 you comfortable. You should also prioritize shoes that are comfortable and have a good grip.
Fullbacks: In the modern game, fullbacks are meant to be good at both offense and defense. This increases the number of football shoes they can choose from. Ultimately, it depends on whether you’re more of an offensive player or defensive player – this is one position where your gameplaying preferences reign supreme.
Center Backs: Center backs are meant to start the offense for the attacking team. This is why they need comfortable shoes that are protective while also offering good control. Shoes that offer good control are critical in helping you make precise passes to your wingers.
Central Midfielders: Central midfielders are generally involved in both the offense and defense and are essential in helping to control the game. For this reason, you need shoes that provide you with great contact with the ball, as well as good stability, a clean striking surface, and comfort. You should also look for shoes with round or conical studs, as they help in making quick, stable turns on the field.
Wingers: Wingers are goalscorers who are skilled at both pace and technique. For this reason, they need shoes with light uppers to increase precision, light studs and thin outsoles to allow them to maximize speed, and shoes that offer the best grip on the pitch possible.
Attackers: Attackers need to maximize acceleration, stability, and accuracy. For this reason, their shoes should be ones with a clear striking surface, good stability, and a secure stud formation for good grip. They should also thin uppers and soles to increase agility.
Shoes are an essential part of playing football, and there are a number of considerations you should keep in mind when you buy football shoes. However, once you know what you’re looking for, future shopping will be as easy as pie for you!I would have remained blissful if I didn’t start receiving congratulations.
Every now and then, people could not resist mentioning that I was on the council. And my phone started ringing a little more than usual. It now mattered whether I had received documents in good time, whether I had found somewhere to park my car, and whether I had eaten lunch. I then remembered how I felt when I was appointed head of department 5 years ago. All around, people were congratulating me, but my heart sank, because as my adviser told me, the appointment would kill my academic career.
​And my adviser has been proved right. I had planned to have a book hot off the press by now. I haven’t even started writing. I had a target of presenting papers at two academic conferences a year. I’m lucky when I present at even one a year. I badly, badly would like to supervise creative graduate work that is socially conscious, in the style of scholars like WEB Dubois, Lewis R. Gordon and Tiyambe Zeleza who write knowing how much the thinking by African peoples actually matters. Instead, I “examine” theses that have limited social consciousness, and seem more about passing and getting a certificate and probably becoming prestigious, or getting a ticket to teach university classes part-time.
So I became equally ambivalent about this council nomination, and shared my feelings on facebook, expecting some consolation my friends, and especially given that I had ended with the words: I don’t want congratulations.
The congratulations still came in.
The reason why I’m bothered about the celebration is because I still haven’t accomplished my goal, which was to establish a respect for the arts, receive more students in the languages and music so as to pull the programs out of the shadow of being called unviable, and to increase the number of students and faculty who attend our public lectures from our current average of 10. Also, what I value most is not the administrative positions but being part of the great things accomplished by my colleagues, students and friends. I am so proud of my Ajenda Afrika family, of Muoki Mbunga, whom I met as an undergraduate student, and who has become one of the sharpest scholars I know. I am excited to see Brenda Wambua take charge of our Writing and Speech Center where students get help with their public speaking and writing, and who is now developing great insights into how social media works as a teaching tool. Larry Ndivo’s rise as our youngest PhD holder, a writer and literary critic with a blog serialized in The People Newspaper is a dream come true. I am thrilled by Laka Nyaga’s growth as a musician and an artist, and by Ras Mengesha’s blossoming as a creative writer. My smile is very wide whenever I read David Karani’s blog posts, or Margaret Muthee’s poems published in the Amka collection when she was an undergraduate student. These and many other stars that have lit my path are what I am proud of, not of my administrative positions.
Why? Because true leadership is about people and creativity, while administration is about playing safe, doing things right, following the tried and tested path, protecting the institution and the general order of things. So while I do try to follow the designated path (I’m a Presbyterian – we’re the people of “mutaratara” for God’s sake), I care more for leadership than for administration. And I can be a leader without being an administrator.
I found this great article on the difference between leadership and administration, and why public education needs more of the former than the latter. Leadership is about vision, conviction, relationships, people, taking risks and seeing how actions fit in the bigger picture, while administration is about playing safe and protecting interests.
But for me, the most important difference between leadership and administration is freedom. As this article explains, leaders emerge. Administrators are appointed. That means leaders are free because they are driven by conscience and conviction, while administrators are driven by loyalty to whoever appointed them.
So to all my friends who said this could be an opportunity to make a difference (cliché notwithstanding), I say God bless you, but I still beg to disagree. You may be forgetting how many Kenyans have championed freedoms outside government, only to join government and become hate mongers and greedy people who believe they deserve to be paid handsomely by taxpayers. We know too well how government positions have changed heroes into monsters overnight. Yet we continue to encourage social heroes to join politics because we think that elective politics is the epitome of leadership.
 That's why the top people in Obama's government are called the Obama Administration, not the Obama Leadership. And we Kenyans must recognize the difference, and celebrate our leaders while calling our public administrators the pigs that they are. And that starts at the local level by celebrating each other more when we lead, and less when we’re promoted.Dear Aubrey,
Many thanks for your letter of 8 May 2001 and the copy of C&C The Global Solution to Climate Change. I have to say that I think that it is brilliant. It reads like a novel. I particularly liked your interpretation of the Tao Te Ching. And the policy analysis is of course as sharp as ever. Also your analysis of how the climate negotiations leading up to and beyond Kyoto went off track is spot on.
With best regards,
Jonathon Loh Conservation Policy Department WWF International
To be or not to be. That is the question posed for mankind in the face of awesome predictions of the consequences of accelerating climate change caused by the greenhouse gas emissions from our profligate energy-intensive lifestyles and the fact that they remain in the atmosphere for several generations. The stark choice presented in this concise book is a continuing '... combination of naked economic and military power and climate disasters' with'some unscriptable allocation of carbon entitlements (to limit the disasters) with uncalculable costs'. Or it is 'a sharing (of these entitlements) between people globally, equitably and sustainably' in order to deliver a clean and green form of prosperity which does not seriously prejudice the future of the planet.
As is pointed out, if the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to a relatively safe level is more important than the pursuit of economic growth - a point of departure that I presume nearly all readers of Town and Country Planning accept - then it is clear that a framework for action is needed within which the reduction can be achieved.
This book profoundly and lucidly spells out this framework which its author, Aubrey Meyer, founder and director of the Global Commons Institute (GCI), logically calls 'Contraction and Convergence'. It requires the reduction to be completed within a timetable determined by scientific evidence whilst at the same time programming the reduction towards an end-state of equal per capita emissions. He argues convincingly that the growing consensus, was not reported in the media. Nevertheless, the message is now reaching an ever-widening audience. Only a few weeks ago in this country, the Loss Prevention Council, the Building Research Establishment, and the Chartered Insurance Institute, have published reports on the problem that climate change poses for the insurance industry. All of them have joined in advocating 'Contraction and Convergence'.
It is clear that urgent changes are called for not only in the policies and practices of government, industry and the business community generally, but also in our own lifestyles. If these are to be conducted according to principles of conscience and survival, our responsibilities on this portentous issue cannot continue to be side-stepped or ignored. I can think of no better investment of time and no more effective means of jolting people out of their complacency on the ramifications of global warming than to read this remarkable book.
Mayer Hillman Senior Fellow Emeritus, Policy Studies Institute February 2001
Aubrey Meyer, Contraction and Convergence: