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Herbert Chapman (19 January 1878 – 6 January 1934) was an English football player and manager. Though he had an undistinguished playing career, he went on to become one of the most influential and successful managers in the early 20th century, before his sudden death in 1934. He is regarded as one of the game's greatest innovators.

As a player, Chapman played for a variety of clubs, at Football League and non-League levels. His record was generally unremarkable as a player; he made fewer than 40 League appearances over the course of a decade and did not win any major honours. Instead, he found success as a manager, first at Northampton Town between 1908 and 1912, whom he led to a Southern League title. This attracted the attention of larger clubs and he moved to Leeds City, where he started to improve the team's fortunes before the First World War intervened. After the war ended, City were implicated in an illegal payments scandal and were eventually disbanded. Chapman was initially banned from football but successfully appealed. He took over at Huddersfield Town, winning an FA Cup and two First Division titles in the period of four years.

In 1925, Arsenal successfully tempted Chapman to join them, and he led the club to its first ever silverware by winning one FA Cup and two First Division titles. His work at Arsenal resulted in their becoming the dominant team of the 1930s – they won five League titles and two FA Cups in the decade before the suspension of football due to outbreak of World War II – but he did not live to see the entirety of his team's success, dying suddenly from pneumonia in 1934, at the age of 55.

He is credited with improving Arsenal. He introduced new tactics (the WM formation, which forms the core of most modern day formations) and training techniques to the game and the use of physiotherapists. He led the team, rather than letting board members lead. He also used floodlighting, European club competitions and numbered shirts, and has received many posthumous honours in recognition.

Early life
Chapman was born in Kiveton Park, near Rotherham on 19 January 1878. His father, John, was a coal miner, but rather than spend his life working down the pit, the young Herbert was bright enough to win a place at Sheffield Technical College (later to become part of the University of Sheffield), where he studied mining engineering.

Chapman was one of eleven children and was born into a keen sporting family, with two of his brothers also playing professional football. The most successful of these was his younger brother, Harry, who played for The Wednesday during the 1900s, winning two League Championships and an FA Cup. His older brother Thomas played for Grimsby Town, while another brother, Matthew, later became a director of the same club.

Playing career
Chapman's playing career was that of a typical journeyman, owing mostly to the fact he often played as an amateur; this meant that whether he could play for a particular club was dictated by whether he could find an appropriate job nearby. He first played as a youth for his local side, Kiveton Park Colliery, winning the Hatchard Cup in 1896 alongside team-mates Walter Wigmore and William Ross. He left the village that summer to join Ashton North End, before moving on to Stalybridge Rovers and then Rochdale (not to be confused with the modern-day Rochdale) – all three clubs being members of the Lancashire League. Chapman played at inside right, and although he lacked the skill of his brother Harry, he compensated for it with his strength and robustness.

In 1898, he moved to Second Division Grimsby Town. Though now playing in the professional Football League, Chapman was still an amateur at this stage and obtained a job with a firm of local solicitors to earn his way. Grimsby started the season poorly – they were near the bottom of the division by Christmas and were beaten 7–0 by Preston North End in the FA Cup, but rallied to finish tenth at the end of the 1898–99 season. By this time Chapman had been dropped from the team, having been unsuccessfully moved to centre forward, an unfamiliar position for him. He was released by Grimsby and drifted down into non-league football with a brief spell at Swindon Town, playing three games and scoring twice, but had to leave the club as he was unable to find a job in the area. He moved on to see out the season with Sheppey United, who finished bottom of the Southern League in 1899–1900. Chapman finished as United's top scorer but was injured at the end of this season, and still unable to find a job. Disheartened, he returned to his home town and turned out for Worksop Town of the Midland League in 1900–01, while resuming his studies, this time at Old Firth College in Sheffield.

Because of his studies, he mainly played for Worksop's reserves, but in a first-team match against Northampton Town he caught the opposition's eye and they offered him a contract, leading him to turn professional for the first time in 1901. He played for Northampton for the whole 1901–02 season, finishing as top scorer with 14 goals in 22 games for the club. During that season he had impressed in an FA Cup match against Sheffield United, leading them to offer Chapman a contract at the end of the season; Chapman accepted but dropped down to amateur status, wishing to make use of his engineering qualifications in the local area. He played 22 matches and scored twice for United, but struggled to keep his place in a team full of internationals, and was sold to Notts County for £300 at the end of 1902–03. Chapman turned professional again, but only made seven appearances in two years for County, scoring once.

In 1904, Chapman moved back to his old club Northampton Town, playing a season effectively on loan from Notts County (as they kept his registration), before being transferred permanently in 1905 to Tottenham Hotspur for £70. He scored eleven goals for Spurs in their 1905–06 Southern League campaign. He spent 1906–07 in and out of the side, scoring just three goals. With the season drawing to a close, he decided that he had had "a good innings" and decided to leave Tottenham and professional football for good, in favour of pursuing his career in engineering.

Managerial career

Northampton Town
In 1907, as he was about to leave Tottenham Hotspur, Chapman had recommended Spurs team-mate Walter Bull to his old club Northampton Town, as their new manager. However, Bull changed his mind, and in turn recommended that Chapman take the job instead. Chapman changed his mind about retiring from the game, and instead agreed to become player-manager of Northampton Town. Northampton had finished bottom of the Southern League two seasons running immediately before Chapman's appointment, but Chapman turned the club around within a short period of time.

At the time, teams rarely employed tactics of any sort – Chapman would later remark: "No attempt was made to organise victory. The most that I remember was the occasional chat between, say two men playing on the same wing." As a manager, he sought to change that; after seeing Northampton lose to Norwich City despite dominating, Chapman opined that "a team can attack for too long". He thus set about creating a tactical framework for all his players; he dropped the half backs (midfield) back to give his forwards more space and draw the opposition defenders out of the penalty area, while encouraging his own back line to pass their way out of trouble. Gradually, he created a style of highly organised, counter-attacking football, which was at odds with the prevailing orthodoxy but nevertheless highly effective; Swindon Town's England international Harold Fleming, after losing 4–1 at home to Northampton, remarked to Chapman: "You have something more than a team: you have a machine."

To allow his system to reach its full potential, Chapman encouraged his chairman to spend money on new players. The club's first ever transfer fee, £400, was paid for Welsh international Lloyd Davies who remains Northampton's most-capped player, winger Fred McDiarmid and playmaking centre half David McCartney. With this new talent, in his first season in charge, Chapman led Northampton to eighth place; with additional new signings, such as inside forward Albert Lewis from Coventry City, he used this as a springboard to take the Southern League title in 1908–09, with Lewis finishing as top scorer.

By now, Chapman had retired as a player in first-class football, having played his last match against Watford in January 1909, but filled the gap he left, as well as showing his eye for spotting talent, by signing players such as future England international Fanny Walden. As Southern League champions, Northampton contested and lost the 1909 FA Charity Shield, 2–0 to Newcastle United, and although they did not win the Southern League title again during Chapman's time as manager, they finished in the top four in each of the following three seasons. Additionally, they proved their mettle in the FA Cup against First Division sides, knocking out The Wednesday and taking Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United to replays, losing 1–0 both times.

Chapman was keen to get Northampton Town into the Football League, but with no automatic promotion or relegation rules at the time this proved very difficult. Chapman proposed a new two-division Football Alliance underneath the two divisions of the Football League, with automatic promotion and relegation (a similar system to the four-division League setup introduced in 1921), but this was rejected at the time (and would not come about until 1920). In the 1912 close season, he was offered the chance to manage Second Division Leeds City, and with Northampton's blessing moved north again to join the League side.

Leeds City

Leeds City had finished 19th in the Second Division in the season preceding Chapman's arrival, and were facing re-election. Chapman played an essential part in lobbying for the side's readmission and Leeds City were duly re-elected. That done, Chapman signed new talent such as Jimmy Speirs from Bradford City and despite some erratic performances – losing 6–0 in between two 5–1 wins, for example – City finished sixth in 1912–13, Chapman's first season. Attendances rose at Elland Road from 8,500 to 13,000 in his first year, as Chapman's attacking side scored 70 goals, the second-highest total in the entire division.

With a strengthening of the defence, City's form improved further the next season, in 1913–14, coming fourth, two points outside the promotion places. Despite having failed on his promise to get the team promoted within two years, City's rising attendances and resulting better profits for the club kept the directors happy, and the club were confident of promotion in 1914–15. However, the declaration of World War I disrupted Leeds City's season, with attendances down as men signed up to fight. Chapman by now had amassed a very large squad and was unable to pick a consistent side, continually changing his first-choice lineup. Leeds City lost six of their last eight games of the season to finish just fifteenth.

League football was suspended for the rest of the war, with Leeds City playing in regional competitions. With many players away fighting or having left the game due to a drop in wages, Leeds relied heavily on guest players during these matches. Chapman, meanwhile, had decided to help the war effort by taking up a position as manager of a munitions factory at Barnbow, near Cross Gates in 1916. For the next two years, City's assistant manager, George Cripps stood in for Chapman on the administrative side, while chairman Joe Connor and another director took charge of the team.

