt.Println("START 2")
for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
go foo(i)
fmt.Println("END 2")
time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
func foo(i int) {
fmt.Printf("Call index: %d\n", i)
And here is the output:
Call index: 0
Call index: 1
Call index: 2
Call index: 0
Call index: 2
Call index: 1
There are two loops in the code, and each invokes function
foo() three times. The difference is the function is launched directly in first loop, while launched via a
go statement in the other one. The execution order of the first loop is normal, but the second loops output is out of order. Actually the output from second loop should have an unpredictable order, and you can check this by issuing more
goroutines. By the way, the sleep used in Line 19 is to guarantee all
goroutines has finished execution, since the main process does not wait for others. There are, of course, some better synchronisation mechanisms available. The full source can be found here.
goroutine shown above doesn't return data, so it's not a full functional component. Now let's talk about Go's
channel construct.
Channels are something like a pipe: data is pumped in from one side, and fetched from the other. Let's modify the code above to show how this works. I have removed the normal loop to make the code shorter.
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
foo_channel := make(chan string)
channel_cnt := 3
fmt.Println("Start launching goroutines")
for i := 0; i < channel_cnt; i++ {
go foo(i, foo_channel)
fmt.Println("Finish launching goroutines")
for i := 0; i < channel_cnt; i++ {
func foo(i int, foo_channel chan string) {
s := fmt.Sprintf("Call index %d", i)
foo_channel <- s
And here is the output:
Start launching goroutines
Finish launching goroutines
Call index 0
Call index 1
Call index 2
As we can see, there is no sleep() call at the end, but instead a variable
foo_channel which pipes data from
goroutines back to the main process. The put operation will be blocked if there is already some data in the channel, and the get operation will also be blocked if there is no data in the channel. This is the method that controls function flow. Full source can be found here.
The size of this channel is 1, which makes it like a semaphore. But we can specify another positive integer while creating channel, then the new one should contain buffer function. While pushing data to the channel, the operation will only be blocked if all buffers has been filled. In the other hand, the get operation will only be blocked if all buffers are cleared. This feature can be used to control tje concurrency size of our web crawlers. Here is another example:
This program create two channels, and the
package main
import "fmt"
import "time"
func main() {
channel_cnt := 10
concurrency_chan := make(chan bool, 2)
msg_chan := make(chan string)
fmt.Println("Start launching goroutines")
for i := 0; i < channel_cnt; i++ {
go foo(i, concurrency_chan, msg_chan)
fmt.Println("Finish launching goroutines")
for i := 0; i < channel_cnt; i++ {
func foo(i int, concurrency_chan chan bool, msg_chan chan string) {
concurrency_chan <- true
s := fmt.Sprintf("%s: Call index %d", time.Now(), i)
msg_chan <- s
time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
concurrency_chan is a buffered channel of size 2. At the beginning of each goroutine, we put a
true value into the channel, and receive back at the other end. With these two lines, we can guarantee that only 2 goroutines are ever running at same time. Adding a sleep() can show this more clearly. Again, source code can be found here.


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traversient brauchte ein neues Button oder Icon Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 27 Designs von 8 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We're a small indie start-up submitting our first app to the Apple Appstore. Mainly we're very developers with bright ideas and work on the core app development, but we constantly feel the need for cool graphics and art to best show off our apps, and entice a large audience.
We like to think that we're really cool guys, and although we know nothing of the making of good artwork / graphic design, we are really discerning and really appreciate great work! :)
The audience is the geeks, techies and generally people who love to check out (and talk about) new and cool apps on the AppStore. The audience is very discerning - they know the good stuff from the run-of-the-mill.
Audience is web-savvy, and already knows how to efficiently search for what they're looking for.
We're looking for an app icon for our Universal app for iOS. The app is called "Pixellent" - it's an excellent way to search for images on the Internet. It shows images results from various web services and social networks and has built in thumbnail and slideshows.
Conceptually we are thinking of an icon that signifies to the user:
1. Search - User must identify that it's a search app, one of the ideas is to have a magnifying glass for this
2. Web / Net / Global - One of the ideas is to have a Earth Globe
3. Something that says "Pictures" - One of the ideas is to have a picture frame.
PLEASE be open and creative with concepts and ideas, above are our simple ideas, we're just developers with no creativity / imagination at all! :)
The most vibrant, and eye-catching design will be chosen.
