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pleaserelaxfc · 3 years

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Pregame: Racing Louisville vs. OL Reign (September 4)

Background and Momentum:

Louisville

Although Louisville has had a surprisingly strong season for an expansion team, and particularly in comparison to how they were expected to do following the results of their expansion draft, they have had a fairly weak couple of months, with only one league win since the end of June, and will be looking to turn things around here.

Louisville had been fairly close to the mid-table pack, competing for the last few playoff spots, but after a two consecutive losses, they have fallen further from the pack and would need to pick up the majority of the remaining points available to them if they want to make a push for one of those spots. They did win the Women's Cup in August, which was a huge achievement for the expansion side.

This week, Louisville had some an off-field shake-up, with the club announcing on Tuesday that their coach, Christy Holly, had been fired for cause. The team did not go into detail over what the cause was, or how significantly it had affected the players in recent weeks or in the long term. The team will be coached this week by interim head coach Mario Sanchez, who has been working with the club's youth team. I'm not sure whether Sanchez has been in the senior women's team setup before this, or how much experience he has working with these players overall. Given how things tend to go for teams immediately following coaching changes, I don't think there would be any shame for Louisville in losing this match, although it would be a disappointment since every point is a must-win for them at this point in the season.

They may also be forced to play this match without Yuki Nagasato, one of their most senior players, who has been a solid starting player for them throughout the season.

Reign

The Reign has a somewhat slow start to their season, but have come on hot since a coaching turnover earlier in the season - under assistant coach Sam Laity and current head coach Laura Harvey, the team has come together and pulled off some very strong results.

The Reign's last match was a 1-0 midweek win against the Dash, and before that was a 2-1 win against top-of-the-table Portland Thorns. Those results have placed the Reign in a tie for second place in the table, so they will be coming into this game with some confidence.

The international loaned players have found their footing in the team and the league. The Reign also have their Olympians back in full now - Angelina, Quinn, Rose Lavelle, and Megan Rapinoe - so the lineup will be stacked with international stars, particularly in the attack. However, they didn't maintain a clean sheet at all in the month of August, and there were a few close calls in their mid-week game against the Dash (their first game of September), so keep an eye on the defensive line.

Although back from the Olympics, Megan Rapinoe is on the injured list for this week, so the Reign will have to do without her - however, even with her absence, Laura Harvey will have the good kind of headache to deal with in terms of determining which attacking players to start.

Head-to-Head

This is only the second meeting between these two teams - the Reign won the first meeting, 2-0.

Predictions:

Scoreline: Louisville 1-3 Reign

Louisville XI (4-2-3-1):

GK: Betos

4: Fox, Riehl, Bonner, Simon

2: McCaskill, Olofsson

3: Nadim, Kizer, Ekic

1: Salmon

Reign XI (4-2-3-1):

GK: Bouhaddi

4: McNabb, Barnes, Cook, Hammond

2: Quinn, Fishlock

3: Le Sommer, Lavelle, Huerta

1: Balcer

Warm-ish Takes and Full Disclosure:

The Reign have created some separation between themselves and the rest of the pack, moving into a fairly comfortable third place. They will want to solidify that with a win here against a weaker team, but they did give KC their first win of the season late this summer, so they will want to be careful not to drop further points to teams lower in the standings.

Louisville, on the other hand, will want to make a statement here, that they are better than what was expected of them, and that they are better without their previous coach.

OL Reign played mid-week, with some rotation from what their starting lineup seems to be. There may be some more rotation tonight, but I think tonight's lineup will indicate what they expect to put out going forward. Their biggest question so far has been what to do with Dzenifer Marozsan, and I'm honestly still not sure where she fits in this lineup, although I wouldn't be surprised to see her either as a central forward player here in place of Balcer (who I truly think is the future), or in place of either Fishlock or Lavelle.

Both teams have something of an imbalance between their attacking players and their defending players - both teams have brought in several international players for their attacking ranks, but haven't had as much success building up their defense. OL Reign's defense is just-alright, particularly when compared to their attack, and Racing has some defensive stars, but also some serious weak areas. I would expect to see a few goals, as well as a couple of incredible saves in this match.

#nwsl #racing louisville #ol reign #I know the rosters are probably already out but I haven't checked and I like making my guesses anyway

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rookieforlife · 5 years

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Head Coach Laura Harvey

Overall thoughts…

“We have to turn up. We didn’t turn up tonight. From the warmup you could sense that we just were not quite right and we never got going, we didn’t put enough pressure on the ball. When we had the ball we didn’t show our quality. Overall, just not good enough.”

Midfielder Desiree Scott

On turning around for Reign FC…

“We’ve gotta recognize every game is an important one, losing these points tonight is not great and we've got to be able to bounce back against a quality Seattle team. So rest, recovery and refocus.”

