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Nancy Moyer Case Went a Decade With No Substantial Leads
By Cody Neuenschwander / cneuenschwander@chronline.com
Nancy Moyer’s house in the 700 block of state Route 507, Tenino, was found empty on March 6, 2009. The door was ajar, the TV was on, a glass of red wine sat on a table and Moyer’s credit cards, purse and identification were all still inside.
In the decade that followed, law enforcement, private investigators, hopeful friends and family members, TV crews and podcasters would all sink their teeth into the troubling disappearance, all vying to uncover what happened to Moyer. The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office eventually dubbed Moyer’s case a no-body homicide — meaning although neither a body nor remains had been recovered, Moyer was almost certainly dead at the hands of another.
‘I Don’t Think Anyone Will Be Able to Find Her’: Man Calls 911, Confesses to Killing Nancy Moyer
Ten years later, with the arrest of a suspect who reportedly confessed to the crime before retracting his statements, many are reflecting on the past decade.
Thurston County Sheriff John Snaza said the new direction the case has taken is victory for investigating law enforcement officers.
“I was a deputy at the time and I was involved in this case as well. I can tell you any member of Thurston County Sheriff’s Office that when you have these cold cases that bring new information or new leads to the solving of the crime, you’re always excited about the persistence we have in these cases,” he said. “Many people tend to forget these sort of crimes. In law enforcement we don’t forget any of these crimes.”
Bill Moyer and Samantha Moyer — one of their daughters — made an appearance at a press conference this week. While noting that the family hasn’t heard many details about the ongoing investigation, Bill Moyer thanked law enforcement for their dedication to the case over the past 10 years.
Creator of ‘Hide and Seek’ Podcast Praised for Putting Nancy Moyer Case in Spotlight
“Over the years we’ve dealt with a lot and they’ve been very good to the family and very much appreciate what they’ve done, because 10 years is a long time for us and it’s a long time for law enforcement,” he said.
John Snaza’s brother, Lewis County Sheriff Rob Snaza, said any break in a cold case — even if it’s that of a different jurisdiction — is an encouraging thing. Lewis County continues to investigate a number of cold cases, Rob Snaza said, referencing pieces of evidence connected to Lewis County cold cases that were recently sent for processing at the Washington State Patrol lab.
Nancy Moyer’s Family ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ After Break in Decade-Old Case
“This is always a glimmer of hope for the rest of us that are doing these cold cases, because you hear across the nation about these cold cases being resolved. It’s just a matter of going after due diligence, going after the case and working hard and submitting items into evidence to be tested through labs,” he said. “…We’re committed … that all of the cold cases we have in the county, we want to work and we want to solve. We want to bring resolution, like the family does. … It’s important for the family and it’s important to us that we not give up on those victims.”
On March 8, 2009, Moyer’s husband, Bill Moyer, found the house empty after dropping off their two children. While still married, the couple had been separated for two years. At that point, no one had seen Moyer for two days — when she carpooled home with a co-worker at her job at the Department of Ecology in Lacey, and was seen later that day buying groceries in Tenino.
It wasn’t like Moyer to not be home when the kids were to be dropped off, Bill Moyer told law enforcement. Her white Honda was still parked in the driveway.
Bev Poston, Moyer’s former boss at the Department of Ecology, told The Chronicle in February 2010: “I’m hoping. My gut feeling is that she is no longer with us. … If she was, I know she would have moved heaven and earth to contact someone.”
Poston, as reported in a 2019 Chronicle article, said she organized search parties throughout the area and researched searching techniques.
She was contacted by a psychic, who said she sensed a location the body might be hidden.
Bail Set at $1.5M for Man Who Confessed to Killing Nancy Moyer and Later Recanted
Leads were scarce throughout the year, until the grisly murder of a Yelm woman in August 2010 — and the subsequent arrest of Bernard K. Howell — caused some to draw connections between the two incidents, and causing some to put Howell at the top of their suspect list.
Vanda Boone, 60, was found dead in the back of Howell’s truck after he was pulled over by a Thurston County sheriff’s deputy. Her throat had been slit and she had suffered blunt force injuries to her head and neck, said Thurston County Coroner Gary Warnock.
Former Tenino Police Officer Adam Haggerty said he was one of the first law enforcement officers on scene, and described Howell’s distant “1,000-yard stare.”
Howell later pleaded guilty to the death and was sentenced to 26 years. While some investigators would later discard the notion that Howell was also responsible for Moyer’s disappearance, the Boone murder would certainly label Howell a person of interest. However, authorities still lacked concrete leads.
In 2013, Olympia-based private investigators headed by Fred Doughty, an ex-officer and defense criminal investigator, began to reexamine the case, The Chronicle reported. Doughty said, at the time, the team would go back to interview family and extended family members in attempts to catch clues that had been missed.
“Somebody knows. Somebody knows something, but unfortunately no one has come to us and said something,” said Detective Ben Elkins with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office in 2016.
Editor's Notes: Answers Come at Last in Decade-Old Disappearance of Nancy Moyer
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A Brief History of Kang, Part 21: The Prodigal Child
By Michael Proteau
We now come to an issue in the Kang history which has been dealt with a number of times since I have been on the list. Avengers v.1 #200 is one of those controversial issues that keeps popping up and so I will not summarize in as much detail as I have previous parts, but will focus on time and/or Kang/Immortus related bits.
There is a prologue to the plot of this issue which runs through Avengers 197-199, in which Carol ironically finds herself pregnant after comforting Wanda about not having children and commenting how children just would not fit into her life as Ms. Marvel. The gestation period moves at an astounding pace, and Carol finds herself coming to term in a span of three days. She does not know who the father is, and tells Wanda there can be no father. In the course of this, Carol reveals her I.D. to Wanda and the Avengers, Beast has some great lines about being a teddy bear, and Dr. Donald Blake is called in as a consulting physician (anyone ever notice that Blake seems to be a general practitioner who happens to specialize in whatever field the Avengers need him in from a trauma surgeon to an Ob/Gyn and everything in between?) Carol goes into labor and 199 ends with Blake's ominous line "Ms. Marvel's gone into labor, and it's not like any labor I've ever seen! I don't know if I can handle it! Frankly...I don't know if anything human can!" bringing us to....
Avengers #200 a Shooter, Perez, Layton, Michelinie/Michelinie/Perez/ Green/Salicrup production
"The Child is Father To..."
Carol gives birth to a boy and the Avengers are all shown reacting in various ways. Carol seems strangely upset by the whole thing. The child seems normal but is aging at an incredible rate.
scene switch:
a man rises early and travels via subway to work, when he emerges from the tunnel, he finds not the Wall Street he was expecting, but a quaint scene from a pre-industrial era.
Back at the Mansion, Wondy checks on Carol and has a heart to heart with her about her child while the 2 Hanks (Pym & McCoy) and Blake look in on the child. Physically he is now five years old, but his mental capacity is far beyond that. The child reveals that his name is Marcus. Cap and Shellhead question Marcus about his origins, and Marcus claims to be his own father. The Avengers agree to give him some tools to work with.
a woman in Nassau county steps out to get her newspaper and looks up to see a prehistoric landscape populated with dinosaurs, and faints.
Back at the Mansion, Marcus labors at constructing a mysterious object. Physically he now has the body of a 12-year-old and a mental capacity in the Einstein range. The Avengers are hanging around the Mansion, Hawk wants to put our boy Marcus in a cage, and good ole Jarvis reports that the Avengers are receiving a large number of crank calls, the last of which was someone reporting that their deli was just robbed by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Vision collects data and hatches a theory on the nature of Marcus, but disses Jocasta in doing so. Carol decides to meet her child, but is shocked to find a full grown adult who calls her mother. Marcus reassures her that everything will be fine once the flux is negated. This comment perplexes the Avengers, and Marcus keeps saying everything will be explained after he has finished, and he goes back to work on his project.
Then all hell breaks loose as a very large T-Rex and aircraft ranging from bi-planes to starships attack the Mansion. The Avengers react and counter-attack, but there are threats within the Mansion as well as without. While Shellhead attacks the T-Rex, Wanda is confronted by a mounted knight who seeks to kill her in the name of King George because she's a witch (burn her! But does she weigh the same as a duck? :) ), Cap, Hawk and Beast are attacked by a Native American war band (Mohawks? by the look), and Blake transforms into Thor. The Avengers battle the various threats, and even Jarv gets into the act, decking a decidedly discourteous though dashing cavalier. Hawk is convinced Marcus is the cause of all this and rushes to make his way back to the chamber where they left him working on his machine.
in that very chamber, Marcus and Carol converse while Marcus works on his machine. Carol states that she is held there by some unknown compulsion. Marcus tells her she must leave as he has to activate his machine, she refuses and he renders her unconscious. He apologizes as he lifts her up, saying..."forgive me mother. Forgive me...My love!" as Hawk busts in with a mad-on that just won't quit. He fires a blast arrow and reduces Marcus' machine to rubble. Marcus is dismayed and weeps, but is then consumed with anger, telling Hawk it's now kill or be killed. However before they can throw down, Thor and Shellhead arrive to separate them. Thor states that Marcus' visage looks familiar and asks Marcus his origins. Marcus declines to answer and tells them they must kill him or he will kill them all, but Carol, now conscious, intervenes. Marcus still blusters, but Carol tells him if he is going to kill anyone, he has to start with her. Marcus backs down and tells them he really only wanted them to kill him, stating that he couldn't stand the thought of going back to living like he had since his father left, since the last days of.... IMMORTUS!
Now Thor recognizes his visage, (geez some people just never get it w/o help! ;) ) citing his recent encounter with Immortus (Thor #281/282), but Carol states she has never met Immortus so how can he be the father, to which Marcus again states that he himself impregnated Carol. (Time to jump in the way back machine folks, it's flashback time!!!!)
You see Immortus, the Lord of Limbo and Undisputed Master of Time got lonely and yanked a woman destined to die to be his mate. Immortus created a pocket within Limbo where times flows naturally and Marcus was conceived from this union. Eventually though, his mate was yanked back to the timestream as Immortus didn't realize there was a time limit to how long a mortal could spend in Limbo (hold your tongue 'til the comments!!!) and Immortus seemed nonplussed by this occurrence. Marcus was raised in the pocket of ordinary time so he could grow and develop. When Marcus appeared to be a young adult, Immortus himself disappeared, never to return. We are told in a footnote that this was the aspect of Immortus who died along with Kang in issue 143 (hold your tongue 'til the comments ).
Marcus wanders Limbo aimlessly and cannot even escape to earth as he is a product of Limbo and his presence would cause an irreparable disruption of the timestream. He felt trapped and abandoned until he hits upon the idea of arranging for himself to be born onto earth and develop rapidly enough to negate the time flux distortion. Researching led him to the conclusion that Ms. Marvel's human/Kree mix would make her the perfect vessel for his rebirth. So he abducts her from the timestream, seduces her, implants her with his seed and returns her a second after she left, bringing us to the beginning of the saga where Carol finds herself pregnant without knowing who the daddy was. Now, since Hawkeye has destroyed his machine he must return to Limbo or cause irreparable harm to earth's timestream, or die. He doesn't want to return to his solitary existence, so hoped the Avengers would kill him. Carol agrees to go with him so he won't have to be alone, and Thor uses Mjolnir to transport them back to Limbo. All the out of time attackers disappear, and the Avengers hope Carol will live happily ever after.
Avengers Annual #10 by Claremont/Golden et. al.
Carol returned to earth and had her powers stolen by Rogue. When she meets the Avengers, she blasts them for betraying and abandoning her. Marcus had used Immortus' technology to influence Carol's decisions, essentially forcing himself on her. However, when he returned to Limbo he was unknowingly out of synch with the time flow and aged and died in a matter of days. Carol figures out enough of Immortus' technology to return to earth, but had no desire to associate with the Avengers again, and until Rogue and the Masters of Evil got involved, had no intention of ever contacting them.
Hoo-boy, where do I start. I have avoided most of the previous discussions of Avengers #200 because frankly, I just never liked the story. It all seemed so contrived, and well, when I was younger Ms. M was not one of my favorites, so I was not much interested in the whole thing. Now, however, I still don't like it, it still seems contrived, but I do like Carol's character a whole lot more, and having a fuller grasp of the Kang/Immortus background now makes it much more interesting to me, even if I don't like it.
The main complaint is that there are so many inconsistencies with previous Immortus stories. This in and of itself wouldn't be a problem, if the new revelations made any kind of coherent sense, but they don't. Let's see-Immortus the undisputed Master of Time and Lord of Limbo, who was given a task/quest to monitor the time stream of his lifespan to prevent anyone from tinkering with it too much and fixing what gets messed up is willing to pluck a nameless broodmare/slampiece from the timestream because he's horny and bored?! Second he wouldn't be aware of a "time limit" on a mortal's presence in Limbo after all the research he did, and besides, wasn't Immortus a normal human to begin with, wouldn't that time limit have affected him as well. Let's see now, Immortus, who "faked" his death to the Avengers to allow them to stop worrying about his potential threat, is seen alive and well in Thor 282, and ruling Limbo, but he actually disappeared never to be seen again in Limbo when he faked his death. Hmmm.... something just doesn't fit here, and on top of it all they have Thor refer to the story in his dialogue so it's not like it wasn't fresh in the writer's (or editor's) minds. Whoopsie! So Marcus has none of Immortus' knowledge or skill and kind of learns the machines by trial and error. OK, but even Carol could do this much as stated in Ann 10, and Marcus is supposed to be a genius, so why wouldn't he be able to regulate his aging process, or for that matter his ability to get to earth without having to rape Carol.
Now I don't think good stories should be held hostage by continuity, but this was neither a good story nor a good piece of continuity builder. Now I like and respect all of the talent who worked on these stories, but I just don't think this was a very good plotting effort by the group of said individuals.
I look forward to John and Lonni's attempts to untangle the mess woven in the stories in the latter part of the reviews that I have done. I've had fun, I will still throw in a piece here and there, but for the most part, the curtain has fallen on my performance. Mr. Speaker, I yield the floor........
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Case Study: McMafia on location in Croatia
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James Watkins’ globetrotting TV series McMafia filmed entirely on location for 29 weeks, shooting in places many producers fear to tread.
The desire to shoot vital opening sequences on the Arabian Peninsula for James Watkins’ sweeping organised-crime drama McMafia for the BBC and AMC nearly pushed the filmmakers to breaking point. Budgeted at close to $2.8m (£2m) an episode and starring James Norton, Juliet Rylance and David Strathairn, the eight-part series was inspired by Misha Glenny’s bestselling non-fiction book. The only problem was the book had been banned in Dubai.
Centred on a Russian family living in exile in London, McMafia tells a story linking money launderers in Dubai, cyber criminals in India, black marketeers in Prague, drug smuggling in Colombia, Russian oligarchs in London and Bedouin smugglers in the Negev desert.
Dubai — the United Arab Emirates’ biggest city — blacklisted the book, putting the project’s backers on the back foot at the planning stage.
“James [Watkins] and [writer] Hoss [Hossein Amini] were adamant they wanted to open the series with that new world, new global structure and landscape found only there,” says Paul Ritchie, who produced the series with Cuba Pictures’ Dixie Linder, Nick Marston and Ben Hall. Ritchie, who has a longstanding working relationship with Watkins on films including Eden Lake and The Woman In Black, has filmed all over the world but never on the Arabian Peninsula.
“We then looked at [the Emirati state of] Abu Dhabi and [Qatari capital] Doha,” says Ritchie. “The permissions from beginning to end took us seven months to get to shoot in Doha. There is a competitive edge between the Emirates and the Qataris, so the minute we got Abu Dhabi, literally 24 hours later, our Qatari permissions came through.”
McMafia opted for Doha, shooting several days in the city (this was before an ongoing blockade of the country came into force, led by Saudi Arabia and including the UAE, which bans travel between any participating countries).
The production’s next challenge was to overcome initial misgivings about filming in Russia. “The perception is that it is really hard to shoot in Moscow but the reality was it was straightforward,” says Ritchie. “We had a great service company [Vodorod Pictures run by Olga Kashirina and Michael Kitaev].”
The crew and the main cast, including Norton and Russian stars Kirill Pirogov and Merab Ninidze, spent around a week shooting in the capital, staying at the Metropole hotel, right next to the Kremlin. “It was a piece of cake, with no difference to shooting in Croatia, just a little more work in getting the visas,” Ritchie says.
Corralling some of the biggest actors in Russia — Pirogov, Ninidze, Maria Shukshina and Aleksey Serebryakov — to keep to the schedule proved a challenge throughout the shoot.
“Kirill is basically the Kenneth Branagh of Russia and runs his own theatre. We’d have to fly him in from Siberia to Belgrade and move the entire schedule around,” says Ritchie. “He was the headache of all headaches but very apologetic about it.”
Ritchie says the producers have subsequently been contacted by Moscow Film Commission to encourage a return. However, a second series of McMafia has yet to be commissioned.
To stand in for Tel Aviv (considered too expensive), Ritchie says he was inspired by USA Networks’ Dig, which shot the Croatian cities of Split and Dubrovnik for Jerusalem. Split became the lynchpin for McMafia’s extensive Tel Aviv sequences and other locations in Croatia also doubled for eight further places including the south of France, Cairo, Istanbul, Moscow (interiors), Prague, Mumbai, Pakistan and even London (interiors of the Norwegian Embassy).
“We bounced around the Balkans,” Ritchie says. “Croatia did a bit of everything for us and we also went to Serbia and Slovenia.” Zagreb-based Mainframe Film Production chief Igor Nola is a co-producer on the series.
The producers accessed the UK’s high-end TV tax break and the tax incentives in Croatia and Serbia too. The show’s 14-strong core UK crew, including heads of department, went everywhere, with local crew hired at different locations.
When it came to scenes set in India, only India would do. Ritchie reunited with local service company India Take One Productions, which he had worked with in his role of co-producer on Slumdog Millionaire. “India can be an extremely stressful place to work if you don’t know the foibles of the local way of working,” Ritchie notes. “But I know the local crew are brilliant.”
Looking back, Ritchie reveals it was a cold January day in London that threw up the shoot’s only truly unexpected scene-wrecker. With Norton’s character deep in conversation with a Czech gangster, a real-life Serpentine swimmer, sporting only a hat, goggles and speedos, bobbed up in the centre of the shot and stayed for the entire scene. “We went again. No one had seen this chap coming,” Ritchie laughs. “It was freezing.”
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An introduction to VAT
VAT has been a regular feature of our tax system since 1 April 1973.
VAT is a tax chargeable on taxable supplies made in the UK by taxable persons. Credit is given for tax paid to other businesses and the net balance is payable or reclaimable - normally on a quarterly basis.
Taxable persons
A taxable person is any person carrying on a business which is, or is required to be registered for VAT and includes the following:
A partnership
An unincorporated association, such as a trust or charity
A limited company
A limited liability partnership.
VAT law covers all types of supply of goods or services (outputs), whether of a revenue or capital nature. Supplies include sale, hire, or loan of goods. Outputs normally fall into four categories:
Positive-rated - taxable at applicable VAT rates
Zero-rated - including socially or economically important items, e.g. exports, many food items (but not catering), books, newspapers, public transport, drugs on prescription, children's clothing
Exempt supplies - including necessities such as insurance, postage, finance, education, and health
Some receipts are outside the scope of VAT, e.g. donations, dividends, shares of profit compensation for losses, non UK supplies
Should I be registered for VAT?
You should notify HMRC when:
Taxable turnover for the past 12 months exceeds £85,000
There are reasonable grounds for believing that your turnover for the next 30 days alone will exceed £85,000
In the first case, notification must be within thirty days of the end of the relevant month. In the latter case, notification must be within thirty days of the date on which grounds first existed.
It is important to monitor turnover because there is a penalty for late registration. This is in addition to the tax payable for the period when VAT should have been charged.
Can I register for VAT if my taxable turnover does not exceed the prescribed limits?
It is possible to register voluntarily provided you have a bona fide business.
It is possible to register for VAT online
HMRC advises the time it takes to issue a VAT registration number which will, for the majority of submissions received using the online service, take three working days.
A one-off payment
Where a one-off business transaction takes place that is in excess of the VAT registration threshold that relates to an economic activity (a key phrase in EU law) the transaction requires VAT registration and accountability for VAT.
Cash accounting scheme
There is a special scheme applicable to businesses where taxable turnover is expected to be not more than £1,350,000 in the next 12 months (cash accounting).
This allows the trader to account for VAT on the basis of payments received and made rather than on tax invoices issued and received.
It may be advantageous to use cash accounting from the date of registration, although some businesses will not benefit from this scheme, particularly if they have significant business credit and supply on a cash only basis.
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Special schemes of accounting for VAT are available to retailers. We can advise on the best choice.
Credit for input tax
Input tax paid on purchases can be recovered by registered taxable persons, who are able to offset input tax against their output tax liabilities. Input tax is only recoverable to the extent that it relates to taxable supplies made or to be made by the business. Traders with fully exempt outputs cannot register or reclaim any input tax. Credit is available for all VAT paid on inputs where a VAT invoice is available, except for tax on private expenditure, business entertainment, motor cars, certain building materials, and goods bought under a second-hand goods scheme. Recovery of input tax may be restricted if the business makes both taxable and exempt supplies.
Evidence required for a VAT input claim
In order to support a claim for VAT input tax where a valid VAT invoice is not available, such as the supplier going out of business or not being contactable, evidence from the following list can be used:
a bank statement, showing there’s actually been a supply of goods or services
that supply takes place in the UK
it’s taxable at the standard rate or reduced rate of VAT
the supplier is a taxable person, that’s someone either registered for VAT in the UK, or required to be registered
the supply is made to the person claiming the input tax
the recipient is a taxable person at the time the VAT was incurred
the recipient intends to use the goods or services for business purposes.
You must also hold other evidence to show that the supply/transaction occurred.
HMRC’s discretion to allow a claim for input tax can only be used when there’s sufficient evidence to satisfy HMRC that a supply has taken place.
Where it’s satisfied that the business has taken reasonable steps to comply with the legislation, and that the supply has taken place, HMRC may consider exercising its discretion. However, where a business has systematically failed to obtain a valid VAT invoice HMRC won’t consider exercising its discretion.
Where a supply has taken place, but the invoice to support this is invalid, HMRC may exercise its discretion and allow a claim for input tax. However this will depend on the evidence held to show that the supply or transaction occurred and that the supply has been made to the person claiming the input tax.
What evidence will need to be provided
Your evidence should show that a supply occurred on which VAT was charged. There’s no prescriptive list of the type of evidence required, as circumstances will vary. Evidence might include:
bank statements, clearly showing payment of the supply to the supplier
evidence of how you identified your supplier and your negotiations with them
contracts between you and your supplier
documents evidencing the transportation, storage or insurance of the goods
any other documents that show a supply took place between you and your supplier.
For further information please refer to VAT Notice 700.
Reclaiming overseas VAT
Where VAT input tax is incurred in other EU countries this must not be claimed on the UK VAT Return. Provided the input tax meets certain conditions it can be reclaimed through HMRC’s VAT online services system. For further information please visit the government website.
How often will I have to complete a VAT return?
VAT returns must be filed online and must normally be submitted every quarter, along with any payment due to HMRC no later than 7 days after the end of the month following the period-end.
Blank returns are made available online well before the period end so there is ample time to complete and file them by the due date. Make returns and payments on time because there are penalties for late filing and/ or late payment.
It will usually be preferable to register to pay by direct debit as that allows a further three working days for payment, and it reduces the risk that payments are overlooked.
Businesses with regular repayments may make monthly returns to ease their cash flow. Those using the Annual Accounting Scheme need make only one return per year, which has to be submitted two months after the end of the scheme year. Payments of VAT under the annual accounting scheme are made monthly by direct debit.
From 2019, some VAT submissions will be made through the new HMRC online system known as Making Tax Digital (MTD). Under the new rules businesses will be required to keep digital records.
The content of these records reflects the existing requirements for VAT records, so the change in this respect is minimal.
The mandatory change will apply to all businesses which are registered for VAT and with turnover in excess of the VAT registration threshold, so the new rules only apply to businesses which are mandatorily registered for VAT.
VAT returns will be submitted via the new online portal, and submission will be 'end-to-end digital', which means that once the digital records have been created, no re-keying of data is permitted.
For those businesses which use spreadsheets to perform VAT calculations (for example, for the second hand car margin scheme or for partially exempt businesses) the spreadsheet will suffice as digital records, but software will be needed to allow the return to be submitted under the new system.
VAT filing
All VAT-registered businesses in the UK are required to submit their VAT returns online and also pay any VAT owed electronically.
When can, or must, I deregister?
You must deregister when taxable supplies are no longer made, e.g. when trading ceases
You can deregister when anticipated turnover for the next year (measured from any time) is less than £83,000, but this may not be in your interests - seek our advice first
Tax invoices
Specific rules are laid down as to the form and content of tax invoices. These are to ensure that all the necessary information is recorded for the determination of the rate of tax to be applied, the liability of the supplier to account for the output tax due on the supply, and the entitlement of the recipient to reclaim all or any of it as input tax.
You are required to use sequential numbering to identify the numbers you use. You can use both numbers and letters for invoice numbers, and use more than one sequence of numbers, but each must form part of a unique and consecutive series. If you cancel an invoice, you must keep a copy of it to show that you have not broken the numbering sequence.
If you supply goods that are exempt, zero rated or meet reverse charge criteria in the UK to businesses and other member states where a VAT invoice is mandatory for such goods, you will have to indicate on invoices the reason for the exemption, requirement of the customer to pay the VAT.
There is no requirement to issue a tax invoice for a zero-rated or exempt supply. However, it would seem appropriate to issue some form of invoice for either type of supply to establish that VAT is not chargeable on it.
Copies of all tax invoices issued and received must be retained for at least six years unless a shorter period (normally at least three years) is agreed with HMRC.
A tax invoice is required to show:
An identifying sequential number / letter (see note above)
The date of the supply and the date of issue of invoice
The name, address, and registration number of the supplier
The name and address of the person to whom the goods and services are supplied
A description that is adequate for the purposes of identifying the goods or services supplied
For each description the quantity of the goods or the extent or nature of the services, price, the rate of tax, and the amount payable, excluding tax
The total amount payable excluding tax
The rate of any cash discount offered
The total VAT payable.
Anyone supplying goods or services direct to the public or to any business that is not registered for VAT does not have to supply a tax invoice unless the customer requires one. Where the tax-inclusive value of supply is not more than £250, the supplier may issue a simplified form of invoice giving only the following details:
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Date of supply
A description, adequate to identify the goods or services supplied
The total amount payable including tax
The rate of tax at the time of the supply.
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10th Annual Dolores Park Tennis Tournament
19 Aug, 2017 in News
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By Gary Schoofs
I can’t believe that the 10th Dolores Park Tennis Tournament is once again history. Since 2006 (with a couple years idle during park renovation), this tourney has been conducted in an atmosphere of camaraderie, competition, and community. This year’s event was no different.
The tournament was held on July 22 and 23rd at one of our city’s most beautiful parks. Saturday’s round robin play was welcomed by gorgeous weather -- sunny and warm with a tender breeze.
The 16 doubles teams were organized into four balanced flights, each with four teams, each flight named after a Grand Slam city. Play began around 8:30 am, and the battling was intense. Though there were dominant winners in the New York and Melbourne flights, when all matches were completed, there were three-way ties in Paris and London. It was so close that two sub-levels of tie-breaking rules had to be employed to determine the winner in the London flight. When the smoke cleared, Gilberto & Adolfo emerged as champs of Paris, Kendrick & John L nosed forward in London, Guy & Sean won in New York, and Kevin & Willord were victorious in Melbourne. The stage was set for Sunday’s semi-finals.
The agreeable weather continued Sunday, and the semifinals started about 9 am. Kendrick & John L were pitted against Gilberto & Adolfo in the first contest. First set went back and forth with a break, then a break back. Points went long and were hard to come by. In the end, Kendrick & John L fashioned a 7-5, 6-3 win. In the second semi, Guy & Sean clashed with Kevin & Willord. G&S skipped to a 4-0 lead in the first set, but had to hang on for a 6-4 win. The tide turned in the 2nd with K&W pulling out a 6-2 set. So, it came down to a 10-point super tiebreaker to determine the second finalist. The crowd clustered around to see the spectacle. The tension was thick, as every point was critical. K&W fell behind early and staged a mini-comeback bid, but G&S were steady in a 10-6 win.
Before the final, there was a raffle for door prizes. Lucky winners walked away with gift certificates from City Racquet Shop and The Front Porch Restaurant, tote bags, a Front Porch hoodie, an hour-long tennis lesson, SFFD sweat shirts and T-shirts, and a five-pound ham.
The main event then ensued between Guy/Sean and Kendrick/John L. The appreciative crowd witnessed some spectacular shot-making and amazing extended points. Kendrick’s tuck & roll saves to keep the ball in play will be the stuff of legend. As it turned out though, Guy’s precise drives and lobs and timely poaching with Sean’s remarkable consistency led them to a 6-3, 7-5 triumph and the championship.
Congrats to Guy & Sean for an outstanding effort! And to Kendrick and John L for making them earn it! Kudos to all the players who hit with passion in their flights! In addition to his crystal trophy, Sean also took home the Most Improved Player Award provided by Kreg; it was a piece of the old Dolores Park tennis court surface before the renovations. Nice!
After the tourney, many of the players congregated at Woods Cerveceria for a celebratory beer (or two…) to toast the victors.
A BIG welcome to new participants in the tournament this year - Rachel, Leslie, John K, Tonya, Jonathan, and Ken. Hope to see you in 2018!
Many thanks to:
Marla & Sheila at City Racquet Shop (1836 San Jose Ave, SF; City Racquet) for donating the tennis balls for the tournament
Kevin for donating a $50 gift certificate to his restaurant, The Front Porch (65a 29th St, SF; Thefrontporch) and a Front Porch hoodie
Kreg for donating a one-hour tennis lesson and presenting the MIP award
Kendrick for donating SFFD hoodies and T-shirts and providing a BBQ chicken lunch for everyone on Sunday (yum!)
A hefty dollop of gratitude to my trusty assistants in putting on this event, Liam & Adolfo. Appreciate your involvement, suggestions, and contributions. Could not have pulled this off without you.
Finally, thanks to all the good folks who helped unload and load equipment/supplies, to those who helped collect litter on the courts, and to the folks who brought tables, chairs, and food. Your desire to pitch in was much appreciated!
Until next year,
Tournament “Commish”
If you would like to be notified of future Dolores Park Tennis Tournaments, send an email to Gary at gms6126@gmail.com.
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2014 NBA Mock Draft - May 29th Update
The 2013 NBA Draft class was one of the weakest draft classes in recent memory. After all, the No. 1 overall pick was none other than UNLV's Anthony Bennett.
What a difference a year makes as this year's draft class has the potential to be one of the best ever.
With the NBA Draft less than one month away, I will update my mock draft on a weekly basis until the actual draft on June 26th. In addition, other contributors will soon post their NBA mock drafts as well.
[Follow @HitTheBoards to keep track of our site's updates.]
Here is the latest version of my 2014 NBA Mock Draft:
1. Cleveland Cavaliers: Andrew Wiggins, SG, Kansas
Once again, the Cavs are in possession of the first overall pick — their third in the past four drafts! If the Cavs hang on to this pick, any one of three prospects could be in play here: Wiggins, his KU teammate Joel Embiid and Duke's Jabari Parker.
Of that group, Parker enters the league as the most NBA-ready prospect, but both Wiggins and Embiid have higher ceilings (and lower floors, to be fair). The son of ex-NBA player Mitchell Wiggins, Andrew has freakish athleticism and great length. While he is too passive at times, Wiggins can score from anywhere on the court and is a great defender.
2. Milwaukee Bucks: Joel Embiid, C, Kansas
Certainly unfair from a comparison standpoint, the name you most often hear is Hakeem Olajuwon when it comes to Embiid, who has only played basketball for about four years. A very athletic seven-footer, Embiid runs the floor well, can shoot well for his size and has a nice low-post game in addition to being a great rebounder and shot blocker.
3. Philadelphia 76ers: Jabari Parker, SF, Duke
Although the Sixers miss out on Wiggins or Embiid, Parker is an outstanding consolation prize. There was initially some uncertainty about whether he would declare or return to Duke, but Parker is the most NBA-ready prospect in this year's draft class, as noted earlier.
While Parker lacks the elite athleticism that Wiggins possesses and his defense is a weakness, Parker can take over a game offensively and score in a variety of ways. Parker will be the odds-on favorite to lead all rookies in scoring next season and could give the Sixers back-to-back ROYs.
4. Orlando Magic: Dante Exum, PG, Australia
The Magic have a pair of lottery picks, this and the 12th overall pick, and they will likely add a point guard with one of those two picks to pair with Victor Oladipo. While he played some point guard, Oladipo is better suited to play off guard.
The Australian point guard has outstanding size and length for a point guard with excellent quickness and the ability to get to the rim. While he needs to improve his outside shot, Exum will be the first guard prospect off the board.
5. Utah Jazz: Noah Vonleh, PF, Indiana
Although he doesn't turn 19 until August, Vonleh averaged 11.3 points, 9.0 rebounds, 1.4 blocks and 0.9 steals per game for the Hoosiers as a freshman. Vonleh has excellent size, athleticism and can shoot the ball well.
6. Boston Celtics: Aaron Gordon, F, Arizona
What Gordon lacks in his offensive game, especially his outside shot, he more than makes up for that deficiency with his athleticism, elite defensive play and oustanding motor.
7. Los Angeles Lakers: Julius Randle, PF, Kentucky
Based on their current contract situation, only Kobe Bryant and Robert Sacre are scheduled to be Lakers beyond the 2014-15 season. In other words, they essentially have a blank canvas. Always in a win-now mode, however, they could look to deal this pick. Averaging a double-double (15.0 points and 10.4 rebounds per game) this season, Randle is the best player available here.
8. Sacramento Kings: Marcus Smart, G, Oklahoma State
Smart had a not-so-smart moment against Texas Tech this season when he lost his cool and shoved an inappropriate fan. Other than that unfortunate incident, though, Smart has generally been viewed as a high-character guy.
His biggest on-court flaw is his inconsistent outside shooting, but Smart is a strong guard that can get to the basket and finish. Extremely competitive with a non-stop motor, Smart is an excellent defender and rebounder for a guard as well.
9. Charlotte Hornets: Doug McDermott, SF, Creighton
Charlotte ranked 23rd in the league in scoring offense (96.9 points per game) and in three-point shooting percentage (.351).
Playing four years for his father at Creighton, McBuckets is one of college basketball's most prolific scorers with 3,150 career points (fifth all-time). While he's far from an elite athlete, McDermott is an elite shooter and a fierce competitor with a high basketball IQ.
10. Philadelphia 76ers: Gary Harris, SG, Michigan State
While Harris is undersized for a two guard, he is both an excellent defender and good shooter even if his three-point shooting percentage declined to 35.2 percent in 2013-14. Adding Parker and Harris to Michael Carter-Williams, Thaddeus Young and Nerlens Noel gives the Sixers a nice young core.
11. Denver Nuggets: Dario Saric, F, Croatia
In a bit of a surprise, Saric withdrew from last year's lackluster draft class, but he led his league in both scoring and rebounding as the league MVP. A skilled point forward, Saric may stay in Europe for at least another season, though.
12. Orlando Magic: James Young, SG/SF, Kentucky
The Magic ranked in the bottom third in the league three-pointers per game (6.9) and while Young was inconsistent from deep in his only season at Kentucky, he has the potential to develop into one of the league's better shooters.
13. Minnesota Timberwolves: Adreian Payne, PF, Michigan State
Kevin Love has just one more season in Minnesota. Unless he has none, that is. Love will become a free agent after the upcoming season and reports are that he won't re-sign with the T'Wolves so it's possible they move their best player in order to get something in return. The 6-foot-10 Payne shot 42.3 percent from behind the arc last season for the Spartans.
14. Phoenix Suns: Nik Stauskas, G, Michigan
One of the best shooters in this year's draft class, Stauskas has good size (6-foot-7) and knocked down 44.1 percent of his three-pointers in his two seasons in Ann Arbor. The Big Ten Player of the Year, Stauskas averaged 17.5 points per game last season.
15. Atlanta Hawks: Rodney Hood, SG/SF, Duke
Hood does one thing exceptionally well — shoot the basketball. He knocked down 42 percent of his three's for Duke last season.
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LeBron James scores 49 points in Heat win
We are now one game (per series) away from a potential Miami Heat vs. Indiana Pacers matchup in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Tying his career high in the postseason, LeBron James scored nearly half of the Heat's points in tonight's win in Brooklyn as the Heat took a 3-1 series lead.
James scored 49 points on 16-of-24 shooting including three-of-six from behind the arc and he added six boards, three steals and two assists.
In this series, James is shooting nearly 60 percent (59.7) from the field and is averaging 30.25 points per game. In addition, he's averaging 5.8 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.5 steals per game in the series.
The Heat will have an opportunity to close the series on Wednesday in Miami. (The Pacers host the Wizards in Game 5 of their series on Tuesday.)
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2014 NBA Mock Draft, 2.0
Last year's NBA draft class was one of the most lackluster classes in recent memory. Based on the group of draft-eligible prospects this year, however, the 2014 draft class has the potential to develop into one of the greatest ever.
While some in the group may never live up to their potential at the next level, this year's class certainly does not lack hype.
From now until the 2014 NBA Draft on Thursday, June 26th, my mock will be updated frequently and we will have other mocks from our other contributors as well.
[Follow our basketball updates on Twitter via @HitTheBoards.]
The NBA Draft lottery will take place on May 20th and that could alter the draft order for the first 14 picks, but the order of the non-lottery picks has already been determined.
If you would like to view other opinions, check out our 2014 NBA mock draft database for more mocks.
Otherwise, here is my updated 2014 NBA Mock Draft:
1. Milwaukee Bucks - Andrew Wiggins, SG, Kansas
Entering college with lofty and perhaps unfair expectations, Wiggins received as much hype and buzz as any prep phenom since LeBron James. Before arriving in Lawrence, Wiggins was widely viewed as the consensus top prospect in the draft even if he did not occupy that spot throughout the entire college season.
While Duke's Jabari Parker may be more NBA-ready today, no prospect has as much upside as Wiggins. And while his Jayhawks teammate Joel Embiid was viewed as the top prospect in the draft for much of the college season, there are some concerns about the back injury that sidelined him down the stretch.
Exceptionally quick and explosive, Wiggins has great length (6-foot-8 with a 7-foot wingspan) as a two guard with the versatility to play either forward spot as well. In addition, he's an excellent shooter with good range. If there's a knock on Wiggins, however, it's that he's not as aggressive on the offensive end as he should be at times.
2. Philadelphia 76ers - Jabari Parker, SF, Duke
Although the Sixers miss out on the son of former Sixer Mitchell Wiggins, Parker is an outstanding consolation prize. There was initially some uncertainty about whether he would declare or return to Duke, but Parker is the most NBA-ready prospect in this year's draft class.
While Parker lacks the elite athleticism that Wiggins possesses and his defense is a weakness, Parker can take over a game offensively and score in a variety of ways. Parker will be the odds-on favorite to lead all rookies in scoring next season.
3. Orlando Magic - Joel Embiid, C, Kansas
The most important thing with Embiid will be the medical report(s) about his back. Certainly unfair from a comparison standpoint, the name you most often hear is Hakeem Olajuwon when it comes to Embiid, who has only played basketball for about four years.
A very athletic seven-footer, Embiid runs the floor well, can shoot well for his size and has a nice low-post game in addition to being a great rebounder and shot blocker. With Nikola Vucevic already on the roster, Australia's Dante Exum may better fit the team's needs, but I can't see Embiid slipping past this spot (depending on his back, of course).
With a second lottery pick, the Magic can add a point guard like Syracuse's Tyler Ennis (spoiler alert) like I project.
4. Utah Jazz - Dante Exum, PG, Australia
The Australian point guard has outstanding size and length for a point guard with excellent quickness and the ability to get to the rim. While he needs to improve his outside shot, Exum will be the first guard prospect off the board and could even be a top-three pick.
5. Boston Celtics - Julius Randle, PF, Kentucky
Averaging a double-double (15.0 points and 10.4 rebounds per game) this season, Randle is the best player available here. This coast-to-coast dunk for the 6-foot-9 250-pounder shows his unique skill set for his size:
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Singapore's central bank lays out plan to support CFE recommendations
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Monday (Feb 13) detailed how it would support the Committee on the Future Economy's (CFE) recommendations that were unveiled last week.
The central bank said it will take a series of specific measures to strengthen the financing channels for next-generation Asian growth companies and build technology infrastructure to drive innovation, according to its press release.
It noted that the CFE report recommended supporting companies with strong growth potential to scale up and internationalise, and that it will be announcing specific initiatives to strengthen funding for such growth companies over the next few days.
One such initiative is to simplify the authorisation process and regulatory framework for venture capital (VC) managers to support start-ups, MAS said.
"VC and private equity (PE) assets under management in Singapore have grown by an average 30 per cent per year in the past five years. But the industry is still at an early stage and there is scope to expand both the number and variety of VC managers," the central bank said.
As such, MAS will work on giving more room for VC managers to operate more nimbly in supporting start-ups here and the region. It will also look to deepen the pool of PE managers in order to draw in more capital for late-stage and mature start-ups.
AN ENVIRONMENT FOR INNOVATION
As for building the tech infrastructure to drive innovation, the regulator said the committee recommended harnessing the transformative potential of digitalisation for innovation and growth.
"MAS has been working closely with the industry on technology infrastructure projects to drive innovation, boost market efficiency, enhance customer service, and extend Singapore’s connectivity with the region," it said.
One example is the implementation of a Central Addressing Scheme for Fast and Secure Transfers (FAST), which will allow users to make fund transfers through the payment infrastructure by using proxies such as mobile numbers and NRIC numbers instead of bank account numbers.
The banking industry will implement this in the third quarter of this year, MAS said, adding that with the growing prevalence of QR-code payments here, it is also looking to develop interoperable standards for such payments.
“The underlying thrust of MAS’ various initiatives is to provide a conducive environment for innovation - which is critical for the future of financial services. We do this through a judicious regulatory framework and enabling technology infrastructure," MAS managing director Ravi Menon said.
"And even as we allow more risk-taking, we want to do so without compromising the safety of financial institutions and the stability of the financial system."
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Bin Laden's mole
Did the CIA have a mole close to bin Laden? From James Charles in Dissident Voice:
"Rumors of the mole's existence began circulating within national intelligence circles about the time that the 9/11 Commission report was released. At least three separate sources told essentially the same story about CIA's infiltration of al Qaeda, and they - along with information from other sources - enabled the piecing together of this report. No one interviewed would allow their names to be used."
". . . according to one former CIA employee, 'It is entirely likely that Tenet told Bush about the mole at that August meeting at the ranch, if the president didn’t already know. Why else would he suddenly race off to Texas on a weekend? Not just to talk about what (Condoleezza) Rice told the 9/11 Commission was something that the administration thought of as an historical recounting of old information. It doesn't make sense.'
A second former intelligence officer said he harbored the same suspicions after news of the Tenet trip and the contents of the PDB became known publicly. 'The DCI (Director of Central Intelligence) simply doesn't interrupt the president's vacation to chat about a relatively innocuous, two or three page report unless there was something extremely sensitive the president needed to know that Tenet didn't want put on paper.'"
"It is viewed by insiders as entirely likely that the CIA director told President Bush in August that al Qaeda was planning an immediate attack using commercial airplanes as guided missiles."
"But with the existence of a mole inside al Qaeda increasingly likely, then there is a much more serious, insidious and sinister possibility: That George W. Bush knew at least a month before the attacks that they were going to occur, and chose to do nothing to stop them."
There are a few problems with this article. The fact that no one will speak on the record may mean it is just a few 'old school' CIA officials constructing a scenario to support the 'Bush knew' conspiracy theory in order to get revenge on Bush for his perceived slighting of the Agency. Regardless of what someone claiming to be bin Laden may have said, it is highly unlikely that bin Laden had the hands-on detailed involvement in the plot that the article assumes he had. The timing is also wrong, as bin Laden would hardly be giving Atta names as late as August, but there is reason to believe that the final nature and timing of the attack weren't finalized until late August or even early September. I've always had trouble with the financing story, which is very implausible as the Pakistani intelligence agency would not be likely to be that sloppy (although it seems certain that there is a Pakistani connection to the attacks). Finally, the article assumes that bin Laden had severed his connections with the Agency, which may not be true. Bin Laden himself may have been the mole!
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Biocompatible 3D Printing Firm Wins Contract from Northrop Grumman
Michael Molitch-Hou July 31st 2013 - 12:02am 0 0
Thanks to a partnership made possible by the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), the flagship institute for the Obama administration’s National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI), two NAMII members have been able to team up to ensure mutual success. On July 29, 2013, Oxford Performance Materials announced that it has won a contract from arms manufacturer Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (NGSC).
OPM, which made headlines in February, 2013 with the first FDA-approved 3D-printed implant, a cranial device used to cover cracks and holes in the skull of a patient with head trauma, will develop prototypes and test components for Northrop, made with their proprietary OXPEKK material, their biocompatible version of the thermoplastic Poly Ether Ketone Ketone. In addition, OPM will add these designs to their database of structural design files. To achieve the goals of the contract, the firm has purchased their second EOSINT P800, a high temperature laser sintering machine that 3D prints plastics at temperatures up to 385 °C.
President and CEO of OPM had this to say about the contract:
We have been developing PEKK materials and advanced manufacturing processes for over ten years. We have also established a world-class biomedical 3D printing facility and sell these products commercially worldwide. We are therefore very pleased that our in-depth knowledge of PEKK and the 3D printing (High Temperature Laser Sintering –HTLS) process has been recognized and we have been selected to undertake this critical development. OPM has a very clear focus on 3D printing of Mission-Critical parts where there is no room for error, such as in aerospace and medical applications.
The relationship between OPM and Northrop Grumman, in my mind, exemplifies the sorts of partnerships we will see made possible by a NAMII headed by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), a non-profit whose mission is to “deliver optimized manufacturing solutions that enhance the quality, affordability, maintainability, and rapid deployment of existing and yet-to-be developed defense systems”. The NCDMM, led by Ralph Resnick, also director of NAMII, recently launched a new endeavor with weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin, called the Mission-Ready Sustainability Initiative, dedicated to sustainable war materials. Resnick issued the following statement regarding the initiative: “NCDMM, along with Lockheed Martin is pleased to take the lead in establishing an initiative that not only values sustainability efforts, but also has the potential to accelerate activities and innovations that yield significant improvements for the warfighter, DoD, and industry clients.” With such companies as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman listed alongside Oxford Performance Materials as members of NAMII, I personally believe that it’s not unlikely that OPM and other organizations on the NAMII roster will find themselves working in ways that also fit the mission of the NCDMM.
Source: OPM
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Christian von Koenigsegg Waxes Poetic About His Cars
March 6th, 2015 by Stirling Matheson
“Koenigsegg” is a word that is usually generally followed by “bless you” in North America, unless you’re amidst car-fiends. Among petrolsexuals, it inspires awe, respect, and wonder. Normally, these tiny car companies are known for producing good ideas and bad cars before going out of business in a sharknado of litigation (the sharks are lawyers). Koenigsegg, on the other hand, keeps making better and better cars with amazing new features like camless engines, and solidifying itself as company that will have a true legacy. Christian von Koenigegg is 2015’s Enzo Ferrari or Feruccio Lamborghini.
In this video, Koenigsegg describes the company as more than just his passion or his project or his job; he describes it as his entire life. This company is what he has done with his life in its entirety, and I believe that’s why it is and will remain a fixture in the world of the hypercar.
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Carrie Underwood Shows Off Her Baby Bump On The AMAs Red Carpet
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LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 09: Carrie Underwood attends the 2018 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on October 9, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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All India Bakchod – damned by faint conviction
It is no secret that Indian laws on Free Speech are not exactly geared for creative freedom. Where “offensive” can legally be prosecuted, not much remains to be said. This is hardly a secret and it is impossible that anyone in the business of creating content for the masses – whether publishing or video can be unaware of it given the regular outrages it throws up.
When All India Bakchod produced its event as a “roast” – a format of insult based humor – it is impossible that none of the wise people on the team or those helping them produce it thought that there would be angry people. Them going ahead and producing it did indeed seem like pushing the envelope, as they claimed it to be.
In the process, name and fame and money (for charity) came their way. Many of those who saw the roast were vaguely revolted by the idea of crudery for the sake of crudery – including humor that bordered on insults of identities – for color of skin, sexual orientation or whatever. There still was a willingness to accept it all for the simple reason that the show did one thing. It blew open the question of what is allowed speech.
Support mobilized from everywhere. People spoke up in solidarity and support. Many people published videos using profanity as solidarity.
Predictably there was outrage. You cannot produce content with explicit phallic profanity and pretty much only that without angering those who would like to pretend that pre-teen kids playing cricket don’t yell “teri maa ka ******” on streets (true story, right under my window). This was predictable and happened as predicted.
It appears everyone except All India Bakchod anticipated this for some reason. As the outrage came in with police complaints filed and intimidation from fringe political outfits, they suddenly lost their hard on, so to say. They took down their video (not before it got millions of hits), wrote a half assed statement about how them being okay with facing consequences but not others, etc. and have been busy apologizing ever since, it seems.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena said that they wouldn’t allow any films featuring the participants of the roast to be released unless Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh apologized. They not just apologized, they took down their video. From there on it seems to be an orgy of apologies. Ranveer Singh apologizes to ex-girlfriend, someone apologized to gays – not sure who. AIB issued yet another apology specifically to Christians and god knows who else.
The one apology they have not made is to those who stood by them and are now looking like fools for believing in their right to create content that pushed envelopes. In the face of illegal intimidation, FIRs and the standard issue outrage were entities like the Film Writers Association of India and Amul, which immortalized their show with an Amul cartoon in solidarity.
Amul butter cartoon supporting AIB
There are people who have gone out of their normal use of language to produce content with profanity in support of All India Bakchod. In solidarity.
Instead of the rattling of a bad status quo on free speech, what All India Bakchod did was to endorse it with high profile apologies. Over and over.
Instead of reaching out to the wider community endorsing their right to speech and willing to challenge laws if need be, by their side, they abdicated their own speech and screwed the fight for Freedom of Expression in India by bowing down to the dysfunctional status quo.
Many have said that All India Bakchod cannot be blamed for what our intolerance forced them to do. Well, I do blame them. The intolerance is not a new thing or something they were not aware of while creating a full fledged profanity and abuse filled show. What did they expect when they created it? Sardar shabashi dega?
That just because they created profanity, people would be all applause? No one is that stupid. They created something illegal as a hit and run name and fame (and fund raising) measure is the only conclusion that I can draw from this.
Do they care that in the process they harm a rights movement that has far more serious stakes than their whim to be juvenile? They apologized to the Christians who have magnanimously accepted it. In the meanwhile, Sanal Edamaruku continues to live outside India, hounded by FIRs for exposing a “miracle” that turned out to be embarrassing for the church.
It is the same anger I felt during the Tarun Tejpal case and the same anger I felt when the BJP suddenly woke up to free speech when their own supporters got accounts blocked. It is those with abundant voice using entire rights movements at convenience without regard for the potential setback to the rights of those who face far more danger than they do. It is us elites who know the arguments and jargon of the “right side” of debates and can use it to claim our rights with great ease and scant regard for the backlash on the credibility of the cause itself that we are exploiting and far more vulnerable people counting on overcoming resistance to their rights for their very safety.
There are battered women walking into police stations being turned away without FIRs, but we make a spectacle of how women can completely demolish a man without filing an FIR and the media will cheer. There are people whose writing gets taken down, who are forced to flee the place they live in, but we can whimsically use black profile pictures over temporarily blocked social media accounts and go back to filing FIRs to silence those we don’t like. There are people forced to flee the country for making the church angry, but we will go out of our way to make them angry and resolve it easily with an “oops. sorry”. Who cares what this trivialization does to the family of the raped girl whose father carried her for hours only to be refused an FIR or the Perumal Murugans or the Sanal Edamarukus?
This is the worst exploitation of profound struggles for human rights in my eyes.
It isn’t about blaming or not blaming AIB. It is about horrendous precedent set through completely thoughtless “pushing the envelope” – what they did was illegal and guaranteed to create outrage all through. Yet their resolve crumbled so thoroughly on facing threat that they did not even attempt to rally the overwhelming support offered to them to make their “rebellion” a success. Those supporting them to push Freedom of Speech further ended up with a sterling example of how to resolve outrage slapped into their faces. Apologize, over and over. Grovel. Go into hiding. That is how you can resolve outrage when someone doesn’t like what you said.
And no, All India Bakchod hasn’t apologized to us for deliberately raising and then sabotaging the question of Free Speech. The free speech they were flashing around as they raised funds on their event and youtube. All of us who spoke up for it because we know how important it is for blocks to be prevented – many of whom didn’t even like the crudery. All of us who stood up for them.
I would say fuck you All India Bakchod, except there appears to be a queue to do exactly that.
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Jam steps back into the Printworks
Manchester’s leading leisure and destination complex, The Printworks, has appointed Jam to drive positive awareness of the venue both in the North West and nationally.
Jam will be responsible for all social media, press office activity and digital outreach, as well as providing support around key events and promotional activity to both drive footfall and educate target audiences on the venue’s offering.
The newly rebranded agency, formally JAMpr and JAM Creative, secured the account following a three-way pitch having previously worked on the account from 2014-2016.
Combining PR, Social Media and Digital to create a fully integrated campaign strategy, Jam will provide support for both The Printworks itself and its 19 tenants, which include Hard Rock Café, Lazy Lizard, Frankie and Benny’s and Prezzo.
Fred Booth, Centre Director at The Printworks, says: “The team at Jam really understand The Printworks, – its proposition, its audiences and its focus. They have a proven track record at delivering results for the complex, as well as continuously showing creativity, strategic thinking and enthusiasm. We’re looking forward to having them back on board as an extension of our internal team.”
Jaime Gee, MD at Jam, added: “We are delighted to be working with The Printworks again. We built great working relationships and really got on board with the brand and its values, which is something that we’re looking forward to revisiting. It’s great to be able to work with not just an iconic venue but also with such impressive brands and businesses within, and we can’t wait to get started!”
The Printworks joins Jam’s impressive client roster, which also includes Argos Pet Insurance, The Furniture Recycling Group, Transport For Greater Manchester, Sync and VELCRO.
The agency previously operated as JAMpr and JAMcreative, providing a breadth of services between the two teams. However the agency has been combining its services for the past few years to provide a more holistic approach to campaigns to help clients meet their business needs and objectives, therefore made the strategic decision to truly combine its offering and reposition itself as an integrated agency.
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Labour reforms would fix our worker shortage
23 juin 2006 — A.D.A.T Asociation pour le droit au travail / Association for the right to work
* * * * Diane Francis, Financial Post
Published: Friday, June 23, 2006
Canada’s labour situation is worsening because needed reforms elude and the
politicians don’t get it.
For instance, Gatineau, Que., contractor Jocelyn Dumais has been fighting the
province’s closed-shop labour laws for years and he called recently with some
upsetting news.
The McGuinty government in Ontario last month backed off a piece of legislation
that was designed to force Quebec to level the playing field in the construction
industry. For decades, Quebec has forbidden non-resident Canadians from taking
construction jobs while Quebecers have been free to work anywhere in the
Notably, they swamped the labour markets along the borders between the two
provinces until the Mike Harris government passed Bill 17 which forbid them from
working in Ontario until Quebec backed off its restrictions.
"Last month, the Ontario government cancelled Bill 17, which forbid Quebec
construction workers from getting employment in Ontario unless Quebec changed
its unfair labour law, Dumais said.
"They call it a shared labour mobility agreement, but it’s a fake. The Ontario
government tried to get me to support this but it’s not what we’ve been fighting
Here’s what they said they got in exchange: Ontario workers may apply to work
there but there were many restrictions. They had to pass an exam, provide
certain evidence of experience and had to already be working in Quebec. That’s
not labour mobility.
Ontario added that Quebec agreed to let Ontario residents accept construction
jobs involving Hydro Quebec contracts, but only if the salaries were $100,000 or
more. That was just an exemption for big contracting companies like Ellis Don,"
Dumais said.
Dumais is one of my favourite Canadians and is founder of the Association for
the Right to Work (www.adat.ca). For years, he has lobbied provinces, staged
road blockages and raised hundreds of thousands to mount a Supreme Court of
Canada case which, unfortunately, he lost.
(His charter challenge argued that if workers have the right to associate they
also should have the right to not associate. The Court disagreed.)
But he has not given up and hopes to reverse this unfair deal. He also wants to
warn Ontario that the McGuinty government is looking at closed-door laws similar
to Quebec’s because of all the illegals and non-union members working in the
province.
By the way, Quebec’s unions run the show there and their construction sector is
embarrassingly restrictive: Workers must be union members or obtain a special
work permit from the Province which are about as readily available as Green
cards. People are routinely rounded up on sites for the crime of working
illegally, fined and even jailed.
Another voice of reason Meanwhile, the labour situation worsens nationally as
the giant sucking sound from Alberta’s megaprojects continues apace and unions
stand in the way of labour mobility through featherbedding and apprenticeship
What follows is a thoughtful letter from union member John Gilmurray:
The real problem with labour policy in Canada is the union. On a
recent visit to England and Ireland I was surprised that there are no locals,
just one trade union congress for each country.
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Oracle's Goetz Provides Update on State of Java Project Valhalla
Brian Goetz, Oracle's Java language architect, has posted a "State of Valhalla" update to the OpenJDK mailing list on the progress to date on this now five-year-old effort to bring more flexible flattened data types to JVM-based languages and to bring the Java programming model back in line with the performance characteristics of modern hardware.
Over the past five years, Goetz and company have built five prototypes to understand different aspects of the problems Valhalla seeks to remedy.
"We believe we are now at the point where we have a clear and coherent path to enhance the Java language and virtual machine with value types," Goetz wrote in his post, "have them interoperate cleanly with existing generics, and have a compatible path for migrating our existing value-based classes to inline classes and our existing generic classes to specialized generics."
Announced in 2014, Project Valhalla is an OpenJDK project for advancing some of Goetz's (and others') ideas, including a major overhaul of Java's generics, a new approach to generic typing, and new support for value types.
The primary benefit of value types (data stored in memory) over reference types (pointers) is the removal of reference type overhead, both in memory and in computation. In the early 1990s, Goetz points out, when the JVM was being designed, the cost of a memory fetch was comparable to computational operations, such as addition. But the multi-level memory caches and instruction-level parallelism in modern CPUs has upped that cost considerably. A single cache miss might cost as much as 1,000 arithmetic issue slots, he explains. Consequently, the JVM's "pointer-rich" representations, which involves many indirections between small islands of data, "is no longer an ideal match for today's hardware."
"We aim to give developers the control to match data layouts with the performance model of today's hardware," Goetz wrote, "providing Java developers with an easier path to flat (cache-efficient) and dense (memory-efficient) data layouts without compromising abstraction or type safety."
Goetz provides a thorough update, including a host of definitions, some useful diagrams, a link to a detailed description of the language model, and even a link to the original "sketch of proposed enhancement" to the JVM and language, co-written by software architects John Rose and Guy Steele, "so you can see how far we've come."
Goetz's update defines key concepts, explains the slightly evolving need for project, and puts it all into context with a bit of history thrown in. A must-read for anyone working in the Java space.
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Africa RISING early win project in Malawi: Expanding no-till agriculture to increase income and diversify diets
By Ewen Le Borgne OnNovember 22, 2012 0 Comments
Conservation agriculture, which involves minimum tillage of the land and retaining crop residues on the land, has proven useful for increasing yield and at the same time managing soil fertility and increasing farmers resilience to drought and climate variability in Malawi. However, so far the technology has mainly focused on maize. Can the technology be expanded to other crops?
The early win project Sustainable Intensification and Diversification of Maize-based Farming Systems in Malawi led by Washington State University (WSU), evaluated three farming systems – continuous no-till maize, conservation agriculture for sweet potato and cassava, and conventional farming for sweet potato and cassava – to explore if other crops can grow well under conservation agriculture.
The project also introduced intercropping of pigeon pea with the cassava and sweet potato to intensify production to not only increase food production but also improve household nutrition and reduce protein and micro-nutrient deficiencies, and enhance soil fertility and quality.
The study was carried out in 2 districts in Malawi, Dowa and Nkhotakota, and on four farms in each district. On each farm the three farming systems were analyzed for their impact on food production, human nutritional outputs, soil fertility, soil moisture, and household income.
Sweet potato yields were poor under conservation agriculture relative to conventionally farmed sweet potatoes. This, says Dan TerAvest of Washington State University and one of the researchers, shows that further research is needed before some crops can be promoted in conservation agriculture systems.
“In conservation agriculture, the land is not tilled and herbicides are used to control weeds. The residue from the harvested crops is left on the land as mulch. In central Malawi, most residues are taken off the land as mulch for tobacco seedlings, used for household cooking, or burned off the field to ease tilling of the land. This leads to the soils having less moisture and organic carbon, reduces yield,’ TerAvest said.
“Residue on the land also helps buffer soil temperature. We looked at soil temperature at 20 cm depth on land under conservation agriculture (with residue) and under conventional (without residue) and found less temperature variation and lower temperatures where residues were present,’ he said. Leaving residues on the land lead to increased rain water use efficiency, which can be crucial for food security, especially in low rainfall areas.”
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The Africa RISING program comprises three linked research-for-development projects, funded by the USAID Feed the Future Initiative, and aiming to sustainably intensify mixed farming systems in West Africa (Southern Mali and Northern Ghana), the Ethiopian Highlands and East and Southern Africa (Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi).
To produce some short-term outputs and to support the longer term objectives of the projects, in 2012 Africa RISING funded several small, short-term projects in each of the regions. More information.
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The Government of AP has granted 26 crore rupees to Acharya Nagarjuna University to develop sports Infrastructure and make the campus as the hub of sports in the state.
The Minister for sports and youth affairs was here for the ongoing sports activity in the ANU campus in connection with 57 Th Senior National Athletics Championship, said that the state government has given top priority to sports and propose to build Sports City over 400 acres in the AP capital region.
There are approximately 1000 athletics besides 200 officials from 32 states participating in the event. This event holds more importance because the selected athletes will take part in 2017 World Athletic Championship in London.
AP State government is conducting this four-day Championship event commencing from 15 July in a prestigious manner, as it being held for the first time after division of the state.
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November 29, 2018 John DuMond History, True Crime 1933, cold case, crime, Detroit, fbi, history, Kansas City Massacre, Michigan, murder, true crime, unsolved mystery, Verne Miller
On this date in 1933, the bound and mutilated body of outlaw Verne Miller was found just outside Detroit, MI. Miller, the chief suspect in the Kansas City Massacre, was a decorated World War I veteran and former lawman. After a short stint as sheriff of Beadle County, SD, Miller turned to a life of crime. He started out in bootlegging, then moved on to robbery. Eventually he wound up as a trigger man for organized crime. The list of people with motives to kill him was long, but Miller’s murder was never solved.
Wikipedia: Vernon C. Miller
FBI Famous Cases – Kansas City Massacre /”Pretty Boy” Floyd
Vern Miller—Sheriff, Moonshiner, Hit-man
Lawman to Outlaw: Verne Miller and the Kansas City Massacre, by Brad Smith
Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, by Bryan Burrough
July 30, 2018 John DuMond History, True Crime 1975, cold case, crime, Detroit, history, Jimmy Hoffa, mafia, missing, organized crime, organized labor, Teamsters, true crime, unsolved mystery
November 29, 2016 John DuMond History, True Crime 1933, crime, Detroit, fbi, history, Kansas City Massacre, Michigan, murder, true crime, Verne Miller
November 29, 2014 John DuMond History, True Crime 1933, crime, Detroit, fbi, history, Kansas City Massacre, murder, true crime, Verne Miller
FBI Famous Cases – Kansas City Massacre – Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd
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Governments and Militaries, Season Four
Appearances: Season Two, Season Three, Season Four
Buster Bluth joins Army for a period of time to show his mother that he is a man. He is signed up for Army by Lucille Bluth after being approached by a Michael Moore impersonator.
Lucille volunteers Buster for Army in "The One Where Michael Leaves"
When approached by a Michael Moore impersonator, Lucille Bluth stated that she would sign her son Buster up for the armed forces. ("The One Where Michael Leaves") Buster hoped he would not pass the medical exam due to his numerous physiological issues but army was in such dire needs for applicants he was accepted. ("The One Where They Build a House") After catching his mother in bed with Oscar decided that he would really enlist to teach her a lesson. ("¡Amigos!") Not having started training yet, Buster asked G.O.B. to borrow a Hot Cops army costume for George Bluth's birthday party (which was actually George's wake.) ("Good Grief")
Buster struggling in "Sad Sack"
Buster struggled to get over a wall at training and Sergeant Wendell Baker couldn't insult him due to a recent lawsuit from James Alan Spangler and Wayne Jarvis. Buster enlisted G.O.B.'s help and was able to climb the wall with the help of some verbal humiliation. ("Sad Sack")
While waiting for a bus to go to training, Buster made change for a $100 bill and spent all his money on a claw machine at the arcade. He lied to his mother and claimed that the stuffed animals were his awards: Army gives seals for marksmanship and gorillas for sand racing. He also told her that he was off to join "Hero Squad". ("Afternoon Delight")
Buster with his Army awards in "Afternoon Delight"
Afraid of what might happen to Buster if he were deployed to Iraq, Lucille visited her old flame General Anderson whom she met as a USO singer during the Vietnam war. She had him pull Buster out of Army and into the USO. General Anderson later changed his mind when he felt Buster's shoulder massage. ("Switch Hitter")
While waiting for the bus to take him to active duty, Buster decides to swim in the ocean as a last act of defiance against his mother. His left hand is bitten off by a loose seal that had recently acquired the taste for mammal blood. ("Out on a Limb") He was then relieved from serving, due to his injury. ("Hand to God")
Buster uses his army skills to rescues George Michael from Motherboy. ("Motherboy XXX")
Buster tries to enlist George Michael in army so he could be relieved from his duty. ("Notapusy") He later uses his Army and Arabic skills to get G.O.B. out of an Iraqi prison. ("Exit Strategy")
When Buster was at the pawn shop, he saw an Army sign which made him think he could impress her by joining Army. Buster was immediately accepted back into Army and was given control of a drone ship. Not knowing it was real and actually killing people, Buster played for 72 hours and had a lot of fun. After accidentally destroying a hospital in Spain Buster panicked when he found out he was killing real people. ("Off the Hook")
G.O.B.'s wife
G.O.B.'s wife breaking the news about Army in "Whistler's Mother"
After getting fed up with G.O.B. and failing to enter a relationship with Tobias, G.O.B.'s wife joins the army. ("Whistler's Mother") After returning from army, she files for divorce from G.O.B. and sues him for the seal that he set free that that formerly appeared in his magic shows. A pompous G.O.B. prepares to swallow his guilt and admit they never consummated the wedding but the two finally had sex in the courthouse just minutes before signing the divorce papers. ("Motherboy XXX")
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They have half a day in Army.
Army censors black out "I blank you, Mother."
Throughout the series, Buster and Lucille in particular refer to "Army" without the usual definite article.
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Facebook wants to turn Web “likes” into ad dollars
Facebook could be preparing to mash the defunct Beacon with its already- …
Jacqui Cheng - Apr 19, 2010 4:15 pm UTC
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Facebook could be looking to turn your Web surfing history into targeted ads on the site—but only from the sites that you choose to "like." The rumor comes via the Financial Times, which spoke to "marketers briefed on [Facebook's] plans" ahead of Facebook's f8 conference later this week. And although Facebook wouldn't offer comment on its plans, the company made a vague comment insisting that it doesn't plan to change its policies when it comes to tracking users.
According to FT, Facebook plans to roll out a "Like" button—presumably something that would go in the browser bar, or have its own browser extension—that will let users indicate to their friends which websites they enjoyed that day. This sounds like a boiled-down version of Facebook's already-existing bookmarklet that lets users share pages from around the Internet on their Facebook walls.
Aside from making it easier to share content with friends, it sounds as if Facebook has extra plans for the new feature. Facebook could mine the data from these users and their "liked" websites in order to better target ads on the social networking site. In this sense, the Web-based "Like" feature also sounds like a descendent of the now-defunct Facebook Beacon. Beacon shared certain parts of a user's off-Facebook Internet activity to their Facebook walls as part of an advertising pact, but it quickly fell apart thanks to Facebook's decision to make the feature opt-out instead of opt-in. A number of privacy complaints were made, and Facebook eventually agreed to shut down Beacon as part of a lawsuit settlement.
It's likely that the company has used the lessons it learned from Beacon in order to ensure that developers and advertisers can only use data from sites that users actively choose to share. One can only hope that Facebook also informs its users about any data sharing that will happen as a result of the "Like" feature as well. The company has been pretty proactive lately when it comes to telling users about policy and feature changes, so we're cautiously optimistic.
Facebook is understandably careful not to directly address any upcoming announcements, but noted that whatever comes out of f8 won't affect the company's existing stance on data sharing (which generally considers whatever users actively choose to share as fair game). "All the products we are launching at F8 are focused on giving developers and entrepreneurs ways to make the web more social," a Facebook spokesperson told FT. "We have no announcements or changes planned to our ad offering and policies."
Jacqui Cheng Jacqui is an Editor at Large at Ars Technica, where she has spent the last eight years writing about Apple culture, gadgets, social networking, privacy, and more.
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Ben’s Tune-Up celebrates five years on Asheville South Slope
in Asheville News — by Jason Sandford — August 11, 2018
Ben’s Tune-Up, the restaurant, bar and sake brewery at 195 Hilliard Ave., will celebrate its five-year anniversary with live music and sake tastings today and tomorrow.
It’s been a fun run for one of Asheville’s most unique restaurants and brewery operations. They’ve come a long way since, as has the neighborhood, which is now known as the South Slope.
When the Ben’s team of four owners – Molly Clark, Meg Alt, Jonathan Robinson and Elliott Moss (who moved on to open Buxton Hall Barbecue with Chef Meherwan Irani further down the slope) – announced their plans for the old automotive shop, the area along Hilliard and down Coxe Avenue was still a mostly quiet zone of auto shops and empty buildings. In 2000, Green Man Brewing moved its operation to Buxton Street, further south down the hill, installing a brewery operation and opening its Dirty Jack’s tasting room. But that was about it as far as food/drink/entertainment in that area.
In 2006, Asheville Pizza & Brewing (now Asheville Pizza Co.) opened its second location (brewing and pizza joint) along Coxe Avenue. The Prospect established its under-the-radar bar on Buxton Avenue in 2010. And the ever popular French Broad Chocolate Lounge opened its factory and tasting room just up the street from Green Man in June 2012.
But the arrival of Ben’s Tune-Up, its sake brewery and funky courtyard, as well as next-door neighbor Hi-Wire Brewing and Burial Beer down on Collier Avenue (which all opened in the summer of 2013), marked the beginning of a rush of development that’s now nearly as busy as the downtown proper. The area became known as the South Slope, and residential and retail development has followed (as have a number of other beer joints).
But this weekend is all about Ben’s Tune-Up, which has evolved over the years (remember the PennyMart?) The restaurant closed in January and part of February for some much needed renovations. Workers gutted the bar and kitchen. They added a new bar. And they expanded the sake brewery operation. Brewer Patrick Shearer, formerly of Sake One in Portland, Ore., has joined the Ben’s team and his new batches are starting to roll out of tanks. Clark describes him as “a badass” and says “we are pretty psyched” about the recent changes.
More about the Ben’s Tune-Up celebration
Come Celebrate with us!! Ben’s American Sake Brewery is back and better than ever!! We have given our brewery an entire makeover and we want all of you to see our awesome new tasting room and merch shop. There will be plenty of cool new things for you to check out so stop in anytime Saturday and Sunday.
Live Music 7-9 p.m..
Mike Martinez (Front man of Natural Born Leaders ) Takes the stage in our new Sake tasting room for a solo performance
Sunday August 12th
Live Music 5-7 p.m.
Savannah Faith Smith takes the stage, performing her soulful blues.
FREE Sake tastings throughout the day
Meet the brewer and tour the brewery!
Come see all the new spaces Ben’s has to offer and taste what we have been brewing up!
Other highlights of the development of the South Slope in Asheville:
Twin Leaf opens in the spring 2014.
Vortex Donuts opens in October 2014.
The Wicked Weed Funkatorium opens in October 2014.
Catawba Brewing opens in spring 2015 on Banks Avenue.
Tasty Beverage bottle shop opens in the spring 2015.
Buxton Hall Barbecue opens in August 2015.
The apartment building at 150 Coxe Ave. opened in 2016. The residential redevelopment of the upper floors of the old Chrysler Building opened in 2015.
And still more has followed, with more development planned; these are just highlights.
Tags: Asheville, Asheville Pizza & Brewinng, Banks Avenue, Burial Beer, Buxton Hall Barbecue, Buxton Street, Catawba Brewing, Coxe Avenue, Funkatorium, Green Man Brewing, Hi-Wire Brewing, Patrick Shearer, Portland, sake, Sake One, Tasty Beverage, Vortex Donuts, Wicked Weed Funkatorium
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Don’t fall for Boris Johnson’s ‘I’m not a Tory’ shtick
Posted by Alastair Campbell | May 2, 2012 | Politics | 59 |
So tomorrow London decides whether Boris Johnson gets another bash at being Mayor, or Ken Livingstone a return to City Hall.
Whizzing through my morning media brief, I see Ed Miliband correctly exposing the strategy that Johnson is hoping will get him over the line. This from the Independent Page 17… Ed Miliband has accused Boris Johnson of trying to fool Londoners into thinking he is not a Conservative by distancing himself from Cameron, writes Grice. Miliband: ‘Boris Johnson’s strategy for these mayoral elections is based on pretending he is not a Tory. He tries not to be seen in public with David Cameron and most of his election literature makes no reference to him being the Conservative candidate. But Boris Johnson has proven to be a typical Tory as mayor, raising fares, cutting services and standing up only for the powerful or wealthy in London … He [Johnson] led the campaign for a tax cut for millionaires in the Budget. He even wanted to go further than Osborne by reducing the rate for those earning £150,000 a year not just to 45p, but to 40p. People must not be misled. They should not let Boris Johnson get away with it. They have a choice between a Tory mayor with a track record of standing up for the privileged few or a Labour mayor in Ken Livingstone with a proven track record of making lives better for working people in London.’
Then right on cue up pops Johnson in the Sun and the Mail, stressing how different he is (sic) to David Cameron and George Osborne. ‘Basher Boris’ (Sun p15 i/v) – ‘I’m different from Cameron and Osborne, claims Boris’ (Mail p8) – Johnson today demands a better deal for White Van Man and blasts Osborne for waving through a crippling fuel duty hike. The London Mayor distances himself from the Chancellor’s botched Budget, writes Newton Dunn. He declares he is “pro-pasty”. Wow!
Meanwhile over in The Guardian part of the media jungle, page 16 tells us ‘Johnson aided by firm that paid no tax for three years’ (Guard p16) – Boris Johnson’s campaign for re-election as mayor of London has been utilising the offices of an international mobile phone company that has paid no corporation tax in Britain for three years.’ Well, there’s a shock.
Ken Livingstone may have his faults as well as his strengths. But he did more for London than Boris has. His heart is with the many not the few that Boris cares about. The choice is not Ken or perfection, but him or Johnson, Labour or Tory, and given the mess the Tories are making of things, the Mayor included, it has to be Ken.
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JonCarter on May 2, 2012 at 9:40 am
Ali Campbell, are you really saying that Ken cares for the many? Do me a favour. He is a disgrace and just wants to divide and rule. Horrible horrible man.
reaguns on May 2, 2012 at 10:11 am
So Alastair is backing the labour candidate – hold the front page!
Boris is more of a Tory than Cameron is, people who follow politics should know that because Cameron like Ken Clarke is a lib dem in tory clothes. However for London Boris has proposed some un-Tory things, probably out of opportunism.
Michele on May 2, 2012 at 10:35 am
Stunning article from a few weeks ago :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/29/boris-johnson-london-mayor-elections
I’m embarrassed to admit I’d not known the source of BJ describing £250k as chickenfeed …. I’d just assumed it was some general ‘Aren’t I a hoot’ type piffle.
I had no idea it is the amount he makes (I’m careful where I use the word ‘earn’) for his weekly column in the Toxigraph.
Ye gods, are other Londoners as dense as me?
It also lists his inherited projects (for which he assumed the credit).
Alan Davis on May 2, 2012 at 10:39 am
In view of Ken’s totally misguided but populist views on our removal of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, I hardly think he is fit to be leader of our Capital. His misunderstanding of the nature of Middle eastern culture and character makes his leadership of our multicultural city to be avoided at all costs. You should be the first to know this!
OMG ….. re the bike scheme from the link !!
………………. “Over its first five years, the scheme is expected to cost £140m, of
which sponsors Barclays Bank, despite having their company colours all
over the hardware, are contributing less than a fifth………………………… ”
I thought BB were funding the bikes completely …… to have their corporate colours so much in evidence.
BJ has ‘promised’ to extend the scheme if he gets back in.
I’d not imagine that that means providing any more bikes, given that so few of them are used per day anyway.
It can only mean building more racks and extending the zone with the same number of heavy bikes (which people do not have to wear a safety helmet to hire).
Olli Issakainen on May 2, 2012 at 11:02 am
Ali vs Frazier.
Who is going to be the next mayor of Borisopolis?
Boris Johnson would make a brilliant act in the vaudeville circuit, but we are now choosing the mayor of London – not clowns.
Ken Livingstone has a perfect manifesto for the people of London.
A win for Bozza would send a wrong message to Britain. Messrs Cameron and Osborne would use it as a mandate to continue with austerity.
Yes, the race is more about personality than party. It is an election based on who people hate the least.
But Mr Johnson is a rightwing candidate. Riots, air pollution etc. have shown what he is about.
Yes, Ken Livingstone has been accused of tax avoidance and antisemitism. But his policies are better for Londoners.
By voting Boris people will give also backing to the omnishambles government. To the PM and hopeless chancellor who have now hit economic iceberg and do not know what to do next.
Living standards are falling.
Labour is 19% ahead of the Tories in London. Let´s show this also as support for Ken.
Boris Johnson has had more meetings with bankers than anyone. He urged Osborne to cut the 50p tax.
Housing costs are up. Transport too.
The financial crisis has been used to increase the power of elites. Boris Johnson has lobbied for the City bankers.
Millionaires have been rewarded, but ordinary citizens are paying more.
Fabulous new wealth for the friends of the Tories – austerity for the rest.
This is not fair. Ed Miliband will win the next general election on FAIRNESS AGENDA.
Out of touch rich boys do not have a chance. It will be 99% versus 1%.
The French and Greek elections will start a new economic orthodoxy giving backing to the two Eds. M. Hollande is a Keynesian Socialist.
Boris Johnson is not a harmless entertainer. He is part of the financial elite.
He is for the top 1%. Johnson wants to cut the top rate to 40%.
Do not vote for millionaires who are in the pockets of the City bankers.
Philip Hammond (worth £7.5m) worked for the World Bank.
George Osborne (£4.6m) is a member of Rothschilds´ Bilderberg Group, and has been a close friend of Nat Rothschild.
When is opposition, the family of Jacob Rothschild directly donated money to Osborne´s office (the Telegraph).
Jeremy Hunt is worth £4.5m
The family of David Cameron (£4m) has done business with the Rothschilds for decades. PM is also a Bilderberger.
He was an advisor for Norman Lamont (NM Rothschild).
Chris Huhne (£3.5m) has worked for Rothschilds´ the Economist and Fitch Ratings.
Andrew Mitchell (£2m) worked for Lazard investment bank.
David Laws (£1-2m) for Rothschilds´ JP Morgan.
Nick Clegg (£1.9m) is a Bilderberger. He has worked for Rothschilds´ FT and Postipankki bank in Finland!
Theresa May (£1.6m) worked for the BoE. She has received the Freedom of the City of London.
Oliver Letwin (£1.6m) is a former Rothschild banker. He is the link between Rothschilds and the Tory-led government.
Ken Clarke (£1m+) sits on the steering committee of Bilderberg Group together with Marcus Agius of Barclays (Rothschilds) and Josef Ackermann of Deutsche Bank (Rothschilds).
Mr Clarke has been a board member of Rothschilds´ BAT. He owns shares in Rothschilds´ BP.
William Hague (£2.5m) is a Bilderberger. As is Francis Maude (£3m), a Bilderberger who has worked for Barclays and Rothschilds´ Morgan Stanley.
Vince Cable is the former chief economist of Rothschilds´ Shell. Zac Goldsmith is in relationship with Alice Rothschild.
70 of 305 Conservative MPs are from the City. A third of 193 peers.
11 Tory MPs/peers have worked for Barclays including Jesse Norman, Lord Lawson and Earl Howe.
John Redwood, Lord Lamont and Jacob Rees-Mogg have worked for NM Rothschild.
Vote Labour. Sack Boris!
Michele on May 2, 2012 at 12:28 pm
EM doing very well at the mo with Martha Kearney
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gvrxh
However, she has introduced the idea that Select Committees them very selves are now being undermined by ‘division along party lines’ – adopting the mis-quote first broadcast by Louise Mensch.
The Report states that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit and proper person to run an international corporation like BSkyB.
Those last two groups of letters, the ‘like BSkyB’ are the qualification of the rest of the sentence, they describe Rupert Murdoch’s limitation.
He might well be fit and proper to run another type of international corporation.
How dare media types distort what they report to us, ignore the detail and how dare they take their lead from someone that is such sycophant to Cam&Osbo?
Michele on May 2, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Wow, let’s all bow to someone with sufficient knowledge of Middle East culture that he thinks the world would be better off with Saddam still in place.
No mention of Chemical Ali and the ‘orrible gases though.
Can you categorise your own as yet single post here?
Is it a unifying one?
Are you one of life’s unifying forces?
I haven’t given in to the temptation of scrolling the blog on LabourList to see what your single word post reading ‘Mad’ on there is ‘in relation’ to.
Anonymous on May 2, 2012 at 1:35 pm
No. it’s JUST you
Or perhaps it was just me that was out of the country and without t’net or other media at the time eh …. unsavoury cookie?
reaguns on May 2, 2012 at 3:48 pm
I knew he got 250k for his telegraph column. Didn’t know he called it chickenfeed. I used to read it occasionally, sometimes it was good but I can never be bothered now.
JonCarter on May 2, 2012 at 4:07 pm
I’m not sure I follow?
It’s been resurrected and quoted in the past few weeks reaguns but was apparently actually said some time ago!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-dismisses-pound250000ayear-telegraph-column-as-chickenfeed-1745610.html
Note for the unsavoury one …. as it happens I was out of this country then too ! 😮
Chris lancashire on May 2, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Oh, he is a Tory. And he’ll win. Unless, of course, the postal votes do for him.
Cheers Alastair.
If I’m curious about someone’s other input, just wondering whether a post in an aberration or is standard for them, I can click on their icon and be linked to it.
When I click on yours I find only the two posts on this thread and your post on LabourList which is simply the word ‘Mad’, which seems not very complete, especially when compared to your venom here against KL.
Naturally it’s possibly an unreliable function but if not, are you one of life’s unifiers?
Withut wondering about your answer and unlike you I think that KL is.
Until today I’ve not given much thought to BJ’s piffle that ‘£250k = chickenfeed’.
I hadn’t known he was saying that in relation to his own pay per year for a weekly column on a Tory rag.
£250k pa means nearly £5k per week for a single column; in addition to thinking that that is a obnoxious situation I wonder how it compares to other Toxigraph writers?
Is it feasible that Gilligan is paid so well and if not does he resent it (or does he not if he thinks that subsidising BJ as mayor is something worth doing?).
BJ has also hinted that pay such as this allows people to donate to charity, wonder if he does?
Anonymous on May 2, 2012 at 10:16 pm
Don’t worry, few do. You see, if you dare to come on here and criticise Labour or Labour candidates or Labour-supporters such as AC, the attack dogs come out, while the sheep start bleating, “Labour good, everyone else rotten”. What I don’t understand is how Labour gets kicked out of office in any election. You would have thought that being perfect they would hold office perpetually. But somehow that doesn’t seem to happen.
Mark on May 2, 2012 at 10:27 pm
“DON’T FALL FOR KEN’S “I AM LABOUR” SHTICK”
It’s a shame that the Murdoch Inquiry has finished during this week, clashing with local elections.
I’m sure that Louise Mensch can’t be the most senior or experienced or qualified of the Tory members of the panel so am not sure why she’s become its spokesperson; the Tory ‘A List’ for new candidates can’t be anything to do with what Labour was criticised for re its women can it?
However, that’s the way it is but it’s disgusting that she’s now being subjected to the cybersphere’s special type of coward :
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/02/tory-whore-louise-mensch-fights-back-against-women-haters-on-twitter/comment-page-4/
It’s sad that like so many women she’s being subjected to sillythickphobists ranging from the pathetic to the worryingly sexist.
Paul Keogh on May 2, 2012 at 10:55 pm
So Much for the Evening Standard’s ‘Sorry’ Campaign a couple of years back
Sarah Sands is direct from Tory Central office and is an obedient
Boris lackey and tool.
Lebedev is fortunate that the Standard is a free rag as the appointment of
Sands as Editor would drive all non Tories running for Tube.
Boris doesn’t own the Evening Standard. He merely told the owner to appoint
his old girlfriend and cheerleader, Sarah Sands, as Editor and his campaign only
suggests what Standard hacks should write ( to make him look good). The
Standard has always been a propaganda rag for the Tories for decades and this
will continue under Sarah Sands.
What has the Evening Standard been promised by Boris/ the Tories in return
for their obedient cheerleading and shilling ? Veronica Wadley was eventually
appointed to the Arts Council despite opposition from many in the artistic
Community for getting the Standard to act as a pr machine for Boris. Sarah Sands
is no different from Wadley, she is in Boris’s back pocket and takes her orders
from Tory central office.
If Boris is re-elected could he please work FULL-TIME as London Mayor and
stop spending so much time cashing in by writing so much for The Daily
The Mayor is a prestigious position and requires complete attention, not
just when elections are approaching.
Londoners want a full-time Mayor to sort out the City not a part-time one.
Candidates take note !
We thought after the last Mayoral campaign where the Standard loyally
backed Boris that we then had an advertising campaign saying “sorry” and that in
future the paper would be independent. Did I dream that? Instead, the Standard
has formally endorsed Boris again. So the same as last time.
Why even pretend to be objective?
Sarah Sands is a political hack, not a credible journalist.
Ehtch on May 3, 2012 at 1:47 am
Hope Boris will be eating cold sausages on Friday morning, with no meat, with a good smack on the back from Paxo, saying, “don’t worry Boris, there is always next time. Hard cheese, ol’ boy.”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QplCetQYYKw
To on previous crap apple flowering and forget-me-nots, the chestnut tree in our back garden right next to the sun house is on the point of flowering with it’s stunning white upright candles, can be seen above our fronted true double garaged doors from the road. A stunning sight for local neighbour passers.
The tree was moved three times in our back garden, this conker tree, but I might bore people with it. Finally found where it was right and could blossom, with anti-weed and feeding powder to help it when transplanted.
Just off for a walk soon to the local voting station, will be voting for Kim, was in school with here, Labour, local council. She had a good time earning working for the DVLA, learning “things” or whatever the government calls it these days. Hope Kim gets in.
Dave Simons on May 3, 2012 at 6:28 am
Absolute rot as usual. One of the problems on this blog is that ‘criticism’ of Labour tends to be very low quality, rather like yours. I remember welcoming the contribution from a Conservative supporter about a year and a half ago because it was articulate and well argued. Unfortunately it was apparently a one-off, and the one-line mud slingers prevail.
Situation re postal votes does need addressing, nobody’s vote should be stolen from them.
Checking out the bona fides of their owners could be a worthwhile job creation scheme!
I don’t understand unsavoury one, out of the country, presume thats to someone else.
As for Boris, I’m afraid to me it looks like another one of those “Diane Abbott is a horrible racist who wants to start a British Black Panthers” or “Jeremy Clarkson wants to shoot strikers.” The labour reaction quoted in that post is typical but embarassing.
Why can’t we have more like those I mentioned the other day like Charles Clarke, or take Jack Straw’s reaction last year when prodded on question time to take advantage of Ken Clarke’s rape comments, but Straw refused to do so.
Gilliebc on May 3, 2012 at 2:29 pm
I luv (horse?) chestnut trees. We have several along the road close to where I live. The candles, some white and some purple always lift my spirits at this time of year as I walk or drive past them. ‘For the beauty of the earth’ and all that!
No voting in this area at this time.
Ehtch on May 3, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Off topic, as I do – BORIS, pop your eyes back in, alpine ladies I am constantly in love with, two from Osterrich, right so-an’-so’s they are, down Boris, behave,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ENN3bUSAXc
Pissed off with the wimmins section of the Guardian – there was I battling to defend Louise Mensch, and wimmin too, they took my messages the wrong fucking way, and now I am back in the land of “comment waiting for wotsisting”! Bluddy bluddy wimmin!
Anyway, what’s happenning here?
Mark Wright on May 3, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Anybody doubting Ken Livingston’s commitment to the people of London should have a listen to the link below.
It’s for a promo flexi-disc from 1984 entitled ‘Jobs For A Change’ featuring ‘Ken Livingston & The Flying Pickets’ for the ‘Job For A Change’ festival which was held on Sunday June 10th 1984 on the South Bank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaJ14hTR9H0
Think about that. 1984.
Ken’s been fighting for Londoner’s rights his whole life.
Wot with this farcking nonsense, wot, ey, Alf Garnett speaking her luv, you are who, Louise Mensch? nice name luv, but never ‘eard of you sorry – did your dad conduct on the picaddilly line? anyways, listen, listen, the proplem with lahndon, see, we are giving, give and give,and where does that get us, ey? BLUDDY NOWHERE. See, the problem with this govenrment, their too close to the bankers, see, in that City see, as well as that knob Murdoch, Ha-ey, he is on his last legs, ey, 81,81, wheelchair time and off with the fairies he will be soon, ey?
Alf,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOhXpmozpbE
Yeh, too right Alf.
Yes, the comment for the unsavoury one is re another, it’s a weak joke based on their ID. Oooops, am ‘abouting’.
I can’t agree with your evaluation re BJ’s comment. For someone to be paid such a vast amount for such a small amount of effort/time/work smacks of subsidy for him having to give up his editor role.
If it were on offer to all mayoral candidates (in addition to the present £130k-ish salary) it would not stink the same.
He seems to be getting in to quite a bad habit of swearing :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17899565
not to mention fibbing, the snippet about £5m re the bikes scheme!
furthermore Gilliebc, it gets more interesting, grabbed one of those furry straight slender mops, to get cobwebs down, shoved a few plastic pipes extended, went to a horse chestnut tree miles away, stoked the flowers,came back to the back garden one, stroked its flowers, and hey presto, enormous conkers at end of summer. I will have to refine this process, and see if something can come from it, rather than some conkers contest in some school yard.
Our conker tree suffers the moth blight, leaves discolour mid-summer, and little moths flying about. But it is getting less, when I spayed it with water made of nicotine fag ends. Honest, it works, slowish. Where you usually put soap in the pressure washer, I put old soaked fag ends water in instead, and spray it up into the leaves, fifty feet into the air, with the wind helping.. Insects can’t cope with nicotine. oh no, they die die die you buggers.
Sorry I meant the reaction to him calling the 250k “chickenfeed” if that was said in the tongue and cheek way implied. If it was said in earnest that would be different.
The matter of him earning the 250k is something different. I haven’t done much hunting around but I would have though there must be various labour and tory people of past and present getting paid to write newspaper columns, run property businesses etc if we were to stop Boris we’d have to stop them all. It seems to me just a way to attack Boris. If Alan Johnson, or even for example Ed Balls had a weekly column in the guardian I’d read it, and wouldn’t consider it a dereliction of duty.
Johnson speaks on a wide range of topics with a lot of humour and often from a very original angle. People think he is a bungling buffoon but I fear would have to think twice if they read him. In short I think he is an excellent writer.
I do not think he is an excellent Mayor however, its something entirely different.
So maybe he is not a buffoon, but he is bungling. Riots, transport strikes etc all happening on his watch.
Unfortunately, if you’ve had someone lazy and inept as mayor, people at large form the view that the mayor has no real role and it’s all a bit of a joke. I expect Billy Bunter will get back in. But if he does, it will be a measure of the capital’s malaise and the dumbing down of politics. And then we can all feel genuinely depressed.
I have just spent the last two hours knocking on doors to get out the vote on London housing estates. What Boris Johnson would have to offer any of these people I have no idea.
The point is that £250k for a weekly column is out of any proportion. Do you imagine anyone else there is paid such a figure? This is subsidy of a powerful political role.
I do realise DT’s a private company and its owners can do what they like with their own money (and we know its previous owner helped himself to what wasn’t).
The ability to appear stupid and buffoon-ish is handy for a media person, it has done nothing for London/ers.
I wonder whether there’ll ever be an Inquiry about the Telegraph/Barclay Bros exertions in to London politics and sheer transparent subsidy of its mayor (fingers crossed he’ll be down by one salary by morning).
I’ve not been peeking in over there but you might come across as a wannabe-knight in your posts Ehtch and it’s not always something that’s possible to appreciate if it requires women to go all kitten-ish. We’re not defenceless, just different 🙂
I’m not a fan at all of Louise Mensch, haven’t been since her ‘arrival’ – I discovered quite late (as she was a brand new and unfamiliar MP) that she was the hootin’&hollerin’ person sitting right behind and cheering every sentence from Osbo in his first round of economic changes (she made the chamber sound like an American ‘football’ game was on).
But there are nasty tactics that get employed against women and no matter how equal she should feel, the sexism in the comments about her is revolting and something that she can’t counter without sinking to the same level. Cyber violence obviously isn’t physical but it can be chilling (and it’s not always from men!).
” ………………… wouldn’t consider it a dereliction of duty…………………. ”
Nothing at all to do with it. It’s the amount, the sheer cheek of such a huge subsidy for him to do something for a lark (all Dick Whittington-ish) when he just doesn’t love London and Londoners as Ken does.
reaguns on May 4, 2012 at 12:09 pm
I think Ken loves himself. And a few of his broody hippy friends (provided they are not jews of course.)
Boris loves himself too, and his mistresses.
I don’t think either of them ever lost a nights sleep over the plight of ordinary londoners.
Aw diddums, the sensible parts of the public have not fallen for Brian Paddick. He really should have stayed in the Met, he was doing some good there and surely its horizon was big enough for anyone?
Any ideas why he thought differently?
Your sickening opportunistic cheap little shot at KL’s ‘not’ friends exposes you as a stupid brat that lashes out. If I could bear the sound of the p-word I’d plead with you to do it off.
If you say that about Boris you can say that about all paid commentators. What about Polly Toynbee on 140k? Speaking loudly and clearly for labour. Oh she is not in the party, ok then do we ban all party members from writing columns? I don’t see how you can nobble Boris Johnson and his column without nobbling a lot of others as well. I wish more politicians would write columns and blogs.
Whats opportunistic? Ken talking about rich jews or me calling him on it?
Don’t understand your last paragraph.
Plughole avoidance:
Re the embarrassing (should be) admission ……. “Don’t understand your last paragraph” ….Taking the easy way out? Write it down on a slip of paper, in sequence, horizonatally left to right then read, you might then.We all know there’s a lot of profit to be made from claims of discrimination, profit as in money as well as in ruining people’s reputations to steal an advantage over them. We all know that this sometimes leads to unfair claims about perceived or imagined or convenient ‘discrimination’; sometimes truly felt but often born out of confusion or unsophistication.I reckon Ed Miliband is a Jewish bloke that knows what is and isn’t actual discrimination. He grew up in a now-trendy part of London that was still a bombsite when his parents bought there. It edges on to areas like Whitechapel and Stoke Newington, areas where people of all sorts of cosmopolitan nationalities and origins live but there isn’t much mingling in any of those areas. Nobody imposed that on anybody.This:http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/mar/22/ken-livingstone-jewish-community-row is what Ed Miliband has said this week in rebuttal of the so-easy accusations you’ve bandwagoned on to.We need anti-discrimination legislation for where it’s real but we all need to develop thicker skins too and not expect to be swaddled for life. Stop flailing around and being over-emotional. Your man lost, get over it.
ofgs you can’t resist the tangents can you?
Boris is being subsidised as Mayor, he is not doing the job for the love of London or its people.
It’s about status for him vs being a real job with real needs to KL.
The £250k is subsidy to someone the Barclay Bros want in power.
Want in power….OK? Want him in position to launch himself off to replace Cam when the back benchers and right wing nut jobs have finally kicked him out.
We’re finally going to be rid of the Murdochs distorting so much but the tax …. hush mah mouth …. twins fancy taking over the strings.
I’ve just read that the count is presently slightly in favour of BJ but not giving him the required minimum of 50% so second choice votes from the third-placed candidate (Jenny Jones) will be added on to their numbers. I don’t know whether that means pro-rated or halved?
I’m sure she’ll gip deeply if her votes help the smug one in.
Wish I’d seen this weeks ago and been able to pass it around :
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/04/09/ken-livingstones-actual-tax-rate-and-how-guido-fawkes-spun-the-truth/
Ehtch on May 4, 2012 at 10:39 pm
Kim got in with County Council, and on the parish council too. Congrats to her. Nia Griffith, our local MP, encouraged her to have a go. Well done, not bad for first go.
I just feel she has been used by certain people, and at the basest level, and I feel for her. But what can you expect from this low lot that call themselves the Government of our country? Who are the whips for the Tories again? They have something to answer for here, especially. Many people could see straight through what was going on, that the select committee findings were being used as cheap party political points just before these elections.
Fuming I was, and I showed my frustration, as in above personal micro-story.
furthermore, link, go down the list and click on Llannon ward, where I am living and voting,
http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/English/council/electionsandvoting/Pages/ElectionResults2012.aspx
Parish council, again go down to the Llannon, but it is pdf, so scroll down down down, yes, keep scrolling…
http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/English/council/electionsandvoting/Documents/communityresults.pdf
reaguns on May 5, 2012 at 1:16 am
You said “If I could bear the sound of the p-word, I’d do it off.” I don’t understand.
I really don’t understand the rest of the post above either?
I didn’t have a dog in this fight, I didn’t vote for anyone. I suppose you mean Paddick, yes I’d rather he would have won, but I suppose anything positive about him could not overcome the contempt with which the lib dems are held
Why would I place my one vote when I can go round telling people that I like Ken so that it puts them off.
I don’t get your bit about discrimination either but it seems that you are telling me off, telling me I need a thicker skin against Ken’s jewish barbs (and I’m not even a jew btw.) Yet it was you who called my remark sickening – so who really needs the thicker skin?
BLIMEY! flexi discs!! Got a load of them in the attic, my younger brother was a sucker for them on the front of magazines then, especially ones stuck on the front of Smash Hits and Record Mirror then. Have one of John Foxx, that is worth a fortune, to the right buyer…
John Foxx as in,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTFklZs8lo
Anyway, do you remember Clare Grogan from Glasgie? From the 1980’s, singing about insects from then? Lovely girl/woman. Here she is from then, on TOTP London, as you do,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X55Ll1o71X8
oops, that was when she was in Gregory’s Girl, this one I meant, strutting her stuff, making a beeb cameraman work, the fat comfortable fella from Tunbridge Wells no doubt,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1xGDTmdNLg
edit, I will get it right sometime! That was her singing live on The Old Grey Whistle Test, of course, with her Glasgie mates from Altered Images, from 1981, as Whispering Bob told us at the end, the prog-rock botherer he was, needing re-educating. He played the beeb line with punk I think. Well, I hope he did.
yes, cyber or violence or not, men do have a habit of finding wimmin that can stick their dagger into their weak sweeyt spot. Now I am not saying there is any excuse for us fellas for such a reaction, perhaps they themselves were looking for it, due to their very young growing experiences themselves. And anyway, wheru would fucking c @ @ ting Jeremy Kyle be without it, getting his trade, to coin, and on his ameican tour, ey?
This is what I’d said elsewhere ….
“If I could bear the sound of the p-word
I’d plead with you to do it off”
Spot the difference to your ‘quote’?
It started as wordplay about what I’d like to post to you if it was a phrase I had ever voiced in real life; I haven’t as I hate the p-word, which if you’ve not yet sussed, sod it.
I don’t understand how someone can post so vociferously about a candidate and then fail to vote for them. I see no point in you arguing or having a vote.
If there’s a reason you can’t get out, apologies for my ignorance.
NO apologies for thinking you are opportunistic for jumping on a bandwagon that will pain Ken for the rest of his life; certain accusations are easy peasy to make and more difficult than most for the recipient to endure. Perhaps it will happen to you one day, who knows?
I’m horrified on behalf of Jenny Jones (who states she does not trust him) to think that her votes have been exploited to squeeze BJ over the 50% minimum and into a second term
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/03/jenny-jones-green-party-mayoral-election-interview_n_1398974.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138853/London-mayoral-elections-2012-Boris-Johnson-clinches-narrow-mayoral-victory-blond-whisker-credits-rival-helping-win.html
Ah ok, the p-word rhymes with miss! Ok you’ve made your point, though I can’t help but feel the direct version would have made it better!
Yes I’m aware my own position on voting is a contradiction, I criticise our country and our parties for not being democratic enough, and then don’t vote. But there is no one I want to vote for, and at the end of the day my one vote will not ever change an election outcome. As for Paddick, I never thought he’d win but yes I did wonder if he could do a Boris and outscore his party. Obviously not.
The point about Ken vs Jews is that your position was a contradtiction – you can be sickened by me jumping on a bandwagon, yet I can’t be sickened by what he says? As it happens I’m not sickened, to be perfectly honest I am not concerned about the sensitivities of Jews, Muslims, Christians or any other such group. I am concerned about poor people, weak people, sick people, victims of crime – people who have circumstances they did not choose and can not change.
I haven’t looked in to deeply to those types of comments by Ken, its purely his economic and crime policies I disagree with.
Perhaps you are right but how to stop this for not jos Boris but everyone else who is subsidised? The answer: Small government. Give govt no levers with which to help barclays etc.
Why do people think Murdoch is finished? I think Leveson has done nothing so far and will not count chickens before they are hatched.
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Nigeria: How Nigerian Govt's Inaction Causes Death of Hundreds Annually From Snakebite
Photo: Premium Times
Premium Times (Abuja)
Massive deaths from snakebites have become a recurrent decimal in Nigeria.
The casualty figures usually get more staggering during the heat when these cold-blooded reptiles are forced out of their hiding places in search of fresh air.
That period, usually between January and April, is incidentally the time farmers go to the fields to clear their farms, preparatory to the farming season.
It is also the time herdsmen in the north move into thicker forests in their search for greener fields in view of the harsh realities of the dry season.
Records from various snakebite treatment centres across the country have also indicated that the figures go up during the harvest season, especially for crops like rice and yam.
According to a medic at the Zamko Comprehensive Medical Centre, Langtang, a snakebite treatment point in Plateau, rats go to yam farms to eat yam, snakes go to the farm to wait for the rats. When farmers reach their farms for the harvest, they get bitten.
During one of such peak snakebite periods last year, 250 victims died within three weeks in Plateau and Gombe states.
The figure represented the number of confirmed deaths in two snake treatment centres - General Hospital, Kaltungo, Gombe State, and Zamko Comprehensive Medical Centre. More victims were confirmed to have died at herbal treatment centres within the period.
States worst hit by the menace include Gombe, Bauchi, Taraba, Adamawa, Plateau, Borno, Nasarawa and Benue.
Nandul Durfa, Managing Director, Echitab Study Ltd Guarantee, the outfit handling the collection and distribution of Echitab Anti-Snake Venom (ASV), from their production centres in United Kingdom and Costa Rica, says that the situation has been particularly bad this year because of a paucity of the ASV.
"As at January, we had less than 200 vials left for the whole country. The report we get from the snakebite treatment centres is mind blogging, but there isn't much we can do," a hapless Mr Durfa told journalists in Jos recently.
He said that his outfit was expecting the next supply of 2,000 vials from Micropharm Ltd in Wales, UK, and another consignment from ICP University in Costa Rica, on April 22.
"Clearly, the nation is in trouble at this peak period of snakebite. The quantity in the store has proved too little to meet the demand. The situation is frightening.
"Already, the snakebite treatment centre at the General Hospital, Kaltungo, receives an average of 16 cases a day. That centre received more than 3,086 cases last year. The situation is even worse at the Zamko medical centre," he said.
He regretted that not much attention was being paid to victims of snakebites, and blamed that on a claim that the victims of snakebite were mostly the poor people.
"Everyone should be interested in assisting victims of snakebites because those affected are mostly the productive group - the farmers, miners, hunters, youths and herdsmen - responsible for our food, milk, meat and other critical areas of the economy," he posited.
But, with more Nigerians dying as a result of snakebite, analysts have continued to wonder why the shortage of the ASV has persisted over the years. They particularly wonder why Nigeria had yet to start producing the facility locally so as to make it readily available and affordable.
Mr Durfa says that the ASV is always in short supply because of the process involved in producing and ferrying it to Nigeria.
According to him, ASV comes in two forms - EchiTAB Plus ICP polyvalent, produced at the Instituto Clodomiro Picado, University of Costa Rica, which treats bites from all venomous snakes in Nigeria, and EchiTAB G, produced by Micropharm Ltd, United Kingdom, solely for carpet vipers, the commonest snakes in Nigeria.
Mr Durfa says that tedious processes, lasting more than three months, are involved in producing and importing the ASV.
"Normally, we take the live snakes to Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine where they are killed and their venom extracted and sent to the manufacturing sites in Wales and Costa Rica.
The drugs are produced there and brought to Nigeria.
"Aside the transport, the weather is different; we must ensure that the snakes are kept in a regulated temperature similar to what they are used to, in Nigeria, so that they will not die.
"If we produced at home, we shall ward off the heavy amounts paid in foreign exchange to technicians in the UK, because salaries are lower here," he said.
Mr Durfa explained that local production of ASV would be "very easy" in Nigeria because the consultants had expressed their readiness to transfer the technology to the country.
"The consultants are willing to transfer the technology and also train local personnel to handle the processes. Nigeria must take full advantage of this kindness," he stated.
He said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo approved the local manufacturing of the ASV in 2006, but regretted that nothing came of it.
"Obasanjo approved a production cost of N2 billion and suggested that the money be sourced from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) fund; sadly, no money was made available for the project."
Mr Durfa further explained that EchiTAB ASV, whose name is sourced from Echis ocellatus - the biological name for carpet viper - with TAB referring to Therapeutic Anti-Bodies, had three variants including EchiTAB G for carpet vipers responsible for 97 per cent cases of snake bites in Nigeria, and EchiTAB Plus for carpet viper, Puff Adder and Black Cobra venom.
He traced the ASV's production to 1991, when Prof. Ransome Kuti, then health minister, sought the assistance of two UK Professors - David Warrel of Oxford University and David Theakston of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
"There was an acute shortage of ASV then, and the minister contacted the duo.
"The production processes went through various levels of screening and 11 clinical purification trials before the drugs were certified and registered by NAFDAC.
"The clinical trials were carried out in Kaltungo General Hospital, Gombe State, Zamko Comprehensive Health Centre, Langtang and Jos University Teaching Hospital," he recalled.
He advised the government to pay special attention to local production of the drug because snake bites affect mostly the productive group, and regretted that many had continued to die from a menace that could be effectively tackled.
Mr Durfa suggested that the federal government could establish a factory to manufacture the drug using a Public-Private- Partnership (PPP), arrangement.
"The best arrangement is the PPP because government policies are usually unstable. One government can start a project that its successor may discard. That will take us back to square one.
"But if private hands are involved, continuity will be guaranteed," he argued.
Durfa declared that snake bite was a menace that must be taken seriously because it was worse than Ebola, monkeypox and even HIV/AIDS.
"It happens mostly to the rural dwellers who stabilise the economy by farming. We cannot abandon them to face the consequences of heeding government's call to return to the farm because that will not be good for the economy," he said.
While reaffirming that the only way to make ASV readily available and affordable at all times, was for Nigeria to begin local production of the drug, he expressed dismay that Nigeria was still depending on foreign countries for ASV to neutralise poison from very common snakes like viper, cobra and puff adder.
"The only time we can have enough ASV to meet our rising demand is when we produce it locally. That is the only time we can determine our fate.
"The partners are ready and willing to transfer the technology for the production of the ASV, but Nigeria has not been forthcoming," he lamented.
He said that the producing processes were always delayed because the producing centres have specific periods allocated to manufacturing the Nigerian variant of the ASV.
"No matter how pressed we are, we must wait for that period. The only way to make the drug readily available and cheap is to produce locally," he said.
Abubakar Bala, the Snakebite Treatment Officer at the Kaltungo General Hospital, Gombe, equally presented a gory picture of the helpless situation and urged the federal government to take urgent measures to begin the local production of the ASV.
"The persistent shortage of ASV has reached a crisis level. Very often, we have had to watch helplessly, while patients gasp for breath. We cannot continue like this.
"It is a critical situation but we are helpless. We want the government to treat the issue as an emergency and a necessity. Government should equate the necessity of ASV with having an army, customs, police and other security agencies.
"The drug should be treated as a security issue. Every developing country should have its anti-snake venom manufacturing company.
"The other option is to have a reliable supply channel, with government subsidising the cost to avoid a major crisis like the types we suffer very often in Nigeria; in truth, we find it difficult and embarrassing to explain such situations to our patients."
He advised the government to look for a long term solution to the scarcity by collaborating with private producers to manufacture the drug locally, via a technology transfer arrangement with Echitab producers in Costa Rica and the United Kingdom.
Titus Dajel, Medical Superintendent, Zamko Comprehensive Medical Centre, spoke in the same vein.
"There are many victims of snakebites, but the ASV is always in short supply.
"Government must act fast because traditional healers have taken advantage of the situation to extort monies from victims, with a promise to heal them.
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"What the herbalists are doing is trial and error. Most victims bleed in the brain because the venom is vicious. Traditional healers cannot tackle that because they concentrate on healing the wound," he explained.
Mr Dajel urged the federal government to treat snake bite as a national emergency and take urgent steps to make the anti-snake venom available.
"Importing is very dangerous, especially in view of the rising cost of the dollar. We must look into the possibility of domesticating the production of the drug to avoid constant crisis," he said.
Tim Golu, whose Pankshin/Kanam/Kanke constituency in Plateau, is heavily hit by the snakebite menace, says he is "very uncomfortable" with the constant paucity of the ASV, adding that the situation had cost many lives "in the past few weeks".
"We have lost many people in the past few weeks. Right now, we have several cases in Kanke, my village," he said.
Golu regretted that fake drugs were being sold to desperate victims, causing more deaths and deformities, and appealed to the federal, states and local governments to intervene by committing funds for the purchase of ASV.
