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Hawkeye and the Lost Phoenix
Chapter One: U.N.D.E.R. S.H.I.E.L.D
If I was to describe the place they had dumped me at in one word; that word would be shithole.
To be honest, the worst bit about it isn't the disgusting stench, or the weather, or even the constant air of death. Instead, it's the fact that it exists at all. To be honest, every place I've been is just another warzone. New York proved that.
It's been four weeks, six days, three hours and twenty-two fucking minuets since drop off in this desolate place. Worst bit is that I still don't have my further instructions.
'Hey, Hawkeye?'
Hey, Hawkeye, my ass. The guy's been a pain in my side since I arrived.
'What, Mo'?'
'Are you going to be shooting someone today with you arrow?'
Same question every morning.
'I told you; I'm here just to relax.'
The boy laughed. Threw his head back and everything. If he was a few years older, I probably would have smacked him.
'Mister, nobody come here for holiday. Only come here for problem.'
Kid was right. Nobody in their right mind would come to this place by choice to relax. So that meant that for whatever reason Fury had for send me to this hell, it wasn't good. There was a heavy knocking on the frame of the door-less apartment and a young woman poked her head through the two pieces of material which was supposed to act as a barrier for privacy. Her eyes were cast down as she held out a small rectangular object and whispered something softly. When it was obvious that I didn't understand what she had said, the kid, Mo', accepted the thing and held it out for me. I checked the caller id but of course it was unknown.
'Barton.' I answered.
'Finally.' Responded a female voice down the line. 'Agent Barton, this is Agent Maria Hills.'
'Hey Hills. Why so formal?'
'Never know who's listening... or what they remember.'
'You think that I'd forget you after seeing you only a little over a month ago? Maria, I'm insulted.'
I heard her soft chuckle then a throat being cleared. Fury couldn't talk to me directly; he had to get his second to. Well screw you too Director.
'Agent Barton, your contact will meet you at the co-ordinates that will be texted to you on your burn pone at the time given. Make sure to not only dispose of the burn phone but to also take the proper protocols and precautions-'
'Yeah, yeah. I know.'
She sighed.
'Be safe Clint.'
'Always am.'
'Mister Hawkeye?' called Mo.
Clint looked around and found the young boy staring at the dismantled weapons on the cot.
'What is it Mo?'
The boy reached out a tentative hand then balled it into a fist.
'Are you going to be shooting someone today with you arrow?'
For the first time, Clint chuckled. He reassembled the two pistols and stun gun. Clint slid his hunting knife into his boot then with one last glance at his bow and quiver, shook his head.
'Nah, Mo. Not today.'
The streets of Herat were busy, merchants and shoppers bustling along the streets. Clint kept his head down as he hurried to the meeting point. It wasn't about blending in, but rather making it to the meet without raising suspicion. Eventually he was out of the heart of the city and far along to the dirtier part of town. He noted how he had to thank Stark the next time they met. Through the dark shades he wore, he could keep tabs on the faces and weapons moving along the streets. When he finally reached the coordinates given, he froze. It seemed to be an average residential dwelling. Clint knocked tentatively and the door flung open. The man at the door said nothing, just pulled him inside. The inside of the building seemed to be as unassuming as the outside. From the front, he was led down a small hallway then through the back.
'What the f-' he began, only to have his words cut off when another man tapped his shoulder.
He spun around and caught a glimpse of an assault rifle and uniform under a tattered cloak. He was soon being dragged off, to where, he had no idea. They went through the back of another building before climbing through a trap door. That's went he understood.
'There's an illegal club here?'
The man that had dragged Clint took off his cloak and stretched.
'Where isn't there an illegal club, Agent Barton?' He laughed, grasping Clint's hand. 'I'm Special Agent Thomas Hamilton of U.N.D.E.R. Call me Ham, Tocky, Hamy but not Thomas or Tom.'
Clint raised an eyebrow in question.
'Tom was my grandfather and Thomas was my father.' He explained.
They were led to a small booth and ordered drinks. Clint quickly sent Ham's hand print scan to the data base along with a scan of his face while Ham spoke to a passing man. When Ham sat in the booth, he let out a loud groan, catching the attention of some of the people around them.
'So, the famous Hawkeye of the Avengers, out in Afghanistan. A holiday from New York, I assume?'
Clint choked on a mouthful of beer and shot Ham an incredulous look.
'Which bit? Hawkeye or holiday?'
'Hawkeye. Then holiday.'
Ham took a swig from his glass then lent forward.
'That's what the people back home have been calling you. They had Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Black Widow and you, Hawk Eye.'
'Yeah, well... I didn't think anyone but the kid and the media actually called me that. And who's the Black Widow?'
'Natasha Romanov... You didn't know.'
Clint shook his head. He began to laugh, imagining Natasha's reaction to her name as the Black Widow.
'Okay. So you probably wanna know why you are here, right?'
Instead of answering, Clint just took another drink of his beer.
'Alright then... Well, I need your help to retrieve a package from one of the underground clubs.'
'Fury sent me to help you get some package?' Clint growled in disbelief.
'No. Fury sent you to help me get a package that my company hasn't been able to retrieve for the past year. The package and the information on our case will then be given to SHEILD before my company see's any of it.'
'And your directors fine with that?'
'My boss will be more than happy seeing as we're fucked up until we received that shit.'
Clint sat back again, showing Ham his poker face. Fury had sent him to help another agency recover some lost package. It had to big either really important or the director had to have lost faith in his ability. The scans had come back a while ago and Ham checked out. Well... mostly. The agency, UNDER, was not one he was familiar with. Clint had heard things from time to time, but he had never found out exactly who they were or what they did.
'What's in the package?'
'Need to know.'
'Yeah and if I'm going in, I need to know.'
'Seeing as it's an order from the top, I don't think you have a choice.'
Clint stood and leant over the table between them.
'I don't know how your agency works, but the way I work is quickly and with all the information that I need to complete it successfully. So Agent Hamilton, what is in the package?'
Hamilton sighed and downed the rest of his drink.
'Fine, Barton. You win.'
NB: I am a big fan of the Marvel's Avengers. So when an idea hijacked my mind about a story, post New York (As in after the events of the Avengers Movie), with Hawkeye as the main character, i quickly put pen to paper to get it all out.
Obviously i do not own any of the Marvel Characters and/or concepts -this is a FanFic, lovlies. That being said, i do, however, own the new characters, worlds and concepts that appear in this story :) My brain made it, so it's mine, right?
Feel free to comment but try to keep it civil
Thanks and I hope you like it :)
This is my fanfic that I started posting on Wattpad then decided to post it up here as well :)


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PLATSBURGH – The Parish of the Trinity Episcopal Church celebrates its 200th anniversary throughout the year.
It is the oldest parish in the deanery of the North Adirondacks.
The Dean, The Right Reverend David K. Ousley, is the priest in charge and the 26th rector of the church located at 18 Trinity Place in Plattsburgh.
"It was chartered in 1821, September 30," said Martha Bachman, church historian.
"They encountered other places early on. There are stories, although I could not find any documentation on this, that the door originally opened on the north side of the church instead of the south.
"But I tend to think that's not true because I really looked at the building a lot."
The gray stone structure, built from 1830 to 1831, is the second oldest church in Plattsburgh after the First Presbyterian Church, established in 1792.
Reverend Joel Clapp became the first rector in March 1822.
"We are an Episcopal Church," Bachman said.
"We use the Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer delimits the services for Rite One, Rite Two, Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer. We follow the principles of the Episcopal Church across the country.
"The English Church is the Anglican Church, and in the United States it is the Episcopal Church. As time went on and we became an independent country, we formed our own.
