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A torrential downpour followed Tommy home. The ash tinged sky thundered, mocking his luck and life as of late. Drenched with tears from the heavens, he enters the house; flicking the lights on once inside.
Removing his jacket, he lets it fall to the floor in a wet heap and proceeds to the mahogany chair in front of the sliding patio door. Elbows on his knees and head in his hands he waits and prays.
"Come back, baby. I need you both."
Outside the tears of the deceased fall in unison with his own. The two crosses labelled Mallory and Molly weather the storm.
"I've done everything possible. The goat I sacrificed was the last option.", Tommy said to his dead wife and daughter.
With his attention focused on the graves outside, Tommy didn't notice the fleeting apparitions of his wife and daughter beside him.
They had returned, unnoticed.

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Andropogon aridus
HABIT Perennial; cushion forming. Culms 20–25 cm long. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades filiform; terete; 3–5 cm long; 1 mm wide.
INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence composed of racemes; terminal.
Racemes 1–2; single, or paired; 1–3 cm long. Rhachis fragile at the nodes; ciliate on margins. Rhachis hairs 5 mm long. Rhachis internodes linear. Rhachis internode tip transverse; cupuliform; with simple rim.
Spikelets appressed; in pairs. Fertile spikelets sessile; 1 in the cluster. Companion sterile spikelets pedicelled; 1 in the cluster. Pedicels linear; ciliate; hairy all along but hairs longer above; with 5 mm long hairs.
STERILE SPIKELETS Companion sterile spikelets well-developed; male; lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 5 mm long; shorter than fertile. Companion sterile spikelet glumes chartaceous; acute; muticous. Companion sterile spikelet lemmas enclosed by glumes.
FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; dorsally compressed; 6–6.5 mm long; falling entire; deciduous with accessory branch structures. Spikelet callus oblong; 1 mm long; bearded; base obtuse; inserted.
GLUMES Glumes dissimilar; exceeding apex of florets; firmer than fertile lemma. Lower glume elliptic; 1 length of spikelet; chartaceous; 2-keeled; keeled laterally; winged on keel; winged near apex. Lower glume intercarinal veins distinct; 4 in number. Lower glume surface convex; pilose; hairy below. Lower glume apex dentate; 2 -fid. Upper glume lanceolate; chartaceous; 1-keeled. Upper glume apex acute; muticous.
FLORETS Basal sterile florets barren; with palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret lanceolate; 3 mm long; hyaline; 2 -veined. Palea of lower sterile floret 0.5 length of lemma. Fertile lemma lanceolate; 4.5 mm long; hyaline; without keel. Lemma apex lobed; 2 -fid; incised 0.5 of lemma length; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn from a sinus; geniculate; 15 mm long overall; with twisted column. Column of lemma awn glabrous. Palea 0.75 length of lemma.
DISTRIBUTION Africa: northeast tropical.
NOTES Andropogoneae. WDC.
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Prior Park Prep fencers win in Wales
Prior Park Prep Fencers Ed and Charlie have won the Leon Paul Junior Series in Wales last weekend, following their win at the Independent Association of Prep Schools National Fencing Championships earlier this month.
The Leon Paul Junior Series (LPJS) offers a mainstream introduction to competitive fencing for UK youngsters and provided the opportunity for 16 U17 boys and girls to compete in the disciplines of foil, sabre and epée, at the Welsh Institute for Sport in Cardiff; a national series of competitors that Ed and Charlie regularly attend.
Competing in the U13 boys foil and epee, Charlie and Ed entered the LPJS competition seeded first and second respectively after the poule rounds. The pair then fought their way through their rounds, only to meet each other again in the final. Evenly matched, Ed and Charlie were neck and neck after two periods in the final, with scores of 5-5. At just ten seconds to go the score remained very tight at 7-7. In the third period Ed finally clinched it, making the vital hit to go in front, scoring a final total of 92 in the foil and 122 in the epee and taking the gold for both.
Delighted, the pair received their gold and silver medals at a presentation in the arena on the day. Ed and Charlie are now first and second respectively in both LPJS epee and foil series rankings for U13.
It was brilliant to win, especially given all the work we put in. I'm sorry I had to knock Charlie out, but he didn't make it easy for me.Fencing team captain Ed, a Year 8 pupil
I really enjoyed the competition and came so close. I'm sad Ed knocked me out but I'm pleased he won. I'm happy to have won silver and can't wait for next year.Charlie, Year 7 pupil
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Written comments from Public Survey
(There are 100 pages of written comments)
"The parks that we have are well maintained and attractive. Many of the buildings in town are rundown and unappealing."
"Can't do anything with downtown historic district without jumping through hoops."
"There is always trash, vandalism and rundown or abandoned buildings wherever you go."
"Need to enforce leash law on the riverwalk."
"The City needs a comprehensive storm drainage study and more money to implement."
"Want to see a simpler permit process for businesses to move in on Main Street."
"We need young families to move here — but there is a lack of jobs. We need a recreation center to attract families."
"I like that we are building more trails and embracing the outdoor culture here more."
Local resident and property owner Sheila Kimmell has compiled the results of a 'Cañon City Area Public Survey' that she recently made available to Cañon City and Fremont County residents.
Kimmell received 71 paper responses and about 190 online responses.
The data is broken down by respondents living outside city limits, those in city limits and at large, and by district.
The independent and privately-funded survey was open to residents from Aug. 10 to Sept. 15. It was not intended to compete with the annual Citizen Survey sent out by the City of Cañon City through the U.S. Post Office to 1,500 randomly selected households. Kimmell said her survey is a tool intended to support the council's goals and to help guide council members and staff when making decisions throughout the year.
"The questions are centered around the City's Strategic Plan," said Kimmell, who worked for 15 years as a Director of Operations for a company with 63 stores in six states before she retired.
About 40 percent of respondents lived outside the city limits and 43 percent were between the ages of 36 and 55. Kimmell said she wished she could have reached more of the 18 and younger age group to get more input from the younger citizens.
Forty questions ranged from satisfaction with Cañon City's design and image to storm drainage and individual council members and city administration.
What sets Kimmell's survey apart is the opportunity for respondents to share the "why" behind their answers.
"Our end game is the narrative," she said. "We're less concerned about the number."
The survey includes 100 pages of written comments submitted by respondents.
Overall, 94.4 percent of the respondents are satisfied with the service they receive from the Cañon City Fire Department; 86 percent are satisfied with customer service they receive from City office staff; and 82.6 percent feel safe in their neighborhoods.
Ranking lower on the scale, 19.3 percent are satisfied with the City's code enforcement; 14.3 percent are satisfied with the City's overall economic development; and 14 percent are satisfied with Cañon City's employment opportunities.
Kimmell presented the results of the survey to the Fremont County Board of Commissioners and to Cañon City Councilman Mark Gill, whom Kimmell asked to remain in touch throughout the survey process to help validate the its credibility.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
150 R graphics recipes!
Disclaimer:The book was given in exchange of blogger review scheme from O'Reilly. This practical cookbook provides more than 150 recipes to help you generate high-quality graphs in quick steps to get fast results. As R novice, i didn't need to know and learn R graphics packages to follow with success the examples and how to get the plot. Each recipe covers a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own application. That's what you were looking for, a compendium of recipes all in one places! It can be found here.
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Today's Fab 5 > TUESDAY / APR. 05, 2016
"We search the internet everyday looking for the very best of What's Happening, primarily on Manhattan's WestSide, so that you don't have to." We make it as easy as 1-2-3.
(click on links for more complete event info.)
Have time for only one event today? Do This:
Democracy, Elections and the Vote
New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West/ 6:30PM, $38
"During the late 18th century, in a world dominated by kings, czars, sultans, and emperors, a small group of Americans embarked on a radical proposal for a land ruled by democracy, elections, and a vote. With the 2016 Presidential Elections on the horizon, two constitutional scholars discuss the history of democracy in the United States and how our election process has shaped America." (ThoughtGallery.org)
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"Kings of Queens: Life Beyond Baseball with the '86 Mets"
with author Erik Sherman
Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, 67 E11th St./ 7PM, FREE, RSVP required.
"I'm so proud of what we accomplished in that magical 1986 season and the brotherhood that we still have for one another all these years later. Enjoy this personal portrayal of one of baseball history's greatest and most charismatic teams." —Davey Johnson
In 1986, the bad guys of baseball won the World Series.
"What if I actually went out and visited the players where they are today—in their homes, in the dugouts they currently coach or manage in, or in the bars they might frequent? I would interview the men who'd made up this magical team, find out what happened to them after their glory days were behind them, and explore the impact they as individuals and as a team had on the fans and the organization—then and now." —Erik Sherman
9/11 and the American Landscape
National September 11 Memorial & Museum, 180 Greenwich St./ 7PM, FREE, ticket required
"Photographer Jonathan C. Hyman documented grassroots memorials after 9/11. His archive of over 20,000 images focuses on tributes from the tristate area, beginning just after 9/11 and running through the 10th anniversary. Hyman joins Dr. Jan S. Ramirez, the Museum's Chief Curator and Vice President of Collections, to discuss the iconography of commemoration and the varieties of popular response to 9/11 captured in his photographs."
"Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America"
Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway / 7PM, Buy a copy of "Sleeping Giant" or a $15 gift card to attend this event.
"Demos and Strand Books invite you to a timely and lively discussion between Demos' Tamara Draut, author of the new book Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America, and Bob Herbert, former New York Times columnist and a Demos fellow as well.
Draut and Herbert will discuss the struggles, politics and burgeoning power of the new working class. With an eye towards our upcoming presidential election, and its impact on America's working families, Draut and Herbert will explore how these fearless workers are shifting the political landscape."
Elsewhere, but this looks worth the detour:
"The Bitchy Waiter: Tales, Tips and Trials from a Life in Food Service"
powerHouse Arena, 37 Main St./ 7PM, FREE"
"Creator of the popular blog The Bitchy Waiter Darron Cardosa distills 30 years of food service into dark, funny tales that anyone who worked in the industry will recognize and relate to.
Millions of people have waited tables at some point in their lives. And many remain haunted by nightmare scenarios where they are the sole server in a restaurant packed with complaining customer. For all those disenchanted current and former food service employees, Darron Cardosa has your back.Since 2008 he's vented his frustrations —about everything from crazy customers, out-of-control egos, and what really goes on in that fancy restaurant—in his popular blog The Bitchy Waiter. A snarky mix of David Sedaris, Anthony Bourdain, Erma Bombeck, and Mo Rocca, Cardosa distills 30 years of food service into dark, funny tales that anyone who worked in the industry will recognize and relate to." (ThoughtGallery.org)
Bonus – Music Venues:
So much fine live music every night in this town. These are my favorite music venues on Manhattan's WestSide. Check out who's playing tonight:
City Winery – 155 Varick St., citywinery.com, 212-608-0555
Feinstein's/54 Below – 254 W54th St., 54below.com, 646-476-3551
Joe's Pub @ Public Theater – 425 Lafayette St., joespub.com, 212-967-7555
Metropolitan Room – 34W22ndSt., metropolitan room.com, 212-206-0440
Beacon Theatre – 2124 Broadway @ 74th St., beacontheatre.com, 212-465-6500
B.B. King's Blues Bar – 237W42nd St., bbkingblues.com, 212-997-2144
Le Poisson Rouge – 158 Bleecker St., lepoissonrouge.com, 212-505-3474
Special Mention:
Caffe Vivaldi – 32 Jones St. nr Bleecker St. caffevivaldi.com, 212-691-7538
a classic, old jazz club in the Village, Caffe V often surprises with a wonderfully eclectic lineup. It's my favorite spot for an evening of listening enjoyment and discovery.
♦ Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm ticket availability, dates and times, as schedules are subject to change.
♦ NYCity, with a population of 8.5 million, had a record 58 million visitors last year and was TripAdvisor's Traveler's Choice Top U.S. Destination for 2016. Quality shows draw crowds.
Try to reserve seats in advance, even if it's just on the day of performance.
Chelsea Art Gallery District*
Chelsea is the heart of the NYCity contemporary art scene. Home to more than 300 art galleries, the Rubin Museum, the Joyce Theater and The Kitchen performance spaces, there is no place like it anywhere in the world. Come here to browse free exhibitions by world-renowned artists and those unknowns waiting to be discovered in an art district that is concentrated between West 18th and West 27th Streets, and 10th and 11th Avenues. Afterwards stop in the Chelsea Market, stroll on the High Line, or rest up at one of the many cafes and bars and discuss the fine art.
Two exhibitions the NewYorkTimes likes:
'Ellsworth Kelly Photographs' (through April 30)
"This first exhibition of photographs by Mr. Kelly, who died in December, includes more than 30 gelatin silver prints made over four decades. His straightforward pictures of houses, barns, brick walls and winter branches yield the same distinctive observation of perceptual phenomena so characteristic of his hard-edge paintings, sculpture and prints: Rectangles float; shadows fall into hard-edge shapes; surfaces reveal evenly mottled patterns and unlikely grids. Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 West 24th Street, Chelsea, 212-243-0200, matthewmarks.com." (Philip Gefter)
Robert Ryman (through July 29)
"For nearly 60s years, the Minimalist painter Robert Ryman has had few equals when it comes to doing more with less. White has been his primary, if not quite his only, color, the square his typical format. And yet within these seeming limitations a remarkably fecund and resonant body of work has evolved as demonstrated with unusual clarity (and in natural light) by this small but comprehensive exhibition. Dia: Chelsea, 535 West 22nd Street, 212-989-5566, diaart.org." (Smith)
For a listing of 25 essential galleries in the Chelsea Art Gallery District, organized by street, which enables you to create your own Chelsea Art Gallery crawl, see the Chelsea Gallery Guide (nycgo.com) Or check out TONY magazine's list of the "Best Chelsea Galleries" and click through to see what's on view.
*Now plan your own gallery crawl, but plan your visits for Tuesday through Saturday; most galleries are closed Sunday and Monday.
TIP: After your gallery tour, stop in Ovest at 513W27th St. for Aperitivo Italiano (Happy Hour on steroids). Discuss all the great art you have viewed over a drink and a very tasty selection of FREE appetizers (M-F, 5-8pm).