Chapman returned to Leeds City from Barnbow after hostilities had ended, but resigned suddenly in December 1918, eventually moving to Selby to take up a position as a superintendent at an oil and coke works. No reason was given for his resignation, but as football resumed in 1919–20, Leeds City were accused by a former player of financial irregularities, involving illegal payments to guest players during wartime matches. No documentary evidence was produced, but Leeds' refusal to allow the authorities access to their financial records was deemed a sign of guilt, and they were expelled from the Football League in October 1919 and five club officials, including Chapman, were banned from football for life. The club was dissolved, with the players auctioned off and their Elland Road ground taken over by the newly formed Leeds United.

Huddersfield Town

Chapman was still working at the coke works in Selby when his ban was imposed, but by Christmas 1920 the company was sold up and he was laid off. Soon after, however, he was approached by Huddersfield Town to become assistant to Ambrose Langley, who had been a former team-mate of Herbert Chapman's brother Harry at The Wednesday. Huddersfield Town backed Chapman in an appeal against his ban, arguing that as he had been working at the factory in Barnbow during the war, he had not been in charge of Leeds City during the time illegal payments were supposed to have been paid. The ban was overturned, and Chapman was formally installed as Langley's assistant on 1 February 1921.

Chapman was promoted to full secretary-manager, replacing Langley, the following month, and soon made an impact, signing players such as England international Clem Stephenson from Aston Villa (who became captain under Chapman) and 18-year-old unknown George Brown (who went on to become Huddersfield's all-time top scorer). In Chapman's first full season in charge (1921–22), Huddersfield Town won the FA Cup, beating Preston North End 1–0 in the final at Stamford Bridge, the club's first major trophy. In the league, however, his side had spent most of the season fighting relegation and had finished 14th, so Chapman looked to strengthen his squad.

As at Northampton, Chapman's tactics were based upon the principles of a strong defence and a fast, counter-attacking response, with the focus on quick, short passing and mazy runs from his wingers, who would pass low inside the defence instead of crossing from the byline. He had been granted control of all footballing affairs at the club and made this responsibility work to his advantage, encouraging the club's reserve and third teams to play the same style of football so that their players would function effectively in the first team if selected. He employed a wide-ranging scouting network to find the right players for his tactical system. Bolstered by the money from the cup run, Chapman was able to make further signings such as goalkeeper Ted Taylor and forward Charlie Wilson (later to be joined by George Cook).

With new players and using Chapman's system, Huddersfield were transformed. They finished third in 1922–23 and went on to win their first League title in 1923–24. This success was by the narrowest of margins – equal on points with Cardiff City, Huddersfield won by a difference of 0.024 (1.818 to 1.794) in goal average. The final goal by Brown in a 3–0 win over Nottingham Forest on the final day of the season proved crucial, although ultimately it was Huddersfield's superior defensive record which had given them the advantage.

Following the title win, Chapman kept faith with his squad, making only one new signing – outside right Joey Williams – as they successfully defended their League title in 1924–25. Huddersfield started brightly but a poor run of form in October and November (in part caused by an injury to goalkeeper Ted Taylor) saw them drop to ninth at one point. Taylor was replaced by new signing Billy Mercer and a resurgence in form saw Huddersfield climb the table, regaining top spot with a 5–0 win over Arsenal in February, and eventually finishing two points clear of runners-up West Bromwich Albion. As a testament to Chapman's philosophy of relying on a strong defence, it was the first time a title-winning side had gone through a season without conceding more than two goals in any match.

Arsenal

In the 1925 close season, Chapman had already set about improving his squad for Huddersfield to seek a third successive title (something which had never been achieved before). At the same time, Arsenal were looking to replace Leslie Knighton, who had been sacked. Arsenal chairman Sir Henry Norris placed an advertisement in the Athletic News:

Although Arsenal had been fighting relegation in both the two previous seasons, and despite the chairman's restriction on spending, Chapman nevertheless moved to Arsenal soon afterwards, attracted both by the London club's larger crowds and a salary of £2,000, double what he earned at Huddersfield Town. At Arsenal, Chapman immediately made an impact by signing 34-year-old Charlie Buchan, an England international and Sunderland's all-time record goalscorer, whom he made Arsenal captain.

Chapman came to Arsenal promising to make them the Newcastle of the South. Chapman and Buchan's arrival at the club also coincided with a change in the laws of the game in June 1925, that modified the offside law. The change had reduced the number of opposition players that an attacker needed between himself and the goal-line from three to two (including the goalkeeper). Buchan's idea, implemented by Chapman, was to move the centre half from a roaming position in midfield to a "stopper" position in defence. With the inside forwards brought back to help the midfield, this changed the usual formation from 2–3–5 to 3–4–3, or a "WM", so called after the shape it formed spelled out the letters. This meant the offside trap was now the responsibility of the single centre half, while the full backs were pushed wider to cover the wings.

Arsenal were by no means the only team to have come up with the idea of dropping the centre half into defence – Newcastle United beat Arsenal 7–0 that season employing such a system with Charlie Spencer at centre-half; Queen's Park and Tottenham Hotspur had also adopted similar systems. Chapman, however, was able to refine and improve on the idea better than his rivals, melding the tactical change with his own ideas on counter-attacking football, pacy wingers and a strong defence. Chapman himself summed it up by saying: "the most opportune time for scoring is immediately after repelling an attack, because opponents are then strung out in the wrong half of the field."

Arsenal went on to finish second in 1925–26, five points behind Chapman's old side Huddersfield Town, as they became the first club in England to win three titles in succession. It proved to be an early dawn for Arsenal, who spent most of the rest of the 1920s in mid-table, as Chapman took his time finding the right players to fit his new system, outlining a five-year plan for success. He retained relatively few players of his predecessor Knighton's era – Bob John, Alf Baker and Jimmy Brain being the exceptions – and instead looked to bring in talent from elsewhere.

In February 1926, he signed the pacy winger Joe Hulme, followed that summer by forward Jack Lambert and full-back Tom Parker, who would later succeed Buchan as captain. Although Arsenal's league form was indifferent, in 1927 they reached the FA Cup Final, their first, but lost 1–0 to Cardiff City after an error by goalkeeper Dan Lewis.

The same year, Arsenal became embroiled in a scandal; footballers' pay at the time was limited by a maximum wage, but an FA inquiry found that Charlie Buchan had secretly received illegal payments from Arsenal as an incentive to sign for the club. Sir Henry Norris was indicted for his part and banned from football, but Chapman escaped punishment, and with the autocratic Norris replaced by the more benign Samuel Hill-Wood, Chapman's power and influence within the club increased, allowing him control over all aspects of the club's business. He persevered in building the team, strengthening his attacking lineup with the signings of David Jack in 1928, and Alex James and Cliff Bastin in 1929. As at his previous clubs, Chapman worked on improving the defence, notably through the signings of Herbie Roberts and Eddie Hapgood at centre half and left back respectively.

It was the signing of David Jack in particular that highlighted Chapman's cunning when it came to transfer negotiations. Bolton Wanderers had originally asked for a fee of £13,000, almost double the existing record. Bob Wall, Chapman's personal assistant at the time, later recounted the negotiations he made with Bolton's directors as follows:

Chapman's subterfuge succeeded, as he managed to bargain the inebriated Bolton directors down to £10,890. He was less successful in his attempt to sign Jimmy McGrory from Celtic. He had set up a meeting with Celtic manager Willie Maley and young McGrory in summer 1928 when Maley and McGrory were on their way to a pilgrimage in Lourdes. A huge sum was offered (a blank cheque, some say) for the prolific McGrory, and Maley was more than ready to accept, for Celtic needed money to pay for their new stand. The deal fell through when McGrory, a homesick young Scotsman with an intense love for Celtic, refused to sign. He later (in 1935) broke the all-time goalscoring record.

Chapman had laid out a five-year plan for success in 1925, and it came to fruition exactly on schedule, as his Arsenal won their first major trophy in the 1930 FA Cup Final, beating his old side, Huddersfield Town, 2–0. Despite having finished only 14th in the League the same season, the win spurred Arsenal on and laid the foundations for a decade in which Arsenal would become the dominant team in England and eventually win five league titles.

Chapman had by now perfected Arsenal's ruthless, counter-attacking strategy. He employed a robust front line of Lambert supported by David Jack and Alex James as deep-lying inside forwards, filling the gap vacated by the movement of the centre half into defence; Alex James in particular, with his passing supplying the front men, became celebrated as the engine of the team during the coming decade. Chapman employed Bastin and Hulme as pacy wingers who could cut inside instead of hugging the touchline; they could either shoot for goal themselves or pick each other out if the centre forward was marked out of the game. With the exception of James, keeping and dwelling on the ball and individuality were discouraged in favour of a quick passing game, although Chapman still conceded: "All the men are expected to play to plan, but not so as to stifle individuality."

Chapman's tactics of fast-moving play meant the wing half line of John and Jones were now pushed in to cover central midfield, pivoting around the halfway line so that they could drop back to defend when necessary. Chapman was equally committed to a strong defence, saying that maintenance of a back line was "the rock bottom of football". Arsenal's defence were told to play deep and, with the support of the wing halves, fall back into their own penalty area when the opposition had the ball; this allowed the opposition plenty of possession in Arsenal's half, until they reached the 18-yard line and faced a massed defence. Once Arsenal regained the ball – usually through the centre half Herbie Roberts – the ball would be quickly passed forward and the wing halves would push up to support the attackers, meaning Arsenal could quickly commit as many as seven men forward as a unit to rapidly attack and try to score.

