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Off The Long Run / Deep End – Death Of A Gentleman / Death Of A Way Of Sport
Nov 8, 2015 LordCanisLupus
As I start on this journey of a piece, it has the makings of being a really long one (and now I've finished it, not sure it works, but here goes). It goes to the heart of me as a fan of sports around the world. Of my love for cricket, of my lost love of football, of my hopes to see a team like the baseball champions Kansas City Royals (a team unable to compete financially with the big clubs in the States, but still able to win it all) win the league in England, of my hopes of seeing a team run by faceless wealthy oligarchs get relegated. Of my watching every single sport become a vehicle to make massive amounts of money at the expense of spectators. Of a media in hock to the money-making charade. Of organisations where the only way you can postpone the possibility of jail time is to stay in charge. Of money ruling everything. Of the extinguishing of the commodity every football fan of a club outside the richest in the world possessed – hope. Hope. Sport made you hope.
When Jarrod sent me the copy of Death of a Gentleman I sat there and watched in…. well I don't really know what my emotions were. I wasn't surprised. Giles Clarke is an absolute pig of a man, and there would have to be a question of judgement against anyone he'd class as an ally. I wasn't shocked that India were looking after themselves – after all, that's what the big clubs do in football here, so why the hell are we shocked at that – and as for not widening the game, well let's face it, it's only a matter of scope. Club football loves the expansion of the game because similarly levelled talent of footballers from Eastern Europe and Africa (and South America if they didn't predominantly move to Iberia) are cheaper than English counterparts. No major English club (and, by extension it seems, their fans) give a flying f*ck about the national team and developing players for it. In many cases, quite the opposite. The club sides were businesses, and the big clubs don't feel the need for a sucessful national side to keep the home fires burning like they used to.
I wasn't shocked that some players, like Ed Cowan, would give everything for their first cap, but the counterpart is that they might not feel so enamoured of the game when they get to, say, their 70th. Once something becomes routine, almost an entitlement, then that sheen of optimism wears off and it becomes just a job. But it's nice to be reminded of the good side of first selections. Then there is the focus on test cricket. It doesn't make commercial sense, so therefore, because of that it should not be played. It is not entertaining. Sport should not be played in front of empty stadia. We can't serve up dead pitches because five day cricket is inherently boring. It is a form of the game worth saving because…. and it comes to the ultimate test of skill, technique, concentration and athleticism. However, those qualities sell better if there are more games. Shortening becomes efficiency. That's what the people want in their busy lives…. So dead pitch test matches are bad. Very bad. They are driving people away.
That's a line of argument gaining traction whenever we have a pitch where you might have to work really hard to get very good players out on it. I've been on this mortal coil now for over 45 years and people have become this way – short-term driven and wanting to tinker. Attention deficit and a generation of tinkerers. You know how it is at work. You can't stay the same, you have to change. Change is good. If you are not open to change, you are an impediment. What happens now is administrators, managers, CEOs have to change something. There needs to be something done because there is always more to do. Innovate or die. And that's my problem. Sport now apes business, because it has ceased being about sport, in many case, and more about business. I used to go to, and play, sport to escape business.
What is sport for? Well, actually, it isn't for spectators, it is for the joy in playing it, isn't it? Sport in itself is a form of enjoyment, of individual achievement, and when in a team context, of playing with your mates or forming a bond with like-minded adults or formulating friendships as kids. It's getting the best out of yourself. Doing something that is better than work, perhaps to get away from a daily grind. So sport, at its base instinct, is about the players. When you were a kid, you played cricket until you got out. You might be stopped in street cricket when you made 50, or 100. You didn't constrain yourself with limiting overs, field settings, who could or could not play. You didn't care who was watching. When sport was more organised, for me it was Schools cricket and junior clubs, they would put some constraints on what you could play and then you sought to build innings, practice defence, and try to improve.
A key tenet of the debate going on now is that people aren't developing the same love of the sport as they did when I was a kid. That cricket, obsessed with monetising the talent, is hidden behind a paywall that pays it more than a terrestrial channel. George Dobell, in his latest piece on Moeen, made the point:
At Moeen's old school, Moseley, 80% of the kids do not have English as their first language; 40% receive free school meals. You don't have to be a genius to work out the long-term effects of charging almost £100 for a ticket to international cricket or putting it behind a paywall on television. The game is in danger of becoming invisible to a huge section of society.
The role of TV in this piece is all-pervading, but I'm not sure if it's the illness or the carrier. The fact is that cricket is, in some markets, an important commodity. Indian TV contracts are massive. In England, the absence of an IPL or a cricket equivalent to the football behemoth, means the contract is all about televising England's national team. In this country it means test matches. I know how much more keenly test matches are viewed, by one look at the hit stats for the blog. ODIs capture nowhere near the attention. We'll come to why, soon. Maybe. But it needs to start at what sport means to me. What cricket is…
When I was a kid it was all test cricket. No-one really cared about county cricket as a kid, and I didn't go to my first County Championship game until I was a University student. Cricket was played in the streets by kids back in the 80s, because I was one of them. We played football in the same streets, despite being told not to by the council busybodies. Football is very visible, and yet I don't see any kids playing it in the street on my council estate. There are less teams playing on Sundays over the playing fields I used to play on. Participation levels appear to be down, even informally. I lived cricket, though, because although I was never really going to go to county cricket, I followed it in the papers. I even purchased a long wave radio so I didn't have to wait a couple of days for the scores when I was on holiday and could listen in to the snippets of cricket on the World Service.
During my formative years there was a school of thought that televising football live would kill clubs. Yes. People actually fought tooth and nail to keep the FA Cup Final as the only live club game on TV each year. It's almost unthinkable. TV coverage was totally removed for the first half of the 1985-6 season. Nothing. Not a thing. At all. There was a running joke that West Ham's Frank McAvennie, recently signed by them from St. Mirren and who was scoring for fun, could walk down the streets and no-one knew him. Football didn't die. Of course not.
Now to make money, sport has to be about spectators – but it has become about TV spectators now. Players want to get paid for what they do, and they want it in increasing amounts. As those amounts get larger, the people paying them want more bang for their buck, and to try to keep the money flowing. They'll increase ticket prices, play TV companies off against another to get in more revenue, and still they'll increase prices, get into bidding wars with other mega-wealthy clubs to get the best players, who play less often because they are increasingly saved for matches against the best teams. Gideon Haigh summed up the role of you, the spectator, in DoaG perfectly – we are there to be monetized.
I'm a little bit of a lefty, you've probably guessed that, but I don't live my life with my head in the clouds. Players want their fair share of the money going around, and that's understandable. For the vast majority of sportspeople, especially in team sports, careers are short at the top level, and those lucrative media jobs for post-sporting careers are few and far between, while coaching and managing at the top level is both short-term and high-risk. But with money comes cynicism (I know it is not an exclusive relationship, but it's just worse when high values are involved) both in terms of the superhuman feats a player is expected to perform because he/she is earning amazing amounts of money, and from the players, who might, or who are not able, to perform superhuman feats on cue every time they are asked to. It then means we might feel short changed when we see something that isn't up to standard from them. That player will be crucified in the press, the braying, baying media pack who want "drama" "stories" and "soap opera" rather than sport. Your team wins some times, it loses some times. We are in the era when big clubs are not allowed to lose. Ever.
It is us, the spectators who are at fault. Most of us aren't good enough to play at a high level, yet act like we know what it takes. I'm as guilty of that as anyone. Now your choice of football team is often seen as a reflection on you. I support my local club exclusively in England. I don't care much for any other team. A team with a style of play I like might lose one week and I wouldn't give the first f*ck about them. My team is Millwall. I was brought up in Deptford. My Dad was a Charlton fan, the rest of my family Millwall. My cousin got me first, and took me to the Den in 1979. I was a Millwall fan, for life.