The legislator said that he had initiated a bill for the establishment of a National Centre for Research and Production of Snake Vaccines, and expressed optimism that the bill would soon be passed into law to offer relief to snakebite victims in the country.
But Adamu Atiku, a specialist in human medicine, says that the first step to establishing a factory for the local production of ASV must start with the federal government declaring snakebites as a national emergency in view of its prevalence.
"When government does that, it will give special attention to the menace and adopt measures to curb it. One of such measures will naturally include the local production of ASV.
"If the federal government demonstrates the political will to establish an ASV producing outfit, the National Assembly will be compelled to see the need for a special vote for that special project," he stated.
With the government paying more attention to the agricultural and mining sectors so as to diversify the economy, analysts say that Nigeria cannot afford to ignore a major menace associated with the two industries - rising prevalence of snake bites.
They particularly note that the victims of the reptiles are active members of the society on the fields to actualise that goal, and urge government to urgently begin the local production of ASV to reduce its cost and ensure steady supply, so as to end the vicious cycle of snakebite deaths that had become a daily routine in the country.
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Which Bites Harder, a Crocodile or a Shark?
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Though it's wise on occasion to bite your tongue, you would be best not follow that advice if you were a saltwater crocodile or a bull shark. These beasts both have monstrous mandibles that can crush and kill their prey with extreme ease and efficiency. But who has the strongest bite out of the two? The saltwater crocodile.
Bite Force Relative to Size
Bite force is measured relative to the size of a creature, pound per pound. Saltwater crocodiles have the strongest bite out of all the crocodiles. They have a bite that rivals the bite of a t-rex. The bull shark, meanwhile, has the strongest bite of all sharks. They are also rare among sharks for having an unusually high tolerance for freshwater, and have been spotted as far north in the Mississippi River as Alton, Ill.
The Bull Shark
Contrary to popular belief, the great white shark does not have the strongest bite of all sharks. The modestly sized bull shark has that honor. Bull sharks have a bite force of 1,300 pounds toward the back of their jaw and 450 pounds in the front. This helps them to bite through bone and turtle shells. Because of their tendency to occupy murkier freshwater environments, it's necessary for them to be able to secure prey in a single chomp. The lowered visibility of freshwater habitats would make it difficult for them to come back around for a second go. They may be the most dangerous species of sharks in the world, as they encounter swimmers in many different environments.
Saltwater Crocodile
The saltwater crocodile has the strongest bite of the 23 living species of crocodiles, or of any animal for that matter. They have a bite force of up to 3,700 pounds per square inch. Crocodiles are the largest living reptiles. They usually inhabit swamps and marshes, and use their powerful jaws to tear off chunks of flesh from their prey when it's too big to swallow whole.
The Strongest Bite
The strongest bite clearly belongs to the saltwater crocodile. It would be easier to lift a car off of your leg than to open up the jaws of a saltwater crocodile that has clamped down. The saltwater crocodile's bite is specifically adapted for its environment and is extremely efficient for hunting, killing and devouring prey.
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Brute Isolation: Trump and the Art of Unraveling the Iran Deal
September 22, 2017 A Opinion Comments Off on Brute Isolation: Trump and the Art of Unraveling the Iran Deal
Contrary to a barrage of spin, the P5+1 meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to assess implementation of the Iran nuclear deal did not go especially well, as diplomats confirmed to Asia Times.
US secretary of state Rex Tillerson was forced to concede Tehran is abiding by the deal. But once again he hammered the new US meme – now it’s about Iran not fulfilling “expectations.”
At a tense table, Tillerson – for the first time – met Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. At least the spin was not explosive. “There was no yelling,” he said later. “We didn’t throw shoes at one another. It was not an angry tone at all.”
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini – not exactly the brightest bulb in the room – was compelled to stress there was no doubt the deal was being respected. She even warned, “all member states are considered to be bound by its implementation. The international community cannot afford to dismantle an agreement that is working and delivering.”
Russia and China won’t renegotiate the deal – and that’s final. And the EU members of the P5+1 – France, the UK and Germany – will also stick to it, as Mogherini herself confirmed.
By now, even bears stranded on melting Arctic glaciers know President Trump has added a cliffhanger, having announced that he has “decided.” Nobody knows what he has decided, even Tillerson. And yet, even the commander of US Strategic Command, Gen. John Hyten, has admitted, “the facts are that Iran is operating under the agreements that we signed up for under the JCPOA.”
What has happened is that the Trump administration has changed the narrative from being about a technical, nuclear-centered agreement, to one that encompasses Iran’s geopolitical reach in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, as well as its missile program and cyber operations – all non-nuclear issues that Mogherini herself stressed were “outside the scope” of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
I followed the nuclear negotiations in Vienna in 2015 for Asia Times. Even then the US delegation was doing everything to include ballistic missiles, something that was thoroughly rejected by other parties, especially by Russia and China.
So for all practical purposes, the Trump administration wants a completely different deal, or it will unilaterally pull out. Technically, that means going against a UNSC resolution supported by international law.
So what about the “path of moderation”?
At the UN pulpit, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivered a measured, elegant, cultured and at the same time scathing speech thoroughly debunking Trump’s assertions with actual facts. The overall theme was “the path of moderation.” A particular pearl: “Moderation is the synergy of ideas and not the dance of swords.” The contrast with the bellicose, Manichean Trump Doctrine was stark.
Rouhani never ceases to point out that the JCPOA could become “a new model for international relations” – a framework to be considered, for example, in the case of the intractable DPRK. German chancellor Angela Merkel, on the record, agrees. But now Rouhani has also been forced to stress that Tehran’s response to a possible US abrogation will be conditioned by how the Europeans respond.
The new Roi Soleil, French President Emmanuel Macron, has eagerly stepped into the fray, posing as a mediator between Washington and the other P5+1 members. But in fact Macron’s touting of new “pillars” – restrictions on ballistic missiles; a follow-on deal that would apply after 2025; and an “open discussion with Iran about the current situation in the region” – amount to endorsing the Trump administration’s changing of the rules.
The DPRK will never bother to even consider negotiating with a “compassionate nation” that refuses to live up to multilateral commitments
If Trump decides the US is going to pull out of the JCPOA, Tehran has stated, on the record, that it will remain committed, as long as the other P5+1 members stay – and they will. The problem will be when the Trump administration, supported by Capitol Hill, subsequently takes the inevitable path of an extra barrage of sanctions against Iran – with possible incendiary consequences.
What’s clear is that neither “RC” – the Russia-China strategic partnership – nor the Europeans will isolate Tehran. For “RC” in particular, it’s all about Iran’s destiny as a key hub in the interpenetrating Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and North-South Transportation Corridor, its future full membership of the SCO and even, possibly, BRICS Plus, and its capacity to be a future supplier of natural gas to Europe. Moreover, Rouhani has repeatedly stressed that, whatever happens, Tehran will never aim to build a nuclear weapon.
Trump’s fateful decision in fact conditions and frames how he will deal with North Korea. Pulling out of the JCPOA will send an unmistakeable message to Pyongyang and also complicate the efforts of “RC” to defuse the situation. The DPRK will never bother to even consider negotiating with a “compassionate nation” that refuses to live up to multilateral commitments.
And all this sound and fury from the US will, ultimately, signify only one thing: another multi-trillion-dollar, unwinnable war in Southwest Asia, simply to indulge the wet dreams of assorted Beltway armchair generals.
Source: Asia Times
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July 21, 2015 by Jennifer Allis Provost
Full Pi-Con Schedule, Including A Writing Workshop And A Reading
Hey all! If you’re going to be in the Windsor, CT area from July 31 – August 2, swing by Pi-Con! It’s a great convention that celebrates many forms of geekery, from science to filk to cosplay. Their slogan is “the friendliest little convention in New England”, and they live up to it. Learn more about the awesomeness that is Pi-Con here.
I’ve got my full schedule listed below. Hope to see you there!
FRI 10:40 am Everything But the Writing
Jennifer Allis Provost, Trisha J. Wooldridge
There are lots of great workshops to help your craft, but what about actually selling your writing and making money? Let’s take a look at what else you need to know to be a professionally published author from queries to organizations, contracts and rights* to filing taxes**. * and **–Neither Trish nor Jenn are lawyers or tax advisors; we’re just giving you basic info.
FRI 1:00 pm World Building
Jennifer Bresnick (M), Dee Carter, Jennifer Allis Provost, Kristi Petersen Schoonover
The panelists will explore the many aspects of building believable worlds for your stories and novels. How does the writer do this?
FRI 4:00 pm Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
Susan Hanniford Crowley, Bianca D’Arc, Gordon Linzner (M), Jennifer Allis Provost
The panelists will look specifically at how to write successful science fiction and fantasy. What traits are specific to this genre? What are the challenges?
SAT 11:00 am The Books You Read Under the Covers
We all have “guilty pleasures”–books that we love and follow and re-read but feel just a little shy about confessing to. Time to ‘fess up! What books feed something in your soul, in defiance of others’ opinions of them? And why do those books just do it for you? (60 mins)
Susan de Guardiola, Lisa Evans (M), Jennifer Allis Provost
SAT 2:00 pm The Inklings
Imagine if your book club included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. That was the Inklings, who met in or near Oxford in England in the 1930s and 1940s. Just how influential were they? And how many of us would visit them if we found a time machine? (60 mins)
Nicholas Checker (M), Heather Dawn, Lisa Evans, Jennifer Allis Provost
SAT 5:00 pm SF/F/H TV of the 90s
As cable came into its own, many shows were developed and broadcast by smaller networks, like the WB, or produced by studios and sold for syndication. The 1990s saw a strong trend toward paranormal shows, with vampires and witches all over the dial. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Forever Knight, Charmed, a prime-time revival of Dark Shadows, Kindred: the Embraced, Angel, Xena, Hercules, Highlander (both of them), Early Edition, ST: Deep Space Nine, ST: Voyager…let’s share the our thoughts on the best, the worst, and the unfairly unnoticed. (60 mins)
Michael McAfee, Jennifer Pelland (M), Jennifer Allis Provost, Dr. James Prego
SAT 8:00 pm Romance and Specfic–What’s the Overlap?
Romance is the most consistently successful fiction genre, partly because it’s so broad and includes so many subcategories. “Paranormal romance” and romantic fantasy include many spec-fic elements, and SF romance exists, too. How far does romance overlap with spec-fic, and is there a gray area for books that aren’t quite either, but are a little of both? (60 mins)
D.L. Carter, Susan Hanniford Crowley (M), Lisa Evans, Jennifer Allis Provost
SUN 10:00 am What the NA is That?
“New Adult” is the most recent sub-category of fiction. Is it just YA with some sex thrown in, or is it really aimed at a unique audience and their concerns? (60 mins)
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SUN 11:00 am It Drives Me Nuts When Writers Do This!
Killing off characters, using bad language, gratuitous sex and violence, not enough sex and violence, writing in the present tense, getting all meta?what are your literary pet peeves? Come and vent! (60 mins)
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I’ll be reading my favorite passage from Heir to the Sun.
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Bermuda Longtail
Cost Cutting on Education
I was going to make a comment on yesterday’s RG article to close five primary schools, but the day just escaped me. Today’s headline says it all “School closures a cost-cutting measure”. If this is any insight into this years budget and how in debt we actually are it’s scary!
It is clear with the young black male study that students are dropping out in large numbers.
It is clear from released school figures that the public education is sadly lacking behind in GCSE scores in comparison to private education.
It is clear from Bermuda Statistics that education is one of the key areas that leads to the gap in earnings between Bermudians and ex-pats.
So what does Government decide to do?? Cut educations budget! Let’s put Bermudians at a further disadvantage! Government needs to be cutting costs elsewhere like civil service not sitting in first class (I was pretty shocked when I read they travel in first class to begin with!), not Education.
Monday morning news
I awoke to headlines of another road fatality and shooting…were these not the same headlines I read Monday of last week? I can’t help but wonder if these headlines will become a recurring theme I read every Monday morning?
Footage of Court Street shooting
Police have release the CCTV film of the court street shooting which can be found on Royal Gazette’s website here. Police are asking for witnesses to come forward and identify the shooter claiming about seven people would have seen the shooter. However, if you look at the footage I don’t think that many people saw the shooter. The guy on the bike wasn’t facing the shooter – looks as though he heard the gun shots and drop off. Same with the van driver on the other side of the road. There was a stream of cars parked so it’s entirely possible the van driver didn’t get a good look either. Whom ever he was aiming for ran off rather quickly. If it were me I don’t think I would have stood around too long to get a good look at the guy. The interesting thing is the shooter went into C&R Discount store for a brief second before coming out and opening fire. I wonder if the store has a video camera pointing at the entrance which might get better footage. I would hope so after the shooting previous to this. The unfortunate thing with the CCTV cameras is that you don’t really get many facial details – just a gist of what went down.
In the same article:
Superintendent Antoine Daniels said yesterday that Shane Minors, who was murdered on Thursday, was shot more than once but lay undetected for five hours outside his home in the heavily populated South Terrace, Friswells Hill neighbourhood.
Mr. Daniels said there was no accuracy to radio and television reports indicating a silencer was used.
“That is not true, gunshots were heard around one a.m.” he said. Police were not notified until 6 a.m
So it looks as though my previous thoughts on this may have been somewhat accurate. The past few days have been quiet. Interestingly, I find the traffic on the roads moving faster than usual – guess people think the police are too busy with other things, like searching for the mole that leaked the government building purchase as Christian pointed out.
Royal Gazette Injunction Article
The RG has released the article they had the injection over. Government is in talks to buy the Swan building for $25 million. Doesn’t seem like the appropriate economic climate to be buying out private developer who got stuck in the economic crunch…but what else is new? Guess Government is hoping for another shooting over the weekend to brush this under the carpet, ‘this too shall pass’ right?!
Although, it is nice to see Paula Cox finding her voice and opposing this plan.
Oh I like this one:
Mr. Burgess told a press conference after last month’s Throne Speech that Government would be investing in the purchase of buildings so it could cut the $12 million it spends annually on rent.
“This important initiative will reduce costs through decentralisation of offices within the City of Hamilton,” he said.
So how is the Swan building decentralisation of offices??
A statement from the Illustrious One
Speaking for the first time since Mr. Cann and Mr. Minors were murdered, Premier Ewart Brown issued a two-line statement.
It said: “For every life lost to violence in our community, we suffer the pain as a Country.
“I extend condolences on behalf of the Government to the family and friends of the latest victim.”
Thanks for that vote of confidence that Government is working to towards a solution to the issue!
On a side note, I find it very interesting that Shane Minors was shot at 1:15am, but police weren’t notified until 6:15am. Yet, he apparently had no gang ties other than his brother’s possible participation in a gang. I have a sneaky suspicion that someone from that gang was notified to try to garner retribution for his death. Only after no such luck were the police notified.
More CCTV cameras
I enjoyed this article yesterday in the Royal Gazette. The Corporation of Hamilton is going to purchase an additional 86 CCTV cameras worth $550,000 to total 122 cameras in less than a square mile radius. Let’s throw more money at the crime problem in hopes of a solution shall we! Let me ask you this…how many crimes have been solved with the current CCTV cameras that are up and about? I haven’t heard of any?! Is anyone actually monitoring these things? Diane Gordon from the Chamber of Commerce hit the nail on the head:
I will say however, that unless the CCTV is supported by trained policing, and there is a swift response where and when necessary, the additional coverage will be considered useless.
Apparently, according to radio news there was another shooting and murder early this morning. Awaiting further details…
I’ve had a glimpse at this mornings paper…where to begin? Dill was found guilty and will be serving an automatic life sentence. Dill’s mother commenting on how he was a happy kid. Sounds similar to other mothers with the ‘not my kid’ routine, but Dill’s mother didn’t really raise him, his grandmother did, and she didn’t live with him. Doesn’t sound as though she was that involved with his upbringing from an outsider looking in.
The increase in crime and violence stems from a number of issues: lack of parenting, lack of discipline, lack of eduction and the list goes on – all of which everyone knows of, but nothing is being done to address them. I stumbled upon this quote in a Toronto Star article that sums it up nicely:
“Our kids are a mess…They are overmedicated, overindulged, overweight, overentertained, undereducated, underachieving, underdisciplined, disrespectful, illiterate brats with a sense of entitlement that is crippling society.”
The Royal Gazette’s injunction is for a 72-hour period…so hopefully we’ll know more by Saturday morning. In the meantime, rumors are flying over what said article could be about. Unfortunately, with this government, the list is quite long!
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Monday 1st October – Australian Market Wrap
ASX 200 hit by 35 points to 6172 on bank sell-off. Off lows on thin volume.
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Lower USD helping.
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MSB +8.84%% rally continues.
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RBA tomorrow. Copy and paste expected.
Melbourne Institute inflation index, which is up 0.3% month on month, a bigger increase than in September, and up 2.1% year on year.
New orders rose to the highest level since March 2018, increasing by 3.0 points to 62.6 points in September.
Dwelling prices dropped 2.7% on an annual basis across the country, with NSW, Melbourne, Darwin and Perth all contributing to the fall.
ASIAN MARKET NEWS
Vietnam manufacturing growth slips to 10-month low.
Taiwan manufacturing output slips for first time in 2 years.
Japan’s manufacturing sector grew less than previously thought in September, according to a final reading on activity that showed output expectations had fallen to a nearly two-year low.
Business sentiment at Japan’s top manufacturers fell unexpectedly for the third straight quarter in the three months through September.
EUROPEAN AND US HEADLINES
FTSE expected to open up 5, DAX up 44, CAC up 21.
Brent crude at 4-year high.
Italy on a collision course with its EU masters on budget plans. Credit ratings downgrades possible.
A blonde and a lawyer are seated next to each other on a flight from LA to NY.
The lawyer asks if she would like to play a fun game?
The blonde, tired, just wants to take a nap, politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists and explains that the game is easy and a lot of fun.
He explains, “I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me $5.00, and vice versa. ”
Again, she declines and tries to get some sleep. The lawyer, now agitated, says, “Okay, if you don’t know the answer you pay me $5.00, and if I don’t know the answer, I will pay you $500.00.”
This catches the blonde’s attention and, figuring there will be no end to this torment unless she plays, agrees to the game.
The lawyer asks the first question. “What’s the distance from the earth to the moon?”
The blonde doesn’t say a word, reaches into her purse, pulls out a $5.00 bill and hands it to the lawyer.
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The lawyer, puzzled, takes out his laptop computer and searches all his references, no answer. He taps into the air phone with his modem and searches the net and the library of congress, no answer. Frustrated, he sends e-mails to all his friends and coworkers, to no avail.
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Glory In Their Hands
Feb 23, 2016 Feb 23, 2016 LordCanisLupus
Please do try to stick with me through this. It might ramble a little more than usual. It is related to cricket….trust me.
In the United States, some of you may be aware of a basketball team called the Golden State Warriors. They play in “unfashionable” Oakland to full houses, and until last year, had not won the NBA championship since 1975; and when they triumphed last year it was over the mighty LeBron James. They were probably better known for many years as the team who Michael Jordan injured his foot against (which put him out of his second season in the NBA, by and large), but for the most part they wandered around the lower reaches of the Western Conference, obscured by the monstrous Lakers to the south in LA, an afterthought when marveling at the San Antonio Spurs.
Through a combination of good fortune (picking Stephen Curry (the league MVP last year) up in the draft, the development of Klay Thompson and Draymond Green), good business (trading for really good fits for other starting slots and the bench) and a great coaching team, they are threatening the NBA regular season record of 72 wins set by my hero’s team in the 1995/6 season. They pack out houses across the US, they sell a huge amount of merchandise, and the TV companies can’t get enough of them. They are simply wonderful to watch.
I am also reading a book at the moment called “The Ugly Game” and it is the Times Insight Team’s book on the widespread corruption surrounding the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid. I absolutely cannot get enough of the World Cup. It is, to a large degree, a great leveller. It is still, just about, a meritocracy when it comes to on the field play. England, despite having tons of cash, are useless at it. France can come and go, Germany always seem to do well because their players put international football on a pedestal, similarly Italy, and to a certain extent, recently, Spain have bought in. Then there’s Brazil and Argentina, and even the so-called “minnows” now can put up a damn fine show. It’s a fantastic event, run by a bunch of absolute venal c***s. And I don’t use that word every day on here. Every page of the book gets me more and more angry.
At the weekend Manchester City played in the FA Cup 5th Round. They were three wins away from a major final in a year when the league looks out of reach. Their manager threw a hissy-fit about having to play this on a Sunday and then Dinamo Kiev (a three and a half hour flight away) on Wednesday (and I’ll bet they aren’t going cattle class either) so played a team of inexperienced or reserve players and lost 5-1. No-one seems to batt an eyelid, and yet another nail is put into the FA Cup’s coffin. The same Cup competition that meant the world to all football fans twenty years ago.
So what? What do they have to do with cricket?
For the Golden State Warriors, lets take a slight flight of fancy here and look at the recent performances, if not results, of New Zealand. Here’s a team with very limited resources, unfashionable, but with some excellent new talent allied to the old, and playing in a way that attracts fans. They are immensely popular with neutrals. They reached last year’s World Cup Final. They played attacking, attractive cricket in England. In the NBA they’d be inundated with requests to be on TV. They’d be the talk of the town. McCullum’s century would be played on every media network for a few weeks. Williamson would be feted as a genius, a talent to savour. Australia can even be their LeBron to New Zealand’s Steph. But they are small-fry, “not a big draw”. As far as the ECB are concerned, New Zealand away is now a tour to be tagged on to the end of the next Ashes. Or a prequel to a home series. Bravo!
For FIFA, we have the ICC. I am in no position to cast aspersions on their fiscal probity, but let’s face it, as Death of a Gentleman showed, the secrecy is there. Where curtains are drawn, and the probers kept out, there’s a high correlation that there are people up to no good. Like FIFA, they hold our love of the game in their hands, and like FIFA, they use it to make lots and lots of money. It is not enough to say that we can’t do anything about it, and if we do, we’ll get squashed. Sport may be a business but it doesn’t have to make that its “virtue” (and subsequent vice). The win at the back-slapping, ain’t we all jolly marvellous, Sports Journalist Awards for the film should have shamed all those cricket journalists present. They had done nothing to do what Sam and Jarrod did. OK, very little. Because they are scared of the ICC, and by extension, the ECB. We’ve gone down that line before. Because I hate their actions, I can’t give their public persona, the international team in the case of the ECB, my total support. Maxie puts the case more strongly than me in a lively old post today, but I’m not a million miles away from his view.
And then there’s the Manchester City question and their treatment of the FA Cup (and they are by no means the only ones – see Arsenal). Again, another read across for the sport of cricket. For the FA Cup, read test cricket. The 142 year old history puts it alongside test cricket for longevity. Its history gave it its lustre, and the fans of my age group loved it. My team even made the Final in 2004, a lifetime’s ambition. Winning that semi at Old Trafford was one of the greatest sporting occasions of my life. Three seasons ago we made the semis again. I never went. Didn’t care. We were beaten by Man Utd in 2004, who barely broke sweat, and whose fans treated the win like a visit to the dentists. I remember drawing Southampton away in 2003, and looked back at when we played them in four matches in 1986 (both cups), which contained one goal between them, but in the case of the two at The Den, were pulsating matches, played in front of pretty full houses, certainly for the FA Cup. When we went to St Mary’s, there were a distinct lack of Southampton fans. They’d voted with their feet. This 4th round tie wasn’t important, at all. Sure, they got more into it when they reached the Final, but they’d voted with their feet. Not important enough. The other competition, the league, meant much, much more. Because of money. And that’s what is happening to test cricket. T20 is more important because of money, whether you like it or not, to the players, and increasingly to the fans.
These are three examples of sport to have hit me in the last few days. While I watched most of the T20 match on Sunday and sat there only really enjoying the sheer magnificence of Jos Buttler (and I will always want him to do really well) from an England perspective, I wondered what I’m doing. I saw Hashim Amla’s early assault and loved to see a class player fit right in to this format without the biff bang wallop and realised that this sport has a lot to offer. But that’s just it. When you know that your love and passion is fuelling the cynicism, the money-grabbing, and yes, probably the corruption too (mainly focusing on how India fans devotion to IPL is being abused), it’s soul destroying. For some, this can be separated, for some, it can’t.
Which takes me back to Golden State. I am not a devoted, lifelong supporter of the Warriors (although I liked their team of the early 90s with Mullin, Hardaway and Richmond) but I make sure I record every game of their’s this season when they are on the TV. Without wishing to be a hostage to fortune, it is a well run sport (Adam Silver, the Commissioner, is highly regarded), I know nothing of the Warriors owners antics, and I therefore watch a wonderful sporting team, playing superb, exciting basketball and enjoy the sport. Maybe it’s me deliberately not wanting to know there’s something wrong. It would spoil the enjoyment I’m getting. You can’t un-know what you know. But the general consensus is that this is a good thing. A less fashionable team, through a mix of good luck and good management have a great thing going. It’s lovely to watch.
There’s great sport in many places, but everywhere it is under threat where the principle is to make money before considering what you are putting out there. When sport does this, it loses. When it loads the dice, it loses. When meritocracy and hope are suppressed, it loses. Cricket, and in particular our board, really need to think about it and not take the current slow-ish ticket sales for this year’s international cricket as evidence to retrench some more back to safe, money-making series. Because if you build good sport, and don’t take your fans, your customers, for fools, they will come. One day, that problem may hit the great behemoth that is football. You can never be too sure.
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112 thoughts on “Glory In Their Hands”
Mark Feb 23, 2016 / 9:23 pm
The problem with cricket is that the people running it are not growing the game. And the reason they are not growing the game is because they see only 3 teams as profitable. The likes of NZ can have the best team, but the don’t sell. For many years SA have had the best team, and yet they are not seen as big a financial draw as India or Aus. The powers that be would like endless India Aus series. They make money. Screw the quality.
Slowly but slowly the big 3 have created not only a financial dominace but now a ranking dominace. This has been achieved by simply not playing the other teams on a regular basis. When England played SA in the series from hell they were 1 and 2 in the rankings. But the series only merited 3 test matches.
By the way Dmitri maybe you should think about opening this site up to more than just cricket topics. You could broaden it out to take in other sports. A reflection maybe about English crickets dwindling profile. We are all outsiders now.
SimonH Feb 24, 2016 / 8:58 am
Two revealing stories on TV rights which is all that matters to administrators now:
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/icc-world-t20-tv-blackout-for-aussie-cricket-fans-as-networks-shun-rights-20160224-gn2368.html#ixzz413ISJXEj
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/champions-league/12151245/BT-Sports-dismal-Champions-League-viewing-figures-raise-concerns-at-Uefa.html
(Thanks to Steve and PKTroll over at TFT for finding them)
LordCanisLupus Feb 24, 2016 / 9:10 am
The media continue their pro-sky agenda re the Champions League. Loads of knocking copy on BT (Sale has done it already). What they supposed to do? Let Sky have everything?
More interesting is the big club stitch up. Fuck them. Man City were a third division club 15 years ago. Should remember that.
pktroll (@pktroll) Feb 24, 2016 / 9:44 am
My issue isn’t that BT has it, just that at least last year you could watch some games on accessible FTA channels, whereas this is not the case this year.
Isn’t the comparison between BT and ITV, not Sky?
That was my point. The dregs that you get with UCL football coverage are not unlike what you have on Channel 5 with cricket coverage.
LordCanisLupus Feb 24, 2016 / 10:04 am
Fair comment. If BT have reneged on the deal then fair enough. But Sky never shared live coverage of the Premier League at the start of their takeover. They only do it now because they are forced to and even then it’s to a ppv provider.
Clear undercurrent is Sky can do it. BT can’t. I’m no fan of either by the way.
Oh. That’s the pretence. The real message is BT isn’t Sky. You don’t see these stories for events currently or recently covered by terrestrial on Sky. Let’s see with The Open this year, for example.
Mark Feb 24, 2016 / 10:12 am
There was no need to take Champions league off free to air TV. The powers that be have already got all the money in the world. Now They are getting jack shit in exposure. Serves them right. Greedy gits. They deserve what they get.
Sky started the fight with BT by going after their telephone and broadband business. It was only natural that BT would fight back. I think a lot in the media were very happy to pay for Sky only. They didn’t give a shit about those who couldn’t afford it. In fact they mocked them. Now some of them are not liking they have to pay both Sky and and BT. Well too bad. Sky must be challenged because otherwise they will be a private monopoly. The worst kind. And their take over of English cricket shows how dangerous that is.
Golf must be happy with the game becoming invisible also. Sport is rapidly becoming a plaything of the rich. Could be time to move on.
nonoxcol Feb 24, 2016 / 10:35 am
“I think a lot in the media were very happy to pay for Sky only. They didn’t give a shit about those who couldn’t afford it. In fact they mocked them. Now some of them are not liking they have to pay both Sky and and BT. Well too bad.”
I liked your comment for this bit alone. The media stance on Sky still pisses me off daily. There was a comment on TFT yesterday that could have come straight from the Sky PR department – the sad thing is that it also read exactly like most comments on the issue from the cricket media.
SimonH Feb 24, 2016 / 11:01 am
Re Mark’s point about golf,
I follow golf a little although nowhere near as much as cricket. From what I’ve gleaned, many of the same worries we have about cricket are also growing in golf. Youth participation is badly down I believe although I don’t have any figures to hand. There are concerns it’s becoming a niche sport for an aging, wealthy hardcore. A big difference is that a journeyman player in golf can earn much more than a journeyman cricketer or tennis-player so that keeps a strong player base going (I read that Rod Marsh’s brother earnt playing golf nearly ten times what Rod did in his cricketing career – and he was nowhere as near the top of the game as Rod was in cricket).
There has been talk about “jazzing up” golf to make it more exciting that has echoes of cricket and T20. As usual, most of it is rooted in the belief that the young are idiots with the attention-span of a mayfly and that pandering to that is the only solution.
nonoxcol Feb 24, 2016 / 9:16 am
Oh good grief:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/24/twenty20-cricket-melbourne-renegades-big-bash-mike-selvey
My dear friend tells me all about T20.
“Since 2009, when he became England’s bowling coach, he and I have been friends. We talk the same robust language, think alike, enjoy the same ale and chat what he calls “cricket shit” over what are sometimes too many pints of it.”
northernlight71 Feb 24, 2016 / 9:55 am
I particularly like his self awareness at the beginning . . .
“to be embedded, as it were.”
Words almost failed me.
“IPL became a genuine threat to the integrity of the heavy schedule of international cricket.”
Those who don’t fisk (or, apparently, even think) will nod their heads.
Others might wonder why that concern for “integrity” in the schedule of international cricket has never once been raised by this writer when discussing the ECB, or even when discussing the Big Three issues two years ago.
The Guardian has become the go to newspaper for re- writing history. On almost all topics.
paulewart Feb 29, 2016 / 5:29 pm
Hasn’t it just. If there was anywhere else to go I’d be gone (I do read a lot alternative media). It’s a sad state of affairs.
Sherwick Feb 24, 2016 / 10:16 am
Selvey: “then came the Indian Premier League, with its moneyed privately owned city franchises, and the riches they offered. A conflict of interest grew, with the top players understandably hankering after the financial rewards”.
Understandably? UNDERSTANDABLY?!?!
So, not wretched ‘mercenaries’ after the ‘filthy lucre’ then?
By the way, I don’t think his entire article, supposedly about T20, mentions that England won the T20 World Cup in 2010, or the player of the tournament in said competition (and who is still enjoying himself in various T20 leagues around the world)?
Strange that.
Oh Shit…….
“A conflict of interest grew, with the top players understandably hankering after the financial rewards”
It’s like Selveys redemption song. Is he about to retire? Is this his come to Jesus moment?
Really? Do I have to read this?
Naah. It’s not as much fun as the Amla and McCullum ones. I think we’ve given you the best bits between us.
The McCullum one was much more “fanboy” than anything I’ve ever written on Pietersen.
I have a 20 minute train journey later. Might fill it.
mdpayne87 Feb 24, 2016 / 10:55 am
I actually thought it wasn’t a bad article once you get through the dross of the first few paragraphs.
The problem is that he has no credibility left, particularly with T20 and especially as he fails to mention England’s best ever T20 player over the years.
Zephirine Feb 24, 2016 / 11:41 am
It’s not a bad article apart from being several years late.
I’m going to have to read it. You lot. ….
Zephirine, don’t you think there is a covert agenda in that article about killing Test cricket outside the Big Three?
Maybe not immediately, nor by a single announcement, but I don’t see what else he means by “niche” (nor is there anything in there about how T20 could co-exist with – or even save – Test cricket).
nonoxcol Feb 24, 2016 / 12:04 pm
@Zephirine
To be fair, my mark out of ten would have been double before I read SimonH’s comment! Re-reading it in the light of that is… interesting.
Zephirine Feb 24, 2016 / 1:04 pm
Simon, there is surely a covert agenda in the Big Three deal about killing Test cricket for everyone else. Not so covert, really.
What’s hard for people like us to tell, though, is whether that’s pure money-grabbing or actually based on harsh reality. If most countries are unable to stage Tests at even a break-even level, there is a case for saying don’t bother with Tests then, let the few play them who may actually be able to turn a profit. I don’t agree with it and after all, most sports make little money from audiences, but you can see that it is a case.
SimonH Feb 24, 2016 / 1:55 pm
Zephirine, shouldn’t those who run cricket say that Test cricket is what we value and we are going to subsidise it from the parts of the game that do make a profit? Only free-market fundamentalists reject any forms of cross-subsidy – and they’ve been in charge at the ICC!
Of course, that’s assuming Tests are loss-making. Cricket’s finances are so opaque who knows?
cricketcage Feb 24, 2016 / 10:42 am
What about re-packaging test cricket to match the NBA or EPL? Home&away legs over a period of 2 years. I’d welcome the addition of Ireland and Afghanistan to the test arena. The idea does have some holes in it. Will it diminish the importance of the Ashes or India-Australia series? Will broadcasters be interested in one-off test matches? Revitalisation strategies for test cricket, however, seem futile with the current Big-3 format. Aus,Eng,Ind are playing the important series and keeping most of the cash so any extension strategy for Test Cricket will only benefit Big Cricket.
In regards to test cricket, even with a more inclusive ICC structure, test matches need to have more context. Coming back to the idea – 9 tests a year. 3 Points for a win, 1 for a draw, 1 bonus point for an innings victory. Point deductions for pitches like Nagpur to discourage unfair home advantages. Strictly against a County Cricket points system or a two-tier/ two-division format.
What sabotaged a Test championship before was:
1) The Big Three tried to exempt themselves from the possibility of relegation.
2) The broadcasters Star Sports said they weren’t interested in broadcasting it but would pay for the Champions Trophy.
The solutions seem pretty obvious – the B3 take their chances like everyone else (plus don’t overload the schedule so teams could arrange extra fixtures outside the Championship if they wished) and find an interested broadcaster (the current ICC whizzs mostly owe their positions to their supposed genius in negotiating media deals so let’s see them earn their corn).
I’ve heard a divisional structure is on the ICC agenda for the summer. The devil, as always, is in the detail. Crucial for me are the number of teams in each division, the length of the cycle and what happens to Test cricket outside D1. My fear is that D1 will be too small (six or even four teams), the cycle will be too long (four years seems a maximum) and that D2 Test cricket will be killed off (either overtly or more covertly by a lack of support).
cricketcage Feb 24, 2016 / 12:43 pm
Division two would struggle to be a big draw for broadcaster and spectators. Just think it would be easier to sell test matches and test cricket if they had more context.
Yes, totally agree with the second sentence.
On D2 and Tests in the first sentence, that’s why the ICC would need to support them. If D2 teams weren’t supported to play Tests between themselves, when it came to the promotion-relegation play-off (assuming that would be what would happen) they’d have to play a format they had no experience of. That would turn D1 into a self-perpetuating oligarchy – which is just what some want, I fear.
If the two divisions were of six each, that means SL would be in D2. No support for Tests and that is effectively stripping SL of Test status. Given all they’ve brought to the game, and how long they waited, I hate that thought. There was even one mention in the press recently of divisions of four.
I’d have no problem D2 playing them in a points format combined with ODIs and T20s like in the women’s game.
That post on the T20 article is one of your finest ever (“of this generation or any other”).
Particularly liked:
‘”It is now my belief that while Test cricket should be preserved, as an important even niche part of the game’s heritage, expansion, which could be almost exponential, has to happen through T20″.
Coincidentally or not, that is also exactly the view of those recently or currently at the top of the ICC.’
My cynicism about Guardian moderation is such that I feel this needs to be done NOW. Hope Simon is ok with it:
holdingahighline 10m ago
“if we can but see it, the opportunity is there not just to keep cricket struggling on, but to expand it”.
From a writer who has supported the Big Three power-grab, and who opposes cricket in the Olympics, talk of expansion rings extremely hollow.
“men’s cricket is unlikely to succeed in USA or China, two of the biggest untapped markets. But the success of the USA football team shows that women cricketers may just be able to do what their male counterparts have not”.
I’m not convinced cricket will succeed in those two nations – but to give up on the men’s game there (on zero evidence, with zero effort) is ridiculous. The USA men’s football team is extremely successful so the second sentence in the quote makes no sense at all. In the USA, cricket has been held back by the diabolical governance of USACA. In China, getting cricket into the Olympics is the key (because of the government funding it unlocks). Fundamentally, the issue is the certain boards don’t want to expand cricket because it would threaten their current power-monopoly. Their interest in the USA is about TV audiences there, not US players, and they talk about China because they think it makes them sound hefty while in reality they are spending more on Zing stumps than Chinese cricket.
“It is now my belief that while Test cricket should be preserved, as an important even niche part of the game’s heritage, expansion, which could be almost exponential, has to happen through T20”.
Coincidentally or not, that is also exactly the view of those recently or currently at the top of the ICC. So, Test cricket cannot possibly expand? Tough luck Ireland or Afghanistan. Expansion cannot also possibly happen through ODIs – does that mean that the contraction of the WC to ten-teams in 2019 and 2023 is now not a terrible idea? The imminent T20I WC shows the current idea of expansion – the teams out side the ‘big eight’ are shoved into a pre-qualifying tournament which the ICC then tries to pretend isn’t a pre-qualifying tournament. Let’s see how much coverage this paper gives Bangladesh vs. Ireland.
If Test cricket is to become “niche”, what does this mean? What does it mean for teams outside the Big Three? My suspicion is that they are viewed as suppliers of landless labour to the Big Three franchise competitions – and if they can afford to stage the odd Test match between themselves, well good luck to them. I don’t see anything here that rejects that as a vision for cricket’s future.
“a week earlier, an astounding 81,000 at the giant Melbourne Cricket Ground, believed to be a record crowd for a domestic cricket match anywhere. These things cannot be ignored”.
No, absolutely not. What were the ticket prices? How do they compare to international matches in Australia? The WC Final attracted 90k+ and the D/N Test was very well attended. There is plenty of appetite for other forms of the game. Maybe the mediocre crowds at some of the international fixtures in Australia this summer say more about CA’s price-gouging for these matches than anything else?
“Teams are provided with Cricket Australia centralised funding at around 50-60% of total income…. The broadcast deal monies sit with CA”.
Maybe that provides a model for funding at international level – broadcast revenues should be held centrally and distributed by the ICC to ensure a level-playing field? How unsurprising that no such conclusion is drawn. The same thing might apply to salary caps by the way.
“Television audience on Ten Sports is consistently well beyond a million, and the the Women’s BBL is also having a big impact with viewers”.
So the obvious conclusion is that FTA coverage is crucial and the ECB’s decision to abandon FTA was a disaster. No? Also, how do T20 TV figures match TV figures for international cricket? I gather the Australia v NZ Tests were attracting regular audiences also over 1m. Again, it isn’t the case there is an audience for T20 and nothing else.
Overall, cricket is blessed in having three formats. This is a boon, not a curse. They appeal to discrete, if overlapping, audiences. T20 can be a ‘gateway drug’ into longer forms of the game or it can be enjoyed in its own right. There are serious issues about balancing the three formats currently. The danger is the game has been run recently by those who make a virtue out of generating short-term profit for their own nations by pillaging what’s currently popular (until everyone’s sick of it) and who have shown no interest in developing the game long-term. How to balance T20 and Tests is a serious question that hasn’t even begun to be addressed.
Thanks Arron, I tried not to be too rude to try to avoid moderation. I knew you’d pick that one dig up! I am of course spitting about some of the points you and others have picked up on here.
As I went along, the article became more and more insidious. I didn’t realise how bad it was until I got started on it. The question is, “is there anything in there that disagrees with the Giles Clarke view of the cricketing universe” and there simply isn’t.
If he’s acting as Giles Clarke’s stenographer again, that line about “niche” Test cricket is very, very worrying.
This is what exasperates me about some BTL commenters. Even hblove is on there calling it “tremendous”. It’s a breathless first-hand account, but that’s literally all. Yet he purports to offer insight, solutions and a way forward, on the basis of such shallow or non-existent analysis.
Same as the Hawkeye piece, same as the Olympics piece, and as you have illustrated, not all that different from the Big Three piece. Just longer.
Clivejw Feb 24, 2016 / 11:53 am
Simon’s comment is still there at the moment. Top job, by the way.
Oh, here we all are. I didn’t realize there was a new thread, I was still posting on the DOAG one.
Yes, like others I am gobsmacked by Selvey’s sudden conversion to T20 and rewriting of history. Just had my post about it BTL moderated. I said something about Selvey’s abrupt U-turn probably means the ECB is about to inflict its own, botched, version of the Big Bash on us.
One “own, botched, version of the Big Bash” as anticipated:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/24/county-cricket-chiefs-twenty-20-split-in-two
They might have left a day or two’s gap between Selvey’s Damascene conversion and this I’d have thought. You know, not to make the link look quite so bleedin’ obvious.
LordCanisLupus Feb 24, 2016 / 10:55 pm
The counties were never going to vote for self-extinction, and I really believe a franchise system would have meant that for a fair few.
The linkage between Selfey’s work and the Ali Martin piece is interesting. Not sure it is that closely linked, but well. it’s not as if he’s earned the benefit of the doubt.
So ‘the impact of T20 on Test cricket’ is obviously the Guardian’s theme du jour.
I watched again the trailer for DOAG last night, and if you only watch the first 90 seconds, you could be forgiven for thinking “the impact of T20 on Test cricket” is what it’s about. So I gather that was the extent of the Guardian’s “research.”
I honestly think its coverage of the ECB/Big Three, going back to 2012, but mainly since January 2014, is what truly wrecks the Guardian’s reputation as a respected voice on cricket. You don’t even have to refer to the slanted Pietersen coverage to condemn it.
And we are, as it were, off:
HannahPeters
"Self-indulgent? Yes. Interesting? Not really." Comments that make the job such a joy. What does it contribute?
— mike selvey (@selvecricket) February 24, 2016
Don’t engage with the intelligent argument below the line, Mike. Just do this instead:
@nownowchildren guardian finally realising that the nature of 'comment is free' actually encourages online abuse. they have a duty of care.
northernlight71 Feb 24, 2016 / 12:22 pm
Duty of care? Poor lamb.
He really does think that a lot of us are stupid, doesn’t he? He genuinely has no idea.
He’s a narcissist. It’s clear as day.
amit Feb 28, 2016 / 4:43 am
Guardian has yet to realize the “duty of care” to it’s readers. They are still letting Mike write for them!
Clivejw Feb 24, 2016 / 12:26 pm
While I agree the comment from HannahPeters was gratuitously rude, Selfie gets no sympathy for failing to engage with constructive criticism either.
Ok. Read the article.
It was OK. I’m not quite as miffed as some on here and quite liked some parts about the preparation and thought that goes into a game. That’s good.
But Jeez it isn’t the marvelous work that some characters are making it out to be. I love long form articles but this was about prep for a season and one match. It wasn’t an article reflecting on defeat. It was a snapshot.
As for the conclusions drawn we’ll never know what drives them. That’s for him to know and us to hypothesise.
Oh and the Twitter thing. Laughable. Poor Ickle Selfey getting called self indulgent. Of course he is. So am I. You need to be to write.
Sherwick Feb 24, 2016 / 12:45 pm
Is it now right or wrong to chase the T20 filthy lucre?
It’s all right now, David Saker says so.
But of course it wasn’t a few years ago, it was just awful and caused terribly, dreadfully, indescribably bad feeling in the dressing-room. Even though players wanting the T20 money was ‘understandable’, it somehow wasn’t, erm, understood. At all.
‘The past is another country. They do things differently there.’
Here’s my contribution to Godwin’s law.
During the war the Nazis would wipe entire villages off the map. This would be done as punishment for resistance. Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic. It is built near the site of the previous village that was destroyed on orders from Hitler in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich.
The reason I bring this up is because Selvey is trying a journalistic version of this atrocity. The ECB media complex is now wiping the last 3 years of English cricket off the map. In this new version of the truth KP did not happen. He did not even exist. All the arguments around him, and what he called for have been been air brushed away.
As ZEPHIRINE said above ………”not a bad article apart from being several years late.” ………But that’s the point…… Selvey couldn’t write this argument several years ago. Because to do so would have been to admit that KP was right, and to go against ECB doctrine. It’s only now that KP has been removed from the memory that Selvey can completely re write history. It shows a brazen contempt for the truth, and complete disrespect to his readers. There really is no integrity left. And to cover his Tracks he demands a much more censored comments section so that his critics can be removed. Selvey has become the Marie Antoinette of English cricket writers. His tweets are the modern version of “let them eat cake.”
Careful Mike, we all know what happened to her, and her fellow entitled elite!
jomesy Feb 24, 2016 / 2:10 pm
Wholeheartedly agree – hence my very short ref to the “fruit fly” in the comments section to Selvey’s article.
That was very neat, I thought 🙂
Again, benefit of the doubt, but not sure KP was required for that piece. But yes, the point remains that on this issue, KP, yet again, wasn’t wrong.
Selvey’s piece reminds me of an article Andy Bull wrote on the ABs during the RWC. I’ve been critical of Bull’s cricket writing recently but that ABs piece was superb. The difference was he traveled widely around NZ and spoke to may different people – he didn’t just hang out with his mate.
On Selvey and abuse, does he ever ask himself why he gets such comments and Barney Ronay or Ali Martin don’t? (In fact, Ali Martin did get some rude comments for a time but I’ve never seen him moan about them or be anything other than polite BTL. They seem to have largely stopped).
nonoxcol Feb 24, 2016 / 2:50 pm
I see Thepoetseye is setting herself up to be accused of “misty-eyed cobblers” again…
Makes a change from “impertinent”, I suppose.
Splendidly rude comment from colesla further down the thread.
It’ll get the chop no doubt.
I found this interjection amusing…..
@selvecricket Reported in Guardian, Telegraph experimenting with disallowing readers' comments. Way forward, sadly https://t.co/fEWXvLlHOF
— Pam Nash (@Pam_nAshes) February 24, 2016
Someone who attacks any piece that is pro-you-know-who in the most impolite terms, let alone her interjections here, is anti- anti-comments!
Mark Feb 25, 2016 / 1:43 am
I bet they are the first to winge about freedom of speech. They’re so far up their own Ivory tower they are completely clueless how idiotic and hypocritical they look.
The establishmemt media for decades has been dishing it out, and is now having to take it. And they don’t like it one little bit. Their self entitled crayon scriblings are being called on. And so their solution is to ban their readers, under the guise of freedom. Priceless!
I’ll email in the morning.
Australia’s win last night put them back as number 1 ranked side in the world at test matches. This has been rather overlooked, which only confirms my belief in the pointless nature of a world test championship.
We already have a ranking system, and nobody gives a frig. As the English cricket media have already decided that last years ashes were better than 2005 the value of this new world number one (as its not England) will be dismissed as valueless.
Mark, I’d argue the two points you’ve raised are arguments for a Test championship:
1) Lack of status for No.1 in the rankings – because most people don’t understand how the rankings work and those who do know how flawed they are. Most team sports (all? can you think of an exception except cricket?) have rankings and a knock-out tournament to identify the best team. Nobody knows much or cares who’s ranked No.1 in football – would you then say, abolish the World Cup? With a Test championship, rankings would become like the ODI rankings – virtually irrelevant. Were SL ranked No.1 in ODIs in 1996? Who cares! They were the best team in that tournament and revolutionised the game.
2) The media would dismiss the winners – probably but it would be a lot harder to. The likes of Henderson would still burble that they “know” England are the best but they’d be like those sad old blokes who keep maintaining English football is “the best”. Could Spain do it on a wet afternoon in Stoke is now a joke – it wouldn’t be without a World Cup to settle the argument.
I’m a relatively recent convert to the idea of a Test championship and apologies if I’m going on about it with overly evangelical zeal. The best arguments for it are it would give games a broader context, it would help stimulate interest in the format (not a magic bullet on that, I’ll grant you) and it would force a sorting out of the international schedule (my main reason). I’m sick to death of cricket’s obsession with the Ashes and the way it distorts the whole fabric of cricket. There were reasons a Test championship was impractical in the past that don’t apply now. Travel is much easier and the problem of what to do in the event of a draw lessening (the number of drawn Tests has halved in the last twenty years).
It is quite bizarre, if you think about it, that cricket anoints its world champion based on a reduced form of the game. It’s like football deciding the world champions based on a five-a-side tournament or the Ryder Cup being played on a pitch-and-putt.
Talking of sad old blokes with their “could they do it on a wet afternoon in Stoke” mentality:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/australia-the-greatest-team-on-earth-but-where-s-the-star-quality-a6894071.html
Strangely enough, Australia being top of the rankings isn’t taken as proof that Cricket Australia’s Director of Cricket is the greatest leader since Julius Caesar (and, since you ask, may I also add a splendid and most impressive fellow who hasn’t got a single decision wrong since…..).
Simon,I respect you, and your opinions. But in this case we will just have to agree to differ.
I take on board what you say, but your comparisons with other sports I feel are flawed. You are right in saying there are rankings in football, and as you say there is a World Cup. But the event takes place in the space of 1 month. Then a World champion Is crowned. You can’t do that in cricket. It takes at least a month to play one series. The whole thing will take too long. By the time you get to a place where everyone has played everyone, many teams will have different players, and coaches. It could take years. Also, do you really think all test series will be standardised either at 3 test matches or 5? Good luck getting the big 3 to agreeing to 5 test series against Sri Lanka or the WI.
I am also skeptical about rankings in most sports. Ask a sports fan who won Wimbledon in 1977 or 1985 or whenever, and many could say Borg in 77 and Becker in 85. But they would have no idea who the worlds number one was at the time. Same with golf. Would you rather win The Masters or The Open or lose and be ranked number one? Serena Williams plays hardly any tournaments now, and quite often comes into majors not the number one player. Yet she blows the other players off the court and wins the title. Leaving the so called number 1 player looking like a fraud. Ronnie O’Sullivan does the same in snooker lately.
Golfers are judged by the majors they win. Tiger Woods whole career was defined by one question……..will he beat Jack Nicklous 18 majors? ……. It looks like he will now fail in what at one time seemed a shoe in. His number 1 status was seen as not that big a deal. Would Stephen Hendry trade his 7 world titles for a number 1 ranking? I doubt it very much. When Steve Davis lost to Dennis Taylor in 85 does anybody remember or care he was ranked number one? No. Rankings are not that big a deal.
Because it takes years for Cricket to play a test series championship I just don’t see the point. You have to have a much smaller time frame. A month for footbal or rugby world cups. Same with a Cricket ODI World Cup. A weekend for a major golf championship or two weeks for a tennis major. And at the end of the day what would you prefer……to win the ashes or be number 1? I bet most England cricket fans will take the ashes.
Each test series is its own mini tournament. Sure, there are only 2 teams but ranking does not matter. It’s who wins the series. Anyway, I am rambling on now. No big deal we don’t agree on this. I just think there are other things more important in cricket to get right first. Maybe it is the flaw in cricket that will always hold it back. Especially in this modern world of instant access and attention spans of goldfish.
It’s not great for your case when you start an article with a falsehood, is it, really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_Test_Championship
Australia, ranked world number one May – July 2014, following their win in South Africa. I mean, it was only one of the best Test series of modern times. Why would the cricket correspondent of a national newspaper not remember it or be able to research it?
As for Steve Smith… anyone want to hazard a guess how an English captain averaging 60 would be reported, regardless of a weakness against high-class pace? An English captain who was, say, comprehensively out-batted on the same flat pitches?
Oh, I missed this beauty.
“His captaincy is usually understated but prone, it seems, to naivety and perplexing outbursts of ill temper”
After 11 Tests, won 7, drawn 4, aged 26.
Anyone remember a 29-year-old captain prone to naivety and perplexing outbursts of ill temper, who had captained in twice as many Tests and just been whitewashed, being backed to the hilt when averaging about half of what Smith is?
Mark, no problem at all agreeing to differ but I just wanted to clarify one point – I think we have quite different ideas about what a Test championship would look like.
I see it as teams playing bilateral series like they do currently except everyone would have to play home and away within a given cycle (presumably four years) and results would earn points towards the Test championship (3 for a win and 1 for a draw probably). The issue of 2,3 or 5 Test series would be resolved by only designated matches counting towards the championship (some sports do this already – Rugby League for example). So, if three Test was the agreed number, the first three Tests of an Ashes series would count in the Test championship.
Then the top teams would meet for the Finals. It could be the top two – or the top four with SFs (probably the former). There is an issue about venue as home advantage matters so much at the moment. I’d favour the top team getting home venue but could live with a neutral venue. They’d probably play just the one Test initially but if it worked I’d prefer three. In any case, it’d be over in a matter of weeks (or, if it was just the top two playing one Test, a week).
northernlight71 Feb 24, 2016 / 9:31 pm
I’ve lost 3 comments to the Selvey mods. None of them abusive or off-topic. Simply disagreeing with some of his points and mentioning the fact that disagreement BTL is not the same as abuse.
So I’ve put one up that they might leave there. Just so he knows that I care.
Standard operating procedure at the Guardian now. Anything against papers editorial policy is now removed. Doesn’t have to be rude or abusive. They can’t, and wont tolerate anything that goes against their view.
Selvey’s whinge was nonsense. Really. That bothered him?
Sean B Feb 25, 2016 / 11:20 am
I haven’t posted anything on the Guardian for ages, so as a test I posted something moderately controversial asking if Selvey could cover the big 3 carve up with the same vigour. Guess what, the mods removed it after 10 mins, it really is quite pathetic…
NL,
You can always copy them and post here – I really don’t mind!
Well, my last one will probably stay.
But, just in case . . .
This is an amazingly insightful and wonderful article by a respected, intelligent and insightful watcher of the game.
Another person lacks the mental acuity, Panglossian outlook and insider status necessary to reach the requisite sycophantic conclusion:
@thegreatbucko It may be one of Selvey's best pieces in years. It is complex but needs several readings. Reveals more about MS than T20.
— Tregaskis (@Tregaskis1) February 24, 2016
This piece really has got people acting rather interestingly. It’s not bad but it’s also not Pulitzer Prize either and I’m not reading it more than once to discover hidden depths.
SimonH nailing it and Tregaskis suggesting he reads it in much the same way is enough for me.
It’s what you get when you repeatedly accuse people with opinions different from yours of having “an agenda”, I’m afraid. Total, deserved cynicism. I set out evidence of his “agenda” on TFT yesterday. The best (the only) circumstantial evidence against the cynics is Maxie having been a producer on a Piers Morgan TV programme, and most of us appreciating Pietersen’s performances.
He made his own bed, hopelessly underestimating the intelligence, awareness and curiosity of his readers.
PS I think I’m about to be “outed”.
It was the column he should have written 2 years ago. But he didn’t have the guts or the integrity to write it then. Because it would have made KPs argument, and gone against the ECB.
He just looks ridiculous writing it now after all he has written about those who have been pointing this out for the last few years. He really should retire to his real ale.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/winstonchu135210.html
SimonH Feb 25, 2016 / 12:33 pm
Selvey 2016:
“the mighty Chris Gayle”.
“They have an experienced new coach in Phil Simmons and a young side that no longer relies on the play-as-you-please types, Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo. They are most obviously better off without them”.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/may/04/england-alastair-cook-optimism-bridgetown-loss
Basically, Selvey got the Guardian to pay for his extended holiday bromance with Saker. As Simonh says, an Andy Bull would have travelled around and interviewed a wide selection of people with contrasting views. Not shack up with his mate and relay their shared thoughts verbatim.
It’s starting to sound very Smashie and Nicey.
“Hello best mate, I invented the Yorker, and they said I was mad. I invented the bouncer and they said I was nuts. I like to sit with my best mate and drink real ale with my best mate…..in a rugged, manly way you understand? Before popping out to do some charity work for my favourate school. Now here this……You ain’t seen nothing yet from BTO.”
New FICJAM:
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/sport/2016/02/leicester-city-have-revived-premier-league-reconnecting-sport-s-origins-play
If you can get past phrases like “Gradgrindian pedagogy” and his hilarious ignorance of football there’s a good point about coaching in there. This idea about “learning your role” that England seem obsessed with in ODIs has always seemed wrong-headed to me and there’s some good ideas in there about why.
Of course he could use Andy Flower’s England as an example of the style of coaching he’s criticising – and doesn’t.
Mark Feb 25, 2016 / 12:30 pm
As soon as I saw the words Leicester City in the link I just laughed out loud. I wondered when the amateur svengalis would turn their gaze on Lecicester.
Of course they have not won the league yet, and I guess these sort of pieces will insure they go on to lose the title to one of the bigger teams. Then he can write another piece explaining where it all went wrong.
I don’t intend to read it.
LordCanisLupus Feb 26, 2016 / 2:02 pm
Please do, Mark.
RufusSG Feb 25, 2016 / 2:21 pm
I actually think some (if not all) of the ideas Ed Smith tries to tackle in his articles are pretty interesting in and of themselves: as a philosophy student, I was intrigued by the idea that philosophical principles could be applied to cricket more extensively than we tend to think. Unfortunately, as you correctly identify, his work has two glaring problems: he tends to be extremely hypocritical regarding how he applies his arguments to England’s recent travails, and his exasperatingly convoluted, unnecessarily verbose writing style makes him extremely difficult to follow and comes off as a little smug.
A little smug? Terrific understatement there Rufus.
This article was pure FICJAM. Quote a populist item in the title. Then put an opening para which might as well read “eff off if you are not as clever as me”. Why put in Gradgrindian pedagogy other than to say “fuck I’m clever. Just ask me?”
There’s all sorts of high fallutin references that the vast majority won’t have a clue about. The point of the article is reasonable and simple and tackled well in the “abridged ed” twitter feed.
Smith can write. Of course he can. He just can’t communicate. There’s a hell of a difference.
Read Kamran Abbasi on Cricinfo re the PCL. That’s communication.
Everyone remembers this, of course:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/oct/14/kevin-pietersen-england
A short way down the page are comments by myself and Burly. They had over 150 recommends each at the time. I know this, because I made a remark to Burly about a 300 partnership, unbroken by the moderator “taking a wicket”. They now have about 70 each.
Weirder and weirder.
Analysis of links between U19 success and subsequent career:
https://chrispscricket.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/future-stars-of-the-under-19-world-cup/
There does seem to be something different about England.
Tim Wigmore:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/25/icc-test-cricket-two-divisions-shake-up
First reaction -it could be worse.
Sean B Feb 25, 2016 / 10:20 pm
Can’t get my head around how they’d schedule it, whilst keeping the big 3 money spinning series (I.e. 5 test match series between India, Australia and England). Be interested to see more meat on the bone and whether the big 3 are willing to sacrifice their cash to support this.
India don’t play five Test series against Australia (the last two have been four each) and the story was that they don’t want five against England. So, it really is just the Ashes.
The scrapping of automatic qualification for one-day tournaments is one they’ll struggle to get through.
Although it may be a step up for the likes for Ireland to play tests against say Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and West Indies, I can’t see those countries finding much value of playing test cricket against those teams at all without the lure of the ‘big 3’ and South Africa. There has already been issues with many non Big 3 nations having to sacrifice test matches because of lack of funds, let alone the Pakistan situation. I don’t think there is a good solution to this.
Some reaction from Twitterland:
Exciting stuff, but it's only a proposal coming from the ICC, who don't actually have much say in ICC decisions. https://t.co/VVZHi8DTSr
— Bertus a. de Jong (@BertusadeJong) February 25, 2016
@BertusadeJong now that you put it like that! pic.twitter.com/lwKpbalumK
— John Meffen (@John_Meffen) February 25, 2016
@CricketAtlas @timwig_cricket Sadly ICC decisions are always a case of good ideas dripping through 10 different filters of self-interest.
— Copernicus Cricket (@HeliocentCric) February 26, 2016
@HeliocentCric "concern among senior figures in the ICC regarding Olympic inclusion is that a cricket event might feature as few as 8 teams"
@legsidelizzy Suspect there's several ideas floating around. Would get a different one if someone else spoken to!
— Andrew Nixon (@andrewnixon79) February 25, 2016
Reading that ICC piece, all I can think of is – how the hell will they shoe horn all that cricket in…or is that the idea…?
— Innocent Bystander (@InnoBystander) February 25, 2016
New BBC article on Pietersen ‘living the dream’ playing T20 cricket, entertaining fans and ‘bonding with teammates’ in teams all over the world… except here in England of course.
WTF? What’s the point of it? Is it meant to show that he hasn’t really suffered from his exclusion? Or to show us how dumb the ECB was and continues to be? Or something else?
All I’m left thinking is why on earth can’t I watch a fantastically entertaining England batsman here in England or, even better, playing for England.
Zephirine Feb 26, 2016 / 12:43 pm
Pietersen’s general line at the moment seems to be to emphasise that he isn’t sitting by the phone waiting for England to call – in fact, he started saying things like ‘when I used to play for England’ quite some time ago, I remember noticing it in that TV documentary. It looks as if he accepted after the Strauss meeting that the situation was irreversible, even if many of us supporters didn’t.
Haven’t read the article, but I read a comment a while back from someone in Aus saying they really like him there now, BBL teams he plays with think he’s great and his commentary is interesting. People in places that aren’t England seem to like him a lot, funny that. Why would he want to go back to Clarke and Graves and Strauss and Flower and Cook?
Of course, it just reinforces the sneer that ‘that’s what he always wanted, to jet around as a selfish solo player playing hit-and-giggle cricket for big money’, but if people want to think that, they will.
Sherwick Feb 26, 2016 / 1:21 pm
Selvey has been told, er i mean says it’s now ok for all and sundry to chase the hit-and-giggle filthy lucre AND play Test cricket too.
Here are some comments from KP fans (one not a fan):
Thank you so much KP for coming to Dubai and playing in PSL.. You’re a great leader.. Wish you best of luck heart Your fan Love from Pakistan
It was lovely to see you play in #PSL Although im from Rwp and should have been supporting Islamabad United in PSL but just because you were playing for Quetta, I was supporting Quetta .. Thats how much I love you as a Player.. Hope to see you in action again soon..
Go away you disruptive has been & play in your 20/20 circuses worldwide. If its Tuesday it must be The matubeliland Tuskers. Your career as a test player is over. No one cares what you do. I don’t know how you got onto my page but your are going off it a bit sharpish
Adam Buckley on his YouTube station nails that no-one cares line beautifully in his review of his critics to his annual ten worst songs clip. Try to find it. I’ll link later on.
There was a fair bit of comment on the quality of the article earlier in the week.
BBC raid a player’s Instagram account for story. Good grief.
Clivejw Feb 26, 2016 / 8:03 pm
I’d love to think that KP was totally happy nowadays, but I think if you offered him his test place back he’d take it like a shot. Ah well, not gonna happen.
Clive, I agree, but on the other hand he seems to love being a father and they’ve just got a new baby – how much would he ever see of her if he was in the Test side?
hatmallet Feb 27, 2016 / 1:06 pm
Of course, KP would be damned whatever he says about his happiness.
If he’s enjoying his T20 life and saying he’s living the dream and enjoying a more balance work/life balance, he doesn’t care about England and is clearly a mercenary.
If he’s saying he still wants to play for England in any format, he’s refusing to move on and attempting to destabilise the England team.
Selvey article – in isolation, it’s a decent read. Clearly a lot of time has gone into it and it’s good to get a slightly new perspective on T20 cricket. That said, it’s diminished by what’s gone before – he mentions his old attitude to T20 cricket and it’s all so convenient that as soon as his friend Saker says T20 is good that his own attitude changes. There’s also a hilarious comment BTL calling it “visionary”, which is an odd description given that this was the fourth year of the BBL whilst the IPL is about to start it’s ninth season.
On the ICC ideas, they are very interesting. It’s good to see them giving some thought to new ideas and letting the schedule be a mix of divisional series and series against anyone is a good idea. Of course, the devil’s in the detail and they, and we, should be very careful about any reform.
One of the crucial details will be a system of collective bargaining:
http://idlesummers.com/post.php?postid=1945
” There’s also a hilarious comment BTL calling it “visionary” ”
Probably written by someone who either works for the paper or a chum of the writer. It’s amazing how brown nose comments stay up, but any critics are removed straight away.
hatmallet Feb 28, 2016 / 11:09 am
Having to bite my tongue on another comment, this time on the ICC reforms, saying that India shouldn’t reduce the proportion of revenue given to them.
A very twisted argument. Aside from the fact that it’s not the BCCI giving and taking (on the whole, it’s TV companies and sponsors funding the ICC, though I’d imagine that national boards do have to make some payments), he’s decided that the opposing argument means India would have to receive the same money as Turkmenistan, which precisely zero people have argued for.
Distribution of funds like this shouldn’t be about contribution (which is a loose term anyway), it should be about need. Though I’m sure I’m preaching to the converted here!
Fifa and Blatter, despite being a toxic pair, did at least understand a bit about this, pumping money into poorer nations (though an unacceptable amount, i.e. more than zero, was fraudulent in some way, which I’m in no way condoning).
Selvey likes it now so shape you:
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After Melissa received the order of dismissal, she provided some responses. Christian’s attorney then personally advised her that, under the court rules, she needed to file a court motion to reinstate her case. The lawyer provided specific instructions on how to do so.
However, despite the fact, Melissa received assistance from the trial court staff and Christian’s lawyer, she failed to file the proper motion.
As allowed by the court rules, when sixty days had passed, Christian’s lawyer filed a motion to dismiss the case with prejudice. That means that Melissa would not be able to refile the case later.
Melissa now filed a motion to reinstate the case. But her written motion apparently did not comply with the requirements of the Court Rules.
Melissa did not even appear in court to argue her case before the judge, as required by the court rules. She maintained she was told by a clerk that she did not have to appear.
The trial judge claimed otherwise. He stated his staff reached out to Melissa and that she opted not to appear.
Therefore, the judge dismissed her case with prejudice. Melissa could not recover any compensation for her claimed injuries.
Melissa filed an appeal herself. She lost, though. The appeals court stated that the trial judge was within his discretion to dismiss her case with prejudice.
There’s an old saying. A person who represents themselves in court has a fool for a client. There’s a lot of wisdom in that saying. Especially for a personal injury victim. It would have been better to consult an experienced personal injury lawyer.
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Smooth succession: Jack Ma eases out of a thriving Alibaba
by Dan Martin / Kelly WANG
Jack Ma steps down next week as chairman of Alibaba, but the start-up he built into an online retail behemoth is expected to keep thriving into a new era thanks to a culture of innovation he helped nurture.
A former English teacher whose often playful image shattered the stereotype of the drab Chinese executive, Ma officially leaves on Tuesday, his 55th birthday.
Ma plans to put his vast fortune — among China’s biggest at $41 billion — into initiatives serving his first love, education, following the footsteps of a fellow tech innovator he admires: Bill Gates.
The departure of charismatic founders from big tech companies typically causes hand-wringing and wobbling share prices, but not at Alibaba.
The company’s operational reins have for a couple of years now been in the hands of a respected team of executives who have kept it on e-commerce’s cutting-edge.
Ma was Alibaba’s driving force and a frequently irreverent ambassador for the company, known for stunts like a Michael Jackson-inspired dance at an Alibaba anniversary celebration two years ago and starring in his own kung fu short film.
– ‘Gold standard’ –
He is expected to retain some advisory functions.
But the transition to figures like CEO Daniel Zhang, and co-founder and executive vice chairman Joseph Tsai — announced exactly a year ago — may prove to be the “gold standard” for tech-company succession, said Jeffrey Towson, an equity investor and professor at Peking University.
“He’s succeeded at what Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and (Yahoo co-founder) Jerry Yang failed at, which is making themselves redundant,” said Towson, who has authored books on China’s leading companies.
“He built a really robust culture at Alibaba and they are still just innovating like crazy.”
Ma was a cash-strapped Chinese entrepreneur when he convinced friends to give him $60,000 to start Alibaba in the eastern city of Hangzhou in 1999.
With monthly active users of more than 750 million today, Alibaba helped to unlock China’s massive consumer power, coincidentally a key objective of the government today as its seeks to fuel domestic demand to lessen the reliance on fickle foreign trade.
Its Taobao and Tmall platforms have helped countless businesses grow.
“(Ma) has been the driving force for the development of China’s internet industry and economy. He is (China’s) entrepreneurial godfather,” said furniture maker Cheng Huaibao.
Cheng, 30, is one of millions of small businessmen, often located in so-called “Taobao villages” — communities whose economies are oriented towards Alibaba’s vast market — who leapt into commerce thanks to the company.
Cheng started making bunk beds in 2010 in eastern Jiangsu province with 10 staff. Today his thriving operation has 100 employees.
“Without Teacher Ma, I wouldn’t have come out and started my own business,” Cheng said, using a common Chinese term of respect.
– Continuing to innovate –
There have been criticisms.
Alibaba and its imitators are accused of fostering rampant commercialism and materialism and the selling of counterfeit goods.
Chinese e-commerce today also produces mountains of packaging material, contributing to a rising national garbage problem.
And some of Ma’s comments have drawn barbs, including recently dismissing concerns that Chinese workers were toiling excessive hours, as did the news last year that he was a Chinese Communist Party member.
But Alibaba has continued to expand its ecosystem, pushing into cloud computing, entertainment, and a “new retail” concept — combining online ordering with bricks-and-mortar stores — while its Alipay finance unit has pioneered cashless digital payments.
Despite slowing Chinese economic growth and the US trade war, earnings have so far remained strong.
Ma, who has established an eponymous charitable organisation, already has launched a range of education initiatives.
Last month he sketched out his mantra going forward during a technology debate in Shanghai with Elon Musk, good-naturedly chiding the US entrepreneur about his obsession with putting a man on Mars.
“We need a hero like you, but we need more heroes like us improving things on Earth,” Ma said.
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Farmer Finds Abandoned Kittens In Need, Then He Looks Closer…
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On an old cattle farm that had become a construction site, a Russian farmer was growing concerned as he looked over four abandoned kittens. The farmer had just discovered the young kitties, and he worried for their safety. He hoped the mother cat was somewhere nearby.
As he watched over the kittens, who couldn’t even open there eyes yet, the farmer noticed that something was different about their appearance. Something about their fur and their stocky posture seemed a little offbeat.
A quick call to the local Daursky Nature Reserve and a visit from wildlife workers led to quite the revelation.
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The wildlife workers determined that the newborn kittens weren’t domestic house cats, but Pallas’s cats, which are also called Manul. These felines are wild Asian cats that live in the grasslands of Central Asia.
Typically the size of a domestic cat, they have round eyes, flat faces, a stout frame, and thick fur. Their round ears are lower and wider apart than your average house cat.
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The wildlife workers worried that taking in the kittens would make it difficult to later reintroduce them to the wild. But without a mother to raise them, the kittens were in danger. So the workers decided to take them back to the reserve, where a couple of domestic cats cared for them.
Unfortunately, the four kittens contracted toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection that claimed the lives of two of the young felines. The remaining cats, a male named Murgen and a female named Masha, survived and were later released into the wild the following autumn.
A harsh winter led to the two cats returning to the shelter. But after another release in the spring, the cats didn’t return.
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Daursky Nature Reserve workers made it clear that since the cats have returned to the wild, they’ll no longer approach humans. And humans shouldn’t approach them with offers of food or to pet them, no matter how cute these cats may appear to be. As grown Pallas’s cats, the two cats are considered fierce predators who are surviving in their natural habitat, the inhospitable grasslands.
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By Christina Mitine, Oracle
The JDRF One Walk Silicon Valley 2019, recently hosted at Great America in Santa Clara, brought together participants who walked for a world without Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). Team Oracle had more 500 walkers registered, echoing Oracle’s status as the 2019 Hero Sponsor with a donation of $100K.
In an email inviting Oracle employees to participate in the walks, Edward Screven, chief corporate architect at Oracle, said, “When you have T1D, your body stops producing insulin, a hormone essential to turning food into energy. Managing the disease is a constant struggle that involves monitoring your blood-sugar level, administering insulin, and carefully balancing these insulin doses with your eating and activity just to stay alive. With T1D there are no days off and there is no cure. But there is hope...the inspiration and fun you experience on walk day will stick with you, and the pride you can take for your role will last a lifetime.”
All attendees received a JDRF One Walk t-shirt and a ticket to enjoy the park after the walk. Coworkers, families, and friends were directed to the One Walk village to enjoy live music by Hoopty, performances by dancers and cheerleaders, kid’s activities, and more. T1D research experts and advocacy ambassadors at the JDRF Mission and Research Tents shared information about prevention. For example, I learned that there are currently more than 110 active JDRF research projects underway with over $118M invested in diabetes prevention research.
At the Oracle Meetup Zone, employees gathered with family members and friends. Oracle team members received customized Oracle-JDRF branded hats to wear along with their JDRF shirts and posed for a group photo. Kevin O’Scanlon, development director for JDRF, then kicked off the event, shouting “Type One,” as the audience in return exclaimed, “Type None!”
Nicole Friedland, executive director for JDRF Greater Bay Area Chapter, asked the youth ambassadors, who are raising awareness for T1D, funding, and research, to come onto the stage. She reinforced the JDRF mission: “to improve lives today and tomorrow by accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure and prevent T1D.” She also shared that “there are over $17 million in active grants via vendors” as well as announced the launch of the JDRF Center of Excellence at UCSF and Stanford.
From the stage, Edward Screven shared the story of his son Thomas who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of four. In the last twelve years, Thomas has faced “a lot of challenges with being Type 1 but has found an amazing community through JDRF.” Screven and Oracle team captain Bonnie Carlson, a program manager for executive sponsorship, worked with Oracle Social and Oracle Volunteering to mobilize colleagues and their families to participate in the walk. Before he stepped off stage, Screven said, “Thank you to everyone who has come out to support JDRF, the most important mechanism for research funding for T1D. With the right tools, brilliant scientists, and engineers will find a cure for diabetes over time.”
Carlson and daughter Marina, Thomas Screven, and Junior Wright, the son of Oracle employee Jim Wright, were the three Team Oracle Type 1 Diabetes Honorees who cut the ribbon to initiate the walk, a 1-mile loop through the park.
It was truly amazing to be among the sea of people who were all walking to raise awareness of Type 1 and help JDRF find a cure.
Later in October, Oracle employees rallied their friends and families to walk in JDRF One Walks in San Ramon and San Francisco. In total, more than 400 employees participated in the walks raising more than $137,000 for JDRF.
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A new era for politics and information security
Garry Kasparov, 11 November 2016
The one irrefutable lesson from Hillary Clinton’s defeat is that modern systems require modern security measures.
Tuesday’s election defied virtually all expert opinion confidently put forth on traditional media channels. As many pundits have since accurately, albeit belatedly, noted, the outcome was a complete rejection of the country’s political establishment. More than that, it was a repudiation of the centralized, elite-driven information network that wrongly believed it still held a monopoly on public opinion. The result of this year’s presidential election is a stark indicator that the dominance of newspapers and cable television has passed, and that the new barometer of the public mood is social media—which Donald Trump understood better than any of the analysts and commentators who predicted his defeat.
Think back to all of the criticisms of the Trump campaign for not having a strong “ground game,” while Clinton’s huge staff and sprawling team of volunteers called every number, knocked on every door. Meanwhile, Trump’s strategy (if one can call it that) consisted of inundating Twitter with insults, boasts, and blatant lies, often late into the night. But this approach turned out to be much better suited to the age in which we find ourselves, in which we can curate our own streams of information, rather than passively accepting what the gatekeepers of the mass media allow to filter through.
Moreover, it can take a high level of education to separate fact from fiction in the dense information jungle we face online, leaving many susceptible to the fear-mongering and scapegoating Trump has mastered. The president-elect of the United States exploited the potential of the internet better than any other candidate this election cycle, offering sound bites that reverberated across social networks and left a lasting impression on millions of Americans. His views could all be summed up in brief, explosive, viscerally emotional phrases—“Build a Wall,” “Crooked Hillary”—and he proved that, today, these are a more effective currency than the detailed policy briefs Clinton’s team published on her site.
Ultimately, the election became a referendum on Clinton, a deeply flawed candidate. Trump tapped into the directness and intimacy of the new modes of communication available to cement his status as a political outsider and, thus, legitimate critic of the entrenched political class. Obama’s outgoing approval rating was over 50% (if we can still trust any polls!); with that kind of support, historical precedent tells us that the candidate of the same party ought to win. Trump’s strong showing was in large part an indictment of Clinton’s tarnished character, not just dissatisfaction with the policies of the current administration.
I won’t attempt to draw out all the lessons for the politics of the United States here, as I am sure many voices are now trying to cobble together a coherent vision for the future. I have limited myself to commenting on the implications for how we share and consume information.
But one more vital point remains: the protection of this information. Just as we have access to more and more diverse content, its security is also under increasing jeopardy, whether from lone hackers or foreign governments. Clinton’s biggest misstep—her use of an insecure private email server for highly confidential government documents—became a centerpiece of Trump’s attacks. WikiLeaks’ continued releases of stolen emails between Clinton and her advisors gave Trump’s accusations a steady supply of ammunition and overwhelmed Clinton’s rebuttals. It is not an exaggeration to say that poor online security decided the election and the course of American and, inevitably, global history.
If we take only one irrefutable lesson from Clinton’s defeat, let it be that modern systems require modern security measures. We should all understand that deletion is an antiquated notion and private is not a synonym for secure. As we reflect on how to better structure and operate information systems to ensure healthy democracies, let us not forget the first step of any such plan: keeping our private and national communications safe.
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Twilight Robbery, Frances Hardinge 13 January 2017
2011 non-historical fiction, sequel to Fly By Night. Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are still in trouble, and attempting to flee through Toll, the town that controls the only bridge across the big river. But both entering and leaving have their price. US vt Fly Trap.
This is not, quite, more of the same thing that the excellent Fly By Night gave me, and that's a better thing than forced repetition would have been. Yes, it's still a romp with Mosca and Eponymous (and Saracen the one-goose war zone) just trying to go about their business while getting into deeper and deeper trouble, until they're so far in that their actions will change the fates of city-states. But where Fly By Night was also about religion, and tribalism, Twilight Robbery is about power, and racism (reminding me of a certain famously awful Star Trek episode, only this gets it right), and unstated assumptions.
And the writing, of course, continues to be utterly gorgeous. I've enjoyed all of Harding's books that I've read, but she seems to indulge herself more in this world, as when Mosca is thrown into a cellar:
Unbidden, there came into Mosca's mind a long-forgotten image of her aunt peeling potatoes, the long spiral curling down and down from the tuber and then dropping into the waiting bucket of throwings and leavings. The thought that she had been casually cast down like a piece of rubbish filled Mosca with a wild surge of un-potato-like rage.
In fact this carries one over the stumbles of the first few chapters, which start at a fairly low spot and promptly get lower, maintaining a relaxed pace as everything falls apart. Once the story reaches Toll, things speed up, with complication piled on complication, quick reverses, and a find-the-villain puzzle good enough to support a detective story on its own even without all the other stuff that's happening.
And yet this book never creaks under the weight of all the stuff that's happening; there's never a feeling of too much going on or too many people. They're all delineated well enough that there's no difficulty in keeping track of who's who and what they're up to.
And there's the Luck of the City to consider, and the Romantic Facilitator ("it have been put to him that sometimes the course of true love does not run smooth but needs help, and sometimes a few coins changing hands and a bit of sword-work like"), and the hastily-improvised pantomime Clatterhorse.
Sadly, despite all his skill, it looked very little like a skeletal horse, and more like a deer that had got its head stuck in a xylophone. The bulging glass bottle-top eyes might have been a mistake as well, with hindsight.
It's not the friendly assault on the mind that Fly By Night was, but it's a worthy sequel and one that I greatly enjoyed. And of course there's never enough of Saracen.
They might have spent another few minutes in pensive silence, if down by the road Saracen had not decided to begin the war on his own.
To be fair, he had been provoked. Two soldiers who had already pitched camp had broken open a loaf without any thought for the hunger of waterfowl in the vicinity. The soldiers in question were now hiding on the far side of one of the provisions wagons, and one had sneezed gunpowder over his arm and shoulder while trying to load his pistol in too much haste.
And sometimes one needs to remember that radicalism is all about walkin' on the grass.
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Valify today announced that Prisma Health has chosen Valify as its technology partner to manage and reduce their purchased services expenses. As Prisma Health continues to unify, following the merger of Greenville Health System and Palmetto Health, gaining the ability to clearly distinguish which vendors provide outsourced services by each individual facility and by each department for every category is paramount to identifying immediate savings opportunities post-merger.
By partnering with Valify, Prisma Health joins the ranks of over 1,000 other hospitals who recognize that a substantial amount of their non-labor budget is spent on purchased services and that it is full of untapped potential to claim savings.
Prisma Health is a not-for-profit health system with 18 acute hospital locations, making it the largest hospital system in South Carolina and top 50 in the U.S. Through Valify's suite of services, Prisma Health will immediately gain system-wide spend visibility and a road map of savings opportunities, including vendor consolidation opportunities and others that are automatically pulled from the data by highly fine-tuned and intelligent algorithms. Additionally, Prisma Health has unlimited access to Valify's pricing database, the largest purchased services database available with over $350 billion in spend, to review category-specific benchmarks for the deepest insight into pricing along with the utilization factors and cost model considerations that are necessary when properly comparing pricing for purchased services.
"We are excited to welcome Prisma Health to the Valify platform. We look forward to accelerating their speed-to-savings in purchased services, and to provide support through their post-merger process," said Chris Heckler, CEO and President of Valify.
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Prisma Health is a not-for-profit health company and South Carolina's largest private employer. We are committed to excellence in providing patient care, conducting clinical research and teaching the next generation of physicians, nurses, dentists and other medical professionals. Our organization was formed in late 2017 when Greenville Health System and Palmetto Health joined together, officially becoming Prisma Health in January 2019. With nearly 32,000 team members, 18 hospitals and more than 300 physician practice sites, Prisma Health serves more than 1.2 million patients annually – about one quarter of the state's population. Our goal is to improve the health of all South Carolinians by improving clinical quality, the patient experience and access to affordable care. Our groundbreaking programs in cardiovascular, diabetes, neuroscience, oncology and orthopedics care – as well as our two renowned Children's Hospitals – attract patients from throughout the Southeast. Ultimately, we are dedicated to transforming the health care experience for our patients and their families, our team members and our guests by bringing our purpose to life: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference. For more information, visit PrismaHealth.org.
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Golden Key will host the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s sixth annual Graduate and Professional School fair Oct. 12. Representatives from about 20 graduate programs will be present. These programs include medical, law, business and health and public policy schools. For a complete list of programs represented and more information, click here.
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Alex Hershaft: No Room for Feminist Protesters, But Open Arms for Terrorists
Alex Hershaft had a problem — the discussion board set up on VegSource.Com to serve as a place for activists to talk about their memories of Animal Rights 2002 was being dominated by a debate by remarks made by Howard Lyman and the appropriateness of campaigns by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals which use sex to sell the animal rights message.
So Hershaft did what most people in groups try to do when faced with internal dissent — try to focus that anger back at a common foe. So on Monday, July 15, Hershaft posted the text of an op-ed by David Martosko, who is director of research at the Center for Consumer Freedom. But that article and Hershaft’s ensuing comments raised more problems and questions than they answered.
That was an odd choice because Martosko’s main point was that animal rights violence and terrorism is a mainstream part of the movement, and there was no better example of the truth of this than that advocates of violence were given prominent platforms at AR 2002. Martosko wrote, for example,
One such miscreant is actually a fugitive from justice. Paul Watson, who runs the misleadingly-named Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, made over a half-dozen speeches at AR2002, despite his continued defiance of a warrant for his arrest in Costa Rica. Watson, whose own ship has a bow filled with cement (for ramming and sinking other boats), openly advocated the baseball-bat approach to conflict resolution, telling the audience: “The fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if itÂ’s for what we believe in.” In another session, ominously titled “Direct Tactics,” Watson advised the assembled activists that “ThereÂ’s nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win.”
Other memorable moments from AR2002 included former Animal Liberation Front (ALF) “spokesperson” Kevin Jonas embracing the T-word (“TodayÂ’s terrorist is tomorrowÂ’s freedom fighter”) and encouraging more activists to cross the line into lawbreaking: “Why should any one of us feel that ‘it shouldn’t be me taking that brick and chucking it through that window?Â’” he implored. “Why shouldnÂ’t I be going to that fur farm down the road and opening up those cages? ItÂ’s not hard; it doesn’t take a rocket scientist. You don’t need a 4-year degree to call in a bomb hoax.” Jonas (sometimes spelled “Kjonaas”) was profiled in yesterdayÂ’s Philadelphia Inquirer, defending his group and its violent actions. “I don’t feel any sympathy for people in England or America who have had their cars tipped or torched,” he offered, “because those cars were paid for out of blood money.”
To Hershaft, apparently, Martosko’s highlighting of the advocates of violence at AR2002 is representative of the real adversaries the animal rights movement faces.
This post by Hershaft brought a quick response by animal rights activist Dean Smith who was also one of the speakers at AR 2002. In a post titled, “Our “adversary” has a point”, Smith wrote,
Like it or not, the comments at AR2002 encouraging the use of violence as a means for achieving animal liberation could very well have been the impetus for the actions referenced in this article. The main point of the panel was to encourage this type of action, violent and otherwise. Why do we run away when violent acts occur and act as if they weren’t encouraged by movement leaders (tacitly and otherwise).
Both Dan Murphy in his recent column and the columnist referenced here are right to criticize our movement for violent actions. I personally wish that more leaders in this movement would have the fortitude to do so as well.
A couple others chimed in with agreement, and one, identified only as “Ali M”, put the question about terrorism and animal rights to Hershaft directly,
Alex, I’m confused about the message behind your post. What are you saying about animal rights activists who break the law? What are you saying about animal rights terrorists? There is a very clear distinction between breaking the law & being a terrorist. I hope you are not suggesting otherwise. Who are you saying is “our real adversaries?” Please respond.
Hershaft replied with a curt, chilling message,
From: AlexH. (pool-138-88-95-208.res.east.verizon.net)
Subject: Our real adversaries are consumerfreedom.com …
Date: July 15, 2002 at 3:26 pm PST
In Reply to: Re: Lest we forget our real adversaries posted by Ali M on July 15, 2002 at 2:26 pm:
… and their fellow shills for the meat, dairy, research, and animal oppressing industries. Since the people attacked in the editorial were my plenary speakers, I didn’t realize my post required clarification.
For Hershaft, then, the real adversaries of the animal rights movement are those outside of it who dare criticize activists like Paul Watson and Kevin Jonas for their endorsement of violence. To Hershaft, people like Jonas are not dangerous advocates of violence but rather “my plenary speakers.”
In Hershaft’s vision of the animal rights movement, feminists who go up on stage to read a statement in protest of an award given to a beauty pageant winner are divisive and may be banned from future animal rights conferences. Those who openly advocate violence, however, are not only welcome, but the real adversaries to the movement are those, like Martosko, who simply report about how the animal rights movement tolerates and encourages violent extremism.
This is the same Hershaft who earlier this year complained that people ignored instructions at Animal Rights 2001 and brought their dogs, complaining that the Hilton was angry about this and he needed to keep the event at the Hilton because “we are trying to project a middle class image.” It’s hard to tell where he thinks bomb hoaxes, property discussion and arson fit into a “middle class image.”
Animal-rights fanatics: Doctor Dolittle gone bad. David Martosko, Seattle Times, July 15, 2002.
Lest we forget our real adversaries. Alex Hershaft, VegSource.Com, July 15, 2002.
Our “adversary” has a point. Dean Smith, VegSource.Com, July 15, 2002.
Yes. “Sydney”, VegSource.Com, July 15, 2002.
Re: Lest we forget our real adversaries. “Ali M.”, VegSource.Com, July 15, 2002.
Our real adversaries are consumerfreedom.com …. Alex Hershaft, VegSource.Com, July 15, 2002.
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Procuring Virgins, Performing Peace: Reconciliation through the Exchange of Women in Judges 21
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Rather than the commonly understood chaotic ending to Judges which illustrates the need for a king, the exchange of women in Judg 21 mediates the conflict between the Israelite tribes, creating a peaceful resolution to their civil war through the reestablishment of kinship loyalties. By applying anthropological concepts of gift exchange and alternative marriage practices to the final story of Judges (chs. 19-21), especially to the resolution of that story in ch. 21, we can see the rapprochement achieved through the gift of virgin brides which strengthens relations between the tribes. In light of this assessment, the monarchic refrain (Judg 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; and 21:25) was likely added during the latest stages of development to frame the final two stories to emphasize the need for a strong central government—kingship. Only with this refrain does the reconciliation of the warring tribes realized through the traffic of women appear insufficient.
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SWAT premiere review: Is Shemar Moore’s CBS drama a winner?
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Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs was perfect. But his next stop will prove (or disprove) his greatness
Henry Bushnell
Yahoo Sports November 19, 2019
Mauricio Pochettino is out at Tottenham. We'll learn a lot about him at his next stop. (Ian Kington/AFP/Getty Images)
Mauricio Pochettino has never failed. Never initially, at least, with the revolutionary scent of his teachings still fresh.
Before the Tottenham project, before the Champions League run, and before his Tuesday sacking brought widespread criticism of the club rather than of him, Pochettino had dragged Espanyol to safety on a shoestring budget. He’d propelled recently promoted Southampton to eighth place in the Premier League. He was, back then and as recently as two months ago, the consummate overachiever, able to accomplish more with less.
And as he ascended, from La Liga to the Prem, from Saints to Spurs, his reputation followed. Success multiplied. Rumors of interest from Real Madrid and Manchester United, the two richest clubs in the world, validated him.
But implied by the constant links to superpowers was an uncomfortable truth: No legendary manager has ever cemented his legendary status at a club like Tottenham. The greats don’t spend entire careers outperforming relatively scant resources. They earn more resources, and by extension more exceptions, and outperform those as well.
This is Pochettino’s next step, to a club where trophies, multiple, are not only desired but required. And it’s entirely fair to wonder whether he’ll continue to ascend among the elite.
Pochettino and Spurs: the perfect match
Pochettino was perfect for Spurs, and Spurs perfect for Pochettino, because they weren’t elite. They were several tiers below when he arrived, and still at least one tier below when he departed. The inferiority, however, was not a drawback, but rather a reason the marriage made so much sense.
Pochettino inherited players who were young and hungry. He fortified the squad, but never corrupted its spirit. He rarely shelled out for overpriced, perhaps apathetic veterans. Because that hunger was necessary fuel for the style he was implementing. Pochettino Ball demands unceasing commitment, an almost cult-like adherence to both tactical principles and unglamorous work. Players like Dele Alli, for years without fail, committed and adhered to it.
They ran themselves into the ground, and simultaneously soared to improbable levels, because they were talented enough to do so but neither established nor entitled enough to question the grunt work. Few, if any, had succeeded at elite clubs previously. Few, if any, prioritized themselves above the collective. The results were two title challenges, the second most points in the Prem over a three-season stretch beginning in 2015, and a Champions League final.
But never a trophy.
Tottenham’s sub-elite status was both a reason Pochettino Ball worked and a reason it never brought a coveted prize. In title races and finals, the Argentine’s genius couldn’t quite compensate for his squad’s shortcomings. So he’ll have to verify that genius elsewhere.
Can Pochettino emulate Klopp?
Tottenham was to Pochettino what Borussia Dortmund was to Jurgen Klopp – a platform for resounding success, but a stepping stone to the ultimate proving ground.
Klopp was magical at Dortmund in a similar situation, for roughly a half-decade, in the shadow of a financial giant, with young, hungry, moldable minds of his own. Whereas Pochettino had to beat five giants to a league title, Klopp only had to beat Bayern Munich, and he did. He also made a Champions League final, like Pochettino. And eventually split with his club after a disappointing campaign, his message having lost its edge.
Klopp left beloved, but not yet widely regarded as a top-five coach worldwide. To reach his profession’s summit, he went to Liverpool, a historic club willing to submit to his philosophies and supplement them with money. The hundreds of millions of pounds, and the players they bought, meshed with his “heavy-metal football.” The yield, so far, has been two Champions League final appearances, one European crown, and the club’s best-ever domestic season. An elusive Premier League title could soon join the list.
But for every Klopp, there are several Unai Emerys and Niko Kovacs and Manuel Pellegrinis and David Moyeses and Andre Villas-Boases – overachievers at sub-elite clubs whose success doesn’t translate to the elite.
That’s because overachieving on an ordinary budget and achieving on a gargantuan one are very different tasks. In elite European soccer, spending often brings diminishing returns. For some managers, the return on a dollar spent holds steady. For others, the benefits completely evaporate. And for a few, at a certain point, the relationship between resources and success actually becomes an inverse one. Late-prime stars on Mesut Ozil- or Alexis Sanchez-sized contracts often aren’t willing to grind, to commit wholeheartedly to the approach that made the manager an overachiever in the first place.
Will this be Pochettino? Or will he be able to emulate Klopp?
Soon enough, Man United or Real Madrid will surely come calling, and we’ll find out.
Henry Bushnell is a features writer for Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Question? Comment? Email him at henrydbushnell@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter @HenryBushnell, and on Facebook.
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by California Competes
Data Systems Governance Public Agenda State Coordination
Topics: Data Systems, Governance, Public Agenda, State Coordination
California Competes staff provided witness testimony this week on three key bills being considered by the California State Legislature. On Wednesday, April 3, 2019, Interim Executive Director Ria Sengupta Bhatt testified on Senate Bill 2, which would convene a review committee to advise on the Statewide Longitudinal Student Database. During the same hearing, Policy and Research Analyst Taylor Myers testified on Senate Bill 3, which would establish the Office of Higher Education Coordination, Accountability, and Performance. On Tuesday, April 2, 2019, Ms. Bhatt provided testimony on Assembly Bill 130, which would establish the Higher Education Performance and Accountability Commission.
All three bills passed out of of committee.
State Senate Education Committee Hearing: Senate Bill 2 (Glazer)
Interim Executive Director Ria Sengupta Bhatt at the State Capitol on April 3, 2019
A myriad of options lay before policymakers to better serve students and families, but California’s decisionmakers are acting in an information vacuum.
The state has a very limited ability to diagnose its challenges in education, invest wisely in solutions, and then comprehensively assess the impacts of those investments. Without a fully integrated, top to bottom data infrastructure, California’s leaders lack the information they need to best serve students, workers, and the economy.
California Competes supports SB 2 because systematically integrating data from preschool to workforce is a key step for California to modernize the education sector. This bill is essential because for some Californians, the path from education to employment is a direct line from high school to college to a job. But for most, the path is not that simple.
The lack of comprehensive data prevents policymakers from pinpointing where Californians fall through the cracks of the education-to-employment pipeline; how that varies by race, gender, region, and income; and most importantly, why it happens.
It is mind-boggling that our state cannot answer seemingly fundamental questions like, “In a given year, how many California high school graduates enrolled in college the next fall?” because the K-12 and college data systems do not fully talk to one another. SB 2 takes the necessary step of tasking a committee to identify ways to answer this and many other essential questions about Californians’ experiences and develop a streamlined plan for collecting, measuring, and reporting individual-level metrics in one place.
The CDE, California Community Colleges, CSU, UC, CSAC, and the Employment Development Department each independently hold rich data, but this segmented approach limits understanding of how the education and workforce systems complement one another. SB 2 creates an infrastructure to make these data actionable for the purposes of improving outcomes and reducing disparities. It also addresses issues that often arise in conversations about data such as privacy and public access.
It is an exciting time to consider the potential for a P-Workforce data system. The need for a longitudinal, cross-sector system is real and immediate because these data should be the bedrock of all substantive, evidence-based policymaking. For California, progress in this area is long overdue.
Read Interim Executive Director Ria Sengupta Bhatt's full testimony.
Watch Ms. Bhatt's testimony on video.
State Senate Education Committee Hearing: Senate Bill 3 (Allen)
Policy and Research Analyst Taylor Myers at the State Capitol on April 3, 2019
Now, more than at any other time since the Master Plan for Higher Education was chartered, the state needs expert leadership to support equitable college access and completion for all Californians.
While the segments have made important efforts to address challenges in higher education such as affordability, access, and time-to-degree, fundamentally, these are systemic problems that transcend any one institution or segment, and they require systemic solutions.
Specifically, Senate Bill 3 creates the infrastructure to develop statewide higher education goals; to oversee interagency efforts; and to promote evidence-based policymaking by using data across education and workforce sectors. Further, SB 3 carefully thinks through the appropriate roles of key stakeholders, creating an advisory board with student and segment representatives. These functions will improve outcomes across diverse regions and student populations.
Read Policy and Research Analyst Taylor Myers’ full testimony.
Watch Ms. Myers’ testimony on video.
California State Assembly Committee on Higher Education: Assembly Bill 130 (Low)
Ms. Bhatt at the State Capitol on April 2, 2019
California Competes has long supported greater oversight and coordination in higher education.
The state increasingly faces critical postsecondary challenges including rising costs, untenable capacity constraints, and inequitable outcomes. As a result, college is less accessible and less likely to improve economic mobility for Californians. No segment or governing body is charged with addressing these challenges in whole.
Currently the state has a system of parts—the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California—operating in silos with no single entity to help plan, drive, and evaluate statewide efforts to improve student success.
A coordinating body would build upon the progress already being made by the segments and accelerate systemic change.
The Higher Education Performance and Accountability Commission established by AB 130 could take a statewide approach to addressing issues such as institutional capacity and supporting cross-sector initiatives such as dual enrollment and transfer programs. An independent body advising on the condition of higher education statewide is imperative to provide the student-focused leadership necessary to address challenges cohesively. California’s students deserve such a Commission to serve as their advocate.
Read Ria Sengupta Bhatt’s full testimony.
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California Needs a Better Education Data System But Who Will Manage It?
This commentary by Interim Executive Director Ria Sengupta Bhatt was published in EdSource on March 25, 2019. The op-ed explores the need to build a new statewide longitudinal data system with clear direction on leadership and oversight.
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Out of the Dark: Bringing California's Education Data into the 21st Century
With an increased focus on the importance of education data, the policy window is opening for California to catch up with the progress that most other states have made in integrating data to better serve students, policymakers, and the public.
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Classical Ballet & Contemporary Dance Competitions
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CLASSICAL BALLET SOLO
Open to participants 10 years of age and younger. Perform a routine in the style of Classical Ballet. We highly recommended & prefer you use your own original choreography. However, Classical Repertoire that has been simplified to accommodate the participants technical level is accepted. Please see Repertoire List for specific age groups.
*This performance MUST be done wearing flat ballet shoes – pointe is NOT permitted for this age group.
CLASSICAL REPERTOIRE SOLO
Open to participants 11 years of age and older. Perform a routine in the form of Classical Ballet. Students 13 years and older must perform on pointe. The routine must be a variation chosen from the approved CDC Classical Repertoire List. Repertoire not found on the CDC list may also be performed, but ONLY with written consent from licensed party.
Please see Repertoire List for specific age groups.
NEO-CLASSICAL SOLO
Open to participants 11 years of age and older. Perform a routine in the style of Classical Ballet. The routine must be originally conceptualized choreography, no repertoire. Accepted styles may include Demi-character, (a ballet dance with a story line), Classical Ballet, Modern Ballet and Lyrical Ballet.
CONTEMPORARY SOLO
Open to participants of all age groups. Perform a routine in the style of Expressive Concert Dance. Accepted styles may include or combine elements of; Modern, Classical Jazz, Lyrical and Contemporary Dance.
NATIONAL CHARACTER SOLO
Open to participants of all age groups. Perform a routine in the style of National Character. Stylized representation of a traditional Folk or National Dance, which uses movements and music adapted for theater.
CLASSICAL DUET & TRIO
Open to participants of all age groups. Perform a routine in the style of Classical Ballet. Accepted styles may include or combine elements of Classical Ballet, Classical Repertoire, Neo-Classical and National character.
*Participants 10 years of age or younger MUST perform wearing flat ballet shoes – pointe is NOT permitted for this age group.
CONTEMPORARY DUET OR TRIO
National Character Duet or Trio
Open to participants 11 years and older. (10 years and younger will be judged in the Classical Duet & Trio Category). Two or three participants perform a routine in the style of National Character. Stylized representation of a traditional folk or national dance, which uses movements and music adapted for theater.
CLASSICAL BALLET PAS DE DEUX
Open to participants 11 years of age and older. The performance must be selected from the CDC Classical Repertoire List. Pas De Deux are to only include Adagio and Coda. Repertoire not found on the CDC list may also be performed, but ONLY with written consent from licensed party.
CLASSICAL BALLET ENSEMBLE
Open to participants of all age groups. Four or more participants perform a routine in the style of Classical Ballet. The ensemble may be originally conceptualized choreography or Classical Repertoire.
CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
Open to participants of all age groups. Four or more participants perform a routine in the style of Expressive Concert Dance. Accepted styles may include or combine elements of; Modern, Classical Jazz, Lyrical and Contemporary Dance.
NATIONAL CHARACTER ENSEMBLE
Open to participants of all age groups. Four or more participants perform a routine in the style of National Character. Stylized representation of a traditional folk or national dance, which uses movements and music adapted for theater.
OPEN ENSEMBLE
Open to participants of all age groups. Four or more participants perform a routine in any dance style, excluding Tap (to preserve the dance floor).
*Restriction: In order to be eligible for Open Ensemble the entered participants or studio must also compete in at least two other ensemble categories in the same age group, one of which must be a Classical Ballet Ensemble.
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Four hours and ten minutes earlier
Russell snapped his phone shut and sauntered back over to Eric, who was leaning casually against the bar and watching Yvetta eat out Sophie-Anne as if it were a stage show.
Nothing about Eric’s demeanor betrayed his own apprehension, though inside, the Viking couldn’t help but to be frightened. He figured that the chances were great that he was about to meet his true death. He hoped that he could at least offer his child the time she would need to flee. And he was comforted by the fact that he felt her moving farther and farther from him by the second.
Regardless, Eric’s acting ability during the next few moments would determine whether he lived or died. He called upon a thousand years of control and tilted his head, seemingly to better take in the actions of Yvetta and Sophie-Anne.
“Her blood is exquisite, your majesty,” Eric said, giving Russell a little bow. “I know you prefer men, but you might, perhaps, take a taste at some point.” He motioned toward Yvetta. “She’s also quite skilled in the art of giving oral pleasure, as you can hear from Sophie-Anne.”
Russell glanced over at the writhing women with disgust. He turned back to Eric. “Lesbianism has never appealed to me, I’m afraid. However, I might take you up on your offer for her blood—after my lovely wife is done with her, that is.”
Eric smirked and gave another little bow of the head. Inside, he was happy to note that Pam was now moving past the Shreveport city limits.
“Where did your progeny go, Northman?” Russell asked casually.
Eric answered just as nonchalantly. “I suspected that Yvetta might not be to your liking, so I sent Pam to hurry along a couple of donors you might like better.” Internally, Eric celebrated as Domitri and Kenneth walked through the door from the back of the bar. Perhaps the donors would distract Russell.
The Viking nodded toward the newcomers. “The larger one is a bouncer here. His blood is delicious—a rare find. He’s from Tasmania originally, so his blood tastes of few pollutants.”
“Ah—fresh as mountain spring water,” Russell said jokingly. “And the other? I like the looks of him.”
“He is called Domitri. I’m afraid he’s quite bland compared to the fare that was presented to us by Talbot, my liege. However, what he lacks in flavor, he more than makes up for in other ways,” Eric leered suggestively. “He was a gymnast at one point—I believe.”
“Mmmm,” Russell said, licking his lips in the direction of the two male donors. “Your hospitality is appreciated, Northman. I would, however,” he turned his head back in Eric’s direction, “like to thank your progeny personally for arranging such a tribute.”
Eric kept his expression indifferent, other than the tiny smirk he allowed to push up the corner of his mouth. “I imagine that she is feeding as well, my liege. I gave her leave to do so after she secured your meal. She drank from one of our barmaids earlier—in order to heal her worst wounds—but she found the taste unsatisfying. She had hoped to have sated herself with Yvetta, but as you can see,” he said motioning toward the corner, “Yvetta had another offer.”
Eric chuckled. “If I know Pam, she is probably in a similar position as Sophie-Anne―even now. After that, she is to make sure all traces of our ‘guest’ downstairs are removed.” In actuality, Eric had texted Chow to come to the bar in two hour’s time to perform the clean-up and to take the Magister’s remains to a nearby alligator farm.
Russell looked into Eric’s eyes searchingly, but then chuckled. For just a moment, Eric thought he saw recognition in Russell’s eyes, but the Viking held his countenance.
Russell spoke casually, “Talbot says that you enjoyed my collection of artifacts.”
“Quite,” Eric answered without missing a beat, though he was careful not to sound overly enthusiastic. “You have many lovely pieces. The Japanese vampire erotica was especially,” Eric leered at Russell, “instructive.”
Russell smiled. “Talbot was surprised that you seemed to show the most interest in a little crown I’d picked up in Scandinavia.”
“Ah—yes,” Eric said unconcernedly, though with a little interest in his tone. “It is rare that I come across Viking artifacts that are so well-preserved. As you know, my original people were not ones for the preservation of relics.” He chuckled. “We tended to burn our things with the dead.”
“A terrible waste,” Russell said with a smirk.
“Yes,” Eric agreed, “though—even at the time, I don’t believe I ever saw a crown as fine as the one you have. I grew up in a relatively poor village, and any metal we got our hands on was used to forge weapons.” He paused. “So it was a treat to see your relic.”
Russell nodded. “I took that crown from a minor ruler in what is now Sweden—from a town near the North Sea. That must have been,” Russell paused and looked at Eric significantly, “a little more than a thousand years ago.”
The Viking nodded. “Ah—that would account for the unusual shape of the crown. My own people were from what is now Norway. Still—the crown is lovely and reminded me of my human days for a few moments.”
“Perhaps I should make a gift of it to you then?” Russell asked, his voice almost snakelike.
Eric bowed a bit. “It would be an honor, your majesty,” he said evenly, “one that I would gladly accept. However, I would not wish to see your collection broken up.”
Russell gestured in such a way as to indicate that the gift would be nothing even as he continued to study Eric’s face. “Trust me, that particular piece is of little value to me; it never has been.”
Using all of his strength and control, Eric nodded noncommittally. “Then, I would love to accept it—if you are certain.”
Luckily, before Russell could further comment, Sophie-Anne let out a satisfied scream, indicating her orgasm.
Eric looked over toward the corner.
“Perhaps we should be on our way now that my queen has finished her meal,” Russell said with a disgusted look on his face.
Eric smirked. “You may have the young men as ‘take-out’ if you wish, your majesty. I’m certain that they would make the trip to Mississippi pass more,” he paused, “pleasurably. Will I have the pleasure of accompanying you as well?” he asked Russell with a hope-filled toned.
Russell smirked. “Sadly—no.”
Eric forced disappointment to wash over his face for a moment.
“I have a quick errand to see to before I return to Mississippi. It seems that your Miss Stackhouse has escaped, along with her friend, Miss Thornton. Bill Compton is also missing. Would you have any ideas about Miss Stackhouse’s location?”
Eric, still struggling to keep up his act and to maintain his casual stance, smirked. “Ah, the intrepid Miss Stackhouse strikes again. I did tell you that she was something,” he paused, “unique.”
“So true,” Russell grinned.
“I would check her residence first if I were you,” Eric said. “I will give you the address—if you do not already have it. It is actually across the cemetery from Compton’s residence. She loves him to such a great distraction that she will likely be where he is.”
“The file Mott collected also mentions a brother—a Jason Stackhouse.”
Eric nodded as if digging for a file from his own memory. “Yes. Jason Stackhouse is a nice looking man, but his blood doesn’t smell like his sister’s—I’m afraid. They have been somewhat estranged, I think. For a while he was affiliated with the Fellowship of the Sun, but I believe that he is back in Bon Temps now.” Eric knew that he was telling Russell things that Mott would have reported to him already, but there was also a part of him that intuited how distraught Sookie would be if her brother were harmed so he downplayed the closeness of their relationship.
“I would place surveillance on Jason Stackhouse if you don’t find Sookie immediately,” Eric said, speaking pragmatically. “She will eventually contact him—or he will lead you to her. He is not the brightest human. You may also wish to place surveillance on Sam Merlotte, a shifter in Bon Temps. He is Sookie’s employer.” Eric knew that that information, too, would be in Mott’s file. And—of course—if the king chose to have the shifter and Sookie’s brother followed, then they wouldn’t be harmed.
Russell took in Eric’s words and nodded, even as he continued to regard the Viking closely.
Eric thought about his options; unfortunately, at this moment, there was only one. He needed to keep his composure, or the already suspicious king would kill him without a second thought.
Had his responses to Russell’s questions quelled the suspicions that Eric intuited had been rising in the king? Or had Russell searched through his long-ago memories and stumbled upon the young Viking, who had looked straight at him following the deaths of his family. Russell had taken a moment to warn him not to follow—not to be a hero. Russell had been cloaked, so Eric hadn’t seen his face, but Eric had not been disguised in any way. He’d been a few years younger then—than at the time of his turning. And his hair had been longer. However, other than some dirt on his face, he’d looked virtually the same.
No—Eric thought, trying to comfort himself. If Russell had recognized him, he’d already be dead.
However, Eric was not naïve. And he certainly wasn’t an optimist. Russell had all the dots he needed now, and it would only be a matter of time before he connected them. Nothing could prevent that now. His father’s crown would lead the ancient vampire to his memory of taking it, and that would inevitably lead him to remember the young man who had wanted so desperately to avenge the deaths of his parents and sister, but who had been unable to act in that moment.
Eric own memories as a vampire were all vivid, like a storehouse of perfectly preserved files, just waiting to be accessed. Thus, he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Russell now held the keys to linking him to that Viking teen from a thousand years before. The only question was when that would happen.
When it did, Eric would be dead—if he were still in the king’s range.
Eric spoke, “I will take you to Sookie Stackhouse’s home if you wish. I have been there once and still have an invitation—unless she has been clever enough to rescind it. However, she is likely too trusting to have done that.”
“And why would she trust you enough to invite you into her home?”
