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Article by Richard Yallop, Guardian, December 1988
Mats Wilander's parents live in a standard suburban home in the southern Swedish town of Vaxjo, and they saw no need to move to the top of the road when their son recently displaced Ivan Lendl as world no. 1. Nor did they want the star treatment, with Mats buying them a mansion with his winnings. No, life goes on, with 57-year-old Einar Wilander doing his daily shift as foreman at a local air-conditioner factory, and his wife Karin devoting much time to the grandchildren. These are humble, unaffected people, living in a quiet, well-ordered estate cut into the fir and pine forests. Half a world away in the urban jungle of Manhattan is John McEnroe Senior's New York law firm.
Mr. Wilander is short and reticent, and he seems to leave most of the talking to his wife and two oldest sons, Ingmar and Anders, who are respectively five and nine years older than Mats, who is 24. He smiles in a rather embarrassed fashion when asked whether he and his wife had instilled into Mats the values that have made him admired around the world, and have helped put tennis back on an even keel after John McEnroe came aboard and hoisted the Jolly Roger in the late 1970's. "No", said Mr. Wilander, "the credit should go to his two brothers". Clearly the Wilander brothers were a good team. Whenever Ingmar and Anders went to the ice rink, or the tennis courts, they would take along their young brother. When Anders went to Bastad to play in the Swedish under-16 championships (he was ranked no.3 after Bjorn Borg), the pint-sized six-year-old Mats was pictured by Swedish television knocking tennis balls against the wall.
Now the Swedish Davis Cup team – Wilander, Stefan Edberg, Joakim Nystrom, Anders Jarryd, Kent Carlsson and, to a lesser extent (because he was schooled for so long in America), Mikael Pernfors – resemble nothing so much as an extended family of brothers. Before the Davis Cup final the team even got together for fun – and for charity, if there was any surplus at the box office – to play indoor hockey at five venues around Sweden.
Edberg, at 22, may be the "baby" of the family, but he was brought up the same way, in Vastervik, a country town south of Stockholm, with the same simple, old-fashioned community values. Is his father not Police Inspector Bengt Edberg, a pillar of the Vastervik community? Did he not tell Stefan from a young age the importance of good behaviour? When Stefan's ability showed, and he progressed from the Vastervik team to the district team, did the parents and coaches not stress all the time the need to behave well? Be calm and patient; that is the Swedish tennis model. The eldest of the Wilander brothers, Anders, recalls "Our parents didn't tell us what to do. They are tolerant, sympathetic people, not strict at all. But our father said, "If you're honest, you'll win in the long run"…
Wilander and Edberg may convey the impression that the Swedes are a race of angels, but they are not. The Swedish Tennis Federation says bad behaviour is not uncommon in the satellite tournaments. And of the present Davis Cup players, Anders Jarryd, a mild off-court character, has long struggled against displays of anger on court. Percy Rosberg, [Borg's former coach] recalled how he had first seen Jarryd's temper at an under-14 training camp. "He was the only one to show such temperament. We told him to be careful. It's best if you try to control it as a junior. Borg, Edberg, Wilander, they all concentrate on the next ball instead of getting angry"…
In Sweden they still remember with horror the night McEnroe did one of his grand turns at the Stockholm Open in November, swishing over the water container beside the court. The American had been playing Jarryd, and perhaps his exasperation that night was all the greater for his inability to understand the Swedish psyche.
Nor could McEnroe understand Wilander's continued insistence that reaching no.1 was not his main aim. The American way was to be the best, the Swedish way was to do your best. For Wilander it was more important to enjoy tennis than to be its top exponent. In January last year he married a South African model, Sonia Mulholland, and began the game afresh. His brother Anders says the first time he ever heard Mats express the desire to be no.1 was earlier this year, before he won the French. "He said it would be nice when he was old to look back and say he was number one", said Anders. "If only for one week."
By Peter Bodo, TENNIS, September 1984
After Mats Wilander won his first match of the 1983 U.S. Open, he rendered a curious prophecy. He laconically confessed that he gave himself little chance to win the tournament, horrifying a press corps that is unaccustomed to such frankness. Contemplating the incident, the 20-year-old Swede now remarks: "I said that the same way a newsman, or a coach, might say it. After all, only one guy can win. I analyzed my chances and I didn't feel like a good choice for the title. I was just trying to be honest."
Once before, Wilander had garnered headlines as a result of his honesty. In the semifinals of the 1982 French Open, while he was still an unknown youth, Wilander held a match point against heavily favoured José-Luis Clerc. When a Clerc groundstroke was called out, ostensibly ending the match, the Argentine protested. Wilander interceded on his opponent's behalf and the point was replayed. Wilander went on to win the match and to rock the entire tennis community as he became, at age 17, the youngest male winner in the history of a Grand Slam tournament. The gesture towards Clerc has haunted Wilander ever since, but the excesses of youth are in ebb.
"When you do things a little different, it gets too much attention", he says. "Then you have to do too many extra interviews. From now on when I'm asked how I'll do in a tournament, I'm just going to say I have a good chance. And I'm not going to change any more calls. I'm 20 now. I'm a professional."
However, this is no elegy on the passing of virtue or the loss of innocence in Wilander. The "professional" who will be trying to solve the puzzle of tennis on medium-fast cement at the U.S. Open this month has matured and grown wiser to the world, but his character has not been deformed by success. With diligence, dignity and style, Wilander has entrenched himself in the world's top four. In fact, the cool youth almost snatched the world's no. 1 ranking right from the hands of John McEnroe late last year.
