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Are we going for gold? Black, yellow or brown? Kitman Bob drops huge clue in Twitter strip tease.
And then things started to happen. The EFL have named the date on which the game between Bolton and Brentford will be played. Supposedly. This Tuesday, the same evening that our B team host Manchester City and so there goes the chance to play the kids as had been widely touted. Elsewhere, social media proved king once more as Kitman Bob started answering fan questions about next season's kit, dropping some pretty big clues in the process.
Has Bob started pointing the way to 2019/20?
First up, Bolton. The game is supposedly going to happen this Tuesday in the deadzone between the season ending and the play-offs starting. It clashes with our own fixture at home to Manchester City B – always a big draw – whilst also means casual fans will now find themselves further torn as any hopes for a clear run to see Barcelona complete their Champions League rout against Liverpool now have some serious competition. Messi or Maupay ? Sergi or Suarez? I know, I know.
Except, of course, I still can't see how the game will go ahead. The EFL 'demanding' it is one thing but even their own statement notes that, "The Board also discussed the potential of Bolton Wanderers being placed into Administration and took the view if that was to happen, the EFL would not insist the game be played." They go on to add that "we would advise all supporters to wait until the details for the game are confirmed by the Club before making any travel arrangements". Meanwhile Brentford official have also advised that they "Will continue to update fans on all issues surrounding this game as often as possible in the coming days."
So clear as mud, then. The game will take place this Tuesday (it is now Friday). Except the advice from the EFL is that it might not and supporters shouldn't make any arrangements as yet. A situation more farcical given there's no train home after the game finishes (unless you want to hang around until 1am for the bus to Manchester and the 5 o'clock service to London) . Virgin rail and hotels are expensive enough as it is, let alone when you have to book at a moment's notice.
Would this even allow the club time to lay on supporters' coaches? Would health and safety / policing allow for a game to be set up at short notice? More so one which may not even happen. What about the players who should now be on well -earned breaks? There will be more to follow, no doubt, including what I still expect to be an award of three points to Brentford.
On to matters more appealing, Twitter was awash with talk of next season's kit yesterday. Something further compounded by EFL Championship supporter of the year, 98 year old Audrey Baker, gifting our Junior Bees an embroidered gold scarf in her role as patron of the Junior membership schemes. It is a most generous and timely present, moreso given our own recent recognition as a gold standard family club. These are smart as and I'm seriously tempted to get the 'Jimmmy Krankie' costume from out of the special cupboard in order to try and blag one of the white and gold beauties on Sunday.
What a gesture for our young fans
Yet as well as being a wonderful gift, it got fans wondering if this was a hint as to next season's away colour scheme. Moreso when Kitman Bob started doing what he only he can do – going rogue on Twitter (in the nicest possible sense).
He had already told us that our 2019/20 effort would promise "New vibes and old skool" (although was that home, away or both?) whilst the release date could be imminent given, "I think there is an agreement to announce it a few days after the Preston game. "
Then Audrey did the scarf thing and that was it. Bob did what only he, Brentford and Matthew Benham can get away with – chucking out clues into cyberspace and even offering fans a choice of an easy, medium or hard one. Name me any other club or kitman that does this? I love it. Moreso, when the tease offered up to supporters seemed, at first glance, eminently gettable. Or should that be Eminemly gettable? :
Let's start with a easy-clue then. Famous US Rapper had a massive hit with this.😁😁😁
Get in. I've solved this one already. Quite possibly. The clue in the scarf is there already. It has to be Kanye West – Gold Digger. Surely?
Or does it? Bob appeared to pour cold water on that speculation. "White gold. Kitmans nightmare ! Gold is nice though 😀" . A double bluff or something that is being ruled out purely on cleanliness grounds?
Moving on, Wiz Khalifa – Black and Yellow – seemed the popular consensus. It makes sense for so many reasons and has always been popular. Who could forget the Bathroom shopfront launch of our 2011-12 beauty whilst I'm still a sucker for the version worn on the road in our first Championship campaign after promotion.
We've got good form here .
Then it hit me. People have missed the obvious one. Hidden in plain sight. We all love the Jaffa Cake kit. All of us. How about more of the same? It's so obvious when you think about it. DJ Khaled – Brown paper Bag. YESSS!!!! Another season of the brown / orange or similar. It was a fact fact further, definitely compounded by Bob's subsequent musing "Why has everyone gone for Wiz 🤔🤔🤔" .
So there you have it. We're going brown again. Definitely brown. Not gold and white or black and yellow.
Too obvious? Or will it be Wiz?
Yet there was more intrigue thrown out there with the other clue offered out by Bob. Namely that, "There maybe more than one away kit ….." .
Three kits? Does this mean that, in the final season in our current home, Brentford could be going for something special from the historical locker? We did this before in 2004/05 with the away kit commemorating 100 years at Griffin Park. Perhaps something similar is in the offing? Once can only hope that is the case.
Something historic this way comes?
Whilst we're all making educated guesses, ultimately nobody knows for sure. The technical sponsor is still not public knowledge although the kit nerd in me is desperate for Umbro, would love the nostalgia of Hummel and can see the unique situation of personalised shirts that would come with New Balance and their NB logo . No doubt it'll end up being somebody like Macron, whose latest Stoke City effort is about as safe as they come – with some very unusual collars….
The only way to know for sure will be when the club top brass allow Bob to get his kits out. Come on Mr. Benham. Please, put us out of our misery.
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Dear EFL…..For once, put the supporters first and sort this mess out. I dare you.
Come on EFL, sort this nonsense out. Now. The failure to rearrange the Bolton – Brentford game that you cancelled on Friday, with the season due to formally end this Sunday lunchtime, is nothing short of farcical. With Preston due to visit Griffin Park then, it is clear that it cannot take place prior. Instead, we are left in a situation where should a game occur it will be played in the dead zone between the campaign ending and the play-offs starting. A game that nobody wants at this juncture and which nobody will attend. Except, of course, it won't happen. It is a complete slap in the face (and wallets) of the fans from both clubs aswell as the players – who are left in limbo rather than starting a well-earned holiday. It is a complete demonstration, once again, of the impotence of the footballing authorities when it comes to any sort of decision making process.
Waiting for the EFL to swing into action feels like that episode of The Simpsons when Bart and Skinner are repeatedly searching the night sky in a punishment related amateur astronomy lesson (as you do):
"Six hours nineteen minutes right ascension, fourteen degrees fifty-eight minutes declination……No sighting.
No Sighting.
The EFL look for an answer with no success
There has been nothing. Nothing. No decision just to cancel the game and award us the three points by default. Not that we particular want that with Neal Maupay then denied a final chance to top the Championship goal scoring charts or The Bees missing out on trying to improve our patchy away record. As for Bolton, with the debacle going on there at a senior level, playing a pointless game (no pun intended) is probably the last thing on their minds. Yet, instead, we are all being taken for a ride on the EFL bullshit express. Supporters already out of pocket and likely to be even further so should the game somehow be arranged at a moment's notice.
But no, I stand corrected. The EFL have done something in public. They have made… a statement. You can read this below
Discussions have continued with Bolton Wanderers, Brentford and other relevant parties throughout the course of the past 48 hours in regards to the rescheduling of last weekend's Sky Bet Championship fixture.
There has been suggestions in the public domain that that the game could potentially take place on Wednesday 1 May 2019. However, Bolton Wanderers has not yet confirmed this will be the case and the EFL will advise via the appropriate channels as soon as a definitive decision is reached.
EFL Regulations do provide for any match to be played within four days of the end the normal playing season.
It is one of those which tells you precisely nothing. There is nothing here beyond hot air and waffle. No substance. No answers. No solution. No help. Instead, Thomas Frank doesn't even know if he should be preparing Brentford for a game with Bolton or a game with Preston. Except he does, because there is no way on this earth that the Bolton game can or will happen. Sadly. And even if it did, what would the EFL do to help supporters? Why has it been left to Brentford to be the ones looking at means of compensating fans who had bought travel tickets and accommodation for Saturday's no show?
Let's be clear. Everybody sympathises with the Bolton players. There's no gripe there. The lack of solution and the lack of help from anybody with the ability to make that call is what is proving to be the 'challenge'. And that's the polite word.
I don't want the game called off for reasons as noted before. Yet given the calendar and the circumstances around this, with little time for either club to prepare an 'after the lord mayor's show' team of players who would rather be on holiday. Of supporters having to find and fund travel to a game that would, surely, end up being played behind closed doors or in the face of a public protest at short notice. Of the complete farce that it would be should this somehow go ahead.
Just put everyone out of their misery now. Please.
Then use the summer to make an informed and considered decision about what, if any, action should be taken. Playing the game won't keep Bolton up. It won't propel Brentford to the play-offs. But it will draw a line under this whole sorry mess and put the clubs ,the players and most importantly the fans out of their misery.
For once, put the supporters first. I dare you.
It's just a load of big balls at the EFL and Bolton
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Categories Bolton, Brentford, Championship
Will Aston Villa distract Brentford from visit of Leeds United ? Thanks, Sky.