For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see recent posts in right sidebar dated 04/03 and 04/01.
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Trip Advisor
An enormous base of NYCity user reviews (2.1 million) provides the widest coverage of hotels (468), restaurants (12,645) and things to do (yes, 3,246). Have a specific question? Then try one of Trip Advisor's forums. Just remember that with all those reviews you have to try to find the consistency among the comments, and ignore the outliers.
Instantly locate restaurants near you with open reservations and then place a reservation right from your iOS device. A great interface and the ability to see a menu from the restaurant you're interested in makes this my go to restaurant reservation app.
Subway Time
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To celebrate the 4th of July I thought I'd make this Founders' Week with posts on the Founders and the heritage of our nation. On a Sunday, the place to begin is by looking at their religious beliefs. M.E. Bradford, in his Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution has an excellent chapter titled, "Religion and the Framers: The Biographical Evidence." Bradford's credentials as a historian are verified by Russell Kirk in his foreword to another book of Bradford's Founding Fathers: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution. Kirk states that he and Bradford were frequent correspondents and met at least once a year, and it is quite evident that he had the highest esteem for Bradford.
Bradford's national reputation is founded upon his painstaking and accurate scholarship—and upon his rhetorical skill as well…In general, American historians have been daunted by the tremendous task of fighting their way through antique printed collections of politicians' letters and through thousands of holograph letters, uncollected, in dusty archives and private hands, but Mel Bradford was possessed of fortitude and a desire to write real history. He knew that there is no better way to ascertain the much-debated "original intent" of the Framers than to pass beyond the somewhat meager journals of the Convention, and beyond The Federalist Papers, to the labyrinthine treasury of letters the Framers wrote home or to one another.
…More fully than most commentators upon those Framers, Bradford has carefully examined their several religious persuasions or affiliations, discovering few Deists or unchurched.1
Bradford writes this in his introduction about the men in Founding Fathers (emphasis added in the below quotes):
…with no more than five exceptions, they were orthodox members of one of the established Christian communions. An internal transformation of American society in the direction of a secularized egalitarian state was the furthest thing from the minds of these men. The majority of them were committed to representative government, to the continued existence of the sovereign states, and to a dependence upon the virtue of the people acting as independent political, economic and moral agents as the best security for the hope of a common future. But they also believed in the imperfection of human nature and had no patience with the notion that men were essentially good of that institutions were the culprit in the darker chapters of history.2
In Original Intentions Bradford expands his discussion to the 150 to 200 men considered to be the principal Founders of the Republic.
Part of the confusion that so often leads us to a misunderstanding of the original Constitution and Bill of Rights is the special status to which a selected group of early American leaders have been elevated as the quintessence of what the Founders had in mind in accomplishing our national independence and then channeling the impetus generated with the Revolution into the creation of a new form of government, one that is "part national" and part federal." These few are forced to serve as heralds of a "golden moment" of "perfect toleration" and public enlightenment, the embodiments of reason, and are put forward as windows on the American soul, on the collective spirit from which, as a people and polity, we most legitimately derive. The difficulty with this tendentious interpretive strategy is that the student of early American history who goes to the trouble to learn about the private lives of a reasonable number of important public figures in the original thirteen states can discredit it with ease. The selective, disingenuous past visible when filtered through such a list is one well-calculated to foster a partisan misuse of the Constitution in rearranging the present. With the moderns and impenitent futurists who invoke this authority with reference to religion, the names thus collected are a constant: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and Benjamin Franklin along with such lesser figures as Benjamin Rush and James Wilson. To this set it is conventional to add that part of Madison which seems to have a natural place in such company. Apart from Madison, none of these heroes is a recognizable Christian. And even about Madison there are certain doubts. The point is that by emphasizing as "representative men" the members of this elite group of deists and secularists, modern interpreters of the First Amendment are thereby released to ignore the distance between the very English/Whig/prescriptive world of the Framers and the favorite political nostrums and simplifications of the contemporary intellectual community. To describe the Framers out a larger body of evidence taken from the entire generation to which they belong—of the 150 to 200 principal Founders of the Republic—is to acquire another view of their composite character, especially with reference to the original American tradition concerning liberty, the state, and religion.
As I have come to know through my own work, the concept of the Framers as ordinary Christians, as members in good standing of the various Christian communions found in early America, is supported by the recorded patterns of their lives. What I propose in the way of a collective portrait draws upon evidence from the usually ignored 95 percent of that group—ignored because they are not precursors of the present dispensation in law, ethics, and public policy. The assumption that this majority was likely to agree to totally secular institutional arrangements in the very structure of American politics contradicts almost everything we know about human nature, as well as the most self-evident components of Christian teaching concerning the relation of the magistrate to the ultimate source of his authority in God. They could not be both practicing Christians of their time and the source of the High Court's present understanding of the establishment clause.3
Bradford quotes from various primary source documents to make his case, citing writings and activities of—and this is not an exhaustive list—Patrick Henry, John Jay, George Mason, General William Livingston, Edmund Pendleton, Elias Boudinot, Roger Sherman, Richard Bassett, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Abraham Baldwin, Luther Martin, John Dickinson, Alexander Hamilton, David Brearly, William Samuel Johnson, John Witherspoon and William Few.
Of course, the most unmistakable Christian evidence of orthodoxy comes in references made by the Framers to Jesus Christ as Redeemer and Son of God. These are commonplace in their private papers, correspondence, and public remarks—and in the early records of their lives. As a sample of such piety we should include the ars moriendi as practiced by Patrick Henry and the parting admonitions preserved in the wills of John Jay and George Mason….
Such declarations are so frequent in the papers of the Framers as to belie the now familiar theory that our Republic came into being in a moment of absolute tolerance, or religious neutrality qua indifference or deistic rationalism embraced by most of the leaders of England's erstwhile colonies in North America. And not all of this evidence is relegated to wills or very private documents…
Other varieties of unmistakable proof of Christian commitment appear in the acts and languages of Framers who do not always speak directly of their Redeemer but who nonetheless behave as no deist would: who in some fashion to the vigor of their orthodoxy, most impressively in decisions that they make without undue calculation. Expressions of Christian hope are commonplace in the papers of the Framers…
The variety of surviving Christian witness in the papers and sayings of the Framers is indeed astonishing.3
This republic we have in these United States of America providentially came into being through the efforts of Englishmen living in the New World who possessed a Christian understanding of personal responsibility and accountability to God, of the nature of man and the drive for power, and of the nature of integrity and character. The specific historical and religious heritage of this nation yielded in men the substance of thinking that gave birth to the structure of our government.
Here is additional information from a Department of State* website.
III. Religion and the American Revolution
IV. Religion and the Congress of the Confederation, 1774-89
The Continental-Confederation Congress, a legislative body that governed the United States from 1774 to 1789, contained an extraordinary number of deeply religious men. The amount of energy that Congress invested in encouraging the practice of religion in the new nation exceeded that expended by any subsequent American national government. Although the Articles of Confederation did not officially authorize Congress to concern itself with religion, the citizenry did not object to such activities. This lack of objection suggests that both the legislators and the public considered it appropriate for the national government to promote a nondenominational, nonpolemical Christianity.
