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Barnes Engineering Company was started by George W. Barnes in 1963 in a 1500 square foot industrial unit located at Santa Ana, California; within two years the Company moved to a 3500 sq. ft. ind. unit in Santa Ana, California. In 1974 the Company moved to a 10,000 sq.ft. industrial unit located in Anaheim, California. 1973 to 1975, of course, was the worst economic, setback that the U.S. experienced since the Great Depression of the 1930's and 1940's. The Company came through this period quite well with the founder's emphasis on a diversified product mix, which was apropos for that period of the economy.
Barnes Engineering Company was fabricating Solid Bearing Precision slides, precision electronic chassis and also set up an engineering prototype printed Circuit Board Division. The majority of the work was military oriented. The Business was originally set-up to manufacture a complete line of precision slides, both solid-bearing and a new revolutionary precision, stamped steel line of Ball Bearing Slides.
In 1967 Barnes Engineering Company obtained an SBA loan of $18,000, which was of great benefit to the initial line of precision slides; this new invention by Barnes Engineering Company forever changed the industrial world's use of slides. Up to this time a precision steel, stamped slide did not exist in the world.
By 1977 the Company was positioned to produce a more extensive line of slides and after paying off the original SBA loan. At this time we decided to develop a new ultra heavy duty ball-bearing slide and to produce this new line and our entire slide line in stainless steel in both our Heavy-duty Line and our standard line of slides; to this day we remain the only precision slide manufacturer that produces slides in stainless steel.
In 1990 the Company made a decision to move from Anaheim, California to Colorado Springs, Colorado. The economic development people in Colorado Springs established enterprise zones with incentives to move manufacturing companies.
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Our fortnightly timetable (weeks A&B) commences in September (Week A). The following week is Week B, and the pattern repeats throughout the school year. Holiday weeks are not included in the A-B pattern – if a term or half term ends in Week A, the following term or half term will automatically commence with Week B, and vice versa. Please be mindful of this when helping your child prepare for the school week ahead.


BISMARCK � The State Historical Society of North Dakota, through its annual appropriation of Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) money from the National Park Service, is making $45,000 available to the public for use in the restoration, stabilization, and protection of historic and archaeological properties. This funding can only be used on properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The granting of HPF money is a competitive process. Applications will be reviewed by a committee from the State Historical Society�s Archaeology and Historic Preservation Division and rated in four categories: quality of the application, need for the development work, impact on the historic preservation program, and the project�s compliance with the Secretary of the Interior�s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.
Eligible activities include pre-development work (plans, evaluations, engineering, and architectural or archaeological services), restoration, rehabilitation, and preservation projects. All activities must meet the Secretary of the Interior�s Standards. Routine maintenance and work on properties owned by religious organizations or used for religious purposes are not eligible for funding. Pre-development work on religious properties may be eligible.
All applications must be received by the State Historical Society of North Dakota by Friday, July 18, 2014.
The Historic Preservation Fund application is available at history.nd.gov, or by contacting Amy Munson, grants and contracts officer, at 612 East Boulevard Ave., Bismarck, ND 58505-0830, 701.328.3573 or email amunson@nd.gov.


WASHINGTON—Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are moving toward a solution on the automotive dispute that has been a key obstacle to the success of North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations, President Donald Trump's trade chief said Wednesday.
The unusually positive words from U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer, who had been sharply critical of Canada's posture at the bargaining table, corroborated Tuesday's auto-related optimism from Canadian Ambassador David MacNaughton. Taken together, their words suggest that prospects for a NAFTA deal have brightened.
"The U.S. had a proposal, Canada had a proposal and Mexico has been engaged on the issue. And I think we're in a position where we're finally starting to converge," Lighthizer said in testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee.
MacNaughton said Tuesday that NAFTA talks over the last two weeks have been "more positive than I've seen them before." He told reporters, according to The Canadian Press, that the Trump administration has introduced ideas that would essentially replace its controversial previous proposal for a strict minimum on the amount of each car that would have to be made in the United States to avoid tariffs.
The shift in the U.S. tone comes after a lengthy meeting last week between Lighthizer and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, and amid a pressure campaign from the U.S. auto industry, which strongly opposed a previous U.S. proposal for a new 50-per-cent U.S. content requirement, plus an increase in the North American content requirement from 62.5 per cent to 85 per cent.
As recently as last week, Trump said he is skeptical a good NAFTA deal is possible without first terminating the existing treaty. But Trump's trade officials, including Lighthizer, now clearly appear to prefer a deal to a termination.
Analysts said the U.S. officials appear to be making a push in advance of the Mexican presidential election on July 1.
"I think there is a realization that if the U.S. can get something that meets some of its goals ... it actually does want to stay in NAFTA," said Robert Fisher, a U.S. negotiator for the original NAFTA talks in the early 1990s.
If there is no deal in the next month or so, talks will likely be put on hold for months. Mexico's new president will not take office until December, and the U.S. has congressional midterm elections in November.
Lighthizer has regularly decried what he has described as a lack of progress. On Wednesday, he sounded more understanding. He said he did not expect Canada and Mexico to budge on important issues like agriculture and intellectual property until the end of the negotiating process, wanting to avoid concessions before a deal is in sight.
Lighthizer also criticized various Canadian policies, making clear that significant sticking points remain. Among his complaints: Canada's "ridiculous" $20 threshold for applying duties to purchases from abroad, such as those from U.S. online stores; Canada's "third-world intellectual property protection"; and Canada's protectionist supply management system for dairy and poultry.
Trump's administration, citing sovereignty concerns, has sought to eliminate or significantly weaken the current dispute resolution tribunal system in which corporations can use NAFTA to challenge decisions of the Canadian, Mexican or U.S. governments. As Lighthizer spoke, Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, a Republican, announced that 103 Republicans had sent Lighthizer a letter warning that excluding the investor-state dispute settlement system from a new NAFTA, or making it optional, "will jeopardize Republican support" for the deal even among supporters of free trade.
"Our position on the importance of these protections has not changed and is as strong as ever: ISDS is an essential enforcement mechanism for investor protections and must be maintained rather than weakened or abandoned," they wrote.


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Richard is an experienced junior in the Commercial department, with extensive experience of acting in an advisory capacity or drafting, and in advocacy of all kinds.
Richard is Junior Counsel to the Crown (Regional A Panel) and, as such, instructed regularly in cases involving breaches of directors' duties, public interest winding up petitions and directors' disqualification proceedings.
Richard is also a member of the Commercial Fraud, Insolvency and Property teams and thus able to deal with matters also covering those areas of law.
Absolute Living Developments Ltd v DS7 Ltd and others  EWHC 1717 (Ch) &  EWHC 1432 (Ch) – being led by David Mohyuddin QC in a case involving allegations of de facto and shadow directorship and largescale fraud amounting to £14,000,000 generally, and in two reported decisions relating to contempt of Court and security for costs as against a liquidator. Richard was further involved in drafting appeal papers to the Court of Appeal in the matter.
B v AC & Others – ongoing case involving acting for one of numerous Defendants in a High Court action brought by the Claimants for over £250,000 arising from allegations of fraud and breach of trust as a result of the improper sale of vehicles.
PS v B & Others – acting for receivers of numerous properties comprising hotels in London in an action to seek a validation order for the intended sale of those hotels for a sum in excess of £15,000,000 in the face of opposition from the debtor.
D v AI – Advising and drafting proceedings on behalf of the producer of infrastructure products, D, in relation to various breaches of a distribution agreement by the distributor, E. The case involved various issues, including as to identity of parties, interpretation of terms, and quantum, and resulted in a Leader being brought in. The draft proceedings prompted settlement for £6,000,000.
Autofocus Limited/Accident Exchange Limited litigation (2012-13) – assisting in the appeals in numerous cases arising from the fraudulent manufacturing of "expert" evidence in credit hire cases causing multi-million pound losses. Also instructed in over 80 applications from 2015 to 2017 addressing whether there should be concurrent or sequential exchange of rates evidence in credit hire cases.
Litigation arising from the Buncefield Oil depot disaster (2008) – assisting a national law firm in relation to an action against the manufacturer of safety devices at the depot.


