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Who has been the star of the tournament so far?
outstanding and the title is still up for grabs.
Can England beat France in Paris and then Ireland?
France play with stability and simplicity under their new coach. England need the courage to attack.
Will anyone stop Wales clinching the championship?
No, it’s in the bag. They have nucleus of players that could achieve something special in the long term. The fact has never changed that you need territory to win.
Have teams lapsed back into a negative kicking game?
as there’s far less risk.
What has been your moment of the Six Nations so far?
The skill level and size of the Welsh back line means they have produced the most eye-catching moments.
On basis of Six Nations games, is Warren Gatland a shoo-in for the Lions coaching job?
Well I’d pick him, put it like that. Warren’s great gift as a coach is that he’s a people person and not biased at all. He will pick the top players, and if that includes a lot of Welshmen, that is only because they are the best players on offer.
Wesley Fofana. He’s made a great impression for France. Wales’s George North is not far behind.
France in Paris are too experienced. If Ireland beat Scotland they will be very confident in London.
France have the ability to win anywhere if they are in form. It will be close but France may surprise Wales.
No. I’ve not got that impression.
The Ireland- Wales match was a brilliant contest with great rugby. The try by Fofana against Italy. It was a dream moment for him to score on his debut.
Yes. He’s an ex-Wasp like myself. ‘Once a Wasp always a Wasp.’ I have to support him.
Full back Rob Kearney, followed closely by flanker Stephen Ferris. But any of the Welsh team as well.
France will win. They are the better team. If Ireland had Paul O’Connell fit I’d be backing them, but not now.
No. They are developing a ‘new breed’ of talent and are very disciplined, unlike the Gavin Henson era.
No. Teams are being more considered in when to attack but they are not as conservative as before.
Oh yes. There’s nobody else at the moment.
Captain Sergio Parisse. I don’t know how he does it but he keeps putting up in the big performances.
Has to be France at home. They will be too strong. But England will win at home for the same reason.
No. They are the in-form team and have emerging talents like North, Cuthbert and Priestland.
Yes. Perhaps, they should look to change the points system. That might encourage more attacking.
Wales hanging on to win at Twickenham. It meant a lot to them and showed they can win the big games.
There is no one else in the running. It’s his if he wants it.
There is phenomenal quality across all the back rows but Ross Rennie has really shone out for Scotland.
No. Their attack is pretty blunt and they have been lucky. Two from five is all they could have hoped for.
No. The game in Dublin was everything and to follow that with wins over England and Scotland sets them up.
It’s easier to coach defence than attack and that’s the bottom line. Teams make themselves difficult to play.
George North’s bludgeoning power coming off that wing and then a beautifully deft offload against Ireland.
I think so. I’ve always believed it should be someone from Britain or Ireland but I think Gatland qualifies now having served such a long apprenticeship first with Ireland and then with Wales. He’s no longer a foreign coach in that sense. He was very successful with Sir Ian McGeechan out in South Africa so he knows what it’s all about.
Gethin Jenkins has been outstanding and put in massive amount of work, particularly at the scrum.
Ireland were better than France and it wouldn’t surprise me if England turned them over.
Wales must be careful. Italy will do a disruptive job and always get one unscripted win each year.
Teams don’t want to risk running the ball out of their own half in case you lose the collision and get penalised.
The final whistle drama for Wales at Twickenham with that ‘try’. You need luck to win this tournament.
Yes, unfortunately! Not only will Wales lose their head coach but he’ll no doubt take some of his excellent coaching staff and trusted lieutenants with him. It will be a big loss for Wales for next year’s Six Nations.
An upset driver gets out of his car near Eighth Street and Cooper Avenue during the early evening rush hour last Friday evening.
A major concrete pour for the Grand Avenue bridge deck is scheduled for today beginning at 7 p.m. and continuing until Saturday morning.
According to project officials, 12 concrete pump trucks per hour will arrive and stage on both the east and west sides of Seventh Street for the duration of the pour.
Area residents and businesses should anticipate noise from machinery. Motorists are also asked to avoid traveling through the detour route during this time, if possible, so that the concrete trucks aren’t delayed.