*This information is no longer at the Department of State's site, but is now found at the Library of Congress site. That's why the links have been changed. When I first found them I was intrigued that they were at State during Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State. I'm further intrigued that they've been moved.
1Russell Kirk, Foreward, Founding Fathers: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution, xii.
2M. E. Bradford, Introduction, Founding Fathers: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution, xvi.
3M. E. Bradford, "Religion and the Framers: The Biographical Evidence," Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution. These are quotes I had saved several years ago. I don't have my copy of the book with me at this time, so I'm unable to give you the exact page numbers. I'll add them as I am able.


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Silentnight Group, the beds company, got more than it bargained for when it hired interim executive Matthew Jenkins as its first-ever Group Marketing Director.
The Interim
45-year-old Jenkins had been an interim for four years when he joined Silentnight, performing marketing director and consultant roles in companies from Woolworths and Penhaligons, to William Sinclair Horticulture and Goldenfry Foods. His background prior to that was in manufacturing and retail businesses, including Kellogg's, Asda, Boots and Jewson, where he held a variety of marketing jobs.
Jenkins quickly dealt with the original brief, and moved on tackle the big strategic marketing and business challenge of bringing the disparate businesses closer together. Silentnight Group is now more customer focused, and the new group marketing function much better armed to face the challenges of a changing market. The company is also much further down the road towards 'joined-up thinking' than it expected to be at this point, and much of that is the result of Jenkins' input.
In 2003 a series of acquisitions by Silentnight Group, then a beds and furniture company, had resulted in a mixture of individual bed, cabinet and upholstery businesses, ranging from Silentnight beds to Parker Knoll chairs. The company was looking at how to meld them into one business with a portfolio of brands.
"We knew we needed to recruit a permanent group marketing director, but thought it would take some time to find the right person," recalls Director of People and Communications Michelle Scott. "So because we needed to do some things very quickly, we decided to bring in an interim to 'mind the shop' and do what we saw as the 'tactical' stuff. But once Matthew Jenkins got to know us, he brought his intellect to bear on all sorts of strategic issues too, and made a much broader contribution than the original brief called for. As a result we are now taking steps towards consolidation that we never expected to be able to make at this stage."
Jenkins' brief when he joined Silentnight was to conduct market analysis to assess the positioning of the company's seven bed and furniture businesses and identify opportunities for growth; and to start to think about what form a group marketing department should take and the services it should offer. On his first day he was also given an additional seven or eight marketing projects to deal with – "they had been sitting with various very busy executives and hadn't happened," he recalls.
Silentnight Group, the beds company, got more than it bargained for when it hired interim executive Matthew Jenkins as its first-ever Group Marketing Director
Jenkins set about providing some robust and reliable market data and analysis of the UK furniture market, identified where brands weren't playing to their full potential, and recast the brand hierarchy and positioning in order to make more explicit the role each brand could play in the group portfolio.
He also started to look at how the network of marketers in the seven businesses could perform more effectively. "I quickly realised they would work better as a team running a portfolio of brands. That would help eliminate the 'friendly fire' that characterised their relationships with each other, and raise the capability of marketing across the group to act like a market leader," he says.
As part of this process, he combined the existing Head Office marketing and design functions. "The two had never worked to common objectives before, so while the new product development looked great, much of it wasn't commercial and there were a number of failed product launches, particularly on the furniture side," says Jenkins.
Scott admits: "We used to do all sorts of one-off designs for specific customers that just didn't justify the resource we put in. Matthew evaluated that and introduced more robust return-on-investment processes for new product development. His favourite saying was 'Yes, but will it sell more beds?', and it's fair to say that he focused us on the importance of profitable growth, rather than growth at any price."
One of the challenges Jenkins was thrown was to improve the way the group handled trade shows. "Attendance by trade customers had been gradually falling, and the group didn't know what was working and what wasn't, so it didn't change anything. It had fallen into a rut," he recalls. He started to look at the number, frequency and timing of the shows the group ran, as well as what could be done to improve the 'wow' factor. This involved a major piece of research among customers.
Jenkins also organised the first-ever sales conference , which he judges "a highlight" of his assignment. He researched individuals' views on the company, their jobs and their motivation before, during and after the conference, "and feedback scores improved to an extent I'd never seen before," he says.
Initial feedback from the 110 sales people, key account managers and business development staff who attended the conference showed they were unclear about both their own roles in the company and the group's forward strategy. Group Chief Executive Nino Allenza spent a lot of time on the stage fielding tough questions, mediated by TV presenter Paul Ross. "And, true to form, Nino gave straight answers," says Jenkins.
Jenkins had believed the conference would help win buy-in to the new group philosophy of operating as one business with a portfolio of brands, and he wasn't disappointed. "The event had a huge impact on people's understanding of each other's business and on their willingness to work together, which was a major corporate goal," says Scott.
Less immediately measurable, but even more important for the senior team at head office, was the contribution Jenkins made to the group's strategic long-term thinking about corporate, as well as brand, strategy, says Scott. "We were reviewing everything, including how the business worked, organisational structure, brand architecture, internal and external communications, as well as developing specific customer projects and developments. In addition to getting stuck in at a grass roots level, Matthew raised our level of thinking by challenging us intellectually and giving us a different perspective."
It is testimony to the contribution Jenkins made, that, a few months into his assignment, he was promoted to the group executive, reporting directly to Allenza. The group also took its time over the appointment of a group marketing director, realising the brief would change as a result of Jenkins' input.
"Matthew's main contribution was to bring a level of strategic thinking, insight, discipline and analysis to group marketing," says Allenza. "He was also very challenging of our ambition and thinking in terms of the optimum structure we should discuss and plan for the group. He performed the group marketing director role with authority, threw himself into the business with as much commitment as anyone else on the team and raised our game as a board."
Jenkins admits he was helped in his task by Allenza's willingness to be challenged, and by his elevation to the executive committee.
"I have worked in companies where the managing director explicitly told me he didn't want to be challenged," he says. But there was resistance to change by some elements within the group's businesses. "I was a change agent, and some people responded well to that, while others would have preferred to stick to the status quo."
He met resistance with a readiness to listen and to explain the thinking behind the proposed changes.
Jenkins' ten-month assignment with Silentnight ended last year, and the group now has a permanent marketing director, Julie Leivers, who came from frozen food manufacturer McCain. Leivers inherited a blueprint for a properly-structured group marketing function, and a much deeper understanding of Silentnight's market. Jenkins' legacy to Silentnight is a solid platform for building the group marketing strategy and a significant contribution to the group's business strategy.
"In the past, group thinking has been constrained by our production capability, and we have reacted to what our retail customers needed rather than being consumer-driven," says Scott. "We are now much more consumer-focused and we apply far more rigour to justifying, evaluating and measuring the impact of our marketing activity."
What's more, she adds: "We liked having Matthew on our team. A senior executive team has to be comfortable arguing and debating and challenging, but that needs to be leavened with humour. Matthew made us laugh."


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If Facebook is your storefront to the world, how are you merchandizing?