Match day. Brentford host Leeds United in a TV game that sees us with the chance to theoretically move as high as ninth in the table. Subject to the small matter of winning and other results going our way. Yet at a time when we should be looking forward to this prospect or enjoying the result from last night's game that saw Fulham lose (that's 3 out of the last 4) at Wolves, instead the words on most supporters lips would seem to be Aston Villa. Or Boxing Day.
And if you'd like to read more whilst helping the Brentford FC Community Sports Trust …. the rest of this article can now be found in the Kindle e-book Ten Times Better. Brentford FC Season review: 2017/18. Inspired by 'that' interview it contains the least bad of these columns in one, handy volume as it looks at our own campaign as well as wider divisional life and the promotion / relegation races.
Relive the memories. See how often the same material gets regurgitated. Remind yourself about the likes of Betinho, Martin Fillo, Javi Venta and Marcos Tebar. Certainly, if there's no Marcos Tea Bar at Lionel Road it will be an opportunity missed.
All proceeds from any sales will go to the Community Sports Trust. For less than the cost of a half / pint respectively, they may help while away some time on the commute. By the pool on holiday. In the bathroom. Who knows? It will certainly do some good for the Trust, whose work has been well documented at Griffin Park but you can read all about it on their site.
And if that wasn't enough, I've been given something very special. A 2017/18 third team shirt with Lewis Macleod's squad number on the reverse in the EFL typeface. Anyone with half an interest in Bees kits will know that these were never made available in the club shop. Anyone who has read any of this before will know what a kit nerd yours truly is so when I say this is rare, take that in good faith!
To be in with a chance of owning it, download a copy of either before the end of June 2018 and you'll go into a draw to win this. Just DM/tweet me (@NickBruzon) a copy of your purchase confirmation mail and I'll add your name to the list before selecting a random Bees fan to win this on July 1st.
Nothing says Boxing Day evening like Roger Moore at his best
Roy wins Twitter for Friday
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Categories Aston Villa, Brentford, Championship, Leeds
Big new ambitions? Or downsizing? What do you make of stadium news?
Thursday morning. We've all had time to digest the news out of Griffin Park. Namely that in a week's time Brentford FC will be presenting plans to Hounslow council for an amendment to our design for Lionel Road – the key points of which include : a location move (3 metres south),Premier League quality 'outside broadcast facilities within the stadium itself, the relocation of BFC Community Sports Trust outside the ground and the capacity reduction from 20,000 to 17,250. The target date for all of this is now late 2019 / early 2020.
The statements on the club site and in the programme from Cliff Crown & Mark Devlin have gone on to further elaborate on the reasoning about this in what, I have to be honest (and I'd say this to their face) reads an awful lot like a game of buzzword bingo in places. Especially with regards to the housing element of the project which is so key to making it a success.
Lionel Road. A new look – sans monorail – is coming
Griffin Park. Wonderful but not a long term future
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Categories Brentford, Championship, Lionel Road
And you thought football was a village…..we aren't alone!
In a season where communications, or lack of, have been one of the key themes for Brentford supporters trying to get our heads around the club's new direction it seems there is a similar sentiment across London at Charlton Athletic. That said, the 'problems' faced by the Bees seem miniscule compared to those at the Valley. Yet given how raw last season's 'Village-gate' affair still feels to many, yesterday's press release from the Addicks has struck a chord in what some might deem a similar scenario. Namely, that of a patronising and nonsense packed 'official statement' on a club website.
'Football is a village' is a line that will be forever steeped in infamy at Griffin Park. If ever we were looking for an opposite to, "They celebrated like they'd won the FA Cup" then here it was. To this day, I still don't know who came up with that gumph, who thought it was our best response to the leaked stories surrounding Mark Warburton and why, in retrospect, nobody has come out and suggested we might have played that one a little bit better. Still, enough has been said about that sad event on these pages to warrant further discourse (although if you'd like to read more…..)
Then, yesterday, it all come flooding back as the Charlton media team decided to crank the Village factor up to 11. To be fair, they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. Sunday's home win against Middlesbrough which, hot off the back of a victory at Griffin Park has given them renewed hope of survival, was one marred by a number of protests against Roland Duchatelet and chief executive Katrien Meire.
Amongst other things, a coffin made an appearance whilst several whistles in the crowd did their best to disrupt the players. Kick off was followed by a deluge of beach balls onto the pitch and several fans walked out on 74 minutes – to signify the amount of goals Charlton have shipped so far this term. There was even a somewhat unsavoury pitch invasion which, against type, the watching Sky TV cameras gave full prominence to .
I can sympathise with the club in wanting to do something. Likewise, they've even waited on this until Tuesday in order to let the immediate heat go out of the situation and then give it their most considered response. But there are ways of doing something and then ways of doing something. If I didn't know better I'd suggest our own comms team had been transferred out of Griffin Park and taken up residence at The Valley.
"Last Sunday, some individuals did not come to The Valley to watch the game and support the team, but came to create disorder on the pitch and interfere with the players and the game. Disorder which is, allegedly, needed to drive change in ownership and management"
Those aren't my words but the opening salvo of a 'toys out the pram' response that makes the football village seem almost Shakespearean in comparison.
Other 'highlights' include, "Some individuals seem to want the club to fail. This is a confused approach, since following this logic leads to exactly the opposite of what we all want: staying in the Championship" and
"Allegations regarding the CEO are misrepresented and are continuously used as a method to discredit and fuel personal abuse, hatred and with a risk to personal safety".
You can read the full statement on the Charlton website. It's a sorry state of affairs for their supporters, many of whom I have no doubt are backing the team to the hilt. Instead, at this time of need, they are all being tarred with a brush of ne'er do wells in a statement that reeks of paranoia.
Football is, without doubt, something bordering on a religion and obsession to many. It is part and parcel of our lives, our friendships are based around it whilst, for many, the choice of club is a generational thing handed down by parents keen to pass on the torch. Simply put, we are bound to our teams in a symbiotic relationship where everything that happens to them impacts us one way or another.
Sure, Charlton had to make some sort of reaction. Yet given the frustrations which have been building over the course of this season and came to a head on Sunday, doing it in such a fashion is yet another example of a club owner's failure when it comes to making friends and influencing people.
For all those unhappy with certain aspects at Brentford this year, please have some perspective. Whilst we've certainly hit a bump in the road on the pitch, off the field Matthew Benham and his team have started to open up more to the fans in the last week whilst you can't deny he is a Brentford fan through and through.
Football isn't a village, it's more than that. Our top brass would do well to continue realising that.
Please let's not ever release a statement like this (again).
It stinks at Charlton
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Categories Brentford, Championship, Charlton Athletic
Phil Giles gets personal
I hadn't planned on doing a Brentford column today. The Huddersfield Town 'kit obsessive' feature for the match day programme needs completion and is tempting me like a siren. Although this particular siren is one bedecked in 'Matchwinner'. All being well it could be a piece to rival that of the Hull City AFC article – a personal favourite from this season's campaign to date.
Did Huddersfield's 93-94 goalie shirt make the cut?
But then, like many Brentford fans, I received a 'personal' email from co-director of football Phil Giles yesterday following the appointment of Dean Smith as our new Head Coach.
In Phil's own words, this was, "to give you a bit more insight into what has been happening over the last few weeks, on behalf of both Rasmus and myself." The message, which has also been published on the club website and can be read here, then goes on to explain more about the thought process behind 'The Marinus Experiment', the excellent role played by Lee Carsley and the move for Dean Smith from Walsall.
Likewise, Phil elaborates on the coaching side of things, the club (and Matthew Benham's) philosophy aswell as what he and fellow co-director, Rasmus Ankersen, are up to.
Phil (left) and Rasmus. Co-directors of football at Brentford
Fairplay to Phil, despite his previous assertion that, "In Lee's last post-match press conference, he discussed the possibility that the Nottingham Forest game would be his last in charge," he does now acknowledge that "After the Nottingham Forest game, Lee said that it would be his final game in charge."
That former statement was a point that particularly rankled yours truly, along with the general radio silence on the comms front. It is one area I've been somewhat critical of this season and as much because of the painful way that Mark Warburton and 'Village-gate' was handled back in February.
At times it has seemed as though Brentford struggled to learn from that lesson. Even down to painting a picture at the September Fans' Forum that everything in the garden was rosy, Marinus wise, before sacking him three days later.
So for the club to update supporters so proactively needs to be applauded. We are where we are and you can't backdate history to fill in the blanks of things that could/should have been said at the time. But this does now buck that trend. It is a statement out of keeping with most football clubs, let alone ours.
There is a distinct difference between saying nothing and going the other way – trying to explain the mindset behind your decisions and rationale. Phil's message most definitely falls in the latter camp and was a very welcome breath of fresh air on the comms front. Whether anyone at the club has read these pages (you never know) or it just marks a new approach, either way the intent is very clear.
