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Jak zapewne zauważacie, “Piłka pod lupą” nie zawsze komentuje bieżące wydarzenia, tylko czasami stara się zauważać rzeczy mniej zauważalne przez media. Tym razem jednak pozwolę sobie dać mały upust swoim przemyśleniom z ostatniego czasu.  Do tego za oknem ciemno i deszcz leje, więc raczej nie będzie optymistycznie …

Najpierw coś na temat ekstraklasy (kurcze, już naprawdę nie chce mi ta nazwa przejść przez gardło) – mieliśmy niedawno hit hitów. Grała Wisła z Legią. Cały kraj zwrócił swe oczy na Krak…., tzn. na Sosnowiec… Tak, tak. To właśnie Sosnowiec jest od kilku miesięcy stolicą polskiej piłki. Grają tu aż dwa zespoły, w tym mistrz kraju. A więc przy ogromnym zainteresowaniu kibiców (całe 5.000 przyszło na Estadio Ludowy) odbył się ten mecz. Na trybunach z wypiekami na twarzy usiedli wysłannicy Juventusu i Liverpoolu. W każdym razie dziennikarze “Przeglądu Sportowego” każdego nie-polsko wyglądającego faceta policzyli jako wysłannika Juventusu albo Liverpoolu i uznali, że przyjechali oni kupić Pawła Brożka za 5, …a co tam, za 7 milionów euro. Widowisko było podobno takie, że aż bolały zęby. W Niemczech pewnie lepiej wyglądają mecze na szczycie Oberligi Północnej Nadrenii – Westfalii. Myślę, że nawet mecz Zimbru Kiszyniów-FC Tiraspol w Mołdawii przyciąga więcej kibiców i daje więcej wrażeń.

Ktoś może powiedzieć, że stadiony najważniejszych klubów przechodzą teraz remonty. OK, ale czy to ma znaczyć, że mecze między Lechem, Legią i Wisłą ma oglądać po 5-7.000 widzów???

Przyszedł czas na kadrę. Media oczywiście skwapliwie podchwyciły wypowiedź Smudy, że on jest w stanie zmienić kadrę w 3 dni (brawo Franz, brawo…). Więc naród znów wlepił oczy w telewizor. I co zobaczył? Starą biedę rozegraną na piachu w stolicy 38-milionowego kraju Unii Europejskiej przed garstką kibiców… Zdzisław Kręcina pytał: “A co? Może mieliśmy zagrać na Odrze Wodzisław”?? Może na Odrze Wodzisław nie, ale proponowałbym wynająć jakiś 20-tysięczny stadion w Londynie (tyle Polaków co w Poznaniu) albo może w Cottbus (bo jest blisko granicy). Ludzi pewnie mniej by nie było, a przynajmniej możnaby normalnie pograć.

Teraz przyszedł czas na mecz w Bydgoszczy, która obok Sosnowca jest teraz drugą stolicą polskiej piłki. Prezes Kujawsko-Pomorskiego ZPN niewątpliwie powinien dostać za swoją operatywność nagrodę “działacza roku” (już drugi mecz kadry w tym mieście, w którym ekstraklasa była ostatnio jakieś 15 lat temu).

Franz, czy ten tekst z odmianą kadry w 3 dni jest jeszcze aktualny…?

Michał Gniatkowski

After squeezing about 50 hours of training into 15 months, I am finally and officially a pilot!  On Monday, November 9, 2009 I took and passed my checkride.  The checkride is an oral and practical exam given by a designated examiner.  I started the oral exam at 9:45 and ended at about 2:15.  The practical (flying the airplane) exam lasted an hour and ten minutes.  Just after 3:30 I was getting my logbook stamped with all the official stamps and signatures!  I flew home and took my wife up for a quick spin around the pattern.

Now I’m waiting for some time and good weather to fly again.

I visited my local Barnes & Noble this weekend.  Honestly, I need more books like my girls need more stuffed animals… NO!

I am learning to say no to frivolous spending, but then I saw it. A new book from Robert Jordan.  This is quite a feat because Mr. Jordan died a few years ago.

