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Khadr trial asks jury: Jihadist or scared teen?
August 13, 2010 February 18, 2012 amp Leave a comment
Friday, August 13, 2010 – Globe and Mail
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
GUANTANAMO BAY — Omar Khadr was either an enthusiastic teen jihadist who happily planted explosive devices and comforted himself in times of loneliness with thoughts of killing U.S. soldiers.
Or he was a frightened, cowed 15-year-old, dragged by a zealous father to Afghanistan against his will, caught up with a bad crowd, taken captive while gravely wounded and tortured into submission and confession by his captors.
The 23-year-old Canadian’s military jury was presented two contrasting portraits of the young man. Duelling sides of his Guantanamo Bay war-crimes trial sought to trump each other in painting what happened during a protracted 2002 Afghan firefight that left a U.S. army sergeant dead and the then-15-year-old severely wounded in U.S. custody.
But the opening salvos in what promises to be a long battle of competing narratives were cut short Thursday when Mr. Khadr’s military-appointed lawyer passed out during cross-examination, apparently from pain related to gallbladder surgery six weeks ago.
With Lieutenant-Colonel Jon Jackson in hospital and on morphine, Mr. Khadr’s trial is adjourned at least until Monday – possibly longer.
Thursday was the first time Mr. Khadr was in the same room as the widow of the man he’s alleged to have killed: Sergeant Christopher Speer’s widow Tabitha was in court, sitting in a black-and-white patterned dress in the front row behind the prosecution.
She remained silent throughout the trial, crying visibly when her husband’s death came up and wringing the white lanyard of her security pass between her knuckles at certain points in testimony.
The prosecution began its argument by wheeling out a three-dimensional model of the Afghan compound on a table to present to the jury as lawyer Jeff Groharing quizzed his first two witnesses. Col. Jackson sought to poke holes in their testimony, noting that records had been changed, details are blurry and underscoring once again that no one saw Mr. Khadr throw the grenade that killed Sgt. Speer.
Mr. Groharing, a former marine major who is one of the few lawyers who’s been involved in the case since its inception, got his witnesses to set a scene in which U.S. troops acted on intelligence to approach a compound they were told housed a bomb maker. They were ambushed, called in reinforcements and endured hours of bombardment before they took the compound and killed almost everyone inside.
Those testifying were identified only by their rank and first initial: Col. W led the raid on the compound; Sergeant-Major D was one of the troops in the thick of the attack.
Mr. Groharing showed a video, found in the compound, that showed a teenaged Mr. Khadr fiddling with what appear to be parts of explosive devices; later, in a green-tinged night-vision shot, he mugs for the camera as unidentified people bury what appear to be explosive devices.
Col. Jackson tore into Col. W’s testimony, noting that a memo Col. W wrote to his superiors the night of the 2002 firefight said the man who had lobbed the grenade killing Sgt. Speer was among three enemy combatants killed in action. A fourth person, he wrote at the time, was wounded in action.
But years later, after being visited by investigators into Mr. Khadr’s case, he changed the original memo on his personal computer to read that Sgt. Speer’s killer had survived.
“Investigators came to see me; they had a version of the report that was correct. And when I looked at mine I went, ‘Oh, this is wrong.’ And I changed it.”
But while Col. Jackson was questioning the prosecution’s second witness, a sergeant-major present at the 2002 firefight who said he shot Mr. Khadr twice in the back when he encountered the teen in an alley, Col. Jackson started to cough. He asked military judge Colonel Patrick Parrish for a five-minute recess and turned to the defence counsel table to grab a bottle of water.
On his way back to the podium, the military lawyer collapsed. He regained consciousness shortly afterward and was taken to hospital as the courtroom was emptied.
Later Thursday evening, deputy chief defence counsel Brian Broyles said Col. Jackson, who has been on the trial virtually non-stop despite being newly married, is still in pain. Doctors should know better by Friday when he can appear in court again.
But his incapacitation effectively puts the trial on pause: Col. Jackson is the only person able to represent Mr. Khadr in court. Although Dennis Edney, the Edmonton-based lawyer representing the Khadr family, is in Guantanamo Bay and has been present throughout the trial process, he can’t formally represent Mr. Khadr in court because he isn’t American. Mr. Khadr fired his two U.S. civilian lawyers last month; he said at first he wanted no legal representation whatsoever, although he has since reconciled himself to putting up an active defence.
“Omar Khadr has one attorney – that is Lieutenant-Colonel Jon Jackson,” Mr. Boyles said. “If the court has to wait for Lt.-Col. Jackson, the court has to wait for Lt.-Col. Jackson.”
Speaking to reporters Thursday evening, Mr. Edney said Mr. Khadr, who has been in court despite fasting for the month-long Muslim holiday of Ramadan, was extremely upset by his lawyer’s collapse.
“He said he felt helpless to do anything,” Mr. Edney said. “He was very upset.”
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Arcola Theatre: These Trees are made of Blood
April 23, 2018 by Anne-Marie Piazza Leave a comment
“It is bold and different; the actors are horribly good, and the band members deliciously so (my favourite is Anne-Marie Piazza on ukelele and many other instruments, whose voice absolutely shone).” (Hazy Dazy)
“The music (Darren Clark) is sensational and too good for the fringe, brought to life by overwhelmingly talented actor-musicians who all mix and match between harmony singing, upright piano, accordion, guitar, ukulele, cello, double bass, percussion, French horn, slide whistle, and everything in between.” (The Pickle)
“But the real triumph of the evening is indeed Clark’s musical invention that draws its inspiration across a range of Latin American/Argentine rhythms and styles and is played with sensational passion, virtuosity and sensitivity by musician/singer-actors – Anne-Marie Piazza, Josh Sneesby, Rosalind Ford and drummer-percussionist Eilon Morris. They are the drivers of Draper’s production and Clark’s music and lyrics where horror finds satirical/ironic expression in upbeat songs….A magnificent, sobering, entertaining indictment that makes you want to cheer and cry with rage at the same time, its relevance is not least in the light of our own recent tragedies, political and civil. ” (Carole Woddis Reviews)
“Backed by a four-piece civilian house band, Robert Castell sings Darren Clark’s witty revolutionary ditties: “Elections are unnecessary / When you lead the military.” Imagine a putsch led by Noel Coward…Draper’s concept thrives on the compelling side to cabaret. Like any crowd-pleasing art-form, it can manipulate its audience and, as it whips us into a frenzy, the line between collusion and coercion all but disappears.” (What’s On Stage)
“The music, by Darren Clark, is richly infused with South American rhythms and a complete delight; the lyrics are sharp, too…it’s a musically rousing evening – with a class band – and never loses sight of how important it is to be alert to the trickery of politicians. ” (The Guardian)
“The performers were delightful…they all sang and played instruments, to an unexpected level of excellence. The whole experience was both entertaining and emotional. Some of the key numbers are very memorable and evocative, such as a lullaby called ‘My little Bird’, and ‘Empanadas’, which is more up- tempo. The band and the singers sang throughout. The music was unusually good and varied. The cabaret humour and music did not detract from the narrative, as might have been expected, and in the end, the powerful storyline and presentation had many in the audience in tears.” (Latino Life)
“The musical score throughout, is breathtaking. Anne-Marie Piazza has a stunning voice that fills the club setting with her soaring despair…Combining such a serious issue as ‘the Disappeared’ with a cabaret setting is a risky prospect, but the contrast between the jollity and the harrowing scenes does heighten the audience’s emotional response. These Trees Are Made Of Blood, directed with passion by Amy Draper, won’t be to everyone’s taste, but the production will hit a nerve with many. Viewers can’t help but be entertained and horrified in equal measure.” (Camden Journal)
“So let me introduce you to the Coup Coup Club in Buenos Aires. It has got a band, with a mean French horn player, and a drag artist with fishnetted buttocks, black nipple tassels, and enough blue ostrich feathers to fan most of Las Vegas. ” (The Times)
” The show slips between immersive cabaret and naturalistic flash back scenes and the joins are seamless, Darren Clark, Amy Draper and Paul Jenkins spectacular tale is expertly woven. Everything is beautifully multi layered and particular mention must go here to Darren Clarks music and lyrics. The gorgeous ‘My Little Bird’ which we hear near the start is just beautiful but when reprised delivers a real sucker punch. ‘These Trees’ is an arresting piece of theatre which brings the plight of the ‘disappeared’ and the resilient ‘Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo’ into sharp focus, leaving not only entertained but utterly devastated.” (West End Wilma)
“The transition from comedy to horror is excruciatingly uncomfortable and deliberately so. It’s jarring and inappropriate as befits state terror. This emphasises the shock and isolation felt by the victims and pricks the grotesque pomposity of the autocrat.” (Socialist Worker)
“The multi-talented, multi-tasking cast switch from farce to tragedy and back again with jaw-dropping panache and conviction. These Trees Are Made of Blood is a mutually entertaining and deeply haunting triumph.” (Fringe Frequency)
“These Trees Are Made of Blood is an epic show, one that shows why – in the age of video content, live streaming and 3D film – theatre is still relevant. The music is live and loud, the audience is involved, engaged and amused, but it still captures the realism of true stories and honest portrayals. These Trees bridges the void between farcical satire and honest, emotional storytelling.” (The London Economic)
“The woozy Latino-soaked songs, written by Darren Clark, are well performed though the cast is quintessentially British and the vibe is ultimately not that authentic. Still, its subject matter deserves every attention and the cast commit to the task with unflinching vitality. ” (Islington Gazette)
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REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK; Lessons From a Former First Lady
By PATRICK HEALY
Hillary Rodham Clinton put the first in first lady: a modern career woman who weighed in on policy in the White House, took on political enemies and then became a senator and a presidential candidate herself.
Laura Bush put tradition ahead of modernity: low-key and low profile, even though friends say she is a woman of strongly held opinions.
While Cindy McCain is embracing the Bush model -- one that seems familiar and safe to most Americans -- Michelle Obama has yet to signal exactly what sort of first lady she might be. As her husband, Senator Barack Obama, travels to Iraq, Israel and Europe this week, Ms. Obama is spending some of the time in Chicago with their two daughters, taking them to camp and soccer. Yet she is not, to use a phrase, just staying home and baking cookies.
Ms. Obama and the Obama campaign are trying to strike a balance when it comes to her image: a woman who is happy at home with the children, her top priority, but who also finds time to hit the road a couple of days a week on behalf of her husband.
But even as she signals that this is no ''two-for-one'' deal in the Clinton mold, Mrs. Obama and her husband's campaign are drawing some lessons from Mrs. Clinton's experience as the target of intense partisan attacks and a symbol of broad societal debates about how women should juggle sometimes conflicting roles and expectations. While the two women have yet to chat about the rigors of being the spouse of a presidential nominee, Obama aides say, some of Mrs. Clinton's experiences serve as a guide -- and a counterpoint -- for Ms. Obama.
Most crucially, from a political viewpoint, the Obama campaign is dealing with continuing attacks on Ms. Obama. The Washington State Republican Party recycled a comment of hers -- that her husband's success and voters' hunger for change had made her proud of her country for the first time -- after she visited there, suggesting that Republicans will continue to try to portray her as being out of step with American values.
''In this business, you say one thing, it's taken out of context and it's off to the races,'' said David Axelrod, the Obama campaign's chief strategist. ''And that's particularly hazardous for someone who isn't a politician.''
To deal with this, Ms. Obama has a new chief of staff and a widening complement of aides -- a broader support network than Mrs. Clinton enjoyed during her husband's campaigns, or Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Senator John Kerry, had when he was the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004. The Obama campaign is also being highly selective about news media interviews with Ms. Obama, preferring shows like ''The View'' on ABC and outlets that will quote her at length (as opposed to snippets in newspapers).
After entering electoral politics in her own right, Mrs. Clinton successfully adopted this approach in her 2000 Senate run and this year's presidential campaign; by contrast, during her husband's 1992 presidential campaign, she would sometimes field questions from reporters traveling with her, which at times led to gaffes.
''Putting Hillary in formats where she could speak at length before a live audience -- shows like 'The View' and Letterman, any chances where she could come into the living room and show who she was -- were very positive for us,'' said Howard Wolfson, Mrs. Clinton's communications director in the 2000 and 2008 campaigns.
''The YouTube moments or sound bites here or there on the news was not as preferable,'' added Mr. Wolfson, who is now a commentator for Fox News.
When Mrs. Clinton had her missteps in 1992 -- and began striking more Americans as overly ambitious and unlike a typical first lady -- the Clinton campaign tried to improve her image by putting her in what one former top aide now calls ''softer settings,'' particularly events with women and children at schools and libraries.
While Obama aides insist they are not trying to soften Ms. Obama's image or to ''handle'' her -- they say she would resist any such effort -- they are following much the same pattern the Clinton team did in 1992, looking for settings that allow her to display a connection with the problems facing Americans.
For example, Ms. Obama often has round-table discussions with working parents struggling to pay bills and with military families to highlight the hard work of soldiers' relatives on the home front.
Still, the public images, for better or worse, of the wives of recent Democratic candidates -- Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Heinz Kerry, Elizabeth Edwards, Kitty Dukakis and others -- are ingrained in party memory. The political notion of ''image control'' -- preventing an opponent from distorting your image -- applies not only to a presidential nominee but also to a spouse.
Obama aides are emphatic that Ms. Obama is the unHillary in some respects: she does not formulate policy behind the scenes of her husband's campaign; she would not have a policy role in the White House; she would spend more time as first lady mothering her young children than jet-setting (compared with Mrs. Clinton, of the ''more than 80 trips abroad,'' several of which included her daughter, Chelsea), and she has displayed no interest in running for office on her own someday.
Ms. Obama has also said she would be ''taking some cues'' from Mrs. Bush as first lady.
And yet: She will have a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention next month. She will be Mr. Obama's top surrogate in some ways until he picks a running mate. And she plans to continue championing her husband's policies, especially those affecting women, children and military families.
''There is no stereotype for first lady anymore,'' said Lisa Caputo, who was Mrs. Clinton's communication director in the White House. ''We've evolved as a country beyond one image.''
PHOTO: Michelle Obama at a working-women's meeting in Pontiac, Mich., this month. (PHOTOGRAPH BY GARY MALERBA/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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10 cm of textual records and other material
The series consists of two promotional calendars, a poster, a sound-slide production, a videocassette, and two compact discs containing photographic images and a PowerPoint presentation.
Stirdon Systems Ltd. was established in Olds, Alberta in 1971. It developed and produced computer-controlled systems for milling livestock feeds on the farm. Stirling Mcleod was one of the founders of the business and served as its General Manager until his retirement in 2005. In 1997 the firm was acquired by UFA Co-op and became one of its Divisions. A second office of the division was established at Lethbridge. In 2001 UFA Co-op acquired Betker Livestock of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and integrated it with Stirdon, under the name Stirdon Betker Division. By 2010 the Olds manufacturing plant was moved to Red Deer and the Saskatoon office was closed. The organization was part of the Construction Division, 2007-2010, and became known as the Stirdon Betker Team.
The sound-slide production was donated by Stirling Mcleod, 2005.
Stirdon Systems
Stirdon Betker Division
Building services – 1957-[2008].
5 cm of textual records and other materials
The series contains the report and photographs of the first experimental farm building project; pamphlets on farmstead planning and development and products offered; photos of livestock chutes and pens; notes on managers of the Farmstead Development Department; and a video disk promoting the services of UFA Construction.
The Farm Supply Division of UFA Co-op began marketing prefabricated farm buildings in 1957. From 1960 until about 1964 it operated a Precutting Plant in Calgary for manufacturing building components. In 1964 the Building Department was established under the management of George Duffy. By 1968 the Department expanded to include installation of mechanized materials handling systems and became the Farmstead Building and Automation Department. In 1969 it was renamed the Farmstead Development Department (FDD). In 1985 the Farmstead Development function was decentralized and reintegrated into the Farm Supply Division, with building services specialists stationed at most Farm Supply Stores. By 1996 the product line of farm buildings was given the brand name Dynasty Structures. In 2007 the Construction Division was established, to integrate the expertise of Farm Supply building services with the Stirdon Betker Division and the newly-acquired Bar-W Petroleum and Electric. Its unrealized objective was to develop a general construction business in Alberta. In 2009 the Construction Division amalgamated with the Real Estate and Environment departments to form the Construction and Maintenance Services Division. By 2010 its focus returned to farm structures and farm mechanization and it was rebranded as UFA Building Solutions.
Farmstead Development Department
Building the rural landscape : why you should partner with UFA Construction – [2008].
1 optical disc
The file consists of a 6-minute video production promoting UFA Construction.
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Images are provided for research and reference use only. Written permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from United Farmers' Historical Society.
Archival Descriptions 3
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Chinese stock to be cut from Russell 2000 Index
Wins Finance Holdings Inc., the Chinese loan guarantor that rode a mysterious 4,500 percent surge in its stock, is poised to be ousted from the Russell 2000 Index for failing to meet new requirements for inclusion. âThe impact within the Russell U.S. Index is currently isolated to the projected removal of Wins Finance Holdings,â FTSE Russell said in an April 3 statement, after Bloomberg News reported on the mysterious gain in Wins shares. The company may be moved to the Russell Global Index, wit...
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Mosaic mural tells history of San Pedro in tile
SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES -- Art lovers came out to the Corner Store in San Pedro to raise money for artist Julie Bender.
Her mural takes up a 200-foot wall on 25th Street.
The artist is telling the history of San Pedro with tile.
The mosaic is made up of hand-painted tiles, beads, mirrors, broken china and decorative pins.
The beer and wine tasting at the Corner Store will help raise funds to finish the wall.
Bender sold tiles at the event for $10-$50 that can be personalized.
She then takes them to her kiln, to later become part of the mosaic.
Julie says she will complete her history wall by October.
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Home Artworks The Cathedral Church of Carlisle
The Cathedral Church of Carlisle
British 18th century unknown
Coloured engraving
Country: Other
City: storage
This engraving, dating from c.1709-20, was issued as part of volume III of a four-volume edition of ‘Britannia Illustrata’, published by Joseph Smith in 1724. The artist and engraver of this work are unknown. From 1709 ‘Britannia Illustrata’ was expanded by various booksellers and additional plates by other artists were inserted. Engraver Henry Hulsburgh was involved in updating architecture in existing plates and engraver and draughtsman John Harris produced some further architectural plates and bird's-eye views for later editions. However, generally the artists who worked on plates added after the first 1707 publication are unknown.
England, Cumbria
topography, dog, man, woman, cathedral, church windows
engraving, coloured engraving
Purchased from Baynton-Williams, January 1979
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CARDS & PAYMENTS, FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY | Staff Reporter, Singapore
DPT activities carry higher inherent money laundering and terrorism financing risks.
Singapore has passed the Payment Services (Amendment) Bill, which introduces new amendments that expand the scope of regulation to include service providers of digital payment tokens (DPTs) and broadens consumer protection.
Under the amended bill, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) now regulates all service providers of DPTs that facilitate the use of DPTs for payments—now called Virtual Assets Service Providers—even if they do not they possess the moneys or DPTs involved.
In the original PS Act, MAS only regulates service providers and facilitators who hold the money or DPTs involved.
Whilst only in the early stages, DPT activities are more susceptible to money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risks, noted Ong Ye Kung, minister for transport, speaking in behalf of Tharman Shanmugaratnam, senior minister and minister-in-charge of MAS, during the bill’s second reading on 4 January.
“The speed and cross-border nature of such DPT activities carry higher inherent money laundering and terrorism financing risks. They need to be regulated, and service providers need to carry out proper customer due diligence and monitoring of transactions,” Ong said.
The bill expands the scope of DPT services in the PS Act to include the following three activities: facilitating the transmission of DPTs from one account to another; custodial services for DPTs; and facilitating the exchange of DPTs where the service provider does not come into possession of the moneys or DPTs involved.
Entities that provide any of these services as a business in Singapore must be licensed and is now subject to rules and regulations set by MAS, said Ong.
These will reportedly help minimise the risk of DPT service providers being exploited by criminals to launder illicit proceeds or hide illicit assets, Ong added.
Another set of amendments introduced in the bill gives the local regulator powers to impose measures on DPT service providers to ensure consumer safety and protection. This could include requiring a DPT service provider to segregate customer assets from its own assets, amongst other measures.
“This will augment current powers that allow MAS to require DPT service providers to safeguard customer money from loss in the event of insolvency,” Ong said regarding the imposition of measures.
This also gives MAS the power to impose measures on a specific DPT service provider. The regulator will reportedly consult the public and the industry when drafting subsidiary legislation on the specific measures.
The bill also broadens the scope of protection of the PS Act, to carve out situations where both payer and payee are financial institutions. It also allow MAS to prescribe additional classes of licensees conducting specific payment services to be subject to the requirement to safeguard customer money.
Currently, only major payment institutions providing services like e-money issuance are required to safeguard customer money. With the fast-evolving landscape, user protection concerns associated with other types of licensees can also arise, Ong noted in his speech.
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U.S. labor market unexpectedly improves; recovery years away
06/05/2020 Comments Off on U.S. labor market unexpectedly improves; recovery years away
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. economy unexpectedly added jobs in May after suffering record losses in the prior month, offering the clearest signal yet that the downturn triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic was probably over, though the road to recovery could be long.
The Labor Department’s closely watched employment report on Friday also showed the jobless rate falling to 13.3% last month from 14.7% in April, a post World War Two high. It followed on the heels of surveys showing consumer confidence, manufacturing and services industries stabilizing. Businesses have reopened after shuttering in mid-March to slow the spread of COVID-19.
“The country has turned the corner from the pandemic and the recession it created for now, but all the workers who lost their paychecks will find it difficult to regain their place in society as many of these jobs are gone forever,” said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at MUFG in New York.
“It took years for the economy to grow enough to find jobs for those unemployed in the last recession, and it will take years again this time to do the same.”
The survey of establishments showed nonfarm payrolls rose by 2.509 million jobs last month after a record plunge of 20.7 million in April. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast payrolls falling by 8 million jobs. They had expected the survey of households to show the unemployment rate jumping to 19.8%.
President Donald Trump, who had a turbulent week amid nationwide protests over police brutality and racial inequality, quickly took credit for the surprise labor market turnaround.
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But the improvement was uneven. The unemployment rate for blacks increased one-tenth of a percentage point to 16.8%. In contrast, the jobless rate for whites fell to 12.4% from 14.2% in April. Economists believe the unemployment rate peaked in May, but see it remaining above 10% when Americans head to the polls on Nov. 3.
Stocks on Wall Street rallied on the report. The dollar rose against a basket of currencies. U.S. Treasury prices fell.
DEEP HOLE
Even with May’s rebound, the hole is deep. Part-time workers accounted for two-fifths of the increase in employment. Payrolls are nearly 20 million below their pre-COVID-19 level. The unemployment rate has risen 9.8 percentage points and the number of unemployed is up 15.2 million since February.
The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, which compiles the employment report, also noted a continuing problem with misclassification by respondents. A large number of people misclassified themselves as being “employed but absent from work.” Without this misclassification, the May unemployment rate would have been about 16%.
A broader measure of unemployment, which includes people who want to work but have given up searching and those working part-time because they cannot find full-time employment, dipped to 21.2% in May from 22.8% in April.
The sharp rebound in employment is in stark contrast to a persistently high number of people filing weekly claims for jobless benefits.
Economists are split on whether the swift turnaround in the labor market was because of the government’s Paycheck Protection Program, part of a historic fiscal package worth nearly $3 trillion, offering businesses loans that can be partially forgiven if used for employee salaries. The Federal Reserve has also thrown businesses credit lifelines.
“There are some industries and many firms that simply won’t come back, and therefore many jobs that also won’t come back,” said Randall Kroszner, a former Fed governor and now an economics professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
(Graphic: Which sectors gained jobs in May?, here)
Employment in May was boosted by restaurants and bars, which added 1.4 million jobs after losing 6 million jobs in April and March. But payrolls continued to decline in the accommodation industry in May, with another 148,000 jobs lost.
Hiring in the construction industry increased by 464,000 jobs last month, recouping about half of April’s decline. There were also gains in employment in education and health services, retail trade, manufacturing, professional and business services, financial activities and wholesale trade.
But government payrolls dropped by 585,000 in May, with the declines in state and local governments, whose budgets have been crushed in the fight against COVID-19. There were more job losses in the information, mining, transportation and warehousing industries.
The labor force participation rate, the proportion of working-age Americans who have a job or are looking for one, rose to 60.8% last month from 60.2% in April, which was the lowest rate since January 1973. The employment-to-population ratio, viewed as a measure of an economy’s ability to create employment, rose to 52.8% in May from a record low 51.3% in April.
With the rebound in lower-wage industry jobs, average hourly earnings fell 1.0% after shooting up 4.7% in April. That lowered the annual increase in wages to 6.7% in May from 8.0% in April. The workweek averaged 34.7 hours, up from 34.2 hours in April.
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2021 Fantasy Hockey: How to prepare for your drafts
Yahoo Sports Fantasy Staff
Sometimes it's the right move to choose players from the same team, like the Boston Bruins. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
By Jordan Mazzara, RotoWire
Special to Yahoo Sports
The draft is arguably the best part of any fantasy sport. You get to be a general manager, building the foundation of a team that you need to live with for an entire season. You want to be prepared, and that goes beyond just knowing the game.
Here are some pointers ahead of draft day for the 2021 fantasy hockey campaign.
Understand your format
There are two main types of fantasy hockey leagues: Head-to-head points and rotisserie. In head-to-head point formats, you face an opponent over the course of a week, and the highest point total receives a win. Rotisserie formats tabulate your team's stats across categories and rank them against your league competitors. At the end of the season, the more categories you're highly ranked in, the better you do.
Keep in mind the positional breakdown of forwards, as well. Yahoo leagues default to C, LW, and RW, but some leagues use a generic forward (F) position, encompassing all three groups together. In leagues that distinguish between the three positions, many players carry two or even three eligible tags. For example, Hurricanes forward Andrew Svechnikov is LW/RW eligible. Players like this add versatility to your lineup, and they can be even more valuable given the challenges of a truncated, 56-game season.
Review the scoring system
Categories vary based on the league, so it's essential to review your league's settings. A default Yahoo league rewards skaters for goals, assists, plus/minus, power-play points, shots on goal, and blocked shots. Goalies are judged by wins, goals-against and saves, with a bonus for a shutout. Commissioners can also configure the settings to allocate fantasy points for PIM, shorthanded points, faceoff wins, and hits. Your virtual team will ultimately perform better once you have a deeper understanding of which categories are valued most in your league.
You'll need to take a different approach in rotisserie leagues, aiming to diversify your stat line. Goals typically produce the most fantasy points, but ranking first in goals doesn't mean much if you come in last in multiple other categories. A rotisserie league demands that fantasy managers put together well-rounded teams, so players that can score and hit (like Alex Ovechkin) have added value in these formats.
Research and mock drafts
Once you have a grasp on your league format and scoring settings, it's time for research. Sweep through the transactions (trades and signings) that happened in the offseason and check out players who are on the rise. Examine which players you think over-performed or disappointed last year, and adjust your rankings accordingly, then take that knowledge and put it to practical use with mock drafts. Your understanding of fantasy will be tested against real people, and mock drafts help refine your strategies and uncover potential tactics used by your competitors. By the time you get to your actual draft, you should know the general range of when specific players come off the board.
Ideally, you'll be excited about mainstream players and sleepers alike. Leagues aren't won in the first round, but they can certainly be lost by taking the wrong player. A good rule of thumb is to slowly take on more risk as the draft progresses. You want to target high-floor players through the first few rounds to establish a baseline for your team before rolling the dice on sleeper candidates. Once you've snagged a core you're comfortable with, don't be afraid to reach for players who you're confident will break out this year. Keeping an eye on average draft position (ADP) can be useful to help pinpoint when to pull the trigger.
Keep an eye on the crease
Per the 2020-21 NHL rules, teams will be required to carry three goalies for the entire season. It's unclear how each team will handle that rotation, but it's unlikely that anyone will deploy a three-man rotation. Nevertheless, it's important to project how teams will run their crease this year. In past seasons, many would often rest their top goalie to ensure he was healthy for the postseason. In a condensed season, there may be less emphasis on that strategy. However, teams are utilizing tandems frequently these days; even stars like Tuukka Rask and Ben Bishop conceded the crease often last season. Therefore, netminders like Andrei Vasilevskiy and Connor Hellebuyck come at a premium with no proven backup to cut into their playing time.
Furthermore, having depth is key at every position, but it's even more vital with goalies. If you miss out on one of the elite netminders, it may be worth it to stock up on premier skaters in the early rounds and nab unexciting but dependable netminders later on. Keep an eye on the player pool, though. If a run sparks and goalies begin flying off the board, you'll need to grab one or two before it's too late. There's inevitable scarcity with goalies since there's just one starter for each team in a game, so you don't want to be left out in the cold. With the added uncertainty of the truncated campaign and COVID-related protocols, carrying three goalies on your fantasy roster should be the bare minimum.
Stacking linemates
This can be difficult to accomplish at the start of the season. Line configurations are fluid, and there's no guarantee that they'll stay the same for three periods, let alone a full season. If you can find a reliable stack, however, your week-to-week ceiling increases drastically. Stacking linemates has a proven positive correlation in your point total, specifically in head-to-head point formats. Boston is the best example, as the Marchand/Bergeron/Pastrnak unit has been dynamite for years. Targeting other high-octane offenses is a wise move since even if the skaters don't play together at even strength, they'll often team up with the man advantage, which usually provides another bonus for fantasy managers.
Know your bias
Hockey fans have biases; we have favorite teams and a distaste for rival clubs or even individual players. When it's time to draft, though, leave your bias at the door. It serves no use, and it could end up being a detriment. Furthermore, try to understand your competitors' biases, as well, and be ready to capitalize on them. If Blackhawks winger Dominik Kubalik is still on the board late and you think he'll fall to you next round, take a look at who has selections between your current pick and your next one. If there are some Blackhawks fans in that mix, Kubalik may get snatched up.
Watch out for injuries
Come January 13, some players will take the ice for their first game action in 10 months, while others were playing some of the most important games of their lives just four months ago. There will be injuries, and you need to be mindful of them in fantasy drafts. If you see an injury tag on a player in the queue, be sure to read the analysis to see when they're expected to return. There are very few players who are worth drafting in the early rounds if they're on track to miss months of the season. After all, what's the point of having them for the fantasy playoffs if you don't qualify?
The work doesn't end here
The draft is just one part of the fantasy season. If you don't feel satisfied with your roster following the draft or after the first few weeks of the season, there are plenty of ways to change course. Be active on the waiver wire and keep an eye on players who get dropped by your competition. Try to make trades.
Simply put, stay engaged — championships aren't won at the draft.
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Briscoe, Jones join Scuderia Corsa for Rolex 24
Jamie Klein
Briscoe and Jones will join Bret Curtis and Marcos Gomes at the wheel of a Ferrari 488 GT3 for the opening round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, in a separate effort from the car run for the full season last year under the WeatherTech Racing banner.
“I truly believe this lineup has a chance to win,” Scuderia Corsa owner Giacomo Mattioli said. “They have the experience, the speed and the enthusiasm to succeed.
"This race picks its winner, but you do have to prepare. The team has been working all off-season for the return to racing. Our partners TOTAL, Aero and Pacific Western are all excited to be back at Daytona. 2021 feels hopeful and we want to capitalize on the positive momentum.”
Briscoe was one of Wayne Taylor Racing's full-season drivers last year in the DPi ranks, but both he and teammate Renger van der Zande were both axed for the team's switch from Cadillac to Acura machinery in favour of an all-new line-up.
It marks a return to the GT ranks for Briscoe, who was part of the Chip Ganassi-run works Ford effort from 2016 to '19, and a first outing in the GTD class.
“I’d like to thank Giacomo for the opportunity to join Scuderia Corsa for this coming Rolex 24 at Daytona,” Briscoe said.
“This will be a new challenge for me racing in the GTD class in a Ferrari. I’m very grateful and will do my part to fight for the victory and can’t wait to hit the track in a few weeks!"
Ed Jones, Ed Carpenter Racing Scuderia Corsa Chevrolet
Ed Jones, Ed Carpenter Racing Scuderia Corsa ChevroletGeoffrey M. Miller / Motorsport Images
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The Rolex 24 meanwhile will mark the first race outing for Jones since the conclusion of the 2019 NTT IndyCar Series season, as travel restrictions forced him to abandon plans to contest the DTM last year at the wheel of a WRT-entered customer Audi.
“First, it's great to be back with Scuderia Corsa because I have a great relationship with the team and everyone there,” said Jones, whose 2019 Ed Carpenter Racing IndyCar entry was run under the Scuderia Corsa banner.
“I look forward to going back stateside after a rough 2020 for everyone. I think we have the chance to start 2021 off the right way with a great result at Daytona.
"I think the team we have around us as well as drivers is a strong lineup. It should be the perfect opportunity to get a great result. The goal as always is to win. I think if we show the performance that Scuderia Corsa had last year, we can certainly be in position to achieve.”
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Ex-Virginia Tech QB Hendon Hooker announces commitment to Tennessee
Former Virginia Tech quarterback Hendon Hooker plans to continue his career in the SEC.
Hooker, who started 14 games over the last two seasons for the Hokies, announced Thursday that he has committed to play at Tennessee. Hooker has two seasons of eligibility remaining and will be able to play in 2021.
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— Hendon Hooker (@henhook2) January 7, 2021
After redshirting in 2017 and seeing limited action in 2018, Hooker emerged as Virginia Tech’s top quarterback during the 2019 season. He played in 11 games and made eight starts and ended up throwing for 1,555 yards and 13 touchdowns with just two interceptions while completing 61.1% of his throws. He also had 356 yards and five scores rushing.
Hooker missed the beginning of the 2020 season but ended up suiting up in eight games with six starts. Over that span, he threw for 1,339 yards and nine touchdowns with five interceptions. His completion percentage jumped up to 65.3%. His rushing totals increased too. Hooker finished the year with 620 yards and nine touchdowns on the ground.
Virginia Tech quarterback Hendon Hooker (2) plays against Pittsburgh in an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Tennessee’s QB struggles
The quarterback position has been a bit of a revolving door at Tennessee under Jeremy Pruitt. In 2020, four different quarterbacks played for the Vols: Jarrett Guarantano, Harrison Bailey, JT Shrout and Brian Maurer.
Guarantano put his name in the transfer portal. Shrout already announced a transfer to Colorado. Maurer has primarily been a backup, but Bailey was the program’s prized recruit in 2020. The five-star prospect played in six games and finished the year with 578 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions while completing 70.6% of his throws.
In addition to having Bailey and Shrout, Tennessee also added Kaidon Salter, a four-star recruit, in its 2021 recruiting class. Hooker, should he end up in Knoxville, brings significant starting experience to the QB room.
The news of Hooker’s commitment comes the day that multiple outlets reported details of an investigation into alleged impermissible benefits and other violations in the Tennessee program.
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Liverpool may be hot right now, but the Premier League title race is still wide open
Ryan Bailey
As Liverpool put their seventh unanswered goal past Crystal Palace on Saturday — a stunning Mo Salah effort, no less — many fans leapt to the same conclusion. Put a fork in this Premier League title race, because it is done. No one can come close to the incumbent champions.
This past weekend has been regarded by some as a pivotal point in the title race. Liverpool’s stunning win at Selhurst Park came just days after they put fellow contenders Tottenham to the sword at Anfield. Previously, Spurs had been undefeated since the opening day of the season, and topped the table for four consecutive matchweeks. Two losses in a week now puts them in sixth place.
Meanwhile, Manchester City are deemed to be a shadow of their former selves, while Manchester United are still managed by a “Norwegian PE teacher” in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
With all that in mind, it’s little wonder that many believe Liverpool will inevitably start to pull away in the quest to keep the big trophy on Merseyside.
Calling the race with only one third of the games played, however, is a fool’s errand. Not only do we stand on the precipice of the annual winter fixture pileup — a traditional stumbling block for all title-chasing teams — but we do so in an extraordinary year.
The Premier League started a month late, teams must play more games in less time, and Liverpool are unlikely to be supported by the spine-tingling volume of a packed Anfield any time soon. Nothing is certain in this strange season.
Liverpool may have looked unbeatable at Crystal Palace, but those with slightly longer memories will note that they were lucky to earn a point at relegation-threatened Fulham the previous week. Less than a month ago, Liverpool could only muster a draw at Brighton. October may feel like it happened years ago, but that was when the Reds were humiliated by a 7-2 scoreline at Aston Villa.
The point is: Liverpool have already suffered a rocky road in this campaign, and every other potential title contender has also suffered a dip at some point.
Jurgen Klopp, a man who once blamed the wind for a Merseyside Derby draw, has raged about kickoff times as his squad has suffered serious injuries. The likes of Virgil Van Dijk, James Milner, Diogo Jota, Thiago Alcantara and Joe Gomez are sidelined. A style of play that relies on a high-energy press will inevitably cause more issues as the fixtures pile up. Over the festive period, Liverpool face four games in 13 days — and the games will keep coming thick and fast thereafter as they fight on four fronts.
Liverpool are the bookies’ favorites by a significant margin: BetMGM prices their title win at -110, while current second-place side Leicester are at a very long +3300. However, in a season that has already thrown its fair share of curveballs, this title race remains wide open.
To prove it, Yahoo Soccer can make a strong case for five other contenders for this year’s title.
The mention of Pep Guardiola’s side as title chancers this season may raise an eyebrow, but BetMGM still place them as second favorites (at +225). City may pale in comparison to their magnificent 2017-18 pomp, but they are unbeaten in over a month and have earned a 9-1 aggregate score in the five games over that period, which includes four clean sheets.
Man City have lacked firepower, but the hopeful return of Sergio Aguero — and bottomless pockets to rectify the situation in January — means they have the potential to make up ground.
“Man City will be right there at the end of the year, they'll be knocking on the door, they'll be close,” Harry Redknapp said this week. What more proof do you need than ‘Arry’s seal of approval?
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Manchester United are on a bit of a rollercoaster ride this season. (Photo by Matthew Peters/Manchester United via Getty Images)
The Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Opinion Rollercoaster™ has provided a wild ride this season. One second, the Norwegian is a clueless fraud steering his team into the Europa League, the next he is a mastermind outwitting Marcelo Bielsa in a thrilling game of tactical 4D chess.
Whatever way you look at it, United are only five points behind Liverpool with a game in hand. They are capable of exciting attacking soccer, their defense is improving, and they appear to be growing in confidence each week.
Solskjaer’s side have some tricky opponents on the horizon (a trip to Leicester awaits on Boxing Day and they will go to Anfield early in the New Year), but they cannot be discounted with 24 rounds left to play.
With five league losses on the books already, it’s surprising to see Leicester in second place. However, only Liverpool can match their nine wins so far, and Brendan Rodgers’ team must be in the conversation.
The Foxes are a well-drilled counter attacking side, who soundly beat Tottenham at their own game at the weekend. They boast several world-class players (Wilfred Ndidi, for example, would walk into most top sides) and they boast the rare commodity of a proven out-and-out striker in Jamie Vardy.
Rodgers recently insisted his side are not in the title race, and they may be due the kind of drop-off that soured their campaign in 2019-20. But stranger things have happened (see: 2015-16).
As a side whose trophy cabinet has been gathering dust since 2008, Spurs fans have cautiously started to express some optimism. The controversial appointment of Jose Mourinho has been fully vindicated and they have, until the last week, looked like genuine contenders.
With two losses in less than a week, Spurs have damaged their credentials, but they have the time and the weapons to make up the ground. In fact, with Fulham, Aston Villa and Sheffield United coming up in the next five matches, they could make up that ground very soon.
Harry Kane (back) and Son Heung-min give Spurs hope in the title chase despite their recent struggles. (Glyn Kirk/Pool via AP)
Mourinho’s side are defensively disciplined (apart from Serge Aurier’s recent NFL-style tackle to concede a penalty to Leicester) and boast some truly incredible counter attacking firepower in Son Heung-Min and Harry Kane.
The Portuguese manager is a proven winner who always performs well in his second season at a club, and his side have made incredible progress. If Kane and Son can avoid injury issues, Spurs can remain in contention until the spring.
The Blues have not played a major role in the title contention conversation this season, but they sit the same distance from Liverpool as Tottenham right now.
Frank Lampard’s side have made great strides to addressing their defensive issues and they boast the league’s best squad depth in terms of attacking options. In a season where injuries will be highly problematic for top teams, Chelsea’s deep bench could be the difference-maker.
Lampard has played down title talk thus far, but the Blues face a beleaguered Arsenal on Boxing Day, and Aston Villa, Fulham and Burnley during the difficult festive period. They are certainly a wildcard pick for the title, but there is no reason to discount them at this stage.
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Mississippi State punter fires off bizarre 0-yard punt in Armed Forces Bowl
The third quarter of the Armed Forces Bowl between No. 24 Tulsa and Mississippi State featured one of the strangest punts you will ever see.
Mississippi State was holding on to a 21-13 lead but was punting back to Tulsa with under a minute remaining in the third. That’s when the usually reliable Tucker Day had a brutal mishap.
Day, who averaged 45 yards per punt during the regular season, somehow kicked the ball off the toe of his cleat. He booted a low liner that went right to Tulsa’s Trevor Reh, who was standing only a yard beyond the line of scrimmage.
This Mississippi State punt did not go as planned 😩 pic.twitter.com/gvHsIsFwqo
— Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) December 31, 2020
Reh, surprised to see the ball careening toward him, somehow managed to catch the punt before getting quickly tackled by one of Mississippi State’s blockers.
(via ESPN)
That went in the books as a zero-yard punt with a zero-yard return. You don’t see that every day.
The gaffe gave Tulsa the ball at the MSU 32-yard line. Nine plays later, the Golden Hurricane scored to cut the score to 21-19. That was as close as Tulsa would get, however.
The team’s game-tying two-point conversion attempt was unsuccessful. That play proved consequential as Mississippi State went on to win 28-26. The key play in MSU’s win was a 90-yard pick-six by freshman Emmanuel Forbes when it looked like Tulsa was going to take its first lead of the game late in the third quarter. That defensive score increased MSU’s lead from 14-13 to 21-13.
Another interception thrown by Zach Smith near the goal line late in the fourth took away another golden opportunity for Tulsa. Smith would throw a touchdown pass with 1:23 remaining, but the ensuing onside kick attempt was recovered by the Bulldogs.
All things considered, it was a tough way for Tulsa to close out what was an excellent season.
The Golden Hurricane, who played Thursday’s game without national defensive player of the year Zaven Collins, lost their opener to Oklahoma State before going unbeaten in conference play during the regular season. Tulsa then fell to undefeated Cincinnati on a last-second field goal in the AAC title game. With the bowl loss, Tulsa finishes its season with a 6-3 record.
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14th Annual ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo To Be Held Between May 2 – 4, 2019; Registrations Now Open
The Expo agenda includes creative and business-focused panels, workshops, master classes, keynotes, state-of-the-art technology demonstrations, performance opportunities and the chance for one-on-one networking with hit-making songwriters and producers. It also offers music creators an unforgettable and authentic experience – real knowledge, tools, connections and a community of support and guidance they can’t find anywhere else.
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ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), the organisation specialised in performing rights and advocacy for music creators, has announced that the 14th edition of its signature event, the ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo, is scheduled to begin on May 2nd, 2019.
The expo is said to be held at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, and the organisation is already accepting registrations for the same. Music creators of all styles and experience levels can visit https://www.ascap.com/expo to register for the conference.