In a surprise that rivaled Wilander's victory at the 1982 French Open, he closed the 1983 campaign by winning the Australian Open. He accomplished it, moreover, by toppling McEnroe in the semifinals and Ivan Lendl in the final. At the end of the calendar year, thus, Wilander found himself holding three victories over McEnroe on three different surfaces in three distinguished events: the French Open (clay), the ATP Championships in Cincinnati (cement) and the Australian Open (grass). There were some who argued that entitled him to the world's top ranking.
To many spectators, particularly Americans, Wilander is an unheralded force in the game, and a virtually unknown face outside pro shops or tennis clubs. "I've never played really well in the big American tournaments, so I understand why I'm not so recognized", he says. "That doesn't bother me so much because I try not to be too complicated. And in a way it's good, because I like to be as free as possible."
As a tennis player, Mats Wilander is a classic model. He is our sport's version of the mint julep, the wooden boat or the button-fly blue jean. Wilander is not an athletic specimen sculpted on the same heroic scale as Yannick Noah, nor a riveting theatrical presence such as McEnroe. He lacks the fire of Jimmy Connors and the ice of Lendl. Wilander is lithe, quick and fluid, a triumph of proportions. His olive complexion and pale blue eyes belie Wilander's Swedish nationality. In tennis whites, his bearing is placid and aristocratic. He is the son of Einar and Karin Wilander, both of whom are factory workers.
The contradiction implied by Wilander's appearance and background are not accidental. They are intrinsic to his personality as a tennis player, a classic tennis player created by a system and conditions that are anything but classic. "Tennis used to be for another class of people, but now it's become very popular", Wilander observes. "It's now the third most popular sport in Sweden."
The tale of Wilander's success is also the history of a national effort to transcend on a great scale the usual social and economic boundaries associated with the sport. Bjorn Borg broke the ground from which Wilander and a host of other Swedish pros sprang. Tennis development programs burgeoned throughout the country in the wake of Borg's success. Such free national programs, and the team concept that evolved from them, represent a radical departure from tennis traditions. The Swedes have developed a "socialized" tennis that challenges the assumption that, at its highest level, tennis is a Darwinian jungle patrolled by solitary creatures.
Wilander himself says: "I don't think I would have the results of the last two or three years if I didn't have the team situation. And I think it made success easier to handle."
Wilander's career germinated in his hometown of Torpsbruk, where Einar Wilander worked in a factory adjacent to a neglected macadam tennis court. Working in their spare time, Einar and some of his friends made the court playable.
Wilander's talent began to flourish when the family moved to nearby Vaxjo, where the tennis facilities were more elaborate. Although Wilander's first love was ice hockey, the tide soon turned in favor of tennis, pleasing Einar Wilander. "My father loves the game", his son reports, "Even today, he goes down to the town tennis courts every night after work to watch the game even if the players aren't good."
At the age of 15 Wilander quit school to pursue a tennis career. It would be inspirational to report that he did it for reasons of economic hardship, but such was not the case. The Wilanders lived a comfortable life in socialist Sweden. As Wilander's agent, Jean-Noel Bioul of the International Management Group notes: "The basic standards in Sweden are pretty high. Social differences show up mostly in matters of taste – not in the house you live in, but the curtains you choose."
Young Wilander developed quickly under the auspices of the Swedish junior program. He won the French junior title in 1981 at age 16. A few weeks after that event, Swedish coach Jan-Anders Sjogren convinced a Swedish building firm, SIAB, to finance a team of outstanding prospects: Wilander, Joakim Nystrom, Hans Simonsson and Anders Jarryd. "We started the team just before Wimbledon", Sjogren recalls, "mostly because none of them could volley and that looked like a big problem. My job as coach was simple – teach each one to hit a volley."
There was another, less technical reason for forming Team SIAB. Inundating foreign shores with a flood of junior talent from an isolated Scandinavian nation was a costly proposition, and the prospect of providing the youngsters with adequate coaching and chaperones was equally grim. There were other specific barriers and conditions that made the team concept viable. As Sjogren explains: "The team idea owes a lot to the fact that we are a small country with our own language and a long winter that has always given the Swedes a tendency to stay together. We like the team idea. It suits our national character."
Wilander flourished in the team atmosphere. "Mats is a very loyal person, maybe the best person among the players I know", says Swedish journalist Bjorn Hellberg. "Even after he won the French Open, he would still go home and play matches for his club in the Swedish league. That's the kind of guy he is. He likes that spirit of friendship. He always goes out to watch the matches of his team mates, even in doubles. Mats is an extremely kind person."
Although the original Team SIAB has broken up, Wilander still travels and practices with its constituents. He's also now a member of the Club Med-Rossignol touring pro team. "I know it's unusual for a player in the top four to be so close to other players", he says. "But then I'm the youngest one so high in the rankings. It's always been important for me to walk into a dressing-room and have somebody to talk to."
The Swedes form a distinct group within the fragmented society of pro tennis. They are as conspicuous and insular as Japanese tourists. Because they don't do a great deal of mixing, the Swedes often remain provincial. After practice, they play soccer using a tennis ball and the service boxes. They go to movies or out to dinner together.
The week before Wimbledon this year, the Swedes observed their national tradition of holding a party on the eve of the summer solstice. Then, they travelled to central London to dine together. Wilander explains: "We have been traveling and doing things together since the age of 13 or 14 and it has just stayed that way. It's comfortable."
Lately, Wilander has been paying a higher price for the benefits of camaraderie. In the first half of this year, he lost important matches to Swedish players, most of them friends. Wilander was beaten by Stefan Edberg in the final at Milan and twice by Henrik Sundstrom, in the final at Monte Carlo and in the semis at Hamburg. "It's easier for the other Swedes to beat Mats", Sjogren admits, "They know him so well that there isn't that tension you feel with a stranger, that fear."
