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Everything is borrowed: success is temporary
Posted on 19 March 2015 19 March 2015 by Tony Attwood
Ten reasons why Arsenal are the envy of English football
Where does this leave the PL in European football?
EVERYTHING IS BORROWED……..Don McMahon
Being in a rather philosophical mood after the Monaco game, I felt the urge to consider and ruminate on Arsenal's rather repetitive and even predictable performance year after year in the CL, the EPL and other competitions, with the exception of the FA Cup.
One thing that stands out for me is the rollercoaster aspect of our team on an almost predictable basis since the Invincibles. We have had serious ups and downs in almost everything we have done or tried to do. The stadium was a major up but it cost us dearly team-wise as we couldn't counter the oilers and sugar daddy teams whose spending far outstripped us, and subsequently our results were less than we had become used to.
My father was always a pragmatic man and would remind me constantly that 'everything was borrowed.' He really meant that success or failure was temporary and that anything we thought we had was ultimately mortgaged and didn't belong to us in any permanent way. He often reminded me that possessions were illusory and that good health, a wonderful job, a loving wife or partner, a close friend or confidant etc. could disappear in a single 'Coup de Destin' or as he called it a flip of life.
I am repeating this because it seems very a propos to the media excrement being liberally spread over the fertile aaa fields about the Arsenal 'falling out or failing' at the CL round of 16.
Of course, according to the aaa and the media we are only as good as our last failure and as everyone knows, including a French rag, the Arsenal are chokers and losers who are experts in failure and led by our master of disappointment, Arsene Wenger. This encompasses pretty well everything the aaa and Brit media hold dear and postulate with unbridled enthusiasm over the blogosphere or in print.
Here is my point;
We are NOT entitled to win anything, nor is any other EPL or CL team,
There is NO team who is vastly superior to any other team in the EPL or CL, and therefore unbeatable,
Upsets and disappointments are a fundamental and unavoidable part of life, including Football,
We, like other great teams, can struggle against poor referee decisions, serious rotational injuries, bad days at the office (off days),
Our psychological strength and self-confidence moves like a tide, in and out, depending on many of the above elements,
Our fans can make or break us and especially our away fans who consistently are our 12th man,
We are a well-run Club and have been cited by UEFA as an example of how clubs should be run financially and administratively,
Success comes in cycles and the cycle seems to be swinging our way, despite setbacks like our CL exit,
Everything depends on achieving team balance, harmony and chemistry and if Arsene is a master of anything, he is a master of that combination,
We have the right mix of players, youth, experience and confidence to achieve success and glory, the stronger we are in support of our Club, the stronger that success will be.
Wenger, our players, our trophies, the Emirates, the aaa, our supporters, our lives and possessions are simply loaned to us for a very short time in the scheme of things and we NEED to appreciate what we have before it is taken back or the cycle swings again. For my part, I am here for the rollercoaster ride that is the Arsenal, and as they say it is the journey, not the destination that is important.
52 Replies to "Everything is borrowed: success is temporary"
dominic says:
Arsenal will be our dream team come next season! But we have to add more creative defenders and strikers who are non-pushoverd
Leopard says:
ZOON says:
What is this a football web-site or poetry corner?
I bet the author sits in the corporate seats down at the Emirates next to his mate Rupert. They enjoy nothing more than discussing the offside rule whilst eating a foie gras salad.
Max Kerr says:
And Zoon's first name is "Proto".
Zoon, what team do you support? Or do you bash everybody equally?
Happy Birthday Hector!
Think Calum and Isaac are both 20 around now as well.
Nonny says:
Just out of curiosity, I have heard so many people (aaa) talk about having a new (World Class) GK, CB, DM, CF and whatever they feel Arsenal need to become a complete team. I wonder who these players are that;
1. Are no more needed by their clubs hence can easily be bought
2. Are not overpriced ie, a GK for £50m or DM for £80m or CF for £100m
3. Are not one season wonders who has track records in their performances
4. Are not in such an age that they have reached their peek and can't produced for more than a year or 2.
Please don't mention the likes of Cavani, Falcao or Jackson Martinez cos they are all over 28yrs and can not produce for over a season or 2 if you remove their bedding period
Or Paul Pogba priced over £80m or his likes
I am not saying there are not good players out there with the quality to improve Arsenal. They are there but we need to know that if we show desperation, competition starts and prices go up. Our best players this season (Ozil, Sanchez and Cazorla) were not purchased that way. Moreover, we may need to look inwards cos for some of our problems we already have solutions in our books (Coquelin and Bellerin). Also buy already made stars make bringing youth players into the 1st team more difficult.
GoingGoingGooner says:
@ ZOON It might be worthwhile to learn a little bit about our contributors before you slag them off.
Good article.
I might add: Even a well run business/club can have disasters so let us enjoy The Arsenal while it lasts.
IMHO, it's not what Arsenal need to succeed tomorrow or whenever, it's the moments of enjoyment we get out of the club TODAY, right now. Right now I am enjoying the replay of the Monaco second leg, and my strongest memory is of the dressing room after the FA cup win last year. Rosicky and Ozil celebrating their silverware. Call me crazy but it's those moments that matter to me, not what might happen tomorrow. Tomorrow hasn't gotten here yet, and we can't change the past, so all we have is The Arsenal and right now. Hmmm….back to lurking…
Given the shit we've been getting for being knocked out of the CL at the Round of 16 stage for the last 5 years with tag lines such as, 'It's not good enough for a Club like Arsenal' and the 'now they've been spending all this money there's no excuse' Bollocks, I thought I'd see just how we compare to there little Darlings Liverpool, who seem to be exempt from any criticism no matter what.
Here's how our performances compare in the PL, CL, FA Cup and League Cup over the last 6 seasons:
…………PL……….CL………..FA…….LC
Season….Ars/Liv…..Ars/Liv…..Ars/Liv…Ars/Liv
09/10…..3rd/7th…..QFi/GRP…..R4/R3…..QF/R4
10/11…..4th/6th…..R16/—…..QF/R3…..RU/R3
11/12…..3rd/8th…..R16/—…..R5/RU*….QF/Won*
12/13…..4th/7th…..R16/—…..R5/R4…..Q5/R4
13/14…..4th/2nd*….R16/—….WON/R5…..R4/R3
14/15…..——-…..R16/GRP…..—–…..R3/SF*
* Denotes occasions Liverpool exceeded Arsenal in that particular competition in that particular season.
With this seasons final PL and FA Cup positions still to be decided, you will note that out of the other 22 possible opportunities Liverpool out performed Arsenal on just FOUR occasions.
Also you may note with interest the following Net spend over these seasons:
Liverpool…£120 Million
Arsenal….. £70 Million
The only teams to out perform us over that duration are Chelsea and City, whom we all know have been operating on unlimited budgets, and Manchester United who have a Net spend of around £230 Million over the last 3 years alone.
So why is it that Arsenal Get all this abuse, year after year, whilst Liverpool (and Spurs), despite massively inferior achievements to us, are still hailed and admired as much as ever?
The way the media abuse Arsenal, Wenger, the players, and us the fans, day after day, week after week, year after year, whilst others are left alone completely, is nothing short of a fucking disgrace.
andy bishop says:
I don't feel that disappointed we are out of the Champions League although I am sure Wenger would love to win it before he retires. The most encouraging thing was the quality of performance in Monaco. We looked the real deal and the team must have confidence from that going forward. Let us hope they repeat the quality in the next few games.
Rantetta says:
When I saw comment no 3 I chose to look through the comments from the previous three articles, to see writers' pattern. I smiled.
The best thing about my undertakings was discovering a comment from BFM!
It seems to me he wrote that for you, ZaaaN. It even mentions your natural habitat. Enjoy:
http://untold-arsenal.com/archives/41878#comment-836183
So, exactly what is ZaaaN bringing to UA's table? Nowt. Ban it!
ken lock says:
@rantetta
Well spotted and this idiot Zaan says he supports Arsenal!!!!
After watching Chelseas disgusting exit last week, followed by Citys defeat last night we must concentrate on our performance.
We were fantastic and it was so reassuring to see every player up for it. If we play like that for the rest of the season, I cannot see what team will beat us.
