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1970's Footy Enigmas
Posted on July 23, 2013 by theholyboot
I'm always on the lookout for a different angle on Australian football, for that little gem below the mainstream surface. Dreamteam, standard AFL merchandising and the Footy Show leave me cold and empty. There must be something more!
Well there is. It has been with great interest that I've watched a most unique series of footy t-shirts develop. I've kept in close contact with t-shirt creator, Chris Rees, who has been inspired by his childhood love of footy cards. Whilst my own footy card obession was short and intense from the years 1988-1990, Rees offers an earlier view, drawing on his 1975-79 Scanlens collection.
On display is one of the classic footy card poses, the camera balk. with ball tauntingly held in cameraman's face.
Growing up on the North West Coast of Tasmania meant that Rees relied on three things for his VFL fix as a kid; the wireless, The Winners and of course, Scanlens footy cards.
"Often I have no memory of seeing someone play, but I have had their card as long as I can remember. That frozen moment at training is how I know those players" recalls Rees. With these images burned into his mind, he has gone about adapting these old images in a unique yet familiar style. They now sit perfectly on a new range of t-shirts he has brought out titled '1970's Footy Enigmas.'
As the name suggests, this isn't the 'A-list' of VFL stars; the Harts, the Jesaulenkos and the Keith Greigs. (I know, there was only one of each, but I just love this 'footy-speak') Rather, these t-shirts celebrat the cult heroes, with the odd champ thrown in for good measure. So dust off your old footy cards and compare notes as we take a look at the players chosen, one from each old VFL club, in club-by-club alphabetical order.
When talking 'cult heroes' it's hard to go past one Vin Catoggio. His unique hairstyle and catchy name has helped him stay in the current footballing fan's mind. I like how Rees has used his hair as his defining feature, without need for mouth, eyes or nose.
"I always loved his name and his afro, and they way he defied tackling. His story grabbed me anew when I read Brent Crosswell's account of the 1973 Grand Final. It was Vin's first game and he didn't make an impact – something it took him a long time to get over" recalls Rees.
I said that there was a champion or two in the mix, and Peter McKenna certainly fits the bill. With his mop-top of hair and a short lived career as a singer, McKenna's finest work was still done out of the goal square dressed in black and white. However he fits the quirky nature of this range of t-shirts.
"I was tempted by Rene Kink, Billy Picken and Ron Wearmouth but the sealer was when someone gave me a book with frame-by-frame pics of his kicking style, with his Beatle mop flopping about." (You can see the frame-by-frame images of McKenna in the first short video here) Add to that McKenna's 'Hey Hey it's Saturday' connection of being ingloriously replaced as co-host by Ozzie Ostrich, and he's right at home here.
The bespectacled full forward Geoff Blethyn is another whose unique appearance on the footy field has kept him in the public eye all these years later. Unfair really, given that he did kick 100 goals in a season. If McKenna were the Beatle-esque footballer of the time, then Blethyn can be described as the VFL's Buddy Holly.
"I have two Dons cards from '72 and they are both shot from the same up-the-shorts angle." says Rees of his oldest football cards. "I always liked this card and could never imagine quite how he played with the specs. When I recently looked up his record and saw that he kicked a ton in 1972, that was the genesis of my idea to bring some of these unfairly forgotten players back to people's attention."
A recent Age article by Peter Hanlon celebrated both Blethyn and this range of t-shirts. It's great to get Geoff's reaction to being 'immortalised' on fabric.
"We're all a bit quirky in our own way," was his take on the players selected.
Read the article here http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/blethyn-specs-a-tall-order-20130625-2ov7y.html
Contrary to popular reports, Kevin Murray was not the only player to pull on a Fitzroy jumper during the 60's and 70's. " I eliminated Kevin Murray as he has had plenty of (fully warranted) attention in recent years. But it seems like Superboot was due for some recognition. He's a sneaky inclusion in a 1970s-era list as he really shone at Fitzroy in 1982 and 83."
Quinlan spearheaded the Roys to a final tilt at the ultimate success in both their 1983 and 1986 finals campaigns. The Roys fell short on both occasions. In a career of two halves, Bernie played for 9 years at Footscray before heading over to Fitzroy where he equally spent 9 seasons. At this point in time, he is ranked 7th on the all time games played list.
I really like Rees's explanation on why he chose Gary Dempsey as Footscray's 70's enigma. "I picked Dempsey on his record – not the Brownlow medal but his club Best and Fairests, six in eight years. It sounds like he was carrying that club."
The Dogs didn't have much going for them while Dempsey was around. Sometimes a player can keep a club going in tough times in terms of giving fans something to cheer about. It reminds me of what Matthew Richardson meant at Punt Road.
To be honest, other than knowing the name 'Scratcher Neal' and that he played for Geelong, I knew not one thing else about the man. In my research, I came across this great little piece on Scratcher on the 'the terrace' website. And to me, this is what Rees's t-shirt series is all about, bringing long forgotten footballers back into some form of limelight.
"I love his nickname and that he's that he's from Wynyard (Tasmania-also the Cats) and his outrageous red hair. In his card from 1982 his fringe is ruler straight and his hair is a shiny copper helmet." says Rees of this Geelong wingman. And the nickname Scratcher derives from his background as a potato farmer! A great addition to the enigma series.
If ever there was an enigma, it was Michael Tuck. He has played the most games of league football in history, virtually an extra season's worth than his nearest rival Kevin Bartlett. Consider also that he also played 50 games in the reserves before consolidating himself in the senior side! Remarkable longevity.
"I hate Hawthorn, so this one was always going to be a challenge. But Tucky never whacked anyone, never grandstanded, never staged for a free – just kept going and going and going. I didn't think any of his footy cards really captured Tucky so I painstakingly drew this one from a bleary frame taken from YouTube." His wiry frame is indeed captured here. As are his 7 premiership cups!
Robbie Flower is responsible for one of my very first footballing memories. It was in his Forest Hill sports shop, served by him, that I brought Dale Weightman's iron-on number 3 to put on the back of my Richmond. Flower is the the first league footballer I can remember laying eyes upon.
"Robbie Flower stood out clearly as the man to represent the Dees. No still picture seemed to convey the essence of Flower which to me was his run. So I went back to YouTube and drew a sequence of 12 little Robbies."
I agree that the sense of balance and movement you get from theses '12 little Robbies' encapsulates the great man well. "It's mysterious how it's established wisdom that he was Melbourne's only good player for about a 10 year period and came out of it with ONE best and fairest." says Rees. A trivia question I would most certainly have gotten wrong.
Watch Flower in action!
I particularly love the cery 1970's moustache and hair which David Dench is sporting in this image. If you averaged every white Australian male from the 1970's, then David Dench is what you'd end up with.
"I was stuck on North Melbourne – Nolan? Cable? Kekovich? Dench? I approached the highest profile Roos supporter I could reach, Tim Rogers. He was unequivocal – it had to be Dench. I always loved his square head, his moustache and his manner when he was captain-for-a-day in the Roos 2nd flag in 77."
Dench certainly played out of his skin in the drawn grand final. His move forward provided a catalyst in the final term, and he kicked 2 of his career's 29 goals on this day. A week later, he held aloft the premierhsip cup.
"The only players with tatts in my card collection are Kevin Murray and Bones. His name, his tatts, and his legendary toughness set him apart in my mind."
"Then I saw the photos of him Rennie Ellis took on Grand Final Day 1974. A smoke while he does he up his boots pre-game, a tinnie on field after the win. I took inspiration from the pics, but changed his pose so not to incur Rennie's wrath from beyond the grave."
View Rennie Ellis's glorious photograph of Bones McGhie HERE!
I'm not too sure what needs adding here, other than to say I get a thrill whenever I end up at the local supermarket at the same time Bones does! As a Tiger I'll be sure to add this ripper to my wardrobe.
Cowboy Neale is often remembered as the bloke who king hit Peter Hudson in the 1971 grand final. The hit caued Hudson to miss a string of gettable goals which left him stranded on 150 sausage rolls for the season, just one shy of breaking the record. However Cowboy often misses out on the true adulation he deserves.
"I always thought of him as a lovable rogue, with a reputation for biff. I was surprised when I looked into it that he basically won the 1966 flag off his own boot, but old Barry Breen gets all the press." says Rees of his choice for Kevin Neale.
"His card was chewed by the dog at some stage, and the few extra creases around the face thanks to Minnie gave him a very smiley look. This is the one proper press photos that I have used, and I am happy to settle up if the photographer wants to make himself known."
Finally we come to Peter Bedford, another name I'm glad that Rees has brought to light. I actually know the name very well, a Brownlow Medalist who grew up barracking and playing for Port Melbourne in the VFA before joining South down the road in the big league. But what I didn't know was of his love for cricket and that he represented Victoria 39 times as a batsman/leg-spinner. Sounds like the exact thing the national team needs right now! And upon finding Peter Hanlon's piece on Bedford from late last year, I learned that cricket was his first love!
