Know thyself by writing your first novel – Because in this game of life the more you know the better player you will be.
Writing a novel is a scary prospect. Theyre so long and winding, they can seem never-ending. The main obstacle might seem to be starting the terror of the blank page but the real stumbling block lies elsewhere. There is no reason in the world why you cant write a novel and the only thing stopping you from doing so is yourself. It seems such an insurmountable task and, in any case, you might ask yourself, why would anyone be interested in what I have to say? Who am I to have a voice? It is this lack of self-belief that is the main hindrance. It is the first thing any aspiring author has to get to grips with every time they sit down to write.
Writing is about claiming ownership of yourself in order to become the person you know you can be. Its about acknowledging to yourself that writing is not just a hobby, but a profound force in your life, one that will help you to achieve a deep sense of self-expression. A novel is making your mark on the world. It is your cri de coeur. But bridging that gap will be a struggle. You will have to push yourself far outside your comfort zone. And you will have to be completely honest with yourself about why and what you want to write. The first question to ask yourself is: What do I want to say?
Pushing yourself hard like this can be a bewildering experience, painful even. Two of my students at Faber Academy Chlo Esposito and Alice Feeney both found themselves writing material that was very dark and disturbing and this frightened them. They were scared to reveal their material to anyone outside our class, but I tried to show them that this was a good thing. It meant they were accessing a side of themselves that had hitherto been unavailable to them. They were tapping into the deeper recesses of their minds, which is where all the most interesting stuff usually lies. Good writing isnt about describing the world around you, its about creating something out of nothing. Both went on to write books that were bestsellers.
No matter how well you plan a novel beforehand, it is in the act of writing itself that the best ideas usually present themselves. One must not seek, one must wait, said the French painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. When writing, you are placing yourself in the white heat of creativity. It is a very special place to be and you should organise yourself and your life to stay there for as long as possible.
Self-doubt can be crippling. It is a nagging voice saying that your work is terrible. When that happens, the thing to do is to push that voice outside the room and close the door. Hard to do, so make a point of doing it. You must protect yourself and your space, because writing your first novel is a very precious process. This is the time to let the story flow out of you. A critical response to what you have done can come later.
Exposure is a great fear. What will my mother think? What will my friends say? The moment you start worrying about that, youre doomed. The strange thing is that the more of yourself you put into your book, the more invisible you become. If you write half-heartedly, you will stick out like a sore thumb, but if you commit fully and be true to yourself about what you want to say, no one will notice. The first person you are writing for has to be yourself. So dont worry what anyone else thinks. They dont matter.
Dont write for approval, write because your story has taken you hostage and wont stop bothering you until you have written it. And dont write for money, either do it because you care passionately about the story you have to tell. Readers will sense that passion. Its why they read books.
Try to write from your stomach, not your head or heart. Dont be too much in love with your idea and dont overthink it. Good ideas for novels need to come from somewhere deep inside oneself. Wait until you have a good gut feeling about it and then have a go. Try to remain neutral about your book. If you wake up every morning convinced you are writing a book of great beauty, chances are youre not. Leave your books beauty to others thats their job. Your job is to concentrate on the simple ABCs of storytelling. Your task isnt to learn many techniques, but to learn the simplest techniques perfectly. If you can master that, the difficulty of writing becomes a bit easier, that ease slowly becomes habit and out of that habit grows beauty.
When you are in the middle of writing your first draft, its like standing in a stream. You cant see the current, but you can feel it. This is the story flowing out of you and you should follow it. This is good work. You have found the sweet spot, the wormhole, into your story. I believe that all the novels you want to write are already written. They already exist inside you in a preverbal, rhythmic, motor place in your body. The trick is to find a way of tapping into them. Getting to this place can be elusive. Sometimes it happens early on in the writing process, sometimes very late; but once you find it, your story will flow out of you in a natural, organic way.
While youre writing, your progress is not easy to measure. Its a case of three steps forward and two back. But you have to keep going, no matter what. Never look back. Keep moving forward, like a military manoeuvre. If you do, the process becomes more familiar, and therefore less scary. Pretty soon, if you stick to your daily targets, six months will have gone by and you will have a first draft. In my experience, finishing a first draft is the hardest part of writing a novel, so that moment is a huge achievement for anyone who manages it.
It is also important to finish a draft because, if you do, it means you will have dealt with all that self-doubt and come out the other side. There, youll say, I did it. And if you did it once, you can do it again, and next time you will have much more tenacity and resilience just when you need it. No one can ever say if your book will be any good all writing is a leap of faith but there is a power in letting go and taking risks.
The playwright Edward Albee said that if you are willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly, too, which is true. Will it be easy? No. Will it be worth it? Yes. The greater the risk, the greater the reward. Best of all, in finishing a first draft, you will have given yourself permission to call yourself a writer. Writing is all about confidence and that kind of confidence can never be taught, only ever learned. It will vanquish all foes and, with it, you can do anything.
Write from your stomach, not your head or heart. When you have an idea, wait. The longer you do, the more fully formed your story will come out.
The necessity of writing comes before its beauty. Imagine listening to Chopin. Then imagine playing it; the approach is completely different. Think about where you place your fingers, not about its beauty.
Twist your plot like a screw, dont hammer it like a nail. Events have to be spread out evenly along the narrative so that the story is sustained and developed over the whole narrative.
If a character wants to become rich, rob them first. You need to put obstacles in your characters way. Characters must pay some kind of price for what they desire and that cost is our investment in their story.
Dialogue is more like two monologues that only sometimes connect. Your characters should talk at odds with each other, addressing their own issues instead of each others.


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Does Metal Have A Problem With Race?
By Dave Everley (Metal Hammer) 27 March 2016
In light of the recent Phil Anselmo controversy, we investigate whether our world really is as inclusive as it claims to be...
It's an image that's hard to forget once you've seen it. The cocky rock star at the front of the photograph gazes hard into the camera, right arm raised up and out in an unmistakable Nazi 'Sieg Heil' salute. To his right and slightly behind him, his bandmate replicates the posture. The serious look on his face is undercut by the finger raised to his top lip in an approximation of a Hitler-style toothbrush moustache, suggesting that, despite all other appearances, this is a joke.
But this isn't Phil Anselmo at the Dimebash in January 2016. This is Metallica's Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield, joshing around in a backstage corridor sometime in the early 1990s and replicating the posturings of a man whose entire ethos was built around racial purity, as 6,000,000 people found out to their cost. Funny, right? Ha ha. For all its protestations of inclusivity, metal has often had a thorny relationship with race. Phil Anselmo's recent antics – yelling the words 'white power' while issuing his own variation on the 'Sieg Heil' salute – is just the most recent example of a virulent strain of nastiness within metal that stretches back years. From the avowedly racist dogma of sections of the black metal scene, to Guns N' Roses' infamous 1988 song One In A Million, to the ongoing debate over the connotations of the Confederate flag sported by various Southern rock bands, metal has been guilty of, at best, thoughtlessness, and in rare cases, outright hatred towards non-white people or culture. And what bands do, fans follow.
"I was at a Kyuss Lives! show in 2012," says Laina Dawes, a New York-based journalist and photographer whose book, What Are You Doing Here? A Black Women's Life And Liberation In Heavy Metal explores the scene's relationship with race and gender. "I was walking through the crowd with my equipment and this guy jumped in front of me and got in my face and called me a 'Fucking nigger'. I was in shock, and also I was embarrassed because everybody who was around stared at me like I was the one with the problem. I realised that if he had punched me, nobody would have done anything. There have been other shows where I've been threatened or I've had things thrown at me. There have been times when I've thought, 'Why do I want to be part of this?'"
In the wake of Phil Anselmo's bone-headed actions, it's a question that's more pertinent than ever – and one that white metal fans won't ever be forced to ask. But it prompts another, even bigger question: does metal have a problem with race?
Metal is a multi-racial phenomenon
For a genre that prides itself on its outsider status, metal can be unwelcoming to anyone whose face doesn't fit. Or, more specifically, their skin colour. Laina's introduction to metal came via Kiss and Judas Priest, and she started going to metal gigs in the US in the late 80s and early 90s. She recalls being just one of "two or three" nonwhite faces at any given show.
"People would look at you funny or give you a dirty look, but no one would really say anything to you: 'What are you doing here, you don't belong.'" This changed, she says, in the mid-00s – for the worse. "There was more of a reaction. People seemed angry to see you there."
She says that this was partly a response to hip hop's cultural dominance over metal and hard rock since the 90s. "When the West Coast hip hop scene became prevalent around the mid-90s, it started to get notoriety as being as nihilistic as some of the metal bands, and there started to be a clear division in terms of race and music listening," she says. "Black people listened to hip hop to be angry, white people listened to heavy metal. When the two genres converged with nu metal in the early 00s and you saw more white kids using traditional hip hop beats to accentuate heavy metal, that was a real problem for a lot of traditional metal guys: 'We don't like this merging.'"