Icon must be simple / easily identifiable. The most important thing is to have "rememberability" - the user must identify, and remember the icon.
Secondly, it has to grab the initial user's attention - when they are browsing through the gazillion apps that are available for purchase, our app must stand out!
FINAL delivery MUST include all the following sizes in square PNG, corner curve cutting will be done by AppStore. Source PSD / AI / whatever you use should be included:


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They are usually seen adorned in heavy, segmented plate-armour that covers the shouders, chest, upper back, lower sides sides, and thighs. They also wear gauntlets, shin guards, helmets and face masks that are designed to act like respirators, to combat poison regularly used by shinobi, and to communicate using inbuilt radios. Senior officers having short horns atop of their helmets to identify themselves. Like real samurai, they are armed with swords but the scabbards of these, are instead mounted directly onto their faulds. However, the number of blades worn by a single warrior is also unusual, going as high as four, in spite of the fact that they have never been observed using more than two at a time in combat, which could probably mean they are kept as spares in case they break in the heat of battle.
Little is known about the abilities of the samurai even by shinobi, but they are primarily sword-users. It was shown that they are capable of utilising chakra, apparently by channelling it through their swords. This allows them to extend the reach of their swords as well as attack at a distance by swinging them and releasing crescents of energy at their targets. The samurai have also shown form manipulation, as the chakra blades they form into many types, such as buzz-saws, broad swords, and axes. One of the forms of kenjutsu they use is Iaidō (居合道) which, due to the extremely quick drawing and re-sheathing of the katana, makes ninjutsu near useless, as the process of performing hand seals is overwhelmed by the speed and execution of this form of swordsmanship. As Ōnoki had stated that anyone daring to challenge the Land of Iron's military power would be considered foolish, this supports the formidable force of the samurai.
- Earlier in the series, Gatō had two samurai bodyguards, Zōri and Waraji, in his employ. Whether they were originally from the Land of Iron, or were taught by another organisation, is unknown.
- In the first movie, Sandayū Asama led a group of samurai to attack Dotō Kazahana.
- Samurai are traditionally known to use the katana, but the standard-issue sword wielded by the samurai of the Land of Iron seem to be closer in size and appearance to wakizashi. It is possible that samurai who can use chakra don't need full-sized katana, as their Samurai Sabre Technique more than compensates for the reach and cleaving power that a wakizashi lacks. Furthermore, carrying a larger blade means one has to carry more weight. Since the samurai are already wearing heavy armour, wielding heavier blades in such conditions might detrimentally affect speed and overall performance.
- In the anime, Tatewaki and the military of the Land of This consisted of former samurai from the Land of Iron, but he only refers to himself as a rogue samurai (浪人, rōnin).
- Curiously, in the weapons arsenal of the samurai of the Land of Iron, kusarigama were seen hanging on a wall, despite the fact that the weapon traditionally of ninja origin.


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I love working with blue denims :) Here's some of the denim placemats I've just finished, and I've yet to complete the order after the holidays.
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I like it a lot myself...the faded denims are my favorite ;)
I'm also liking sewing projects more...instant gratification! Besides, I had to make use of the scraps of denim left after making the placemats, and its a challenge to make useful and decorative items as well :)
But here's one project that I didn't sew, I just used SewNoMore Fabric Glue. Its a bit expensive though. I tried sewing this kind of project, but its hard on the hand and takes too long to get done.
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Michael Kay signs multi-year contract extension with YES Network
The YES Network, the most-watched regional sports network in the country the past 10 years, is the exclusive television home of the 27-time World Champion New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Nets. YES, which has earned 266 Emmy Award nominations and 60 Emmy Awards since its March 2002 launch, also televises original biography, studio and magazine programs, in addition to college sports.
"We are pleased that Michael will continue to play a vital role here at YES," said John J. Filippelli, president of production and programming at the YES Network. "For the past decade on YES, Michael has been the voice of the Yankees, deftly capturing the drama, intensity and passion associated with the greatest franchise in sports. He is one of the preeminent play-by-play announcers in baseball and is a first-rate interviewer as well, as evidenced by his stellar work on CenterStage."
"I really could not be happier," said Kay. "Continuing to live a childhood dream as the TV voice of the Yankees while working with the best group of people in the business on the country's best regional sports network is as good as it gets. I can't wait to start another season."
