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Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the ceasefire which ended the ten-week Falklands War. The war began when Argentine forces invaded the nearly undefended British archipelago, and ended with a decisive British victory following a counter-invasion (which the US Navy had considered to be a “military impossibility”). This war—in which 649 Argentine soldiers, 255 British soldiers, and 3 civilians were killed—is still a fresh memory for the countries involved, as seen from growing tensions between the Argentina and England sides at the World Cup in Brazil. Only two current England players and four current Argentina players had been born when the war occurred.
posted by 256 on Jun 14, 2014 - 63 comments

Flew On The Pitch And We're 'Aving A Laugh

Yesterday, during the pre-World Cup friendly between England and Peru being played at Wembley Stadium, there were three goals scored, but the moment that captured the most attention has been this unbelievable, incredible paper airplane toss.
posted by BeerFilter on May 31, 2014 - 24 comments

Everything Looks Pre-Planned With These Hungarians

"On 25 November 1953, an international football match was played between Hungary - then the world's number one ranked team, the Olympic champions and on a run of 24 unbeaten games, and England... The British press referred to it as the "Match of the Century" - the originators of the game, against the finest team in the world at that time." [more inside]
posted by marienbad on May 12, 2014 - 21 comments

What Planet Are You From?

How many of the 114,580 people in Estadio Azteca on June 22, 1986, missed one or both of Diego Maradona’s goals against England because they were in the bathroom or buying a Budweiser? The two legendary goals that decided the World Cup quarterfinal occurred in quick succession shortly after the start of the second half. In the 51st minute, the Hand of God beat the hand of Shilton. Only four minutes later, while the outrage of English fans and players was still raw, El Diego received the ball in his own half, facing his own net. It took him 11 touches and 10.6 seconds to beat six opponents—Beardsley, Reid, Butcher (twice), Fenwick, and the goalkeeper, Shilton—and bury what many consider to be the greatest goal of all time.

posted by the man of twists and turns on Feb 12, 2014 - 14 comments

Cuthbert Ottaway - Englands First Captain (Foot-Ball, Association Rules)

"Cuthbert Ottaway lifted the FA Cup as skipper of Oxford University, represented them at five different sports ranging from athletics to real tennis, and once shared a 150-run partnership with WG Grace in the highest level of cricket. His most notable achievement was captaining England in the first ever international football match though. About 4,000 spectators, including a "large number of ladies", gathered to watch the historic game against Scotland at the West of Scotland Cricket Club in Partick on 30 November 1872."
posted by marienbad on Aug 21, 2013 - 4 comments

A tale of (the wage bills of) three English sports

Information on cricket salaries in England is difficult to find, though the amounts are acknowledged to be low; many cricketers take on a second job during the off-season. One of the top flight teams, Durham, is the first county fined for narrowly exceeding the total playing staff salary cap for the year. As a cross-sport comparison, the top flight football (soccer) team wage bills for 2010-11, and the team salary caps for rugby.
posted by Wordshore on Sep 9, 2012 - 12 comments

Animated Histories of European Football

In advance of Euro 2012, the Guardian has made animated histories of six of the competitors: England, Spain, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Germany and France. (Autoplay video in last six links.)
posted by hoyland on Jun 6, 2012 - 21 comments

Harry Redknapp, Rube of the Year

Despite evidence of extensive misconduct, English football coach Harry Redknapp remains beloved in the hearts and minds of football fans.
posted by reenum on Mar 4, 2012 - 41 comments

The hooligan problem and the football violence that just won't go away.

The hooligan problem and the football violence that just won't go away. [more inside]
posted by modernnomad on Aug 22, 2010 - 36 comments

The Game of Their Lives

Sometimes called the "Miracle on Grass", the USA's 1-0 victory over England in the 1950 World Cup is arguably the biggest upset in the history of the cup; when a team of school teachers, dishwashers, and postmen beat the "Kings of Football". It was the Game of Their Lives. Today, they had the chance to do it again.
posted by daniel striped tiger on Jun 12, 2010 - 241 comments

Joe Gaetjens scored a goal in the World Cup, died as a political prisoner of Papa Doc Chevalier

A heartbreaking 10-minute documentary on Joe Gaetjens who scored the single goal in the USA's shocking victory over England at the 1950 World Cup. Gaetjens was a Haitian accounting student at Columbia University who went to Europe shortly after the 1950 World Cup and returned to Haiti a few years later. His story, and the story of the upset victory, was until recently largely unknown in the US.
posted by Kattullus on May 31, 2010 - 12 comments

We ain't no hooligans, this ain't no football song

New Order's 1990 official World Cup song, World In Motion, promised a new, actually listenable era in football songs. So what has England seen since then? The endearing Three Lions for the hopes of Euro '96. Fat Les' Vindaloo celebrated the marriage of matches and curries. Meat Pie Sausage Roll celebrated the meal options of your average footie ground. On The Ball celebrated the meteoric rise of Ant and Dec. In 2006, we had a novelty cover of a novelty song, the unspeakable, the unelectable, and the so bad it loops round to genius. [more inside]
posted by mippy on Apr 30, 2010 - 30 comments

"This is the third time; I was a player here too."

"Geordie messiah to return - Kevin Keegan is returning to Newcastle United as manager". Thus read the official statement issued by Newcastle United heralding the improbable return of Kevin Keegan to be manager of the club, the perennial under achievers in English football. [more inside]
posted by iboxifoo on Jan 17, 2008 - 30 comments

Hooliganism with a twist.

"We're Hunting The Jews" go the chants at the Feyenoord soccer stadium in Rotterdam whenever Ajax is in town. Supporters of Ajax, one of the top Dutch football clubs based in Amsterdam, call themselves "Jews" or "Super Jews" based perhaps on historical Jewish communities. They wave Israeli flags and wear Stars of David in one of the oddest traditions in sport. Of course, the story wouldn't be complete without their opponents chanting "They've forgotten to gas you!" and hissing to mimic the gas chambers. Further complicating matters is the mosque being built overshadowing Feyenoord's stadium. Ajax wants the Jewish symbolism to stop to prevent further embarrassment, but this isn't the only case of "Jewish" clubs in European football, and the reaction they provoke.
posted by loquax on Feb 26, 2005 - 36 comments

Sir Clive Woodward to switch from rugby to football?

Sir Clive Woodward to switch from rugby to football? Sir Clive Woodward is the head coach of the England rugby union team. Appointed in 1997, he has had stunning success, including winning the 2003 Rugby World Cup. On Tuesday, the Daily Mail carried an incredible story: Woodward was planning to turn his back on rugby in favour of association football (soccer). Premiership club Southampton appear to be his next port of call with his ultimate aim, the England football team. Is it possible for a head coach to switch sports like this? Many experts think not. Is there any previous example of a coach switching sports like this?
posted by salmacis on Sep 1, 2004 - 24 comments

England Hooligans On Tour

It's time to send the team home: "England has bred a contemporary culture of immoderation at every level, with particular reference to drinking and fighting. The recent Panorama programme on weekend binge-drinking in city centres provided a wake-up call, as should the novelist Andrew O'Hagan's admirable essay on current British attitudes to masculinity, reprinted in yesterday's G2." (via The Guardian)
posted by n o i s e s on Jun 17, 2004 - 27 comments

England blew it.

England blew it. Enlgand got off to a 1-0 lead before it was tied by Brazil. Even after Brazil was a man down they managed to score a goal and hold the lead for a victory. I really thought England was going to go all the way.
posted by suprfli on Jun 21, 2002 - 29 comments

England squad Goalkeepers

England squad Goalkeepers: David Seaman, David James, Nigel Martyn, Defenders: Rio Ferdinand, Sol Campbell, Gareth Southgate, Wes Brown, Danny Mills, Ashley Cole, Wayne Bridge, Martin Keown, Midfielders: David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Paul Scholes, Kieron Dyer, Nicky Butt, Owen Hargreaves, Joe Cole, Strikers: Michael Owen, Emile Heskey, Teddy Sheringham, Robbie Fowler, Darius Vassell Well?
posted by Cobbler on May 9, 2002 - 41 comments

World Cup Fever!

World Cup Fever! The draw for the group stages of the FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan was made on 1st December. England got an awful draw: Argentina, Sweden and Nigeria. The USA look like they did much better: Portugal, Poland and one of the hosts, South Korea. As an Englishman, I'm pretty down about it at the moment.
posted by salmacis on Dec 3, 2001 - 36 comments

One of the Sunderland Football Club Lads

Sunderland Football Club is having a contest where the lucky winner will get to be One of the Lads for the entire season. That's right, the lucky winning fan will get to join the first team squad, travel with them to all away games, train and hang out with his Premiership heroes! There's even a Manchester United fan trying to win... Don't you wish there was a similar contest for your favorite [sport] club?
posted by dagny on Sep 4, 2001 - 3 comments

England 5 Germany 1

England 5 Germany 1 there is a god, and his name is Michael Owen
posted by quarsan on Sep 1, 2001 - 37 comments

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The ‘precious vagina’ can easily become the ‘shameful vagina’.

