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Shadownova is a Webcomic, written and drawn by troper Mark Alda. It can be found here.Shadownova tells the story of Iris Kolrick, an antisocial teenager who finds herself drawn into an ongoing war between the Everto and a ragtag human resistance group. There is a fair ammount of action but the main focus is on the characters and their growth, particularly that of the three lead characters Iris Kolrick, Jacob Freeman and Nikki Fawkner.It all begins with Iris innocently walking to school one morning. However just before she arrives a fighter plane swoops overhead and shoots several missiles at the school, destroying it. Iris quickly discovers that no one besides herself can see what happened, including a schoolmate who was half killed in the blast. Soon after a man called Cameron Hunter arrives and, after introducing himself as a member of a group called the Everto, tries to kill her. Iris is injured but manages to escape.While hiding from Cam and the Everto in a shopping centre Iris is approached by Jacob, who is unaware of her situation and tries to flirt with her but she coldly brushes him off. The everto attack again, interrupting the one-sided would-be romance. Iris goes against character saves the still-ignorant Jacob's life but finds herself cornered as a result. Right when Iris is about to be shot the Everto soldiers and almost everyone else in the area are wiped out by a massive firestorm which Iris stands at the centre of.The artwork has a distinctly manga influenced style reminiscent of David Gonterman and the comic updates
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SANTA CLARA It was heroic and tragic and gut-wrenching all at once. And it happened over and over in front of 56 million viewers.
NaVorro Bowmans knee injury, which came as he stripped the ball from a Seahawks receiver in the NFC Championship Game, probably did more for his Defensive Player of the Year chances than anything all season.
It came amid another outstanding performance by the 49ers inside linebacker. He led the team in tackles that day and had a sack. And it came just when the Seahawks were gaining momentum and the 49ers had to have a game-altering play.
But continuing the theme of tragedy and loss and lifes not fair, its unlikely to put Bowman over the top.
The NFLs end-of-season honors will be announced Saturday in an Oscars-like awards show at Radio City Music Hall in New York. And the award for best defensive player likely will go to either Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman, 49ers public enemy No. 1, or Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt.
Sherman had the championship games most iconic play and most talked-about after-game comments. He also led the league in interceptions in 2013, played on the NFLs top-ranked defense and, in case you havent noticed, has been getting a wee bit of attention the last two weeks.
Watt won the award last year. And while the Texans were the worst team in the league, Watt was nearly always the most dominant player on the field.
Heres a look at who should and who will win the NFLs six other major awards:
Who should win: Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos. In the age of big-armed, mobile quarterbacks, Manning has shown that brains still is the most formidable weapon. He threw for 5,477 yards and had a 55-10 touchdown-interception ratio as the Broncos offense smashed all sorts of NFL records, including most points and most passing yards.
Who will win: Manning. Hes been the NFLs biggest story the last two years. Whats more, there are no other contenders. Tom Brady, Drew Brees and LeSean McCoy all had nice seasons, but they will be watching Sundays big game from their sofas.
Offensive Player of the Year
Who should win: Manning.
Who will win: Manning.
Coach of the Year
Who should win: Andy Reid, Kansas City Chiefs. Everyone laughed at the Chiefs coach a year ago when he traded two draft picks to the 49ers for Alex Smith. After Reid took a Kansas City team that went 2-14 in 2012 to the playoffs this season, no one is laughing at him now.
Who will win: Ron Rivera, Carolina Panthers. The Panthers went from 7-9 in 2012 to 12-4partly because of Riverboat Rons aggressive and calculated style.
Offensive Rookie of the Year
Who should win: Keenan Allen, San Diego Chargers. No one took as much abuse before the draft than the former Cal wide receiver. His knee wasnt right. He wasnt fast. A drug test at the combine was red-flagged. Allen began the draft process as the No. 1 wideout but fell to the Chargers in the third round. Allen led all rookies with 1,046 receiving yards.
Who will win: Eddie Lacy, Green Bay Packers. Its hard to quibble with this selection. The Green Bay running back helped sustain the Packers when quarterback Aaron Rodgers was injured. Like Seattles Marshawn Lynch, Lacy is hard to bring down, and his addition will make the Packers offense even more dangerous.