Not everyone has had such bad experiences. Lasselle Lewis, drummer with Brit metalcore band Counting Days, was a kid when he first heard Metallica. His friends at school were surprised that he liked the band, but that's as far as it went. "Maybe I'm just lucky," he says today, "but I've always been made to feel welcome. I've never experienced any of the horror stories that people tell you. It was never a case of, 'It's not for you.'"
Doc Coyle is the former guitarist with God Forbid, the pioneering New Jersey band whose mixed-race lineup was unique in the mid-90s metal scene. Ironically, the first band Doc saw live was Pantera.
"Just because of the imagery of that band, there was definitely an inkling of a thought in our heads that maybe we wouldn't be welcome here," he recalls. "There was that feeling, 'Oh, there's gonna be skinheads here.' There was some apprehension. But honestly, by the time we were in our seats, all that had floated away." Doc – who now plays in Vagus Nerve – admits that he was fortunate to get involved in the diverse New Jersey hardcore scene. "Even though it was predominantly white, everyone was involved: Hispanic people, black people," he says. "It was much more integrated."
Even so, when he and his brother Dallas formed God Forbid in the mid-90s, it was assumed they would play 'black' metal – a sort of dubious musical racial profiling. "Because of the racial composition of the band, people thought we would be playing rap-rock, or reggae like the Bad Brains," he says. "But we were a straightahead metal band. There was nothing definitively 'black'-sounding in the music we played. If anything, it made us stick out."
That raises the question of whether music can have an 'ethnicity'. Go back far enough, via Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the other big beasts of 70s rock, and you can trace metal's roots to the blues. But the musical and cultural influence of the blues on modern metal has became so diluted that it's barely noticeable.
Doc Coyle feels God Forbid were fortunate to come from a mixed area
"If you look at origin and prominence, I would say yes, metal is a 'white' music," says Doc. "A lot of metal's values are very European-based. The more 'European' you appear to be in sound and look, the more 'true' metal you are perceived to be. Like Amon Amarth – they evoke this Nordic, Viking thing, tall, blond hair, stoic. That's part of the aesthetic. But you can use the reverse. If you have a rapper who comes from a low-income, crime-oriented area, they're going to be seen as more authentic. Hip hop came from a certain set of ideals, a certain point of view. You can't tell me that culture doesn't have something to do with the way music is created. And I think that's fine."
But, says Doc, that's not the whole picture. "Talking about 'white culture' and 'black culture' is very binary. Metal is very popular in Asia and Central America. If you're Iron Maiden and you play in India, you're mostly going to play to Indians. There's a global scene that isn't tied to racial boundaries."
All of this is playing out against a bigger backdrop. Rightly, there's a broader conversation about race and diversity going on right now, from Beyoncé's politically charged appearance at the Super Bowl to the #oscarssowhite controversy at this year's Academy Awards. But in the metal scene, that diversity isn't being discussed in any form.
"Diversity is important because of common sense," says Laina. "The world is changing, everybody has the right to participate actively in the music scenes they want to."
It's ironic that metal seems to be burying its head in the sand on this front, especially since it has always positioned itself as a haven for the dispossessed and the underdog. "There have been so many negative stereotypes about the people participating in the scene – class issues, drugs uses, Satanists," says Laina. "It's, like, 'We've been stereotyped and insulted, so we're going to make a concerted effort that everyone will be inclusive in the scene, as long as they're a metalhead.' But that kind of thought, that traditional idea of what metal means, has become a problem because it's not true. We're seeing that people are not accepted in the scene because of their ethnicity. And that, to me, makes absolutely no sense."
Napalm Death frontman Barney Greenway has spent most of his life confronting racism (as well as fascism, homophobia and misogyny). While he acknowledges that, as a white man, he will never face the same oppression from within the metal or punk scenes as someone of colour, he's unrepentant in his desire to rid the genre of its prejudices. This has frequently spilled over into physical violence, with the band being confronted by far-right groups such as the Aryan Nations.
"For the sake of fellow human beings, you cannot cower in the corner," he says. "It's not anything to do with bravado – it's about the fact that everybody should be able to express their right to exist and move in certain circles, and not be fucking harassed because of their skin colour, or sexuality."
Of course, there's no reason metal has to embrace diversity – it's managed to plough its own furrow for close to 50 years now without being dictated to by wider society. When it has engaged with other musical forms – the funk-rock explosion of the late 80s and early 90s, nu metal's appropriation of hip hop in the late 90s and early 2000s – the results have broadened the genre's scope. But there's no arguing with the fact that non-white musicians and fans are a minority within the metal scene. Partly, this is down to the stereotypes that surround metal in the view of the outside world.
"In some ways it's a self-perpetuating thing," says Laina. "There's still this resistance because it's loud and angry and aggressive, and not everybody wants to listen to it. And there is this stereotype, where people see heavy metal as being a bastion of racism. They see the people who are listening and playing the music as being the same people who threatened to beat them up on the street. There are a lot of stereotypes that hinder active participation."
Lasselle Lewis suggests that you can't force diversity. For him, listening to metal is a defiantly personal choice. "Almost everyone I've played metal to who doesn't listen to it either says, 'Why is the vocalist shouting?' or 'Why is the music so loud?'" he says. "They can never really get past the shouting to accept and fully appreciate the music, which to me has nothing to do with race but more a personal preference thing. So in order to attract more people of diverse cultures into metal I think metal itself would have to change, but if that happened I think we'd probably lose more than we would gain."
Of course, there's one person casting a huge shadow over any discussion of race in metal in 2016. When Phil Anselmo screamed the words "white power" and gave a Nazi salute at LA's Lucky Strike Live club during the Dimebash tribute show, it was simultaneously crushingly disappointing and ultimately unsurprising. The former Pantera man had form on that front. In 1995, he gave a rambling onstage speech decrying rap culture and suggesting that a Pantera show was "a white thing".
"That video – 'proud to be white' – it's not a great feeling that you get watching it," says Doc Coyle. "I watched it a few years ago, and it didn't lose any of its impact. In fact it feels a little more impactful now because of what just happened."
Phil's initial defence for his actions earlier this year – that he was drunk and that it was a "joke", with some tenuous connection to the white wine he'd been drinking backstage –was, if you're being generous, feeble, or plain unbelievable if you're not. The reaction from his fellow musicians was both swift and heartening: Robb Flynn led the charge with an impassioned 11-minute video calling out Anselmo, while Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian also criticised the singer. For Lasselle, the incident prompted a different reaction.
"To be honest, I'm probably one of the worst black people to talk about that!" he says.n"I've never really been at the far extreme of thinking: 'Oh my god, I can't believe he said that'," he says. "I had a bit of a reaction to it, but for the most part I was like, 'OK then…' I accept it as just the way he is. It didn't make me think, 'I've got to stop listening to Pantera now.' I do think it's a very American thing, though. I can't really picture it happening over here. I think they're two different worlds."
It provoked a similarly mixed reaction in the broader metal community. Many online commentators viewed Phil as an out-and-out racist, while others still simply agreed with him: "Yeah, white power, dude!" One common defence for his actions was the particularly American viewpoint in which anyone can say whatever the hell they want, no matter how offensive it might be: it boils down to the freedom of speech versus political correctness. This is where the narrative about race in metal starts to diverge.
"These people who say that need to understand, what is political correctness?" says Laina. "Why would you just want to hurt someone with words? Metal is nihilistic – I understand that. And I understand that there's offensiveness in the music. But when it comes to hurting other people, or disparaging women, I don't understand how anyone would want to accept that. [The people who say that] are people who have not been in situations where they have had to deal with racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism, so it's easy for them to spout off and say a bunch of bullshit, because they don't have the personal experience."
This is something that Doc disagrees with. "It's about what you value – if you value the open highway of ideas over sanctity, then you're going to hear some abhorrent and objectionable things," he says. "Freedom of speech doesn't exist for nice things. It's ugly, it's not always things you want to hear. But let's go and win the intellectual argument. That's why ideas like these are fringe ideas – they always lose under the weight of logic." The other question Phil Anselmo's antics raises is whether you can separate art from the people who make it: should we carry on listening to music made by people who say dubious things, whether that's Phil Anselmo or a genuine extremist like Varg Vikernes of Burzum?