In case of wet or cold weather — and the forecast calls for seasonal temperatures and dry weather Friday afternoon into Saturday — the contingency plan calls for the concrete pour to take place Saturday night, or the following Friday, Oct. 13. The remaining section of deck is scheduled to be poured the week of Oct. 9.
An overall 22 percent reduction in average daily vehicle trips through Glenwood Springs during the Grand Avenue bridge closure and detour is an impressive accomplishment that’s worth celebrating, bridge project officials say.
But they’re also quick to acknowledge that the reduction has done little to keep travel delays to a minimum at peak hours, when it can take upwards of two hours just to get through town during the weekday afternoon and evening commuter rush.
The Colorado Department of Transportation marked the midway point of the 95-day detour period this week, as crews prepare for a major concrete pour Friday night and Saturday morning on the bridge deck and southernmost span that will land in downtown Glenwood Springs.
It’s a critical step toward completion of the final segment of the new, $126 million bridge, and in keeping the project on schedule.
CDOT has also released data from traffic counts taken along the Grand Avenue, Eighth Street and Midland Avenue detour route during a four-day period in mid-September after area schools had started back up for the school year.
While traffic volumes since the detour went into effect in mid-August have not come close to the targeted 35 percent reduction, enough people are taking the bus or finding alternative ways to get around to make some difference, Graham Riddile, project engineer for CDOT, said.
“We are seeing a lot of positive behavior to try to help the situation, and we would like to see more, that would be great,” Riddile said.
One concern, he said, is that, as the weather gets “colder, wetter and darker” in the coming weeks, people will begin to fall back on old routines.
The traffic counts confirm a definite “peak to plateau” pattern during the heaviest morning and evening periods, Riddile said.
Overall, there’s been a reduction of about 7,300 vehicle trips, on average, from a pre-detour estimate of 32,560 trips to an actual number of 25,277 trips going both directions through town per day, for a 22 percent reduction.
But the peak morning and evening travel demands are far different, the traffic counts revealed.
The morning rush recorded 4,500 fewer trips going south through Glenwood Springs than estimated based on pre-detour statistics, for a 26 percent reduction in traffic.
Morning traffic also exceeds the detour capacity for a shorter span of time, for about an hour around 6 a.m. based on the Sept. 11-14 counts.
The afternoon/evening period, when traffic is coming back through town headed north, saw only 2,800 fewer trips compared with the pre-detour estimate during that four-day stretch, for an 18 percent reduction.
That explains the large difference in traffic patterns from morning to afternoon, and the heavier congestion well into the evening on given days, Riddile said.
The afternoon traffic typically begins to back up around 2 p.m. and lasts much longer, until 7 p.m. or later.
The average counts did not include a Friday, which has proven to be the worst day of the week for mid- and late-day traffic.
“Taking a look at these numbers, it’s clear we are hitting our capacity earlier and for a longer period of time in the afternoon,” Riddile said.
Reducing detour traffic to a more manageable level, especially during those peak times, was a primary goal for project officials.
Before the detour, peak traffic reached 1,800 vehicles per hour in the afternoon, and nearly that same number in the morning.
What had been six traffic lanes on Grand Avenue and Midland Avenue through town and over the Colorado River before the detour, was cut to just two lanes for the better part of the detour route, Riddile noted.
To make the detour flow more smoothly, traffic managers figured there would need to be a reduction of about 700 vehicles per hour.
As things have played out, the detour capacity is indeed around 1,100 vehicles per hour. At that volume, the long delays and traffic behaviors being observed are exactly what was predicted going in, Riddile said.
“We knew it was a matter of getting traffic down to that capacity, or as close as we possibly could, to minimize that queuing effect we see,” he said.
When the detour does hit capacity and backups begin, that’s when traffic starts to cascade onto side streets such as Blake and Midland, and even onto County Road 154 at Buffalo Valley to South Grand.
Meanwhile, the traffic frustrations play out daily in comments on the Roaring Fork Road and Weather Facebook page and other venues, at times reaching the boiling point.
“I’m thinking this morning how the elite in the world don’t seem to have any conception of what the average person goes through day in and day out just trying to provide for their family, and to get to and from work,” one recent commentator lamented.