Nobody can doubt the passion of Matthew Benham and his team, the investment made in Brentford Football Club and the drive towards the Premier League. That's the tough part and we are doing it so well.
Simple things, like communication, should be an absolute given. You may not agree with everything that was said in the message but how good just to see us making this effort.
Nice one, Phil!
There's always a Twitter wag – I can't take credit for this
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From 'the village' to The Valley. Does paradise await?
Brentford travel to The Valley on Saturday to take on a Charlton Athletic team currently stuck in the bottom three and with a record that anybody worried about the Bees recent form should take a long, hard look at.
The Addicks have picked up just one point out of the last six league games. Indeed, they've only managed two shots on target in 180 minutes of football (the first in the 1-0 loss at Reading and the other last time out, when they went down 3-0 at home to Preston). Brentford, meanwhile, followed last weekend's home win against Rotherham with the midweek triumph at Molineux as Wolves were dispatched 2-0.
That's the positive (for the Bees – sorry Charlton fans). Before we get too carried away, just think back to last season in what was, and moreso given our league position at the time, a calamitous performance.
Last time, out. Terrible manners but what a critic
Then again, it was at the height of 'Village-gate'. We were stuck in the no-man's land between 'that statement' being issued on the Tuesday, followed by a week of tumbleweed drifting through the Griffin Park media centre.
As a rule, I don't particularly want to draw too many parallels to that period. It has been and gone. Like it or not, Warbs is at Rangers and the Bees have a new management team and a new approach. Even better, we've started winning again. Yet the Charlton game, of all, illustrated how important team spirit is. And when it is missing, the consequences can be catastrophic.
Even now, looking back, I've had to remind myself just how shambolic we were that day. With apologies to any terrace wags / observers who may be reading, the post mortem of this 'performance' (and that's almost a breach of 'trade descriptions') from the Last Word review of season 2014/15 still seems generous:
How about Harlee's non header for the opening goal? Look at Jonathan Douglas, whose meandering and sorties up the pitch then left a midfield hole big enough to park an oil tanker in. This was a game crying out for his experienced head to get a grip in the middle rather than go fannying around like Matt Le Tissier looking for a packet of fags.
The normally brilliant Alex Pritchard decided to show all the delivery skills of a drunken postman whilst Andre Gray just looked plain knackered. But then, with only the ineffectual Nick Proschwitz or the inexperienced Chris Long as alternatives, it's no surprise. Moses seemed lethargic whilst Jota barely got a look in.
I could go on but what's the point? A 3-0 defeat was the least we deserved. Only David Button came out of it with any kudos.
The game was so bad, some fans just caught up on their i-player viewing
I take no particular pleasure in dragging this up again. Instead, it is done more to say that, if there is one game where I'd love to see the players prove a point, it is Saturday's. Charlton cruised to the win that ended a 13 game winless streak and, to coin that most famous of phrases, we were lucky to get nil.
Interestingly, of those players named and shamed, only Harlee remains. With him and Tarks looking rock solid at the back, and Lee Carsley getting excited about the reinvigorated spirit in the camp, are we already in a better place than last time out?
Hopefully Harlee will crack out the Coldplay once more and, with it, another winning performance. There is as much about personal pride as anything else riding on this one.
And with Stuart Atwell as the man in the middle, we'd better make sure that volume is set to 11…..
Still, if Chris Martin isn't enough to inspire us again, perhaps this is.
"Football is sometimes called a village, and in any village, gossip and rumours can spread like wildfire, whether or not such rumours are true."
We've got a lot to put right on Saturday. I can't wait to see us try.
Could it be paradise for Bees fans this time ?
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4 goals, 42 shots, 74% possession. That's some mathematical model.
Brentford blew aside Blackpool like a crisp packet caught on the breeze as they recorded a second win in as many games. The 4-0 scoreline does little to reflect the one sided nature of a game in which we registered 42 shots to the visitors 2 and had 74% possession. Blackpool, who spent much of the game with ten men following a red card for Charles Dunne, offered nothing and, being honest, could have made the long journey home on the wrong end of a bracketing had we been that bit more clinical.
To read the rest of this article, season 2014/15 is now available to download onto Kindle (and other electronic reading device) in full. Containing additional material and even some (poor) editing, you can get it here for less than the cost of a Griffin Park matchday programme or Balti Pie.
Thanks for reading and all your comments over the course of the season. For now, I need to make more space on the site for any follow up. However, 'close season' will continue in full, further on.
The BBC stats show just how one sided it was
View from the terrace – Jon Toral, team and fans celebrate his third goal
However, I have a picture that suggests that there is an alternative which could keep both parties happy. If Matthew wants a mathematical model then our artist's impression of how this could be accommodated would, I am sure, be a popular one.
Is this what Matthew means by a mathematical model?
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Will it be three more points as Blackpool go West?
Brentford welcome Blackpool to Griffin Park on Tuesday night in what, on paper, seems an excellent chance to continue on our winning way after Saturday's splendid 3-1 victory over Bournemouth. With the Tangerines already 12 points adrift of Championship safety and manager Lee Clark telling the BBC that he "may struggle to fill the substitutes' bench" surely this has three points written all over it?
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Normal service was resumed on Saturday at Griffin Park as Brentford's 3-1 victory over Bournemouth saw the Bees back to winning ways once more. It was almost as though the previous ten days hadn't happened – the only difference being the absence of sporting director Frank McParland who was tending to his leeks or whatever else it is you do on gardening leave. Brentford were, simply, magnificent.
Aswell as 35 yard shots, Brentford also try the 'lining up for a bus' dead ball technique
Visiting supporters were in jubilant mood before kick off
For a game given the tongue-in-cheek nickname of 'The tin pot derby' by supporters of both clubs (as a reaction to the jealous jibes of our, supposedly, more illustrious divisional rivals), it was one played out with all the passion of the FA Cup final. But there is nothing 'tinpot' about either of these sides and the celebrations on full time certainly felt like Brentford had won that famous old trophy.
Jota has his eyes on the tinpot
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Veterans Memorial Park renovations expected to start in spring
By Travis Clark
Published 4:56 pm EST, Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Stamford mayor David Martin points to the signature a large check presented to him by SL Green Realty senior VP Greg Caggainello, left, during press conference revealing advanced plans to renovate Veterans Park in downtown Stamford, Conn. on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. The $1million check will be put towards the Veterans Park redesign efforts. less
Stamford mayor David Martin points to the signature a large check presented to him by SL Green Realty senior VP Greg Caggainello, left, during press conference revealing advanced plans to renovate Veterans Park ... more
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STAMFORD — Thursday marks the 76th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941. It's a day to remember those lost and America's history, and to celebrate veterans who have served the country. On Wednesday, the city and its partners announced new developments in an initiative that will celebrate Stamford's own vets.
The Veterans Park Partnership has raised $4.25 million of its $5.5 million goal to renovate Veterans Memorial Park on Atlantic Street downtown, thanks to a $1 million donation from SL Green Realty, whose Landmark Square building overlooks the park. Other contributions have included $2.75 million from the city, a $500,000 grant from the state, and contributions from local organizations and businesses, according to Partnership president Rick Redniss.
Once the $5.5 million goal is reached, construction is expected to begin in the spring and completed by Memorial Day 2019, Redniss said. The monuments that are currently in the park will be positioned on higher ground surrounding the park, which will make room for space in the middle of the park for musical performances. Trees will be planted to surround the park, as well.
To help reach their goal, the partnership will sell naming opportunities for bricks within the park for $500 apiece for people who would like to pay tribute to a veteran close to them. For more information on donating and to see designs for the renovated park, visit vprstamford.org.
Mayor David Martin said he had earlier been skeptical about whether the project would move forward due to what he called special interests from various parties. But after being presented with a design in 2015, he was pleased, and impressed, with the progress.
"What I think [this design] will do for this park and the memories of these veterans in Stamford is phenomenal," Martin said. "...We will move this park forward to another level for this community and for our veterans."
Downtown Special Services District President Sandy Goldstein said she's hopeful the new park will also attract a younger generation that has made Stamford their home in recent years.
"This is going to be a place of congregation and innovation," Goldstein said.
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Q: powershell script - send email once a week with info from event viewer I was asked from my boss for a script that send him email once a week about computers in the company where windows antivirus have quarantined files (in the past week), and logs it somewhere.
although i did find how to find those events:
Get-WinEvent -LogName "Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender/Operational"  | Where-Object {$_.id -eq
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I am now a bit lost and could really use and advice. how should i approach this now? anyone done something similar who can advice me?
Thanks so much in advance