Now, in SE London, I see people with Chelsea shirts, Arsenal shirts, Manchester United shirts, less Liverpool shirts than you used to, and for the love of all that is holy, Manchester City shirts. Their choice of team isn't in reaction to their locality – hell support those jokers from Selhurst Park, it's better than Arsenal – but it's not just their choice that riles. They pat themselves on the backs as if they've backed a penny share that's suddenly had a good Annual Report. Meanwhile, of the three local clubs, Palace are having a decent run, but it will only take a raid on their best players, and a downturn in form to see them back where they belong; Charlton are now a Belgian league club's plaything; and my lot are arguably back where they belong – a tier two/tier three yo-yo club. Only diehards support lower league clubs now. We're seen as an oddity, as if there's something wrong with us, as if we don't have the mental capacity to choose a big team.
So it goes for cricket.
I am a Surrey fan, for life. I chose them in the late 1970s. They were my granddad's team, they were the nearest ground to home, and someone with the same real surname as me played for them (hello Mr Alam). They are my team for life, and believe me, it took 20 years for any glory. But I appreciated it so much more that it took so long. I am also a supporter of the following other sports teams – Miami Dolphins (Superbowls since supporting them – 1, and they lost it); Boston Red Sox (started supporting in late 1990s, when Pedro was doing his thing – they've become winners since then); Chicago Bulls (nearest I come to a glory hunter, but supported once I got to see Michael Jordan play on TV – before the Championship run) – and stuck with them through their slumps, which they have all suffered (Miami the 1-15 season, Red Sox bottom of AL East two years on the bounce, Bulls post the glory years).
The modern spectator has more in common with the Bulls following than anything else. They want to win, and they want to see the big stars at their team. Extrapolated to the TV audiences, it means big clubs, more often. Top stars, more often. Money makes the world go round.
In cricketing terms we all know what this means. The biggest money is in India. Therefore, the biggest stars are in India, a nation that remains proud of its own, and yet loves those from outside that embrace the culture and the fanaticism. When this is combined with cynical, money-hunting businessmen, on the prowl for more power, there's an unstoppable nexus. Feed the fanaticism, make more money. The IPL stands alone as the T20 league to play in. The money, the fame, the adulation. Cricket on a level playing field with football. No wonder players want to play in it, and others worry themselves sick about it. India hold all the negotiating hand here, and everyone knows it.
Anyone in England who thinks this is outrageous, then look at how the Champions League is run. How the Premier league is run. The aim for all is to make sure India keep the IPL away from their turf, to keep themselves sustainable. West Indies have suffered the most. England and Australia, the least.
Again, anyone in England wondering why India want to guarantee nine matches in the 2019 Cricket World Cup, because of a shock exit in 2007, haven't paid attention to a Champions League that spends 48 games to halve its numbers, with a lovely seeded draw to keep as many big teams apart as possible, and a draw designed to maximise revenues in the big markets by not allowing more than two games per nation on any one day, and by stretching the 2nd round out over four weeks, not two. There was nothing wrong with the old European Cup knockout model, except it didn't make the big teams enough money. When UEFA had the gall to remove the second group stage, there were howls of derision from the bigger clubs, and many a veiled threat – but fans saw through it and it was almost too obvious in its soaking of the fans. The big club spectators want more of this exotic stuff, not less, but too much damages credibility. India are mimicking big football clubs, and yet we get howls from supporters in this country that they do so. We must be having a laugh……
India has been threatening an IPL2, have been using their international team as pawns in ageo-political money accumulation game for years now. They have the power. Without them, every country with the exception of England and Australia is sunk. Sports authorities, and those making money out of them, rarely look for long-term rewards, because within a few days your corruption might be fatal, your face might not fit, or some younger, or more innovative whipper snapper has seduced your enablers. It's only going to get worse. I sound like an old codger, I know, but we've got a load of twenty-somethings come into our office in the last year or so. I like pretty much all of them personally. But they don't see long-term. They see rapid development, an entitlement to promotion rather than it being earned in the long run of hard graft. There is impatience. There is practically no dissent to authority. It is not about common good, it is about the pursuit of your own goals. It's the culture in which they were raised.
That sort of culture, to take an extrapolation if you might allow me to, means sports that take five days, played in empty grounds, are anathema. These are top players who could be earning more. They could be used more. The lopping off of six weeks at a time to play three matches in a desert location makes absolutely no commercial sense. Commercial sense. It isn't about growing the game, getting more teams involved (after all, we grew it in 1999 by promoting Bangladesh to test status and they still aren't up to it), it is about getting the best players on people's screens, in front of lots of people. It isn't about cricket lovers, certainly us old codgers, because we aren't the target for advertising – that group between 18-35 is the holy grail – and advertising makes the TV money go round. A modern culture demands a modern way. Death of a Gentleman is more Death of an Attitude.
The film highlighted all it needed to. A governing body doing what all other major board seem to do – hoard power and cash, run the sport on short-termism, pay lip service to development and monetise the best players as frequently as possible – and players moaning about workload in the one instance, but grabbing every bit as much cash as they can whent the opportunity arises (which is why I won't listen to KP on county cricket, for instance. He made it where he is because of it, not in spite of it. He moved to this country to play it). Giles Clarke is a lovely coat-stand to hang our ills on. Maybe he is right and we should ride India's coat-tails. Maybe the counties are right for fighting for the status quo, because, let's face it, their existence in the form of 18 teams playing four day cricket book-ending the limited over stuff is every bit as logical as test cricket in Mohali.
Whether test cricket lives or dies isn't up to me. The Ashes will live on, as long as we have players capable of playing long-form cricket. There is a lot mentioned about context of tests, and the refusal to have a Test Championship is mind-blowingly short-sighted, but what was the context when the West Indies were ruling the world, or Pakistan played test series against India that would feature a result once in a blue moon? These aren't new issues. Cricket is more expensive to watch, both at grounds and via subscriptions. So is football. So are most other sports.
I'd like to finish this long ramble up with a comparison to baseball, which I mentioned at the start. You can't go a week or two without reports that viewership on TV is down. That baseball is a dying sport. That no-one talks about it over the water-cooler. That the NFL now rules everything in the US. Baseball will still be there in decades to come. It is a slow, cerebral game, which I love. It cultivates its base by making its local TV rights, and national shows available. It has a website that was the envy of many other sports which made watching your team outside of market very cheap (£90 for every match in a season, more or less). It plays on its history, a sepia-tinged "father and son" narrative. It's a sport embraced by the Latino community. It's also competitive. The current richest team haven't won a title since the 1980s (Dodgers). The perennial richest team, the Yankees, have won the championship once since 2000. Last week, the Kansas City Royals won the title having been in the finals last year. According to sources, a greater proportion of younger people watched the World Series than in recent memory. It's food for thought.
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18 thoughts on "Off The Long Run / Deep End – Death Of A Gentleman / Death Of A Way Of Sport"
metatone Nov 8, 2015 / 12:29 pm
Mark Nov 8, 2015 / 1:42 pm
While those of us of a certain age do tend to look through rose tinted glasses I do think there should be concern at the modern model of financialising everything. The commodification of EVERYTHING. If it doesn't make a buck then discard it.
Everything is a commodity now. Every aspect of life reduced to a financial transaction. Sport is no different. It is just soap powder to be sold. It's only purpose is to sell product. Which means the people who run it, and own it only judge improvement by increased profit. New super improved Premiership will only be judged a success if it brings in more money.
I do have days when I think what is the point of following sport anymore. It is just another soap powder. We old romantics are an anathema to modern marketers. …..F*** the history and the culture, ………." Do you want fries and a Big Mac with your ticket? And if not, why not? Do you want a silly hat and as much tat as you plastic card can manage?"
