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Friends Of Glossop Station
Good wishes for 2021
On this first day of January may we wish everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year?
We are very grateful of ongoing support in these challenging times. We would like to say a sincere thank you to our friends at Northern - in particular to Becky Styles our Community and Sustainability Manager for her kindnesses and consistent support of all that we do.
We would also like to thank Andrew Walker Partnership Officer in his six years at the High Peak and Hope Valley Community Partnership for all that he has done in this post! Andrew has been so supportive of all the groups on the Buxton, Glossop and Hope Valley lines. His calm demeanour and professional attention to detail have been assets which have benefited us all. We thank him too for visiting a number of our Community events at Glossop. Andrew is taking on another post full time for DCC and we wish him continued success!
I would also like to thank Steve Forde Rail Officer for SEMCRP for all his work on getting the remaining five historic Glossop line information boards created in 2020. We look forward to seeing these installed in 2021.
Our plans for this year also include the development of the Buzzing Stations project, the tourist promotion leaflet Take a Trip on The Glossop Line and the resumption of community events - all subject, of course, to the lessening of restrictions in the coming months.
Awards for staff and station
We are very pleased to announce that Rizwan Haider and Saeed Mohamed two of our very professional and friendly gating staff team here at Glossop were awarded a 1st prize in a recently held Customer Care Awards evening organised by Northern. We offer them our CONGRATULATIONS! The event was held on line due to restrictions but on a recent visit to the station by Nick Donovan MD for Northern, Rizwan received personal thanks for his efforts.
FOGS too gained a PLATINUM Award for the second year running in the It's Your Station category in the recently held Community Rail Network Awards. Our thanks to all at CRN for this award and all those who have given us support in a very challenging year! Friends of Buxton took the lead award in this category and we offer Dave and our friends at Buxton our congratulations.
Paintings donated
The family of the late Peter Glover has kindly donated several framed paintings of Glossop (given to Peter over the years as gifts) to Friends of Glossop Station. We thank them for this and we hope to create a special display of them in the Station Waiting Room Art Gallery later in 2021.
New Lowestoft Book Launch
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new book A LONG WAY FROM HOME written by Sandra Delf and Clive Capps featuring 40 Lowestoft evacuee stories. Many of the stories of course feature Glossop as it was the home for over 600 evacuees! The book has taken two years to produce and was launched before Christmas in the newly restored parcels office at Lowestoft Station. The event was organised with the kind help of Martin Halliday Community Rail Officer for Norfolk. The book includes a chapter explaining recent links and commemorations at Glossop Station. It has been created with a lot of care and pride! And is a very good read!
Copies are priced at £11.99 and can be obtained directly by contacting Clive at clivecapps@aol.com
The Friends remember a friend . . . Peter Glover RIP
Friends of Glossop Station were saddened to learn of the death of Peter Glover in Southport last week. Peter was a strong supporter of the historic links between Glossop and Lowestoft and attended reunion events in both towns. He will be sadly missed but he will be remembered with affection and respect.
New Artist Ailsa Johnson in Waiting Room Art Gallery
We are pleased to welcome Glossop based artist Ailsa Johnson to the Station Waiting Room Art Galley. This is Ailsa's first public display and her paintings are already arousing interest. Ailsa moved to Glossop from Wiltshire in 2006 and is very happy with her new home. Although Ailsa took a course in art and graphic design she did not make this her career. Inspired by the 2018 Hadfield Art Show Ailsa took up painting again also taking evening class lessons with David Woodrow at Glossop Library in 2019.
Ailsa's paintings can be viewed daily at Glossop station from early morning to late afternoon. CLICK HERE to contact her.
Bookings for 2021 are now available and we invite any local artists/ photographers to get in touch if they would like to display their work.
There is no charge for displays and we will help with setting up the displays. By kind permission of Northern, work may be offered for sale.
Contact us by email at friends-of-glossop-station.co.uk or leave contact details at the booking office at glossop station fao Neil Williams.