“She invited me in so that I could kill a Werewolf that was planning to attack her. I’m afraid I didn’t know he was one of yours. Apologies, your majesty.”
Russell cackled a little and slapped Eric on the back in almost a brotherly way. “Well—no worries! Wolves are a dime a dozen these days,” he winked.
“So—shall we go to the telepath’s home?” Eric asked nonchalantly.
“No—I have another, more pressing task for you,” Russell said with an almost patronizing air. “I trust that your child can take care of Area 5’s business.”
Eric nodded. “Yes, of course, your majesty. She is a good lieutenant.”
“Good,” Russell said. “Have her see to your duties. I want you to join Talbot. He is,” Russell paused, “currently distraught and needs a good distraction.” Russell leered at Eric.
The Viking bowed. “Of course.”
“Good. You have the ability to fly—is that correct?” he asked.
Eric nodded. “Indeed.”
“Excellent. Then I want you to go to Mississippi tonight and placate Talbot. I suppose you can be there before dawn?”
Eric nodded again. “Of course—probably about half an hour before if I leave now.”
Russell nodded. “Good. I will stay in the area tonight.” He paused. “Of course, I’ll expect Talbot to be in good spirits when I return home with the Stackhouse girl and my new bride tomorrow night.”
Eric smiled, “I will make sure of it, your majesty. And may I offer you my residence to stay in tomorrow during the day?”
Russell grinned, “That would be lovely. I had already planned on using it. I know the location from Franklin’s work.
Eric smiled wider. “Mr. Mott is quite thorough, but which address did he supply you with?”
Russell smirked. “3471 Wister Road.”
Eric nodded. “That is a comfortable residence, but not my most luxurious or secure, your majesty.” Eric grabbed a pad and wrote down two other addresses. “Both of these are better suited for someone such as yourself.”
Russell looked at Eric through narrowed eyes. Of course, Eric knew that Russell would probably already know of these homes as well, but even if he didn’t, neither one was what Eric considered his essential residence. They were more secret than the property on Wister Road, so they might serve to deflate Russell’s suspicions of him for a little while; however, Eric generally didn’t die for the day at either of those residences, nor did he keep anything important there.
Eric bowed. “I will be on my way now, your majesty, unless you require anything else of me.”
Russell shook his head. “After I take care of Miss Stackhouse, I will enjoy the donors you have procured, and if they are worthy, perhaps I will take them as a gift for my Talbot.”
Eric nodded and bowed once more to his king—his enemy.
Russell looked Eric up and down. “You may go,” he dismissed.
Eric walked quickly toward the back door of the club—but not too quickly. Once the door was opened, he smelled the night air and took off into it, flying on a path that would lead him to Mississippi and Russell’s mansion.
He’d been flying only a few minutes when he picked up the scent of another vampire—a faster vampire. The scent was behind him, but he didn’t deviate from his path. The Viking had been expecting this. Eric closed his eyes as he continued flying at a consistent rate. His superior sense of smell, one of his vampire gifts which he’d kept a closely guarded secret—to the point that only Godric had known of it—told him exactly who the other vampire was: Russell.
He knew that the elder vampire was checking up on him—that Russell had begun to suspect that things were not quite as they seemed with him.
Russell followed Eric for a while—though he stayed quite far behind him. Eric figured that he was at the edge of the king’s range, so there would be no reason for the three-thousand-year-old vampire to suspect that Eric could smell him as well. In fact, Eric knew of none who had as acute of a sense of smell as himself, though Russell was the oldest vampire he’d ever met.
Eric knew that it was a time of reckoning. Once Russell connected Eric to the young Viking who had just lost his family, the king would not hesitate to kill him. However, even if Russell just suspected that Eric had been hiding something from him, his nights would be numbered. And there wasn’t a damned thing the Viking could do about it, so he flew on, straight toward Mississippi and Talbot as if he were following Russell’s orders like a good little lapdog.
The Viking had flown another twenty miles before Russell turned back. He flew another twenty before he stopped and backtracked—just to make sure that the king was not still on his trail.
Eric hovered for a moment, making even more certain that Russell was not still pursuing him. He sighed with relief. He was clear. All he needed to do was to fly away—to go to the first place on his escape route—where he would cover his scent and then disappear.
But he didn’t.
Sookie was weaker than even before, and his blood inside of her was calling to him. It told him that Sookie would soon die. “Loving” its position inside of her—where it had tied itself to her own cells—his blood called for him to come and save her, to pour more of himself into her body in order to guarantee that her life went on. Eric shivered at the sensation of his own blood calling him from Sookie’s body. He’d never—in all of his thousand years—felt anything similar. His flight toward Mississippi had put him closer to her location, and with every mile, her blood had pulled him more. Or was it his blood pulling him. He could no longer tell.
He closed his eyes. He had a choice to make. He could flee and ensure his own safety. Or he could go to Sookie Stackhouse. In the end, he gave it very little thought, his body automatically leading him in the direction it needed to go.
A/N: Hi! Thanks to all who have been commenting on, favoriting, and alerting this story!
23 thoughts on “Chapter 04: Flight”
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Kittyinaz says:
Awesome!! And I am awake enough to remember to leave a review. I am so happy you are writing this one!!! I have looked forward to it for a long time. Now back to work for me… LOL
gyllene says:
I can’t wait for the next chapter. Hopefully it will be Eric and Sookie. I’m so curious as to how Sookie will respond to him.
sephrenia1 says:
so glad Eric could get away … it is very sneaky to tell Russell to look everywhere he knew Sookie wasn’t .. LOL 🙂
wow –needed an update for this snowy, awful day here in DC. Eric is sure walking a razor thin line –trying to placate Russell while not arousing his mental history and suspicions…..glad he had Pam get out of Dodge…..
maithanroisin says:
Eric is being really sneaky in this. Am enjoying the story so far.
askarsgirl says:
Can’t wait for the next update!!
jroxraytech says:
Oh the cliffies! Love that this Russell is still sane enough to be suspicious. Let’s hope Eric gets to Sookie first. Can’t wait
So glad he got Pam away. Too bad Franklin Mott didn’t completely die. Arse.
arubaredx says:
I am absolutely loving this story and really enjoying Eric’s pov. Can not wait for more
padore says:
Talk about verbal warfare…the back and forth was excellent. Eric was def. on his toes!Is his excellent gift of smell going to be from the AP as it was in the Back and Forth series? Excited to meet Sookie!
redjane12 says:
There is something very theatrical about this story… It feels as if it is all happening on a stage with the characters sort of circling each other and having all these charged exchanges. Very dramatic! Like it’s been commented before, Eric is really on edge and walking a fine line though we are seeing his PoV so it is hard to say if Russell is really such a sneaky bastard (I suspect he is) or if Eric is overly paranoid (perhaps a bit too but helps with survival…). I find it very touching how relieved Eric is that Pam has managed to flee and how he covers for her at his own risk as clearly Russell appears to be getting more and more suspicious… As usual I love how you deal with the effects of blood exchanges (this was brilliant in Funeral and in Back & Forth too) and it is such an evocative figure of speech:
“[…] his blood inside of her was calling to him. It told him that Sookie would soon die. “Loving” its position inside of her—where it had tied itself to her own cells—his blood called for him to come and save her, to pour more of himself into her body in order to guarantee that her life went on”
That was excellent as usual and that picture of Demitri was inspired. I just love it. Can’t wait to meet your Sookie.
love the two new cast mates. loved the chapter, he is in such a dilemmia, poor Eric, Pam is safe but is he? did Russell already realize who he was, is that why he followed him, so many questions and i need the patence to wait…. KY
Nicole Wagoner says:
Wow…. can’t wait to see some Eric and Sookie. I hope she isn’t to stubborn. Really like this Eric. Seems torn between what he knows and what he feels. Very good interp of him. Thanks for the story!
Loving this story. I haven’t had a chance to comment before but I am really enjoying it. Eric’s desperation is pretty palpable in these past chapters no matter how stoic he appears to be. Love the tension, and the cat and mouse game between him and Russell. Well done!!!
valady1 says:
This chapter has a steadily building tension, will Russell figure it out? So well written, and the idea that his blood in Sookie is calling to him to save her is such a creative touch.
Trubie35 says:
More, more, more! Awesome chapter. I was so on edge while reading the conversations between Eric and Russell. Great writing!
Awesome story; so cant wait to see where its headed! Eric has a big juggling act goin on with all the balls up in the air; love that e&p had that secret code n she was able to get away; so want wait to see what sook’s reaction to him will be; hopefully she won’t be a dumbass n be all wishy washy
meridiean says:
Russell may be a wily old goat, but he ain’t got nothin’ on a Viking set on revenge and survival. Can’t wait to see where you take this story, and how Eric reacts when she finds Sookie…..and how the Sook-monster will react upon seeing HIM, too.
georgiasuzy says:
Russell is so dangerous and crazy like a fox. Eric should run from him, but you said his body’s taking him where it needs to go, so I think his blood must need him to go to Sookie. Can’t wait! Thanks for another awesome chapter.
I always thought of S3 Eric as walking a tight rope. You are capturing that feeling well. : )
shandiii says:
I wish you had written season 3, you write villain Russell perfectly
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Reparation with Frankie Faison Feb 23, 7pm
By the team
Frankie Faison (HBO’s The Wire) and Ty Jones will be joining Catherine in a backers’ reading of Gino DiIorio’s award-winning play Reparation directed by Jane Mandel at the Davenport Theater (354 West 45th Street between 8th and 9th avenues) on Monday, February 23rd at 7pm. There will be a reception in the lobby before and afterwards with wine and light appetizers. The play is seeking a New York City run.
Timely and increasing relevant in light of recent events in New York and beyond, about Reparation:
An investment banker who has made a career by playing the race card finds himself out of options and out of friends. His last hope is an old flame with a hot real estate venture. But he soon learns that there are secrets buried beneath the land…secrets that will force him to come to terms with past transgressions, reconsider his loyalties, and determine his own legacy.
What does it mean to be a slave to one’s own history?
Must we apologize for what we haven’t done?
Until we deal with our past, the nation can never be whole.
“Reparation” was a Yale Drama League finalist and the winner of the E. Desmond Lee Playwriting Prize from the Missouri Historical Society.
The reading is free and open to the public by invitation only – for an invitation please email Rainy Day Productions at rainydaynyc@gmail.com or click here for more.
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Staged Reading at PTNJ Jan 23 at 7pm
Catherine will be featured in a reading as a part of the FORUM Sounding Series at the Playwrights Theatre in Madison, New Jersey on January 23rd at 7pm.
The play Above the Water is written by playwright Bob Clyman, who wrote the award winning play The Exceptionals which premiered at Merrimack Theatre in Lowell, MA with Catherine in the role of Allie, as pictured here.
Above the Water: Paul decides to bring his much younger girlfriend, Rachel, with him on vacation with his longtime friends, Max and Maggie. After realizing that Rachel could possibly be the best thing to happen to him since his wife, Carol, died two years before, they all come to learn things about each other that they never expected.
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intermissions…
voyage theater company is proud to present a staged reading of “intermission” by daniel libman, directed by vtc artistic director wayne maugans, the cast includes catherine eaton, stephen girasuolo, katie proulx, and courtney stallings with stage directions read by vtc artistic associate mary round. voyage theater company is known for presenting new and unheralded plays and playwrights from around the world.
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“long shot louie”, being filmed in october 2012, on location in new york city, is a gritty, urban, full-length independent film, featuring catherine eaton as louie’s young mother and ally in a shocking secret that will either save or condemn them all. “long shot louie” was written, directed, and features john bianco, best known for playing the role of gerry torciano on “the sopranos”.
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Neglected Achilles Tendon Rupture and Repair with Cadaver Allograft , ArthroFlex® and PRP
Posted on June 11, 2016 June 11, 2016 by Foot and Ankle Specialists of Corpus Christi, PLLC
Abstract: Neglected Achilles tendon ruptures can be challenging to repair. A case report is presented using a Cadaver Allograft supplemented with an acellular dermal extracellular matrix and Platelet enriched plasma in a neglected, chronic Achilles tendon rupture of over 5 years old.
Graft Sterilization, rejection, incorporation and the use of supplemental materials such as dermal matrix and the benefits of platelet enriched plasma is discussed.
This report emphasizes the viability and success of using a cadaver graft and supplemental materials with platelet enriched plasma to help restore Achilles tendon function in a neglected Achilles tendon rupture.
Acute rupture of the Achilles tendon is often a surgical emergency that requires primary repair. There has been a long history of surgical versus non-surgical repair of the Achilles tendon. And, depending on the extent of rupture, sometimes, immobilization and non-surgical treatment such as casting is preferred and even indicated over surgical repair. If surgical repair is chosen, it is preferable to do the repair within a week of the rupture.
Unfortunately, there is a 10-25% misdiagnosis of early Achilles ruptures. This can be the result of misdiagnosis, failure of conservative treatment or degeneration of the tendon causing improper healing. (1).
A chronic Achilles rupture is defined as a tendon rupture that is older than 4 weeks. (2) Presently, I have found very little documented cases of repairs performed on the Achilles tendon using Allografts that is over 5 years old.
The trouble with delaying treatment of the rupture is Achilles contracture. In severe cases, the tendon can retract significantly causing a palpable gap on examination along the tendon course. Clinical symptoms can include pain, failure to toe off and trouble walking up-hill or along an incline.
I report here a recent case involving a neglected Achilles rupture that occurred 5 years prior to presentation. The tendon was successfully reconstructed with a Cadaver Achilles tendon and supplemented with an extracellular matrix and platelet enriched plasma.
A 62 year old male with a history of chronic right Achilles tendon that ruptured over 5 years ago. He sustained the injury after trying to climb up into his truck and instantly felt and heard a loud ‘pop’ to the back of the right leg. He initially went to an orthopedic surgeon who placed him in a walking boot. He states he did not have surgery for fear of termination from his job.
He has a history of diabetes mellitus. He is well controlled. He finds it difficult to walk and states it affects his balance and has since had a partial rupture of the left Achilles tendon.
Clinically, there is some muscle and plantarflexory strength on ROM (+2/5). This could be due to an intact and hypertrophied plantaris tendon which we confirmed in surgery. He lacks a proper toe raise and limps during gait.
There is a large palpatory ‘knot’ with a distal gap of approximately 5 cm along the course of the Achilles tendon. MRI reported a 5cm gap with complete rupture of the Achilles tendon.
“There is complete rupture of the Achilles tendon from the distal insertion with a small avulsion fracture of the calcaneus at the insertion site of the Achilles tendon. There is about a 4.7 cm retraction of the ruptured Achilles tendon. The Achilles tendon is markedly thickened with increased signal, and finding consistent with severe tendinopathy. There is a prominent plantaris longus tendon seen along the medial side of the Achilles tendon, which inserts to the posteromedial aspect of the calcaneus.”
Our surgical plan included reconstruction of the tendon using a fresh frozen allograft with reinforcement using (ARTHREX GRAFTJACKET) and infusing the graft using the patient’s own platelets.
The patient underwent primary repair and reconstruction of the right Achilles tendon using an allograft Achilles tendon with calcaneus cadaver graft and implant system using the BioComposite Achilles SpeedBridge™ system with decellularized dermis for Achilles repair. All grafts were infused with platelet enriched plasma.
Operative Course:
The patient underwent a reconstructive surgery replacing and reinforcing a large section of his retracted Achilles tendon. An incision was made exposing the ruptured Achilles tendon and atrophic tendon ball. (Figure 1)
Figure 1A and 1B: Once the tendon sheath is incised, a large proximal tendon ball is exposed with atrophic changes to the end of the tendon rupture. The end was calcified and hardened. This was resected prior to repair. (A) The plantaris tendon remains intact after rupture, but is thickened. This was the only remaining attachment along the posterior compartment. (B)
Along the insertion of the native Achilles tendon, there was very little tendon attachement. The end of the retracted tendon ball was then resected down a few centimeters to viable tendon fiber. The allograft tendon was then prepared. The bone was removed from the cadaver tendon (a portion of the calcaneus) and then left to thaw in saline. Once the tendon was supple, it was dropped into a basin of the patients own enriched plasma. It was left to infuse for several minutes. (Figure 2)
Figure 2: The Allograft tendon after platelet infusion. It is measured and then sutured into the native proximal tendon. It is important to secure some tension into the tendon bringing the foot to about 90 degrees to the ankle ensuring not to overstretch or place too much tension through the Allograft.
Once prepared, the tendon was then sutured into the proximal native Achilles tendon. Distally, the tendon is then plicated into bone using the BioComposite Achilles SpeedBridge™ system by Arthrex. A 4.7mm swivel-lock anchor (x2) is used with fibertape to secure the tendon with proper tension into the calcaneus. The suture is then used to repair the thickened tendon sheath to encase the distal tendon. (Figure 3A)
Proximally the tendon is sutured into the native portion with fiberwire. Once the tendon is tensioned properly, it can then be supplemented and reinforced with decellularized extracellular dermis. (GraftJacket-Arthrex). (Figure 3B)
Figure 3A and 3B: Once the Allograft tendon is tensioned, the distal portion is placed and sutured into the bone of the calcaneus using the BioComposite Achilles SpeedBridge™. (A) Once secure, the proximal portion of the tendon is encased in the extracellular matrix to give the proximal anastomosis strength and to cover this portion of the tendon that lost a portion of the tendon sheath. (B)
The extracellular jacket is then pulled down to cover and encase the tendon where there is no tendon sheath coverage. The incision is then closed (Figure 4A, 4B)
Figure 4A and 4B: The tendon is encased in the extracellulur matrix after reconstruction of the Allograft tendon both proximal and distally. Prior to closure of the subcutaneous layer, the entire construct is infused with additional platelets enriched in potential growth factors. (A) The incision is then closed with horizontal mattress sutures and buttressed with skin strips. (B) The patient is then placed in a posterior fiberglass splint and kept non-weightbearing.
Biomaterial supplementation of tendon repairs gained prominence in the past 10 years in an effort to strengthen repairs. The extracellular matrix (ECM) of tendons is composed of collagen and a smaller fraction of elastin embedded in a hydrated proteoglycan matrix. The principal role of the collagen fibers is to resist to tension, whereas proteoglycans are primarily responsible for the viscoelastic properties of the tendon. (3)
In one small report, Park and Sung report 2 cases using frozen allograft for neglected Achilles tendon rupture. They recommended removal of the distal bone from the allograft if there was sufficient tendon attachment along the posterior heel. (1)
In our case report, I found it easier to remove the bone graft and plicate the graft tendon into the bone using a simple Arthrex SpeedBridge™ technique that is often done in reattachment procedures of Achilles tendon repair.
In a series of 12 patients with chronic Achilles ruptures, Park and Sung concluded that “Chronic Achilles tendon ruptures can be successfully treated by careful selection of the reconstruction method according to the length of defect gap and state of the remaining tissue. With an extensive defect, use of an Achilles tendon allograft can be a good option. (1)
The use of allograft tendon repair is rare in neglected Achilles ruptures. It has been successfully used to repair patellar tendon ruptures and ACL and cruciate repairs of the knee. (4) . In fact, the failure rate in one study of 158 patients undergoing ACL repair with Achilles tendon allograft was less than 5.6 %.
The rarity of repair using a Cadaver Allograft may be partly due to various other techniques used such as a autografting using free fascia lata and even v-y advancement flaps and the use of tendon augmentation using the Flexor Hallucis tendon and even Xenografts. There is also suggestion of a risk of failure in the use of allograft tendon and ‘rejection’ or potential for disease transmission in an allograft tendon.
HOST REJECTION AND ALLOGRAFT STRENGTH
Bio-sterilization techniques are also thought to impair the mechanical properties of graft tissue. There is a potential concern of the loss of tensile strength in tendons and tissue undergoing sterilization. Does irridation, when done properly retain the normal tensile strength of human tissue tendon grafts?
In an article published through the Arthrex website, Dr. Liisa M. Eisenlohr describes the use of controlled-dose, low-temperature gamma irradiation for complete sterilization of tissue. (5)
Dr. Eisenlohr writes, “ . . . excessively high dose(s) of uncontrolled radiation has been shown to have a deleterious effect on the material properties of most allograft tissue, particularly of structural allografts, and is therefore generally not recommended for processing of allogenic tissue. The temperature at which radiation is administered appears to play a critical role . . . Studies have shown that uncontrolled gamma irradiation of freeze-dried or hydrated samples at room temperature negatively affects biomechanical tissue properties. In contrast, irradiated deep-frozen bone allografts seem to be less brittle than similar grafts irradiated at room temperature. “ (5)
She also describes a technique using Allowash XG, described as non-irradiation technique of sterilization that retrains tissue and bone tensile strengths and structure.
Most studies now conclude that present day sterilization techniques using both gamma irradiation and non-irradiation does not adversely affect the biomechanical or biochemical properties of tissue needed for their intended clinical applications.
GRAFT INCORPORATION and PLATELET ENRICHED PLASMA (PRP)
To understand how a tendon allograft is incorporated as normal tissue, we must understand the proper healing cascade in normal tendon injury. This cascade can be discussed in terms of both allograft tendon and acellular extracellular matrix (ECM) incorporation, since the tendon dry mass is basically composed of 60% Type 1 collagen and 95% of the total collagen base. (6)
In tendon healing, the repair process passes through three main phases containing distinctive cellular and molecular cascades. The initial inflammatory phase forms a clot or hematoma, which is propogated by platelets. In additional to inflammatory cells such as neutrophils, monocytes and macrophages attracted to the site of injury by pro-inflammatory cytokines, platelets also release potentially hundreds of healing proteins called growth factors. The angiogenic process with formation of new blood vessels is also important in the initial cascade to set up the vascular network for tendon repair and incorporation into the host tissue.
There has also been suggestion that tendons often repaired without the use of extracellular supplementation and cellular proteins are prone to re-rupture or failure. (3). In this case, rehydration of the allograft was performed with platelet enriched plasma or PRP in an effort to facilitates the initial healing cascade. Extracellular grafting and the use of platelet enriched plasma allows for rapid cellular repopulation and revascularization of the graft.
In the second phase of tendon healing, often called the reparative or proliferative phase, there is proliferation of type III collagen and proteoglycans, another major component in the tendon ECM providing more structural integrity to the tendon. This phase is highlighted by increased collagen, hydration and vascular proliferation.
The final or remodeling phase is subdivided into 2 distinct phases called the consolidation and then maturation phase. Consolidation occurs 6-8 weeks after injury and may take 1-2 years to complete depending on the age of the patient. During this time, collagen fibers organize in a longitudinal axis restoring tendon tensile strength. After 10 weeks, the maturation phase includes collagen fibril crosslinking and formation of mature tendon. Maturation can also take up to a year to complete.
All three phases do overlap and vary. However, in the first 48 hours after injury, the introduction of hematoma and the release of growth factors seem to be the most crucial phase in overall progression of this cascade. This is why a concentration of these factors are thought to help incorporate and increase the likelihood of graft success. (3)
A sterilized allograft is incorporated into the body in a similar fashion as autografts. Again, graft incorporation has been shown to go through a series of histological changes including graft necrosis, cellular repopulation, revascularization, and collagen remodeling. (7)
In a histologic presentation of Achilles autograft 11 years after its use in posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, Miyamoto concluded that allograft can remain successfully incorporated for extended periods and histologically appeared as “indistinguishable from those of normal, native cruciate ligament.”
In these terms, it appears that graft incorporation will propagate within its normal tissue environment.
To date, the patient had very little pain or swelling post surgically. He is presently undergoing strengthening exercises and is wearing a walking boot prior to transition back to his shoes.
Our present case report does support similar findings as reported in the literature. Deese, et al. reported in 2015 a retrospective study of 78 patients with chronic Achilles tendon ruptures. Of that study, they only identified 8 patients who underwent repair by tendon allograft. All 8 patients had over a 5 cm gap and did well after follow up.
They suggest that “patients undergoing Achilles allograft reconstruction technique demonstrated promising results and suggests that allograft reconstruction is a reasonable solution.” (8)
1.Surgical Reconstruction of Chronic Achilles Tendon Ruptures Using Various MethodsYong-Serk Park, MD; Ki-Sun Sung, MD, PhD, Orthopedics, February 2012 – Volume 35 · Issue 2: e213-e218. Surg Orthop Adv. 2015 Spring;24(1):75-8. (Link)
2 . Autograft, Allograft and Xenograft Options in the Treatment of Neglected Achilles Tendon Ruptures: A Historical Review with Illustration of Surgical Repair Jason R. Grove, DPM, Mark A. Hardy, DPM, FACFAS
The Foot & Ankle Journal 1 (5): 1 (Link)
3. Biologics of Tendon Repair, Denitsa Docheva , , Sebastian A. Müller, Martin Majewski,Christopher H. Evans. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Volume 84, April 2015, Pages 222–239. (Link)
4. Reconstruction of a Ruptured Patellar Tendon with Achilles Tendon Allograft Following Total Knee Arthroplasty. Lawrence S. Crossett, MD; Raj K. Sinha, MD, PhD; V. Franklin Sechriest, MD; Harry E. Rubash, MD, J Bone Joint Surg Am, 2002 Aug; 84 (8): 1354 -1361 . (Link)
5. Allograft Tissue Sterilization using Irradiation – What are the implications for clinical performance? , Allograft Tissue Sterilization using Allowash XG, Liisa M. Eisenlohr, PhD, MBA, LifeNet Health, Bio-Implants Division. (Link)
6. The pathogenesis of tendinopathy. A molecular perspective , G. Riley Rheumatology (Oxford), 43 (2004), pp. 131–142 (Link)
7. Histologic Presentation of Achilles Allograft 11 Years After Its Use in Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Ryan G. Miyamoto, MD, Sarah Taylor, MS, Panna Desai, MD, and Joseph Bosco, MD , The American Journal of Orthopedics, January 2009 (Link)
8. Achilles allograft reconstruction for chronic achilles tendinopathy.
Deese JM1, Gratto-Cox G, Clements FD, Brown K. (Link)
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9. August 2019 Batoolo2 Comments on Boku no Kanojo Sensei Volume 4 Chapter 2
Boku no Kanojo Sensei Volume 4 Chapter 2
Maka-sensei, the countdown of ruin
“It’s oveeeeeeeeer! Alright, heck yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Oraaaaaaaaa!”
The final exam of the end-terms of the first semester ended—
The classroom was filled with voices of joy. By the way, the one that was screaming that at the top of her lungs was none other than Amanashi Nui. What do you mean ‘Oraaa’…
Standing up from my seat at the window, I walked over to her, and slightly tapped her on the shoulder.
“Then, how about we do a revision meeting now. The long one.”
“You’re suddenly accusing me of getting failing grades anyway?!”
“I almost never saw you study, see. The assignments I gave you are probably blank, aren’t they?”
“You’re not trusting me in the slightest?!”
Nui was going rampant again like always, getting out texts and notes from her bag.
“Look, I properly did them! Manasshi did her best!”
“…Oh, you’re right.”
She properly solved every problem that I gave her. Though with a lot of mistakes filtered in there.
“I did what you told me back at the midterms. You said to write the answers on the question sheets!”
Now she took out the question sheets for the end-terms…although there were some missing solutions…
“Sorry for doubting you, Nui. With this, you might’ve done even better than at the midterms.”
“Seriously?! Holy moly, so I’m the best at studying, and my breast-size!”
Nui did some small jumps out of joy. Well, I did say that she’d be better, but still below average. But, thinking that she was about to end up dead last at the past midterms, this is a clear improvement, no doubt.
“To think that the crazy idiot Nui…was nothing more than a normal idiot…”
“I’m still an idiot?! I can’t be happy about that, you know! This hurt Nui-chan here requires some healing!”
“Healing…what do you mean?”
“Sai-kun, you got a passport?”
“Passport? Yeah, I do.”
Since my parents are always working overseas, there are times when I visit them or other occasions that I leave the country. Though it seems like leaving for overseas is more like torture for my poor Miharu.
“I’ll have a gravure shoot at Saipan. How about you come with me, and we enjoy a summer together, just the two of us?”
“I can’t just…”
In what world do you take a boy with you to a photo shoot? You trying to anger your fans?
“Ehh, how boring. I’m trying to reward you for that photo shoot a while ago, and take you overseas, you know?”
“If you’re doing well, then it’d be troublesome if chaos ensnared, right?”
Since her gravure shoot before the midterms had found a lot of success, she was gaining more and more positive reputation.
“Rather than seeing you live, I want to see the finished product in the magazines.”
“I see! So I just have to produce a photo shoot where even Sai-kun’s heart will go crazy!”
“Exactement.” (TLN: exactly)
It’s great that Nui-san is so easy to manipulate.
“………Stare~”
“W-What is it, Kisou-san?”
Right next to me, Kisou Tenka-san was throwing me a crazy stare.
“You’ve become a bad man, Saigi. A while ago, you forced me to become a maid—No, made me wear those clothes, embarrassing me, and now you’re using your words to see Amanashi half-naked?”
“What’s with that bad mouthing out of the blue! I don’t have any interest in Nui’s half-naked appearance?!”
“That’s pretty rude if you ask me! I have crazy confidence in my looks, you know!”
“How about you start working on your interior then…”
Your grades did get better, but that doesn’t mean that you can relax now.
“…No time to play along with the two-person comedy, I want to go home and get some sleep remedy. Like I’m rolling around in dirt.”
“W-What’s wrong, Kisou-san?”
“Recently, Onee-chan’s eyes are so lifeless. I’m worried all night long. But I’m at my limit now.”
In a voice that only I could hear, Kisou-san whispered. Since I was busy studying for the exams, I wasn’t able to talk to Maka-sensei at all, but there’s also the incident at the former school building that drove a nail between us…
“Unable to sleep, my grades went up. Now they’re upper half.”
With those words, Kisou-san stepped out of the classroom.
“…Ten-chan looked really tired. I wonder if she did okay on the exams?”
“She said that she was studying a lot, so probably? Her grades have been top-class from the beginning anyway. She’s got good looks, and even has good grades, wow.”
“My my, Sai-kun. Is there something that you want to tell me?”
“No, not at all. But, I guess I’m a bit worried, seeing her stagger like that.”
“Leave it to me, I’ll send her home! I don’t have any work today!”
“You sure that her condition won’t get worse if she’s with you?”
“You were perfectly fine when I came to visit you during your cold!”
Nui threw those words at me, and also stomped out of the classroom.
Though I’m a bit worried about Kisou-san, she should be fine with Nui at her side. For now, I should probably go report to Maka-sensei.
“I’m done for!”
At the student guidance room, Maka-sensei’s voice resounded. Not taking a seat, Maka-sensei held her head in her arms while standing, twisting and turning her body. Looked kinda funny.
Since exams are over, the grading started, and now the other teachers are also using the English preparation room. And, when I reported Kisou-san’s condition to her via LINE, she told me to come here—and blurted out that very phrase just now.
“Uhm, Maka-sensei. What exactly are you talking about?”
“We were seen by Jinsho-san!”
With tears in her eyes, Maka-sensei glared at me.
“Karen-kaichou isn’t the type of person to just go blurt out personal things to other people…”
She’ll surely not spread any bad rumours.
“Even if she spread such a rumour, everyone would probably be too busy to care about it during exam season. If it was me, I’d wait until exams ended and then spread it!”
“You’re thinking more evil than ever. What are you now, positive or negative…”
Also, I really don’t think that she’d talk bad about other people.
“It’s not that, but my misconducts keep leaking to other people! Perfectly, without any chance of covering them up! Even though my true self should only be a secret between me and Saigi-kun!”
“Eh, doesn’t Kisou-san also know?”
It’s true that the seriousness now is on a different level from the vice-principal. Karen-kaichou spotted us in the moment where we would not be able to cover it up no matter what we tried. But, even Kisou-san saw us in a similar situation.
“That girl doesn’t count because she’s my little sister. Even I can’t hide my true self if it comes to her anyway.”
“Ah, I told you via LINE before, but she was really worried about you, Maka-sensei.”
“It seems like I didn’t pay enough attention to Tenka. Well, she’s the type whose grades would drop because of a lack of sleep.”
“…Sensei, you’re trusting her, I see.”
Though she seems to hate the idea of agreeing, she probably knows that her little sister was worried about her. Family—is probably a special case.
“That girl should be fine. Anyway, about the highschool girl Maka in the former school building! Why did Jinsho-san even appear there…”
“Well, she was saying that she had business with Maka-sensei.”
“I’m not her homeroom teacher, nor am I in some way related to the student council…Maybe because of SID?”
If it really is because of SID, then I can’t just act like I’m not involved, I guess.
“Riddled with mysteries…I know, there’s one thing I need to know before my life ends…Saigi-kun, how were the exams?”
“That’s a quick change of topic if I’ve ever seen one…”
“It’s the most important topic right now.”
“Let’s see…I think that Nui did pretty good.”
“Impossible?!”
I know that I say stuff like that, but you’re her teacher, right?!
“Honestly, I still think that her grades at the past midterms are close to a miracle.”
“You’re treating it like a miracle that she barely averted failing grades?”
“Ah, hold on. I’m interested in Amanashi-san’s grades as well, but I was originally talking about you, Saigi-kun. Don’t try to avert the topic.”
“…I brought all the question forms with the answers I wrote for now…”
Taking out the sheets of question forms of my bag, I handed them over to Maka-sensei. Sitting down at a nearby chair, she checked through every single paper. They’re all subjects together, and not just English…Well, shouldn’t be a problem for a perfect human being like her.
“H-How could this happen…!”
“Wah, Sensei?!”
Suddenly, Maka-sensei’s grip on the papers heightened, crushing the papers.
“Sensei, what are you doing! Those papers are still important?!”
“…Ah, I’m sorry, it just…”
She put down the question forms on a nearby table, and fixed the ones that she almost ripped.
“Are the results so bad…?”
“No, it’s the opposite.”
For some reason, Maka-sensei glared at me.
“I can’t say for certain without the average amount of points this time, but…you’re probably around 30 ranks higher than you were back at the midterms.”
“Eh, 30 ranks?”
Approximately ten ranks is something that I often go up and down, but 30 is a pretty good result, right?
“This is probably because of that university girl’s private tutoring, right…?”
“I’ve been studying like normal besides that after all. I only really focussed on studying the few days before the exams.”
What I did was not greatly different than pulling an all-nighter, so it’s not like I’ll be able to get the same grades just by doing that. It’s true that I have to work harder, but—
“With this, we can call Shiya-chan’s part-time job a success. Seems like the money my parents paid was worth.”
“What does that matter right now! The problem is that your grades went up, Saigi-kun!”
“So that’s a problem?! Isn’t that something that you, my homeroom teacher, should be happy about—?”
“But but buuuuuut!”
Maka-sensei made fists with her hands, shaking her head left and right. Cute.
“Because of that university girl, Saigi-kun, you changed, you know?! You’re basically influenced by a woman other than me!”
“Isn’t that exactly what doesn’t matter right now?!”
I don’t understand what you’re angry about, Maka-sensei!
“I don’t wannaaaa! I don’t want you to get taken by another womaaaaaaan!”
Tears suddenly started building up in her eyes, and she clung to me, rubbing her cheeks on me. She’s getting more and more like a small, bawling child!
“I only want Saigi-kun to be colored by me…For that, I educated you all this time, and now it feels like everything’s been wasted!”
“What a great thing you’ve been plotting!”
Well, I know that her ‘education’ was meant to make me fall in love with her. But, being taught by Shiya-chan really was only in the studying sense. Her prejudice is way too strong…and solving that already feels like a pain.
Once the end terms end, the school enters an exam break. With around ten days left in this school term, counting the times we get the exam results, and the end-of-term ceremony, about three days in total of break right now. There are those wealthy kids, that can’t wait to go on a trip during those three days. Though our parents are overseas so much that you’d think they’re smuggling people, we’re not going overseas just because of a few days like that.
“But…this is a bit to much free time…Maybe I should go look for a part-time job.”
“Onii-chan, are you serious? Our parents are feeding us through with their money, so why should we have to work? The breakfast is still as delicious even if you’re not working for it, you know?”
“Seems like I made some mistakes while raising Miharu…”
The location was the Saigi household’s living room, 10am in the morning. Now that the time passed 10am, Miharu finally got up, only to roll around on the sofa again to play on her smartphone. Wearing her thin hoodie, her skirt slightly lifted up to reveal her white panties and thighs.
“Ah, I know. How’d you do at your exams, Miharu?”
“Onii-chan, want to look at Miharu’s breasts?” (pr note: what breasts?)
“Hey, don’t try to cover it up with that! You probably didn’t study at all!”
I threw a glare at my little sister that was about to start stripping. Shiya-chan also planned on teaching her, but Miharu probably ran away until the very end.
“Miharu is way more clever than me anyway. If you’d actually study, you might make it into the top ten, you know?”
“There are more important things than getting the top grades in school…”
“Don’t make it sound so dramatic. You’re probably just talking about your social games, right?”
While we’re at it, how about you stop wasting money on it!
“Kuu’s properly studying, you know. And now she’s being shown such a bad example…Ah, hold on. Miharu, show me your tits.”
“Onii-chan, that’s a pretty crazy exclamation there, you know? Well, it’s fine.”
“So it’s fine?”
But, before I could really retort on it, Miharu already started taking off her parker. No hesitation at all, even after revealing her modest chest.
“Miharu, you’re not wearing a bra? Make sure to wear one, even if it’s a sports bra.”
Nothing remained once she had taken off the hoodie. Slight curves were drawn on her chest, with two pink small hills on top of them.
“Miharu’s properly wearing panties. It’s a holiday, so who cares. Nobody will find out about her being braless except her perverted older brother.”
“Well, they’re not really big enough to go shaking around.”
“A conversation about tits between the Saigi household siblings before lunch, what a crazy family we are. Also, why do you want to see Miharu’s chest?”
“See, a while ago, we were talking about you being overhauled by Kuu, right. I just wanted to check on that.”
“Onii-chan, you’re keeping a close look on Kuu’s chest? And, how is it?”
“Hmm…there’s not really that much of a difference…”
“Hyan”
Touching her softly, to check the size with my hands, I still couldn’t quite tell. They’re still pretty soft, but so were Kuu’s.
“Onii-chan, touching them is fine and all, but don’t just do it this suddenly. Even if they’re small, they’re pretty sensitive.”
“Ah, sorry, sorry. Hmm…they might still be a bit bigger than Kuu’s.”
Mediately coping a feel of my little sister’s breasts, I remembered back to the feeling of Kuu’s breasts in the bath that one time.
“Just let me say this, Miharu, but Kuu’s got good grades, okay. If you lose in terms of grades, you’ll be left behind by Kuu in no time.”
“Miharu won’t lose in terms of the money she spent in her game!”
“You can lose there for all I care! …Hold on, Kuu is also playing those social games?”
“Yeah, Miharu wanted to get more friends in the main game she’s playing, so she made Kuu register as well.”
“Don’t pull Kuu down the dark road you’re trotting!”
Is my little sister the devil or something?! Kuu better not be learning from her.
“Well, it’s fine. Miharu, put on your clothes. We’re in our own four walls, but it’s still not good to be naked like that.”
“You say that after telling Miharu to show you her breasts…Onii-chan is getting weirder and weirder.”
While Miharu was complaining, she put on her hoodie again. Though I’d wish she’d put on something beneath that.
“Hmm…Miharu’s breasts didn’t suffice as a way to squash time. What should I do now…Maybe I should go visit Nekoranya.”
They could maybe hire me for a part-time job during summer break.
—The moment I thought of that, and took out my smartphone to contact Sekiya-san, I received a message.
“Ah, Karen-kaichou…?”
Getting a message from Kaichou was pretty are…Oh right, we still didn’t clear up that one incident at the former school building…As well as her saying that she’s responsible for my ‘teacher hate’. For now, let’s check the message.
Seikadai’s high school division, the student council office—
With the width of half a classroom, two long tables were lined up next to each other, facing each other. The one long table in the back behind the first one is the student council president’s desk. On top of said desk, that had overcome several seasons from the looks of it, had a laptop and several bundles of documents on top of it.
“Sorry about this, Saigi Makoto. Calling you here when you should be relaxing after exams.”
“No, I don’t mind it. I had free time anyway.”
Once noon passed, I had made my way to school, helping to check out the mountain of documents lying on the long table.
“But, those are the documents of the student council, right? Is it fine for me to see them?”
“They aren’t a secret towards the public. If the students asked for it, we would lay bare all of them. Be it the budget of the clubs, or the organizational plans for events, everything.”
Since I never felt the urge of looking at said documents, I never knew. What I was currently holding were documents of the student council dating back to last year, a variety of documents concerning the organization. Guess you have to check those in a regular basis.
“The word of the student council ended this term as well. Although I’ll retire in September, August is riddled with summer break, so I have to prepare now. Organizing the documents now is a must.”
“That’s good and all, but where are the other members?”
“The other members are mostly holding two positions with their clubs. The vice-president is planning on going to an outside university, so she’s busy with studying for entrance exams.”
“That being said, pushing all the work onto the president is certainly not welcome, is it?”
“I am the one that lets them prioritize studying and club work over the student council. They both are related to their future, so they’re more important than short-timed work at the student council. To be frank, if something is left over, I can just push it onto the next generation of the student council, and graduate like that.”
“Ehhh, that’s a bit unreasonable.”
“That’s how the student council has done it for years now. It’s become a cliche at this point. Fufufufu, clever bastards.”
The student council gathers people with outstanding grades, so they normally should be respectable people, right?
“Though I feel bad for pushing this onto Saigi Makoto now.”
“I was feeling restless now that I had nothing to do anyway. If there’s something I can do help, I’ll gladly do that.”
“I see, thank you for that. By the way, what were you doing today until you came here?”
“I was checking the size of Miharu’s breasts.”
“What are you Saigi siblings doing?!”
Ah, she’s staring at me.
“D-Don’t misunderstand me. I was just checking if they were still bigger than Kuu’s.”
“It’s only getting worse!”
“You don’t mean to tell me that you did the same thing with Amanashi Nui, right…”
“…I-I would never. Nui is neither my little sister, or a little girl, but just a normal classmate.”
Let’s keep quiet about the fact that I’ve seen her bare breasts already. Only for her dignity of course, yeah.
“Then that’s fine, I guess…But, Saigi Makoto, you’re pretty good at this sort of work.”
“Is that so? I never really worked on something like this.”
“With your doubtful self, you might be fit for this detailed work.”
“What an abrupt diss.”
Not like I can deny that though.
“Don’t call it doubtful, but carefu—Woah!”
“Ohhh?!”
Whump!
As I was about to make excuses, a loud sound surprised us.
“W-What was that? It came from over there…”
Looking over at where the sound came from, there was a door, which looked to be hidden in the corner of bookshelf with documents.
“So there was a door here. What’s past there?”
“…J-Just a storage room, don’t mind it.”
“You say that, but there was that crazy loud sound. I’ll go check it out.”
Can’t really ignore that and just resume our work, I guess.
“Hm? It’s pretty dark…where’s the light switch…”
Moving my hand along the surroundings of the door, I searched for the switch—Ah, there it is.
“Woah…W-What is…this?”
It really was a storage room next to the student council office. The width should be the same…as the main room? Though, I wasn’t able to properly check, since the room was filled to the brim with mostly boxes. From very old ones, to brand new ones. Also, still in my reach where files and documents, books and so on, forming towers on the floor.
“…A garbage room?”
“T-That’s pretty rude. It’s not garbage. They’re documents that were already organized, or equipment that wouldn’t be used again. That’s why we used this as a storage place.”
“A storage place, huh…”
Looking closer at it, one of those towers had collapsed, leaving a chaos of documents on books on the floor.
“That sound just now probably was from these documents falling over. They were probably shaking from instability.”
“Not just them.”
“Can’t leave them like this then.”
Rather than sorting the documents, this takes priority, naturally.
In the end, Karen-kaichou also prioritized this storage room, and we started working together here. Well, we did start—but this was worse than I had imagined.
“Karen-kaichou, you’re always so noisy about my uniform, but I didn’t expect you to ignore this mess.”
“Noisy is a bit rude… Be it the cloister, or the institution where we live keeps things tidy and in order. You wouldn’t expect to see such storage room, with such a chaotic picture, there. Really, I’m at a loss.”
“Such a reason…Seems like Karen-kaichou also has some weird weak points.”
“What do you mean ‘also’. Is there someone else?”
“W-Well…”
Oh right, Maka-sensei’s clumsy self is better off a secret. Though she saw us in a moment of weakness, she still shouldn’t know about Maka-sensei’s true self.
“Fuu, it still is hot in here…guess the A/C won’t cool all the way over here from the main room.”
Turning around, my heart skipped a beat. Karen-kaichou was on her way to take off the summer knit she was wearing. Though she couldn’t win against Nui, her chest was comparable to Maka-sensei’s, now clearly emphasized through the swelling of her blouse.
“What, even I won’t say anything about uniform rules in a situation like this. I’m not that much of a straight-laced person. You can go and loosen your necktie as well, Saigi Makoto.”
“I-I know that.”
Loosening my necktie, I averted my gaze from Karen-kaichou. With the two of us being together in the same room, those big breasts of her are poison for my eyes. Work, have to focus on the work ahead of me.
“Hm…? Ah, how nostalgic!”
Peeking inside a box that I opened, I let out my voice.
“So we had something like that. Who even left this here…?”
Even Karen-kaichou tilted her head, so she probably didn’t know of this. What was inside the box? A sash, having written ‘Student council president candidate – Jinsho Karen’ on it. Flyers with her agenda written on it. Emphasizing public morals was one of her main parts, I see.
Also, there’s a poster with Karen-kaichou–Student council president candidate – Jinsho Karen wearing the sash, crossing her arms.
“Weren’t those the posters that got stolen the day you hanged them up?”
“Indeed. Who in their right mind steals a candidate poster for an election.”
No, it makes sense if you ask me… Karen-kaichou is a beauty, and a famous person after all. On this poster, with her crossed arms, her breasts are clearly emphasized as well, so of course you’d want a poster like that.
“You can only put up so many posters that you get from the election committee with their seals. I had to lower my head countless times in order to get some new stash with new seals on them. That was the toughest part in my election. What a ridiculous hindrance.”
Karen-senpai can be conscious of her own beauty, but there are times where she’s pretty dense.
That’s probably what the guys that stole the posters thought, certainly not planning on obstructing her candidature.
“But, for some reason when I put up the new posters, none of them got stolen.”
“Yeah, I distributed the data of the poster via the newspaper club. And, I put up some information where you can print those posters at a large size.”
“Saigi Makoto, you’ve been doing that behind the scenes?!”
“Eh? I thought that this was the role that I had?”
“I did ask you to help me with the election, but I didn’t tell you to do some secret maneuvers?!”
“Ehhh”
The time I was still a first year at Seikadai’s high school division, during the student council president election—
I had helped the candidate Jinsho Karen.
“Oh right, that was the first time I met you back then.”
“…I don’t know what you’re suddenly reminiscing about, but that’s not the problem at hand, okay?”
“But, those posters are important, you know? Without them, you wouldn’t have gotten enough attention.”
“You’re not wrong, but this is still a first that I’ve heard about that. I was wondering why the theft suddenly stopped, but to think that I’d only find out about a year later…”
“That reminds me, why did you just scout me for your staff to help with your election?”
“Crazy how you never questioned that for the past year…You’re quite the big-shot, you know.”
No matter how you looked at it, I’m clearly nothing more than a small fry, but it’s true that I should’ve questioned that earlier. Back then, the famous ‘Jinsho-senpai’ just came to my classroom, and asked me to help her.
“The chances that I would win were pretty slim back then,” Karen-kaichou said, as she picked up the sash.
“I was a ‘foreigner’ after all, when I joined the high school division. to the ones that went up Seikadai from the grade school division that is.”
It’s true that our school has this feeling of discrepancy. Like the feeling of comradeship with those that were with them from the get-go is very strong, and difficult to get into.
“I never minded that at all though.”
“Saigi Makoto is special after all. You didn’t even realize that you were in the same grade with Amanashi Nui ever since back then, right? You should pay a bit more attention to the people around you.”
“I-I’m sorry…”
That information probably went around inside SID. That Nui, telling Kaichou unnecessary information.
“The very fact of a foreigner like me becoming the student council president only happened once before me. It’s probably tough to accept those people at the top of the school. My battle was really tough, that I can tell you.”
“Ahh, yeah. That other candidate got recommended by the previous student council president. The secretary, they were or something.”
That person was backed-up by the previous president. Even though you can have good grades and a respectable personality, it might still be difficult inside this feeling of unity as a foreigner. Though, a lot of people couldn’t care less about the election either.
“But, it was either win or win! And for that, I needed your strength, Saigi Makoto!”
“I don’t have any strength like that though?”
“No, you had. At least back then.”
What is she talking about? I really don’t have any idea what she’s talking about…
“Your face says everything. It’s about the incident with the English teacher, last year in spring.”
“English teacher…? A-Ahhhh”
Hearing incident, and English teacher, I was worried for a second that she found out something about Maka-sensei. In a certain sense, it involves Maka-sensei, but not the one I was thinking about.
“I guess that even Saigi Makoto will remember about that. That male English teacher was following Fujiki-sensei everywhere, even so much that the students found out about it.”
Naturally, even I remember that. The young male English teacher, who was very passionate about Maka-sensei. Being the unobtainable flower that Maka-sensei is, she had been conversing with him normally like always, until the male teacher practically exploded. The following day, I told Maka-sensei ‘That’s what you get for creating a character like that’—and that made her gain interest in me. You could say that this probably was the beginning of everything.
“That incident caused a great ruckus, but the cleaning up afterwards was not that pleasant.”
“Cleaning up? Was there something?”
“The male teacher resigned out of his own accord, and the school tried to cover it up as smoothly as they could, not waiting for his explanation. Hence, although there were a lot of people that agreed with Fujiki-sensei, there were also those that argumented that you couldn’t let such a dangerous being roam freely as a teacher, showing their discomfort basically.”
“I always have discomfort towards teachers, whether they’re dangerous or not.”
“And that’s why I said that ,Saigi Makoto, you are special. Normal students don’t have the time to collide all the time with teachers.”
“I accept the fact that I have a lot of free time, okay…Hm? What were we talking about again?”
“The reason that I asked you to become my staff during the election. Basically, back in September, there was quite the amount of students that had antipathy towards teachers. And I used that.”
“Ahh, I see…so you used me, who you knew that hated teachers.”
“Exactly. I used the current state of feeling discomfort against teachers. If I made you, the representative of being against teachers one of my staff, the people would think that ‘Jinsho Karen’s student council will fight against teachers’, right? Well, I would’ve fought anyone, be it teachers or upperclassmen.” Kaichou grinned.
“I had no idea that there was a reason like that. Your staff felt gathered pretty much on the whim, so I just helped out since I didn’t have anything better to do.”
“There aren’t that many people that would be willing to help a foreign student like me. Scraping a staff together is all I could do, really. And, I’m thankful to that staff from the bottom of my heart. Naturally, you as well. Sorry for using you like that.”
“At least I did something with all the free time that I had. Since we weren’t exactly always moving as a group, it was still a fresh feeling, and…what is this?”
I took out a brown envelope. On the front, it said ‘For your eyes only’.
“Ahh?! I was wondering where that went!”
“Is this Kaichou’s? Here you go—Oops”
As I was about to hand it over, the envelope opened, and the contents were falling out.
“I-I’’m sorry—Ehh, this is…?”
“Gyaaaa! I beg you, don’t look!”
Even if you say that, it already entered my view. The contents were pictures, about ten in number. Every single one was showing Karen-kaichou. Not to mention—
“Karen-kaichou had this sort of interest…?”
“I don’t! Don’t get the wrong idea!”
Her face went beet red, and her body was shaking. Every single Karen-kaichou on those pictures—was wearing cosplays. A sailor uniform from the middle school division, and gym clothes. SInce they were a bit on the smaller side, they were all emphasizing her well-endowed chest. There were even pictures with her, sitting near the poolside of the school, wearing a dark blue swimsuit. One where she was wearing an apron, standing in the kitchen as she was cooking. One with her in the science room, wearing a white robe, waving at the camera with a flask in hand. And so on…
“I was deceived by the staff members! That I had to wear these sets of clothes at those places!”
“I hate lies, you see, but I think that you only have yourself to blame for being deceived like that…”
“That was really close…Just before they were about to be released, I realized. I even managed to hide it from Saigi Makoto…and now…”
Man, I really would’ve loved to participate in that photo shoot. But maybe it was not allowed for men like me.
“Ugh, this damned ex-staff of mine…curse you!”
“Weren’t you being thankful…?”
“Rather than that, how long are you planning on staring at them! Give me them!”
“Woah, Kaichou! You don’t have to hurry that much, I was going to do that any—Huh!?”
Karen-kaichou suddenly jumped towards me, her bulging chest directly hitting my head. Hence, I lost strength in my hip, and fell backwards into another tower of documents.
“Ah, careful, Saigi Makoto!”
“Hold on—Karen-kaichou…!”
As if she wanted to protect me from the falling documents and files, Kaichou hugged me. A loud thump resounded, and a short silence followed—
“O-Ouch ouch ouch…Kaichou, are you okay?”
“Yeah, I’m fine. Saigi Makoto, are you alright as well? If you were hurt, the others from SID would be blaming me—Ah!”
Not good…to think that it would end up like that…
I was lying on the floor, and Karen-kaichou was leaning on me. Not to mention that my hand was pulling on her blouse, revealing her bare breasts.
“…So you got tired of Fujiki-sensei, and now you’re aiming for me?”
“It’s an accident. Karen-kaichou, you get it as well, right? Though it’s a bit belated, but you never told anyone about what happened at the former school building, right?”
“As if I could tell anyone about that…S-So indecent…”
“Then, I would appreciate if we could keep this incident right now a secret as well…”
“I-I’m not a big fan of revealing my own love affairs!”
This isn’t an affair, this is an accident.
Uuuu…Kaichou’s chest, right in front of me…Uwah, it looks so white, and soft… This is a great accident on the level of Nui’s accidental reveal back then.
“Oh…? What…is that?”
“S-Saigi Makoto?!”
I grabbed the bra that was moved to the side. With that, I could see a dark mole on her right chest.
“This…Where have I seen that…? Eh…?”
“H-Hey…!”
I closely inspected her soft-looking breasts. Or actually, the dark mole.
Weird, it feels like my memories are getting stimulated. Some weird memories that I had forgotten a long time ago—
“S-Saigi Makoto, a-at least not in this dust-riddled place…H-hey, were are you touching…Hyan~”
“Karen-kaichou, keep quiet for a second. Show me a bit more.”
No matter how much I tried, I couldn’t remember. I could swear I’ve seen that mole somewhere—
“…Mako, what are you doing?”
I suddenly heard a voice, and lifted up my head. Standing in the door connecting to the main student council office, there was a beauty very familiar to me. Yes, it was Shiya-chan.
“Did the activities of the student council change when I was gone? Is it the sexual council now?”
“Y-Y-You’re wrong, Shiya-senpai! This guy just kept on—!”
Karen-kaichou let out a scream. Maybe because of that loud voice, the other towers around us started shaking, all collapsing on us. Thankfully they were all rather light, but they completely interrupted me, as I was about to remember something that felt very important. What a shame.
“Ahh, how nostalgic. Even though it’s barely been one year since I left~”
“Haaa…”
Luckily, neither Karen-kaichou nor I were hurt after that. After cleaning up the mess, we made our way to the cafeteria. Though it’s not running business during this break after exams, there were still a lot of students that would come to buy drinks from the vending machine. Most of them club members of certain clubs.
“Aren’t they looking at me like crazy? Oh no~ Maybe such a beautiful university girl is a weird sight here?”
Shiya-chan, who was sitting next to me, ran her fingers through her hair.
“It’s because you’re wearing your own clothes. And, you’re loud.”
“Mako…aren’t you a bit too cheeky? I’m your older sister, as well as your private tutor. Basically, an existence akin to a goddess.”
“That’s a bit crazy for a rank-up!”
And, you’re not my older sister. You’re nothing more than a woman living in my neighbourhood.
“Shiya-chan, aren’t you a bit too flashy?”
“Something like this is normal. Mako, you like this sort of gal look, right.”
“Since when was that decided…?”
I don’t. And I don’t remember even saying that as a joke.
“Thanks for waiting. Here you go, Shiya-senpai.”
“Ahh, thanks a bunch, Karen-chan. Look, Mako, this is how you show respect for someone older than you—Hold on, what is this?”
“Boiled water.”
Handing me and Shiya-chan a plastic cup, she sat down next to me. Now I had them both at each side.
“B-Boiled water? Is this some speciality from Kyoto?”
“We drink this a lot at home. We avoid any impulsive things like tea or coffee.”
“The cloister, right…Could’ve at least made it normal room temperature.”
“Shiya-chan, you seem like the type who’s overly conscious about appearing interesting.”
“Not just ‘seem’, Mako. But you don’t have to think that I’m going far away.. You can just think of me as your kind, comforting Onee-san.”
“Well, I wouldn’t mind if you went far away…”
“Cruel! How can you be so rude after I helped you study, while still studying for my own exams!”
“It’s exactly like that, Saigi Makoto. That attitude towards your seniors isn’t very appreciative. You should respect them unconditionally.”
“So now you’re in a unity…”
“Then, let’s add into the main topic, now that Karen-chan is on my side.”
With those words, Shiya-chan rested her arms around my neck.
“Mako, since when did you get into such a steamy relationship with the black, long-haired, big breasted student council president?”
“That’s your main topic?! Again, that was just an accident!”
“…I wonder? The way you stared at my chest seemed very intentional to me.”
“T-That’s…I’m sorry, I just lost myself.”
“You lost yourself in Karen-chan’s chest…?”
“That’s a bad way of phrasing it! I didn’t lose myself in that sense!”
“That aggravates me in it’s own way. You’re thinking about other stuff, while staring at other people’s’ chests?”
Karen-kaichou looked at me with the eyes of an inquisitor.
“Now now, I know how you feel, but calm down for now, Karen-chan. Ah, I know. I made some cookies, you want one?”
Shiya-chan opened a vinyl filled with cookies, distributing them on the table.
“…Thanks for that. Ah, those cookies are delicious.”
“Right? Come on, Mako. Open wide~”
“Mmm…Ah, you’re right. That reminds me, Shiya-chan, you’ve only been good at making sweets since forever.”
“I can feel a certain jab there…”
Really? But, the cookies being delicious is a fact.
“H-Hold on, that’s not the problem here! What was that ‘open wide~’ play just now! So natural…!”
“We did yeah…”
“What about it? Karen-chan, no need to be so shocked about that?”
“Weird…Saigi Makoto really is weird! Why are you acting like someone with common sense now!”
“Kaichou, you don’t have to go screaming ‘Weird weird!’ everywhere.”
I still think that I have the most rational thinking, comparing it to Maka-sensei and SID.
“A-As the student council president, I cannot ignore a break in the public morals! No, Shiya-senpai being here is the weirdest thing of all!”
“I did graduate from here, and I’m a student at Seikadai University, and additionally, I’ve been a member of the student council here.”
“T-That’s true, but…”
“I heard that you as the president were the only person acting in the student council right now, so I decided to act like a Senpai, and look at my Kouhai.”
“You seem to have a lot of free time, Shiya-chan.”
“My part-time job as a private tutor also calmed down now after all. Well, my exams and assignments are still in front of me though.”
“Then, wouldn’t it be better to focus on that…?”
“I finally got reunited with Karen-chan, so I can’t help it.”
Shiya-chan is going at her own pace as always. How nice, being a Senpai. You can just bother your Kouhai as much as you want.
“Also, I wanted to see how all those documents and papers were doing in that storage room that I left there. The president told me to take care of that, but I couldn’t be bothered, see~”
“So you were the one that brought forth that hellish place!”
“Hold on. I know that I did that, but I also did good things!”
“And what might that be?”
Shiya-chan just arrogantly puffed out her chest towards my question.
“Last year, a Kouhai told me ‘I’m helping out with the student council election, but our candidate might not win’, so I told them to distribute cosplay pictures!”
“So you are the origin of those pictures!” I retorted.
“Huh? Karen-chan is the student council president, right? Doesn’t that mean that she won because of me?”
“No, we never used those pictures…Shiya-senpai, why did you do that for. Those pictures, a life’s worth of embarrassment, still exist in data form…”
“Ha ha ha, every single embarrassment in life has it’s worth. If you’re too scared to embarrass yourself, you won’t be able to enjoy life! Karen-chan, only being diligent is boring.”
“My friends at the cloister tell me the same…” Karen-kaichou muttered to herself.
The queen of the high school division is being pushed back, huh.
“Gotta enjoy yourselves more, Karen-chan, Mako.”
Shiya-chan stood up, and put her arms around both mine and Karen-kaichou’s necks, hugging us.
Uuu…they both smell really good…!
“After all, the three of us are connected by destiny. Right, Karen-chan.”
“That’s…true.”
Hey, I have no idea what you’re talking about. I know that Shiya-chan likes teasing me like that, but I at least thought that Karen-kaichou would tell me. I don’t know what destiny they’re talking about, but why did Karen-kaichou say that she was related to my distrust for teachers—
“Uhm, Kaichou, could you finally tell more about what you meant back then—”
“Hm? What is it, Saigi Makoto? You want to say something?”
“N-No…nothing.”
That still picks my interest, but I happened to spot something more imminent. From the entrance and exit of the cafeteria, I could see swaying, beautiful brown hair…
“Sa-i-gi-kun…”
Although we were quite a bit away, I could clearly make out the movement of her lips, and what she was trying to tell me.
Why do I have to be able to read her lips now! I shouldn’t have that special skill!
Maka-sensei is already really hung-up on me being together with Shiya-chan. Now, together with Karen-kaichou…her eyes…s-scary!
“I won’t fo-r-gi-ve you…!”
Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Shiya-chan lent us a hand, we cleared up the storage room, and finished sorting the documents—
Hence, our work today ended, and I was about to make my way home again.
“What, Mako? Let’s walk home together, we live in the same flat after all.”
“Sorry, Shiya-chan. I want to buy a porn magazine at the bookstore, so leave me alone!”
“M-Mako? Were you always that frank type?”
“S-Saigi Makoto! As the student council president, I cannot allow you to buy any indecent books!”
“I’m sorry! I’ll excuse myself now!”
Excusing myself quickly, I dashed out of the student council office. Naturally, I wasn’t going to buy a porn magazine. I only used that as an excuse to run away. After all, Maka-sensei just saw me. If I now went home together with Shiya-chan…! I couldn’t exactly push the clean-up onto them, but it’s now or never.
“Anyway, time to run as fast as the wind!”
“Oh, ‘Gone with the Wind’, you say? That’s a famous novel and movie, depicting the life of Scarlett O’Hara. It has the poem of Ernest Dowson, ‘A civilization gone with the wind’.”
“…V-Very interesting, yes.”
Hahaha, how naive of me to think that I could run away, right?
Walking down the hallway a bit away from the student council office, Maka-sensei was, as if it was natural, waiting at the stairs. With crossed arms, she was resting herself on the wall.
“Right? I’ll send you the poem that they don’t use in the beginning of the movie via LINE, so you go and translate that okay? Naturally, looking it up is not allowed.”
“I-I’ll try my best…”
Well, this assignment is the least of my problems. There’s a much bigger one going on right now.
“So your beauty of a home tutor wasn’t enough, and now you’re also aiming for the big-breasted, long, black-haired student council president. Two older flowers in both hands, how lucky you are…”
“H-Hold on a second, please! I wasn’t doing anything of that sort!”
“So, Jinsho-san and Keimi-san went on the attack instead? I cannot ignore such indecent behaviour on school grounds as a teacher…”
Uhm, should I hold my retort here?
“What should I do about this. I do have a car, so I could go to both the mountains and the ocean…”
“Ahh, keeping quiet only results in her ideas getting worse!”
What exactly will you be disposing off there?!
“Fufu, first I have to take Saigi-kun with me. The preparation room or the school guidance room are both used, so follow me.”
Maka-sensei was beckoning me as she went up the stairs.
“This should be fine. Nobody will come here, I’m sure.”
After she walked up the stairs, we arrived in front of the door to the rooftop. It’s my first time coming here. I mean, stepping out onto the rooftop is prohibited anyway. Around the door, there were tables and chairs widely scattered.
“So, Saigi-kun. You’re as close as always to that university girl, I see.”
“Y-Yes…We’ve known each other for a long time after all. And it seems like, being a former student council member, she sometimes comes over to help.”
“What an admirable thing. As a former student council member myself, I’m happy to hear that.”
“T-That reminds me, Maka-sensei was also the student council president in her time.”
She showed me a picture before of the real deal high school girl Maka-chan.
“Ah, were you possibly the first student council president that didn’t stay in Seikadai since grade school?”
“That’s a thing, yes. My grades were overwhelming back then, so I got elected without any great competition.”
“That’s Maka-sensei for you…”
She’s been the unobtainable flower even back in her student times, huh…
“And now it’s not just that admirable Onee-san, but also the leader of SID that you’re getting awfully familiar with, don’t you think?”
“I-I know, I have some good news. Karen-kaichou didn’t tell anyone about that incident at the former school building. She said that it would’ve been to embarrassing.”
“If she’s not gonna tell someone, then I should’ve been more bold, and make her give up on Saigi-kun instead…what a blunder!”
“Even though you said that this was a last a while ago?”
“Still…you came to school during break, and meet up with Jinsho-san behind my back…”
“It’d be pretty weird to report ‘I’m going to meet Kaichou now’, don’t you think.”
“I wish you’d do that even if it’s Miharu-san.”
“Even with my little sister?!”
Does she mean every time we meet in our own home…?
“Saigi-kun, you told me a while ago, didn’t you. That you loved your beautiful teacher, rather than a harem with beautiful girls.”
“Did I say ‘love’ I wonder…?”
“No need to cut in there! Having a flower at both of your hands is the starting point of a harem! From there, it’ll be three, and finally four girls!”
“Am I really that popular? And also, Shiya-chan only sees me as a little brother…or pet, at worst.”
“Even I sometimes think that I want to make Saigi-kun my pet, you know!”
“So you are?!”
We have enough problems with you being my teacher, you know!
“Wait, that’s not it. Our flat allows pets, so I can fulfill that wish any time. Rather than that, the problem is that love triangle of yours!”
Maka-sensei grabbed my shoulders, and shook me.
“To think that they would aim for a time where I would be busy with grading the exams! Before it was a loli, and before that it was a gravure idol. Now it’s the student council president, who looks tough but is actually pretty easy to score, and a childhood friend?!”
“You’re really not holding back on bad mouthing others if it’s just the two of us I see! Anyways, there’s no need for Sensei to worry about anything—Hm? Hold on, did you just hear something?”
“I sure did…Ah, come here, Saigi-kun.”
Maka-sensei grabbed my hand, pulling me into the chairs and desks. Now the two of us were hiding in the shadows.
“W-We really can’t do this, Shiya-senpai. I’m the student council president, and you’re technically an outsider.”
“I’m telling you I’m not an outsider. And it’s fine if nobody finds out.”
We heard correctly, since people were coming towards us. Rather, they were Karen-kaichou and Shiya-chan. They still didn’t go home yet? Though I’m not one to talk, but what exactly are you two doing here…?
The sound of something being unlocked, and the door opened, a soothing breeze entering the building.
“Come on, Karen-chan. Nobody saw us.”
Although Karen-kaichou protested a short minute, she and Shiya-chan still ended up stepping out onto the rooftop.
“What was that about…? Are they holding a meeting on how to NTR Saigi-kun from me? With a double-attack?”
“Uhm, Maka-sensei? You are a teacher, so you might wanna be careful about what you’re saying…”
Still hidden in the shadows of the desks and chairs, we looked at the opened door.
“Hm? Was there even a need for us to hide? Disregarding the contents, I was just being scolded by Sensei anyway.”
“You want to know what the two of them are planning, right? Also, it’s a teacher’s duty to dispose of any upstirring intrigue brought forth by my students.”
You’re just worried about me getting stolen from you, so just say that out loud… Also Shiya-chan isn’t your student.
Still, the two of us started moving, luring next to the opened door. Both Karen-kaichou and Shiya-chan were standing in the center of the rooftop, their feet stopped as they were exchanging words.
“S-Still…to think that there was a duplicate key in the student council office.”
“A few years ago, the student council president at that time created a duplicate, handing it down to the future generation of the student council. Though it’s a pretty plain hiding spot, in the back side of the president’s desk, as you saw.”
Hmm, I don’t really feel good eavesdropping on them.
“How rude of them. I didn’t plan on making this a tradition or something,” commented Maka-sensei from the sidelines.
“So you’re the perpetrator!”
Oops, can’t retort too energetically, or the other two will hear me.
“I didn’t make a duplicate key just for that. They’re wrong about that. The astronomy club just didn’t get much permission to get out on the rooftop at night, so I made a duplicate. But, since we couldn’t get into the school building at night, that was all for naught.”
“Sounds pretty idiotic.”
“Since disposing of it would be a bad idea, I kept it. Sometimes, the other members of the student council used it to get out on the rooftop. When I retired, I passed it onto the next student council president since they wanted it, but I didn’t expect that it was still going around.”
“Well, students want to experience the youthness of going on the rooftop I guess…”
For me, it’d be too hot in the summer, and too cold in the winter, so I couldn’t really be bothered.
“Fuu, this feels good. It’s been a while since I came here, but it really is great.”
It seemed to be a place that Shiya-chan enjoyed, since she was in a good mood.
“How is it, Karen-chan? The wind’s a bit strong, but it’s not bad, right?”
“H-However…as a representative of the student body, entering a forbidden place…”
“Ahh, you can’t think like that, Karen-chan. You’re way too serious. Being diligent is a good thing, but you have to let go from time to time. Seeing a gap in between your characters makes you look cute, see.”
The Senpai is inviting her Kouhai on the bad way…
“Hey, Karen-chan,” Shiya-chan suddenly tapped Karen-kaichou on the shoulder. “Just because you’re the student council president doesn’t mean that you have to be an example for everyone else, you know? You’re actually just the person that is the executive for any student matters. That doesn’t mean that you have to be overly diligent or anything. Taking it a bit more relaxed might actually work better for you in terms of popularity.”
“Shiya-senpai, aren’t you a bit too relaxed about this…?”
“That’s my way of living!”
She’s talking all proudly after having undergone a university debut…
“Why are you so hung-up on me, Shiya-senpai? You came here to help me with my work, but there’s no reason for any of that, right?”
“Of course not. If I had to say, it’s rather like I have a reason to hate you, Karen-chan.”
Hmmm?? Shiya-chan, you’re smiling but the words you say don’t fit that. I knew it, they must know each other from before. And, was that some wicked relationship…?
…Maka-sensei, you don’t have to look at me like that, I have no idea either.
“Well, it’s fine. I wanted to know what kind of girl Karen-chan is right now, and you don’t seem like a bad girl. After all, you managed to get close with that doubtful, crazy super hyper doubtful Mako, who’s even that slow and weak-headed that he’d doubt that Haru is actually his real little sister or not. (pr’s note: OH FFS, so we’re going this route again huh)
Hey, slow and weak-headed is pretty rude. And also, everyone would doubt that at least once or twice in their life.
“Even so, my body belongs to God.”
“Who cares about that! You’re a cute-looking girl, so you have the right to be happy! There’s no need to restrain yourself!”
“…It’s not like I’m dissatisfied with my current self…”
“I wonder? This isn’t the fact that I’d believe immediately.”
Well, if you’d ask me, she acts pretty freely. Like interrogating me all the time.
“I’m still your Senpai, so I can at least give you some advice, alright. I don’t have any money, but anything else than that, just tell me?”
“…If that’s the case, then there’s one thing I’d like to ask…You see…”
Hmm? I can’t pick it up, since Karen-kaichou was muttering to herself. Damn it, always so firm, and no her voice is way too quiet.
“…Seems like we did something bad. I didn’t want to eavesdrop on them. If it’s not any advice on snatch Saigi-kun, I don’t really care.”
“Maka-sensei, you’re also doing a lot of what you want, even in that position of yours…”
“I’m doing anything I can to make you happy. Well, that’s not important right now. I’ll leave the rest to you, Saigi-kun.”
Maka-sensei gave me a slight push, and I fell through the doorstep, onto the rooftop.
“Alright, I can do that—Wait, Mako? What are you doing?”
“Saigi Makoto? Weren’t you going to buy one of these indecent books?”
“I-I’m sorry. I lost my footing just now…”
“Hmm, you weren’t listening in on us, were you? What a bad kid.”
“I don’t really mind, but there were some things that would be troublesome if they were overheard—”
But, that moment—
Swoosh, a strong wind flew past us.
Karen-kaichou barely managed to hold back her skirt as it was about to get lifted up. Not to mention that she used her other hand to pull down Shiya-chan’s skirt.
Woah, I was about to catch a glimpse of some panties today, but that’s Karen-kaichou for you! Nuns really are crazy, although she’s still in training.
“What, no need to be so stingy. Look, Karen-chan.”
“Waaah?!”
Or so I thought, but Shiya-chan just suddenly lifted up Karen-kaichou’s skirt after all. Thanks to that, I could see her white panties, fitting the white bra I saw earlier.
“S-Shiya-senpai?! What are you?!”
“You’re a miniskirt high school girl, so you have to show it at times like these, I tell you. You have to work that nobody can see it, and be thankful when an accident like this happens.”
“L-Let go already! You lifting it up doesn’t count, right?!”
“Naturally, I don’t plan on embarrassing Karen-chan alone!”
“H-Hold on, Shiya-chan?!”
Shiya-chan didn’t hold back at all as she lifted up her own skirt, showing her black, laced panties hidden beneath.
J-Just what you’d expect from a university girl, what perverted panties…
“S-Shiya-senpai! There’s no need to show them yourself!”
“You’re still too soft. Getting this red while showing your panties to someone younger than you.”
Shiya-chan, your face also looks red to me.
“S-Saigi Makoto! You just have to look away, and all of this would be done!”
“Ah, I see. Sorry about that.”
I turned my back to them, trying to escape the view of their panties. Though Shiya-chan’s panties are similar to Miharu’s, in the sense that I’m mostly used to seeing them, it still makes me nervous…not to mention seeing Karen-kaichou’s panties.
“…………Ha?”
Looking at the door I fell through a moment ago—I remembered. There was a beautiful teacher that was with me just a second ago, the reason that all of this chaos ensued.
“Sa-i-gi-kun—?”
A-Again…! Sensei’s face was just barely peeking from behind the wall, and I could clearly read what she was saying. She’s already on the verge of breaking down right now, and now I even saw their panties…I-I don’t even want to imagine her next move…!
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exqalph03 9. August 2019 — 05:03
Well, it’s unavoidable? XD
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Yandere Sensei~~ hahaha
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By Bookroo: The Children's Book Experts
Children’s literature has many notable options when it comes to rescue. To help you find the right books for you and your young reader, we’ve compiled a list of the best kids books about rescue.
Our list includes board books, picture books, and chapter books. Board books are best for babies and toddlers from ages newborn to 2 or 3. Picture books are generally great options for toddlers and for preschool and kindergarten age children. Picture books are especially enjoyable for adults to read aloud with young kids. The chapter books on our list are generally best for elementary through early middle school age tween kids. You can filter to sort by the best book type for your kid, and you can also use our table of contents to jump to particular topics you think your kid will enjoy.
When it comes to children’s stories about rescue, there are a variety of titles. This list covers everything, from classics like The Shadow Thieves to popular sellers like Madeline’s Rescue to some of our favorite hidden gems like Stuck.
We hope this list of kids books about rescue can be a helpful resource for parents, teachers, and others searching for a new book! As you explore the list, please comment below to let us know what books you would add.
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Top 10 Books About Rescue
Appleblossom the Possum
Written by and illustrated by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Recommend Ages: 8-12
Mama has trained up her baby possums in the ways of their breed, and now it’s time for all of them—even little Appleblossom—to make their way in the world. Appleblossom knows the rules: she must never be seen during the day, and she must avoid cars, humans, and the dreaded hairies (sometimes known as dogs). Even so, Appleblossom decides to spy on a human family—and accidentally falls down their chimney! The curious Appleblossom, her faithful brothers—who launch a hilarious rescue mission—and even the little girl in the house have no idea how fascinating the big world can be. But they’re about to find out! With dynamic illustrations, a tight-knit family, and a glimpse at the world from a charming little marsupial’s point of view, this cozy animal story is a perfect read-aloud and a classic in the making.
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Madeline's Rescue
Written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans
Recommend Ages: 3-7
“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines the smallest one was Madeline.”
Nothing frightens Madeline—not tigers, not even mice. With its endearing, courageous heroine, cheerful humor, and wonderful, whimsical drawings of Paris, the Madeline stories are true classics that continue to charm readers even after 75 years!
When Madeline falls into the river Seine and nearly drowns, a courageous canine comes to her rescue. Now Genevieve the dog is Madeline’s cherished pet, and the envy of all the other girls. What can be done when there’s just not enough hound to go around?
This Is the Firefighter
Written by Laura Godwin and illustrated by Julian Hector
The fire alarm sounds. The firefighter jumps in the truck and races to a daring rescue! Get ready for an adventure as Laura Godwin and Julian Hector celebrate one of our bravest everyday heroes in this board-book edition for little hands. Praise for This is the Firefighter (hardcover edition) “With its swift action, catchy verse, and appropriate palette (red, white, blue, and flame), this should find good use among preschool vehicle enthusiasts and new readers as well as in the ‘community helpers’ unit.” -The Horn Book
Rocket Shoes
Written by Sharon Skinner and illustrated by Ward Jenkins
Jose dreams of flying. So he buys some rocket shoes and jets into the atmosphere. But all those spins, kicks, and airborne tricks cause such a ruckus that the mayor bans the shoes. Then, during a terrible snowstorm, Jose hears a cry: his neighbor’s in danger—and he can only help her if he flies. Will Jose dare to break the rules and save the day?
Oakwing
Written and illustrated by EJ Clarke
After Rowan is mysteriously transformed into a tiny fairy, she is thrust into a world of fairy clans and talking robins where, she discovers, her long-missing mother is also trapped.
The Storm Whale in Winter
Written and illustrated by Benji Davies
In this sequel to The Storm Whale, the boy, Noi, is caught in a storm at sea and his whale friend comes to his rescue. When Noi’s dad sails out on one last fishing trip before winter, Noi waits for him at home. But as the storm worsens and his dad does not return, Noi decides to go looking for his dad. But the storm is powerful and dangerous, and soon Noi, too, is stuck in the icy sea. When it seems that all hope is lost, a friend comes to help Noi and his father. Poignant and evocative, this is a beautiful celebration of friendship and family, and the special bond between a father and son.
Elecopter
Written and illustrated by Michael Slack
A chant-along companion to Monkey Truck features a heroic, fire-fighting elephant who bravely patrols the skies above the Savannah with her fire-hose nose, putting out fires and rescuing her fellow animals.
Written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
From the illustrator of the #1 smash The Day the Crayons Quit comes another bestseller–a giggle-inducing tale of everything tossed, thrown, and hurled in order to free a kite!
When Floyd’s kite gets stuck in a tree, he’s determined to get it out. But how? Well, by knocking it down with his shoe, of course. But strangely enough, it too gets stuck. And the only logical course of action . . . is to throw his other shoe. Only now it’s stuck! Surely there must be something he can use to get his kite unstuck. An orangutan? A boat? His front door? Yes, yes, and yes. And that’s only the beginning. Stuck is Oliver Jeffers’ most absurdly funny story since The Incredible Book-Eating Boy. Childlike in concept and vibrantly illustrated as only Oliver Jeffers could, here is a picture book worth rescuing from any tree.
Written and illustrated by Loren Long
Meet Otis, everyone’s favorite tractor, created by the bestselling illustrator of Love by Matt de la Pena and The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
New York Times bestselling author/artist Loren Long creates an unforgettable children’s classic. Otis is a special tractor. He loves his farmer and he loves to work. And he loves the little calf in the next stall, whom he purrs to sleep with his soft motor. In fact, the two become great friends: they play in the fields, leap hay bales, and play ring-around-the-rosy by Mud Pond.
But when Otis is replaced with the big yellow tractor, he is cast away behind the barn, unused, unnoticed . . . until the little calf gets stuck in Mud Pond. Then there is only one tractor—and it’s not big or yellow—who can come to the rescue. It is little old Otis who saves his friend. It is Otis who saves the day.
In a wonderful new palette, and in the tradition of classics like Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and The Story of Ferdinand, Loren Long has crafted an unforgettable new story—and character—celebrating the power of friendship and perseverance.
Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Quest for the Magic Porcupine
Written by John Dougherty and illustrated by Sam Ricks
The BADgers are back in Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face’s second adventure, perfect for fans of The Stinky Cheese Man and Pseudonymous Bosch.
The villainous badgers have escaped from prison, and it’s up to Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face to find them and put them back! Only someone who knows about stories can point them in the right direction, so they consult Miss Butterworth, the Ninja Librarian.
After referring to a copy of Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Quest for the Magic Porcupine, Miss Butterworth sends them on their quest. Along the way they encounter raccoons who are definitely NOT badgers in disguise, a really REALLY long traffic light, a rabbit in a prickly coat, and a banana-eating hammerhead shark, all leading to a showdown with the badgers. Can the kids think fast enough to save the king from being shot out of the biggest water rocket in the world? We don’t know. But we’re going to read it and find out!
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Books About Rescue and Animals
Amazing Animals Who Changed the World
Written by Heidi Poelman and illustrated by Kyle Kershner
From the courage of Stubby the war dog to the empathy of Koko the gorilla, Little Heroes: Amazing Animals Who Changed the World is a young child’s first introduction to the incredible animals who taught us that you don’t have to be big (or human) to make a difference. Simple text and adorable illustrations tell the contributions of nine animals who went down in history as interspecies heroes: Blossom the vaccine cow Stubby the war dog Cher Ami the carrier pigeon Winnie the friendly bear Simon the seacat Togo the sled dog Able and Baker the space monkeys Koko the signing gorilla
Simon Thorn and the Shark's Cave - Simon Thorn has only recently discovered that he’s an Animalgam—a member of a secret race of people who can shift into animals. Now, after years of being bullied, he has found a home where he truly belongs, at a secret Animalgam academy. But danger lurks around the corner . . . Simon’s evil grandfather, Orion, is bent on taking over the entire animal kingdom. He intends to gather the pieces of a terrible weapon that could shred the very foundations of their world. That is, unless Simon can find the pieces first. So when Simon’s dolphin Animalgam friend Jam is summoned home to the underwater kingdom’s headquarters, Simon sees an opportunity to secure another piece. But as soon as he and his friends arrive, their search is complicated by Jam’s strict family—and a potential traitor among their ranks. Can Simon locate the piece before the entire underwater kingdom is put at risk? With plenty of action and adventure and characters full of heart, the Simon Thorn series is perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Brandon Mull.
Return to the Jungle - In Return to the Jungle, the middle-grade sequel to Bear Grylls’s Spirit of the Jungle, Mak returns to the jungle where he is determined to set a captured endangered elephant free…
The Wolf Wilder - A girl and the wolves who love her embark on a rescue mission through Russian wilderness in this lyrical tale from the author of the acclaimed Rooftoppers and Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms. Feo’s life is extraordinary. Her mother trains domesticated wolves to be able to fend for themselves in the snowy wilderness of Russia, and Feo is following in her footsteps to become a wolf wilder. She loves taking care of the wolves, especially the three who stay at the house because they refuse to leave Feo, even though they’ve already been wilded. But not everyone is enamored with the wolves, or with the fact that Feo and her mother are turning them wild. And when her mother is taken captive, Feo must travel through the cold, harsh woods to save her—and learn from her wolves how to survive. From the author of Rooftoppers, which Booklist called “a glorious adventure,” and Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, which VOYA called “a treasure of a book,” comes an enchanting novel about love and resilience.
A Prickly Problem: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet - In this story in the Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet chapter book series, Callie must help the family dog out of a prickly situation. When the Tate family dog, Ajax, has a run-in with a porcupine, things get prickly—and dangerous—quickly. It’ll take Callie’s quick thinking and doctoring, along with a little help from Dr. Pritzker, to make things right. Will Ajax learn to leave other critters alone? - GODWIN BOOKS -
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Books About Rescue and Firefighters
Push-Pull-Turn! Fire Truck to the Rescue!
Written by Peter Bently and illustrated by Joe Bucco
A fascinating introduction to the world of a fire station! Fire Truck to the Rescue!, illustrated by Joe Bucco, gives a fascinating introduction to the world of fire stations, the vehicles, and the fire fighters. With flaps and tabs on every page, the book also features four special spreads that give an in-depth insight into the fire station, fire engine, fire helicopter, and firefighting practices. The fun rhyming story follows a firefighting mission that takes the fire crew out of the station, on the road, and to the emergency site to tackle a blazing building.
Emergency - Rescuing, fetching, lifting and towing! Lift the flap to see each vehicle busy at work. Perfect for guessing, prediction and memory skills - and simply joining in!
Tinyville Town: I'm a Firefighter - In I’m a Firefighter, we see what it’s like in a day in the life of a town firefighter. As soon as the fire alarm rings, Fireman Charlie is ready to go, go, go! When he’s not fighting fires, there’s plenty to do, like cook meals for the crew, Charlie’s favorite job of all. Firefighters are perennially popular with young readers. This is an ideal read for fire prevention lessons and as a tribute to local hero firefighters.
The Little Fire Truck - A happy little fire truck, driven by Jill, zips all over town helping to put out fires and rescue animals.
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Books About Rescue and Dogs
Scout: Storm Dog
Written by Jennifer Li Shotz
The adventure continues in the third installment of the action-packed Scout series, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Li Shotz. Scout, a National Guard dog, was born to be a hero. When Scout and his 12-year-old owner, Matt, land in Puerto Rico after a devastating hurricane, they want to help. The pair befriend Luisa, who knows all about the Sato dogs—abandoned pups who need food and shelter. Scout and Matt decide to foster an injured dog named Pepita. But Pepita is clearly searching for something and runs off into the rainforest. Now it’s up to Scout, Matt and Luisa to find the missing dog and bring her back safely. Surviving the dangers of the wilderness will be far from easy, but Scout and Matt make an excellent team. This fast-moving tale of Scout the hero dog will grab even reluctant readers and is perfect for fans of Cracker!, Max, and Hero.
Honey, the Dog Who Saved Abe Lincoln
Written by Shari Swanson and illustrated by Chuck Groenink
Based on a little-known tale from Abraham Lincoln’s childhood, this charming picture book written by debut author Shari Swanson and illustrated by acclaimed artist Chuck Groenink tells a classic story of a boy, his dog, and a daring rescue.
Deeply researched and charmingly told, this is the true story of one extra-special childhood rescue—a dog named Honey.
Long before Abraham Lincoln led the nation or signed the Emancipation Proclamation, he was just a barefoot kid running around Knob Creek, Kentucky, setting animals free from traps and snatching frogs out of the jaws of snakes.
One day, young Abe found a stray dog with a broken leg and named him Honey. He had no idea that the scruffy pup would find his way into Abe’s heart, become his best friend, and—one fateful day—save his life.
Little Dog Lost - On a cold winter day, a curious dog wanders onto a frozen river. Suddenly, the ice starts breaking up, and soon the dog is adrift and traveling — the unwilling passenger on a fast-moving sheet of ice. The dramatic rescue of this little lost dog, who traveled seventy-five miles in two days, is a true story that will warm reader’s hearts. Monica Carnesi’s poignant text and charming illustrations perfectly convey the excitement of this remarkable tale, and readers will root for this little dog every step of the way.
The Firefighter - Brr-ring! Up pops a fireman at the sound of the fire station alarm, and he rushes with his crew to put out a house fire in a nearby neighborhood. The family is safe, but one of their Dalmatian puppies is missing! It’s up to the brave fireman to rescue the pup from the burning house—and in the process, he finds himself a new firehouse friend.
Found - A wordless picture book about what we lose, what we find, and what we give back. Jenn’s beloved dog was lost sometime ago. Long enough that she has given up the search. But she still misses her friend. One day she finds a lost dog. She takes him in and despite a rocky start, she grows to love him. Until she spots his picture on a missing poster. His name is Roscoe, and he’s someone else’s best friend. Jenn knows she should return Roscoe, but she really doesn’t want to. Will Jenn do the right thing? Or will she keep this new dog she’s grown to love so much?
Marty Frye, Private Eye: The Case of the Stolen Poodle - Book 2 in the Marty Frye young chapter book mystery series by bestselling author-illustrator team Janet Tashjian and Laurie Keller In this new collection of mysteries from bestselling author-illustrator team Janet Tashjian and Laurie Keller, everyone’s favorite poet detective is back in action. When the school nurse’s equipment is stolen, Marty tracks it down. When special candy disappears from the store, Marty finds the culprit. And most importantly, when a friend’s poodle goes missing, Marty comes to the rescue. But can he still manage to make up rhymes while he solves new crimes? The poet detective continues to make up rhymes and solve new crimes, in this second book in the illustrated Marty Frye, Private Eye series for young readers. A Christy Ottaviano book Titles in the Marty Frye, Private Eye series: Marty Frye, Private Eye: The Case of the Missing Action Figure Marty Frye, Private Eye: The Case of the Stolen Poodle More from Janet Tashjian: The Einstein the Class Hamster series: Einstein the Class Hamster Einstein the Class Hamster and the Very Real Game Show Einstein the Class Hamster Saves the Library The Sticker Girl series: Sticker Girl Sticker Girl Rules the School The My Life series: My Life as a Book My Life as a Stuntboy My Life as a Cartoonist My Life as a Joke My Life as a Gamer My Life as a Ninja My Life as a Youtuber More from Laurie Keller: The Adventures of Arnie the Doughnut: Arnie, the Doughnut Invasion of the Ufonuts The Spinny Icky Showdown The Scrambled States of America: The Scrambled States of America The Scrambled States of America Talent Show Do Unto Otters Open Wide Grandpa Gazillion’s Number Yard Birdy’s Smile Book Toys! Fooled You!
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Books About Rescue and Boats
Little Pig Saves the Ship
Written and illustrated by David Hyde Costello
Little Pig is back in Little Pig Saves the Ship! When the sea-faring pigs go a-sailing! Intrepid Little Pig — still the littlest pig in the family — is too little to go to summer camp with his older brothers and sisters. He is left behind with Grandpa and Poppy. Little Pig and Poppy make and sail a toy ship all week, but on Saturday a gusty wind takes the ship into the current, and Little Pig has to use his newfound knot-tying skills to save the day.
A sweetly told intergenerational story about how even the littlest can make a big difference.
Little Toot
Written and illustrated by Hardie Gramatky
Little Toot is a tugboat who does not want to tug. Instead, he wants to make figure eights in the harbor and bother all the other tugboats. But when he ends up all alone on the open water as a storm is rolling in, it’s up to him to save a stuck ocean liner. This classic story is sure to delight a whole new generation of readers!
Turtle Tug to the Rescue
Turtle Tug is on the lookout! This chugging, tugging turtle powers through gusty winds and treacherous tides, combing the seas to protect his friends from a dangerous storm. From panicking puffins to entangled sperm whales, Turtle Tug is out to rescue all his sea-dwelling friends. He’s a turtle tugboat on a mission to make the world a safer place.
Mighty Tug - From early in the morning until time to say, “Good night,” Mighty Tug works in the busy harbor, guiding cargo ships, pulling barges, and helping with rescues.
Sunker's Deep - Action, adventure, and mystery surround the Sunkers, a band of children who live in a submarine, as they try to survive a war in Book Two of the Icebreaker Trilogy . Sharkey is a Sunker - he was born on a fortunate tide, and everyone in the giant submersible Rampart knows it. He’s a hero, a future admiral, beloved by the ancestors. The trouble is his life is based on a lie. He’s been a fake hero for years, but when tragedy strikes, he must become a real one. And he has no idea how to go about it.Meanwhile, on land, Petrel, Fin, and the crew of the Oyster are on a mission to defeat the Devouts and bring lost knowledge back into the world, a mission they have no idea how to carry out. This second installment of the Icebreaker trilogy features action, adventure, and a world that is perhaps not so different from our own.
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Books About Rescue and Helping Others
The Sea Pony
Written by Paula Harrison and illustrated by Sophy Williams
Grace works to save her beloved sea ponies from the evil Lady Cavendish in this sixth book in the adorable Secret Rescuers series. Grace loves the beautiful sea ponies that live in the warm, clear waters around her village. So when she finds out that cruel Lady Cavendish is sailing out to catch the ponies, Grace needs her new friends, Maya and Sophy, to help her save them. But will their rescue plan work? And will Grace ever be able to talk to her favorite sea pony?
The Shadow Thieves
Written and illustrated by Alexandra Ott
Alli must risk everything to save her new family from a rogue organization that is threatening the Thieves Guild’s existence—and the lives of all its members—in this high-stakes sequel to Rules for Thieves.Alli Rosco, former orphan and thief, is free after her disastrous Thieves Guild trial, which left an innocent woman dead while Alli’s partner-in-crime, Beck, fled.Now Alli is getting more than just a fresh start: her long-lost brother, Ronan, has come forward to claim responsibility for her and let her live with him on a trial basis. They try to mend the rift that started when Alli was dropped off at the orphanage while Ronan became a lawyer in Ruhia. But as determined as she is to make things work, Alli can’t seem to stay out of trouble.To make matters worse, Alli finds a surprise guest on her doorstep one night: Beck.He’s on the run and brings news of the Shadow Guild, a rogue organization that is trying to overthrow the current king of the Thieves Guild. Their friends are in real danger. And Beck needs Alli’s help one more time to bring the Shadows down.Once again, Alli is forced to make a hard choice: save her friends, or lose her last chance to have a true family.
The Magic Fox - When Sir Fitzroy and his soldiers march into town and demand that all magical creatures be captured and taken away, Poppy races to help a family of magical foxes escape.
Ellie Steps Up to the Plate - When Ellie joins a softball team, she quickly realizes that the sport is harder than it looks! Is she meant only for the stage, not the field? And what happens when Ellie goes in search of a stray ball in the nearby and finds an injured baby deer? Illustrations.
The Stolen Crown - Ellie Dray and her League of Archers are keeping Robin Hood’s legacy alive by stealing from the rich to help the poor, but when they discover someone is trying to steal the crown, they learn that some things may be out of their league. Ellie and her League of Archers are still on the run—living in Sherwood Forest, trying to protect the good parts of Robin Hood’s legacy by helping the poor in the neighboring villages and eluding the Baron’s men. But then King John dies unexpectedly and Ellie learns of a plot to kidnap the new king—who’s just a boy—and steal the throne. Can the League stop this scheme before it’s too late? Kirkus Reviews described League of Archers as a book that “doesn’t shy away from deep moral dilemmas often unexplored in middle grade novels and important to acknowledge in a story with life-or-death stakes.” And Booklist said that it was a “highly enjoyable adventure story that should appeal to a wide range of readers.”
Rainbow Fish to the Rescue! - Although his friends want to ignore the new striped fish in their midst, Rainbow Fish must decide whether to help him when a shark attacks in a sequel to the best-seller, The Rainbow Fish.
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Books About Rescue and Adventure
Hanazuki: a Spark in the Dark
Written by Stacy Davidowitz and illustrated by Victoria Ying
Hanazuki loves being a Moonflower! With a little help from the Hemka, Sleepy Unicorn, and Dazzlessence Jones, she tries her best to keep her moon in balance and keep the Big Bad away. When two comets collide above them, Hanazuki’s side of the moon is plunged into darkness. What’s a Moonflower to do besides light a spark in the dark?
Escape Galapagos
Written and illustrated by Ellen Prager
Before she died, Ezzy Skylar’s mother made Ezzy’s father promise to take his two children on trips to some of the world’s most exotic places, starting with the Galapagos Islands. There’s just one problem: while her little brother Luke is in animal heaven, Ezzy has a paralyzing fear of wild animals. That’s why she’s aboard the cruise vessel when hijackers take over. Forced to find depths of bravery she never knew she had, Ezzy has to flee across an island with her brother and seek to rescue a ship full of tourists under siege.
Nadya Skylung and the Masked Kidnapper
Written by Jeff Seymour and illustrated by Brett Helquist
Nadya Skylung paid a high price when she defeated the pirates on the cloudship Remora- She lost her leg. But has she lost her nerve too? When Nadya and the rest of the crew of the cloudship Orion reach the port of Far Agondy, they have a lot to do, including a visit to Machinist Gossner’s workshop to have a prosthetic made for Nadya. But though the pirates are far away across the Cloud Sea, Nadya and her friends are still not safe. A gang leader called Silvermask is kidnapping skylung and cloudling children in Far Agondy. When Nadya’s friend Aaron is abducted, Nayda will stop at nothing to save him and the other missing kids, and put a stop to Silvermask once and for all.
The Danger Gang and the Pirates of Borneo! - Indiana Jones meets Lemony Snicket in this hilarious new series—fully illustrated by picture book talent Arree Chung—that’s a must-have for all aspiring adventurers. “The ride of a lifetime.” —Matt de la Peña, Newbery Award-winning author Ronald Zupan is a daring master adventurer! But he actually hasn’t experienced any grand adventures . . . YET! When his world-traveling parents are kidnapped on his twelfth birthday, Ronald seizes the chance to prove himself with a dazzling, danger-defying rescue operation. Teaming up with his trusty butler Jeeves, his quick-witted fencing nemesis Julianne Sato, and his pet cobra Carter, Ronald sets course for the jungle of Borneo where his parents were last sighted. If they can crash-land a plane and outrun a hungry snow leopard, surely they can find the secret lair of Zeetan Z, the world’s most ruthless pirate! But as their adventure becomes more and more dangerous, can Ronald and his companions muster enough courage to see this adventure through?
Peter & Ernesto: Sloths in the Night - From Box Trolls director Graham Annable comes an immensely charming new addition to his brilliant graphic novel series about the endearing friendship between two sloths. Peter and Ernesto love the jungle, but they know how dangerous it can be at night. From clumsy bats to crazed owls to rumors of a dragon, there are countless things that make the darkness perilous for sloths. That’s why, one day, when their friend Bernard goes missing just as the sun is setting, Peter and Ernesto quickly gather their tribe to form a search party. However, while these sloths have some sense of the dangers that they’ll face while looking for Bernard, there are surprises lurking in the shadows that will surpass their wildest imaginings!
Endling #2: The First - Endling #2: The First is the second book in an epic middle grade animal fantasy series by Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The One and Only Ivan, Wishtree, and Crenshaw! To learn if she truly is the last dairne in the world—the endling—Byx and her friends must travel into the snow-covered mountains of the country of Dreyland, where they hope to uncover the truth behind the legend of a hidden dairne colony. But the threat of war across the lands continues to grow with each passing day. As the group confronts untold dangers at every turn, they will ultimately uncover a treacherous plot that involves the other powerful governing species. With both her dreams and all the creatures of Nedarra on the brink of extinction, Byx and her friends are determined to never give up hope. Soon they find themselves the unlikely leaders in a simmering rebellion that risks everything they hold dear. Byx may be the last of her kind, but will she also be the first to lead the revolution? In this sequel to the New York Times bestselling first book—which received four starred reviews—Katherine Applegate once again delivers an action-packed middle grade fantasy with a unique setting, enthralling characters, and gripping adventure that is perfect for fans of Rick Riordan, Brian Jacques, and Tui T. Sutherland.
The Keepers #4: The Starlit Loom - Don’t miss the epic and heart-pounding conclusion to Ted Sanders’s Keepers series! For centuries, the Keepers and the Wardens have been guarding the mysterious Mothergates, a source of incredible power. But now the Mothergates are dying, and Horace and his fellow Keepers know that the weakened gates may unleash a dangerous force that will consume the world—and destroy everyone in it. While their enemies are willing to take this careless risk, Horace and his friends are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the preservation of the world. With their strongholds destroyed and many of their friends captured, the Keepers’ chance of succeeding hangs by a thread. But all hope is not lost, as a mysterious talisman of power is discovered. It may hold the key to saving the universe . . . if they can unlock its secret in time. This fourth and final book in Ted Sanders’s gripping Keepers series brings Horace and Chloe’s story to a heart-pounding conclusion, where friendships are tested, dangers are faced, and the ultimate sacrifice must be made.
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Books About Rescue and Magic
Power of a Princess
Written and illustrated by E.D. Baker
Aislin is more than just a princess—she’s strong, smart, and brave, with magical gifts from both sides of her heritage! Aislin believed the rift between the fairy and human kingdoms was repaired, but soon learns that not everyone is happy living side by side. Out in the mountains, her pedrasi relatives are also on edge, combating trolls who threaten their livelihood. As Aislin learns more about her magical gifts, she knows she may be the only one who can set things right. Will she be able to restore the balance and keep everyone safe?
E. D. Baker, whose books have sold more than 1 million copies, offers a classic, original fairy-tale that celebrates beauty and goodness in all its shapes and sizes which is sure to delight readers who love magic, suspense, girl power, and adventure.
Wild Rescuers: Escape to the Mesa
Written and illustrated by StacyPlays
The next installment in the New York Times bestselling series! From YouTube gamer StacyPlays comes the exhilarating sequel to her Minecraft-inspired adventure novel about a girl raised by wolves. Stacy would do anything to protect the Taiga where she lives with the pack of intelligent wolves who raised her. But when humans start to encroach on their forest, their only choice is escape to a place no Arctic wolf has gone before: the desert. The Mesa, with its canyons, snakes, and coyotes, will be like nothing the pack has ever seen. Even in this unfamiliar territory, Stacy is determined to rescue animals in need. But as she and her wolves face new dangers and old secrets, Stacy can’t help but wonder—where does she truly belong? Fans of DanTDM: Trayasaurus and the Enchanted Crystal and PopularMMOs Presents: A Hole New World will love this illustrated, action-packed series!
Secret in the Stone
Written by Kamilla Benko
The second book in an enchanting fantasy series The Unicorn Quest, about a real-world girl and her sister in a land full of magic and strange creatures. Claire Martinson and her sister Sophie have decided to stay in Arden—the magical land they discovered by climbing up a chimney in their great-aunt’s manor. If what they’ve learned is true, the sisters are the last descendants of the royal family, and only a true heir of Arden—with magic in her blood—can awaken the unicorns. Since Sophie has does not have magic, the land’s last hope rests on Claire. The sisters journey to Stonehaven, a famed Gemmer school high in the mountains of Arden, so Claire can train in the magic of stone. As Claire struggles through classes, Sophie uncovers dangerous secrets about the people they thought they could trust. With Arden on the brink of crumbling, can Claire prove she is the prophesied heir and unlock the magic of the unicorns before it’s too late?
Marty Pants #3: How to Defeat a Wizard - Marty Pants returns to face his archenemy Simon, the so-called school artist, in his third adventure! How is Simon turning their classmates, teachers, and even the mayor against Marty—could it be magic? Is Simon literally a charmer who is charming people with magic charms? With Simon using magical powers to turn everyone against him, it will be up to Marty to stop this madness before Simon controls the whole world and maybe even the space-time continuum! The third book in the Marty Pants series from the award-winning cartoonist behind the “Off the Mark” strip, Mark Parisi, is perfect for fans of Wimpy Kid, Big Nate, and laughing a lot.
The Sorcerer's Shadow - Prince Lucas, his friend Clara, and Ruskin the dragon travel with a team of knights to the forest of Trellis, where they discover that an evil sorcerer’s shadow has cursed the land and only someone pure of heart and full of hope can save them.
The Secret Mountain - Everyone in Tale Town knows that trolls mean trouble, and now Mayor Fitch and his guards have captured a terrifying troll spy—who turns out to be a very un-terrifying troll child! Knowing that the mayor is planning more than capturing spies, Jack, Red and Anansi set out to rescue the troll child and return him to his home in the secret mountain. But as the friends continue their journey they discover that everything they know about Tale Town is about to change…
The Storm Keeper’s Island - Fionn Boyle comes from a long line of brave seafarers, people with the ocean behind their eyes. But he can’t help but fear the open sea. For years, Fionn’s mother has told him stories of Arranmore Island, a strange place that seems to haunt her. Fionn has always wondered about this mysterious island, and from the day he arrives he starts noticing things that can’t be explained. He can sense the island all around him, and it feels like the island is watching him, too. Once in a generation, Arranmore Island chooses a new Storm Keeper to wield its power and keep its magic safe from enemies. The time has come for his grandfather, a secretive and eccentric old man, to step down. But as Fionn and the other descendants of Arranmore’s most powerful families fight to become the island’s next champion, a more sinister magic is waking up, intent on rekindling a long-ago war and changing Fionn’s life and the island’s future forever.
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Books About Rescue and Princesses
Written by Brothers Grimm and illustrated by Bernadette Watts
Snow White in a newly illustrated edition. Bernadette Watts’ beautiful pastel illustrations bring both a softness and new life to this beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale about the princess with skin as white as snow.
Written by Hannah Eliot and illustrated by Nivea Ortiz
A classic fairy tale gets a fresh twist in this vibrant Caribbean spin on the Little Mermaid! The Little Mermaid longs to know about the world above the ocean. When she’s finally old enough to visit, she falls in love with a prince! A sea witch agrees to give the mermaid a potion that will make her human—but the spell will be broken if the prince doesn’t love her too! Set in the Caribbean, with beautiful illustrations by Puerto Rican illustrator Nivea Ortiz, this fifth book in the Once Upon a World series is the same beloved fairy tale but it’s totally reimagined. Once Upon a World offers a multicultural take on the fairy tales we all know and love. Because these tales are for everyone, everywhere.
Rise of the Dragon Moon
Written by Gabrielle K. Byrne
The princess of a frozen queendom fights to free her mother from the clutches of terrifying dragons in this middle grade fantasy debut. Princess Toli may be heir to the throne, but she longs to be a fierce hunter and warrior. Alone in a frozen world, her queendom is at the mercy of the dragons that killed her father, and Toli is certain it’s only a matter of time before they come back to destroy what’s left of her family. When the dragons rise and seize her mother, Toli will do anything to save her— even trust a young dragon who may be the only key to the Queen’s release. With her sister and best friend at her side, Toli makes the treacherous journey across the vast ice barrens to Dragon Mountain, where long-held secrets await. Bear-cats are on their trail, and dragons stalk them, but the greatest danger might be a mystery buried in Toli’s past. An Imprint Book
Ratpunzel - “It is Princess Harriet Hamsterbone to the rescue when Heady the hydra’s egg is stolen, but her search leads her to a castle accessible only by a rat with a very long tail”—
Of Mice and Magic - “Princess Harriet has absolutely no interest in brushing her hair, singing duets with woodland animals, or any other typical princess activities. So when a fairy tells a very bored Harriet about twelve mice princesses who are cursed to dance all night long, she happily accepts the quest and sets off with a poncho of invisibility and her trusty battle quail. But when she arrives at the Mouse Kingdom, she discovers there’s more to the curse than meets the eye, and trying to help is dangerous business . . . even for a tough princess like Harriet.
Giant Trouble - Climbing to the top of a towering beanstalk that has grown from a magic bean, Harriet Hamsterbone finds a castle inhabited by a giant who is holding two unusual prisoners.
The Girl with the Dragon Heart - Silke knows how to stay out of trouble. And when your best friend is a dragon-turned-hot-tempered-girl, trouble is always right around the corner. Although Silke has found a home at The Chocolate Heart as a waitress and master promoter, nothing fills the void of her past. Years ago, her parents disappeared while traveling through the mysterious fairy land, Elfenwald. One day, the Crown Princess personally asks her to spy on the Elfenwald royal family who are visiting the kingdom for the first time. In return, Silke will have the home she’s always wanted—the secure palace. But when Silke discovers the royal visitors’ true intentions, she’ll need all her wits to save her city from destruction.
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Books About Rescue and Quests
The Wishbreaker
Written by Tyler Whitesides
Ace and Ridge are back to save their friend—and the world—in this sequel to The Wishmakers. Being a Wishmaker may be more trouble than it’s worth. Sure, you get a genie who can grant an unlimited number of wishes, but for each one you make you have to accept an awful consequence in return. Not to mention that you’re also given an impossible quest and only seven days to fulfill it! Despite all that, Ace and his genie, Ridge, managed to complete their last mission—but they couldn’t save their friend Tina from being abducted by a rogue genie who’s bent on using his limitless power to rule the world. To rescue her, Ace must reunite with Ridge to become a Wishmaker once more, and they’ll need to team up with the unlikeliest of new allies. It’s not every day you get a second chance to save the world, so Ace is determined to learn from his past mistakes and wish for the best, literally. Perfect for fans of Max Brailler, Adam Gidwitz, and Dan Gutman, this middle grade series is a wonderful mix of unpredictable magic, zany humor, and daring adventure. “An ingenious premise” raved Kirkus in a starred review!
Written and illustrated by Aaron Becker
A king emerges from a hidden door in a city park, startling two children sheltering from the rain. No sooner does he push a map and some strange objects into their hands than he is captured by hostile forces that whisk him back through the enchanted door. Just like that, the children are caught up in a quest to rescue the king and his kingdom from darkness, while illuminating the farthest reaches of their imagination. Colored markers in hand, they make their own way through the portal, under the sea, through a tropical paradise, over a perilous bridge, and high in the air with the help of a winged friend. Journey lovers will be thrilled to follow its characters on a new adventure threaded with familiar elements, while new fans will be swept into a visually captivating story that is even richer and more exhilarating than the first.
A Fairy's Courage - Being a fairy is a lot more dangerous than you think… Ever since Rowan was transformed into a fairy, her life has been filled with perilous adventure. And when her mom is kidnapped by an evil fairy called Vulpes and his army of foxes, Rowan sets off on her most dangerous mission yet. With the help of her fairy friends—plus a tiger released from London Zoo!—she’s sure she can rescue her mom and save the fairy realms. But Vulpes is cunning and sly. And he’s luring Rowan right into a trap.
Gertie Milk and the Great Keeper Rescue - Ever since Gertie Milk arrived on the mysterious island of Skuldark, she’s felt like something was missing. According to Kolt, her mentor and fellow Keeper of Lost Things, the island used to be filled with other Keepers. But now Gertie and Kolt are the only two people left (or two and a half, if you count Robot Rabbit Boy, their bumbling but lovable Series 7 Artificial Intelligence Forever Friend) who can return misplaced items throughout time. So when Gertie learns that the missing Keepers have been imprisoned by the Losers, their very evil adversaries, she knows she must make it her mission to rescue the kidnapped Keepers and return them to Skuldark. But that proves more difficult than she’d imagined, since her time-travel missions don’t seem to be taking her anywhere near the missing Keepers. And it doesn’t help that the Losers have an evil master plan worse than their last evil master plan, and this time the entire future of the universe is at stake. Fueled by more than a few delicious cakes and plenty of Skuldarkian seawater, Gertie, Kolt, and Robot Rabbit Boy must travel through time (and space!) to save their island home and rescue the Keepers who’ve been lost to history before the Losers manage to capture them all.