Chapman's system demanded a high level of fitness from his players, something which he strongly emphasised. He balanced the need for players suited to each task – in which his skill in spotting the right players and his extensive scouting network proved vital – with adapting his system to account for their abilities. Though highly effective, Chapman's fast, counter-attacking passing approach to football contrasted with how the game was traditionally played in England at the time, with its emphasis on dribbling, possession and dwelling on the ball, and thus brought accusations of "Lucky Arsenal" or "Boring Arsenal" from commentators and opposition. Nevertheless, despite the stereotype, in Arsenal's first title-winning season of 1930–31, they scored 127 goals in the League, which still stands as a club record.

Having won both League and Cup in separate seasons with two clubs, Chapman was determined to go one better and win the Double – which had not yet been won in the 20th century – in 1931–32 but ended up missing out on both, finishing second in the League behind Everton and losing the 1932 FA Cup Final controversially to Newcastle United, with Newcastle's equaliser coming after the ball had gone behind for a goal kick. Undeterred, Chapman kept faith with his side and launched a bid for the 1932–33 title. However, it was during this season that Arsenal suffered one of the most infamous defeats in their history.

In the FA Cup third round, Arsenal had been drawn against Walsall of the Third Division North. Arsenal, as the previous season's losing finalists and league leaders, were clear favourites to win the match. On the day, five of the Arsenal first team were out with injury or flu and had their places taken by reserves. Arsenal lost 2–0 in one of the greatest FA Cup upsets. Chapman was enraged by the result, and showed his ruthlessness by selling one player, Tommy Black, who had conceded a penalty in the game, to Plymouth Argyle within a week of the result; another, striker Charlie Walsh, was sold to Brentford a week later.

Despite the FA Cup setback, Arsenal bounced back in the League, and with the same scoring form as in 1930–31, finished the season having scored 118 League goals in total, including a 5–0 win over rivals Aston Villa in that season's title-deciding match. In the following close season, Chapman became the first professional manager in charge of England, albeit in an ad hoc unofficial capacity, for a summer tour of Europe. He did not have any input into the selection process, the team being determined by the FA's International Selection Committee, but did advise on tactics and gave pre-match team talks. Chapman was in charge for a friendly against Italy in Rome on 13 May 1933, which finished 1–1, and England's 4–0 win over Switzerland a week later.

Wary of his ageing Arsenal team and the club's inadequate reserves (as proven by the Walsall match), it was around this time that Chapman noted to club director George Allison: "The team's played out, Mr Allison, we must rebuild". Chapman started the process, signing Ray Bowden, Pat Beasley and Jimmy Dunne, and had converted the young George Male from left half to right back. Chapman would not live to see the end of the season, let alone complete the task of rebuilding his side. Arsenal went into 1933–34 looking to retain the title, and started consistently; they worked their way to the top of the league and were a comfortable four points clear after a goalless draw with Birmingham on 30 December 1933. This proved to be Chapman's last match in charge.

Death

Chapman celebrated New Year in London before travelling north on a scouting trip to see Bury play Notts County on 1 January 1934. The following day, he travelled to his native Yorkshire to watch Sheffield Wednesday, Arsenal's next opponents, before spending a final night in his home town of Kiveton Park. He returned to London nursing a cold but was well enough to watch an Arsenal third team match against Guildford City. Soon afterwards, his illness suddenly worsened; pneumonia set in, and Chapman quickly succumbed. He died in the early hours of 6 January 1934 at his home in Hendon. He was buried four days later in St Mary's Churchyard, Hendon.

Chapman left behind a widow, Annie, two sons, Ken (born 1908) and Bruce (born 1911), and two daughters, Molly (born 1915) and Joyce (born 1919). Ken was a rugby union player for Harlequins, and later served as president of the Rugby Football Union.

Legacy

Chapman was one of the first football managers in the modern sense of the word, taking full charge of the team, rather than letting board members pick the side. As well as his tactical innovations, he was a strong believer in physical fitness in football – he instituted a strict training regime and the use of physiotherapists and masseurs. He encouraged his players to openly discuss tactics and the game, instituting weekly team meetings at his clubs, and encouraged them to socialise in extra-curricular activities such as golf. He wrote regularly on football for the Sunday Express newspaper, and a collection of his writings was published after his death in a book, entitled Herbert Chapman on Football.

Unlike many of his contemporaries in Britain, Chapman was a fan of the continental game and counted among his friends Hugo Meisl and Jimmy Hogan, coaches of the Austrian "Wunderteam" of the 1930s. As long ago as 1909, he had taken his Northampton side on a tour of Germany to play 1. FC Nürnberg, and at Arsenal he had instituted an ongoing series of home-and-away friendlies against the likes of Racing Club de Paris. Chapman had proposed a Europe-wide club competition more than twenty years before the European Cup was instituted, and regularly took his teams abroad to play foreign sides. He was one of the first managers to consider signing black and foreign players; as well as signing Walter Tull, one of the first black professionals in the game, for Northampton Town in 1911, he attempted to recruit Austrian international goalkeeper Rudy Hiden for Arsenal in 1930, but was blocked by the Ministry of Labour, after protests from the Players' Union and the Football League. He did however succeed in signing Gerard Keyser, the first Dutchman to play English league football, as an amateur the same year, and Hiden was signed by Jimmy Hogan for Racing Club de Paris.

After attending a night-time match in Belgium in 1930 with his friend Hugo Meisl, Chapman became an early advocate of floodlights. He had lights installed in Highbury's new West Stand when it was constructed in 1932; however, they were used only for training, and Arsenal would have to wait until the 1950s for their officially sanctioned use in matches. Chapman oversaw much of the development of Highbury in the early 1930s, including the building of the West Stand and the addition of a clock which was eventually placed by the south terrace, giving it the name of the "Clock End". He is also credited with being behind the renaming of London Underground's Gillespie Road station to Arsenal. He even designed the scoreboard and turnstiles at the stadium.

Chapman advocated the use of white footballs and numbered shirts, as well as adding hoops to Arsenal's socks to make it easier for players to pick each other out. He later made a further change to Arsenal's kit, adding white sleeves to the previously all-red shirt and brightening the colour, before a match against Liverpool on 4 March 1933; the same kit theme of red with white sleeves or trim survives to this day. The tradition of both teams walking out together at the FA Cup Final was started in 1930 due to Chapman's involvement with both clubs, and has continued since.

Honours

Although he did not win any major honours as a player, as a manager Chapman won a Southern League title in 1908–09 with Northampton Town, four Football League titles (1923–24 and 1924–25 with Huddersfield Town, 1930–31 and 1932–33 with Arsenal) and two FA Cups (1921–22 with Huddersfield Town, 1929–30 with Arsenal). After his death the team he had built at Arsenal, under his successors Joe Shaw and George Allison, went on to win the 1933–34 and 1934–35 titles, emulating his Huddersfield Town team by completing a hat-trick. No team was to repeat the feat until Liverpool between 1982 and 1984. Chapman was honorary president of Scottish amateur football club Chirnside United until his death in 1934.

In 2003, Chapman was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his impact as a manager. An English Heritage blue plaque commemorating Chapman was unveiled in March 2005, at the house in Hendon where Chapman lived from 1926 until his death. Chapman was the first footballer or football manager to be commemorated in this way by English Heritage. In 2004, on the seventieth anniversary of his death, The Sunday Times named him the greatest British manager of all time in a poll.

In tribute to his achievements at Arsenal, a bronze bust of Chapman, sculpted by Jacob Epstein resided inside the marble halls of the East Stand of Arsenal Stadium, Highbury until its closure in 2006 and will be reinstated there once redevelopment work in the stadium is completed. A replica sits in the Directors' Entrance at Emirates Stadium; he is one of only two Arsenal managers to be honoured this way, the other being Arsène Wenger. Furthermore, Arsenal's white away kit for the 2007–08 season was dedicated to Chapman and his achievements.

Huddersfield Town were presented with a replica of Chapman's bust by Arsenal, to celebrate their centenary in 2008. Additionally, as part of their centennial, Huddersfield contested the inaugural Herbert Chapman Trophy against Arsenal at the Galpharm Stadium on 6 August 2008, which Arsenal won 2–1.

On 9 December 2011, Arsenal unveiled a statue of Chapman outside Emirates Stadium in celebration of the club's 125th anniversary. The club also unveiled statues of former players Tony Adams and Thierry Henry.

Honours overview
Northampton Town
 Southern League: 1908–09

Huddersfield Town
 FA Cup: 1921–22
 First Division (2): 1923–24, 1924–25
 FA Charity Shield: 1922

Arsenal
 FA Cup: 1929–30
 First Division (2): 1930–31, 1932–33
 FA Charity Shield (3): 1930, 1931, 1933

Individual
World Soccer 9th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013
France Football 24th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2019

See also
 List of English football championship-winning managers

Footnotes

References

Further reading

External links

The Notts player who went on to glory as a giant of the game, Nottingham Post. 17 August 2013.
A career on the rise, Nottingham Post. 19 August 2013.
Biography and Times obituary
Biography at Leeds United history site

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1934 deaths
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To wrap up your day, consider casting a Yo-Zuri America, Inc. Prism Gold Black 3DB Popper. This popper pattern can be especially solid for about an hour before sunset until just after sunset as fall progresses. It works great on clear or tannic bodies of water as its dark appearance allows for fish to see it from long distances away and better against the darkening night sky. On clearer bodies of water specifically, the Prism Gold Black 3DB Popper can look like a wounded bluegill or golden shiner at the surface due to its golden colored underbelly. Once again, wounded or injured prey at or near the water's surface is often times a dinner bell ringing that big largemouth bass and northern pike simply cannot refuse. As in the morning with the Bone pattern, the Prism Gold Black 3DB Popper just before sundown should be worked slowly. The longer the pauses are between twitches of the rod tip, the easier it may be for predator fish to zero in on your bait.
So, the next time you are considering putting in a full day on the water, stock up with the Bone, Prism Frog, and Prism Gold Black 3DB Yo-Zuri America, Inc. Poppers from FishUSA as they can help you catch fish successively all day long!
Mark Maule is an avid multi-species kayak angler from northern Minnesota. He spends around 120 days per year pursuing northern pike, largemouth and smallmouth bass, crappies, bluegills, walleyes, and muskies in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.


