Your chance to help set the direction of your club.
The Dons Trust Board (DTB) runs the Trust and is elected by its members on a one member, one vote basis.
Elections to the board take place every year, with half the positions on the board up for election each time.
The results of each election are announced at that year's Dons Trust annual general meeting, held in December.
As a member of the Trust you have the right to stand for election yourself. To find out more about what it's like to be a member of the Dons Trust Board get in touch with one of the current members and they will be happy to tell you more about what it involves.
Votes counted by ESG and count validated by Neil Springate, Independent Observer on Saturday 8 December 2018.
Four members' two-year terms come to an end this year. There are therefore four vacancies on the Board of Wimbledon Football Club Supporters' Society Limited (the Trust Board) to be filled, all for a term of two years.
For reference, the five continuing members are Colin Dipple, Roger Evans, Cormac van der Hoeven, Jane Lonsdale and Mark Davis, who will be happy to discuss the role and responsibilities of Board members.
This year, 11* Dons Trust members have stepped forward as candidates.
You can find their manifestos here.
* It is with regret that Election Steering Group has to announce that, for personal reasons, Anne-Marie Godfrey has had to withdraw as a candidate from the Dons Trust Board election. We thank Anne-Marie for standing and wish her well.
The election rules can be found here.
There will be no formal hustings before, during or after a home match; previous elections have shown there to be little voter appetite for this. However, candidates are, subject to the Election Rules, free to canvass and campaign at such times.
There will be an opportunity for candidates to introduce themselves briefly to members at the SGM on 8 November and for members to meet candidates at the open meeting to be held in Wimbledon on 31 October.
If there is anything that is not clear, or anything that you would like to discuss, contact the Election Steering Group via elections@thedonstrust.org or on 07818 617 620. John Dolan, who is chairing the Group this year, will do his best to help.