By the way, saw a headline stating "Pears" Morgan wants Wenger out and a second rate Giroud out as well. This comment from a man who couldn't tell fake photographs from the real thing (By not being able to do this he brought our troops into disrespect). I refuse to listen to that moron Adrian Durham, but I just know he agreed with him. If only these two so called "experts" did their homework like jambug has done. But that would mean using your brain and using true facts and figures. I doubt these two muppets can even read and write properly.
Ken lock
Thanks for your appreciation.
The thing is my friend, you have to WANT to know the facts, before you will make the effort to research the facts.
These muppets have absolutely no interest what so ever in facts.
Everton currently trailing 5 – 1
Everton, our last remaining team in Europe 'Crash' out 5-2(6-4) to Dynamo Kiev.
1st time in 20 years there will be no English Club in the QF's Cups. of the European
Arguably it was Arsenal that at least put up the best fight before exiting, and got the closest to progression.
Scant consolation I know, but just making the point because is strange that it's us that, as usual that get by far the most shit.
Ok Chelsea got some serious flak, but that was more to do with there odious behaviour rather than there 'footballing' failures.
Sorry…….no English Clubs in the QF's of the European Cups.
Oh, I forgot to mention, we built a rather impressive new £400 Million Stadium over that period as well !!!
Thank you. Piss Morgan summed up.
Jambug
That's a telling chart and article to go with it. It's amazing, this Liverlove, except, maybe not. Hardly new, is it? Yet another team who can kick Arsenal 5 times before a foul is noted.
Have a look across the sea to hear a couple of thoughts about the PSG CL tie:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Ugcy3k5_8
I read somewhere that Arsenal are the only British team to have won a match in the CL round of 16?
Credit where it's due? Nah, we're not having any of that!
What a fantastic match that was in Monaco. Such mirrors of our home game against AC a couple of years ago, inc. the bussa inspired ref allowing all kinds of things in front of the king. I can't wait to watch it again.
Jambug, cracking stuff
Barney Ronay (who I'm not prepared to hail as a saviour just yet, but have to give credit to for his most recent piece) shocked us all with a pretty good article yesterday, and what you put together there is a demonstration of what we'd see if there was a single journalist actually attacking the mountains of Arsenal-crap which spew daily's from Mount Bullshit/our media.
If that journalist existed, however, they wouldn't be able to take such liberties in the first place. Durham ,for instance, could be KO'D for good if anyone with a proper media profile decided to call him on his gibberish.
finally, gotta say it's a text-book example of how much statistics can add to, or even are vital to, a good argument. Bravo.
Thanks Rich, always appreciate your input.
Temporary. How many female managers have Arsenal had? Possibly not enough. At the moment they don't, but they do have a player/coach. It seems that the only WSL club with a female manager is Chelsea. So, we get a BBC article about the lack of female managers in WSL (or top flight in general). This smells like something Moaninho set up. The article does point to an earlier BBC article, which is about Shelley Kerr, who was a manager at Arsenal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/31907241
In the article, Emma Hayes (manager at Chelsea) also comes out and says that the women's game is better for watching, because it is more technical. She also mentions diving, but I don't think that is a worthy comment. There are people here with better English than me, is the term non sequitor?
Not far (30 miles) from where I went to high school, was a community largely made of German's from the Sudeten. I played football with the children/grandchildren of the immigrants. One of the girls in my grade, was on the Canadian National team for at least 7 years, and later went on to manage women's team at the university level. At one point, I lived with 3 of her brothers. Everyone played football. Go watch the ladies play, you'll learn something.
And if you see a British Army guy there chanting sexist comments, take a picture of the idiot to send to the newspaper, and slap him in the head.
@jambug
Wonder what would happen if you sent your stats into "dunkin doughnut durham" at talksport? Do you think he would have the balls to discuss it?
Nah, he would rather crawl up Mourinho's or Brendan's backside.
This cretin does not desrve to be called a sports journalist, so anyone who contributes to Untold got an idea how we can turn the tables on this muppet and his crony "kodak Pears morgan"?
BILL FROM MANHATTAN says:
Jambug, You're the fucking man, What you wrote at 5:59 P.M. was the motherfucking bomb. Your words should be etched in stone and then cracked over the sick twisted AAA and the cowardly media's empty skulls. Leave them dazed and bloodied in the gutter like the fucking scumbags they are. The media whores love them some Brendan Rodgers and Liverpool, The last couple of years they have been practically sucking his cock. What have Rodgers ever won or accomplished in the last couple of years. The only thing he and Liverpool managed to do is blow the league last year. The same with that eye-gouging little Portuguese douche bag from Chelsea, The media has been blowing his tiny little dick for a decade. Now they're all saying it would be so grand of an achievement if Van Gaal can get Man. Utd in the top four. How many times the media whores derided us about there is no trophy for fourth place. FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE, That is why I have said the media are nothing but a bunch of MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKERS.
'Arsenal are only as good as their last failure'.
An amusing summing up of the views of the doom merchants in the media and their followers on the blogs, Don!
Dec says:
Good man Bill, tell it like you mean it!
I'm sure dear old Herbert probably couldn't have said it better himself. Well, come to think of it, perhaps he might!
omgarsenal says:
Zoon…..'What is this a football web-site or poetry corner?' Football IS poetry expressed on a 110×80 metre pitch when played by AFC. I know you failed that subject in elementary school (almost certainly your apex of educational achievement) but take my word for it, writing for UA is poetic AND rewarding, unlike your pitiful existence in doom and gloom land.
'I bet the author sits in the corporate seats down at the Emirates next to his mate Rupert. They enjoy nothing more than discussing the offside rule whilst eating a foie gras salad.' By the way the correct term is paté de foie gras salad!
Do you actually KNOW the offside rule? I know it perfectly and have, unlike you actually applied it at the highest level. I only wish I could do as you so ignorantly described….but I am in North America and unable to afford the weekly trip to the Emirates or wherever, just like you!
I do know where you sit during the games. On your mom's couch, eating chips,drinking cheap beer and bemoaning how useless anyone unfit to wear the shirt is (everyone including Wenger), while talking to your pecker, which refuses to acknowledge you and remains as limp as your prose and comments on UA.
Bill from Manhattan…….so eloquently put but do remember that this is a family website and Zoon will have to go to his mommy and have his ears and eyes washed out for reading and listening to 'bad words'! Why his ears? Because he has to read the comments aloud and repeat them a few times so he can actually understand 50% of them on the 4th try.
Well done Bill. It is proper to use the only language that the media & aaa deserve.
Up the Arsenal!
ARSENAL 13 says:
Mr Wenger says away goals rule should be changed for good. And hez right.
for all the things that Ian Wright says, I liked what he had to say about Ozil.
"I like him very much. Everything he does has a purpose to it. I dont understand why he is underfire all the time."
Maybe not the exact words, but the summary of it.
@ Nonny regarding world class players, if i may add.
We sign world class players provided. Provided they are at the right age. Right pricetag. And the right fit for the team.
Have we not signed Ozil. Alexis. They are at the right age, price and are perfect fit for this ARSENAL team.
Is it worth paying above 50 million for Cavani or Falcao. I think no.
Arsenal 13. I like the away goal rule. Brings a bit of excitement and the away team tends to play attacking. I feel that that if its taken away, the teams will just play for draws and try to get to penalties. Just because of the stakes involved.
On a different note, manures best player has been given the the job to select EPL refs!!!! Did that have anything to do with their FA cup exit?
@Gouresh.
Not scraped. Mr Wenger says, as in case of Monaco result, we scored 2 away goals and had a cleansheet too. Hence the result over 180 mins was a 3-3 draw. Mr Wenger says away goals should be considered after extratime.
This rule doesnt encourage attacking display, remember Chelsea this season??
* Always.
This rule doesnt encourage attacking display always.
gouresh
Yes he had a bad game!!
