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Vietnam U22s players commence their first training session at Rizal Memorial Stadium in the cool weather with a temperature of about 28 degrees Celsius.

Arriving at the stadium quite early, the Vietnamese team had to wait for about 30 minutes until the SEA Games 2019 referee completed their pitch assessment, before starting their training.

In the first training session, Park instructed the players to warm up before entering into tactical exercises. In particular, the Republic of Korea tactician had personal expertise exchanges with goalkeeper Bui Tien Dung.

The players worked hard aiming to impress head coach Park to increase their chances of playing in the opening match.

In the Vietnam U22s squad to the Philippines, Park has summoned six players from the national team, including two aged over 22, Do Hung Dung and Nguyen Trong Hoang.

Fans are expecting that Park and his troops will achieve their SEA Games gold medal target following the positive results of Vietnamese football over recent times.

As scheduled, Vietnam U22s will play Brunei U22s in their Group B opener on November 25 before taking on Laos, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand in the following days.

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The history books we loved most in 2019 span centuries, nations and wars. From womanhood to nationhood, they challenge the construction of identity and mythology. They tell the stories of celebrity weddings, bootlegging trials, and people, places and things we thought we knew but prove, upon closer inspection, to be far more complex.

When Consuelo Vanderbilt of the wealthy American Vanderbilt family married the Duke of Marlborough in 1895, she was one of the most famous debutantes in the world, at a time when interest in the doings of the rich had never been more scrutinized. Consuelo had spent her whole life training to marry a royal, and the event itself was covered in major newspapers across the globe. In The Season: A Social History of the Debutante, author Kristen Richardson contextualizes Consuelo and her weddingand those of other famous debutantes, or young women making their societal debut, from the 1600s to today. The book is a centuries-spanning look at how debutantes and their rituals, from the antebellum South to modern-day Russia, have shaped marriage and womanhood in America and abroad.

For a time, George Remus had it all. The most successful bootlegger in America, Cincinnatis Remus controlled nearly 30 percent of illegal liquor in the United States in the early 1920s. Historian and bestselling author Karen Abbott traces the rise of Remushe was a pharmacist and a defense attorneyand the inevitable fall as he found himself on trial not just for bootlegging, but for the murder of his own wife. In an interview with Smithsonian, Abbott talked about the connection between Remus and F. Scott Fitzgeralds Jay Gatsby: I think Gatsby and Remus both had these longings of belonging to a world that didn't wholly accept them or fully understand them. Even if Fitzgerald never met Remus, everybody knew who George Remus was by the time Fitzgerald started to draft The Great Gatsby.

Many Americans know the names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, key figures in North American Indigenous history. In his new book, Oxford history professor Pekka Hmlinen (his previous book, The Comanche Empire, won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 2009) looks at the history of the Lakota Nation as other historians have looked at ancient Romea massive (and massively adaptive) empire that shaped the literal landscape of the Western United States as well as the fates of Indigenous groups for centuries.

Civil Rights, free love and anti-war protests have become synonymous with the 1960s, but in American Radicals, Holly Jackson, an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, traces these movements back a century in a reconsideration of radical protest and social upheaval in the mid-19th century. While some of the names that appear in Jacksons story, like famed abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, will be familiar to American history buffs, she also revives forgotten figures like Frances Wright, an heiress whose protests against the institution of marriage inspired Walt Whitman to call her one of the best [characters] in history, though also one of the least understood.

Only six people attended Thomas Paines funeral. Once the most famous writer in the American colonies (and, later, the United States of America), the corsetmaker-turned-pamphleteer had been virtually expelled from public life for his radical beliefs and writings, like the ones that suggested a tax on landowners could be used to fund basic income for everyone else. Harlow Giles Unger, a renowned biographer of the Founding Fathers, looks at the Paine we know and the one we dont, in his telling of the story of a man who pursued Enlightenment ideals even when those ideals ran afoul of what was socially acceptable.

As every day a new story about the dangers of vapingor the fervent support of vape fansappears, historian Sarah Milovs The Cigarette looks at the history of smoking in the United States and reminds us that once upon a time, the government was more concerned with the rights of tobacco companies than the rights of non-smokers. The book deftly connects the rise in organized opponents to smoking to food safety, car safety and other consumer rights movements of the 20th century. Kirkus says Milov mixes big-picture academic theory with fascinating, specific details to illuminate the rise and fall of tobacco production.