When he died, I was on his 10th book of his ‘Wheel of Time’ series, I decided to set them aside… and in my mourning I purchased the last one without ever reading it.

Another dude co-authored it. Probably a fantasy lover and ‘Wheel of Time’ series nerd like me. So anyway, I am excited, but I am definitely reading them again from the beginning.

I love his stories, but there are just too many characters to keep track of in my opinion. A dude that was just a cardboard character in the first few books, just referred to in conversation by the 3 main characters turns out to be more of a secondary if not primary character later on.  That drives me nuts. Yeah, i know, I’m just jealous.

So, that got me thinking. What do I have left to do before I die?  I’m sure Robert Jordan wanted to complete his series before he kicked the proverbial bucket, but he never got to. How sad.

I used to have a big list that I would stress out about, but I gave that list over to the Lord. Now, I have asked Him to guide me in what is really important.  People are more important than any personal expression of creativity.

I still have the burden to write and draw, I now have a peace in terms of time. I’m not here to build my kingdom, but His.

“Shut the Door”

November 8th, 2009

“I’m not going…I’m just living elsewhere.”

Every episode of television is a collection of scenes, individual set pieces designed to present a particular moment or to evoke a particular emotion or feeling. The scenes serve one of many potential purposes, whether it’s establishing a standalone plot within a particular episode, calling back to a previous scene or event in another episode, or even simply being placed for the sake of foreshadowing. A scene can change meaning as a season progresses, an awkward encounter with an overly touchy politico turning into a legitimate affair by the addition of new scenes that speak to the old one, for example. And, at the same time, other scenes are simply brief thematic beats designed to give the viewer the sense of a particular time or place, with nothing more beneath them than the aesthetic value apparent in the craftsmanship involved.

A great episode of television, however, is where every single scene feels purposeful, and more importantly where there is no one type of scene which feels dominant. There can still be scenes designed to engage with nothing more than the viewer’s sense of humour, just as there will be scenes that feel like the culmination of two and a half seasons worth of interactions. In these episodes there is a balance between scenes which unearth feelings and emotions from the past that have been kept under wraps all season and scenes which create almost out of thin air entirely new scenarios that promise of an uncertain future.

In a season finale in particular, this last point is imperative. A great season finale assures the reader that, as the quote above indicates, the change which is going to take place in the season to follow is both fundamental (in presenting something which surprises or engages) and incidental (in maintaining the series’ identity), both chaotic (in the context of the series’ fictional universe) and controlled (within the mind of the show’s writers). It is an episode that must feel like the fruit of the thirty-five episodes which preceded it while also serving as the tree for the twenty-six episodes which will follow. It is the episode that, for better or for worse, will be more closely scrutinized than any other, and for which expectations are exceedingly high.

“Shut the Door. Have a Seat.” is more than a collection of scenes. It transcends the concepts of script and screen to capture characters in their most vulnerable states, in the process tapping into the viewer’s emotions with a sense of purpose that the show has never quite seen. Where past amazing episodes have sometimes hinged upon a single scene or a single moment, or on the creation of a particular atmosphere, this finale is like a never-ending stream of scenes that we have been clambering for all season: characters say everything we wanted them to say, do everything we wanted them to do, and yet somehow it never felt like puppet theatre where the characters would follow the whims of Matthew Weiner more than their own motivations.

It is a finale that never wastes a single scene, and which marches towards an uncertain conclusion with utmost certainty. Somehow, in a finale which does not shy away from scenes which are both disturbing to watch and destructive to the show’s tempestuous sense of balance, it maintains a cautious optimism by demonstrating that not everything will fall apart at once, while retaining the right to have everything in shambles by the time we return with Season Four. It’s a singular achievement, an hour of television which sits perfectly in the gap between the past and the future while never feeling as if it takes us out of the present, the moment in which these characters are captured in these scenes.

So, shut the door and have a seat: we’ve got some discussing to do.

