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This was a test of nerve for David de Gea and one which he passed with flying colours. The goalkeeper was not the centre of attention in the build-up to this tie but his performance was always likely to be crucial and, to Manchester United's delight, that proved the case for all the right reasons.
Goalkeeping has long been a problem for Sir Alex Ferguson - after Peter Schmeichel's departure it took the manager six years to solve his woes in between the posts by signing Edwin van der Sar, who helped in 2008 to deliver the club's first, and so far only, Champions League success since the great Dane's final appearance on that night in Barcelona.
This was his return to his home city, but not to the familiar surroundings of the Vicente Calderon and Atletico Madrid. De Gea has played in one capital derby at the Santiago Bernabeu before but as significant an occasion as that must have been on his 20th birthday, this was even bigger. He set the tone in the opening minutes, producing arguably his best save of the match by flinging himself across goal to tip Fabio Coentrao's shot on to the post.
United only dropped deeper and deeper as the match wore on, and De Gea's evening became increasingly hectic as a result. Ferguson had promised to attack before the match and seemed true to his word when he named Shinji Kagawa, Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck in his starting line-up, but the latter's opening goal, even if quickly cancelled out by Cristiano Ronaldo, gave them a platform to sit tight and hold on. They would not have done so without their goalkeeper.
Coentrao was denied for a second time when De Gea leapt across his goal to block the left-back's shot with his legs, and a drive by Angel di Maria that might have created a dangerous rebound was clutched securely. Occasionally, questions have been asked of De Gea's tendency to palm shots back out into the danger zone in front of him but there were no spillages on this night.
For all the brilliance of the players in front of them, the first leg of this tie rested on the two goalkeepers. Diego Lopez made several similarly vital stops to prevent United from completing a classic smash-and-grab, turning one Van Persie shot onto the crossbar before palming another of the Dutchman's drives wide of the goal.
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Robert clash pleases Murray
Andy Murray is happy to be facing Stephane Robert in the fourth round of the Australian Open - and not just because the Frenchman is the lowest-ranked player left in the tournament.
Murray would have expected to play either giant American John Isner or Philipp Kohlschreiber in the last 16 but instead it will be Robert, who took the German's place in the draw when he pulled out through injury.
Robert, ranked 119th, initially lost in the final round of qualifying and is the first lucky loser ever to reach the fourth round at Melbourne Park.
The 33-year-old had never previously been beyond the second round of a grand slam, while in his first match of the year in Brisbane three weeks ago, he lost 6-2 6-2 to British number three James Ward.
Murray said: "If he's the first person to do it, it's obviously a big achievement.
"I know him a little bit from when I was coming through the Futures and Challengers circuits. Obviously that was quite a while ago now.
"But it's good to see. He's 33 years old. It could be easy to stop playing if you're not in the top hundred or necessarily making a great living.
"But it does show if you stick at it, you're professional, and when your chance comes you take it, you can do great things. Great for him. Good for tennis as well.
"He's played six matches already. He'll be match-tight, that's for sure."
Robert had initially been quite hopeful of securing a spot in the draw because he knew his countryman, Gilles Simon, was struggling with an ankle injury suffered in an exhibition match three days before the start of the tournament.
"I was in the restaurant and I saw him on crutches," said Robert.
"But at that moment I didn't know what my position was in the lucky loser draw. So I didn't know that actually I was the number one to get in after Martin Klizan got in.
"The day after I realised. I spoke a little bit with him (Simon) on Monday. He told me he was getting better. So at this time I knew it was going to be difficult because he knows what's going on with his body. I was sure he was going to play.
"I was not in the locker room to check, 'Hey, guys, how do you feel?'. So I didn't know anything.
"It was really a surprise for me. I didn't know that Philip was in trouble with his thigh, so it was a good surprise. Maybe next tournament when I see him I'm going to tell him, 'Thank you'."
Robert's entry into the draw could scarcely have been more last-minute, with the Frenchman finding out he was playing Aljaz Bedene only 10 minutes before the match.
He said: "I opened a bank account in US dollars and I was filling in a paper for the ATP. So when they called me I put this straight in my bag and then I went to see the referee.
"He told me, 'Okay, you're ready to play? Court Seven. Go'. I saw my opponent, I said, 'Okay, see you on court'. And we went and played."
Robert won that one in straight sets and has dropped only one set on his way to the last 16.
In the third round he beat fellow lucky loser Klizan to guarantee himself a pay day of more than £72,000.
Robert, though, said with a smile: "I'm not checking the prize money. I'm not checking the rankings or points, because when I do this, then I'm losing."
The 33-year-old, meanwhile, insists he will not be unhappy to see fourth seed Murray on the other side of the net.
Robert was speaking before Murray had beaten Spain's Feliciano Lopez, and he said: "I prefer to play against Andy Murray, because Feliciano Lopez, I don't like so much his game."
The match will once again be played on Hisense Arena, Murray's third trip to Melbourne Park's second court this tournament.


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Analysis of the goal conceded against Arsenal (4/1), plus some thoughts and a competition
Cazorla's goal – Arsenal exploit an opportunity on the break, with Gnabry driving inside and finding Cazorla, who is left in space as Walker comes across to cover. He drills a first-time finish across Lloris and into the far corner.
As soon as Serge Gnabry receives the ball with his back to our goal, there is an issue here – he's between the Tottenham midfield and defence, and it's enough to concern Tim Sherwood, who raises his hands from the edge of the technical area. Personally, I would want to see Chiriches much tighter to Gnabry here.
But it's also interesting to look at the whole view of the pitch from the moment the ball is played to Gnabry. Note the positions of Lennon on the halfway line, Bentaleb, the deepest of our midfield players, and Walker, who had been pretty advanced and is making his way back.
The reason I would want Chiriches to be closer to Gnabry is because he has time and space to turn and drive at the defence, and instantly this move become a genuine danger. Walcott makes an intelligent run in behind Chiriches, and Dawson begins to follow him.
Gnabry has options because our central defenders allow him to have options. Chiriches pays lip service to coming out to him, whilst Walcott's run has dragged Dawson away, leaving a huge gap.
Because of Dawson's committing himself, and the mismatch of pace between Dawson and Gnabry, I personally think Kyle Walker has little choice but to focus his intentions on closing this space that he sees Gnabry potentially exploiting. Taking advantage of this, Gnabry shows good intelligence and slips a well-weighted pass into Cazorla's path.
Walker has had to make a decision, and has therefore opted to leave Santi Cazorla. Because Dawson has sold himself, and because Lennon hasn't tracked back (and he has the pace to have allowed him to do so in this time) Walker's decision is deemed questionable. But I personally think it's a call he has to make, and so find it hard to pin the blame entirely on him.
But it's a fantastic first-time finish from Cazorla, who drills his shot across Lloris with Walker throwing himself at the ball.
Rosicky's goal – Danny Rose dallies on the ball, and is pick-pocketed by Rosicky, who runs at Lloris and lifts the ball over him.
A Spurs corner breaks down, and the ball comes out to Soldado on the left wing. Rather than lifting the ball into the box, he lays it back to Danny Rose – our deepest player. Rosicky begins to press Rose.
Rose could pump this into the box first time on his left, or turn onto his weaker right foot – but has limited options. Essentially if he lets the ball run across his body onto his right foot, his only viable option is to lay the ball back to Lloris, which at 1-0 down on 61 minutes might be seen as negative.
So Rose does something foolish – he attempts to turn back onto his left foot, in order to rebuild our attack. But Rosicky is wise to this, and nicks the ball.
This gives Rosicky pretty much a free run at goal, with just Kyle Walker able to get anywhere near to him.
Walker is unable to make a challenge, though, and as Lloris attempts to narrow the angle, Rosicky expertly lifts the ball over him.
Once again, Tim Sherwood has received criticism for his choice of formation, with some fans seeming to take some sort of tactical moral high-ground, as if they think Sherwood didn't understand the connotations of playing one fewer midfield player than Arsenal.
Arsenal are currently the best team in the country (or so the league table suggests), and tend to dominate most teams that come to play at the Emirates. There are typically two ways of trying to play – you can match up to their formation, and play aggressively as Everton did earlier in the season. Everton played probably to their absolute maximum that day, and only came away with a 1-1 draw. Better than we achieved yesterday, certainly, but they had pretty much a full squad to pick from, and were relatively well-rested and fit in comparison.