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The high antioxidant content found in our oil helps prevent and repair cellular damage from free radicals. This damage may show up as sun spots, an increase in fine lines or uneven texture. We love combining the healing benefits of our Nourishing Oil with the soothing benefits of our moisturizer to help to prevent and repair cellular damage and reduce inflammation.
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Using the tips of your fingers, start at the chin and massage oil in firm, sweeping motions outwards. Repeat this 5 times.
Moving to the nose, repeat. Apply oil outwards in firm, sweeping motions towards the ears. Repeat 5 times.
Move to the forehead and repeat. Apply oil outwards in firm, sweeping motions. Repeat 5 times.
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These holiday apartments are in Warter-Hof about 1.5 km on the outskirts of the pleasant Mandling village. Mandling is situated between Radstadt (9 km to the west) and Schladming (10 km to the east). Enjoy a beautiful view of the Dachstein Mountains from the apartments. This holiday home is located in the green part of Styria. The large lake in Pichl (2.5 km away) provides pleasant refreshment on hot summer days. Enjoy a hike in the neighbourhood or revel in other activities like rafting, paragliding and mountain biking. This apartment is one of the luxurious apartments in this farmhouse. The other apartment is on the same floor of this large house. There is another holiday apartment on this property.


Must be. It takes about 18 gallons to fill up when she's really low. I try not to let it get too far below 1/4 tank.
You might be able to test it by pulling the sender out and turning the key to run.
Anyways, today if the heads are in I will spend the next three days putting stuff back together. I'm quite excited, but taking it slowly. I've got some cans of POR 15 & back and metal flake top coat coming in so I can do some rust treatment & prevention in the bay and elsewhere.
I *almost* got it started after valve job + top end seals + bottom end gaskets + new fuel lines. There is still some air trapped somewhere in the fuel system, because I don't seem to get anything out of the injectors yet. I've bled the air from the fuel distributor by cranking with the lines open, then shut those one by one as they bled out. Then opened the injector ends of the lines and did the same thing. Still bubbles and occasional air pockets, but the fuel pump is pushing strong.
Can't get the key to crank the engine, have to use a jumper from the batt. terminal.
Removed the sunroof and interior for paint prep work.
Not speaking from experience but... I've read that it can take a LOT of cranking to get the air out. I guess you adjusted the valves?
Yes, I adjusted the valve clearances with the newly lapped-in valves. I haven't cranked it for very long at any given time; the battery can only stand about 10 turns before it starts giving up. The battery was not charged over the winter, so it's probably not holding a full charge.
I'd be carefull of continuous use of the starter motor, most are not designed for that and may damage the internal wiring (heat build up).
I know its not quite the same, but on my aircraft its 30 sec on 60 sec off, 30s on 60s off, 30s on 30 minutes OFF but I have abused car starter motors in the past.
Put the old Becker in Earlier this week I changed the center support bearing on the driveshaft and installed shifter bushings.
Location: Bonerland - I like big butts and I cannot lie!
Went for 2 hr lunch with 3 of the ladies from work.
No Fair.... I'm moving....Gas prices dropped but they're still 1.60 euro per liter, about $2.40 per liter.
Had the 450 down the big smoke (Perth) for a few days, she had her favourite drink (98 RON) then ran 100+ K's back to the country home for a quick wash and back to sleep in the shed.
Since I got my car two weeks ago the radiator has been drinking daily water.
Could only trace clouds of steam, decided to clean the radiator Mercedez style with the de-oil and de-lime, then I took her off to see if I can spot the leak.
Bottom line, some surgery and some epoxy and now she's dry and happy and she can finally hold some antifreeze again.
Cold start issue drove me nuts. Studied some online cases. Finally found an explanation on fuel running back down the fuel line. Tested the fuel accumulator/fuel resevoire and it was just wizzing fuel out the back end.
Now to find a replacement.
Cold start issue drove me nuts. Studied some online cases. Finally found an explanation on fuel running back down the fuel line sounding more like my situation. Tested the fuel/pressure resevoire and it was just wizzing fuel out the back end.
I've been in the sweltering heat, enduring oppressive humidity trying to fix my air conditioning.
I'm right there with you with broken front windows as well. Thank goodness there's a sunroof. I've just been viewing driving as a visit to the sauna - I'm sure I'm getting some health benefit out of all the sweating.


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package com.intellij.hibernate.model.xml.impl.mapping;

import com.intellij.hibernate.model.xml.mapping.*;
import com.intellij.javaee.model.common.CommonModelElement;
import com.intellij.javaee.model.common.CommonModelElementWrapper;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.text.StringUtil;
import com.intellij.persistence.facet.PersistencePackageDefaults;
import com.intellij.persistence.model.PersistenceInheritanceType;
import com.intellij.persistence.model.PersistentAttribute;
import com.intellij.persistence.model.PersistentEntity;
import com.intellij.persistence.model.TableInfoProvider;
import com.intellij.persistence.model.helpers.PersistentEntityModelHelper;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiClass;
import com.intellij.psi.util.PropertyMemberType;
import com.intellij.util.Function;
import com.intellij.util.containers.ContainerUtil;
import com.intellij.util.xml.*;
import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * @author Gregory.Shrago
 */
public abstract class HbmClassBaseImpl extends HbmPersistentObjectBaseImpl implements HbmClassBase {

  private final PersistentEntityModelHelper helper = new MyHelper();

  @Nonnull
  public PersistentEntityModelHelper getObjectModelHelper() {
    return helper;
  }

  public GenericValue<PsiClass> getIdClassValue() {
    if (this instanceof HbmClass) {
      return ((HbmClass)this).getCompositeId().getClazz();
    }
    return ReadOnlyGenericValue.getInstance(null);
  }

  public GenericValue<String> getName() {
    return getEntityName();
  }

  public class MyTable extends CommonModelElementWrapper implements TableInfoProvider {
    private final HbmTableInfoProvider myDelegate;

    public MyTable(HbmTableInfoProvider delegate) {
      myDelegate = delegate;
    }

    public HbmTableInfoProvider getDelegate() {
      return myDelegate;
    }

    public GenericValue<String> getTableName() {
      final GenericAttributeValue<String> value = getDelegate().getTableName();
      if (StringUtil.isEmpty(value.getStringValue())) {
        final HbmClassBase object = myDelegate.getParentOfType(HbmClassBase.class, false);
        final String className;
        if (object != null && StringUtil.isNotEmpty(className = object.getClazz().getStringValue())) {
          return ReadOnlyGenericValue.getInstance(StringUtil.getShortName(className));
        }
      }
      return value;
    }

    public GenericValue<String> getCatalog() {
      return getCurrentValueOrDefault(getDelegate().getCatalog(), new DefaultsProcessor<String>() {
        public GenericValue<String> processMappings(final HbmHibernateMapping mappings) {
          return mappings.getCatalog();
        }

        public String processUnitDefaults(final PersistencePackageDefaults defaults) {
          return defaults.getCatalog();
        }
      });
    }

    public GenericValue<String> getSchema() {
      return getCurrentValueOrDefault(getDelegate().getSchema(), new DefaultsProcessor<String>() {
        public GenericValue<String> processMappings(final HbmHibernateMapping mappings) {
          return mappings.getSchema();
        }

        public String processUnitDefaults(final PersistencePackageDefaults defaults) {
          return defaults.getSchema();
        }
      });
    }
  }

  public class MyHelper extends CommonModelElementWrapper implements PersistentEntityModelHelper {

    @PrimaryKey
    public GenericValue<PsiClass> getClazz() {
      return HbmClassBaseImpl.this.getClazz();
    }

    public TableInfoProvider getTable() {
      final HbmClassBaseImpl entity = HbmClassBaseImpl.this;
      if (entity instanceof HbmSubclass) {
        final HbmClass superclass = entity.getParentOfType(HbmClass.class, true);
        if (superclass != null) {
          return superclass.getObjectModelHelper().getTable();
        }
      }
      return new MyTable(entity);
    }

    public List<? extends TableInfoProvider> getSecondaryTables() {
      final List<HbmJoin> hbmJoins;
      if (HbmClassBaseImpl.this instanceof HbmClass) {
        hbmJoins = ((HbmClass)HbmClassBaseImpl.this).getJoins();
      }
      else if (HbmClassBaseImpl.this instanceof HbmSubclass) {
        hbmJoins = ((HbmSubclass)HbmClassBaseImpl.this).getJoins();
      }
      else {
        return Collections.emptyList();
      }
      return ContainerUtil.map(hbmJoins, new Function<HbmJoin, TableInfoProvider>() {
        public TableInfoProvider fun(final HbmJoin join) {
          return new MyTable(join);
        }
      });
    }

