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Sarah Rindner
Stuart Schoffman
Michael Weingrad
"Jacob Gazed into the Distant Future"
By Allan Arkush
Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire
Malachi Haim Hacohen
752 pp., $34.99
Most Jews today know Jacob and Esau as the twin sons of our ancestors Isaac and Rebecca, embroiled long ago in a nasty family drama that peaked in the gentle Jacob's somehow acceptable theft of his rough-hewn, hairy-handed brother's birthright, and culminated in the two brothers' awkward reconciliation on the far side of the Jabbok River. They know, too, that Jacob went on to become Israel, the eponymous forefather of God's chosen people, and, if they were paying attention in Hebrew school or Intro to Bible, that Esau became the ancestor of Israel's cruel neighbor, Edom. Most people don't know, however, that the rivalry between the two brothers persisted in the conflict between—initially—the real Israel and the real Edom, and—subsequently, and more importantly—between the real Israel and the supposed heirs of Edom: Rome and Christianity. In Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire, Malachi Haim Hacohen provides a dense but lucid account of how the history of this typology of sibling rivalry unfolded, first in the later books of the Bible and then, following the invention of a linkage between Edom and the Roman Empire, in rabbinic literature, and, finally, in later Jewish and Christian writings, down to modern times. But Hacohen's book is not just the history of a literary trope; he also wants to "tell a European story that highlights traditional Jews," who understood the events of their own times in terms of it, and to do so in a way that will be of use to present-day and future Jews.
Meeting Between Esau and Jacob by Giovanni Maria Bottala, ca. late 1630s. (Capitoline Museums, Rome.)
Hacohen situates this story, rather unusually, in "Jewish European history." If he doesn't call it European Jewish history, like just about everyone else, it's not because he wants to decenter anyone's Jewishness. What he wishes to stress is that the Jews' experience in Europe should be understood as that of very longtime and central participants in the formation of the continent's culture. Telling this story is, in Hacohen's eyes, an urgent task. He believes that the lessons that emerge from both the premodern traditions concerning Jacob and Esau and his version of Jewish European history can benefit the Jews of the whole world, who face a future that will be very different from the present.
"How could Edom become Rome, Esau's hands become Caesar's?" Hacohen writes, riffing on Genesis 27:22 ("yet the hands are the hands of Esau"), while asking a standing historiographical question. It was not, of course, through any kind of genealogical research but the result of historical experience. But which experience? Was it defeat at the hands of the Romans in the 1st century that inspired the rabbis to graft their new enemy onto their old one, or did they do so only much later, after Rome had fallen victim to an originally Jewish heresy that laid claim to Jacob's heritage? Hacohen answers this question decisively. Parting company with many scholars of antiquity, most famously Jacob Neusner, he argues that "the Roman Empire and not Christianity was crucial to rabbinic Edom" and goes on to argue that
the late antique Christian–Jewish dialogue may have been more limited than some imagine; and that European Christendom's formation in confrontation with Islam first fixed the Jewish gaze on the Roman Empire's religious character and triggered the Christianization of Edom and Esau.
It was the Crusades, however, that "completed Edom's Christianization" and "shifted the major target of Jewish hatred from empire to church" without altogether dissociating the Holy Roman Empire from Edom. The "Roman Church, leading Crusades across the Mediterranean against the Muslims and in Europe against heretics, and overseeing the Inquisition, was the one to look truly imperial—Europe's leader and the Jews' mortal enemy." The church, Hacohen writes, "overshadowed the empire."
Whether it was focused on the empire or the church, and whether it was deployed by rabbis, poets, or mystics, the Jewish typology remained basically the same, depicting an ongoing struggle between "Jacob-Israel, praying to God and fulfilling the commandments," and a "violent rebellious Esau, the representative of cosmic evil." Born of defeat, these images discouraged political activism. "Jacob & Esau testifies," Hacohen tells us, "to the potency of memories of destruction and exile, to perpetual Jewish yearning for redemption and vengeance, and, above all, to a life of eternal waiting." To illustrate the paramount importance of boundless patience, Hacohen adduces the 6th-century liturgical poet Yanai, who ignored "Jacob and Esau's reconciliation, and mildly [rebuked] Jacob for prostrating himself before Esau, "pleading" for redemption and revenge." And he also tells us how the Zohar recounts that
When Jacob and Esau met, Esau offered Jacob to "let us share together this world," but Jacob declined: "You have first your dominion of this world, and [I shall] reserve myself for the world to come and for the latter days" (171a)… "Jacob gazed into the distant future . . . when his descendants should need the blessings in the struggle against the nations of the world . . .
and therefore deferred the[ir] fulfillment" (145a, 172a).
Usurping on behalf of their own people the role of "the true Israel," some of the church fathers were inspired, naturally enough, to turn the typological table and brand the Jews as the descendants of Esau. But this was a relatively marginal phenomenon until deep into the Middle Ages, when "the first full-blown Christian typology of Jewish Edom" emerged from the pen of a convert from Judaism, Archbishop Paul of Burgos. By the early modern period, at least among some Protestant theologians and painters, Jacob and Esau came to symbolize not Christian and Jew but Catholic and Protestant, and the emphasis fell not on their rivalry but on their final reconciliation.
Reflecting the development of a new modus vivendi between Christians and Jews, the old myth of eternal enmity between estranged brothers tended to disappear from early modern Jewish texts, from the early 17th-century Yiddish "women's Bible," Tsene-Urena, to Moses Mendelssohn's Biur. Later, in 19th-century Central Europe, the typology was "revitalized, repressed, transformed, rechanneled, and deflected, all in an effort to make it possible for Jacob to become a modern European Jew." For early Reform preachers, for instance, "Esau remained a negative type, but he came to embody Jewish apostasy and pagan hedonism, rather than Christian malevolence." Samson Raphael Hirsch, one of the founders of modern Orthodoxy, "presented Jewish emancipation as fulfilling Jacob & Esau's reconciliation." But the antagonistic Esau didn't altogether vanish, even from Reform discourse:
At the height of the emancipation struggle in Austria in December 1862, none other than German integration's chief Jewish exponent, Viennese Rabbi Adolf Jellinek (1821–1893), burst out during an anxious sermon against emancipation's opponents: "Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children" (Genesis 32:11).
As Hacohen chillingly reminds us: "Little did he know!"
One of the central idiosyncrasies of this big ambitious book is that Hacohen combines his survey of the history of the "Jacob & Esau" typology with an even lengthier study of the predicament of the Jews in modern Europe that has little to do with it, though it does focus very heavily on the ostensible heirs to one of Esau's incarnations, the Holy Roman Empire and its Austro-Hungarian successor. He devotes a considerable amount of attention to Jews living elsewherein the German cultural sphere, too, but scarcely mentions the Jews of Great Britain, France, or Italy, and he gives scant attention even to the Jews of Russia, who constituted for so long the majority of the Jews on the continent. This is because Hacohen isn't really telling the story of modern European Jewry, he's making an argument about it, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, or at least the possibilities it seemed to hold out, is central to that argument. "[T]his book," he writes, following in the footsteps of the great historians Salo Baron and Simon Dubnow, "highlights the protections and opportunities extended to Jews in pluralist imperial orders, especially in Austria-Hungary, as an alternative to national integration."
If the modern Jews' choice has been between nation and empire, as his book's subtitle has it, Hacohen is decidedly against the former. He forcefully echoes Simon Dubnow's famous criticism of the European nation-states for demanding that the Jews repudiate their distinctive national identities and merge with the general population. Like Dubnow, he singles out Count Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre, who in 1789, in the French National Assembly, promised everything to the Jews as individuals but denied them anything as a nation.
In Germany, when the Jews were "faced with the demand that they cease being a community," they responded by formulating "pluralist visions of a multiethnic Germany, a nation-state united by a humanist political culture." Unfortunately, "these visions, much admired today, had no traction among non-Jews. Nationalism liberated the Jews; the threat of banishment, should they fail to become part of the nation, always hung in the balance." In the end, of course, racialized German nationalism denied the possibility of the integration of the Jews on any terms and led to their expulsion and much, much worse.
German racism became entrenched in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, too, but its non-German majority and highly diverse population left far greater scope for pluralist visions. By the beginning of the 20th century, even as many Austrian Jews continued to hope for complete integration among the empire's Germans, others came to conceive of the Jews as a separate nationality that ought to enjoy autonomy within the imperial framework:
By offering the Jews the prospect of national autonomy, late imperial Austria extinguished the ghosts of Edom, lying dormant at its own foundation. Ancient Rome had put an end to Jewish autonomy and devastated the Jewish homeland; the monarchy, which traditional Jews saw as Rome's successor, had been recreating a homeland for them.
But this moment was fleeting. "The monarchy's disintegration in the aftermath of World War I dealt a debilitating blow to Jewish hopes for national autonomy." The postwar Austrian republic that took part of its place was unable to "accommodate ethnic, cultural, and political diversity. Jews and other Austrians tell the European story of the nationalizing state's failure." The lesson to be learned from these developments is central to Hacohen's entire narrative:
Since the nation-state emancipated the Jews, critics and admirers alike have regarded them as modernizers of European life. Austrian history suggests the opposite. The Jews flourished under the late empire; the nationalizing state, the heart of modernity, was their death writ.
For the Jews, the empire was gone but not forgotten. As Hacohen demonstrates, nostalgia for it was widespread among the Jewish intelligentsia in the decades after its demise and found expression not just in the works of authors such as Joseph Roth, Franz Werfel, and Stefan Zweig. An idealized picture of life under Emperor Franz Joseph maintained a continuous presence in Hebrew literature from "Rabi Binyamin to Shmuel Yosef Agnon to Haim Be'er . . . well into the State of Israel."
Hacohen himself isn't nostalgic for empire, exactly, but he does think that there are lessons from the historical experience that are worth remembering, especially for Jews. After World War II, he writes,
empire quickly became a pejorative term, associated with humanity's darkest chapters. The idea that empire could be the historical norm and have something to recommend itself remained a taboo until the twenty-first century. The imperial world of Jews and other Austrians survived only in the literary imagination. This book has set out to reclaim it.
Nation-states still dominate our horizon, but they are, Hacohen writes, increasingly challenged by "novel forms of globalization and regional collaboration," and "lessons derived from the imperial legacy" may help Jews to address their problems. Hacohen believes that it is very important to show how some of these lessons have been absorbed and applied in Austria. But he folds his account of developments there within a narrative of changes that took place throughout Europe, beginning in 1968, a tumultuous year that "was at once symbol and stimulant of internationalization." In the ensuing years,
[t]he easing of the nation-state's political and cultural boundaries, and the growing acceptance of a measure of ethnic and cultural diversity accompanying Europeanization, attenuated, though by no means resolved, the problem of Jewish difference. Crucial above all was the growing European confrontation with the Holocaust and the definition of a new Europe, in the 1990s, against the Holocaust experience. Even today, when xenophobic nationalism has returned, vivid memory of the European past, and the determination not to repeat it, still offers Jews a measure of protection from the hostility directed toward Muslim and Roma communities. The Jews have become European.
Hacohen does not substantiate these broad generalizations with an assessment of the state of affairs in all of the European countries that still have sizeable Jewish communities, and I am not at all sure that he could. Instead, he highlights the emergence in post–World War II Austria of a new generation of Jewish intellectuals who have "shaped new German-Jewish and European cultures." And even about them he does not tell us very much.