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The nursery colors are pink, orange, green and aqua. At first I was going to make one big quilt, but I decided they both needed their own. I still wanted them to match, so I thought chevron quilts in all of their colors, adding green to both to further tie them together.
I've been wanting to make a chevron quilt for a while and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I just made half-square triangles from 5 1/2" squares and sewed them together in rows.
For the fabrics I used lots of polka dots from Riley Blake and little elephants from Michael Miller.
On the girl quilt I free-motion quilted little swirls and every once in while added a heart. On the boy quilt I quilted lines to keep it more masculine.
I wanted to quilts to be cozy warm so I put minky on the back. It actually quilts quite well!
I loved stitching these up for my dear cousin. Unlike my husband who has countless cousins and extended family my extended family is quite small, so it means even more to me. I was in tears when I met the new little bundles and here they are!
I'm glad they will have a little piece of me with them!
What precious little gifts from God. The quilts are absolutely gorgeous and I am sure they will be cherished for years.
Love the quilts..Babies will love them..What pattern did you use?
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Quinton Patton
Minor NFL Transactions: 6/8/17
June 8th, 2017 at 5:28pm CST by Connor Byrne
Thursday's minor moves:
The Jets have waived wide receiver Quinton Patton with an injury settlement, per Rich Cimini of ESPN.com (Twitter link). The 26-year-old offseason signing went on injured reserve earlier this week with an undisclosed ailment.
The Lions have added offensive tackle Tony Hills and waived guard Connor Bozick. Hills will add another body for a team whose starting left tackle, stalwart Taylor Decker, is dealing with a shoulder injury. However, Hills isn't any kind of replacement for Decker, as he has totaled just 33 appearances and one start since 2010. Bozick didn't last long in Detroit, where he signed last May as an undrafted free agent from Delaware.
The Dolphins have agreed to a contract with wide receiver Mitch Mathews, sources tell Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald. Mathews went undrafted out of BYU in 2016. In his collegiate career, he caught 152 passes for 2,083 yards and 24 touchdowns.
The Seahawks have signed tight end Steve Donatell and cut fellow TE Bryce Williams. Donatell, the brother of Seahawks quality control coach Tom Donatell, signed as an undrafted free agent from Wake Forest. Williams went undrafted last year out of East Carolina and spent some time with the Patriots and Rams.
The Chargers have signed cornerback Ryan Reid, an undrafted free agent from Baylor.
Bryce Williams
Connor Bozick
Mitch Matthews
Ryan Reid
Steve Donatell
Tony Hills
Jets Place WR Quinton Patton On IR
June 5th, 2017 at 4:17pm CST by Zach Links
The Jets announced today that they have placed wide receiver Quinton Patton on the injured reserve. To replace him on the roster, the organization has signed wideout Devin Street.
Patton joined the Jets this offseason after spending his first four seasons with San Francisco. After playing in only 10 combined games during his first two seasons in the NFL, the former fourth-rounder saw an increased role in 2015 and 2016. This past season was arguably his best, as the 26-year-old finished the campaign with 37 catches for 408 yards. Patton also has brief experience as a running back, kick returner, and special teamer.
Meanwhile, Street saw a reduced roll with the Colts this past season. After appearing in 31 games with the Cowboys between 2014 and 2015, the 26-year-old only made five appearances in 2016, hauling in a single catch for 20 yards. Over his career, the 2014 fifth-round pick has collected 10 receptions for 152 yards and one touchdown. Besides the Colts and Cowboys, Street also had two separate stints with the Patriots.
Street could have an opportunity to contribute behind Eric Decker, Quincy Enunwa, and Robby Anderson. The Jets are also rostering ArDarius Stewart, Chad Hansen, Charone Peake, and Jalin Marshall, who is facing a four-game suspension.
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Jets Sign WR Quinton Patton
March 23rd, 2017 at 1:54pm CST by Zach Links
The Jets have signed wide receiver Quinton Patton, according to a team announcement. Up until this point, Patton spent his entire NFL career with the 49ers.
The Jets now have seven wide receivers under contract. In addition to Patton, the Jets have Eric Decker, Quincy Enunwa, Robby Anderson, Charone Peake, Jalin Marshall, and Devin Smith under contract. It should be noted that Decker has been mentioned as a potential cap casualty this offseason and Marshall will be suspended for the first four games of the 2017 season.
In 2016, Patton caught 37 passes for 408 yards. That was no small feat given the Niners' struggles on offense last season. He had similar numbers (30 grabs, 394 yards, one touchdown) in 2015.
We had Patton ranked as one of the 15 best free agent wide receivers remaining on the open market.
Quinton Patton Visiting Jets
March 18th, 2017 at 3:53pm CST by Sam Robinson
Quinton Patton started all 14 games he played for the 49ers in 2016 and remains available as the 2017 league year nears the 10-day mark. The Jets have interest and announced they are hosting the fifth-year wide receiver on a visit today.
With the 49ers over the past two seasons, Patton amassed 802 receiving yards and made 18 starts. He scored just one touchdown for 49ers teams that struggled to generate much offensively. Patton missed the 49ers' final two games with a foot injury, joining the brigade of 49ers regulars on IR.
New Jets OC John Morton served as Patton's wide receivers coach during his first two seasons with the 49ers, who selected him in the fourth round of the 2013 draft. Gang Green has serious uncertainty at wide receiver. Brandon Marshall requested his release and signed with the Giants, and Eric Decker's status for the 2017 season is murky. Jalin Marshall is facing a four-game drug suspension as well, leaving Quincy Enunwa potentially as the Jets' No. 1 wideout come Week 1 as of now.
The Jets are also hosting Josh McCown on a visit this weekend.
Top 2017 Free Agents By Position 3.0: Offense
March 17th, 2017 at 12:19pm CST by Zach Links
The initial wave of NFL free agency is now complete, and while many of the league's top available players are now off the board, there are still plenty of quality options still on the open market.
Listed below are our rankings for the top 15 free agents at each offensive position. These rankings aren't necessarily determined by the value of the contracts – or the amount of guaranteed money – that each player is expected to land in free agency. These are simply the players we like the most at each position, with both short- and long-term value taken into account.
Restricted and exclusive-rights free agents, as well as players who received the franchise tag, aren't listed here, since the roadblocks in place to hinder another team from actually acquiring most of those players prevent them from being true free agents.
We'll almost certainly be higher or lower on some free agents than you are, so feel free to weigh in below in our comments section to let us know which players we've got wrong.
Here's our breakdown of the current top 15 free agents by offensive position for 2017:
Quarterback:
Chase Daniel
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Josh McCown
Matt McGloin
Mark Sanchez
Christian Ponder
Blaine Gabbert
Shaun Hill
Kellen Moore
Tony Romo is not a free agent…at least not yet. If the Cowboys do not find a suitable trade and release him, you'll find him at the top of this list.
Laugh if you must, but Cutler is far and away the best quarterback available on the open market. While most of this year's QB-needy teams are done with their free agent shopping, the Jets are still searching for their 2017 starter and no one would make more sense for them than Cutler. He's not all that far removed from playing solid football and he's a logical transitional option for the Jets until they can isolate a better, younger option for 2018.
Kaepernick's reps wisely told the press that he will be standing for the National Anthem this year. Still, Kaepernick is an outspoken guy who wants to use his platform to discuss hot button issues, so there's no guarantee that the media circus around him will cease. Jets owner Woody Johnson loves seeing his team on the back pages of the New York tabloids, but even he has to have more sense than to entertain Kaepernick. McCown, who has been contact with the team, would be an okay choice if they can't get something done with Cutler. Chase Daniel could be an option too, but there isn't much game film on him.
Needless to say, the No. 3 ranked player on this list isn't an option in New York.
Running back:
Rashad Jennings
Tim Hightower
DeAngelo Williams
Christine Michael
Benny Cunningham
Bobby Rainey
Brandon Bolden
James Starks
Honorable mention: DuJuan Harris, Antonio Andrews, Khiry Robinson
The Vikings have moved on and Peterson will not be back in Minnesota. Where he goes from here is anyone's guess. When Peterson's option was declined by the Vikings earlier this month, there were tons of stories (likely sourced by Peterson's camp) about interest from a litany of contenders. Since then, each team – through anonymous sources – has denied being in the mix for the veteran. It would be easy to doubt Peterson at this juncture, but he has come back from serious injuries multiple times in his career and he is only one year removed from his stellar 2015 campaign. He gets the top spot over the bruising Blount as well as Charles, who hasn't been healthy in a long while.
Jennings was brought to New York with the idea that he would be the team's workhorse. Unfortunately, two of his three seasons with the G-Men were marred by injury. Jennings is currently putting his agility to good use on Dancing With The Stars and it remains to be seen how committed he is to football. After that, we have a trio of vets (Hightower, Williams, CJ2K) who could still advance the ball in limited spurts.
In case you're wondering – Mike Gillislee is not listed here because he is a restricted free agent.
Fullback:
Jerome Felton
Marcel Reece
Derrick Coleman
Line has interest from the Jets. Meanwhile, it's not clear if the other three fullbacks listed here will be able to find work. Coleman avoided jail time on hit-and-run charges in October, but we haven't heard much about him in recent months.
Wide Receiver:
Brian Quick
Anquan Boldin
Vincent Jackson
Andrew Hawkins
Stevie Johnson
Marquess Wilson
Andre Holmes
Greg Salas
Cecil Shorts
Rod Streater
Brandon Tate
Jordan Norwood
Hon. mention: Aaron Dobson
The market has been slow to develop for Aiken but it sounds like things could pick up soon as he's set to meet with the Colts and Seahawks. Aiken, 28 in May, had only 29 receptions last year, but he had 75 grabs for 944 yards in 2015.
Cruz was on the field for 15 regular season games last year and he could recapture some of his old form if a team uses him in the slot. Quick quietly had 44 catches for 564 yards and three touchdowns with the Rams last year, and he was playing in a less-than-stellar offense. Boldin, meanwhile, had 67 catches in 2016, but he averaged just 8.7 yards per reception.
Tight end:
Jacob Tamme
Mychal Rivera
Tim Wright
Larry Donnell
Gavin Escobar
Brandon Myers
Brandon Bostick
Chris Gragg
Dominique Jones
It's a thin group at tight end and everything drops off dramatically after Tamme and Rivera at the top. Donnell made some noise during his time with the Giants but it's been a while since he's done anything of note. Tamme and Rivera could be the only two players from this group to land a deal with any real guaranteed cash.
Offensive tackle:
Ryan Clady
Austin Pasztor
King Dunlap
Sebastian Vollmer
Byron Bell
Breno Giacomini
Bradley Sowell
Things have thinned out at tackle but there are still some impact guys here including Clady, Dunlap, and the versatile Pasztor. Sebastian Vollmer, if healthy, would be an interesting pickup for a team in need of offensive line depth.
Interior linemen (guards/centers):
Jahri Evans
Nick Mangold (C)
Tim Lelito
John Sullivan (C)
Andrew Tiller
Tim Barnes (C)
Oday Aboushi
Evans can still go and he finished out as Pro Football Focus' No. 36 guard in the NFL last season. We have a few notable centers here as well in Mangold, Sullivan, and Barnes. Some teams are asking Mangold to switch to guard, but he is hoping to continue in the middle.
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49ers Place Three Players On IR
December 19th, 2016 at 3:29pm CST by Zach Links
As the 49ers seek their second win of the year, they'll have to do it without the services of three of their players. Wide receiver Quinton Patton, linebacker Nick Bellore, and tight end Blake Bell will all be shut down for the year, as Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com writes.
Patton (foot) and Bellore (elbow) both went down early on in Sunday's embarrassing 41-13 loss to the Falcons. Bell, meanwhile, suffered a shoulder injury after being tackled on a 45-yard pass play in the second quarter. In addition to those three, Maiocco notes that cornerback Jimmie Ward (shoulder), center Marcus Martin (ankle), and nose tackle Glenn Dorsey (undisclosed) also sustained injuries yesterday and their status for Weeks 16 and 17 are not yet known.
The 49ers could fill some of these roster spots from within, if they choose. Wide receiver DeAndre Smelter and linebacker Wynton McManis could be candidates for promotion from the practice squad, Matt Barrows of The Sacramento Bee tweets.
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DeAndre Smelter
Glenn Dorsey
Jimmie Ward
Marcus Martin (OL)
Nick Bellore
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Reactions To NaVorro Bowman Extension
August 6th, 2016 at 12:08pm CST by Ben Levine
NaVorro Bowman is staying in San Francisco for the foreseeable future. The talented linebacker signed an extension earlier this week that will last through the 2022 season. The four-year extension is worth a reported $44MM (with $20MM guaranteed).
Bowman still had three years left on his contract, but the 28-year-old told Cam Inman of The Mercury News that he was intent on inking a long-term extension as soon as possible. Furthermore, the linebacker understood his standing in the organization, and he didn't want his contract to trump that of former 49ers greats (including Patrick Willis).
"Out of respect for Pat, I took a little less and understood this was his team at the time," Bowman said. "I've accomplished a lot since that time and made huge accolades.
"For me asking (now) for the deal, they understood why," said Bowman, noting he never considered holding out of camp. "I knew it wasn't a popular thing to do so with three years left. It's basically about being fair. It shows how good of an organization they are to the players and fair for all the work I've put in."
Let's take a look at some more reactions to Bowman's new contract…
The Bowman extension sent the right message to the linebacker's teammates, writes Cam Inman. The players have learned that hard work can translate into a lucrative extension, and general manager Trent Baalke has already said that he plans on using the team's remaining cap space to ink additional players to new contracts. Quarterback Blaine Gabbert, defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey, wide receiver Quinton Patton and linebacker Michael Wilhoite are among the 49ers who are in the final year of their contracts, Inman notes
"I've had several guys walk up to me and say this is motivation for them," Bowman told Inman. "It's win-win situations for all us, to show guys it's possible, but you have to put your work in and do your job."
"It just shows they truly believe in the guys they drafted to get the job done," said defensive tackle Quinton Dial, who also received an extension. "It's something we take a lot of pride in."
"I want to thank Jed, the York family and Trent for giving me the opportunity to continue my career where my heart is," Bowman said after inking the extension (via CSNBayArea.com). "I appreciate the hard work that Drew and Paraag put in to getting this deal done. My teammates and coaches have meant so much to me throughout my career and I thank them for helping me become the player I am today. The support I've received from my family and friends throughout my life, especially through the adversity of the past few years, has meant so much to me. I can't wait for the season to start and play in front of the best fans in the NFL."
Jason Fitzgerald of OverTheCap.com was surprised at the timing of the Bowman extension, although he notes that it isn't the first time the team has extended a player with multiple years left on a contract. Furthermore, Fitzgerald believes the organization was simply taking advantage of their abundance of cap room.
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NaVorro Bowman
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NFC Links: Suh, Seahawks, Giants, Packers
July 5th, 2014 at 12:18pm CST by Matt Feminis
Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, who identifies as an introvert, spoke with the Oregonian's John Canzano for a piece about the All-Pro's image "reconstruction." Suh has taken criticism for spending his offseason in Portland instead of Detroit, but explained his reasoning: "I'm there when everyone reports. I like being in my own niche and by myself. I have my trainers here. I get 1-on-1 attention. I have every ounce of this campus to myself. My coaches have been here. I've probably talked with our head coach more than just about any player on the team. People here don't care about celebrity. I can walk around and do whatever I want. I'm a normal Portland person."
Here's some additional NFC links:
Several Seahawks veterans, prominent ones, could be entering their final season with the team because of impending salary-cap implications, particularly with Russell Wilson's inevitable contract extension soon to hit the books, writes ESPN's Terry Blount.
The NFC East position groups are being broken down by Jordan Raanan and Eliot Shorr-Parks on NJ.com. Their latest post examines the division's tight ends. They agree the Giants have the worst tight end group in the division, and Shorr-Parks goes so far as to say, "They may just have the worst tight ends in the entire NFL, let alone the NFC East."
ESPN's Rob Demovsky discussed the Packers' secondary depth, including seemingly forgotten man Davon House, who has had an impressive offseason.
Meanwhile, the Packers' NFC North rival Bears are still trying to sort out their safety position. "Every spot on the safety depth chart registers as a battle to watch because right now every position — including the starting jobs — is up for grabs," says ESPN's Michael C. Wright.
There's room on the 49ers roster for 2014 fourth-rounder Bruce Ellington and 2013 fourth-rounder Quinton Patton, says ESPN's Bill Williamson.
Falcons reserve receiver/core special teamer Drew Davis will be sidelined for six weeks after foot surgery, reports Orlando Ledbetter in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Davis was placed on the physically unable to perform list, meaning he would miss about three weeks of training camp.
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Drew Davis
Ndamukong Suh
Broncos Expected To Re-Sign RB David Williams