Defensive Rookie of the Year
Who should win: Kiko Alonso, Buffalo Bills. Last year, Luke Kuechly won this award after making 164 tackles for the Carolina Panthers. Alonso, the Bills inside linebacker, had 159 tackles plus four interceptions and two fumble recoveries.
Who will win: Sheldon Richardson, New York Jets. The defensive tackle had an excellent year on a defense that finished third in the NFL against the run. Besides, given their location, the Jets tend to get more national attention than, say, the Bills.
Comeback Player of the Year
Who should win: Alex Smith, Kansas City Chiefs. If there is such a thing as karmic justice, the award will go to the star-crossed former 49ers starter, who lost his job in San Francisco because he suffered a concussion. Smith was in the midst of his best season when the injury occurred.
Who will win: Darrelle Revis, Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The cornerback came back from a 2012 ACL injury, and it doesnt hurt that he used to play in New York.
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A lot could happen between now and the June 5th, but if the numbers in Wisconsin stay where they've been for the past month, the Democratic Party and organized labor are heading toward a self-created disaster that could have major implications in November.
Yesterday, Public Policy Polling, a liberal pollster paid by the liberal blog Daily Kos, released their latest results from the Democrats effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. In the first results taken by PPP since the Democratic primary ended last week, PPP found Walker beating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett 50 percent to 45 percent. This figure matches both what PPP found a month before and what conservative pollster Rasmussen Reports found last week.
Worse for Democrats, the PPP poll showed Obama leading Romney by just one point, 47 percent to 46 percent. In 2008, Obama beat McCain by 14 points, 56-42, and Walker defeated Barrett 52-46 in 2010. This means that, at least in Wisconsin, the 2012 electorate is looking much much more like it did in 2010 than it did in 2008. If that holds true nationally, Obama will lose big.
And the national implications do not end there. If Walker holds on, he will be a model for Republican governance throughout the country. He only became a national Democratic target after he took on government unions by denying them the ability to take money directly out of government workers' paychecks and forcing them to contribute more money to their health and retirement benefits. Thanks to these reforms, Wisconsin will have a $154-million surplus next year.
Contrast the Wisconsin experience with California, where government unions control the Democratic Party and Gov. Jerry Brown. Brown was forced to announce this Sunday that his state would face a $16 billion deficit next year and tax hikes were needed to close the gap.
The examples of Wisconsin and California offer a sharp contrast to American voters this November: Do they want the high tax, high spending, government union-controlled future of California, or the low tax, low spending, government surplus future of Wisconsin?
Campaign 2012
Nebraska Senate: State Sen. Deb Fischer beat front-runner Attorney General Jon Bruning last night in the Republican primary for Nebraska's U.S. Senate seat. Bruning had been the establishment favorite, but big spending by TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts and an endorsement from Sarah Palin helped push Fischer over the top.
Massachusetts Senate: Elizabeth Warren's claims that she had no idea Harvard University was billing her as a Native American, but a 1997 Fordham Law Review piece described her as Harvard Law School's "first woman of color."
Romney: At a campaign event in Des Moines, Romney warned that, "A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and across the nation and every day we fail to act we feed that fire with our own lack of resolve." Romney said Obama was driving the country into "a financial crisis of both debt and spending that threaten what it means to be an American."
Obama: According to financial disclosure forms revealed yesterday, Obama is worth $8 million and has between $500,001 and $1,000,000 in a "JP Morgan Chase Private Client Asset Management Checking Account." And campaign manager Jim Messina announced in an online video on Wednesday that Obama has raised $43.6 million in April, putting them on pace to hit their 2008 total of $746 million raised.
Around the Bigs
The Wall Street Journal, Boehner Draws Line in Sand on Debt: House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that any increase in the government's borrowing limit must be accompanied by spending cuts and other budget savings of greater value, and he rejected tax increases as part of any deal to reduce the federal deficit.
The Wall Street Journal, Greece Teeters as Talks Fail: Greece's future in Europe's common currency was in doubt after a last-ditch effort to form a new government failed and the country's political turmoil sparked $898 million in bank withdrawals.