Why did Malachi Hacohen compose this unusual book? On the next-to-last page of the epilogue, he writes:
Let it be remembered that there was a moment in history when a postorthodox Jew could imagine European culture accepting traditional Jews, and, indeed, recognizing them as an important marker of its history and culture.
That Hacohenis a postorthodox Jew is something previously disclosed only in his acknowledgments and introduction, and even there the reader is left wondering exactly what he means. "Postorthodox Jews, like this author," he writes in one of his first footnotes, "are traditional Jews conscious of their tradition's historicity," but since, in Hacohen's rather idiosyncratic terminology, "traditional Judaism" means rabbinic Judaism so broadly conceived as to include the Reform movement, this doesn't help much. Setting this question aside, whose memory does he wish to assist in this passionate invocation? Not Jewish Europeans, for he seems quite doubtful about their prospects, after "recent waves of populist nationalism" have thrown "the postwar order, the EU, and the transatlantic world into a crisis." This turn of events has led him to fear that "the anomaly of the postwar moment in Jewish European history may be approaching its end more quickly than I anticipated." "World Jewry's future," he recognizes, "is not in Europe."
He doesn't think it's in the State of Israel either. Hacohen is, for one thing, "pained and ashamed . . . by the injustice that Jewish power has inflicted on the Palestinians, and its gross insensitivity to the humanity of others." He is even more disturbed by the way in which "the inexorable logic of religious ethno-nationalism" has led some prominent religious intellectuals in Israel to exalt Esau as an honorable warrior and to incorporate him into their national ideal. For such people, he laments, "Jacob has turned into Esau."
In his first chapter, he refers to the state provocatively, but in passing, along with ancient Judah and the Hasmonean Kingdom, "as short episodes of Jewish sovereignty . . . contingent on Near Eastern imperial lulls: the short-term absence of a hegemonic regional empire." Almost 600 pages later, he puts things much more clearly:
If history offers any instruction, it is that the ethno-national conflict in Israel-Palestine will run its course, and the second Hasmonean state will have reached its end in my own daughters' lifetime. A catastrophic end is not impossible, but more likely it will be an implosion, the ethnically and religiously diverse population in the Land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River claiming, albeit not necessarily receiving, their citizenship rights (or their equivalent). The Land's historical diversity will reemerge with no empire yet in sight to impose order. The worst scenarios of ethnic massacres may be exaggerated, but Israeli–Palestinian relations give no grounds for hope of peaceful coexistence either, and one recalls that Jewish–Hellenic confrontation in Caesarea ignited the Jewish–Roman war that ended in Jerusalem's destruction à¢ááúåú.
This dismal prospect does not entirely demoralize Hacohen. The Hebrew letters at the end of his sentence, as he does not explain, stand for these words: May it be rebuilt and reestablished quickly in our days, amen. More reassuringly, Hacohen then muses that in the aftermath of destruction "[m]any a Jacob will then again be crossing the Jordan River with their staffs, hoping to rebuild a community abroad and, yet again, return."
Emperor Franz Joseph, by Eduard Klieber, 1851. (Wikimedia Commons.)
Malachi Hacohen, an Israeli émigré who teaches at Duke University, apparently sees himself as just such a Jacob and also seems to regard his new book as, to some extent, a means of rebuilding a community in the diaspora—in preparation for some future return of the Jews to the Promised Land. In his epilogue, he looks back on his long, "loving postmodern exploration of premodern traditions" and proceeds to contemplate the way in which it might assist his teenage "daughters, Hadas and Lilach, and their (future) children," who "will need to recover the experience of Jewish life in a state of expectation and relearn to wait"—like their ancestor Jacob.
What should they be waiting for? Maybe something that will never come. "Jacob & Esau testifies . . . above all," Hacohen tells us, as I have already noted, "to a life of eternal waiting." Perhaps for at least one postorthodox Jew, waiting—forever—is what it's all really about.
On the other hand, there is Hacohen's dark prognostication of an implosion in Israel that will be followed by a time when "no empire" is "yet in sight to impose order." If and when such an empire does eventually loom into view, he may be thinking, the Jews who will still live in the Land of Israel, and others elsewhere who will care about them, might benefit greatly from all of Jacob & Esau's lessons concerning the shortcomings of the nation-state and the virtues of empire, especially for the Jews.
Jacob & Esau is a sprawling, often scintillating book, a work of great range and depth. Hacohen's analyses of the political outlooks of modern rabbis of very different stripes, ranging from Moses Sofer to Samson Raphael Hirsch to Adolf Jellinek, are innovative and eye-opening. His 10-page intellectual biography of the literary critic Erich Auerbach does a marvelous job of explaining that man's complex and regrettable attitude toward his Jewish heritage.
Nonetheless, his book contains a disconcerting number of errors, small and large. I'll mention only three, one ancient, one medieval, and one modern, each of which at least touches on a key theme of Jacob & Esau. Hacohen writes that the rabbis of the second century "shrank from declaring Bar-Kokhba a false messiah, but they would not recognize him as Messiah son of Joseph, presaging Messiah son of David and destined to fall in war." To support this assertion, he refers us to scholar of midrash Joseph Heinemann's classic Agadot ve-Toldotehen. On the very pages Hacohen cites, however, Heinemann actually argues that the rabbis probably developed the concept of a preliminary Messiah son of Joseph who dies in battle only after Bar Kokhba went down in defeat, in order to salvage the reputation of the slain but still-admired hero.
Moving to the Middle Ages, Hacohen writes that, "Even the vicious anti-Jewish polemics of Peter the Venerable (1092–1156) and Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) did not seek to undermine the Jews as a protected minority." Astonished to find Bernard described so harshly despite his strenuous efforts on behalf of the Jews during the Second Crusade, I checked Hacohen's source, an article by Jeremy Cohen in the American Historical Review on the "study and evaluation of Judaism in European Christendom," in which Cohen does not mention Bernard (though he has done so in several other publications, without ever describing him as a vicious anti-Jewish polemicist).
"Well into the 1780s," Hacohen writes of the Jewish Enlightenment, "the Haskalah tweaked early modern parameters but could not imagine emancipation." Moses Mendelssohn, the great standard-bearer of the Haskalah, he writes, could not "foresee Jewish citizenship in the nation-state, the quid pro quo of complete equality for complete integration." But that is precisely what Mendelssohn bargained for in his Jerusalem, a book that unequivocally argued that every citizen in the state, regardless of religion, was entitled to full equal rights.
Of course, mistakes in a book of Jacob & Esau's scope and ambition are inevitable. Still they ought to give the reader some pause, for the rhetoric of Hacohen's book turns less on persuasive historical argument than an apparent sovereign command of more than 2,000 years of Jewish history and literature, which underwrites his vision of the whole. "Going beyond the polemics on Zionism," Hacohen tells us, his book "makes it possible for pre-Holocaust and pre-Israel historiography, grounded in the longue durée, to speak to the Jewish future." He writes, then, if not for the ages than for the next age, when the explosion or implosion that he quietly predicts in Israel will already have occurred, the dust will have settled, and the surviving Jews will be able to begin their work of reconstruction. No longer blinded by what he at one point calls "the miraculous Jewish State," they "will need to fashion new paradigms to explain the Holocaust and the Jewish State's place in Jewish history"—with Hacohen's presumably posthumous assistance. If, God forbid, that day should ever come, and a new post-postorthodox Yavne is convened, I greatly doubt that Hacohen's scholarly tome will be of much help to its sages.
Jacob & Esau is a brilliant, bewildering medley of myth, history, literary criticism, and prophecy. Readers should mine it (carefully) for what is valuable and disregard what Hacohen thinks about what lies ahead and how we ought to deal with it.
Allan Arkush is the senior contributing editor of the Jewish Review of Books and professor of Judaic studies and history at Binghamton University.
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Trent Williams on Bruce Allen, Redskins exit and the future: 'Everybody sees how they treated me'
"This was a conscious decision; they didn't burn the bridge by accident," Trent Williams says of his relationship with the Redskins. "This was something they felt comfortable doing, so I got to feel comfortable with moving on, too." (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
By Les Carpenter
HOUSTON — On another lost afternoon in his fall without football, Trent Williams stands in the gym he owns with his teammate Adrian Peterson and their trainer James Cooper, doing what he has done a lot these past several months: talking about fighting. He wears a black windbreaker and is surrounded by three of the professional boxers he manages. An empty ring is behind him.
The boxers, two men and one woman, stand in a half circle and seem almost to talk at once about the training they have done, the fights they have watched and the dreams they have. Williams leans against the ring and smiles. He loves their chatter, the hunger in their voices, the raw ambition in their words.
"I want to win all the titles in one year," shouts Danielle Perkins, an amateur world champion heavyweight who is turning pro in a few weeks and plans to have Williams manage her. "Then I'm going to make Trent walk around wearing that female belt for a week!"
"I'll wear it for a month!" he replies.
Back in Ashburn, his locker at the Washington Redskins' practice facility remains filled with jerseys, shirts and shoes, looking as if he will be back to it at any moment. But this has instead been a lost season for the seven-time Pro Bowl left tackle, who at 31 years old has played his entire professional career with the franchise that selected him fourth in the 2010 NFL draft. He's been one of the Redskins' foundational players for the past decade.
His war against the team, which he has mostly directed at team president Bruce Allen, stems from a growth on his scalp that he feels team doctors did not take seriously and turned out to be a rare cancer. He sat out offseason workouts, training camp and the first half of the season hoping he would be traded. Once he returned, he says, the Redskins made him go away.
In a lengthy interview, Williams was highly critical of the leadership of the only NFL franchise he has known, accusing Allen of retaliating against him for his holdout, blaming him for the team's failure over the past decade and describing his own feelings of betrayal by the team after playing through countless injuries, only to be left fearing for his life.
Describing the relationship between him and the team, he sadly shakes his head.
"I don't see how it can be reconciled," Williams says. "At the end of the day, I'm a human being. I ain't like a dog and you can slap the s--- out of me and I'm going to come back the next morning with my tail wagging. This was a conscious decision; they didn't burn the bridge by accident. This was something they felt comfortable doing, so I got to feel comfortable with moving on, too."
In the absence of a football season, Williams has returned home to Houston to his gym, O Athletik, and the boxers with whom he has spent much of the past several months. Three weeks ago he went to Sloan, Iowa, to watch the most prominent of his boxers, light heavyweight Joseph George, win his first big fight, a 10-round split-decision nationally televised on Showtime over previously undefeated Marcos Escudaro, who had won all but one of his fights by knockout.
Williams says he was as nervous before the fight as he was for any game in his nine-year NFL career, knowing how much George (10-0) wanted to win that night. When it was over and the announcer declared George the winner, Williams says: "I lost myself for a second. I forgot where I was."
For years, Williams boxed as part of his offseason training with Cooper, a former professional kickboxer. At first it was just another workout to be pounded through, but the more time he spent around the fighters who worked with Cooper, the more he felt drawn to their passion. He took on the role of managing a handful of them because he knew they needed guidance and money to keep training. He thought he could give them both.
But as happy as he is for his fighters, Williams is also hurting. He says he didn't return to the Redskins minutes before the 4 p.m. NFL trade deadline Oct. 29 simply to sit and collect the roughly $5.9 million he would make for the season's final nine weeks. Yes, his coming back was a procedural move, to get credit for the 2019 season and keep the team from claiming it still controlled him for two more years on a contract that would otherwise expire after next season. But as long as he had returned to the team, he was going to play.
"At the end of the day I just wanted to do it for my teammates," he says.
From November: Trent Williams's silent struggle with the Redskins turned into an all-out war