Wilander is aware of the condition, but maintains that he has never entertained notions of divorce in the interests of better results against his fellow Swedes. He is not even convinced that, in the big picture, withdrawing from his friends would improve his results.
"It does matter to me that I have lost to the other Swedes", he admits. "But you just don't care as much about winning or losing if you are playing with a close friend. The one thing I know for certain is that when I'm not in a good mood, I can't play good tennis. I need to feel harmony. To just go and hit tennis balls, staying apart from everybody, that would be boring for me. I think I would lose my interest in the game."
The allegiances developed through his participation in a nationally administered tennis program, and the security bred by team identification during his formative years as a pro, had a profound impact on Wilander. They imbued him with a highly cultivated social sense and a much greater capacity for group identification than most of his rivals show. "Maybe the team idea has taken away a little from the killer instinct", says Hellberg. "That is one of the ways Mats is different from Borg, who was always alone."
With the dissolution of the original Team SIAB and the emergence of Wilander as a player of the first rank, the bonds of team fidelity are being tested. During the French Open, Wilander broke with tradition and stayed at a different hotel from his friends. Sjogren has been trying to expand Wilander's range of practice partners to keep complacency and lack of variety from eroding his form. As Bioul puts it: "It would be great for Mats to practice with a (Guillermo) Vilas here or a (Vitas) Gerulaitis there."
The recent losses to Swedish players and the growing financial security of Wilander (a Monaco resident now for tax reasons) have raised questions lately about his motivation. Critics suggest that his situation is too secure from every angle. Wilander does not bridle at the charges. "To tell the truth, I think now I could be happy with an ordinary job. I know I did something in tennis and I'm proud of it. With two Grand Slam titles I could be content if I left the game."
"I have the drive to be on top, too, but to me it doesn't feel right to be so serious about it. Let's face it: there are 50 players who believe they can be no.1 and ten who maybe could do it."
"I never expected to be in the top 10. When I made the top 80, enabling me to get straight into Grand Prix tournaments, I thought it was incredible. Then I couldn't believe it when I made the top 50. I once felt that if I won the French Open I would achieve everything I wanted in tennis. But after I won it didn't seem to matter that much. The feeling goes away soon after you've won. In fact, the joy of winning dies down to about 10 percent by the time you finish your shower. The best moment – the real moment – is the time between the last point and the handshake."
Like many restrained and well-mannered Europeans, Wilander seems intimidated by the scale of the U.S. He seems puzzled by the friendly, loud, unsophisticated citizenry, surprised at the general lack of culture and uninterested by what he describes as "cities that all look the same and all the new houses, like little boxes." Wilander adds: "The attitude in the States seems to be "take whatever you can." I don't get the feeling that people care as much about each other. On the other hand, people aren't as jealous as in Europe. They don't resent your success as much."
Along with many other European pros, Wilander regards the U.S. Open with skepticism and thinly-veiled disdain. "The difference between Flushing Meadow and Wimbledon is night and day", he says. "Wimbledon is perfect to play tennis in, while Flushing Meadow is just the opposite, like playing in an airport. Flushing Meadow lacks tradition."
Like Borg, Wilander has found that adapting to tennis on cement poses distinct problems. It is different from, but no less challenging than, adjusting to clay or grass courts. "Mats should play well on any fast surface because he has a good service return", Sjogren says. "If you have good ground strokes, good physical conditioning, you should play well on any surface. Usually the rest is a matter of your returns."
Sjogren points out that Wilander is not a "volley-killer", maintaining that his protégé won the Australian title by keeping his own volleys in court and successfully converting more passing shots than his opponents. "On cement", Sjogren maintains, "You have to step into the court more and kill any ball in the midcourt area. The power and mentality you need for that is not natural to Matsie."
Wilander at his best is a master of containment, a man whose precision and consistency keeps his opponents from generating any kind of attacks. To some observers he is "boring", but that charge stems from a shallow view of his style. "I've thought about the philosophy of baseline tennis a few times", Wilander says. "And the way I see it, if you're a serve-and-volley guy, you give the other players a good chance to win every point. Taking risks and being picked apart isn't the most positive kind of aggression. Connors is the most aggressive player I've ever seen and he doesn't play serve-and-volley tennis."
To Wilander, tennis on cement requires difficult, spontaneous decisions. The relentless attack by the server is not as profitable as it is on grass. "It's difficult to tell on cement what ball to come in on", Wilander says. "Also the courts are consistent and high-bouncing; my serve isn't good enough so that I can always come in on it. On grass, a consistent first serve is good enough. On cement, you have to hit the big one."
Wilander was able to serve rocks as he took the ATP Champion-ships on cement just before the U.S. Open last year, but he maintains the result was deceptive. "I won the tournament because it was the best week I had serving in my life. But that didn't make me a complete cement player, and it was wrong to relate the Cincinnati result to the Open because the courts at Flushing Meadow are much, much faster."
The vital role played by Wilander's serve provides a general key to his game. Against players such as Noah, Lendl and even McEnroe, Wilander is reminiscent of a light heavyweight who fights up in the heavyweight division. Although he plays with less abandon than Connors, Wilander is no less reliant on mobility and reflexive counter-punching. He hits off his toes, thinks in motion and puts a fence round most opponents' ambitions.
Lately, Wilander's energetic game has taken a toll on his lean body. Through the first half of 1984, he suffered ankle and wrist injuries that taught him not to take sound health for granted. Consequently, freedom from injury has become a top priority for Wilander. He was eagerly awaiting Flushing Meadow as an event in which he would be completely fit. The 1984 U.S. Open loomed as Wilander's best chance to reassert his sovereignity, particularly if he can survive a confrontation with McEnroe.