New X57 Hulleys Snake Bus Service to Sheffield
Recently launched by Hulleys of Baslow is a new daily express bus service between Manchester, Glossop and Sheffield via the A57 better known locally as The Snake - a most scenic route via the famous Ladybower reservoir.
Demand for a bus service link to Sheffield has been growing in Glossop and we wish the new service every success especially during these challenging times. Hulleys have spent time publicising the service and erecting new bus stops along the route the most noticeable being two stops at the Snake Summit! These are already being used by walkers accessing the Pennine Way.
From Glossop buses for Sheffield leave the bus stop in front of the Howard Arms High Street East Mondays to Saturdays at 7.05 8.15 10.15 12.15 14.15 16.25 17.55 19.34 (Fridays and Saturdays only at 21.33 and 00.13).
Sundays at 9.48 11.48 13.48 15.48 17.48. The Sunday services, apart from 13.48, call via Fairholmes and Bamford railway station offering excellent links to Hope Valley Rail line. Timetables are available at Glossop railway station, on the buses and here on our website.
Please note that buses for Sheffield depart 10 minutes earlier than shown in the timetable and depart not from Henry Street but High Street East.
In the other direction the bus service drops off/picks up for Manchester outside Market Hall in Glossop. Buses are express to Manchester calling only at selected stops to Hollingworth and Mottram then via the motorway to Manchester. All railcards can be used to gain fare reductions and concessionary bus passes are valid at appropriate times.
See hulleys-of-baslow.co.uk for further information
Damage to Victorian Postbox at Station
We are sorry to report some damage to the door of our much liked Victorian Postbox situated on the wall by the Waiting Room. As a result Royal Mail has removed the door. We have made enquiries at the Sorting Office at Glossop about its repair. We are very concerned to learn that the box may not be repaired and be taken out of use. We believe it is an original feature dating from 1847. We have written formally to Royal Mail at Glossop urging its repair and reminding them politely that Glossop Station is a Grade Two listed building and that historic features must be maintained. We await a reply.
We hope we have the support of all users of the station in seeking its restoration.
New artist in Waiting Room Art Gallery
Our Waiting Room Art Gallery is back in business and we extend a warm welcome to Glossop based artist Gavin Parkin.
Born and educated in Doncaster Gavin studied Graphic Design in Manchester working in IT until his retirement. He returned to painting seven years ago and enjoys experimenting with different techniques. An active member of Glossop Art Society, Gavin has six of his paintings on display. The Waiting Room is open daily at the station from early morning to early evening.
We hope you enjoy his work.
Gavin can be contacted: gavinparkin@btinternet.com
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V roce 1979 zde žilo 866 obyvatel. O 23 let později, podle sčítání z roku 2002 se počet snížil na 633 obyvatel. Ostrov má tvar oválu a měří na délku asi 1 km. Plocha je 2,3km2
Jedinou vesnicí na Niutao je Tuapa. Na ostrově se nenachází letiště ani železnice.

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Protože příjem z prodeje poštovních známek byl nezanedbatelnou součástí příjmů Tuvalu, začal tento stát od roku 1984 vydávat nejen známky společné, ale také pro každý ze svých atolů. Zdejší známky měly označení NIUTAO - TUVALU.

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Trust Statement Following Closure of Transfer Window
Now that the transfer window has closed, the Trust notes with disappointment the fact that three players, Wilfried Bony, Jefferson Montero and Tom Carroll, have left with no replacements coming the other way to strengthen Graham Potter's squad. It seems though that it could have been much worse, with the clear desire within the club to also move on Dan James and Leroy Fer. The Trust is relieved and pleased that both James and Fer are still Swansea City players, at least for now.
The Trust's frustration is not that players have been allowed to leave but that there has been no effort to bring in any replacements and that both Montero and Carroll left for clubs in direct competition with the Swans, as would have been the case it seems for James and Fer.