The Maritime Speaker Series at the Door County Maritime Museum (DCMM) continues on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 7pm. Rhys Kuzdas, DCMM Curator and Exhibits Manager, will preview his presentation for the upcoming Council of American Maritime Museums conference on the sinking of Leathem D. Smith's yacht, the Half-Moon, which sank off the coast of Door County in 1946. Of those aboard, only Smith's daughter Patsy would survive the sudden gale that consumed her remaining family.
The presentation charts the events leading up to, during, and after the death of a magnate of maritime industry and a rising political star. Leathem D. Smith's was one of the most influential shipbuilding companies on the Great Lakes; when he died, the company he built also perished. The now mostly forgotten tragedy shocked the nation for a moment, but ultimately redefined the local community for generations.
Speaking about his ongoing research into this pivotal moment in Door County history, Kuzdas will present the harrowing story little-known within the community of Sturgeon Bay. In addition to the subject of the Half-Moon, Kuzdas will also share how the research process works when creating exhibits such as the DCMM 50th Anniversary exhibit "The Water Defines Us: DCMM@50" and the "Shipwrecks of Door County" exhibit, both currently on display at the Sturgeon Bay museum.
Attaining a B.A. from Lawrence University in 2015 with majors in History and International Relations, Kuzdas soon developed a passion for local history and community engagement. A US Navy veteran and avid travel and history enthusiast, Kuzdas has volunteered and worked at various non-profits and historical societies both abroad and in his home state of Wisconsin. Now the Curator & Exhibits Manager for the Door County Maritime Museum, he is responsible for exhibit interpretation, design and installation of exhibits within all Door County Maritime Museum properties.
The Maritime Speaker Series offers an assortment of monthly programs dealing with everything from historical topics to current issues affecting the Great Lakes and the economy that relies on them. The programs are held the first Thursday of each month November through April beginning at 7pm. The Maritime Speaker Series is held in the Reddin Bridge Room at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay. Admission is free of charge with a suggested non-perishable food donation. Visit www.DCMM.org to learn more about the upcoming Maritime Speaker Series.