"I have Bedford's 1974 and 1976 footy cards. I have always been impressed that he struck the same lairy "selling the dummy" pose. (see below) I don't recall seeing him play but as a Brownlow medallist and Shield cricketer he commanded respect anyway."
So where can I get myself one of these t-shirts?
Wonderful question, I'm so glad you asked. You can view and purchase the wide range of styles, sizes and colours that these prints come in, from small to triple XL, from mens and women's t-shirts to hoodies and long sleeve tops… all at the link below
1970's Footy Enigma T-Shirts
An example of how the Quinlan t-shirt comes up on this very pasty Fitzroy supporter.
You can also follow Chris on twitter @4Boat if you would like to make contact or have any questions about a purchase.
I think these shirts and designs are just the sought of thing that needs to be injected into the often sterile AFL marketplace, and I look forward to seeing them proudly worn at the footy. As Molly Meldrum would say, (whilst wearing the Cowboy Neale hoody) do yourselves a favour!
Posted in Musings	| Tagged 1970's, afl, Bedford, Carlton, clothing, Collingwood, essendon, Fitzroy, footscray, Footy, footy cards, Geelong, Hawthorn, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Peter McKenna, Quinlan, Richmond, Robbie McGhie, Scanlens, South Melbourne, st.kilda, tee-shirts, Vin Catoggio	| 2 Replies
Footy Books
Footy books. I have hundreds of them. Sourced from op-shops, fetes and second hand book stores. I even shell out for the odd new book. My books don't just sit their gathering dust either, I give them a good working over where possible.
My nana and pa in their Richmond days
My love of both footy and its reading material stems back to my nana and pa's house in Forest Hill. Old Richmondites, they 'migrated' like many from the suburb labelled 'Struggletown' to the south-east and finally eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Amongst books on gardening, Australian history and the odd Agatha Christie novel sat a clump of books on our great Australian game. I spent many hours poring over these books, and they have shaped my love of the game, it's history, it's social meaning, it's sense of humour.
Some of my nana and pa's footy book collection
I'm going to focus this post on the two books which most captured my imagination; The Courage Book of VFL Finals-1897-1973 and Grand Finals, Victorian Australian Rules Greatest Moments. Both are similar in that they move chronologically through the history of the VFL, and I often read them in tandem. They say a picture tells a thousand words, and as a young boy, it was mostly the pictures I focussed on, along with the match details. As such I'm still yet to read much of the text!
When my grandparents sadly passed, I snaffled the Courage book of Finals , and the below photo is a great memory I have of my nana. You could hardly touch one of her books without a plethora of related news clippings tumbling forth.
Below is a photo of the 1907 grand final between Carlton and South Melbourne which sits on the back cover of the book of finals, opposed to the 'current' image (1973) on the front. I looked at this photo endlessly as a boy, trying to comprehend just how the marquee styled pavilion and treed terraces was in fact the same MCG I grew up with, a concrete jungle.
What strikes me is the carnival atmosphere this photo captures. People up trees to gain a better vantage point, trees which are positioned in front of the pavilion and grand stand, the warm September sun as Melbourne emerges from the depths of winter. What you're looking at is in fact the precursor to the old and new Southern Stands. I'm still mesmerised by this photo.
This photo of the packed footy tram is a classic, though not necessarily connected to Essendon's 1897 flag. It says to me that as much as things change, they also stay the same. Stripped back, it's a photo of football supporters on their way to the footy by tram. I did that myself a number of times last year. Something that of course made me snicker as a youngun' was the fact that the bulk of early grand finals in the VFL were umpired by Ivo Crapp. Still raises a grin. To the untrained eye it may appear however to be a brief report on the days work by the man in white.
From sifting through these old pictures, scores and words as an impressionable child, a deep impact has been made. I was intrigued that Fitzroy was the early powerhouse of the VFL, was amazed that St.Kilda took years to actually register a single victory, and even more amazed that the two clubs played off the the 1913 grand final! How different things could have been had the Saints gotten up? The below photo also shows a great shot of the scoreboard which sat in the forward pocket a the punt road end of the MCG, not all too far from where the kids play up at the cricket these days.
For more reading on the MCG scoreboards and 1913 grand final, these are some fantastic posts on the scoreboard pressure blog.
As a young Tiger growing up in a Tiger household, I stopped often at the Richmond premiership years, and 1920 in particular. The phrase 'We Ate 'em Alive' was born after beating the hated rival Collingwood, who'd the previous year downed the Tiges in the big one. My nana still lived with a hatred for Collingwood born from the streets of Richmond, and as both my grandparents were born in 1920, I always found this page a bit special. A quick peruse of this site should quickly reveal that I have a thing for old footy grounds. Well much of that too can be traced back to hours spent trawling through these books, pouring over grainy old photos such as these.
The photo on the left is of the Junction Oval on grand final day 1944, Fitzroy defeating the Tiges to claim their final league flag. It's hard to spot them, but my grandparents, my nanas sisters and cousins, they're all there. And why a grand final at the Junction Oval I hear you ask? Well the MCG was out of bounds, home to American and Australian troops amid World War 2.
The photo in the top right corner takes us to Fitzroy's Brunswick Street Oval for the 1903 semi-final between local rivals Carlton and Collingwood, at a time when the MCG wasn't the assumed home of finals footy that it was soon to become.
And below that is a wonderful still from the 1950 grand final between North and Essendon, another 'forgotten' grand final given North's lack of success until the 1970's. Imagine if Waverley Park could have seated people between the boundary and the fence!? Would have doubled the capacity!
The composition of this photo always appealed to me, the fickle ball leading the players a merry dance as it tumbled this way and that. The Richmond player is Charlie Priestly, the Melbourne player more noted as a master coach, Norm Smith.
Whenever the 1977 drawn grand final is mentioned, as it often is, the image in the top left hand corner is what comes to my mind first. The exhaustion and demoralisation is palpable, though it turns out simply to be Len Thompson receiving a 3 quarter time mouth wash, a fact I only realised as I read the caption for the first time yesterday!
To the right of that is one of the most dramatic pictures in Australian football history. Essendon champion, John Coleman, tearily walking away from the tribunal a shattered young man, a four week suspension ending his 1951 final series before it began. Geelong defeated the Bombers by 11 points come grand final day, surely Coleman would have made the difference? We'll never know.
Below Coleman we find the old MCG fence, unable keep the bumper 1908 grand final crowd of 50,261 at bay. However it has lived to tell the tale. Between the two 50 metre arcs on the southern wing of the MCG, the very same 1884 boundary fence, with some slight modifications, still stands, making it clearly the oldest part of the MCG, not so closely followed by the 1985 fly-swat light towers.
The photo on the left shows action from the Geelong v Collingwood grand final in 1937 in pretty much the same position that the 1907 Carlton v South photo was taken (above). The Southern stand was brand spanking new in 1937, and as you look through these books, the action suddenly becomes recognisable with the arrival of the grand stand, suddenly looking 'modern' compared with the treed MCG, the knickerbockers and numberless jumpers.
To the right of that photo sees St.Kilda's Bob Murray, taking what I see as the most graceful of marks in the 1966 grand final, while further right we see EJ the showman in the 1961 semi final against the Saints, triumphantly holding the ball aloft, giving the appearance that he'd just performed quite a feat to secure it.
Finally, as the books were published mid 1970's, the arrival of glossy coloured images filtered their way into the production. The book on Grand Finals comes complete with an 'Action Packed 70's' colour section, wedged in between the years 1945 and 1946, akin to a Cleo sealed section. Again we see the characterful old Southern Stand, packed to the hilt, as Carlton and Richmond battled it out for the 1972 premiership.
I hope you've enjoyed my trip down memory lane. You may even recall these books, or have more recent copies which were reprinted in later decades. While the old days of footy are at times difficult to connect with the game we know today, it's good to know where footy has come from, that during the 1920's, the 50's or the 70's, the game was always seen as we see it today, quicker and more skilled. We may look back on today's football in 100 years with a nostalgic glance to a funny looking game they used to play on real grass! Who knows?
The Courage book of VFL Finals may have come to a halt in 1973, but my father, in his early 20's, utilised the several 'Further Results' pages at books rear, maintaining detailed finals results up until 1976, along with a cameo appearance from the 1980 grand final.
Posted in Boot's Library, Musings	| Tagged afl, books, Carlton, Collingwood, Courage, essendon, Footy, footy grounds, Forest Hill, Grand Finals, grandparents, Ivo Crapp, John Coleman, MCG, Melbourne, Norm Smith, Richmond, second hand, South Melbourne, sport books, st.kilda, Ted Whitten, tram, VFL	| 11 Replies
Nice Statistic – Hawthorn's Premiership Gold
Posted on September 27, 2012 by theholyboot
History. Records. Come Saturday afternoon at the MCG, the players won't be giving these two words a thought in the world and rightly so. It is the now that they must live in. But alas, I am not playing in the AFL Grand Final, and therefore wish to delve into the past.
