I know it's a bit late, but I just found your thread - I've got an offer for history and economics for entry in 2011, and I struggled to find prep help when I was applying as well.
It's purposely designed so you can't really revise for it - my history teacher (I go to a regular comprehensive school) looked through it and gave me some pointers, but other than that I just did a couple of practice papers and got myself familiar with the format.
In terms of interviews, I just had two - one history, one economics. The history one was on the essays I wrote as sample work - read as widely as you can on the period you've studied in history at school, and make sure you're prepared to talk in some serious depth about it. I read a couple of books on the periods I'm looking at, and felt horribly under prepared in the interview.
For economics it was a little different - I hadn't done it at A level, so I had to do a lot more prep. I read several introductory economics books, and then basically got asked in my interview what ideas I found interesting from them, then got asked a few generic logic questions that didn't really require specific knowledge.
Don't get too worked up about preparation - most of the process can't really be prepared for. Try and get someone you don't know to give you a practice interview so you feel comfortable talking about your subject under pressure, but other than that just read around the subject and focus on getting good grades and a good personal statement. If you need some help with the statement, PM me and I'll send you mine to have a look at.
People sometimes think that there is a trick to writing a personal statement for Oxford, or that we are looking for some special secret formula, but this is not the case. Writing a personal statement for Oxford is no different from writing a personal statement for any other university. In fact it's important to remember that the same wording will be seen by all the universities you apply to and should therefore focus on the course you want to study, not the universities themselves. Please read this helpful advice from UCAS about writing your personal statement.
Universities build a picture of you as a student from all the different information you provide, to help decide whether or not to offer you a place. The picture is made up of several different pieces: your personal statement, academic record, predicted A-level grades (or equivalent), and your teacher's reference. For most courses at Oxford you will also need to take an admissions test or submit written work as well (check the details for your course). If your application is shortlisted, your interview will also be taken in to account. This means that your personal statement is important but it's not everything: it's just one part of the overall picture.
What are Oxford tutors looking for?
Tutors at Oxford are only interested in your academic ability and potential. They want to see that you are truly committed to the subject or subjects you want to study at university but it's not enough just to say that you have a passion for something: you need to show tutors how you have engaged with your subject, above and beyond whatever you have studied at school or college. This can include any relevant extracurricular activities.
Try to avoid writing your personal statement as though you are ticking things off a list. There is no checklist of required achievements, and tutors will not just scan what you have written to look for key words or phrases. Tutors will read your personal statement to try to understand what has motivated you to apply for their course. It's a good idea to evaluate your experiences, to show what you have learned from them and how they have helped develop your understanding of your subject.
Should I include extracurricular activities?
If you're applying for competitive courses, which includes any course at Oxford, we typically suggest that you focus around 80% of your personal statement on your academic interests, abilities and achievements. This can include discussion of any relevant extracurricular activities. The remaining 20% can then cover any unrelated extracurricular activities.
There's a myth that Oxford is looking for the most well-rounded applicants, and that you will only be offered a place if you have a long list of varied extracurricular activities. In fact, extracurricular activities are only helpful in so far as they demonstrate the selection criteria for your course.
Do I need experience of work and travel?
We understand that not everyone has the opportunity to do work experience or to go travelling so these activities are not a requirement for any of our courses. Tutors won't be impressed by your connections, or the stamps in your passport, but they will be impressed by how you've engaged with your subject.
For example, some of our applicants for Medicine may have had work experience placements in prestigious hospitals but not be able to evaluate their time there. If you have no more experience than some simple voluntary work, or even just discussing medical matters with your friends and family, you can still write an effective personal statement by reflecting critically on what you have learned and discussed.
To give another example, for the History of Art, tutors will not want to hear about all the galleries and exhibitions that you have visited around the world if you cannot discuss the art that you saw. You can come across more effectively in your personal statement by evaluating art you have seen, even if you've only seen it online or in books without ever leaving the school library.
Don't be put off by any friends who you think have more impressive things to say in their personal statements. Remember that tutors do not have a checklist of achievements that they are looking for: they want to see how you have engaged with your subject.
I'm applying to different courses at different universities – how should I write my personal statement?
If you are thinking of applying for completely different courses at different universities (eg Physics and Accounting, or Biology and Music) we'd encourage you to reconsider. It's important to choose a subject area that you really want to study, and focus on that one area when making your applications. Also, you can only write one personal statement which will be seen by all the universities to which you apply, so it needs to be relevant for all your courses.
If you are thinking of applying for related courses at different universities then we suggest that you avoid using course titles in your personal statement. We recommend that you write about your interest in the general course themes, and how you have engaged with relevant subject areas, so that your personal statement is equally relevant for each of your course choices.
Does my personal statement need to stand out?
Students sometimes feel that they need to say something dramatic to stand out from the crowd and be really memorable in their personal statement but this is not true. Applying to Oxford is not like a talent show where you may only have a few seconds to make an impression. Tutors consider each application carefully on its individual merits, looking for evidence of your commitment and ability. If you use your personal statement to demonstrate your academic abilities and your engagement with your subject or subjects, then your application will be memorable for all the right reasons.
Think about talking to your friends about what you want to study at university: what would you tell them? What have you read or watched or seen that has inspired you? (This might have been at school, at home, in a museum, on TV, in a book, on YouTube or a podcast or anywhere else.) Why was it interesting? What do you want to find out next? What did you do?
If you find this difficult, it might be time to think about whether or not you've really chosen the right course. If you can't think of anything that has inspired you, this lack of enthusiasm will probably come across in your personal statement, or it will become clear at interview, and you're unlikely to gain a place at Oxford. If you find it easy to answer these questions, you will have a long list of ideas to help you write your personal statement.
When you start to write, remember not just to list your achievements but show how they have affected you, how you have benefited, and what you'd like to learn next. Be honest about yourself and what has inspired you, whether that's been text books, museums and literature, or websites, podcasts and blogs. Be sure to tell the truth, as tutors might check later, so don't exaggerate and certainly don't make any false claims. Don't hold back either – this is no time for modesty.
When you've written a first draft, have a look back at the selection criteria for your course and think about the evidence you've given for each of the criteria. Have you covered everything?
How many versions should I write?
DON'T be tempted to make anything up, as you might be asked about it at interview.
DON'T copy anyone else's personal statement. UCAS uses plagiarism detection software.
DON'T list qualifications like your GCSE grades or anything else that's covered elsewhere on the application.
DON'T just list your other achievements: you need to evaluate them.
DON'T feel the need to be dramatic in order to be memorable.
Apply for a course you really want to study.
Be yourself: tell the truth about your interests.
Sell yourself: this is not the time for modesty.
Reread your personal statement before an interview – the tutors will.
Read the UCAS guidance on personal statements.


