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Crowd turns out to hear alternative McIntyre plan
Jeff McMenemy jmcmenemy@seacoastonline.com @JeffreyMcMenemy
Mar 19, 2019 at 11:10 PM Mar 20, 2019 at 8:29 AM
PORTSMOUTH � City residents packed a Town Hall meeting Tuesday night, which was hosted by RevisitMcIntyre, a group that opposes the redevelopment plan for the federal building that�s being pitched by the city and its development partners.
One of the speakers at the event, longtime state Sen. Martha Fuller Clark, D-Portsmouth, said over the last several months it seems �more and more individuals� in the city have come forward to express �serious concerns� about Redgate/Kane�s redevelopment plan for the McIntyre Federal Building site.
Fuller Clark called the 2.1-acre property, which is located just a stone�s throw from Portsmouth�s popular waterfront, an �exceptionally important site.�
She stressed that all Portsmouth residents have a say about what should go at the McIntyre site.
That role does not just belong to �the nine members of the City Council, or as we heard the five members who have the votes,� Fuller Clark said in reference to a comment made by City Councilor Chris Dwyer.
She stated that the City Council should restart the process and run charrettes that feature a variety of architects who can present different design plans for the property.
The city has been trying to gain control of the site from the General Services Administration (GSA) through the Historic Monument Program.
The city can get the property for free but must retain the existing federal building, which many in the city consider an eyesore.
Attorney Paul McEachern, a former assistant mayor and twice a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, also spoke at Tuesday�s meeting at 3S Artspace.
�There has to be a tension between developers and the city,� McEachern said. �But for some reason in this McIntyre project, the city has decided to get into the development business. It looks so easy from the outside.�
The opportunities to redevelop the property for future generations are �endless,� McEachern said, but the city needs to �start from scratch.�
Michael Kane, the president and chief executive officer of the Kane Company, did not respond to repeated requests for comment before the start of Tuesday�s meeting.
Former longtime Assistant Mayor and current Police Commissioner Jim Splaine cautioned that residents must be careful so all of the downtown doesn�t end up developed.
He also stressed there is still time to restart the process and come up with a new redevelopment plan.
�We have an opportunity now to come together and envision exactly what kind of ideas (people want).� Splaine said. �We haven�t lost that opportunity yet.�
Splaine added that there might be legal options that could stop the Redgate/Kane redevelopment.
During the question and answer portion of the meeting, city resident Zoe Stewart asked �why has it become us versus them, it shouldn�t be that way.�
Then she asked, �where�s Mayor (Jack) Blalock, why isn�t he here listening to this?�
She referenced a recent City Hall meeting where city councilors or city employees led breakout sessions about the proposed redevelopment plan.
�They were presenting the Kane project and defending it,� Stewart said.
She then said City Councilor Dwyer, �thinks that every person in the city of Portsmouth is a moron.�
She referenced a quote from Dwyer who recently told the Portsmouth Herald�s editorial board when asked about public opposition to the proposed project, "we're not a public referendum form of government. It�s what five out of nine councilors say.�
Stewart reminded the crowd at Tuesday�s meeting about the quote and then said, �That�s not OK.�
Several city councilors did attend Tuesday�s meeting, including Rick Becksted, Ned Raynolds, Doug Roberts and Assistant Mayor Cliff Lazenby.
Becksted received a round of applause when he told the group that the City Council does not have a financial obligation to continue the development with Redgate/Kane.
Roberts, who is one of three members of a City Council subcommittee on the project, said he disagreed with Becksted.
�There is no legal agreement between the city and Redgate/Kane, however, Redgate/Kane has spent three quarters of a million dollars, maybe a million dollars, and when you walk somebody down the garden path, you develop some sort of obligation,� Roberts said as people in the crowd booed.
He then referenced the comment Splaine made about legal action.
�Attorney McEachern can take us to court, but I would bet if we abandon Redgate/Kane, they�re going to take us to court,� Roberts said.
Raynolds for his part, pointed to a rendering of the proposed redevelopment that RevistMcIntyre put up on a screen at the front of the room, and called it �extremely unflattering and I believe inaccurate.�
He was then interrupted by RevisitMcIntyre member and moderator Bill Hamilton, who said he got the rendering from the city�s website.
�If you don�t like it, it�s because that�s what it is,� he said to applause from the crowd.
The city and its development partners, Redgate/Kane, have called for turning the McIntyre building into high-quality office space.
They also plan to build two new mixed-use buildings, previously described as three buildings, on the 2.1-acre site that will feature commercial and retail on the first floor, and 77 high-end apartments above. Under the proposal, 45 percent of the site will be open space, including a central plaza and two �outdoor public parks,� Bow Plaza and Daniel Plaza.


