#[dont be ruude boi

[masonjarsmoments]

This was Casper during training on Wednesday - the signs have been there

[heylinhenchman]

Phosa told him to rest, but, look. This is important.

Linast sidles up to Jack, making sure to walk audibly this time even as he keeps an eye on his sibling to make sure that she's distracted. "Hi! Ah -- you can tell me to leave if you wanted to be alone, but. I really like your butterfly and earring."

(Linast, from Eath's spring ball!)

It surprised him that someone actually would approach him, but he guessed he wasn't dressed as defensive as his usual attire. Brow furrowing, the genius gently touched his dangling earring and gave a cautious smile, " Thanks. I made them myself. I uh, your outfits are cool. It definitely got one of my votes. " He can't help but stare a bit, now that they were up close.

[fuel-to-your-pyre]

In celebration of the new update, here is my MC for @collegetennisoriginstory , Avery Linden <3 he's my sunshine child and I love him, I would sell my soul for him, he would be really sad about it though

He's a bubbly cheerful person who likes to make friends everywhere he goes and is a great hugger. Hope Rayyan isn't allergic to hugs and kisses cus hes getting all of it :)

On court, he can be as bubbly but also very calm and calculating. His tactical awareness is his greatest strength. The ability to perform really tricky angled shots helps him execute carefully built up strategy to really render his opponents helpless. When it's all over, it's like a switch is flipped and he's back to his cheerful sunshine self: giving his opponents a big smile and a warm hug.

[bspolink1348]

Nouveautés de la semaine (07/10/19)

À la une : Capital et idéologie / Thomas Piketty

Cote de rangement : HM 821 P 258378 / Domaine : Economie

« Toutes les sociétés humaines ont besoin de justifier leurs inégalités : il faut leur trouver des raisons, faute de quoi c’est l’ensemble de l’édifice politique et social qui menace de s’effondrer. Les idéologies du passé, si on les étudie de près, ne sont à cet égard pas toujours plus folles que celles du présent. C’est en montrant la multiplicité des trajectoires et des bifurcations possibles que l’on peut interroger les fondements de nos propres institutions et envisager les conditions de leur transformation.

À partir de données comparatives d’une ampleur et d’une profondeur inédites, ce livre retrace dans une perspective tout à la fois économique, sociale, intellectuelle et politique l’histoire et le devenir des régimes inégalitaires, depuis les sociétés trifonctionnelles et esclavagistes anciennes jusqu’aux sociétés postcoloniales et hypercapitalistes modernes, en passant par les sociétés propriétaristes, coloniales, communistes et sociales-démocrates. À l’encontre du récit hyperinégalitaire qui s’est imposé depuis les années 1980-1990, il montre que c’est le combat pour l’égalité et l’éducation, et non pas la sacralisation de la propriété, qui a permis le développement économique et le progrès humain.

En s’appuyant sur les leçons de l’histoire globale, il est possible de rompre avec le fatalisme qui nourrit les dérives identitaires actuelles et d’imaginer un socialisme participatif pour le XXIe siècle : un nouvel horizon égalitaire à visée universelle, une nouvelle idéologie de l’égalité, de la propriété sociale, de l’éducation et du partage des savoirs et des pouvoirs.

Directeur d’études à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales et professeur à l’École d’économie de Paris, Thomas Piketty est l’auteur du Capital au XXIe siècle (2013), traduit en 40 langues et vendu à plus de 2,5 millions d’exemplaires, dont le présent livre est le prolongement. » - Quatrième de couverture

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Gestion

Tectonic politics : global political risk in an age of transformation / Nigel Gould-Davies

Cote de rangement : HD 61 G 258373

The struggle over borders : cosmopolitanism and communitarianism / edited by Pieter de Wilde, Ruud Koopmans, Wolfgang Merkel, e.a.