The Washington Post, Hollande proposes 'new pact' for Europe in inaugural address: Newly installed socialist French President Francois Hollande declared Tuesday that he wanted to "renegotiate" Europe's response to its economic crisis to include more government spending.
Politico, Moderate Dems frustrated by no budget: Senate Democrats are ripping into Republican budget plans but still refusing to offer one themselves — a move that's frustrating a handful of centrists in their own party. During a closed-door meeting with the Democratic caucus Tuesday, Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad picked apart the four GOP spending proposals, later describing them as "partisan" and "radical."
Righty Playbook
Commentary's Seth Mandel notes that Obama has inserted himself into the White House website biographies of almost every former president.
Hot Air reports that Franciscan University has become one of the first Catholic institutions to drop their health care plan thanks to Obama's birth control mandate.
At National Review, Reihan Salam notes that Obama's signature tax proposal, the Buffett Rule, actually makes Bain Capital's business model more profitable.
Lefty Playbook
Talking Points Memo's Brian Beutler worries that House Republicans are flirting with debt limit debacle 2.0.
Salon's Green Greenwald highlights Andrew Sullivan's creepy and hypocritical description if Obama as his "father figure."
The Washington Post's Sarah Kliff reports that repealing Obamacare will cost health insurers $1 trillion in revenue.


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In honor of Foursquare Day, the City of New York is holding a Foursquare contest asking New Yorkers to submit a list of the top 5 places they think every New Yorker or visitor should see. The winner's list will become an official Foursquare List of the City of New York. The winner will also be featured on NYCGov's social media, and get a tweet from @foursquare,a tour of Foursquare's NYC office, some Foursquare gifts and 2 passes for a tour at Lincoln Center!
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Abu Dhabi hotel occupancy up 10pct in H1
Abu Dhabi has recorded its best-ever, first-half hotel results with rises in all its key performance indicators including guest numbers, guest nights, occupancy, revenue and length-of-stay from January – June this year compared to the same period last year.
Year-to-date, hotel guests were up 11 percent to just over 1 million, guest nights increased 26 per cent to over 3 million, occupancy rose 10 per cent to 70 per cent, revenue climbed 6 per cent to Dh2.26 billion ($619 million) while average-length-of-stay expanded 13 per cent to 2.97 nights.
"This is an impressive performance and one which bodes well for the destination achieving its stretch target of 2 million guests by the end of this year," said HH Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Chairman, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (Adta), which released the figures.
"Results have been assisted by the destination's heightened competitiveness with average room rates falling by 15 per cent in the first half compared to last year making Abu Dhabi a more affordable up-scale option than Sydney, Paris, New York or Tokyo."
Sheikh Sultan says the second-half of the year could prove stellar for the destination despite the planned opening of a flurry of major hotel properties.
"The fact is that we have an up-scaled major events calendar, superior resort openings and compelling visitor package deals in the offing. This includes the third Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this November, nationwide celebrations this December to mark the 40th anniversary of the United Arab Emirates and the highly-anticipated hosting of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet for a two-week , carnival-style stopover starting December 30," he explained. "We have a great accommodation and attractions infrastructure now in place, keener competitiveness and a more compelling story with which to engage potential visitors."
Some ten luxury, five-star resorts are due on stream in Abu Dhabi by the end of the year which will heighten competition in some segments though Adta believes they will significantly add to the destination's appeal and expand its overall market reach.
"Many of these are major beachfront resorts which will substantially boost our leisure proposition," explained Sheikh Sultan. "And, with all being managed by high-end chains, there will significant additional weight added to the destination's international marketing through CRM and the combined power of these chains in distribution channels."
In the first six months of this year the UK remained the emirate's largest hotel guest source market accounting for some 72,998 guests – a 20 per cent increase on the first half of 2010.
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There is a caveat here: These tips will work best if the boss's bad behavior is directed specifically at you and not the entire workforce. "It's a lot more difficult to avoid conflict if your supervisor treats everyone the same way," Patrick writes.
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- Schedule a meeting to discuss your concerns. Patrick correctly observes, "Many people prefer to avoid conflict once it is out in the open." This isn't the time to grouse and whine. Emphasize that you want to increase your value to the team.
- Reduce opportunities for conflict. The key here is to not give the bad boss ammunition to use against you. Be exemplary. And that includes NOT complaining to co-workers about what an idiot she or he is. (That may be tough, no?)
- Don't make the boss look bad. In fact, do the opposite, without lying. On the other hand, Patrick suggests ways to keep the boss from taking credit for your good work.
- Document, document, document. Yes, this is a pain. But it will help prove you're in the right -- especially if you're fired.
- Take it upstairs. It may come to this -- and it should if your boss is breaking the law or company policies.
Have you had a bad boss in your work life? How did you improve the situation?
"I've found that if you can make yourself indispensable, it will go a long way toward a good (or at least tolerable) relationship with your boss," The Dough Roller commented at Patrick's post. "That said, sometimes you have a boss so bad that you just have to leave and find another job. That happened to me once."
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The arrangement seemed logical. Mark Rappaport, a critically acclaimed independent New York filmmaker, was moving to Paris and couldn't haul all of his papers, videotapes, and film reels with him. Ray Carney, the Boston University film professor who had long championed Rappaport's work, would take the material.
Just what they agreed to that day in 2005 has led to a dispute that has reverberated through the indie film world, spawned a lawsuit, and become a public relations mess for Boston University. Carney says the materials were an outright gift to him; Rappaport calls that preposterous, saying he would never give away such a sizable chunk of his artistic portfolio. The conflict has put the spotlight on Carney, 66, a controversial faculty member who has battled his colleagues for years.


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November is National Novel Writing Month and Kate Rockland, Darien resident and author of 150 Pounds, is excited to assist you on the fun and thrilling task of working on your first novel!
What you'll need:
- an idea for a book, even if it's written on a napkin (that's how J.K. Rowling started!)
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Kate will help you with technical aspects such as how to work with Microsoft Word, conduct research on Amazon, navigate Writer's Market to find an agent, and write chapter summaries. She will pass out Character Outline forms that are a huge help in writing and publishing your first novel.
Please note this class will discuss only fiction writing, though many of the skills you will learn can be applied toward writing non-fiction.
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Space for this workshop is limited. Registration is open to all Darien residents, those who work in Darien full-time, and non-resident Friends of Darien Library (annual donation of $300). For more information, contact Erin Shea, Head of Adult Programming, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 203-669-5232.
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I highly recommend eating at Seagle's Waterfront Cafe located in the Riverview Hotel in St. Marys, GA. It is located across the street from the Cumberland Island ferry. The food is made fresh to order. Everything tastes homemade and delicious, and is presented nicely. They are famous for their "Rock Shrimp" dinners. You can order it fried, blackened, or broiled. Also on the menu is Shrimp and Grits, Shrimp Scampi, Grouper Dungeness, Flounder Florentine, and Bourbon Glazed Salmon, just to name a few. The menu has something for everyone including hand patted Burgers, Sandwiches, Baskets, Choice Steaks, and a variety of Pasta dishes, salads, and homemade desserts made fresh by the owner's mother. Owner and Chef Kevin Berry greets diners at their table offering his wine pairing suggestions. With an adjacent Martini Bar on one side, and a Saloon on the other with live music, you can't help but enjoy your culinary experience after a day at the beach on neighboring Cumberland Island.
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1. Motion presenter: Agenda Committee
2. Dates of Faculty Senate discussion: 4/25/2011, 5/2/2011 and 5/9/2011
3. Motion: The Faculty Senate recognizes the extreme difficulty posed to New Hampshire's citizens and state government by the present economic conditions and acknowledges the challenges faced by UNH's leaders. A primary responsibility of the faculty is to maintain the university's core values in teaching and learning in all circumstances. We are concerned that President Huddleston's recent characterization of the pedagogical practices, curricular programs, degrees and students' capacities in American higher education implied to the public that the UNH faculty has failed in that responsibility.
