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Nobody needed to get all that educated for being a miner, so they let the schools go to rot. And they made sure no mills or factories got in the door. Coal only. To this day, you have to cross a lot of ground to find other work. Not an accident, Mr. Armstrong said, and for once we believed him, because down in the dark mess of our little skull closets some puzzle pieces were clicking together and our world made some terrible kind of sense. The dads at home drinking beer in their underwear, the moms at the grocery with their SNAP coupons. The army recruiters in shiny gold buttons come to harvest their jackpot of hopeless futures. Goddamn. The trouble with learning the backgrounds is that you end up wanting to deck somebody, possibly Bettina Cook and the horse she rode in on. (Not happening. Her dad being head of the football boosters and major donor.) Once upon a time we had our honest living that was God and country. Then the world turns and thereโ€™s no God anymore, no country, but itโ€™s still in your blood that coal is Godโ€™s gift and you want to believe. Because otherwise it was one more scam in the fuck-train thatโ€™s railroaded over these mountains since George Washington rode in and set his crew to cutting down our trees. Everything that could be taken is gone. Mountains left with their heads blown off, rivers running black. My people are dead of trying, or headed that way, addicted as we are to keeping ourselves alive. Thereโ€™s no more blood here to give, just war wounds. Madness. A world of pain, looking to be killed.
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Barbara Kingsolver (Demon Copperhead)
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The most important quality in a recruiter is persistence. You want a guy who is willing to make hundreds of phone calls, who is a good conversationalist, and has the ability to establish relationships with people.
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Mike Leach (Swing Your Sword: Leading the Charge in Football and Life)
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We decided to attend to our community instead of asking our community to attend the church.โ€ His staff started showing up at local community events such as sports contests and town hall meetings. They entered a float in the local Christmas parade. They rented a football field and inaugurated a Free Movie Night on summer Fridays, complete with popcorn machines and a giant screen. They opened a burger joint, which soon became a hangout for local youth; it gives free meals to those who canโ€™t afford to pay. When they found out how difficult it was for immigrants to get a driverโ€™s license, they formed a drivers school and set their fees at half the going rate. My own church in Colorado started a ministry called Hands of the Carpenter, recruiting volunteers to do painting, carpentry, and house repairs for widows and single mothers. Soon they learned of another need and opened Hands Automotive to offer free oil changes, inspections, and car washes to the same constituency. They fund the work by charging normal rates to those who can afford it. I heard from a church in Minneapolis that monitors parking meters. Volunteers patrol the streets, add money to the meters with expired time, and put cards on the windshields that read, โ€œYour meter looked hungry so we fed it. If we can help you in any other way, please give us a call.โ€ In Cincinnati, college students sign up every Christmas to wrap presents at a local mall โ€” โ€‹no charge. โ€œPeople just could not understand why I would want to wrap their presents,โ€ one wrote me. โ€œI tell them, โ€˜We just want to show Godโ€™s love in a practical way.โ€™ โ€ In one of the boldest ventures in creative grace, a pastor started a community called Miracle Village in which half the residents are registered sex offenders. Floridaโ€™s state laws require sex offenders to live more than a thousand feet from a school, day care center, park, or playground, and some municipalities have lengthened the distance to half a mile and added swimming pools, bus stops, and libraries to the list. As a result, sex offenders, one of the most despised categories of criminals, are pushed out of cities and have few places to live. A pastor named Dick Witherow opened Miracle Village as part of his Matthew 25 Ministries. Staff members closely supervise the residents, many of them on parole, and conduct services in the church at the heart of Miracle Village. The ministry also provides anger-management and Bible study classes.
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Philip Yancey (Vanishing Grace: What Ever Happened to the Good News?)