“Every year, Expo brings together a community of music creators from all over the world for three days of learning, networking and the chance to share their passions with each other,” said Lauren Iossa, ASCAP Executive Vice President/ Chief Marketing Officer. He also added, “We look forward to seeing every single one of our attendees and know that they will leave Expo inspired and ready to reach for the next stage of their careers.”
The “I Create Music” Expo by ASCAP has always attracted songwriters from different countries and last year, we were able to witness attendees from India and Australia as well. Successful songwriters that have participated in ASCAP Expo early in their careers include Vincent Berry (“Sandcastles,” Beyoncé), Aloe Blacc (“I Need a Dollar,” “Wake Me Up,” Avicii), LELAND (“Youth,” Troye Sivan) and Meghan Trainor (“All About That Bass”).
According to ASCAP, the Expo agenda includes creative and business-focused panels, workshops, master classes, keynotes, state-of-the-art technology demonstrations, performance opportunities and the chance for one-on-one networking with hit-making songwriters and producers. It also offers music creators an unforgettable and authentic experience – real knowledge, tools, connections and a community of support and guidance they can’t find anywhere else.
Since its inception, the event has brought together some of music’s biggest talents and most successful industry players. Previous keynote speakers include Justin Timberlake, Tom Petty, Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, Katy Perry, Meghan Trainor, Quincy Jones, Ludacris, Carly Simon, Sara Bareilles, Jackson Browne, Ann and Nancy Wilson (Heart), Diplo, Big Sean, Ne-Yo, Stargate, Bill Withers, Aloe Blacc, Richie Sambora and Jeff Lynne.
For a peek at the experience, ASCAP is making video of 60+ hours of panels and performances from the 2018 conference, including countless “only at ASCAP Expo” moments, available at https://www.ascap.com/2018expovideo.
Keep watching this space for more news as we bring you all the latest updates on music industry and audio technology.
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Alarmed by our claim that the State government (with the agreement of the Wollondilly Council bureaucracy and some Councillors) seeks to explode the population of the Shire with 26,000 new homes (for whom?), the local political elite said we were fearmongering and not being truthful.
Odd, as we were quoting official sources!
An article appeared in the Wollondilly Advertiser referring to various persons from a Liberal MP to the Mayor, all speaking against us.
Our readers can examine the piece for themselves:
http://www.wollondillyadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/immigrant-fears-raised/2640924.aspx
‘Australia First Party-endorsed candidate Gloria Watling from The Oaks said she sent the flyer to about 4000 households in the north ward.
The flyer says: “Now we are told there’s to be a state government-pushed plan to build 25,000 homes in Wilton — for new immigrants?”
Mrs Watling said she didn’t believe the proposal would get off the ground but hoped that the houses would be for Australian residents if it were approved.
Wollondilly mayor Col Mitchell said about 8000 new houses were being proposed for the Wilton interchange…’
We feel peculiarly honoured by such treatment.
Wollondilly – a regional shire at risk from Sydney Sprawl
Wollondilly is now on the front line of the population question. The major parties treat the people with contempt in their quest for a Big Australia. The interest groups behind the scheme shall be referred to again and again as Gloria watling’s drive towards Council – gathers pace.
It is now a war of smoke and mirrors where the truth is to be concealed behind ritual denunciations of us for ‘fearmongering’ and even ‘racism’.
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Two Women Stabbed to Death by Terrorist Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ in Marseille, France
Police investigators work outside the Saint-Charles train station after French soldiers shot and killed a man who stabbed two women to death at the main train station in Marseille, France, October 1, 2017. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
A man killed two women with a knife at the main Marseille train station on Sunday afternoon, an incident French authorities are investigating as a terrorist attack.
French police on patrol at the station shot the attacker dead at the scene, according to a Twitter statement from the Marseille branch of France’s national police. The attacker’s identity has not yet been disclosed.
“Profoundly outraged by this barbaric act, in pain with the families and relatives of the Marseille victims,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter. Gérard Collomb, France’s Interior Minister, was dispatched to Marseille late Sunday afternoon, where he met with local authorities about the case.
The St. Charles train station was immediately evacuated, and the SNCF, France’s national railway system, suspended service to and from France’s second-largest city.
In mid-September, the same train station was the site of another attack, in which a woman threw acid onto a group of four visiting American students, all in their 20s. Marseille police did not classify that earlier incident as terrorism, reporting instead that the assailant had “a psychiatric history.”
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Home > Opinion > Home Rule Now
Home Rule Now
For the millions who voted yes, the significance of involvement in the referendum campaign has yet to fade. Of this, there can be little doubt. That unprecedented display of public emotion: a plethora of perfectly rational acts of civic love, provided a moment of clarity that will leave an indelible mark on the nation’s character. This will not, indeed cannot, be forgotten, erased, re-written or subsumed into some less potent future project. That much we know.
Today it is politically impossible for any politician to claim (as many did prior to its inception) that the referendum was a distraction, that this buzzing site of mass participation in democracy was somehow ‘on pause’ until the votes were counted. In the space of weeks it is the losers, not the victors of that campaign, who are in the ascendent.
But there is a clear and present danger that the Scottish independence movement faces. To remain trapped in what is now a historic moment, to seek to replay the good times over and over again, is not a fitting tribute to all that was achieved. We must now chart a way forward that does not take a yes vote as its starting point.
As the inheritors of a broad movement so happily defined by a three letter word, we can’t simply gallop onwards towards independence. Instead we have to realise that the referendum allowed us, a full 1.6 million of us, to understand what we want. With power given back to London the question now is to work out what we can get.
If independence is to be delivered, as I believe it can be, we have to take a step back. Let’s take the unity, the passion and the energy and apply it to what happens next. In doing so, we need to become comfortable with the fact that there is no longer a single route by which the people of Scotland finally get to govern Scotland: there are several.
In truth, any time served activist could tell you there was always more to do than vote yes. But the question on that ballot paper was so devastatingly simple, it gave the answer a kind of quiet, positive quality too. Yes was all that was required.
That time is now over. We need to start asking relentless, tough questions anew. Is there an alternative to austerity? Yes. Are there more productive things to do in the world than bomb terrorists? Yes. Can we start using the powers that Scotland has now to reshape society? Yes. Can we make changes to local democracy that would radically improve services and break Labour’s braindead stranglehold? Yes. Can we do one better than abolishing the Bedroom Tax and the scrap the thinly disguised flat tax that is the Council Tax? Yes. Can we achieve Home Rule for Scotland? Yes.
All of these questions must now take precedence over the one that voters answered in the negative last month. Because the task of reaching out to the 55% need not be as difficult as it seems. The only thing that will impede the effective formation of a majority who want Home Rule, will be a fixation with the referendum: or the desire to distort the true import of that joyous time into a litmus test of loyalty through the emergence of a ‘hard yes’ group.
I think I’ll see independence in my lifetime. It’s a policy that I’ve supported throughout my whole political life: I’ve never voted for a unionist party and I never will. If I thought an endless re-run of September, calls for another referendum, or chatter about UDI would hasten independence, I’d join in. Yet now would be the worst possible time to break from the remarkable patience that the independence movement has shown. To abandon that discipline, unity and openness now would be disastrous. It also paves the way for an anti-independence platform to gain traction that might yet save the crisis ridden unionists parties in 2015.
The SNP has, quite rightly, swung itself behind what it believes to be the constitutional position that Scotland currently favours: Devo Max. This is a vitally important step for the wider movement to support. No political party can ignore the polls that back it up. They will eat away at the confidence and credibility of the unionist parties unless they are seen to embrace what these numbers represent.
There is a bigger point to remember here: there is an overwhelming lack of rhetoric about the union prevailing. Since Scotland voted No, ever louder proclamations about the historic destiny of the UK have fallen silent. Now that the voters have gone home, the ‘redistributive union’ to use Alastair Darling’s notorious phrase, is nowhere to be seen. The sordid business of austerity politics means that broken Britain is back with a vengeance now that the jocks have been silenced. Ruth Davidson’s words explaining the No victory, from the BBC’s documentary How the Campaign Was Won, are revealing:
I think people across Scotland are canny. I think that, they looked at the prospectus that was on offer for change and there were too many holes in it and they recognised that.
It’s not exactly the rhetoric about the unity of this sceptred isle you’d expect from the leader of the Conservative and Unionist party. In fact, it makes a massive concession: that the prospectus for change, not the principle of Scottish independence itself, was the reason that the No vote triumphed.
Let’s consider briefly what that prospectus for independence consisted of. The No campaign attacked it with an overwhelming emphasis on economics and to be blunt, crucified Yes on currency. The contest became, at points, an endless chain of two competing offers to Scotland: do you want the pound? Do you want the government you vote for? A politically silent (perhaps orphaned) older, wealthier, Scotland turned out to assert that the prospect of financial deficit was worse than the reality of a democratic one.
Throughout the campaign the Scottish Government’s platform was painfully close to Home Rule, perhaps fatally so. The inevitable political exposure this brought was ruthlessly exploited: arguing for change, but also for continuity, is an almost impossible task. Whatever the rights or wrongs of the monetary minutiae that underpinned it, few would claim that fighting swathes of the campaign about the merits of Sterling and the Bank of England helped compel Scots to vote for independence. Solid offerings on social justice were so lean that Beranrd Ponsonby was able to pinion Salmond late in the day on an issue that should have easily been carried by yes. In short, this most detailed proposition often felt like an offer for ‘independence in the UK’ so great was its desire to assuage risk. Home Rule, which the SNP is now intent on turning into political reality, was heavily gestured to by both sides in the referendum campaign and for good reason.
With canny Scots, not proud Britons, saving the union and Home Rule at least a rhetorical commitment from unionists, a political space has opened up in Scotland. To exploit this strategically we must de-couple the idea of independence from the idea of an elusive referendum triumph. The 18th and 19th of September contained so much for so many, that it can be easy to assume that this is the manner in which independence must be gained. A referendum is fought and won. The old order concedes and something new takes its place. The reality, certainly when it comes to Britain, is very different.
If there is one thing that Britain demands, it is to save face, to snatch continuity from the jaws of decline. Throughout the referendum campaign, the frailties of the British establishment were exposed: that’s why they had to win.
There is ample precedent here. The Statute of Westminster offers a blueprint. It acknowledged British law making to be obsolete in the autonomous Dominions, effectively ending London rule with a whisper not a bang. It also shored up the prestige of an austerity gripped coalition government and a rapidly declining world power, sound familiar?
The lesson is simple: the best way to get independence from Britain is to do so when the British establishment are looking elsewhere and simply lose interest. With North Sea Oil (as much burden as boon to the independence cause) this is more challenging. But politically the idea that what British politics has vested in Scotland could rapidly diminish seems more tangible than ever. If the Scottish Labour Party is severely weakened in 2015 the lack of a Westminster party with mass support throughout all the nations of the UK must be a precursor to actual break up.
No country that gained its independence has ever wanted to give it back. This became an oft repeated remark during the referendum campaign. However we must also remember that no country that gained ever greater autonomy from Westminster did not go on to achieve independence. It also offers us the chance to steadily demonstrate what is distinct about our politics and to begin the work of radically transforming Scotland’s economy.
So let’s have a ‘Yes alliance’, but let’s not call it that. Let’s keep the momentum and work out how to build on all that we achieved. But we must not remain trapped by the contours of a debate about full statehood which is, for the time being, over.
For several weeks during the referendum campaign the British establishment were terrified of us. They were terrified of our unity, the breadth of our movement, the communities that we had mobilised and of a new found thirst for political self-education amongst working people. This was the true meaning of yes: that the remarkable happens when people are given a vote that matters. In that spirit let’s begin by acknowledging that one three letter word will no longer suffice as a banner: we must find another to rally behind.
Three words will do for me instead: Home Rule Now.
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By Christopher Silver
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Now that’s the name we’ve been waiting for….and it was there all the time!
tresmegistus says:
perfidious albion. the united kingdom of GB is made up of wales, england and scotland. the scots in my view approached it in the wrong way. they should have insisted that all three union members vote. there is a lot of sympathy south of hadrian’s wall to scotland’s independence. the monetary issue was a false flag. in this way scotland would have received a yes vote and probably lead to wales seeking independence as well and the break up of GB as has been foretold.
Ann win next time says:
I agree that we must move on from yes but I think it would be madness to leave all the structure, energy and positivity behind. The next step is not just defining the next election but should spell out the journey we are on. I would like to see a full dialogue throughout Scotland on all issues relating to the devo promises. We need to spell out to people what the gains and losses are, let them see who is fighting for them and who is holding them back. Simple really!
I like Yes Alliance.
BampotsUtd.wordpress.com says:
24th October 2014 at 10:58 pm
Yes alliance is well sound and keeps the yes going am more for yes and no united for change ! No matter what it is Scotland will warm to it and Embrace it like the indy ref there’s no back in the box here and every day more and more no voters are joining yes so we are on the march with nicks army we all want indy we will real shake them up when we the next Indy ref a wee tune there from me late nice to so much still going on it’s only a matter of time !
oldbattle says:
YES ALLayeANCE Joking but having invested so much from so many in the YES brand it is common sense and good communication theory to retain the brand with its
heritage of loyalty.
Interesting post. In moving forward we must never forget the role of the BBC. Considerable energy of the YES Alliance, or whatever we call ourselves now, must be aimed at them as a concrete and tangible enemy.
It must be shut down in Scotland – by whatever means that takes!
jocklandjohn says:
25th October 2014 at 11:10 am
An impartial and objective reporter of facts news and events is the enemy? You’re a dangerous and disturbing zealot.
I assume from this you would prefer a broadcaster that presents only the partisan view you support?
The “spontaneous” anti-BBC demo was probably the low point of either campaign – truly disgusting.
fionavon1 says:
No way. What the Yes campaign was annoyed with was the extreme bias that typified the BBC. Alot of this was covert in e.g giving the ‘No’ campaign the first question, leaving the role of the Yes campaigner to justify themselves. What about the spontaneous rallies throughout Scotland. These were never shown on the BBC. Have a look at Referendum Bias on You Tube. If this doesn’t change your mind there is something wrong.
“Alot of this was covert in e.g giving the ‘No’ campaign the first question, leaving the role of the Yes campaigner to justify themselves.”
Ah, that would be the special two-headed BBC coin that was tossed to decide the running order of the debates?
If you’re used to sycophancy in a campaign cocoon, opposing views probably start to look like “extreme bias”.
James Kelly says:
I don’t think the BBC are the enemy, but it strikes me that anyone who watched the coverage of the penultimate week of the campaign and still feels able to call the corporation “an impartial and objective reporter of facts, news and events” is as guilty of zealotry as anyone else.
I may be different from some other independence supporters in this respect, but I had at least a degree of faith in the BBC that when it really came to the crunch, their instinct for impartiality would win out over their instinct to promote British unity. Quite simply, that didn’t happen. They let down their audience badly – indeed it’s tempting to use the word ‘betrayed’. The coverage improved somewhat over the last few days before polling (I think they privately began to realise that they’d made a hash of it) but by that point the damage had been done.
I think the case is unproven and, until it is, I am very sceptical about allegations of BBC bias when they come from people who wanted the opposite referendum result.
As far as I know, there has been only one (pseudo) scientific piece of research from Professor Robertson (a supporter of independence so not exactly objectively independent for the purposes of such a study) that purported to demonstrate that bias. I read his research and was wholly unconvinced. Numerical weight of reporting in favour of No is perfectly understandable when the majority of voters were No voters – in a sense it just reflects the arithmetic.
You need to consider the phenomenon of “observer bias”. I watched Jim Watt lose his world lightweight crown to Alexis Arguello at Wembley. I was gutted at the end as I was convinced (or had convicned myself) that Watt deserved to win. He hadn’t.
In which case, perhaps you should listen to people with no skin in the game such as the respected former BBC journalist Paul Mason (now with Channel 4) who noted that the BBC were operating at full propaganda strength during the referendum campaign.
Doesn’t the ‘observer bias’ problem apply to your own glowing tribute to the BBC’s impartiality?
Last but not least, I think you should justify your outrageous claim that Professor Robertson’s work was “pseudo”-scientific. Perhaps you could also explain why the BBC thought Robertson’s work was important enough to complain to the university about, but mysteriously not important enough to report on the news.
Many people have also alleged that the BBC was too sympathetic to the Yes side, and speculated that it was precisely because they wanted to avoid allegations of being pro-union. You will find as many people claiming the BBC has right wing bias as claim it has left wing bias – it all depends on your standpoint. You will find evidence of what you seek if it reinforces your own views.
Point me to this glowing tribute you allege I make?
Paul Mason is a Trotskyite ex-music teacher, is pro-independence and inexplicably now is involved in economics at the Guardian and Channel 4 after the BBC. Being ex-BBC makes one wonder whether criticism of it means he has no skin in the game on the matter of BBC bias (who knows what ulterior motive he might have to criticise his past employer). I might respect him playing some classical music, but not as an economist (much of his economics is illiterate in my view, perhaps not surprising given his background) or an impartial commentator.
Why is it outrageous to say that comment on a subject that does not lend itself well to science (as it’s all about subjectivity, opinions, personal impressions, imprecision and nuance of language and personal biases) is pseudo-science?
I am not talking about debates which relied on the toss of a coin. I am referring to guest speakers of the BBC. Invariably the No campaigner spoke first. The result was that the majority of the time allocated to the Yes campaigner was spent defending this view, immediately putting them in the defensive, in turn making the no campaigner appearing stronger.
yesguy says:
FUD = Fiona Undoubtedly Demented
John Campbell says:
If you are a respected news gathering organisation, and your impartiality is questioned, whether rightly or wrongly, and you can’t send out a reporter or can’t be bothered swivelling your camera’s through 180 degrees to look out your front window at 4,000 people who are doing the asking, then you have, in fact, answered their question for them. But not on mainstream media.
Murray McGregor says:
Disgusting? In what way? A large group of people including children peacefully demonstrating their discontent at their BBC conducting a biased campaign on behalf of the No’s is why they were there!
Frack-off activist fae Ailsa Craig says:
Breath-taking comments. What planet are you on buddy? Smoked a pound of Westminster snuff? The BBC are NOT objective and they are NOT IMPARTIAL. They choose and select their narrative that is shaped by Westminster’s elites in their cosy circles and it is spoken by a BBC proper speaking elocution voice to the Empire of their subordinates. Wake up you plankton-brained cretin! The BBC was born in the era of propaganda in the 1920’s as a wireless broadcaster to the great Empire of England’s global dominance: we Jocks were their coat of mail defence. The BBC has perpetuated decades of Jock stereotypes as violent racist drunkards. They perpetuate the Kailyard kitsch. They insult our nation as a load of beggars living off hand-outs from the UK Treasury, while, in reality, Scotland’s wealth is plundered by greedy lowlife cretins who mask themselves as ‘gentlemen’ and are beneath my contempt. But you are not. These callous hearted subhuman ‘things’ are the heartless people who kiss babies with one hand and blow people to smithereens with the other. The warmongers and the elites are one race based on hereditary status and pomp. Its time this old Feudal elites was out of the democratic process and its the museum of history where they belong with the other reptilian dinosaurs.Where’s the objectivity in the English media telling the lie that England or Britain won the Second World War? They did not. Russia effectively did with 27 million dead! A vibrant Scottish BBC would reflect our culture like a mirror. Real Scottish talent on the Telly! Scottish accents even! Imagine? Imagine really talented Scottish music on TV and all the great Burns speakers we have? our culture and arts are suppressed and held back from getting on our screens. BBC Scotland is a farce and we should all sue them for the crap they produce. One recent exception was Alan Little’s documentary Our Friends in the North. Refreshingly clever, fair and balanced just like Alan.
Even their weather map shrinks Scotland to almost half its size. We live in Scutland according to them. Time to shut em down and get John Logie Baird’s Box Back as a Scottish Telly for the People in Scotland. British Propaganda Control goodbye!
Wul says:
jockandjohn, you are so wrong. Your “observational bias” is clear.
An “impartial and objective reporter of facts news and events” (in your words) did not report a crowd of hundreds, possibly thousands of Yes supporters at the top of Glasgow’s busiest street on the Saturday before the referendum. Instead it showed a small group of both Yes & No supporters and the far end of the same street. Now, the BBC may have thought that their mandate for “balance” meant that for every 10 “No” campaigners, they had to show 10 “Yes” supporters. However, their duty for “balance” applies to giving equal airtime to opposing politicians and professional lobbyists.
A “reporter of facts” would have reported the FACT of mass, peaceful, celebratory rallies of Yes supporters in Glasgow’s city centre, with numbers far outweighing “No” supporters. It would have reported the FACT of Orange Lodge members marching in Edinburgh. It would have reported the FACT of Nazi salutes and homophobic verbal abuse shouted by “No” supporters in Glasgow’s George Square, it would have reported the FACT of a demonstration outside its own doors by unhappy citizens.
I was at the “disgusting” BBC demonstration you mention. I decided to go (spontaneously) because I saw myself and my fellow scots being “disappeared” on the BBC news coverage and felt hurt and badly misrepresented.
This demonstration which “disgusted” you was full of kids, folk in wheelchairs and mobility scooters, men, women, a few dugs, the old and the young, people from all socio-economic groups. I went with my 53yr old wife and sister in law who had a broken arm in plaster, she was not so much as jostled the whole day. It was happy, cheeky, irreverent and noisy. No one was hurt, no property was damaged, no one was arrested.
People shouted “where’s your cameras BBC!” Personally I think it was a valid demonstration of the way a lot of BBC license fee payers were feeling, and I also suspect it made a difference.
Can you not believe that people can get up off their chair and out into the streets to protest, without it being part of some sort of sinister conspiracy? Wake up man! Can you give one example of worthwhile social change that has happened without people demonstrating?
This disgusted me too. I had no idea that these rallies existed until I talked to my sister who had seen them on social media. Prior to the referendum, I hardly looked at social media and respected the BBC, believing that what I saw on the news was a true representation of what was going on! It it is only since I was aware the extreme bias that I started to trawl the internet to find out what was really going on.
I am convinced that this is why we lost the vote and this is why so many of the Yes campaign find it difficult to sit back and accept the result. Many of us have joined the SNP and I am convinced that change will happen.
I am not happy about the prospect of Jim Murphy taking over the Scottish Labour Party. Please have a look at this.
http://www.newsnetscotland.scot/index.php/scottish-news/3266-jim-murphy-secretly-organised-tories-and-libdems-against-referendum-in-2009.html
scot2go2 says:
jocklandjohn…. the bbc are up to their armpits in pro unionism… they should be closed down forthwith and a Scottish Broadcaster enabled ….funded by a fraction that is now given to support bbc pension schemes or private medical care etc… as Scotland raise some £300 million in TAX/fees yet the broadcast costs are £91 million… so that is one of the reasons the bbc were so desperate for the union… over & above the very strong links between the employees of the bbc & the labour party… which… if you follow… lenathehyenas blog you will see this as a fact…. though this blog does not cover the whole sorry corrupt mess….
Had they had a dedicated investigative set of journalists exposing the claims of both sides that would have been acceptable to all the Scottish electorate… but they clearly did not decide to follow that simple rule of journalistic ethics…
I personally will have no dealings with any part of this “entertainment” broadcaster as they can not be trusted.
“Many people have also alleged that the BBC was too sympathetic to the Yes side”
I recall Sarah Smith, just before she started presenting Scotland 2014, saying that as long as the BBC attracted roughly the same amount of criticism from both sides, they’d know they were getting it more or less right. To put it mildly, that isn’t what happened. By the end, the official No campaign had set themselves up as the BBC’s heroic defenders, which speaks volumes.
With pleasure. It was this : “An impartial and objective reporter of facts news and events”
“Why is it outrageous to say that comment on a subject that does not lend itself well to science”
For starters, your clear implication that it was OK for the BBC to give greater coverage to the No side because there were more No voters than Yes voters (did they have a premonition that would turn out to be the case?) does not lend huge confidence that your critique of Robertson’s work is well-founded.
“Paul Mason is a Trotskyite ex-music teacher, is pro-independence and inexplicably now is involved in economics at the Guardian and Channel 4 after the BBC.”
Heaven forbid that we should pay any attention to a music teacher. Holy Jesus. And you accuse others of “observer bias” and being “disturbing zealots”?
I rest my case, m’lud.
“as long as the BBC attracted roughly the same amount of criticism from both sides”
Was it not inevitable that the losing side would be the critics of the MSM? If Yes had won, do you not think that the Nos would be raking over the coals in exactly the same way?
“your clear implication that it was OK for the BBC to give greater coverage to the No side”
I did not mean to imply that it was OK for one side to be given greater coverage, merely that a greater number of persons were on the No side, so simple deductive arithmetic would imply that a greater number of them would be heard, interviewed etc.
“Heaven forbid that we should pay any attention to a music teacher.”
We should, on music.
It’s not normally considered to be a solid grounding for economics. Nor, these days, is Trotskyism usually considered to be. Even Russia gets that.
Judgment in your favour declined.
tartanfever says:
Yet the BBC are members and financially support a right wing pro business entity, the CBI. After it emerged that for nearly 30 years that the Corporation has been paying membership dues which now total in the region of £250k of licence fee payers money.
Yet the CBI still regularly appear on news programmes allowed to make comment on government policy, whether that be from Westminster or Europe without any caveat or ‘health warning’ that this is comment from an organisation that the BBC are members of.
And when the facts come out, what is the BBC reaction ? They decide move the subscription payments from normal BBC expenditure to the commercial division – BBC Worldwide. The BBC fail to see the utter hypocrisy caused by their ‘news impartiality’ claims and their continuing financial donations to the CBI.
A number of years ago the BBC realised that ‘think tanks’ are not non-political and they decided that they must treat such organisations with full scrutiny. That has completely failed to happen.
Reporting Scotland tell us ‘Reform Scotland’, a pro business think tank, is ‘independent and well-respected’ yet when Jackie Bird tells us that ‘ Reform Scotland accuse the Scottish Government of being scared of competition’ in a report over the building of new GP surgeries and hospitals, she fails to mention that Reform Scotland is financially supported by Skanska – a building firm that specialises in the construction of health care buildings.
That is an utter failure of ‘fair’ journalism and further, an utter failure of the BBC news department to follow it’s own guidelines.
Furthermore, why are the BBC exempt from so many Freedom of Information requests ?
They have a special opt out clause specifically written for them. It’s so vague that virtually any detail relating to the ‘ public body’ the BBC claim to be is exempt from being released – any information falling under the umbrella “purposes of journalism, art or literature” can be held from public scrutiny.
And one of the reasons the BBC wins this exemption is because they argue in court it is ‘more of a private company than a public body’ which quite rightly throws up the awkward question of ‘well why is there a licence fee ?’
The fact that the BBC are also one of the very worst offenders when it comes to answering FOI requests on time when they, through reporters such as Eleanor Bradford, use that specific system for virtually all of her own news stories is worrying.
When people pick up a newspaper, they know that the news they are about to read is slanted. Murdoch titles as with an other, come with their own built in health warnings. This is the complete opposite of the BBC which at all points claims utter impartiality on all of it’s news reporting.
This is the biggest journalistic deception facing the licence fee paying public. This is an issue that should be of concern to all citizens.
If the independence movement wants to get anywhere it really needs to stop making enemies of everyone. Old people, big business, the mainstream media, the main political parties, academics… and now the BBC. It seems that everyone who isn’t in favour of independence is an enemy.
Shaun, people are angry, and for good reason. . There is a way to approach and criticise beyond the unadulterated accusations that should be adopted. Prof John Robertson used it, his reason and expertise in his field counted for nothing as the accusations about him flew in from all sides, including the BBC who decided to try it’s best to undermine his position in his place of work by complaining to the Dean of the university. It seems that you have chosen to adopt exactly the same confrontational policy as others but failed to direct it properly.
The fact that Prof. Robertson’s work was peer reviewed by Edinburgh University and given a clean bill of health for academic publication counted for nothing. This is one of the many facts completely overlooked by those who jumped on the anti-indy bandwagon for questioning the BBC.
Yet, the BBC, unaccountable in public through a complaint system that takes months to get anywhere, through a labyrinth of repeat complaints (you have to write at least three complaints and even then the BBC Trust get to decide if your complaint will be responded to) and a refusal to even appear in public at the request of our elected members of Parliament is far from fair.
Every other influential public body has more accountability than the BBC, whether that be your local council, the NHS, Holyrood or Westminster and yet the people whom you accept your news from under the banner of complete impartiality are beyond question. That is frankly a ridiculous position for anyone to adopt. FOI requests can be submitted enquiring into every level of public life except for the BBC whose ‘get out of jail’ card I have outlined in the above post.
Ultimately, those now protecting the BBC from scrutiny will at some time in the future feel equally aggrieved at their coverage, but will most likely never have the self awareness to admit that they were possibly wrong over this.
The BBC news department is rotten to the core. It is a public body yet the BBC Trust and Director General treat it like their own. They do not own it, they are custodians. Their purpose is to supply the people of Britain with comprehensive and fair news coverage and when they leave the BBC to ensure it is in a healthier condition than when they took on the role.
They have to accept criticism,heck, they should encourage it. They should be answerable to the licence fee payers beyond a rigged complaint system and a laughable ‘Points of View’ type programme designed to placate the average griper.
News coverage isn’t one of investigation anymore, it is a tired format of allowing ‘press releases’ to be read verbatim followed up by a opinion from a senior BBC reporter. News reports have to be packaged into a maximum 2 minutes, no longer. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the BBC believes the audience gets bored if this time limit was longer and secondly, it stops any report delving too deeply into the subject.
The fairest thing the BBC can do is to drop this ‘impartiality’ act, publicly acknowledge that they are paid up members of the right wing, pro business CBI and invite a public discussion into the future of BBC journalism.
carol williamson says:
Yes what you are really saying is that you kill more flies with honey – a battle of stealth needs to be approached because they now know we are coming
All the mainstream media is owned out with Scotland so will never give a balanced view.
Latest from Liebour-Lamont has just resigned. Gosh wont she be missed!
First one down now for the rest of them
Cristean (@Cristeanmor) says:
Our “representative” from Fife is probably briefing her replacement right now..!
andrew>reid says:
Or make it ‘Alliance for Scotland’ so the choice is at the top of the ballot paper for the 2015 general election
Agreed . We could re-run the referendum and still lose against the combination of an openly hostile print media and the disgrace that is the Public Broadcaster..
James Stewart says:
We also need to stop going over and over it all over again. Remember the Declaration. 100 yes 100. Let’s move on from the referendum. OK we lost but we are still on the long road. Many are joining. This started centuries ago its not recent. The people will speak again as a nation and we will get to a place where the peoples voice will be the voice that is heard in Scotland. We are a nation of voices and a nation for everyone. We are almost there and this movement of democratic choice will bring down many more walls to come.
Agreed, we in the borders are keeping the torch burning and looking for a new campaign on the foundations of the Yes. The way ahead now is home rule as we can’t and shouldn’t re-run the referendum yet until circumstances like the EU in/out vote changes the scene. The good news is that the more devolved power or home rule will ultimately lead to independence demonstrated the world over and none have returned to the previous ‘partner’ state cap in hand saying sorry we got it wrong! I look forward to the day!
heartoftheworld99 says:
An excellent post. Shared.
Reblogged this on Bampots Utd.
Political Tourist says:
Goodnight and goodbye Johann.
Jolas been fired- the oban result was the last straw for milibluster
charlesobrien08 says:
I don’t understand how people were looking for holes in an independence stance.Its so simple we are either responsible citizens who can run our own country or we have something seriously wrong with our make-up!
Clicky Steve says:
Reblogged this on clickysteve.
looks like Johann is dust and slab are putting together their plans to save Scotland from the Scottish.
They think kezia dugdale will save them
Crazy madness but we are talking about a party who don’t believe themselves never mind anyone else.
Iain Hill says:
Presumably they will now be having a leadership contest for a non existent organisation. The options are frightening, yet laughable. Gordon, one of the most lumbering dinosaurs, and Jim who could divide people in his sleep
Millions did not vote Yes.. The figure was 1.6million.
An excellent discussion paper.
Home Rule is a very acceptable tactical option in the incremental accumulation of power towards the tipping-point of de facto sovereignty. It has been the political methodology employed by the vast number of new post-war states in their decolonization process.
Please note-process; for sovereignty, particularly in this epoch of the post-sovereign state in which power is devolved and shared (EU/UN) the idea of what constitutes a ‘sovereign Scotland’ will mutate.
However there are dangers when playing constitutional politics with perfidious albion.Britain played games around the issue of home rule within the Empire by offering colonies ‘local’ powers but retaining substantive power in London.
Creech Jones a major player in the Labour Government’s decolonization process suggested that granting full responsibility for LOCAL affairs was only right but he did not see this as ‘ involving the elimination of British power’.
In 1952 there was a Foreign Office paper called ‘the problem of nationalism’. In it the FO argued that it was possible to ‘ draw the constructive forces of nationalism to the British side by offering limited political authority in order to minimize the threatened erosion of British power’.
So Home Rule can be seen (in London) as a full stop whereas it is merely a semi-colon(y).
Australia is an interesting example. Though gaining home rule around 1900 it took another 80 years to finally gain supreme authority from Westminster.
In all of this and at the very centre of this debate has to be the lead actor-the SNP.
It has a constitution that all members must endorse.
1. The Party shall be named the Scottish National Party.
Aims 2.
The aims of the Party shall be:
(a) Independence for Scotland; that is the restoration of Scottish national sovereignty by restoration of full powers to the Scottish Parliament, so that its authority is limited only by the sovereign power of the Scottish People to bind it with a written constitution and by such agreements as it may freely enter into with other nations or states or international organisations for the purpose of furthering international cooperation, world peace and the protection of the environment.
This just might be a stumbling block to the idea of a process towards Independence via Home Rule.
However there is a second aim:
(b) the furtherance of all Scottish interests.
In clause (b) we might just find the key to unlock the movement for Home Rule as a mighty step towards Independence.
jean martin says:
Thanks, excellent article.
And there’s the rub. For the moment, at least, the majority of voters expressed their view that the furtherance of all Scottish interests did not lie in independence. And is not the conclusion from this that independence is incompatible with the furtherance of all Scottish interests (for now).
Dean Richardson says:
I suspect that quite a few people voted according to what is in their own personal interests, rather than what is in the interests of Scotland as a whole. It’s human nature, unfortunately.
Alan Crerar says:
Home Rule Now? Naw son, ‘Home Rule’ is a phrase from the 1960’s redolent of the auld labour party. Every time I hear it it gets my back up (40% rule). ‘Devolution’ is for the 1970’s (labour again). Independence is what we want – if we campaign for less, much less is what we’ll get. And don’t drop one of the most powerful, visual political slogan since ‘Solidarnoz”. One word. Not three. YES doesn’t need any fatuous straplines (anyone for ‘better together’ or the plagiarised ‘love Scotland’ now?). You see it, you know what it means, doesn’t need any explanation – the perfect shorthand for all the political arguments we put forward for the future of Scotland, because they haven’t changed. Paint it on a wall. Job done.
drawdeaddave says:
Agree with a lot of what you say Christopher, just one small point you wrote that i disagree on… “But the question on that ballot paper was so devastatingly simple, it gave the answer a kind of quiet, positive quality too. Yes was all that was required.”.. SHOULD SCOTLAND BE AN INDEPENDENT NATION””..Yes the question WAS simple, but the late intervention of the three main political leaders plus Gordon Brown vowing extensive powers made that simple question redundant it complicated it, and it became should Scotland become an independent nation yes/no or no but with more devolved powers, they basically changed and ruined the simple question, so much so that no one truthfully knows what the true outcome of the original question would have been, in saying that all the evidence points to the intervention being crucial in swinging the vote in favor of no. But like you say time to move on…
arthur thomson says:
Of course we have moved on from the Referendum but equally we have not forgotten and must never forget the methods adopted by our opponents. If anyone imagines that they are not going to continue in the same vein then think again. Their goal is to destroy the movement for Scottish self-government. I don’t share the apparently positive view of others towards this post. The strength of the Yes movement has been well observed and documented so I won’t try to describe it more eloquently. The views of the Scottish rep of the British tories are an irrelevance. The views of ‘Jocklandjohn’ are an irrelevance. The notion that we should try to justify our collective view on the subjects of austerity (actually poverty), foreign wars etc. is exactly NOT what we should enter into. The Yes movement is against poverty, against nuclear weapons on Scottish soil, against getting involved in wars, against low wage economics, against unelected government and pro democracy. We have absolutely no need to justify our views on these things, we only need to make it clear that those who oppose us take the opposite view. The choice of side is there for everyone to make. From now until the general election and beyond we need to make these points clear and when challenged we need to be equally clear that we don’t argue with stupid. I don’t know who he was but some newspaper guy said with relish the Yes people were just talking amongst themselves. We need to learn to leave our opponents to talk amongst themselves. Our power is on the streets and that is where we should do our talking. Anti BBC campaigns are spot on – if you need evidence of their effectiveness look at the contrary view expressed above. My call to all the Yes movement is – KEEP the message simple, keep your enthusiasm and take the fight to the doorstep.
Excellent post Arthur and just makes me realise that we should ignore the political mental minnows from the No side when they post and just keep on message taking it to the doorstep and the social media. However, we must expand that and get it into the wider domain as much as we can to ensure the drive doesn’t fade from people’s minds!
The views of ‘Jocklandjohn’ are an irrelevance.
Thanks, so the views of the majority are an irrelevance.
The Yes movement is against poverty, against nuclear weapons on Scottish soil, against getting involved in wars, against low wage economics, against unelected government and pro democracy. We have absolutely no need to justify our views on these things, we only need to make it clear that those who oppose us take the opposite view.
Rather arrogant of you to make assumptions like that. I’m for all of the things you cite above. Where I differ is in the mechanics of delivery
It’s because of a mindset like this that the Yes movement has gathered momentum. We are a nation that is capable, both intellectually and resource wise, to govern ourselves, not to be dictated to by WM. The longer that this takes, the longer tha drain on our natural resources continues.
Westminster will never deliver those things you want. Westminster will simply continue fighting stupid, illegal wars, undermining democracy, etc.
We are a nation that is capable, both intellectually and resource wise, to govern ourselves
I wholly agree with you.
However, the image that was presented was of a Yes leadership that was incapable and had simply not thought things out. Evasive on fundamental points. Bald assertions in opposition to authoritative spokespersons who said the opposite (EU and currency). Untruths (EU membership legal opinion and BoE meetings on currency union). Ignorance of major issues (VAT position on new EU member states). Facts that looked very ropey (cost of establishing the entire machinery of government stated to be only £250m), reliance on optimistic projections of price of oil. Etc etc.
Most of these aspects were frankly INcredible.
If the Yes campaign had prepared better – ie shown that they were capable, you might very well have won and you might even have got my vote. The lesson is to prepare better and not to appear amateurish when you’re dealing with the very serious matter of running a country.
Scottish people are awake, we are not going back in the box. I’ve got so much work done since cancelling the license fee to BBC. Can’t listen / watch them anymore. More accurate news online.
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Alistair Davidson says:
Very good article. A couple of observations.
First – the extent and enthusiasm of the Yes movement can be usefully deployed locally in creating and strengthening residents/tenants associations and community councils. These organisations tend not to exist or be effective where they are needed most.
Second – local Yes groups must keep in touch and exchange ideas and support each other to remain recognisable as a movement involving all at a grassroots level.
Third – agree that a hard yes identity must be avoided at all costs, but the medium term objective is to attract the 55% to the Yes camp, so keep the Yes identity but extend the agenda to strengthening and supporting local voices and communities seeking solutions to injustice unfairness and disinterest.
Hopefully the surge in SNP membership will help to address these issues. I am attending a SNP Women’s Conference in Ayr which includes workshops, hopefully aimed at both maintaining the momentum and enthusiasm of the 45%, as well as reaching out to some of the No camp. We only need a small % to sway the balance to exceed 50%.
That of course leads to the alliance element. Hope that this materialises into a party. I noticed that two of the deputy candidates are for a pro yes alliance, but the favoured Paul Brown has not mentioned this. Please let me know your views on the candidates.
IreneMac says:
You can read their statements on the SNP website, and make your mind up. I have voted for Angela Constance, because she seems more ‘radical’ than the others, but you must make your own mind up. What a wonderful party! See you at the conference. (It’s Keith Brown.)
leginge says:
The argument seems to be to ditch ‘Independence’ as the main objective and go for Home Rule, ‘Devo-thingy’ or whatever, in order to win over No-voters. The tactic being that with Home Rule it’s an easy step to Independence in the longterm. Hmm? Will it be an easy step ? will we get anywhere near Home Rule? and what is it anyway ? The SNP and other movements should stick to their founding principle – which is Independence. We would be no better than the traditional typical political party dropping our principles to gain short-term political advantage. It’s up to Indy-supporters to win the NO-types to the cause of Independence. We stand or fall on that basic objective.
The critical political issue in Scotland is ‘ in the current context what is the appropriate route to Independence’?
Circumstances (serendipity) can often dictate methods (like JL’s resignation and the gaping wound in Labour).
The more significant context is how to engage with the incredible social, political strength and popular resilience created by the multiple groups of highly creative activists generated by YES-who are not going away.
Gramsci (and McClean) in particular would have been proud at the “multiple elements of conscious leadership at the popular level.”
One suggestion is to back the SNP into supporting a two- step route to Independence: Home Rule and then Indie. (Though the SNP’s constitution makes its position quite clear).
Aims 2. The aims of the Party shall be:
As a student of the decolonizing process the arguments about a two step route (HOME RULE and then Indie) were hashed out across the globe BUT reading the specific context is key!
But as I pointed out earlier perfidious albion might offer Home Rule to stymie Indie.
Let me give you Australia as an example.
Australia assumed a de facto form of Independence (self-rule) by the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act of 1900. However the more formal legal dejure Independence came much later partly by the Statute of Westminster 1931. This Statute granted increased sovereignty which was not formalized by London until the passing of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act of 1942.
Although this 1942 Act was assumed to grant full Independence it took another 44 years (1986) until Australia held supreme constitutional sovereignty preventing Westminster from repealing or preventing any Acts of the Australian Parliament. This final legal Independence was created by the passing of the Australia Act 1986 in Westminster and Canberra and signed into law by the Queen.
To this day Australia does not have an Independence Day but rather it celebrates Australia Day. So from this example there was no single act called Independence (though the 1942 Act is generally accepted) while the de facto Independence in practical terms ie utilitarian /functional sovereignty was established way back in 1900.
It is this utilitarian/functional sovereignty that is needed in Scotland…soon!
Australia assumed the functions of independence prior to being granted the status.
The idea of an incremental acquisition of power over time is a genuine alternative to a ‘one- time act’.
One option for Scotland is the idea of a People’s Constitutional Conference (an important lesson from Australia) that would seek to create for Scotland a draft constitution in advance of any constitutional settlement.
There is the suggestion that the claim of Independence should be inserted categorically in the 2016 SNP manifesto and a majority SNP vote would carry the case. (There are a number of precedents for this process).
But there is the immediate alternative of accepting home-rule /devo-max and using that additional power as a platform for the acquisition of more constitutional authority.
This is a process of incremental sovereignty towards the reality of creating a liberal nationalism.
Donald John Mac Innes says:
Jocklandjohn, you’re missing the most salient feature of the no campaign, the strategy of creating doubt and uncertainty. You raise the old canards of the currency the E.U and the BOE. In the event of independence, these would have been matters for negotiation. It suited Bitter Together to create a fog of uncertainty around these issues. They tried the same tactic with other issues where it didn’t work – remember the Great Mobile Phone Scare?- and it worked with enough people to contribute to a majority. They didn’t style themselves Project Fear for nothing.
