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kalluun-patangaroa · 5 years

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An Audience With… Brett Anderson

UNCUT Magazine

December 2010

Interview: John Lewis

Brett Anderson has some fans in odd places. This month, Uncut’s email boxes are positively heaving with questions from adoring fans in Peru, Serbia, Japan, New Zealand, Belgium, South Africa, Slovenia and Russia. “I’m quite popular in odd places,” he says. “Suede had No 1s in Chile and Finland. We were massive in Denmark. If asked why Denmark, my stock answer was that, well, I’m a depressed sex maniac and so are most Scandinavians. We toured China long before most Western pop groups. I remember playing Beijing, to a crowd divided by armed soldiers facing the audience. That was pretty scary.” Anderson is currently back in the Far East, speaking to Uncut as he overlooks Kowloon Harbour, preparing for solo dates. Later in the year he’ll be in London for a big O2 show with Suede (sans original guitarist Bernard Butler, although the two remain good friends). “I wanted to check out what the stage was like at the O2 Arena,” he says. “So I went to see The Moody Blues with my father-in-law. Come on, you can’t argue with ‘Nights In White Satin’. What a tune!”

I presume you’re aware of the ‘reallybanderson’ Twitter account purporting to be by you. Amused or offended? Helen, Birmingham

Twitter is one of those strange things, like Facebook, that I don’t have anything to do with. But I have to grudgingly admit that the reallybanderson Twitter updates are rather funny [starts giggling]. And the guy doing it is obviously a bit of a Suede fan, because there are some very detailed references to b-sides and bla-di-blah. I can’t exactly complain about it without coming across as a real tit. It’s just fun and no-one really thinks it’s me, it’s a cartoon version of me reflected through some fairground mirror. I don’t think anyone reads it and thinks, ‘Oh, Brett Anderson has Jas Mann from Babylon Zoo doing his washing up, or Brett punched Damon in the street.’ It is, ha ha ha, quite witty. Having shown them the picture inside the Best Of Suede CD, my kids would like to know why you refused to feed me for five years? Also – can my mum have her top back? And are you around for a trip to the Imperial War Museum? Bernard Butler

Yes, what most fans don’t realise is that we kept Bernard in a cage for five years, and fed him edamame beans and tap water. Regarding his mum’s top – he should know that it’s long been ripped up and destroyed by the front row of the Southampton Joiners, or somesuch venue. Now, the Imperial War Museum – me and Bernard were talking about getting older the other day and he said: “Are you finding yourself increasingly interested in British military history?” And I have become oddly fascinated with watching WWI docs on YouTube. It’s not just the personal tragedies, but the sense of it being a shocking transition point between the Victorian world and modernity. The idea that they were going into war on horseback, and by the end of it they were in tanks. Blimey. So tell Bernard I will be going to the museum, soon… What’s your favourite Duffy song? Kris Smith, Wembley

I thought “Rockferry” was a very beautiful, stirring track. So that’s the only one I know well, but I’m really pleased for Bernard that that was a big success [Butler co-wrote and produced much of the album]. He’s an incredibly talented person and works incredibly hard, and he’s one of those people who is just obsessed with music. People like that deserve success. Did I ask him to join the Suede show at the O2? No. I told him about it, but he’s moved on so far from Suede that it would have been odd, and we’ve had a completely different lineup since he left. I don’t think he’d want to be jumping around a stage again! He’s much happier doing what he does now, I think he’s really found his calling. Do you still have your cat, Fluffington? Claire Vanderhoven, Holland

Unfortunately, he’s ascended to cat heaven. He had 15 long years of adoration. Am I getting another cat? Well, I recently got married, and my wife brought two Italian greyhounds with her. I don’t know if anyone is aware of them, but Italian greyhounds are like little cats. Ours are eight years old but look like miniature foxes, bonsai greyhounds. But incredibly fast, like little bullets. When they’re not running they spend their whole life under the duvet. Someone once told me they were bred by the Pharaohs as bedwarmers! Brett, do you have a copy of the single I recorded with Suede: “Art” b/w “Be My God”? If so, could I have one? Mike Joyce

Mike, I think I destroyed my copy years ago. I’m not one to keep memorabilia. They’re about 100 quid on eBay. Mike was an early member of Suede. We were advertising for a drummer and listed The Smiths as an influence. Then at an audition, their drummer pokes his head through the door and says, “Hello, lads!” Ha! It was a bit Jim’ll Fix It. I don’t think anyone thought it was going to last, Mike was far too big a name for us. But he just took us under his wing, guided us through the industry, and was so charming. I still keep in contact with him. What’s the weirdest story you’ve heard about yourself? Badabingbadaboom

Someone once told me that they’d heard a story about me wanting to shit in someone’s mouth. But I also heard the same story about David Byrne, so I think it’s one of those urban myths that gets transferred from one slightly kooky pop star to another. That’s probably the most unsavoury thing I’ve heard about myself. Maybe I should give it a go. Which actors would you like to play the lead members of Suede in a biopic? James Kumar, Manchester

This is the kind of thing we talk about on tour. Matt Osman is convinced I should be played by Peter Egan, who was in Ever Decreasing Circles. I think Nic Cage should play Matt. Arsène Wenger reminds me of Bernard. That’s what Bernard will look like when he’s 60. Billy Idol could play Simon Gilbert, couldn’t he? Would you ever consider working in musical theatre? Neil Tennant

It’s funny he should ask that, because only the other day, I was listening to the album Neil and Chris did with Liza Minnelli in the late ’80s. Results, I think it’s called, with “Losing My Mind”. That sounded great, so emotive, and real. I’m a big fan of the Pet Shop Boys, they’re one of those amazing bands that almost created their own genre. But anyway, musical theatre. Yeah, I think I would. Sondheim? Rodgers and Hart? Definitely. I’m always open to new ideas. Musical theatre sounds like it’s going to have camp undertones, but I’d love to do it in an interesting way. What’s the worst song you’ve ever written? Mark Catley, Christchurch, NZ

That’s a good question. I wrote lots of terrible songs that were never recorded in the early days. But there’s a song called “Duchess” – a B-side to something from the Head Music era [actually to 1997 single “Filmstar”] – which is pretty rubbish. I’ve often regretted the production on certain songs, like “Trash” and “Animal Nitrate”, even though they’ve been pretty good songs. But you can’t go messing around with things like that. You start to interfere with what people originally liked about it. I also think people like your mistakes, as they give your work humanity. I quite like that about Prince. He seems to throw stuff out – some of it genius, some unlistenable – but all quite honest. I respect that. Do you enjoy art? Excited about Gauguin at the Tate? Katarina Janoskova, London

Absolutely. I’m a big fan of Gauguin and the post-impressionists. My favourite visual artist, if I had to narrow it down to one, would be Manet, the pre-impressionist. Not Monet, who doesn’t do it for me. But Manet had this revolutionary technique of painting on black, which gives his pictures a real depth, there’s something very sumptuous about his paintings. And further back, the kind of medieval-style stuff like Holbein and Brueghel – they’re so well observed and so real. You look at these pictures of people who lived 500, 600 years ago, you can imagine them walking down Tottenham Court Road now, the same face, they’re so real. It’s a little window into the past. I’ve quite got into art recently. It’s all part of expanding yourself and your education, appreciation of beauty in life, innit? Now that you’re no longer coming to work in Bow, how are you coping without the salad pitta? Leo Abrahams, musician and producer

Ha ha! I’ve been working on an album with Leo, in his studio, and I have an unhealthy obsession with East London’s kebab shops. You don’t get many good kebab shops in west London. It reminds me of being a student. I’m surprised Leo’s got the time to email you questions! He’s far too busy producing Eno or Grace Jones or Florence & The Machine. He also does these bizarre things where he plays entirely improvised gigs, no rehearsals. And that inspired the latest solo LP I’ve done with him. It was based on improvs. Me, Leo, Seb Rochford on drums, and Leopold Ross on bass just jammed for days, cut up them up and improvised, and did overdubs. It’s a full-on rock record. I love Leo, he’s great. He never takes the easy option. He pushes you a bit, which can be terrifying. Can you give us not-so-slim-in-2010 Suede fans some health tips? Simon Quinton, Oxford

My wife is a naturopath – she’s conscious of what she eats, so we eat a lot of sushi and seeds. I’ve got into cycling recently, particularly living in London, through the parks and the backstreets. It makes you fall back in love with the city. I cycled to Bow the other day from my house in Notting Hill. So that’s staving off the fortysomething belly. I’m sure I’ll get it when I’m fiftysomething. I’m looking forward to that. What do you think of Gorillaz? Ruiz, São Paulo, Brazil