The problem, though, was that Williams's helmet from last season had stiff padding, making it uncomfortable to wear. So much of his scalp was cut during the three surgeries he had early in the year to remove the tumor and repair the wound that more than half of the skin on his head is still numb. He says he can only feel about 60 percent of his haircut, and when he puts pressure on his head, he feels tingling and a burning sensation. The doctor who did the operation told him it might take as long as 18 months for the burning to go away. And while Williams had been cleared to play, he needed a helmet that wouldn't make his head feel as if it were on fire.
The team's interim coach, Bill Callahan, was helping him get a custom-made helmet with spongier material inside from equipment company Riddell, and it was supposed to arrive the Monday after the team's bye week. Williams was looking forward to trying it and practicing that next Wednesday. Instead, the team placed him on the league's non-football injury list Nov. 7, the Thursday before the helmet was to arrive. Williams is convinced the move was made by Allen to punish him for holding out and for revealing his frustration over the team's medical staff and his cancer diagnosis during a news conference two days after his holdout ended, Oct. 31.
"It's kind of a vindictive move, and it just showed their hand on how they wanted to operate," he says. "I mean, I had until Tuesday, and the new helmet Riddell was talking about was coming in on Monday, so for them to prematurely put me on the list without taking [time to see whether the helmet would work] goes to show you that they didn't really want me to play anyway."
The non-football injury designation confirmed for Williams what he had been hearing since summer, when his holdout began during the team's minicamp in June — that Allen was the one driving the team's refusal to trade him. The team's stance throughout Williams's holdout was to fine him for his absence and withhold his salary — as allowed under the collective bargaining agreement between the league and the players' union — in the hope that the lost income would eventually drive him back.
Bruce Allen could be under the microscope as Daniel Snyder evaluates the Redskins this offseason
Williams is sure Allen did not want him to return this fall so the team could claim he had two years left on his contract and potentially get more value in an offseason trade. He says Allen ignored calls and messages from his agent in the days and hours before the trade deadline, hoping to trick Williams into not reporting.
"He didn't say anything, because he wanted that 4 o'clock to pass by because if I didn't report by 4, of course, he could challenge to keep me for two years instead of one."
Williams sighs.
"It just goes to show you how behind the times [Allen] is, and he still tries to use that money to hold it over black athletes," Williams says.
When asked this week about Williams's allegations, Allen called them "comical." He said Williams "elected to stay away" from the Redskins' facility with his holdout and that Williams himself told reporters upon his return that he had a non-football injury. He pushed back on Williams's suggestion he hoped that Williams wouldn't report by the 4 p.m. trade deadline, saying Williams and his agent had told the team since the spring that he did not intend to come back.
Allen also said the league has a specific fine structure. "Every player understands the consequences," he said.
In Houston, Williams poses a question that has been on his mind for months and seems even more pertinent now that Jay Gruden, the Redskins' head coach for the previous 4½ seasons, has been fired and the team is rebuilding.
"Let's say you are a coach candidate or you're a free agent, what does it say to you?" he asks. "… It's not like it's something whispered. Everybody sees how they treated me. Free agents know for a better part of the last decade I've been one of the only guys in those Pro Bowl locker rooms with a Redskins symbol on my helmet. So then they see somebody like that get treated like that …"
His voice trails off.
"At the end of the day, money is money, so you might have to overpay just to get people in to overcome this," he continues. "But I know if I was [a free agent] looking at it, I'd be looking at the situation closely."
Williams has not talked to Redskins owner Daniel Snyder since he was placed on the non-football injury list. This makes him sad, too, he says; he always liked Snyder and realizes his holdout and everything that has happened since will bring more public scorn upon the owner. When he started speaking publicly about his problems with the organization, he never said a word about Snyder.
"People will want to say this is Snyder's f---up, and I didn't think it was," he says.
But he seems befuddled by the way the team responded after he revealed the cancer diagnosis at that first news conference the week he reported to the team. He had kept the cancer news secret after first learning in the winter that the growth on his head — which he claims the Redskins' doctors had not taken seriously for six years — turned into dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP), a soft-tissue sarcoma that develops in the deep layers of the skin. He didn't tell his teammates or even the boxers he saw every day at his gym about the diagnosis. Few in the Washington organization knew. He hoped that by being silent and not exposing his anger toward the doctors, he would be traded and no one would really know what had happened.
Instead, he was forced back by the Redskins' refusal to trade him, leaving him with what he considers no choice but to explain what went wrong. And when he did finally tell the world about his cancer — which has been completely removed from his scalp — he was devastated that the team's response was to ask for a review of his medical records, with some Redskins officials suggesting to reporters that the review would show the team gave better care than he revealed.
"You aren't dealing with rational people, ordinary people, who would run a business a certain way, like how you would think — textbook," he says. "I think their whole deal to me was to downplay it, to say it wasn't serious, to deny, deny the whole time."
Williams says no one from the team was with him when the doctor told him, before surgery, that the cancer had been around for so long that it might have penetrated his skull and gone into his brain and that he should get his "affairs in order." Williams feared he was going to die. And while he was relieved to later learn that the cancer had not gone through his skull, almost assuring the cancer would be survivable (DFSP has a survival rate of 99 percent), he says the doctor told him they had removed the tumor just in time because it was indeed heading toward his brain.
What bothers him most is that he feels he gave his body to the Redskins for nine seasons, believing that by playing through sometimes agonizing injuries, he was helping the team build toward something big. For years he dreamed of playing deep into the playoffs, only — in the end — to fear he was about to die and then be shut out of the building after he had essentially come crawling back.
Vontae Davis retired at halftime of an NFL game. That's just the beginning of his story.
He wonders how much the people in charge of the team really cared about him playing through that dislocated kneecap in 2017 and why no one seemed concerned when he tore the ligaments in his right thumb against the New York Giants last year. He says that he played more than a quarter with the thumb flopping around his palm and that the following day the doctors told him the injury wasn't serious, putting him in a cast and telling him he should be able to play the next Sunday. It was only after his agent made him see a specialist that he understood how badly he was injured.
"The specialist called and said: 'You should have been in for surgery yesterday. Your ligament that holds your thumb in place … not only did it come out, but it wrapped around your thumb,' " Williams says.
And still Williams came back to play three weeks after the surgery, finishing the year with what looked like a club on his hand, as the team lost six of its last seven games while trying to replace several injured players, including quarterbacks Alex Smith and Colt McCoy.
He stops and begins to think about the other players who have gone through the Redskins since he was drafted in 2010, Allen's first year as president. He sees in his mind so many talented players who came in through the draft and then left as management made business decisions. What about Kirk Cousins? he asks. Or Preston Smith, the pass rusher who left as a free agent last year and has 10½ sacks this season for the Green Bay Packers?
Williams has been asking himself these questions a lot now that he has had time to think in broader terms about the only team for which he has played. He says he has started to realize the playoff runs he had been chasing all those years would always elude him as the Redskins kept trying to jump-start winning only to stumble into more losing.
"There's no shortcuts to the top," he says. "It's a long, grueling road, and right now I don't even feel like the organization is on a road; it's on a track that's going in circles. You get to a point where you say, 'All right, we're about to break through,' and in less than a year you're back to rebuilding."
Then he says this about Allen, who has overseen the team during a 10-year span that includes a record of 62-93-1:
"I just don't understand," he says. "In any business world, when the employer has someone who is underperforming, he finds another one. I don't know in the last 10 years if there is a worse record [for] someone who has held their job for 10 years and performed the way they performed and still have a job. I don't know. That would be good to look up and [see] just who else is in that company. I would be thrilled to find out."
Asked for a response, Allen said, "I'm much more concerned about the Green Bay Packers than that," referencing the team's upcoming opponent.
Williams's sanctuary during these challenging months has been this gym and these fighters who show up every day, desperate for a chance at greatness. His first boxer was a man he trained with named Christian Montoya. He loved how hard Montoya worked and could see how hard it was for the fighter to make money on the long climb to the top.
"They're so used to being given the least, the minimum," Williams says. "Boxing is a poor man's sport. It is. There's no other way around it. So a promoter can bring guys out [for fights] and gives them the bare minimum, and they can't complain because it's what they're used to."
When Williams talks about boxing, the word he uses a lot is "organic." Nothing about the sport or the people he manages is contrived. The money is so small that everything is about work, and all of the fighters he has taken on are ones he has known for years and has spent hours talking to, learning their stories, understanding how desperate they are to someday be great.
In many ways, he is their lifeline. How else would George, who has five children and has been working two jobs in moving and construction to make ends meet, have the chance to fight on Showtime for a shot at the big time?
The story of an NFL player, his family's escape from Liberia, and his uncle the president
How else would Quinton Randall, a former U.S. amateur champion, be able to turn pro in his late 20s and already be 6-0? Randall was in a gang on the north side of Houston growing up. He spent two years in prison vowing to change his life, and the day he got out he went straight to a boxing gym. His inspiration was his young son, Quenell, who was going to grow up knowing a father who did things the right way, no matter how long it took.
Eventually, Randall found his way to O Athletik, working every day with Cooper and his coaches on the other side of town. It took years for Randall to break through, to be named captain of the U.S. team and win the national tournament late in 2016. Then the next January, while finishing his final training session with Cooper before heading to the U.S. facility in Colorado Springs for a training camp, he got a call.
Quenell and his mother had been in an accident on the way to see him before his trip. Quenell was being rushed to the hospital. Days later, he died.
"He was my motivation," Randall says. "My motivation was gone. I took it as a challenge. What is my motivation now?"
When it came time to turn pro, Williams asked him what he needed. Everything would be taken care of.
"I told Trent," Cooper says, " 'you know how to pick them.' "
What will happen next between Williams and the Redskins? When asked the question, he shrugs. He misses his teammates and the locker room. He loved the short time he was back, sitting in meetings, pulling younger players aside and talking to them about ways they could be better.
He watches a lot of NFL games and is amazed by how poor the left tackle play has been around the league. He figures a few teams will be interested in a player who has been to seven Pro Bowls and is still young enough to make a difference. He assumes the Redskins will want to make a trade.
"Hopefully when the season is over with, they will feel like they put me through the wringer enough," he says. "I mean, they already kept my salary and my fines. I feel that's what Bruce wanted. Hopefully they got what they wanted and they can just let me go to somebody who wants me."
Williams shrugs again.
"All good things come to an end," he says.
Tress Way has mastered punting, cooking and ping-pong. Is there anything he can't do?
Roger Goodell's time as NFL commissioner is supposedly winding down. Not everyone is so sure.
Brewer: The Redskins are finally showing signs of promise. That's even more reason to let Bruce Allen go.
New Redskins wide receiver credits Colin Kaepernick workout for giving him another shot at NFL