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Argentine national football player from FC Barcelona. Positions are attacks. He is the greatest player in the history of the club, as well as the greatest player in the history of the club, as well as the greatest player in history, most of whom are Pele and Diego Maradona [9] Is one of the best players in football history. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 7๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ฒ ์น™์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ง€ํ‚ค์ง€๋ชปํ• ์•ฝ์†์€ ํ•˜์ง€์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค 1.์ •ํ’ˆ๋ณด์žฅ 2.์ด์•Œ๋ฐฐ์†ก 3.ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ 4.ํŽธํ•œ ์ƒ๋‹ด 5.๋๋‚ด์ฃผ๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค 6.๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜ ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ 7.๊น”๋”ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ๋งŽ์€VIP๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค ๋ชจ์‹œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ์ชฝ ๊ฒฝ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๋ฏฟ์Œ๊ณผ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ์‹ ์šฉ์„ฑ์žˆ๋Š” ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋Š” ์ฒซ์งธ๋กœ ์‹ ์šฉ,์‹ ๋ขฐ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”๊ฒƒ๋งŒํผ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํ•œ์ œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ›„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ์†์ƒ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ˜น์€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ชป๋ณด์…จ์„์‹œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ 1์ฐจ์žฌ๋ฐฐ์†ก 2์ฐจ 100%ํ™˜๋ถˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํ›„ํšŒ์—†๋Š” ์„ ํƒ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์žˆ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๋ชจ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํ…”๋ ˆใ€KC98Kใ€‘์นดํ†กใ€ACD5ใ€‘๋ผ์ธใ€SPR331ใ€‘ โ—€๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•ญ๋ชฉโ–ถ ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์ œ,์—ฌ์„ฑ์ตœ์Œ์ œ,์—ฌ์„ฑํฅ๋ถ„์ œ,๋‚จ์„ฑ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ „์น˜์œ ์ œ,๋น„์•„๊ทธ๋ผ,์‹œ์•Œ๋ฆฌ์Šค,88์ •,๋“œ๋ž˜๊ณค,99์ •,๋ฐ”์˜ค๋ฉ”์ด,์ •๋ ฅ์ œ,๋‚จ์„ฑ์„ฑ๊ธฐํ™•๋Œ€์ œ,์นด๋งˆ๊ทธ๋ผ์ ค,๋น„๋‹‰์Šค,์„ผ๋”,๊ฝƒ๋ฌผ,๋‚จ์„ฑ์กฐ๋ฃจ์ œ,๋„ค๋…ธ๋งˆ์ • ๋“ฑ๋งŽ์€์ œํ’ˆ ํŒ๋งค์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค 2. Childhood [edit] He was born on June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Argentina [10] [11]. His great-grandfather Angelo Messi moved to Argentina as an Italian, and his family became an Argentinean. His father, Jorge Orashio Messi, was a steel worker, and his mother, Celia Maria Quatini, was a part-time housekeeper. Since he was also coach of the local club, Gland Dolley, he became close to football naturally since he was a child, and he started playing soccer at Glendale's club when he was four years old. In 1995, he joined Newsweek's Old Boys Youth team at age six, following Rosario, and soon became a prospect. However, at the age of 11, she is diagnosed with GHD and experiences trials. It took $ 90 to $ 100 a month to cure it, and it was a big deal for his parents to make a living from manual labor. His team, New Wells Old Boys, was also reluctant to spend this amount. For a time, even though the parents owed their debts, they tried to cure the disorder and helped him become a football player, but it could not be forever. [12] In that situation, the Savior appeared. In July 2000, a scouting proposal came from FC Barcelona, โ€‹โ€‹where he saw his talent. He was also invited to play in the Argentinian club CA River Plate. The River Plate coach who reported the test reported the team to the club as a "must-have" player, and the reporter who watched the test together was sure to be talented enough to call him "the new Maradona." However, River Plate did not give a definite answer because of the need to convince New Wells Old Boys to recruit him, and the fact that the cost of the treatment was fixed in addition to lodging. Eventually Messi and his father crossed to Barcelona in response to a scouting offer from Barcelona. After a number of negotiations between the Barcelona side and Messi's father, the proposal was inconceivable to pay for Meshi's treatment.
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Lionell Messi
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The recruiter didn't bother to introduce himself when Alumbaugh extended his hand. Instead, he turned to Aliotti and said: "He's not six-foot-one." Nice to meet you, too, Alumbaugh thought.