Photo: courtney.pick00

#utah royals fc #i hate you all lol #😤😩😭#get your shit together @ utah

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mazpacheco · 5 years

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Pressy really has been on fire and can’t be put out!! Praying she keeps that up, which she will!! I hope Laura Harvey gets head coach position cause CP deserves to be a starter. But i’m sure whoever gets that position is gonna see all that Chris has been doing. She’s undefendable. Just dribbles past defenders like they’re not even there. And is a hardworker on the field. Defending, assisting, creating chances. She definitely deserves starting position on the uswnt. She also should be on a top team. So I really want utah to make the playoffs (and maybe even win the championship! Can you believe they just might!). Sky blue fc need to do us a favor and win against reign fc when they play later. Please and thanks!

#speaking it into existence #christen press #utah royals fc #choosing to be optimistic!!#also shout out to becky sauerbrunn for wotm vs orlando #she deserved it

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cypher2 · 5 years

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“I’ve poured my heart and soul into this club for seven seasons now,” Barnes said. “I take a lot of pride in that. I hope that when I wear the captain’s armband that I really express what this club is about and where we want to go, the growth of it all. It’s really important to me to wear it and I just hope that I represent what we want to show on and off the field. It’s an honor to wear it. I love this club and being dedicated here and trying to keep our core values with new faces coming in and out is really important to me.”

As a veteran leader, Barnes helps to lead and encourage the younger players on the team to promote a competitive environment.

“With the younger ones, I try to give them as much advice from my experiences as possible,” Barnes said. “It’s something I had as well in the leagues before the NWSL. Players with all this experience gave me advice before. Information handed down is the most important thing. It’s so hard to come into a team as a young player and break in, so I try to make them understand that we’re there to help them succeed. We don’t want them to be scared, we want them to be brave. If they’re doing that, they’re pushing the older players to raise our standards each practice and game. That’s what you need at this level.”

The defender has 146 appearances in the NWSL, starting 143 of them. Barnes acknowledges that she’s had to make changes to her game to continue to play at a high level as the NWSL has progressed.

“I think the changes come with experience,” Barnes said. “I’ve played so many games by now, it helps with how you see things. Working with different coaches, I’ve been able to adapt and grab a little bit of everything to evolve into the player I want to be. You get that from playing so much, the experience that goes with it. I feel like my role later on in my years here has been one of leadership through guiding and performing. It’s been important to me. I strive to be consistent to help the club and put us in a good position. I guess it comes down to being able to adapt. Listening to what we need when we need it. If there’s something in my game that needs to change, then I’ll go out there to figure it out.”

Barnes has played every minute of Reign FC’s 15 matches this season. In 10 of her appearances, she has gone the full 90 minutes without conceding a foul. A standout defensive performance in the club’s win against Portland on August 7 earned her Reign FC’s Player of the Match award, as the club shut out the highest-scoring offense in the league for the second time in 2019.

Facing Utah Royals FC on Sunday, Barnes knows that she can expect to see a familiar face in former Reign FC head coach Laura Harvey. Barnes credits Harvey with helping her make one of the changes that kept her competitive in an evolving league, having the then-23-year-old switch from left back to the centerback role she still plays today.

“(Harvey) believed in me and gave me the confidence to know that I can play that position at this level,” Barnes said. “I’ll always be so grateful for that. Over the five years that I was with her, she’s always helped me continue to grow. We continue to be friends and talk. She’s more than a coach to me. It’s always nice to have that relationship. I wish her the best, but not when we play each other.”

#lauren barnes #seattle reign fc #reign fc #nwsl #woso #thats our fuckin rock right there #luuuuuuuuuu

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junker-town · 4 years

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The Becky Sauerbrunn trade *should* be a win for both the Thorns and the Royals

The Becky Sauerbrunn trade should help both Portland and Utah ... if they manage their rosters right.

One of American soccer’s most decorated stars is changing teams. Two-time World Cup winner and three-time NWSL defender of the year Becky Sauerbrunn is moving from the Utah Royals to the Portland Thorns in a trade that was announced on Tuesday.

The 34-year-old central defender missed out on the NWSL best XI for the first time ever last season, but is still universally regarded as one of the league’s best players. However, her window to chase titles is clearly closing, and Utah is not expected to compete for the NWSL championship this season.

Given its predicament, Utah was willing to get something for Sauerbrunn while it had the opportunity. The return — defender Elizabeth Ball and $100,000 in allocation money — suggests that the Royals still hope to be competitive in the short term. The deal could become a win-win for both teams, depending on how they continue to manage their rosters.

Sauerbrunn fills a big need for Portland

This offseason, Portland made the difficult decision to trade United States women’s national team defender Emily Sonnett to the Orlando Pride in a deal for the No. 1 overall draft pick, which it turned into Sophia Smith. It made sense for Portland to give up a lot to get a prospect of Smith’s caliber, but the trade created a gap in the back.

Ball, who should compete for a starting spot in Utah, is a solid young player, but a clear downgrade from Sonnett. Katherine Reynolds and Emily Menges are capable starters, but both have faced numerous injury problems. Gabby Seiler has deputized well at center back, but arguably has a higher ceiling at both left back and defensive midfield, and has also suffered multiple injuries.