In selecting a world's no.1 after the 1984 Masters, one panel chose McEnroe by a split vote. "I'm not playing tennis to be selected no.1," Wilander insists. "I'm playing to show myself what I can do. On the other hand, they chose McEnroe and it's nice to know that I beat him three times last year on three different surfaces."
Contemplating the Champion's Ball that he missed this spring when the world's no. 1 man and woman pros were honoured, Wilander adds that "I'm glad I didn't have to dance, that's all."


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Posted By Louis M. Profeta MD I don't care if your eight year old can throw a baseball through six inches of plywood. He is not going to the pros. I don't care if your twelve-year-old scored seven touchdowns last week in Pop Warner. He is not going to the pros. I don't care if your sixteen-year-old made first team all-state in basketball. He is not playing in the pros. I don't care if your freshman […]
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By: John O'Sullivan "My 4th grader tried to play basketball and soccer last year," a mom recently told me as we sat around the dinner table after one of my speaking engagements. "It was a nightmare. My son kept getting yelled at by both coaches as we left one game early to race to a game in the other sport. He hated it." "I know," said another. "My 10 year old daughter's soccer coach told her […]
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My son had such a good time at the Camp. He was the banana day and crazy mixed up day winner and was so thrilled with all the games and prizes. At first he said he wasn't learning anything really but was having fun. Then he'd start telling me about pivoting and dribbling and defensive moves. So, of course, he was learning new things while having fun, the best way to learn. You must have one of these camps on our side of town next summer, near Midlothian.
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I want to thank you for your most timely and effective warm-up skills clinic. Austin called me and told me he has made the J.V. team at Midlo High. That is an incredible accomplishment for Austin who is only a freshman. I give you and your clinics a great amount of the credit. I recall that your clinic prepared Austin for middle school try-outs and he did very well. He went from being cut in 7th grade to becoming a starter in 8th grade. So the attendance in your clinics is showing a direct correlation to Austin's success. I can't thank you enough. As a father, we all want the best for our children. The difficulty arises in how do we find the resources to guide them along their path. I think I have found an answer and it is the attendance at your clinics. Clearly, your clinics have become an integral part of Austin's basketball success. Thank you again for providing the environment to Austin so he can take his game to the "Next Level".
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What an opportunity!!! To receive instruction on taking your game to "The Next Level" by a 24 year veteran of Division I college basketball. Coach Foley offers instruction for the beginning player as well as the much more intense, demanding clinics designed for the top players in the area. With such a low coach/player ratio, it's the greatest camp around!
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Re: [XP] Circle/Ellipse dilemma
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- Michael Feathers wrote:
> KR> This really has nothing to do with XP.Yes, but it blows the Decorator pattern out of the water.
> Here's food for thought.. if you have a class hierarchy where you
> have only one definition for each method (no overrides) you
> dramatically reduce your chances of an LSP violation. See why?
> I guess having more than one definition for a method is a kind of
> duplication, eh?
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Let's write software that people understand
- On Tuesday, December 2, 2003, at 05:08 PM, Amir Kolsky wrote:
>> Indeed, the data structure that represents an ellipse has too manyexample of "bad" OO:
> variables to efficiently represent a circle.
> Yup, and by virtue of the bad smell, we should know that there's
> something immutably wrong with even trying to get to a circle by
> subclassing ellipse...
class point { float x, y (and methods...) };
class circle extends point { float radius; (methods treat inherited x,y
as center) };
class ellipse extends circle { point secondLocus; (methods treat
inherited x,y as first locus) };
class square extends point { float sidelength; (methods treat inherited
x,y as top-left of square) };
class rectangle extends square { float otherSideLength; (ad nauseum) };
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Polarization-dependent refractometer for discrimination of temperature and ambient refractive index
ABSTRACT Transmission characteristics of polarization-dependent refractometer based on a surface long-period grating (SLPG) inscribed in a D-shaped photonic crystal fiber (PCF) are investigated. The birefringence of SLPG produces the separation of transmission spectra for TE and TM polarization modes. We also measure the sensitivities of PCF-based SLPG to temperature and external refractive index change depending on the input polarization states. The SLPG-based sensor exhibits different temperature and ambient index sensitivities corresponding to TE and TM polarization modes. Therefore, the SLPG inscribed in D-shaped PCFs can effectively discriminate temperature and ambient index sensitivities.