Once again those in charge of overseeing the club's transfer dealings have allowed last minute departures to weaken our squad significantly without seemingly have any plans to bring any players in. The final day of the transfer window proved once again that the club seemingly has little interest in ensuring we are competitive on the pitch and is prepared to leave Graham Potter with a significantly reduced squad. Graham Potter had previously said that if players leave, players would be brought in. He presumably made this comment based on assurances he had been given and yet again, he has been let down.
To say that the club's current transfer policy, such as it is, is short sighted is an understatement and highlights the inept way the club appears to be run now. It is not unreasonable to expect a professional football club to have a plan in place for a transfer window and contingency plans to replace any players who leave. It is also unclear who in the club is responsible for making decisions, allowing confusion to reign. While yesterday could have been much worse had James and Fer left as the club wanted, it does highlight a clear desire by the club to reduce costs at the expense of on field matters.
As a Trust, we fully support the need to run the club on a financially prudent basis and understand that changes are needed to reflect our reduced income in the Championship. However, in the continued absence of detailed financial information, the Trust is unable to confirm whether the desire to move players on is the result of that financial prudence or simply a lack of ambition by our majority owners and those afforded the privilege of running the club on a day to day basis.
It is clear that the club has not learned the lessons from the disasters of previous transfer windows, nor have the desperately needed changes been made to rid the club of the individuals responsible for the mistakes which led to our relegation from the Premier League. This is despite repeated requests over the past two and a half years for the majority owners to create succession plans for the changes needed and of course comments from those in situ, including the chairman, that their own roles would become untenable in the event of relegation. To be prepared to allow five players to leave the club on the final day of a month long transfer window with no replacements lined up is gross negligence on the part of those running the club.
We are disappointed to note the apparent lack of support by the board and owners for Graham Potter, who has steered his team to within sight of the play off places and with a very realistic chance of a second successive FA Cup quarter final. Given the words of the chairman just a few short weeks ago where he stated that a promotion challenge was there for the taking, the events of the transfer window suggest that this is very far from the club's minds.
That the club was prepared to allow Dan James, a player just breaking into the first team, to leave at the first opportunity highlights a very real lack of ambition for the club and zero support for the manager. While we support the removal of some of the club's top earners, to consider allowing young talent like Dan to leave goes against many of the principles on which we, and our manager, would like to pride ourselves.
There are two clear things that need to happen as a direct result of this transfer window. First and once again the Trust finds itself calling for the immediate removal of Huw Jenkins as chairman. Despite the excellent job that Mr Jenkins did in supporting the Swans' rise to the Premier League he is also largely responsible for the horrendous transfer dealings of the past few years that resulted in both our relegation and the dire situation in which we now find ourselves, where the club is prepared to offload prized assets to our immediate rivals. We have long since suggested that the club's majority owners should have considered succession planning to replace Mr Jenkins but these words have fallen on deaf ears and the result is the current situation. The club has to stop repeating the same mistakes and the removal of the chairman is the first step towards that happening. We should not forget that our inability to move on the high earners has been a hindrance to us in the last two windows. This is a direct result of the transfer deals struck in previous windows where we have overpaid both in fees and wages for players who have failed to deliver on the pitch.
Secondly, we call on the club's majority owners to be totally transparent and communicate to the fans the reasons for taking the decisions they have taken and were prepared to take. If the reasons are purely financial then why haven't the significant cuts being made on the playing side been reflected off the pitch? The club has a number of highly-paid executives strongly rumoured to be paid in line with Premier League income rather than that of a financially prudent Championship club. It is time for those who made great play when they arrived of being so keen on the ownership model and close community club that they saw in Swansea City to stand true to those beliefs and be present in Swansea and accountable for the poor decisions they are making. Our wage bill off the pitch is as unsustainable in this division as we were told our on the pitch outgoings are, yet the people who made and continue to make those decisions are still being paid as though they're somehow considered to be doing an acceptable job. They clearly aren't.
It is therefore well overdue that the club undertakes a full review of the off the field staff, overall costs and budgets and ensures these are in line with a club in the Championship with a vastly reduced income.