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Real Madrid is an institution that is perhaps matched only by their fiercest rivals, Barcelona. Following on from their Champions League triumph last season, they have started this campaign in incredible form and, going into this match against Sevilla, the side from Madrid were on a 41-match unbeaten run.
Zinedine Zidane took control following the dismissal of Rafa Benítez last season and has steadily won the confidence of the fans, and perhaps more crucially the president. There have, however, been issues during Zidane's tenure, specifically related to spacing in the midfield area, where a gap would open up between the defensive and attacking lines that could be exploited by the opposition side. In recent weeks, these problems appear to have been eradicated with the side acting as an effective unit. That said, if there is any side in Spain that can take advantage of any mistakes from Zidane then it is Sevilla under Jorge Sampaoli.
The Argentine coach arrived in Andalucia at the start of the season for his first exposure to European football. Initially his Sevilla side took time to both gel newly recruited players and to adjust to Sampaoli's unique and full throttle tactical approach. In recent weeks, however, we have seen Sevilla emerge as one of the most consistent sides in Europe, all while playing a brand of exciting, vertical football that has caught the eye.
The key to the match would lie in whether Madrid were able to withstand the high pressure approach from Sevilla and impose their established game on the home side.
There were few surprises in the Sevilla line-up, with Samir Nasri continuing to impress on the pitch while on loan from Manchester City and striker Wissam Ben Yedder finding his goal-scoring form following his move from Toulouse in the summer.
For Madrid we saw an unfamiliar team shape with Zidane choosing to implement a back three in the form of Varane, Ramos and Nacho. Carvajal and Marcelo moved up to play as wing-backs, although when Sevilla were in their attacking phase this often led to Madrid dropping back to a defensive back five. Casemiro retained his place in the centre of the midfield, allowing the more creative Modrić and Kroos to move into more advanced areas of the field.
The coaching methods and coaching ideology of Sampaoli are very much a reaction to the influence that fellow Argentine coach Marcelo Bielsa has had on his career. While Sampaoli has never directly worked with Bielsa, he has studied his career and adopted similar tactical principles, although crucially he has adapted these principles to suit his own vision.
One of the principles that both men share is that they favour an aggressive high press when the opposition is looking to transition from defence to attack. Sampaoli tends to favour a mixed approach to pressing, with his Sevilla side switching seamlessly between zonal and man-marking approaches to the pressing movement.
In this instance, Madrid have not been able to play through the Sevilla defensive block and they have reset the play by bringing the ball back to their goalkeeper. The Sevilla press is man-orientated with each player captured in the image having a direct responsibility to press and engage a Madrid player. This close pressure can leave spaces between the pressing structure but Sevilla carry it out so successfully that the opposing team rarely find a way to safely penetrate the press.
On this occasion, Sevilla are still pressing high up the field to disrupt the Madrid build-up but they are doing so zonally as opposed to man-for-man. Ideally, Nzonzi, who is positioned centrally in the second pressing line, would be closer to the ball to cut off the vertical pass, but in general the pressing structure from Sevilla in this movement is impressive.
Under Sampaoli they switch between both styles throughout a match to ensure that the opposition are always kept off balance and cannot adjust to play through the press. This high-tempo pressing style can be difficult to maintain for a whole match unless you have the full support of your playing staff, which Sampaoli obviously does.
While Jorge Sampaoli is not particularly seen as a follower of positional play in the same way as Pep Guardiola, there are still some elements of this specific style in the structure of play that Sampaoli has installed at Sevilla.
He likes to play vertical and quick football from back to front. In order to create passing lanes and angles for the ball to be played forward, we will often see the wide attacking players for Sevilla playing on the touchline. This stretches the opposition defensive structure horizontally across the pitch and makes it difficult for the opposition defensive block to adequately defend all of the possible vertical passing lanes that Sevilla will look to use in moving the ball from back to front.
Here you can see an example of the Sevilla structure as they move into the final third of the pitch. The man on the left-hand side of the pitch has retained his wide position and has stretched the defensive line. This prevents the defensive structure from falling into a compact unit. This creates a large gap that the man in possession of the ball can drive into in order to create an effective overload going forward, as the man positioned to mark the wide attacker would have to either hold his position or move across to engage.
The spacing of the front three is only effective if Sevilla are able to support those three players with runners through the gaps from midfield. These runners can occupy the spaces created by the stretching of the defensive line and create advanced platforms for their team mates to play In to.
Here you can see Sevilla positioned in the middle of a sustained period of pressure on the Madrid goal. The runners from the midfield have joined the attacking line and pressed the Madrid defensive unit back. As the wide defenders moved up the field, the wide attackers move inside and create more chances to overload in the central area. It's a typical Sevilla form of attack under Sampaoli.
A 2-1 victory for Sevilla ended the run of consecutive unbeaten matches for Madrid and may signal the rise of the club from the periphery of the Spanish top three to form a new top four. There should be two overriding priorities for the club going forward: to ensure the long-term futures of both Sampaoli and the Director of Football at the club, Monchi. The latter is essential in terms of providing the personnel that the former can mould to his preferred style.
Rumours persist that if Luis Enrique leaves Barcelona then they may turn their interest towards Sampaoli, and that must be avoided at all costs for Sevilla. If this is the style of football that we are seeing from Sevilla after only a few months under Sampaoli, then what will we see when he is fully established at the club and has the entire organisation moving in the direction that he wants? Whatever happens, Sevilla are going to be incredibly fun to watch in La Liga.


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Keilani Ricketts named to USA Softball 2018 National Team roster
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American Samoa will be represented on the USA Softball 2018 World Championship roster, with the selection of Keilani Ricketts to the squad.
Ricketts, a pitcher out of San Jose, CA, has strong ties to the territory, through her Gabbard family. She recently married Sean Tumanuvao, son of Kolio and Monika Tumanuvao, and nephew of Monsignor Viane Etuale.
Tumanuvao is a Class of 2009 graduate of Faasao Marist College Preparatory School.
His former teacher, Victor Langkilde, told Samoa News last week that Keilani, along with her sisters — Samantha and Stephanie — were in the territory a few years back during one of the Samoa Bowl Games. "They conducted clinics and brought equipment down for the players and the program," Langkilde said.
Ricketts' selection to the team is a big deal. After all, Teamusa.org notes that the USA Softball Women's National Team is "the most decorated program in the sport's history."
Team USA won three consecutive Olympic gold medals (1996, 2000, 2004) and a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games. In addition, the Women's National Team has captured eight Pan American Championships and 10 WBSC World Championship gold medals.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, the US Women's National Team was touted as the "Real Dream Team" by Sports Illustrated. Their dominance — which set 11 different Olympic records — led them to be considered the best women's softball team ever assembled, and possibly the most dominant Olympic team of any sport.


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In Maple class we became Willy Wonka and designed our own chocolate bar. We only had two ingredients to choose from and we had to design where the ingredients were going to be placed. Then we made the chocolate from melting it and then putting our ingredients on. We have some chocolatiers in the making in Maple Class!
As part of our topic this afternoon we tried lot of different types of bread. This included bagels, malt loaf and even gluten free crackers! The children commented on how it tasted and the texture of these foods.