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- "This result shows that the sensor has a rather strong temperature dependence. This temperature-dependent resonance peak shift is expected and it has been discussed in previously published work [19], [20]. However since the resonant peak monotonically redshifts with temperature, it is possible to apply a correction factor to mitigate the temperature induced errors. "
ABSTRACT: An all-fiber refractive index (RI) sensor with a simple configuration of periodical tapers is proposed and investigated experimentally. The proposed fiber RI sensor consists of a small core fiber sandwiched between two standard singlemode fibers, with tapers periodically fabricated along the small core fiber using a focused CO2 laser beam. Such a structure can be used for RI sensing by measuring the dip wavelength shift of the multimode interference within the small core fiber cladding. An average sensitivity of 226.6 nm/RIU (RI Unit) has been experimentally achieved in the RI range from 1.33 to 1.38. The refractometer is sensitive to temperature and an experimental investigation of this sensitivity is presented. It is found that the peak shift response has a linear variation with temperature; therefore, temperature dependence can be mitigated by a suitable RI correction process. The proposed RI sensor benefits from simplicity and low cost and achieves a competitive sensitivity compared with other existing fiber-optic sensors.IEEE Sensors Journal 01/2013; 13(1-1):180-185. DOI:10.1109/JSEN.2012.2216865 · 1.76 Impact Factor
Article: Highly sensitive in-fiber interferometric refractometer with temperature and axial strain compensation[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: A novel fiber-optic refractometer is proposed and demonstrated to achieve temperature- and axial strain-compensated refractive index measurement using highly sensitive outer-cladding modes in a tapered bend-insensitive fiber based Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Peak wavelength shifts associated with different spatial frequency peaks are calibrated to obtain a wavelength-related character matrix λMRI,T,ε for simultaneous measurement of multiple environmental variables. A phase-related character matrix ΦMRI,T,ε is also acquired by direct determination of refractive index, temperature, and axial strain induced phase shifts of the corresponding sensing modes.Optics Express 04/2013; 21(8):9996-10009. DOI:10.1364/OE.21.009996 · 3.49 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: A solution refractive index (SRI) and temperature simultaneous measurement sensor with intensity-demodulation system based on matching grating method were demonstrated. Long period grating written in a photonic crystal fiber (LPG-PCF), provides temperature stable and wavelength dependent optical intensity transmission. The reflective peaks of two fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), one of which is etched then sensitive to both SRI and temperature, another (FBG2) is only sensitive to temperature, were located in the same linear range of the LPG-PCF's transmission spectrum. An identical FBG with FBG2 was chosen as a matching FBG. When environments (SRI and temperature) change, the wavelength shifts of the FBGs are translated effectively to the reflection intensity changes. By monitoring output lights of unmatching and matching paths, the SRI and temperature were deduced by a signal processing unit. Experimental results show that the simultaneous refractive index and temperature measurement system work well. The proposed sensor system is compact and suitable for in situ applications at lower cost.The Review of scientific instruments 07/2013; 84(7):075004. DOI:10.1063/1.4816155 · 1.61 Impact Factor


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We are halfway through 2015, and the Manyatta Youth Resource Center and Equip Manyatta continue to offer exciting opportunities and programs for Kisumu Youth. Our provincial soccer team continues to challenge opponents in the ongoing North Nyanza Provincial league. Our adult aged provincial soccer team is made up of youth who started with the MYRC in 2009 on our first under-14 soccer team. In late June, Manyatta United met a tough challenge when they defeated Superstriker's FC 4-2 at Shaurimoyo playing ground. Unfortunately, our goalkeeper has also suffered a major leg injury that will keep him from playing for several months. Injuries are a major problem facing the Manyatta United Football Club as the pitches we play on are poorly maintained and are often hazardous. Your donations to our programs, not only help the MYRC keep their programs running, they also help provide for medical assistance our youth need on and off the field. We were so proud of our good friend and collaborating artist, Nahna, as she was selected out of hundreds of applicants to travel to Sweden to participate in the Ethno Sweden Festival. Ethno World is a program that creates festivals throughout Europe to bring folk musicians from many cultural backgrounds together from all over the world. These musicians are given the opportunity to learn about a variety of cultures and traditions and a variety of musical styles through a combination of seminars, workshops, jam sessions and performances. These musicians teach each other through intercultural learning and exchange. Nahna works at One Vibe Studios in Kisumu who helped Nahna find this opportunity. Nahna has also been supported since 2012 by Equip Manyatta who has helped pay for studio sessions, music videos and trips to Nairobi to expose her talent. Nahna spent three weeks in Sweden sharing about traditional Kenya through music and learning about cultures from around the world, Nahna had never left Kenya. Nahna was also featured in the studio collaboration organized by Street Breeze Records, One Vibe Studios and the MYRC's Starbell Records. The collaboration originated when Starbell Record's lead producer, Malique, and Street Breeze Records lead producer, Claster, decided they wanted to send a message of unity to local musicians and studios. Photographer and producer G Man did the photo shoot of the collaboration. Rising producer and videographer Crizo Mzeyah shot the music video. Crizo has shot several of the videos sponsored by the MYRC and has caught the attention of numerous stars looking to get professional music videos made. To see more of Chrizo's work check out his youtube page at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CrizoStudio/videos The performing arts collaboration 2Jinyce is still going and continues to perform at primary and secondary schools throughout Kisumu. While 2Jinyce aims at inspiring students to follow their dreams and believe in their talent it has also helped participating artists gain local popularity. Founding member of 2Jinyce and Starbell Records artist, Gabiro, continues to perform all over Nyanza and his following continues to grow as well. Check out Gabiro's recordings at https://www.reverbnation.com/gabirodahiphop Equip Manyatta also was given a really cool opportunity to display and sell arts and crafts made through our program and by MYRC youth at Lauren's Restaurant in Boonville, California. Lauren's gave us three months to exhibit a wide range of pieces made in Kisumu and bought by Equip Manyatta. By selling the art at shows like Lauren's we are able to continue buying art made by youth in Kisumu and help small businesses created by these youth grow. The show ends at the end of August so if you are in the area please stop by and check it out. We are so thankful to Lauren for giving us this opportunity. Equip Manyatta and the MYRC would like to thank you all for your continued support and also for the support you gave us during our Microproject fundraiser. During those three months we raised enough money to help completely pay for the fees of 10 primary school students and 5 secondary school students for the whole year. It will also help us cover small fees and expenses for those youth who are just short of covering all of their costs. So, thank you!
