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Review by J-Sin
http://www.smother.net
If Lacuna Coil wrote epic metal ballads they might just sound like Unshine. Led by the female she-devil known as Susanna, Unshine marks a deviant left turn into the role of folklore-driven epic metal. Having formed in Finland in 2000, this still relatively young band boasts a very mature sound and is sure to be one of epic metal's finest quintets. Raise 'em up.
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Review by Britton Dicks
http://www.metalcoven.com
Female fronted Metal bands are not usually my cup of tea. Most of these bands focus on a woman's appearance and could care less if she can sing or not. This is something that pisses me off and makes me sad for the industry at the same time. But when a female fronted band is formed with the music in mind first and foremost, it is more respectable in my mind. A good female vocalist can also help further along the atmosphere of a band's music. Take Hagalaz' Runedance for example. I couldn't imagine any male vocalist singing those songs, nor could I imagine a female singing them who can't carry a tune. You can have the most mouth watering and hot female vocalist on the planet, but if she can't sing she's useless to me. At least when it comes to her vocals… Anyway, Finland's Unshine luckily found themselves a female vocalist that can actually sing, and their debut full length album "Earth Magick" is a shining example of how a female vocalist can add great atmosphere to a band who is trying to create a certain mood for the listener.
"Earth Magick" isn't totally Goth Metal, but it is (for lack of a better term) for the most part. It also has some elements of Power and Atmospheric Traditional Metal as well. The band actually calls themselves "Mystic Druid Metal", which probably better describes them than I can, but I'll try. Their sound can be best described as a slower paced and more Gothic Nightwish, sans the Operatic vocals. The music here is slow, brooding and has an almost depressive aura surrounding it. It never gets very fast paced, but this album is not about speed or aggression, it is all about that certain atmosphere. The album (as you can tell from the album title) is very nature oriented, and the music sounds like a Metal theme soundtrack you would here in a nature movie. Lazily played yet powerfully sorrowful guitars, drums that are there just as a backbone and that never stand out, and slow and prodding bass lines are what you can expect on this album. There are also a lot of keyboards on this on "Earth Magick". Those "dreamy" styled keyboards that I usually hate. But like I said, this is all about atmosphere and the keyboards are a perfect compliment to the rest of the music on the album.
The vocalist, Susanna Vesilahti, is one of the best new female vocalists I've heard in a while to put it bluntly. She has a style all of her own where when she's singing she places emphasis on certain syllables which seem like they'd be out of time or off beat, but aren't. It may sound odd, but she really reminds me of a more traditional and melodic Cyndi Lauper, especially when she's singing the higher notes. She also sounds like she's some long lost forgotten forest spirit. It's stunning to hear! Unfortunately the lyrics were not included with this C.D., but the promo sheet says the lyrics are about Nature religions and historical events. I tried looking for the lyrics online, but couldn't find them. I hope to soon because I love nature oriented lyrics!
The sound of the album is amazing. Slower music doesn't particularly need as good of a production to sound good as faster music does, but they spared no expense with the production for this album. Having all those keyboards too far in the front could have ruined it, but thankfully they are at just the right levels. Also, Susanna's vocals are always audible when they sway back and forth from loud to soft over the music.
The artwork for "Earth Magick" is a great woodland Fantasy scene done in deep, dark and rich colors. It kind of looks like an Elf playing some sort of acoustic guitar in the forest, maybe? Like I said earlier, the booklet does not contain the lyrics, which was a mistake in my opinion. The inside of the two page booklet does have a few photos of the band, but that's about it.
Fans of Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, The Gathering and Midnattsol will love "Earth Magick". It certainly is a lot better than Nightwish's last album, so if you were let down with that album like I was, buying this will make you feel redeemed. And if you're one that usually shies away from female fronted bands, you have my guarantee that this album is far and above better than most other similar albums out there. I can't wait to hear their next album. Bands like this usually like to experiment a lot, and that could bode well for Unshine. Finland adds yet another band to their list of great Metal acts.
Review by Stewart Mason
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:anp1z88a5yv4
Finnish goth metal crew Unshine have one key element in their favor: singer Susanna Vesilahti sounds like Tori Amos should have (but didn't) during her own infamous metal flirtations back in the late '80s, and her attractive voice stays at the center of all of these songs. Unshine's primary flaw is that they seem to be of two minds as to their musical direction, with part of the album pointed toward standard-issue goth metal in the tradition of Lacuna Coil and Nightwish and another, potentially more interesting side that puts those influences in an unapologetically poppy direction. The first single, "Rowena's Song," is genuinely catchy, sounding like Evanescence without the angst, or perhaps a more aggressive version of mid-'90s alterna-drone-poppers the Cranberries. Elsewhere, "Not for Me" and "Snow White" explore the intersection between '70s prog and the Lilith Fair sound. As the record goes on, however, the songs move into more traditional goth metal, and songs like "For the Huntress and the Moon" are considerably less individual, and less appealing as well. Unshine could go either way at this point, but the best material on Earth Magick hints at something potentially very interesting here.


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From the NYT:
The speech was largely a scholarly address criticizing the West for submitting itself too much to reason, for walling belief in God out of science and philosophy. But he began by recounting a conversation on the truths of Christianity and Islam that took place between a 14th-century Byzantine Christian emperor, Manuel II Paleologus, and a Persian scholar.
"He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached,' '' the pope said.
He also briefly discussed the Islamic concept of jihad, which he defined as "holy war," and said violence in the name of religion was contrary to God's nature and to reason. (Ed. emphasis added.)
At the same time, without mentioning Islam specifically, he suggested reason as the basis for "that genuine dialogue of cultures and religions so urgently needed today."
In the speech, he did not say whether he agreed with the quotations he cited about violence and Islam — but on Sunday he distanced himself strongly from them.
From The Age: (H/T to Michelle)
A HARDLINE cleric linked to Somalia's powerful Islamist movement has called for Muslims to "hunt down" and kill Pope Benedict XVI for his controversial comments about Islam.
Sheikh Abubukar Hassan Malin urged Muslims to find the pontiff and punish him for insulting the Prophet Mohammed and Allah in a speech that he said was as offensive as author Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.
"We urge you Muslims wherever you are to hunt down the Pope for his barbaric statements as you have pursued Salman Rushdie, the enemy of Allah who offended our religion," he said in Friday evening prayers.
"Whoever offends our Prophet Mohammed should be killed on the spot by the nearest Muslim," Malin, a prominent cleric in the Somali capital, told worshippers at a mosque in southern Mogadishu.
"We call on all Islamic Communities across the world to take revenge on the baseless critic called the pope," he said.
Insensitive selection of a quote by the Pope, maybe. Rational response by a cleric, decidedly not. Imagine Christians in this country gunning down those who take the Lord's name in vain. Militant Islam needs to graduate from the dark ages or be extinguished. There is no place in the modern world for such barbaric thoughts and actions.
Point: Violence does not belong in religion. Counter-point: Kill the Pope.
**UPDATE 09/18/06 14:45**
Judge for yourself: full translation of the Pope's speech from German.
Or the abridged version with Lex's take.
Either way you get the impression that the Pope's intent was missed entirely and convoluted for use as the incendiary device of the month. What will it be next month? Ever get the feeling that this is all a smoke screen, a diversion to keep us otherwise occupied so we forget about issues of greater importance? Like this one for example: The UN Security Council's 31 August deadline for Iran to cease uranium enrichment.
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Yu-Chen Wang
Honorary Mention Collide International 2018
New Art Commission 2018
The work of Yu-Chen Wang asks fundamental questions about human identity at a key point in history, where eco-systems and techno-systems have become inextricably intertwined. At the same time, her Taiwanese origins, combined with a London-based career, have created a vision that is personal and autobiographical. Yu-Chen's central practice is drawing, allowing her to explore and meditate on mechanical and biological forms, and the ways in which their bodily borderlines blur and mutate. From these extemporisations, she then finds collaborative routes that take her work into the realms of fictional text, provoking the subsequent production of sculptural installation, performance, music, and film, in various combinations.
Yu-Chen is a participating artist in Broken Symmetries, an international exhibition celebrating the 3-year partnership of Arts at CERN and FACT. It is also the first touring show created in collaboration of ScANNER - Science and Art Network for New Exhibition and Research comprising Arts at CERN Geneva, FACT Liverpool, CCCB Barcelona, le lieu unique Nantes, and iMAL Brussels. She has been supported with a New Commission to develop her project We aren't able to prove that just yet, but we know it's out there, an attempt to reconfigure the explorations of fundamental research.