Should Hawthorn win the 2012 premiership, they will break a long held, little know record. It has been well documented that Hawthorn has won at least one premiership in every decade since the 1960's, which equals Melbourne's record of 5 straight decades with at least one premiership (1920's-1960's.) Should Hawthorn overcome the Bloods on Saturday, they will become the first VFL/AFL team to claim premierships in six consecutive decades, a truly remarkable feat of sustained success.
To illustrate, the three most successful clubs, Essendon, Carlton and Collingwood, have at best managed just four consecutive premiership yielding decades, giving an idea of just how successful the Hawthorn Football Club has become since John Kennedy took a hold of them and since they changed from Mustard Pots and Mayblooms into predatorial Hawks.
What makes it all the more astonishing is the meagre beginnings of the club. Formed in 1902, the club unsuccessfully progressed through the Metropolitan league, the VFA and into the VFL, all with a bare trophy cabinet. Once in the VFL, they spent the 1920's-1950's as a cellar dweller, and along with the other 1925 inclusions to the league, Footscray and North Melbourne, didn't look like winning a premiership.
Footscray was the first of this trio to break through for a flag in 1954. But just seven years later in 1961, as both Hawthorn and Footscray met on the big day, it was the 'underdog' Hawthorn who were the sentimental favourites, winning their first flag and beginning an astonishing run of success.
But they come up against a formidable foe in Sydney, also once the easybeats of the league. In fact the Swans (continuation of the South Melbourne into the Sydney Football Club) have undergone a transformation not unlike Hawthorn's in the 1960's. After six fruitless decades, surpassed only by St.Kilda's 1890's-1950's drought, the Swans shed their easybeat image, internally rebranding themselves as the Bloods, leading to premiership success in 2005.
She'll be a grand old game come Saturday.
Thanks as always to http://www.footyjumpers.com/ for the Hawthorn logo images!
Posted in Nice Statistic	| Tagged 1950's, afl, Bloods, decades, flags, Footy, Grand Final, Hawks, Hawthorn, MCG, premierships, South Melbourne, Sydney Swans, VFA, VFL	| 1 Reply
Home & Away #5 Lakeside Oval
Posted on June 12, 2012 by theholyboot
Lakeside Oval: League venue: 1897-1981. League (VFL/AFL) matches: 704 (7 finals, including 1899 & 1901 Grand Finals). Record Attendance: 40,401, South Melb v St.Kilda, 1923
This is part 5 in my series 'Home & Away', a look back at Melbourne's old VFL grounds from a range of photos I took in the mid-2000's. South Melbourne's picturesque Lakeside Oval was last used as a league venue in the same year that I was brought into this world, 1981, as South Melbourne was bundled up north to become the Sydney Swans. As such, I clearly never saw a Sherrin kicked in anger on the famous old ground. In fact I only once saw it as a footy ground before it became rectangularised, when dad took us to look around in the early 1990's. I remember standing in the shadows of the old stand and dad being pleased that the tunnel in the outer terracing still existed. Not for long.
An very rare aerial shot of the Lake Oval dated between 1920-1940. Just over the back of the ground you can make out the newly planted palm trees which still standtoday. Image courtesy of http://www.austadiums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1663
I ventured down to the Lake Oval during grand final week of 2005, desperate to soak up something of the Swans past to make relevant the impending 'interstate' grand final. I know that's a very Victorian-centric mindset, but it's what I needed to do to get myself up! Now there may have been just the old stand left, but I intended to explore it as far as was reasonable. But to set the scene, here is some old 'Bloods' passion which was bursting out!
The view down to Albert Park from Clarendon Street South Melbourne is still dominated by the 1926 old red brick stand.
Note the car in the bottom corner? Well that was an Albert Park worker who had come to paint over this battle cry. Have they no sense of theatre?
The oval, which is now home to Athletics Victoria, has been been spruced up somewhat. The soccer pictch remains, although a runnning track around it has made for an oval shape returning to the venue, along with the name reverting to Lakeside Stadium, having been Bob Jane Stadium for a number of years. But as I took this photo, uncertainty surrounded the future of the grandstand, which was in a state of decay. The council and park were keen to help it on its way down, the Sydney Football Club not so. A compromise was finally reached, saving the stand.
The old stand hanging onto life, and an artists impression of what has since been turned into reality. While it is no longer a grandstand as such, it is far more a part of the oval than when it looked forlornly on at South Melbourne Hallas from the old forward pocket. (The wooden blue bench seats were snapped up from the Waverley Park fire sale!)
Clearly all that was left of South's old home was the old grandstand. Luckily however there were still traces of days long gone, with various artifacts still remaining, some obvious, some well hidden. Below is a collection of bits and pieces which provides an interesting time capsual. Most if not all of these gems have since been removed with the redevelopment. Here are some fading images from yesteryear.
The old entrance gates and ticket boxes were obviously all locked up, though still proudly wore the fading licks of red South Melbourne paint. These doorways have been maintained in the new structure, far narrower than the modern day door!
From the outside all you could see was a rusty grate and darkness. The flash of my camera revealed some lovely red and white tiling of what could only be the loos. And similarly, the photo below these was another 'stick the camera under the dark door and see what comes out' moment. The photo has been significantly brightened and demonstrates how unloved the stand had become.
Then I plucked up some courage. There was an old door which appeared to be heavily locked. However as I fiddled around, I realised I could get it open. I simply could not tell what was in front of me it was that dark, so I quickly headed in and took a few shots with the flash. I had no idea of what or even who was in there, so I quickly departed to inspect my photos. What I found was the old nightclub 'Redheads', which operated well before my time but was apparantly quite the place to be!
The 1975 film 'The Great McCarthy,' which follows the fortunes of South Melbourne's gun full-forward recruit from the bush, has some of the most vivid and complete shots of the old Lakeside Oval in what would turn out to be it's final days. Here are some stills I took off the telly a while back. Also, check out the youtube clip below, where someone has bothered to take all of the best 'lake oval' shots and put them into one clip from said movie.
It would be remiss of me not to mention the Night Premiership or Consolation Cup played at South's Lake Oval between 1956 and 1971. Being the only ground with floodlights, the VFL decided that the teams who missed out on the final four would play off for the 'best of the rest' tag under lights! My dad remembers the jubilation he felt in 1962 as Richmond 'actually won something!' This was the precurser to what is now the preseason competition, which has become nothing more than an annoyance to fans. But night footy in the 1950's, though there was the odd dark pocket or four, must have been exciting for Melbournians post-war. Heck… 36,000 turned up for Carlton and North in 1965!
As I drove past recently, the lights (not original) were on at the conclusion of an athletics meet. I quickly snapped this pic to try and somewhat commemorate the old night series at the ground.
Finally, there are some other stands and grouns which share a connection with Lakeside Oval. While SANFL club Norwood's grandstand is not identical, it is the closest stand that I have come across to South's old 1926 red brick number. It is essentially the same design, there are just a few 'frilly' bits which differ.
image from http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7086/7144620767_b32f2438d1_z.jpg
And just last weekend the family and I took a trip to Maryborough, and decided to drop in on the picturesque Princes Park Oval, complete with resplendent old stand. What interested me however was a plaque which mentioned that this stand was based on South Melbournre's 1886 stand, precurser to Souths 'current' stand, before it burnt down in the 1920's. What we also noticed were the surrounding street names….Clarendon, Napier, Raglan, Albert, Palmerston, Park…all names of well known South Melburne streets. Whether a coincidence or not, it certainly felt like a little bit of old Emerald Hill as we cruised down Clarendon Street Maryborough.
It's often said that the coaches box can represent a game of chess, but at the old Lake Oval, you left your chess game at the entrance gate!
Make sure you check out Billy Millers wonderful videos on all the old VFL grounds.
http://www.bellestorie.com/aroundthegrounds/lakeside/video/lakesideoval_0.html
And a lovely little timelapse of the old footy come soccer ground becoming Victoria's premier athletics track
http://youtu.be/ueC2tEygRnE
Football Grounds of Melbourne, Caruso, Fiddian and Main.
http://www.austadiums.com/
http://stats.rleague.com/afl/venues/lake_oval.html
http://www.majorprojects.vic.gov.au/
Posted in Home & Away	| Tagged 2005 Premiership, afl, Athletics Victoria, Bob Jane Stadium, Footy, grandstand, Lakeside Oval, Maryborough, Night Premiership, Norwood Oval, red brick stand, South Melbourne, suburban grounds, Sydney Swans, The Great McCarthy	| 5 Replies
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Wesley Snipes: General Izzi
Paramount's forthcoming Coming to America sequel will co-star Wesley Snipes. Snipes will play General Izzi, the ruler of a neighboring nation of Zamunda. Jermaine Fowler is also set to star.
Snipes also worked with Murphy and Brewer on the forthcoming Rudy Ray Moore biopic Dolemite is My Name, which is set to bow in September at the Toronto Film Festival.
[December 14 2013 Gallowwalkers on Netflix – Cowboys and Zombies, why not? ]
VMI Worldwide recently brought the horror/western movie Gallowwalkers, which stars Wesley Snipes, out from the hiding, while Wrekin Hill Entertainment picked up USA release rights to the film, with plans to release this year. A brand-new release trailer has been released.