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ahead, we are creating an Advisory Group which will begin work very soon.
information on to people in the wider community.
as I can see, is who should be on the committee.
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The top twenty-five (25) boys and twenty-five (25) girls in the 2015 Atlantic National Primary Schools Football League will undergo specialized training from December 11-14 under the tutelage of two coaches from Manchester United Academy.
This is the sixth year that coaches Eamon Mulvey and Kevin Ward will be in Trinidad for the annual Atlantic Football and Life Skills Development Camp, which aims to develop not only the technical skills of Trinidad and Tobago's top fifty primary school footballers, but also the children's life management skills.
This year's life management sessions will be facilitated by the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) and will focus on respect, integrity and teamwork.
The camp's main technical training sessions will be at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on Dec 12. For the first time this year, the footballers will also participate in Special Exhibition Games on Sunday December 13, from 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm at the Queen's Park Oval, where they will play against teams from leading schools in this year's competition. Atlantic's Sports Ambassadors - cricketers Merissa Aguilleira and Sunil Narine; Olympic and World Champion swimmer George Bovell III; and Olympic sprinter Richard Thompson - will be in attendance to cheer on the young footballers.
Thompson will also be the Feature Speaker at a Prize-Giving and Closing Session for the children on Monday December 14 at the Digicel IMAX Theatre.
Coaches Mulvey and Ward will share their expertise with coaches who participated in the Atlantic Coaching Excellence (ACE) Programme. This special seminar for ACE-certified coaches will be held on Tuesday December 15 at the VIP Room at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.


