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City in the city: see Manchester in a whole new light on this guided tour
Explore the city centre's rich history and get the behind-the-scenes scoop at the Etihad.
Manchester City football club has teamed up with Manchester tour guide Jonathan Schofield to create a new group package tour that will get visitors looking at Manchester in a whole new way.
Called the City in the city tour, this new experience merges Jonathan Schofield's tour of central Manchester with Manchester City's own guided tour behind the scenes of the Etithad Stadium, recently taken by stars including Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Beyonce and Jay Z as part of their summer roster of gigs.
The Manchester city centre tour
Starting in the heart of Manchester, groups booking on to the City in the city tour will begin the day with a tour of the city centre. Here you'll learn – if you didn't already know – that Manchester is much more than just great football.
The tour will visit Chetham's Library, the Cathedral, the Royal Exchange and many more of Manchester's incredible historic buildings. On the way, Jonathan will reveal stories of Manchester's past, present and future.
You will learn all about Manchester's 25 Nobel prize-winners and delve into its history of pioneering cultural, social and political movements.
The tour will also touch on Manchester's great comedians, musicians, pubs and restaurants. Designed to make you both think and laugh, you'll pick up a few interesting tidbits about the city to show off to your mates here too.
On request – make sure to request it – the city centre tour will finish in one of Manchester's historic pubs so that you can enjoy a drink from one of the city's 80-plus breweries.
The Manchester City Stadium 'Behind the Scenes' tour
On the second leg of the tour, you'll walk in the footsteps of your favourite Manchester City players as part of the Etihad's fascinating behind-the-scenes tour, making the trip from town to the stadium via a ten-minute tram journey.
One of Manchester City's expert professional guides will lead you around the stadium, showing you everything from the team's arrival to pre-match preparations, from the big match to their post-match media obligations, all to help you gain a true understanding of the match-day experience from the players' perspective.
You can also peek into new, previously unseen areas such as the Tunnel Club – the first of its kind in world football – and walk the tunnel to the pitch just like your favourite players. Your guide will bring each area to life with interesting stories, facts and anecdotes.
The group tour lasts 3-3.5 hours and is priced at £20 per person with a minimum group number of 20. Transport from the city centre to the Etihad Stadium is 10 mins by tram (ticket not included). Contact 0161 444 1894, Option 4, Option 2, to make a booking.
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The End of the French Intellectual
From Zola to Houellebecq
by Shlomo Sand Translated by David Fernbach
304 pages / April 2018 / 9781786635082
April 2018 / 9781786635112
Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to Islamophobia
The best-selling author of The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the troublesome figure of the French intellectual. Revered throughout the Francophile world, France's tradition of public intellectual engagement stems from Voltaire and Zola and runs through Sartre and Foucault to the present day. The intellectual enjoys a status as the ethical lodestar of his nation's life, but, as Sand shows, the recent history of these esteemed figures shows how often, and how profoundly, they have fallen short of the ideal.
Sand examines Sartre and de Beauvoir's unsettling accommodations during the Nazi occupation and then shows how Muslims have replaced Jews as the nation's scapegoats for a new generation of public intellectuals, including Michel Houellebecq and Alain Finkielkraut. Possessing an intimate knowledge of the Parisian intellectual milieu, Sand laments the degradation of a literary elite, but questions the value of that class at the best of times.
Drawing parallels between the Dreyfus Affair and Charlie Hebdo, while mixing reminiscence with analysis, Sand casts a characteristically candid and mordant gaze upon the intellectual scene of today.
"Combining rigorous historical investigation and passionate political intervention is rare, yet it is precisely what Shlomo Sand has achieved in this well-informed, insightful book. The recent wave of reactionary, Islamophobic intellectuals in France—and elsewhere—has found one of its fiercest analysts. By reexamining the history of the 'French intellectual' in the longue durée, Shlomo Sand offers robust criticism of our present—and also helps us imagine how future forms of political intellectuality could emerge."
– Razmig Keucheyan, author of Nature Is a Battlefield
Philosophy: A Verso Bookshelf
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I love Jaffa Cakes - they are the only Dark Chocolate containing thing I can stomach eating. Dark chocolate and I don't get along! Jaffa cakes just make me think back to school days when they sold the little snack packs of JC's in the refectory and we'd get them at break. So, I thought why not up my game and make that memory into a cake!
Now, I say 'drizzle' loosely - it should probably be called Jaffa bucket-of-chocolate cake...the more choc the better in my opinion. And because of my dislike for dark chocolate, I did use Cadburys dairy milk instead...and crumbled flakes on top. Delish!
This cake is so ridiculously simple and probably one of my favourites I've made recently.
Put all of the ingredients for the loaf in a bowl and mix together well with a wooden spoon or whisk.The mix needs to be light, fluffy and well combined.
Pop the mix into your loaf tin - try and make it as level as possible.
Pop it into the oven for about 40-50 minutes until golden. The loaf should feel quite firm when it's done.
When the loaf is almost ready, in a bowl, mix together the orange juice and sugar needed for the drizzle.
When the cake is cooked, take it out of the oven and pour/spoon the orange/sugar mix over the cooked loaf.
Leave to cool a little in the tin before removing. When cooled, take loaf from tin and place on a wire rack to cool.
When cool, break up the chocolate and place in a bowl. Melt in the microwave in 30 second bursts (or in a bowl over simmering water if you prefer). When runny/melted, drizzle over the cake and leave to set.
See what I mean? Definitely bucket-of-chocolate cake rather than drizzle! It's safe to say this is one of my favourite things I've made recently so I would really recommend having a crack at it, go on, you know you want to!