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While growing up, his family was involved in a broad range of churches across the Christian spectrum, from Roman Catholic to Pentecostal, and he is always thankful for the many valuable things he learned from each of these "parts" of the Church Body.
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Pastor Tammy Zubeck
Tammy Zubeck has been with Living Word since 1988 and has served in many areas of the church as well, from running the children's ministry to music, teaching, and women's ministry. Tammy has also written a 2-year comprehensive children's church curriculum that is being used in churches all over the nation.
Tammy has been involved with developing a complete Bible College program for pastors throughout Uganda. Once completed, the program will be used for pastors not only in Uganda but all over the world.
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Professionally, Tammy was a high school math teacher for 10 years and has taught math in the Maricopa Community College system since 1998. She also has edited and ghost-written a number of books for a variety of Christian authors.
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Jonsson, Stefan
Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, REMESO - Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Willén, JuliaLinköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, REMESO - Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Austere histories in European societies: social exclusion and the contest of colonial memories2016Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Austere Histories in European Societies discusses how the current economic and political crisis in Europe affects not just our present but also our views and interpretations of the past. The contributions to the book examine a firmly defined problem: in which ways do crisis and decline in contemporary Europe trigger a selective forgetting and remodelling of the past? This problem is addressed through a set of questions, which the contributors to the collection address at various levels:
How do present policies of austerity and the ensuing social exclusion of migrants and minorities influence the perceptions and interpretations of the place of minorities, migrants and colonized peoples in European history?
How do new regimes of historiography and memory culture relate to emerging and established patterns of discrimination and social segmentation in today's European societies?
In seeking to answer these questions, the book makes a strong contribution to a European-wide discussion on the backlash against multiculturalism, diversity, and immigration, and on changing interpretations of the imperial and colonial systems that have shaped Europe's position in the world.
The point of departure for the collection is the recent turn of European societies toward more austere political regimes, entailing budget cuts, deregulation of labour markets, restrictions of welfare systems, securitization of borders, and new regimes of migration and citizenship. In the wake of such changes, new forms of social inclusion and exclusion appear that are justified through a reactivation of differences of race, class and gender. Against this backdrop, the book investigates contemporary understandings of history and cultural memory. Are we witnessing a turn toward austerity also in theories and practices of historiography, as well as in pedagogies of history? Can we speak of an austere historiography, an enforcement of conformity on Europe past and present?
The contributions to the book examine, in both national and comparative perspective, how this development entails a privileging of certain narratives of the European past, whereas other parts of the cultural heritage are being weeded out. Strong interests are apparently at work to purge the histories of specific European nations, but also those of Europe, the West, and globalization from cultural plurality. The authors also discuss how heroic and homogeneous stories about the past of nations, regions, institutions and religions are being retold, reinvented, and re-launched. The book thus explores to what extent history (including public debate on history and history education) is again becoming "nationalistic", and to what extent Europe's proclaimed "cosmopolitanism" is being narrowed down so as to simply celebrate the achievements of Europe and posit the West as a model of universality to be emulated by others.
Most chapters in the book focus on debates on history and colonial legacies in Britain, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden and Germany. They show how an increasing number of historians and intellectuals are again becoming blind to less gratifying parts of Europe's history. While it is still too early to speak of a historical revisionism in the strict sense (for there are also strong counter-tendencies in parts of the academic community and postcolonial and migrant communities and organizations), the authors nonetheless argue that a transformation is under way, corresponding to a new politics of austerity that seems impatient with both democracy and the complexities of past. Among the sacrifices of this tendency are multiculturalism, postcolonial memories, and minority discourses of all kinds. What is lost is thus the very complexity and contradictoriness of Europe and the West. Especially, colonial and postcolonial memories are evicted from their recently claimed habitats in the European past, and again placed at the outskirts, far beyond the limit of the Western world. There is thus a strong correlation, which this collection aims to extract and analyze, between the ways in which migrant and migrant labourers are treated by present policies and the ways in which memories and experiences of migrants, minorities and colonized peoples are treated in historiography, historical pedagogy, and cultural heritage institutions.
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Willén, Julia
Introducing austere histories2016In: Austere histories in European societies: social exclusion and the contest of colonial memories / [ed] Stefan Jonsson, Julia Willén, London: Routledge, 2016, 1, p. 1-18Chapter in book (Refereed)
In this introductory chapter, we present the concept of 'austere histories' by situating it in the intersection of at least three contemporary issues, cultural contexts and academic discussions: first, discussions on Europe's cultural memory and the precarious place of the colonial legacy in it; second, controversies on multiculturalism, racism, xenophobia and Europe's migration crises; third and finally, the debate on austerity as policy and as ideology.
We analyse how austerity turns economic concerns into moral and cultural ones and how it simultaneously remodels historical consciousness and conceptions of Europe's colonial past. Examining how such processes in turn changes the relationships between classes, ethnic minorities, majorities and migrants, we seek to reveal how this affects the very definition and self-image of contemporary European Societies. Furthermore, we explore to what extent and in which ways present-day historical debate and practises of history writing support and legitimize the idea of 'austerity' and its social and political consequences, in the areas of citizenship, migration and social exclusion.
del Fierro, Claudia (Editor)
Contested histories from el Complejo: an anthology2017Collection (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Gruvornas röster2007In: Glänta, ISSN 1104-5205, no 4, p. 33-37Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Past futures lost: people power of the south as utopian concurrence2017In: Contested histories from el Complejo: An anthology / [ed] Carlsson, Hans; del Fierro, Claudia; Willén, Julia, Munkedal: Julia Willén , 2017, p. 85-96Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Vad är en källtext?: Eurocentrism och vittnesbörd som källtext2009In: Kanon ifrågasatt: Kanoniseringsprocesser och makten över vetandet / [ed] Leppänen, Katarina; Lundahl, Mikela, Hedemora: Gidlunds förlag, 2009, p. 51-74Chapter in book (Refereed)
Writing history for an uncertain future: concluding remarks2017In: Austere histories in European societies: social exclusion and the contest of colonial memories / [ed] Stefan Jonsson, Julia Willén, London: Routledge, 2017, p. 182-194Chapter in book (Refereed)
Following the failure of Europe to confront its supressed colonial past on a general level, the colonial wound continues to repeat itself. In the present, this wound is manifested as a colonial divide that separates postcolonial citizens, indigenes, and migrants from majority Europeans. In this concluding chapter, we argue that this inequality is being sanctioned by hegemonic history writing, as well as being maintained, or even aggravated, by the current ideological conditions of austerity. Against a horizon of an austere future, and as an alternative to the austere histories that are critically examined in this volume, we here suggest a historiography that takes its point of departure in this wound: how the colonial past transformed Europe and thus is preserved as an integral part of the present and its future.