In my experience, inertia is the most formidable obstacle to adopting new HR technology. It manifests itself in many ways, and in this blog I'll share how comments ExactHire recently collected during software research calls substantiate inertia's insidiousness. Additionally, we'll discuss potential responses to act on that inertia in such a way that change is possible and more profit is realized for the organization.
Particularly in the case of a full human resources information system (HRIS), the cost of HR technology can quickly increase as modules for many aspects of HR are adopted by employers. While cost is a common objection that derails well-intended HR departments from exploring the latest technology options, in ExactHire's 2018 Tech-Based Employee Experience Survey, a notable 40% of respondents indicated that their budget for HR technology spending had increased over the past year. Additionally, 48% of respondents had the same budget in 2018 as the previous year. Consequently, at least the majority of respondents aren't experiencing contracting financial resources in their quest to find affordable HR technology.
88% of respondents maintained or increased their HR technology budget in the past year.
Get at the heart of others' concerns about cost. For example, there should be a difference in approach if others feel you're already overspending for current software compared to if they are content with an existing software application and not in enough "pain" to make a change that may cost more.
Armed with an understanding of others' motivations for objecting to change, consider how your organization's future growth plans should impact any changes you make today. Ideally, the technology you use should be capable of meeting your needs for tomorrow, too. However, the optimal scenario exists when you can scale a platform to meet those needs over time without overpaying for features you don't need prematurely.
Do you need all the bells and whistles now? If not, is it easy to add them later? Making a case for change is easier if you plan to implement functionality over time so you aren't drinking from the fire hose–or paying through the nose.
And while financial "hard costs" (e.g. software implementation charges, monthly access fees, etc.) are the most apparent expenses associated with technology change, motivate management to consider new technology by focusing on the opportunity cost of not making a change and its potential long-term impact, too.
In the same way that scarcity of time can be an advantage in an opportunity cost discussion, it can also perpetuate inertia. For many employers, allocating the staff resources necessary to explore and implement a new software platform is usually a bigger obstacle than an increase in access fees. A significant barrier to coaxing employers away from HRIS platforms they don't like that much is time…the time associated with the implementation process and the training that stakeholders must undergo to use a new system effectively.
And even when an HR application isn't liked that much, inertia may still be victorious as prospects implement additional native modules (e.g. recruiting, performance management, learning management, etc.) just because they are already part of the existing system–even if the system is poorly suited to the employer's overall needs.
While it's human nature to avoid situations that are expected to be unpleasant or even painful, to address the "change will take too much time" objection you must focus on the long-term impact of staying with a solution that is a mismatch for your employer's needs. This approach can be aided by hard data on how many man hours are spent working around a system, redundantly entering data and/or manually completing tasks that could be automated for better efficiency. Then, calculate the cost of those man hours to come up with a quantitative answer for considering the return on investment for a new application.
Data is the key to determining whether a short-term disruption associated with software adoption is less expensive than the financial wake left by your existing software-assisted workflow. Bear in mind this takes a fatalistic approach of HR software vendors' ability to successfully support clients through implementation in a reasonable time. However, employers' fear of system change can be minimized by selecting a vendor with a strong track record of timely implementation assistance and ongoing support.
What if being short on time is significantly compounded by a small HR department? While you may be able to get over the hump of increased access fees, and you're willing to dig in to switch systems, you still only have so much staff bandwidth to get it done along with all the other fires that pop up in the world of HR.
Ask this question: If there were no budget or manpower constraints, what would we be doing differently to support our employees and our organization's mission? Even though you may think shirking the reality of budgets is like living in a fantasy world, your brainstorm will paint a picture of the ultimate vision for employee experience and clarify which HR-related tasks are most important for organizational success. Remember: retaining the best employees supports profitability.
With true vision in mind, process stakeholders have a starting point to examine the opportunity cost of individuals' collective time. The true priorities of the department become evident and draw attention to the resource constraint that may be created by doing things the existing way relative to the cost of implementing change.
Lastly, the inertia of static HR processes is often maintained by a difference in perspective between HR, employees and managers. One of the primary reasons making a business case to senior management remains a challenging task is because the language and analytics traditionally used by HR professionals may not be as intriguing to others in leadership roles. For instance, while turnover percentage and time-to-fill are reliable indicators to many in the human resources arena, these HR metrics don't necessarily translate well to CFOs, COOs, or presidents.
Getting buy-in and support for technology change starts with HR software product owners getting on the same page as employees and senior managers. As the two comments above illustrate, different factors can be at play when it comes to stalled out tech decisions. However, the remedy for both objections starts with telling others what's in it for them–and with language that is easy to understand.
Organizational decision makers care about the bottom line, and so remember that when attempting to alter their inert opinion on your existing software tools. For example, when adding applicant tracking or employee onboarding software, some HR leaders focus primarily on justifying these new applications by focusing on efficiencies gained and/or staff time saved.
While these metrics have merit, they also fall outside the common terminology of many finance and operations leaders. Because efficiency and staff time saved in HR are difficult to quantify and not as directly attributable to the bottom line, these savings may be discounted or dismissed entirely.
However, focusing on what direct impact those efficiencies can have on the revenue growth or profitability of the organization changes the conversation completely. Identify the key performance indicators (KPIs) that impact business outcomes and then describe how those business outcomes can be positively changed as the result of new technology implementation.
Don't forget to be prepared; come to management with a solution, not just a problem. Record benchmark levels for your KPIs and organize your findings in a manner consistent with how management prefers to process information and make decisions. Consider a SWOT Analysis supported by cost projections in which you are illustrating strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
It's also important to get buy-in from existing employees–particularly those who will be heavy users of new software. And, in the HR technology space, that often includes all employees when you consider the self-service options available with employee onboarding, time and record keeping, payroll and performance management interfaces.
Spread the word to gather internal support by regularly communicating about potential change, conducting research with potential users and assuring others that due diligence now will likely prevent the organization from finding itself with a need to adopt new technology later–when it's potentially more painful to do so.
Most importantly, create triggers to constantly re-evaluate how technology is aligned with your organizational goals and how it is impacting your employee experience. Take action on lessons learned and communicate the impact of changes made to others so that your HR technology system is considered legitimate and positive to your workforce.
Don't fall victim to the tendency to put off what you could do today until tomorrow. In addition to rallying the support of senior management and employees, look to your technology vendor to help you make a case for change.
Ask your vendor partners if they have case studies, blogs, e-books or other content that provide tips on how to make a business case, as well as specific ideas on which KPIs might be the most effective in demonstrating the financial impact of a potential change. If it's important for your vendor to partner with you in discussions with your management team, make that request.
Daunting as new technology adoption may seem, know that you and your HR team don't have to go it alone. Even when your existing system isn't necessarily broken, fight the inertia of not wanting to bother with change, or not considering the exponential impact that additional efficiency may have on the employee experience.


There is officially less than a week until the 2018 midterm elections on November 6th. And clothing brand Supreme is urging people to vote—by reminding followers of Donald Trump's alleged sexual misconduct. The company's new "18 & Stormy" T-shirt honors both Stormy Daniels and Trump's accusers while raising money and awareness for people to vote.
Supreme added that all proceeds from the "18 & Stormy" shirt will benefit Downtown for Democracy, a political action committee that works to engage artists in the democratic process. The shirt was released on Supreme's web store today, but it is currently sold out. Once the design is back in stock, purchasing the "18 & Stormy" tee will cost you $40.
Supreme isn't the first brand to fight back against the Trump administration. In June, Lipslut released a pink matte "F*ck Trump" lipstick to help families affected by the federal government's zero-tolerance immigration policy. Ice cream icon Ben & Jerry's recently created a flavor called Pecan Resist and donated money to four social justice groups in honor of its release.
Remember: the best way to resist the current administration is by voting, so make sure to cast your ballot in the 2018 midterm elections on November 6th.


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Q: How to extract only lines with specific word from text file and write a new one? Whats the way to extract only lines with specific word only from requests (online text file) and write to a new text file? I am stuck here...
This is my code:
r = requests.get('http://website.com/file.txt'.format(x))
with open('data.txt', 'a') as f:
    if 'word' in line:
        f.write('\n')
        f.writelines(str(r.text))
        f.write('\n')

If I remove: if 'word' in line:, it works, but for all lines. So it's only copying all lines from one file to another.
Any idea how to give the correct command to extract (filter) only lines with specific word?

*

*Update: This is working but If that word exist in the requests file, it start copying ALL lines, i need to copy only the line with 'SOME WORD'.

*

*I have added this code:
for line in r.text.split('\n'):
if 'SOME WORD' in line:
*Thank you guys for all the answers and sorry If i didn't made myself clear.