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The 1867 as Year Zero School of Canadian History Meets the War of 1812
President Trump has not only killed thirty years of free trade between Canada and the United States but also set off a bizarre firestorm about the War of 1812, of all things. In what has been reported to be a tense conversation over the telephone with Prime Minister Trudeau, who questioned Trump's bogus rationale of imposing a tariff on Canadian steel and aluminium on the grounds of "national security," the President asked — and "I would suggest […] if you know the president, that was probably a facetious remark" — whether Canada had burned down the White House in 1814.
Interestingly, the answer is in the negative. A British regiment, rather than a British North American militia, sacked Washington in August 1814, burning various government buildings including the Capitol and the White House, apparently as revenge for the Americans having burned down Upper Canada's Parliament in York (now Toronto) in April 1813, or perhaps more generally as revenge for the Revolutionary War. In 1813, the invading Americans had stolen the mace from the Parliament of Upper Canada and ferried it back to Washington as a wartrophy. It is telling that when English-speaking peoples fight one another, they deploy as their most devastating psychological warfare the looting and burning of representative legislatures. I'm not sure how this idea that Canadians, rather than British regulars, sacked Washington became so entrenched in the Canadian psyche; it subsumes British North American and Canadian identity entirely into British identity by failing to distinguish between colonial militias and regulars. And, ironically enough, so does this other false narrative.
Similarly, this little kerfuffle has revealed another bizarre manifestation of the 1867 as Year Zero School of Canadian history: this all-too-common misapprehension that "Canada didn't exist in 1812!" — usually screamed by red-faced anti-monarchists or trumpeted proudly by the obtuse and pedantic, as if they had just said something profound, instead of something merely profoundly stupid.
First, as a matter of legal-constitutional fact, "Canada" as a polity traces a direct and unbroken line to the Constitutional Act, 1791. As I presented at the Constitution at 150 Conference at the Universite de Montreal in May 2017, the British North America Act, 1867 explicitly continues executive and legislative authority from the Province of Canada to the Dominion of Canada and to the provinces of Ontario and Quebec (depending upon the division of powers under the new federal arrangement), and the Act of Union, 1841 likewise continued the executive and legislative authority of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. And, of course, English (later British) and French colonial settlement in North America go back even farther than the creation of the current Canadian polity in 1791. I'd expect this sort of anti-colonialist ignorance from an American authority, like Daniel Victor of The New York Times, but I expect better from Canadians.
Second, this obtuse ahistoricism masquerading as profound literalism that "Canada didn't exist in 1812!" also defies commonsense. "But IT WAS A COLONY!" they screech. By that logic, you might have to dismiss all of Canadian history before the Statute of Westminster in 1931 instead of merely dismissing all of Canadian history before Confederation or whatever other arbitrary date you choose, because Canada remained subject to the absolute jurisdiction of the Imperial Parliament until then. Similarly, by this same perverse logic, you'd have to draw some other very obtuse conclusions, like that the Americans couldn't possibly have fought their own Revolutionary War because the United States didn't really become a country until foreign powers recognized it as such after the Treaty of Paris of 1783. You'd also have to conclude that Australia was wrong to have celebrated its bicentennial in 1988 as a commemoration of Captain Cook's landing in 1788 and claim on the island-continent for the British Empire. Instead, you'd have to say that Australia, as in the Commonwealth of Australia, will not celebrate its bicentennial until 2101. This is also the same sort of pseudo-profound abstract nonsense which underpins American libertarian assertions that "America is an idea, not a place."
The War of 1812 seems quixotic and obscure today. Ultimately, from the point of view of the British Empire as a whole and the United States, the war essentially resulted in a draw and the status quo ante bellum: the British finally started abiding by the Jay Treaty of 1795 and withdrew its forces from lands south of the Great Lakes and east of the Mississippi claimed by the United States, lost the Battle of New Orleans — which, hilariously, occurred after the Treaty of Ghent had formally ended the war — and fled Washington only one day after sacking it. The British also stopped impressing American merchant marine into the Royal Navy and halted its trade war with the United States. But from the Canadian point of view, we won because we successfully fought off an American invasion of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. In war, the belligerents initiating the invasion lose if they fail to capture their enemy's territory, and the belligerents responding to an invasion win if they cause the status quo ante to prevail, merely by holding off their enemy.
The fact that British North American militia successfully defended the Canadas from an American invasion makes this anti-monarchist, anti-colonial obtuse ahistorical narrative that "Canada didn't exist in 1812!" even stranger. Only in Canada would victory in war lead to less nationalism and an outright denial of history.
The 1867 as Year Zero School of Canadian History
Canada's Legal-Constitutional Continuity, 1791-1867
Presentation to the Canada at 150 Conference
1841 or 1848? When Did Responsible Government Begin?