At the draft, Thorns head coach Mark Parsons said that the club was in negotiations with multiple internationally experienced defenders. However, none arrived before Europe’s January transfer window shut, making it unlikely that one will arrive before the summer. If Portland is going to compete with North Carolina Courage and Chicago Red Stars for the NWSL Shield and No. 1 seed in the playoffs, it needed to sign an experienced defender as soon as possible, and Sauerbrunn clearly fits the bill.

This deal probably doesn’t quite make Portland a favorite for the Shield over North Carolina, as good as Sauerbrunn is. Portland needs some injury luck within its group of injury-prone defenders and Smith to have a great rookie season and a top-class international signing to feel like its team is better than the Courage on paper. But there’s no question that they’ve become a better team.

Utah’s rebuild starts now, but do they know that?

Former Utah head coach and current USWNT Under-20 boss Laura Harvey is a great culture-builder, but not much of a roster builder. Her Seattle teams that competed for titles deteriorated over her time in charge, leaving her successor, Vlatko Andonovski, with a huge rebuild. In Utah, Craig Harrington is in the same situation. Harvey’s distaste for draft picks has left the cupboard bare.

Utah has a whopping nine players who are 30 are older, even after Sauerbrunn’s departure, and they are among the club’s most important players. That experience notably didn’t help the club down the stretch last season when Utah collapsed, losing four of its last five matches to blow its chance to make the playoffs.

The only promising young prospect with pro experience currently on the team is 22-year-old Gaby Vincent, an undrafted free agent. Finding players as good as her outside of the first round is like hitting the lottery, and happens to about one team per season on average. Utah’s three draft picks from this year — Tziarra King, Kate Del Fava and Cyera Hintzen — were all high-risk, high-reward selections with big question marks surrounding them. All could become excellent starters, but none should be counted on to make immediate contributions.

This is a team that needs to smash the reset button. Acquiring Ball, a promising 24-year-old defender who has looked good in limited action, is a nice start. But Utah should have pushed to get other young players or draft picks for Sauerbrunn, rather than allocation money. My colleague Charles Olney at Stars and Stripes FC and Backline Soccer put it well in a tweet:

A sign of a stable and sustainable league is that declining teams are willing to sell old players so they can rebuild. I hope that's what Utah doing. I fear that they're selling one old player to get money to go buy a different old player.

— Charles Olney (@olneyce) February 25, 2020

The gap between Utah and the top three teams in the league is large, even if all nine of its 30-plus-year-old players manage to stay healthy. The Royals would need to sign multiple international superstars to put together a title-challenging lineup.

It’s time for Utah to tank. Straight up, Philadelphia 76ers, Trust The Process tank.

Harrington’s previous employers should serve as a model. He was an assistant to Rory Dames with the Red Stars, where he watched his boss masterfully pick up underrated prospects and first round picks from teams that were thinking short term. Dames slowly, but surely, built up the league’s deepest roster with one of the league’s smallest budgets, and now has a huge reserve of prospects and picks that should bolster the Red Stars for a long time.

If anyone calls asking about the availability of veterans like Amy Rodriguez, Desiree Scott or Rachel Corsie — who would be extremely valuable to fringe playoff contenders, like the Washington Spirit and Sky Blue FC — Utah should negotiate, and ask for rookies and draft picks in return. If the Royals double down on a playoff push with old players instead of selling them off to establish a young core for the future, the club is going to struggle for the foreseeable future.

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wwfshow · 6 years

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New Year, New City: Laura Harvey

The last year was certainly an interesting one for Laura Harvey, especially given how quickly her plans changed. The 37-year-old resigned from Seattle Reign of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in early November.

Throughout the next few weeks, the soccer world speculated that Harvey was in contention to coach the England Women's National Team, or she was to play a more involved role with the USWNT given her stint as interim head coach of the U-23 program in early 2017.

Twenty days later, Harvey was announced as the inaugural coach of the Utah Royals.

"I would say 2017 proved to me that you never know what can happen in football," Harvey told the Women's World Football Show.

The Nuneaton, UK native was the inaugural coach of Seattle Reign in 2013. Her team bounced back from a dismal first season with only five wins to later capture two consecutive NWSL Shields by finishing first in the regular season in 2014 and 2015, which corresponded with two appearances in the NWSL final.

Despite the success, the next two seasons didn't go according to plan, and the fifth place results led Harvey to consider future opportunities.

"At the end of season, I was thinking about my future [and] I decided that it was the right time for me to step away from Seattle Reign. When I stepped away from the Reign, I never expected to join another NWSL team.

"[When] Utah Royals came and spoke to me, I knew pretty early that this club was going to be something really special and I wanted to be part of it all."

Harvey rose through the coaching ranks after ending her playing career with a torn ACL at age 22. She went from being a player to assistant coach at Birmingham City (2002-2008) before taking over as head coach. During her time at Arsenal (2008-2012), the team won a domestic treble with a Women's Super League (WSL) title, FA Cup, and Continental Cup in 2011.