We recognize the importance of alternative learning environments. We commend members of the UNH administration and faculty who have taken the lead in their efforts to encourage new methods of instruction and affordable options in the education of our students. However, we also feel that teaching and learning through face-to-face interaction between professors and students remain central to a superior education at the University of New Hampshire. Therefore, in order to ensure that long-term implementation of strategic initiatives does not inadvertently pull us from our core academic values, the Faculty Senate calls for more constructive administration-faculty interactions concerning the relationship between our strategic initiatives, programs and values. Those interactions will require improved communication, wider inclusion of faculty in implementation, and copious deliberation.
4. Senate action: passed with nineteen ayes, eleven nays and four abstentions.
5. Senate chair's signature: Larry Prelli
Forwarded to: President Mark Huddleston, on, May 24, 2011
Forwarded to: Provost John Aber, on May 24, 2011
Forwarded to: Lisa MacFarlane, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, May 24, 2011
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Senior editor Jason Cohen has written for Texas Monthly since 1995 (and texasmonthly.com since its very first iteration). His 1997 story "The Ice Bats Cometh," about minor league hockey in Texas, was the basis of his book Zamboni Rodeo (Greystone Press, 2001). He also penned the magazine's first-ever Matthew McConaughey story, in August 1996. The co-author of Generation Ecch! (Fireside Books, 1994) and co-editor of SXSW Scrapbook (Essex/University of Texas Press, 2011), he has also written for such publications as Rolling Stone, SPIN, Details, the Austin Chronicle, the Austin American-Statesman, Portland Monthly, and Cincinnati magazine. His 1995 Rolling Stone cover story on the band Hole prompted Courtney Love to yell at him from the stage at Lollapalooza in Austin, while his 2007 profile of the Portland strip club Mary's won a Sex-Positive Journalism Award. As one of the two primary writers for the TM Daily Post, Cohen wrote approximately 500 stories for Texas Monthly in 2012. He has been a blogger since 2002 and been known to maintain as many as five Twitter accounts.
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Maine Dems draw target on GOP health insurance lawThe Associated Press | November 25,2012AUGUSTA, Maine — Democrats who've wrested control of the Legislature back from Republicans are poised to reverse a GOP health insurance overhaul when the 2013 session gets going.
The law, passed in 2011 after Republicans pushed for years for the changes, seeks to lower health insurance costs and cover more Maine residents through a series of market changes. It adds a $4 charge to the monthly premium of every Mainer with private coverage to pay for a new pool of high-risk people with the highest health care expenses. The law also allows Maine residents to buy coverage offered in other states.
The bill rankled Democrats as it was being debated. Then the minority, Democrats claimed the far-reaching law was not sufficiently deliberated and was "rammed through" the legislative process.
Now back at the reins, Democrats have toned down their rhetoric and spoken mostly in general terms about their legislative intentions for the year. But on one topic — the health insurance overhaul — they've been specific.
"We just talked to 600,000 Mainers, and a lot of them were very frustrated by the premium increases that they're facing," said the new Democratic Senate president, Justin Alfond, referring to the Nov. 6 election.
"And so we absolutely are going to go back to the drawing board and looking at the places where that bill didn't meet its goal. And we're going to go to our Republican colleagues and say, 'What do you think about these possible changes and tweaks?' And then we're going to have to work with the governor, too," said Alfond, of Portland.
In one of his earliest statements after winning Democrats' nomination for House speaker, Rep. Mark Eves also declared that the law would be on the table.
"I think the Republican insurance bill is one that has been really hard on a lot of people, particularly in rural Maine, and middle-aged Mainers," said Eves, of North Berwick. "So we're going to look at that again."
The new Republican House minority leader, Ken Fredette of Newport, said, when asked if his party considered the insurance reforms untouchable: "Any piece of legislation is something we need to be able to look at it and have an adult conversation and say, 'Is there a way to possibly improve this legislation?"'
"I don't think anyone believes that any particular law is perfect; there's always ways to improve it. If there are ways to improve it, we certainly can reach across the aisle and do that," Fredette said.
The 2011 insurance overhaul isn't the only health care issue likely to come up during the 2013 session, which formally starts Dec. 5 but won't get under way in earnest until early January.
And in some ways, the issue has already triggered debate. Republican Gov. Paul LePage, who opposes the national Affordable Care Act, has declared that Maine will do nothing to comply with that law's requirement that states must set up health care exchanges unless they want the federal government to come in and do it instead. That makes it more likely Maine will have to go with the latter alternative for an exchange, an online site where individuals and businesses can shop for insurance.
