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On Jeremy Corbyn and Leadership
26 April, 2017 27 April, 2017 / Dan Hackett
This post is not travelling related, but listen: shut up. This post is about politics, it is about ideologies, and it is about bravery.
The UK will have a general election on the 8th of June. Current polls have Labour some 20 points behind the Tories. If nothing changes in the next six weeks, Labour are set to take a pasting, Corbyn will be savaged, and a triumphant Right will cheer the fall of left wing politics across the Western world. Because, you know, the idea of affordable housing and fair pay for nurses is fucking nightmarish.
Then, once the festivities have died down and everyone has stopped paying attention once more, the Tories will turn on the general public, this time with a larger mandate. No more pesky socially conscious do-gooders to trip them up as they run around doling out parts of our National Health Service to the highest bidder. Best not to get ill, over the next five years. Or ever again.
I'm a lifetime idealist, and a newly baptised realist – I dream big and expect disappointment. I used to only be the former, back in the pre-Brexit halcyon days of summer 2016, when I was optimistic about humanity, and naive. Before Jo Cox was murdered, before everyone voted themselves poorer, back when Corbyn's 'kinder, gentler politics' was gaining steam and inspiring the masses, before it was rubbished by the media. Two years spent watching Prime Minister's Questions and seeing my hero being drowned out by Tory laughter while trying to read a letter he received from a single mother on foodstamps has kicked the milk teeth from the mouth of my inner child.
Well, fuck that. That dreamer in me, the one forcibly suppressed by the cruelty of the everyday, he isn't dead just yet. I'm done with quenching the river of my imagination to be more in line with the right wing rhetoric of the UK press. Just because something is shouted loudest doesn't make it right.
I don't want a world where staggering wealth disparity, arms dealing and gross injustice are all we can expect. I remember a row over politics with my dad once, where he told me "that's just not how the world works". Fuck that nonsense. The world works how we damn well tell it to. We flew to the moon, learned to transplant live organs and invented the internet within a few decades. I'm supposed to just suck it up and believe that capitalism is the best we can hope for? Sure, we can access the collective consciousness of humanity through a handheld bit of plastic, but feeding the poor? Hah! Perish the thought!
Finding a new economic system that works for every single person shouldn't be 'radical', it should be fucking priority. Call it Socialism, if you like, call it whatever you want, but an answer is out there, if only our government was willing to strive for it. And Jeremy Corbyn has been striving his entire life. I wish I had half the drive and courage of that man.
Jeremy Corbyn is a good man, he speaks for me, and to see him as Prime Minister would restore my pride in Britain and my faith in humanity. A lot of the UK debates will focus on who is the better leader – especially the Tory angle, as it's the easiest way for them to keep Labour at bay without engaging them in actual debate.
But here's the thing about leadership: a true leader does not live their life in an ivory tower, floating down new, cruel legislation folded up into paper planes to the increasingly bewildered masses. A true leader leads from the front of the masses, in their journey to a better future.
In 2016 I saw Jeremy Corbyn speak in Leeds during his tireless 2016 leadership election campaign. I went alone, and joined a crowd of thousands in a queue that wound through the city. The hall he was set to speak in filled up quickly, and a thousand eager faces, including mine, didn't make it inside. I stood there, dejected, until an announcement rang out that Jeremy would be coming outside to speak to us, prior to speaking to the crowds inside.
We waited, and finally, he emerged. He spoke to us without notes for 45 minutes, covering all Labour's pledges, speaking about the most deserving and needy in society, condemning zero hour contracts and tax avoidance, advocating affordable housing, education, disability benefits, funding for the arts, and everything in between. He was jovial and witty, he made us laugh, he was sharp, concise, and charismatic. I looked at him, this unassuming man stood just two metres before me, with a nation sneering at him but continuing regardless, and I knew, and I still know, that he is a leader in the truest sense of the word.
When he bid our crowd farewell and headed inside for the official rally, I stood alone as the crowd dispersed. I felt electric. Everything I had believed was absent in politics, in humanity – here it was. It existed, and it still exists, in the form of Jeremy Corbyn. I was his supporter then, and his supporter I remain, and I will be until the end. I signed up for a kinder, gentler politics, a fairer world for all, and a brighter future for humanity, and I'm standing by my beliefs, come what may. If the election leads to disaster and humiliation despite all of this, so be it. I know what is right, and I am taking my stand for it.
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danhackett93
27 April, 2017 at 10:57 am
Oh for heaven's sake. No I am not, and neither is Jeremy Corbyn. He has spoken with nefarious characters in the past as a precursor to peace talks – you know, to prevent further deaths and whatnot. Our current government seems to prefer drone strikes to diplomacy.
28 April, 2017 at 12:55 pm
Reading from Vietnam and couldn't agree more! Trying to sort out my postal vote for whilst I'm away – every vote for Corbyn counts!
28 April, 2017 at 3:45 pm
I'm abroad at the moment too, and I'll be doing the same! ?