Blueberry Pancakes Forever: Finding Serendipity Book Three - In this third middle-grade adventure from the author of Finding Serendipity, Tuesday McGillycuddy must grapple with a new villain in the Land of Story. After an unthinkable loss, time seems to freeze for Tuesday and her mother, the famous author Serendipity Smith. In the land of story, Vivienne Small’s world is frozen too—a perpetual winter has fallen. When a terrible villain takes Vivienne hostage, it’s up to Tuesday to save her friend—and herself. On her quest, she’ll discover what lies at the bottom of her heart, and at the heart of her writing. Beautifully told with warmth and joy, this great adventure is a celebration of life—and love. Don’t miss this heartwarming conclusion to the Finding Serendipity series!
Cucumber Quest: The Melody Kingdom - Now with Princess Nautilus as part of their entourage, Cucumber and Almond travel to Trebleopolis to warn Princess Piano that Noisemaster, second of the Nightmare Knight’s minions, might be after her! Unfortunately, they arrive just in time for Queen Cymbal’s birthday and the Queen refuses to stop the festivities . . . that is until Noisemaster succeeds in capturing Princess Piano and threatens to destroy the city. Adapted from the popular webcomic series of the same name, Cucumber Quest: The Melody Kingdom is the third book of a clever, adorable, and hilarious four-volume heroic adventure that is sure to make you hungry for sweets and action.
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Books About Rescue and Superpowers
Super Spooked
Written by Gina Bellisario and illustrated by Jessika von Innerebner
Although she has battled supervillains, Ellie has recently become scared of the dark, so when she is invited to a Halloween sleepover at her best friend’s house she is apprehensive—but when the villainous Fairy Frightmare sprinkles the girls with bad dream dust, trapping them all inside their nightmares, Ellie must squash her own fears to rescue her friends.
Kid Normal and the Rogue Heroes
Written by Greg James and Chris Smith
Since becoming Kid Normal, Murph Cooper and the Super Zeroes – fellow students with arguably less-than-useful talents like the ability to conjure tiny horses from thin air – have been catching bad guys all over the place. But being a hero isn’t easy, especially when you can’t tell anyone about your epic adventures and your classmates still don’t believe you’ve got what it takes. And then, far away in a top-secret prison, the world’s most feared supervillain breaks his thirty-year silence. His first words? “Bring Kid Normal to me!” This supervillain was responsible for stealing the powers from some of the greatest Heroes Alliance members of all time. Does Murph have what it takes to bring him down? With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this laugh-out-loud story proves that heroes come in all shapes and sizes.
Written by Alana Harrison and Drew Callander
Wildly funny and inventive, this interactive book pulls you, the reader, into the action. Yes, YOU! You wake up in the fictional land of Astorya, where stories from our world come to life. You’re a real human being (we assume), and in this fictional world, that makes you a superhero. Armed with your trusty pencil you have the power to create: what you write, draw, or scribble in the book becomes part of the story! Only you can rescue Prince S. from the evil Queen Rulette. Aided by the Couriers–a French stoat with dangerous dance moves, a giant dung beetle, a fire ninja, a Pegasus-centaur-cowgirl and a super-intelligent femalien chameleon–you must write, draw, and puzzle your way through a hilarious adventure that is unique to every reader! And most importantly, you must prove that the pencil is mightier than the sword.
Daughters of Steel - Halan was once a powerless princess. Now she’s taken her rightful place as queen of the Magi Kingdom—but she wonders if she’ll ever be the ruler her people deserve. And Nalah used to be a powerful pauper. Now she’s the Queen’s Sword—but the more Nalah’s powers grow, the more unruly they become. One vision changes everything. Nalah embarks on a quest across the desert to harness her powers, while Halan must travel through the Transcendent Mirror to help the Thaumas of New Hadar. As a dark threat draws closer, can Nalah and Halan reunite to save both worlds—and the future of magic?
Centaur School - Demon has always counted on his magical medicine box to help him cure the sick beasts on Mount Olympus. But Chiron, his new healing master, insists Demon learn to find the cures on his own. Demon’s new skills are soon put to the test when he must save an ailing phoenix—or face the wrath of its fiery guards!
Gods of the North - Odin, the ruler of the Asgardians, has an important mission for Demon. Goldbristle, the gods’ prized shining boar, is losing his light. Now Demon must travel to Asgard in the North to search this cold, snowy land for anything that might cure this beast.
The Unicorn Emergency - When he returns to Olympus from Asgard, Demon must calm a groggy volcano monster while figuring out what is wrong with the unicorns.
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Books About Rescue and Monsters
Viking Myths: Volume Two
Written by Jacqueline Morley
Journey to the frozen north for this second spellbinding anthology of Viking myths! Enter the world of Norse mythology, where you’ll find sea monsters, shape-changers, dark forests, and cunning, gold-hoarding underground dwarves. This second volume of Viking tales features more fantastical, entrancing adventures, including Thor’s journey in the land of the giants, and Ragnarok, the apocalyptic battle of the gods, retold in a way that will engage very young readers. Different illustrators bring their distinctive styles to each story.
Jurassic Carp: My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish
Written by Mo O'Hara and illustrated by Marek Jagucki
In the first of two stories, zombie goldfish Frankie is good at saving the day, but the medieval day reenactment joust may be too much, and in the second story, Tom’s evil brother clones a Jurassic carp, putting the school in danger.
The Werewolf Bully
Written by Blake Hoena and illustrated by Dave Bardin
When the Moon is full Frankenstein Elementary is disrupted by Harriet the werewolf and her gang of were-bullies, and tonight they have a new target, a mummy (who is actually a human boy wrapped in toilet paper)—so Brian the zombie and his monster friends come up with a plan to protect the human boy and defeat the bullies.
Treasure of the Golden Skull - Mildew and Sponge don’t think much of Maudlin Towers, the blackened, gloom-laden, gargoyle-infested monstrosity that is their school. But when they are told the school might close, our heroes realize being apart and somewhere else could be even worse! What starts out as a secret hunt for buried treasure quickly becomes weirder than Mildew and Sponge could ever have imagined. Who is that new boy who can get people to do whatever he wants just by looking them intently in the eye? (A hypnotist!) Why does that strange teacher have tattoos and a beard? (He’s really a pirate also looking for the treasure!) Could their heartbroken English teacher hold the key to this riddle of riddles? (Just maybe…) Most importantly, can Mildew and Sponge save the day – and the school – once more?
King Flashypants and the Creature from Crong - Something is frightening the people of Crong—something with long, sharp teeth, seven eyes, and an appetite for goats. The monster’s name is the Voolith, and it won’t stop until it has gobbled up everything in its path! When news reaches Edwinland, King Edwin decides he must cross the wilderness and defeat the Voolith in single combat. Even if he doesn’t quite know what “single combat” means. This next King Flashypants adventure has it all—jousting, evil plots, mini golf, fire-breathing toads, and hilarity at every turn.
Twist - A group of gifted kids must band together to save their town and a fantasy world from horror-story monsters come to life in this imaginative middle-grade novel. Eli has a dream. He’s going to be the next Stephen King, and he’s just created his best monster yet! Neha has a secret. Her notebook is filled with drawings of a fantasy world called Forest Creeks, and it’s become inhabited by wonderful imaginary creatures. But her new friends are in danger . . . Court has a gift, both for finding trouble and for stopping it. And when she accidentally ends up with one of Neha’s drawings, she quickly realizes that the monsters raiding Forest Creeks are coming from Eli’s stories. When these three creative kids come together, they accidentally create a doorway from Forest Creeks into the real world, and now every monster that Eli ever imagined has been unleashed upon their town!
Beet Juice Buddies - Mina the vampire and her family are on vacation in Transylvania, and Mina has two problems—she has to conceal the fact that she prefers beet juice to blood when she meets great-great-great grandpa Drac, and she needs to rescue a group of tourists who do not realize that they are on the dinner menu.
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Books About Rescue and Imagination
A Week Without Tuesday
Written by Angelica Banks and illustrated by Stevie Lewis
A charming adventure full of magic and mystery, set in the land where stories come from.
Something is broken in the land of story. Real and imaginary worlds are colliding—putting everything and everyone in grave peril. Tuesday and Baxterr, at the request of the Librarian, and with the help of Vivienne Small, venture to find the Gardener—the one person who can stop this catastrophe. On their way, they’ll meet friends and foes, and discover strengths they didn’t know they had. Will they be able to save the land of story?
Sam & Eva
Written and illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Harold and the Purple Crayon meets Tom and Jerry in this sweet and funny picture book about a boy and girl who must balance their creativity and figure out how to cooperate after their drawings come to life.
When Sam starts drawing a super cool velociraptor, Eva decides to join in. But Sam isn’t too happy about the collaboration. Soon Eva and Sam are locked in an epic creative clash, bringing to life everything from superhero marmots to exploding confetti. But when their masterpieces turn to mayhem will Sam stay stubbornly solo or will he realize that sometimes the best work comes from teamwork?
Snared: Lair of the Beast
Written by Adam Jay Epstein
Thanks to a crew of misfit treasure-seekers, Wily Snare has assumed his rightful place as King of Panthasos. Wily knew how to be a great trapsmith—devising and building various contraptions to keep plunderers at bay—but he has no idea how to be a good king.
And he hasn’t escaped his past. Stalag, the Cavern Mage who once kept him locked away, is amassing an army of stone soldiers to seize the kingdom. Wily’s only hope is to tame a lair beast—the one creature that stands a chance against Stalag’s army. But first, Wily and his friends will need to survive the journey to the fabled “Below”—where the lair beast dwells.
This action-packed fantasy adventure is filled with snappy dialogue, dangerous creatures, spirited adventure, and inventive magic to appeal to readers 8–12.
Bad Mermaids: On the Rocks - Smart, daring mermaid trio Beattie, Mimi and Zelda, along with Steve the talking seahorse, may have saved the Hidden Lagoon from danger once . . . But now they’re trapped aboard a spooky ship called the Merry Mary, which is heading for the legendary (and super fashionable) Crocodile Kingdom. Can they avoid a crab-tastrophe and swim against the tide to get back home? Meanwhile, on land, an ice-cream seller and gadget expert named Paris Silkensocks has uncovered a plot to destroy the mermaid world. Will she will be able to find and warn the mermaids of the impending danger before it’s too late? This second book in a hilarious paper-over-board series that?s The Little Mermaid meets My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish is filled with delightful black-and-white illustrations.
Pop Goes the Bubble Trouble - When bubble creatures start disappearing from the World of Make-Believe, Daisy and Posey are on the case in this eighth Daisy Dreamer chapter book! When Posey spots the quarter vending machines with plastic bubbles filled with tiny toys at Daisy’s local store, he tries to talk to them. But when they don’t answer, Daisy explains that the bubbles are just toys in the real world. So Posey invites Daisy to the World of Make-Believe, where, of course, there’s an entire world inside of those machines! Bubble creatures happily live in their plastic capsules, but it turns out there’s a tiny problem. A giant has been “borrowing” those bubble friends! Can Daisy and Posey save those bubbles before they go pop? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Daisy Dreamer chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.
The Rose Legacy - This sweeping, emotionally-resonant fantasy from beloved author Jessica Day George is perfect for fans of Princess Academy and Black Beauty. When orphaned Anthea Cross-Thornley receives a letter from a long-lost uncle, she wonders if she will finally find a true home. But she is shocked to learn that her uncle secretly breeds horses—animals that have been forbidden in her kingdom for centuries. More alarming is Anthea’s strange ability to sense the horses’ thoughts and feelings, an ancient gift called The Way. Confused and terrified, Anthea is desperate to leave, but when her family and kingdom are put at risk, can she embrace The Way and the exciting future it might bring her?
Spy Toys: Out of Control - Fresh from the success of their first mission, our heroes the Spy Toys – Dan the Snugaliffic Cuddlestar Bear, Arabella the Loadsasmiles Sunshine Doll and Flax the custom-made police robot rabbit – are ready for their next task. This time, the secret code that controls every Snaztacular Ultrafun toy has been stolen and all over the world toys are revolting and turning against the children who own them. Can Arabella disguise herself as a super-sweet little doll in order to spy on the daughter of Snaztacular’s top scientist? Can Dan and Flax chase down Jade the Jigsaw, the puzzling prime suspect for the robbery? And can they save the day before the mind-controlled toys forget what it means to play nice? Featuring hilarious illustrations throughout, this hilarious book has reluctant reader appeal written all over it.
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Written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler
When a tiny snail meets a humpback whale, the two travel together to far-off lands. It’s a dream come true for the snail, who has never left home before. But when the whale swims too close to shore, will the snail be able to save her new friend?
The Baby Firebird
In a land far, far away, a small group of animal lovers work to keep magical creatures safe from the grasp of the evil Sir Fitzroy in this third book in the brand-new Secret Rescuers chapter book series! Talia lives in a tropical rainforest that is home to a flock of magical firebirds. One day she meets a baby firebird and they become best friends. But the firebirds are in terrible danger. Can Talia and her friend Lucas protect the firebirds, and save their home from destruction?
The Nameless City: The Divided Earth
Written and illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks
The Nameless City—held by the rogue Dao prince Erzi—is under siege by a coalition of Dao and Yisun forces who are determined to end the war for the Nameless City once and for all. And the people of the city—the “Named”—are caught in between. Meanwhile, Rat and Kai must infiltrate Erzi’s palace and steal back the ancient and deadly formula for napatha, the ancient weapon of mass destruction Erzi has unearthed—before he can use it to destroy everything Rat and Kai hold dear! In her third and final installment in the Nameless City trilogy, Faith Erin Hicks delivers a heart-thumping conclusion. With deft world-building, frantic battle scenes, and a gentle and moving friendship at its heart, the Nameless City has earned its place as one of the great fantasy series of our time.
Rain Reign - A New York Times Bestseller! Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She’s thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose’s rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose’s obsessions, her rules, and the other things that make her different – not her teachers, not other kids, and not her single father. When a storm hits their rural town, rivers overflow, the roads are flooded, and Rain goes missing. Rose’s father shouldn’t have let Rain out. Now Rose has to find her dog, even if it means leaving her routines and safe places to search. Hearts will break and spirits will soar for this powerful story, brilliantly told from Rose’s point of view.
The Fantastic Library Rescue and Other Major Plot Twists - Ruby Starr’s life is totally back on track. Her lunchtime book club, the Unicorns, is better than ever. And she and Charlotte, her once archnemesis, are now really good friends. The only thing she’s really worried about is an upcoming poetry assignment. She’s a reader, not a poet! Then, disaster strikes when Ruby learns that her most favorite place in the world, the school library, is in financial trouble. Ruby knows she and her friends have to do something to help. She has to find a way to save the day before the story ends in disaster.
Operation Rescue Dog - This sweet story about a girl named Alma and a stray dog named Lulu shows how a girl and a dog can rescue each other. Lulu’s ears flap in the wind as the rescue truck rolls into the lot. Lulu’s tail thumps— Everything smells . . . new. Lulu sleeps under the moon, drinking from mud puddles and is covered in ticks until she is rescued. She waits for the Operation Rescue Dog truck, scared and uncertain. Alma misses her Mami, who is far away in Iraq. Alma wears Mami’s scarf around her like a hug. She wonders: Can a dog feel like a hug? In this heartwarming and moving picture book, a lonely child and a lonely dog come together and find warmth, companionship, and love in each other.
The Chupacabras of the Río Grande - The fourth book in the fully illustrated, globe-trotting middle grade fantasy-adventure series about mythical creatures and their cultures of origin, from the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Inquisitor’s Tale. Elliot and Uchennna have only just returned from their most recent Unicorn Rescue Society mission when they (along with Jersey!) are whisked away on their next exciting adventure with Professor Fauna. This time, they’re headed to the Mexican border to help another mythical creature in need: the chupacabras! The Chupacabras of the Río Grande is co-written with David Bowles, author of the Pura Belpré Honor-winning book, The Smoking Mirror!
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Books About Rescue and Sleuthing
The Mystery of the Zorse's Mask
Written by Linda Joy Singleton
When a mysterious stranger claims to own Becca’s beloved zorse, Zed, something seems suspicious. Besides, if this person is Zed’s real owner, the Curious Cat Spy Club fears he might be responsible for abusing Zed in the past. Kelsey, Becca, and Leo are determined to uncover the truth before they have to give Zed away. But when a daring rescue attempt puts Kelsey in danger, does the CCSC have enough spy skills to save her or are they in over their heads?
No Rules: A Friday Barnes Mystery
Written by R. A. Spratt and illustrated by Phil Gosier
In the fourth book of the Friday Barnes Mystery series, can Friday Barnes prove Ian’s innocence, find the Highcrest Academy prankster, and save her school? If it involves running, then probably no, but if not . . . Friday’s on the case!
Big Trouble: A Friday Barnes Mystery
The mystery hits close to home when Friday learns her mother has been kidnapped. But she’s distracted by other happenings at school: a new VIP student (a Norwegian princess!) has just arrived and a master thief called the Pimpernel is causing chaos across campus. Can Friday crack the case of her missing mother, reign in a royal brat, and unmask the elusive Pimpernel?
Kelsey the Spy - Kelsey can’t resist collecting secrets in her spy notebook—just like her hero, Harriet the Spy. When she learns Leo has been hiding something from the group, she writes his secret in her notebook as well. But Kelsey accidentally brings her Notebook of Secrets to school and loses it. Everything she’s collected about classmates, friends, and family could be released into the world! When she receives a ransom note, she tries to solve the mystery on her own but soon realizes she needs everyone in the CCSC to rescue the notebook, help a homesick 130-year-old Aldabra tortoise, and unmask a thief. A surprise ending changes Kelsey’s life in a way she never imagined.
The Danger Gang and the Isle of Feral Beasts! - Ronald Zupan and the rest of the Danger Gang are back for their second rip-roaring adventure, perfect for fans of Indiana Jones and Lemony Snicket, fully illustrated by Arree Chung. “The ride of a lifetime.” —Matt de la Peña, Newbery Award-winning author on The Danger Gang and the Pirates of Borneo! Ronald Zupan, his quick-witted fencing partner Julianne Sato, and his trusty butler Jeeves are off on another adventure. This time, they’re trying to rescue the movie star Josh Brigand—who was kidnapped from his latest film premiere by the dreaded Liars’ Club. As the Danger Gang races to save their friend, they face off with a poisoning poet, a band of Roman candle-wielding thugs, and thousands of feral foxes. When their skills of deduction are put to the ultimate test, will Ronald and his pals be able to stick together long enough to rescue Josh and defeat the Liar’s Club once and for all? Fully illustrated by picture book talent Arree Chung, this hilarious, high-action series is a must-have for all adventurers.
The Great Shelby Holmes Meets Her Match - Acclaimed author Elizabeth Eulberg continues her hilarious middle-grade twist on Sherlock Holmes as detective duo Shelby and Watson face a culprit who might be able to do the impossible—outsmart Shelby. Eleven-year-old John Watson never expected his first friend in his new Harlem neighborhood to be Shelby Holmes, a nine-year-old, four-foot-tall supersleuth whose incredible smarts are outweighed only by her big attitude. But it turns out that solving mysteries with Shelby is just the adventure that aspiring writer John needs. On John’s very first day of school in New York, Shelby deduces that their new science teacher, Mr. Crosby, is in trouble. But as Shelby and John dig deeper to expose the truth, they discover there might be someone unexpected involved . . . Someone determined to outsmart Shelby Holmes. Can Shelby and John uncover the truth before the case goes from puzzling to downright dangerous? Don’t miss the rest of the Great Shelby Holmes series: The Great Shelby Holmes The Great Shelby Holmes Meets Her Match The Great Shelby Holmes and the Coldest Case
Mission Defrostable - Our favorite breakfast food friends are back and all bready for their next adventure! Can they save the fridge before all the food is iced? It’s mission . . . defrostable. “And now with the two of you out of the fold, I’ve got my revenge and I’m serving it cold!” Brrr! There’s a frost in the fridge—and it’s hardened Pudding Pond and frozen Yogurt Falls. Agent Asparagus is on the case, and she begs Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast to join her superspy team. But when the enemy snatches Asparagus, Pancake and French Toast have only one dough man to turn to for help: the evil Baron von Waffle! Will he help them save the fridge . . . or are they doomed to become frozen food?
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Books About Rescue and Bravery
The Star Wolf
Emma rescues a baby star wolf who was caught in a trap in this fifth book in the adorable Secret Rescuers series. Emma lives in a forest full of magical creatures like star wolves! The wolves’ special song makes the stars appear in the sky every night. When Emma rescues a baby star wolf from a trap, she knows she must return the pup to his family. Can she be brave enough to go on a night-time adventure and help to keep the stars shining?
The Hunt for the Mad Wolf's Daughter
Written by Diane Magras
The companion to a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Kids’ Indie Next List Pick—a heart-pounding adventure starring a strong heroine who will protect the people she loves at all costs—perfect for reading aloud with the whole family In this Scottish medieval adventure, after rescuing her war-band family and the wounded Lord Emerick from Faintree Castle, Drest learns that Emerick’s traitorous uncle has claimed the castle for his own and convinced the knights that Emerick has been slain . . . at her hand. Now with a hefty price on her head, Drest must find a way to escape treacherous knights and take back the castle for Emerick, all the while proving to her father, the “Mad Wolf of the North,” and her irrepressible band of brothers that she is destined for more than a life of running and hiding. Even if that means redefining what it means to be a warrior.
Rules for Thieves
After twelve-year-old orphan, Alli Rosco, is cursed with a deadly spell, she must join the legendary Thieves Guild in order to try and save herself in this high-stakes debut.
The Restless Girls - For her twelve daughters, the Queen’s death is a loss beyond their mother: the King decides his daughters must be kept safe at all costs, which includes their lessons, possessions, and even their freedom. While locked away most hours of the day and night, they stumble upon a hidden, magical world, and it seems a perfect temporary escape. Their outings do not go unnoticed, however, and the King announces a contest: the man who discovers where the princesses go each night can marry the girl of his choice and become ruler of the kingdom. But the sisters will not bend to this fate, so they determine to save themselves in a brilliant twist. The Restless Girls is a sparkling whirl of a fairytale that doesn’t need a prince to save the day, and instead is full of brave, resourceful, clever young women.
The Fourth Ruby - Jack and Gwen are back in this dynamic follow-up to The Lost Property Office. It’s been a year since Jack Buckles discovered the Keep beneath Baker Street, an underground tower no Section Thirteen was ever supposed to see; a year since his dad fell into a coma. Nothing has been the same since. Jack’s tracker abilities are on the fritz, Gwen’s not speaking to him and, what’s worse, there’s a pounding voice in his head calling for “the flame.” Then, Jack and Gwen are framed for the theft of a historic crown jewel—the Black Prince’s Ruby, one of three cursed rubies said to bring knowledge, loyalty, and the command of nations to whomever wields them all. Now, they must retrieve the other jewels before the true thief does, or risk unleashing a reign of terror unlike anything history’s ever seen.
Stolen Identity - When someone is out to frame Frank and Joe for the theft of an original Sherlock Holmes manuscript, they use a group of skateboarders as sources of information in their attempt to clear their names.
Spirit of the Jungle - This middle-grade re-imagination of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is a nod to the original with a fresh adventure and survival story from the #1 survivalist himself, Bear Grylls. Thirteen-year-old Mak and his conservationist mother have the opportunity to travel from their home in London to a remote part of India, a village on the Wainganga River. Mak feels most at home outdoors, the wind in his hair and the chill pinching his face. But once they arrive, Mak finds India to be staggeringly different from what he expected, the suffocating heat, and the constant calls of the jungle. It’s worlds away from Britain. The villagers tease Mak with folk stories about a boy named Mowgli who went missing in the jungle as a baby and was raised by wild wolves. He knows it’s just a folk story, but Mak can’t help but be threatened by so many wild animals. When a routine outing turns treacherous, a monsoon divides Mak from his parents, leaving him alone and exposed to the dangers of the wild. He pulls himself together and throws himself into survival. A wolf befriends Mak and guides him on his journey. Mak’s quest to find his parents and his way back to the village is fraught with peril, poachers, adventure, and a new appreciation for this exotic and fearsome jungle. Spirit of the Jungle is a thrilling way to introduce new readers to The Jungle Book, written by the star of such hit wildnerness survival and reality TV shows as The Island with Bear Grylls, Man vs. Wild / Born Survivor, Bear Grylls: Mission Survive, and Running Wild with Bear Grylls.
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Books About Rescue and Family
Reign of Outlaws
Written and illustrated by Kekla Magoon
Robyn Hoodlum’s acclaimed story comes to a rousing conclusion in this high-adventure retelling of the classic Robin Hood tale that Rick Riordan hailed as “compelling.” When twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley set out to save her parents, she never could’ve predicted that she would become Robyn Hoodlum, leader of the rebellion against the harsh government led by Ignomus Crown. But Robyn’s attempt to free her parents has failed, and on top of that, her friends have been captured. And now Crown has given her 72 hours to turn herself in—or else. Now Robyn must decide between sacrificing herself, saving her parents and friends, or advancing the rebellion. With the stakes higher than ever, will Robyn be able to succeed? With an unforgettable heroine and a diverse band of characters, readers will be on the edge of their seats in this action-packed, much-anticipated series conclusion.
Last Viking Returns The
Written by Norman Jorgensen and illustrated by James Foley
Josh is as brave as a Viking warrior. And not much can scare a Viking. Not even bullies. But the two littlest Vikings are so fearless they think they’re invincible. When Pop takes the family to Viking World, the two littlest Vikings go berserk. Josh is in for one rocky ride as he discovers just how far he’ll go to keep them safe.
James to the Rescue - “Marvin the beetle is going collecting with his family. All is good and well until Uncle Albert gets hurt. Marvin needs his human friend James’s help to save Uncle Albert before it’s too late”—
A Nearer Moon - Long ago the dam formed, the lively river turned into a swamp, and the wasting illness came to Luna’s village, and now that her little sister is sick Luna will do anything to save her, even offer herself to the creature that lives in the swamp on the day of the nearer moon—a lonely and bitter water sprite who was left behind when her people fled through a door to another world.
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Books About Rescue and Getting Lost
Maya and the Lost Cat
Written and illustrated by Caroline Magerl
Where does Cat live, and who can lead the way there? A lyrical, charmingly offbeat tale about wanderlust and family, rescue and finding home. On a roof, as wet as a seal, as gray as a puddle, Cat was rumbling, a rumbly purr. What will lure Cat down? Feather boas? Pretty pink shoelaces? A boatful of fish under a tiny tin sail? Maya finally succeeds, only to watch Cat jump on the roof again, above a thousand lit windows, one of which must be Cat’s own. As the rain keeps coming down, how can Maya help Cat find its home? With whimsical watercolors both fluid and full of expression, Caroline Magerl portrays a child on a mission and an adventurous cat who keeps its mysteries as quiet as its paws in a story that follows a kindly impulse to an unexpected conclusion.
Trouble at School for Marvin & James
Written by Elise Broach and illustrated by Kelly Murphy
In the new Masterpiece Adventure Trouble at School for Marvin & James, the third in a series for younger readers from bestselling author Elise Broach, Marvin the beetle is off to school with James for the very first time! Everything runs smoothly on this big adventure until the bell rings after lunch and Marvin gets separated from James. In fact, he gets accidentally thrown away! Will Marvin make it back home to his family? How will James find him?
Pony in the City
Written and illustrated by Wendy Wahman
Otis wants to know about the kids who ride at his stables. Do they sleep in stalls? Do they also get brushed and braided? The older ponies ignore his questions, so Otis heads to the city to see for himself. And he finds answers, but he gets lost, too . . . until some of his favorite friends come to the rescue. Kids will relate to this sweet story about an adorable, inquisitive little pony.
Puffin Peter - Kids will delight in this witty story of mistaken identity from acclaimed author-illustrator Petr Horácek. Peter and Paul are puffins and the best of friends. But one day Peter gets lost in a terrible storm, and Paul is nowhere to be found. With the help of a big blue whale, Peter sets out, determined to find his pal. What the pair discovers is that many other birds match the description Peter gives of Paul, but none are quite like his friend. With gorgeous collage artwork and a lighthearted touch, this fun read-aloud tale will both amuse and enlighten.
Lost Property Office - A little girl and her mother are on the train, going to visit Grandpa. It’s very busy—hold on tight! But when they arrive at their destination and get off the train they realize something is wrong: the little girl’s beloved teddy bear has gone missing! Just when it looks like she’ll never see Teddy again, Grandpa has an idea! And suddenly the little girl is off on a magical journey to rescue her favorite stuffed friend. Have you ever wondered where your lost objects go? With charming and stylish illustrations, this book is perfect for curious minds.
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Books About Rescue and Detectives
Mia Measures Up
Written and illustrated by Coco Simon
Mia is being cyber-bullied, and she’s determined to find out who is responsible in the latest addition to the Cupcake Diaries series. Mia is upset when her parents tell her she’s too young to go to a concert without adult supervision. She’s old enough to help run a cupcake business! Why can’t her parents see that she’s also responsible enough to do whatever she wants? And just when she’s reached a compromise with her parents (her older brother Dan will go to the concert with her), Mia finds out she’s being cyber-bullied on social media. It’s the Cupcake Club to the rescue as they all help Mia solve her online bullying mystery!
Bear Country
Written by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Stephen Gilpin
The Chicken Squad is back for their sixth (mis)adventure, and this time there’s a headless bear on the loose and the Chicken Squad’s beloved Barbara has gone missing! A “lip-bitingly funny” (School Library Journal) chapter book from the bestselling author of Click, Clack, Moo and Cyclone. It’s fall in the backyard, and though the weather is cooling down, the crime solving business is still hot. When the Chicken Squad’s neighbor Anna McClanahanahan comes looking for her missing hamster one morning, it’s an easy case to solve (Ziggy always takes a stroll from 6:30 to 7:15 a.m.). The Chicken Squad is now ready to settle in for a relaxing day of knitting—that is, until Ziggy points out that Barbara, the Chicken Squad’s caretaker—the one who FEEDS THEM!!—is missing! And not only that, but there have been sightings of a headless bear in the neighborhood! Will the Chicken Squad be able to save their beloved Barbara and get some breakfast? Or will this case be too much to bear?
Password to Larkspur Lane
Written by Carolyn Keene
Blue bells will be singing horses! This strange message, attached to the leg of a wounded homing pigeon, involves Nancy Drew in a dangerous mission. Somewhere an elderly woman is being held prisoner in a mansion, and Nancy is determined to find and free her. Meanwhile, the young detective’s close friend, Helen, begs her to solve a second mystery. Helen’s grandparents, the Cornings, are frightened by a sinister wheel of blue fire that appears after dark in the woods outside their home at lonely Sylvan Lake. When Nancy discovers the significance of the eerie signal, she also learns that her two mysteries are connected.
Nancy Drew 51: Mystery of the Glowing Eye - When Nancy Drew eagerly agrees to help her lawyer father solve the mystery of the glowing eye, she has no way of knowing that it will involve the kidnapping of her close friend Ned Nickerson. A puzzling note in Ned’s handwriting set Nancy and her friends Bess and George on a hazardous search for a bizarre criminal. From their base of operations, the Emerson College campus, the three girl detectives and Ned’s college pals follow a maze of clues to locate the kidnapper’s hideout and rescue Ned. Not only is Nancy greatly worried about Ned, but also she is alarmed by the high-handed methods of a woman lawyer who tries to take the case away from her. Readers will follow Nancy’s exciting adventures as she unravels this dangerous web of mystery.
The Clue in the Old Album - Nancy Drew witnesses a purse snatching and runs after the thief. She rescues the purse, but not its contents, then is asked by the owner, a doll collector, to do some detective work. Readers will enjoy Nancy’s clever ways of finding all she seeks, and bringing happiness to a misunderstood child and her lonely grandmother.
How Kate Warne Saved President Lincoln - In 1856, when Kate Warne went to see Allan Pinkerton, only men were detectives. But Kate convinced Allan to hire her for his detective agency. She explained that she could worm out secrets where men could not go—in disguise as a society lady! Join Kate on her most important mission—to thwart a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the way to his inauguration.
The Mysterious Caravan - When the Hardy Boys take a winter vacation in Jamaica, Joe finds an ancient bronze death mask washed up near their beach house during a violent storm. Helping the Hardys and their friends in this bizarre mystery is William, a Jamaican boy, who flies to New York with startling news, only to be intercepted and held for ransom—the death mask! Frank and Joe must rescue William, plunge into their father’s airline-ticket theft case, and fly into a maze of danger in Africa.
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Books About Rescue and Courage
Claire Martinson still worries about her older sister Sophie, who battled a mysterious illness last year. But things are back to normal as they move into Windermere Manor . . . until the sisters climb a strange ladder in a fireplace and enter the magical land of Arden.
There, they find a world in turmoil. The four guilds of magic no longer trust each other, the beloved unicorns have disappeared, and terrible wraiths roam freely. Scared, the girls return home. But when Sophie vanishes in the night, it will take all of Claire’s courage to climb back up the ladder, find her sister, and uncover the unicorns’ greatest secret.
Freddie Ramos Zooms to the Rescue
Written by Jacqueline Jules and illustrated by Miguel Benitez
A very unusual squirrel is spotted in and around Starwood Elementary School, and when Freddie uses his Zapato Power to chase it, he finds more than one opportunity to be a hero.
The Adventures of Henry Whiskers
Written by Gigi Priebe and illustrated by Daniel Duncan
Henry Whiskers must face his fears and rescue his little sister from the scary Rat Alley in this fun, fast-paced debut chapter book set in Queen Mary’s historical dollhouse at Windsor Castle. Twenty-five generations of Whiskers have lived in Windsor Castle’s most famous exhibit: Queen Mary’s Dollhouse. For young, book-loving Henry Whiskers and his family, this is the perfect place to call home. But when the dollhouse undergoes unexpected repairs and Henry’s youngest sister, Isabel, goes missing, he risks everything in a whisker-whipping race against time to save her. His rescue mission will take him to the murky and scary world of Rat Alley, and Henry will have to dig deep and find the courage he never knew he had in order to bring his sister back home.
River Runs Deep - Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to fight a case of consumption—and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad.
Into the Night to Save the Day! - Go into the night to save the day with Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko in this 8x8 storybook based on PJ Masks, the hit preschool series airing on Disney Junior! It’s a Cat-astrophe! When Romeo kidnaps Amaya and Greg and steals their pajamas, it’s up to Catboy to save his friends! But can Catboy do it on his own, or will it take teamwork to save the day? PJ Masks © Frog Box / Entertainment One UK Limited / Walt Disney EMEA Productions Limited 2014
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Books About Rescue and Outer Space
CatStronauts: Space Station Situation
Written by Drew Brockington
In the third book in the CatStronauts graphic novel series, your favorite elite team of cat astronauts is a member short—one of the team has quit! When chief science officer Pom Pom rejoins the CatStronauts on the International Space Station, she has to get to work right away—the Hubba Bubba Telescope isn’t working, and CATSUP is losing funding by the day! But as the CatStronauts and Mission Control race to find answers, the unthinkable happens and pilot Waffles is forced to orbit the Earth in nothing but his space suit. Even though he’s no scaredy cat, Waffles has a hard time staying out in space. When disaster on a global scale rears its head, will a fractured CatStronauts team be enough to save the day? In this full color graphic novel, debut author/illustrator Drew Brockington takes the CatStronauts to the brink, adding in mounds of jokes, charm, asteroid showers, and enough tuna for everyone!
Stink Moody in Master of Disaster
Written by Megan McDonald and illustrated by Erwin Madrid
Stink takes a star turn—and helps stave off cosmic calamity—in a new Judy Moody & Friends adventure just right for newly independent readers. Look up! Look out! A comet is coming, a comet is coming! Stink is camped out in the backyard with his sister, Judy, and he can’t wait to lay eyes on P/2015 OZ4, also known as the Sherman-Holm Comet. But then news of an asteroid hitting Russia reaches Stink, and suddenly he’s feeling squeamish (and squash-ish) about close encounters of the outer-space kind. Will donning an aluminum-foil cape and building a bunker in the basement help keep him safe? Can this fearless Asteroid Boy save Earth from disaster?
Patrick Griffin's First Birthday on Ith
Written by Ned Rust
The second book in an absurdly funny, middle-grade action-adventure series about a boy’s quest to prevent a parallel world from taking over Earth. “Part Narnia, part Home Alone. It wouldn’t have shocked me to learn the book had been written by some guy named Lemony Vonnegut.” —James Patterson, New York Times-bestselling author, on Patrick Griffin’s Last Breakfast on Earth After learning Earth is about to be destroyed, 12-year-old Patrick Griffin is on a mission. Under the protection of a powerful griffin, Patrick and his friend Oma travel through abandoned cities on the planet Ith, hiding from the enemy while they work out a plan to overthrow the alternate world’s sinister government. Back on Earth, the gigantic jackalope Mr. BunBun and nine adorable numbats race to warn humans about impending doom. But time is running out. The evil Rex Abraham is back on Ith and will stop at nothing to continue his domination of the Three Worlds. Breathtaking suspense, elements of science fiction and fantasy, and surprising twists come together in Ned Rust’s Patrick Griffin’s First Birthday on Ith, the second book of the page-turning Patrick Griffin and the Three Worlds trilogy. Praise for Patrick Griffin’s Last Breakfast on Earth: “There is plenty of comedy along the way, mostly focused around puns or interplanetary misunderstandings. Under the jokey exterior, though, there’s some deep stuff about the way we allow ourselves to be controlled by technology, so the book offers more than just laughs for the perceptive reader.” —The Bulletin “Clever—and utterly bonkers.” —Kirkus Reviews “Imaginative.” —School Library Journal “A terrific read, magic really, an adolescent book for adults, an adult book for adolescents, a funny, wise, enthralling romp from fist page to last . . . So much better than Harry Potter” —Peter Quinn, Author of Hour of the Cat Titles in the Patrick Griffin and the Three Worlds trilogy: Patrick Griffin’s Last Breakfast on Earth Patrick Griffin’s First Birthday on Ith Patrick Griffin’s Deadliest Day Ever
How to Properly Dispose of Planet Earth - Popular New Yorker cartoonist Paul Noth continues his illustrated middle grade series about a boy, his wacky family, and an out-of-this-world adventure in this laugh-out-loud sequel to How to Sell Your Family to the Aliens. Happy Conklin Jr. is still the only 10-year-old who has to shave three times a day, thanks to being tested on by his inventor father. And it’s safe to say Hap is the only 10-year-old who accidentally sold his entire family to aliens. The good news is that Hap managed to save his family—including his tyrannical Grandma—but now the Conklins face a problem that might put the whole world in danger . . . Hap wants a girl in his sixth-grade science class to be his lab partner but lacks the courage to even talk to her. Through the mysterious powers of Squeep! the lizard, he finds a way to overcome this fear but also, unfortunately, opens a black hole in his middle school that will swallow the solar system unless he’s able to stop it. In his race against time to save everything, he’s helped by his sister Kayla, greatly hindered by his sister Alice, and uncovers the truth about Grandma’s plan to take over the Galaxy.
Ambassador - Gabe Fuentes is in for the ride of his life when he becomes Earth’s ambassador to the galaxy in this otherworldly adventure from the National Book Award–winning author of Goblin Secrets. Gabe Fuentes is reading under the covers one summer night when he is interrupted by a creature who looks like a purple sock puppet. The sock puppet introduces himself as the Envoy and asks if Gabe wants to be Earth’s ambassador to the galaxy. What sane eleven-year-old could refuse? Some ingenious tinkering with the washing machine sends Gabe’s “entangled” self out to the center of the galaxy. There he finds that Earth is in the path of a destructive alien force—and Gabe himself is the target of an assassination.
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The OUHSD proposes to construct and operate a new neighborhood high school to accommodate existing and anticipated future enrollment in the District. The new school facilities are designed to meet the educational and recreational needs of up 2,500 students in grades 9-12. A Civic Center Act (CCA) is proposed for community use to provide additional recreation opportunities to the community after school hours. Facilities proposed for community use under the CCA include practice fields, JV baseball and softball fields, pool, outdoor basketball courts, tennis courts, performing arts center and parking. Operation of the new high school is anticipated for the 2022-2023 school year.
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Northeast corner of Rose Avenue and Camino Del Sol, Ventura County
Oxnard Union High School District Office 309 South K Street, Oxnard, CA 93030
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Altaf Jiwani
CFO, Welspun India Ltd
Being CFO to me means a business partner to the CEO, top management and the Board in creating future ready organisation in the fast changing world.
Deputy Manager (Finance)
CEAT Ltd.
Manager Finance
RPG Enterprises
Controller (Finance)
KEC International Ltd.
General Manager - Finance
Raychem RPG Ltd.
Phillips Carbon Black Limited
Whole Time Director (Finance)
Welspun India Ltd.
Director & CFO
After completing my engineering degree in 1988 I joined a software company, in those days all software development was done in commercial areas so debit, credit, ledger etc were Greek and Latin for me. As a result I decided to study finance and did my MBA in hopes that I would be able to go back to software development after completing them. But I became fascinated with finance and decided to pursue my career in it.
Some of the top reasons why finance and I gel so well together are the speed, analytical skills, opportunity to keep learning and ever increasing challenges have made my journey exciting.
Motto I live my quarters by....
Under commit and over deliver
To be a business partner to the CEO, top management and the Board in creating future ready organisation in the fast changing world. The core for the CFO is management of growth, efficiency and risk. However, the speed with which the changes are happening has increased manifold and therefore, the CFO has to “start early” and “chose wisely”.
My ability to anticipate trends
Real-time charging has replaced pit stops....Paperless export negotiation and global shared service centre to manage scale is the current agenda...
Enhance the business partnering role and seamlessly transition to COOs role, manage key stakeholders relations and establish a future ready finance function.
CFOs should use the technology to enhance controls, compliances, bring in transparency, improvement in speed, accuracy and efficiency for the hygiene role. This will allow the CFOs to become the first line of defence. The core for the CFO is management of growth, efficiency and risk.
Another CFO I look up to
There have been many CFOs whom I look up to for various reasons but one of them who has had an indelible impact on me is Mr. Hari Mundra who was the 1st Group CFO of the RPG Group.
A leader/mentor I you look up to and why
I have been lucky to have met leaders and mentors who have given me challenging assignments and brutally honest feedback in the early part my career. Such assignments not only provided me with various learnings but at the same time gave me a sense of achievement upon their completion.
Acquisition of one of the global carbon black companies in my previous role.
I want to learn how to play guitar.
Most over-rated financial advice
Hold on to your position for long term benefit instead of cutting losses.
Always have an open mind and listen
There are many situations where one has to take the judgement call and rest of the world will have the benefit of hindsight to assess whether that judgement call was right or not and therefore every such judgement call is tough. The stakes involved and the prevailing situation will determine whether it was a tough decision or not.
One such call I remember came in 2008 when we had embarked upon substantial capacity expansion, 60% of our prevailing capacity and we saw the global meltdown. The real challenge here was whether to pursue the expansion or to defer. In the end I took the toughest call of pursuing strategy in the wake of adversity.
What is the most challenging thing you faced in your current role?
Bridging the gap between perception and reality for cotton home textile industry between our country and among the global investors.
What is your biggest learning in these VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguous) times?
Build a smart team, empower them and remove hurdles for them.
The biggest learning is to embrace the technology for driving growth and efficiency, keep an eye on cyber security, listening to customers, other internal as well as external stakeholders, be a voracious reader and establish rigour in reviews.
CFO is deeply involved in strategy and therefore has to be forward looking. More often than not a CFO plays a role of business partner with the CEO to drive growth and efficiency. Consequently, the lines between COO and CFO have blurred and we may see more and more CFOs taking COOs role in additional to the conventional role of the CFOs.
CFOs should use the technology to enhance controls, compliances, bring in transparency, improvement in speed, accuracy and efficiency for the hygiene role. This will create a bandwidth for the CFOs to play the business partnering role to assist the CEO, Board to build a future ready organisation. CFO has become the first line of defence for the Independent Directors from whom the expectations of the regulators, judiciary and investor community have skyrocketed and rightly so in the recent past.
The core business metrics have remained the same but norms have become finer. The speed of reporting has increased and the efforts for generating report has reduced. Further, the process of building strategy, driving growth and efficiency as well as monitoring and mitigating risks have undergone a tectonic shift due to the digital transformation.
For example, big data analytics is playing a significant role in building growth strategy, insights on buying pattern, influencers are shaping the product development and promotion strategy for traditional channel and vice a versa resulting into convergence in true sense. Deploying Robotic Process Automation (RPA), IoT, machine learning will help CFO drive the productivity and cost effectiveness. Affordable computing power and data analytics have allowed controls to be tested for 100% of the transactions instead of sample based and on real time basis instead of batch process. Further, it can now predict potential lapses allowing the CFO to mitigate risks.
Simultaneously, the CFO has to be mindful of the cyber security threat and mitigate this risk which is increasing day by day. Digital transformation is having a profound impact on the traditional role of the CFO and has helped in creating opportunities, head room and bandwidth for the CFO to take on additional responsibility of the COO.
For me it is an ongoing journey which started a couple of years ago with a road map for leveraging data for driving growth and efficiency, using technology to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, playing business partnering role and enhancing cyber security.
Updated - 27th Dec, 2018
Weekend nap
Blink by Malcom Gladwell / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
My comfort food / activity
Going on a walk and doing social service
How am I chupparustam? / One thing no one knows about me?
I am a transparent person.
Skydiving, scuba diving and climbing a snow-capped mountain.
It is not that most people disagree in fact many of them agree but a few of them practice, you get back multiple times of what you give to the society.
Workout, meditation, listening to music and going on a holiday with family.
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2015’s Most Underreported Story: What Exxon Knew
Oil giant Exxon was studying climate change impacts in the 1970s and 80s, and their projections from 35 years ago accurately portray what is happening now.
Knowing what they knew, they chose to continue business as usual.
Now this astounding article in the LA Times.
LATimes:
A few weeks before seminal climate change talks in Kyoto back in 1997, Mobil Oil took out a bluntly worded advertisement in the New York Times and Washington Post.
“Let’s face it: The science of climate change is too uncertain to mandate a plan of action that could plunge economies into turmoil,” the ad said. “Scientists cannot predict with certainty if temperatures will increase, by how much and where changes will occur.”
One year earlier, though, engineers at Mobil Oil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea levels.
“An estimated rise in water level, due to global warming, of 0.5 meters may be assumed” for the 25-year life of the Sable gas field project, Mobil engineers wrote in their design specifications. The project, owned jointly by Mobil, Shell and Imperial Oil (a Canadian subsidiary of Exxon), went online in 1999; it is expected to close in 2017.
The United States has never ratified the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse emissions.
A joint investigation by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism’s Energy and Environmental Reporting Project and the Los Angeles Times earlier detailed how one company, Exxon, made a strategic decision in the late 1980s to publicly emphasize doubt and uncertainty regarding climate change science even as its internal research embraced the growing scientific consensus.
By all means, go to the link and read the entire, jaw-dropping piece.
Anyone with any doubts about whether Exxon will be vulnerable to a RICO action needs to read this.
19 Responses to “2015’s Most Underreported Story: What Exxon Knew”
Brooklyn Culture Jammers Says:
350 dot Org had a people’s tribunal for Exxon at Paris cop21. The resulting video has gotten a cool 114 views on YouTube.
The media is responding to a public that is in massive denial about the seriousness of climate collapse. I thought that the Exxon revelations would be enough to derail the most inane of the deniers’ bromides, but they’re just as prevalent now as they were before the Exxon story broke. Schneiderman’s attempt to bring Exxon to trial will go nowhere as long as people don’t think climate will collapse anytime soon. And the denialists have a stake in all this–to admit that AGW is a serious problem implies that people need to do something about it. It’s an emotional Rubicon that most aren’t willing to address. http://brooklynculturejammers.com/2015/12/17/were-screwed-evidence-no-longer-matters/
Yep. Go look at BCJ’s “we’re screwed” piece. An excellent read—he nails it..
redskylite Says:
Agree it is a well written piece – wish I could sound sincere in wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2016, but after reading that bcj article it sounds kinda forced. Happy New Year DOG !
We have a saying in the U.S. that “The opera ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings”, which may sound like something Yogi Berra said, but came from some sports writer. Some corollaries are “The rodeo ain’t over ’til the bull riders ride”, and “Church ain’t out ’til the fat lady sings”, all of which came from the benighted “Suth’run” parts of our country that have given us Inhofe, Lamer, Gomer, Scott, and Cruz.
Happy new year to you too, Redsky, and don’t despair (yet). The fat lady is merely humming a bit, we are still watching the bronc riders, and the fat lady is dozing in the back of the choir because God and Ben Carson are having an extended conversation and the service is running long
Roger Lambert Says:
RICO?
The L.A. Times article made no mention of any laws that Exxon broke. Exactly what are they going to be charged with?
greenman3610 Says:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/science/exxon-mobil-under-investigation-in-new-york-over-climate-statements.html?_r=0
see also video above.
One set of information for internal use, another for public and investors, might put them in violation of securities laws. per NYTimes –
“The investigation focuses on whether statements the company made to investors about climate risks as recently as this year were consistent with the company’s own long-running scientific research.”
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-investigation-exxonmobil-20151015-story.html
“I think the case is already there to be made,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island. He has raised the possibility of a Justice Department investigation under federal racketeering law. A former prosecutor, he is one of the Senate’s leading voices for action to address the climate crisis.
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/23092015/ExxonMobil-May-Face-Heightened-Climate-Litigation-Its-Critics-Say
“If these allegations against Exxon are true, then Exxon’s actions were immoral,” Lieu and DeSaulnier wrote in the letter. “We request the [Department of Justice] investigate whether ExxonMobil’s actions were also illegal.””
As Greenman3610 pointed out, the numerous speeches given by former Exxon CEO Lee Raymond are not simple bromides uttered by some country bumpkin. He is required by law to give truthful statements to stockholders and to Congress regarding the corporate understanding of the ramifications of the continuing burning of their products. The strategies of sowing confusion about AGW employed by Exxon and its numerous ‘astroturf’ organizations are similar to what the Tobacco industry pursued over some 30 years in denying the health effects of both tobacco use and second-hand smoke. And the tobacco industry agreed to payouts of $206 B over 25 years to the states to compensate for the healthcare effects of smoking.
If it could be proved that Exxon shared its knowledge with other oil companies (and there’s compelling evidence that all the major oil companies knew that AGW was the real thing), NY AG Schneiderman could pursue a RICO case that would force the big oil companies into forfeiture of hundreds of billions in profits. Such a case might also affect the equipment companies (Bechtel and Halliburton). The sheer scale of the damage that has been done by AGW could force the world’s most powerful companies into receivership.
The RICO case is compelling, but IMO the path that will get results sooner is the case that Exxon has violated the securities laws.
Once the fat cats that own most of the stock and wealth in this country realize that Exxon’s misdeeds are going to hit them in their piggy banks, they will go ballistic, and the courts and regulators that the fat cats have bought and paid for will jump to crucify Exxon on their behalf.
I myself will be laughing my rear end off at the spectacle of the plutocratic “cannibalism” that will represent. My only hope is that it doesn’t cause some serious economic disruption when it occurs, and that the 99% doesn’t pay (again) for Exxon’s corporate mal-mis-non-feasance.
0.5 meters in 25 years??? Where did they get that from?
A good question. They did their calculations back in 1996, and 0.5 meters is nearly 20 inches, or a rate of SLR of ~.8 inch per year over the projected 25 year life span of the project. And .8 of an inch per year equates to ~7 feet by the year 2100. Don’t recall anyone predicting that high a rate of SLR back the mid-90’s.
It would seem that they were being way more “alarmist” in the back room about what damage might occur to THEIR property while pooh-poohing global AGW impact to the public. Or maybe they were just being good engineers, who carefully calculate and overbuild things by factors of 5 or 10 to ensure safety (except when they don’t quite get it right, and things break, blow up, poison people, fall down, or heat up the world).
The tobacco industry was never charged with any lawbreaking – their agreement was voluntary. But, remember, if they were guilty of anything, it was misrepresentation of the direct health effects of their product.
Exxon makes petroleum products. These products work as advertised. No one is making a case that Exxon is deceptively advertising a product which has direct effects on the health of its users.
What Exxon knew in the ’70’s from internal reports about [CO2] and AGW is irrelevant to their actions over the last twenty years. Exxon’s scientists had nothing to do with any scientific consensus about AGW, and the company was free to ignore them.
So, the question is, again – exactly what can they be prosecuted for?
I know what *I* would like to see them prosecuted for – crimes against humanity for a deliberate sustained propaganda campaign designed to subvert the scientific consensus, avert regulation of the fossil fuel industry and which has resulted in a lack of political reform which has already killed millions.
But no one else seems to be raising that issue at all. There is just some vague saber-rattling about RICO, and perhaps some sort of securities honesty issue which they can likely delay for decades and settle for billionths of a penny on the dollar.
Russell Cook (@questionAGW) Says:
Commenter Roger Lambert and the collective lot of pro-AGWers would love to prosecute Exxon, Peabody, etc for deliberate sustained propaganda campaigns …….. if only they could prove any such campaign has ever existed. To do so, y’all would have to prove the two sides of the conspiracy (‘shill scientists’ & industry execs) fully knew what they were saying were fabrications, mutually agreed on narratives, and mutually agreed that the fabrications would occur as purchased services from ‘shill scientists’.
And that, friends, is where your whole belief system implodes, because that is all you’ve ever had on the whole matter. You believe corporate donations proves the conspiracy, and you never bothered to follow up on any of the rest of what would be required in courtroom evidentiary hearings. Worst of all, you placed all your beliefs in one basket, an utterly lame initial effort in the early ’90s surrounding a set of leaked memos out of the Western Fuels Association which finally got real media traction at the hands of the non-Pulitzer winner Ross Gelbspan and his pals at “Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action”. No need to trust me on this, dig deep into any repetition of the ‘industry-corrupted skeptic climate scientists’ accusation and they all spiral right back to the same core source.
Keep hammering on prosecuting skeptics for a ‘tobacco industry tactics’ parallel, I openly invite it. It is your funeral if you really want it, though.
Russell the non-lawyer, non-scientist, paid Heartland whore for fossil fuels is back singing his one note Globspit song and lecturing us on matters of courtroom procedure and science.
What you need to “openly invite” is outside comments on your Globspit website, so that we can go over there and challenge your bullshit there rather than waste everyone’s time on Crock. Or have you forgotten that I offered to spend an hour a day there if you opened it up to outside commenters? What about it, Russell? Are you ready to do that?
Now you’ve made another useless comment and can put it on your timecard for Heartland, I’ve helped by responding and doubled its value. Merry Christmas. Now go away.
Whether Exxon (and peers) have broken any law/s, either national or international, is a lengthy conundrum for lawyers, judges and courts to decide. They certainly have broken common decency and violated any pretence of ethics or morals, but I am not surprised, especially in the 1970’s, when bribery and corruption was rife in industry and governments, with large (so called respectable) outfits taking part. I would hope that now in the 21st century that this particular industry would face up to the serious implications that long term use of their product has and is causing, be more ethical and more supportive of promoting, embracing and investing in non carbon producing energy. If they did they could be forgiven for past sins, at least by me. As I type this post, I can heavy building machinery rolling away on a nearby development site, aircraft above, people mowing lawns and trimming weeds, motorway snakes travelling by (EV’s haven’t been promoted much here in N.Z) . We are a long way off from de-carbonizing and are still well and truly hooked on EXXON and peers. I wish we were further along the road in taking action, for our own sakes. But we are not.
To top it all it seems that our dear laws could even challenge the COP21 agreement, who said the law was an ass.
“Trade deal gives polluters power to sue governments who try to implement the Paris agreement”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/climate-change/news/article.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=11567925
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The UK’s Unlikely System of Units
Posted on 22 Aug, 2019 by katlday
The novel Good Omens was first published in 1990. And this is my original copy.
Unless you’ve been asleep for the last few months (if so, are you a snake, by any chance….?) you will have noticed that there’s recently been a very popular television adaptation of the much-loved book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens.
I have always loved this book, and I love the TV show even more. Obsessed? Erm. Anyway. Can I wring a science-themed post for my blog out of a story about a demon and an angel saving the world from Armageddon? Of course I can.
Here goes. There’s a moment in the second episode of the TV adaptation* when the demon, Crowley, is driving his Bentley very, very fast, and the angel, Aziriphale, says: “You can’t do ninety miles an hour in central London!”
This caused a bit of confusion for some non-British viewers§. Not the idea that you can’t, or at least shouldn’t, drive extremely fast in a built-up area, but rather the fact that Britain is a European country, isn’t it? At least, for the moment. Don’t the Europeans use the metric system? Shouldn’t he have said one hundred and forty-five kilometres per hour?
So you thought Brits used the metric system? Haha.
I mean, okay, we do. Scientists in particular are quite keen on it. But we also use imperial units really quite a lot. And coincidently, this all arose just after the politician Jacob Rees-Mogg issued a style guide to his staff declaring that they must “use imperial measurements” — which at first sounds typically Victorian of Rees-Mogg, but actually… if your aim is to at least try to be consistent, he might, just might, have a point…
Allow me to try to explain.
Firstly, a little clarification: the “metric system” is an internationally-recognised decimalised system of measurement, that is, a system where units are related by powers of ten. I stress this because “metric” and “decimal” do not mean quite the same thing, which is relevant when it comes to money. The metric system takes base measurements — kilograms, metres and so on — and says that all versions of those measurements can only be connected by powers of ten, and must not introduce new conversion factors. So, grams (1000th of a kilogram) and tonnes (1000 kilograms) are both metric, but a pound (0.454 of a kilogram) is not. Scientists know this as the SI system of measurements. Okay? Right. Let’s get on to the amusing cocktail of units the British have to cope with in their every day lives…
Britain loves inches.
The length of small-ish objects is measured in centimetres and millimetres. Sometimes. Except the diameter of pizzas, the sides of photos and photo frames, and the diagonal of laptop screens and televisions — all of which are almost always given in inches. Screws, as in woodscrews, are often given in fractions of inches. Let’s not get into jewellery, for that way madness lies.
Longer objects are measured in metres and centimetres, except for the height of people, which is almost always quoted in feet and inches. Chippies (that is carpenters, not people that cook fish and chips — keep up) tend to colloquially use feet and inches for planks of wood. For example, “I need a bit of six by nine” — meaning a piece of wood 6 feet long and 9 inches thick.
What do you mean, how do you know which one is 6 and which one is 9? You’d hardly have a 9 ft piece of wood that was only 6 inches thick, would you?☨
People do sometimes use metres for short walking distances, e.g. “it’s fifty metres to the shops”, however Brits also like to use yards, a yard being 3 feet. But that’s okay, because a yard is close enough to a metre as to make little difference to a casual walking estimate, so they’re pretty interchangeable.
Marathons are measured in miles. Shorter road races use kilometres.
The sorts of distances involved in lengthy travel are always measured in miles. The distance from Oxford the city to Oxford Street in London, for example, is about 55 miles. No British person would ever describe this as 88.5 km. Speed, as we saw in Good Omens, is thusly described in miles per hour (mph). For the record, the speed limit in a built-up area such as Oxford Street would normally be 30 mph, or sometimes (more and more frequently) 20 mph. Crowley was indeed driving ridiculously fast, but then, he has demonic magic to help him avoid both pedestrians and police.
Miles are also used for marathons. However, not for shorter running races, which are often described as “5k” or “10k” meaning, obviously, 5 kilometres or 10 kilometres. The cynics may wonder whether this is because 5 kilometres sounds longer than 3 miles, but I’m sure runners aren’t concerned about such vanities.
Is all of that clear? Okay, let’s move on…
Weight (physicists: I mean mass, yes, you’re very clever, shhh now) of people is measured in stones and pounds (there are 14 pounds in a stone). Except for babies, which are little and are therefore measured in pounds, because everyone knows a baby ought to weigh somewhere in the region of 7 pounds or so, and if you quote a baby weight in kg, Brits have no idea whether to gasp, coo, or wince sympathetically.
The weight of food is mostly measured in kilograms and grams (or possibly grammes; it’s essentially the same thing) these days, although a lot of people still favour pounds and ounces. This leads to oddities, such cake recipes which call for 225 g of butter (half a pound). There are, by the way, 16 ounces in a pound, because it would be far too easy if it were consistent with the pounds/stones thing, wouldn’t it. Oh, and Brits have quarter pounder beefburgers in restaurants — none of that ‘Royale with cheese‘ business for us, thanks.
Larger weights are mostly quoted in tonnes, because that’s easy, but sometimes we use tons as well, which has the added amusement of sounding exactly the same when you say it out loud. 1 tonne is about 1.1 tons, so it’s not too much of a problem unless you’re planning a really big building project. Very large amounts are sometimes given in hundredweight, which sounds metric, doesn’t it? It’s not. A hundredweight is 50.8 kg, or 112 pounds. Did you think it would be 100? Yes, well, there are reasons.
Once again, let’s not get into jewellery. If we start on carats we’ll be here all day.
Beer, blood and milk are measured in pints.
Small volumes of liquids tend to be measured in millilitres or (particularly for wine) centilitres. The exceptions are beer, blood and milk — which are given in pints. Wandering into a British pub and asking for half a litre of beer is guaranteed to cause everyone to stop what they’re doing and stare at you. As will asking for pint of blood, for different reasons.
Larger volumes are measured in litres. We’ve mostly given up on gallons, now that all the fuel stations quote their prices in pence per litre because it looks cheaper that way.
Chemists like to be awkward, though, and use cubic centimetres — written cm3 or occasionally cc just for fun — for small volumes of liquids, and dm3 (cubic decimetres) for litres. 1 cm3 is 1 ml and 1 dm3 is 1 litre, so there’s really no reason for any of this other than to confuse students.
Temperatures are mostly quoted in Celsius (aka centigrade, well, more-or-less), and most Brits these days have a fairly good feel for that scale. But Fahrenheit still gets rolled out when either a person or the air gets hot. A midsummer’s day might reach ‘100 degrees’ (that is, a little under 38 oC) and someone with a fever might also be described as ‘having a temperature of over a hundred’. Once it gets chillier, however, we’re firmly back to Celsius, because ‘minus five’ sounds a lot more dramatic than 23 oF.
In case you’re wondering, no, I did not choose this particular picture of a thermometer by accident.
In case you thought you were on safe ground here, don’t forget there’s also Kelvin (where 0 oC = 273 K) which is the SI unit of temperature and very popular with physicists. And, if you’re cooking, the mysterious ‘gas mark‘ — which is more-or-less unique the U.K. and which is based on some sort of occult formula. (Gas mark 6 is about 200 oC or 400 38 oF.)
Energy is measured in Joules. Except when it comes to food, where it’s measured in calories. Actually, kilocalories, but everyone just calls them calories. There’s meant to be a capital C to help tell the difference, but no one ever remembers. This is all fine.
Are you sure you want to go here? Okay. FINE.
Tyre pressures are quoted in pounds per square inch, that is, PSI. Most British car owners can probably tell you roughly what their tyre pressures ought to be in PSI, even if (having learned metric at school) they have a somewhat shaky grasp of what either inches or pounds are.
Atmospheric pressures are usually quoted in atmospheres, because everyone knows what that means (sea level is one atmosphere, give or take). Of course, that’s not the SI unit, which is Pascals: 1 atmosphere is 101,325 Pascals, which is a bit unwieldy, so scientists often use bars, where 1 bar is 100,000 Pascals, and thus 1 atmosphere is more-or-less 1 bar, which, for once, is sort of helpful (no, really).
Blood pressure is usually quoted in mmHg
But then there’s also Torr, which arises from the historical practice of using mercury to measure pressure. 760 Torr is 1 atmosphere, while 1 Torr is 133.32 Pascals. Blood pressure, of course, was traditionally measured with a mercury sphygmomanometer, but just in case you thought you were on top of this, 1 Torr is nearly, but not quite, the same as the measurement in that case, which is mmHg, 1 of which is equal to 1.000000142466321 Torr.
British money is decimal (but not metric, for the reasons described back at the start there), but only became so in 1971. If Rees-Mogg has his way I’m sure we’ll be back to pounds, shilling and pence before we know it.
It’s all your fault, isn’t it, Crowley?
In summary….
Since no one in this country is going to give up miles any time soon, if you want to be consistent about units it makes a certain kind of sense to insist on sticking to imperial, I suppose. As much sense as imperial measurements make anyway, which is not much.
You do have to wonder how we ended up with such a confusing mixture of measurements. It’s almost… demonic….
* Page 51 of the original print edition, second line up from the bottom. Obsessed? No idea what you mean.
§ And possibly non-British readers of the book in the 1990s, but Twitter didn’t exist then, so any puzlement went largely unnoticed. It was a quieter time.
☨ would# you? I don’t bloody know. Apparently it’s obvious.
# or, indeed, wood.
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No threat to Irish corporate tax rate, says EU
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The proposal for a harmonised corporate tax base is not an attack on Ireland’s sovereignty and will not change the state’s corporation tax rate, a European commissioner has said.
Pierre Moscovici, the commissioner for economic and financial affairs, is overseeing the proposal of the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB), which was announced by the commission in October. The CCCTB is aimed at closing off avenues for tax avoidance by implementing a universal tax code for all multinationals operating within the EU and making over €750 million in sales annually.
Speaking to reporters at The Irish Times’ corporate tax summit in the Westin Dublin hotel yesterday, Mr Moscovici said that the EU posed no threat to Ireland’s 12.5 per cent corporation tax rate.
“The European Commission fully respects Ireland’s tax sovereignty. Our proposal for a redesigned CCCTB has a lot to offer to Ireland if one is willing take a fresh look at it,” he said.
“In addition to Ireland’s 12.5 per cent rate it would have a modern, simple and stable corporate tax system which applies across the entire EU.”
From a business point of view, CCCTB means that companies would have to submit one centralised tax return across all the EU countries in which they operate.
Ireland is one of seven member states to formally object to the proposal, which was first tabled and rejected in 2011. In order for a proposal to be implemented it must receive approval from all 28 countries. The other countries that have objected to the 40-page document are Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, Malta, Luxembourg and Denmark.
Mr Moscovici said that an initial impact assessment showed a “slight impact” on Ireland’s corporate tax take if it was introduced in its current form. However, the commissioner said the assessment did not take into account the overall positive effect on the EU as a whole.
“This proposal is not ‘take it or leave it’, it is open to compromise. What I want is that it can be discussed with good faith and goodwill,” Mr Moscovici said.
Michael Noonan said that the government would engage at all levels during negotiations on CCCTB but that it was currently “not acceptable to Ireland”.
“There are parts of it that we dislike and there are parts of it that we do like,” the finance minister said.
“One of our primary concerns is if we were to accept the first set of proposals the Irish tax base for corporate tax would narrow rather than widen, meaning we would be collecting less tax.”
The proposal recommends that countries have one headline rate of corporation tax which can be set by each member state.
Mr Moscovici appeared before the Oireachtas finance committee, whose members had accused the commission of attacking Ireland’s tax sovereignty. The commissioner said that the country’s sovereignty to set its own corporate tax rate was protected by the European treaties and urged Ireland to be strongly involved in negotiations on the proposal.
“I am sure that Ireland will bring its best suggestions to the table and engage openly in the council debates,” he said.
“All voices are equal here in EU tax policy, no member state can be overruled. I know that Ireland will use its voice actively, and I trust constructively, to help shape consolidation in a way that works for everyone.”
The commissioner also denied that Ireland was a tax haven when questioned by Paul Murphy, an Anti-Austerity Alliance/People Before Profit TD.
Mr Moscovici praised the work the country had done in recent years to reform its corporate tax system, including the closing of the “double Irish” tax loophole, a structure that allowed companies to route profits to tax havens where they held intellectual property.
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All-America Watch: No. 2 Clemson reloads on D-line
By PETE IACOBELLI - Oct. 08, 2019 02:56 PM EDT
North Carolina's Sam Howell (7) gets stopped on a two-point conversion by Clemson's James Skalski (47) and Xavier Thomas (3) in the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game in Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — John Simpson is certain of two things about the new starters on the defensive line for No. 2 Clemson: They are tired of the questions and comparisons to last year's All-American group and "them boys are ready."
Simpson, the starting left guard for the Tigers, would know. He spent the past few seasons going up against defensive tackles Christian Wilkins and Dexter Lawrence and ends Clelin Ferrell and Austin Bryant at practice. Ferrell, Wilkins and Lawrence were all first-round NFL draft picks in April. Bryant went a couple of rounds later, the core four of Clemson's defense finally done harassing quarterbacks and racking up Atlantic Coast Conference and national titles.
Except maybe these new guys are just as good. They will get the chance to show that again Saturday when Clemson faces Florida State.
Logan Rudolph has locked down one end spot with junior Nyles Pinckney and freshman Tyler Davis filling the middle owned by Wilkins and Lawrence the past few seasons. Junior Justin Foster and sophomore Xavier Thomas share the other end position.
"There's no drop off," Simpson said with a sideways smile. "Not at all."
The numbers — and the on-field performance — bear that out. Clemson leads the ACC in total defense (255 yards allowed per game) and is third in sacks (19) during its 5-0 start. And they have helped the Tigers come up big in critical situations, none bigger than last time out when Thomas and linebacker James Skalski brought down North Carolina quarterback Sam Howell short of the goal on a two-point try in the final minutes of Clemson's 21-20 win.
"I feel like everybody's on the same level and we're all just growing together," Pinckney said.
There's a lot of growth to do and this group is not yet at the level of the departed stars.
"Hey, we don't have to be Clelin Ferrell or Austin Bryant," said Rudolph, a 6-2, 240-pound sophomore who is the younger brother of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph. "We just need to be ourselves and give great effort every day and if we do that, we're going to be successful."
The revelation so far this season is Davis, who at 6-1, 290 pounds accomplished something Wilkins and Lawrence did not by becoming the first true freshman to start at defensive tackle for Clemson since 1974.
Davis is nowhere near as tall or bulky as the 6-4, 345-pound Lawrence. But his first step is just as quick and he's manhandled much bigger offensive linemen. Davis sits second on the Tigers with 2.5 sacks this season. Pinckney could see early that Davis was something special. When the older tackle would quiz the freshman on assignments and technique, Davis always had the right answer.
"He always had a jump on it," Pinckney said.
Brent Venables, the defensive coordinator at Clemson since 2012, has had to make wholesale changes across the front before. Clemson lost its front four after 2014, a group that included future Atlanta Falcons players Vic Beasley and Grady Jarrett, yet the Tigers began their run of four consecutive ACC titles and College Football Playoff berths with a new quartet up front.
Venables places a priority on subbing in backups who see meaningful minutes, getting them ready for their chance up front in a few years.
"You've got to develop your team," Venables said.
Venables said his biggest concern entering the season was where the leadership would come from. Wilkins and Ferrell weren't only defensive leaders, but drove everything the Tigers did during the 2018 national championship season. So far, Venables is pleased that Pinckney and backup Jordan Williams have set a strong tone for younger players to follow.
Maybe some of these players will end up on the Associated Press All-America team presented by Regions Bank, but time will tell.
Just stow the questions about replacing the stars.
"We knew we were going to get that, hearing 'All the good guys are gone. All our better guys are gone,'" said Williams, a third-year sophomore. "But we never paid attention to that. We wanted to be our own legacy."
WHO'S HOT?
Isaiah Hodgins, WR, Oregon State.
The junior has made steady progress. He contributed and worked his way into the starting lineup as a freshman and became the team's leading receiver last season with 59 receptions and 876 yards. He is on pace to blow those numbers away this season, and his coming off consecutive games with 10 receptions. After 20 catches for 285 yards and four touchdowns the last two weeks, Hodgins is second in the nation in receiving yards at 126.4 per game.
(SEC Network analyst Cole Cubelic, a former guard at Auburn, breaks down an offensive lineman playing at an All-America level)
Josh Myers, C, Ohio State
First-year starter has stepped into a spot held down last year by Michael Jordan, who was drafted in the fourth round by the Bengals. Myers has not let the play in the middle of the Buckeyes' line slip one bit.
"Myers was exceptional in helping the OSU line provide movement at the point of attack as well as finding defenders on the second level against Michigan State," Cubelic said. "His power and ability to finish blocks sets him apart from other collegiate centers."
ALL-AMERICA MATCHUP
Neville Gallimore, NT, Oklahoma vs. Zach Shackelford, C, Texas.
Gallimore has been disruptive in the middle for an Oklahoma defense that has played better than last year, but will face its most severe test yet. Shackelford has been an anchor for a Texas line that has grown into a reliable and at times dominant group.
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Duke rolls past Northern Illinois in Quick Lane Bowl
By Zach BarnettDec 26, 2017, 8:37 PM EST
Duke used a big day from quarterback Thomas Jones and a baffling fake punt attempt to roll past Northern Illinois for a 36-14 win in the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit.
Trailing 7-0 with 4:32 to play in the first quarter, Northern Illinois punter Matt Ference trotted onto the field for what everyone thought would be a boot from his own end zone. Everyone but him, that is.
Instead, Ference decided to pass. It was fourth and 18.
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Duke (7-6) took over at the NIU 11-yard line and needed three plays to score, a 1-yard Shaun Wilson run that gave the Blue Devils a 14-0 lead a dozen minutes into the game.
Northern Illinois (8-5) struck back with two quick scoring drives. The first was a 2-play, 68-yard drive that saw Marcus Childers hit Spencer Tears for a 43-yard gain and then Tre Harbison score on a 25-yard rush. After forcing a three-and-out, the Huskies tied the game on a 67-yard strike from Childers to Jauan Wesley, knotting the score at 14-14 with 12:22 left in the first half.
Duke re-gained the lead on a 33-yard touchdown pass from Daniel Jones to T.J. Rahming, but William Holmquist‘s PAT missed. The Blue Devils pushed their lead back to two scores with an 11-yard swing pass from Jones to Wilson with 1:33 left before the break, but Jones’s 2-point pass was intercepted in the end zone.
Jones fumbled at the NIU 31-yard line to open the second half, but atoned for the mistake by leading an 11-play, 67-yard touchdown drive that culminated in a 7-yard Brittain Brown run that put the Blue Devils up 33-14 at the 6:58 mark of the third quarter. Duke ended any chance of a Hail Mary comeback with a 16-play drive that consumed the entire first half of the fourth quarter, ending in a 24-yard Holmquist field goal to push the lead to 22. Derrick Tangelo all but ended the game with a sack of Childers on 4th-and-5 from midfield with six and a half minutes remaining.
Jones finished the game hitting 27-of-40 throws for 252 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions while rushing 16 times for a game-high 86 yards and a touchdown. Wilson and Brown combined to carry 29 times for 116 yards and two additional scores. Childers completed 15-of-26 passes for 234 yards with a touchdown and no picks, and Harbison rushed 13 times for 59 yards and a touchdown.
The win handed Duke its fifth bowl victory ever, and just its second since 1962. Northern Illinois dropped to 0-5 in bowl games under head coach Rod Carey. Not surprisingly, this was the first all-time meeting between the Blue Devils and the Huskies.
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Fake punt gaffe helps Duke take halftime lead over NIU in Quick Lane Bowl
A fake punt gaffe the likes of which you’ll probably never see again has pushed Duke to a 26-14 halftime lead over Northern Illinois in the Quick Lane Bowl.
Duke took over at the NIU 11-yard line and needed three plays to score, a 1-yard Shaun Wilson run that gave the Blue Devils a 14-0 lead a dozen minutes into the game.
Northern Illinois struck back with two quick scoring drives. The first was a 2-play, 68-yard drive that saw Marcus Childers hit Spencer Tears for a 43-yard gain and then Tre Harbison score on a 25-yard rush. After forcing a three-and-out, the Huskies tied the game on a 67-yard strike from Childers to Jauan Wesley, knotting the score at 14-14 with 12:22 left in the first half.
Jones hit 16-of-23 passes for 178 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions while rushing six times for a team-high 28 yards and another score. Wilson added 10 carries for 23 yards and a touchdown.
For Northern Illinois, Childers connected on 6-of-10 passes for 141 yards with a touchdown with eight carries for 20 yards, while Harbison led all runners with 53 yards on nine carries with one touchdown.
Duke will receive to open the second half.
Duke rolls past Northern Illinois in Quick Lane Bowl December 26, 2017 8:37 pm Fake punt gaffe helps Duke take halftime lead over NIU in Quick Lane Bowl December 26, 2017 6:51 pm
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Infinite process balls in bins problem
Given $n$ balls and $m$ bins, let us consider an infinite process, where in each time slot we throw a ball at a random bin. When all $n$ balls are thrown, we take the balls from the bin with the maximum load, and throw them to random bins.
What the expected number of balls in the bin with the maximum load is converges to?
A variation of the problem is described in https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~azar/box.pdf, where instead of taken the bin with the maximum load, a random ball is selected at random.
In addition, by my experiments, it seems that for $n=\Theta(m)$ the bin with the maximum load converges $2n/m+1$ balls. I am trying to prove it.
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$\begingroup$ In the random experiment, how many times does it do the step "take the balls from the bin with the maximum load, and throw them to random bins"? Just once? (I assume not, because surely the second-fullest bin will be almost as full.) Until all bins have the same number of balls (within 1)? (I assume not, because I'm guessing that this will happen eventually with probability 1, and if so it would trivialize your problem.) Perhaps you mean to do it $N$ times for some $N\rightarrow\infty$, and ask what the max load is at the end? $\endgroup$ – Neal Young Feb 7 '19 at 20:59
$\begingroup$ @NealYoung Of course--> it was meant to do for $N$ times where $N$ is approaches to infinity $\endgroup$ – Mister R Feb 10 '19 at 12:33
$\begingroup$ @MisterR I see you deleted the duplicate question on Computer Science, thanks. $\endgroup$ – Discrete lizard Feb 10 '19 at 12:36
$\begingroup$ Does it help to think of this as a Markov chain with a stationary distribution? $\endgroup$ – usul Feb 12 '19 at 13:27
$\begingroup$ @usul tried to think about it that way. It was complex for me, even for $m=2$ bins $\endgroup$ – Mister R Feb 13 '19 at 10:42
Here's the lower bound that OP asks for. It may give some intuition for an upper bound as well.
Lemma 1. The random process described in the post moves on average at least $2n/(m+1)$ balls per time step. That is, for large $N$, the expected number of balls redistributed in the first $N$ steps is at least $(2n/(m+1))$ per step.
Proof. First consider a modified process that, instead of redistributing the balls from a bin with maximum occupancy at each time step, redistributes the balls from the bin that has least-recently been redistributed. That is, it chooses the bins in round-robin fashion.
When a given ball is redistributed at some time $t$, for each $d\in\{1,2,\ldots,m\}$, with probability $1/m$, the ball will land into the bin that will be next redistributed at time $t+d$. Hence, in expectation, the number of time steps between redistributions of the ball is $\sum_{d=1}^m (d-1)/m = (m-1)/2$, that is, the ball is redistributed in expectation once every $1+(m-1)/2 = (m+1)/2$ time steps. Since there are $n$ balls, in this modified (round-robin process), the average number of balls redistributed per time step is $2n/(m+1)$.
Now we relate this process to the original process by a coupling argument to show that, in the original process, balls are redistributed at least as fast. (I think I've got this right, but perhaps I'm making some subtle error.)
First, reimagine the modified (round-robin) process. Instead of using bins $1,2,\ldots,m$ over and over, use infinitely many bins $1,2,\ldots$ as follows. When a bin $t$ is redistributed, replace it with (new, empty) bin $t+m$. In this way, at any given time $t$, the bins in play are $t, t+1, \ldots, t+m-1$. The balls in bin $t$ are distributed randomly into bins $t+1, t+2,\ldots, t+m$ (and possibly into the new empty bin $t+m$). This is just renaming the bins over time, so does not change the rate of redistribution of the balls.
Next, define the signature of an outcome of this random process to be the collection of signatures of the balls, where, for each ball $b\in\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$, the signature of ball $b$ is $d_{b1}, d_{b2}, d_{b3}, \ldots$, where $d_{bj}$ is the amount that ball $b$'s bin number increases in its $j$'th relocation. Assume WLOG that all balls start in bin 1. So, ball $b$'s successive bin numbers are $1, 1+d_{b1}, 1+d_{b1}+d_{b2}, \ldots$. (The $d_{bk}$ are i.i.d. uniformly in $\{1,2,\ldots,m\}$, although we won't use this fact much.) The signature determines, and is determined by, the outcome of the random experiment.
Now consider any single outcome of the (round-robin) random experiment, and its corresponding signature. Suppose an adversary changes the signature (and, correspondingly, the outcome) by decreasing one or more $d_{ij}$'s. In the correspondingly modified outcome, every given ball is redistributed no less often than it was (that is, in the first $N$ time units, if a ball was redistributed, say, $Q$ times, then in the modified outcome it will be redistributed at least $Q$ times). So, the adversary's modification does not decrease the average number of ball-redistributions per time step. Likewise, if an adversary modifies the (round-robin) random experiment by changing every outcome in this way, yielding a new random experiment, in that new experiment the expected rate of ball redistributions is at least $2n/(m+1)$ per time step.
To finish, we argue that the original experiment (which chooses the bin to redistribute at each time step by choosing a bin with maximum occupancy) can be obtained by an appropriate action of the adversary, as follows.
Consider any outcome of the round-robin experiment, and modify it as follows. Replay the outcome (following the signature), for $t=1,2,\ldots$, as follows. At time $t$, bin $t$ is about to be redistributed into bins $t+1,t+2,\ldots,t+m$, let bin $t+k$ (with $0\le k \le m-1$) be a bin with maximum occupancy. Suppose there are $E$ more balls in bin $t+k$ than in bin $t$.
Choose any $E$ balls in bin $t+k$. For each of the $E$ balls $b$, the most-recent redistribution of ball $b$ (into bin $t+k$) was from a bin numbered less than $t$, so the corresponding signature entry $d_{bx}$ is at least $k+1$. Modify that signature entry, reducing it by $k$. Correspondingly, move each of these $E$ balls into bin $t$. (This modification swaps the sizes of bin $t$ and bin $t+k$.) Now proceed with the redistribution of all balls in bin $t$ (including those $E$ balls), following the signature of each ball as usual (so each ball $b$ jumps forward by the corresponding (unmodified) $d_{b,x+1}$).
The effect is equivalent to exchanging bins $t$ and bins $t+k$ before the redistribution. That is, the maximally occupied bin is redistributed at each time step (and each redistributed ball is independently assigned to a new random bin). Thus, the modified process is equivalent to the process described by OP. (EDIT: What "equivalent" means here requires some elaboration. The modified process can be described as follows. At each time $t$, the modified process chooses the least-recently-distributed bin, then moves balls from the largest bin into the chosen bin so that the chosen bin and the largest bin exchange sizes, then redistributes all balls from the chosen bin. This process is statistically equivalent to OP's original process, although the processes are different in that, for a given signature, they give different outcomes, which is an important distinction for the proof, as we compare the round-robin process to the modified process outcome by outcome, comparing the two outcomes that have the same signature.)
On the other hand, this is an adversarial modification as described above, so does not decrease the expected ball-redistribution rate. So, the process described by OP has expected ball-redistribution rate at least $2n/(m+1)$.$~~~~\Box$
Remarks. Assuming there is no subtle error here, it would be interesting to try to estimate the extent to which the modification increases the ball-redistribution rate above $2n/(m+1)$. When a bin in the round-robin process comes up for redistribution, the expected difference between its size and the largest size should be boundable, at least if $n/m$ is at least a large constant. There seem to be two effects. First, in each step, the discrepancy $E$ (the number of balls moved in that step) should be small in expectation (maybe $O(\sqrt{n/m\log m})$ or less?). Second, the distance $k$ that the $E$ balls are moved by the adversary (from the maximally occupied bin $t+k$ to the bin $t$) should be small in comparison to the average random jump size $\Theta(m)$, because the larger bins are the ones closer to bin $t$. Due to these factors, modifying the round-robin experiment as described above should decrease the average ball jump-length by a negligible amount (at least if $n/m$ is a large enough constant). And if so the average ball-redistribution rate will also increase negligibly. I think.
On the other hand, if $n/m$ is a small constant, the lower bound of $2n/(m+1)$ could be off by a constant factor larger than 1. Consider e.g. $2n/(m+1) < 1$. In the round-robin process, the expected number of balls in a bin that is about to be redistributed is about $2n/(m+1)$, but in OP's process it is always at least 1. If $2n/(m+1)$ is a small constant (but larger than 1), perhaps there is a similar effect: in the round-robin process the probability that the redistributed bin is empty is bounded below by a positive constant.
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$\begingroup$ I will look in to the proof. The optimal value by our simulation was $2n/m+1=3$ and not $2$, for example $n=m$. I will need to check why it holds $\endgroup$ – Mister R Feb 17 '19 at 15:09
$\begingroup$ That makes sense. Per the remark following the proof, I think it should be $(2+ \epsilon(n/m))n/m$ where $\epsilon(x)\rightarrow 0$ as $x\rightarrow\infty$. In other words, $2n/m + o(n/m)$. $\endgroup$ – Neal Young Feb 17 '19 at 16:52
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Unknown gunman threatens Argentine journalist
New York, May 30, 2012--Authorities in Argentina must immediately investigate death threats made against a local radio journalist and ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Gustavo Tinetti, the host for "Despertate" on Cadena Nueve radio station and a reporter for the station's website, was threatened by an unidentified gunman who walked into the station's office in the city of 9 de Julio, in Buenos Aires province, on Tuesday, according to news reports. The man threatened the journalist's daughters and threatened him with death, and warned him against publishing "the rest of the information that we know you have," the journalist said, according to Cadena Nueve. The man told Tinetti not to file a complaint and then fled in a car that was waiting outside the station, the journalist said.
Tinetti told local journalists that he thought the threats were related to his coverage on Cadena Nueve's website of an alleged tax evasion investigation into Walter Battistella, a local mayor. The journalist told the Argentine press group Foro de Periodismo Argentino (FOPEA) that he had more information regarding the case that he planned to publish in coming days.
Battistella told local newspaper Tiempo that the allegations were false, FOPEA reported.
"We condemn this blatant act of intimidation against journalist Gustavo Tinetti," said Carlos Lauría, CPJ's senior program coordinator for the Americas. "Argentine authorities must fully investigate these threats and ensure that provincial journalists can report critically without fear of reprisal."
Buenos Aires province had the greatest number of press freedom violations in the country in 2011, according to CPJ research.
Cadena Nueve
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Available in: Español , Português
Short URL: https://cpj.org/x/4de1
Argentine journalist Daniel Santoro summoned, phone records seized in extortion investigation
Miami, July 16, 2019 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed concern over an Argentine court's summons of journalist Daniel Santoro and urged authorities to respect the confidentiality of journalistic sources....
Newspaper and radio station offices damaged during forced entry linked to ownership dispute
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New York, July 6, 2016--Argentine authorities should investigate the forced entry and damage caused at the Buenos Aires offices of the newspaper Tiempo Argentino and radio station, Radio América, on July 4, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The newspaper was being run by a journalists' collective after...
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Ornelas Four-hit Game Leads Crawdads Attack in Win
Jonathan Ornelas had four hits and sparked an early rally to lead the Hickory Crawdads to a 6-2 win over the Lakewood (N.J.) BlueClaws Friday night at L.P. Frans Stadium.
The Crawdads and Blue Claws have now split the first two games of the four-game series, which will resume Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m.
Hickory (15-6) moved within 2.5 games of first-place Delmarva (Md.) in the South Atlantic League’s Northern Division after the Shorebirds (16-2) were rained out of their game against Augusta (Ga.) Friday night. Those two teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday. The win also allowed the Crawdads to avoid losing back-to-back games for the first time this season. Lakewood defeated Hickory 3-1 in game one of the series on Thursday.
After just 55 hits over the last 10 games, Hickory put together 13 on Friday with 11 coming in the first four innings, during which the Crawdads scored all their runs.
Ornelas’ four-hit night is a pro career high for the Texas Rangers’ third-round pick in 2018. The native of Glendale, Ariz. had three hits on four occasions last year with the AZL Rangers and once already this season on April 12 vs. Kannapolis.
With the Crawdads collectively struggling for offense, Ornelas was placed in the leadoff spot for the first time this year, and that immediately paid off. After a lackluster three-hit performance on Thursday, the Crawdads got a jolt of instant energy from Ornelas during his first trip to the plate.
Facing starter Tyler McKay (0-2), Ornelas sent a blooper down the line in shallow right. Sensing extra bases, Ornelas sprinted out of the box, steered wide in the turn around first and eventually slid into second just ahead of the throw for a double. One out later, Matt Whatley snapped an 0-for-21 slump with an RBI single over the drawn-in infield.
Sam Huff followed with a two-run homer to right to make it 3-0. The high-arching blast was Huff’s fourth-consecutive game with a home run, which was also his SAL-leading tenth of the season. It also increased the team total to a league high 27.
Lakewood (7-15) scored a run in the second, courtesy of an error. With runners at first and second and one out, a wild pitch advanced both 90 feet. An attempt by Matt Whatley to cut down Jonathan Guzman moving to second sailed into center and allowed Malvin Matos to score from third.
The Crawdads rebounded quickly in the third, when they put the first three aboard. Huff started the inning with a walk and moved to third when Sherten Apostel doubled off the base of the wall in left. Jose Almonte singled in Huff and Chad Smith’s grounder to first brought in Apostel. Gilmael Troya’s wild pitch scored Almonte to complete the inning and make it 6-1.
The game’s scoring finished in the fourth when Lakewood’s Cole Stobbe smashed his first homer of the season.
Ornelas added singles in the second, fourth and seventh innings to complete his four-hit night. Whatley and Apostel also had three hits each.
Lakewood put 11 baserunners aboard in seven innings but hit into three double plays and stranded six. One double play in the third likely saved a run and kept the BlueClaws at 3-1. With runners at first and second, Matos hit a ball to the left side of the bag at second. Seise moved to his right and in fielding the play, he reacted quickly to a bad hop by catching the ball with his head turned toward the outfield to start the 6-4-3 twin killing.
Jean Casanova pitched the first four innings for the Crawdads before Tai Tiedemann took over. Lakewood threatened to score against Tiedemann in the sixth, when Matos was hit by a pitch with one out. Guzman singled to put runners on the corners on the corners with two outs. However, Wes Robertson was brought in and struck out Stobbe to end the threat.
Trejo singled to start the seventh but was eliminated on a double play turned between first baseman Apostel and Seise. Robertson pitched to the minimum over his 3.1 innings of work and struck out three to earn the win (1-0).
Posted on April 27, 2019 at 6:09 am
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Teradata updates Teradata-R
The Teradata add-on package for R
teradataR is a package or library that allows R users to easily connect to Teradata, establish data frames (R data formats) to Teradata and to call in-database analytic functions within Teradata. This allows R users to work within their R console environment while leveraging the in-database functions developed with Teradata Warehouse Miner. This package provides 44 different analytical functions and an additional 20 data connection and R infrastructure functions. In addition, we’ve added a function that will list the stored procedures within Teradata provide the capability to call functions from R.
20 Functions to enable R infrastructure to operate with Teradata
tdConnect – Connect to Teradata via ODBC
Td.data.frame – Establish data frame connections to a Teradata table
44 in-database analytical functions callable from R. Sample of the functions include:
Descriptive statistics: Overlap, histogram, frequency, statistics, matrix functions, and values analysis
Reorganization functions: join, merge and samples
Transformations: bincode, recode, rescale, sigmoid, zscore and null replacement
K-Means clustering and Score K-Means
Statistical tests: ks, dagostino.pearson, shapiro.wilk, bionomial, and wilcoxon
R language features nrow, ncol, min, max, summary, as.dataframe, and dim
Tool and R functions that allow users to create their own custom analytic functions that’s callable by R.
Teradata Warehouse Miner can capture any analytic stream including UDFs and create a stored procedure
Analytic process to create new derived predictive variables can be captured as a stored procedure.
Entire process to create or update an analytical data set can be captured as a stored procedure.
R function can list all the stored procedures within Teradata.
R function can call a stored procedure that runs in-database
TeradataR allows R users to leverage all the benefits of in-database processing with Teradata:
Eliminate data movement from Teradata to the R framework for key data intensive tasks.
Leverage the speed of Teradata database’s parallel processing to run analytics against big data.
Ability to operate within the R console environment.
Embed your frequently performed tasks to run in-database.
R and TeradataR are free downloads.
Source- http://developer.teradata.com/applications/articles/in-database-analytics-with-teradata-r
This package allows users of R to interact with a Teradata database. R is an open source language for statistical computing and graphics. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. Users can use many statistical functions directly against the Teradata system without having to extract the data into memory.
Enhancements included with this new 1.0.1 release include:
teradataR User Guide
addition of Mac OS X Package
addition of Red Hat Linux Package (added 2/23/12)
summary has been enhanced to run faster
JDBC support added to allow Windows or Mac users to run the package with JDBC
td.data.frame enhanced to allow support for manipulation to add columns and expressions
td.data.frame enhanced to use Teradata 14.0 Fastpath Transform Functions (see Appendix B)
td.tapply function added to apply a select group of functions to columns of an array
From-http://downloads.teradata.com/download/applications/teradata-r
A new R package for Red Hat Linux has been added to the teradataR 1.0.1 release. This new package provides the same functionality as in the previously released Windows and Mac OS X packages, but is built for Red Hat Linux. This version was built and tested on Red Hat Linux 6.2 32-bit. (The R version for Red Hat Linux is 2.14.1)
Installing this package is the same as any normal R package; just extract it into your R library area, or use the install.packagescommand with the file path.
from- http://developer.teradata.com/tag/r
With plenty of prolific and enthusiastic developers, the number of packages for R is expected to grow tremendously. Statisticians and analysts using these packages will find innovative ways to use data to answer their research and business questions. And as organizations become more willing to rely on open-source software for mission-critical tasks, R is poised to become an essential tool for analyzing our complex world.
Source-http://www.teradatamagazine.com/v09n03/Connections/R-you-ready/
From the user guide-
http://downloads.teradata.com/download/applications/teradata-r
teradataR allows R users to easily connect to Teradata, establish td data frames (virtual R data frames) to
Teradata and to call in-database analytic functions within Teradata. This allows R users to work within their R
console environment while leveraging the in-database functions
A Function List
teradataR-package Allow access to Teradata via R
as.data.frame.td.data.frame Convert td data frame to a data frame
as.td.data.frame Coerce to a td data frame
dim.td.data.frame Dimensions of a td data frame
hist.td.data.frame Histograms
Is.td.data.frame Is an Object a Teradata Data Frame
Is.td.expression Is an Object a Teradata Expression
mean.td.data.frame Arithmetic Mean
median.td.data.frame Median Value
min.td.data.frame Minima
predict.kmeans Kmeans Model Prediction
print.td.data.frame Show contents of a td data frame
sum.td.data.frame Sum of column
summary.td.data.frame Summary of Teradata Data Frame
Td.bincode Create Table of Bincode Values
Td.binomial Binomial Test
Td.binomialsign Binomial Sign Test
Td.call.sp Locate and call stored procedure
Td.cor Correlation Matrix
Td.cov Covariance Matrix
Td.dagostino.pearson D’Agostino Pearson Test
Td.data.frame Teradata Data Frames
Td.f.oneway One way F Test
Td.factanal Factor Analysis
Td.freq Frequency Analysis
Td.hist Histograms
Td.join Join Tables in Teradata
Td.kmeans K-Means Clustering
Td.ks Kolmogorov Smirnov Test
Td.lilliefors Lilliefors Test
Td.merge Merge Rows of Teradata Tables
Td.mode Mode Value of Column
Td.mwnkw Mann-Whitney/Kruskal Wallis Test
Td.nullreplace Replace Null Values
Td.overlap Overlap
Td.quantiles Quantile Values
Td.rank Rank
Td.recode Recode
Td.rescale Rescale Values of Column
Td.sample Sample Rows
Td.shapiro.wilk Shapiro Wilk
Td.sigmoid Sigmoid Transformation
Td.smirnov Smirnov Test
Td.solve Solve a system of equations
Td.stats General Statistics
Td.t.paired T Test Paired
Td.t.unpaired T Test Unpaired
Td.t.unpairedi T Test – Unpaired Indicator
Td.values Values
Td.wilcoxon Wilcoxon Test
Td.zscore Zscore Transformation
tdClose Close connection
tdConnect Connect to Teradata database
tdMetadataDB Set metadata database
tdQuery Query Teradata Database
teradataR Allow access to Teradata via R
[.td.data.frame Extract Teradata Data Frame
[<-.td.data.frame Replace value of Teradata Data Frame
Author Ajay OhriPosted on March 17, 2012 Categories AnalyticsTags add-on, analysts, Analytics, Business, computing, data, Data set, dimensions, environment, Free, Language, Library, linux, mac, Mac OS, Mac OS X, MetaData, model, normal, open, open source, Organizations, os, parallel, parallel processing, predictive, procedures, R, r users, red hat, Red Hat Linux, research, software, source, speed, statistical, statistical computing, teradata, updates, use, useR, version, windows, workLeave a comment on Teradata updates Teradata-R
Teradata Analytics
A recent announcement showing Teradata partnering with KXEN and Revolution Analytics for Teradata Analytics.
http://www.teradata.com/News-Releases/2012/Teradata-Expands-Integrated-Analytics-Portfolio/
The Latest in Open Source Emerging Software Technologies
Teradata provides customers with two additional open source technologies – “R” technology from Revolution Analytics for analytics and GeoServer technology for spatial data offered by the OpenGeo organization – both of which are able to leverage the power of Teradata in-database processing for faster, smarter answers to business questions.
In addition to the existing world-class analytic partners, Teradata supports the use of the evolving “R” technology, an open source language for statistical computing and graphics. “R” technology is gaining popularity with data scientists who are exploiting its new and innovative capabilities, which are not readily available. The enhanced “R add-on for Teradata” has a 50 percent performance improvement, it is easier to use, and its capabilities support large data analytics. Users can quickly profile, explore, and analyze larger quantities of data directly in the Teradata Database to deliver faster answers by leveraging embedded analytics.
Teradata has partnered with Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of “R” technology, because of customer interest in high-performing R applications that deliver superior performance for large-scale data. “Our innovative customers understand that big data analytics takes a smart approach to the entire infrastructure and we will enable them to differentiate their business in a cost-effective way,” said David Rich, chief executive officer, Revolution Analytics. “We are excited to partner with Teradata, because we see great affinity between Teradata and Revolution Analytics – we embrace parallel computing and the high performance offered by multi-core and multi-processor hardware.”
The Teradata Data Lab empowers business users and leading analytic partners to start building new analytics in less than five minutes, as compared to waiting several weeks for the IT department’s assistance.
“The Data Lab within the Teradata database provides the perfect foundation to enable self-service predictive analytics with KXEN InfiniteInsight,” said John Ball, chief executive officer, KXEN. “Teradata technologies, combined with KXEN’s automated modeling capabilities and in-database scoring, put the power of predictive analytics and data mining directly into the hands of business users. This powerful combination helps our joint customers accelerate insight by delivering top-quality models in orders of magnitude faster than traditional approaches.”
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/06/4315500/teradata-expands-integrated-analytics.html
Author Ajay OhriPosted on March 8, 2012 Categories AnalyticsTags add-on, Analytics, applications, Big Data, Business, computing, Customer, data, data mining, Database, interest, kxen, Language, mining, modeling, open, open source, parallel, Parallel computing, predictive, predictive analytics, R, revolution, revolution analytics, software, source, statistical, statistical computing, technology, teradata, useLeave a comment on Teradata Analytics
Chrome Extension- MafiaaFire
The chrome extension MafiaaWire basically gives you an updated list of redirected websites. So the next time , your evil highness shuts down your favorite website- the list promises to give you an update. While obviously entertainment intellectual property is a very obvious site category for such redirects, in some cases these extensions can be used for simple things like hosting dissents or protesters against govt corruption in non US countries .
Basically under the new SOPA act (an oline version of pepper spray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act) even browsers like Firefox and Chrome would be liable for any such extension that can be used to download American Intellectual property illegally.
In the meantime – this is an interesting and creative use case of technology and sociology merging in the brave new world.
You can read about it here-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAFIAAFire_Redirector
MAFIAAFire works by downloading a list which contains the names of the “blocked” sites as well as the sites to redirect to. This list is downloaded every time Firefox starts up or every two days on the Chrome version (although the user has the choice to force an update on the Chrome version instead of waiting for two days).
When a user types in a domain name from the list of blocked domains, the add-on recognizes this and automatically redirects the user to the secondary site. Since this happens before the browser connects to the DNS server, this renders any DNS blocks useless.
Although the add-on checks for which sites are entered into the address bar every time (as it needs to check if that site is on its block list), it does not log these requests nor send these requests to any central server. In other words: it does not track the user.
Download it from
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hnifiobpjihmmjgiokkaalgomddebhng
Interesting times indeed!
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Author Ajay OhriPosted on December 19, 2011 Categories InternetTags add-on, browser, browsers, chrome, Chrome Extension, downloading, Extensions, Firefox, Hosting, intellectual property, technology, Time, US, use, versionLeave a comment on Chrome Extension- MafiaaFire
Interview Eberhard Miethke and Dr. Mamdouh Refaat, Angoss Software
Here is an interview with Eberhard Miethke and Dr. Mamdouh Refaat, of Angoss Software. Angoss is a global leader in delivering business intelligence software and predictive analytics solutions that help businesses capitalize on their data by uncovering new opportunities to increase sales and profitability and to reduce risk.
Ajay- Describe your personal journey in software. How can we guide young students to pursue more useful software development than just gaming applications.
Mamdouh- I started using computers long time ago when they were programmed using punched cards! First in Fortran, then C, later C++, and then the rest. Computers and software were viewed as technical/engineering tools, and that’s why we can still see the heavy technical orientation of command languages such as Unix shells and even in the windows Command shell. However, with the introduction of database systems and Microsoft office apps, it was clear that business will be the primary user and field of application for software. My personal trip in software started with scientific applications, then business and database systems, and finally statistical software – which you can think of it as returning to the more scientific orientation. However, with the wide acceptance of businesses of the application of statistical methods in different fields such as marketing and risk management, it is a fast growing field that in need of a lot of innovation.
Ajay – Angoss makes multiple data mining and analytics products. could you please introduce us to your product portfolio and what specific data analytics need they serve.
a- Attached please find our main product flyers for KnowledgeSTUDIO and KnowledgeSEEKER. We have a 3rd product called “strategy builder” which is an add-on to the decision tree modules. This is also described in the flyer.
(see- Angoss Knowledge Studio Product Guide April2011 and http://www.scribd.com/doc/63176430/Angoss-Knowledge-Seeker-Product-Guide-April2011 )
Ajay- The trend in analytics is for big data and cloud computing- with hadoop enabling processing of massive data sets on scalable infrastructure. What are your plans for cloud computing, tablet based as well as mobile based computing.
a- This is an area where the plan is still being figured out in all organizations. The current explosion of data collected from mobile phones, text messages, and social websites will need radically new applications that can utilize the data from these sources. Current applications are based on the relational database paradigm designed in the 70’s through the 90’s of the 20th century.
But data sources are generating data in volumes and formats that are challenging this paradigm and will need a set of new tools and possibly programming languages to fit these needs. The cloud computing, tablet based and mobile computing (which are the same thing in my opinion, just different sizes of the device) are also two technologies that have not been explored in analytics yet.
The approach taken so far by most companies, including Angoss, is to rely on new xml-based standards to represent data structures for the particular models. In this case, it is the PMML (predictive modelling mark-up language) standard, in order to allow the interoperability between analytics applications. Standardizing on the representation of models is viewed as the first step in order to allow the implementation of these models to emerging platforms, being that the cloud or mobile, or social networking websites.
The second challenge cited above is the rapidly increasing size of the data to be analyzed. Angoss has already identified this challenge early on and is currently offering in-database analytics drivers for several database engines: Netezza, Teradata and SQL Server.
These drivers allow our analytics products to translate their routines into efficient SQL-based scripts that run in the database engine to exploit its performance as well as the powerful hardware on which it runs. Thus, instead of copying the data to a staging format for analytics, these drivers allow the data to be analyzed “in-place” within the database without moving it.
Thus offering performance, security and integrity. The performance is improved because of the use of the well tuned database engines running on powerful hardware.
Extra security is achieved by not copying the data to other platforms, which could be less secure. And finally, the integrity of the results are vastly improved by making sure that the results are always obtained by analyzing the up-to-date data residing in the database rather than an older copy of the data which could be obsolete by the time the analysis is concluded.
Ajay- What are the principal competing products to your offerings, and what makes your products special or differentiated in value to them (for each customer segment).
a- There are two major players in today’s market that we usually encounter as competitors, they are: SAS and IBM.
SAS offers a data mining workbench in the form of SAS Enterprise Miner, which is closely tied to SAS data mining methodology known as SEMMA.
On the other hand, IBM has recently acquired SPSS, which offered its Clementine data mining software. IBM has now rebranded Clementine as IBM SPSS Modeller.
In comparison to these products, our KnowledgeSTUDIO and KnowledgeSEEKER offer three main advantages: ease of use; affordability; and ease of integration into existing BI environments.
Angoss products were designed to look-and-feel-like popular Microsoft office applications. This makes the learning curve indeed very steep. Typically, an intermediate level analyst needs only 2-3 days of training to become proficient in the use of the software with all its advanced features.
Another important feature of Angoss software products is their integration with SAS/base product, and SQL-based database engines. All predictive models generated by Angoss can be automatically translated to SAS and SQL scripts. This allows the generation of scoring code for these common platforms. While the software interface simplifies all the tasks to allow business users to take advantage of the value added by predictive models, the software includes advanced options to allow experienced statisticians to fine-tune their models by adjusting all model parameters as needed.
In addition, Angoss offers a unique product called StrategyBuilder, which allows the analyst to add key performance indicators (KPI’s) to predictive models. KPI’s such as profitability, market share, and loyalty are usually required to be calculated in conjunction with any sales and marketing campaign. Therefore, StrategyBuilder was designed to integrate such KPI’s with the results of a predictive model in order to render the appropriate treatment for each customer segment. These results are all integrated into a deployment strategy that can also be translated into an execution code in SQL or SAS.
The above competitive features offered by the software products of Angoss is behind its success in serving over 4000 users from over 500 clients worldwide.
Ajay -Describe a major case study where using Angoss software helped save a big amount of revenue/costs by innovative data mining.
a-Rogers Telecommunications Inc. is one of the largest Canadian telecommunications providers, serving over 8.5 million customers and a revenue of 11.1 Billion Canadian Dollars (2009). In 2008, Rogers engaged Angoss in order to help with the problem of ballooning accounts receivable for a period of 18 months.
The problem was approached by improving the efficiency of the call centre serving the collections process by a set of predictive models. The first set of models were designed to find accounts likely to default ahead of time in order to take preventative measures. A second set of models were designed to optimize the call centre resources to focus on delinquent accounts likely to pay back most of the outstanding balance. Accounts that were identified as not likely to pack quickly were good candidates for “Early-out” treatment, by forwarding them directly to collection agencies. Angoss hosted Rogers’ data and provided on a regular interval the lists of accounts for each treatment to be deployed by the call centre dialler. As a result of this Rogers estimated an improvement of 10% of the collected sums.
Biography-
Mamdouh has been active in consulting, research, and training in various areas of information technology and software development for the last 20 years. He has worked on numerous projects with major organizations in North America and Europe in the areas of data mining, business analytics, business analysis, and engineering analysis. He has held several consulting positions for solution providers including Predict AG in Basel, Switzerland, and as ANGOSS Corp. Mamdouh is the Director of Professional services for EMEA region of ANGOSS Software. Mamdouh received his PhD in engineering from the University of Toronto and his MBA from the University of Leeds, UK.
Mamdouh is the author of:
"Credit Risk Scorecards: Development and Implmentation using SAS"
"Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS",
(The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) (Paperback)
and co-author of
"Data Mining: Know it all",Morgan Kaufmann
Eberhard Miethke works as a senior sales executive for Angoss
About Angoss-
Angoss is a global leader in delivering business intelligence software and predictive analytics to businesses looking to improve performance across sales, marketing and risk. With a suite of desktop, client-server and in-database software products and Software-as-a-Service solutions, Angoss delivers powerful approaches to turn information into actionable business decisions and competitive advantage.
Angoss software products and solutions are user-friendly and agile, making predictive analytics accessible and easy to use.
http://www.angoss.com/about-angoss/corporate-profile/
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Privacy Browsing Extensions in Google Chrome
Using two Chrome Extensions, Disconnect and AdBlock you can be sure of having a vary very clean browsing experience-it is recommended especially if you dont like the auto sharing of your personal preferences and cannot be bothered by the Byzantine maze of social media privacy fineprint.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhlakheieifhpjdfeo
Disconnect by Brian Kennish
(184) – 44,284 users – Weekly installs: 24,086
Stop major third parties and search engines from tracking the webpages you go to and searches you do.
* Search depersonalization is now optional and off by default. Click the “d” button then the “Depersonalize searches” checkbox to turn this feature on (or back off in case you have trouble getting to Google or Yahoo services). For help with anything else, see the known issues below and ask questions at http://j.mp/dnewgroup.
If you’re a typical web user, you’re unintentionally sending your browsing and search history with your name and other personal information to third parties and search engines whenever you’re online.
Take control of the data you share with Disconnect!
From the developer of the top-10-rated Facebook Disconnect extension, Disconnect lets you:
• Disable tracking by third parties like Digg, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo, without requiring any setup or significantly degrading the usability of the web.
• Truly depersonalize searches on search engines like Google and Yahoo (by blocking identifying cookies not just changing the appearance of results pages), while staying logged into other services — e.g., so you can search anonymously on Google and access iGoogle at once.
• See how many resource and cookie requests are blocked, in real time
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom
Extensions > AdBlock
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The most popular Chrome extension, with over 1.5 million users! Blocks ads all over the web.
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New in version 2.0: Ads are blocked from downloading, instead of just being removed after the fact!
The official AdBlock For Chrome! Block all advertisements on all web pages. Your browser is automatically updated with additions to the filter: just click Install, then visit your favorite website and see the ads disappear!
FAQs:1. This is the official AdBlock extension: the original ad blocker written from the ground up to be optimized in Chrome. There's an unrelated, older Firefox project called Adblock Plus, and they're working on making a Chrome version out of the old AdThwart codebase. At the moment AdBlock blocks some ads that AdThwart only hides, but they're working to improve it. It's available at bit.ly/id2Gqx; if you have trouble with AdBlock, they're good guys and a fine alternative!
Most Popular Firefox Extensions and Posts of 2010 [Video] (lifehacker.com)
Ex-Googler Helps Users Disconnect From the Social Web (readwriteweb.com)
10 Google Chrome Extensions for a Faster Browser (friedbeef.com)
IE9 Gets Built-In Ad Blocking (informationweek.com)
Click&Clean, Browser Add-On To Delete Temporary Data, Improve Privacy (ghacks.net)
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Using Firesheep on Campus, Caltrain and beyond
You must have heard about Firesheep-
it is a simple utility that adds on your Firefox browser– and simply traps all cookies floating around on public wi-fis like airports, university campuses, caltrain and soon san fransisco
Basically White Hat Hacking made easy so you can pose as anyone else on Facebook– if they are logged in nearby
When logging into a website you usually start by submitting your username and password. The server then checks to see if an account matching this information exists and if so, replies back to you with a “cookie” which is used by your browser for all subsequent requests.