Sister Madly is a cynic.
She is conceited, lazy and naughty.
Ringing doorbells and running away.
And the other half of me.
She also likes to cook. Sometimes.
Hello, thanks for liking my post, loved your teacher at the bottom of the drain!
She must be the third cousin of my "evil twin".
And I will be stopping by!
Isn't that just the catchiest "About" page ever?
;c) Thank you! And thanks for stopping by!
Sister Madly, as you are no doubt an expert in all things mischievous, mad, and unusual, I must defer to your expertise.
At the Hatter's last Tea Party I made the acquaintance of a Rabbit, who arrived late, as is his poor habit. Yours truly fell into conversation with the tardy and homely looking Rabbit and learned that the poor fellow is incredibly lovesick. He recounted the strange but touching tale of his pursuit of his One True Love, who has 1000 faces, each just as beautiful as the last. Though others at the Party commented and jibed that not all of these faces sounded at all lovable, the Rabbit thoroughly convinced me that, though his clock runs behind, his eyes see beauty in all things, even the scariest and darkest. The Rabbit counts himself unspeakably fortunate to have a love with 1000 faces because, after all, who wouldn't wish to fall in love with their One True Love 1000 different times and ways? One such visage that the dear Rabbit described seemed as if it may have been inspired by Sister Madly herself! It is no surprise to this reader, as Sister Madly is no doubt an untamable and beautiful creature who has surely influenced many! While he is certain of his love, the good Rabbit is unaccustomed to such overwhelming emotion…falling in love 1000 times is A LOT of love to fit into one Rabbit! Sister Madly, do you have any advice that I can pass along to him?
I'm not sure I'm an expert- there is always room for growth in the fields of mischief and madness!
He may, indeed, be fortunate to have such a love, but even more fortunate is the one who has been loved this thousand different times and in a thousand different ways.
As for advice… let's just say I can only hope that his True Love knows of his sentiment, and shares it. Most people just want to know that they are loved for who they are.
Hello, thanks for liking my poem. Love your blog!
Hey there! Very cool and unique blog 🙂 Thanks for stopping by my site too! Cheers!
Thank you! Cheers to you as well!!
Thank you so much for stopping by. I've just started reading through some of your posts, but I think your blog has already become one of my favorites!
That's quite a compliment- thank you!
Your blog is amazing..I just started mine yesterday and you dont know how thrilled I am you like one of my posts. Thank you.
Well, if she likes to cook….
Likes to- yes. Successful? Not always… especially as of late.
So do I. Something about the heat involved.
Thanks for stopping by to like my recipe, Bavarian Bratwurst with Peas and Mashed Potatoes, etc. You've got good ones here yourself. Yum!
Okay, I'll risk it. You know who this is right? I mean you don't really know me, but you've been reading and I've been reading your words forever it seems. (I've started and deleted blogs zillions of times.) I've tried to reach out to you in obviously an unsuccessful sort of way. So, if you ever wish to talk, I'd like that.
What a fun site! You've like a few of my recipes at http://www.christinanifong.com. I'd love for you to become a follower.
Hi Sister Madly thanks for liking my post, I've been reading your blog and you are hilarious and great writer!
Why, thank you kindly! I appreciate the encouragement.
Well this is a rare treat, and brought joy and levity to my Sunday morning. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, and deeply, fundamentally reassuring to know that there is somebody who sees the world as clearly as you do, and has the honest affrontery to speak up about it. All power to your elbow.
I did, as it happens, attend a school which taught dark sarcasm. Unfortunately the children who taught it were utterly devoid of style, and 'panache' was considered foreign muck, and never served at our canteen. Oh well.
Thank you once again for brightening my day… I shall return when clouds loom.
Dark sarcasm should always be accompanied by style and panache, otherwise, what is the point? Sometimes I wonder about the educational system.
And thank you for the encouragement. I appreciate you stopping by!
Great post Sister Madly. Great use of words.
Yea, I think I'm going to like it here. I'm enjoying your twisty word style and looking forward to reading more!
Hello there 🙂 I really like your pen-name though 'Sister Madly' Its kinda unique. And your website is lovely.
Oha and thanks for liking 'Shadows' And if you like, please checkout my other blog where I am more functional and post often.
Meet you there. Leave a comment as your thoughts.
Thank you kindly! I do appreciate it.
You knew just what to pull us in, didn't you!
A fine new look you've acquired, adapted, adopted, Ms Madly. I will admit being partial to the lid.
Bullwinkle does say thank you for the hat and as per the norm, wrong hat.
The answer to all your leg questions is, "Me".
ALL my leg questions? Such as, why is it painted plaid, or where did it go THIS time?
And I think Bullwinkle would just fine in that hat, as long as he takes good care of it- he is only borrowing it, you know.
Plaid because you ran out of black? Where did it go as in it gets in to everything?
Bullwinkle uses the hat for his pull a rabbit trick that never works.
And that's my day job!
Hi! Thank you for reading and liking my poem. Nice to meet you! I love your blog, I look forward to exploring it further!
Thanks for liking my post. I'm really new to this. I really love the quirkiness of your posts. And 'Devil on my shoulder' , very relatable! I am sure going to visit your blog again and again. Feel free to visit mine.
It's me again, It seems through-out the years that I cannot start a new site without contacting you. I'm not sure what that says about me, but I guess there's just something about you that seems like home. Your words, the way you use them – You're surprising, and refreshing, like the first bite into spearmint chewing gum, and you're just sitting there, maybe now you're even reading my words. I appreciate your friendship after so many years. We really don't know each other do we? if you'd like to rectify that, don't hesitate to ask this time. I'll leave you with a song. . . I was writing and thinking of this city just today. I was stationed not too far from Havana, and in all candor, I've been there, and know it quite well.
It appears that I'm a little late responding… still, it was good to hear from you.


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Anyone who got the Google+ account may not find the place where they can start chatting with their friends.hence i have posted the process following which you can start chatting on Google+.Here are the steps.
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in the 23-minute "stemwinder" speech, Senator Whitehouse laments the failure of the U.S. Senate to act on global warming: "We are earning the scorn and condemnation of history...It is magical thinking to imagine that somehow we will be spared the plain and foreseeable consequences of our failure of duty."
Here is the short URL of Romm's article: http://bit.ly/mXYiye. Scroll down a bit to view the video. It's well worth your time. I watched it twice already and intend to view it again.
"The term dates back to the middle of the 19th century, when the stem-winding watch came into vogue. The newfangled timepiece was a vast improvement over its predecessor, the key-wound watch, because the mechanism for setting it was a stem actually attached to the watch, rather than a key that was easily and frequently misplaced. This technological advance was so widely appreciated that, by the end of the 1800s, the term stemwinder had taken on the figurative meaning of "excellent" or "outstanding," or, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, "a person or thing that is first rate. …"


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Councillor Diamond's commitment to Oshawa spanned more than three decades. First elected to Oshawa Council in 1988, she served on City Council between 1988 and 1991. She was elected as Oshawa mayor, serving from 1991 to 2003. In 2010, she was re-elected as a Regional and City Councillor. Councillor Diamond was a longtime friend and supporter of the university and played an instrumental role in its creation.
After Nancy's passing, a fund was established at the university to honour her legacy and support our community's future leaders.
A quality education is only a chip shot away thanks to the generosity of the Roger Anderson Charity Classic. The annual golf tournament supports student awards at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, ensuring those who want to pursue an academic career in Durham Region have the means to do so. The tournament has raised more than $6 million for the community over the last 20 years and the university is grateful for receiving close to $2 million of those proceeds in support of our students.
Established in 1928, the Whitby Chamber of Commerce unites local professionals with the purpose of advocating for their rights, compiling resources and doing business together.
By connecting local businesses, the Whitby Chamber of Commerce fosters a thriving business community through connection, learning and leadership.
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In 1893 the Canadian Club founder, Charles McCullough, organized the first meeting in Hamilton. A native of Bowmanville, he formed a club in his hometown in 1909, where it has remained ever since. Club members meet five times a year to share dinner and enjoy presentations from local community members.


