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Karen Weekly Holds Volunteers Accountable to Excellent Performance
The state of Tennessee was a bit of a culture shock for Karen Weekly. Having grown up in the state of Washington and playing and coaching at Pacific Lutheran University, the move east was a bit of an adjustment.
Weekly and husband Ralph were hired as co-head softball coaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1997. After back-to-back NCAA regional appearances, they were hired in the same capacity at the University of Tennessee in the fall of 2001.
After living in Chattanooga and then Knoxville for the last 23 years, Weekly has grown quite fond of her new home.
University of Tennessee Softball Program
Cahalan Displays Production Value Beyond Her Years
Watching Kenleigh Cahalan play, it might seem as if she is a few years older than she actually is.
That's intentional, because she tries to make it look that way.
"I just treat everything like I am one of the older ones and do my best," she said. As an eighth-grader, Cahalan was pulled up to her high school's varsity team at Hewitt-Trussville (Ala.). Early on that year, she established herself as the team's primary third baseman and took a backseat to none in terms of production.
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Ava Brown Powers Her Way To Triumph
Ava Brown had worked hard to become one of the top overall 2023 recruits, ranking No. 6 overall among Class of 2023 prospects for Fastpitch Network, and was looking forward to the summer season to continue to improve her game.
"It has always been my dream to not only play college softball, but to also represent my country," said Brown.
The exposure at summer tournaments and showcases are what all the young softball players work for in hopes of getting seen by the college coaches who attend the events.
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Oklahoma Athletics Sharpen Focus on the National Stage
With only two teams, it was an innocent start in 2010 into the travel softball world. Brian Madden and his dad, Mike, created the Oklahoma Athletics. It has continued to grow into an up-and-coming softball organization that will have to be reckoned with.
"We didn't ever think it was going to get as big as it is now," said Brian Madden. "We have went from two teams to about ten teams and now, we have 37."
Oklahoma Athletics Club – Mike and Brian Madden
Mike White Forges New Trail To WCWS For Longhorns
Although The University of Texas softball had seen its share of success through the years, the program was becoming somewhat stale. By 2018, their season had ended in regional play each of the last five years.
The Longhorns were ready to get back to their prominence and to the Women's College World Series. The change started with the hire of Mike White as the Head Softball Coach on June 25, 2018. White was very familiar with the Women's College World Series, having been there five of the last seven years.
Texas Longhorns Driving The Ball on Trail to WCWS
Diversity in Softball Panel : Part II
by Maren Angus – Fastpitch Network
A couple weeks ago, we introduced our Diversity in Softball panel featuring six very different personalities in our game.
As we continue the conversation this week, the questions get a little tougher.
As a minority, softball has not grown much in terms of inclusiveness or being welcoming. Players/Coaches before you have experienced the same things and players/coaches after you have also experienced the same things. Do you think this will ever change?
Diversity Series Panel
Panel Members: Rajaa Wilcox (Howard), Christian Conrad (Florida State), Dr. Dot Richardson of Liberty, Tamara Statman of the Israeli National Team, Jessie Scroggins of Black Girls Ball, and Libby Sugg (BYU)
RW: In my opinion, I do not think that softball has grown very much in terms of inclusiveness or being welcoming. NCAA's student-athlete demographics show that in 2018 less than six percent of softball players were Black female athletes. I think what keeps softball from being more inclusive is how costly it can be to play the game at an elite level. Buying the proper equipment (helmet, glove bat, cleats, batting gloves, balls, etc.) alone can prove to be very expensive. Due to this, the sport is only accessible to those who are privileged enough to afford it and this creates the gap we see in the diversity of softball.
TS: Humans are very interesting because they try to form groups with people who are like them. Jews in particular are very much like this because anytime we meet another Jewish person there's an instant connection that other people just don't understand. I have certainly spent my time being in the out group, but it wasn't because I was Jewish; it was because I was really weird and misunderstood as a kid. Actually, now that I'm thinking about a racial divide, in college for my first two years there certainly was one. It was clear. However, my last two years the gap was closed when it came to "in-groups" or mentioning people are a certain race. It was really refreshing and I really do have hope that inclusiveness is on the rise for teams.
JS: I'm not sure if softball will ever change. I think the first problem is people don't understand the words inclusive and diverse. Because many people don't understand them, they are misused. It is important to know that just because a sport is diverse does not mean it is inclusive. To help implement change, we need to understand what needs to be changed. What change looks like for me is having more minorities in head coaching positions, having more minorities at PWI's, having those uncomfortable conversations with people to help them understand what needs to happen for change to occur.
CC: Since I can only answer based off my personal experience, I would have to say I disagree with the notion that there has not been growth in our sport, in regards to inclusiveness when it comes to the LGBTQA community. With that said, I do not want to discredit the experiences of others and the discrimination they may face. In regards to the LGBTQA community, I do believe that there have been strides to promote equality and acceptance compared to just a decade ago. I do believe that for this change to continue it is my duty to live my most authentic self. To show others that it is possible to be successful in our sport while living your true self.
LS: I pray with my whole heart that it does. One of the greatest parts about living in America in my opinion is the diversity we have. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and I think that's amazing. The only problem though is there is still separation and tension between those different groups. It makes me sick that some people can't see each other as complete equals. We should love each other for our individuality. I hope that with everything that has been going on that a change is and will come.
DR.: I have seen TREMENDOUS change with inclusion, with more opportunities from female athletes and coaches, especially since Title IX was implemented. There are more players of color participating in our sport. There are huge changes seen in this area as I have experienced in almost five decades. Sometimes we have a narrow focus looking back over few years or even a decade, however, if we step back and learn about history and from history we see productive changes in our sport and society.
Have you taken the steps to make the sport more inclusive or are you not affected? Are you reaching out to others to become more educated?
RW: I think the biggest thing that black players in softball can do right now to make our sport more inclusive is keep doing them and working to be the best athlete they can. Representation is a powerful thing, and you never know who you could be inspiring by just showing up ready to play every day. Being a player at Howard University, my whole team volunteers at the local Youth Academy to help spread baseball and softball to kids in underserved communities in D.C. It is important that we be visible and involved so that we are people that the next generation of athletes can look up to so that they may fill our places.
TS: I was always very curious about my other teammates and their religions or cultures or anything else in between. I probably asked too many questions that may have pushed the envelope, but I was always an open book on what people could ask. I just wanted to learn about why people do things. I always appreciated Alyssa Palomino and our talks on religion. It's important to respect people, you may not have to like them, but it's important to give everyone respect because everyone can bring something to the table.