There’s so much going on in this episode that to boil it down to a single image seems false, but I’m going to follow the episode’s lead on this one. In this, the show’s third season finale, two families are fundamentally changed: the Draper family becomes the sort which has two Christmases, and Sterling Cooper becomes the sort who wakes up and discovers that their parents and some of their siblings have left them behind to fend for themselves. At the heart of both families, as the finale crystallized but has been clear of all season, is the fact that neither of them was secure to begin with. For all that we are meant to care for the Draper family and hope they stay together (as we, like the State of New York, don’t want divorce), and for all the ways we enjoy the dynamics of Sterling Cooper, from the beginning of the season they have been shells of their former selves simply waiting for their expiration date.

I think, to some degree, this explains why the season as a whole felt off in certain ways. Last week, especially, felt less dramatic than it should have: JFK’s death destroyed the fabric of a nation, and yet somehow its impact on the Draper family didn’t feel organic, didn’t feel real. The reason isn’t that the episode was a failure, but rather that it had been broken long before that moment, and Betty’s decision is more a delayed reaction than a sudden realization. The season has used a baby and the truth about Dick Whitman to patch up a relationship that was perhaps shattered the moment Betty slept with Captain Awesome, or perhaps even back when Don first began keeping a mistress. In fact, it is entirely possible that the marriage only exists in a hotel room in Rome where the original infatuation still lingers, and where Don’s idea of the marriage is something more than providing all that Betty ever wanted while retaining the right to satisfy his own needs outside of the marriage.

When Don and Roger are leaving Sterling Cooper for the final time, and Roger asks when they’ll ever work in an office like this again, Don points out that he never expected he would ever work in an office like this one. It’s one of the moments where the parallel between his two families becomes apparent, as the Dick Whitman we saw witness his father’s death by frightened horse is not the Don Draper who stands beside Roger saying goodbye to Sterling Cooper. He bought into the lifestyle of being an Ad Man, and the lifestyle of being a Husband/Father, because he was doing what society expected, and what allowed him to continue living a lie. And yet, as the episode quite clearly points out, his limitation has always been his ability to deal with people: Roger argues that Don doesn’t value relationships, and that this is why he isn’t an Accounts man by any stretch of the imagination.

This, ultimately, was the point of the Conrad Hilton experiment. The season’s largest flaw, in my book, is the out-and-out replacement of Connie Hilton with Miss Farrell, Don’s latest mistress. There is something fascinating in the Hilton relationship, especially the idea of Don being placed into the same category as a self-made billionaire and being pulled under his wing. When that story effectively died and became an excuse for Don to be spending time away from home, it seemed as if an important part of Don’s journey this season died with it. Don has always been stuck in the past, but what Hilton offered was a future. Even after they part ways on less than amicable terms, Hilton having dropped the news about the sale of PPL and Don having questioned Hilton’s manipulative treatment, Connie notes that some other time they might try again. This implies that at some point in time things might be different, and that Don might perhaps some day be ready for something beyond his current station. It’s an impulse that has Don trying to control his future as opposed to suppressing his past, the exact opposite of his affairs (which are about evading the present).

You could argue that Don throws himself into his plan to leave Sterling Cooper behind because he has no other family to go home to, sleeping in Gene’s room with a broken alarm clock and being told that he needs a divorce attorney. And there’s evidence of this in how he starts the project off with the sense that he has something to prove, and with an assurance that he isn’t just doing this because he doesn’t want to go to McCann Erickson. It’s important to make the distinction, however, that Don is not evading Betty and the kids, and the episode doesn’t seek to so either. Even as the project ramps up and things go from harebrained scheme to actual reality, the episode does not present it as an escape for Don. In fact, far from an escape, in many ways his departure from Sterling Cooper only heightens his emotional response to Betty’s decision. Don initially responds to Betty as if she were crazy, even suggesting that she repeat the first season’s trip to the doctor’s office, but his passive approach disappears to the point where he allows his emotions to burst to the surface.