    @Nullable
    public PersistenceInheritanceType getInheritanceType(final PersistentEntity descendant) {
      final HbmClassBaseImpl thisEntity = HbmClassBaseImpl.this;
      if (thisEntity instanceof HbmSubclass) return PersistenceInheritanceType.SINGLE_TABLE;
      if (thisEntity instanceof HbmUnionSubclass) return PersistenceInheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS;
      if (thisEntity instanceof HbmJoinedSubclass) return PersistenceInheritanceType.JOINED;
      final HbmClassBase hbmDescendant = ModelMergerUtil.getImplementation(descendant, HbmClassBase.class);
      if (hbmDescendant == null) return null;
      if (descendant instanceof HbmSubclass) return PersistenceInheritanceType.SINGLE_TABLE;
      if (descendant instanceof HbmUnionSubclass) return PersistenceInheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS;
      if (descendant instanceof HbmJoinedSubclass) return PersistenceInheritanceType.JOINED;
      return null;
    }

    @Nonnull
    public List<? extends PersistentAttribute> getAttributes() {
      return HbmClassBaseImpl.this.getAttributes();
    }

    public PropertyMemberType getDefaultAccessMode() {
      return HbmClassBaseImpl.this.getDefaultAccessMode();
    }

    public boolean isAccessModeFixed() {
      return false;
    }

    public List<HbmQuery> getNamedQueries() {
      return getQueries();
    }

    public List<HbmSqlQuery> getNamedNativeQueries() {
      return getSqlQueries();
    }

    public CommonModelElement getDelegate() {
      return HbmClassBaseImpl.this;
    }
  }
}

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Italian government relies on German technology from Lower Saxony.
Delmenhorst, Germany, January 06, 2018 --(PR.com)-- The Government Printing Press of Italy, the Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS), has commissioned the Delmenhorst based company Tönnjes E.A.S.T. to build the world's first fully automated car license plate production. At the new location near Turin, around six million number plates will be manufactured per year from the end of 2018. "A high-tech factory is being built," explains Holger Lang, Managing Director at Tönnjes E.A.S.T. and adds: "The special feature lies in the complex, automated interlinking of all work processes - keyword industry 4.0." In Italy, the printing of all security documents, such as passports, number plates, bank notes or driving licenses is centralised and in the hands of the state — this is unique in the European Union. The IPZS with headquarters in Rome is wholly owned by the Italian Ministry for Economy and Finance.
There will hardly be any people in the new factory. Instead you will encounter a tactical combination of machines, logistics and software — the state-of-the-art car license plate production is the new flagship of Tönnjes. "All components used in Italy hail from our range of machines for the production of license plates. For the first time, however, they will be all digitally connected with each other," explains Lang. The end result can be divided into three work modules. First of all, the license plates are cut to size, then robots emboss their alpha numerics. In the end, further robots join plate pairs, shrink-wrap and pack them. The digitalisation of the processes permits the plant manager to be always informed in real time about the current production status.
However, the Italian license plates themselves will not change. "We always guarantee that the standard prescribed by the government is maintained," emphasises Lang. Built-in quality controls directly sort faulty plates. "Each number plate receives its own identification number during production. This allows the authorities to track later, when it is already on the road, when it has passed through which production step," he explains. This protects against manipulation. The IPZS had advertised the job with a budget of nine million Euro already in 2016. After an extensive application and regular talks on site, both parties signed the contracts in October. "We are happy to have found an innovative partner with long-standing experience and current, technical know-how with Tönnjes E.A.S.T," says Ivo Planeta, Technical Manager of the IPZS.
As leading provider of security license plates for vehicles, TÖNNJES E.A.S.T. offers its customers solutions for vehicle identification for different requirements. The RFID products IDePLATE (RFID license plates) and IDeSTIX (RFID windshield stickers) are used to protect from manipulation, fraud and theft. Equipped with latest technologies, the company develops modular systems and individual complete solutions that fulfil the specific requirements in the fields of security, organisation and logistics.


Each Christmas season follows the same general routine.
Throughout the year, I keep my eye open for good Christmas gift ideas for my family and friends. I'll glance through flyers, look at sales, and stop in at exceptional events like "going out of business" sales with the idea in mind that I'll find an amazing gift for someone at a stellar price – and I usually do find one or two.
As the end of the year approaches, this ramps up. My wife and I make long lists of all of our Christmas obligations and we dig deep into the process of buying presents for everyone. We spend hours upon hours thinking about the perfect gift for everyone in our family. We usually make a bunch of homemade gifts – homemade beer, homemade cookies, and so on. During this period, we usually do find a few great gifts for people, and we happily wrap these up and stow them away under our tree.
As the final week or so approaches, we're usually getting very nervous about the remaining holes on our list – and we start to panic a bit. We wind up searching madly for gifts for those last few people, rushing around with a ton of pre-holiday nervousness.
A few days before Christmas, we look under the tree – usually as we're packing up for a long winter trek to visit family – and we're aghast at the sheer quantity of gifts. "Did we really buy all this stuff?" we'll ask each other. And, sure enough, we did.
For those last few days, we usually feel some guilt. We think about all of the money we've spent on gifts, even if we did find some spectacular bargains along the way. Usually, when we actually do make a tally, it's not as bad as it seems, adding some relief to our misery.
As Christmas approaches, though, our feelings about the gifts begin to change. We settle in with our family, warm and comfortable and together. We watch old home movies together and play games together. We relax and nap and tell each other stories about the year that's past.
And on Christmas morning, we all get up together and open those gifts that we've been stowing away each year. All of the people we love, together, in one room, opening the gifts we've thought so carefully about and purchased for each other.
I get to watch my niece try to look serious as she opens her gifts, but her simple joy at receiving something she's wanted for a long time still comes through on her stern face.
I get to watch my sister-in-law sit there with the dazed smile she gets every year on Christmas morning.
I get to watch my mother's eyes glow with happiness as she watches her grandchildren dive into a pile of presents.
And I realize that it really doesn't matter what gifts are actually wrapped up under the tree. I've already received the perfect Christmas gift – those moments with my family, creating memories of togetherness and happiness that will stick in my mind for the rest of my life.