Brett and Brooke David of Prestige Imports put together an amazing event, Ride2Revive, which provides children, who are undergoing medical treatment for life-threatening diseases, with memorable, adrenaline filled driving experiences meant to distract them from their health related struggles and revitalize their senses. The Finker-Frenkel Foundation was honored to be one of the sponsors of this amazing and impactful event.
Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation FUNDS BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION ENDOWMENT AND MORE.
Through a significant gift, the Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation created the Business Plan Competition Endowed fund, which will forever finance the annual University of Miami Business Plan Competition, hosted by the School of Business. The foundation's gift also financed renovations of the School's outdoor gathering and study space, which was dedicated Nov. 14 as the Finker-Frenkel Family Promenade.
Now in its 16th year, the Business Plan Competition awards nearly $50,000 in prize money annually to University of Miami students and alumni to help them launch or grow startup ventures. "My family came here 25 years ago with $100 in their pockets and were able to build a major multinational business because of their entrepreneurial spirit and the environment this country has provided to them," said Eugene Frenkel (MBA '12), co-director of the Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation and CEO of Legacy Group of Companies. "The entrepreneurial spirit is extremely important, and we want to foster those values and create that environment for the students at the U," he added as he addressed a crowd that included University of Miami President Julio Frenk, School of Business Dean John Quelch and several past Business Plan Competition winners.
Dr. Lazar Finker and his wife, Dr. Raissa Frenkel, have always been passionate about giving back to the community, whether locally or half a world away. Their organization, the Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation, is committed to making an impact by supporting causes in multiple fields such as medical research, education, religious development, and children's welfare.
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While the weather wasn't the most cooperative on race day, runners still enjoyed scenic beach views throughout the 3-mile course that began on 96th Street and headed under the Haulover Bridge along the beach pathway and the Town of Surfside before returning to the BalHarbour City Hall.
The Finker-FrenkelLegacy Foundation is dedicated to creating a family-run legacy of like-minded philanthropists joined in the commitment to making an impact by supporting causes in multiple fields such as medical research, education, religious development and children's welfare. With countless communities in need of support for the less fortunate and ill, the Foundation supports a wide array of organizations that fall in line with the philanthropic vision and values of the Finker-Frenkel family, whether it is funding ground-breaking research or helping a family put a child through school.
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This past Sunday, September 18, over 250 people attended Chabad of Southside's Jewish Life Center for a groundbreaking event that marked the beginning of construction on their new, 10,000 square-foot religious hub.
The Chabad of Southside's Jewish Life Center, a cultural and religious hub that provides the Jews of the local universities and community of Jacksonville with weekly Sabbath meals, prayer services, and social events, hosted a groundbreaking event on September 18th to mark the beginning of construction of their new facility. Over 250 people came out in the 90°F heat for the occasion, including Republican Nominee for US Congress, John Rutherford, and recently elected member to The House of Representatives, Clay Yarborough.
Part of the necessity for a larger building comes from the desire of Rabbi Shmuli and Chana Novack, who founded the Lubavitch center in 2006, to expand their efforts to reach out to the more-than 1000 Jewish students who attend the neighboring schools, the University of North Florida (UNF), Florida State College, and Florida Coastal School of Law. The Chabad house is the only full-time Jewish center available to UNF students.
Chabad on Campus began through an initiative by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, of blessed memory, to send Jewish emissaries, or Shluchim, around the world. It is a rapidly expanding network of over 235 centers serving colleges and universities globally. It represents the largest network of full-time professionally staffed Jewish campus centers in the world.
His words had added poignancy when he called attention to Jacksonville resident, Esther Sauer, who escaped the Nazis as a young girl and was present to witness this proud expansion of Jewish life.
The Finker-Frenkel Foundation, with director Eugene Frenkel (MBA '12), has established two scholarships with a $125,000 gift to the School. For each of the next five years, the Finker-Frenkel Foundation Non-Endowed Scholarship Fund will provide a $5,000 scholar- New Endowments, Dedication Campaigns at the School of Business By Lauren Comander ship to an undergraduate junior in the School of Business, based on financial need and merit. At the same time, the Foundation has begun to build the Finker-Frenkel Foundation Endowed Scholarship Fund, which will grow and become a permanent endowed award.
The family-run Finker-Frenkel Foundation aims to eradicate neurological diseases and believes one way to do so is by supporting educational empowerment. The foundation and Frenkel have long been involved in and supportive of different areas of the University, including a $100,000 pledge to the University's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.
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Devils Games
Four Goals, Four Minutes: New Jersey Devils Awoke to Beat Detroit Red Wings
After forty-five minutes of bad hockey, the New Jersey Devils went on a run of scoring four goals in four minutes in the third period against the Detroit Red Wings. As a result, the Devils won 4-1. This is the recap of a game that was looking bad before it was much more pleasant.
By John Fischer Feb 13, 2020, 11:53pm EST
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Wayne Simmonds, celebrating his second of the night that put the Devils up 3-1.
For the first 45 minutes of tonight's game between the New Jersey Devils and the Detroit Red Wings, the Devils provided very little reason to cheer them on. The Devils came out very poorly in the first period. Against the worst team in the NHL, the Devils registered all of four shots on net, one shot hitting the crossbar, and conceded a breakaway and a post as well. In the second period, the Devils squandered four power plays - including three in a row - while conceding a power play goal to Andreas Athanasiou. The fans at the Rock booed the team off the ice after the second period ended. It was well-earned as the Devils' performance was best categorized as garbage. While they were only down 0-1, the Devils showed little sign of a comeback. It hit a nadir in the third period when Wayne Simmonds led a 2-on-1, never looked at the net to shoot it, forced a pass into a fallen Red Wing defender, and then crashed into Miles Wood in trying to receive the loose puck. Play stopped as a Red Wing crashed into goaltender Jonathan Bernier and sent the back three feet. How could the Devils play such a terrible game of hockey and how could they play it against the one team that they really should be beating on?
As it turned out, the Devils just needed a spark to break through the worst team in the NHL. At 5:10 into the third period, they got one. Andy Greene wound up, fired a shot into four bodies in front of Bernier, and the puck eluded the goaltender. As it turned out, defenseman Filip Hronek hindered Bernier, which explained why the goalie stumbled as the puck hit the back of the net. The game was tied. And what would be a scoring blitz commenced.
About 90 seconds later, the line of Pavel Zacha, Wood, and Simmonds struck to put the Devils up 2-1. Zacha sent a great cross-ice pass to Wood coming down the left side of the zone. Wood saw Simmonds open on Bernier's left flank. Wood sent a great pass across for Simmonds to tap it in. It was a legitimately a great play involving two players who made a total mess of a 2-on-1 minutes earlier in the same period. The Devils were now leading and the fans at the Rock were far more jubilant, seeing that, yes, the Devils were beating the worst team in the NHL.
About a minute later, defenseman Alex Biega was whistled for a delay of game for "smothering the puck." There was a long battle for the puck in the right corner (Bernier's right) of the offensive zone. I imagine the refs ordered the puck to be moved and Biega was not having it. The sixth power play of the night for the Devils turned out to be the most successful one. The Devils were set up in the zone, Damon Severson passed the puck to Kyle Palmieri who was high up in the right (Bernier's right) circle. Palmieri fired a shot from above the dot, Bernier stopped it, and Simmonds beat defenseman Patrik Nemeth to the rebound. Simmonds scored his second of the night, the Devils' power play finally got a conversion, and the Devils were up 3-1.
On the next shift, Jesper Bratt wheeled up to the top of the offensive zone from the left (Bernier's left) corner after P.K. Subban sent the puck to him. Just as public address announcer Kevin Clark announced Wayne Simmonds' goal, Bratt fired a hard, rising wrist shot from the center point. The shot hit the top corner of the net. Bernier could not see the shot get past a screen by Travis Zajac and Trevor Daley. At exactly 9:10, the Devils were up 4-1.
The Devils scored four goals in four minutes of game time to not only get back in the game but take a commanding lead. The fans went from restless to ecstatic. The atmosphere went from tense or apathetic (depending on the section) to pleasant and relaxing. The Red Wings mounted some kind of attack but MacKenzie Blackwood was not allowing anything through. And the Devils kept Detroit honest enough, nearly scoring a fifth goal on a few tries.
Personally, I went from wondering where this supposed "fun, hard working" team under Alain Nasreddine was in the first two periods to leaving the arena smiling, quite pleased that the Devils took care of business. I should have recalled my own preview much earlier in the evening. I wrote in The Goal:
The Devils did beat Detroit earlier this season 5-1. It was not your traditional blowout where one team scores a lot early and just cruises to the win. The game was 0-0 after the first period and 1-1 after the second period. They won that game because they kept attacking, they limited their mistakes to avoid giving Detroit too many (or much of any) opportunities to beat Domingue. It worked out as the goals kept coming. First off a break, then off more intentional efforts. The Devils should keep this in mind no matter how the game turns out.
While the performance overall on November 23, 2019 was much better, history certainly rhymed. The Devils accomplished this goal in the third period to go on their way to win. Simmonds scored twice for the first time as a Devil; Greene and Bratt scored through screens; and even a moribund power play effort was successful for one situation. As much as I could go on about how poor the first two periods were, I have to respect the team when they actually took charge in the third period and put the game out of doubt in a short amount of time. It is worth noting that both teams demonstrated why they are both bottom-five teams in the NHL and had nothing to really play for in this season for months now. However, at least the Devils are better than Detroit. It may be a silver lining but it shines all the same.