To be honest, I don’t know much about them. I like the drawings. I guess that’s a veiled question about my relationship with Damon? Well, we don’t have a relationship to talk about. We all have things that happened years ago, rivalries and so on, and people assume that they’re still on your radar and part of your life. It’s like some musical soap opera, often one that’s been fabricated, without much substance. I have different issues in my life now. Is the art of songwriting dead? If it isn’t, who is flying the torch? Paloma Faith

Oh, it’s not dead at all. I’m constantly inspired by new music. If you look on YouTube, there’s a clip of me singing Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful”. When you’re covering stuff it’s interesting to try things that are out of your genre, which gives it a frisson. So I always try songs that aren’t, you know, British indie, stuff like Blondie, or The Pretenders. That Christina Aguilera song is amazing. I try not to look at songs as the finished product, I look at it as the chords and the melody and the words, like sheet music to be interpreted. You’ve got to keep moving with your musical appreciation. I loved the last Horrors record, I liked The National, The Drums, These New Puritans, lots of stuff. I never listen to the records I grew up with. Why bother? It’s all in my head! Brett, you’re from Haywards Heath. What’s the deal with the swimming pool there? It’s deep in the middle, not at one end. What’s your take on that? And were you ever caught out by it? P Newman, Brighton

I don’t know what they’re referring to at all, but funnily enough my dad used to work there as a swimming pool attendant. And I don’t really know how he got the job because he couldn’t swim. It’s lucky there weren’t any accidents. Every Tuesday, we had to troop down to the local pool, and everybody would be pointing at my dad saying, “Oh look there’s your dad, he’s working as a pool attendant.” And I was hoping none of them would start drowning, ’cos my dad wouldn’t be much use. Still, this was the early ’80s, and I guess we all thought the world was going to end any second with a nuclear bomb. Ha ha.

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davemerritt · 5 years

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Titanic, Jersey and a brand new home

It’s New Years Day 2019 and much like everyone else, I like to look back over the last 12 months to just remind myself of all the things I’ve done in just a few short months. Simply put, I’ll pick out a few highlights from each month to reminisce over.

January. Always a weird one I find, but often can throw in some nice events. You come out of Christmas not knowing what the new year will bring or what you’ll achieve, but I like the uncertainty. Two things to mention in the first month of the year was that I was lucky enough to get a ticket to watch Yeovil VS Man United in the FA cup at Huish which was actually electric, despite a 4-0 less it was a great evening out and something I’ll remember. A massive thing for myself in January was auditioning for an FMTC show, more specifically ‘Titanic’ that was to be on in May. Easily one of the most nerve wracking things I’ve ever done, but I managed to secure the role of ‘Jim Farrell’. More on this show later.

February and a couple of nice little highlights. First proper gig of the year was Don Broco in Cardiff and I was back on stage again, playing ‘Hugo’ in ‘the Vicar of Dibley’. This was a brilliant role to play with a fantastic bunch of people, especially the incredibly talented Tina who was our Geraldine.

March and it snowed. A lot. Several times. I loved it. We always head to the David Beech awards in March and this year Tri Art walked away with ‘Best Youth Production’ for the stunning ‘Les Mis’. We also got the Vicar of Dibley crowd together again for a fun gala event and Jess and I went to an evening with Brian Blessed in Salisbury where we were fortunate enough to meet the man afterwards, what a life and what a fantastic evening.

April was a good month. I took Ed to Wookey Hole because he’d never been), Jess and I found a little National Trust gem in Great Chalfield Manor, I saw my first ever live rugby match watching Bath at Twickenham (it had nothing on football, sorry), there was a lovely day out with Jess’s work as we took part in a pets as therapy dog walk around Prior Park, The Star Awards took place, a group of us headed to the Mayflower in Southampton to watch the professional version of Titanic: The musical in preparation for our own production and Lower than Atlantis put on an incredible show at Komedia in Bath.

May. Titanic. I truly would never have believed that I would have ever been in an FMTC show, but after months of rehearsals we put on what was the most incredible show at the Memorial Theatre. I have never been so proud of what we achieved as a group of people, but also of myself. I’ll never forget the show, nor the people or the journey. Hands down one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life. I must of course mention the Slam Dunk festival, which in 2018 moved to a new outdoor home. I was dubious at first, but it turns out it was a huge improvement to the now overcrowded university space and one of the best years yet. I was lucky enough to be given tickets by my brother to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London this month, and I have to say it was probably the best thing I’ve seen on a stage. I know lots of fans disagree, but I was simply blown away by the production and urge anyone to go and see the show if they can. To make May even better, myself and Jess visited a sales office for a house that was yet to be built too… June and Scott had his stag do down in Weymouth. This was great fun and involved Ed purchasing an OAP trolley, drag queens and superhero outfits. June always means the End of Year Show at work, and of course who could forget the World Cup this year. June also saw a little proud moment for me as I put on show some of my photographs from the past few years at the Merlin Theatre. It was so exciting to see my images on the walls of the venue they were from as well as getting them off my computer and opening them to a new audience.

July and handsome Scott got married on a hot summers day and I was lucky enough to be his photographer. July also saw a fun garden party for G’s 18th and the continuation of the heatwave that, despite insane temperatures, was actually fantastic.

August and some rest bite from work saw a few days out with Jess’s family in lieu of a full blown holiday away which actually worked so well with Dave buying a minibus to ship us all around in. Nunney Street Fayre took place on the annual bank holiday and we climbed the church roof to gain a new view of the village, Tri Art’s show this year was ‘In the Heights’ (I highly recommend it) and we had a little charity football tournament in the style of ‘The real world cup’. The best part of August though had to be my holiday to Jersey. I haven’t been away in so long and a small handful of us took the ferry to the island where we camped under the stars, visited lots of historical landmarks and drank lots of wine. A wonderful few days away with fantastic friends.

September is my birthday and it’s always improved when Cheese Show falls on the same day. With the end of the heatwave saw rainy days and this continued through to the carnival, but Frome did itself proud again and lined the streets as we advertised our two upcoming shows of ‘Joruney’s End’ and the Christmas show which this year was going to be ’The Nutcracker’. The new term at work began, and I became a student again as I began my course to become a qualified teacher.

October and the nights draw in which means making time for warming winter gigs. Two I went to this month were the awesome Hands Like Houses and a stellar comeback for Lonely the Brave as Jack (of Grumble Bee fame) becaMe the new lead singer for the Band. I was lucky enough to see him and the band play their first show together, but not before catching a matinee in the west end seeing ‘School of Rock’ with Kirst.

November this year saw one of the best gigs I’ve been to in a long time, with State Champs blowing the room off the Bristol O2. We were also making the final preparations for the upcoming Nutcracker shows at the Merlin and Jess and I spent a lot of time packing up our lives from Newington Terrace.

December. Jess and I finally had the keys to our first ever owned home and we couldn’t be happier. Our new little house is beautiful and we couldn’t be more proud to have spent our first Christmas here. I cooked for 7 of us as we piled the whole Merritt family into our new living room.

So that was 2018. A year of real highs and a lot I have to be thankful for.

2019 has lots already booked in including my next show starring in ‘Allo Allo’, potentially auditioning for FMTC’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Jess and I need to put the final touches into our new home, I need to buy my Slam Dunk ticket for May, I’m taking Jess to see American Idiot in Southampton and dad turns 60 this year.

I don’t have any real resolutions, but I’d like to read more novels, get back into running and take a real holiday with Jess

Album of the Year // Tough call this year, but I think ‘VI’ by You Me at Six was an underrated great piece of music

Game of the Year // Spider-Man. An essential PS4 exclusive.

Movie of the Year // A whole host of great movies came out this year, but I’d have to say that Mission Impossible Fallout was one of the best. The biggest disappointment for me was that Fantastic Beasts 2 couldn’t get anywhere near the original masterpiece.

Thanks 2018 and Hi 2019.

Bring it on.

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peckhampeculiar · 6 years

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Farewell Fred

Men’s Traditional Shoes on Camberwell Road is closing at the end of this summer after more than 150 years in business. Manager Fred Harris, AKA Fred the Shoe, tells how he switched from Fleet Street to footwear and never looked back

Words: Garth Cartwright; Photo: John Yabrifa

The announcement that Men’s Traditional Shoes, south-east London’s oldest and most venerable footwear vendor, is going to close led to an outpouring of tributes from those who have shopped here over the decades.

Entering Men’s Traditional Shoes reveals a spacious shop that appears to have changed little. No music, no screens, no distractions, just a selection of beautifully made leather shoes, boots and loafers on display. Highly regarded by many connoisseurs, it has long stocked the finest men’s shoes at prices considerably lower than in the West End.