She also held coaching roles with England Youth National Teams from the U-15 to U-23.

Over the years, Harvey earned several coach of the year honours for club soccer, including being named a finalist for FIFA World Coach of the Year in 2014.

What is Harvey's key to success?

"I think loving what you do is a huge part of putting yourself in a position to be successful. If you don’t love what you do, it’s hard to motivate players to do the best they can."

At Utah Royals, Harvey will be certainly working with a championship-caliber roster: the team that was once FC Kansas City won NWSL titles in 2014 and 2015.

"I think the best part about starting this new club is that we have an existing roster in place. This group of players know what it takes to be successful in this league, that is huge advantage we have.

"I think we will get into pre-season and see what areas we need to be better in. But I’m excited with the players we have."

Some early team adjustments came last week when Utah Royals acquired Kelley O'Hara, Taylor Lytle and the 25th overall NWSL college draft pick from Sky Blue FC.

Heading into 2018, "I think I’m looking forward to moving to a new city and new club, getting to work with new people and seeing the league through a different lens."

While Harvey will be coaching in a different environment, she has fond memories of the people she's met in Seattle, particularly the Austen Everett Foundation where inspirational connections are made between children battling cancer and some of the best collegiate and professional athletes.

"It’s a place that gives very sick children the chance to do some really cool things and I got to see how impactful sport can be on kids."

The Foundation was started by the late Austen Everett, a former goalkeeper at the University of California Santa Barbara and the University of Miami, who battled stage 4 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

A lot has changed for Harvey since November. Who knows what else the new year will bring.

#laura harvey #national women's soccer league #nwsl #utah royals #seattle reign

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we-got-the-a-team · 7 years

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uneducated guesses at candidates to be the New Randy

Omar Morales: Been on the team for all of 2 months and is now the interim Dash manager. Head coach at Eastern New Mexico for 3 years. Blank slate. If picked, the timing of his hiring is awfully interesting--if the Dash hired Randy’s successor in March, Randy was effectively a dead man walking from the start of the season.

Marcelo de Siqueira Campos L. Galvao: The Dash’s other assistant coach, since 2015. Brazilian. Has some NAIA head coaching experience, but otherwise keeps a low profile. Seems even less likely than Morales.

Butch Lauffer: Longtime coach and literal textbook writer on soccer tactics, coached with Randy Waldrum, mentored Morales at Eastern NM. Coaches at Western Texas A&M, lifelong Texan. Seems unlikely if the Dash want to break from the Waldrum style, but who knows.

Angela Kelly: Head coach at University of Texas since 2011; previously a player and assistant under Anson Dorrance at UNC. Former CanWNT and USL W-League midfielder. Oversaw Abby Smith’s development into a collegiate star (hi Jane Campbell hi, hello, hi~). Longhorns made their first national rankings appearance under Kelly in 2012 and turned them into a recruiting power. Not a dude!

Matt Ross: 1. Frankfurt FFC manager in Frauen Bundesliga, elevated from interim after Colin Bell went to Avaldsnes. Australian, and has some US connections via Sophie Schmidt (ex-Sky Blue) and Yuki Nagasato (now on CRS). Could be on the hot seat after a 5th-place finish (though with a small roster and a long string of prominent exits). Frankfurt also lost a sponsor, and Ross has dealt with some recent player drama over communication--something that, for better or (likely) worse, might make him a good fit for Houston.

Nick Cushing: If Carli Lloyd wants to bring back a souvenir from Man City, she could do worse than the manager who led MCWFC to the FA Cup and Champions’ League. Man City would probably pitch a fit, and it’s unlikely the Dash would compete on salary. Has 2 years’ experience leading Man City, and at 32 would be only a couple years older than NWSL baby coach Mark Parsons.

Any coach who previously had a US pro soccer head coaching job (Tom Durkin, Lisa Cole, James Galanis, Albertin Montoya, Charlie Naimo, Aaran Lines, Abner Rogers): Don’t underestimate the smallness of the women’s soccer coaching world. Any of these coaches are likely on most teams’ standing coaching lists. Of special note is Galanis, who coached the WPS Atlanta Beat, but more relevantly has been Carli Lloyd’s personal coach and trainer for years.

Daniel Clitnovici: Has head coaching experience with the Colorado Rapids Women and Colorado Pride. Last seen in the pros as an assistant coach and academy director for the NWSL Flash. Villanova picked him up as an assistant earlier this year after the Flash evacuated Rochester. Known for a high-press attacking style that would be a good fit for the Dash, and also for the Colorado Pride’s 10-match shutout streak in 2014, when he won USL W-League coach of the year.

Ben Dragavon: GK coach for the Seattle Reign since 2013, promoted to assistant coach in 2017. US Soccer has a vested interest in developing Jane Campbell, and Dragavon’s coached Hope Solo and Haley Kopmeyer. No head coaching experience, but has worked closely with Laura Harvey since the Reign’s inception and seems to be climbing the ladder.