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ITT 202 - How to Scale an Agency with Chad Pytel
Chad Pytel is a developer, founder and CEO of thoughtbot, a product design development consultancy with six studios across the U.S. and U.K. For over 15 years, thoughtbot has produced top quality web and mobile apps with hundreds of clients from one person startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, universities and nonprofits. Chad co-authored two books, Rails AntiPatterns and Pro Active Record, has spoken at conferences around the world and is the host of the podcast Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots.
On today's episode, I sit down with Chad to talk about how thoughtbot went from an idea to a small five person Web agency. From there it grew to over a 100 person consultancy. During this conversation, we also discuss how Chad has been able to grow this company over the last decade and what that's been like to expand and grow across multiple geographic locations.
My big takeaway from today's conversation is that there are a lot of ways to build the type of business you want to build. But the one thing that's critical is the vision, what you care about, how you do work, who you want to work with, and the things that will separate you from others because there's always going to be competition. The thing that's going to separate you from the competition are your values, your goals and how you organize the work you do and why you do it.
In this broadcast, Chad and I talk about:
How Chad founded thoughtbot
In what ways Chad measured success versus unsuccess during the first few years of his business
How to build the type of business you want to build
The importance of minimizing what your company offers to find a niche
Why establishing clear specializations for your business attracts ideal customers
How value driven decisions create positive customer relations
What are the benefits of a team working in the same physical space
What are the pros and cons of a team working on a project remotely
How to measure the trade-offs of having a full staff of W-2 workers
Where does Chad see his business going in the future
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    end
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      end
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Oh, look. Famous London School of Economics dropout Sir Michael Philip Jagger turns 69 years old today. Well-played, old top.
(The Olympics already are getting to me.)
Having abandoned politics for rock-and-roll, Sir Michael has become something of an ace face in his new career, or so I'm told, anyway. Which brings us to today's hooley in comments. What is the most underrated cut produced by Sir Michael and the other lads in his little musical combo? My own top three kick things off, and are something of an indication of one of the few immutable rules of my life: If you don't think Exile is their best record, I don't even want to know you. Anyway, have at it each other and try not to raise too much hell down at the union hall.
1) "Stop Breaking Down": In which they work out on a Robert Johnson song and, in the process, make every attempt that Eric Clapton ever has made at the same thing sound stiff and academic. Sir Michael keeps calling for chorus after chorus and this thing might well have gone on for half-an-hour.
2) "Rip This Joint": I have a bootleg live performance of this on which the band is so fast that it sounds like Motorhead. Swift, sure, and absolutely authentic.
3) "Memo from Turner": In third place only because it's not technically a Stones song, although it gets included on anthology collections and the like. This is the version from Performance with the great Ry Cooder slicing and dicing around the vocal. Sir Michael sounds wickedly like the great lost Piranha brother.
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The Panthers Under-18s bounced back this week with a sold four quarter performance against North Adelaide, running out 15.7 (97) to 4.8 (32) winners at Hickinbotham Oval on Saturday afternoon.
This game was significant in that it was our annual Sammy Davis memorial game.
The game started well with our guys kicking five goals with the help of a strong breeze in the first quarter.
The midfield group did very well to win contested ball early and allowed the game to be played in our front half. The forwards worked extra hard to hold the ball in our forward 50 and apply pressure to the opposition and give us scoring opportunities.
In the second quarter, North had the wind and looked dangerous at times getting some clean ball from the centre square.
When we won the ball back we were able to maintain possession well on most occasions and keep the ball out of dangerous areas.
North kicked 2.2 to our 2.1 for the quarter.
After halftime the team addressed some focus areas highlighted by the coaches during the long break and continued their dominance in the midfield battle.
The midfield continued their hard work to win the contested ball battle while the backs did their job in rebounding many of Norths scoring movements.
The forward line worked well in both offense and defence and were able to adapt to the windy conditions very well.
Our guys scored 8.5 to 2.4 in the second half to win by 65 points.
It was pleasing to see the players accept the responsibility of correcting some improvement areas from the loss the week before against Norwood.
We now get ready for another hard contest against Centrals out at Elizabeth this week.


Let's just take a look at the origins of both Coldcut, Robert Owens and Henrik Schwarz. How many probablilities did they have to be meeting each other at first sight? I suppose they all made for themselves the lyrics of 'Walk A Mile In My Shoes'. This givin' birth to a composition of a rare beauty at the end. With German studio wizard Henrik Schwarz walkin' in so to say the path of the Bauhaus art school. In other words, radically simplifying the forms in order to keep the essential. And, by that, highlight if not emphasise its various components. From Owens' one of a kind performance. To its symphonic elements around a kalimba.
I've come to establish a parallel a long time ago between Owens and Omar whom I've both met back in the day. This most likely because of their natural ability to make music theirs, whatever the genre may be. And, besides, Schwarz has also happened to rework a song by the likes of Omar. Itself being the equally vibrant 'Feeling You' on Mousse T's Peppermint Jam label back in 2012.


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Q: UIImage not showing up on iPad Device, but it shows up on the iPad Simulator Here is the code that I am using. Keep in mind, this works just fine in the simulator. However, when I run the same code when testing on my iPad device, it doesn't load the image. Why could this be?
SDWebImageManager *manager = [SDWebImageManager sharedManager];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.mywebsite.net/folder/Photos/thumbnails/IMG_1780.JPG"];
UIImage *cachedImage = [manager imageWithURL:url];

if (cachedImage)
{
    // Use the cached image immediatly
}
else
{
    // Start an async download
    [manager downloadWithURL:url delegate:self];
}

UIButton *button = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(80+196, 5, 192, 192)];
[button setImage:cachedImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button addTarget:self action:@selector(imageSelected:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[cell addSubview:button];
return cell;

I would appreciate any help! Thank you!
Edit: Altered Code, still works in Sim, but not on device.
    - (void)webImageManager:(SDWebImageManager *)imageManager didFinishWithImage:(UIImage *)image
{
    // Do something with the downloaded image
    //testImage = image;
    testButton = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(80+196, 5, 192, 192)];
    [testButton setImage:image forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [testButton addTarget:self action:@selector(imageSelected:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