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The Opposition Opinion: Over at Winging it in Motown, helmerroids recapped the game, describing it as "four minutes of hell." I like that. It has a good ring to it.
The Game Highlights: From NHL.com:
The Run of Play? Low Events, Undercut by Penalties: Between the two teams, there were ten power plays in this game. This meant that 5-on-5 was limited to under 46 minutes. This contributed to a low-event game as both teams registered 37 shooting attempts. After Florida torched them on Tuesday, I welcome the evenness. The first period showed Detroit winning in volume (11 shots to the Devils' 2) and, I suppose, quality (4 high danger chances to 2). The second period showed both teams combining for six shots total, 4-2 in favor of New Jersey. The Devils really did turn it up in their favor in the third period in terms of attempts (19-13), shots (10-9), especially scoring chances (12-3, 4-1 high-danger). The flow of these figures were consistent with how the game played out.
The Run of Play, The Bad Devils: What was not consistent was the play of Zacha's line. While they did provide the go-ahead goal, it was a peak in a night to forget for them. Detroit did not pin the Devils back a lot, but when they did, it was often against Zacha, Simmonds, and the lazy defensive effort of Miles Wood. There was a shift in the first period where Subban was being double teamed and it took Simmonds and Zacha seconds to realize that they should help him out. Their time against Darren Helm, Anthony Mantha, and Dylan Larkin was the worst on paper and by eyesight in the run of play. (Aside: Why would you risk it by putting Zacha, Wood, and Simmonds out there against one of Detroit's better lines?) That match-up went wrong really quickly. However, they did play better in the third period. Yes, Wood and Simmonds collided in a blooper of a 2-on-1 attempt going awry but they made up for that with a great scoring play minutes later. They also were not pinned back as much in the third. In total, they were still out-attempted and out-shot, but they mitigated the gap in the third period as well as not beaten for scores. Obviously, Simmonds was the standout with two goals.
P.K. Subban was very much not consistent either. His performance on the power play was abysmal. Some were unfortunate breaks, like his stick breaking on a slap shot attempt that led to Gustav Lindstrom coming out of the box and having a one-on-one shot with Blackwood where he hit the left post with authority. Some were just bad decisions such as falling down with the puck while attempting to spin around a defender, missing on passes regardless of whether they were forward, lateral, or backwards. His shots rarely found the net, assuming they did not get blocked out high. Will Butcher must have watched him wondering, "Why did I lose my spot on the power play again?" In 5-on-5, Subban was out-attempted 14-20 and out-shot 4-10. For that, you could blame Andy Greene. He only played 4:42 with Andy Greene and that pairing was hammered in 5-on-5; they were out-attempted 5-12 and out-shot 1-7. Subban was switched to play with Butcher and that pairing was much more successful. With Butcher, he out-attempted the Red Wings 7-6 and were even in shots, 3-3. The pairing also picked up assists on Bratt's goal too. Still, Subban was definitely fighting it out there as he was trying to make moves and shots happen when he really would have been better served just keeping his game simple and make safer plays. But he did perform much better in 5-on-5 when paired with Butcher, so that was a plus.
As for Greene, he was re-united with Damon Severson in the wake of being pulled apart from Subban. This did not go so well in 5-on-5 for the captain. He was out-attempted 4-7 and out-shot 2-5 when they were on the ice. The good news is that one of those two shots was Greene's goal, which kickstarted the Devils run of goals for the win tonight. That salvaged what was another rough night for the veteran defenseman.
The Run of Play, the Good Devils: Jesper Bratt was a hustling machine out on the ice tonight. When he was on the ice in 5-on-5, the Devils out-attempted the Red Wings 16-8 and out-shot them 7-4. He was quite swift in entering the zone, keeping plays going, and working hard in "dirty areas" on the ice. Bratt hit a crossbar in the first period and scored in the third period, the latter rewarded the good night he was having. The line of Jack Hughes, Kyle Palmieri, and Bratt was New Jersey's best in 5-on-5 this evening. Hughes looked solid. He took a lot of hits but he kept on going. Palmieri made some poor decisions at shooting the puck, notably firing away while not realizing there was a Red Wing right in front of him more than once. But Bratt was the standout of the three. He was not named one of the Three Stars of Tonight's game by Tonight's Attending Media. Which is fine. I think he was a star tonight.
Will Butcher had himself a very fine game. I think he should have been on the power play units after the third one utterly failed. Still, he was great in the run of play. He helped settle Subban's performance down when they were paired. When he was with Mirco Mueller or Connor Carrick, the Devils still out-attempted the Red Wings. Butcher did not get torched on plays or lose pucks easily or become anonymous on offense. He played an effective game even with other defenders for a few shifts. Overall, when Butcher was on the ice, the Devils out-attempted the Red Wings 18-11 and out-shot them 8-7 in 5-on-5 play. Butcher's performance was rewarded a little bit on the scoresheet as he was credited with the secondary assist on Bratt's goal. This was the kind of night I would like to see more from Butcher.
Speaking of, Mueller had a surprisingly effective game too. This is a surprise to me because Mueller has been arguably New Jersey's least effective defenseman this season. But he avoided big errors. He took no penalties. When he was on the ice, the Devils doubled-up the Red Wings in attempts, 12-6, and shots, 6-3. Those numbers are more likely to be reversed for Mueller in this season. It is worth noting when they are good.
Streak Over, But Still Good: Blackwood's shutout streak was ended when Athanasiou walked in and roofed a shot from the left (Blackwood's left) circle. Ending at 170 minutes and change, it was a very good run. It was also the only blotch on Blackwood's record tonight. That was the only goal that beat him. While Detroit did hit the iron twice against him - Tyler Bertuzzi in the first period, Lindstrom in the second - Blackwood stopped everything else. This included a breakaway from Bertuzzi in the first period (this led to a high sticking penalty by Greene) as well as some nice lateral stops in the third period. Detroit did not shell the Devils in what was a low-shooting game. But Blackwood was quite good after being inactive since Saturday against Los Angeles. I would have preferred that Blackwood started against Florida and this game could have been Louis Domingue's chance to get his groove back (or get into any groove). But what is done is done. Blackwood had the call today and took care of business in all three periods, even when the Devils were not doing that in the first two.
As a quick aside: Poor Bernier. I do not think he saw the first or fourth goal against. The second one was literally on his left flank; by the time he figured it out, it was too late. And the third one was a short rebound that Nemeth
Streaks Ongoing: Severson picked up two secondary assists tonight, which extends his point streak to eight games. Severson's secondary assists were legitimate passes. They were not touches granted just to flatter his point totals. While I did not think he had the greatest of nights, Palmieri did get the primary assist on Simmonds' PPG which means he has four points in his last three games. (I usually count three games as a minimum for a streak) This also means Palmieri has nine points in the eight games since the All-Star Game. You like to see your top right winger continue to produce.
Alas: Tonight was an off one for Blake Coleman. He missed Travis Zajac on some seemingly easy passes on offense that could have led to goals or at least Bernier to break a sweat. He took a checking to the head penalty against Alex Biega, which led to the PPGA. He struggled to hit the net as four of his seven attempts were officially recorded as missed. Coleman was not bad at all. He just was not finishing or making the plays he has been recently. Off nights happen so I am not so concerned. Not on a night where others certainly picked it up in terms of scoring.
Siiiiiiiigh: The Devils' power play was an exercise in frustration and lost hope this evening. The Red Wings took three delay of game penalties and even took three penalties back-to-back-to-back int he second period. The Devils did not punish any of these until Simmonds put home a rebound in the third period. While the team did average over a shot per situation - 9 shots, six situations - the Devils struggled to create open shooting opportunities. There were attempts made with Red Wings literally in the way; it was as if the Devils were too focused on the net instead of any one within ten feet in front of them. The dreaded back pass returned on breakouts. It was appropriate when a Red Wing forechecker went deep into the zone and went after the puck carrier. It was not on the other times where they did not. Subban had a really poor time at the point this evening. Severson was a bit better but tonight was night where Butcher should have been given a chance. And Hughes and Gusev both forced passes through the middle that were not there. It was a mess. They did salvage it with a PPG in the third period but until that point, it was a dumpster fire of a special team.
By the way, that PPG should clue the coaching staff that Simmonds really should be by the net on the power play as a primary position for him in the 1-3-1 formation. It is how he has made his money in his career. Taking him away from there made little sense in past games. Let the man feast in front.
Normally, this would be where I would type that the penalty kill was much better. And it was. The Devils were not able to score shorthanded but they forced Detroit to spend quite a lot of time outside of the Devils' zone on their first three penalty kills. Unfortunately, Athanasiou scored on Detroit's second power play shot of the game. It came from a penalty Coleman did not have to take, either. Still, the Devils' penalty kill was more functional at their job overall than the power play even if they evened out in scoring.
One Last Thought: The Devils will need to play a lot better and a lot earlier than they started to against Carolina tomorrow. Or any of their other opponents this season.
Your Take: The Devils won 4-1 over Detroit with a four-minute surge to make up for forty-five minutes of bad hockey by New Jersey. Now that you know my take on tonight's game, I want to know yours. What are your feelings about tonight's win? What about the performance? What specifically should the Devils aim to do differently in Carolina tomorrow based on what you saw tonight? Who do you think was the best Devil tonight? Who on New Jersey has the most to prove tomorrow night? Please leave your answers and other thoughts about tonight's win in the comments.
Thanks to Mike for taking care of @AAtJerseyBlog on Twitter during the game. Thanks to everyone who commented in the Gamethread. Thank you for reading.