The concept of the Gallowwalkers :They kill people and take their skin for a week or so and get new skin.
The horror-western angle. Cowboys and Zombies, why not?
Release date: (USA) Lionsgate released Gallowwalkers on DVD (plus Digital UltraViolet), Digital Download and VOD (Video on Demand) on Aug. 6
Actor Wesley Snipes was released from a halfway house July 26.
In 2010, Snipes was convicted of willfully failing to file tax returns from 1999 to 2001.
Snipes finished his three-year sentence in a federal prison in April and has been at the halfway house since then.
Upon his release, Snipes will be mandated to one year of supervised probation.
Wesley Snipes production
Wesley Snipes may be at the April 27 dinner with the president (and 3,000 others) of the White House Correspondents' Association, affectionately known as the "nerd prom" because it draws a wide cross section of movers and shakers from the worlds of journalism, politics, as well as Hollywood all coming together for one night. The dinner, in the Washington Hilton ballroom, begins around 7:30 (realistically 8). At the lower entrance, on Florida Avenue, the hotel permits non-guests to stand behind a rope line and watch the ticketed guests arrive. It's crowded, and there's a lot of screaming, but usually the Hollywood types will walk over to the "civilian" rope line to say hello. Snipes must gain approval to leave home detention.
[April 8]
Wrekin Hill Entertainment has picked up USA and Vmi Worldwide is repping worldwide rights to the horror/western movie Gallowwalkers, which stars Wesley Snipes, at the ongoing European Film Market, happening concurrently with the Berlin International Film Festival, where they are screening it for international buyers – the obvious goal being to sell the film to distributors all over the world, and get the film in front of paying audiences This was one of a handful of projects Wesley Snipes produced before he began his prison sentence in 2010. It was never released, although it did play the film festival circuit a bit.
what seems to be new interest in *black westerns* like Django Unchained, and the upcoming They Die By Dawn, may have influenced the decision to revive this film, which was made before the others.
The film was originally a vehicle for Chinese star, Chow Yun-Fat of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Pirates of the Caribbean fame
Hollywood star Wesley Snipes will now remain under house arrest for the next four months in order to complete the three year sentence he was handed. He'll be under the supervision of the New York Community Corrections Office, which oversees people in the Bronx and Brooklyn areas of New York, as well as New Jersey. According to the community corrections office, there are three detention houses for pre-release inmates — one in Brooklyn, one in New Jersey and one in The Bronx
Bronx Halfway House
[2534 CRESTON AVENUE ,BRONX, NY.]
Brooklyn Halfway House
[ 988 MYRTLE AVENUE BROOKLYN, NY] The population varies at each facility, but inmates are given pass privileges with ankle bracelets.
At the time of his conviction in April 2008, prosecutors said Snipes had earned more than $37m (£24m) in gross income.
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Anne Heche: Deputy Superintendent for the Chicago Police Department
Deputy Superintendent Katherine Brennan, Chicago P.D.
Katherine Brennan is the Department Superintendent for the Chicago Police Department. She is portrayed by Anne Heche.
[May 11 2018 Cancelled: D.I.A. Deputy Director Patricia Campbell (Anne Heche), The Brave ]
D.I.A. Deputy Director Patricia Campbell (Heche), The Brave, has lowered its battle flag. NBC today canceled the freshman drama, one of three military-themed series introduced by the broadcast networks this season. Of them, only CBS' SEAL Team made it to a second season. The CW freshman Valor also has been canceled.
[January 10 Anne Heche asks James Tupper for custody and child support of son Atlas ]
at the Los Angeles premiere 'Big Little Lies' at TCL Chinese Theatre on February 7, 2017 in Hollywood, California.
January 10 2018 Anne Heche filed a petition to establish custody and child support of their 8-year old son, asking the court to determine joint custody and "reasonable visitation" between her and James Tupper regarding their son, Atlas.
One-time divorced Heche is also asking that Tupper pay any legal fees she may endure during the court battle. Heche. 48, and Tupper, 52, began dating in 2007. Heche has a 15-year-son named Homer from a previous relationship.
[November 8 2017 The Brave aired its 13th episode, stars Anne Heche ]
Anne Heche stars in The Brave
The Brave is a NBC drama show that aired its first episode on September 25, 2017. It stars Anne Heche,
January 29th: The Brave finale drew a 0.7 adults 18-49 and 3.9 million total viewers (Live+Same Day), flat in the demo vs. last week. The NBC drama grew 15% in total viewers.
January 22d: The Brave (3.4 mil/0.6) dipped to its second-lowest numbers ever.
January 15th: The Brave (NBC) 0.7/3 3.91 million rose by two tenths, a significant improvement
January 8: NBC's The Brave returned from its holiday break to barely 3 million total viewers and a 0.6 demo rating, down 33 percent on both counts (from its most recent, apres-Voice airing) to (obviously) hit season lows.
NBC's scripted series will start coming back from their holiday broadcast hiatuses at the very start of the new year, with Monday drama The Brave leading the pack with a January 8 midseason premiere. In announcing a bit of midseason scheduling last week, NBC also tucked in a note that "The Brave" wouldn't go past 13 episodes this season. It came complete with a praise quote from a network honcho and the verbiage "a decision on a second season will be made at a later date."
November 27 "The Brave" (0.9, 4.7 million) was down slightly.
November 13 The Brave pulled another 1.0 rating [1.0/4 5.11mil] in the key demo for NBC.
Nov. 6 NBC's military series rose 25% among adults 18-49 from last week. "The Brave" (1.0, 5.2 million) was up in both measures from last week.
October 31 The Brave clocked 0.8, 4.7M, marking a series low
October 23 5.293 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 1.0, #T7
The Brave did a flat 1.0.
"The Brave" (1.0/4 in 18-49, 5.2 million viewers overall from 10:01-11 p.m. ET):
· Is currently running within 0.1 of last week's rating in 18-49 (1.0 vs. 1.1) and is up in total viewers (5.160 million vs. 5.139 million), pending updates.
October 9 The Brave lost -0.1%: 5,138,000
NBC's new drama The Brave was solid, with lifts over +40%
The Brave (NBC, 1.3, adjusted down a tenth, 6 million)
The Brave 1.3 1.9 +0.6 +46% 6.0 8.5 +2.6 +43%
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[July 22 Anne Heche and Wesley Snipes in Armed Response ]
Anne Heche in Armed Response August 4, 2017(limited, On Demand)
[February 7 Anne Heche as cannibal's mom ]
Divorce settlement amended.
Anne Heche is currently working on two films, My Friend Dahmer and Armed Response
Mother Dahmer
Anne Heche is the mother of cannibalistic murderer Jeffrey Dahmer in "My Friend Dahmer," an adaptation of John Backderf's award-winning graphic novel setup at Ibid Filmworks.
The story follows Dahmer through his senior year of high school and takes him right up to two weeks after high school graduation. While the real-life Jeffrey Dahmer went on to rape, murder and eat pieces from 17 male victims, you won't see Lynch filleting human body parts anytime soon. The story ends on the eve of Dahmer's first kill.
[November 7 2016 "elevated genre film" with Snipes and Anne Heche "Armed Response" ]
Armed Response, fka Temple, Simmons and and Wesley Snipes' Maandi Media DMM production company are producing with Michael Luisi through Simmons' Erebus Pictures, a specialty horror label he formed last year with WWE Studios to produce "elevated genre films," while Snipes and Anne Heche are among the film's stars, . Other cast members include Dave Annable ("Brothers and Sisters") and WWE wrestling star Seth Rollins. John Stockwell ("Middle of Nowhere," "Blue Crush") is directing. Based on a script by Matt Savelloni, the film reportedly tells the story of a team of trained operatives who experience strange phenomena after becoming trapped in an isolated military compound when its artificial intelligence shuts down. "Maandi strives to create elevated multi-media content that appeals to all demographics worldwide — from childhood fan to feature film collaborators."
[September 23 Anne Heche at TIFF: 'remarkable' Catfight ]
This odd, nasty yet rather funny little film tears apart ideas of sisterhood and female friendship and replaces them with burning hate and gratuitous violence. The knock-down-drag-out pounding that Sandra Oh and Anne Heche exchange not once but three times in Catfight, The choreography of the outrageously extended fight scenes by stunt coordinator Balint Pinczehelyi is remarkable, with each successive appearance of exhaustion and surrender giving way to another flailing bout of punches and kicks, accompanied by amped-up visceral sound effects. Venue: Toronto International Film Festival (Special Presentations)
Production companies: MPI Media Group
To put it bluntly, TIFF has become a dumping ground, serving up hundreds of new movies with hardly any discernible sense of curation. Aristic director Cameron Bailey seems to accept virtually any film with a couple starry names in the cast — provided that they agree to walk the red carpet, of course.