Robb Flynn spoke out against Phil's outburst
"No. I think it's very subjective, and it depends on the person you're talking to, but for me personally, no, and it hurts my soul," says Laina. "I love Down. I think they're a fantastic band. But I cannot, in all conscience, give them my money. I won't do it. And Burzum? As a black woman, there's no goddamn way. Varg Vikernes has been very clear in what he's said about my people, about Jewish people, about gay and about lesbian people. When you have white men saying, 'I don't understand why people have a problem separating the music from the beliefs', it's because they've never been in a situation where they've been physically threatened or assaulted, or made to feel like they don't belong."
Which brings us back to the $64,000 question: does metal have a problem with race? In his wrong-headed outburst at Dimebash – and with his past actions and associations – was Phil inadvertently holding up a mirror to the genre itself?
"Metal has no more of a problem with race than regular society has a problem with race," says Doc. "Does regular society have a problem with race? Oh, most definitely. I can only speak for America, but Americans in general have unresolved issues. Metal is just a piece of that."
"Metal is only a microcosm of anything else, so in that regard, absolutely fucking right it does," says Barney Greenway. "Even now, when we go certain places, it is definitely still there."
"Not only does Philrepresent ignorance, but he's been able to build a prosperous career even though people know that he holds views that alienate people from the scene," says Laina. "He can say whatever he wants to say and believe what he wants to believe, but I think the larger problem is our willingness to ignore issues that ostracise people from the scene. And it's not even a matter of alienation. My concern is physical violence. We're seeing that it is happening to a lot of women in the scene, and it's happening to people of colour who are getting beaten up. For people to blindly ignore sentiments that Phil has that lead to not just physical violence within the metal scene but the murder of people in the real world is unconscionable."
For anyone on the receiving end of racial abuse at a gig – be it verbal or physical – Laina suggests fighting back. "Is that the smartest thing to say? Definitely not, because you can get your ass kicked if you get into a fight. But when you do say, 'Fuck you', that's when people start getting scared. You have to break that cycle of abuse and stand up for yourself."
For Barney, metal fans have a responsibility to kick down the barriers thrown up by racism. "We shouldn't even have to work towards it," he says. "Why should there be a barrier there in the first place? You take people as they are. And if you have a problem, it shouldn't be defined by the colour of their skin or whatever. That to me is making more difficulties in life than is necessary." If metal does have a problem, whether that's to a large or small degree, then it needs a solution. But, according to Doc, silencing the racists isn't it.
"I don't believe in censorship," he says. "You let these people put their ideas out there, and they have to win in the debating field of ideas. You can't try to regulate what people think. There's always gonna be assholes, but if they're gonna be assholes, let them do it in public. That way we can go, 'You're a dick, and I'm not going to hang out with you.'"
Ultimately, change has got to come from within. In the metal scene as in the real world, you're either part of the problem or part of the solution.
"People need to acknowledge that there's a problem," says Laina. "There should be more articles written about this, there should be more reports of people's behaviour and what they say. People need to have some balls. They need to put themselves on the line and confront these issues, and not push them under a rug."
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Kevinnnnnnnnnnn !!!! I'll kill you tomorrow bro 😂 #NYCvORL
Haha. Just come to post that tweet
THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES
Rastaman
I watched the 2nd half of that game. Molino and the entire team looked like little boys playing against big men. It was hard to watch. Molino most of the time looked overweight, tired and he didn't run or defend. Especially when they moved him over to the right. It looked like he has not adjusted to his new muscle mass yet.
But trust me.. The whole team looked terribly weak. MEN vs BOYS. That being said they had enough chances to win the game 4-0 or loose it 6-0. NYFC looks like they could beat any team or loose to any team.
A Trini 4 Real.
Molino happy to be back in Soca Warriors set-up.
By Sean Taylor (Express).
Trinidad and Tobago senior men's national football team ace Kevin Molino is elated to be finally back in the national fold after being out injured for almost a year, missing out on the majority of the international matches in 2015 with the "Soca Warriors".
Molino has been in action with his Major League Soccer (MLS) team Orlando City SC, and has already made three appearances since his return from the treatment table.
The young playmaker was on hand to speak to the media shortly before head coach Stephen Hart conducted one of the final training sessions before the team's departure for their crucial 2018 World Cup qualifier CONCACAF semi-final round clash with St Vincent and the Grenadines in Arnos Vale Sporting Complex in Kingstown on Friday afternoon.
"First and foremost I'm happy to be back here and training with the guys," he said. "I know it has been a long process and this is the time for me to show the work that I have put in for the past couple months."
The real measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Kevin might have some more competition at Orlando city when he gets back. They just signed Julio Baptista.
http://www.orlandocitysc.com/post/2016/03/23/orlando-city-sc-signs-brazilian-attacking-midfielderforward-j-lio-baptista
Molino talks about his first International Game since returning from injury
https://www.youtube.com/v/7ATghPmVvKg
Molino says expect better from Warriors.
By Nigel Simon (Guardian).
USA-based Soca Warriors midfielder Kevin Molino says local fans can expect a much better performance from the national team when it faces St Vincent and The Grenadines in another 2018 Fifa World Cup Concacaf semifinal Round World Cup qualifier today the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo, from 7 pm.
The game comes four days after Molino made his return to international duty for T&T in a hard fought 3-2 come-from-behind Group C qualifier win over the same opponents at the Arnos Vale Sports Complex, Kingstown, St Vincent and The Grenadines on Friday afternoon.
With the win which came courtesy a second-half double from Holland-based teenager Levi Garcia the he Soca Warriors moved into sole possession of top spot in the pool with seven points from three matches, one more than Guatemala which blanked USA (four points) 2-0 in Guatemala City. St Vincent and The Grenadines, is bottom of the pool without a point.
And speaking after the match, Molino who was making his first appearance for the Stephen Hart-coach T&T squad since his last outing on March 27, 2015 in an international friendly 1-0 loss to Panama at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva, said, "Once we give the same kind of effort again on Tuesday at home, but with a better overall performance then without a doubt we will be victorious in the game again."
The Orlando City midfielder added, "We knew it would have been tough match because it's a World Cup qualification game and all the teams are going to come out running and all credit to St Vincent and The Grenadines.
"I think they (St Vincent and The Grenadines) had a good game and they worked hard, but in these situations we just have to find ways to win and we did that in a great manner."
Commenting on the playing surface, Molino said, "As expected it was a bit tough but at the end of the day, both teams played on it.
"And as I said, we knew it was not going to be an easy game out there and we just had to find a way to grind out a result and win to move forward and look towards the next game here in T&T and show the people at home the real quality of players we are and what we can do on a good playing pitch.
"We want to show the fans who come out to the games at home that we can not only win the match, but do so with some style and in a good manner and show the people we have what it takes to take this country to the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
With regards to his return to playing for the team, a relieved 25-year-old Molino who has played 31 times for the T&T scoring 11 goals said, "It's always a pleasure representing my country and I am just happy to be back with the guys, and training.
"I felt really good out there on the field and even though I'm not back at my 100 per cent best, it's all about making positive steps to get back my confidence and my goal scoring boots, and with the grace of God and hard work, everything is possible."
"Most of all I am very happy that we got the win on Friday and to be part of it as well and being around this group of players and staff and now I'm just looking forward to the next game," added the former Mucurapo Senior Comprehensive standout and brother of national cricketer, Kevon Cooper.
10 Things: Kevin Molino's two-sport potential, accidental discovery by Orlando City
Simon Veness (MLSSoccer.com)
Trinidad and Tobago has produced multiple players that have made a mark in MLS – Stern John and Cordell Cato are two names that spring to mind – but few have arrived with such high expectations as Orlando City's Kevin Molino.
The attacking midfielder was a two-time league MVP in the team's USL days and seemed to be the perfect link-man alongside Designated Player Kaká – until he went down with a season-ending ACL injury last May.
But now he is back again and, even without Kaká in the lineup, he has shown he can be a creative force and a handful for most defenses. Here's the skinny on the 25-year-old from Carenage ahead of Trinidad and Tobago's World Cup qualifier against St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Tuesday (7 pm ET, beIN Sports Connect in US).
Soccer Second, At First
Coming from the traditionally cricket-oriented Caribbean, soccer was not the obvious sport for Molino as a youngster. "I didn't really take it seriously until I was about 15," he admits. "But once I got into it, it was definitely my sport and I loved the physical side of it."
A Two-Sport Star
Molino appeared destined for a cricket career in his early days. Coming from Trinidad – the birthplace of West Indies legend Brian Lara – most kids played that sport ahead of anything else and the young Kevin was a keen batsman with plenty of talent. One of his best friends is West Indies opening batsman Lendl Simmons, and Molino could easily have followed in Simmons' footsteps if soccer hadn't worked its way into his life.
