RIP 2018
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@salacious-crumb said in RIP 2018:
NME ends print edition after 65 years as magazine "no longer financially viable"
R.I.P.
Used to be my must read mag when a teenager (even if the copies we got in NZ were about 6 weeks old)
Nowadays it is just one of many free handout mags to commuters and I flick through it in a couple of minutes.
Will pick up the last one though.
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New Zealand rugby lost an unsung hero today with the passing of Mac McCallion.
The 67-year-old fashioned a particularly successful record as coach of Counties Manukau and as an assistant coach to Sir Graham Henry's Blues teams in the 1990s.
He also coached the Fijian national side.
McCallion had a reputation as a hard bugger fashioned from a career in the New Zealand Army. He coached that way and immediately had a big impact on an under-rated Steelers team in the mid-1990s that saw them become a major force in the provincial game.
The Steelers went to back-to-back division one finals under McCallion, who presided over the side during the emergence of star wingers Jonah Lomu and Joeli Vidiri.
While those two players had a massive role in the success of the side, McCallion came up with a style of play that got the best out of the try-scoring superstars on each wing.
Players like Tony and Glenn Marsh, George Leaupepe, Blair Feeney and Danny Lee thrived under McCallion's tutelage but it was McCallion's ability to get the most out of a little-known forward pack that led to much of the side's success. Players like John Akurangi, Chris Rose and Lee Lidgard matched seasoned professionals while being coached by McCallion.
The Steelers forwards epitomised everything McCallion stood for – they were tough, uncompromising and they weren't after headlines – they simply got the job done without any fuss.
As the game became professional his old school ways perhaps became out-dated and he drifted away from the top level less than a decade into professionalism. It might be fair to say the game left him behind but I'm not sure that was actually a good thing for rugby.
McCallion got results and a number of stars in the early days of professional rugby owe their success to his grounding.
His passing will have a massive impact on a huge number of people, especially those that he coached and the people of Counties Manukau.
Rest in peace Mac.
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New Zealand rugby lost an unsung hero today with the passing of Mac McCallion.
The 67-year-old fashioned a particularly successful record as coach of Counties Manukau and as an assistant coach to Sir Graham Henry's Blues teams in the 1990s.
He also coached the Fijian national side.
McCallion had a reputation as a hard bugger fashioned from a career in the New Zealand Army. He coached that way and immediately had a big impact on an under-rated Steelers team in the mid-1990s that saw them become a major force in the provincial game.
The Steelers went to back-to-back division one finals under McCallion, who presided over the side during the emergence of star wingers Jonah Lomu and Joeli Vidiri.
While those two players had a massive role in the success of the side, McCallion came up with a style of play that got the best out of the try-scoring superstars on each wing.
Players like Tony and Glenn Marsh, George Leaupepe, Blair Feeney and Danny Lee thrived under McCallion's tutelage but it was McCallion's ability to get the most out of a little-known forward pack that led to much of the side's success. Players like John Akurangi, Chris Rose and Lee Lidgard matched seasoned professionals while being coached by McCallion.
The Steelers forwards epitomised everything McCallion stood for – they were tough, uncompromising and they weren't after headlines – they simply got the job done without any fuss.
As the game became professional his old school ways perhaps became out-dated and he drifted away from the top level less than a decade into professionalism. It might be fair to say the game left him behind but I'm not sure that was actually a good thing for rugby.
McCallion got results and a number of stars in the early days of professional rugby owe their success to his grounding.
His passing will have a massive impact on a huge number of people, especially those that he coached and the people of Counties Manukau.
Rest in peace Mac.
Probably THE last guy to pick a fight with on the pitch. RIP
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Everyone is all "oh, look at the great work he did for mankind progressing the body of knowledge in physics and working towards a unified field theory". Like what else was he going to spend his time doing, triathlons?
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@antipodean Getting pissed, feeling sorry for himself and posting shit on the web.
It's what I
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Whilst I understand the sentimentality behind morning the actors, singers, rugby legends (and near legends) and one total fuck off asshole - Billy Graham...
But then there are true greats who should be recognized and who's loss should be mourned appropriately and Stephen Hawking is one of those. A truly great man who's work has stretched the bounds of science, particularly theoretical physics, which will leave a mark on mankind for a long time.
Lived way longer than expected, much to humanities benefit.
This is a true loss.
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@roninwc was Billy Graham really an arsehole? He was pretty prominent in civil rights and helped Martin Luther King. Even paid his bail to get him out of jail one time.
I guess it depends if his commitment to civil rights based on race is balanced out by his lack of commitment to civil rights in regards to sexual orientation?
Wasn't he the one who spawned televangelism? I reckon he could probably be considered an arsehole for that alone even if he didn't personally fleece his viewers like the ones who followed.
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Whilst I understand the sentimentality behind morning the actors, singers, rugby legends (and near legends) and one total fuck off asshole - Billy Graham...
But then there are true greats who should be recognized and who's loss should be mourned appropriately and Stephen Hawking is one of those. A truly great man who's work has stretched the bounds of science, particularly theoretical physics, which will leave a mark on mankind for a long time.
Lived way longer than expected, much to humanities benefit.
This is a true loss.
Really? Like most august mathematicians and physicists, the great work was done early in his life. It would have been a true loss had ALS taken him in line with the original prediction.
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@jegga
Yes, whilst he did some good things as you have mentioned, we cannot gloss over the negatives like much of the press he has received since passing:Anti-jewish, anti-feminist who supported "traditional gender roles", which is effectively characterized as female submission. Anti LGBTQI. etc.
One of those instrumental in the rise of mega churches and evangelical Christianity which are truly blights on humanity.
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@antipodean said in RIP 2018:
Whilst I understand the sentimentality behind morning the actors, singers, rugby legends (and near legends) and one total fuck off asshole - Billy Graham...
But then there are true greats who should be recognized and who's loss should be mourned appropriately and Stephen Hawking is one of those. A truly great man who's work has stretched the bounds of science, particularly theoretical physics, which will leave a mark on mankind for a long time.
Lived way longer than expected, much to humanities benefit.
This is a true loss.
Really? Like most august mathematicians and physicists, the great work was done early in his life. It would have been a true loss had ALS taken him in line with the original prediction.
I think you are confused, sure manyt of the big break throughs typically come in the earlier years but then they, mathematicians and physicists as you have suggested along with others, continue to work, continue to advance the various theory's.
Most of the advancement in science is made this way, small incremental steps forwards (and backwards), the "hard slog" so to speak.
Hawking had continued to work throughout his lifespan as much as his condition would allow, advancing the knowledge in theoretical physics including advancing our knowledge around black holes as an example.