The continued reduction in numbers of the first team squad and the continued presence of the former shareholders and their extended families enjoying the hospitality of the football club are a smack in the face of the club's supporters. For these reasons, the club is as far detached from its fan base now as it has ever have been in the club's history.
Changes simply need to be made and the events of the most recent transfer window serve to highlight that beyond all doubt yet again.

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Upcoming series: No Opportunity Wasted, CBC, Oct. 3
August 29, 2007 Diane Wild
What would you do if you had 72 hours to change your life? Canadians seize the moment in Phil Keoghan's NO OPPORTUNITY WASTED premiering Oct. 3 at 8:30 p.m. on CBC-TV
A Winnipeg housewife and a veteran firefighter confront their terror of heights by repelling down the world's second largest granite rock face. After surviving a vicious shark attack that made international headlines, a Vancouver man faces his worst fears by diving into shark-infested water. A mother travels to Africa to fulfil her daughter's dying wish. These challengers from across Canada share a common goal: to think big, get past procrastination, ditch the excuses and live life NOW. Hand-picked from more than 7,000 applicants, their dramatic and emotional transformations unfold on NO OPPORTUNITY WASTED (NOW), premiering Wednesday, October 3 at 8:30 p.m. on CBC Television.
Based on the personal life philosophy and best-selling book by The Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan, NO OPPORTUNITY WASTED is a Canadian-produced 10-episode, half-hour series. After completing a nation-wide search in May, the producers chose Canadian adventurer Bruce Kirkby to guide the participants through each challenge. No stranger to living on the edge, Kirkby is an adventurer, photographer, author and motivational speaker and he exemplifies what it is to live a NOW life. His travels have taken him to Tibet, Bhutan, the Galapagos Islands, Borneo, Myanmar, Sikkim, Ecuador, and Mongolia to name just a few. He has published two books on his adventures and his photography can be seen in magazines around the world including National Geographic.
In each episode, Kirkby ambushes two unsuspecting applicants and asks them to take on a NOW challenge. With their schedules cleared and all excuses eliminated, the challengers, total strangers with a common goal, must work step-by-step to accomplish a series of "time targets" that will push them to the extreme and help them complete their ultimate challenge.
"The overwhelming response to NOW's call for applications clearly indicates that Canadians want to ditch the excuses and break free of what's holding them back," said Kirstine Layfield, CBC executive director of network programming. "CBC Television has tapped into a concept that will engage viewers and inspire their everyday lives."
Canadians have embraced Keoghan's NOW philosophy, creating a movement across the country. From Facebook groups to grassroots initiatives, Canadians are choosing to live their lives NOW.
The NO OPPORTUNITY WASTED concept was created by Phil Keoghan. Phil Keoghan, Louise Keoghan and Morgan Elliott are executive producers. Presented by Rogers, NO OPPORTUNITY WASTED is produced by NOW Canada Productions Inc., a Suddenly SeeMore… Productions Company. For more details, viewers can log on to www.cbc.ca/now.
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Where's your God now?
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Posted by James F at 1:03 PM 0 comments
You know I loved this article
Mass consumption of high fashion by teenagers! It's like the textbook example of ghetto rich! If... there was a textbook... um... that dealt with being ghetto rich. Actually, judging from some of these kids, maybe there should be:
His first luxury purchase was a pair of shiny black Gucci pants that he bought freshman year for $450 -- all the money he had received for his 14th birthday.
"I'm trying to do it big," he explained.
"People are always telling me that I walk through the hallways like it's a fashion show," Brandon said. "I tell them: 'Boo, it's my fashion show. It's my runway.' "
What a fine, fine, gay young man he's growing up to be. Seriously, could somebody please sit Brandon down and explain to him that pants shouldn't cost $450? Especially if you're going to outgrown them?
Gloria Baume, fashion market director for Teen Vogue, said girls often tell her, "I am going to put all my baby-sitting money away until I can afford the Louis Vuitton pouch."