Who Is Canada's Longest-Serving Prime Minister? It Depends on When "Canada" Began
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1 Response to The 1867 as Year Zero School of Canadian History Meets the War of 1812
Chris Miller says:
There are those who do understand Canada (like so many other countries) as a place with a history preceding the union of the original three BNA provinces. Montreal's Jacques-Cartier bridge has a dedicatory inscription on one of the pillars on St. Helen's Island recalling the explorer's role in the founding of Canada (which I brought up several years ago in a rebuttal of an opinion piece by Josée Legault that claimed Quebec is older than Canada), and there is a similar plaque in Montreal's city hall:
https://archivesdemontreal.ica-atom.org/hommage-jacques-cartier-31-octobre-1935


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Don Davis is the CEO and Portfolio Manager of Prime Meridian Capital Management. As a seasoned industry veteran and skilled portfolio manager, Mr. Davis applies his knowledge, conservative management principles, and hands-on expertise to the day-to-day management of the firm. Mr. Davis has been a top ranked portfolio manager multiple times throughout his career, more recently in 2017 when Prime Meridian was named Top Fund Manager during the Lendit Fintech awards, as well as previously as President and Portfolio Manager of Novus Investments, LLC ("Novus"), when Novus was ranked #1 in the US for total performance over both a 5 and a 7 year period from 2007-2013. Mr. Davis is also a recognized speaker in the marketplace lending institutional investing space featured at: Bloomberg, LendIt, American Bankers Association, Forbes, IMN, Emerging Manager Forum, AltInvest, LendAcademy, the P2P Lending Investing Summit; and John Lothian News. Mr. Davis resides in the San Francisco Bay area and is actively involved in local charities with a special interest in assisting disadvantaged children, the disabled, and veterans.


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Singapore is a hub country of ASEAN. Being aware of this, Korea IT Cooperation Center (KICC) was launched in order to facilitate global business activities so that more companies can successfully enter the ASEAN market.
To serve as an ASEAN Global Business Base Camp for Korea's Creative ICT Companies, we'd like to devote ourselves to reinforcing the competitiveness of the ICT industry focusing on ASEAN Market and contribute to your growth through the business platform.
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It's the first game of the 2017-18 NHL Playoffs for the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs this Thursday night. The Original Six matchup is arguably the hardest to predict as well. Both teams have elite goaltending and the offensive explosiveness needed to take them to the promised land. Game 1 will set the stage for an exciting series between these two long-time rivals.
Despite finishing seven points behind the Bruins in the regular season standings, the Toronto Maple Leafs won their season series against Boston 3-1-0 and pose a real threat to a team that seemed unbeatable at times this year. Now that the playoffs have begun, the regular season is history, and the offensively-gifted Leafs could take the next step.
Toronto may be catching Boston at an ideal time with forwards Rick Nash, Riley Nash and Sean Kuraly all questionable for Game 1. In addition, the talented Brandon Carlo will miss the entirety of the playoffs due to a fractured ankle suffered late in the season. While the Bruins still have Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron to make life difficult for the Leafs, Boston will need to rely on their depth players to shut down the second and third lines of the Leafs. Puck drop is at 7 PM ET on this series, so don't miss a second of the action.


Non-members are always most welcome. Those attending field meetings do so at their own risk. Huddersfield Geology Group can accept no liability for injury, theft or loss however caused.
Mobile phone numbers for contacting the person in charge for each field trip will be available at the HGG meeting immediately before the event, but please note that some of these are not on the weekend immediately following the Monday evening meetings.
For full details, please click here to download a copy of our programme.
The above field trips are all organised by the Huddersfield Geology Group. Events organised by other local groups and geological societies are advertised in our newsletters.
Guests from other organisations are welcome. However, if you are bringing or inviting guests it is an essential courtesy to inform the visit coordinator and Field Trips Committee Member – Bob Appleyard.
Numbers may be limited on some trips and regular HGG members will take priority. As above, there is a charge for the field trips. Some trips may attract extra costs such as travel, catering, admission charges and, in some cases, accommodation and these will be outlined to members in advance, wherever possible.


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From the 10th Annual Shorty Awards Best Social Good Campaign
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Non-profits looking to submit their overall social media presence should enter Best in Non-Profit.
See previous winners and honorees here.
Social Good Campaign
Pure Imagination Project
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Coach Dad: Father's Day Surprise
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As women in the computer science field still face scrutiny and are discouraged by things like the controversial memo leaked by a Google employee last summer, IBM, a leader for over 100 years in progressive thinking, stands up to celebrate the women of tech. Supporting females who code has always been in our DNA, and we're on a mission to help elevate anot...
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Stories From the Road: Human Hug Project
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SATAWU welcomes the suspension of PRASA Western Cape manager
South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union (SATAWU) welcomes the suspension of Richard Walker, Western Cape Regional Manager at Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa).
On Tuesday Prasa announced Walker had been placed on paid leave and Raymond Maseko would act in the position henceforth. SATAWU had been calling for Walker's suspension following the auditor-general's 2016/17 report.
SATAWU officials in the Western Cape opened a criminal case against Walker at the time, listing no less than 37 charges after the Prasa board and management neglected to investigate the allegations levelled against him. The charges included corruption, contravention of the Public Finance Management Act plus fruitless and wasteful expenditure. Walker was also said to have flouted supply chain management procedures by appointing security providers between April and July 2016 without the approval of the group CEO.
However, more worrying was the deterioration of the commuter services in the region. To date the Central Line is not operational despite the multitudes that depend on it for their daily commute. SATAWU was most concerned about Walker's failure to develop crime prevention strategies to halt vandalism of the infrastructure including cable theft and the burning of trains.
SATAWU appreciates the rail agency's Administrator Bongisizwe Mpondo's decisive action. We look forward to working together with Maseko in collaboration with the police and communities to identify crime hot spots and devise effective solutions for the overall improvement of the commuter service.
For more details and media interviews contact:
Anele Kiet, SATAWU Deputy General Secretary, 073 684 1912, 071 021 1903Tinzi Lubabalo, SATAWU National Coordinator for Prasa, 082 473 2626


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In October 2018, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas made a commitment of $300 million to Lone Star Fund XI. The Lone Star fund targets private equity control investments in companies, single-family residential real estate secured debt, corporate and consumer debt, and single-family residential real estate assets.