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Al-Ghadir in the Qur'an (Part 2)
:Hamid Haj Ali
Translated by: Sadroddin Musawi
The Holy Qur'an states: "This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My Favor upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion" (Surat Al-Ma'idah, Verse 3)
One of the controversial interpretations about this verse is that there is no relationship between this verse and what is said before and after it. Whether we regard this verse as Al-Ghadir Verse like all Shia or most of Sunn scholars or we accept that it is not related to the Ghadir Event, the Question will be:
Why the said verse isn't closely related to what comes before and after that in the Qur'an?
If, even less likely, these statements belong to another part of the Qur'an, which Chapters do they belong to? Is there a more appropriate place for it in Qur'an?
Can it be claimed that the sequence of chapters and verses in the Qur'an are exactly in accordance with what they were in the era Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)?
Why has the other verse which is about Ghadir Event (Al-Ma'idah, Verse: 67) been included in another part of the Chapter and not next to the said verse which is related to the Completion of the religion?
Are the three clauses in this sentence "I have perfected …, and I have completed…, and I have chosen….." interpreting each other or do they have separate interpretations?
What kind of "Al" is the one in "Al-Youm" -this day- word in this verse?
Why has the word "Al-Youm" -This day- preceded the other words in this statement?
Hadn't Guardianship and succession of the Commander of the Faithful been expressed before that its announcement on Ghadir Day has lent glory to this day?
Is it appropriate to think that this day has turned into a special day due to the announcement of Imam Ali's guardianship among huge Muslim masses which was unique till that day and after that? (That is, the last words were said and there remained no excuse for all).
Can't one say that this day is special because Inner Guardianship was granted to Imam Ali (A.S) and that Al-Ghadir day is the starting point of such guardianship?
All these questions and other questions in this field can open new and worthy windows for Qur'anic researchers, exegetes and Ghadir scholars.
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The Age of World Wars (1914-1945)
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The warring parties of World War I.
The alliance system that triggered the war was the Central Powers: Germany, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Turkish Empire, Bulgaria. It is based on the Triple Alliance of 1882: the Alliance of Germany, the Monarchy and Italy for defense (not offense) against
Russia and France.
The war was initiated by Germany and the Monarchy, with no reference to Italy initially joining.
The Turkish Empire joined in 1914 because of its opposition to Russia.
Bulgaria wanted to retaliate on Serbia, but only joined & mobilized in 1915 in the hope of a sure victory.
The other array was the Entente Powers: France, Russia, Britain, Belgium, Japan, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Greece, USA.
It is based on the Triple Entente of 1907: Treaty between France, Russia and Great Britain (Franco-Russian alliance+cordial agreement+Russo-British agreement). It obliged only France and Russia to defend each other against Germany and the Monarchy. Britain, however, was merely connected to the other two powers by friendly treaties and treaties separating colonial interests. Belgium was invaded by Germany for strategic reasons, thus Britain declared war(Treaty of London made it bound to defend Belgium).
Japan wanted to seize German interests in the Far East (to expand its sphere of influence in China and the Pacific), therefore, it joined in 1914, but did not intervene in the European struggle.
In 1915, Italy turned against its former allies: it sought the Italian-inhabited territories of the Monarchy and Balkan influence.
Romania joined in 1916 in hopes of acquiring Transylvania, and Greece in 1917 against Bulgaria (Bulgaria wanted revenge) and Turkey (for land).
The most significant was the accession of the USA in 1917: after the secession of Russia, this greatly decided the war.
The First World War took place between 1914-18 between the Central Powers and the Entente Powers, mostly in Europe but also in the colonial territories. The excuse for its detonation was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne in Sarajevo in 1914 June 28. A month later, on July 28, 1914, the Monarchy declared war on Serbia.
The clashes that used the most forces and decided the war took place on the Western Front:
In 1914, German troops stormed Belgium, invaded France, but were stopped by French-British forces at the Marne. Germany's goal would have been to avoid a two-front war, by defeating France quickly(swiftly). However, the idea of a quick victory failed, attrition warfare (& trench warfare) ensued instead.
In 1916, German forces launched an offensive at Verdun and the British at the Somme, but despite the huge losses, the front line did not change significantly-stalemate.
In the Spring Offensive of 1918, the Germans attacked again (troop reinforcements came from the withdrawn Eastern Front), but were repulsed by the Entente forces reinforced with the Americans.
In the summer, the Entente troops attacked, broke through the front, and ended the war (Armistice at Compiegne November 11, 1918).
The Eastern Front was the longest (in size), so typically there was no stalemate (thus no trench warfare):
In 1914, Russian forces invaded Germany (East Prussia) and the Monarchy (Galicia), but were stopped in both places.2. In 1915, German and Austro-Hungarian forces broke through the Russian front and occupied Tsarist Poland & the territory of the Baltic States.
In 1916, the Russians attacked again, and with the entry of Romania, the Entente troops also invaded Transylvania. They were repulsed by the redeployment of German forces (however, with this, the Monarchy was completely subordinated to Germany).
In 1917, the Russian Revolution broke out. The last Russian attack collapsed, the Germans invaded vast territories, with this the First World War ended here (in the East).
The history of the Balkan Front was actually two separate series of events:
The Monarchy invaded Serbia as early as 1914, but the attack was halted by the Galician invasion of the Russians.
With the accession of Bulgaria in 1915, Serbia was then defeated (it surrendered).
In 1918, the French-British-Italian-Serbian-Greek forces defeated the Turks, the Bulgarians, and then the Austro-Hungarian forces (Armistice: November 3, 1918, Padua).
The Italian front or Alpine front was formed with the entry of Italy on the Italian-Austrian border in 1915 (Isonzo, Doberdo) and was predominantly a stalemate.
In 1917, Austro-Hungarian forces broke through the front and pushed to Piave, from where they were counter attacked in 1918 by Italian-British-French-American troops.
Compared to the above, there was little fighting between the forces on the other fronts
The Turkish Empire fought Russian forces in the Caucasus and British forces on the border with Egypt and southern Iraq. It suffered a defeat.
In 1915, the British tried to occupy Gallipoli but failed. (The Armenian genocide took place during the war.)
The German colonies surrendered in a row, cut off from the mainland.
The English fleet blockaded Germany. Both the 1914 Heligoland Bight and 1916 Jutland sortie attempts were German failures(both Britain and Germany claimed victory in the Battle of Jutland).
Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917, which provoked U.S. entry.
The nature and characteristics of the War
Germany, which declared the war, was prepared for a quick victory: After the rapid invasion of France, it also wanted to force Russia to peace.
However, Britain's intervention leveled the balance of power (the conflict became futile), a war of attrition ensued, which was then decided by US entry.
The trench warfare meant that the two opposing armies dug themselves into trenches, settling in for defense (long-term protection, sleeping, eating).
Breaking through the standstill front lines was only possible with a huge force(e.g. tank) and in any case caused unprecedented losses.
The modern weapons used in the war (tank, plane, chemical weapon) have not yet proved decisive.
As the war dragged on, the strength of the economy and the resilience (effort) of the homefront ('hinterland') became more important – it was a total war:
The state intervened everywhere in the production(war economy, planned economy) and in the distribution of consumer goods (rationing).
Governments became indebted and inflation arose.
Partly due to the Blockade of Germany/the Blockade of Europe(British blockade, conducted by the Triple-Entente powers to restrict the maritime supply of goods to the Central Powers), the resources of the central powers were soon exhausted.
U.S. loans helped the Entente, but also made the U.S. interested in the Entente's victory.
The war used the population and financial resources of the belligerent countries to a greater extent than ever before. This was possible because with the formation of nation-states, the majority of the population identified with the goals of the state, i.e., they considered the events as a war of nations rather than states.
Great power interests in peace talks
The goal of the peace treaty that ended World War I, in addition to imposing penalties on those who were a reason for the starting of the war, was a just settlement that would ensure peace in the long run. In reality, however, the interests of power prevailed.
France's goal was
to weaken Germany's military and economy.
also to create a French sphere of influence in Central Europe that would also isolate weakened Germany and weakened Russia, keeping Bolshevism away from Europe.
Britain wanted to:
maintain a continental balance of power, that is, it did not want France to become too strong at the expense of Germany. But even more important was the expansion of its colonial empire (colonial policy).
Italy wanted Italian-inhabited territories and Balkan influence.
The latter was denied by its allies because Italy's military performance was unconvincing and the area was already promised to French-friendly small states.
Russia became isolated as a result of the revolution and the civil war, even in early 1918 it made a separate peace treaty with Germany and did not take part in the peace talks/conference.
Japan acquired the German colonies in the Far East, proving uninterested in other matters.
U.S. President, Wilson, sought a complete reorganization of power relations
Fourteen Points would have ensured a just peace with the losers and American trade influence.
He proposed general decommissioning – disarm to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.
He would have abolished secret diplomacy and refused to recognize private understandings made before and during the war.
Absolute full freedom of navigation and trade upon the seas.
Adjustment of all colonial claims based upon observance of the interests of the colonial populations(self-determination).
He would have restored the sovereignty of the occupied countries, re-established Poland, returned Alsace-Lorraine to France, and given South Tyrol and Trieste to Italy.
He promised the people of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire "freest opportunity to autonomous development", which the leaders of the national minorities interpreted as independence, while the Hungarian and Turkish leadership interpreted it as autonomy only.
