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Making Distinctions: The Value of Walls and Boundaries
James Kalb
The one and the many is an ancient philosophical puzzle. If the world weren't a unity of some sort, it wouldn't form a world. Still, there are a variety of things in it. How can both aspects be real, so that things are the same as well as different? It seems somehow more profound to emphasize oneness, and say that distinctions are illusory. Differences matter as well as similarities, though, so sanity and practicality require us to recognize both.
The difficulty, and the complexities sanity and practicality force on us, apply socially as well as metaphysically. Which social distinctions are real? Fundamental? Legitimate? It seems a sign of moral elevation to emphasize human unity. On the other hand, human diversity is real too, so the normal view has been the commonsensical one that distinctions matter somewhat, and often quite a lot, even though unity is more basic. That's why Kipling tells us in "The Ballad of East and West" that "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet," but notes that the differences drop away "when two strong men stand face to face." And Paul, who famously tells us that in Christ there is no race, class, or gender, displays no inclination to do away with such distinctions as an everyday practical matter. His point is not that they are illegitimate, any more than the distinction between private citizen and Caesar or married and unmarried, but that they are subordinate to a more basic unity.
In modern times, for all the talk of accepting ambiguities, people don't like contemplation of open-ended mysteries or subtleties that can't be fully grasped. They want to do away with ancient conundrums like mind and body, God and man, the one and the many, and favor simple forceful arguments that rely on a very few clear principles that tell us how to get things done. They agree with Marx: "the philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."
The implicit goal of that way of thinking is to reduce the human world to a clear rational order oriented toward practical ends. On such an approach the metaphysical problem of the one and the many disappears, and the social problem becomes that of achieving efficiency, uniformity, and control in the face of the multiplicity of situations and human types. The solution that's been adopted is a technocratic one: turn society into a unitary machine composed of interchangeable parts distinguished only by function, and wall off pursuits that are not part of the machine by ostensibly liberating them while keeping them strictly private and therefore irrelevant to the functioning of the machine and the activities of other people.
That solution follows the same industrial logic that applies uniform grades and standards to ball bearings instead of looking at who produced them. It tells us that a CEO can legitimately be distinguished from an intern, and someone with a degree in mechanical engineering from someone trained as a janitor, with large differences in salary, respect, working conditions, and job security. In contrast, distinctions like sex, religion, and cultural community, which are neither simply private nor designed to promote the functioning of commercial and bureaucratic organizations, have to be deprived of all practical significance and turned into private lifestyle or consumption choices.
Man is a religious and moral or at least a self-justifying animal, so he claims that whatever he does is the best thing to do for some lofty reason. The Marxist idea that economic organization determines moral ideals therefore makes sense in a world that puts economic concerns first. In such a world people do what the interests of the dominant classes tell them to do, and say it's the will of God, History, Human Rights, or whatever else counts as the highest principle in public discussion. It is therefore not surprising that "inclusiveness"—abolition of distinctions not specially relevant to commercial and bureaucratic forms of social organization—has become the highest ideal publicly recognized today.
The change is evident in Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall," which begins "Something there is that doesn't love a wall," takes as its symbol a barrier that is a useless imposition rather than an enduring human reality, as in Kipling's poem, and compares the neighbor who wants to maintain it to "an old-stone savage armed [who] moves in darkness." That's the way inherited distinctions had come to seem by 1914, at least in New England, and the tendency to view them that way has only grown since then. Traditional boundaries are now seen as presumptively oppressive and invalid, so much so that "transgressive" has become a term of praise.
The Church has not been immune to that development, so she too has seen attacks on traditional distinctions in many aspects of her life. Paul's statement that in Christ there is no male or female is thought to sit very oddly with the male priesthood, and theologians tell us that Jesus' message is one of radical inclusiveness, because he transgressed boundaries by associating with prostitutes and tax collectors. (He does not seem, however, to have encouraged them to affirm their identities as such.)
The Catholic Church, with its strong principle of tradition and divine protection against ultimate defection, has been less venturesome in such matters than other ecclesial communities. Still, they have had their effects: ritual has become more mundane in recent decades, sacred language has fallen into disuse, and the distinction between lay and ordained has been blurred where possible. Further, the public moral witness of Church leaders has tended to follow the prevailing trend of moral sentiment to the extent permitted by doctrine. There has been little opposition to feminism, except with regard to abortion and the male priesthood, and princes of the Church have recently made "immigration reform," basically meaning free movement across national boundaries for purposes of permanent settlement, a high priority moral cause. Most recently some have even proposed cutting back on the distinctiveness of marriage, at least as a practical matter, for example by changing the rules for reception of communion by the civilly divorced and remarried.
Still, it should be obvious that boundaries matter, and good fences do indeed make good neighbors. They provide a zone of peace and freedom within which particular ways of life and networks of human connections can establish themselves and function. That principle applies at the level of the family: it is why an Englishman's home is said to be his castle. More basically, it is part of the reason a man leaves his father and mother, cleaves to his wife to the exclusion of all others, and forms a new family. Man is social, so the same principle applies at higher levels as well. If we don't have national communities and boundaries, for example, we'll have other walls: the walled quarters of the traditional polyglot Middle Eastern city or the gates of gated communities.
The Church recognizes the need for walls and boundaries in her own case. Jesus speaks of the sheepfold, which is defined by its walls, and from ancient times Catholics have spoken of the Barque of Peter, with its hull that keeps out waves, sharks, and seaweed. The Book of Revelation even talks of the walls of the New Jerusalem, which are needed to create a defined space and world even after all need for exclusion and protection has vanished.
Nobody wants to destroy all distinctions. To abolish them is to abolish the institutions and ways of life to which they relate, so people want to keep the ones that relate to matters they care about. Academic radicals may be willing to accept feminist abolition of the family and multicultural destruction of the functioning of specific culture, but few prominent ones want to abolish the PhD or the tenured chair.
Such considerations don't answer specific questions by themselves, but they do put the issue of walls and distinctions in a different light. Barriers can be injurious, but we should not treat them as suspect in principle. As often, Chesterton showed good sense with his counsel to leave fences in place unless their functions and purposes are thoroughly understood so we can know what it would mean to get rid of them.
Editor's note: The image above is a photo of the wall protecting the Vatican.
Tagged as Inclusiveness, Robert Frost, Rudyard Kipling
By James Kalb
James Kalb is a lawyer, independent scholar, and Catholic convert who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command (ISI Books, 2008), and, most recently, Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It (Angelico Press, 2013).
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Taught this system in about 15 minutes to my cousin Melanie (high school freshman working on her first Big Paper for history; it's something about People with Swords in Ancient China, so I'm totally reading it when she's done) this afternoon and realized I'd never written it down, so here goes: this is how I've taken reading notes and written papers since I was in high school. I'm also writing this in part to prove that the terminal is useful for things other than writing code, because I did not know how to code when I started doing this.
My system is largely predicated on the assumption that I am a Lazy Bum, and basically involves 4 tools: cat, grep, | (pipes), and flat text files. These are standard Unix tools, and I've never seen a Linux distro without them; Melanie and I already run Fedora, so we were all set.
In English, this means "send (concatenate) the text of the bible through a filter (global regular expression print) that looks for the word 'sword' and shows the -Context of 1 line before and after it, then let me scroll through the results (less)." The results look something like this.
captives taken with the sword?
boldly, and slew all the males.
And so on. Instant sworditude, much faster than actually reading the whole darn book (or Book, in this case).
For those looking for a more powerful alternative to grep, try ack. (The website URL is pretty accurate.) I was introduced to ack at TOPP and have never looked back; the main advantage is how easy it is to deploy ack on huge trees of folders swarming with text (or code) files, meaning that you could, instead of just looking in the King James Bible, deploy the above search for swords in every note you've ever taken on every book you've ever read. Assuming those notes are textfiles dumped somewhere underneath the folder you're searching in, I mean. It's made fascinating connections between long-ago reads I never would have thought of on my own, and my papers in college were much improved by it.
Arnold, Bennett. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. New York: Shambling Gate, 2000. Print.
P: (5) Lay out things for tea at night so you can make tea in the morning as a nice wake-up call.
Q: (5) [breakfast] The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
N: Hilarious writing style. Read this book whenever the need for British wit strikes.
?: (7) Was this before or after Taylorism?
N: (7-8) This program would only work in a highly literate population. Which I suppose the reader belongs to, as they're reading the book. But still.
Full bibliography at the top so I never have to figure out the formatting for it again.
Each note gets a new line, and begins with a letter code for the type of note it is: P for paraphrasing (summary), Q for quote, ? for a question I have, N for a note (my own thoughts), and some not shown here, like R for "reference to some other material I should look up later" (such as when one book cites another that I figure I should read).
Optionally, page numbers appear in (parentheses) immediately after the note type.
Super-optionally, tags appear in [brackets] after the page numbers, mostly when I want to be able to associate a quote with a word that's not in the quote, for ease of searching later.
Then I can make queries like "what were all the questions I had about this book?"
Or "what interesting stuff was on page 7?"
Confession: I've fallen off the wagon and haven't taken notes like this since I left school. I'm trying to climb back on it again, as this sort of database is gloriously helpful to build. Particularly if one plans on doing lots of reading and writing of papers. Like, say, if one were to consider grad school.
I'm sure this system could be improved; I once had dreams of writing a GUI for it, but found this worksforme enough that I just never made one. There are probably better tools out there for it, there's probably a lot of regexp-fu I could pick up to do more powerful queries (in fact, this is one of the reasons why I know regular expressions at all), there's... well, you know what I'm about to say.