"Originally, before the Revolution, our churches were all the Church of England, which is the Anglican Church. With the Revolution, it ended.
The gray stone structure, which can accommodate 300 people, was redesigned in 1861, the same year as the stained glass windows were installed.
"We don't know the mason's name," she said.
"It's built with stone, locally mined stone. There was a large wooden spire at the top, but it became unstable and was either taken down or blown out. He was not replaced.
"The church had the traditional box benches. People bought their bench. There have been some upgrades and things have changed since then, but basically the interior is pretty much what it used to be.
New steps have been installed up to the balcony, but the old curved steps remain.
"They were paying 10 cents a week for a boy to pump the organ bellows, so they could play the organ," Bachman said.
"At one point we had a bench in the back for the colored minions. Lafayette (Mason) and his mother, Dinah, were baptized here. Mrs. Ransom (Margaret Bird) brought them in shortly after their release, and they were no longer slaves because New York had banned slavery. They were brought in to be baptized. They were obviously living on the Ransoms.
Lewis Ransom, Esq. was a founder and administrator of Plattsburgh Academy, where the first church services were held with visiting clergy from Vermont, according to "A History of Trinity Episcopal Church 1821-1971, Reflection & Hope."
In the certificate of organization of the church, it is stated: "The ransom has been called for the presidency here since no rector is present and chaired and by a majority of votes, Said Lewis Ransom and the Lieutenant John RL Skinner were elected guardians of the church, and William Swetland, MM Standish, Lyman Foot, William P. Taylor, Timothy F. Cooke, Anselm Parsons, John Lynde and Anson J. Sperry were elected vestrymen of said church congregation or society and Wednesday in the week called Easter week … "
The certificate was signed and sealed by Ransom, Cooke and Taylor in the presence of Anson J. Sperry. It was recorded by Caleb Nichols at the Clinton County Clerks Office, Liber G of Deeds, page 97.
Many names of priests and parishioners – Beaumont, Lynde, Bailey, Platt, Sailly – adorn the streets of Plattsburgh and the stained glass windows of the church or the artifacts given in their memory.
Swetland, the "great lawyer of upstate New York," married Elizabeth "Betsey" Ketchum Delord, widow of businessman Henry Delord.
"We have William Swetland up front on the east side," Bachman said.
One of the interesting windows near the entrance to the church is dedicated to Brigadier General Carlos Adolphus Waite.
Born in Plattsburgh on May 5, 1797, he was the son of John and Esther (Babbet) Waite.
A career officer in the army, he died in Plattsburgh on May 7, 1866.
Like many parishioners in Trinity, he is buried in Riverside Cemetery, along with his parents, siblings, and wife, Mary Van Wyck.
"He was a soldier," Bachman said.
"He went to Texas. He was the commander of the Texas Army (department) before the Civil War. He married a local girl. When Texas seceded, they allowed him to return home because he had been seriously injured in the war with Mexico, but they kept the rest of the men confined to Texas for over two years.
"It was part of the military's efforts to bring camels into the southwestern United States believing they would be in the desert areas, a good form of transportation."
There is a window dedicated to Dr Samuel Beaumont, cousin of Dr William Beaumont, "The Father of Gastric Physiology".
"The Beaumont family was very active in this congregation," she says.
"Samuel was very involved with William, although William takes credit for it."
The Rev. John Henry Hopkins Jr. was the 12th rector of Trinity installed in April 1872.
"He was the author of 'We Three Kings'," Bachman said.
"He didn't write it while he was here. He wrote it when he lived in New York, and I think it was when I believe he came here. John Henry Hopkins also designed the seal that the church uses for that day, and he also designed a fellowship set. We always use that fellowship set on holidays and special occasions. "
His father, Bishop John Henry Hopkins, was the eighth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States.
"He went to Philadelphia to be ordained," Bachman said.
"He lived in Pittsburgh or near Pittsburgh. John Henry grew up and also became an Episcopal priest.
The church survived the Great Plattsburgh Fire of 1849.
"When the city of Plattsburgh burned down, the parishioners – the men were on the roof and the women were carrying water – and the men beat the embers when they hit the roof," Bachman said.
"We had a slate roof, so this church didn't burn down. The Presbyterian Church and much of the rest of the city burned down. But, our church is still standing.
"At one point the church needed to raise $ 6,000 for repairs, and they collected it over a weekend. It is said in the report of the Sacristy that the rector requested three weeks of vacation.
Every Thursday the church hosts a free community meal.
During the winter months, the coats are hung in plastic bags along the railings along the rectory, so participants can take them with them if needed.
"The rectory was built in 1907 with the same gray stone as the church," Bachman said.
"There are beautiful woodwork and it is a very beautiful building. "
Since the beginning of the Episcopal Church, parishioners have collected money and given it to the men of the church.
"Women were not allowed to help decide how to spend church money," she said.
"But from the 1960s, various churches began to give women more important roles. Then, in the 1970s, women began to be ordained. It was at this time that women began to play a role and could be part of the sacristy.
"Until then, only men could be in the sacristy. It was a male dominated world. The Sacristy is a body in every church. There is an elected sacristy with two directors. Their duty is to oversee church governance, finances, politics.
Services take place Sunday at 10 a.m. in person and virtually via Facebook Live.
In September, Trinity hosted a tent brunch at Buster's.
"We decided to celebrate for a full year," Bachman said.
"For example, we collect items to create a time capsule that we are going to put in church. We are going to make a quilt with each member who signs it. We cut out the squares.
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Can rent the runway ever become the spotify of fashion
If you believe Jennifer Hyman, CEO of Rent the Runway, her company is a major disruptor in fashion. It rents out designer clothes from some 500 different brands to subscribers who pay a monthly fee, allowing them to borrow a high-end wardrobe for much less than it would cost to actually buy. The company has thrived, topping $100 million in revenue last year and becoming profitable for the first time.
One particular segment of fashion retail should be afraid, Hyman says, and that's fast fashion. "I plan to put Zara out of business," she told Glossy after Rent the Runway announced a new, lower-priced subscription plan that will make the service accessible to more customers. The new $89 plan allows subscribers to borrow four items per month. The standard plan, which offers unlimited items per month, is increasing to $159, but now allows customers to borrow four items at a time, rather than the previous three.
The narrative of Rent the Runway's narrative as a fast-fashion killer (paywall) is one Hyman has been pushing for some time. She raised the point last year, for instance, when speaking with Quartz about a partnership the company established with Neiman Marcus. As Hyman sees it, people shop fast fashion for trendy items, while they invest more in classic wardrobe staples that they'll keep for years.
It makes sense, then, that people would prefer to rent fleetingly fashionable items instead of buying them. Consumers are also increasingly open to renting what they want through a service, rather than owning something outright. Think of the way streaming services such as Spotify have changed the music industry and eliminated the need to actually own the music you listen to.
But there's more than a little hyperbole in Hyman's comments about putting Zara out of business. For starters, Zara pulled in €15.4 billion (about $18.1 billion) last year, across 93 global markets. Rent the Runway's revenue, while growing fast, is still a drop in a bucket that size—and the company only operates in the US. According to research firm NPD's Checkout Tracking data on e-commerce apparel, which analyzes actual spending by consumers who have opted into their panel, only 5% of Zara's US online buyers also subscribe to Rent the Runway.
Still, Rent the Runway's success does raise some questions about the future of shopping: Could clothing rental, including Rent the Runway and the growing crop of similar businesses, steal enough customers from fast-fashion brands in the US to make a noticeable dent in their sales?