The other option is to attempt to play more attacking players; to soak up the pressure, and to catch Arsenal on the counter using wide players and getting bodies into the box. This is the approach that Sherwood opted for and, whilst there were flaws, I don't think that the overall Tottenham performance was as bad as the social media response suggests. Arsenal had some chances – of course – but so did we. Both of Arsenal's goals came from poor errors from our defenders, and although the system arguably caused the first goal, the risky 4-4-2 (if you can call it that), generally held up OK against Arsenal's 4-2-3-1.
This was because it wasn't a flat 4-4-2, as the below illustrates.
Taken from WhoScored.com
Eriksen tucked in, both strikers took turns in dropping off (although clearly Soldado was the one instructed to drop into the hole more often than not), and only the full backs and Aaron Lennon provided width.
For me, the formation could have coped and could have produced a result had our players performed better on the day. This seemed to be one game too far, though, for a small group of players (6 games in 17 games with many injuries), and all four of our key attacking players – Adebayor, Soldado, Lennon and Eriksen – were well under-par on the day. Had we had a full squad to pick from over the past fortnight, we might have had a few fresher legs and things might have been different.
With Capoue struggling for fitness (Sherwood's mentioned this twice recently) and having come off against United, Sherwood took a gamble and played 19-year old Nabil Bentaleb. Whilst he had a very tidy game in possession – attempting more passes than any other player on the pitch (82) at a completion rate of 93% – he did make some foolish challenges and was positionally naive at times. He also aggressively stamped on the ground in frustration at the end, dangerously close to Monreal's fingers. For me, Bentaleb and Dembele should have played a little deeper, given how deep our defence played, and how exposed Chiriches and Dawson were at times against the pace of Arsenal's attackers. The gap between defence and midfield was too large, and many are justifiably saying that this would not have been the case had Capoue played – he naturally plays a deeper role.
I tend to agree with what Sherwood said after the game:
"They outnumbered us in the middle of the park, we outnumbered them out wide, you can't have it all ways – I think we were fine, we didn't lose the game because we were outnumbered in the middle of the pitch".
When asked about the system, he added:
"A lot's made of systems – 4-4-2, 4-3-3, whatever you want to call it – but it's about passing the ball to your own team, keeping hold of it. Because whenever you lose the ball in transition, you're always going to be out of shape – otherwise you're going to be a rigid, boring team. So it's about funneling back in, shuffling across… I don't think they overran us in the middle of the park."
As Sherwood suggests, Arsenal were not totally dominating the game or cutting through us at will, and the stats tend to back that up – in fact, they compare favourably with, for example, Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea, who both won at the Emirates early in the season.
Borussia Dortmund (won 2-1, Champions League)
Taken from WhoScored.com
The key stat, however, was that we didn't manage to score – for the first time in Sherwood's reign – and, as I mentioned, I felt that was more down to poor displays from our attackers.
The one thing I would say is that Arsenal scored at good times for them, and this allowed them to play within a comfort zone which made them incredibly difficult to break down. If you're to compete at the Emirates, you simply have to be more resilient, and I can certainly see the argument that the first goal came from a flaw in the system. Was it a risk worth taking? A tricky one to answer, but I can certainly understand Sherwood's motives.
It wasn't a day for great individual performances, but nor was it the end of the world. We have a week now where we can hopefully get some players back off the treatment table and get the players working together on the training pitch ahead of Crystal Palace's visit to White Hart Lane next Saturday.
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Sorry, both goals were Rose's fault. In the first – Gnabry is not Chiriches man. He has to follow Walcott. Gnabry has left Rose in no man's land. Dawson & Chiriches have to hold their position and watch Walcott and oncoming runners. Rose should befollowing his man. He doesn't. He was woeful yesterday.
He's feasted on his debut goal long enough now, that is obliterated now and he needs to grow a pair. Not good enough for this club!
A lot of people are forgetting how many players arsenal had out to. Arsenals two top goal scorers Ramsey and Giroud both out our GK, Mertersacker didn't start Gibbs out. Plus we played the last 10 minutes with 10 men and ozil didn't start
Tottenham had 10 men out: Vertonghen, Kaboul, Naughton, Townsend, Paulinho, Sandro, Holtby, Sigurdsson, Lamela and Defoe. Thats a whole team (minus keeper) that could have finished top ten in PL.
If you compare so I can say Giroud, Ramsey, Gibbs, Bendtner, Sczczesny,Miyaichi, Diaby,Chamberlain,Sanogo, Podolski on bench Ozil on bench Mert on bench, thats 11 players not starting the game flamini on bench too thats 12 players…admit it you had lennon, eriksen, soldado, Adebayor, Walker …rose is ur best Lb if you dont count vertonghen Dawson n chirches, Lloris your first choice keeper dembele in the park other than bentaleb I don't think anyone else is a non starter in that team. You were lucky that Walcott didnt hv his shooting boot on n Lloris made a few good saves
PS The stats are a smoke screen. Our % possession only grew becasue of the last 16minutes when (a) they had given up attacking and just strolled, and (b) were down to 10 men and yet we still didn't have a decent chance. As for our 13 shots, 95% of them were in Row Z. Let's not kid ourselves please.
The most sensible analysis I have read among a sea of ignorant drivel. I despair of some of our 'fans' at times. Some seem to think we have a divine right to win every game. We were not humiliated. Just be thankful we are not Hammers fans!
Agree…we did ok, with what we had, although I felt our attack was, overall, poor and spent too much time in questionable areas of the pitch (Adebayor) which gave them even more time.
Stability and a team well intune with itself was the difference and spurs have real talent so will be able to concetrate on league and move on from this period
I totally agree with your positive slant on the game. It was unrealistic to expect too much from the game at this time. I also agree that Walker was not particularly at fault for the first goal. Unfortunately, he is having to take far too much responsibility at the moment. It is also clear that Dawson's alarming lack of pace and dubious judgement is putting pressure on Chiriches and Walker and pulling them out of position. However, it is also true that Rose was terrible in both defence and attack yesterday and I remain unconvinced about his long term potential at left back. As a previous comment has indicated, it is clear from your photos that he didn't do enough during the build up to the first goal. I would still love to see a new left back and centre back, both with premiership experience, come in during January and ideally a back-up striker.
I'm not sure why so much faith has been put in Rose, he needs to earn it with much better performances. Why is Sherwood not recalling Benny?!
Great analysis windy. A lot of fans need to stop freaking out all the time. It wasn't that bad a game and they all just looked tired. Is Holtby injured btw? I really like the guy and hope tim rates him too. It would have been a great time for holtbys endless energy. Anyway, if spurs had to lose a match over the holidays this is the one i'd have picked. A new above average sfriker, a new cb, and a second Lb and we'll be sorted.
tottenham outshot/possessed arsenal because of score effects. basically when a team goes behind it tends to outshoot but not outscore it's opposition – simply because the opposition will play more cautiously/ drop deeper to deny good opportunities while slightly/significantly curbing their own attacking threat.
This was evidenced on the field, Eriksen's wide angled shot was tottenham's best opportunity of the game, and became before they went behind (this chance was also overstated – generally shots from an angle like that are a lot harder to finish than people think). A poorly hit Adebayor volley was the only other realistic goal scoring opportunity Tottenham created despite chasing a lead.
That's why both Chelsea and Dortmund's numbers are much more impressive – Dortmund led for ~45 minutes, Chelsea led for ~70, and yet they still outshot Arsenal.
It's also why Tottenham posted seemingly decent shots/possession numbers in the 6-0 thrashing against Manchester City, despite their clearly being only one team in that game. City got an early lead, then picked Spurs off with direct counterattacks, while Tottenham were restricted to one decent chance and took those low quality shots City afforded them.
First, kudos for the work you put into the blog. Wish more blogs did it, even if they focus on Spurs. That said, your best chance was a defensive mistake by Arsenal, and Eriksen did not punish them for it. As for shots taken, suggest you analyze when they were taken, and from where. Soldado's two misses were a poignant reminder of the threat you had last year, who is gone. And not replaced. This was just the kind of match that Bale would have salvaged something from.