In Policing the Open Road, legal historian Sarah A. Seo argues that while cars (and highways, for that matter) have long been associated with freedom in the eyes of American drivers, their advent and rapid domination of travel is the basis for a radical increase in policing and criminalization. From traffic stops to parking tickets, Seo traces the history of cars alongside the history of crime and discovers that the two are inextricably linked. At times, says Hua Hsu in The New Yorker, Seos work feels like an underground historyof closeted gay men testing the limits of privacy; of African-Americans, like Jack Johnson or Martin Luther King, Jr., simply trying to get from one place to another.

Using the oral histories of formerly enslaved people, financial records and property history, Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, makes a clear case that in the American South, many white women werent just complicit in the system of chattel slaverythey actively encouraged and benefited from it. Jones-Rogerss work dismantles the notion that white women in slaveholding families were silent actorsinstead, she argues, they used the institution of slavery to build a specific concept of womanhood that shaped the history of the nation before and after the Civil War.

In 1856, the United States passed a law that entitled citizens to take possession of any unclaimed island containing guano depositsguano, of course, being the excrement of bats. Guano is an excellent fertilizer, and over the course of the 20th century, the U.S. claimed dozens of small islands in remote parts of the world, turning them into territories with few rights of their own. The story of guano is one of many that touch upon the empire forged by the U.S. from Puerto Rico to the Philippines. Daniel Immerwahr, an associate professor of history at Northwestern University, tells the often brutal, often tragic stories of these territories in an attempt to make the Greater United States truly part of U.S. history.

In 1998, Tony Horwitzs Confederates in the Attic changed the way we talk about the Civil War and the American South by making the point that for many, even 150 years after the wars end, the conflict continued. In Spying on the South, published after Horwitzs death this year, the author returned to the Southern states, this time following the trail of the young Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect whose work defined northern cities like New York and Boston. Jill Lepore, writing in the New Yorker, called Horwitz the rare historianthe only historian I can think ofequally at home in the archive and in an interview, a dedicated scholar, a devoted journalist."

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In August, The American Genius reported that Dominos Pizza had petitioned the Supreme Court to hear a case it had lost in the Ninth Circuit Court, in which the court ruled that the pizza chain was required to improve the accessibility on their website to blind and visually impaired users.

Last month, SCOTUS declined to hear the case, maintaining the precedent that the standards set forth by the American Disabilities Act (ADA) apply not only to brick-and-mortar business locations, but also to websites.

The decision was a major win for disability rights advocates, who rightly pointed out that in the modern, internet-based age, being unable to access the same websites and apps that sighted people use would be a major impediment for people who are blind or visually impaired. Said Christopher Danielson of the National Federation of the Blind, If businesses are allowed to say, We do not have to make our websites accessible to blind people, that would be shutting blind people out of the economy in the 21st century.

Although legislators have yet to set legal standards for website accessibility, the Dominos case makes it clear that its time for businesses to start strategizing about making their websites accessible to all users.

Many companies worry that revamping websites for accessibility will be too costly, too difficult, or just too confusing given the lack of legal standards. However, some forward-thinking companies are going out of their way to not only make their websites more accessible, but to create design tools that could help simplify the process for other designers.

A great example is Stripe.

If you have an online business, you may already be using Stripe to receive payments. Designers Daryl Koopersmith and Wilson Miner take to the Stripe blog to detail their quest to find the perfect and most accessible color palette for Stripe products and sites.

Color plays into accessibility for visually impaired users because certain color contrasts are easier to see than others. But making Stripe more accessible wasnt as simple as just picking paint swatches. Stripe wanted to increase accessibility while also staying true to the colors already associated with their brand.

Our perception of color is quite subjective; we often instinctively have strong opinions about which colors go well together and which clash. To make matters even more complicated, existing color models can be confusing because there is often a difference between how a computer mathematically categorizes a color and how our eyes perceive them.

Koopersmith and Miner give the example that if the human eye compares a blue and a yellow that have the same mathematical lightness, we will still perceive the yellow as the lighter color.

To achieve their goal, Koopersmith and Miner created new software that would adjust colors based on human perception and would generate real-time feedback about accessibility. In this way, the designers were able to adjust Stripes pre-existing brand colors to increase accessibility without losing the vibrancy and character of the original colors.

Not every company can afford to hire innovative designers like Koopersmith and Miner to create new tools every time there is an accessibility challenge. But Stripes project shows gives us reason to be optimistic that improving accessibility will become steadily more well accessible!

Disabilities rights advocates and designers can work synergistically to set standards for accessibility and create comprehensive tools to achieve those standards. In our highly visual age, its important to ensure that no one is left behind because of a visual impairment.

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SINGAPORE: Singaporeans do not have happy recent memories of the Rizal Memorial Stadium in downtown Manila.

I was there at the final game of the 2016 AFF Suzuki Cup where the national team lost to Indonesia and crashed out at the group stage.

