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All told, only three of the seven line positions on the field goal team were constant from the first kick to the game-clinching last.
It's not the kind of confusion you want when your playoff fate hangs in the balance.
But by this point, they should be used to it.
Singapore’s bid to get UN recognition for its street food has sparked a cross-border culinary clash, with angry chefs in neighbouring Malaysia pouring cold water on the idea.
The city-state is home to many open-air food courts where vendors, known as “hawkers”, serve dishes such as chicken and rice, noodles and meat skewers at relatively cheap prices.
Some hawkers have even been awarded Michelin stars by the culinary bible, which has had a Singapore edition since 2016.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced last week that Singapore will nominate its hawker culture to UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage, describing the city-state’s food centres as “community dining rooms” which form part of the country’s identity.
But the move sparked anger in Malaysia, whose citizens have long claimed their own street food — which shares many similarities with Singapore’s — is far superior to anything in their tiny neighbour.
Malaysian celebrity chef Redzuawan Ismail, commonly known as Chef Wan, told AFP he thought Singapore’s UN bid was “rubbish”.
“When you talk about hawkers, Singapore is not the only one to have hawker culture… Why (do you) need to go to UNESCO to patent? Is yours so special?” added the chef, who once appeared on a show with late American celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain.
Another well-known local chef, Ismail Ahmad, insisted that his country was a street food “paradise” and it should be Malaysia that was applying for UN recognition.
“Even the Singaporean people come to Malaysia and enjoy our stalls,” he said.
But Singaporeans have dismissed the anger in Malaysia, insisting a UNESCO listing is about more than just food.
“It is about the street food culture heritage that bonds people together and is supported by the government and industry, because it is about the community,” acclaimed Singaporean food critic K.F. Seetoh was quoted as saying in the city-state’s New Paper newspaper.
The countries have had testy relations since Singapore became an independent state in 1965 after being ejected from a brief union with Malaysia, but rows about food tend to get particularly heated.
It was hardly a world championship fight, but 71 years ago tonight, the great Joe Louis fought in the Inland Empire.
The Brown Bomber and soon-to-be the longest reigning heavyweight champion came here April 1, 1937, for an exhibition at the old American Legion arena in Ontario.
You could make a case that Louis and Jesse Owens in the 1930s were the catalysts that set the stage for Jackie Robinson’s achievements in breaking the color barrier in baseball – and society in general – a decade later.
Louis’ appearance was at the arena at State Street and Sultana Avenue, according to the Model Colony Room of the Ontario Library. Legion Post No. 112 sponsored weekly boxing programs there from 1934 to 1942, with Max Baer and Jim Jeffries among other boxing greats who appeared there.
In 1937, Louis came to Ontario as part of a nationwide tour in which he put on two- and three-round exhibitions.
He apparently brought along his own opponents whom he fought a number of times – a bit like basketball’s Harlem Globetrotters and their oft-beaten foes, the Washington Generals.
That night in Ontario, the 22-year-old Louis knocked out Leonard Dixon and battered Cecil “Seal” Harris for two rounds, though some questioned the effort put in by his opponents.
Before the packed crowd of 2,500 fans, Louis took on the 210-pound Dixon and “put him to sleep” in 90 seconds with a punch to the jaw.
“Whether Dixon was actually knocked out is open to conjecture but one thing is certain, Louis hit him hard,” wrote the Ontario Daily Report the next day.
Louis then faced Harris, described as a “300-pound man of bone and blubber,” and continued the one-sided battle.
“Louis hit Harris at will and it was evident that he could have put the fat boy in dreamland any time he desired,” said the paper.
“Instead, he carried him through the full two rounds” before finally knocking him through the ropes, ending the exhibition.
Probably weary from an endless number of one-night stops, Louis showed little emotion in the ring.
The reporter suggested that given the force of his punches, “perhaps in the back of Louis’ mind” he saw his next real opponent: heavyweight champion James Braddock.
After leaving Ontario for exhibitions in San Diego and Salt Lake City, Louis returned to Chicago to prepare for the fight with Braddock.
On June 22, he knocked out Braddock in eight rounds to win the title he would hold continuously until announcing his retirement in 1949.
After the fight in Ontario, reporters had asked Louis and his handlers about his only loss, a 12-round knockout by German fighter Max Schmeling in June 1936.
“His handlers reminded those present that a knockout is likely to occur in any fighter’s career, no matter how good, and that one defeat certainly doesn’t relegate a fighter to oblivion,” noted the Daily Report.
When Louis won the title in the summer of 1937, he admitted he didn’t truly feel like a champion until he had another chance to beat Schmeling.
Their 1938 rematch was more than just a fight – it pitted an American black man against the champion of Adolf Hitler’s Germany in the atmosphere of a world on the brink of war.