JS: I would like to think I am taking the steps to help softball become more inclusive. It is one of the reasons why I want to become a softball coach. Like I said last week, representation matters and I need to give the little girls who look like me some hope. Some current/former players created a group named BGB (Black girls ball). The idea is to create a safe space for little black girls while educating nonblack people on what's its like to be black in softball. We want to educate, create allies and help make our sport more diverse.
CC: I have become more willing to have the hard conversations needed that involve gender discrimination, race, and sexuality in the past few months. Once you realize that your truth is not the only truth you are able to listen to people to try to understand them instead of needing to respond. I've learned that I don't have to have all of the answers. But being willing to learn and be accepting of others ideals and experiences helps me become more inclusive. If you want our community to progress you must be the change yourself.
LS: I try everywhere I go to tell people about being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It's something I'm proud of and in a way, I like that I'm different from most. When I talk to some people about it I get a cold shoulder but I don't let it bother me. I usually find that people just have one mindset about us and it's that we aren't Christians. I usually just giggle and say, "Well, Jesus Christ is literally in our name soooo…"
There's a lot of misconceptions on what the Book of Mormon is and it is just another book with more proof and stories of Jesus Christ. That's all it is. When you wear BYU on your chest people immediately get curious and want to know more.
DR.: As often as possible I speak about utilizing the gifts God has given and seizing the opportunities before us! No one is going to do it for you. You have to want to make the change in your life which will in turn impact the lives of others. People respect those who are servant-hearted with the mind-set of a champion within. If we live our lives to training to be a champion for Christ, our best is good enough and the change will happen.
Did you ever lose a starting spot or been cut because of your gender, religious affiliate or color of your skin?
RW: Luckily, I don't believe that I ever lost a starting spot or been cut because of my religious affiliation or color of my skin.
TS: No and I really hope that is not something that other people have to deal with.
JS: I am not sure honestly.
CC: I personally have not lost a job or playing position because I am a member of the LGBTQA community. However, I do know of other gay men in our sport that were not allowed to date openly and remain a member of their college softball organization.
LS: No, I have not but I do believe that if I hadn't made the decision not to play on Sundays that I would have. Growing up, travel softball was quite literally my job. In most jobs, if you have to perform and be at work for the weekend and you tell them one of those days you can't be there, you probably wouldn't get hired or be let go eventually. I also know that I probably wouldn't have been the player I was if I hadn't played on Sundays.
DR.: No, however as a young girl growing up in the 60's, I was not allow to play organized sports because of being a girl. However, a day in 1971, that all changed and my path in sports began.
If there is something important happening during the season (holiday, family event) how do you approach that conversation? For coaches, have you had a player approach you about something that you don't practice? How did you handle that conversation?
RW: If there is ever an important event that happens during the season, the best thing I found for me to do is just give ample time to notify coaches and most will be pretty understanding of the situation and work something out.
TS: To continue my Yom Kippur story, basically we just went to Coach's office and said "Hey Coach, so the holiest day of the year is Yom Kippur. It's this date, so can we miss practice because we will be fasting for 25 hours?". Coach is a religious man, so he understood the importance of this holiday to the Jews, so we were in a very lucky situation. I also had to ask our Director of Operations for special food requests when we were traveling during Passover. It was also during Lent, so she had a lot going on with the food situation, but she did everything in her power to make sure I was accommodated.
JS: Don't think that's happened, yet.
CC: I wouldn't say that being gay coincides with attending specific events instead of softball. But being able to miss practices for personal days or for your well being should not be frowned upon. Sometimes our personal life does effect how we play and perform on the field. So being able to have an open dialogue about how life is going outside of softball is vital.
DR.: For me, and I pray it is the same for you, God is number one in our lives, Family is number two so when there is something important with God and family those come first over the sport.
Did you ever quit, change schools or switch teams because of ignorance? (I think that is the word to use).
TS: No. I do have something slightly related though. My freshman year of college, I was out at night and when I came back to the dorm, my bed was flipped with a swastika made of paper on it and the person put goldfish in my pillow. It was another athlete and I handled it, but it was something horrific to come home to.
JS: I played for a team a long time ago and I wanted to move up in age. I went and tried out for the 18u within the organization. The coach said I didn't make it although it was clear I should have. I ended up leaving that team because it did feel I didn't make it because of ignorance.
CC: I no longer seek out playing men's fastpitch as much as I did in the past. In my experience, I have played on teams that have made me feel uncomfortable not being able to live my true self openly. With that said, I have found other ways to still enjoy the game of softball while maintaining an environment of acceptance. By no means do I see myself as a victim in this scenario. I feel as if the women's side has been nothing but accepting towards me.
LS: I have not thankfully. I always tried to educate my teams about my beliefs so that they never thought I was different. I mean I grew up in the heart of the bible belt. There was a lot of discrimination among my church and sideways looks simply because people thought they knew everything about us. I didn't want that with my team because they were like sisters to me.
DR.: No.
Arizona Remains Grounded in the Fundamentals
Five consecutive NCAA Super Regional berths left the University of Arizona softball program wanting more.
That's as great a testament as any as to what head coach Mike Candrea has created in Tucson over the last 35 years. The bar has been set so high that seasons ending in the Super Regionals from 2014-18 had the program still yearning to take the next step and return to the Women's College World Series despite seasons that would seem like a mere pipe dream for the majority of programs across the nation.
University of Arizona Wildcats led by Coach Mike Candrea
Ella Parker: Victory Through Versatility
Don't put Ella Parker's game in a box.
She wants to be known for far more than just one skill or attribute. She's not just a pitcher. She's not just a hitter. She wants to be able to do it all.
"I want to be as versatile as I can be and as helpful as I can be," Parker said
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Kasidi Pickering 2023 Blasts her Way to the Top
It is not a coincidence that Kasidi Pickering is one of the hottest recruits in the class of 2023 and her summer team, Hotshots Premier – Nelson, is one of the best teams comprised of 2022 and 2023 prospects. They both are very talented.
Pickering is ranked by the Fastpitch Network as the top utility player in her class and No. 4 overall among Class of 2023 prospects.
"All the intangibles. A true utility kid who can pitch, play all the infield positions at a high level, and one of the best 2023 hitters in the country," said Nathan Nelson, who has coached her since 10U.
Kasadi Pickering 2023 Hotshots Premier Nelson