If Spurs want to progress, you need to look at goal difference, because you are always woefully lacking in that.
Well said Windy.
We also were playing away from home against the team with the best defensive record.
Which ever manager was there yesterday, we still would not have one with all the injuries as well.
Always hate to loose to them but was not overly embarrassed by the way we played.
We were awful throughout the game with no threat. Sherwood is clueless and will be gone in May. He'll be happy with Coventry at home in the 4th round and will be able to go watch it. After all he "wasn't too despondent" after the defeat.
Much as I admire your blog, I do wonder whether you are biased by Sherwood's work with the development squad and promotion of some of that squad. We were wide open in the middle just like we used to be under Redknapp. Some of his press conference was just gobbledygook and the press know it. Some will be after him, mark my words. It wasn't exactly grown-up, intelligent football. Can you imagine Chelsea playing like that?
This is really good again Windy. I agreed with Sherwood's comments on transitions of play. I think the main problem was the link between the midfield and the forwards and the link between the midfield and defence (as you've pointed out). It didn't seem like a cohesive unit. But saying that, I don't think we had the personnel to really be that dynamic in the middle especially. Had Paulinho been fit, I think this could've been a very different game.
Again, Bentaleb looked very calm for such a big game. Currently, he is doing a job similar to what Livermore did for us but do you think more quality than him? Obviously his role hasn't really allowed him to open up his play yet.
I'm not sure if Capoue would've made too much of a difference instead. He seems quite cumbersome and I think someone more nimble with a bit more energy and bite would have always been more suited to combat their pacey midfield. I think we coped well despite the numerical disadvantage in that part of the pitch. I genuinely didn't think we were outrun. Like you said, lapses at the back cost us.
I think the key to the game was denying Adebayor the chance to retrieve the ball from deeper positions. Initially I thought he wasn't coming back enough, but I think they put the squeeze on him really effectively. He seemed to have 2 or 3 men on him every time he was close to the ball or even when we regained possession. That in turn limited Soldado's effect. 1) To link up with him. 2) To push their line up and play both strikers offside for balls from wider positions. Eventually this just strangled us and our ability to create substantial opportunities.
Fair play to Wenger in my opinion. He has shown some astute tactical nous this season after a few seasons of indifference. As much as it pains me to say it.


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Really, we actually agree on almost everything regarding the particulars of how the situations occurred or who was behind what.
We agree about the Hayakawa situation, we agree about Matsuzawa, the kicker, and how Suwano influenced Tsubak into taking on the role in the movie, and how Oka, the little she-devil (and I'm not saying that affectionately) prodded Urabe (and may have been a driving force behind the movie itself).
I think what we might be disagreeing most about is whether or not Tsubaki is completely blameless in all of this. My biggest gripe with him is that he continuously lies to Urabe. Of course, this helps the dreary plots crawl along, but it is oh so annoying to me. I do not fault him for the situation with the kicker, and I don't have a problem with him talking with Matsuzawa or other female classmates, or having a friendly conversation with Oka (though he should be on guard while talking to her). But the situation with Hayakawa could have ended differently if he had not lied to Urabe, and the same goes with his bewilderment about the situation with Suwano.
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I kind of have mixed feelings on the ending, it came across as rushed it basically just left you making inferences from what happened. Well at least thats what it did for me even though i got what happened i was just left with some questions. As for tsubaki there relationship would work out a lot better if he was just more up front with urabe. Im hoping they make oka and ueno have some issues but knowing her she will just tell him her favorite line " I'm gonna break up with you"
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Location: Northern Italy
Chapter 68 was good if taken standalone (Urabe's smile was soooo cute!) but disappointing as a conclusion of the movie arc. The problem I have with this ending is that it doesn't involve Suwano at all. We still don't know if she's genuinely interested in Tsubaki or just toying with him. I hope we'll get to see more of her in the next arc.
|2012-07-04, 11:22
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|2012-07-04, 18:53
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Join Date: Apr 2007
I don't know why people keep saying the "movie arc" is over when the movie itself hasn't even been shown.
The filming and Tsubaki's personal doubts are the only thing that have "concluded" here.
I am quite certain the festival itself, along with the airing on the film, is supposed to conclude this arc.
|2012-07-04, 19:29
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Beyond the Fringe
Join Date: Jun 2011
I am not a soothsayer, and I don't happen to have any clairvoyance handy, but I'm pretty sure that the next chapter is not going to be named "Mysterious Movie Production 8." If it is, then I will agree that the arc is not over with, otherwise, it will be the beginning of a new arc, or even just a stand-alone chapter.
For all we know, the next chapter might not even have anything to do with the movie or the cultural festival, considering how non-linear the time framing of some of the episodes has been. Maybe it'll be another beach episode, or perhaps a hot springs episode. Who knows?
Nonetheless, there's nothing to say that the mangaka can't (or even will) answer all those questions, or explain the black holes of logic in a new arc. Whatever some of those answers may be could be the inspiration, or instigation, for some new plot twist that takes us through the next arc, and that could be why we've been kept in the dark.
If the "Mysterious Movie Production" arc is ever produced as part of the anime series, I hope that we will not have to suffer through a whole episode of just the movie itself, like we had to do with that other anime.
|2012-09-06, 00:08
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Moderate Haruhiist
On one hand, it might just be harmless curiousity. On the OTHER hand it might be that she's now got a vested interest in Tsubaki now. Either way, things are moving forward a tiny bit. Will this break the endless recursion of time?
Also, LOL Momoka Imai. What the heck?
|2012-09-06, 06:21
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Oh, dreary day. After a much-needed two month respite, I was hoping that the "Mysterious Movie" and all the shenanigans that went with it would be long forgotten, but, no, the dreariness continues.
Either Tsubaki hasn't learned his lesson yet or, despite what he claims, he just loves to play the field. A girl invites him to go eat lunch with her (and not just any girl, but the girl who he has been having wet dreams about) and does he refuse? Of course not. Is his first thought, "If I eat lunch with a girl, it should be with my girlfriend." Of course not. Or, "How is my girlfriend going to feel if she finds out that I'm eating lunch with another girl and not her? Especially that girl?" Of course not. Off he goes like a mindless idiot. Or, more aptly, like a lamb to the slaughter.
And, as usual, Tsubaki lets himself get manipulated by a girl. And not just any girl...
As expected, this chapter did nothing to explain the black holes of logic of the last arc, or answer any of those questions that were left unanswered, such as, to quote Starshipw, "the motivations of all the girls who arranged to put Tsubaki and Urabe through this." Except, perhaps, that Suwano might not have been involved if she really did not know that Urabe and Tsubaki were a couple and drool was their thing.
|2012-11-17, 19:16
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Chapter 71: The Mysterous Mole
Another dreary chapter. Has the mangaka, for lack of anything better to write about, gone into the "fetish of the month" mode? What will it be next month? Belly-button lint? Earwax? Toe cheese? With so many fetishes out there (and new ones appearing every day on the Internet), the mangaka could milk this franchise forever!
This chapter did nothing to advance the relationship between the two main characters. Rather, it just reinforced the notion that Tsubaki is immature and frivolous.
On the plus side, this chapter seems to sound the death knell to the Movie arcs. Thank goodness. I, for one, no longer care if we ever get any explanations for those black holes of logic of those miserable chapters. The sooner time fades the memory of reading all that gobble-dee-gook [e.g. rubbish], the better. Nine chapters of utter crap, and now, just a few weeks shy of a year since the first Movie chapter appeared, our favorite couple is pretty much the same as they were back then, with no appreciable progress in their relationship.
It also seems like almost everyone has dropped this manga, as judged by the huge drop in posts here in this forum. Frankly, if this chapter hadn't quickly changed from Movie mode to mole mode, I very well may have dropped it too if the movie had been the main focus of the chapter.
Before that movie fiasco, I looked forward to reading each new monthly chapter. I really enjoyed it. It was fun and refreshing. Then, as the movie fiasco progressed (if you can actually call it that), I dreaded reading each new chapter. But now that that's over, I look forward to each new chapter again. However, it's not because it's fun and enjoyable, but now I wanna see just how stupid and ridiculous the mangaka can make each new chapter. And if stupid and ridiculous are the standards, this chapter is a great success.
|2012-12-06, 07:51
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Beyond the Fringe
Join Date: Jun 2011
Mysterious Girlfriend X 72: The Mysterious Fruit
I think there is one word that sums up this chapter best: boring.