It's difficult to ignore the fact that there are 500 million users on Facebook. They all may not be relevant to you, your company, events, social media goals or objectives, but the sheer size of this community makes a viable case for having an effective presence there. If we use a mall analogy, as a […]
Social networking: Is it working for you?
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Recently I was having a face to face interview (OMG-F2F-Y?) with a person referred to me by one of my social network contacts: A late-20s producer with impressive experience, a great network and the desire to expand her freelance business. Coffee, fresh air and the chance to experience a person's personality and ability to communicate one-on-one was very refreshing.
You see, it's my "baby boomer" traits that drive my need to see and interact in person…
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The term "blog" is short for "Web log," a Web site that contains commentary on various subjects. Blogging is an interactive way for planners to keep in touch with coworkers, clients and event attendees. However, most people tend to give up on blogs because the format is unfamiliar and a lack of traffic. Here are […]
OK, so I'm a typical Gen Xer: I've got MySpace, Facebook, Quechup, LinkedIn and SecondLife profiles; I subscribe to blogs and list serves and have been known to podcast. But, it never fails to amaze me how many of my peers think what they broadcast on the Internet is private. Excuse me, but if you've got a LiveJournal or profile page set to public, people are going to read about how you chose to play golf instead of go to work.


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Petroglyph National Monument announces Stage 2 fire restrictions effective immediately. All visitors are required to reduce the potential for human caused wildfires by following these guidelines:
♦Smoking is prohibited on all monument trails.
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This week's 52 Ancestors challenge theme was so easy for me: favorite photo. By far, my favorite photo has to be this one of my grandmother, Emma Sarah Cone. That's her, third from the left. How I received it is one of my favorite genealogy stories as well.
My dad and my grandfather were always into photography. My dad had boxes and stacks of old photographs everywhere. Mainly of objects, landscapes, horses or his favorite subject: me. But, when I asked if he had any old photos of his parents, or perhaps his grandparents, he did not have any. My aunt had some awesome photos that my grandfather had taken of my dad and his siblings and their childhood. But there were none of their grandparents.
Three years ago, I had been reading a collection of stories of genealogists swearing that their ancestors were reaching out beyond the grave to help them with their research. I distinctly remember wishing that my grandmother would help me out in at least finding some more old photos.
Well, Grandmom must have heard me. It was only 3 or 4 days later, I received an email from a woman with the last name of "Cone." She said she had been looking at Findagrave.com at the memorial page for my great grandfather, Patrick Cone. She had noticed that I had added "flowers" on the page, indicating that I was his great-granddaughter. She was curious, because her husband's father, Albert A. Cone, was also buried in that plot, and she was not familiar with my name. Her husband, it turns out, is my dad's first cousin. They had not been in contact for decades! It was exciting, because even though my dad had Alzheimer's, he remembered his cousin very well.
Mrs. Cone and I exchanged several emails over the next few days. Then she said that she and her husband dug out their mother's old photo albums, THAT THEY STILL HAD! They did not have a scanner, but they started taking photos with their phone and sent me so many treasures! They had my grandparents' wedding photo! They sent me photos of my great-Grandmother, Margaret Carney. They sent me images old newspaper clippings of my great grandmother's relatives in Scranton and letters that she received from her sister, Mary Ann.
But this is the photo I instantly fell in love with. First of all, I was surprised that she had such dark hair! I had always remembered her having gray hair. She looked so young and so vibrant in this photo, with not a care in the world. This photo was one of many that looked like they were all taken at what may have been Atlantic City, NJ. My new found cousins did not know who the other people were in the photos. And the hottie that has his arm around my grandmother in the other photos was definitely not my grandfather. Wow! Grandmom DATED?! Who knew! It looked like such a fun day for my grandmother.
I love these photos! I still feel that this was a big gift from my grandmother, even though she had been gone for over 30 years.
So Grandmom, if you're still listening… I really would like to find out where in Ireland your father was born. 😉


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Children's always favorite character, Anapanman.
His theme park opened in 2010 next to Nagashima Spaland which is Nagaoya's famous entertainment park with an amusement park, pools, outlet shopping mall and of course with spa.
If we say, the spaland is for grown ups, this Anapanman park is definitely for your precious kids.
Also the concept of this dream land is "Love and Brave" +"Kindness and Friendship" which surely will make you children full of smile.


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Corporate responsibility
Messukeskus was the first Finnish exhibition and conference centre to receive ISO 14001 environmental management certification for its environmental management system in 2009. The meeting rooms of Messukeskus are part of the Sustainable Scandinavian Meetings Region of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA). Read more on our environmental policy.
Key objectives of our environmental efforts include reducing the waste load, optimising energy consumption and promotion of the use of public transport. We also expect all of our partners to act responsibly and commit to our environmental management system.
Messukeskus recycles all its waste. Every hall features an Ecocentre, and customers are instructed in efficient waste management. For meeting catering, Messukeskus and its restaurant partner Fazer Food Services favour organic and locally sourced food. The amount of biowaste generated at the restaurants is measured, and various campaigns draw attention to reducing food waste.
An important aspect of environmental work is the optimisation of energy consumption by using the latest building service technology. Messukeskus seeks to attain significant additional savings in its energy consumption in the coming years. We expect to reach energy savings of 33,000 MWh, which is equivalent to heating 1,300 detached houses with electricity for one year. We aim to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 7,300 tonnes. This is comparable to driving around the world 1,440 times by car.
In the 2016 office renovation, we updated our office waste recycling system, recycled all the old furniture, and replaced lighting with an energy-saving solution.
Messukeskus recommends the use of public transport for its customers in cooperation with the Helsinki area public transport provider. We also increased the number of bicycle parking facilities in 2016, and made preparations for installing electric car charging stations in the car park.
Exhibitions, meetings, congresses and other events contribute to employment in hotels, public transportation, restaurants and other actors in the Helsinki metropolitan area. The Messukeskus premises alone host a network of dozens of partner enterprises in addition to our own employees.
In spring 2016, Messukeskus commissioned a survey on the economic impact of the Gastro Helsinki fair, and in the autumn, the economic impact of FinnBuild was surveyed. According to the results, Gastro Helsinki generated EUR 4.7 million and FinnBuild generated EUR 7.6 million for the Helsinki metropolitan area. Based on these surveys, the annual economic impact of Messukeskus on the Helsinki area is estimated to exceed EUR 250 million.
Messukeskus supports its employees' competence development through coaching and training. Employee well-being is supported by occupational health care, good work ergonomics, a lunch benefit and ePass, as well as by subsidising the activities of the employees' social club. We also implement an early intervention model.
The Finnish Fair Foundation supports Finnish know-how
Every year, the Finnish Fair Foundation, one of the owners of Messukeskus, awards, prizes, scholarships and grants totalling EUR 400,000 to support Finnish know-how. The best-known prizes are the Kaj Franck Design Prize, the Habitare Design Award, the For Love of the Book Award and the Young Designer of the Year Award.