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University of Sheffield Confirms £10m Investment from Science Research Council
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The University of Sheffield has confirmed a £10 million investment from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to lead The Manufacture using Advanced Powder Processes (MAPP) Hub.
MAPP will focus on developing new powder-based manufacturing processes that provide low energy, low cost and low waste manufacturing routes and products for UK industry.
MAPP, which will be part of the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Materials Research, will play a crucial role in unlocking the potential to use advanced powders in manufacturing processes.
It will be led by Professor Iain Todd from the University of Sheffield's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Speaking about the announcement, he said:
There is a huge potential for manufacturing using advanced powders, however the industrial application of many processes is being held back by some fundamental science and engineering challenges, and they are not realising their potential. Our vision is to ensure that these game changing technologies deliver on their promise for UK industry.
Today's announcement also named the University of Sheffield as a key partner in three additional Future Manufacturing Hubs – Advanced Metrology, Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation and Compound Semiconductors. It cements Sheffield's role in leading advanced manufacturing research in the UK – from developments in fundamental and underpinning science, through to translational research with industry partners.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield, Sir Keith Burnett, said: This investment recognises the vital role new technologies play in the security and growth of our high-value manufacturing sector – which must be a key component in the UK's industrial strategy.
Around the world, nations are determined to invest in next generation manufacturing and innovation. In the UK, Government is focusing on Industrial Strategy. This announcement is important because it shows how companies can become more productive and globally competitive by integrating the latest research into manufacturing processes.