Orlando Discovered Him By Accident
Lions head coach Adrian Heath admits his trip to Trinidad to scout players in 2010 was not to check up on Molino. "I didn't go down there to look at him originally," Heath explains. "I went to look at a promising young forward but this little kid on the wing kept catching my eye. In the end, that's who we ended up signing." The 5-foot-8 Molino signed from Trinidad & Tobago Pro League side Ma Pau SC in time for the Lions' inaugural 2011 USL season, making 11 appearances and scoring twice that year.
Molino became a regular in the starting lineup in the 2012 season at just 21, making 23 appearances (only striker Dennis Chin made more, with 24). For Heath, getting to see the youngster in training every day was a revelation. "Only when you worked with him did you realize his true talent," he recalls. "He was a kid who had a great first touch, great awareness, who combined well with players and who could beat players individually. He was everything you need in a modern midfield player or striker."
He impressed MLS, too
Before Orlando reached the MLS ranks, Molino made a major impression on one of the league's top men. Sporting Kansas City's Dom Dwyer played with the Lions on loan in 2013 (scoring 19 goals in 14 appearances) and came away believing he had seen a star in the making. "Dom said that Kevin had all the ability to be MVP of MLS when we finally made the grade," Heath remembers.
The First Signing
While Kaká drew all the headlines in 2014 when he confirmed his move from AC Milan to Orlando, the team's first actual MLS signing was Molino, before a ball had been kicked that year. Head coach Heath confirmed, "Kevin was out of contract with us and was being courted heavily in Europe and the States. He turned down deals from several MLS teams to stay with us in Orlando. That says a lot about his love for this club."
One Step Back To Take Two Forward
Although his 2015 injury was a huge blow for both Molino and the team – leaving a huge void in midfield they struggled to fill at times – the short-term pain could lead to long-term gain. While he is quick and skillful, Molino lacked a little weight for the week-in, week-out rigors of MLS, but he believes the lay off helped him work on that. "I spent a lot of time in the gym during my rehab," he insists, "and I feel stronger as a result, mentally as well as physically." At the end of 2014, he was listed at 143 lbs. Now he weighs it in at a more robust 155.
That Elusive First Goal
While Molino remains one of the team's chief creators, he has yet to bag his first MLS goal, and that bothers him, especially after his prolific 20-goal USL season in 2014. "It's definitely on my mind," he says. "My job is to make and score goals. I have certainly had a couple of chances this year and, no excuses, I should have done better. The reality is, I have to finish and it is something I have to keep working on."
Plenty More Like Me
Molino is well established in the Trinidad and Tobago national team – coming off a shift in last week's 3-2 win over St. Vincent and the Grenadines on the road ("It's good to have him back," said T&T head coach Stephen Hart. "It's exciting for the country and fantastic news he is playing 90 minutes for Orlando again") – but he insists there are certainly others like him on the islands. "Yes, there are plenty of players there but it is a hard place to come out of. They just need the chance – like me."
Giving Back To His Community
Having made a name for himself in the pro game, and being a proud representative of his country in both playing and community terms, Molino wants to do more for Trinidad and Tobago. "Yes, some kind of foundation to help others there is one of my goals," he admits. "I would like to give back in many different ways, not just by showing them some love but by showing how much football can get you if you work hard and are dedicated."
Kevin Molino hopes to get first MLS goal against Portland
Orlando City midfielder Kevin Molino hopes to get first MLS goal against Portland
By Alicia DelGallo (Orlando Sentinel)
There will be dancing when Kevin Molino finally scores.
And, if what Kaká says is true, many more Molino goals to follow for Orlando City.
"I think it is an emotional thing, because he's a very good finisher," Kaká said of his teammate. "But he didn't play last year, he hasn't scored in MLS yet. This increases anxiousness. Now, we have to take care of him. We are going to create a lot of opportunities for him, and when he scores his first goal, probably he is going to score a lot of goals for us."
The hope is Molino, who returned this season from an ACL tear, will score his first Major League Soccer goal Sunday night in Orlando City's match against the reigning MLS champion Portland Timbers at the Citrus Bowl.
Molino shattered records in 2014, scoring 20 goals for Orlando City on his way to becoming the USL MVP. He was playing the best soccer of his life then, he said, and was the first person the Lions signed to their expansion MLS team.
But Molino played seven games in MLS before collapsing during a friendly in May, suffering an ACL injury that ended his season.
He returned to the pitch in March, still in purple, the potential he showed before injury keeping him safe among a slew of offseason roster changes.
The healthy Molino was just as quick, had the enthusiasm only nine months away from a game you love can bring, created just as many opportunities and still broke free from defenders with ease — but he has yet to find the back of the net for Orlando City.
"It's one of the areas we've spoken to Kevin about," said Lions coach Adrian Heath, who couldn't take his eyes of the 5-foot-8 winger during a scouting trip to see a different player in Trinidad back in 2011. "He's got virtually everything you need in a modern midfield attacking player. I know what it's like when you come back from an ACL. You start off full of enthusiasm and then the newness wears off a bit."
In the first few games this year, Molino favored taking another pass instead of firing on goal when he had an open look. The most obvious hesitation came during the Lions' first road trip against NYCFC, when Molino squandered a wide-open look with a stutter-step.
Kaká, who did not travel with the team due to a thigh strain, posted to his Twitter account after the misstep, "Kevinnnnnnnnnnn!!!! I'll kill you tomorrow bro," with a smiley face.
"I did miss an easy chance in that game, so I know how he feels about it," Molino said of Kaká. "He has so much confidence in me and he believes in me, so I know he expected me to score that goal.
"As he said, once I get that first goal, I'll be good."
Last week, Molino played for Trinidad and Tobago in World Cup qualifiers and scored for the first time since his USL days — a confidence-boosting goal for his country in the 67th minute of a 6-0 win over St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
"It's very important to get a goal no matter where you play," Molino said. "Having not played for almost a year and getting a goal now is good going into the game on Sunday."
And if that elusive goal does come against Portland, what will he do?
"Dance," he said. "You'll see."
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Re: Kevin Molino hopes to get first MLS goal against Portland
Quote from: Tallman on April 02, 2016, 07:35:54 PM
mods what's up with the trinis in action thread of late? it certainly would be nice to see how the lads are doing for their clubs.
Good question. Where is the Trinis in Action thread? Right now Molino on the field for Orlando
Molino just scored his first goal in MLS!
Did the champion dance.
Commentators talked about him a lot and even talked about the West Indies victory today.
Orlando is destroying the current MLS champions 4-0
Dynamite Warrior
Created the penalty then scored it. Happy for him, and nice for Kaka to let him take it
Adam Lake
Big up to Molino scoring his 1st MLS Goal ... Watching the game on FS1.... Got a video, but not sure how to upload... Will send to Soca Warriors Fb page
Quote from: Adam Lake on April 03, 2016, 08:06:58 PM
If you get it uploaded on youtube. Post it here too
http://www.socawarriors.net/forum/index.php?topic=53717.0
Vid here.
http://www.snappytv.com/tc/1658919/771452
Molino notches first MLS Goal against Portland Timbers
By Nicholas Murray (uslsoccer.com)
It was a long time coming for two-time USL Most Valuable Player Kevin Molino, but on Sunday night the Trinidad & Tobago international notched his first goal in MLS as Orlando City SC romped to a 4-1 victory against defending MLS Cup champions the Portland Timbers.
Molino recorded his first assist in MLS last season before a torn ACL ended his year abruptly after only seven games. After adding another assist in a 1-1 draw against Chicago on March 11, Molino finally broke through against Portland. After being brought down in the penalty area, Molino converted from the spot with 14 minutes to go in front of 31,114 fans at the Orlando Citrus Bowl.
Molino scored 27 goals over four seasons for Orlando in the USL, and set a then single-season league record with 20 goals in the 2014 season. On Sunday night, he proved a threat throughout the contest, finishing with a team-high five shots as the Lions saw captain Kaka record a goal and two assists to lead the club top of the Eastern Conference standings.
After scoring in midweek for Trinidad & Tobago in the Soca Warriors' 6-0 win against St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Molino will now look to push on and help the Lions maintain their strong early position in the MLS standings.
https://www.youtube.com/v/OKj0vEvMkIs?start=51
Good to see he got it. Now he could relax and score a whole set more.
Saw the game.. He hustled plenty and was happy to see Kaka let him take the penalty. Good game
Full game at http://www.matchhighlight.com/full-matches-review/mlsfull-matches-reiviews-usa/orlando-city-vs-portland-timbers/
The greatest joy was to see him do the champion dance to support the WI men's victory. Not many people understood the story behind his celebration, but the commentators actually talked about the WI victory earlier in the game. Great game! Great victory! and Great opportunity for Molino. Kaka is a class act!
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He did it when he scored vs SVG too...will probably spread like wildfire
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Collaborating with designer Matt Stone, Orlando City SC have marked the 100th appearance of Kevin Molino with this gameday poster for Orlando City SC vs. New England Revolution (April 17th, 2016).