Perhaps, like many readers, I became jaded after that fiasco that was the "Mysterious Movie" arcs. I think Tsubaki was right, the drool tasting ritual has lost its special meaning as a bond between the two of them. Urabe doesn't know that her drool lost all flavor during that fiasco, and that, in replace of hers, Tsubaki found Suwano's drool very sweet, indeed, to the extent he was having wet dreams about her.
So, this month's fetish was grapes. I wonder what it will be next month?! It might as well be milk, as milking is what the mangaka is doing with this franchise. It is no longer innovative and exciting. Just boring.
|2012-12-06, 18:08
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Deadpan Snarker
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The Neverlands
Age: 41
I gotta say, every chapter is at the least entertaining, but overall I can best put my thoughts into imagery:
Now, I like the series, but chapter 72 may as well have been chapter 10
and sometimes I think they already did 3 schoolyears
I mean, whatever happened after chapter 20 in their relationship progressing?
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pfim wrote:JoseCuervo wrote:agreed that uruguay can definitely battle mexico. south africa also isn't awful. Definitely a cupcake team of the top seeds, though.
I think they're awful. I don't think they have much of a chance to advance.
They're awful compared to the rest of the top seeds. They managed to advance out of group play in the confederations cup this year and even played brazil hard. I don't see them advancing, but I could see them shaking things up in the group. Plus, they have the home crowd behind them.


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Consumers could be faced with higher prices in coming months due to an acceleration in business energy costs.
New data on Friday shows prices at all levels of production jumped in the September quarter as the lower Australian dollar lifted import prices, particularly petrol.
Utility prices, including electricity, also rose.
"The higher business inflation reading coupled with the larger CPI reading last week does seem to suggest that inflation has bottomed out," Commonwealth Securities economist Savanth Sebastian said in a note to clients.
Last week's consumer price index rose 1.2 per cent in the September quarter, the largest increase in a year.
Friday's producer prices index (PPI) report, alongside other new figures showing a further strengthening in house prices and improved manufacturing activity both in Australia and China, cemented expectations for a stable cash rate when the central bank board meets on Tuesday.
Mr Sebastian expects the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to keep interest rates on hold over the next couple of months.
"It looks very likely that the low point in the rate cycle has been reached," he said.
Friday's PPI at the final stage of production rose 1.3 per cent in the September quarter, the biggest increase in three years.
Import prices surged 5.9 per cent in the quarter, reflecting the lower dollar, while domestic prices showed a more modest 0.8 per cent increase.
Producer prices overall come off a low base, which left the annual rate of 1.9 per cent below the RBA's two to three per cent inflation target band.
However, the RBA will be keeping an eye on house prices, which rose a further 1.3 per cent in October, according to the RP Data-Rismark Home Value Index.
Prices are 7.9 per cent higher over the year, rising by 6.9 per cent in the past five months.
Manufacturing grew for a second month in a row as production expanded for the first time in two and a half years and new orders continued to recover.
The Australian Industry Group performance of manufacturing index rose 1.5 points October to 53.2, holding above the key 50 mark that indicates activity is expanding.
Ai Group chief executive Innes Willox said, while the result was encouraging, fundamentals facing the sector remain "very tough" with the domestic currency still a major barrier to export growth.
"Manufacturers' margins remain under pressure as wage and non-wage costs continue to rise ahead of selling prices," he said.
In China, Australia's number one trading partner, the manufacturing index rose to 51.4 in October from 51.1.
TD Securities head of Asia-Pacific research Annette Beacher said that would be consistent with annual Chinese growth of 8.3 per cent as of the December quarter, up from 7.8 per cent.
However, she expects the Chinese government still wants to contain growth toward seven per cent in 2014.


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Pallone to Introduce Bill to Prevent Medicare Prescription Drug Abuse and Fraud
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health announced that he is set to introduce legislation to address new reports of inappropriate payments for prescriptions of controlled substances in Medicare's Part D program.
"Prescription drug abuse is an epidemic," said Pallone. "Millions of Americans benefit from Medicare's drug coverage program each year, which is why it's imperative that checks are in place to prevent fraud and abuse as well as to protect patients. We cannot allow Medicare's prescription drug program to be compromised at taxpayer expense. My bill, the Part D Prescription Drug Integrity Act of 2013, will strengthen the Medicare law to help address potential factors contributing to prescription drug abuse."
Under Medicare Part D, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contracts with private insurance companies, known as plan sponsors, to provide prescription drug coverage to beneficiaries who choose to enroll. Pallone's bill would require plan sponsors to verify that a prescription for a drug on the Controlled Substances list was made by an authorized physician before paying for the drug. Under the current law, such a requirement does not exist.
The bill would also require plan sponsors to have drug utilization programs in place that would restrict access if there was credible evidence of beneficiaries abusing or diverting drugs. Most state Medicaid programs have utilization programs, but similar guidelines are not in place for most Part D beneficiaries. In addition, the bill will provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) new tools to prevent the payment of claims by fraudulent prescribers or pharmacies.
Pallone wrote his bill on the heels of a HHS Office of Inspector General's report released last month, which found that Medicare is paying for prescription drugs prescribed by unauthorized individuals including massage therapists, athletic trainers, social workers and interpreters. Given that tens of thousands of these drugs were controlled substances, the study's findings raise questions about patient safety because of the potential for prescription drug abuse.
Prescription drug abuse has emerged as a serious and growing problem. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 20,000 deaths occur each year due to the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs and one in 20 Americans say they have used prescription painkillers for non-medical reasons in the last year.


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Target beefed up its staff, with a total of 320 employees on hand Thursday night.
If you listened closely enough Thursday, the ringing of cash registers at Wilmington stores vaguely resembled sleigh bells, kicking off the holiday shopping season.
Retailers such as Target, Toys"R"Us and Walmart opened their doors on Thanksgiving, giving shoppers a chance to get an early start on Black Friday.
Katrina Davis arrived at the Target on New Centre Drive at 2 p.m. Thursday after eating dinner with her family, hunting for a Nook and an XBox.
Despite being accompanied for part of the day by her 10-year-old daughter Katriah and her cousin, Davis said there were some downsides to spending much of Thanksgiving in a line.
"I missed spending time with my family today," Davis said. "And I'm hungry."
Davis, who came with a blanket, a chair and drinks and had her sister bring food around 5 p.m., was better prepared than some shoppers.
At the Toys"R"Us on Oleander Drive, people standing in line tilted shopping carts making up the queue onto their sides and used them as chairs.
Lindsay Strickland, who was in the Toys "R"Us line for a train table for her 2-year-old son, said she had never taken advantage of Black Friday sales before, but would now because of her son.
When asked why she'd avoided the shopping holiday before this year, Strickland gestured to the line and said, "Because look at this!"
Strickland was joined by her mother, Beverly Boswell, and her friend, Fallon Addair.
Addair, a Black Friday veteran, said she doesn't necessarily believe in starting the annual shopping holiday as early as Thursday evening.
"It kind of takes the fun out of getting up (for Black Friday)," she said. "... You get that adrenaline rush from going out (early)."
Matt Merritt, Target's manager, said the store usually does three or four Fridays worth of business during Black Friday hours.
Target beefed up its staff, with a total of 320 employees on hand Thursday night. The store took other actions to keep people moving, particularly with larger items such as TVs.
"We've got the biggest ones on buggies so they can roll them right to checkout," Merritt said before the store opened.
While some shoppers might have preferred to do their shopping from the comfort of home, the spectacle is part of the Black Friday experience for Davis.
"Shopping online is no fun," she said. "I just like to be out here and see people."
After succeeding in finding her two XBoxes, an extra controller, a Nook and a case for the Nook, Davis said the flood of people entering the store was extremely hectic.
"Oh my God, it was crazy," Davis, who began and ended her night at Target, said. "... I was running in there like a mad woman because they told me the wrong directions, and I was trying to get the Nook before it was sold out."
Nevertheless, after beginning to sit in line at 2 p.m., Davis was back home by 10 p.m.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Josh Willingham hit two home runs, including a two-run shot in the eighth that put the Twins in front for good, to lead Minnesota past the A's 4-3 Tuesday night.