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SciArt Initiative
with Craig Trester
Photo courtesy of Craig Trester.
Interview by Sofia Fortunato, contributor
Sofia Fortunato: Can you tell us more about the project Mycoremedation and the process involved?
Craig Trester: The focus of the project is to adapt species of fungi native to New York City to remediate common environmental contaminants. In the first phases of the project we'll be focusing on contaminants that are predominantly present in urban areas. Initially focusing on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) which are constituents of petroleum products and cellulose acetate (CA), the thermoplastic used in the filters of cigarette butts. Due to the similar chemical structure that PAHs and CA share with lignin and cellulose, select species of fungi are able to chemically digest these compounds as sources of carbon for food. Given that used cigarette butts are likely the most common and visible form of pollution in our environment and already contain PAHs in the CA filters after use, this seemed like the perfect target for the first phase of the project.
SF: How does Genspace facilitate the making of your project?
CT: Given that Genspace began in a living room from a DIY/DIT philosophy and has grown into a fully equipped 1,600 square foot BSL 1 laboratory, it's the perfect place to develop Mycoremediation as a pilot project. Utilizing Genspace's facilities, I'm hoping that this project will generate useful data to refine techniques in applied mycology, strengthen the connections between the East Coast mycological community, and offer people who may have casually heard about mycology with the information and skills to become citizen scientists.
SF: What drew you to working with fungi?
CT: I got involved with fungi by joining the New York Mycological Society about a year ago, and started going on their mushroom walks to learn more about these fascinating organisms. After discovering mycoremediation at a workshop facilitated by the Friends of Van Cortlandt Park, I became hooked and read as much material about the topic that I could find. As lab work began in my kitchen, finding Genspace was a game changer.
SF: Can you tell us about your experience as a citizen scientist?
CT: Most people pursuing applied mycology approach it from a do-it-yourself or do-it-together means with respect to their equipment, tools, and techniques. These bootstrapped measures are usually done out of necessity since research grade biology labs are typically not available unless affiliated with a corporation or research institution.
SF: In an era of anthropogenic impact on the environment, how do you expect your project to contribute to a more sustainable future?
CT: An exciting recent development for the project has been collaborations with mycologists who have experience in applying mycoremediation and organizations local to New York City who have sought to implement installations of their own for community conservation efforts. Having these kinds of associations both inside and out of the lab are critical to support the project's longevity, which is imperative to keep information sharing open in a scientific field which is on the cutting edge and has the potential to create a multitude of novel solutions for the problems introduced by the anthropogenic age created by humans.
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The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded Arizona State University's newest research center, Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV (ISTB 4), with LEED certification at the Gold level – making it ASU's largest LEED certified research building.
HDR, as executive architect, collaborated with architectural design firm Ehrlich Architects, on this uniquely sustainable research and laboratory building.
Formally opened in September 2012, ISTB 4 joins several other ASU buildings that currently participate in the council's LEED rating systems. Since July 2006, ASU has completed 18 certified LEED projects which are comprised of 36 buildings plus the second floor of the Memorial Union. To become LEED Gold certified, the buildings had to meet exacting standards for energy use, lighting, water and material use, as well as incorporate a variety of sustainable strategies.
The $110 million, seven-story ISTB 4 building achieved 46 total points under the LEED for New Construction version 2.2 rating system. In order to earn LEED Gold, a project must achieve between 39 and 50 points.
One of the major project goals for the building was to reduce energy as much as possible. When fully occupied, it is estimated that ISTB 4's energy use will be nearly one-half that of a typical laboratory building.
• Optimal building orientation based on local climate conditions and a high performance façade with vertical sunshades to reduce heat gain and incorporate passive cooling strategies.
• Efficient Building Systems. The design optimized the building envelope and integrated extremely efficient mechanical systems to reduce energy use by 40.7 percent below a typical laboratory building.
• On-site renewable energy. ASU allocated energy produced by the photovoltaic array on the parking structure adjacent to ISTB 4, supplying an additional 11.6 percent of its energy use beyond the savings achieved by the building design. The renewable energy reduced the building's energy costs by over 16 percent, because the peak energy load is also reduced.
• Minimized resource use. Local building materials, extracted and manufactured within 500 miles of the site, exceeded 44 percent of the material cost under MRc5, Regional Materials. ISTB 4 earned an additional LEED credit for exemplary performance by achieving this threshold.
• Daylighting. The building envelope and the interior space are designed to admit natural light into as many spaces as possible, and a central atrium brings daylight deep into the building interior.
ASU has the largest number of LEED-certified buildings throughout Arizona and claims the top spot for achieving the state's first-ever LEED platinum certification in July 2007 with the Tempe campus' Biodesign Building B.
ASU's School of International Letters and Cultures will showcase its dynamic international humanities program during Night of the Open Door, March 2.
With a world-class faculty offering courses in more than 20 languages and cultures, ASU's School of International Letters and Cultures is one of the most dynamic international humanities programs in the Unites States.
School of International Letters and Cultures' faculty and students will showcase cultural diversity and ASU's global engagement by offering mini language lessons in 14 different languages, giving presentations about current cultural engagement projects and topics, and even guiding visitors on a virtual tour of ancient Rome using the digital "Rome Reborn" model.
Ancient Rome will also be the focus of the very entertaining mock Roman election, in which members of the ASU student organization Solis Diaboli (dressed in togas!) will campaign for votes. The audience will choose the winner by casting votes in ancient Roman style.
The school's Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, assistant professor of Spanish, will also host two Flamenco guitar workshops for anyone interested in Flamenco music and culture. Feel free to bring your guitar to one or both sessions.
The school will also host another international musical activity – the quintessential of all Japanese entertainments – Karaoke, featuring songs from an international song list in various languages.
Cultural sharing continues on the Tyler Mall stage outside with belly dancing, an international fashion show featuring traditional dress from a variety of countries and cultures, and international musical performances.
The public is also invited to get a traditional henna tattoo, tour the school's project-based language learning lab, learn one of the calligraphies of the world, or learn about the many world-class study abroad programs that the school offers for both students and the public.
"A major university like ASU is in the business of training people for careers, but it is equally in the business of educating citizens capable of making informed decisions about their lives and the society in which they live," says Joe Cutter, director of the School of International Letters and Cultures.
During ASU's Night of the Open Door, the public will have the chance to experience just how diverse and exciting our world society is and just how much ASU has to offer with its international humanities programs in the School of International Letters and Cultures.


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Q: Returning variables from Tkinter GUI I'm looking at using a simple, currently ugly, GUI built with Tkinter to attain two variables from the user. Namely a file path and a choice from a dropdown (OptionMenu).
The variables selected will be used later in the Python script, which is where I'm running into difficulty. Put simply, how to asign the users choices to the variables: Carrier, Path.
Please see below for sample code:
from Tkinter import *
from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename

def Choose_Path():
    Tk().withdraw()
    return askopenfilename()

root = Tk()
root.geometry('400x400')
root.configure(background='#A2B5CD')

C_Label = Label(root, text='Carrier Choice:', bg='#A2B5CD', fg='black',font=('Calibri', 12))
C_Label.grid(row=0,sticky=W, padx =10)
I_Label = Label(root, text='Invoice Path:', bg='#A2B5CD', fg='black',font=('Calibri', 12))
I_Label.grid(row=1, sticky=W, padx =10)

var = StringVar(root)
var.set('Choose Carrier...')
option = OptionMenu(root, var, 'DHL','DPD','DX','Fedex','Geodis','Hermes','WN Direct')
option.config(relief=RAISED, highlightbackground='#A2B5CD')
option.grid(row=0,column=1, sticky=W, pady = 10)

browser = Button(root, text = 'Browse Invoice...', command=Choose_Path)
browser.grid(row=1, column=1, sticky=W, pady=10)

Button(root, text='Accept and Close').grid(column=1, sticky=S)

root.mainloop()

Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

A: Through a combination of your feedback and a little more playing around with an extra function, I now seem to be getting the results that I need. See below for what it looks like now.
from Tkinter import *
from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename
path = []

def Choose_Path():
    Tk().withdraw()
    path.append(askopenfilename())

def CloseGUI():
    root.quit()
    root.destroy()

root = Tk()
root.geometry('400x400')
root.configure(background='#A2B5CD')