As the players walked to the bus in the rain after the game, they passed a group of gleeful Indonesian journalists who said thank you, thank you.

BAD MEMORIES

Now it is the youngsters turn to go to the same Manila arena and face Indonesia on Thursday (Nov 28). Revenge will be pleasant but there are bigger issues at stake. Namely, the 2019 South East Asia (SEA) Games.

Singaporeans also do not have happy recent memories of this Under-22 (U22) tournament either, failing to get out of the group stage in the last two editions in 2017 and on home soil in 2015.

The SEA Games in general are a big deal and no more so than in football. Singapore has never won gold though it has three silvers earned during the 1980s when Fandi Ahmad was at the height of his considerable striking career.

FORMER LIONS

Now the legendary player is the coach of the Young Lions. He is going to need all of his experience to lead these cubs out of a six-team group and into the semi-finals.

A top two finish is needed but it is easier said than done, especially after a disappointing 0-0 draw with Laos in the opening game on Tuesday that earned just one point instead of the expected three.

Laos, coached by ex-Singapore player and coach V Sundramoorthy, proved too hard to break down.

Fandi's former team-mate was probably the only Singaporean who enjoyed the 90 minutes on Tuesday.

The next three games will determine who stays in the Philippines and who goes home. On Thursday, Singapore faces Indonesia in Manila, then Thailand and then Vietnam.

ADDING FIREPOWER

Coach Fandi has named what looks to be a decent squad. The tournament is reserved for Under-22 players but each team can name two over-age stars in the squad of 20.

The inclusion of Faris Ramli shows how seriously Singapore is taking the tournament. The 27-year-old, who has competed at three SEA Games in the past, was the Player of the Year in the 2019 Singapore Premier League, scoring 16 goals.

The boss also summoned his son Ikhsan Fandi from Norway where he plays for Raufoss IL. Negotiations were needed to persuade the Norwegians to release the star during their season.These two attacking players will be crucial in a team that has paid the price for a lack of firepower in the past two editions.

In a combined total of eight games, Singapore scored just nine goals. Myanmar managed 26 in as many games.

Singapore is usually organised at the back - the addition of Tajeli Salamat as an over-age defender adds experience - but much depends on their forwards.

KEEPING THE CUBS TOGETHER

Also adding to the cohesion is the fact that 12 out of the 20 in the squad play for the Garena Young Lions, also the name of a developmental team that plays in the Singapore Premier League, Singapore s domestic club competition.

The thinking goes that exposing young players to regular competitive games enables them to grow together - though others say that as they lose more than they win, confidence can be damaged.

This transition from club to country is helped by the fact that the Garena Young Lions are also coached by Fandi. The bulk of the squad in Manila thus knows him well and vice versa.

With the addition of lengthy preparations, this experience should stand Singapore in good stead.

The training camps, friendlies and tournaments throughout the year were part of the preparations leading up to the SEA Games, said Fandi. All the coaches and backroom staff have worked hard to ensure that the team is mentally, physically and tactically prepared."

TOUGH COMPETITION AHEAD

Yet, as the match with Laos showed, the best-laid plans often do not survive first contact with the enemy. Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam will provide tough opposition though they are all capable of taking points off each other.

Despite having never won gold, Vietnam is the number one ranked team in Southeast Asia at the moment and reached the final of the 2018 Asian U23 championships.

Senior stars such as Nguyen Quang Hai are being chased by European clubs while Doan Van Hau is already in the Netherlands with Heerenveen. The pair are part of the Vietnamese team in the Philippines.

This talented Vietnam team, with a new level of fitness and mentality instilled by South Korean coach and former player Park Hang-seo, see the SEA Games as not just important in its own right but as vital preparation for Januarys Asian Under-23 Championships.

That tournament, hosted by Thailand, provides entry to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for the top three teams.

As hosts, Thailand are also desperate to qualify for the Olympics and also see the SEA Games as crucial. Not only that, the War Elephants are perennial favourites having won 14 out of the last 19 tournaments.

Thailands opening game loss to Indonesia could be seen as a positive and negative for Singapore. It shows that Thailand can be beaten but means they will be even more desperate to defeat Singapore.

It also shows that Indonesia are a force to be reckoned with and have two very talented forward players in Poland-based Egy Maulana as well as Saddil Ramdani.

The game with Indonesia is vital. Win that and Singapore has a platform to move to the last four as well as the confidence.

Lose - especially after the Laos draw - and it will already be mission almost impossible and another disappointing trip home from the Philippines.

John Duerden has lived in Asia for 20 years and covers the regions sporting scene. He is the author of threebooks including Lions & Tigers - The History of Football in Singapore and Malaysia (2017).

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