Oswaldo Arcia also homered for the Twins, who snapped Oakland's three-game winning streak and prevented the A's from stretching their two-game lead over Texas in the AL West. They also spoiled a solid outing by A's starter Jarrod Parker, who tossed six strong innings and stretched his unbeaten streak to 19 starts.
Despite giving up homers to Willingham and Arcia, Parker appeared to be on the verge of earning his 12th win. But Arcia singled off reliever Sean Doolittle to lead off the eighth. Doolittle struck out Ryan Doumit before being pulled for Ryan Cook (6-4), and Willingham followed by launching a 2-0 pitch an estimated 439 feet into the middle deck for his second multi-homer game this season.
Anthony Swarzak (2-2) pitched a scoreless eighth to pick up the win on his 28th birthday, and Glen Perkins pitched the ninth for his 34th save in 38 chances.
Twins starter Liam Hendriks worked 5 1-3 innings and matched his career high with six strikeouts. He had a one-run lead for most of those innings thanks to Willingham's second-inning solo shot. But Alberto Callaspo sent a 1-1 pitch 384 feet into the right-field seats after Hendriks hit Yoenis Cespedes to lead off the fifth and give the A's a 2-1 lead.
Hendriks hit another batter, Brandon Moss, the next inning and Cespedes followed with a run-scoring single to put Oakland up 3-1.
Parker finally got into trouble in the sixth after Arcia led off with a monster homer to right. Three of Minnesota's next four batters reached to load the bases for Pedro Florimon. But after a meeting on the mound, A's manager Bob Melvin elected to leave Parker in the game, and the 24-year-old righty induced Florimon into a double play to end the threat.
NOTES: Oakland reinstated OF Josh Reddick (wrist) from the 15-day disabled list before the game. He wasn't in the lineup. ... INF Josh Donaldson also returned after missing one game with a sore right quadriceps. Donaldson went 1 for 4 and singled in the sixth. ... Minnesota has won seven straight at home against the A.L. West. ... After Florimon's double play, Minnesota is batting .228 this season with the bases loaded. . Oakland will send Sonny Gray (2-3) to the mound on Wednesday for his eighth-career start. Minnesota counters with Mike Pelfrey (5-11), who makes his first career start against the A's.


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Reuters: President Barack Obama gave a show of moral support to his embattled ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday, calling Susan Rice "extraordinary" and prompting applause from his Cabinet during a meeting at the White House.
Rice, who is considered a top candidate to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has been meeting this week with senators on Capitol Hill who have been critical of her initial remarks about what prompted the September 11 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
Several Republican senators, including former 2008 presidential candidate John McCain, have kept up their criticism of the ambassador after their visits. Asked whether he thought Rice was being treated fairly in those meetings, Obama at first demurred.
The rest of the assembled members of the Cabinet, including Clinton, who sat next to Obama, broke out into applause.
Obama was holding his first Cabinet meeting since his re-election on November 6. Several of the secretaries, including Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, are not expected to stay for his second term.


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Google Drops 'Bisexual' From Its Taboo Words List
from the might-have-to-replace-it-with-'Santorum' dept
The Advocate has the story of how, at the urging of bisexual advocacy organization BiNet USA, Google has dropped the word Bisexual from the results-altering list.
At the urging of bisexual advocacy organization BiNet USA, Google unblocked the term "bisexual," and phrases such as "bisexual quotes," "bisexual rights," and "bisexual parenting" are now automatically suggested to Google users as of this month.According to the article, since 2009, the word "bisexual" has been considered to be of the same ilk for Google search results as such fun terms as: bestiality, baby batter, gang bang, goatse, and many more (hat tip to 2600, and fair warning: if words can be NSFW, some of those are). While not all of those demoted search terms are treated equally, the idea that "bisexual" ranks as a banned word is ridiculous.
No matter what you think of bisexuality, the word "bisexual" is not a "dirty" word. To have "bisexual" on the list when "heterosexual", "homosexual", "trisexual" and "asexual" are not was just stupid. Fortunately, the Goog has reversed policy and dropped the word from the list completely. As BiNet USA notes, it will take some time for the search results to catch up, but at least the bisexual community can begin to be heard.
"It's not every day one of the biggest companies in the world changes its mind, but we are thankful that Google now sees bisexual people just like everyone else," said BiNet USA president Faith Cheltenham. "It will take time for bisexual search terms to be ranked as they were before the ban, but now bisexual people and their allies have a fighting chance to be seen, heard, and understood."


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There are several sides of Josh Stikeleather the baseball player.
There's the kid that slept with the first "big barrel" bat he could call his own for a week after he got it. And there's the gritty competitor who battled back to play the game he loves after breaking his leg in five places during a bull riding competition. Most recently, he's played the role of veteran starter and leader for an unforgettable baseball team: South Johnston High's eastern regional runner-up squad. And there's the surname he was given from his parents, Lee and Vickie, that seems made for baseball.
Now, he can add Sam Narron Award winner to his resume. Stikeleather, a fresh graduate of South Johnston and a key member of the Trojans team that reeled off four straight playoff wins this spring, received the honor from Rooster Narron, the son of the award's namesake, in a small ceremony in Smithfield Wednesday.
The award is named for the Johnston County native who spent 30 years in professional baseball and loved to regal young players across the county with a glance at his two World Series rings and an endless supply of stories. Its goal is to recognize one senior baseball player from the county each year that best typifies the Narron family credo of "determination, dedication and sacrifice."
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Stikeleather, a shortstop by trade, started his baseball career in the Trojans' green and gold in a wheelchair. He was still recovering from his latest (and last) battle with a bull at the time. There had been many successful rides before (Stikeleather was a junior state champion in 2010), but as his dad, Lee says, "Josh has finally realized that bull riding wasn't a great idea for a middle school student."
South Johnston coach Keith Durham remembers cringing when he'd watch Stikeleather try to run during workouts after he'd left the wheelchair behind. But that slender build that's typical of many rodeo competitors kept plugging along.
"It didn't really hurt so bad, it was just so weak," Stikeleather said. "I just had to reteach my ankle how to move. It was different than before."
But he battled through and saw his role on the team grow every season. Even last season with a roster of 11 seniors, Stikeleather was a contributor for the Trojans. But it might be said that his biggest contribution was what he learned from the class of 2013 off of the field.
"When we lost at West Brunswick in the playoffs last year, I challenged the juniors after the game," Durham said. "I told them our biggest obstacle for this season (2014) would be leadership."
Stikeleather took that talk to heart. He led in the dugout, the gym and the weight room, making sure the 2014 Trojans had as much of the knowledge about how to play high school baseball as the previous team's senior class had given him.
"That was a pretty great group of guys," Stikeleather said of the Class of 2013. "I just took over what they had been giving to us younger guys on the team last year. I knew our biggest obstacle would be making guys understand how important it is to keep working hard."
It took, as Durham said: "He made it his team."
Success wasn't consistent through the regular season but once the playoffs began, South found its way.
"We just started putting it all together," Stikeleather said. "And we just kept playing. By the time we realized what we were doing we were in the fourth round.
"And some guys had really huge games. Joe Johnson, Joey Matthews and on."
Stikeleather received a $500 scholarship from the Sam Narron family in conjunction with the award. He'll put it to use playing for the College of Albemarle next spring.
"It's really special to receive an award like this because it's for the whole county," Stikeleather said. "It makes me feel like I made an impact on our team and our season."


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The Week 3 Challenge details are live [1]! Week 3 officially starts on Monday, January 26th.
Don't forget to wrap up your Week 2 [2] before tackling Week 3.
The third week of anything is the toughest, so hang in there!
I've seen that a few people are feeling a bit overwhelmed. I am repeating myself but please, remember that this is for you, it's not a competition against other people. We are here to support each other and share our experiences. Just do as much as you feel you have the time and energy for, and don't stress over it! Also remember that most things are much harder when you are just starting out. The more you do it, the easier it gets! When I started making bentos for myself again after a very long blank period about 2 or so years ago, I was taking ages to do anything, and I almost gave up on it. But I kept doing a bento or so a week, then more, and soon I could whip up a simple bento in a jiffy. (And then I got the idea for the Just Bento site, which has Taken Over, but that's another story. ^_^;) You will probably experience something similar…just hang in there!