A: Perhaps this will help.
Whenever you invoke POST/GET or whatever, always check the HTTP response code.
Now let's assume that the lines within the response text are delimited with newline ('\n') and that you want to write a new file (change the mode to 'a' if you want to append). Then:
import requests

(r := requests.get('SOME URL')).raise_for_status()

with open('SOME FILENAME', 'w') as outfile:
    for line in r.text.split('\n'):
        if 'SOME WORD' in line:
            print(line, file=outfile)
            break

Note:
You will need Python 3.8+ in order to take advantage of the walrus operator in this code

A: I would suggest you these steps for properly handling the file:
Step1:Streamline the download file to a temporary file
Step2:Read lines from the temporary file
Step3:Generate main file based on your filter
Step4:Delete the temporary file

Below is the code that does the following steps:
import requests
import os

def read_lines(file_name):
    with open(file_name,'r') as fp:
        for line in fp:
            yield line

if __name__=="__main__":
    word='ipsum'
    temp_file='temp_file.txt'
    main_file='main_file.txt'
    url = 'https://filesamples.com/samples/document/txt/sample3.txt'
    with open (temp_file,'wb') as out_file:
        content = requests.get(url, stream=True).content
        out_file.write(content)

    with open(main_file,'w') as mf:
        out=filter(lambda x: word in x,read_lines(temp_file))
        for i in out:
            mf.write(i)
        os.remove(temp_file)

A: Well , there is missing line you have to put in order to check with if statement.
import requests
r = requests.get('http://website.com/file.txt').text
with open('data.txt', 'a') as f:
    for line in r.splitlines(): #this is your loop where you get a hold of line.
        if 'word' in line: #so that you can check your 'word'
            f.write(line) # write your line  contains your word

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Trump Denounced "Broken System" of Big Money Politics. Neil Gorsuch Could Make It Worse.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has a limited record on campaign finance issues, but what's there is quite ominous.
February 2 2017, 8:55 p.m.
Donald Trump does something shocking every day, but during the first debate of the Republican presidential primary he did something shocking in a good way: He was honest about how big money politics works. Here's what he said:
Before this, before two months ago, I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them. They are there for me. And that's a broken system.
Trump later went on many similarly thrilling rants; it was a big part of what first distinguished him from the GOP pack. And his critique of a system rigged for the rich helped make him president.
But that was then, and this is now. The appointment of Trump's choice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court would take the broken campaign finance system and, rather than fixing it, potentially smash it with a sledgehammer.
There are not a whole lot of restrictions left on the power of money in politics in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which struck down any limits on spending by individuals, corporations or unions advocating for a candidate — as long as it's purportedly "independent" and not directly coordinated with the candidate's campaign.
But individuals are still barred from giving more than $5,400 directly to any one political campaign, and corporations, unions, and foreign nationals are barred from making any donations at all directly to candidates for federal office.
Overturning Citizens United is a central goal of campaign finance reformers and it's impossible to imagine that Gorsuch would ever do that or in any way green light restrictions on money in politics.
But beyond that, his record suggest he could quite possibly vote for the final removal of all limits for anyone.
To understand why, you have to go back in time 40 years to a 1976 Supreme Court ruling in a case called Buckley v. Valeo.
The Buckley decision declared that the then-existing limits on political fundraising and spending implicate "core First Amendment rights." Under well-established precedent, courts apply one of three standards when examining infringements on constitutional rights: "strict scrutiny," "intermediate scrutiny," and "rational basis review," depending on how significant the court determines the infringement to be. The greatest infringements require strict scrutiny.
In Buckley, the court decided limits on expenditures require strict scrutiny and struck them down. But the court also found that contribution limits weren't as much of an infringement on constitutional rights, and upheld them as as long as they were "closely drawn" and served a "sufficiently important" government interest: preventing corruption and the appearance of corruption. As a result, most limits on contributions have survived in subsequent cases as well.
This Buckley combination of limits on contributions but none on expenditures is why Trump could legally spend as much of his own money during the campaign as he wanted — but individuals could only give him a maximum of $5,400.
That brings us to a 2014 case called Riddle v. Hickenlooper that involved Colorado's genuinely unfair restrictions on contributions to minor political parties. Gorsuch, who ruled on the case as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, could have simply joined the majority opinion equalizing the limits for all political parties on equal protection grounds.
But he went beyond just voting with the majority, and instead wrote a concurring opinion musing that strict scrutiny for contribution limits "has much to recommend it" — though "we have no controlling guidance on the question from the Supreme Court."
If you want the U.S. to retain any contributions limits, this is an extremely ominous perspective for Gorsuch to possess — since as a Supreme Court justice he would be one of the people creating such "controlling guidance."
It's particularly easy to imagine a Supreme Court with Gorsuch striking down all remaining contribution limits, since it's already moving in that direction. In 2014, four years after Citizens United, the Court struck down something that Buckley had held was constitutional: a limit on the aggregate amount any individual could give to all candidates overall per election cycle. It was already set at a level almost no Americans could imagine donating, $48,600. But now the super-rich can give as much as they want to candidates across the U.S. as long as no single one gets more than $5,400.
Notably, Justice Clarence Thomas voted to strike down the limit and wrote a concurring opinion stating that all contribution limits are unconstitutional. And then-Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus immediately declared that "I don't think we should have caps at all." Priebus, now Trump's chief of staff, presumably cares about nominating judges to the Supreme Court who share this view.
So it's no surprise that the places like the Center for Competitive Politics, a D.C.-area think tank that exists to dismantle all limits on money in politics, is thrilled by Gorsuch's nomination — in particular because in his Riddle v. Hickenlooper opinion Gorsuch appreciates "the legal uncertainty surrounding levels of scrutiny" of contribution limits.
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According to Brendan Fischer of the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington, D.C. organization that supports stricter enforcement of campaign finance laws, there are no current cases that will soon come to the Supreme Court that "squarely challenge" the constitutionality of contribution limits, But, says Fisher, "there are a few cases that involve contribution limits that, if SCOTUS wanted, could raise these broader questions." These include a lawsuit against Alaska's contribution limits for being too low, and one dealing with aspects of Montana's contribution limits.
Trump's voters almost certainly would be unhappy with all of this if they knew about it: A recent poll found that 90 percent of Republicans thought it was important that Trump "nominates a Supreme Court justice who is open to limiting the influence of big money in politics." But their perspective, as well as the deep hate Americans in general have for the Washington, D.C., swamp, no longer matters. That's a broken system.