Pouch? Umm, she'll be the most fashionable kangaroo girl in school? I guess?
Wow, these kids are spending their entire allowance for the year on Prada, because they just have to impress their peers. It's the same pointless status competition I see... well, among Washingtonians my age who should know better.
Oh, and in a totally unrelated story, this clinical psychologist is finding that the "earn-and-spend" mentality ingrained into her patients is making them feel unhappy and spiritually empty. Funny that this article was publised yesterday, before the one about the kids wearing Prada.
So here we are: a generation of fashionistas and Samurai shoppers with full closets and empty hearts.
Now that's the Washington I know and love... we're all Scrooge and no Cratchit.
Posted by James F at 12:18 PM 0 comments
One thing I don't hate
OK, I survived Thanksgiving. And if I have to give thanks for one thing in D.C... I'd go with the National Transportation Safety Board.
I think that's the one government agency I actually respect. Whenever there's a big transportation accident, like a plane crash, they're on top of it. They go over every single detail; all the evidence is analyzed, everybody involved is interviewed. And, at the end of their investigation, they spell out exactly what went wrong, and specify exactly what needs to be done to prevent something similar from happening again. The NTSBers the reason I feel safe when I fly; they actually do their job really, really well.
And unlike some agencies, they aren't completely beholden to corporate or industrial interests (I'm looking at you, FDA, EPA), and they haven't collapsed under the weight of their own beauracracy (at least, not enough to limit their usefulness).
So, thanks guys.
Posted by James F at 11:33 AM 0 comments
I was mentioned in Washingtonian?
Isn't that, like, the magazine for snobby people trying to convince themselves they're actually important socialites from New York? Isn't there a minimum wage requirement for reading it? I don't think the postal service is even legally allowed to deliver it to my shitty apartment.
At any rate, I'm sure I'll be drifting back to why.i.hate.dc now that football is over, and also because I'm moving back to my old job, where there's apparently still no actual work for me to do. I'll be back to being a full-time blogger.
But's it's going to be hard, because I find lately that I'm happier the more ignorant I am.
In fact, I've decided that ignorance really is the driving force behind Washington. If you shield yourself enough from what really goes on in this city, you might be able to somehow tolerate it without going mad. Metro rail falling apart? Bridges about to collapse? Don't worry about that; it will fix itself. Without more money!
Crime and poverty? Not a problem in my state/county/neighborhood, thus not my problem.
Huge deficits in D.C.? Let's lay off hundreds of public school teachers and build a $600 million baseball stadium!
The problem is, if I actually keep up with local events, as I have in the past, it really starts to weigh on me. I don't even have any control or power over anything, but still this stuff just infuriates and depresses me. The less I pay attention, the less depressed and infuriated I am. This must be Congress' philosophy as well, judging from their D.C. track record.
Meanwhile, I've lamented in the past about D.C. trying to make the rest of the country like itself. And it appears to have happened. Here's what the federal debt looks like:
11/19/2004        $7,497,665,301,236.87
Now the whole country is ghetto rich, just like D.C. Why does this not bother anyone? What are we going to do, consolidate all our debts into one convenient low monthly payment? It don't work that way, people!
"But the economy is doing so well!" Yeah, if you pour $1.6 trillion of borrowed money into our economy, all of a sudden it looks like it's doing really well. It's like magic! And clearly, since that worked so well, instead of paying it back, what we need to do is increase the fucking debt ceiling. BRILLIANT. FUCKING. IDEA. It's tantamount to maxing out our credit card, and now, instead of reconsidering buying that $900 massage chair from Brookstone, we're calling the bank to ask them to raise our limit. I now refuse to have kids, just so that they don't have to be around when the economy collapses under all that debt.
But back to Washington. I know there are a lot of otherwise smart people here. People who finished near the tops of their classes at Yale and whatnot. And, after moving here, they use that clout to get into junior positions of power and influence; be it in politics, law, journalism etc. Then, once they've done that, they start to use their powers not to help others, but to lobby for themselves. They find very intelligent-sounding ways to absolve themselves of social responsibility. Translation: "I'm looking out for #1, bitches! You're not getting any fucking lunch money from me! Fuck all a y'all A-rabs."
So, when I think about who a "Washingtonian" is, this is who I picture:
A smart 31-year-old who just missed out on being a Rhodes scholar. Working for a Congressman, perhaps lately trying to backpedal for inserting Orwellian passages into the latest budget bill. (Yes, I'm talking about my old friends Istook and Micha.) Sitting in a party, wearing a sweater vest and sipping on a Smirnoff Ice. Laughing at how diners at the Cheesecake Factory are eating "mangy waste." Dreaming of the day they can make $300,000 a year lobbying for the pesticide industry or something.
But enough about Washingtonians. I'm going to try to think about them as little as possible, because they're just going to bring me down. Instead, I'm going to get the fuck outta town and enjoy Thanksgiving. The hard-core hating can wait until I get back. As a wise man once said, "All these pussy niggas putting money on my head? Go on get your refund, motherfucker. I ain't dead."
Oh man... a couple of priceless articles in the Post yesterday.
Did you see the profile of my man Lee Van Cleef? I mean, Philip Van Cleave?
Something of a night owl, Van Cleave likes to take walks around the lake in his subdivision around midnight. When he does, he "double carries" in case an assailant knocks one weapon out of his hand. It's not about fear, he said. "Who would do that if they were afraid? The word is preparedness."
I nearly had a heart attack from laughing so much. He double carries in his subdivision. In case someone knocks the first gun out of his hand And I'm sure his subdivision is a war zone at midnight. Where does he live, A-Team Piney Forest Lakes?
The man has never even fired a gun outside a firing range, and has never been the victim of any crime worse than car stereo theft. And yet, he insists on getting open carrying of firearms legal everywhere in densely populated Northern Virginia, including airports and legistative chambers. Even the NRA thinks he should dial it down a few notches. Does that not tell you everything you need to know about the man?
Or, put another way...
DEAR FUCKING LORD. I can't believe this INSANE PARANOID FUCK-JOB is deciding this state's gun policies. Thank you, Philip Van Cleave, for putting the fear of God into me. Now please don't come shooting up my apartment.
Also putting the fear of God into me: the crowd at Big Ben Liquor in Northeast D.C.
"Why would you go over there and get a pack of potato chips when I said mints? He got a [expletive] bag of potato chips when I said mints. Why would he try to give me a pack of potato chips when I said mints?"
"Give me two packs of Dittos," another woman says. "No, I didn't say pickles, damn it."
Wow, these people get really cranky when they don't get their pickles. I mean Dittos! [BLAM BLAM] ARRRRGHH!
Singh bought the business -- not the building -- for $300,000 plus inventory from a man who was shot in a bloody robbery that left him paralyzed.
"Hey, mister," a drunk man says, trying to maintain what is left of his dignity. "Please let me go to the bathroom. I'm about to piss on myself."
A woman in a red coat who wants a $75 money order looks at the man, who races out of the store. "He done already peed," she says, like a narrator.
Who says comedy and horror don't mix?
They also talk to a man named RasD who captures the mood of the city perfectly.
He walks south on North Capitol. The Capitol's dome rises in the distance, looming like a mighty mecca, so far away from this corner and so close. RasD motions to the cars that whiz by. "The traffic flows through without any connection to the spaces and places," he says. "They just pass by. They would rather not see the obvious, the displaced, the homeless, the confused, the hungry. . . . There are brilliant minds at that vortex: incredible mothers, fathers. The homeless are no longer scorned and they are not faceless at that vortex. They are only a blur and an eyesore to those passing through."
Yep. Brilliant people; powerful people; they have the power to change the blight they see around them, but choose not to. They choose to ignore it. D.C. is what happens when good people do nothing.