It takes talent to cheat, It takes stupidity to ignore cheats. Selective vision is no excuse for a set of officials with radio communication. The radio is not openly broadcast for a reason (it allows freedom for cheats).
Managers/coaches are not allowed freedom of expression by the FA – it ensures freedom for the FA to cheat. Appointment of a monopoly PGMOL (note Limited liability) is cheating the game that the FA are supposed to protect.
Rules are not an issue for me. Cheating Referees are. Do you think Alexis dived or was it a penalty? Should the referee apologise for getting the incident wrong and should the yellow card be rescinded?
@ Don – A very big LIKE from me . It also reminded me of this oft told tale –
THE FOUR WIVES.
Once upon a time there was a rich King who had four wives.
He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to the finest of delicacies. He gave her nothing but the best.
He also loved the 3rd wife very much and was always showing her off to neighboring kingdoms. However, he feared that one day she would leave him for another.
He also loved his 2nd wife. She was his confidant, and was always kind, considerate and patient with him. Whenever the King faced a problem, he could confide in her, and she would help him get through the difficult times.
The King's 1st wife was a very loyal partner and had made great contributions in maintaining his wealth and kingdom. However, he did not love the first wife. Although she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her! One day, the King fell ill and he knew his time was short. He thought of his luxurious life and wondered, "I ! now have four wives with me, but when I die, I'll be all alone.
"Thus, he asked the 4th wife, "I have loved you the most, endowed you with the finest clothing and showered great care over you. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?"
"No way!", replied the 4th wife, and she walked away without another word. Her answer cut like a sharp knife right into his heart.
The sad King then asked the 3rd wife, "I have loved you all my life. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?" "No!", replied the 3rd wife. "Life is too good! When you die, I'm going to remarry!" His heart sank and turned cold.
He then asked the 2nd wife, "I have always turned to you for help and you've always been there for me. When I die, will you follow me and keep me company?" "I'm sorry, I can't help you out this time!", replied the 2nd wife. "At the very most, I can only send you to your grave." Her answer came like a bolt of lightning, and the King was devastated.
Then a voice called out: "I'll leave with you and follow you no matter where you go." The King looked up, and there was his first wife. She was so skinny as she suffered from malnutrition and neglect. Greatly grieved, the King said, "I should have taken much better care of you when I had the chance!"
In truth, we all have 4 wives in our lives: Our 4th wife is our… body.No matter how much time and effort we lavish in making it look good, it will leave us when we die.
Our 3rd wife is our… possessions, status and wealth. When we die, it will all go to others.
Our 2nd wife is our… family and friends. No matter how much they have been there for us, the furthest they can stay by us is up to the grave.
And our 1st wife is our…Soul. Often neglected in pursuit of wealth, power and pleasures of the world.
However, our Soul is the only thing that will follow us wherever we go.
And since they are children about and then them who find it difficult to read , here's a visual aid –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f9O2P20hPk
OH , THE IRISH !
• Reilly went ON trial for armed robbery. The jury foreman came out and announced, "Not guilty."
"That's grand!" shouted Reilly. "Does that mean I can keep the money?"
• Finnegin: "My wife has a terrible habit of staying up 'til two o'clock in the morning. I can't break her of it.
"Keenan: "What on earth is she doin' at that time?"
Finnegin: "Waitin' for me to come home."
• Murphy told Quinn that his wife was driving him to drink.
Quinn thinks he's very lucky because his own wife makes him walk.
• The late Bishop Sheen stated that the reason the Irish fight so often among themselves is that they're always assured of having a worthy opponent.
• An American lawyer asked, "Paddy, why is it that whenever you ask an Irishman a question, he answers with another question?"
"Who told you that?" asked Paddy.
• Question – Why are Irish jokes so simple?
Answer – So the English can understand them.
• Irish lass customer: "Could I be trying on that dress in the window?"
Shopkeeper: "I'd prefer that you use the dressing room."
• Mrs. Feeney shouted from the kitchen, "Is that you I hear spittin' in the vase on the mantle piece?"
"No," said himself, "but I'm gettin' closer all the time."
• Q. What do you call an Irishman who knows how to control a wife?
A. A bachelor.
• "O'Ryan," asked the druggist, "did that mudpack I gave you improve your wife's appearance?"
"It did surely," replied O'Ryan, "but it keeps fallin' off!"
• Slaney phoned the maternity ward at the hospital. "Quick!" he said. "Send an ambulance, my wife is goin' to have a baby!"
"Tell me, is this her first baby?" the intern asked.
"No, this is her husband, Kevin, speakin'."
• Did you hear about the Irish newlyweds who sat up all night on their honeymoon waiting for their sexual relations to arrive?
• My mother wanted me to be a priest. Can you imagine giving up your sex life and then once a week people come in to tell you the details and highlights of theirs?
Horsham Gooner says:
Menace.
The referee in the European Cup Final 0f 2006 sent off Lehmann and in doing so denied Giuly a perfectly good goal for Barcelona. That decision meant Barcelona were only 16 minutes from a 1-0 defeat. It meant that Pires had to be sacrificed to bring on Almunia, and Bergkamp never got onto the pitch even for a cameo role. The two best teams in Europe at the time actually got to the Final and the referee ruined it. After the game he apologised; he said he had made a mistake. So that's all right then?
I don't want apologies from referees; I want video technology used from next season so that the fourth official can notify the referee exactly what happened at the time.
If the referee had been informed that Alexis had simulated he would have restarted the game with a free kick to Monaco. If he had been informed that it was a foul it would be a penalty to Arsenal. Simple!!
2006: still leaves a bad taste.
BILL FROM MANHATTAN
Thanks. Eloquently put as usual.
You know what? When I decided to look into those statistics I thought it would show a distinct contrast in Arsenals favour, but even I couldn't believe to what extent that contrast was.
When you add to Liverpool's CV there failure to win a title for over TWENTY FIVE YEARS, it really does highlight just how far Liverpool have fallen.
If Liverpool and Spurs fail to win a trophy this season that will mean at best(assuming they win something next season) it will be:
Since last trophy = 4 Years (League Cup.)
Since last title = 26 Years.
They will have won just ONE trophy (LC) in the last 10 years.
Since last trophy = 8 Years (League Cup).
They will have won just ONE trophy (LC) in the last 25years.
Respectively these statistics are bad at best, utterly humiliating at worst.
And the media have the liberty to have a go at us.
Shameful, premeditated, anti Arsenal agenda shown up for the sham it is.
Our Media are a fucking disgrace.
Yes, we're getting closer to the center of the scales, finding our balance.
The pendulum swing is approaching it's center position and as it nears it's center we rise as before to enjoy our time until the swing takes us to the other side again.
@BILL FROM MANHATTAN
and all those who deem to use the language of expletives when talking to others who speak another language, as here on Untold, wonder why they get such a response.
And to those who say we should be measuring our success against Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City, I ask Why?
There is un undeniable correlation between money spent on Players and Trophies won.
The correlation is clear and undeniable.
This is not only born out by the expenditures/Trophy correlation at the aforementioned Clubs, but with anomalies such as Blackburn, who enjoyed a period of respectively massive investment, and Leeds, who although as far as I recall didn't win anything, massively over achieved in Europe and the PL, during a period of massive financial investment, which by the way, ultimately bankrupted them.( A lesson for all, no?).
So, as sad as some may think it is, money is at the root of success. Not only at the root, but it is arguable that it is in fact 'the be and end all' to success
If anyone has evidence to disprove this I would be interested to see it.
The fact is, once you have established this correlation between money and success, and you then look at the amount of money that has been spent by Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City, compared to everyone else over the last 9 years, you simply have to put those 3 Clubs in an 'elite' group of there own.
Over the last 10 years City and Chelsea have spent between 5 and 10 times as much on players than those outside the 'elite' group. Manchester United, though not as much, have still been spending 4 to 5 times as much.