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Q: Noetherian assumptions in basic properties of coherent sheaves of modules Using Hartshorne's definition of 'coherent sheaf':

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By Harry Shersby-Wignall
With the end of October 2014 looming, Blues sitting in 23rd place, managerless and on the back end of an 8-0 thrashing, Bluenoses were expecting the worst and a long, long season looked to be on the cards. With only two league wins under our belt, relegation looked more than a possibility. However, a certain Gary Rowett came onto the scene and five months later, The Blues are sat in 15th place and 13 points clear from relegation; a miracle to say at the least!
Following Saturday's 1-1 home draw against Huddersfield, Championship security is more or less sealed. With a promotion, a mid-table finish in the Premier League, a League Cup, a relegation, play off semi finals, Europa League and surviving relegation on the last day with a 93rd minute equaliser in the last six years, it's safe to say that this year will be a lot quieter than latter years.
Thoughts will soon turn to the squad for next year. Assuming the club hasn't been sold, the players I think we should keep are as follows: Darren Randolph, Paul Caddis, Michael Morrison, Jonathon Grounds, David Cotterill, David Davis and Clayton Donaldson. It could be time to cash in on Demarai Gray who, since all the speculation in January hasn't performed to the best of his ability.
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Updated: April 8, 2016 5:25 PM ET | Originally published: March 23, 2016 12:29 PM EDT
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PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
The subject (human or animal) is the primary focus of the image.
Curator: Portrait Salon
Bio: Portrait Salon was founded by Carole Evans and James O Jenkins in 2011 as a response to the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. A form of Salon des Refusés – an exhibition of work rejected from a juried show – it aims to showcase the best of the rejected images from the Taylor Wessing Prize, which is organised annually by the National Portrait Gallery in London. This year (2018) Portrait Salon has also accepted work rejected by the British Journal of Photography's Portrait of Britain award.
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Carole Evans is a photographic artist, cultural organizer and educator.
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She is currently Associate Senior Lecturer in Contextual Studies at Ravensbourne, and is Dissertation Supervisor for the Photography BA (hons) at University of the Arts Farnham, where she also contributes to the Theory Lecture programme.
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Reportage, features, current affairs, product or other imagery that is of an informative nature.
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London-based photographer Jillian Edelstein began working as a press photographer in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1985 she attended the London College of Printing (London College of Communications). Her portraits have appeared in many publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Weekend Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine and Interview.
She has received several awards including the Kodak UK Young Photographer of the Year, Photographers' Gallery Portrait Photographer of the Year Award 1990, the Visa d'Or at the International Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan in 1997, the European Final Art Polaroid Award in 1999, the John Kobal Book Award 2003 and was included in The Taylor Wessing Portrait Award in 2014, the AI-AP Archive in 2008 and 2015. A winner in Latin American Fotografia 2015 and 2016, a finalist in the LensCulture Portrait Awards 2017, she has also been included in World Press Awards twice.
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Read our interview with Jillian here
Still Life & Object
Inanimate object(s) or still life. It can be any object in any place, the emphasis being the object rather than its surroundings.
Curator: Kristie Girvan – Head of Production, The Corner London
Loyal. Passionate. Fiery. Determined. These are some of the attributes Kristie is best known for her role as Head of Production at The Corner. Since 2013 she has been helping grow and mould the most versatile and talented, fun and down-to-earth integrated production department in London.
In her time there she has produced a vast array of print, film and other projects across their client portfolio, including Heart Immigration for Jigsaw, which was awarded a Lion at Cannes 2018.
Previously, Kristie's career has taken her from agency to client side and back again, as well as around the globe from Auckland to Sydney to London.
She is drawn to the evocative and provocative, the surreal and ethereal. Some of her favourites include: Juno Calypso, Gustav Almestål, Alice Moitié, Elsa Bleda, Hart+Lëshkina, Eliot Lee Hazel, Todd Hido, René Burri, Harri Peccinotti, Nan Goldin.
In life beyond the agency, she photographs, djs and has recently launched a brand, Maison D'Être. The first line is a collection of gender neutral tops she has designed, with more creations to follow.
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maison_d.etre
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Read our interview with Kristie here
Fashion & Beauty photographs
Curator: Clara Mercer – Communications Director, British Fashion Council
Clara Mercer has played a vital role in positioning London as a fashion capital. Clara is responsible for the strategic planning and delivery of the annual communications campaigns and activity for the BFC's events and initiatives such as London Fashion Week and The Fashion Awards. This includes all online initiatives, creative direction, brand management, communication to multiple audiences and across multiple channels.
Clara's career trajectory has seen her take on increased responsibility and in 2016 was appointed Communications Director, joining the internal board whose role it is to translate the high-level strategy set at Executive Board to operational strategy to be delivered by the team.
The communications team is the largest team within the organisation and is responsible for all campaigns, digital channels, accreditation and guest programmes for events and partnership development with global media and retailers.
A recognised leader in multi discipline fashion communications, her key relationships are with the most creative, forward thinking digital, creative and media leaders based in the UK.
claramercer
britishfashioncouncil
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Food or drink as the main focus of the image
Curator: Helen Parker – Co-Founder and Executive Producer, Another
Helen started her career in advertising before opening a stills production company in Cape Town, alongside her business partner, Tanja Adams. Her company, Another, has grown to become one of the leading buyers of commercial photography with an unparalleled knowledge of established and emerging photographic talent in the UK and beyond. Another, continues to work with an array of London's top creative agencies but are increasingly being commissioned directly by brands looking to outsource and consolidate their creative production requirements.
Her company is female owned and managed and remains passionate about supporting and promoting female creative talent. To that end, Helen is instrumental in launching a mentorship scheme for female photography undergraduates, with the aim of encouraging more women to enter and thrive in the photography profession.
weareanother.co.uk/
Read our interview with Helen here
A series of between 5-20 images that portray a narrative, telling a visual story.
Curator: Ben Nash – Deputy Head of Creative Production, Karmarama
Ben learned his appreciation of creativity working at two of Australia's most awarded agencies in Sydney and Melbourne then discovered his passion for photography working as a producer with one of Australia's top photographic production companies with some of the countries best talent.
Currently at Karmarama leading and developing his Creative Production team on their artbuying skills.
karmarama.com
Read our interview with Ben here
Covers the promotion or illustration of ideas, products, brands, corporations, etc., and imagery as part of an overall piece of lifestyle work.
Curator: Rhiannon Reid – Head of Production, 24 Productions
Rhiannon began her career at Magnum as Advertising & Corporate Manager, here she oversaw commercial stock sales and handled all assignments and special projects for the London office territories. For the past 7 years Rhiannon has worked at 24 Productions who are a niche, global production company, specialising in photographic stills, motion, experiential and events production. Rhiannon's role as client engagement manager and more recently as Head of Production is pivotal to producing large-scale multi-platform worldwide shoots in over 34 countries, which bring their clients' visions to life on a truly global scale.