2015 seems to be flying by and those involved with the Manyatta Youth Resource Centre have a demanding schedule. Even as we continue with our many activities and responsibilities, we at the MYRC and Equip Manyatta wish to offer our condolences and mourning for the victims of the horrible attack at Garissa University. This attack on April 2, took away the lives of 147 young Kenyans who could have helped to build a better tomorrow for Kenya. Insecurity in Kenya is increasing and youth who live in poverty or are vulnerable in other ways are seen as potential recruits for terrorist groups and gangs. Though our impact at the MYRC may not reach nationwide, we whole heartedly believe that the programs and opportunities we offer provide youth with alternatives to violence, help them understand they have positive options in life, encourage them to believe they can become successful, and equip them with knowledge they need to make constructive and safe choices. With every youth we keep in school, every youth we engage in physical activities and every youth we offer the chance to express themselves artistically we help a youth know they have more to live for than extremism and gang-life. Providing youth with the tools they need to be successful individuals and Kenyan citizens is one of our goals at the MYRC. For this reason we collaborated with IMPACT Research to host their Healthy Choices seminar for the boys and girls who participate in our programs. Healthy Choices helps youth learn about ways they can protect themselves in their daily life from sanitary issues to reproduction to drugs and alcohol. This seminar not only gave our youth valuable lessons they will take with them into adulthood, but it also provided a positive environment and activity for them as they were on their break from school. The MYRC also partnered with the Kisumu YWCA to host a workshop about options for improving family health. The MYRC aspires to connect with many organizations to empower our youth members with access to information and skills building. Our senior football team, which recently began its provincial league campaign, also took time to help organize a clean-up of Shaurimoyo ACK Parish Church grounds. The Shaurimoyo School System has been a valuable partner to the MYRC, and Shaurimoyo Primary is the main training field for Manyatta United FC. As the surrounding estates do not have sufficient infrastructure to deal with the massive amount of rubbish and often-raw sewage, the area our youth live in can be hazardous to health. The MYRC frequently organizes community clean-ups to promote the benefits of a healthy environment to our youth members and our community as well. We have many things to be thankful about at the MYRC these past months. Very importantly, we were selected to be featured as a Project of the Month for May on Global Giving's Project of the Month Club. We feel so honored and thankful that Global Giving is recognizing our work and we hope that being a part of the club this month will help us reach more people interested in supporting our project in the future as well. We are also thankful to Mayfair Holdings Limited, which has agreed to donate two crates of bread each month to our weekly feeding program. Once a week, the MYRC organizes lunch for its members so that it can ensure that they get at least one meal that day. We wish we could do more, but the costs of feeding so many youth adds up. We are also happy that the 2015 Kisumu Youth Football Association's (KYFA) 2015 soccer season has started. We were proud to be a part of KYFA's ribbon cutting ceremony at Shaurimoyo Primary School. The MYRC will field several under-18 teams with a chance of a cash prize at the end of the season for the top two teams in each category. That is another reason Mayfair's donation is so important to us. Lastly, the MYRC is proud to have purchased a motorbike to be used for income generation as well as local transportation for our management board. Motorbikes in Kenya are often used as a cheaper alternative to a taxi and the MYRC has already employed an athlete from our senior team as a driver during the week. This motorbike will enable him to start supporting himself financially and will also provide a small stream of income for the MYRC. The motorbike will also help our management board members to get to local meetings and events. The MYRC performing arts department has also been busy the past few months. Our recording studio, Starbell Records, initiated a collaboration with two other local studios to create a song promoting unity among Kisumu performing artists and their studios. Starbell, together with Street Breeze Records and One Vibe Entertainment, recorded a song featuring artists from each studio and produced a music video. Ultimately the group will also release a short documentary that will chronicle the journey of the collaboration. We hope that we will send a message of unity to local musicians and producers and inspire collaborations like this in the future. Starbell Records and some Starbell performing artists also collaborated with other performing artists from Kisumu to create a group called 2Jinyce. This group will be performing at local primary and secondary schools with the goal of creating a dialogue about public health combining the message with lots of entertainment from musicians, dancers, aspiring models and theatre groups. Starbell artist Gabiro explains that the group wants to, "engage the pupils and students on this talk and also the teachers, some of whom are parents." 2Jinyce also aims at inspiring students to follow their dreams and believe in their talent. The MYRC was also honored to receive a visit from an in-the-field representative from Global Giving. Our visitor, Kelly, ran two workshops at the MYRC office, one with the goal of helping more local groups access Global Giving and its resources and another for already existing Global Giving projects based in Kisumu. It was wonderful to have a representative come and see first hand our projects in action. The workshops were helpful for many local groups who learned more about Global Giving but also gained important information about online fundraising and best practices for new NGOs. We welcome Kelly back anytime and also welcome any visitors who would like to see how we are helping youth in Kisumu. The MYRC is continually struggling to find adequate financial support for its education program. We support more than 20 boys and girls currently in primary and secondary school. This is why we recently began an education support micro-project on Global Giving. All donations made to the micro-project will help ensure that our current sponsored youth stay in school and that we can expand our support to more vulnerable youth. Our education program supports girls like Sara, whose mother passed away due to HIV/AIDS. Sara lives in a one-room tin home with her elderly father and her younger brother who was infected with HIV at birth. Sara is not infected but still faces a dire future unless she can get the education she deserves. Please visit our micro-project, Education Opportunities for Manyatta, at http://www.globalgiving.org/microprojects/manyatta-education/ and make a donation that will give our Kenyan youth a brighter future. Please also share both of our projects with your friends and family. Thank you again for all that you have done. We couldn't have made it this far without you all.