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EDIT: I was using the read package before, but marking input as silent: true does not work with nodemon.

A: You can use the node packages, read or prompt. Keep in mind, they don't work with nodemon. They work, but the password will still be displayed when run with nodemon. This should only affect development since end users will run it with simply node.

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Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form.
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Our choice classes for ages 2-3 to learn the basics of dance.
At CEDC, we use tumbling as a group source of exercise as well as a tool to learn balance and dexterity.
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(AP) — A judge has denied a former Cook County commissioner's request to remain free while his lawyers appeal his tax-evasion conviction.
Tuesday's ruling means the 78-year-old William Beavers must report to prison by Monday. He'll serve a six-month sentence.
In his two-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James Zagel writes that, by law, a defendant seeking to stay out of prison must show he's likely to prevail on appeal. But Zagel concludes Beavers' arguments for overturning his conviction aren't compelling.
Beavers was convicted in March for failing to declare campaign money he used to gamble as income. Zagel sentenced him in September.
After spending more than a quarter century as a leading Chicago Democrat, Beavers never testified at his sentencing hearing. He declared after the trial, "I ain't begging for nothing."


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A full explanation of how the transaction works so as to avoid problems, confirmation of your fund's compliance with the relevant requirements, the holding trust deed and all the necessary company resolutions plus a service desk for procedural problems you might have with implementing the loan arrangements.
Townsends Lawyers Guide to SMSF Borrowing (Volumes I and II) provide a detailed commentary on all aspects of limited recourse borrowing.
All the important records evidencing the fund's decision and its directions to the holding trustee to lease the property and secure the investment return.
Agreements and security documents for all parties to a related party loan plus implementation including registration with state land titles registers.
A new set of documents for a new loan permitted by the legislation, but subject to ATO conditions so seek advice to be sure.
Residents of NSW, Western Australia and Victoria have the opportunity to transfer business real property they hold in their personal name into their self managed super fund and pay little or no state duty on the transfer. Some states require the fund to purchase the property, which it can do by borrowing if it wishes. In NSW it can be purchased by the fund (with or without a loan) or transferred as an in-specie contribution or partly purchased and partly contributed. These transactions are full of traps for the unwary so you would be well advised to use the tailored documentation we have honed from the many we've handled for clients.
Advice, documents and implementation of unwinding the loan and transferring the property to the super fund.