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NGO Connect: Maximizing Its Potential
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Targeting EWS/FLI1-driven pathways to improve therapeutic gains in Ewing's Sarcom
Principal Investigator: Vicente Notario
Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tumors of the Ewing's sarcoma family (ESFT) are solid, highly malignant neoplasms of the bone and soft tissues that most often affect children and adolescents, being the second most common bone malignancies among young adults. Current treatment includes a combined modality with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. However, there are two important problems to consider: a) although ESFT are generally responsive to treatment, the overall cure rate is low because these tumors are very aggressive and patients frequently present with metastatic disease;and b) exposure of young patients to high doses of chemotherapy and/or radiation is frequently associated with a variety of adverse health effects that in some cases do not develop until many years after treatment completion. Consequently, treatment strategies are needed to maximize curability while simultaneously minimizing adverse late effects for the patients. In preliminary studies, we directly targeted EWS/FLI-1, the transcription factor known to be responsible for the malignant properties of most ESFT, using molecular tools designed to block its activity, either alone or in combination with chemotherapeutic drugs and/or radiation. Although experiments in vitro and in mouse xenografts demonstrated that these tools efficiently delayed tumor growth, it became clear that simultaneous targeting of additional molecules that act downstream of EWS/FLI-1 would be necessary to maximize antitumor activity and to allow the use of lower therapeutic doses, thus minimizing negative late effects as much as possible. In this context, the main objective of this proposal is to exploit a novel EWS/FLI-1-driven pathway recently established in our laboratory (EWS/FLI-1-[Caveolin->1-Snail-E-cadherin]) to sensitize ESFT cells to therapy, using ionizing radiation (IR) as a model anti-neoplastic agent that does not suffer from the specificity- related problems that frequently complicate studies with chemotherapeutic drugs. Since the extent of IR related late effects in normal tissues surrounding the tumor are directly related to the IR dose, in pediatric cancers it is important to employ the lowest dose possible to cure the tumors. Using EWS cells as the ESFT prototype, our central hypothesis is that (a) targeting caveolin-1 (CAV1) itself and/or its interactions with signaling or regulatory proteins relevant for ESFT molecular pathobiology (such as phospholipase D2 and protein kinase C1) will render EWS cells more sensitive to IR, and (b) that this response may be further improved by simultaneously targeting components of other pathways also known to radiosensitize EWS cells, such as poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP). Because we already identified CAV1 as a direct transcriptional target of EWS/FLI-1 and a key determinant of the tumorigenicity and chemotherapeutic response of EWS cells, targeting CAV1 signaling may have a dual effect: enhancing killing of EWS cells by low-dose IR and down- regulating their neoplastic properties.
Funding Period: 2008-07-01 - 2014-05-31
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The Ankh represents living and everlasting life, not only in the material world but in the spiritual afterlife, and is the oldest and most sacred Egyptian amulet.
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i gave pepper to my uncle while i'm gone.
he is squirrel-sitting.
i miss peps.
i'm in cali for 2 weeks to work on some new tunes.
my flight from Chicago to here yesterday was over 4 hours.
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Before the USA's massive World Cup qualifier against Panama, we answer your questions in an all-things USMNT mailbag.
ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. men's national team plays its biggest World Cup qualifier in at least 16 years here on Friday night against Panama (7:35 p.m., ESPN2, Univision), with the specter looming of the U.S. missing its first World Cup since 1986. Chances are you have an upset stomach waiting for this game to start, so I'll tide you over until kickoff with a Mailbag. Before I dive in, a couple of notes from my end:
• The maxim in sports journalism/commentary is that if you're going to criticize the people you cover, you had better have the guts to show your face around them soon thereafter. All of which is to say that you have to admire the cojones of my Fox Sports TV colleague Alexi Lalas this week. After his rant calling out the USMNT players went viral, Lalas is staying at the same hotel as the U.S. team this week. The players, unsurprisingly, aren't happy with him—you can read what Tim Howard had to say here—and I'd pay good money for the video of Lalas and U.S. players sharing a hotel elevator. Hoping nobody ordered a Code Red.
• What if the U.S. misses the World Cup? I wrote about that doomsday scenario here.
O.K., let's open the 'Bag:
What are all of the ramifications (from roster to upper management) if the worst happens and USMNT fails to qualify?
- @Wes_Smith
I got into a lot of the ramifications in my column linked above. But to focus on the USMNT players and management, the impact of missing the World Cup would be significant. From a player perspective, the next four-year World Cup cycle could see the likely departures of a few veterans, including Tim Howard, Clint Dempsey and DaMarcus Beasley. A host of young players would also be introduced into bigger roles sooner than perhaps expected, including Weston McKennie, Josh Sargent, Matt Miazga and several others.
From a management perspective, you can certainly expect a new USMNT coach for the next cycle. Among American candidates, my sense is Tab Ramos and Peter Vermes are the leaders right now, while foreign possibilities might include Juan Carlos Osorio and Roberto Martínez. (I'm not reporting any contacts here; that's just me talking.) Also, there's an election for the president of U.S. Soccer in February. Current president Sunil Gulati has not confirmed if he's running again, but he's expected to do so. For a change, he's likely to have competition from a group that may include Eric Wynalda, Steve Gans and Paul Lapointe. If the U.S. fails to qualify for Russia, Gulati would certainly be seen as more vulnerable.
On some level isn't this all funny?
- @DavidSRudin
It certainly is if you're a fan of a USMNT rival, and even U.S. fans might look back and laugh at this someday if the Americans go on to qualify for Russia. (Remember that time…?) But if the U.S. doesn't qualify? This period would be viewed as a dark, dark time.
What are the chances Bruce Arena goes with the 3-5-2 from the start vs. Panama? Should he?
- @zolz_berg
I think there's a good chance of that—perhaps as a 3-2-3-2, with Michael Bradley and Kellyn Acosta holding and Christian Pulisic playing as a No. 10—and I like the idea for a number of reasons: It gives the U.S. a numerical advantage in the midfield, which was missing in that horrible home loss to Costa Rica last month; it prevents Pulisic from having to think much about defending; it allows for two strikers, which has always been a better scenario for Jozy Altidore; and using three center backs takes advantage of the U.S.'s decent depth at that position. Yes, there would be a concern about lack of speed on the back line—did you see the blazing coast-to-coast goal that Panama's Gaby Torres scored last month?—but it should help to have the speedy DeAndre Yedlin back on the field to provide some cover from a wide spot.
Here's the U.S. lineup I'd like to see:
---------------------Tim Howard---------------------
Omar Gonzalez; Geoff Cameron; Matt Besler
-----------Michael Bradley; Kellyn Acosta-----------
DeAndre Yedlin; Christian Pulisic; Darlington Nagbe
------------Jozy Altidore; Bobby Wood------------
Does the USMNT really need Clint Dempsey anymore? I mean, a legend for sure, but age has caught up with him.
- @FenderDylan
I think Dempsey can still be useful to the U.S., especially since he has shown a willingness to come off the bench and be a dangerous threat to score. It would be one thing if Dempsey had a diva attitude and sulked about not starting, but that's not the case, and he clearly wants to play in one last World Cup. In fact, if the U.S. needs a goal against Panama, Arena would be wise to bring on Dempsey sooner than he did in the loss to Costa Rica.
Are we about to get karmic retribution for what we did to Panama the last cycle?