The situation or location, including interior, landscape, architecture etc., where the whole, rather than the individual elements, is the primary focus.
Curator: Jane Briers – Creative Director, mcgarrybowen
I'm an 'old school' senior art director and creative director.'Old School' meaning I remember a time when you sent the neg off to the lab before you shot for real, and that I still own a loop (although I'm not quite sure where it is…).
I've had the pleasure to work with many inspirational and talented photographers, directors, typographers and designers throughout my twenty three year career.
I am currently working at mcgarrybowen with my copywriter of over twenty years – the long suffering Dave Cornmell.
janendave.carbonmade.com
@janeybriers
OPEN AWARD
An example of excellence that illustrates the creative use of technologies and innovations in the production of still images. This can be AR, VR, CGI or any other technique.
Curator: Matt Beveridge – Executive Creative Director & Co-founder, Pebble Studios
Matt is the Executive Creative Director and Co-Founder of Pebble Studios. An award winning, London-Based, creative production company which specialises in Film, Animation and Virtual Reality experiences.
Having started his career in music video production and marketing, he then spent 7 years working at one of London's leading Agencies, becoming second in command of their Moving Image Design department before co-founding Pebble Studios.
Since launching Pebble he has lead the creative on everything from Europe's biggest ever event screen and Disney's first ever social VR campaign, to ABC's first ever TV series VR trailer, or the UK's first ever fully immersive gym studio. It's fair to say that no two projects in his career have been the same and pushing the boundaries of the expected norm is what drives him most.
pebblestudios.co.uk
Read our interview with Matt here
A piece of moving imagery, content is up to you but must demonstrate your understanding and skills within the medium. All entries in this category must reference whether the work is collaboration with another artist be it a director, editor, colour grader, musician etc. or whether it's the independent work of the photographer. You may wish to illustrates the creative use of technologies for example AR, VR, CGI or any other technique.
Curator: Paul MacKay, Director of Photography – BAFTA and Raindance Festival Winner
Rather like a Photographer a Cinematographer shares the same passion for imagery, albeit often this is interwoven genetically with various other departments. It is this harmony with other skill sets which many refer to as the ultimate art form.
After many years as a 1st Assistant Cameraman I stepped up to the top job and embarked on an amazing journey, sometimes terrifying often inspirational but rarely mundane.
My work includes Music Videos, Advertising and Long Form scripted drama. In 2017 'Home' a short film I shot won the Best Short Film BAFTA and last year my first feature 'We The Kings' received the award for Best UK Feature at the Raindance Film Festival.'
My second film 'A Guide to Second Date Sex' is out later in 2018.
Paul MacKay
A single image or series of images (3-4) can be entered. There are no categories or restrictions, the image is the star, exciting and innovative work is encouraged.
Curator: Fiona Shields – Head of Photography, The Guardian
Fiona has over twenty years' picture editing experience across a range of newspaper titles and was picture editor of the Guardian for nine years before taking up the role of Head of Photography for the Guardian News and Media Group. Throughout her career she has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic news stories of our time including the events surrounding 9/11 and the subsequent terror attacks in London and across Europe, conflicts around the world from Bosnia to Iraq and Afghanistan, the revolution of the Arab spring and the continuing violence in the middle east, large scale natural disasters such as the earthquakes in Haiti, tsunamis in southern Asia, famine in Sub-Saharan Africa and the humanitarian crises resulting from the growing refugee numbers across the globe. Also a good few UK general elections and political change and upheaval worldwide.
In addition she has delivered talks at photo festivals, taken part in mentoring programmes for students of photojournalism and has enjoyed judging the Sony World Photography Awards, the UK Picture Editors Guild Awards, the Renaissance Photography Prize to name a few. Last year she was on the jury of the esteemed Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and is a regular nominator for the world famous Prix Pictet Award.
Twitter: @fshields
Read out interview with Fiona here
STUDENT AWARD
Curator: Zelda Cheatle
Zelda Cheatle is a photography curator, also an editor, lecturer and photography consultant. Zelda studied photography and worked at the Photographers Gallery in Great Newport Street before opening her own gallery, exhibiting the classics of 20th century and the emerging talents of the medium.
Zelda helped create the John Kobal Foundation (now Taylor Wessing at the National Portrait Gallery) and established the Tosca Photography Fund , making a significant photography collection , chairing symposium and making loans to museums and galleries . Curating internationally, her exhibitions , showing work from a global reach, in venues including Dubai, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing and Riyadh. Zelda curated the AOP50 exhibition in London 2018, held in One Canada Square.
zeldacheatle.com
Read our interview with Zelda here
Curator: Simon Norfolk
Born: 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria.
Lives in Hove and Kabul.
Simon Norfolk is a landscape photographer whose work over twenty years has been themed around a probing and stretching of the meaning of the word 'battlefield' in all its forms. As such, he has photographed in some of the world's worst war-zones and refugee crises, but is equally at home photographing supercomputers used to design military systems or the test-launching of nuclear missiles. Time's layeredness in the landscape is an ongoing fascination of his.
His work has been widely recognised: he has won The Discovery Prize at Les Rencontres d'Arles in 2005; The Infinity Prize from The International Center of Photography in 2004; and he was winner of the European Publishing Award, 2002. In 2003 he was shortlisted for the Citibank Prize now known as the Deutsche Börse Prize and in 2013 he won the Prix Pictet Commission. He has won multiple World Press Photo and Sony World Photography awards.
He has produced four monographs of his work including 'Afghanistan: Chronotopia' (2002) which was published in five languages; 'For Most Of It I Have No Words' (1998) about the landscapes of genocide; and 'Bleed' (2005) about the war in Bosnia. His most recent is 'Burke + Norfolk; Photographs from the War in Afghanistan.' (2011).
He has work held in major collections such as The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Getty in Los Angeles as well as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Wilson Centre for Photography and the Sir Elton John Collection. His work has been shown widely and internationally from Brighton to Ulaanbaatar and in 2011 his 'Burke + Norfolk' work was one of the first ever photography solo shows at Tate Modern in London.
He has been described by one critic as 'the leading documentary photographer of our time. Passionate, intelligent and political; there is no one working in photography that has his vision or his clarity.' He is currently running at a pretty nifty Number 44 on 'The 55 Best Photographers of all Time. In the History of the World. Ever. Definitely.'
Instagram: simonnorfolkstudio
simonnorfolk.com
Curator: Alicia Hart
Alicia Hart is the director of a production company called Hart Productions. She has twenty years experience within photography and the arts. Her expertise spans many photographic disciplines: editorial as a photo editor, art buyer and advertising producer: and regularly participate at international portfolio reviews and art festivals.
She has works as a photo editor and producer, working with leading photographers, magazines and publications. These include: The Face, Arena Homme Plus, The Sunday Telegraph, FT Weekend and Wallpaper* Magazine. She has exhibited in photography shows at The Photographers Gallery, Humble Arts Foundation, Valentine's Mansions and the Royal College of Art.
Alicia has worked with some of the countries leading creative agencies creating and producing campaigns including AMV BBDO, Show Media and Wallpaper Bespoke with brands such as The Mayor of London's Office, BT, Graff Diamonds, British Airways and The National lottery. Alicia has a Masters degree in photography at the Royal College of Art. She is a regular Associate Lecturer and visiting lecturer in some of the leading universities in the UK.
Instagram: aliciajhart
Read our interview with Alicia here
AOP Awards 2017 Winner from The Association of Photographers on Vimeo.
Published by The Association of Photographers, 8-10 Sampson Street London E1W 1NA.