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Ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to create an image of the prostate gland. This can help your doctor identify abnormalities in the gland.
How Ultrasound Is Done
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Today is a business meeting.
Forthcoming Speakers and Events
Sep 12th Annual Duck Race on River Dodder at Milltown.
Sep 13th Paddy Furey, Croquet (that ancient Irish game which you are invited to try after lunch.)
Sep 20th Brian Cooke, Director General , Society of Irish Motor Industry Electric Vehicles
Sep 27th Alan Kirkpatrick, Men's Sheds
Oct 11th Polio Plus, the need to continue
Oct 18th Katrina Buckley, Men's Aid
Oct 25th Public holiday – no meeting
Nov 1st Business meeting
Nov 8th Shabnam Vasisht - Digging up the Raj in Deansgrange cemetery.
Nov 15th Dr Richard Conway – Disorders of the immune systems – a mystery.
Dec 6th Speical General Meeting
Dec 15th Christmas lunch.
President Alexander was in the Chair last week.
Visitors and Apologies
Last week, back in the Grand Canal Hotel again – at last. We got a warm welcome on our return from the hotel staff. There was a total of 33 people at the lunch made up of 29 members and four guests.
Our guests were introduced by PP Bernadette. These were Maura O'Neill, wife of PP Tom O'Neill and former president of Inner Wheel (who needs no introduction!), Cormac Trant (soon to be a member), Rotarian Dennis Shannon from Virginia, USA who is here helping his daughter find accommodation for her forthcoming year in TCD and UCD and Rotarian Nasir Barmkrai from Kew Gardens in the UK, now living in Sandymount and "looking for a nice club".
Bernadette also welcomed two Rotarians that we have not seen in a while, Rossella and Derek (Bell).
Twelve apologies had been received by Hon Secretary Tony: PP Derek Griffith, Vasily Ogievsky, Patrick White, Ola El Garawany, Dorothy Hannon, Rana Al Damin, PP Ted Corcoran, PP Mariandy Lennon, PP Paul Loughlin, Caroline Barnardo, Willy Widmer, and Veronica Kunovska.
Rotary Rangers' Schedule
Sep 7th Sugar Loaf Mountain, Kilmacanogue.
Sep 14th Hill of Howth
Sep 21st Kanturk and Scarr Mountains, Oldbridge, Lough Dan.
Sep 28th Deerpark, Powerscourt.
Cormac Trant gave the thought for the day. We were, he observed, living through an historic moment with the ending of US involvement in Afghanistan. This war had been triggered by the attack of the World Trade Centre on 9/11/2001 and had lasted 20 years – a lifetime for many young people in Afghanistan who will have known no time in their lives when there was no war. It was also a time when young women could go out alone and could get an education. Thinking of the fears many young Afghanis, particularly women, must now have, he is haunted by his own good fortune and he realises how important it is to appreciate even small things that make us happy and make our lives good.
• President Alexander noted that hurricane Ida had hit the southern USA 16 years to the day after hurricane Katrina wreaked such enormous damage in the same region. He asked us to keep the victims of Ida in our thoughts.
• Alexander asked people to let either him or Hon. Secretary Tony know if they would be coming to lunch next week as the hotel needs reasonably accurate numbers.
• He noted that a seven-day letter had gone out for Cormac Trant.
• President Alexander gave us a quick update on the Plastic Soup initiative which now includes 26 clubs. Work continues on clearing plastic from rivers and oceans. One of the rivers being worked on is the river Nile in Egypt.
• PP Bernadette said that she has a collection of sets of six books for sale at €25 each. The money raised will go to the Dolly Parton library in Tallaght. Each pack is a random mixture of books from those donated to her by members and others so you take pot luck!
• PE Delma spoke to us about the Samaritans. Every day, the Samaritans receive about 10,000 calls from people looking for help. Often a call is triggered by a crisis, but many calls are just people needing somebody to talk to. The Samaritans are not just there for the moment, they provide continuing support of people who are struggling with mental health problems. Over many years they have helped to keep the suicide rate in Ireland down. Two members of our club are also members of the Samaritans. Currently the Samaritans are looking for help in providing professional training for their managers. Carr Communications provides such training at a special rate. Managers are there to help employees manage their own stress and to deal with particularly difficult situations. A training session costs €500 for eight people. If we can raise this, Delma believes that we can get a matching grant from District that will raise the amount for €1,000 with which they will be able to train 16 people. If members are agreeable, she plans to do this by passing around a basket at a forthcoming Rotary luncheon.
• Gerry McLarnon said that PP Ken Hunt is not well. Ken was 91 last week, but his health is declining. Gerry asked us to please remember Ken who would appreciate hearing from members. Somebody added that PP Victor Hamilton is not well either. No more details were available at the moment.
• Gerry also said that older members may remember when we had a steady stream of Rotary scholars passing through the club. Many of these have stayed in contact. One was Sean Burns who went on to be a highly successful tennis coach in the USA. Sean's father Brian, a lawyer, businessman and philanthropist was featured in Patricia Harty's 2000 book, "The Greatest Irish Americans of the 20th Century", died last week at the age of 85. See https://www.irishcentral.com/news/brian-burns-irish-american-philanthropist for more information.
• PP Tom drew our attention to the upcoming talk by Paddy Furey on the subject of croquet. Paddy has invited members to join him for an introductory game in Herbert Park Croquet Club immediately after the lunch. Tom encouraged members to come along.
• One of our visitors, Dennis Shannon said that Cormac's remark about the event that triggered the American intervention in Afghanistan reminded him of 9/11. He had worked as a video journalist and he could remember being in the vicinity of the bombings after the event and trying to make sense of it all. He has also worked on the story during hurricane Katrina. He had been on the ground in the aftermath and had gone back a few years ago to see how the re-build was going. During and after Katrina, he had been impressed by the huge amount of support that had come from outside the region. Even the smallest things, like the donation of a bottles of water, are appreciated. You can see it in people's eyes.
• One of our other visitors, Nasir Barmkrai, said that he had been a teacher and an accountant. He was interested in history, particularly in the works of the Scottish historian William Dalrymple, the Tudors and the American war of independence. Nasir was born in Pakistan and Dalrymple wrote many books on the Indian history and on religions in the region.
See https://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com/books.
Celebrating Scotch and 3M
At this point, as promised in the last Zoom meeting, PP Alan Davidson produced a bottle of his famous limited edition MMM Scotch whisky – bottle 29 of 333 – the only bottle 29 that there was or would ever be. He was going to go around the room pouring a dram for any partakers. If there was any whisky left at the end, it would be donated to the good cause of Frank Bannister who had paid a princely sum for bottle number 48 at the charity auction a few months ago.
On My Own Time
Early in the pandemic, we published a piece by PP Mark Doyle on ice diving. We thought at the time that we might use this as a springboard for other articles about members' hobbies - focusing on less common pastimes (a euphemism for excluding golf). In the hope that it may inspire other members to tell us about their hobbies, we are this week publishing a second in this series.
On My Own Time: PP Tom and Chess
When we did a profile of PP Tom O'Neill several months ago, we mentioned in passing that he played rather a lot of chess and that we could come back to this topic. Tom learned to play chess at the age of 12. He was taught by a Guinness brewer named Fred Wilcox, the lessons taking place in the O'Neill family pub in Cornmarket in the Liberties. (In a curious coincidence, Frank Bannister was also taught to play chess by a Guinness cooper named Ford). Fred, a friend of Tom's father, had been selected for the Irish team to compete in the chess Olympiad (effectively the world chess championship) in Buenos Aires that was due to start on the 1st September 1939 - two days before the second world war started. Tom recalls Fred as the most moral man he ever knew. One of the substitutes for the team was suffering from TB and Fred turned down his own place on the team in order to let his friend join the team and play in Argentina – something that was to help his friend recover from the disease. As Tom says, he learned to pull pints and push pawns at the same time.
As a teenager, he joined the Eoghan Ruadh chess club. The Eoghan Ruadh club offered a wide range of activities to young people fielding hurling, football, camogie and chess teams. While playing (chess) for the club, Tom was to win an all-Ireland club championship medal (see above). This occurred when he came on as a substitute in the second replay of the final against Queen's University, Belfast in 1954. It was Tom's win that broke the deadlock. In the years 1953 to 1955 Tom, then at Synge street CBS, captained the school chess team, a team that won several Leinster Schools Senior Championships. During those years, several members of the Synge Street team were also selected to play for the Ireland Schools team in the four nations Glorney Cup against England, Scotland and Wales. Sadly, Ireland were perennial runners up.
By 1953 Tom was playing chess four to five days each week, in club, school and individual competitions, winning the Leinster intermediate championship and schools' individual trophy. In 1955 he was runner up in the Leinster Senior Open chess championship. Following this win, he was invited to play for Ireland in the chess Olympiad that autumn in Moscow. Sadly, he could not afford to go and there was no government funding for such a trip at the time. The Leinster Senior Open was Tom's best ever individual result and the 2nd last time he played in an individual competition until the following century. His final individual win was in the Oireachtas championship in 1956 after which he gave up individual competitive chess until 2012, 56 years later. That year he entered The Irish Veterans championship, with (to use his own words) disastrous results .
In 1956, Tom captained and played board one (the top player) for UCD in the Irish University championship against UCC, TCD and QUB in Belfast. These were serious, but fun tournaments. UCD were usually the winners, but not that year. Tom continued to play in team competitions for his clubs. In 1959 he was a member of the UCD team that won the Armstrong Cup, the Leinster Senior Club Championship. This was the 70th year of this competition and it was the first time in all of those 70 years that UCD had won it. This was a much desired result as, at the time, TCD had won it five times. Today, both universities have six wins to their credit.
While in UCD, Tom led the team that competed in the British universities annual championships in Cambridge and Manchester in 1954. It was the first time that UCD had entered this competition.
An interesting aside (for those of you who know the game) at this point. In the 1960s, the American Grand master Bobby Fisher, exploded onto the chess world and changed several aspects of the competitive game. One of the things he changed, in 1973, was the 30-year domination of the World Chess Championship by Russians. He also changed several practical aspects of competitive chess for the better. His major innovation was the elimination of the envelope containing the sealed move, used to facilitate an adjournment (and allow – as can be seen in the Netflix series, The Queen's Gambit, a player to consult overnight with others on strategy for the next day). In addition, Fisher invented a new type of chess clock. In competitive chess after a player makes a move, he or she presses a button that stops their clock and (re-)starts their opponent's. Today the clocks add a time increment every time a player makes a move. This increment can be 5, 10, 12 or 15 seconds. Why does this matter? Up to the time this change was made, in a game with a large number of moves, one or both players could start running out of time (each player then had a fixed time allocation that varies with the nature of the competition). This could result in one of both players needing to make faster and faster moves and occasionally a player losing a game simply because he or she ran out of time on their clock (this happened to Tom in the 1956 universities competition). As a result of Fisher's innovation, all games since have been finished in one sitting. And for those who like statistics, there are 1,700 chess Grandmasters in the world of whom 37 are women and precisely zero are Irish. In fact, Ireland has never produced a Grandmaster.
Having graduated, Tom joined a club for UCD graduates, the Collegians and again was on the team that won the Armstrong cup in 1964. He was elected president of the Leinster Chess Union for the year 1966/1967. Tom then 'retired' from club chess to focus on a demanding business career. In 2010, now a veteran, he joined the Dun Laoghaire chess club. It had been over 40 years, since he had played for a club, but he was soon back to winning ways when Dun Laoghaire won the Heidenfeld cup (Leinster 2nd Division competition) in 2012. These days he serves as chairman of the club and "super sub", as he puts it, for the club's three teams.
Tom keeps his hand in by playing on line up to three nights a week on both chess.com and lichess.org (the Leinster Chess Union site). He finds it particularly pleasing that membership of the club and the union have both grown during the (hopefully just about to finish) lockdown.
If any member would like to try their luck, Tom says that he is available for a game any time.