Yu-Chen's work develops a poetic narrative of the histories of scientific research: pulling images and references from both personal and institutional archives related to scientists she interviews. We aren't able to prove that just yet... establishes parallel lines between individual stories and historical documents available at the institutions where she has been researching, that includes CERN. This work focuses on the abstract photographic images produced by the Bubble Chamber experiments in the 1960's. She was fascinated not only about what they detected –the paths of short-lived electrically charged particles– but also the whole process which surrounded their documentation and interpretation.
The artist would like to thank the following people for their contribution to the work 'We aren't able to prove theat just yet but we know its out there': Helen Arney (voiceover), Capitol K (sound design), Marion Neumann (camera), and to the following scientists for their generous support: Maria Fidecaro, Michael Doser, James Beacham, Mike Houlden, Tara Shears, Jon Butterworth, and Andy Newsam. Archive documentation courtesy of CERN, University of Liverpool and Mike Houlden.
Photo credits in the website: Courtesy of the artist and Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The artist at the CERN Archives. Noemi Caraban/CERN.
'We aren't able to prove theat just yet but we know its out there', Yu-Chen Wang, 2018


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Despite her age, Stella Lent's sharp memory and quick wit provided added interesting facts about a once prominent "skyscraper" in downtown Johnson City.
When Bob and I talked with Stella, her memory and acuteness of mind were unbelievable. She was feeble physically but her storytelling abilities were exceptional. She mentioned that her sister was an invalid from polio contracted as a child and Stella looked after her for many years.
Called her on her birthday and recieved no answer. Got in touch with her son Jerry last week and found out she was admitted into hospital. Jerry is her guardian and will most likely place her in a nursing home when she recovers. He is 79 and no longer able to take care of her. She is 101 years old now.
She is an amazing lady. I never met her but talked to her on the phone when I did my interview for the newspaper with her.
My grandfather, CHARLES AMBROSE HAYDON, had a brother named THOMAS AGEE HAYDON. THOMAS married LEE (BLESSING) LENT. LEE had two daughters by her first marriage to MIKE LENT: FLORA born ca 1909 WV and STELLA born ca 1911 WV, LEE and THOMAS were married before the 1920 census and separated (divorced?) before the 1930 census. In 1920, THOMAS, LEE, FLORA, and STELLA were living in Sprague, WV (a small community on outskirts of Beckley, WV).
I have been searching for several years trying to find out what happened to FLORA and STELLA LENT. I came across your interview with a STELLA LENT who moved to Johnson City, TN from Beckley, WV in 1928. She was born the same year as MIKE and LEE (BLESSING) LENT's daughter STELLA.
Do you know if the STELLA interviewed for the article ever married? Is she still alive? I would like to find out if it is the STELLA LENT I have been searching for.
Yes, she is still alive. She turned 101 this month. She is the Stella Lent you are searching for.


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Hatred as an Import/Export Business
On January 26 of this year, David Kato, a gay rights activist in Uganda, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer. Often the target of hatred, there was a renewed fierceness, when he won a court battle against a tabloid for publishing over 100 images of him with other gay and lesbian citizens.
The banner over the headline image read 'Hang Them'.
Though hardly a tolerant society, this loathing came about when a group of American "Evangelists", visited the country to export their own brand of hatred.
Last March [2009], three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about "curing" homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda's capital to give a series of talks. The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was "the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda" — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family.
For three days, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how "the gay movement is an evil institution" whose goal is "to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity."
Delivered with the passion of fire and brimstone, it instilled fear where there was none before.
Within months, a law was passed that would put homosexuals in jail for life. Stephen Harper claimed to have "privately warned the Ugandan president", of "Canada's deep concern, strong opposition and the fact we deplore these kinds of measures."
But how can he have any credibility on the subject?
In November of 2003, former Alliance MP Larry Spencer, gave an interview to Vancouver Sun reporter Peter O'Neil, in which he claimed that "... he would support any initiative to outlaw homosexuality." He stated that in the 1960s, a "well-orchestrated" conspiracy began and led to recent successes in the gay rights movement. This conspiracy, he further said, "included seducing and recruiting young boys in playgrounds and locker rooms, and deliberately infiltrating North America's schools, judiciaries, entertainment industries, and religious communities."
Stephen Harper was livid (1), but his concern was not for the marginalizing of the gay community, but that Spencer may have hurt his chances in the next election. He was suspended and replaced with Tom Lukiwski. The man caught on tape saying: "There's A's and there's B's. The A's are guys like me, the B's are homosexual faggots with dirt under their fingernails that transmit diseases."
Quotes by Harper's caucus against homosexuality are numerous, but our concern should not be for what they say, but how they say it. There is a deep rooted contempt, that is fundamental.
A contempt that allowed Stephen Harper to stand up in the House of Commons, and say of NDP Svend Robinson, a gay man. "Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations." (Hansard, October 23, 2002) He was given an opportunity to retract the statement, before being officially recorded, but refused.
A contempt that allowed Jason Kenney to trivialize the debate over same-sex marriage when he "outed" two openly gay NDP MPs, to the Punjab community.
A contempt that allowed Stephen Harper to visit immigrant communities to fear monger over the implications of the bill, suggesting that the Liberals wanted to force their religious leaders to perform same-sex marriages.
And a contempt that prompted Harper to hire the homophobic Nigel Hannaford to help write his speeches and Jason Kenney to appoint an anti-gay activist to the Refugee board, where he will get to hear cases of those fleeing from sexual discrimination, sure to face harm and even death if refused refuge.
And today, in the 21st century in Canada, there is a protest against a school policy to combat discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students.
And those fighting against discrimination are vilified.
Our hands are not clean.
The good news is that under international pressure: Uganda lawmakers removed the death penalty clause from anti-gay bill, but it does not change the malevolence that inflicted the death penalty on David Kato.
And it will not take hammer blows to inflict the same sentence on the Canadian gay community, when we refuse to acknowledge the hostility they are subjected to on a daily basis, but instead have members of our government, who choose to inflame it.
Stephen Harper once claimed that his and and his follower's "values, are the real Canadian values".
Since when was hatred a Canadian value?
1. SACRIFICED? TRUTH OR POLITICS, By Larry Spencer, Kayteebella Productions, 2000, ISBN 13-9780978057404
Labels: David Kato, Homophobia, Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, Uganda
Kay L. Davies May 12, 2011 at 10:18 AM
Well, I'm glad they removed the death penalty clause, Emily. But those American "missionaries" are the ones who should have been beaten with hammers. Hatemongers.
There should be a law against hatemongers, especially the kind who travel to other countries to spread their venom.
I've known all along the Harpies were hatemongers, and homophobic, but Canadians continue to elect them. I don't know why.
Emily Dee May 12, 2011 at 12:21 PM
I agree. They need to take responsibility for the mess they created.
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Bolton Nuts » BWFC » Bolton Wanderers Banter » Bolton 2-2 Preston
Bolton 2-2 Preston
1 Bolton 2-2 Preston on Mon Aug 27 2018, 15:02
gloswhite
Jay Jay Okocha
Location : Cheltenham
BTID, I'm off to Portugal for a couple of weeks as from tonight (Monday), so can I ask you to stick the following in the Prediction League, just in case I cant get on the forum ?
Preston 1-1 Bolton Oztumer
2 Re: Bolton 2-2 Preston on Mon Aug 27 2018, 15:02
Cheers Mucka
3 Re: Bolton 2-2 Preston on Tue Aug 28 2018, 10:18
Nat Lofthouse
In his press release after our battering by Sheff U, Parky says "we must get back to basics" and whilst this could be interpreted as practising tackling, tracking, marking and passing the goddamn ball etc he might want to consider getting back to basics with his selection and system.
The back four of Olkowski Wheats, Beevers and Taylor is undefeated so far. On the two occasions Grounds has started, we've lost and conceded 5 goals compared to 3 in 4 games when Taylor has started. Taylor was excellent in the pre-season and in the games he's played, so why on earth drop him? OK he's a carthorse, but an experienced and committed carthorse and he's shown he works well with the other 3 so for me he has to reinstate the successful back four as the first step.
Secondly he has faffed about with his selections in midfield with Lowe being the only constant - and deservedly so because he's done well. If we're going to shore up the defence again he might want to consider partnering him with Williams who will track, mark and win possession and give us a solid core.
If we build a solid defence - and with these players it's our best approach - we are never going to be particularly expansive going forward, so we need athletes to work their socks off to put a real shift in tracking back and breaking forward ideally with pace so Wildschut has to start IMO, along with Magennis who is a shoe in, and Noone or Ameobi who can both do the job.
That leaves us with the number 10 and IMO Oztumer is a luxury we can't afford in this team at the moment. Easy on the eye for sure, but we aren't going to be playing camped on the edge of their box so we need a player with lots of box to box energy and a high workrate and despite all his perceived weaknesses there's a case for Vela doing that job. I just think Oztumer, who may be a better passer, doesn't have the legs to do it IMO. A decent alternative is O'Neil deeper with Lowe and Williams pushed on a bit to do the water carrying.