C_Label = Label(root, text='Carrier Choice:', bg='#A2B5CD', fg='black',font=('Calibri', 12))
C_Label.grid(row=0,sticky=W, padx =10)
I_Label = Label(root, text='Invoice Path:', bg='#A2B5CD', fg='black',font=('Calibri', 12))
I_Label.grid(row=1, sticky=W, padx =10)

var = StringVar(root)
var.set('Choose Carrier...')
option = OptionMenu(root, var, 'DHL','DPD','DX','Fedex','Geodis','Hermes','WN Direct')
option.config(relief=RAISED, highlightbackground='#A2B5CD')
option.grid(row=0,column=1, sticky=W, pady = 10)

browser = Button(root, text = 'Browse Invoice...', command=Choose_Path)
browser.grid(row=1, column=1, sticky=W, pady=10)
b1 = Button(root, text='Accept and Close', command = CloseGUI).grid(column=1, sticky=S)
mainloop()

print var.get()
print path

Thanks for your help! +1

A: Two issues:
-You're going to have to figure out when to end your root's mainloop. From the moment you call root.mainloop(), currently the program will not advcance to the next line (which you don't have, but I assume you will in your final program) until you close the Tk window.
-After the mainloop has ended, you need to have your variable values somewhere. Currently, the option object (which is an OptionMenu instance) will contain the value if your carrier, so you can just do something like option.get().
The filename is slightly more complicated, because you don't store that somewhere: you return it from Choose_Path() but the return value isn't stored anywhere. Probably you're going to have to store this value in a global. (This storing has to happen within Choose_Path, e.g. FileName = askopenfilename() instead of return askopenfilename()).

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On 10-11 April, the Nuremberg Academy conducted a two-day workshop for representatives from national and international CSOs, judicial mechanisms and academics to explore and consider means of informing and strengthening the form, nature and modes of cooperation between judicial mechanisms and CSOs in the successful investigation and prosecution of conflict-related sexual violence.
The participants reviewed the draft guiding principles and recommendations produced by the Nuremberg Academy by exchanging their professional experiences and best practices in the field of cooperation. Concrete positive examples were given to illustrate these practices and a consensus was developed for the next steps to be taken in the finalization of these guiding principles and recommendations. In-depth discussions and a range of perspectives allowed for tangible feedback to be provided.


I have four apologies to make to you.
First, I am sorry I missed your post when you first published it. Fortunately, Richard Whittall, Rob Carroll and Darrell Cobner alerted me to your story.
When I last looked Richard's tweet had received 918 likes and 255 retweets. Martin Bucheit's tweet about your post has 19 likes.
Your open sharing has touched many people. I am late to the party but am touched too. Profoundly so.
I have been involved in the analysis of performance since the late 1970s.
In the 1990s, I worked as a performance analyst in rugby union. For most of the decade, I had intense work periods that during competition and overseas tours extended to 18 hour days … week after week.
It was an analogue video world. I was fortunate to have access to host broadcast videos and captured my own game video with the help of colleagues. We thought we had hit the jackpot with S-VHS format.
I have a second apology to make.
When I started the Centre for Notational Analysis in Cardiff in 1991, I hoped to create a career path for young people interested in performance analysis. We were at the start of a movement that has positioned you to feel the way you do.
I am staggered by the creativity of people like yourself. The world you occupy is a quantum shift from the occupational culture of the 1990s.
We do share the same vision though … to provide an invisible service to coaches that records, analyses and potentially transforms performance.
My third apology is that despite my advocacy for performance analysis as a service, I have had limited success in persuading clubs and sporting organisations that our work should be valued rather than priced.
Young people are still inducted into performance analysis as unpaid interns or lowly paid analysts. We are encouraged to believe that the status of being connected with a club or team 'compensates' for zero or low wages.
Some learning organisations are pro-actice and make every effort to support their analysts financially and through continuing learning opportunities.
Our dilemma is that we have so many people wanting to be analysts and often have the experiences you have.
What is so important we have to share it?
At the heart of this conversation is a profound debate about frequent augmented information. The availability of hardware and software has led to a surfeit of options for each analyst.
What has changed in performance in training and competition?
How might feedforward transform our practice?
Now that you have shared your thoughts, I hope you realise that you have a world of friends who are just a phone call or email away.
I hope too you will accept my apologies.
Yesterday, I was re-reading Ben Alamar and Vijay Mehrotra's 2011 discussion of the rapidly evolving world of sports analytics (Part 1).
They have a reference to G R Lindsey's 1959 paper proposing an operational analysis approach to baseball.
By delightful serendipity, Simon Gleave was tweeting at the same time with news of Jurryt van de Vooren's discovery of some 1937 association football data.
I do not have any earlier record of notating goal scoring in association football but Simon's connection with Jurryt has added another piece in our jigsaw about the origins of performance analysis and sport analytics.
We have a record of 47 shots (23 first half, 24 second half) from the game played between West Europe (28 shots) and Central Europe (19 shots).
Another corner piece comes from 24 September 1898. This appears to be the oldest football clip in existence. The film is included in a Daily Mail article from 2014. The teams involved were Blackburn Rovers and West Bromwich Albion.
I am hopeful that our crowdsourcing will produce even more genealogy connections. My earliest baseball discovery is from 1910 and Hugh Fullerton's account of the inside game.
… and 18 March 1950 (Charles Reep at Swindon Town v Bristol Rovers).
Both pictures shared here are from Jurryt's 17 December 2016 blog post Werden de eerste voetbalstatistieken al in 1937 gemaakt?


The final piece of the puzzle fell into place on Tuesday. A lot of what it will take to make VR great is well understood at this point, so it's engineering, not research; hard engineering, to be sure, but clearly within reach. For example, there are half a dozen things that could be done to display panels that would make them better for VR, none of them pie in the sky. However, it's expensive engineering. And, of course, there's also a huge amount of research to do once we reach the limits of current technology, and that's not only expensive, it also requires time and patience – fully tapping the potential of VR will take decades. That's why I've written before that VR wouldn't become truly great until some company stepped up and invested the considerable capital to build the right hardware – and that it wouldn't be clear that it made sense to spend that capital until VR was truly great. I was afraid that that Catch-22 would cause VR to fail to achieve liftoff.
That worry is now gone. Facebook's acquisition of Oculus means that VR is going to happen in all its glory. The resources and long-term commitment that Facebook brings gives Oculus the runway it needs to solve the hard problems of VR – and some of them are hard indeed. I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can.
Valve is one of the more attractive companies to work, but Oculus has proven to be alluring as well, recruiting top talent from around the gaming industry. Their most notable get has been John Carmack, Abrash's former colleague at id Software and now Oculus' chief technology officer.
There's no doubt that Oculus' Facebook investment—which Oculus and Facebook both swear won't change Oculus from operating, as planned, to make VR first and foremost for games—will allow them to hire more big names in the future.
To contact the author of this post, write to stephentotilo@kotaku.com or find him on Twitter @stephentotilo. Top photo by Daniel Tabár.