The New Year has come and the Manyatta Youth Resource Center (MYRC) is working hard to make 2015 our most successful year to date. I arrived back in Kisumu mid-January to a warm welcome and also warm weather. Kisumu sits on the Equator and has been averaging temperatures of 35 degrees Celsius and above. Despite the heat and unforgiving sun, the MYRC presses on with its programs, organizing events for football and performing arts and creating opportunities for girls and boys to have fun and explore their talents in this lakeside city. Though the Kisumu Youth Football Association's (KYFA) football league is on a three-month break, the MYRC football team, Manyatta United, is still busy organizing girls and boys friendlies, playing in tournaments and preparing for the coming season. The MYRC and Manyatta United were honored to welcome two guest players on a tour of East Africa, who travelled all the way from Lagos, Nigeria to come play with our adult team. These young players are the first international visitors for a soccer club in Kisumu and their visit inspired our team and organization. Nigeria is a country that Kenyans look to as one of the leading soccer nations in Africa. Our visitors did not disappoint as they showed off high levels of talent on the pitch and also demonstrated their talents with inspirational speeches and exemplary character off the pitch. The Manyatta United adult team recently took the Kisumu District League title and was promoted to the Provincial League level. Our Nigerian visitors came to play with this team and are considering joining us for the entire season. Our Provincial team is mostly made up of young players who started at the MYRC on an Under-14 aged team but have since grown to become young adults. The MYRC's goal has always been to build players up and keep creating opportunities as they grow. So many teams in Kisumu are limited in the support they can provide and players are often abandoned when they reach eighteen. The MYRC hopes to continue providing for our players and hopefully one day create a Kenyan Premiere League team from players who have come up through our youth academy. We were so proud of our players when they took the Kisumu District title after only one season. This shows that our coaches and training are having an impact and that youth are getting opportunities for building their talent. In an additional honor, our head coach, Opiyo, was named Coach of the Decade by the KYFA management board for his impact on youth and football in Kisumu. We are so proud to be working with such a highly regarded and honored coach. Yet the MYRC still faces the huge responsibility of funding this new Provincial team. With your help we managed to complete the District season and also come out on top. The Provincial League presents us with a greater challenge, as the costs of completing this season will be even higher than the District season. Our players will have to travel further to away matches and our organization will have to pay higher fees for enrollment in the league. These costs are a major challenge and we need your support once again to see this team succeed. If our team finishes the season in the top two positions, we will then be promoted to the Kenya Nationwide soccer league. This is our goal, but we have to be able to fund this season first. As the MYRC soccer teams work hard, our performing artists are also busy moving forward and working hard to showcase their talents. Our performing artist Gabiro Da Hip-hop, who recently won the Kisumu Vybez award for best social awareness song, has been busy in the MYRC recording studio, Starbell Records, recording new music by day and performing at shows by night. Gabiro has gained quite a following in our area and he recently was the guest artist at Club Marina in Kisumu with the headlining artist being Nairobi hip-hop star Kristof. The venue was packed with students from Maseno University and Gabiro's performance brought down the house. Gabiro is young and working hard. He hopes to produce his first music video this year with help from the Manyatta Youth Resource Center. You can help make his dream come true by supporting Equip Manyatta. The MYRC also helped sponsor a comedy event at the Kisumu Social Hall in January called Laughter Mania. Laughter Mania hopes to create a regular comedy show in Kisumu much like the popular Kenyan show Churchill Live. The show featured many comedians, dancers and musicians, including the MYRC's own Gabiro Da Hip-Hop. The show was a big success for its first venture and we hope to work closely with Laughter Mania in the future to see Kisumu talent showcased at the highest level. A major challenge we face here in Kisumu is the formidable endeavor of keeping our youth in school. It is so sad to see kids not being able to learn because they can't come up with enough money to pay school fees and buy the necessary school supplies such as uniforms, shoes and learning material. Kids are sometimes sent home for owing as little as $5; many face greater need of up to $200. The MYRC has made major accomplishments in supporting education, has found sponsorships for over thirty youth, and has had four students finish secondary school thanks to the support we found. As the MYRC deals with over 200 youth, the challenge to find help for those that most need it is daunting. We are asking for your support so that we can keep as many of our youth in school as possible.
Talent in sports and performing arts are enhanced when a young person has opportunities to get an education. We would appreciate any help you can offer so our youth members finish first primary school and then secondary school. One day we also hope to sponsor young women and men for their university education so they can become future leaders not only for MYRC, but also for Kisumu and Kenya. The cooperative experiences and education that you fund through Equip Manyatta provide a foundation for the lives of our young people and for Kenyan society as a whole.
The 2014 Vybez Awards once again saw the Manyatta Youth Resource Center's sponsored recording studio, Starbell Records, recognized for its achievements in music production in Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya. Our studio's lead producer, Malique, was awarded Best Producer of 2014 and a song produced at our studio won Best Social Awareness Song of 2014.
Starbell Records began in 2010 in a room made of mud and tin in the middle of the Manyatta slums. Dogged by unreliable electricity, with only a donated computer and a microphone, youth were able to begin recording their music for the first time and young producers were able to learn how to capture aspiring artists' talent. The music production element was the first program within the Performing Arts section of the MYRC's sponsored projects. From there, the Performing Arts section has grown to include drama and dance as well as visual arts which include video production, digital photography, graphic art and handcrafts. Starbell Records built a more modern studio in the MYRC main office building in 2012 and this is where our Vybez Award winning artists and producers now work on their projects.