The shop’s manager is Fred Harris, a south-east London native and something of a “face” from mod days onwards. Fred is a directly spoken, no nonsense individual, who is very friendly once he has the measure of you.

Now aged 70 and living in Chislehurst, he insists the forthcoming closure is not linked to his age. “I had no interest in retiring,” he says. “But the shop simply isn’t doing the business it used to. We don’t get the trade so the owner, Billy, has decided to move on.”

According to Fred the shop has been selling shoes for 150 or 160 years. “I know the gentleman who owned the shop before the current owner was born here and lived all his life here until he died aged 90 – and it was a shoe shop throughout that time,” he says.

“The current owner’s father bought it in 1957 and kept it selling shoes. Obviously, there have been changes – there used to be changing booths for women to try on their boots privately so their ankles would not be seen. That’s from Victorian times!

“The booths got torn out decades ago and all we have left of them now is the mirrors on the far wall. Sadly, there’s no photos of the shop from back then. Not many people used to own cameras.”

Men’s Traditional Shoes used to be one of many traditional outfitters in the Camberwell and Walworth area, Fred says. “Panache was a good local shoe shop. Ravels shoe shop on East Street did good business.

“Another excellent shoe shop was The Star in Camberwell Green. Now? Well, there’s still George Dyer, the bespoke tailor further up the Walworth Road, but he’s the only one still trading from the old school.”

Fred was a teenage mod and today continues the mod ethos of dressing in smart, practical clothes. “I was born in New Cross and left school aged 15 and went into the print trade in Blackfriars. This was the mod era and I had a taste for clothes.

“We used to knock around here and the East End. As printers we had to wear overalls, but when we came out of work we dressed up. The 60s were brilliant in south-east London – all the young people were very sharply dressed and there were lots of places to go out.

“There was a club in Forest Hill, the Glen Lynn, where The Who would play when they were still known as The Detours. They had a fortnightly Friday night residency there and I saw them plenty of times. No one thought of them becoming superstars. They were just a band to have a dance to.

“Streatham was a great place for nightlife,” he adds. “You had The Locarno and The Bali-Hi – which was situated over the ice rink – was done out with a South Pacific theme. They were just fantastic.”

An early passion for footwear saw Fred and a friend queuing for hours outside Anello & Davide shoemakers on Drury Lane to buy a coveted pair of blue Beatle boots. They cost £3.75 and Fred was earning £4 a week at the time.

“We queued in the pissing rain so we could get a pair each and we were very happy when we did,” he says. “They were beautiful boots. A pair of shoes could cost you a week’s wages but for us mods, young working class lads, it was important to be turned out well.”

Fred married young and stayed local. “I married at 19 – my wife grew up on Peckham Park Road – and we lived around Elephant and Castle and then on Southampton Way in Camberwell.

“As a printer I finished up on The Express and, when they left Fleet Street in 1989, I decided that was it for me. Billy asked me if I wanted to run this shop in 1996. I always had an eye for a good pair of shoes so it was natural I could work in the trade.”

Local writer and filmmaker Mark Baxter knows Fred well and turned him into a character in his novel The Mumper. “I first met Fred in the mid 80s, when I drank in The Flying Dutchman pub on Wells Way, on a Sunday lunchtime,” Mark says.

“He was part of the table around which stories galore were told. Fred was the driest wit. You never knew if he was serious or joking. Very funny guy. I never knew his surname for years, he was just Fred The Shoe.

“Of all the older chaps from that time, I’ve kept in touch with Fred the most. He’s a lovely fella and still very funny. I’m genuinely gutted he is leaving the shop, it truly is an end of an era. I have had many a shoe out of there, all quality stuff.”

Today Men’s Traditional Shoes serves as something of a clubhouse for those of Fred’s generation who still live around here. While I’m there several chaps drop in, one a retired printer and black cab driver, another a former professional footballer and a chatty chap who once played harmonica in raucous 1960s group the Downliners Sect.

“I’m always happy to see them,” says Fred, “but, look, none of them bought any shoes, did they? And that’s the problem. This shop reflects the old school: look smart. If you went out on Sunday for a drink you were suited and booted. Smart mohair suits, tonic suits, tie on. I’m still the same. I’ve never been a jeans man. I don’t sell trainers. But times have changed.”

Fred is a fascinating man to spend time with. Telling tales of the days when printers ruled Fleet Street and the Richardson gang ruled Camberwell (“but don’t quote me – I don’t want trouble with gangsters”), he’s a real London raconteur.

“I might have shifted from here,” says Fred, “but I’ll always be a local.”

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jennylamb2006 · 6 years

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Decline 45th High School Reunion

I cannot attend the reunion for reasons cited below but rest assured that my spirit will be there.

I remember attending 9th grade home room in the fall of 1969 as a skinny 14 year old not knowing what my future will be at East Paterson High School. Well I am 63 years old and the results are nearly in.

I had just finished 8 years at St. Anne's Parochial School. I had a good friend named George Wolfe who had dated Rhonda Frattolillo. He attended Fair Lawn High School so I felt lost in the new environment.

Growing up on 18th Avenue I had also known Tommy Moriarty. I spoke to a childhood friend the other day. She told me about the passing of Tommy who died at the age of 62. Tommy had down syndrome. He lived with his rather large family on 16th Avenue. My memory is hazy but some of the details of my childhood have stayed with me. We grew up together for the period of roughly 1965-1968. Many hours were spent sleigh riding on the small hill located near Tommy's house on 16th Avenue. One day my family's dog ran out the door and it seemed like at least 20 children including Tommy tried to catch him. Pepper ran into the woods near the Garfield Water Works. Eventually despite the snow and other dangers Pepper was returned. I asked my Mom about Tommy being different and at the time the term retarded was used. My Mom who was generally soft spoken told me that God made all children in his likeness. Soon after this I was standing on top of 16th Avenue hill waiting to sleigh down it. Tommy was there and asked me if I was his friend. We rode down the hill on the sleigh together. Rest in peace Tommy.

At East Paterson High School I remember being called to Dr Varese the Principal's office in 1972. I was nervous but he congratulated me on receiving a New Jersey State Scholarship. I believe my father who was a Veteran of World War II at Pearl Harbor had something to do with it. I did not serve in the military the draft had ended when I became eligible. Besides I had seen enough fighting outside the third wing of the high school to realize that it was just plain stupid.

I was interested in sports especially baseball throughout my high school years. I am enclosing a picture of my high school jacket. I was too nervous to ask any girls to the proms but if I had the nerve I would have asked Roberta Fisher. Please hug her for me at the reunion. She is a good friend and a wonderful lady. I remember wrestling with you and realizing that you were a skilled wrestler. I remember playing one on one Basketball with Tony Zappala and losing but I was not intimidated by his New Jersey All State superior skills. I remember pitching my first inning in Varsity baseball and realizing that my 80 MPH fastball was not enough to win a ticket to the Major Leagues. But I loved the competition and had some meager success to build on.

After high school I attended College and continued to play baseball. In 1974 I pitched a three hitter against the 11th ranked community college in the nation putting our team in first place. I remember Dennis Walling hitting a double off me in the first inning. When I walked back to the bench my coach told me he was a really good hitter and somehow I got him out the next three times I faced him. Walling went on to have a Hall of fame career in the major leagues. But my ego grew really large that day. I wanted to pitch the 2nd game of the doubleheader but the coach thought otherwise.

In 1974 I heard Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run and my life was changed. If you are ever in a bad mood play this song and you will know what I mean.

In 1976 I dated the first love of my life named Linda Lane. Her father was a wealthy businessman from Paterson New Jersey. Linda attended College in Pennsylvania. I remember driving down to see her and wondering what the future holds for me. In 1977 I proposed to Linda at Valley Forge State Park. She said yes if we could resolve our religious differences. This was true love only encumbered by my Roman Catholic faith vs. her born again Christian beliefs despite the fact that her father was Jewish and her mother was Roman Catholic.

I broke up with Linda and decided to take my 1968 Chevy Nova (I had rebuilt the engine in the snow of the 1977 winter) and move to California. I lost the opportunity for inherited wealth for the California dream by humming the Beach boys songs of the 60's as my friend Lamont and I drove to Long Beach California. I also had an Accounting degree from William Paterson College and $5,000.00. I planned to retire by age 40 with $100,000.00. I remember saying that I had no intention of reading another book until I have some fun. While we looked for apartments I found one but when Lamont turned up to sign the papers it was rented. I found another and made sure Lamont was not there to sign papers. There are bigots apparently all of the country. I really hate bigots.