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Baltimore Activist Alert - March 22 - 23, 2017
29] No to Jay Clayton – Mar. 22
30] Take it to Ryan's office – Mar. 22
31] Gas too dirty – Mar. 22
32] Avoid Nuclear Tensions – Mar. 22
33] Jam Session at the Wilson Building – Mar. 22
34] Support the Maryland SPCA – Mar. 22
35] No More Heroes ??? -- Mar. 22
36] Civil Rights in the Trump Era: Lessons from History – Mar. 22
37] ADAMS BEAT Choir performance – Mar. 22
38] Change Through Better Facilitation - Mar. 22
39] Book DIRECT ACTION – Mar. 22
40] Development Projects in the Amazon – Mar. 23
41] Defend Our Healthcare rally -- Mar. 23
42] Attend the SAALT Town Hall on Rights -- Mar. 23
43] Come to fundraiser for Casa Ruby – Mar. 23
44] "Night of Spoken Word" – Mar. 23
45] Book talk NO MORE HEROES – Mar. 23
29] -- Jay Clayton has made a career of representing Wall Street clients like Goldman Sachs when they've broken the rules at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Now Donald Trump has nominated him to be the chair of the SEC and enforce their rules. Join Senator Bernie Sanders and the Resist the Hostile Takeover coalition of Our Revolution, Public Citizen, Allied Progress and Good Jobs Nation in opposition to this dangerous Wall Street power grab. Resist the Hostile Takeover Day of Action at the Our Revolution DC Office, 603 2nd St NE, WDC 20002, on Wed., Mar. 22 from 12:30 to 3 PM. RSVP at https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/event/detail/volunteeractivityormeeting/gpg7cc?source=em170318-dc.
30] – The 'Trump Ryan Take Care Away' bill being pushed through Congress is an unmerciful act of meanness. If passed and signed into law by President Trump, 24 million Americans who are currently covered under the Affordable Care Act will lose coverage. And thousands of them will die. Join interfaith clergy and moral activists in Washington D.C. to march on Speaker Paul Ryan's office to save health care on Wed., Mar. 22 at 1 PM at the U.S. Capitol Grounds, the corner of First Street SE & Independence Ave SE. When our elected representatives commit to immoral action, we have no option but to march and resist by all nonviolent means available. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1497871773566124/. Contact Clinton Wright at cwright@breachrepairers.org.
31] -- Join a webinar, "Too Dirty, Too Dangerous: Why Health Professionals Reject Natural Gas" on Wed., Mar. 22 from 2 to 3 PM. Hear about the scientific and medical studies that document just how harmful natural gas is to health and to the climate. Are you concerned about fracking and natural gas pipelines? Concerned about climate change? If you are—and you should be—you should join Physicians for Social Responsibility for a webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/255494997792545283.
Natural gas is worse for health than many people realize. More and more gas is extracted using fracking, and scientific studies now associate fracking with hospital admissions, low-birth-weight babies, and other grave health effects. You'll learn about these studies in the webinar. Methane, natural gas's primary component, has a disproportionate impact on climate change. And it leaks into the atmosphere from fracking wells, compressor stations, even the distribution pipes that carry it to our homes. This leakage makes natural gas at least as bad for the climate as coal, if not worse, over a 20-year timeframe—which is about how long we have to avoid climate catastrophe
32] – On Wed., Mar. 22 from 2 to 3:30 PM, the Arms Control Association will host Sergey Rogov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Walter Schmid, former German Ambassador in Moscow, and Steven Pifer, Brookings Arms Control Initiative, will tackle "How U.S. and Russian Leaders Can Avoid Renewed Nuclear Tensions" at the National Press Club, First Amendment Lounge, 529 14th St. NW, WDC. RSVP at https://www.armscontrol.org/civicrm/event/register?id=45&reset=1.
33] – There is a Special Invitation from Councilmember David Grosso to join POLITICS & ART: A Jam Session at the Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC 20004 on Wed., Mar. 22 from 5:30 to 9 PM! Washington Performing Arts' Mars Urban Arts Initiative, in partnership with Councilmember David Grosso, will host the fourth annual event. Come network and celebrate D.C.'s arts scene and its intersections with political life! If you are a performer, we invite you to bring your instrument to help celebrate D.C.'s unique performing arts culture and join our Community Jam led by host, Dior Ashley Brown and The dAb Band! RSVP at http://www.washingtonperformingarts.org/calendar/view.aspx?id=3475.
34] – Support the Maryland SPCA [mailto:give@mdspca.org] dining at the Mountain Branch Country Club, 1827 Mountain Rd., Joppa 21085, on Wed., Mar, 22 from 6 PM to midnight. Choose any 3-course-meal from the pre-fixed menu for $30 that evening, and a portion of the proceeds from the restaurant and bar sales (including tips), karaoke and raffles will be donated back to the Maryland SPCA. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/708227366021142/.
35] – No More Heroes: a panel and discussion will take place at The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd. NW, WDC, on Wed., Mar. 22 from 7 to 9 PM. Folks working within and alongside traditional non-profits often face significant internal structural and cultural barriers to shifting power, resources and priorities to do work informed by solidarity. Trying to shift power and decision making away from a wealthy white Board of Directors towards the leadership and needs of grassroots community leaders? Curious about organizational models of mentorship and leadership development that prioritizes those of us who are People of Color, Trans and queer, immigrants, poor and disabled? The panel will include Jordan Flaherty, author of "No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality," Sapna Pandya, MPH, Executive Director of Many Languages One Voice (MLOV), and Stephanie Sneed, Co-Director of DC Fair Budget Coalition. Contact nora.rasman@gmail.com. The event is co-sponsored by Service 2 Justice Conference, Soteria Community School and The Potter's House. Go to https://service2justice.splashthat.com/.
36] – On Wed., Mar. 22 from 7 to 9 PM, Civil Rights in the Trump Era: Lessons from History, hosted by OSI-Baltimore, will be held at the University of Baltimore - Mt. Royal, Moot Court Room, 1401 N. Charles St, Baltimore 21217. How can a thorough understanding of the African-American-led freedom movement of the 1950s and 60s inform those looking to create a new sustaining civil rights movement to defend communities threatened by new federal and local policies? Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch, author of the seminal trilogy "America in the King Years" and a member of OSI-Baltimore's Advisory Board, discusses what defenders of democracy from America's past can teach today's activists about resisting threats to open society. This is co-presented with the University of Baltimore School of Public Affairs. A donation of $20 is suggested to support the work of OSI-Baltimore. No one who registers will be turned away. Register at https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/offices-foundations/open-society-institute-baltimore.
37] -- On Wed., Mar. 22 from 7:30 to 9 PM, the ADAMS BEAT Choir will perform at Children of One World: Celebrating the Cultures of the Excluded at Kreeger Theater at Arena Stage, 1101 6th St. SW, WDC 20024. Go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/children-of-one-world-celebrating-the-cultures-of-the-excluded-tickets-32176813716?aff=es2.
38] -- The DC Trainers Network: Building Change Through Better Facilitation will be at St. Stephen's Church, 1525 Newton St. NW, WDC, on Wed., Mar. 22 at 7 to 9 PM, hosted by the Washington Peace Center. Have you ever attended a meeting and thought "why am I wasting my time here?" Were you excited about continuing in the movement and then were turned off by attending a meeting? Have you been the facilitator that wanted more tools to have clearer outcomes and goals from a meeting? Are you an activist who loves to organize events and meetings and wants more skills on facilitating more successful meetings? If so this workshop is for you! The DC Trainers' Network monthly skillshare is a structured, interactive space where people can share skills and gain confidence in their training abilities and everybody is both a teacher and a learner. It strives to provide an inclusive practice space to experiment with different approaches for learning and teaching. This skillshare is part of our new Resistance Training Series to strengthen the skills of people in the movement. The Metro stop on the Green Line is Columbia Heights.
39] – On Wed., Mar. 22 at 7:30 PM at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 30 W. North Ave., Baltimore 21201, hear about DIRECT ACTION by L.A. Kauffman. As people take to the streets in record numbers to resist the presidency of Donald Trump, this history of protest offers unique insights into how past movements have won victories in times of crisis and backlash and how they can be most effective today. This deeply researched account, twenty-five years in the making, traces the evolution of disruptive protest since the Sixties to tell a larger story about the reshaping of the American left. Kauffman, a longtime grassroots organizer, examines how movements from ACT UP to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter have used disruptive tactics to catalyze change despite long odds. There are hundreds of candid interviews conducted over a span of decades. "Direct Action" showcases the voices to key players in an array of movements- environmentalist, anti-nuclear, anti-apartheid, feminist, LGBTQ, anti-globalization, racial-justice, anti-war, and more- across an era when American politics shifted to the right, and a constellation of decentralized issue- and identity-based movements supplanted the order ideal of a single, unified left. Call 443-602-7585. RSVP at http://www.redemmas.org.
40] -- Amazon Watch invites you to a "Green Bag" presentation Development Projects, Community Rights, and the Role of the Church in the Amazon on Thurs., Mar. 23 from 12:30 to 2 PM at the Amazon Watch / CIEL Conference Room, 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, #1100, WDC. Large-scale development projects abound in the Amazon: railroads, mines, climate mitigation projects, and agriculture. These projects threaten land and human rights, and the unique Amazon ecosystem. The Catholic Church, through the new Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM) is partnering with indigenous and campesino communities to defend their rights and territories. REPAM is in DC with eighteen indigenous, campesino and pastoral leaders.
Hear from some of these representatives on both the challenges faced by the communities and the partnership with local, regional and international representatives of the Catholic Church. Jakelyn Vasquez Díaz is a pastoral leader who is accompanying indigenous communities, Afro-Brazilian communities, and peasant farmers to stop the expansion of the Carajás train that carries iron ore from the Carajás mine, the largest mining project in the world. The railroad and mine are in the Mariñhao state in Brazil. Rosildo Da Silva is an indigenous leader from the Jaminawa Arará tribe. The Jaminawa Arará are opposing the climate mitigation REDD project (Reduction in Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) that would provide carbon offsets to California in the form of carbon credits. The REDD project threatens land rights and indigenous rights for local people. Luis Rodrigo Sanchez Zhiminaycela is a Shuar indigenous leader in the Cascomi community of Ecuador. They are opposing the large-scale Condor-Mirador open pit copper mine financed by Chinese investors. The mine would be the first mega-project in Ecuador. Marco Martinez Quintana is a campesino leader from el Chaparrito, Colombia in Meta state. They are opposing an African palm oil project used to make biofuels. The community is composed of former displaced people from Colombia's internal conflict. They now face displacement again for the biofuels project.
41] – On Thurs., Mar. 23 is the seventh anniversary of President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare. For many Communities United members, the ACA has meant new or improved healthcare. We have to stop Trump and the Republican Congress from taking our healthcare away via their proposed repeal and "replace" legislation – which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will uninsure 24 million people! A vote in the House of Representatives has been scheduled for March 23.
Come to a Defend Our Healthcare rally and march on Thurs., Mar 23 at 1 PM in Freedom Plaza, 14th St. & Pennsylvania Ave, NW, WDC. To reserve your seat on the bus, call 410-775-6673 or email nabeehah@communitiesunite.org! Baltimore bus departure locations are as follows: location #1 at 10:30 AM, Bank St and S Caroline St or location #2 at 11:15 AM at McCulloh St. and Dolphin St. Go to http://www.communitiesunite.org/.
42] -- Attend the SAALT Town Hall on Rights at the AFL-CIO, 815 16th St. NW, WDC, on Thurs., Mar. 23 from 6 to 9 PM. SAALT invites all D.C., Maryland, and Virginia residents to attend the first in a series of national community town halls in 2017. The recent spike in hate violence aimed at South Asian, Muslim, and Sikh communities is part of a dangerous trend electrified by the 2016 election cycle and now the current administration. Come listen to community leaders discuss the latest executive orders on immigration, the impact of these on communities, local organizing efforts to support our communities, and participate in a know your rights training. SAALT promises a rich discussion and food. It will be in the Gompers Room (1st floor), 815 16th St. NW, WDC. Use the Metro (Red line – Farragut North and Dupont Circle). RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saalt-town-hall-on-rights-tickets-32854982136 (free event but please register}! Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1243534195743993/.
43] – Come to a Benefit for Casa Ruby LGBTQ Community Center at JR's Bar, 1519 17th St. NW, WDC, on Thurs., Mar. 23 from 7 to 9 PM. As many of you might have heard Casa Ruby was vandalized and an employee was attacked. It would be great to raise enough money to make sure they have a proper security door so this never happens again. Please come out and support a great cause. Casa Ruby helps homeless LGBTQ people who have no place to go. Ruby is an amazing person and RJ's would like to help anyway they can. To donate, get over to https://www.gofundme.com/casa-ruby-benefit.
44] – "Night of Spoken Word" is Part I of a series of events organized by a collective of artists in Baltimore for the purpose of raising funds for the Peoples Power Assembly. On Thurs., Mar. 23 at 7 PM, come to the Harriet Tubman Solidarity Center, 2011 North Charles St., Baltimore 21218. Funds will cover the running cost of educational events, protests against Trump as well as the fight against police brutality, racism, and crimes against the LGBTQI community. You are invited to be a part of this evening of performance by extremely talented local artists who are donating their time. The suggested donation is $5.Light refreshments will be provided.
45] – On Thurs., Mar. 23 at 7:30 PM at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 30 W. North Ave., Baltimore 21201, hear NO MORE HEROES: GRASSROOTS CHALLENGES TO THE SAVIOR MENTALITY from activist-journalist Jordan Flaherty. Jordan asks: How can we build a better world? And he tries to make the case why do so many people with privilege end up making things worse when they try to help? It's called the savior mentality. Then he goes way out on a limb by claiming the saviors are FBI informants, anti-sex-work crusaders, Teach For America corps members, and out-of-touch journalists. That is a tough sell. Call 443-602-7585. RSVP at http://www.redemmas.org.
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Q: Upload a blob with Phonegap FileTransfer - and receive binary I want to upload some binary data (e.g. image, or zip) to a server using phonegap, and receive binary as the response. Is it possible?
While the upload works very well with the FileTransfer and a file stored on the disk, I cant get it to work with a blob
var blob = new Blob([something], {type: 'application/zip'});
var blobUrl = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
var ft = new FileTransfer();
ft.upload(blobURL, encodeURI('http://server'), win, fail, options);