If Parky gets back to a solid defence and a counterattacking style I think we'll nick it but if he focuses too much on being "entertaining" we'll get murdered.
We're getting to know the strengths and weaknesses of these players now and IMO our best option is to concentrate on what we do best - build the wall and hope to score on the break and at set pieces.
If Parky gets back to these particular "basics" I reckon we'll win by the odd goal and have the basis of a team that will be very difficult to beat going forward.
T.R.O.Y
The suggestion being we weren't playing to defend and capitalise on set pieces against Sheffield United?
I find that hard to believe to be honest. Parky has a way he wants to play and doesn't vary from it in my experience. Is it not more likely that they managed to exploit our weaknesses and stifle our (little) attacking threat? We all know this group of players aren't world beaters despite what early form said.
Get Taylor back in the team for sure, but he's not suddenly Paolo Maldini because of one result without him.
Caveat to all of this, haven't seen any of the Sheffield game so I could be talking bollocks.
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Boggersbelief
Location : Everywhere.
Draw written all over this
Norpig
Location : Burnage, Manchester
Taylor back for Grounds and get Buckley out of the team, he really is poor. Wildschut or Noone should replace him with Ameobi on the other side. I can't see him starting Oztumer away from home so it will probably be Vela again. I do think Vela would be better deeper with Lowe though.
Natasha Whittam
Parky had better get a grip for Saturday, and if Grounds or Buckley start Ken should sack him on the spot.
This game is massive for me. Many of the bellends who live below the penthouse are PNE scum, and I like nothing better than lording it over them.
Defeat is not an option.
8 Re: Bolton 2-2 Preston on Wed Aug 29 2018, 05:57
luckyPeterpiper
Frank Worthington
Location : Chorley Lancs
I feel confident we'll win. I'm predicting 2-0 to us with Wildschut and Oztumer providing the goals.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrote: Parky had better get a grip for Saturday, and if Grounds or Buckley start Ken should sack him on the spot.
You do know Ken sanctioned the moves for both of those players. Is he gonna sack himself too?
10 Re: Bolton 2-2 Preston on Thu Aug 30 2018, 09:28
karlypants
Ref Watch: Andy Davies to oversee Preston North End v Bolton Wanderers
Andy Davies will take charge of Wanderers' Sky Bet Championship away tie against Preston North End on Saturday afternoon at Deepdale.
Entering into his seventh year as an official, Davies has overseen five games this season, in which he has produced 17 yellow cards during those fixtures.
This will be the first time this season that the official will take charge of either side as a referee.
When looking towards last season, Davies dished out 104 yellow cards in 31 games, branding six red cards in total.
Shaun Hudson and Jonathan Hunt will act as linesman for the fixture, with Sebastian Stockbridge as fourth official.
rammywhite
Location : Ramsbottom
We'll lose this one by two clear goals. Probably 2-0 or 3-1.
This match is looking more like a litmus test of how we'll fare this season. A win would be heartening for both players and fans as well as giving us a bit more of a much-needed cushion. I'm just really hoping that Parky has the nous to steer us through this one and doesn't do anything daft.
Growler
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrote: This match is looking more like a litmus test of how we'll fare this season. A win would be heartening for both players and fans as well as giving us a bit more of a much-needed cushion. I'm just really hoping that Parky doesn't do anything daft.
Yeah, the 8 man defence Parky picked at home to Sheffield United is more suited to away games.I hope Parky isn't silly and reacts to the Sheffield horror show by picking an attacking team at Preston, the 8 man defence served us very well in the 2 away games at West Brom and Reading
I sometimes think that Parkinson doesn't know his arse from his elbow when it comes to team shape or tactics.
I think we need to calm down just a bit. The start to this season is light years better than last and while I accept that's not saying a great deal the fact we've only lost once in the league and got three wins from five is a pretty good beginning imo.
The fact is that a mid table finish would represent real progress for us given our circumstances and I think that with this squad it's very acheivable. Get in one decent striker tomorrow (two would be better but I'll be realistic and say I think we'll get one now and maybe the other in January) and in my opinion it becomes a genuinely realistic objective to finish in the top half.
As to the match against PNE I've plumped for a 2-0 win and nothing I've seen so far makes me feel that's a bad call. Yes we were poor against the blades but every team has a bad day at the office. Last season it was our good days that were the exception and that alone is a good cause for optimism this time around. We've played some good football and admittedly ridden our luck in a couple of games but for once we've actually had good luck when we needed it. When's the last time you can remember us really getting the breaks?
I don't know why but I still feel really good about this season and believe we'll do well, maybe even get close to the play offs.
16 Re: Bolton 2-2 Preston on Fri Aug 31 2018, 09:20
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Foot in Both Camps: Preston North End v Bolton Wanderers
Bolton Wanderers take on Preston North End this Saturday in the Sky Bet Championship at Deepdale. With that in mind, bwfc.co.uk take a look back at some of the notable names to have played for both sides.
The former England manager started his playing career off at Wanderers in 1973. During his time with the Whites, he was a part of the 1977/78 side that gained promotion to the First Division.
He had a second stint with the Trotters in the 1985/86 season, before joining North End the following year.
Whilst with the Lilywhites, Allardyce won promotion from the Fourth Division and in the same season, the defender was named in the PFA Team of the Year for 1986/87.
With a brief caretaker role as manager with North End coming at the end of his playing career, 'Big Sam' took over as Whites boss in October 1999.
From there, Allardyce enjoyed an eight year tenure at the University of Bolton Stadium.
He took the club into the Premier League in 2001, beating this weekend's opponents at the Millennium Stadium in the First Division Play-off Final.
From there, Allardyce and his Wanderers side enjoyed a successful stay in the top flight of English football.
It was capped off in 2004/05, when the Trotters finished sixth and won qualification to the UEFA Cup for the first time in the club's history.
Ricardo Gardner
Coming over to England after a successful World Cup campaign with the Jamaican national team in 1998, Gardner joined Bolton for a reported fee of £1 million.
From 1998 to 2012, the left-sided player made over 350 appearances for the Whites.
A notable achievement for Gardner during his time in BL6 was scoring at the Allianz Arena against Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup in 2007. It was his first goal for five years at that time.
Coming towards the end of his playing career, he had a short spell at Deepdale in 2011 on an emergency one-month loan as cover for then-manager Phil Brown's team.
In the current day, Gardner manages the Jamaican Under-20 international team.
Scorer of one of the goals of the 1970s during his two year spell with Wanderers, in his second season at the club, Worthington was the leading goal scorer in the First Division, finding the net 24 times in 42 games.
Fast forward to the 1986/87 season meanwhile and the striker was a Preston North End player.
He was only a Lilywhite for a single season however, where Preston gained promotion from the Fourth Division.
Jermaine Beckford
The former Jamaican international joined Bolton Wanderers from Leicester City on a two-year deal in July 2013.
Beckford had more success when he joined Preston North End on loan from the Whites in November 2014 however.
The frontman wrote himself into North End folk law by scoring a hat-trick in the League One Play-off Final against Swindon Town to gain them promotion to the Sky Bet Championship.
Julian Darby
Currently a first team coach at Bolton Wanderers, Darby started his career at the club in 1986.
In an eight-year playing spell, he made over 300 appearances for the Whites, in which he scored in the 1989 Associate Members Cup final against Torquay United at Wembley Stadium where the Trotters ran out 4-1 winners.
In 1997 however, Darby signed for North End and stayed at Deepdale until a move to Carlisle came about in 2000.
Nicky Hunt
Coming through the young system at Bolton, Hunt made his first team debut in 2000/01 as a substitute for Colin Hendry against Sheffield United on the final day of the regular season.
With 143 starts for the club in his nine years at the University of Bolton Stadium, he enjoyed playing in the UEFA Cup for the Whites, in addition to starting in the League Cup Final against Middlesbrough in 2004.
The full-back signed on short-term deal for PNE in 2011, and was a regular during his brief time at the club.
Tony Philliskirk
The Sunderland born frontman had a very brief spell at North End in 1989, before joining Wanderers in June 1989 for a reported fee of £50,000.
After signing, Philliskirk scored 75 times in 182 appearances for the Whites and for two seasons running from 1989 to 1991, the striker finished as the club's top scorer.
Michael Ricketts
In July 2000, former England international Ricketts joined Wanderers from Walsall for a fee in the region of £400,000.
In his first season at the club, the striker shot onto the scene by scoring 24 goals in 47 appearances, earning the Whites promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs.