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Coats, the world's leading industrial thread firm, has developed Coats Synthesizer, an exceptional app featuring a dye mix calculator which is said to accurately forecast, within minutes, fabric properties for end-use in the private protection industry. According to Coats, the groundbreaking instrument lets it support its customers tailored needs while also saving on the source of numerous sampling processes.
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"After the initial blend sampling and prediction done sensibly, It is merely fine-tuning that is required in the physical development phase. This significantly increases the rate of delivery of products which satisfy customer requirements without extensive trials or sampling," Coats says.
Ronan Cox, President, Performance Materials, Coats stated, "We keep on pushing the boundaries to supply services and tools to help improve our customer's productivity and speed to market. This app lowers the demand for a long, expensive pre-production sampling and will allow Coats to continue to drive to support our customers more efficiently in the competitive post-COVID world."
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Coats global experience and real-time communication and knowledge sharing means it is able to support customers -- wherever they are.
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"With great rigour, yet an enviable lightness of touch, Susan Pickard has written an engaging and accessible book that students will love." – Rosaline Gill, City University London "A scholarly tour de force that brings into focus the various disciplines, histories, literatures and knowledges that have transformed us into modern subjects of age." – Stephen Katz, Trent University Age Studies takes an invigorating approach to the study of age and ageing in contemporary society. Encompassing ageing throughout the life course, taking in childhood, adolescence, mid-life and older age, and situated explicitly within a sociological disciplinary framework, Age Studies: • Explores current social science debates on the study of ageing linking these to core sociological concepts. • Links theory and application, using a variety of examples and international case studies • Includes chapter summaries, further reading and guided questions. A thought-provoking companion to advanced undergraduates and postgraduate student studying ageing, older people, social gerontology and related courses.
Telling Our Own Stories: Developing Age Consciousness and Authentic Age Identities
Telling Our Own Stories: Developing Age Consciousness and Authentic Age Identities
Background: age ideology, my grandmother and I
In the first chapter I suggested that my own interest in age studies developed from my relationship with my grandmother. One of the powerful things it introduced for me was the knowledge of contradiction between my lived experience and the explanatory models I possessed. An example is the way that very early on in life I learned to associate age with fragility, vulnerability, decline and illness. Although Nana demonstrated all the signs of impressive physical robustness – she was digging her own flowerbeds at the age of eighty and carrying a full coalscuttle in from the shed ...
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Black Friday's rain leads to multiple car crashes
Robert Allen
Detroit Free Press
Cars are colliding on slick highways this rainy Black Friday, causing a few traffic backups on I-75.
A crash on southbound I-75 at Caniff near Hamtramck caused delays after it was reported at about 7 a.m., according to the Michigan Department of Transportation. Other crashes were reported on southbound I-75 at 8 Mile and on westbound I-94 at Cadieux, according to the MDOT traffic incidents website.
The National Weather Service forecasts a 100% chance of rain today, with temperatures falling from the mid-50s this morning to 43 by 5 p.m. Snow showers are possible between 8 p.m. and 1 a.m., according to the weather service.
Contact Robert Allen at firstname.lastname@example.com or @rallenMI.
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Sub Assistant Engineer, Mechanical
Operations & Maintenance Department
Room No: 3025
Email Address: email@example.com
Phone Number: 1707
Research Profile
Employment History
1. Current Employer : Independent University, Bangladesh
Bashundhara, R/A, Dhaka
Position : Sub-Asstt. Engr. (Mechanical)
Service Period : From 14 November, 2012 to till now
Duties / Responsibilities
· Check and verify the quality and quantity of all kinds of mechanical repairs and maintenance
· Check and verify the quality and quantity of all mechanical equipment received on site
· Ensure smooth functioning of all the Split type and Central Air Conditioning Systems, Lifts,
Fire Fighting System, Sewerage treatment Plant and all service pumps
· Supervise the activities of O&M staff related to mechanical works including supervision of regular maintenance of the aforesaid facilities by outside maintenance service providers
· Report to the Director/Deputy Director, O&M on any technical problems related to the above
mentioned facilities and proposed rectifications measures.
· Maintain and submit maintenance log to the Director/Deputy Director, O&M regular basis.
· Prepare cost estimate, drawings, work schedule, requisition for materials for necessary
maintenance works.
· To trained maintenance staffs as per require of O&M Department.
2. Name of Employer : Abu Dhabi National Hotel,
Saadiyat Island
Position : HVAC Maintenance Supervisor
Service Period : From 20-11-2009 to 30-06-2012
Details of Chiller:
Chiller Type : MAXE CENTRYFUGAL CHILLER
Maker : YORK INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, USA
Unit Model : YKSQS3K45DJGS
Serial No : SKTM-088450
Cooling Capacity : 2324×2 Ton of Refrigeration
Refrigerant : R-134A
Volts, Phase & Hertz : 3300V, 3PH, 50H
Duties / Responsibilities
- Maintains & Operation of Chiller Plant (4440 Tons YORK )
- Inspects, Maintains, Repairs of Refrigeration Equipment
- Maintains, Repair of Electrical Equipment
- Maintain log book, records all data and documents
- Maintains, Repair of FCU and AHU
- To Check and Maintain of chilled & condenser water treatment plant
- Maintains and Repair all Split Type A/C
- Maintains and Repair of walk in Freezers and Chillers
- Maintains and Repair of A/C BMS system
- Maintain all HVAC PPM
- To Check and Maintain of Fire Fighting Equipment
- Make Duty Schedule of Maintenance Persons
- Maintains, Repair of HVAC Electrical Control Board
- Make safe Work Procedure of maintenance
- To Check and Maintain of chiller plant Generator
- Maintain, Repair of Fresh Water Pump Motor House
- Trained maintenance persons
- Daily conduct of safety tool box talk
3. Name of Employer : ASA (ASA TOWER)
: 23/3 khilji road, shyamoly.
: Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.
Position : Senior A/C Supervisor
Service Period : From 01 June, 2006 to November 15, 2009
Duties and Responsibilities:
· Check Daily all A/C & Electrical Parameters
· Air Cooled Chiller Plant Operation & Maintain
· Inspects, Maintains, Repairs of Refrigeration Equipment
· FCU and AHU Maintain & Operation
· Maintain and Repair of BMS System
· To Check and Maintain of Fire Fighting Equipment
· Generator Controls, Operation and Maintenance
· Maintain Monthly PPM of Electrical, Generator and A/C
· Maintain, Repair of Fresh Water Pump Motor
4. Name of Employer : Prime Enginering Palton, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Position : Asst. Engineer
Service Period : From 10-09-2004 to 25-05-2006
Duties and Responsibilities:
· Water Cooled Centrifugal Chiller Installation, Operation and Maintenance
· Checked Daily Operation of Generator & Chiller Plant
· split A/C Repair and Maintenance
· Make Work Schedule of site Operation
· Make Monthly PPM of Generator & A/C
· Make Duty Schedule of Man Power
5. Name of Employer : Hyundai Engineering & Cons. Co .ltd
Position : Mechanical Tech (Engine Fitter)
Service Period : From 10-10-2000 to 09-07-2004
Duties and Responsibilities:
· Daily Generator Operation and Maintenance
· Maintains, repair of electrical equipment
· Checked all Electrical Parameters
· Checked all Mechanical Parameters
· Monthly all Control Valve Checked and Repair
· Monthly Generator Servicing & Maintenance
· A/C & Refrigerator Repair and Maintenance
5. Name of Organization : The Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel
Training period : From 13-12-1998 to 13-02-1999
Subject of Training : Chiller Operation and Maintenance
: Chiller Control System
: AHU & FCU Maintain & Repair
: BMS System Maintain & Repair
6. Name of Organization : ECOVAL, Abudhabi.UAE
Subject of Training : Solahart's Water Heating System
: Solar Collector Control & Operation
7. Name of organization : Leighton International, UAE
Subject of Training : District Cooling plant operation & Maintenance
8. Name of Organization : Johnson Control Abu Dhabi, UAE
Subject of Training : YORK CHILLER Operation & Maintenance
9. Name of Organization : VEOLIA WATER SYSTEM. UAE
Subject of Training : Safe Chemicals Handling Procedure
: Chilled & Condenser Water Maintain
10. Name of Organization : MANLIFT Middle East LLC. Dubai.
Subject of Training : BOOM LIFT Safe Operation
12. Name of Organization : Bangladesh fire service & civil
Defense, Dhaka
Subject of Training : Fire fighting, Fire Prevention,
Rescue and First Aid.
13. Name of Organization :Hedgehog Safety Consultancy L.L.C
Subject of Training : Fire Safety principles and Fire Awareness
: Accommodation Scenario Fire Response : Enhanced Live Fire Extinguisher
14. Name of Organization : ADNH COMPASS ME LLC, UAE
Subject of Training : Level-1 Health & Safety
● Windows & Tools
· MS Word, MS Excel & E-mail
g FOOD SAFETY TRAINING
15. Name of Organization : ADNH COMPASS
Subject of training : Level-1&2 Essential Food Safety
June - 2010
"CAN DO ATTITUDE AWARDED" From the Abu Dhabi National Hotel
"CAN DO ATTITUDE AWARDED" From the Abu Dhabi National Hotel


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He said that the threat – if there was no agreement – of travel chaos for the thousands of passengers travelling from Europe to America was itself a powerful motivation to find a solution.
"I am confident because there is a business-linked problem. What will happen is [that] all companies will be under pressure," Frattini said.
The Commission is urgently trying to prepare a replacement agreement on the transfer of passenger data to the US after the European Court of Justice in May struck down the existing agreement. The court ruled that it was founded on the wrong legal basis and set 30 September as the date when it would expire.
The Commission is adamant that no content should be changed in the replacement agreement as this might delay it beyond the deadline. A new agreement is to be negotiated next year when changes can be discussed, the Commission argues.
But Frattini told MEPs this week that the US was seeking a "caveat" in the interim agreement. He said that he could not reveal what changes were being sought, but US officials have recently said publicly that they want more data on passengers to be transferred to them, at an earlier stage, to be shared with a greater number of intelligence and customs agencies than is currently permitted.
The EU and US negotiators have had one formal meeting and are to hold a video conference on Monday (18 September).
In the event that no agreement is reached by 1 October, EU member states might sign bilateral agreements with the US. Failing this, airlines could do deals with the US which would likely result in chaos at airports because they would have to seek the consent of individual passengers to supply and transfer their data. "Any [granting of permission for a] transfer of data by airlines would have to be supplied by each individual… they would have to read and fill out a questionnaire at the airport. It would be a very difficult situation," said Wim Nauwelaerts, a lawyer at Hogan & Hartson in Brussels.
The US has previously said fines or the denial of landing rights would result if the data was not transferred.
MEPs have criticised the US stance and the way the EU is responding to it. "If they are seeking to blackmail us, what equivalent blackmail do we have?" asked Stavros Lambrinidis, a Greek Socialist MEP.
Dutch Liberal MEP Sophia in 't Veld said: "The signal we're getting from the Americans is that it's election time and President [George W.] Bush is telling people that there are still bad guys out there…I'm very worried that the Commission is going to give in as they did before."


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It seems to be a science in itself to build up a music collection in MP3 format in a way that it can be played and searched with different programs and devices without the whole thing ending in chaos.
The folder structure is not important at all and also filenames are not important at all. Instead, it is important that the ID3 tags in the files are maintained as completely as possible. And the information should also be meaningful, because a double album should also be recognized as such and played in the appropriate order.
Unfortunately programs like Apple's iTunes or Microsoft's Zune software don't help much with this. As long as you rip, play and manage the music with just one of these programs, it might be enough, but if you want something more, you will fail. So iTunes sets the tags for the CD number when ripping a double CD sampler, but then forgets to set the album artist. And after CD 1 and CD 2 get also another album name, the thing ends unpleasantly. Zune doesn't do it any better, here the album artist is set nicely, but instead the CD number is missing. Both in themselves completely useless.
So you need a simple, free software like MP3tag to manage the tags cleanly. And if you want to have a little more options when ripping, you don't have to use the functions of Media Player, Zune or iTunes, but you can look at fre:ac.
iTunes as well as Zune and WMP use ID3 tags in the modern ID3v2 format. While Apple only uses ID3v2.2 is used by Microsoft ID3v2.3 announced. For compatibility Zune also writes ID3v1. MP3tag writes ID3v2 by default.3, but iTunes doesn't have any problems with that either.
Important tags
First of all the following tags are important and should be filled in (I refer here to the names of the fields in MP3tag, not to the original names of the tag fields in the ID3 specification):
Title – the title of the song
Artist – the artist of the respective song
Album – the name of the album from which the song is taken
Track – the number the song has on the album
You should be careful not to accidentally include leading or trailing spaces in the tags. These are stored and mess up the sorting in the programs afterwards.
The use of normal notation increases the readability significantly, d.h. the exclusive use of upper or lower case letters doesn't help to get a better overview and also looks shabby.
Tracknumbers are started normally from 1 and written as a number. There are people who give track numbers as 1/15, d.h. after the slash still the number of tracks. This information is not evaluated by the programs and is superfluous in my eyes.
As soon as the name of the artist is not the same over the whole album, so z.B. one song from "Armin van Buuren" and the next one from "Armin van Buuren feat. Sharon den Adel", the tag should be Album-Interpret tags are set, in this case to "Armin van Buuren". Together with the name of the album, the programs can thus recognize that despite different artists, all these songs belong to one album of one artist.
Sampler and CD sets
With samplers it is natural that the titles come from different artists. Here it has proven to be Album-Artist "Use "Various Artists.
For sets of several CDs there is the tag CD number. Here I don't mean the number of the CD in my personal collection, but the number of the CD in the set. Start with 1 and also here a slash with the following indication of the CDs in the set is optional and in my opinion unnecessary.
An indication of the CD number in the album name is nonsensical. If you want the double album "Mirage" to be displayed as such, don't assign "Mirage (Disc 1)" and "Mirage (Disc 2)" as album title, but distinguish the CDs by the CD number tag and leave the album title as it should be.
Optional tags
To better search and categorize songs, there are tags for the Genre, the Publication year and the Composers. I consider these tags as optional. The genre is not always really determinable and you can argue about it wonderfully. Publication year and composer are interesting items, but if they are not present because not known, this is no big deal.
The publication year is of course given as a four-digit year, the composer(s) in order, where the composer tag is a simple free text field. Exactly such a free text field is the comment field, which can be used for all kinds of nonsense, but not necessarily. In most cases it is superfluous and will not be used by the programs any more.
iTunes and Zune can read the cover images from music tracks, but do not necessarily store them in the music track again. iTunes, for example, only does this when you edit manually, but not when you automatically download covers from the web.
If you use MP3tag to put a cover image into one or more MP3s, you should limit yourself a little bit. A size of 600×600 pixels should be sufficient, JPG format is the most common and the file size should not exceed a few kilobytes.
You can put several cover images in one MP3 file, but it usually only makes sense to create a front cover.