The MYRC soccer teams continue to play in the Kisumu Youth Football Association (KYFA) youth league as well as in the adult district league. The district league has offered our youth tough competition and this will surely make them stronger players in the years to come. Many of these players have played for MYRC teams since they were 14 years old. Now they are playing as young adults in a highly competitive league. Participating in this league is a huge undertaking for the MYRC mainly because the costs of travel for the games are so high. The MYRC wants to help nurture youth talent from a young age into adulthood and our district league team is the first step towards building professional players raised at the MYRC. Your support will help us move closer to achieving this goal.
The MYRC is committed to giving youth opportunities to explore their talents and is continuously growing to support the many interests of the youth living in our community. Still, one of the most important ways the MYRC can support its youth members is by finding them education sponsorship so they can finish both primary and secondary school. This is an extremely challenging situation because the need far exceeds the MYRC's capacity to find adequate support for the large number of our youth who are in jeopardy of dropping out of school because they can't afford to pay the fees required to attend school in Kenya. Young girls are most in danger of dropping out before they finish secondary school. Your support of just $200 can support one of these youth for the school year.
The year 2014 was challenging for many people across the globe, but through these challenges the MYRC has continued to move forward as best it can and produce positive results for youth living in Kisumu, Kenya. As the year comes to an end, the MYRC must plan ahead and make sure we will not let our youth down. The number one challenge for Equip Manyatta is making sure that we have enough funds to keep the MYRC projects running and our youth active. Your support has meant so much in the past and with your continued help the foundations being laid now will allow these young people to grow to wonderful heights.
Thank you so much for everything and we wish you a Happy New Year!
The Manyatta Youth Resource Center is charging into this year's football season head-on. The MYRC's soccer program, Manyatta United, has six different teams playing in the Kisumu Youth Football Association's (KYFA) under-18 soccer league. Coaches and players, both girls and boys, spend each evening training and competing to be the best in Kisumu and also the entire country of Kenya.
The MYRC is proud to have several representatives from Manyatta United participate in this year's Copa Coca-Cola National Finals. This is the second time our players have been honored in this way. Through KYFA, an under-15 soccer team was created to represent Kisumu in the Copa Coca-Cola Nationwide Tournament under the team-name Kisumu Lakers FC. KYFA chose Manyatta United's head coach as the head coach for Kisumu's team and eight players from Manyatta United's team were selected for the final team. Kisumu is located on Lake Victoria in Western Kenya, thus the name Lakers.
Before leaving Kisumu to travel to Nairobi for the finals, Kisumu Lakers FC had a very difficult task to complete. They had to first beat-out all of the top teams from the entire Nyanza province. After many hard fought matches and solid competition, Kisumu Lakers FC successfully defended their Nyanza provincial final title after beating Aspire Youth 3-0 at Gusii Stadium. The two teams clashed under rainy conditions, but the experience of the Kisumu Lakers proved the difference as they earned themselves a return ticket to the nationals, which were to be played at City Stadium in Nairobi.
Unfortunately, the Kisumu Lakers suffered the same fate as the previous year, finishing second nationally after losing 1-0 in the final to Kitale Stars. Coming in second nationally is no small feat. The MYRC is immensely proud of the effort put forth by our players and our coaches. One of our goals at the MYRC is to help young soccer players reach their potential, by exposing them to top-level training and competitions. Traveling to Nairobi and playing such a high level match as under-15 year old players will shape their careers and help pave a way for some of these young players to play professionally within Kenya and abroad. We hope to create great players in Kenya, eventually helping the Kenyan national team to become more competitive. Meanwhile, the discipline and teamwork learned in the effort will serve all our participants well no matter what they go on to do in life.
In the Performing Arts section, all eyes are on the upcoming Vybez Awards in October. Voting has opened and artists are rallying their fans to send SMS votes in their favor to the Vybez Awards management team. The votes placed by fans are a key deciding factor in determining who will receive awards at this year's ceremony and in what category artists are placed.
Keeping our participants in school is one of our central goals. Some of our youth's families can cover school fees, some can contribute a part, but some do not have any of the funds needed to enroll. Girls are at particular risk of not receiving an education if a family must choose among children due to a shortage of funds. As of now we have found complete education sponsorship for over ten youth and partial sponsorship for more than 30 others. Expanding the list of sponsors willing to support a youth's education is crucial. As our participants move from Primary to Secondary School fees increase adding an additional pressure. Please consider sponsoring a child's education.
Our programs continue to move forward at the MYRC, but it cannot be overstated how much more needs to be done and how valuable your support is in seeing us continue to lift up the lives of our participants. Our programs involve over 200 youth and the needs are many. Help us continue to move forward with quality programs that positively impact the lives of these girls and boys in Kisumu, Kenya. Thank you!
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The Palestinian Authority on Thursday repeated its threat to file charges
against Israel at the International Criminal Court.PLO Secretary-General
Yasser Abed Rabbo said that Israel's "increased crimes against our people will
prompt the Palestinian leadership to go to international agencies in wake of the
recent UN General Assembly's vote in favor of upgrading the Palestinians'
status."Speaking to reporters in Ramallah, Abed Rabbo said that the PA
leadership's options "to confront Israeli crimes" remain open.The
leadership, he added, will not spare any means to go to international
institutions "to punish Israel for its crimes."He said that the UN
General Assembly's vote permits the Palestinians to take such a
step.Abed Rabbo called for escalating "popular and peaceful" activities
against Israel and hailed the recent establishment of a Palestinian tent outpost
near Ma'aleh Adumim.The PLO official said that the PA leadership was
serious in its efforts to end its dispute with Hamas. He added that the two
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accords to end the split between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.One
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Palestinians "adopt unilateral provocative steps," but would react if they
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government was also weighing legal responses in the event the Palestinians were
to carry out their threat."What is ludicrous is that the same people who
talk about international law were only last year shooting rockets at Israel,
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