In late 1978 I met a California girl with a golden smile named Laura Lambert that has graced my life for 40 years. That year I also met Ron Beaman from Nebraska. We have been friends all these years which I consider myself lucky. The next 8 years were spent living in a two bedroom apartment one block from the beach playing basketball with about 40 friends every weekend. I owned a small accounting business.

In 1980 I cried when John Lennon died.

In 1986, Laura and I bought our first piece of Real Estate, a one bedroom condo. It was a bit intimidating. By 2008 we bought/sold over 100 properties, so much for being nervous.

In the late 80’s I met the first of two attorneys that I am also friends with. Gene Goldman is a good attorney whose only deficiency is being weak in billable hours. I believe his calming disposition helped me in dealing with homeowners associations.

By 1994 Laura and I had accumulated 10 pieces of real estate and I had obtained real estate Brokers licenses in California and Nevada. My first real estate sale was to a single mom. She cried when I gave her the keys and I did too when I received a check for $2,200.00 for about 4 hours of work. It seemed so easy. At the loan signing her parents apologized for her being gay. I did not know what to say to the assholes. I wanted the deal to go through so I kept my mouth shut. In 1996 my daughter Rhiannon was born (named after the Fleetwood Mac song of 1977).

In 2002 I attended two concerts, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen in Las Vegas. This makes up for not seeing Bruce Springsteen at Mr. D’s on the corner of Market Street and Midland Avenue. I realized that Paul McCartney and the Beatles were God’s gift to mankind. How lucky were we to experience this?

By 2004 I had a million dollars in the bank and 8 properties. I would go down to the Las Vegas courthouse to buy foreclosures. One property I did not have any information on started bidding at $30,000. I knew the people bidding were attorneys who regularly bought so when the bidding reached $400,000 I started chirping in. I bought it sight unseen for $425,000.00. As I paid the lady one of the attorneys said he was upset and wanted it. I drove my Lexus quickly to the property which was in a gated community. It was a fixer upper that I hoped to sell $575,000.00 and make $30,000.00 on. Well in 4 months after remodeling the price had soared to $675,000.00. I had made $100,000.00 on a house bought sight unseen. My ego grew again.

In 2005 at Christmas time I walked into Wells Fargo Bank in Henderson Nevada with my daughter Rhiannon and asked the teller how much the Wells Fargo Stuffed Stagecoach was. She responded by giving it to my daughter telling her that I was their biggest customer. My ego expanded again.

In 2006 Laura and I met Lon and Mary Searle and their fine family. They are mormons that have great values. Of course we do not agree on Joseph Smith.

By 2008 my material wealth had diminished considerably but luck would have it I found out that my ancestors arrived at Jamestown Virginia in 1629 and I was the 12th generation. I decided to take Laura and Rhiannon and move to Williamsburg Virginia. There was no stopping my love for United States History which began reading about Ethan Allen and the Green mountain Boys at St. Anne's in 2nd grade. Sure Kennedy was shot that same year but if the truth be known it wasn't Oswald who did it. There was a severe recession on except I did not notice it because of my families history unfolded before my eyes. I found the original family cemetery and plantation and a historical figure named Dred Scott who did not have his birthplace recognized. I fixed that in a couple of years by connecting two documents 40 years and 700 miles apart. Isn’t history grand?

In 2009 I met Richard Lincoln Francis, clerk of the Southampton County Court in Virginia. He is descended from Abraham Lincoln and I consider him a good friend who is qualified to be President of the United States. He is my East coast attorney, we have had more fun than should be allowed. To give you an example we had a trial over a Hines lucky rock that rivals the OJ Simpson trial of the century. I have taught Rick the 8 things to drive a golf ball successfully. He is a terrible student who has a tendency to make phone calls while teeing off. I believe this violates some rules.

Since moving to Williamsburg Virginia I have written five books. My disdain for reading that occurred after college was over. The second book involving the research to discover Dred Scott's birthplace is being converted into a movie. It is entitled Walk With You, the story of Dred Scott and the Blow Family of Virginia. It is about 8 children 6 white and 2 black that grew up and bonded together to take on the President and Chief Justice of the United States. I have met Hollywood stars including Ed Asner. My time is currently possessed in seeing this venture is completed to fruition.

My life has been blessed by God and living in the greatest country in the world. I have lived the American dream which consists of association with all ethnic groups. My first twenty two years living in New Jersey were great. My next twenty three years in California were better. My next 8 years in Henderson Nevada were living the dream. The next 5 years in Williamsburg were amazing. And the last few years touring the United States with Laura are the best ever. Opportunities if you use education to advance yourself. If these members of our class are among the living: Robert Motta, Robert Hurley, and Joseph Lasica, please give them my best.

Our democracy is currently under attack by a greedy lying moron who has no business occupying the world's beacon of freedom head office. This will change soon. If any of the morons who voted for this clown have issue I will be happy to meet them outside the 3rd wing at EPHS and give them a taste of true Democracy from someone who has lived it. I have had only two fights in my life. I am undefeated and plan to stay that way.

Warmest Regards,

Jeffrey Allen Hines

Class of 1973

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MACHINE HEAD, who are set to release their hotly anticipated ninth studio album, Catharsis on 26th January via Nuclear Blast Entertainment, have today unveiled the video for the title track over on their YouTube channel - https://youtu.be/WYeDJxWvA_I. Also check out a 'making of...' clip, where mainman Robb Flynn gives you an insight 'behind the scenes', featuring Butoh dancers, insane asylums, straightjackets and rose petals - https://youtu.be/G9CGfMrhZdg. Butoh dance is literally and figuratively the dance of death and pain. Born from Hiroshima/Nagasaki post-World-War-II-era Japan, the art was inspired by the radioactive wasteland left behind in the wake of the nuclear bomb being dropped. Dancers would paint themselves in ash and adopt a gaunt, deathly look. Facial expressions are agonized and body language is contorted, expressing the pain and suffering that all went through as a result of atomic warfare. MH mainman Robb Flynn explains, “Catharsis was a tricky concept to translate to a visual. How do you express somebody’s catharsis? Frasier, the director brought up the Butoh Dance concept and it tied in so well into the idea of what catharsis could be. And man, when the Butoh dancers began performing for the video... we were blown away, their expressions were so pained, almost horrifying and yet very sad. It was extremely moving." The other side of Machine Head’s Catharsis video recounts the experiences of mental asylum patients and how often in the 50s & 60s people went through traumatic, often regrettable experiences and those vivid photos still linger today. Robb continues “On a personal level, I related to this aspect. My Uncle Jimmy lived with us for years when I was growing up. He had experienced some pretty severe drug testing when he was younger and didn’t come out of it very well. For the rest of his life, he would do things like not eat for 7 days straight and talk to Jesus all day. It was a trip to grow up with that at home. So we took these disparate elements and turned it into a cinematic/psychedelic visual to express that sentiment."

He continues, "I tell ya what man… we love making videos now! There used to be a bunch of rules around what you could and couldn’t do in a music video. Most of it was a boring performance, with us 'pretending' to play and sing the song, but now it’s like making a crazy whacked-out movie. You can get weird and strange and have a blast. We are super proud of how well this video tuned out!!" You can now pre-order Catharsis in an array of different formats, including various coloured/picture disc vinyl and a super-collectable deluxe box set. Check out all the options at http://nuclearblast.com/mh-catharsis. Check out another track taken from Catharsis, titled Beyond The Pale at https://youtu.be/MVdflCH76t4. Catharsis was produced by Robb Flynn and recorded, mixed, and co-produced by Zack Ohren (Fallujah, All Shall Perish) at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, CA. Mastering was handled by Ted Jensen (Hatebreed, Alice In Chains, Deftones) at Sterling Sound, New York, NY. The album's cover photography was created by Seanen Middleton. MACHINE HEAD recently announced the UK leg of their Catharsis World Tour for May 2018. As per MACHINE HEAD's modus operandi in recent years, the dates will be in an 'Evening With...' format, featuring 2.5-3hrs of MACHINE HEAD every night with no support bands. Don't expect to see MACHINE HEAD at any festivals in 2018 either. These shows will be your only opportunity to see the band live in the UK next year. Tickets are on sale now from https://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/machine-head-tickets.