}
    SDWebImageManager *manager = [SDWebImageManager sharedManager];
    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.mywebsite.net/album/Photos/thumbnails/IMG_1780.JPG"];
    UIImage *cachedImage = [manager imageWithURL:url];
    [self webImageManager:manager didFinishWithImage:cachedImage];
    if (cachedImage)
    {
        // Use the cached image immediatly
        //[self webImageManager:manager didFinishWithImage:cachedImage];
        UIButton *button = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(80+196, 5, 192, 192)];
        [button setImage:cachedImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        [button addTarget:self action:@selector(imageSelected:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
        [cell addSubview:testButton];
    }
    else
    {
        // Start an async download
        [manager downloadWithURL:url delegate:self];
    }

A: Never having used SDWebImageManager but just having a quick look at it, it looks like you're doing everything right! On the other hand, it's not working so...
I had a similar problem to this once, and after much tearing out of hair, I eventually discovered that the filing systems used on the device & the simulator are different - on your iPad I believe it's case sensitive, but not on the simulator. Double-check the case of the file names, it might make a difference.
Edit - also, I was assuming you're trying to use the cached image (which is why it appeared immediately), but if you're downloading one then I expect your button initialising code is premature.
Another Edit - Delegates!
Do you know about using the delegate of the SDWebImageManager? It probably has a method which it calls when the image has downloaded - you need to implement SDWebImageManager delegate protocol in your class where you're setting up the buttons, etc - there will be a method something like -(void)imageDidFinishDownloading:(UIImage *)myImage which you'll have to include, and that's where you need to put the images into the buttons.

A: May be a little too obvious but, have you checked if your iPad has an internet connection?

A: The async download may not be finished when you try to create the UIButton. The last piece of code should be called after the download is completed and inside the if statement (as far as i can see from this code).

A: Easier to write a new answer than edit my last one.
Here's a bit of code which might be useful -
-(void)webImageManager:(SDWebImageManager *)imageManager didFinishWithImage:(UIImage *)image {

    // unless you have a way to know which row it's going into, we'll just add it to the end of the array

    [downloadedImages addObject:image];

    [myTable reloadData];

}

-(NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {
    return [downloadedImages count];
}

-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
    }

    NSInteger row = indexPath.row;

    UIImage *theImage = [downloadedImages objectAtIndex:row];

    UIButton *testButton = [[[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(80+196, 5, 192, 192)] autorelease];
    testButton.tag = row; // so we know which row the pressed button is in

    [testButton setImage:theImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [testButton addTarget:self action:@selector(imageSelected:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

    [cell.contentView addSubview:testButton];

    return cell;

}

-(void)imageSelected:(UIButton *)pressedButton {

    NSInteger row = pressedButton.tag;

    // now you know which row was pressed...
}

Change your code here (don't put it in the tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: method!) -
SDWebImageManager *manager = [SDWebImageManager sharedManager];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.mywebsite.net/folder/Photos/thumbnails/IMG_1780.JPG"];
UIImage *cachedImage = [manager imageWithURL:url];

if (cachedImage) {

    // Use the cached image immediately
    [downloadedImages addObject:cachedImage];

    [myTable reloadData];

} else {
    // Start an async download
    [manager downloadWithURL:url delegate:self];
}

Obviously it's quite basic - you'll need to add stuff to reset the table, or write the images to files if there are more than a few of them. Hope it helps!

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What is Phonemic Awareness? First of all, Phonemic awareness is not phonics. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes--in spoken words. Before children learn to read print, they need to become more aware of how the sounds in words work.
A Fun Halloween Phonemic Awareness Activity Two kids away at college and the other at a birthday party. What's a mom to do? Go SHOPPING! No mall for me, though, just a quick jot over to the Dollar Tree and a stop at Walmart for wiggly eyes (super cool project for an upcoming post). While at the Dollar Tree, I found these adorable Frankenstein sippy cups. Free Phonemic Awareness Consonant Worksheets The above color worksheets are highly effective for getting the consonant sounds memorized. They also provide excellent practice with phonemic awareness skills for beginning and ending sounds. One of the most important Kindergarten skills is complete memorization of all consonant letter sounds since this is the back-bone to reading success in 1st Grade. It is also recommended that these worksheets be reviewed for the first month of 1st Grade before any word reading takes place. Click any letter to view the worksheet activity.
Curriculum and Instruction - Student Center Activities, Grades 4-5 - Student Center Activities, Grades 4-5 Frequently Asked Questions about the K-5 Student Center Activities. Introduction During the Spring 2004 Florida Reading First school site visits, staff from the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) determined that teachers may benefit from classroom materials that would be immediately useful in implementing independent Student Center Activities. 5 Quick, Easy, and Fun Phonemic Awareness Activities Learning to read can be quite an overwhelming task for small children. In fact, if you think about it, it's astounding that children are even capable of learning to read in such a short amount of time. However, before they begin to read print, they must have an adequate foundational understanding of how sounds in words work.
Phonemic Awareness: Concepts and Research Concepts and Research Phonemic Awareness (PA) is: the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words and syllables are made up of sequences of speech sounds (Yopp, 1992; see References). essential to learning to read in an alphabetic writing system, because letters represent sounds or phonemes. Without phonemic awareness, phonics makes little sense. The Same-Different Game One of the four signs your child is ready to read is something called "phonological awareness". Basically, that means that she needs to be able to hear the sounds in words: rhymes, beginning sounds, ending sounds, etc. This game is designed to help your child with that very thing. Called "Same-Different", the title really says it all.
Phonemic Awareness Information and Activities What is phonological awareness? Phonological Awareness is the conscious awareness to the sound structure of our language. Basic levels of phonological awareness skills include listening to, recognizing and completing rhymes; segmenting spoken words in sentences and syllables in words; and recognizing onset and rimes. What is Phonemic Awareness? Phonemic awareness describes the awareness skills used to detect, blend, segment and manipulate individual sounds in words.