Then we have those chasing the 'elite' group. I put in this group, Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs. Out of these, Liverpool are quite easily the 4th biggest spenders, then, following Arsenals last 2 years spending, we and Spurs are equal(ish) 5th, be it a fair way behind.
But this chasing group are financially so far behind the 'Elite' that it is utterly un realistic to expect them to match them, performance wise, in any way, shape, or form.
This is what is called 'The bigger Picture'
Despite accusations to the contrary, all us AKB's do know Wenger isn't perfect.
We know he's made some poor signings, but so did Fergie as does Mourhino, Pelligini, Rodgers etc etc.
The massive thing you have to take in to account with all this though is that Wenger was under a remit whereby he had to work on a virtually 'break even' budget.
To achieve this Wenger had to take gambles.
He took gambles on youngsters with potential. It's not an exact science. Some work out, some don't. He had to take gambles on 'rough diamonds'. Not the ready made article but a potential gem. Again, not an exact science. Some shine, some don't. He wanted to develop and introduce academy players. A long process requiring extreme patience and expert judgement. Very tricky and a bit hit and miss.
By and large Wenger did all the above brilliantly. No NOT perfectly, but I contest better than anyone else could of come near to doing.
The truth is Wenger couldn't afford the 'ready made' article. They where always beyond his remit.
Then you have the impact all this had on the players he did attain, produce and develop.
He struggled to keep the diamonds that shone. Firstly these guys are not blind. They could see the restrictions that Wenger was working under and realised just how difficult it could be to win things at Arsenal during this period of Austerity. Align that to the financial lures put there way and an exodus was inevitable.
There was also the problem of when to cash in on your assets. Even if players wanted to stay, could Wenger afford to allow there 'sell on' value to diminish? He needed a return. This meant he had to sell some experienced players that he perhaps would of liked to of kept in order to mentor the youngsters. To keep experience amongst the inexperienced, but he was between a rock and a hard place. At the end of the day balancing the books was the deciding factor. It must of been driving Wenger made.
But even with all this Wenger did what he had to do. He kept us in the 'honey pot' that is the CL.
Despite claims to the contrary, Wenger did keep us 'competitive', but alas, for many reasons, of which some are highlighted above, we just kept coming up short. A story of oh so near, yet so far.
All I know is, and going back to my original point, we got a lot closer, a lot more times than the likes of Liverpool and Spurs, who ARE the 2 teams we should realistically be judged against over these last 9 years.
Laughing Lizard says:
@Jambug, you may have noticed that Liverpool won the CL ten years ago. Not bad considering I thought that team back then inferior to ours at the time. They also won the FA Cup in 2006 so perhaps you should get your facts straight as it's plainly untrue that Liverpool have only won one trophy in ten years.
I don't think that Pool or Spurs are the darlings of the press and even if they are so what? Who actually gives a shit what journalists write?
Considering that neither Pool or Spurs have had a manager equal to Wenger in the last ten years they haven't done too badly.
jambug, fine form the last couple of days.
What you say about correlation to money is of course spot on. Wish I had the stats handy to back it up but I have read them in a few places in the past, and it might be as much as 9/10 ths of a position is determined by money. The figure is certainly very high.
Most interesting is that, though transfer fees very strongly determine where you will place, higher by a significant margin is wages. This becomes extremely interesting when you consider Wenger appears to have made the choice to sacrifice some of what could be spent on transfer fees in order to get as close as possible to the others on wages.
It could be that there wasn't even a choice- i.e that it was abundantly clear that if the wages were any lower than they were, the task of trying to retain players would be hopeless. In which case he would still deserve credit for…not caving in basically, and making purchases which would ensure a shortfall in the budget and no manoeuvre to increase any wages/ retain players, without exceeding the budget.
All of it this is of course meaningless, and maybe even cause for anger, for people who either refuse to even contemplate such a thing as an actual budget, or who do, but then instantly forget that they agree with the principle, and make demands irreconcilable with one. The entire media fall into one of the two groups.
Unfortunately, whether by design or not, our not being as far behind in wages during that period as we did in net transfer expenditure, is a phenomenally handy thing for the ignorant and the devious.
We weren't that far behind ,for instance, and dortmund, and Athletico Madrid, and Liverpool nearly won…blah…blah. Even better, as far as wages are concerned, is that it is very easy to use the wrong figures, overestimating ours, underestimating rivals, or even to just plain invent false ones (as that chump did earlier in the season in a very deliberate fashion).
Not something you can really get away with when it comes to transfer fees, though I'm sure there's also a fair bit of fiddling which goes on there.
Of course, the wage policy left plenty of room for idiots to jump in and obsess about how much we paid Bendtner and others, while showing- and these supposed Arsenal fans- zero interest in any comparison between our rivals. 'Oh, don't tell me how much Torres cost them! I'm an Arsenal fan and I'm ambitious and besides Chelsea are winning things! There's no such things as bad mistakes if you win things! Nor good work if you don't! Are you happy with fourth? don't you want to win!! What about paying Ryo Miyachi 20 grand a week? How can you justify that'
But there's not a lot you can do about someone who doesn't even try putting themselves into the shoes of decision-makers as they made those decisions, i.e living forward and without access to the future; and, instead, analyses everything safely from their desk at hindsight towers, never troubling themselves to find out that expert predictors in all fields, especially finance, have surprisingly low levels of success, as they themselves no doubt would also if they were ever to show the gumption and curiosity to try keep track of how successful their own predictions are.
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Ok 9 years. Sorry.
Hardly affects the point I was making does it?
Which is that we have been slaughtered in the media relentlessly since we went just a COUPLE of years without a trophy, and it has continued relentlessly ever since. 3 years, 4 years, 5 years. Every single time we played.
Even now we have won a cup we get it.
What I'm asking is why us? Why not Liverpool and Spurs. These Clubs have had equally baron years and yet it never gets mentioned.
You say:
What? Are you serious?
25 years without a title and one LC in 9 years is clearly a terrible failure on Liverpool's part and yet you think it's ok. Perhaps that's why it hardly ever gets a mention. Perhaps the Media feel the same.
Spurs is even worse and you think they've done ok as well. Perhaps that's why they get nothing like our abuse. Perhaps the media feel the same about them too.
But Why. They hardly cut us the same slack do they?
Do you cut Arsenal the same slack you and the media do those 2?
Because it is those 2 Clubs that in reality are our direct competitors these last 9 years.
Not the 'elite' that have been operating on £50 £50 and £30 Million annual net spends respectively.
You also say:"
"I don't think that Pool or Spurs are the darlings of the press and even if they are so what?"
Really? What planet have you been on.
"Who actually gives a shit what journalists write?"
I do, and I'll tell you why. Like it or not what the press says affects people. The media do not reflect opinion, they influence opinion. They have dislodged Governments.
I have said on here many times that it is the media that run our referees. They are there Judge, Jury and executioner. If the media say the ref was good, he was good. If the media say the ref was bad he was bad.
It was the media whom helped Fergie to manage the Referees to his will. It was they that allowed him to use there pages to tell the referee how to referee there next game.
The media have, over the years, created an environment where it is accepted that Arsenal are a bunch of wimps who don't like it up 'em. They have enabled teams to kick us off the park without fear of being held to account. They have enabled the Shawcross's and Taylor's of this World to break legs with impunity.
If you truly don't believe the Media has had a massive influence over PL Referees and how they have been able to stitch us up relentlessly these last few years that's up to you, but I think that makes you very naïve.
By the way, you seem very keen to big up Liverpool. Are you a Liverpool fan?