[May 16 2015 USA Network Dig: following soft ratings, decides to dump ]
Anne Heche stars in One Shot (2015) – Release Info 2015-06-01
Now, as its lead female star, Anne Heche sizes up "Dig" in retrospect a massive production focusing on tales of murder, conspiracy and intrigue in the fields of archeology, politics and religion.
The Jason Isaacs-fronted conspiracy drama was initially envisaged an event series that could return with a different mystery each season, ratings permitting.
However, following soft ratings, the network has decided not to pursue a second season, with Dig now existing as a limited ten-part event series (AKA miniseries).
[May 13 Anne Heche: more secrets, conspiracies and beliefs for 'Dig']
Air date Episode 18-49 demo % demo change Viewers (mil) % mil change
Thurs 3/5/2015 01-01 0.56 1.834
Thurs 3/12/2015 01-02 0.42 -25.00% 1.446 -21.16%
Thurs 3/19/2015 01-03 0.40 -4.76% 1.428 -1.24%
Thurs 4/2/2015 01-05 0.21 -44.74% 0.925 -30.82%
Thurs 4/9/2015 01-06 0.26 23.81% 0.948 2.49%
Thurs 4/16/2015 01-07 0.28 7.69% 1.075 13.40%
Thurs 4/30/2015 01-09 0.19 -9.52% 1.085 15.80%
Thurs 5/7/2015 01-10 0.28 47.37% 1.051 -3.13%
-100.00% -100.00%
Season averages 0.32 rating among adults 18-49 1.21 million total viewers
USA Network has'Dig' up for renewal – or not.
[March 10 religious conspiracy thriller gets sustaining ratings]
Split, Croatia not Jerusalem
Dig is in the realm of the Da Vinci Code, an incredible thriller set in an incredible location. It digs up the secrets, conspiracies and beliefs in a certain part of the world.
The combined runs across all three plays on USA on Thursday March 5:combined L3 audience of 5.8 MM total viewers.In total, a combined audience of almost 9MM tuned in for the premiere of Dig across USA and its sister networks, including Bravo, E!, Esquire and Oxygen from March 5- March 8.
[March 8] DIG, USA's religious conspiracy thriller — drew a 0.6 rating among adults 18-49 on March 5, with 1.83 million total viewers, was pretty close to the 0.55 rating and 1.75 million viewers USA drew on February 26 in the same time slot with an old Law & Order: SVU.
[September 17 2014
USA Network has made it official, picking up four additional episodes of DIG to bring the upcoming action thriller event series to a total of 10. The network also set a March 5 premiere date for the murder-mystery drama set against the backdrop of modern Jerusalem. FBI agent Peter Connelly under the guidance of his new boss, and occasional lover, Lynn Monahan (Anne Heche).
[September 17 Dig premiere March 5]
USA Network has pushed back the planned fall launch of its six-episode event series "Dig" to 2015 because of the conflict in the Middle East. USA is likely to pick up more episodes beyond the original order of six.
[September 8 USA Network Series Turns Split Into Jerusalem\
That was strange sight. You are walking through Split, enjoying peaceful atmosphere, maybe thinking where to go for a lunch. Suddenly, you find yourself in a Ban Mladen Street, surrounded by signs written in Hebrew, Israeli flags hung on buildings, and restaurant you always knew as Konoba Hvaranin offers a range of Middle East specialties. Finally – to make it even more bizarre – a bunch of Palestinian protesters is stopped by strong police forces. Parallel universe? No, just filming of another big TV production in Split.
[August 20 USA's 'Dig' Moves Filming to Croatia Sept. 1
The cast and crew had been lensing on location in Israel since early summer. After fighting broke out between Israel and Gaza in July, however, NBC execs made the difficult decision to pull out their teams, relocating them instead to Albuquerque while scouting for a location whose exteriors could pass as Jerusalem on screen.
They will arrive in the Balkans on Sept. 1 for 13 days of shooting. Interior shots will continue to be filmed in Albuquerque. Croatia was selected.
[July 19 Anne Heche: after the MacGuffin – Cannon Fodder: Israeli zombie movie set in Lebanon]
Anne Heche plays the head of the FBI office in Jerusalem
Anne Heche in 1997's "Volcano."
Heche will play the head of the FBI office in Jerusalem in USA Network's six-episode thriller "Dig," Heche is coming off a brief run in the NBC comedy "Save Me" and is doing an arc on NBC's Michael J. Fox Show. "Dig" will be filmed entirely in Jerusalem. The story line follows an FBI agent's search for a religious artifact linked to a potentially world-changing conspiracy hundreds of years in the making while investigating the murder of a female archaeologist. Any resemblance to a Dan Brown story or an Indiana Jones adventure is of course purely coincidental. UCP produces "Covert Affairs," "Psych," "Royal Pains" and "Suits" for USA; "Alphas," "Defiance," and "Warehouse 13" for Syfy. Owner(s) NBCUniversal (Comcast Corporation)
The MacGuffin technique is common in films, especially thrillers. Usually the MacGuffin is the central focus of the film in the first act, and thereafter declines in importance. Hitchcock defined a MacGuffin as the object around which the plot revolves, but as to what that object specifically is, he declared, "the audience don't care".
The main characters, Commander Doran and his Special Ops Team, are walking-talking stereotypes and the fact they speak Hebrew doesn't change a thing about this. Writer/director Eitan Gafny doesn't bother to create a brooding, unsettling atmosphere and seemingly doesn't want us to have sympathy for any of the characters (including the totally innocent Lebanese population). Painful to watch as a genuine horror fan, the extreme gore and excessive bloodshed is all computer-generated garbage that didn't require any cinematic craftsmanship.
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Losing wars we already won
By ScottHambrick / 1 Comment	/ Article
"Immigration" on our Southern border is the reconquest of territory lost in the Mex-Am war and the territory they sold in the Gadsden Purchase. Just because no one know the history doesn't change this.
From infogalactic, the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which concluded the Mexican-American War
The treaty gave the U.S. undisputed control of Texas, established the U.S.-Mexican border of the Rio Grande, and ceded to the United States the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming. In return, Mexico received $15 million[155] ($410 million today) – less than half the amount the U.S. had attempted to offer Mexico for the land before the opening of hostilities[156] – and the U.S. agreed to assume $3.25 million ($89 million today) in debts that the Mexican government owed to U.S. citizens.
And the Gadsden Purchase, also from Infogalactic.com
The Gadsden Purchase (known in Mexico as Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla, "Sale of La Mesilla"[1]) is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853 by James Gadsden who was the American ambassador to Mexico at that time.
I'd rather the real French tried to recolonize the Louisiana Purchase.
1,000 years from now the story will be told of a 700 year back and forth conflict between the descendants of Spaniards and English in the Western Hemisphere.
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Don't forget the propaganda effort on the US home front. There are tons of left wingers promoting the idea that the US conquered that land because we're evil/imperialist/racist in an effort to demoralize large swaths of the US population into being empathetic towards the illegal migrants steaming across the border.


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Wanna Be Famous? Are You New Jersey's Next Big Reality Star?
Diana Tyler Published: February 21, 2022
Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
If you've ever wanted to be on TV, this could be your big break!
I was scrolling through NJ.com when I saw some exciting news: ITV America is looking to cast NJ families for a TV Show! According to the article, they're looking for:
New Jersey socialites who are outspoken, magnetic and have "amazing, full" lives.
Does this sound familiar? When first reading this, I thought it sounded a lot like The Real Housewives of New Jersey. It turns out that there may be a connection, per NJ.com, since the company that produces the show is part of ITV America. No way!
How cool would it be to be on Reality TV? There are definitely some shows I'd jump at the chance to be on - including The Real Housewives of New Jersey. I'm not even remotely close to being married yet, but I'd bring the drama. I definitely wouldn't be afraid to tell Marge that it wasn't okay to spill the tea about Jen's husband's affair to everyone.
If the show were like Jersey Shore, I'd have to pass. There's no way I would want my family to see me at my worst and partying with a bunch of people. Can you say awkward?
My over-the-top family would be AMAZING on TV though. We're loud, passionate, and bring the comedy. Nothing beats the time my Dad was accidentally walking through an airport with a tag that said "fragile" on his back. And instead of warning him about it, my Mom laughed and took pictures. Whoops.
In all seriousness, if you think you've got what it takes to be the next big reality star, you can email nina.malek@itv.com and tell her about your personality, family life, and why you'd be a good addition!
Hey, if you're cast, a story about you may wind up on Diana's Dish one night! You never know.
will you join this list of popular reality stars from the Jersey Shore?
Jersey Shore is not the only Reality TV show to have stars from our hometown (although you will find some of those stars on this list). Keep scrolling to be shocked by the other Reality Stars you didn't know grew up at the Jersey Shore!
Lights, Camera, Action: New Jersey Spots as Seen on Reality TV
A visit to these as seen on Reality TV spots in New Jersey will have you feeling like a star!
Step Inside RHONJ Melissa Gorga's Luxurious Toms River, NJ Shore House
RHONJ Melissa Gorga has put her gorgeous Toms River Shore home for sale after making some amazing renovations! Keep scrolling to step inside.