It’s extremely common for websites to protect your password by encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the user) vulnerable. HTTP session hijacking (sometimes called “sidejacking“) is when an attacker gets a hold of a user’s cookie, allowing them to do anything the user can do on a particular website. On an open wireless network, cookies are basically shouted through the air, making these attacks extremely easy.
http://codebutler.com/firesheep
It would be interesting to see if Firesheep goes viral (or social)
New Firefox Add-On Detects Firesheep, Protects You on Open Networks (mashable.com)
Protection From FireSheep (Hint: It’s Not BlackSheep) (readwriteweb.com)
Shearing Firesheep (zdnet.com)
Firesheep: Facebook, Twitter Password Hijacking Made Easy (nowpublic.com)
BREAKING: FireSheep Brings Public WiFi Security Vulnerability (daaaveeeee.wordpress.com)
Author Ajay OhriPosted on November 12, 2010 Categories InternetTags add-on, browser, easy, facebook, Firefox, hacking, HTTP, Login, Mozilla Firefox, open, security, server, Session hijacking, Session management, twitter, website, websites, Wi-FiLeave a comment on Using Firesheep on Campus, Caltrain and beyond
Cloud Computing with R
Image by Dominic's pics via Flickr
Here is a short list of resources and material I put together as starting points for R and Cloud Computing It’s a bit messy but overall should serve quite comprehensively.
Cloud computing is a commonly used expression to imply a generational change in computing from desktop-servers to remote and massive computing connections,shared computers, enabled by high bandwidth across the internet.
As per the National Institute of Standards and Technology Definition,
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
(Citation: The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing
Authors: Peter Mell and Tim Grance
Version 15, 10-7-09
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Information Technology Laboratory
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/cloud-def-v15.doc)
R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display.
From http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-Web-Interfaces
R Web Interfaces
Rweb is developed and maintained by Jeff Banfield. The Rweb Home Page provides access to all three versions of Rweb—a simple text entry form that returns output and graphs, a more sophisticated JavaScript version that provides a multiple window environment, and a set of point and click modules that are useful for introductory statistics courses and require no knowledge of the R language. All of the Rweb versions can analyze Web accessible datasets if a URL is provided.
The paper “Rweb: Web-based Statistical Analysis”, providing a detailed explanation of the different versions of Rweb and an overview of how Rweb works, was published in the Journal of Statistical Software (http://www.jstatsoft.org/v04/i01/).
Ulf Bartel has developed R-Online, a simple on-line programming environment for R which intends to make the first steps in statistical programming with R (especially with time series) as easy as possible. There is no need for a local installation since the only requirement for the user is a JavaScript capable browser. See http://osvisions.com/r-online/ for more information.
Rcgi is a CGI WWW interface to R by MJ Ray. It had the ability to use “embedded code”: you could mix user input and code, allowing the HTMLauthor to do anything from load in data sets to enter most of the commands for users without writing CGI scripts. Graphical output was possible in PostScript or GIF formats and the executed code was presented to the user for revision. However, it is not clear if the project is still active.
Currently, a modified version of Rcgi by Mai Zhou (actually, two versions: one with (bitmap) graphics and one without) as well as the original code are available from http://www.ms.uky.edu/~statweb/.
CGI-based web access to R is also provided at http://hermes.sdu.dk/cgi-bin/go/. There are many additional examples of web interfaces to R which basically allow to submit R code to a remote server, see for example the collection of links available from http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/StatCompCourse.
David Firth has written CGIwithR, an R add-on package available from CRAN. It provides some simple extensions to R to facilitate running R scripts through the CGI interface to a web server, and allows submission of data using both GET and POST methods. It is easily installed using Apache under Linux and in principle should run on any platform that supports R and a web server provided that the installer has the necessary security permissions. David’s paper “CGIwithR: Facilities for Processing Web Forms Using R” was published in the Journal of Statistical Software (http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i10/). The package is now maintained by Duncan Temple Lang and has a web page athttp://www.omegahat.org/CGIwithR/.
Rpad, developed and actively maintained by Tom Short, provides a sophisticated environment which combines some of the features of the previous approaches with quite a bit of JavaScript, allowing for a GUI-like behavior (with sortable tables, clickable graphics, editable output), etc.
Jeff Horner is working on the R/Apache Integration Project which embeds the R interpreter inside Apache 2 (and beyond). A tutorial and presentation are available from the project web page at http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/RApacheProject.
Rserve is a project actively developed by Simon Urbanek. It implements a TCP/IP server which allows other programs to use facilities of R. Clients are available from the web site for Java and C++ (and could be written for other languages that support TCP/IP sockets).
OpenStatServer is being developed by a team lead by Greg Warnes; it aims “to provide clean access to computational modules defined in a variety of computational environments (R, SAS, Matlab, etc) via a single well-defined client interface” and to turn computational services into web services.
Two projects use PHP to provide a web interface to R. R_PHP_Online by Steve Chen (though it is unclear if this project is still active) is somewhat similar to the above Rcgi and Rweb. R-php is actively developed by Alfredo Pontillo and Angelo Mineo and provides both a web interface to R and a set of pre-specified analyses that need no R code input.
webbioc is “an integrated web interface for doing microarray analysis using several of the Bioconductor packages” and is designed to be installed at local sites as a shared computing resource.
Rwui is a web application to create user-friendly web interfaces for R scripts. All code for the web interface is created automatically. There is no need for the user to do any extra scripting or learn any new scripting techniques. Rwui can also be found at http://rwui.cryst.bbk.ac.uk.
Finally, the R.rsp package by Henrik Bengtsson introduces “R Server Pages”. Analogous to Java Server Pages, an R server page is typically HTMLwith embedded R code that gets evaluated when the page is requested. The package includes an internal cross-platform HTTP server implemented in Tcl, so provides a good framework for including web-based user interfaces in packages. The approach is similar to the use of the brew package withRapache with the advantage of cross-platform support and easy installation.
Also additional R Cloud Computing Use Cases
http://wwwdev.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/rcloud/
ArrayExpress R/Bioconductor Workbench
Remote access to R/Bioconductor on EBI’s 64-bit Linux Cluster
Start the workbench by downloading the package for your operating system (Macintosh or Windows), or via Java Web Start, and you will get access to an instance of R running on one of EBI’s powerful machines. You can install additional packages, upload your own data, work with graphics and collaborate with colleagues, all as if you are running R locally, but unlimited by your machine’s memory, processor or data storage capacity.
Most up-to-date R version built for multicore CPUs
Access to all Bioconductor packages
Access to our computing infrastructure
Fast access to data stored in EBI’s repositories (e.g., public microarray data in ArrayExpress)
Using R Google Docs
http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/run.pdf
It uses the XML and RCurl packages and illustrates that it is relatively quick and easy
to use their primitives to interact with Web services.
Using R with Amazon
http://rgrossman.com/2009/05/17/running-r-on-amazons-ec2/
Amazon’s EC2 is a type of cloud that provides on demand computing infrastructures called an Amazon Machine Images or AMIs. In general, these types of cloud provide several benefits:
Simple and convenient to use. An AMI contains your applications, libraries, data and all associated configuration settings. You simply access it. You don’t need to configure it. This applies not only to applications like R, but also can include any third-party data that you require.
On-demand availability. AMIs are available over the Internet whenever you need them. You can configure the AMIs yourself without involving the service provider. You don’t need to order any hardware and set it up.
Elastic access. With elastic access, you can rapidly provision and access the additional resources you need. Again, no human intervention from the service provider is required. This type of elastic capacity can be used to handle surge requirements when you might need many machines for a short time in order to complete a computation.
Pay per use. The cost of 1 AMI for 100 hours and 100 AMI for 1 hour is the same. With pay per use pricing, which is sometimes called utility pricing, you simply pay for the resources that you use.
Connecting to R on Amazon EC2- Detailed tutorials
Ubuntu Linux version
https://decisionstats.com/2010/09/25/running-r-on-amazon-ec2/
and Windows R version
https://decisionstats.com/2010/10/02/running-r-on-amazon-ec2-windows/
Connecting R to Data on Google Storage and Computing on Google Prediction API
https://github.com/onertipaday/predictionapirwrapper
R wrapper for working with Google Prediction API
This package consists in a bunch of functions allowing the user to test Google Prediction API from R.
It requires the user to have access to both Google Storage for Developers and Google Prediction API:
see http://code.google.com/apis/storage/ and http://code.google.com/apis/predict/ for details.
#This example requires you had previously created a bucket named data_language on your Google Storage and you had uploaded a CSV file named language_id.txt (your data) into this bucket – see for details
library(predictionapirwrapper)
and Elastic R for Cloud Computing
http://user2010.org/tutorials/Chine.html
Elastic-R is a new portal built using the Biocep-R platform. It enables statisticians, computational scientists, financial analysts, educators and students to use cloud resources seamlessly; to work with R engines and use their full capabilities from within simple browsers; to collaborate, share and reuse functions, algorithms, user interfaces, R sessions, servers; and to perform elastic distributed computing with any number of virtual machines to solve computationally intensive problems.
Also see Karim Chine’s http://biocep-distrib.r-forge.r-project.org/
R for Salesforce.com
At the point of writing this, there seem to be zero R based apps on Salesforce.com This could be a big opportunity for developers as both Apex and R have similar structures Developers could write free code in R and charge for their translated version in Apex on Salesforce.com
Force.com and Salesforce have many (1009) apps at
http://sites.force.com/appexchange/home for cloud computing for
businesses, but very few forecasting and statistical simulation apps.
Example of Monte Carlo based app is here
http://sites.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N300000016cT9EAI#
These are like iPhone apps except meant for business purposes (I am
unaware if any university is offering salesforce.com integration
though google apps and amazon related research seems to be on)
Force.com uses a language called Apex and you can see
http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/App_Logic and
http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/An_Introduction_to_Formulas
Apex is similar to R in that is OOPs
SAS Institute has an existing product for taking in Salesforce.com data.
A new SAS data surveyor is
available to access data from the Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) software vendor Salesforce.com. at
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/whatsnew/62580/HTML/default/viewer.htm#datasurveyorwhatsnew902.htm)
Personal Note-Mentioning SAS in an email to a R list is a big no-no in terms of getting a response and love. Same for being careless about which R help list to email (like R devel or R packages or R help)
For python based cloud see http://pi-cloud.com
Open-Source JavaScript frameworks to develop stunning, interface-rich web applications | User Interfaces | Libraries and Components for Software Developers @ LibHound (libhound.com)
Study: Cloud computing for business uses less energy (news.cnet.com)
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Summer Institute for Teaching Peace
This week I have the privilege of attending and presenting at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies’ Summer Institute for Teaching Peace in the 21st Century. This institute brings together college and university educators from various disciplines to Notre Dame for the week to learn about, strategize, develop a plan for how to create or enhance peace studies programs at their schools. This year’s institute brings together educators from several African universities as well, from Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
On Thursday, I will be facilitating two sessions that introduce the participants to USIP’s catalog of online courses and to help them think of ways to integrate these courses into their budding programs.
My note-taking/blogging strategy for this week is a top take-away approach as opposed to a well-crafted summary. I will be sitting in all of the plenaries and sharing through this post the top take-aways from each of them.
George began by sharing this wonderful cartoon.
This definitely set the right tone!
Our goal, by the end of this institute is to be able to fill in the blanks in this statement: Peace studies at _____________ examines _____________, ______________, _______________, and ________________. Our program name _______________ reflects _____________ and it consistent with ____________’s institutional mission to ______________. The program offers __________________, etc.
During the welcome and introductions plenary, George asked me to briefly facilitate an icebreaker after he went over the program goals and schedule. As I was listening to him talk I started forming an analogy in my mind. So when I got up to facilitate the icebreaker I started out by first taking a quick survey of the audience. I asked how many people in the group find ways to intentionally get some exercise – be it running, walking, swimming, cycling, etc. Pretty much everyone raised their hand. I then asked how many people get exercise through running. A little less raised their hands. I then asked how many people in the group has run a marathon. One person raised his hand.
I said that there are not that many people to make the conscious choice to run an actual marathon. In fact, I think less than 1% of the world’s population actually run a marathon. The analogy works for this summer institute in that there are lots of teachers and educators in the world. Their are fewer people who then teach peace and conflict studies. There are then even fewer people who intentionally seek out opportunities to engage in a gathering such as this at the Kroc Institute. So in many ways this summer institute is the professional and academic equivalent of a marathon for peace studies. Every one attending and participating in the institute is unique and special in making this conscious decision to embark on a journey to build and create a peace studies program at their college or university.
I then asked the first two rows of the audience to come and form a line on the front of the room facing the seats. This ended up having the entire group looking at one another. I gave them a few seconds, in silence, to just look into each others eyes and acknowledge the journeys and intentions that brought us all together for the week. I asked them embrace the awkwardness of the exercise so we don’t waste anytime in starting to build our networks and reach out to one another. After all, we only really have 3 full days to do our work together. I then asked them to lock eyes with one person that they do not know and ideally lives on a different continent. That person with whom they locked eyes then became their partner for dinner. The only question I asked them to ask of one another was: if you could have anyone, past or present, dead or alive, join the two of you for dinner, who would that person be and why?
The History, Changing and Challenging Themes of Peace Studies
George started his talk by giving us all a 3×5 index card and asking us to take seven minutes and write our response to the question: How do we achieve world peace? We then talked in small groups to share what we wrote down. One of my group mates from IUPUI generated a lot of interest in our conversation when he brought in the saying, “if the only tools we have is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail.” This was his way of saying that we need to increase our peacebuilding and peacemaking toolbox so that we don’t try and address every problem as if it were a nail or, in this case, with violence.
He went onto explain that the field of peace studies = an inter-disciplinary field, primarily [but not exclusively] based in the social sciences that blends peace research, peace education, and peace action. All this is infused with an eye towards praxis.
Historical milestones and shifts:
1950 through mid 70s – war prevention/elimination
mid-70s through early 90s – conflict resolution
1990s – subnational ethnic and group violence
21st century – terrorism, interventionary war, post-violence peacebuilding
Old-new conceptual basis of peace studies:
Non-violence at the personal and system level
The linkages between local and global
Citizen action for non-violent social change
Justice as central: restorative justice – JustPeace
Rights as central…Rights based peace
Con Res -> conflict transformation -> strategic peacebuilding
The ethical assessment of all the above
What is peace studies? How to respond:
A multidisciplinary field focusing on three general areas of study:
the causes and conditions which generate and sustain violent conflict
the mechanisms and models for dealing with violent conflict and,
the norms, practices and institutions [ideas and methods] for building peace.
Keys to campus success:
demonstrate student interest/demand
develop faculty interest and competence
do what we do with transparency and integrity
Don’t be on the defensive – be comparative!
Like nutrition studies, theater arts, accounting or engineering, peace studies is not neutral about some issues: peace is usually better than war; justice better than privilege and repression. It can and should be goal-oriented. It begs a different pedagogy – certainly more relation directly to the real world.
From Conflict Transformation to Strategic Peacebuilding
John Paul Lederach
Language and metaphor play a very important role in peacebuilding and conflict transformation. We create meaning through forms of association. He and his daughter have a forthcoming book on this very topic.
He told a story about how he came to transition from thinking about conflict resolution and instead think about conflict transformation. He went to a community in conflict (in the Global south) and a man in the community approached him and said, “if you have come here to solve our problems but not change anything then please leave.” In other words, he was not interested in Lederach “fixing” something but not changing anything. Since then the world “resolution” was problematized.
Too often practitioner being training and educated in peacebuilding are getting the skills to facilitate the conclusion of a conflict but not think strategically about broader social change.
Resolution is narrowly focused on the de-escalation of violence and does not see the wider paradigm of transformation.
The key question for conflict resolution is how do we end something not desired? It is content-centric.
The key question for conflict transformation is how do we end something that is not desired AND build something that is desired?
Just because conflict is universal does not mean that one’s conception or approach to conflict resolution is universal. The transfer of conflict “technology” can actually create more problems than it resolves.
Conflict transformation requires that the gap between the grassroots leadership solutions and processes and the processes and solutions produced at the top levels of leadership be closed.
Four types of change = personal, relational, systematic, and cultural.
When engaged in conflict transformation work, first ask and find out if someone in the community is already do the vertical work and integration. It is important to think about who you choose to do the work and for what reason.
Conflict transformation is not just about methods and techniques of resolution, but also a curiosity around social change.
Projects are the most damaging form of agency.
Critical yeast vs. critical mass and other key insights from Lederach’s book, The Moral Imagination, linked below.
http://www.beyondintractability.org/bksum/lederach-imagination
“Wait! My Field Is Peace Studies Too!”
Sandra Gustafson, Scott Appleby, Atalia Omer, and Mark Cumming
The best way to learn peace studies and be integrated into the program is to teach the intro to peace studies class.
Mark Cummings comes from the field of psychology, particular around family, children, and conflict. He led a six year longitudinal study on 1,000 children and families involved or immersed in the conflict in Northern Ireland.
If you don’t change how people get a long with one another, and just have political leaders signing documents and agreements, you will not see systematic or sustainable change.
Its not necessary to hire a separate faculty member, but rather draw on the expertise that is already present in the university at various schools, colleges, and departments.
Atalia Omer‘s training is in religious studies from Harvard University. She is currently looking an hybrid identities within the Israeli/Palestinian context.
One of the best ways to build and be part of an interdisciplinary peace studies program is connecting peace studies to ongoing conversation in your field and area of expertise.
Scott Appleby is the Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is looking at the relationship between history and peace studies.
What can we know and how can we know it? Is there decisive truth or keys to understanding the world that is not known except through indirection? What do these themes have to do with peace studies?
The past is a foreign country and constructed. It is a matter of hermeneutics and interpretation. History is no longer about “telling you how things really were in the past.”
“Without bias there would be no history”
Hermeneutics = The science of interpretation.
History is the coin of the realm. Conflicts are about the past. People who fail to trade in the currency of history will fail.
Being a historian and a peace studies scholar requires that you interrogate your own assumptions that are infused into our work and writing.
That Noble Dream: The Historians Quest for Objectivity
Good religion and history scholars are non-reductive. They are instead holistic. They are drawn towards integration.
One thing we have to avoid in peace studies is to reduce the complexity of the world into only a small set of fields. It is essential that it is mulch-disciplnary. Reductive moves are are dangerous.
Peace studies educators must be concerned with understanding of change over time. We must specify a theory of change that under girds our work as peace studies scholars.
Historians and peace studies scholars must be comparative. If you know just one case you don’t know any cases. Reminds me of the JS Mill quote, “He who knows only his side of the case knows little of that.”
Journalist is a “dirty word” for historians
Peace studies scholars must resists the gush of enthusiasm over presentism – not rushing to judgment about what present trends really indicate.
Sandra Gustafson is a literature professor and scholar engaged in peace studies.
Thinking Fast and Slow by David Kahnemann
The field of literature can help peace studies scholars and students read more slowly, thoughtfully and deliberatively. Intentionality behind approaches to reading.
The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride
The Lowland by Jumpa Lhahiri
These two books help us explore the questions: when is violent resistance to oppression justified? What results from it?
Introduction to Literature and Peace Studies involved four core texts Regeneration, Waiting for the Barbarian, Ceremony, …
When developing a peace studies program seek out faculty who are waiting for an opportunity to blossom in a new way. Seek out people who are intellectually alive, already blossoming, thriving, and looking for directions to channel that growth and energy. Use symbolic tokens to welcome faculty into the program – small grants, etc.
Taylor your program to your institutional setting.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18th
Teaching Students to Change the World: The Classroom, Curricular and Community Partners and Social Change
David Cortright and Hal Culbertson
Just solving the problem and not addressing the underlying causes and injustices is not good enough.
Does this guy look familiar? Yup! This is David Cortright!
Principles of nonviolence are pursuit of justice, means = ends, willingness to sacrifice, nonviolent discipline.
First, collect the facts and document them. Second, engage in dialogue and negotiation with the adversary, direct action, and then reconciliation.
You cannot achieve just ends through unjust means.
In order to bring about change their must be sacrifice. One must be willing to suffer. Those with power do not give it up without a struggle.
Drop Your Weapons: When and Why Civil Resistance Works
Those who use the gun to gain power tend to use the gun to remain in power. Nonviolent movements are much more likely to result in a free and democratic society.
Factors that lead to the success rate of nonviolent action = mass participation, undermining opponent source of support, loyalty shifts, and backfire.
A diversity of tactics in a nonviolent movement increases the movements chances of success. Relying on just a handful of tactics make it easier for the adversary to respond and repress. A movement that relies just on street protests will decrease their chances for success.
Four levels of strategic planning = methods, tactics, campaigns, and grand strategy.
Better to think about a leaderful movement as opposed to the leaderless movement.
Teaching Students to Change the World: Through NGOs
Hal Culbertson
Hal Culberston is the Executive Director of the Kroc Institute. He had formative experiences in Bangladesh working for the Mennonite Central Committee.
What is an NGO and how to they differ from non-profits and civil society? NGO = relief, development, human rights, peacebuilding, environment. Nonprofit = schools, universities, clubs/associations, religious organizations. Civil society = political/social movements, family/clan, media. NGOs are nested within NGOs, and NGOs are nested within civil society.
One of the key leadership challenges that NGOs face is that they speak for a wider community or civil society more generally. This can create tensions between what the larger society or movement wants and needs vs. what the organization wants and needs.
Origins of NGOs – charismatic leader (e.g. Yunus and Grameen), religious group (e.g. Catholic Relief Services, etc.), social movement (SANE Freeze Movement, etc. and/or business/government (Bangladesh).
Comparing social movements and NGOs. Social movements are striving towards mass participation. An NGO effort measures their success in very different ways. They want to see changes in the people they are trying to reach. There are also funding differences. Social movements rely largely on voluntary participation. NGOs rely on some source of funding.
How do NGOs change the world? Project/Campaigns:
Theory of change – discreet set of objectives designed to generate long-term or wider change.
Evaluation – change must be measurable.
Management Structure – usually managed by some paid staff.
Financing – Funding usually from external donors.
Can peacebuilding be done successfuly as an NGO project? How to avoid NGO-ization? The term NGO-ization emerged in large part from the feminist movement. Some were critical of this development.
How do NGOs and NGO projects need to be changed to make them more effective at peacebuilding? How to avoid utopianism (Greek = “no place”).
re: Peacebuilding – oftentimes you need just as much time to get out of a conflict as it took to get into the conflict. But can NGO’s secure funding for 10-20 years?
Emerging question for peacebuilding projects:
Theory of change – can we define specific activities that will foster peace or reduce conflict? Are zones of conflict too volatile for project planning?
Evaluation – How can we measure the impact of peaebuilding projects? What kind of impact are you trying to achieve through your project?
Management Structure – How can our management structure integrate local voices or other relevant stakeholders?
Financing – How does the involvement of official donor agencies in peacebuilding shape projects on the ground?
Most peacebuilding projects are actually funded by governments and their respective development agencies. Interesting fact considering that if you were an human rights NGO or project you would be very opposed to being funded by governments.
NGOs with a peacebuilding mission – Search for Common Ground (social cohesion, communication), International Alert (local capacity-building, advocacy), International Crisis Group (monitoring, policy consultancy), NPI-Africa (facilitation, training), Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) (organizational networking).
Online Classroom Resources: Electronic Hallway, University of Washington. PaxSims, and Thiagi Games.
Peacebuilding 2.0: Mapping the Boundaries of an Expanding Field by the Alliance for Peacebuilding
Kenya’s Version of “The Office” Rips on NGOs and It’s Hilarious
Kenya’s First Mockumentary Takes on NGOs
Educating Peace Professionals
Anne Hayner
Comparing curricular goals of liberal arts degree vs. professional degree.
Peace work can be identified on a number of levels. It can be seen as a specific job, or based within an organization, or in the milieu (geographic, social, topical), or in the lens through which we perceive the work (value orientations, justice elements).
What skills do our students need in order to walk a pathway to a career in peace.
Alliance for Conflict Transformation Report: Developing a Career in International Peace and Conflict Resolution.
Graduate Education and Professional Practice in International Peace and Conflict. USIP Special Report
Pathways to a career in peace.
Father Ted’s Peace Brigade – a global mapping of where all Kroc Peace Studies graduates are working and in what fields.
The more we can educate our students on how to use LinkedIn the more we empower them to make connections and network in the field that will allow them progress on their career path in peace.
Recommended books for students looking for a career in peace:
Parker Palmer – Let Your Life Speak
John Paul Lederach – The Moral Imagination
Richard Bolles – What Color is Your Parachute?
MA in International Peace Students
Susan St. Ville, Director of Graduate MA program in International Peace Studies
Peace studies exists on the border of the academy and the real world.
Reflective practice:
Knowledge through active engagement (pragmatic, process-oriented view of truth). Informed by Donald Schon’s work – The Reflective Practitioner. Consciousness of who you are as a thinker.
Theories are evaluated by consequences: Does it work? Does it prodice more good than harm? What works and what does not work?
Theory <———-> Practice
Education = mutually engaged inquiry
Mentor <———-> Student
Schon is very critical of the “banking model” of education. He encourages more of a dialogue between the teacher/mentor and the student/learner.
Undergraduate Program in Peace Studies
Ernesto Verdeja, Director of Undergraduate Program in International Peace Studies
Undergrad program split up into three areas:
A = international norms and organizations
B = ethics, norms and morals
C = social and psychological processes
ND has a “supplementary” peace studies major. This means that a student can’t major ONLY in peace studies. It also has to be linked to another field or discipline – e.g. political science, psych, sociology, history, etc. Supplementary major is 8 courses. A minor is peace studies is 5 courses.
Developing a faculty fellow program is essential to the success of peace studies.
George – use contention as one of the raison ‘d etre of the program and the courses in peace studies.
Making a Compelling Case for Peace Studies to Faculty, Students, Donors, Deans, and Administrators
Renee Leroux, Senior Writer and Digital Program Manager
Embrace your role as a communicator
Craft your core message
Engage audiences where they live
Focus first on your website
The most read articles are the ones with photos in them.
Make friends and recruit ambassadors.
Marketplace of Sessions
During this 2.5 hour block I facilitated two sessions on USIP’s online courses, how to integrate them into a peace studies program, and how to use them pedagogically.
I started by sharing answering the “Why?” question. Why is USIP investing time, money, and energy into online learning. I showed the “Meet Sarah” promotional video that talks about how online learning can reach potential peacebuilders with opportunities to learn and develop skills to prevent, mitigate, and resolve violent conflict.
Using this prezi presentation, I then gave a short overview of Michael Lund’s curve of conflict analytical framework, after which I handed out short descriptions of each of the eight self-paced online courses that USIP currently has available.
I broke the group into three and had the first group pick three courses who content they think was best applied during the first stage of a conflict when peacebuilders engage in prevention work when a community may we moving from a state of positive peace to negative peace and escalating toward direct violence. The second group picked three courses who content they think was best applied during the second phase of a conflict when peacebuilders engage in mitigation work when a community has been reached a crisis point, committed acts of direct, physical violence and in some cases reached an apex of mass, organized violence/war. And the third group picked three courses whose content they think was best applied during the third phase of a conflict when peacebuilders engage in peacebuilding work as a community de-escalates out of violence and begins to do the work of reconstruction and reconciliation.
After each group debated and made their selections, I asked them to think about what kinds of interdisciplinary connections they could make with other disciplines through these courses as a way to bring in support from other departments like sociology, anthropology, political science, history, communication, religious studies, psychology, etc.
I then gave some examples of what online courses allow us to provide as an institution and facilitate as professors. For example, online courses can be integrated into an on-site course as one of many resources integrated into the syllabus. They can allow professors to teach courses to students studying abroad in different countries. They can allow schools to co-teach classes with sister schools across the world. They can be offered to alumni or to incoming students as a prerequisite. Or they can be used for faculty development when seeking out other professors to be a part of a peace studies program.
Lastly, I shared a handout with some examples of how to engage the online learning in both synchronous and asynchronous ways.
FRIDAY, JUNE 20th
Check out Stanford’s Peace and Justice Program – peacejustice.stanford.edu. They have a great list outlining the program’s focus.
Nonviolence, violence, and civil resistance: theories and meanings of nonviolence and violence; history, principles and methods of dissent, communication, art, organizing, and individual and social change.
Peacemaking: seeking to prevent, resolve, or transform conflicts — including war, genocide, human rights violations, non-state and state terrorism, and ecological destruction — through nonviolent means.
Transformative justice: liberation, restoration, reparations, healing, and reconciliation as alternatives to retribution.
Well-being: creating and sustaining health and quality of life in individuals, groups, societies, and ecosystems.
Valencia College is doing some great work around Peace and Justice Pedagogy. Here is their conception of what that means:
“Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.” –Parker J. Palmer
“The Peace and Justice Initiative at Valencia College promotes peace and justice for all. Our aim is to nurture an inclusive, caring and respectful environment on campus and within our community–one where conflict leads to growth and transformation, rather than violence or aggression.
“Acknowledging that the pedagogy of a peace and justice course integrates peace practices, faculty who intend to teach a peace and justice course (i.e. Introduction to Peace Studies, The Psychology of Peace, etc.) or to integrate modules within existing courses with peace and justice themes are encouraged to engage in these faculty development courses.
“The principles of our peace and justice pedagogy include the following:
Places collaborative relationship building as central to the work.
Encourages a reflective practice to support meaning and purpose (mindfulness practice, emotional intelligence)
Addresses conflict as a source and opportunity for growth and transformation
Uses the tools of dialogue and conversation (introduces The Principles for How We Treat Each Other)
Supports an inclusive community in which all voices are heard and valued.
Engages in the exploration of the “other” in acknowledgement of our inherent interdependence.
Recognizes that there can be no sustaining peace without justice for all.
“These high impact practices for peace and justice pedagogy at Valencia create classrooms that model the culture of peace and stand as models for communities of peace.”
Doug Archer, the University of Notre Dame Librarian, shared this great resource: A Peace and Justice Studies Canon
Multiple, functional needs in a post-conflict world require a number of fields and expertise.
Peace studies is still in a moment re-creation. Out understanding violence are challenged and changing. Out understandings of peace and its component parts and processes change. The fields we relate to and rely on are changing. The normative and pedagogical environment of the academy is changing.
Post the kind of social change you want. Posit the incremental markers for change in your own mind and reach them. Take what the culture will give you and then push a step or two further. Be more inclusive and more transparent and more in dialogue with others – meet and talk.
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The Ideal City | Republic Book 2 Summary (2 of 2)
Colt Kovacek
Hello, I’m Dr. Anadale. I teach philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. This video summarizes the last two thirds of Republic Book Two. In Book One we were introduced to the quest for the true definition of justice, and we had Thrasymachus give his very bold assertion that justice is merely the advantage of the stronger. The first third of Book Two is Glaucon’s Challenge, in which the brothers Glaucon and Adeimantus take over Thrasymachus’ position, giving it a clearer and more disciplined expression. They then challenge Socrates to defeat this view by showing how justice is beneficial to a person, independently of its reputation. Socrates begins his reply at 368d by introducing the Political Metaphor. He proposes to examine the nature of justice in a city, which is larger and easier to observe than a soul. We can then see what this will tell us about justice in the soul. The idea is that will we will be better able to see what justice is when it is writ large in the city. Note that this method assumes that political justice and justice in the soul are the same thing, just on different scales. This is an assumption that will be challenged by Machiavelli in the Renaissance. Socrates begins by examining the origin of a city, supposing that this will also allow us to see the origin of Justice. At 369b, he observes that cities are founded because no individual is self-sufficient, so we need other people if we’re going to flourish and survive. My first reading question for you is: Make a list of the features of the Healthy City. (Look around 369-372 for the answer.) Glaucon objects, though, to Socrates’ account, saying that people in the city “should recline on proper couches… dine at tables, and have the relishes and desserts that people have nowadays.” It seems that Glaucon wants Socrates to describe the Luxurious City. Socrates agrees, and says in examining the Luxurious City we might discover, not just the origin of justice, but also the origin of injustice. Note that the Healthy City Socrates initially describes is the true city, and the one described in the rest of Republic is feverish: it’s excessive, it goes beyond the requirements of human nature somehow. The Luxurious City will require new goods and occupations, including jewelry and hunters, musicians, and additional servants. Because it contains so much more than the Healthy City, the Luxurious City will require an army to protect it from its enemies and to secure resources for it. The ideal city, then, will need a specialized class of people to serve in the army, and these are called the Guardians. This sets up the final part of Book Two: the discussion of the character and education of the Guardians. The conversation turns to who will serve in the army, the Guardians, and what they must be like in order to guard the city well. My second reading question for you is: What traits must a Guardian have? (Look around 375 for the answer.) The city therefore must train the Guardians to have these specific traits, so that they can do their job well. Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus then discuss what the education of the guardians must be like. Education in music and poetry will come first, to train their minds, and then physical training. As children, the future guardians will be told stories of gods and heroes. At 377b, Socrates observes that these stories about the gods are especially important, because children’s minds are malleable, and wrong ideas that they learn while young may distort their character and make them unable to function as proper guardians for the city. Socrates argues that the young guardians must be told only fine and beautiful stories and the city must not permit the telling of false stories about the gods. Thus the ideal city will have to practice some kind of official censorship. Poets cannot tell just any stories they want about the gods; they must tell true stories and stories that improve the virtue and patriotism of the Guardians, because the health of the entire city depends upon this. In short, the art of the poets and the dramatists must be obedient to the philosophers’ insights into the truth of things, says Socrates. Pay special attention to the specific stories that Socrates says would be prohibited in the ideal city, and his criteria for describing the gods properly. This brings us to the end of Book Two. There’s much more still to say about the ideal city, about its guardians and their education and training. This is material for the next books. Thanks for watching today; goodbye.
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I have a only read a bit of Plato. But when I hear your summary of Plato's/Socrates' argument for the ideal city here, it brings me to identity with Karl Popper's criticism in The Open Society and Its Enemies. Do you feel there is a counter to Popper's argument, or that he misunderstands Plaot in some way?
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← College football, the NFL is not your friend.
Keith Marshall, Bulldog historian →
Stats are for LOOSERS.
[Ed. note: Yes, I know that’s a typo in the header… which is more than I can say for about a quarter of the people who post on message boards.]
In today’s edition of “I Blame Bobo”, Patrick Garbin painfully tracks a comparison of Mark Richt’s and Mike Bobo’s terms as offensive coordinator in twelve different statistical categories, scores it overwhelmingly in Bobo’s favor, notes that Georgia has won at a far lower rate with Bobo as OC and concludes:
… It’s no secret that many in the Bulldog Nation (including yours truly on occasion), during Georgia’s last few seasons of mediocrity, have been quick to point the finger at Bobo’s play calling as a major issue. However, at least comparatively speaking, I’m beginning to believe that Bobo isn’t necessarily a problem but maybe a scapegoat, and something else besides his play calling, or lack thereof, should be focused upon.
BWAHAAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH… wait, what? … he was serious about that?
Filed under Georgia Football, Stats Geek!
86 responses to “Stats are for LOOSERS.”
What is wrong with what he wrote?
Seriously, you’re going to have to spell it out to me b/c I don’t get it. But I will admit that I’m dense sometimes.
Sarcasm.
There’s nothing wrong with what he wrote. Go tell that to the folks who want Bobo canned or demoted because… well, because.
I blame Bobo for Jason not understanding.
Now THAT was funny! 🙂
I don’t understand why pointing out that Bobo as OC has been statistically better than Richt as OC is reason for saying that it’s ridiculous to can Bobo. What if you didn’t think Richt was that great as an offensive coordinator to begin with? Is it crazy to want to can Bobo and bring in someone from outside the program to be OC?
What makes you think Richt would do better the next time around?
I don’t think he’d do better. That’s why I’m talking about bringing in someone from outside the program to run the offense.
I meant with the next hire, not him taking the reins back. If Richt won’t change his overall coaching philosophy, what difference would a new hire make?
Well, 2 out of his 3 defensive coordinator hires have been successful. I think he does a pretty good job when hiring from outside the program.
As far as his coaching philosophy goes, if he brings in someone from outside and gives them what I’ll call “almost autonomy” (like what Grantham has), then his philosophy doesn’t matter as much anymore. He’s more of a CEO at that point.
ummm, Richt is a head coach with an OFFENSIVE background. It’s pretty plain that his preferred offensive philosophy is to run a pro-style offense. If you want a head coach who’s just going to toss the keys to the offense to his OC and let him run the spread, or the west coast, or the wishbone, you’re probably never going to be happy with Mark Richt.
What the numbers show, in a pretty clear fashion, is that the offensive production at UGA is as good as ever, probably better than ever. I suspect if one charted out the defensive stats over the Richt era, the reason UGA has less wins during Mike Bobo’s tenure as OC than under CMR’s turn as playcaller would be pretty obvious.
81 Dawg, This Old Dawg thinks that you are right on target.
Agree. Wonder what would happen if we had a kick ass defense like in 03. Oh, yeah, we’d win the East and lose to LSU in the championship game.
Richt is an offensive-minded coach. He approaches the hiring of his two coordinators differently. I don’t think your assumption is realistic.
That’s very possible. He may hire someone who is similar to him. But similar doesn’t necessarily have to mean Richt II or Bobo II. The new guy could still run a pro-style offense but have a different philosophy on how to utilize it. Think about how many variations of offense there are in the NFL.
But I get your point that he may not be willing to hire someone even as different from him as what I describe above. But it doesn’t mean we can’t analyze it and call it necessary as fans. Hell, for the longest time a LOT of people thought he wouldn’t fire Martinez and that he’d go down with that whole in his ship. People can change…even Mark Richt.
* hole
geez, bad typo!
DawgFaithfull
Totally agree. I have argued on this post before about how Bobo is certainly the scapegoat as is the OC in many other programs when things start to go south and I got ripped. Bobo calls the game the way Richt wants him to. Bringing in another guy wont change that. Richt is an offensive guy and this is his philosophy. He calls games like an NFL coordinator. People who dont know shit about football aren’t worth arguing with. You know like the people who cant figure out why Bobo calls a run on 2nd and 10 after an incomplete pass on 1st down. People, it’s very common to make that call. 3rd and 7-8 is alot easier to convert than 3rd and 10. Its not so much conservative as it is good football sense. NFL coordinators make this call all the time. Then there is the 3rd and 17 from our own 16yrd line situation where Bobo calls a draw. Again, very commom. We do not have a lot of plays in the playbook for 3rd and 17. You’ve got a young QB and you are backed up in your own territory. Good football sense says to call a conservative run and set up a good punt, play defense. LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY. Better than a pick in your own redzone. It happens all the time. ITs smart. I love it when this happens and the guy sitting next to me starts cussing Bobo. I just want to reach over and slap him because he is such a retard and probably never played football. ITs pepole like this that blame Bobo for everything. Bottom line… If our defense keeps improving on last year, it almost doesnt matter WHO is OC. We’re gonna have success. Stop blaming BoBo people. Look at his numbers as OC. The proof is in the pudding
Edawg
How about a draw play on 3 and 15 from our own 45? I saw that little gem dialed up this year. They (Bobo and Richt) are not beyond criticism. Not even close. So get down off your soapbox, Johnny Knowitall.
Edawg,
I’ll say it again. We dont have many plays for 3rd and 15. In this instance from our own 45 you call a conservative play for the same reason. You dont want to turn it over at mid field when you have the 3rd ranked Defense in America and your QB has struggled with throwing picks. You live to fight another day by pinning them in their own redzone and trusting your Badass defense. It puts pressure on them. Dumbass. You sound like that retard who has never played a down of football.
Hey DawgFaithful/Knowitall,
This was in the second game of the season. You know, the one where we gave up 45 points? The game following the game where we gave up 35? Ring a bell? We didn’t exactly have the 3rd ranked defense at that point.
You’re a clown.
Also, how much do you stand to gain by moving up the 5 yards that you typically get on a long draw? You move from the 45 to the 50. At the 45, you can tell Butler to just boom it. You can’t really do that at the 50 b/c if he catches it clean, it’s in the end zone.
Again, you’re a clown.
Yes the SC game. I was there. They had 3 defensive TD’s(picks and fumbles by inexperienced QB) and a special teams TD, Blair walsh missed 2 Fg’s and we lost by 3 pts. I’d say the defense did a great job of keeping us in that game until the 4th quarter when Lattimore finally broke a couple of runs. Dumbass. Im not saying that you should run a draw on every 3rd and long idiot. Nobody does that. There are many factors in the decision like, the score, time left in the game, the way your defense is playing, or they way your QB has handled situations like this in the past in games and in practice. These decisions are all calculated. Bobo never just calls a draw up the middle because he cant think of anything else to call. Sometimes we get aggressive in that situation. I dont remember the specific play you are referring to but there was definitely some logical reasoning behind it. Its not about trying to get 5 more yards and then punt. Its about TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY. Also there are other options rather than booming it into the endzone. Have you ever heard of a directional punt? Did you watch the punter for the Giants last night? You are the epitomy of the ignorant ass UGA fan that I was refering to in my original post. Maybe you should be alling the plays. Me… I’ll leave it to the experts. And if I dont really understand something, I dont go around sharing my opinion like its Gospel. Long live Bobo and Richt. To hell with Tech and ignorant fans like you
The defense gave up 24 points that day. Not terrible but not great. Oh, and they gave up 400 total yards.
Again, this is the week after we gave up 35 to Boise.
One final time, you’re a clown. Keep trying to convince yourself otherwise though.
They gave up 24 pts but 7 of those came on a QB sneak after a fumble was returned to the 2 yd line. Technically 24 but In my eyes they actually scored 17 pts on our Def. It shows your ignorance that your 1 example of Bobo’s bad play calling came from Georgia’s 2nd best offensive output of the entire season. 42 pts. and we missed those 2 Fg’s. How many pts should Bobo’s Offense be scoring? That draw didnt hurt us to bad did it?
42 pts on the 6th ranked pass Defense in the country. Great game to reference there buddy. Youre making a strong case
You’re a real piece of work. You can’t justify the one specific play that I brought up, so you put words in my mouth telling me that I’m complaining about scoring 42 points.
You’re a clown. You’ve proved it. There’s nothing left for me to say. But go ahead and respond about 5 more times making crap up if it makes you feel better.
I didn’t get it either. And I’m not dense.
Re: the Bobo situation… I think you can make a case that Bobo’s situational play calling is where the problem lies, not on it’s overall effectiveness. But I’m not one that’s on the blame Bobo bandwagon.. for no other reason than I just don’t believe it would be any different if Richt were calling plays. I think the problem has been more of a lack of an effective defense.. which we got back this year after several years absence. I’m just saying that I get the argument against Bobo, but I do think the notion that things would be different if he were removed or left is ridiculous.
Agreed…unless Richt brought in an outside guy to run the offense. Then I think things would be different.
She says no, things would not be different,
that it’s time to get on the bus and
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I firmly believe that’s what needs to be done. The best way I can think to articulate my position is that right now in Richt’s mind Richt IS the offense, even with Bobo at OC. Like when Richt decided to roll the dice to set up a FG during the Michigan State game, he told the press he believed in his kicker. What that tells me is that it never occurred to him to believe in his offense. And that’s because he IS the offense. He needs a separation. Richt needs an advocate there who’s pushes Richt to keep his foot on the opponent’s neck offensively. He needs someone who will push him to think of the offense as its own separate entity. I still think Bobo’s play-calling is where it probably should be for a decent SEC OC, but he’s too much of a protege to get in Richt’s face and demand respect like a proper OC should. I think they would both be better coaches apart from each other.
I doubt it. As others have said, Richt’s philosophy is to play great defense, good enough offense, and rely on your kicker to win games. If we have a lead late in the game, we start milking the clock rather than trying to score.
This philosophy comes up short when you play mediocre defense, or have a mediocre kicker. This year, our defense was really good, but our kicker was mediocre. But the only game that Richt recognized that was the Florida game.
Whether his philosophy is right or wrong isn’t the point. It is what it is. We could bring in Petrino as OC, but if Richt tells him to start milking the clock in the third quarter, we won’t be scoring as many points as possible. If Richt tells him to play for the field goal, then a mediocre kicker can end up costing us a game.
Jason, i don’t see Richt ever doing that. He’s an offensive coach, he’s always going to handle some portion of that. Any O.C. under him will not have complete autonomy to do what they want… Richt will gameplan with whoever he hires, he’s just not hands off like that. Maybe one day he’ll get to his mentor Bobby Bowden’s style of ‘CEO head coach’, but I don’t like that approach because when coordinators get hired away for other jobs, you have to rebuild (like when Richt and Amato left FSU) almost from scratch. If Bobo left, Richt could replace him with little disruption.
What I find so great about this is that it’s so logical. The numbers are right there in front of you. I am no Bobo apologist but it blows my mind sometimes how much is put on him. I mean just absolutely reaching for straws to somehow find a way to put whatever is wrong with the team on him. I just have to laugh sometimes. I guess blaming Bobo is the trendy thing to do.
come on, Ginny. Why let actual facts get in the way of how some people feeeeeeeeeeel about Mike Bobo? If the other facets of UGA football (defense and special teams) had done their job the last few years as well as the offense…..and last year, the defense was the strength of the team….we’d have a few more wins. Bobo may not be the best OC who ever lived, but he’s pulling his weight.
I’m guessing the Senator forgot to use the Sarcasm button on his key board?
The disconnect between perception and reality is Bobo’s fault.
Something like what Huxley wrote about cleansing the doors of perception so that Man would see everything as it is, infinite? Sorta like the last nearly infinite 20 years vs. the Gatahs. I like the other reality where the Dawgs run roughshod in Jacksonville and generally make a nuisance of themselves!
Ah, the ’70s and ’80s.
Simply put, it’s because people don’t know football, especially as a whole. Bobo is our best recruiter and it’s not even close.
We simply forgot to play defense most of those years. Is he perfect? Heck no, but no one is. I’m hard-pressed to watch CFB games and find offenses I want to run more than ours. I like what okie St and Stanford do, but I’m not convinced it would work in our league. What bobo did with our o-line and train wreck of a running game this year was nearly a miracle. Sadly, mo’s UGA fans just don’t get it. He dialed up some doodies in the first QTR versus the best team in the land and our guys dropped the ball. It’s football. That’s the way it goes, but people want to blame someone.
Okay, okay, okay. I give up. I’ll stop blaming Bobo. At least publicly. I reserve the right to blame him in my heart of hearts even if I know it isn’t fair, isn’t true and makes no logical sense whatsoever. Bourbon does that to me. See what I did there? Someone or something must be blamed. Bourbon or Bobo, it makes no difference to me. Either way, I promise to stop doing here on your site.
bulldawgy
we have won less with bobo because the defense has sucked most of the time he has been oc.
I Wanna Red Cup
I am amazed at how fans critisize single plays. You can always second guess, particularly when the play does not work. The other team is trying too, and many times a good play call does not turn out right because of execution.
I’ll never forget when the Dawgs beat then # 1 ranked Florida 21-3 by running Henderson and Worley up the middle for about 300 yards. The next Saturday when we opened with the same play against our opponent (I am thinking it was Auburn) some moron behind me started booing and lambasting CVD for running the play. Luckily I had friends among me who prevented a fight when I told the guy he ought to just wear orange and keep his mouth shut.
The other night I watched the FLA game again, and what struck me was what a good game Bobo called, Many of the plays that were successful were runs up the middle. The great calls he made that did not turn out well was mostly because of lack of execution ( i e Orson Charles running wide open for TD and Murray just missed him ). And I recommend watching that game again to remind yourself of how good Crowell played when he was well.
Bobo is not perfect, but alternating booing and cheering depending on the success of a play is ridiculous. We have way too many fans who have their heads up their asses about this.
But it is notable that UGA predominantly ran the traditional I formation (with the tailback deep) in that game. Then reverted to running mostly from the shotgun the rest of the season.
I expected someone to have a “see the light” moment from the UF game with respect to alignment of the TB’s.
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JaxDawg
Bobo’s offense is going to look a whole lot better paired with Grantham’s defense.
***DINGDINGDING*** We have a winner!
Although better special teams play wouldn’t hurt, either.
come on, Senator. You know it’s Bobo’s fault the punt coverage team let a 275 pound DL run 75 yards for a score on a fake punt.
Bobo was close enough to make the tackle, I mean come on!
I would deeply appreciate it if we could NEVER discuss that play again…NEVER
think 2008.
If he (and/or Richt) continues to shut the offense down to sit on a lead when the defense is playing well, then Bobo’s numbers may actually look worse. That could be the difference. When Richt ran the team, we didn’t score as much and didn’t have to to win.
This is not me arguing numbers or trying to discredit Bobo though. It would be interesting though if his numbers went down and our win percentage went up, just like when Richt was calling the plays. The big difference was they Richt could count on the defense and never had to score 40+ to win.
“the big difference was *that*”
Odd typo…
SRQDawgs15
The problem with this is that a halfway decent OL/RB combo turns your “shutting the offense down” into controlling the ball and shortening the game. As was mentioned earlier in this thread, we beat LSU if not for a couple of dropped passes on great play calls from Bobo and we beat Mich St and probably SC if our OL could have blocked even a little bit. I know these are kids but the players should also be held accountable.
PS…..we also beat Mich St and SC if Blair Walsh doesn’t completely lose his (previously) AA kicking game and Mike Bobo has absolutely nothing to do with that
“Hijo”? Care to leave a comment here?
There is one potential issue here with the comparison, and that is the overall surge in offense in the latter half of the decade as compared to the early half of the decade. I seem to recall something along those lines being discussed with the Willie Martinez debacle — that overall scoring went up so he got some slack in the 2006-2008 timeframe. So, I would want to see statistics that “normalize” these results to a baseline of apples to apples — essentially, solving for the overall scoring/defensive context in each year — before I stop saying that Mike Bobo is a problem.
So, call me not convinced.
Is it possible that Garbin is claiming the Richt and his offensive philosophy is the problem? Many claim there would be no added advantage to hiring a new OC simply because that person would still run Richt’s play book.
I don’t think he’s blaming a specific target. He’s just arguing that the numbers suggest we should be looking beyond Bobo to figure out why the record has been disappointing over the past few seasons.
Fair enough. But it did seem like he was attempting to go somewhere with this other than a poor D (see Willie) and/or unspecial teams play.
The real problem is that someone has been making really bonehead decisions at the end of games. This problem probably existed going back for years but was covered up by superior personnel (particularly on D years ago and on O in later years) performing in the clutch and getting the win anyway. But starting in 2009 and accelerating to train wreck speed in 2010 someone’s bonehead calls at the end actually started costing the Dawgs wins. I don’t know exactly who made the calls as I was not standing on the sideline next to the staff when the calls were made but I do know who is ultimately responsible. The “F/U” factor cannot and should not be ignored. CMR needs to get somebody onto the staff to fix this problem or it will raise its ugly head again at the worst possible time.
Have not read the comments yet.
Richt is hands on with every aspect of the offense.
Richt works with the QBs & attends the QB meetings. He helps develope the O Game Plan.He wears a head set during the game. He also helps evaluate the players after a game or after a practice. I believe he also evaluates the coaches after a game & after a practice.
If he is satisfied with the job Bobo is doing, then so am I.
Personally I thought Bobo’s best job results, marginally better, was the year Cox was QB & the D was terrible. 24 TD passes & 8 wins.
Finally after watching a game , I check out the criticisms that I know are coming about Bobo & the play calling. I then rewatch the game using those criticisms as a guide line. Basically I never agree with what the critics are complaining about Are we watching the same Games?. I have to again agree with Richt that Richt & Bobo are combining to do a very good job with the Offense. I Blame Bobo..
I think the Senator actually does get it right with his headline. Garbin rightfully notes that the Richt led offense has a definitive advantage in the ultimate statistic…wins / winning %.
Sure, poor D, poor execution, etc. can be pointed to in the CMB losses (but not CMR’s?!). But some of the specific team readiness and play calling in our key losses over the past 4 – 5 seasons permit reasonable minds to ask a reasonable question…is Mike Bobo the best OC we can get?
Ok…to avoid the wrath of Cojones and others who will now question my “Disney” credentials, can we phrase the off-season debate this way…”What would we like CMB to learn to become a premier OC as measured by his peers?” For me, this starts with game management and not just development of plays that frustrate a defense, but the wisdom to keep using them until the D shows it can adapt. (See BSU for examples.)
And maybe I can follow up your post by surmising that Bobo ought to be prepared to deploy his offensive players to best advantage since he did the recruiting. By almost all accounts, he knows the recruiting side of the game and if he knows his players as best he can then creating viable gameplans should flow from that insight.
Maybe my point is that since nothing stays the same (trends, conditioning, even player dispositions from day to day), an OC has to be willing to recreate his philosophy a bit. It seems UGa has done that on D; why can’t the O shake up some more diversity.
If Bobo is really a great recruiter (as many people say he is), we really should start getting him to focus his recruiting ability on gettin us some amazing offensive linemen every year.
True dat…well, there is ONE in for 2012, so I suppose the Dawgs will build on that momentum.
Jeez,maybe I’m missing something but it seems to me that the complaint about not sticking with something that is working has been the one ongoing and consistent complaint that you can find on the site. I’m not inclined to go back that far but I recall that was one of the areas the Senator wanted to see improvement in at the beginning of the year was to see if Bobo would stop going away from plays at the end of the game that the defense has seemingly not figured out yet.. Your right ,I think that Bobo could be criticized for that in the Boise State game but I didn’t see it the rest of the season..
I’ll also mention that until our OL can block tier 1 DL’s like Michigan State’s, Bobo’s play-action offense isn’t going to anywhere of significance.
…which makes the continual unpreparedness/flimsy nature of the OL all the more stupefying.
When’s the last time we had a good offensive line?
Have we ever had a line at UGA comparable to the recent Bama lines?
No to that, though between ’07-09 the running game averaged over 4.5 tpc which is very healthy for the SEC. And outside of 2003 when Greene was on his back like 47 times, the OLine has not been shabby in protecting the QBs. Of course, the flood of negative plays this season was ludicrous and who knows what ’12 holds with two starters returning.
I think in general Bobo does a better job than his crtics suggest and think that he is an overall decent OC. I think he’s different than willie in that willie was consistently getting worse as opposed to Bobo who’s at worst inconsistent because he intermingles great moments with WTF moments. However let me play devil’s advocate for a minute. 1) Richt vs Bobo is a false comparision. Richt as UGA OC wasn’t that great. real question is can our offense do better if we brought in an outside OC? 2)why has nobody else come around looking for Bobo as an OC? In my humble opinion until the NFL or another school poaches away CTG the biggest thing Bobo amd special teams need to do is “first do no harm”. It doesn’t matter if you score 42 points against the gamecocks if you also score 28 FOR them via special teams and turnovers. take care of the damn ball and make sure that if our opponenets do score it’s after they had to drive the length of the field against a top 5 defense. do that and we’ll be fine.
Amen brother.
I have absolutely no inside knowledge into UGA football, but I simply don’t believe that no other program has ever expressed interest in Bobo. If Neil Callaway and Steve Addazio can get head coaching jobs, then there is some other factor besides job performance keeping Bobo in Athens.
Likely it’s his !19! children under the age of five!
Is the Richt/Bobo offense just too predictable? 10 years is a lot of film.
Also, I wonder how great Bobo would look with a decent Oline?
If it is executed a D has trouble stopping it but if we screw up even one play per possession we have to punt. Sometimes I think our O is just too complicated for 20 hour a week guys.
One thing that amazes me is the assumption some people have that it would be the easiest thing in the world to hire someone as OC who would automatically be better than Mike Bobo. If it was so easy to replace productive coordinators with better, or at least, EQUALLY productive coordinators, explain how we regressed after Brian VanGorder left town.
When the great Norm Chow called a brilliant game to begin Fulmer’s downfall a few years back he was called a genius. When the remainder of the Bruin’s season went south Chow became an idiot. I suspect Coach Chow is neither an idiot or a genius, its just easier to look smart with USC’s athletes as opposed to UCLA’s.
Richt doesn’t run a pro style O he runs an FSU O. He always has and always will. The only change he made to the FSU style was to somewhat utilize the TE. FSU never used a TE except to block. We hire FSU’s TE coach and the TE’s disappear for games. If this team ran a New England stlye O with the TE’s we have we would have been unstoppable. Richt makes Bobo run the 1980-90’s version of FSU. Our O works best when our O has better players but the scheme breaks down against good D’s then the D has to save us over and over.
given the productivity of New England’s offense, and the fact that the skills needed to run it would seem to match up nicely with the type of offensive players UGA recruits, I have wondered if maybe we shouldnt be trying to learn from them. I know the pro game is different (hash marks, time between plays, more practice time), but it sure seems like we could find something useful there. I guess you could call it a freshening of our offensive approach, rather than a wholesale retooling.
Dovedawg
The one thing that Richt had as a play caller that seems to be missing is the knack for calling the unexpected play at the right time and having it work. E.g. the Haynes play 2001…the AU 4th and 12 in 2002…the David Greene fake handoff and long bomb v. LSU 2004…I miss those unexpected delights. We saw some in the FL game this past year when we went for it on 4th down 2x…but maybe because Richt was forced to gamble in a situation where everything was on the line…and I believe it was Richt who called those plays himself. Maybe Bobo can develop that knack this year
I remember Coach Richt saying that Bowden used to leave him alone for almost the entire game, but would out of no where interject the unexpected play.
Really, this boils down to OL play, coaching and recruiting. Bobo operates within the criteria the HC wants, what has been frustrating is the lack of o-line depth, and the resulting competition for playing time. Injuries, poor evaluations, lack of numbers have contributed, along with a coach that didn’t seem to have the right stuff. I think we will be satisfied in the future.
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Aaron Murray does not blame Mike Bobo.
“A lot of people give Coach Bobo a lot of [grief] for playcalling, but we were scoring over 30 points a game mostly, and a lot of the time we weren’t executing it,” Murray said. “If fans could only go back and know what we were looking at when we were watching film, they would see that Coach Bobo did a great job putting us in a great position to make plays and score points and we just weren’t executing when we needed to.”
Yeah, there’s a lot of happy talk in that article, but I’m encouraged to see that Murray is aware he has to improve his footwork. (Contrary to what Low suggests, it wasn’t that hard to see when Murray struggled with his mechanics last year.) That being said, it’s not just about drills. It’s about Murray being able to trust his offensive line and backs to keep pressure off him long enough to get off a properly thrown pass. That’s a level of trust that won’t be easy to build quickly.
Then again, I don’t know what you do with this Coxian comment:
“I don’t know what my problem is. I really just enjoy contact. I grew up playing defense so I kind of miss the whole hitting and stuff like that, so it’s kind of hard for me. But I definitely think it’s something I need to work on this offseason.”
Do you ever think Mark Richt gets frustrated? I think Mark Richt gets frustrated.
83 responses to “Aaron Murray does not blame Mike Bobo.”
I still don’t understand how the outright division between coaching and execution is so plausible to many of us.
How is it that coaches are not responsible for how players execute and perform their gameplans/plays?
Military brass is responsible for the performance of troops, in addition to responsibilities for strategy. Many of us have responsibility for the execution of our underlings in the office, even when we’ve drawn up the perfect pitch or the perfect strategy.
Yes – coaches call plays and design gameplans. But coaches also teach execution, design drills and practices to develop execution, etc.
I understand that ultimately execution is in the hands of the players, but getting players ready for that is ultimately in the hands of the coaches.
Murray indicates that Bobo indeed got him ready, so what should we take away from that?
The problem I’m having with the line you attempt to draw (“execution is in the hands of the players, but getting players ready for that is ultimately in the hands of the coaches”) is that I don’t always know what we’re supposed to look at to tell the difference. Just saying it’s not always the player’s fault isn’t helpful.
I don’t want to speak for Bevo but here’s how I view it. You can’t blame or credit coaches for the development of a single play or player. each data point has a variance from the trend. However, a large sample of plays or players under a coach’s responsibility ARE an accurate reflection of the coach and the job he is doing. So to use an example, if one of our o-linemen misses a block, or if one o line recruit fails to develop. That may or may not be Will Friend’s fault. However, if a lot of our o-linemen consistently miss blocks or fail to develop. THAT would be Will Friend’s fault because in the latter situation Will is failing to either recruit the right guys, develop them, or both. Same thing for if our O-linemen are consistently great you would credit Will for that. (Note: this does not necesarily hold true for programs without resources to attract talent but Georgia does not fall into that category)
I get that part of it. It was easy to tell how much worse Jancek was as a linebackers coach than VanGorder was, as fundamentals across the board fell off in his first season.
But it’s a lot harder to judge that with quarterbacks. First of all, the sample size is much smaller. Second, not every quarterback has the same style or same strengths and weaknesses. So in Murray’s case, how do we tell what’s his fault and what’s Bobo’s?
If I recall correctly, we heard a lot of talk about being prepared and in the right position yet failing to execute from Martinez and his defensive players.
I think the “failed to execute” line means “I did my job right, but the players just didn’t get the job done.” I don’t like that. In my opinion, the coach should be putting them in the best possible position to succeed. There are lots of easy analogies to make my point here, but really what I’m saying is… If you’re calling the right plays but they (somehow) just don’t work out… well, maybe you’re not calling the right plays. Or maybe you’re not teaching them how to execute properly. Or you’re asking too much of them (Our playbook is notoriously large and difficult, and we cross-train players all the time, all over the place).
I’m not saying Bobo is a huge disaster or anything, but we did hear the “the players failed to execute” excuse before with Martinez. Grantham doesn’t seem to have that same problem.
Minnesota Dawg
Absolutely. And we got a good dose of “failed to execute” from the offensive staff after the bowl game loss to explain why the repeated attempts to run the ball up the gut without any glimmer of success were actually good play calls.
Yes and Grantham’s D players took responsibility for letting MSU go the length of the field (almost) and score the winning points. Drawing a difference between responsibilities of players/ coaches according to whether they are O or D is just wrong, folks.
Didn’t anyone see the second half of the SECCG? That was mostly on Grantham’s D. We don’t need to be trying to indict coaches and players for playing the game, but to go after the O because you don’t like the plays called is downright silly. Again in the Boise St game we saw injury affect the D such that two of the best players on the field played little and they felt if they had been in the game, they could have made the difference. Blame Grantham that they can’t stay healthy? Don’t think so. Blame Sturdivant and other injured O linemen for not being healthy in games? How? Beginning with and during Sturdivant’s first injuries, other linemen had injury problems that exascerbated line play problems, hence the big push to cross-train(which didn’t come about as a philosophy, but rather an attempt to prevent line erosion from going further) .
Murray is taking responsibility for how Murray plays. He should be applauded that he didn’t use the line or receivers as an excuse. Frankly, I thought the Murray-bashers would jump right in, but I guess it’s too early for many GNATS to get on here.
^^This^^ As a coach, putting players in the right position to succeed is imperative. If the player fails to execute, that’s on the player(s). But if you see that certain players are incapable of executing consistently (say, your right tackle, or injured running back, or scambling qb) then the COACHES have to make adjustments.
In all of the arguments I see here, Bobo certainly can take credit for when things go right, but when they go wrong, is he the best coach to work the kids through a crisis? Put another way, do you even have a doubt about CTG’s ability in this area? And the biggest question of all…is CMR cool under fire?
No question Grantham knows how to adjust when things to wrong. Bobo…I think this is where his lack of experience outside of UGA hurts him. Nothing to draw upon. CMR is the curious one the last few seasons. Early in his career, he was Cool Hand Luke. But stuff like the Michigan St. game last year is head-scratching for sure.
The Bruce
I have wondered how much of our offensive playcalling is the result of our inconsistent line play the last few years. It seems like our o-line has been a constant rollercoaster ever since Sturdivant went down that first time. In my mind, that definitely points to a deficiency in recruiting and/or development. Hopefully that gets fixed with a quickness.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Friend specifically call out our line for being “soft” at some point last year? It seems like we ran a lot more shotgun last year. Maybe our emphasis on a pass-heavy shotgun attack was Bobo’s reaction to the perceived “softness” of our line and their inability to sustain a power running game.
There was a TON of shotgun plays in 2011. UGA looked like a different team, in fact.
Unfortunately, that was the formation most of the tailback carries came from, with obviously putrid results. The most glaring exception was the FU game, and we all remember fondly those second half, straight-ahead runs from the power-I.
What should we take away from a player saying his coach got him ready for a game? Well, honestly, not much. I’d be shocked if he said anything else.
You’re right that my point isn’t particularly helpful, but for that matter neither is the point I was questioning, which is essentially says “execution problem = no fault by coaches”.
Gardening Fanatic
If the coaches are putting the team through the proper type and number of reps in practice for perfect execution to become second nature, and the players still go out and stink it up on that front during games, then it is up to the coaches to replace the offending players with others that will execute the plays like they are supposed to.
Frankly though, I think the idea that players who are put through their proper paces during practice to the point where they don’t even have to think about what they have to do will turn around and not do it during games is about a 99% impossibility.
Since they had the best uninjured players on the field, how do you get into an athletic lineman’s head who continually gets offside? Send in an injured player or wait for him to get over the jitters? Some of you write as if to make others not use their eyes or brains in making a differing conclusion about the same play or player. Some write as if the coaching staff is ignorant and can’t tell who their best players are after watching them train away secretly from our eyes for months.
I would like for coach and player detractors to work up another game; i.e., Bama and LSU, for player/coach exortation during either game they played last year. I can easily find the same “problems” to counter your arguments against individuals and coaches at UGA.
When the entire team isn’t held responsible and with the same lantern lifted to look for the truth, it just tears the fabric of TEAM. They all are responsible as a team for the outcome of the game.
And on the same standard, Bobo deserves a lot of credit for the consistent and quality execution of his QBs during his time as OC/QB coach.
With respect to the consistent issues on offensive line and our weak performances/turnovers against quality defenses over the years, that’s another question, and an issue for Bobo and Richt to figure out.
Brodie Bruce
Bobo does do a good job with QBs. The problem is that maddening 3rd and Bobo draw play. We can tell that the coaches have given up on the drive. Coaches giving up on any drive tells the players it is OK to give up too…therein lies the problem.
And too many first and bomb calls, as well. Of course we all love it when they work.
I blame both of them anyway unless they prove otherwise. They seem seem lost in very close games.
JimDawginTexas
Slic Ric George Schwarz IV
HUTSON MASON!!!!
Reservations at Brumby
What the articles/blogs usually fail to mention is the fact that Bobo routinely utilizes the play-action in obvious passing downs. When it’s 3rd and equal to/greater than 5, why ask Murray to turn his back to the defense for half of the play and ask a usually suspect offensive line to have to block longer to sell the fake? Not to mention, this is often done with a fairly weak running game (a strong running game is necessary to properly sell the PA – yet we seem to run PA first and THEN try to run the ball [Michigan State]). I’d be willing to bet a couple of Joe Cherryshinksis this fall that our common opponents’ defensive coordinators tell their players not to bite on our PA during the obvious passing downs…
I am sure that DC tell their players to never fall for the PA, that doesnt mean they dont bite…Most of the time you are only hoping to get a split second of hesitation from the PA to make it effective, you dont need the safety running downhill towards the line to make a PA fake work.
This raises an interesting point: we’ve got one crowd arguing we run the ball too much on third down (third and Bobo) and another crowd saying we play action off of run too much on third down. Which is it guys?
This is my biggest problem with Bobo haters. Extremely inconsistent in their arguments.
My gripe is not at all that we’ll throw or run on 3rd…I would just like to see us throw it in an obvious passing down with the PA. I don’t mind winging it around, I just feel like the PA is used so much is almost like a ‘never cry wolf’ situation.
CORRECTION: I would just like to see us throw it in an obvious passing down WITHOUT the PA…my bad.
So what do you make of all these folks who claim we “run it up the middle with the small guy” every third and long? To me, that gives the impression Bobo is mixing it up pretty well if half the folks think we run too much and half the folks think we PA pass too much. I get your point. You’d rather straight drop than PA. However, I think my point stands.
And once you conisder half these people are expecting us to run on third and long, wouldn’t it make sense to PA off that expection?
Checking last year’s stats, on third-and-seven or more, Georgia ran the ball 53 times and passed the ball 62 times.
On 3rd and long…a pass play with PA or without, is still at least trying to get the first down. Trying and not making it I can and will accept. Giving up on the drive and calling that draw play that has worked twice in 650 attempts is unacceptable. If my wife can tell the coaches quit on a drive–do you think the players don’t? Hell man, if you are going to go down…at least go down swinging.
Further if they have to play for the punt anyway–why not save the time on the clock and just punt it on 3rd down? The result is the same and they save a lick on whoever happens to be the smallest healthy back. It is a win-win.
Honestly man, I’ve never coached so I can’t assure you this is 100% accurate, but I think a lot of NFL coaches opt to run on third and long to just try and pick up some yards, which are a very valuable asset in the game of field position. It’s a calculated decision based on the assumption your defense is going to hold. Richt’s success has always come with a good defense, and field position is important when you have a good D.
Maybe Bluto can help me with the stats here, but just on my eyeball test I’d bet LSU and Bama did a fair amount of running on thrid and long last season and they had a bit of success. I think Richt learned early on to win in in the SEC you have to play field position, and he’s incorporated that into his philosophy. You aren’t going to have much success on third and long even if you are the 2007 Patriots, so why not increase your odds of having better field position on the next drive? Even if it’s a miniscule advantage, it’s an advantage none the less.
Makes sense…but you might gain more than a net 3 yards on the opposition’s unpreparedness to return a 3rd down punt. Or at least force them to burn a time out.
I’m no coach either but I would think, if you are only hoping to get 2 or 3 yards, you would bring in your biggest back and run him in the middle. If you bring in the little backs, I’d think you’d have better luck on the outside.
I would like to know the actual yardage on that draw play. Believe me I get field position…and in the pros 3 yards might make a difference. In college I think it is more like a 10 or 12 yard swing that makes a difference.
Just my opinion of course–
Just mine too. Completely unscientific on my part. Agreed there’s probably a bit less importance on field position in college than pros due to disparity in level of competition. In fact I’d probably say we should pass more too in those situations. Just pointing out where I suspect CMR/Bobo are coming from. Not saying I totally agree with the philosophy. I just feel the criticism is a bit overblown, especially when you consider the inconsistent directions it’s coming from.
Right on point, Puffdawg.
“Well then, what’ll it be young feller? If’n I freeze I can’t rightly drop, and if’n I drop I’m a-gonna be in motion.”
“Do you ever think Mark Richt gets frustrated?” I think we actually have a data point here. Approximation of Richt’s quote on Murray’s first, completely unforced interception against Michigan State: “he didn’t have to make that throw; he had a lot of green in front of him.”
Interesting thing here is, we don’t know if Alabama players persist in these sorts of fancy. One assumes that Saban would crush Murray’s dreams of contact within a week of arrival because Nick Saban Has None Of Our Problems. But we’ll never know, because we’ll never *hear* about Bama players’ questionable preferences. Might be a good idea to keep Murray away from the mic for a while.
Its awful windy in here.
Snake Plisskin
Win as a team, lose as a team…Murray puts up big numbers against teams where the OL dominates the other teams DL…take a look at the loses last year: Mich St, Sth Car, Boise St, LSU, all of their DL’s handled the OL and pushed them around…good teams, w/ good coaching have dominated this coaching staff going back to the Joe Cox year…how is it that you can bring in a game changer like CTG and he has the boys firing on all cylinders, yet the offense is stuck in the same ol’ rut…hopefully, Will Friend can do for the OL what CTG has done for the D…if he does, this team will win, Bobo will look like a genius, and Murray will look all world…Snake out
Speaking only for myself, I am concerned that we are wasting an incredible talent at QB, much like we wasted an incredible talent at WR with AJ. I am one who believes that Aaron is really good and has been held back.
I fail to see how AJ’s talent was wasted, not with the numbers he put up. If anything he became kind of a crutch for Murray. I don’t blame the young QB for that, it’s a real comfort to have a guy that catches anything within ten feet of him, but when a guy is double or triple covered and an AAron White is running across the middle wide open it may be better to take option number two.
By “the numbers he put up” did you mean 8-5 and 6-7, the W/L record for the team AJ’s final 2 seasons? That’s what I was talking about. As for Murray, wasted to me means 16-11 after 2 seasons behind a line that can’t/won’t block and a non-existent running attack.
No Sir, by the numbers he put up I mean damn near one thousand yds as a true freshman. You can’t say ws and ls are due to a WR or a QB. Murray got him the ball. AJ did the best he could after he caught the damn ball. Did Bama waste Julio? His stats were less than Aj’s. How in the hell can a WR win a SEC by himself? What you said was stupid.
Shane, you missed my point entirely. AJ was great. Murray is great, too IMHO. Guys like that win championships. When Herschel Walker showed up he put UGA on top. How good would Georgia have been even with Herschel Walker if the O-line wouldn’t/couldn’t block or if the D wouldn’t/couldn’t stop anybody? Would that have been a waste of Herschel’s talents? AJ was a WR almost as good at his position as Herschel was at his–a once in a generation skill receiver yet his final 2 years the Dawgs had a record of 14-12. Why? Because we had a bad DC and bad D position coaches in ’09 and an O-line that wouldn’t/couldn’t block in ’10. That is wasting a great talent–AJ. I am afraid the same thing is happening to Murray.
hodgie
Who led the sec last year in many statistical categories?
Hill Dawg
So far, I think you may be the only to recognize the problem.
Snake, while agreeing with your statements, the games you listed all had quotes from Grantham as to how the D contributed to the loss. And they were honest. In some cases, he was backed up by individual players, just as Murray backs Bobo’s statements. I don’t understand why some can’t see it all as a wash instead of pulling the team loyalty apart, O vs D.
ahhhh Cojones…thus why my first thought was…”Win as a team, lose as a team…”…Snake out
kdsdawg
what I take from the mayor’s comment is this, we aren’t giving Murray the best chance at leading us because he is more of a spread offense type QB. Those PA passes from the I-formation aren’t his cup of tea. In the first half against LSU we passed successfully from the shotgun. In the 2nd half we went away from it for some reason.
How can Murray say Bobo called the right play and we didn’t execute when all I can remember about the 2nd half in the dome is our little RB running up the gut. So its the OL’s fault if the coach doesn’t call the best play for them to succeed?
While I agree with your comment kdsdawg I was actually speaking about something even more basic. How can a team that has AJ Green, Aaron Murray, the 2 backs we had in ’10 (I just watched a replay of the ’09 UGA-Tech game where they ran Tech silly), Justin Houston, Baccari Rambo and the best punter and best kicker in the nation to name just a few go 6-7? You really have to be a royal f#ck-up to lose 7 games with talent like that.
Fire em all! I’m sure anyone with half a mind could win multiple SEC championships and have a great career winning percentage. Wait a minute… don’t we have that?
I don’t want to fire anybody–I just want the current staff to do better. I’m only stating the obvious. We won 10 games last season with basically the same team that was 6-7 the year before–a year in which both of our main division rivals (UT and FU) were down and our team was loaded with talent. I also noticed that AJ and Houston got out of Athens as fast as they could after that season.
Do you think AJ being a number one draft choice had anything to do with getting out of town? Man, you are even, wait, the Senator may ban me for saying that. If I thought I was a number one and I had a four game suspension the past year I would hit the road as soon as possible. Also, I never knew that Bobo coached Houston. But what was the subject of this blog anyway?
“If I thought I was number one and I had a four game suspension the past year I would hit the road as soon as possible.” Yes, shane, you probably would.
kdsdawg, the same statement applies to Grantham. His D held LSU to NO 1st downs in the first half. In the second half we went away from what D accomplished in the first half.
I know. Bobo.
Lt. Dan
Hell we can’t even beat a ranked team. CMR and Hobo the clown are responsible for that.
Reading Murray’s comments brings me to the conclusion I have had of his second year as the starting QB. I do not think he is a smart, savvy, QB. If you enjoy contact then you need to be prepared to protect the ball whether you have blocking are not. Murray is not a Tebow type player. His offense is not designed around a running QB. Second if he wants to throw in tight windows, then he needs to learn how to take out the sash.
I think Buck Belue’s comments a few days ago we very much on point about Murray. He needs to protect the ball and stop with this “we” stuff when Murray is almot all about “me”. When your retiring President hands you a towel in shower and comments about interceptions…well, what does that say. What is says is this, “if you keep making the same mistakes QB, guess what…you get the same mistake…another turnover.
Going into his third year as a starting QB…the most experienced QB in the conference…if he does not understand his role when will he.
Smokinarm
Murray has to get his sack totals down to 12-15 like most of the other UGA QB’s. And his int’s need to go down to 5-7 like the other top SEC Qb’s.
Dump the ball off to the outlet receiver, stop trying to be a hero.
By execution, I would assume Murray realizes the @15 interceptions, and @35 sacks, and @5 fumbles, were not the 55 plays Bobo had in mind when Bobo drew them up. Execute properly on those plays, for example, slide a step, hit the out receiver, and you might go 13-1 or 14-0 instead of 10-4.
Hutson Mason’s footwork in the pocket is superb, Mason rarely gets picked or sacked, and Mason will quickly go to the outlet if needed..
Yeah…I’m realizing that now after the back and forth below. I wish I hadn’t responded.
You’re the guy who harmlessly tosses a potato chip to the seagull on the beach unrealizing the repercussions, aren’t you? 🙂
I never realized there’s an actual reason for the “Don’t Feed the Animals” sign.
In a G-Day game, maybe. Through the brunt of an SEC campaign, you’re just projecting your hopes.
I have always believed that Mason was/is the better pure passer. Athletically Murray is superior and is probably the overall better QB. We’ll likely get to see Mason as a starter one of these days if only for one season so we’ll find out for sure then. I gotta believe that if the coaches thought that Mason was better then he would have been playing, hot seat business and all, last season and trust CMR and Bobo on that as they see both of those guys all the time in practice.
Mason’s arm strength isn’t anywhere close to Murray’s.
Touch, Senator, touch. And putting the ball where it needs to be.
And, again, what game against FBS competition have you seen Mason perform as you describe?
You mean throwing for a lot of yards by chucking the ball 60 times a game against East Cobb competition doesn’t prove he’s the bestest QB on UGA’s roster?
Not necessarily AD, but breaking every passing record in the history of Georgia HS football says something about the kid’s ability. Again, I am not advocating that Mason become the starting QB. I favor Murray as the starter for the reasons stated by me above and in other posts on this thread. I am saying that Mason will probably get to be the starting QB sometime down the road for at least one season and we’ll see how good the guy is then. I’m betting he’s pretty damn good.
I don’t disagree with your assessment at all.
However, if the coaching staff (i.e. the guys that could have lost their jobs last year) really thought Mason gave them a better chance to win, and by extension keep their jobs, then Mason would have played last year. I don’t understand why people can’t seem to grasp this (not directed at you, but the MASON IS CLEARLY BETTER BC HE ROCKED OUT AT G-DAY idiots).
The coaches (and apprently some fans) want us to believe Murray is better, because he rocked out at PRACTICE.
Because head to head in public games, Mason beats Murray.
How many times has Mason defeated Auburn, Florida, Georgia Tech, or Tennessee? Stop trolling, dude.
I am sure Mason would not have gone winless in 9 attempts to beat a team that ended up in the top 25 at the end of the end of the season. Not even 1 win out of 9 games against the best teams? Can’t get worse than 0-9. Nothing to lose by going with Mason.
Mason only got 3 real chances in 2011.
Coastal Carolina, New Mexico St, LSU
Here’s how Mason compared to Murray in those games:
Murray Pass rating: 166, 236, 72 (cc, NMS, LSU)
Mason Pass rating: 167, 223, 78 (cc, nmst, LSU)
And Murray had no sacks or interceptions in those games.
Murray has also outperformed Murray in both G-Days.
Assuming you were trying to use those three games as evidence to support Mason (hard to tell due to grammatical errors), you’re trying way too hard to justify an unjustifiable position.
I’m sorry, but anybody that uses G-Day (you know, an intrasquad scrimmage that utilizes vanilla playcalling on both sides of the ball) to support one player over another considering one has never taken a meaningful snap in a game (unless you consider mop-up time in the two FCS games and taking some snaps while down 32 against LSU as meaningful) is either hopeful at best or just plain stupid at worst.
What other games would you suggest we use besides G-Days, and the 3 he played in? Point is, Mason beats Murray, anytime, anywhere. Scrimmage, real game, LSU, whatever. Big upside, lower downside.
What other games would you suggest we use besides G-Days, and the 3 he played in?
That’s the point. There is absolutely no evidence to support the assertion Mason should be starting over Murray other than unsubstantiated hypothesis by fans.
As I said to the Mayor above – if the coaches who were coaching for their jobs last year truly believed that Mason gave them a better shot at winning, don’t you think he would have played more?
These coaches also thought Joe Terishinski was better than Matthew Stafford….
And who was starting at the end of the season?
You are basing your opinion on something you havn’t seen (Murray beating Mason in practice sessions).
I am basing mine on what I and all can see (public head to head stats over 3 games in 2011, and 2 G-Days).
Mason’s yards per attempt is better than Murray’s. You may feel that way, but the stats say otherwise.
Do you know how stupid this sounds?
Mason outperformed Murray both g-days is what I meant to say. Alone, doesn’t mean a lot, cobined with how Mason has compared against Murray in his 3 chances (CC, NMSt, LSU), does seem to suggest,
Mason’s upside is as high (looking at passer ratings), and his downside (sacks,int’s) are much lower.
You can also get into td’s per pass attempt, int’s, sacks per pass attempt, Mason wins all, G-Day, CC, NMSt, LSU, doesn’t matter, Mason always wins.
I get suspicious when we hear from Coaches about how much better Murray will be every year, than in G-Day, when we can judge for ourselves, Murray always tanks and Mason outplays him.
Also, head to head in the 3 games, Mason had a higher pass rating against every teame except New Mexco State. And no interceptions or sacks.
It’s one thing for coaches to claim Murray is better based on practice (which we can’t verify), but judging from what I’ve seen and verified over 2 G-Days, and 3 public games where both went head to head in 2011, clearly Murray is not better than Mason.
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The worm turns. →
Trust, continuity, complacency, etc.
Seth Emerson starts out this must-read piece with a little story that neatly summarizes where the mindset of much of the fan base is today, I suspect.
Four years ago, it was an insult. Scott Lakatos, then the newly hired Georgia secondary coach, taunted his players by yelling out the previous season’s record:
“Eight-and-five! Eight-and-FIVE!”
Four seasons later, the Georgia football program has finished its season … wait for it … eight and five.
Back at square one, in other words.
Now it’s true there are two trips to the SECCG in that four-year period. And while you can’t guarantee too much, I don’t think anyone would argue with the premise that a fully healthy 2013 Georgia team would have won more than eight games. But it’s hard not to look at things like the passive philosophy behind the return units on special teams, the continuing failure to cobble together an offensive line that can perform consistently, let alone dominantly, and what at times seems close to an utter lack of improvement in the secondary without worrying that the program may be sliding to a point where the areas that are above-average to excellent – and they are there – can no longer carry things as far as we and Mark Richt would like.
Now that being said, I’m not in the same dark hole I was in during the 2009 season, when I simply lost faith in Richt’s ability to get Georgia football back on track. He proved me wrong on that. Whatever criticism you want to throw his way, and there is clearly some that is deserved, what you have to admit if you’re honest is that this year’s team never quit. There were no blow outs. Quite the contrary, almost all the losses were close and there were several dramatic comebacks along the way. I don’t think a football team plays hard without believing in what the coaches are doing. So in some important ways, Georgia football is in a better place than it was when Lakatos showed up. And I’m still willing to give Mark Richt the benefit of the doubt today because he’s earned it.
But… Seth neatly sums up the sword’s edge that Richt’s balanced on now:
One man’s complacency is another man’s stability.
One man’s continuity is another man’s belief that stubbornness is winning out, that a leader is refusing to see that changes need to be made.
One man’s belief that no firings should happen is another man believing — or making, in Richt’s case — more subtle changes behind the scenes and not producing a scalp just to satisfy an angry Twitter and message board mob.
Is there an air of complacency? It’s hard to say. On some level, you can understand the fans who are incredulous that nothing would happen after an 8-5 season.
But you can also see Richt’s point of view: Rather than change coaches and schemes and terminology on a young defense, he’ll believe for one more year in that staff, a staff that can at least point to 2011 as evidence it can coach them up.
Shoot me if you like, but I see both sides to the argument. I can see some areas where change would be welcome, but only if there’s a greater vision behind it than “we got to do something”. Does Richt have that vision? Beats me.
Even if he doesn’t, there’s still a place where he needs to start fixing things. A commenter here mentioned “quality control” and I think that’s an apt description of where attention needs to be devoted. Read these quotes that Weiszer collected, and you’ll realize a lot of folks associated with the program see the same problem:
“This team, we just had a lot of things go wrong and a lot of things go wrong at the worse time imaginable,” outside linebacker Jordan Jenkins said. “If we could just fix the little things, it’s not all big things, it’s just the minor things that determines how you’re season will be. If everyone’s on the same page, those things like a muffed punt doesn’t happen or a mismatched coverage doesn’t happen. I feel like we have to work on our fundamentals this offseason and work on doing every little thing right.”
“Learn from your mistakes and know that the details matter,” Grantham said. “You’re not freshmen anymore and try to pay attention to the little things.”
“The difference is like this every year,” offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said holding his thumb and forefinger inches apart. “It’s hard to win any game, much less the championship. You’ve just got to keep knocking on the door.”
“I just told all the seniors that their watch begins now,” Richt said after the Gator Bowl loss. “Told the future seniors of 2014 that their job begins right this minute, starts with thinking of ways to get better, starts with doing everything on an individual basis to get better and find ways to get your teammates to get better, as well.”
I don’t sense that’s happy talk. I think it’s recognition that this year’s team didn’t grow in the way it needed to. Well and good, to an extent, but recognizing a problem exists isn’t the same thing as fixing it. And while everyone should be held accountable, repair has to start with the coaching staff, if for no other reason than that some of the players haven’t learned from their mistakes. That doesn’t mean they’re necessarily hopeless cases. It just means that whatever the coaches tried this past season didn’t click with some of them. A different path for some may be in order and there’s no reason to think that change can’t be effective, presuming it’s thoughtful. If there are grounds for optimism, it’s that the coaches haven’t lost the trust of the players the way it seemed the staff did in ’09.
If there are grounds for pessimism, though, they lie with a staff that feels that things were close enough in 2013 that a little better health and a little more experience will be all it takes to break through in 2014. The mystery we’ll have to wait to see solved is where Mark Richt stands on that spectrum.
215 responses to “Trust, continuity, complacency, etc.”
Good points are made here, but I can’t help but think that it was youth and an absurd degree of injuries that derailed this season. We had almost no experience in the secondary, and the best freshman we had, Matthews, was hurt half the year. That takes a toll.
Then, EVERY starting skill player sat at least one game with injury. How does a coaching staff prepare for that, voodoo? Up until LSU, Georgia’s offense looked like a German Panzer attack in 1940; afterwards, a German Panzer attack in 1945.
But, the lingering problems with special teams and mental errors is troubling. However, I don’t think Richt is complacent; he’s revamped strength & conditioning for example, and he’s smart enough to see the problems.
The defense can’t use injuries as an excuse. Sure they had a couple, but it was within the norm.
The defense was hurt just as much with injuries at safety. It was already our most inexperienced position. We knew we were starting a true freshman and sophomore who had never started a game. They played a handful of games together: South Carolina, North Texas, LSU, Auburn & Kentucky. We looked alright in those games, huh? We started Connor Norman in Clemson because of injury (to Moore), suspension (to JHC) and youth (Mauger wasn’t ready).
It killed us all year. Matthews was hurt that week leading up to UT, and our secondary never looked the same. It was a mess, man. We had 4 true freshmen play in the 2 deep in the secondary. Bad formula for winning football.
I get your point, but I wouldn’t blame injuries for our bad secondary. We failed to develop depth and the youngsters didn’t get better through out the year.
Hal Welch (@nsbdawg)
gotta disagree bud… injuries to a upper classman are different to losing the one good Freshman you had playing. We began the season too thin at those spots at when injuries occurred the new players weren’t jelled with the ones playing their 2nd, 3rd and 4th games. The defense is no different than the offense when it comes to cohesiveness. The 99 yard reception is a great example, Rambo, Blue, Davis et al would have trusted the front 7 to do their jobs and sat deep on the deep ball. The young kid wanted to jump in and tackle the running back; only problem… the running back didn’t have the ball. It’s all about trust and understanding not only your position but everyone elses as well. They just unfortunately never got to that point.
Now, for me that begs the question… why did we leave ourselves in such a vulnerable position coming into this year? We didn’t have a sophmore or junior ready to step into the voided roles of Rambo and others. Why not? Wouldn’t a better prepared team? Isn’t roster management part of “the process”? Perhaps…
We were thin in the secondary due to “stick fingers” Marshall (now at Auburn) and his compatriots who got booted coupled with total misses on Corey Moore and Marc Deas at the Safety position.
Lrgk9
Exactly !
Mauger seemed to be as ready in game 13 as he was in game 1. The injury to Matthews hurt as much as any injury on the team.
A crippled offense does hurt the defense. When you’re offense is crippled, opposing coaches don’t mind gambling on 4th down, throwing the ball deep more, and even doing onside kicks because they know the you’re offense can’t make them pay if they fail. The defense stays on the field too long because the offense can’t sustain drives…it goes on and on, but the bottom line is that it’s shallow thinking to say the injuries on offense didn’t effect the defense.. An injury effects everyone on the team and the team as a whole.
(‘scuse the mistakes in my typed grammer..)
I totally agree with you. My point was that #20 had the same problems at the end of the season that he had at the beginning. Matthews’ injury and JHC’s issues affected the safety rotation all season.
My point was that #20 had the same problems at the end of the season that he had at the beginning.
I agree. Some quick observations about the secondary…
Mauger didn’t improve, and neither did anybody else, from a coaching standpoint. At least not near enough.
The communication was very poor, for a number of reasons. But better coaching helps that a lot, even in a new secondary. We didn’t have that.
Matthews was horrible, and I mean upstairs, not his lower extremities. The play at Auburn remains inexcusably stupid. But throw that play out, and it’s still horrible. So Matthews was no possible answer this year.
JHC at SS is better than the others, but nothing remarkable, probably because he isn’t that well coached.
Moore is mostly clueless on the field. Everybody knows Swann struggled, even more than last year (how could that be?). If they are our two leaders that we’re now depending on …???
Lots of bad things happened early on in Camp and September that are rarely discussed, but suffice to say the result never worked out.
Poor communication was only part of the 99-yard play, which will now be shown over and over until the Gator Bowl ceases to exist, and then some, but still should never have happened, not even if it were early in the year. The rest of what happened on the play is just not thinking and poor fundamentals. And the assignments don’t get a whole lot simpler than that play. So we had to have 2 players not thinking, plus a boneheaded missed TD-saving tackle for that play to happen.
And THAT is a result of bad coaching, my friends.
It’s been clear now for two months that our secondary is poorly coached. I’ve suspected it for some time, since the first game of 2011. Our experience in 2011-12 covered it up some, even though those secondaries were never really solid, either.
But there is no doubt about it now. Fundamentals are just plain poor, period. And the little things we can’t handle at all. It’s probably fair to say there are high school secondaries all over Georgia who are better coached than this.
What we saw this year, even with true freshmen and injuries, cannot be defended.
PDawg5960
Mathews did nothing wrong or “stupid” on the Auburn play. He was running under the ball and was in position for a easy pick. JHC tipped the ball out of his hands and into the receivers hands. IveyLeaguer seems to be a good handle for you and your observations.
You’re right, thanks for the correction. I should have looked at it again instead of just being careless about it.
After watching the replay, I would point out that intercepting the ball is also a bad idea. And it does look like Mauger was allowing the ball to come to him with his palms up, rather than going up to meet the ball and knock it down. But that’s quibbling.
And, of course, this isn’t the first time JHC has shown himself to be a dumbass, so that should have rung a bell.
IveyLeaguer seems to be a good handle for you and your observations.
And thanks for the cheap shot. Really appreciate it.
Also worth noting that Shaq Wiggins was hurt in camp. So our best young corner missed a ton of practice and playing time early in the season. And that JHC practiced with the OLBs a lot last year. He was a rookie DB as well. The secondary was the biggest weakness on the team and suffered as many injuries as any other personnel grouping.
Those issues were exacerbated by numerous recruiting misses and dismissals (Marshall, Sanders, Deas, Fluker, Kennar Johnson, Corey Moore, etc.).
No amount of injuries short of that plane crash that wiped out Marshall’s whole team justifies losing to Vandy.
We tried to fix the DB situation through recruiting, but it just didnt happen. Injuries and transfers meant playing young guys that we didnt really want to play in the secondary.
We need another bigger than allowed type class and I think that the dawn will have broken and the long dark night of under recruiting and poor numbers will be over with. I think that this season we finally got caught with all the recruiting numbers.
Here’s hoping Coach Richt and the staff work on their weaknesses as well.
McGarrity supposedly took some of Richt’s obligations away so he could focus and get “on the cutting edge” of football. Does anyone feel that’s happened? Instead of the cutting edge, maybe Richt should spend more time working with our guys on basic situational football that every other team seems to have down pat. Expect another 4 loses next year, it’s where we’re at.
… on basic situational football that every other team seems to have down pat.
Really? No other team in the country has screw ups?
How much football do you watch, by the way, to be able to paint with such a broad brush?
Whatever Senator, I’m not getting hooked on this. If you can’t see that UGA repeatedly makes the types of mistakes that championship winning teams don’t make, then maybe you don’t WANT to see it.
It’s like sometimes I write these lengthy posts that nobody reads. You really think that’s my problem here?
We know that you see the mistakes. It’s your complete willingness to accept Richt’s desire not to make the changes that puzzles us.
Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. For some reason, you seem to think that Richt’s insanity will produce different results, and we don’t understand why you see it that way.
+1000 GurleyMan nailed it. There is a portion of the UGA fanbase (and I’m not necessarily lumping our dear Senator in here) that would continue to defend Richt even if we had a 2012 Auburn type year.
And you know Richt is doing nothing differently how?
Just because the result is the same doesn’t mean the process was the same. This 8-5 season in no way resembles 8-5 or 6-7 a few years back, at least to me. I still believe the coaches see the same mistakes we see and are making changes to correct them. Will the corrections work? I won’t know until next season. But I’m a Disney Dawg so I look for reasons to be optimistic.
Either he’s doing nothing differently, or he is doing something differently but it’s not working. Is there really a difference between those in terms of his ability to get it done?
And as for whether the changes work, do you really think that you will not come up with more rationalizations if we have another 8-5? We can hear it already. “Hudson Mason wasn’t Aaron Murray” “Richt’s an offensive guy, it’s not his fault the defense stinks.” “Gurley never got over that ankle injury.” “The refs screwed us again.” blah blah blah.
So the difference is you don’t think Richt can get it done and I do. Neither one of us has any proof until the games are played. I guess we’ll just agree to disagree.
That’s unpossible. 😉
Except he has 13 seasons in a row of proof for his opinion, and you have been wrong 13 years in a row.
Richt would never have a 2012 Auburn Season. As bad as this year looked, we were in every game. Every game, even the ones we got down 20 points. How many teams, how many coaches could have kept this team together and fighting?
McTyre
Reality Check: 2010’s 6-7 WAS the equivalent of 2012 Auburn. 2010 starting lineup (24 including kickers) at the end of the 2010 season included 21 NFL draftees or UFA that made rosters: (Durham, King, Glenn, BJones, Boling, Charles, Murray, Chapas, Green, Walsh, AJones, Tyson, Dobbs, DGamble, Dent, Houston, commings, Rambo, Ogletree, Boykin, Butler). People prefer to bash Joe Cox for that year, but the bad running game, defense and ST put the entire season on his modestly talented shoulders. Parallels between 2010 and 2013 aren’t a stretch with respect to just how little the D and ST contributed to the season’s success. Fans and imbedded pundits like tony Barnhart need to unplug from The Matrix and understand that coaching is the primary reason for the lack of titles. I don’t want CMR fired, just to take steps – whatever they are – to field at least respectable D and ST units to make our offense a decisive factor in games rather than a unit bailing water for the rest of the team. Life after Murray (and Gurley) could easily be 6-7 if D and ST aren’t addressed. An OL that can block short yardage and at least compete with elite edge rushers is a luxury when you have galactically poor D and ST (save FG).
Duh, check that reference to Joe Cox. I lapsed into a 2009 post mortem, but stand by the remainder of my post regarding the 2010 season.
Dude, either you’re not getting what I write or you’re projecting your frustrations onto what I write.
It’s not a matter of my willingness to accept things as they are. I don’t have any control over anything that happens at B-M. Anything. I’ll never call for any coach’s head because it’s a pointless exercise.
I have lost faith before, as I mentioned. And said so. (And as I also mentioned, I was wrong in the case of Richt to do so.) But that’s as much as you’ll get out of me.
It seems to me that if you’ve got problems with Richt’s substandard performance being tolerated by somebody, your frustration should be directed at GM.
I don’t disagree at all with your last statement, Senator. GM is very much at fault for tolerating the same mistakes over and over again and not demanding improvement and changes from Richt. Especially coming from Florida where he was used to seeing excellence in the football program. GM’s complacency is quite puzzling. If Richt is going to be stubborn, then his stubbornness should have cost him when the ugliness continues to rear its ugly head.
When what ugliness? What AD fires Mark Richt? Sometimes I think people have lost their minds. Texas and UGA went down a slide at the same time in 2010, except they didn’t make a bowl. UGA recovered and went 10-2 and 11-1 in the next 2 regular season. UT never recovered, and I still think Mack had a choice at the end of the day.
What do people want McGarity to do? Do you want to go looking for a coach having just fired the coach that went 10-2, 11-1, and 8-4 with 2 division titles and catastrophic injuries in the 8-4 year? The candidates are going to ask, “So, what, exactly, are you expecting of me?” “Oh, we’d like you to win the SEC each year or at least get to Atlanta every year. And, you know, play good, sound fundamental football. If your tackle jumps offsides or your punt returner fumbles, that’s just inexcusable. That’s on you. BTW, you’re going to have the toughest suspension policies in the SEC, you don’t get to decide on those things. And we don’t oversign. And, no, you can’t have all those support staff or strength staff. Yes, we’re going to schedule Clemson, Arizona State, Okie State, Boise State, or Colorado AND Tech. No, you won’t get an indoor practice facility. Yes, I know everyone in the SEC West has one. Oh, and yeah, we’re gonna pay you about $2 million less than Kevin Sumlin, who managed to lose 6 ballgames in 2 years with the best player in college football since, well, a long time. You ready to sign the contract, Coach Smart?”
Look, I’m not saying that another coach can’t win at UGA, too. Of course they can. Lots of good and great coaches out there. Kirby Smart might be the next Saban or Meyer. But, no AD in America would get rid of Richt after the run he’s had. There are no guarantees. UT went through Dooley and UF is going through Muschamp. You don’t always get the next great one. Bama will be hard pressed to find the next guy. You might strike gold. What I do know is that Richt will have us competitive, burns to win, and loves UGA. I also know that the changes we’ve made in S & C and recruiting are evident. We have more and better talent and better looking guys than we did 3 years ago, plain and simple. It’s like the Senator says, none of us have control over BM. However, if we did, we’d most likely see the same things. I’ve got a guy that runs a clean program and wins over 70% of his games and we’ve been to the Dome a lot in 13 years after not going at all the first 10 years of the SECCG era. And I’m going to fire him? No AD makes that call. If we go 7-5 next year, it’s time to talk, but I find the idea of GM making demands or calling for heads to be ludicrous talk.
That was really, really good. I always try to scroll thru the comments/rants and that is as grounded of one as I’ve ever seen.
I’m in the same spot: without the rash of injuries & inexperience in areas, I think this is a different year entirely. That’s obvious. What’s still glaring is the lapses on defense, etc. (no need to go over them all again).
If we’re “healthy” next season and the kids that got all the playing time this year are still screwing up like they’ve never played before, it is indeed time to talk.
+1. Thank you for that breath of sanity.
Your second paragraph is dead on the money. You get a virtual standing ovation from me, sir.
infinity Sugardaddy
Nominated as the best post of the 2014 off season. Everything else is bloviation.
LOL! So 2011 and 2012 seasons never happened?
Our bandwagon is like playing Chutes and Ladders for some.
You really should cut down on the length of your posts…they just get in the way of our ranting. 🙂
You don’t see Bama missing field goals, losing players to injury or making last second poor coaching decisions!
dude, really?
Pretty sure he was being sarcastic. 😉
Lorenzo Dawgriguez
I do believe it is a joke.
He wants us to hire Bob Stoops. 😉
Gruden!
Nah, we need Stoops! He has proven he can win the big game.
Normaltown nails it with a good one!
Considering that Bama has won 3 NC’s since Saban arrived, I would consider finding another team to compare us to. We aren’t in the league whatsoever.
This fact was the reason for my “dude, really” comment above, but apparently some people didn’t grasp that.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…
This football program has two major flaws: lack of discipline and poor fundamentals.
Not coincidentally, the 2 most important aspects of solid O-line play and a strong defense.
These flaws stem from the top. It is really no longer up for debate.
So Juan…who appointed you as moderator that can close a debate? GFY.
We’ll debate it as long as we care to.
I just wish people would understand that the defense in 2011 was more due to us playing, literally, the 8 worst offenses in the conference more than it was us having a dominant defense: http://www.cfbstats.com/2011/leader/911/team/offense/split07/category09/sort01.html
I’m still in the camp that the absolute ceiling for the defense, when we have boat loads of experience, talent and ALL of the breaks go our way, is finishing in the top 25% of the league at BEST, and we will still probably yield at least one TD/game more than whoever is in first in defense that year (in other words – we will never be close to having the best D in the SEC). Most years I expect us to be in the bottom half for scoring defense, though, and I don’t think will be fixed for as long as CTG is DC.
Until that changes and we get good enough on special teams to break even, we’re going to be left hoping the offense can overcome everything and that’s only going to take us so far. If everything goes our way like it did in 2012 we can have a good shot at making something happen, but when the offense sputters for whatever reason like it did this year, we’re looking squarely at another 8-5 season.
Good comments – if we can be in top 4-5 in scoring defense, we have a chance to be special. The problem this year was this defense wasn’t very good at all (duh) and they got put into a lot of sudden change situations that they didn’t handle well at all.
Excluding Jarvis Jones, I think this year’s defensive front 7 were better than 2012’s. That’s right, I said it. In 2012 we couldn’t stop anybody from running, including the dismal Tennessee and Kentucky teams. This year, I felt we could stop anybody (for 3 plays). However, the secondary is a disaster. A dearth of experienced talent accounts for something, but absolutely poor fundamentals, missed assignments and confusion throughout the season point to the position coach. I think Grantham is smart enough to fix the defense, but I’ve become Lakatos intolerant (see what I did there).
The offensive line is a little more puzzling. As offenses have moved to speed over power, so have defenses. In return, offenses can no longer be power without speed. I think we saw some of that this year in Georgia’s and Alabama’s OL problems. The speed rush is a problem. Perhaps the ideal tackle is no longer a Gates or Theus type, but more of a Zach DeBell type; more speed less power.
“The problem this year was this defense wasn’t very good at all (duh).”..Duh indeed. I thought the problem was mostly because of injuries on the offense.
The offense prior to the injuries covered the youth, inexperience, and talent gap in the secondary. This defense got marginally better from Clemson to Nebraska but also benefited from a front-end loaded schedule. The offense post-Tennessee did everything it could to cover for defensive and special teams problems.
The offense fell apart after all the injuries. A few moments of brilliance (1st quarter against Florida, late in the game against Auburn, for example) and a few moments of total incompetence (Nebraska, 2nd half against Florida until the last drive, Vandy). The turnovers and special teams mistakes after Tennessee (and some before) made a young, struggling defense look even worse.
Going into the season there were a lot of comments concerning the youth of the D and the potential of the O having to carry them while they developed. Worked until we lost so many skilled players. When we were whole we were a team that could score some points. Injuries and stupid suspensions bit as we barely got the season started. Minus the acl and the hammy and the suspensions we are 10 points better against Clemson. My cousin who is a big Sooner and lives in Oklahoma commented to me in a Christmas card. “If I come visit you in Athens I’m bringing my own water. Yours is tainted. Weakens knee ligaments.”
Great evocation of the conflicted feelings most of us have (other than, of course, the people who think we just need to fire everybody, abolish academic requirements and substance abuse rules, and bring in Attila the Hun for however many horses and virgins he demands). On the one hand, how do you “coach up” your outstanding, hard-working tight end not to make mistakes that (arguably) cost two games? But on the other hand, why is Georgia the only team in Christendom that has given up on punt returns and kickoffs into the end zone?
Predicting next year is just impossible. I betcha Phil Steele has the Dawgs in the Top Five, since the talent’s still there, a huge number of starters return, the schedule lays out nicely, and (according to Steele’s formula) injuries and turnover margin are likely to improve. But no one should expect an iota of triumphalism from the fan base, and there will be many angry comment-thread arguments in the off-season. Ugh.
“other than, of course, the people who think we just need to fire everybody, abolish academic requirements and substance abuse rules, and bring in Attila the Hun for however many horses and virgins he demands”
Nice straw man.
There are plenty of comments you can find at GTP (or at the message boards) that are in line with each opinion Ed cited there.
I’m not saying those folks represent a majority, or even a significant minority, but they definitely do exist.
I’m sure they exist, but the rate at which some people continuously bring them up is absolutely ridiculous. It’s like they can’t handle the fact that a reasonable person would disagree with them so they have to project that crap on their dissenters.
Methinks you’re being overly sensitive. Go back and read the rest of Ed’s post. He’s not denying there are legitimate concerns.
I probably am being overly sensitive about it because I’m tired of people pretending that 0.01% of our fanbase is actually 50%.
I ignored the rest of his post after I read that, though.
The Atilla the Hun part is funny. It’s that simple.
I’ll be glad do the job for horses and virgins, by the way.
Calling a point that was superbly made a “strawman” is your own strawman, 165. Georgia was decimated by injuries. That’s logic, but some of the people on here can’t process logic because they’re ______(fill in the blank…and if the shoe fits, wear it),
where was my straw man? And our defense wasn’t decimated by injuries…
Semantics. Our defensive secondary was decimated by players not playing. Wilkerson was out for the year. Matthews was injured almost all the way through camp and most of the season. JHC was suspended twice. Even Connor Norman was injured. Adding these absences to the least experienced section of the defense, is there any doubt why the secondary was the poorest unit?
Of course it was two of the secondary’s starters that made one of the dumbest plays in history to snatch a defeat from the jaws of history–when they were on the field it didn’t look a lot better. That’s why it’s easy to blame the offense troubles on injuries but not allow that excuse for the secondary.
Our problems were on the OL, and defensively. Remind me again of all those injuries that decimated the two units.
Some people make jokes Senator, and we have quite a few fans that a) can’t see any humor, or b) as 615 says have a very strange way of discussing any legitimate disagreements they may have about our current coaching situations.
We also have fans who make their minds up about other folks’ arguments without reading them in their entirety. 😉
When you put it that way, maybe all those South Carolinians and Aubies and such have a point, and our fans really are the worst. Present company excluded, of course.
I don’t think we’re the worst. Just typical.
I was joking, because like I’d assume with you, I’m not intelligent enough about all the other fanbases to see who’s the best and who’s the worst. I can see why you’d call us typical, but there are certainly times when I can see exactly why some rival fanbases say what they do about some of our fans, and the discussions our fanbase sometimes has.
I didn’t make up my mind about his argument, I just called him out on the ridiculous projection of 0.001% of our fanbase to all of his dissenters 😉
Mr. Sanchez, Saban is sitting on a two game losing streak..the first on to Auburn. Let him lose to Auburn again next year and you’ll clearly see who’s fanbase is the worst (when it comes to being reasonable).
that’s a different discussion. Although the Senator linking the Bama girl vs Sooner section video, when thrown on top of Updyke and the fan dangling his testicles on an LSU fan, etc, certainly makes them a top contender for the crown.
Oh but its because of our schedule we did well…it couldn’t be that we were the better team…
I hear you and agree. The Georgia fan base has to be the most cynical, pessimistic, no joy fan base in college football.
On the other hand, the Nebraska fans I met were simply good folks to be around. They enjoy their team, win or lose.
SWGADAWG
I might be fatalistic or some other word I don’t understand, but it seems to me that a team that was a fingernail from a National Championship a year ago and one ankle from a possible shot this year (I am refering to the Gurley ankle that has clearly never healed, yet he has still been great) is not a team that has thiese major coaching problems I keep reading about. I didn’t mention the ACL and MCL outbreak or the assorted hamstrings which by the way were also blamed on the coaches by some..lol. Nor the luckiest play I’ve ever seen (which my Auburn friends tell me was the plan from Malzahn all along). Might I also add one of the worst targeting calls ever that cost us a game. Does that all come from poor coaching? It might but I don’t see it. We were one b lown assignment by a Bama player which resulted in a tip of a pass from a MNC. Personally, I think a little better recruiting (don’t lose whole classes) and a little older team will lead us to the sucess we want. Of course, the Bama board is full of guys calling for coaches heads because they are “trending” down….lol. Just my thoughts…
Look, despite rookie mistakes, a leaky defense, and abysmal luck, this team was what, 20 points total from being 12-1? With the schedule we had? There was good coaching going on somewhere.
Look at the Falcons this year. Talented team that had a freakish number of injuries, and they imploded. And that’s a quality coaching staff they have in Atlanta. I’m not excusing the numerous fundamental mistakes I saw this year, but it’s galactically obtuse to lay all blame at Mark Richt’s feet.
“this team was what, 20 points total from being 12-1? ”
Just playing devil’s advocate here but that sword cuts both ways. We beat LSU by 3 and had two overtime victories against Tech and Tennessee. By your same logic we’re just as close to being 5-7.
Both arguments are fair. We could have ended up 5-7 as easily as 11-1. I said on January 2, 2013 that this team could be as talented as the 2012 but have a worse record due to the schedule although I admit I thought the floor was 9-3.
Injuries, special teams, secondary youth and injuries, and some very untimely officiating put us where we are. Some of that goes to some coaching decisions, some to poor execution of the game plan (the 99-yard play doesn’t happen if #20 is where he’s supposed to be on the hash instead the middle of the field), and some to downright bad luck (when Penn Wagers was in Auburn, I knew we were in trouble).
Do I think that means it’s time for Coach Richt to start his career as a missionary? No, but he definitely needs to make sure he corrects the things needing correction.
“Failure is not fatal…but failure not to change might be.” Out of all the woes we experienced this year the continued problems with special team gafs bothers me the most. I’m not ignoring the on side kick success and the great fg kicking. But it just seems to bite us in the ass every game. Other than that I’m pretty confident we can turn the short comings around. It will take a while for me not to pucker up when we get a team in 3rd and long though. Just sayin’
Someone was listening to Cowherd this morning. How cute.