This adapter allows you to add a Receive-Only SMA Antenna Connection to the Icom IC-7300.
This easy to install plug-in modification requires no soldering and is easily installed and easily reversible.
When installed, the Icom IC-7300 will transmit using the SO-239 antenna connector, and received through one of the SMA Connectors on the RX7300 - SMA.
To use Icom IC-7300 in normal transceive operation, leave the RG-316 coax loop installed.


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Q: Import different components react from different files How can I use component from another JS file in ReactJS.It says "Header is not defined".BTW I am using ReactJS without NodeJS.Here's the code:

//Here in Dashboard_components.js
var Dashboard_comp=React.createClass(
{
componentDidMount:function()
        {
            $('.ui.modal').modal();
        },
        render:function()
        {
            return(

                //Header exists in Base component js

                        <SideNav/>

                        <Stats/>
                        <Class_boxes/>

            )
        }
    })

A: At the top of your Dashboard_components.js file, and above the
var Dashboard_comp=React.createClass( line, add the line
var Header = require('./yourpath/to/header.js')
If you're using ES6 you can simply
import Header from './path/header'

A: Hmm..Seems like no-one got the answer so I am answering my own question.
Suppose there is a Header component in a Base_component.js file.So in order to use it in Other html's.Use this:
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It would make component publicaly available for other files as well not the same js.


36~55 各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中, 选出最佳选项。 Andy was still traveling in Spain when he realized he had to confirm(确认) his flight home with the airline company. He was visiting Spain in order to 36 his Spanish. When he was speaking to people 37 he had no 38 understanding what they said. 39 , when he was speaking on the phone, he 40 had a problem. Andy 41 the airline. And the clerk confirmed that his plane was leaving at nine o clock three days from that day. She _ 42 told Andy to be at the airport two hours 43 in order to check in his luggage and get a seat. Since he was 44 in three days, Andy didn't 45 any time. He visited as many places as he could.He thought that it would probably be a while before he had enough money again. He wished he could 46 and spend a year in Spain. Too 47 , the final day arrived.Andy left early for the airport to arrive two hours before take-off. He hated to 48 . He went to the clerk to 49 his ticket. The clerk looked at the ticket with 50 . "Why, sir, but your flight was at nine o'clock in the morning, and 51 it is eight in the evening." "But I confirmed my flight," 52 Andy. "Will I have to pay for another ticket?" "No, sir. However, the next flight out will be three days from now." Andy's 53 of shock turned to one of 54 as he realized that now he could continue his 55 .
58.Among the infected patients by SARS, which of the following is most? A.Students. B.Doctors and nurses C.Workers. D.Officials.
59.The writer tells us of the brighter side for SARS in ways. A.two B.three C.five D.four B There are three separate sources of danger in supplying energy by nuclear power (原子能). First, the radioactive material must travel from its place of production to the power station. Although the power stations themselves are strongly built, the containers used for the transport of the materials are not. Normally, only two methods of transport are in use, namely road or rail, Unfortunately, both of these may have an effect on the general public, since they are sure to pass near, or even through, heavily populated areas. Second, there is the problem of waste. All nuclear power stations produce wastes that in most cases will remain radioactive for thousands of years. It is impossible to make these wastes non-radioactive, and so they must be stored in one of the inconvenient ways that scientists have invented.For example, they may be buried under the ground, or dropped into deserted mines, or sunk in the sea. However, these methods do not solve the problem, since an earthquake could easily break the containers. Third, there may occur the danger of a leak (泄漏) or an explosion at the power station. As with the other two dangers, this is not very likely, so it does not provide a serious objection to the nuclear program. However, it can happen. Separately, these three types of dangers are not a great cause for worry. Taken together, though, the probability of disaster (灾难) is extremely high.
60.Which of the following is FALSE? A.It is possible that a leak or an explosion occurs at a power station. B.It is unusual for radioactive materials to be transported across land. C.The containers are likely to be broken by an earthquake. D.Nuclear wastes remain dangerous in most cases for many years. .
62.What do we learn from the last paragraph? A.The power station is a safe place. B.The dangers of nuclear energy can be prevented.
C.The general public are strongly against the nuclear program. D.By itself, none of the three dangers is very likely to cause much worry.
67.Young people like skiing because . A.it takes a long time to learn B.it is extremely dangerous C.the skill can be mastered in a short time D.skiers never get injured D New York(Reuters Health)Researchers at Harvard University have timed babies' ability to keep long-term memories to the period during which certain regions of the brain develop and mature(成熟).
Conor Liston and Dr.Jerome Kagan in Cambridge, Massachusetts found that long-term memory?the ability to recall a thing four months later?only begins to develop after babies reach one year of age. The authors got their findings by testing the long-term memory of babies exposed to a series of actions when they were 9,17 and 24 months of age. Four months later, the now21 month and 28-month-olds recalled the actions well, while the younger babies did not. Kagan explained that the human brain starts a dramatic(戏剧性的)period of maturation between the ages of 8 and 12 months. The current findings suggest that this period of maturation is connected with long-term memory. Thirteen-month-olds, whose brains were relatively immature during their exposure to the events, were less able to recall them than older babies, whose brains had already gone through a period of rapid neurological(神经病学的)growth at the time of exposure. Kagan explained that research has shown that between 8 and 12 months of age, babies experience "dramatic growth" in the regions of the brain known as the frontal lobe and the hippocampus, a part of the brain that is important for making memories. During that period, he said, individual nerve cells(细胞)physically grow.
70.A baby can recall what happened long ago probably because. A.it has seen enough of the world B.its brain has already gone through a period of rapid neurological growth C.its brain is going through a period of rapid neurological growth D.its head has grown big enough E A Tight Situation Sometimes funny memories (回忆) are the most special way to remember a beloved lover. It helps take away some of the feeling of loss. Before he passed away, my husband loved to share this story with our friends. Now, it makes me smile to share this story with you. Our neighbor's son was getting married in 1971 at a church, and we were inviteD.We immediately rushed out to the store, and I bought a nice pink dress with a jacket. The dress was a little tight, but 1 had a month before the June 30 wedding and I would lose a few pounds.


It isn't uncommon to see the word, 'feminazi,' thrown around on different social media platforms. The people who use this word are often those who feel that feminism is unnecessary for women today, or that feminists are illogical and hate men.
The word itself is quite ignorant—comparing people who are fighting for equal rights among genders to the political party that carried out the Holocaust during WWI— is ironic to say the least.
But what is perhaps even more frustrating is the obvious bias that this word carries, that feminists are somehow bad or evil.
For quite a long time, I couldn't understand this. I couldn't see how anyone could be against equality, and I especially couldn't understand how other women could refuse to defend the rights of other women around the world.
That is until I got into an argument with a boy about the wage gap and the difference in job opportunities. While we were talking, he began to tell me that men were losing opportunities and women were simultaneously gaining opportunities in the job field.
I tried to explain that it wasn't about women taking jobs from men, but rather women being given fair chances to get the same jobs— jobs that a certain type of person has always been entitled to.
During this conversation, I realized why some men in particular are opposed to feminism. As it was in this case, some view it as a threat to men, and in turn by practicing it men and women are actively trying to take down men.
While the aim of feminism is to level out the playing field, it is not to harm men, or make them out to be less than women. By augmenting the quality of life for women and broadening their horizons, it's true that they will begin to attain more jobs that have been traditionally held by men in the past.
However, it isn't a matter of taking jobs. It's a matter of creating equal chances for all. As a result, job positions or other opportunities that would have immediately been given to men in the past, are no longer entitled to them. They are open to both sexes, and both must work hard to attain these opportunities.
Granted, there are some who claim to be feminists, but spread hate rather than fighting for equality. And these people are not truly feminists, or at least have a construed idea of what feminism is and what feminists fight for.
The basis of feminism is equality. While I see that clearly and easily, some do not. And those who do not often try to dismiss the ideals of feminism, or rally behind hate towards the movement.
But to me, feminism is an essential part of being a woman. As a woman I feel that it is my responsibility to fight for the rights of other women, which certainly isn't the same thing as hating men. And fighting for other women certainly isn't anywhere near to being a nazi.