He would have created the League of Nations to ensure peace.
As his allies rejected the plans, the U.S. withdrew from the peace talks. (He later made a separate peace with the losing states.)
The defeated countries were not invited to peace talks, only at the end they were told the discussed facts.
Germany was held responsible for starting the war, so harsh penalties were imposed. German public opinion felt this was unfair, confirmed by the fact that Germany won on the Eastern Front and that the West also suffered defeat, only after the US entered did they gain the upper hand.
The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy practically fell apart by the time of the peace talks. According to the victors, its historic role in the balance of power in Europe came to an end, as it was
subjugated to Germany in the war and was no longer needed to offset weakened Russia.
The great powers often referred to the principle of self determination of nations and included in the peace treaties the needs of their small allies, Serbia and Romania, as well as the ideas of Czech and Croatian emigration.
Common elements of peace treaties
The Peace Conference met in Paris in 1919, chaired by French Prime Minister Clemenceau. Once the victorious powers agreed, the defeated were only invited to sign in the castles around Paris.
The reason for the redrawing of borders was, in principle, the right of peoples to self-determination: the Entente promised the creation of nation-states. In reality, borders were also influenced by economic and military considerations, always in favor of the victorious powers and the states created by the victors.
The defeated were ordered to pay compensation. The amount of this was not dictated, but was decided at international conferences in the 1920s, so the settlement of the issue dragged on until 1932, further poisoning the relationship between winners and losers.
In the defeated states, conscription was abolished and the size and armament of the army was limited.
The defeated lost their colonies (practically only Germany had).
The League of Nations was formed at Wilson's suggestion.
Its members were the victors, although the US was no longer involved. The losing states were only later admitted.
The goal of the organization was to preserve world peace, which it could not achieve, as it never had all the major powers at once.
Minority protection issues could also be addressed to the League of Nations: the rights of minorities who moved to other countries due to border changes were guaranteed by the peace treaties, and the League of Nations was rendered arbitrator.
Its main bodies were the General Assembly, which represents all the member states, the Executive Council, which operates with the permanent membership of major powers, and the Court of International Justice – often called the World Court – in The Hague.
The main points of the peace treaties
Peace of Versailles between Germany & the Entente:
Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France.
The eastern provinces ("Polish corridor") of Germany were annexed to the new Poland.
Saarland was put under French control for fifteen years.
The Rhineland was demilitarized.
Overall, Germany was not weakened so much that it could not recover, but the peace was shocking and humiliating to the German public, maintaining a taste of retaliation.
Treaty of Saint-Germain between Austria & the Entente Powers:
Austria was created from the German-speaking Alpine provinces (annexing the Slovenian and Italian territories). But the Czech Republic, which had a mixed population, was ceded "in return" it received the western counties of Hungary, Burgenland.
It was forbidden to unite with Germany (Anschluss), even though the population was German-speaking and wanted to unite because they thought the country was unviable.
The Treaty of Neuilly between Bulgaria & the Entente Powers:
ceded the Aegean coast to Greece.
Treaty of Sevres between Turkey & the Entente Powers:
It divided the Arab territories between Great Britain (Iraq, Jordan, Palestine) and France (Syria, Lebanon).
Greece and Italy got from the Anatolian territories, which also created an independent Armenia.
A national movement broke out in Turkey. Kemal Pasha modernized the country and defeated the Greeks.
In 1923, a new Peace was made in Lausanne, in which Turkey preserved Anatolia.
The new states
The treaties around Paris reshaped the map of Europe, creating a number of new states:
Finland and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) separated from Russia.
Poland was created from the territories of Russia, Germany, and the Monarchy, but its eastern border could only be recognized in a separate war with Soviet Russia.
Czechoslovakia was formed from the Czech provinces of Austria and the Felvidék(=Uplands/Upper Hungary). At that time Subcarpathia(Kárpátalja) also belonged here.
Romania doubled with the annexation of Transylvania, Banat, Kelet-Tiszántúl (=Transtisza eastern region), and Bessarabia recovered from Russia.
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) was established: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia from Austria joined Serbia and Montenegro, and Southern Hungary (Délvidék) was annexed.
The new states were nominally nation-states, in fact a large number of people from the formerly ruling nations (Hungarians, Germans, Russians) lived in the territory as minorities.
Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes were already multi-ethnic states, although the former came under Czech and the latter under Serbian rule.
June 28, 1914 (assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife in Sarajevo)
July 28, 1914 (outbreak of World War I)
1914-1918 (World War I)
1916 (Battle of the Somme)
1917 (February Russian Revolution and Bolshevik takeover)
11 November 1918 (end of the First World War)
1919 (beginning of theParis Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles)
1922 (creation of the Soviet Union) | Wilhelm II, Nicholas II, Lenin, Trotsky, Wilson, Clemenceau | quick victory, attrition warfare, stalemate, static battle, trench warfare, two-front war, central powers, Allies of World War I or Entente Powers, front line, home front, reparation, League of Nations, minority protection.
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Ker here: I get weird looks too, Phi! The card usually helps to explain more clearly than I can do in the moment!
I met Kerri over a year ago and have truly loved getting to know her and spend time with her. You may have seen my name pop up on She Ordered What a few times (see here, here, and here), but for those of you that may not know me, my name is Philia (Phi for short) and I have a food blog called the Sweetphi blog where I share simple, sweet & savory recipes and love to share how delicious food doesn't have to have a bazillion ingredients or take hours to make in order for it to be great!
But truth is, even though I love to cook, I love to dine out too! There's something truly great about picking something off a menu, having it brought to you, and then when you're done enjoying your food you can just leave (I mean, obviously you have to pay or there would be problems) and you leave the mess for someone else to clean up. That, in and of itself is enough to send me to a restaurant, especially since I've been so busy lately that my kitchen is looking neglected and like I have a reoccurring tornado staying with us.
And by 'us' I mean my hubby and I!
So this week when he suggested going on a date night I whole heartedly agreed. We decided to go to Jackson's Grill a lovely supper club in Milwaukee, about a mile away from Miller Park.
I had heard of supper clubs being a 'thing' in Milwaukee, but had never been to one and wasn't quite sure what they were, so I was happy when I heard the waitress telling a table over from us that they were a supper club and that meant the establishment only served supper…seems like a pretty cool concept if you ask me.
As soon as we entered, it felt like we were transported back in time. The beige décor, antique fixtures and the lingering smell of food, all made for a very welcoming environment, not to mention the gorgeous mahogany 'old school' bar one had to walk around to get to the restaurant portion. We were sat immediately, and our server mentioned that they had a wine list, but that they made a really good Old Fashioned.
Old Fashioneds happen to be one of my hubby's favorite drinks, and not wanting to be left out, I ordered one as well. The server did not lie; they made a really good Old Fashioned. They were HUGE too!
For starters we had a cheese plate.
I just can't resist a cheese plate, and this one did not disappoint. Besides the selection of cheeses, there were spiced pistachios and wonderful cherry compote.
After our cheese plate arrived, we ordered. I told the server what I was doing (having her order for me) and she played along, just asking what doneness level I liked my meat.
Our meal came with soups or salad to start, and both my husband and I got soup. The server picked a seasonal butternut squash soup for me, and my husband got the seafood bisque. While I did enjoy the seasonality of the butternut squash soup (it had brown butter drizzled on top and slivered almonds) it was a bit heavy for my taste. My husband's seafood bisque on the other hand…that I would order time and time again, it was absolutely delicious!
We then received our dinners and I was happy to see that the server had chosen the same dinner for me as my husband had, just a smaller portion and a different side. My husband got the 10oz Black Angus Filet Mignon al a Portobello with garlic mashed potatoes, and I got the 6oz Black Angus Filet Mignon al a Portobello with mac and cheese.
We finished off our dinner with a dessert I'd never had: Bananas Foster. I'd go back to Jackson's Grill for this dessert alone. Warm bananas in a caramel sauce topped with vanilla ice cream. My husband got a little glass of port that accompanied dessert. It was the perfect finish to our meal.
I would also like to note that the entire meal: Cheese plate, soup, steak, dessert, took only an hour in its entirety. What a lovely little supper club that I'm sure I'll be going to again!
After doing this I have 1 question for Kerri – how do you do it? How do you take pictures with such ease in dark restaurants and make them look good? So many props to you and your wonderful blog!
Ker again… Phi, my blogging / photo best friend has become Snapseed! Here's the link to the iPhone and to Android app. It's so easy, even when I take photos without flash, to correct the images so they properly represent the food I've actually received (even in dark spots!).
If you'd like to connect with me, you can find me on twitter (@sweetphi), Instagram (PhiliaKelnhofer), or on Facebook (SweetphiBlog).
Thanks for having me on your blog Kerri!
Thank YOU, Phi for sharing your wonderful and romantic (Nick is a gem of a guy!) experience in adventuresome dining! I could NEVER pull off an incredible blog like yours, but I certainly can learn from it! I'm flattered that you spent time offering to contribute to SOW. Thank you so much!
Awe I LOVE this Ker, I'm so excited I got to share my experience here on your amazing blog, I truly had fun doing it! Love that you have cards made, I can definitely see that making the process a whole lot easier! Can't wait to see you soon.
Likewise, Phi! So glad we have fun plans soon! It's been too long!
Thank you again for sharing your supper club experience!
That dessert does sound interesting and good.
Snapseed, indeed, Ant! FTW. I have to agree with Phi that bananas foster is a great dessert. I once made it for a good friend of mine – so worth it!