The back-and-forth has already begun on another issue related to the national health care law: expansion of Medicaid so it covers more uninsured people.
While the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the states can't be forced to expand Medicaid, Democrats assert that Maine would lose millions of dollars in federal subsidies for the health care programs and that refusing the money would in effect be giving it away to other states.
Democrats also say that the federal subsidies make good financial sense for the states. That's because the federal government will pay 100 percent of the cost to insure new Medicaid enrollees who meet eligibility standards. That payment continues for three years beginning in 2014, and the federal government's share will gradually decrease to 90 percent in 2020.
LePage, however, has taken a firm stand against expanded Medicaid coverage, which was cut back in several areas in Maine's last budget. The governor says the costs exceed the state's ability to pay and must be curtailed.MORE IN National / World BusinessNEW YORK Procter & Gamble is canceling an on-field breast cancer awareness promotion it had... Full StoryNEW YORK Alibaba debuted as a publicly traded company Friday and swiftly climbed more than 40... Full StoryWASHINGTON Strong stock market gains and higher home prices boosted Americans net worth in the... Full Story
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.. at least it seems to be in the world of software. New releases of cpanminus, Dada Mail, Sereal are popping ever which way, and intriguing new projects are appearing left and right. If September is any indication, this season we'll have a splendid harvest of new shiny toys to keep us warm, or at least entertained, during the long, dark winter months. ~ `/anick
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"What If" scenarios. Maybe not the most practical exercises ever, but they can be darn entertaining (and make good movie plots). Here, Dave Cross muses aloud "If the Perl 6 we know hadn't come along, when/would Perl 5 releases ever incremented that stolid major version number?
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Hope Powell's ready to take on the Football League
Unlike the untried men's team, the women's squad is largely made up of the England team that reached the Quarter-finals of last year's World Cup.
I have been hugely impressed by Hope Powell's side. They have been organised and disciplined (the only side yet to concede) but have also played with great spirit and no shortage of skill.
They have totally embraced this competition and the record attendance for a women's game in England of over 70,000 that saw them beat Brazil at Wembley the other day was testament to how the public have been captivated by their performances. If they get to the final the Olympic record crowd of 76,489 will surely be beaten.
There have been some outstanding individual performers, none more so than Steph Houghton who has scored in three consecutive games, but it hasn't been about one player, it has been a real team effort.
Like the men however, if they want to make the final they will probably have to do it the hard way. The likelihood is that they would then be faced with overcoming the reigning Olympic champions USA. It may be a game too far but they are riding the crest of a wave and I wouldn't rule them out upsetting the odds.
A bronze is definitely on the cards but it's possible they could go one or even two better.
Whatever the outcome, there's no doubt where praise is due. Hope Powell has been the England coach since 1998 and oversees the whole set up from U15's onwards. She was awarded the coaching pro licence in 2003, studying for it alongside Pearce, and is loving the opportunity to manage on the Olympic stage.
But would she be tempted into managing in the men's game? Or more pertinently would anyone take a risk in employing her? I think the answer is yes to both.
Football is evolving all the time and we are seeing more and more women involved in the men's side in varying roles. She was linked with the Grimsby vacancy in 2009 but didn't get it and there is no doubt it would be a brave move to give her a chance. But why not?
I went to school with her and her passion for football stood out even then playoing for Millwall lionesses. She is a levelheaded person who certainly knew her stuff even but then in the days where we had to have special games arranged with other schools so she could represent our school in a mixed side with another player Jane bartley. Im so proud of her and the way she has taken womens football forward. There is no reason why she cant manage a football league team and her qualities will shine through. She may come up against opposition to it but her experience and creditablity as a person will shine through.
There is no greater risk than appointing a male manager and its about the coaching skills experience she has and also its about the mentality of players she works with. Any job she takes will be a risk for her but she will choose wisely when the time comes.
get her to coach the mens england team.......she will do a better job, 'sycho' is crap at managing any team. He wasnt good at playing either!!