Filenames and directories
If the tags are once cleanly set, one can bring the files into a suitable structure. With the converter in MP3tag you can automatically create the filenames from the ID3 tags. I recommend the following converter string:
$num(%track%,2). %artist% – %title%
This creates a two-digit track number, with leading zero if necessary, followed by artist and title.
The name of the artist and the name of the album are each created as single subfolders in the file system. If the album or sampler is divided into several CDs, the folders "CD1" to the end of the set can be found below the folder with the album name.
Tips& Tricks
While editing with MP3tag you should have the files in a place not monitored by iTunes, WMP or Zune. This only confuses the programs.
Zune also monitors larger folder structures for changes during operation. If you insert music into a folder monitored by Zune while Zune is running, the data should be found immediately. If you are working with files that are already in a watched folder, it can be useful to move them to an unattended folder after changing the ID3 tags and then move them back to their original location.
The Windows Media Player scans the collection and puts some garbage files like AlbumArt*.jpg in the directories. In itself already quite unsightly, only it works thereby also still plentifully stupidly. If it finds a folder in which only one song has a cover image, this cover image will then be used for all other music in this folder – no matter if this fits or not. At a certain database size the WMP starts to go crazy and uses this cover image for every song without cover, no matter which folder it comes from.
Therefore, either avoid WMP or use it purely as a playback program without database function and without it searching the libraries and dumping its legacies into the directories. How to do it? You look for the file CurrentDatabase_372.wmdb at C:\User\<Name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player and simply set the write protection attribute on it. The WMP continues to play everything, but does not get the idea to change anything in the music collection. The file is called in Windows 8 and 8.1 by the way CurrentDatabase_400.wmdb, but is still in the same place. The trick still works there.
If you have considered all this, iTunes, WMP and Zune and probably various other programs can read the tagged collection, display covers appropriately, show samplers and albums belonging together and play everything in appropriate order. And also the synchronization to the matching smartphone should now be no longer an issue. Then there is not much in the way of music enjoyment.
At most some more work to rip the CD collection…
Update 2014-08-08: wrong path of the WMP database corrected, info about database names under Windows 8.x added.


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Easter Greetings!
Here's a sweet card made with stamps and dies from Paper Sweeties. This was my first stamp and die sets from this company, and I am impressed. The product photos on their website does not do the products justice.
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- Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad
- MISTI Stamping Tool
- Prismacolor Colored Pencils
- Prismacolor Colorless Blender Pencil
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- edging the panels – Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle Dies
- adhesives – Scrapbook Adhesives E-Z Runner (a strong tape for large areas) and Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots (for small areas)
- The card base cannot be seen in this photo. It is the same cardstock as the banner, 100# Simon Says Stamp Audrey Blue.
Thank you for stopping by. May you have a blessed Easter. I am celebrating Christ the risen Savior!
The Holy Bible Matthew Chapter 28:1-7, New International Version (NIV)
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. 5 The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you."
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Sokoloan is one of Nigeria's fast-rising loan platforms which is managed by sokolending company limited, a Chinese-based micro-lending firm. The platform allows users to create accounts and have access to various loan packages at ease.
The lending company which started in 2019 had grown its active users to over 20,000 users in 2 years. Once an account is created users can apply for a soft loan with interest.
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- Visit your mobile store and download the app
- Create an account by filling in your details
- Phone number tied to your bvn is required for verification
- Complete your biodata form including bank account details
- Bind your debit card for automatic withdrawal on the due date
The sokoloan app is only available on the google play store (android), users can also log in using their phone number and password.
Their interest is extremely outrageous with over 45% rate as low as N10,000 collected. The company does not have a viable office address making it difficult for people to find those who are exactly behind it.
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Users are unable to delete their account individually but you can send your request to sokoloan email email@example.com
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We guys love our gadgets. Cars, mobile phones, computers and superb sound systems will totally grab our attention versus fashion and skincare. We like our things cool just like how ladies may like their things cute.
When I was given a Biotherm Homme Force Supreme Anti-Age Moisturising Gel, I thought to myself, "Hmm, yet another anti-ageing moisturiser?"".
But after I unboxed it, the whole sentiment changed. I was impressed by its packaging! Just like how I felt impressed by Apple's thought put into the whole unboxing experience of an iMac. The Biotherm Homme Force Supreme brings the cool factor into skincare.
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Instead of the usual spring press dispenser that is protected by a cover, to use the Force Supreme you will need to twist it and the dispenser will pop out. Why I like it? Because:
- It's cool. It reminds me of the Men In Black gadget.
- It's travel-friendly as the gel cannot be dispensed without you twisting it first. So you won't experience messy spillage.
Does It Work?
I've tried a few anti-ageing moisturisers. The main issue I have with them is the oiliness after using it. However, the Force Supreme does not give me this issue at all.
Does it make me look younger? Of course not. Anti-ageing is more of a preventive measure than a reversal treatment. It does give me the hydration I need to make my face look less dull especially from all the late nights I've been spending.
I'm Still Young. Why Should I Use It?
I'm 28 this year, just two more years before I hit 30 when most guys will experience sudden rapid ageing. To reiterate the idea of anti-ageing, it's about taking preventive measures before the ageing process hits you.
So if you are around my age, you should try to include an anti-ageing regime into your current skincare routine.
If you are passed the age of 30, you would still need to use an anti-ageing product to maintain your current youth.
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Chatterbug Speech and Language Therapy is a social enterprise. Our services are available across the nation with hubs in Halton Borough, Scarborough, Leicester and Leeds! Our passionate team consists of Speech and Language Therapists and Communication and Language Specialists (CALS), with over 40 years of experience combined specialising in assessing, diagnosing and treating a wide range of paediatric language and communication difficulties. We use a variety of engaging techniques to support our clients and schools with high quality, evidence-based support. We believe in delivering tailored Speech and Language provision that makes a difference and we hold our clients at the heart of everything we do.
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More Ganoderma extract supplement is you can find because of its increasing popularity. This ranges from Ganoderma espresso to Ganoderma extract capsule. And all these health supplements are stated to get "incredible" healing ability.
However, you may be disappointed with most of the Ganoderma products. To really reap the benefits of Ganoderma herb, you have to know choosing the highest quality. Listed here are a number of aspects you must think about before buying Ganoderma supplement.
1) Ganoderma extract or grinding
Some company simply grinds this Reishi Spore Oil Softgel into natural powder type. However some utilizes higher technology extraction method to draw out only its essences into powder form.
Extraction focus can be up to 15 to 1. That means, 1000kg of this fungus is extracted to only 65kg. One capsule of Ganoderma extract at 15 to 1 concentration is the same as 15 pills in the grinded a single.
Obviously, Ganoderma health supplement using removal technique is often times far better than grinding technique.
2) Capsulated or log timber farming
Most Ganodermas are capsulated (vacuum packing) developed using wood crams and chemicals. This produces much softer fresh fruit entire body with less active components for efficient health improvement.
As a result of chemical substances used, some may even be polluted with toxics and even chemical toxins such as mercury.
At the same time, log wood cultivated Ganoderma is a few times more powerful in its medicinal principles. It is more pure with greater content of beneficial active elements.
However, this cultivation technique is much more costly in term of the space used and time required. So, numerous manufacturers prefer to use capsulated developed Ganoderma rather. But if you don't feel any better with capsulated Ganoderma, you may want to try log wood Ganoderma.
3) Ganoderma spore powder
Spore natural powder is the most valuable part of Inonotus Obliquus Extract with all the most power of energetic components like Organic Germanium, Polysaccharides and Triterpenes.
You can choose Ganoderma extract with spore natural powder for better results. Ensure that the spore shell is cracked open to launch its essences.