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#barriers2innocence: Implicit Bias
This post is part of the Montana Innocence Project's #barriers2innocence campaign. As an innocence organization, we work to combat systemic racism because we know that there are numerous barriers between Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and justice that exist solely because of racism. This campaign aims to highlight some of those barriers. Today's topic is implicit bias:
When someone says "peanut butter," you likely think "jelly." When you picture a politician, it is probably a White man in a suit. Your brain makes these associates from repeatedly pairing peanut butter with jelly and repeatedly seeing White men in suits working in politics. Your brain understands that these things go together because it has seen them together so many times. You know that peanut butter does not always go with jelly, and you know that politicians are not always White men, but your brain makes the association nonetheless because those are the images it knows.
Aside from the implication that only White men can be politicians, these associations are not incredibly harmful for your brain to make, but other, more extreme associations are incredibly harmful and have severe implications if acted upon.
Consider this common association: hearing the word "criminal" or "violent" and producing the image of a Black man. You know that not all criminals are Black men, but because your brain has repeatedly made this association through images of mostly Black men being the perpetrators of crime in mainstream media, your subconscious cannot help but pair the two together. What if you have this association while serving on the jury for a case against a Black male defendant? What if you are a police officer and have this association while pulling over a Black male? This is implicit bias in action.
What is implicit bias?
"Implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner," according to Ohio State University's Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. "These biases, which encompass both favorable and unfavorable assessments, are activated involuntarily and without an individual's awareness or intentional control."
You may consciously hold biases about certain groups (these are explicit biases), but because they are conscious, you are easily able to withhold them if you choose to. Implicit biases are sometimes so ingrained in your subconscious that you don't even know you have them, and more dangerously, you don't know when you are acting on them.
"Even people with the best intentions are influenced by these hidden attitudes, behaving in ways that can create disparities in hiring practices, student evaluations, law enforcement, criminal proceedings — pretty much anywhere people are making decisions that affect others," according to PBS News Hour's interview with social psychologist Anthony Greenwald of the University of Washington.
How are implicit biases formed?
Like explicit biases, implicit biases are formed in a myriad of ways: your frames of reference, how you were raised, where you grew up, your level of exposure to a certain group, and your level of education about a certain group are just some examples of formation. But one of the most seamless ways implicit biases sneak into your subconscious is through mainstream media.
It is no secret that mainstream television, movies, podcasts, and books lack racial diversity. In many cases, when BIPOC are present, they are underdeveloped characters with limited contribution to the story. It stands to reason that if all of the media you consume lacks real representations of BIPOC, your brain will revert to the stereotypes it knows.
Before you continue reading, watch this video of actor Brandon Kyle Goodman explaining how implicit biases are formed through the absorption of White supremacy present in mainstream media.
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The formation of implicit biases can also be explained by your brain's tendency to group people. A New York Times study found that implicit bias can be attributed to how humans are wired to think in terms of "us versus them." Therefore, if you are White, your brain may be implicitly telling you that you are against BIPOC.
How prevalent are racist implicit biases?
Greenwald pioneered implicit bias research and the creation of implicit bias tests. One of these tests asks the participant to associate pleasant words with African American names and unpleasant words with European American names and visa versa. The time it takes you to associate the pleasant words with European names versus African names is how the test measures your implicit biases.
While tests like these have received some scrutiny for their validity, according to Greenwald, the results show widespread implicit bias that White races are viewed as superior. The bias shows up in 70 to 75 percent of people who take the test with White and Asian people having the bias more than mixed-race and Black people. Greenwald described his own experience taking the test to PBS News Hour.
"For me, giving the same response to pleasant words and African American names took an eternity," he said. "But when it was the European American names and pleasant words with one hand, and the African American names and the unpleasant words with the other hand, that was something I could zip through. And that was a surprise to me. I would have described myself at that point as someone who is lacking in biases or prejudices of a racial nature. I probably had some biases that I would confess to, but I actually didn't think I had that one."
Implicit biases can be so strong that, in some instances, you can have them against a group that you belong to. Jacob Elder, a second-year law student at the University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law, experienced this in high school. Elder is a Black man who was raised in a White family in Helena, Montana. Growing up, Elder watched shows like "Cops" that ingrained the image of Black men as violent criminals in his mind. Living in a predominantly White town, these stereotypes were never challenged. When his family took a trip to South Carolina and went to a grocery store in a predominately Black community, Elder remembers feeling scared.
"As a Black kid in high school, I was terrified," Elder said. "I thought those guys were going to rob me. I thought they were going to do something. Years after that, I got to thinking about why I was so terrified. The only answer I could come up with was the fact that Black people are being portrayed in the media as thugs and as criminals."
Do not use implicit bias to excuse explicit bias:
When discussing implicit bias, particularly in the criminal justice system, it is imperative that it is not used as an excuse for conscious racism or explicit bias. You may have seen activists and social justice organizations call for implicit bias training in police departments. It is not only important that these trainings occur, but they are arguably critical to ensure the safety of BIPOC and promote fair and effective policing. However, there must be an acknowledgment that some police officers are overtly and purposely racist and that their actions are not the product of the subconscious absorption of racism but rather pure racism. The idea that implicit bias is to blame whenever a police officer acts in a racist manner limits necessary accountability.
In fact, a series of studies conducted by the Department of Psychology at Yale University found that "perpetrators of discrimination are held less accountable and often seen as less worthy of punishment when their behavior is attributed to implicit rather than to explicit bias."