And when they do, the episode becomes all about the juxtaposition of the electrifying feeling of building something new and the horrifying glimpse into something falling apart. When Don discovers that Betty is not simply responding to his own infidelities, but has in fact committed her own of sorts with Henry Francis, he becomes unhinged. Yes, he was drinking, but the scene was nonetheless the most lucid perhaps we’ve seen Don within this marriage in quite some time. He’s spent so much time keeping his own secrets that he never quite bothered to ask whether Betty had any of her own, and seeing him wrench her from the bed (as if pull away the covers to discover the truth) so violently was painful. And then we have the tragedy of the next morning, as Don and Betty sit and tell their children that there will be two Christmases. Bobby was right: the living room is never good news, and unfortunately Sally is more acutely aware of what this particular news means. She knows that Don isn’t just leaving but rather being told to leave, and while Bobby mourns the loss of a father Sally mourns the loss of a family (which isn’t new for Sally, who had to deal with both Gene’s death and baby Gene’s disruption of the existing family unit). And we, as the audience, are left giddy with excitement over the potential of Sterling Cooper Draper Price while nearly in tears over the dissolution of our central family.

There are an absolutely ludicrous number of amazing scenes with Don in this episode, to the point where I will be absolutely shocked if this episode doesn’t win Jon Hamm an Emmy. However, what makes the episode so stunning is how we can see the changes in Don within those individual scenes. When he first calls Peggy into his office, his worth has been placed under the microscope and he has something to prove, which leads to his arrogant presumption that Peggy will simply follow him like a poodle. In that scene, Peggy says everything we’ve wanted her to say, standing up for herself and her worth while challenging Don’s assumption that she is an extension of him more than an individual person. Peggy’s character has always been one for brooding, for having to deal with things in her own way (like going to Duck as a new surrogate father of sorts) and not being able to come out into the open, but Elisabeth Moss perfectly captured just how much Peggy has changed. Perhaps it’s sleeping with Duck that finally gave Peggy the perspective to be able to speak her mind, a connection I wish had been made more clear in previous episodes but which was nonetheless subtly indicated here.

And yet, beyond Peggy’s own story, her two scenes with Don are important bookends for his character’s change in the episode. When he shows up at her apartment on Sunday, he is a broken man who finally understands what Peggy brings to the table: she is someone who, like all of these people who have taken JFK’s death to heart, has lived through adversity and managed to persevere to the point of being able to see how they’ve changed. This, Don senses, is what he has been missing. Peggy was brought on as a copy writer because she had good ideas, and Don latched onto her in some ways because he knew it would piss other people off and he got off on that. However, the argument he makes here is that he kept her in some ways because she is able to rewrite his own past, having experienced a life-changing event but managing to continue on living with a new sense of self-awareness. Don never got that chance, forced to live a complicated lie to the point of losing some sense of his own identity, and between their two conversations he seems to have come to terms with it. He seems to have lived far enough on the edge, and seen deep enough into the precipice that is his family’s demise, to understand that he needs Peggy because she understands how people respond to things in a way that other people, including in many instances himself, do not.

However, as noted, the chain reaction of events resulting from Connie Hilton breaking the news that Putnam, Powell and Lowell will be sold as of January 1st is both an exercise of Don Draper’s emotional turmoil and an absolutely thrilling ride for the audience. There was something electrifying about the entire storyline, as it played into the sense that the Sterling Cooper drama has been somewhat lacking ever since a lawnmower ran over someone’s foot. As opposed to creating more drama, it was as if that event halted it entirely: Lane Price remained in charge, the status quo was maintained, and nobody talked about how the company was not the same was it was before. Even Roger and Don’s relationship, once so foundational to the setting, is in shambles when we begin, so the opening plays into all of that tension. Don doesn’t trust Roger, nobody trusts Lane, and someone like Pete is downright disgusted at the whole operation.

But yet when all the pieces start to fall into place, it becomes almost (I probably already used this word, but it’s what kept popping into my head while watching) electrifying. It’s not often that a show like Mad Men has you on the edge of your seat, but this story was hitting all of the right notes to have me legitimately excited. I’ve loved Jared Harris in the role of Lane Pryce, so seeing him be spurned one time too many by London and joining forces with the turncoats was worthy of a cheer had I not been afraid of waking up others, and the moment when it becomes clear that Roger is going to call Joan in for service I’m pretty sure that I was downright giddy. Heck, there was a beat where the Art Department being locked felt like an opening to bring Salvatore back into the fold, and the way the episode was going I half expected him to get called into the office. Some on Twitter have compared it all to a heist film like Ocean’s 11, and I think that’s a fair comparison: there was definite tension in whether the plan was going to be successful, and yet to some degree you always knew that they would make it in the end.