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Assuming my best option ends up being to export to SPSS *.sav file, does anyone know if it will meet both of my use cases above (contain the questions, answers schema and also contain each participant's results)?

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Aloisi debacle, fans brawl in streets – that wasn't the A-League's real howler
Fans from Melbourne Victory and Western Sydney Wanderers brawl and cause vandalism in the streets; WSW fans then light flares and set off fire-crackers at the ground and punches are thrown? Yes, we saw all that. John Aloisi finally sacked from the basket case that is Melbourne Heart after another embarrassing loss. Yes, we all saw that. While they were two very significant events the past few days, the most damaging one went ignored: thousands of people turned away at the MV/WSW game through lack of tickets despite the stadium only two-thirds to capacity. If I wasn't there, I could not have believed it myself. Since I was there, and was one of them, it's not only believable, it was a disgrace.
Can't get a ticket despite thousands of vacant seats
First thing, for some bizarre reason, all seats were made reserved despite this being a non-derby game. Gone were the $25 General Admission seats normally for the ends. They were now C-reserved at $35, with B (upper levels of side stands) at $45 and A (lower side stands) at a whopping $55. This created queues as people had to look at seating charts to pick out seats, and then it created the impossible situation for any group of people (even small groups of 3 or 4) to not get tickets together at the "cheapest" price. Remember, this is domestic A-League, not an international test match of Ashes cricket that cost many of the very same sports-goers just $5 more for 5 more hours of sport earlier in the day. The A-League consistently has been a rip-off, not just in Melbourne either. Brisbane and Newcastle have had infamous reporting in the past. Of the several frustrated groups I had in front of me trying to buy tickets, all of them gave up. This happened both times I queued. Why did I queue twice?
Problem two, my friends are MV members, so I figured I'd just cough up $45 and buy the seat next to them. They said it's never been used all season, nor the previous season, and still wasn't for this game. In fact, they were swimming in spare seats. Could the system sell me this seat? No. Apparently it was "sold". I thought it was incompetence from the junior seller, so that's why I tried at another window. I also wanted more proof of the debacle I was witnessing with the ticket selling of fans turned away. While I could have got a ticket to sit alone, I went more for the experience to hang with friends. For $45, I damn well should have had that option too.
Content with walking away on the principle of not rewarding this shemozzle, I strode to the city and took train home, expecting to see almost a full house of 30,000+, or at least 27,000+. The actual crowd? A lousy 22,000 – only a few thousand more than a regular period fixture. While it's true MV probably raked in similar revenue with the reserved seating policy compared to maybe the 25,000 with GA and cheaper prices, they burnt many people in the process. These numbers, most of whom would be opportunistic fans in Melbourne on holidays or even crossing from the cricket, will be lost forever. We'll never know the real number, because you can never count a negative, and the next time it happens, it will most likely be to a new batch of disappointed people. All that it means, at least to this occasional A-League attendee: If you spontaneously feel inclined to amble to the Bubble Stadium to watch a humble football match during Christmas time, don't bother trying.
Debacle at Melbourne Heart
It wasn't a great few days for the A-League, and especially not a great few weeks for Melbourne's second club. John Aloisi, winless all season and for the final weeks of last season, was finally sacked by the Melbourne Sympathy. Even this obvious and delayed decision was greeted with sympathy for the coach by many fans and journalists. While there is a divide that wanted him long gone, the sympathetic side, the "this is not how we do things at Melbourne Heart", were disappointed. If that's not bad enough, John van't Schip is the interim replacement. Remember him? The former coach that quit after being home-sick, ended up taking a job in Mexico, was sacked six months later, and is straight back at MH as technical director. Again, more sympathy? Hence the "Melbourne Sympathy" tag. These decisions, not to mention the hiring of the under-credentialled Aloisi in the first place, is endemic of club so absorbed with sympathy that it's become a total basket case. Since inception, not one decision has been correct. Why has it materialised this way? All because of the dopey nickname.
No doubt many will be confused that a nickname matters so much. It does, and there's two posts previously on this page covering it. A nickname is supposed to resonate strength, a purpose or a philosophy. The psychology of it bleeds throughout the club, the fans, the marketing and, ultimately, the key football decisions and results. You see it with glib "Heart Believe" slogans on the players race. You see it with weak decisions about the club's ethos. Forget about winning, let's play with heart. Let's treat people nicely. Let's give the benefit of the doubt. Let's show sympathy for former stars. Let's pretend all we need is a fake image to conjure emotion to force success, rather than physically forge it through tangible effects like good coaches, strong recruiting and an astute board. Let's simply believe it will happen. Because if we believe it, it will, right?
The fact Aloisi put beating Wellington this round as the standard to keep his job defies belief. Wellington are last, and are playing away from home. The standard should be to beat the top 3 or 4 teams. That Wellington did win, only did MH a favour. No more "let's do it for JA" nonsense from the players. No more "we're creating the chances, we're just not scoring" drivel from the coach. No more excuses. It's results that count, and this club has been woeful every year. Even the second year in which they made the finals, it was a quick and embarrassing exit. Well, it probably wasn't embarrassing to them, and that's the problem. Van't Schip said he'll continue with the MH "philosophy". I guess he means losing.
Much of MH's troubles had the FFA as accomplices to the negligence. Initially, this dopey nickname was banned and a new name was being sought from either Sporting Melbourne FC, Melbournians FC or Melbourne Revolution. The FFA changed their mind and despite MH being long-used as the working name for the club, Sporting Melbourne FC ran a close second in a Herald Sun poll in Melbourne. It also had many commentators in raptures, notably on Fox Sports. All this key evidence was ignored.
Apparently MH are in the process of gaining new owners. If the new owners don't re-brand and re-launch, they are wasting their time. There needs to be a clean break from this sordid history. It can be done. While they've missed the boat for those unconvinced MV fans that have now long settled back at MV after examining MH and deciding it was rubbish, Western Sydney Wanderers show that it can be done. With the second Melbourne club not having geography to rely upon, getting the branding as the "point of difference (POD)" is even more critical.
No one knows MH's POD. Apparently it is playing attractive football via a youth policy. Someone invite me to the 21st birthdays of Vince Grella and Harry Kewell then. In sport, you can't slant a team in that direction just for a POD. Ultimately, it's success that counts, and their simply isn't the pool of players on the market to give that slant and ensure the best chance of winning. In actuality, MH's POD boiled down to the colour red, a dopey, meaningless and irrelevant nickname, and a logo that looks like a tooth. When you're up against the successful Melbourne Victory – you know, the club that brandishes victory as its motto and has captured the essence of the state with the blue and whites colours and big V on its shirt – you're a dead duck. If you're one of the two clubs chanting "Melbourne" at derbies and not being distinguishable as a separate entity, you not only project you are second rate, you confirm you are second rate, and very much the second club in Melbourne. That's a path to eternal oblivion.
These are the changes that must be made:
1) Renamed as Sporting Melbourne FC. This defines you as a traditional club, no gimmicks. You chant "Sporting" at derbies to provide identity.
2) The away-strip of white with red sash becomes the home strip. Again, a very traditional footballing style.
3) A new badge and branding uses the sash as its key motif
4) A new away-strip using a sash. It could be a reverse, or even a black with white sash, any combination. Stick to the sash.
5) Settle the training base. Apparently they are all over Melbourne, including as far out as LaTrobe University. With the "Sporting" name, maybe link with a sports institute, like the Victorian Institute of Sport or a nearby Uni.
After that, there needs to be a strong technical director that oversees a meaningful agenda for recruiting and playing style. No more aging ex-Socceroos. Any coach hired must have strong tactical attributes, not be a "name" simply to schmooze with sponsors. That Ante Milicic was overlooked for Aloisi was criminal. He's now at WSW as their mastermind behind the scenes.
Mostly, it will take patience and solid, dedicated management. As stated earlier, the many fans unsure of MV and looked to a new club have now decided… against MH. Personally, I'm still undecided, preferring to follow Brisbane, and not interested in season memberships either. MV don't offer a 3 or 5 game membership, so their loss. The new club needs to exploit these gaps in the market. Ticket prices and ticketing control can be another key separation. Keep general admission, including a GA members area and add visitor passes so occasional goers can sit with their membered family and friends. Offer 3 and 5 game memberships. These are extremely popular in the AFL, even if you must exclude derbies as one of the allowed games. These lower members then get first right to purchase their seat, otherwise it's for general sale. Long term, even though 5 years away, look to get Ange Postecoglou at the club. Image counts, and with the right branding and right coach, the easy – and controllable – aspect is done.
Brawls in the streets before the game, flares at the ground, vandalism and punches thrown after
A terrible look for the A-League. Opposing Melbourne Victory and Western Sydney Wanderers fans weilding metal bars threw rocks and chairs at each other outside a city pub before the game; then a barrage of flares and fire-crackers were set off at the game itself predominately by WSW fans. An absolute disgrace to the game. Like the situation with Melbourne Heart, this has been covered in earlier blogs on this page, especially with reference to the apathy by much of the football community and senior commentators of "it's just a few bad apples". If it is just a few, why are we letting them ruin the reputation of our sport? Essentially, the clubs and FFA must crack down. Even if that ultimately leads to extreme measures like a closed gate.
So far this season the behaviour has been great, with fans to be commended. While there's still a few noses out of place (MV cheer squad not as vocal as previously and sat in the upper deck at Docklands games), the clubs are winning the war against this un-Australian footballing "culture", and therefore the sport is winning. Most pleasing about the troubles is that the football media didn't play the victim again. Normally when such events are reported, it's seen as a witch-hunt. These particular events were bad enough that any football fan can see past their bias and accept the reporting was deserved. The interview on Channel 9 news of the MV member – a mother there with her child – almost in tears and disgusted and wanting to tear up her membership showed that predominantly football fans are calm and families and true ambassadors of the sport, and only want to sit at a game where beer, punches and flares are not thrown. These thugs should see her to understand the consequences of the loutish behaviour. While words like "riots" and "ugly" might be typical of the media's attempts at sensationalism, they are justified to present the message, and should compel the clubs to act further. The simple fact always remains that if this ridiculous behaviour is stopped, there'll never be anything to report.
05 January 2014: Update
Last week MV against WSW had 100% reserved seating that saw countless turned away, especially groups of people, after being unable to get seats together. This supposed "sell-out" had only 22,000 in a stadium of nearly 32,000. Last night, Saturday, against Brisbane, the C-section (ends) were general admission as normal. No one turned away, no massive queues at the ticket windows, people could just buy tickets quickly rather than force to pick seats off a chart, a crowd of 23,000. Are we learning?
Crowd Troubles
Football Federation Australia acted strongly against Melbourne Victory and Western Sydney Wanderers for the unruly conduct of their crowds. Both teams received a suspended sentence of 3 points docked, to be activated if there's any further crowd trouble for the remainder of the season. That trouble includes any unruly behaviour outside the stadium, in city centres as was the case last week. While both clubs worried about the realistic chance of this being policed fairly, potentially that rival supporters could impersonate another club's fans and then create mischief to force sanctions, reality is that's unlikely and easy to prove, plus both clubs would be sanctioned in any event. The mere threat of such sanctions should dissuade such fans from acting. The clubs themselves had a tit-for-tat in the media, especially MV slamming WSW via a press release. More heartening is that both clubs have vowed to act with the FFA to stamp out their "rogue supporters". MV's chairman Anthony Del Petrio: "Every stakeholder is in total agreement that anti-social behaviour must be prevented and will not be tolerated. Safety and enjoyment must be upheld at all times. How we achieve this is where the debate begins. We applaud the FFA for its zero tolerance measures."
Disturbingly, and disappointingly, there's still rogue commentators out there. Relatively quiet on the issue until now, Les Murray was engaged in a conversation with the Age's Michael Lynch on twitter today about the flares, citing the situation in Italy, "When I commentated on Italian games in the 80s, for the 1st half hour I couldn't see the players for the smoke", and "Every game had flares and no one seemed to care. Part of the culture." Murray was commentating from the SBS studio in Australia off the telecast at the time, so then, and probably these days when viewing from the comfort of a corporate or commentary box at the ground, is oblivious to the disgusting nature of smoke from flares that was the nature of the initial complaint in that conversation.
It wasn't that long ago that "no one seemed to care" about cigarette smoking, and that it was "part of the culture", so should we allow that too? For Murray, who often tweets against the glorification of alcohol, it does seem a strange hypocrisy that the one vice he does condone is the one that besmirches the game he loves. If smoking and boozing was a football culture, would he also begin to condone that? Smoking is banned in public because it infringed on the freedoms of others. No one should have to sit next to it and breathe noxious smoke from another person, and likewise no should need to breathe in smoke from a flare. Furthermore, flares are a physical danger that can cause serious burns. On the evening news there was a mother and her child scared and crying about the incidents they were forced to endure. Well Mr Murray, go tell them it's "part of the culture" and just suck it up if they want to real football fans. Enough.
To show these events are not rare, nor is there a witch-hunt by the media because so few of these ever made the news (I only recall the Melbourne Derby of 2 Feb 2013, and there was a king-hit at a game involving Sydney), here are the dossiers of "football culture" from Victoria Police for the past three years released to the media under Freedom of Information laws detailing countless flares, smoke bombs, fights, king-hits, spitting, assaults, vandalism, abuse and intimidation…
Crowd: 17,299
Behaviour: Generally good; disruptive elements in Victory cheer squad
Incidents: Four flares ignited and penalty notice issued for riotous behaviour.
Details: Male tried to start a fight with Sydney cheer squad, police arrested him.
Melbourne Heart v Sydney FC
Crowd: 4857
Behaviour: Overall good
Incidents: Flare discharge outside ground
Details: There was an altercation pre-game between supporters at a Richmond Pub. Melbourne supporters were accused of having "ambushed" Sydney supporters and "caused some fear and anguish".
Melbourne Victory v Melbourne Heart
Behaviour: Poor
Incidents: 14 flare deployments, assault and taunting between supporter groups.
Details: 14-year-old boy abused police and "struck out" towards them after being seen acting aggressively towards other spectators after the match.
"Crowd behaviour in the Victory Supporter's cheer squad was extremely poor".
A male was "king hit" on the footbridge leading away from the venue after the match and received facial injuries.
Melbourne Victory v Gold Coast United
Incidents: Three police assaulted, one police uniform damaged, 1 flare let off.
Details: An officer attempting to evict fan who had pulled the hair of another crowd member was "bitten on the leg by penetrating skin, but not causing bleeding".
"Crowd behaviour in the Victory supporter's cheer squad was again extremely poor".
They held a silent protest for 15 minutes of the match but "then reverted to their usual behaviours".
Moved en masse "in an apparent show of force/strength" to different seating areas. "This crowd/mob mobility was also a concerning behaviour".
Melbourne Heart v Melbourne Victory
Behaviour: Highly charged and active crowd, but mostly well behaved
Incident: Heart supporter spat on Victory supporter during match, had his membership card confiscated for further action. After the match fights erupted as a group of supporters walked across Gosch's Paddock.
Details: "100 Heart active supporters were walking across Gosch's Paddock a flare was set off and then a fight broke out. A number of fights then erupted." Police, security and mounted branch attended.
Melbourne Victory v Adelaide United
Behaviour: Good
Incidents: One eviction
Details: Adelaide supporters were held back 15 minutes until Victory supporters had cleared area after the game. A banner erected by Victory supporters reading "Backrow Hooligans" was taken down.
Behaviour: Generally crowd was manageable although hard core supporter groups became unruly at times.
Incident: Flares ignited and chairs thrown onto arena
Details: Heart supporters destroyed 65 seats and threw them onto the ground.
Behaviour: Extremely poor
Incidents: 18 flares lit and home made smoke bombs set off. A 12-year-old was detected carrying a flare and had it confiscated. Coins, liquid and bottles thrown at security, about 500 supporters invaded the pitch.
Details: "Police were overwhelmed to a point where we could only monitor the crowd due to the volatile behaviour. The general demeanour of the Victory support group was aggressive and anti social."
Behaviour: Victory supporters antagonistic towards Sydney supporters although separated
Incidents: Two flares lit
Details: Sydney supporters held back after game to allow Victory fans to disperse, also deployed additional members for Sydney supporters travel to the game from Federation Square.
Behaviour: Seats broken and flares lit in both supporter areas
Incidents: 9 flares struck throughout the game and about 170 seats damaged.
Details: "It is clear from this match and previous recent matches that crowd behaviour, particularly in the active supporter area is deteriorating."
Melbourne Heart v Western Sydney
Behaviour: Reasonable up until last 15 minutes of match
Incidents: Hostile crowd behaviour
Details: "Approximately 100 Heart supporters moved to the northern end of the ground and started to bait the opposition. This tactic was successful. For a few minutes it was chaotic as the crowd was becoming very hostile towards each other."
-General Notes
Fans' behaviour is "totally different to AFL and cricket". It's a "touch one, touch all" mentality.
A BANNER was removed telling a Victory supporter to "stay strong" after he had been sentenced over an assault in which the victim lost an eye.
SECURITY was pelted with coins and bottles before 500 supporters invaded the pitch in late 2012.
A POLICE unit called for back-up after being surrounded by up to 20 Heart supporters earlier that year.