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September 27, 2007 By larryf
By Master Sgt. Mark W. Rodgers, USA
Special to American Forces Press Service
KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 4, 2007 – Four Afghan National Army cadets have finished a two-week internship program with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers here.
The cadets are third-year students at the National Military Academy Afghanistan here. The academy, with more than 700 cadets, is modelled after the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. The internship, which ended Aug. 30, was the brainchild of Army Maj. Richard Gash, a civil engineering professor at West Point. He worked at the Afghan academy this summer developing future academic courses. U.S. Military Academy cadets participate in a similar internship program with Army Corps of Engineer districts in the United States.
"We have cadets from West Point every summer," said Nova L. Robbins, program manager with the Afghan National Army. "We are going to turn it over to (the Afghan cadets) someday; why not mentor them?"
Afghan cadets are required to select from one military and one civilian discipline to study. "We had four choices: civil engineering, computer science, English and law," said Cadet Shafiq Mohammad. "We need many engineers, and this (to me) is the top class at the academy; this is why I chose engineering."
During their two-week internship, the cadets worked and interacted with numerous units. Cadets who participated in this inaugural internship program spent half of their annual month-long school break with the Corps of Engineers Afghan Engineer District. They were selected from 18 of their Afghan peers to learn about various aspects of engineering. Selection was based on academic performance and leadership potential.
The cadets selected represented the multi-ethnic diversity of Afghanistan, U.S. officials said.
The eight-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week schedule held the cadets to an aggressive program that challenged them to interact in every area. The cadets were paired into teams, with each team spending a week each working in the field and in an office environment. All assignments and hands-on training were designed around existing and future Afghan Engineer District construction projects for the Afghan National Army.
"The cadets had many questions, and you answered them", Afghan Col. Hamdullah Yousfzai, dean of education for the National Military Academy Afghanistan, said through a translator.
During their week in the field, cadets visited multiple construction project sites with Afghan Engineer District engineers and construction representatives. The cadets reviewed and compared plans for existing structures to stimulate thought and dialogue, officials said.
The office portion split the week between programs and project management, and engineering. Hands-on practical exercises required the cadets to prepare their own conceptual plan for an Afghan National Army dining facility expansion and upgrade. This was followed by participation in a review of their conceptual design, and walking them through a typical architectural design review.
In addition, the cadets reviewed contractor technical proposals and project scopes of work, assisted in preparing the scope of work for a new contractor, reviewed project design and building of the Afghan National Army dining facility, and were introduced to the operations and maintenance side of facility engineering.
"I think the cadets now understand how properly maintained facilities support their operational mission," said Jeffery B. Wheeler, operations and maintenance program manager for the Afghan National Army.
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(Army Master Sgt. Mark W. Rodgers is assigned to the Afghanistan Engineer District of the Army Corps of Engineers.)
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Born in Hawaii, under a water sign, but raised in the UK, it was many years before I returned, but looking out the plane window and counting 7 rainbows across the sky, I fell in love before touch down.
A year later I had to return to the UK so I left, not knowing if I would ever make it back. 9 years on and not a day goes by that I don't think about my time there.
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Title Christopher Lynn Hill, Clearfield, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, May 15, 2010
Alternative Title No.536 Christopher Lynn Hill
Creator Hill, Christopher Lynn, 1947-
Contributor Cooley, Everett L.; University of Utah. American West Center; Lloyd, Becky B.
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Subject Hill, Christopher Lynn, 1947- --Interviews; Poliomyelitis--Patients --Utah--Biography
Description Transcript (41 pages) of interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Christopher Lynn Hill on May 15, 2010
Abstract Hill (b. 1947) was born in Los Angeles, California. He discusses his family and neighborhood. He contracted polio in September 1953 at the age of five. He was hospitalized and was in an iron lung for a period of time. He relates what he remembers of getting sick and his hospital experiences. He received hot pack treatments and some physical therapy. He talks about being ostracized in the neighborhood and at school due to his illness. He was fitted with and used two leg braces (to the upper thigh) and two crutches for a number of years. Later he regained some use of his legs and was fitted with high top heavy duty boots for support. He started to develop symptoms of post-polio syndrome in approximately 2000. He talks about his difficulties with the onset and progression of this condition. He has been instrumental in developing an online polio support group and is involved with various disability groups. Mr. Hill received his college degree and worked in aerospace, water quality control and school district maintenance until taking medical retirement in 2006. This interview is part of the Polio Oral History Project. Interviewer: Becky Lloyd
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Recently, an ex-student of mine telephoned me to say that he was at his wits' end. As a secondary music teacher, he is doing great things in his high school – breadth and depth of repertoire, singing-based programmes and strong instrumental work. However, his children attending the local State primary school, are experiencing something quite different.
The children, aged five to 12, are given a teacher, who, despite having skills in only one discipline, must teach the same group of children music, dance, drama and visual arts. Often, this teacher is the classroom teacher who could, quite credibly, have no skills in any of the arts disciplines. How is this possible in a so-called educated country such as Australia?
Had these teachers been given four years of arts education preparation at university, with regularly scheduled classes amounting to at least 20 hours in each discipline, then the requirement to teach these subjects might be considered reasonable.
My ex-student's concerns are further exacerbated when his children come home and tell him that "music has rhythm and beat" and that the two are "exactly the same thing" or that "minor keys tend to be soft and major keys tend to be loud". This rubbishy, half-baked, ignorant,...
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Q: WSP deployment repeats last characters of a file I have a weird issue with deployment of a WSP file.
A little background info:

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*The Visual Studio solutions consists of 28 projects (don't ask... I inherited it :-)) of which 26 files generate a WSP file.

*The project was started on SharePoint 2007 but is now being upgraded to SharePoint 2010

*All projects build their WSP files using stsdev. Converting the projects to the SharePoint 2010 project templates will take too much time.

*TFS is used for version control and ALM

*Nightly (debug) build is in place to build all the WSP files.

*From the nightly build, a PowerShell script is started which initiates Update-SPSolution for each WSP file and waits until the updating is completed before starting the update process for the next file.

In one of the projects, several application files are deployed to a sub folder of _layouts, including a custom master page used exclusively by the application pages. The master page is not deployed to the Master Page Gallery and is not used anywhere else.
Last week, a rather peculiar problem started to show up: the last character of the master page was appearing twice. At first I thought this was a mistake in the master page (it had recently been edited) so I opened up Visual Studio, got the latest version, went into the master page and looked at the last line: </HTML> which was followed by a new line. The version that was deployed said </HTML> followed by a new line and then >. Weird.
Since I have two test environments that are both updated nightly, I looked at both the environments and discovered that both had the same error in the same file. As the error was not in TFS, I turned to the build server and investigated the files in the Sources folder, they were fine. I looked into the built WSP files, they were fine as well.
I have tried manually running the Update-SPSolution command but the issue remained. Redeploying (retract/delete/install/deploy) did not resolve the issue either. I've checked the properties of the master page file on the disk drive, but couldn't find any indication that the file might have been changed by someone else ("Last Modified" time was equal to the other files, no changes in permissions, etc).
Yesterday, I made a small change to the master page, hoping to trick the job that does the actual solution deployment into re-deploying the file. I made these changes:

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*I added a space on top of the file. It started with <%@Master which I changed into <%@ Master

*I removed the newline at the bottom of the file

This morning, when the nightly deployment had ran, I looked at the bottom of the file. To my amazement, it read: </HTML>ML>
The issue occurs on two separate but identical SharePoint environments. Both environments have been configured by using scripts and are up onto the same SharePoint patch level: SP 2010 + Service Pack 1 + the August cumulative update (14.0.6126.5000).
I think I have tried almost everything. Can anyone give me some clues on how I can possibly resolve this very peculiar issue?