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FEATURE ARTICLE: Squash Canada unveils new corporate identity
FEATURE ARTICLE: Celebrating the life of a Canadian Squash Legend: Barney Lawrence
FEATURE ARTICLE: Driving Excellence in our Sport: Reshaping the future of squash in Canada
PERFORMANCE NEWS: "Training Canadians to dominate the T"
PERFORMANCE NEWS: "Squash Canada nominates team for 2011 Pan Am Games"
COACHING NEWS: "Squash Canada hires former Malaysian National Coach as new performance director"
EVENTS / RANKINGS: "National Championships & Harrow Canadian Rankings Top 10"
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT NEWS: Hardball Doubles Squash: The History & Legacy of the Game
OFFICIATING NEWS: What's ahead for Squash Canada's Officiating Department
PROVINCIAL NEWS: Growing the game across Canada: Building Squash in PEI
THE REVERSE ANGLE: Hardball Doubles Exhibition…a WSF perspective (written by: Andrew Shelley)
Squash Canada unveils New Corporate Identity
Written by: Danny Da Costa,
Squash Canada completes its organizational rebranding with the unveiling of a new corporate identity and website.
Squash Canada has completed its organizational rebranding exercise with the launching of Squash Canada's new website, accompanying the recently unveiled corporate identity. The logo and website was designed by Ottawa based ACART Communications, one of the country's premier marketing and communications companies. Some of ACART's clients include the various departments and agencies of the Government of Canada, NHL's Ottawa Senators and OHL's Ottawa 67's. "We chose to work with ACART because they were very experienced working with non-profit organizations, and have very strong ties to sport marketing and branding projects", said Squash Canada Executive Director, Danny Da Costa. Some of ACART's recent projects include designing the current logo and conducting marketing projects for both the Ottawa Senators and Ottawa 67s.
In addition, the new website will allow for greater exposure and visibility for partners, athletes, coaches, officials and while at the same time, promoting the sport of squash. Squash Canada also plans to embrace the world of social media with greater use for media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. "We have done a lot of research reviewing various national and international sport association websites, and various squash website's and we are confident that this is one of the premier national sport organization websites in Canada", said Da Costa.
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CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF A CANADIAN SQUASH LEGEND: BARNEY LAWRENCE
Mike Costigan celebrates the life of Barney Lawrence a man who has done so much for the sport of Squash…
Written by: Mike Costigan
Barney was larger than life itself. No one will argue that. So imagine Barney standing at a podium in front of St Peter at the pearly gates. He is dressed in his green plaid pants with the yellow stripes, Blue Blazer with a crest, white shirt and one of his many squash ties….his classic squash attire. He is standing there, in front of a microphone, his "Horny helmet on his head, squash racquet in one hand, glass of scotch in the other, reciting a poem he had written, asking for permission to enter. St Peter is so impressed that he not only lets him in but makes him an "Honorary Life Member"!
Barney will be remembered as a man who touched so many people in so many ways because he gave of himself to so many different causes. Fortunately for many of us, squash was one of those causes that Barney cherished, and he spent much of his life contributing to it… right down to his final day! A fiercely competitive player, club founder, coach, volunteer, financial supporter, Barney will be remembered as one of the most unique and generous persons one could ever meet and one of the greatest ambassadors of the game of squash.
Barney's contributions and passion for squash are unequalled, and is evidenced having helped "build the game" as a player, club founder, coach, volunteer, financial supporter, and for many years as a guest speaker.
As a player, Barney first hit a squash ball in 1934, at the Ottawa Squash Club. After returning from the war in 1946 and attending the University of Toronto, he bought a racquet and went to the Hart House squash courts. His competitive nature compelled him to try out for the Hart House undergraduate team. (as there was not a team at U of T at the time) He played for Hart House as an undergraduate from 1947-1948 and later as a graduate in 1949 and 1950. In 1951 he joined the Toronto Racquet Club as a student and played for them until graduating from Osgoode Hall in March 1951. While keeping his membership at the TRC he joined the Hamilton Squash Club (a small two court club in the downtown) in 1952. The club no longer exists and Barney was the club's last singles champion.
In 1953 he joined the Hamilton Thistle Club. There he met Don Leggat and together they formed a 5 man singles team that won the Ontario Team Championship from 1953-1961. They would later form a doubles partnership and in 1956 competed in the first Buffalo Squash & Tennis Invitational.
He became a Jester in 1959 and in 2006 the title of Life Jester was bestowed upon him. This honour is bestowed upon an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the game, not necessarily as a champion, but rather to a person who has "built" the game in this country. Barney and Peter Landry are the first and only two to hold this designation in Canada in the 55 years of the Canadian Jesters. He has participated on three Jesters Touring teams, England 1961, Western Canada in 1964, and South Africa in 1967. Barney has also represented Canada at the annual Lapham - Grant Matches. This competition is one of the most prestigious amateur events in squash and a symbol of the spirited rivalry and sportsmanship for which the sport is known. In fact he has participated 52 times over a period of 58 years and has twice captained Canada's team, in Wilmington Delaware, 1968, and later in 1981 where he also played host in Kitchener.
In 2001, the Lapham –Grant Matches introduced a special division to honour those squash "legends" who have contributed over the years. "Legends" players compete for the Lawrence-Wilkens Trophy, named for Barney Lawrence of Kitchener Ontario and Howard Wilkens of Wichita Kansas who epitomize leadership and sportsmanship and who have served and supported the matches over numerous years.
Barney's playing accomplishments are numerous:
1962-1965 Singles Champion KWRC
1967, 1968, 1973, 1974 Doubles Champion KWRC
2 Time Doubles Champion TRC
9 Time Singles Champion TRC
Provincial and National Championships
1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 Ontario Open Doubles Champion
1967 Canadian Veterans Singles Champion
1970 & 1971 Canadian Veterans Doubles Champion
1971 & 1973 Pacific Coast Doubles Champion with partner Clive Caldwell
1978 Ontario 50's Doubles Champion
1988 & 1989 Ontario 60's Doubles Champion
1991, 1992, 1993, 1995 &1996 Ontario 65's Doubles Champion
1998 – Ontario, Canadian & U.S 70's Doubles Champion
1999 – Canadian 70's Doubles Champion
Barney founded the Kitchener-Waterloo Racquet Club in 1962. The initial idea came to him in 1956 after playing in the inaugural Buffalo Invitational. His love of that club and its crest were the beginnings of what would later become the Kitchener-Waterloo Racquet Club. Modeled after the oldest squash club in Canada, the Toronto Racquet Club, Barney acknowledges that KWRC was spiritually created on an Air Canada flight to England in 1961 in a conversation with his doubles partner Don Leggat. Don's support of the idea culminated in the comment that if the club's founding resulted in getting his partner in shape then it would be worth the effort. Barney held the club's singles title from 1962-1967 and was the doubles champion on 4 occasions. Barney was also President of the club from its inception until 1968 when he had the foresight to build the first doubles court in Ontario outside of Toronto at the KWRC. Today the KWRC is alive and well having undergone recent renovation and membership growth and is looking forward to celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2012.
Barney's invaluable assistance in starting up squash clubs has not been limited to Kitchener. Membership at other clubs, donations to fundraising campaigns, speaking at an event, or playing an exhibition, Barney would graciously give whenever asked. Barney is a founding member at the Richmond Hill Racquet Club & London Squash Club. He is a Life Member at the Toronto Racquet Club, Kitchener-Waterloo Racquet Club, and the former Hamilton Squash Club. In addition he was a member of both the Cambridge Club and Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club for many years. Barney has also lent his playing services to the opening of the TCS&C club's first hardball singles and doubles courts with partner Don Leggat and to the opening of the Stratford Racquet Club in 1979.
Barney's way with words and his natural penchant for a microphone kept him in demand for years at squash events all over North America. On one very memorable occasion, Barney held a poetry recital at the Arts Lecture Hall of the University of Waterloo. That night he recited poetry for an hour and a half as a fundraiser for the University Team. He has even been known to sometimes speak when he wasn't asked. Accepting trophies, speaking at tournaments, club openings and anniversaries, his speeches were always memorable. As he himself admits, "Don would take the trophy and I would take the microphone!"
Squash at the University of Waterloo played a significant role in Barney's life. Barney started teaching at the University in 1967 as an adjunct professor. His passion for squash eventually found its way to the University squash courts. An informal team had been in existence since the late 1960's but it wasn't until 1978 that the team was formalized under Barney's tutelage. From 1980 – 1990 he acted as Resident Counsel and special lecturer for the University which was a full time position. During this same period Barney was twice chair of the President's Committee responsible for the University's fundraising campaigns. His increased involvement in the University proved to be significant to the squash program as well. His investment in time on the courts and the financial support he was able to garner resulted in a respectable squash program in a short period of time.
In 1982, his fundraising efforts saw the university campus get its first two international singles courts, supplementing the 4 North American courts it also had. For the next 12 years Lawrence's teams would compete in the OUAA squash tournaments, the NCAA squash championships, Provincial and National Championships, the Western Region league and experience several memorable tours to the Barbados.
Barney fostered his passion for life in his players using squash to build their character. Commitment, the importance of friendship, and "giving back" to things that you got so much from were exemplified in Barney as a coach. Today many of Barney's
players continue to be involved in squash, remain good friends, and are giving back to the game, symbolizing the influence that he had in their lives.
Barney coached at U of W until 1995 and today the program continues under the guidance of good friend and fellow Jester Clive Porter.