Ben Waldrum: Don’t laugh. He’s been running FC Dallas Women extremely well (14-0-0 in 2016, lost in the conference finals to the CRS reserves), and has a USSF A license and a ton of academy and youth development experience. There’s a possible--maybe even likely--scenario where Ben succeeds his dad as Dash head coach, and Randy ends up working for Ben as a technical adviser for the Dash academy.

Leonardo Cuéllar: Former and longtime Mexico WNT coach, now managing Club América in Liga MX Femenil. Not terribly popular with the NT at the end of his tenure, but has decades of experience and could recruit well across the border. FeMex might step in if they’ve gone completely cold on the NWSL and want him to stay with the fledgling Liga MX Femenil.

Andrea Rodebaugh Huitrón: Ex-Mexico WNT captain for a span that included the ‘99 WWC. Went to college at Cal and has managed the Mexico U20s. Currently managing the Xolas in Liga MX Femenil, where they recently lost in the inaugural cup tournament finals. Still early in her coaching career, but experienced at 50. Not a dude!

Jorge Barcellos: One of the few former Brazilian national team coaches with prior experience coaching a US pro team (St. Louis Athletica). Currently coaching Kindermann SC (featuring WNT defender Barbara) to decent form in Brazil’s league and is unlikely to jump ship mid-season.

Keidane McAlpine: USC’s head coach since the 2014 season, where he’s rebuilt the Trojans into a Pac-12 and national powerhouse. His last roster won the national championship and included Sammy Jo Prudhomme, Morgan Andrews, Mandy Freeman, Savannah Levin, Kayla Mills, and Katie Johnson, all of whom are pros (and all but Levin went in the 2017 NWSL college draft). Also led Washington State to two years of Pac-12 success. Would be the only black NWSL coach.

Amanda Cromwell: UCLA’s head coach since 2013. Does a better job at UCLA bringing in and developing international talent than most NWSL coaches. Her rosters have included Sam Mewis, Abby Dahlkemper, and Jessie Fleming--and Mal Pugh, however briefly. Darian Jenkins did so well under Cromwell that she got drafted and signed by the Courage despite a devastating injury in October that’s kept her on the Courage’s DL. One of the winningest coaches in NCAA history (289 wins, .698%), not just active but all-time, thanks to 14 years and a 203-83-26 record at UCF. Has 55 USWNT caps and was on the US Soccer Board of Directors and NCAA rules committee. Not a dude!

Anson Dorrance, Cindy Parlow Cone, Tony DiCicco: Longshots despite high profiles and prior pro-league involvement. Cone’s the only one of this group I see even being remotely likely due to her continued involvement with US Soccer.

Patrice Lair (PSG) or Gerard Precheur (OL): Lol. Both on their way out, but there’s no way they consider the Dash as an opportunity, even if the Dynamo group uncharacteristically start throwing tons of money into the Dash.

Abby Wambach: Her name comes up for almost every US pro women’s soccer coaching job for no good reason other than it’s Abby Wambach.

#houston dash

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the-record-columns · 6 years

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June 13, 2018: Columns

A K-33 Rocker is not a guitar!

By KEN WELBORN

Record Publisher

Nearly twenty years ago, when Jerry Lankford and me were making plans to convert our Thursday Magazine TV guide into The Record, one of the first things we had to do was to find where to purchase the vending equipment we would need for "rack sales."

This question, and a host of others were answered by two great friends, Dick Mitchell, publisher of the News-Topic in Lenoir, and his Circulation Manager, Mike Lambert. On many of our questions, there was much conversation, but when the subject of newspaper sales boxes came up, they both quickly said there was no discussion needed there--all I needed to know was Clayton Hall. Upon meeting Clayton Hall of Expert Newsrack Services in Thomasville, it was obvious I had gotten good advice from my friends Dick and Mike, and that Clayton's business was named quite appropriately--"Expert."

From day one Clayton and his staff were a tremendous help to us, delivering on time and with high quality equipment, much of which is still in good operating condition lo these twenty-odd years later. I do buy my locks from Harvey Barlow at Wilkes Lock Service, but everything else I can think of in circulation supplies, we did, and still do, buy from Expert Newsrack Services, and our friend Clayton Hall. When The Record offices burned in 2004, one of the first calls I received offering help was from Clayton. At that time he had a fairly large refurbishing job in progress for us at his shop, and, when he delivered the boxes several weeks later, he would render no bill. He said simply, "You've been through enough lately, I'll take care of this."

Such is the nature of Clayton Hall.