Cote de rangement : JZ 1318 S 258371

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Économie

Valeur, temps et capital : une théorie de l'économie évolutive / Pascal Blanqué

Cote de rangement : HB 206 B 258383

Crashed : comment une décennie de crise financière a changé le monde / Adam Tooze

Cote de rangement : HB 3717 .2008 T 258374

La vérité du numérique : recherche et enseignement supérieur à l'ère des technologies numériques / sous la direction de Bernard Stiegler

Cote de rangement : HC 79 .I55 V 258366

Game sutra : rescuing game theory from the game theorists / Rohit Prasad

Cote de rangement : QA 269 P 258372

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Sciences du travail

Digital social work : tools for practice with individuals, organizations, and communities / edited by Lauri Goldkind, Lea Wolf, and Paul P. Freddolino

Cote de rangement : HV 11 D 258370

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Sciences politiques

Histoire de la Belgique contemporaine : société et institutions / Philippe Destatte

Cote de rangement : DH 521 D 258369

Generation left / Keir Milburn

Cote de rangement : JA 83 M 258365

L'Union européenne en trajectoire perturbée : chroniques d'espoir / Panayotis Soldatos

Cote de rangement : JN 30 S 258382

Expulser les sans-papiers d'Europe : états répressifs et nécessité du maintien en démocratie / Ange Bergson Lendja Ngnemzué

Cote de rangement : KJE 6050 L 258380

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Cinéma

L'espace au cinéma / André Gardies

Cote de rangement : PN 1995 G 258376

Le cinéma de Michael Cimino : l'Amérique, un rêve évanoui / Cédric Donnat

Cote de rangement : PN 1998 .3 D 258368

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Communication

Les langues de bois contemporaines : entre la novlangue totalitaire et le discours "détabouisé" du néo-populisme / Wojciech Prażuch

Cote de rangement : P 119 .3 P 258367

Datavisualisation : utilisez le storytelling pour faire parler vos données / Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Cote de rangement : QA 76 .9.I52 K 258377

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Sociologie

La question des échelles en sciences humaines et sociales / sous la direction de Sébastien Boulay, Sylvie Fanchette

Cote de rangement : H 61 .27 Q 258384

Relational inequalities : an organizational approach / Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Dustin Avent-Holt

Cote de rangement : HM 821 T 258364

La matérialité à l'ère digitale : l'humain connecté à la matière / Christine Browaeys

Cote de rangement : HM 846 B 258381

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Alimentation

Meat planet : artificial flesh and the future of food / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Cote de rangement : TP 447 W 258375

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Éducation

Standing for reason : the university in a dogmatic age / John Sexton

Cote de rangement : LB 41 S 258379

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Droit

Toxiques légaux : comment les firmes chimiques ont mis la main sur le contrôle de leurs produits / Henri Boullier

Cote de rangement : KJE 6011 B 258385

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Tous ces ouvrages sont exposés sur le présentoir des nouveautés de la BSPO. Ceux-ci pourront être empruntés à domicile à partir du 21 octobre 2019.

[toldnews-blog]

New Post has been published on https://toldnews.com/sports/ajaxs-500-million-football-factory/

Ajax's $500 million football factory

Johan Cruyff, Ruud Krol, Arie Haan and Jonny Repp helped win three European Cups in the 1970s. Marco Van Basten and Frank Rijkaard starred in the eighties before making way for Patrick Kluivert, Edgar Davids and Clarence Seedorf in the nineties.

As well as being some of the most storied names in world football, all were graduates of the Ajax academy — an institution long-famed for its prolific player output and pursuit of technical perfection.

The Amsterdam-based club continues to churn out some of the most exciting talents in world football today.

Frenkie De Jong, Matthijs de Ligt and Justin Kluivert are among the most recent to roll off its well-tuned production line.

In the past, this trio would have formed the backbone of the next great Ajax side.

But maintaining talent has become an increasing challenge with the Dutch league unable to compete with the riches swirling around competitions in England, Spain, Germany, France and Italy.

Nineteen-year-old Kluivert moved to Roma for 17.25 million euros ($19.54million) in 2018 while De Jong, 21, will join Barcelona later this year for $85 million. A host of Europe’s top clubs are also likely to battle it out for De Ligt, also 19, in the summer.