Notably, as a volunteer, Barney was twice President of the Ontario Squash Racquets Association and he chaired and hosted the 1984 Canadian Junior Squash Championships jointly at the Kitchener-Waterloo Racquet Club and University of Waterloo. Barney has also voluntarily donated two Provincial Championship trophies – Ontario Open Doubles Trophy in 1965 with partner Don Leggat, and the Ontario 65 Doubles Trophy with partner Gord Guyatt.
Whenever anyone called looking for financial support for a squash event Barney could always be counted on to contribute. He always had "100 bucks" in his pocket for something related to squash. Many U of W players would attest to the regular patronage of the campus pub after practice and later to the Faculty Club for a meal they were not accustomed to as a student - all of course on Barney's tab! He himself attests to the fact that he has likely given more money to squash over the years than to his banker.
Finally, Barney's contributions to squash have been previously recognized. In 1984, he was inducted into the Waterloo County Sports Hall of Fame, in January of 2001 he was inducted into the University of Waterloo Athletic Hall of Fame, and most recently into the Ontario Squash Hall of Fame in 2009
The bestowing of this final honour is very fitting for a man who has given so much of himself to the game of squash. We will no longer see him in the galleries but know that he will still be keeping score!
Mike Costigan
DRIVING EXCELLENCE: RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF SQUASH CANADA
New Squash Canada Executive Director talks about his first year on the job and what lies ahead…
Since joining Squash Canada in the fall of 2010, the new Executive Director has been busy reshaping Squash Canada.
Q. How has your first year on the job been?
A. At times it has been challenging, but overall it has been a very good year for the organization. We have completed a lot of tasks and we feel that we have taken the organization to a new level. We have worked very hard to build positive relationships with our provincial & territorial squash associations, corporate partners and building awareness for the organization. It is a lot of hard work, reshaping an organization, but I have been fortunate enough to work with some great individuals and have a very supportive Board of Directors.
Q. How difficult was it for you to transition from tennis to squash?
A. The transition has not been too difficult for me because I have been around squash for a number of years. I have worked in a number of clubs that had squash courts and programs, such as the Fitness Institute – Willowdale Club, Donalda Club and White Oaks. My administrative experiences as the Coordinator for Player Development for Tennis Canada, Technical Director & Canada Games Coach for Tennis Saskatchewan and as Executive Director of Tennis Newfoundland & Labrador, has helped prepare me well for this position. Having worked with some of Canada's top sport and business professionals, I feel that I bring a unique set of skills to Squash Canada. It was very difficult to leave the sport of tennis because I grew up with the game and tennis has been so great to me over the years, but I do not regret the decision to leave. Many people have asked, why I left tennis? Its difficult to walk away from something you love, but I did not want to be a teaching professional for the rest of my life and I felt that I could make a greater impact for the sport of squash. I also love change and I like experiencing new challenges, this job marks a new era for me both personally and professionally.
Q. What are some of the things you are most proud about this year?
A. It's hard to pin point one specific thing with the many positives from the past year, but if I have to narrow it down to one thing then I would say I am most proud of the recent hires of Jamie Hickox, Squash Canada's Performance Director and Whitney Fuller, Squash Canada's Sport Development Coordinator. For this organization to move forward, it is imperative we have great leadership and staff capable of taking the organization to a new level, and we feel that we are now in very capable hands of Jamie Hickox and Whitney Fuller. Jamie Hickox was a world-class squash professional, among the best 12 players in the world, and what he has done to build Malaysian Squash is incredible. Malaysia has been, over the past 10 years, one of the top 4 or 5 countries in the world in the sport of squash. Jamie brings world-class experience, professionalism and great people skills to the position. Whitney was the top graduate from Brock University and she has done a tremendous job in her previous positions with the Niagara Sports Commission and I feel she will achieve great things in our sport. Whitney's transition to Squash Canada has been seamless with her great ideas and passion for sport.
Q. There has been a lot of changes within Squash Canada over the past year, perhaps you can tell the reader some of the organization's undertakings in the past 12 months.
A. Squash Canada's Board of Director's and staff have really worked hard to improve relations with the Provincial & Territorial Squash Association partners and our funding agency Sport Canada. In addition, we completed our Long Term Player Development Manual – Beyond the Nick have completed an implementation plan for the LTPD; launched the new Squash Canada National Rankings; completed two comprehensive competitions & high performance reviews; re-wrote all the national team selection criteria's and updated the majority of the organization's policies; hired two new staff members; established a partnership with the National Squash Academy to be the official training centre of Squash Canada; created new member value discounts with Flight Centre, Budget Rent-a-car and Delta Hotels; signed an endorsement deal with Harrow Sports to become our Official National Team Clothing Sponsor and Official Sponsor of our Rankings program, organizing the World Squash Federation to visit Canada for the first time and re-branding of Squash Canada's corporate properties: new logo and website.
Q. What does the future lie ahead for Squash Canada and what areas need addressing?
The future is good for Canadian squash. We have some good up and coming players, whom we feel can break through and become world-class players. As we continue to evolve as an organization, we will continue to look at different avenues for future success. The area we need the most addressing in is to increase the organization's financial capacity, and in the near future we will begin launching a new fundraising campaign and in addition, seek more corporate sponsors and support. Without this support it is difficult to achieve what we want as an organization. Without corporate support, it is increasingly difficult to accomplish everything we need to do and may find ourselves in the position of prioritizing fewer areas of Squash Canada. We also need to address the high performance side of the organization; its important for Squash Canada to develop world-class players who are capable of podium finishes in international competitions. I am hopeful that we will be a much stronger squash nation in the next 4 or 5 years; developing a winning program takes time, and commitment from staff, our players and of course their parents and sponsors.
"TRAINING CANADIANS TO DOMINATE THE T"
Written by: Danny Da Costa
Executive Director, Squash Canada
Squash Canada today announced an agreement with the National Squash Academy (NSA) as Squash Canada's National Centre of Excellence. The facility is located in Downsview Park in the heart of Toronto. The agreement provides a centralized training base for Canadian National Team members to train under the tutelage of former Malaysian National Coach and Squash Canada's new Performance Director, Jamie Hickox. The partnership gives Squash Canada's athletes access to some of the best coaches in the world, including former World #1 Jonathon Power, and former World #12 singles and World #1 hardball doubles player Gary Waite, as well as their team of dedicated coaches. Jonathon Power commented, saying "this is the realization of a dream for myself and all Canadian squash players. Through this partnership with Squash Canada and the vision of the National Squash Academy, we can now pool all of our resources nation-wide and give our athletes the best chance of competing on an International level".
Squash Canada's Performance Director, Jamie Hickox will conduct training sessions each week for national team / squad athletes. National Squash Academy coaches, Jonathon Power, Gary Waite and Jamie Nicholls will continue to provide coaching support as well. "This is a major step forward for our athletes. The NSA provides a dedicated facility for our national team athletes to train and excel on the international stage", said Jamie Hickox, Performance Director.
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CANADA NOMINATES TEAM FOR PAN AM GAMES
Squash Canada nominated a 6 person Squash Team to the Canadian Olympic Committee for the upcoming 2011 Pan American Games taking place in Guadalajara, Mexico October 15 – 20, 2011.
This year's nominated team features the 2003 Gold Medal winner Shahier Razik of Toronto, Ontario, 2007 Bronze Medalist in Men's Singles Shawn Delierre of Montreal, Quebec and first time member Andrew Schnell of Calgary, Alberta. The Women's team features three new team members: Miranda Ranieri, of Waterloo, Ontario the reigning 2011 Canadian Squash Women's Open Champion, Samantha Cornett of Ottawa Ontario and Stephanie Edmison of Toronto, Ontario. The Canadian Team will be lead by coaches: Yvon Provencal of Montreal, Quebec (Men's Coach) and Shauna Flath of Vancouver, British Columbia (Women's Coach).
2011 Canadian Junior Open December 10 – 13, 2011 Niagara on the Lake, Ontario
2012 Canadian Men's Team Championships January 6 – 8, 2012 London, Ontario
2012 Canadian Women's Team Championships January 6 – 8, 2012 Halifax, Nova Scotia
2012 Canadian Masters Team Championships January 13 – 15, 2012 Gatineau, Quebec
2012 Canadian Junior Doubles Championships January 13 – 15, 2012 Toronto, Ontario
Squash Canada Men's Open Rankings (Top 10) Squash Canada Women's Open Rankings (Top 10)
As of August 19, 2011 As of August 19, 2011
1. Shahier Razik, Toronto, ON 1. Miranda Ranieri, Waterloo, ON
2. Shawn Delierre, Montreal, QC 2. Sam Cornett, Toronto, ON
3. Robin Clarke, Toronto, ON 3. Stephanie Edmison, Toronto, ON
4. Andrew McDougall, Calgary, AB 4. Carolyn Russell, Vancouver, BC
5. Andrew Schnell, Calgary, AB 5. Alex Norman, Montreal, QC
6. Dane Sharp, Toronto, ON 6. Susie King, Calgary, AB
7. David Phillips, Montreal, QC 7. Melanie Jans-Burke, Vancouver, BC
8. Graeme Schnell, Calgary, AB 8. Marnie Baizley, Toronto, ON
9. Fred Reid, Ajax, Ontario 9. Julie Hisey, Brooklin, ON
10. Victor Berg, Vancouver, BC 10. Seanna Keating, Toronto, ON
Squash Canada hires former Malaysian National Coach as performance director
Squash Canada announced the hiring of former Malaysian National Coach, Jamie Hickox as the new Performance Director for Squash Canada.