Furthermore, Ricketts earned a call-up to the England national side, making his debut against the Netherlands in 2002.
He then joined Preston in 2007 after leaving Southend United but with fitness an issue during his time at the club, appearances were few and far between.
However he came into his own for the Lilywhites against Ipswich Town that year, as his sole goal earned three points for then manager Paul Simpson's side.
Barry Siddall
Goalkeeper Siddall started off his career with the Whites in 1970 and stayed for six years at the club.
During such time, he won the Third Division under Jimmy Armfield in 1972/73 and made 158 appearances during his tenure with Wanderers.
He finished his professional career at North End in 1992/93.
In two spells (1980-82 and 1987-89) at the club, the forward scored 44 times in 110 appearances.
He top scored in the 1987/88 season for Phil Neal's team with 22 goals in 43 games and from there, he had a one season spell at West Bromwich Albion before joining PNE for a reported £15,000.
He picked up the Player of the Year for the Lilywhites in 1985/86 and the following season, Preston stormed to promotion with Thomas ending the year as North End's top scorer with 28 goals.
18 Re: Bolton 2-2 Preston on Sat Sep 01 2018, 14:04
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That's just about the team I would have picked TBH.
No Buckley
It will be interesting to see how the young lad Williams does.
Dropped Vela and Murphy from a team that won 2 away games out of 2 and losing 2-0 after 20 minutes.This one is on the silly tinkering
The two players most wanted to see dropped, the third being Grounds.
2-2 fuck me
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Report: Preston North End 2-2 Bolton Wanderers
Bolton Wanderers drew 2-2 against Preston North End this afternoon, with goals coming from Sammy Ameobi and Pawel Olkowski at dee
PRE-MATCH
Manager Phil Parkinson made four changes from his starting line-up against Sheffield United, bringing in Andy Taylor and Gary O'Neil in place of Jonathan Grounds and Luke Murphy.
Additionally, Yanic Wildschut and Joe Williams came in for Will Buckley and Josh Vela.
First chance of the game went Preston's way with six minutes gone, as Graham Burke found a pocket of space on the edge of the Wanderers' area, but his effort was poor and trickled wide.
Preston took the lead soon after, with an intercepted Yanic Wildschut pass finding the feet of North End's Brandon Barker, who slotted in his striking partner Callum Robinson.
The forward rounded Ben Alnwick before calmly slotting the ball home.
The deficit doubled on 16 minutes with Paul Gallagher finding Irishman Alan Browne, who hit an impressive half volley from the edge of the area, leaving Alnwick no chance as it sailed into the top corner.
Gallagher had a speculative effort from distance just after the 20-minute mark, but his half volley attempt flew way over Alnwick's crossbar.
Sammy Ameobi came close minutes after, with a run down the left-hand side to the byline ending in a low driven effort which had to be dealt with by Declan Rudd.
Chances came for Bolton, when a corner to the Whites found the head of skipper David Wheater, but he was unable to beat Rudd as he gathered the ball at the second attempt.
Lilywhites responded with a chance of their own, with combination play between Burke and Browne resulting in an effort on goal from Burke, whose driven strike whistled past the post.
Bolton soon had a response through winger Ameobi, who picked up the ball with space to run into.
After sprinting infield, he unleashed a thunderbolt from 30 yards that deflected into the back of the Preston goal.
Wanderers had the bit between their teeth from then on in the first half, with an equaliser coming through an unlikely source in Pawel Olkowski.
The Polish right back latched onto a loose ball just inside the Preston penalty area and unleashed a mighty effort on goal which hit the underside of the bar and beat Declan Rudd's outstretched arm.
After an exciting first period, the game took until the 67thminute for a chance to come.
That came in the form of Jason Lowe, who reacted fastest to a Gary O'Neil corner and fired goalwards but his strike was blocked well by Preston.
Ameobi came close soon after, as the ball fell to him in the area, but he couldn't direct his shot towards Rudd's goal.
Preston began to ramp up the pressure, as a driven ball across the box found its way towards Robinson who only had Alnwick to beat, but he couldn't get past the goalkeeper as he palmed the ball away from danger.
The Lilywhites kept on coming as Barkhuizen rolled the ball into Robinson had tested Alnwick, as he was forced into a diving save to clear the threat.
Deep into added time and both sides had their chances, with Robinson once again trying to find the winner for Preston, but his effort was to no avail as referee Andy Davies ended proceedings.
Wanderers XI: Alnwick, Taylor (Grounds 75), Lowe, Beevers, Ameobi, Olkowski, O'Neil, Williams, Magennis, Wildschut (Noone 60), Wheater (C)
Unused substitutes: Matthews, Vela, Oztumer, Donaldson, Hobbs
Attendance: 16,331 (4,144 visitors)
28 Re: Bolton 2-2 Preston on Sun Sep 02 2018, 11:10
Wow, not a single comment about the game. What the fuck is wrong with you?
Overall we were pretty good yesterday. Preston had a lot of the ball but didn't do much with it after their initial two goal burst. I always felt if anyone was going to win it, it would be us.
The midfield was as good as I've seen it under Parkinson. There were spells when we actually dominated in that area. Williams was excellent, as were O'Neil and Lowe.
The only down side was Wildschut who was rubbish, Noone was much better when he came on. Noone & Ameobi looked very dangerous at times.
Very good result in the end. I sat in the Preston end with a few Knob Enders, they all said Bolton had improved dramatically since they dicked us at the Macron.
Norwich fans said Wildschut makes a great sub but is pants whenever he starts and that was borne out yesterday. Wiliams was great if a bit feisty. Taylor wasn't so good but still looked better than Grounds. Magennis ran his socks off despite getting bugger all service - which may be an issue for Doidge when he gets into the team. Overall the team looked balanced after the first 20 minutes.
And that's the thing that annoys me. Parky banged on about the importance of getting off to a solid start and emphasised the point about Preston starting quickly and being prepared for it. I seriously think that if we hadn't been so sloppy at the start we had enough to win the game. But it is a noticeable tactic of Parky's to try to contain teams at the beginning of each half and then make a huge effort to get forward towards the end of the half - fine providing we don't concede in the first bit and yesterday we did. Twice.
Can't complain about the result on balance.
Smells like team spirit: Wanderers fight for point at Preston
AN imperfect point, perhaps, but this result at Deepdale was more than meets the eye.
Phil Parkinson will analyse chunks of Wanderers' performance at Preston and know his team will have to improve considerably if they are to stand any chance of maintaining this excellent start to the season.
Equally, he will look at the way his players rallied to fight back from two down, bossing one of the Championship's hardest-working midfields, and allow himself a little smile at how long 12 months can feel in football.
Before Sammy Ameobi and Pawel Olkowski hauled Bolton back on level terms, the party atmosphere had been silenced among the 4,000-plus travelling support as first Callum Robinson and then Alan Browne administered two lethal blows, leaving the Whites on their haunches.
The reaction from behind Ben Alnwick's goal to going two down was invaluable. Given the poor performance a weekend earlier against Sheffield United, it would have been entirely understandable for supporters to sulk. Save for a few seconds of silence to allow the information to process, the noise was entirely positive, even drowning out the celebrations of the home support.
As if there wasn't enough to digest on the field in an absorbing contest, the relentless backing from the away fans made for fascinating viewing, and sums up a changing mood within the club.
Take Wildschut, for example. The Dutchman had played a terrible square pass along his own back four which allowed Brandon Barker to slip Robinson through for the opening goal. The winger dropped immediately to his knees in disappointment and the incident clearly affected him – yet there was never a moment he was singled out. Like a figurative arm around the shoulder, fans chanted his name in an effort to restore his confidence, right up to the moment he was replaced by Craig Noone in the second half.
His example was not an isolated one. At 35 years old, Gary O'Neil is the last man you'd expect to sprint 60 yards to charge down a goalkeeper's kick in the 92nd minute. The former West Ham and Middlesbrough man set the tone in midfield and Bolton's supporters responded in kind.
Every David Wheater slide challenge or Mark Beevers header was cheered with cup final glee, and that kind of connection – especially away from home – will be worth its weight in gold for Parkinson's side this season.
A year ago, Bolton went into the international break bottom of the Championship, beaten 4-0 at Hull City. Parkinson had described the desperate defeat at his lowest moment at the club – although by the end of a tough campaign, it would have some company.
Fast forward to September 2018 and after a summer of canny squad-building the outlook is nowhere near as bleak. Just a look at the bench – Clayton Donaldson, Josh Vela, Jack Hobbs, Erhun Oztumer – suggests the manager stands a much better chance this time around. And a thoroughly deserved one at that.
Parkinson is a realist, however, and he will demand better than he saw in the opening 20 minutes when Preston threatened to run away with the game.