In addition to his work at YES, Kay hosts The Michael Kay Show, a sports talk show heard weekdays on ESPN Radio 98.7 in New York. The influential Radio Ink magazine, which covers the radio industry, named him the second-most influential local sports talk show host in America in December 2012.
Prior to joining the YES Network in 2002, Kay worked at the MSG Network since 1989 as a Yankees reporter. In 1992, he added Knicks locker room reporter to his responsibilities, and continued in that role until the 1998-99 season.
Kay was awarded the Dick Young Award for Excellence in Sports Media by the New York Pro Baseball Scouts in 1995. In 1998, he was on the MSG Network team that won a New York Emmy for "Outstanding Live Sports Coverage – Series."
In 1996 and 1997, he was a member of the MSG Network team that won New York Emmys for "Outstanding Live Sports Coverage - Single Program" for Dwight Gooden's no-hitter and "The Battle for New York: Yankees vs. Mets." He was also a part of the Yankees/MSG Network production team that was nominated for New York Emmy Awards for six consecutive years.
In addition to his television work, the Bronx, NY, native worked as Yankees analyst on WABC Radio from 1992 through the 2001 season which concluded with the classic Yankees-Diamondbacks World Series. Kay was a winner of "Best Sports Reporter" honors at the 2000 New York Metro Achievement in Radio Awards. In 1998, Kay also began co-hosting Sports Talk with John Sterling and Michael Kay, a nightly sports radio call-in show which aired on WABC Radio during the winter months.
Shortly after graduating from Fordham University in 1982 with a B.A. in Communications, Kay worked at SportsPhone and as the public address announcer for the New York Pro Summer Basketball League.
In 1982, Kay landed the job as general assignment writer for the New York Post. Two years later, he began covering college basketball (1984-85) and then spent two years as the writer covering the New Jersey Nets. In 1987, he moved to baseball at the Post, serving as the Yankees beat reporter. While he was in that position, he got his first television job with MSG Network as host of the Hot Stove League segment of MSG's SportsNight.
In 1989, Kay moved to the New York Daily News, where he was the Yankees beat reporter before taking the job as a Yankees broadcaster on WABC Radio in 1992. With that jump, Kay became the first newspaper reporter in any sport to make the move into the broadcast booth full-time, performing both play-by-play and analysis.
Kay stayed on the radio for 10 years, broadcasting the Yankees' four World Series championships during that time, before moving to the television side to become the lead play-by-play man for YES in 2002.
Kay has been involved in the Baseball Assistance Team (B.A.T.), a charitable organization whose mission is to provide assistance to members of the baseball community. He co-hosted the 2013 B.A.T. fundraising dinner in New York. Kay also will be master of ceremonies at the 2013 Thurman Munson Awards fundraising dinner in New York, scheduled for February 5.
In 2005, he was honored in his home borough of the Bronx, having an honorary street sign in his name erected on the Grand Concourse. Kay is active with the Alzheimer's Association in memory of his mother, Rose, who passed away from the disease in 2006. He has also teamed up with Yankees manager Joe Girardi and Girardi's Catch 25 Foundation to organize annual charity dinners to raise money for Alzheimer's research.
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Faculty: Joseph W. Dauben
Academic Interests
History of science, history of mathematics; the Scientific Revolution
History of Chinese science and mathematics
Awards and fellowships
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1980-1981), for a study "Mathematics and Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce."
- Excellence in Teaching Award, Lehman College, 1986
- National Endowment for the Humanities, 3-year Fellowship (1990-1992), for a Critical Edition of the "Ten Classics of Ancient Chinese Mathematics."
- American Council of Learned Societies, Senior Fellowship, 1998-1999, for a study "Marx, Mao and Mathematics. Nonstandard Analysis and the Cultural Revolution."
- Lehman College Foundation Award for Outstanding Research, 1998-2000
- Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Non-Standard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
- George Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.
Selected Articles/Reviews/Essays
- Dauben, Joseph W. "De Minimis Risk: A Proposal for a New Category of Research Risk," The American Journal of Bioethics 11(11)(2011): 1-7. (With Rosamond Rhodes, et al.)
- Essay Review of Jean-Claude Martzloff: Le calendrier chinois: structure et calculs (104 av. J.-C.-1644). Indétermination céleste et réforme permanente. La construction chinoise officielle du temps quotidien discret à partir d'un temps mathématique caché, linéaire et continu. In EASTM (East Asian Science, Technology, and medicine), 33 (2011): 90-114.