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Red card to soccer hooligan sympathisers
We as a sport are to blame for crowd troubles, not the media for reporting it…
As the A-League season is about to start, so too does the "fear mongering" from the mainstream press. Or does it? Melbourne's Herald Sun today ran a report detailing a much tougher and targeted stance by Victorian police and the two Melbourne clubs, Victory and Heart, to stamp out flares and vandalism and the odd punch-up at Melbourne derbies. The two clubs play on Saturday night.
The measures include…
A DEDICATED police investigations team headed by a high-ranking detective formed to probe all criminal incidents at A-League matches;
RIVAL teams Melbourne Victory and Melbourne Heart ban flags and banners of splinter supporter groups in the stands, clamping down on the association of rogue fans;
DOB-a-yobbo text messaging hotlines for matches at AAMII Park as well as Etihad Stadium for the first time to encourage fans to alert police and security about troublemakers;
STRONGER ticket entry regulations with members forced to scan their pass on entry and again when they reach certain parts of the ground and;
IMPROVED CCTV and video monitoring of fans.
On the website of Victoria Police…
"We're determined to make the 2013/14 season the most enjoyable yet – for players, for fans and for police," he said.
"We want to see more families at games enjoying themselves.
"During the off-season, police have made significant inroads into improving the police response to games by developing strong partnerships with Football Federation Australia, venue officials and Melbourne-based A-league clubs.
"We're determined not to see a repeat of the anti-social behaviour shown by a small number of trouble-makers at a number of A-league matches last season.
"Police have had enough, players have had enough and fans have had enough."
These seem very reasonable measures and ideal outcomes given the recurring problems and inability of the clubs or FFA to control the matter. Of course, typical in Herald Sun style, it was accompanied by the sensationalist headline "Red card to soccer hooliganism" despite not even one mention of the word "hooligan" in the crack down by its writer or the police themselves. Other than the headline, that word only appears in the intro.
Equally typical of this report came the gasps of hysteria from traditionalists, led by SBS's Les Murray on twitter about the alleged crusade against the sport: "Just as we are all excited about the new A-League season, bang, in comes the Herald Sun to dampen spirits and scare the fans away. Disgrace!", and to Victoria Police "Hogwash. The A-League experience is already the best of any in the country. This is sheer fear mongering."
It's not just elite media brushing of he issue as antics "of a few", so too do supporters. It's not. Because the culture of the sport tacitly condones it by crying out at being vicitimised and misunderstood, it's the problem of the many, as further evidenced by this from Murray: "FFA's lack of understanding of football fan culture etc". This is patently absurd. Australia is not Europe or the Americas. The use of flares and vandalism are ILLEGAL in our sporting stadiums.
While I'm equally sick as Murray and co of the unruly few tarnishing the game and putting it in the papers for the wrong reasons, I'm even more sick of these powerful, elitist voices sympathising and assuaging the crowd troubles by blaming media for simply reporting the facts. If that HS article was about cricket, you know damn well us precious lot would not only approve of it, we'd be salivating with gushing pride about the purity of our sport in comparison. Since it's about football, we becoming pathetic whingers and query that their must be an agenda against us for a newspaper to simply report it.
If football is to continue to grow and become a major mainstream sport in this country, then we must appeal to mainstream Australians. They almost unanimously go to sporting events without lighting flares or destroying chairs and throwing them on the pitch. It's people like Murray and our clubs that need to set an example. If it is really is just a few bad apples (presumably we say this because we don't want to tolerate them), then step up against them. Not only should we be happy the HS is reporting this though stance by police and the two Melbourne clubs, we should be helping out. Stamp out the bad behaviour then the newspapers will have nothing bad to report.
For the record, the Herald Sun also has feature articles on the Melbourne Derby, gleefully speculated that there could be a record crowd, and they've been previewing the A-League season both in print and online via webpage and video for the past week. This shows the area of true bias – in people like Les Murray and our generally precious and insecure followers of the sport. It's no coincidence that those claiming bias are actually the most biased people themselves. Maybe if Murray would retweet all HS articles on football, not just the his perceived unsavoury ones, not only would he portray the true and favourable coverage by the HS, he might loosen his own bias.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/football/soccer-clubs-police-crack-down-on-hooligans-at-melbourne-games/story-fni2wcjl-1226733829559
http://vicpolicenews.com.au/news/1592-police,-football-federation-australia-and-a-league-clubs-prepare-for-2013-14-season.html
https://twitter.com/lesmurraySBS/with_replies
10 October 2013: Update
Today the Herald Sun had a double page feature exploring the full squads, analysis and season predictions for both Melbourne Victory and Heart.
Yesterday the Herald Sun had a photo about the Victory/Heart Derby dominating the back page, a news article on the second last page, and a double page spread of four articles including A-League season preview and an article by Ron Reed "People's game kicking goals".
Have Les Murray and co tweeted these articles, all of which are available online, or would that hurt the ridiculous "evil mainstream media always keen to slam soccer" agenda? No they haven't. As said earlier, those most strident about media bias are the most biased people themselves. They don't see the good, only the bad. That says more about them, and their own little bubble they want to live within.
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How Peloton's Robin Arzón became an ultra-marathon runner in the face of a diabetes diagnosis
Kerry Justich
27 November 2021, 10:00 am ·5 min read
Robin Arzón explains how her relationship with her body changed after her diabetes diagnosis. (Photo: Instagram; designed by Quinn Lemmers)
It Figures is Yahoo Life's body image series, delving into the journeys of influential and inspiring figures as they explore what body confidence, body neutrality and self-love mean to them.
Robin Arzón seems superhuman to most as an avid ultra-marathon runner who has crossed the finish line of a 100-mile run, in addition to a few 50-mile races and 27 marathons. But the fan favorite Peloton instructor, author and new mom explains that she wasn't born a natural athlete. Instead, she worked to become a runner with a one-step-at-a-time mentality that not even a diabetes diagnosis could disrupt.
"I created myself into an athlete. I was not an athlete as a kid. I wasn't the track athlete growing up," she tells Yahoo Life. "It was all very, very, very basic, honestly. I took one step and then another, one jog turned into a mile, turned into a race. So it was iterative. I understand the reaction of, 'Oh my gosh, 50 miles.' I totally get that. But the reality is, superheroes are real and the folks we admire in our lives are tenacious and they bet on themselves."
It wasn't until Arzón entered law school that she started to run and train for the first time, after experiencing trauma from being held at gunpoint in a New York City bar. As she explored different ways of moving her body, she recognized that it had a big impact on her mental health.
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"I try to focus on what my body can do. So when I started running ultra-marathons it was in search of a finish line and really getting curious about my own greatness," she says. "And getting curious about one's own greatness is I think one of the beautiful ways to use movement as a form of medicine."
But even as she worked to overcome a scary part of her past, Arzón would face another obstacle when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2014. She was 32 years old at the time and training for a big race.
"Three weeks before I ran one of my first 50-mile ultra-marathons, I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic," she says, explaining that the chronic illness doesn't allow her pancreas to produce enough insulin. "So the relationship with my body took on a whole new meaning because I was literally needing to think like a pancreas."
When it came to running — and particularly ultra-marathons — the diagnosis put Arzón at risk of severe low blood sugar. "That was at the back of my mind as I was approaching these big finish lines, thinking am I gonna have a medical event?" she explains. "The mental gymnastics of living with diabetes is pretty tough because it's a rollercoaster. Diabetes is incredibly unpredictable."
Still, she wouldn't allow her circumstances to become limitations on what she could achieve. She began to use them to better educate herself on how to propel herself forward.
"I really like to focus on what my body can do and where I want to take it. I really look at things from a place of turning a loss into a lesson, turning pain into power. And that's a story arc that everyone can relate to," she says. "I want to write stories through my lived experience that are juicier and more powerful than fairytales. I even created a superhero toolkit when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and I thought, OK, well insulin is in my superhero toolkit now. And in addition to that I'm gonna have glucose tablets and all these other things that come along with it."
As she's worked through her personal journey with fitness and health, Arzón also recognizes the power of community. She's even helped to build a sense of togetherness through her work with Peloton, where she's the vice president of fitness programming and head instructor.
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Charlot avventuriero (The Adventurer), anche noto con il titolo L'evaso, è un film interpretato, diretto e prodotto da Charlie Chaplin; fu proiettato la prima volta il 22 ottobre 1917.