Hickox's resume includes coaching top athletes from Malaysia's National Squash Team such as, Nicol David, Mohd Azlan, and Ong Beng Hee among others. Malaysia is regarded as one of the leading squash nations in the world producing World's #1 ranked female player Nicol David, Low Wee Wern #15, Delia Arnold #23, Siti Munirah Jusoh #47 and male players Mohd Azlan Iskandar #10, Ong Beng Hee #29, Mohad Nafizwan Adnan #45. Under Hickox's leadership as National Coach, Malaysia has also finished as high as #3 in the World at the 2006 World Junior Men's Team Championship, 3rd at the 2006 World Women's Team Championships, 2nd at the 2007 World Junior Women Team Championships and 5th at the 2007 World Men's World Team Championship. He also coached Ong Beng Hee to a world junior squash championship and British Junior Open in 1998
HARDBALL DOUBLES SQUASH: THE HISTORY & LEGACY OF THE GAME
Hardball Doubles widely played in North America is a fast pace, exciting game. Learn all about it in this issue…
Written by: US Squash & Squash Canada
Squash Doubles was invented in Philadelphia in 1907 and standardized in the 1930's. Today there are four major doubles organizations overseeing the sport in North America, including more than 165 courts and more than 15,000 players: Squash Canada, U.S. SQUASH, the ISDA (International Squash Doubles Association) and the WDSA (Women's Doubles Squash Association). The four groups organize and oversee the management of all aspects of doubles including junior and adult play, from beginner to elite professional competition. In addition, the four organizations collaborate in efforts to grow and promote the game.
Squash Doubles has been played in Canada since the early 1930's. There are currently 36 courts in the country, (plus one under construction), located in the 5 Provinces with over 90% of Canada's population. Our National Championships were first played in 1934 and, with the exception of 1938, have been played every year since then. Provincial Championships are held in 4 of the 5 provinces, and over 1100 players participate in Doubles Squash leagues every week across the country. It is estimated there are now over 4,000 players in Canada who play doubles regularly.
In Canada squash is administered collaboratively by Squash Canada, founded in 1913 as the Canadian Squash Racquets Association, and the 12 provincial and territorial squash associations. Squash Canada Doubles Committee reports to the Squash Canada Board of Directors and is made up of three sub-committees; the Doubles Competition Committee, the Doubles Development Committee and the Doubles Officiating Committee. All of the doubles playing communities in Canada and the professional doubles organizations, the ISDA and the WDSA, are represented on these committees.
The Canadian committees collaborate closely with the United States Squash Doubles organization in all aspects of the game, especially international events, tournament schedules, rules and officiating.
National & International Competitions:
Squash Canada holds National Championships every year with open and age group divisions in five year intervals from 40+ to 80+ for men, women and mixed doubles. In 2010 over 300 players participated in these events. Starting in 2012, we will hold a National Junior Squash Doubles Championship.
World Hardball Doubles
Canada hosts the World Hardball Doubles every four years; the most recent event was held in Toronto in May 2011, with teams from 10 different countries.
The Can Am Cup
Canada and the United States compete every second year for the Can-Am Cup. The cup is a doubles squash competition between the United States and Canada in a Ryder Cup type format.
The first event was held in Boston, MA in October of 2008. It brings together the best men and women's doubles squash players from across North America in a team format in open and age class categories. October 2010, in Toronto, over 50 players from each country participated.
WHAT'S AHEAD FOR SQUASH CANADA'S OFFICIATING DEPARTMENT
Like athletes, coaches, and facilities, officials are an integral part of any sport. Ensuring officials are properly trained and certified is, therefore, a top priority to Squash Canada. Canada has one of the top officiating programs in the sport — a reputation we are proud of and aim to maintain.
In upcoming issues, this section will be filled with relevant information to uphold that reputation and further your development as a squash official. Here, you will find the latest on Squash Canada's officiating program, including postings on certification clinics, program standards, and calls for officials. Our articles will touch on rules updates and officiating innovations, and become an area for discussion on the trends that interest you most. Check back each month to stay up to date with all things in the area of squash officiating!
GROWING THE GAME ACROSS CANADA: BUILDING SQUASH IN THE NORTH WEST TERRITORIES
Written by: Shara Coady
Squash PEI
Just as in other provinces in Canada, squash in PEI is played by men, women, and children of all ages, but with just over 100 active players in the small province, the community is a tight group of squash addicts. Two clubs in the province's capital of Charlottetown boast the majority of the island's players: the Spa Total Fitness Center and the University of PEI (UPEI). At the western end of the island, the courts at Mill River Resort bring together many players from that area, as well as turn out some of the fiercest competitors on the island, including PEI's top male athlete, Mike Buchanan. The island's top female squash player, Mary Andrews, also resides in the western end of the island and plays out of Summerside, the second largest city in PEI.
Tournaments in PEI are run by Squash PEI almost exclusively. Our association is made up of a small group of very hard working and dedicated volunteers who coordinate with the clubs and manage all aspects of tournament play. Most tournaments are hosted in Charlottetown, major ones include the "UPEI Open" in the fall and the "PEI Open" in March, both of which attract players from surrounding provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick for great competition with a touch of fun that only islanders infuse. However, the favourite tournament for young and old, for competitive and "just for fun" players alike, is the "Mill River Invitational". The tournament takes place at Mill River Resort in the western end of the island and all participants and their families travel to the resort and stay the weekend while competing. Almost the entire membership heads to the Mill River Resort and recently, the tournament has been attracting other regional players as well, who enjoy the stronger social component that staying all together in a hotel brings. Being at Mill River tournament brings players closer together in competition, in friendship, and in life.
The PEI girls' squash team had their best ever finish this year at the 2011 Canada Games, and the boys' team, although on the younger end of the spectrum, performed brilliantly. Squash PEI has been putting a lot of effort into expanding their junior programming and junior recruitment. The annual Sports Fair, hosted by Sport PEI, provides children in grades 4-6 from every school on the island with exposure to new sports. Squash PEI has gained many talented new juniors with the connection the Sports Fair provides. Other junior recruitment initiatives that have been working well are the free mini-tournaments with how-to-play clinics provided prior to the tournament. Mini-tournaments, specifically those targeted at groups of kids who play other racquet sports, have also achieved good results.
In order to engage players of all levels and ages within the community, Squash PEI organizes league play and drop in nights at the facilities in Charlottetown. A great example is the newly expanded and highly competitive "Monday Night League" at the Spa Total Fitness Center. The Monday Night League brings together half of PEI's membership with 54 players spanning all ages, from masters to those just entering the double digits, and involving players of every skill level in an evening of great competition and team fun.
There is a buzz happening in the PEI squash community right now that is attracting new and old players. An energetic, devoted, and focused executive committee and volunteer base has been sweeping up everyone in their path to get on the court, for the socials, on the website, and rejuvenate their own love of the game. The result has been a renewed hunger for learning and competition within the membership, and increased networking with other Atlantic provinces to satisfy the development needs. Our website, www.squashpei.org, will give you a glimpse into our friendly community, but we invite you to contact us if you are in the neighbourhood or better yet, join us for a tournament this season and let us treat you to a squash social the island way.
Come play on our island!
THE REVERSE ANGLE: "WORLD SQUASH CEO, Andrew Shelley examines a largely North American Phenomena: Hardball Doubles"
Written by: Andrew Shelly
WORLD SQUASH, Chief Executive Officer
The WSF Management Committee (ManCom) scheduled for Canada in early September gave those ManCom members who had not been exposed to Hardball the opportunity to watch some action. While I had done so several times, seeing matches on adjacent courts while squash events were taking place in US clubs, not everybody had done so.
As a Brit, seeing the cricket pitch when we arrived at the Toronto club of that name was reassuring. Now, that is a real sport! But we were here for an inside game, albeit one with a pretty big playing area too. We were ushered in and given a real treat. No, not the sport but an extensive supply of beer vouchers - something much less of a system elsewhere, mores' the pity.
Into the seats, and warming up in front of us were four greats. Well, maybe only three as Shahier Razik had let on to me in Germany a couple of weeks earlier that he was inexperienced, but as a splendid softballer it would hardly show. Knowing Willie Hosey, Jonathon Power and Gary Waite while they played the squidgy ball game I was intrigued to watch them as top exponents of the North American game……and to ensure a WSF viewing to support the tub thumping that Gary had done on its behalf.
After mistress of ceremonies, Lolly Gillen, narrowly lost the battle between her voice and the general hubbub to introduce the match, we were underway.
Somewhere in the distance were four people swishing around, perhaps fly catching, with accompanying sound effects of rifle shots. Mental note, get glasses immediately.
No, that was irreverent and entirely wrong. The size of the court and the pinging of the ball are very different (more of that in a moment), but the pace, the inventiveness and action generally make Hardball good on the eye, enjoyable to watch, and perhaps easier to enjoy for the uninitiated. It is a great sport in it's own right.
Of course, I hardly need to outline the issues it faces if it is to expand. There is the chicken and egg situation of prospective investors, especially on other continents, being unwilling to do so without it being a proven commercial success, yet how do you do so without the investment in courts? And while a white ball and coloured court walls would be a requisite to make the sport attractive televisually, will the sheer pace of the ball make it difficult to film successfully?
Questions rather than answers, but WSF were very grateful to Squash Canada, ISDA, the players and organizers for the opportunity to link with the hardball community and in a small way reinforce the fact that hardball is very much part of the squash family. Hopefully the relationship will grow ever closer.
Andrew Shelley
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    }, 500, function(){
        // Animation complete.
    });
}