- Essay Review of Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor: Naming Infinity. A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity. In Historia Mathematica, reviewed for Historia Mathematica, published on-line November 21, 2011.
- Dauben, J.W. & Parikh, R. (2010). Beginnings of modern mathematics in India. Current Science (Indian Academy of Sciences), 99:3, 300-302.
- Dauben, J. W. (2008). Georg Cantor. In T. Gowers (Ed.), The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (pp. 778-780). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Dauben, J. W. (2008). Abraham Robinson. In T. Gowers (Ed.), The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (pp. 822-823). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Zhu Shijie's Siyuan yujian (Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns): Solutions of Simultaneous Equations in as many as Four Unknowns in Yuan Dynasty China. In H. Hecht, R. Mikosch, I. Schwarz, & H. Siebert (Eds.), Kosmos und Zahl (pp. 319-330). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
- "Suan shu shu (A Book on Numbers and Computations).English Translation with Commentary," Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 62 (2) (Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2008), pp. 91-178.
- "Chinese Mathematics," in The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam. A Sourcebook, Victor Katz, ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), pp. 187-384.
- "Mathematics and Ideology: The Politics of Infinitesimals. In Memory of Mariano Hormigón," Llull. Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas, 27 (2004), pp. 291-355.
- "Mathematics, Ideology, and the Politics of Infinitesimals: Mathematical Logic and Nonstandard Analysis in Modern China," Festschrift in Honor of Ivor Grattan-Guinness, John Dawson, ed. History and Philosophy of Logic, 24 (2003), pp. 327-363.
- "Charles S. Peirce, Evolutionary Pragmatism and the History of Science," Centaurus. International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science and Technology (Denmark), 38 (1996), pp. 22-82.
- "Mathematics: An Historian's Perspective," Philosophy and the History of Science, 2 (1993), pp. 1-21.
- "La Matematica," in W. Shea ed., Storia delle Scienze. LeScienze Fisiche e Astronomiche (Milano: Banca Populare di Milan, 1991, and Einaudi, 1992) pp. 258-280.
- "Are There Revolutions in Mathematics?" in The Space of Mathematics (eds. J. Echieverria, A. Ibarra and T. Mormann)(Berlin: De Gruyter, 1992), pp. 203-226.
- "Conceptual Revolutions and the History of Mathematics: Two Studies in the Growth of Knowledge," Chapter 4 of D. Gillies, ed., Revolutions in Mathematics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), pp. 49-7l.
- "Revolutions Revisited," Chapter 5 of D. Gillies, ed., Revolutions in Mathematics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), Pp. 72-82.
Series Editor/Editorial Boards
- Osiris (History of Science Society, USA) Revista di Storia della Scienza (Italy), Philosophy and the History of Science (Taiwan), Mathesis (Mexico), Ganita Bharati(Bulletin of the Indian Society for History of Mathematics).
- Historia Mathematica (series editor, Academic Press, USA) for ten years.
Other Activities
Program Committees (1994-98): International Congress of Mathematicians (Zurich, Switzerland, 1994); International Commission on History of Mathematics lectures; XXth International Congress for History of Science (Liege, Belgium, 1997); Symposia for History of Mathematics.
Fellowship/ Awards Selection Committees: National Science Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation (History of Science)
I am a member of the Executive Committee for the Section on History and Philosophy of Science of the New York Academy of Sciences, responsible primarily for arranging monthly lectures at the Academy. I am also Chairman emeritus of the International Commission on History of Mathematics, and have organized several recent symposia jointly with Professor Christoph Scriba of the University of Hamburg at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany, where graduate students with an interest in history of mathematics are often invited to present lectures. I have also served recently as co-organizer of special sessions including graduate students at annual meetings of the History of Science Society, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and at international meetings organized jointly with Professor Liu Dun of the Academia Sinica, Beijing (in 1992 and 1994), and with Professor Horng Wann-Sheng of Taiwan Normal University (1994). Graduate students have participated in all of these meetings.


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Assembly Speaker Karen Bass announced on Wednesday that she will run for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Diane Watson, D-Los Angeles. The 56-year-old Los Angeles Democrat has been in the Assembly since 2004 and is the first black woman and first Democratic woman to serve as Assembly speaker. Bass will be a strong favorite in the heavily Democratic 33rd Congressional District, which includes Culver City, Baldwin Hills, Ladera Heights, Windsor Hills, Hancock Park, Hollywood, the Wilshire corridor and Koreatown. Diane Watson announced last week that she will not seek re-election, saying she wants to spend more time with her mother, who recently turned 100 and broke her hip. Watson has held the seat since 2001.