Ultima collaborazione di Chaplin con la Mutual Film Corporation e ultima apparizione di Eric Campbell, "il cattivo" per eccellenza, che morì in un incidente automobilistico due mesi dopo la data di distribuzione del film: aveva 37 anni.

Nel ruolo dello chauffeur appare il giapponese Toraichi Kono, che era effettivamente chauffeur di Chaplin nella vita privata, ed anche suo maggiordomo, segretario, confidente, emissario, guardia del corpo e per ben diciotto anni, fino allo scoppio delle ostilità per la Seconda guerra mondiale, per cui tutti i giapponesi sul suolo statunitense furono internati. La macchina che appare fu la prima proprietà di Chaplin, una Locomobile azzurra dalle gomme bianche.

Trama

Charlot riesce rocambolescamente ad evadere da Sing Sing, ed a nuoto approda sulla spiaggia sottostante il molo dove la bella, il suo spasimante e la madre di lei si intrattengono in conversazione, quando inavvertitamente la madre finisce per cadere in acqua; la ragazza si dispera, il suo fidanzato codardamente non si butta nonostante gli inviti di lei che allora decide di tuffarsi in soccorso della genitrice, ma rischierebbe anch'essa l'affogamento se non intervenisse in suo soccorso Charlot, che recupererà anche la madre e sta per salvare anche il corpulento fidanzato di lei, tuffatosi finalmente, quando questi con violenza stordisce Charlot che privo di sensi finisce trasportato dalle onde sulla spiaggia dove sarà soccorso dallo chauffeur della ragazza e trasportato nella residenza della nobile famiglia di lei.

Si risveglia Charlot in un morbido letto come non ne ha probabilmente mai avuti in vita sua, e superato l'attimo di sconcerto quando la vista del pigiama a strisce che indossa gli fanno temere di essere nuovamente carcerato, si adatta perfettamente al tenore della nobile casa e si aggira elegante tra gli occupanti ed i loro invitati al quale la ragazza lo presenta come l'eroe che la salvò, suscitando la gelosia del suo fidanzato. La nobiltà, si sa, ama il ballo, la piacevole conversazione ed in entrambe le attività eccelle il nostro eroe, incontrando qualche difficoltà solo nella consumazione di un gelato, sulla terrazza, in compagnia della dolce sua conquista, quando gli scivolerà nei calzoni procurandogli un certo fastidio per liberarsi dal quale lo fa scivolare lungo l'estremità, andando a finire (il gelato) di sotto sulla schiena nuda di una grassa nobildonna e scivolandole sempre più giù; si prodigherà lo spasimante codardo a recuperare il gelato nel vestito della signora introducendovi le mani, suscitando lo sdegno e la reazione del marito che lo vorrebbe picchiare all'istante.

L'atteggiamento di Charlot desta sempre più sospetti, finché la reale sua identità sarà svelata al fidanzato della ragazza quando lo riconoscerà nella fotografia pubblicata in prima pagina sul quotidiano recante la notizia della sua fuga e delle ricerche in corso. Ci proverà Charlot a taroccare la fotografia aggiungendovi a matita barba e baffi rendendola più somigliante al fidanzato che a sé stesso, ma la polizia avvertita arriva sul posto dando origine ad una forsennata caccia all'uomo per braccare l'evaso ormai smascherato, tra la delusione della ragazza e la costernazione della di lei famiglia. Ma l'impresa di acciuffarlo sarà tutt'altro che agevole: ne va della propria libertà ed alla fine Charlot riuscirà a dileguarsi nuovamente.

Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla Lone Star Corporation. Venne girato negli Studi Chaplin, al 1416 in La Brea Avenue, Hollywood.

Distribuzione
Distribuito dalla Mutual Film, il film uscì nelle sale cinematografiche statunitensi il 22 ottobre 1917.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Film comici
Film diretti da Charlie Chaplin
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Dazzling Brightness, by Roberta Gellis
>> Friday, May 04, 2007
Dazzling Brightness is the first in Roberta Gellis' Greek Mythology series. I've actually already read the first one, Shimmering Splendor, which was really good.
He was Lord of the Underworld, cast down by the gods into a kindom of everlasting darkness. She was born with mystical powers in a place of eternal light. And some where between the shadows and the sun was a world of treachery, danger, and unending desire...........
Against the savage splendor of Ancient Greece..from the exalted mountaintops of Olympus to a glittering midnight realm... they would defy the gods themselves to make their heaven right her on earth with a love that would blaze forever in.........
Dazzling Brightness
This is a book that starts out well, but then loses a lot of steam, mostly due to the lack of internal conflict. A B-.
The big twist in Gellis' reinterpretation of Greek myths is that her gods aren't gods. Hades, Zeus and the lot are simply powerful mages who use the powers given to them by the real goddess to make the natives think they're gods. Why? Power, adoration, tributes, that kind of thing.
Anyway, in this first book in the series, Gellis tackles the myth of Hades and Persephone, one of my favourites. Faced with the need to feed an increasing number of people in the Underworld (they aren't really dead, you see, so they need to eat), Hades arranges with his brother Zeus to take one of the Corn Goddess' priestess as his wife, so that crops can begin growing in his realm. Since Zeus had once adopted Demeter's sheltered daughter Kore, it's Kore that Hades will take, with her adoptive father's full consent, to make it all legal.
Kore doesn't really appreciate that fine point when Hades suddenly kidnaps her and drags her into the scary Underworld, a place everyone above ground is terrified of. But she soon comes to realize that the Underworld has a beauty of its own, just as Hades does. Plus, she'd be trading a life where she was smothered by her mother and had nothing of her own, not even a name ("Kore" means simply "girl"), for one in which she'd be the powerful Queen Persephone, with an adoring, genuinely kind and sexy husband and responsibilities of her own. No contest, really, and she quickly realizes so.
But ah, it won't be easy to convince Demeter of her daughter's well-being. She's so obsessed with recovering her Kore, that she soon unleashes a chain of events that could put everyone in Olympus against Hades and Persephone remaining together. It will take all their ingenuity, diplomacy and courage to manage to find a way to stay together.
Things started out really, really well. Gellis' vision of the Underworld is a fascinating one, and I loved the way she developed her heroine from the powerless, almost identity-less Kore to the powerful, sensible, extremely good ruler Persephone. I especially liked that it's not Hades who "makes" Kore into Persephone. It's obvious that she has the germs of common sense and intelligence in her from the very beginning; she's simply given the possibility of developing them in the Underworld.
The romance between these two is quite nice. I rolled my eyes a bit at the practically middle-aged Hades' lust-crazed fascination with the very young Persephone, but it was only at the very beginning that this gave me a shallow, creepy vibe. After a while, it becomes clear that it's Persephone's intelligence and strength that Hades loves.
And while the two lovebirds are exploring the Underworld and Kore is truly becoming Persephone, we see Demeter plotting and manouvering above ground, and her machinations are pretty interesting.
But... all good things come to an end. Near the half-way point, it becomes necessary that Persephone return to Demeter for a little while, to try to convince her she's ok, and I reached a kind of block. It reminded me so much of a similar point in SS, that I kind of didn't want to continue. I hate long separations. It was obvious one was coming, and it did, and it was just as boring as I feared.
I think the main problem is that the internal conflict is resolved way too early in the story. By page 150 or so, Hades and Persephone are in love, and everything's mostly fine between them. All that happens after that is external plot, and it's the equivalent of court intrigue in a historical... Zeus vs. Poseidon vs. Hades and Demeter throwing herself in the mix, plus everyone trying to calculate how everyone else will react. So-and-so resents so-and-so for this thing he did that time, so he might not defend him if so-and so attacks him, and so on, and so on, and so on.This is just personal taste speaking, but I find that kind of thing really boring.
Plus, I said everything's "mostly" fine between Hades and Persephone, and that's another thing I didn't much like. The issue I thought they still had to solve between them was one that wasn't really dealt with. It just wasn't acknowledged that it was an important one. And it was, IMO. Both these characters are much too prone to doubts and jealousy when not in the presence of the other, which gets old fast. Even worse, Hades was sometimes scary jealous, convincing himself that Persephone was betraying him at the slightest provocation. At one point he even knocks her to the ground in a jealous frenzy (mostly accidentally, but still), and I had visions of future physical abuse flashing before my eyes.
Still, the good first half makes up for the pretty boring second, and so this is a book I didn't mind spending a few hours with.
Posted by Rosario on Friday, May 04, 2007
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