I hate Reston
Included in the topics of conversation between my co-workers on the drive over to a meeting:
How MFing Reston is so great, because the landscaping is so pristine.
Yes, these were all men. Go figure.
Maybe an obstructed view is the best view, after all
Daniel Snyder. Owner of the Redskins. Nobody else embodies what I hate about Washingtonians more than this man.
The latest article is a laugh-riot. After a loss:
"I was so depressed in the locker room," [head coach Joe] Gibbs recalled Wednesday at Redskins Park. "And [Snyder] walked right up to me and he said, 'Hey look, I just want to encourage you. It takes a while. Maybe you can't see it; you're too close to it. We have improvement. We're on the right track.'"
Funny thing, this new definition of "improvement." He'd better hope nobody tries to make any "improvements" on the Danny-copter.
"Joe has final say on everything. Period," Snyder said. "I've taken my lumps. I've come a long way. I think I've got incredible patience and understand things now that I didn't have when I first came into the league. I've learned a whole bunch."
(Said the man who's on his fifth head coach in six years.)
Patience, you say? Learned a lot, hmmm? Let's recap the quarterback situation:
- Last year, they drafted Patrick Ramsey in the first round. This was a huge stretch; he wasn't projected to be drafted until much later. The team got poor value out of the pick.
- This year, they sign Mark Brunell to a huge contract. Now, I like Brunell, and it was fun watching him on those good Jaguars teams in the late '90s, but let's face it: he's old and busted. He was at his most effective when he was mobile and a scrambler; as a purely pocket passer, he's hasn't exactly been on the A-list lately. Thus, they got poor value again.
But the biggest problem with signing him is that they've benched Ramsey. If you're going to reach for a QB in the draft, and bank on him as your future, you've got to play him. By signing and starting Brunell, they compunded the draft mistake. Brunell would be a good addition to a team in need of a veteran backup QB; he's a bad signing for a rebuilding team that supposedly has its eye on the future.
Despite having some of the worst stats in the league, the Redskins continue to start Brunell. And every game is more potential lost for getting Ramsey some more experience (and getting a better look at him). Apparently, since Brunell is Gibbs' evangelical Christian bunk-mate, he's in pretty much forever. (Where's your God now, NASCAR-boy?)
In other words, in terms of being unable to see the shortcomings in your own decisions, Snyder appears to have a friend in Gibbs. And that's what being a Washingtonian is, in a nutshell: you have to have an overblown sense of self-importance, coupled with an inability to do any self-evaluation whatsoever.
Now, foreseeing this awfulness, I didn't buy tickets this year! Pat on the back, me! Of course, I still have to watch this crap on TV tomorrow, instead of the superior Eagles-Steelers matchup, so I lose either way.
So, who's up for some baseball?
Oh wait, that's not happening either now.
Darn.
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INS1PID: Personalized Virginia license plates I have hated (part 14 in a series)
2B U -2B (e.g. the logical equation, "2B or not 2B"; i.e., NERD!!!)
FUN4MOI
L8-ZOOMR
On a Ford Mustang: LUSTANG
THRU F8H (Also, fuck the gays)
OK, so now I'm in a bad mood
It's Thursday. It's cold, it's raining. My football game this evening is doubtlessly going to be called off. And, to top it all off, America proved it really, really hates gay people.
As if to celebrate that fact, a couple Metro trains bumped uglies yesterday:
Turns out one train lost it brakes, and simply rolled backward into the station. (Safety systems designed to prevent such an occurrence didn't activate.)
Meanwhile, Metro CEO Richard White gave us the understatement of the forever:
"Lately we've got a serious perception and credibility problem about what it is we're doing and how hard we're working on behalf of our customers," White said.
Oh my God... they're finally starting to admit their suckitude! Eat that, "Lisa Farbstein"!
The weirdest thing about this story is that it kept getting worse as the day went on; the first reports talked about two trains "bumping" and injuring four people. Obviously it was a lot worse than that, and scary too; the driver yelled for everyone to "get off the train, run if you have to!"