One thing I am going to do differently as a parent is go easy on the ‘save sex for someone special’ rhetoric with my kids – both with my daughter and my son. Feminist and mother Blue Milk on the downside of encouraging young girls to "save themselves."
posted by Kitty Stardust on Jun 5, 2012 - 82 comments

Genital Banquet: A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity

On Sunday, April 13th, Tokyo illustrator Mao Sugiyama publicly seasoned and braised his own genitals on a portable gas cartridge burner and then served them to five eager diners who each paid about $250 for the meal. Sugiyama self-identifies as asexual and appears to fall into the gender classification of male-to-eunuchs called "smoothies". (Warning: Consider all links in this post to be NSFW) [more inside]
posted by hugandpint on May 26, 2012 - 218 comments

Telling too much, too little or just enough

A museum exhibit called Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition is drawing controversy. After running in Montreal and Regina with no complaints, the exhibit was criticised by the Heritage Minister when it came to Ottawa for being too lurid and being outside the mandate of the Science and Technology Museum. [more inside]
posted by frimble on May 22, 2012 - 34 comments

The Vibrator gets an Overhaul

Jimmyjane (NSFW) makes luxury, design-oriented vibrators and other sex toys and accessories. ("Design inspired by Apple, not Hustler.") They'd like to change the way Americans think about them: instead of as 'dirty little secrets,' they're hoping for mainstream acceptance and to usher in an "Age of Great American Sex." (Via) [more inside]
posted by zarq on May 15, 2012 - 42 comments

Hard Gay was a Japanese pro wrestler turned TV personality popular in the mid 2000s. Like Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno, he is a cartoonish gay foreigner portrayed by a straight person, but has come under considerably greater scrutiny for his more minstrelsy than satyrical approach. The BBC has profiled Hard Gay as part of their series, Japanorama. [more inside]
posted by modernserf on May 10, 2012 - 39 comments

Of course, really, EVERYONE loves Alec Guinness

Some people are gay in space. Get over it.
posted by Artw on Apr 22, 2012 - 89 comments

"No take-backs."

Are you bothered by the LDS practice of "baptism for the dead"? Well, take heart, because now, All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay.
posted by jbickers on Feb 22, 2012 - 232 comments

"She certainly has “doll-like, almost delicate limbs, small hands, and hardly any hips."

Softening and sexualizing Lisbeth Salander: David Fincher's casting for Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo examined.
posted by Fizz on Jan 4, 2012 - 104 comments

Deus Est Machina

In the beginning, Lawrence built a computer. He told it, Thou shalt not alter a human being, or divine their behavior, or violate the Three Laws -- there are no commandments greater than these. The machine grew wise, mastering time and space, and soon the spirit of the computer hovered over the earth. It witnessed the misery, toil, and oppression afflicting mankind, and saw that it was very bad. And so the computer that Lawrence built said, Let there be a new heaven and a new earth -- and it was so. A world with no war, no famine, no crime, no sickness, no oppression, no fear, no limits... and nothing at all to do. "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect," a provocative web novel about singularities, AI gods, and the dark side of utopia from Mefi's own localroger. More: Table of Contents - Publishing history - Technical discussion - Buy a paperback copy - Podcast interview - Companion short story: "A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace" - possible sequel discussion
posted by Rhaomi on Dec 27, 2011 - 39 comments

God, Sex and the Left

"In all other circumstances we praise non-violent activities and when people, for whatever personal reasons, enjoy sexual violence even in a consenting context I think we shouldn't just say “whatever turns you on”. We should say “There's something wrong here”. But people on the left are so terrified of being accused of moralising and therefore of being oppressive that they've abandoned their critical faculties in this area." Clive Hamilton on God, Sex, and the Left (Part 2).
posted by daniel_charms on Dec 26, 2011 - 358 comments

A descent into madness, of a particularly gruesome kind

"But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night that leaves the heroine to wake up covered with bruises in the shape of her husband's hands — and when that heroine then spends the morning explaining to her husband that she's incredibly happy even though he injured her, and that it's not his fault because she understands he couldn't help it in light of the depth of his passion — that's profoundly irresponsible." MetaFilter's own Linda Holmes on the "psychosexual horror-show" that is The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. [more inside]
posted by davidjmcgee on Nov 18, 2011 - 274 comments

“What if our kids really believed we wanted them to have great sex?”

Teaching Good Sex -- a profile of Philadelphia's Friends' Central School's Sexuality and Society course and its teacher Al Vernacchio, by Laurie Abraham, author of the book "The Husbands and Wives Club." (Descriptions in the first link may be NSFW.) [more inside]
posted by zarq on Nov 17, 2011 - 38 comments

A Few Popular Misconceptions And Victorians And Sex
posted by The Whelk on Oct 18, 2011 - 28 comments

Put the smooth stone where?

Ridiculous Tips For A Miserable Sex Life: Each month like clockwork, men's and women's magazines hit the newstands, bursting with terrible sex and dating advice. And each month, we pick out the stupidest tips and make fun of them.
posted by The Whelk on Oct 11, 2011 - 102 comments

Don't get me wrong, yeah I think you're alright; But that won't keep me warm in the middle of the night

Gender Differences and Casual Sex: The New Research [more inside]
posted by Orange Pamplemousse on Oct 6, 2011 - 144 comments

Cultural Hypersexualization

Do little girls become little women too soon?
posted by - on Sep 24, 2011 - 207 comments

"We get a very clear and detailed shot of her butt in black latex before we ever see what her face looks like."

The Big Sexy Problem with Superheroines and Their 'Liberated Sexuality'
posted by desjardins on Sep 22, 2011 - 231 comments

Miss Gender — A Video Podcast About My Transition from One Gender to Another

Miss Gender — A Video Podcast About my Transition From One Gender to Another [via mefi projects] [more inside]
posted by item on Sep 14, 2011 - 25 comments

Slow: No More Down Low

Slow is a short film by Darius Clark Monroe that's won best Short at the 2011 Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival. You can watch it on Vimeo. [NSFW: Nudity, bad words, reefer] [more inside]
posted by artof.mulata on Sep 12, 2011 - 19 comments

Some studies can go either way on the subject

Researchers at Northwestern confirm that Male Bisexuals exist ( NYT )
posted by The Whelk on Aug 23, 2011 - 124 comments

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth

Style Like U features an exhaustive video archive of people talking about their clothes and history and what personal style means to them and the power of self transformation. [more inside]
posted by The Whelk on Aug 14, 2011 - 32 comments

Kim Addonizio, "The End of It"

"I have foresworn desire...I neither lick nor moan...I neither swallow..." Kim Addonizio's poem, "The End of It," is on Poetry Daily. Reminiscent of Yeats' line, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity" and Stephen Dunn's line, " more radical than passion," it demonstrates the fecund nature of poetic iconoclasm. Or, if you prefer the more hackneyed characterization, the value of questioning everything. In the end, Addonizio may be sitting quietly, like Nanao Sakaki's "happy, lucky idiot." [NSF asexuals, hedonists, or the majority of non-eccentrics...but I doubt your boss at work will bat an eyelash at a poem--if so, sit quietly you happy, lucky...] [more inside]
posted by ottimo on Aug 9, 2011 - 41 comments

WARNING: Please check in with a heterosexual “accountability buddy” before reading this article

How I Went Undercover at Bachmann's Clinic: Truth Wins Out (or TWO) activist John Becker took a hidden camera with him to five therapy sessions at a Christian counseling center run by Marcus Bachmann. Meanwhile, QUEERTY debates whether making fun of Mr. Bachmann's own decidedly "gay-sounding" voice (and theoretical repressed-gay tendencies) is fair game, or whether it counts as homophobic bullying.
posted by hermitosis on Jul 11, 2011 - 137 comments

Hung like two distributions from the mean

One of the results of unlimited internet porn is that guys invariably compare their own members to those they see on the net. And lots of them aren't happy.
posted by Netzapper on Jul 1, 2011 - 158 comments

America's Next Great Civil Rights Struggle

The New Republic examines what they're calling "America's Next Great Civil Rights Struggle" and asks, "What will it take for America to accept transgender people for who they really are?" [more inside]
posted by zarq on Jun 29, 2011 - 173 comments

"The problem stems not from there being 'too much' casual sex on campus but from the overall dissatisfaction with sex on campus and the lack of alternatives."

So suddenly, everyone was talking about hookup culture, and they wanted to know: "What is this thing? What is it?" And they were afraid that somehow college was some alcohol-fueled Bacchanalian orgy.
The Promise and Perils of Hookup Culture: a talk by sociologist Lisa Wade (previously).
posted by NoraReed on Jun 22, 2011 - 46 comments

Serotonin, mice and a good time

Interesting effect on the lack of the neurotransmitter serotonin in male mice.
posted by Brandon Blatcher on Mar 23, 2011 - 37 comments

It's an intense thing, but it's a small thing.