4) International quality certification
Of course, you will better decide on a producer with encounter and excellent creation high quality manage. This ensures the product quality consistence of the supplement item constantly.
5) Percentage of Ganoderma extract
Some producer put just a small small fraction of Ganoderma within their herbal health supplement, combined with other components. Therefore, the recovery effect is far under the 100 % pure one.
However, some acclaimed pure Ganoderma draw out may not really pure at all. Perhaps 20Percent is Ganoderma and also the rest is filler. This can be an additional point of issue – the integrity and credibility of producer.
How to check Ganoderma natural herb health supplement
Just forget about all the claims by producer on how pure and how good their Ganoderma organic item is. Follow these basic steps for precise Ganoderma check for the efficiency.
Initially, fill a glass with drinking water and put in a few cooking oil like olive oil. Then, open a Ganoderma extract capsule and distribute a few of its natural powder on top from the oil surface.
The powder will drift around the oil surface area. Here arrives the initial test point. Decide if the draw out powder can gradually penetrate the oil. This demonstrates its capability to pass through body fat and cholesterol clot in our blood vessel wall and cleanses it.
For second Ganoderma test point, let it sit for about ten days and tgjvkd a look. Great Hericium Erinaceus Extract blends uniformly with the drinking water after a few times. The oil surface is clear of any mould. What this means is it provides strong germ combating ability.
Poor Ganoderma extract continues to drift around the oil surface. Take a close look and you also can see mould at first glance. It offers weak germ combating capability.
Now, here's the next test point for Ganoderma spores. Take a look at the bottom of the glass. The spore natural powder is the white compound deposited in the bottom. Should you can barely see Ganoderma spore, you can expect very less healing results.


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As an important member of the team, you will be responsible for working with the technical and creative leads to take the vision for our product from concept to completion. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in a flexible environment, and to add your own ideas into the mix in order to create the best web experience possible.
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"Can you remember, remember my name?
As I flow through your life
A thousand oceans I have flown
And cold spirits of ice
All my life
I am the echo of your past"
– Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers
Ole Gunnar Solskjær is no longer the manager of Manchester United. For some that might be great news and for others that might generate a bit of sadness, but one thing is sure: there is an element of relief.
Relief because these three years of the Norwegian's tenure have been emotionally and mentally draining, to the point that you would think even Solskjær himself is going to relish the opportunity of having a rest after such a gruelling job.
The United legend took over at a time where the club was a monumental mess at every single level and the previous manager, Jose Mourinho, only added fuel to the fire through several decisions. Misguided signings, a bloated wage structure, a toxic dressing room, an academy bereft of burgeoning talent, a massively uneven squad and a playing style that was so dire that Mourinho's three trophies mattered very little to the United faithful (even though some of the Portuguese's acolytes and controversy lovers want to rewrite history in that regard).
It was a miserable time where there was no absolutely nothing to be positive or excited about, which is why most top level manager were reluctant on taking the job when Mourinho was sacked in late 2018.
Solskjær took over as the interim manager and all United fans know the story: the team went on a great run, the exciting football came back, said run reached its climax in Paris in a phenomenal comeback against PSG in the Champions League and the team then fell apart due to injuries and the players being ran into the ground. Ole got the job as permanent manager after Paris and went on to two through whole seasons with lots of highs and lows and squad-building that, regardless of how you want to slice, is going to prove monumental for the future manager.
Unlike his predecessors, the Norwegian might not have a trophy to boast during his United tenure, but he has built something a lot more lasting than the likes of David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Mourinho, which is developing a squad that has genuine quality to challenge despite a couple of shortcomings (more on that later), helping to inject the academy with lots of promising young players (although, to be fair, he was certainly helped by his former teammate, Nicky Butt, in that regard) and helping in the development and improvement of a lot of players that are now key in the current United structure.
All of this while being massively undermined by rival fans, the media and a big section of United supporters, including popular YouTube channels and things of a similar ilk. And while criticism is certainly warranted in football and in any other profession because it's a way to grow and improve, there is a big difference in healthy criticism and what Solskjær has gone through.
Attacks to his personality, to the way he behaved in the touchline, the fact he didn't scream to the players in public, the fact he didn't throw anybody under the bus in press conferences (apparently "a sign of weakness" and "lack of leadership") or trying to catch frames of him smiling after a defeat to suggest he didn't care about the game.
Things that have nothing to do with football and that are extremely superficial when you consider that there are multiple managers that are similar to Ole in personality and that they have gone to be very successful. Even The Telegraph's Alan Tyers was trying to punch down at Solskjær after his emotional final interview as the United manager when he was on the verge of tears. I get that they do and say these things to get clicks, reactions and so on, but it reached a point where you can't help but think that this was personal as other managers were borderline media darlings, such as Frank Lampard or Mikel Arteta, and Solskjær was treated like public enemy number one, which undoubtedly influenced a lot of people's opinion on his tenure.
And this is not me pretending that the Norwegian's tenure was perfect. Not by a long shot. If it was, he would still be the United manager. But this is where the part of actual criticism comes in and where we need to understand that Ole, while excellent in a lot of different aspects during his tenure, ended up getting sacked by some key decisions that were his and therefore he had to assume the responsibility.
Even entering this season, the need for a central midfielder was crucial and Ole never really made that happen, which, in a way, ended up costing his job. He wanted Declan Rice and the West Ham man being impossible to get at the moment meant that the Norwegian preferred not signing anybody if he couldn't get his first choice, which is a bit understandable, but the cost was much greater than the gain at the end of the day. His over-reliance on Fred and Scott McTominay in the double pivot, often dubbed McFred, was a clear reflection of Solskjær's worst vices as a manager: finding something that worked (PSG and majority of the 2019/20 season) and running it into the ground until there was no choice but to revamp the formation and system again. Relying on the Brazilian and the Scotsman, who are good enough just as squad players, to be his central midfielders was a massively erroneous decision and it showed when the team needed more quality in that position. An ageing Nemanja Matic certainly didn't help the cause either.
Of course, his willingness to compromise and pander to Paul Pogba might be as damaging as any other poor decision of Ole's at the club and I would even go as far as saying that it was the worst he made as manager of Manchester United. When he arrived as interim manager, Pogba started out quite well and was in arguably his finest form as a United player, but as history has shown us throughout the years, the Frenchman is a player of runs, not seasons.
Pogba, as he has proven during Solskjær's time at the club, is a player that can play well for a month, play awfully for two, get injured for three and make controversies through his agent, his contract or whatever stupid thing he does during the rest of the year. And while he has the talent to be one of the best five players in the world, he has never shown any type of consistency and this is despite the fact that Ole tried him in multiple positions to get the best out of him.
Part of a midfield three during his interim period, in the pivot, as a false left winger… Ole tried him in multiple positions with varying results and by and large was in detriment to the team as a whole. And when he got that red card in the painful 5-0 defeat against Liverpool, after having just came at halftime, you can't help but think that the Norwegian put his trust in the wrong man and that pandering to Pogba got him sacked, especially by trying to adjust a notoriously inconsistent performer and one who has a history of using the dressing room to his benefit (which there is no doubt that he did here).
But of course, not everything was Pogba's fault. Solskjær's tactical limitations were shown in different periods of his tenure and this is probably what broke the camel's back at the end of the day: not having the tactical acumen to push this squad's performances to the next level. There were some moments of fast-paced, burning football and some games where Ole and his coaching staff got it spot on, thus making up for the finest moments of the post-Ferguson era, but overall, the team struggled on a tactical level and this was clearly shown in recent months where Ole never found an answer to get consistent performances.