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Dave Bruskas Has Been Named the Interim Preaching Pastor After Mark Driscoll's Resignation
By Timothy Yap Oct 26, 2014 11:54 PM EDT
After the resignation of Mark Driscoll as the senior pastor of Mars Hill Church last week, Dave Bruskas has been appointed as the mega church's interim preaching pastor. Driscoll resigned after several church elders issued a joint letter requesting him to step down from leadership. They were later fired. Earlier, members of the Acts 29 church planting network, which Driscoll helped found, advised that he take time off to get help, and rescinded Driscoll and all Mars Hill Church campuses' membership from the network.
Prior to taking up the position, Pastor Dave was one of three Executive Elders at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA. Pastor Dave earned a masters degree in Theological Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary. Formerly he serves as the Teaching Pastor at Mars Hill Church, where he oversaw all 15 Mars Hill Church locations and the Lead Pastor Residency Program. He is married to Kara and together they have four daughters.
Bruskas is painfully aware that Mars Hill Church has "an unhealthy culture in our church," and he is vowing to fix and bring "financial clarity" in the days ahead. Further, he promises that he will be aiming towards an accountable, less-domineering ministry. Bruskas promised to be "one of many voices on Sundays" in a church co-founded and dominated by Driscoll. Bruskas said he will "not be functioning" as an executive elder and will be working to implement decisions "among many leaders."
However, being an executive elder during the reign of Driscoll, Bruskas was involved in decisions such as buying copies to put Driscoll's book "Real Marriage" on The New York Times bestseller list. "There are bound to be questions about what he knew. ... Why did Bruskas go along with all the financial secrecy, including all salaries?" Warren Throckmorton, a college professor and expert on the church, asked this week on the Patheos website.
But Bruskas is vowing to be a healer, and is beginning his preaching pastorate with an apology. "We love you very much at Mars Hill, and it is our deep desire to begin a new chapter based on new values," he writes. "We ask for forgiveness from those who have been hurt by this church because of the culture we contributed to.
"We wish to move forward together knowing that we are a broken and repentant church in need of a forgiveness and restoration that only Jesus provides."
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Weekly Boxing Column: Williams goes down to get back up
By Robert Morales | rmorales@scng.com | Press Telegram
PUBLISHED: September 20, 2008 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 1:05 a.m.
It was Aug. 5. Paul Williams and his promoter, Dan Goossen, were playing host to a news conference at Sisley Italian Kitchen in Sherman Oaks.
Williams was talking about how he wanted to fight fellow welterweight world champion Antonio Margarito in a rematch of their fight in July 2007, won by Williams via decision.
Since Margarito eight days earlier had just become a three-time world champion when he dethroned Miguel Cotto, Williams' talk of a rematch was understandable. Williams said that at this point in his career, those are the only fights he is interested in – big ones.
Anything less, Williams said, and "I'll feel like my career is going in reverse."
Well, this is boxing, and what a fighter says one day doesn't always carry over to the next. Margarito's promoter, Bob Arum, turned down an offer of $4 million for the rematch because he has an ongoing beef with Williams' adviser, Al Haymon.
Now Williams is stuck with taking on Andy Kolle on Thursday at Soboba Casino in San Jacinto. A well-
known world champion like Williams taking on an unknown fighter like Kolle in an outdoor venue at a desert casino seems bad. But Williams said earlier this week it is all good.
"I'm not disappointed that I'm not fighting a big name, because I'm moving up in weight," Williams said, trying to keep a stiff upper lip. "He (Kolle) is the opponent, so I'll get in there. The bottom line is the big names didn't want it. We are not going to sit around and wait for them."
Williams – who is at least 6-foot-2 – is moving up to middleweight for this fight, but Kolle is nowhere near the class of Williams.
Williams and Goossen did their best during a conference call to sell what is being called only a temporary move up in weight, however. Goossen said he reached out to virtually every other hot commodity in the welterweight, super welterweight and middleweight divisions. But he said there were no takers for Williams.
Before being turned down by Team Margarito, there were talks for a fight with middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik. Pavlik is promoted by Arum, and when that deal fell apart, Arum blamed Haymon and vowed never to do business with him again.
Williams, 27, was considered a candidate for Oscar De La Hoya's next fight. De La Hoya instead chose to fight Manny Pacquiao on Dec. 6.
"Paul understands the pool of guys willing to fight him is lean," Goossen said. "So we are looking to keep out there and creating things. This is a fight with Kolle that presents a few question marks. And the question mark is how does Paul handle a fighter who is bigger like Andy Kolle? It's the same question that would have been asked with Pavlik."
Goossen said he doesn't want to relegate Williams (34-1, 25 KOs), of Augusta, Ga., to the welterweight division. He said Williams will come back down to defend that title, but that the ultimate goal is for Williams to also win titles at super welterweight, middleweight and super middleweight.
Moreover, Goossen said, it's nice having a fighter who is so avoided. Not only is Williams very tall for a welterweight, he is a southpaw.
"I like it," Goossen said, "because if I've got a fighter everyone wants to fight, he's not going to be around long. … No one is going to turn down Paul based on money because he generates money. Our time will come where no one will be able to turn him down."
Kolle, of Fergus Falls, Minn., is 17-1 with 12 knockouts. The only other well-known fighter he has faced is 2004 Olympic gold-medal winner Andre Ward, and Kolle didn't answer the bell for the seventh round of their fight in April 2006. It was Ward's ninth pro fight.
But Kolle, also a southpaw, spoke in confident tones.
"I have watched a lot of (Williams') fights," said Kolle, 26. "He has always been the taller man in the ring, and I feel that I've got the tools and I see the openings in his defense."
There is another intriguing scenario on this card that will be televised by Versus. One of Goossen's other gems, heavyweight Chris Arreola, is going to fight Israel Carlos Garcia of New York City. Arreola is 24-0 with 21 knockouts and a top-10 fighter. Garcia is 19-1 with 11 knockouts, but he is 38 and unranked. To be fair, Arreola is only 27, which is still very young for a heavyweight.
Goossen has brought Arreola along nicely and his plan is for Arreola to get his first major title shot in 2009.
"Chris is at that point in his career where he believes he is ready for anyone," Goossen said.
Arreola, of Riverside via Los Angeles, was asked what is motivating him for this fight.
"Knowing that he (Garcia) is hungry, knowing he wants to be where I'm at," Arreola said. "Knowing I want to be a world heavyweight champion and he is in the way."
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Guido van der Groen (Kontich, 11 december 1942) is een Belgisch viroloog en medeontdekker van het ebolavirus. Van der Groen is doctor in de wetenschappen (scheikunde en biochemie) en was het grootste deel van zijn carrière verbonden aan het Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde in Antwerpen als hoogleraar, hoofd van de afdeling Microbiologie/Virology Unit en directeur van het aids-referentielaboratorium. Daarnaast doceerde hij aan de Universiteit Gent en de VUB.