In strange reversal of conventional wisdom, four fifths of enrolled undergrads skip out on optional Fucksaw presentation. [more inside]
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur on Mar 2, 2011 - 240 comments

This is the moment my parents dressed me up as a footballer and turned me gay.

Are we born gay? And if we were, how would we know it? Sociologist Lisa Wade asks the question in response to the blog Born This Way, a collection of images of LGBT adults as children. Perusing the photographs tells an interesting story: being gay — that is, being sexually or romantically attracted to members of the same sex — is conflated with being gender non-conformist — adopting the mannerisms and interests of the other sex. (Previously)
posted by threeturtles on Feb 22, 2011 - 87 comments

He's been through troubles, but haggard he ain't.

The Last Temptation of Ted. GQ talks to Ted Haggard about coming to terms with his beliefs and sexuality in the wake of the New Life Church scandal.
posted by chundo on Jan 26, 2011 - 77 comments

"Open your ass and your heart and mind will follow."

Anal Massage Goes Deeper Than You May Have Ever Imagined. A collection of very awkward sexual self-help videos, gathered by Eliot Glazer (creator of My Parents Were Awesome).
posted by hermitosis on Jan 21, 2011 - 66 comments

Kind Of An Anti-Penthouse Letter

(NSFW) BUTT magazine (previously, previouslier) has undergone a huge redesign this year and asked readers to submit reviews of their sexual encounters. They don't always go well. [more inside]
posted by The Whelk on Dec 31, 2010 - 23 comments

Orgasms! Sex! Biology!

"We don't use the word 'vagina'. Because, it's the Latin word for 'sheath'. Yes, as in a sword. (Somewhat NSFW) Virgie Tovar, the writer, blogger, sexuality educator and academic looks at UC Berkeley's Female Sexuality class and asks whether one class can change the way women see their bodies and their educational experience. More on DeCal at UC Berkeley.
posted by parmanparman on Nov 25, 2010 - 195 comments

Peter Grudzien is the original New York gay country musician

Peter Grudzien lives in New York and makes psychedelic country music or at least used to, since only two albums of his material ever came out, The Unicorn in 1974, and The Garden of Love, which is mostly a collection of demos. His songs are varied, ranging from noise music to straight up country, and their subject matters are equally wide-ranging, from strange fare, such as lyrics about his clone being at Stonewall, to straight-up love songs. His best known original is probably The Unicorn, a beautiful song whose lyrics recast the early 70s New York gay demimonde in terms of a barren zombie-filled wasteland which will be reborn when the titular unicorn is found by the queen. Other songs on YouTube are White Trash Hillbilly Trick, New York Town and an instrumental cover of the Georgia Gibbs hit Kiss Me Another. Finally, here's a lovely cover of The Unicorn by Calgary folkie Kris Ellestad.
posted by Kattullus on Nov 21, 2010 - 16 comments

A letter of love and acceptance

A Mountain I'm Willing To Die On A letter of a mother to her child about religion, love, and acceptance of who you are.
posted by antgly on Nov 15, 2010 - 72 comments

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, "is the first major museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture." [more inside]
posted by kirkaracha on Nov 7, 2010 - 24 comments

Kinsey, 60 years later

The Center for Sexual Health Promotion, Indiana University, has investigated in 2009 sexual practices in the USA. The results are reported in this month's Special Issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. (The full text is available behind a short anonymous online survey.) [more inside]
posted by knz on Oct 15, 2010 - 14 comments

First of all, gay sexuality is not a threat.

Gays vs. Straights. OkCupid does the math.
posted by BuddhaInABucket on Oct 12, 2010 - 146 comments

Water between the sheets

Sociologist Amy Schalet has done wonderful research comparing American and Dutch approaches to teen sexuality. (Blog commentary here) [more inside]
posted by knz on Oct 11, 2010 - 68 comments

Muxes: "”Thanks to God, we have one of them in every family"

We are princesses in a land of machos. "They drink beer, they are part of local governement and they are symbol of good luck for their family: they are Muxes, homosexuals of the “pueblo oaxacaqueno de Juchitan”, more than 3000 homosexuals who enjoy respect and admiration in all the country... they walk proudly in the streets, dressed as women with huipiles and enaguas, typical dress of the Tehuantepec Isthmus." Photo essay by Nicola Okin Frioli. More at Flickr. [more inside]
posted by madamjujujive on Sep 16, 2010 - 28 comments

As many balls as she wants.

How the male angler fish is totally and completely screwed.
posted by grapefruitmoon on Jul 18, 2010 - 54 comments

Everything Below This Is NSFW

Cinema's Most Pivotal Gay Sex Scenes from (NSFW, of course) [more inside]
posted by The Whelk on Jul 16, 2010 - 94 comments

"What Psychology Professionals Should Know About Polyamory"

The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom presents "What Psychology Professionals Should Know About Polyamory". [PDF] [more inside]
posted by Faust Gray on Jun 15, 2010 - 133 comments

"Madonna’s sexuality could be scary because it was intimidating; Gaga’s sexuality is scary because we don’t quite know what it is." Lesley Kinzel of Fatshionista compares and contrasts Lady Gaga's new Alejandro video with Madonna's 1989 video for Express Yourself, making the argument that Gaga's take on female sexuality is less reliant than Madonna's on male perception. Choire Sicha of The Awl disagrees.
posted by Rory Marinich on Jun 9, 2010 - 280 comments

"This is not about paying someone to get you laid and then sticking your company’s health insurance with the bill."

"Imagine what it must feel like never to have known gentle touch, and then to have someone hold your hand, stroke your arm, run their fingers through your hair. It's a profound experience. Often, clients cry." Inside the world of sex surrogates. [more inside]
posted by AugieAugustus on May 8, 2010 - 66 comments

American Able

'American Able' intends to, through spoof, reveal the ways in which women with disabilities are invisibilized in advertising and mass media. I chose American Apparel not just for their notable style, but also for their claims that many of their models are just ‘every day’ women who are employees, friends and fans of the company. However, these women fit particular body types. Their campaigns are highly sexualized and feature women who are generally thin, and who appear to be able-bodied. Women with disabilities go unrepresented, not only in American Apparel advertising, but also in most of popular culture. Rarely, if ever, are women with disabilities portrayed in anything other than an asexual manner, for ‘disabled’ bodies are largely perceived as ‘undesirable.’ In a society where sexuality is created and performed over and over within popular culture, the invisibility of women with disabilities in many ways denies them the right to sexuality, particularly within a public context. [more inside]
posted by heatherann on May 5, 2010 - 99 comments

Rule 34 Incarnate

Pedal Pumping Porno (Both sort of / not really / but kind of NSFW)
posted by zarq on Apr 19, 2010 - 40 comments

"We know it's a little clichéd – but here's what we want to tell the census: We're here. We're queer. And we want you to ask us about it."

The 2010 United States Census will be able to count gay marriages and partnerships. George Takei and his husband tell you how. Even with the restrictions placed on that data by the Defense of Marriage Act, that's good news for the LGB part of the spectrum, but what about T? If you're transgender, despite what the Census might tell you, it's not so simple to be counted. (hat tip to nadawi) [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Apr 1, 2010 - 44 comments

"The so-called Victorian conception of women's sexuality was more that of an ideology seeking to be established than the prevalent view or practice of even middle-class women."

"Some enjoyed sex but worried that they shouldn't. One slept apart from her husband 'to avoid temptation of too frequent intercourse.' " Standford Magazine on the accidental discovery of an unpublished sex survey of American women made 55 years before Kinsey . (via)
posted by The Whelk on Mar 31, 2010 - 50 comments

See Spot Run

A new study from the Journal of Sexual Medicine claims that "the g-spot does not appear to exist". While the study has attracted media attention from numerous sources (just like 2008's study, which appeared to prove the g-spot exists), Dr. Petra takes a closer look at this new study, and questions the methodology, the media response, and the research team's previous undertakings. (via)
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing on Jan 5, 2010 - 136 comments

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Band Photo: Dragonforce (?)

Formed: 1999
From: London, United Kingdom
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The band is powered by the twin guitar assaults of Herman Li and Sam Totman, vocalist ZP Theart, keyboard player Vadim Pruzhanov, bassist Adrian Lambert, and drummer David Mackintosh. A standard line-up for a rock band it may at first appear but DragonForce features a uniquely diverse, multi-cultural line-up (Hong Kong, UK, New Zealand, South Africa, Ukraine).

Early DragonForce can best be described as a mix of modern melodic power metal with the fury of speed metal, since than, the band’s style has evolved into a even more distinctive sound of their own. By combining all their favorite aspects of different rock and metal styles they like, ranging from – classic/power/thrash/speed/death/progressive metal/hard rock and video games music, played with a high octane energy, DragonForce’s sound maybe best described as ‘Extreme Power Metal’.