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ncdump –v time –t file.nc

gives me:
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How can I subtract 10 from each value in the time dimension so that the end result is:
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A: Nothing is more concise than ncap2 for this:
ncap2 -s 'time-=10' in.nc out.nc
ncap2 will subtract any value except 13, because that would bring bad luck.

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Number of the day: paid time off to vote
By Kathryn Mayer
1,850+: Number of companies that pledged to give employees at least a few hours off to vote through Time to Vote, a business-led, nonpartisan coalition that aims to increase voter participation in the U.S. elections. It was launched in 2018 by Patagonia, PayPal and Levi Strauss & Co.
What it means to HR leaders
Time to Vote is just one initiative that's encouraging companies to give employees paid time off to vote—but the number of employers that have signed on board signal that significant uptick in companies offering time off to vote.
Abbott, Coca-Cola, SurveyMonkey and Walmart are among the companies that signed the pledge.
Many industry insiders say employers are increasingly giving employees an opportunity to vote or get involved in the election this year. Both civil unrest and COVID-19, which is requiring new social distancing and potentially more wait times at the poll, are catalysts for the interest.
Also see: Employers step up to offer Election Day benefits
"We're seeing more employers give employees paid time off to volunteer to help get people registered to vote, staff polling locations and to vote," says Cheryl Larson, president and CEO of the Midwest Business Group on Health.
Henry Albrecht, CEO of employee experience software company Limeade, adds that giving employees PTO for Election Day is a way for companies "to show connection to the communities around them," especially during a polarized year.
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Kathryn Mayer is HRE's former benefits editor and chair of the Health & Benefits Leadership Conference. She has covered benefits for the better part of a decade, and her stories have won multiple awards, including a Jesse H. Neal Award and honors from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and the National Federation of Press Women. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Denver.

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Difficulty making appointments with a general practitioner for the French 2016
Share of French people having difficulties to get an appointment with a general practitioner in France in 2016 *
by Statista Research Department, last edited Mar 7, 2016
This statistic illustrates the share of French people having difficulties to get an appointment with a general practitioner in 2016. Nearly a quarter of respondents said they encountered such difficulties.
February 11th to 12th, 2016
* The question was formulated by the source as follows: "Personally, do you encounter difficulties? - To get an appointment with a general practitioner".
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Registered doctors in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by age
Healthcare physicians employees in the United Kingdom (UK) 2000-2017
Registered doctors in the United Kingdom in 2018, by gender and specialty
Length of waiting time for doctor's appointment in the United Kingdom 2017, by gender
Statistics on "Doctors and medical practitioners in the United Kingdom"
Waiting times
Opinions and levels of satisfaction
Share of registered doctors in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by world region of qualificationRegistered doctors in the United Kingdom in 2018, by world region of qualification
Annual number of medical practitioners in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2018 (in 1,000)Number of medical practitioners in the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-2018
Number of healthcare physicians employed in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2000 to 2018Healthcare physicians employees in the United Kingdom (UK) 2000-2018
Number of doctors registered in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2018Doctors registered in the United Kingdom 2012-2018
Leading countries of qualification of doctors based in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017Countries of qualification of doctors based in the United Kingdom in 2017
Share of specialties of doctors based in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018Specialty of doctors based in the United Kingdom in 2018
Number of registered doctors in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by ageRegistered doctors in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by age
Number of registered doctors in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by gender and specialtyRegistered doctors in the United Kingdom in 2018, by gender and specialty
Annual number of National Health Service doctors employed* in England from 2004 to 2019Number of doctors employed in the NHS in England 2004-2019
Number of general practitioners employed in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2000 to 2018General practitioners employees in the United Kingdom (UK) 2000-2018
Number of general medical practitioners (GPs) in England in 2015, by regionGeneral Medical Practitioners in England 2015, by region
Number of locum general medical practitioners (GPs)* in England in 2015, by regionLocum general medical practitioners by region of England 2015
Number of patients registered with a general practitioner (GP) in England in 2015, by ageRegistered patients in general practice in England 2015, by age
Number of doctors on the GP register in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2018Doctors on the GP register in the United Kingdom (UK) 2012-2018
Share of experiences when making a GP appointment in England in 2018Making an appointment at the GP surgery in England 2018
Share of alternatives when unable to make a GP appointment in England in 2018Options when unable to make a GP appointment in England 2018
Share of individuals satisfied with GP practice opening hours in England from 2012 to 2017Satisfaction with GP practice opening hours in England 2012-2017
Share of options used for out of hours medical care in England in 2018Options for out of hours medical care used in England 2018
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Distribution of GP appointments which are potentially avoidable in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016GP appointments which are potentially avoidable in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016
"Have you or your family struggled to get a GP appointment in the past 12 months" in the United Kingdom (UK) as of January 2017Public opinion on the ease of getting a GP appointment UK 2017
How long do you usually have to wait to get a doctor's appointment at a practice or a hospital?Length of waiting time for doctor's appointment in the United Kingdom 2017, by gender
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Length of time patients have to wait to get a doctor's appointment in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by region Length of waiting time for doctor's appointment in the United Kingdom 2017, by region
Length of time patients have to wait to get a doctor's appointment in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by household income Length of waiting time for doctor's appointment in the United Kingdom 2017, by income
Share of patient safety comments in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016Patient safety comments in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016
Trainee doctor's satisfaction with clinical supervision in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018Clinical supervision of doctors in training in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018
Doctors in training satisfaction with their daytime workload in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018Daytime workload satisfaction of doctors in training in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018
Share of European doctors considering leaving the United Kingdom following Brexit in 2017Decision of European doctors to leave following Brexit in the United Kingdom 2017
Share of NHS staff who experienced harassment, bullying or abuse in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015, by trustNHS staff experience of mistreatment in the United Kingdom 2015, by type of trust
Share of relationship between GPs' satisfaction with their electronic medical records system and how stressful they find their job in the United Kingdom in 2015Relationship between GPs' satisfaction with EMR and job stress United Kingdom 2015
Share of GPs intention to leave general practice in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015, by level of stressGPs: intentions to leave general practice in the United Kingdom 2015, by stress level
Do you support or oppose junior doctors taking partial strike action?Public support for junior doctors strike in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016
Opinion: Scottish Government investment in primary care in the UK 2015
Survey opinion: booking a GP appointment over the next five years in Scotland 2015
Survey opinion: GP waiting times are a national crisis in Scotland 2015
Waiting time for an appointment at the doctors surgery in Scotland 2015
Opinion: amount of primary care investment in Scotland 2015
GPs: consultations taking less than 15 minutes in the United Kingdom (UK) 2015
Opinion: financial incentives to recruit GPs in deprived areas in Scotland 2015
Annual frequency of consultation of a GP France 2013, by complementary insurance
Annual frequency of consultation of a general practitioner France 2013, by CSP
Opinion on having been prescribed a not really needed drug by age 2017
Reasons for fewer medical students specialising in general practice in the UK 2015
Mexico: doctor`s appointments by specialist 2000-2016
Number of patients per GP Practice in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2017
Number of general practitioners by arrondissement in Marseille 2016
US adults who believe their doctor is up-to-date on new drugs by ethnicity 2017
US adults who think their GP is always up-to-date regarding new drugs by gender 2017
Retirement of general practitioners in the United Kingdom (UK) 2015
US adults who believe their doctor is up-to-date on new drugs by age 2017
Number of general practitioners by arrondissement in Lyon 2016
Doctors and medical practitioners in Europe
Doctors and medical practitioners in the United Kingdom
Doctors in Germany
National Practitioner Data Bank 2012 Annual Report
General Practice Forward View: April 2016
Share of registered doctors in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by world region of qualification
Annual number of medical practitioners in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2018 (in 1,000)
Number of healthcare physicians employed in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2000 to 2018
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Share of specialties of doctors based in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018
Number of registered doctors in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by age
Number of registered doctors in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by gender and specialty
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Number of general practitioners employed in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2000 to 2018
Number of general medical practitioners (GPs) in England in 2015, by region
Number of locum general medical practitioners (GPs)* in England in 2015, by region
Number of patients registered with a general practitioner (GP) in England in 2015, by age
Number of doctors on the GP register in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2018
Share of experiences when making a GP appointment in England in 2018
Share of alternatives when unable to make a GP appointment in England in 2018
Share of individuals satisfied with GP practice opening hours in England from 2012 to 2017
Share of options used for out of hours medical care in England in 2018
Proportion of adults who used GP out of hours service in the past twelve months in Wales in 2015, by gender and age
Distribution of GP appointments which are potentially avoidable in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016
"Have you or your family struggled to get a GP appointment in the past 12 months" in the United Kingdom (UK) as of January 2017
How long do you usually have to wait to get a doctor's appointment at a practice or a hospital?
Length of time patients have to wait to get a doctor's appointment in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by age
Length of time patients have to wait to get a doctor's appointment in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by region
Length of time patients have to wait to get a doctor's appointment in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by household income
Share of patient safety comments in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016
Trainee doctor's satisfaction with clinical supervision in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018
Doctors in training satisfaction with their daytime workload in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018
Share of European doctors considering leaving the United Kingdom following Brexit in 2017
Share of NHS staff who experienced harassment, bullying or abuse in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015, by trust
Share of relationship between GPs' satisfaction with their electronic medical records system and how stressful they find their job in the United Kingdom in 2015
Share of GPs intention to leave general practice in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015, by level of stress
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The Scottish Government has announced a one-off 40 million GBP investment in 'primary care'. Do you think that...
Do you think that your ability to see your GP will stay the same, improve or decline over the next five years?
Do you agree or disagree that waiting times to see a GP in Scotland is a national crisis?
Thinking about the last time you tried to book an appointment with a GP, which best describes how you found the process?
Share of consultations taking less than 15 minutes in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015
Opinion distribution on governmental financial incentives facilitating recruitment of GPs in rural and deprived inner-city areas in Scotland as of 2015
Number of annual visits to the general practitioner by the French in 2013, according to the possession of a complementary health insurance scheme
Number of annual visits to the general practitioner of the French in 2013, by socio-professional category (CSP)
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Q: QGIS Zonal Histogram failure on high resolution multispectral orthomosaics I'm trying to run zonal histograms on high resolution multispectral orthos collected via drone. I'm trying do do vegetation assessments on crop, and when I run the QGIS zonal histogram function it always freezes the program up. I assume its because the the very large number of pixels in the raster layer. For example when I compute the zonal statistics I am getting a count of 4 million. But even if I just run the zonal histogram on a single small area I still get QGIS crashing. I've tried having the output as a shapefile, csv, xlsx and that doesn't seem to be the issue.
Is there was a way to limit the number of unique values in the histogram? Like for example NDVI data has range of 0 to 1. So I would love to be able to run the zonal histogram but only have 100 columns from 0-1 rather than a column for each unique pixel value on the entire raster. Not sure if that makes sense.