Arsenal football club amuse me greatly. I remember just before The Premiership was created David Dien the guy in charge of Arsenal giving an interview where he called the old league system socialist…… " why should we subsidise lower division clubs?" He snorted. He was a great supporter of the new, winner take all premiership. However, what was funny was when Roman A rocked up at Chelsea with more money than Mr Dien. Soon to be followed by some Arabs at Man City. Suddenly winner take all was not such a good thing. We needed rules. Fair play was the new buzz word. Mr Wenger started lecturing about "financial doping." Oh the irony. Nothing funnier in modern life than capitalists complaining about bigger and richer capitalists.
The Champions league and your description of it is the classic modern construction. A rigged system to protect the rich clubs. Everything is done to make sure the richest, and biggest clubs avoid competing against each other and knocking each other out until the very end. By which time maximum revenue has been extracted from the plebs. Exactly the same model is used by the big banks to avoid competition. While the little people are told about free markets the elites play by rigged rules to protect themselves. India being guaranteed 9 games is just another example of the protection of the elites.
I could write a book on all this but It would be very boring. How the big clubs least favourite competition is the FA cup. Because it is straight knock out with no protection. And only glory and not money at the end. And judging by the empty seats not a model the fans of the big clubs like. They seem to enjoy being exploited. The Premeirship fan and their clubs owners rather deserve each other.
SimonH Nov 8, 2015 / 7:45 pm
Firstly, I bloody love cricket – I got it from my dad and was completely hooked by the 1975 WC. I follow plenty of other sports (football, rugby, tennis, golf) but nothing like cricket. I played at school and a little club cricket afterwards to no sort of standard and have long preferred umpiring, scoring or playing golf. This last week I've watched Yasir Shah bowling and Kane Williamson batting. If that doesn't remind anyone why this game is so great, then it really is past the point of no return.
I agree with many of the points LCL (and Mark) have made – but I think in drawing wider connections, there is a danger of losing some immediate concerns. Cricket is a great game with plenty of good news stories – in the grip of a disastrous, myopic, unaccountable, in some cases corrupt, small cabal of administrators. Their wretchedness goes way beyond the standard operating shittiness one expects of sport administrators. That the media watchdog has had (with few honourable exceptions) its bark stolen by media management techniques borrowed from politics and business makes the situation all the more grievous. The media handed over their bark with barely a whimper – and don't even have the excuse that, unlike politics and business, lives are sometimes at stake. It is, in Atherton's brilliant phrase, only sport – and if you can't be idealistic about sport, what can you be idealistic about?
Those who run the game want to make money. That's not the problem. I'm a liberal (not a Marxist and I don't inhabit grotty South London pubs – as some friends of this site believe) and the game operates in a capitalist context. However capitalism comes in many shapes and forms and needs combining with other values. No one system has a monopoly of virtue – only fundamentalists believe otherwise. The first main problem is that money has wrecked principles of equality and meritocracy in the decision-making process in cricket. Voices don't count for the same and the best voices with the strongest arguments don't win. Size of wallet is becoming all that counts. Dissent shuts up because it fears bankruptcy. A worst model for decision-making would be hard to design. Secondly, short term overrides long term. Capitalism is brilliant at finding short term profit – but, left to itself, lousy at long term planning. Cricket is in the grip of free market fundamentalists devoted to squeezing existing revenue streams dry while failing to develop new ones. In particular, of course, they are failing to grow the game. I'm not, I think, hopelessly naive about this. I don't think cricket will ever match football. I think there are many cultures where it won't 'take'. But sports can grow outside their traditional homelands and rugby has shown the way with Argentina, Japan and the like. Cricket looks ridiculous not even to try.
In English cricket specifically, the problem is trying to sustain an unsustainable business model. The one area where I have slight sympathy for Giles Clarke is that it's too easy to put everything down to 'greed'. Eighteen FT f/c counties is just unsustainable. This reinforces the chronic short-termism. 'We have a dreadful business – and we've kept it going another year!' could be the ECB's end-of-year report since whenever. I've watched plenty of county cricket and have some fondness for it – but not to the extent of wrecking SL or NZ cricket to save it. We have to be tough not just on Giles Clarke but the causes of Giles Clarke. It is the county system that produced him. That is a damning indictment.
Lastly, I wanted to write something about spectators in the ground versus TV viewers. Authorities are very good at 'divide and rule' and there is some of that going on here. Perhaps I feel this because I've never lived within an hour's travel of a Test ground and have only been to half a dozen days of Test cricket in my life. It's one thing for ground spectators to feel a venue is ignoring their experience at the expense of TV. Complaining about that is fair enough – as is offering insights someone at the ground might have that TV wouldn't pick up (especially ECB-TV!). But (and I'm not getting at anything written here – more a general BTL pattern I've been noticing) there seems to be a creeping air of moral superiority about being at a ground. This particularly finds expression when there are low crowds and there are comments (much heard in the UAE) along the lines of – what's the point? It seems to be perfectly sensible in the UAE to watch a Test in an air-conditioned home rather than in a sweltering ground with no public transport. Why some people feel this invalidates the experience escapes me. Many great performances were in front of small crowds – who remembers or cares that Botham at Headingley in '81 wasn't in front of a sell-out? The players generate the intensity and the atmosphere. What matters is how many people (whether in person, on TV or wherever) are interested and engaged in the game. People harp on about the sold-out Tests in England – but how much resonance outside the hard core is there?Large crowds do not mean a healthy game and small crowds a sick one, it is much more complex.
I could (and probably will somewhen) expand at length on what I think lies behind this apparent growing obsession with crowd sizes. I'm worried I might be agreeing with Michael Henderson (!) that there is a narcissism in some modern crowds that is more wrapped up in itself than what it is there to witness. The great danger is this is serving our short-termist cricketing overlords. "What's the point? Nobody's there!" they cry BTL. "Okay – we'll shut it down then" Uncle Giles would only be too happy to reply. I noticed a recent article on cricinfo quoted someone from the ICC on the low crowd at a SL-WI game. I'm convinced moves are afoot to strip SL of Test status and this is preparing the ground. It will be a tragedy for the wider SL cricketing public who (as I understand it) still love and follow the game in all its forms. It'll be a tragedy for us as well as rather than watching Angelo Mathews or Rangana Herath we have another bloody series against India…
Arron Wright Nov 8, 2015 / 8:09 pm
That really is one of the best BTL posts I have seen on here or HDWLIA.
Zephirine Nov 8, 2015 / 11:11 pm
That really is one of the best BTL posts I have seen on here or HDWLIA. Seconded.
LordCanisLupus Nov 8, 2015 / 8:42 pm
Many many thanks for this post. It makes writing these longer pieces quite worthwhile.
In trying to think of what to write, I have had in my head this "modern sport is rubbish" type post. That's incredibly simplistic, but you know what I'm getting at. It's like discussing the Premier League with evangelists for the modern game, who'll have you believing that 70s and 80s football was played in front of condemned stadia, with feral packs of fans, and poor quality football. In those days England made the semi-finals and two quarter-finals in the World Cup, produced world class footballers, and had competitive leagues where the likes of QPR and Watford finished second. Now there are so few decent England players it's a joke, the sport has become a soap opera masquerading as the best league in the world, and while we'll be patronised about Leicester this season (as we were with Southampton last year), it's whether the Arab billionaire will win out over the US sports magnate, while the other US Sports magnate, the other US sports magnate can contend while the Russian billionaire's team are in strife.
I love cricket too Simon, but it's going the same way. The lack of talent coming through is alarming, especially in the bowling department. Dale Steyn may be the last great super-fast bowler and he seems to have dropped in pace as injuries catch up with him. Mitchell Johnson and Mitchell Starc will hit the speed guns, but they aren't in Steyn's league. Jimmy is an artful bowler, Broad now more a container with spells of gold, than a tyro. As the game becomes more scientific, more analytical, it is losing it's soul. That's why Pakistan defy everything and we enjoy them. There's a natural feel to their play, but forged by a captain and senior pros into a decent unit. Think the West Indies of thirty years ago but with less talent. They are a throwback. They have a production line of talent, hungry to succeed, but also prone to exposure to the same old accusations. They are India without the money. The last thing I'd want to do if I was India would be to play a test match or two against them. I think they'd be belted.