Jockjohn says “We are a nation that is capable, both intellectually and resource wise, to govern ourselves
I wholly agree with you ”
But Jock …you voted NO
You voted for continued governance by a clique of very wealthy tory-boys whose interest in scotland stretches only as far as what can be exploited from scotland’s resources – and you must have been aware that this situation had every chance of continuing for the foreseeable future given the state of the labour party. People such as yourself would never vote YES , you like the union, you’re in your comfort zone with the situation……….put simply you’re a fearty
We will NOT go down the path of BLAB and SLAB, degenerating into an unprincipled movement that ultimately shrivels and dies because it embraces political expediency. We WILL succeed by not engaging with British trolls and not compromising our goal. This doesn’t mean we have to succeed by one dramatic blow but it does mean that, metaphorically speaking of course, we will succeed by delivering innumerable smaller blows. And make no mistake they will have to be blows because that is all our opponents understand. They view sensitivity, reason and fair play as sure signs of weakness and their hapless followers are impressed by their apparent power. Ignore the trolls my friends – including those who try to be subtle – and show how the power of passionate involvement and belief can replace fear with hope.
A petition for Home Rule is up and running.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/home-rule-for-scotland
Please sign and (importantly!!!) SHARE this petition. It borrows ideas from the Scottish Government’s submission to the Smith Commission plus ideas from the Constitutional Commission to advocate the greatest degree of autonomy a country can realistically achieve short of independence, way beyond anything being offered by the Westminster parties. Crucially it enshrines the concept of the Sovereignty of the People of Scotland through a ‘Charter of Autonomy’ which acts as a constitution for Scotland.
Timothy Deck says:
Dear Scots,
You CANNOT be so gullible as to believe that you had an actual election in which the voice of you people was heard. This “Vote” was as fraudulent as all of those we have here in America. You will not go forward until you can recognize that. I am sure that the British Aristocracy was just going to allow your oil resources to go without a fight!
Good luck to you and God Bless. Hopefully your citizenry is more awake than the average American moron/sheep
A “Yank” who feels your pain.
Absolutely agree.
Growing concerns about what’s being reported online about your police force in the US.
Mary had a wee lamb says:
Has anyone checked out Lord Smith?
He is a Knight of the Order of the Thistle, great company he keeps, including the Grand Master of the Lodge of Scotland.
Complete and utter farce!
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020 | History
7 edition of Operations management found in the catalog.
an active learning approach
by John Bicheno
Published 1999 by Blackwell Publishers in Oxford, IK, Malden, MA .
Production management.
Statement John Bicheno and Brian B.R. Elliot.
Contributions Elliot, Brian, Open Learning Foundation.
LC Classifications TS155 .B487 1999
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Chatara is to be replaced by Test debutants due to a failed recovery of his bicep injury.
Zimbabwe’s fast-bowler, Tendai Chatara has been ruled out of the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka due to a bicep injury sustained during a domestic match. Chatara’s last Test match was against Bangladesh at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur back in November 2018.
His absence from the upcoming Test series gives way to the uncapped pacers such as Victor Nyauchi and Charlton Tshuma to make their Test debut. Kevin Kasuza, Brian Mudzinganyama, and left-arm spinner Ainsley Ndlovu are the other three uncapped players in the 15-member squad.
The 1st Test of Sri Lanka tour of Zimbabwe will take place at Harare Sports Club on January 19-23, while the 2nd Test will resume on January 27-31 at the same venue.
Zimbabwe Squad: Sean Williams (c), Sikandar Raza Butt, Regis Chakabva, Craig Ervine, Kyle Jarvis, Kevin Kasuza, Timycen Maruma, Prince Masvaure, Brian Mudzinganyama, Carl Mumba, Ainsley Ndlovu, Victor Nyauchi, Brendan Taylor, Donald Tiripano, Charlton Tshuma
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RifleMech
Re: Lostech Field Upgrades and Mercenaries
« Reply #30 on: 08 August 2020, 01:15:50 »
The problem is that the 1 slot Hoff-DSHS have been retconned out of existence. There's mention of how corrosive they are and that they're more compact than SLDF DHS but there isn't a single unit with them. Even the Super Griffin has DHS-Ps.
Yes, they were corrosive and dangerous to use. The fluff for the Bombard 010 talks about how the internal structure's been damaged by them. The Bombard was introduced in 3054. It also can't use DHS or DHS-Ps as it doesn't have enough internal space. The only double that it could use would be the Hoff single slot DSHS. So even with their being expensive to maintain and dangerous to use I can see a place for them. I don't know why rules couldn't be written for them. The Bombard just isn't as effective without them and part of it's fame was that it could keep firing it's 2 AC/20's without heat build up.
I also don't think that that Hoff-DSHS were ever able to be mounted in the engine. Even the original illegal Super Griffin didn't. But I don't think they need to. It makes them unique. Better in that they take up less crits outside the engine but not so good that they can be in the engine. Plus the internal damage they do.
As far as timelines go, the Hoff DHSH were used in 3022. The 4th Succession War Blackjack appeared in 3029. And the Fed Suns make DHS in 3040. If the Hoff single crit DSHS were kept there's still 7 years for the Capellans to create DHS-Ps and for them to be spread around for the War of 3039. Then after the war the FedSuns perfects them and produces standard DHS.
In a way that would help explain the Blackjack-3X. Not in heat sinking ability. Not even single crit DSHS could do that. But the DHS-Ps would be a technological improvement over the DSHS. They're not as dangerous and are closer to SL DHS.
At least that's what I'd wish had happened, and head canon says happened.
I do agree that before the Clans the chances of an average merc unit having more advanced tech is slim and most likely came as salvage. I also think that many upgrades weren't as efficient. Canon actually has mechs who's upgrades weren't that thought out. I do think that there were some refit kits with prototype tech to upgrade units with before the War of 3039. I also think the most efficient units would have had to be factory upgrades.
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The Hoff-DHS could be mounted in the engine.
If you look at the scenario where they are introduced.
The mechs chosen ONLY had engine heatsinks for most of them.
Going from memory here...... but it was 2 lances of an ELH company both under strength with 3 mechs available from each.
The rule was pick 1 lance of the 2, and apply 20 Hoth-DHS to the 3 mechs however you choose.
The 1st lance & obvious choice was a Fire Lance w/ 2 Archer & a Rifleman.
The 2nd lance was a Recon lance IIRC with a Pixie & 2 other mechs that I can't recall, maybe bugs?
Archers & Pixie have 10 HS in the engine...... Riflemen have 9 HS in the engine & 1 external.
The obvious choice was to put 10 in the Rifleman & 5 in each Archer allow for some majorly improved heat management.
The one possibility here is if the scenario pack came out before the rule where mech had HS in the engine?
I honestly don't recall the exacting timing of that but I know that change was REALLY early in the game.
Not sure if it was a switch from Battledroids to Battletech-2E or from 2E to Citytech of it was when boxed sets switched over to the first rule book... the BT Manual?
IIRC the Blackjack was originally fluffed as using 10 of the Hoff style DHS.
Later when they were coming up with date changes they nerfed the 3 into the 3X & gave the 3 a later intro date.
I just try to head canon it as the Hoff-DHS were all just test bed options used on prototypes or tested w/ units like the ELH & as soon as possible they were swapped back out for SHS or DHS-P's externally & eventually proper DHS.
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Quote from: Hellraiser on 08 August 2020, 16:00:05
You know I think you're right. Rereading the rule it doesn't say that they can't be mounted in the engine. It just says that they replace standard heat sinks and take 1 critical slot. I think I got hung up on the critical slot part.
The switch was from Battledroids to Battletech 2nd Ed. I'm not sure if the 2nd Ed or the Scenario Pack came out first though. They both came out in 85. It'd make more sense if the Scenario Pack came out first but since it doesn't say "cannot be used to replace engine mounted heat sinks" the door is open to putting them in the engine. And it would work on the Bombard.
Totally nerfed it.
My head cannon goes the other way. I think some would see the increased heat sinking and the smaller size of the DSHS worth the increased maintenance. Even after DHS-Ps and DHS were in production, some would see DSHS as a good, and in some cases only alternative. They're obviously not the best heat sinks but when you've got a space and weight crunch they're pretty much the only option. Compact Heat Sinks can take care of the space but are heavier. Everything else take up more space.
I think by the War of 3039 that DSHS might be one of the few things open to mercs. Mostly because of the maintenance issue.
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I'd think that Solaris is the one place that for sure the Hoff/Corrosive models would be used.
Your doing maintenance on those mechs ALL time.
So the Hoff sinks being replaced & rebuilding the corroded areas would be part of regular work since the mechs are seeing combat on the monthly basis at least.
Some unit sitting on garrison duty for years on end probably wouldn't want the work of maintaining them when other mechs in the unit get regular oil chances w/o the work of rebuilding damaged sections.
And the fact that inside the engine sinks would probably doubly bad since the damage is inside the expensive fusion plant.
Totally. Solaris is also where mechs tend to be maxed out to their limits. Plus all kinds of tech seems to find its way there. It's a natural environment for the Bombard which was created there. However, the fluff says that there are older Bombards with the corrosive heat sinks that were still suffering from the internal damage they caused. I'm going to guess they were sold to lower tier warriors and stables who couldn't perform that kind of maintenance.
I'm leaning towards agreeing Militia units might be reluctant to use them do to the increased maintenance. Then again maintenance might be the most that happens. I'm leaning more towards the increased operating costs, not just for the maintenance but also for the chemicals, their handling and their disposal. I think that'd be the biggest turn off for Militias.
Other than Solaris VII, the next most likely users would be frontline units. They're expecting to see heavy repairs and even losses. Losses of these units also helps in that they complicate the enemy's salvaging. They're not going to know which units have those heat sinks. That'd make it easier to counter attack and gain back more salvage for your troops.
Mohammed As`Zaman Bey
Agreed. Using components to boost performance, even short-term, isn't new. The Luftwaffe used nitrous oxide boost for high-level, fast aircraft. N2O feeds oxygen into combustion engines and results in boosted power, with a possible risk of structural damage due to increased pressure, which has cracked cylinders, damaged crankshafts and pistons.
What happens is the pilot weighs the benefits against the risks. If doubling HS capacity, even limited to the engine, may significantly increase completing a successful, lucrative mission, expensive repairs might be worth it. I could see mercs keeping Hoff-DHS in storage, ready to use for that single raid where they might score big and afford the time and expenses for subsequent repairs.
You just have the weigh the costs vs benefits.
I'd say the BTU should have more "questionable" prototype equipment that sensible units would avoid like the plague while other, less well-supplied units may embrace.
A note on cheap equipment: I used to own a pre-WW1 Moisin-Nagant battle rifle that I would shoot in local competitions. I would use Norma 7.62 x 54 mm ammo and did very well. One of my friends gave me a can of Egyptian-made bullets so I went down to the range and fired a few...I shot at the 50m target several times but could not find a bullet hole. After about a dozen shots I finally hit the target. The Egyptian-made bullets couldn't achieve a 1 meter group, which explains why so many 3rd world troops using AKs don't bother with using sights, preferring the "spray and pray" method of firing. Aiming was just a waste of time.
Using the above example, I added a market of sheer crap weapons and ammo to the market of the games I ran, for the units and players who were on a serious shoestring budget...or didn't know better.
Quote from: Mohammed As`Zaman Bey on 10 August 2020, 02:01:20
Too bad we can't legally mount superchargers on aerospace units.
I totally agree. There should be more questionable prototype equipment. I think there should be all kinds of equipment that regular units would never think to take into combat while other units may.
I use salvage equipment and negative quirks for cheap weapons and equipment. Not everyone can afford the best.
Quote from: RifleMech on 10 August 2020, 02:42:17
Not everyone can afford the best.
Indeed. I still remember the "Mad max" era BTU of extreme shortage, where named, canon units fielded 'Mechs with damaged armor and broken weapons that they could not repair. After decades of fighting, using their cunning and skill instead of having state-of-the-art toys to start off with, they made it to the big league.
As a GM, allowing players to begin with "gods of the battlefield" with the best available equipment means they are just fighting out of personal entertainment. War is just an activity to stave off boredom, because they have already reached their goals and have no room to grow. An elite soldier with a customized Assault 'Mech is not where people begin their careers but the point where most characters would retire.
Player: I spent all of my points to start off as a general.
GM: Cool...
Player: I can't wait to lead my regiment...
GM: Hmmm, your Admin skill is really low and you don't even have Bureaucracy...
Player:I'll be in my command 'Mech, my subordinates will handle all that.
GM: You'll be inspecting FedCom Mess Halls for the next five years, or until you retire. Good luck.
For me it'd depend on the campaign and the era it takes place in. Unless they happen to find something, or that unit/person has been chosen to test some new equipment the best they'll get is a standard unit. Maybe with some damage that hasn't been repaired yet. The unit's condition goes down from there. Maybe they'll fix it up or replace it. Maybe they won't.
I do wish there were more units and variants using non standard tech. Not just with downgraded units or FrankenMechs but units using available tech that wasn't available to us when BT started. Like Mortars, Recon Cameras, Dispensers, etc.
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Study reveals dogs are programmed to want to us to be happy
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Of all the animals mankind interacts with on a regular basis, dogs have always seemed to be the most in tune with our emotional states. New research has attempted to examine why that might be, and scientists now believe they have evidence to show that dogs are incredibly adept at learning human facial cues. As it turns out, dogs really, really want their human companions to be happy, and may even share the reliance on the hormone oxytocin to promote social bonding with their two-legged caretakers.
Using eye tracking hardware to monitor the reactions of 43 individual canines, the scientists presented the dogs with images of human faces. The faces, which were either smiling or frowning, produced different reactions in the dogs, with pupil size suggesting the emotions the dogs were feeling when shown the faces. As you might expect, frowning or angry faces resulted in a sharp reaction from the dogs, with increased pupil size and attentiveness, while smiling faces put them more at ease, but that’s not the entire story.
The researchers supplemented their initial findings with further experiments using oxytocin to gauge how the “cuddle hormone” might change the dogs’ reactions. They found that, as it would in humans, oxytocin made the same frightening faces seem less intimidating, and made them more interested in the smiling faces than they had been previously.
“We were among the first researchers in the world to use pupil measurements in the evaluation of dogs’ emotional states,” Professor Outi Vainio of the Canine Mind research group explains. “This method had previously only been used on humans and apes.”
This, the scientists say, suggests that dogs are wired in much the same way as humans, and that they instinctively want their human companions to be happy. Before you get too sentimental, it’s also entirely possible (and likely) that the reaction is part of a larger survival instinct which gives dogs an edge when it comes to coexisting with humans. Happy humans means a good life for the dogs in their care, so it’s in their best interest to ensure they see more smiling faces than angry ones.
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If Indian Wells Can Be Canceled, Is Any Sporting Event Safe?
Written by B87FM on March 10, 2020
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — The BNP Paribas Open in Southern California attracts almost a half-million followers every year. It is among the prime 5 occasions on the worldwide tennis calendar.
So when organizers of the occasion often called “Indian Wells” decided on Sunday to cancel the two-week match that had been scheduled to start out Wednesday, a brand new actuality descended internationally of sports activities and leisure: Each occasion within the coming weeks, regardless of how huge, may very well be in jeopardy.
“If Indian Wells cancels, that may be a actual signal we’re in a critical state of affairs,” mentioned Donald Dell, the longtime sports activities promoter and agent.
Indian Wells joined a rising listing of occasions in sports activities, leisure and commerce which were canceled over fears of coronavirus, which has been blamed for almost 4,000 deaths worldwide and contaminated greater than 100,000 folks since its outbreak in Asia in late December. South by Southwest, the music pageant and company convention in Austin, Texas; Alpine snowboarding’s season-ending World Cup races in Italy; and even the TED2020 convention scheduled for Vancouver, British Columbia, in April, all have been canceled in current days.
Medical experts remain divided over the advantage of canceling mass occasions in places that aren’t sizzling spots for the virus, or whether or not the individuals who might need attended these occasions are any safer merely going by their on a regular basis lives, particularly those that dwell in main metropolitan areas.
But there was little doubt Monday that the cancellation of Indian Wells, a match owned by the billionaire Larry Ellison, was a significant improvement.
“I believe they did every little thing they might, however abruptly the state of affairs modified in a single day, which is unlucky,” Kristie Ahn, a member of the Girls’s Tennis Affiliation’s participant council, mentioned of match officers for Indian Wells. Ahn had acquired a wild card to play at Indian Wells. “We will’t be mad at them for what, I believe, is finally the best choice.”
For now, different sports activities have averted canceling video games, however on Monday evening the 4 main American sports activities leagues at the moment in season — the N.B.A., the N.H.L., Main League Baseball and Main League Soccer — introduced that they’d prohibit entry to group locker rooms and clubhouses to “solely gamers and important staff of groups and group amenities till additional discover.”
The N.B.A. scheduled a convention name with group well being care officers for Monday evening to debate a collection of recent precautions, together with limiting the quantity of people that work together straight with gamers every day. A confidential memo not too long ago circulated to the league’s groups didn’t point out canceling video games, however final week N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver informed groups to prepare for playing games without fans in its arenas.
Russ Granik, the previous deputy commissioner of the N.B.A., mentioned the league had confronted an analogous interval of concern concerning the security of attending video games after the Sept. 11 terrorist assaults. In that case, nonetheless, the N.B.A. had almost two months to arrange for the beginning of its season, and the response was pretty apparent — work with the federal government and legislation enforcement specialists to make arenas safer by screening the folks as they entered.
Making arenas a spot the place followers can really feel secure from a fancy, invisible virus is thornier.
“That is spreading and no one is aware of precisely how and to what impact,” Granik mentioned. “This can be a a lot grayer downside in the meanwhile.”
For the organizers of any main upcoming match, or match or race, utilizing the time period “fluid state of affairs” has the develop into the most typical strategy to describe whether or not an occasion will happen. The sports activities and leisure calendar within the coming weeks consists of the annual N.C.A.A. males’s and girls’s basketball tournaments; the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Pageant in Indio, Calif.; the Masters golf championship; and the Boston Marathon.
“Every occasion goes to be judged by itself, relying on the place it’s positioned and what the state of affairs is at that exact second in time,” mentioned Michael Payne, the previous chief advertising and marketing officer of the Worldwide Olympic Committee and a longtime marketing consultant to main sport organizations. “4 weeks in the past Italy was not a problem. Eight weeks from now it won’t be. However it’s now.”
As New York entered its second day in a state of emergency, leaders of the New York Highway Runners have been discussing with metropolis officers whether or not to go ahead with the New York Metropolis Half Marathon scheduled for this weekend. The race, which runs alongside the town’s streets from Prospect Park in Brooklyn to Central Park in Manhattan, has 25,000 individuals and is among the many largest occasions the group levels.
“We’re going to make our greatest judgment very shortly on that,” Mayor Invoice de Blasio mentioned. “At this level, I don’t see a motive to cancel. That may change at any level.”
After canceling their tennis match, organizers in Indian Wells moved swiftly to accommodate gamers, lots of whom — together with Venus Williams, Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem, final 12 months’s males’s singles champion — had already arrived in California. Gamers initially in the principle attract singles and doubles and within the qualifying occasion in singles have been assured complimentary lodge rooms, entry to observe courts and medical and laundry service by March 16.
Ahn mentioned she practiced Monday afternoon with the Taiwanese participant Hsieh Su-wei earlier than attending a WTA council assembly aimed toward checking out the impact of the match’s cancellation on issues like gamers’ rating factors and prize cash distribution. She mentioned she couldn’t assist however be struck by such an uncharacteristic vibe at a match “all of the gamers actually look ahead to.”
“It’s quiet,” Ahn mentioned. “And the morale was fairly low. Lots of people are shocked. Some have been offended.”
Jean-Christophe Faurel, a coach for the tennis star Coco Gauff, described the temper of the gamers and coaches as “shocked.”
“Coco opened the door of the automobile and mentioned, ‘I’ve some dangerous information,’” Faurel mentioned in a phone interview. Gauff’s group went to dinner, and nobody spoke for some time, Faurel mentioned. Then they started questioning concerning the largest query.
“What occurs to the upcoming tournaments?” Faurel mentioned. “If you see this canceled, you begin to assume that every little thing goes to be canceled for the following couple of months. There are circumstances of coronavirus in every single place.”
The Miami Open, one other huge tennis match, is scheduled to start on the finish of March. After that, the spring schedule reads like a tour of among the European sizzling spots for the coronavirus: clay court docket tournaments in Madrid and Rome, then the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris.
In an announcement, a spokesman for the Miami Open mentioned Monday the match was transferring ahead as scheduled.
The ATP additionally really useful that its gamers stay in the USA in the event that they supposed to play within the Miami Open to be able to keep away from any quarantines led to by leaving after which re-entering the nation. If the Miami Open is performed, it’s anticipated to enact restrictions just like these Indian Wells initially had introduced, reminiscent of barring ball children from touching participant towels and limiting contact between gamers and followers. It could be doable to stage the occasion with out spectators: an choice Indian Wells and Ellison rejected however one which IMG, the house owners of the Miami Open, may settle for.
“Security stays a prime precedence,” the Miami Open spokesman mentioned. “We’re working with the ATP and WTA excursions on really useful greatest practices and following C.D.C. pointers carefully to supply a secure atmosphere for followers, gamers and employees.”
Quite a few gamers remained at Indian Wells on Monday trying to find solutions. Mitchell Krueger, ranked 194th on the planet, performed in a smaller occasion on the website final week, and earned a spot in the principle draw at Indian Wells.
“To go from the excessive of getting a wild card right into a Masters collection occasion — which doesn’t occur on daily basis for somebody with my rating — to not enjoying identical to that’s robust,” Krueger mentioned. “I don’t wish to say it’s fully sudden, as a result of we’re clearly all following what’s taking place all over the world. However I used to be on website Sunday afternoon and there was no indication this was even being thought of.”
On Monday, he puzzled concerning the destiny of his prize cash (a minimal of $18,155 for making the principle draw) and instructions on when the tour schedule would resume.
Andrea Gaudenzi, the brand new ATP chairman and a former prime 20 participant, mentioned in his group’s first assertion on the cancellation that “the ATP Tour calendar past Indian Wells stays as established order.”
Absent a authorities ruling prohibiting mass occasions, Granik mentioned, the general public might have essentially the most to say about which occasions occur.
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Japan Open MS preview: Can Momota bag the title on home soil?
by badmintonfamly | Sep 10, 2018 | News, Slider | 0 comments
Potential clashes in the quarterfinals could be the world no. 1 against the Asian Games Champion, and the World Champion against the Asian Games silver medalist. Eyes are surely focused on Japan’s newly crowned World Champion, Kento Momota.
The top half of the men’s single draw is by far the hardest with names like Viktor Axelsen, Ng Ka Long Angus, Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Jonatan Christie, Kento Momota, Chou Tien Chen and Lin Dan all placed here. That allows us many exciting matches until the semifinals.
Denmark has been represented in the final in men’s singles at Japan Open the past three years. Two defeats in 2015 and 2016 were converted to a victory when Viktor Axelsen won the title last year when he defeated Lee Chong Wei in the final. The Malaysian defeated Jan Ø. Jørgensen in the final of 2016.
Lee Chong Wei is not playing this year due to his health problems but Viktor Axelsen is. The Dane has, apart from one week in April this year, been number 1 on the world ranking for nearly a year now (since 28 September 2017). He defends his title at Japan Open as top seeded this year and he has been drawn against Hsu Jen Hao from Chinese Taipei in first round. His first battle with one of the local players will be in second round where Kenta Nishimoto will be waiting if he defeats Qiao Bin from China.
Runner-up at the World Championships, Shi Yuqi from China, is seeded second this week. He will be up against Thailand’s Khosit Phetpradab in first round and the winner of Wang Tzu Wei, Chinese Taipei, and Mark Caljouw, the Netherlands, in second.
Momota!!!
The third seed is the one all Japanese fans will be watching; Kento Momota. The Japanese World Champion began the year as number 48 in the world but has slowly but steadily crawled up the ranking to the 4th spot now. After his comeback everything has been a success for Momota and the question is if anyone can stop him this week. Playing in front of his home crowd must surely give him an extra 10% or more.
The strong Japanese now has the chance to prove he is the best in the world in front of his home crowd when Japan Open begins in Tokyo tomorrow. At the World Championships in August only one player had Momota under pressure and forced him into three games. That was Denmark’s Anders Antonsen, ranked 16 in the world, and the two have been drawn for first round at Japan Open.
Korea’s Son Wan Ho must be pretty tired of Danish men’s singles in Japan. The past two years he lost the semifinal against Viktor Axelsen and Jan Ø. Jørgensen… The Korean is seeded four and will be up against another local hero in Kazumasa Sakai. In second round there is potential for a battle with one of his compatriots if they both win first round; Lee Dong Keun and Sameer Verma is waiting in second round.
Chen Long against no. 1
Chou Tien Chen who lost the final at the recent Asian Games is seeded 5 and he also has a Japanese opponent in his first match. It is Kanta Tsuneyama who has the pleasure of the strong Taiwanese. A big match could be waiting for the winner of this match as he will most likely be up against Lin Dan in second round. However, only is the Chinese legend manages to win against Kantaphon Wangcharoen from Thailand in his first round match.
That brings us to another Chinese legend, Chen Long, who is seeded 6. He had been drawn against Indonesia’s Tommy Sugiarto who tops the HSBC Race to Guangzhou Ranking – the ranking to what was formerly known as the Superseries Finals, and a ranking where Viktor Axelsen and Kento Momota by the way are sharing the 13th spot at the moment. This spot doesn’t qualify them to Guangzhou. Chen Long is favorite against Sugiarto though; the Chinese is leading 10-1 head-to-head.
Potential Indonesian encounter
India’s top men’s single is seeded 7. Kidambi Srikanth has to surpass Huang Yuxiang from China in first round before he can prepare for a second round match against either Danish Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus or Hong Kong’s Wong Wing Ki Vincent. Huang defeated Srikanth with 22-20 in third game in the round of 16 at All England this year so the Indian is surely up for revenge this time. Vittinghus has a good grab of Wong as he has only lost one game against the Hongkonger in their three previous encounters.
And exactly Hong Kong concludes the list of seeded players as Ng Ka Long Angus is seeded 8. He has been drawn in what could very well become the most interesting first two rounds; his opponent in first round is Anthony Sinisuka Ginting from Indonesia who grabbed the bronze at the Asian Games. The winner of this match has the pleasure of either H. S. Prannoy from India or the Asian Games Champion, Jonatan Christie also from Indonesia.
You can see the full men’s single draw at Japan Open here
Results from Japan Open 2017:
Final:
Viktor Axelsen, Denmark vs. Lee Chong Wei, Malaysia 21-14 19-21 21-14
Semifinals:
Viktor Axelsen, Denmark vs. Son Wan Ho, Korea 21-16 21-16
Lee Chong Wei, Malaysia vs. Shi Yuqi, China 21-19 21-8
Lee Chong Wei, Malaysia vs. Jan Ø. Jørgensen, Denmark 21-18 15-21 21-16
Lee Chong Wei, Malaysia vs. Marc Zwiebler, Germany 21-14 21-15
Jan Ø. Jørgensen, Denmark vs. Son Wan Ho, Korea 21-14 21-19
Lin Dan, China vs. Viktor Axelsen, Denmark 21-19 16-21 21-19
Lin Dan, China vs. Tommy Sugiarto, Indonesia 21-17 21-17
Viktor Axelsen, Denmark vs. Chou Tien Chen, Chinese Taipei 21-19 21-13
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HomeThe Story Behind The Race
The Story Behind The Race
May 12, 2010 kingofpots Insights, Jogging, Races, Running, Ultramarathon1st PAU 50K Run, Tanay (Rizal), Ultramarathon
There is a story behind in every road race that the Bald Runner’s Events had been organizing and implimenting for the past years. The BDM 102 was a “dream” ultramarathon event to honor our heroes which is ultimately becoming the “Holy Grail” of running in the country. The MASTERS 15K was a “test run” being conducted inside a secured environment and in preparation for the RIZAL DAY’s 32K Run last December 2009 at Camp Aguinaldo. Now, we have prepared a series of ultramarathon events which will be held in the different parts of the country.
The story behind the 1st PAU (Philippine Association of Ultrarunners) 50K Run was a combination of the following factors:
1. Jeju Ultramarathon Experience—My exposure/attendance in a Regional (Asian) IAU Ultramarathon Race provided me with more information and techniques on how our neighbors do their ultramarathon events. Our neigbor countries almost have ultramarthon races in their different regions every month which is being sponsored by their Ultramarathon Sports Federation and the Local Government where the event is being conducted. If there are corporate sponsors, these are companies where the ultrarunners are working or personally managed.
2. Tanay Route—The Tanay-Sampaloc-Sierra Madre Route had been the training ground of the Elite Team Bald Runner in preparation for the January 10’s Cebu Marathon. They trained in the said route for almost 4 months. I had also the chance to run on the said route last year and it gave me the idea to hold the first series of ultra distant road races on the said route.
3. Mountain Trail Route—Through my instructions, the Elite Team Bald Runner was able to locate a 20K-loop in Tanay’s Sierra Madre Mountain’s Trails with a plan to conduct a 100-miler ultra trail run within this year but I had to put it on hold status due to security and logistics reasons.
4. BDM 102/151 Training—A year before the BDM 102/151 would be an ample time/period to expose and train runners who would like to participate in the said ultramarathon event. The PAU races are scheduled every 3 months which will serve as “test runs” for heat training, hydration & nutrition strategy, and pacing strategy. The Tanay 50K Run is considered has the “hardest” route in this year’s PAU’s road races
5. Get Out From The Runner’s “Comfort Zone” & See Other Places—Running along the “usual & familiar” routes in Metro Manila is becoming “boring” to the “crazy, purist & hardcore” runners. Yes, I am bored, too! These kind of “warriors” need a different kind of challenging & “pain-inducing” route that would be a “never-ending” source of topics/stories in one’s running experience. Just look at the “status” and pictures of the Finishers at Facebook and stories in their Blogs and you will know what I mean. Seeing other places and running along “pollution-free” areas outside Metro Manila is also something worth experiencing.
6. Reason To Bring Friends & Family—When I set the date of the Tanay’s Race, I really did not know that it was “Mother’s Day”. I thought it would be a nice day to schedule a race because of the 3-day weekend due to the Election Day on the following day. Monday would serve as a rest day for all the runners. But I was surprised that most of the runners brought their respective family with them as their support crew and cheerers! It was an appropriate time to bond and share the day with the whole family.
7. A Test of our Race Operations’ Efficiency—All of our marshals and Aid Stations’ Personnel are competitive and elite runners but we need to make some adjustments due to the distance in-between Aid Stations in ultramarathon races. We have to mobilize and transfer our first two Aid Stations which had been passed by all the runners to the turn-around point at Km 35 and at Km 45. We are glad that making the distance in every 5 kilometers for the Aid/Water Station on the last half of the race had greatly contributed to the safety of the runners from the intense heat of the sun. Our mobile marshals with water supply to the runners had contributed also to the success of the race.
8. Keep It Simple, Sir Jovie! (KISS)—The START & FINISH tarpaulins on the ground were “copied” from ultratrail race events held in the US. It is something different but nice for “photo-ops”. No Emcees, No Corporate Sponsors (who control the Race Director), No Lights, No Fireworks, No Loud Music, No VIP’s (The runners are the VIPs!), No Formal Program, No Digital Timer/Clocks, No Timing Chips, and No “circus” atmosphere. PAU races are simply races where one would test his/her endurance limits through running. These are races where the experience, scenery, and friendship among ultrarunners are priceless!!!
Now, another story is about to unfold as we are starting to open the registration for the next PAU’s Road Race dubbed as the “P2P 65K” (Pasuquin to Pagudpud) Run which will be held on August 29, 2010. The Registration will start on May 17, 2010 (Monday). Last Day of Registration will be on August 1, 2010. The race will be limited to only 200 slots. The registration fee is P 850.00. There will be no distribution of Race Packets on Race Day.
The 1st PAU 50K Run (Tanay) would not be a successful event without the support of the runners & their support crew, BR’s friends & donors/sponsors, BR’s Events’ Staff, Elite Team Bald Runner, 2nd Infantry Division of the Philippine Army, and our “friends” from the Philippine Army & Armed Forces of the Philipines. Thanks to everybody!
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18 thoughts on “The Story Behind The Race”
I’ve told myself, not this one…now, I’m thinking…
Congrats again BR! and thank God that is already the hardest of the three runs.
nvllanora1975 says:
Sir, congrats and thank you for that great Tanay race! it was fun, it was most especially challenging, and it was sweet at the finish. your vision made this all possible. thanks also to all the volunteers. now the road leads us all to ILOCOS… 🙂
miraclecello says:
“The runners are the VIPs!”
jetpaiso says:
sir jovie, i remember this song as i do my rest and recovery after pau 50k [tanay] which is very apt:
i walked under a bus, got hit by a train… it felt so good, I WANNA DO IT AGAIN!
P2P 65k next! =)
bugobugo says:
take a bow sir, your dreams are becoming realities.
keep it coming and we shall come.
anywhere, anytime and any distance.
runninglakay says:
you hit the nail on its head, apo…travelling to manila from my place takes 5 hours, and the routes in Manila are not that exciting anymore, even with the few races i have attended…so these out of town locations are really exciting for me/us…hope to see everyone in Pagudpud!
I must agree, running outside of Metro Manila is a great time to bond with the family too. I became closer to my mom during the BDM102k last March. It was both a life changing experience for us.
jepoy says:
Na iimagine ko na sir BR ang P2P…
Race out side Manila is the best talaga…
You will ignore the pain and the fatigue of the race.
when you are enjoying the scenery where you are running…
congratz and next stop Ilocos Pagudpud!!!
jonnifer says:
Some of us have been aching for a 100 miler. It is about time and hopefully it will be held this year. We would love to have our “first time” here in our very own country as some have plans to join races abroad just to run this distance. BR now has enough experience to hold this race. It is high time we have a trail race with the same appeal as BDM102 with historical significance.
It is ironic. Philippines has some of the best and scenic running venues. We thus don’t lack trail or road. What we lack are race organizers who have the “unconventional” passion and vision for running and are willing to share them with rest of us.
The 24-hour race is a good training run for 100 miler except Burnham is not trail.
I agree that races in Manila no longer have the same appeal as before. Variety is the key. Race organizers should take their cue.
Please update our PAU website. Thanks. Cheers!
vvinceth says:
Sir Jovie,
Keep those ultra race coming. I just realize that no need for fancy big LCD displays, timing chips, photo booth, celebrities, etc. to have a nice race. All you need a dedicated staffs, Start/Finish tarpualin, handheld timer, a challenging route and ice cold beer(hindi ako nakatikim nito) and bwalah you have a nice challenging race.
As what Atty. Jon 100miler bring it on.
See you at Pasuquin…
cecaseal says:
kita kits sa pagodpagod…:}
esmagol says:
Where can we register Sir Jovie? Thanks!
forefoot says:
The 2nd PAU will surely be another historic run. Looking forward to it.
However challenging it may be, you can count on us to be there.
elkyoshi says:
Congrats again on a very successful 1st 50k Run!!!
And thanks for knowing how to treat the runners VIPs.
Above all, thanks for KISSing it! 🙂
sundaywarrior says:
Sir I’ll tag this date as I missed the Tanay run nice view for the runners..
mayds24 says:
thanks for the very exciting tanay ultra marathon…i’ve struggled crossing the finish line due to knee injury but i find it very challenging running 8hours under the heat of the sun…congrats to all the ultra runners and lets see each other once again on the next stop of the ultramarathon…go P2P
pepedhepe says:
How can I register for the P2P 65K? Thanks. My e-mail add is pepedhepe@yahoo.com
RD’s Report: 2nd PAU “P2P” 70K Run « Bald Runner says:
[…] (P2P) Run was planned together with the 1st PAU 50K Run in Tanay, Rizal due to the following reasons & factors as stated in this story. In addition with the reasons as stated in the story, I thought of promoting the province of Ilocos […]
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Ernesto Baltiswiler Paintings
Ending of Time
Purpure Malerei
Scharfe Bilder
In Conversation with Silence
Rough, Raw and Wild
Braised Bamboo Shoots
Wilma Lock, die Betty Parsons der Schweiz
Andreas Züst/ Patrick Frey
Corinne Schatz
Christa Häusler
Regula Lendenmann
Ulrich Krempel
Beatrix Ruf
Madeleine Schuppli
Gerhard Mack
Irene Thali
Annekatrin Kaps
Ernesto Baltiswiler, Åland Islands
Portrait by Arvid Baltiswiler
“What is one to do in a world so utterly confused and violent? I try to create new paintings and not repeat the same old pattern. I become often deeply serious when I’m confronted with the chaos in our world, the uncertainty, warfare and destruction. Every new painting is extremely difficult for me to create. I need a lot of passion, freedom and openness but most importantly peace to do so. The idea is that each painting should be a light that can never be put out, a symbol for love, beauty and compassion. Bringing change for a new world today and not waiting for tomorrow. To move forward without fear or violence whatsoever. ”
Ernesto Baltiswiler, Seglinge- June 15, 2017
Born: January 2, Glarus, Switzerland
1982 School of Visual Arts, New York
1983 – 1988 Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf
“At that time it was quite a unique mixture of teachers and students at the art academy in Düsseldorf: Gerhard Richter was teaching as a professor in painting. Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Schütte and Katharina Fritsch were students. You could meet Joseph Beuys in the corridor, including teaching professors like Nam June Paik, Tony Cragg, Jürgen Partenheimer, Michael Buthe, A.R. Penck and many more. Markus Lüpertz was the principal and Jörg Immendorff celebrated his 40th birthday in the “Ratinger Hof”, his former teacher Beuys was there. Fischli & Weiss were guest teachers…all of this after being in New York City where Keith Haring just left the School of Visual Arts that I entered. The whole subway was full of his black and white graffiti. Jean-Michel Basquiat painted in his studio. I met Andy Warhol at P.S.1 where he took a picture of me wearing a sweater that I had designed and I visited Robert Frank and his wife June several times very privately in their downtown apartment.”
Portrait of the artist by Snezana Vucetic Bohm
First solo gallery show at Wilma Lock in 1989.
Baltiswiler has exhibited with artists like Jürgen Partenheimer, Erwin Wurm, Imi Knoebel, Franz West, Franz Erhard Walther, Bernard Frize, Stephen Westfall, Beat Zoderer and Daniel Zimmermann.
Exhibitions at Wilma Lock, Bob van Orsouw, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Kunsthaus Glarus and Schloss Wolfsberg in Switzerland.
1998 Baltiswiler abruptly stopped painting and retired from the art market. He took a longer time-out as an artist in order to focus on learning more about life, art and nature, on raising his two sons, Arvid (*1997) and Anund (*2000) and completing a four year long education as a biodynamic farmer but without ever practising this profession.
He was finally retreating on a small fishermen island in Finland where he started to paint again in 2009.
Born and raised in Switzerland Baltiswiler spent most time of his life abroad, living in the US, Germany, the West Indies, Sweden, the Åland Islands and Italy. Baltiswiler is fluent in English, German and Swedish.
Today Baltiswiler lives and works as an artist in Seglinge, a little fishermen island within the Åland Islands in the middle of the Baltic Sea and sometimes in Wilderswil near Interlaken, in the heart of the Swiss Alps, with a famous view of the mountains Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. Nature, silence, quiet, simplicity, aloneness, freedom and meditation are now his challenges, the opposite to his New York City experience as a young artist.
01.01.2020: Baltiswiler moves to Wilderswil in the middle of the Swiss Alps
Portrait of the artist by Romeo Polcan
© 2019 Ernesto Baltiswiler
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BCP Trust launches REDD+ Informational Comic
Posted on April 22, 2013 by BCP
Earlier this month, the BCP Trust was thrilled to receive its ‘coolest’ in-kind donation yet: professional comic artist, Naomi Fearn, created an informational comic about deforestation, climate change and REDD+ specifically for our Community Engagement Team to use when promoting sensitization and awareness about BCP’s REDD+ project activities.
The informational comic, in addition to being visually appealing, is extremely helpful in that it allows us to expand our message to all community stakeholders, including those who are illiterate. BCP takes seriously our mission to reach as many community stakeholders as possible and to involve them in sensitization and consultation efforts, in line with the principle of obtaining Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). As of April 2013, BCP calculates that we have sensitized 86% of community stakeholders living within the Project Zone for the Lower Zambezi REDD+ Project, and among those we have consulted, we have received a 96% approval rate.
Since its initial launch at local community stakeholder meetings, the comic has already begun to transform the way that BCP communicates with community stakeholders about REDD+. The comic allows us to take participants through an illustrated narrative about deforestation, climate change and REDD+ activities, which is often instructive and entertaining at the same time. BCP also leaves copies of the comic, available in Engligh and Nyanja versions, in local communities, allowing them to read about BCP’s work in their own way and on their own time, and to promote sensitization among themselves in ways that are locally appropriate.
Community stakeholder in Chilimba Zone reading
BCP’s new informational comic
Community stakeholders in Chilimba go through the comic together, which was posted on the wall of the community school to make information available to all community members.
BCP establishes Zone Development Committees (ZDCs) as innovative community-based decision-making bodies
Throughout the first quarter of this year, BCP has worked closely with local leaders and community representatives to establish four Zone Development Committees (ZDCs) in the project zone for the Lower Zambezi REDD+ project. Since their initial launch in February, ZDCs have come to play a critical role towards helping BCP to design and implement effective community projects that benefit from local legitimacy.
Zone Development Committees are innovative, hybridized, community-based decision-making institutions that combine elements of democratic representation with traditional leadership structures. They help to provide a solution to BCP’s difficult task of effectively engaging with the approximately 8,300 residents that live across 28 villages and 4 community “zones” within the project zone. Comprised of representatives from every village in every zone, ZDCs are intended to be BCP’s primary information-sharing platforms and decision-making bodies when it comes to designing and launching community projects that are best able to achieve BCP’s aims of improving livelihoods and reducing local deforestation.
In the months to come, BCP will continue to work in partnership with ZDCs to identify and prioritize potential projects, and to fully consult stakeholders prior to project implementation. BCP anticipates that ZDC representatives will bring valuable local knowledge and legitimacy to discussions about community projects, and this will help BCP to select the most appropriate sites and participants for pilot projects. In so doing, BCP believes that ZDCs will help us to identify and pursue “best possible” project models for each activity—so that we can ensure that our projects bring maximum positive benefits to local communities and forest protection efforts. Although ZDCs will play an important role in BCP’s community project design and implementation process, BCP will continue to work closely with traditional leadership structures, local stakeholder groups and individual community representatives, towards launching the most effective community projects possible.
BCP’s Community Engagement Manager describes the
structure and purpose to Village Committee members
in Chilimba, during a consultative ZDC Formation
Meeting that took place in January.
ZDC Representatives in Mweeshang’ombe Zone: ZDC Representatives are democratically elected by their villages, with the support of local traditional leaders. Importantly, although local traditional leaders are often older men in the communities we work with, BCP has found that communities often voted for women and younger adults to represent their interests.
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Instead of having the key in your pocket, this Activity Key is turned into a stylish accessory that can be worn around the wrist. Keeping it attached to your person is a Montblanc leather wristband in fine black cowhide leather. This key also includes a key fob that has the words “Montblanc for BMW” embossed on a leather insert.
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DeepMind AI solves 50-year-old biology problem in breakthrough advance
The Google-owned company developed a system that can reliably predict the 3D shapes of proteins.