Robinson's opener was well-taken but Browne's second – a volley on the turn from the edge of the box – was a work of art. Questions may be asked of whether Wanderers had retreated too deep, or whether they should have contested the bouncing ball on the edge of the box, but the finish was top-drawer.
One of the catalysts in the fight-back was Joe Williams, the on-loan Everton man making his first appearance in a Bolton shirt. The 20-year-old made 34 league appearances for Barnsley last season and had been Parkinson's number one midfield target over the summer.
Williams snapped into challenges and showed a calmness on the ball way beyond his years. And with knowledgeable types like Jason Lowe and O'Neil around him, the youngster might be one to watch this term.
Ameobi's goal seven minutes before the break was just what the doctor ordered. Wanderers had already stabilised but a frantic scramble in the Preston box after Browne had put his keeper Declan Rudd in trouble by ducking out of a header had set the nerves jangling among the home supporters. Moments later, the winger's powerful swerving shot from 30 yards seemed to catch Rudd off-guard, and nestled into the bottom corner with the keeper left diving the wrong way.
The fight-back was on. No-one expected a second goal to arrive so soon, however, and certainly not from the right boot of full-back Olkowski.
The Polish defender has been a revelation since joining from FC Koln in the summer and was compared to a Rolls Royce by his captain, David Wheater. Picking up on a loose ball following Josh Magennis's run on the edge of the box, his right-footed finish was more traction engine as the ball smashed off the bar and over the line.
Wanderers looked the more likely to win the game from there. Ben Alnwick made a couple of important saves – one to deny Robinson came at a crucial stage of the game. But otherwise the game's tempo was dictated in a thoroughly professional manner by O'Neil and Co.
Jason Lowe had a goal-bound volley blocked and Magennis was denied by some fine last-ditch defending by Ben Davies.
There were moments of skulduggery which harked back to Sam Allardyce's golden era when a foul needed to be made, or a few seconds of time needed to be wasted. All in the best possible taste, of course.
And the frustrations boiled over after the final whistle as Ben Pearson was sent off for an alleged head-butt on Williams, who was also shown a yellow card.
Wanderers may be a touch disappointed they didn't find a winner having put so much in to get back into the match, and to dominate after the break. In the bigger picture, however, a point to go into the international break in seventh place was ample reward.
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What's Going to happen in your future?
It's a balmy day as you and I sit here on this covered terrace facing the beach outside the reception area at this retreat in the islands. Just sit back in your chair and hear the gentle waves in the distance – the cool breeze rustling through the lush vegetation carrying scents of the nearby ocean and tropical flowers. You can hear the sounds made by local birds and bugs going about their daily affairs. It's a soothing concoction for the senses and it is so pleasant to just let go of any resistance and relax into the flow of the abundant energy of the natural wonders surrounding us. It is easy to let go of the stress and strain that can often feel overwhelming in our practiced reality of everyday life.
I am so glad you have joined me here in this peaceful loving place for a little time of reflection and introspection. This is a frame of mind just right to begin a New Year of new adventures and fun. There is one condition. You must accept (or at least seriously contemplate) one central truth: Reality is whatever you believe it is. While you may not actually be sitting in a chair looking out on a beautiful tropical beach in this moment you can easily make that a future reality if you choose. The problem is that since the moment you were born, the world has been trying to control you by making you believe in limitation and lack, separation and distrust. The hidden story is that you are actually a very powerful creator able to shape time, space and matter to be whatever you choose to dream up. Sadly, most people believe they are destined to simply make the best of a world of circumstances they have little or no control over. This New Year's Tale is about you recognizing more about who you really are and learning to play a part much more in line with your true capabilities. Words can't really communicate the thrill and challenge that comes with this realization but that is where we are headed.
The awareness of your true nature, which ultimately is all about energy and vibration and your ability to intentional shape physical form and circumstances to your will, may still seem a bit abstract or even improbable but don't worry about it. For our New Year's Tale, we are inviting you to take a more intentional role in the story unfolding on this lovely little planet we have named Earth. In this ongoing tale you have already played many parts and you are really quite a good player. Right here and now, you have created a life that may seem challenging to you but, in the scope of things, most others would consider you to be quite successful. That said, you are capable of much more. You are also here at a critical time and your energy is needed to keep life on this planet moving in more loving and abundant directions rather than getting stuck in a darker time.
As in any great adventure, there are always threats to the wellbeing of the whole. Why? Because it is the unwanted that points the direction to the new and improved reality. Here we come to the root of why there is struggle and disease. As we mentioned, since your birth you have been taught that there are always limits and that you can't have everything that you want. There are laws and rules you must obey. You have to earn everything you get. Only the strong survive. These are all concepts designed to control you and make you conform to belief in a reality of limitation and heartless competition for power. It is important that we make it clear that there is nothing wrong with playing that passive part if you are fine with the status quo. You just need to know that there is no finite substance to it – it is a figment of the imagination held together by the predominant beliefs of those active in the game at the moment. This brings us to the central vision that you will begin to intentionally direct your creative power to transform reality in more desirable ways.
Consciousness is the fabric of the real world – the shaping and molding energy. As part of Universal Consciousness, each individual's beliefs create an image of the world. Where those images overlap we find the life framework generally considered to be reality. Truth has nothing to do with it. Predominant beliefs are quite often totally wrong. What's the purpose? Very simply the purpose is the creation of an ever more intricate, beautiful and loving experience for consciousness. Why is it a challenge? It is a challenge because each of our points of creative consciousness is out of control. The other animals and plants on the planet operate in almost totally pre-programmed ways – they don't make conscious choices about how to live. We on the other hand can choose to do whatever we want regardless of how foolish or even self destructive it may be. This is why "society" is so determined to enforce controls. It believes conformity and control are the only way to protect us from ourselves and each other.
This is where the ongoing evolution of consciousness and current social conventions come into conflict. Enlightened consciousness is creating the ever advancing edge of our time space reality where all the action is. That is where you have found yourself. The future is yours to shape and this is why it is very important that you turn away from the fear and hate filled stories of the past and present. There are untold numbers who totally buy into the belief that the only way to "win" is to dominate and control. They are fully vested in a power structure that they believe represents the way things should be. The only real power is control over others. This all comes from a belief that reality is something we have no choice about – we just have to deal with it. The sad thing is that people will kill and destroy with an absolute belief that they are doing something noble and right. The real truth is that they are fighting against a future they fear where they no longer will be allowed to dominate the will of others or control them.
So, why are we calling this a New Year's Tale? We are reaching a tipping point. We are coming to a point where a critical mass of individuals have evolved consciously to a point where they realize they clearly have some ability to shape and control events and circumstances to produce the results they are interested in. People who realize that all fears are based on a false understanding of how reality works. People like you, who recognize that your "reality" is not the same as everybody else's know that personal beliefs shape and control personal reality. Everyone is free to believe whatever they want. The message of this New Year is that you will know you now are intentionally designing whatever reality you want for yourself. To do this you need to place your attention and appreciation on the things you want for the world and turn your back on fear and hate. You will no longer try and fight the wrongs of the world. Your growing belief in the power of love and light will heal the wounds and quell the anger. There will be more frontiers ahead but for now our mission is to bring ever more love and joy to the world through intentionally imaging new improved realities.
Together let's make it a Happy New Year and bring lots of Joy to the World!
By the way, if you don't meditate it is a very easy and useful tool for better living. Simply sit in a relaxed quiet spot where you won't be disturbed. Close your eyes and take a few slow deep breaths consciously willing your body to relax and let tension go. Then begin repeating "Shara Vana Ya" to yourself (silently) over and over again. Whenever you realize you have drifted away from saying the mantra to yourself just come back to repeating it in your head again. Losing the mantra and coming back to it is perfectly natural. No effort is needed and you can't do this wrong. Meditate for 15-20 minutes once or twice a day. Right after you get up in the morning is a perfect time. You will find it increasingly relaxing and energizing over time.
Again, Happy New Year, Happy Today! Live long and prosper by sharing your joy and love to the world.
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Sciatica is really annoying because one of the effects it has on me is it makes me feel like I'm not in full control of my body.
It's a nerve irritation which has generally plagued my right leg, going down my lower back and wrapping round my thigh and going down the back of my calve and shin. In bad times when it was at its worse, I would have constant pins and needless which drove me round the bend, and dead leg syndrome when I sat down for too long.
It got on my nerves. Ha.
Ever since I started working on my core, I have felt less irritation in my sciatic nerves and I generally feel like my body is holding itself up. When I first started stretching before and after workouts, I would sometimes feel a sharp twinge in my right shin when I reached towards my right leg. I hated this feeling. Granted I knew I was inflexible but the twinge made me feel like someone took a needle and poked me really suddenly in my shin. Yearrgh.