I also get your bit about being there, and this division between those inside, and those outside. I used to go to England games around the world, and the Oval every year. I was younger, single and had more disposable income. I recall my overseas tests as much for the life experiences around them than the cricket. I now think £80 for an Ashes ticket is an outrage. I won't pay it. Does that make me less an England fan? No. Did I think that way as a Millwall fan when I went and others didn't. Of course I did. Age gives you that perspective. What I haven't done with cricket is to lose the love of the sport. I still relate to the players of cricket more than I can ever with footballers. I still love watching test cricket, whereas a premier league game leaves me cold. I am not sure this will ever end. I sure hope not.
Again, so many thanks for responding to the post. There's so much to come back to that I'll do a follow-up, for sure.
Great post Simon.
But cricket is not the only sport that has terrible owners/administrators. Just look at what is going on at FIFA. The FA has been a joke for years. And today Lord Coe has had to warn about dark days in Athletics.
It might be simplistic to level all the problems with money, but it probably is the case. FIFA have expanded the game globally but that has not all been about bettering football. By doing so it has created a huge block vote of lots of little countries who have kept Blatter in power. And with power comes wealth.
Crickets admistrators have worked out that in their sport shrinking the game is more profitable to the insiders than expanding it. India is King, and the ECB just through in the towel and decided to align with the King. Australia went along too. The big 3 is a bit of a misnomer. It's really India with England and Aus pretending we are all in it together. A bit like the special relationship with the USA in politics. We pretend we have a equal say.
As for the crowd issue, it was suggested a few years ago that sport would make so much money from TV they could open the gates to supporters for free. Hasn't happened yet.
Thanks Arron, LCL, Mark – means a lot coming from you.
LCL, one difference between football and cricket (and rugby) is that the wealth factor hasn't yet distorted the results to such an extent. SA can still top the rankings, NZ can still get to a WC final. The Big Three hosting all tournaments and allowing gross home advantage seems the imminent threat to that. However international sport can't have quite the same transfer market issues of club sports.
Perhaps cricket is 'lucky' in the sense that the two richest nations are so useless! I also have a sneaking suspicion that having all that money to spend on coaching damages a team as much as helping it – and that other teams with more self-reliant and game-intelligent players might have a perverse sort of advantage. Something similar appears to be the case in rugby where the SH teams are much poorer than France and England but the quality gap seems to be getting larger in favour of the SH.
Finally, fast bowling across the world isn't so bad. Starc has been brilliant at the Gabba, Riaz can clock 95 mph and Milne in NZ and Rabada in SA are hugely promising. It's not the 1980s I'll grant you – but it's better than most of the 2000s!
I suppose I am to blame with the other two posts today, but I'd loved to have had a debate over this, rather than KP and the associates. But when one runs a cricket blog, one has to do what one has to do.
One's Toffo. (For those old enough).
Mark Nov 8, 2015 / 10:24 pm
This is a bit meandering and I'm not sure it's really going anywhere but, I like you Dmitri am fascinated by these topics. Any way here goes……
It is interesting your comment about falling participation rates of people playing many of these sports. Maybe it's just that people have many more choices than we did 30/40/50 years ago. Way back when, before many countries got good at some of these sports, English sport was really about the posh boys from the playing fields of Eton. Chariots of Fire and all that. Then the natives started improving. So the working classes started to get more involved. Working class lads have been the backbone of English fast bowlers for decades. From Harold Larwood to the present day. But their numbers are dwindling as the facilities rot away.
Then in the 70s a new dimension appeared. The children of the immigrants that came here in the late 50s and 60s started to play a role. We forget the racist stuff they had to go through in the 70s. I remember one particular MSM pundit regularly claiming in the 1980s that John Barnes did not have the same allegiance to England because of his WI routes. But it was in athletics they really started to achieve. The British didn't quite know if they liked it or not. But hey, all these black people running meant that team GB got to win a lot of medals and it meant the playing of the national anthem and the flag going up the pole. We adopted a US vision. The immigrants could be useful, seeing as the 1950s Jeffrey Archers just didn't cut in any more. We started importing other sporting immigrants. Some already fully formed. From Zola Budd, Alan Lamb, through to he who can't be named. On the way taking in Greg Rudeski the tennis player. Winning you see, was becoming everything. Not the taking part.
Britain has always been divided between those who play and those who watch. For decades we had the biggest tennis tournament in the world, and no players who ever made it past the first week. Never forget Fred Perry was a working class kid who became a professional and was treated like shit by the administrators . The British elites were happy to watch. Wimbledon, The lords Test, were events in their own right. Part of the summer scene. Somewhere to to be seen at rather than participate in. We have some of the best golf and Tennis clubs in the world. But a lot of the golfing talent of the last 40 years has come from the public courses. Private clubs are for the enjoyment of the fee paying members. Not to produce talent.
Rohan Nov 8, 2015 / 11:01 pm
Hey come on Dmitri, calling Palace jokers is a bit harsh😉! There my team and like your beloved Millwall are normally a yo-yo team as well. Although to be fair, we do tend to yo-yo between championship and premier league!
Anyway a game my brother (spurs fan – oh dear) and I like to play is to imagine how good our respective teams would be, if we had/could keep all of our best players (over the past 20 years) and not sell them off!
I really like this post, something different and shows a true love of sport. Something that is often lacking from the MSM who seem to be there, to mainly exaggerate how poor or good the respective sport they are writing about is. Great read Dmitri and don't be afraid to praise the Eagles!
LordCanisLupus Nov 8, 2015 / 11:11 pm
I love so many sports, and yet I feel that the love is being used for others to make a ton of money from me. What was once free, is now costly. What was once rationed so that it was special, is now blanket, wall-to-wall coverage.
What I really love is competition. Well run clubs succeeding (as much as I hate the Patriots, for example, they have a genius coach) because of key personnel, not because of how much money they can spend. It also has to be available to all. It's why I love US sport.
I went to see the Boston Red Sox play in Pittsburgh in 2011. The ticket cost me $10. Parking was $5 about a mile away, but you had a lovely walk over the Clemente Bridge. Imagine that being a Premier League game. Oh, and at the time, that was PNC Park's record attendance game. They know they need to get punters in, because it feeds the love. I go to minor league games over there, the love of being there cultivated further. The big teams don't always win. It's great.
"I love so many sports, and yet I feel that the love is being used for others to make a ton of money from me. "
THIS!!!
"What I really love is competition."
Me too, but increasingly it seems a lot of sport is rigged to protect the strong. In recent years I find I like to watch more and more individual sports. Golf, Tennis for example. There are no billion £ owners. There are no all powerful guru coaches who think they win with mind games. It's more about the sportsman. One on one. No clever dick manager who can buy a new centre forward from the other side of the world. You have what you have. Improve or fade away.
Benny Nov 9, 2015 / 1:58 pm
I'm late again. Have to say that this thread illustrates why I value blogs, especially this one. Reckon I support every word in your post Dmitri and Simon in particular offers very perceptive comment.
Don't believe that having problems with the capitalism makes you lefty Dmitri. We live in a world where our TV shows appeals to help kids in Africa who are dying through lack of clean, disease free water, while billions of dollars are spent on trying to determine if there used to be water on Mars!
Now and then. My first memory was listening on the wireless to May and Cowdrey's monumental 411 to save us against WI in 1957. Since then, I have always enjoyed good cricket and great cricketers. I sincerely believe life was simpler way back when. For example, travelling to the Oval was easier. Hey, I still remember attending a charity match featuring Colin Cowdrey, Tony Hancock (funniest looking bowler ever) and Sid James. How old-fashioned am I?
Now, I believe everything is stressful. Travel is overcrowded and horrible, players argue with umpires and threaten to break arms, commerce is all over everything, administrators are in the way, the Press rips into players and even those of us outside cricket, a batsman gets criticised for scoring 355 – think I'll stop there.
On the good side, it is still a joy to sit down in a cricket ground, share a beer and a chat with a mate, watch bowlers and batsmen in skilful combat and shut everything else out for a few hours
Cheers Benny, and amen to the last bit. We should do it again next season! Maybe down in Hove?
thebogfather Nov 9, 2015 / 2:13 pm
A great read – thanks
Zeitkratzer Stockhausen Nov 10, 2015 / 1:37 pm
That's a good read. Not enough about KP in it but glory hunter you certainly ain't !
LordCanisLupus Nov 10, 2015 / 1:38 pm
Why thank you. I take it as praise indeed.