- @OGoodInPractice
Who knows? Panama suffered one of the toughest gut-punches you'll ever see when its World Cup dreams were shattered in stoppage time at home by Graham (San) Zusi in 2013. Couple things to think about: While the U.S. can't qualify for Russia under any circumstances on Matchday 9, Panama can actually qualify this weekend with a win against the U.S. and a Honduras tie or loss against Costa Rica on Saturday (in a game delayed one day by Hurricane Nate). And the U.S. and Panama have tied each other the last four times they have met—with three of those games taking place on U.S. soil. Another tie on Friday would be bad for the USMNT.
Even if USA qualifies, should we lower our expectations for Russia next year since this team looks mediocre at the moment?
- @Jim_Nguyen
Nope. A lot of folks want to act like how you perform in qualifying impacts how you would perform at a World Cup, and that connection simply isn't there. The U.S. struggled in qualifying for World Cup 2002 and then had its best modern World Cup run ever in South Korea. Four years later it was the opposite: A dominant qualifying campaign followed by a washout in Germany. Look back to Mexico at World Cup 2014: Barely qualified, then got to the round of 16 in Brazil.
If you were Arena, name one forward, midfielder, defender and goalkeeper that you would have called up instead of Arena's squad. Who would be left off?
- @BlueCityRadio
Forward: Would have called up Dom Dwyer instead of Chris Wondolowski.
Midfielder: Would have called up Weston McKennie instead of Dax McCarty.
Defender: Would have called up Matt Miazga instead of Michael Orozco (and I know they're not a total like-for-like).
Goalkeeper: Would have called up Ethan Horvath instead of Nick Rimando.
I like Wondo, McCarty, Orozco and Rimando as players, but none of them are expected to start, and having the younger guys around would be a good thing in my mind.
Why is Bruce Arena held to a different standard than Jurgen Klinsmann? It seems to me that Bruce has more room for making mistakes? Do you agree? And if so, could it be because Jurgen is a World Cup winner and former world-class player? Could it be because he's German and Bruce is U.S.-born?
- @ElPibeVV
I don't agree. Arena has had one very bad result—the home loss to Costa Rica—and he took some genuine heat for it, as he should have. If the U.S. doesn't qualify for the World Cup, this phase of Arena's career will not be remembered fondly at all. Klinsmann had five years in charge. People had an open mind when he came in, but by the time he was done it was obvious that he needed to go.
Saw Jozy rocking Pumas on the USMNT Instagram. New shoe deal?
- @srcuello
Yes. Altidore recently signed a deal with Puma.
Why has the USMNT struggled through the Hex?
- @uiucjesus
The outlier results have been the two home losses to Mexico and Costa Rica (the two best teams in the region right now). Both games had fine margins. The Costa Rica loss was marked by a couple huge U.S. mistakes. The Mexico loss was marked by poor U.S. preparation for a new formation and a schoolboy-mistake lack of marking on Rafa Márquez's game-winner. If you include the way some U.S. players quit on the field in the 4-0 loss at Costa Rica, the general issue was a loss of identity—the U.S. wasn't nearly as hard to play against as it used to be.
If we qualify, do you feel we'll get Arena 2002 where he risked youth (i.e., playing Landon Donovan/DaMarcus Beasley)? Or do we get Arena 2006 and an old veteran roster?
- @kjchanusmnt
I think it would be closer to 2002: If the U.S. makes it to Russia, in fact, I expect McKennie to be on the roster.
Assuming the best, at what point do you think Trump will realize the World Cup is in Russia, and what do you think he'll say about it?
- @TomTrenta
Honestly, I doubt he would even say anything. Though I do find it interesting that his young son, Barron, appears to be a big Arsenal fan and D.C. United academy player who enjoys the sport.
Which qualifying campaign has been worse: USA for Russia or Mexico for Brazil?
- @PowderhornPops
Can't answer that yet. Mexico won two of 10 Hex games and still managed to qualify through the playoff. USA has won two of eight Hex games and could end up winning four of 10 and qualifying automatically without the playoff. But if U.S. doesn't qualify for the World Cup, obviously that's a worse result than Mexico's four years ago.
Where do you think Fabian Johnson stands with the USMNT? Do you think he'll be in Russia in 2018 pending our qualification?
- @RachaelMcKriger
For a guy who was one of the U.S.'s best players at Brazil 2014, Johnson's national team situation has gone through a rough stretch, and he wasn't called up for these games. Arena said on Thursday that he expected Johnson to be involved in future camps and still thinks he's a very good player. Part of that is due to Johnson having dealt with some injuries this season at club level, and part is due to his lackluster performance for the U.S. against Costa Rica last month. (He didn't even play at Honduras.) But Arena knows that Johnson has too much talent to be left out in the cold.
Lastly, with the topic of U.S. athlete protests against racism during the national anthem still being extremely relevant, I wanted to post a screengrab I took from the U.S. Soccer Instagram feed on the day of the Gold Cup final this summer. The photo shows Michael Bradley and Tim Howard posing in front of the statue commemorating the famous black power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Summer Olympics. The official U.S. Soccer hashtag on the photo was #Respect.
Personally, I totally agree with all of that. But it got me to thinking about a lot of things, including how perspectives change over time and how anthem protests are being viewed today. If a U.S. player on Friday night did the same salute as Smith and Carlos did in 1968—for which those athletes were sent home from the Olympics—he would risk being punished per the new rule instituted by U.S. Soccer, which reads: "All persons representing a federation national team shall stand respectfully during the playing of national anthems at any event in which the federation is represented."
Of course, it would remain open to interpretation what "stand respectfully" means, but it would certainly be possible that U.S. Soccer would punish a player who did the exact same thing that Smith and Carlos did. Yet here were the U.S. captain and star goalkeeper showing their admiration for Smith and Carlos, and here was the official U.S. Instagram feed being crystal clear about its "#Respect" for those men as well.


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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Being Female Ain't So Bad
The last four days have been surreal and we have not even begun to really understand what happened. And, yet, there is one thing I am completely grateful for: being a woman.
As four women stood around him as he prepared to leave us (and, honestly, the Mister was there so we can make him an honorary woman), I realized something amazing: women are there to bring life in and we are there to hold hands as it leaves. What a gift. No man can understand the fullness of this wonder.
Think of it.
We alone know the life coming from us. It is the one true time we are the vehicle for God's greatest miracle. Women alone can know the intimacy of that life: we feel it; we talk to it; we love it long before it has a face.
And, on the other end of the chain, women alone are the ones who stand in service and preparation for life to leave. We are the nurses, caretakers, preparers (until modern times when the undertaker undertook our responsibility), and planners. We make sure the life is remembered fully and, we carry in our hearts the memories of watching that life leave.
As our dear one left yesterday, he opened his eyes and looked one last time at the first face he ever saw. Somehow, it was fitting and proper. It was sacred.
This is my favorite song. You will recognize the voices as they are the girls from the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou." Enjoy.