The Big Onigiri.
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[1] http://justbento.com/handbook/bento-challenges/get-started-bento-challenge-week-3
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is in New Orleans for the Super Bowl and all the festivities leading up to it.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is in New Orleans for the Super Bowl and all the festivities leading up to it.
Some have debated whether he should be treated well or poorly, whether Saints fans should forgive and forget the grievous harm he did the team with his witch hunt over Bountygate or harbor a grudge against the most reviled football figure in recent memory.
I'm all for holding a grudge.
Around New Orleans, there have been signs of bitterness against the commissioner. Goodell's picture has cropped up on dartboards, and he has even been hanged in effigy.
The faint have fretted over whether servers, for instance, can be trusted to treat Goodell professionally in this atmosphere of hatred.
I can promise you this: If there is a tip involved, the service professionals of New Orleans will take good care of him, no matter how thoroughly hated he is.
Beyond that, though, there is a feeling that just the signs urging people, "Don't serve this man," over a picture of Goodell could sour his feelings for New Orleans so much that the Superdome misses out on future chances to host the big game.
The NFL isn't in New Orleans because Goodell likes New Orleans. He clearly doesn't, or Bountygate would have ended when he had no evidence against the players allegedly involved in it.
The NFL is in New Orleans because it is the perfect place to host a Super Bowl.
In most cities, the stadium is far away from the city center, the tourist attractions and the hotels — not so in the Big Easy. People staying on Canal or Poydras can easily walk to a delicious breakfast spot, check out some street music in the French Quarter, hit the casino and end up at the Superdome, all without having to get into a taxi.
All of that is true no matter how many signs or Carnival floats ridicule the commissioner.
The larger and more interesting question to me is how Goodell is going to have time to get out on the town and enjoy New Orleans' famous hospitality when he is so busy kissing the hand of Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis.
One classic image from this year's playoffs is of Goodell and Lewis embracing on the sideline before the Baltimore Ravens' victory over the Denver Broncos.
Lewis is enjoying his victory lap at the end of a long and distinguished career in the NFL. He will surely be a Hall of Famer the first time he is eligible.
He is also the subject of some unsavory allegations.
The most-recent of these are that he used a substance banned by the NFL when he was recovering from a triceps injury earlier this season.
The substance, a chemical found in deer antler of all things, is some supposed miracle curative. Whatever.
The fact is that the banned-substance cloud has enveloped Lewis as he and his team prepare for the biggest game of the year.
But he needn't worry. Goodell has already promised him a job whenever he does leave his playing days behind him.
After all, it's not like he killed anyone, is it? Ummm.
There was that unpleasantness back in 2000 in which two people were stabbed to death outside an Atlanta nightclub.
Lewis pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in that case in exchange for testimony against his two companions on that deadly night, but no one was ever convicted of the two slayings.
So Goodell, who spent much of the past year hounding Saints players, former players, coaches and executives about a scheme in which players were supposedly paid to injure opponents is now hugging and promising jobs to a man who has blood on his hands (or in his car, at least) and is suspected of using banned substances.
Keep it classy, Roger. I'm sure the waiters will wait on you, but I wouldn't mistake their outward kindness for anything other than obligatory groveling.
While you're in town, step out to a neighborhood bar and see what the real folks think of you. (But you might want to bring your buddy Ray Lewis with you in case you encounter some Saints fans who aren't being paid to grovel.)
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"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens,that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty,and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government."—Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
At some low point in my tenure on the board of education in my small school district, a friend advised, "Don't worry. You are like gravity. They always know that you are there."
Though I aspired to being more than a reminder of some facts of life as member of a board of education, gravity was at least a starting point. And I appreciated my friend's larger message: that much good can come from keeping institutions honest. In fact, as I reflect on the last five years of public service, I'm thinking that keeping governments honest may be the single most important duty of every citizen.
And in honor of the holiday, I offer five lessons learned, which to my mind seem close to self-evident truths, about school governance:
Just in case I buried the lead in my last post, I would love to hear from fellow reform-minded members of boards of education.
Send your essays (or questions) to me, [email protected][email protected]. Your story should be between 250 and 800 words, though, as mentioned, a good haiku or other creative verse will be considered. We will publish as many as we can and, at the end of the summer, Fordham staff will choose the seven best. The seven, in honor of the number of board members on my board of ed, will then convene, by email, and suggest what governance policies are most necessary to improve our public education system.
Tell your friends!...
There's nothing worse for a rogue member of the school board than sitting on a stage with graduating high school seniors, looking into an auditorium packed with adoring friends and relatives. The speeches gush with encomiums for the school that you (i.e. me) have been criticizing for years. "Don't listen to the negative," the congressman tells the class. "Unity," gushes the valedictorian, recounting all the things he has learned from "the great teachers" he has had. The salutatorian cries. Applause.
I have been trying to "fix" my little district (2,300 students fifteen years ago, less than 1,900 today) ever since my son entered first grade (he is now finishing his third year in college). I ran for the board, won, quit, helped start a charter school (which crashed on the shoals of racial politics), started an email listserv dedicated to watching the district, and ran again for the board, winning another five-year stint—and a warning from my wife: Don't quit again. I didn't.
Three nights ago I attended my final meeting as a member of the board, after five years and some several thousand meetings. I had outlasted two superintendents and a good half-dozen board members. But despite being the...
After reading about the eleventh-hour teacher evaluation deal brokered by Governor Andrew Cuomo (see the New York Times report here) in my local newspaper (which I'm not divulging, to protect the innocent), I turned the page and was drawn to a regular section of the paper called "Restaurant Inspections." Like its cousin, "Police Blotter," this is where the dirt is, so to speak. And I read about many of our local restaurants, in detail that I'm sure did not make the owners very happy. Here's one with five violations:
I wondered, What if these restaurant inspection results were sent only to the restaurant's patrons? Why do they have to be published in the paper for all to see?
Catching up on some reading, I discovered some stories that may be old news to some of you, but merit a second look:
I would like to skip this one, so named for the test question used by a big testing company, Pearson, and subsequently used by a number of states, including New York, for its 8th-grade English language arts exams, that asked kids to analyze a story adapted from one written by popular children's book author Daniel Pinkwater about a "race" between a hare and a pineapple. Leave it to the intrepid Leonie Haimson, the anti-testing and class size matters pit bull, to uncover this dastardly deed, issue a scathing condemnation that "The ONLY right answer is Pearson; for getting paid $32 million from NY State for these recycled, annoying and pointless exams," and force the NYS education commissioner to discount the answers on the pineapple test question. The horror of it. Wrote Ms. Haimson a few weeks later, in...
This is my first post in two months and I must thank the contributors to TBQ (The BIG Question) for keeping the governance issues on the front burner in my absence (more on what I was doing "on sabbatical" in subsequent Board's Eye View posts). We had a wonderful group of contributors, from arch reformer Jay Greene to arch establishmentarian Anne Bryant. Michelle Rhee wrote, as did John Chubb, Harold Kwalwasser, David Harris, John Kirtley, Tim Kremer, Darrell Allison, Mark Anderson, and Robyne Camp. It's an impressive group of people who think hard about the mechanisms of education governance.
Camp, who just lost a tight re-election race for the board in her small Westchester County, NY, district, offers a fascinating perspective on school reform, suggesting that reform may be harder for the rich. "Education reform here in the leafy suburbs," she concludes, "will have to trickle up from New York City's poorest schools."
Tim Kremer, who directs the...
Guest blogger Robyne Camp served three years on her board of education in Irvington, New York, losing a tight race for re-election in May. Her first career was in financial services, specializing in complex lending to insurance companies. Her second career began in her 40s, after she was widowed, when she became a lawyer. She has worked as a pro-bono assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, representing abused and neglected children in appeals cases and prosecuting domestic violence crimes.
Three years ago, in a landslide election six months after the crash, I won a seat on my local school board in Westchester County. This May I lost my bid for re-election in a hotly contested five-person race for two open seats. I learned some lessons.
When I ran, I was a reform candidate in an affluent district where reform candidates rarely run (and don't win if they do), but the village was then in turmoil, and the rules had been suspended. I was swept into office and assumed responsibility (along with four colleagues) for oversight of a district whose salient demographics can be registered in a glance:
Guest blogger Timothy G. Kremer is the executive director of the New York State School Boards Association.