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If you're of the opinion that there's not enough high camp in synth-pop these days, then an introduction to Azari & III is overdue. This Toronto-based four piece are partial to using words like "fierce" in interviews, as well as claiming club culture's post-rave decline is due to a lack of transvestites on the scene. They also do a stonking line in house-tinged singles, so it's only fair that Island Records have picked up their self-titled debut album for a proper UK release this month.
Bar the removal of one bonus remix track, this is disappointingly the same record which came out on Loose Lips in August last year. Given both 'Hungry For The Power' and 'Reckless (With Your Love)' were unleashed in 2009, you would have thought this quartet had plenty of material kicking about but alas, no. Azari & III sticks to its rough split between FM-friendly bangers and slinking Korg-induced jams like a hardened Ministry Of Sound veteran looking to meditate between a dizzying swirl of sugar rush highs.
At their most ecstatic, Azari & III can really whip up a frenzy of kaleidoscopic rhythms and vaudevillian vocals. With the likes of 'Lost In Time' and 'Into The Night' this hedonistic cocktail is near on undeniable in its supple convulsions, sweeping you along in the pounding ambiance of some utterly ludicrous lyrics. "Successful informatic is trying to get his habit but underneath those lies he's a raging addict," proclaims Christian Farley during 'Manic' in a typically thrilling outburst of utter nonsense.
This charismatic quartet are less successful when they indulge in meandering instrumental fare, a prohibitively common occurrence. Producers Christian Farley and Alphonse Lanza justify the six minute run time of 'Indigo' with taught frenzy of electronically scrambled whoops and hollers plus some staggeringly euphoric piano chords. On the dawdling triple whammy of 'Infinity', 'Change Of Heart' and 'Manhunter', Azari & III is lumbered with a lethargy that's dramatically short on energy compared to the the rest of the record. Where previously an inordinate amount of melody was crammed into every verse, these offerings are content to take one idea and milk the bastard until it's bone dry.
In truth, most of these tracks could have done with a more brutal hand behind the mixing desk. The full-length incarnation of 'Reckless (With Your Love)' is sublime until you hear its Paul Epworth radio edit in which every bristling hook and commanding beat is crammed into one three minute bundle of joy. The same goes for the quite good but still unnecessarily arduous 'Tunnel Vision', which probably wouldn't sound so much like filler if it didn't take so long to skip to the interesting bits.
So with six months worth of perspective since their debut album's first release, Azari & III didn't quite create a storming LP to match the promise of those early singles. What this bunch of house revivalists unquestionably hold is a barrel full of talent that many groups would murder for and an undeniable vigour that will pale in the hands of imitators. Here's hoping they strike gold on the second attempt.
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And if the Newcastle example is anything to go by, you can make this cash from mid-table.
And if the Newcastle example is anything to go by, you can make this cash from mid-table.
Very interesting, thank you."That's what I was wondering. But then look at the money David Dein has just made from Arsenal
Thanks hucks, that article is very good indeed - so all this money comes from TV rights then? That's crazy cash for "just being there"! I wonder what the new owners will do to get as much return on investment as the previous owners (who bought cheap and benefited from the TV bonanza) did?
Up= Man U, Arsenal, Villa, Fulham, Blackburn, Sheffield*, Reading*
Same= West Ham, Charlton
Down= the rest
* promoted
Attendance figures for the top 4 divisions in England (from footballeconomy.com)
Is there a 'football bubble'?
Some positive points:
- England can win games without their talisman
- The Barry-Gerrard connection in midfield (though Barry in a holding role is an O'Neill invention)
- Owen's quality shining through yet again - England's only proven world-class striker. The best thing about having the 'big man up front' is drawing away defenders so Owen has space to work. The poacher may be a dying profession but it's still a noble one, and Owen's numbers speak for themselves
I really hope you make it, Euro 2008 would be much poorer without you, and I'd love Scotland to be there too.
PS Violence should not be tolerated, but seeing Big Phil Scolari lash out at Dragutinovic yesterday made me think a little about where England could be under a foreign coach with some fire in his belly.