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Economic mobilization can deliver a victory over the climate crisis, says sustainability expert
Paul Gilding is confident his approach to planning an economic mobilization can eliminate net CO2 emissions by 2030.
No 2371 Posted by fw, September 14, 2018
Paul Gilding
"People engaged in the climate debate are often bewildered by society's lack of response. How can we ignore such overwhelming evidence of an existential threat to social and economic stability? Given human history, we should never have expected anything else. Humans have a consistent tendency that when change is uncomfortable we delay action until a threat becomes a crisis. The scale of the threat or the existence of powerful evidence makes little difference. … What is relatively new is that scientists and experts are increasingly acknowledging that nothing less than a massive global mobilisation on a WWII scale is required to address the catastrophic risks posed [by climate change]. … Yes, it's frustrating that these things take time. Therefore, knowing we can still "win" is key. Towards this end I co-wrote nearly 10 years ago a journal paper, 'The One Degree War Plan' showing how achieving 1 degree of warming was surprisingly realistic with a WWII style mobilisation. Recently along the same lines, The Climate Mobilisation developed a 'Victory Plan' to show what a WWII style economic mobilisation across the USA could look like." —Paul Gilding, Climate Code Red
Who is Paul Gilding? Paul is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, senior advisor to Breakthrough: The National Centre for Climate Restoration (Australia), and author of The Great Disruption. Gilding has spent 35 years trying to change the world. Despite the clear lack of progress, the unstoppable and flexible optimist now travels the world alerting people in all walks of life to the global economic and ecological crisis now unfolding around us, as the world economy reaches and passes the limits to growth.
Paul is confident we can get through what's coming and in fact thinks we will rise to the occasion, with change on a scale and at a speed incomprehensible today. He tells us to get prepared for The Great Disruption and "the end of shopping", as we reinvent the global economy and our model of social progress. When's he's not busy saving the world, Paul returns to his farm in southern Tasmania where he lives with his wife, where they grow blueberries and raise chickens, sheep and their children.
Can Paul save us? This is not the first time Paul has seen "victory at hand." (See below for a link to his 2013 article). I'm a skeptical rationalist. The problem as I see it is that, in the context of the climate crisis, these dark times are without precedence. The complexity of the climate crisis in beyond compare, far beyond the challenge of World War Two that Gilding compares it to. And time is short. One writer labeled climate change as a "wicked problem:
"We can't define the problem, evaluate possible solutions, pick the best one, hire the experts and implement. No matter how much we may want to follow a routine like that, it won't succeed. Institutions may require it, habit may favor it, the boss may order it, but wicked problems don't care."
Moreover, I have come under the influence of highly respected British climate scientist, Kevin Anderson, Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, who, in 2017 said this:
"I think there's a 95% chance that we'll go to hell in a handcart with about 4°C or something like that. But there's a 5% chance we will succeed. And that 5% chance isn't random. That 5% chance is a choice. So we can choose to fail, or we can choose to succeed. I work in this area because I think we can still choose to succeed. Of course the signs are not looking particularly good."
I believe, with Anderson, that situations, and the level of our knowledge of them, determine our place along an optimistic — pessimistic continuum. Given my current level of understanding about the climate crisis situation, I'm definitely with Anderson — far along towards the pessimistic end of the spectrum.
What you have to admire about Paul is that while those of us in rich societies are in full "shop 'til you drop" mode, he never gives up trying to save the world. A slightly abridged version of his latest article is reposted below along with my added subheadings and images. Or read the unabridged version on Climate Code Red's website by clicking on the following linked title. Read it below or online and decide whether Paul's approach to dealing with the climate crisis is worthy of your support and promotion in your own community.
When we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency by Paul Gilding, Climate Code Red, September 13, 2018
If you are puzzled by society's apathetic response to the climate crisis, keep reading …
People engaged in the climate debate are often bewildered by society's lack of response. How can we ignore such overwhelming evidence of an existential threat to social and economic stability?
Humans habitually delay action to a threat until our very survival is in peril
Given human history, we should never have expected anything else. Humans have a consistent tendency that when change is uncomfortable we delay action until a threat becomes a crisis. The scale of the threat or the existence of powerful evidence makes little difference.
World War Two is the best example of a threat that became too great to ignore
There are countless examples – personal health issues, a business' declining success, or global financial and credit risks. Historically, though, World War Two (WWII ) remains the best analogy.
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do what is necessary to address an impending crisis
The evidence of the threat posed by Hitler was overwhelming and the case for action crystal clear. However, many were still deeply resistant to acting. Only when the threat became overwhelming – until it was accepted as an imminent crisis – was Britain triggered into action. When it was, Winston Churchill led the critical shift in thinking, arguing that no matter how uncomfortable, expensive or challenging to the status quo, sometimes you just have to do what is necessary. Not your best, or what you can afford, or what's "realistic" – but what is necessary. In his case, that was going to war and assuming victory was possible.
The subsequent allied war effort was 'transformational', bordering on the impossible
And so began one of the fastest and most dramatic economic mobilisations and industrial transformations in history. As a result, something that was rationally bordering on the impossible was achieved.
Similarly, accelerating climate change appears to be driving us towards the transformational action stage
I would argue we are approaching a point where this same cycle will play out on climate change – and we will get to the transformational action stage.
The city council of Darebin, Australia "gets it" and is doing what is 'necessary'
Perhaps surprisingly given the global implications of what's at stake, a good indicator of this is the council of Darebin, in Melbourne, where I am addressing a Climate Emergency conference this week.
What is relatively new is that scientists and experts are increasingly acknowledging that nothing less than a massive global mobilisation on a WWII scale is required to address the catastrophic risks posed [by climate change].
Very soon we must choose between taking action, or bearing the consequences of denial and delay
Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and a senior advisor to Pope Francis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the European Union recently argued that "Climate change is now reaching the end-game, where very soon humanity must choose between taking unprecedented action, or accepting that it has been left too late and bear the consequences."
The consequences of climate impacts are becoming all too obvious – e.g., Hurricane Florence
All around us examples of what these consequences might be are increasingly tangible. Whether it be wild fires in northern Sweden, refugee crises, extreme ice melt in the Arctic, submerged airports in Japan or severe droughts, people are feeling climate change live.
The four-step process to action is always the same – it begins with identifying threats, ends with action planning and response
My key argument is that this process – identified threats, resistance and avoidance, stronger and stronger evidence, acceptance of crisis and then dramatic response – is pretty much how these things always unfold. And so it will most likely be on climate change.
The context of the climate crisis will create the leaders we need across all sections of global society
Many argue we need a Churchill to lead us, that only a strong leader can take charge in a crisis and show us the way forward. Or maybe we need a climate "Pearl Harbour" – a major single event. This is not how systems usually change, but especially not in a globalised and connected world. Yes, we need leadership and across all sections of society. But the "Churchills" emerge from a context and the context shift we need is to accept we have a crisis. Critically, this acceptance is a distributed social phenomenon, not a technical question of science or evidence.
Darebin council examined the scientific evidence, declared a climate emergency, and came up with a plan
This brings me back to Darebin in Melbourne. This local council looked rationally at what the science told them – that we face a crisis and the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency. And so they did. In consultation with their community, they then developed the Darebin Climate Emergency Plan.
Darebin's process exemplifies how social systems change – and the process is spreading to cities in the US
Why is this significant? Because this is how systems change. Ideas take hold and spread. Darebin has since been followed in the US with a small but growing list of elected bodies in regions and cities also declaring a climate emergency. First came Montgomery County, Maryland , since joined by Richmond, Berkeley and Los Angeles in California, and Hoboken, New Jersey.
System change is not spontaneous – it's a result of active organizing
This is not emerging spontaneously, but through active organising by groups dedicated to the task like The Climate Mobilisation.
Gilding insists a WWII style economic mobilization can deliver a climate change "win"
Yes, it's frustrating that these things take time. Therefore, knowing we can still "win" is key. Towards this end I co-wrote nearly 10 years ago a journal paper, The One Degree War Plan, with Professor Jorgen Randers, showing how achieving 1 degree of warming was surprisingly realistic with a WWII style mobilisation. Recently along the same lines, The Climate Mobilisation developed a "Victory Plan" to show what a WWII style economic mobilisation across the USA could look like.
The first step is to convince people that the climate crisis is real and urgent
So on the surface, Darebin Council inviting a group of experts like myself to suburban Melbourne to discuss what a climate emergency means might not seem much. But it is a crucial part of a process whereby we first normalise the idea that we face an existential crisis.
Next step is to convince them to do what is necessary – economic mobilization to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2035
Next we will come to accept that the only rational response is a WWII-like economic mobilisation to eliminate global net carbon dioxide emissions within a decade or so.
Find this hard to imagine? It is. But as we learnt from Churchill in 1940, when we shift our thinking to "what is necessary", what we can achieve is quite extraordinary. Or as Nelson Mandela said: "It always seems impossible, until it's done."
Breaking news: On 12 September, Moreland Council became the second local council, after Darebin, to recognize the climate emergency crisis, and passed an acknowledgement we are in a state of climate emergency. This will be embedded in next Council plan and Zero Carbon Evolution framework.
Victory at Hand for the Climate Movement? By Paul Gilding, paulgilding.com, March 20, 2013
What lies beneath: The understatement of existential climate risk, by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop, Breakthrough: National Centre for Climate Restoration, Melbourne Victoria Australia, 2018
This entry was posted on September 14, 2018 by fjwhite in climate change red flag warning, community action, counterpower of one, economic counterpower, environmental activism, government action, information counterpower, political action, sustainability and tagged climate action plans, climate change crisis, Paul Gilding.
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Beauty Secrets We Learned From Andy LeCompte
Madonna's hairstylist tells us about his favorite 14-karat gold comb and what he's learned from the Queen of Pop
By Sophie Shaw
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As far as we know, there's almost no such thing as effortless beauty. From facial treatments that leave your complexion dewy and luminous to the perfect winged eyeliner, experts reveal their most-trusted, insider hacks for CR's series, Beauty Secrets.
Andy LeCompte's hairstyling career has brought him around the world, most recently for Madonna's Madame X tour. With transformations that have to happen in a flash, he has become a master at crafting curls and wigs that can last through the star's high-octane performance. But before he was responsible for Madonna's mane, LeCompte began his career at Privé salon at 18 years old. He went on to do editorial work with renowned photographers including Annie Leibovitz and Mario Testino, and opened his own eponymous Hollywood salon in 2008. While Madonna is at the top of his client list, Miley Cyrus, Penélope Cruz, Katie Holmes, and Salma Hayek have also sought out his talent for creating vintage-inspired, full-bodied curls and perfectly tousled waves.
Here, LeCompte fills CR in on his haircare tips, favorite tools, and what he's learned from working with Madonna.
Penélope Cruz at the 70th ANNUAL PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS
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What's your daily haircare routine?
"I have two routines. I usually get a Brazilian blowout so my hair is a little straighter. To maintain that, I blow-dry my hair and use a little bit of Rodin face oil to give it some texture. Then if my Brazilian grows out, and I start getting nappy roots, I'll use a little bit of Oribe Rock Hard Gel to mold it down."
What about skincare?
"I usually wash my face in the shower using warm water, and then will use the MDNA eye serum and the MDNA beauty roller. I've been using the Dr. Barbara Sturm anti-aging serum, I'll put that around my nose and any dry spots, and I also use the beauty roller for that. Once in a while I'll use the MDNA eye defy eye mask as well, but that's not a daily thing."
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For hair, how would describe your aesthetic?
"I like beautiful, clean hair. I like natural waves, but I am also versatile with the client. I like to collaborate with them and do whatever they want to create. I believe hairstyling starts with a good shampoo and conditioner, and I use very little hair products. I'll often times use a leave-in conditioner to prep the hair. Then I'll style the hair and finish using the MDNA rose mist spray, and that breaks up the hair and gives it a natural texture. For something really slick and shiny like Madonna's super tight buns, I'll use the Cool Grease Double XX. A lot of times, I'll use the Paw Paw lip balm for a little bit of detail and shine on the edges."
What are some go-to tools that you use?
"I love the Balmain wide-tooth comb–it's 14-karat gold. I live for the Sheila Stotts detangling brush. I use that over the Mason Pearson. And the Pro Arte small bristle brush, which is what I use to smooth the hair."
Courtesy of Andy LeCompte
You've worked with Madonna for quite a while. What have you learned from working with her?
"I've been working with Madonna for 17 years, and we've done so many looks. She's such an icon and creative genius, I've picked up a lot of tricks along the way from her and the people she works with. She always pushes me to reinvent myself and reinvent her hair. Seventeen years is a long time and there have been a lot of albums, a lot of tours—I've done six tours. Bringing some of the looks that we've done on photoshoots and music videos to life onstage has been a very interesting and fascinating process."
Do you have a favorite look you've done on her?
"I am very proud of this tour. It's very different than any other, because we had never used wigs on tours. It's been a lot of rehearsals. The blunt spy wigs were really fun to create–like a 1940s Hollywood set. Also, her bohemian style with the long braids, that was fun to collaborate and work on with her and Steven Klein and Arianne Phillips."
Do you have a favorite decade for hair?
"I love old references. I love when we do something from the '20s and '30s. Short finger waves are really fun to create."
Do you have a favorite Madonna song?
"From [the Madame X] album, 'I Don't Search I Find.'"
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What's Next for Kenny Omega?
It's been a few days after Wrestle Kingdom 13 and Kenny Omega is no longer the IWGP Heavyweight Champion. After a brilliant year by the "Best Bout Machine" his contract is up at the end of January with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, making him the biggest free agent in wrestling. Will he resign with New Japan? Will he sign with WWE? Or will he join his fellow Elite members and join All Elite Wrestling?
Omega stated after his loss at Wrestle Kingdom that he could not work underneath, now IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Hiroshi Tanahashi. This narrative seems very story driven. Although Omega did say he needed his time away, this could build to a long term story-line between the two. Which wouldn't be any different from Omega's build up with Okada from last year.
On the other hand we have WWE, that has reportedly made a "fantastic offer" to Omega. He's said before how he would love to work with guys like Seth Rollins and AJ Styles while he could still move. And feels that it might be a missed opportunity if he never ends up in WWE.
And finally we have the newly announced All Elite Wrestling, run by the Young Bucks & Cody. After the hype from its initial announcement on the Being the Elite YouTube channel and Double or Nothing Rally in Jacksonville, this seems like the ideal fit for Omega. Not only would he be "changing the world" by joining AEW, but he'd be doing it with his closest friends in the business.
This next month for Omega is going to be very Lebron-like. Rumors circulating, media trying to get an idea of where his head is at, and so much speculating that it will drive the wrestling community into a frenzy. I don't think Omega goes back to New Japan. I feel like he's accomplished everything he could there and it's time to professionally move on. The question now is what will he chase. The money or his friends? Cody said that AEW will be paying its performers generously, so that might pull Omega towards them. But no matter what that offer is, WWE can probably match it and possibly double it.
When I think of Omega's pending decision I think of something Scott Hall once said, "In this business, you can make friends or you can make money. And I remember looking at Kev and X-Pac and going, 'I already got some friends. I'd like the money.'"With that said there's only one place I think Omega goes to and it's to the place that will benefit him most financially and professionally…WWE.