Mark Twain once famously remarked "I'm all for progress, it's change that I can't stand." Of course, Twain fully understood progress does not happen without changes to the status quo.
What constitutes progress for a school board? Hiring a great new superintendent and forging a harmonious partnership? Often, school board progress is defined in the form of a strategic plan that the entire staff and community rally around. Both are reasons to be proud because they can lead to great accomplishments.
Ultimately, though, progress has to be measured in terms of student achievement gains. Unlike Mark Twain, school board members must welcome all rational forms of change that serve the goal of raising student achievement.
School boards have generally been supportive of the New York State Regents Reform Agenda, although it is fair to say that that many boards have a healthy dose of skepticism about grand, top-down initiatives such as Race to the Top,...
Guest blogger Darrell Allison is president of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, which supports greater educational choice for all parents and students across the state. For more information, please go to www.pefnc.org.
As president of a statewide organization devoted to ensuring that ALL children—regardless of income or zip code—have access to a quality education, I hear plenty of opposing talking points…that we need to spend more on public education, that education reform measures will lead to the death of public schools, that public tax dollars are being used for private gain.
When I hear this type of rhetoric I think of how North Carolina has spent over $35 billion on education over the last five years, yet only 50 percent of poor elementary and middle school students passed state tests—compared to nearly 80 percent of their wealthier peers.
In spite of tremendous spending, our poorest kids are still missing the mark. And this is totally unacceptable.
I'm all for "public education," but I believe "public education" should consist...
Guest blogger Michelle Rhee is the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, a bipartisan grassroots movement working to improve the nation's schools. She previously served as chancellor of Washington D.C. schools and before that founded The New Teacher Project, which helps districts recruit effective teachers to challenging schools. Michelle began her career as a classroom teacher in Baltimore.
As I spend time visiting and studying school systems across the country, I see many bright spots. But I also see far too many places where children are being educationally shortchanged. That's reflected in the still-enormous gaps between what poor and minority students know and can do academically and the performance of their wealthier, white peers. And it's also reflected in the growing gap between American students and their peers overseas.
So how did we get here and what do we need to do to give our kids—all our kids—the twenty-first century education they deserve?
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When a club the size of Manchester United lose a player who's only made nine substitute appearances for their first team, fans aren't exactly mourning the loss of a cult hero.
However, in the curious case of Paul Pogba, the Old Trafford club could have missed out on perhaps the best central midfielder of his generation when the Frenchman departed for Juventus in the summer of 2012.
Despite having failed to make a single start during his time in England, Pogba immediately shone in Italy, becoming an integral part of the Juventus midfield alongside Andrea Pirlo and Arturo Vidal.
His progress has continued and earlier this month he was awarded the prestigious Golden Boy award, presented to the best young footballer in Europe and previously won by Wayne Rooney, Mario Balotelli and none other than Lionel Messi.
The next goal for Pogba will be to pick up another individual prize with which Messi has become all too familiar with- the Ballon d'Or.
Lofty ambitions perhaps for a player who has yet to reach double figures for senior international caps, but it's a goal that the midfield general is more than capable of achieving.
Upon his 2012 arrival in Turin, a then 19-year-old Pogba offered something different to a midfield that already boasted supreme passing and vision.
For such a young man his physique was already somewhat incredible. Standing at well over 6ft, he provided an imposing figure for any opposition and had no trouble stepping up to the physical demands of first team football.
With a superb engine to match his frame, the French midfielder provided energy alongside an increasingly immobile, yet permanently class, Pirlo.
However, to liken Pogba to a water-carrier, simply in the team to do the dirty work for others, would be an injustice of immense proportion.
Few midfielders, his age or older, can match Pogba's passing range, which will only improve as he continues to play alongside Pirlo and Vidal and gains valuable experience both in Serie A and the Champions League.
Worryingly for opposition teams, his passing may not even be his strongest attribute- Google 'Paul Pogba screamer' and you'll see what we're talking about.
The Juve man's long legs enable him to strike a ball with incredible power and unnerving accuracy from anywhere around the box, and sometimes further.
As a midfielder, he'll never score the amount of goals that have clinched the Ballon d'Or for the likes of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but he already has five to his name this season, including his first goal for France, meaning he's well on course to hit double figures.
Ironically, former club Manchester United spent the entire summer searching for a midfield man who could provide creativity and goals while also being up to the physicality of the Premier League, eventually plumping for Marouane Fellaini.
Had former boss Sir Alex Ferguson put more faith in a young man plucked from Le Harve in 2009, they may have had exactly what they were looking for right under their noses.
Instead, it's Antonio Conte and Juventus who have the pleasure of watching Paul Pogba develop into one of the world's leading midfielders, and if he continues to progress at the rate he has in recent years, it's likely he'll be the driving force behind France's World Cup hopes next summer.
While Laurent Blanc's men may be unlikely to win the competition next summer, it's only a matter a of time before Pogba is tasting individual success in the form of a nice shiny FIFA Ballon d'Or.
Paul Pogba: A future Ballon d'Or winner?
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Learning to See in Wholly Holy Way: Awakened World Conference, Italy Oct 2012
Awakened World 2012: Learning to See in a "Wholly holy Way."
Barbara Nussbaum
Awakened World 2012 http://www.agnt.org/awakened2012.html,was recently convened and hosted in Italy by three American organizations. I learned about the conference through the Association of Global New Thought, one of the sponsoring organizations. http://www.agnt.org/charter/conveners.html. 240 participants came from more than 15 countries – from almost every continent. There were social activists from Sri Lanka and Mexico, Buddhist teachers from Korea, Tibet and China; University Professors from Iran, Iowa, Arizona and Georgia; Rabbis from Israel and Belgium, Muslims from Malaysia, and Pakistan; Hindus; New Thought Practitioners; authors, therapists, ministers, film makers, peacemakers, youth workers, leadership experts, educators, ecologists, entrepreneurs from the UK, Europe, USA, South Africa, Ghana and India. The theme was "Engaged Spirituality for the 21st Century" and the intention was to enroll delegates from all over the world in dialogues to define and refine what it means to foreground spirituality as a catalytic force for global transformation.
The conference was unique in design, bold in vision and amplified by the consciousness, soulfulness and diversity of people who came. I have seldom experienced the degree of "mutual irradiation" in such authentic, gentle and generative encounters between people of so many different faiths. In a short pamphlet, Douglas Steere, a Quaker described the meaning of "mutual irradiation" in the context of interfaith dialogue. http://www.pendlehill.org/images/pamphlets/php175.pdf This mutuality happens when "each (religion) is willing to expose itself with great openness to the inward message of the other, as well as to share its own experience and to trust that whatever is the truth in each experience will irradiate and deepen the experience of the other."
Rarely have I been in gatherings where the mutual irradiation happened so effortlessly. Delegates were invited to focus on how we saw signs of change, how we noticed systemic shifts, how applied evolutionary change in practical engagement and how we were embodying the spiritual and cultural evolutionary shifts our lived experience. Intellectual, spiritual and emotional integration and transformation took place within my own being, through song, story and connection and conversation.
In the background materials prepared for the conference, AGNT Executive Director, Dr Barbara Fields and Jim Kenney, program coordinator of the Peace Council, outlined the important relationship between spiritual evolution and cultural evolution. They spoke of this moment in time, when prevailing cultural values, global awareness and spiritual understanding are emerging in new and distinct ways. The careful preparation for Awakened World 2012, showed how spiritual evolution unfolds as a key dimension of the process of a broader cultural evolution. This involves the slow, steady (and occasionally dramatically accelerated) shift of prevailing cultural values, assumptions, memes, and behavior patterns toward "a closer fit with our best understanding of reality". The circle below was the innovative design template used to frame our dialogues across four themes: Reconciling with the Other; Rediscovering the Sacred; Transforming Society and Embracing the Earth Family. http://www.agnt.org/charter/themes.html (This link will illustrate the design graphically)
A Personal Note
Unexpected was the palpable personal shift that emerged in the evolution of my way of seeing, my way of being. There was a profound yet comfortable healing of the internal divides and rearrangement of my lived reality. The formal dialogues and informal interactions with delegates sparked with inspiration so that it became easy to embody the spiritually motivated shifts we sought to name.