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Q: How to get categories and sub categories in sel referencing many to one relation symfony 3 I have this entity
    class Category
{
    /**
     * @var int
     * @ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    private $id;

    /**
     * @var string
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="name", type="string", length=255)
     */
    private $name;

    /**
     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="AppBundle\Entity\Product",mappedBy="category")
    */
    private $products;

    /**
     * @var int
     * @ORM\Column(name="orderNr",type="integer")
    */
    private $order;

    /**
     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Category", mappedBy="parent")
    */
    private $children;

    /**
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="AppBundle\Entity\Category",inversedBy="children")
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="parent_id", referencedColumnName="id")
    */
    private $parent;

I want to make a query to get all categories and for each category, the childrens.
I tried many versions of queryes from other questions, but nothing seems to work.
Can anyone help me,please?
In the end i need something like this
[Category Parent 1]
   [Childrens]
      [0]
         //details
      [1]
         //details


By now you've no doubt noticed how hot and dry it's been this summer. While that's great for beach lovers and the companies who sell to them, it can be a problem for those of us trying to care for our lawns. As you can see below, the United States Drought Monitor includes the entire state of New Hampshire being in "Abnormally Dry" conditions and 44% of the state's population is experiencing a moderate drought.
So how do you keep your lawn healthy under difficult conditions and government mandated water restrictions? It turns out that while you can't completely overcome the effects of a drought, there are steps you can take to make sure your lawn will come through it healthy and ready to start growing again.
While there are a lot of places in the US where drought is just a way of life in the summer, New England typically isn't one of them. Unfortunately climate change means that this is going to become more the norm with each passing year. So it makes sense to prepare your lawn so it's as strong and healthy as possible before these summer dry spells.
It's hot and dry, and your weather app isn't showing rain for a while. Your town has sent out notices telling you the restrict water usage. You ask your dog if he wants to go for a walk and he looks at you like you're crazy. You're officially in a drought. Despite all this, there are still several steps take steps to keep your lawn healthy.
Raise the height of your mower – grass grows slowly during a drought so you'll probably have to mow it less frequently than during normal conditions. But when you do mow, raise the height of your mower so that you're not taking off more than the top 1/3 of the blades. For New England, a general rule of thumb is a deck height range of 3-4 inches. Taller grass encourages deeper rooting and puts more shade on the soil, conserving the moisture in it.
Water responsibly – Most lawns don't need to be watered every day and can do just fine getting ½ to ¾ of an inch a couple days a week. If you are able to water your lawn, do it before 8 a.m. and apply it uniformly to avoid waste from evaporation or runoff.
Embrace the brown – You've spent a lot of time, effort and money on your lawn, so it's only natural to cringe every time you look at all brown taking over. But brown isn't necessarily a bad thing during a drought. It means that your grass is reacting naturally to its environment by temporarily going dormant. Think of it like a hibernating bear preserving its resources during the most difficult part of the year. And like that bear, it's a bad idea to wake up the grass before its ready by heavily watering it. You'll make the plant use up the resources it so desperately needs. Unless you're experience an exceptionally long and hot drought (which is very rare in New England), your grass will green back up when conditions improve.
Of course, one of the best ways to make sure your lawn stays healthy throughout the year is to let the experts take care of it. Our Lawn Care team will be happy to come in and assess your property and determine the best plan for ensuring you have a lawn you can enjoy for years to come. Just give us a buzz at 603.332.1246 or email info@urbantreeservice.com.