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Q: Need help replacing a specific column in a file by part of a column in another file in Unix I have two input files as
File1 :
ABC:client1:project1
XYZ:client2-aa:project2
DEF:client4:proj

File2 :
client1:W-170:xx
client2-aa:WT-04:yy
client4:L-005A:zz

Also, array of valid values can be hardcoded like [W,WT]
Output :
ABC:W:project1
XYZ:WT:project2

SO basically, if the column2 of file1 matches any record's column1 in file2, then replace that coulmn2 in file1 by a part of column2 from file2.
TO obtain this part I need to split column2 in file2 using "-" operator and match the results against an array to determine valid values.
For the records not matching above criteria, they should NOT be displayed in the output.
I am new to shell scripting so would appreciate any help.
I have been trying since a couple of days and have been able to replace the entire column using
awk -F":" 'NR==FNR{A[$1]=$2;next}$2 in A{$2=A[$2]}1' OFS=":" file2 file1.

However, haven't been able to get the part of the column requirement working.

A: You are very close. Here is the awk code you're looking for, using the split function:
awk '
  BEGIN { OFS=FS=":" }
  NR==FNR { split ($2,one,"-"); two[$1] = one[1]; next }
  $2 in two { $2 = two[$2]; print }
' file2 file1

Output:
ABC:W:project1
XYZ:WT:project2
DEF:L:proj

A: This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed 's/^\([^:]*:\)\([^-]*\).*/s|:\1|:\2:|p/' file2 | sed -nf - file1

Explanation:

*

*sed 's/^\([^:]*:\)\([^-]*\).*/s|:\1|:\2:|p/' file2 make a sed script that does the replacement.

*sed -nf - file1 pipe it through to another sed instance and run against intended file

N.B. I don't understand "Also, array of valid values can be hardcoded like [W,WT]" so this may not fully suit your needs.