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The Outsider Perspective Issue 99
June 14, 2018 Daniel Vaughan
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Good Friday Morning! There's too much news this week. It's a fire hydrant to the face kind of week. You have the historic meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Next, the FBI OIG dropped their report on the investigation into Hilary Clinton. And between those stories, primaries are happening across the country, the Supreme Court releases more opinions, and the Trump Foundation is getting sued for basically being a slush fund.
I'm covering the DOJ report first this week, it's the capstone to the Hilary Clinton email server investigation, and it's incredibly thorough. People will write stories based on that report for weeks to come, especially as more comes out about FBI leak investigations. Next up, the Trump-Kim summit and how to view it. Finally, I wrap up with some thoughts on the DOJ's decision to no longer defend Obamacare in court. The Trump Foundation lawsuit is complicated enough that I'm passing on it for now until more comes out. Links follow.
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Masterpiece Cakeshop decision leaves unanswered questions
Examining what the decision does and what it leaves open for future litigation.
Trump's big stick at the North Korean Singapore summit
A pre-summit piece that looks at the summit plans and what to expect.
The FBI OIG Report on the Clinton Emails investigation of 2016
The massive and thorough report from the Office of Inspector General for the FBI got released Thursday afternoon. It's 568 pages long, meaning I haven't gone through everything yet — nor do I know anyone who has at this stage. But it does examine in incredible depth, the main question I've had about the entire Clinton investigation: Why didn't the FBI recommend prosecution of Clinton on gross negligence grounds?
The reason that point has always stuck out to me is that James Comey's declination speech, on July 5, 2016, laid out all the evidence and arguments you'd need to prosecute anyone on criminal gross negligence grounds. And if you read Chapter Six of the report, Comey's initial draft of his statement accused Clinton of violating gross negligence standards (page 187):
There is evidence to support a conclusion that Secretary Clinton, and others, used the private email server in a manner that was grossly negligent with respect to the handling of classified information…. There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton's position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for such an email conversation. Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
While the FBI was internally discussing how to handle this situation, one of the counter-intel people flat out said Clinton violated the law, page 190:
I believe it's equally important for the Director to more fully explain why the FBI can, in good faith, recommend to DOJ that they not charge someone who has committed a crime (as defined by the letter of the law). It's important the Director explain our recommendation from the FBI perspective and not from the DOJ/prosecutorial perspective. The FBI is recommending that charges not be brought in this instance, not only because "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case," but because the FBI believes it's the right thing to do based on….
The point he was making was that the FBI had to explain why it wouldn't prosecute based on someone who broke the law. That gets answered in chapters two and seven of the report, and if you want a really short summary, they effectively summarized that Clinton and her team were too stupid to have committed gross negligence.
To meet the gross negligence standard, the prosecutors involved believed you had to have some level of intent, as they lay out on page 32:
[C]harging a violation of Section 793(f) likely required evidence that the individuals who sent emails containing classified information "knowingly" included the classified information or transferred classified information onto unclassified systems (Section 793(f)(1)), or learned that classified information had been transferred to unclassified systems and failed to report it (Section 793(f)(2)). Thus, the Midyear prosecutors interpreted the "gross negligence" provision of Section 793(f)(1) to require proof that an individual acted with knowledge that the information in question was classified.
And based on the interviews with Hilary Clinton and her staff, the FBI concluded that these people had no idea what they were doing, didn't understand what classified information was, nor did they know the dangers of running an utterly insecure email server.
The stupidity defense.
On some level I get and understand this defense, it's the same one that will likely free Trump and his team at the end of the Russian collusion investigation. But it is unsatisfactory. It's also utterly appalling, as one FBI official put it (page 166):
Baker told the OIG that he thought that the conduct of former Secretary Clinton and her senior aides was "appalling with respect to how they handled the classified information…[and] arrogant in terms of their knowledge andunderstanding of these matters." He stated that he was concerned about former Secretary Clinton's level of knowledge and intent, and thought that she should have recognized the sensitivity of information in the emails sent to her. Baker said that he "debated and argued" with Comey and the Midyear team about former Secretary Clinton's criminal liability, but ultimately came to the conclusion that declining prosecution was the correct decision after reviewing a binder of her emails. Baker said that he recognized there was a lack of evidence establishing knowledge of criminal intent, and that based on "the volume of…communications coming at [Clinton] at all times, day and night, given the heavy responsibilities that a Secretary of State has, isn't she entitled to rely on [the classification determinations by] her folks?" Baker stated that he "did not like it…. I eventually agreed with it, but I did not like it."
When you combine those conclusions with Comey's insistence throughout his testimony, and the OIG's findings, that anyone else who committed these actions would get prosecuted, you get the impression Clinton went free because of her name. Pursuing her under the gross negligence standard would have been new for the DOJ, but certainly not outside the bounds for them. US Attorneys test the limits on various statutes all the time, that's how case law develops.
Ironically, the FBI's decision on Clinton's email server sets precedence for Bob Mueller's team. If Comey didn't think he could do anything without direct intent with a smoking gun, or something else like obstruction or perjury, that suggests the same thought process constrains Mueller.
The odds of Mueller finding a smoking gun in the Russian collusion matters is incredibly low. People like Paul Manafort are bad apples who deserve prosecution, but that was true of him long before he jumped on the Trump campaign. If a smoking gun existed in the Mueller case, we'd know it by now because someone, either Mueller or Trump's team would leak it.
All of which suggests Mueller needs the interview with Trump because that's his only shot at perjury. Outside of that, I'd expect a lackluster report, similar to Comey. Where the conduct is appalling, but the prosecutions are thin.
Other interesting tidbits
David French noted an interesting bit on page xii, of the executive summary, FBI agents took bribes from journalists:
We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters. Attached to this report as Attachments E and F are two link charts that reflect the volume of communications that we identified between FBI employees and media representatives in April/May and October 2016. We have profound concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered during our review.
In addition, we identified instances where FBI employees improperly received benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events. We will separately report on those investigations as they are concluded, consistent with the Inspector General Act, other applicable federal statutes, and OIG policy.
The FBI profusely leaked during the investigation and 2016 campaign. FBI personnel were also taking bribes to leak information to the press. There are going to be other reports from the OIG on this point, as they conduct more investigation and disciplinary proceedings.
I'd expect multiple firings based on this bribes section.
The text messages
The text messages between various FBI agents have played a significant role in the media narratives, particularly on the right. And the executive summary on page xi and xii lays out what the OIG learned:
The text messages and instant messages sent by these employees included statements of hostility toward then candidate Trump and statements of support for candidate Clinton, and several appeared to mix political opinions with discussions about the Midyear investigation.
We found that the conduct of these five FBI employees brought discredit to themselves, sowed doubt about the FBI's handling of the Midyear investigation, and impacted the reputation of the FBI. Although our review did not find documentary or testimonial evidence directly connecting the political views these employees expressed in their text messages and instant messages to the specific investigative decisions we reviewed in Chapter Five, the conduct by these employees cast a cloud over the FBI Midyear investigation and sowed doubt the FBI's work on, and its handling of, the Midyear investigation. Moreover, the damage caused by their actions extends far beyond the scope of the Midyear investigation and goes to the heart of the FBI's reputation for neutral factfinding and political independence.
The critical thing to consider is that there's no documentary or testimonial evidence that the implicit bias by several FBI employees against Trump appeared to impact their conclusions. Take that judgment for what it's worth because it's going to be debated non-stop by the cable news pundit class for days.
Comey used a private email account
Clinton wasn't the only one using private email to do official business, so was Comey and some of his subordinates:
As we also describe in Chapter Twelve, we learned during the course of our review that Comey, Strzok, and Page used their personal email accounts to conduct FBI business.
We identified numerous instances in which Comey used a personal email account to conduct unclassified FBI business. We found that, given the absence of exigent circumstances and the frequency with which the use of personal email occurred, Comey's use of a personal email account for unclassified FBI business to be inconsistent with Department policy.
He faces all the same problems Clinton does, although her private server is worse because it was less secure than an average Gmail account.
The bulk of all hot takes on this report will come from the executive summary, which is the first few pages of the report. The summary is easy to understand and gives you the highlights. The meat of the report gives a far more nuanced picture of what happened behind the scenes, and more disturbing.
For instance, in one segment of the report, Comey described Hilary Clinton using her private, unsecured email server to communicate with President Obama, while on foreign soil. Meaning she might as well have let that nation's spies read over her shoulder. Comey ended up deleting that from his end statement, which extraordinary.
To say Clinton was reckless with American secrecy is putting it mildly. She was grossly negligent. So negligent, in fact, that the FBI believed she violated the statute but had no clean way of proving it. That's not a rousing endorsement. And watching her play into the liberal meme of "but my emails," pretending it was a nothing-burger shows she's either still stupidly unaware of how she endangered America or doesn't care.
And for that, she deserved to lose the Presidential election.
I think Dan McLaughlin of National Review said it best: "Reminder: if the Democrats had not nominated a candidate who was publicly marinated in corruption for 25 years & under a thoroughly justified FBI investigation in 2016, Trump would not be president."
Hard to disagree.
P.S. I typically send this out at 4:30 am cst. I fully expect a tweetstorm from the President on this entire report that will set the media world on fire. It seems tailor-made for that sort of thing.
The Trump-Kim Summit and what to think about it
There are four ways you can read the Trump-Kim summit in comparison to similar moves by President Obama with Iran and Cuba:
What Obama did was right with Iran and Cuba. What Trump is doing is wrong with North Korea.
What Trump is doing is right with North Korea. What Obama did was wrong.
What Trump and Obama did was right in each case.
What Trump and Obama did was wrong in each case.
I don't see much difference between the deals struck by Obama and Trump with any of these countries. The US is getting nothing in return and giving up a lot. If you like one agreement and not the others, it's likely because you're saying you trust one President over the other.
The "agreement" Trump signed with Kim is shallow and empty. It only covers four vague points:
The United States and the DPRK commit to establishing new US-DPRK relations by the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity
The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula
Reaffirming the April 27, 2018, Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to working toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.
The DPRK has promised denuclearization six times since 1992, seven if you include the Trump-Kim summit. While denuclearization would be great, it's something North Korea has often talked about but never done. They view nukes as the sole reason they exist.
Trump's decision to halt "war games" with South Korea, really they're military exercises, gives the North Koreans something they want for nothing in return. Trump also gave Kim legitimacy and allowed Kim and the North Korean flag legitimacy. I can't even begin to describe the disgust I have for the American flag to sit next to the flag of the DPRK.
If Trump can somehow get denuclearization, all of this will be a success. But if he doesn't, he's given away a lot to the North Koreans for nothing in return.
Which would make this the worst deal cut in decades.
DOJ is no longer defending ACA (Obamacare) in court
From the Atlantic:
Facing a federal lawsuit from Texas and several other red states who want the entire law overturned, the Justice Department announced late Thursday that it won't defend a core ACA provision in court: the guarantee of coverage for preexisting conditions. In a legal filing, the department essentially agreed with much of the lawsuit's rationale, which is that recent legislation has voided most of the ACA's most important provisions. While it's unclear whether this unusual decision by the DOJ will help the lawsuit's chances, it is yet another signal that the ACA remains vulnerable to being dismantled in pieces.
One of the DOJ attorneys who was instrumental in crafting the Obama-era defenses of the ACA in court resigned in protest. Not a huge surprise given his career was built around defending the law across multiple jurisdictions and years.
AG Sessions' decision raises the question of what powers the Executive Branch has in ignoring laws passed by Congress. Typically, under the separation of powers doctrine, the executive branch is tasked with enforcing the laws Congress passes. If the Executive Branch starts creating or ignoring laws passed by Congress, it can violate that separation of powers norm.
On that front, Trump is following recent norms by the Executive Branch in selectively enforcing some laws, while ignoring others. The discretion exercised here is the same power used by the Obama administration in 2011 when they declined to defend DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
The Obama administration used prosecutorial discretion in the DOJ to help defeat laws they didn't want to enforce. Trump is following that norm, which if you want a federal government that stays within its boundaries, you need a return to those norms:
Taken together with other preexisting trends — chief among them Congress's decades-long abdication of power to the presidency — it's becoming increasingly clear that America actually needs the federal government to depart from previous norms and restore constitutional values.
"Whataboutism" is a much-maligned term, but it has its uses. Ideally it should convince Americans of the longstanding degradation of America's constitutional government. Instead, it's now the ace-in-the-hole argument that enables additional legal abuses. No one is willing to be the first party to stop the slide. It's seen as weakness. It's seen as yielding a partisan advantage. But it's time for a humbling national realization: Often, when decrying lost American values, the proper partisan reaction isn't to point the finger; it's to look in the mirror.
FBI agent who wanted to 'stop' Trump has really just helped him – John Podhoretz, New York Post
FBI Report Shows Leak Investigators Leak Like a Sieve: The inspector general's office did not find political bias. But it did find deep irony. – Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Inspector general blasts Comey and also says others at FBI showed 'willingness to take official action' to hurt Trump – The Washington Post
Scott Pruitt Should Go – The Editors, National Review
Bill Clinton's Lessons – Jim Geraghty, National Review
Watch What You Say. Someone Else Is.: How the social justice mob decides who goes down, and who doesn't. – Kevin D. Williamson, The Weekly Standard
The Terrible Arguments Against the Constitutionality of the Mueller Investigation – George Conway, Lawfareblog (Note: This piece is noteworthy because Conway is Kellyanne Conway's husband, and a well-known/respected conservative lawyer)
Religion: A Viewpoint Diversity Blind Spot? – Seth Kaplan, Heterodox Academy
Business Class: Inside the strange, uniform politics of today's MBA programs—and what it says about America's elites – John Benjamin, The New Republic
Trump's not wrong about pardoning himself – Michael W. McConnell, The Washington Post
MIT fed an AI data from Reddit, and now it only thinks about murder: Norman is a disturbing demonstration of the consequences of algorithmic bias – The Verge
The Democrats' Radical Turn – Kyle Smith, National Review
Mark Zuckerberg Insists Anyone With Same Skewed Values And Unrelenting Thirst For Power Could Have Made Same Mistakes – The Onion
MENLO PARK, CA—In an effort to dismiss widespread criticism, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly insisted Thursday that anyone with the same skewed values and tenacious thirst for power could have made the same mistakes he did. "I know I screwed up, and I understand why you're all upset, but if you were a morally corrupt megalomaniac hell-bent on manipulating society to your twisted whims, you would have done the exact same thing," said Zuckerberg
Off Topic ACA, DOJ, Donald Trump, FBI, Hilary Clinton, James Comey, Kim Jong Un, North Korea, Obamacare, OIG, The Outsider Perspective, Trump-Kim Summit