This Easter weekend, Church of the Rock will be putting on another spectacular production. This year's theme is titled "The Princess Bride of Christ" and will feature a retelling of the Easter story like you've never seen before!
It's an annual tradition where we take a popular theme or movie and retell the Easter story in a unique and creative way. We've seen appearances from Captain Jack Sparrow, Elvis, Spock, and even Michael Jackson in previous years.
This is our biggest weekend of the year so you won't want to miss it! Services are Saturday April 23rd at 5:25PM and Sunday the 24th at 9:25am and 11:25am. Free admission – come out early for a good seat and bring a friend!


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module Search (
   NodePath(..),
   Merger,
   GoalChecker,
   SuccessorGenerator,
   search,
   bfs,
   dfs,
   gdfs) where

import DataStructure
import Prelude hiding (init, succ)
import Data.Set (Set)

data NodePath n = Node{node::n, nodePred::Set (NodePath n)}

type Merger n = [NodePath n] -> NodePath n
type GoalChecker n = n -> Bool
type SuccessorGenerator n = n -> Set n

-- |Generalized DFS with node duplicate elimination
--  and path merge operation.
gdfs :: (Eq node, Ord node)
    => node                    -- ^The root node of the search tree.
    -> SuccessorGenerator node -- ^Successor generator function.
    -> Merger node             -- ^Merging function for convering search paths.
    -> GoalChecker node        -- ^Goal checking function which terminates a search path.
    -> Set (NodePath node)     -- ^The set of found solutions, with their search paths.
gdfs = undefined

-- |Generic tree search without cycle checking.
--  Stops at any node for which the goal function is true and
--  returns the set of all found solutions.
search :: (Eq node, Ord node, Retrievable ds)
       => ds node -- ^The container for the nodes to be expanded.
                  --  A stack results in a DFS, a queue in a BFS.
       -> node    -- ^ The initial node in the search tree.
       -> SuccessorGenerator node -- ^The successor generator function for a node.
       -> GoalChecker node        -- ^The goal checking function for a node.
       -> Set node                -- ^Set of found solutions.
search cont init = search' (init `insert` cont)
   where search' nextNodes succ goal
            | isEmpty nextNodes = new
            | otherwise = let
                             (curNode, nextNodes') = pop nextNodes
                             nextNodes'' = insertAll (succ curNode) nextNodes'
                          in
                             if goal curNode then curNode `insert` search' nextNodes' succ goal
                             else search' nextNodes'' succ goal

-- |Depth-first tree search without cycle checking.
--  Stops at any node for which the goal function is true and
--  returns the set of all found solutions.
dfs :: (Eq node, Ord node)
    => node    -- ^ The initial node in the search tree.
    -> SuccessorGenerator node -- ^The successor generator function for a node.
    -> GoalChecker node        -- ^The goal checking function for a node.
    -> Set node                -- ^Set of found solutions.
dfs = search (new :: Stack node)

-- |Breadth-first tree search without cycle checking.
--  Stops at any node for which the goal function is true and
--  returns the set of all found solutions.
bfs :: (Eq node, Ord node)
    => node    -- ^ The initial node in the search tree.
    -> SuccessorGenerator node -- ^The successor generator function for a node.
    -> GoalChecker node        -- ^The goal checking function for a node.
    -> Set node                -- ^Set of found solutions.
bfs = search (new :: Queue node)

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What did, however, were the last 3 months. I've learned so much about writing in these last 3 months. Much more, in fact, than I ever learned through all those years at school, or during online inspirational videos outlining how to commit yourself to writing. I also learned how true the above-mentioned quote is, by the way. Not only because it made sense or it adhered to my opinion (that too), but because I found myself living it.
Writing every day. That is what finally got me where I am today: my novel complete and ready for Reviewing, Proofreading and Publishing in the coming weeks.
It is crucial to find whatever it is you like doing. Then do it, every single day of your life. It can be an hour a day, or maybe less. But do it every day. Work, family, friends, and other commitments already take a lot of those 24 hours. But that is no excuse.
I wrote 10 chapters over the span of 3 years. Since last May, I wrote the next 20 because I wrote every day. And that brings us here, to the day I never believed would arrive.
Today, I can post this blog and tell you: my novel is ready and on the way to you!
i guess you'll have to read it to find out.


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TheMediaBriefing's top women in media
We know how difficult it can be sometimes for women to be visible in the media and technology industries. But there are also some brilliant women who are leading innovation in their organisations, and who are working on projects which are shaping the future of the industry.
Twitter is full of media movers and shakers, and it's great to see so many thought leaders, outspoken critics and colourful personalities making 'Top women' lists all around the world today. But I have my own list of favourites; not necessarily the biggest names in the industry, but those who are an essential 'follow' if you're also on Twitter.
So in celebration of International Women's Day, here are my favourite 'Top 10' women in the UK media industry.
Anna is stepping down from her role as CEO of Hearst Magazines to co-found AllBright, a funding platform for female-led businesses. During her time at Hearst, she championed new distribution strategies for Cosmopolitan and Elle, as well as Hearst Live and #HearstEmpowers. She's a strong advocate for women in business and leadership.
Follow her on Twitter @MrsAnnaKJones
Anne-Marie Tomchak
Anne-Marie Tomchak is Mashable's new UK editor, and works to help the brand reach an ever-more vital and relevant audience. She's got vast experience in developing new video formats from her time at the BBC, and is widely known as a talented and respected multi-media journalist.
Follow her on Twitter @AMTomchak
Denise Law
Denise is well-known for her work on evolving The Economist's approach to social media. She leads a team who focus and adapt The Economist's journalism across different platforms with a heavy data focus, alongside chat apps and other emerging platforms.
Follow her on Twitter @deniselaw_
Diane is the co-founder of global marketing and media brand The Drum. She grasped early on that awards, partnerships and events were key to growing the business' revenue, and regularly speaks about The Drum's transformation to become the UK's largest marketing website and taking the magazine to the international market.
Follow her on Twitter @SymmetriGal
Holly Brockwell
Holly is a fierce advocate of women in technology, fighting sexism and trolling on a daily basis on Twitter. She founded Gadgette in 2015 to offer female-authored, female-focussed articles about tech, gaming and geekery, with a side of inspiration.
Follow her on Twitter @holly
Joanna is audience director at News UK, having previously been head of digital at the same company and director of digital content at Bauer. During her time as audience director The Sun's digital resurgence has demonstrated that News UK and Joanna have a clear set of priorities and a roadmap for delivery.
Follow Joanna on Twitter @joannamont
Jo Elvin
Jo has been the editor of Glamour UK for nearly sixteen years, since its launch in 2001. She pioneered the renowned 'handbag-sized' format and has accumulated a mantlepiece full of awards over her time in media. She is also a fierce defender of the role of women's magazines in the world.
Follow her on Twitter @jo_elvin
Rebecca Nicholson
Rebecca is editor-in-chief of Vice UK. Her role at the youth-focused media company bridges content and collaboration between the wide-ranging themed digital channels and the print magazines.
Follow Rebecca on Twitter @beccanicholson
Sarah Wood
Sarah is the co-founder of Unruly, a viral video company bought by News UK in 2015 for a whopping £114m. Since then, she's scooped a number of top awards for her work in media, including Businesswomen of the year and even an OBE in 2016. She's a strong advocate of women in technology, with almost half of Unruly's staff being female.
Follow her on Twitter @sarahfwood
Terri White
A well-known figure in the magazine space, Terri White took the helm of Empire Magazine in 2015 after a spell as editor in chief of Time Out magazine in New York. She's an outspoken advocate of the value of print, and has done some groundbreaking work in opening the Empire print world up to a digital audience with experiential cinema, live events, podcasts and more.
Follow her on Twitter @Terri_White
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Business management consulting company Amyx Inc. announced July 18 that the company has been awarded three contracts in support of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).
"We value the relationship we have built with DLA over the last 15-plus years," company President and CEO Satya Akula said. "These three key task wins further cements our commitment to the DLA Mission and our overall support to the Warfighter.
Amyx was awarded two recompetes of its current contracts. The first, known as Document Services Information Assurance Support, provides support to DLA in both Philadelphia, Penn. and Oklahoma City, Okla. The second recompete, known as J6 Enterprise Systems Information Assurance Support Services, supports multiple Program Managers with Information Assurance Governance and Security Integration.
The final contract award is for IT Service Management (ITSM) Processes Support Services. This task, with work in Battle Creek, Mich., New Cumberland, Penn. and Ft. Belvoir, includes a focus on implementing DLA's ITIL-based strategies and aligns the Agency's IT Services and Processes with the DoD Enterprise Service Management Framework.