the blobURL of course is something like
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which FileTransfer does not find. I tried to save the blob first, passing its path to FileTransfer - but Phonegaps FileWriter cannot process a blob.
Using xhr is not an option as you cannot receive binary files with it in Phonegap (WP8). The Mimetypeoverride Trick does not work in this case as Internet Explorers xhr does not have this option.
I am working with Windows Phone 8.

A: You can't send binary data through Phonegap file Transfer.
Your binary data must be converted to BASE64 string and then transferred to server. Same thing goes for the other way.
Here's a tutorial how to handle binary data transfer with Phonegap: http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2012/03/01/phonegap-tip-binary-filesystem-data/

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UK Praises Pakistan for War Against Terrorism
October 25, 2016 October 26, 2016 RMN News 0 Comment Human Rights, India, Pakistan, Terrorism, UK, War
Pakistan has launched "Operation Zarb-i-Azb, deploying 200,000 of Pakistani security forces to eliminate terrorism from the country.
By Rakesh Raman
Sir Mark Lyall Grant, National Security Adviser (United Kingdom) called on Pakistan Prime Minister (PM) Muhammad Nawaz Sharif at PM House on Monday.
Paying rich tributes to the sacrifices made in the war against terrorism, Sir Grant commended the Sharif's government for achieving substantial successes in this war.
The admiration from the UK for Pakistan has come close on the heels of NATO's satisfaction with the Pakistan government's resolve to fight against terrorism.
General Peter Pavel, Chairman Military Committee NATO, said recently that the scale of counter terrorism campaign by Pakistan is quite large with impressive results in this regard.
[ Modi Playing Politics with Soldiers' Blood: Rahul Gandhi ]
Of late, Pakistan has launched "Operation Zarb-i-Azb, deploying 200,000 of Pakistani security forces to eliminate terrorism from the country.
It is a joint military offensive conducted by the Pakistan Armed Forces against various militant groups, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, al-Qaeda, Jundallah and the Haqqani network.
[ Narendra Modi and Imran Khan Are Enemies of Pakistan: Kirmani ]
According to Pakistan government, the National Security Advisor (NSA) of the UK acknowledged the huge sacrifices made by the armed forces, police and other law enforcing agencies in the war against terrorists.
He said that the commitment of political government and armed forces, supported by the people of Pakistan, have resulted into phenomenal victory against terrorism.
With reference to India, the UK NSA appreciated Sharif's policy of reaching out to the neighbouring countries for establishing cordial relationships with them. "We encourage and support your efforts for peaceful cooperation with your neighbouring countries," said the NSA.
[ Also Visit: Global Terrorism Information Center ]
Nawaz Sharif stated that Pakistan is a peace-loving country and pursues the policy of maintaining friendly relationships with all its neighbours.
He added that the issue of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) is the core issue between India and Pakistan and its resolution would ensure durable peace in the region.
He suggested that Kashmir issue must be resolved according to the UN resolutions as per the commitments made by the Indian Government. "The world community must take a note of the grave human rights violations and atrocities committed by Indian forces in the Indian Occupied Kashmir," Nawaz Sharif reiterated.
[ Pakistan Asks U.S. to Protect Human Rights in Kashmir ]
Kashmir has been facing a series of violent incidents since the killing of a 22-year-old rebel leader Burhan Wani by the Indian security forces on July 8 in an encounter which many believe was avoidable.
India maintained that Burhan Wani was a militant leader, but Pakistan honors him as a freedom fighter who was fighting for the people of Kashmir.
Nearly 100 people have died and thousands injured in the conflicts between the supporters of Burhan Wani and the Indian security forces in Kashmir.
By Rakesh Raman, who is a government award-winning journalist and social scientist. You also can visit the REAL VOTER – Politics in India Information Center that he manages.
Photo courtesy: Pakistan PM Office
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Farlington has a very strong pastoral vision. We have a whole school ethos to wellbeing, promoting a positive and holistic approach to good mental health. In practice, this means that we encourage an engaged and enthusiastic approach to life, from awareness of healthy eating, exercise and relaxation to strategies on how to cope when the examination season hits. The introduction of Wellbeing Representatives from each form ensures that this outlook is filtered throughout the whole school. Activities include a Boast Board and specific events throughout the year.
In recent years the importance of increasing resilience levels in young people has been highlighted and Farlington is proud to say that we are at the forefront of this initiative. From September 2018 we introduced the Penn Resilience Programme throughout the School. This programme is considered the gold standard of resilience training and aims to provide our students with the necessary skills to bounce back from the potential adversities that life may throw at them.
For those pupils who do need extra support, our tutor system, overseen by Heads of Year, ensures that a tailored and individual plan, supporting and meeting the needs of that student, can be set up quickly and efficiently.


Explore the charm and shops of the Islands towns where you can find everything you need for your holiday as well as picking up some souvenirs and gifts for friends and family back home. In Ventnor, Shanklin and Sandown you will find a range of great seaside shops selling your essential beach and holiday needs such as inflatables, beach towels, suncream and games as well as some charming local craft and produce shops displaying work by Island artists and Island produced treats. For clothing and more of a high street feel pop along to Cowes, Newport or Ryde and explore the many boutiques, galleries and specialists shops, a trip round Yarmouth is a must for those wanting to explore the secret treasures of the shops hidden away down one of its many small side streets.
There are some great shopping attractions to visit on the Isle of Wight such as Arreton Barns Craft Village, Shanklin Old Village, Godshill and the Garlic Farm where you can pick up every kind of garlic treat you can imagine to enjoy or try your hand at growing some with their great range of bulbs. For those wanting to try some local produce try one of the many Island Deli's and Farm shops or treat your self to a meal out in one of our many Isle of Wight restaurants and bars.