Good point. I don't know if they can."I wonder what the new owners will do to get as much return on investment as the previous owners (who bought cheap and benefited from the TV bonanza) did?"
Possibly. I don't think that clubs have done themselves any favours with prices. If they lowered the admission I think that gates might rise again. Charlton have good deals for kids and cheaper tickets for less glamourous games I believe, that is another way forward and it's interesting that they outperformed almost everyone else in terms of keeping their fans in a season where they were relegated."Is there a 'football bubble'?"
Well, that's why everyone is so frustrated I guess."Realistically though, as things stand, England are certainly not among the world's top 10 teams and would probably struggle to make even top 10 in Europe. Mind-boggling if you think about it, given the available resources."
Well, I guess what I'm saying is that he keeps doing the same thing against different teams so one day he is going to play the team who is vulnerable to it. I would see it as genius if he varied his strike force to find the weakness of each team but that's not what he's been doing."Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Einstein, attributed)"
Where are you from as a matter of interest Redcrescent?
The hoop-la comes from the expectations being so expeertly lowered during McLaren's previous year in charge. Israel were dreadful - hard to imagine them as the side that got so many good draws in recnet years. Russia are an OK team - neither great nor poor - but they had two 15 min spells (one between 1st and 2nd goals, the other at the star of the 2nd half) where they were clearly the better team.
Tactical genius? Not sure how many people have actually said this (though if you want nuance, don't go to the BBC's old boys' act anymore), but I do think McLaren showed some courage to re-engage a national joke because he thought he'd team up well with Owen. The easy (Sven) option would've been Johnson or (god'elp us) Smith.
I think Barry was ace, actually - barely a misplaced pass all match. Again, credit McLaren with sporting his resurgence under O'Neill rather than opting for big money Carrick or old warhorse P Neville, as I'm sure Sven would've done.
We'll see, but I disagree. Qf in the last three major tournaments and four consecutive 3-0 competitive wins says otherwise, even if none of them were against powerhouses.Realistically though, as things stand, England are certainly not among the world's top 10 teams and would probably struggle to make even top 10 in Europe. Mind-boggling if you think about it, given the available resources.
Incidentally, how often did Sven pick a line-up for an important game featuring players from outside of the big four, with Spurs and Newcastle as back up?*
I know many of the changes were forced on McLaren, but these two games featured starting roles for Villa, City & Wigan, plus two Everton subs.
*Not a trick question - I don't know the answer.
Man I hate rugby....er, anyway
True. When Heskey was recalled I was certainly one of those who laughed."I do think McLaren showed some courage to re-engage a national joke because he thought he'd team up well with Owen. The easy (Sven) option would've been Johnson or (god'elp us) Smith."
I agree with you here as well. There has been a common problem of obedience or lack of imagination from the England managers of recent years in that they only seem to look at big money players or those at big clubs. McClaren and Sven have both been guilty of this but maybe this is the begining of a change. I hated it when Crouch suddenly getting called up as soon as he moved to Liverpool, had he magically become a better by moving house? At the same time as he was playing and not scoring Bent was banging in everything and being ignored, presumably because he was at a smaller club. For me, if you're scoring twenty goals for a team that gets relegated that ought to be a plus point. I could probably get a few if I played upfront for United (this hypothesis is admittedly unlikely to be put to the test) but getting loads of goals when the rest of the team is rubbish is a real achievement."Again, credit McLaren with sporting his resurgence under O'Neill rather than opting for big money Carrick or old warhorse P Neville, as I'm sure Sven would've done."
To be fair to McC, some key men have been out injured at crucial moments, but a great team is characterized by the interchangeabilty of its parts without compromise of its structure.
And when, when I wonder will England find a quality keeper?
(Meanwhile, the England women's team draw world champions Germany 0:0 and are well en route to the World Cup final)
For a look at how it could (and should IMHO) be done, check Dunga's selections for the Brazil squad lately, including the one that thrashed a star-studded Argentina side at the Copa America final 3:0.
Problem with all these 'top' Champions League players is they bring that cautious culture with them. England played these games with a fair measure of freedom. On top of that, when you have to be a Top Four player to be in the England team, it breeds the complacent comfort zone attitude that has been so endemic, esp under Sven.