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ClickFunnels and Paypal Stripe, and other kinds of payment processors integrate, making it easy to integrate if you take payments online. It also allows to be inserted pretty much anywhere in a given page, allowing for one to customize your landing page, and even offer checkout options. You can supply pricing options and different price points for your clients, built into the landing pages.
ClickFunnels is a tool. You are able to earn money online in a number of ways, and Clickfunnels can help you accomplish your objectives, but only as long as you put in the work. ClickFunnels isn't a it is a tool that will assist you achieve your customers and sell more goods.
WordPress is awesome. If you are running a strictly content based site WordPress ought to be your content management platform, and there's no reason for you to operate through ClickFunnels.
Consequently, if you aren't in need of a membership stage for any reason or are not selling something on the web, then simply stick with WordPress as your default CMS.
BUT — I do think that ClickFunnels includes a full suite of options for any niche site builder, and that you should consider it if you are thinking that you are likely to begin outsourcing a portion of your own work. If you're running an Amazon FBA company, obtaining a ClickFunnels subscription could be worth considering; paid visitors to your products particularly if you run.
If you market any kind of merchandise both physical and electronic (applications, membership site, etc) then I presume ClickFunnels is well worth taking a look for it has innovative selling features.
I've used a number of different page builders (mostly Thrive Architect and Divi Builder by Elegant themes). I will say I believe ClickFunnels is the solution package for your cost which you can purchase. The capacity to build your own membership site is fantastic. It is possible to use the membership sections for a few things that are distinct.
You can sell your own classes, or you may do what I have done that is use it to login as a place for my writers, editors and connect builders for that which I expect them to do once I've hired them, and view their briefs. It's essentially a training program for how I conduct my content based site business' back end.
It is easily integrated using a customized domain, so you may set up your landing pages, membership website or revenue funnels on your own website, or a custom domainname. It has a plugin that permits you to integrate it as well, although you can't take payments as they have their own pair of SSL needs when accepting payments, should you bill your customers for services. You can also start your funnel onto your website, and host the upcoming steps of the funnel where payments have been taken on the default platform for ClickFunnels.
What I love about the ClickFunnels software, is that the drag and drop functionality. It's much easier than using WordPress In case you have any type of marketing experience and you literally build the page as you are considering it. No longer"save it" and hit"preview" to see how it looks. WordPress is still what you should be using for content based websites, but ClickFunnels may make a powerful ally if you plan on selling membership programs or merchandise. The personalization options are basically limitless when establishing a marketing funnel.
As you can see, the pros definitely outweigh the cons. Some of the cons are rather nitpicky, including the URLs but that is more of a personal taste than anything. I know there are lots of other landing page builders that people will use, such as Thrive Architect from Thrive Themes. I've discovered the funnel measure integration to be some of the easiest funnel applications to design.
With TA, then, and you'll need to design the webpage link to the pages in the sequence and it's all done inside WordPress. While I love Thrive and their subjects, I do think that ClickFunnels is simpler to work with than TA, but it comes in a monthly price.
It will have some drawbacks, which I'm going to cover on, but it's a superb tool which you could use to construct landing pages, revenue funnels with membership groups and functionality. It's packed with pre-made templates which you can customize however you see fit.
ClickFunnels incorporates with Paypal Stripe, and other kinds of payment processors, which makes it very easy to integrate if you take payments online. Additionally, it allows for custom code to be inserted pretty much everywhere in a given page, allowing for you to customize your landing page, and also offer other checkout options. You might supply pricing options and different price points for your clients, built right into the landing pages.
ClickFunnels is a tool. You can earn money online in many ways, and Clickfunnels will help you accomplish your objectives, but only as long as you place in the job. ClickFunnels isn't a it is a tool that will help you reach your clients and sell more goods.
First and foremost, WordPress is awesome. If a content based site is running WordPress should be your go-to content management platform, and there's no reason that you work through ClickFunnels.
If you aren't selling something on the web or aren't needing a membership platform for virtually any reason, then just stick with WordPress as your default CMS.
BUT — I do think that ClickFunnels has a complete package of alternatives for any niche site builder, and you should think about it if you are thinking that you're going to start outsourcing some of your work. If you're operating an Amazon FBA business, obtaining a ClickFunnels subscription may be worth considering; paid visitors on your own ecommerce site to your products, particularly if you run.
If you market any sort of product both physical and digital (applications, membership website, etc) then I presume ClickFunnels is well worth looking for it's innovative selling features.
I have used a number of different page builders (mostly Thrive Architect and Divi Builder by Elegant themes). I will say that I feel ClickFunnels is the solution suite for the price that you may buy. The ability to construct your own membership website is fantastic. The membership segments can be used by you for quite a few things that are distinct.
You may sell your courses, or you can do what I have done which can use it to login as a location for my authors, editors and link builders for what I expect them to do after I've hired them and view their briefs. It's basically a training program for how I conduct my articles based site business' back end.
It integrated with a customized domainname, which means you may set up your landing pages, membership website or revenue funnels on your website, or a custom domain. It's a plugin which allows you to incorporate it as well, though you can't take payments on your own WordPress site should you bill your clients as they've got their own pair of SSL requirements when taking payments. You can start your funnel onto your site, and host the steps of the funnel where payments have been taken on the default platform for ClickFunnels.
What I love about the ClickFunnels software, is that the drop and drag functionality. It's far simpler than using WordPress, if you have any sort of marketing experience as you are looking at it, and you build the page. No more"save it" and hit"preview" to see how it looks. WordPress is still what you need to be using for content based websites, but ClickFunnels can make a powerful ally if you intend on selling subscription programs or products. The customization options are pretty much limitless when building out a marketing funnel.
The pros outweigh the disadvantages, as you can see. A few of the disadvantages are pretty nitpicky, including the URLs but that's more of a personal preference than anything. I am aware that there are lots of landing page builders that people will use, including Thrive Architect by Thrive Themes. I've discovered the funnel step integration to be some of the simplest funnel software .
With TA, you'll want to design the webpage, and then connect to the pages in the sequence and it is all done inside WordPress. While I adore Thrive and their subjects, I do think that ClickFunnels is easier to use than TA, but it comes at a monthly cost.