Credit: DeepMind
Scientists have long been puzzled by how specific chains of amino acids go on to form three-dimensional proteins.
DeepMind developed a system that's able to predict "protein folding" in a fraction of the time of human experiments, and with unprecedented accuracy.
The achievement could greatly improve drug research and development, as well as bioengineering pursuits.
In 1994, a group of scientists created a competition to solve one of the most perplexing problems in biology: how do proteins fold themselves into 3D shapes, which then carry out fundamental processes within living organisms?
The answer to this 50-year-old question could revolutionize many scientific pursuits, from accelerating and improving drug development, to creating better biofuels. But the competition, called Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP), went decades without a solution.
Then artificial intelligence got into the mix.
DeepMind, a U.K.-based AI company, essentially solved the long-standing problem in the most recent competition, CASP14. The company outperformed the other teams by magnitudes, predicting the shapes of proteins with accuracy rates never before achieved by humans.
"This is a big deal," John Moult, a computational biologist who co-founded CASP, told Nature. "In some sense the problem is solved."
In the biennial competition, teams analyze around 100 proteins with the goal of predicting their eventual 3D shape. A protein's shape determines its function. For example, a protein can become an antibody that binds to foreign particles to protect, an enzyme that carries out chemical reactions, or a structural component that supports cells.
Proteins start as a string of hundreds of amino acids. Within a protein, pairs of amino acids can interact in numerous ways, and these particular interactions determine the final shape of the protein. But given the sheer number of possible interactions, it's incredibly difficult to predict a protein's physical shape. Difficult, but not impossible.
Since CASP began, scientists have been able to predict the shape of some simple proteins with reasonable accuracy. CASP is able to verify the accuracy of these predictions by comparing them to the actual shape of proteins, which it obtains through the unpublished results of lab experiments.
But these experiments are difficult, often taking months or years of hard work. The shapes of some proteins have eluded scientists for decades. As such, it's hard to overstate the value of having an AI that's able to churn out this work in just hours, or even minutes.
In 2018, DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014, startled the scientific community when its AlphaFold algorithm won the CASP13 contest. AlphaFold was able to predict protein shapes by "training" itself on vast amounts of data on known amino acid strings and their corresponding protein shapes.
In other words, AlphaFold learned that particular amino acid configurations—say, distances between pairs, angles between chemical bonds—signaled that the protein would likely take a particular shape. AlphaFold then used these insights to predict the shapes of unmapped proteins. AlphaFold's performance in the 2018 contest was impressive, but not reliable enough to consider the problem of "protein folding" solved.
In the latest contest, DeepMind used an updated version of AlphaFold. It combines the previous deep-learning strategy with a new "attention algorithm" that accounts for physical and geometric factors. Here's how DeepMind describes it:
"A folded protein can be thought of as a 'spatial graph,' where residues are the nodes and edges connect the residues in close proximity. This graph is important for understanding the physical interactions within proteins, as well as their evolutionary history."
"For the latest version of AlphaFold, used at CASP14, we created an attention-based neural network system, trained end-to-end, that attempts to interpret the structure of this graph, while reasoning over the implicit graph that it's building. It uses evolutionarily related sequences, multiple sequence alignment (MSA), and a representation of amino acid residue pairs to refine this graph."
CASP measures prediction accuracy through the "Global Distance Test (GDT)", which ranges from 0-100. The new version of AlphaFold scored a median of 92.4 GDT for all targets.
Given that the specific ways in which proteins take shape can shed light on how diseases form, AlphaFold could greatly accelerate disease research and drug development. And while it's too late for the system to help with COVID-19, DeepMind says that protein structure prediction could be "useful in future pandemic response efforts."
Still, scientists have much to learn about predicting protein structures, and while AlphaFold has proven faster and more accurate than human experiments, the system isn't 100 percent accurate. But DeepMind's achievement signals that AI may become a surprisingly powerful tool in unlocking key mysteries in biology and beyond.
"For all of us working on computational and machine learning methods in science, systems like AlphaFold demonstrate the stunning potential for AI as a tool to aid fundamental discovery," DeepMind wrote. "Just as 50 years ago Anfinsen laid out a challenge far beyond science's reach at the time, there are many aspects of our universe that remain unknown. The progress announced today gives us further confidence that AI will become one of humanity's most useful tools in expanding the frontiers of scientific knowledge, and we're looking forward to the many years of hard work and discovery ahead!"
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Carolyn Sampson has enjoyed notable successes worldwide in repertoire ranging from early baroque to the present day. On the opera stage she has appeared with English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Scottish Opera, Opéra de Paris, Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Montpellier and Opéra National du Rhin. In concert she performs regularly at the BBC Proms and with orchestras including the Bach Collegium Japan, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra and with numerous orchestras in the USA.
A consummate recitalist, Carolyn Sampson appears regularly at the Wigmore Hall (at which she was a ‘featured artist’ in the 2014–15 season), Amsterdam Concertgebouw and at the Saintes and Aldeburgh Festivals. In October 2013 she made her Carnegie Hall recital début. She has an extensive discography appearing on a number of major labels, and her recordings have earned her numerous accolades including the recital award in the 2015 Gramophone Awards and a Diapason d’Or. Carolyn Sampson was also nominated for Artist of the Year in the 2017 Gramophone Awards. Her début song recital disc, ‘Fleurs’, with Joseph Middleton featured songs by composers from Purcell to Richard Strauss and Britten, and was shortlisted in the solo vocal category of the Gramophone Awards. This was followed by ‘A Verlaine Songbook’ in which the two explored settings of the poetry of Paul Verlaine, and most recently the highly acclaimed ‘A Soprano’s Schubertiade’. Also for BIS, and joined by countertenor Iestyn Davies, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton in 2017 released ‘Lost is my Quiet’, a disc of duets and solo songs which was shortlisted for a 2018 Gramophone Award in the solo vocal category.
For further information please visit Carolyn Sampson's website.
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Former DHS Employee Miles Taylor Says Trump Wanted to “Maim” and “Pierce the Flesh” of Migrants
Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, says President Donald Trump would think up ways to “maim” and “pierce the flesh” of migrants in conversations about his proposed border wall along the United States-Mexico border. The president also suggested tearing families apart and gassing migrants altogether.
“This was a man with no humanity whatsoever,” Taylor says. “He says, we got to do this, this, this, and this, all of which are probably impossible, illegal unethical,” Taylor said, remembering that he would write things down while the president spoke. “And he looks over me and he goes, ‘you fucking taking notes?’”
Taylor says Trump couldn’t get through a meeting “without him doing 20 tangents, becoming irascible, turning red in the face, demanding a diet Coke, spewing spit. Literally out of goddamn nowhere, he’d be like, ‘You know, who’s just my favorite guy? The MyPillow guy. Do any of you have those pillows?’”
Remarking on this week’s Republican National Convention, Taylor called it “just the exclamation point this week of the near-death of the [Republican[ party. That’s why last year I had to get the hell out.”
Taylor, a longtime Republican, made headlines earlier this month for endorsing Democrat Joe Biden for the presidency and said Trump is “dangerous for America.”
“What we saw week in and week out, for me, after two and a half years in that administration, was terrifying. We would go in to try to talk to him about a pressing national security issue — cyberattack, terrorism threat — he wasn’t interested in those things. To him, they weren’t priorities,” Taylor says in a video produced by the group Republicans Against Trump.
He concludes: “Given what I have experienced in the administration, I have to support Joe Biden for president and even though I am not a Democrat, even though I disagree on key issues, I’m confident that Joe Biden will protect the country and I’m confident that he won’t make the same mistakes as this President.”
In response, President Trump claimed Taylor is a “former DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEE.”
“Many thousands of people work for our government,” Trump wrote. “With that said, a former DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEE named Miles Taylor, who I do not know (never heard of him), said he left & is on the open arms Fake News circuit. Said to be a real “stiff”. They will take anyone against us!”
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Free SHS implementer: Is Akuffo-Addo suffering from dementia..?
To give you the understanding or topic you would want to educate yourself on, am breaking the story into subtitles that you can scroll through to get your relevant information.
Origin of free S.H.S
Free Education as enshrined in the 1992 constitution is the “brainchild” of the framers of the constitution who in their foresight knew must be progressive to ensure quality with quantity.
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These people had a commitment to a future solid educational system. In article 25 it states education right from nursery to the university must be free for every school-going age Ghanaian. In fact (b) states specifically that “secondary education in its different forms including technical and vocational education, shall be made generally available and accessible to all by every appropriate means, and in particular, by the progressive introduction of free education”.
The implementer of free education/S.H.S
As the constitution prescribed that after ten (10) years of promulgating it, education right from nursery must be progressive, former President John Agyekum Kufour’s led government started implementing free education in 2002. He introduced the school feeding program as an intervention that was targeting to achieve this initiative of free universal basic education for all. This program did increase enrollment and attendants.
President John Atta Mills of blessed memory also continued from where Kuffour left and also began removing school under trees and abolishing the shift system among others.
Former President Mahama also knowing SHS to the university must be progressively free started the programme in October 2015 with day students by removing their school fees. It worth noting that the school fees are fees (tuition, library, etc) paid by both Day and Boarding students except boarding fees is is exclusively for students in the border house.
However former President Mahama in his 2014 State of Nation address hinted at the idea of a progressively free SHS. Bearing in mind why the framers of the constitution choose progressive introduction, Mahama introduced the progressively Free SHS which at the time covered over 300, 000 Day students for 2015/2016 academic year including students in Form 1 – 3 and promised to use our oil money to start free boarding for boarding students in 2017.
Read the link below to confirm from president Akuffo Addo’s Minister of education who implemented Progressively Free S.H.S
Read this for your self https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Akufo-Addo-govt-clears-GH-30-1-million-Free-SHS-debt-under-NDC-1031797
Akufo-Addo applauds Mahama for launching Free SHS
In an interview with an Accra-based Oman FM, on October 2015, then Mr. Akufo-Addo said “if the President and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) government [Mahama] now considers the free SHS education policy possible then it is good for Ghanaians.
”I see it as good news to Ghanaians; everything we[politicians] do is to improve the lives of and benefit Ghanaians. Its good news to all of us Ghanaians,” he reiterated…. Read here https://awakenewsroom.com/7yrs-ago-mahamas-free-shs-good-news-for-ghanaians-nana-addo/
What Mahama’s Free SHS encompasses
Mahama’s regime Progressively Free SHS covered all the tenants that our education system anchors on namely accessibility, affordability and quality.
Under Quality, he focused on more contact hours between teachers and students. Ensuring there were learning materials and labs available to students
Under accessibility, Mahama started the Community Day Senior High Schools popularly know us E-Blocks targeted at communities that didn’t have Senior High schools. However, as the time of arriving in school is important and also not subjecting students to walking longer distances before they get to school, Mahama provided all the Community Day schools (E – Blocks ) with a School Bus each that was to be used in the community to carry students to school and back home.
Under affordability, Mahama made available an amount of GHC 12,178,544.00 for the progressive free S.H.S program. Ghana education service at the time received funding and approval for the recruitment of 9,300 teachers for existing schools and the E – Blocks schools.
President Akuffo Addo’s Free education.
President Nana Akuffo Addo in 2017 announced his government was to implement a comprehensive universal Free SHS. Later, the intended wholly implementation of the Free SHS threw Ghanaians into shock as the was no policy document for it and government officials kept contradicting themselves on the source of funding and how to accommodate the huge number of students.
Subsequently, the government covered only First-year students which is progressive instead of their promise to implement it to cover all First, second, and third-year students. This wasn’t without the Warton challenges including lack of desks, classrooms among others. The government even sacked some Headteachers for lamenting of the woes that befell the policy.
Did people kick against Free SHS implementation?
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) before they implemented the Progressively Free SHS had always maintained that Quality is paramount to education. Therefore implementing the policy in a way that it will cover everything free-ranging from making Mattress, Chop Box, Trank, Exercise and Note Books including anything the student would need was not possible and might even collapse our economy at the time. Today from 2017 one must agree with them because the teething problem of increasing only the number of students still exists.
Revisiting history shows in drafting our constitution the lawyers association and the NPP which the current president Nana Akuffo Addo was part of at the time boycotted the drafting of the constitution that gave birth to Free SHS and said they could not sit with lesser associations like market women and others to draft a constitution, even though those “lesser groups” representative were graduates.
Read the link below to ascertain the facts
https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/The-Missing-Record-of-NPP-149182
Dementia is a syndrome in which there is deterioration in memory, thinking, behaviour and the ability to perform everyday activities. Although dementia mainly affects older people, it is not a normal part of aging. Worldwide, around 50 million people have dementia, and there are nearly 10 million new cases every year. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and may contribute to 60–70% of cases. Dementia is one of the major causes of disability and dependency among older people worldwide.
With these facts above one can only settle on dementia as the cause of President Nana Akuffo-Addo assertion that he is of shock that President Mahama said he (Mahama) implemented Progressively Free S.H.S.
In conclusion, former President Mahama implemented Progressively Free S.H.S which President Nana Akuffo-Addo came to continue by increase the number of students and restricted all to Form one (1) which later covered Form 2 and 3 progressively.
Filed By : Agaatorne Douglas Asaah / awakenewsroom.com
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NDC defeat: Who is to blame, the Lame Horse or the Horse Rider?
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“Of course as the general who led us into battle, I take ultimate responsibility for our losing the election and so if it will satisfy those people, blame me for the loss.”- President Mahama
Just when NDC supporters were about moving on from the blame game, President Mahama has called on them to redirect the accusation for their defeat towards him.
He didn’t own up when the likes of Kofi Adams, OmaneBoamah and everyone else but him received threats and insult from supporters for the defeat. He quietly enjoyed his status as the victim of the incompetence of others. Four months on, he has decided to take the bull by the horn, demonstrate leadership and take the blame. Too late Mr President
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Interestingly, in the same sentence, he made it clear that he took the blame for the loss to satisfy a certain group of people (… so if it will satisfy those people, blame me for the loss.).
Well, if after four months President Mahama is still not convinced that he was largely responsible for the miserable defeat of the NDC, then no one has been able to tell him the truth. I will therefore want to help him come to terms with his crucial role in sending the party to the abyss and leaving it with what look like a bleak future ahead
RECKLESS SPENDING IN 2012 (Last Quarter)and horrendous economic decisions
Between September 2012 to December 2012 when President Mahama took over after the demise of President Mills;the presidency, Ministry of Youth and Sports and NADMO spent beyond their budgetary allocation by a whopping 600 Million Dollars. This excludes other sectors. The price of the excess spending largely financed by borrowing was the massive economic crises that hit the nation from 2013. To stop the Cedi from falling, a decision was taken to de-dollarize the economy by preventing people who had dollar accounts from withdrawing in the dollars and paying for goods and services with the dollar
This caused massive panic;people reacted by emptying their dollar accounts and investors started taking a second look at coming to Ghana. Ivory Coast benefitted from this. The banking sector was brought on its knees by the massive withdrawals and little cash inflows due to the directive and never recovered. President Mills held the economy together and had indicators that compared favourably with that of his Predecessor President Kuffour. In four years, President Mahama, aided by Seth Tekpeh messed all that up.
Hurting Key Sectors
When the Dollar doubled between 2013 and 2014, the price for houses doubled. Instead of providing incentives to protect the real estate sector, government decided to impose more taxes on them. As if that was not enough, President Mahama’s Government crowned it all with extra 5% TAX on houses purchased. When you cripple an industry that employs hundreds of thousands, you are losing hundreds of thousands of vote
To keep oil prices down, government used TAX payers’ money to subsidise GOIL so that they can sell fuel cheaper for the general public for political gain. By so doing,private persons competing with GOIL were forced to sell at a loss just to remain competitive. Today, most of the Private oil companies are in debt even after cutting down on countless jobs. They are still struggling to pay the loans taken from the banks. When countless jobs are cut, the president in power loses countless votes. The Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors wrote countless letters to warn government to no avail
All he did in four years was to borrow and build. He did little to dispel the accusation that project prices were inflated. When I construct my borehole at 8 thousand Ghana Cedis and it gets to my notice that the government of the day has built same borehole at 60 Thousand Ghana Cedis through sole-sourcing, I need not be told that all is not well.
I cannot mention a single effective life changing policy that was introduced by the government that is supposed to be for the downtrodden and has made real impact.The only response to the struggling economy was to impose more TAXES on the people of Ghana and borrow indiscriminately.
FORD SAGA: I feel ashamed to talk about this but I have to. The president of my country received a FORD GIFT from a Businessman in Burkina Faso and started giving him Millions of Dollars’ worth of contracts through sole sourcing and expected people to vote for him for four more years? CHRAJ may have cleared him but it didn’t change the verdict of the court of public opinion. In a serious country built on the principle of the rule of law, President Mahama would have been impeached way before elections 2016. He broke his own codes of ethics and breached the ethical standards of the office of the president. He survived because he was the man in charge. Whathe lost sight of is that government does not control the thumbs of Ghanaians
MUNTIE 3: That was the lowest moment of your reign. I think you realise it by now? You acted against the advice of key individuals of your party, civil society organisations and showed us all that you are in power. You used the very power we gave you to undermine a critical institution like the judiciary in a critical moment. The signal you sent to your supporters was that power was behind them without taking into consideration how it could have affected the security of the nation and encouraged lawlessness. You did that to energise your base: the base doesn’t win elections in Ghana, swing voters win elections. Swing voters vote for mother Ghana: party faithfuls place party interest first.
Bus Branding: Under your watch, 116 Busses were branded at 3.6 Million, Four Hundred and Ninety Thousand and Forty Four Ghana Cedis (3,649,044). To break it down, each bus was branded at 31 Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty Seven Cedis (31,457.00). To be fair to you, after public bushing, the deal was reviewed but the harm hard already been caused
SADA: The NDC is at risk of losing grip of the 3 Northern Regions because of how The Savannah Accelerated Authority was mismanaged under your watch.
I can go on to name countless sectors that poor government decisions crippled the private business man.
At a point, many companies stopped submitting tender for contracts from state institutions because after wasting money and time, the best bid wouldn’t win if it is not connected to the powers that be.
There are instances where adjudged successful tenders were strangely replaced because someone somewhere with power called to have another company take the job.
President Mahama’s government is one of the most anti private sector government we have seen in a long time and I call write a hundred paged books about countless issues I am privy to.
In view of the above: taking responsibility for the defeat after four months when others have already been crucified, vilified and castigated isn’t display of magnanimity or leadership. You picked your time perfectly: when the dust is about settling. Ideally, you should have done this on the day Mrs Osei declared the result. Interestingly, you still don’t believe you are responsible for the defeat. You apologised to silence ‘those accusing you and eventually blamed the lame horse.’ SAD!
I know this apology is calculated, President Mahama is considering contesting on the ticket of NDC again. . The painful truth is that as things stand now, not even President Rawlings can beat JM in NDC Primaries at the moment. However, that will hurt the party to the core if it happens because Ghanaians won’t buy it. Majority of the party diehards still think President Mahama did great and remains their only hope of victory. The truth is that that majority have been blinded by their party loyalty and can’t see so glaring a truth that President Mahama left NDC worse than he took it and much worse than it has ever been since 1992.
Interestingly, those leading the charge are his appointees. Not surprising though: majority of the appointees of President Mahama know that their political destiny rests in the political fortunes of President Mahama. They are the people pressuring the President to contest again and are giving him the very false hope they gave him leading up to the December Polls
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“If you ride a lame horse into a race and you lose the race, your priority must be to cure the lameness of the horse.” President Mahama again
When you are given a healthy horse for a race, with an unlimited access to resources to keep the horse healthy and in good shape to win the race: but decide to buy the best cloth and cologne for the horse but fail to feed the horse and eventually fail to win the race, who is to blame? The lame horse or the horse rider?
Giant Billboards and NDC flag on every single tree and light pole from 37 to MallamJunction doesn’t win elections (I personally did this count). NDC learnt nothing from the defeat of NPP in 2008.
You inherited a party that was winning in 8 out of the 10 regions in Ghana. You left a part that won only four regions, lost every swing Region and declined in every single traditional stronghold.
To have full grip of the party, you and your friends at the presidency resourced people to defeat the existing national executives and Members of Parliament whose hard work brought the party to power and retained power for the party in 2012 so that you have your own men in place.
No wonder you were quick to add that the Chairman of the party is now the leader of the party. Though that is what the Constitution of the party says, you referred to it to deal with the notion that the Rawlingses have their baby back. At least one of your boys is in charge of the party- smart move.
Through you and your operatives, key Members of the party lost their parliamentary seats because you and your brother and others you helped to kiss their poverty goodbye sponsored people against them. BenardMornah was campaigning with your image at Nadowli-Kaleo constituency, telling people that you were behind him and resourced him to beat one of Ghana’s all-time best MP- Alban Bagbin. You did little to dispel this rumour.
Thanks to this, the NPP have 68 more seats in Parliament than the NDC. The NDC moved from 148 Majority Seats in Parliament to 104 Minority seats because in the name of the presidency, many competent MPs lost their seats to greenhorns who only made it in politics when you came to power.
When you come to power, form a government and decide to put Alban Bagbin, KletusAvoka and ET Mensah to the periphery by assigning them to the socalled 3 wise men portfolio when in reality you had no intention of doing a thing through them: who did you expect to help you manage Ghana? Elvis AfriyieAnkrah?
You needed OmaneBoamah, Stan Dugbe, OkudjetoAblakwa, ElvisAfriyieAnkrah than key experienced hands in your government and yet expected Ghanaians to take you serious?
Just take a closer look at the government Nana Akufo-Addo has formed, I concede, the numbers areoutrageous but the fact remains that majority of the experienced hands in the NPP have been given a role to play.
It is never true that the NDC don’t have the men, it is never true that the best brains in Ghana are in the NPP: the problem is that whereas as the NPP work with their very best when in power, the NDC over the past 8 years decided to make do with largely untested young men.
This is why in the end, it was easy for Ghanaians to accept that your government was incompetent and not up to the task because you side-lined proven key members who could have straightened you as a President and made things better for us as a people.
Your wife the 1st Lady had more resource for campaign than your Veep and the General Secretary of the Party. Dove for Mahama and all those Fan Fair Groups that only sang your praise had more resources than Party Executives. Your entire campaign was one big Fan Fair that focussed more on what the opposition could not do and less on what you have done. It was all about showmanship, attacks on the opposition and nothing more
By keeping your Vice in the periphery, you went to the race with little addition from the man next to you. The vice President is supposed to add some vote, you picked him as an economic brain to not only appeal to Central Region but the business community but the reality is that he had little say in key economic decisions taken in your government.
In the end, he could not cancel out Bawuamia and that made the difference. If you had positionedAmissah-Arthur well to appeal to the Business Community, you’d have won more. The truth is that the result would have been much worse if the then Chief of Staff, Hon Julius Debrah had not closed his office to join the campaign. That move saved the NDC from further embarrassment.
The problem was never with the appointment of youth as Ministers, it was with the lack of guidance for the youth that caused your downfall. OkudjetoAblakwa for instance is a fine gentleman I am proud of and on record to have said that of all the youth given the opportunity, he showed much improvement during your time in office. However, in all fairness, unless I am missing something, it was not a smart idea to put him in charge of Tertiary Education. That is no nono and no. You know the pedigree of people he’d have to deal with, even if he is the most competent person, he’d not command their respect and get their utmost corporation. How appalling it will be for Deans of Faculties to stand up to acknowledge the arrival of OkudzetoAblakwa. No disrespect, just being real here. All these must be factored into appointments. You replicated this mistake in most of your appointments
Important Observation: During the campaign, whenever you were calledto speak, you were introduced as the gentleman who woke up one day as the Vice President of Ghana and ended the day as the President of Ghana. It was an insensitive introduction that was repeated along the length and breadth of the country. Even at Cape Coast, where the man whose death paved way for you to be president hails from, this same intro was used to welcome you to the podium. Anytime I heard this introduction, I felt that in deed, the nation was in the wrong hands. A leader should be sensitive to little things and this is not a little thing.
President Mahama missed the opportunity to even make the NDC stronger. With the amount of money that came into the country through loans, there’s no way this government would have lost the election if the money was used and so with care. Unfortunately, as much as we got though loans, we lost a chunk through bad deals and highly expensive contracts. I personally calculated the cost of one footbridge and it was equal to the cost of 70 semidetached 2 bedroom Estate Houses at Koans Estate. 1 footbridge equal 70 Semidetached Estate Building; I am not saying interchange, I mean footbridge.
We have four of these Footbridges in Ghana: One at Shiahie on the LegonMadina Road, TettehQuarshie, Mallam Market and another at KNUST Junction in Kumasi. The Four footbridges came at the cost of 7.8 Million Euros. Convert it to Cedis and divide by four: that is the cost of one footbridge- 8.1 Million Ghana Cedis. This is how we used the 7.8 Million Euro Loan secured from the Government of Austria.
Most of the good things done by President Mahama got marred by the cost they came and ensured that he got little credit in return. Anytime I walk on one of the four footbridges (which I did this morning) I get very angry because I know I am walking on 70 Estate houses to cross a 50 meter road.
President Mahama could have gone down as one of the best Ghana has ever had but missed the opportunity despite working with more resources than any government in the history of Ghana.
These are some of the things that made the party built on the principles of probity and accountability leave power with so tight a tag of corruption tied firmly around its neck
The NDC needs massive rebranding and a new face that cannot be directly linked with the failings and mistakes of the Mahama Administration to lead the party. The party is losing grounds in Academia and the Business Community; it is losing its key constituency which is rural Ghana. NDC lost in virtually every tertiary institution in Ghana and that is a huge statement and needs addressing. Gone were the days when people had no clue of the issues; today, thanks to the power of the media, even the daftest of people understand the relevant issues of governance.
Our literacy rate is increasing by the day. It is time for the party to reinvent itself, appeal to the youth, elitists and inspire confidence in the business community. This can only be possible with a new face whose competence is never in doubt and whose integrity isn’t questionable.
When it comes to borrowing and building, I can serve this nation better because I will do it cheaper. Voters want policies that they feel will directly improve their living standard and will go with any candidate who comes across the key to this aspiration andappeals to people as credible
A greater majority of the Business community will never trust an NDC led by President Mahama regardless of how poor the NPP performs. As a matter of fact, the party should not plan in anticipation of the NPP failing, the party must present itself in such way that even if the NPP are successful, Voters will deem the NDC the best option to move the nation to the next level.
The politics of the party in power failing to pave way for the opposition should be a thing of the past: it is unpatriotic and inspires opposition to be negative and try to undermine the government of the day. NPP did same and got away with it but it doesn’t mean a similar approach will wash if adopted by the NDC.
Even when the government of the day is successful, the opposition must present a stronger proposal to propel the nation to the next level
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NDC is never a lame horse;it was a strong active horse that was entrusted in the hands of a horse rider who didn’t use it well. The healing must therefore begin with changing the horse rider.
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Daniel Schillereff January 9, 2016 Environmental Change, Geomorphology, Lake sediments, Palaeoflood, Paper review Comments Closed
Sediment core extracted from Bassenthwaite Lake, Cumbria, on 7 January 2016. The light-coloured band at the surface most likely reflects material deposited by the severe flood triggered by Storm Desmond in early December. Photo courtesy of R. Chiverrell, University of Liverpool.
The severe flooding that has hit much of northern England during the last few weeks (and northeastern Scotland right now) has generated significant discussion and debate about why floods happen, how often they occur and what we can do about it. The fact is there’s no simple answer to any of these questions: the hydrometeorological cycle is a complex beast and our actions have altered it in myriad ways, from contributing to a warming climate, modifying flow pathways and building in less-than-ideal locations. I recently co-authored a piece at The Conversation that offers some wider context to these discussions.
Wetherby Bridge, 26 December 2015. Photo by: MTaylor848 (WikiCommons).
Flooding in York, 27 December 2015. Photo by: Richard Scott (WikiCommons).
While the physics dictating that a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture is long established, attributing single weather events to climate change and detecting whether floods are becoming more frequent and/or severe floods here in the UK remains tricky business (e.g., Pall et al. (2011) Nature, Trenberth (2011) Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change or Trenberth et al. (2015) Nature Climate Change, Watts et al. (2015) Progress in Physical Geography). One complicating factor that is widely accepted is that the short duration of existing hydrological records – typically a few decades or less for river gauging stations – means attempts to identify an anthropogenically-triggered signal from natural variability have produced ambiguous results.
This is where sediment sequences may be able to contribute some valuable data, as floods can leave behind an imprint that is sedimentologically different to the material that accumulates day-to-day on a lake bed or on a floodplain. The field of palaeohydrology has a long history but emphasis has really been placed on lake sediment sequences in the past few years. Two recent comprehensive reviews of the state of lacustrine palaeoflood research (Schillereff et al. (2014) Earth-Science Reviews and a book chapter from Gilli et al. (2012)) highlight much impressive work coming from the European Alps, Scandinavia, North America and indeed globally.
There are a number of crucial considerations: how certain can we be that a distinct layer of sediment was in fact deposited by a historical flood? Do all floods leave an imprint? If not, must an event reach a certain discharge for a detectable deposit to be preserved?
When I started my PhD investigating palaeoflood records from British lakes, I quickly discovered another significant barrier: the difficulty of distinguishing flood layers in lakes that accumulate homogeneous sediments, typically fine-grained, organic-rich material – in other words, squishy brown gloop. These sorts of lakes are common in the UK and globally prevalent, especially in temperate regions.
My ex-PhD supervisors and I published a paper in Geology this month (Schillereff et al. ‘Hydrological thresholds and basin control over paleoflood records in lakes‘) that successfully demonstrates a method to obtain palaeoflood records from such lakes (please note the paper is Open Access). Working at Brotherswater, a small lake in the eastern English Lake District, we were able to confirm the provenance of coarse-grained samples (i.e., they were deposited during high river flows), establish the hydrological threshold at which a sedimentary imprint is preserved (i.e., what discharge is required) and ultimately, we hope, provide a blueprint for acquiring palaeoflood records from these sorts of systems elsewhere in the world.
The view south across the catchment of Brotherswater. Photo by: D. Schillereff.
What did the work involve? We installed sediment traps (tubes with exchangeable containers at the bottom – see diagram) in the lake for 18 months enabling us to directly measure the calibre of particles delivered to the lake as incoming river discharge fluctuates through the year. We then looked at sediment cores from the same location; these were made up of material that had accumulated at the lake bed since ~1960 and some of these samples were characterised by very coarse material.
Schematic of the sediment traps installed in Brotherswater. Source: Schillereff, 2014.
Statistical analysis of these data indicated there were different groupings of particle sizes that we linked to separate hydrological processes. The coarsest group, or end member, appears in sporadic samples and we infer its appearance to be indicative of a major flood. Our dating of the sediment enables us to pinpoint the timing of each flood and comparing their occurrence with local river flow records has enabled us to establish the discharge threshold that will result in a sedimentary deposit being preserved.
The next image, Figure 3 in our paper, hopefully explains the processing. The left-hand triplet of graphs are the particle size distributions of all samples; the black line (furthest right) in the middle plot represents the coarse fraction. The middle (sediment traps) and right-hand (cores) pairs of graphs depict the contribution each end-member makes through time. The black bars periodically reach well over 50%; material of this calibre almost certainly must have been delivered during high discharges, so we can use its appearance as a palaeoflood signature.
End-member modelling of particle size data from sediment trap and core samples. See text for explanation. Site A is closer to the inflow, site B is in the lake centre. Source: Schillereff et al. (2016)
Having established more confidently the characteristics of palaeoflood laminations, we can begin to examine long sediment cores and count the frequency and calculate the magnitude of floods that have occurred during past centuries and ideally millennia. This work is progressing nicely and we plan to submit our findings from Brotherswater and other regional lakes that place the recent Cumbrian floods (2005, 2009, 2015) in a longer-term context for peer-review this year.
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Greece: Turkey still risks EU sanctions over sea dispute
ATHENS, Greece — Greece said Thursday that neighbour Turkey has so far refused to take action requested by the European Union to avoid sanctions from the bloc.
Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said ongoing Turkish offshore gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean has undermined efforts to restart talks on a longstanding sea boundary dispute, which has escalated military tension between the two NATO members and regional rivals.
“Europe is not naive,” Petsas said Thursday. “Turkey received the opportunity and the time to change course. It chose not to do so.”
EU leaders on Dec. 10-11 will meet to discuss a range of issues, including external relations and the ongoing dispute between Turkey and EU member states Greece and Cyprus.
Athens says a warship-escorted survey ship that Turkey has sent into waters between the three countries is operating in areas where Greece has offshore exploitation rights. Greece sent its own naval vessels to monitor the Turkish ships' movements. Cyprus is also angry with Turkish offshore prospecting and drilling in waters round the island where Nicosia claims exclusive economic rights.
Ankara says it has every right to engage in its activities.
On Oct. 1, EU leaders said they would consider sanctions at the December meeting “in case of renewed unilateral actions or provocations in breach of international law.”
Turkey argues that the EU has unfairly sided with Greece and Cyprus in the dispute. A senior aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with top EU officials in Brussels last week, maintaining that his government remained willing to restart talks with Greece.
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VCs dispense with niceties during Capitol riots: 'Never talk to me again'
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Trump said the phase one trade deal with China was "fully intact" after his adviser Peter Navarro sowed confusion and spurred a temporary stock slump with comments interpreted as a decision to end the agreement. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images
It was hard not to feel emotional today, as the world watched for more than four hours as rioters stormed into and throughout the Capitol building in Washington to disrupt the certification of the election win of incoming U.S. President-elect Joe Biden. They'd been encouraged earlier in the afternoon by outgoing President Donald Trump to head to the building and protest what he falsely claimed yet again was a stolen election, a lie he began to spread the evening of the U.S. election in November.
While from their undisclosed locations, members of Congress called on Trump to make a statement rebuking the rioters' actions, he instead encouraged his supporters over Twitter, writing of the "sacred landslide election victory" that was "so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots" and later posting a video in which he repeated his lies about a "landslide election that was stolen from us."
It was the first time in American history that supporters of the losing presidential candidate forcibly disrupted the official counting of electoral votes, as noted earlier in the evening by PBS. And while Trump's tweets were later deleted by Twitter for "repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy," the move was viewed by many as too little and too late, including by Silicon Valley investors, a wide number of whom let loose their fury toward the outgoing administration and its enablers.
So many of us have held off on this post in the name of balance and decency. If you still support Trump after this, FUCK YOU and never talk to me again.
— Ryan Sarver (@rsarver) January 6, 2021
What’s happening in DC is a terrorist attack on the US gov & should be dealt w/ as such
One warning to stand down, then head shot
The deference to white domestic terrorist orgs is appalling & must end
If black folks were assaulting the Capitol, there’d be helicopter gunships
— Matt Ocko (@mattocko) January 6, 2021
I’m sorry Hawley, I can’t hear you over the first pump to the MAGA crowd earlier. Sit the fuck down. (Nice double mask by Romney though!)
— M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) January 7, 2021
A lingering question is whether the ignominious day -- one on which a dozen Senate Republicans and dozens more Republican House members had planned to object to the certification of the election results -- will begin to polarize people further, or whether, following Trump's departure, some of that fury begins to subside instead.
Some investors, at least, say their anger has always had more to do with basic human decency, which seemed frequently to take a backseat during the Trump administration.
Deena Shakir of Lux Capital used to work for the Obama administration and is transparent on Twitter about her political perspective. But she says of today's events that they "are not about politics. What we have witnessed is an affront to democracy, an assault on American history, and a gruesome reflection of the divided nation we live in."
Social media allowed a shocked nation to watch a coup attempt in real time
Hunter Walk -- who co-founded the venture firm Homebrew and today tweeted, "don't be putting [Trump son-in-law and White House advisor] Jared Kushner on cap tables when this is all said and done" -- echoes the sentiment. "I'm not afraid to have a strong public voice on issues I consider to be urgent and essential human rights questions."
As for whether the shock of today might make it harder to fund or partner with a team who supported Trump's ascendency, Walk suggests it won't, that business is business. "We fund wonderful entrepreneurs and employ no purity tests on whether they agree with us 100%. I'm certain we've backed people who sit to our political left and to our political right - that's not an issue for us and not an issue for them."
To the extent that Walk's public political stance may turn off some talented founders who "would just prefer their investors shut up and write checks," that's "ok," too, says Walk. "We don't believe we need to compromise our values in order to be successful."
Shakir meanwhile suggests that she doesn't always have the luxury of tuning out politics entirely. For one thing, she considers those who terrorized the nation's capital all afternoon "angered perpetrators of a jingoistic, supremacist ideology that is not only normalized but actually incited by the highest branch of our government and amplified via social media."
More, she notes, "Given my focus on healthcare, so much of my own thesis development and so many of my conversations have inevitably been informed by the pandemic, which—for better or worse—has become politicized."
Try as she might to bifurcate politics from work, it's futile right now, Shakir says. "These events and policies inform our present and our future, affect the markets that value our companies, and contribute to trends and white spaces."
Today, she adds, they also "reflect our values as a nation and as human beings."
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National Crime Statistics released
Published on: 24/04/2020 12:11 PMReported by: roving-eye
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) yesterday, Thursday 23rd April 2020, released crime statistics for all police forces across the UK.
These statistics show Merseyside Police has seen an increase in overall crime of 0.5% (695 more offences) during the period of 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019 which is lower than the 3% increase seen nationally.
In addition to this, the statistics also revealed burglary offences have decreased by 18.9%, resulting in 2,102 less burglaries force wide, doubling the national 7.7% decrease whilst robbery has also seen a 5.8% decrease (85 less offences) compared to a national increase of 8.8%. Vehicle crime has also decreased by 12.9% (1,340 less offences) which is far greater than the national 0.1% decrease.
Responding to the findings, Deputy Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said: “I am pleased to see that there has been a decrease in some crime types in Merseyside in the past year.
“Burglary is an offence that can have a huge impact on victims in our communities, and it is pleasing to see that the force’s efforts in this area, including a focussed activity under Operation Castle, which has resulted in 2,102 less burglaries being committed this year.
“These statistics show the excellent work of all officers and staff who remain committed in putting the public first, doing everything they can to prevent and detect crime in Merseyside and I hope to see future decreases in these and other crime types during 2020.”
Despite Merseyside having the fifth lowest rate increase for ‘violence with injury’ compared to our most similar forces, statistics also highlighted an 8.1% increase in violence (3,556 more offences) in Merseyside, a 2.7% increase in violence with injury (387 more offences) and a 10.8% increase in violence without injury (3,166 more offences). Nationally, there has also been a 9% increase compared to the previous year.
DCC Kennedy continued: “We have analysed the increased levels of violent crime which can be attributed to our continued improvement in recording crime as well as incidents where, although violence has been used, it has resulted in either a minor injury or no injury at all.
“Saying this, we remain realistic about the issues we face. Alongside the Home Office, we continue to invest in proactive methods of policing including the launch of ‘Op Target’, to help tackle serious and violent crime including knife and gun crime, and we are already seeing great results in the number of those arrested and charged as well as weapons recovered and proactive opportunities, carrying out warrants and engaging with the public where possible.”
Since the launch of Op Target in July last year, we have carried out 3085 stop searches, over 1200 open land searches, recovered over 1100 knives and other weapons and arrested over 450 people for knife crime offences (not including possession of a bladed article).
During our dedicated Op Sceptre week alone, designed to specifically crack down on those involved in knife crime, we conducted a further 62 open land searches where we have recovered 5 knives and 1 bladed article, carried out 56 stop searches where we have also recovered 7 knives, 3 offensive weapons and 1 bladed article and arrested 23 people.
We have also seen a 55% decrease in knife related homicides last year (from 9 in 2018 to 4 in 2019), however this figure is still far too many.
Additionally work continues to protect the public against gang related activity and we are pleased that over the past two years we have successfully obtained gang injunctions against 29 people (across 8 different gangs). 13 of these have been breached (relating to 40 separate breach proceedings) which has consequently resulted in 1110 days of immediate imprisonment. A further 218 days of imprisonment are currently suspended against three gang members. Earlier this year, the first gang injunction was also obtained against a juvenile.
The newly formed Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP), set up in the summer of 2019 with Home Office funding of £3.37m, also provides us with the opportunity to work with our partners who fund great initiatives to further reduce serious violence for young people in all five boroughs of Merseyside.
In terms of sexual offences, here in Merseyside, we have seen a small increase in reported crimes (2.4% rise compared with 1.7% rise in England and Wales).
DCC Kennedy explained: “We believe that this increase can be attributed to victims feeling more confident in coming forward, enabling us to take the necessary action against offenders.
"Our specialist Unity Team are dedicated to investigating and supporting victims from the initial report of the incident through to the end process, maximising the best possible chance of conviction.
"As well as specialist police officers, the team also includes lawyers, Sexual Offences Investigative Techniques (SOIT) officers, and detectives. The team work in partnership with Independent Sexual Violence advisors (ISVAs), Sexual Assault Referral Centre Crisis Workers (SARCs) and health professionals to provide the best possible joined-up service to every victim.
"That said, there is still work to do to encourage more victims to come forward and ultimately increase the number of offenders prosecuted.
"We continue to listen to the concerns of our communities, at a hugely uncertain time when we are all adapting to a new ‘normal’, crime is becoming more diverse and offenders are using more modern techniques to commit crime. We must remain ahead of the game, therefore I would encourage the public to continue speaking to us, reporting suspicious activity and allowing us to use our variety of investigative tools to bring offenders to justice.”
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Lillian and her best friends, Katy and Maisy, barely survived their first adventure in the Monster Realm. Now they have only days to stop a war between the worlds, a war in which the mythical creatures of Lanodeka plan to reclaim the earth as their own. But this time, the girls have to face more than dragons and griffins, sirens and elves, rocs and harpies. They discover the real power behind the war, a power that is using the Creation Stone to build an army unlike anything they could hav... more
Dragons of Frost and Fire
by Susan Brown
Dragons of Frost and Fire “I know she’s still alive!” A year ago her mother disappeared in an Alaskan blizzard, but Kit Soriano refuses to give up. Against all logic, propelled by recurring dreams of ice-white dragons and a magical silver knife, Kit journeys to the wilderness town of Silver Claw where her mother vanished. She’s clearly not welcome, but her knife throbs with heat and her dreams show the impossible – mythical dragons are guarding her sleeping mother. Desperate, Kit has ... more
Dawn of the Singularity (The Singularity Saga) (Volume 1)
by David Simpson
The singularity: the point in human history when we begin to enhance our own intelligence with the intelligent technology we're creating. As humanity merges with its machines, will we forget what it means to be human? Meet Haalee, the artificial intelligence charged with taking humanity on the road to the singularity. But will the future turn out the way she expects? Dawn of the Singularity is the intelligent, action-packed science fiction thriller you've been waiting for. From award-winning and... more
The Road to Nyn (The Tales of Gaspar) (Volume 1)
by Brian G. Michaud
In a land where magic is outlawed, a young boy is living a double life. Although Kay is training to be a knight, he has been secretly studying the forbidden ways of magic with Alamin, a powerful but eccentric wizard. When a band of goblins raids his village and enslaves his family and friends, Kay embarks on an adventure that takes him across the Kingdom of Gaspar and into the dark and treacherous caves of the Goblin Realm. What Kay doesn’t realize is that his journey is leading him on a... more
Charlotte's Mist
by Peter Baine
A small town ... a strange town ... a ghost town. Dillon Wyatt finds that this is very much the case with Charlotte. The town has no people. The stores and buildings are busy falling apart. On the face of it, it seems like he and his new companion, Alex, are the only two living souls the town has to offer. But he's wrong. There is something living there. And it doesn't want him to leave ...