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In his first career Xfinity Series practice session, Ben Kennedy was the fastest driver on the track.
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Kennedy is making his Xfinity Series debut in the American Ethanol E15 250.
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DeBarra's Spoken Word new for 2020
WCP Staff January, 2020
The first meeting of the new DeBarra's Spoken Word took place on Wednesday January 15. Nick Smith, PRO, reports.
The new committee has superseded the old pSoken Word, which began in 2013; the innovative spirit undoubtedly remaining the same with thanks and kudos to all who contributed over the years.
There was a great response to the 'Pen-twister' after which special guest, award-winning poet Paul McMahon (accompanied by Kieran McMahon on slide guitar and Pat Barrett on double bass), performed a dynamic set of poetry with musical accompaniment. Paul and Kieran have performed this style of spoken word music at festivals throughout Ireland including three times at The Electric Picnic. Kieran McMahon is a songwriter, producer and session musician in Berlin, while Pat is a seasoned jazz bassist and composer who has toured extensively throughout Ireland with diverse acts such as Fiona Kennedy, Anita Williams, Gina and The Champions, and The Darktown Strutters.
After the break, and as popular as ever, the open mic brought a remarkable evening to a close. The evening ran smoothly under the charming hands of joint MCs, Moze Jacobs and Nick Smith with thanks to De Barra's, Cork County Arts' Office and all who contributed.
Paul, Kieran and Pat are offering to provide musical accompaniment to writers who would like to perform their writing to music. Those interested can email an attachment (a voice recording, in mp3 format) of spoken poetry or prose to debarrasspokenword@gmail.com. Those interested in having their work accompanied by specifically composed music at the next DeBarra's Spoken Word session on Wednesday February 5 at 8.30pm need to email their voice recordings by no later than Wednesday, January 22.
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ForbesBook AuthorVoice: Who's on Your Leadership List?
Who's on Your Leadership List?
When I was CHRO at Unilever, I used to carry around a list in my pocket. The CEO carried the same list. On it was the 56 roles we had identified as critical to delivering the company's value agenda. Some roles had leaders in them, some were vacant, and some were soon to be vacant. Why a list of critical roles?
Making sure we had the right leaders focused on the right work at the right places in our organization was one of the most strategic things we could do for the business. Whenever we saw value was in danger, we'd pull out our "Leadership List," find the role responsible for that particular hotspot, and call the person. This list literally helped us get our jobs done with more speed and ease. Keeping close tabs on these roles focused our time and attention with laser-like precision on leadership gaps that demanded immediate filling and leaders who needed real-time support.
So how did we decide what roles and which talents made the List?
Put aside hierarchy. As the company's casting directors, we were responsible for selecting leaders who could drive the value agenda. But rather than start with the current org chart or our top high potentials, we focused on value first. We looked at the various hotspots in the company where a significant change in value creation was occurring or where we expected it to occur. Some of these nexuses of activity existed in close proximity to us; others were as deep as three layers down into the organization. For each hotspot, we identified the critical leadership necessary to create and capture that value. Then we organized all this work into one master list for the entire company.
Design around value. At the time, we were trying to reduce headcount, not increase it. We could not afford to assign only one major activity or one outcome to each critical role. Instead, we organized a set of no more than five of these Jobs To Be Done™ (JTBD) per role. Some roles had direct accountability for a specific value hotspot; others had direct P&L and/or revenue responsibilities. Some roles facilitated value creation; others protected value by mitigating risks. Some enhanced capabilities; still others developed products. All were indispensable.
Connect the talent. Now we could start connecting talent to value through these critical roles. The last part of our job as casting directors was to match talent with the necessary combination of capabilities, experience, a seasoned point of view, and sufficient perseverance with each role we had designed. Our casting decisions would significantly impact the company's results. After all, we couldn't put a Tom Hanks type in a role requiring a Tommy Lee Jones—and vice versa. Both were highly successful talents, but it was up to us to connect each star to a role they could shine in.
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Janey Godley revealed she has ovarian cancer - these are the symptoms to watch for
By Heather Carrick
Updated Friday, 19th November 2021, 6:53 pm
Janey Godley has revealed that she has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. (credit: Getty)
Comedian Janey Godley has announced that she has been hospitalised with ovarian cancer.
The stand-up star took to Twitter to tell her followers that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had been forced to cancel upcoming shows due to being treated in hospital.
Godley says that she had been touring the UK with her show without knowing that she had cancer, and said she has "done nothing but cry and cry and cry" since being admitted to hospital.
What did Janey Godley say on Twitter?
In an initial post on Twitter, Godley said: "Sorry but my last weekend of the tour can't go ahead in Edinburgh and Musselburgh as I am in hospital with ovarian cancer - look after each other #MentalHealthMatters"
In a further post, she filmed a video from her Glasgow hospital bed.
She said: "I'm really sorry I can't make the Musselburgh and Edinburgh shows this weekend, it's the very last dates of the tour and the tour has been so brilliant and so very well attended and successful but unfortunately I was doing the tour while I unbeknownst to me had ovarian cancer.
"I had it checked out yesterday, that's what I'm doing in this very beautiful but very stormy corner room in hospital in Glasgow."
Who is Janey Godley?
Godley, 60, is a stand-up comedian who rose to fame after performing comedy voice overs of Nicola Sturgeon's Covid-19 briefings online.
She was included in a Scottish Government coronavirus awareness television campaign, however was dropped after offensive tweets from Godley were unearthed.
Godley has continued to perform and tour the UK with her comedy shows and stand-up routines.
How is Janey Godley doing?
In her video, Godley said that the news of her diagnosis has had her in tears for days, saying: "Onto the next step of my journey and what is that journey? I don't know if I'm going to be one of these people who battle bravely, who fight every step, I don't know.
"That doesn't feel how I've been the last day, I've done nothing but cry and cry and cry but I'm going to use science, I'm going to use technology and I'm going to try and cope with this next step on the journey."
Godley also thanked the "unbelievably brilliant" NHS for their help, and urged anyone with symptoms of ovarian cancer to get checked.
She said: "If you have any symptoms like I had, which was I felt as though I was full before I was eating a meal, I felt as though I had no real energy and there was a big bloating inside my stomach, I got it checked out and it's ovarian cancer.
"So onwards and upwards, I want everybody to know that I really appreciate them for being behind me for so long and we will see what happens next."
What are the symptoms of ovarian cancer?
According to the NHS, there are many symptoms to look out for.
The main symptoms include:
feeling constantly bloated
a swollen tummy
discomfort in your tummy or pelvic area
feeling full quickly when eating, or loss of appetite
needing to pee more often or more urgently than usual
Other symptoms to look out for includes:
persistent indigestion or feeling sick
pain during sex
a change in your bowel habits
feeling tired all the time
Those over 50 or with a family history of ovarian cancer may be at a higher risk.
You should contact your GP if you have been feeling bloated more than 12 times in a month or have any other persistent symptoms as listed above.
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import requests
from .. import celery, app
from ..models import get_all_uncheck_express, get_all_auth_info
from ..utils import AESCipher
from .express import get_tracking_info
from .library import time_to_return_books
import time
from .state import get_user_last_interact_time

@celery.task(name='express.update')
def update_uncheck_express():
    """更新未签收的快递动态"""
    data = get_all_uncheck_express()
    if not data:
        return None
    else:
        for express in data:
            get_tracking_info.delay(
                express.openid,
                express.num,
                express.comcode,
                from_user_input=False)