This last point is a byproduct of two things, one of them being that the players were no longer convinced that his methods were the best to win. Now, beyond Pogba, I don't know which players downed tools, but it's worth pointing out that even if they didn't, not having conviction on the manager's ideas and methods is a clear sign that the ship has failed and ultimately that's on the manager. The second half against Manchester City this season was disgraceful and it showed a group of players that were not even willing to run for their manager and their own self-respect, which highlights how Ole maybe should have left earlier, especially after the Liverpool fiasco.
The other thing is the coaching staff. One of Sir Alex Ferguson's biggest virtues, and one that he has constantly explained, is that renewing your coaching staff can lead to adding fresh ideas and modern tactical nuances to your methods. Ole's coaching staff, bar Mike Phelan, was quite inexperienced and you can tell this during several stages of his tenure, especially near the end. And the presence of an experienced, tactically-knowledgeable coach might have made things a bit more different. There is nothing wrong with having young coaches but that has to be balanced by experience and Solskjær might have been punished for being too loyal to his men.
And perhaps his biggest sin was relying too much on those and what worked for him during some key moments of his time as the United manager instead of trying to understand that that was sustainable and find ways to improve. Scott McTominay and Fred had some good moments and runs, but everybody and their grandma knew that the club had to invest in the pivot and they didn't. Here you have the results.
A lot of people have mentioned the signing of Cristiano Ronaldo as the cause of a lot of problems for Solskjær because he had to adjust a player he didn't ask for to his system and while this is true, I don't think this was the Norwegian's fault as any other United manager would have had to face this situation too. Ole was just the one when it happened and now the future manager is going to have to find a way to make the team work with Cristiano in the starting eleven, with all the good and the bad that entails.
Add to this reluctance for rotation, which was understandable at first due to squad limitations but that only became a problem as the options improved for Ole and he usually stuck to the same group of players. And while is true that managers usually have their guys to rely on, it would have benefitted him to give other players more of a chance.
This is where Ole failed. We can point out other small details, but managers are always going to mess up from time to time, no matter how successful they are–these are the issues I consider the most important and worth pointing out.
But there is a desire from certain factions to make people believe that Solskjær doesn't have a positive legacy as a manager and firmly think otherwise and I would go as far as saying that, despite not being able of winning trophies, which is of course fundamental at a club like Manchester United, Ole was the first manager of the post-Ferguson era.
As mentioned before, his squad-building abilities have proven to be quite great. Sure, not signing in the pivot proved to be his doom, but he has built a good enough squad that a lot of top managers would be craving to have their hands on this group of players. This is something that none of Moyes, van Gaal and Mourinho managed to do: leave the squad in much better conditions than how they found it. And this will prove fundamental in the coming years.
He managed to develop players and helped fulfil their potential. Marcus Rashford went from a frustrating young prospect into a full-blown star and his numbers improved massively with Ole. Mason Greenwood was given his debut and developed properly to become the player he is today. Scott McTominay, while far from a world class player, improved drastically with Ole and his best performances with a United shirt were with the Norwegian. He got more than thirty goal contributions from Anthony Martial in the 2019/20 season and made Luke Shaw fulfil his talent in the 2020/21 one. Players like Fred or Victor Lindelof, while criticised, managed to play a lot better with him than with Jose Mourinho. And the list goes on.
While the football wasn't constant and that doomed Ole in the long run, the high points were the highest of the post-Ferguson era. The sheer excitement, electricity and intensity of Solskjær's prime as a United manager were something borderline addictive and showed how much of a connection he had built between the players and the supporters, which had been long gone with previous managers.
The trashing of the likes of Roma, Southampton or Leeds, the endless comebacks, the big game victories against top class managers like Guardiola, Pochettino, Sarri, Klopp, Nagelsmann, Tuchel, among many others, that night in Paris, the away record… you can't seriously tell me that you're a United fan and that those big moments with Ole don't bring a smile to your face when you remember them.
And this is because Ole revived something very primal and fundamental in football: the joy and excitement for the game among United supporters. No one can say that United under Ole, for all their flaws, were boring. And a United team should never be boring. After so many years of football depression with Moyes, van Gaal and Mourinho, the fire between the club and the supporters was lit again and it was done by a man that lived and breathed United. A man that fully understood the values of the institution and gave his 100%.
A man that was savagely criticised and attack on a regular basis since he got the job on a permanent basis, with people constantly questioning his credentials, his personality, his values and even his smile for the sake of likes, clicks and reactions. And despite all that, he never said a bad word, never attacked the press, never threw a player under the bus (even when perhaps they deserved it) and who was a complete gentleman during his entire tenure from beginning to end.
A man that showed that there could be hope at Old Trafford after so many years. A man that taught us that mountains are there to be climbed.
All the best, Ole. It has been a pleasure. And a wild ride.


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It is my professional* opinion that James Taylor is the greatest singer/songwriter of all time. I am currently collecting all of his albums on vinyl, and I would consider myself… obsessed with James Taylor. As I have gone through the past years singing the praises of James Taylor (and just singing James Taylor songs), it has come to my attention how little others know about him. So, I have decided to take it upon myself to rank ALL of James Taylor's albums…
I did not intend for this post to be this long, but I couldn't help myself.
Note: I will only be ranking James Taylor's original studio albums. Not included in the following list are the Covers albums, Christmas album, or any live albums.
16. In The Pocket (1976)
This album contains the hit "Shower the People" surrounded by a bunch of forgettable songs. This one gets some points for a great album cover, though.
15. Dad Loves His Work (1981)
Another one hit album. "Her Town Too" is really the only noteworthy song on this album. You won't ever hear any of these songs at a concert.
14. James Taylor (1968)
His first album. Contains top songs "Something in the Way She Moves" and "Carolina in My Mind". The only problem is the original versions of these songs are not very good. One of the best writing jobs on this album, though.
13. Hourglass (1997)
This one came in '97 after a 6 year hiatus from Taylor. Contains a few 'hits' such as "Yellow and Rose" and "Little More Time with You", the latter being the only real memorable song on the album. Again, not much here beyond the few 'hits'.
12. Before This World (2015)
His latest album. This one is a great mixture of new experimental style with the classic James Taylor lyrical style. Every song on here is solid, but no real memorable ones either. This is as mediocre as James Taylor gets. He is clearly past his creative peak. But that's ok, I still love him.
11. One Man Dog (1972)
This one is very interesting. It's made up a lot of tiny songs, some of them instrumental (it contains the most songs of any Taylor album, 18). It came out only one year after the previous album, and feels like James many rushed through the writing process (just speculating here).
We do get "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" from this album, but it is mainly meant to be listed to as a full album, straight through. I can't see anybody adding "Jig" or "Instrumental II" to any of their Spotify playlists, but a good listen none-the-less.
*Armstrong is not a professional by any stretch of the imagination.
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Cyntoia Brown, the former teenage sex slave who shot and killed her pimp and then was sentenced to 60 years in prison, has been finally granted a clemency hearing.
The gut-wrenching story of #CyntoiaBrown went viral last fall after viewers saw the damning documentary Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story. Brown was arrested, indicted and tried as an adult for murder at 16 years old for shooting and killing the man who used her as a sex slave.
Brown was sentenced to six decades of hard prison time — and is not even eligible for parole until 51 of the 60 years have been served.
This case is, for most observers and pundits, a heinous miscarriage of justice. Brown was a child and was kidnapped and forced into this horrific life of selling her body to strange men.
Multiple celebrities have taken up Brown's cause, including rap royalty Snoop Dogg and T.I., singer Rihanna and reality TV star Kim Kardashian. The star of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" has been very vocal about this case. Kardashian has even volunteered her lawyer and ordered him to look into the case to see if there was any other way to get justice for Brown.