Check back tomorrow as we continue to unpack bias-motivated policing.
Before you continue reading, watch this video of Dr. Cheryl Ingram breaking down the differences between implicit and explicit bias.
How is implicit bias a barrier to innocence for BIPOC?
Everyone has implicit biases. Everyone includes those who make decisions about someone's innocence—people who make criminal allegations, police officers, judges, prosecutors, expert witnesses, and juries.
Take an implicit bias test.
Practice rational deliberation. In other words, think before you react. A New York Times study found that when reacting swiftly, people are more likely to be harsher towards those who are not in their group and lenient to those who are but that when people take a moment to rationally deliberate about an appropriate response, they are largely unbiased.
Share your knowledge about implicit bias with someone who know who works in the criminal justice system.
Watch this Ted Talk below titled "How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias." While the speaker mostly focuses on gender bias, the same principles apply to racial bias.
Thank you for participating in the Montana Innocence Project's #barriers2innocence campaign. Tomorrow's topic is bias-motivated policing.


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HomeSportGAATyrone still have a chance to make NFL Final- Gourley
Tyrone still have a chance to make NFL Final- Gourley
Posted: 1:09 pm March 8, 2019
EVERY man and his dog seemed to think Tyrone were going nowhere fast after a dire start to the league, but Ciaran Gourley says that it was far too hasty to be rubbishing their chances of a successful 2019.
The Red Hands seem to have turned a corner in the last fortnight with back-to-back wins over Monaghan and Cavan, and Gourley knows from experience that manager Mickey Harte will be eyeing up a possible place in the Division One final.
Their hopes of doing so will evaporate into the ether if they can't spring an upset in their penultimate league clash against Dublin on Saturday week, but nevertheless the mood in the county has lifted considerably after tepid defeats to Kerry and Mayo.
Treble All-Ireland winner Gourley said: "I think everyone got a bit carried away when they saw Tyrone lose their first couple of matches.
"When I was playing with Tyrone we sometimes had bad starts to the season. It's not the end of the world and they've shown that in the last two matches.
"I think we'll go into the Dublin game with a lot of confidence. They aren't really setting the world alight at the moment themselves, they'll still building towards the championship so it has the making of a good game."
Gourley was part of the first ever Tyrone team to claim the Division One title when they absolutely demolished Cavan at Clones back in 2002.
They retained their crown a year later and he believes that Mickey Harte won't give up the ghost of added a third title to the roll of honour list until it's statistically impossible.
"Tyrone will want to make the most of the games they have left and Mickey won't have given up hope of finishing in the top two.
"Although Kerry look like they'll definitely be there, the second place is up for grabs and if there's a chance of getting to the final Mickey will want to be there."
Tyrone were uncharacteristically shapeless at the beginning of the league with Mayo in particular breaching the Red Hand defence practically at their leisure.
They've improved considerably, however, in their recent wins over Monaghan and Cavan, and Gourley said that hard work will always be at the core of Tyrone's success regardless of the tactics utilised.
"In the first two games people wondered if Tyrone had any system of play at all. Colm Cavanagh hasn't been involved, and they didn't seem to be playing a sweeper, but what they have done is try to have more of a focal point in the full-forward line.
"Tyrone are starting to move the ball quicker and are kicking the ball into the full-forward line and hopefully that will minimise the chance for other teams to pack their defence.
"Our tackling has always been in your face and crowding the man in possession. You don't necessarily need to have a sweeper as there's an ethos in the team that they have to work whether they're attacking or defending."
Saturday week's encounter against the Dublin monolith should tell a tale of where the Red Hands truly stand at present. They haven't beaten the Dubs since a group stage match in 2013, but Jim Gavin's side weren't long in getting revenge when they won the league final against Tyrone that very same year.
Gourley says it isn't the end of the world if they don't overcome Dublin but accepts that it would be good for team morale if they end their run of defeats to the All-Ireland champions.
"I don't think you should get too bogged down in the psychology of playing Dublin," he said.
"I think the players will see it as another challenge to get a good result. It won't be the end of the world if they lose but they have had a number of defeats to Dublin and this group of players will want to get over that stumbling block. If they do lose they'll move on and maybe later in the year they'll have another chance to play Dublin."


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But this quake has raised (for me, at least) some serious questions about our attitudes to heritage in NZ – both in Christchurch and Wellington. They have a large list of Heritage buildings down there, just as we do up here. But from what we've been seeing on the TV there is a lot of demolition going on of some pretty historic looking heritage buildings down there. The Engineers are condemning, and the Demolition guys are demolishing. On the one hand it is good to see some definite positive actions (in Haiti they're still sitting in Limbo) – we have systems and people in place, and obviously things have swept swiftly into action. But are they going too far down there? And really, how would we cope up here?
In Wellington we have a Heritage building fund, of which I think they can assign up to a maximum of $25,000 per heritage building project that has strengthening needs. What this earthquake has shown is: that really is not going to go nearly far enough. As a regular Fish contributor notes (60mPa, presumably a big gnarly old grey-haired concrete contractor), in the case of a similar earthquake in Wellington, "Upper Cuba is shopfront collapse". How much do we like our Cuba St architecture at present? How much do we want to see it standing afterwards? Do we really want to spend lots of money clearing up fallen brick facades once they are on the street, or do we want to have them still attached to buildings? Or is this a chance to say – que sera, sera, and here's a chance to build Cuba St in a modern style? These are the things we should be debating now – and doing something about now, rather than waiting until we ave no time to weigh things up and debate them later.