be explained by science and therefore there was no room (and no need) for God.
told me "only those who know Jesus Christ as Saviour will get to Heaven".
to try and ignore it (although I did lose some sleep).
tough guy had become a Christian and written the sermon himself.
"I've met with God" she replied.
Sunday school. I remained hostile.
"Dad, you won't be saved". Once again I was angry.
b) She was right, in which case I was in big trouble.
into reverse and went back a yard AND THE HORN STOPPED!
By now I was really freaked out as we set off(with no horn) for Malvern.
the guy that I had driven 100 miles and had no intention of turning around.
bizarrely, he did take my dog adding to my collection of weird events.
whilst everybody went off to meetings, I stayed in the van .
go but no one is going to brainwash me ".
that I cried to God "Lord, I'm ashamed, save me!" And He did. And I knew He had.


The Senior Principal of the Albert Academy Secondary School, Morie John Aruna, on Tuesday 31 August 2018 revealed to Members of the Press at his School Campus on Berry Street off Circular Road Freetown that the Management of the school with his support has expelled Alie Francis Alliah Mansaray an SSS Science pupil from the school for his misconduct and misbehaviour against the Senior Principal of Annie Walsh Memorial School Mrs. Ophelia Morrison.
Mr. Aruna disclosed that the expulsion of the pupil came about when he was called at the Criminal Investigation Department on Pademba Road to identify the suspect Alie Francis Alliah Mansaray if he is a pupil at Academy.
He said answered yes, and told the Police that he felt bad about the rude way the boy molested his colleague principal.
He said Mrs. Morrison is the head of Conference of Principals in the country, and he will not tolerate nor condone such a behavior from any of his pupils. Thus he has expelled the boy from the school with immediate effect.
The Principal said the boy wants to bring shame and a bad name to the Albert Academy, and that's something he will certainly not encourage from any of his pupil, which is why he has taken this drastic measure against any who misbehave n and out of the school. Another reason is that this expulsion will instill discipline in the school for such a thing not to happen again, and he will continue to act tough until sanity returns to the school and ensure that they don't lose their excellent glory.
This expulsion of Alie Francis Alliah Mansaray came about when he was charged to court and appeared before Magistrate Mohamed Santigie Bangura of Court No. 1 on Siaka Stevens Street in Freetown on Wednesday 25 July 2018 for abusing and assaulting the SSS Principal of Annie Walsh Memorial Secondary School, Mrs. Ophelia Morrison.


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