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Don't Follow the Wind (founded 2015–20XX) is collective of artists and curators—Chim↑Pom, Kenji Kubota, Eva and Franco Mattes, Jason Waite—who confront the long-term crisis in Fukushima, Japan. Don't Follow the Wind is working together with local residents, a committee of cultural workers and the artists Ai Weiwei, Chim↑Pom, Grand Guignol Mirai, Nikolaus Hirsch and Jorge Otero-Pailos, Meiro Koizumi, Eva and Franco Mattes, Aiko Miyanaga, Ahmet Öğüt, Trevor Paglen, Taryn Simon, Nobuaki Takekawa and Kota Takeuchi. Along with the inaccessible project inside the Fukushima exclusion zone the collective has developed a number of Non-Visitor Centers that have taken place at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Yokohama Triennale 2017, Arts Catalyst in London, CCCB in Barcelona and Extra City in Antwerp.
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WAEC postpones West African Senior School Certificate Examination over Coronavirus
Mar 21, 2020 | Education
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in Nigeria has postponed the conduct of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates, 2020, until further notice. It was earlier scheduled to commence on April 6, 2020.
A statement released by the council's Head of National Office in Nigeria, Patrick Areghan, on Friday March 20th, said the decision was as a result of the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the "serious implications" it has for the conduct of the WASSCE for school candidates.
"This decision is a demonstration of the organisation's concern and support for the various protocols being put in place by the Federal and State Governments of Nigeria and the governments of the other member countries ti check the spread of the disease," the statement in part read.
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India might have lost the 2nd Test match in Australia by a mammoth 146 runs, but the former India pacer Zaheer Khan is full of praise for Indian bowlers as they have been sensational right from the South Africa series. Despite India's defeat at Perth, the former India pace spearhead believes that India can still make a comeback and win Test series in Australia.
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Of the many tech companies currently attempting to move beyond the financial scandals engulfing much of corporate America, CA is one of the most high-profile. Having lost most of its senior management team to a major fraud investigation, the former Computer Associates embarked on a program to reinvigorate its product offerings, and move beyond its corporate problems.
In November 2005, at its CA World event in Las Vegas, the vendor relaunched its line of management systems under the banner of Enterprise IT Management (EITM) - something CA claimed would be a more focused approach to the market. At the height of its corporate scandal, CA's restatement of its position in the market was an attempt to draw a line under the past, and give the company momentum to drive it forward.
A year and a half later, at the 2007 CA World - again in Las Vegas - the vendor was still working to separate its boardroom woes from its technology offerings. But on this occasion the vendor had something to show for its efforts, rather than just promises of a new direction.
"CA has changed dramatically; we are not the same company we were five years ago, or 18 months ago, or even one year ago," said CA's president and CEO John Swainson in his keynote speech at the event.
Swainson's message revolved around reducing complexity within an IT infrastructure - something no large enterprise is likely to reject. CA's strategy has been to develop and acquire systems to tackle IT management issues from applications to network infrastructure.
"In every large company there are multiple PC, server and storage suppliers; networking products; application, management and security providers, and so on. The problem is further aggravated by myriad offerings to manage that complex environment, often tied to specific brands of hardware, software or applications," said Swainson. "So the burning question becomes: what is the best way to manage a complex system to achieve maximum efficiency, effectiveness and security?"
Unsurprisingly, Swainson's answer was the use of CA's range of products and services. But whether or not CA's products can deliver on reducing complexity, the vendor's commitment to simplifying its offerings seems to have paid dividends.
Across the conference, the messages coming from CA's representatives - and its customers which were wheeled out as appropriate - remained focused on two themes: unifying and simplifying the business, and governing, managing and securing the IT infrastructure.
CA has worked hard to draw its offerings together under these mantras, and distance itself from the activities around its former executives. But the continuing news around the trials of its past leaders still provides an undercurrent to CA's activities.
Fortunately for its customers, this undercurrent seems to have manifested itself in a degree of obsession with establishing its propriety - and perfecting its offerings. The company is also spinning its corporate misfortune to demonstrate that it now has an unprecedented insight into the requirements of compliance and regulatory issues.
Eighteen months is not a long time for a company to reinvent itself, and CA is still very much in the middle of its journey. But the company appears to be taking the process seriously - and not taking anything for granted.
As with other technology vendors, CA sees enormous potential in emerging markets such as the Middle East, and the company is placing a renewed emphasis on these territories. Sabby Gill, CA's new vice president and general manager of EMEA Eastern - which comprises the Middle East, Africa and Russia - says he and his team are currently planning which offerings to focus on.
"We've started our integrated planning in Saudi Arabia, and the next region is the Gulf," says Gill. "We're quite fortunate - the market is one of our most mature. So where in some areas you'd find we'd only concentrate on four or five solution areas, in the Gulf we'll concentrate on the full seven that we can offer."
"This region has a CAGR of 13.4% - it's only going to be another six or seven years before the market doubles in size from US$737 million today - so if we do nothing but still continue to fulfil exactly the same level of 10% to 15%, you're talking about doubling the size of the business in just a few years," explains Gill. "These are statistics, we'll never know where we will actually end up in reality - but considering our position, we're hopeful."
He sees the Middle East as an increasingly sophisticated market, with one of the key trends being the move to make IT departments a separate business unit - something that meshes with CA's current rhetoric.
"We're seeing the move to IT departments as profit centres more and more in our market," says Gill. "Spinning off IT and making it an external organisation where you're only paying for the delivery of services is effectively outsourcing. And because it's more of a service delivery, this fits in very well with CA's vision of govern, secure, manage."
Potential CA customers should have some hard questions for the vendor, but there is no doubting its drive.