What I loved about the story were the little moments, like Peggy refusing to get Roger coffee, or Cooper freaking out over the moving of his precious office furniture, or Trudy bringing everyone sandwiches at the new office. The storyline, by necessity, introduced some levity into the proceedings. While there was a definite sense of retribution in Pete’s recruitment scene, as everything Don said about him being ahead of the curve and seeing the future are the kinds of things that we critics have been writing about all season, there was also the sense of humour of him being in a robe, or Trudy standing within earshot and getting a goodbye from Don. As much as what Don said was true, appealing to Pete’s ego is very different from appealing to Peggy’s, and the episode used this distinction to its advantage. I loved scenes like the awkward elevator ride where Pete isn’t sure how much Harry knows, leading to the great “Hey everybody, Harry Crane is here!” delivery from Vincent Kartheiser where he talks as if he’s worried the bug planted on him won’t pick up his normal speaking voice. I love that Harry, when told the plan, has to ask his wife about it first. And while I was always somewhat paranoid there would be a leak (like Duck finding out about the plan, or something else fouling things up), the sense of fun within the storyline kept turning me back into an excited kid at Christmas waiting to see what happens next.

There is a sense of sadness in the storyline, without question, considering that this means that people like Paul Kinsey and Ken Cosgrove were left behind, along with the entire secretarial staff and Moneypenny. I don’t quite know what to think about this, especially considering the episode played it both for comedy (“We’ve been robbed!”) and for drama (Kinsey’s anger at discovering that Peggy, too, is gone with the rest). The episode gets away with the airy idealism of the journey from idea to reality because the news won’t break until Monday morning, and in some ways the conclusion is all about the way Monday morning feels: one moment you’re remembering the weekend that was, and the next you’re stuck facing a new reality. For Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, it’s the fact that their clients have jumped ship to an agency running out of a hotel and that their only phone call is their Head of Media wondering what room they’re in, and for the former remnants of Sterling Cooper it’s a ship without a captain, a rudder, or a sail (take your pick of who best represents these particular parts of a ship amongst the departures).

The finale is very careful not to paint a picture in its conclusion that is in any way dire. The tension in the conclusion is drawn not from a sense of failure but by testing unknown waters in an effort to see if one should, or can, swim in them. This is not a show to create action-packed finales where characters are taken to wit’s end and placed in some sort of cliffhanger, which would have resulted from the plan failing. Instead, it wants its characters to have to live with their actions, and it wants the series to follow their efforts to do so. As such, we find Don Draper walking towards his temporary apartment as he starts a new life to the sound of Roy Orbison’s “Shahdaroba.” It is a life where he is still a father but no longer a husband, and a life where he is still an Ad Man but no longer one who can say that he is safely employed.

And, as such, Mad Men is now a show about a man who is still a father but no longer a husband, and about Ad Men (and Women) who are stepping out into uncharted territory. The show’s challenge moving forward is finding its axis, discovering how to have a character like Betty Draper (on a plane to Reno with Gene and Henry Francis to ensure the divorce goes through) remain central, and how to potentially keep the remnants of Sterling Cooper (Kinsey, Cosgrove, etc.) within the series. Or, perhaps, it could excise elements of them all together and adopt an entirely new structure that reflects this new period in their lives. What it does make clear, though, is that unlike the second season finale’s complete uncertainty there is now a clear setup for the fourth season, and while there will still be speculation over how far forward in time we leap (joining the new agency in progress down the road) there is no question that the central question will be the success of this new venture within a changing global climate.

But for this hour, there was little sense of the global climate, and no scenes that felt (relatively) wasted on historical reference or period setting. This was a finale that told a story about characters and which delved into their past, present and future in order to create an almost seamless experience. From one conversation with Conrad Hilton came a series of events which managed to solidify themes that the season had perhaps overlooked, depict scenes that we knew have been coming since perhaps the show’s first season, and also gave us a glimpse into the future that was both tragically uncertain and, perhaps best of all, legitimately exciting. “Shut the Door. Have a Seat.” is simply a masterstroke of storytelling, elevating both the season and the series to foreseen, but still stunning, heights.