The good news is that it was just announced that Brown was granted a clemency hearing for her case on May 23, according to The Tennessean. Brown's petition will be heard in front of the Tennessee state Board of Probation and Parole, who will then determine whether she will be released from the Tennessee Prison for Women.
"It is up to the governor to decide the process after we make our recommendation," Melissa McDonald, a spokeswoman for the state Board of Probation and Parole, told the newspaper. "The governor may act on it or choose not to act."
Brown's longtime advocate and attorney Jeremy Faison had been petitioning Governor Bill Haslam for a pardon. It is Haslam's final year in office and Brown's supporters hope the governor will grant Brown a pardon on his way out.
In all, Faison believes that it is looking promising his client will be released.
"I would like to tell you that I think the odds are good," Faison said. However, he acknowledges that "it is hard to get the government to admit they are wrong."


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Long ago, in my first round of "I must escape corporate hell," I took a job as a receptionist – at that time my dream "easy" job. We all have these – jobs that we imagine to be so much easier than our own current employment. Some of my former coworkers, for example, dreamed of standing on the street corner, twirling one of those giant sale signs. Personally I would not call that easy, even if they were paying me 80K per year, but to each his own.
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I rapidly discovered that being a receptionist is, in fact, really hard. You have to be great on the phone (which I'm not), have a strong memory for names (which I don't), be able to do very many things at once (eh…) and be pleasant the whole time. Ugh! I was drained beyond belief within a week. When a Mafioso type burst into the office in week two, demanding that my somewhat shady boss pay him, I was grateful for the excuse to quit. Where did I go? The shady boss's tax attorney, who put me to good use for several months.
My point being – most of us don't end up working really far outside of our natural skills, talents, and preferences for any length of time. You might (justifiably!) hate your workplace for multiple reasons, but usually if you can stick it out for six months or more, some of what you need in a work environment is there. Today, I invite you to celebrate what IS working in your current work situation, no matter what that might be. Retired, unemployed, starting a side hustle, chained to a career you hate – whatever it is, let's celebrate what we can. Here are some celebration options:
Mining for Gold
Thinking about your current employment situation, answer these questions:
- What is good about it?
- What have I learned about myself in this work situation?
- What types of skills have I learned from this work situation?
- What friends did I make because of this work situation?
- How did I change because of this work situation?
You might notice that these questions sound a lot like those from last week's post on celebrating a problem in your life. As many of us think about our work situations as problems in our lives, it's helpful to turn this same lens of looking for the good in them.
Dichotomous Writing
Often the thing that causes us the most pain is having dichotomous thinking, e.g. "this is good or bad" with no in-between. Most of us are experts at finding what is bad in our work situations. I invite you to just get this all out of your system with an exercise in telling and retelling your job story. First version – you can only write terrible things, and take the role of the victim. Here's the (very brief) version of my time as a receptionist:
I was hired by this shady character who I think was committing tax fraud. I was supposed to just be his receptionist, but he made me look over his books and put financial data together. Scary people called all the time, and they were really intimidating but I had to be nice to them. The boss wanted everything done yesterday, and would yell if I didn't get things done right. One time someone came in and threatened him, looking for money and I was afraid for my life. My boss made me work with his tax attorney on his shady seeming insurance claims, and when I got up enough nerve to quit, the tax attorney insisted on hiring me, and he turned out to be abusive too.
Keep in mind, I worked for this guy for less than two weeks. In my 'real' jobs, I could have droned on for pages about all my suffering, and I welcome you to do just that.
Then read it.
Feels a little bit repulsive, huh? It's hard to imagine liking a job when this is the type of crap we're thinking about it every day. Of course, I know you are not telling a full victim story every day. I never did either. But it still crept in. "I had to" do this. The attorney "was abusive." Granted, the guy really was not very nice. However, I could have, at any point, established better boundaries with him or looked for alternative employment. I wasn't his victim.
So, next up – tell the hero's saga version of your job, and only write positive things. Here's my receptionist job, revised:
I was hired by this guy who decided to take a chance on me, even though I didn't really have any experience as a receptionist. I learned really quickly, and my boss valued all of my skills. He saw that I had a financial background, and trusted me with handling his very complicated tax records within the first week I was working for him. I got to talk to all different types of people on the phone, and meet people I never would have met in a corporate environment. Someone even came in and demanded money once – what a story! I'm still telling that one, years later! I didn't think staying in his office was a great idea after that, so I proposed working from his attorney's office. The attorney loved me so much that he hired me the second I decided to leave my receptionist position, so I never even had to look for another job!
Both of these versions are true. One of them makes me feel awesome. One makes me feel like crap.
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Live the Hero's Saga
This week, live only in the positive story. Your work might still be less than ideal. Your boss might be in a terrible mood. Look for ways to make your work your hero's saga – how you overcame obstacles to emerge victorious. Just try it out and see what your work life is about.
I'd love to hear how you decide to celebrate your existing work situation. Post a comment below, either with your strategy, or with your hero's saga version of your work.


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Lois Goff Bedenbaugh, 89, of Joanna, died Monday, February 5, 2018, at Greenville Memorial Hospital.
Born November 8, 1928, in Saluda County, she was a daughter of the late Fred and Pauline Ruff Goff. She was the wife of the late G. Elton Bedenbaugh to whom she was married for 57 years. She was predeceased by her husband and daughter, Cynthia Dell Bedenbaugh. She retired from Greenwood Mills in Joanna and was a lifelong member of Salem Baptist Church in Saluda, SC.
She is survived by a son, Ricky Bedenbaugh (Angie) of Clinton; a brother, Wendell Goff (Monika) of Saluda; a sister-in-law, Virginia Goff of Saluda; 2 grandchildren, Jeremy Bedenbaugh (Amy) of St. Louis, MO, and Brandon Bedenbaugh of the home; 6 great-grandchildren, Zach, Jude, Brantley, Sam, Kharis, and Gage Bedenbaugh.
Funeral services will be held at noon on Friday, February 9, 2018, at Salem Baptist Church by the Rev. Jerrod Marshall and Rev. Jeremy Bedenbaugh. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends Wednesday and Thursday at the home of Ricky Bedenbaugh at 1160 Greenplain Road in Clinton and from 10:30 until 11:30 a.m. Friday before the service at the church. Memorials may be made to Salem Baptist Church, 2226 Denny Highway, Saluda, SC 29138.
Active pall bearers will be Brandon Bedenbaugh, Zach Bedenbaugh, Gregory Goff, Derald Morris, Ryan Goff, and Hascal Goff. Honorary pall bearers will be Jude Bedenbaugh, Gage Bedenbaugh, Kason Gardner, Payton Gardner, and Kaleb Cook.
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The Princeton Community Works Conference in 2022 will be an engaging interactive experience over three days in January.
We've put together this brochure for you to refer to, share with others, and plan your exciting online adventure at PCW!
Of course, you will register at Whova and select your workshops there, but this brochure can be a good resource pre-conference.


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IoT devices have three things in common: sensors, compute power, and networking. We know how to use a voltage meter to fix a broken sensor, and can use printf() or single stepping to debug our code, but what about the network? Sometimes, you just need to know what's happening on the wire or in the ether.
This is where Wireshark comes in: a magical tool that lets you track and analyse network traffic, but how do you put it to work? We will go into what you can use Wireshark for, how the tool works, and the a few of the most often used features.
Things we will touch upon are:
This workshop gives a high-level overview of the ways in which you can use this wonderful tool in your own practice.
You will be using your own laptop, and we'll provide the necessary software.