Concerning his inspiration for the poster, Matt says, "I wanted to pay homage to Kevin Molino for having his 100th OC appearance and try to tie in some iconography that had subtle connections to the story of his career and his history with the club. Apparent above his head is the Trinidad and Tobago flag where Molino was born and where club first took notice of his athleticism and drive. The three portrait views of Molino are reminiscent of the old Orlando City crest when Molino took the pitch for the first time with OC."
Amazing tribute. OC has a lot of time for Molino.
Deeks
Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whaaaat real nice. They love we boy in orlando
He came on in the 61' and changed the game against NE Revolution. He scored in injury time to put Orlando ahead, but NE got a controversial penalty soon after to tie the game...2-2.
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Quote from: FireBrand on April 17, 2016, 03:58:23 PM
Molino's goal
http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/04/17/goal-kevin-molino-scores-dramatic-fashion?autoplay=true
WATCH: Kevin Molino scores his third goal of the season during Orlando City's 2-2 draw with New England Revolution.
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Q: two users in home directory I have two users in my home folder: one is called "nico" (new username after release upgrade) and the other is called "nicolo" (old username).
In the "nico" folder there is small home picture, is seems to be the standard one and inside there are no contents in the single folders (Documents, Images, ect.). In the "nicolo" folder there are all my old datas.
How can I merge the two folders? Or at least just see and use the one with my old data as standard.
Thanks,
Nico
EDIT: When I type ll /home I get:
total 40
   drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 set 28 23:19 ./
   drwxr-xr-x 24 root root  4096 set 29 08:25 ../
   drwxr-xr-x 23 nico nico  4096 set 29 10:09 nico/
   drwxr-xr-x 58 nico nico 24576 set 27 13:52 nicolo/

A: Use rsync to sync the two directories:
rsync -aP /home/nicolo/ /home/nico

Once you're satisfied that all the data is now available in your new home directory, feel free to delete the old one (rsync has an option to delete files after copying, but still...). Also note the / after nicolo - it's needed to make rsync sync the directories instead of making a nicolo directory inside nico.

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CINCINNATI -- No surprise here: 2017 state runner-up Moeller (28-1) is the Division I favorite to start the boys basketball season in Cincinnati. The roster is deep and filled with talented players.
"They're really loaded," Oak Hills coach Mike Price said.
But there are other contenders and top teams in other divisions.
The area also boasts the state's No. 1-ranked player in Princeton senior wing Darius Bazley (Syracuse signee).
The Crusaders were ranked No. 17 nationally this preseason by USA Today and No. 45 nationally by MaxPreps.
Several standouts return, led by 6-foot-11 forward Jaxson Hayes (Texas), who emerged from a backup role to become one of the most heavily recruited players in Ohio this summer and fall.
Senior point guard Isaiah Payton (Indiana Wesleyan) averaged better than three assists last season and was almost at 45 percent from the 3-point line. Watch for senior 6-4 guard/forward Jeremiah Davenport (Wright State), who really excelled in scoring and defense in the state Final Four.
Moeller will likely be without junior guard Miles McBride after he suffered an injury during football season . McBride, who is being recruited by college basketball and football programs, was named to the Associated Press All-State Tournament Team in March.
Junior 6-4 wing Alec Pfriem is a Roger Bacon transfer and will give the Crusaders another option on both ends of the floor. Moeller also has sophomore 6-3 guard Max Land, who transferred from Mason.
The Vikings (15-10) have Bazley , rated the nation's No. 9 player in the 2018 class by ESPN.com, but they also have so much more. That includes senior guard Darweshi Hunter (17.3 points per game), senior guard Dominic Pierce (8.6 ppg., 4.5 rpg.), sophomore forward and football standout Darion Henry (5.8 ppg., 4.7 rpg.) and senior center Gabe O'Neal.
The Vikings will have the national spotlight follow them throughout the winter. Princeton will play in the nationally recognized Premier Health Flyin' to the Hoop Invitational Jan. 13 in Kettering. Six days later, the Vikings will play at New Albany (Indiana) on ESPNU .
Princeton standout Darius Bazley signed with Syracuse in November.
The Comets (21-3) won their first Division I district title last season -- the program's first district championship since 1994 when it was Division II.
Mason has the ingredients to compete for a Greater Miami Conference title and a district title. Watch for senior 6-4 guard/forward Noah Pedelty, who was the Comets' sixth man last season. Senior Tanner Knue also returns as the Comets' starting point guard from last season.
If Mason can get defensive stops, the transition offense should be a strength the Comets can rely on.
Watch also for junior 5-11 guard Landon Long, who led the junior varsity in scoring last season. The Comets also feature junior 6-7 forward Matt Minick and sophomore 6-6 forward Jack Cooper.
Mason captured the district title last season at UD Arena.
Coach Ricardo Hill loves the versatility and experience of this group. Senior guards Kameron Gibson and Hunter Davidson have been varsity players since their freshmen seasons. Watch also for junior guard Ryan Hill, senior guard James White and sophomore forward Nick Smith.
Watch for 7-foot-1 Zubi Newankwo and 6-6 forward Yusef Williams, who will give the Eagles excellent size. Garrett Banks and Kamal Goodwin will also make an impact after being on the junior varsity last season.
This may be the toughest schedule Walnut Hills will face since Hill has been the head coach. Games with La Salle, St. Xavier, Elder, Lawrence Central (Indiana) along with a showcase in Columbus and three-game holiday tournament in Orlando will prepare Walnut for the postseason.
Coach Shaun O'Connell starts year three with plenty of optimism for the Tigers.
Withrow lost eight seniors from a team that went 16-9 last season, but this is a talented squad. Watch for senior point guard Timmy Cottingham, who is the lone returner. Junior 6-4 wing Mike Hill Jr. was the best JV player a year ago and has a chance to excel on varsity this season, O'Connell said.
Junior 6-11 post player Abba Lawal was formerly at Walnut Hills.
Withrow post player Abba Lawal, who formerly played at Walnut Hills, is one the key players for the Tigers this season.
The Thunderhawks were 16-8 last season and return four players who played significant minutes, including senior 6-3 guard Jarrett Cox (Fairmont State), who led the GMC in scoring average (18.4 ppg.) last season. Cox has improved in his ability to pass and dribble along with his post game, according to coach Clint Adkins.
Watch also for senior guard Jackson See, junior forward Kyrell Metts and senior guard Jalen Peck.
Adkins likes how hard this squad practices and their ability to be coached. He also likes the versatility.
Longtime varsity assistant and junior varsity coach Pat Goedde begins his first season as the varsity head coach after Dan Fleming stepped down in April. Goedde likes the team chemistry of the Lancers, who were the Division I regional runner-up to Moeller last March.
Some familiar names, like standout guard CJ Fleming (Bellarmine), have graduated so the Lancers will need other players to step up.
Senior guard Riley Haubner started 21 games as a junior and averaged 8.1 points and 3.1 rebounds. Guard Quinn Ealy and forward Henry Louden are the other seniors.
The Spartans (25-5) were the Division III state runner-up last season after being in their third state Final Four since 2014.
Coach Brian Neal likes the team's versatility, but a lack of size will be an issue the team has to overcome.
Watch for senior guard Brandon Bibbs, a four-year starter who will likely end up with the record of most games played in program history, according to Neal. Other key players including senior guard Craig Moore, senior forward Alauntae Sherrer, senior forward Dominic Mierke, junior guard Greg Phelia and sophomore guard Josiah McGee.
"If we want to win any games at all, we need to learn how to limit our turnovers and rebound the basketball," Neal said. "We'll really need some younger guys step up and contribute.
The Senators (21-5) want to win the regional title this season -- plain and simple.
The core group of players includes junior Cris'seon Stringer, junior Demarco Bradley and senior Dashawn Lawrence.
"These players have been playing together for years and look to lead the Senators to Columbus this March," Taft coach Demarco Bradley said.
Junior Donta'e Mosley, a Princeton transfer, will serve as a key addition to the program this year.


It's pretty obvious they had the wrong teams matched up in the Sollenberger Kick-off Classic this year.
After Nevada's Bishop Gorman stomped on Brophy Prep, 44-0,in the opening game Friday night, Arizona's other representative, Mountain Pointe High School, racked up 66 points in the main event and totally dominated the other Nevada representative, Reed High School.
Had organizers switched the pairings, the fans who showed up at Gorman's Fertitta Field might have had a couple of games worth watching.
But Bishop Gorman and Mountain Pointe met last year in what has become the traditional opener to the high school football season. So to avoid a repeat, this year the reigning Division I state champion Mountain Pointe drew Reed, which was last year's Nevada big-school runner-up to Gorman.