My partners 11 yr old daughter can run rings round any lad playing, she has 25 medals and 8 trophies over her yrs of playing...........and she's only 11 years old!!!!
keep up the good work GB ladies and show the men what they are not worth!!
took Bellamy off!! Giving GB no chance in the game.....l expect all of this will be forgotten!
and team selection for England etc will be left to the no hoper....Pearce
I don`t doubt her ability,and she has done well with England.But six of the GB side play for Arsenal ladies,who are the best team in the country by far.And at least two of the other players are recent ex-Arsenal.So that is why they gel so well.
I don`t she is ready for the EPL just yet,But the lower leagues,certainly.
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(#) smeagol 2013-07-26 07:26:00 AMFinally...I was wondering when you would continue this well constructed story. The Riddle chapter defines a change that brings it into the opening midsection of the story. I look forward to its development.
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(#) Pointer 2013-07-26 04:23:09 PMDefinitely one of can't stop reading stories.
Looks like Voldie and the Deatheaters (sounds like a band) are in business.
Did he come back from a horcrux? Looks like a better ritual than canon used.
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(#) etuncan094 2013-07-26 10:17:08 PMAnother wonderful chapter! I am so glad it is finally updated! The story really seems to be picking up and I love where it is going!
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(#) stag 2013-07-28 09:45:28 AMawesome work please keep it up
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(#) mwinter 2013-07-29 10:19:09 PMAwaiting more.
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(#) lleon 2013-08-06 06:06:55 AMAwesome chapter. Definitely did not expect Riddle to already be up and running.
I thought Harry at least had a year to get himself in rudimentary good physical condition, but guess he'll have to rely almost entirely on his expanded magic core.
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Where did you grow up?
In Greenville, SC
What is your earliest memory of writing/drawing?
Scribbling poems about snow, in the dark of the car, as my family was on the way to North Carolina to ski.
What inspired you to write/illustrate your first book?
My first published book? Or the FIRST book, as in the bedtime stories for pet rocks my friend Miranda and I sold to our classmates? My first published book was Desert, part of a series about biomes. That book came about after I answered an ad in the Washington Post for folks to write biographies of scientists. The scientist book, which I wrote under contract, was never published because Holt bought 21st Century Books (the publisher) and cancelled my first ever book! Ha! But Holt eventually contracted me to do a series instead. So…Holt was my first ever publisher and here I am still doing Holt books, after all this time.
Do you use your childhood as inspiration?
I use my nature experiences as inspiration. Those experiences stretch from childhood into adulthood. So I guess I do use my childhood sometimes. Mostly, though, it comes from adult experiences in the wild. Last night I observed a gray fox. This summer I spent lots of time underwater, studying coral reef fish. There's always something to study!
What books from your childhood have most influenced your work? What about adult titles?
My mom had a science book company in our basement so I read all those Lets Read and Find Out titles when I was a kid. But, mostly, I read fantasy such as The Book of Three, The High King, and A Wrinkle in Time.
A lot of my inspiration, as an adult, comes from reading science magazines. But books like Tropical Nature, A Book of Bees, and the journals of Madeleine L'Engle have meant a lot to me.
What are your hobbies and interests besides reading and books?
Photography is my passion. I've been a dedicated photographer since age eight or so. My mom taught me how to compose a picture and I published some photos in college.
Birdwatching, bugwatching, native plant gardening, yoga, and snorkeling are some of my favorite activities.
Who are a couple of your favorite author/illustrators? What is it about their work that inspires and interests you?
I read middle grade and YA fantasy. My favorite author is Tamora Pierce. I like the sensory way she approaches the discussion of the magical. I like that her mages learn practical skills in order to shape their brains and magical powers.
In read aloud nonfiction, I'd say Byrd Baylor's work has the most meaning for me. I found her work long after I was writing my own books—really, only recently. But now, as I am reading her work, I keep saying "Aha! Yes! I know what you mean!" Her books are delicious in the deepest way possible. She says the important things.
What one or two words of advice would you give for young authors/illustrators?
Share what you care about by writing. Polish your work until it shines. And never give up. It may take a while for your style of work to find its place in the world, the place where it is best appreciated. Until that time, your job is to do the work—with a dedicated mind and heart.
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