With the world watching, on June 22, 1938, Louis flattened Schmeling in 124 seconds in New York, duplicating the crushing blow to Hitler that Jesse Owens had delivered during the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
….Brown may not be as cuddly as [Aaron] Swartz, and certainly does not have the same roster of influential friends. Nor can it be categorically argued that Brown did nothing wrong (just as many of Swartz’s most ardent defenders acknowledged about him): that YouTube video, made when he was admittedly struggling with imp...
But none of that should matter. The claim with prosecutorial abuse is never that the person targeted is a perfect being or even that he never did anything wrong. The issue with prosecutorial abuse is that the punishments being meted out are wildly disproportionate to the alleged acts when the trivial harms of the acts ...
This is the first I’ve read about this, and I can’t pretend to know that Glenn’s account is fair on all counts. But read the whole thing anyway. More here.
In this research, a conventional petro-based latex was partially replaced with a biobased latex in a curtain coating. A common petro-based rheology modifier used in curtain coatings, which is relatively costly and difficult to disperse, was also replaced with two inorganic rheology modifiers. The influence of these mat...
In the rheological study, the interactions between biopolymer nanoparticles and inorganic rheology modifiers were found to improve the rheological properties of the biobased latex coatings. Changes in the rheological properties of the coatings were found to depend on the type of rheology modifier used and ratio of rheo...
In a stability study, the effects of biobased latex and rheology modifiers on curtain stability were examined. A correlation between the surface tension and CaBER filament lifetime was revealed. Curtain stability studies were performed on a slot die over a flow rate range of 20 to 65 mL/s. It was found that the curtain...
As a final study, coating formulations were adjusted for the application on a slide die by changing the latex type and surfactant amount. Curtain stability was improved by increasing latex substitution in the presence of inorganic rheology modifier. The impacts of biobased latex and inorganic rheology modifier on the p...
Chen, Ting, "Application of Starch-Based Nanoparticle Colloidal Dispersion in Curtain Coating" (2015). Dissertations. 1168.
SUMMIT COUNTY – To help nonprofits cope with an increase in basic-needs aid, The Summit Foundation recently awarded $85,000 in grants locally. Funding was provided by the Anschutz Foundation, and it will be distributed to the community on top of The Foundation’s regular grant cycle.
The purpose of the Anschutz grant is to provide food, rental and shelter assistance; utility and energy assistance; health care; counseling; and emergency basic-need services throughout the area. The Summit Foundation hopes it will assist individuals, children and families locally as they encounter difficult financial ...
Grant recipients include the Family and Intercultural Resource Center, Summit Community Care Clinic, Advocates for Victims of Assault, Mountain Family Center (Kremmling), Grand County Rural Health Network, Lake County Advocates, and Park County Senior Coalition.
According to The Summit Foundation’s executive director Lee Zimmerman, the Anschutz grant is new to Summit County as of December 2009. The Anschutz Foundation usually funds projects on the Front Range, and this is its first time aiding Summit County organizations. Another branch of the organization – the Anschutz Famil...
“We hope it will be an annual grant, but so far its only scheduled for this year,” Zimmerman said.
Summit Community Care Clinic executive director Sarah Vaine said the clinic’s portion of the grant will help the organization fill a big funding hole.
Family and Intercultural Resource Center’s grant and data manager Brianne Snow said FIRC plans to use its grant for direct emergency assistance as its currently low on funding too.
“This is definitely going to help fill that gap,” she said, noting that the money will likely help 32 families with emergency assistance.
The Summit Foundation is also in the process of accepting grant applications for its spring cycle. Eligible nonprofits should be located in Summit, Grand, Lake or Park counties.
Zimmerman said The Foundation will likely give out between $300,000-$400,000 this season. In 2009, it distributed more than $1 million to 80 nonprofits, and $157,000 in scholarships to 64 high school graduates.
The Spring 2010 grant application is available at http://www.summitfoundation.org, and its submission deadline is April 9.
For more information, call The Summit Foundation at (970) 453-5970.
ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - A huge video wall may save two historic buildings threatened with demolition for blocking the view of Greece’s new Acropolis Museum, architects say.
Greek architects came up with hundreds of ideas to save the two landmarks, which stand in front of the new museum, due to open this week and expected to give new impetus to Greece’s efforts to bring home the Parthenon marbles from Britain.
Residents, artists and politicians have protested a Culture Ministry decision to demolish them and the case is being examined by a top court, which may overrule the ministry.
Weeks before the inauguration of the new museum which has been plagued by legal battles and missed deadlines, Greece’s Culture Minister Antonis Samaras, proposed to move the facades of the buildings to nearby plots, but architects said the landmarks also form a unity.