Sun 13th May - SOUTHAMPTON Guildhall Mon 14th May - CARDIFF University Tue 15th May - BRISTOL O2 Academy Thu 17th May - BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy Fri 18th May - LONDON Roundhouse Sat 19th May - LONDON Roundhouse Mon 21st May - NOTTINGHAM Rock City Tue 22nd May - NEWCASTLE O2 Academy Wed 23rd May - GLASGOW O2 Academy Fri 25th May - MANCHESTER Academy The band begin the North American leg of the Catharsis World Tour on 25th January 2018 in Phoenix, AZ, wrapping up in Seattle, WA on 7th March. For more info on MACHINE HEAD, contact [email protected], or point your mouse at either www.machinehead1.com or www.facebook.com/machinehead.

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DORTMUND, Germany -- Jadon Sancho lives in a abreast home overlooking an bogus basin in Phoenix-See, an flush development on the bend of Dortmund. He drives a white Mercedes, but he doesn't drive it far. He'll go to practice, which is about bristles account away. If it's hot, maybe he'll get ice cream. Again he'll appear home.

Start Kick Of Football Match Stock Photo - Image of kick .. | soccer dribbling maneuver He'll achieve in with a video game, FIFA or Fortnite, and delay for his clandestine chef to accomplish him dinner. It's a activity so bland, so foolishly anonymous, that you'd anticipate it wouldn't amount area he lives.It matters. Still alone 19, Borussia Dortmund's Sancho has emerged over the accomplished year as a absolute footballer. "He's an aberrant talent," Jurgen Klopp said afterwards his Liverpool aggregation absent to Dortmund, his above team, in a affable in July. "There's no agnosticism about the abeyant of Jadon Sancho." These days, he's admired as the best amateur in the apple built-in in the 21st Century; there is cipher adolescent who is better. The website Transfermarkt gauges his amount at 100 actor Euros. "He can be a very, very, actual important amateur in Europe," says Lucien Favre, the Dortmund manager.Axel Witsel, Sancho's teammate, goes further. "I've watched him advance aback I came here," Witsel says. "He works hard. He array goals. If he keeps activity like that, he will be one of the best players of his generation."And Dortmund? It's a banal burghal in the Ruhr Valley, Germany's adaptation of Pittsburgh. Hardly a day-tripper destination, it would accept absurd to allure a young, aggressive Englishman in any profession. But it's acute to Sancho's aisle because it isn't Manchester. Or London, Liverpool, Watford, Southampton or anywhere abroad in England.Three summers ago, Sancho below the befalling to bout North America with Manchester Burghal afterwards adorning his adventurous at its adolescence academy. The club admired him as a abeyant first-teamer about bottomward the road. Sancho believed he was there already, alike at 17. "I was continuing out, anniversary in and anniversary out," he says, anecdotic his success with Man City's U23 team. "I acquainted it was time to seek addition challenge."Pep Guardiola, Manchester City's manager, capital to move slowly. He proposed absolution Sancho analysis his abilities adjoin the aboriginal aggregation during training sessions. "You alpha the appearance area you bound with Kyle Walker, with Mendy, with Kompany," Guardiola said, advertisement three of City's -- and the world's -- arch backs at the time. "And again we will see what is your level, your dribbling, aback you are activity to comedy adjoin all the fullbacks in the Premier League. That is what we accept is the abutting step."It articulate sensible, but Sancho didn't appetite to wait. Crucially, he didn't accept to. Over the accomplished decade, starting about the time that Klopp affiliated the aggregation in 2008, Dortmund has aggressively pursued able teenagers, including Christian Pulisic. It was abreast to do the aforementioned with Sancho. "You could see how acceptable he was," says Michael Zorc, Dortmund's antic director.The Premier Alliance is admired as the best in football. Aspiring stars are declared to appear to England to accomplish their acclaim and fortune, not leave it. But rather than appetite to comedy for Guardiola, who had won titles at Barcelona and Bayern Munich and would win at Manchester City, Sancho absitively to leave him afore his chief career had alike started. He was driving, somebody said, the amiss way bottomward a one-way street.Dortmund isn't abundant added from South London than Manchester is. But it is in addition country, and it ability as able-bodied accept been addition world. "Going there was a actual adventurous move," says Arsenal's Reiss Nelson, a adolescence friend. "Not anybody would accept done it. It was brave."Sancho had never played a first-team match. He couldn't allege German. He didn't apperceive anyone in Dortmund, area he became the aboriginal Englishman to comedy for the club. He wasn't criticized so abundant as pitied. Was he delusional? Accepting bad advice? "When I larboard Manchester, there were a lot of bodies that doubted me," Sancho says. "Saying it's too aboriginal to leave England. It's a big club. I ability not play. That it was actual attenuate for an English amateur to do able-bodied in Germany."But Sancho knew he was accessible to go because he knew area he'd already gone.The Kennington tube stop is the one afterwards Elephant and Castle, branch south on the Northern Line. Topped by a metal dome, it has pretensions of grandeur. It charge accept looked absolutely august some 60 or 70 years ago. But the decrepit and crumbling concrete, and the straggle of bystanders on the artery bend in advanced of it -- one in a conditioning pants and a ripped jacket, addition in knicker-length trousers and a decrepit arrested shirt -- accord it away.

10 Ways to Dribble a Soccer Ball Past an Opponent - wikiHow - soccer dribbling maneuver | soccer dribbling maneuver This is Kennington, in the London apple of Southwark. It's area Sancho grew up, a lower-middle-class neighborhood, with the emphasis on the lower. Like Camden Town and again Bermondsey, it has started to gentrify because affordable apartment abreast axial London is adamantine to find.Until he was 12, Sancho lived with his mother and sister on the arena attic of Kennington's Guinness Trust Estates, red-brick apartments that were congenital in 1921 with a government grant. In primary school, Sancho would access home anon afterwards 3 o'clock. By 4, he'd accept eaten a snack, done his homework, arranged his gear. If his father, Sean, was able to beat by in his old Citroen, Sancho would delay for him in the parking lot. If not, Sancho would arch to that tube stop with one of his father's friends, who had been appointed for the appointment that day.- Lukaku on a mission: Win with Inter and prove Man United wrong- ESPN FC's Ultimate XI: We aces our dream team- Comedy ESPN Fantasy Soccer Driving from Kennington to Watford F.C.'s academy, which is amid on the far northwestern bend of Greater London, takes maybe two hours anniversary way during the afternoon crush. By tube, the cruise is shorter, but alone slightly. Booty the Northern Band adjoin Charing Cross. Get off at Euston and delay for the National Rail. Go two stops on a Midlands alternation adjoin Milton Keynes, again alteration to an Overground alternation at Watford Junction for the abbreviate hop to Watford High Street. It's a 15-minute airing from there. Leave at 4 and you'll accomplish the 6 p.m. training, bold none of the trains accustomed backward or got ashore in one of the delays that affliction London transit. "It took a long, continued time," Sancho says.Two hours there, two hours aback -- all for two hours of training with a Watford adolescence team. Watford had apparent Sancho during a affected it ran in Battersea, beyond the river from Chelsea's Stamford Bridge. Sean Sancho's acquaintance was alive as a communication amid the affiliation and the club. Adolescent Jadon showed up and afflicted everyone. "They accomplished he was good," Sean says, "and they beatific that up the line."The first-generation son of a Guyanese ancestor and a Jamaican mother, Sean, 45, grew up in Kennington. He never affiliated Jadon's mother, so he acclimated football to breach affiliated with his son. They'd occasionally go to see Chelsea or Arsenal, but mostly Jadon admired to play. Sean encouraged it. Football would advice accumulate him abroad from trouble. "If you're idle, article can appear and booty your apperception away," Sean says. "You've got to accept article abroad to do." Afterwards Jadon's abilities started axis heads, Sean started cerebration of football as his son's admission to a bigger life. "Without football, I don't apperceive what aisle he ability accept taken," he says. "I'd like to be optimistic, but who knows?"Soon Jadon was offered a abode at Watford's academy. "We saw it as the abutting step," Sean says. "That was consistently what was in my mind. Whatever needs to be done needs to be done." At the time, Jadon was eight years old. The academy had no accouterment for boarders that young. But the cruise from Kennington to Watford was too continued for him to accomplish every day. It was agreed that he would do it three times a week.On the added days, Sancho headed to the cages. Blacktopped playgrounds amidst by chain-link fencing, they'd been devised by contemptuous developers as a way to allot as little absolute acreage as accessible to burghal exercise. They've acquired into one of Europe's greatest manifestations of artery football. Amateur there are raw, unstructured, generally dangerous. Cipher is anytime offside. You alarm fouls at your risk. "You're accustomed to do anything," Sancho says. "There's no rules."More accomplished players are on affectation in the cages of South London than anywhere abroad in the city, maybe anywhere in Europe. A few accomplish it out. Crystal Palace's Wilfried Zaha developed his adventurous in the cages. So did Liverpool's Joe Gomez. Tottenham's Ryan Sessegnon and Chelsea's Tammy Abraham are two of the latest to breach through. "You appear home from academy and you maybe don't alike change your shoes," recalls Nelson, who lived a abbreviate airing from Sancho in Aylesbury. "You've got the brawl at your feet, and you apprentice what you can do with it. Activity into the academy, you accompany that asperous ability from the streets with you."One of the playgrounds is amid over a alpine fence that borders the development area Sancho lived. What passes for a angle there is tiny, no bigger than a basketball court. Alike 5-on-5, there's little allowance to maneuver. Dribbling makes far added faculty than aggravating to cilia a canyon through the drove of defenders. Sancho is acclaimed for his speed, but in the cages, dispatch becomes irrelevant. It's all quickness, a agitate of the arch in one direction, again dispatch in another. "You accept to drag your body," Sean Sancho says. "It's about the feint, like boxing. You get the apostle to second-guess."Because he didn't go to Watford every day, Sancho was able to get the best from anniversary of his disparate worlds. The abilities he acid on asperous blacktop were alike added able on a able field. "I was aloof freestyling, award means to absurd people," Sancho says. "You'd accompany aback tricks to the training ground. And not abounding bodies accept them affectionate of tricks at a adolescent age, so I would angle out." At the aforementioned time, the apprenticeship he accustomed at Watford fabricated him flash alike brighter in adjacency games. He abstruse how to accomplish a pass, and how to finer accept one. "You add that to the cage," he says, "and become a complete player."Sancho commuted to Watford for four years. Aback he angry 12, the club proposed to pay his charge at an aristocratic boarding academy abreast its facility. Abounding of the acceptance there were sons of adopted millionaires. "It was a actual altered culture," Sancho says. That, too, was allotment of Watford's plan. Sancho had brought his artery football commonsense with him from Kennington, but he'd additionally brought some of the street's below adorable characteristics. "My attitude wasn't the best," he admits. "That allotment of the 'hood was still in me. I was accepting into trouble, accepting detention. And one of my coaches sat me bottomward and said, 'We amount you highly, but you've got to accept which way you appetite to go. Larboard or right. Acceptable or bad.'"