In the third short story collection by Richard Thomas, Tribulations, the stories cover a wide range of dark fiction--from fantasy, science fiction and horror, to magical realism, neo-noir, and transgressive fiction. The common thread that weaves these tragic tales together is suffering and sorrow, and the ways we emerge from such heartbreak stronger, more appreciative of what we have left--a spark of hope enough to guide us though the valley of death. Fireflies and wolves, ghosts and golems, ten... more
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Asterix: Asterix and Caesar's Gift: Album 21
Asterix: Asterix and Caesar's Gift: Album 21 (#21, Astérix)
eBook published 2014-07-03 by Hachette
Publisher: Hachette
Published: 3 July, 2014
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Editions: 3 other editions of this product
Part of Astérix (Series)
Others in this series:
1 Asterix the Gaul
2 Asterix and the Golden Sickle
3 Asterix and the Goths
4 Asterix the Gladiator
5 Asterix and the Banquet
6 Asterix and Cleopatra
7 Asterix and the Big Fight
8 Asterix in Britain
9 Asterix and the Normans
10 Asterix the Legionary: Book 10
11 Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield
12 Asterix at the Olympic Games
13 Asterix and the Cauldron
14 Asterix in Spain
15 Asterix and the Roman Agent
16 Asterix in Switzerland
17 The Mansions of the Gods
18 Asterix and the Laurel Wreath
19 Asterix and the Soothsayer
20 Asterix in Corsica
21 Asterix and Caesar's Gift
22 Asterix and the Great Crossing
23 Obelix and Co
24 Asterix in Belgium
25 Asterix and the Great Divide
26 Asterix and the Black Gold
27 Asterix and Son
28 Asterix and the Magic Carpet
30 Asterix and Obelix All at Sea
31 Asterix and the Actress
32 Asterix and the Class Act
33 Asterix and the Falling Sky
34 Asterix and Obelix's Birthday
eBook published July 2014
When Legionary Tremensdelirius gets the title deeds to the little Gaulish village as a bonus, he swaps them with tavern landlord Orthopaedix for a drink. Funnily enough, Asterix and his friends aren't keen to hand over their village to anyone else. After a chieftaincy election campaign and a showdown with the Romans, both events fiercely contested, can all still end well?
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One of the hardest stories I ever wrote...
By Bobby Horecka Saturday, May 07, 2016
I mentioned this in my last submission: blank screens for three days, trying like hell to write just 500 words. We were asked to read a couple of poems from "WEE-satch" and form a story around them. It fought me like a pissed off cat, but here's the result: “You need to let yourself get hit a few times so you can see it’s not so bad or so you can see how bad it really is.” Those words somehow seemed to make perfect sense as Jesse stood there holding his ratty old football on the edge of the practice field. After all, his big brother Jake had said them, and he knew what he was talking about. He was the starting quarterback on the varsity team, and Jesse was certain his big brother knew everything there was to know about football. Jake had been star athlete for as long as Jesse could remember. No matter what sport he played, he always rose to the top — baseball, basketball, soccer, wrestling — but where he truly shined was on the football field. Jak
Learning to ride again...
It has been a while, I know. But I've never been far away from the written word. Not at all in fact. I was asked for my fiction writing class final to write a personal narrative on my experience through the class. It's a bit long for this format, I know, but I thought it worth the share: Call me arrogant, ignorant or perhaps even foolish — I’ve been called worse, today in fact — but I truly thought this whole writing journey would be a cinch. I’d turn in a few words and everyone would be so unimaginably impressed, publishers would beat a path to my door. The college would quilt me with degrees. I’d be the new voice of my generation, the Redneck Laureate. Everybody would want to say they once knew me… I’d earned my chops, I thought. I’d been writing professionally longer than most of my fellow classmates had been alive. Considering I can date that back to the late 1980s, it was hardly unimaginable, at least that’s how I pictured all those phantom writers in my online cl
I blame Hatter Potter...
By Bobby Horecka Saturday, February 20, 2016
Let me climb up on my soapbox here. Hang on, almost there. What the hell was that popping noise? A hip is not supposed to make that sound... OK. Now, let me catch my breath... So I've been reading lots of stories-in-progress in my creative writing class at grad school. Some are better than others; some I can't wait to see published. That's really not the point. We read our peer submitted works and then offer some commentaries on things we like, things we don't, things that need work, etc. Kind of interesting, actually, to me at least. Now I'll be the first to admit, I don't fit the mold of your typical college student. I've been out in the working world for a while. I could probably have fathered half the people in my class. But we're all English majors here, we all use words regularly. I would argue that these youngsters are probably a lot fresher on their grammar skills. The last real grammar schooling I got came before most of these cats were bo
I bet we've all had days like these...
By Bobby Horecka Friday, February 19, 2016
So part of this copyright law class I'm taking in grad school sends me surfing the web regularly in search of answers to various finer points of the law. What better place to find what you're looking for than seeking it out from the source, right? So I've already been a time or twelve to the U.S. Copyright Office's official website (www.copyright.gov) as part my coursework. Before you web surfing yourself, I warn it's pretty dull, about what you would expect for some government hack trying to put together an overview of his or her respective duties and provide the necessary documentation one might need regarding the subject. I will say this: I'm basically in Week 5 of my studies in this class and know only one sure fact, so far. Despite having written for most of my life in newspapers and such, I don't know Jack Shit (or his cousin George, for the that matter) about copyrights. It's a damn complicated subject. Plus, it keeps changing. We've alrea
Would you be MY valentine?
By Bobby Horecka Sunday, February 14, 2016
So yeah, I followed his advice buying flowers. Sue me. But I can't help but relish his words on the importance of these calendar-bred days, nor his revelation of "sorry chump" the rest of the year, even today as it may have proven. Anyone else ready for a redo?
Where did the maid go?
I intend to write a strongly worded letter to my housekeeper. You know, that little bitch left literally piles of dirty dishes in my sink. I'm talking about shit from Monday at this point. Stuff is starting to grow on this enormous pile. The corpses of dead mosquito hawks are staring blankly from their foul, watery graves. It really came to light this morning as I tried to fill the coffee pot with fresh water and couldn't fit the decanter under the faucet. Not enough clearance. I mean this is disgusting. Downright intolerable... Here goes: Dear Diary... Yeah, yeah... It seems I foolishly volunteered for this crap when I found myself spending a lot more time around the house than I am accustomed. Unemployment will do that, you know. But between writing papers for grad school, making my rounds job hunting and otherwise finding other things to fill my days, that dish pile got away from me. Well, no more. Problem solved. After merely an hour and a half of scrubbing,
So this is grad school. Part 2....
By Bobby Horecka Tuesday, February 09, 2016
This is beautiful, trust me... PROF'S REPONSE AFTER READING: Haha! I had quite a few laughs reading your post. But to elaborate on the title of the journal since I was a part of that discussion, it's called Huizache (the Spanish version of huisache) because it's considered a weed tree. People are always trying to get rid of them, yet they insist on taking root. It's a metaphor for the voices in our journal, primarily Mexican American voices that often get rejected elsewhere. Or, think of it like this, most journals will carry 1 or 2 brown voices, quota filled. I once got rejected from a journal because two Lopezes happened to submit at the same time and they liked the other Lopez story better. I am not kidding. So we decided to reverse the ratio in our magazine, to give a field for the huizaches of the writing world to take root. So here's to the WEE satch of the writing world! Live long and prosper my friends...
So this is grad school. Part 1...
Let me preface this by say I scored a one hundred - perfect - on this particular entry. I didn't know what that hell to do or say, so I had a little fun with it: Assignment: Read “Suzi Writes a Poem” by Jessica Helen Lopez starting on Page 20 of Huizache . If this poem were an essay, what would its thesis be? Explain, using textual evidence from the poem. This is due on February 6. What I heard in my head: Bobby write a thesis; write a thesis Bobby. OK. I haven’t set foot in a classroom in more than 20 years. It has been a while since anyone tossed around such collegiate terms in defining what I should write. I’m used to ledes, pull quotes and inch counts (and yes, that first word is spelled correctly for a newspaper man; bonus points if anyone cares to tell me why). Perhaps I might benefit by refreshing the old memory on what, exactly, this term actually means. Hello, Google… “A thesis is a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or p
Super Bowl, Take 50...
Here we are again, sports fans! The biggest day of the year for the NFL. Who will walk away the ultimate champions of the world? That's today? You mean I missed football season again this year? Well, crap... No, I'm not a big fan. Never have been. In fact, most days I've tried to watch the big game with friends typically found me soundly sleeping long before a victor ever emerged. Blame it on a solid meal or over refreshment on the adult beverages typically found in surplus at such showings, but naptime almost always proves a better use of my time when it comes to football. I take that back: I had to work a couple years back on the hallowed Super Bowl Sunday. Wound up stuck like Chuck at a machine shop from 7 a.m. to nearly 11 p.m. I wound up earning a bonus because I missed the big game that day; the boss even sprang for pizza for our weary group, who had missed meals that day as well as whoever was playing that particular year. That was hellova better alternat
I spent the morning engaged in a long lost art: letter writing, to an old friend. Life may have long ago parted our paths, but we stay in touch nonetheless. She's one of those who pushed me to start writing again, even when I was certain I had packed away my pen for good. She reminded me recently of an old friend we both shared named Harlan Hobbs. Now I only met Harlan a couple of times in my life, albeit, but we spoke like long lost friends when we did. An old writer himself, we shared a passion and common interest. And he had a talent for making even weirdos like us feel right at home, important, understood and appreciated. He would often speak of this "great conversation" in which we should all take part, we writers especially. At the risk of sounding grandiose, think Shakespeare: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts." Think Whitman: &
Feeling worn...
By Bobby Horecka Thursday, February 04, 2016
So today I turned in my first creative writing submission at grad school. Twenty-five pages. Two full days of editing and revising, my red pen playing harbinger of dead words. I started banging out copy not long after the new year. I wrote probably the first 8-10 pages over the course of two weeks, finding myself hammering out details, characters, plot lines and all that other crap. I actually kept coming back and editing everything I wrote in an attempt to act like I was still being productive. Sad truth, the damn thing got shorter and shorter. I walked away for a while. Did some crazy shit, like go see some relatives, piddle around with other crap, deal with unemployment bullshit. Hell, I even went to church. (It's still standing; neither of us burst into flames, yet.) Whatever the cause, I sat down one Sunday and started typing. It turned into an all-nighter. Before I knew it, the craft part was done. I moved my story into the desired format and typesetting, and I'll b
Monkey business...
By Bobby Horecka Monday, February 01, 2016
OK. I'm fucking 43. When I bought this ticket, I wasn't even asked for ID. The twerp behind the window in his bulletproof sales counter didn't even ask my age. He just doled it out like it was the least he could do to help an old bastard enjoy his movie experience. Oddly, just a few weeks later, I find myself enjoying student discounts at the same establishment for the very fact I enrolled in a graduate program at the local university. I'm still the same age, a few days older in fact. But I now qualify for the same discount as the daughter I raised, who should be a sophomore in her college studies at North Texas State, if my math is correct. Of course, leave it to the boob tube to make me feel my age anew. A historical burb I caught today detailed the life history of the first chimp in space, long before Alan Shepard made his historic flight. The monkey survived his trip no worse for the wear, it would seem, and lived out his years to the ripe old age of
A personal take on the world at large...
Ever watched CBS Sunday Morning ? One of my favorites... So I saw this today, all cleared from the western front of my state. I live in Victoria, a mere 30 miles from the coast. Plenty of days left to pursue my dream of catching the monster Red in my daily haul at the bay, yet far enough away to realize my South Texas fishing holes may leave some desires when it comes to conquering Old Man and the Sea . It targets West Texas, but I would argue they were among the last to know about the clusterfuck called oilfield declines in my home state. Hell, I live in the Eagle Ford Shale region. We've been all about boom times over the last few years. Still, I can't help but sharing how my dumb old ass found himself on unemployment. I worked at a local machine shop for 5 years. I paid my dues, respectively speaking. I caught plenty a bitch days behind a grinder during my days on the job. On Jan. 18, I was told my job was no more, victim to the latest round of lay offs at my comp
On politics and more...
I worked politics at one point in my career. I truly wish this parody wasn't reality. I can't do that. I even wrote prize-winning editorials in Texas, telling readers exactly what their 60 percent voter turnout meant in the Lone Star State, an all-time high as I recall in my lifetime, the day is was published. While even the newest, most poorly executed versions of Democracy the world over typically boasted minimal figures of 90 percent or better voter turnout, we get mighty proud when we get over half the populace to show up in our country. Such turnouts were common in the post-911 days of apocalypse some of you may remember. I can't say I've seen it since. While impressive for any election I could ever recall in my years, it betrayed another set of numbers none of us wanted to see: Although 60 percent of any given population may seem like a lot, a full 40 percent - often tens or hundreds of thousands of people - did not vote. As I was proud to point out in
Why the hell am I doing this?
By Bobby Horecka Sunday, January 31, 2016
Blame it on old writer friend, who not so long ago admonished me for not putting pen to paper in far too long. Blame it on too many a memory, stacked tight over a fleeting lifetime of mistakes and missteps. Blame it on turning 43 and finding little reason to still consider myself worthy of claiming any right to being a crafter of words. I could blame life, which tossed me one too many breaking balls in the ninth to drive my runner home; a job that robbed me of energy and inspiration as days became weeks; a family that simply walked away, no kiss my ass, auf weidersehn or goodnight. Truth is, I got lazy. Angry. Pathetic. I became a sad sack. A Glory Day-ser. An asshole. I rode my meager success to mediocre, proud and pompous. But I've always wanted more. I embark on that journey, once again. Thank you, Richard, and the many who came before you. So what's with the title of this endeavor? Boots: I have a pair for every day of the week. I are a Redneck, just a bit ove
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A few words on Gramma...
By Bobby Horecka Wednesday, September 12, 2018
At the request of many of you in attendance on Tuesday at St. Mary's in Hallettsville, my eulogy for Gramma. Father John had already begun the faith and family parts when I got in touch. He asked that I provide some color, so that's what I shot for. Oddly, he told me before the service the salesman part was a bit long, but he loved the rest. He wound up sharing the salesman part and not much else. So here's what I came up with, color and all, in my uncut, original version: Sweet. Salt of the earth. Pretty. Unique. Generous. Hardworking. Protective. Kind. Caring. Dependable. Beautiful. Special. Loving. Proud… Those are just some of the words that a few of YOU used to describe Viola, my gramma, as I shared the news of her passing last weekend on Facebook. I never thought I’d ever use those two words used in the same sentence—Grandma and Facebook, that is—unless the words “ said she never heard of ” came in between them. Technology was never one of her
New story excerpt from: Chicken Hawk Down.... (Part 1)
By Bobby Horecka Sunday, April 08, 2018
As I begin to flesh out that that mess of a book I put together I'll be posting new stories (or at least parts of them, at least as I go. The truck shown above wasn't ours actually, but its awful close to what ours looked like. I so wanted to get bad boy beat back into shape and repainted. "Drive!” the old man yelled, reaching inside the pickup cab to grab his weather-beaten .22 from the back window gun rack. He prattles something urgent sounding in Czech, before leaping the side-rail of the truck bed, Duke-boy style, and taking his place hunkered over the cab. “Hang on,” the old man tells me, shoots me one of those great stiff-lipped smirks of his, his blue eyes glittering like diamonds. He and Mom both had the greatest eyes on the planet whenever they were up to no good. Most days you saw him out walking across the farm, he was hunched forward and limped when he walked. After all, he was pushing sixty about then, I do believe, and while they wer
Excerpt from a piece in progress (Mr. Man Candy)...
By Bobby Horecka Saturday, January 13, 2018
Now before you start calling me a straight up asshole, you’ve got to understand how we two first met. Not that what you might call me matters much. I been called worse. A lot worse. Today, even. If the boot fits, I always like to say, wear that sumbitch proudly. But how we met says an awful lot to how we’ve put up with each other for so long. It says a lot about what makes us tick, how we view the big wide world around us. I didn’t know Bubba at all back then. Seen him around the jobsite a few times, but that was it. We worked different crews in different trades. He was a framer, or carpenter to folks outside the business. Me, I’m an electrician. Were it not for landing on the same floor that particular afternoon—and that dumbass kid—I doubt we ever would’ve said word one to each other. It’s kind of a rule on a construction site: You don’t fuck with other crews and they won’t fuck with you. Makes everything a hellova lot easier, most days. But every crew has its dumbass. Thi
The REAL outlaw among us...
Of all the pictures that could possibly be taken of a dude all dandied up for a wedding (a wedding he actually had to stand up for at the church, no less), I suppose it's only fitting that the only shots of him from said event involved some sort of mayhem... Considering I had a limited window in which to get everything done, I tagged the windows and strapped on some cans--not much else--and neither proved as simple as they may seem. That particular model of vehicle was notably lacking any ready spots to lash anything to--no hitch, no bumper, not even any brackets underneath. This I know from crawling underneath said vehicle and pawing around like a blind man. I finally found some roughly 3/4 holes in the wheel of spare tire that was mounted down there. And since they made me feel up the underside of the car for a good five minutes (and because it better hid said noisemakers), I made sure to tie said rattle cans at the farthest point forward down there. Not once feeling the s
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THESIS: The manuscript version of Long Gone & Lost, a ten-story, 225-page collection of original short fictions earned author Bobby Horecka his MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston-Victoria on Dec. 15, 2018
Short Stoy: “The Legend of Chunk” | Down in the Dirt Magazine | May/June 2019 Edition, Vol. 164 | A Scars Publication | Edited by Founder Janet Kuypers, a Chicago-based author and poet
Short Story: Excerpt from “Mr. Man Candy” | Down in the Dirt Magazine | May/June 2019 Edition, Vol. 164 | A Scars Publication | Edited by Founder Janet Kuypers, a Chicago-based author and poet
Short Story: “Forget the Alamo” | The Ocotillo Review | Winter 2019 Edition, Vol. 3.1 | Edited by Author Jan Rider Newman, fiction editor for Kallisto Gaia Press, an Austin-Based literary arts nonprofit founded by Tony Burnett, former president of the Writer’s League of Texas
Short Story: “Lubbock 1974” | Amarillo Bay | October 2018, Vol. 20.2 | Edited by UTEP professor emeritus and Amarillo Bay Fiction Editor Richard Mosely | An online literary magazine published since 1999 by English Department Faculty at the University of South Carolina-Aiken (S.C.)
Feature: Meet the Members: Bobby Horecka | Writers League of Texas | Published Oct. 2, 2018 on Scribe, official blog of the Austin-based statewide nonprofit for writers
Short Story: “The Legend of Chunk” | Central Texas Writers Society’s 2018 Anthology | Edited by CTWS Founding Editor Nicole Metts | Copperas Cove, Texas | August 2018 | ISBN 9781721561636 | Available now on Amazon
Poem: Cold Summer Showers | Typishly | July 24, 2018
Guest Blog: Q&A with Bobby Horecka | Clancy Tucker’s Blog | Victoria, Australia | July 23, 2018
Poem: My Little Girl | Alchemy | Portland Community College | Portland, Ore. | May 2018
Poem: Why You (Dis)sin? | Alchemy | Portland Community College | Portland, Ore. | May 2018
Poem: Hap.Haz.Ard | LPC’s Havik Anthology Rise | Las Positas College | Livermore, Calif. | May 2018
Poem: Hipster Jesus | LPC’s Havik Anthology Rise | Las Positas College | Livermore, Calif. | May 2018
Short Story: Mr. Man Candy | Bluestem Magazine | Eastern Illinois University | Charleston, Ill. | May 2018
Book: Winds of Change | Texas Farm Bureau | Waco, Texas | December 2008
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The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
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The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel, by Edward Abbey
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Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan calls for an AI and Digital International Accord at the Riga Conference 2020
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Nguyen Anh Tuan introduced AIWS solutions at the Riga Conference 2020, such as Social Contract for the AI Age, AI and Digital International Accord, Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance, and the AIWS City at the Plenary Session “DEMOCRACY, TECHNOLOGIES AND THE INFODEMIC”
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August 23, 2016 Minor League Report
August 24, 2016 Jay Blue
Dickie Joe Thon
The Blue Jays’ minor leaguers went 3-5 on Tuesday, taking lossing in five of their six games above the complex levels.
Buffalo Bisons 4, Gwinnett Braves 8
Despite matching the Gwinnett Braves with 11 hits, the Buffalo Bisons scored half as many runs, losing 8-4 on Tuesday. Jesus Montero was 2/3 with a double, two walks and two RBI while Andy Burns (2/5, RBI, CS, PO) and Darrell Ceciliani (2/4, BB, 2 R, SB) had two hits each. Dalton Pompey stole a base and walked twice, scoring a run and Casey Kotchman hit a solo home run.
Mike Bolsinger only lasted 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven runs (six earned) on six hits and three walks with two home runs while striking out five and throwing 75 pitches. Jason Berken gave up a run on four hits, stranding the two inherited runners from Bolsinger, and throwing 3 1/3 innings while Matt Dermody (1 IP) and Dustin Antolin (1 IP, 1 H, 2 K) finished the game.
Player of the Game: Jesus Montero
Roster Notes: Ryan Tepera was optioned to Buffalo.
New Hampshire Fisher Cats 2, Portland Sea Dogs 8
Jeremy Gabryszwski was tagged for seven runs as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats lost 8-2 to the Portland Sea Dogs. Gabryszwski threw 84 pitches over 3 1/3 innings, allowing the seven runs (six earned) on eight hits (including a home run) and two walks with three strikeouts. Alonzo Gonzalez followed with a run on two hits and two walks over 1 2/3 innings with two strikeouts and Wil Browning struck out four, giving up a hit over two innings. Colton Turner got out a tricky inning, walking two in the eighth but striking out a pair to finish the game.
The Fisher Cats had just five hits including doubles and RBI from Rowdy Tellez and Ryan Lavarnway with Tellez adding a walk. Emilio Guerrero was also 1/3 with a walk.
Player of the Game: None
Dunedin Blue Jays 8, Tampa Yankees 3
McBoom went the dynamite and the Dunedin Blue Jays beat up the Tampa Yankees 8-3 on the strength of a couple of home runs. Ryan McBroom slugged his 20th home run of the year as a Dunedin Blue Jay, going 1/3 with two walks and two RBI, adding a stolen base, while Dickie Joe Thon continues his strong finish to the season, going 2/5 with a solo home run. David Harris was 2/4 with two RBI and Max Pentecost also had two hits, going 2/5 with a double and two RBI and was caught stealing following a pickoff.
Luis Santos was excellent for the Blue Jays, going eight innings of one-hit ball, allowing an unearned run, walking three and striking out three. Adonys Cardona allowed the last two runs on a walk and a home run in the ninth.
Player of the Game: Luis Santos and Dickie Joe Thon
Roster Notes: Catcher Mike Reeves was placed on the 7-day DL.
Lansing Lugnuts 3, Dayton Dragons 5
Despite a strong start from Justin Maese, the Lansing Lugnuts lost 5-3 to the Dayton Dragons. Maese went five innings, throwing 87 pitches and allowed one run on five hits and three walks, getting seven groundball outs (and no fly outs) with four strikeouts. Kirby Snead was tagged for four runs on five hits and a walk over one inning while Daniel Young walked one over two innings.
The Lugnuts had eight hits including two from Lane Thomas and Justin Atkinson while John La Prise was 1/3 with a double and a walk. Juan Tejada and Connor Panas were each 1/4 wtih an RBI.
Player of the Game: Justin Maese
Vancouver Canadians 2, Boise Hawks 3
After winning a one-run game on Monday, the Vancouver Canadians lost a one-run game on Tuesday, 3-2, to the Boise Hawks, needing 10 innings do it. While both clubs had eight hits, the Canadians committed three errors (to the Hawks’ none) and the deciding run was unearned. T.J. Zeuch started, allowing two runs on four hits and a walk with five strikeouts over five innings. Geno Encina finished what would have been a regulation game, going four innings of scoreless ball, giving up three hits and a walk with six strikeouts. Jackson McClelland allowed a hit and an intentional walk and was victimized by catcher Javier Hernandez‘s errant throw on a steal that allowed a runner to score before striking out the next two batters to end the inning.
Yeltsin Gudino had three hits for the Canadians and Nash Knight was 2/3 with a walk and an RBI. Bryan Lizardo had a double and a walk while Cavan Biggio was 1/4 with a walk.
Player of the Game: Yeltsin Gudino and Geno Encina
Bluefield Blue Jays 5, Danville Braves 6
Bradley Jones hit his team-leading 12th home run for the Blue Jays to tie up the game in the ninth but they couldn’t complete the comeback as they fell 6-5 to the Danville Braves in 11 innings. Jones was 2/4 with the dinger and three RBI, adding two walks and scoring twice while also stealing a base and getting caught once. Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. was 1/5 with a walk and Cam O’Brien was 1/3 with a double, a walk and an RBI. Lance Jones was 1/3 with two walks and Jesus Severino was 2/5. Notably, Nick Sinay came out of the game in the seventh.
Juliandry Higuera went five innings, allowing three runs on six hits and two walks with five strikeouts and Chris Hall threw three more, allowing two runs on three hits and a walk. Connor Eller took the loss, going two innings before finally succumbing to the Braves who got four batters to the plate in the 11th and scoring once on two hits and a walk.
Player of the Game: Bradley Jones
GCL Blue Jays 5, GCL Braves 2
Chavez Young is the name on people’s lips as the GCL Blue Jays pushed their record to 37-13 with a 5-2 win over the GCL Braves. Young had his fourth multi-hit game in his last five games, pushing his batting to .340 after a 3/5 performance with two RBI a run and a stolen base. Sterling Guzman was 1/4 with a solo home run and Owen Spiwak was 1/2 with two walks and a run.
Yonardo Herdenez went four scoreless innings, giving up a hit and a walk with two strikeouts and Juan Meza got the win, pitching a scoreless fifth, giving up a hit and striking out one. Ty Sterner gave up two hits in two innings, striking out one and William Ouelette finished it, allowing both Braves runs (one earned) on three hits and a walk in two innings.
Player of the Game: Chavez Young
DSL Blue Jays 4, DSL Reds 3
The Blue Jays got three runs early and another in the sixth, holding on to win the game against the DSL Reds 4-3. The Blue Jays clustered eight of their ten hits between just three players. Aldo Ovando was 2/4 with a double, Mc Gregory Contreras was 3/3 with an RBI and a run while Yeison Estevez was 2/3 with a double, two RBI and a run.
Emmanuel Reyes allowed two runs but only one was earned as he gave up five hits and a walk with four strikeouts through five innings. Juan Bautista gave up the lead, blowing the save but was credited with the win, after allowing a run on four hits and a walk with two strikeouts in 3 1/3 innings. Oscar Brito finished the game, coming in with an out in the ninth and stranding two runners on.
Player of the Game: Mc Gregory Contreras
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← Quick impressions after a long day
This year’s wrong BCS argument →
Semi-tough: Observations from the goal line
Whatever was said and done in the Georgia locker room at halftime yesterday, Mark Richt needs to gather that all together, crumple it into a little ball, douse it with gasoline, set it on fire and bury the ashes at sea. Boy, what a letdown.
My question from watching that game isn’t whether Georgia had to play perfectly to beat an excellent LSU team – Georgia, after all, was winning 10-0 mid-second quarter despite two brutal whiffs on touchdown passes by King and Mitchell – but whether Georgia’s best effort of the year would have been enough to pull off the upset.
We’ll never know, of course, but that halftime lead, the only one which LSU has faced the entire season, suggests it would have at least been a close call. That it never came to that in the end I think boiled down to three key spots in the game:
Georgia’s second series of the second quarter. I don’t know if was the result of the Dawgs’ worst field position of the game up to that point, lack of faith in the receivers after numerous drops, a desire to shorten the first half or complete faith in what Grantham’s defense was doing, but Bobo’s play selection was a disaster. Two Crowell runs that were easily stuffed for little gain and a slow developing pass play which resulted in a huge sack put Georgia back at its own three for a punt. Up until then, Bobo had been aggressive, calling for passes on first down frequently; if he didn’t have Chavis back on his heels, he at least had him guessing. The only first down Georgia gained over the rest of the first half was via a personal foul penalty and the Dawgs wouldn’t get their next one until the waning moments of the third quarter with the game already out of hand.
Touchdown, Tyrann Mathieu. This, of course, was Georgia’s immediate reward for Bobo’s play calls. Given its special teams struggles over the season, punting to Mathieu with Butler standing on the end line was a risky proposition to begin with, but with the way the Dawgs’ defense was playing, ignoring the lower risk strategy of a kick towards the sidelines was unnecessary. It was Russian roulette and the gun went off in Georgia’s face. It didn’t cost Georgia the lead, but you could sense the energy and confidence sliding back to LSU’s side of the stadium in the aftermath.
The Murray fumble. Statistically speaking, Aaron Murray is going to enjoy a better career at Georgia than David Greene, but Greene is still my gold standard for Georgia quarterbacks of the Richt era simply because he learned early on about playing within himself and not trying to do too much. That’s a lesson Murray hasn’t learned yet (to be fair, it’s one that Shockley and Stafford struggled with, too). You can’t help but love his competitiveness but that desire to make something happen when everyone around him isn’t gets him in trouble,and such was the case on the opening series of the second half. Not only was it a huge momentum shift at the worst possible time, but it also served to throw the defense’s mindset, which had been rock solid in the first half, completely out of sync. Ten minutes later, the game was over.
I’m not in the mood to bore you with my usual series of bullet points. Instead, I’ll leave you with some of my feelings walking out of the Dome.
It’s been a good year for Georgia football. Richt has righted the ship. This team proved in the first half that it deserved to be in the SECCG. And the loss, while certainly disappointing, can serve to be a platform for better days.
There are plenty of lessons to be learned. Some are pretty obvious: the running game needs shoring up with better (and more reliable) personnel, depth is a high priority on the offensive line and special teams personnel also needs upgrading (huge difference in speed between LSU’s coverage teams and Georgia’s). That’s all fixable with continued success on the recruiting front. And strength and conditioning, while improved, still has a ways to go.
But the biggest challenge that lies ahead is about attitude. This team learned how to compete again. Now it needs to learn how to finish. It’s good enough to take off a play or two and still whip Georgia Tech. And it can survive losing its cool against an improving Vanderbilt team. But not giving your best 100% of the time against a beast like LSU… well, that gets you beat by 32 points. If Georgia’s players and coaches want to return the program to the élite status it enjoyed a few years ago, that’s the biggest thing they need to absorb from yesterday’s loss.
If I’m Greg McGarity, that’s the discussion I’m having with my head football coach in the upcoming weeks. After mentioning how much I enjoyed watching the defense’s play in the first half, of course.
197 responses to “Semi-tough: Observations from the goal line”
UGAfoo
The hardest part for me to stomach was how it seemed like we just laid down and quit. Maybe that was a result of losing faith in the offense after CMB seemed to go conservative in the second quarter combined with a reenergized LSU team.
After a spectacular first half, the defense was a let down in the second half as well. Even after Murray fumble I thought we would be able to stuff them for a FG.
I knew we had to play a perfect game. The fumble, two INTs, dropped passes, and horrific punt coverage put an end to our SECC hopes.
CTG doesn’t get paid enough.
BTW, Senator you were 100% correct about VT. My apologies.
I don’t think the defense quit so much as completely lost its focus. You can’t get away with that against a team as good as LSU.
And seemed to tire out. I saw limping, hands on hips and slow motion movements of an exhausted group. S&C could be better but I think the fatal flaw in the entire game was our lack of quality depth across the board. They simply wore us down.
This, of course. More than play calling which did not meet our standards (Although I have never understood exactly what those are…plays that work are good calls, plays that don’t, whatever the reason are bad calls.)
LSU played at least 10 or 12 defensive linemen during the game. We played five.
But, of course, Mike Bobo should be fired because of our lack of depth on the defensive line.
Ah Scorpio you have stumbled upon the quintessential standard for criticizing an offensive coordinator: if a play works it is a good call, if it does not work it is a bad call. Go over and read the in-game posts at dawgsports sometimes it is hilarious in how much it verifies that view point. If we throw a deep pass on first down and it works, it goes something like this: “Yesssssssssssss! Go Tavarres Go!”; “Touchdown baaaaaaabbbbbbyyyyyy!” no one says, “boy what a bad call, but I’ll take the TD”. If it does not work its more like this…”First and bomb, great call Bobo, chump.”; “Why not try and establish a ground game there so we don’t have second and long” blah, blah, blah.
Why did UGA lose the SEC Championship Game? To paraphrase Bill Clinton: “It’s the refs stupid.” When LSU needed help the refs gave it to ’em. That and not enough depth, none at RB.
The offense had regressed back to the point of leaving the D out to dry which had been kept to a minimum since the second game. That and LSU is relentless and deep.
LSU’s relentlessness comes from the depth. One team could stand up to its offense not moving the ball for half the game and the other could not. And that’s why Alabama and LSU are better than everyone else in the country.
Geez, I thought oversigning didn’t give a competitive advantage. Strange that the two biggest oversigners are the top 2 teams in the country.
No one ever said it didn’t give an advantage. Insider trading gives an advantage and like oversigning it is wrong.
Insider trading is illegal. Oversigning is not.
Bingo. Imagine an NFL team with 10 more guys on the roster than their opponent. They would dominate also. Unfortunately “oversigning” is not agaist the rules.
No but it is ethically wrong. I should’ve been more clear.
Which brings it around to the point: If oversigning is legal and you don’t do it then you are at a disadvantage against teams that do (read: LSU and Bama).
Not to confuse the issue or anything, but I thought Ole Miss was the most egregious oversigner in the league…which puts a different perspective on the argument for damn sure.
Hackerdog
And we aren’t deep. Crowell wasn’t. healthy. Behind him, we have two backs under 180lbs. And the better of those two couldn’t play in the second half.
Our starting five offensive linemen had to go against a group of defensive linemen that were kept fresh throughout the game by substitution.
We need more linemen, more running backs, and more special teams athletes.
H-Town Dawg
That’s what it’s all about. Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting!
Tyronn Mathieu was recruited, but not offered, by Bama and Tennessee. When he wasn’t LSU picked him up as an afterthought. There is more luck involved in recruiting than anyone wants to recognize.
As an outsider, I agree with you–the U.Ga. defense seemed to lose its focus and its confidence. LSU’s entire team seemed to sharpen its focus and confidence. I think the Dogs played hard and didn’t quit.
Red Blackman
I agree, for the most part.
Now, for the truth as I see it……
You can place Georgia’s offensive woes on attrition and poor coaching from a former assistant. I am sorry but Carlton Thomas, Richard Samuel and Brandon Harton are not SEC caliber tailbacks. The dismissal of Meshaun Ealey and Dontavious Jackson coupled with the ignorance of Caleb King put Georgia in a huge hole from a depth standpoint.
The offensive line coaching and talent evaluation under Stacy Searles was a complete joke. We have been reduced to four guards and a center for an offensive line. I’m pretty sure that given the time, Will Friend will return the Georgia offensive line into an elite pro style offensive line.
All in all I am pleased with the progress this year. We need some depth at running back and OT. As it stands right now, we have no elite offensive tackles on the roster. For the style of offense we run, that is a huge problem. Thank you, Stacy Searles.
As for the defense, all I can say is ….Wow. Nice game fellas.
It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog.
Yea. Thanks Red. And thanks go to Bluto who put up more material than possible to follow and comment on Fri..
Not sour grapes, but LS Lieux held like they were in love with our receivers after the ball was in the air while the refs stared at and did not call it. Did anyone notice that IGA receivers only looked questioning toward the refs using their hands, but no hanky-snatching drivel mimicry. That affected our O as much as dropped passes. Jus’ sayin’.
They still will be fun to watch in the bowl. It will be interesting to watch the recruiting and follow the summer prep after the Spring Game. Go Dawgs! and thanks for picking it up last summer. Knowing we are better than our record, the insertion of Rome and Drew next year and the buildup to next season will capture our interest and , I imagine , will make for good blog-cheering and discussion.
G Marmalard
No sour grapes but . . . Does anybody else feel like bama and lsu have about 25% more players than the rest of us. Is this the fruit of oversigning? And if so why don’t we get on board ? Seriously. Do u think guys prima dona when they know there are 3 more just as good and somebody has to go? I feel like ga got beat by a roster yesterday. Not scheme not execution by lsu, just a huge army of athletes with endless reinforcements.
Take away the extra players and we still get beat…that’s a good team. But we handle discipline differently, recruiting differently, graduation rates differently, etc. They do it their way to win. We do it our way because it’s right. When the standards aren’t the same, don’t expect fair and equal outcomes.
Please don’t go all GT on us and start making excuses.
Do you think that Richt wouldn’t dismiss a player engaged in a parking lot stomping/beating? He dismissed Mettenberger for playing grab-ass before Murray had established himself as the starter.
I disagree. We have over 100 guys on the roster, same as most other teams. We’ve got to build depth and strength.
Look at Mike Gilliard. The only reason he got to start and play early on was because of injuries. Turns out he was pretty good. We’ve got other guys like him on the sidelines. We just need to continue to evaluate them and develop them. We’ll get there.
Right on, AusDawg85.
Oversigning is the elephant in the room regarding quality depth, imo. I still don’t want UGA to go down that path by exploiting recruits and players, but the NCAA/SEC offices need to curtail this practice by setting standards that must be adhered to. I recommend allowing everyone to oversign by 2-3 to allow for attrition AND allow them to keep those extra signees of they are able to keep everyone eligible. This isn’t a whine, but we may have the same number of players with a uni, but we are way below the “real” scholly numbers, and we were in August/September.
The game was won by LSU last night for two reasons: 1) OL could not block well enough even if we had every running back on hand for the last two years and, 2) our ST coverage and blocking is totally unacceptable. Everyone can stretch and try to blame Bobo for a paly call here or there (what team couldn’t after the fact), but the coaches did not lose this game. UGA had a chance, we squandered it. Even this close to a emotional game where we went from the mountain top to the pits, I still like the direction we are heading.
Attaboy, Mac! Let’s hold the fan line in keeping with what we ask of our team.
As usual, spot on Senator. I’m too dazed as well to dwell on deep analysis at this point. Scratching my head about CMB’s decisions and lack of depth in key positions were fatal flaws in both games at the Dome.
It’s been a very good season…better than most expected, and showed promise for the future. But I hope both the AD and HC are truly able to see the situation for what it is, and commit to further improvement. To sit back now and just recruit “5 stars” thinking that’s all that is missing would be tragic.
baltimore dawg
so you do blame bobo. . . .
The way the team prepares and shows up for the bowl game will show how much things have been turned around. Showing up each day for practice with a sense of urgency and playing the game with passion will truly demonstrate that things are back on track. I believe (hope) they are, but the next month will be a critical time for both the staff and the future of this particular set of returning players.
They need to approach the bowl game as if it was a season opener. This will be the opening salvo of the 2012 season. We’re done with 2011. Everything from today forward is about 2012.
No. Please don’t treat it like the season opener.
The Original Cynical in Athens
3 plays in the game:
1. The blocks in the back on the punt return. Yes, it was stupid to punt the ball right to the guy, but if the refs do their job, we go into the half up at least 10-0.
2. The Murray fumble. You summed it up perfectly, Senator. All Murray has to do is not f*ck it up. A punt was a win in that game. And then he f*cked it up by trying to be a hero again.
3. The horse collar on Cornelius Washington. Pretty much summed up the 2nd half. We finally made a great play to stop them and it ends up being one of their better offensive plays of the night.
I still have no idea what happened. Strangest game I have ever seen. Only thing I can compare it to is that ’96 or ’97 UK basketball team with Mercer, Delk, Walker, etc, when you were playing even with them for 8 minutes and look up and your suddenly down by 10 without them or you really doing anything of note.
The result of the game was why i had been hoping all year that Scu would have to be the recipient of that beatdown last night. Everything good that happened throughout the season must now be called into question. Murray once again pissed his pants in an important game. The dropsies came out for the first time this season. Bobo rolled over and freaked out as soon as the going got tough. This team would have been a lot better off not playing in this game, beating up on some mediocre Big 10 team in a bowl game and going into next year riding high. Now, all of the warts that had been hidden for 10 weeks are fully exposed again and we have to wonder if they will somehow gain the mental fortitude to overcome them next year?
Yeah, trying to run up-field on a closing pocket to pick up big first down on a critical second half opening drive is “f*ck(ing) it up by trying to be a hero” and the 14pts of dropped passes, along with other drops, were sign that he “once again pissed his pants in an important game.” Great analysis.
Gary Danielson made one decent point all night. At one point when Murray took off he yelled, “just slide.” The kid just needs to learn that with a defense as good as UGA’s, a punt it not a bad thing.
As soon as we lost the field position battle, we lost the game. LSU completed 5 passes. They had two drives of over 36 yards, both of which were late in the game. Murray has to learn to understand the concept of time and place within the framework of the game being played. Last night was a battle of attrition, and failed to grasp the importance of field position.
Agreed, but if he slides there < 2yds shy of the sticks then people in the stands and on the boards are talking about a lack of heart and unwillingness to lay it on the line in an SECCG. Trying to "be a hero" would be throwing into triple coverage or be Fran Tarkenton and scrambling 30yds deep only to get sacked. Murray, with his mistakes yesterday, was NOT the problem and he hardly "pissed his pants" or "fucked it up."
Agree, Murray did not piss his pants. That’s just silly and more than a little unfair to a kid who always leaves it all on the field.
You and the Mayor are the same person or at least friends.
No. I disclaim any and all responsibility. I also do not think Murray did anything but try his guts out.
“Trying to be a hero” suggests a level of ego to Murray that I don’t think is a fair characterization. To me, the kid’s been a consummate team player. He just tried to do too much there. You hope he learns from it.
Murray did what he was supposed to – he tried to get the first down. He just fumbled. That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t try to run the ball occasionally, it means he should try to fumble less.
How the hell do you “try to fumble less”? Shit happens from a cognitive sense of not trying? You were correct to begin with, “He just fumbled.” End of story.
Zdawg
Is there a ‘Best of Les Miles halftime speeches’ available? Might be a good stocking stuffer for coach. Just sayin’…
At the end of the game he said that he had no halftime speech. They just reminded everyone to do what they always do; – play hard and win.
Get a running game that you can count on and the rest will take care of itself. Once their d-line took away the run in the second quarter it was over and nothing grantham, richt or bobo could say or do was going to change the outcome. I just hope that IC gets it together mentally and physically and that he and Marshall can carry the load in 2012. If so we’ll be playing in this game next year.
Good and succintly analytic post, Derek. No need for us to nitpick players or coaches.
Depth, depth, depth. I understand the attitude part you reference, but that game was about quality, ready to play depth. If I’m McGarity I asking Richt how they plan to better manage the number of players on the team. I’m all for the feel good story of walkons being awarded scholarships, and that will continue as players do stupid things to get shown the door, but it’s clear to me that the roster is too thin and has too many kids that should be playing FCS instead of SEC football. Part of that is the coaches had to play with what was dealt by poor evaluation, coaching and behavior, but Richt has to find a way to bring balance in numbers back to the squad.
+1. When guys don’t have it like it or not CMR has to show ’em the door. They are taking up a scholarship and a spot on the 85 list that should go to someone else. Roster management. That is the bottom line.
Duuuh. What do you think he did this year?
I think he awarded a bunch of schollys to kids that are probably great students, do more than what is asked and weren’t good enough physically to be offered SEC scholarships.