On the other hand, away from the heritage buildings in the city centre, there is a huge amount of damage to Christchurch houses. In that case, while it is no doubt all very sad for the individual owners, I've got to say that there is a fantastic opportunity there to get rid of some of the current dross of suburbia, and to build some real quality housing for once. I am so sick of seeing bland suburban tract housing in NZ, and ChCh is no different – in fact, it may be even worse than the NZ average. What would be great is if new houses there were planned to properly face the sun, if they were to have solar water heaters on the roof, if they were built with really decent levels of insulation, and, please, if they were designed by competent architects, and could for once look a little less ugly.
As I write this they have just had another quake – the biggest aftershock yet – no doubt more damage.
Define a little less ugly (in a way that appeals to all and sundry), and you might be on to a winner.
Wellington's heritage stock (much of it anyway) is really a ticking time-bomb counting down to a d-day that we can never be be party to until it happens. While we wring our hands over the heritage question we are putting lives in danger (and it should be noted that a similar 1929 west Canterbury magnitude 7 earthquake turned out to be the first of a series of seven major, magnitude greater than 7, earthquakes in NZ over the next 13 years).
This is an urgent issue, and if our heritage buildings aren't up to standard by now they should be gone. Delaying deadlines is criminal. Do heritage supporters really want the potential loss of many lives on their conscience for the sake of a few shoddy brick buildings of questionable real merit??
Well, yes, substandard buildings should be removed, but we also have to weigh up whether we want to expend time and energy on buildings that may be irreplacable. There was a picture of St Johns church in Hororata? with half the steeple down, and a large crack between the nave and the tower. If we demolish it now, there is no way it will ever be coming back again in its present form.
Heritage significance is an evaluation that reflects noting more than our own "insignificant little lives", and buildings that we retain for that sake are nothing more than a physical manifestation of this. If our lives don't matter, then surely buildings matter much less.
…furthermore, while I'm at it, chch has gone as far as to enshrine its heritage stock as a valuable set of assets that are important for the economic and cultural success of the city within its city plan. It seems to me that if we identify something as a significant asset that we take care to protect and maintain that asset as a resource for those values we aspire to (sense of place, tourism etc – as referenced in the Plan). The problem is, of course, that it is far easier to talk the talk than to walk the walk, hence the loss of 'assets' that has been experienced.
I suspect that the quake appears to have extracted a particularly heavy toll on Chch due to the degree of importance put on the building stock (and particularly heritage buildings) in determining identity. It's a city built on the flat so the built stock was always going to be very important in shaping its identity.
In Wgton it's possible we might experience a lesser degree of this after a disastrous event, given that much more of our identity also relates to the fantastic natural setting of the city. Yes, many buildings would be decimated, but the form of the city when it rose again would benefit from the same spectacular natural advantage.
And Maximus, we can tell you type 'density' more often than you type 'destiny'! But if there really is a 'Density Church', let's try and get the JPA to attend – even securing one convert might be helpful!
I include a snippet here, but make sure that you check out the ranting religious nutters on the original CNN blog, where comments currently stand at about 82.
"It comes back to building standards and the quality of construction, the materials used and the quality control in the building process," said Andrew Charleson, an associate professor at the Victoria University of Wellington's School of Architecture.
The construction of every commercial and residential building in New Zealand has to be approved by the local city council in accordance with the national building code. Haiti's reputation for lax building regulation and weak code enforcement, on the other hand, left its citizens vulnerable to disaster, said Charleson, who is also director of the Earthquake Hazard Center, a nonprofit that focuses on earthquake-resistant construction in developing countries.
"About 40 years ago Harold Camping published a book called Adam When? laying out a timeline with all the evidence from the bible. 4990 BC was established as the date of the Noachian flood. It has withstood the test of time and cannot be disputed with biblical or credible secular scientific evidence. In the early 90's he published another book called 1994? where he proposed the possibility of Christ's return. He also indicated 2011 was a possibility. Quite astounding evidence(from the bible) was produced a couple of years ago.
Christchurch has a huge opportunity ahead of it in terms of rebuilding. If it hadn't been for the 1931 earthquake, Napier would be just another small NZ town like Wanganui or Gisbourne and there wouldn't be much reason to visit. But instead it is an architectural treat. Will Christchurch redevelop itself with style and quality? Or will it end up as a NZ Coventry full of ugly cheap buildings?
that's a bit of a stretch David. The entire city centre in Napier was razed to the ground, only 2 buildings left standing (but apart from chimneys, not that much damage to the housing, which was mostly timber framed). So, yes, Napier redeveloped its city centre in a different style from the brick Victoriana that was there before.
Christchurch is a whole different story – nearly all the central area buildings are still there – the media is only showing us the ones that have fallen down, not all the other ones that remain standing. I really wouldn't think that the central area will have much of a different feel – except maybe a sprinkling of modern 2010 shopfronts.
Guy… To be honest, I don't know Christchurch well enough to know if the damage is concentrated or sparse. The media were reporting that 500 CBD buildings suffered some damage. Presumably that includes lots of broken windows, but do we know how many buildings are a complete write off?
Like most readers here I've grown up with earthquakes. I was also in the Loma Prieta quake in 1989, and so earthquakes don't usually worry me much. But as I've been wandering around Wellington this week I've been looking up and noting brick facades and other building elements that look as if they might fall in to the street the moment things start shaking. Partly for reasons of personal safety. But also thinking that it'd be really sad if we lost even a fraction of our old buildings. There are some obvious stars like the old Public Trust building or the old BNZ building that might not make it. But there are hundreds of lovely old buildings that I never stop to look at or photograph but which make Wellington such a good looking city.