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About Culture&Creativity
How to make museums welcoming for children
We have selected five resources that can be useful in deciding what should be done to make a museum exhibition interesting for its youngest visitors
Within the framework of the vast Kids in Museums project, British museums host Takeover Day. On this special day, museums invite children and young people to take part in museum work: act as a guide, curate an exhibition, organise an event or develop a new programme. The resource gives the opportunity to get to know the best experiences of British museums in hosting such days of "museum self-governance".
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a drawing site created with and for them called MetKids. As part of the project, there is a Q&A section where kids take on the role of reporters. They ask questions that interest them and all the museum employees try to give clear answers. Moreover, museum workers undertake the huge task of creating maps, guides and programmes for an interesting and fun family day out.
An extensive overview of Icelandic exhibitions and displays that are capable of engaging the whole family in interactive activities. For example, the ScreamOmeter offers the opportunity to those who are interested to break a glass using their voice. At the Eldheimar exhibition, Vestmannaeyjar, visitors are offered to take up shovels and dig in sand mounds to find images of buildings that were covered with lava and ash after the eruption of the volcano on the island of Heimaey in 1973.
The Guardian's website offers a selection tips and examples of how to interact with young audiences. For example, The Theatre By The Lake always adds to its summer programme a show that would interest and address families with older children. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has founded the Kid's Club to establish dialogue with children and to foster their love for classical music. As a result, there are now concerts at the Philharmonic marked with a special logo to highlight concerts that could be of interest to the whole family. Such concerts take place in the afternoon so that the family can spend the evening at home.
The Disabled Access Day project has also collected several ideas and tips on how to make a museum visit possible and interesting for disabled people and children. For example, they offer to organise "touch" tours where every object can be touched or to hold costume tours where visitors are literally transformed into a Victorian lady or a World War II pilot.
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[Review] Super Mario Bros. 35 (Nintendo Switch)
Category: Platformer, Action
No. of Players: Up to 35 players
Release Date: October 1st, 2020 (Worldwide)
Price: Free (Nintendo Switch Online Users Only)
The original Super Mario Bros. released on the Nintendo Entertainment System back in 1985. It was immensely popular and is noted to have helped resuscitate the Video Game home console market. It also featured Nintendo's star mascot, the world-famous Super Mario.
Over the years the Super Mario series has spawned multiple main title entries and an abundant number of spin-offs. Such games have seen Mario wear try his hand at many things including a race kart driver, a golfer, a tennis player, party-goer, and even a doctor!
As regards to genre, Mario has touched base in quite a number of them from Platformers and Puzzle games to RPG's and Sport. If there was one genre Mario had yet to tackle it would be Battle Royale… until now. Following the big 35th anniversary of everyone's favorite plumber, A number of new and old games were announced for Nintendo Switch featuring Mario and one of them was Super Mario Bros. 35. Will you be the last Mario Standing?
Super Mario Bros. 35 does not have a story, even less so than the original game it is based on. The game is a remix version of the original Super Mario Bros. but the stages are played at random and there is no princess in need of rescue.
Instead, The objective of the game is that you have to stay alive for as long as possible to be the last Mario Standing. It is a long road with 34 other players from around the world, all aspiring to take the number one spot.
Super Mario Bros. 35 is an action-platforming Battle Royale game that pits you against 34 other players around the world at random. You have to run, jump, and stomp your way through scores of enemies like Goombas, Koopas, Piranha Plants, and even King Koopa himself.
As you defeat enemies, they will be sent to whoever it is you are targeting at the time. You can target opponents in a number of ways. Like in Tetris99, you can use the Right Joystick to choose one of four options. These are Random, Most Coins, Attackers, and Lowest Time. The Left Joystick and the touchscreen can also be used for selecting opponents singularly.
Just as you can send enemies to other players, they can do the same to you. The bar below your screen will show enemies that await for you on the stage. The ones that are faded in color are those that have been sent to you by other players. Faded enemies can hurt you just as much as normal enemies so don't be shy about sending them back to whoever sent them to you, or better yet, send them to some unsuspecting person for the chance to K.O them.
Killing enemies will earn you valuable seconds for your in-game timer. Hitting them with fireballs as Fire Mario will award you with one second per enemy. Stomping enemies will earn you more time and stomping enemies in succession will also increase the number of seconds you get with each progressive stomp.
Coins are a valuable commodity in Super Mario 35 and are just as important as stomping enemies. As well as the Power-ups that you can find in-game, you can access a roulette wheel of sorts after collecting more than 20 coins. If you find yourself in a tricky situation and have coins to spare, you can spend 20 coins for a chance to get a power-up.
The power-ups are completely random and can be either a Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, Star, or a POW Block. If you get a Power-up that is a bit of a dud (like the Super Mushroom in most cases) you will have to wait a few seconds before you can roll again. Bear in mind that if you are pinned down in one area for too long while you wait for a decent roulette spin, the timer will go down faster, so don't dawdle in the same place for too long.
As you play through each stage, more and more people will get knocked out. If they kill themselves on a full-colored enemy, in a pitfall, or run out of time, some of their coins will be added to a bonus chest that the winner will be able to claim at the end of the match. If a player is K.O'd on a faded enemy, the player who had sent that enemy will receive coins for the K.O. Players that you have K.O'd yourself will appear yellow on the surrounding screen.
When there are only five players left, the music will speed up and the tension is real. As the game progresses, the timer will eventually turn red and start timing down quicker. It then becomes a race between the remaining survivors to kill as many enemies as they can to top up their timer.
Whether you win or lose, any coins that you have collected throughout your session will be counted towards leveling up. As you Level up, you will need to collect more and more coins to increase your level. The highest level is 99 but when you beat that, your level will return to 1 but with a white star next to it. You can then increase your level all over again to try and reach a two-star rank.
Super Mario Bros. 35 has two main game modes: 35-Player Battle and Special Battle. 35-Player Battle is the standard game mode that will have you play through random stages. Special Battle is an event mode held for a certain period of time and has a fixed set of rules and stages.
A Course Practice mode can be found on the main screen that will allow you to play through any of the courses you currently have unlocked. You don't have a timer and you can your time to learn where all the secret pipes and Star Man power-ups are. On the course selection screen in 35-Player Battle and Course Practice, as well as choosing a preferred course to play on, you can also choose to start with a power-up. In Course Practice Mode, these are free but in 35-Player Battle, there is a charge in coins.
Another feature is the Stats menu where you can see how long you played, how many enemies you have beaten, how many times you have come first, etc. As regards your profile, your name that you have chosen on your Nintendo Switch will be displayed as well as an icon. You can change your icon to any other image that you have currently unlocked. The icons themselves unlock randomly so there no knowing what icon you can get when you level up.
One final feature that I would like to touch upon is the spectate function. After you have been beaten in a session, you can opt to spectate the rest of it. This is quite handy as you can see how other players control themselves and you may learn of a secret area or shortcut that you never knew before.
Super Mario Bros. 35 has all the original course music tracks that were composed by Koji Kondo. It also has a new track for when navigating Menus, just before you begin a session and when you have finished. All the sound effects are reused but there are a couple of new ones like when someone gets K.O'd.
The visuals for Super Mario Bros. 35 are a blend of 8-bit graphics for the actual gameplay and modernized visuals for the menus and User Interface. The sessions have a similar layout to that of Tetris99 in that your screen is in the center and there are 34 smaller screens surrounding yours.
The performance of the game is very solid which is extremely important seeing that it relies on a stable internet connection. There were a couple of bugs that some people experienced, including some folks finding exploits in the game and hacking it to their own benefit. Nintendo has fixed these issues with a recent patch so hopefully, hackers will have a tougher time causing trouble for other players.
I have found Super Mario Bros. 35 to be an extremely addictive game that is quite difficult to put down. One of the reasons why this review wasn't published last week is because I really wanted to play as much as I could to make the review as thorough as possible.
After an extensive playthrough, I can honestly say that Super Mario Bros. 35 is as challenging as Tetris99 but feels much more forgiving in the sense that while hordes of enemies have been thrown at, you. You can more often than not make a decent recovery with the right power-up from the item roulette.
As more and more players get better at playing Super Mario Bros. 35, sessions can take longer and longer, especially with skilled opponents. When a session has been going on for too long, the game will speed up K.O's by rapidly reducing the time or by unleashing dozens of Lakitus at you.
The biggest criticism that I could make is that Super Mario Bros. 35 is only available to play until March 31st, 2021. After that day, it is expected to but shut down by Nintendo. Hopefully, if the game still proves to be popular in the next few months, it could well see an extension. Who knows?
Super Mario Bros. 35 is such a blast to play. It is fun, crazy addictive and though the repetition of some stages can be extremely annoying for some, the abundance of different enemies thrown at you will keep you readjusting your tactics on the fly. On top of that, anyone can be number one if they really go for it.
THE VERDICT: 10/10
*The game was downloaded from the eShop for the purposes of this review
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Global network launches campaign against BlackRock
Ten global civil society organizations with over 70M members write to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink demanding action on BlackRock's outsized contribution to climate change.
We, the undersigned ten civil society organizations with members and supporters representing over 70 million citizens around the world, many of whom are BlackRock beneficial shareholders and customers, write to raise our deep concerns with you about BlackRock's contribution to climate change.
We were heartened to read your acknowledgement in your 2018 letter to CEOs that " Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose. We wholeheartedly agree with you that "Without a sense of purpose, no company, either public or private, can achieve its full potential. It will ultimately lose the license to operate from key stakeholders."
Your statement, while welcome, also begs the question 'What is BlackRock's own social purpose and contribution to society?' , especially as it relates to the company's role in contributing to and combating climate change.
As you are aware, the world is facing a climate crisis with widespread and urgent implications for human life, ecosystems, and economies. The mining, drilling and burning of fossil fuels is by far the biggest cause of climate change, with deforestation and forest degradation recognized as a second leading cause. It is clearly understood by the scientific community that a rapid transition to a decarbonised economy is required if we are to have any real chance of limiting global warming to less than 2°C and meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
The Paris Agreement's objective of making "finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development" requires moving trillions away from high carbon sectors such as fossil fuels and deforestation and towards climate solutions. As you note in your letter, many governments are not adequately planning for this future. We see BlackRock specifically and asset managers more generally as playing a critical role in this transition.
We support BlackRock's growing investments in climate solutions such as renewable energy and its increased offerings of socially and environmentally responsible funds, and note the company's support for the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations. Likewise, we welcome the commitment to double the size of BlackRock's investor stewardship team to actively engage with the boards of the companies BlackRock owns, and the company's recent votes for shareholder resolutions focused on climate disclosure and 2°C scenario stress tests.
However, we see that funds screened for ESG and other sustainability metrics represent less than 5% of BlackRock's assets under management , whereas shifting 1 the trillions necessary to meet the Paris Agreement requires far more than a niche approach to climate-sound investing.
Similarly, despite your promise to 'not be an endlessly patient investor', BlackRock does not have a strong track record of voting in favor of investor climate resolutions compared to other large global asset managers. Given that climate change is a material risk not just for the planet but for the many holdings the company maintains, and that risk is often underpriced and undervalued, BlackRock should have a more consistent record of supporting these resolutions.
Blackrock is among the largest shareholders of many of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters and the banks that finance them. When our community encounters bad actors with a long record of human rights abuses, environmental pollution and climate destruction, we find that BlackRock is often among the largest shareholders. This includes being:
The largest investor in companies developing new coal plants3
The second largest investor (behind the Indian government) in coal reserves4
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Among the largest investors in climate-harmful deforestation driven by palm, soy, cattle, paper and timber commodities
By holding shares and bonds in these companies, BlackRock provides access to capital for many of the most destructive projects on earth. As a result of the sheer size of your holdings, BlackRock is responsible for more greenhouse pollution than almost any other company in the world.
The world is on a pathway to over 3°C of warming by 2100 and the creation of a biosphere that has never before sustained human life. It is imperative that we change course and do so quickly. In this context, being the largest universal owner of the global economy brings with it significant risk and enormous responsibility. From our vantage point, the steps you have taken over the past year are a welcome move in the right direction but fall well short of what is required.
As leaders of many of the largest organizations campaigning on climate change in the world, we would like to meet with you and members of your management to start a discussion on how BlackRock can shift from being a very serious problem on climate to being a serious part of the solution.
We do not expect that this will be an easy or a short conversation but it is one that we think is long overdue. We look forward to your soonest reply.
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Q: Event received in Parent component is undefined I have a Parent and a child component. I am trying to dispatch an event from child and capture it in parent component. However I get the event as 'undefined' in parent. What am I doing wrong here?
Parent HTML:
<template>
    <lightning-layout multiple-rows>
        <lightning-layout-item size="12">
            <lightning-card title="Sample App">
                <p class="slds-var-p-horizontal_small">
                    <c-child onsearch={searchItem}></c-child>
                </p>
            </lightning-card>
        </lightning-layout-item>
    </lightning-layout>
</template>