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Q: Проблема размещения 3 колонок в двух рядах, как пофиксить? Необходимо разместить 3 колонки в 1 контейнере но двух рядах, где:

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*Третья колонка размещается в 2 ряду и занимает все свободное место контейнера.

Проблемы на примере ниже:

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*Пример 1: то, как хочется это видеть (в данном случае, для примера, пришлось задать фиксированную ширину контейнеру, а хочется, чтобы ширина задавалась автоматически, в зависимости от занимаемой ширины колонок).

*Примеры 2-4: везде остается место в первом ряду, хотя колонки визуально там нет.

Какие варианты есть?

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A: Не совсем понял задачу, но, кажется, такое можно сделать на гридах + использовать min-content/max-content/fit-content:

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YPSILANTI, Mich. -- For the second-straight match, the Ohio volleyball team found itself in a five-set fight on the road.
This time, the Bobcats came away with the upper hand.
Ohio (9-11, 3-3 MAC) prevailed over Eastern Michigan (10-12, 2-4 MAC), 3-2 (25-23, 24-26, 25-19, 27-29, 15-13), on Saturday (Oct. 7) at EMU's Convocation Center.
"Very important road conference win for us," said fourth-year head coach Deane Webb. "We were able to earn 22 points combined from blocking and serving, and those were important points for us."
The Bobcats improved to 4-2 in five-set matches in 2017.
Sophomore outside hitter Lizzie Stephens (Dallas, Texas) piled up a match-high 22 kills and hit .270. She also achieved a double-double with 18 digs, giving her a team-high eight double-doubles on the season. She recorded a match-high four service aces and a career-high four total blocks (one solo, three assisted). Freshman middle blocker Tia Jimerson (Sugar Hill, Ga.) hit .229 with 19 kills and posted a double-double with 12 digs for her fourth-straight double-double. She tied for the team lead with six total blocks (four solo, two assisted) and also added an assist. Junior setter/outside hitter Stephanie Olman (Maumee, Ohio) nearly posted a double-double with 13 kills and nine digs. She also contributed a solo block and an assist. Sophomore middle blocker/outside hitter Sara Januszewski (Oak Creek, Wis.) tied her season-high with six total blocks (one solo, five assisted). She also finished with four kills and three digs. Freshman setter Vera Giacomazzi (San Vendemiano, Italy) achieved her seventh career double-double and fourth in a row with a match-high 57 assists and 18 digs. She also had a kill, a service ace and three assisted blocks. Sophomore libero Meredith Howe (Grand Rapids, Mich.) led the team with 20 digs and also added a service ace and four assists. Redshirt sophomore outside hitter Carley Remmers (Filley, Neb.) compiled 12 digs and two service aces.
"Lizzie was good throughout the match, scoring both attacking and from the service line," said Webb.
The Bobcats pulled out a two-point victory in the opening set behind by six kills and a solo block by Jimerson, five kills and two total blocks (one solo, one assisted) by Stephens and four kills and a solo block by Olman.
Ohio dropped the second set despite six kills, a service ace and an assisted block by Stephens. Eastern Michigan jumped out to a 10-5 lead behind three kills by freshman outside hitter Franki Strefling and two kills by senior middle blocker Kelly Ferguson. The Bobcats countered with a 13-8 run to even the score at 18-all, utilizing four kills by Stephens. Ohio had set point at 24-21 after two kills by Stephens, another by Januszewski and three attack errors by the Eagles. The set unraveled for the Bobcats from there, though, after back-to-back Ohio attack errors, two kills by Eastern Michigan junior outside hitter Jordan Smith and another by Ferguson.
In the third set, Stephens broke a 10-all tie with a kill, and the Bobcats hand control for the rest of the way to take a 2-1 match lead. Stephens hit .429 for the set with six kills and added a service ace and an assisted block. Jimerson chipped in three total blocks (one solo, two assisted) and two kills. After Eastern Michigan pulled within one at 15-14 on an Ohio attack error, the Bobcats closed out the set win with a 10-5 run, taking advantage of two kills and a service ace by Stephens and a service ace by Howe.
The Bobcats received five kills and a solo block by Jimerson, four kills by Stephens, three kills by Olman and three total blocks by Januszewski (one solo, two assisted) in the fourth set. The Eagles countered with five kills and four total blocks (two solo, two assisted) by Ferguson, five kills apiece by Smith and Strefling and three total blocks (one solo, two assisted) by redshirt sophomore middle blocker/right side hitter Cassie Haut. Trailing 22-17, the Bobcats went on a 5-0 run after a kill and a service ace by Stephens, back-to-back kills by Olman and another service ace by Stephens. The Eagles grabbed set point, though, after a kill by Smith and a double block by Haunt and Ferguson. A solo block by Januszewski and three-straight attack errors by Eastern Michigan gave Ohio set point at 26-25. Eastern Michigan grabbed control back after kills by Strefling and Smith, but the Bobcats tied it up after a kill by Jimerson. The set came undone after Ohio after back-to-back attack errors, though, and Eastern Michigan sent the match to a fifth set.
The fifth set was a back-and-forth battle. With the score even at five-all, kills by Olman and Stephens helped Ohio grab an 8-6 edge. Kills by sophomore setter Riley Taylor and an Ohio attack error evened the score at eight-all, but Ohio snatched an 11-9 advantage after a kill by Stephens and a bad set and an attack error by Eastern Michigan. Two kills by Smith and another by Haut tied it up at 12-all for the Eagles. A kill by Jimerson put the Bobcats two points away from victory, but Ferguson tied the score again for Eastern Michigan. Ohio made the final push to a win, though, thanks to a kill by Jimerson and a bad set by the Eagles.
"EMU had a player go down at the end of the match. We're hoping and praying that she is okay," said Webb.
Smith led Eastern Michigan with 20 kills and added 22 digs. She also logged two assisted blocks, a service ace and two assists. Sterfling finished with 15 kills and 13 digs. Ferguson totaled 14 kills, hitting .414, and led the match with eight total blocks (four solo, four assisted). She also had an assist and two digs. Redshirt junior setter Mallory Rajewski led the Eagles with a match-high 32 digs and 28 assists. She also had three kills and a serive ace. Riley also gave Eastern Michigan a double-double with 26 assists and 10 digs. She also added a kill. Junior defensive specialist/libero Alyssa LaFace recorded 27 digs and eight assists.
Ohio returns to Athens next weekend, hosting a pair of MAC West Division foes at the Convocation Center. The Bobcats will take on Toledo next Friday (Oct. 13), then welcome Ball State on Saturday (Oct. 14). Both matches are set for 7 p.m. ET starts will be streamed live on ESPN3. The matchup with the Cardinals will serve as Ohio's Dig Pink match.


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Mark W. Craig, 56 of Dubuque, Iowa passed away Saturday, October 16, 2021 at MercyOne Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa.
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PAKISTAN is facing its worst flooding for 60 years, as heavy rainfall continues in some regions. An estimated 33 million people have been affected by the intense flooding with a death toll of 1,300. Eighty of 160 districts have been declared as 'calamity hit' according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
'In response to the devastation, the government of Pakistan has released funds, including immediate cash relief,' said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a video message after several months of rainfall. 'But the scale of needs is rising like the flood waters.'
The Salvation Army is operating to provide relief without discrimination. Affected families, with an average size of six people, are being supported with cooked food, hygiene articles and shelter arrangements. The Salvation Army is working in close coordination with government agencies to ensure maximum effectiveness.
'We were not expecting this. For some, everything is gone,' said George William, Partnerships and Programme Development Consultant for The Salvation Army in Pakistan. 'It seems to be bigger than we know. In some places, people are unable to be reached. There are also those who have been contacted and supported by relief workers just in time. Salvation Army workers met with a community leader. He had been concerned about how people would survive as he had not expected additional help to access the village. He wept tears of relief when The Salvation Army arrived to assist him and gave him the opportunity to be part of the distribution efforts and serve his community.
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So something that has always interested me is making my own axolotl pellets. i primarily feed earthworms and night crawlers, with the occasional bits of bloodworm cubes, repashy meat pie, and hikari pellets. my axolotls go CRAZY for the hikari pellets but i want to make something on my own so that i know exactly what im feeding my pets.
White Fish Meal, Shrimp Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Wheat Flour, Alpha Starch, Brewer'S Dried Yeast, L-Lysin, Dl-Methionine, Fish Oil, Vitamin A Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (Source Of Vitamin C), D-Activated Animal Sterol (Source Of Vitamin D3), Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Choline Chloride, Inositol, Calcium Iodate, Manganese Sulfate, Magnesium Carbonate.
i primarily dont want to use these anymore because of all the starches and wheats in them. i know they wont kill my axies but i also know its not nutritional. any ideas?
The problem with the pellets composition is that some of those ingredients are used to give the pellets the right consistency.
Anyway, if there is enough percentage of protein, that is around 60% if I'm not mistaken, the food is fine.
Maybe look into making frozen cubes instead? My axies have always loved them and will eat them if they are being fussy with other foods. It will probably be a lot easier and you don't have to worry about the unnecessary ingredients to keep it all together.


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Jean de Marville, Jehan de Marville ou Hennequin de Marville, tel que le nomment les textes de l'époque, est un sculpteur français de la fin du  (mort en ), originaire du Nord de la France ou de la Meuse. Il est à Saint-Pierre de Lille en 1366, en 1369 à la cathédrale de Rouen.
En 1372 il entre au service du  duc de Bourgogne Philippe le Hardi. Ce dernier l'associe au chantier de la chartreuse de Champmol, il y travaillera jusqu'à sa mort en 1389, Claus Sluter lui succède à la tête de l'atelier de sculpture.

Jean de Marville dirige l'atelier de sculpture de la chartreuse de Champmol probablement jusqu'en 1389, mais Erwin Panowski considère que la part de ce premier maître sculpteur reste relativement faible dans les œuvres qui ont été préservées, la majorité d'entre elles étant attribuées à Claus Sluter,  à Claes van de Werve et à Jacques de Baerze.

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1366 : effectue des travaux de réfection d'un pilier dans la collégiale Saint-Pierre de Lille (aujourd'hui disparue).
 Travaille sous la direction de Jean de Liège au tombeau des entrailles de Charles V en la cathédrale de Rouen.
1372 : il devient "maître imagier" du duc de Bourgogne, Philippe le Hardi.
1381 : Jean de Marville engage Claus Sluter comme ouvrier.
1381 : Philippe le Hardi  lui commande sa sépulture.
1384 : conception de la sépulture du duc de Bourgogne, Jean de Marville en réalise les arcatures, mais la sépulture sera réalisée essentiellement par Claus Sluter puis Claes van de Werve.
1388 : conception du portail de la chapelle de la chartreuse avec Drouet de Dammartin, Claus Sluter en sera le principal artisan, certains historiens de l'art attribuent néanmoins une partie des sculptures à Jean de Marville.

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Sculpteur bourguignon
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Date de naissance non renseignée (XIVe siècle)
Décès en 1389


So, what is The Shift?
The Shift is about showing up to your profession and practice with congruity and empathy. With concern to congruity we advocate that you approach your job & sessions as you are ... be whom and what makes you happy! There is no "right" way to be a Pilates Teacher. It's about learning to fill your time and space with your passion while still honoring the heritage of Contrology. Further we endorse an empathetic approach to professionalism - learning to put aside our knowledge / opinions / worldview in order to listen to and hear our colleagues & students is paramount to creating a Pilates culture we are all proud of. Being met with sincerity and openness is what matters most to people.
The Shift is about facilitating movement experiences that help our students explore Contrology while creating a self-awareness that helps them to DISCERN when to stop, versus when to keep exploring where movements and exercises could potential go. It's about students learning to improve their Movement Potential through physical thinking. It's about acknowledging the difference between discomfort and injurious pain. What is it that you are noticing/feeling? That lesson comes from the emergent properties of practice ... discernment is not a THING to be taught, but with practice and experience can be learned. That practice is less about DOING the exercise and getting it "right," and is more about PRACTICING curiosity around the movement while investigating what it is you could learn from your experience. What am I noticing? How would I like to SHIFT that? What else could this movement become? Where else could it go?
The exercises are what you're doing, but what are you practicing within each of them? The options are as limitless as your creativity, and your capacity to simply pay attention & adjust.
We're promoting skill building. Exercises are non-transferable patterns. Meaning, that getting good at Push-up patterns doesn't necessarily improve Bench Press patterns ... improving my Reformer Footwork doesn't blatantly transfer over to a better Squat. You have to practice the THING to get better at the THING. Want a better Lunge? Keep practicing the Lunge! However, practicing movement with the intention of creating an experience and discernment around that movement will improve the skills needed to make the movement pattern (the exercise) happen more fluidly. Footwork may not make you a better Squatter, but it will improve your ability to connect and integrate your limbs & trunk within the action of pushing. You can then practice those skills within a new movement pattern/exercise. What's being facilitated in movement experiences is an increase in proprioception and interoception, with the intention of creating aware movers that communicate better with their body and others.
If we are stuck strictly training EXERCISES as singularly correct shapes it serves as detriment to the philosophy of Movement; and Contrology & Return to Life are fundamentally philosophical with a foundation based upon forms that are universally present in a number of exercise modalities. (e.g. Teaser - Boat Pose - V-Ups) What distinguishes Pilates from other forms of movement is not the shape of The Teaser, but the fact that moving in and out of that shape is repeated, iterated, and explored in a number of ways (Environments & Relationships to Gravity: Roll-Up / Roll-Over / Up-Stretch / Teaser on The Box / Teaser on the Cadillac / Teaser on The Chair) throughout the system. Meaning that the singular movement is not the point, but that the point is to repeat and practice the movement in a number of ways to figure out how to embody the Movement Potential the best & fullest way you can today. Then do it again tomorrow ... with the intention of shifting the quality over time.
Real Talk: This is NOT something new. We didn't INVENT this line of thinking ... this soapbox.
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Pope: 'Convert all Hindus'
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The pope really did Hindus a favor with his November visit to India. He united Hindus and Buddhists in opposition to conversion, he put Indian Christians in India on the defensive (especially Catholics), and he galvanized the world press in sympathy for Hinduism, giving rise to some clear explanations in the media as to why missionaries are held in suspect by Hindus. CNN/Time said the pope's conversion call was "appalling manners."
The visit went well enough until the end, when the pope officially closed the three-year Asian Synod of Bishops, one of several convened by the church internationally according to region. He issued the "Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Asia of the Holy Father John Paul II to The Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Men and Women in the Consecrated Life and All the Lay Faithful on Jesus Christ the Saviour and His Mission of Love and Service in Asia." You can find the full text at: http://seraphin.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_exhortations/ documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_06111999_ ecclesia-in-asia_en.html –just don't make any typing mistakes [excerpts below tell the story]. The language is much more sophisticated, but the message is the same as the Baptists' Diwali pamphlet [see January, 2000 issue]: There is one true religion (ours); all others are false, lesser, incomplete; we are divinely ordered to convert non-Christians; etc., etc.
The declaration provided unexpected fodder for a previously scheduled meeting of Hindus and Buddhists at Lumbini, Nepal (the birthplace of Buddha). Speaker after speaker denounced the pope's call for his bishops to make ever greater efforts to spread Christianity in Asia. They called it "a war against Hindus and Buddhists" and "a spiritual crime." One Hindu leader from Nepal admitted, "Such a statement was not expected from the pope. It is timely that we Hindus and Buddhists have come together to save our peaceful civilization from the aggressive threat of conversion."
Asiaweek magazine, out of Hong Kong, summed up the matter in an editorial, "The pope's message threatens to alienate liberal Indians who previously dismissed the warnings of Hindu chauvinists as fanatical paranoia. But the pope's statements make clear the Vatican's expansionist agenda. And they lend credence to the longstanding complaint that Christianity's many good works in India are meant to give it a foothold on the nation's soul."
THE CATHOLIC ASIAN PLAN
The Catholic scheme to evangelize Asia is less confrontational and more diplomatic than the Baptists', but no less sweeping. Excerpts:
"Just as in the first millennium the Cross was planted on the soil of Europe, and in the second on that of the Americas and Africa, we can pray that in the Third Christian Millennium a great harvest of faith will be reaped in this vast and vital continent [of Asia]."
"If the Church in Asia is to fulfill its providential destiny, evangelization must be your absolute priority."
"Christ is the one Mediator between God and man and the sole Redeemer of the world, to be clearly distinguished from the founders of other great religions."
"The Bishops and participants bore witness to the character, spiritual fire and zeal which will assuredly make Asia the land of a bountiful harvest in the coming millennium."
"The Church has the deepest respect for these traditions [in Asia] and seeks to engage in sincere dialogue with their followers. The religious values they teach await their fulfillment in Jesus Christ."
"I [the pope] pray to the Lord to send many more committed laborers to reap the harvest of souls which I see as ready and plentiful [in Asia]."
"The universal presence of the Holy Spirit cannot serve as an excuse for a failure to proclaim Jesus Christ explicitly as the one and only Saviour."
"Some of the followers of the great religions of Asia have no problem in accepting Jesus as a manifestation of the Divine or the Absolute, or as an 'enlightened one'. But it is difficult for them to see Him as the only manifestation of the Divine".
"Vatican II taught clearly that the entire Church is missionary, and that the work of evangelization is the duty of the whole People of God."
"Jesus Christ [is] the fulfillment of the yearnings expressed in the mythologies and folklore of the Asian peoples."
"The Synod therefore renewed the commitment of the Church in Asia to the task of improving both ecumenical relations and interreligious dialogue [as] essential to the Church's evangelizing mission on the continent."
"From the Christian point of view, interreligious dialogue is more than a way of fostering mutual knowledge and enrichment; it is a part of the Church's evangelizing mission."
"In many countries, Catholic schools play an important role in evangelization."
"Asia is thirsting for the living water that Jesus alone can give."
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Q: How to installing sha1sum in MAC OS? Problem:
To get the sha1sum value of a file in MAC OS i run the following command
sha1sum file_name

The error I got is following
perl version 5.18.2 can't run /usr/bin/sha1sum.  Try the alternative(s):

/usr/bin/sha1sum5.16 (uses perl 5.16)

Run "man perl" for more information about multiple version support in
Mac OS X.

I tried to install textutils and coreutils, but both failed. Can anyone suggest me how I can resolve the issue ? Thanks in advance.

A: You can install it in Mac OS using homebrew with brew install md5sha1sum. Got the info from this link https://raamdev.com/2008/howto-install-md5sum-sha1sum-on-mac-os-x/

A: MacOS has shasum preinstalled, which calculates sha1 sum by default:
$ shasum --help
Usage: shasum [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Print or check SHA checksums.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

  -a, --algorithm   1 (default), 224, 256, 384, 512, 512224, 512256
[...]

Usage example:
$ echo -n "test" | shasum
a94a8fe5ccb19ba61c4c0873d391e987982fbbd3  -

Also openssl sha1 does the job:
$ echo -n "test" | openssl sha1
a94a8fe5ccb19ba61c4c0873d391e987982fbbd3

A: You can use shasum or openssl to calculate the hash
echo -n "yourpassword" | openssl sha1
b48cf0140bea12734db05ebcdb012f1d265bed84

echo -n "yourpassword" | shasum
b48cf0140bea12734db05ebcdb012f1d265bed84


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'Canada 150 Garden Experience' Designation Awarded to Rideau Woodland Ramble
Toronto, ON - March 13, 2017
In celebration of Canada's sesquicentennial, the Canadian Garden Council in collaboration with the Canadian Nursery Landscape Association, announced the 150 gardens and garden experiences awarded the 'Canada 150 Garden Experience' designation – highlighting them as 150 gardens ways to celebrate Canada's birthday year. Rideau Woodland Ramble is very proud to have received this designation helping represent Eastern Ontario and the Ottawa Region in celebrating gardens and gardening in Canada. The full list may be seen at www.canadasgardenroute.ca
Rideau Woodland Ramble is a Garden Centre and Display Gardens situated on 7 acres of woodland near Merrickville Ontario. Its mission is "to capture the imagination of gardeners and collectors", in a woodland setting, showcasing and selling rare and unusual Hostas, Grasses, Conifers, Magnolias, and a range of shrubs, trees and perennials.
The Ramble is just 30 minutes south of Ottawa and is proud to be a member of the Burritt's Rapids, Merrickville and Kemptville (North Grenville) communities, and near the World Heritage site of the Rideau Canal System.
The Ramble was initiated in 1999 with initial site clearing after the ice storm of 1998. The majority of infrastructure was created in 2000, with the Centre opening in the fall of that year. Dave Dunn and Rob Caron were extremely honored and proud to have received the Canadian Garden Council 2015 Destination Garden Centre of the Year Award at the North American Garden Tourism Conference held in Toronto on March 17 2015.
Rideau Woodland Ramble Inc.
7210 Burritt's Rapids Rd
www.rideauwoodlandramble.com
Open 7 days a week April to November
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The role of a Construction Technician Level 4 (CT4) is to engage in construction, installation, and repair of structures and fixtures. The CT4 reports directly to the Construction Manager. The CT4 determines the work needed to be performed on the jobsite on a daily basis; selects materials and structural units and inspects them to ensure conformance with provisions of building code and local ordinance; determines sequence of activities needed and communicates them with the crew. On occasion the CT4 will also have direct communication with the client's Construction Managers.