"Many of Canterbury's heritage buildings damaged in the earthquake can probably be restored and should not be demolished, the Historic Places Trust says. Southern region general manager Malcolm Duff said heritage experts had been working with the Christchurch City Council's heritage team, architects and engineers to assess the extent of the damage to historic buildings. Christ Church Cathedral, the Catholic cathedral and the Provincial Council Buildings appear to have come through largely unscathed, but there has been some damage to the Arts Centre. Duff said masonry facades on some central city buildings had been badly damaged, but that did not mean they were now fit only for the bulldozer.
Historic Places Trust board member and heritage advocate Anna Crighton says it was the historic buildings that gave Christchurch its special character.
"It's absolutely imperative not to rush in and demolish or think it's all over until buildings get an impact-assessment report from a professional heritage expert, engineers and architects," she said.
Crighton said some building owners in the inner city had been waiting for a chance to clear the site.
The compromise required may well be to save the facades only.There is a building on Stout St on the LHS heading North after the Public Trust where a new building was constructed inside the retained facade.
While there are cases like the buildings sprouting out of Kirkcaldies that are relatively tasteful, the problem in Upper Cuba and the Te Aro flat may be that the building footprints are small so the respective owners will be allowed to build right out to the frontage, creating a look of multi-storey apartments with a figleaf olde worlde veneer on the front.
This, whilst undesireable, may be the most effective compromise as owners will, when faced with the cost of full retention and strengthening, demolish by neglect and knock em down at speed should the big earthquake hit.
A frontage is a lot cheaper to reinforce and retain than the whole lot.
Personally I'd like to see full retention and strengthening but money dictates action and talk is cheap.
"Wellington's earthquake-strengthening rules are to be reviewed and may be toughened in the wake of Christchurch's 7.1 shake. Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast said the review could reverse changes made last year, which gave owners more time to complete work on their properties. The Christchurch earthquake had "refocused Wellingtonians' minds" on the risk to life and property, she said. The council has identified about 3800 buildings around the city as potentially quake-prone, and estimates about 600 need strengthening.
Ms Prendergast has asked the council to review deadlines and to look at heritage rules, which include replacing heavy masonry features such as parapets or chimneys with lightweight fibreglass or carbon fibre replicas. Increased grant funding would also be considered. Christchurch City Council voted yesterday to tighten standards for earthquake-prone, dangerous and unsanitary buildings. Owners of damaged buildings will now have to try to strengthen them to 67 per cent of Building Code levels instead of the original 33 per cent target. In Wellington, the legal requirement is also 33 per cent, but the council recommends 67 per cent. Wellington's Heritage Property Group director Peter Dowell said Cuba St would be a disaster zone in an earthquake like Christchurch's, with many human casualties. He supported tightening deadlines for work, and replacing heritage masonry with lightweight replicas.
"We have inner-city living. Cuba Mall would have been decimated. There would have been huge death. If you go down there, the majority of them are brick and they're generally owned by owners that are not prepared to do them up." He hoped the Government would offer incentives including tax breaks to heritage owners to help them complete their work. Stephen Hawke, who owns the Cuba St building which houses Ernesto cafe, said tightening deadlines would not work unless the council gave financial assistance to struggling owners.
Go there and have a read – most enlightening.
So, the blogosphere has been busy after all.
New, and highly relevant blog: Rebuilding Christchurch (one brick, one word, one city). Here's a link to the first post.
I was thinking that a possible answer to strengthening the heritage buildings is for the EQC to stump up the cost of making them 67% to code. Its clear building owners either don't have the cash or making their structure safe is bottom of their priorities. The EQC is supposed to have billions stored away for earthquake damage. So why not use some of that money as a preventative measure rather than waiting after it has happened. After the big one hits they won't be paying out for the full reconstruction cost.
Having a discussion about what heritage buildings to keep is a really good idea, although its a big step. But keeping people safe should be paramount.
Damn good idea Sav. Ambulance at top of cliff rather than at the bottom.
"Christchurch City Mayor Bob Parker has reiterated his call for building owners not to demolish their buildings without consent from the Council.
�While public safety remains paramount, I would encourage owners of damaged heritage listed buildings and character buildings to work with the Council so that we can do what we can to preserve these buildings, which are so important to the character of our city,� says Mayor Bob Parker.
�The Council will take strong regulatory action against any owners who demolish buildings contrary to these requirements,� Mayor Parker said.
Permission to demolish buildings will only be granted following the assessment by at least two structural engineers. In addition, building owners need to supply a plan with options for the building to inform the decision process.
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Christchurch�s recent 7.1 magnitude earthquake has severely damaged much of the built fabric of the city, in particular historic buildings in the centre. Outlying suburbs have been hard hit and vast numbers of homes will need to be reconsidered. Currently teams are working to assess, and to salvage what is possible of the city�s buildings. Within a few weeks large-scale rebuilding will begin.
This call for ideas comes from a group of young architectural graduates with an interest in engaging members of the public in dialogue around building decisions that affect them. The events in Christchurch have given their concerns a direct and immediate weight: over the coming months, hugely significant, city-defining architectural and planning decisions are going to have to be made. We implore the public at large, as well as architecture students and practising architects, to become involved in a positive and productive discussion over the nature of these decisions and the kinds of rebuilding they would like to see take place. We want to see your ideas providing a framework to give shape to what could, should, or might be.