On my very first visit to the physical plant of Expert Newsrack Services in Thomasville, I was fascinated by the showroom there featuring all kinds of newspaper memorabilia, especially circulation items. There were several "antique" newspaper boxes, one of which caught my eye on that first visit. It was a red box, set up for 10 cents Daily, and 20 cents on Sunday. Of course I tried to buy it and he told me it wasn't for sale, just display. I wasn't surprised, but did ask a few more times when I would visit. One day he said, "It still isn't for sale, but if I ever do decide to let it go, I'll give you the first call." I didn't figure I could ask for much more than that.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. Clayton is now semi-retired, but stays busy taking care of his friends newspaper rack needs. I called about needing some "race-track repairs" on a few boxes, and, as we were picking out which day he was go come by, he offhandedly asked, "Are you still interested in that little red newspaper box from my showroom?" "Would five pounds of flour make a big biscuit,?" I replied.

In the next breath, he said, "I'll have it with me."

I know I stammered as I said "Thank you" over and over. I couldn't wait until the appointed day arrived. Clayton had it wrapped up for shipping and when we got it inside, we uncovered it. It was prettier and cooler than I had even remembered. Clayton Hall does everything by the book--he even had a Bill of Lading for me to sign that I had received the box. It was in a section labeled, "OTHER:." The text read, "Old K-33 Rocker Mech Rack for Museum. (Gift)"

Sometimes "Thank you" is simply not enough and this is one of those times. This old rack is from the 40's or early 50's when daily papers were a nickel each. It has been updated to reflect the 10 cents daily and 20 cents Sunday price increase sometime in the mid 60's,and it still looks brand new.

This past weekend, I sorted through a gazillion old newspapers stored in boxes until I sneezed my head off and found one that was perfect for my new/old red box. It is a 10 cent edition of The Miami Herald dated Monday, July 21, 1969. It reads--well, just look at the accompanying photo.

Yes, I am absolutely thrilled with this amazing new piece of history for our poor man's museum here at the offices of The Record--but I am by far most pleased for being thought of, and remembered.

Thank you, Clayton Hall, for making an old man's day.

Double Duty

By LAURA WELBORN

I received a card from my youngest child “Happy Father’s Day to you, MOM! And to all the others out there pulling double duty.”

Sometimes we are an only parent through some kind of loss- death or separation on some level. This week in the news two famous people intentionally ended their lives by hanging. Just like my husband, Steve, Gentry almost 18 years ago. A brutal intentional way to end your life. A lot of our feelings of suicide come bubbling up like “suicide is the most selfish act” “did depression lead to it?” and “how could they?”.

My personal journey began with anger and my friend, Margo, who was a grief counselor said she had never seen anyone go straight to anger and stay there for as long as I did (2 years of intense anger). I was so angry at him for giving up, leaving his children (5 in total) to deal with this, anger that my children did not have a father. But years and years later I now think he had faith in me as a parent that I could pull double duty, faith in family that they would step up and help, faith in our community.. He would not have been disappointed. My boys were 15 and 11 years old at the time, and yet 18 years later they are healthy happy adults who love life and have conquered whatever desperate thoughts they have had. Fathers Day used to be really tough until they started to recognize the men in their life who had stepped up and filled that void in so many ways. I think of the teachers they have had men and women who reached out to them so they would have healthy happy lives. The coaches, the church members, the friends parents who worked to make sure they would be ok. So this Father's Day I salute those who pull double duty, those that reach out to children they may not have birthed but whose lives they touched so that suicidal desperation was not a choice.

This past month has been a celebration of the lives that ended at the Pulse Night Club by starting a movement of 49 Acts of Love to combat the desperation one must feel to do an act of violence to others or to themselves. These are simple acts of loving kindness to others to help us feel better and reach out to those in isolation. Isolation is at the root of suicidal idealization. The question becomes how do we know when someone has desperate thoughts? So many times we do not know, but the signs are almost always there- if you look. And look past the “I’m fine” response to “how are you?”. It takes courage to tell someone you are not fine, and to talk out those feelings. And sometimes that does not work, but we must try. “Shame lives in silence and once you speak it, it can’t live. (Brene Brown)”

Several parents, of the 49 taken, were asked to share how they would like to see love and kindness shown on June 12th and maybe everyday after. I challenge you to read about the 49 Acts of Love and do one each day in honor of those who have gone before us. 49 ACTS OF KINDNESS:

1. Visit an elder and ask them to tell you about the world when they were growing up or when they first got married or at their first job.