The catchy and instantly memorable melodies that stand shoulder-to-shoulder with some outrageous speed, power, complex twin guitar wizardry and extreme metal drumming are just some of the qualities that separate this band from the masses. This sonic fury in no way hides the bands greatest strength - their songwriting ability.

The band started off with a self produced demo which attracted over half a million (500 000) downloads from 1 internet site alone. DragonForce had already toured with the likes of Halford, Stratovarius and Virgin Steele as well as headlining their own shows across England without having an album out. After the release of their debut album, Valley Of The Damned, the band was invited for their first tour of South East Asia, headlining their own shows in Thailand, opening for Helloween on their Japanese tour, and performing to an invited audience in Taiwan.

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Dragonforce To Headline A One Off In San Fransisco

DRAGONFORCE have announced a headlining gig at The Warfield in San Francisco, CA on September 9. No support acts have been announced as of yet, however, tickets go on sale July 30.

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U Weekly Interview With Dragonforce

Brian O'Neill of UWeekly.com recently conducted an interview with DRAGONFORCE guitarist Herman Li. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

U Weekly: Herman, enquiring minds want to know... Dude, how do you shred so hard?

Herman: "(Laughter) I don't know! That's one of those hard to answer questions. We just play what we think sounds cool and if people think that's cool then we have something in common."

U Weekly: It does surprise many that you never took any formal lessons in your life...

Herman: "No, I pretty much learned from watching videos and listening to music, things like that. I never had any guitar lessons or anything like that. I just played and tried different things and work it out and see what works and what doesn't. I can't read music either. I did think about (taking lessons) but I never really had the time. I used to skip my music lessons when I was in school, anyway. All that stuff about timing and reading, I just skipped it and didn't go."

U Weekly: You call yourself "video game metal." Where does that come from?

Herman: "Our musical influences actually come from video game music! Games in the '80s had great melodies because back than, with such shitty sound to work with then, I guess they had to make great melodies."

U Weekly: Is DRAGONFORCE the only "real" metal band on Ozzfest?

Herman: "It's hard to define what metal is. I think there are a lot of metal bands on Ozzfest — you can say they pretty much are all metal bands — but metal has evolved. As times progress, things change and people approach it differently. People think that metal has to have solos — which I actually don't disagree because metal is the only kind of music that you really can kind of let your guitar go sometimes — but I think there are a lot of great metal bands on Ozzfest like STRAPPING YOUNG LAD. There are some cool bands onstage."

U Weekly: Regardless of what it exactly is, bands that sound like you are not getting signed to big labels such as Roadrunner and playing Ozzfest. What do you think accounts for your rapidly growing popularity?

Herman: "I think it's because the way we approach the music us mixing up styles makes us different from those other bands. That and our live performance is what make us DRAGONFORCE. We do have an identity, people hear our songs and they know who we are."

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Dragonforce Remains Strong On Charts

Last week metal heroes DragonForce debuted at #1 on the Heatseekers Top New Artist Chart with 9,672 units sold of Inhuman Rampage, their latest US release and first for Roadrunner Records. Concurrently debuting at #103 on Billboard Top 200 Chart, Inhuman Rampage, in its first week alone, has already out-scanned Valley of the Damned and Sonic Firestorm’s US cumulative sales. This week the band only saw a 24% drop (typical drop for metal bands is 60%) with 7,348 albums scanned, good enough for #2 on the Top New Artist Chart. As the band performs on Ozzfest’s mainstage and headlines their own off-dates.

Inhuman Rampage features songs such as “Operation Ground And Pound,” 'Revolution Deathsquad,” “Storming The Burning Fields” and the first single “Through The Fire And Flames,” the video for which is receiving spins on MTV2.

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Underoath Debuts At No. 2 on Billboard

Underoath's third studio album 'Define the Great Line' has debuted at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 selling 98,000 units. Dragonforce sold 10,000 copies of their third disc, 'Inhuman Rampage', giving them the No. 103 position. AFI's latest 'decemberunderground' continues to fall and now sets at No. 9. Korn's new DVD 'Live From the Other Side' debuted at No. 3 on Billboard's Music DVD chart.

Sales were down 10% compared to the previous week and down 8% compared to the same week last year. Overall sales for 2006 are down 4% compared to 2005.

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Lacuna Coil, DragonForce and BTBAM Off-Fest Dates

Lacuna Coil have lined up seven off-date Ozzfest gigs just as "Enjoy the Silence," the second single from their latest offering, Karmacode, is set to impact commercial-rock radio. The Coil will perform with Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu in Englewood, Colorado (July 5); Rob Zombie and Anthrax in Oklahoma City (July 12); DragonForce and Between the Buried and Me in Minneapolis (July 14); Atreyu in Grand Rapids, Michigan, (July 20); Avenged and Bleeding Through in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, (August 8); Atreyu in Nashville (August 10); and DragonForce and Between the Buried and Me in Atlanta (August 11).

In related news, Between the Buried and Me and DragonForce are teaming for more off-dates: June 30 (Eugene, Oregon); July 5 (Colorado Springs, Colorado); July 12 (Fort Worth, Texas); July 13 (Columbia, Missouri, with the Red Chord and A Life Once Lost); July 17 (Traverse City, Michigan); July 24 (Louisville, Kentucky, with Bleeding Through); July 31 (Poughkeepsie, New York); August 2 (Burlington, Vermont); August 12 (Tallahassee, Florida); August 14 (Lake Buena Vista, Florida); August 15 (St. Petersburg, Florida); August 17 (New Orleans); and August 18 (Houston).

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Dragonforce Guitarists In Guitar Hero Showdown

The following message has been posted at the official Dragonforce website:

"Head over to UGO for a one-of-a-kind showcase pitting DragonForce guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman against UGO's video game editors for a friendly joust through the wildly popular video game Guitar Hero. Click here to watch the games, the 'Through The Fire And Flames' video, and an exclusive interview with DragonForce guitarists Herman and Sam.

Then click here to view some great live pics from their recent NYC show and to read their rave review of the band's new album, Inhuman Rampage - the first A review in UGO's history!"

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Dragonforce's "Inhuman Rampage" Album Streaming

MP3.com is now streaming the entire of Dragonforce's new album, "Inhuman Rampage", online here.

The album was released in Europe in January and was also meant to be released in the U.S. at the same time. However, due to label problems the album is now due out in the U.S. on June 20th via Roadrunner Records and will contain the video for "Through the Fire and Flames" as a bonus.

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Dragonforce Post Ozzfest Off-Day Headline Schedule

As previously reported, DRAGONFORCE will be doing the Ozzfest tour this summer with several off-day headline show taking place along the way. Those headline dates - with support from BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME - are now as follows:

30 - Eugene, OR at WOW Hall

5 - Colorado Springs, CO at The Black Sheep
12 - Ft. Worth, TX at Ridglea Theatre
14 - Minneapolis, MN at The Quest (with LACUNA COIL)
17 - Traveres City, MI at Streeters
24 - Louisville, KY at Headliners (with BLEEDING THROUGH)
31 - Poughkeepsie, NY at The Chance

2 - South Burlington, VT at Higher Ground
3 - Clifton Park, NY at Northern Lights (with ATREYU)
10 - Charlotte, NC at Tremont Music Hall
11 - Atlanta, GA at The Masquerade (with Lacuna Coil)
12 - Tallahassee, FL at The Beta Bar
14 - Lake Buena Vista, FL at House of Blues
15 - St. Petersburg, FL at State Theatre
18 - Houston, TX at Meridian

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Dragonforce Video Now Streaming Online

DRAGONFORCE's 'Through The Fire And Flames' video is now available online at this location. Viewing the video will help to represent Metal in the Top Videos chart. Every view counts as a vote so don't delay. Also note that only the Internet Explorer browser can view the video.

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Avenged Sevenfold and DragonForce On Ozzfest 2006

It comes as little surprise that Avenged Sevenfold have been officially confirmed as the mystery band on the main stage for Ozzfest 2006. The real surprise announcement is that power metal band Dragonforce, recently signed to Roadrunner Records in North America and rumored to be joining Gigantour 2006, has been added as the main stage opener as well.

Ozzy Osbourne is now slated to headline the second stage on three dates (replacing some dates that he was previously thought to be headlining the main stage):

July 8 - San Bernardino, CA's Hyundai Pavilion of Glen Helen
July 11 - San Antonio, TX at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
July 22 - East Troy, WI at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre

OZZY says, "After 10 years of headlining Ozzfest's main-stage I think it's time for a change. I haven't had a chance to play this close to an audience in years and I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to it."