I support Richt, but he and McGarity need to get a strategy together to eliminate the inability to fill a full roster with true scholarship players and not walk-ons that were awarded scholarships because the staff failed to get a full complement of players. It won’t eliminate the King’s and Ealey’s from fucking the numbers, but you can’t sign 20 when you need 25.
I also understand how productive the 2011 recruiting class has been and the staff did a good job putting it together. I’ll also note that it’s sad that they felt the need to call it a “Dream Team”. Richt is coaching in a state where every year could bring a “Dream Team” like haul. What made it highlighted was that Richt certainly didn’t have any “Dream Team” classes the previous three years and his rep in recruits homes have been hurt by the product on the field and his job status. Recruiting and roster management are huge if you intend to compete in this conference and our guy has to get better at it.
The ATH
Maybe that’s a negative, but maybe not. The last time we really “finished strong” after avoiding the sec champ was ’07. That team wasnt very hungry coming in number one.
I agree. If the coaches can use the whipping we took yesterday as a teachable moment throughout the offseason, we’re better off going 11-3 than 11-2, because now they know just how high the bar for a MNC is, and that the 10-game streak was nice, but there’s still more work to be done.
Good thought, (the other one). You realize those initials spell “too” as in “me too”, don’t you?
Senator, you’re right on about that series being the pivotal point in the game. That series was followed by 3 more just like it, even into the 3rd quarter. Bobo stalled, and the crap hit the fan.
If you think I’m pinning the loss on Bobo, you’re overstating my point.
I know you’re not on the new OC train like I have been for the past four years, I’m just amazed that you admit how crucial it was when we nutted up on that series.
Do you recognize that there may be a direct correlation between play calling changing all of the sudden during a game, and Murray going all bankers mid game?
Both Bobo and Murray were dealing with an offensive line physically challenged all night, running backs who had trouble hitting the holes faster than LSU’s linebackers closed them and receivers who couldn’t hold on to passes to save their lives.
I really doubt Murray was thinking to himself on that third down play, “I gotta do something here… Bobo’s playcalling is killing us.” He was just a kid in a pressure situation trying to make a play to help his team. It blew up. Hopefully he’ll learn from his mistake. That’s all I recognize.
I bet Murray wondered why he was handing it off up the gut on 1st and 2nd down for the 4th possession in a row, only to have Crowell/Thomas run into a wall. There are ways to neutralize D-lines, and off tackle dives and draws on 1st and 2nd down are not them.
“There are ways to neutralize D-lines”? How closely were you watching the game? It wasn’t just LSU’s d-line that was an issue. Those linebackers were obscenely fast closing down the gaps. It was clear that Georgia’s running backs weren’t prepared for that. Although to be fair, until you play against them, I’m not sure how you could be prepared.
Ok, let me change my post to “neutralize fronts”. Either way, same point. Please understand that I think LSU was a better team than the Dawgs. But, I don’t want that to be the case in a few years. I want what is best for this team, and in my (I’m a virtual nobody, but a loyal alum/fan none-the-less) opinion, Bobo ain’t it! Bobo makes top dollar, and we have proven (Grantham) that top dollar can get you a whole lot more if you pick wisely.
Bobo does not in fact make “top dollar” by OC standards (I think his salary was somewhere in the $200-250,000 range). Regardless of that fact there was nothing Bobo could do last night, the line couldn’t block after the first few series, our RB’s didn’t hit what small holes were there before they closed, and nobody was getting open against those DB’s. In order to “neutralize” aggresive defenses one would normally run screens and draws, in the case of last night the two bubble screens we ran (and a swing pass to Carlton Thomas) lost yardage, while the draws were losing yardage after the D linemen were shedding their blocks and gobbling up our guys behind the line of scrimmage. Bobo was calling the game safe in order to prevent the “big mistake” which would let LSU back in the game and unfortunately that happened anyway. There was really no other option to turn to, they were squatting on our short routes with safety help over the top. We lost to one of the best defenses in recent memory, with all the youth we have on our offense there is no shame in that.
The receivers sure looked open to me before the play calling took a dive. Some of you are failing to realize that the crap hit the fan AFTER our play calling changed drastically.
P.S. Bobo will make almost $400,000 this year after bonuses. That ranks him in the top 10% of OC’s in the nation. Go look it up if you don’t believe me.
Maybe you should try and walk on if you think that you could hit those receivers last night. They may have looked “open” but they weren’t, that is what zone coverage looks like. I saw a front 7 for LSU whipping our OLine and zone coverage to take away the outs and slants with safety help over the top.
I was a walk on on the UGA baseball team back in 1998, then I got my hand amputated in a wreck. I’m not nearly as accurate with the one that’s left.
According to this:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2010-coaches-contracts-database.htm
He was around 40th out of 907 for 2010, but he got a decent raise this year and about 5-10 that were above him got head coaching jobs.
That’s all assistants mind you, not just OC’s. I’m sure the Senator knows a better database to look that up. I’ve got a crying 6 month old, so I gotta get off this thing! Peace out Dawg fans!
“Peace out” yourself, Andy. You have serious flaws in your reasoning and your anti-Bobo rant. We put that crap to bed on here or perhaps you haven’t kept up very well. Your criticisms are over the top and you ignore the arguments that settled that in most fans minds a couple of months ago. Since you chose to ignore the good analytical input on here that righted the fan’s minds concerning Bobo, we should just ignore you. Everything you say in “MM QBing” can be said about any and all O coaches in D-1 ball and every college out there. Go fly your specious kite where someone who gives a damn might listen.
How’s the weight loss coming? It might get better if you dump your load of shit somewhere else.
Agree 100% about the first series of the second half. No way we should have started with dive plays. That set the wrong tone, and the Murray’s fumble really hurt.
I think the series in the second quarter where the game shifted and backed UGA up for the punt coincided with 1. LSU realizing we had no running game and turning up the heat on Murray and 2. Our offensive line (with no depth for rotation) beginning to spring leaks. Throw in what you mentioned, Senator, re: drops by our receivers and our defense playing lights out, and I don’t skewer Bobo for playing it more conservative at that point (backed up on our end of the field). Kicking to Mathieu with a short field was the more critical tactical error in my opinion.
Two series prior to the second quarter series bobo supposedly screwed up on:
1st-10, LSU44 3:19 C. Thomas rushed to the right for 1 yard gain
2nd-9, LSU43 3:12 C. Thomas rushed up the middle for 16 yard gain
Last first down prior to bobo supposedly screwing up:
1st-10, UGA39 12:10 A. Murray sacked by K. Adams
Clearly running it on the next series was dumb.
Bobo wasn’t willing to give up on play action. That meant he had to call some runs to try to keep Chavis and the LSU defense honest.
Bobo wasnt going to give up on play action because he wanted Murray to be alive for his junior year.
Bobo wasn’t giving up on play action because he typically runs it 20+ times per game. To the point that rushes start to smile!
*rushers
LSU had little success running the ball in the first half. They had to keep trying it to keep our D honest. Then their longest run is finally one straght up the gut. To not keep trying to develop the ground game would be stupid for both teams. Murray would have been killed. Bobo called a good game. Very similar to the one called by the Tigers. Bobo will be the QB coach & the OC for the next few years. Nobody with any real input wants to change that. Give it a break, people.
+infinity
For those who settle for mediocrity. And, I’m a semi Richtophile as Sports & Grits would say. I just feel sorry for his inability to fire people. It’s his best and worst trait I suppose.
I actually strongly disagree with you here.
I hope you don’t think I’m being unreasonable, but I don’t think LSU “had to keep trying it to keep our D honest.” LSU had to keep running the ball because that’s all they could do. They didn’t have another option. I think the deep passes they attempted were an effort “to keep our D honest.” They ran it over and over and over because they had no other choice. They found ways to make that work and once they found what was working they kept doing it.
They threw those deep passes so that we couldn’t just load up the box and sell out to stop the run the whole game. But they only threw 13 passes the entire game. They ran it because that’s what they do and that’s what they’re built to do. Murray wasn’t getting killed when we ran for like 34 yards in the first half and carved up LSU’s secondary passing the ball on short routes. Did Bobo call a similar game to the LSU OC? No, he didn’t. They found out they were having limited success running up the middle and tried running it outside. When that worked, they kept on doing it. We were having success on short passing routes and started running it up the middle into a loaded box. When that didn’t work, we continued to do it. We wasted downs and then threw Aaron to the wolves on 3rd and long. That was bad play-calling. After the first quarter, we shut down what was working (like in the Auburn game last year) and stopped being aggressive. From then on, we never gave ourselves a chance.
Adam, amen brother.
Red Blackman gets the whole picture. It all starts on the offensive line. The current interior line is not a good run blocking squad. They seem slow of the line and do not get their pads down. That being said, there is not one RB on the squad who can hit a gap and break out. Not one. Now the line can push with Samuel and Malcome. The most important player in the game is the Frosh RB for LSU, Hilliard. He is a load with speed. Yo i could tell the Dawgs D wanted nothing to do with him. I’m puzzled how over the past 3-5 years CMR has not learned what a former Auburn coach told hime one time. To win big in the SEC you had better have a solid, consistent running game. Running teams are just more physical and disciplined in a big game.
I’m back where I was last season. Think the Dawgs need a QB/RB position coach. Murray has played a lot, I mean alot of snaps, but his progression, technique, and maturity is not where it should be, and I’m not sure he can get it there. For me there is even an off field differnece between him and Mason. Mason seems to be more mature and understand the game better. Plus I think he a better passer and could manage a game better than Murray.
Will Friend and Coach T have their work cut out for them for the bowl and the off-season. Let’s see how this line can improve by bowl time. I’d recruit linemen hard along with some SEC caliber RB [hint, Lattimore, Richardson, Hilliard].
To watch that game and think our real problem is at qb is to be a total idiot. Sorry to be rude, but that is just stupid. You don’t understand football; quit trying.
See my post below Mark only does what Bobby Bowden taught him, he is still after 11 years looking for his Warwick Dunn. We recruit midgets at running back not for a change of pace but for our running backs. None of our RB’s would be on Alabama or LSU’s 3 deep and that includes IC. We are not a power team Alabama and LSU are power teams. We are a multiple offense that if everything goes well can be effective but we are not going to line up and power the ball against good defenses period.
Yeah that is why Bama recruited IC so hard last year, so he could sit on the bench….
Lots of guys look like world beaters in high school and many work out in college but some don’t. Jasper Sanks is probably our best example. We need a running back who doesn’t get put on his ass trying to pass block and, for sure, one who can keep his mouth shut and not cost us penalty yardage when it looks like we might be getting something started on offense.
You are totally right about OL problems. We have a mediocre, albeit enormous OL, that has no depth at all.
I am not sure why you’re thinkin Mason is better than Murray. Murray set the season record for TD’s after losing the best receiver ever to play for GA to the NFL, without a decent RB, and throwing to a bunch of freshman, all whille running for his life most of the season. Mason has thrown a couple of balls in mop up duty. I’ve said this before about QB’s and Richt. He’s coached 2 Heisman winners and the winningest QB in the history of college FB (until McCoy broke his record for wins). I am betting Mason is not better than Murray. And that’s why Mason is not starting and may transfer after this season.
Mason seems to be more mature and understand the game better. Plus I think he a better passer and could manage a game better than Murray.
Based on what, pray tell? Garbage time performances?
Herschel Blogger
he must look mature when they cut to shots of him standing near Richt.
to be pissed at Aaron after that game, and this season as a whole, is just wrong.
I am not pissed at Aaron, but before you anoint him, at least be honest and say that he lost a fumble and threw two picks. That’s three times HE gave the ball back to LSU. Don’t pin the whole loss on our line or our RBs.
But you’re ready to anoint Mason?
An awful lot of quarterbacks threw INTs against that LSU team. With time in the pocket, Murray is among the best.
We won’t since there is plenty of blame to go sround on this non-NFL team we have fielded this year. If you think that our O linemen are great(and I love all that they have tried to accomplish this season) take a look at the film in the last of the 3rd/beginning of the 4th when we were sending Malcolm up the middle . The left guard was blocking, Jones and Zander had started a push next to him, when #22 LSU came under and flipped a 300+ lb player backwards and off the line then dove left to help stop the play. What should have been a big hole got plugged by an undersize player blocking correctly by getting under the UGA lineman’s pads.
Yeah, we were tired, but it was an incorrect block on our part, no fault of others in the backfield nor the rest of the line where the play was going.
Stop the fault-finding on individual players for individual plays because, point is, there is plentyof nitpicking fault-finding to go around. And there is plenty of good fight as well. Don’t start this dumb rant that was picked apart and put to bed before. The players have owned up before and said they didn’t perform the plays as Bobo had taught and called. It is just ignorant to call this bullshit up again and watch recruits say that they hear it and go elsewhere. What in four hells are you trying to accomplish?
The fact of the matter is the Dawgs dropped 2 sure TD passes that coupled with the White TD and the “no way in hell” that should have been a punt return TD (a block in the back coupled with tossing the ball away before the goal line) would have made it 21-0 at halftime and a completely different game all together. After all the screw ups the Dawgs got down on themselves and the defensive letdowns began.
This. Who knows what happens after that but if we simply catch the passes that hit us in the hands the game is totally different. If the defense lost any focus it was because they watched as good a half of defense that anyone can play go to waste to dropped passes. If we go up 21 the defense fights and claws all the way to the end. Not sure if we win but I really love our chances at that point.
Here’s hoping OSU is in the title game over Bama just to piss of the Paul Finebaum nutbags.
We were who we thought we were. I wrote on a blog “dawgsports” I think that I saw this game as another SCU type game. We gave it away. The drops, the fumble, the special teams play, etc same as the SCU game. Richt, God love him, only knows what Bobby Bowden taught him and Bobby never had to worry about anything but kickers. FSU’s walk-ons were fast enough for the ACC. Until he changes his hard head about Special Teams we had better score a lot of points to make up for them.
LSU was who they have been the whole year. They have no offense until their depth wears you out. They have 4 count them 4 SEC RB’s that could start for us or anybody else except for the other power Alabama. The D played there a$$es off but could not withstand the fresh legs in the second half. As long as UF and UGA don’t over sign we are screwed, it just remains to be seen if Steve can over sign enough to control the East. UA and LSU have the West and the SECCG locked up for the foreseeable future.
I just hope that there are some good OL guys that want to play ASAP but OL is the one position that takes time to build and I don’t see
us going the JUCO route on it.
“We gave it away”? You must be joking. That was *nothing* like the SC game. Yesterday’s game was like the cliche movie scene in which a 5’2″ 100lb. loser punches the schoolyard bully in the face, maybe draws a drop of blood, and then proceeds to get pummeled mercilessly. We gave nothing away. Nothing.
Huh?! Two dropped passes in the end zone and three turnovers isn’t giving anything away?!
Wow, they had 235 yards, 95 of which came on ONE drive, yet end up with 42 points and you don’t see the parallel? The turnovers and STs blunders changed that game from a possible “last drive” game…and that is before we dropped all the passes (including the two for TDs.) We didn’t dominate the WHOLE game like we did SC, but we gave them the short fields and cheap scores.
+1. Was it 28 points off turnovers and long punt returns? I lost count.
Play calling. Called 85 plays to their 45+. They get 42 points…21 in one quarter. We get 10 off 85 snaps. That is just damn puzzling. And Bobo had said they wanted to run more plays this season. Well, he sure got that against LSU, but it did not help the scoreboard. Bobo is the most unproductive OC in the D1 football. Never put anyone in motion to get them to the edge, create space, slow the rush, gas the LSU D line and LBs to the outside.
LSU is good, but when you only get 237 yards of offense, 45+ snaps,have less than quarter of time than UGA, no first downs thru 2 quarters, and only 10 yards of rushing…how good are these guys? Not good enough for me to say they are the best yet. More so when UGA could have had 21 points and that lead going into the 2nd half. Have that with a running game and the SECCG belongs to the Dawgs. Plus, I’m amazed how many missed honey boys fumble through the end zone. I told my grandson he did not score because the ball did not cross the line. Now why did it take so long for the coaches, TV, announcers, and every freaking body else not to see that.
Frankly, I’m for moving the game out of Atlanta and the Dome. Shame a faciltiy is as bad as this hosts a SEC championship game. Metor Atlanta does not deserve to host the game anymore. Move the game back into the conference, not an ACC site. I’d been for playing it in Baton Rouge or the home field of the highest rank team of the divison champs. CMR has better success outside the Dome.
Let’s see we were 2 drops from quadrupling bama’s output over four quarters and OT in one quarter and you blame bobo’s play calling and …. The building???? WTF!?!
Let’s move the SECCG to Jacksonville!
or at least rotate it between the Dome and Jacksonville! Oh, the sheer logic of it all!
WTF is wrong with the Dome? WTF is wrong with metro Atlanta? Whatever dude. Why would you give the best team even more of an advantage?
Your lack of logic is shocking.
Is it just me or does it seem that all of a sudden the “2-personality fans” are showing up again? It’s like their negative presonalities don’t want to understand what has already been resolved and now they chip in as if they have been laying in wait.
Loved the defense in the first half, what a bunch of warriors! We lost, but I like the direction the team is going in and I hope McGarity somehow lets the recruits know that Richt will still be here for years to come. Gotta get this next class signed, the Dream Team has already made an impact, need to get another stellar class.
Call me crazy but we may look back on this season and this game as exactly what our program needed when we needed it. The season to make the program and fans believe again and the game as a reality check as to what we still need to do to go from good to elite. Does it suck to watch one of arguably the best college teams ever just come back and embarass you? yes. But it does not diminsh the path we took to get here. This team has the ingredients to be great again and I am doubtful they will lay an egg in the bowl game or “quit”. Starting 0-2 then relling off 10 straight shows moxie, talent, and most of all fight and resolve regardless of how your schedule is perceived. There’s work to be done for sure but to state this year was an abberation is an insult to a team full of damn good dawgs.
+1 This is why I will never get the reasoning that is wishing uSC was playing in the SECCG instead of UGA.
Good for you, Charlotte. Spot on.
S.E. Dawg
I think it’s going to be hard to finish as you say while other schools oversign and we do not. When a school as LSU has quality depth three and four deep, that makes it tough. We don’t have that and it shows and makes it difficult to compete on their level. I know, beating a dead horse but it is what it is.
^True dat!
I saw a really young team yesterday. My biggest disappointment is that the score wasn’t as indicative of the effort that I thought our guys put up. We really were playing four offensive guards yesterday, and we have to do something about consistency in our RB position. If we can do that we definitely have a bright season ahead next year.
Funny, I saw an incomplete team yesterday. Guards playing tackle, lack of RBs, and not enough depth on the O-line and D-line.
Honestly, I´m VERY happy we played this game. For one, we dominated the best team in the country for 30 minutes. The coaches had a winning game plan. We couldn´t execute it for 60 minutes against a team with a 6-deep of 1st-rounders at every position, but did you see that defense? And those open receivers? There´s plenty to build on there.
More importantly, our young team was able experience elite competition. Nothing increases focus and motivation like getting your whatchamacallit handed to you. This game, and the reality check it provided, will be bugging our players and coaches throughout the off-season. To me, that´s a good thing.
And I´ll say it again: it´s great to be a Georgia Bulldog! Auf geht´s Bulldoggen!
I understand Mason gets mop-up play. But his performance in the fourth quarter was good. I think he sees the field better, gets the ball out quicker, and is as accurate. We know Murray was second string to Mettenburge before his off field issues. But I can not put any reliance on an OC decision making and judgment based on his play selection in the first few series in the 3rd quarter. That was an embarrassment. If you do not think so, then consult the 18 rankings in the polls. Bobo and McClendon are some of the most tenured coaches on staff. Granted the O numbers improved, but when you look at Murray’s performance against Carolina, Boise, LSU, Kentucky…well, I am all in with Ben Dukes.
But let’s discuss the play book. When LSU went man up on the WR and TE well, that sealed Bobo. They could not get downfield and the line could not hold their DL and LB out. They killed the timing on pass plays. That is why they started to the shorter routes. Now do you not think going in [game plan] you expect that from Chavis. Georgia’s receivers go get the ball, b ut LSU out played them for most of them. But Murray has had 2 full seasons to develop. How many will it take him? Because under the current scheme and coaching it will not go forward. Murray had numbers against Auburn and Tech. Hell Alabama passed at will on Auburn. And anybody can throw on Tech. Those games were not accomplishments. The running game. heck most of us have gave up on that….none for 3 seaons. Martinez was an issue on D and it took CMR 3 years to get around to that change but only after pressure. No, the LSU game was a game not only to win but to show recruits you have an OC and RB coach to move up your
play. Did not happen. Wait on Friend to see what another year produces, .
We know Murray was second string to Mettenburge before his off field issues.
No. We don’t know any such thing. G-day play doesn’t mean shit. And Richt said that Murray was his number one all along.
Jeebus, Will, you put more weight on meaningless playing time than anyone else who comments here.
I usually think that your posts are scattershot, but that you make a lot of good points. But your fixation on Murray in this comment thread is absurd. When was Murray second string to Mett? I don’t recall ever seeing any indication of that in the offseason, regular season or G-day game. I’m sorry, but if Mason was better than Murray, he would be starting. There has never been a time in Richt’s tenure when he consistently started the less capable of two quarterbacks. But, as always, the guy on the bench looks better (even if the starter is likely to be All-SEC, apparently).
Will, before last season started, I had that argument with Hale and it amounted to “stop the posturing for Murray to start and let good ole competition decide it with Mett”. Unfortunately, Mett did himself in and noone influenced the outcome except Mett. That is long gone water under the bridge. Whether one is better on the playing field than the other will probably be measured next year when Mett is the QB for LSU.
Not to say that Murray is a darn good QB is disingenuous at this point. Add a great heart, Bulldog courage , leadership and a quality person and we have our Dawg of Dawgs who can take a lick and keep on…. . He has shown resolve when we needed it, great skill when throwing to Freshmen in their first year of SEC play and attitude galore. So is he a few ticks shy of perfection and did we propose that he would stack even higher his Soph year? Yeah. You seem to forget last year when he ran down the sideline and dove in the endzone and fearlessly endured the dizzying hits in the Auburn and other games. Give me this indestructable man all last year, this year and for the future. He will work on the things you feel leaves him shy of perfection and the Second Coming (and he already is half qualified there by birth). Patience with him has been well earned. Let’s try to line up with him and go after “their” ass. That’s the least he deserves.
No one wants to be the super QB that can and will lead us to a NC than Murray. To compare with other QBs-in-waiting is folly. We don’t know if they could take the licks or fail entirely where he has already proven himself. We need to quit worrying whether QB#2 or #3 will not wait patiently for their perceived chance. If they do or don’t wait has nothing to do with Murray and his abilities. As I remember he came in as a 5-star vs Mason as a 3-star. Hell, we have another 4 or 5-star waiting in the wings (LeMay). Do you wish to put Mason above him? Mason will do what he has to do for his future and whatever he chooses, I have no argument. But to compare him with Murray at this point is a no-brainer and I sure hope Mason stays to duke it out next year.
“Hell, Alabama passed at will on Auburn.” A flea-flicker and a misdirection TE throwback are trick and constraint plays. By definition, they´re the opposite of passing “at will.” The same applies to 3- to 5-yard TE out routes and RB screens.
I don’t recall but did LSU have any self-inflicted wounds yesterday?
I really don’t recall anything. Maybe a personal foul?
It’s hard to beat the best team in the country when you throw a pick 6, fumble on the 20, can’t run the ball and can’t cover a punt (albeit against an amazing return guy).
We fell to 0-2 when turnovers and poor special teams coverage hand the other team 4 TDs or more.
brophy
Hard fought game and UGA gave their best shot. The miscues and drops have got to be frustrating, though.
Unrelated, though, what is the whole story behind Grantham’s lip thing at the second half? Tracy said hip had a bloody lip but the shots of him looked like he was wearing Lady Gaga lipstick in the second half….wtf
I noticed that too. But I had the sound turned (as usual) so I don’t know what was said.
cousin eddie
Hard to blame the coaches or the players they got wore out by a deeper team So did a few other teams this year). The game plan to start was pefection but as the game wore on it played into LSUs hands and with the depth they have due to oversigning and lack of attrition. I know I have been critical of IC but was glad to see him give it a go with a bum ankle. The oline played hard to begin with but that Dline has given everyone fits all year.
Give Grantham’s agent a call and do what it takes to keep him happy.
Bobo ‘s future should be decided by someone that knows more about football than me. Sometimes he looks good and sometimes, well not so much.
Ga Girl in DC
At the top of my Christmas list for UGA is an OC who is the offensive equivalent to Todd Grantham. I think Richt’s loyal-to-a-fault history makes it unlikely that I’ll get my wish, but I can still dream.
That is a shameful post if you are a Dawg fan. Your separation on quality is based on what?Backing the general line of the bullshiters?
Ga Girl, just to fill you in…if you dislike Bobo, you cannot be a Dawg fan. It’s a rule. Balls said so. It’s all bullshit too, even if you’ve posted valid arguments. Wait, never mind, nothing is valid if it doesn’t concur with Balls’ own opinion. He’ll just curse at you and call you names on his computer. You know, the way grown-ups debate.
UGA was beaten by a better team. That is the game in a nutshell. LSU did not expect the passing attack but they caught on and dropped their safeties back. They have probably the best D backfield in college football and lots of depth on D, so Bobo saw fewer hats in the box and tried to get the running game going. When you can’t run the ball and you are in the shadow of your own goalpost and all those ballhawks back there are licking their chops and waiting for you to throw you are in trouble. To me UGa’s biggest areas to improve are special teams, Rbs and O line. Then depth on the D line. LBs and DBs seem set.
Bobo did not drop the balls throw to him,he did what any person with good sense would do. He went to another rout when at least two maybe three touchdowns were left on the ground with drop problem. The game plan had nothing wrong with it. The youth and nerve problems and etc will have to wait. The bigger problem we have now is driving from the back seat and gripes with every breath. We need to appreciate this years efforts instead of crying all the time. It gets old and hurts the program.
DCityDawg
A few simple thoughts.
1- Coaches should have never punted to Tyrone. Kick it out of bounds. There’s 14 points we gave away.
2- Murray’s meltdowns continue, missed several wide open receivers (I counted 10), and threw in 2 intereceptions and a fumble. This is getting old, and I am tired of watching a great team unravel because of Murray’s boneheaded plays and decision and inaccurate throws.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Is this a planned invasion from Dawg Vent? The blog, not you Dawg Vent.
Wow really 10 WIDE OPEN receivers…..dude there haven’t been 10 wide open receivers against LSU all YEAR, much less last night.
Bobo had no back up plan in case Crowell couldn’t go.
Like Branden Smith. Or Malcome.
Terrible preparation.
Did you miss the first quarter?
We should have either gone with Malcome or Smith at running back, the whole game, maybe both. It was our only shot. We were not prepared. Thomas and Crowell did nothing. Had to have a better plan than that. Bobo’s plan seemed to be pass every play, Chavis adjusted to that after the first quarter, and we nevber scored again. Did you watch the 2nd-4th quarters? Who made better adjustments? Wasn’t Bobo. It’s not who has the best first half. It’s who makes the best adjustments and who has the best game plan and backup game plan. Along with Murray’s inability to execute passes to wide open receivers, and punting the ball all game to a Heisman candidate, we deserved to lose.
I smell a troll.
Did Bobo? Why did he call two completely different games?
Senator, gotta squabble with you on point #3.
You know what Murray’s fumble reminded me of? Greene’s fumble in Baton Rouge on 9/20/03. Greene was outstanding, but also fallible.
They beat us, but we beat us, too.
1. No reason why a program like Georgia shouldn’t have more depth on the o-line, year in and year out – sorry, I just don’t get it. We’re acting like it’s a fact of nature or the result of a lottery or something that we don’t have more o-linemen ready to go.
2. I don’t know how much you pin on the o-line and depth, but the fact is that Murray gave it away three times yesterday. A lot of players may not look ready for prime time, but you put them on the field and they make it happen. I am a huge A. Murray fan, I really am, but I think it’s time to let Mason take every third or fourth series.
3. I’m not a Bobo hater, but after the creative, inventive first quarter, we went back to throw the bomb and run the draw what seemed like every single play. I’m not sure we tried to throw a 10 or 15 yard pass in the 2nd quarter. Maybe he dialed them up and they were covered, but I was heartsick every time I saw #1 in the game as the lone back in in the backfield. I do not understand not bringing in Tree and Figgins to lead the way in a power I running game at that point.
Here’s the deal – we keep saying “Once we found out we couldn’t run on them” or “after our o-line got gassed” – to let Bobo off the hook, as though these are surprises. The whole point of having an OC is so he can evaluate where our team’s strengths can be stressed and our weaknesses can be minimized vs our opponent. It may be that there was no way to beat LSU yesterday, but handing Crowell the ball so he could stand in the backfield waiting to get hit (rinse, repeat, x 50) is not really dialing it up, is it? I have given Bobo credit for calling a great game in the first quarter, but he kept doing the same thing over and over in the 2nd quarter, with predictable results. In fairness, we dropped a lot of passes, but you have to keep working.
4. Not sure I’ve seen anyone mention this, but I believe our D really fell apart when LSU started running the option. I thought that was as big a factor as the stupid punt returns. We had no answer for that.
How many times did Bobo say in a post game interview “Well we took our foot off the gas because the defense was playing so great.”
What a lazy piece of shit.
The defense giving 110% doesn’t mean the offense can give 20%.
Not only is that a stupid plan, but it is a level of laziness and complacency that rots the whole team.
Mike Bobo is a cancer. He absolutely must go.
Im right there with you Muck. Its so disheartening when intelligent fans like Senator take up for a guy like Bobo that won’t go balls out like Grantham.
Who’s a “balls out” OC in your mind?
Spurrier & Sean Payton come to mind immediately. Spurrier goes with what he’s dealt better than them all. He even knows when its the RIGHT time to go conservative. Of course no one is perfect. Id have to do some major research to find who fits the mold that UGA could coral.
Andy, if Richt can hire either one of them, I’ll be the first one to cheer him on.
Since you’re on record as wanting Bobo gone, how ’bout giving me a realistic replacement of somebody who’s “balls on”.
You’ve called me out. How long do I have to research? I love so many spread guys, but it scares me to go all spread in the SEC. I love our current scheme of pro set base with spread undertones. I’ll put up a post on my blog this week of my wife, work, and the youngin’s don’t get in the way. They always come first!
I hear you on having a life. 😉
Richt’s not gonna go spread. And to be honest with you, I’m not convinced you can win the current version of the SEC running the spread unless you’ve got a freak at QB. There are way too many dominant defensive teams.
Holgerson’s offense threw for 460+ on LSU. 533 yards of offense.
West Virginia has a bad defense and they lost by 26.
But… that included 4 turnovers to none.
WVU punted, LSU scored. WVU gets a good 3rd and long conversion, but fumbles and LSU gets the ball. WVU forces them to punt. WVU gets a good drive going and throws a pick and LSU scores. Then WVU drives down and scores down 13-7. Looking good and LSU hits a deep pass (one of their few all year) and goes up 20-7. Then a pick returned to the 1 and it’s soon 27-7 LSU. WVU’s Offense makes some good adjustments and comes out and scores twice. Now it’s 27-21. About to be a game… 99 KO return for a TD. 34-21 WVU gets the ball and a TO on downs early in the 4th on 4th and 3. LSU gets the ball back and scores 40-21. WVU driving… fumbles and LSU goes down and scores again. 47-21.
Actually kind of similar to our game except that WVU continued to have success. Killed themselves on offensive mistakes and ST errors. But Holgerson’s offense was moving the ball on LSU. without stupid turnovers, they likely would’ve kept on scoring. we had our stupid turnovers… but we had long since given up on scoring.
i think there are other offenses that would be plenty successful in the SEC.
If they ever reduce the SEC regular season to one game, you have a valid point.
I just think that people don’t know at this point. I wonder what a school like Florida/Bama/LSU/Georgia would do with a good DC, a good recruiting coordinator and Mike Leach. The SEC schools have the best players and best position coaches/coordinators. But the quirky offensive guys haven’t often been given a fair shake in the SEC. Al Borges and Tony Franklin are NOT Dana Holgerson or Mike Leach IMO (as far as talent, innovation, etc.) They’re not even Kevin Sumlin.
Just like the argument that the Air Raid (and similar offenses) could never succeed in the NFL… I really wonder. Maybe if they were given a few years and some serious talent, they could. West Virginia is going to keep getting better, but they won’t be in the position to consistently compete with the SEC elite because it’s WVU. They won’t have the players. They won’t have the defensive staff. If Florida runs Muschamp out on a rail in 3 years and they hire Holgerson and a competent defensive staff, who knows what will happen? Those guys have never been in that position because the general thinking has always been “it won’t work.” People said that about Urban’s system. Maybe Urban had to have Mullen and Tebow to make things work. Maybe he’s going to OSU because Braxton Miller is there and he’ll leave in 3 years when Braxton finishes up.
I see your point about the one game thing, but… I’m not sure that means that those other systems *couldn’t* be successful. We’ve only ever even seen those systems played by lesser teams against the SEC elite in games like the WVU/LSU game this year or in BCS games. If Leach were going to a big school (and maybe he will be in a few years), maybe we’d have a better idea. The highest I can remember these guys being is at Kentucky (Mumme/Leach), or Leach being the OC at Oklahoma in Stoops’s first year. Have they gone and failed somewhere else at a big time school?
Did people think Spurrier’s offensive philosophy wouldn’t work when he went to Florida? I’m not old enough to know, honestly. Did people say that SEC defenses were too physical and too good for his offense to succeed throwing the ball all over the place? That’s an honest question, not a rhetorical or sarcastic one.
But, even with all that… I’m not saying we have to switch schemes. I’m actually not even on the side that Bobo is terrible at his job. I just think that there’s a pretty good chance that we could hire someone better and that UGA should have the best coordinators we can possibly. The defensive staff seems to be much better at their jobs than the offensive staff is currently. And I don’t see how we can justify that. Again, I’m not blaming Bobo entirely or anything. I just think that we could do better.
Do you honestly think that if Richt went after a new OC the same way he went after a new DC (and staff) that we wouldn’t improve on offense?
I also think that Chad Morris coming from Tulsa to Clemson had a huge impact on their success this season. They made a change and it made a big difference.
Adam’s right. CMR should go after an NFL coach to be OC. You said above that you want a name and here it is–Bill Musgrave, QB coach of the Falcons.
No longer. I think he’s reunited with Matt Schaub as the Texans’ OC.
Musgrave is the OC of the struggling Minnesota Vikings.
Though it is his first year and he has a rookie QB, so it’s hard to say much about him.
But I wasn’t sure if you meant that as mocking me or not, Mayor. I know I may be rambling to some degree, but I’m trying to be pretty reasonable.
If Bobo is as inept as you say and he clearly needs to go, it would seem as though you could readily produce any number of better candidates. Candidates who are not active NFL head coaches that have won a Super Bowl or an active SEC head coach who has won a MNC.
Yes, and I hear you on being called out with no good reply. “Fix it before you break it ” might be a good motto for you Andy.
Richt should be able to land either one of those guys. Also, if Grantham lands another gig this off-season, let’s hire Bill Belichick as our new DC.
I will not be happy unless we hire Vince Lombardi as our QB coach.
I apologize to all I have offended by not having good replies like the two above (Chicago Dawg and Spence).
If we don’t get Ditka I am not making my Hartman fund contribution. I just won’t stand for sub standard coaching. Maybe Joe Gibbs is available…..
Turner Gill and Mike Sherman, should they not get HC offers, would be proven guys-I think you go after a guy with a resume if you pull the plug on Bobo
Here’s the best I’ve got for now: http://theugablog.blogspot.com/2011/12/curious-case-of-bobo.html
Andy, with all due respect, the kind of guy you want for OC isn’t the kind of guy Richt would hire.
I refuse to believe that, though it may very well be true, because I love Richt so damned much.
That’s McGarity’s job to find.
It isn’t my job to find an awesome OC.
I didn’t have to know the perfect replacement back when I knew Martinez needed to be fired. I was on this very blog saying it for years while defenders said it was fine. Its no different now with Bobo than it was then with Martinez.
The worst counter argument of all is “if he’s so bad, who do we replace him with.”
How the heck is that my job to know? I have my own job and life. I watch the Bulldogs and I watch maybe 15 or 20 other college games a year. I don’t watch 200. That’s McGarity and his staff’s job.
So let me get this straight…..you KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bobo sucks. I mean his awful and an affront to football loving people everywhere, but yet you can’t name one guy to replace him. If you can’t name one replacement on what are you basing the criteria for which you use to judge Bobo’s performance?
I’ll hang up and listen….
If he’s anything like most of us, his family and job get in the way of memorizing potential OC candidates names. Most of my spare football reading and watching time is given to all things Dawgs. I do watch hundreds of high school, college, and NFL games each year, but shockingly I don’t know but a handful of OC’s by name. Most of them would be impossible to get, so give me a day or two to write piece on potential candidates. Then you can call me names all you want! Like Neal Boortz always says, “if I had a dollar for every time I heard ‘you’re an idiot’…..”
My point is that both of you (hmmmm….maybe it’s just you posting under two names) seem to have this raging hatred for Bobo but you offer no alternative. You can’t even say why type of offensive philosophy you would replace him with. If you can offer a viable and realistic (realistic being the key word) but I am betting you can’t. Look I was all over Bobo the past two seasons for his playcalling and inability to adjust to what the defense was giving him, this year starting with the S.Carolina game he has turned the corner. I think that every game since (to include last night) has had a solid offensive game plan. The execution has been lacking in some areas but the plan has been solid. When you have a patch work Offensive line and zero depth at the RB position it kind of limits what you can call and where on the field you can call it. There are going to be some head scratching calls but there are for every OC in every game. There were a few in the Falcons game today and I don’t hear anyone calling for him to be fired. Statistics are the only way to compare Bobo’s performance to everyone else’s and based on that I would say he is doing a good job. Before you or someone else trots out the “he pads his stats against the crappy teams” I am using only SEC numbers and guess what…..all the OC’s pad their stats against crappy teams. Why the hell do you think Tebow played into the 4th quarter in blowouts? Stat padding to win the Heisman.
Newsflash: Bobo is just as responsible for execution as he is for the gameplan.
* He’s responsible for our shitty Oline.
* He’s responsible for our shitty run game.
* He’s responsible for our joke tailback situation over the last 5 years.
* He’s responsible for our offense choking and giving away craploads of turnovers and TAINTS (Touchdown After INTerception) in big games.
==> He is responsible for every single aspect and facet of our offense.
Why is it somehow necessary for me to know the replacement in order to be aware that Bobo is doing a shit job?
Our offense sucks. We pad our stats against sucky teams. We disappear in big games. That’s what I see right in front of me as I watch our team.
I don’t live and breathe college football. I don’t want 200 games a year and scout new OC talent from other teams. That’s Greg McGarity and CMR’s job.
Your family doesn’t seem to get in the way of the time spent blathering on blogs and watching hundreds of highschool, college, and NFL games.
Sure they do, otherwise it’d be 1000’s.
How in the hell is it my job to find a replacement?
I can’t cook, but I know if the food in front of me tastes like shit.
I’m sorry but I’m not the AD. Its not my job to find a good OC. But as a fan and a donor I can sure as hell tell when our OC sucks ass.
/apology for profanity
Bad analogy. You’re not a cook here, you’re a food critic. And how are we supposed to judge your ability to assess Bobo’s value without the context of knowing whom you believe is a competent OC?
I’m curious where you got that quote from. This is the only thing I could find:
“We pretty much called everything we had on our sheet,” offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said.
Not saying you didn’t hear it, but that’s a pretty different sentiment from what else he said.
Let me translate that for you: “I called all the situational plays that were listed on my predictable call sheet, after I went conservative because Grantham’s D was playing lights out.”
So you’re saying that’s what Muckbeast heard, rather than what Bobo said?
I was just being a smart A.
Let’s stay on this. It is one thing to have an opinion, but if someone is attributing quotes that are made up just to support that opinion that is a real issue for the credibility of the blog for you Senator. I may have made some different calls during the game,, perhaps used different personnel packages, but I saw nothing that indicated the offense backed off. And if Bobo said something that dumb in a game we never led confortably, then maybe he does need to go…I just don’t believe it in the context it was quoted. Our problem was lack of OL blocking, period, and it has been for years.
Senator, I was paraphrasing what he’s said in like 10 different interviews throughout the season.
Ah now the omnicient Muckbeast can read minds too.
I argue with muckbeast on here quite often (though sometimes it’s all internalized and I resist the temptation to actually post about it), but Bobo has said in post-game interviews that he slowed down the offense because the defense was playing so well and he didn’t want to risk us making a mistake on offense.
That has, many times, explicitly been his plan this year.
I do see how “don’t screw this up for the defense” is different from “stop scoring and hope the defense wins it” in theory. But in practice… they sure do look a lot alike.
Just a quick hypothetical: if the offense were scoring quite a bit, and the defense (as I said hypothetically) could choose between playing hard and trying to keep the other team from scoring or just let them burn 5 minutes and kick a FG every time they had the ball… would it be ok for them to just let the other team kick those field goals? Or would we still want them to try to force turnovers and get stops? If the defense’s goal was to simply limit mistakes and not do something that could cost us the game ASSUMING the offense continued to play lights out, would we be happy with the defense?
The offense has relied on the defense to help us win close games by not letting the other team score a single point in the second half while the offense has been useless for long stretches. How is that fair? That kind of game turns into a blowout win for teams who produce on both sides of the ball.
Read minds?
Bobo is the one who said it. I’m sorry that I don’t have the exact quote, but everyone here who has been following the season knows what I am talking about.
He’s given that same excuse after countless games when he shut off the offense in the 2nd or 3rd quarter like a lazy assclown.
Junkyard Dawg '00
Just like you know that your gay a$$ hovercard is shit, but you fail to replace it? In all due respect Muckbeast, you and Andy’s argument about this is as compelling as a two year old child’s attempt to speak on the subject. You both can’t name a single coordinator that you’d rather have, you both ignore the stats that prove Bobo is one of the better OC’s in the conference (which is an NFL talent rich defensive conference), and Bobo is a disciple of coach Richt and, as such, runs the offense under the philosophy of Richt. So, honestly, just enjoy the turnaround this year for what it was and send in your donation and ticket money next month and if you don’t contribute any money then maybe it wouldn’t hurt you two to shut up and let the big boys handle it.
I dont typically argue using stats because of instances like throwing 5TDs in a quarter against New Mexico State. There is a place for them in some instances. I could give you 10 names off of the top of my head Id rather have as OC, but I would rather research and give readers real candidates, not pipe dreams. I told you the two best in the game in my opinion, Spurrier and Payton. Now, if you really want to hear my legitimate candidates, Ill put them on UGABlog.com within the week.
BanjoEarl
When Malcome averaged over 7 yards a carry, and the other guys were at about 1 or 2 yards per carry, why didn’t we try that earlier in the game?
Did you see who was on the field when Malcome did most of his damage?
Yeah. LSU defensive players.
Even LSU has a 3rd string (and walkons) and honestly at the end of a blowout like that why would you not have them out there.
C’mon, Mayor, you can do better than that.
The comments about how UGA has not recruited depth at OL are simply wrong. Yes, we lack depth there, however it is not because we have not signed big uglies.
2007 – We signed 8 offensive linemen (they would be seniors if they redshirted). Bean, Boling, Ben Harden, Scott Haverkamp, Chris LIttle, Tanner Strickland, Sturdivant, and Vince Vance (JUCO).
2008 – 4 OL signed. Cordy, AJ Harmon, Ben Jones, and Jonathen Owens.