Van der Groen wordt beschouwd als internationale autoriteit inzake hiv/aids en ebola. Over die onderwerpen gaf hij overal ter wereld lezingen en gastcolleges. Hij vervulde ruim 40 consultantships voor de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie en was hoofd- en medeauteur van talloze, vaak geciteerde wetenschappelijke artikels over hiv/aids en ebola. Tussen 1980 en 2015 werd hij vaak door de media gevraagd om tekst en uitleg te geven over het hiv- en het ebolavirus.

In 2015 publiceerde hij bij uitgeverij Lannoo 'In het spoor van ebola - mijn leven als virusjager', een boek dat hij samen met biografe Christine Caals en wetenschapsauteur Marc Geenen schreef. Het boek werd ook in het Engels uitgebracht.

Tegen de achtergrond van de grootste ebola-epidemie ooit, die op dat moment in West-Afrika woedde, overliep Van der Groen zijn loopbaan en beschreef hij onder meer hoe hij als jonge wetenschapper samen met Peter Piot in 1976 een nieuw virus isoleerde uit het bloed van een Vlaamse non die in Yambuku (Zaïre) was overleden aan een mysterieuze ziekte. Enkele weken later trok Van der Groen zelf voor enkele maanden naar Zaïre om er namens het ITG deel uit te maken van een internationaal wetenschappelijk onderzoeksteam. Het virus dat hij mee ontdekte zou later ebola worden genoemd, naar een rivier benoorden Yambuku.

Guido van der Groen is getrouwd met Constantia (Dina) Petridis, dr. in de Scheikunde (Universiteit Gent (1964-1979) en Rijksuniversitair Centrum Antwerpen (nu UA, 1970-2003). Hij is vader van twee dochters en een achterneef van actrice Dora van der Groen.