But the more I stretch and the more I keep this up, the more I feel like I am improving. This week, I reached over to pull myself towards my right foot and guess what?
Hi, so happy for you that you kicked Sciatica. I am having a compression issue with L5 also and I'm doing some stretches and core work that the P.T. gave me, but I'm curious what stretches and core work helped you through it?
Specifically, I think it would be helpful to stretch my hamstrings too, but as you know, the moment you bend forward it's like *ping* in that nerve. So, I'm having a difficult time figuring out how to stretch the hammies.
Were you doing a lot of pressups (Cobra Pose). Did you experiment with any inversion or traction?
I know this is an issue in the past for you, but since you kicked it you are a valuable true story.
I've given up hope that I'll ever ride my bike again. If I could just go back to jiu-jitsu I'll be happy enough.
Hi Lynn, I'm sorry to hear about your sciatica but rest assured it can be fixed! If you're still feeling nervy, you shouldn't do much else than what your physio has recommended.
I was off exercise for a good 4 months I think whilst the nerves calmed down and did physio a few times a week – I mainly did a lot of 'flossing' if you know what I'm talking about. In terms of stretching the hamstrings, using a tennis ball, a foam roller or a golf ball can be a godsend.
After my nerves settled down, I did a lot of core work, which involved front planks, side planks, push-ups, balance work etc. I hope this information helps!


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By Yoon Sung-won
Samsung SDS has launched its artificial intelligence (AI)-based smart factory system service Nexplant, the company said Wednesday.
The system integration service affiliate of Samsung Group highlighted that the new service will help clients maximize production efficiency as the AI system analyzes manufacturing problems in real time.
"Before the domestic release of the service, we have already drawn high interest from manufacturing businesses in overseas countries including the United States and India," Lee Jae-cheol, smart factory business director and senior vice president of Samsung SDS, said in a statement. "We will expedite business expansion on the global stage."
In developing the Nexplant system, Samsung SDS said it has tapped into its expertise in manufacturing process optimization systems that it has accumulated during the last three decades while providing them to plants run by other Samsung affiliates.
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While many companies might put security testing at the bottom of their lists, it's a critical step businesses need to take to ensure their solutions can properly protect and defend against cyber-attacks. There are numerous ways that enterprises can go about the testing of solutions, but it's important to understand the industry best practices and recommendations when it comes to testing and evaluation. Some methods, such as open malware repositories, can cause more harm than good in the case of security testing – which is why Deep Instinct's research team looked into the issue further.
1. How do enterprises go about testing and evaluating their security solutions?
The testing and evaluation of security solutions has been a hot topic within the cybersecurity industry, with continuous debate happening around the need for industry wide standards, tools, tactics and procedures (TTP's) for testing. One of the most prominent ways enterprises traditionally go about testing and evaluating their security solutions is through known malware repositories. These repositories are an important source for threat intelligence providers and consumers, serving security professionals, malware researchers and others. One of their most common use-cases is for building up-to-date datasets that are to be run against security solutions during testing, evaluations and comparative studies. The results of such tests allow enterprises to rate solutions and assess overall IT-security posture. Recently, we've seen more IT professionals using one or two open repositories as a central, and in some cases, unique source for malware datasets.
Other than the malware datasets, many enterprises will also test false positive rates, review the solution's architecture, deployment process, management console and evaluate its influence on performance at the end-point and network level.
2. What are the downfalls of using open repositories for testing malware?
- Of the 130K files collected, only 60 percent of them were PE files (usually the most common form of malware for Windows – but this can also include false positives).
- More than a third of the files (35 percent) comprised of a mix of different types of simple text files (that don't pose a true security risk).
- Only 34 percent were found to be relevant malicious samples for testing on Windows machines.
Almost two-thirds of the files posed no true security risk, leaving IT professionals with no indication of a solution's ability to truly prevent or detect malware thus allowing enterprises to be attacked. This test demonstrates that creating datasets containing only randomly selected samples from free, open repositories will result in problematic, incomplete and unreliable anti-malware testing. This is the biggest downfall of blindly using an open malware repository for security testing.
3. What best practices should IT professionals follow in order to properly test security solutions?
- Include Unknown Malware: Keep in mind that even the cleanest dataset originally acquired from an open, shared repository provides the tester only with seen, known malware. Known malware is less challenging, so testers should opt to include unknown malware in their tests.
- Don't Rely Solely on Hash Blacklisting: Verify that the solution does not rely only on hash blacklisting because it is easy to bypass in the real world, and make sure the solution can detect new malware.
- Variation is Key: Make the repository as varied as possible by bundling samples from as many different families so the results are representative.
- Create Mutations: Create malware mutations based on available tools and frameworks for file mutation and manipulation.
- False Positive Rates (FPR): Make sure that the rate of false positive detections is manageable and will not create overhead your organization cannot deal with.
- Detection is only a part of a bigger picture: Products differ in many aspects, not only in detection capabilities. It is important to take other factors into consideration, including architecture, deployment, UI/UX, performance and stability.
IT professionals can use the abovementioned best practices and tools to make sure that they're testing their security solutions on all fronts. As a result, enterprises can have peace of mind that their solutions are prepared to defend against cyber threats – especially as new malware is becoming increasingly sophisticated.
Shimon Noam Oren is Head of Cyber Intelligence at Deep Instinct, the first company to apply deep learning to cybersecurity. Shimon has extensive background in cyber security, inbound product management, intelligence, and leadership of change processes and organizational transformations. Prior to his role at Deep Instinct, he was the Head of Cyber Research for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) elite intelligence unit.


My brother Jim makes some of the best darn BBQ Ribs around. And now he's sharing his recipe with us.
One night while my sister was in town, my brother made these ribs for us and our dad. We had a wonderful family dinner together enjoying his BBQ ribs. So so good.
These ribs are a bit more time consuming than we usually do for a Sunday dinner. But that doesn't stop Jim from making these for us every so often. And when he does, the world is a happy place.
When we were making these ribs, my father's grill went out and we were unable to finish cooking them on the grill. So, we wound up finishing them in the oven on broil. They worked out great. Although, we didn't have enough time to let them be 'fall off the bone', but they were still so darn good that it didn't matter.
The best ribs are at Costco, but you can use this recipe for any full rack (Costco sells the racks in packs of 3).
Rinse the ribs and pat them dry. Remove the membrane, if desired and let rest for 45 minutes between paper towels.
In a big oven safe pan, lay each rack down one at a time and liberally apply Old Bay Seasoning, using a fork to puncture the meat helping to embed the Old Bay at the same time. Make sure to do this to both sides. Do this for the remaining racks. Do not wash the pan, add all the ribs back into the pan. **My brother has a note 'Secret Ingredient' here. I'm not sure what that is.
Cover the pan of ribs with aluminum foil, making sure to seal the foil around the edges of the pan as best as possible. The goal here is to keep the moisture in.
Place ribs in oven at 250 degrees. If you are cooking three racks, you will want to bake for about 4 hours at 250 degrees. Check the ribs frequently. You are looking for them to start to pull away from the bones, but not pulled away. You may need to increase the oven to 275 degrees or lower it, depending on the number of racks you have, if your oven is gas or electric, etc. You will want to keep your eye on the ribs, especially at the 2 hour mark and beyond.
While the ribs are baking, mix your sauce using the remaining ingredients. This is a fairly spicy sauce. If you want it to be less spicy, use Sweet Baby Rays Original BBQ Sauce instead of their Hot & Spicy BBQ Sauce. Whisk until the bubbles are gone from the BBQ sauce.
Fire up your grill once the bones start pulling away from the bone.
Remove the ribs from the oven and pat them dry to get the fat drippings off. Place ribs on the hot grill, meat side down. Coat with sauce and let them grill for about 2 minutes. Then turn them over and coat with BBQ sauce again. Repeat for no more than 10 minutes or until you can barely get the ribs off of the grill without them falling apart.
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Solution to a truly remarkable study
by Frederic Friedel
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2/12/2018 – Our readers called it "devilish" and "insane" — the study shown to us by Hans Böhm during the Tata Steel Chess Tournament had people really straining their minds — and computers. Today we give you the solution and tell you who won the prize (a signed version of Fritz 16). But more importantly, we provide a full background of the study, published by Dutch composer Gijs van Breukelen, a number of years after it had been seen by friends — including the great Mikhail Tal.
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"A devilish study!"
Last week we presented a study shown to us by IM Hans Böhm in the restaurant of the Zeeduin Hotel, during the Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee. Together with a Belgian couple, Rita Loos and Michele Magoga, we worked for maybe half an hour on the position, with Hans refuting every wrong try.