“And that makes me angry, especially in this case, where CDOT and other planners did not adequately plan for traffic delays and routing in Glenwood,” she said, touching off a long thread of responses.
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Special Counsel Robert Mueller has collected sufficient evidence to charge Michael Flynn, US President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, and his son, NBC News reported on Sunday, citing multiple sources familiar with the investigation.
Flynn served 24 days as Trump’s national security adviser but was fired after it was discovered he had misrepresented his contacts with a Russian diplomat to Vice President Michael Pence.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller’s office, declined to comment. Robert Kelner, Flynn’s lawyer, also declined to comment.
Barry Coburn, a lawyer for Michael Flynn Jr., declined to comment, although the younger Flynn appeared to address the report in a tweet. “The SJW are out in full this morning....the disappointment on your faces when I don’t go to jail will be worth all your harassment...,” the younger Flynn wrote, using an acronym for“social justice warriors,” a pejorative often used in reference to liberals.
Undisputed leader of OPEC, Saudi Arabia, increased daily oil production by 658,800 barrels in March to an average of 10.294 million barrels a day, says data the country gave to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ secretariat in Vienna.
This volume is more than the kingdom’s 10.2 million barrels per day(bpd)in August 2013, and output will continue to hover around 10 million bpd , Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi told reporters last week.
The sheer size of this growth is equal to about half the daily production in the US Bakken shale formation in North Dakota, Bloomberg noted. The shale oil field is estimated to have the most oil reserves in the US.
Crude oil futures for May crashed up to 2 percent during trading Thursday after Saudi Arabia boosted crude production to the highest in three decades in March.
Tumbling prices erased gains from Wednesday, when London-traded Brent prices increased nearly 6 percent, settling at $63.32, the highest mark since December 18.
Oil prices in 2015 have experienced a relative boom following the major 50 percent bust in the last six months of 2014, when Brent dived below $45 for the first time since 2009.
Other major factors on oil prices in 2015 have been the conflict in Yemen, the possible re-entrance of Iranian oil to the market if sanctions are lifted, and continued increased stockpiles from the US.
The Scherer plant in Georgia, one of the nation's top carbon dioxide emitters.
On Monday, The New York Times published a leaked climate report by scientists from 13 federal agencies that shows, unequivocally, that the earth is warming, the consequences will be severe, if not apocalyptic, and humans are the cause of it. None of this is news to anyone who pays attention to what’s happening on Planet Earth. What’s new is that scientists from virtually every relevant federal agency are broadcasting this right now, at a time when the Trump administration has pulled out of the Paris climate agreement, pushed policies to increase coal mining on federal lands, rolled back air pollution standards and taken direct aim at President Obama’s signature climate change achievement, the Clean Power Plan. This report argues that climate change is not only real and happening now, but that by denying science, lying to the American people and pushing fossil fuels, President Trump is putting the health and stability of the operating system of the entire planet at risk. To put it bluntly, this report is a huge throw-down by federal scientists that challenges the most basic fundamentals of Trump’s climate denial charade.
Science reports are their own kind of art form, with subtle ways of underscoring or clarifying data and politically dangerous information (the early IPCC reports were masterpieces of not-always-deliberate scientific obfuscation). This report is remarkable for its clarity, brevity and use of helpful graphics. In recent decades, scientists have learned a lot about how the earth works. But just as importantly, they have learned how to communicate what they have learned about how the earth works.
The report chronicles the risks of drought, increased storm activity, sea level rise and the die-off of coral reefs, among other things. The chapter on sea level rise (a subject near and dear to my heart) is particularly good, offering a range of sea level rise scenarios from 1 foot to 8.2 feet by 2100. The report frames these various scenarios with probabilistic analysis, including analysis of that the chances that low-end scenarios will be exceeded by real-time events (virtually 100 percent). The report also includes regional sea level rise scenarios, explaining, for example, why the Pacific Islands will see higher water levels than, say, Alaska. More importantly, the report gives voice to the risk of sudden ice sheet collapse in West Antarctica, as well as underscoring the fact that sea level rise won’t stop anytime soon, rising as much as 32 feet by 2200.