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Snowed-in Buffalo Bills players use snowmobiles to help reach Detroit
Added November 24th, 2014 by Ian
The city of Buffalo, New York was absolutely hammered by a five-day snowstorm snow last week and when everything was said and done there was about seven feet of the white stuff on the ground. The sheer volume of the precipitation caused some roofs to collapse and the snow was blamed for more than a dozen deaths. It played havoc with the city as well as the scheduled NFL game between the hometown Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets which was set for Sunday, November 23 at Ralph Wilson Stadium.
The weather also forced the NHL to postpone the home game between the Buffalo Sabres and Ottawa Senators at the First Niagara Center. That contest will now be played on February 20th and oddly enough it's the second times the Senators have had a game postponed this season. Their home tilt scheduled for Wednesday, October 22nd against the Toronto Maple Leafs was pushed back until November 9th after an armed man attacked the Canadian Parliament Buildings and killed a guard. The terrorist was the shot dead by security forces.
Columbus Blue Jackets' Jack Johnson driven to bankruptcy by parents
Defenceman Jack Johnson of the Columbus Blue Jackets is regarded as a pretty good NHL hockey player and that's why the club is paying him $5 million for the 2014/15 campaign. In fact, the 27-year-old, who formerly played with the Los Angeles Kings, was signed to a $30.5 million seven-year deal by the Kings back in 2011. It's estimated that he's already made close to $20 million so far during his nine-year pro career. But despite all of the money Johnson is now going to file for bankruptcy.
According to reports, Johnson's debts are over $10 million and he has about $50,000 in assets only. In addition, the Columbus Dispatch newspaper has stated that the player has been on the wrong end of three lawsuits which add up to $6 million. One of the suits has been settled and the other two are still pending. However, before fans start railing about immature and money-wasting athletes it should be noted that the cause of Johnson's financial woes can be traced back to his parents Jack Sr. and Tina.
62-year-old actor Mickey Rourke resumes pro boxing career
George Foreman won the heavyweight title at the age of 45 and Bernard Hopkins just lost his light heavyweight crown at 49. However, 62-year-old actor Mickey Rourke makes them look like youngsters as he plans on entering the ring in Russia on Saturday,, November 29th to resume his pro boxing career. Rourke is scheduled to take on a 29-year-old named Elliot Seymour in a five-round contest in Moscow as part of the undercard to the Ruslan Provodnikov vs Jose Luis Castillo contest.
Rourke, who was born in Schenectady, New York and grew up in Miami, Florida, was a decent enough boxer when he was young and racked up a record of 27-3 as an amateur between 1964 and 1973. He was just 21 years old when he finished his amateur career. He then turned to acting and has starred in numerous Hollywood movies over the years such as The Wrestler, 1941, Heaven's Gate, Body Heat, Diner, Rumble Fish, The Motorcycle Boy, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Year of the Dragon, 9½ Weeks, Angel Heart, Barfly, A Prayer for the Dying, Desperate Hours, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Get Carter, Iron Man 2, and The Expendables.
Great athletes with bad career records
There are a lot of great athletes and former greats out there who hold records for being the best and for being the worst in specific areas of their sports. This came to light recently when basketball star Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers made the history books by missing a field goal for the 13, 418th time in his distinguished career. Bryant has now missed more free thrown in NBA history as he passed John Havlicek by one to claim the dubious record as his own.
However, the reason many great athletes hold records for being the "worst" is usually due to their longevity in their sport. For instance, while Bryant may have missed the most shots in the NBA he's also number four on the all-time scoring list because he's been in the league for close to 20 seasons. Bryant isn't the only great athlete to hold one of these records and we'll take a look at some other all-time greats who are in the record books for the right and wrong reasons.
Miami Marlins Giancarlo Stanton agrees to $325 million contract
Sharks rookie goalie Troy Grosenick makes history in NHL debut
Interesting facts on Clayton Kershaw's 2014 Cy Young and MVP season
Mike Trout wins AL MVP award for his worst MLB season
Steve Nash writes letter to angry LA Lakers fans
Alexander Ovechkin becomes Washington Capitals franchise scoring leader


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1 — 10 Jul 2020 at A arte Invernizzi in Milan, Italy
Alan Charlton Triangle Grid Painting, 2011 Acrilico su tela, 193,5x283,5 cm Veduta parziale dell'esposizione A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milano, 2011 Courtesy A arte Invernizzi, Milano Foto Bruno Bani, Milano
The A arte Invernizzi gallery will open on Wednesday, 1 July 2020, from 3 to 8 p.m. Alan Charlton. The Breath of the Boundary, the first in a series of exhibitions entitled Becoming: Idea to Image in Contemporary Art.
How can we interpret and define the conception of a work, the idea of an image, in today's augmented dimension of our daily activities and creative undertakings? Does a project still have an autonomy and meaning of its own in the distracted, participatory immersiveness of our post-digital world? How can we rethink and redefine this relationship in view of the uncharted coordinates of spacetime and experience that we are living in today? In this expanded dimension of the senses and of the mind, what does it mean to project those presences of rejection, interrogation, and thresholds onto the "elsewhere" that are works of art? These exhibitions will attempt to investigate the relationship between the idea and the work in a way that is new and relevant to the contemporary world, by showing both the individual, historical, and contextual specificity of the choices made by individual artists, and the relevancy of their creative developments. In other words, "in becoming" - between what was and what will be. In the making - between idea and image.
On this occasion, Pyramid Grid Painting (2011) will be shown in the upstairs room: this emblematic work helps clarify the relationship between idea and image in Alan Charlton's art. The work consists of eleven monochrome grey canvases of the same shade, arranged to form an inverted pyramid. It is preceded by a collage project, in which proportionality and colours can be seen to be analogous, whereas its phenomenal and experiential outcome is of an entirely different nature. Answering a question about the role of planning in his work, during a conversation some years ago, Charlton told me with his customarily intense, carefully thought-through spontaneity:
Making a drawing is one thing, but then, when you've done it, it becomes a completely different work.
(Francesca Pola)
A arte Invernizzi
The gallery opened in February 1994 with the exhibition Dadamaino Morellet Uecker. The gallery joins the international contemporary artistic debate presenting artists of different generations, alternating Italians and foreigners, in order to both create a dialogue and allow comparisons.
Alan Charlton Cross Grid Painting, 2011 Acrilico su tela, 211,5x144 cm Veduta parziale dell'esposizione A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milano, 2011 Courtesy A arte Invernizzi, Milano Foto Bruno Bani, Milano
Alan Charlton Pyramid Grid Painting, 2011 Acrilico su tela, 211,5x243 cm Courtesy A arte Invernizzi, Milano Foto Bruno Bani, Milano
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I imagine a magazine that will open a tiny door to the secret worlds we have all visited; childhood. I want to publish the breadcrumb trails that lead to the imaginary characters they play with and to share the adventures they travel on under the homemade cubby houses around the world.
And so now we set out on the first flight. Two grown ups at the departure lounge on opposite sides of the country. Ready for take off into invented worlds and imaginary characters who will pop out of folded pages and lead into secret landings.
Great to see where it all began!


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Recognized internationally as one of the leading singing actors today, American bass-baritone ALAN HELD has appeared in major roles in the world's finest opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Washington National Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera, Munich State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, the Netherlands Opera, and Theatre Royal de la Monnaie. His many roles include Wotan in the Wagner's Ring Cycle, the title role in The Flying Dutchman, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, Leporello in Don Giovanni, the Four Villains in Les Contes d'Hoffman, Jochanaan in Salome, Don Pizzaro in Fidelio, Orestes in Elektra, Balstrode in Peter Grimes and the title role in Wozzeck.
Equally at home on the concert stage, Mr. Held has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Kirov Opera Orchestra, and Montreal Symphony. He has also appeared at the Salzburg and Tanglewood Festivals, and at the BBC Proms.
He has worked with many distinguished conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Franz Welser-Möst, Kent Nagano, Sir Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Jeffrey Tate.
This past summer, Mr. Held returned to Salzburg Festival as the Watersprite in Rusalka, and appeared at the Munich Festival as Jochanaan. This season he returns to the Washington National Opera as both Balstrode and Wotan in Siegfried, and appears at the Paris Opera as Pizzaro and the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Jochanaan. He also returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a performance of Mahler Symphony No. 8 at the Hollywood Bowl.
Mr. Held recently recorded the role Don Pizzaro with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic for EMI Classics. He also appears as Donner on the DVD of the Met's production of Das Rheingold, and as the title role in Cardillac in the DVD of the Paris Opera production.
A native of Washburn, Illinois, Mr. Held received his vocal training at Millikin University and Wichita State University. He is a recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Birgit Nilsson Prize, and is also a noted clinician who regularly gives master classes at Yale University.
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SC: Plea filed by Skoda Volkswagen India, to quash FIR dismissed
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A petition filed by Skoda Volkswagen India seeking a quash of FIR registered in Uttar Pradesh alleging installation of emission cheat devices in its car, has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.