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Oil & Gas / North Sea / West of Shetland
The FPSO is away, but will the BP Foinaven field be redeveloped?
The Foinaven FPSO
A permanent feature of the West of Shetland for many years, the Foinaven vessel recently left the namesake BP field for the last time.
Now on stopover at Hunterston Port on the west coast of Scotland, preparations are being made to break up the iconic floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) ship.
But while it's the end of the road for the anchored production vessel, several options are being chewed over for the West of Shetland field.
BP mulling things over
Estimates place Foinaven's remaining reserves at 200 million barrels of oil, a not inconsiderable amount to say the least.
Gallery: 'End of an era' as Foinaven FPSO arrives at Hunterston from BP oilfield
News agency Reuters reported in March that BP was hoping to offload Foinaven, and that the UK energy security drive could aid this effort.
When asked for an update recently, the oil giant restated that it is currently reviewing options for the future of the field.
Senior analyst at Westwood Global Energy Group, Yvonne Telford, said: "On Foinaven we understand that BP is evaluating plans for a redevelopment of the field. In fact, this was initiated prior to the cessation of operations with this FPSO. As with Clair South, an electrification solution for the West of Shetland area will be key for BP in progressing these developments."
A redevelopment
There seems to be general agreement that a redevelopment of Foinaven is on the cards in order to retrieve the field's remaining resources.
And with oil fluctuating around $100 a barrel, it is a for more attractive proposition to any potential buyers than it was a year ago.
Ms Telford said: "BP has been effective in the divestment of its non-core assets, with an established track record in the UK of 'moving assets into the right hands'.
© Supplied by DCT Media
Yvonne Telford of Westwood Global
"High commodity prices are helping to increase the number of potential buyers and would make a Foinaven redevelopment more attractive, but prospective buyers will need deep pockets to fund the project.
"Whether energy security is sufficient to encourage the wider investment community back to the E&P sector, which has also been hit by another change in the fiscal regime, remains to be seen."
Ashley Kelty, an analyst at investment bank Panmure Gordon, worked on Foinaven in the run-up to first oil, achieved in 1997.
On what could be next for the field, he said: "I suspect that a partial redevelopment could occur, as current commodity prices mean that the field wouldn't have reached cessation of production were it not for the end of life of the FPSO.
Getting oil could be tough
"However, while a pure subsea development would work for the gas, I'm not sure whether another FPSO could be secured at an economic price, unless it was leased, to get the remaining oil."
One option open to BP to get the remaining oil from Foinaven could be to use its existing assets in the region.
Paul Weidman, head of oil and gas at Gneiss Energy, said: "The removal of the Petrojarl Foinaven FPSO has left a significant amount of resources in the ground, up to 200 mmbbls.
© Supplied by BP
The Glen Lyon FPSO, which serves the Schiehallion field in the West of Shetland.
"Given the increased focus on security of supply, and indeed the commodity price rise, a redevelopment of the field, either standalone or via Schiehallion, will likely be more in focus."
EPL impact
As it stands, it's a good time to invest in the North Sea, with companies able to claim tax relief on cash spent on new projects.
Included as part of the energy profits levy (EPL), the mechanism is aimed at boosting domestic oil and gas production in order to bring down prices and offset Russian imports.
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak and OEUK CEO Deirdre Michie during a roundtable discussion with industry on the windfall tax in Aberdeen.
But with a redevelopment of Foinaven likely to take years, and the EPL wrapping up at the end of 2025 at the latest, companies will struggle to benefit from the relief.
Ms Telford said: "Due to the size and scope of the projects, Foinaven and/or Clair South, the development process for these fields will take time and therefore unlikely to fully benefit from the EPL incentives, if the levy remains time bound to end in 2025."
Potential suitors
The question for many is, if BP does decide to offload Foinaven, as it is assumed it will, who will be in the running to acquire the field.
A host of minor independents have set up shop in the North Sea in recent years, buying up assets that have been neglected by the big players and giving them a fresh start.
And it's likely that they will throw their hat into the ring to pick up Foinaven.
Mr Kelty said: "In terms of potential buyers, I guess it would be the smaller independents that would be interested – Harbour Energy (LON:HAR), EnQuest (LON:ENQ), Serica Energy (LON:SQZ), Kistos Energy (LON:KIST), i3 Energy (LON:i3E) all could be interested. Some of the foreign national oil companies could be interested as well.
"However it will all come down to the economics and whether a profitable solution could be reached."
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The Aoka Mizu FPSO, which serves Hurricane's Lancaster field, also west of Shetland.
Mr Weidman added: "Potential partners or purchasers of the project are likely to be those companies West of Shetland and/or where tax status and the EPL makes any pre-2026 investment more attractive.
"These companies include Shell (LON:SHEL), Equinor (OSLO:EQNR), Ineos, Ithaca Energy, Harbour, RockRose Energy, Kistos, NEO Energy, Serica and Hurricane Energy (LON:HUR)."
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Damir Ismagilov began his career as a lighting supervisor at the Gorky MKhAT in 1977, having graduated from the Moscow Arts and Industry School. He took over as head of the lighting supervision department at the Small Stage of the Chekhov MKhAT in 1980.
In 1987 he graduated from the production faculty of the Studio School of the MKhAT and headed the Artistic Stage Lighting Department of the Chekhov MKhAT. Currently Damir Ismagilov is principal lighting designer with the Helikon Opera, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Chekhov MKhAT and the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre as well as a teacher at the Studio School of the MKhAT and assistant chairman of the Russian Association of Lighting Designers.
Damir Ismagilov has toured abroad numerous times to Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, Egypt, Israel, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the USA, Columbia, Venezuela, Cyprus and Cuba.
Ismagilov was the lighting designer for two new productions by the Helikon Opera in 2004 (Poulenc?s Dialogues des Carmelites and Verdi?s Nabucco) and for the premiere of Prokofiev?s opera Fallen from the Sky in 2005. These productions drew immense interest from audiences and critics alike. The brilliant lighting design for Nabucco, staged in France together with Le Duo Dijon and the Ope ra de Massy, drew particular attention from the press, both in Russia and abroad.
Over his 28-year career, Damir Ismagilov has worked on over two hundred productions. He is a member of the Union of Russian Artists and of the Union of Russian Theatre Workers.


Be prepared to wow everyone in this taupe and ivory dress from Couture Club.
What an unusual combination of crepe lace and ribboning. This dress has a simple pencil skirt in taupe crepe. the bodice is a stand out with ribboning crisscrossing over lace and mesh with 3/4 sleeves. the lining is ivory . This is all set off with a soft satin drape and beading. For those who don't require a jacket this is a stand out.
A stunning mother of the bride/groom outfit.


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Q: USB Driver - This device cannot start. (Code 10) - Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API I've been tired trying find a solution,
My USB controllers have a yellow exclamation sign in Device manager thus any USB I plug into isn't functioning until I remove the driver and reinstall it, and in the next restart it is stopping again and I have to redo all that bad stuff again which sometimes make the computer hang and need to be restarted with the Reset button...
I'm using Windows 10 version 1709 build 16299.371
And here are some screenshots:

A: The solution from member Karen Hu:
Deleting LowerFilter and UpperFilter values of that USB classes in the registry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class***********
You can find the class guid from device manager, USB controller properties -> Details -> Class GUID.

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The dazzling Dorchester hotel is a very special place to spend an evening with an artist. Especially with one celebrating 30 years of fundraising dinners to save wildlife.
David is a truly remarkable man, one I have had the pleasure of knowing for 30 years at Gladwell's.
His work in the conservation of both steam engines and wildlife has given him some incredible subjects to translate to canvas. Some of my favourite examples over the years have been some amazing safari scenes and those wonderful elephants.
Attending a fundraising dinner with my dear wife and friends really reminds me how special the world of art is. The work of one man and his passion for wild animals over such an important time for the World makes me reflect on the future.
The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation funds projects in Africa and Asia to save critically endangered mammals in the World. This event hopes through the dinner, auctions and bids in the room to raise more money. As we found out on the night the number of animals being poached and habitat being destroyed is still much higher than it should be, and there is much still to do.
Black tie and smart dinners aside, do pop in to the gallery and see for yourself some typically atmospheric examples of David's work – we have some fantastic paintings at the moment.


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Crime briefs: Weekend shootings leave two dead, one wounded
Zoraida Feliciano, 33, of Humboldt Park. Photo courtesy Feliciano family.
Originally appearing at extranews.net on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2014
By Alex V. Hernandez | Managing Editor | @TheAVHernandez
A family gathered Monday to grieve a mother that was senselessly shot and killed outside her home over the weekend.
"I heard shots and we rushed to the window," said Leslie Feliciano, 18. "I panicked and rushed outside. I was screaming that we needed to get my sister to a hospital."
The fatal shooting happened Saturday evening. Zoraida Feliciano, 33, was sitting in the passenger seat of a Chrysler SUV parked outside of her home in the 3700 block of West Potomac. She was waiting for her boyfriend, Julian Lopez, to return from inside the home with one of her daughters, who was feeling sick, the family said.
Around 6:45 p.m., as Lopez was getting out of the SUV, a white car pulled up next to them, police said.
"A black guy got out [of the car] and started shooting," said Lopez. A bullet hit Zoraida Feliciano near her ear and she slumped forward and the shooter went back inside his car and fled westbound on Potomac, said a police report. Lopez rushed to the SUV and started driving his girlfriend to Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center. He crashed at Division and California, about a mile away from the hospital. Lopez wasn't hurt in the crash and when an ambulance arrived it took Zoraida Feliciano to Stroger Hospital, where she arrived in critical condition.
Leslie Feliciano said doctors told the family her sister was brain dead late Saturday night and the family decided to discontinue life support. The mother of two was pronounced dead on Sunday at 1:03 a.m., said the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
Zoraida Feliciano's family described her as someone with a beautiful smile who was loved by everyone that knew her. She'd been working as a Walgreens pharmacy technician for the past three years and was raising two daughters, ages 7 and 13.
Police described the shooter's car as a Toyota Camry. However, family members told EXTRA the car looked more like a Nissan Maxima or Infiniti. Moreover, they said a second red car, possibly a Nissan 350-Z, might also have been involved in the shooting.
"We just want someone to come forward to say something if they saw what happened," said Lopez.
Police News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada said the shooting might be gang related, as there is a gang conflict in the area. At press time, no one was in custody and Area North detectives were still investigating.
Earlier on Saturday, another fatal shooting happened in the 700 block of North Hamlin around 2 p.m.
"Witnesses say the victim was driving north on Hamlin when another vehicle with a gunman pulled up next to him and shot him," said Estrada
The victim was identified as Anthony Jackson, 22, of the 300 block of West Lexington, by the medical examiner. Police say that after Jackson was shot, he drove into several parked vehicles before coming to stop. He was pronounced dead around 3:02 p.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital from a gunshot wound to the chest, said the medical examiner.
"No one is in custody at this time and because the victim is a documented gang member, it was possibly gang related," said Estrada.
And on Saturday, around 11:50 p.m., an 18-year-old was shot in the right hand while in the 3900 block of W. Armitage. The victim was able to walk into Mount Sinai for treatment and give police a statement.
"He was sitting in the driver's seat of a vehicle and someone approached him and shot at him from the sidewalk," said Estrada.
Police say the incident may also be gang related and Area Central detectives were still investigating at press time.
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There are young people that do not want to know anything. They don't want to study or work. They prefer to be in a bar talking and drinking. There is a young man like this in the building where I live. When he gets up in the morning he goes directly to the bar and has a beer for breakfast and has another one at lunchtime. When we meet him in the elevator he smells like beer. Because he is so involved with drinking, he was led into living an immoral life. Drinking is his world. He has been occupied, usurped and consumed by drinking.
Unlike this young man, whose neighbors warned their daughters to stay away from him, there is another young man in our building that any parent would want their daughter to marry. He is a diligent student who finished high school when he was sixteen and university when he was twenty-one. He did his master's degree when he was twenty-four and now, at twenty-five, he is doing his PhD. He surely has a promising future. When he finishes his doctorate he will have many offers for work with excellent salaries. Compared to the young man that we described earlier, this young person is much better. However, he also is being occupied, usurped and consumed by another department of the world: a brilliant professional career.
Unfortunately, this last story describes the experience of many Christian young people. After they receive the Lord Jesus, they seek Him with all their heart, meet with other young people to study the Bible and boldly speak about Jesus. However, later they get into the "good stream" of a profession, of struggling for their living, and eventually are also usurped and become separated from the things of God.
How many Christians today are being usurped by their jobs simply because they have received a bigger chair or desk with an acrylic plaque which has "Manager" or "Director" on it? As far as God is concerned, they have been usurped because of the plaque and even separated from their families. Some people have "sold their own soul" because of a position, which oftentimes represents an increase of a mere ten percent of their former salary. They go to work at six in the morning and leave at eleven at night. They work on Saturday, Sunday and also during holidays, just because they are the "boss." They no longer care for their families and as far as the church is concerned, they don't even remember that they are Christians. Now they are "married" to their job. Their world is their position in their company.
I say this because I have seen many young people in the past that have testified that they lived completely for the Lord and for His church, but they were deceived by Satan and today are very far from God. The one who systematized the world is very subtle. Knowing that he could not defile all the young people with sins, what did he do? He used good things that were inoffensive and attractive to ensnare them. He used studies and brilliant professional careers to occupy the young people in such a way that when they come to the meetings, their thoughts are far away, busy thinking about business, investments or their studies. God continues to speak, but they cannot hear Him because other "gods" are speaking more loudly to them in their hearts.
How can we take care of our human living without being ensnared by the world?