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Q: bulk upload text file using Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB i have following code and i tried everything mentioned on online and couldn't able to read data from text file.
string path=@"D:\New folder\abc.txt"
string pathOnly = Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
string fileName = Path.GetFileName(path);

string excelConnectionString = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + pathOnly + @";Extended Properties=""text;HDR=YES;FMT=TabDelimited""";
OleDbConnection excelConnection = new OleDbConnection(excelConnectionString);

excelConnection.Open();
OleDbCommand cmd = excelConnection.CreateCommand();
cmd.CommandText = String.Format("SELECT * FROM [{0}]", fileName);
OleDbDataReader dReader;
dReader = cmd.ExecuteReader();

DateTime UploadedDate = DateTime.Now;
DataTable sourceData = new DataTable();
sourceData.Load(dReader);
DataColumn col = new DataColumn("UploadedDateCol", typeof(DateTime));
col.DefaultValue = UploadedDate;
sourceData.Columns.Add(col);
int x = sourceData.Rows.Count;

always this x value is 0. my pc is 64 bit pc.
Or else is there any other library that i can use for bulk upload.
My .txt file as below: these values are separated by tab or pipeline(|)
0421230424  3391542691  5295963551  2755344586  12345678

A: As far as tab delimited files are concerned, you should always have a look at the FileHelper library.
Don't reinvent the wheel, this library is very mature.

The FileHelpers are a free and easy to use .NET library to
  import/export data from fixed length or delimited records in files,
  strings or streams.
The idea is pretty simple:
You can strong type your flat file (fixed or delimited) simply
  describing a class that maps to each record and later read/write your
  file as an strong typed .NET array
The Library also has support for import/export data from differents
  storages like Excel, Access, SqlServer, etc.

A: In order to overcome this problem defined details in Schema.ini file. if the file name is abc.txt then its need to create abc.ini file in same location.
 string iniFileMsg = "[" + newfileName + ".txt]";
 StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(newFilePath + "/schema.ini", false);
 sw.WriteLine(iniFileMsg);
 sw.WriteLine("Format=Delimited(|)");
 sw.WriteLine("ColNameHeader=True");
 sw.Flush();

If you have different coumns then its need to add as follows:
 List<string> columns = excelobj.GetCSVColumnNames(excelUploadedFullPath);
                //  sw.WriteLine("Col1=Phone Text Width 10");
for (int i = 0; i < columns.Count; i++)
{
   sw.WriteLine("Col" + (i + 1) + "=" + columns[i].Replace(" ", "_") + " Text Width 100");
}
sw.Flush();
sw.Close();

From GetCSVColumnNames() i got column names. after that i upload data as above method


The Veteran Affairs office is located in the Clayton County Office Building. The director is a County Veterans national service officer and a member of NACVSO.
The director is also responsible for the dispersal of any monetary assistance following an application process and approval by the Clayton County Veteran Affairs commissioners.
If you're a veteran that is either looking to buy a home or refinance the home you currently own, VA Home Loan Centers could be a valuable resource.


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May 15, 2015 -- The Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation's (SMMEF) second annual wine auction raised more than $250,000 to support programs at all local public schools, foundation officials announced last week.
The fundraiser -- held at the Miramar Hotel on April 30 -- drew nearly $400 guests. Of the $254,906 raised, $132,500 came from corporate partners, officials said.
Thirty-three local restaurants and beverage purveyors participated in the event, which included silent auctions. Sixteen other businesses and organizations helped sponsor the event.
"Our second Wine Auction was even more successful than the inaugural event," said David Vukadinovich, president of the SMMEF Board of Directors. "It surpassed all expectations.
"Everything –- from the beautiful location, to the outstanding food and wine, to the incredible weather -- was perfect. We are grateful to everyone who was part of this event to support all students in our district."
The event was presented by Dun & Bradstreet, Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows/MSD Capital, Kaiser Permanente and Saint John's Health Center Affiliation Endowment Fund.
The proceeds will help fund staff and programs that include arts education for the district's 4,900 elementary students, 87 instructional assistants, and enrichment grants for all 16 schools in the district, foundation officials said.
Many schools use the funds for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), arts and student health and wellness programs, officials said.
"We are so thankful for our Corporate Partners and their support of this outstanding event," said Linda Greenberg, executive director of the Education Foundation. "Our Corporate Partners really understand that outstanding schools are directly connected to a strong and vibrant community."
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(12 votes, average: 3.08 / 5)
Dark Age Wars is a browser-based 2D strategy game that puts players in-charge of managing a small medieval city and growing it into a strong and mighty kingdom.
Publisher: Pixabit
Type: Browser Strategy Game
Pros: +Realistic geography. +Plenty of quests. +Strong Music.
Cons: -Generic gameplay. -Pay-to-win elements. -No innovative features.
Dark Age Wars Overview
Take on the role of a young lord returning from the crusades and take charge of your very own village. Decide on building placements and guide your city from its humble beginnings as a log village to an impregnable fortress in a harsh medieval environment plagued by rebels. Join alliances and make friends with your neighbors, or loot them for resources and dominate the battlefield. Conquer territories and destroy enemy strongholds to expand your influence and secure your place in the world. Gameplay in Dark Age Wars is very similar to other web strategy games like Imperia Online and Elvenar.
Dark Age Wars Key Features:
Interactive World Map – check out your neighbors' profile or launch attacks right from the world map based on real-world Europe.
Starter Quests – make starting your city an easier and more rewarding time by completing beginner quests.
Customizable City Layout – choose where you want to place your buildings. Watch your city grow and change from a wooden palisade to a stone fortress.
Forge Alliances – band together with other players to help you conquer territories and achieve world domination.
Medieval Theme – build your castle and be the lord of a vast land.
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Dark Age Wars Review
By Marc Marasigan
Dark Age Wars is a 2D browser-based strategy game developed and published by Pixabit. The game was officially released on June 18, 2008 and can be played through the game's official website. The game is set in medieval Europe sometime after the crusades. As a young squire returning from the crusades, players are tasked with ruling and managing their own piece of land and lead it from a ramshackle village to a thriving and impenetrable city.
The game's graphics are typical of empire-building games with the added bonus of being able to see your structures improve over time. The background music is quite good, in my opinion, and is reminiscent of Gregorian chants, which succeeds in giving the game an eerie medieval feel.
Welcome, Young Squire
After facing grueling and bloody battles in the crusades, players are then given a more challenging task, ruling and managing their own village. Like most games in the genre, players start out with a barren plot of land that they then have to build up into a mighty empire. Players are given a bit of help at the beginning of the game with starter quests. These quests serve as the game's tutorial and teaches players gameplay basics like construction, upgrading, recruiting units, managing resources, and how to interact with the world map. The starting quests reward players by instantly constructing certain buildings as well as providing them with resources, gold, and military units. After completing the starting quests, players are then asked to complete regular quests throughout the game. Although the rewards for completing these quests seem a bit too low, they still serve as great guides for improving and strengthening a village for newbies and veterans alike.
Dark Age Wars' gameplay is similar to other city-building strategy games and is fairly typical of the genre. Players focus on improving their cities and managing resources while also recruiting military units to attack other cities and defend their own. Ensuring that your city has a stable economy is the key to Dark Age Wars and almost every other game in the genre. Military units used for attacking or for defense are next on the list. With the right type of units and the right army size, players can then attack NPC rebels and other players, or defend from attacks sent their way. Attacking rebel cities allows players to conquer them, provided that they have an heir, which they can recruit from their Royal Estates. Attacking other players, on the other hand, only rewards resources.
In Dark Age Wars, achieving victory in combat is all about picking the right type of units. Archers, for example, are good against any other units except mounted ones. Militia, on the other hand, don't cost much to recruit but are extremely vulnerable to swordsmen. Although simply having a large army gets the job done most of the time, it's still a good idea to factor in which units work best against other units when creating an army.
Reaching the Top
Unlike similar games, like Tribal Wars, where the goal is to be the last surviving tribe or guild, the ultimate goal in Dark Age Wars is to merely reach the top of the rankings when the game server closes, which, as far as I can tell, is six months from its opening. Player rank is measured by honor points which players gain from performing in-game tasks such as constructing and upgrading buildings, as well as attacking and conquering territories. Getting to the top may seem all but impossible considering that you'll be competing with hundreds of other players for the top spots. But with hard work and a whole lot of patience, it should be quite doable.
Diplomacy plays a big part in surviving most strategy games and Dark Age Wars is no different. Players can join Alliances, the game's version of guilds, or form their own. Alliances can be formed for free by any player, and can have a maximum of 10 players on their roster. While players can take the aggressive route and dominate the playing field, getting to the top can be a much easier experience, and probably more fun with friends and allies helping you out.
Dark Age Wars, like most free-to-play games, earns money through microtransactions. Players with a little extra cash on their hands can purchase Gold, the game's premium currency, to give them an edge over the free-playing community. Gold can be used for a variety of things, including additional building or recruitment slots, discounts on construction costs, and speeding up construction time. Nevertheless, these advantages don't really break the game in any way. It's worth mentioning, however, that free-to-play players only get one building slot to work with. Two would have been just fine, but paying for an additional slot just seems a bit too much.
Final Verdict - Fair
Although Dark Age Wars doesn't really bring anything new to the table, it still has all the elements needed for a solid strategy game. The limited building slots is the only glaring problem that I encountered, but overall, the game is well-made and would certainly appeal to fans and even new players of strategy games. The biggest drawback is the generic gameplay and environments. There are far too many of these browser based strategy games and most of them offer nothing new.
Dark Age Wars Links
Dark Age Wars Official Site
Dark Age Wars Facebook
Dark Age Wars Requirements
Operating System: XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Equivalent
Video Card: Any Graphics Card (Integrated works well too)
Hard Disk Space: 100 MB (Cache)
Dark Age Wars is a browser based MMO and will run smoothly on practically any PC. The game was tested and works well on Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Chrome. Any modern web-browser should run the game smoothly.
Dark Age Wars Additional Information
Developer: Pixabit
Dark Age Wars is a free-to-play browser based strategy game developed and published by California based Pixelbit Games / FinalMotive gaming network. FinalMotive / Pixelbit also publish Pirate Quest, VileCity, Mafia Battle, Biocidecity, and Fight West.
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Karl Reinhold von Handtwig (: Карл Егорович фон Гантвиг; getauft  in Fegefeuer, Gouvernement Estland; †  in Sankt Petersburg) war ein deutsch-baltischer Ritter und Generalleutnant in der Kaiserlich-russischen Armee.