Cultural Observations

• Don’s treatment of Betty, calling her a wore and pushing her around a bit, is not the first time this has happened, and evokes a scene like the one with Bobbie in the restaurant. However, that was Don being in control, and Don is never really in control in this scene: he is broken down, and it shows in the explosiveness behind his anger.
• The idea that it is the death of Dick Whitman’s father that has been the purpose behind all of this season’s flashbacks to Dick’s childhood made sense in the context of this episode, where Don has to question the impact of a father on a child’s life considering his family is leaving him, but at a certain point the flashbacks became a bit strange in the context of the season. I think they work in the premiere and the finale, but their overall impact in the middle portion of the season was negligible.
• Any Canadian viewers get a total “Heritage Minute” vibe from the Wheat Co-Operative sequence?
• It’s interesting that the new agency never once considered Ken Cosgrove. I don’t disagree with the decision, but we never saw why Don’s thought process went right to Pete (although the evidence is there in the fact that Pete, unlike Ken, has reason to be upset with his current station). It seems like they chose people based on how close they’d be to the chopping block within a merge, to some degree, with makes sense.
• Lane Price’s phone conversation with London, in particular “Happy Christmas!,” was stunning. Seriously, while I’ve been missing Jared Harris in the back half of the season, he was so darn great in this episode that it’s like he’s been around forever. The only thing we were missing was a glimpse at how his homesick wife is going to deal with the decision, although I understand why the episode didn’t go out of its way to answer that question.
• Between this episode and “A Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency,” John Slattery might as well submit in Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy.
• You can check out other great reviews from Alan Sepinwall, James Poniewozik, Keith Phipps, and Mo Ryan (who gets props for “Sterling Coup”).

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25 listopada 2008 r., Olek Drożdż zamieścił na łamach „Piłki pod lupą” tekst pod tytułem „Ku pamięci…”, w którym zacytował niektóre zapowiedzi nowego prezesa PZPN Grzegorza Laty. Najważniejsza zapowiedź była taka: „Jeśli przez rok nic się nie zmieni na lepsze to zrezygnuję i rozpiszę nowe wybory”.

Oczywiście ocena tego czy coś „zmieniło się na lepsze” jest względna, ale spróbujmy być obiektywni i dokonajmy tej oceny przez pryzmat innych zapowiedzi Grzegorza Laty.

„Zapewniam, że nie spocznę dopóki nie poprawię wizerunku PZPN”

No cóż… Tak jak po stadionach niosła się „pieśń” na temat PZPN, tak niesie się dalej. A może nawet głośniej. Doszły do tego hasła na temat samego prezesa. Pojawiła się bezprecedensowa akcja „koniecpzpn.pl”. Nie ma tygodnia, żeby media nie rozpisywały się na temat jakiejś podejrzanej sprawy wokół PZPN. Mimo zaangażowania agencji PR-owskiej wizerunek PZPN jest coraz gorszy.

„Wysyłamy sygnał do społeczeństwa i pana ministra Drzewieckiego, że skończyły się żarty i bierzemy się poważnie za sprawę korupcji”

Trudno powiedzieć, aby walka z korupcją jakoś przybrała na sile. Nie ma widoków na karanie nowych klubów, piłkarze z zarzutami się są zawieszani. Nic nie słychać o tym, żeby PZPN prowadził jakieś działania profilaktyczne. Nowa instytucja Rzecznika Dyscyplinarnego nie spełnia swojej roli – nikt nie wie co ten Rzecznik robi.

„Sam niczego nie zdziałam i liczę na pomoc innych. Zrobię wszystko, by mistrzostwa Europy w 2012 roku były naszym wspólnym sukcesem i by były w najlepszym wydaniu”.

Na czyją pomoc liczył prezes? Zdążył zniechęcić do siebie kibiców, mimo, że jako były świetny piłkarz mógł z pewnością liczyć na sympatię ludzi. Nieprzychylne mu są media. Politycy co najwyżej są obojętni. Ostatnio nawet od PZPN odcinają się sponsorzy reprezentacji. PZPN nie ma przyjaciół właściwie nigdzie poza FIFA i UEFA, chociaż nawet tam nie wiedzą co sądzić o ekipie Grzegorza Laty, który ani nie dopieszcza ulubieńca szwajcarskich salonów czyli Michała Listkiewicza, ani nie potrafił zgodzić się z przyjacielem Platiniego – Zbigniewem Bońkiem.