You still butt hurt azz hat?
“Still” implies was once before. So no. But I have noticed you can’t stop the obsession over my guys. You just can’t quit us can you big boy?
Hijo. You just can’t stop obsessing over me. You initiated this. Still this is like playing poker with my sisters kids. They enjoy it and I’m just trying to teach ’em something. Sometimes they pick it up pretty fast and sometimes a little slow. Your still learning. Lucky for you I’m a patient big boy. Ima have leave it here Hijo. Bluto doesn’t want us playing together on his site. No te acuerdas? 😉
Funny how you say that at the end, yet still find the need to quote S&G on his site.
It’s a thin line both ways. Every season is. Even games decided by 10-14 points usually have one play that would have changed everything. We didn’t make enough of those.
Which also shows a remarkable amount of mental toughness. We derped away a comfortable lead in Knoxville, yet scored to tie it up as the game ended. Tech had a TWENTY point lead against our back up QB and a defense missing 2 starters, yet we won it. Auburn had us whipped, yet we would have won that except for a freak Hail Mary. This team has scrappers and fighters, and they don’t quit, which is admirable.
I am sure with your football expertise that you have heard the term “a game of inches”. Every team is one or two plays from a dramatically different record. Auburn without the two miracle plays against us and Bama and the last second scoring play against Miss St is 8-4 and playing in the Outback Bowl.
This isn’t an 8-5 team and you are a fool if you honestly believe that. Every team makes mistakes, there are penalties and blown coverages in every single game. If you watched the Sugar Bowl last night you could see that the great and powerful Saban’s team did the SAME THINGS that our team did (at least on defense). The special teams mistakes we had this year weren’t from a schematic standpoint but from execution. The coaches can’t catch punts, snap FG’s or punts, or catch snaps. If we were giving up huge yardage on KO returns or had multiple punts returned for TD’s I would be concerned.
Things aren’t as good as some people think nor are they as bad as some people make them out to be. I personally think that we are a lot closer to the 2012 version than we are to the 2010 version.
Dude. The coaches have obviously failed to teach the kids fundamentals like how to catch a punt.
Despite rookie mistakes and leaky defense?
Just despite that?
How about: DESPITE LOSING A FEW GAMES WE WERE NATIONAL CHAMPS!
I’m heartened a bit that CMR is willing to “manage” his rosters ever so slightly.
I don’t want to turn into Bama/LSU/USC, but we’ve got to start cycling more guys in/out of the program if we’re going to compete.
Not to beat a dead horse, but considering how few seniors we are losing, and have no juniors leaving early, it’s crazy that we have room to sign 22 players. At least, that’s the number that’s been floating out there for a while, and that was before the two transfers were announced, so maybe we can even sign 24 now, with no oversigning or grayshirts needed. And that’s after signing 30+ last year. I do think the reality of this year’s depth chart, especially in our secondary, was very eye opening for Richt. I agree with you that I hope CMR is willing to engage a little more in the “roster management” side of things than in the past. Not to the point of getting shady, but you can definitely do more than what we’ve typically done, without crossing ethical boundaries.
The bad thing is we’re probably still two years away from really being where we should be as a roster. If we still have 30 or so players from last year’s class, and then let’s say we sign 22 this year, that’s 61% of your 85 scholarship players going into next year that are in their 1st or 2nd year in the program (if we are able to sign more than 22, that percentage goes up). I don’t know how that stacks up against some of our rivals, and you’re always going to have a higher number of 1st & 2nd year guys as classes get weeded out over time, but that seems awfully high. I’d think you’d want to be more in the 50% 1st & 2nd year guys, and 50% 3rd-5th year guys. I have no comparisons to back that up, just going off my own impressions.
That being said, I still maintain a fairly healthy dose of optimism for next year. This was a great post by the Senator though. We’re all gonna be really pumped after the Clemson game next year, or the reality of another “here we go again” season is going to quickly settle in. I choose to be optimistic, but the reality side of me says it’s 50/50 on which way we go.
Since my brother-in-law is a Boomer I watched OU games right often.
The difference between, for instance, the OU defense vs. Texas and the OU defense vs Bama is simply astonishing to me.
Yes, the Stoopses had a long time to get ready, yes Bama is not very fancy on offense and there is a lot of familiarity between the two coaching staffs, but to see that kind of improvement in five weeks is…well…astonishing.
The Boomers made Bama look like…ah…Georgia?
I don’t know where I fall on the continuity vs. complacency curve, but I hope all our defensive coaches watched the Sugar Bowl and got very, very uncomfortable.
Michigan State too. Both of those Defenses looked great over the 2nd half of the season
I would probably be considered a Disney Dawg, but I figure it’s more of a realist. Frankly, and there’s no way for this not to sound snide, I think the problem is that a lot of people care deeply about football but just don’t know that much about it. To think that there is some kind of ceiling with Richt is absurd. Surely someone else can win at UGA, too, but Kirby Smart might be the next Will Muschamp, too. Richt knows how to win and wants to badly. To think that he doesn’t see the problems is ridiculous. You think if he could figure out the punt returns he wouldn’t? He puts Reggie back that after Rhett bobbles one and, boom, a fumble. For all we know Reggie is more money in practice that McGowan. I don’t know why we can’t get that right, and I’ll be Richt spent all season trying to figure it out. But he switched punters and snappers mid-season for similar problems. We shuffled returners all year and no one produced when the lights were on.
Discipline? You really know little about football if you think we aren’t disciplined. Watch some bowl games. Everyone jumps off-sides and, despite what the media would have you believe, even AJ McCarron throws bad picks and fumbles. Yeldon is nearly good for a fumble a game and he plays for Mr. “I don’t let my players make mistakes.” When the skirmish broke out on Wednesday Nebraska had 20 players on the field and 4 coaches. Our entire team and staff stayed on the sideline because we have discipline. We actually suspend players and kick kids off the team.
I’m not sure about Grantham and Lakatos, but I’ll bet Mark Richt knows these stats:
TOTAL DEFENSE G Rush Pass Plys Yards Avg TD Yds/G
Alabama…………. 8 988 1467 480 2455 5.1 15 306.9
Florida…………. 8 1051 1418 485 2469 5.1 15 308.6
South Carolina…… 8 1340 1434 504 2774 5.5 22 346.8
Missouri………… 8 966 2065 593 3031 5.1 17 378.9
Georgia…………. 8 1283 1832 548 3115 5.7 30 389.4
LSU…………….. 8 1362 1833 558 3195 5.7 23 399.4
Vanderbilt………. 8 1325 1888 596 3213 5.4 29 401.6
Mississippi State… 8 1292 1939 542 3231 6.0 27 403.9
Tennessee……….. 8 1887 1451 549 3338 6.1 30 417.2
10.Ole Miss………… 8 1572 1808 583 3380 5.8 26 422.5
11.Auburn………….. 8 1470 2195 585 3665 6.3 27 458.1
12.Kentucky………… 8 1662 2066 552 3728 6.8 38 466.0
13.Arkansas………… 8 1771 2031 554 3802 6.9 38 475.2
14.Texas A&M……….. 8 1890 2103 600 3993 6.7 38 499.1
That’s the conference only games total defense stats for the season. It’s a good indicator of how you fare because while some teams played Tech, Clemson, and North Texas in non-conference games, other teams played Wake Forest 4 times. With all the bad defense we saw (and it seemed like the worst I’ve ever seen), we finished 5th. That’s in the top third, Bulldawg165. Auburn finished 11th and is playing on Monday night. It’s hard for me to fathom. Bama finished 1st in D and 2nd in O…and didn’t play in the SECCG. The line is razor thin, and I’d imagine Richt sees that more clearly than us. We had a chance to win every game with an anemic defense (that wasn’t as bad as we thought, comparatively), catastrophic injuries, crazy special teams plays, freshmen DBs, and forcing virtually no turnovers. We weren’t gashed all season. We couldn’t stop teams on 3rd down and couldn’t come up with a few timely turnovers.
I think the question to ask with a lot of our frustration is a legitimate question: Of the things that frustrated us this year, how many really came down to strategic coaching? A bobbled FG snap in Clemson, Gates and Artie completely whiffing on Michael Sam vs. Mizzou, Douglas fumbling before the half vs. Mizzou, dropping a punt snap and a punt in Nashville, not jumping over the blockers in Auburn or not knocking the ball down, catching the ball in the Gator. Are the coaches supposed to gather the team and say, “Hey guys, if the ball is coming to you, whether it’s a pass, snap or kick, we’re for you catching rather than dropping it. Catching it is always better. Except for you Josh and Tray. You guys don’t catch it. You guys knock it down.” We had ONE bad KO return against us all year (North Texas). Our punt coverage was pretty stellar. Kids made mistakes, man. To think that Richt and Co. aren’t trying to figure out for 8 months who they can put out there that won’t make mistakes is asinine.
I don’t know if we’ll win it all next year, but the sky is not falling. We had a brutal schedule vs. a top 10 non-conference foe and 2 of the best 3 teams in the West. We lost to #2 on the most miraculous play I’ve ever witnessed in person. It was frustrating. Despite the youth and injuries, we still had a chance in every game. It didn’t happen. That doesn’t mean it can’t happen. Wins mask your problems (as in, Alabama can’t handle the speed rush nor the no huddle offense). Auburn can’t defend anything and can’t throw. If JHC knocks down a pass and Bama can make FGs then the line on the Plains is, “We had the best offense we can ever imagine having and we only managed 9-3. We’ll never got 11-1 or 12-0 with a defense THAT bad. And we needed a miracle to beat Miss. St. We could be 8-4.” Do you honestly think Auburn would have beaten Clemson the first game of the year? Watkins would have had 300 receiving yards. People can’t see the forest for the trees sometimes. We didn’t make a few plays and it made all the difference in us being really happy versus being bummed. We’ve got as good a coach as any. He doesn’t always make me happy, but I’d imagine Bama fans aren’t real happy with Mr. Perfection today either.
Great work, sUGArdaddy. I think these are the sentiments of a realistic look at the state of the program.
I agree eethomaswfnc…sUGArdaddy did a lot of work. But logic will not move those who are ruled by anger and emotion.
Good post, and well thought out. Like Bluto said, it’s easy to see both sides of the argument. But you laid out the “Disney” side of the argument as well as I’ve seen.
One kinda irrelevant point, I just thought of it because you mentioned that McCarron makes mistakes too (and obviously he does, as last night showed). But when they showed the stat that he never had more than 2 interceptions in a game, that blew me away. I know they don’t throw the ball nearly as much as some teams, but to play as many games as he has and never have a 3 pick game, that’s pretty amazing. Not trying to say he walks on water or anything, but that one particular thing is a really impressive stat.
It helps that he plays behind a herd of mastodon O lineman.
I’d be interested to see how many Aaron had. And if he had any, how many came his freshman season, while AJ was busy holding a clipboard.
If Aaron was at Bama, they’d be unstoppable. If AJ was in Athens, we’d have been enjoying Memphis and Nashville the last few years in December.
If AM had Alabama’s line, he would have won the H.
I definitely remember that Murray had 3 against UF last year (2012), all in the first half. Can’t remember any others off the top of my head.
Just found the stats. Murray had 3 total games with 3 interceptions:
2010 – UF (though only 2 were in regulation)
2011 – Mississippi State, though we used to play defense back then, and despite throwing 3 picks, we still won 24-10.
2012 – UF again, though we also won this one.
It’s hard to play that many games and not have a few where you have at least 3 picks. I’d take Murray over McCarron any day of the week, but just that one particular stat for McCarron really impressed me.
The other McCarron stat that floored me is that he was the first with consecutive 3000 yd passing seasons at Alabama (and just barely). That surprised me.
The stat that blew me away came during the Rose Bowl when they said Stanford had two offensive line holding penalties all season. Anybody else hear that, good grief is that even possible?
Let’s hire their OL coach. Seriously.
No one is leaving the Bay Area for the southeast, no matter what resources we have–for a multitude of reasons, that’s not happening.
Outstanding post. I think you hit the nail on the head with the “passion vs knowledge” statement. Just because you love football and watch a lot of it doesn’t make you an expert. I seriously doubt that a majority of people on here could correctly diagram a play or read the difference between Cover 2 and Cover 3 pre snap. That doesn’t mean they are any less of a fan but it does lead to some flawed arguments over scheme and execution.
Hall. Of. Fame.
Thank you for summing up my thoughts perfectly in a single post. I was too lazy to do so myself.
I’m not interested in reading your entire post, but I see you focused on yards per game and not POINTS per game, which is much more important. Against conference opponents, we were 11th: http://www.cfbstats.com/2013/leader/911/team/defense/split07/category09/sort01.html
And before you go whining about special teams or turnovers or blah blah blah, please realize that we would have had to have given up 55 points less to even fall in the top 5.
We were also second to last for turnovers forced: http://www.cfbstats.com/2013/leader/911/team/offense/split07/category12/sort03.html
We were also 9th in red zone defense: http://www.cfbstats.com/2013/leader/911/team/defense/split07/category27/sort01.html
But sure, we gave up fewer yards than some of those teams so we clearly had the better defense, right 😉
This reply was for you, by the way, sugar tits
You’re a kind one, 165. I’m up for debate, but you want to turn it into name calling. That’s cool. I looked at the points and noticed that discrepency. It means we were about middle of the road all together, which is better than I expected. The turnovers are the main reason for that. We couldn’t get a turnover. Think of last year how many INTs or fumbles we got in our own endzone or near our goal line. We just couldn’t do that this year, partly luck and mostly being out of position.
The point is we didn’t get gashed. When you’re 5th in yardage and 11th in points, something is wrong.
I’m not sure about Grantham, but I don’t know the answers. I also saw Kirby and Saban give up 45 points in a bowl to a team with a RSFr who I believe started his first game. Can you promise me we get Narduzzi if we implode the D staff? I’d be elated, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. I just think it’s foolish to think a defense that returns 21 of 22 in the two deep won’t get dramatically better the next year. We’ll also look better not playing Tajh, Connor, Mett, and Franklin. I’ll bet Mark Richt sees the same thing. I’m also convinced none of us see or hear behind the scenes. I think some fans think Mark is sitting back thinking, “Boy, all those exciting finishes and 3rd down conversions sure were fun, weren’t they?” I think he’s thinking, “I’m not living through that again. We’re going to fix it.”
You called me out by name, so I responded. Some people might take that name as a compliment 😉
I don’t doubt that CMR is trying to fix the issues that hurt us, I was simply pointing out facts about our defense. It erks me when people say “we were in X place in yards per game so we’re good!” because ypg is only part of the story.
They grow this stuff out in Colorado that will relax you. You should go there and try it. You are an angry human being.
That was directed at @165. Not for you, SugarDaddy… I’m assuming you prefer that name over the one 165 created for you ;).
I thought the same thing– that was kinda of rude. SugarDaddy’s post was very good. I admire his knowledge of football and command of the keyboard. 165 is kinda childish. Reminds me of.. Hijo. 😉
He called me out in the middle of a post that was so long I wouldn’t have even seen it if I didn’t ctrl F for “165” to look for responses to my comments. Besides, you act like I called him a curse word or something. It was a pretty playful name. If his feelings are hurt then I will apologize but I think you’re being dramatic.
I think you are being “sensitive” again. Apologize to SugarDaddy and let’s call it a day.
No worries. I’m a dad, which means I’m not allowed to have feelings.
I’m with Senator. After Boise, I was in a deep, dark place. Everything seemed wrong. I just don’t feel that way. I’ve seen every Richt loss in person. A lot of fight in these kids. Also a lot of youth. That was the story. Brutal schedule, injuries, youth, some D coaches that didn’t adjust. 2009 Tennessee was a problem. Colorado was a problem. We were nowhere near that this year.
I feel the same. Colorado and Tennessee left me pretty hopeless. I’ll be honest, I was at a really low point after the 2008 Florida blowout. We should never lose to our biggest rival in that fashion. If there’s anything Mark Richt has taught me since then it’s that he can turn it around. The wins in a row against the Gators has certainly helped, dumpster fire or not.
One of the biggest “coulda woulda shouldas” I feel about this season (besides the Auburn tipped pass, of course) is Arthur Lynch dropping/fumbling that screen pass. I firmly believe that had he caught that ball we would have been well on our way to doing to them what they did to us in 2008. MAN that would’ve been sweet.
Not angry, just erked 😉
I’m hoping “erked” is a deliberate misspelling and not a typo, because it’s got me thinking of creating a new entry for the Lexicon. 😉
Does that mean I’ll be famous?!
I always credit the original source, although famous is a relative term. 😉
Thank you for saying what I feel much better than I ever could.
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You all made some nice points, but I’m going the other way on this season. We were three (damn-near miraculous) last-second victories away from being 5-8. And that’s if you don’t include the stops against South Carolina and Florida. We are in a deep, dark place right now.
If we only won 5, we wouldn’t have finished with 8 losses because the season would have been over. What solutions do you propose to pull us out of the deep, dark place? Sorry, there are some flaws, but this is nothing like January 1, 2011 after we did finish with a losing record for the first time since Donnan’s first year in Athens.
Indeed, it’s razor thin, but that’s every team. Auburn was a gnats hair from being 8-4, but went 11-1. What we had was a ridiculous september schedule and a team that was just good enough to go 3-1. Do you honestly think that team with gurley, marshall, jsw, and bennett loses to Vandy? I don’t think we lost to Mizzou either, and I don’t think it’s that close. And Tennessee would have been over by halftime. It was what it was, but it’s not a dark place.
The guy that made the 2 plays to seal the deal vs. the two best teams we beat tore his ACL in knoxville. No coincidence that we struggled to go deep the rest of the season. Ifs and buts. We were what we were. You play the cards you’re dealt and move on. Here’s the healthy ACLs and an easier schedule.
Then Auburn’s in a deep, dark place. They were three (or more) last-second victories away from being in the Gator Bowl.
The way some of you think is amazing..and not in a good way.
Think about this. What if some get their old wish and Mike Bobo is offered a job and takes it and then CTG is offered and also takes it. This is the worst possible scenario, who in their right mind takes either of these jobs with everything expected and no time to prepare? I for one hope Bobo stays and I wish CTG had ran the Saints into the ground this year. No question that the defense is in disarray. Anytime coverage busts the players are trying to blame whomever missed their assignment, on the field, before the other team scores their eminent touchdown. I think CTG expects too much of these kids, they have other things on their plate than just football. It is also eerie that the Falcons seem to be stuck in the “lets give them one more year cycle”. We’re on a break football, RIGHT AFTER THE SUPER BOWL.
I realize that, chief. I’m simply pointing out that we would’ve had three less victories.
I understand that. I just don’t think this program is anywhere near the place it was after the Game That Shall Not Be Named in Memphis.
I agree with that assessment. And I’m not one of the fan base “calling for heads.” I’m just one of the ones that’s having serious trouble finding a silver lining on this season.
I hear you. The only silver lining I see is the skill people we will have on offense and the returning guys up front on defense. Hopefully, the secondary grows up and Mason and the line get better in the off-season.
If it hadn’t been for the injuries, I might have been there with you. When Marshall went down and Gurley was out for way more games than I expected, I ratcheted down my expectations severely. I still had hope because we were in every game we played right to the end, but my hope was tempered by the reality of those injuries.
Yes, but as eethomaswfnc so clearly explained, if you don’t know exactly how to fix each and every problem, you’re simply not allowed to be critical. Those are the rules around here.
I didn’t say that you couldn’t be critical. Just say why you think we’re in dark place and what solutions you have to the issues identified. There’s no snark there. It’s about a conversation.
Our solutions may be as simple as hiring a special teams coordinator and firing the strength and conditioning staff and hiring ANYONE else to fill their positions. I can offer solutions if you wish, but that’s about the equivalent of closing my eyes and tossing a penny into the fountain at Georgia Square Mall.
Comin' Down The Track
There’s a fountain at Georgia Square Mall?
a drinking fountain
Agreed, and there is no fountain but a trampoline.
Wait. Don’t be hasty let’s get a copy of his rules list first.
This is with any facet of life, if you want to point out problems then you need to have a solution that isn’t “fire everybody and hire Saban, Gruden, etc”
No, you don’t. When my computer is unresponsive, I don’t have to be an IT guy to be able to rightly say, “Well, something’s wrong with this thing.” When my neighbors are constantly screaming at each other so loudly that we can actually hear it in our house, I don’t have to be a marriage counselor to be able to rightly say, “Well, something’s wrong with their relationship.” And when a football program with the sort of talent, resources, facilities, and coaches’ salaries that Georgia has still can’t figure out what to do with a fucking punt, I don’t have to know a single thing about the game of football to be able to rightly say, “Well, something’s wrong here.”
Nine times out of ten, when someone asks, “Well, what solutions do you propose?” he really just wants change the topic away from the program’s problems and to whatever he thinks of the first guy’s proposed solutions.
“When my computer is unresponsive, I don’t have to be an IT guy to be able to rightly say, ‘Well, something’s wrong with this thing.'”
Except here’s what some in the Dawgosphere perpetually work with: “My computer is unresponsive. I’ll hit it with a bat, then set it on fire. That’ll get results.”
What computer am I going to get that can do better than the one I have? My neighbors got rid of their old computer and the one they got wasn’t better. I think I should stay with the computer I know because I don’t believe I’m competent enough to do research and make a good decision on a new computer.
is our fanbase as some say…50% ready for heads??? I went to UGA and have a group of friends who also attended UGA and we were football/basketball nuts. See the guys there when the gates open…that was us. In that group (many who give$$$$ to UGA) …a couple want Granthams head, one still hates Bobo and the other 20 or so support the coaches though we are and always have been a bit skeptical of all the Grantham is great stuff. We also all know that some of the problems stem from sources inside the University. I think this comes from the Jan Kemp thing that had effects even into the Donnan reign that kept players out of UGA. We always suspect the University President has it’s hands in the program So the people I know who went to UGA with me are not satified, but still hurting from the season and looking for improvement with time. Of my casual UGA fans about 50% know everything, about 50% want Grantham fired, 45% want Bobo fired, and are 30% want Richt gone. I don’t think it’s 50-50 .
Aw, yes! Hope springs eternal with the Georgia….or should I say Richt….crowd. Good luck in 2014. Besides, haven’t we heard all this before?
Good luck in 2014? I love fans like you that hope for your team to fail. Go cheer on the team in Gainesville, FL. There is plenty of failure to go around at that program.
I love fans like you who are mental and I don’t give a damn about FL. You wouldn’t be a Richt Homer, by chance, would you? If so, you people should lighten up.
I’m as bummed out as all of you all are, too. But I see a silver lining(s). We beat the Cocks and the Ole Ball Sack. We beat LSU. We beat the damned Gators for the third year in a row. We beat Tech. We had a warrior of a QB. We’ve got talent coming back. Keep the Faith.
Beating the Ole Ball Sack… priceless. Watching Richt and Murray post LSU victory… priceless too.
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It’s like I teach my daughters during math homework; if you can’t add and subtract, multiply and divide, you are not going to make it in algebra class. That said, why after four years are we still “installing complex defensive schemes” when we can’t even TACKLE? Our DB’s aren’t even in the same area code as the opponents WR’s and we they do get over there, it appears as if they are looking for some type of flag system hanging off the guy’s belt. Blows my mind. If CMR would just “install” my old high school (Union County) defensive scheme of “just tackle the guy with the ball”, we’d be in the SECC year after year.
Won 4 games by a td or less, so could have easily been 4-8.
LSU, TN, FL, won by only a field goal.
Barely beat a 4-8 Florida team.
Beat GT by a td.
This was not a good team.
Avg. margin per loss was less than 7. It works both ways.
Take away Mizzou and it is almost 4 points per loss. See how close 13-1 really was? 😉
Well it’s nice to know somebody still GAS. I think a lot of fans have just given up ever having another Championship. It’s just a game played by 18-22 year olds and while they play the game other 18-22 year olds are in harms way half a world away. I guess what I’m trying to say is lets get a little perspective. Football is just entertainment, we should remember that.
Senator, your post is as cogent a capsulation of the conflicting thoughts so many of us have that there’s little to add. We want our team to succeed and we want Coach Richt to succeed. It would not only vindicate our program, it would vindicate a certain way of developing a program (with integrity, right focus on academics) that many of us think is good for college football (not for one moment, BTW, do I think UGA is the only such program, but it does distinguish us from a number of our conference brethren).
But I do have a couple of troubling thoughts to add. I saw less of a speed differential in the Gator Bowl than I expected–that is, our players, especially in the secondary, didn’t seem appreciably faster than theirs. Maybe that’s a matter of the B1G catching up, but I thought I saw the same issue with speed (or lack of same) in other games this season. Brings back bad memories of Goff/Donnan years in which UF and UT were so much faster and quicker to the ball than UGA. Speed isn’t fixable in the same way that some of our other problems are.
I also worry that a large portion of our fan base, or what should be our fan base, may be checking out. Part of it may be that rising academic standards at UGA are changing the student body profile. Part of it may be frustration among older fans at the re-emergence of the lid on the program. It was great to see the fan support in the stands for much of this season–but it’s clear that the Gator was a “Just Don’t GAS” experience for many Dawgfans, and some of the comments lead me to believe that may carry over. Hope not!
I wouldn’t worry too much about speed. Weather conditions and Conley and Gurley being less than 100% impacted that.
Let’s put it this way: they were plenty fast enough the first time the two teams met.
The field was a joke during the game. Might as well have played on the beach with all the damn sand that was out there.
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Why do they have to wait until they’re seniors to feel responsible for the team and to make changes to get better? It’s that type of comment from Richt that just solidifies in my mind that he’s missing the point. I realize it’s out of context, etc…
I think that’s just coach speak. Aaron was a leader as soon as the team saw he could play. If the coaches really have to worry about the “Senior Leadership” then the coaches are over paid. Short of the Seniors beating the Sh*t out of a player who is a goof off, there’s nothing they can do that the coaches can’t. Senior experience is always needed but Senior Leadership is overrated.
One thing I would like to point out re:Lakatos is that the secondary played very well the last 3 seasons and this is a totally new secondary he was breaking in this year. I think too many fail to realize that a raw (albeit talented) DB starting in the SEC against seasoned WR’s and QB’s is going to have issues.
Now I am sure someone will say…”well the offenses we played weren’t good passing teams”…the NFL disagrees as many of our DB’s are now on NFL rosters…Brandon Boykin anyone?
It occured to me…we all want the same thing. We all love the Dawgs..so any one of you that I’ve offended with any snarkiness..I apologize.
I believe we’ll be pleased this time next year. I believe. I believe…I bel
Yes…”we all want the same thing.” AND we got it this year. Richt beat the hated Spurrier! I think we all can agree on that one!
My take. 5 losses. 2 back to back just after the injuries hit the O. Both to 2 good teams. Can see the coaches transitioning during that period Come close to losing at UT but their mistake saved us. Then drop a game in hand to Auburn on a deep pass. On the road against Nebraska and a deep pass buries us.
continue. 4 of the 5 were on the road against teams who ended the season with winning records and all in bowls post 13. But watching Bama last evening this thought just kept coming to mind. Bama you look and play like us. Stop the mistakes and take control. Bama with all those stars and coaches.
continue. All those players at Bama with big game experience, played like we do in big games. OU, had an edge other than preparation, game plan, and coaches. They had a 2 players who had written all over them this attitude…we are not going to lose and we are going to leave it all on the field.
At times Murray was that guy. He was that guy in the SECGC, UT, AU, and in other places. But no one else on offense moved with him. No one on defense even came close. We have not had that guy on defense since when. Thought Jarvis Jones would be. Nope.Failed in SECCG. JH-C could b e that guy.
If, if, if. If Gurley didn’t hurt his ankle. If ACLs didn’t pop all over the place. Etc.
But “IF” cuts both ways. What if we didn’t have the most prolific QB in SEC history? Or that he hadn’t returned for his senior year? The greatest UGA RB since 34? The most resilient team I’ve ever seen?
We can’t reasonably expect to ever have a combo as good as Murray and Gurley again. I’m not saying it won’t happen…but man have we been lucky the last couple years.
What we can reasonably expect: if the defense has loads of experienced-NFL talent, it will be ok. And if it has a lot of in-experienced NFL talent, it will be ok. That is not good enough…not with the talent and resources UGA has.
Let me add this before any rebuttal. I thought the defense played it’s best game of the year, and they’re not the reason we lost. But how long has it been since we’ve won because of them? MSU had about 10 of those wins this year.
*That MSU from Michigan
Why do fans have to be the ones “calling for heads?”
The biggest problem with Richt has never been his coaching, recruiting, or ability to make his players care/try hard. His problem has always been refusing to fire coaches who underperform.
Willie.
Van Halanger.
CTG.
Friend.
For example, I would be fine with Richt saying this:
“I have decided to keep the entire staff for 2014, but if we aren’t lights out then we’re going to make a lot of replacements.”
Other great coaches say stuff like that all the time. “If XXXXX can’t get it done then we’ll find someone who can.”
Put some feet to the fire.
Hold some people accountable for christ sakes.
C’mon, Muck. You can hold coaches accountable without doing so publicly. The only reason to go public is to mollify disgruntled fans like yourself.
Do you really think he holds them accountable privately?
It sure as hell doesn’t seem like it.
And the way he clings to coaches way beyond their spoilage date seems to indicate that.
He basically has to be forced to fire them.
And when he was forced to “fire” VanHalanger, instead he gave him a promotion to a cush office job.
That kind of management kills organizations.
When people see so many other folks keeping their jobs despite shit performance, it is demotivates them. It makes them think nothing matters, performance doesn’t matter.
This reminds me of something in the news lately…how long do you keep a coach who isn’t getting it done on the staff (head coach or otherwise)? A lot of noise has been made about the Browns firing Rob Chudzinski after only one year. I value stability (especially when you have a coach like Richt), but Chudzinski is not Richt.
If the Browns had hired a Parcells, or Belicheck (again), or some other home run as HC, I’d agree with all the pundits I’ve heard bashing the Browns. But we’re not close enough to judge the situation, so let’s just say that it was clear to management Chud wasn’t the right person for the job. If that’s the case, he has to go. Management’s responsibility is to the owner, the players, the TEAM… and not to the coach (especially since he’s still getting paid). And waiting a couple years just so you can be loyal and “stable” (while underachieving) doesn’t make any sense.
Just my $0.02.
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Mack Brown and CMR have the same number of wins since 2007. (Including 4 bowl wins) The difference is that Texas as 3 conference championships and a National Championship. Oh yeah, Texas also showed Mack Brown the door — you have to WIN @ Texas. CMR tells us that he and ALL the coaches are coming back in 2014. Complacency is the enemy of progress.
I believe Texas has 2 conference championships, not 3 in Mack’s career. Since 2001(CMR’s first year), Texas has just 5 more victories than UGA. In that same timeframe, Brown has 5 division titles, Richt has 6 plus a tie. Mack’s BCS Championship came in 2005 aided by Heisman winner Vince Young. Richt does not have a MNC nor Heisman winner at UGA as head coach (but as OC at FSU, Richt has two MNC’s and two Heisman winning QB’s). Brown is 9 years older than Richt.
Both have served their employers with class, dignity, and revitalized programs that were suffering. One has now been forced out after failing to meet expectations 4 years in a row. The other is the subject of arm-chair psychoanalysis, ridicule and a belief by many in the team’s fan base that there is an easy and obvious solution to replacing him with guaranteed better results, culminating in a MNC, despite a complete inability of anyone to name such said candidate. Incredibly, Mack Brown is one of a limited few with such credentials, yet no one is calling for his hire.
Brown was 54 when he won the MNC. Richt will be 54 this year.
This is such horseshit. There are and have been plenty of possible canidates named. The problem is that half of the fanbase is so terrified about what happened at Tennessee that they’re content losing 4 games a year rather than admitting that maybe after 13 years, we know what we have and where the ceiling is.
If you are perfectly happy with Richt, that’s fine. But don’t fall back on “there are no qualified replacements” because that’s just not true. There is no way with the resources and talent available at Georgia that Richt is the only coach that can win there.
There are plenty of guys who COULD do better then CMR. But is Charlie Strong, for example, worth the risk? As a HC, He has only proved that he can win (actually tie for the win of) a crappy conference two of three years with a potential overall #1 @ QB. I believe there are only a few that would definitely do better.
How about we focus on the low-hanging fruit: over-sign just a little, keep pushing the SEC for a uniform-punishment policy, hire more non-coaching staff to keep up with the Joneses on research & scouting, give Bobo a raise, and dump CTG.
Dollars to donuts not ONE of your suggestions happens. Maybe Bobi leverages a raise, but that’s it. It’s been 13 years, it is what it is. Richt has shown a poor ability to diagnose and solve systemic problems within the program until they reach a point where his hand is forced. Why would we expect anything different going forward?
I agree with you, and don’t expect anything different going forward. I think our solution might be different…if I were the AD, Richt stays but Grantham is gone. And if there’s a great special teams coach (not just a warm body), I tell Richt to make room for them.
You might as well fire Richt as to do that.
Are you saying that because you don’t think McGarity & Richt have a relationship where the AD can tell the HC it’s time to change coordinators?
I think Richt has earned a lot of autonomy, but not complete…and particularly not when it comes to the DC since we’ve whiffed twice in a row.
An AD who dictates personnel moves to a head coach with a 13-year tenure is telling that coach it’s time to move on. It’s one thing for an AD to question staffing and challenge a head coach to justify it. It’s another to pull the trigger on who stays and goes.
No head coach outside of Saban should expect complete autonomy, but staffing is the bright line you don’t cross unless the head coach is in a very weak spot and you don’t care if he remains. Seeing as Richt would get any number of serious job offers if he were to entertain the thought of leaving Athens, he’s not in that position.
You certainly don’t want an AD under-cutting Richt publicly. It all has to be discussed privately, and Richt convinced to do the right thing for the program.
If Richt drew a line in the sand to protect an under-performing DC or position? I’d probably keep him on. But structurally, if you have a great – but too loyal – HC, you need an AD with the power to make tough calls. Tough to do when the HC is making more than the AD, so we’re stuck for another year.
The implication that because many feel he is as qualified as any other available coach to lead this team is somehow settling for mediocrity is the real horseshit. Last season alone defies your prognostication that we’ll go 8 – 4 from now on. Our record this season is what it is, and if you think it was all Mark Richt’s fault, have at it.
There are definitely other coaches who could do well at UGA and sometimes change for change’s sake can improve things. Getting Richt to replace Donnan is one arguable example. But your 50% of the fan base club more likely believes 3 things than live in “fear” of the UT situation:
Mark Richt is AS qualified to be our HC as anyone else right now
Richt may well be coming into his coaching prime as evidenced by the careers of other highly successful coaches…at Georgia and elsewhere.
Support based on the first two points is NOT acceptance of mediocrity, but a well-reasoned and passionate desire to see this program succeed at the highest level.
So try bringing something more to this dialogue than fabricated statistics and false psychoanalytical insights into the “fan’s” mindset.
One more time: the issue isn’t whether there are better coaches out there. It’s whether anybody at B-M has the ability to locate, attract and hire a better coach. And if you don’t think the jury is out on that one, you haven’t been following the program that closely.
I’m not disagreeing with this, although I think if the Georgia job opens because Richt leaves on his own terms, we’d probably get a quality replacement. Sexton would see to it! :-). But if we fire Richt, a “dumpster fire” atmosphere could negatively impact the decision making process…both internally and externally.
What I resent is the constant drumbeat that I’m accepting of mediocrity, less of a fan, whatever…just because I’m not convinced Richt’s time has passed. I’m willing to support him on the basis that I think he may be actually coming into his prime. Plus, I just don’t see “the guy” I wish we would go get. If he exists, I’m mercenary enough about the business of professional college football to say we should go after him.
Really, how many home run hires outside of Richt can you point to over the last twenty years?
I don’t understand why that simple question doesn’t sober every person contemplating a change. And, no, that’s not the same thing as saying don’t make a change ever.
If “Homerun” = MNC then you’re limited to talking about Saban, Miles, Brown, Corch, etc. I wouldn’t put Carroll, Tressel, or Coker in that group unless we want to omit ethics.
I don’t think you can hire a MNC, but you can find a quality HC and then all the rest of the pieces have to fall in place in a magical year to have a shot at the MNC. Spurrier is an interesting example…homerun for Florida, and a quality hire for USCar but not a homerun there. Chizik strikes me as the opposite…not really a quality hire, but hit the homerun.
I’m not pessimistic that UGA could make a quality hire…we did with Richt…but it’s foolish to think ANY hire is going to deliver a MNC. Quite a few commentators on here don’t agree with that statement.
Funny thing…if a Richt left tomorrow, I honestly think Mack Brown has got one more good 4 – 6 year run left in him and would fit in well in Athens.
I wasn’t defining homerun at such a lofty level.
I’m totally on board with you here. If Pete Carroll wanted to get back into the college ranks and came knocking at B-M, I’d be tempted to fire Richt. But I wouldn’t be for Gruden or Mora, or 95% of the “hot” coaching names out there. Richt is too damn good a coach to take a risk on anyone other than a slam dunk.
But do you think we could attract a better DC? I’m not saying we’d get Kirby to do a lateral move. But at this point, I’m willing to take a chance on a Michigan State’s graduate assistant (kidding).
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Game day thoughts, Georgia-Ole Miss edition
Okay, it’s go time. A few seasonal stats for your perusal:
For Georgia’s defense, it’s déjà vu all over again. Missouri and Mississippi are one and two in the conference in offensive pass yardage. Missouri and Mississippi are the SEC’s twelfth and thirteenth ranked teams in offensive rushing yardage. These are both pass first and ask questions later offenses. Missouri got off to a quick start last week throwing the ball all over creation and it’s reasonable to expect Ole Miss to do the same. How Georgia deploys its safeties in the first half could be a big deal; Lock had a much rougher go of things after Tucker gave Briscoe safety help on his side of the field in the game’s second half.
Yeah, it would be nice indeed if Georgia’s defense racked up a few sacks today. They’re next to last in the SEC in that department. What I’m really curious to see, though, is how the inside linebackers hold up. Between Kelly’s threat to run and Evan Engram, they’ll really be challenged.
One thing’s pretty certain: if either team gets in the red zone, look for a score. The Rebels defense is 14 of 14 there; Georgia isn’t doing much better at nine of ten. (It’s worth noting that Ole Miss’ offense is a little better at converting than Georgia’s.)
For Georgia’s offense, at first glance, things look tougher this week, as Mississippi is fourth in the SEC in defensive passing yards, compared to Missouri at thirteenth. But when you scratch the surface and look at defensive passer rating, it’s a different story: Missouri is fourth and Ole Miss is twelfth. Ole Miss is the only team in the conference without an interception. Neither team’s run defense has been stellar so far, although Mississippi’s has had it tougher. That being said, Missouri did pretty well loading the box last week. It’s not unreasonable to expect Ole Miss to come out the same way. Chaney and Eason have to make them pay for that, or it’s gonna be a long day.
In other words, expect this game to look a lot like last week’s, with one big difference. Ole Miss’ offense has a lot more experience in its offensive system than Missouri’s did. It’s hard to see how Georgia’s defense doesn’t face some of the same struggles it had in the first half in Columbia. If we can expect the Rebels’ defense to sell out against Chubb and Company, is it reasonable to think Georgia’s defense makes a similar decision with regard to Kelly?
You’ll notice one thing I haven’t mentioned is special teams. If I don’t mention them in tomorrow’s Observations post, it will have been a good day. Unfortunately, I expect them to merit a bullet point or two.
I wrote yesterday that I don’t have a good feeling about this game. I don’t think Georgia is going to be able to maintain the time of possession advantage that’s help power it through its three wins and without doing so, I think Ole Miss, with its more dynamic offense, wins and covers. Call it a ten-point difference. Sure hope I’m wrong.
Consider this your game day comment thread home.
414 responses to “Game day thoughts, Georgia-Ole Miss edition”
I don’t understand all the angst. This is Old Missy. Nothing to see here. Dawgs win, as usual. Let’s look ahead to UT.
Hey, that worked against Nicholls. Barely.
But we did win, amirite?! Look, the staff knows they have to get Chubb going in this one. He’ll have 55 touches if necessary. The upgrade to our coaching staff is on D who know OM well. Take the crowd out early and Eason will be fine. Early stops on D and first score by Dawgs and OM will lay down.
Surprise star of the game…Reggie Davis who has been open deep but underthrown. I expect Chaney sees some misdirection with IMac that will get Davis in single coverage with no safety help for our first TD.
“I’ve got a feeling about this.” /wagging finger.
As my mom used to say, from your lips to Gawd’s ear.
…or we get stomped. Sighhhhhhhhhhh……
Are you watching the game???
From OC to dreadlock Jones in the defensive backfield…we look like ASS
You just pissed off ASS
By the way, reports are that Brice Ramsey didn’t make the trip. PAWWWLLL, who’s the back up punter?
Biggest thing I’m looking for is a general question on offense.
Will we see some significant wrinkles in our offense to throw Ole Miss off and especially to give Chubb some room to work? Or is Smart’s/Cheney’s plan just to show what’s already been done and count on us being more physical and executing better?
Man, Ramsey must be an interesting kid to coach.
He is hurt.
I don’t think Dolly meant it as mean as it sounded. 😉
I took an extra dose of Glucosamine sulphate this morning…I expect to spend a lot of time on my knees.
Because, yes, Aus, it IS ole Missy.
This may be the most important game in the history of Georgia history.
Hang on to yer hats.
Bah. The Ole Miss ship gonna get sunk in the wake of the turning battleship.
It’s too quiet in here.
If CMR was our coach no way we win today….
Sure, and Kirby is gonna make Georgia great again…aight?
RIght on the money. The halftime score is proof we will win a NC soon.
Hunker down!
Pretty good defensive series down there…hard to get to the keyboard from this position.
fooled him.
That was a freshman mistake.
Need to quit the damn false starts.
Going to be long 3.5 hours
Stay calm and Chubb…
we’re starting to move em a little.
We are but that 3rd down call was atrocious.
Again the 3rd down fall is awful.
Dont you dare quit on them Goddammit!!!
I’ll quit when I die. Until then all Dawg!!! 24/7/365.25
I’ll never quit on em’, but what we are seeing today is piss poor management of a top tier program by an administration that was given the benefit of the doubt for far too long.
I hope those that put us here lose every fucking game they ever play,that includes Georgia tech and whatever the Colorado equivalent of that is and fuck you karma Bitchez.
Eason is a gamer, they are out classed and playing with heart. I may drive to Athens tomorrow and buy a Kirby Smart jersey even if I have to have it custom made.
Peace brothers, I’m out.
Lines of scrimmage.
We can not run block. We can not rush the passer. We are toast.
I’m sticking with 8-4. Not changing my mind, no sir.
Just turned the game on and you guys are down 17-0.
Based on what I’ve seen this year, you’ve got ’em right where you want ’em.
I expect UGA to hammer UM in the second half.
You’re very generous..but I ain’t holding my breath.
Totally dominated in 1st qtr. Unable to convert 3rd and short woes continue.
Fire Bobo
Smart called Nicky for advice. “Let’em get a big lead, then they’ll fold.”
Then Nicky laughed after he hung up. “That’s for Maurice, kid”.
Also good to see the D arm flapping again. Sort of missed that.
That’s a pretty good tournament they got going on at East Lake. There’s so many commercials during this game I’m catching a lot of golf..
That, and the game isn’t that good.
Chaney needs to quit trying to be cute. We start leaning on them and we start chucking it again instead. Punch them in the mouth and get back in this.
Cute is all he has. We have no running game.
I saw running game on the last drive. We started moving moving them.
We are 3-8 field goals…jesus How can this fucking be?
3 and 5 with no kicker in scoring territory and we throw? WTF!!!
May as well forget FG’s. Inside opponents 40 is 4 down territory, on the upside Blankenship had good form.
lostdawg3
Gawd do we need a kicker! Lord have mercy on the Dawgs right now!!
I don’t think we ought to attempt another field goal all season.
Glad to see the days of not showing up for important games are gone. And who needs a scholarship kicker anyway.
Eason 3-10
With a pick 6.
Best D he has seen to date and of course no OL
Oh well. Wait until next year…to try a FG.
Eason seems to be overthrowing. Too high and/or too hard.
Off his back foot because rushers are in his face.
a 35 yard punt.
Wasted possession. If we’re gonna chuck n duck throw it long. Please
I wish I could say I am shocked.
Yep want and expect to win but not the least bit shocked
if that’s the kinda day it’s going to be
Welp, I’m outta here. Might as well enjoyed the nice day outside.
This is worse than FSU’s performance st Louisville.
A LOT worse.
Oh boy. This could get ugly. Buckle up.
Could?!
We need new coaches.
That wedding is looking better and better.
Hillbilly Dawg
Ironically, I am at a wedding in Cornelia. Watching this fluster cluck on a 20″ motel room TV and contemplating cracking open this bottle of Buffalo Trace now.
Briscoe gets beat once again and 7 can’t tackle with a wide open chance for a sack. Guess that cost him a cool million on his contract
This has been coming for three games. We have so many problems its almost laughable.
There’s the deep throw I was worried about. So far this is pretty much the definition of us failing in every facet of the game. Let’s see if we can regroup and make a game of it.
Not today I am afraid. Hope I eat those words later but with those big Ole Miss wr’s and getting whipped on both los’s not going to happen.
Athens has a very good Harley dealer. 😀
Punter has the longest completion of the game
D as in Dawg
Here’s where we stand. We are as good as a very good mid major team. Weaker than decent opponents in almost every aspect of the game. Way overachieving at 3-0. Light years from being competitive in big games.
3 perfect throws. 3 drops. Pitiful….
Two of which would have scored.
RedHotChiliDawg
How the fuck do we drop three passes in a row!
Some days are just like this. At halftime, this team will have to ask themselves, “is this who we are?”. Young team. young QB and the roof caving in. The faked punt might help. Oh well, dropped TD pass.
Just dropped 3rd and 8. Just dropped another one. Imac is trying to catch the ball with his body instead of his hands..the ball he caught to beat Mizzo was with his body and he was lucky to hang on to it. A receiver coach should not let a player use his body first to catch the ball. Gotta use those hands.
SONS OF BITCHES! CATCH THE MF FOOTBALL.
I’ve never, ever seen worse receiving.
Nice really nice. We’ll see if we keep fighting here. Show some character guys!
The wide receiver coach sucks.
He needs to tell them to catch it right? Cause coachin’.
Your right the whole receiving corp sucks.
We do miss Ball and BMac.
Ok…here is where we score a quick 21 before the half….
garageflowers
It is imperative that McElroy quit saying “imperative”.
A sack would of been nice instead we start at the 3
Two sweeps, two big gains. This is not rocket science.
Came into today not expecting a win, which is fine. Even imagined it could get ugly, which is has. The only thing worth watching for the rest of the day is what halftime adjustments are made, what type of fire is brought, who asks themselves if they’re going to finish of the 60 minutes. I mean really, what else do we have to look for in the 2H?
Well, we COULD make a field goal.
i thought about that. even texted a friend saying we could work on our kicking game perhaps but..
no. no i don’t think so.
Chubb just tweaked something.
ankle I think
Left ankle or foot
Looks like an ankle for Chubb and looked pretty painful.
My god……. I didn’t expect us to win this game, but this is already looking far worse and far uglier than I feared. 😦
Still don’t understand how Long got the punting job over Ramsey.
Long is more accurate throwing the football.
Read that Ramsey is hurt. Good to see the fake worked without him.
Let’s just work on blocking for the rest of the game. We can’t even seem to get players into blocking lanes.
‘Tis a Charley Foxtrot. We’ve left at least 10 to 17 points on the field, though.
Possibly the worst 1st half of UGA football in history.
counterpoint. bama 08
retracted
Maybe. That one was at home, which hurt..but this looks particularly disturbing.
It was 31-0 at the half that game too. If we can get the same final of 41-30, I would take it.
No way this offense scores 30 in one half
Almost feels like no way they can score 30 in a game … Oh, yeah, they haven’t done it the last 2 games including one against a bad FCS opponent.
I thought Nickels was the worst have seen in 50 years of watching Ga football.
and…they get the ball to start the second half.
Will we able to kick into the the end zone?
the way it’s going, this will likely be our only shot
If CMR were the coach it would be 62-0.
(Sorry. Had to do it.)
Nah…I doubt we would be that far ahead. (Sorry. Had to do it.)
Oh well. I have yard work to do.
And I have moonshine to drink
31-0 we got em just where we want em 🙂
Long for QB!!!! He’s 1/1 for 35 or so yards.
Shameful. Just shameful.
At least we expected this
I expected to lose, not be completely uncompetitive
really. I was sure we were done looking like we were totally unprepared for a big game. We look like a bunch of guys who never saw a football before.
Dude, we were closer to ole miss record of 1-2 than 3-0. How could you not see this coming?
Well, most of us did. Pretty sure Derek predicted an upset. Because, apparently, he didn’t see the first three games.
I did….. Dropped passes, shitty 3rd down calls, sprained ankle oh my.
This looks like a pickup game between a college and a high school.
Wayne the
Man! That was a great little princess birthday party! What’d I miss?
Was this the lay an egg look totally unprepared complete no show? It’s the Georgia way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sad to say, our boys look ready to pack it in.
We actually are this bad.
I think I’ll go play in a tennis tournament. I’m glad I didn’t fork out $95 for this……………….Ugh!
Glad I sold my tickets to my neighbor 🙂
Your neighbor will be blowing his leaves in your yard for a while now.
That’s awesome. We continue to be a laughing stock. Our receivers and db’s are as bad as I’ve ever seen. Ever! I’ve defended Chaney but I’m starting to think he’s an idiot. OL new verse, same as the first. I don’t see how this can be repaired.
Oh it can be repaired just 2-3 years of recruiting the right players and maybe in year 4 we may win the East.
That’s what it would take … unless we went after a mini-Saban and got a Mus°##%#mp. God forbid.
What was that old complaint about not being able to beat a good team. Kirby hasn’t got Bama guys anymore and we won’t have them for at least two more years. Enjoy the 2nd half wish I could still drink.
Now Chubb is probably out for Tennessee
How would you compare this to the Bama ’08 first half? Worse? Better? Same? There’s a lot of variables that are different from one to the next, obviously.
About the same, in my opinion. Except for this one difference: Bama ’08 was a surprise. This is not.
Worse. Bama was a national championship team, not a team that was under .500 after blowing two massive leads. This OM team is decent, not a championship caliber team. Prior to today, couldn’t run the ball. Couldn’t stop the run. Turned it over like crazy. If you saw their first half today, they look like world beaters…but they aren’t. They will be lucky to finish 3rd in the west.
But 3rd in the West would still win the East by a long shot. Ole Miss may not contend for a national title, but they’re a lot better than people are inclined to give them credit for.
Don’t bother explaining that Turd. Its time for all of the shouldn’t have fired Richt guys to beat their chest about how Kirby is such a massive failure after 4 games.
That explanation is irrelevant to whether Alabama was better or worse than Ole Miss 2016.
It’s not who got fired. It’s who we have, and what we were told he would bring to the table. As in: Not this kind of woeful, completely outclassed performance
That wasn’t 81’s point. The comparison was between Ole Miss 2016 and Alabama 2008. Might as well respond by saying the 2015 Golden State Warriors would be second to the 1972 Lakers.
Not worse. You can’t judge the game on what Alabama had and ignore our team. In 2008, we had Stafford, Green, and Moreno. We had way more talent on the OL, as well. So sure, Ole Miss isn’t as good as Alabama ’08, but we had a hell of a lot more talent then than we do now. So yeah, this loss is not worse than the blackout funeral.
About the same, all things considered. We were preseason no. 1 in ’08 and had serious national-championship aspirations going into the Bama game, so the disappointment was greater in that game, especially since we were at home.
However, that Bama team was a lot better than this Ole Miss team, and we look shockingly uncompetitive.
playmakers in space
I’d say Bama ’08 was worse. Our team started the year #1, had the #1 overall draft pick in his junior year, played at home in a night game in an intense environment, and Saban Bama wasn’t quite the machine it is today.
That Georgia team was a helluva lot more talented than this Georgia team.
This^^^
I honestly do not understand how anyone thought something different was going to happen today. If you’d paid any attention during the first 3 games, you could see this coming from a mile away.
We’re a good football team … everywhere except where it matters most: at the line of scrimmage. So we’ll eek out wins against mediocre teams, and lose handily to anyone even remotely competent.
And don’t look now, but we may have just lost Chubb for a little while. Hope everyone’s looking forward to basketball season.
Well there is always Douglas because I don’t see Holyfield playing
Holyfield played as well as Herrien. Our RBs were a bright spot today.
We are not good at receiver or DB. Not even close. Otherwise, right on.
In terms of talent, those groups really aren’t that bad. Especially when you throw in this ridiculous group of TEs. We shouldn’t have any trouble passing the ball. But they can’t get any separation, which I attribute more to coaching than anything else. And Eason’s only got about a half-second to throw the ball because of our shit-stain of an OL. With a great OL, I don’t think anyone would be complaining about our receivers. We need more size, sure, but Godwin was a 5-star, and McKenzie and Davis were both highly recruited 4-stars.
And our DB group isn’t bad either. Sanders, Parrish, Davis, and Smith have all played very well. And let’s not forget that Sanders, Parrish, and Davis were all part of the best passing defense in the SEC last year. But here, too, they’ve looked worse than they really are because our DL has yet to get any pressure on an opposing QB. Even the best DB group in the country will look mediocre when they’ve got to defend for 5+ seconds every single play. Lorenzo Carter is one of the biggest disappointments in recent memory.
Good points. But Ole Miss receivers look head and shoulders and another man on his shoulders above ours. Briscoe is getting abused and perhaps that’s skewing my take. Up front is where it all begins and we are late for the party.
There is nothing wrong with our talent–I don’t care what any of the TV talking heads say. It’s bad coaching that is the problem.
I think a lot of people expected our clear shortcomings to get fully exposed today. Personally, i was hoping that one of those shortcomings would have a good day, like the run blocking…
Either way, i think most reasonable fans were waiting for the other shoe to drop. it’s just disappointing that it’s happening in such an exaggerated fashion.
Turd, I disagree. We are bad in the kicking game, we lack separation receivers, in addition to the LOS problems. Plus it is obvious to me we are still dealing with the new staff and new system, etc.
I am hard pressed to say this is a good football team.
I’ll give you that the kicking game is garbage. But on offense and defense, we’re actually a very talented football team.
We’ve got more talent at TE than just about any team in the country. Our receivers aren’t getting any separation (which I attribute more to coaching), and we could use a little more size at that position. But Godwin was a 5-star, and McKenzie and Davis were both highly recruited 4-stars. Of course, we’ve got loads of talent at RB as well. And he may be a freshman, but Eason’s got all the potential in the world. So I’m not saying we’re great, but we are a good team on offense … just not on the offensive line. This offensive line is the worst I’ve seen in a long, long time.
We had one of the best defenses in the SEC last season, and the #1 passing defense in the conference. The secondary is good. Again, not great, but certainly good. But as I explain above, they’ve looked worse than they really are because the DL isn’t putting any pressure whatsoever on opposing QBs.
If we were better on either side of the line, we’d immediately be better everywhere else.
This. No defensive backfield can hold up when there is zero pressure on QB. Do we even have a sack as a team this year? Honest question.
The #1 Pass Defense in the nation is why we have the phrase, “Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics”. Our pass defense was not great last year. I have written about this several times. Georgia Southern and tech are triple-option teams. Auburn is basically an option team. USCe, Mizzou, Vandy, and Kentucky were horrible offenses. Florida had lost their QB by the time they played us.
The best passing team we played was Bama at #62. Number 2 was Kentucky at #79. We played 5 of the bottom 20 passing teams. Look at our opponents offensive numbers. Last years secondary, like this years, was above average but not great.
Ok, we’re going to play this silly game of “proving our manhood” by shoving Chubb into the line until it works. Had a feeling Davis could be the key WR, but Eason has no time to set and throw. Mental mistakes everywhere, so feel free to blame that on ( insert coach’s name here ). The D looks as lost as ever. Somebody get Briscoe a Southwest Airlines ticket…”Wanna get away?” Rodrigo should give his eyewear to Hamm..maybe that will work.
Please, for f’s sake, treat the 2nd half as a new game. Work on things that need help and don’t get Eason killed or Chubb banged up. Find out who is buying in to the process. Come away with something. No reason at all to let this be our first steps of wandering into the desert.
Where’s the wedding? Open bar??
“Georgia has to get to the 15 to be in field goal range”.
Now the TV guys are getting in on the fun.
thats generous. didn’t we miss a 23 yarder last week?
The frustrating thing is that we had two chances to get into this. On one the play calling on 3rd down was awful. The second 16 and 2 went all butterfingers.
7 needs to finish on Kelly btw.
im not sure any one or two plays really would have changed the outcome of this half. i think it was predestined for us to get beat down, even if we did make some catches or tackles. this was and is going to happen
Ok. I’m going to say that getting to 17-7 changes things but you have whatever reality you want.
we’re getting beat on both lines. burned at corner. zero kicking game. can’t make the open tackles on CK. you get it to 17-7 and those impurities are still there and sink us throughout the rest of the game.
Like I said earlier. I thought at 17-0 we started to open up the running game and then they put Chubb at FB and on another third down tried to throw instead of trying to make it 4th and short.
Then we decided not to catch the ball at 24-0. I think TDs in either spot helps.
agreed. helps. but doesn’t alter this game.
In infinite parallel realities with infinite variations of outcomes on plays this game is getting played out and we’re still losing 99% of them
Calm down Derek. He wasn’t insulting you.
At my bac level I can do whatever I want!!!!
heh. i don’t disagree with that general sentiment of a few plays here and there could alter the game cadence and momentum and who knows from there – i just disagree with that today. i don’t think there’s anything we’re doing right with the sole exceptions of executing a fake punt and that one drive where we got the run game going. so what are we supposed to do? feed the rock down 17? down 24? down 31? down 38?… fake punts on first down?
7 has blown his chances today along with a couple of million on his contract
The first chance we had to be in this game came to an end the first week in December when The J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics refused tomloomfor an experienced head coach.
Carter is turning into a colossal disappointment. I guess he was taking advantage of Floyd and Jenkins.
Nowhere to go but up or out for these coaches and players. Play the second half with class.
TOUCHBACK!!!
small victories
They are who we thought they were.
Nice, lol
Talk about o linemen being downfield on a throw….I thought they were going to call it this year.
Second half is on and our colander of a defense is on the field.
Briscoe needs to sit the rest of the game
Whatever we are, we’re clearly not a team yet. Coaches or players.The cupboard wasn’t THIS bare.
Good God he kicked it 46 yards…..
I think its time to get online and buy something. Retail therapy.
Chaney is a terrible OC.
Hard to single out anyone. Everyone seems terrible at the moment. Hard to believe we don’t have a single O-lineman capable of executing a block.
I need to learn to listen when the Senator says he had a bad feeling about a game.
Now it’s just a matter of whether Hugh wants to embarrass us totally. I doubt we score given our kicking.
Hugh is going to get all he can because the lights are going out when the NCAA finishes with them. He’ll want a good resume when he flees Oxford for another school.
More than discouraging, just looks like we were clueless today as to what Miss would do on both sides of ball.
Lemme see, I am sure recruiting is going great….we got how many commits?
Maybe Richt wasn’t the problem, and maybe Kirby isn’t the answer. But that’s far too incendiary for this blog, so let’s be cool and just shift the topic to something that won’t create so much vitriol.
How about “A vote for Trump is worth it just to piss off liberals.”?
would it be fair to say it’s too early to make that call? at what point can we make that call? honest question.
It serves no purpose to look backwards. The question is now whether Kirby can diagnose the problems and be given the resources to correct them. That’s 2 – 3 seasons at a minimum.
Our Bowl team v Penn State looked better and our offense had more creativity
I guess we can safely say now we’re playing for next year. I said two weeks ago was either an aberration or the canary in the coal mine. Today officially gave us the answer. Other than possibly ULL, I don’t see a sure win left on the schedule and that includes USCe, UK and Vandy. The tech game may be a pillow fight for the Governor’s Cup.
12 players on field the second time. Guess that was Mark Richt’s fault.
I’ve never seen people take such pride in being right about how bad we are. The Georgia Way is alive and well
The pride is in your mind…nowhere else.
Remember what you said about FSU and Louisville?…that’s what we are looking at.
Well Hugh has spoken the humiliation will continue.
Hugh needs to make himself look great…He’s gone from OMs when the NCAA finishes with them.
I guess this may be the year to take my young grandkids on their first visit to Athens. Anybody want to sell four home tickets for a good cause and avoid some heartache?
It’s just bad. There is really not much else to be said. Everyone shares in the responsibility. But I must add that Chaney is an idiot. We are screwed with him running the O. I really believe that.
It figures he would get smart and run the ball when I said that. Of course, I doubt it’s Ole Miss 1st team out there.
Your are a fucking dope.
And you’re 13.
We just caught a pass!!! We just caught a pass!! Man-alive!
AND the refs threw their second penalty flag of the day against OM!!
We are to Ole Miss what Kent State is to Alabama, I guess.
Holy moly.
Not in an absolute and irrevocable sense. But this week we are.
Well Hugh let us have one.
WE SCORED! AND WE MADE THE EP!
And kicked the KO into the endzone for a touchback!
TD against 2nd string. We are cookin now
bryanandrewmartin
I mean, we’re pretty good except for offense, defense, and special teams
Good point. If we can just fix those aspects well be pretty good.
We can’t stop their second-team offense either. Defense has problems beyond lack of talent.
Who are we for in the FL/TN game? Aub/LSU?
I’m personally for Fl and LSU..I hate FL but I hate TN more. for personal reasons.
I always root for the stadium to wash out into the river
I could care less
Old Miss’s miss on a 55 yard fg attempt was closer than our chip shots.
good lord its just the start of the 4th? will the game not END?
I’ll tune back in Monday for all the stories about our lack of talent.
Poor Eason. This is hard to watch.
Bet he wishes he had gone with Mark to the U. He’s got no line and no receivers.
In a couple of years, Miami’s line will suck just like this one
So much for halftime adjustments.
I thought we had a head coach now that yelled at players and showed emotion and stuff. That didn’t help?
Good thing MR and co. put so much emphasis on recruiting WRs and OL before he left.
So how does a coach like Kirby deal with this type of loss? Sure Alabama lost some games while he was there, but never like this. Does he know how to deal with a team that’s been brutally owned? Did he learn that from Nick?
Stay tuned, story at 11.
Next few minutes are pretty important. See if this new coaching staff can get some life back into the team…long season.
I guess Rocky did show up…
Roterhals
Snitker should manage the Braves next year, he’s earned it.
Did you see where Kevin Garnett retired?
I want to hear him explain why he’s kept the starters in, long after Ole Miss pulled theirs.
I’m sure that will go over well at a CKS press conference
So the assholes on this blog won’t be able to bitch about getting shut out.
Because the starters need as much work as the reserves?
vectordawg
We should nickname the offensive line the “Peter Principal” because they have reached their level of incompetency.
Onside kick, score. Repeat 5 times.
KIRBY’S A QUITTER!!!
Good drive. Glad Holyfield got in game.
Only time I got excited all day! He looked tough too…happy for the kid as he has worked very hard to get on the field.
Now we’ve done it. I fear Ga. Tech.
I’d take one of our shittiest defenders(it would be tough to choose) and have him knock Kelly out of the game with a late hit. Cheating POS. That or just have Carter “accidentally” nail Sleaze on the sideline. Cut of the head of the snake. Unfortunately you’d need a sniper to hit the bagmen up in the skyboxes.
Meds generally don’t work if you don’t take them regularly.
Nick Chubb, you’re the man. You deserve much better than this as a final season.
Reality is a bitch…. Out.
Yep…sho nuff.
ended the game on a 14-0 run. not bad, dawgs. not bad at all
Last year MR was mugging on Hugh Freese. This year Kirby got mugged.
I could not stomach the second half, but if our coach did not send #12 to go sit on the bus and cut his damn hair, I quit…
“cut his damn hair” Must be tough, you an out of work barber?
He didn’t and you won’t.
Point is the kid can’t tackle or look back for a ball in the air on coverage. He shows too much “softness”….needs to be benched for anyone that can fog a mirror…..surely we have someone that can compete
Congratulations fire-Richters. Good job. Your insecurities have manifested to an unproven “process” coach. Put your crayons away, Bobo is the next coach for UGA. Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
You are a fucking moron
You are a dipshit
Which is it, a moron or a dipshit?
Thank you for that. Good to laugh.
Thank you, your feedback is invaluable to our institution. Please don’t stop being you.
It’s both!
Go hate somebody else!
Try to get and stay behind GEORGIA no matter the coach!
Hate? You are the one that called me a “fucking moron” and a “dipshit”. I propose you are the one with anger management issues. I assume we both love the Dawgs.
How ’bout em? Nothing sucks like big orange.
Just because I was not sure if you were changing your mind about him being a moron doesn’t mean I don’t support Georgia.
I said back in January that it’d only take one loss for the Richtophiles to pull some shit like this. Right on cue.
Remember the last time Richt went down 45-0?. Me neither.
It’s so good, I can’t even tell if you’re being serious, or if you’re just parodying those folks.
Richt would’ve lost today by 60+.
Congrats on predicting the hypothetical future. You’re so special.
W.T.F… You are literally predicting something as a fact. This is the world we live in…
Go buy some U gear and move on. Most of us have. Richtolytes who needs em. Old news history gone finished what part of that do you not understand.
As for Bobo he cannot win at CSU
I’m def rooting for CMR. If they aren’t playing UGA, I don’t see why any UGA fan wouldn’t.
I would love to see Eason with a CMR/Bobo influence. I think you think thsts an insult? Correct me if so.
Yeah …we’ll wouldn’t take one loss like this for the Richtophobes to start blaming CMC.
…see what I did there? 😉
You mean make yourself sound like a fucking idiot? Then yes, I see what you did there.
It took most of us several years (and in my case, more than a dozen years) to turn on Richt. But Chris here? One loss.
Do you even try to breathe out of your nose? I have a good ear and throat doctor if you want a reference.
Ok, I can say it…with feeling….Gooooooo Gators!!!!!!!
Now we know for sure what we all thought before. We do not have a lot of SEC level competitors. Is Kirby the answer? I hope so. We need big recruits and we need them everywhere… except maybe TE and RB. Let’s make the best of what’s left. Go Dawgs! Beat UT… Chattanooga. 🙊
I have to wonder — how did they all disappear in one year? Weren’t we still having ranked recruiting classes? That what we were hearing in the hinterlands.
Don’t know. I’m just trying to be positive and I’m new at it. We were pretty bad last year, too.
Gotta recruit along the lines. MR was enamored with the shiny, pretty toys.
And averaged 10 wins each season with them!
Yep but really ain’t got shit to show for it but an ongoing argument about whether we should have spiked the ball in the 2012 SECCG.
Sorry, we’ve been out-physicaled plenty in years past, but I can’t remember it like this. Something else is at play. Just not sure what.
“I hope so”
I can’t help but read that with the heavy mouth breathing associated with the fire CMR crowd.
I’m one of them. I stuck with Richt for a long time before jumping ship. CKS has his work cut out for him. No doubt about that.
Congrats on jumping from the winningest coach in UGA history to an unproven Sabah disciple. If most people displayed 10% of the expectations they have for “their” football coach, this would be a better world, free of trailer parks and mouth breathing hypocrites.
Richt would’ve started Faton Bauta today, and lost by 60+.
Faton was playing for CSU today.
45-0. Any other anti Richt talking points you want to throw out to address this direct fact?
Final score was 45-14. I remember a 49-10 defeat at the hands of Florida in 2008. And we had Stafford, Moreno, and Green at that point, so the talent gap was a lot closer in that game. I’d say your wait is over.
Good for you. Note to self: Check with Chris before developing expectations. Also, Chris frowns on trailer park people and is intolerant of differing opinions. We would have whipped Ole Miss with CMR. Keep telling yourself that.
TN Dawg
something, something, something…..annual bed-shitting…..can’t win big games….don’t show up ready to play…..something, something, something…
That was a shit show, y’all. Ole Miss should NEVER be that far ahead of UGA in football.
^ :youknowhesrightmorganfreemanmeme:
Did I just walk to Hell with a broke back, or watch another UGA football game……
This may be the (I sure hope) the lowpoint of Kirby’s time at Georgia. It’s certainly an opportune time to turn the corner, because I don’t see how it could get any worse. Georgia will still lose some (maybe a lot) of games this year, but not in this awful fashion.
How “The Most Georgia Thing Ever”, that this team would be this inept in the one year where everyone was pointing to how favorable the schedule is for it. Shit. All we had to do was field a pretty good team to take the East. Now it looks like we could finish 4th or 5th.
When Nicholls pushed us around, we shoulda seen the bad moon rising.
WE may need to stop and remember the old saying….
“Things are never as good as they seem or as bad as they seem”.
They almost couldn’t be.
We fired Mark Richt to get this crud?
I know, right? At least Richt would’ve had the good sense to start Faton Bauta today.
Couldn’t because he was playing for Co St. today.
Wonder if he was prepped for that game or just got tossed in.
Exactly. 10 wins a year in the SEC is a given. Any idiot can do it. Thank God Richt is gone and ruining Miami as we speak. They’ve looked awful this year.
Gosh, why limit that comment to one post when you can use it forever!
Welcome to America 2016. Look at our self elected politicians. FYI, Panama subsidies many ex-pat living expenses and have internet that can handle watch ESPN.
It may get crowded down there soon. Hot’er than hell, though.
Nahhhh…Poas. Costa Rica. This time of year you would be lighting a small fire in the fireplace at night. Tomorrow you’d be catching trout with a hand line and banana slice and eating them with eggs,and black beans.
Get in the mountains and you’ll never need A/C again. I was shocked the b&b we stayed at this year had high speed internet.
Diversify you investmens and never worry about US elections again.
Yea buddy….oh oh oh ok den
The Lord tells me he can get me out of my mess, but he’s pretty sure Bulldog Football is fucked!
I hope you all show up next week ready to back our team. They need their fans behind them. I loved Mark Richt but he is gone and neither those of us whous supported Richt or those wanted him fired know what the score would have been. I know the team will be working on catching the ball this week. Come ready to be loud next week and if you are negative give your tickets to someone who can be positive.
No no, the coaches are morons and the players have ling hair!!!
Great post Debby
Amen, all the bickering between the different coaching factions has gotten motherf@$#%€g ridiculous. Everyone needs to shut the hell up, take a deep breath, and quite being a bunch of whining babies. Was what happened to Richt right? Not Really. Is Kirby the answer? Too early to tell. Are we lacking in talent in a lot of areas? Oh hell yeah. Everyone needs to put their stupid agenda aside, and remember we all started reading this blog because we’re Dawg fans dammit! Remember that and let’s quit being assholes for a little bit huh?
Well there is at least one Richt fan
Who me? Nope, he lost me, for good, after Alabama last year. While I wasn’t screameing “Fire Richt!” all day, every day. I wasn’t sad to see him go. I was more in favor of hiring someone with HC experience though, but I will support Kirby until he’s had time enough to have fully implemented his system, with his players.
Me too. If things are this bad in 2018, then it’ll be time to cut ties. But I believe he deserves a chance to get his own guys in the program.
No not you lol
I agree. I was in favor of getting rid of MR and probably got a little salty about it on here. I didn’t like what I saw today but it’s one game. And Ole Miss is honestly more talented on both lines and at WR. We all know that they pay players so why shouldn’t they be? Add in some questionable coaching decisions and you end up with a shit sandwich like we saw today. Who knows? Maybe we’ll beat the Vowels next week. Stranger things have happened.
I will be there and will loudly cheere for my team to win.
I’m growing a beard
Well. That did not go well.
Next week is another game.
Like I stated yesterday Senator. Kinda silly speculating about the ” intangibles” when you don’t have the tangibles covered.
Late to the party, but my $0.02: Chubb and Trent would have started for Ole Miss today. That’s it. 2 out of 22 players.
I get it, no one wants to hear or believe that it is a talent issue. But the gap between us and Ole Miss was staggering. OL, WR, and DBs are as bad as they’ve been since the 90s.
It’s time to reset expectations. This rebuild is going to be longer than most people thought, and that was going to be the case regardless of who the coach is.
We are on our 3rd OC and 3rd DC in four years, and were going to be no matter who the coach is.
The talent level will be up again, but it’s simply going to take time and require patience.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/2/4/10914710/college-football-recruiting-improvement-tcu-baylor
Means nothing. Look at the distribution. Look at the 2013 class. Look at the talent that has just left the program. Plus, we were wrong on evaluation on a ton of those players. We have an OL that is atrocious, WR than can’t get separation, can’t block, can’t catch, and undersized, slow DBs that have lucked out by not facing a passing team in 2 years.
You can throw out those rankings, but I know what I saw. Aside from Chubb and Trent, who did you see that was better than their Ole Miss counterpart?
Good point. Bill Connelly is an idiot. Sure, he has his fancy statistics, but we’ve got the eye test. Everybody knows that Richt just used walk-ons for all of his teams. Thank God Smart brought in the greatest lineman in the country in Catalina. If we just had a few more like him, we would be sitting pretty.
Ok, we’ll see, won’t we? We see who all on this roster gets drafted.
Georgia has fared well in putting players in the NFL.
Yes, I’m aware. We’re talking about this particular team.
The DBs are fine. It is the same guys as last year. They are playing as well as they did last year. They are good but not great. When a QB makes a great throw into double coverage and the WR makes a great play, there isn’t much you can expect them to do. We will not see a group of WR like that for the rest of the season.
Yeah, our WRs are WAY too small. They can’t get separation. When they do, they keep dropping the ball. We have 3 commits: 6’2″, 6’3″, and 6’5″. We have probably 2 more slots open. Looking forward to Ridley being healthy. We need Wims to step up.
The OL is where the big problem is. We have an FCS LT, 3 Guards and a 3rd string DT as an OL. Pike is a quality Guard, but is a liability at RT. If we had a natural Center, we could make the line from left to right: Wynn, Kublanow, New Center, Pike, Catalina. That would be better but still less than good. It would be easier to get Catalina some TE help on the right side. We need to find a way to get Sims and Galliard the hell off of the field. Will one of the freshmen step up at Guard? Doesn’t look like it.
“You are never as good as they say you are when you win and never as bad as they say you are when you lose.” That old saying is still true. I am still hopeful that the Dawgs will salvage a respectable season and maybe even win a bowl. That said, I feel the worst I have ever felt about the UGA coaching staff since I started following Georgia football in 1964, This team wasn’t ready to play today–and that falls squarely on the coaching staff. Other than Schotty and CMR I thought our coaching staff last year was pretty damn good. So the powers that be fire CMR after a 10 win season because Kirby Smart (a “son of Georgia”) is about to get hired by South Carolina and we sure as hell don’t want that–the Gamecocks to get our Georgia Boy!! A helluva reason to make a coaching change. I was ready for CMR to be gone, too, but only if the suits hired a coach that would be an improvement. Instead of interviewing Gary Patterson, Tom Herman, or any other proven HC with an excellent track record we hired another Mark Richt–a career coordinator with no HC experience. Well guys, get ready for a couple of years of OJT for our vaunted new HC and his miserable staff of assistants. This staff is terrible. If someone had said to CKS that he can have the HC job but he would have to keep the old staff intact except for Schotty that would have been one thing. But to hire CKS and an entire staff of retreads is a little much to take. Get ready for Johnny Griffith redux. I hope not but it is looking more that way each game. Last season the Senator said that he didn’t want to fire CMR because he was afraid that B-M would f*ck up the hire for his replacement. I felt the same way and said so repeatedly. Boy, those B-M people sure are predictable.
Dude, today’s outcome would have been identical with no coaching change.
The talent difference jumped off the tv from the first 5 minutes. The outcome was inevitable.
Best team $$$ can buy outside of at RB.
Even schotty put Chubb and Sony on the field together. Marinate on that for a sec.
Could UT and Arky fans been right about Chaney?
Chaney is an empty size XXXXL parka.
Lol. +1
Sale was awful but your point is taken
Wow, it took 4 games for the split in the fan base to open back up. We got our @$$3$ handed to us today. I don’t know if it’s talent, coaching, culture or a mixture of all 3 into a witch’s brew of horrific proportions. I had this game as a loss because of home field and an edge at the most important on the field, quarterback. What this game spiraled into was the result of a mixture of coaching and remnants of culture. The coaches appear to be bull-headed about running between the tackles on early downs on offense and refusing to give the line help with rushing the passer (Senator, 3rd and Tucker is coming) in obvious passing situations. The culture of collapsing when things don’t go your way reared its ugly head in the 1st half. I don’t know what the fixes are, but I don’t get paid $3,750,000 a year to figure it out.
I honestly can’t imagine a scenario where the fanbase will be united again.
It’s a bloody mess.
The Richt faction needs to let it go and move on but they just have to say I told you so. Only thing that will shut them up is an SEC title.
I’d like to think so, but I just don’t know. I’m really afraid it’s going to be a split forever. Nothing short of an NC will ever reunite the fanbase.
I thought we had, but it’s as bad as it’s ever been.
Tri, if B-M had hired A first rate HC with experience who could bring a winning staff with him the fan base would be united. B-M choked on the hire. That is what you get when idiots grt to make the decisions. We’ll have to live with this for 2-3 more years then maybe those dopes will hire a real HC next time. What I saw today was Ray Goof all over again.
It is too soon to make those type of calls.
And you’ve determined this 4 games in?
No on BM hired would’ve united the fanbase-I think that’s pretty obvious. We still can’t agree on whether it was necessary or not.
93,000 people didn’t come to G-Day to see Ludicris. They came to watch a scrimmage and excited to see what was going to be different. The fan base including those referred to as Richtophiles or Richtophants wanted to see if this staff was going to move the needle. If you don’t think the fan base had come together, you wouldn’t have seen the dome field advantage we saw on Labor Day weekend.
Many people including the Mayor and myself wanted a true search for an EXPERIENCED head coach. I wasn’t a Tom Herman fan because I hadn’t thought he was at it long enough (I was wrong – the guy can flat coach). I wanted us to make David Shaw turn us and our Brinks trucks down.
I decided to give Kirby a chance when he was hired. He won the opening press conference. He kept together a really good recruiting class and improved it. He’s putting together a wonderful class for this year. He’s trying to instill a toughness into the team that has been lacking in that department for some time. He’s trying to balance winning now with developing a young QB that can be the cornerstone of the future. He has also talked down the talent on this team publicly to the point where I believe he has killed some of these guys’ confidence. He made some changes that I believe are a slap at the tradition here before him (the “dressy” DawgWalk and the elimination of bones as helmet stickers). He doesn’t appear to like interacting with the common folk and seems to take a “I don’t have time for this s—” approach with the Dawg Nation. Some of that works when you come to a place with a record of success. Some of that can blow up in your face if you aren’t successful.
It’s 4 games in. I don’t disagree about preferring an experienced coach, but it is what it is.
Have you seen Shaw and Stanford play? If you think the OL looks bad now, imagine what it would look like in Stanford’s offense.
It is what it is. Kirby is going to improve the overall talent level on the roster over the next 3-4 years. I have no doubt about that. Whether he can translate it to wins is going to play out over time.
But I do believe he’s going to have a much more complete, more talented roster going forward.
I know how Stanford plays. They also do it without 4 and 5 star players at every position but with guys who play hard, fundamentally sound, and limit mistakes. You don’t see Stanford’s classes at the top of recruiting rankings.
I agree … It’s 4 games in, and Kirby is going to get his fair shot. Most reasonable people weren’t expecting a championship this year even with Nick Chubb back. I’m willing to wait and see what happens, but if we see more performances like yesterday, Kirby is going to find his honeymoon to be over quickly. Once you’re on the hot seat, you never get off just the temperature changes.
Hey–the honeymoon is already over. The performance in Oxford did that.
Comments like this are exactly what I’m talking about.
I know some of these richtophants, and they are quite bizzare with quixotic at best thinking.
Kirby could win 3 nattys and they would still make excuses….hell they would probably say he did it with CMR’s roster.
Did Richt ever get behind 45-0? If not, then please don’t “compare” UGA factions. Thank you very much.
31-0 at home w preseason #1 team, #1 overall draft 3 first round draft picks.
35-0 USC 2012 with probably his most complete team
So no?
go buy some Miami stuff. That’s clearly where your loyalties are.
So you have no response. Please just articulate that ahead of time.
PS I’ll still donate to the Hartman Fund despite your recommendation
Richt got fired before he had to play with this shitstrom of a roster he created.
Today was an awful loss, I’m not arguing this. But, given the talent on this roster, to suggest it was worse than either of the games I mentioned is a stretch. Not to mention 2008 UF or 2011 LSU.
We’re not going to agree on it, it’s fine.
Go Dawgs! We may disagree on circumstances, but I’ll always buy a round for a fellow Dawg. I think Kirby can turn it around, but as he says, 6’7″ OTs don’t grow on trees.
Yup, Go Dawgs!
I hope things get better, and I think they can. I just don’t know if the fractured fanbase will let it happened. It’s just so divided.
I don’t think the fanbase is as fractured as you may think it is. As a “Richtophile” who associates with my own kind, I can gaurentee you I’ve never met anyone rooting against Smart.
We all want UGA to succeed, just see things in different ways.
God, I sincerely hope you’re right. I just have been completely disheartened the past 3 weeks.
I totally underestimated the amount of people ready to pounce as soon as things got rough.
85 players on scholly, 10 of those recruited by Kirby. U gear cheaper than Dawg gear so go get ya some.
Dude, Richt lost worse two time I can think of 49-10 to the Gators in 2008 and 41-10 to LSU in 2011. Kirby might never be worth a damn, but stop acting like today was the worst loss in program history.
Do you think today was a good day for the program? I’ll hang up and listen.
Did I say it was? Nope. Just pointing out the fact that we’ve gotten blown out worse.
I’d say it was about equal to trying to fight Bama in the tunnel and then losing by 28.
It was an awful day for the program, but guess what. I think UNC and Missouri are both better than a single team we beat last year.
Now it’s the “no championships, no peace” crowd on one side and the “why don’t you go cheer for the U” crowd on the other.
You’re right, gatriguy, it’s a mess, and the problem is there’s no one who is a leader that has time for this $#!+ to fix it. I’m officially worried Kirby is going to be so wedded to the Process that he’s going to waste every bit of goodwill with the fan base.
Truly the only thing that will fix it now is a CFP berth.
Unfortunately, ee, the guy who should be leading all factions is Greg McGarity. He damn sure isn’t the second coming of Joel Eaves.
It’s a mess. I thought we’d be better than this and all row in the same direction. I was wrong.
I can. A national title.
Derek Ross
Juwuan Briscoe looks way too much like Bryan Evans. Always getting beat, never targeting the ball, and not even making it a fight when the receiver catches it. Do we not have anyone that will at least win some lose some?
Briscoe/Parrish reminded me of Evans/Miller defensive backfield….awful!
I find it quite ironic that some of you who refused to be critical of CMR after years 5, 10, and 15 suddenly are impugning CKS to no end after a mere 4 games….with CMR’s roster to boot.
CMR utterly castrated this program, yet the Richtophants out there want to cast blame elsewhere in a shameless attempt to salvage the rep of their failed leader.
Want me to list some of CMR’s eggs after many years as HC? Give me a break.
Feel free. Just highlighting the fact that UGA hasn’t been boat raced like today since… before Richt.
Once upon a time, Richt was revered for his road game performance. Oh how that gets forgotten.
That was always a little bit of fool’s gold since he never had to play Florida on the road and they were his white whale.
But yeah, those days were awesome.
Richt certainly made mistakes as the UGa coach.
For the last 5 years I was told I liked mediocrity if I wanted Richt to be our coach. What I saw today in Oxford was not even mediocre.
It’s also ironic that the people who constantly trashed Richt after every loss now say “But you have to get behind Smart.”
Well, 15 years and 4 games are pretty comparable sample sizes.
Right. Funny how people conveniently keep forgetting this. If Smart is losing like this in ’18, I’ll be all for a coaching change wand will admit his time as a failure. But to do it after 4 games with CMR’s roster is so pathetic it’s laughable.
You know if you could just shut up awhile about CMR others wouldn’t be so quick to come to his to his defense.
No one is calling for a coaching change after 4 games and I am not calling his time as HC a failure. I am saying he stunk today, he stunk on his own and he deserves to be criticized for it. That does not mean he cannot learn from his mistakes and I hope he does.
I wish we had hired an experienced head coach. Wish we had tried to get Tom Herman, but we didn’t. That means Smart is the coach of my team and I want him to win every damn game.
Blame someone who spent the week 700 miles away from Butts-Mehre for our lack of preparation if you want, but I am not.
Good point. Richt played the long con. He spent 15 years ruining the team. Now, he could have done it in three, but frankly, the SEC is too easy of a conference for that. Even with awful coaching and recruiting, 10 wins is nearly guaranteed. Instead, Richt bided his time and was finally able to build a team of top ten recruiting classes that sucks so much that not even Smart and McGarity may be capable of winning 10 games. And we all know how easy that is!
Well played. Wish I could insert the Citizen Kane clapping gif.
You are a really smart guy, a business success. You know that it is appropriate to evaluate Smart for what he does, not for what someone else did.
Smart is not entitled to immunity just because you did not like his predecessor. We stunk today. We were not mentally focused and our strategy was odd, considering the match ups. Richt has nothing to do with that.
My perspective wasn’t that we lost. It was the manner in which we lost. We spit the bit, soiled the bed, laid an egg, face planted or any other term you want to use. That’s about being resilient & focused and really is what cost the previous guy his job. If we had fought like mad and lost, hey, you tip your cap to the other guy and tell him good luck the rest of the season. When your team plays like it doesn’t have a pulse, it is the coaching staff’s fault. The roster isn’t where anyone wants it to be especially along the lines of scrimmage, but playing hard, physical and fundamentally sound is a choice. This team decided not to do it today.
That’s fair, and very concerning. I don’t know how you change that.
I had hoped those days were over. I’m just not sure from a mental toughness perspective what is missing.
Sadly, old habits die hard.
Boy, That Pittman hire as O line coach is really working out well…
One of two things must be the case. Either (a) he really is the “best in the business” OL coach that everyone says he is, or (b) he’s overrated as all hell. For now, I’m inclined to trust his reputation. But think about what that implies. If the best OL coach in the country can’t keep our OL from looking like a bunch of turnstiles, then perhaps the talent (and strength) at that position is even worse than we all suspected. (Maybe the rumors are true, and the last coaching regime couldn’t evaluate OL talent for shit.) Either way, we’re going to have to be patient and let Pittman rebuild this OL from the ground up.
Ramguy
The Mark Richt crowd must have forgotten the loses to Vandy, a very crappy SC a couple of years ago….the trashing by the hands of Fla the past two years, one with Faton as the starter, the bonehead kick off call against Tech. The trashing by Tenn in 2007(?) when the Dawgs had the players for a title run. The I don’t give a crap expressions on his face.
These Richt people make me pull against UM every game.
What does Richt 2006, or Richt 20013 have to do with whether we were well coached today? Why does the 2007 UT game give Smart immunity from criticism for his performance?
A couple years from now I hope we can all look back on this as an aberration.
But if you don’t understand its going to be a long couple years you probably need to renew your symphony tickets, cause for better or worse we changed coaches, and that’s almost a guarantee of a couple of years in the doldrums.
Yes, you can sit back and say, hmmm Mark Richt won 10 games last year with a team that was slightly less talented than this one, but that would be a pointless exercise.
We changed coaches, whether that made you happy or sad, deal with the consequences.
And hope.
Yeah. We’re gonna have to let it play out for a few years.
Remember, Scorpio, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
The problem is that the Bulldog Nation has been in the hope stage for 36 years now as 5 of our fellow conference members have won crystal footballs (3 of those including our bloodlust rival have won multiple). In some cases, that hope has turned to frustration and now downright anger.
I can’t take credit for that … Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in one of my favorite all-time movies 🙂
Today go 💩
This one is over and in the books. Bootch Please is coming to town and will be wearing that shit eating grin of his when he arrives. We’re gonna need a privet specialist when they leave I think they take half the hedges home with them.
Oh and Florida ain’t gonna be in a good mood when we play .
Gus got a new bus.
Does Tech play here this year?
AHD, when you look at the remaining games in light of what happened yesterday every single game remaining on the Dawgs’ schedule is in play–including U La La. I’m not sure the team I saw yesterday in Oxford can beat UK and Vandy, much less Auburn, UT and FU. Tech, too.
I agree. 4 games in and this season is already on the brink. A woodshed loss in Athens this weekend at the hands of a Tennessee team that will be smelling blood in the water would be disastrous. I’m not even talking about winning a division … I’m talking about respectability. Why do I feel like this is potentially 1989-1990 all over again? I lived that as a student … I never want to go back there again.
Man. Just got in and read this thread. Can’t we all just get along?
When I lurk on the UT message boards and still see people, today, arguing over Phil Fulmer. Is that where we want to be years from now, arguing over woulda, coulda, shoulda?
Does getting along mean ignoring the shortfalls of the program in a game that was supposed to be an early measuring stick? I guess we’re all supposed to give the staff credit for all of the wins this year and the previous staff the blame for all of the losses. That’s not the way it works, and I haven’t seen anyone say the previous staff would have won this game. I’ve seen a team that hasn’t played well the last 3 weeks on either side of the ball but especially on offense. It’s not all players and execution, and it’s not all coaching and preparation. There’s a lot of blame to go around.
If we end up wandering in the wilderness like UT did, I guarantee you we’ll still be arguing about the decisions made in November and December 2015.
Except McGarity and the others who made the bad decisions will be long gone and WE will be the ones left holding the bag.
let me give the “Can’t we all just get along crowd” something to chew on. I don’t care if we as dawg fans can or can not agree on a particular “issue”. I care about who is right/correct and who is wrong/incorrect.. If 60%-75% of the fan base is certain that changing Coaches was the right thing to do , the mere fact that they were a majority did not make them correct ….it merely made them whiny trolls who just KNEW that change would be for the better. Those of us who correctly pointed out that all change is NOT good and pointing out that firing the winning-est (% wise ) Coach we ever had would historically(Phil Fulmer and L , Carr) and statistically be unlikely to produce a superior result were dismissed as Richt lovers . What the powers that be at Butts-Mehre need to be is right…. not popular. What most people with a brain intuitively understood was that the B-M crowd already had a significant track record of not being right about damn near anything. I don’t want to be understood,agreed with, respected or even right. What I want is to win. Our brain trust and whiners have in all probability doomed us to wandering in the Michigan/Tenn wilderness for the next decade. Thank you McGarity. I am officially changing my trivia team name from “Micheal Adams must Die” to “Greg McGarity must Die “. How much can I get for my 25 yard line lower level tickets with seat backs and parking pass to the UT game ? I do not need to watch this exercise in futility.
Ten wins are great and all, but really we’ve kind of been wandering in the wilderness since 2005.
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SEC returning starter numbers
Georgia, at 13, is middle of the conference pack (note that the author defines returning starter as someone who started at least seven games in 2017). Eight return on offense; five on defense. What’s interesting is the complete flip from a year ago at two positions: four returning starters on the offensive line and zero linebackers. Makes you wonder who will be carrying the heavier load early on this season.
The two most interesting tidbits? Alabama has to replace its top six defensive backs and must do so with a new defensive coordinator/position coach. No problem for the Sabanator, right? And Dan Mullen left his successor in pretty good shape, experience-wise, as Mississippi State returns nine starters on offense and eight on defense.
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38 responses to “SEC returning starter numbers”
I’d be really surprised if at least one of those returning OL starters aren’t replaced next year. I’d say that both Cleveland and Baker, perhaps even Galliard, are going to have to fight to stay in the line up. Thomas is the only certain returner on the OL.
Who do you see supplanting Cleveland and Gaillard?
Guard – Sayler, Hill, Johnson, Shaffer, Wilson are all potential starters at guard for Baker or Cleveland. Kindley may be hungry to get his job back too. If Mays is a day one starter at right tackle like Thomas, that gives them flexibity to move Wilson inside and put Cleveland as the back up to Mays.
As far as center you have both Hill and Erickson on campus already and it’s my understanding that Hill can play center too. Galliard is more secure no doubt but it’s not impossible. Ben did it and David probably could have if Ben wasn’t there when he arrived.
Salyer is an immense talent, but he’s not an early enrollee and he needs to lose some weight (not unusual).
I agree that Wilson is something of a wild card. Reports are that the light came on for him mid-season and he was absolutely dominant on the scout team. If Mays is as good as some hint, then, yeah, I could see Wilson working at LG.
My understanding is that Ericson is being groomed for the center position, but probably isn’t physically ready yet.
Overall, it’s probably best to keep in mind that Andrew Thomas is the exception, not the rule, when it comes to true freshmen offensive linemen starting in the SEC.
No doubt, but our interior guys need to stop getting thrown around. Those cut ups we saw of the final game are embarrassing.
It’s a wonder we did anything on offense.
Baker is too small. Cleveland is too slow. Galliard was the unsung hero of the team but he’s still a not so highly recruited DL prospect. It would take a special talent to unseat him, but a guy can hope.
I’m probably just overly impatient about finally having a legit OL. Without Sony and Nick if the OL doesn’t improve considerably, we’ll probably notice. However, reality being what it is, we may still be a year away in that regard.
Getting that close with an undersized LT playing out of position, a too thin LG, a DL reject at center, a huge but not so quick or nimble RG and a true freshman RT really makes me shake my head. If we had any sort of a competent OL, we’d still be celebrating.
Raekwon and Payne are good, but it shouldn’t look like grizzly bears playing with Raggedy Anne dolls.
Galliard was a pretty high prized DT recruit FWIW. I agree with you on the rest of the OL though. 1 year away from a nasty, experienced bunch of large human beings. Bama-esque so to speak.
Rivals had him as a 3 Star. 247 had him higher.
According to Rivals, Gailliard claimed offers from Georgia, Alabama, Clemson, Florida, FSU, LSU, Miami, UNC, NC State, Notre Dame and South Carolina.
That’s not exactly being considered lightly regarded.
You have to take some of those offers with grain of salt. His finalists were us, Miami and Louisville.
A solid 2014 recruit. He’d be in the back of the classes we’re signing up now, if he’d be there at all.
FYI Rivals is the CNN of recruiting sites. The gold standard is 247 composite, and Galliard was a consensus top 150 player in the nation according to 247. From what I remember, the only knock on him was he had to much baby weight for his frame.
I get what you are saying about 247 versus Rivals in total. But 247 has a glaring weakness, to me, they rate according to NFL potential and not how the athlete might be in college, or when they will be fully developed to that HS ranking. Big difference, with UGA take Wilson versus Thomas, or Fromm versus Eason for instance. I hope our guys do well and achieve their dreams if the NFL is what they want, but rating some one because of their frame and raw potential 3 years down the road is misleading to me as a college fan.
willypmd
Our offensive line was a finalist for the Joe Moore given to the best offensive line in the country. That means the committee that votes on this award considered them top 7 in the country.
Your comment that “if we had any sort of competent offensive line…” is incredibly ill-informed at best.
We were good at tackle. My problem was with the interior line in the last game. Did you see Payne and Davis beat them to the punch, run around them and throw them around like rag dolls? I did. I don’t give a fuck what they were rated. They got their asses kicked.
The whole line save Wynn got their asses kicked at auburn.
Son, you’ve lost your mind. Nobody is replacing Cleveland unless Pittman decides to move him to Tackle. He’s cemented in the lineup as a starter.
I do think Baker is vulnerable at LG and believe Salyer will make a strong push to start 3 or 4 games into the season depending on how Baker is holding up. I also think Gaillard will have a lot of competition from Fogerty and potentially Ericsson. Hill is an interesting case. Is he a Guard or future Center? He’d make a heck of a Center, given his girth.
We’ll see. Too damn slow.
Granthams replacement
Kindley could replace Baker, but if Galilard is replaced (without an injury or discipline issue) the OL will be the best ever at UGA.
^This. If the OL improves from 2017 to 2018 as much as it did from 2016 to 2017 it will be the best OL in the nation and we’ll all be dancing in the streets in January, 2019.
Kentucky is bringing a lot back.
Lone Stranger
Well sure, but they are also bringing Mark Stoops back.
LOL. He better hire a staffer to yell “Look out their WR is uncovered!”. That UF game was the biggest FU I’ve seen in many years.
That was a consistent problem the Cats had all season. If they ever get that fixed……
When I see pics or our OL…hungry is the first word that comes to mind.
Remember 5-6 years ago we had the heaviest OL in college or pros, and results were mixed. Hopefully better conditioning and coaching can make big guys good players.
Meh, I take those returning starter counts with a grain of salt. “Starter” has a pretty ambiguous definition. I can already rattle off a pretty good D lineup for the Dawgs: Baker, Reed, LaCounte, McGhee, Walker, Patrick, Rice/McBride, Grant, Marshall, Ledbetter, Rochester, Clark. That’s a lineup with a lot of experience. Same goes for the O: Thomas,
Oops. Hit the ‘post’ button too soon. The O: Thomas, Baker, Gaillard, Cleveland/Kindley, Wilson/Mays, Nauta/Harris/Woerner, Godwin, Hardman, ?WR?, Swift, ?FB?, Fromm.
That lineup might have 2 openings – a WR and a FB. Overall, we’ve got experienced veterans returning at all but a few positions on the team, and a ton of incoming talent. Not a bad situation at all.
Darin Smith
No doubt G-Day will give us all the answers.
NO doubt we will see who the starting QB will be. So there is that.
Not worried about who we’ve got returning. We have some pretty good players filling the gaps. Missouri bringing back 9 on their offense is a little worrying, but SoD running the show should slow it down some.
I think it was a few years ago when Vandy was bringing back the most career starts, and they finished something like 2-10 or 3-9.
When I think of career starts, the first thing that comes to mind is “lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
Alabama lost 6 (too lazy to look it up) upperclassmen that would have played significant minutes this year to early entry to the draft … they’re still consensus #1 in the way too early rankings.
In other words, give me blue chip talent stacked across the board, and I’ll tell you where to stick those career starts. Hopefully, we’re close that kind of reloading.
Damn close, EE. Our offensive line could be the deepest unit in the country over the next few years.
Not having Roquan will cost us three points per game statistically. Think the offense will be about the same with the loss of Sony and Nick offset by the experience in the offensive line. Caveat on offense is once again Chaney’s play calling.
I guessed 31-17 offense and defense statistics last year.
Gonna say 36-18 this year.
So, which is it — three points, or one point? 😉
Ha… think we ended up around 15 actual so that’s what I used… not my preseason guess. Do playoffs count toward totals or should they.
Or should overtimes count in stats. Hard to believe that both our playoff games were ot. Really haven’t thought too much about that. Got to be a stat that lasts a long time.
Chopdawg
With all those OT games, hope we’re not too worn out for Austin Peay.
It’s hard to know exactly how to view this. Experience is always a good thing, but since the SECE was ‘so far down’ this year, the teams with good recruiting classes the last couple of years may not be overly concerned with some of the returning starters.
For the sake of the discussion, we’ll assume the returning starters are an improvement on last season. The other ‘monkey wrench’ is the teams with new coaches. UF brings back 10 starters on offense but they’ll be learning new things under Mullen. MO brings back 9 on an offense that was pretty good (I would have to dig deeper to know if the 2 leaving were impact players).
I have little respect for Vandy or UK, regardless of how many they bring back. Pruitt is a brand new HC in his first year on a team that was bad in 2017. I don’t expect much from UT. SC was solid. The defensive-minded HC is settled in and they return 7 on O and 5 on D. SC and MO may be in the best position to challenge if the ball bounces for them.
In a year where the East was ‘bad’ it’s surprising that there is this quantity of turnovers. You would hope that if you have a bad team it’s due to having young inexperienced players. Now we are expecting a large turnover, not just of players but coaches as well, in a division that struggled. I guess we can expect the East, as a whole, to continue to struggle. With the rotating of players we achieved in 2017 and the incoming talent, our ‘drop off’ will not be as bad as the rest of the East.
I fully expect to play in the SECC game.
The other thing is while Georgia lost some starters many of the backups returning were damn near as good as the starters and got plenty of playing time because of the blowout wins. The Dawgs are going to be just fine. We’ll really miss Roquan though–a once in a generation type player.
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Molecular characterization of Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from pregnant women and newborns at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
Mucheye Gizachew1,
Moges Tiruneh1,
Feleke Moges1,
Mulat Adefris2,
Zemene Tigabu3 &
Belay Tessema1
Streptococcus agalctiae (Group B Streptococcus, GBS) is a perinatal pathogen and a leading cause of neonatal infections worldwide. Serotype, sequence type, clonality, antibiotic resistance genes and surface protein profiles of GBS are scarce in Ethiopia, a reason that this study was planned to investigate. .
Sixteen colonizing GBS isolates obtained from recto-vaginal swabs of pregnant women and body surfaces of newborns were further analyzed. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) test, and whole genome sequence (WGS) methods were done for antibiotic susceptibility test, and molecular characterization of the isolates.
All the GBS isolates analyzed were belonged to four capsular serotypes: II, 11/16(68.8%), V, 3/16(18.8%), Ia and VI each with 1/16(6.3%) and five sequence type (ST-2, ST-10, ST-14, ST-569 and ST-933). Sequence type-10 was the most predominant ST followed by ST-569. The five STs were grouped into the four clonal complexes (CC - 1, CC-10, CC-19, and CC-23). Different surface proteins and pili families such as ALP1, ALPHA, ALP23, PI-1 / PI-2A1, PI-1 / PI-2B, and Srr1 were detected from WGS data. All isolates were found to be susceptible to the tested antibiotics except for tetracycline in MIC and WGS test methods used. Tetracycline resistant determinant genes such as TETM and TETL / TETM combination were identified.
Further studies on serotype and molecular epidemiology will provide a comprehensive data of the GBS capsular serotype and clones available in Ethiopia.
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) or Streptococcus agalactiae remains a leading cause of neonatal sepsis, pneumonia and meningitis, often associated with high morbidity and mortality in Europe, USA, and Australia even though there was a wide use of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP) since the mid 1990s. However, molecular profiles of GBS in many countries outside of these regions was not well documented [1, 2]. GBS causes early-onset neonatal disease (EOD) which is characterized by onset of clinical symptoms during the first week of life (0–6 days) following birth; it usually results in vertical transmission from colonized pregnant women to newborns during or just before delivery [3]. The other form of GBS disease appears in infants is the late-onset disease (LOD) - characterized by the onset of symptoms within 7 days to 89 days of age. It can be acquired from the mother or environmental sources [4, 5]. It is also an important cause of preterm delivery, stillbirth, and puerperal sepsis [6, 7].
To colonize and cause diseases, GBS use a collection of virulence factors; one of the most important being a capsular polysaccharide (CPS) [8]. Human GBS has currently 10 serotypes, Ia, Ib, II to IX, based on serotype specific antigens [9] and the current candidate capsular polysaccharide conjugate vaccines target only a subset of these [10]. A study described that the five most common serotypes, Ia, Ib, II, III, and V accounted for more than 85% of serotypes in global regions that have reported serotype data, including the Americas (96%), Europe (93%), and the Western Pacific (89%) [11], and Africa (91.8%) [12]. A review demonstrated that among the ten serotypes, Ia, Ib, II, III, and V accounts for 98% of the identified colonizing isolates worldwide. Serotype III, associated with invasive disease, accounts for 25%, but is less frequent in some South American and Asian countries, but serotypes VI–IX are more common in Asia [13]. Another report from Iran showed that serotypes V (19.6%), II (12.5%) and IV (12.5%) were the most frequent followed by serotypes III (10.7%) and VI (10.7%), Ib (8.9%), Ia (7/1%), VII (5/3%) and VIII (5/3%); and 7.1% of strains were non-type-able [14]. A study in Ghana showed as serotypes VII (38.5 to 42.9%) and IX(26.9 to 32.1%) were the most common serotypes [15]. Serotyping of GBS is useful to understand the local epidemiology, for monitoring of serotype replacement or capsular switching, and for contributing existing serotype profiles in the area for rational, effective and broad serotype coverage GBS vaccine development [16, 17]. But, there is scarcity of serotype profile data of GBS colonizing pregnant women and newborns in Northwest Ethiopia for the last three decades.
GBS remained susceptible to the beta-lactam antibiotics, but, resistance to macrolides, lincosamides, fluoroquinolones and other antibiotics used as alternative therapy has been reported [18]. Macrolide resistance in GBS is represented by two mechanisms: Target Site Modification by Erythromycin ribosomal methylase, mediated by ermB, ermA, ermTR, or ermC genes which confers cross resistance to macrolides, lincosamides, and streptograminB (MLSB phenotype) [19]. Erm genes encode methylase 23S rRNA, which is responsible for methylation of erythromycin and clindamycin receptor sites in ribosomes [20]. This resistance can be constitutive macrolide lincosamidestreptograminB (cMLSB) resistance, as well as inducible macrolide lincosamidestreptograminB (iMLSB) resistance [21]. The second resistance mechanism that found in GBS is Macrolide efflux pump, mediated by mef genes, which confers resistance to 14 and 15 member macrolides only. In addition, a novel efflux system distinct from the Mef pump and encoded by mreA (for macrolide resistance efflux) was reported in a unique strain of S. agalactiae COH31 γ/δ [22]. Susceptible GBS isolates also showed to possess the mreA gene, and it might function as a housekeeping gene [23].
Regarding the study of antimicrobial resistance markers (genes), a study revealed that tetM was the most frequently (84%) identified in all groups. Macrolide resistance genes were found in a small proportion of the isolates (8%) and each of the three relevant genes was represented as 3.3% ermB, 2.5% ermA, and 2.3% mefA/E. In addition, one isolate contained both ermA and ermB, and one contained both ermA and mefA/E [24]. In another study, macrolide resistance genes were screened and the resistant rate in total isolates was reported as 69.5%. Ribosome methylation genes (ermB, ermA/TR, ermC) were screened in all examined isolates and the most prevalence gene (63.04%) was ermB,and ermA\TR gene accounted 23.9%, but ermC gene was not detected. Findings of the study displayed that the prevalence rate of efflux pumps encoding genes (mefA and mreA) were 8.69 and 69.5% respectively. The study also showed that 14 (30.4%) of the isolates were not recognized as a carrier of any erythromycin resistance genes. One isolate among the screened isolates was harbored four erythromycin resistance genes except erm C gene [25]. Muller et al. reported that resistance to erythromycin and clindamycin was found in 8 and 7%, respectively. Macrolide resistance genes mef(A), erm (TR) and erm(B) were found in one, two, and five isolates, respectively; only 5/8 (62.5%) of the isolates exhibited both genotypic as well as phenotypic resistance. One genotype occurred in 36% of the subset [26].
A study detailed that GBS has different surface proteins such as alpha, Alp1, Alp2, Alp3, Alp4, and Rib. These proteins are collectively named as alpha-like protein (Alp) family [21, 27]. The biological role of Alp proteins is not well documented though they are targets for protective antibodies demonstrated in the animal model. GBS uses alpha protein to invade the epithelial cells by interacting with host cell glycosaminoglycans [21, 28, 29]. Genetic profiles of GBS strains obtained from around the globe is investigated by different molecular typing methods including multi-locus sequence type (MLST) [21, 27, 30]. However, there is scarcity of data regarding to the antimicrobial resistance gene markers plus sequence types and surface protein profiles of GBS in Northwest Ethiopia. Therefore, this study was aimed to determine the serotypes, antibiotic resistance genes, sequence types and surface protein profiles of GBS recovered from pregnant women and newborns in Northwest Ethiopia.
Study setting
It was conducted at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital. Northwest Ethiopia. The hospital serves more than 5, 000,000 people and it has about 450 to 600 pregnant women admission services a month. So far, there is no routine screening of pregnant women and provision of IAP for GBS has been established in the hospital [31].
Streptococcus agalaciatae isolates and serotype determination
Colonizing GBS isolates were recovered from recto-vaginal area of pregnant women at time of delivery and body surfaces of newborns immediately following delivery and stored in deep freezer (− 80 °C). The GBS isolates were randomly picked from a stored collection in a deep freezer. Of these, ten were from recto-vaginal swabs of pregnant women, and six were from the newborns (three nasal, two eye and one umbilical swabs). The isolates were further processed by using streptococci Lancefield grouping GBS latex slide agglutination kits and short-read whole genome sequencing (WGS) as previously described [32]. This study protocol was in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible regional committee on human experimentation and the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975 (revised in 1983). It was approved by the ethics committees at the University of Gondar. Informed written consent was obtained from the pregnant women and care providers of newborns enrolled in this study.
Conventional minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) determinations
Sixteen isolates were subjected to broth micro-dilution testing (BDT) for determination of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) and compared it with WGS-based characterization of antibiotic susceptibility patterns including resistance genes in the GBS isolate. Antibiotics included six β-lactams (ceftizoxime, cefoxitin, cefotaxime, cefazolin, ampicillin and penicillin), erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, daptomycin, vancomycin and linezolid) were tested. A well containing both erythromycin and clindamycin detected inducible clindamycin-resistance, as previously described [33]. In addition, these isolates were test for their antimicrobial susceptibility test by using the disc diffusion method as per the CLSI, 2014 guideline [34].
‘The WGS of GBS was performed at the CDC streptococcus laboratory in the Atlanta, Georgia (USA), and drug resistant genes, serotypes, sequence types, clonal complexity and surface protein profiles were predicted from the WGS data. GBS colonies were cultured on Todd Hewitt Broth with 0.5% yeast and incubated overnight at 37 °C in 5%CO2. Genomic DNA for WGS was extracted manually using a modified QIAamp DNA mini kit protocol (Qiagen, Inc., Valencia, CA, USA). Nucleic acid concentration was quantified by an Invitrogen Qubit 3.0 Flurometer assay (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.,Waltham, MA, USA) and samples were sheared using a CovarisM220 ultrasonicator (Covaris, Inc.,Woburn, MA, USA) programmed to generate 500-bp fragments. Libraries were constructed on theSciCloneG3 (PerkinElmer Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) using a TruSeqDNA PCR-Free HT library preparation kit with 96 dual indices (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA, USA) and quantified by a KAPA qPCR library quantification method (Kapa Biosystems Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA). WGS was generated employing MiSeqinstrument and the MiSeq v2 500 cycle kit (Illumina Inc).WGS-based identification of serotypes employed the query DNA sequences described in the Additional file 1.
To identify the clonality, the sequence types (STs) of GBS isolates were investigated using the seven house-keeping genes: adhp, atr, glck, glna, phes, sdha and tkt by comparing with the standard references available at the MLST 1.8 database (https://cge.cbs.dtu.dk//services/MLST/). To visualize the possible evolutionary relationships between isolates, STs of the study isolates and the globally reported strains were computed using PHYLOViZ software v2.0 based on Global optimal eBURST (goeBURST) algorithm [35].