Like many, my own journey covers a search for integration of the analytic and the artistic, the masculine and the feminine, the rational and mystical; the harmonizing of inner experience and outer expression.
Like many, I have noticed the spread of a shifting paradigm and the deepening cracks of all that is not working in our world. Since 2003, I have written about the systemic shifts which are clearing the ground for the rooting of the philosophy of Ubuntu globally. Ubuntu, in its simplest definition is about communally expressed humanity, about finding the I in the "WE".
Living with the faith and sometimes the loneliness of a visionary, I count among many blessings, the affirmation and validation from people such as Rinaldo Brutoco, Founder and President of the World Business Academy who had invited me to the conference. http://www.worldbusiness.org/about/directors-and-officers/rinaldo-brutoco/
Years before the global financial crisis of 2008, Rinaldo recognized that the ethical appeal and shared responsibility called forth by Ubuntu was also a useful way to name the desired direction of our interconnectedness and the changes we need to embrace as a planet. The Awakened World conference in Italy, further demonstrated how Ubuntu, alongside other religions, could help to rediscover the sacredness of the other and translate these into practical, spiritually motivated initiatives for transforming business and society. Ubuntu was lived out, every day in Rome and in Florence – this evolutionary force melded and melted before my eyes into the oneness of other philosophies from other cultures and religions.
Fresh eyes and full heart
Though always informed by heartfelt passion, I have found it easier to write about Ubuntu than to consistently embody the spiritual call it demands on a daily basis. I became conscious of a slight internal disconnect between my fiery but reasoned writing, and residues of unconsciousness sometimes lacing patterns of engagement and embodiment.
In March this year, I began to heal this disconnect, starting to incorporate resonance building process using music in my team building facilitation. I translated Ubuntu principles to reframe a way for people to listen to the music of the other. This involved a request for several shift in awareness: suspending judgment, finding reverence and respect; and dignifying others by listening to their chosen tracks of music with an open heart and a loving soul.
The energy and alchemy of the conference poured a new brew of glue to fill gaps in the global jigsaw of my belonging and fire up synapses necessary for my own evolution.
Dancing like Candles
At Awakened World 2012 my soul danced like a candle with other candles, moving gracefully and smoothly in an easy choreography on a changing sea. The shore ahead felt closer, more visible because of the collective light.
Instead of a pressure to hold tightly onto "my" candle, a vision of Ubuntu, I have relaxed into the deep knowing that many of us at Awakened World, share a vision of oneness and are living it daily, feeling "it".
What the "it" is became clearer.
Andrew Cohen's interview with Rickie Byars Beckwith provides a helpful vocabulary. http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j32/soulful.asp
Rickie says: "I mean "One Love" in the way Bob Marley meant it. It's that love. It's beyond self-preservation. It's something that cares. In that love, there's no other. We are it. It's us, and so we share it. I believe that a soulful person is someone who is swimming in this, who's dedicated to it, who's here for this."
The universal quality of oneness was expressed in countless forms by many people. Rickie Byars Beckwith, Faith Riveira http://www.faithrivera.com/ and others in the conference music group A.W.E (Awakened World Ensemble), sang the oneness of Ubuntu in Rome and in Florence. Every day we were treated to prayers and meditations and songs from many religious traditions. And in our dialogues, so many of the delegates from Japan to Ghana embodied the oneness of Ubuntu in their very being. Rinaldo Brutoco and James Quilligan spoke it in their vision of http://p2pfoundation.net/James_Quilligan
ethical business a new economy and a just society. Barbara Fields role modeled beautifully what collaboration looks like in its most generous form.
I can relax in the knowing that the system shift is so deeply shared by an increasing number of soul- ful people, that spiritual evolution feels tangible and cultural evolution genuinely with us.
We become instruments of collective transcendence
In the same interview with Andrew Cohen, Rev Michael Beckwith had this so say: "There's a rhythm; there's a harmony, a vibration…. soulful people have the ability, consciously or unconsciously, to allow that vibration to move through them. Sometimes they don't even know they're doing it. Have you ever listened to Sam Cooke or Ray Charles? In the music of certain people, you hear them touching that ineffable place. They become instruments to translate and transmit it to the audience. And when it hits the audience, you can feel it."
At our most transformative moments in South Africa, people asked one another other, can you "feel it?" "It" was described as "gees", an Afrikaans world for spiritual aliveness that has marked some of our transformative moments in South Africa. Our miracle moments in that country are those of collective transcendence, where people connected into a greater oneness. In those moments, what is ineffable becomes palpable. What is intangible becomes lived and profoundly felt by many. These moments of shared transcendence happened often in Italy at Awakened World 2012.
Michael Beckwith described "it" this way. When singers make a big hit, it is because the song is carried so deeply in their being, and they are resonating so deeply with the lyrics, that in the singing, the lyrics are magnified. The singers increase the power of the words and carry them forward.
I felt sung to so gorgeously, by so many delegates and I sang with them. We all amplified our shared awakening, carrying the song of our evolution forward.
The intention of the Dialogues at Awakened World was to "model the harmony of the world's great religious and spiritual communities – their common ground and the differences that give them unique identities – demonstrating that a shared vision can transcend differences and reveal wisdom. This value of this undertaking will lie in the contribution it can make to global evolutionary awareness and transformative action."
There were many moments of modeling harmony. Many pearls of wisdom shared. They emerged in music, in conversation, in story in thought, in envisioning new projects and extending existing projects within the Awakened World Community. The rooted collective wisdom gave voice to the nascent buds of a new tree of life.
On the final day in Rome, we sang "we are the world, we are the children". I found a fresh voice resonant with others. We found our voices in harmony in that song for a moment in Italy. We're singing evolution forward. We're learning to love and to serve in a "wholly holy way".[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Rr0BuFeCo
Barbara Nussbaum is an author, coach, and a creative consultant living in South Africa.
[1] With thanks to Rickie Byars Beckwith for the Inspiration of these lyrics. The last U tube link gives you a chance to see Rickie singing her song!


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Today's photos are of the "Wreck Tech" Parade in 1974 and is Part I of II in the series.
Prior to 1974 all the Georgia Tech games were played in Atlanta. That trend ended in 1974 when Tech was scheduled to play the Tigers for the first time in Death Valley.
Such a big event called for a parade, the "Wreck Tech" parade. Here are a number of photos from that famous parade in Clemson when Tech first showed up at our doorstep.
By the way, we won the game 21-17. The first of all home games we won in 1974, including a 28-24 win the following week against UGA.
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Small farmers in Florida face a variety of issues and challenges, and with less resources available to them than larger farms, they can be at a competitive disadvantage.
With small farms representing over 90 percent of farms in Florida, insuring their success is vital to the agriculture industry in the state. That's why UF/IFAS and FAMU have created a Web site (http://smallfarms.ifas.ufl.edu) that specifically addresses the needs of small farmers.
"The Web site was developed to make small farm information accessible in one location," said Bob Hochmuth, the multi-county agent at the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center in Suwannee Valley. "Small farmers may be seeking information on getting started in farming or considering one of many alternative enterprises and it is all pulled together in one site to make the search easy."
The Web site provides links and other resources for small farmers including, how to get started, enterprise budgeting, business planning, financing grants, and much more. Farmers using the site can select topics on enterprises of special interest to them, including aquaculture, cut flowers, livestock, and organic farming. Each topic includes information on production, marketing, and economics as well as other appropriate links.
"What a fabulous resource," said Betty O'Toole, owner of O'Toole's Herb Farm in Madison, Fla. "Jim and I have found that the IFAS small farm Web page has become an invaluable tool for our business. The site is jam packed with useful information, quick and user friendly, even for the computer novices we are."
Input from small farmers and allied organizations, identifying issues critical to small farmers, such as access to profitable markets, business skills development, accessible technical information, and alternative crops and enterprises, was used to help design the site.
Input from counties throughout Florida identified the need for small farm educational programs to be developed. The small farms Web site provides information that farmers can employ to address these issues and become more efficient in their business.
For more information visit UF/IFAS and FAMU small farms website at http://smallfarms.ifas.ufl.edu.


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