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Nigerian author Chukwuemeka Ike, who died last month at the age of 88, helped define Nigerian culture, but never received the international acclaim he deserved, writes the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo in Lagos.
Ike will be remembered for his novels but his legacy will also live on in an important word in Nigeria's lexicon.
Say "expo" to anyone here and they immediately know what you are talking about – exam malpractice.
Ike helped popularise the term when he penned Expo 77, a novel based on the true story of how top secret school-leaving exam papers were leaked twice in 1977.
Ironically, he was in charge of the exam board when the leaks happened, and chose to vent his frustration about the way society encouraged malpractice – from parents to students to school administrators – through his literary work.
Eze Chukwuemeka Vincent Ike
1931born in Ndikelionwu, eastern Nigeria
1959 married Adebimpe Olurinsola Abimbolu
1965published first novel Toads for Supper
1971became chief executive of West African Examinations Council
2008became king of Ndikelionwu
2016death of only child Prince Osita Ike
His writing gave voice both to contemporary concerns and also to a defence of African – and more specifically his Igbo – culture.
While the literary themes of the time were focused on the conflict that existed between the West and Africa, he was one of the earliest writers to capture the tide of the emerging cosmopolitan Nigeria.
He did not just excavate the ethos of Africa from bygone times, he also reflected the present: bringing to life everyone from the politicians to the prostitutes, and prophesied the palavers that were to come.
Morphing into a leopard
He was satirical, lampooning institutions with humour that was acerbic and he enjoyed it. He poked fun at the foibles of modern Nigeria.
In Toads for Supper, his first book, he dealt with the theme of love in a beautifully humorous way that exposed the tensions in multi-ethnic Nigeria.
Set in a Nigerian university in the west of Africa's most-populous state, it tells the story of a new student, Amadi, who is the first to go to university from his village in eastern Nigeria.
Ike celebrated Igbo culture in his work but also described the changes in modern Nigeria
The book captured what it meant to be an Igbo student in western Nigeria before the civil war, sparked by the creation of a breakaway Igbo state, Biafra, in 1967.
Ike responded to the civil war – a defining period of Nigeria's history – with Sunset at Dawn.
He would later try to distinguish between Biafra and Biafranism. He described the latter as representative of "those things that made us great in Biafra".
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But in the book, he described the tragedy that unfolded through Fatima who is fleeing enemy planes with her young son.
Ike's best-known works
Toads for Supper1965
The Potter's Wheel1973
Expo 771980
Bottled Leopard1985
In the magical-realist Bottled Leopard, he managed to hold a generation spellbound. It was no doubt helped by the fact that the book was compulsory reading for secondary school students studying literature.
It is the story of a schoolboy who has been chosen by his ancestors to bear the mystical power of his lineage: the power to morph into a leopard.
Most people see Bottled Leopard as Ike's defining work, but this could be down to the fact that it was forced on a generation of readers.
Achebe's influence
Born into a royal family in the eastern part of Nigeria, Ike was a student at the famous Government College Umuahia, a breeding ground for the country's finest post-colonial writers.
Literary icon Chinua Achebe was his senior at the school and Ike once told an interviewer that Achebe had inspired his writing.
"In fact, I never thought of writing novels until Chinua Achebe published his Things Fall Apart in 1958," he said.
Maybe it was not such a good thing to be an Igbo writer in the same generation as Achebe.
Some believe this short-changed Ike and that his writing deserved a larger audience.
The same could be said of the other gifted Nigerian writers of that generation: Cyprian Ekwensi, Mabel Segun and Elechi Amadi. Their brilliance seems to have been overshadowed by literary giants such as Achebe and Wole Soyinka.
It was a generation of writers that had the difficult task of transferring oral aspects of indigenous languages into loose English translations with sometimes inchoate outcomes.
Chukwuemeka Ike captured the patterns of speech in multilingual Nigeria
It is in this regard that Ike's legacy cannot be denied, his place in literature stands as tall as the others.
For he more than most, succinctly captured the conversation style of a people in a multi-ethnic, multilingual nation.
He reflected their ability to switch from simple English, to bombast, to peer-group slang, to pidgin English and native language.
In Expo 77, a policeman's reaction to a girl using a sanitary pad to help cheat in an exam, captured Ike's writing style fittingly:
"'Jesu Christi Oluwa wa!' the assistant superintendent exclaimed. He was Yoruba. 'Jehova Witness dem people say Armageddon go come in five year time. 'E don' come patapata! Olorun!' He snapped his fingers."
In 2008, he would go from defending his culture in the pages of a book to defending it on the throne as the king of Ndikelionwu in eastern Nigeria. He took the throne following the death of his father.
Tackling animal sacrifice
The Ike family has ruled Ndikelionwu for decades but his people were yet to encounter one who wanted to preserve the monarchy by changing things.
In 2018, he asked his people to stop offering animal sacrifices to the land goddess Ala during the new yam festival.
Instead, he wanted a Christian thanksgiving service at the Anglican church where a front row seat was usually reserved for his family.
The writer, who spoke up for African culture in his work, and wrote about men transmuting into leopards, felt animal sacrifices should no longer be associated with his people and many of them agreed with him.
As a king, he respected the egalitarian nature of his people and was largely democratic, working with a small council to reach decisions.
They describe him as humble and the peace-maker who ruled with a firm hand.
His people say he is not dead as a king does not die, but rather goes to be with his ancestors. They refuse to speak of his death, neither do they refer to him in the past.
It is the sort of attitude that Ike may have been proud of.
This king may be dead but he lives on in his writing.
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JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein was in good spirits on Friday at his firm's annual meeting, despite battling some testy shareholders and what seemed to be a cold.
After weeks of questions in press reports about his future, the 56-year-old head of Wall Street's most powerful investment bank put to rest any speculation that he might soon be stepping down because he was tired after leading Goldman through the financial crisis and its aftermath.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman with civil fraud last year over a derivative deal at the height of the financial crisis. Goldman settled those charges for $550 million in July, but faced renewed scrutiny recently following a scathing report from a Senate committee. The Justice Department is now considering the matter.
"We are very mindful of the stresses and strain that led to the financial crisis and have no desire to go back to that place," Blankfein said at Goldman's towering office building in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Goldman's chief counsel, Gregory Palm, told shareholders the firm spent more than $700 million on legal costs last year. It has also hired more lawyers, with 286 working full time for Goldman now, versus 252 a year ago.
There were a few tense moments during the meeting as shareholders criticized pay packages, political contributions and even Goldman's activities related to climate change.
But, for the most part, the atmosphere was cordial and Blankfein spent a good deal of the meeting engaged in light banter with a handful of somewhat eccentric shareholders.
Among those launching attacks at Blankfein were a nun, the head of a Jewish social activist group, renewable energy advocates and two gadflies, Evelyn Davis and Harry Korba.
Davis, who has built a reputation for getting under executives' skin, spent the first portion of the meeting demanding Blankfein's resignation and comparing him unfavorably to his predecessor, Henry Paulson.
Blankfein furrowed his brow and twisted his lips into a smirk as Davis said her piece. At one point, he corrected her to point out that Goldman's share price reached its height of above $250 under his tenure, not Paulson's.
"It happened after Hank left, but who is counting these things?" he scoffed.
Goldman has taken some heat for awarding Blankfein a $5.4 million bonus for 2010 despite a share price decline of 38 percent. His overall compensation rose to $14.1 million from $1 million the previous year.
Nonetheless, proposals to restrict executives' ability to sell stock compensation and to issue a report examining compensation practices both failed, with 20.6 percent and 4.1 percent approval, respectively.
Shareholders approval of executives' 2011 compensation packages declined to 73 percent of the vote from 96 percent a year ago, but still had a significant majority.
In a preliminary vote count, each of Goldman's directors won re-election, with more than 90 percent of votes. None of the six shareholder proposals that made it onto the proxy gained enough support to pass.
The meeting was more sparsely attended than usual, with about 135 people in a large conference room. They munched on bagels, croissants and fruit from the breakfast spread, with some drinking coffee or water.
Discussing the event briefly with reporters, Blankfein joked that if "aliens came down from outer space" and only got a chance to see the cast of characters at Goldman's annual meeting, they would have a distorted view of the human race.
Blankfein has spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs and been in his current role since mid-2006. Corporate governance experts and analysts have said that it would not be unusual for a CEO to move on after a five-year term.
Yet some observers point out that Blankfein might want to make sure Goldman's reputation is more fully restored - and its share price more fully recovered - before he departs.
The stock is more than three times above its crisis low, but is more than 2 percent below what it was when Blankfein took the reins. It closed down 0.20 percent at $150.10 on Friday.
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Malcolm Glazer, the billionaire who led a controversial takeover of Manchester United, has died aged 85.
The Glazer family purchased United for £790m in May 2005 amid protests from the Premier League club's fans.
"The club's debt payments have been reduced, but I think it is fair to say fan anger over those debts remains and will not go away."
However, they went on to win five Premier League titles and the Champions League under his ownership.
The New York-born American's sons, Joel and Avram, took over the day-to-day running of the club after their father suffered a stroke in April 2006.
"The thoughts of everyone at Manchester United are with his family," said a spokesman for the Premier League club.
The club's Dutch striker Robin van Persie, 30, tweeted: "My condolences go out to the Glazer family and friends."
The Glazer family retain a 90% share in United - split equally among Glazer's six children - with 10% listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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His takeover was largely funded by loans secured against the club's assets, a move that took them heavily into debt and sat uneasily with many fans at Old Trafford.
Manchester United Supporters' Trust vice-chair Sean Bones said: "It would be inappropriate for me to make any comment about the death of Malcolm Glazer as I didn't know him or his family personally.
"However, as a supporter, I am aware of the detrimental effect the Glazers have had on the football club and the huge debt that has been placed on Manchester United."
Supporters' group Shareholders United were one of the most vociferous anti-Glazer voices during the takeover, and in the aftermath.
In 2010, a group of lifelong United fans made up of City bankers and lawyers set up the Red Knights consortium in an attempt to buy the club with the support of fans, but their plans failed.
The club had no debts before the Glazer family takeover but now owe around £400m. Yet, despite a turbulent 2013-14 season which resulted in the sacking of manager David Moyes, United still generate record revenue, with turnover set to exceed £418m in the 2013-14 financial year.
Football finance expert Professor Tom Cannon from the University of Liverpool told BBC Radio 5 live: "He had a massive impact on the club. He loaded them with a lot of debt while at the same time building up their commercial side until it became a global phenomenon, so two very striking differences.
"Floating 10% of the club on the New York Stock Exchange made the club more exposed to the vagaries of the stock market and some would argue one of the factors that led to the dismissal of David Moyes was the fact that the stock market was declining, the price was declining."
Glazer was also the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he will be remembered much more fondly for turning one of American football's least successful franchises into Super Bowl winners following his takeover in 1995.
Former Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden, who led the team to that Super Bowl triumph, said: "He was a friend and a trailblazer. I'll miss him and I thank him for believing in me. My condolences to the Glazer family and to the Bucs organization."
The Glazers are a very close knit but large family. There's no doubt Malcolm Glazer was the patriarch who led the initiative and in a sense held them together.
One of the concerns now might be whether you get the situation you've seen in the past, even in English football, where you get divided opinions within members of the family - some wanting to sell, to cash in, some wanting to hold on. That's going to be the big question in the short to medium term and of course the next few weeks are crucial for Manchester United and it may be there's a hiatus while they sort out that kind of issue.
Hall of Fame defensive tackle Warren Sapp, who played a major part in the Super Bowl XXXVII success, tweeted: "One time for my owner & great man #RipBoss."
Buccaneers defensive tackle Gerald McCoy also took to Twitter to pay tribute: "Rest in peace to the driving force that helped transform the organization that changed my life forever. Forever grateful!!"
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell added: "Malcolm Glazer was the guiding force behind the building of a Super Bowl-champion organisation.
"His dedication to the community was evident in all he did, including his leadership in bringing Super Bowls to Tampa Bay. Malcolm's commitment to the Bucs, the NFL and the people of the Tampa Bay region are the hallmarks of his legacy."
Glazer's business career started when he took over the family watch-parts business aged 15, following the death of his father.
He invested in other businesses and acquired a diverse portfolio of international holdings and public companies, including First Allied, Zapata Corporation, Houlihan's Restaurant Chain, Harley Davidson, Formica, Tonka, Specialty Equipment and Omega Protein.
Glazer is survived by his wife Linda, his six children and 14 grandchildren.