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Derby County news and transfers - reaction as Ashley Cole signs, plus January window latest
Keep up to date with all the latest Rams news and views in our designated blog
Mark WakefieldFootball writer/blogger
Thank you for following Tuesday's Derby County coverage from Derbyshire Live.
We will be continuing to react to yesterday's big news - that former Chelsea and England left-back Ashley Cole has joined Derby County.
The Rams moved to sign the experienced defender, and have brought him in on a deal until the end of the current Sky Bet Championship season.
There will be plenty from Cole himself, manager Frank Lampard and the rest of the football world throughout the day.
Aside from that, we will be keeping up to date with the latest transfer news and chat from Pride Park, and across the division as teams look to strengthen this window.
Get in touch with us on Facebook and Twitter or, alternatively, leave us a comment at the bottom of the page.
FULL-TIME 17:33
Richard Keogh opens up about his Derby County 'crusade' 17:16
Marcelo Bielsa 'meets with FA' over Spygate controversy 11:49
That's all for today's blog, ladies and gents. Here's our top three:
Former Derby defender lands coaching role with Championship rival
Next batch of Chelsea young stars that could interest Derby
Marcelo Bielsa 'meets with FA' over Spygate controversy
See you tomorrow.
Richard Keogh opens up about his Derby County 'crusade'
Richard Keogh has opened up about his continuing "crusade" to get Derby County promoted back to the Premier League.
The Rams have been out of the top flight since they were relegated in 2007-08 with a record-low points tally.
They have gone close in recent years but just fallen short on several occasions.
It would mean a lot to me, I'm not going to lie. I know where this club should be, I know how big the club is and I stand by what I said when I signed - this club deserves to be in the Premier League and I won't stop giving everything I've got to try to make that happen."
Much more from Keogh HERE.
Pundits have their say on Ashley Cole
Sky Sports pundits Paul Merson and Tim Sherwood have had their say on Ashley Cole's arrival at Derby County, speaking on The Debate.
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Only time will tell, he hasn't played for a while. His experience is immense. They're quite an open team, they have a go wherever they play. Legend is used very loosely, but he's a legend. He's the best English left-back I've seen. If they can get 50% of what he had at Chelsea he'll be a signing and a half."
TIM SHERWOOD
I would think he's brought him in for two reasons. Obviously on the pitch and the support he can give the young players. It's not just about what he can give you over 90 minutes, it's about what he can develop."
The latest promotion odds
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#WelcomeAshley
Derby defender Max Lowe reveals why he went back to Aberdeen
Max Lowe has revealed the reason behind his return to Aberdeen.
The 21-year-old defender spent the first half of the season on loan with the Scottish outfit but returned to parent club Derby County at the start of this month.
Lowe played two games for the Rams but then rejoined Aberdeen on loan for the remainder of the campaign .
Derby boss Frank Lampard has since swooped to sign 38-year-old Ashley Cole on a short-term deal to provide competition and cover at left-back.
Lowe, meanwhile, is happy to be continuing his development at Pittodrie.
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The transfer window closes in...
Next batch of Chelsea loan gems that could interest Derby
As numerous clubs in England continue to search for potential targets to spend their transfer budget on in the January window, some clubs have to be a little tighter with their funds than others.
Often, the solution to having a limited transfer budget is to explore the loan market, and various clubs benefit from doing just that.
One of the more popular clubs to investigate regarding loan signings is Chelsea, given that they currently have 41 players elsewhere, and are renowned for not always giving youngsters the best chance to progress at Stamford Bridge.
Derby County already have two players on loan from the Blues, with Mason Mount and Fikayo Tomori spending the season with the Rams.
But despite the vast numbers who have departed west London, are there any more Chelsea prospects that are worth enquiring about?
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Our coverage of Ashley Cole joining Derby
What Cole thinks about Lampard being his boss at Derby
Derby County's new signing Ashley Cole has spoken about his former Chelsea and England team-mate Frank Lampard being his boss.
Ex-Derby defender lands new coaching role with Championship rivals
Former Derby County defender Paul Williams has landed himself a new coaching role.
The 47-year-old has been appointed the head coach of Norwich City's Under-18 side.
This is not Williams' first role in the Championship, having previously worked at Nottingham Forest where he was caretaker boss after Dougie Freedman's departure in March 2016.
Williams started his playing career at Derby, coming through the youth academy, and went on to make 195 appearances for the Rams between 1989-1995.
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'Gave his blood for me' - what Cole's managers said about him
Ashley Cole has joined Derby County on a short-term deal.
The former England and Chelsea left-back agreed a deal with the Rams until the end of the season.
Cole, 38, has been without a club since leaving MLS side LA Galaxy in November.
He has played more than 650 games at senior club level with Arsenal, Chelsea, Roma and LA Galaxy and is widely regarded as one of the best left-backs of his generation.
We have taken a look back at what some of Cole's managers have said about him – and what can be expected from the defender at the Rams.
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Marcelo Bielsa 'meets with FA' over Spygate controversy
Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa is reported to have met with officials from Football Association over the Spygate controversy involving Derby County.
Bielsa attended a meeting in London on Monday to discuss the issue surrounding his scouting methods, according to The Times.
The 63-year-old Argentine has led Leeds to the top of the Championship table but has come under fire after it emerged that he had "spied" on his rivals.
The tactic came to light after it emerged that a man apprehended by police outside Derby's Moor Farm training ground had been sent by Bielsa to watch the Rams prepare for their visit to Elland Road.
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Chelsea fans have their say on Ashley Cole joining Derby
Ashley Cole spent eight years with Chelsea, winning a Premier League title, four FA Cups, a League Cup, Community Shield, Champions League and Europa League.
After a controversial move to the Blues from London rivals Arsenal, Cole cemented himself as one of the best left-backs of his generation at Stamford Bridge.
So it is unsurprising to see Chelsea supporters wish the 38-year-old well after he linked back up with Frank Lampard at Derby County.
Cole has signed a contract until the end of the season with the Rams.
Here's what the Blues supporters have been saying on social media.
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Frank Lampard had this to say after signing Ashley Cole
Delighted Frank Lampard is confident Ashley Cole will prove to be a "positive addition" to his Derby County squad.
Lampard's former Chelsea and England team-mate has joined the Rams on a short-term deal until the end of the season.
The 38-year-old was a free agent after leaving his previous club, LA Galaxy, in November.
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'You can't write this' - Derby fans react to Ashley Cole signing
There has been plenty of reaction to the news that Ashley Cole has joined Derby County.
Cole, 38, has signed for the Rams on a deal until the end of the season.
He was a free agent after leaving his previous club, LA Galaxy, in November.
Cole has played more than 650 games at senior club level during spells with Arsenal, Chelsea, Roma and LA Galaxy.
He earned 107 caps for England and won the Premier League three times.
Here's what the Derby fans have been saying about Cole on Twitter.
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Derby U23s close in on PL Cup qualification with Plymouth win
Derby County Under-23s took a big step towards Premier League Cup qualification tonight with a commanding win over Plymouth Argyle Under-23s.
The young Rams bossed Argyle at Loughborough University Stadium and ran out comfortable 4-0 winners.
It was pretty much all over as a contest at half-time, with all four goals coming before the break. Timi Max Elsnik, two from Cameron Cresswell and a neat Josh Shonibare strike had the home side in full control.
Ashley Cole's first words as a Derby County player
Ashley Cole said the decision to join Derby County was a "no-brainer".
The 38-year-old England international has joined the Rams until the end of the season.
He was a free agent after leaving MLS side LA Galaxy in November.
Your Derby questions answered
The January transfer window is in full flow, and as you would expect there have been plenty of rumours going round.
Derbyshire Live's chief football writer Steve Nicholson hosted a LIVE Derby County Q&A, where he answered your Rams questions.
Ashley Cole, Harry Wilson, Bradley Johnson, Jacob Butterfield and Ikechi Anya and more were all discussed.
If you missed it, you can recap the full Q&A below.
What can Ashley Cole offer Derby? Lampard knows better than most
Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole were together for eight years at Chelsea, where they won a Premier League title, FA Cups, the Champions League and the Europa League as team-mates.
They also played numerous times together for England. Lampard won 106 caps, Cole 107.
Now Lampard and Cole have teamed up again.
Cole has signed for Derby County until the end of the season and he is keen to help Lampard's team push for promotion from the Championship.
Good morning and welcome to Tuesday's LIVE Derby blog.
Let's get cracking!
Derby CountyEFL break silence on Derby County crisis with bombshell statementThe 2,000-plus word statement issued on behalf of EFL CEO Trevor Birch addresses a variety of issues surrounding the club's future