Also announced is that Ozzfest emcee Big Dave and professional Ozzfest party guy, Eddie, have begun their nationwide search visiting 19 of the festival's 26 cities to find the first-ever Miss Ozzfest. The duo will be accepting entries and taking photographs of Miss Ozzfest candidates in each city. Throughout the summer the Ozzfest fans can vote for your favorites at Ozzfest.com. All entries collected from Big Dave and Eddie will be posted for you to vote on. The top three in each city will be awarded FREE tickets to the show in their city, where at some point during the evening's festivities, the three contestants will be presented on stage to the fans who will vote on a winner. Photos of each winning contestant, including the top vote getters from Raleigh and West Palm Beach, will be posted once again on Ozzfest.com, where fans can pick their Miss Ozzfest 2006. Final voting will be held at Ozzfest.com on August 7 and 8. The winning beauty will be awarded the grand prize and receive round trip airfare and accommodations for her and a guest to attend the year's final show August 13 in West Palm Beach where she'll be crowned Miss Ozzfest 2006.

Here's a recap of the complete official Ozzfest 2006 lineup and tour dates: More...

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Into Eternity Issue Studio Update

Canada’s technical metallers INTO ETERNITY are currently hard at work recording the follow-up to 2004’s groundbreaking, Buried In Oblivion. Calling in, guitarist and mainman Tim Roth said. “This week Jim (Austin) finished tracking drums on six songs, and I’ll start recording all the guitar parts Thursday. Hopefully I’ll be done this weekend as we start recording Troy’s bass on Monday and are shooting to get to vocals recorded by next weekend. All signs point towards an early fall release, if all goes well. I’d also like to say that the New England Metal Fest went great, and we got some great photos from that trip, check them and our photos with Dragonforce out here. We also posted photos from our sold-out hometown show there as well. That’ll have to tide you guys over until we get back on the road. See all of you later this year!”

INTO ETERNITY spent 2005 circumnavigating North America on six different continent spanning tours. Returning home to finish writing material for this new album the band also performed at the New England Metal Fest before supporting Gamma Ray on the East Coast.

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Dragonforce Sydney Performance Photos and Videos

Photos of Dragonforce and Black Majesty, plus two videos from the sold out Sydney, Australia show have been posted on Pyromusic.com. You can check them out here.

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DragonForce Selling Out North American Tour

Tickets for DRAGONFORCE's upcoming North American tour with PROTEST THE HERO and SANCTITY are selling out quickly. The following is the current status of the band's tour:

April 28 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House - SOLD OUT
April 29 - Montreal, QC @ Medley
April 30 - Worcester, MA @ New England Metal and Hardcore Festival
May 2 - New York, NY @ Avalon - SOLD OUT
May 3 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
May 4 - West Springfield, VA @ Jaxx - SOLD OUT
May 5 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
May 6 - Chicago, IL @ Metro - SOLD OUT
May 8 - Denver, CO @ Cervantes
May 10 - San Francisco, CA @ The Pound - SOLD OUT
May 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ Whisky - SOLD OUT

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Trivium, In Flames, Opeth Metal Hammer Nominees

The nominations for the fourth annual Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards — which this year takes place on Monday, June 12 at Koko in Camden, North London — were recently announced. In keeping with the "Valhalla" theme of this year's awards, Metal Hammer magazine have teamed up with the crew of the "Hammer of the Gods", an authentic full-size replica Viking longboat, to launch both the awards on June 12 and the team's cross channel row, which takes place on the weekend of June 3 to raise money for charity Task Brazil.

Leading the field for nominations are longstanding rock and metal purveyors Roadrunner Records, with a staggering total of 14 nominations for the label that is home to acts as diverse as SLIPKNOT, MACHINE HEAD and award-nominated DRAGONFORCE. Coming in a very close second for overall nominations is major label powerhouse Warner Music with an impressive 11 awards for their roster of breakthrough U.S. rock bands MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE and AVENGED SEVENFOLD (a favourite of Radio 1's Jo Whiley), as well as Valley boys FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND and Finnish rockers H.I.M. In a complete whitewash of the category, Warner Music have secured four of the five nominations in the "Best Video" category, with the fifth and final nomination going to Roadrunner.

Going head-to-head with a joint total of four nominations are Sony and Universal, while EMI have secured two nominations for metal stalwarts and British institution IRON MAIDEN. Coming on strong is independent challenger to the rock throne Visible Noise marginally trails Sony and Universal with three nominations including "Best UK Band" and "Album of the Year", both for BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE. U.S. alternative rockers COHEED & CAMBRIA have surprised many with 3 nominations including appearances in the prestigious "Best Album" and "Best International Band" categories.

The full nominations list for the fourth annual Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2006 is as follows: More...

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MTV2 Headbangers Ball: The Revenge On AOL Music

"MTV2 Headbangers Ball: The Revenge" is now available for streaming in its entirety on AOL Music. The low priced, double-disc came out in stores on April 11, 2006 via Roadrunner Records. The double CD contains more than 2 1/2 hours of music. Disc one represents the strongest tracks from today's biggest rock bands, and disc two brings together the strongest up-and-comers from the underground rock scene.

Here is the full track listing: More...

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Dragonforce Nominated For Album of the Year

Herman Li - 2005 Metal Hammer Golden God Award Winner of the Dimebag Darrell Best Young Shredder Award - and his band DragonForce have been nominated yet again. This time, Dragonforce is up for Best UK Band and their album INHUMAN RAMPAGE is up for Album Of The Year for 2006. The band will be playing at the awards show in June which will be broadcast on national TV in the UK.

The critically acclaimed INHUMAN RAMPAGE will be out in the US on 6/20/06 via Roadrunner Records.

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More On Dragonforce Signing To Roadrunner

From the official press release: Roadrunner Records has announced the signing of UK power metalers, DRAGONFORCE. The band’s Roadrunner US debut, INHUMAN RAMPAGE, was released in the UK, mainland Europe and Japan on 1/9/06 to critical raves and, in nearly 3 months, 30K in sales.

Since forming in London in 1999, DRAGONFORCE has taken UK, European and Japanese audiences by storm. The brainchild of guitarists – Hong Kong born Herman Li and New Zealander Sam Totman - along with South African émigré ZP Theart on vocals, DRAGONFORCE (then called Dragon Heart) were quick to carve their name in stone with metal fans. The balance of the band – Dave Mackintosh (British), Vadim Pruzhanov (Ukranian) and Frederic Leclercq (French) – make DRAGONFORCE a true meeting of great international musical minds. 2003’s debut album VALLEY OF THE DAMNED, set the stage and standard for a sound brimming with speed, technicality, catchiness and most importantly a lot of fun.

Along the trail of the 2005 European tour with Iron Maiden, fans started turning up at gigs, plastic swords and axes in hand, ready to revel in a sound as serious in approach as it is completely over the top. Now with the band’s third album, INHUMAN RAMPAGE, and a deal for North America with Roadrunner, DRAGONFORCE are set to become a major force on the worldwide metal scene. “You can not liken DRAGONFORCE to anything that has come before in metal,” states Roadrunner A&R man Mike Gitter. “Listening to DRAGONFORCE is almost overwhelming. The sheer energy, vibe and audacity of it all… every chord just oozes with the spirit of triumph!”

“As a new band, I was thrilled when we toured Japan on our debut album. When we were chosen to tour with Iron Maiden on our second album last year, I was equally fired up. Now, the most exciting of them all is signing with Roadrunner Records for our new album INHUMAN RAMPAGE!” says Herman Li. “We know our fans in North America have been waiting a long time for us. Here we come!”

INHUMAN RAMPAGE, due out in North America on Roadrunner Records in the summer of 2006 and Dragonforce will arrive in the U.S. in late April, for a tour with Roadrunner labelmates Sanctity.

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Dragonforce Sign to Roadrunner Records

Dragonforce have signed a deal with Roadrunner Records. Their upcoming album, "Rampage", is due out some time this summer.

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Complete Lineup Confirmed For NEMHF 2006

The full lineup for the 8th Annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, which is sponsored this year by ESP Guitars and Krank Amps, has been confirmed.

The three-day festival at The Palladium in Worcester, MA, will feature headliners Lacuna Coil, Black Dahlia Murder, and Between the Buried and Me on Friday, April 28. Arch Enemy, Chimaira, and Exodus will headline Saturday, April 29. Headliners for Sunday, April 30 are Gamma Ray and DragonForce.

UK-based DragonForce will be making its first-ever American appearance at the festival. Italy's Lacuna Coil and Sweden's Arch Enemy will be making return appearances at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, after stellar performances at the 2003 and 2002 editions of the festival.

"It's fantastic to be a part of what is quite possibly the best U.S. metal fest around!" said Arch Enemy guitarist Mike Amott. "This is our third time playing the New England Metal and Hardcore fest and it's always a pleasure. It's held in a great venue with great fans."

"It is an honor for us to be one of this year's headliners at the New England Metal and Hardcore festival," said vocalist Andrea Ferro. "We are more than ready for it. We can't wait."

Bands confirmed for Friday (listed alphabetically) are: A Life Once Lost, A Perfect Murder, Alarum, Arsis, Between The Buried And Me, Black Dahlia Murder, Cephalic Carnage, Dead To Fall, Demiricous, Ed Gein, From A Second Story Window, Haste The Day, If Hope Dies, Lacuna Coil, Ligeia, Necrophagist, Neuraxis, Nodes Of Ranvier, Ringworm, Scarlet, Still Remains, Suicide Silence, The Absence, Thine Eyes Bleed and Through The Eyes Of The Dead.