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Dillinger's Malicious Ingenuity
February 20, 2022 February 20, 2022 / Clint Smith / Leave a comment
For the time being, I've concluded my research into the life of John Dillinger and his rogue's gallery of associates. And when I appropriate the term "research," what I'm really talking about is examining the final year of his short, yet significant, life.
The most recent resources to which I've dedicated my attention are Dillinger: The Untold Story (2009) (originally penned as a manuscript in the 1930s by George Russell Giardin, but later edited by William J. Helmer), along with Elliot J. Gorn's Dillinger's Wild Ride (2009), and John A. Beineke's outstanding Hoosier Public Enemy: A Life of John Dillinger (2014).
These minor expeditions functioned as reinforcement for several forthcoming projects (with a pair of stories still existing in a murky sketch-based state, while another longer draft — something tentatively titled, "The Sacraments of Blackgum Lake" — slouching toward some semblance of "Bethlehem" later this year).
I was able to apply additional layers of clarity into what those years — JD's final year, in particular — "looked" like. What fascinates me in particular is the anomalous confluence of so many circumstances (some disparate, some inextricably sutured together) that created the historic habitat in which Dillinger and his associates (temporarily) thrived. We're talking about a time period when dire economic conditions not only produced a sense of desperation, but compelled individual ingenuity — in Dillinger's case, a rather malicious ingenuity.
Much is made of the mythical status that Dillinger — not unlike the legendary Jesse James (whose purported altruism has been debunked) — exists as a figure of nostalgia: a Midwestern Robin Hood — a "gentleman bandit" who would allow poor farmers standing at a teller's window to keep their money while he and his gang would exsanguinate the bank.
(Invoking Jesse James above, it's anecdotally worth noting that, in relation to folkloric comparisons with James, Dillinger, in the early summer of 1934, had been sketching plans for a train robbery. Working in collaboration with his associates Homer Van Meter and Babyface Nelson, JD's "dream" of a million-dollar haul (the likely target being a mail or payroll train connected to Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad routes) would be his exit ticket to Mexico. There was an incident on July 16 — about three-and-a-half weeks after his thirty-first birthday and merely six days before he'd be killed in an alley adjacent to the Biograph Theater — wherein two police officers happened upon Dillinger, Nelson, and several other individuals near a seldom-used road on the outskirts of Chicago. Nelson, possessing nearly no self-control when it came to either opening fire or taking a life, shot at the police officers, injuring but, in this instance, not killing them. The logic is that JD's band was surveilling potential getaway routes should a train heist ever coalesce. At this point, one of the main impediments to JD and Van Meter's plan was access to "soup": nitroglycerin, which they would use to blow the doors off the train.)
The world into which Dillinger emerged following his initial, nine-year prison stint (1924 – 1933 — the backstory of which arguably composes the most formative of what Dillinger would become) was one which had been crippled by the economy. A quarter of the country was unemployed. Families were starving. Businessmen were jumping out of buildings. And so one useful approach in viewing this kaleidoscope of narrative perspectives is to recall the lack of hope that the Depression had instilled throughout the country: an economic disaster that elicited the hunger for hope, intrinsic escapism — people needed a figure that stood in antithesis to the very real, very acute, man-made crisis.
Another spectrum with which to view Dillinger's emergence as an aforementioned folk hero is the public's ability to differentiate between metropolitan mobsters like Capone and underdog-outlaws like Dillinger — through the lens of the Depression, crooks like Capone represented corrupt capitalists while JD stood in for outlaws rebelling against a rotten, reified system.
In short: the public had little sympathy for banking institutions.
Beyond this, JD's escapades compelled the public to gaze at the institution of law-enforcement itself. "As opposed to Hoover, [Dillinger] broke the law honestly and had only himself to hide" (Dillinger: The Untold Story).
From a young age, Dillinger never demonstrated a desire for conventional work. On his father's farm, he was of mediocre assistance. Five months after enlisting in the Navy, Dillinger (possibly homesick) deserted his fleet in Boston and returned to Mooresville, Indiana (he actually went AWOL twice before deserting in December of 1923). Following his release from the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, IN, JD returned to Mooresville; but in May, 1933, when it came to securing "honest" work along the Depression-era landscape, JD made little effort to obtain it (there's a digression on that note, because while the townsfolk of Mooresville tolerated Dillinger, he was still a convict with a nefarious reputation).
It's my estimation that John Dillinger was a very lonely man — a very lonely boy, really.
We must remember that his Public-Enemy escapades lasted merely a portion of the thirteen months in which his intense and significant crimes were committed.
I'll use the marker of June 4, 1933 (when JD attempted a small-time robbery with "Bill" ("Kid") Shaw, and Noble "Sammy" Claycombe) as an initial marker for the "reign of terror" which would follow, yet most researchers would likely cite July, 1933 as the true point of no return. It was on this date that Dillinger, along with Harry Copeland (who would later introduce JD to Evelyn "Billy" Frescette) and Sam Goldstein, rob the Daleville Commercial Bank (perhaps apocryphal, but this may be the robbery that earned Dillinger the moniker "Jackrabbit," as it's purported he vaulted the barrier of the teller's window with athletic ease).
With the summer of 1934, Dillinger's death cultivated the following year-long stats (which would of course be altered by a continued pulse of criminal activity and its coinciding body count): 26 people killed. 19 innocent bystanders wounded. 23 people sentenced (to death and otherwise).
Dillinger always had a choice, but his options (in relation to how he was formatively hardwired) were limited. I think Dillinger hungered for (and trusted) friendship in a world of violent vacillation. I think Dillinger had an appetite for women that was in direct association for the vacuum produced by losing his birth-mother at the age of three (there is an anecdote of JD, at the side of his mother's open casket, tugging at her hand, pleading for her to wake up), and the death of his step-mother on the same day he was released from the Indiana State Prison in 1933. I think Dillinger was constantly aware of his impermanence, which was converted into acute (and perhaps charming) defiance. And I think that Dillinger (sort of sadly) just wanted to have fun at the expense of others.
Equipped with swift wits, Dillinger assimilated further into the underworld following his tentative "freedom" in May, 1933. Contrary to the wistful mystique of Robin Hood befriended by his Merry Men, Dillinger elected to insulate himself with, as Beinke puts it, "a gang of talented murderers." It was that impermanent contract with the Underworld that satiated his need for fast cars, libidinous women, but it was an Underworld — a network which included politicians and the police — that would repeatedly betray Dillinger, and ultimately manifest in the grimly-poetic demise of being shot in the back.
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After checking in on the marketing and sales report, there's been a modest purchase-bump for my freshman collection, Ghouljaw and Other Stories, released by Hippocampus Press in 2014, with a humbling Introduction from S.T. Joshi and cover art by Jared Boggess. (One sales site claims only five copies remaining in stock.)
And since it's been nearly eight years since its publication, I'll supply a memento from the gifted Ben H. Winters, Edgar-Award-Winning author of The Last Policeman: "These smart, unsettling stories give us, with vivid detail, both the squalidly ordinary and the terrifyingly extraordinary-and make clear how closely the two are linked."


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The Measure of a Man a Spiritual Autobiography
by Sidney Poitier
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Q: How can I get the value of a variable without lose it value? I know that maybe this is a silly question but I do not know what to do.
I want to pass a value to a function, the problem is that I lose the value that I want. I tried to do this in one function or in the other and the result is the same.
I want to do a function after another function ends, I know that I can do that with a callback, but how I have to pass a parameter, the callback function doesn´t work, or at least I do not know how to do that.
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    $this->crud->set_table('test');
    (...)
    $output = $this->crud->render();
    $data['page_title'] = 'Test';
    $data = array_merge($data, (array) $output);

    $state_code = $this->crud->getState();
    $info = '';
    $operation_message = 'in the Table';
        if ($state_code == 'add')
        {
            $info = 'Inserted';
        }

    echo $info; // this value give me **empty**, and I want that give me **Inserted**
    $this->Insert_t($operation_message, $info)

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I am doing a kind of Traces, I do not know if that is the English name.
A function that save all that a user do if insert a record, I save the record in the correspondent table, and in another table, the action "the user Pepe insert a test". With the correspondent DateTime, ip_address
I do not know what I am doing wrong.
thank´s in advance.

A: You can echo $state_code value.If you are getting as "add " then you will surely get result as "inserted"


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Lack of trade-offs between the male and female sexual functions in the gynodioecious herb Geranium sylvaticum
Varga, Sandra and Kytöviita, Minna-Maarit (2017) Lack of trade-offs between the male and female sexual functions in the gynodioecious herb Geranium sylvaticum. Plant Ecology, 218 (10). pp. 1163-1170. ISSN 1385-0237
28708 Varga Kytoviita Plant Ecology in press.pdf
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Resource allocation trade-offs between sexual functions are predicted, but these are usually measured only at the whole plant level. In some gynodioecious species, individuals with partially restored male fertility exist providing an opportunity to investigate whether the costs associated with male fertility restoration are linked to seed production. In this study, we examined whether there is a relationship between the numbers of stamens and seeds produced both at the flower level and at the plant level in the gynodioecious herb Geranium sylvaticum. We individually marked flowers in plants varying in the degree of male sterility in the field and counted the number of seeds produced. There was no significant correlation between the numbers of stamens and seeds produced at the flower level suggesting an absence of resource trade-off between female and male functions. Furthermore, the numbers of stamens and seeds were positively correlated at the plant level. The lack of trade-offs between the two sexual functions in this species indicates that relative sex allocation was not affected by resources within a single season and/or that the male costs were relatively small.
Gynodioecy, Male fertility restoration, Resource sex allocation, Seed and stamen number
C Biological Sciences > C750 Plant Biochemistry
C Biological Sciences > C240 Plant Cell Science
College of Science > School of Life Sciences
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-017-075...


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Through Astronaut Eyes
by Jennifer K. Levasseur (Author)
Nonfiction Science and technics Technology & engineering Mechanics Aeronautics & astronautics Arts Photography Subjects & themes Historical History History by country United States History Other Social history
Featuring over seventy images from the heroic age of space exploration, Through Astronaut Eyes presents the story of how human daring along with technological ingenuity allowed people to see the Earth and stars as they never had before.
Photographs from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs tell powerful and compelling stories that continue to have cultural resonance to this day, not just for what they revealed about the spaceflight experience, but also as products of a larger visual rhetoric of exploration. The photographs tell us as much about space and the astronauts who took them as their reception within an American culture undergoing radical change throughout the turbulent 1960s.
This book explores the origins and impact of astronaut still photography from 1962 to 1972, the period when human spaceflight first captured the imagination of people around the world. Photographs taken during those three historic programs are much admired and reprinted, but rarely seriously studied. This book suggests astronaut photography is particularly relevant to American culture based on how easily the images were shared through reproduction and circulation in a very visually oriented society. Space photography?s impact at the crossroads of cultural studies, the history of exploration and technology, and public memory illuminates its continuing importance to American identity.
Purdue University Press
Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics


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Loranzo "Charles" Carr
May 2, 1929 - September 18, 2020
Loranzo "Charles" Carr, 91, of Nederland, Texas passed away on Friday, September 18, 2020. Charles was born in Fannett, Texas on May 2, 1929 to the late, Loranzo Carr and Ella Hargraves Carr. Charles served his country proudly for 5 years in the United States Air Force where he served as an Airplane Specialist. He was a retired Lab Technician with 33 years of service with DuPont. Charles enjoyed many hobbies including woodworking, playing the guitar, the fiddle which he started playing at 7 years old, the piano as well as the accordion. Charles loved music and had the special talent of picking up an instrument and playing it by ear. Those left to cherish Charles' memory include his loving children, Larry Carr and his wife, Susan, Ruth Lafosse and her husband, Gary and Charlie Carr and his wife, Tammy; his sister, Debbie Dunn and her husband, Gary; seven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. In addition to his parents, Charles is preceded in death by his loving wife of 62 years, Lorene Carr; his sister Melba Carr and his step-mother, Ruby Gray Carr. A gathering of family and friends will be held at Central Gardens Baptist Church, 114 4th Avenue in Nederland, Texas on Saturday, September 26, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. with the funeral service to begin at 2:00 p.m., Brother Jimmy Robbins, officiant. Enterment will follow at Memory Gardens of Jefferson County.
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The Greatest United States Presidents in history, ranked from best to worst. Who's the greatest U.S. president? Anyone can vote on or make their own version of this collaborative list of the men who shaped American policy - a fascinating insight into all the US Presidents and how their presidencies were perceived. Who were the best presidents? We expect this list of the Chief Executives to change over time as history's perceptions also change.
And be sure to check out Ranker's ultimate list of the Worst-Ever US Presidents as well, for comparison's sake.


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In Appreciation: Gene Ford, Sr.
Gene Ford, Sr., a long-time donor and supporter of The Bernie Scholarship Awards Program (BSAP), has made a $100,000 bequest to The Bernie Scholarship Awards Program. Mr. Ford's company Mid-City produced thousands of housing units throughout the Washington-Baltimore region that served many low-income residents. He recognized that people were not poor by choice and that housing in itself would not substantially change their lives. As a result, he led the way in adding housing services in Mid-City Developments and the Community Preservation Development Corporation, a non-profit that he formed.
Realizing his sincere commitment to changing the lives of low-income people, The Bernie Scholarship Awards Program honored Mr. Ford with our Community Service Award in 2001. At the awards ceremony he listened to the inspiring stories of those receiving scholarships and recognized that education of these scholars was breaking the cycle of poverty. He became a benefactor of the BSAP until his death and now even beyond.


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The Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) are the only statewide, nationally accredited program that provides high quality one-on-one consulting, training and information resources to empower new and existing businesses. The SBDC program is a public/private partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and 18 universities and colleges across the Commonwealth.
The mission of the network of Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) is to provide entrepreneurs and small business owners with the knowledge needed to make smart decisions and prosper.
Since its inception in 1980, the Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) has evolved into a network of 18 university and college-based centers and more than ninety outreach locations operating under the guidance of the Lead Office located at Kutztown University.
The Pennsylvania SBDC provides consulting services and educational programs to entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their small business. SBDC consultants work with entrepreneurs in confidential, one-to-one sessions to help them with a range of business issues including testing a new business proposition, shaping a business plan, investigating funding opportunities, and much more.
Important milestones in the growth of the Pennsylvania SBDC network include:
1980 University of Pennsylvania State Director's Office
Bucknell University SBDC & Engineering Development Services
Lehigh University SBDC
University of Pittsburgh SBDC
University of Scranton SBDC
Wharton SBDC
Wilkes University SBDC
1981 Clarion University SBDC
Duquesne University SBDC
Gannon University SBDC
1982 Temple University SBDC
1983 Saint Francis University SBDC
1987 Government Marketing Assistance Program begins
Pennsylvania SBDC receives ASBDC certification for the first time
1988 Saint Vincent College SBDC
1991 WISE Program begins
1992 Kutztown University SBDC
1993 Pennsylvania SBDC re-certified by ASBDC
1997 Lock Haven University SBDC
Pennsylvania State University SBDC
Environmental Management Assistance Program (EMAP) begins
2000 General Assembly appropriates, and Governor Ridge supports, funding to expand the Environmental Management Assistance Program statewide
2003 Pennsylvania SBDC accredited by ASBDC
Governor Rendell recommends a $400,000 increase (7%) for the Pennsylvania SBDC for FY 2004 in the face of a $2 billion deficit
Indiana University SBDC
2004 Material Trader website launched
Re-branding initiative launched
2005 Ask EMAP launched
2006 SBDC client sales increase surpasses $1.3 billion
Pennsylvania SBDC accredited by ASBDC including Technology accreditation
Six PA small businesses helped by EMAP win ENERGY STAR Awards (of 8 winners nationally)
2007 Shippensburg University SBDC
Widener University SBDC
Manure Trader website launched
EMAP receives ENERGY STAR Small Business Network Award
Gannon SBDC launces WILD Conference
5 SBDC Clients listed on Inc. 500
Christian Conroy named State Director
Clean Technology Resource Center launched
Technology Commercialization Services re‐launched
Federal Region III Veteran Business Outreach Center launched
Pennsylvania SBDC network awarded full accreditation from the Association of Small Business Development Centers, including supplemental accreditation for its specialized technology services (one of only eight SBDC programs in the country to earn this distinction)
Funding support and resources are provided through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration, by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through the Department of Community & Economic Development and through support from the host institutions. All services are extended to the public on a non-discriminatory basis. Language assistance services are available for limited English proficient individuals. Special arrangements for persons with disabilities can be made by calling the SBDC directly at least two weeks in advance. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA. SBDC services are not available to individuals or entities that have been debarred or suspended by the federal government. By agreeing to receive assistance from the SBDC you are self-certifying that you are not currently federally debarred or suspended and also agree to cease using SBDC services if you become federally debarred or suspended in the future.
13 of 18 SBDCs in Pennsylvania are AACSB Accredited.


Some grants and contracts have certain expenses that are not easily identifiable to the different work components within that program. This may include coordination activities, program managers, program supplies, etc. You may find that charging these types of costs to a specific program pool element and allocating them to the different work components within the grant/contract using an internal base is the most equitable basis of reflecting the costs under each component. An internal base consists of hours worked, personnel costs, or total direct costs. Software is available to do the allocation based on a user defined element matrix. A special Year-To-Date Cost Allocation Summary is produced to document the trail of the debits and credits resulting from the allocation. It may eliminate the common practice of arbitrarily expending program shared costs.