„Selekcjoner ma zadanie do wypełnienia – awans do mistrzostw świata 2010 i zostanie z tego rozliczony. Nie mam zamiaru go wcześniej zwalniać”.

Tu rzeczywiście Leo Beenhakker pracował do czasu, gdy istniały jeszcze szanse na awans. Sam jednak styl zwolnienia selekcjonera był w zgodnej opinii fatalny.

„Trzeba zreformować biuro prawne PZPN i biuro prasowe, by działały bardziej profesjonalnie.”

Co do prawników to nie chcę się wypowiadać, bo sam jestem prawnikiem i byłoby to niezręczne. Co do biura prasowego, to raczej nie pomogła PZPN-owi sprawa bezceremonialnego zwolnienia profesjonalnego i kulturalnego rzecznika Kwiatkowskiego i zatrudnienia kontrowersyjnego Janusza Atlasa.

„Potrzebna jest reforma sędziowska, by zasady awansu i spadku sędziów stały się jawne.”

Nie jestem zbyt bliski tej tematyki, więc trudno mi oceniać. W każdym razie nie ma kolejki ekstraklasy bez spektakularnych wpadek sędziowskich.

„Należy zakończyć aferę korupcyjną i wreszcie zreformować system szkolenia młodych piłkarzy, który powinien być oparty na polskich trenerach”.

Końca afery korupcyjnej nie widać. O rewolucji w systemie szkolenia nie słychać. W kategoriach juniorskich ostatnio zanotowaliśmy nawet spektakularną porażkę z Azerbejdżanem.

Ile zatem naliczyliśmy się zapowiedzi? 7. Ile zrealizowanych? 0. Jaki więc mamy wynik? 7 – 0. Czyli taki jak z Haiti w 1974, tylko że teraz nie ma się z czego cieszyć.

Czyli co? Lato poda się do dymisji … ? Nie bądźmy naiwni… To były tylko słowa, a my żyjemy w Polsce… Co nie znaczy, że my-kibice mamy o tym wszystkim zapomnieć.

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As a Pre Paid Legal Associate its VERY easy for me to say good things about the job to get others to sign up and be lying, but you all know me ssooo much better than that so I’m going to keep it real. If you haven’t become a PPL [for you slow people that’s Pre Paid Legal] Associate your sluffin on some real shit. And let me find out you don’t have a damn job and all you’re doing is sitting at home watching the damn “Wendy Williams” show SMH at you for not taking a good opportunity to make your own business.

I find it very interesting how people always say they wana do their own thing, and that they wana have their own business and do shit their way but when something like PPL comes along they turn their nose up and say it’s a scam.

Question: what is so much a scam about a plan that gives you a 24hr lawyer that covers:

• Legal consultation- aka you can call your lawyer to get random ass legal questions answered no matter what the question is as long as it has to do with a legal issue for example: “can I own an Elephant in my back yard” now I hope you wouldn’t ask a dumb ass question like that but it’s just an example.
• Letters and Phone Calls- in other words, say you have a problem like a credit card company blowing up your phone and being mad rude to you about not paying your bills; well, call your lawyer and they will write a letter or make a phone call in your behalf hell they just MIGHT do both.
• Will preparation- now that is just what it says it is they will make a Will for you with no additional charge, DO YALL NOT REALIZE A WILL CAN COST $500??? These people will do it for you for free and will update it every damn year.
• Moving traffic violation assistance- which just means, lets say your driving 80mph and the speed limit is 60 and you get pulled over you can call your lawyer and they will write a letter and show up with you or for you on your behalf at your court hearing and 9 out of 10 the shits dismissed and not even on your recorded. Now this the thing that got me the most cause lets be real I’m black its something that I need help with.