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Neil Hayes (When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak)
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It was true, of course, there was an abnormal level of narcissism in our society, but it did not do, he told himself, to spend too much time going on about it. Society changed. Narcissism was about love, ultimately, even if only love of self. And that was better than hate. By and large, Hate, of all the tempting gods, was the unhappiest today. He had his recruits, naturally, but they were relatively few, and vilified. Did it matter if young men thought of fashion and hair gel when, not all that many years ago, their thoughts had tended to turn to war and flags and the grim partisanship of the football terrace?
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Alexander McCall Smith (Espresso Tales (The 44 Scotland Street Series Book 2))
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Orgeron hates dead air. He feeds off energy. As in, energy is enthusiasmโ€ฆenthusiasm breeds confidenceโ€ฆand confidence leads to winning. Silence, conversely, creates lulls, and lulls make people passive. And passivity? Absolutely, utterly forbidden in Ed Orgeronโ€™s world.
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Bruce Feldman (Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting)
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Clark went on to tell us that we would provide a color guard every Friday for the recruit parade.ย  There would also be color guard details all over the San Diego area.ย ย  Any service club, school, ball team of any kind that wanted a color guard at their event could get one just by asking.ย ย  โ€œYouโ€™re lucky it isnโ€™t football season or we might as well live in our dress blues.
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W.R. Spicer (Sea Stories of a U.S. Marine, Book 1, Stripes to Bars)
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We had a night out on the Saturday and, although the town was quiet, some of our new signings made their mark. Two players drank a fair amount of urine โ€“ more than a shot and less than a pint โ€“ as part of their initiation, and another new recruit, who was a little worse for wear, had to be carried home to bed before midnight just after being showered in urine, seemingly the theme of the night.
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Ben Smith (Journeyman: One Man's Odyssey Through the Lower Leagues of English Football)
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I think about a story told by a Serbian player I very much admired. He must have lived in a village that was like mine but even poorer, far from everything, lost in the Yugoslavian countryside. When he was small, his uncle had given him a fabulous, shiny-white new ball. In order not to spoil it, he and his brother decided never to let it bounce on the ground and play only with their heads. There was only one ball, and they had to make it last. During one match, a coach from Red Star Belgrade spotted him. He was recruited thanks to the skills he had developed playing with his head in this way. What sort of player would he have been if heโ€™d had access to twenty balls? Not spoiling the ball he was given, playing all the time, developing his own qualities through perseverance and training: I liked everything about this story. The white ball was sacred to me, too, and it remains so to this day. That was the kind of football I came from.
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Arsรจne Wenger (My Life and Lessons in Red & White)
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Being a freshman, I was impressed with team members Buster McClure and Max Dodge. They taught me a lot about football and campus life. Max Dodge was busy recruiting underclassmen to pledge Alpha Tau Omega fraternity...
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Carl M. Robinson (Finding the Clouds and a Life)
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NFL player named Pat Tillman who played for the Arizona Cardinals quit football, turning down a several million dollar contract to join the Army so he could fight in the War on Terror. He was later killed on the battlefield and quickly became a poster boy of bravery and a recruiting tool for the military.571 He was hailed as the NFL hero who supposedly died in a firefight with the enemy, but it later came out that he actually died from friendly fire that came from one or several men from his own unit.572 Tillmanโ€™s own mother would later denounce the military for using her son as a โ€œpropaganda tool.โ€573
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Mark Dice (The Illuminati in Hollywood: Celebrities, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies in Pop Culture and the Entertainment Industry)
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Southern girls know their four seasonsโ€ฆ Recruiting Spring Training Practice Football
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Deborah Ford (Grits (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life)
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But for all we thought we knew about them, there were some things we knew we did not know even after many years of forced and voluntary intimacy, including the art of making cranberry sauce, the proper way of throwing a football, and the secret customs of secret societies, like college fraternities, which seemed to recruit only those who would have been eligible for the Hitler Youth. Not
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer)
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I remember doing kick-to-kick with Micky Barlow at his first training session with the group. I reckon he missed me with every kick. It was a bit of a blustery day and he might have been nervous, but my first thought was, โ€˜This guy has no skill whatsoever - what the hell are we doing drafting him?โ€™ Clearly, I donโ€™t have a future as an AFL recruiter, because he soon proved me wrong.