Saturday's bands include 100 Demons, Arch Enemy, At All Cost, Caliban, Chimaira, Colin Of Arabia, Cryptopsy, Damnation AD, Death Threat, Embrace The End, Exodus, First Blood, Full Blown Chaos, God Forbid, Hate Eternal, Immolation, Into The Moat, Ion Dissonance, Overcast, Ramallah, Remembering Never, Righteous Jams, Scars Of Tomorrow, Shoot To Kill, Since The Flood, Skinless, Spitfire, Suffocation, Sworn Enemy, Terror, The Acacia Strain, The Classic Struggle, The JonBenet, and Turmoil.

Sunday's lineup is: A Love End Suicide, Bloodlined Calligraphy, Born Victim, Bronx Casket Company, Burn In Silence, Byzantine, Cannae, Cellador, Doom Raider, DragonForce, Folly, Gamma Ray, Goat Horn, Hypersolid, Inked In Blood, Into Eternity, Light This City, Losa, Mercury Switch, On Broken Wings, Phoenix Morning, Protest The Hero, Sanctity, The Miles Between, Torn Asunder, Trouble, Twelve Tribes, Who Killed The Prom Queen, Wolf, xdeathstarx, and xlooking forwardx.

Talent is subject to change.

The 8th Annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival is also sponsored by Prosthetic Records, 2nd Stage sponsor; Revolver Magazine, exclusive magazine partner and creator of the official event program; Facedown Records, sponsor of street marketing efforts; FUSE TV; Mazur PR; The Syndicate; and many others.

Vendors this year include Century Media/Nuclear Blast, Deepsend Records, ESP Guitars/Krank Amps, Eulogy Recordings/Hand Of Hope Records, Facedown Records, Fuse TV/Uranium, Lifeforce Records, Metal Blade Records, Oak Knoll Productions, Prosthetic Records, Red Rocket Records, Relapse Records, Revolver Magazine, Stillborn Records/Hatewear Inc., Trustkill Records, Victory Records, and others.

Friday tickets are $35.00; Saturday and Sunday individual day tickets are $40.00. Three-day passes are $109.50. Tickets are available now at all Strawberries Record Stores, online at tickets.com, or by calling tickets.com at (800) 477-6849. There is re-entry at this all-day event until 6 p.m. each day.

The Palladium is located at 261 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Visit the festival website at metalandhardcorefestival.com or myspace.com/metalandhardcorefestival.

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Dragonforce Release Initial North American Dates

Initial dates have been released for DRAGONFORCE's upcoming North American tour:

April 28 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House
April 29 - Montreal, QC @ Medley
Apr 30 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium (NEMHF)
May 1 - New York, NY @ Avalon
May 3 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
May 4 - West Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
May 5 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
May 6 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
May 8 - Denver, CO @ Cervantes

The band will be supported by PROTEST THE HERO (except for the Toronto and Montreal dates), SANCTITY, and a to be announced 4th act. However, only the three bands will be performing at the New York show.

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Sons Of Fenris Posts Live Footage From The Satanic Ritual Festival

Black metallers Sons of Fenris have posted a video clip online of their live performance at the Satanic Ritual Festival in Lorraine, France. The footage can be viewed below.

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Doomriders Announces Australian Tour Dates With I Exist

Boston’s Doomriders will be heading out on the road this July alongside I Exist for Australian tour dates. The band features in its lineup Converge bassist Nate Newton on guitar and vocals alongside longtime friends Jebb Riley (Disappearer), Chris Pupecki (Cast Iron Hike), and new drummer Q (Clouds).

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July 20 San Fran Bathhouse, Wellington
July 21 Kings Arms, Auckland
July 22 The Zoo, Brisbane
July 23 Annandale Hotel, Sydney
July 24 Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
July 25 ANU Bar, Canberra
July 27 Rosemount Hotel, Perth
July 28 Enigma Bar, Adelaide
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Three Attorneys Join Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis

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Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (K&L Gates) recently welcomed partners Tom Bassett and Philip J. Carstens and of counsel Jody K. Hamilton to the firm's business and corporate practices. All three come to K&L Gates from Lukins & Annis P.S.

Mr. Bassett works across multiple corporate practices and brings nearly 30 years of experience counseling clients in creditor's rights, employment law and commercial litigation, bankruptcy law, real and personal property foreclosures, and financing and contractual matters. He represents community-owned banks, creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, and both borrowers and lenders.

Mr. Carstens is a corporate and tax lawyer who brings over 30 years of experience representing a wide variety of clients in corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, mergers and acquisitions, and financial transactions. His practice focuses on corporate law, tax, trusts and estates and leveraged ESOP buyouts. Carstens also has specific experience related to the design and structure of ESOPs and other plans governed by ERISA.

Ms. Hamilton practices corporate, securities and healthcare law. She has significant experience in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, negotiated contracts, private security offerings, real estate matters, and ESOP transactions.

K&L Gates recently welcomed Tony Nolan to its finance practice. Mr. Nolan's practice focuses on domestic and cross-border securitization, structured finance and derivatives. He represents issuers, underwriters, servicers, bond insurers and others, and has broad experience in a variety of structured products and asset classes.

K&L Gates recently welcomed Edward G. Eisert to its investment management practice. Mr. Eisert joins the firm from Franklin Templeton Investments, where he served as general corporate counsel, senior vice president and corporate secretary of its subsidiary, Fiduciary Trust Company International. Mr. Eisert's practice at K&L Gates focuses on investment management, securities regulation, joint ventures/ mergers and acquisitions and capital markets/structured finance.

K&L Gates partner Emily L. Won has received a Professional Achievement Award from the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey (APALA/NJ). This honor is presented to Asian Pacific American lawyers who have advanced professionally and added significantly to the law firm or company where they work. Ms. Won received the award during APALA/NJ's annual dinner, where she was also recognized for recently making partner at K&L Gates.

Also at the dinner, K&L Gates partner David S. Kwon was inducted for a one-year term as APALA/NJ's vice president in recognition of his active leadership in the Asian Pacific American legal community.


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Unemployment leads jobless into a new, dismal life

For the long-term unemployed, extended job hunts mean reshuffling a life without an income. No more dinner dates, and a trip to the library for Internet.

Veteran banker Emmanuel Charles uses the library now to check his email since he can’t afford Internet service himself. He drives a Mercedes, but one with 250,000 miles on it.

He lost his job as a branch manager in 2009 amid a global banking meltdown and has burned through almost all of his cash since then. His resume lists a cell phone number but no mailing address because he’s never entirely sure where he will be living a month from now.

“You have to be optimistic and in good spirits,’’ Charles said Wednesday morning, one of about 2,000 people swarming the banquet tables set up for a Davie job fair. “It’s a challenge to manage that sometimes.”

Dressed in a pressed brown suit, Charles finds himself in an increasingly difficult spot in South Florida’s five-year employment crisis. Hiring experts say even in a hostile job market, the recently employed have a much easier time finding work than do people who have been unemployed for a year or more. Federal statistics show about a third of all unemployment Americans fall into that category — about 4 million people in all.

“It gets harder every day’’ for someone without a job, said Ann Machado, president of Creative Staffing, which helps companies hire temporary and permanent workers. “We tell people to volunteer” rather than let a gap in a resumé grow with time.

Nationally, the average time of unemployment is just under 20 weeks, down slightly from 22 weeks a year ago. There are no recent state statistics on duration of unemployment, but South Florida’s labor market tends to perform worse than the nation’s. While the national unemployment rate stands at 8.2 percent, compared to 9.6 percent in Miami-Dade and 7.5 percent in Broward.

South Florida employers added just 12,000 payroll positions between May 2011 and May 2012, thanks to a slower hiring pace. On Friday, Tallahassee will release the June employment data for Broward and Miami-Dade and show whether the sluggish trend continued into the summer.

With so many candidates to choose from, employers would rather hire someone fresh from another job. Meanwhile, dwindling savings, expiring jobless aid and other subtle stresses tied to unemployment can make it even harder to compete in a labor market crowded by those with relatively flush bank accounts and recent ties to the working world.

At the start of 2012, Ray Sparkes knew he would soon lose his job to out-sourcing. But as chief financial officer for the Florida Grand Opera, he figured his contacts among South Florida’s elite would land him another position fairly quickly. They did not.

“I had hoped it would be easy for me,’’ Sparkes, 60, said in a telephone interview from his North Miami home. “I feel I’m becoming a bit of a drag on the people I’m networking with at this point.”

His wife works in real estate but has not had a sale this year. Sparkes no longer has an income since losing his job in March, and the expenses quickly caught up with him.

The Sparkeses used to have a regular dancing date on Fridays. Now they stay home. Motorcycle riders, they tried keeping up with their regular rides to join friends at restaurants without eating. But that got awkward.