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Prospero (DMX Cue Light Controller)
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Capulet 2.0 (WiFi DC Dimmer)
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Monthly Roundup: 12/5/16
Published on December 5, 2016 December 4, 2016 by Sarah
Ben spent most of the last month glued to his computer, working on product development, Horatio updates, and lots and lots of coding. But that's not to say it wasn't an exciting month! Here's a few peeks at what we've been up to:
We created a mockup for a public art installation in downtown Pittsburgh, which includes a web-portal control interface for an RGBW light. The controller also tracks temperature and humidity, since the lights in this installation are going to live in some pretty extreme conditions. (More on that soon!)
The new revision of the Horatio hardware now sports an internal battery backup, allowing us to distinguish between a power failure and a network failure.
We have a new system in the works (Code Name: Prometheus), and we're getting close to a beta release and announcement. Can't say more than that yet, but we'll have more details for you in next month's roundup post!
Mockup web interface with temp and humidity monitoring.
Updated Horatio board with internal battery backup.
Board for Prometheus, now in development. Any guesses as to what it is?
Published on November 7, 2016 November 5, 2016 by Sarah
It's almost two weeks since Ben got back from LDI, and we've finally recovered enough to post an update! The show went really well – Ben got the chance to talk to a lot of great people, the comfy chairs were a hit, and we even won an award! We're not sure what for exactly, but you can check out the Barnelli Awards on Twitter to see the other winners – we're in good company! We're pretty sure it's because they figured out the secret messages hidden in our booth. (Did you? You've got all the clues you need in the photos below – first person to figure it out and leave a comment below wins a prize!)
Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth and made our first time exhibiting at LDI so successful. If you didn't make it to the show, check out the photos below to see what you missed!
The view from our booth – we had a pretty great spot!
The empty booth, awaiting our crate full of goodies.
Our crate arrives.
We brought a lot of pop with us. Probably didn't need quite that much.
Setting up the booth.
Our C-stands with Source Four Minis looked like tiny booms!
The Natrona Bottling Co soda was a big hit!
The booth is all set up and ready for visitors!
Close up of part of the Wall of Signs.
We can now say we are an award-winning lighting controls company.
Prospero makes a great pedestal for the Barnelli award…
2 versions of Horatio, with a diagram explaining the system.
LDI, Here We Come!
Published on October 17, 2016 October 15, 2016 by Sarah
We're headed to LDI this week (exhibiting for the first time!), and we're excited to show off some great products and chat with people over locally-crafted pop while reclining in our super-squishy chairs. Here's a peek at what you'll see if you stop by and see us in Booth #1782:
A live demo of the Horatio Architainment Monitoring System – an affordable, easily integrated, internet-connected system that monitors unattended lighting systems, collects diagnostic data and sends out immediate notifications of problems. Designed to be manufacturer agnostic, Horatio dramatically increases the accessibility and visibility of the inner workings of any lighting network.
The Prospero DMX cue light controller – a reconfigurable controller that enables the creation of simple, flexible DMX cue light systems, providing the benefits of a custom cue light controller without the expense. Developed to the specifications of Broadway electricians and stage managers, it has been used over the past two years on more than 30 Broadway productions and tours, as well as installations in regional theatres and road houses.
The MSC Box – the newest addition to BPI's product line, the MSC Box is a unique tool that provides visibility into a MSC message stream and can also pause the data stream, temporarily isolating portions of a show's control system. We'll be giving two MSC Boxes away this week – one at the show, and another one online, so follow us on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter if you aren't making it to Vegas this year!
If you are at the show, stop by our booth and relax for a bit while you chat with Ben – we'll be fully stocked with a supply of pop from Natrona Bottling Company, including root beer, ginger beer and almond cream soda. A word of warning, though: the chairs are so comfy, you might not want to leave…
Monthly Roundup – and some Big News!
Published on September 5, 2016 September 3, 2016 by Sarah
It's been a big month for us here at BPI! We moved out of the old shop (just in time, since that huge storm blew out a window – if we hadn't already moved Ben's office out, all the computers and electronics would have been soaked!), and we're mostly settled into the new shop. I've been organizing the office, while Ben got the router set up in its new home and started organizing the electronics shop. Meanwhile, the littlest member of our team has settled right into her office – we're pretty sure she'd be happy to just move in there and never come home.
We got the move done just in time, since cue light season is back in full swing – we're shipping 6 Prospero units in the next six weeks – and Ben is about to do a beta installation of Horatio Outdoor. He's also continuing development on the Midi Show Control box, which should be done by mid-October.
We've also got some exciting news: we're exhibiting at LDI for the first time this year! I've gone into master planning mode, making schedules and designing the booth, while Ben gets Horatio and Prospero ready to show off to the world. It's going to be a crazy couple of months, but we're excited. If you're going to be at LDI, drop us a line, and stop by to chat with Ben – Booth #1782!
Sad to leave behind our "urban stained glass", and our fabulous neighbors at the Design Center!
Good thing we got out before the storm – there were giant puddles in the middle of the former office!
New home of our little CNC router.
She's made herself right at home.
The new MSC Box lets you pause and restart MIDI data with the press of a button.
Color coding is the key to everything.
Published on August 17, 2016 August 17, 2016 by Sarah
We've been slacking off on the weekly roundup posts, but we had a good reason: we were moving the shop!
While we loved our shop at the Design Center, with its urban stained glass (aka graffiti on the windows) and awesome neighbors (hi, Plant Lady!), an opportunity arose that was just too good to pass up. Clear Story Creative, who we've done some great projects with in the past, had some extra space and invited us to move in!
BPI is still a separate operation, with our own dedicated space in their shop, and Ben gets an air conditioned and heated office out of the deal (no more fingerless gloves for programming in the winter!). Ben also gets people to talk to during the day (so you might see him on Facebook a little less often…), I get my own desk (instead of a tiny corner of an electronics workbench), and the littlest member of our team even gets a new office and some new friends (who are already providing her with exciting new toys…).
Posts might be sporadic for the next few weeks as we continue to settle in, but keep an eye on our Facebook and Twitter accounts for pictures as we get the office set up and decorated!
Packing up the old shop
We packed everything onto pallets to make it easier to move. Hooray for pallet jacks!
The furniture was the only thing that didn't go on pallets, so Ben only needed one helper to get everything moved (thanks, Ken!)
We thought a 26′ truck would be more than enough space, but it ended up packed to the gills…
Enjoying the A/C after moving all the furniture in. The disco ball goes up next week.
Our littlest team member had to test out Ben's new desk. He might never get it back…
Weekly Roundup: 7/4/16
Published on July 4, 2016 July 2, 2016 by Sarah
Ben and Horatio had a busy week last week, with great news on several different fronts. We made arrangements for the installation of Horatio Outdoor beta units in two different locations and applications (more on that in the weeks to come!), and Ben spent some time in the shop doing an overhaul of Horatio's email alert system, to make it more streamlined and easy to use. Meanwhile, the Horatio at the Petersen Automotive Museum, one of our very first installations, celebrated 5 months of continuous uptime this week (that's 152 days!).
Ben also continued working with Clear Story to develop a custom 4-universe lighting controller, all while avoiding being pressure washed through the shop's leaky windows.
The location of an upcoming Horatio Outdoor beta installation
Streamlining the Horatio alert notifications
Working on a custom 4-universe lighting controller
Weekly Roundup: 6/27/16
Published on June 27, 2016 June 25, 2016 by Sarah
Ben's been busy with several top-secret projects this week (more on those in the next few months), but he also found time to do some more development on the outdoor Horatio unit that we'll be beta testing soon. This week he was mostly working with those giant metal halide lamps he acquired last week – setting up a system to log data as they cycled, and then analyzing that data (graph of a single lamp striking below). He then used that data to create an algorithm that remotely detects lamp strikes, which will allow the new Horatio to monitor outdoor lighting in a variety of applications.
Coffee geek that he is, Ben also discovered that Aeropress Inverted is a thing, and he's been brewing his coffee that way all week. He says it's even better than the standard Aeropress method – which is pretty good all on its own!
Graph of a metal halide lamp striking
Inverting the Aeropress makes even better coffee!
Weekly Roundup: 6/20/16 (well, really, it's most of the month of June)
It's been a busy month here at BPI, starting with the grand opening of the Water Cube downtown, followed by the smallest member of our team turning three! Her birthday presents included a puzzle featuring guys in hard hats (just like her dad!), a camera, and a tutu. Also a cake with math on it – she's a well-rounded kid.
Immediately after the birthday festivities, Ben jumped into work on two different custom Horatio installations, which included finding and playing with some used metal halide lamps: he needed to figure out how to monitor the life span of similar lamps that will be integrated with one of the Horatios. Being the geek that he is, he was super excited to find that Carnegie Mellon's facilities department had boxes of old lamps lying around for the taking… (For scale reference, each of those lamps is about 9 inches long.)
To round out the last week, Ben also did a pre-inspection for a school district that he'll be doing rigging inspections for soon. Summer is the season for inspections, since so many theaters are dark!
John Rohe from the Colcom Foundation, who sponsored the Cube, speaks at the opening.
Kevin McMahon, President of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, speaks at the Cube opening.
Box full of used lamps as big as your arm. A mad scientist's dream!
Lamps lined up in the shop to be tested.
Inspecting a rigging system at a local high school.
The junior team member's birthday cake.
Published on May 30, 2016 May 28, 2016 by Sarah
Ben had a crazy schedule last week, working on at least 3 different projects every day and taking him everywhere from 2 different construction sites to the Water Cube downtown, The Beauty Shoppe in East Liberty, and at least three different coffee shops.
He installed a DIN rail Horatio in a newly-built office building (surface-mounted inside the rack, since there was no more space for a rack-mount version), cleaned up some programming for the Water Cube's grand opening next Thursday, had great meetings with a bunch of interesting people doing interesting things (more on that later), and attended an Internet of Things panel hosted by Fygment, a great local organization that's bringing together entrepreneurs of all kinds in Pittsburgh.
Upon returning to the shop at the end of a long day, he also discovered that someone had logged into the Horatio demo site and played with the lights while he was away. (Hello, whoever you are, and thanks for the blue disco lighting!)
DIN rail Horatio mounted inside the rack
Close-up of the DIN rail Horatio
An anomaly in the Water Cube usage data. Based on a Facebook comment, turned out to be kids spraying each other with the fountains!
Blue disco lighting in the shop, thanks to a Horatio demo user!
The shop is clean! Mostly. Enough that we could have a fun party, meet some great local artists, and chat with them about their current and future projects. Thanks to everyone who came out, and to the Office of Public Art for hosting! We're hoping to make this a regular (maybe monthly?) thing, so more news on that soon!
Ben's also been hard at work this week continuing work on Horatio development – and he even found some time to fix his 30-year-old backhoe, which made the littlest member of our team very very happy.
The shop hasn't been this clean in years. We need to have parties more often.
The shop, all clean and ready for a party!
We rigged up a few interesting lighting effects to show off some of our recent work.
Goodies for the party guests: flyers, business cards, and candy!
Repairing Ben's treasured backhoe for use by our junior team member.
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