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ABC News: Greece to ban spyware as wiretap scandal grows
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Greece to ban spyware as wiretap scandal grows
Lawmakers in Greece are set to approve plans to outlaw commercial spyware following weeks of allegations that senior government officials may have been targeted
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ATHENS, Greece — Lawmakers in Greece are set to approve plans to outlaw commercial spyware following weeks of allegations that senior government officials may have been targeted.
The revelations have hurt public support for the country's center-right government as it faces elections in 2023.
Under the draft legislation to be voted on later Thursday, the use, sale or distribution of spyware in Greece will carry a penalty of a two-year minimum prison sentence. Additional safeguards were also planned for legal wiretaps as well as for hiring the director and deputy directors of the National Intelligence Service, or NIS.
Speaking in parliament, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis described the reforms as "a bold institutional response to a challenge that — and I want to emphasize this — does not only concern our country."
Reports in the news media that multiple members of the cabinet as well as other senior officials and journalists may have been targeted with the spyware that can snoop on cell phone calls, stored contacts and data, and access devices' microphones and cameras have prompted a judicial investigation.
In August, a top government aide and the country's security chief resigned following revelations that a Socialist politician who was later elected leader of Greece's third largest party had been the subject of NIS telephone surveillance that the government insists had been legally sanctioned.
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The use and alleged use of surveillance software in European Union member states is also the subject of an ongoing inquiry by a European Parliament committee, whose members visited Athens last month.
Facing elections before next summer, the government of Prime Minister Mitsotakis' center-right New Democracy party, has seen its strong lead in opinions polls in recent weeks suffer as a result of the wiretapping allegations and the ongoing cost of living crisis.
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