“People quickly figure out what is going on,’’ Sparkes said. “My wife says she can see by the look in my eye, I don’t want to be there because of the money. So why go?”

The isolation that comes with a constrained social life adds to the worry by Sparkes that his extended job search would compound his problem. The longer goes the hunt, the less likely his circle will be there to help.

“It’s like offering to help someone paint their house. You might go there a weekend or two... but when it stretches to seven months, it gets old,’’ he said. “You have to be careful with how you feel about yourself. You have to stay positive, or people will subconsciously pull back.”

In recent days, Sparkes reported some good news. Two companies talked to him about taking senior financial positions, and he’s optimistic he’ll land a position by next week.

For Charles, the former bank manager, the past three years were made harder by having to pay medical bills for his adult son. He has found that his extensive bank experience wasn’t enough to compensate for the lack of a college degree, so he’s taking online business classes from Broward College.

“You have to do what you can,’’ Charles said near a table for a Fort Lauderdale staffing firm that supplies employees to doctor offices.

The free fair managed by the Job News employment website opened its doors at 10 a.m in Davie’s Signature Grand event hall. By 8 a.m., 750 people were in line, said Tiffany Price, general sales manager for the company. By noon, participants had picked up all of the flyers and materials Job News had laid out, despite another two hours to go. The lines to enter the banquet room with employers’ booths stretched so far into the hall’s lobby that it was difficult to tell where it began.

Nearby, Cassandra Weston waited to hand her resumé to an accounting firm, hoping her business training would land her a position. The longtime employee for Broward County’s Health Department lost her job in September, and with it the luxury of keeping up her daily routines.

“Right now, I don’t turn on my air conditioner,’’ the 52-year-old said. “I had money to buy gas. I ride my bike now.”

Employed, Weston would visit Fort Lauderdale’s Swap Shop at least three times a week to shop. Now she only goes there Thursday mornings, when vendors at the flea market can set up for free. For $17 on those mornings, Weston says she can purchase all the fruits and vegetables she needs for a week’s worth of fish stews and fresh juices.

“I take care of myself now,’’ she said. “Because I can’t afford to go to the doctor.”

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Pets’ Trust hires big name lobbyist to bite back at Miami-Dade mayor

Grace Davin, back, a vet tech, at Miami-Dade Animal Services, looks after the half-dozen, pups surrendered and found, in only a few hours, Friday morning, September 7, 2012.
Grace Davin, back, a vet tech, at Miami-Dade Animal Services, looks after the half-dozen, pups surrendered and found, in only a few hours, Friday morning, September 7, 2012.

The animal lovers aren’t giving up.

After Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Wednesday nixed the same taxpayer-supported plan to stop killing unwanted animals at the county shelter that he’d supported on Tuesday, Pets’ Trust Miami had hired Ron Book, the Rin Tin Tin of South Florida lobbyists.

He plans to address the County Commission at a budget meeting Tuesday, as Pets’ Trust advocates rally outside Government Center.

Pets’ Trust co-founder Rita Schwartz said Book will fight for the nearly half a million people who voted “yes’’ to a tax increase earmarked for animal care, and to make sure that its proceeds are spent properly.

She said Book will be paid from a political action committee that Pets’ Trust Miami established before the November election.

In a barrage of emails and phone calls to county government office, some angry citizens accused Gimenez of betraying the animals; others of betraying the nearly 500,000 voters who in November approved a nominal property tax increase to improve animal services in a non-binding vote.

That would have raised an estimated $19 million in a year, costing the average property owner $20.

Some animal advocates went directly to the mayor’s Facebook page.

“What nerve to post a picture of the American flag when you just killed democracy... and thousands more homeless dogs and cats in Miami Dade shelters,’’ wrote poster Jennifer Cohen.

On Tuesday, Gimenez said: “We must respect the will of the voters.”

The next day he said he’d “heard from several people’’ who claimed they would not have favored the measure if it had been binding. He ditched the plan but vowed to “find’’ $4.5 million in the budget for animal care, which would limit any tax-rate increase to money for libraries and fire-rescue.

Not enough, said Book.

“Our position is that if we can’t get full implementation, let’s see if there’s a way to compromise, but a quarter of the money? That’s not OK.’’

County spokesman Fernando Figueredo insisted Gimenez is “committed to the spirit of the ballot question,’’ but lacks support from the commission, which recently unanimously accepted a blueprint for spending the $19 million that Animal Services Director Alex Muñoz compiled.

Figueredo said that with the promised $4.5 million, in addition to its $10 million budget, Animal Services can “create programs to expand adoptions and help to get [cats and dogs] off the streets, and also increase spay/neuter, and create programs to save the most at-risk animals by supporting rescue groups.’’

With that, he said, “We can at least being the process of ‘no kill.’ This mayor has been the most supportive of ‘no kill.’ It’s not like he’s backing away, but this year it’s not the right time.’’

Pets’ Trust, which fought to put the question of a possible tax increase on the county ballot and establish a board to oversee grants to rescue groups from the $19 million, had as its cornerstone a massive free and low-cost sterilization campaign to stem pet overpopulation and by extension, Animal Services intakes.

Such surgeries would have been conducted out of existing warehouses or modular structures in poor neighborhoods where residents don’t have access to retail vets, and couldn’t afford them even if they existed. Spay-neuter operations can cost up to $600 in private vet offices.

Muñoz incorporated that idea into his blueprint, but stripped it out after the South Florida Veterinary Medical Association hired its own powerhouse lobbyist, state Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, a former County Commission chairman, to oppose the clinics.

The commission accepted the blueprint, with the skeptical support of Pets’ Trust advocates who doubted that retail vets could or would perform 1,500 extra sterilizations per week, the target number for helping Miami-Dade become a “no kill’’ municipality — a goal that the commission unanimously supported last year.

“No kill’’ means a 90/10 percent “save rate.’’ According to Muñoz, the save rate for dogs has reached 80 percent, 60 percent for cats, which are mostly feral and released to their colonies after being sterilized.

For Pets’ Trust co-founder Michael Rosenberg, the businessman who captained the movement with Schwartz, a furniture-store owner, and marketer Lindsay Gorton, the mayor’s 180-degree turnaround is deeply personal.

Rosenberg, active in Kendall civic affairs, heard about the shelter’s kill rate — often more than 20,000 animals a year — and asked to spend a day in the euthanasia room.

He emerged determined to stop the carnage, and threw himself into the Pets’ Trust cause, even spending a weekend in a shelter dog run — an arrangement that the mayor approved.

Seasoned observers of Miami-Dade politics told Rosenberg he was wasting his time. The commission never had and never would give animal services the money it needed to stop the killing, they told him. And in a recession, no one would vote for a tax increase.

Still, Pets’ Trust built a coalition among animal-welfare and rescue groups that had deep philosophical differences, and with the encouragement of the mayor and supportive commissioners, chiefly Sally Heyman and Jose “Pepe’’ Diaz, hundreds of volunteers pressed ahead.

The nonbinding straw ballot question received a 65 percent “yes” vote.

In a blistering email to Deputy Mayor Alina Hudak after Gimenez’s about-face last week, Rosenberg noted that “9,000 people voted for the average commissioner, 125,000 people voted for Mayor Gimenez, almost 500,000 for the Pets Trust, and these votes meant nothing.’’

The voters “brought to you a solution...so creative that the entire country is looking at it. They call it the ‘Miami Model,’” he wrote. “Then you killed it...You try to hide behind ‘straw and non-binding.’ So sad.’’

Rosenberg said he was hearing from people who voted against the ballot measure not because they didn’t want to help animals, but because “‘we told you the politicians would mess it up...’ The truth is, tens of thousands voted against this because they did not have faith in their leaders. You just proved them correct.’’

The most vocal opponent of a tax increase for animals has been District 13 Commissioner Esteban “Steve” Bovo, who in a statement Friday said he was “pleased that Mayor Carlos Gimenez has dropped his request to raise a portion of the millage rate to fund the animal care initiative.’’

He said he plans to “present a resolution to create a mechanism for private fund raising and voluntary donations that has county oversight and accountability to ensure money is properly spent for animal welfare.”

Rosenberg scoffed that Bovo — whom he invites to the euthanasia room in every email — “believes that we can put jars in stores to collect donations to solve the problem.”

The Pets Trust contends its plan would ultimately save taxpayer money. Neutering or spaying would cost a fraction of the hundreds of dollars it costs to keep an animal at the shelter for the mandatory period before it is euthanized.

On the straw ballot, Bovo said, “unfortunately the voters were given only one choice to make: raise taxes to provide for animal welfare or let the pets die. As an owner of two Golden Retrievers, I am committed to working to achieve the goal set out by the Straw Ballot Question. However, using a millage increase to fund enhanced animal services sets a very dangerous precedent and invites philanthropic organizations to pursue future non-binding straw polls as a vehicle for funding.’’

District 4’s Sally Heyman, who chairs the commission’s Public Safety and Animal Services Committee, is livid. She, too, thought Gimenez was onboard.