Quality Standard Mark (QSM) is calling butchers to win-back shoppers in February, using cuts like the lamb valentine steak, alongside easy-cook accompaniments on their counter.
Kantar Worldpanel* research indicates that Valentine's Day is one of the top four annual occasions and a time when all retailers can capitalise, winning hearts and pounds with the right choice of product.
However, fresh produce – as sold by butchers – is losing out to chilled ready meals at this time of year, when shoppers want the simplicity of a meal deal to save time in the kitchen and spend more with loved ones.
"We all know that steak is the number one choice for a romantic meal, when people are either eating out or cooking for a loved one at home. But there are real opportunities which can be created with different cuts and displaying accompaniments alongside them," said AHDB's Quality Schemes Manager Karl Pendlebury.
"The lamb valentine steak is a super cut with a very appropriate name for the occasion. Consumers are familiar with cooking methods for steaks, so they don't feel put off by a lack of confidence and understanding how to cook it. Having a lamb option on the counter offers a good alternative to beef steaks and there's also the opportunity to display accompaniments like sauces and vegetable dishes which are easy to prepare alongside, if you have the space.
In restaurants and food service outlets, Valentine's Day also offers an opportunity for independent butchers and retailers to sell great quality beef and lamb cuts.
Quality Standard Mark Ambassador and Stoke Park Head Chef Chris Wheeler has created a dish with a lamb valentine steak, which includes herb pomme purée, curly kale, green beans, baby beetroot and a redcurrant jus.
He said: "The valentine steak is a truly beautiful cut of lamb which can be simply pan fried with a little butter and thyme or marinated then chargrilled. While it works well with complex flavours, it can also be adapted to a simple recipe, which your customers can cook quickly and easily, with little preparation.
To find out how to prepare the valentine steak cut, the specification is available from the AHDB Beef & Lamb Cutting Specification Manual, which is online at: qsmbeefandlamb.co.uk/books/cutting-specification-manual-lamb.pdf .
To become a Quality Standard Mark butcher visit qsmbeefandlamb.co.uk. In order to become a member, you must be sourcing QSM beef and lamb from another business that is also signed up to the scheme.
HOW CAN I PREPARE FOR A POTENTIAL WATER SHORTAGE?


I'm sitting in a conference room at a Microsoft sales office watching a presentation on the latest version of Visual Studio (Microsoft's software development tool). Looking around the room at the other attendees, the majority of attendees appear to be 40-ish and older (including me). By my estimate, there are only 1 or 2 that could be younger than 30.
This isn't a reflection on the product. I've used it for years and think it's the best tool there is for software development. I wish the environment wouldn't change to make skills that I've honed for years become obsolete.
But – if you're a Microsoft guy (like I am), you need to realize that the winds are changing.


NEW YORK: GCI Group today announced that Jennifer Cohan, a former senior executive with Cohn & Wolfe, has been appointed president of GCI New York.
She will direct the firm's operations there, and oversee office-wide business development and marketing.
Cohan replaces Tom Reno, who left GCI in late March to become GM at Hill & Knowlton.
Cohan spent more than 10 years at C&W, most recently as deputy managing director in the firm's London office. She also served as C&W's new business director and VP for its New York consumer practice.
"Jennifer's experience managing a European office will be an asset to GCI as we look to continue growing business outside of the North American network," Bob Feldman, CEO of GCI, said in the release.
New York-based GCI is owned by Grey Global.


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A: As documented, CBitmap::FromHandle creates a temporary object you do not own:

If a CBitmap object is not already attached to the handle, a temporary CBitmap object is created and attached. This temporary CBitmap object is valid only until the next time the application has idle time in its event loop, at which time all temporary graphic objects are deleted. Another way of saying this is that the temporary object is only valid during the processing of one window message.

The object is owned by MFC, and garbage collected on the next idle processing loop. If you want to attach a CBitmap object to a HBITMAP, you need to manually call Attach:
CBitmap bmp;
bmp.Attach( OneFunction() );

or, if you need to manually control the object lifetime:
CBitmap* bmp{ new CBitmap() };
bmp->Attach( OneFunction() );