While players have always moved on from Ajax, Blind acknowledges that the club’s most prized assets seem to leave far earlier than in generations gone by.

There is “the risk that they go in two, three or four years” after being brought through from the academy, says Blind, whose son Daley was a product of the club’s academy.

“That’s very difficult because all the time you have to rebuild the team,” he adds.

Adapting the model

Blind captained an Ajax side that reached back-to-back Champions League finals in the mid-1990s, triumphing in 1995 and finishing runners up in 1996.

That team stuck together for a number of years and included a plethora of academy talent alongside established players like Blind and the Finland international Jari Litmanen.

In the 1970s, Ajax won three consecutive European Cups (the competition that preceded the Champions League) with the likes of Cruyff, Haan and Johan Neeskens in its ranks.

Cruyff, the poster boy for Dutch soccer and its philosophy of “Total Football,” left for Barcelona in 1973, aged 27. But he did so having won 17 trophies in eight years as a first team player at Ajax.

Few of Ajax’s top talents hang around that long now. And for Ajax CEO and former goalkeeper, Edwin van der Sar, the changing reality has forced the club to adapt.

These days, Ajax offers an elite finishing school for young footballers as well as a pathway to first team football for the most talented. Those who excel can likely expect to be sold for the right price with the next crop of talented young players progressing to replace those who leave.

Other clubs of similar stature and pedigree across Europe — such as Benfica, Porto, Celtic and Anderlecht — have adopted similar models. What they lack in commercial or broadcasting riches they look to close the gap in player sales.

Analysis of UEFA figures by 21st Club, a football insight firm, shows that the percentage of club revenues from transfer proceeds increased from 26% in 2014 to 38% in 2017.

But few have mastered this model as well as Ajax, in large part thanks to the performance of its academy.

“We don’t have the legends, we create them” says Van der Sar, who admits he expects to lose at least two to three players every year.

The main thing for those coming through the system is to “give something back to Ajax” while they are there, he continues. “Win a trophy, make the support proud and of course we know the next step will be to a big club.”

Playing smart

Ajax has chalked-up $566 million transfer fees since the 2000-01 season, according to data on the TransferMarkt website, although not all of those sales related to youth academy products.

Ajax has also looked to capitalize on its reputation for bringing through the very best young players.

In November 2017, Van der Sar travelled to China to announce a five-year partnership with Guangzhou R&F to develop what a club press release at the time called the “best youth academy in China.”

Ajax also opened an office in New York last year which it said would enable it to “positively influence the future of soccer” in the US as well as “connect companies and clubs in the US to the Ajax brand.”

Van der Sar says he would love to have access to the riches available to clubs in other leagues.

But Ajax has had to be more creative in how it operates. The ultimate aim is find advantages the club can exploit to compete with richer rivals — something it has managed to do in recent years.

Ajax qualified for the last-16 of the Champions League for the first time in 13-years this season. In 2017, meanwhile, it reached the final of the Europa League, Europe’s secondary club competition, where it lost to Manchester United.

“I want to bring Ajax back on the world podium and deliver players for ourselves — to win trophies but also to (provide) the next step for (the players),” Van der Sar says.

“Hopefully, as many Ajax players or ex-Ajax players are going to win the Champions League,” he adds. “I’d rather have it with our club. But then if not with a respective big club in other countries,” he adds.

In the shadow of Cruyff

For the likes of former Ajax team manager, David Endt, replicating the qualities that make the Ajax Academy unique is not simple.*

Endt was a product of the academy himself, although he never made a first team appearance. He cites good coaches, the culture of the club and the city that hosts it as vital factors in its success.*

“Many of the trainers come from Amsterdam,” Endt says, where there is an attitude to “be courageous”and go “out and play with conviction.” Others are former players who know what it takes to make it at the club, he adds.

Ajax christened its “School for the Future” in 2015 that allows young players to receive a customized education at a facility on the club’s training ground.

It aims to ensure that those who don’t make it at least have qualifications to fall back on. But it also seeks to produce intelligent students that can understand the way Ajax plays.

The philosophy of the great Cruyff and his preferred 4-3-3 formation with technically adept and intelligent players continues to define much of what Ajax does.