2009 – 4 OL. Chris Burnette, Kwame Geathers, Dallas Lee and Austin Long
2010 – 3 OL – Brent Benedict, Gates, Kolton Houston
2011 – 6 OL. Watts Dantzler, Zach DeBell, Hunter Long, Nathan Theus, Xavier Ward
That’s a total of 25. In that time, LSU signed 4, 6, 4, 2, and 4 for a total of 20. UGA signed 25% more OL in the past five years than LSU.
Bama signed 2, 3, 7, 3 and 4 in those years (19).
The thinness of UGA’s offensive line is not because of lack of recruiting numbers. Perhaps it is talent evaluation, development, bad luck, or some combination thereof. It is NOT because of over signing.
Hopefully those that signed last year will be ready to play significantly next year along with John Theus.
Got to figure out how to win like LSU.
In 2nd half we should have:
1- made this a field position battle
2- run the ball and punt it high
3- rely on defense
4- rely on special teams
5- not turn the ball over
And Santa Claus with his reindeer making up the rest of this wish list.
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In a shocking development, a Georgia Tech fan finds fault with the way Mark Richt runs his program.
This critique of Richt is so fact free it makes Mark Bradley look like the Encyclopedia Britannica. Consider all of these assertions (from a relatively short piece), made without any supporting data:
“But Mark Richt has created an atmosphere in Athens to where there have been a number of players, past and present, that do not respect the discipline methods of their head coach.”
“In some of his player’s eyes, he is a pushover.”
“And since Richt has been in Athens, he has traditionally been known to be the most relaxed in the SEC on handling discipline to his players (Spurrier and Stephen Garcia aside).”
“Suspension of players for a quarter of one game, a half of another, or maybe a suspension during a non-conference opponent such as New Mexico, Georgia Southern, or Wyoming.” (Yes, I know that’s not a complete sentence.)
“Then there are coaches like Gene Chizik, Nick Saban, and Les Miles that have mixed a tough discipline policy with newer ideals than those from a generation or two ago and have had national championship success.”
I could spend a lot of time picking this crap apart bit by bit – his suspension data is a total departure from reality, for example – but I think I’ll just settle for a quote from Janoris Jenkins about another coach well known for mixing discipline policy with newer ideals:
“No doubt, if Coach Meyer were still coaching, I’d still be playing for the Gators,” says Jenkins, a star cornerback and a potential first-round draft pick whom Muschamp booted from UF’s team after being arrested twice for possession of marijuana during the offseason. “Coach Meyer knows what it takes to win.”
Funny, those newer ideals sure sound a lot like the older ones.
Look, I’m not going to sit here and proclaim that Mark Richt does a perfect job with discipline. No coach does. Nor do I have any particularly direct insight into how Georgia players feel about their head coach’s approach to handling behavior problems. Neither does Taylor King, though.
But here’s what I do know: Isaiah Crowell’s path to being the number one running back was cleared in part by one predecessor being dismissed from the team by Mark Richt and another being dismissed for academic problems. Both strike me as sending pretty clear messages about accountability. If those did not sink into Crowell’s conscious thinking, what exactly does Taylor King suggest would do the trick? Public stoning?
(As a side note, if Richt’s “lack of discipline is the major reason that Mark Richt has failed to bring home a national championship to Bulldog nation”, how can one explain Richt winning ten out of the eleven games he’s coached in the Tech series? Is Paul Johnson that bad a head coach?)
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73 responses to “In a shocking development, a Georgia Tech fan finds fault with the way Mark Richt runs his program.”
Someone should add a link to that column in the Wikipedia entry for “concern trolling.” And another one in the entry for “irony,” if this guy’s holding up Gene Chizik as an example of tough disciplinarianism Richt should strive to emulate.
What I think most people are being naive about is that Richt doesn’t sweep this stuff under the rug like a Saban or Miles does. No, Richt is not perfect but I really do believe that he is trying to make his players better men built for others and putting a focus on that. He is a Christian man in a big leadership position and some people do not understand the decisions he makes but I believe it is for the betterment of the individual and the team rather than him getting a bigger badder contract. If I was him I wouldn’t give two thoughts to what the fans thought of how I ran my program (as long as I was winning). If your losing then your at the mercy of the fans and have some sucking up to do. Patience is lost in our society and culture and I think he has so much that people can’t seem to comprehend it. Football is not his life. God and his family is life. I can’t say the same for Saban or Miles. If they are then they need to do a better job of portraying that.
I think that too many people equate not being an asshole with being a pushover. Are players afraid of CMR? Probably not. Do they respect him? I think they do. Is it quite clear that missteps have consequences? Absolutely. The idea that harsh punishment results in deterrence is just stupid. People of good character follow the rules because it’s the right thing to do. People who break the rules have character issues of varying degrees and generally they don’t think they will get caught.
If you want to criticize CMR it would be for tolerating the idea that there is more to life than football. I won’t though because there is.
Beejebus but that fellow is an idiot!
Bard Parker
“public stoning”
I see what you did there
I thought Tech fans were supposed to be the smart ones.
If they were smart they wouldn’t go to Tech in the first place. When my oldest daughter (a particularly smart young lady) was looking at colleges another girl we knew who was a student there flat out said, “Do NOT go there.”
My oldest daughter a ChE from Tech would disagree with you. The younger one with her Masters from UGA was never interested in Tech. Both girls are smart and very pretty.
Debbie, I don’t want to argue but…several of my closest friends in the world went to Tech. I was almost influenced for athletic reasons to make the same mistake. If I had no doubt I would not be a lawyer today. Tech has high admission standards and even though they refuse to admit it–Tech grades on the curve. To compound the problem a significant percentage of Tech students are foreign, predominately from Asia. So if you are a normal college kid, intelligent and ambitious, but you want to have a social life and experience college (parties, football games, etc.) you are going to be up against people who spend Friday night and all day Saturday in the library. The curve makes it damn near impossible for a kid to make good grades except, interestingly, unless the student majors in something like ChE, AE or the like. I have gone through this relatively recently with a friend whose son went there. Thank goodness the kid transferred before his life was ruined by flunking out (BTW he salutatorian of his HS class and now has graduated from another college and is doing well in the insurance business) but it was a bad experience for him and his family. The real problem is that there is an adversarial relationship between the student body and the Tech Administration (they call it “The Hill”) where it seems that the Administration is always trying to do bad things to the student body. I sued Tech once when they tried to flunk out a kid who wasn’t even on probation. They knew they were in the wrong and backed down, letting the kid back in. He graduated about a year later with a flat 2.0 average but at least he did graduate. It was touch and go. It got to be a badge of honor there a while back for Tech to flunk out jocks. Remember Sammy Drummer, the former Tech basketball star that was found a few years ago working as a janitor at a HS? The coaches in all sports have now set up very detailed tutoring programs to try to keep kids eligible and hopefully help them to actually graduate. Tech still has one of the lowest graduation rates for athletes among D-IA institutions, though. I’ll leave you with this final thought and then shut up about this–for about 20 years not a single member of the Georgia Tech Golf Team actually got a degree from Georgia Tech. Not Larry Mize, not David Duvall. I don’t think Stewart Cink graduated. As I understand it most of the Tech golfers are now graduating but that is because of the coach and the tutor program he instituted, not Tech.
“The curve makes it damn near impossible for a kid to make good grades except, interestingly, unless the student majors in something like ChE, AE or the like.”
Aren’t there easier things to attack at Georgia Tech than the caliber of its engineering programs? I never would have imagined that it would be easy to get good grades in Chemical Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering at Tech. I thought the deal for engineering at Tech was look to your right and look to your left and one or two of you will not be finishing the drill in engineering. Not that there’s anything wrong with survival of the fittest.
It is not easy to get good good grades in the engineering program. My daughter the valediction of her her school worked hard for her 4. GPA. She loved her time at Tech. She hard lots of jobs to pick from and works for an interatnational oil company. She is very successful. My UGA grad is also successful in her field. My oldest would have gone to UGA if it had an engineering program but it didn’t. I personally think both schools need to respect the other’s academics they both represent the state of Georgia well. On the football field we at UGA don’t have a worry.
Had lots of jobs not hard. It is hard to type on my kindle.
Good Lord, is this some sort of Tech lovefest? ChE and AE as well as some other small programs at Tech (i.e. not very many students in them) are hard to get into but if you do and you do the work you get good grades. Part of it is the familiarity between the faculty and those students. I underscore the fact that the students have to be damn smart to major in those things in the first place and deserve good grades IMHO. But that’s how you beat the system at Tech. A friend of mine was a ChE major there and that is the very reason he picked that major. I am very happy for Debby that Debby’s daughter has been so successful at Tech and in life. However many other kids who go there have a lot of problems particularly in Industrial Management which is what most kids study at Tech. I remember when Rich Yunkus had the highest grades in the School of Industrial Management, a 3.4 average. If that was the highest GPA you can only imagine what most students grades were like. An awful lot of otherwise smart guys got their lives screwed up by that place. Even if they graduated their low GPAs messed them up for getting into grad school, etc. Also, socially the place is absolutely nerd central. If you love Tech so much go on StingTalk and tell them about it–but not on a UGA football blog. That’s really bad form. I noticed that you didn’t have much to say on any of the other facts I cited above–like lousy graduation rates for athletes (actually for the whole school) or the nasty relationship between the student body and the Administration. Maybe you just didn’t know about those things.
I don’t need to trash Tech to prove my love for UGA. I know how well my daughter and her spouse and friends have done. I also know how well UGA grad is doing. Both kids are happy and successful. I route loud and proud for the DAWGS every Saturday. I am in the stadium as soon as the gates open and don’t leave until the band plays after the game-win or lose. GO DAWGS!!
Root not route I am up too late.
Not Debby but because she was up late last night, I’ll offer the following:
“friend of mine was a ChE major there and that is the very reason he picked that major.”
And I always thought that someone had be pretty ****ing smart to take upper division chemistry, math and physics course work and really, really fun labs concurrently and call it one major so that’s why ChE was always less populated. Now I know they’re in there for the lower student-teacher ratios.
“the highest grades in the School of Industrial Management, a 3.4 average.”
But that’s only because they punish those who wash out as Engineering majors. There have to be consequences.
“If you love Tech so much go on StingTalk and tell them about it–but not on a UGA football blog. That’s really bad form.”
I’ll accept that mission to StingTalk but only if there’s Crown Royal, Moon Pies, a Boba Fett and some Princesses.
“lousy graduation rates for athletes (actually for the whole school)”
Tech needs to have its Stat Department figure out how to deal with those numbers because “[i]t’s just all made up and flagellant,” anyway.
Or “flatulent.”
As a registered professional engineer with a BS and MS in Engineering from UGA, I’d say your oldest daughter missed an opportunity to attend UGA. BTW, my engineering degrees have been good enough for 20+ years in the space program, and I got to matriculate with Herschel Walker and Dominique Wilkens. Good times were had by all!
Mayor, you are showing huge ignorance. The Georgia Tech golf team has historically been loaded with fine student-athletes who have excelled in both golf and in education. You have ZERO basis for this claim and in fact, Georgia Tech just this year one Tech golfer won the Byron Nelson award for being college golf’s finest student athlete, all nine players held GPA’s above 3.0 and they young men who won the ACC Championship (for the 4th straight year) spring grades consisted of two 4.0s, a 3.75 a 3.5 and a 3.0. Your comments prove your ignorance. Enough said.
The next time someone tells you tech people are brighter and better educated, just pull out this article. Only a tech person would believe this isn’t nonsense.
Could somebody please explain to me what makes that article any different than something I’d see on Stingtalk? There is ZERO substantiation. What garbage. I love this gem: “He probably did not know Crowell had a gun.” Seriously?
CMR only looks like he’s got more disciplinary problems because he actually punishes on the first offense. (At least with drug policies) Most other schools offer no punishment and therefore do not report first offense failed drug tests.
Who wants to bet that this clown doesn’t have a purple “Royal Crown Whiskey” bag hanging from his rear view mirror?
Er…that’s “Crown Royal” AHD. A very good whiskey I might add.
I suppose there are worse things than being outed by the Mayor as a non-whiskey expert. I confess…. my only association with the Crown is watching my dad and his cronies play poker and offer shots of it as some kind of tribute to the winner of the pot. Well there ya go.
Funny. I thought it was the mayor who got outed.
Royal Crown is an off brand cola…
Now that is just piling on. 😉
off brand…really?
I always liked RC.
X-Dawg
Gimme that and a moon-pie and I’m in redneck sugar heaven.
I think that Brian Dawg might have outed himself as a “yankee”. lol..
Not a yankee-the only reason I said “off brand” is that it is just not sold in most places anymore. Hey, I grew up on RC…and, for that matter..CR as well…LOL.
http://www.rccolainternational.com/
Don Leeburn will not be happy with you…:-)
peligroperro
That there is all made up and flatulent.
I’ve been waiting for that observation.
El Dawgo in El Paso
I still want clarification on “flagellence” versus “flatulence” in determining the veracity of a charge. Does one beat it out or air it out?
I still think the guy meant to say “fellatio.”
BCDawg97
Sadly, some regulars at our tailgate make those same arguments…
Corbindawg
I did a piece on my blog today (hope this doesn’t count as one of your demerits for commenting etiquette), but look at Courtney Upshaw at Alabama. Back in 2009, Upshaw was arrested for a domestic disturbance where he allegedly grabed his girl friend by the back of the neck during an argument. Grabbed her by the scruff like I grab my cat.
Upshaw’s punishment? No suspension of practice time or games. Sanders Commings does a similar infraction-and Richt suspends him for two games. Now, tell me, who is harder on discipline in a situation like this: Saban or Richt?
Not to take away from Saban…but you can’t say that these things wouldn’t go on at Alabama. Well, you could, but you’d also be ignorant.
durrtydogg
See you in November!
bubba king
WOW…I don’t remember playing Wyoming…what a total dumbass
Wow, I stupidly went back and read the article. I will never get the movie reference right because I am old and forgetful but I think it was an Adam Sandler movie. After a long dialogue that made no sense, a man to paraphrase, said “nothing you said made sense, that was really stupid and everyone is this room is dumber for having heard it”. That is how I felt after reading it.
If you don’t mind, I’ll correct you.
That’s it! I knew someone would know the exact quote and get it right. Was it Adam Sandler? Love the quote and it certainly fits that bloggers post.
Yes… Billy Madison
I feel that exact way every time I catch PAWWWWWWWWWWWLLL Finedouche on the radio in AL…
Dawgy45
So this is what a Jackette resorts to when National Geographic doesn’t have any nudie pictures.
The major reason Mark Richt hasn’t brought a national championship home to Georgia is that he plays in the same division as the University of Florida, which he has been able to beat on even a somewhat regular basis. As we all know, Florida is MORE lax on discipline issues than Georgia, not the other way around. Therefore, in the championship argument, one would have to contend that Richt should be LESS of a disciplinarian.
Of course, that’s foolish. Richt does a good job of player discipline. If championships were all that drove him, Crowell would be on our football team today, as would many other outstanding players that Richt showed the door over the years. Would you feel better about relying on our current stable of running backs protecting Aaron Murray in pass blocking if we still had LSU’s starting quarterback as his backup?
that should say UNABLE to beat in the bit about Florida.
Do you think the University of Alabama police hunt down football players and pull them over and search their cars on a whimsical suspicion?
Not if they want to still be a UAcop tommorow.
Do you think the LSU police, or the USC police, or the FU police do this? What’s the deal in Athens? My guess is that at ….say….Alabama……if a player is “out of line”, the police handle it quietly and turn him over to his coach. He does twenty extra wind sprints and you never hear about it……….Not so at UGA…Why? I believe CMR refuses to operate in such a shameless fashion. Give the man this…he’s no hypocrite.
I think it probably has something to do with Athens having a different culture than most southern college towns. Though Austin has a similar culture and their police don’t seem to go out of their way to harrass students. So maybe it’s just that Athens cops are kind of assholes.
Biggus Dickus
Since you brought it up and since some Techhies are being such sanctimonious assholes about this, a Georgia Tech LB (I don’t want to say his name as I do not want to contribute to smearing kids when they screw up) was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct and fighting on June 9 in….(you guessed it)…Athens. I don’t think he had been kicked off the team by Paul “the Dick”…er…Johnson though.
I’ve often said that living in Athens can at least be partly attributed to all the player arrests. There’s a reason it’s consistently voted “Best College Town”. Just a lot of temptation (most bars per square mile than any other city in the nation??) that I don’t think many other college towns don’t have. When I lived there, I absolutely did some stupid stuff that I probably would not normally do in a different setting. It’s like Vegas; the town just breeds sin haha.
Any of the UGA players ever heard of calling a cab? JEEZ…..
I dont think that it is Athens or the cops that have a different culture, it is that the Administration and president of UGA meets with the police to start every school year to remind them that arresting frat boys and football players sends a message to the rest of the student body. Adams wants athens run exactly the way it is being run. Maybe next year the worm turns, but things are happening according to plan right now.
Adams might say that to Jimmy Williamson of the UGA police
But I very much doubt he says that to ACC Chief Jack Lumpkin. And even if he did, it’s unlikely it would resonate. The people that run the ACC Government (and the UGA faculty in large part) view students as an irritant that must be tolerated.
They don’t look at the students as, you know, the reason that Athens is Athens and not Toccoa, Elberton or some other small market town in Northeast Georgia.
I agree with you regarding the police at other collleges Maybe we should stop worrying about a special teams coach, and consider having a coach whose primary responsibility is to bus kids around Athens in the wee hours of the morning (back in the day I guess we would call that needing a babysitter). Serously, I don’t like Mark Bradley any more than the next UGA guy, but I am starting to feel like he wrote concerning off-the-field issues: ‘not only Georgia, but always Georgia’. Where, when , and how does all of this crap ever stop?
I can vouch firsthand the Gainesvega$ cops are at least as bad at the Athens cops. I was visiting my brother (a UF grad student at the time) and we were outside the Purple Porpoise. A fight broke out on the sidewalk and the cops broke it up. My brother stepped off the curb to avoid the crowd gathered around the fight and was promptly handed a citation for jaywalking.
IMHO Oliver wants Richt gone because Richt beats Auburn on a consistent basis. And sometimes just beats the tar out of em. As far as the techie fan, the same can be said.
That’s Bradley’s real beef, too (re: Tech).
On a related note, James Wilder Jr gets out of jail after a week and Jimbo Fisher “isn’t required to issue a suspension” (see David Hale’s report on the WWL). What would Richt do with him?
GT Fan
Over the past couple years Coach Richt definitely has taken steps to address accountability issues at UGA. Crowell apparently didn’t understand the message, but I don’t think it was due to a lack effort on coaching staff.
Had this been Crowell’s first incident, I suspect he would still be on the team, but he was a repeat offender and I think Richt’s hand was forced. If he lets Crowell off easy, what hope does he have of maintaining discipline with Crowell in the future and, more importantly, what kind of message would that have sent to the other players on the team (the freshmen in Crowell’s car particularly)? If Richt harshly punishes Crowell by, say, suspending him for the season, then Crowell potentially instantly becomes the most disgruntled and unhappy player on the team by far and could wind up dragging down team morale. That is not to say that would have happened, but Richt had to consider the possibility. Dismissing Crowell from team lets Richt punish Crowell, show that Richt is serious about discipline and accountability, and avoids any potential issues with an unhappy Crowell.
Maybe you could argue that Richt should have taken a harder line with Crowell last season, but hindsight’s 20/20. Richt made the decisions he thought were the best and consequences are what they are. Rather than babysit Crowell every waking minute, which would have been one way to make sure Crowell stayed out of trouble, Richt tossed him into the lake and said ‘sink or swim’. Unfortunately, Crowell sank. Maybe telling Crowell to sink or swing wasn’t the best approach, but that’s irrelevant after a fashion. Richt has to pick a discipline philosophy and run with it. Losing an occasional player who doesn’t comprehend the philosophy is just the cost of doing business, so to speak. Better to have it happen now while there’s time to plan around it.
While no coach likes to have to make a discipline decision that scrambles the depth chart, I think Richt made the right decision regarding Crowell.
The only way the Nerds can bee hay is if Richt suspends all 85 athletes including himself. They are all losers. LOL
can bee happy……
I’m done with the thug element. That’s what Tennessee and Auburn are for. Shit man, all he had to do is go to class, play ball and get drafted in 2 more years. Heck, the car might as well said “4 thugs w/ guns. Please pull us over!!” Fucking retard. Mama is pissed and he better hope for at least 2 years in the pen or she might kill him.
I think the most damning example of Richt’s lax discipline standards is how he lets his players physically assault Tech football players for sixty minutes every year. It should be criminal to physically, mentally, emotionally abuse such a weak frail program and fan base psyche year after year.
Another way to look at it is that Richt being TOO much of a disciplinarian is why he has yet to win a national title. Georgia players are suspended/kicked off team for things that other coaches would “handle internally”.
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I guess I’m not AD material.
Mark Fox said AD Greg McGarity met with his players before coming to Nashville after to address his future as head coach.
— Anthony Dasher (@AnthonyDasher1) March 8, 2017
Seeing that reminded me of this. Good times.
More to the point, it made me wonder about something: if Richt’s record, which included multiple appearances in the SECCG and BCS bowl games, several top 10 finishes and a couple of conference titles, wasn’t good enough for Greg McGarity, why isn’t that the case with Fox?
Mind you, I’m not asking that because I want to judge either coach, or because I’m advocating showing Fox the door. I’m simply trying to discern what McGarity’s standards are for retaining a head coach of a revenue producing program. Anybody have a clue? Because I sure as hell don’t.
69 responses to “I guess I’m not AD material.”
It is simple. McGarity probably catches some grief about Fox but it is a fraction of the constant Richt on the hotseat narrative. He can withstand it for one more year and save the buyout. Firing Fox wouldn’t create any extra enthusiasm for UGA basketball at the moment anyway. That won’t happen until a new guy proves something. McGarity may even be hoping Fox leaves on his own.
What coach DOES want to stay under Mcgoof….all of them have stated what a “small thinker” he is. Obviously today there were several outspoken athletes that found it hard to believe what he was saying. A rainy day fund….really….damn boys it’s raining like a sonofabitch around Athens! The only decent teams are the Country Club ones…..mediocrity is accepted as the norm now…the whole damn place is eat up with it!
It takes very little effort to separate yourself and become great, but it does take effort. Just gaze across the river and look at Clemson….yea Clemson…hard to believe right! Very forward thinking AD, throwing
money hand over fist at athletic programs, venues, etc….
It creates championship teams that bring in more money, how hard is that!?
If the money comes in and the boosters are largely unperturbed, he can stay. If either the losses are costing the school money, or the boosters are perturbed, fire him as soon as you can do it while covering your ass. Its quite simple, really.
This year set some sort of record for basketball season ticket sales. I don’t think they’d can him unless there was a sustained drop-off in ticket sales
My guess is certain well heeled boosters don’t GARA about basketball, but they feel free to light McGarity’s phone up every time UGA fails to gain positive yardage. Greg doesn’t work for us, or UGA. He works for the guys who sign the big checks. If they cared, Fox would be gone. They don’t care, so it’s another win for the reserve fund.
It’s not only the well heeled boosters who don’t GARA about hoops; it’s students, alumni and supporters of UGA. There was at least some expectation that UGA could find a coach who could win more than Richt. I don’t think the powers that be think they can reasonably lure anyone better than Fox to Athens.
and if they do he’ll be gone as soon as he proves they did and/or have the NCAA on campus asking questions.
I don’t see the confusion in McGarity’s standards. Fox is doing everything I expect from UGA basketball, roughly 500 in SEC play and doesn’t have the NCAA on campus and that is all I ask for until B-M makes a statement by seriously upgrading basketball facilities.
We know how likely McGarity and B-M as a whole has been about spending on facilities well… other than football since Richt has been gone.
chuckdawg
The chances of off-siting basketball and gym for 2 years to implode the Steg are zero.
I think the chances of replacing the Steg is zero and going offsite at Gwinnett, or building another facility on a new location on campus is moot.
Fox is hitting a decade which might be enough for B-M to pull the plug but as stated above given B-M’s commitment to the program Fox is doing as expected. He isn’t overachieving nor underachieving, in my opinion.
two first team all SEC players and unlikely to make the tournament but he isn’t underachieving?? Did you watch the Texas A&M game or miss the fact that he is around 3-40 against top 50 RPI teams…he’s a sorry recruiter, a sorry coach and is lucky we have even a more pitiful AD
Agree. We might have better talent right now than Tubby had. Tubby could coach and get results.
Well, SOMEBODY of consequence wants Fox gone, otherwise that story wouldn’t have been “leaked.”
Further, if he’s looking for a good value coach from the mid major ranks, whats the point? If you’re looking for a guy who’s a good x’s and o’s coach to do the most with whats there, you’ve already got your guy. THE ONLY reason to switch it up would be to cover your ass.
If you want to win, its very simple; you’ve got to go shell out for a big, big name coach who can go recruit the one and done’s. Otherwise you’re hoping for a stroke of luck every 3-4 years to take you to the tournament, but it’ll never get you past the first couple rounds.
Georgia has to figure out how to elevate its talent. There is no easy path to that, and the only reason to get a new coach is to find someone who can definitively recruit better than Fox.
To get more talent, Fox has to PLAY the talent he does manage to get. Crump and Harris greatly outscore the upper classmen that start over them, yet Fox still complains about the inability to score. Look at all the freshmen playing meaningful minutes all around the country, and then look at our freshmen on the bench. What top BB recruit is going to come to Athens to ride the pine?
thats pretty much it.
Actually you can win in basketball without Kentucky-type talent. Moreover, the SEC is no powerhouse conference and never has been–it;s consistently ranked below the Big East, Big 12, and Atlantic 10 in overall strength, per the metric that analyze these things. The constant presence of schools like Butler, Villanova, Gonzaga, and Wichita State should demonstrate that what you need, more than any thing else, is a good coach who knows what they’re doing…and preferably doesn’t run an overcomplicated, outdated offense that players don’t want to run–like the triangle, Fox’s preferred offense when he started, that he has largely given up on, finally.
It helps to have a fan base and administration that gives a damn, though, that’s for sure, and you have to actually dig in and make a decent hire before they’re a hot commodity for the higher-profile schools–a process that has eluded almost all of the SEC schools for years and years, because they just don’t care about basketball very much.
Morris Buttermaker
Senator –
You must first realize that with AD McGarity you are dealing with a pompously aloof know-it-all who’s tact and people skills are like a beer hangover fart in an elevator. Given the coaching changes he’s made and the replacements he’s selected, I don’t think there are any standards at all.
The situation with Coach Fox might just come down to the fact all of AD McGarity’s hires have been failures and since he has football in play with a new guy he is for the first time considering his administrative mortality at UGA.
AugustaDawg
If McGoofy’s contract isn’t extended after next year do we really want him making any hiring and firing decisions?
LakeOconeeDawg
That’s my take as well Augusta. I’m thinking the powers that be want to take this out of his hands thus he has to stay with the status quo so to speak.
At least we can hope this is the case…………….
That’s encouraging to know there is light at the end of the tunnel. Ifg they don’t plan to renew (nd why exactly would they?), surely they will buy him out this summer and give some hope for things to get better. We are worse off, or level, in every sport I can think of ( basketball, baseball, golf, gymnastics, tennis, women’s basketball, football, etc) since he arrived. And the relations with the fan base are getting worse with the PR shortfall being downright embarrassing. So the reason to continue to tolerate this goober is…?
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He’s made nine or so HC hires. They’ve mostly been bad (Lemke), jury’s still out (Smart, Taylor), or somewhere in between (Durante, which is absurd to use with her since she’s now in her fifth season). The only good hire, I’d say, is Kyprianou, but he was a promotion from within. So I don’t know how much credit to give McGarity.
I’d definitely prefer someone other than him doing the hiring.
Is say the difference is the ability to get a top flight coach. Our ability to atract coaching talent in basketball is a lot different than football. I don’t think the big donors are breathing down McGarity’s neck about Fox.
“Our ability to attract coaching talent in basketball is a lot different than football.”
What about the process from last December indicated that other than the liquor barons believed their choice was getting ready to take the job in Columbia East? We went after the hot coordinator which is about the same as hiring the hot mid-major coach in basketball.
The liquor barons don’t care, so the AD is going to sit tight with Fox. No reason to write checks from the “rainy day fund” if you don’t have to.
Unfortunately Incorrect, the liquor barren does care…he and Ms. Yoculan are very close with Fox and his wife…add to this one of Fox’s players is the son of a very well-heeled booster and you have a perfect reason to keep a very mediocre coach
Now there is info you can hang your hat on! More of this good intell and less opinions make for a much healthier read!
Just wondering if all this public ‘support’ for Fox is actually the kiss of death. Maybe not; as many have noted, the liquor barons probably don’t care, but the old “he’s our coach until he isn’t” song is a fairly common ploy.
Fox has plateaued. No real reason to keep him if you want to improve our basketball team.
We had two good coaches in the past, Tubby and Harrick. Tubby jumped to Kentucky as soon as he could, though we never really made a play to keep him. Harrick of course was a cheater that should have taken his benefactor, Herr Adams, with him when he was fired.
Still, we have attracted good coaches, and Fox was a good candidate when he was hired. There’s some decent talent on the team right now. Get a coach that will let them play and I think we could improve. Start winning and a lot of the other issues start to fade away.
Because comparing UGA football to UGA basketall is like comparing an Audi S8 to a Scion.
What irks me is ADGM feeling like he needs to stroke his own ego by meeting with the team and telling them that Fox’s job is safe. If his job is safe, stfu and don’t say a thing other than something simple like, “Fox is and will continue to be our coach. No further comments will be forthcoming to any erroneous reports stating otherwise.”
The fact that he’s meddling and making this a bigger deal than it should be is telling on myriad fronts.
Very, very poor leadership. But we already knew that.
I don’t think Kirby coaches basketball.
Man I hate the offseason.
One more observation on McG’s logic. Were talking about firing a coach who has been in Athens 9? years and there are 23 replies in 2 hours?
How many replies would a Mark Richt hot seat posting get?
Georgia just got selected with 2 All SEC picks and no one cares. Last time it happened – 1990.
and we’re still not making the tournament…what does this say about his “coaching”
He continues to improve at getting talent on campus?
Maybe we should build them an indoor practice facility.
dawgfan
We already did. It’s connected to Stegeman and one of the finest in the country.
I was being sarcastic
Doesn’t it depend upon Frank Martin’s status in Columbia? If he announces his retirement or that he’s leaving, then Mark Fox is OUT. After all _________ will take that job at USC if we don’t snatch him up first and we can’t have that can we?
McGarity just informed the coaching ranks and donors that Fox’s departure is officially on the clock.
Gives him a year to feel out prospects and donors, size up his resources and opposition. Exact same thing he did with Richt. And if he has to pull back, he can say with a straight face that he was behind Fox all the way.
So we have to beat UF next year?
Nice snark. My 1st complaint with McG is this is suicide for recruiting. You don’t let the press get wind that you’re giving your HC a make it or break it year.
You are right. Our already troubled program looks like dookey right now.
Did you mean donkey? Cuz I think that feels about right…
I get all this. But I watched most of their games this year. and I saw a scrappy, tough never quit team that battled to the end in every game.
I agree. I think Mark Fox is a damn good coach. Not great at recruiting but we’ve struggled with recruiting BB players for as long as I can remember. It seems every time there’s been a big time in state recruit they go out of state. Even when Tech was good, they relied on out of state guys. The state produces a lot of talent but they all seem to want to go play elsewhere.
In any event, there is no reason to expect that a change in the coach is going to change what ails UGA basketball.
damn good coach?? please…we’re in a mediocre conference and he’s made the tournament twice in eight years, once with Felton’s players…there’s nothing good about the coach except for his ability to worm his way into the good graces of the powers to be (Leeburn and Young)
I know. He’s totally destroyed a traditional basketball power. I look at the games against the top teams on our schedule and we’ve been competitive with much less talent than the opposition. I’m sure that’s not because of good coaching but in spite of it.
We usually don’t go to the dance and only twice have we gotten past round two. 12 appearances in school history. That’s one out of every three since 1983. Fox has three appearances in 8 years which is consistent or slightly better than our average, if you start counting in 1983. We kinda suck a basketball. But what the hell? Can the guy. Get someone else in here who will get us there roughly one out of every three years and we’ll go 1-3 in the tourney over the next decade and then we can fire that asshole too.
The OTHER problem with UGA basketball is that if anyone really did anything with the program, he be gone…. Just like Tubby. Maybe we get lucky someday and we get a Billy Donovan because that happened that one time.
I said it when CMR’s job was on the line. You don’t fire a guy because of your results don’t match your aspirations. You fire him because you have to. We don’t have to fire Fox and so we shouldn’t.
jtp03
That you think he’s a damn good coach tells me you simply aren’t paying attention and are somehow dazzled by mediocrity.
Fox has mismanaged public relations, recruiting, roster management, playing time for freshmen, substitution patterns, in game defense, etc etc since he’s been here.
How many tournament appearances do we have in school history? How many does Fox have?
I’m sure that none of the basketball coaches in school history can coach hence the mediocrity (or worse) of the basketball program over all that time.
I do pay little attention because of that mediocrity. If you are paying close attention to UGA basketball what other explanation could there be other than being dazzled by mediocrity?
I can say that that I’ve seen the close losses to the top teams on the schedule this year and it appears to me that Fox is competitive with a less than stellar roster.
Maybe you should take a shot at it since you’re the expert. Either way no one will really give a shit. Kansas plays basketball and sucks at football. It’s not because Kansas hires bad coaches. It’s because they’re Kansas. We play football and we suck at basketball. Don’t expect that to change anytime soon. Btw: We’ve had six bb coaches since 1983. 12 NCAA appearances in school history. 3 of those belong to Fox. That’s not a fireable record in spite of your subject matter expertise.
If you’re going to take shots, at least have your facts right…Fox has two NCAA appearances, both first round exits..percentage of tournament appearances from 1983 til Fox: 39 percent…Fox: 25 percent, since you admittedly don’t pay attention and don’t give a shit, maybe stop commentating and embarrassing yourself
You’re not counting this year. Be optimistic!
Also 2 NIT’s= NCAA!
I’m not sure but I think there were tourneys before 1983.
We’ve made it 12 times and got out of the second round twice. What a fucking legacy! Of our scholarship sports,this one is probably the least successful in school history. You’re welcome to think it’s jes coachin’.
McTyre
. . . and you’re welcome to stick with your We’re Eternally Cursed theory to explain why the Fox Era of UGA Hoops is mediocre. Some of us simply want BM to hire a coach who can simply outperform other “Football Schools” like Arky, UT, Bama, MSU, Ole Miss who are in states with half the talent of ours and compete with other FB schools like UF and Arky. Nobody sober on this blog is suggesting we should be Kentucky.
Well said…we can do better than Foxy.
Arky has a long basketball history. Bama, UT, Ole Miss and MSU all together have the same number of final fours that we have. Florida got lucky and got the right coach who stayed a good long while.
I’m sure that Vandy, Kentucky, South Carolina, Missouri and Mississippi State find that any discussion about their never being relevant in football is an “eternally cursed theory” but they are exactly that. They aren’t winning any conference titles and they aren’t getting into any playoffs. Not gonna happen.
Getting to the final four in 1983 was magical. Knocking off MJ’s defending national title team in a regional final was incredible. I hope something like that happens for us again, but it probably won’t and hiring and firing coaches ain’t gonna change that. Even if you got the right guy, he’d be gone just like Tubby. That’s the reality of it.
We’ve never been able to get the best players in the state. Neither has Tech. When they were good their best players weren’t from Georgia. For whatever reason the best in state guys want to go somewhere else. Georgia in basketball is like New Jersey is in football. They have a decent talent base but Rutgers ain’t getting them. Probably bad coaching at Rutgers or a defeatist attitude or a lack of commitment or reality. Take your pick.
Less than stellar rooster? You mean the 2 All SECs?
Come off it.
McGarity may also have to pull the trigger on the baseball coach in a couple of months and I doubt if he wants to go for the hat trick in 18 months.
The Georgia Way
Nothing inspires a team better than a well-timed pep talk from Mr. McGarity.
I don’t follow college hoops as adamantly as I used to but I’d say it’s a bad year to make a change. Not a great pool of available coaches and some more prominent jobs will be open that you’d have to compete with. I also don’t trust McGarity’s hiring ability at this point. I’m hoping Haack, Diaz and Buerle hang around longer than McGarity so he’s not filling those positions. That all being said I think Fox is a good enough coach to make this work. And once more I’d say “damn those red panties” fir getting us to this point with B-M.
rjc
correct me if i’m wrong, but i thought greg’s SOP was to evaluate the coach at the end of the season and not address media speculation on a coach’s fate / future? doesnt his press release / meeting with the b-ball team to reassure them fox is safe now establish a new (bad) precedent?
assuming the young baseball dawgs dont develop and we have another bad season (and by all accounts, it appears we are headed that way), what’s he going to do when people start asking questions about stricklin’s future?
i, like you and many others here, have been exceedingly concerned about the competency of adgm and his team at bm. this to me is simply another example of making reactionary decisions on the fly without having a clear process / plan, or the ability to think strategically.
This is crazy, no doubt.
Above Average. It’s the Georgia way. Think I am joking – watch how well this fits:
an explicable loss. not beating the top teams.
Anyone got some red panties?
I’m simply trying to discern what McGarity’s standards are for retaining a head coach of a revenue producing program. Anybody have a clue?
When he was hired, McGarity said that he would evaluate each program with expectations based on previous tradition and whether the team was improving. I’m trying to find the article, but it was from years ago not long after he was hired. I have no idea of what his interpretation of each program’s history is though. Mark Fox has the roundball team on the verge of having four consecutive 20 win season for the first time in program history. The team has played below expectations this year, but it is still a better performance than were our program has traditionally been. Historically, our basketball team has the tradition of Kentucky Football. Being a consistent bubble team is an improvement. That consistency has allowed him to finally start landing some better recruits. I see no reason to expect the roundball team to regress under Fox.
I have good news and I have bad news.
The good news: You are in a play-in game for the NCAA tourney.
The bad news: It’s against Kentucky in front of their crowd.
Chico Dawg
I know I’m late to the game today, but this stems from the beloved AD’s single most consistent problem he has had since he took the job: he is a complete buffoon when it comes to PR/ marketing. It’s almost unbelievable that an organization which brings in as much jing as it does can have such a terrible perception among the customer base.
Everyone I know that is in the know says the same thing about him. He’s a nice guy with his heart in the job, but is completely incompetent and incredibly overwhelmed. He is great at numbers, so he can make the books look stellar- especially when ESPN is writing you a check every year that is larger than what the fan base pays and more money than cannot possibly be spent in one year.
The only hire I give him grief about is the Strickland hire- he fired a guy who is a native Athenian who was a remarkably successful coach only to replace him with a person who has completely destroyed the program.
As far as Fox goes, barring an incredible year next year, it will be his last in Athens. His son will be a senior in high school and his departure may be a little cleaner, which will make the bean counter happy- no buy out. With or without him, the program will continue in mediocrity for the following three reasons 1) nobody really cares 2) the facilities are just average and there is no PR juice…ever and 3) and most important…Josh Basner (Ga Tech Coach) is about to run laps around Fox in recruiting and make the NATS program much more sexy since it is in the ACC.
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The Endorithm 5 by Keith Connolly
A selection of recent and reissued music by Circuit des Yeux, Áine O’Dwyer, German Oak, The Yardbirds, Davy Graham, and more.
Part of the Endorithm series.
Circuit des Yeux & Bitchin Bajas
Photo by Julia Dratel.
Upon resurrecting the Psychedelic Stooges in 2003, Iggy Pop would reclaim the stage he’d wantonly set decades earlier. Each night, after multiple refrains of We’ve been separated far too long in the sax-torched set piece “Funhouse,” he’d address the crowd directly, seeming to momentarily break character, and repeat these words: I am YOU… I am YOU… You are fucked up… But I am YOU. I was there, at Jones Beach, that August 9th, and I remember asking myself then, as I do again now: What does that mean?
Perception, POV, remote sensing, identification… There are, of course, all kinds of subjective lyrics—I really don’t know clouds at all (Joni Mitchell) and Well, the snot has caked against my pants (Arthur Lee), or With your bicycle bells and your Rembrandt swells (Scott Walker). But with a sung imperative, the line betwixt song and listener is breached and blurred. So when Haley Fohr, who is Circuit des Yeux (when she’s not Jackie Lynn), asks us to put our heads in a paper bag and see just what we’ll find, it’s a bit of a daunting prospect, as once we’re in there it becomes hard to know whose head is whose.
The new Circuit des Yeux album Reaching for Indigo is the product of a cathartic combustion Fohr describes as having come “from within,” a eureka moment of coalescence. Looking back on the day you came to life, she sings on “Philo,” addressing a you that’s as likely her as it is the Hellenic syncretist of the track’s title. Add to these questions of agency and inhabitation a bygone avant-ism recalling Su Tissue (Where are you, Su?), and a once-myopic and monophonic runaway ransom note suddenly blossoms into a hopscotching and stereophonic cipher of sympathy.
A glance at Elon Musk’s Boring Company prospectus or the Cirque du Soleil-on-bath-salts pageantry at the unveiling of the Gotthard Base Tunnel would seem to indicate a renewed 21st-century fascination with the subterranean. Mediumistic in her approach to certain charged spaces, Gallarais, the latest LP by Irish artist Áine O’Dwyer, explores this zone the old-fashioned way: by inhabiting it. Recorded in the shaft of the Brunel Tunnel (the first subaqueous tunnel in the modern world, which transverses the Thames) and employing a “personalized abstract heritage” of keening, a kind of wailing lament for the dead, these “field” recordings reveal, not unlike her epochal Music for Church Cleaners from a few years back, the fractal and spirit-riddled relations hidden in emptiness that come to light when the veil of conscience is set aside. Comprised of ten clandestine tracks, this album, along with notes by muso-hauntologist David Toop, is best heard in its entirety, on wax, as lovingly produced by MIE. In the meantime, digital takers are directed here:
Beast Diaries by you and me
Speaking of the Hollow Earth, the for-years apocryphal account of Dusseldorf’s German Oak and their eponymous 1972 LP, allegedly recorded in a Nazi air-raid bunker, has finally been officially told. Oddly cold, even for a krautrock record, the LP as originally issued was comprised of four stark instrumental tracks housed in an equally stark sleeve depicting the grim visage of a German soldier peering into a hole and emblazoned with almost-Runic writing, the whole seeming to predict a black metal aesthetic still years away. When released on compact disc in the early 1990s, some “bonus” material had been integrated, including samples of Hitler and Goebbels, effectively pushing any vague ariosophy into crypto-fascist or martial-industrial terrain. Shortly after this, a second CD of gloomy stoner jams entitled Nibelungenlied appeared, further muddying the waters.
It would turn out that everything about German Oak, with the exception of the music itself, was the construct of one Manfred “Magnus” Uhr, a teetotalling Satanist record collector with a penchant for pinball machines and antique weaponry—plus a morbid fixation on WWII. A friend of the band, he’d produced their debut LP on his own dime, with zero input from the teenage musicians as regards their presentation (down to the group’s name, as they’d previously called themselves Reaktor). It was also Uhr who was behind the infamous ’90s CD editions, prior to an ill-fated treasure hunt in Costa Rica that would leave him penniless, institutionalized, homeless, and ultimately MIA.