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"Demolition should be an "absolute last resort" for heritage buildings damaged in the Canterbury earthquake, says the owner of the historic Press building in Cathedral Square. The owner, Ganellen, said Lewis Bradford structural engineers assessed The Press building and were impressed by how it had withstood the quake.
"This appears to have been quite an innovative and advanced building for its time," Craig Lewis, of Lewis Bradford, said. However, the engineers had advised that the 101-year-old building remain unoccupied until a more detailed survey was undertaken.
Ganellen said it was working closely with The Press to return staff to the building as soon as possible. Ganellen's New Zealand director, Michael Doig, said he was concerned that heritage building owners could be "opting for a bulldozer" rather than working to retain historic sites. He said demolition should be an "absolute last resort" for the owners of historic buildings.


It is well known that dogs have an affinity for bones. Nature doesn't make mistakes and there is a reason why dogs love and crave bones as much as they do. Part of that reason has to do with the tremendous benefits bones can provide. Across many cultures worldwide, bones have been slowly simmered to release their medicinal properties into a broth. This is a tradition that has been passed down generations that has been regarded as a staple in healing the sick, and preventing illness in the healthy. Chicken noodle soup, notably, has its roots in bone broth: which is why it is offered to the ill to speed recovery. The practice of cooking bones releases powerful healing compounds like gelatin, potassium and calcium into a delicious broth, while the slow infusion allows these nutrients to become highly bio-available (easily absorbed by the body). In the form of bone broth, these powerful nutrients that would otherwise be trapped inside of a bone, become instruments of healing and preventative medicine. Bone broth has the power to improve gut health, joints and the immune system; which may be the reason why dogs love and crave this superfood as much as they do.
"In the form of bone broth... powerful nutrients that would otherwise be trapped inside of a bone, become instruments of healing and preventative medicine."
If your dog is recovering from illness, chicken bone broth and beef bone broth aids in the reintroduction of food. Known for its high Vitamin C content, a bone broth diet fights against infections, helping your pup get past any lasting illness. Studies have found that bone's connective tissue contain the helpful amino acid glycine, excellent for balancing and detoxing the liver. Bone broth can also benefit dogs with allergies and food sensitivities, as it is a phenomenal immune system booster.
"Collagen, gelatin and glucosamine are proteins found in bone broth that have been shown to improve joint health, boost the immune system and repair the intestinal lining."
As bone broth is also packed with chondroitin sulfate and hyaluronic acid, it also eases inflammation common in dogs prone to arthritic issues. These minerals are also excellent supplements for dogs experiencing weakness as they get a bit older.
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Keeping young people connected
Graeme English
Back in 2016 we launched One Million Futures, a new responsible business strategy with the goal of helping one million people get to where they want to be through access to education and employment. It was a big number. An ambitious goal. And we set ourselves just five years to achieve it.
Fast forward four years and we're delighted that we've reached our goal of positively impacting one million people - ahead of schedule. From the classroom to the boardroom, we've helped people from different backgrounds all across the UK by raising aspirations, improving skills and developing leaders. Some we've helped directly through things like our mentoring programmes in schools and our transition labs. Others we've helped by working with 70 of the most inspiring charities and social enterprises across the country.
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We've reached out to some of our charity partners in Scotland to ask them to share some of their stories.
Keeping young people connected - #Stayconnected
Move On Scotland work with vulnerable young people and people affected by homelessness to help them unlock their untapped potential. It is considered one of the leading mentoring organisations in Scotland and has consistently supported people to achieve positive outcomes. Their services enable people to develop life and employability skills, build positive social networks, grow in self-confidence, gain qualifications and sustain a job.
Move On became our charity partner in our Glasgow office last year and we have quickly learned that the organisation has a dedication and passion, and we have been inspired at the amazing work they do.
The role of a mentor at Move On is to provide a supportive relationship to help connect the young person with social, cultural and leisure opportunities and then support them to build their confidence, skills, potential and positive social networks. Mentors and young people meet once a week to work together as a pair towards a goal of the young person's choice. Young people often choose recreation or leisure goals, such as learning to play guitar, boxing lessons or taking a cookery class.
When lockdown happened, their offices closed and they had to quickly adapt to continue to support their young people. Like most of us, they quickly turned to the virtual world and have continued to support their volunteers and young people to keep in regular contact via phone, text and video.
However, this crisis has shone a light on the inequality in our community. Some of the young people they support do not have access to a device to allow them to get on-line, which is where we have tried to help. A request to the Glasgow office to donate any spare devices that people had at home made a big impact to help Move On keep connected with the people they support.
This has helped one of their young people, Martyn, and his mentor, Rhianna, to stay connected by taking part in online art classes together. Since taking part, Martyn has been keeping busy painting beautiful landscapes. This has been a great activity to help him relax and unwind.
Another of the young people who received an iPhone has been using it to keep in touch with family, access his email, and engage with their mentoring service. Before he received the iPhone, his staff contact at Move On and mentor had to phone his Mum's mobile phone, but now they can speak to him much more easily which has been great for weekly catch ups.
The young person who received a Chromebook has been using it to have online meetings with his mentor every week, including playing online Scrabble together. He will also use it for schoolwork after the summer holidays. There are eight people in his small house, so his younger siblings have also been using it occasionally as well. He was delighted and teared up when he received the Chromebook - it really meant so much to him.
One more story to make you smile. Another mentee is able to take part in her virtual bass lessons with her mentor Ian. They had started music lessons before lockdown and we're so happy she's able to continue these.
The devices have given many of Move On's young people the opportunity to stay connected with family and friends, engage with their mentor or befriender online, and improve access to school and college work.
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