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Matthew Pavlich (Purple Heart)
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During my time at the club our recruiters and administration would say that with good choices came bad, but most of the gaffes that really hurt came well before I arrived.
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Matthew Pavlich (Purple Heart)
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The West Australian Football Commission (WAFC) got a second team but was not prepared to invest in that team because any investment would drain funds from other parts of the WA football system. The AFL also firmly wanted a second club in Perth to continue its growth as a truly national competition, but after seeing the Eagles play in three and win two of the five Grand Finals between 1990 and 1994, rival clubs were loathe to allow recruiting concessions that might create a second western juggernaut. Hence, the Dockers were not well resourced and light on for talent, left to fend for themselves and somehow expected to make money from day one. By the time the AFL established new clubs on the Gold Coast and in western Sydney nearly 20 years later, they had learned from previous mistakes and invested in those clubs to give them the best chance of success. The support and concessions those clubs received were phenomenal compared to Fremantleโ€™s.
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Matthew Pavlich (Purple Heart)
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Back east, schools began to recruit actively, often offering inducements to promising athletes. In the fall of 1889, former Yale captain Bill โ€œPaโ€ Corbin telegraphed Camp, who was serving as Yaleโ€™s football advisor. The subject was a prospect named Highland Stickney, who, it seems, was in search of a handout. โ€œStickney wrote,โ€ Corbin reported, โ€œHave received good offers from Harvard and Princeton to play football. What will you give[?]โ€ Apparently, not enough. Stickney landed in Cambridge.
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Dave Revsine (The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation)
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I think the most important thing is to look for the right player for your club and not for the best player Character and personality also come into the equation because at the end of the day we are recruiting a human being and not just a footballer
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Jon Cotterill (Anatomy of a football scout: An in-depth look at player recruitment)
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They used to play high school football together. CJ, a burly Samoan with long, curly hair, had been a decent nose tackle and earned a few letters from Division III schools, nothing like the recruitment packets and personal visits Luke had received. Still, theyโ€™d both ended up here, in an alley that smelled like wet garbage and sea air and cat piss.
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Brit Bennett (The Mothers)
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Itโ€™s important to have a โ€œsharkโ€ mindset when participating at showcase and combine events. This means you have an appetite for success, and you will not let anything get in the way of your preyโ€” your potential recruitment.
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Coach Tim Burris (Signed: Ironwill Football's Recruiting Guide for Canadian Highschool Football Players)
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To be successfully recruited and not left behind, you need to understand how the recruiting process works.
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Coach Tim Burris (Signed: Ironwill Football's Recruiting Guide for Canadian Highschool Football Players)
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tโ€™s important to have a โ€œsharkโ€ mindset when participating at showcase and combine events. This means you have an appetite for success, and you will not let anything get in the way of your preyโ€” your potential recruitment.
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Coach Tim Burris (Signed: Ironwill Football's Recruiting Guide for Canadian Highschool Football Players)
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Your job is to go to training camp, compete, and make the veteran players in your position feel uncomfortable, and apply pressure because you are competing at a high level and looking to move up the depth chart and earn playing time. In order to do this, you must have a full understanding of the playbook, grit, and a competitive edge that comes from within to find success at the next level.
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Coach Tim Burris (Signed: Ironwill Football's Recruiting Guide for Canadian Highschool Football Players)
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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday tried to recruit a delegation of 20 former NFL players who were visiting Israel to oppose a nuclear deal with Iran. The group on a trip led by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft included Curtis Martin of the Jets and Patriots, Thurman Thomas of the Bills and Tim Brown of the Raiders. Netanyahu used football lingo to encourage the players to oppose a nuclear deal the Obama administration and allies hope to strike with Iran. "Iran is one yard away from the goal line," he said.
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Anonymous
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Jason Gesser was earlier the interim head coach, offensive coordinator, recruiting coordinator for the Idaho Vandals of the Washington State University. He played for Washington State University under head coach Mike Price. Jason Gesser played for the Utah Blaze of the Arena Football League, Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian football league and more. By the time, he was originally hired at Idaho as running backs coach in June 2011.
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Jason Gesser