It didn't take long to realize that Reed was going to be no match for Mountain Pointe, which finished the 2013 season undefeated and wearing the Division I state crown. The Pride took just a couple of minutes to get on the board when speedy senior Paul Lucas pulled in a pass from quarterback Garvin Alston and converted it into a 47-yard score on just the fourth play from scrimmage.
It was 21-0 by the end of the first quarter and 35-0 before halftime mercifully arrived. But Mountain Pointe didn't take its foot off the gas, going on to cap the evening with a 66-13 victory to open the 2014 season. The Pride had accumulated 45 points before Reed managed its first score late in the third quarter.
Lucas was the point man on the destruction, adding a 57-yard touchdown run in the second quarter and then returning a kick-off 84 yards for yet another score in the third quarter. He finished the night with 91 rushing yards on nine carries and added 53 more yards on two pass catches.
Alston, the senior who has filled the void left by the graduation of two-year starter Antonio Hinojosa, passed for 139 yards and two touchdowns, while running back Brandyn Leonard contributed 78 yards on 10 carries and scored once.
Even the kicking game for the Pride was spot on, as John Ambercrombie gave Reed few opportunities to run the ball back on kick-offs, and nailed a 50-yard field goal just after halftime to help pile on the momentum.
And the defense was solid and consistent throughout the night, forcing two fumbles – one of which was returned 42 yards for a touchdown – and controlling the line of scrimmage while punishing Reed's runners in the secondary with Mountain Pointe's patented brand of physical play.
Since 2009, when Norris Vaughan took over the program and the Pride went 12-1, they have developed into a title favorite on a consistent basis. This season they are the only high school team in Arizona ranked among the USA Today Top 25 (No. 21) and just made their case about being deserving of the ranking.
And that's particularly bad news for North High, the next opponent on the schedule. The Mustangs have managed just two wins in each of the past two seasons and have brought in Bernie Busken, who won three state championships at Mountain View High School where he compiled an 82-9 record in seven years, to take over the inner-city program and begin re-building a once-competitive program.
That game on Friday will do little to help Mountain Pointe prepare for the remainder of the schedule. And, unfortunately, will do even less to begin building the confidence of the kids at North.


As I brainstormed about another holiday cookie recipe to share, I knew that I wanted it to be something chocolatey this time. But I also knew that you all have been loving my vegan maple pecan cookies and vegan oatmeal raisin cookies, both of which are made of a base of toasted nuts. This quickly led me to a light bulb moment of combining chocolate and hazelnut to make a sort of grown-up, dairy-free, deconstructed Nutella. That's how these vegan chocolate hazelnut cookies were born. They are a little bit crispy, a little bit chewy, and have an intense hazelnut flavor complemented by two forms of chocolate.
I recently started a new experiment of bringing my leftover cookies to coworkers. (I've been making a lot of cookies lately…). It's either that, or I eat way too many. I've tried freezing all of the dough except for enough for just a few cookies… and then found myself eating the dough straight from the freezer. Someone please send help.
At work, responses to these vegan chocolate hazelnut cookies ranged from: "chocolate is vegan!?" to "these are surprisingly good!" to "please move these away from me so that I stop eating them". It was overall a success and I will be repeating it, although moving them to a communally agreed-upon location within the office :). There is now another group of people in the world who know just how delicious vegan baked goods can be. I encourage you to continue spreading the love this holiday season by whipping up a batch and surprising the critics.
Of course, you definitely don't need to be a vegan on a mission to make and enjoy these. They're a great choice for anyone looking for, frankly, just a really tasty chocolatey, hazelnutty cookie. Like with the maple pecan version, I have again made these gluten-free so that everyone can enjoy. But seriously, if you didn't know, you wouldn't have the faintest idea that there's no wheat, eggs, or dairy in them. They are so packed with toasted hazelnut flavor and chocolate chips that you can only focus on the deliciousness. Plus, as with most of my dessert recipes they are refined sugar-free, naturally-sweetened with maple syrup and coconut sugar.
For best results, please follow the recipe by the weights listed for the dry ingredients; however,the volumetric measurements will also give you a good outcome! FYI, I measure my flour by gently scooping it out of the container, taking care not to pack it.
These chocolate hazelnut cookies are perfect for the holidays! I hope you enjoy them.
Vegan chocolate hazelnut cookies, full of toasted hazelnut flavor and two forms of chocolate. Gluten-free and naturally-sweetened, but totally indulgent-tasting, these cookies will please everyone at your holiday table.
In a dry skillet, toast the hazelnuts over medium heat, stirring or tossing them frequently. Toast for 5-6 minutes or until they start to turn golden brown and become fragrant. Remove the pecans from the pan immediately and transfer them into a bowl. Rub the hazelnuts between your hands to loosen and remove the skins as much as possible. It's okay if they don't come off completely (see notes for more tips if you're sensitive to the skins).
Transfer the sorta-skinned hazelnuts to a food processor. Pulse the food processor until the hazelnuts form a very fine crumb.
In a mixing bowl, stir together the oats, gluten-free flour, cocoa powder, coconut sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Transfer the dry mixture to the food processor and pulse to combine.
Add the maple syrup, nondairy milk, coconut oil, and vanilla extract, and blend until very smooth, scraping down the sides with a spatula as needed. Scrape the mixture out of the food processor and return it to the mixing bowl; stir in the chocolate chips. I find that a strong fork is the best way to get the chocolate chips evenly mixed in, since the dough is quite thick.
Chill the dough in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and lightly grease two baking sheets.
Take about 1 and ½ tablespoons of dough at a time (or more or less, depending on what size you want your cookies to be), roll into a ball, then flatten it as you place it on the baking sheet. These cookies only tend to spread a little bit, but do puff up a little bit, so keep this in mind when spacing out the dough balls. This dough can be very sticky. You may need to stop to clean your hands partway through.
Bake for 9-11 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are just starting to feel crisp. Take care not to overcook - they can dry out easily. If using two baking sheets, switch their positions halfway through baking.
For slightly flatter, chewier cookies, press down on each of the cookies with a fork right when they come out of the oven. Let the cookies cool for a few minutes before carefully removing them with a spatula (they may stick if you try to pick them up directly).
Leftover cookies keep in an airtight container at room temperature for a couple of days. Unused raw cookie dough can be kept in the refrigerator or freezer and used later. If frozen, thaw in the refrigerator before baking.
I personally don't mind hazelnut skins at all, but I know that some people find them bitter. This seems like a great tutorial for completely removing hazelnut skins. As the author of that tutorial points out, it might take longer to toast the hazelnuts after the blanching and skinning procedure, so just keep that in mind.
These look delicious – for the holiday season of any time!


Dec. 10, 2009 4:26 p.m.
A Red Deer man is expected to appear in court today after he was arrested on Wednesday on 15 warrants.
Michael Searle Skinner, 47, was arrested early in the morning in Edmonton and could appear today on numerous charges in Red Deer provincial court.
The RCMP and local courts issued the warrants when Skinner failed to show up in court for several appearances.
He was scheduled to have a trial on Wednesday afternoon in Red Deer on two of the charges.
That trial was set several months ago.
Skinner is charged with eight counts of breaching probation, failing to attend court, false pretences, fraud of more than $5,000, theft of more than $5,000, driving with no insurance and driving while unauthorized.
Red Deer's Crime Prevention Advisory Committee will take a deeper look into how the city could help youth and prevent crime.
In November, Red Deer city council decided to maintain its current curfew bylaw that says youth under 16 should be off public property and in for the night from 1 a.m. until 6 a.m.
At that time, council asked the committee to look at incorporating curfew bylaw times into the city's Community Standards Bylaw, explore amendments to the Community Standards Bylaw as it relates to youth and crime prevention, and work with agencies and community resource groups to develop a model to help identify youth at risk.
"We'll start the discussion in January and we anticipate it would be a couple of months worth of work to be able to look at what they asked us to do," said TerryLee Ropchan, crime committee chairwoman, at Tuesday's committee meeting.
The committee's recommendations will then be brought back to city council.
Ropchan said the committee will work with city departments, agencies, groups and youth.
The next committee meeting will be held Jan. 19.
The family of a young Red Deer man killed by an impaired driver is continuing to keep his memory alive with the Nev Foundation.
The recently registered charity is selling a charity sportsmanship calendar for the second year in a row at a cost of $20 each.
The Neville family is encouraging minor hockey teams, schools, churches and daycares to sell the calendars for $20, with $10 going to the non-profit organization and $10 going to the Nev Foundation.
Calendars are also available through the foundation.
Money raised by the Nev Foundation will go to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, a Nev suite in the new Red Deer Ronald McDonald House, the Slain Peace Officer Fund and educational scholarships.