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Choosing how best to allocate a budget amongst competing priorities is challenging, even for corporations with a laser-like focus on a single bottom-line. For non-profits of various sorts, including charities, NGOs and professional membership organisations, there are extra dimensions that need to be considered.
First, there is the question of how 'value' is measured. By definition this requires value-judgements, and making trade-offs between different types of value calls for special techniques.
Secondly, non-profits often have a wide base of stakeholders (internal and sometimes external) who care about how these value judgements are being applied to prioritising activities and investments. These stakeholders need to at least understand how it is being done (transparency), and ideally they will also have some say in the process (participation).
We have helped a number of charities and NGOs over the years, so we do appreciate these challenges. More recently we have worked with a large professional membership organisation, and found that they operate in a similar context. We ran a process with them to engage groups of members in scoring their programs (the current portfolio and proposed new initiatives) against a set of criteria aligned with their strategic objectives. This brought the members views directly into the decision-making and budget setting process.
You can read more about this in a brief case study we have recently published. We are expecting to do more work in this area, and will aim to produce further case studies when we can, but in the meantime if you would like more information just let me know.


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In 2011, Micropathology Ltd acquired our first next-generation sequencing platform, the Roche 454 GS Junior. This is a benchtop version of the GS FLX platform. This instrument uses 454 technology to produce between 70,000 - 100,000 sequence reads with an average length in excess of 400bp on a single run.
454 technology has a wide range of applications including whole genome sequencing, transcriptome sequencing, amplicon sequencing and metagenomic sequencing.
Microbial diversity analyses using 16S, 18S and 23S primer sets to target bacteria, fungi and archaea.
More information on applications for 454 technology can be found at www.454.com/applications/index.asp. We are always interested in undertaking projects involving applications that are 'new to us'.
If you have any queries about technologies, practicalities or whether our sequencing service is appropriate for your project, please contact Dr Daniel Hand.


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Q: ReactWrapper::state() can only be called on class components Unit Testing Jest and Enzyme Writing unit testing in react using jest and enzyme. While checking with a component state , it throws an error "ReactWrapper::state() can only be called on class components ".
import React from 'react';
import { mount } from 'enzyme';
import expect from 'expect';
import CustomerAdd from '../CustomerAdd'
import MUITheme from '../../../../Utilities/MUITheme';
import { ThemeProvider } from '@material-ui/styles';

describe('<CustomerAdd />', () => {
    const wrapper = mount(
        <ThemeProvider theme={MUITheme}>
          <CustomerAdd {...mockProps}></CustomerAdd>
        </ThemeProvider>
        );
        test('something', () => {
            expect(wrapper.find(CustomerAdd).state('addNewOnSubmit')).toEqual(true);
        });
});

In the above code CustomerAdd Component is class component.I don't what wrong with my code. Can any one help me out of this problem. Thanks in advance.

A: So your default export
export default withStyles(styles)(CustomerAdd);

exports functional(HOC) wrapper about your class-based component. And it does not matter if name of class and import in
import CustomerAdd from '../CustomerAdd'

are equal. Your test imports wrapped version and after calling .find(CustomerAdd) returns that HOC not your class. And you're unable to work with instance.
Short time solution: export class directly as named export.
export class CustomerAdd extends React.Component{
  ...
}

export default withStyles(styles)(CustomerAdd);

Use named import in your tests:
import { CustomerAdd } from '../CusomerAdd';

Quick'n'dirty solution: use .dive to access your underlying class-based component:
expect(wrapper.find(CustomerAdd).dive().state('addNewOnSubmit')).toEqual(true);

It's rather antipattern since if you add any additional HOC in your default export you will need to monkey-patch all related tests with adding appropriate amount of .dive().dive()....dive() calls.
Long-term solution: avoid testing state, it's implementation details.
Instead focus on validating what's been rendered. Then you are safe in case of lot of different refactoring technics like replacing class with functional component, renaming state/instance members, lifting state up, connecting component to Redux etc.


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Q: CodeIgniter : How to get data/select data and append to the PHP code with ajax request My Codeigniter site has side panel and when i click or select any options in side panel appropriate content will appear to the main panel.
Home page URL is http://localhost/main/userinfo
When i click female URL is http://localhost/main/userinfo/female
I made an ajax request to get data from the database. I think i have done a mistake. don't know where it is.

Controller(main.php)
class Main extends CI_Controller {
public function __construct() {
    parent::__construct();
    $this->load->model('userinfo_model');
}
public function index() {}
public function userinfo($gender) {
    $this->load->view('home/inc/header_view');
    $usermain_data['user_info'] = $this->userinfo_model->get_data($gender);
    $this->load->view('home/main_view', $usermain_data);
}

Model(userinfo_model.php)
class Userinfo_model extends CI_Model {
function __construct() {
    // Call the Model constructor
    parent::__construct();
}
function get_data($gender) {
    $this->db->select('*');
    if($gender == 'female'){
        $this->db->where('gender', 0);
    }
    elseif($gender == 'male'){
        $this->db->where('gender', 1);
    }
    elseif($gender == 'allusers'){
        $gNames = array(0, 1);
        $this->db->where_in('gender', $gNames);
    }
    else {
        redirect(base_url() . 'main/userinfo/allusers');
    }
    $query = $this->db->get('tble_proposal');
    return $query->result();
}}

View(main_view.php)

                <input type="radio" name="options" id="option1" autocomplete="off">
                Female

                <input type="radio" name="options" id="option2" autocomplete="off">
                Male

        Age
        <select class="btn nav-age-select" id="ageSelect1" autocomplete="off">
            <option value="18">18</option>
            <option value="19">19</option>
            <option value="20">20</option>
            <option value="21"  selected="selected">21</option>
            <option value="22">22</option>
            <option value="23">23</option>
            <option value="24">24</option>
            <option value="25">25</option>

        </select>
        To
        <select class="btn nav-age-select" id="ageSelect2" autocomplete="off">
            <option value="18">18</option>
            <option value="19">19</option>
            <option value="20">20</option>
            <option value="21">21</option>
            <option value="22">22</option>
            <option value="23">23</option>
            <option value="24">24</option>
            <option value="25" selected="selected">25</option>
        </select>

            <?php
            foreach ($user_info as $info) {
                //confuse of adding date here with ajax
                //echo $info->content . '
' . $info->added_date .'
';
            }
            ?>