Team USA Jovan Booker maneuvers the ball down the pitch .. | soccer dribbling maneuver By then, his adventurous had acquired into a asperous adaptation of what we see today. "Some bodies said I seemed Brazilian," he says. "I accept area they're advancing from. Because English players don't about comedy like I do."He had aloof angry 14 aback Manchester Burghal fabricated an offer. Moving there was his third journey. "The hardest one," he says. "Could I handle that abutting step? And obviously, I handled it actual well.""The aggregation sheet," Michael Zorc says. He smiles. "It's my best argument."He's answer how Dortmund manages to get tomorrow's stars to spurn some of world's better clubs and appear to the Ruhr Valley. "They apperceive we are not abashed to use adolescent talent," he says. "I acquaint them, 'Look at our aggregation sheets. You will play!' And not in a cup adventurous adjoin a second-division team, but important amateur adjoin Schalke, Moenchengladbach, Bayern. In the Champions League."By 17, Pulisic was on Dortmund's chief team. Aback Mario Gotze was 17, he was arena every week. Ousmane Dembele, now with Barcelona, had angry 19 aback he came to Dortmund in 2016. Jurgen Klopp's abrupt Dortmund aggregation that agitated Bayern Munich in 2011 had an boilerplate age of 22. "On 3:30 on a Saturday afternoon," Zorc says, referencing the accepted Bundesliga alpha time, "we about accept three, four, bristles players below 20." Zorc capital Sancho to be the next.One of football's best accomplished executives, Zorc has fabricated a advantage out of necessity. Dortmund won the Champions Alliance in 1997, a beauteous advance for a working-man's club. By 2004, though, it had spent itself into bankruptcy. If not for a arch accommodation of €2 actor from Bayern Munich, and again a acute vote by investors in March 2005, that ratified a restructuring plan, it would accept been alone into the nether alcove of German football, and afterwards the banking accommodation to return.Frightened into frugality, Dortmund has aback operated far added prudently. The home bathrobe allowance lacks the luxuries that alike abate clubs commonly offer. Players don't alike get a cubicle, aloof four metal hooks for their artery clothes and accessories. A board bank runs the breadth of allowance like in a sauna, with a rubber-covered attic beneath. If the beard dryers, which are assuredly installed below the baby mirror at one end, attending like debris from the 1970s, it's because they are.Even with one of the better stadiums in Europe, Dortmund's earning accommodation doesn't appear abutting to analogous that of the world's better clubs. Its admirers can't allow the admission prices that best of its Champions Alliance competitors get. About 30,000 standing-room places in Signal Iduna Park amount below €20. Alike the priciest seats top out at 60.Like abounding baby clubs, Dortmund generates acquirement by affairs players to the giants. The aberration is, it additionally wants to auspiciously attempt adjoin them. So Zorc combs the apple for adolescent talent. He hopes his discoveries will accomplish their best affecting advance at the end of their adolescence and the alpha of their twenties, while they're cutting atramentous and yellow. Again he'll advertise them to a bigger club at a abundant profit. These days, Dortmund's alumni affiliation would acreage a aggressive aggregation in about any alliance in Europe: Bayern's Robert Lewandowski, Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Man City's Ilkay Gundogan, Barcelona's Dembele, Chelsea's Pulisic, Japan and Absolute Zaragoza's Shinji Kagawa. Klopp took abounding of those players to the Champions Alliance final in 2013. And Sancho was watching.Sancho had annoyed off homesickness and raced through the Manchester Burghal adolescence affairs afterwards accession there in 2015. In summer 2017, administrator of football Txiki Begiristain offered a able contract. Begiristain affected it was pro forma, a done deal. Who turns bottomward Man City?But Sancho wasn't convinced. The world's greatest accumulating of assiduously was already angry for arena time below Guardiola: Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane, Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus. "The opportunity, I didn't see it," Sancho says.And while Dortmund was acquainted Sancho, Sancho had been acquainted Dortmund. He saw that Pulisic was arena regularly. He knew that Dortmund competed in Europe about every season. He hadn't been there, but aback he Googled the city, Borussia Dortmund came up as the top attraction. "I anticipation of it as an befalling to appearance the apple who I am and what I can do," he said. "I anticipation of it like aloof addition abroad trip. 'I aloof charge to go abroad and comedy football.'"