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A child of Jewish parents, Golda was born in Kiev, Russia. The family migrated to America when Meir was nine. Determined to get an education, Meir ran away from her parents' home in Milwaukee to live with her sister in a Jewish neighborhood in Denver, where she enrolled in high school. At odds with her mother, Golda escaped plans for an arranged marriage to an older man and instead went to live with her sister, Sheyna and Sheyna's husband in Denver. Sheyna would host visitors nightly, and Golda became fascinated with them, talking late into the night. It was in Denver that she discovered Zionism. Enthralled by society's debate over gender roles, the Social Zionist movement, and the future for Jewish people, she met Morris Meyerson, a Lithuanian immigrant who took her to park concerts and lectures. In 1917, they married, and soon sailed for Tel Aviv in Palestine. They soon had one son and one daughter, Menachem, and Sarah. Meir moved quickly up the political ladder and eventually became secretary of the Women's Labor Council, which meant extensive travel, and that led to the end of their marriage. The couple became legally separated up until Morris's death in 1951. In 1948 she helped write the Israeli Declaration of Independence. At age 70, Meir became Israel's fourth prime minister. Meir died of Lymphoma at her home in Jerusalem in December of 1978.
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For the 17th-century Anglo-Irish physicist and chemist, see Robert Boyle.
Robert Francis Boyle (October 10, 1909 – August 1, 2010) was an American film art director and production designer.
Born in Los Angeles, Boyle trained as an architect, graduating from the University of Southern California (USC). When he lost his job in that field during the Great Depression, Boyle found work in films as an extra. In 1933 he was hired as a draftsman in the Paramount Pictures art department, headed by supervising art director Hans Dreier. Beginning with Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman, Boyle went on to work on a variety of pictures as a sketch artist, draftsman and assistant art director before becoming an art director at Universal Studios in the early 1940s.
Boyle collaborated several times with Alfred Hitchcock, first as an associate art director for Saboteur (1942) and later as a full-fledged production designer for North by Northwest (1959), The Birds (1963), and Marnie (1964). Denied permission to shoot footage on Mount Rushmore, Hitchcock turned to Boyle to create realistic replicas of the stone heads. Boyle abseiled down the monument, photographing its contours in detail, before constructing "just enough to put the actors on so we could get down shots, up shots, side shots, whatever we needed." Almost two decades earlier, Boyle had delivered the Statue of Liberty reproduction that was used in the climactic scene of Saboteur. For The Birds, Boyle was put in charge of the title characters. He later recalled, "We needed to find out which birds we could use best, and finally settled on two types: sea gulls, which were very greedy beasts that would always fly toward the camera if there was a piece of meat, and crows, which had a strange sort of intelligence." Boyle described his relationship with Hitchcock: "It was a meeting of equals: the director who knew exactly what he wanted, and the art director who knew how to get it done."
When director Norman Jewison failed in his attempts to get the necessary submarine that was at the center of his The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming storyline, Boyle built a working model from styrofoam and fiberglass.
Boyle's other credits include It Came from Outer Space, Cape Fear, In Cold Blood, Fiddler on the Roof, Portnoy's Complaint, Winter Kills, Mame, W.C. Fields and Me, The Shootist, Private Benjamin, Staying Alive, and Troop Beverly Hills.
During the course of his career, Boyle was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction but never won. In 1997 he received the Art Directors Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award, and he was voted an Honorary Academy Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, "in recognition of one of cinema's great careers in art direction," which he received during the 80th Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, 2008. At the age of 98, Boyle became the oldest winner ever of an Honorary Award in the history of the Academy Awards. Despite being in ill health and arriving to the ceremony in a wheelchair, Boyle insisted on walking onstage, alongside Nicole Kidman, to receive the honor.
Boyle was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated documentary short The Man on Lincoln's Nose (2000).
Boyle died on August 1, 2010 in Los Angeles from natural causes.
↑ William Grimes (3 August 2010). "Robert F. Boyle, Film Designer for Hitchcock, Dies at 100". New York Times. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
↑ The Economist, "Robert Boyle", 19 August 2010, retrieved 31 August 2010.
↑ "Robert Boyle". The Daily Telegraph. London. 25 August 2010.
↑ "Iconic Art Director Robert F. Boyle Dies: Alfred Hitchcock, Norman Jewison Collaborator".


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Eero Rislakki – a pioneer in industrial design
December 27, 2013 ~ Jonas
Designer, artist and teacher Eero Rislakki is seldom mentioned in Finnish design history in spite of his wide body of work and many awards. This is the story of Finland's first industrial designer.
Rislakki (1924-2017) long resided in Helsingborg, Sweden but he was born in Helsinki, Finland. As a little boy he liked creating and carving things out of wood and eventually he started drawing. He fought with the artillery in Finland's Continuation War 1942-1944 but he was spared from injuries.
After the war he worked as an illustrator and writer for various publications eventually applying to and starting his studies at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. He was the first man that graduated from the ceramics department. He also studied at the graphics department.
Eero Rislakki became a designer and he started his career at the Stavangerflint (then Stavanger Fajansefabrikk A/s) ceramics factory in Norway in 1950 because there were few jobs in post-war Finland. It took him a week to reach Stavanger by boat and bike.
After two years of work in Norway he returned to Finland and was hired as a jewellery designer. He first worked at Kalevala and then at Westerback, being one of the first working with domestic polished jewellery stones. He found inspiration for his designs by visiting museums. Many found his designs to have an industrial approach, in contrast with much of the decorated design of the time. In 1958, Rislakki and Börje Rajalin participated in a avant-garde jewellery exhibition at Artek, and it's considered to be the breakthrough for modern jewellery in Finland.
In 1959 he started his own studio, first freelancing in export exhibition planning but later moving into product design. Among other places he worked for the Björkboda Factory which made locks. The concept of industrial designers didn't really exist in the early 1960s and thus Rislakki found lots of work.
As a designer he has worked on more than 200 products including coat hangers for Pyrkijä, water fittings for OSY, reflectors for Talmu, fan equipment for Fläkt Woods, airline dishes, TVs for Salora/AGA such as Ramona/Artista/Camilla, glass for Mäntyharju glass works, boat engines, forest machinery for Valmet and this rare watering can for an unknown producer.
He has also made classics such as the Virve/Tytti coffee pot, parts of the iconic Jopo bike for Helkama and a plastic jerrycan with another hole on top to make it easier to empty. He has also made communion silver for many churches in Helsinki. In 2006 he was awarded the Pro Finlandia medal by the Order of the Lion of Finland, the highest award within culture.
Here are some of his designs:
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Meeting with the Speaker of Shura Council of the State of Qatar HE Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khulaifi
The meeting of the Founder of Peace and National Unity — Leader of the Nation, President of the Republic of Tajikistan, His Excellency Emomali Rahmon with the Speaker of the Advisory (Shura) Council of the State of Qatar HE Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khulaifi took place today in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
At the beginning of the meeting President Emomali Rahmon pointed out that Tajikistan's side is very optimistic for further development of its ties with Qatar at all levels of shared interest, and considers mutually inter-parliamentary cooperation an effective means to strengthen bilateral ties and to ensure common interests at the regional and international levels.
It was expressed satisfaction from the renewal of the Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group of Tajikistan and Qatar, and stressed that this method could play an effective role in enhancing the level of bilateral ties in all spheres.
The permanent political dialogue of Tajikistan and Qatar at the highest level has been called the basis for the further development and expansion of ties.
The sides also exchanged views on the importance of inter-parliamentary cooperation to ensure security and stability in the region and struggle against the number one common enemy — international terrorism and extremism.
It was expressed confidence that the two nations' parliamentarians would take an active part in the process of implementation of agreements reached between the two countries during President Emomali Rahmon's official visit to Qatar that would contribute to strengthening the relations and implementing future cooperation initiatives.