Herkunft und Familie
Karl Reinhold v.H. stammte aus dem deutsch-baltischen Adelsgeschlecht von Handtwig, welches seit ca. 1650 in Estland ansässig war. Sein Vater war der Herr auf Kaenda und Fegefeuer Georg Adolf von Handtwig († 1752), der mit Eva Margaretha von Baumgarten verheiratet war. Dessen Bruder war der Rostocker Professor Gustav Christian von Handtwig (1713–1776). Karl heiratete 1788 in Sankt Petersburg Elisabeth Karoline von Saß (1748–1823) eine verwitwete von Klingstedt, ihr Sohn war Karl Adam von Handtwig.
1764 erhielt er das livländische und 1765 das estländische Indigenat. Von 1790 bis 1792 war er Patron der St.-Annen-Kirche in Sankt Petersburg.

Militärische Laufbahn
Seine militärische Laufbahn begann 1755 in der Garde der Kaiserlich-russischen Armee, in die er im Semjonowskoje-Leibgarderegiment als Musketier eintrat. Ab 1757 im Dienstgrad eines Podporutschik (Unterleutnant) diente er in verschiedenen Linienregimentern und wurde 1760 zum Leutnant ernannt. Während der Teilnahme am Siebenjährigen Krieg wurde er in der Schlacht von Zorndorf (1758) verwundet, nahm im gleichen Jahr an der Belagerung von Kolberg teil und kämpfte 1759 in der Schlacht bei Kay und der Schlacht bei Kunersdorf. Ab 1763 diente er wieder in einem Garderegiment und 1765 im Preobraschensker Leib-Garderegiment. Als Freiwilliger nahm er 1770 als Kapitänleutnant an der Flottenexpedition in das Mittelmeer teil und war bei der Seeschlacht von Çeşme eingesetzt. 1771 wurde er zum Hauptmann und 1773 zum Brigadier befördert. Er diente im Chevalier-Korps und seine Beförderung zum Generalmajor erfolgte bereits 1774. Von 1777 bis 1782 versah er seinen Dienst bei der Estland-Division und wurde 1780 zum Generalleutnant befördert. Nach einer kurzen Kriegsverwendung 1789 wurde er wieder nach Sankt Petersburg versetzt. Am 24. November 1782 wurde er mit dem Russischen Orden der Heiligen Anna ausgezeichnet. Seit 1782 war er auch Mitglied des Kriegskollegiums und diente bis 1784 in der finnischen Division, 1784 in der 7. Division, 1785 in der 1. Division, 1788 in der Weißrussischen Division, 1789 in der kaiserlichen Armee und von 1790 bis 1792 wieder in der finnischen Division. Er starb am 29. April 1792 als aktiver General im Dienst.

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 Eintrag in Erik-Amburger-Datenbank; Ausländer im vorrevulutionären Russland (Datensatz: 67719)

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Exsulite rendered foam cladding was used for the extension. It is more cost beneficial, but more importantly it means less weight bearing on the structure below. One aspect of this project which was really interesting from our perspective was the unique steel spine staircase with spotted gum hard wood tread that connected the upstairs extension to the rest of the house. The open look of the staircase really allows the feel of open spacious living in a small area.
We also undertook renovations to the existing house, including new carpets throughout, new stone benchtops in the kitchen and a new laundry. Our clients were still able to live in their house during the extension and renovation works.


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Endurance is the ability to withstand hardship and adversity while maintaining a prolonged stressful effort. This ability is particularly crucial in the high-performance sport of endurance racing.
Endurance racing is tough, and it stands out from other kinds of motorsports. It not only tests drivers' stamina and skills but also, the car's durability, efficiency, and reliability. It's also proven that when a car can go the distance and perform, its driver will have the best experience possible.
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4 Our Goal: Winning Against the Best of the Best
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Aerodynamics is key in car racing, as it ultimately allows the vehicle to reach and maintain high speeds during challenging turns and straights. Even with an equal amount of thrust (or power), a more aerodynamic car will move more quickly than one that is hindered by its shape.
The bulk of the downforce lies on the car's lower surface. However, the bottom of the car also repeatedly touches the racetrack and, consequently, accumulates wear and changes shape. Therefore, testing for wear and tear on the car's underside is crucial to preserve downforce and maintain aerodynamics.
Given the complexity of the deformations being measured, a traditional tool like a measuring tape or a caliper would only provide very basic measurements. At this performance level, a team wishing to stay at the top has no choice but to opt for a higher technology that aligns with its state-of-the-art racing cars.
This is how Creaform technology joined the race.
A Measurement Solution That Stands Out
With Creaform 3D scanning, WTR is able to take precise measurements of complex surfaces and incredible details. Using the MetraSCAN 3D, the engineers can now scan the car bottom and view a digitalized 3D model of the surface. This enables them to precisely identify which section needs better protection against wear and tear.
Thanks to scan data, they can now determine how much loss and wear the car's underside has experienced during an endurance race and its correlation to aerodynamic losses. Creaform 3D scanning technology has been a valuable acquisition for WTR in terms of optimizing the underbody aerodynamics of racing cars.
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The precise and accurate measurements provided by Creaform scanning technology are now essential for building better tooling and car parts. Most importantly, everything can now be built in-house at WTR, avoiding the need to outsource these tasks elsewhere.
Endurance racing's sophisticated and complex automotive requirements make 3D scanning technology a vital tool for the design of today's racing vehicles. The difference it makes is clear just from looking at the results of the top endurance races and championships.
Our Goal: Provide Competitive Design & Manufacturing Solutions
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"The Creaform technology has been truly eye opening," says Travis Houge, Vice President and General Manager at WTR. "We have found so many unexpected ways to use the scanner and I'm excited to see what we can develop with this technology."
In racing, the key to reaching and staying at the top is utilizing technology in the quickest and most efficient way. For this particular reason, WTR is happy to have developed this partnership with Creaform and is looking forward to new applications to harness the power of 3D scanning. "Creaform, for us, is the future!"
A select few teams and drivers have been able to take pride in their performances and wins at these prestigious endurance races. It is on such a track record that renowned sports car champion Wayne Taylor founded his racing team.
Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, the motorsports capital of the world, Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) has built a proven track record of success and ingenuity since its foundation in 2007, especially in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the North America Lamborghini Super Trofeo series.
WTR strives to stay at the forefront of racing and continue its legacy of winning top endurance races and championships. As motorsport evolves and innovates, the team called on Creaform's expertise and technology to help them solve any problem that could arise for their endurance sports cars during a race.
Original Article: https://www.creaform3d.com/blog/how-3d-scanning-optimizes-the-underbody-aerodynamics-of-race-cars/
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