I mean, if your job is to nominate an England squad on the basis of names only, any 8 year old can do that in a flash. And if the pressure on an England coach to get things right is strong, imagine what the Brazil coach must feel each time he announces the team sheet. And here's Dunga picking young players that ply their trade in the Russian and Ukranian leagues, simply because he feels thay are going to do the best job. Sure, CSKA Moscow and Shakhtar Donetsk might play in the Champions League qualifying stages some years, but most of their league matches are not even Championship level.
I think that if a coach has a consistent policy of naming only the hungriest and most in-form players, regardless of names, hierarchy, history and the media, his success will speak for itself and he will be vindicated.
I'm surprised that my club, Spurs, haven't been mentioned in all of this. It seems to me that the main motivation for the board to behave as shabbily as they have to Jol is that they want the club to be top 4 and thus make them much more attractive in the market come the summer, by that time they will ahve secured planning permission to turn the ground by 90 degrees and expand.
Quite why they then let Jol spend £40+million and then not give him a chance to perform, i dunno.
As to England - both opponents were a bit poor but plastic pitch and all that may well make a difference in Russia. I think Barry was the real pick over the two games - the crowd in the pub shouted 'You're so shit, we can bring Neville on'. Still cannot see what Joe Cole really brings to the mix - step overs that never actually convince, profligate in the pass and only redeemed by a flash goal every now and then. Owen looks good but was unmarked for both goals on Wednesday.
The thing is though is that in the past we would ahve choked but at least we held it together and got the results - McLaren still looks like the coach driver rather than the coach and i ahve no faith in him bringing the best out of players like Rooney, Gerrard and Lampard. SWP needs to go away and remember how to cross the ball and we need to hope Lennon comes back fit and fast to give us genuine width.
BTW - shouldn't this be two different threads?
Yeah agreed, the long ball to the big man is ok as a plan b or preferably even plan c but it shouldn't be the tactic that a team with England's players defaults to."I get you, but it's not like other coaches don't watch England games and have McClaren's tactics booklet all figured out within minutes. If your repertoire is limited to 'long ball to the big man' (which only works if you have someone with Owen's finishing skills to capitalize on a loose ball) and 4-5-1 or 4-4-2, I'm afraid it won't get you very far - a team with a halfway disciplined defense will murder you on the break."
Well, I'm English obviously. I'm not a big supporter of clubs as such but as far as it goes my allegiance is to Manchester United. To be honest I prefer playing to watching."My dad is Austrian, my mum is Spanish and I live in football-mad Mexico. You?"
Not sure it's that, I think it's just a complete lack of imagination."So OTM. Why is this really - coaches caving in to pressure from the tabloids?"
I think you have to take everything in to consideration including the quality of the opposition but I think it goes way too far to say that you can't play for England if you're not in the Champions' League. You can't be so inflexible. When Greece won the European Cup they had less players in the champions' league than any of the other sides and you might argue that they were the freshest side in the tournament. Another non-champions' league player who did well was Rooney who was with Everton at that point."There are legit concerns that the Champions League is where it's at, and that you need testing against the best at club level and you won't get that playing for Man City (much as I love him, I'd be nervous about an England team feat Micah Richards against the likes of Kaka or Riquelme just now). But it's also partly a product of celeb culture, to some extent, and perhaps managerial cowardice - you don't look so stupid if your flop striker was deemed worthy of £10m by one of the best mangers in the country."
It's blown up right in their faces really. They've been completely exposed and left him as a dead man walking. I always think it's ridiculous to fire someone that early in the season anyway but the way they tried to go about it was particularly stupid."I'm surprised that my club, Spurs, haven't been mentioned in all of this. It seems to me that the main motivation for the board to behave as shabbily as they have to Jol is that they want the club to be top 4 and thus make them much more attractive in the market come the summer, by that time they will ahve secured planning permission to turn the ground by 90 degrees and expand.
Quite why they then let Jol spend £40+million and then not give him a chance to perform, i dunno"
Yeah, sorry about that."BTW - shouldn't this be two different threads?"
Any new nuggets of wisdom after the weekend games?
New speculation on the possible replacement of Martin Jol by Juande Ramos in the Guardian today, I just cannot see this happening to be honest. Can the Spurs board really be so dumb, and would Ramos leave a Sevilla side equipped to challenge for (and win) serious silverware again this year?
Re. different threads - "the best bits on Dissensus are derailed threads" and all that, but it'd be helpful. Anyone up for making an EPL thread and a separate one on football politics etc.?
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