Visit to Buy] soccer training Football maneuver straps .. | soccer dribbling maneuver The accord Zorc and Begiristain adjourned alleged for a amount of €7 actor euros, with a article that gave Manchester Burghal 15 percent of the accumulation from a approaching auction and a first-refusal option. Dortmund gave him the aforementioned No. 7 shirt that Dembele had worn. "That afraid me," Sancho said, but it additionally gave him confidence. As a 17-year-old in 2017-18, he started seven amateur and came on as a acting in bristles more. His aboriginal ambition in any chief antagonism came adjoin Bayer Leverkusen on April 21, 2018.Sancho's progression has been so rapid, it's adamantine to accept that ambition happened alone 18 months ago. He added 12 added goals and 14 assists aftermost year, allowance Dortmund accomplishment additional in the Bundesliga, a point abaft Bayern Munich. Below Favre, whose abstraction of absolute football is Brazil's 1970 Apple Cup team, Dortmund plays a free-flowing appearance that enables Sancho to appearance far added adroitness than he would for addition German side. "We can comedy actual alive football because we accept players like Jadon," Favre says. "He can comedy short, he can comedy long. He can comedy with one touch. He can distill in advanced of the goal, he can use his head. He destabilizes the added team."Sancho is still learning, like any teenager. He makes mistakes. Accustomed to watching adolescent players develop, Dortmund's supporters absolve them off. That's not the acknowledgment he'd be accepting if he'd backward in Manchester. "There's aloof a lot of burden in England," he says. "The media is so adamantine on adolescent players. If you accept not a acceptable game, it's like you're not ready, you're not acceptable enough. Germany is relaxed. I anticipate a adolescent amateur needs that."Sancho played for England in the UEFA Nations Alliance in June. By the time he appear aback to Dortmund, he was a full-fledged star. "It isn't aloof that he fabricated the team, but that he continues to body on it," said assistant Thomas Delaney. "I would about alarm it a advantage to watch Jadon every day in training. It's spectacular. He does things with the brawl I've never apparent before. If I approved to do what he does, I'd aching myself."It's a quiet night in Dortmund. But then, what added affectionate is there?Zorc grew up there. He spent his absolute 17-year chief career arena for Dortmund as a axial midfielder. Now he has placed the success of the club in the easily of players who can't accurately alcohol a beer in the United States. In that situation, he understands, addled is desirable. "There's no nightlife," he confirms. "No distractions. It's not Las Vegas, not Berlin, not London. You accept to go 100 kilometers for anything." That allows adolescent players to focus on their football. If Sancho fritters abroad his evenings arena Fortnite afterwards the casual ice cream, well, Zorc knows he could be accomplishing far worse about else.Eventually, Sancho will appetite more, on and off the field. Lewandowski ultimately larboard for Munich. So did Gotze, admitting he returned. Aubameyang and Gundogan confused on to the Premier League, and Dembele for Barcelona. They were replaced by the abutting bearing of hot prospects, the brand of Pulisic and Sancho. Pulisic now plays for Chelsea, a accord that added Zorc's account by $73 million. As he was leaving, conceivably the abutting abundant American anticipation -- Gio Reyna, Claudio's son, who turns 17 abutting ages -- arrived. And hidden abroad in Dortmund's adolescence program, a 14-year-old called Youssoufa Moukoko is scoring goals by the dozen.Soon enough, too, Sancho will be gone. It about happened aftermost summer, afterwards Manchester United fabricated its intentions known. But Zorc brash Sancho that the time wasn't yet right, and Sancho agreed. In August, Sancho active an addendum through 2022 that pays him added than €200,000 a week, but cipher is below the apparition that he will accomplishment the contract. This division in the Bundesliga is about assertive to be his last.On this accurate quiet night in Dortmund, Sancho has aloof been called to represent England for Euro 2020 condoning matches adjoin Bulgaria and Kosovo. Unlike his aboriginal chief selection, aback he was assured to be called for the U21s, this one was a foregone conclusion. Actual quickly, Sancho has become the best array of botheration for England administrator Gareth Southgate, whose advanced band of Marcus Rashford, Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane will charge to accomplish room.Sancho is the alone England amateur who hasn't played in the Premier League. Until Kieran Trippier larboard Spurs for Atletico Madrid afore this season, he was the alone one not arena in England. But that hasn't bedfast his all-embracing advancement. "I don't see a abrogating at all," Southgate said recently. "Jadon's arena afore 80,000 admirers at Dortmund every week. That brings huge pressure. We appetite our players to be activity that intensity."Sancho concluded up scoring alert in England's 5-3 achievement over Kosovo. That set the English media on its latest aberration about which Premier Alliance aggregation he will be headed to abutting summer. In contempo months, he has been affiliated not alone with Man United but additionally Man City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea and Liverpool. He'd be accessible to the abstraction of arena in England but insists it isn't article he needs to do, not now. That's a point that Frederik Obasi, one of two South London brothers who represent Sancho, fabricated afore the summer. "Everyone is talking 'England, England, England,'" he said. "But why do they accept he has to go there? There are added leagues and added clubs that would additionally accomplish faculty for Jadon at this point."For a amateur on the bend of common stardom, atheism an action from one of the Premier League's top clubs would accept counterintuitive. By abutting summer, he'll be 20: a accurate England international, and one of the better stars in the sport. Why wouldn't he appetite to attempt in the world's best and best bread-and-butter league, advancing home as a superstar to a abode area accompany and ancestors could watch him? To go anywhere abroad would be to baffle logic.

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What Has Been Left Behind: Earl on Earl.

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Somewhere in the middle came the ages of chivalry, embodied by Knights in shining armor. Certainly, we’ve heard the stories of courtly love of the medieval times, but this was prevalent well into the renaissance. Two English Earls chose to be portrayed, most likely in the 1590s, as knights. This represented their high positions as well as their heraldry. George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland was the Queen’s champion, an important position as he represented the Queen in official tournaments. Amazingly, His armor survives and is stored at the Met. Almost romantically, he has the Queen’s initials on the his back. He was portrayed in a similarly styled set of armor (if not identical) by the famous Hilliard. In the painting, his armor appears almost skin tight, highly emphasizing his calves…. not unlike a pair of black skinny jeans today.

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A Geological “Orrery” Might Reveal Planetary Dynamics in Deep Time