2. Get school supplies for needy children

3. Help prepare school backpacks for kids in need

4. Offer to serve a meal at a homeless shelter

5. Introduce yourself to a neighbor you don’t know

6. Volunteer with Meals on Wheels or similar and take food and company to a housebound senior

7. Volunteer at an animal shelter and give a stray some TLC

8. Offer to babysit a small child so parents can have some quiet time

9. Prepare a meal for someone undergoing debilitating medical treatment

10. Smile at least 49 times today

11. Hold a door for someone

12. Let someone cut in front of you during rush hour traffic

13. Teach a senior how to text, Skype, Facebook or Whatsapp so they can stay connected

14. Look at someone you normally disapprove of – and try to look at the world from their eyes.

15. If you see someone who is very different from you – look at all the ways you are the same.

16. Try to love and respect someone for who they are NOT what they look like.

17. Have a simple meal at home instead of going out and donate the savings to a food kitchen

18. Compliment someone you don’t know – you will make their day.

19. Offer to help an elderly neighbor with their yard work

20. Read a child a story

21. Be patient with someone who doesn’t speak English

22. Pick up something someone dropped

23. At the airport help someone with their luggage

24. In the plane help someone put in or take out their bags from the overhead compartment.

25. Say something nice to someone you don’t like at work

26. Strike up a conversation with someone you would never normally talk to

27. Offer to go with an elder to a doctor’s appointment

28. Offer to pick up a prescription for an ill or elder person

29. Offer to sit with an elder so that their caregiver can have some respite

30. Stay with a young child so that mother can go to the grocery store in peace for a change

31. Pick up a neighbors mail while they are out of town

32. Tell a police officer or a firefighter that you appreciate what they do to keep us safer

33. Tell a teacher they are heroes

34. Donate food to a homeless shelter

35. Mentor a child – especially a child with extra challenges

36. Volunteer at organizations that help homeless teens

37. Help a non-English speaker as they learn our language by offering to help them read a book or understand a TV show

38. Try a food from a country you didn’t know and learn something about it.

39. Pray for peace and tolerance

40. Learn the proper way to store a gun and how to keep it away from children

41. Become active in a cause that is important to you

42. Hug someone you haven’t hugged in a long time

43. Adopt a pet

44. Considering being a foster parent

45. Share your talents by performing for free in a public place.

46. Teach someone to make music

47. Teach someone how to paint

48. Teach someone to read

49. Try to love more every day

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ramrodd · 6 years

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Don't get me wrong: this TED Talk is excellent training in rhetoric, which, of course, is what Socrates taught and a valuable tool for self assessment and coaching for leaders. It's exactly the sort of thing that I would include in my ciriculum if I was teaching process theology at West Point and Ft. Benning's Non-Commissioned Officers Candidate School, a lesson learned from the Wehrmacht.

Military recruits take the first step to militairy command when they enlist and swear to republican righteousness in their relationship to the US Constitution. It is the same republican righteousness of jury duty.

Military command is a creature of the rule of law dating back to the Roman Republic, with upgrading by John Knox. In the US Army originating with George Washington, the strucures are presbyterian in aspect from top to bottom and bottom to top. The resulting culture in the US Army, in contrast to the Royal Military Establishment at the time, is fraternalistic, equalitarian, and equitable. The US Army differs from both the US Navy and the Royal Military Establishment of the 18th Century, both of which were paternalistic and class aware. The Royal Army began moving towards the US Army's cultural milieu with WellingtonI in India and accelerated to the Poppies of Flander's Fields. Prince Harry has completely broken down the class system and replaced it with the Esprit de Corps and Fraternity reflected in the command style of Sharpe on NPR. There are things about the British that are eternal. In the case of Windsor, Noblese Oblige in the Church of England Christian Stewardship since areported, present and correct, during the Blizt. Elizabeth is an example of span of influence as a theory of command. Her span of control is organic.w

Leadership and Management are the essential skill sets of Command. They are subordinate processes to Command, which is a creature of the rule of law originating in the US Army in the US Contitution. My feelings about the Commander-in-Chief when I was on active duty was that my chain of command ended with the US Army Chief-of-Staff and POUS was above my paygrade. That was the abiding spirit in the Army community, growing up, personified by George Marshall, who had the same relationship with FDR and Truman that Grant had with Lincoln, Lee had with Davis and Washington had with the Continental Congress: perfect subordination. Lord Vader kneeling to the Empire. It is the nature of republican servant-leadership.

The thing is, if you are seeking out these TED Talks and seminars on "leadership", you are already a leader. Leaders seek out leaders. You are already doing it.

However, if you have a Harvard MBA, or aspire to its employment potential, the MBA program is not designed to create commanders, but to create the civilian equivalent to a military warrant officer, which is a role for specialists in particular skill sets, such as finance or personnel or fulfillment or whatever. Helicopter pilots was one skill set: it kept pilots from being hassled by NCOs, in particular, but generally, everyone because they operate outside a normal chain of command.

And the MBA is designed to provide corporate careerists who work their way up the corporate food chain and occassionally end up as CEO. And a way you can tell MBA graduates, including hotshot billionaires like Mark Cuban and Jeff Dezos, is that they will go to the matt defending the difference between Leaders and Managers. It's a sure sign of a 19th Century performance model based on a reaction to Marxism by Oligarchs who were running their organizations like plantations and Esprit de Corps as a symptom of class warfare that needed to be ruthlessly suppressed. Such as turning machine guns on union strikers. The distance between FORD before the UAW and Jeff Bezos and Harvey Weinstein isn't a degree of separation.