Today (26th November 2020), a bench led by Chief Justice of India, SA Bobde has passed an order dismissing the appeal filed against the Allahabad High Court's Order.
Earlier, the Allahabad High Court had directed that the company official shall not be arrested in the case till the submission of the police report, subject to the condition that he shall co-operate with the investigation and shall appear as and when called upon to assist in the investigation.
An FIR dated 10th July 2020 was registered against SKODA Volkswagen India for installing Cheat Devices in its manufactured vehicles in Noida.
During the course of submission before the Supreme Court, Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi appearing for Volkswagen India had submitted that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) slapping a fine on the manufacturer over the cheat devices had been stayed by the Supreme Court earlier in 2019 and the new FIR is also based on similar allegations that are now Sub-Judice in the apex court.
The allegation made before NGT was that the engines in Volkswagen cars have cheat devices and caused environmental damage and the FIR names its officers in India and abroad.
In March 2019, the NGT had imposed damages and an enhanced amount of compensation amounting to Rs 500 crore against the company on a finding that a 'cheat device' had been installed by it during laboratory tests in its vehicles which showed lower emissions.
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Alice in Chains Premiere New Song, "Never Fade"
By Jackson Maxwell 2018-08-10T14:59:56Z
The third single from the band's highly anticipated new album, 'Rainier Fog,' has arrived.
Alice in Chains have premiered "Never Fade," the third single from their highly anticipated upcoming album, Rainier Fog. You can check it out above.
"Never Fade" follows "So Far Under" and "The One You Know." Rainier Fog—which is set for an August 24 release via BMG—was produced by Nick Raskulinecz—who also produced the band's last two efforts, 2013's The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here and 2009's Black Gives Way To Blue. It was mainly recorded at Studio X, the same facility where they tracked 1995's Alice In Chains.
"It's a record we haven't done yet, I can tell you that," Jerry Cantrell told Guitar World about Rainier Fog in an interview back in April. "But it's also a record that has all the elements of anything you would expect from us. It's got our fingerprint. And we're really proud of the material that we wrote and the performances we captured. There's some really heavy shit, some really ugly stuff, some real beautiful stuff, some weirdo trippy shit… it's good!"
You can preorder Rainier Fog right here, and be sure to stay tuned for more coverage of Alice in Chains from us in the (very) near future...
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International school director says expat student population is not growing
Writer: | Editor: Jane Chen | From: | Updated: 2016-10-24
Scott D'Alterio
Chen Xiaochun
Scott D'Alterio, director of QSI International School of Shenzhen and a board member of the European Chamber South China Chapter, has been in Shenzhen for five years. Up till now, he has been teaching overseas for 23 years.
"For our school, the number of expat students remain the same for the past two or three years, which is concerning because our school has been growing. Now it's really level off," D'Alterio told the Shenzhen Daily, adding that the school keeps growing because they are taking more Hong Kong students and children from Taiwan.
He said it's important for an international school to have English-speaking students because other non-English speaking students will have a benefit of learning from them.
"We have a great program to help students catch up. But to remain a real top international school, we need to maintain a strong expatriate population," said D'Alterio.
"What we learned from government officials is that they are trying to be friendly to the expatriate community. With the Apple CEO visit recently, there was a lot of excitement about that. But I don't see practically that our expat population is growing for the school, or for any other international school."
He said that his view was only based on school but the school is good gauge. "Because if you are an expatriate, you probably have children and they go to an international school," he said.
"I think that the reason for that is the cost of living is high and that there is a fair amount of challenges with setting up businesses and things... There seems to be an emphasis on bringing high-tech people in and the best scientists, but not so much on the people who support business. That's what I heard from some parents," said D'Alterio
Though faced with different challenges, D'Alterio finds Shenzhen to be a fantastic place to live. "The quality of life here for me is better than any other place I have ever lived. And I am very happy be here," he said.


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Managing the Equity Issues Amplified When Poverty Meets Online Learning
Sounding Off May 20 / May 30, 2020
-Rosa Isaiah-
Rosa Isaiah:
Welcome to We Lead Ed Radio, where we lead education. I'm your host Rosa Isaiah. I'd like to welcome my friend, extraordinary educator, equity, computer science and STEM advocate Shana White to my show. Actually, I'm welcoming you back. You always have wonderful insights for everybody. So let's get started. The COVID-19 crisis and school closures have brought to light really what many of us have worked on and known about for a few years. Our educational system is an inequitable system for especially marginalized students and their families. What are your thoughts about all of this? If you could summarize just your feelings or ideas, what are you thinking about this?
Shana White:
I 100 percent agree. The system has always been inequitable. It was built that way on purpose. It was pretty much founded on the premise that white cis male, able-body, neuro-typical, heterosexual, and financially secure would be centered in all of the processes and thoughts and how schools run. Individuals who don't meet those identity markers are automatically going to be cast aside. They're going to be underserved, of course, and usually, they're underfunded. I think the big thing is because there is a hierarchy in our educational system we've developed this unjust feeling of basically deficit mindsets of anybody who doesn't fit that white cis male able body neuro-typical, heterosexual, financially secure.
So if a child is, for example, from a low socioeconomic background, we have schools that are not even properly funded to help students that are coming from poverty. They usually have teachers that are very new into education, don't necessarily come in with the mindset of being an empowerer, but more or less a savior in a lot of situations, which is not what kids need. And so I think that this whole crisis with coronavirus has really just exposed the huge, humongous gaps in equity in our schools from coast to coast. You, myself, and a lot of other people have been screaming from the mountaintops for years how inequitable our school systems are, and I think now other people including parents are getting a realistic view of how inequitable our schools are.
When I think about all that's happened, I think the biggest challenge and something we talk about in my district as we're planning and trying to stay connected with families and kids, literally is remote learning, and how it has created in many ways, bigger disparities.
And really widening this digital divide that we knew existed for many students. What are some challenges that families may be facing right now with remote learning from a parent's lens? What are some of those challenges? People in poverty, marginalized students, what do you think they're struggling with right now?
Well, I think their remote learning, similar to what you asked in the first question, it's revealing kind of the opportunity gap that exists in schools. And I don't believe in the achievement gap necessarily, I believe there's an opportunity gap, and I believe that remote learning is revealing that. Because most of the time, the schools that are poorly funded are poorly staffed and poorly led have the kids that are Black and Brown and low socioeconomic backgrounds. And so those are the kids that continually get left behind in this churning system that we want to call our educational system. They constantly get left behind, starting at pre-K.
I think some of the major issues that people are facing beyond the obvious ones, which are devices and broadband access, a lot of times people lose the understanding that this is impacting rural communities very, very hard because there's not a lot of broadband access in rural communities. And those are the big issues, but I think the other ones are not understanding the familial stressors that kids are facing right now. A lot of parents are maybe losing their jobs. Maybe they have contracted coronavirus. We don't know a lot of things that are going on behind the scenes in children's home lives. So basically, the family structures are under a lot of stress right now. Students might have changes in their home responsibilities or increased responsibilities at home, maybe because a parent is out of work or whatever the case may be. I think the other big thing that we're missing the boat on, as educators that I noticed within my district, some of the teachers I work with, and then some of the other teachers I've had conversations with, is we're really still binding ourselves to those compliance-based structures with assignments.
So like required log in hours, so you're making kids who are dealing with a pandemic in a trauma type of situation to require to log into their online platform for five or six hours.
You're having synchronous sessions at 10:00 in the morning when maybe a child doesn't even have access to a device or access to the internet, and you're making these sessions required; you're taking attendance. Those types of things are big, and I say the one thing that I think people don't even talk about that I think is huge is the digital literacy piece. We have students that are very well versed in how to manipulate things on an iPhone or an Android device, but a lot of times, they don't necessarily know how to work a learning management system. They might not be familiar with Google Classroom, and now everybody's being forced to use these types of things–instructors to deliver instruction. And so you have kids trying to submit assignments that they don't know how to submit into their teacher. The parents don't necessarily know how the LMS works or Google Classroom and so you have kids and parents frantically and being frustrated by the fact that a technology that is foreign to them doesn't necessarily work as it's planned.
Mm-hmm (affirmative).
And I think that's a lot of frustration. I know for me with my own son, he has to do stuff through Google Classroom. He's in second grade, and so I'm sitting there trying to help him open up a Google Doc and type in stuff. And so luckily I'm a teacher and I'm equipped to be able to do that. But there are a lot of families that are not, and a lot of families that don't necessarily have tech-savvy in their home, and so they're being tasked with all these monumental things to do to make sure their kids stay learning during this traumatic time, and I think it's a bit unfair amount of pressure put on parents and kids.
Wow, just with what you said right now, there is I'm thinking four or five items there. Understanding who your students are, understanding the needs of the family, and these assumptions that we make in our privilege, even myself, even yourself as an educator. I mean, that's an advantage that our families do not have. One of the things that we did in my current district is we're not penalizing our students in any way for not completing assignments, because for all the reasons that you just mentioned, Shana.