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How Atlanta's Office of Film and Entertainment Helps Filmmakers
With the movie industry continuing to grow throughout Georgia, it's no surprise that the state's capital in particular has become a hotbed for filming.
In order to better serve the influx of filmmakers and studios wanting to film in Atlanta, and create a stable infrastructure for the local community, Mayor Kasim Reed created the Office of Film and Entertainment in 2013. Over the past three years, this office has streamlined the permitting process for studios, courted ancillary businesses from other industry hubs, and created a 24-hour hotline to inform city residents about how filming might temporarily affect their neighborhoods.
As of February 2016, the office has been headed up by director Christopher Hicks, whose previous experience includes roles as the senior vice president and head of urban music at Warner Chappell and, more recently, executive vice president of Def Jam Records. During his time in the music industry, Hicks helped nurture Atlanta-based talents like Usher and T.I., and helped guide the likes of Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Lopez, and Justin Bieber to greater success. Still acclimating himself to his new position, Hicks brings entertainment industry experience to serve the city he's called home for the past two decades.
"I have a track record of creative business development," he tells Backstage. "I feel the mayor is familiar with and understands the nature of some of the things I've done and what my thought process is. As it pertains to this office, it's a great opportunity to implement some of the ideas we discussed, as well as shore up what he's already got going on. What we are trying to create is synergy to help the creative community here connect the dots. There's a way to do that and I feel like we're making tremendous inroads to doing that quickly."
Hicks says the biggest difference between his new job and managing pop stars is who he is serving and what motivates his decisions.
"I come from the private sector and I think this public sector office can benefit from some of my insight," he says. "When you operate in the private sector the common denominator is greed. When you work in the public sector you're working for the greater good of the community and the people, and you have to keep that at the forefront of your decision making. Because you are their voice, you're not able to move as nimbly as you are accustomed to. That doesn't make it a bad process, it just makes it a more informative process—giving them information and receiving feedback to try and set forth something that's in the best interest of all the parties involved."
By continuing the efforts already set forth by the office, Hicks says he looks to continue driving the mayor's vision while also finding new ways to create film industry opportunities for the city's residents.
"Here in Atlanta and throughout the state, there's been this sweeping infrastructure built to accommodate the workload that has come here," says Hicks. "As a developer and a 20-year resident of the city, I don't think anything moves the needle of opportunity like success itself, where people can see themselves in that success. To watch [someone] plant a seed of something and watch it go around the world is something [to] emulate and be inspired by. I want to really push for some seed-planting moments for this community because then we can really galvanize the opportunities for people who produce, write screenplays, direct, and run their own production companies."
When it comes to Atlanta-based actors and filmmakers looking to catch the attention of someone who can help them take their careers to the next level, Hicks suggests utilizing virtual tools available to anyone from any city.
"The Internet has introduced vast opportunities for everyone in the creative community," he says. "If you can do it, there's a way to showcase what you do and get it seen and recognized without asking permission. Everything that has happened in the City of Atlanta from an entertainment standpoint, I don't think we necessarily got any permission. It was a lot of forward-thinking individuals, people who were very comfortable and confident about what they were doing, who really weren't receptive to 'no' as an answer for what they wanted to focus on. That's how the city became galvanized and that's how that continuum is going to happen."
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Wavefront LASIK - What Is So Special About It?
Wavefront LASIK – What Is So Special About It?
Using 3D technology to digitally image the cornea, Wavefront LASIK is more complex than standard LASIK procedures. When traditional LASIK eye surgery has been unsuccessful or is not a viable option because of the specialized needs of a patient, Wavefront can be a great solution. Recovery times are nearly identical, but there are not as many corrective eye surgery centers equipped to handle this procedure. Given this information, it is understandable why Wavefront is viewed as a special and highly specialized version of traditional LASIK corrective eye surgery.
Whether a surgeon offers regular LASIK or Wavefront corrective eye surgery, attendance at an accredited LASIK eye institute or university is mandatory. In addition, the equipment needed to offer Wavefront LASIK services is extremely expensive. This means that only a small number of eye surgery centers can even give doctors the training that they would need to master their Wavefront corrective eye surgery skills.
Wavefront LASIK corrective eye surgery centers also need to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. LASIK vision correction is still in its infancy stage. Doctors are still trying to perfect their techniques and gather information that can be used to fine tune these sensitive lasers. This is because there are still a few wearers of glasses and contact lenses that have not been able to benefit from Wavefront LASIK or any other similar procedure.
Overall, laser eye surgery reviews have been positive. When this procedure is performed by a skilled and dutiful surgeon, there is almost no chance of injury. Even those that do not regain any of their vision do not regret going through corrective eye surgery. Considering the fact that it can take as much as three to four months before the ultimate results are known, the few reported cases of minimal improvement may actually be attributed to poor post recovery habits. Wavefront may actually lead to more exciting eye surgery discoveries, and perhaps even give patients that have completely lost their vision a small glimmer of hope. Wavefront is currently the only technology that can scan corneas and restore vision without causing extensive scarring or injury to patients.


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Transcript 3/1/2019 - Elizabeth Quesnelle
Post subject: Transcript 3/1/2019 - Elizabeth Quesnelle
Elizabeth Quesnelle
cosmetic botique owner
$500: Which of these well-known tales is NOT typically found in the story collection "The Thousand and One Nights"?
A - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
B - The Seven Voyages of Sinbad
C - Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves
D - Fifty Shades of Grey
Answer: D (Fifty Shades of Grey)
$1000: According to a survey conducted by Acceleration Partners, once the bills and rent are paid, North Americans are most likely to spend their discretionary income dollars on what?
A - ant farms
B - technology
C - calligraphy classes
D - berets
Answer: B (technology)
$2000: Making for a combined total of 14, the big toe typically has two what, while the other toes each have three?
A - bones
B - toenails
C - hairs
D - bunions
Answer: A (bones)
$3000: Replacing the backbreaking work previously done with a scythe, Edwin Budding is credited with inventing the world's first what in 1830?
A - vacuum cleaner
B - dishwasher
C - lawn mower
D - jackhammer
Answer: C (lawn mower)
$5000: Known for his roles as a taxi dispatcher, "Batman" nemesis and edgy sitcom dad, in 2018 what actor was honored with his own day in Asbury Park, New Jersey?
A - Ray Liotta
B - Joe Pesci
C - Danny DeVito
D - John Travolta
Elizabeth knows Danny DeVito was The Penguin in a "Batman" movie and a dispatcher on the TV show "Taxi".
Answer: C (Danny DeVito)
$7000: It's Millionaire Poetry Time! If you're visiting New Orleans/and want to fill your gut/order étouffée/best described as what?
A - rich chocolate dessert
B - Creole-style coffee drink
C - spicy beef sandwich
D - crawfish stew over rice
Elizabeth loves Creole food but not this dish.
Answer: D (crawfish stew over rice)
$10,000: The Chunnel opened, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated president of South Africa, and Ace of Base saw "The Sign" hit #1 in May of what year?
C - 1994
D - 1999
Elizabeth thinks Mandela got out of prison in the early '90s and Ace of Base was popular when she was in college, although she didn't listen to them.
Answer: C (1994)
$20,000: According to U.S. federal weather data, which state holds the record for the widest range between its all-time high and low temperatures: 117° and -70°?
A - California
B - Montana
C - New York
D - South Carolina
Elizabeth eliminates South Carolina because it has no mountains. She decides to use her 50:50.
"50:50 results": B & C
She says that makes it easier.
Answer: B (Montana)
$30,000: Used to describe quiet and peaceful days, the word "halcyon" is derived from the Greek name for a mythical type of what creature?
A - horse
B - bird
C - deer
D - cat
Elizabeth wants to ask the audience.
B - 37%
C - 23%
D - 12%
She says she's torn because birds can be peaceful like doves or loud like cockatoos; cats sleep a lot.
Answer: B (bird)
Elizabeth's +1 is her husband, Randall. They met on a blind date. They've been together 18 years and married for 14.
$50,000: Which of these denominations of old British money was worth the least?
A - guinea
B - farthing
C - halfpenny
D - florin
Elizabeth considers halfpenny, then thinks of penny farthings, the large bicycles. She decides to use her +1 because "he knows some money". He knows what three of them are but not their value. He's never heard of "florin"; she thinks they are Dutch. Elizabeth would love to see the $100,000 question. Randall says if she feels like it she should go for it. She's torn, but finally decides to walk away.
Answer: B (farthing)
MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": According to her bio, the international icon Hello Kitty was born in the suburbs of what cosmopolitan city?
A - London
B - Paris
C - New York City
D - Tokyo
Answer: A (London)
Post subject: Re: Transcript 3/1/2019 - Elizabeth Quesnelle
I'd use lifelines, starting with 50:50. Depending upon what two choices were left I might ask the audience (though I doubt their knowledge of old British money is any better than mine).


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