Now, the happy fact is that military commanders can gain a great deal from a Harvard MBA because they encompass the dimensions of Leadership and Management. So, they don't become confused by wat is essentially a vestige of the class consciousness all Harvard granduates inherit by matriculation. If they are bootstraping and stil on the active rolls, they may notice this class consciousness (and some embrace it, particularly academy graduates lacking any real talent at command leadership) but they don't take it back into the military. What they do take back is a misapprehension of the efficaciousness of the commercial organization.

This problem has always been there for soldiers becoming civilians. Wesley Clark planned to make $40 million after he retired and then do some serious consulting. Currently, he is up to his eyeballs in the dysfunctional markets illuminated in "The China Hustle". I don't think he is dishonest, but he didn't understand the night and day difference between th e Duty, Honor, Country milieu of the military staff and the Lie, Cheat and Steal ethos of TRUMP as a prototype of the typical Harvard-trained Fortune 500 CEO. Some, like Mike Pompeo, were right at home when they got into business. Jim Kimsey mobbed up before he did AOL and it was a business association, much like Trump had to maintain to build anything on Manhattan.

However, some, like John McCain, Mike Flynn and Ollie North, didn't know what they were getting into and I'm not sure John McCain ever quite realized what happened: things like what happened to him with the Keating Five didn't happen in the Hanoi Hilton. It sounds like Mike Flynn has learned his lesson but Ollie North took to it like a maggot to shit. That's why he's the head of the NRA, now. Yes, Sir! No, Sir! How high up, Sir? Kiss your ass, Sir? Oh, Hallelujah! I am fulfilled!

As I say, some people. like Mike Pompeo, take to it naturally. You practice state-of-the-art brownosing at West Point and that's an emminently transferable skill set from the Army COS to the Amazon Board of Directors. Go along to get along.

Iago understands the difference between the commercial and military cultures and exploits that seam to accomplish his mischief. Newt Gingrich is a lot like that, especially with the senior military officers, active duty and retired. Both Othello and Barbantio like the way Iago pulls them around by their dicks. Newty is popular in every Officers Club in America. He has been using the version of Trotsky's insurgency process for violent revolution he adopted from the Students for a Democratic Society. He has been engaged in sedition as a political career. "Politics is an continuation of warfare" is a contrarian inversion typical of the dialectic of Iago.

See, and this is where Socrates comes in. The reason he was tried and executed is that he was teaching rhetoric as a tool of dialectical sabotage of the host society and the host society, being basically the same powers-that-be in Jerusalem who participated in the kangaroo court that delivered Jesus to Pilate. In Anthens, he, Socrates, wa s attacking Aristophenes patrons. which is why Aristophenes staged "The Clouds", to discredit Socrates by ridicule and slander. Like Trump is trying to do against the FBI/DOJ and the purpose of the impeachment of Clinton. The same people. Socrates taught the ancestors of the SDS how to piss off The Man.

And, as I say, this TED Talk is a study in the Rhetoric Socrates was teaching and I'd require it of my West Point process theology students. You know, future Ranger candidates and Special Forces operatives.

As I say, it is excellent training. And, if you are seeking this sort of performance technology, you are already a leader. The next step is command and the servant-leadership of The Gospel of Mark and the Christian Stewardship reflected in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations are excellent models for military command.

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QUOTE SHEET Utah Royals FC 1-0 Washington Spirit Rio Tinto Stadium; Sandy, UT April 20, 2019 Utah Royals FC Head Coach Laura Harvey

On Christen’s integration to the team: “Any of the new players who have a preseason, it makes it way easier. So her, Sam Johnson, Vero, the rookies. I think just being around each other for as long as we have in preseason enables relationships to build and Christen has played with a lot of these players before. What Christen does really well is she understands the game, and she sees the game. She sees what she feels it needs. And I think you saw that in the goal. She steals it and then she knows from there that she's going to have an opportunity to go forward. That’s something that is in her that she wants to be better at, she wants to keep developing that. I thought that she was a real threat tonight, I think that anytime she gets 1v1 and gets at people they get really nervous. I think now we've got to work out how we integrate other people with her when she's going because she so quickly often she leaves everyone behind. So I think that her defensive performances were really good.”

Midfielder Vero Boquete

What it’s like to play with a player like Christen: “Well it’s just great. For me, it's the second time that I’ve played with Christen. I played with her in Sweden for a season and a half and it was fantastic. I think we understand each other really well on the field and to have a player with her speed and her one-against-one, breaking lines, breaking the defense is great. Today she got an assist and it was great for us and great for the team. Now we hope in the next games we will be able to assist her so she can score too.”

Midfielder Lo’eau LaBonta

On playing with Christen Press: “Yeah, I mean, Press is a very versatile player. And you always have to be on your toes, because you don't know when she's going to cut or when she's going to make a run, and I think that's what makes her so dangerous. Because as a teammate when you don't know and you always have to be on your toes that makes the defender even more worrisome. So I think she's very dangerous in that aspect. And the more we play together and get our chemistry, I think it's going to be even more dangerous.”

#christen press #laura harvey #veroboquete #lo’eau labonta #urfc

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