Brent "Nev" Neville was killed by an impaired driver in Calgary on March 17, 2006, on his mother Aleta's birthday.
He was 21 years old and was completing a business degree at Red Deer College, with plans to follow in his father Rick's footsteps by going into law enforcement.
The charity calendar has a sportsmanship theme because Brent was playing on three teams at the time of the vehicle crash.
The foundation bears the nickname his teammates used to call him, "Nev".
Each page on the calendar features real people and their stories.
For more information or to purchase a calendar, contact Aleta Neville at aletaneville@shaw.ca or phone 403-342-7607.
Resolution of stabbing charges against a Red Deer man may be near, Red Deer court heard on Wednesday.
Keenan Timothy Eagles, 21, reserved his plea on charges stemming from a Nov. 21 incident on Lancaster Drive.
Eagles returns to court Dec. 18 on charges of aggravated assault, breaching probation and assault with a weapon.
Eagles, who appeared in court with a heavily bandaged right hand, was charged after a 25-year-old man was allegedly stabbed during an altercation at a residence.
The injured man was treated in hospital while another person was threatened with a baseball bat.
A 46-year-old Red Deer man has pleaded guilty to five fraud charges involving the cashing of $45,000 worth of bad cheques in Red Deer.
Mardy Brand pleaded guilty to the charges of fraud of less than $5,000 each when he appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday.
He returns to court in late February for sentencing following a pre-sentence report.
Charges were laid against at least four people alleged to have been involved in writing and cashing the bad cheques.
Red Deer City RCMP said they investigated a numbered company with which all the suspects are alleged to have been involved.
• Darcy Aubuchon, 29, of Innisfail, six counts of fraud under $5,000.
A Red Deer man charged in connection with the recovery of about $250,000 in stolen property on Dec. 1 is the first suspect in the case identified by police.
Earl Bruyea, 29, will make his first court appearance in Red Deer provincial court on Jan. 5, Const. Sabrina Grunow of city RCMP said on Wednesday.
He is charged with three counts of break and enter, four counts of possession of stolen property valued at more than $5,000 and five counts of possession of stolen property valued at less than $5,000.
He was released from custody recently.
Three other men, including a 19-year-old from Red Deer County, a 36-year-old from Delburne and a fourth person with no age released, have been charged with numerous offences.
Their names haven't been released because information against them hasn't been sworn yet, Grunow said.
The 19-year-old appears in court on Jan. 5 while the Delburne accused makes his first appearance on Jan. 26.
Red Deer City RCMP recovered $250,000 in stolen property — including numerous vehicles — after search warrants were executed in Central Alberta on Dec. 1.
The search warrants were executed on a campsite at Burntstick Lake, and residences in Delburne and Red Deer.
Police recovered property reported stolen from Rocky Mountain House, Innisfail, Delburne, Red Deer and the Red Deer rural area.
Some of the recovered stolen property includes two Ford F-350 pickup trucks, six ATVs, a Jeep, TJ, Mallord Holiday Trailer, 16-foot car hauler trailer and several televisions, including a 52-inch Sony.
Two Blackfalds residents have been charged with numerous fraud and forgery offences in connection with an alleged scam involving more than $165,000.
Jacklyn Saunders, 27 and Sean Saunders, 27, are both set to make their first appearance on Jan. 15 in Red Deer provincial court.
Const. Sabrina Grunow of the city RCMP detachment said on Wednesday that the city RCMP fraud unit started an investigation after a business came forward with information about an alleged internal fraud.
It's alleged that a woman, who was employed in an administrative capacity at the business, altered 61 cheques to reflect larger sums of money and to whom the cheques were payable.
She was employed at the business from February 2006 to September 2008.
The total fraud amount is listed at $167,800, Grunow said.
Jacklyn Saunders is charged with two counts of fraud of more than $5,000, two counts of theft of more than $5,000 and single counts of forgery, uttering a forged document and altering documents.
Grunow said police allege 56 cheques were made payable to the woman while the other five cheques were alleged to have been made payable to Sean Saunders, who was employed in a sales capacity.
Sean Saunders is charged with two counts of theft of more than $5,000 and a single count of uttering a forged document.


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Haringey Council and Live Nation have secured a secret deal in a private meeting to 'tweak' the new licence conditions as applied by the Licensing Subcommittee and further amended at the Magistrates Court to the Live Nation licence.
Live Nation appealed against the imposition of new conditions by the Licensing Committee (LSC) in its decision of 22nd October and filed the appeal with Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court. The two main grounds of appeal were against the new noise conditions imposed on the licence and the earlier closing on Sunday, which were put forward by the Friends of Finsbury Park.
The directions hearing on Thursday 13 December 2018 at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court was adjourned to 8 January 2019.
In the meantime, however, we received a letter from the Council of 21 December that the Council (i.e. officers) had seen fit to instruct 'an independent qualified noise consultant' to advise on the proposed amendments to the noise conditions by Live Nation:
Following the lodging of the appeal, the Council engaged the services of an 'independent qualified noise consultant' to review the noise data and advise on the implications of the above noise conditions, both in terms of the effect on residents and the operation of the event.
With the benefit of this review of the technical noise position, the members of the Licensing SubCommittee which took the decision have been consulted and, in conjunction with the Council's Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods, have endorsed the revised position on Conditions 107 and 31 set out below.
Neither we nor residents nor other councillors/neighbouring boroughs were consulted about this and we have not seen the noise evidence of the 'independent qualified noise consultant'.
At the directions hearing, the Council and Live Nation advised the Court that they had now come to an agreement on the appeal and invited the Court to agree to a Consent Order in which amendments to conditions 31 in respect of low frequency and 107 in respect of music sound levels were agreed; Live Nation withdrew its appeal in every other respect.
The Council said that the amendments to condition 107 were in effect a tweaking by way of clarifying the intent of that condition as it relates to music levels and fully reflects the intention of the licensing sub-committee in the way it is now drafted; condition 31 was expressed in different terms but the Council maintained that it amounted to a significant reduction in low frequency noise ; the Council further asserted that they have the approval of the sub-committee chairs, the director and their own noise expert in relation to the amendments.
The Friends objected to the Court making the Consent Order as they had not had an opportunity to see the Council's advice from the 'independent qualified noise consultant' and asked that the appeal take place so that they could test the noise evidence including that of the so far unseen advice from the noise expert for the Council.
The Court refused the Friends' request, holding that on a brief investigation of the position the Court was satisfied that the Consent Order amending conditions 31 and 107 could properly be made in the public interest.
Although deeply dissatisfied with the secret nature of the private meeting in which the noise conditions were 'tweaked', The Friends are very pleased that by bringing the application for a review of the Live Nation premises licence used for Wireless, some 50 new or varied conditions have been added to the licence, including for the first time a maximum noise level and a low frequency noise condition. The Friends will be asking Haringey, Islington and Hackney Council to ensure that these conditions are now complied with.
To this end, we have asked Haringey Council to provide the following information:
A copy of the final version of the up to date Licence incorporating all the amendments and new conditions.
Confirm what steps the Council is taking to update the background noise levels contained in the Table of Approved locations in Condition 106 and confirm the location in Islington that is to be used.
Confirm what steps the Council is taking in liaison with Live Nation in relation to the Informative 'to explore the options to ensure that access to the Park is optimised throughout the period of Wireless, including its build up and pull down, so that the Park can be accessed and enjoyed by all'.
Provide details of the Licences that apply to other events in Finsbury Park.
We have also asked Haringey Council to ensure all of the new licence conditions as applied by the Licensing Subcommittee and further amended at the Magistrates Court to the Live Nation licence, are consistent across all of the other licences at Finsbury Park. Currently, Haringey Council are suggesting that as the other licences were not subject to the review they are not affected by the outcome of the LiveNation review.
We have yet to receive a copy of the new Live Nation premises licence and have been told that we can expect to receive it by the end of March latest!
If you can, please contact your local councillors to ask them to ask Haringey Council why we haven't got a copy of the new licence yet! Tweet about it too to spread the word.
Once again thank you to all of you who donated and helped us to raise funds towards the licence review hearing and our legal team. Although even with your help, we were unable to raise the full amount towards our legal fees.
To donate please click this link: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/wireless-festival-licence-review/
The Friends of Finsbury Park have instructed Susan Ring of Harrison Grant solicitors and barrister Charles Streeten of Francis Taylor Building, and noise expert Richard Vivian of Big Sky Acoustics.
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Curator Marcos Gallon is the new responsible for SP-Arte's Performance sector
Artistic director of Verbo – Performance Art Festival for fifteen years now, Marcos Gallon is the new curator of SP-Arte's Performance sector. For the next edition, five artists represented by participating galleries of the Fair are going to present actions throughout the Bienal Pavilion.