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What a beautiful post Matty, and I am so sorry for your loss. Strength to you and yours during this difficult time.ReplyDelete
My condolences to you and the Mister, Matty. I attended to my father, along with my mother and two of my sisters, his final weeks of his life. It was the hardest but most rewarding thing I ever did.ReplyDelete
I am so sorry for your loss... Very true this post....ReplyDelete
This is such a beautiful post. I am sorry for your family's loss.ReplyDelete
Matty, I'm so sorry for your loss and please give your husband our condolences as well. The video and song you chose was such a beautiful tribute. I sat with both my mother and father when they died and I know exactly what you mean. I think it is the most beautiful and loving thing we can do for another, it takes courage but it is something you never regret. Once you have been through it, you never fear death in quite the same way again. I hope your day is restful and filled with comfort many happy memories. DelisaReplyDelete
Dear Matty I am sorry for you and your husband's lost. What a gift you were able to give your BIL. We as women are gifts with bring in life ad therefore carry something in our hearts, I agree men cannot fully understand. Love ClariceReplyDelete
I'm so sorry to hear of your loss.ReplyDelete
Yes, God certainly gave us a special role as women.
We'll be keeping you and yours in our thoughts and prayers.
I've been sick but I wanted to tell you how sorry I am for your loss. It's hard enough at any time but especially when the illness is sudden like that.ReplyDelete
I was holding my mother's hand when she passed away and it was such an honor.
I love that song, have for years. It's just beautiful.
So very sorry to hear of your loss and will be praying for your family.ReplyDelete
Beautiful song also.
Hi Matty, I was thinking about you today and wanted to tell you how much I appreciate the kind comments you leave on my blog. You asked what I was working on and if I started the socks yet, not yet, but soon! I appreciate the encouragement, I have all my sock supplies ready to go, but opted to work on a shawl instead. It is more like a wrap, made with soft, bulky yarn on big size 13 needles. The neat thing about the yarn is that it has silver sparkles and threads of clear tinsel running through it. I'm probably going to have to wait till next winter to wear it. I am using another lace pattern from my new Rita Weiss book, it is called "Print of the Wave" and is a little easier than the tulip design. I am hoping to have enough yarn left over to crochet an edging around the wrap and perhaps make a matching hat. How is the tulip lace coming along? I hope you have a nice afternoon! Delisa :)ReplyDelete


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This past weekend was the tenth year of DesignMarch! The design festival, created by the Iceland Design Centre and "born out of a recession" has grown and blossomed over the
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This past Thursday was the official start of DesignMarch, with one of its most popular official events – DesignTalks – held in Reykjavík's magnificent Harpa concert hall and conference center.
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by Ray Morton
Nicholas Meyer is one of Hollywood's great, if-not-unsung-then-certainly-not-sung-nearly-enough talents. A self-described "storyteller," Meyer has written novels, non-fiction books, stage plays, radio plays, liner notes, and reviews. He has also directed a number of excellent films, but is perhaps best known for being an expert screenwriter that crafts smart, entertaining, classically-constructed scripts filled with engaging characters and clever, literate dialogue. And now, with the publication of The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood (Viking Press / $25.95/ ISBN 9780670021307), Meyer has added memoirist to his considerable list of accomplishments.
The book traces Meyer's journey from his Manhattan childhood to the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa to a job in the publicity department of Paramount Pictures that had him writing press kits by day while penning spec scripts at night. A gig as a unit publicist on Love Story led to Meyer's first script sale (to Howard Minsky, Love Story's producer) and his first publishing deal (a "making of" book aptly called The Love Story Story). The money earned from those transactions financed a move to Los Angeles, where Meyer began writing television movies and then, during the long WGA strike of 1972, his first novel – the Sherlock Holmes-meets-Sigmund Freud adventure The Seven-Percent Solution, which became a smash-hit best-seller and which served as his springboard into the screenwriting big leagues when he refused to sell the screen rights unless he was also permitted to pen the script for its 1976 film adaptation, an assignment that eventually netted him an Academy Award nomination. After writing and directing (his debut) the classic H.G. Welles-meets-Jack the Ripper time-traveling adventure fantasy classic Time After Time (1979), Meyer was drafted to write (sans credit) and direct Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), an assignment that led to a decade-long association with the crew of the Starship Enterprise, during which he also co-wrote 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and co-wrote and directed 1991's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. During and after his involvement with Trek, Meyer continued to direct films (The Day After, Volunteers, The Deceivers, Company Business) and write screenplays (Sommersby, The Human Stain, Elegy), while earning a solid reputation in Hollywood as an ace script doctor due to his (mostly uncredited) rewrites on films such as Fatal Attraction, The Prince of Egypt, The Count of Monte Cristo, Tomorrow Never Dies and many, many others.
This is a terrific book. Written in a warm, witty style, it is chock-full of intriguing and sometimes quite moving tales about Nick's life; his experiences in the Hollywood trenches; his insightful observations about the art, craft, and business of making movies; and a few difficult personal experiences that serve to put the whole thing in proper perspective. As evidenced by its title, a significant portion of the book is devoted to Meyer's time in Starfleet, which was probably something of a commercial decision, but also an entirely appropriate one given his (quite deserved) reputation as "the man who saved Star Trek." Finally, the book is filled with a real generosity of spirit that reminds us that, while the movie business is filled with movers, shakers, sharks, and stars, it is also filled with a lot of really nice people, of which Nick Meyer seems to be one. If you're interested in screenwriting, movies, Sherlock Holmes, or Star Trek, this book is pretty much indispensable.
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Since each party released their LGBT manifestos we've seen quite a lot of overlap between their pledges. Recently, the main parties, excluding UKIP, released their plans to further equality for LGBT people. We've seen a lot of overlap between parties, with most of them making the same four pledges in slightly different flavours.
We will pardon the remaining historic convictions for same-sex relationships – Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, The Green Party.
We will review hate crime legislation – Conservatives, Labour, Plaid Cymru, The Green Party
We will review the 12 month ban on gay blood donors – Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, The Green Party
Mandatory LGBT-inclusive sex education in schools – Liberal Democrats, The Green Party
Mandatory anti-homophobia policies in schools – Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, The Green Party
Revitalise HIV treatment and Gender Services in the NHS – The Green Party
Treat LGBT asylum seekers better – Labour, The Green Party
Promote LGBT rights abroad – Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SNP, The Green Party
Target homophobia in Commonwealth nations – The Green Party
Improve Gender Services – Labour, Plaid Cymru
Increase LGBT representation in public offices – Labour
End homophobic football chants – Liberal Democrats
Final Count: Conservatives (2), Labour (6), Lib Dems (6), Plaid (5), SNP (1), Greens (9)
As you can see, Labour, Lib Dems, Plaid and Green agree on many of the same things. Conservatives are doing the bare minimum and SNP seem to have bigger things on their mind. Let's summarise.
Conservatives: Might not implement any positive changes.
Labour: Their LGBT goals won't change your mind about them.
Liberal Democrats: Vote yellow if you're particularly tired of homophobia in footy.
Plaid Cymru: They have specific goals and have already implemented some of them.
The Green Party: Have the most plans and good intentions.
SNP: LGBT people aren't their priority.
UKIP: Do I really have to say anything here?
All in all, the parties' LGBT policies might not change your mind about them however by simply looking at each party's goals you can get a good feel for what they stand for.
Alexander Winter is a starry-eyed and unemployed post-grad, based in Wales and trying to make it as a writer. Twitter: AJWinter_1