The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory includes a few dozen small buildings nestled amongst pine bushes within the Palisades, 15 miles north of Manhattan. On the second flooring of the observatory's geoscience constructing, the cabinets lining Columbia College paleontologist Paul Olsen's labyrinthine workplace sag underneath the load of a whole bunch of books about dinosaurs: The Dinosaur Information E-book, The Final Dinosaur, Dinosauri In Italia. Olsen has been finding out them since he was a young person. His first paleontological achievement got here whereas he was nonetheless in highschool. Nearly single-handedly, Olsen satisfied the Nixon administration to designate a web site the place dinosaur footprints had been found as a Nationwide Pure Landmark. Now a professor with a shock of white hair and a mustache he strokes absently when contemplating the right way to clarify a posh level, Olsen leads the way in which previous towering racks of geological samples to a nook of a cavernous walk-in fridge. Right here, graduate pupil Sean Kinney unpacks slim cardboard packing containers to disclose a group of stone cylinders, every about three toes lengthy and 4 inches in diameter. They're delicately layered: some are cadet grey and marbled with white bands, whereas others are shades of caramel and auburn. These are sediment cores. Drilled from historic lake beds, every three-foot section represents about 5 millennia of Earth's historical past. Along with a whole bunch of others like them, they make up the "Geological Orrery." Olsen is fond of claiming geologists take a look at the rock report to find issues concerning the Earth we can not study some other method. With the orrery, he makes use of sedimentary information to reckon the orbital positions of the Earth and different planets greater than 200 million years in the past. The strategy is unprecedented: counterintuitively, Olsen digs all the way down to lookup. "In the case of the Earth's history, you need a lot of observations to see what the patterns are before you can derive a hypothesis," Olsen says. "The world's too complicated to derive a hypothesis from a series of assumptions and deduce what it must be. And with complex dynamical systems like the solar system, you can't. There is no analytical solution to the solar system problem, period. You need empirical information." Olsen printed the orrery's preliminary results--some 24 million years' price of empirical data--in Proceedings of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences in January. An orrery, like many scientific devices invented in the course of the Enlightenment, is an try to constrain a dynamic nook of the universe--in this case, the photo voltaic system--in an orderly mannequin. Orreries characterize the solar and planets with globes and clockwork mechanisms; the primary fashionable one was constructed for Charles Boyle, the Fourth Earl of Orrery, in 1704. Olsen's Geological Orrery eschews clockwork. As a substitute, it depends on the speed at which sediment amassed in historic lakes and rivers. Locked into the rock report, these layers of sediment present clues concerning the Earth's local weather historical past, which in flip proof the planet's orbital variations over tens of millions of years. The query of the place the planets had been a whole bunch of tens of millions of years in the past is couched in one other: are the orbits of the planets secure? Eighteenth-century orreries presumed they had been, whilst Isaac Newton realized that in a system of greater than two orbiting our bodies, the gravitational interactions between them would ship them careening aside or tumbling into each other. For his half, Newton declared the photo voltaic system's obvious invariability was proof divine creator was tweaking the planetary motions, as if winding a watch. Preferring to reside on a planet that might placidly orbit the solar forevermore, astronomers spent the following two centuries searching for an analytical proof that might reveal the photo voltaic system was secure. However the proof was unattainable: the photo voltaic system is chaotic. The chaos happens over immense timescales and is attributable to the buildup of slight gravitational sights between the planets. Jupiter tugs at Mercury; the moon is quietly divorcing the Earth. The planetary orbits "wobble and wander," says PNAS examine co-author Jessica Whiteside, a molecular paleontologist on the College of Southampton. Consequently, astronomers can precisely estimate the relative positions of the planets solely to about 60 million years ago--anything past that and an excessive amount of chaos builds up, obfuscating the deeper previous. However hidden in that chaos can also be an answer to discovering out the place the planets as soon as had been. The Earth's orbit shifts between a number of states--more round or elliptical, with better or lesser axial tilt and precession--across millennia. The cycles between round and elliptical orbits, known as orbital eccentricity, change the Earth's proximity to the solar over a interval of about 400,000 years. This influences local weather, a phenomenon referred to as Milankovitch cycles (after the astronomer who first proposed it). The local weather fluctuations prompted ice sheets to encroach or recede and lakes to fill or dry up. This reality is essential to the Geological Orrery. Geologists Jim Hays, John Imbrie and Nicholas Shackleton confirmed Milankovitch's idea in 1976 in a seminal paper that proclaimed the cycles the "pacemaker" of Earth's ice ages, and Olsen and different geologists set to work attempting to raised perceive them. "By the late eighties, it seemed like if you could get the whole record in core it would be an opportunity to see what the pattern was really like at the largest scale," Olsen says. With Dennis Kent, a geologist at Lamont-Doherty and Rutgers, he started drilling sediment cores within the Newark Basin in northern New Jersey. The Basin was fashioned when the supercontinent Pangaea started to tear aside in the course of the Late Triassic, about 220 million years in the past. (Considerably conveniently, the Lamont-Doherty Observatory is located on the Basin's northern finish.) In 1996, Olsen and Kent confirmed Milankovitch cycles had been affecting local weather in Pangaea's tropics in the course of the Late Triassic. They discovered proof of a number of patterns: a 20,000-year precession cycle and 100,000-year, 400,000-year, and 2-million-year orbital eccentricity cycles. The seed of an concept was planted: What if they might use the identical method to disclose historic planetary dynamics? At Columbia for an astrobiology assembly, Olsen strides rapidly alongside one hallway after one other, trying to find the stairway that may take him to the highest flooring. He is working late. One other scientist calls out to him from his workplace, they usually greet each other excitedly, the assembly quickly forgotten. "Do you know who this is?" says Olsen. "This is Jim Applegate, who designed the Digital Orrery!" The pair fall right into a dialog concerning the precession of the equinoxes: this, apparently, is how planetary scientists catch up. Applegate, an astrophysicist, was a part of a staff of scientists led by Gerald Jay Sussman that constructed a pc within the 1980s that might precisely predict planetary dynamics. Sussman is a Brooklyn-born polymath who has studied synthetic intelligence at MIT for half a century. In 1983, he took a sabbatical and "announced his intention to be an astronomer for a year," says Applegate, who was then a postdoc at Caltech. "He wanted to build a special-purpose computer to integrate the solar system for a billion years." That pc grew to become the Digital Orrery. It included a separate processor for the solar and every of the planetary our bodies. In 1988, Sussman used it to disclose that Pluto's orbit was irregular. The next 12 months, French astronomer Jacques Laskar, the PNAS paper's second writer, numerically decided that the Earth's orbit was chaotic, too. This has vital implications: say you measure the present place of the Earth in its journey across the solar, and also you're off by simply 15 meters--or about 0.0000012 %. Laskar confirmed that even an error as slight as this precludes the power to foretell the place the Earth might be in 100 million years. "We used the most precise model that we could make for planetary motion, taking into account all the planets, the minor planets, general relativity, everything," Laskar says. "But even by doing that, we will never be able to compute a solution beyond 60 million years." There isn't any analytical resolution to the photo voltaic system downside: you want empirical data. As he continued to investigate the sediment cores from the Newark Basin, "it became very obvious that there was a 1.75-million-year cycle," Olsen says. This cycle was the results of the Earth's sluggish gravitational waltz with Mars. Laskar had predicted it, however no one had ever seen proof of the cycle within the rock report earlier than. By 1999, Olsen and Kent had been in a position to present that the Earth-Mars cycle had shifted over time, and at the moment has a interval of two.Four million years. "I got quite a bit of pushback on that," Olsen says. He's aware of criticism. His concepts are formidable, and geologists usually disagree on the constancy of the rock report, which is "riddled with unconformities," he says. Doable unconformities embody lacking rock layers or adjustments within the charge at which sediment was deposited. Modifications within the sedimentation charge will distort how time is represented within the report, says Frits Hilgen, a geoscientist at Utrecht College who was not concerned within the Orrery examine. This presents potential pitfalls for the Geological Orrery. It depends on an entire sedimentary report: if there are invisible gaps in it, it is going to hopelessly throw off the timing, and the entire endeavor might collapse. Plus, there isn't any solution to know for certain if such gaps exist just by wanting on the rock report in anybody place. Olsen knew he needed to provide you with a solution to corroborate the proof within the Newark Basin for the orrery to have any probability at success. "So, we decided on checking by another coring experiment," he says. "That was the Colorado Plateau." An enormous desert crisscrossed with canyons and dotted with mountain ranges thrust up as a continental plate crumpled 250 million years in the past, the Colorado Plateau straddles the 4 Corners area of the Southwest and contains numerous geological wonders. The sediment cores Olsen and Kent extracted from it in 2013 had been drilled in Arizona. Kent, who's an skilled in paleomagnetism--the department of geophysics that research the Earth's historic magnetic field--says the sediment there had the potential to corroborate the Newark Basin rock report. Large volcanoes pummeled the encircling terrain tens of millions of years in the past. Amongst this panorama had been hint quantities of magnetic hematite particles that offered Olsen and Kent with an important corroborative clue. The Earth's magnetic area sporadically flips, Kent explains, and people reversals are recorded within the magnetic particles within the sediment. "They become almost like a bar code," he says. "The sequence is quite distinctive when we have a good time record." If geologists can match that sample to sedimentary information in broadly dispersed locations, they will verify the rocks are of the identical age--and importantly, decide whether or not the report in a single location (for instance, again in Newark) has any gaps. When Olsen and Kent in contrast the Colorado Plateau cores to the Newark Basin cores, they matched.* Whereas on sabbatical in 2018--ostensibly taken to jot down a e-book about dinosaur footprints--Olsen says he grew to become concerned about refining the core knowledge, and he realized he might examine the 100,000-year cycles towards for much longer ones. "It gets very granular," he says, however explains it anyway: each planet wobbles on its axis like a spinning high, a phenomenon known as the precession of perihelion. Every planet's precession is barely different--20,000 years right here, 25,700 years there--but collectively, the cycles might be used to examine towards those Olsen had discovered within the sediment cores. When he in contrast the celestial wobble cycles and geological cycles, they had been a near-perfect match. Olsen pauses, savoring the punchline he is about to ship. "Normally what I would have done in the past, is I would have declared victory!" he says. However Olsen realized that he might go a step additional and examine the 100,000-year Milankovitch cycles towards longer ones, just like the Earth-Mars cycle. He did so, they usually matched. That "is basically impossible, unless the data are an accurate representation of the cycles," Olsen says. Olsen despatched the outcomes to Laskar. "That was terrifying," he says. After Laskar learn it, they spoke. Laskar thought the info was "too good," says Olsen. He suspected Olsen might have tuned his knowledge utilizing Laskar's celestial predictions, however after Laskar checked the info himself, he obtained the identical outcomes. The 20,000-year celestial cycles had been successfully embedded within the 100,000-year Milankovitch cycles, which had been themselves embedded within the Earth-Mars cycle. The orrery labored. Paul Olsen stands close to a core drilling web site in Arizona's Petrified Forest Nationwide Park. Credit score: Kevin Krajick Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory The Geological Orrery is at the moment a proof of idea: it reveals Earth's local weather historical past from 199 million to 223 million years in the past, Olsen says, and derives planetary dynamics from that knowledge. "This is the first time that there is a solid landmark in Earth history when what would otherwise be indeterminable astronomical parameters are known," says Whiteside. Along with planetary dynamics, the orrery might assist reveal the timing of occasions corresponding to mass extinctions or monitor adjustments in carbon dioxide concentrations over time and present how they interacted with Milankovitch cycles to have an effect on local weather. And the orrery has simply barely begun to plumb the accessible sediment information. "Amazingly, geology has provided us with three billion years' worth of paleoclimate change records in the sediment record," says Linda Hinnov, a paleoclimatologist at George Mason College who was not concerned within the examine. That knowledge might present the astronomical parameters to raised predict the place the local weather is at the moment headed, she says. Olsen says he doesn't take into account the orrery to be a fruits of many years of labor a lot as the start of a brand new chapter in geophysical sciences. "I see it more or less as a continuation of a process," he says. "And I think that one can and should always project forward." He emphasizes the previous couple of phrases, his voice rising to underscore their significance. The PNAS paper concludes by presenting an formidable plan to journey even additional again in time, past the final 300 million years. That can require extra drilling, and the scope of the mission might in the end outlive Olsen's time on the observatory. In geological time, his career--like any human life--is an eyeblink. Saddled with that ephemerality, making sense of a whole bunch of tens of millions of years of chaotic planetary dynamics appears daunting. To Olsen, it is exhilarating. "The most exciting part of this is there's nothing you can do with modern astronomy or math that can tell you what planetary motions were actually like hundreds of millions of years ago," Olsen says. However the sedimentary information are there, ready to disclose their secrets and techniques. *Editor's Be aware (4/10/19): This paragraph was edited after posting. It initially referred to bentonite and zircon crystals offering the proof and the magnetic area reversals being recorded in zircon crystals. Read the full article

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