Gallon tells that there will be no theme surrounding his choices, only a desire of presenting the diversity of practices that compose the field of performance. "I can identify some qualities of the performances made in Brazil, there are artists that approach ancestral ideas; artists that use other media, creating tools or extensions of the body; artists that approach literature, among others. I intend precisely to show this plurality. More than a themed curatorial approach, I am interested in the practical issues of making, which are strongly incorporated in the performance realm," he states. Part of the actions to be presented have features that allow the audience to see traces of the works even without the presence of the artists. The sector is going to have a daily program, and all the artists will present at least once a day.
It is also part of the program the acquisition of one of the five actions by SP-Arte. The artist will receive a R$ 20.000 prize, and the action will be donated to a public institution of São Paulo. The aim is to broaden the presence of performance in commercial and institutional artistic contexts: "Collections, both public and private, usually lack this kind of language. The idea is to bring the discussion of performance to a more commercial scope, and the art fair is an important space for doing so," says Gallon. For the acquisition, the contemplated artist shall deliver documents linked to the performance, whether they are photos, videos, or a simple description of the action and its performing conditions.
"There are artists who authorize the presentation of a record of the action, as well as its reenactment in specific contexts. However, others privilege the live experience. Although difficult, the act of collecting performances is possible by means of audiovisual records or documents. We want to justly foster collections of this type in Brazil," he adds.
Marcos Gallon
Bachelor in Philosophy from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). As a dancer and choreographer, he worked in several dance companies of São Paulo. From 1993 to 1996, he managed the Cia. Terceira Dança in São Paulo. Lived in Berlin for four years (1997-2001), where his research in the field of contemporary dance was broadened, having collaborated with several choreographers of the local scene. Between 2003 and 2004, he created the Corpo de Baile project, a collective composed by dancers, performers, designers, actors, and visual artists. Currently works as the artistic director of Verbo – Performance Art Festival, an annual platform for performance art, created by Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo) in 2005. He is the coauthor of "Das, um olhar contemporâneo sobre um trabalho da Cia. Terceira Dança" (Annablume, 1995), and the organizer of "Verbo – mostra de performance arte" (Ed. Tijuana, 2015).
Performance Sector
In 2018, curator Paula Garcia gathered five durational performances, which took place in a dedicated space in the second floor of the Pavilion. Gabriel Vidolín, Karlla Girotto, Paul Setúbal, the Protovoulía duo (Jessica Goes and Rafael Abdala), and the Brechó Replay collective presented their performances from the beginning until the end of the event, in journeys that lasted for more than eight hours. Click here to see photos of this sector.
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Bismarck to Fans: Help Us Choose Team Name
By Kevin Reichard on June 6, 2016 in Summer Collegiate, Summer Collegiate News
The new summer-collegiate Northwoods League team playing out of a renovated Bismarck Municipal Stadium beginning in 2017 is asking fans to submit potential monikers in a name-the-team contest.
Beginning today and running through June 26, the Northwoods League's newest team is asking fans in the Bismarck, Mandan, and their surrounding communities to send in their favorite names for the new team.
Fans can submit their team name suggestions on Bismarck Baseball's new website bismarckbaseballisback.com and can also double their chances to win prizes by liking Bismarck Baseball on Facebook or following them on Twitter and posting/tweeting their team name submission on the page and including the #NameYourTeam hashtag. You can read through the list of awards and contest rules at the website
"The team name contest is one of the most exciting parts of starting a new franchise and involving the fans in this decision really helps us choose a name that best represents the community," said John Bollinger, the team's General Manager. "Our name becomes our identity, it becomes our brand, it's the logo on our jerseys. So it's a big deal. And who knows the brand of our community better than our fans."
Bismarck Municipal Stadium opened in 1921 and has served as home to pro and amateur baseball ever since. Most notably, the ballpark was a stop for Negro Leagues barnstorming teams, and Satchel Paige played there for extended periods when he felt Gus Greenlee was underpaying him; you can read that full story here.
One big question: what other city will be part of the league's 2017 expansion? While there are some good candidates with good ballparks (like Jamestown's historic Jack Brown Stadium), we hear from North Dakota folks that Minot's Corbett Field, a former MLB and indy league home, is a strong contender.
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Nonprofits need time to think
March 19, 2012 By toddcohen49 in Nonprofits, Opinion	Leave a comment
In the face of unprecedented storm and stress in the charitable marketplace, nonprofits need to be thinking smarter about how to work better.
While taking time to think about how to improve operations and programs must seem like a luxury these days, it has become an urgent necessity.
Innovation does not have to produce a groundbreaking new program or business process.
It can be as simple as rededicating an organization to its core mission through client services and a back-office that are streamlined and highly focused on tracking and achieving results.
Getting back to basics, in fact, can be precisely the innovation that many nonprofits need most.
But whether it involves pioneering a new program or improving a tried-and-true business process, innovation requires thought, which first requires commitment and support from a nonprofit's funders, board and CEO.
Yet as often as not, if not more so, that kind of investment and leadership for nonprofits can be absent without leave.
Far too many funders and boards are clueless about the needs of the organizations they support and oversee, unwilling even to try to find out what their problems are, and too passive or inept to take action if they do happen to stumble on the fact that their organizations are in trouble.
And far too many CEOs try to run their organizations by enabling if not demanding business as usual, and by controlling information instead of sharing it with staff members or encouraging them to think for themselves and work with one another to identify and solve problems.
The corporate culture at too many nonprofits, in short, is akin to that of government agencies or other public institutions in its mediocrity, its dysfunction and its reinforcement of problems by ignoring them or denying they exist.
Far too many nonprofits take employees for granted, treating them like hired help who are supposed to follow orders, and not think, take chances or question decisions.
That culture of dysfunction also works to crush original thinking before it even has a prayer of beginning to sprout.
Funders, nonprofit trade groups and consultants also have become obsessed with the idea of collaboration, an idea that they have pushed on nonprofits, which in turn have paid lip service to collaboration through seemingly endless meetings that result in few if any actual decisions or results.
None of these approaches are strategies designed to foster the innovation nonprofits need if they are going to survive and thrive.
Two recent articles in The New York Times underscored the value and critical role of individual thinking in powering innovation.
In "The Rise of the New Groupthink," Susan Cain wrote on Jan. 15 that research "strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption."
And in "True Innovation," Jon Gertner wrote on Feb. 2 that the success of Bell Labs, the legendary research-and-development arm of AT&T that for many years was "the most innovative scientific organization in the world", was rooted in the freedom and time its leader gave employees to create, and to help one another create.
While most nonprofits are not in business to produce innovative research or products, tnonprofit sector overall serves both as civic society's safety net, and also as its research-and-development arm.
Nonprofits, in short, serve as labs for developing and delivering strategies to address the symptoms as well as the causes of our most pressing social and global problems.
Yet instead of investing in efforts to build up their organizational capacity, funders and donors traditionally have expected nonprofits to do more with less.
Nonprofit boards, in turn, and too often CEOs, swallow those expectations whole and demand the same of their staff, finding it easier to pander to funders and donors than to speak honestly to them about any capacity problems at their organizations.
Funders, donors, boards and CEOS find it even easier to justify their unrealistic demands of staff in today's grim economy, which has escalated demand for services from nonprofits while compounding the financial and operating pressures they face.
The warped logic of funders and donors seems to be that the nonprofits they support should stretch every dollar they receive to make an impact on clients, rather than making any investment in thinking or planning, even thought that kind of investment can lead to improvements that will better serve clients.
And the sad logic of boards and CEOs seems to be to pander to their donors and funders for fear that questioning their unrealistic expectations or speaking honestly about organizational problems will risk the loss of their funding.
But while they can be quick to posture and issue directives, funders, donors, boards and often CEOs are not the people who actually must deliver services and run the back-office.
The job of actually doing all that work lies with the staff, and the pressure they face leaves little time to think.
Time to think, however, is fundamental to improving an organization and the services it provides.
So nonprofit boards and CEOs, and the donors and funders who support their organizations, need to find ways to encourage and foster creative thinking by the staff.
Google, for example, encourages its engineers to spend 20 percent of their work time, or one day a week, on projects that interest them, creative thinking that has sown the seeds for some of the company's big new services, such as Gmail and Google News.
As numerous studies have shown, the ailing economy has pushed nonprofits to the edge, and a growing number are sinking fast or shutting down.
Yet while it may seem like an indulgence in these tough times, taking the time to think creatively is essential for the health and future of individual nonprofits, the charitable marketplace and the social economy.
Funders and donors, as well as nonprofit boards and CEOs, need to step up, show true leadership, and find ways to stimulate and tap the creative thinking of nonprofit staff.
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