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Urgent care on wheels rolling into Richmond
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One of the Dispatch Health cars in Denver, which serve patients who don't need a full-service ambulance. (Dispatch Health)
Fresh off an eight-figure capital raise and lured in part by one of the big local names in healthcare, a Denver-based startup is preparing for a Richmond road trip.
DispatchHealth, a mobile urgent-care company armed with a fleet of vehicles driven by physician's assistants and nurse practitioners – with an EMT riding shotgun – will launch in Richmond on Nov. 17.
CEO Mark Prather, who's spent most of his career as an emergency room doctor, describes the company as an in-home care delivery platform. It complements general practitioners, with a niche between urgent care chains, such as Patient First and BetterMed, and the emergency room.
"(DispatchHealth) applies across all segments of the population, but our sweet spots have been on-demand consumers who are not sure where to go for care," Prather said. "Folks are seeing the home site as a better site for delivering care. We're as much about the on-demand consumer as much as we are the disadvantaged consumer with limited access."
DispatchHealth's vehicles – it's using Nissan Rogues in Richmond – are restocked daily with medical supplies and sent to patients' homes to treat common ailments and provide services like IV drips and blood tests.
Its Richmond operation will start with two vehicles and will grow to seven or eight, which Prather said is the norm in its markets. The firm has 70 employees nationwide and has hired about 10 to launch in the local market.
Prather said DispatchHealth accepts most insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and visits for uninsured patients typically cost $275.
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The company was founded in Denver in 2013 and has expanded to Colorado Springs and Phoenix. It recently pulled in a $31 million capital raise, which it'll use to fuel growth to 10 more markets, BusinessDen reports. Richmond will be its first venture to the East Coast.
"I wanted to prove it worked. It got a lot of interest outside of Denver, and one of the first places it got interest was in Richmond," Prather said.
One of the region's largest health systems played a role luring DispatchHealth into town.
"Bon Secours reached out," Prather said. "They were so fantastic to work with; they were what pulled us to Richmond."
The two sides have a service agreement through which Bon Secours will use it to provide care to recently discharged patients.
"We can help them reduce readmissions, and interact with their patients," Prather said.
He said the company is close to signing a lease for a local office near St. Mary's Hospital.
Meanwhile, a legacy doctor in Richmond already is bringing care to his patients. In June, E. James Wiley III launched At Your Door Pediatrics, a house-call-only healthcare service for children.
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The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life ...
Por Jonathan Edwards
zeal. For it is very likely to be of excellent benefit to his church, in the continuance and progress of the work afterwards. Their experience, in the first setting out, of the mischievous consequences of these errors, and smarting for them in the beginning, may be a happy defence to them afterwards, for many generations, from these errors, which otherwise they might continually be exposed to. As when David and all Israel went about to bring back the ark into the midst of the land, after it had been long absent, first in the land of the Philistines, and then in Kirjath-jearim, in the utmost borders of the land; they at first sought not the Lord after the due order, and they smarted for their error. But this put them upon study, ing the law, and more thoroughly acquainting themselves with the mind and will of God, and seeking and serving him with greater circumspection. The consequence was glorious, viz. their seeking God in such a manner as was accepted of him. The ark of God ascended into the heights of Zion with great and extraordinary rejoicings of the king and all the people, without any frown or rebuke from God intermixed; and God dwelt thenceforward in the midst of the people for those glorious purposes expressed in the 68th Psalm.
It is very analogous to the manner of God's dealing with his people, to permit a great deal of error, and suffer the infirmity of his people to appear, in the beginning of a glorious work of his grace, for their felicity, to teach them what they are, to humble them, and fit them for that glorious prosperity to which he is about to advance them, and the more to secure to himself the honour of such a glorious work. For, by man's exceeding weakness appearing in the beginning of it, it is evident that God does not lay the foundation of it in man's strength or wisdom. And as we need not wonder at the errors that attend this work, if we look at the hand of men who are guilty of them, and the hand of God in permitting them ; so neither shall we see cause to wonder if we consider them with regard to the hand that Satan has in them. For, as the work is much greater than any other that ever has been in New-Eng. land ; so, no wonder that the devil is more alarmed and enraged, that he exerts himself more vigorously against it, and more powerfully endeavours to tempt and mislead the subjects and promoters of it.
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The Nature of the Work in general.
WHATEVER imprudences there have been, and whatever sinful irregularities ; whatever vehemence of the passions, and heats of the imagination, transports and ecstacies ; whatever error in judgment, and indiscreet zeal; and whatever outcries, faintings, and agitations of body; yet, it is manifest and notorious, that there has been of late a very uncommon influ. ence upon the minds of a very great part of the inhabitants of New-England, attended with the best effects. There has been a great increase of seriousness, and sober consideration of eternal things; a disposition to hearken to what is said of such things, with attention and affection ; a disposition to treat matters of religion with solemnity, and as of great importance; to make these things the subject of conversation ; to hear the word of God preached, and to take all opportunities in order to it ; to attend on the public worship of God, and all external duties of religion, in a more solemn and decent manner; so that there is a remarkable and general alteration in the face of New-England in these respects. Multitudes in all parts of the land, of vain, thoughtless, regardless persons, are quite changed, and become serious and considerate. There is a vast increase of concern for the salvation of the precious soul, and of that inquiry, " What shall I do to be saved ?" The hearts of multitudes have been greatly taken off from the things of the world, its profit, pleasures, and honours. Multitudes in all parts have had their consciences awakened, and have been made sensible of the pernicious nature and consequences of sin, and what a dreadful thing it is to be under guilt and the displeasure of God, and to live without peace and reconciliation with him. They have also been awakened lo a sense of the shortness and uncertainty of life, and the reality of another world and future judgment, and of the necessity of an interest in Christ. They are more afraid of sin, more careful and inquisitive that they may know what is contrary to the mind and will of God, that they may avoid it, and what he requires of them, that they may do it, more careful to guard against temptations, more watchful over their own hearts, earnestly desirous of knowing, and of being diligent in the use of the means that God has appointed in his word, in order to salvation. Many very stupid, senseless sinners, and persons of a vain mind, have been greatly awakened.
There is a strange alteration almost all over New England Waz.rv.
amongst young people : by a powerful invisible influence on their minds, they have been brought to forsake, in a general way, as it were at once, those things of which they were extremely fond, and in which they seemed to place the happiness of their lives, and which nothing before could induce them to forsake; as their frolicking, vain company-keeping, night. walking, their mirth and jollity, their impure language, and lewd songs. In vain did ministers preach against those things before, in vain were laws made to restrain them, and in vain was all the vigilance of magistrates and civil officers; but now they have almost every where dropt them as it were of themselves. And there is great alteration amongst old and young as to drinking, tavern-haunting, profane speaking, and extravagance in apparel. Many notoriously vicious persons have been reformed, and become externally quite new creatures.Some that are wealthy, and of a fashionable gay education; some great beaux and fine ladies, that seemed to have their minds swallowed up with nothing but the vain shews and pleasures of the world, have been wonderfully altered, have relinquished these vanities, and are become serious, mortified, and humble in their conversation. It is astonishing to see the alteration there is in some towns, where before there was but little appearance of religion, or any thing but vice and vanity. And now they are transformed into another sort of people ; their former vain, worldly, and vicious conversation and dispositions seem to be forsaken, and they are, as it were, gone over to a new world. Their thoughts, their talk, and their concern, affections and inquiries, are now about the favour of God, an interest in Christ, a renewed sanctified heart, and a spiritual blessedness, acceptance, and happiness in a future world.
Now, through the greater part of New-England, the holy Bible is in much greater esteem and use than before. The great things contained in it are much more regarded, as things of the greatest consequence, and are much more the subjects of meditation and conversation ; and other books of piety that have long been of established reputation, as the most excellent and most tending to promote true godliness, have been abundantly more in use. The Lord's day is more religiously and strictly observed. And much has been lately done at making up differences, confessing faults one to another, and making restitution: probably more within two years, than was done in thirty years before. It has been undoubtedly so in many places. And surprising has been the power of this spirit in many instances, to destroy old grudges, to make up long continued breaches, and to bring those who seemed to be in a confirmed irreconcilable alienation, to brace each other in a sincere and entire amity.
numbers under this influence have been brought to a deep sense of their own sinfulness and vileness ; the sinfulness of their lives, the heinousness of their disregard of the authority of the great God, and of their living in contempt of a Saviour. They have lamented their former negligence of their souls, and their neglecting and losing precious time. The sins of their life have been extraordinarily set before them; and they have had a great sense of their hardness of heart, their enmity against that which is good, and proneness to all evil; and also of the worthlessness of their own religious performances, how unworthy of God's regard were their prayers, praises, and all that they did in religion. It has been a common thing, that persons have had such a sense of their own sinfulness, that they have thought themselves to be the worst of all, and that none ever was so vile as they. And many seem to have been greatly convinced that they were utterly unworthy of any mercy at the hands of God, however miserable they were, and though they stood in extreme necessity of mercy; and that they deserved nothing but eternal burnings. They have been sensible that God would be altogether just and righteous in inflicting endless damnation upon them, at the same time that they have had an exceedingly affecting sense of the dreadfulness of such endless torments, and apprehended themselves to be greatly in danger of it. And many have been deeply affected with a sense of their own ignorance and blindness, and exceeding helplessness, and so of their extreme need of the divine pity and help.
Multitudes in New England have lately been brought to a new and great conviction of the truth and certainty of the things of the gospel ; to a firm persuasion that Christ Jesus is the son of God, and the great and only Saviour of the world; and that the great doctrines of the gospel touching reconcilia. tion by his blood, and acceptance in his righteousness, and eternal life and salvation through him, are matters of undoubted truth. They have had a most affecting sense of the excellency and sufficiency of this Saviour, and the glorious wisdom and grace of God shining in this way of salvation ; and of the wonders of Christ's dying love, and the sincerity of Christ in the invitations of the gospel. They have experienced a consequent affiance and sweet rest of soul in Christ, as a glorious Saviour, a strong rock and high tower ; accompanied with an admiring and exalted apprehension of the glory of the divine perfections, God's majesty, holiness, sovereign grace, &c. ;with a sensible, strong and sweet love to God, and delight in him, far surpassing all temporal delights, or earthly pleasures ; and a rest of soul in him, as a portion and the fountain of all good. And this has been attended with an abhorrence of sin, and self-loathing for it, and earnest longings of soul after more holiness and conformity to God, with a sense of the great need of God's help in order to holiness of life : together they have had a most dear love to all that are supposed to be the children of God, and a love to mankind in general, and a most sensible and tender compassion for the souls of sinners, and earnest desires of the advancement of Christ's kingdom in the world. And these things have appeared with an abiding concern to live a holy life, and great complaints of remaining corruption, and a longing to be more free from the body of sin and death. And not only do these effects appear in new converts, but great numbers of those who were formerly esteemed the most sober and pious people, have, under the influence of this work, been greatly quickened, and their hearts renewed with greater degrees of light, renewed repentance and humiliation, and more lively exercises of faith, love and joy in the Lord. Many have been remarkably engaged to watch, and strive, and fight against sin ; to cast out every idol, sell all for Christ, give up themselves entirely to God, and make a sacrifice of every worldly and carnal thing to the welfare and prosperity of their souls. And there has of late appeared in some places an unusual disposition to bind themselves to it in a solemn covenant with God. And now, instead of meetings at taverns and drinking-houses, and of young people in frolics and vain company, the country is full of meetings of all sorts and ages of persons-young and old, men, women and little children-to read and pray, and sing praises, and to converse of the things of God and another world. In very many places the main of the conversation in all companies turns on religion, and things of a spiritual nature. Instead of vain mirth among young people, there is now either mourning under a sense of the guilt of sin, or holy rejoicing in Christ Jesus: and, instead of their lewd songs, there are now to be heard from them songs of praise to God, and the Lamb that was slain to redeem them by his blood. And there has been this alteration abiding on multitudes all over the land, for a year and a half, without any appearance of a disposition to return to former vice and vanity.
And, under the influences of this work, there have been many of the remains of those wretched people and dregs of mankind, the poor Indians, that seemed to be next to a state of brutality, and with whom, till now, it seemed to be to little more purpose to use endeavours for their instruction and awakening, than with the beasts. Their minds have now been strangely opened to receive instruction, and been deeply affected with the concerns of their precious souls; they have reformed their lives, and forsaken their former stupid, barbarous and brutish way of living; and particularly that sin to which they have been so exceedingly addicted, their drunkenness. Many of them to appearance brought truly and