But the real eye-opener is the final chapter, “Potential Surprises: Compound Extremes and Tipping Elements.” Here, the report offers risk assessments of various climate doomsday scenarios, from release of methane gases in melting permafrost to the shut-down of the circulatory system of the Atlantic Ocean. Many of these scenarios have been talked about in mainstream science before, but it’s bracing to see them all collected here and addressed so forthrightly. These low-probablity, high-consequence events are the fodder for doomsday climate scenarios like a recent piece in New York magazine that caused a broad debate over just how doomed we really are, and how that dark story should be communicated. It’s bracing – and, somehow, hopeful – to see these scenarios soberly addressed by great scientists.
In the coming weeks, it will be grimly entertaining to watch Trump, Pruitt and the cast of clowns in the White House discredit, dance around and deny this report. But for the moment, scientists have gotten their revenge. They have resisted the forces of darkness and given us a sharp and true picture of the world we are creating for ourselves, and for generations to come. And for that, we should be grateful. It’s not easy being a truth-teller in this new world of alternative facts and fossil fuel hucksterism, but this report is a reminder, if one is needed, that climate scientists are among the real heroes of our time.
Watch below: How the Trump Administration is systematically – and often quietly – weakening science in America.
Can you imagine if symbols of success were to actually trigger the fears of failure?
“I was just lucky, and now they’re going to find out."
What’s common between Maya Angelou, Tina Fey, Charles Darwin, John Steinbeck, Neil Gaiman, Emma Watson, Sheryl Sandberg, and Meryl Streep? Yes, they are phenomenally successful, but they also feel like, “I can’t do this, today will be the day they find out I’m a fraud!" Discussions about this feeling, commonly known as Impostor Syndrome, have gained a lot of momentum in popular culture, forums about academic experiences as well as op-eds and blogs on education and management. The correct usage of the term is, however, Impostor Phenomenon, and not syndrome, as it is not an official medical diagnosis.
Impostor Phenomenon describes the situation wherein high-achieving people find it hard to believe that they deserve credit for their achievements. They feel a sense of “intellectual phoniness", that is, they remain convinced that they are frauds, and soon everyone will figure this out. Despite meeting objective criteria for success (for instance, earning degrees, scholastic achievement and recognition from colleagues and authorities), those with impostor feelings find it hard to believe that they are intelligent or worthy of the accolades. In fact, they think they were simply lucky.
One of the explanations for this phenomenon is that those with impostor feelings think that those who succeed are naturally competent and do not have to work hard. So, they come to the erroneous conclusion that they must be really dull to have to put in that much work for the same kind of outcome.
To understand the kind of people who experience Impostorism, research has tried to explore its relationship with personality. Studies have shown that those who are low on the personality characteristic of emotional stability tend to experience feelings of Impostorism. This can be explained by the fact that Impostor Phenomenon is characterized by negative emotionalities like the fear of failure (or success), a “workaholic personality" or the fear of being outed as a “fraud". Further, conscientiousness has been found to be inversely related to Impostorism. Those who are conscientious tend to follow norms and rules, and prefer planning, organizing and prioritizing tasks. In short, they are hardworking or persevering. This relationship can be explained by the fact that impostors have a lower self-discipline, in that, they initially procrastinate and then go into a frenzy to complete the task. Furthermore, studies illustrate that both men and women—in different cultures and occupations—tend to report feeling like impostors.
To understand this in an Indian context, we collected data from Indian postgraduates studying social science, arts or humanities. Out of the 75 women whose data we analysed, about 8% of them experienced intense impostor feelings often, and about 44% of them experienced it frequently (see figure two). We also found that extraversion, neuroticism (as opposed to emotional stability) and conscientiousness were good predictors of Impostorism (see figure one). More specifically, neuroticism had a direct relationship with Impostorism, while conscientiousness and extraversion had a negative relationship with it.
Additionally, we also held a (loosely set) focus group with six postgraduate students to elucidate our quantitative findings. While not all of them attributed most of their successes to luck, participants did say that social support played a major role in their “peak experience with success". That is, when asked to recall an instance where they were definitely successful in an endeavour, and were praised for their efforts, most of them said social support played a significant role in it. While they didn’t attribute their success to luck all the time, when asked if they do feel like impostors sometimes, they mention that “At some point all of us have done [felt] it."

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