In the image published in last week's article I had blurred out the position so as not to offer any help to our readers, who were to solve the problem themselves, with the help of their chess engines, if they so wished. Before I come to the solution some background to the study is in order.
First of all it is amazing (and expedient) that human — well, at least my memory is so frail. That evening, in my hotel room, I was looking for the exact source of the study when I discovered that I had published it myself, a long time ago. I will retell the story
In April 1987 there was a super-GM tournament in Brussels, one that was won by the great Jugoslav GM Ljubo Ljubojevic, who finished equal first with World Champion Garry Kasparov. They were one and a half points ahead of Anatoly Karpov and the rest of the field, which included Tal, Larsen, Kortschnoj, Timman and a very young and off-form Nigel Short.
The tournament was memorable for a specific reason. The very first version of ChessBase had been released in January 1987, and we were showing the database program to the players at the tournament. Kasparov and Short knew it already, but for the others it was like taking kids through a candy store. Mikhail Tal was the greatest fun: he would always come to the press room immediately after his games to enter the moves into my Atari ST (1 MByte RAM, 720 KB disk drive, ask gramps about this legendary machine).
Mikhail Tal at the super-GM tournament in Brussels in 1987
Tony Miles checking out the revolutionary new database program in 1987
Karpov and Kasparov analysing after their game, sans computer, with Bachar Kouatly (seated) and Mikhail Tal (standing with cigarette)
The other memorable thing was an encounter with a very intense young British grandmaster. By a remarkable coincidence (insider joke) James Plaskett (pictured at left) was visiting the tournament, and I spent a lot of time arguing right-wing English politics with him. As a parting gift Jim showed me the study below, the same one shown to us thirty years later by Hans Böhm.
In Brussels we spent the rest of the day shuffling the pieces around on the board. Occasionally one of the super-GMs would come in after his game, and sometimes they would join in the analysis. But nobody got it in the press room. Misha Tal worked on it unsuccessfully for ten minutes, then left the press room and then suddenly popped in again, an hour later. He had figured out the main idea during a walk in the park.
When I published the study in the ChessBase Puzzle section (a static page that is no longer online), I mirrored the position to make it more difficult for readers to find it on the Internet or in study databases. I did the same in the article last week. Only a few dozen readers were able to find the solution — with intense use of chess engines and ingenious searches on the Internet.
Let us now take a look at the remarkable study in its original form. Remember that you can move the pieces around on the board to visualize the moves given below the diagrams. At the end of this article the entire solution is provided in a ChessBase game viewer, which even allows you to start an engine to analyse any ideas you might like to try.
We mentioned a few obvious things in the above position. White cannot promote the pawn because of the knight fork on f7. Moving the king allows Black to defend the queening square d8 and use his own superior forces to settle the game.
So White had to take more drastic measures: 1.Nf6+ Kg7! 1...Kh8 2.d8Q+ is mate in four; and 1...Kg6 2.Bh5+ Kxf6 (or ...Kf5) 3.d8Q wins, as the forking square f7 is defended by the bishop. 2.Nh5+ Kg6. 2...Kf7 would block the forking square and allow 3.d8Q. 3.Bc2+! Forcing Black to take the knight – a very difficult move for computers to find. 3…Kxh5 4.d8Q!! (allowing the fork) Nf7+ 5.Ke6 Nxd8+ 6.Kf5.
Move the pieces directly on the diagram!
Aha, White has cast out a mate net! The threat is 7.Bd1+ e2 8.Bxe2 mate. 6…e2 7.Be4. Now the threat is 8.Bf3#. Black has only one reasonable defence — underpromotion! 7…e1N! 8.Bd5! Threat: 9.Bc4 and 10.Be2 with mate to follow. 8...c2 9.Bc4. Threatening 10.Be2 with mate in two. 9…c1N! 10.Bb5. Threatening 11.Be8+ with mate in two. 10…Nc7 11.Ba4!
Look at this situation. Black has four knights (and a bishop), but cannot stop the lone white bishop from delivering mate in three moves, e.g. 11…Ne2 12.Bd1 Nf3 13.Bxe2 and 14.Bxf3 mate.
A beautiful, fascinating problem, praised by many readers. Paulo Guilherme de Mattos of Guarulhos-Brazil, wrote: "Wow, this puzzle is insane"; Roberto Dillon of Singapore called it "a truly devilish study!"; George Georgopoulos of Athens Greece says it took him a full day to solve, with engine help; while Dominic Lehane of Brisbane, Australia, wrote: "After two days analyzing in my spare time I managed to solve this puzzle without computers. It is the longest puzzle that I have ever solved and the most interesting as well."
How I lost my bet with Hans Böhm: at one stage he said that computers could never solve the study, and I bet him that my Fritz 16 would do it in less than one minute. I fetched my notebook and voilá, I had the solution almost instantaneously. Hans was impressed and started to order a beer, but honest as I am (often to my own disadvantage) I confessed and showed him how I had done it:
This is Fritz 16 working on the initial study position and contemplating 1.d8Q and 1.Kc6 with losing evaluations for White. But: Let's Check, our cloud collection of hundreds of millions of positions, with analysis by three powerful engines, showed me that some people had already looked at the position, and that one program had come up with the 1.Nf6+ try. I entered this move and the reply ...Kg7, and this is what I got:
Fritz 16, after a few minutes, is still trying to find a positive continuation, but someone had analysed the position after 1.Nf6+ Kg7 down to 44 ply with Komodo and 81 ply with Stockfish, and come up with the full solution (as you can see from the evals). Of couse I was able to dictate the continuation to Hans with zero seconds delay, but not because of raw engine power, but thanks to information stored in the cloud. So I bought the beer.
Full solution
[Event "Schakend Nederland#2207 (v)"] [Site "?"] [Date "1990.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Van Breukelen, Gijs"] [Black "White to play and win"] [Result "1-0"] [Annotator "Bohm,Hans"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/3P3k/n2K3p/2p3n1/1b4N1/2p1p1P1/8/3B4 w - - 0 1"] [PlyCount "27"] [EventDate "1990.??.??"] 1. Nf6+ Kg7 (1... Kg6 $2 2. Bh5+ Kxf6 3. d8=Q+) 2. Nh5+ (2. Bh5 Ba5 $19) 2... Kg6 3. Bc2+ $1 Kxh5 4. d8=Q $1 Nf7+ (4... Kg4 5. Qf6 Kxg3 6. Qe5+ Kf2 7. Qh2+ Ke1 8. Qg1+ Ke2 9. Qg4+ Ke1 10. Ke5) 5. Ke6 Nxd8+ 6. Kf5 {Threat: 7.Bd1+ e2 8. Bxe2#} e2 7. Be4 {Threat: 8.Bf3#} e1=N $1 8. Bd5 $1 {Threat: 9.Bc4 and 10.Be2 with mate to follow.} c2 9. Bc4 {Threat: 10.Be2+ and mate.} c1=N $1 10. Bb5 { Threat: 11.Be8+ and mate.} Nc7 11. Ba4 $1 {Threat: 12.Bd1+ and mate to follow.} Ne2 12. Bd1 Nf3 13. Bxe2 Nce6 {Any.} 14. Bxf3# 1-0
The prize, a copy of copy of Fritz 16 signed by Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, Viswanathan Anand, Judit Polgar, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Vidit Gujarathi, was won by Dominic Lehane of Brisbane, Australia
But who composed it?
The database of Harold van den Heijden, which currently contains 85,619 endgame studies (Harold has devoted a good part his life to their compilation) and costs just 50 Euros to purchase, gives the author of the study as Gijs van Breukelen, and the place of publication as the Dutch magazine Schakend Nederland. The date given is baffling: 1990. But didn't Jim Plaskett show it to us in 1987? And clearly a number of people had seen the study before that. For instance GM Lubomir Kavalek told me:
"I had fun solving this problem with Boris Spassky during a Bundesliga weekend in the early 1980s. I don't know who showed it to us."
The situation was further complicated by stories about Misha Tal being given the position by a taxi or lorry-driver whom he was never able to track down. These stories contradict my recollection of Tal seeing the position in Brussels in April 1987, not being able to solve it and then suddenly coming back to the press center with the solution.
The leading endgame expert, John Roycroft, wrote in the endgame magazine EG vol. 122:
The composer of this fine study is the Dutch composer Gijs van Breukelen, who demonstrated it as an example of his own work at a meeting of ARVES held in 1992 in Delft. The composer said at the ARVES meeting that he had composed it in the mid-1970s and shown it to several friends, but had neither sent it for publication nor entered it for a tourney. Having somehow penetrated the player circuit it circulated rapidly, acquiring journalistic colour en route through being associated either with a (totally fictitious) Ukrainian tractor-driver, or with a very specific (but equally spurious) game between leading masters. The late IGM Tal was one of the active propagators, but when asked he claimed he could not remember who had first shown it to him.
Jim Plaskett wrote me, back in 2003:
There is an obscure mythology about the puzzle's provenance. I think Graham Hillyard was the first person to show it to me, in 1986, or earlier. The study appears in Gufeld's last book, The Search for Mona Lisa. His story is that it pops up circa 1990. There are stories of Tal having received an anonymous letter, pre 1986, of a lorry driver having composed it. Gufeld says that since nobody has yet claimed to be the inventor of the study, he proposes that it dropped in from outer space. I am sure I read somewhere that sombody ending in -shvili did it. He says that during the 1992 Olympiad the Malaysian player MokTze Meng received an anonymous phone call saying that here was a gift for Gufeld — and the voice then dictated the position. Gufeld says that at the 1992 Olympiad both Karpov and Kasparov were amazed by the study.
Antonio Torrecillas of Barcelona wrote:
This problem was shown to me with a nice story a lot of years ago: a truck driver sent it to a some Russian magazine (maybe 64?), but it was put in the storage files for a long while. Years ago Mikhail Tal, as a director of that magazine, saw it and enjoyed it very much. But when Tal tried to find the composer of that fantastic endgame he couldn't, because the driver was dead. The only problem of that story is that it is false, but it's very nice anyway!
What does one do in such situations? Well obviously the best strategy is to contact the endgame study king Harold van den Heijden. He provided the following information:
What is known about the oldest source? A. Ruygrok reported that the problem was immortalized in 1976 by the well-known insect painter Hans Verhoef in the TV show Voor de vuist weg. The weekly Panorama also published the diagram with commentary by Hans Böhm. A while back Hans gave me a copy of an article about a visit by him and Harm Wiersma, six-time world champion in draughts, to Hans Verhoef. And yes: the picture depicts the tractor problem. It should be noted that in 1976 the story about the tractor had apparently not yet been invented. Hans Böhm gave me a nice picture in which also the chess painting was immortalized:
A scan of the picture with the painting by artist Hans Verhoef. In the background: Hans Böhm and Harm Wiersma. "Unfortunately, the print of the picture is somewhat damaged," Harold wrote.
So what about Mikhail Tal? I am convinced that he saw the position for the first time in the press room in Brussels. His demeanor while trying to solve it, and then after finding the solution in the park, looked completely genuine. I conclude that others have fabricated the completely fictitious tractor-driver story.
About Gijs van Breukelen
Born in Amsterdam in 1946, he began chess composition at the age of seventeen. He studied Dutch language in Utrecht, and played for the chess club "Paul Keres". He admires Liburkin, Kasparyan and Marwitz.
In his early studies the influence of naturalism can be seen. Later his style became more eccentric with a preference for lengthy solutions.
A selection of his studies can be found here. All van Breukelen studies, with exact dates, possible corrections or cooks and exact details about sources can be found in the Harold van den Heijden Studies Database.
Photos of Gijs van Breukelen: René Olthof (2010, title), Harold van der Heijden (2002)
Photos of super-GM tournament in Brussel 1987, Wijk 2018: Frederic Friedel
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Frederic Friedel Editor-in-Chief emeritus of the ChessBase News page. Studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and Oxford, graduating with a thesis on speech act theory and moral language. He started a university career but switched to science journalism, producing documentaries for German TV. In 1986 he co-founded ChessBase.
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5/6/2019 – Last time our columnist wrote on the life and career of Oleg Pervakov. This week he offers a glimpse of the eminent composer's work from a recently published collection of endgame studies. He also sets a challenge for readers to solve three of them. Your move! | Photo: ChessPro.ru
Inspirational studies for tournament players
4/6/2019 – Recently a new book on endgame studies was published, written by IM Yochanan Afek. He belongs to that very rare breed of composition grandmasters, with more studies to his name than we have seen elsewhere. His book is a treasure trove that provides insights into how, on occasion, the games Afek or others have played gave him the ideas for his study compositions. Review by Frederic Friedel.
Guy West 12/3/2018 08:16
I don't have a program with me to check this idea, but in response to the complaints about 4...Kg4 ruining the composition, would adding a white pawn on h3 at the start solve that problem? Just looking at it on the screen it doesn't appear to help white mate by any means other than the published solution, but it does force the knight fork to prevent a faster mate and it stops the King running to g4. I'd love to have 'fixed' the greatest study of all time! LOL
jsaldea12 3/10/2018 01:40
Frederic Friedel
Sir:
That chess puzzle by Guz Van Breukelen is very, very beautiful. How about this chess puzzle of mine, finally complete and finesse after more than 30 yrs in the making. How about letting your readers make comments. No one seems to respond, not even Alphazero, and I am dying for comments.
White to mate black in 8 moves:
White: Ka3, Pa4, P-a5, Ba7, B-a8,Pc2, Pd6,Pe2, Nf3, Ng1, Pg5
Black: Pa6 Pc3. Kc4, Pc5, B-c8, N-d5,Pd7, Pe3, Pf5, Pg7, Ph3
Solution : (1) Pg6 P-h5 (2) B-b6 P-h4 (3) B-d8…P-h3 (4) b-g5…P-f4 (5) BxP P-h2 (6) BxPe3…NxB (7)N-e5…K-d4 (8)Ng1- f3 Mate.
Thank you and regards.
Jose S. Aldea
jsaldea12 3/9/2018 03:07
Very very BEAUTIFUL, 7 TIMES.
macauley 2/15/2018 01:09
@HKS The study was being presented by Hans Böhm in Wijk aan Zee, which is what motivated the revisiting of the position.
MHBChessFan 2/14/2018 06:10
4... Kg4 5. Qf6 Kxg3 6. Qe5+ Kf2 7. Qh2+ Ke1 8. Qg1+ Ke2 9.Qg4+ Ke1 10. Ke5 and, somewhere in the cloud, Frederic's Friedel engine, Fritz 16, announces proudly mate in 20 and mine announces only +12.08
Another version, with Black Knight on e5 instead of g5 at the starting position, is far more clearer because the win, after 4...Kg4, is straightforward: 5. Qh4+ Kf3 6. Kxe5.
It is this version that should be presented in medias and YouTube for casual solvers, the former requires too much computer-assisted analysis.
Too much unclear sidelines cripple studies nowadays.
smurfo 2/14/2018 01:56
What a nice article.
fartpants 2/14/2018 12:54
Unfortunately 4...Kg4! somewhat spoils the problem. It is even possible that Black can somehow draw after this; certainly there is nothing immediately decisive for White.
HKS 2/13/2018 10:42
This beautiful study has been published on this website some years ago with all the accompanying stories. Unfortunately, the old links do not seem to work. I wonder why ChessBase decided to recycle it now?
and a happy new year 2/13/2018 12:07
Former British Champion Julian Hodgson gives an entertaining lecture on the latter stages of this puzzle on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAazprr0Kbw
Zeiksnor 2/13/2018 01:36
This solution to this study is truly spectacular. But what is the role of the bishop on b4 and the pawn on c5? Does the bishop only occupy the b4 square to prevent 8...Nb4 and 9...Nbd3 in the main variation? And is the pawn on c5 only there to prevent the white king being in check in the starting position? For me that makes the study less beautiful.
Jonmeista 2/13/2018 12:13
A fantastic problem and a fantastic article!
BornToulouse 2/13/2018 12:06
I just unleashed Deep Shredder 13 on the puzzle. It came up with the correct solution within a few seconds.
In order to postpone Black's loss as long as possible however, it did not pick the fork 4. ... Sf7+, but rather moved the King 4. ... Kg4 (as also shown as a variant in Fritz' "Full solution" above). White then has to slowly strangle Black to death. Impressive to watch, but no pleasure at all.
I like the shown solution with all the underpromotions a lot, but since the fork cannot be forced, the puzzle's beauty does not show up with precise play from Black. Or am I missing some point here?
MJFitch 2/12/2018 11:56
Congrats Dominic Lehane on winning the prize!!...Enjoy it!!!...Nice Puzzle and story/article Chessbase!!!
KevinC 2/12/2018 10:12
That may be the greatest study ever composed. It is truly amazing. When it was first shown in the final Tata report, I noted that the Shredder cloud engine solved it in less than a second, and you can see a picture of that above.


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"Hunger Games" with Katniss and Peeta became a world wide phenomenon. First, with the novels by Suzanne Collins, and then with the feature films from Lionsgate. Collins wrote a prequel novel to the "Hunger Games" book series titled "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," which focused on Coriolanus Snow (who would later be President Snow) as a boy.
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