Twenty people were hurt, and travel's obviously going to be delayed all week. Good times!
Maybe an obstructed view is the best view, after a...


Today, the European Parliament voted in favour of the new EU Copyright Directive. This controversial IP legislation passed with 348 in favour, 274 against and 36 abstentions. Within 2 years (medio 2021), the Directive has to be implemented in the copyright legislations of the member States. However, articles 11 (now 15) and 13 (now 17) will do the EU internal market more harm than good.
Artificiële Intelligentie & Recht managing partner and IP lawyer Mauritz Kop delivered copyright expertise to the European Parliament during the legislative process.
Intellectual property law has become the new battleground for ideas on how the Digital Single Market strategy should deal with transformative innovation such as online platforms, big data, quantum computing and artificial intelligence. This potentially hinders rapid innovation and undermines the competitive position of Europe vis-à-vis China and the United States.
Consumer welfare can be protected more effectively by consumer rights and competition/ antitrust law than by IP law. The introduction of additional rights (art. 15) results in an even more overcrowded and overgrown legal landscape, which could result in stagnation and legal uncertainty.


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SDJR 7F class 2-8-0 locomotive No. 53804 (with 82F shedplate, built as SDJR No. 84) on a down freight at Evercreech New on 13th June 1960. Lime kiln to left.
Photo by David Milton, ref. 2/34. Copyright S&DRT. Our ref. WSHSD_2015_41_465.


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Rec: July 2001, St. Martin's Church, East Woodhay, England.
The Möller manuscript, which originally belonged to Johann Gottfried Möller, a student of Johann Christian Kittel, who studied with Bach, contains about fifty pieces, and dates back to the period 1703-1708. It was copied by someone close to Johann Sebastian Bach, most likely one of his cousins. What is interesting about this manuscript is that it contains several early works by Bach, but also pieces that he played. This gives an idea of the type of works he was familiar with and which influenced him. The Metronome recording features a selection of the music in this manuscript: four works by Bach and seven by other composers.
The disc opens with a bang. Bach's Toccata in D major BWV 912a (an early version of this toccata) begins with a flourish up and down the keyboard, and moves into a lively exposition. Cerasi uses this to show her stuff: sprightly, dynamic, inspired playing that dives head-first into the music and flows with it through all its changes. This toccata covers the full range of styles that Bach uses in his keyboard music: from the florid to the lyrical, from fantasy to counterpoint. It can be seen as a stylistic catalogue of the music of the period. Cerasi's performance gets my foot tapping in the final fast section, and has me entranced during the slower sections.
Framed by two extroverted works by Bach is a selection of pieces from Bach's time, all of which are included in the Moller manuscript. These works cover a wide range of styles, and, while most are German, there is one French work by Lully, and many others clearly influenced by the French style.
Not all the works are as virtuosic as the Toccata; some are more melodic, as are many of Bach's keyboard movements. One example is the fine Suite in B minor by Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow. This suite's movements alternate between slow and sinuous and more lively movements. The saraband is written very much like some of Bach's sarabands.
The G major Chaconne by Jean-Baptiste Lully is a fine example of French variation sets of the period. This attractive, catchy melody is embellished and ornamented in a variety of ways in this short piece.
Cerais plays this music on two different harpsichords, a Zell copy and a Fleischer copy. Both instruments are excellent; the Zell has a sparkling high end, which fits well with the highly ornamented French music and with the Bach toccata. The Fleischer has a richer, deeper sound, with more resonance, and sounds as though it is strung with brass strings. It is very fitting for the works in minor keys, since it brings out their melancholic tone (especially the Ritter and the Bach Capriccio).
Cerasi plays this closing work with great sensitivity. With exuberant Bach to open proceedings and introspective Bach to close them, this recording contains a florilegium of the styles and forms that influenced Bach, as well as a few examples of his early works. This is a beautiful disc, and one that any lover of Bach's keyboard music will want to own, both for the three Bach works and the examples of his influences.