function renewWindow(Parent){
    $(":animated").promise().done(function(){
        PHP.execute(Parent.id + "/home");
        $(Parent).find("div[class='Item-list']").remove();
        $(Parent).find("div[id='details']").remove();
        $(Parent).find("div[id='confirmDialog']").remove();
        $(Parent).append(PHP.response);
        initJquery();
        initEvents();
    });
}

function enlargeView(Parent){
    $(Parent).promise().done(function(){
        $(Parent).find('#details').show("slow", function(){
            // Animation complete.
        });
        // get width and Extend
        $(Parent).find("#" + Parent.ID + "").width("683px");
        var width = $(Parent).find("#" + Parent.ID + "").css("width");
        $(Parent).animate({
            width: width
        }, 500, function(){
            // Animation complete.
        });
    });
}

Any clue how to get these 3 to work in order?
The 'initJquery' and 'initEvents' see to the fact that the .click and the like are reinitialized.
Thanks in advance!!
Ps. if i missed any info that you might need, don't hesitate to ask!!
EDIT: Below is the code that calls the functions
$(".selecter").click(function() {
    var Element = this;
    var ID = Element.id;
    var Parent = $(Element).closest(".drag-div")[0];
    reduceView(Parent);
    renewWindow(Parent);

    $(":animated").promise().done(function(){
        PHP.execute(Parent.id + "/details?" + Parent.id + "id="+ID);
        $(Parent).find('#details').html(PHP.response);
        enlargeView(Parent);
        initJquery();
    });
    $(Element).addClass("selected");
});

A: It looks like you're applying multiple animations, and then getting the promise for the animation you want using $(":animated") selector. There isn't enough code in your answer to run it, but my guess is that the closure in renewWindow is being triggered by the wrong promise object - possibly one on the page that isn't even related to this functionality.
Try returning the promise object you want to key off of from the first function, like so:
function reduceView(Parent){
    var promise = $(Parent).find('#details').hide("slow", function(){
        // Animation complete.
    }).promise();
    // get width and Extend
    $(Parent).find("#" + Parent.ID + "").width("250px");
    var width = $(Parent).find("#" + Parent.ID + "").css("width");
    $(Parent).animate({
        width: width
    }, 500, function(){
        // Animation complete.
    });
    return promise;
}

Then, renewWindow can consume that promise:
function renewWindow(Parent, promise){
    promise.done(function(){
        PHP.execute(Parent.id + "/home");
        $(Parent).find("div[class='Item-list']").remove();
        $(Parent).find("div[id='details']").remove();
        $(Parent).find("div[id='confirmDialog']").remove();
        $(Parent).append(PHP.response);
        initJquery();
        initEvents();
    });
}

This way you know that the promise you're triggering your function with is the one you used to hide the div.