Parent JS:
import { LightningElement } from 'lwc';

export default class Parent extends LightningElement {
    itemId = '';

    searchItem(event) {
        console.log('Event received => ' + console.log(event));
        this.itemId = (event && event.detail && event.detail.eventItemId) || '';
        console.log('itemId received => ' + console.log(this.itemId));
    }
}

Child HTML:
<template>
    <lightning-layout>
        <lightning-layout-item class="slds-align-middle slds-text-align_left">
            <lightning-combobox class="slds-align-middle slds-text-align_left" name="" value={selectedOptionId}
                options={options} onchange={handleChange}>
            </lightning-combobox>
        </lightning-layout-item>
    </lightning-layout>
</template>

Child JS:
import { LightningElement } from 'lwc';

export default class Child extends LightningElement {
    selectedOptionId='';
    get options() {
        return [
            { label: 'New', value: 'new' },
            { label: 'In Progress', value: 'inProgress' },
            { label: 'Finished', value: 'finished' },
        ];
    }
    handleChange(event) {
        this.selectedOptionId = event.detail.value;
        console.log('handleChange option selected ===> ' + this.selectedOptionId);
        const searchEvent = new CustomEvent('search', {
            detail: {
                eventItemId: this.selectedOptionId
            }
        });
        this.dispatchEvent(searchEvent);
    }
}

In console log I see:

A: Due to incorrect use of console.log() I was getting the values as undefined.
Incorrect usage:
console.log('Event received => ' + console.log(event));
this.itemId = (event && event.detail && event.detail.eventItemId) || '';
console.log('itemId received => ' + console.log(this.itemId));

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Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right "expert" solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with "benevolent autocrats," leaving dictators with yet more power to violate the rights of the poor . . .