ARIANISM ● Does Arianism really matter?
Arianism is drawn from Chapter Eight, beginning on page 226, of Volume Three, By This Sign of the twelve-volume historical series The Christians: Their First Two Thousand Years. If you would like to order this book please visit www.TheChristians.info.
Arianism - Does Arianism really matter?
Two aspects of the Arian controversy puzzle the twenty-first-century reader. One is the fact that a mere doctrinal dispute could have caused such a rupture in the church. The second, arising out of the first, was the fury and bitterness engendered between committed Christians. It may seem trivial now, with the contest long-ago concluded, the issues so thoroughly hammered out.
But the Arian altercation was crucially important: Since such doctrinal conflicts within the early church led Christians to an understanding of their God and Creator, helping to define what they believe and worship today, they consider the struggle worth it.
That becomes particularly evident in the conduct of Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, who enters the controversy as a man most intent upon resolving conflict, but within a few years is issuing encyclical letters vehemently opposing Arianism.
In the course of the next several centuries, as Christians grappled with the doctrinal problems that Christ's words as recorded in the Scriptures had raised, passions and personal animosities would grow worse, often involving physical violence and vicious personal abuse. For example, in 350, Paul, patriarch of Constantinople, was strangled to death as a result of his conflicts with Arius.
All of this would amaze most Christians at the end of the second millennium, because they could not understand people of faith becoming so intimately involved in matters that, to the twenty-first-century mind anyway, could not be resolved.
"If it seems very remote from our understanding today," asks Daniel-Rops, "is not this perhaps because of weaker faith and blunter emotions?" But such "weaker faith" has an explanation, says the twentieth-century Christian apologist Charles Gore in his The Reconstruction of Belief. In Gore's view, a number of influences have combined to destroy religious belief. In particular, he cites the impact of Darwinism, of literary and historical criticism applied to the Bible, and of the reduction of religion to "a branch of abnormal psychology." These have combined to create a widespread disbelief in traditional religious tenets.
Gore's analysis helps identify the reason why the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is perceived by many people as absurd conjecture, and the disputes it provoked as occasioned by sheer pride. That many aspects of Darwinism, criticism, and psychologism have themselves come under scientific attack seems to have had little impact on the general trend away from religious inquiry.
While many today are unfamiliar with their "classical statement" in human terms, Priestley continues, "we naively extract the tri-unity and 'true God and true man' as self-evident in Scripture and never contested by true believers." But what is "self-evident" now became so only after hard-fought contests between believers centuries ago.


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Q: Android- Media player stops when screen orientation I am developing app with using the Android media player. The media player stops when screen goes to landscape mode. So, i used
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"

inside <activity>
Now media player stopping problem is solved, but screen not changes to (layout-land) layout. In both landscape and portrait modes the same landscape layout is appearing. pls guide me

A: go to AndroidManifest.xml
and inside <activity> tag put the following:
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"
that worked for me now media player doesn't stop when changing screen orientation


You are here: Home / Beauty / Rexona: My first love now comes with the new scents.
My everyday schedule is very demanding. I have to meet a lot of people, hopping from one meeting to another and on top of that, I have to be camera ready. So how do I keep myself fresh? The answer is to have the right deodorant! I have been using Rexona since I was in high school and it is the only brand that I have been sticking with ever since. Rexona just launched their new scents which are Fresh Sakura & Fresh Lily. I love 'em both. It has natural whitening ingredients that help to whiten my underarms 3 times better than any other brands. It gives me triple the freshness and I am so ready to rock my day.
I've been sticking with Rexona since high school, and I've allured my teenage (and recent) sweetheartS with it. Now, it stays with my adult self as a must-have before I head out. It keeps me fresh all day long and whitens my underarms naturally. The new Rexona comes with two lasting floral scents; Fresh Lily and Fresh Sakura. Im in loveeeeee with both and I can't decide only one.
Taking care of hygiene is a must especially for women and that's include your body odor. Rexona makes me feel more confident about myself. I can walk freely, shake hands with people and strike the deals like a baswe. All thanks to my first love that always gonna stay the first to me.
If you haven't tried it yet, you might wanna give it a shot. Head on to your nearest drugstore now.
Watch me on my mission to find the deodorant with natural whitening ingredients!


Bongo (U/E), Sept. 30, GNA - Mr. Alexis Adugdaa Ayamdor, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Bongo in the Upper East Region has rejected a three-unit classroom block at Nayorigo because the contractor has failed to include designs that are disability friendly.
According to the DCE, the Assembly would only accept projects that take into consideration designs that are disability friendly and advised the local construction firm, Robert Aboor�s Enterprise, to redesign the project to make the classrooms, urinal and the toilet facilities accessible to PWDs.
He later issued a warning to contractors, saying that the Assembly would not accept any project that failed to consider disability friendly designs.
Mr Ayamdor further warned that the Assembly would not tolerate any contractor who would execute shoddy work, adding �Value for money is one of the cardinal principles of this government and the Assembly will not hesitate to blacklist any contractor whose work does not meet specifications, standards and schedule�.
Mr Ayamdor, however, took over other completed projects at separate functions at Gorogo �Soe, Zorko-Atenseka and Nayorigo, all in the District.
They were a 6.3 kilometres spot improvement of Gorogo�Soe feeder road executed by Lampoher Engineering Company Limited valued at GH¢ 297,716.13, with funding from the Ghana Social Opportunity Project (GSOP), and the construction of a three-unit classroom block with its ancillary facilities at Zorko-Atenseka by Al-Ras Enterprise, a Bolgatanga-based firm, valued at GH¢ 96,902.23, with funding from the District Development Facility (DDF).
The DCE expressed satisfaction with the works executed and commended the contractors for their good work.
He tasked the Works Department of the Assembly to ensure that the three-unit classroom block with its ancillary facilities at Zorko-Atenseka constructed by Al-Aras Enterprise was adopted as a model and replicated in other communities. He urged other contractors to visit the site to learn from the contractor.
He impressed upon the Ghana Education Service (GES), Assembly members and the community members to endeavour to monitor ongoing projects in their communities and to offer feedback to the Assembly for redress if need be.
Mr Ayamdor assured the Assembly's Works Department that his administration would give it the needed support to embark on regular monitoring, led by himself, to ensure that projects were executed properly.
The Chiefs, communities, Assembly members and the GES expressed their appreciation to the District Assembly and appealed for assistance in the provision of classroom furniture.