People are dealing with the stress of the pandemic and the fear and some anxiety around it, but also just basic needs. Like, "Hey, my parents lost their job."
Or, "I have to babysit my brothers and sisters." I know that would have been the case for me at home. What advice would you give teachers who are looking to build community to stay connected with their students, especially our most vulnerable populations right now? What are some ideas, some takeaways? I want people to hear this and say, "Okay, you know what? I've got to get better at this with right now during this time."
The first thing I would say is to breathe. There has been such an influx of information and just a rush for teachers to prepare for something that we've never been asked to prepare for. And so this is something we've never faced, at least in my lifetime; 've never faced a pandemic in a country that I live in. And so the first thing that I would say is stop and breathe and take kind of a self-inventory of where you are, because if your mental and emotional state is not somewhat stable in the sense of being able to give and grant online instruction to students, then it's not beneficial for you to be online with students. And I'm not saying that you should hide and mask your fear or worry, but at the same time, you should also be honest with those emotions that you have yourself before you maybe take that to your online classroom.
And you also need to make space to be able to vent to colleagues. I would say the one thing that I think that, at least for our district, we've been doing digital learning days for two weeks, we're on Spring Break this week, is there was not a lot of collaboration. It was just kind of like everybody was fending for themselves and at a time like this, that whole solidarity of the educational workforce should be apparent. But I think it's because we are getting mandated by different people and there's no clear and concise and clear way to make sure that this is managed effectively for every population for all students. But I think the comradery piece, I think we're missing that in the process. And so I would suggest reaching out to your colleagues and understand that, hey, we're all in this together and they might have some tips that could help you be successful and you might have some tips for them to be successful.
I think the other big thing is granting yourself grace. Most teachers that are in face to face classrooms have never taught online. I was luckily one of the teachers who actually has taught online since 2009 so I'm pretty familiar with how to teach online and the big differences between it and face to face. But most teachers don't have that privilege that I do. So I think being completely aware that teaching online and teaching face to face are two totally different beasts and granting yourself grace in the learning curve of learning how to teach online, lowering your expectations for yourself, is very, very huge. And also granting your students and your families extra grace, even more than you necessarily grant yourself.
This is a very tumultuous time for our country and for our world, and you want to make sure that your kids' basic needs are taken care of, the students that you have, more than anything. Any time you're giving assignments, and I always say this, and I even said this to my kids' teachers, is whatever you think is an adequate assignment, go ahead and break it down into a half or a third of that, a lot less as far as what you're expecting students to do. There shouldn't be kids on computers for four hours straight doing work for one class. Kids should have bite-size things they're doing, 15, 20, 30 minutes, high school kids, maybe 30 to 45 working on an assignment for our class. The other thing that I heard and I actually stress to my kids' teachers is consolidating the communication. It's literally like drinking from a fire hose when you get an email from every single one of your kids' teachers.
Especially if you think about it for middle and high school because they have core classes and then there are connections over specials classes. And so I'm literally getting emails every day, and I have two kids so I'm getting close to seven or eight emails from every single teacher, whereas it would be better to say, "Here's an email. These are the hours that this teacher is online, these are the hours at this teacher is online," and it's given to the parents on a weekly basis so it's not like they're drinking from a fire hose. So it's broken down to bite-size chunks so that parents and their kids can manage this. And then the last thing that I would suggest, just because I'm a techie person, is don't try to master new technology tools at this point. The stuff that you've done in class, that's the stuff that you need to do now.
Don't all of a sudden be like, "Oh, I heard that somebody on online was teaching us to do this really cool trick in Google Classroom." It's not worth it to put yourself under stress to try to learn this new trick and then to make your kids have to learn this new trick as well. So stick with the tech tools that you're comfortable with and reach out for help if there are tools that you're being forced to use that you're not comfortable with.
Shana, your message is exactly I think what I needed to hear today. Take a moment and breath. Reach out to your colleagues. Give yourself some grace, your families grace, but also don't start anything new. I think our listeners are really going to benefit from this. I know children are going to benefit from this conversation.
This article was written by a collaboration of editors and columnists on the FLR editorial team or guest contributors.
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2-year-old boy dies in McDonald County, Mo., after getting stuck in car
by Staff Report | July 25, 2016 at 3:59 p.m.
A 2-year-old boy died Saturday in McDonald County, Mo., after getting stuck in a parked car, according to a news release from the McDonald County Sheriff's Office.
A father told deputies his four children and a niece had been playing in his yard at 447 Old Rural Road in Rocky Comfort, Mo., and that he had been checking on them frequently, according to the news release.
When he noticed that he couldn't see the boy, he began searching for him, and found him on the floor of a car parked in the yard, the news release stated. The car's doors were locked. The man broke a window, got the boy out, called 911 and began performing CPR, according to the news release.
The boy was flown to Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo., where he was pronounced dead, the news release stated.
The temperature in Rocky Comfort reached 95 degrees Saturday afternoon with a heat index of 101 degree, according to the National Weather Service. Sheriff Michael Hall said in an email that the boy's death was heat related.
The boy's death will be investigated by the Children's Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services, according to the news release.
The father and the boy were not named in the news release.


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ProjectsTransportation
Arrival of Gates Marks Milestone in Panama Canal Expansion
By C.J. Schexnayder
The gates rolled on-site on self-propelled modular transporters.
Photo courtesy of ACP
Each gate weighs 3,100 tons.
All 16 gates were fabricated in Italy.
Unlike the canal's old swinging gates, the new gates will roll open and shut.
Massive gates arrived on Aug. 20 at site of the Panama Canal expansion.
Each gate is 57.6 m long, 10 m wide and 30.19 m tall.
Robotically controlled transporters will move the gates into the lockhead chambers.
Crews this month wheeled ashore the first four of sixteen gates—each the size of a 10-story building—for the Panama Canal's new locks, a major milestone for the $5.2-billion project. Mounted on self-propelled motorized wheel transporters, each of the 3,100-ton gates was off-loaded onto a temporary dock on the Atlantic side of the waterway, not far from the new locks that will be their permanent home.
The gates, costing about $548 million to fabricate and install, are the centerpiece of the enormous third set of locks that is being built as part of the so-called third-lane expansion of the canal. When finished, the new locks are projected to double the historic waterway's capacity by allowing the passage of post-Panamax-sized shipping vessels. The new gates will roll in and out from housings within the new lock structure, unlike the canal's existing locks, which use miter-style gates that swing outward to permit the passage of vessels from one chamber to another. The second pair will arrive in November.
The arrival of the first set of new gates comes as the expansion nears the end of its sixth year of construction. According to the Panama Canal Authority—known by its Spanish acronym, ACP—more than 60% of the work on the ambitious effort has been completed, and the new lanes are slated to be opened for commercial traffic in 2015. Complications with the construction of the new locks pushed back the original completion date, which had been planned to coincide with the waterway's centennial anniversary next year.
The 57.6-meter-long, 10-m-wide and 30.19-m-tall gates were built in Trieste, Italy, by Cimolai SpA. Upon arrival in Panama on Aug. 20, they were unloaded onto a temporary dock built near the construction site of the new Atlantic-side locks. The delicate operation was accomplished using special robotic transporters built by Sarens SPMT.
The transporters are modular platform trailers with computer-controlled wheels that are mechanically, hydraulically and electronically linked. They also will be used to move the gates into the lockhead chambers after additional components required for their operation have been installed.
"It is important that the rolling surface and the ground conditions are stable to minimize imperfections that could affect transport," says Jose Reyes, ACP's project manager for the third set of Atlantic-side locks. "The SPMTs have a computerized system that will adapt the platform to any irregularity on the surface."
The new locks are almost at the halfway point of completion, ACP officials say. The arrival of the gates is the most visible aspect of the locks project's electro-mechanical aspect, which is increasingly the main emphasis of the work.
To date, 67% of the concrete work on the locks is complete, and the major labor-intensive work should be done by the end of the year. In contrast, less than a third of the electro-mechanical phase has been done. The trick, officials say, is coordinating the completion of the concrete elements required for the installation of the gates and valves that comprise the electro-mechanical systems.
In addition, the water-saving basins for the locks are almost 40% complete, with work focused on the conduits that connect the basins to the locks' hydraulics system.
Outside of the locks themselves, work on the third-lane expansion is beginning to enter its final phases. The Pacific Access Channel, which will connect the new Pacific-side locks to the waterway's main navigation channel, has been excavated to its design depth. A clay-core dam that will separate the channel from the waters of the existing Miraflores Lake will be finished in October. The dredging of Gatun Lake is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
C.J. Schexnayder is the Editor of ENR California and ENR Northwest. He has contributed to ENR's coverage of the construction industry for more than a decade. His work has focused on major projects, industry trends and emerging technology. He previously was the South America correspondent for the magazine based in Lima, Peru. During that time, he covered numerous large-scale infrastructure projects across the region including the Third Lane Expansion of the Panama Canal. In addition, CJ has been an award-winning newspaper reporter in Southern California, Texas and Louisiana.
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