Endt believes what set Cruyff apart from many of his contemporaries as a player was his “out of the box thinking” that gave him the edge on physically stronger or quicker opponents.

And he sees something similar at play in the way Ajax has developed its business.

As a fan, it can be frustrating to see promising talents sold to richer clubs, he admits.

Then again, he’ adds, you have to find a way “to outwit” those who may be bigger and stronger.

[masonjarsmoments]

New on Caspers list of things to do instead of preparing for grass season - trying to get into the euros and being confused

Translation: They just said on NRK that England is already leader of the group... is that right? If Slovenia and Denmark win tonight's games, won't they pass England then?

[masonjarsmoments]

Top 5 tennis players

Top 5 animals

Top 5 memories

Top 5 Tennis Players:

There are some new faces on this list but they just robbed my hart in storm

1. Casper Ruud - home boy (when I got into Tennis for the first time in 2017/18 I scrolled down in the rankings until I found the first Norwegian and said you are coming home with me when I found Casper somewhere in the 140s and he was my favourite ever since) only player I've seen playing live and talked to so far

2. Andrea Petković - home girl and I don't care that she isn't active anymore because for me she is Tennis and the main reason I fell in love with this sport - she is an icon, one of the prettiest women I've ever seen and her way with words is everything. I love her both want to be her and be with her

3. Daniil Medvedev - definitely wouldn't have thought that when I first started watching tennis because I was a Stefanos girl back then and kinda disliked Daniil ?? Crazy I know. I love how different he is in so many ways his tennis persona is so unique smart and extraordinary and then he is just a nerdy dude that might look a but boring sometimes off court the perfect mix.

4. Aryna Sabalenka- I just want her to give me hug with her strong arms, smile at me and tell me that everything will be fine.

5. Andrey Rublev - I just want to hug him with my not strong arms smile at him and tell him that everything will be fine. He is sunshine and rain in one and even though I am a rainy day autumn girly myself for him i hope there's more sunshine than rain.

Top 5 animals:

1. Elephants - my first stuffy that i had and still cuddle today is an Elephant called Elefanti

2. Cats - I grew up with cats and they are just the best - really don't trust people who dont like cats

3. Kuhs (cows) - its a group chat thing but they are also just cute

4. Sheep/lambs - kinda random but look st them ?? Also I spend so much time at the north see there's no way around them (literally we were in the middle of a horde once and had to wait for an hour )

5. Penguins - just loyal and there was this gay penguin couple in our zoo and they were everything to me

Top 5 Memories (this was such a hard one)

1. My first ballet production I've danced in when I was 8 years old - it was just amazing (besides the costume I was a shellfish and was wearing a weird thing on my head) mostly because of the time that we spend together before and after our part (I was on stage for a total of 10 min) because we just were in one of the classrooms watching barbie movies and playing sing star.

2. First time I went to Lillehammer and saw Lysgårdsbakkene Hoppanlegg because she is beauty she is grace and Lily is home. Also every other time i went there especially Raw Air 2020 with my wonderful friends, Pero winning, Stephan podium, a wild Fannis that nearly killed us with his stares, inside jokes it was just a great time.

3. All the group chat road trips because I can't choose but here are some highlights: Ruhpolding, the cheesecake in Berchtesgaden, playing UNO in the car while waiting for the rain to stop, Picknicks in the sunset, cross country skiing, our raod trip Playlists, Ireland, watching les mis together in London from the first row.

4. Our school trip to Poland in 10th grade it was a tough one because it was all about remembering the Holocaust and we had to prepare presentations and there was a survivor who told us their story and we spent a whole week in Oświęcim working on a project and spend a lot of time in both camps for research. We learnt so much and it shaped us all it was a really impressive time and i am still so grateful that we got the chance to do this.

5. Spending time with my Aupair friends in Norway especially all the Sunday afternoons in espresso house, Kristiansand in winter (not to recommend but we made the best out of it) skiing together, our the voice evenings, evenings at the German Church, tacco kveld, 17.Mai and so on