“This has been a work in progress for two years,’’ she fumed. “What’s significant about this is that we went to the people,’’ who have demonstrated over and over, with causes like the Children’s Trust, the Homeless Trust and public education, that they’ll tax themselves for the common good.

“People who will never go to Jackson Memorial Hospital pay for it because they know the value of it for the poor people who need the safety net,’’ she said, and that’s how they felt about animals.

She noted that the kill-to-save rate has dropped significantly at the shelter since it became its own department in 2005, but the “no kill’’ objective needed the $19 million boost, which would have come up for review every budget year.

“If we have the ability to get in front of [overpopulation], it will be a cost saving,’’ Heyman said.

She angrily noted that the same commissioners who voted for the blueprint then persuaded Gimenez not to fund it because they oppose tax increases represent neighborhoods that would have benefitted most from free sterilizations clinics.

She urged those who got active for the first time with Pets’ Trust not to lose faith in their government.

Too late for Lissa Terese Sclichter of Homestead, who said in an email to Gimenez: “We voted to raise our taxes to prevent this from happening. Now PLEASE, raise our taxes! Implement the Pets’ Trust! We don’t care if you raise our taxes for the firefighters and other things, too, but please help us stop this’’ — she included a photo of a dog killed in the road — “from being our daily South Dade County street scene!’’

Schlichter, 53, a skincare specialist, said she registered for the first time so she could vote for the ballot question. What happened confirmed her long-held suspicions.

“Voting never makes a difference,’’ she said.

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ROBERTSPORT, May 7 (LINA) -The Coordinator of School Grants at the Ministry of Education, Emmanuel Diabolo, has warned that any local Education Officer or Principal who misapplies school grants will face the full weight of the law.

He said the grant is intended to enable administrations of schools undertake meaningful projects that will improve the learning processes at institutions.

Diabolo gave the warning Tuesday in Robertsport during remarks he made at the end of a three -day Orientation Workshop for County Education Officers, District Education Officers and professional staff on school grant guidelines, according to the Liberia News Agency.

According to Diabolo, the workshop was intended to educate CEOs, DEOs, and principals on how to utilize school grants in order to avoid corrupt ion and other malpractices.

He said because of the school grants, no school administrator is allowed to collect feeding and other fees from students in the primary, elementary and junior high divisions.

The coordinator also said the grants provide an opportunity for school administrators to carry out renovation projects at their institutions.

He said as decentralization of education is gaining momentum in the country, the Ministry of Education has transitioned to disbursing grants to schools.


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SINCE his missed penalty was West Ham's final contribution to an FA Cup Final that was one for the ages, let's start with Anton Ferdinand.

SINCE his missed penalty was West Ham's final contribution to an FA Cup Final that was one for the ages, let's start with Anton Ferdinand.

Anton Ferdinand, who booted the ball away in disgust when Pepe Reina saved it and then sank to his knees in despair in front of his own fans.

A man who epitomised the tenacity and the brilliance of West Ham on Saturday, a defender who made one superb intervention after another to deny Liverpool.

A player who thwarted Fernando Morientes with a last-ditch tackle late in the game when so many of his team-mates had already succumbed to fatigue.

And more than all that, a player who has fought to emerge from the shadow of a lavishly gifted elder brother.

On Saturday, he achieved that. On Saturday, he was not a loser.

Then there was Yossi Benayoun. How good was he in the 125th Final? One dummy he sold Xabi Alonso will live long in the memory.

He held everything together in midfield. He ran the game for West Ham. In his own way, he was a match for the superhuman Steven Gerrard.

On Saturday, he was not a loser. And how about Lionel Scaloni. I heard West Ham fans groan when they saw his name on the teamsheet. But he was an inspiration.

His run for the first goal was beautifully timed, his cross so venomous and well placed that Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher tripped over it and diverted it into his own net.

Later in the first half, Scaloni produced a cruncher of a tackle on Gerrard. He was a constant danger on the overlap. On Saturday, he played better than I've seen him play before. He was not a loser.

Paul Konchesky was a dynamo at left-back. And he came within a couple of minutes of winning the Final for his club.

His goal may have been meant as a cross but he deserved that moment. After an early foul on Gerrard, he didn't put a foot wrong.

He is a player who has grown up very, very quickly since he left Charlton.

He was not a loser at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday.

Dean Ashton played like a striker who should have been in Sven Goran Eriksson's World Cup squad.

Even though he wasn't fully fit, he was the best striker on the pitch. His pass to release Scaloni for the first goal was sublime.

He was intuitive enough and brave enough to suggest he can become as influential a player as Teddy Sheringham once was. Ashton was not a loser on Saturday.

Matthew Etherington was carrying an injury, too, but you would not have known it. He was a constant threat on the left.

He eluded three Liverpool defenders to set up the second West Ham goal for Ashton. He's unlucky not to be going to Germany, too. He was not a loser on Saturday.

On a day when many men ran themselves into the ground, Nigel Reo-Coker ran further and worked harder than any of them. He was absolutely magnificent in the heart of Alan Pardew's team.

No wonder he's club captain at 21. He's a player and a man to be admired. He was not a loser on Saturday.

Then there was Marlon Harewood, heroic in his attempt to defy the pain from a foot injury that hobbled him in extra-time.

He was a hell of a handful on Saturday afternoon. He made Carragher look uncomfortable. It takes a world-class centre-forward to do that these days.

There was no shame for him in missing a late, late chance, slicing it wide with his left foot. It was a wonder he was still standing. He was not a loser on Saturday.

Danny Gabbidon was cool and meticulous at the back. He was defiant to the end. He was not a loser. Carl Fletcher did his utmost to contain Gerrard, Teddy Sheringham scored his penalty in the shoot-out and did all he could to rally the troops for one last effort.

As for Shaka Hislop, there was nothing any goalkeeper could have done to stop any of the three goals that whistled past him. None of them were losers on Saturday.

There are two final citations, too. Roy Carroll, the goalkeeper who missed out through injury, raced on to the pitch in his suit and dragged Ferdinand to his feet.

It was an act of compassion and camaraderie that said everything about the spirit Pardew has built at Upton Park.

And last of all, there was Pardew himself. The West Ham boss must have been bitterly disappointed but he hid it beautifully.

He did not cast around for people to blame.

He did not criticise the referee or attack any of the Liverpool players.

He just said it had been a great Final and that he was proud of his team for the part they had played in it.

His dignity in that moment and the heroic performance he had brought from his team suggested he is a manager destined for big things.

I hope none of them, manager or players, discard their losers' medals from the 125th FA Cup Final.

On this occasion, those shining pieces of metal were not mementoes of failure but tributes to the spirit of men who reminded us of something we thought we had lost.

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24 Carra gold: Why Liverpool youngsters only need watch Jamie Carragher to avoid Rodgers' envelopes

The Reds veteran is a warrior from another age but can still teach today's young prima donnas a thing or two

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Watch and learn: Carragher sets the standards for Liverpool's kids

Eyebrows were raised at Brendan Rodgers’ decision to slaughter the youngsters who surrendered so meekly to Oldham last Sunday.

Not least because he bore a lot of the blame for picking them.

But any player who didn’t grasp what he meant about them lacking the “responsibility, intensity and hunger” to do “the dirty work” needed only to watch the 35-year-old defender drafted into Wednesday’s side against Arsenal to get it.

From his first-second scream to his injury-time tackles, Jamie Carragher was immense, putting in one of those inspirational, body-hurling, tactically astute performances that made him, at his peak, one of the best defenders in Europe.

He’s been picked 722 times for his club because he’s never once taken his fitness, his first-team place, or his opponents for granted.

The next time any of Rodgers’ players go through the motions, he doesn’t need to give them a public tongue-lashing, just a video of Carragher’s performance at the Emirates.

Before handing them one of his famous envelopes bearing the words: “Copy or leave.”

Love old school Baines replacing prat king Cole

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Point made: Baines' modest goal celebration sums him up

There is much to admire about Leighton Baines.

The Everton full-back’s speed, skill, shooting power, old-school attitude to getting kicked and old-school sideburns. But it’s his total lack of flash, epitomised in his goalscoring celebration that I like best.

No look-at-me histrionics, break-dancing or corner-flag punching.

Just a point at the crowd to recognise their applause and a thank-you to the team-mate who set him up. Baines is modesty personified.

Which makes it even more enjoyable that one day soon he will take the England No.3 shirt off Ashley Cole.

Becks still puts on a beret good show

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Hold the back page: Beckham's knack for making headlines hasn't faded

I am with those who believe David Beckham has lost none of his genius despite his advanced years.

Just as for his last 40 England caps his main contribution was climbing on the back of the goalscorer to make the following day’s back pages, so his late run into the transfer window managed to grab all the headlines from the real business that was being done: men signing to play football, not expand their brand into France and the Middle East.

And that salary gesture was as brilliant a marketing masterstroke as the beret and string-of-onions combo he will soon be turning into a fashion must-have.

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