The crazy thing is that this is only less than HALF of the shit that PPL does for you and all your paying is $17 a damn month and 26 is you want identity theft and that’s a whole lot more shit that I’m not going into right now. The other thing that kills me is that people be like “well for $17 a month what the hell kinda lawyers are you trying to give me one that’s going to make things worst then what they already are” but I have a question, do you ask what kind of a doctor are you getting for only having to pay a $10 copayment whenever you go in??? NNNNOOOOOO. SHM.

The other thing that I love that people are forever saying is they don’t want to pay the entry fee, well think of it this way, its an investment. When you get regular job you get what you pay for and guess what that’s nothing. You go to work they talk to you however the hell they want to and they mess around with your hours and vacation time and to top it off you can get fired at any given time but with PPL this is YOUR business that YOU have invested in and no one can fire you because this is your shit. I feel that if people would stop talking to their mom, dad, aunties, uncles, cousins that just got outta jail, sisters that aint ever had no job but got 3 kids and one on the way, best friends that smoke so much a damn week that if they took a pee test the person who sold them the damn weed and the person who grew it would come out the damn cup, instead of just asking the people the WORK not have heard about it cause they don’t know shit unless they went to a meeting they damn self but WORK for PPL there would be a lot more happy people in this world not worried about their bills.

Now like I said before I’m not going to get into EVERYTHING that PPL covers because that would be just way too much to cover telling you EVERYTHING in this blog entry is like me trying to give you a damn hair cut through a text message ITS NOT GONNA HAPPEN. However if you have any questions please please please feel free to hit up my PPL site HERE and see more info for yourself and even sign up, or send me a e-mail @ janayr@prepaidlegal.com and I will get back with you ASAP.

But the moral of this blog is I love my job with PPL it gives me free time and I get to meet lots of new people and make lots of money just buy showing someone and opportunity that will help them and their kids out everyday of their life and when you think about it that’s what life is really all about.

OMG THAT SHIT WAS SSOOOO FUN. i swear i love my job. and the main thing that i love about it is that im not saleing anything thats not what we do, its not like im selling you a job im giving you a oppertunity. not bout to ay much cause im bout to write a blog about my thoughts on pre paid legal as soon as im done here. i just wanted to say im happy that i took this job when i did.

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Pengalihan ini dirasakan penting mengingat tuntutan terhadap penyuluh pertanian telah berubah. Telah terjadi perubahan perubahan dalam dunia pertanian.

Pembangunan pertanian kini dilaksanakan dengan pembangunan sistem dan usaha agribisnis yang menuntut konsekwensi lebih tajam dari penyuluhan pertanian untuk melihat saling ketergantungan antara pelaku usahatani (hulu, on-farm, hilir dan penyedia jasa). Di samping keseimbangan antara materi penyuluhan aspek budidaya dengan materi yang menyangkut aspek ekonomi usaha dan organisasi ekonomi petani.

Kalau selama ini penyuluh pertanian dikesankan sebagai ”ndeso”, maka sebagai dampak globalisasi, liberalisasi, perdagangan maka penyuluh pertanian harus mampu meningkatkan kemampuan petani agar mengelola usahataninya dengan efisien sehingga mampu meraih peluang ekonomi pertanian seperti peluang pasar, peluang usaha, peluang kerja baik di pasar domestik, regional dan global.

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Pertama, Untuk tahap awal dari 28.900 penyuluh pertanian baru sebanyak 3.000 orang yang akan menjalani uji sertifikasi. Ini artinya, kalau pelaksanaannya linear diperlukan waktu selama 10 tahun agar semua selesai disertifikasi. Mungkin terlalu lama, oleh karena itu diperlukan terobosan-terobosan agar dapat dilakukan lebih cepat. Kalaupun karena satu dan lain hal tidak dimungkinkan, maka perlu ada kriteria yang jelas (pangkat/masa kerja), sehingga seseorang dapat dipastikan kapan akan menjalani uji sertifikasi. Untuk mencegah adanya ambisi atau keinginan maka pilihan terhadap peserta ini, biarlah ditetapkan oleh Pusat, bukan usulan dari bawah..!

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I shudder to think what is going to happen to those of us with Exelon aka PECO when our rate cap expires!

I see more candles in my future.

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