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Prayer meeting ended in hail of bullets
For one hour, police say, Dylann Roof sat through a prayer meeting with the people he was about to kill.
Lisa Doctor joins prays Thursday, down the street from Emanuel AME Church where a white man opened fire Wednesday night in during a prayer meeting inside the historic black church in Charleston, S.C., killing multiple people, including the pastor, in an assault that authorities described as a hate crime.	David Goldman, The Associated Press / National Post
It was late evening in Charleston, S.C., and the gathering had attracted a small group of regular worshippers at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Roof, a slight 21-year-old dressed in hiking boots and sporting a bowl cut, sat among Cynthia Hurd, 54, a longtime librarian whose death would prompt the immediate closure of all Charleston's 16 public library branches.
Also in attendance were Susie Jackson, 87, and Ethel Lance, 70, two grandmothers who had been with the church for decades. And Tywanza Sanders, 26, a recent business graduate from nearby Allen University.
The Wednesday night prayer meeting included Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, a church pastor and South Carolina state senator. Within hours, his desk at the South Carolina State House would be draped with black cloth and a single red rose.
Roof had entered the church and asked for Pinckney, and sat next to the pastor during the meeting. Parishioners encouraged the unknown young man to join in and, according to Charleston police chief Gregory Mullen, Roof even prayed with them.
It was only at the meeting's end, at about 9 p.m., that Roof pulled out an automatic pistol of unknown make and calibre, and fired point blank into the churchgoers.
By the standards of the all-too-common U.S. mass shooting, Roof was unusually deliberate. Very few wounded would leave the AME church that night, and the shooter would reload five times.
Most victims died at the scene, and the only witnesses who survived unscathed, reports said, were a five-yearold girl who played dead, and a woman Roof spared so that she could "tell the world what happened," according to a witness account.
Victims tried to reason with the shooter as the massacre progressed, but to no avail.
"I have to do it," he replied, according to an NBC interview by Sylvia Johnson, a cousin of Pinckney. "You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go," he reportedly said.
Nine people died, six women and three men. Three of the slain were senior citizens.
"She's a Christian, hardworking; I could call my granny for anything. I don't
have anyone else like that," Jon Quil Lance, a grandson of victim Ethel Lance, told Charleston's The Post and Courier while standing outside Medical University Hospital.
At the time, Lance did not know his grandmother was among the dead.
While victims lay dying, the shooter left the scene in a black sedan with a front licence plate bearing the insignia of the Confederate States of America, the short-lived country which comprised the slaveholding "South" during the U.S. Civil War.
Charleston, as one of the former centres of the Confederacy, still flies a Confederate battle flag outside its state house. On Thursday, it remained one of the few flags in the city not flying at half staff.
Social media images of Roof also showed him wearing a jacket adorned with the old flags of Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia, the white minority-ruled predecessor to Zimbabwe.
After an all-night manhunt, Roof was captured without incident in Shelby, N.C., 400 kilometres northeast of Charleston. Police had been barraged by tips in the hours after a surveillance camera image of Roof was released to the media. One tipster was a childhood friend who remembered Roof 's clothing from a recent video game session they had held together.
Almost immediately, police announced they were treating the mass-murder as having been motivated by hate.
"In this case, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that it is a hate crime," police chief Greg Mullen told reporters.
Arrested late Thursday morning in a routine traffic stop, Roof "was co-operative with the officer who stopped him," according to authorities.
The site of the massacre is one of the oldest black churches in the United States, with roots stretching well back to the era of slavery.
"Where you are is a very special place in Charleston, and it's a very special place because this church and this site … has been tied to the history and life of African Americans since about the early 1800s," Pinckney told a civil rights gathering at the church in 2013.
One of the church's founders, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, was executed in the early 1800s for organizing a slave rebellion, and a church on the site was burned in retaliation.
As U.S. President Barack Obama noted in a statement about the mass murder, "this is a church that was burned to the ground because its worshippers worked to end slavery."
"This is a sacred place in the history of Charleston and in the history of America," he said.
The church reorganized after the Civil War, and would go on to host a 1905 talk by black leader Booker T. Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. also made it a stop during the Civil Rights era.
The Charleston shooting is the deadliest attack on a U.S. place of worship in recent memory, although it fits among a recent string of suspected white supremacists attacking religious facilities.
During the past 10 years, six U.S. churches, temples and Jewish centres have been subject to randomly targeted murders by gunmen. Most notably, in August 2012, a white supremacist U.S. army veteran murdered six people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis.
The puzzling persistence of the U.S. hate crime rate 'Pure, pure concentrated evil,' says stricken mayor
Evacuee sustains 'serious injuries' due to alleged assault at U of R residence
Uncertainty remains but Cameco 'pleased' with Trump's uranium decision
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Two Narratives
Since the election of Donald Trump, illegal immigration has become the cause célèbre for social justice warriors. They conflate legal, vetted and appropriate immigrants, many of whom have waited for years to get a visa into the USA with illegal immigrants who sneak across our borders and then hide in the population. That enables them to label Donald Trump and his supporters as anti-immigrant monsters.
The problem, of course is that illegal immigrants are breaking the law when they cross the border. But that doesn't stop the narrative. SJWs argue that illegal immigrants are "forced" to come to the United States due to horrific conditions in their own countries—poverty, crime, corruption, to name only a few. Undoubtedly, those conditions do exist, but if we opened our borders and allowed people who live under regimes that foster poverty, crime, corruption, poor health care, poor education, and the like, our population would swell uncontrollably, and social services designed for our own citizens would disappear.
Recently, SJWs have added a small twist to their cause célèbre, telling us that victims of domestic violence should be granted asylum. Angered that many claims of domestic violence among asylum seekers are deemed to be bogus, Nancy Pelosi accused the Trump Administration of "staggering cruelty."
But here's the irony. The same people who follow Nancy Pelosi's ideological path, tell us repeatedly that the American patriarchy subjugates all women, that misogyny abounds among white males, that a "rape culture" exists at American universities, that the workplace is toxic for women, that the USA is not a "safe space" for women—in short, that their own country is a caldron of domestic violence.
Heather McDonald comments on the irony of all of this:
But why should social-justice warriors want to subject these potential asylees to the horrors of America? In coming to the U.S., if you believe the dominant feminist narrative, the female aliens would simply be exchanging their local violent patriarchy for a new one. Indeed, it should be a mystery to these committed progressives why any Third World resident would seek to enter the United States. Not only is rape culture pervasive in the U.S., but the very lifeblood of America is the destruction of "black bodies," in the words of media star Ta-Nehesi Coates. Surely, a Third World person of color would be better off staying in his home country, where he is free from genocidal whiteness and the murderous legacy of Western civilization and Enlightenment values.
But the same left-wing establishment that in the morning rails against American oppression of an ever-expanding number of victim groups in the afternoon denounces the U.S. for not giving unlimited access to foreign members of those same victim groups. In their open-borders afternoon mode, progressives paint the U.S. as the only source of hope and opportunity for low-skilled, low-social-capital Third Worlders; a place obligated by its immigration history to take in all comers, forever. In their America-as-the-font-of-all-evil-against-females-and-persons-of-color morning mode, progressives paint the U.S. as the place where hope and opportunity die under a tsunami of misogyny and racism.
Which reality do progressives actually believe? They likely hold both mutually exclusive concepts in their heads simultaneously, unaware of the contradiction, toggling smoothly between one and the other according to context. But both claims cannot be true. And actions speak more loudly than words. In pressing for an immigration policy determined by the desire of hundreds of millions of foreigners to enter the U.S., progressives implicitly acknowledge that the left-wing narrative about America is false. In fact, there is no place on earth less governed by tribal prejudice and machismo than the United States. The left-wing narrative is simply a form of moral preening.
At the end of the day, maybe the most important question is why millions want to come here—even if they must come here illegally? Maybe, despite what social justice warriors continually tell us, their outrage over the ills of our country is monumentally overblown. Maybe, just maybe, the illegal immigrants have a better feel for the benefits offered by the United States than their supposed protectors on the Left.
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Mushroom Cloud
Helping the Mullahs
Outflows
The Meeting is Back On
Not Enough Synonyms for "Good"


Node.js remote debug is the perfect option for the cases, when you project is run inside the Vagrant box.
Luckly, both node.js and WebStorm have all the needed options, to make the debug still possible and convenient.
Below it's described how to configure the Node.js Remote Debug in WebStorm.
My WebStorm version is 11, node.js version is 4.2.2.
Let's assume, that my Vagrant box configured to be in private network with my machine, and it exposes all the ports to the IP 192.168.33.10.
Our node.js app is a simple hapijs server.
Next, let's configure the WebStorm part. We should create new run/debug configuration for our project.
In case of remote debug, it's not possible to run the application, it's possible only to debug.
Click "Apply" and that's it.
Now, we are able to set the breakpoint and connect our debugger.
Now, let's try to open the next url in the browser: http://192.168.33.10:3000/?param=123 .
Cool, you don't need to spoil your private PC with all kinds of software needed to run your application, but you still can debug it in the convenient way. As you understand – configuring the remote debug for any other server where you run your node application would be the same. You can debug your AWS or digitalocean node applications as well, just be sure, that the debug port is accessible from the PC where you run the WebStorm.