As indicated in Table 1, the genomes size of the GBS ranged from 2,018,343 to 3,891,488 bp. The numbers of contig in the DNA sequences per genome ranged from 29 to 1797.Of the 16 isolates sequenced, four serotypes were identified as, serotype II, 11/16(68.8%), V, 3/16(18.8%), Ia and VI each with 1/16(6.3%). Capsular polysaccharide serotypes II and V were accounted for 14/16(87.5%). Capsular serotype II accounted for 5/6(83.3%), and 6/10(60.0%) among the neonatal and pregnant women isolates analyzed respectively. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed for all 16 GBS isolates by using MIC. Results have shown that, they were sensitive to all antibiotics tested except for tetracycline to which 93.8% of GBS isolates showed resistance Antibiotic susceptibility test results from sequenced data also showed that all isolates were susceptible except for tetracycline to which the 93.8% isolates showed resistance. Tetracycline resistance was predominantly due to tetM, which was detected alone in the 56.3% of the isolates, or in 37.5% of the isolates in association with tetL. However, there are no genes encoding drug resistance detected for other antibiotics tested. In addition, penicillin binding protein (PBP1A and PBP2X) for beta-lactam antibiotic was not detected in our isolates. Of the surface proteins screened from our isolates, the alpha-like protein (ALPH), serine-rich repeat-1 (SRR1),and Pili, were detected. Among the ALPH families, 43.8% of the isolates had ALPHA, followed by ALP1 (25.0%), and all isolates harbored at least one pilus islands (PI), of which, the PI1/PI2A1 combination was the most prevalent sub-family of Pili that was identified among the 14/16 (87.5%) isolates (Table 1).
Table 1 Molecular characterization of GBS (n-16) isolated at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
The MLST data reveals that the study isolates showed five sequence types (STs), and four clonal complexes (CCs) which are of different phylogeny and is suggestive of different clones circulating in Northwest Ethiopia. Overall, the most common STs were ST-10 (37.5%) followed by ST-569 (31.3%). Sequence type (ST)-14 was represented by a single GBS isolate. The predominant CCs were CC-10 (68.8%) followed by CC-19 (18.8%). Clonal complex 1 and 23 each was represented by a single isolate. goeBURST reveals about 68 clonal complexes from the available datasets globally. The goeBURST diagram shows that the sequence types STs-10 and STs-569, a double locus variant (DLV) of ST-10 (Fig. 1b), from the study isolates was belonging to clonal complex (CC) 10 with ST-10 as founder ST, whereas, ST-2, a subgroup founder, was belonging to the CC-19, ST-14 was grouped into the CC-1, and ST-933 was categorized into the CC-23 (Table 1, and Fig. 1a).
Global optimal eBURST (goeBURST) algorithm for Group B Streptococcus was calculated by using PHYLOViZ softwarev2.0. The figure depicts, (A) ST-933 (RED) was belonging to CC-23 (deep BLUE center) with ST-23 as founder ST, and (B) ST-10 and ST-569 were belonging to CC-10 with ST-10 as founder ST, ST-14 was belonging to CC-1, and ST-2 was belonging to CC-19.The primary founder of a group is the ST that differs from the largest number of other STs at only a single locus (i.e. the ST that has the greatest number of single-locus variants; SLVs). In the goeBURST diagram, the circle representing the predicted primary founder is colored blue and the areas of each of the circles indicate the prevalence of the ST in the input data. The STs that are subgroup founders (ST-2), according to the default definition of a subgroup, or a user-defined definition, are colored yellow on the goeBURST diagram
In addition, Fig. 2 showed that ST-569 and ST-10 were in the double locus variant (DLV), where as the rest of the STs were with the single locus variants (SLV), the STs those which were directly connected to the founder and they differ from the founder by only one single locus or allele. The size of the black dots indicate the number of the isolates included in the specified STs in which the larger the size, the higher the number of the isolates included. ST-14, and ST-933 were 1/16(6.25%) each, but STs-10 were 6/16 (37.5%).
ST-569 and ST-10 showed double locus variant (DLV) indicated in RED broken line. The size of the dots or the diameter of the circle indicates the number of the STs included
As it is shown in Table 2, the 16 GBS isolates were tested for about 15 different antibiotics by using either disc diffusion, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) or short-read whole genome sequencing methods. Certain isolates showed resistance to different antibiotics tested ranging between 1(6.25%) for penicillin to 14(87.5%) for tetracycline in the disc diffusion test method.
Table 2 Antibiotic susceptibility test results of GBS isolates (n = 16) at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
In this study, serotype II represented by ST-10 and ST-569, belongs to CC-10 was the most prevalent colonizer of newborns. It is in congruent with that of a study conducted in Taiwan where serotype II was the most colonizer,4/11 (33.3%) [36]. However, it is different from a study conducted before three decades in the same hospital where 60% were type Ib followed by type Ia (16%) [37]; in Poland, serotype III (35%) was the most prevalent types followed by Ia (20%), V (17%), II (15%), Ib (8%) and IV (5%) [38]. Similarly, a study from Iran showed that serotype III (50%) was the most common serotype, followed by serotype II (25%), Ia (12%), V (11%), and Ib (2%) [39].
Regarding the MLST analysis, we found that the most predominant ST was ST-10 which is quite different from various reports across the world. For instance, a study in Iran showed ST-19 (34.6%), ST-28(21.0%), ST-335, ST-12 and ST-8 each with 10.5% [40], in Japan, ST-17 (29.3%), ST-23 (17.3%0, and ST-19916.0%) [41], and in Sweden ST-19 (23.0%), ST-17 (17.2%0, and ST-23 (17.2%) [42]. The variation observed might be attributed to the geographical variations, the type of study participants involved in which certain studies isolated invasive GBS while in our case is the colonizing GBS isolated from recto-vaginal swabs of pregnant women and body surfaces of newborns. This variation also might be attributed to the limited number of GBS isolates sequenced in our study. The most predominant CCs we found was CC-10 followed by CC-19, which is slightly congruent with the reports from Poland where CC-23 (49.0%), CC-19 (17.0%), and CC-10 and CC-17 each with 10.0% [43], and in Taiwan, CC-1 (28.0%), CC-12 (26.0%) and CC-19 (18.0%), CC-17 (14.0%), and CC-23 (12.0%) [44].
In our study, ALPH, SRR and Pilli were identified. Of the ALPH families, ALPHA was found to be the predominant surface protein followed by ALP1. All our isolates carried SRR1, a glycoprotein that may play an important role in crossing the blood brain-barrier (BBB) and for the development of streptococcal meningitis [45, 46]. Serine-rich repeat proteins also help to promote initial contact of GBS with host epithelium, cervical and vaginal attachment [47] which result in GBS cervicovaginal colonization and provide a survival benefit in the vaginal mucosa. In addition, three forms of pilus proteins (PI-1 / PI-2A1, PI-1 / PI-2B, and PI-1 / PI-2A3) were identified in our study. A study showed that pilus vaccine containing the PI-1, PI-2a, and PI-2b elicited good opsonophagocytic antibodies that confer protection in mice and this suggested that pilus components of GBS are highly immunogenic [48, 49]. It implies that increasing our knowledge about the profiles of the pilus island (PI) among GBS isolates obtained from different geographic locations is useful for future efforts that aimed at the development of maternal GBS vaccines from bacterial protein components (pilus-based), which were effective in animal models. This variable presence of specific PIs has considerable implications for the development of maternal GBS vaccines which target these bacterial proteins.
The drug susceptibility patterns of the 16 GBS isolates tested by BDI and WGS seem to resemble what is seen in other countries, such as studies conducted in Iran [40] and Poland [43] showed that, all GBS isolates were susceptible to penicillin, vancomycin, and linezolid, Improving the laboratory facilities for routine antibiotic susceptibility tests, mainly in developing countries, should be mandatory.
The prevalent tetracycline resistance was caused by the presence of the TETL.TETM genes. In agreement with our results, a study described that tetracycline resistance was predominantly due to tetM (83.7%) or along with tetL (12.2%) [50]. Another study conducted in Italy also revealed that the tetracycline resistance rate was 62/91 (68.1%), all resistant isolates harbored the tet(M) gene [21]. On the same way, resistant to tetracycline was observed in all 19 (100%) strains and 18/19 (98.0%) was correlated with presence of the tetM gene in a study carried out in Iran [40]. Tetracycline resistance is due to acquisition of tet determinant that encodes for antibiotic efflux or ribosomal protection in gram positive cocci [51, 52].
The limitation of this study was that the numbers of the GBS isolates sequenced were small.
In this study, the MLST data reveals that the study isolates are of different phylogeny and is suggestive of different clones circulating in Ethiopia. WGS data showed that tetM and tetL / tetM were found as the tetracycline resistant determinant genes in 93.8% of the GBS isolates. All other antibiotics tested for by using MIC and WGS methods were susceptible. We found that penicillin is still the drug of choice for maternal GBS IAP. Vaccine formulation would include serotype II, V, Ia, and VI, besides serotype Ib, and III to give broader coverage of GBS prevention across different geographical locations including the study area particularly and in the globe generally since serotype VI was also often reported from the Asian studies. Further studies on serotype and molecular epidemiology will provide a comprehensive data of the GBS capsular serotypes, sequence types, clones, surface proteins and drug resistance determinant genes available in Ethiopia.
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article [and its supplementary information file, S1].
Alpha-Like Protein
BDT:
Broth Dilution Test
Clonal Complex
CLSI:
Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute
CPS:
Capsular Polysaccharide
EOD:
Early Onset Disease
Erm:
Erythromycin resistance methylase
GBS:
Group B Streptococcus
IAP:
Intrapartum Antibiotic Prophylaxis
LOD:
Late Onset Disease
Mef:
Macrolide efflux protein
MIC:
Minimum Inhibitory Concentration
MLSB :
Macrolides, Lincosamides, and StreptograminB
MLST:
Multi-Locus Sequence Type
Pilus Island
Srr:
Serine-rich repeat
Sequence Type
TETL.TETM/:
Tetracycline resistance determinant protein
WGS:
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The authors would like to acknowledge the financial and material support from the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Northwest Ethiopia, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany, and the Institute of Virology, Leipzig University, Germany. We extend our appreciation to CDC Streptococcus laboratory team including Lesley McGee for their valuable contribution in sequencing the isolates. The authors are also grateful to the study participants’ data collectors.
Financial and material support were from the University of Gondar, Ethiopia, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) In-Country scholarship and the Institute of Virology, Leipzig University, Germany for salary, material procurement, data collection, analysis, and interpretation and in writing the manuscript, printing and copying services, and CDC for whole genome sequencing.
Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, P. O. Box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia
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Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, School of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, P. O. Box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia
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Permission was obtained from the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital administrative bodies. After giving a brief description about the purpose of the study, eligible mothers gave informed written consent for their participation in the questionnaire of this study and for their newborns to be a part of such a study. Confidentiality was ensured using code numbers than names and keeping the data locked.
Additional file 1: Whole genome sequencing (WGS) and Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) by using broth dilution method test results of colonizing GBS.
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Artist Rooms:
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
by Tessa Norton
Joseph Beuys, Scala Napoletana, 1985, ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Copyright DACS. Photographs by Jerry Hardman-Jones.
Here’s a bit of cognitive dissonance. There’s a famous takedown of Joseph Beuys by art historian Benjamin Buchloh (originally from Artforum in 1980, reprinted in his Neo-Avant Garde and the Culture Industry, 2000). For Buchloh, Beuys was a fraud, politically simplistic, shallow, and a problematic figure whose mixing up of myth and matter is ahistorical, unhelpfully glossing over the deep historical struggles of the twentieth century. The trouble is, Buchloh’s critique is both true and not true.
Buchloh echoed Marcel Broodthaers, who once sent an open letter to a Dusseldorf newspaper addressing Beuys as ‘Wagner’. Confronted with a German artist in the late twentieth century who was shying away from politically progressive conceptualism in favour of dabbling with messianic presentation and embracing mysticism, it must have felt much too soon for an artist to be skirting so close to what had got the world into trouble in the first place. But the ways of seeing of 1980 are not those of today. Today, Buchloh’s critique feels like a mischaracterisation of Beuys, but it might more accurately be the case that Beuys makes more sense in the context of ecologically perilous late capitalism.
The work on display in this extensive Artist Rooms at the reopened Leeds Art Gallery makes it clear that the myths that pop up in Beuys’ work are neither escapist or evasive. Dominating the largest space in the Henry Moore Sculpture Galleries is the vast, dizzying, Scala Napoleatana (1986), a ladder reaching into the sky, held down by two lead weights. It’s one of the last sculptures Beuys ever made, and since people flow through the linked rooms here in both directions, it’s either the first or last sculpture that a visitor to the exhibition will see. An elliptical beginning or an ending, from either angle it casts the whole exhibition in the context of death and rebirth.
It’s one of several key sculptures, showing alongside extensive posters, drawings and performance documentation, in this impressive survey. There are many works here including Sled (1969) and Fat Chair (1964-85), which exemplify Beuys’ singular aesthetic, the limited palette of material and colour, wood, felt, fat, metal. The same materials recur again and again, a very prosaic dread that seems to have been churned out in some hellish ACME Corporation factory for horror objects. Familiar materials are rendered creepier because of their plainness, the banality of evil. They seem to be traversing some line between survival and destruction; are we in the Shackleton expedition, or a gulag? And then there’s Felt Suit (1970) hanging high up in the White Gallery, which is one of several works that makes a viewer question the reliability of Beuys as a narrator. Felt as a material was described by the artist as emblematic of ‘spiritual warmth or the beginning of evolution’, but the suit, with its lengthened arms and legs, is an uncanny and uncomfortable object. These sculptures make a convincing case that Beuys’ work is a thorough investigation of the trauma of the twentieth century.
Beuys was a green rather than a socialist, a mystic not a scientist; and an advocate for a third way between communism and capitalism. His rhetoric prioritised freedom and self expression over collectivism. It’s fair to say that he wasn’t always on the side of the struggle. But now, as capitalism dissolves into floods and fires, and as the strident atheism that felt progressive thirty years ago now increasingly seems a crutch for white male cultural dominance, Beuys’ work feels prescient. There’s never been a more appropriate time to think through this, and Leeds, a place which more than most has felt the push-pull of twentieth century capitalism, and of industry giving and taking away, is a good place to do the thinking. Abuse and trauma leave traces, and those who have lived through it sometimes echo these traces with their own behaviour, so the presentation which Buchloh found so problematic almost forty years ago now seems appropriate and moving. Maybe he was a shaman, after all.
Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys, Leeds Art Gallery, 13 October 2017 – 21 January 2018.
Tessa Norton is a writer based in West Yorkshire and London.
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Review by Brian Eggert February 16, 2019
Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Miyuki Matsuda, Renji Ishibashi
The cinema of revulsion is determined to cause the viewer feelings of nausea and disgust, the result of which shapes a moral perspective from unavoidable psychosomatic reactions. When the body has an extreme negative response, the mind cannot help but associate that with an emotion or idea. Takashi Miike’s Audition hopes its displays of abject torture will incite the viewer to look beyond its glossy surface and locate a message about gender politics, cultural identity, and seduction. Indeed, it could be argued that the 1999 film, adapted by Daisuke Tengan from the 1997 novel by Ryû Murakami, investigates seduction in terms of romantic and sexual relationships. But more so, it radiates with the seduction of violence—its reputation as the premier Japanese torture film of the New Asian Cinema movement is undeniable after the slow-burning structure takes 90 minutes to reach a horrific, unforgettable finale. Although it’s shocking and thought-provoking, Audition uses its excessive violence not to evoke a clear intellectual response but to sear revolting images on the viewer’s brain. Using piano wire to cut into its themes, the film allows for countless interpretations, which is normally an exciting trait about any film. But Miike never instills a moral imperative, and the only thing certain about his film is its fascination with grotesque violence.
Miike got his start in Japan making bloody direct-to-video horror and yakuza movies with titles like A Human Murder Weapon (1992) and The Way to Fight (1996). Though he’s also responsible for adapting Japanese manga and creating pop-star showpieces, his penchant for gory utlra-violence and stylistic surface polish has led to scholars arguing that there’s something beneath the surface. But Miike operates in what writer Aaron Gerow calls “cinematic and narrative excesses,” a familiar quality of New Asian Cinema as it ensures the outcome will not be ignored. If the violence is graphic enough that people talk about it, word-of-mouth spreads. This model has provided successful, guaranteeing financial returns, especially when such violent Asian films were marketed in the West as “Asian Extreme” and garnered a cult following. With films ranging from the splatterfest Ichi the Killer (2001) to the historical samurai actioner 13 Assassins (2010), Miike resists falling into a stable category, but he’s not embracing high artistic ambitions either. As Gerow notes, Miike’s films “cannot take a stand against a particular cinema or social issue, and thus fall into cynical ‘anything goes’ pessimism.”
Audition articulates the notion that Miike doesn’t have an ideological stance, per se, yet he makes films about characters and situations that cannot be ignored. Though much of the film opens with a critique of masculinity and female oppression in Japanese society, any hope at a coherent message is strained by the final scenes. The story follows widower Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) and his teenaged son Shigehiko (Tetsu Sawaki). Aoyama has been alone for several years and wants to remarry. But he suffers from a common condition: “All Japanese are lonely,” he remarks. Loneliness, and the inability to communicate with women, is a shared trait among Japanese men according to Aoyama, which is why his sleazy coworker Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura) arranges a casting call for a faux TV movie, and unbeknownst to those who audition, they’ll be in the running to become Aoyama’s new wife. Yoshikawa hands Aoyama a stack of résumés and tells him to choose 30 to audition, and Aoyama proceeds to look through them, or their headshots anyway. “It’s like buying a car,” Yoshikawa insists. After making his selections, we see them displayed in a montage in which Yoshikawa and Aoyama ask the female candidates a series of humiliating questions about their experience acting, time in front of a camera, and knowledge of the sex industry.
Aoyama is drawn to Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina), her fatalistic views on life, and her demure beauty. Although inconsistencies on her résumé raise a warning flag with Yoshikawa, Aoyama nonetheless plans to court her. Meantime, Miike cuts to Asami waiting by the phone in her empty apartment. The viewer spies a large tied sack in the background. Asami sits like a dormant insect, her body hunched until she smiles from behind her draped hair when the phone rings. She knows it’s Aoyama calling. If that weren’t enough to raise our suspicions, something inside of the sack moves. Is it an animal? A person, perhaps? Any possibility is too scary to consider. After an initial rendezvous, Aoyama plans to propose during a weekend getaway, but Asami suddenly disappears, and he begins a search. Using the information on her résumé as a guide, he learns several disturbing details about Asami’s past, from the lies she’s told to the potential carnage she’s caused.
The film culminates when she arrives at his home, and Miike shoots her arrival like a Deadite racing through the forest in The Evil Dead (1981). Clad in a leather getup and armed with a syringe and piano wire, Asami drugs Aoyama to paralyze him, yet he retains consciousness so that he might “still enjoy the pain.” The most inspired sequence of Audition unfolds as Aoyama hallucinates from the drug, and the psychosexual result pieces together aspects of the plot and Aoyama’s history of female exploitation. It’s around this time that Asami uses the piano wire to cut off his feet. Amid her victim’s screams, Asami loses herself in memory, thinking about how her ballet instructor tortured her, and how, from this source of pain, she retaliated on several men in her life—including one she keeps in her sack. Although Aoyama survives due to a last-minute rescue by his teenage son, the scars of the incident will remain forever.
On the face of it, Audition seems to critique men who abuse and take advantage of women, offering a scenario in which one such objectified woman exacts horrific revenge. If that’s all the film was about, it would be a welcome alternative to the slasher trend of a masked man killing female victims because of his own masculine shortcomings. It might be that Miike offers a critique of chauvinistic behavior, as though he’s saying, Treat women with respect, or else you might create a monster and worse, you might fall prey to her. Notice how, according to Aoyama and Yoshikawa, the traits of a good wife—or further, the value of a woman—amounts to the quality of “her beauty” and “obedience.” To be sure, Aoyama and Yoshikawa exploit women in their casting call rouse, and their behavior elsewhere in the film is despicably misogynistic. This perpetuates Asami’s belief that “all guys are the same,” even though Aoyama is looking for a long-term companion, not an easy sexual conquest. Nevertheless, Audition isn’t a film that teaches its male viewers a lesson about respecting women to reinforce positive perceptions. Rather than a cohesive statement about gender dynamics, the purpose of Audition seems to come from a simple line of dialogue: ”Isn’t it a terrible world?”
The gendered situation in Audition is merely a pretense for Miike’s brand of J-horror, where he indulges in stylistic excesses to shock his viewers. The director employs long takes that dwell on the violence, forcing the viewer to endure excruciating or disgusting moments to awaken a reaction. He shows close-ups of bloody wounds or, in one scene, Asami’s grotesque male slave slurping from a milk dish, with fetishistic detail. Such excesses are not inherently bad or lower forms of art; however, Miike’s formal control, particularly in his patient visuals, tends to suggest that his films have greater substance. But listen to the comically bland score throughout Audition, or the conclusion’s ungainly series of fantasy images and dialogue that suggest Asami’s status as a victim, as opposed to a monster. After all, Asami doesn’t limit her masochism—punctuated by her line “Deeper deeper deeper,” which sounds vaguely like “here, kitty-kitty,” as she inserts long needles into Aoyama’s face—to men alone. Consider Aoyama’s adorable Beagle named Gang, a kindly and unintimidating presence in the household throughout the film. Asami disposes of the dog when she first arrives to torture Aoyama. If Audition were merely a tale of female revenge against male chauvinism, then why kill the dog if for no other reason than pure cruelty? Perhaps this is a good time to mention that Audition was a major influence on the “torture porn” trend of the early 2000s.
Chuck Stephens wrote in Film Comment that Miike is not “a director much given to pensive or reflective moments,” nor is he concerned with “Japaneseness, or the entire churning globe.” There’s a nihilistic streak in Miike’s films, coupled with nasty gore effects and things you cannot unsee, lending his work t0 cult viewership and praise for its many transgressions and revulsions. Even so, Audition is often viewed as a standout among his films because he thoroughly develops Aoyama and delays Asami’s frightening scheme until the finale. Moreover, it has been widely read from both female- and male-positive perspectives—and both would be apt, since Miike doesn’t seem too concerned about his message or themes. Instead, he uses obvious triggers to create frightening, horrific stories of extreme style and content. But it’s impossible to ignore a film like Audition, impossible to look away, and impossible not to feel rapt in the proceedings. Whether or not it bears some larger sociological message is perhaps not important next to the undeniably visceral reaction it arouses, which would not be the case with a lesser filmmaker or lesser film.
(Editor’s Note: This review was commissioned on Patreon. Thanks for your support, Andrea!)
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Analysis: The US Navy’s 59 Tomahawk Missile Barrage On A Syrian Airbase
During the 1991 Gulf War, the US Navy fired 288 Tomahawk cruise missiles at targets all over Iraq. Fast forward to 2017, 26 years later, not less than 59 tomahawk missiles were fired at Iraq’s neighbour Syria. But the difference was, that instead of hitting targets all over Syria, they were all fired at a single unfortunate target. The circumstances and the way these missiles were used raised several eyebrows, and in this article by Defencyclopedia, we will examine the advantages, practicality, and drawbacks of using dozens of cruise missiles against a single target spread over a small area.
ATTACKING AIRBASES: THE IDEAL-STRATEGY
An airbase is a fortified military airport with multiple runways, aircraft hangars, hardened aircraft shelters and underground storage areas for stockpiling bombs, missiles, and fuel along with hundreds of personnel maintaining them. The cumulative value of all the equipment in the base will be worth billions of dollars even in the smallest of bases. Hence these bases will have multiple layers of defense ranging from Surface to Air Missiles and anti-aircraft guns to fighter jets on air defense duty.
The ideal strategy to attack such a location would be with cruise missiles as the first barrage, followed up by airstrikes using fighter jets which would drop cluster bombs, bunker busters anti-runway bombs in large numbers over the softened target. The initial cruise missile strike would involve targeting the early warning radars and the SAM batteries and the subsequent fighter jet raid would take out fortified hangars, runways and fuel/weapons storage facilities.
THE ATTACK ON THE SYRIAN AIRBASE
This attack on the al-Shayratair base in Homs province is said to be a response to the usage of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime against the civilian population. The targets were the fighter planes that dropped those chemical weapons and its support facilities. The below video shows the Tomahawk missiles being launched from US Navy warships.
THE TOMAHAWK MISSILE
The Tomahawk is a long-range cruise missile which can be launched from a variety of platforms, including most ships and submarines of the US Navy. It is equipped with a 1000 lb warhead and the missile’s accurate guidance system allows it to be launched at specific targets and take them out without destroying the surrounding ones. It is typically used to eliminate air defense systems, command systems and other high-value assets. A tomahawk strike is followed up by airstrikes to inflict further damage on the softened target.
Source : LA Times
ESTABLISHED FACTS
The US Military had a direct line of communication before they launched the attack to ensure that no Russian personnel or aircraft were affected by the attack
A total of 59 Tomahawk missiles were ripple-fired in quick succession from USS Porter (DDG-78) and USS Ross (DDG-71) at the al-Shayratair air base in Syria
The base was home to Syrian Air Force MiG-23 and Su-22 fighters. It also served as a forward operating base for Russian Air Force attack helicopters.
The base had fighter jets on the open tarmac and under reinforced concrete bunkers.
No defensive anti-aircraft fire was reported from the Syrian air base
A satellite image of the Al-Shayratair base
THE CLAIMS ON BOTH SIDES
Secondly, soon after the strike was carried out, the US Military was quick to claim that all 59 Tomahawks hit their targets accurately. This is however completely incorrect as no cruise missile has a 100% success rate. For this particular strike, Russia claims that only 23 Tomahawks hit the base and the rest missed or never made it to the target. This adds up to a success rate of 38%, which is again a ridiculous claim.
When Russia launched their Kh-101 cruise missiles last year, they were said to have a success rate of around 85%. The American Tomahawks launched during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq had a success rate of around 80%.
So, if we go by logic and performance history, we can safely assume an 80% success rate in this scenario as well, in which around 46 Tomahawks would have hit their targets.
If we go by the law of averages and take an average of the US and Russian claims, then we can assume that 41 Tomahawk missiles hit their targets.
If we want a far more accurate number, we can take a mean of the 2 averages and come to the conclusion that it was a total of around 44 Tomahawks which hit the target in a practical scenario.
UNEXPLAINED DETAILS
NO OPPOSITION TO THE ATTACK
There is something dodgy in the way the strike went ahead unopposed by the Russian and Syrian militaries.
We have seen reports that recently, the Syrian military fired surface to air missiles at Israeli fighter jets which violated Syrian airspace. this shows that the Syrian military air defense is still alive and kicking.
Hence it is impossible that the strike went undetected by both Syrian and Russian radars in the region.
Since Russia has an interest in that air base, they would not have just allowed the attack to happen.
EARLY WARNING WAS AVAILABLE
Since the missiles were launched from the US Navy destroyers off the coast of Syria, Russian warships would have definitely been monitoring any communications which would suggest an impending attack.
They could also provide early warning of the missile launches for the Syrian and Russian air defenses to spring into action. But none of that happened and the strike went ahead unopposed.
This lack of opposition shows that the Russians and Syrians had nothing much to lose since they had already vacated their important assets from the base.
BUSY AIRSPACE
Russian Su-30s in Syria
The airspace over Syria is pretty crowded with military jets as all major powers are vying for a chance to drop their bombs.
When you fire 59 cruise missiles into a country like that, you need to inform the parties flying jets inside Syrian airspace in advance so that your Tomahawk doesn’t go and smash into a Russian Su-35 or an Israeli F-15.
You need not inform anyone when the whole country is your target, but Syria is filled with targets, allies, and Russians.
To avoid an incident such as a mid-air collision, the US government would have surely informed the Russians and Israelis in advance so that they can keep their planes grounded and out of harm’s way.
This fact was later confirmed by the US govt that they had informed the Russians earlier so that they could evacuate any of their personnel from there.
Any notice like this would be enough for the Russians to tip off the Syrian Air Force to vacate the target base by getting their planes airborne. In that case, any attack would not have had much effect.
THE S400 AIR DEFENCE SYSTEM
The S400 air defense system did not engage the incoming missiles. This created a furore all over the internet and anti-Russian sites were quick to declare the system as a dud, stating that it wasn’t able to detect the Tomahawks, mush less engage them.
But that is far from the truth as the S400 has been deployed at the Khmeimim Air Base for the protection of Russian and Syrian assets at that base.
Even if that base itself was ever attacked by cruise missiles, it would be engaged by Pantsyr S1 and Su-30 fighter and not the S400 system, which would be reserved for longer range and higher value targets.
Also, an S400 battery has around 36-48 ready to fire missiles and it wouldn’t be possible for it to intercept a barrage of incoming cruise missiles since it isn’t designed to do that economically unless equipped with the shorter range 9M96 missiles which are very unlikely.
THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ATTACK
As per official reports, around 9 Syrian Air Force planes, fuel and ammunition depots, a radar station and a few more structures at the base were completely destroyed. The reinforced concrete hangars, runway and other parts of the base suffered minor damage and the base was up and running a few hours after the attack. Here is the post-attack footage from the IR camera of a Russian drone.
You may wonder why those 9 aircraft were even destroyed since the Russians were informed in advance and the Syrians could have easily evacuated all their aircraft by flying them away. But in every air base, there are a few aircraft which would have been undergoing maintenance and repairs with their engines and other critical parts removed. So, these few aircraft would not be airworthy at that time and it would not have been possible for the Syrians to fly them away.
Pictures show that a couple of aircraft in concrete bunkers were destroyed whereas the others were left untouched. This is again the result of a poorly executed attack because if the US had to make an impact, all those bunkers with the aircraft had to be busted. Just taking out a single bunker won’t do much at all.
The damaged bunkers
The undamaged bunkers
The strike using 90 million $ worth of cruise missiles was not the best way to disable an air base or deter the Syrian military from carrying out missions in the future.
The US is more intent on creating headlines than making an actual difference.
All 3 parties, USA, Russia, and Syria are engaging in questionable activities
The Americans and Russians are wasting their time trying to outdo each other and make headlines instead of countering the actual terror threat in Syria.
Unless a common solution is reached, Syria will turn into post-war Iraq (It’s almost there).
Finally, always take American and Russian claims with a huge lump of salt. If they claim success, divide by 2 and if they claim failure, multiply by 2 and you get the actual figures.
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18 Replies to “Analysis: The US Navy’s 59 Tomahawk Missile Barrage On A Syrian Airbase”
Araviee says:
yes strike was more political one than Military one…, on seeing this Im thinking predator drones would have done much better ..,
TimR says:
NPR – I think your forte is in weapons systems rather than BDA or GeoPolitics
There are a lot of inconsistencies and not your usual accurate standard. Also a lot of subjective assumptions made..
Thank you. I agree that my Forte is on weapons systems. Although I write about geopolitical incidents occasionally. Will try to improve myself.
Finally, you made this. Thanks
Make a coffe
Juan Francisco Caba says:
There is one thing you got it wrong on this article and it is the success rate of the Tomahawk on this attack. In this link to a spanish military blog you will see also a examination of this attack, on the pics you will see that the base has only 23 impacts, so what happened to the 36 other Tomahawks???? So maybee this russian claim is not that wrong at all.
http://charly015.blogspot.co.at/2017/04/el-ataque-estadounidense-contra-al.html
There would have been overlapping impacts. That will not be visible in these photos.
Quite a few people have checked the pics and there are no evidence of even a single overlapping impact. Even if all the hits were overlapped there is still the question about the remaining 13 Tomahawks.
The Tomahawk has a 1000lbs warhead, there is nothing on that base that need to get hit twice, also to knock out such a airbase you don´t need that much cruise missiles, according to the autor of that blog you need only 7 Tomahawks to put the base out of action.
V Chandrashekar says:
Good analysis to show the hollowness if the claims by USAF
@abhishekdev001 says:
Little Donny is just playing.
Donald Trump had promised that he would not be engaging in Syria but you know, the temptation of playing with new toys..was just too much.
I hear operations were delayed by 3 hours!!!!
I bet rodents and cockroaches delay commercial flights for a much longer time than this and cause loss of a much bigger capital.
Hey N.R.P. ,
Can we expect an article on S 400 and stealth planes of China and Russia anytime soon?
Is there any appropriate American equivalent of S 400?
And if I am not mistaken the admin of this YouTube channel is guilty of plagiarism.
Thanks for notifying. Its’s a shame to see people copy without giving credit to the source.
Nice to see you have returned, NRP 😉
I sent you a mail for off-topic conversation.
It is my belief that the US has always been considering itself the Global Police tasked with bringing global peace. Therefore it tries to interfere in every small and large scale event occurring on the globe. The result is interference from the other side i.e. Russia. Both try to out-show each other at the same time killing millions of people and destroying quadrillions of dollars which has been a thorn in Human Civilization’s Development.
Its more as if the two countries are playing a ‘Passing The Pass’ game using the Earth and its inhabitants as the ball and terrorism and militants as their boots. These two just want to dominate the world, thus their huge military expenditure.
What they should do is have a defensive military not an offensive one and leave other countries to do whatever they want. US has been one of biggest hurdles in development of humanity. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria are just four examples. There exist numerous others.
This was a poorly executed missile strike in which the Russians and Syrians did cooperate with US. It is possible that US even payed up money to Russians and Syrians to keep their mouth shut. POTUS is just willing to make headlines.
Now that he demonstrated the capabilities of USAF in Afghanistan by dropping ‘Mother of All Bombs’ and of US Navy by Tomahawk strike, I guess US led invasion of North Korea will follow in which POTUS will show what his Marines can do. Possibly we can expect some Russian show off too.
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It’s a fact that global powers are playing with the future of smaller countries. This will be balanced when we have 3 superpowers, US,Russia and China where each one will keep a check on the other.
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The real question is why the US did not crater the runways. 500 kg of high explosives traveling at 600 mph is going to leave a pretty big hole in any concrete runway. Yet Syrian jets were using that air base just three hours later.
My understanding is that the success rate in this strike was well above 90%. Why should it not be when every single piece of hardware and software are Identical?
Trump made a completely lame show of force. A single cruise missile cratering a runway would have been much cheaper and would have sent a much stronger message.Every nation on this planet knows what the US military can do.
Like I said, US, Russia and Syria worked closely is very much possible. I have suspicion that US might even have paid Russia and Syria in order to keep their mouths shut and to avoid any resistance. That’s the reason the US didn’t crater the runways.
The average cost of the current US stockpile of Tomahawks is $750,000. If anyone believes that 1,000 pounds of HE impacting a runway at 600 mph will not cause a significant hole in the runway you are sadly mistaken. And yet those runways were not put out of commission. WTF?
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: MP eating songbirds scandal allows Nik to show softer side
By Patroclos December 20, 2015 November 3, 2016 29 68
Evgenios Hamboullas
YOU HAVE to applaud the DISY deputy Evegenios Hamboullas for his vote-seeking publicity stunt, featuring him at a dining table on which there was a dish containing pourgouri and ambelopoulia. His childish act of rebelliousness may have angered many people but it also provided some welcome light relief at a time of dull and boring news.
You had to laugh at the guy’s crude, but effective self-publicity, which we all thought had disappeared when Dr Madsakis quit politics and became a recluse (we are hoping he will make a comeback if and when the two amigos agree a deal). Nobody had heard of Hamboullas until last Sunday but by Monday he had become an instant celebrity, the law-breaking lawmaker everyone was talking about.
His instant notoriety illustrated the power of social media and also earned him repeated mentions in the foreign press. All hell broke loose after he posted his picture in front of the ambelopoulia and pourgouri dish on his Facebook page with the caption “Soon in our restaurants; happy holidays.”
He did not have to write, ‘I just ate two dozen ambelopoulia, and they keep bringing more,’ or post a picture with a bird on his fork on the way to his mouth to cause uproar. A photo at a table with ambelopoulia in front of him was all that was required to earn his infamy.
As parliamentary elections approach, don’t be surprised to see other Famagusta district candidates desperate for votes doing a Hamboullas being photographed picking a pickled ambelopouli out of a jar as the birds will be out of season in spring.
THE STUNT worked perfectly for Hamboullas. He could not make time to satisfy all the interview requests by TV and radio stations, but he tried to be on as many shows as possible. He had to exploit this golden opportunity and did so very well.
Not only had he given a two-fingered, defiant salute to the hypocrites of the EU that had imposed the ban, but he was also patriotically defending a proud, centuries-old tradition of the country (honour killings next?). He did not stop here in his effort to secure the ambelopouli vote.
He also proposed the repeal of the law and derogation from Brussels, implying we would be successful. This was the message of his caption, “soon in our restaurants,” which was a pretty impressive, empty election promise. He has to say and do everything he can to get elected come May because he cannot again rely on the help of prez Nik, who was instrumental, according to reliable rumours, in Hamboullas’ entry into the legislature.
In the last elections the ‘legalise ambelopoulia’ campaigner failed to win a seat, being edged out by the current defence minister Christoforos Fokaides. Palace insiders claimed that Nik appointed Fokaides defence minister not because he thought he would turn the National Guard into a fearsome liberation army but so he would vacate his parliamentary seat which would go to the next in line – Hamboullas.
The reason Nik did this, according to the scurrilous rumours, was as a favour to his daughters who were good friends with Hamboullas. If this is true, it was very sweet of him and shows what a doting father he is.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL Costas Clerides came under fire from some quarters for failing to prosecute the law-breaking lawmaker especially as the latter had admitted his offence on air and openly invited the authorities to prosecute him. He would not be using his parliamentary immunity to avoid prosecution, he bravely declared.
Clerides thought it was not worth the trouble, telling Tass news agency “the behaviour of the specific deputy is reprehensible and will be judged by the public and not by the court after the lifting of his immunity.” The police had contacted the AG’s office for instructions and was told not to start a criminal investigation.
No explanations were given, but I suspect Clerides did not want the hassle of initiating procedures for the lifting of parliamentary immunity over such a matter, especially as it would be difficult to prove the offence. Could he prove that things in the dish were actually ambelopoulia? They could have been sparrows or models made with play-dough.
And what proof was there that Hamboullas had eaten any? He was not at a restaurant so he would not be culpable if his host served the illegal birds.
Imagine how stupid the AG would look if he went to the trouble to prosecute Hamboullas only to find that things pictured in the plate were not actually ambelopoulia. Unless Hamboullas pleaded guilty in court, becoming a martyr and Paralimni folk hero and thus securing his re-election in May.
Superstar auditor Odysseas Michaelides
PREZ NIK felt duty-bound to become personally involved in the ongoing Odysseus-Socratis scrap. It was not enough that the council of ministers, chaired by Nik, issued a statement on Monday censuring the auditor-general for overstepping his constitutional powers and interfering in the work of the executive, he still felt he needed to contribute personally.
On Tuesday, speaking to hacks about the matter, he adopted a softer line sounding like a benevolent uncle offering his nephew Odysseas some friendly advice. Ultra-sensitive Nik was hurt by the party criticism and attacks in the press over the cabinet statement and decided to tone things down. He also realised that Odysseas is Mr Popular and therefore not a good target for a president that wants to be loved.
There was no question of lack of confidence in the auditor general, he assured the hacks; nor was he interfering in his work. Someone must have whispered to Nik that it would not be good for his public image to fall out publicly with yet another independent state official – he has already rowed with the Central Bank governor and the attorney-general – he had appointed. People might start questioning his choices.
THE AG was also reluctantly dragged into the dispute after Hasikos decided to forward three cases he felt proved that Odysseas was exceeding his powers. The government wanted the AG to give an opinion. What was the point, considering the council of ministers had issued its verdict before having forwarded the cases to the AG?
Now the government faces the embarrassment of being told by Clerides that Odysseas had done nothing wrong.
Odysseas, who issued a long-winded response after the cabinet statement, is also becoming a bit insufferable, perched on his moral peak and acting like he is on a divine mission, answerable only to a higher power.
He takes himself so seriously, he complained in his written rant about ministers’ remarks that “tend to mock the auditor-general personally such as references to superstars, emperors, cannibals, etc.” He should lighten up and be grateful that he has attained superstardom and imperial status from auditing, one of the most unglamorous and boring jobs imaginable, invariably performed by nerds.
THE UPGRADING of Kyproulla’s geo-strategic role that has been peddled by our illustrious foreign ministry officials as a major advantage in need of exploitation has not lasted very long. The news that Turkey and Israel are heading for normalisation of their relations will also have disappointed the newspaper columnists and rejectionists who argued that our developing alliance with Israel would alter the power balance in the region.
There were even reports that the two countries discussed the possibility of Israel selling gas to Turkey, which must have come as a big blow to our regional energy designs and plans. The next step must be for Prez Nik to organise a tripartite summit of Israel, Turkey and Kyproulla in order to preserve our upgraded geo-strategic role in the region.
NIKOS Katsourides, the veteran Akelite deputy who was indefinitely suspended by the commie
Will Kats forgo his retirement bonus?
leadership last May for reasons that were never made public made a speech about the Cyprob during the House budget debate. More of a hardliner than his comrades, Kats did not toe the pro-settlement line of the party in his speech, which is probably why Phil gave it such extensive coverage.
This was the last budget debate for Kats as he will not be standing for re-election. However we hear that his suspension from the party will end in April and there are sound financial reasons for this. By returning to AKEL, the party would be able to take the retirement bonus that would be paid to Kats for his service as a deputy. It will be a hefty amount, probably in the region of 300 grand as he has been a deputy for a couple of decades.
The party always takes its deputies’ retirement bonuses as well as a part of their monthly salary. Whether crafty Kats would agree to surrender his bonus after the way he was treated by his comrades remains to be seen. What can they do to him if he does not? Suspend him again?
WE SAW the human face of the co-ops once again this week when staff staged a 48-hour strike Thursday and Friday to protest against management’s decision not to sign the collective agreement it had agreed in principle with unions.
The strike was called by the militant bank employees’ union ETYK and was publicly attacked by everyone including the PEO and SEK unions. Apparently some ETYK members have sued the Co-operative Central bank demanding wage increments and CoLA for 2014 and 2015 when a wage freeze was in place. Management fearing that if the workers win the case it would have to pay all staff, has refused to sign the new collective agreement.
The co-op workers have a nerve. The taxpayer paid €1.5 billion to save the bankrupt co-ops, no employees were sacked and pay cuts were much smaller than those imposed on most private sector workers, but still they feel hard done by.
THE GOOD news is that the government will put the co-op bank up for sale in order to recoup some of the taxpayer’s money. This has provoked a big reaction from all our state-control-supporting parties which have vowed to fight the ‘sell-off’ of the co-op central bank. However they have mentioned nothing about selling off the “public wealth” as they have been doing in the case of CyTA and EAC. Their concern is that the co-op will lose its “social face” if it is taken over by an investor. It is this social face that cost us €1.5 billion.
WE SHOULD not complain because it is our fault bank employees are so hideously greedy and selfish. Three banks were bankrupt in 2013. Laiki was beyond saving, the Bank of Cyprus was saved by bailing in its shareholders and its customers’ deposits while the co-ops were given 1.5 billion by the taxpayer.
None of the employees of these banks was made redundant and they suffered the smallest cuts, on high wages, in the economy. Their union even forced the government not to impose a hair-cut on the bank employees’ provident fund money that was deposited in Laiki and BoC.
Now contrast this treatment with the Helios tragedy orphans that lost most of the money from insurance payments that was deposited in Laiki and BoC. There were no exemptions for the orphans as there had been for bank employees.
Now the government has decided to pay some of the money lost by the 30 orphans in the haircut but it has not decided how much. I bet if the unfortunate children were bank employees they would have been fully reimbursed.
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Seeing stars: World Space Week launches today
By Annette Chrysostomou October 4, 2018 October 4, 2018 053
Space Unites the World will be the theme of this year’s World Space Week (WSW), launching today and running until Wednesday, the United Nations announced on Thursday.
“Every year from October 4 to 10, people all over the world gather to celebrate the accomplishments of humankind in space exploration and inspire our youth,” said World Space Week National Coordinator for Cyprus George Troullias.
WSW activities in Cyprus include school activities and workshops, astronomy camps, telescope observations and public lectures on space missions and international cooperation.
“Anyone can join the celebration by planning a space-related event during October 4-10 and register it at www.worldspaceweek.org,” Troullias said. “It can be a university lecture, stargazing night, or watching a space movie with friends. Even something as small as a presentation on space to a classroom could inspire a young child to excel in school.”
World Space Week was declared by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999. “Since then, it has grown to be the largest space celebration on Earth,” WSW Association President Dennis Stone commented. Last year the celebration included 3,700 events in 80 countries.
World Space Week is an international celebration of the contribution of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition. It consists of a myriad of space-related events held by space agencies, aerospace companies, schools, planetaria, museums, and astronomy clubs in a common timeframe to achieve greater student and public impact through synchronisation.
A complete list of planned activities in Cyprus can be found at www.worldspaceweek.org/nations/CYPRUS
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Get ready for a new age of empires
James Poulos Daily Caller Columnist
If there’s one thing everyone hates today, it’s colonialism. Liberals associate it with violence, racism, and exploitation. Conservatives associate it with the failed model of European grandeur that we Americans were blessed to escape and bound to reject. For centrists, colonial misadventures underscore their view that we’re so bad at nation-building abroad, we should do it at home. And for just about all of us, it’s impossible to think about imperialism without thinking of colonialism.
Because of that prejudice, we’re misleading ourselves. We think the world’s nation-states are stuck trying to find national solutions to their serious problems. Actually, nationalism is under siege. Its failure to serve people’s needs is fostering a desperate, frustrated feeling that’s caused the use of nationalism to become the focus of massive partisan anger. The sensation that empire would mark a return to war and oppression fuels the West’s panicked bid to make nationalism work.
Actually, today’s social conditions around the world are pushing us headlong toward an age of empires. Nowadays, there’s only one country on Earth — Russia — that can reliably produce grumbles about resurgent imperialism. But even much of that talk misses the important point about why it makes sense for empire to make a comeback.
The Internet helps reveal why. Although the huge movement of so much of life onto the Internet is obviously caused in part by the potential the Internet creates, a deeper driver is the logic of the social conditions that dominate in the flesh and blood world. There’s a lot of talk right now about Facebook. Some argue it’s making us lonelier.Others say something more subtle is afoot.
In a scathing essay at The American Scholar, Pamela Haag warns of a socially-networked future in which loneliness and intimacy simply cease to be the poles of human experience. “Lite intimacies in social media create a background din of disclosure, confession, closeness, and familiarity,” she writes. That’s not “inherently fake or objectionable,” but it is dangerous: online and off, our lite intimacies “might deplete the resources of our true intimacies.”
If the intimate building blocks that once belonged mostly to a domestic partner or family […] now belong to everyone on Facebook in the world of lite intimacy, then how much deeper do we need to go to find the everyday material out of which to recognize, solidify, and build that deeper intimacy? Do we have to scream emotions louder to be heard over the cacophony of the lite intimacy? A mild hypothesis for the new social life of our age: the easier it is to be close but not intimate in public, the easier it is to be close but not intimate in private.
What kind of political expectations flow from that kind of social life? What kind of political arrangements will be desired and tolerated? On the one hand, as Haag indicates, there’s a unified political upshot to our seemingly antagonistic pop cultures of sentimentalism and rage. “The habit of thought that a pop culture of treacle and a pop culture of anger hold in common,” she concludes, “is that we needn’t polish the expression of our private feelings and sorrows into a form that’s relevant and useful, even to strangers and fellow citizens in the commonweal. We can take for granted that our treacle or our anger speaks for itself and presume the relevance of private feelings to public discourse.”
Well, we have taken this for granted. But we also recognize what it’s gotten us — a presidential campaign defined so far by a half-sentimental, half-furious, wholly unserious controversy over which candidate is more anti-dog. The dog moment is a note-perfect collective screech of frustration over the debilitating wars over what our nation is for. The assumption in politics is that policy is the means by which we do whatever the nation is for: hence the phrase “Government is just a name for what we do together,” and hence the mockery of that phrase. You can’t blame the Internet for that. This is an impasse that finds its roots offline.
Does that mean we’ll inevitably turn America into a real empire? No, but the answer is complicated. Typically we think empire is just another word for despotism or tyranny. Sure enough, empires typically feature a single master ruling over all as subjects. But the key feature of empires is that they transcend nations and destroy national identities.
In America, our national identity has waxed and waned apace with our wars. When we haven’t had a big war in a while, our default mode is that of a huge multitude of people who just don’t share a national identity in the same way that Poles or Greeks or Japanese do. Since before the Constitution, this has bothered American leaders who have feared that only a strong national government can keep our multitude robust, inspired, and united. These fears have been overblown. Americans don’t long for a real empire because we already know a different, more decentralized way of flourishing without making nationalism the centerpiece of public life.
For others around the world, that’s assuredly not the case. In much of Africa and Asia, it seems to be nationalism or bust — yet, at the same time, nationalism and bust. Indeed, if North Korea is any indication, the more nationalistic a place, the worse off it seems to be. In almost all of the former Soviet space, mere nationalism is a recipe for weakness and struggle. (Russian nationalism is an emergency stalling tactic.) China, of course, is already an empire. And Europeans are learning just how costly, painful, and dubious it is to continue to flatter nationalist prejudices.
The solution to the political impasse gripping much of the world and much of the West is to give up on fighting over the purpose of the nation and the identity it confers. Americans will consider themselves lucky to be able to do this without gravitating toward empire. For others, empire might well be a salvation.
James Poulos is a columnist at The Daily Caller, a contributor at Ricochet, and a commentator in print, online, and on television and radio. Recently he has been the host of The Bottom Line and Reform School on PJTV and a fellow of the Claremont Institute. His website is jamespoulos.com and his Twitter handle is @jamespoulos.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Best MCU Sequel Since The Winter Soldier!
Ant-Man and the Wasp will land in theaters on July 6, and previous comments by others notwithstanding, it’s going to be much more than just the flavor of the week. Kevin Feige already said that the sequel's events will have a great impact on what happens in Avengers 4. Furthermore, the movie’s main characters will play a big role in what we expect to be the Mad Titan’s final defeat.
Recent initial reactions to the film go a long way toward proving that Ant-Man and the Wasp is going to be quite a hit with the fans! It’s currently on track to achieve a $75 million US debut and a total box office take that will surpass that of its predecessor, which scored $57.2 million in its opening weekend and a grand total of $519.3 million worldwide.
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Check out some first reactions to Ant-Man and the Wasp!
What a year for Marvel! Absolutely loved #AntManAndTheWasp. Stellar ensemble, and the humor is spot on (Laughed myself to tears during one sequence!). The tech is used to great effect yet again. Unique, highly entertaining ride I can't wait to go on again.
"” Perri Nemiroff (@PNemiroff) June 23, 2018
Ant-Man and the Wasp is crazy fun. Very self-contained, but brimming with energy, and full of cool and creative surprises. Super funny, and the entire cast is wonderful. I had a blast! pic.twitter.com/2lCeUGvzHW
"” Eric Eisenberg (@eeisenberg) June 23, 2018
…Don't go in expecting to get answers to questions from Infinity War. The movie is mostly a standalone film, even more so than the first one. That said, you're stupid if you don't stay in your seat for the credits, more so than a lot of Marvel films.
"” Peter Sciretta (@slashfilm) June 23, 2018
Ant-Man and the Wasp is Marvel’s best sequel since The Winter Solider. @EvangelineLilly is one of my new favorite super heroes. @MrPeytonReed knocked it out of the park!! Tremendous movie!
"” Brandon Davis (@BrandonDavisBD) June 23, 2018
Ant-Man and the Wasp = almost Doctor Strange levels of wacky. Also AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. To sum up: ??
"” Phil Owen (@philrowen) June 23, 2018
#AntManAndTheWasp is cool and all, but the end credit scene is the best part of the whole film, and the only thing I can think about right now.
"” Kylie Erica Mar (@KylieEricaMar) June 23, 2018
Ant-Man and the Wasp is super fun AND has the most Morrissey content of any superhero movie. Recommended for both reasons.
"” Albert Ching (@albertxii) June 23, 2018
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Ant-Man and the Wasp will be in theaters on July 6, 2018.
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Addressing the urban traffic mayhem
Zishan Ahmad Siddiqi
The numbers of registered vehicles have grown doubled from 1.8 million in 2006 to 3.2 million and above in recent years. This magnanimous growth is fast multiplying further and mainly due to fastest growth in number of private two, three and four wheel vehicles. Similarly, the data also shows a rapid increase in the number of cargo vehicles. The growth in the number of public transport vehicles is also visible but remains the slowest growing transport in the country. All of these vehicles are bound to ride on a of 0.27 million km long road infrastructure that too has grown tremendously during the last decade in Pakistan.
Lack of adequate massive transit systems is one of the major reasons that causes colossal increase in the number of two and three wheel vehicles – the highest in total number of vehicles in Pakistan
The vehicle to people ratio is not very gigantic and the vehicle to per kilometer road ratio is not deplorable too in comparison with other fast urbanizing countries of the world. However, what converts this simple mathematical equation in to a mayhem is a list of otherwise controllable factors. Failing to address these factors, we experience quite a higher number of accidents and time and fuel losses. Such resulting figures are not only enormous but also impacting severely the health of people and the society. The accidents and traffic congestions are casting individual miseries and causing psychological frenzy at collective level thereby inciting distortion to our societal outlook on – and off – the road. The traffic codes and road ethics are ostensibly compromised and people are seen impacted psychologically. Depression and distress seem encapsulating our otherwise healthy societal mood. Ironically, our transport and traffic management system fails to exhibit efficient planning and management competencies. Any and every vehicle, irrespective of its condition and qualification to set on the road is permitted to join the transport infrastructure. There are provincial codes that bar the enfeebled and overage vehicles to come on the road. However, the traffic management personnel keep their eyes shut towards such vehicles in the [supposedly] spirit of providing poor vehicles the equal opportunity. However, these personnel seem ignorant of the severe impacts these high carbon emission and enfeebled vehicles pose to the transport system and the environment. The usage capacity of such vehicles is also seen compromising the transportation regulations. The quality of licensing people to drive vehicles is also an important factor adding complexity to the challenge of transport management. The standard operating procedures that are laid for licensing do not look as bad as the quality of driving that people exhibit on the road. Most of the people find it a trivial exercise to get a license for themselves and/or drivers. The alternative routes to get a license are more in vogue than appearing and attending the license exercise in spirit. It is only a shortsightedness to think that a license is merely a documentary authorization that permits driving. The result of such mentality is clearly a cause of higher number of accidents. Licensing is indeed a necessity to acquire adequate ability to drive any vehicle and which people must adhere in letter and spirit. The driving tendencies that we experience on the roads everyday need a serious reflection too. The violation of speed and traffic signals; bullying of small vehicles by four-wheel drive vehicles and lacking sense of speed proportion in congested areas are a few of the popular tendencies people chose to opt. Most of these tendencies are spurred by a special uncivilized mindset. People seldom consider that the vehicle they are providing to their immature children and inadequately trained drivers, whilst not accompanying them, could be fatal for themselves first and the people around too but later. These children and drivers often depict a behavior of the sort that as if it is only their exclusive right to drive on the road and every other person driving around must be wrong at all instances. Such a sense of [false] pride in themselves further paves ways to a mindset that enjoys giving a damn to the law and coercing to the people in case someone plunges in a matter of their disdain. A lawless creed thus seems ruling the main urban traffic roads. Unauthorized parking, commercial encroachments and unattended potholes further add misery to the lives of vehicle commuters. The traffic management staff seldom clears roads from unauthorized and obnoxious parking. People too seem quite irrelevant to the fact that their vehicle parked discretely could cause serious traffic disruptions and make peoples’ lives further terrible. Same goes without saying for the commercial encroachers. The shopkeepers rent out, illegally, their front space that are occupied by stall keepers. These stall keepers further encroach most of the space in front of their stalls leaving roads turned in to narrow streets. Rest of the road, left available to vehicle commuters remains ornate with potholes leaving the chaos further multiply. This is a usual sight of every urban center in Pakistan. Lack of adequate massive transit systems is one of the major reasons that causes colossal increase in the number of two and three wheel vehicles – the highest in total number of vehicles in Pakistan. This high number of two and three wheel vehicles is not only an expansive deal for the environmental factors but also adds in to peoples’ vulnerability towards hazards. People accept such a risky deal for that lacking access to massive transit system.
All we need is a comprehensive transport management system in order to meet the requirements of such an ordeal. Such a plan could be developed and implemented only by meeting first the foremost necessary condition that calls for a strong institutional commitment towards providing people a mass transit system. Also, an effective transport management plan would require provincial authorities to a) determine road and town thresholds, b) clearing factors of congestions, c) strict licensing procedures and d) training and monitoring of traffic management staff. Such a program will also need close coordination with the provincial road departments for efficient maintenance of roads. Last but not the least, an institutional crackdown to curb the corrupt practices across licensing, vehicle registration, encroachment removal and traffic management could not be overemphasized for addressing such a transport mayhem.
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Category Archives: Michel Ragon “La mémoire des vaincus’
Anarchism at the Musée d’Orsay
From the exhibition Les temps nouveaux, de Seurat à Matisse, opening October 16 at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, where it runs through January 27 and playing at the Museum of Modern Art March 22 through July 20: Félix Vallotton, “The Anarchist,” 1892. Engraving on wood, 17.1 × 25 cm. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. © Photo Bibliothèque nationale de France. To read more about anarchism — of all stripes — click here to check out our excerpt from Michel Ragon’s novel “La mémoire des vaincus” (The Book of the Vanquished) on our sister magazine the Maison de Traduction or see below.
Lutèce Diaries, 28: Welcome to the Monkey House, or, Headless Body found in Waterless Arena
Jean Fouquet, “The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful against the Demons,” circa 1452–1460. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art. For more information on the tableau, click here.
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“My desire will be happy to learn
what fate awaits me:
Expected arrow don’t hit me so hard.”
— Danté (Paradise, song 17, pages 25-27)
“Well, you know that I love to live with you
But you make me forget so very much
I forget to pray for the angels
And then the angels forget to pray for us.”
— Leonard Cohen, “So long Marianne,” being sung by a busker behind Notre-Dame on Easter Sunday, 2019
PARIS — Here are some of my memories associated with Notre-Dame: Being shocked to learn, from a sign posted on the church’s gates in 2005, that among those who would be choosing the successor to Pope John-Paul was the disgraced Boston cardinal Bernard Law.… Stiffing a French girl I was dating in 2002 to go to an improvisation match between the N-D organ and a tuba, which cued our final rupture…. Crossing the short bridge (its brown iron railings recently replaced with love-lock proof glass) over the Seine in the shadow of the church on which Charles Boyer held a clandestine RDV with Ingrid Thulin in occupied Paris in Vincente Minelli’s 1962 “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” (and above where Gene Kelly waltzed Leslie Caron in Minelli’s 1951 “An American in Paris”) in 2006 with a girl named Charlotte Lejeune who made my heart feel jeune again after seeing Katherine Dunham and Lena Horne in “Stormy Weather” at a cinema on the rue Christine near where Miles had wooed Greco at the Club Taboo and dining on buckwheat crepes and hard cider on the rue Mouffetard, and hearing her declare upon beholding Notre-Dame, “Elle est BELLE!” My initial reaction to the news was that it’s just a thing — no one died in the fire which tore the roof off the 900-year-old sucker last month — and whose significance, like most of the things in Paris, derives not just from the architecture (in N-D’s case, a pell-mell melange of epochs; the same architect whose spire everyone’s now lamenting has been maligned for centuries for turning the towers of Carcassonne into epoch-inconsistent coneheads), historical context, and personal memories but from the allure with which artists have invested them over time. (Following the catastrophe, Victor Hugo’s “Notre-Dame de Paris” soared back to the top of the best-seller lists.) After all, who would give a second thought to Winesburg, Ohio, if Sherwood Anderson hadn’t made it the setting for the first American psychological novel? What made a floating laundry basin — the Bateau Lavoir — the fulcrum of Cubism and the birthplace of Surrealism, if not the alchemy of Picasso, Braque, and Max Jacob that it spawned? Why did this fulcrum migrate from Montmartre to Montparnasse in the 1920s, if not for the ateliers the city set up around the train station and the artists and writers who installed themselves there? What made the Haute Provence so special if not Jean Giono’s lyrical rhapsodies? And the filthiest street in the world a hallowed terrain for urban adventurers if not the imagination and knack for capturing the local lingo of Damon Runyon?
To try to augment my empathy for the Parisians, French, and foreigners who have taken the fire and gutting of much of Notre-Dame’s roof more deeply to heart than I have — “With that woodwork, it was like you could touch history; now that’s gone forever,” one particularly anti-clerical friend confided in me — I’ve imagined what I might feel like if one of the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge suddenly fell off. I’ve also reminded myself that I’m not just the Joe Biden of columnists, so mesmerized by the sound of his own voice that he doesn’t seem to care about the readers who get lost in the parentheses within parentheses never to be heard from again, but a reporter, and that this is my beat. (Or as I reflected on a recent late afternoon while sipping the last of my hot thermos mint tea on a bridge over the Canal St.-Martin where the volunteers of “Une Chorba Pour Tous” — a pirate operation judging by the way they quickly packed up their van and took off afterwards — had just dispensed hot soup and baguettes to the black and brown masses who continue to huddle under the tracks at La Chapelle no matter how many times the authorities clear them out: “Paris. It was his city.”) So on Easter Sunday, after the usual round of skirt-chasing (actually they’re not wearing skirts this season, but high-wasted pants with the ever-present pre-fabricated holes — if Malcolm McLaren were to return to Paris today, he’d find the girls all dressing like his prodigy Sid Vicious and stroking tiny screens instead of live mice — and short shirts or sweaters) and book-hunting and quixotic Dulcinella ping-pong partner courting and having my thermos tea with Delacroix at his fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens (he’s another one: Most of the tourists who pause to take their pictures in front of the fountain have no idea who he was; if I didn’t, would I be quite as inspired every time I sit there looking up at the master of color’s Byronic bust and his Muse’s naked torso supplicating him below it?), I descended to the Seine to assess the damage.
From the recent exhibition at the Metropoloitan Museum of Art and the Louvre: Eugène Delacroix, “Self-Portrait in Green Vest.” Oil on canvas, circa 1937. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Copyright RMN – Grand Palais / Art Resource, New York. Photo: Michel Urtado.
But first, by way of prelude: If I’ve scrapped the political commentary in earlier versions of this piece as it ultimately didn’t seem appropriate to use this catastrophe as a soap-box (even for expounding on pertinent and larger related issues, e.g. as an indication of a generalized lack of official concern for the country’s patrimony which pre-dates this administration, with Nicolas Sarkozy as the exception, his Socialist successor scrapping Sarkozy’s plans for a museum of the history of France), I still think it’s legitimate to cite two issues which have arisen in the debate — and it is a debate — over the appropriate measures to take for the church’s reconstruction.
“It’s a building — We’re human beings. What about us?” This is how one Gilet Jaune or “Yellow Vest” interviewed on French public radio reacted to the news that two of France’s richest families had donated a combined 330 million Euros to repair the church within 24 hours of the fire. Because another fixture that has been eroding in France in recent years, according to many, is the social ‘welfare’ state erected by the National Council of Resistance after the War, the question is entirely pertinent. Or, as the Gilets Jaunes of the Paris suburb of Pantin, right next to mine, expressed their demands in a flyer distributed at a recent Saturday market outside the Church of Pantin, they seek:
** “A minimum wage of 12 Euros an hour.” (Less than the $15/hour minimum many American states have recently adopted.)
** “The means for our schools, smaller class size.” (To which was added the complaint that their children are being oriented less and less towards college and more and more towards brief professional formations.)
** “Health care for all; free care (notably dental care).” (Contrary to what you may have heard, health care isn’t free for everyone here, and most French have to subsidize their public plan with private insurance.)
** “Construction and maintenance of affordable housing.”
The second pertinent issue was raised by numerous preseveration specialists, including state functionaries, alarmed by a measure adopted by Parliament May 2 which includes a provision that would allow the government to over-ride existing ecological and preservation regulations during the reconstruction, in the interests of fast-tracking the repairs so that they can be finished in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
My own view is that the country’s real monument is its artistic and literary canon. (Although an argument could be made that as architecture and art repository Notre-Dame falls into this category.)
Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819–1891), “The Pont Neuf,” 1849–50. Oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 32 1/8 in. (54.6 x 81.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mendelsohn, 1980. Both this tableau and that of Fouquet, above, have recently been showcased at the Met as a gesture of solidarity with those affected by the Notre-Dame fire.
It was my ongoing quest for both of these — as well as the perennial cherche pour l’ame-soeur (soul-mate) — that found me on Easter Sunday morning exiting the Denfert Rochereau Metro station across the street from the Catacombs (some of whose residents have been there as long as Notre-Dame), and heading down the avenue Denfert Rochereau (toujours fixé a le Meridian moi) for the sprawling headquarters of the benevolent association “Big Neighbors,” a sort of Jewish Community Center for recent immigrants, except that unlike the JCC most of its activities are free. The occasion was a crafts — crafts fabricated by the migrants — and vide-grenier sale. The last time I was here — the event is held every month if you want to check it out — I’d scored, for a combined 2 Euros, paperback editions of two books I’d actually been looking for — Céline’s “Voyage to the end of night” and Zola’s “L’oeuvre,” a thinly veiled biography of Cézanne or Monet or both — as well as Jean Genet’s “The Maids,” and tried to score with a woman who was selling hand-lithographed “Les Ping-Pongeurs” tee-shirts, which she explained celebrated the association’s ping-pong table, which had become a kind of community fireside for the migrants, a lieu for exchanging their own stories. Partly to prolong the contact but also for a future Lutèce Diary, I’d given the woman my card and asked her to e-mail me images of the tee-shirt’s design as soon as she had them. She’d given me hers too but as there was no e-mail address, I’d resorted to trying to “friend” her on Facebook, after also noting that we had similar musical tastes and being impressed with the number and type of other associations she volunteered for or “liked,” notably the Palestinian Film Festival.
This time around in the book department I scored once again and for the same bargain rate, the price dropping from 2 Euros to 1 between the time I asked the woman guarding two large bins of them how much they were (“2 Euros”) and the moment I started looking elsewhere (“actually, they’re all 1 Euro”). I found a limited edition copy of a lavishly illustrated history of Modern Art from the ’50s (the best era for color reproduction) I’d used to own but lost, a hefty hardcover “Dictionary of Synonymes” (useful for translating), and, the real coupe, a copy of Victor Serge’s “Les années sans pardon.” Serge being one of the real-life heroes of one of my translating projects, Michel Ragon’s novel “La mémoire des vaincus.” In what I assume to be a thinly fictionalized telling of his own story — Serge was a non-violent anarchist publisher who became a disillusioned ally of the Bolsheviks, unsuccessfully trying to get the French Communist Party to acknowledge Soviet crimes — the book, published in 1947, recounts the Communists’ tracking of one of its Paris leaders after he quits the party, even though he promises to beat a gentle retreat to Mexico (where Serge would die that same year).
(I forgot to mention, important because it comes up later, that at a real gauntlet of a vide-grenier near the la Villette basin on the other side of the Seine earlier that morning, whose sublime and free highlight was observing Paris come to life while having my thermos tea perched on the Crimée pedestrian bridge over the Ourcq Canal and watching the drawbridge go up and then back down for no apparent reason as there was no boat traffic, and that was really more of a brocante — junk — sale, I’d spent all of 1 Euro on a “Dictionary of Symbols,” a gift for a witch I know. (You know which witch you are.) And scored some bargain stomach sustenance: A canned roast chicken salad for a Euro, a pound of dry rice for 50 cents, and a can of duck mousse for the same, the idea being it will give me something local to eat my first night back in the Dordogne, a.k.a. duck country.) (Lest you think I just eat them as this is the second Lutèce Diary in a row in which I’ve mentioned my predilection for this Dordogne staple, I recently had the opportunity to give back, lunching with one famished female canard with a bald-spot on her head on the lip of the pond of the parc George Brassens, calmly gray and sparsely populated on a drizzly Sunday. We dined on left-over Texas-style cornbread and peas, my new friend making duck eyes at me every time she came up from fishing the crumbs out of the muddy shallows.)
Next (we’re back at the vide-grenier in one of the courtyards of les Big Neighbors) I landed a telling item for this column, when a particularly ugly American demanded, in English, of the woman selling next to the bookstand, “I don’t speak French, can you tell her” — her being an older woman with stringy gray hair within hearing distance who’d just set down a tattered box against a nearby column — “that she doesn’t have the right to that space, my friend paid for it and she didn’t pay,” which request he repeated insistently again and again until the seller reluctantly ceded. I guess the young man, unshaven and clad in dirty jeans — who, once the FRENCH woman who UNLIKE HIM HAD THE RIGHT TO BE SELLING AT A FRENCH VIDE-GRENIER sadly walked away, threw down what looked like over-sized tinker-toy wheels on the pavement — wasn’t aware that the reason his friend had had to pay for him was that he has no standing here. Talk about ugly Americans: This loser couldn’t even communicate “I don’t speak French” correctly.
Having surpassed my quota of ugly Americans for the day and my book budget as well, I continued searching for the Ping-Pongeuse who was the real object of my visit through the alleys and across the several courtyards of the Big Neighbors complex, weaving among handmade crafts and clothing and over-priced ash-trays and carafes — the association even offers a restaurant and a bench-lined roof terrace over the entrance where you can take your coffee looking out on the tree-lined avenue, surveilling this stretch of the Meridian. Finally spotting her behind dark sun-glasses (“Quick, that Facebook weirdo is coming over here, hand me those shades!”) wearing a large white sweatshirt which showed off her sliver-brunette bangs and deftly rolling an orange ping-pong ball between my nimble if shaking fingers — the paddles were stashed away in my “Re-Nais – Sance” bag — I stepped up to the Ping-Pongeurs table and, while she stared blankly back at me behind the sun-glasses not changing her expression, sputtered, “I’m the guy who asked you for art of your Ping-Pongeurs tee-shirt for my magazine last month.”
“I remember.” (I’m on to you, Buster, with your vintage 1973 paddles and orange ball, if orange balls tickled my fancy I’d stay at home watching re-runs of “The Prisoner.”)
“I’m still interested.”
“I know, I still have your card.” (Buried in my ‘non-recyclable’ pile.) “But we haven’t been able to take any pictures, what with the Sun coming out and all.” (She didn’t phrase it exactly that way, but I’m channeling Carson McCullers. She comes up later.)
My witch not being available to inform my Ping-Pongeuse that despite the missing teeth I really was a frog waiting to be turned into a prince I decided to take my witch gift “Dictionary of Symbols” further down the Meridian to the Fountain of the Four Parts of the World in the Explorers Garden which abuts the Luxembourg, where at least the four maidens carrying the whole world in their hands wouldn’t glare back at me for ogling their bare bronze chests. I’d read on Wikipedia that one of these ladies, designed by Carpeaux, was supposed to be an American Indian and, besides that she was the least demeure of the bronze babes, bending forward into the wind at the haunches instead of remaining loftily above it like her European sister, she was also recognizable by the (stereotypical) braid…. mirrored in the braided manes of the two horse-mermaids rearing their heads below her. Opening the dictionary while trying to protect it from the errant spray of the water fight going on between the bronze turtles on the first level and the fish below the horse-mermaids, I looked up ‘turtle’ first and was tempted to bang my head on the nearest ping-pong table because as I already should have known, having jogged in a colorful “Turtle Island Marathon” tee-shirt for years back in San Francisco, this is the most obvious, four-parts-of-the-world symbolism of the turtle — the American Indian maiden should have clued me in: They hold the whole world on their shells. And if we keep pissing off the noble turtle, or tortoise, he’s going to retreat into his shell and leave us to our own wiles. (According to the dictionary, whose sources are a bit obscure, the turtle is also apparently both phallic and vaginal, making a strong case for augmenting the already onerous acronym LGBQT to LGBQTET, for eunuch turtles.)
Before heading over to and down the Boul’Mich to Notre-Dame to do my nominal reporter’s job, I decided to look up “arrow,” hoping to find a literary significance for Viollet le Duc’s “fleche de Notre-Dame” going up in flames. Besides being about getting closer to Heaven and giving Cupid a helping hand, the book informed me, the arrow also represents destiny, or as Al Dante quipped about the time Notre-Dame was going up (Paradise, song 17, pages 25-27):
I was hit harder by the disaster zone that greeted me from the Ile de Cité than I’d expected to be when I was finally able to forge my way through the somber Easter Sunday crowd congesting the widened sidewalk — the pedestrians spilling over to the bicycle lane — along the Quay Tournelle facing the church across the water, more hushed than usual; even the ten gendarme vans that sped by with blue lights flashing while I was slowly threading my way through the throng, all of our heads askance to look up and over the river at the church, had respectfully silenced their sirens.
Eugène Atget, “Au Tambourg 63 quai de Tournelle,” 1908.
I’d heard that the twin towers themselves had been spared, but their innards are toast, charred to carbon. Literally, this is all you see through the windows, carbon black. Between the twin towers the roof has effectively been torn off, its curved rim warped on the edge facing the Ile St. Louis, as is the scaffolding which once surrounded the arrow, the fire melting even part of the metal. Two alabaster bishops remain perched high atop the outer ledge of the roof, saluting the Paris skyline from their posts after having been powerless to protect their earthly fiefdom, but the windows below them are also blackened. (This could be from drawn curtains.) When you look at the structure from the Ile St. Louis, which I eventually reached after about half an hour, one of the bishops appears to be turned away from you, his crowned head inclined in mourning.
The real miracle — besides that anything at all is still standing (I’ve seen fires reduce medieval stone houses in my Dordogne village to a pile of rubble in 10 minutes) — is that the ring of gargoyles high up towards where the roof once was (and thus closer than you and me to Heaven) is intact. I know from gargoyles, my first story for the New York Times having been on the gargoyles of Princeton, about which a colleague, Laurel Cantor, had written a precise and elegant book. My favorite was a monkey with a camera peering down from an arch across the street from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs who appeared to be taking pictures of those looking up at him as they passed under the arch. (As I write this I’m realizing that gothic buildings have another resonance with me, evoking the surroundings that welcomed me in September 1979 to grounds that otherwise looked like a hurricane had swept through them, because one had, me arriving in Princeton the morning after Hurricane Frederick. It’s really something to live in the garret of one of those buildings, as I did, wondering if you’re big enough to walk in their shoes, but Fitzgerald’s fit mine perfectly, as far as our Princeton expiration date went anyway. We both lasted longer than Eugene O’Neill, Class of ’10, although he and I ran into the same obstacle at PU: “It’s tradition-bound.” Those gargoyles were the beginning of my end at Princeton, the Times wanting more stories from me after that one, written in the Summer of 1983 while I was covering for the regular stringer as a member of the University Press Club, whose other members ordered me to stop writing for the Times when he came back in September. Both me and my editor convinced there was enough to go around, I refused, was kicked out of the club, the bottom fell out of my social life, I stopped going to class, when I sought help, explaining the various stressors, from the dean of the college she scolded me, “Other students are able to have personal problems without letting them get in the way of their studies,” miserable and telling myself I was already doing what I wanted to do anyway, writing for the Times, I left Princeton but it never left me.)
Who’s zooming who? Gargoyle from the campus of Princeton University. Photo courtesy Princeton University.
Beholding those gargoyles of Notre-Dame unscathed by the flames made me think of that monkey, and, later, seeing the way they seemed to be gawking back across the Seine at the tourist gawkers, of the apes on Monkey Island at the San Francisco Zoo, who used to throw their caca at visitors. (I know this from warning the kids I’d take on field trips there not to stand too close to the monkeys, which of course had the opposite effect.) As the Notre-Dame gargoyles stared back down at us staring up at them, I found myself hoping they’d come to life and start heaving fossilized merde at the tourists. (Why such hostility? I guess this is the other reason I’d put off coming down to Notre-Dame to check out the fire damage. I didn’t want to watch the tragedy turn into yet another photo opportunity for tourists, like the Place de la Republique became after the November 13, 2015 massacres: We are not your “I was here” photo moment, tourist-fuckers. We hurt. Now that I start tearing up at writing that it occurs to me that maybe this inability to feel anything about the fire has just been denial. All the things I love about Paris and France are disappearing. Valuable old books are sold for less than fish-wrap (Le Monde costs 1.25), and the social model that used to make France different and unique and the anti (dote) American is also eroding. In my village the post-man, or woman, used to stop and chat with the elders living alone, sometimes bringing them their paper or baguette or having a petite gout of eau de vie with the retired farmer. Now if you want the mailman/woman to spend more than 30 seconds with your 90-year-old grandmother you have to pay the post office for the service…. (Which post-office also eliminated, under Emmanuel Macron’s Socialist predecessor, the special book rate for sending the country’s literature abroad; so much for exporting French culture.) And Notre-Dame is not just a marketing opportunity to be superficially prettied up in time for the Olympics. It needs to be made whole again.
Ah yes, the books. I was also upset because at least for the first few blocks, the crowd moving along the quay to get a better look at the damaged church across the river was completely ignoring the bookstalls past which this brought them. And yet these bouquinistes, whose lives are not easy — a former friend of mine in the trade worked winters as a museum security guard to support his book-selling habit — are the real guardians of the most valuable monument France has given the world, its literature. This is why on his first morning in Paris, where he’d been sent to fetch the scion of a wealthy Boston family from the clutches of a scheming older Frenchwoman (the Henries seem to have something against this breed, the only thing not quiet in Miller’s “Quiet Days in Clichy” being a Frenchie his hero hooks up with), before he even saw about the boy Henry James’s Lambert Strether (in “The Ambassadors”) headed straight to the quays to search for and procure a complete set of the works of Victor Hugo. At a recent vide-grenier high up on the Meridian — near the Cité Universitaire — I scored a complete volume of the Great Man’s plays that might have been sitting right next to the set Strether bought, given that it was published in the 1880s, for 1 Euro. I’m happy for my library but dismayed about what this says about the value contemporary society attaches to the product of my endangered trade and species. (Further down the quays I joined two older French gentlemen scouring through bins where everything was for sale at 2 Euros, high for vide-greniers but low for bouquinistes. I passed on a volume of the essays, reviews, and other rarely collecting writings of Carson McCullers because it was in French and I was still scarred by an experience with a translation of “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” which had the Black characters speaking a kind of plantation dialect that made Ebonics seem like Latin by comparison.)
Speaking of dead poets, while the church plaza was cordoned off, its back-side outside the fence and leading to the bridge to the Ile St. Louis — right across the street from the stairs descending to the Holocaust Memorial in what resembles a prison, except instead of Kilroy the graffiti is signed “Albert Camus” — was open. (From my favorite bench on the Ile St-Louis en face you can see the bars of the memorial’s triangular corner room.) The crowd here was more subdued, lulled in part by a long-grey-haired man reprising Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne,” whose theme — gracefully accepting change — was just right for the occasion:
“So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”
When the singer shifted to a more obvious choice (I’m not being more specific because it would leave you singing the song all day, which would still be more dulcet than the middle-aged Danish woman who walked by at that moment doing so.) (Oops, now I realize I left out the sample of Danish pastry a comely boulangerista handed me as I was heading away from the Catacombs towards my rendez-vous with the Ping-Pongeuse, which reminded me of another comely boulangerista at the same bakery at the entrance to the rue Daguerre who I tried to court 18 years ago by handing her a sunflower — during the epoch this is what I was packing, the idea being that I would spontaneously give my tournesol to whatever woman sparked my fancy — only to overhear her afterwards flirting on a bench outside the Catacombs with one very living beau. If this digression annoys you, just be thankful I’m sparing you the two-page entry for “Tournesol” in “The Dictionary of Symbols,” although my witch, who’s also a gardener and almost as much of a sunflower fanatic as me, will appreciate it.)
Still hoping to make myself cry (unfortunately I’d forgotten how Spencer Tracy achieves this to win an argument with Katherine Hepburn — I can’t even remember the name of the film) or at least feel something besides the urge to will the gargoyles to life so that they could start hurling their caca at the tourists, I crossed to the Ile St.-Louis and descended to my favorite bench, once again miraculously free, and from which perspective in 16 years of pique-niquing I’ve been looking across the water at Notre-Dame. At least this is how I remembered it, but when I got to the bench, I realized that what I’ve actually been looking at is that barred prison cell in the caverns of the Holocaust Memorial, with Camus lurking somewhere on its walls waiting to tell us that prison is just a state of mind.
As for the Ile itself, as with Montmartre for me on this trip, during which I’ve been trying not to just resurrect my previous nostalgia for epics I never lived but pay attention to whether they evoke anything for me now, thanks to the assholes who think they can play their annoying music and subject everyone else to it — there used to be a common understanding among We the People of the Ile that this was a music-free-zone — that magic was stifled, at least on this visit.
Recently fixed up thanks to a public subscription campaign, the loriette atop the Jardin des Plantes is the oldest iron structure in Paris.
Fearing a similar letdown at the loriette above the nearby Jardin des Plantes — the oldest iron structure in Paris, recently restored thanks to a public inscription campaign — I crossed to the Left Bank and tiredly made my way through the outdoor sculpture garden, stopping only long enough to pee into a metal trough of stagnant amber liquid above which was the inevitable sign from the Mayor: “Paris is clean!” No wonder that when I got there another man was emerging from behind the urinal, where it was no doubt more clean. (Further along in the sculpture garden I found a sort of one-unit “Paris is pissing to fertilize” pissoir with plants in the basin whose complete exposure to the foot traffic makes me wonder what libertine of a deputy mayor dreamed this particular Eco-idea up, although the Serge book informs me that even the Grands Boulevards used to be littered with pissoirs “from which one can see only the cuffs and the shoes” of the piseurs, pissing away the excesses of Capitalism.)
After climbing up to the loriette, where the only free thin metal bench was directly facing the bright 6 p.m. Sun over the green tiles of the Mosque of Paris (the main journalistic justification for this effort was that I wanted to compare religious monuments. Speaking of mosques, maybe the Notre-Dame renovation fund could give, I dunno, 200,000 of that 330 million to the fellows down the street form me here in the prè-St. Gervais, who do their worshiping in a storefront the only religious indication of which is the “Vigi-Pirate” sign on the frosted glass door and the sandals on the ledge outside the mosque on Fridays), I decided I had to say coucou to the Kangaroos (I call them that, but I think they’re actually wallabies), another effort to tap into an early Paris sentimental sensation, when I first discovered them in 2000 and liked to sip my cider leaning up against a bullet-ridden concrete wall facing the pen the kangaroos shared with a pair of black swans. That makeshift terrace has now been walled in as part of a restaurant; paying customers only, please.) I was rewarded with a close-up view, through a fence, of a baby kangaroo milking at his mama’s breast before pitching itself into her pouch, and mama hopping away. A three-year-old boy to whom a papa had been pointing out all these marvels shrieked, “Look Papa, pigeons!” “I point out something really special and you talk to me about pigeons.”
After Mama bounded off, baby in pouch, Dad (I’m talking about the kangaroo) stepped forward to grab a very large slice of raw eggplant from where it had been strewn about with tomatoes and leeks — ratatouille! — neatly nibbling everything away but the black skin before tossing it. That did it. Feeling weak having imbibed nothing but mint tea for six hours I decided to open the can of chicken-vegetable salad — tant pis if it might had fallen off a truck of botchulated foodstuffs on their way back to the factory.
I was about to crawl down into the mouth of the Jusseau metro — I knew there was a toilet on the Place Jusseau; all that mint tea — when I looked across the street and realized it was the “Street of the Arenes.” Yes, I was a traffic light away from THE 2000 year-old arenas of Lutèce, the ancient name for Paris and the more recent name of this column. Another landmark — or rather Paul nostalgia point — that I could cross off my bucket list with just a quick detour.
Ignoring a man strumming his guitar on the first level of the park below the arenas (Oops, the musical reference reminds me that I left out the tango party on the Tino Rossi Square below the Sculpture Garden set against the Seine and beyond that Notre-Dame to which none of the tango dancers who packed the square listening to recorded Carlos Gardel numbers were paying any attention, and where seeing three guys pushing 70 dancing with three girls who won’t be pushing 30 for at least five years told me I should have kept up with those Fort Worth tango lessons and brought my new tango boots instead of my 47-year-old ping-pong paddles to Paris), I continued up the stairs to the concrete lodges flanking one side of the arena from which the Emperor once sat looking down on the gladiators and across at the people in the bleachers, Emperor and subjects drooling over the slaves being tossed out of the cages to the lions, and sat sipping my tea on the bench carved into the lodge before noticing that below that, on the roof of one of the cages, a niche had been carved into the stone big enough for a small emperor to squeeze into, which I did, only instead of a slave being chased by a lion a young woman in a short jeans skirt and white blouse came running towards me chasing a metal ball, which is all they’re chasing these days in the 2000-year-old Arenes de Lutèce.
Heading back where I came from after drinking more tea and emptying it in the appropriate place, then sitting down to enjoy the guitar player before leaving Lutèce, not far from the exit I noticed, in an alcove behind a fenced-in lawn on the other side of which was the arena, a naked alabaster maiden with no head reclining on a body-length stone shelf above an empty basin and cuddling an urn-like object in the crook of her arm. In front of the locked fence protecting the lawn between the fence and the maiden was a stationary sign announcing “Pesticide-free rye and poppies coming soon, thanks to the Friends of the Poppies.” Then I noticed the Don’t drink the water symbol (a faucet with a cross through it) above the alabaster lady and, sure enough, looking closer recognized the three rectangular water outlets below her.
In other words, I’d discovered yet another dry, poorly maintained fountain in Paris, whose administration hasn’t yet figured out that, respiration-wise, a flowing fountain would be a lot more reassuring then poppies and rye. (And I say this as someone of Jewish heritage, whose natural inclinations lean more towards poppies and rye than Gallo-Roman idols.) (I know what you’re thinking: If they’d just put up “Pissoir Ici” signs on all the dry fountains around Paris this would solve two problems. Don’t tempt me.)
This is when I had the revolutionary — for a guy who’s always come to Paris, like Malcolm McLaren, to live yesterday today — revelation: This is what is supposed to happen to decrepit monuments. Their heads fall off. This is what happened to Notre Dame: It’s head fell off. Now, if something happened to that Delacroix fountain, I might be singing a different story….
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Protected: Sunday Reading / Lecture de dimanche: “La Mémoire des vaincus” (The Book of the Vanquished): Extract /Extrait from Chapter 1, ‘La petite fille dans la charrette aux poissons’ (The little girl on the fishmongers’ wagon) (English translation suivé de V.O. en française)
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In the newest installment of the MetromBA “5 Questions” series, we spoke with Jack Welch College of Business Executive Director of Graduate Admissions Pam Pillo about the future of the Connecticut business school, and much more.
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Correspondence and Micellaneous, 1946-circa 1967
Overview Folder contains one type-written letter from Henry to his Aunt Ella telling his family was on the way to the United State. Also a letters to the Max and Maria Lowenstein from Jane MgWrynn (?), Alfred Lowenstein and Betty Boone. A few postage stamps, a blank 1947 calendar/date book from Hallmark and a check from Maria to the Community Concert Association for seven dollars. Also a list with an envelope with Henry's name and Whipsnade address.
Dates: 1946-circa 1967
Correspondence from Henry to Lowenstein Family, 1946 May 5-December 29
Overview Thirteen letters written by Henry Lowenstein while living in Whipsnade, Durnstable, England to his parents and half-sister. A few are before the family had immigrated but the majority are when the family is in Pennsylvania. Eleven letters are hand written and two are typed. The letters range in date from May 5, 1946-December 29, 1946. Most the letters are addressed to Mauchen (Maria) but are directed at the entire family.
Dates: 1946 May 5-December 29
Correspondence from Henry to Lowenstein Family, 1947 January 12-June 13
Overview Twenty-one handwritten letters from Henry Lowenstein mostly while living in Whipsnade, Durnstable, England to his parents and half-sister in Pennsylvania. The letters range in date from January 12, 1947 to June 23 1947. All of the letters are addressed to Mauchen (Maria) but are directed at the entire family. The last letter is on letterhead from the S.S. Marine Flacon stationary and was written on the ship while Henry sailed for the United States to meet his family. In the second to last...
Dates: 1947 January 12-June 13
Correspondence from Ingrid to Lowenstein Family, 1946-1947
Overview Six handwritten letters in German from Ingrid to the Lowenstein family in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Ingrid is writing from Bath, Somerset, England.
Deportation Summons Disguised as a Notice of Eviction, before 1942 March 31
Overview Notice of eviction addressed to Marie Loewenstein by Jüdische Kultusvereinigung zu Berlin e.V., the Jewish Cultural Association in Berlin. The letter requests its recipient come to the Jewish Cultural Association in Berlin building with every member of their household at 11:00 a.m. on March 31, 1942, a date stamp reads 31 Mar 1941. It contains a threat of "more severe measures" for failure to appear. This letter was sent to Jewish families to gather them for transportation on trains to...
Dates: before 1942 March 31
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B333, Lowenstein Family Papers and Art / The War Years: Berlin / Box 1 / The War Years: Berlin
Despair, 1944
Overview "Despair," a drawing by Marie Loewenstein.
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B333, Lowenstein Family Papers and Art / The War Years: Berlin / Digitized Photographs
"Despair", 1945
Scope and Contents Ink wash painting titled "Despair" of a woman sitting on a short stool in front of a Fanklin stove with the door open and a pot on top. Sitting on the floor is an empty basket. Behind the woman is a window and a shelf with a candle and two canisters. Ink wash is done on an old roll of unused wallpaper as stated by the artist in a 1971 Rocky Mountain News Article. See B333.08.0001.0001.00004.
Discharge from Wittenauer Sanatorium, 1942 April 11
Overview Letter that served as official discharge papers sent to Marie Loewenstein [Löwenstein in this document] for Dr. Max Loewenstein to leave Wittenauer Heilstätten, Wittenauer Sanatorium. Letter is on official Wittenauer Sanatorium stationary. Max was to be released on April 12, 1942.
Dates: 1942 April 11
Drawing of Max Loewenstein, circa 1945
Overview Framed drawing of Dr. Max Loewenstein drawn by Marie Loewenstein.
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B333, Lowenstein Family Papers and Art / Post War Berlin and Social Democratic Party / Digitized Photographs
Drawings, circa 1960
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains drawings and correspondence
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Experts and organizations are weighing in on this weekend’s decision by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Board of Trustees to approve the final diagnostic criteria for the upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)…
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A Disaster for Childhood Diagnoses
The next edition of the diagnostic manual will make a bad situation worse
The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association tried yesterday to project confidence in the next edition of its problem-plagued manual, assuring Americans that radical changes to the DSM “passed” all necessary hurdles and represented a “major milestone” for American psychiatry.
But DSM-5 is now certain to include highly controversial changes, including approval of Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder—proposals that sparked widespread concern and skepticism when first circulated…
DSM-5 Gets APA’s Official Stamp of Approval
Caroline Cassels | December 2, 2012
The final diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has been approved by the leadership of the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
In an official communiqué released December 1 at 3:31 pm Eastern Time, the APA announced that its Board of Trustees approved the manual’s proposed criterial…
A relational view of DSM V: a care-rationing document?
Claudia M Gold | December 2, 2012
Because DSM V the newest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical manual, sometimes referred to as the “bible of psychiatry” set to come out in May 2013, makes no mention of relationships, the relational perspective is that it is a flawed instrument. The whole discussion about what categories should and should not be included is off the mark. Nonetheless, as it currently dictates who will and who will not receive treatment, it is a force to be reckoned with…
DSM5 in Distress
DSM 5 Is Guide Not Bible- Ignore Its Ten Worst Changes: APA approval of DSM-5 is a sad day for psychiatry.
Allen J Frances MD | December 2, 2012
This is the saddest moment in my 45 year career of studying, practicing, and teaching psychiatry. The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association has given its final approval to a deeply flawed DSM 5 containing many changes that seem clearly unsafe and scientifically unsound. My best advice to clinicians, to the press, and to the general public – be skeptical and don’t follow DSM 5 blindly down a road likely to lead to massive over-diagnosis and harmful over-medication. Just ignore the ten changes that make no sense.
Brief background. DSM 5 got off to a bad start and was never able to establish sure footing. Its leaders initially articulated a premature and unrealizable goal- to produce a paradigm shift in psychiatry. Excessive ambition combined with disorganized execution led inevitably to many ill conceived and risky proposals.
These were vigorously opposed. More than fifty mental health professional associations petitioned for an outside review of DSM 5 to provide an independent judgment of its supporting evidence and to evaluate the balance between its risks and benefits. Professional journals, the press, and the public also weighed in- expressing widespread astonishment about decisions that sometimes seemed not only to lack scientific support but also to defy common sense.
DSM 5 has neither been able to self correct nor willing to heed the advice of outsiders. It has instead created a mostly closed shop- circling the wagons and deaf to the repeated and widespread warnings that it would lead to massive misdiagnosis. Fortunately, some of its most egregiously risky and unsupportable proposals were eventually dropped under great external pressure (most notably ‘psychosis risk’, mixed anxiety/depression, internet and sex addiction, rape as a mental disorder, ‘hebephilia’, cumbersome personality ratings, and sharply lowered thresholds for many existing disorders). But APA stubbornly refused to sponsor any independent review and has given final approval to the ten reckless and untested ideas that are summarized below.
The history of psychiatry is littered with fad diagnoses that in retrospect did far more harm than good. Yesterday’s APA approval makes it likely that DSM 5 will start a half or dozen or more new fads which will be detrimental to the misdiagnosed individuals and costly to our society.
The motives of the people working on DSM 5 have often been questioned. They have been accused of having a financial conflict of interest because some have (minimal) drug company ties and also because so many of the DSM 5 changes will enhance Pharma profits by adding to our already existing societal overdose of carelessly prescribed psychiatric medicine. But I know the people working on DSM 5 and know this charge to be both unfair and untrue. Indeed, they have made some very bad decisions, but they did so with pure hearts and not because they wanted to help the drug companies. Their’s is an intellectual, not financial, conflict of interest that results from the natural tendency of highly specialized experts to over value their pet ideas, to want to expand their own areas of research interest, and to be oblivious to the distortions that occur in translating DSM 5 to real life clinical practice (particularly in primary care where 80% of psychiatric drugs are prescribed).
The APA’s deep dependence on the publishing profits generated by the DSM 5 business enterprise creates a far less pure motivation. There is an inherent and influential conflict of interest between the DSM 5 public trust and DSM 5 as a best seller. When its deadlines were consistently missed due to poor planning and disorganized implementation, APA chose quietly to cancel the DSM 5 field testing step that was meant to provide it with a badly needed opportunity for quality control. The current draft has been approved and is now being rushed prematurely to press with incomplete field testing for one reason only- so that DSM 5 publishing profits can fill the big hole in APA’s projected budget and return dividends on the exorbitant cost of 25 million dollars that has been charged to DSM 5 preparation.
This is no way to prepare or to approve a diagnostic system. Psychiatric diagnosis has become too important in selecting treatments, determining eligibility for benefits and services, allocating resources, guiding legal judgments, creating stigma, and influencing personal expectations to be left in the hands of an APA that has proven itself incapable of producing a safe, sound, and widely accepted manual.
New diagnoses in psychiatry are more dangerous than new drugs because they influence whether or not millions of people are placed on drugs- often by primary care doctors after brief visits. Before their introduction, new diagnoses deserve the same level of attention to safety that we devote to new drugs. APA is not competent to do this.
So, here is my list of DSM 5’s ten most potentially harmful changes. I would suggest that clinicians not follow these at all (or, at the very least, use them with extreme caution and attention to their risks); that potential patients be deeply skeptical, especially if the proposed diagnosis is being used as a rationale for prescribing medication for you or for your child; and that payers question whether some of these are suitable for reimbursement. My goal is to minimize the harm that may otherwise be done by unnecessary obedience to unwise and arbitrary DSM 5 decisions.
1) Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder: DSM 5 will turn temper tantrums into a mental disorder- a puzzling decision based on the work of only one research group. We have no idea whatever how this untested new diagnosis will play out in real life practice settings, but my fear is that it will exacerbate, not relieve, the already excessive and inappropriate use of medication in young children. During the past two decades, child psychiatry has already provoked three fads- a tripling of Attention Deficit Disorder, a more than twenty-times increase in Autistic Disorder, and a forty-times increase in childhood Bipolar Disorder. The field should have felt chastened by this sorry track record and should engage itself now in the crucial task of educating practitioners and the public about the difficulty of accurately diagnosing children and the risks of over- medicating them. DSM 5 should not be adding a new disorder likely to result in a new fad and even more inappropriate medication use in vulnerable children.
2) Normal grief will become Major Depressive Disorder, thus medicalizing and trivializing our expectable and necessary emotional reactions to the loss of a loved one and substituting pills and superficial medical rituals for the deep consolations of family, friends, religion, and the resiliency that comes with time and the acceptance of the limitations of life.
3) The everyday forgetting characteristic of old age will now be misdiagnosed as Minor Neurocognitive Disorder, creating a huge false positive population of people who are not at special risk for dementia. Since there is no effective treatment for this ‘condition’ (or for dementia), the label provides absolutely no benefit (while creating great anxiety) even for those at true risk for later developing dementia. It is a dead loss for the many who will be mislabeled.
4) DSM 5 will likely trigger a fad of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder leading to widespread misuse of stimulant drugs for performance enhancement and recreation and contributing to the already large illegal secondary market in diverted prescription drugs.
5) Excessive eating 12 times in 3 months is no longer just a manifestation of gluttony and the easy availability of really great tasting food. DSM 5 has instead turned it into a psychiatric illness called Binge Eating Disorder.
6) The changes in the DSM 5 definition of Autism will result in lowered rates- 10% according to estimates by the DSM 5 work group, perhaps 50% according to outside research groups. This reduction can be seen as beneficial in the sense that the diagnosis of Autism will be more accurate and specific- but advocates understandably fear a disruption in needed school services. Here the DSM 5 problem is not so much a bad decision, but the misleading promises that it will have no impact on rates of disorder or of service delivery. School services should be tied more to educational need, less to a controversial psychiatric diagnosis created for clinical (not educational) purposes and whose rate is so sensitive to small changes in definition and assessment.
7) First time substance abusers will be lumped in definitionally in with hard core addicts despite their very different treatment needs and prognosis and the stigma this will cause.
8) DSM 5 has created a slippery slope by introducing the concept of Behavioral Addictions that eventually can spread to make a mental disorder of everything we like to do a lot. Watch out for careless overdiagnosis of internet and sex addiction and the development of lucrative treatment programs to exploit these new markets.
9) DSM 5 obscures the already fuzzy boundary been Generalized Anxiety Disorder and the worries of everyday life. Small changes in definition can create millions of anxious new ‘patients’ and expand the already widespread practice of inappropriately prescribing addicting anti-anxiety medications.
10) DSM 5 has opened the gate even further to the already existing problem of misdiagnosis of PTSD in forensic settings.
DSM 5 has dropped its pretension to being a paradigm shift in psychiatric diagnosis and instead (in a dramatic 180 degree turn) now makes the equally misleading claim that it is a conservative document that will have minimal impact on the rates of psychiatric diagnosis and in the consequent provision of inappropriate treatment. This is an untenable claim that DSM 5 cannot possibly support because, for completely unfathomable reasons, it never took the simple and inexpensive step of actually studying the impact of DSM on rates in real world settings.
Except for autism, all the DSM 5 changes loosen diagnosis and threaten to turn our current diagnostic inflation into diagnostic hyperinflation. Painful experience with previous DSM’s teaches that if anything in the diagnostic system can be misused and turned into a fad, it will be. Many millions of people with normal grief, gluttony, distractibility, worries, reactions to stress, the temper tantrums of childhood, the forgetting of old age, and ‘behavioral addictions’ will soon be mislabeled as psychiatrically sick and given inappropriate treatment.
People with real psychiatric problems that can be reliably diagnosed and effectively treated are already badly shortchanged. DSM 5 will make this worse by diverting attention and scarce resources away from the really ill and toward people with the everyday problems of life who will be harmed, not helped, when they are mislabeled as mentally ill.
Our patients deserve better, society deserves better, and the mental health professions deserve better. Caring for the mentally ill is a noble and effective profession. But we have to know our limits and stay within them.
DSM 5 violates the most sacred (and most frequently ignored) tenet in medicine- First Do No Harm! That’s why this is such a sad moment.
Asperger’s syndrome dropped from psychiatrists’ handbook the DSM
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DSM-5, latest revision of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, merges Asperger’s with autism and widens dyslexia category
Asperger’s syndrome is to be dropped from the psychiatrists’ Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, the American publication that is one of the most influential references for the profession around the world.
The term “Asperger’s disorder” will not appear in the DSM-5, the latest revision of the manual, and instead its symptoms will come under the newly added “autism spectrum disorder”, which is already used widely. That umbrella diagnosis will include children with severe autism, who often do not talk or interact, as well as those with milder forms…
Parents fear loss of autism funding
Dan Box | December 3, 2012
THE diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome is being dropped from the world-leading US medical manual of psychiatric conditions, in a decision that could affect the support and funding available to thousands of Australian families.
The decision is among the first major revisions to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders since 1994…
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DSM-5: Psychiatrists OK Vast Changes To Diagnosis Manual
Lindsey Tanner | December 1, 2012
CHICAGO — For the first time in almost two decades the nation’s psychiatrists are changing the guidebook they use to diagnose mental disorders. Among the most controversial proposed changes: Dropping certain familiar terms like Asperger’s disorder and dyslexia and calling frequent, severe temper tantrums a mental illness.
The board of trustees for the American Psychiatric Association voted Saturday in suburban Washington, D.C., on scores of revisions that have been in the works for several years. Details will come next May when the group’s fifth diagnostic manual is published.
The trustees made the final decision on what proposals made the cut; recommendations came from experts in several task force groups assigned to evaluate different mental illnesses…
DSM-5 Wins APA Board Approval
John Gever, Senior Editor | December 1, 2012
The American Psychiatric Association’s board of trustees has approved the fifth edition of its influential diagnostic manual, dubbed DSM-5, the group announced Saturday.
The board vote is the last step before the manual is formally released at the APA’s annual meeting next May. The association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was last revised in 1994; that edition is known colloquially as DSM-IV…
Dyslexia is out of DSM-5: Psychiatrists voted Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012
Tina Burgess | December 1, 2012
On Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, the board of trustees of the American Psychiatric Association voted in Washington, D.C., that the term “dyslexia” will be eliminated from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).
According to Saturday’s The Seattle Times report, “Board members were tightlipped about the update, but its impact will be huge, affecting millions of children and adults worldwide.”
Eliminating the term “dyslexia” from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has major implications for students with dyslexia…
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Miriam Falco, CNN Medical Managing Editor | December 2, 2012
(CNN) — Starting next year, the process of diagnosing autism may see drastic changes following the revision of the official guide to classifying psychiatric illnesses.
After years of reviewing and refining criteria used by psychiatrists and other experts to diagnose mental health disorders, the American Psychiatric Association board of trustees on Saturday approved major changes to the manual, better known as DSM-5…
Asperger’s to be removed from revised edition of American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual
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Published: 02 December 2012 12:59 AM
CHICAGO — The now familiar term “Asperger’s disorder” is being dropped. And abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given a scientific-sounding diagnosis called DMDD. But “dyslexia” and other learning disorders remain.
The revisions come in the first major rewrite in nearly 20 years of the diagnostic guide used by the nation’s psychiatrists. Changes were approved Saturday.
Full details of all the revisions will come next May when the American Psychiatric Association’s new diagnostic manual is published, but the impact will be huge, affecting millions of children and adults worldwide. The manual also is important for the insurance industry in deciding what treatment to pay for, and it helps schools decide how to allot special education….
Psychiatric Association’s Diagnosis Revisions Seen Upending Evaluations
Melinda Beck | December 1, 2012
Asperger’s syndrome is out and hoarding is in, and starting next year, psychiatrists may diagnose some children with a new “disruptive mood dysregulation disorder” if they have severe tantrums three or more times a week for more than a year.
After more than a decade of discussion and often heated debate, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association voted Saturday in Arlington, Va., to approve the fifth edition of the group’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders” or DSM-5, the official guide to classifying psychiatric illnesses.
The changes – the first major revisions since 1994 — could…
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7:58 PM EST December 1. 2012 – Asperger’s is out, but binge eating and hoarding are in as official mental disorders in the latest version of the diagnostic bible published by the American Psychiatric Association, following a vote Saturday by that group’s board…
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Elizabeth Lopatto | December 2, 2012
The vote yesterday by the American Psychiatric Association was alternately called “a disaster” by Allen Frances, who led work on the previous version, and a “conservative document” by David Kupfer, who led the panel that presented the latest edition…
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Lyndsey Tanner | December 2, 2012
The board of trustees for the American Psychiatric Association voted Saturday in suburban Washington, D.C., on scores of revisions that have been in the works for several years. Details will come in May, when the group’s fifth diagnostic manual is published…
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Gina Putt | December 1, 2012
The American Psychiatric Association’s timeline calls for the ”Final Revisions by the APA Task Force; Final Approval by APA Board of Trustees; Submission to American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc..” in December of 2012. This edition, the fifth, attempts to further…
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Alix Spiegel | November 30, 2012
…The APA refuses to say anything about what’s in and what’s out, and they’ve also told people associated with the DSM-5 that they shouldn’t speak specifically, so it’s very hard to know. But some of the changes that were published last year on the APA website…
From Ben Carey, NYT, November 26
Thinking Clearly About Personality Disorders
Benedict Carey | November 26, 2012 | 355 Comments
This weekend the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association will vote on whether to adopt a new diagnostic system for some of the most serious, and striking, syndromes in medicine: personality disorders.
Personality disorders occupy a troublesome niche in psychiatry. The 10 recognized syndromes are fairly well represented on the self-help shelves of bookstores and include such well-known types as narcissistic personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, as well as dependent and histrionic personalities.
But when full-blown, the disorders are difficult to characterize and treat, and doctors seldom do careful evaluations, missing or downplaying behavior patterns that underlie problems like depression and anxiety in millions of people.
The new proposal — part of the psychiatric association’s effort of many years to update its influential diagnostic manual — is intended to clarify these diagnoses and better integrate them into clinical practice, to extend and improve treatment. But the effort has run into so much opposition that it will probably be relegated to the back of the manual, if it’s allowed in at all…
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Neuroticism and the DSM-5: What Lies Ahead?
By: MICHAEL BRODSKY, M.D., Clinical Psychiatry News Digital Network
If substantive changes to the DSM-5 framework do not occur before publication, clinicians will be called upon to evaluate personality using dimensional measures in addition to the personality diagnostic categories familiar to psychiatrists from the DSM-IV.
In this article, I want to consider the personality dimension of neuroticism, a construct with a long tradition of research and considerable evidence of both internal and external validity (Am. Psychol. 2009;64:241-56). Recent epidemiologic findings suggest that scores along this dimension may carry important clinical implications for mental and physical health…
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American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees approves final DSM-5 diagnostic criteria
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Yesterday, December 1, the American Psychiatric Association issued a news release – full text posted below or open PDF here: APA News Release 12.01.12
or download here: http://www.psychiatry.org/advocacy–newsroom/news-releases
There was also an alert published on Pyschiatric News here: APA Board of Trustees Approves DSM-5
A message from APA President Dilip Jeste, M.D., on DSM-5 was also published.
I’ll be compiling links to media coverage in the next post.
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American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees Approves DSM-5
Diagnostic manual passes major milestone before May 2013 publication
ARLINGTON, Va. (December 1, 2012) – The American Psychiatric Association (APA) Board of Trustees has approved the final diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). The trustees’ action marks the end of the manual’s comprehensive revision process, which has spanned over a decade and included contributions from more than 1,500 experts in psychiatry, psychology, social work, psychiatric nursing, pediatrics, neurology, and other related fields from 39 countries. These final criteria will be available when DSM-5 is completed and published in spring 2013.
“The Board of Trustees approval of the criteria is a vote of confidence for DSM-5,” said Dilip Jeste, MD, president of APA. ―We developed DSM-5 by utilizing the best experts in the field and extensive reviews of the scientific literature and original research, and we have produced a manual that best represents the current science and will be useful to clinicians and the patients they serve.”
DSM-5 is the guidebook used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders. Now that the criteria have been approved, review of the criteria and text describing the disorders will continue to undergo final editing and then publication by American Psychiatric Publishing.
The manual will include approximately the same number of disorders that were included in DSM-IV. This goes against the trend from other areas of medicine that increase the number of diagnoses annually.
“We have sought to be conservative in our approach to revising DSM-5. Our work has been aimed at more accurately defining mental disorders that have a real impact on people’s lives, not expanding the scope of psychiatry,” said David J. Kupfer, MD, chair of the DSM-5 Task Force. “I’m thrilled to have the Board of Trustees’ support for the revisions and for us to move forward toward the publication.”
Organization of DSM-5
DSM-5 will be comprised of three sections:
• Section 1 will give an introduction to DSM-5 with information on how to use the updated manual;
• Section 2 will outline the categorical diagnoses according to a revised chapter organization; and
• Section 3 will include conditions that require further research before their consideration as formal disorders, as well as cultural formulations, glossary, the names of individuals involved in DSM-5’s development and other information.
Summary of Decisions for DSM-5
Key decisions made by the Board of Trustees include:*
• Overall Substantive Changes
o Chapter order
o Removal of multiaxial system
• Section 2 Disorders
o Autism spectrum disorder
o Binge eating disorder
o Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
o Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder
o Hoarding disorder
o Pedophilic disorder
o Personality disorders
o Posttraumatic stress disorder
o Removal of bereavement exclusion
o Specific learning disorders
o Substance use disorder
o Attenuated psychosis syndrome
o Internet use gaming disorder
o Non-suicidal self-injury
o Suicidal behavioral disorder
• Disorders Not Accepted for Sections 2 or 3
o Anxious depression
o Hypersexual disorder
o Parental alienation syndrome
o Sensory processing disorder
* More information on select decisions is available in Attachment A.
Collaborative Process for Development of DSM-5
Beginning in 1999, during the initial phase of this DSM revision, the APA engaged almost 400 international research investigators in 13 conferences supported by the National Institutes of Health. To invite comments from the wider research, clinical and consumer communities, the APA launched a DSM-5 Prelude website in 2004 to garner questions, comments, and research findings during the development process.
Starting in 2007 and 2008, the DSM-5 Task Force and Work Groups, made up of more than 160 world-renowned clinicians and researchers, were tasked with building on the previous seven years of scientific reviews, conducting additional focused reviews, and garnering input from a breadth of advisors as the basis for proposing draft criteria. In addition to the Work Groups in diagnostic categories, study groups were assigned to review gender, age and cross-cultural issues. The Work Groups have led the effort to review the scientific advances and research-based information that have formed the basis of the content for DSM-5.
The first draft of proposed changes was posted publicly on the website www.DSM5.org in February 2010 and the site also posted two subsequent drafts. With each draft, the site accepted feedback on proposed changes, receiving more than 13,000 comments on draft diagnostic criteria from mental health clinicians and researchers, the overall medical community, and patients, families, and advocates. Following each comment period, the DSM-5 Task Force and Work Groups reviewed and considered each response and made revisions where warranted.
The Work Groups’ proposals were evaluated by the Task Force and two panels convened specifically to evaluate the proposals—a Scientific Review Committee and a Clinical and Public Health Committee. The Scientific Review Committee looked at the supporting data for proposed changes. The Clinical and Public Health Committee was charged with assessing the potential impact of changes to clinical practice and public health. Additionally, there was a forensic review by members of the Council on Psychiatry and Law.
All of the reviews were coordinated in meetings of the Summit Group, which includes the DSM-5 Task Force co-chairs, and review committee co-chairs, consultants, and members of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. The criteria were then put before the APA Assembly for review and approval. The Board of Trustees’ review was the final step in this multilevel, comprehensive process.
“At every step of development, we have worked to make the process as open and inclusive as possible. The level of transparency we have strived for is not seen in any other area of medicine,” said James H. Scully, MD, medical director and chief executive officer of APA.
The American Psychiatric Association is a national medical specialty society whose physician members specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and research of mental illnesses, including substance use disorders. Visit the APA at www.psychiatry.org .
Attachment A: Select Decisions Made by APA Board of Trustees
Overall Changes
• Chapter order: DSM-5’s 20 chapters will be restructured based on disorders’ apparent relatedness to one another, as reflected by similarities in disorders’ underlying vulnerabilities and symptom characteristics. The changes will align DSM-5 with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Diseases, eleventh edition (ICD-11) and are expected to facilitate improved communication and common use of diagnoses across disorders within chapters.
• Removal of multiaxial system: DSM-5 will move to a nonaxial documentation of diagnosis, combining the former Axes I, II, and III, with separate notations for psychosocial and contextual factors (formerly Axis IV) and disability (formerly Axis V).
Section 2 Disorders
1. Autism spectrum disorder: The criteria will incorporate several diagnoses from DSM-IV including autistic disorder, Asperger’s disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder (not otherwise specified), into the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder for DSM-5 to help more accurately and consistently diagnose children with autism.
2. Binge eating disorder will be moved from DSM-IV’s Appendix B: Criteria Sets and Axes Provided for Further Study to DSM-5 Section 2. The change is intended to better represent the symptoms and behaviors of people with this condition.
3. Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder will be included in DSM-5 to diagnose children who exhibit persistent irritability and frequent episodes of behavior outbursts three or more times a week for more than a year. The diagnosis is intended to address concerns about potential over-diagnosis and overtreatment of bipolar disorder in children.
4. Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder is new to DSM-5 and will be included in the Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders chapter.
5. Hoarding disorder is new to DSM-5. Its addition to DSM is supported by extensive scientific research on this disorder. This disorder will help characterize people with persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value. The behavior usually has harmful effects—emotional, physical, social, financial and even legal—for a hoarder and family members.
6. Pedophilic disorder criteria will remain unchanged from DSM-IV, but the disorder name will be revised from pedophilia to pedophilic disorder.
7. Personality disorders: DSM-5 will maintain the categorical model and criteria for the 10 personality disorders included in DSM-IV and will include the new trait-specific methodology in a separate area of Section 3 to encourage further study how this could be used to diagnose personality disorders in clinical practice.
8. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will be included in a new chapter in DSM-5 on Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders. DSM-5 pays more attention to the behavioral symptoms that accompany PTSD and proposes four distinct diagnostic clusters instead of three. PTSD will also be more developmentally sensitive for children and adolescents.
9. Removal of bereavement exclusion: the exclusion criterion in DSM-IV applied to people experiencing depressive symptoms lasting less than two months following the death of a loved one has been removed and replaced by several notes within the text delineating the differences between grief and depression. This reflects the recognition that bereavement is a severe psychosocial stressor that can precipitate a major depressive episode beginning soon after the loss of a loved one.
10. Specific learning disorder broadens the DSM-IV criteria to represent distinct disorders which interfere with the acquisition and use of one or more of the following academic skills: oral language, reading, written language, or mathematics.
11. Substance use disorder will combine the DSM-IV categories of substance abuse and substance dependence. In this one overarching disorder, the criteria have not only been combined, but strengthened. Previous substance abuse criteria required only one symptom while the DSM-5’s mild substance use disorder requires two to three symptoms.
http://www.psychnews.org/files/DSM-message.pdf
PDF: Message from APA President on DSM-5
A Message From APA President Dilip Jeste, M.D., on DSM-5
I am pleased to announce that DSM-5 has just been approved by APA’s Board of Trustees. Getting to the finish line has taken a decade of arduous work and tens of thousands of pro-bono hours from more than 1,500 experts in psychiatry, psychology, social work, psychiatric nursing, pediatrics, neurology, and other related fields from 39 countries. We look forward to the book’s publication next May.
The goal of the DSM-5 process has been to develop a scientifically based manual of psychiatric diagnosis that is useful for clinicians and our patients. APA’s interest in developing DSM dates back to the organization’s inception in 1844, when one of its original missions was to gather statistics on the prevalence of mental illness. In 1917, the Association officially adopted the first system for uniform statistical reporting called the Statistical Manual for the Use of Hospitals for Mental Diseases, which was adopted successfully by mental hospitals throughout the country. It was expanded into the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) in 1952 and first revised (DSM-II) in 1968. Like the rest of the field in that era, these first two versions were substantially influenced by psychoanalytic theories.
With advances in clinical and scientific knowledge, changes in diagnostic systems are inevitable. The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD)—the standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management, and clinical care used around the world, which covers all medical diagnoses—has been through 10 editions since the late 1800s and is now preparing its 11th edition, due in 2015. Likewise, DSM has undergone changes to take into account progress in our understanding of mental illnesses. DSM-III, published in 1980 under the leadership of Dr. Robert Spitzer, and DSM-IV, published in 1994 under the leadership of Dr. Allen Frances, represented the state of science of psychiatry at those times and significantly advanced the field.
In the two decades since the publication of DSM-IV, we have witnessed a wealth of new studies on epidemiology, neurobiology, psychopathology, and treatment of various mental illnesses. So, it was time for APA to consider making necessary modifications in the diagnostic categories and criteria based on new scientific evidence. But there were, of course, challenges inherent in revising an established diagnostic system.
The primary criterion for any diagnostic revisions should be strictly scientific evidence. However, there are sometimes differences of opinion among scientific experts. At present, most psychiatric disorders lack validated diagnostic biomarkers, and although considerable advances are being made in the arena of neurobiology, psychiatric diagnoses are still mostly based on clinician assessment.
Also, there are unintended consequences of psychiatric diagnosis. Some arise from the unfortunate social stigma and discrimination in getting jobs or even obtaining health insurance (notwithstanding the mental health parity law) associated with a psychiatric illness. There is also the double-edged sword of underdiagnosis and overdiagnosis. Narrowing diagnostic criteria may be blamed for excluding some patients from insurance coverage and needed services, while expanded efforts to diagnose (and treat) patients in the early stages of illness to prevent its chronicity are sometimes criticized for increasing its prevalence and potentially expanding the market for the pharmaceutical industry. (It should be noted, however, that DSM is not a treatment manual and that diagnosis does not equate to a need for pharmacotherapy.)
APA has carefully sought to balance the benefits of the latest scientific evidence with the risks of changing diagnostic categories and criteria. We realize that, given conflicting views among different stakeholders, there will be inevitable disagreements about some of the proposals—whether they involve retaining the traditional DSM-IV criteria or modifying them.
The process of developing DSM-5 began in earnest in 2006, when APA appointed Dr. David Kupfer as chair and Dr. Darrel Regier as vice chair of the task force to oversee the development of DSM-5. The task force included the chairs of 13 diagnostic work groups, who scrutinized the research and literature base, analyzed the findings of field trials, reviewed public comments, and wrote the content for specific disorder categories within DSM-5. To ensure transparency and reduce industry-related conflicts of interest, APA instituted a strict policy that all task force and work group members had to make open disclosures and restrict their income from industry. In fact, the vast majority of the task force and work group members had no financial relationship with industry.
To obtain independent reviews of the work groups’ diagnostic proposals, the APA Board of Trustees appointed several review committees. These included the Scientific Review Committee (co-chaired by Drs. Ken Kendler and Robert Freeman), Clinical and Public Health Committee (co-chaired by Drs. Jack McIntyre and Joel Yager), and APA Assembly Committee (chaired by Dr. Glenn Martin). Additionally, there was a forensic review by members of the Council on Psychiatry and Law. Drs. Paul Appelbaum and Michael First were consultants on forensic issues and criteria/public comments, respectively. Reviews by all these groups were coordinated in meetings of the Summit Group, which included the task force and review committee co-chairs and consultants along with members of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees.
There has been much more public interest and media scrutiny of DSM-5 than any previous revisions. This reflects greater public awareness and media interest in mental illness, as well as widespread use of the Internet and social media. To facilitate this transparent process, APA created a Web site (www.dsm5.org ) where preliminary draft revisions were available for the public to examine, critique, and comment on. More than 13,000 Web site comments and 12,000 additional comments from e-mails, letters, and other forms of communication were received. Members of the DSM-5 work groups reviewed the feedback submitted to the Web site and, where appropriate, made modifications in their proposed diagnostic criteria.
We believe that DSM-5 reflects our best scientific understanding of psychiatric disorders and will optimally serve clinical and public health needs. Our hope is that the DSM-5 will lead to more accurate diagnoses, better access to mental health services, and improved patient outcomes.
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Timeline revised but no firm date for DSM-5 third and final stakeholder review and comment period
January 26, 2012 by meagenda
Timeline revised but still no firm date for the DSM-5 third and final stakeholder review and comment period
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According to yesterday’s report from Deborah Brauser for Medscape Medical News (Concern Over Changes to Autism Criteria Unfounded, Says APA, January 25, 2012), the portion of the DSM-5 field trials conducted at academic centers concluded at the end of October.
The routine clinical settings field trials, scheduled to complete by December but extended in order that more participants might be recruited (DSM-5 Disorganization, Disarray, and Delays, Dr Dayle Jones, American Counseling Association, January 3, 2012), are now expected to complete in March, this year.
In November, DSM-5 Task Force Vice-chair, Darrel Regier, MD, predicted the pushing back of the final public feedback period from January–February, to “no later than May 2012” (APA Answers DSM-5 Critics, Deborah Brauser, November 9, 2011), in response to timeline slippage.
I noticed, today, that the Timeline on the DSM-5 Development site has finally been updated to reflect a “Spring” posting of draft diagnostic criteria, for a two month long stakeholder review and comment period.
No dates appear to being publicly released, at this point, for this third and final public review.
The lack of advance dates presents barriers to public and professional participation.
Patient advocacy organizations need to alert their constituencies and their professional advisers whose opinions will inform consumer group submissions. Professional organizations and bodies who submit feedback in consultation with their memberships will also need to plan the sending out of timely alerts via newsletters and membership publications.
The second release of draft proposals was posted on May 4, last year, with no prior announcement or news release by APA and left many organizations and advocates, including myself, unprepared.
It is hoped that APA will give reasonable notice before releasing this third and final draft – though how much influence professional and public feedback might have at this late stage in the DSM-5 development process is moot.
Full revised Timeline here
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Petropars to Develop Farzad B Gas Field
TEHRAN (Shana) – Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said the Iranian oil company Patropars was awarded the engineering, exploration and basic design sections of Farzad B Gas Field Development Project.
Speaking on Saturday, Mr. Zangeneh said that the company had signed a contract for developing the offshore project with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC); a contract which has been signed off by the board of directors of NIOC.
He further said an investment of $75 million was to be made in the project by tapping the domestic resources of NIOC in the first phase. The remaining capital for financing the project is expected to be procured under buyback or IPC contracts.
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Taking distribution of its premier content and workflow management solutions one step further, etfile launched a new sales engagement program to bring its award-winning solution to the reseller channel. The etfile-ENGAGED (E2) Partner Program is built on years of engagement with customers and partners to help resellers recognize new recurring revenue streams with the power of etfile.
In its annual report on the "Digital Universe" of information, industry analyst firm IDC estimates more than 40 zettabytes of data by 2020. As companies attempt to capture, store, file, and manage this data, the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market presents significant opportunities for resellers. Gartner Group reports the ECM sector will grow almost 12 percent CAGR through 2015.
"For years, etfile has helped customers realize new levels of efficiency, cost-savings and productivity through our direct sales program," said Mark Linton, President, etfile. "With that in mind, we realized a unique opportunity to expose our technology to a broader range of customers via committed resellers. The etfile E2 program is designed to do just that."
etfile's flagship product is a modular suite of capture, distribution, process management, and integration tools. The portfolio includes scalable client/server and cloud-based content management and automated workflow for enterprises and small-to-medium businesses across all industries. Helping organizations harness the power and ease-of-use of cloud for Web-based file sharing, online collaboration, automated workflows, and advanced analytics — etfile's strategic partnerships with leading automation vendors ensure solutions are in full compliance with the latest industry standards for compatibility and security.
Etfile E2 is based on real-world engagement with the channel. The program addresses the most difficult challenges facing ECM channel sales, offering resellers the technology and support to grow their business, drive customer satisfaction, and maximize profitability.
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Based on partner guidance and support, etfileE2 is offered in four, tiers-based customer commitment levels, including: E2 Referral, E2 Silver, E2Gold, and E2Platinum. To become a member of etfile-ENGAGED, please visit www.etfile.com/partners.
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#PaeMuKa@20: Hiplife comes full circle at Obrafour concert
Hiplife has come full circle. The above was the unanimous position by the throngs of music fans who besieged the Accra International Conference Centre last Saturday, for the climax...
Obrafour and Sarkodie perform at Pae Mu Ka @ 20 concert | Paul Addo
By ENews November 11, 2019
Hiplife has come full circle.
The above was the unanimous position by the throngs of music fans who besieged the Accra International Conference Centre last Saturday, for the climax of a year-long celebration of Pae Mu Ka, Obrafour’s seminal 1999 debut.
Virtually every great practitioner of contemporary street music showed up in an unprecedented gesture of solidarity with one of the most impactful voices across the Ghanaian music spectrum: Samini, EL, DJ Black, Bisa K Dei, Cy Lover, Edem, Kwaw Kese, Article Wan, XLNC, Kofi B, Joyce Blessing, Sarkodie, Dogo, Shatta Wale, Reggie Rockstone, Stonebwoy, Akan and a host of others.
Other prominent guests at the function were Yvonne Nelson, EIB boss, Bola Ray, popular politicians Sammy Awuku, Sam George and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, as well as a delegation from the Kwahu Traditional Council.
Programmed by Da’ Hammer, the record swiftly went on to define and shape the trade of hiplife as we have come to know it, and is deemed by many as easily the greatest moment in the genre that Reggie Rockstone named.
Hosted by radio deejay, KOD of Accra-based Starr FM, the night supplied a wistful journey to hiplife’s golden age, which was effectively curated by Obrafour and his longtime producer partner, Hammer, for submissions as Asem Sebe, TOFA, The Execution Diaries, Sounds of Our Time and suchlike.
Though Pae Mu Ka was a personal journey of self-discovery for a young Obrafour (born Michael Eliot Kwabena Okyere Darko), it has come to be embraced by everybody even remotely associated with the hiplife movement. Thus, unsurprisingly, the night also saw a deluge of glowing tributes from various artists about how Pae Mu Ka has influenced their current trajectories as musicians.
On his part, Obrafour, on multiple occasions, broke from his performance to acknowledge the vision of people who served as pillars for him during his comeuppance, notably Dan masoul Adjei, who served as executive producer on Pae Mu Ka. The rap legend also led a minute’s silence in memory of Popstars who have recently passed on, unbuttoning his suit to expose a t-shirt bearing the images of a number of diseased showbiz icons.
A night of nostalgic highlights, the show closed with a performance from Akan, who considers Obrafour as technical model, but not before an impromptu all-star jam session featuring Sarkodie, Edem, Kwaw Kesse, and Obrafuor himself via hiplife classics they have worked on either jointly or severally.
Proceeds from the Pae Mu Ka @ 20 celebrations will go into Obrafour’s Obrafoforo Foundation, which seeks to improve the nation’s lot in the area of rural education.
Below are key images from the event courtesy photographer Paul Addo:
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BEST OF 2010: FILM
Posted by Amy Steele in Film on January 6, 2011
Films underwhelmed me this year.
Here are the ten that made the greatest impact on me:
— gritty is the most simplistic way to describe this film. At first I thought I’d never get enthralled by a film about trailer parks and meth addicts but soon I was, my stomach wrenching throughout.
The Ghost Writer
— yes, I know that liking a film by child rapist Roman Polanski should mean I’m not a feminist but I have to separate the artist and the art. This film has that wow factor that’s been lacking for so long in thrillers.
–provocative. so many levels of psychoanalysis for this film. is it reality or delusion?
–engrossing from the first ten minutes. couldn’t stop watching this documentary about a Frenchman who gets caught up in the secretive lives of street artists. fascinating.
–great script and direction from Lisa Cholodenko. brilliant cast including Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. engaging, heart-warming story that sublimely highlights all the complications of families and relationships of all kinds.
–the Royals aren’t as confident as we might think and Colin Firth should win an Academy Award for his performance as King George VI.
Joan Rivers: a piece of work
–aging in front of the camera, amidst a youth-obsessed culture. Joan Rivers shows the harsh truth in a poignant and funny manner.
–a film about Facebook’s creation that’s so uncomfortable you feel like taking a shower after leaving the theater. These geeky guys with their bravado and disdain for women is just awful.
–Sofia Coppola makes films about very little taking place extremely well. Divine imagery, unspoken moments between and father and daughter provide much more insight than many of the more chatty independents can.
–writer/director Danny Boyle and actor James Franco made this true-life story into a harrowing cinematic experience.
stand-out performances:
Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, S. Epatha Merkerson and Naomi Watts in Mother and Child
Jim Carrey in I Love You Phillip Morris
Christian Bale in The Fighter
127 Hours, Annette Bening, Danny Boyle, Elle Faning, I Love You Phillip Morris, James Franco, Jim Carrey, Joan Rivers, Kerry Washington, Naomi Watts, S. Epatha Mekerson, Somewhere, The Social Network
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Magnifiers, Mouse Teeth, and Hope
Archaeologists love their equipment. Most of us can tell you when and where we got our first trowel, when and where we got our last trowel, whether we prefer a leaf blade or a pointing blade or a margin blade, why we buy Marshalltown or WHS or Battiferro. And it isn’t just our trowels. We’re obsessed with our hand picks, our Leatherman tools, our GPS units, our water bottles, our boots, and – perhaps the one realistic thing in the Indiana Jones movies – our hats.
It doesn’t stop with field archaeology. Lab archaeologists are just as intense about their microscopes and stereo macroscopes, their sonic cleaners and deionized water, their bags and bottles and pipettes. I’m as bad as the next archaeologist when it comes to equipment, so when a magnifying lamp I ordered finally arrived on Wednesday, I was stoked.
My lab in Sardinia is still being set up. I buy a few new pieces of equipment each time I return, and this year’s addition of a magnifying lamp is a significant upgrade. It enables me to take some time for a second zooarchaeological project that has been on the back burner for a year now. That project is looking for mouse teeth.
Yes, mouse teeth. Mouse teeth may sound insignificant, but these adorable, tiny fragments of ancient Rodentia are actually quite meaningful. Rodents are sensitive indicators of their local environments, and some species have particular relationships with humans that archaeologists use to understand how ancient people lived. In an ongoing research project that I’m pursuing in collaboration with the workgroup Mousetrack, run by Dr. Thomas Cucchi at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, I’m using different mouse species to understand when exchange relationships developed between Sardinia and the cultures of the East Mediterranean. This is an important question because archaeologists debate whether the prehistoric cultures of Sardinia were more isolated or more connected to other Mediterranean groups.
Sorting for mouse teeth with my new magnifying lamp
I took my new lamp to the lab first thing on Thursday morning and set it up at a specially reserved desk. This desk is now my mouse study desk, where I do the painstaking work of sifting through what archaeologists call “heavy fraction.”
When archaeologists dig, they collect a sample of sediment from every important stratigraphic layer. This sample of sediment is then mixed with water and agitated in a process called “flotation.” Flotation can be done by hand in a bucket or with a variety of more or less sophisticated pump-and-barrel mechanisms, but the point is to get carbonized plant remains to rise to the surface. The floating material – which sometimes also includes fish scales and tiny bones – is called the “light fraction.” We collect it using an extremely fine mesh like chiffon and dry it carefully, preferably out of direct sunlight (if carbonized seeds dry too quickly, the difference between the dry surface and the wet interior can make them break).
The stuff that doesn’t float during the flotation process is also collected, usually in a slightly larger mesh with holes about 1 mm2. This is the heavy fraction, and it’s where we find lots of tiny animal bones as well as pottery, chipped stone, metal, glass – any heavy material that breaks into small pieces. The tiny artifacts that show up in heavy fraction can be fascinating. Beads and jewelry, nails, pins, and fragments of carved bone are all common. Food waste is also common, and evidence for small foods like eggs, fish, and sea urchins is often recovered only in the heavy fraction.
The heavy fraction I’m sorting comes from my excavation of the early Nuragic site Sa Conca Sa Cresia, located on the small plateau near Siddi, Sardinia, that also includes Sa Fogaia. I co-directed the excavation of Sa Conca Sa Cresia with Sardinian archaeologist Dr. Mauro Perra between 2009-2011. The excavation was very successful and our analysis of the resulting artifacts is ongoing – a good rule of thumb is that archaeologists expect to spend three days in the lab for every one day of excavation.
At first, sorting heavy fraction feels like doing excavation in miniature. It’s exciting to notice the shiny flakes of obsidian, the broken pottery, the piglet toes and lizard jaws and frog legs as they emerge from the tiny rocks that make up 99% of the heavy fraction. After a while, though, I start to get nervous. Where are the mouse teeth? Why haven’t I found one? Will I end up finding any at all, or will I just spend hours of precious research time looking for something that isn’t there? The problem, of course, is that there’s only one way to answer these questions, and that is to get in there and sort.
Got one!
Realistically, I was rewarded pretty quickly with my first mouse tooth. And not just any tooth, a first molar of the mandible: the specific tooth that is most useful for my study. My heart leapt a little as I recognized the characteristic shape, and I picked it up gingerly and transferred it to a plastic specimen tray. I couldn’t say immediately what species the tooth belonged to – that requires careful cleaning and more powerful magnification – but the tooth was the right size to be one of the species I’m interested in.
It was an exciting find, and it re-energized me for a while. But after a couple of hours, the frustration crept back in. Then the concern. Obsessively, I sorted on.
When you’re invested in the outcome, sorting heavy fraction feels like playing a weird archaeological slot machine. I use flexible tweezers to spread out a small pile of sediment, then examine it minutely with the magnifying lamp. “C’mon, mouse tooth!” I say to myself as I flick past the ribs and toes and vertebrae that aren’t relevant for my study. There’s lots of what I don’t want, but is there anything I do want? No, nothing. I push this pile of sediment to the other side of my tray and start a new pile: “C’mon, mouse tooth…”
The hope is addictive. The possibility that each little pile of sediment might hold the tooth I’m looking for. The possibility that the tooth might belong to a significant species. The possibility that enough significant teeth will add up to a significant find, a meaningful advance in what we as humans know about our past. Students sorting heavy fraction for the first time usually put down their tweezers after fifteen minutes. “You do this all day?” they ask in disbelief. “Don’t you get bored???”
Yes, I get bored. But I stay hopeful.
After non-stop sorting for three days, I’m almost finished. I currently have eight new teeth, an average of less than one tooth for every liter of sediment. I’m hoping to find one more, but the sediment I’m working on now includes very little cultural material of any kind. There are only the rarest fragments of pottery, obsidian, or bone. Still, you never know. I always have hope.
Four mouse teeth – a full day’s work
September 30, 2017 September 30, 2017 by Emily Holt Categories: ArchaeologyTags: Ancient Mediterranean, Equipment, Exchange Trade and Cultural Contacts, Heavy Fraction, Lab work, Rodents, Sardinia, Zooarchaeology
Research Takes Forever
Today is the seventh day of my bone study. I’ve been getting up at 5:30 am, arriving at the lab before the sun is above the horizon. The bakery across the street is the only building where the lights are on. I’ve worked seven to ten hours every day since I started last Saturday, and I’ve identified 1028 specimens so far, an average of 146 specimens per day.
When I plan a zooarchaeological study, I estimate that I can do 200 specimens in an eight-hour workday, 25 specimens per hour. Most of the time, I hit this rate. Sometimes I even exceed it. But what I forget is that this is the ideal rate, the rate I achieve after I’m settled into a study, with my database exactly how I want it, my reference materials in familiar locations on my laptop and work table, the measurements I need to take fresh in my mind. I forget that this is not my rate during the first week of the study.
Each bag starts out a jumble
Careful research takes time, and preparing a study is one of the most time-consuming parts. It took me this whole week of working with the specimens to get my database sorted out. I started designing the database before the bones were back in the lab. I made a list of everything I needed to record and how I would record it. It took a full day to create the database in Filemaker, then a second full day to edit and improve it. When I started identifying specimens on Saturday morning, the database included 111 fields. But in the past seven days, it has grown to 125 fields: working with the material has reminded me of important types of evidence that slipped my mind during the design phase. I was still adding fields to the database yesterday, and who knows – I may realize tomorrow there’s yet another field that should be added. But I’m crossing my fingers that I’ve finally hit the point of diminishing returns.
For every specimen I look at, there are 125 types of evidence I may have to record. I can usually eliminate many after a brief glance. For example, I don’t have to record the circumference of the shaft on a bone that doesn’t have a shaft. But some types of evidence take time to figure out. One of the hard ones is carnivore gnawing. Dogs and other carnivores often gnaw bones, and their teeth leave marks that are fairly easy to recognize on a fresh bone. But when that bone is also gnawed by rodents, then exposed to the elements causing cracking and flaking, then buried and etched by the twisting roots of plants, it becomes much harder to decide whether a particular pattern of indentations comes from the teeth of a carnivore or from some other type of modification, what bone specialists call taphonomic processes.
Then I start to organize – by species, by bone type…
Teasing out taphonomic processes isn’t the only thing that takes time. Today, I had to investigate several bags that had been mislabeled. Figuring out their correct contextual information was a small feat of detective work. Fortunately, I keep good records, but the puzzle had me rereading the project notebook I kept back in 2009-2011 to see exactly which units my team was excavating on – for example – 14 June 2010. Needless to say, I did not average 25 specimens during those hours.
But these are the frustrating things that slowed me down. There were also exciting things. One of the great joys of archaeological research is the unexpected discoveries. As I examined my specimens for signs of taphonomic processes, I also noticed that several showed characteristic burnishing on the points and edges, a sign that they had been used as tools. I bagged and labeled each one and set them aside for a colleague who specializes in analyzing worked bone. Studying bone tool production is new in Nuragic archaeology, and the work my colleague will do to understand the worked bone industry at my site, Sa Conca Sa Cresia (Middle Bronze Age, c. 1700-1450 BCE), will result in only the second publication of its kind. As my colleague says, “È tutto da scoprire” – it’s all to be discovered.
So there are many reasons why research takes forever, but take forever it does. I’m a little nervous looking at the many bags of bones. Will I manage to identify every single one? At this point, I can’t say. But, like a good scientist, I took the time to design my study carefully. I will at least have a statistically significant sample – enough evidence to draw robust conclusions about the animal economy at my early Nuragic site.
And slowly, things come together
September 16, 2017 by Emily Holt Categories: Archaeology, Public ScholarshipTags: Bronze Age, Lab work, Middle Bronze Age, Sardinia, Zooarchaeology
And Then It Rained
Yesterday, it rained. Not a hard rain, but a steady one. The clouds rolled in, set up shop, and kept at it all day, though they did take some coffee breaks and a pretty long lunch. It rained until dinner – a soft patter punctuated by the songs of the more courageous birds – and then began again during the night. I woke up this morning to a misty sky and wet pavement.
The mood in the bar yesterday was one of subdued relief. People were quieter than usual, listening to the rain outside. As I sipped my morning cappuccino, one of my friends said: “watch, the whole landscape will change.”
Like most of the Mediterranean, Sardinia has been going through a severe drought. I ask how long it’s been since there was rain. Six months? Longer, they tell me. The news is full of statistics on the drop in agricultural production. Unripe pomegranates hang broken on the trees, their skins split by the arid winds. The blackberries on the plateau are shrunken and juiceless, so dry they break if I squeeze them. All this year’s fruit is smaller, and less. The figs are tiny. The vines bear fewer grapes, fewer tomatoes, fewer melons. The almonds are shriveled in their shells.
But yesterday, it rained. By mid-morning, a smell of warm clay filled the streets as water soaked into the hard-baked dust. By afternoon, the smell was of living soil with all its tiny life waking up and cautiously carrying on. And by evening, as I walked home from the little town library, the breeze carried a scent of keen freshness, like cutting into a watermelon that’s still a little green.
This rain came too late for the summer fruit. Most of what produce there is has already been gathered. But I’m looking forward to my next long walk in the fields or up on the plateau. I’m looking forward to watching the landscape change – if we’re lucky – just in time to plant the winter grains.
A steady rain over the town of Siddi
September 12, 2017 by Emily Holt Categories: TravelTags: agriculture, rain, Sardinia, seasons, Siddi, weather 1 Comment
Let the Bones Begin
I’m delighted to say I’m in the lab for my first full day of bone analysis. I worried that retrieving my materials from the museum where they were stored would take weeks, but our exceptional representatives at the Soprintendenza processed our permit in record time, and I collected the bones on Thursday. I spent yesterday morning finishing the database and yesterday afternoon finalizing my methodology. Now it’s Saturday morning, and here I am.
The beginning of a study is always intimidating. Even though I’m the one who excavated these bones, even though I know this archaeology inside and out, I look at the two crates filled with upwards of 5000 fragments and I think: “how will I ever…”
I know what’s waiting for me. I know there will be fragments I don’t recognize. I know there will be times when I turn a fragment over and over under the light, trying to decide if a series of round-ish dents are evidence of trampling or the marks of a dog’s teeth. I know there will be bones I need to reconstruct, bones I need to photograph, bones I need to set aside for further study. I know it will be a challenge.
I could stand here for hours, eyeing the bags of bones like I would the surface of a cold lake, but the best way forward is just to jump in.
So I do. And I’m right: on this first day, everything is a struggle. I realize I left several important fields out of my database, so now I have to add them. Several other fields aren’t in the right format and I have to change them. Several of the fields are too small to display the relevant information, so I have to make them bigger. Then I accidentally link one of the new fields to one of the old fields and can’t figure out how to unlink them, so I have to erase them both and start again.
It’s slow going, and the light isn’t great. I need to get a desk lamp. I need to organize my reference materials. I need to make a key for the various codes I’m using and write it on an index card. I need to find my photo scales.
That’s one bag down…
I’m not even going to tell you how long it took to identify my first bag of bones. It’s too disheartening. What I will tell you – and myself – is that it gets better. The first day is awful. The second day is hard. The third day, however, is when I start to find a rhythm. And on the fourth day, I pick up the pace. There are many long days ahead of me, but the worst one is now behind me. I plan to celebrate with pizza.
… and only several hundred more to go.
September 9, 2017 September 9, 2017 by Emily Holt Categories: ArchaeologyTags: Lab work, Middle Bronze Age, Nuragic Culture, Sardinia, Zooarchaeology
Sa Fogaia
The corridor nuraghe Sa Fogaia is one of my favorite monuments in Sardinia for many reasons. Some of those reasons are personal. Sa Fogaia was the first monument I explored on the Siddi Plateau. It was my first experience of the archaeology of the Middle Bronze Age, a fascinating period when the Nuragic Culture was first developing and the social and cultural practices that later became widespread were just being figured out. Sa Fogaia also happens to be located on the edge of a windswept plateau overlooking broad, golden lowlands that are striped by olive groves and dotted with small towns. I can’t deny the exhilaration of emerging from the ancient staircase and gazing out over that view.
The view from Sa Fogaia
But the main reasons I love Sa Fogaia are archaeological. Sa Fogaia is an unusual monument as corridor nuraghi go, which makes it an important reminder that – as useful as broad categorizations are – they can obstruct our understanding of human social processes when we rely on them too heavily.
What do I mean by that? If you read the scholarly literature on corridor nuraghi (which is easier if you read Italian, but there are a few things published in English), you’ll find statements that describe corridor nuraghi as having
“… strong rough stone walls and smaller internal areas…. There is no typical floor plan and some are elliptical, some quadrilateral, and some circular. All of the monuments have an internal corridor which is either straight or elbow (‘a gomito’). The buildings may have two entrances. Sometimes, apart from the corridor, there are other small spaces. It is not rare to find a stone stairway in the corridor, which leads up to an upper terrace. We hypothesize that the original buildings were between eight and fifteen meters high.” (Depalmas and Melis 2010: 169)
This is an accurate summary and serves as a good introduction to the concept of corridor nuraghi, which is what the authors intended to provide (I assign this article as background reading when I bring students to the field). But if – like me – you’re fascinated by corridor nuraghi in particular, you should note an important phrase: “Sometimes, apart from the corridor, there are other small spaces. It is not rare to find a stone stairway in the corridor, which leads up to an upper terrace.” This phrase covers a lot of real architectural variation among corridor nuraghi, variation that is important for understanding social processes among early Nuragic people but that isn’t highlighted when all corridor nuraghi are put in the same category.
I won’t attempt an exhaustive comparison of Sa Fogaia with all known corridor nuraghi – that would be material for a master’s thesis – but I will point out some features that make Sa Fogaia interesting.
Stones in the lower courses of the false-tholos chamber are smaller than those in the upper courses
The first thing to note about Sa Fogaia is its complexity. Most corridor nuraghi are structurally pretty simple, but Sa Fogaia is downright impressive in the number of chambers, corridors, and staircases it includes. Especially impressive is Sa Fogaia’s beautiful “false-tholos” chamber. It is notoriously difficult to photograph inside nuraghi, but this picture shows the important detail of a false-tholos chamber: unlike in a true tholos chamber, where the stones are smaller at the top than at the bottom, the stones in a false-tholos chamber get larger as you build higher, and the great weight of the stones themselves is used to counter-balance the small part of the stone that overhangs the empty space of the chamber. It’s a technique that succeeds in creating a comparatively large open space, but the result is much too massive to allow a second chamber to be built on top of the first. False-tholos chambers are rare, making Sa Fogaia one of only a few examples of how Nuragic architects experimented with construction techniques to arrive at the true tholos style that enabled them to build the multi-story towers of the later Nuragic period.
But the architects of Sa Fogaia didn’t stop after building the false tholos. They couldn’t build more false-tholos chambers on the second story, but they did create an elevated paved terrace that could be used as work or living space (some corridor nuraghi show evidence of huts being built on these terraces), as well as a corridor leading to the remains of a small chamber and two staircases: one that leads down to the courtyard below and one that leads tantalizingly upward, evidence that there was once a third story of some kind.
The staircase leading downward is another important feature of Sa Fogaia. At one point,
The entrance to the staircase was partially blocked with smaller stones
the staircase appears to have lead all the way to the courtyard, but at a later phase the bottom part was blocked up, making it harder to get up to the top if you’re trying to enter the staircase from the courtyard. Dating different phases of stone architecture is extremely difficult, so it’s currently impossible to say whether this change was made during the Nuragic period or during a phase of later reoccupation (and Sa Fogaia hosted a fairly extensive re-occupation in the late Punic and Roman periods). However, it’s interesting to note that this change made the upper part of the nuraghe a little more “exclusive.”
Although we can’t be sure when this change to Sa Fogaia was made, it’s interesting to think about it in terms of other nuraghi in the area. The UNESCO World Heritage site Nuraghe Su Nuraxi is only about 10km away, and Su Nuraxi, though it dates to a later phase of Nuragic development, also shows evidence of changing over time to create greater exclusivity. When it was first built, Su Nuraxi had an entrance at ground level and numerous small openings to the outside, probably to allow light into the structure. But a later refacing wall was built around the entirety of Su Nuraxi, and this wall closed off all the ground-level openings and created a new entrance 7m above ground level. The new entrance could only be reached by a ladder or staircase, and anyone entering the structure then had to navigate a narrow passage through the walls before using a second ladder or staircase to descend into the courtyard.
Spatial exclusivity like this can serve many functions in a society, and it often serves more than one at a time. Exclusive spaces can emphasize the social differences between the people who are allowed in and the people who aren’t, and this in turn can be used to justify unequal power relationships. Exclusive spaces can also be protective: they make it physically difficult for people to get in, both disaffected members of the group as well as hostile outsiders. When we’re speculating about the meaning of spatial exclusivity in nuraghi in particular, it’s important to remember that nuraghi of all periods show great diversity in their construction, including highly varying degrees of spatial exclusivity. It’s impossible to answer the question “what were the nuraghi for” on anything other than a site-by-site or system-by-system basis.
What was once at the top of this steep little staircase?
A final thing I love about Sa Fogaia is how much evidence there is that the structure was once even more complex than we see now. This little bit of staircase is preserved in part of the wall of the courtyard. What it once led to is impossible to say. A small platform? An extension of the second story? Perhaps another terrace? Whatever it was, it’s a reminder that the monument we see now is only part of the original construction. Corridor nuraghi are often treated as a uniform set of structures whose main historical function is to usher in the multi-story towers of the later Nuragic period. This approach is shown in the traditional architectural typology of nuraghi, in which “corridor nuraghi” are usually a single group and only the later tholos structures are divided into “simple” structures with a single tower and “complex” structures with multiple towers. But Sa Fogaia shows that corridor nuraghi also range from the simple to the highly complex, a strong indication that the social interactions that made architectural differentiations important in the later Nuragic Culture were already developing in the beginning.
* Depalmas, A. and R. T. Melis. 2010. The Nuragic People: Their Settlements, Economic Activities and Use of the Land, Sardinia, Italy. In Landscapes and Societies, Martini and Chesworth (eds.), pp. 167-186. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Dordrecht.
Evening sun shining down the staircase leading up from the false-tholos chamber
September 4, 2017 September 4, 2017 by Emily Holt Categories: Archaeology, Public ScholarshipTags: Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, monuments, nuraghi, Nuragic Culture, Sa Fogaia, Sardinia, Siddi, social interaction
In Quest of a Tweet
I’ve been in Sardinia less than two weeks, and I’ve been called out twice for not doing enough to share my research in Italian. It’s a fair criticism. I gave a well-attended public lecture in Italian at the end of the excavation I co-directed with Dott. Mauro Perra in 2009-2011, but since then I’ve done very little. The reasons are complex, and I did offer to give five weeks of public lectures on local archaeology in the summer of 2014, but it was eventually decided that English lessons would be a bigger draw (and I have to say, I delivered my English lessons to a packed house, and many Siddesi still greet me on the street with an accented “how are you”).
But the criticism stands, and the fact is archaeologists face a variety of challenges that can discourage us from speaking directly to the communities where we work. Combatting this issue is one of the missions of Public Scholar Outreach, a non-profit organization that two colleagues and I founded this year. It’s also the reason why the book I’m preparing with Dott. Perra to publish the results of our excavation will have summaries of each of the chapters in Italian. But the book won’t be out for a couple of years, and that’s too long to wait to start redressing this problem.
On my way to Sa Fogaia
Which is why I found myself trekking through Siddi’s countryside at sunset in search of tweet-worthy images of local archaeology. Italy celebrates European Heritage Days this month (September 23/24), and so in honor of Sardinian heritage, Public Scholar Outreach is featuring a full month of bilingual tweets and Facebook posts celebrating the archaeology and history of this beautiful island (follow us @ScholarOutreach).
I set off just after 6pm, phone in hand, to capture the fading light at one of my favorite monuments: the corridor nuraghe Sa Fogaia. Corridor nuraghi date to the early development of the Nuragic Culture during the Sardinian Middle Bronze Age (c. 1700-1365 BCE). They don’t reach the impressive heights of the later tholos nuraghi, but many – including Sa Fogaia – are complex structures with several chambers, multiple stories, and architectural features that suggest successive building episodes. Corridor nuraghi are often treated briefly in the scholarly literature. Few have been well excavated and even fewer published, and in many corridor nuraghi, later reuse destroyed the early Nuragic deposits, so even careful excavation may result in limited new information.
Because the corridor nuraghi are less frequently excavated and their deposits often damaged, our understanding of the early development of the Nuragic Culture is limited. Raising interest in these structures is one way to encourage more research to get done. So I walk. The most direct path to Sa Fogaia climbs a few gentle hills and then rises steeply up the side of the Siddi Plateau, the site of an important Middle Bronze Age settlement system of which Sa Fogaia is only one part. I pass a shepherd and his flock, and we exchange a few words about the coolness of the evening after the painfully hot day. He’s not someone I know, and he seems pleased that a foreigner is on her way to see the nuraghe. “There are lots on the plateau,” he tells me. I nod.
The last few meters up the wooded sides of the plateau
It’s a sweaty climb to the top, but the view, as always, is worth it. Sa Fogaia glows in the slanting sunlight and I get several good photos for Facebook and Twitter. Turning these photos into informative posts and tweets that will encourage people to engage with Sardinian archaeology is a whole other challenge, of course, but tonight I’ve taken an important first step.
September 2, 2017 September 2, 2017 by Emily Holt Categories: Archaeology, Public Scholarship, TravelTags: Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, monuments, nuraghi, Nuragic Culture, Sardinia 2 Comments
Yesterday was my first day back in the deposito, and I was delighted to find it in great shape: everything where I left it, the electronic equipment still working, no mold anywhere. There was barely a spider that had set up a web among the bags of pottery. While I’ve been away, the Comune even came and attached the plumbing, so whereas last year we constantly carried equipment to an outdoor tap to wash it, this year I have a functioning sink right in the lab. (Tante grazie al Comune di Siddi!)
There was one negative surprise, however. It turns out that the bones I was convinced were stored in the deposito are currently housed in a museum in another town about 5 km away. These bones are, of course, precisely the materials I came here to study.
It isn’t a major problem, and if it’s the worst thing that happens during the study, I’ll be in great shape. Still, archaeology is surrounded by bureaucracy in almost any country, and Italy is not an exception. Taking those four crates of bones, putting them in a vehicle, and driving them 5 km to the deposito will take days. There will be permit applications, calls to the Soprintendenza, organizing a day when we can use the Comune’s truck…
So when a friend asked me if I wanted to spend this morning helping him harvest his vineyard, I said sure!
In the vineyard before the sun, the heat… and the wasps
I got up at 6am and dressed for fieldwork – my Northface pants, a long-sleeved shirt with a high spf rating, hiking boots, work gloves, sunscreen, a hat. Then we drove to the vineyard – a short distance outside the town – where we met five friends who were also lending a hand.
Bunches of bovale wrapped around the wire trellises
It’s a small vineyard divided between two Sardinian grapes – bovale and monica – with a row of table grapes as well. We started with the bovale, which was difficult to harvest. The grapes are small and the clusters grow in tangles with themselves, the branches of the vine, the wire trellises the vines are tied to, really anything they can wrap a tendril around. It was hard work just figuring out where to cut, and even then we had to untangle the grapes before they would fall into our large plastic baskets.
The monica was simpler. The grapes are slightly larger and the clusters tend to hang down one by one. It was easier to see the stems, to insert our shears among the leaves and branches, to gather the clusters once they were cut. All in all, the seven of us made short work of the harvest. We finished before 9am, when the air was still too cool for the wasps to come out, but late enough that we could tell today was going to break 37°C (100°F) again. Another hot day in a series of hot days in a series of dry weeks stretching back for months. The effect of the drought was clearly visible in the grapes, some of which appeared to be drying on the vine before they had even fully ripened.
The crusher made short work of separating the grapes from the stems
The wine production takes places in my friend’s garage, and the first step was to turn our fresh grapes into must. We slowly poured each basket into an electric crusher, which spat out the stems – or most of them – and dropped the juice and crushed grapes into large plastic vats below. At the end, the vat of bovale was knee-high, and the vat of monica was only slightly lower. They told me it wasn’t much this year because of the drought, but it still looked impressive to me.
The must has to stand for a week to let the fermentation begin. We’ll go stir it a few times, then press it and bottle it. It seems almost too simple to result in the excellent wine I’m used to drinking at my friend’s table.
“È tutto?” I ask in some disbelief.
“È tutto,” they assure me.
We can’t resist tasting our work before we go. There’s a fine screen we press down on the must to let just the juice through, then we scoop up the juice in a plastic cup. Both are delicious. The bovale is intensely sweet and rich tasting, the monica slightly less sweet with a flavor closer to table grapes. Some complain that it’s too sweet, but it seems the intense sugar is expected in a drought year. Drought years produce little wine, they tell me, but the wine you get is very good. I’ll have to return next summer and see.
Sweet, delicious, fresh-squeezed juice
August 29, 2017 August 29, 2017 by Emily Holt Categories: Sardinia, TravelTags: agriculture, culture, Sardinia, wine, winemaking
Sea and Sardegna
Vacation has come to an end. Tomorrow I go to the Comune to request keys for the deposito where the artifacts are stored. I start designing a database to record the bones in my zooarchaeological study. I buy a good desk lamp. I park myself in the Biblioteca Comunale and take advantage of the free wifi to answer a long list of emails. I go through the proofs for my edited volume.
But this week of vacation has been glorious, spent relaxing with friends on several of Sardinia’s beaches, and Sardinia’s beaches are gems. They tend to be small – narrow strips of sand caught between junipers and jutting rocks – reached only after turning off the road and driving several minutes down a dirt trail.
There’s often a kiosk selling coffee and gelato, maybe a simple restaurant, and that’s generally it in terms of services: most beaches are minimally “improved.” The ideal of the wild beach, sometimes reached only after leaving the car in an unpaved parking lot and hiking an hour down a dry riverbed, is one many Sardinians hold dear.
I have to agree with them. The beaches I saw this week weren’t even among the really wild, and they were stunning in their natural beauty. It’s hard to describe them without sounding cliché. The water deepens from aqua to almost purple as you look toward the horizon. It’s so clear I often watched my shadow on the rippled sand below me as I swam. Rising behind the beaches are slopes of rock and evergreen maquis broken only by occasional clumps of houses. Even these houses are the source of some complaint – my friends love to recount how, a few decades ago, there weren’t so many houses and the beaches were truly wild.
I find myself torn between wishing more people knew about the beauty of Sardinia and fearing that one day they will. That one day, not only the Costa Smeralda but also the Costa Rei will be covered with slick palazzi and high-end boutiques. That the Costa Verde will turn from a wildlife refuge to a stretch of strip malls. Most Sardinians show admirable stewardship of their lovely beaches: they don’t take the sand or rocks or shells, they do take all their garbage. I just hope further development will be in this same Sardinian spirit.
The crystal waters of Cala Pira, near Costa Rei
The soft sands of Chia, in the south
Following the coast from Chia
A pebble beach near Capo d’Orso, in the north
August 27, 2017 August 27, 2017 by Emily Holt Categories: TravelTags: beaches, Sardinia, vacation
I once went to a psychologist whose website listed “family of origin” issues as among her specializations.
“What’s a family of origin?” I asked at our first meeting.
“You know, the family you’re born into rather than the family you choose.”
She said it like it was obvious, but it was new to me and the idea stuck. Some things we’re born into, and some things we choose, and both have deep emotional reality, the chosen no less than the ones we happen into at birth.
This thought occurs to me every time someone asks me where I’m from. “Where are you from” means different things to different people. When an academic asks me, it means what university I teach at or where I got my PhD. When a stranger asks me, it means the last place I lived long enough to hold a job and put down roots. But that’s a northern stranger, to be sure. A southerner once asked me while we were waiting at US customs after returning from abroad.
“I never know how to answer that question,” I waffled. “I move around a lot. I was teaching in Buffalo last year, but I also work in Sardinia…”
“Where were you born, honey?”
“I was born in Ohio.”
“Then you’ll always be from Ohio.”
Okay, yes, I guess that’s true: Ohio is my home of origin. But the other homes I get to choose.
Yesterday, I came home to Sardinia. Stepping off the airplane felt like putting on a good pair of running shoes or a favorite dress that still looks hot: simultaneously comfortable and ready for action. I picked up my rental car, slipped into the muscle memory of driving a manual transmission (which I never do in the states), and took off for the town of Siddi where I’ve been doing archaeology for the past eight years. There are hiccups, to be sure – my Italian isn’t as fluent as it will be after a few weeks of speaking – but it comes back quickly, enough so that the waiter serving my lunch started out in English but joined me in Italian after a few short exchanges.
I’m at Caffè Libarium Nostrum on the castello of Cagliari, high up in the center of the old city. Libarium Nostrum is a longtime favorite. The food is good, but what draws me here is the view: the tiled domes and elaborate facades of Cagliari’s many churches, the Torre dell’Elefante to my left, the Via Santa Croce winding away to my right with its panorama over the city’s medieval walls. In among the elegant structures are the clotheslines and crumbling brick of a very living city. An Italian colleague from the mainland once claimed that Cagliari is ugly. Given that I think Cagliari is one of the most charming cities I know, I can only imagine he meant that – unlike Venice or Florence or Rome – Cagliari doesn’t look like a museum. And it doesn’t. Cagliari’s historic corners are full of modern grit. But that’s what I love about it. I love finding some of my favorite street art across the piazza from the cathedral. I love drinking cocktails in an underground room that was once a medieval cistern. I love that there’s a windfarm in the middle distance between the port and the mountains. Cagliari isn’t trying to be anything particular – it just is.
And that’s how it feels to be back in Sardinia. Here, I don’t try to be anything. I just am what I am: a slightly crazy American girl who keeps coming back to do archaeology in one of the coolest places she’s ever been. I’m weird, but still welcome. Foreign, but a member of the community. I leave a friend’s house in Siddi where I’m staying while I do my research, and people on the street welcome me back and ask me how long I’ll be around. I order a cappuccino in the piazza bar, where I’ve returned every summer since 2008, and another friend insists on paying. He asks me where my students are; I explain that this year I’ve come alone. We talk about the difficulty of finding funding for cultural projects and the importance of video in bringing archaeological results to a broader audience. I promise to do more, not only in English but also in Italian, and he says he’ll introduce me to his brother, a film editor.
I have until October 16 to complete my zooarchaeological study and get sufficient footage for a couple of videos. But right now, I’m coming off an intense five weeks doing the project in Akko. I’m giving myself until Friday just to enjoy being home.
Cagliari’s gritty charm
The cathedral on the castello
The castello’s narrow streets
August 22, 2017 August 22, 2017 by Emily Holt Categories: Uncategorized 1 Comment
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Ethiopian Airlines: Boeing 737 crashes on way to Kenya
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An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet has crashed on a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi in Kenya. The flight is believed to have had 149 passengers and eight crew members on board, the airline says. (www.bbc.com) Más...
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Tom Pera hace 10 meses 23
As a tower controller for a number of years I witnessed several crashes... there was one every 2 weeks or so up at So Lake Tahoe...anyway.. we were not allowed to talk among ourselves and compare our memories... and had to write statements on what we saw... amazing that 2-3 experienced controllers, seeing the same event, had such divergent recalls.. I don't place much stock in eye witness accounts from general public on the ground
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James Bruton hace 10 meses 3
Curious as to the frequency of crashes at So. Lake Tahoe. Why? Inbound or outbound? Mostly general aviation -prop or jet?
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Tom Pera hace 10 meses 5
Sunday afternoon "gotta get home".. downdrafts/turbulence every summer afternoon, 9000+ density altitude and inexperienced pilots = GA crashes..... always had 2-3 wrecks hidden behind hangars...
Bill Babis hace 10 meses 4
Yes, you can read almost any aircraft accident report and someone will have seen smoke or fire and would say that the engine was running rough. Rarely is it found to be true though. This one was so close to the ground at times that it may have been leaving a trail of dust and debris kicked up in its wake.
Mark Kanzler hace 10 meses 1
A lot of people will just say something spectacular to get their 15 seconds of television news fame.
AWAAlum hace 10 meses 2
And I pray never to be on the tv news.
wingbolt hace 10 meses 1
In a accident investigation class I took it was stated that eyewitness accounts are very unreliable. What they see it mostly colored by their Aviation experience or lack of. One eyewitness once stated that “The hand of God struck it from the sky”. I don’t even have much faith that the truth will come out. I’m sure governmental officials of Ethiopia are already taking bribes.
sparkie624 hace 10 meses 1
Very true, even though you can discount most of them, it appears little boys seem to pick up on the most minor details and you would not believe the detail and accuracy of some of them...
bentwing60 hace 10 meses 1
sparkie, I picked up somewhere that the Ethiopian airplane had a digital CVR/FDR in a combined unit and Honeywell, L3 and Universal all make them. Do you know if they are being installed on U S registered aircraft?
All 737's manufactured have DFDR, CVR's. (DFDR stands for Digital FDR, FDR is analogue/tape). There are some FDR's out there, but most all are DFDR's I do not know about the HoneyWell L3.
I meant the combined unit. One box.
I doubt it.... I personally don't think that I would like both in 1 box.... At least if you find 1 you got one or the other... Better to have 1/2 of something vs all of nothing.
My thoughts exactly, kinda like the Bendix "dual" magneto.
Yeah... Better to have 1 than none!
Should have added Part 121.
I believe the FDR and CVR will be read in Washington. It would be hard to cover that info up I would think.
It might be read in Washington...only if Ethiopia invites the NTSB to participate. The NTSB has no authority in countries other than the US and most likely won’t publish their findings. They will, as in most cases, let the controlling agency of the host country publish the findings. If you spend time on the NTSB site as far as I know they won’t publish anything on foreign accidents.
Not 100 percent true.... It was an American Made Plane with US Citizens that lost their life... The NTSB will probably release a report, but is not obligated to.
This says nothing about loss of American lives. You might consider doing some research.
Assistance to foreign governments: The NTSB may assist in incident or accident investigations occurring outside the United States under certain circumstances. These may include accidents or incidents involving American-registered or American-owned civil aircraft or aircraft with U.S. manufactured components in foreign air space. Officially, NTSB employees are prohibited from releasing information about "another country's investigation".[18] The NTSB will also on occasion provide technical and other advice to transportation investigative boards in countries that do not have the equipment or specialized technicians available to undertake all aspects of a complex investigation
crk112 hace 10 meses 1
What article did you read? Says right here "eight Americans .. were among the passengers"
Actually I re-read the thread and realized what you were referring to... disregard my previous comment
Garth Clark hace 10 meses 0
Sounds about right. They all worry about their reputation. The elites and investigators get their stories combined then create the "final report" as to who is responsible.
James Steiner hace 10 meses 7
Aircraft was a Boeing 737-MAX 8 just about 4 months old. The aircraft was delivered to Ethiopian in November 2018. From planespotters.net: https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/Boeing/737/ET-AVJ-Ethiopian-Airlines/jKwyiw2p
Bill Babis hace 10 meses 18
Boeing's gonads are on the table with this one. AFM, Training, Systems, or whatever, they have a real problem with this airplane. Had either one of these accidents, if you can call it that, happened in the US, It would already be over.
william baker hace 10 meses 1
Yes they are. From what I see on flight tracking released this flight was low and fast and from the photos this plane hit hard and fast as you can see from the crater it made. Somethings telling me this wasn’t stall related. But time will tell.
Frank Harvey hace 10 meses 1
Looking at the ADS readout at
twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1104676048317362177
If, note if, the terrain rises east of HAAB then he wasn't gaining anything despite reasonable airspeed. I don't have terrain chart for his route but its almost like a terrain hugging profile, like he can't get above ground effect.
"Airspeed don't matter, if the nose don't come up it ain't gonna climb"
FDR will tell, but once again it looks like the crew fought the airplane until something broke or disengaged in the elevator control system.
Frank Harvey hace 10 meses -2
Well one thing its way too new for wear in the jackscrew
That was lack of greasing on that Alaskan jet lol.
wiganerwiganer hace 10 meses 1
I find it odd that you would say LOL about a crash that killed over 100 people. Did you really mean that?
Jamar Jackson hace 10 meses 10
Seattle we have a problem ð³
scott ebrite hace 10 meses 17
Lion air had an unstable vertical speed event. Ethiopian has an unstable vertical speed. It may be time for Boeing to re-visit the anti-stall automation and let real pilots fly the aircraft.
matt jensen hace 10 meses 1
After all the comparisons on this site - re: Airbus vs Boeing. It seems to me Ethiopian would have had Airbus jets, instead of our beloved Boeing. JMO - Airbus seems to sell more to 3rd world countries where the pilots aren't well trained.
Bill Babis hace 10 meses -2
Yes, Boeing needs anti-diveintotheground automation with these recent crashes. The stall hasn't been the problem in a long time.
I'm sorry. I sometimes forget to engage the sarc font.
The law of diminishing returns on aircraft safety systems, or let's see how else WE can screw with the pilot, has gone past 0 and is starting to go the other way. It looks like the MCAS system alone has claimed 346 victims so far.
Viv Pike hace 10 meses 12
Reading through all the comments, it appears - to me, anyway - that many are making "assumptions" on the cause of this tragedy, and making references to "stall", "trim", "nosedive", "pilots", "Boeing", etc. However, what about this?
(quoted extract). "The plane was already on fire when it crashed to the ground. The crash caused a big explosion," said witness Tegegn Dechasa at the site, littered with passenger belongings, human remains, and airplane parts.
"The plane was in flames in its rear side shortly before the crash. The plane was swerving erratically before the crash."
Farmer Sisay Gemechu, said: "The plane seemed to be aiming to land at a nearby level open field, but crashed before reaching there."
Why don't we wait for the official cause, instead of speculation?
Ken McIntyre hace 10 meses 7
Most if not all of the eye witnesses are not used to seeing aircraft close up. These reports are suspect.
sharon bias hace 10 meses 2
Anyone who's lived under any kind of commercial flight path knows what to expect as to size, sound, and timing of aircraft from the airport. I can tell the Delta B717 that takes off from SMF every morning because it sounds so different from the 737 everyone else is flying at that time of day. You just know when something is new, different, or wrong. The eye witnesses might not know all of the details of the aircraft, but they know JAR "Just Ain't Right". With calm and quiet interviews, the investigators might get some surprising answers from the folks that saw this tragedy.
Viv Pike hace 10 meses 2
OK, I hear you. But are you subtly trying to say, "forget the eye witness accounts, this was an MCAS problem/issue as with Lion Air" ?? Let us wait for the official reports, I say.
David Burns hace 10 meses 4
A large problem with eyewitness accounts is conversation pollution. When many people see an accident and then start to share information on what they saw their own version of the accident changes. I was told some years ago by a friend who who was an accident investigator with the N.T.S.B. Eyewitness accounts can help to a certain degree but the real version will come from the flight data and voice recorders. Is is pretty shameful when the news media puts the spin on the story before the outcome is verified, but then the almighty dollar rules the day.
"forget the eye witness accounts"...I never said that. These people are a long way from the airport, likely with little close up experience with aircraft. Confused and stunned at what they were seeing. Hard for them to describe it.
At least one eyewitness strongly maintained he saw flames coming from the fuselage of a DC-8, Arrow Air 1285, as it passed low over him at CYQX moments before crashing in December 1985 but the Canadian AIB found the cause was icing.
Highflyer1950 hace 10 meses 1
DC-8-63 were equipped with Pratt & Whitney JT3-D turbo-jet engines that just screamed when at take off power. They also poured thick black smoke out the back at full thrust and many people on the ground thought they were on fire. We used to get compressor stalls on landing when the thrust reversers on the outboard engines disturbed enough of the airflow into the inboard engines causing the banging like backfire heard inside and outside of the plane. Just reduce the reverse thrust on #1 & #4 and it stopped. Interesting that the -DC 8 had “slots” in the wings not slats which are located on the leading edge of the wings.
CB HARDY hace 10 meses 1
Those "slots" were holes from bird strikes.
Like Sparky I remember the very thick black smoke. The first, and most memorable, time it was pouring out of all four cans of a 4 engine job (707 or DC-8) climbing up from under the cliff at LPAZ in the late 1960s. Back then LPAZ runway 22 (?) ended at the top of a cliff, there was no 18/36. He seemed to be rolling long before they fully spooled up and he used up all the runway before getting it off the deck, hopped over the threshold and disappeared over the edge of the cliff. We tensed up waiting for the crash. After a long 3 or 4 seconds he reappeared out over the sea with these four really thick black plumes, heading west, presumably across the Atlantic, climbing really slowly. It was a very hot summer afternoon and I assume he was quite heavy.
Yes.... I remember that Black Smoke... May sound crazy... but part of me misses those engines and those days... You would have to go and due trim runs to get the throttles set right.. Now we use FADEC's and that takes all the fun out of it.. LOL...
Jim Goldfuss hace 10 meses 1
Most reports of fire and explosions are a result of compressor stalls (as in the Arrow Air incident). The observer DID see fire, as compressor stalls do send an impressive flame shooting out the rear of the pipe in some conditions.
Thanks Jim, and Sparkie, for the clarifications. Its great to receive explanations from knowledgeable, experienced people without any demeaning or condescending tone. And, Sparkie, your anecdotes really help to graphically illustrate issues that arise. Responses like these really help make a forum like Squawks pleasant and successful. Its like reading the "I learned about flying from that" column. And who knows they may actually save lives if someone can recall a solution when a similar situation is encountered. Many thanks.
sparkie624 hace 10 meses -1
LOL... I remember one on a 727 back in the 90's at about 2 AM on our maintenance Ramp... Tower called the fire department and when they showed up we explained to them what had happened and no worries... But it was a night and it was an impressive show with a very nice Boom... JT8D-17 engine could handle that where the new CFM engines can't do it....
Allen Churchwell hace 10 meses 1
I think it would be fairly easy to see the smoke/fire from the ground and it would explain the creator created from the crash itself, but, there are many different theories and as Bill said that's why we are posting our views/opinions, but to say forget about eye witness accounts, seems strong.
as I posted before... I've witnessed several crashes... along with other trained observers... when we later compared our FAA/NTSB witness statements they were alarmingly different... untrained ground observers are not reliable... forget their statements? no... but... "take them with a grain of salt"....
I'm thinking...As far away as these people are from the airport, their only experience with jet aircraft might be movies or television. Operative word, might.
We'll all wait for the report Viv. Nothing said here on FA will be part of it. WE have thoughts, speculations, and questions associated with the submitted squawk that WE post here. Others have no issue with what you say. Please have no issue with what others say. You are as welcome as the next to vote comments up or down as you please.
As are everyone's speculation here other than waiting for the investigation to release information gathered from facts.
Even if living under flight path? No, no - all relavent
will wynne hace 10 meses 1
All those folks on Long Island who eye-witnessed the upward shooting "missiles"from water surface that early evening in 1996 just imagined what they saw, right? I think that includes 172 different descriptions of individuals stating similarities in what they saw. FBI rejected all accounts because it didn't fir with what the Government wanted the FBI to conclude.
KatzyBaby hace 10 meses 0
You are not alone in still having concerns about that flight, no matter what any of the documentaries show.
Discussing possibilities is, in large part, what this forum is all about.
Fran Crimi hace 10 meses 6
The Lion Air MAX 8 crashed 12 minutes after takeoff last October. Now this, 6 minutes after takeoff.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/10/africa/ethiopia-airline-crash-nairobi-intl/index.html
joel wiley hace 10 meses 3
From AVHerald:
http://avherald.com/h?article=4c534c4a&opt=0
Matt West hace 10 meses 3
Does anyone remember the problem with the original 737 that caused an uncommanded hard over on the rudder? It took the NTSB years to figure that issue out...I only hope this doesn’t end the same way.
The only reason that they found out was one plane actually landed safely with the fault. They took the actuator and ran it under extreme conditions... Once it failed it was not until some time later that someone noticed that it failed in the opposite direction of the commanded input... That is when they instructed the flight crews that when the Hard Over happened to release the rudder back to neutral and the system would return to normal.... That was actually more of a lucky find than it was skill.
William McIntosh hace 10 meses 1
No, US Air Flight 427 did not survive. All 127 aboard died in 1994.
The one that I was referring to lost control, regained control and landing in KRIC... The FAA and NTSB jumped on that plane like Stink on... Well you know what and got the rudder actuator that they were never to find in tact on the other planes. If memory serves, I think it was Metro Jet that had the fault and recovered... The way they recovered was to turn off all the hydraulic systems and fly it manually... After that the training of crews in that kind of situation was to return the rudder to neutral when the fault happened and that would reset the system.
I remember that time very well... I worked on the planes and replace many many Rudder Packs (Actuators)...
In regards to 427 where the NTSB report has been questioned. That plane was carrying sone cartel member scheduled to testify in federal court in Pittsburgh. The FBI was the first on the scene, and parts of the plane was seized by the FBI and never released to the FAA... A mechanic friend was there and witnessed the plane fall out of the sky when he was at his sons baseball game.... that one is in question, but was real easy to blame on the Rudder.
Thanks for clarifying that for me sparkie624! I was unaware of the Metro flight. Also unaware of the 427/FBI connection. I also thought that 427 suffered rudder failure
427 was labeled that way and the FBI covered up as much as they could and laid Boeing out to dry on it..
Eastwind 517 did not crash and that is where the data came from
No the data came for the Us air 427 rudder dual servo valve. They did a torture test of it which consisted of soaking the valve for 4 hours in dry ice then blasting it with liquid nitrogen and then using super heated hydraulic fluid thru it and the valve stopped working and it wasn’t commanded to stop. Upon looking at the data from it a Boeing engineer found out not only did it stop it reversed it self. The three flights from these issues were United 585 heading to Colorado Springs Colorado and then is air 427 was headed to Pittsburg Pa and east wind flight 517 headed to Richmond Va. Us air 427 and United 585 were deamed rudder reveresals and East wind 417 was a rudder hard over.
The data came from the Eastwind flight...
The data came from the torture test of us air 427 dual service valve. Yes the eastwind helped but they found nothing wrong with that 737 after they found out about it and talked to the pilot. They even did flightests with the plane and found nothing. I heard they did the torture test on the us air valve and that’s where the data came from.
The NTSB investigated the incident, with a particular focus on determining whether the events of Flight 517 were related to previous Boeing 737 crashes.[1]:44
During the investigation, the NTSB found that prior to the June 9 incident, flight crews had reported a series of rudder-related events on the incident aircraft, including abnormal "bumps" on the rudder pedals and uncommanded movement of the rudder.[1]:263
Investigators conducted interviews with the pilots of Flight 517, and removed rudder components from the aircraft for examination, which helped to establish the cause of the previous crashes of United Flight 585 and USAir Flight 427. The NTSB determined that all three incidents could only be explained by pilot error or a malfunction of the rudder system, and based partly on post-accident interviews with the Flight 517 pilots, concluded that rudder malfunctions were likely to have caused all three incidents.[1]:272–73
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastwind_Airlines_Flight_517
Sparkie is talking about a different flight that did land safely after experiencing the rudder issue, that helped to solve the two fatals.
dunkleym hace 10 meses 3
Should be interesting to see the FDR CVR and MCAS analysis
scott ebrite hace 10 meses 5
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/china-ethiopia-halt-boeing-737-104622527.html
I find this quite interesting...
"The plane was very close to the ground and it made a turn. We looked and saw papers falling off the plane," Malka Galato, the farmer whose land the plane crashed on, told Reuters from the rural area where horse-drawn carriages ply rough roads.
"Cows that were grazing in the fields ran in panic ... There was smoke and sparks coming from the back of the plane."
The plane tried to climb but failed, then swerved sharply trailing white smoke and objects including clothes before crashing, said farmer Tamirat Abera, who was walking nearby.
The investigation will sort this out.
You are not the only one finding this type of accident interesting or weird. The fact that the aircraft managed to fly for 60+ km before crashing, all the time unable to climb suggests to me at least then following: with the Lion Air crash, every Max operator in the world would be aware of the MCAS system operation and where those two trim cut out switches were located., if less than rated thrust was available for whatever reason the aircraft would defintely be in a nose high attitude but not gaining any altiitude, if the crew attempted any turn greater than, say 15 degrees of bank the MCAS could activate and all this is happening at approx. 9000’ ASL.....ac performance may have been so degraded it could not fly? A 200 hour (if correct) co-pilot would not have necessarily helped the situation whether PF or PNF! I would assume that in 45 miles the crew would have communicated that they had a thrust or a control issue? At least the recorders were recovered.
Further adding to this issue, the plane was going over 440kts which is hard to do with partial power unless straight down so the investigators will have their hands full with this one, again!
I know its not possible in the same way in the 738 but have you ever looked at the flight profile of an a/c which takes off with the elevator gust lock in place ? It gets off the runway but he just cannot get it above ground effect. Its almost as if the elevator wasn't allowing him to raise the nose. But then if this were the case here they'd have known it when they hit Vr.
I have never seen Elevator locks on a 737... I do not know of any instance where they would have been needed.
Hi Sparky. That was why I started with "I know its not possible in the same way in the 738.." I was just thinking of where I'd seen this kind of terrain hugging flight profile before. I once saw someone taxiing (a low tail Piper) with a long "Remove before flight" streamer hanging from the empennage and he wasn't listening to Unicom. Luckily that guy realised it when he couldn't get the yoke to move in and out and taxied back looking very embarrassed.
I very much agree. All that speed and little altitude gain tells me they could not get the nose up and were hesitant to reduce power which would cause the nose to want to go down even more. Could the trim have started to run away on takeoff and the crew missed it due to their concentration on the takeoff? What I don't understand is why no one doesn't just grab a trim wheel and horse it toward trim up. Are they locked somehow when auto systems are on? I would certainly try anyway.
I sure would like to know what the simulator sessions are showing with what we appear to see happening? Failed flight displays, AOA giving false signals, aircraft in a turn near indicated max AOA and thrust still set at take off setting all with activation of the MCAS. What did the stby flight instruments show and to Bill’s point, just grab the trim wheel and start manually trimming and more to the point what the crew of the previous Lion Air flight experienced on the their flight and were able to control the aircraft?
F A hace 10 meses 1
Bill - runaway trim would force the crew to turn off the system. If the switches themselves somehow failed then yes, grab the wheel
Rhetorical questions
1. Is there a manual trimwheel on the MAX and is it physically permanently connected or is there just a neat little electrical thumbswitch on top of the yoke.
2. If there is a wheel can it be electrically locked out by some (conditional) law ?
If this were an Airbus I would assume lots of things, but this is a Boeing.
1. Yes and yes
Thanks FA
Only thing that could lock it would be the captains leg and after that he would not be able to walk off the plane.. LOL... The Mechanical drive is great and that wheel turns very fast.. Keep in mind that the gearing is such that it is is easy to turn, but on it's own, it would be very difficult to stop.
Thanks Sparky. CA being removed from the a/c on a wheelchair. You come up with some interesting images.
According to purported ADS-B from : twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1104676048317362177
Rotation appears to have occurred at 05h38Z.
HAAB OAT at 05h00Z was 16C. Wind 070 at 10
HAAB OAT at 06h00Z was 18C. Wind 060 at 8
Could not find winds aloft
After 05h38Z Groundspeed never drops below 200 kt
MSL does drop but recovers.
Half a dozen witnesses interviewed by Reuters in the farmland where the plane came down reported smoke billowing out behind, while four of them also described a loud sound.
“It was a loud rattling sound. Like straining and shaking metal,” said Turn Buzuna, a 26-year-old housewife and farmer who lives about 300 meters (328 yards) from the crash site.
“Everyone says they have never heard that kind of sound from a plane and they are under a flight path,” she added.
Taylor Beck hace 10 meses -13
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BUT ZOMG IT HAS TO BE MCAS...MCAS...MCAS...MCAS! lol
Jeff Hudson hace 10 meses 8
found this on MCAS........http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm
That site is the single best 737 site in the world.. Have used it often and thanks for sharing... two things that I do not understand is:
1.) Why does the system not look at both AOA's and if there is a difference, disable the system and post a caution on the screen,
2.) Why have to search for a CB in such an emergency... Why not a button on the Glare shield to disable it when needed... Since it is so important, make it a guarded switch.
"Why not a button on the Glare shield to disable it when needed... Since it is so important, make it a guarded switch". Boeing and the certifying agency disclosed their opinions of the relative importance of this system by not disclosing it's existence before the Lion Air crash. They postulated that trim runaway emergency procedures would negate the consequences of any failure of the MCAS system and here we are.
Good thoughts.
Why are you screaming and "lol" - Laughing at a system that potentially may have killed some people, and keep in mind most of this is speculation.... Until the investigators complete their investigation we do not know if this is a plane failure, Crew Failure, or Weather Failure....
Taylor Beck hace 10 meses -1
No duh.But people have already concluded MCAS and I am mocking that.
People have also concluded that Elvis is still alive.... belief doesn't necessarily make it so.
All upper case on the internet corresponds to shouting!
It’s looking like that more and more. I still can’t find an answer to this MCAS system: does it activate with only one AOA false input? Most AOA systems require agreement from two inputs. Has Boeing confirmed that the two pedestal trim cut-out switches will in fact disable MCAS? There seems to be a false input trigger here and nobody can put a label on it yet, whether something is happeneing in routine maintenance, training, or a factory wiring issue but Being had better get to the bottom of it?
The system needs to be disconnected by pulling the CB's. Turning off the AP won't do anything as the system is not part of the AP, it is separate, and pulling the trim s cut-out will only disengage the system momentarily - if the issue is not resolved, it will retrigger the MCAS.
Steve Cutchen hace 10 meses 1
"This AD was prompted by analysis performed by the manufacturer showing that if AN ERRONEOUSLY HIGH SINGLE ANGLE OF ATTACK (AOA) SENSOR INPUT IS RECEIVED by the flight control system, there is a potential for repeated nose-down trim commands of the horizontal stabilizer."
Capitalization emphasis added
I don't understand why it has to shove the stick forward itself. Why can't it switch on a cassette tape recorder pre-recorded with a dominant male voice saying very loudly "Shove the Stick Forward NOW - Stall Imminent" and let the 200 hour PF earn his $15,000 a year.
Taylor Beck hace 10 meses 2
Probably for the same reason pilots have on way too many occasion ignored the GPWS just seconds before CFIT.
Total change of subject... It is also called Controlled Flight Into Ground? That's what I was told...
Ground and Terrain - basically same
It is amazing that so many have flown into the ground when they didn't have to that we have an acronym for it 'CFIT' - Pretty Sad....
It is a Safety related item... Utilizing the "Stick Pusher".... When you stall and don't respond the Stick Pushes Forward... It is not used too often, but when it is needed... It is usually really needed... People are human and human's make mistakes... and "Cassette tape" - LOL I still have a few, but geez, speaking of old technology!
s s hace 10 meses 6
Tragic start for air safety in this new year. If there is a problem with the MAX, Boeing better get it sorted fast as their future is heavily invested in this one.
Cade Emtage hace 10 meses 1
I fully agree! This is basically Boeing's future, and they are letting it run right into the ground, literally!!!
jgccpa hace 10 meses -38
Include an American crew with every aircraft sold overseas for the first year...
Falconus hace 10 meses 10
As an American, I have to say that I prefer to rely on skill, knowledge, and training to fly my aircraft, not my nationality.
sharon bias hace 10 meses -1
Maybe the access to training simulators is more available in the US and Europe? With the declining number of qualified pilots world wide, can Lion and Ethiopian afford to have pilots gone for any length of time for specialized training? I mean, a 737 and a 737 MAX can't be that different to fly, right? Just read the manual for changes, right? Oh, maybe not.
s s hace 10 meses 14
Ethiopian is a large airline, modern fleet, Star Alliance member, and good maintenance and crew. They were the 787 launch airline, or at least one of the first few to fly it, I believe.
Correct - but some people believe that if you're not an American, you're nothing. Only Americans "count".
Excuse me. All Nippon Airlines was the launch airline for the 787. Ethiopian was one of the first to fly is sure but and I’m sure they were the first in Africa if I’m not mistaken lol. Anyways like always Boeing and the investigators will find the cause and Boeing will fix the plane and save the day. Just sad they can’t do it before we have deaths. RIP to all the people on board and my heart goes out to all those affected by this terrible crash.
Viv Pike hace 10 meses -5
So you're of the sort that thinks only "Americans" can do things? Get a life, loser !!
You ASSUME much in life?...Social justice warriors/PC correct should NOT be allowed near any aircraft.
btweston hace 10 meses 5
Wow. Brainwashing is one thing, but how does one get to where you are?
jgccpa hace 10 meses -3
USA has higher standards...if that offends you then too bad.
Too many problems with your sort of jealousy.
Steve Alcorn hace 10 meses 4
There's a lot to be said about bell cranks, pulleys and cables..
never trusted "fly by wire" let alone all the automation... 777 landed short at SFO because the crew forgot
"how to fly the airplane"
The automation did exactly what it was supposed to do in SFO. The pilots simply lost track of it.
The pilots didn't understand how it worked, and in their "button pushing" managed to push them in a sequence that disabled basic laws and allowed the aircraft to get too slow. That was pilots who didn't understand their aircraft, not an aircraft issue. Might the same be at play here? Sure, Ethiopian is a carrier with a good reputation, but a 200-hr co-pilot?
Just 2 questions. 1) Is the 200-hr the total experience, or on type? 2) How does one accumulate hours without sitting in the right seat? Just asking.
Yep, the plane got well ahead of the Asiana crew. Nothing wrong with the aircraft.
Falconus hace 10 meses 4
The 777 is a good airplane. As far as I know, there have been five fatal incidents. Two of these incidents were ground fatalities (firefighter and ground handler - no passengers or crew), one of these was an act of mass murder by Russia, one of them cannot conclusively be proven to be an accident (and it's reasonable to suspect that it was not), and the other was the Asiana Airlines flight in which the pilot at the controls did not know how to fly an airplane (he said he was uncomfortable with a visual approach, if I recall).
Clearly, with this safety record and over 1500 Boeing 777's produced, either the design (including the fly by wire systems), the training, or a combination of both have made this one of the best aircraft ever constructed in terms of safety. The safety record of the 787 is still very new, but I cannot think of any older mass-produced plane other than the 717 that has a cleaner record.
there is nothing wrong with the airplane... seems like too much reliance on automation led to SFO crash
video game pilots
Randy Marco hace 10 meses 4
The FAA said in its notice on 3/11 Monday, that it expects to mandate design enhancements to the automated system and signaling on board the Boeing planes by April 2019.
Boeing confirmed that it was planning to make changes to flight-control software for the planes’ MCAS system and said the changes are “designed to make an already safe aircraft even safer.”
Obviously there is a problem.... it's irresponsible not to ground the fleet worldwide until it's figured out; but corporate American dictates revenue must not stop while working on the solution, just like the rudder problem. There were three rudder incidents with complete loss of control, two which were all souls lost. The fleet kept flying with the FAA & Boeing saying the plane was safe.
i agree with you. I have questions about "fly by wire" and ""developing software." We'[re getting more than a little carried away with electronics and computers on airplanes. We're at a critical juncture now...we need to settle the question of who is PIC these days...a human being? Or AI? Boeing has some explaining to do, but for now a troubling question is that these foreign incidenrs have not yet shown up in American operations. Why not?
You will have to then pose this question to every aircraft manufacturer because FBW is the norm in just about every plane now. Pilots are increasingly becoming "systems monitors" rather than pilots. FBW and the background systems handle all the failures automatically...until it can't...and then hands it over to the pilots in whatever shape the plane is in at that moment. We have pilots who can't fly visual approaches on clear days (Asiana at SFO), we have pilots who fight stick shakers (Colgan at BUF) hence the technology.
I agree that FBW is here to stay, unfortunately. However, there must also be a fail-safe syatem that returns complete control to the pilot via a manually linked backup to the controls. The answer to Colgan and Asiana is better stick-and-rudder training. We simply have to have more Sullenbergers in the cockpit, and fewer syatems "monitors,"
Alan Cordery hace 10 meses 3
Part of the problem may be that the configuration of the plane, with the new engine placement, has made the plane only able to FBW, assuming perfect software and sensors. Pilots cannot handle the plane manually because the feel is strange. Boeing looks bad on this one. Imagine degree of flight training required being part of the pricing?
I agree... So many only know how to fly normally.... I remember I had 1 captain that wrote up his autopilot and I have to defer it for him... He said great... He needed hands on practice and per company policy he could not get as much as he wanted.... there are not many of those crews left now days...
There could be a software/hardware difference between domestic and export models or it may be blind luck. I think boeing knows the answer and is trying to fix it while admitting the least liability.
Or perhaps Boeing has been too eager in promoting sales to operators overseas with thin training?
Keep in mind that the level of training is negotiated at the time of sale... The company decide how much they want or don't want and pay accordingly in concerns to the price of the plane.
Thanks Sparkie,I did not know that. So...you truly get what you pay for.
M20ExecDriver hace 10 meses 1
They've adapted GEICO's marketing scheme.
There have been complaints by US pilots to the FAA, just no fatal accidents yet.
Greg Clanfield hace 10 meses 1
Most likely because US pilots are better trained than their third world counterparts.
Do you have a link to this notice? I checked the Congressional Record and FAA's postings did not seem to include anything 373 or MCAS. Didn't find reference elsewhere either. Could you post a link?
https://m.nasdaq.com/article/us-to-mandate-design-changes-on-boeing-737-max-8-after-crashes-20190311-01163
stratofan hace 10 meses 2
What does not help is when AP spews out a headline of "Another 737MAX crash, does Boeing have a problem?" That is NOT, repeat NOT journalism, but sensationalism. Of course, the media thrive on fresh graves instead of factual reporting. It would seem that speculation has replaced truth in journalism In recent years. Let the investigations go forward w/o media interference.
Ethiopian Airlimes CEO is reporting that the pilot has reported to atc that he was having flight control issues and they weren’t responding to his inputs.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/boeing-737-max-8-ethiopia-airlines-crash/index.html
paul trubits hace 10 meses 2
Did anyone ask a Max driver how they feel about flying this craft?
Yes, Close relative is a 4000+ 737 captain with 23000+ flying time. He has no problems with flying this aircraft. Been trained on how the deal with the situation.
Better question would be to ask a 200 hour F/O how they feel flying this craft.
pwpereira hace 10 meses 2
I noticed something regarding the Lion Air AOA sensor in the Indonesian Preliminary Report...
It had been removed & replaced at Denpasar—the Report indicated that the investigators had retrieved the original unit and would be examining it. I wouldn’t be surprised if that sensor turns out to be A-OK. Reason: The messages that preceded the sensor replacement were not the ones that indicate an AOA sensor failure.** The IAS DISAGREE and ALT DISAGREE messages only showed up AFTER the replacement, on the flight to Jakarta, and the accident flight. Per Boeing, those messages may appear due to an AOA sensor failure (though I can’t see why airspeed and altitude would become discrepant with an AOA sensor failure. ?!)
So, although no AOA messages appeared on the flight deck, because AOA SIGNAL FAIL and AOA SIGNAL OUT OF RANGE got latched in the ADIRU (together with numerous other messages) on the previous two flights, in addition to other maintenance actions to deal with the reported events, the mechanic decided to replace the AOA sensor, entering it as “For troubleshooting due to repetitive problem perform replaced angle of attack sensor...” Thereafter, the problems of the previous two flights did not reappear, but AOA problems started.
It’s quite probable that a good AOA sensor was unnecessarily removed @Denpasar and replaced with a failed unit, which woke up the MCAS, twice. :(
** See separate comment on MH124.
Good info.. Thanks
ALLAN LEEDY hace 10 meses 2
They're all paying attention to the MCAS software. But the AOA sensor feeds it. What about that? Garbage in, garbage out.
I think software is a definite suspect. To err is human but to really muck things up takes a computer. I don't know what type of AoA vane is used on the MAX but many are deltas mounted on an arm that trail with the relative wind and move a potentiometer for signal. Many of these are easily blown to the max up position when the aircraft is stopped with its tail into the wind as this aircraft would have been during taxi. If it gets slammed to the up position it may get damaged and/or give incorrect information that could start the ball rolling. Just a thought.
Good point Bill, On a few commercial jets and a great number of large business jets that I commanded we did have an AOA display either separate or integrated into the flight displays at each pilot station. Wind does in fact affect the AOA Vanes but they usually reset at very low speeds on takeoff, if one doesn’t move into the normal range the takeoff is aborted.
That is pretty much true with any hardware - Software/Firmware situation...
I understand the MCAS operates on input from a single AOA sensor; the aircraft carries two and the standard configuration has no sensor indicator in the cockpit. It seems unusual for the software to override crew inputs on such a flimsy basis. How long have AOA sensors been around? How reliable are they? The LionAir hull loss seems to have involved a defective one.
There is an option to display the flight path marker, which can be used to compare against the “deck angle” or “boreline” etc...there are other displays that are tied to AOA that appear under certain situations as well
There are two instances of MCAS, the left gets data from the left AOA sensor and drives the Captain’s display and stickshaker, the other is for the F/O. Boeing indicates this in its list of flight deck effects that manifest due to an AOA sensor failure. Either MCAS instance will issue a pitch-down command to the FCC if it thinks a stall is imminent. The FCC then drives the Stab Trim nose-down.
Just in --- Britain just banned the 737 MAX 8 from it's airspace. So what say you all? Premature? Correct in doing this?
I expected better from the British CAA. They of all people know that calm, rational investigation is the way to go in this case. We simply don't know the answer yet. But the circumstances are these---that American Airlines and Southwest Airlines continue to operate the Max 8 with no reported problems. That raises an important question: Why is that?
They learned their lesson with the Comet in the 50s.
40,000+ flights no issues
rob strong hace 10 meses 4
You saying "Mob rule" is speculation as well. No one knows right now, so countries are being cautious. Nothing wrong with that. I have four flights this week and I'm making sure none of the are MAX 8s. Why risk it?
John D hace 10 meses 2
Not an aviator, just a user of aviation to get to work weekly, so pardon this question if its simplistic. I am reading here and elsewhere that the Max should be grounded. It "seems" the common denominator is MCAS. Assuming that's true, instead of grounding the entire fleet, could MCAS be disabled until the problem is worked out or is it not that simple?
Although a malfunctioning MCAS or one reacting to a failed AOA sensor can be effectively disabled by turning off the Electric Stab Trim system, I doubt a flight could be dispatched in that condition.
Reason: I suspect MCAS contributes far more to safe flight than the mere “augmentation” of maneuvering characteristics as its name indicates.
P.S.: Even after the nose-down commands from MCAS are rendered ineffective, the stick shaker function that it also activated will continue. So yeah, just blocking the nose-down commands won’t really bypass MCAS to allow normal scheduled operations without a nose-down risk. Note: Lion Air criticized the pilots on the Denpasar-Jakarta flight for flying with the Captain’s stick shaker active from takeoff to touchdown! But they also noted that none of the non-normal procedures the pilots executed on that flight included “Find a suitable place and land ASAP!” ð
chipper295 hace 10 meses 1
I agree that it's far too early to know what caused this. However, the court of public opinion is souring quickly on the MAX family. That alone is likely to cause Boeing some major headaches in the next few months.
This just posted from Reuters seems to suggest a different cause:
GARA-BOKKA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - The Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed killing 157 people was making a strange rattling noise and trailed smoke and debris as it swerved above a field of panicked cows before hitting earth, according to witnesses.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-witnesses/ethiopian-plane-smoked-and-shuddered-before-deadly-plunge-idUSKBN1QS1LJ
Not to be speculative... but it's starting to look like a catastrophic event and not the MCAS may be the culprit. The investigation will tell.
The plane reached 400kts, hardly hovering. That low that fast it rattled everything. With pilots fighting to get the nose up and miss obstacles it's easy to explain wing rocking or swerving as a witness would say. The low and fast aircraft would also leave a dust and debris trail in its wake that would easily look like fire and smoke to casual observers. Everything needs to be looked at but the bottom line is fire, smoke, bomb, engine trouble would not have kept the crew from raising the nose of the aircraft. MCAS would and has in the past.
Very true. And, if MCAS was the problem and it was not switched out... pilot error is a contributing factor. If there was some sort of catastrophic event in the tail section, control systems could be compromised.
Hence, WE won't solve it but the investigators should get this one figured out.
But but but it can't be that. It HAS to be compared to Lion Air. Naughty MCAS. Naughty - sincerely online mob
Yeah, I think the French would be advising extreme caution if we were talking about an Airbus crash.
John Manley hace 10 meses 3
IF this was indeed the faulty stall sensor problem that Lion Air had problems with, then this would have been completely avoided if the crew cutout the STAB TRIM as is standard procedure for runaway trim or a faulty stall sensor pushing the yoke forward when the plane is not actually in a stall.
kyle estep hace 10 meses 4
Going through 737 (including MAX) training right now and yes this is exactly what they are saying about the Lion crash, as the Ethiopia crash just happening, there is no word yet but likely the same action so far. This feels like the rudder issue the classics had back in the early 1990's. Only worse since Boeing didn't bother to mention the new system initially.
Congrats Kyle on the initial training for the 737! Best airplane in the world by far! I know you probably cant say the carrier you work for but can you at least say whether it is a Part 121 operator or a Part 129 operator?
Again, congrats sir! (:
Kyle, maybe you can answer a question I have. I am not familiar with the 737. In the Lion Air investigation a chart derived from the FDR showed how only one control yoke was being used to counter the aircraft's nose down tendency up to the point that pull pressure went to zero on that yoke and the aircraft quickly nosed in even though pull pressure started on the other yoke. My question is: Is there a weak link designed into the 737's elevator control system that will let a yoke separate from control with a certain amount of pressure? The FDR has now been recovered from this accident and it will be interesting to see if it shows similar findings.
Well, we don’t know who was the PF and the airport is almost 8000’ asl so first thought maybe an over rotation and Activation of the MAS system. 200 hours is very low logbook time & inexperience may have been a factor? However it is clear that there has to be more investigation into this new 737max?
If this situation required one of the pilots to devote all attention to maintaining aircraft control...who should be the PF? The 200 hour F/O or the Captain? I don't see a clear answer.
Apparently, they were both pulling to keep the nose out of the ground and no one was shutting off trim systems or applying manual trim.
Chris B hace 10 meses 5
Sorry Bowing fans, but this model 737 needs to be grounded. The similarities in this and the Lion crash are too great to ignore.
Why is the need to turn everything into rooting for one team or another? It's a tragedy that has nothing to do with "fans" and if there is a major flaw with the MAX, it ultimately affects EVERYONE in aviation in a negative way.
If a couple of 320s took a nose dive in the span of a few months people would be saying the same thing. It’s not about teams. It is about airline passengers being drilled into the ground at a high rate of speed.
Hopefully everyone is wrong and this incident has nothing to do with the MAX’s newfangled stall protection system. But at this point we need to verify that.
I don't believe they grounded the A320's after the loss of control issues in flight, the Air France landing in the woods, and the Air Inter flight.
a p hace 10 meses 4
If it`s not Boeing I`m not... Ohh wait...
Ed Merriam hace 10 meses 1
that joins the hall of fame with "Does more. Costs less. It's that simple"
jbqwik hace 10 meses 2
Today's digital cockpit and controlling software is so complex with inter-referenced and co-dependant line after line of 'if-this-then-that- code... even the programmers can become unresponsive. Add to this where the manufacturer -apparently- was vague regarding a critical system and you get a situation where training is in constant update mode, and pilots overwhelmed, under-informed, and behind the automation curve.
Here's just one example, maybe not totally relevant but is why I am so negative: A decade ago I sat down to parse the control logic of a much simpler circuit description. After a half-day I felt like I had gone stupid because it made no sense. I kept thinking it must be me because the manufacture would surely know their product. Right? Wrong. Turns-out if I reversed a single "off" for "on" the routine then worked logically. It was a typo.
Bill Christy hace 10 meses 2
the phones should be ringing off the walls at the Boeing offices tomorrow morning. every airline in the world flying this plane should be demanding answers and solutions.
Tammy Peak hace 10 meses 2
Why isn't Southwest looking into grounding their 737 Max 8's? At least until something is confirmed or disproven between the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes.
Clayton Overmyer hace 2 días 1
https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines/southwest-airline-suspends-737-max-flights-until-june/136183.article
AWAAlum hace 2 días 1
lol - catching up on your reading, are you?
bentwing60 hace 2 días 1
life is a bit slow for some.
jgccpa hace 10 meses 2
Clint Eastwood..."Excuse me Captain, can you fly?"...Magnum Force (1973)
If automation removes the pilots from the cockpit, then who will "they" have to blame crashes on?
The manufacturer, of course.
There is always the current president, whoever that may be at the time.
The subcontracting programmer that wrote to code from incomplete specs.
Then there's the CVR transcript snip reading "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"
Arun Nair hace 10 meses 1
Does anyone know what all US Airlines currently fly this type?
Timothy Fultz hace 10 meses 2
Southwest, American, and United currently. .
Thanks. I'll keep an eye out when I book my next ticket on those. I know statistically I have a higher chance of getting into an accident on the way to airport than even on a 737-MAX. But i'll just stay away for now.
Understandably. The EAD issued after Lion Air covered this issue. I recall that in the US, it came out that AA and SW were sluggish at best to get the information to their crews, at least until that news story broke. I wonder if international airlines were even slower to do so. There’s a switch at the bottom right of the pedestal that allows the crew to override the Auto Stab Trim if an erroneous AOA reading is suspected. Just a single switch.
Over 300 people have now died as a result of poor design on some 3rd party vendor’s part (assuming AOA sensor isn’t produced by Boeing) and lack of clear communication.
If I were the captain of a MAX, that switch would be OFF and guarded.
Decades ago I had a false activation of the stability augmentation system on a SA-227 and it tried to dive into the ground right after gear retraction. The AFM said "Must be on for takeoff and landing." It was never on again when I flew the plane.
"Just a single switch". From Fultz comment above. That single switch is actually two switches and are controlling for Pri. and Sec. pitch trim. Ergo, turn them off and you neuter MCAS but you have no electric pitch trim. There is no MCAS disable switch other than by disabling pitch trim. Boeing still provides manual pitch trim capability (pitch trim wheels) out of fidelity to something that works in the ultimate trim emergency. Can't say that for any part 25 GA jet I have a type rating for!
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing-737-max-maneuvering-characteristics-augmentation-system-mcas-jt610/
This is not from Boeing, but clearly has been researched. The comment section has a couple of knowledgeable responses, and the usual 90% other.
Agreed bentwing! "Something that works in the ultimate trim emergency." Like society in general, manufacturers are replacing things that WORK with things that sound good. No matter how many trim systems a plane may have, I love the trim wheel. Most if not all of Cessna's jets have a wheel.
I believe the 500 series all have trim wheels but I don't have a 500 series type of any kind so I can't say for sure. The 650, 680, 750 and on do not. There is a reason two or three week initial courses at FSI and CAE now take five weeks or more and cost $50,000 or more.
There is a picture of a column with two guarded switches circled in red, showing "Normal" with an up arrow, purporting to be the ones on the MAX, if you scroll all the way to the bottom of webpage www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm
It seems it might be more than just a faulty AOA on Lion Air. I am under the impression that the Lion Air crew asked ATC for their altitude and (ground) speed several times during their flight, reported altimeter reading mismatch(es) and requested large vertical separation as they could not determine their altitude. I do not know if the Lion Air CVR has been recovered.
Both recorders of lion air have been recovered.
Thanks William. Hopefully the transcript will clarify matters.
Tim - the two switches turn systems OFF, not really an override per se. Even if the switches themselves fail mechanically, either pilot can physically grasp their respective trim wheel to stop the stab. I’m a big fan of smart design, and I think the cockpit/trim system interface is one of the better designs on the jet.
dee9bee hace 10 meses 3
I'm not going to go through all those airline websites, but will you know exactly what type of 737 you will be flying on until you get to the gate and see the winglets and scalloped engine nacelles? You could call the airline (for a fee) but even he or she may not know.
FelinaGrimm hace 10 meses 1
That info should be on the ticket if you buy it ahead of time. I use Travelocity and on the available tickets, they display the airplane model. I'm sure most sites including the airline site will include the model.
With the number of 37's flying worldwide,I would consider it one of the safest air frames to fly.
The airframe is not the issue. Neither of the MAX crashes occurred because the wings magically stopped working, from what we can tel.
Neither 37 MAX incident has had a final investigative report issued.
You have about a 7.5% chance of getting a Max 7 or 8 when flying Southwest.
Southwest has another 276 ordered so yes they want to fix this.
2.5% of American fleet is 737 Max with 76 ordered
Greg Skaradzinski hace 10 meses 1
Hi Chris. My wife and daughter are scheduled to fly from Denver to Baltimore and then on to Charlotte this Wednesday on Southwest. The info on the plane type is shown as 787-8. Is this different than the Max 8?
The 787 is a different plane then the 737?
I'm sorry - typo. 737-8.
Well there is a 737-8 and a 737-800max I’m not sure how to tell the different on the website of a airline so I’m no help much there.
Alaska also, I believe.
Alaska has 32 Max-9’s on order according to Wikipedia, with no deliveries yet. Their data might be out of date, though, I’m not certain.
cyber biker hace 9 meses 1
It is a shame financial liability issues delay release of preliminary info from the voice recorder of Ethiopian Flight 302. It would be interesting to hear the dialog in light of yesterday’s announcement by the Ethiopiann Aviation Authority that the crew did everything right.
Craig Weis hace 10 meses 1
And as it was described in one article, Boeing had to find a way — with the 737 Max 8 — to fit 12 gallons into a 10-gallon jug, if you can visualize this. The bigger engines that they designed required a different airplane. It really isn’t a Boeing 737. They call it a 737; it’s got the basic overall shape, but it isn’t.
It’s got entirely new flight characteristics because of these new engines and the changed center of gravity. The nose gear, for example, is eight inches longer. You’ve noticed 737s. They’re really low to the ground, and the engines on a 737 at the bottom are flat because they’re so close to the ground. Well, you can’t put a bigger engine on that airplane. You have to change the design. So you need to have it higher off the ground with longer nose gear. Not main gear.
Just the longer nose gear, which has to do with the perceived angle of attack as the airplane is taking off — which is the key to all this, if you strip it all down. They changed some of the aerodynamics of the tail cone. They added some new winglets and fly-by-wire spoilers and they put gigantic new big displays in the cockpit for Millennial-age pilots, who love screens. So the 737 Max ends up with a nose pointed higher in the air to begin with, and it has larger engines. And the design of engines is such now that they create lift on their own, of course, with their aerodynamic thrust, in addition to the lift created aerodynamically over the wings.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/APP-031419-737.jpgSo that makes the airplane nudge even higher. The nose nudges even higher in terms of angle of attack flying through the air. Now, Boeing discovered through analysis and flight testing that under certain high-speed conditions both in wind-up turns and wings-level flight, that upward nudge of the nose created a greater risk of stalling. Stalling is when you don’t have power to maintain your level of ascent. So the natural way to correct for a stall is to drop the nose and ram the throttles forward full-fledged power. You have to have enough altitude to do that.
Dan Sherrerd hace 10 meses 1
Time will tell. Keep in mind the QRS11. Search Field McConnel.
Charlie Graydon hace 10 meses 1
You need to ask Boeing why they built a plane that is tail heavy and cannot fly without a MACS system , When we know all fundamentals say that this thing should not be flying , did they just rush the MAX 8 into production ?
herbertlbowmaker hace 10 meses 1
I agree with FBW USA, stick and rudder until you are at flight level.
Yes, I agree Boeing needs to fix the problem. Do not allow the Autopilot to engage until the aircraft is at least 15,000 feet, 350 kts, less than a 5° attack angle minimum. The MCAS won't think it's in a stall condition. You don't engage the cruise control until you are up to speed.
Jim DeTour hace 10 meses 1
My bets a desk jockey came up with the system. Would like to see the record of how many 737's ever stalled then if there were stalled 737's how many needed help pushing the nose down. .
Black box found. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47521744
Christian Parada hace 10 meses 1
Another brand new 737 Max 8.
Wish I could hear from MAX pilots. Probably not allowed to comment.
Probably too busy trying to fly the plane. LOL
Would anyone here know what changes, differences in parts, added or omitted parts, added or deleted testing of the systems in the manufacturing of the 737 Max compared to the previous generations of the 737? Just saying why the Max having more problems then previous platforms.
Tim Rivers hace 10 meses 3
Your link above gives a lot of good information to your question. To the main topic of this discussion, MAX carries new LEAP engines located forward from the previous NG 737. The result is a strong up pitch at stall speeds. MCAS was introduced to provide automatic nose pitch down during certain parameters. A factor in the Lion Air crash was a faulty sensor activated MCAS unnecessarily.
An AD was issued to pilots to override/cutout MCAS in this event. One question now for investigators in this crash (among many other possible causes which is why we should wait for the investigation to be completed) will be determining if MCAS activated, if so why, and did pilots follow proper procedure to override. BTW thanks for the link!
It appears that this model MAX 8 won't fly without the MACS. it's design from the gate allows it to stall, tail heavy.
lecompte2 hace 10 meses 5
Somebody has to say it so I will. The 737 Max is a cheaply built airplane sold at a discount by Boeing, the price is lower than competitors because it is a disguised 60 year old model that has been stretched, re powered, modified to the point that computers have to intervene to make it flyable. Basic aerodynamics are exceeded to the point of having to modify the shape of the engines and move them away from the wing tip, lengthen the nose landing gear so the engines clear the ground. Priority to the horizontal control surfaces is given to a complicated computer program to move the stabilizer which is larger than the elevator controlled by the pilot. It is a mystery to me that the airlines engineers would advise the management to buy such a machine or even worse for the appropriate authorities to certify such a machine. There is much more.
Will be interesting to see what they find out.... Sounds remarkably similar to the Lion Air crash.
If this is an AI failure...Dennis Muilenburg is FIRED!
It was 1986 when last covered this company and hit its floor on Black Thursday to the PENNY!
Was this a "15:17 to Paris" (2018), or a fight between a pilot and AI?
Simple question.
Greg77FA hace 10 meses 1
At the very least, this incident put Boeing on further alert, and the pilots who fly the 737 Max. But most importantly, its the passengers on alert as well, who will decide whether to fly on this plane.
** MH124... The Lion Air failure and warning messages prior to the AOA sensor being replaced were an eclectic assortment that reminded me of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH124 on August 1, 2005. The 777-200 suffered an extended in-flight upset at 38,000 ft, with autopilot and autothrottle driving wild altitude excursions, with climb rate as high as 10,560 ft/min, large throttle changes, absurd warnings of simultaneous overspeed limit and stall speed limit, high g forces in all axes—a roller-coaster ride.
The main problem: Corrupt x, y, z axis acceleration data from a known faulty accelerometer was output from the ADIRU as “valid.” The A/P and A/T reacted to that wildly fluctuating data, giving the passengers a thrill ride at 38,000 ft.
AAIB Report: http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2005/AAIR/pdf/aair200503722_001.pdf
Replay of black box data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XNnEzFF5fg
John Manley hace 10 meses -1
For those boycotting the Max... you really think that is prudent to do? You gonna boycott the 767 as well for the recent nose dive by GTI? For what reason do you believe you know more than the experts do? Trust me, if the FAA felt the need to ground an entire type of aircraft they would. I would rather say it is more so appropriate to boycott specific airlines/ specific regions and not necessarily an entire airplane type. The problem smells more so training/pilot experience related and not so much the airplane. A good pilot knows how to fly his bird in normal conditions and when his airplane breaks. Just my thought on the matter.
You’re comparing apples and orangutans here.
Was that an auto-correct? Damn funny, either way.
a p hace 10 meses -17
Hey Mr. Redneck, You could just write, "Black African and Asian pilots can`t fly our stunning American birds" It's shorter...we get the message and dont lose our time reading your bullshit. Thanks.
I will never regain the 10 seconds wasted in reading your obnoxious comment.
The bad taste it left will wash out.
a p hace 10 meses -5
You think my comment is obnoxious but you dont have any problem with racist comments.
Ok... another racist redneck. I'm not surprised at all...
Angelruki:
First, your profile lists your language as "Español (España)". As your selected language, one can infer that English is not your primary language. One might also infer from your facility with American slang that that is not the case.
Second, your characterization of Mr. Manly as "Mr. Redneck" could be seen in this light from OED:
REDNECK - 3. orig. North American (usually derogatory). Originally: a poorly educated white person working as an agricultural labourer or from a rural area in the southern United States, typically considered as holding bigoted or reactionary attitudes. Now also more generally: any unsophisticated or poorly educated person, esp. one holding bigoted or reactionary attitudes.
bigoted: 1. Characterized by bigotry; obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, faction, etc.; intolerant towards others, their beliefs, practices, etc.
If English is not your primary language, you may have overlooked the cultural nuances of the term.
Third, you assert that since I found your comment objectionable that I have no problem with racist comments. Perhaps you should research "non sequitur".
Fourth: I cannot respond you your assertions "another racist redneck" without knowing your definition of "racist". Please provide and we can discuss the whether your use is fitting.
This will do nothing for the fate of the 157 souls aboard, alleviate the suffering of their loved ones nor further the inquiry of the cause of the tragedy.
Who cares if my native language is English, Spanish, Russian or Chinese?
Is my opinion more or less important for being Japanese, American, Ethiopian, Spaniard, Swedish, or British? The answer should be NO. If the answer is YES, you don't need a definition of racist, you just need a mirror...
Anyway, some of you were very comfortable yesterday saying that this accident had to do with the skills of pilots in certain regions and it had nothing to do with the quality of an American aircraft. currently he type is grounded in the most of developed countries. There you have the definition of racism and arrogance.
Btw, do you want to know what really did not help the 157 souls aboard? Blaming Lion Air pilots 4 months ago just for being "third world Asian pilots". There you have a second definition of racism and arrogance.
I hope you have enough definitions now. Enjoy.
Carl Smeraldi hace 10 meses 1
Ground B737-800 Max PERIOD .
Some will. I would at least make sure MCAS is disabled.
James Darling hace 10 meses 1
They should stop flying the plane until this is figured out. Maybe it is unrelated, but until that is known, or the problem is identified and corrected the Consequences are just to high.
Did I read "F/O had 200 hours"? In the 737 Max? Surely not just 200 hours.
Well, it’s a new model. The first Captain to fly the MAX had *gasp* zero hours.
But that's zero hours in type. Behind that there's got to be X,000 total. I once had a book called "Teach yourself to fly". I think it was written around 1920 or so, but it fell apart and I lost it in one of my moves. It covered things like prop starting (with chocks) and navigating with road maps and railroad tracks. I guess if I still had it I could get a laugh by showing up at an FBO with it and trying to rent a Tomahawk or 152
FedExCargoPilot hace 10 meses 3
In most places in the world you can get an airline job with 200 hours and a CPL
I cannot imagine operating a MAX with only 200 hours. I wouldn't be much help in any situation outside of normal ops.
How can someone build hours in type without sitting in the right seat on revenue ops ? And when a brand new model comes out where can you find guys with real air (non-simulator) time to sit on the left ?
Did the F/O have 200 hours in the MAX or 200 hours total time? That is the question.
Ah, I don't know, When I read 200 hours I assumed 200 hours in the 73X as I couldn't imagine 200 total would have gotten him everything required to legally sit in the right seat of a 738.
The news story claimed the CA had 8000 hours and the F/O had 200. I was confused too. I don't think the CA could have amassed 8000 hours in the MAX, so I assumed the reporter published total time. THEN in reading the amount of time the F/O presumably had (200) I was completely floored and reached out here to FA to try and get a different perspective.
I just cannot conceive of any governmental body responsible for aviation allowing that low of a threshold.
It plays into a previous squawk on single pilot airline ops. In that case, how many hours does your copilot have?
Talking heads in the media and nitwits in politics need to let the investigators do their jobs and determine what, of hundreds of scenarios, brought this aircraft down.
Randy Marco hace 10 meses -4
Spoken like a true synapse challenged dolt.
And just what is your level of expertise?
steven polley hace 10 meses 1
This may sound a little strange but is it possible that the altimeter settings on the plane were incorrect and when the plane was put on autopilot the aircraft was forced to the ground. That happened to me once on my flight simulator.
If you mean was it like the UK where we used to take off with QFE set and once away from the pattern we would change it to Region QNH I don't think ET 302 was airborne long enough to make the transition.
Garth I hope you are wrong about the Max 8 , it is hard to believe that manufactures would build a plane that can not fly naturally , scares me to think that we have regress to requiring such systems to stay in the air!
wow... should be grounded...won't fly on MAX....
Why have no American carriers had any problems with the 737-MAX 8? Don't believe thw CNN PC hype until we find out some answers/ . But generally, these crashes in developing countries do raise some questions about whether or not their training is up to it. Another question is whether or not the 737 MAX 8 has crossed the line in removing control of the airplane from thje pilot? I'm not quite ready for "doftware" to have no-recourse control of any airplane. Sure am sorry about those people aboard. Let's find out what happened, no matter how unpleasant the truth may become.
238 comments and a lot of HOT air & other...
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Ecclesiastes 1:9 King James Version (KJV)
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Translation: What is, is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzbCBfi5-Bw
Dirty Harry! Det. Callahan
I thought it was Lt. Callahan and Captain Harris lol.
We are talking Ethiopia here...no mention of terrorism or a bomb seems odd to me.
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Jim DeTour hace 10 meses -3
Some information floated was turbulence and heavy aircraft requiring them to maintain higher than standard airspeed and pitch. Wouldn't be the first time a plane was over loaded and if nose high wasn't a freak of weather a load shifted. Being the region is remote I don't take a websites data on speeds and altitude as being a real time flow.
If it was over weight, near max gross or unusual cargo....there is non standard loading that might happen. There's the toggles that lock pallets in place front and back that sometimes are left down for bent and damaged pallets. Also if long palleted cargo or loose cargo netted load toggles can be left off because load and nets are in the way. I don't know if the new 737 or any other passenger airlines have rated attachment points for cargo straps. Like the 747 in Afghanistan I don't think either tie-down points are heavy load rated. Worse yet is when guys attach to vertical load braces on cargo tracks.
After the Indonesia and this crash I'd like to see the EPROM's and programming machines of the EPROM's. I don't think it would be funny if some virus was resident that extracts data from aerospace companies. Worse case would be if a certain agency investigation Boeing during Comey era plied that sort of software on Boeing. EPROM's are a data chip with processor. If a virus is present that spreads itself it might detect an interaction when inputs are being made and go into a forceful connect mode to spread. I wonder because for some reason a plane flying its self into the ground doesn't seem right. I've never seen mention of a possible system flaw except for contacting ground. Hopefully Boeing can do a good check and know how to detect rat systems that international hackers use including our own.
There just isn't any sense in the accidents. Something worse than weather or a designed system flaw.
You are REALLY an idiot... buying into the crap that Comey was somehow a traitor. The only traitors are "individual 1" and the idiots that believe ANYTHING he says!
Go back to your conspiracy and alt right propaganda sites and for the sake of people that have to deal with you.... get an education.
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