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Section 3AAA football: JCC to play for another state bid
BY LES KNUTSON The Globe JACKSON -- Effectively controlling the line of scrimmage, which helped the Huskies establish superior field position, Jackson County Central earned its way to the Section 3AAA high school football championship game with a...
Jackson County Central's Jacob Tvinnereim (20) is tangled up and stopped by Tri-City United's Josh Schwarz (4) and Zach Mikel (14) Saturday. (Tim Middagh/The Globe)
BY LES KNUTSON
JACKSON -- Effectively controlling the line of scrimmage, which helped the Huskies establish superior field position, Jackson County Central earned its way to the Section 3AAA high school football championship game with a 26-6 victory over Tri-City United Saturday afternoon at Swearingen Field.
JCC improved to 8-2 on the season and will tangle with longtime rival Fairmont in the section finals in New Ulm Friday evening, seeking another state-tournament appearance for the tradition-rich program.
Fairmont, the section's top-seeded team, pulled away from Luverne in the second half at Mahoney Field Saturday and earned its way back to the championship game with a 42-19 victory, snapping the Cardinals' five-game winning streak.
It will be third consecutive time that JCC and Fairmont have played in the Section 3AAA finals, with the Huskies winning the last two. The Huskies and Cardinals have not played each other this season. Fairmont (8-1) has won six games in a row since a 14-9 loss to Class AAAA Waseca in Week 3 on Sept. 15.
"We're looking forward to the challenge of playing Fairmont and are ecstatic that we have an opportunity to play for the section championship with a young squad, which has improved so much throughout this season," said JCC head coach Tom Schuller. "Our kids have come a long way since we started practice in August."
With the sun shining and cool calm conditions prevailing Saturday, the Huskies outplayed the Titans in the second half after TCU -- representing the communities of Montgomery, Lonsdale and Le Center -- had stopped JCC on a goal-line stand to end the first half.
JCC fumbled twice in the first half and then was stopped at the one-yard line as time ran out in the second quarter.
After scoring first, on their third series, the Huskies held just a slim 8-6 lead at intermission.
The flow of the contest changed, however, in the third quarter as JCC's defense -- which Schuller said "played lights out the entire game" -- really put the clamps on the seventh-seeded Titans, who had racked up 43 points in a 43-7 upset victory over second-seeded Sibley East in the section quarterfinals.
While TCU was unable to sustain drives in the second half, the Huskies were able to string together a trio of touchdown marches, stretching their leads to 14-6, 20-6 and 26-6.
Behind a steady dose of runs by senior fullback Jacob Tvinnereim, a wrestler with exceptional balance, JCC stayed on the ground most of the second half. Tvinnereim finished the game with 137 yards rushing on 25 carries.
Damien VanWesten, a senior running back who is an outstanding 400-meter sprinter for the Huskies during track season, carried 17 times for 105 yards, including a 16-yard run in the first quarter -- helping set up JCC's first touchdown -- and a 20-yard gain in the fourth-quarter, setting up Tvinnereim's four-yard TD burst.
Sophomore quarterback Rudy Voss, a fine all-around basketball player, rushed for 60 yards himself, including a 17-yard touchdown run for the Huskies which triggered JCC's second-half scoring.
"We were able to run the ball, which helped us tilt the field in our favor and give our defense some rest," said Schuller, who acknowledged the fine job of blocking by his offensive line.
"Eli Edlin at right tackle, Logan Bannister and Zach Neal, alternating at right guard, Kaleb Bents at center, Dylan Svoboda at left guard and Keldon Bennett at left tackle, along with tight ends Bradley Buhl and Matthew Stubbe, all did what needed to be done up front."
It's a young group as Svoboda is the only senior along that line. Edlin, Neal, Bannister and Bents are all juniors, while Bennett, Buhl and Stubbe are just sophomores.
Neal, who also plays fullback when the Huskies run the wishbone formation, scored JCC's first touchdown on a five-yard run with 3:06 to play in the first quarter. Voss ran in for the two-point conversion, giving the Huskies an 8-0 lead.
JCC mounted a couple of other drives during the first half, highlighted by a 32-yard pass play along the right sideline from Voss to Ethan Lindley (five catches for 66 yards) which moved the chains for a first down early in the second quarter.
But that series ended on the Huskies' second fumble and the Titans responded with their only touchdown drive of the game. A 13-yard pass play from Peyton Collins to Zach Sexe put TCU on the board with 3:52 left in the first half, but Lindley came up big with a crunching tackle for loss on the Titans' two-point conversion attempt.
JCC countered by marching down the field on several strong runs from Tvinnereim, earning a first-and-goal at the TCU seven-yard line. But, the Titans held and trailed just 8-6 at the break.
Mix leads Huskies onto field to start second half Senior defensive tackle Preston Mix, who has battled through some injuries this fall, led the Huskies onto the field by bursting through the cheerleader-designed paper banner -- which read 'JCC out of this world' -- after the Huskies' coaching staff made their halftime adjustments.
With Mix, Edlin, Svoboda, Bannister and Stubbe dominating up front and JCC's secondary "playing their best game of the year" according to Schuller, the Huskies stymied the Titans in the third and fourth quarters.
An early interception by senior defensive back Zach Poelaert stopped TCU's first possession and a gang-tackle by linebackers Tvinnereim and Neal, along with defensive tackle Svoboda, was huge on the next series.
A bit later, Voss faked a handoff, faked a pitch and kept the ball himself, streaking 17 yards for a JCC touchdown -- and a 14-6 lead -- with 6:16 showing on the third-quarter clock.
"That was an inside veer option," Schuller said. "Rudy executed it well."
After more defensive stops, including an interception by Tvinnereim, the Huskies rattled off a 14-play drive, covering 75 yards over the last two minutes of the third quarter and more than four minutes of the fourth. Voss (8-of-15 passing for 92 yards) scrambled to his right and completed the drive by tossing an 11-yard TD pass to Stubbe with 7:48 to play in the game.
Tvinneriem's four-yard touchdown came just two minutes later (5:42) and completed the game's scoring.
Along with the second-half interceptions by Poelaert and Tvinnereim, the Huskies knocked down at least four other Titan pass attempts as Parker Benda, Stubbe, Jack Brinkman and Nathaniel Post -- all sophomores -- each got a hand on a ball, preventing a TCU completion. Benda earlier tipped the pass which Tvinnereim intercepted.
"As I said, our defense played absolutely lights out," summed up Schuller. "We got great pressure from our defensive line and our guys in the secondary broke up passes, which was huge for us."
JCC finished with 446 yards of offense (354 on the ground, 92 passing), while limiting the Titans to a mere 29 yards rushing and 98 yards through the air for a total of 127.
TCU finished its season at 3-7.
TCU 6 0 0 0 -- 6
JCC 8 0 6 12 -- 26
1/2: JCC quarterback Rudy Voss (2) outraces a TCU defender for a touchdown. (Tim Middagh/The Globe)
2/2: JCC Huskies defender Parker Benda (14) tackles Tri-City United Quarterback Peyton Collins (13). (Tim Middagh/The Globe)


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The Plagiarists presents "Münsterspiel," a tragicomedy of epic proportions.
From the untethered mind of artistic director Gregory Peters comes Münsterspiel: a true-ish tragicomedy about the Anabaptist takeover of the city of Münster in 1534. Pushing the Protestant Reformation to full-on revolution, their communist theocracy held out against a year-and-a-half long siege. Inspired in part by Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces, Munsterspiel is a dadaist romp through the Reformation Alamo, a time travel odyssey through what-could-have-been and what-could-come, and a prayer for the end of the world.