@celery.task(name='library.return_books')
def remind_return_books():
    """定时查询提醒还书"""
    data = get_all_auth_info()
    for user in data:
        timeout = time.time() - int(get_user_last_interact_time(user.openid))
        # 绑定了图书馆借书卡,并且在可主动回复时间内
        if user.libraryid and user.librarypwd and timeout <= 48 * 3600 * 0.99:
            # 解密密码
            cipher = AESCipher(app.config['PASSWORD_SECRET_KEY'])
            librarypwd = cipher.decrypt(user.librarypwd)
            try:
                time_to_return_books(user.openid, user.libraryid, librarypwd)
            except Exception, e:
                app.logger.warning(u'还书提醒任务出错:%s' % e)
            time.sleep(10)

@celery.task(name='access_token.update')
def update_access_token():
    """定时更新微信 access_token"""
    requests.get(app.config['HOST_URL'] +
                 app.config['UPDATE_ACCESS_TOKEN_URL_ROUTE'])


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Pandemic Can't Keep Masked Big Tex Down In Dallas' Fair Park
By Nicole Nielsen September 16, 2020 at 5:03 pm
Filed Under:Big Tex, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Dallas, DFW News, drive thru, Face Mask, Fair Park, Howdy Folks, Pandemic, State Fair Of Texas
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Big Tex is out of quarantine and standing tall in Fair Park.
He's got a brand new belt buckle, a refurbished hat and an accessory you can't miss, his 7-foot by 4-foot face mask.
Big Tex in 2020 (CBS 11)
"He's never missed a year. We weren't sure earlier this year, but he's now made his debut!" said Karissa Condoianis, Senior Vice President of Public Relations for the State Fair of Texas. "Big Tex has been standing here every year, since 1952, never with a mask on."
On Wednesday, people gathered to watch his historic installation.
Artist Eric Hanson has painted Big Tex as he has been put up for the last three years.
"I paint a lot of local, Dallas landmarks and you can't really get much more of an iconic landmark than Big Tex," Hanson said.
"I had to come out and support Big Tex going up, just happy to see him, happy to see people here," said Melissa Tate, a State Fair fan.
Fair staff said it was an emotional day for a new reason this year.
"You know he's been around for all these years, it wouldn't have been a normal year without him. And it's not a normal year, but at least we have this little piece of normalcy," Condoianis said.
The Big Tex Photo Drive Thru event begins Saturday, September 19.
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Sergey Trapezin
In a ravine
Non-Moscow
From White to Black Sea project (2013-2014)
Mental Hospital
Malaysia, 2012
"Turkey. 2008-2014" project
The project is about the life of homeless people in a ravine in a park in a prestigious Moscow district. This is a spontaneous illegal camp with the elements of commune where about 12 people live constantly. People are here for different reasons. Some of them have relatives in normal houses near the park. When the project started there were 6 tents here made of the accidental materials from the dumps. The police demolish the camp periodically, but the camp arises again. The money is mostly earned by the selling of recyclable materials collected in dumpsters (non-ferrous metals, aluminum cans, glass bottles). The food is obtained from dumpsters, where shops throw away the products which are about to expire.
Kostya in his tent
20.04.2015. The tent of Boris. The inhabitants of the ravine called his tent "cottage" due to the large size. Later it was demolished during the next police swoop in July 2015.
The view from the tent of Boris to the house where his father lives.
Alexey (one-eyed), nicknamed Cyclop and Sniper.
Boris and Kostya drink and play backgammon during the birthday party in ravine.
Volodya has always a guitar. Guitars deteriorate quickly from poor living conditions. People here use to eat from one utensil.
Valya washes the dishes, Sasha prepares the tea. The inhabitants of the ravine share with each other the food found in the trash. In particular, they share the perishable products, especially if they got a lot of it and it should be eaten fast.
Valya and Sasha. Sometime the folding bed near their tent was used both as a bed as well as a bookcase.
Kostya checks the garbage container trying to find something useful on the way to the slop-container of the grocery store.
Sasha takes water for the "technical needs" in the river flowing in the ravine.
The inhabitants of the ravine shoot with the phones the helicopters returning from the parade in honor of Victory Day on May 9, 2015. They give the phones for charging to friends or charge it where two inhabitants of the ravine work as street cleaners.
Kostya is waiting for the shop to throw out the products which are about to expire.
© 2021 Sergey Trapezin


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Glorantha
The Gloranthan Procession
May 18, 2020 in Glorantha
Illuminated Master
I want to talk about something Greg Stafford wrote more than twenty years ago, which I think I'm beginning to understand. His foreword to my friend Chris Gidlow's book Tarsh War began: "I am pleased and honored to welcome Tarsh War into the Gloranthan procession."
Hold that thought. Imagine Glorantha not as a fantasy world, but as a procession. So: what goes into a procession?
There's the big corporate carnival floats, in their hardcovers and slipcases, with phenomenal production values. You've never seen this year's float before, it'll be amazing! But there's also the old floats everybody likes, the ones that return year after year because it just wouldn't be the same without them.
There are the military marching bands, in lockstep, all playing in tune and calling out strike ranks and hit locations as they advance. And there's spectators who tut and roll their eyes at all that militarism on display, but hey – the music's good, and this has always been a part of the show. (And if you don't like them, you can sing along with the hippies and the folkies – they're in the parade as well)
There are historical re-enactors, who take the Bronze Age theme way more seriously than anybody else, but there are plenty of furries as well, and people in Duck costumes, and you know what? It doesn't matter. There are clowns capering around, and extrovert cosplayers and LARPers showing off in outrageous outfits, and never mind that: everyone's heading in the same direction.
There's the spectators, too: some people are ambling along to follow their favourite part of the show, and some people are standing still and watching as everything goes by, and some are having a great time hanging out with their friends and soaking up the carnival atmosphere in the background.
And there are the organisers who pulled the whole thing together, who get to make boring speeches and write forewords in return for their efforts, and the local councillors banning stuff, and requiring us to stick to certain routes this year, and making sure none of the cosplayers have unfortunate wardrobe malfunctions…
And I thought: Greg really did have a gift for this stuff, didn't he? It's a procession. You need all these folk for the procession to happen. The procession isn't just the traffic warden with his clipboard, or the high school drum majorettes, or the big-ass corporate float. It's all of them.
We're all in the procession. It needs all of us. The spectators, the corporate floats, the furries showing off. All of us.
Here endeth the sermon.
Edited May 18, 2020 by Nick Brooke
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