One of the buildings is hailed as a prime example of art deco in Athens, designed by an award-winning Greek architect, and boasts statues and mosaics on its facade.
The other, neo-classical building on the pedestrian street which surrounds about half of the Acropolis, belongs to music composer Vangelis Papathanasiou, of Chariots of Fire fame.
Greek architects took part in a national competition organized by e-magazine www.greekarchitects.gr and came up with ideas that would preserve the buildings without allowing their unattractive backs ruin the museum’s view of the Acropolis.
More than 170 solutions were submitted. The winning proposal suggested building a wall visually extending the massive walls of the Acropolis and covering the back of the landmarks.
Another shortlisted idea was to build a huge video wall that would project what is happening on the street in front of the buildings, visually erasing them from behind for all museum visitors.
“The government has to realize that this is merely a design problem and can be solved. The state must not see our buildings as rivals but as neighbors,” said architect Nikos Rousseas who has his office in one of the buildings.
Women supporters of Guisborough Parish Church, are inviting people to enjoy refreshment as they wander around their gardens in Danesfort Avenue, on Saturday, between 1.30pm and 4.30pm.
Waking The Dead (BBC1); Young Doctors (ITV1): THE team investigating unsolved crimes in Waking The Dead need to turn their attention to star Trevor Eve's glasses.
THE first blind person to attempt to fly a plane around the UK landed safely in the North-East on the first leg of his flight yesterday.
UNION officials last night said they were in the dark over the number of jobs likely to go in the North-East following Gordon Brown's announcement of huge Civil Service cutbacks.
POLICE have been branded heavy-handed for stopping brass bands playing as they left Saturday's Durham Miners' Gala.
TWO second half goals ensured Darlington's pre-season preparations got off to a winning start at Whitby Town last night.
STREET CHILDREN: YOUR article (Echo, Jul 3) about the plight of street children in Columbia gives the impression that the organisation, The Children of the Andes, operates exclusively in Medellin - not so.
FIRE juggling and unicycle rugby are not two activities usually associated with schools, but one group of youngsters is preparing to put on a show combining all manner of circus skills.
THE new regime at Darlington Football Club is closing in on a triple boost for supporters and the community.
A COMPANY that has revamped a former wool factory in Darlington has won an award.
RAILWAY police have mounted an education campaign telling youngsters and adults to keep off the country's newest tourist line.
A GERMAN Second World War bomber pilot yesterday visited a 1,000-year-old church he targeted by mistake and apologised to villagers.
THE watchdog for local authorities in the North-East and North Yorkshire has published its annual report.
Yorkshire off-spinner Richard Dawson and batsman Anthony McGrath are both included in England's preliminary list of 30 names for the ICC Champions Trophy which takes place in September.
ATTEMPTS to close an offshore off-licence are poised to go before the courts.
A TEAM of street wardens has got new powers to crack down on people who blight the neighbourhoods they patrol.
TEENAGERS were inspired to live the healthy life by an Olympic athlete yesterday.
A WOMAN who posed as a benefits rights worker to try to steal cash from a pensioner appeared before magistrates yesterday.
THE Prince's Trust is inviting young entrepreneurs in County Durham to put forward their business ideas.
TWO Durham lifeguards who help others to learn how to save lives have been honoured for their work.
A FRIEND of mine said she wished that she had the time and space to grow her own herbs for cooking. I had to take immediate (but friendly and informative) issue with her comment.
A FORMER care home branded an eyesore by residents could be demolished.
PEOPLE who have touched the lives of staff and students at a rural school will be remembered through a special garden named after a popular sixth former who inspired the project.
THE long-awaited opening date for a town's new swimming pool will be revealed today.
A TEENAGER killed his step-grandfather after he was ordered out of his home for being drunk, a court heard.
ONE of the fun things about being involved with the media is that all sorts of people send you mail. I look forward to coming home and opening the front door to piles of envelopes littering the doormat.
The world's biggest passenger liner took a detour to a seaside town yesterday after a request by veteran TV presenter Sir Jimmy Savile.
SCORES of children from across the region joined a former Pop Idol contestant on stage last night in the musical Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat.
AN elderly man is being hunted by police after he dragged a woman into his car and attacked her.
SAINSBURY'S faced a storm of protest from shareholders over its decision to give ousted chairman Sir Peter Davis a £2.3m share award.
House prices rose by 1.2 per cent during May as growth continued to be driven by properties at the bottom end of the market, figures have shown.
YOUNGSTERS are being invited to libraries across Stockton borough to take part in a literary challenge.
A COUNTRYSIDE park in Hartlepool has announced its events for the school summer holidays.
The Green at Billy Row, near Crook, lives up to its glowing reputation, leaving the column bowled over.

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