Down in the Bunker, the first band-sanctioned German Oak release, is now available via Now-Again Reserve, and the results are mixed. The first of two LPs contains the original album, sans the ill-advised agit-prop and mastered at the proper speed (earlier versions were slightly sped up). Heard here, these four tracks, in fact recorded in the titular bunker, are still possessed of an eerie charm and have never sounded better (think Guru Guru’s UFO crossed with Yahowa 13). The rest—a second LP’s worth of sketches and unedited longer tracks included on the CD/digital versions—seems superfluous. Moreover, the fact that all previously released material appears now under new titles is, frankly, annoying. That said, the odd provenance and legacy revisited here finally shines a light into one of krautrock’s darkest recesses, albeit somewhat anticlimactically. Quoting band leader Wolfgang “Caesar” Czaika from the liners: “We regarded recorded songs as dead songs.” Indeed—though as it has been said and is still news: Just remember that death is not the end.
Though the barometer by which the rockist rulebook rates tends to rise and fall, the so-called light and shade once imprecated by Jimmy Page, and Led Zeppelin in particular, has proven perennial. So storied are Zeppelin’s myriad “appropriations” as to be little more than a given, as much a part of their no-fucks-given gravitas as shark-snout penetration, forty measures of vodka, and the Loch Ness Monster. It’s well known that, prior to Zeppelin, Page passed through the Yardbirds, a band whose cultural cachet has been on the wane for some time now. The inescapable trivia of a pre-fame Clapton/Beck/Page ascendancy and white-boy blues image almost entirely eclipses the proto-garage rock and pre-Beatles psychedelia this off-kilter, at times clumsy, often raging band could kick out. It is not wholly insignificant, then, that November 7th saw the release of the 218th (!) Yardbirds compilation issued to date, entitled Yardbirds ‘68 and available exclusively through jimmypage.com. As Page’s own attempt to commit the band’s latter heyday to posterity, and following on the heels of the even-deeper-dive Chris Farlowe & the Thunderbirds demo released earlier this year (recommended), it’s sure to sound better and weigh more than any Yardbirds collection to date.
One of the handful of songs that Page would carry over to Led Zeppelin from his Yardbird days was the striking instrumental “White Summer” (recast as “Black Mountainside”). What is little known outside of diametrically opposed guitar-nerd and freak-folk forums is that Page’s arrangement—surprise surprise—is lifted wholesale from forgotten iconoclast Davey Graham, an indelible presence on the ’60s UK folk circuit, whose essential early catalog is now getting the reissue treatment on LP courtesy of Bread & Wine. Unmistakably Anglo but never rural, Graham’s was an exacting, modernist fusion of East-West tradition, technique, and above all presence. Along with Clive Palmer, Wizz Jones, and yankee ex-pat Jackson C. Frank, he is a primary architect of the UK folk revival and took the steel six-string acoustic guitar to places hitherto unconsidered and unsurpassed to this day. Plus his cover of Joni Mitchell’s evergreen “Both Sides Now” from Large as Life and Twice as Natural, featuring the here impeccable Jon Hiseman on drums, may just be the one:
Keith Connolly is a contributing editor for music at BOMB.
Field Recording(s) by Ugly Duckling Presse
A new series from UDP presents poets on vinyl.
Field Recording by Crys Cole
Field Recording by Eve Essex
After being prompted to do field recording for this project, I went into nature, looking for novel sounds, and was surprised to find that, in the end, what really caught my attention were my most immediate surroundings—my home and practice space.
Like many writers, I feel centered when I write, or it might be better to say, when I don’t write, when I can’t write for whatever reason, I feel, frankly, de-stabilized. It’s dangerous for me not to write.
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Moxie's Decision (Princess Moxie Book 2)
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humor
By Hank Quense
ABOUT Hank Quense
Award-winning author Hank Quense lives in Bergenfield, NJ with his wife Pat. They have two daughters and five grandchildren. He writes humorous fantasy and scifi stories. On occasion, he also writes an article on fiction writing or book marketing but says that writing nonfiction is l More...
Moxie’s story continues! Moxie is determined to rule as queen after her father, King Smedley, dies. But Smedley refuses to acknowledge her as his heir. Her uncle also wants the throne and he’s already tried once to eliminate Moxie’s competition.
Moxie recognizes she hasn't been trained to rule and she needs lessons about the real world. She decides to flee the castle to learn how to rule and to learn about life outside the castle.
Moxie faces unexpected obstacles as she struggles to cope with a brutal reality that tests her mettle and determination.
This is a coming-of-age story that is decidedly different than the usual ones. The book is filled with memorable characters, satire and humor. What more can a reader wish for? The story takes place against a backdrop of Camelot, but this Camelot is in a parallel universe. So don't expect the usual stories and tales. Ain't gonna happen.
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She-Hulk Headlines
DAREDEVIL: Did Kevin Feige Tease Matt Murdock's Return For The Disney+ SHE-HULK Series?
We didn't get confirmation that Daredevil will return in Spider-Man 3 during Disney's Inventors Day, but there's speculation that Kevin Feige may have been teasing The Man Without Fear for She-Hulk...
Filed Under: "She-Hulk"
Daredevil fans were hoping for an official announcement regarding Matt Murdock's rumored return in the currently shooting Spider-Man 3 during last night's Disney Investors Day, and while that never came, we did get a possible tease of the Man Without Fear's involvement in the Disney+ She-Hulk series.
After first confirming the return of both Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner) and Tim Roth (Abomination), Kevin Feige sent speculation into overdrive by hinting at other lawyers Jennifer Walters may or may not encounter during her adventures, before adding, "in courtrooms in the MCU you never know who you will run into."
Of course, Feige may not be referencing Daredevil specifically, but a lot of fans are convinced that Charlie Cox will indeed reprise the role for the Disney+ series. After all, if Marvel Studios does intend to bring the Devil of Hell's Kitchen into the MCU, She-Hulk would be a great place to fully re-establish the character following what's said to be little more than a cameo in the Far From Home sequel.
We're still waiting on video/audio of Feige's comments to put these quotes into better context, so it's probably best not to put too much stock into this supposed Daredevil tease for the time being.
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige hints that other lawyers could show up in She-Hulk... did someone call for Matt Murdock/Daredevil? pic.twitter.com/V0046x9zgk
— IGN (@IGN) December 11, 2020
She-Hulk arrives to the MCU! Tatiana Maslany will portray Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk and Tim Roth returns as the Abomination and Hulk himself, Mark Ruffalo, will appear in the series. Directed Kat Coiro and Anu Valia, She-Hulk is coming to #DisneyPlus pic.twitter.com/z4OlQJhrlr
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
Marvel's Kevin Feige On The Possibility Of Charlie Cox Returning As DAREDEVIL: "We'll See"
Rumors have been circulating that Charlie Cox might be set to reprise the role of Matt Murdock/Daredevil in both Spider-Man 3 and She-Hulk, and Marvel's Kevin Feige has now addressed those reports...
RUMOR MILL: Could Krysten Ritter Return As Jessica Jones For Disney+ SHE-HULK Series?
A rumor that Charlie Cox might be set to reprise the role of Daredevil for the upcoming She-Hulk series did the rounds recently, and we're now hearing that Krysten Ritter's Jessica Jones could join him...
SHE-HULK Episode Count Seemingly Revealed By Two Of The Show's Directors
Two of the directors confirmed for Disney+'s She-Hulk TV series have revealed how much of the show they'll be working on, giving us an idea of the episode count. Find out more details after the jump...
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Meet Arielle Antoinette Pedmour (@arielleantoinette_makeup).
She’s a Professional Makeup Artist and CEO of Double A Makeup Artistry.
Arielle’s worked with celebrities like LeToya Luckett, Dr. Heavenly, and Tamika Scott. You can also spot her work in publications like Essence and Rolling Out She’s turned her skill into an innovative product with @theofficialmakeupkit and popular Glam Camps.
Listen to her journey about starting out as a girl who just wanted to feel better about herself growing into a sought-after artist.
Learn how she overcame not having a steady paycheck, internet trolls, & changing trends.
I feel like you need to kinda know which genre you want to be in and stay true to that, because there’s gonna be trends that pop up and go away.
Arielle Antoinette Pedmour
Professsional Makeup Artist
Christiana: Hey guys, we’re here to talk to Arielle. A professional makeup artist. You’ve seen
her work on celebrities like Yandy and Dr. Heavenly and on publications like
Rolling Out. You may have even seen her work on Family Hustle, the TV show.
So what we’re gonna do today is get a little look behind the scenes on how she
creates the works of art that she does on people’s faces and her story about
how she became a professional makeup artist. So you ready? Let’s go.
Hey girl!
Arielle: Hi! How are you?
Christiana: Thanks for having us! No problem. I’m really excited to get talking about your professional
makeup artist business.
Arielle: Yes, me too.
Christiana: You ready to talk?
Arielle: I’m so ready. Let’s go!
So you ready? Let’s go.
C: So how did this all get started? Why a professional makeup artist?
A: Basically, as a child, I didn’t really feel comfortable, I didn’t feel confident, pretty any of that stuff. So I started playing with makeup about 2011. I started getting paid maybe like a year or two after that.
Before then it was just practicing and building that experience, playing, creating enhancements on me, friends, family. I just I felt like it was like my happy place so I kept I kept going with it.
C: When did the transition into being a business?
I just I felt like it was like my happy place so I kept I kept going with it.
Professional Makeup Artist
A: Pretty much within the last two to three years when I went full-time. So basically I did you know just little gigs, little jobs or whatever, and I just I kept getting better as I practiced and practice on other people and then people were just willing to actually pay for it.
And back then it wasn’t so much as everyone wanted to be a makeup artist as it is now so it was kind of like, you know, I was getting business. I’m still gonna business, but it was – it was a thing to to work up to so I kept with it.
C: So what got you to take that leap? Because a lot of people are sitting in an office right now thinking I need to GO.
A: So I planned – I planned for months. You have to definitely make like an exit plan. So I
saved, I built. I have a mentor. She definitely was very influential in that as well, she just helped me to walk out on faith pretty much.
And so, yeah, I planned what month I was gonna leave, the day, and I wrote my notice and I left.
C: And as a business owner have you, do you feel like you’ve changed it all since you started?
A: I feel like I’ve learned a lot more as far as people goes, just how to, you know, deal with people and kind of be more strict.
I’m really easygoing and just more on the nicer side so I try to you know I have to step it up a little bit and be more strict so like as far as booking goes, scheduling time, and stuff like that. It’s just it’s a lot easier when I have a system.
Well, I usually have people booked online. There’s usually a deposit or you can do like the entire fee, and so you know it kind of makes – it makes like an agreement kind of so you’re not gonna forget. You’ve already paid, you’ve already signed up, it’s like foolproof.
C: So you try to get people to kind of commit upfront to showing up and letting you do the work. At a specific time, place, and everything.
A: Yeah, it’s like they’re obligated almost
C: That’s wonderful. When did you set that all up? The online booking…
A: I did that… I started that maybe… maybe like two to three years now. Before then I was kind of just manually doing it, and I felt like it was giving me a bit of anxiety like it was a lot just to keep record just mentally and on my phone so online is definitely the way to go.
C: What kind of tools did you use to so do the online booking?
A: So I like Square and Acuity is a good one too, but Square’s like my go to.
C: So give us some highlights of your career so far what have you really – kind of – what can you look back and go wow I really did that!
A: I’ve worked on a few projects. Lately there’s a show that’s been out Family Hustle on vh1 that was that was pretty awesome. And I’ve done that for two seasons and I’ve also gone into Married to Medicine, working with Dr. Heavenly and Quad… Contessa and also like shooting for Rolling Out and Essence so those were pretty pretty dope.
C: How were you able to get those? Because those are pretty big deals yeah those are pretty big shows and pretty big celebrities so how did you land those?
A: The first person I did actually was Yandy. Of course I remember the first person. So, basically, social media. Like we have social media, we have this giant engine where anybody can really see what you’re doing. Especially if you’re consistent.
Yandy’s publicist, she reached out when they had an event here In Atlanta. She was like my first celebrity so it was it was it was pretty big. At what point was that that – did that happen early in your career or was it after some time?
This was like three years ago.
I planned what month I was gonna leave, the day, and I wrote my notice and I left.
C: So it sounds as though you were being consistent on social media for… how long would you say?
A: I feel like Instagram kind of came around like 2012-13. So, pretty much since then I’ve been posting.
The quality has definitely changed but, yeah, it’s been a long time.
C: Yeah so I mean, you were on there for about five years before somebody said “hey”.
A: Yeah.
C: Wow, and I mentioned that because a lot of people think Instagram’s like a magic pill.
A: No, it’s not.
C: So what would you say the combination – what combination of actions do you think kind of led to that first big break?
A: Definitely consistency.
I feel like you need to kind of know which genre you want to be in and stay true to that, because there’s gonna be trends that pop up and go away.
But I feel like me knowing, you know, which type of looks work best for me as an artist, that’s kind of what stood out as well.
C: Now, how has your business changed? Because I follow you on Instagram and I see that you do different things, but I imagine that’s not how you started off. So how is your business, the things you do to either earn money or share your knowledge, how has that changed through
A: Well starting off I pretty much just did clients and I mean I still do clients but now I’ve evolved into more so teaching, because I want other women to, you know, know how to do it as well just being on set and I offer now like kits so women could actually learn their makeup.
They’ll have their own personal items and learn it.
C: So what is it like for you as the artist, to see your work either on a magazine or on a small screen or on Instagram photos? People kind of showing off their faces after you’ve done the work?
A: it’s a good and a kind of eerie side to it. Of course it’s fulfilling and you know it’s a good feeling to know that you’ve helped this person in some shape or form. Even if it’s just makeup, you know, whether it’s you know building confidence or just it’s their engagement photos, their Christmas photos.
It’s like a once in a lifetime event for them.
You know, social media also has like trolls and things of that nature so people are just willing to give their opinion and so that’s kind of the eerie side so you have to kind of deal with that as well as the good side.
C: How has it affected you as the artist?
A: Obviously, if they’re not there on set or at the person’s house, they don’t know, you know,
different scenarios that played behind the scenes so that kind of – that kind of plays into it. But of course they wouldn’t know that.
C: How does it affect you to see people kind of being judgmental, If you will, without knowing the whole story.
A: I feel like I’ve gotten better with it. You kind of you kind of just learn to deal with it. Most of those pages you go to there’s like nothing on their page. It’s like okay where did what are you
doing? I mean you just kind of have to roll with it. It comes with it.
C: What have you experienced as obstacles? What have you have to overcome in order
to either continue doing this full-time or have people continue paying you for your expertise?
A: I feel like I really had to fully commit. I was trying to juggle, you know, just a regular job and then also what I’m really passionate about. So I feel like that was an obstacle I had to come over.
C: What does that look like?
A: I don’t to say necessarily a specific religion, because you know everyone believes in their own beliefs. But just having a good faith in what you’re doing and you know knowing that you’re on the right path.
C: So an obstacle for you was getting past those lean times. Is there anything else that you
felt like you needed to overcome to be a professional makeup artist?
A: I guess getting outside of my head too. Nowadays there’s a lot of competition or just other people out there doing the same thing so I feel like just not really paying attention to that and just stay you know staying the course staying true to yourself.
That’s what you got to do.
C: Now let’s go into some advice that you might have. First, advice for yourself. What would you tell young Arielle who was looking in the mirror looking, you know, not seeing the things that she wanted to see. And looking for ways to maybe feel better about herself.
Knowing what you know now, what would you tell her?
A: Don’t take what, you know, other people say so literally. Open your mouth more. I’m kind of still learning how to do that now, but just opening your mouth, networking, talking to other people.
Because you never know like who you’re talking to and who they may know and just what opportunities can come from that. A lot – I feel like a lot of opportunities come from another person. So definitely open your mouth and just be just be you, be confident in what you’re doing.
Because you never know like who you're talking to and who they may know ... So definitely open your mouth and just be just be you, be confident in what you're doing.
C: And now looking out. Looking at other people who are trying to get into this
industry. What kind of advice would you have for them?
A: I would definitely say be consistent. We have we have the internet, we have social media, definitely use those. We don’t know how long it’s going to be here.
Like Instagram goes down every other day now, it seems like. But definitely use social media, network we have a lot of events especially here in Atlanta so definitely get just get out the house.
If you have to go by yourself, don’t worry about if Tiffany’s coming, just do your thing.
C: So we just got done talking to Arielle Antoinette and she walked us through how her perseverance, her determination, and her consistency landed her her first big break.
What really stuck with me is how she turned a personal problem that she was struggling with into a solution that she turned into a business. Some of you watching right now are dealing with something personal.
You’re solving the issue for yourself. But maybe this episode inspired you a little bit to turn that solution for yourself into a solution to other people, because I know it did that for me. Well, that’s it for today.
I hope you enjoyed this episode and I’ll talk to you next time. Bye!
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Sami Zayn Religion, Ethnicity and Nationality
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Not many people know about the real name of Sami Zayn. As everybody knows, he is one of the best wrestlers on earth. He was born as Rami Sebei in Quebec, Canada on July 12, 1984. Based on his appearances, we can say that he is a part of Middle Eastern descent. His name also a Muslim common name. So, what is Sami Zaynle true religion? Let’s we find out it together. Sami Zaynle began his professional wrestler career in 2002 by joined IWS under the stage name El Generico and he successful to defeated Kevin Steen. During his career, Sami Zaynle has achieve so many achievements including one NXT Championship, one Slammy Awards, two PWG World Championship and many more.
Back to his religion, as above explanation, he is a part of Middle Eastern descent. Based on our research, his parents are Syrian descent, most of Syrian are Muslim and he was raised by Muslim family. At an interview, Sami Zaynle said that he speak Arabic fluently. He also started to crowdfund for war victims in Syria. His crowdfunding name is Sami for Syria and it has reached more than $70.000 until now.
Name: Sami Zaynle
Religion: Islam
Ethnicity: Syrian – Canadian
Nationality: Canadian
Ethnicity Faith Islam Muslim Nationality Parents Religion Sami Zayn
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Crazy About Miss Julia
In her latest book in the Miss Julia series, Ann B. Ross considers the lunatic reach of love
By Faye Jones | April 8, 2010
It’s appropriate that Ann B. Ross should begin her eleventh Miss Julia novel with a lecture by the protagonist, who warns Hazel Marie’s intended that he better not break his bride’s heart: “Seeing is believing, and with your marital history—which you’ve taken no pains to conceal—I have every reason in the world to worry. Three wives, Mr. Pickens, and not a one of them took. Marry ’em and leave ’em, that seems to be your motto, and I’m telling you now, I am not going to have Hazel Marie treated in that fashion.”
The problem in Miss Julia Renews Her Vows is not just that Hazel Marie’s fiancé has been married three times before; the problem is also that Hazel Marie is pregnant. With twins. Miss Julia is determined to keep Hazel Marie from suffering any social consequences from her behavior: “[N]ow came the need for explanations and cover-ups and outright lies that in the long run no one would believe,” she says. “In truth, however, I didn’t care whether anyone believed them or not, just so they acted as if they did.”
But Hazel Marie’s reputation will soon become only one of several issues that plague the notorious busybody, Miss Julia. First, there’s the reappearance of Francie Pitts, a much-married and much-widowed woman, presumbably in search of husband number six. Then Francie gets attacked in her ritzy retirement apartment and blames Etta Mae Wiggins, a home health worker. Miss Julia knows that Etta Mae would never hurt anyone and starts sleuthing for the real culprit.
But what finally sends Miss Julia to her sick bed is her husband Sam’s suggestion that they attend a marriage-enrichment class. That’s bad enough: what woman wants to be told her marriage needs enriching (and Miss Julia knows what that really means)? But, even worse, it’s being taught by a single man who still lives with his mother and who happens to the source of a moment of shame in Miss Julia’s past.
Ross fans know that, in the end, Miss Julia will set everything right. The fun is in seeing how Miss Julia—nine parts Southern matron and one part detective— does it. She knows how to invite everyone to a luncheon that will announce Hazel Marie’s condition in just the right way, but she is also willing to get on her knees and crawl out of a meeting if it keeps her out of her nemesis’s line of vision. If you’re unacquainted with this Southern force of nature, you’ll be hooked by the end of this novel, and if you’re a faithful fan, reading this novel will feel like catching up with an old friend.
Ann B. Ross will read from and sign copies of Miss Julia Renews Her Vows at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Memphis on April 9 at 7 p.m.
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Village Hall Update
This is the first of progress reports which Antonia Stratford, chairman of the Village Hall Committee, plans to write on the building of the new village hall. The old one was demolished at the beginning of August – with a mixture of nostalgia and relief for some. The next stage, once the rubble has been removed is when builders, Furlong and Higgs, start on the foundations and the brick plinth. The timber frame is due to arrive on site in mid October. Feel free to view progress on site at any time, from behind the safety barrier or just wait for the next update on Chearsley News.
Amended plans for 2 – 4 Winchendon Road
New plans have been submitted to AVDC by The Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust for 5 x 2 bed dwellings; 1 x 3 bedroom dwelling; and 1 x 4 bedroom dwelling and a revised access. More details can be found and comments can be made via the AVDC website. Reference for this application is 16/03565/APP which can be accessed from the AVDC Planning web page. Comments can also be sent to the Planning Department at The Gateway, Aylesbury, HP19 8FF. A comment from Chearsley Parish Council chairman can also be viewed on the Parish Council website.
The Chearsley Village Classic & Vintage Fun Day takes place on Sunday September 10th from 12pm. Entries for this annual event in the grounds of Chearsley Cricket Club are still very welcome. If you would like to show your vintage or classic vehicle please register as soon as possible online at www.ccvfd.co.uk . Pitches for auto jumble or for charity fund raising are also available. It is hoped that at this, the show’s 6th year, there will be more than 250 vehicles. In addition to the classic and vintage cars, vehicles and steam engines, there will be live music, fun fair, food stalls, arts and crafts stalls, bar, vintage bus trips. It is also planned for there to be a fly past by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. A great day for all the family with no charge for entry or car parking. All money raised goes towards the Junior Section of Chearsley Cricket Club
Red Kite Radio Station
This very new local radio station operating from Haddenham Garden Centre has been advertising our Classic and Vintage Fun Day in their hourly Freetime spot, when information on not-for-profit local events are detailed. Listen out for Cuddington villager Chris Long who will soon be presenting a weekly show of 70's music on Monday evenings. Red Kite Radio can be found at 107.2fm.
3 Peaks Challenge
A group of regulars at The Bell, including landlady, Sharon, are well into their training schedule to enable them to succeed in their attempt to climb the three highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales in 24 hours. Eight men and women, of all ages are taking part to raise funds for Sobell House Hospice charity, which is the current pub charity. The challenge involves climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowden within 24 hours. The success of the group not only depends on their fitness but also on the weather being suitable for the climbs and to a vital team of drivers and supporters to get them to each mountain.
This will all take place on the weekend of September 16th. If you would like to sponsor them, please talk to Sharon at The Bell or go to their just giving page at www.justgiving.com/fundraising/chearsleychallengers. Well done to them all for even contemplating taking part and good luck.
After the Summer break, Bingo will be starting again on Tuesday September 5 at The Bell with Eyes Down around 8.45pm when there is the chance to win some good cash prizes. Come along earlier for a meal at a special price for Bingo players. It can get quite crowded and noisy, all good humoured, light hearted fun.
Garden Party, Fashion Show and Sale on Bank Holiday Monday August 28 at Tyringham Hall, Cuddington at 2pm. Tickets are £5 available from Liz on 01844 299150 for an afternoon of cream tea and fun and the chance to buy the modelled clothes at affordable prices. All money raised goes to the Cuddington Sunshine Club and other charities.
The Sunshine Club is run by volunteers and provides social activities and tea every fortnight on Mondays from 2 to 4pm and currently has a number of Chearsley villagers attending.
Cream Teas at Nether Winchendon Sunday and Monday Bank Holiday Weekend Hopefully the weather will encourage visitors to Nether Winchendon church to enjoy a cream tea from 2.30 to 5pm on both Sunday and Monday 27 and 28th August. Nether Winchendon House garden will be open on these days from 2 to 5.30pm as part of the National Garden Scheme. Entry is £4. Children free. Tours of the house cost £4.
Dinton Parish Traditional Fete on Sunday August 27 This takes place on the Parish field, Dinton from 1.30 to 4.30pm with the usual fete attractions, raffle, and also award winning Colonel Custard, Bletchington Silver Band and, weather permitting, a Lancaster fly past.
Turn End, Haddenham
A new documentary by award winning film director, Murray Grigor and director of photography, Hamid Shams, tells the story of the creation of the group of 3 houses and garden (now 50 years old) and how their design reflects the unique features of Haddenham. It is being screened on Thursday, August 31st at 6.30pm for 7.00pm in the Community Centre, Woodways, Haddenham. Booking is essential and tickets can be obtained for £5 from the library, Blooming Fruity, The Egg House or online. The 45 minute film will be followed by questions and discussions with the directors of the film and Peter Aldington, the architect of the houses. Find out more about Turn End at www.turnend.org.uk.
Paul Persson The funeral of Paul takes place on Thursday, August 24 at 2.30pm at St Mary’s Church, Thame. Everyone is very welcome to attend.
Services at St Nicholas:
Sunday August 20 at 9am Holy Communion
Sunday August 27 at 10am Family Service
Until September 9 Eric Carte appearing in Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web at The Mill at Sonning
Wednesday August 23 Pub lunch at 12.30pm at The Bell. All are welcome to join this group every 2 weeks, aimed at the older person for a good 2 course lunch and to support The Bell. See Sharon at The Bell if you are interested or phone me, Margaret on 208913
Sunday August 27 1.30 to 4.30pm Dinton Parish Fete
Sunday August 27 and Bank Holiday Monday August 28 Cream Teas at Nether Winchendon from 2.30 to 5pm
Bank Holiday Monday August 28 Garden Party, Fashion Show and Sale at Tyringham Hall at 2pm.
Tuesday September 5 Bingo at The Bell.
Sunday September 10 Chearsley Classic & Vintage Fun Day from 12 noon at the Cricket Club
Door to Door Sales - Teak Furniture
I have received a report that a gentleman in a large white van has been knocking on doors in Chearsley today, and claiming that a 'close neighbour' has recommended their fine teak furniture.
The normal advice applies:
Always ask for identification before letting anyone you don't know into your house.
Check credentials, including a permanent business address and landline telephone number. The mobile phone numbers given on business cards are often pay-as-you-go numbers which are virtually impossible to trace.
Take control by asking the questions. Ask for references from previous customers or to see examples of their work.
Don’t sign on the spot – shop around. Get at least three written quotes to make sure you’re not being ripped off.
If in any doubt, ask the person to leave or call Citizens Advice on 03454 04 05 06.
If you’re suspicious, why not ask the salesman if you can take their photograph – on your mobile phone, for example? If the person is legitimate, they probably won’t mind.
More advice and information can be found at Action Fraud and Gov.uk.
The bottom line is that a genuine salesman has nothing to hide and will always be prepared to call back. And if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
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Chic Life Thru My Lens
Glad to see you've found my little corner of the internet!
evermore album!!!!
December 15, 2020 December 17, 2020 | Hreem
hey guyssss!
I hope you’re all doing great and enjoying the start of the holidays (if they’ve started for you yet).
I am aware that I’m here with another Taylor Swift album review just around 4 months after the last one but IT’S NOT MY FAULT! I blame Taylor for releasing another amazing album so fast.
Lol the only thing I’m upset about is that I was planning to talk about Little Mix’s album ‘Confetti’ and I already wrote most of the post but then came evermore and I just … I couldn’t not. If you guys wouldn’t mind/would be interested in a post about Confetti do let me know cause I really love that album, it’s in my top 5 of the albums released this year.
So yeah, onto evermore.
Taylor decided to once again drop a surprise album less than 5 months after the last one (folklore). evermore and folklore are sister albums so the sound is almost the same and the songs are still written as if you’re telling a story. But evermore sounds a bit more mature to me and the production sounds a lot more magical while folklore sounded more melancholy. The topics of the songs are really interesting too, like a rejected proposal, a murder mystery and a song about her grandmother.
It’s just such a good album and ohmygosh the lyrics, the lyricssss. The lyrics are heaven sent and that’s all I can say. Plus the fact that this album was made in around 4 months??? and it’s a masterpiece??
Now here are my top 5 lyrics and my current ranking of the songs. Super hard to decide by the way.
You had a speech, you’re speechless. Loved slipped beyond your reaches. And I couldn’t give a reason. – champagne problems
I don’t like that falling feels like flying till the bone crush. – gold rush (I HAVE BEEN OBSESSED WITH THIS LYRIC SINCE THE SECOND I HEARD IT, incase you were wondering ☺️)
I know my love should be celebrated but you tolerate it AND I made you my temple, my mural, my sky. Now I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life. – tolerate it
Don’t treat me like some situation that needs to be handled. I’m fine with my spite and my tears and my beers and my candles. – closure
Tadaaa.
Finally, here is my ranking of the songs which has changed *so much* since my first listen.
no body, no crime
tolerate it
’tis the damn season
cowboy like me
Now actually tada lol. There it is.
I hope you enjoyed this post and if you made it this far you deserve a round of applause *cue the applause*.
Have you listened to evermore? What are your thoughts and which songs do you like or dislike? Do comment because I’d love to chat!
Love, Hreem xx
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I Love the folkore Album!
August 4, 2020 November 24, 2020 | Hreem
Hey everybodyyy
I hope you’re enjoying your summer (if you can lol). I can’t believe it’s already August!!
This year took forever but it also went by super fast and it’s really strange but I mean, has anything been normal this year?
Sooo this post is about Taylor Swift’s new album that she announced on July 23rd (rip 1D’s anniversary) and released on July 24th, THAT FAST. I was so confused when I saw the post about it because she had just released her last album (Lover) less than a year ago so nobody saw this coming.
The album was written in the first 3 months of quarantine so you would expect the quality of work to be a little less but it is her best album to date. It’s not her best album in the conventional way of being full of radio engineered pop hits with catchy melodies and stuff, it’s more about the lyrics and the fact that the album is so well-written and a lyrical masterpiece. If you haven’t listened to the album you should do that right now (after reading my post heheh) because I love ittt.
My ranking of songs when I first heard them is so different to the ranking now, I can’t believe I put some of those songs that low at the beginning lol. Also it’s impossible to rank them because I love almost all of them equally but here is my attempt right now:
my tears ricochet
illicit affairs
invisible string
this is me trying
mad woman
mirrorball
This is such a soft and storylike album that you should listen to on a rainy night, with pretty candles, wrapped in a cardigan (heh) and while drinking tea?? maybe?? Something super cool she did is she wrote three songs about a teenage love triangle and each song is from the perspective of a different person, if you don’t listen to anything else at least listen to those three (cardigan, betty & august). It’s so interesting once you see the lyrical parrallels in those songs.
Anyways I hope you enjoyed reading this post even though it isn’t as interesting because I really love music and it’s fun to tell other people about music ☺️
Let me know what songs you’ve heard/liked from the album in the comments or just tell me about your favourite album from any artist, I love reading your comments! 💖💖
(p.s. I’d love if you could check out my covers 🙂
Romance by Camila Cabello ❤️
December 14, 2019 June 30, 2020 | Hreem
I hope you’re enjoying December so far. It’s raining a bit at the moment and I am currently at school so that’s very exciting.
SO. I have been a fan of Camila Cabello since around ‘Crying in the Club’ I think (also I loved all of the girls from Fifth Harmony but we’re not going to talk about that right now). I love all of the songs from her first album as a solo artist and I even got to see her perform live at Redfest in February! Of course, she was amazing and sounds even better than the studio recording, anything else?
On Friday (the 6th of December) Camila released her second album, ‘Romance’. To say that I was excited is an understatement. I loved all of the singles she put out before the album and I was surprised she released so many lol. All of the songs are related to romance, obviously. The cover of the album is also very pretttyyyy. So this is my ranking of the songs atm (I don’t hate any, I just like some more than others) ♥️
Used To This
Should’ve Said It
Dream of You
Bad Kind of Butterflies
Feel It Twice
There are so many amazing lyrics and concepts in this album that I actually never expected and Camila is really more brave and confident with her voice which I love. I mean, have you heard living proof?
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this album so please comment down below your fav songs too!!
xo Hreem
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Hey! As you may know, my name is Hreem and you are reading my blog about life, food, travel, music and anything else that doesn't come into any of those categories! I'm just your average weird middle school girl who hates homework and loves food ❤️ I hope you like my blog!
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cipptvmastercontrol October 22, 2017 mbn news, Stories
Province Demands Portage Change Name Of Saskatchewan Ave. To Pallister Boulevard
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is honoured with Saskatchewan Ave. in Portage la Prairie re-named Pallister Boulevard
Winnipeg, MB –
With the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on the upswing, the Saskatchewan Roughriders lagging and a Portage la Prairie native as Premier, the time has come for Portage la Prairie to change the name of its main street.
Officials from the Provincial Government have requested the City of Portage la Prairie look at changing the name of Saskatchewan Avenue to something more supportive of Manitoba.
“I’m a mild Blue Bomber fan and I’ve always been kind of embarrassed by the name of our main street,” Portager Marvin Murdoch said. “It’s hard to spell and for Americans coming here to hunt, it’s hard to say.”
Representatives from the City of Winnipeg were quick to weigh in on the name change suggesting Portage la Prairie should return the favour and name their main drag after Winnipeg.
“Portage Avenue is world-famous and we are proud of our main street name being connected to Portage la Prairie,” Winnipeg spokesperson Michelle Watson said. “I think Winnipeg Avenue would be a perfect option for Portage la Prairie.”
The City of Brandon emailed their support for using Brandon Avenue as an alternative but the notion was quickly dismissed, as no one from the city wanted the branding associated with Brandon.
Lobbying efforts have included calls for the street to be re-named MacGregor Avenue and Oakville Avenue but no one has advocated for Newton Avenue or Elie Avenue.
Ridiculous suggestions have come in from as far west as Alberta with Calgary and Edmonton Avenue being put on the table. From the east, the City of Toronto automatically recommended the street be called Toronto Avenue.
To satisfy the political pressure from the Premier’s Office in Winnipeg Portage was provided an initial short list of options and narrowed it down to the following names.
Campbell Avenue in honour of Douglas Campbell 13th Premier of Manitoba.
Weir Avenue after Walter Weir 15th Premier of Manitoba. This was taken off the list after it was noted although Mr. Weir was born in High Bluff, educated in Portage la Prairie he did move to Saskatchewan to become an undertaker.
Pallister Boulevard to honour our current Premier and fellow Portager Brian Pallister.
Manitobah Avenue to pay homage to Portage la Prairie’s fleeting Republic of Manitobah led by Thomas Spence.
In a shocking and completely self-serving attempt to suck up, city officials have indicated Pallister Avenue will be the new name of Portage la Prairie’s main street formerly known as Saskatchewan Avenue.
Costa Rico To Join Canada – Pallister To Be First Premier of Two Provinces
Unnamed and unreliable sources say the decision was made to apply more pressure on the provincial government to fund the completion of the street in the west end of Portage.
“Hey I’m all for calling it Pallister Boulevard if it gets the rest of it paved,” Marvin Murdoch said. “We all know he can put the bull in boulevard.”
“I think it’s nice to honour our home town hero,” Angela Fledner offered. “Brian is so tall he should have a street named after him.”
Notice to readers/disclaimer – click here to read about the fictional and satirical nature of this story and website. That means it is a joke. Humour. Not real. Please read and share responsibly.
Photo credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Posted in mbn news, Stories and tagged Brandon, Brian Pallister, Douglas Campbell, elie, humour, MacGregor, oakville, Pallister Boulevard, Portage la Prairie, Portager, Premier Brian Pallister, Re-name, Republic of Manitbah, Saskatchewan Avenue, satire, Thomas Spence, Walter Weir, winnipeg. Bookmark the permalink.
Bill Boskwick on October 26, 2017 at 8:58 am
Let’s call it “Bipole III Bvd”……
Portage Woman’s Miracle Signs Can Fix Crime & All Other Problems
Portager Doesn’t Get Most Tragically Hip Songs Must Flee To U.S.A. For Safety
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How Can I Make My Girlfriend Feel Good About Herself?
MICHELE BLOOD
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You can invest a lot of time and effort building a stellar relationship, but if your girlfriend feels bad about herself, you may be fighting a losing battle. Even women with healthy levels of self-esteem benefit from a boost now and then. Helping your girlfriend feel confident and secure can be challenging, but the payoff of a solid and satisfying relationship is worth the effort.
Start a Covert Operation
Consider the Big Picture
Compliment Carefully
Consider Professional Help
1 Start a Covert Operation
A large scale study conducted by researchers at San Diego State and the University of Georgia, published in 2013 in the "Personality and Social Psychology Review," debunked a common myth that teenage girls regularly experience a drop in self-esteem during adolescence. The reality is that self-esteem for both genders typically rises throughout high school and college. At any age, overhearing a glowing discussion about your personality or your achievements carries a powerful, positive punch. Do a little bragging about your girlfriend to family members, friends, classmates or coworkers. When word eventually gets back to her -- and it often will -- not only will she feel better about herself, she will feel better about your relationship, as well.
2 Consider the Big Picture
Psychologist Celeste Gertsen has noted that self-esteem problems can develop at a very young age. Women who were abused as children and those whose parents divorced when they were young may be particularly vulnerable. Whether your girlfriend has low, moderate or high levels of self-esteem, always keep the lines of communication open. Consider asking your girlfriend directly how she feels about herself or share details about any self-esteem issues with which you have struggled. Assure her that your affection for her goes beyond what she looks like or what she can do. Let her know that you care about her as a person.
3 Compliment Carefully
When offering compliments, be specific. Focus on highlighting aspects of her personality or behavior rather than physical beauty. For example, if your girlfriend looks particularly nice, rather than saying "Wow, you look hot in that dress," instead say "I love your fashion sense." Be careful to avoid speaking or behaving in ways that could lead her to believe that your love and affection are only available as rewards -- though this is a good practice in any relationship, it's especially important if your girlfriend has low self-esteem. When she has had a bad day or has failed to achieve a goal, assure her that you still believe in her; remind her of past successes and let her know you are proud of her.
4 Consider Professional Help
In some cases, you may need assistance to help your girlfriend feel good about herself. Some self-esteem issues arise from or exist concurrently with more severe problems. Women with eating and mood disorders, for example, very regularly suffer from issues with self-esteem. If your girlfriend suffers from a self-esteem problem which also involves serious physical, neurological or psychological difficulties, it is important to encourage her to see a professional. Assisting her in finding affordable professional help and offering to attend the appointment with her can give her the confidence necessary to take the next steps.
1 Personality and Social Psychology Review: Age and Birth Cohort Differences in Self-Esteem: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis
2 PsychCentral: Self-Esteem Struggles and Strategies That Can Help
Based in beautiful central New Jersey, Dr. Michele Blood leverages her knowledge of human behavior to write compelling copy for a variety of print and digital outlets including Skydive Jersey's SkyBlog, gDecide.com, ProQuest, SoloPRPro, and FindLaw, a Reuters subsidiary.
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Almoravids. 'Alî ibn Yûsuf, 500-537 H./1106-1143 AD, alone Billon dirham 509 H., Madînat Mursîya (Murcia).
Starting price: 30 EUR
Almohads. 'Abd al-Mu'min ibn 'Alî, 524-558 H/1130-1163 AD Square half dirham no date, Fâs.
Starting price: 150 EUR
Aghlabids. Ibrâhîm II, 261-289 H/874-902 AD Dinar 289 H., no mint.
Ikhshidids. Abû l-Qâsim Unujûr ibn al-Ikhshîd, 334-349 H./946-961 AD. Dinar 342 H.
Fatimid Caliphate. al-Qâ'im bi'amrillâh, 322-334 H./934-946 AD. Dinar 324 H.
Great Britain. Victoria, 1837-1901, Florin 1852, Gothic type.
Anhalt-Bernburg. Victor Friedrich, 1721-1765, 1/3 Taler Fine silver, 1750, Harzgerode mint.
Mansfeld-Vorderort-Friedeburg. Peter Ernst I., Bruno II., Gebhard VIII. and Johann Georg IV., 1587-1601, Taler 1595, Eisleben mint.
Danzig, Free city. 25 Gulden 1930, Berlin mint.
Starting price: 2000 EUR
Habsburg/Austria. Minting die for 100 Schilling 1929, GOLD, Reverse side.
Naville Numismatics, UK-London
11-06-2016 – 01-01-1970
Live Auction 23
Naville Numismatics’ Live Auction 23
Naville Numismatics presents its 23rd Live Auction. The auction will close on Sunday 12 June 2016, 16.00 UK time, at which time the live session will begin. Absentee bidders can bid electronically through Naville Numismatics website from the day the sale is published online up to the start of the live Session. It features a selection from the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection. In 1956 Vladimir and Elvira received an invitation to become Curators of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. Here, they developed one of the most extensive and important collections in the world. When the Smithsonian opened their new building in 1961 called The National Museum of American History, the Stefanelli’s secured a large area to become The National Numismatic Collection. The collection contained 60,000 coins, and upon the death of Dr. Stefanelli in 1982, it had grown to more than 900,000 pieces. Due to the endless efforts of Dr.& Mrs. Stefanelli, they received donations from the Dupont Collection of the Mihailovich Russian Collection (one of the most complete in the world), the Norwebs, Paul Straub, Zabriski, Neiken and the Stack Family. Probably the most notable collection they were able to solicit was the Josiah K. Lily Collection of 6200 gold coins, a complete set of U.S. gold coins including Pioneer and Territorial Collections.
Lot 251: Egypt, Alexandria, Hadrian, ca. 117-138 (year 8), drachm. Geissen 1123. Dattari -. BMC 758. From the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection. Attractive light green patina. Good to very fine. Starting bid: £ 300.
The Clain-Stefanelli’s also lectured and wrote many books about the National Collection, as well as creating instructive and illuminating displays. The highlight exhibit was displayed in 1975, “The Bicentennial History of American Banking”, which became a major landmark learning exhibit for bankers here and abroad.
Lot 131: Sicily, Syracuse Bronze, ca. 274-216. SNG Copenhagen 832. Calciati II, 196. Very rare. Very fine/good fine. From the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection. Starting bid: £ 300.
After Dr. Stefanelli passed away, Elvira took the reins, she completed the computerized inventory of the collection her husband had begun. She continued to write and publish a Numismatic bibliography. She also became the Executive Director of the Numismatic Collection and served until her retirement.
They both had great passion for collecting and assembling coins of the Roman Republic and Southern Europe, especially Italy and Austria-Germany. Their work for the advancement of Numismatics and its studies, their writings, lectures and exhibits will long be remembered as a major milestone in the development and interest of Numismatics.
The auction also features a selection of 510 lots of Greek and Roman coins, all chosen with contribution from NAC’s experts.
The sale begins with a selection of coins from Magna Graecia and Sicily, including bronzes and fractions. Coins from rare mints such as as Ariminum, Ausculum, Matolum, Agyrion, Amenestratus, Centuripae, and Lipara are all featured. In the continental section there is a notable and very rare bronze of Epeiros, as well as an attractive diobol of Aenus.
Of the selection from continental Greece it is important to draw attention to an extremely rare bronze struck in Lesbos for an Homonoia with Mytilene, an unpublished bronze of Trajan for Cyprus and an extremely interesting bronze of Julia Domna struck in Smyrna. There is also a small, but notable, selection of drachms and tetradrachms from Alexandria.
Lot 268: Semunica Luceria, ca. 211-208. D’Ailly 3387. Cf. Sydenham 7. Of the highest rarity: very few specimens known. Attractive brown patina. Good very fine. From the E. E. Clain-Stefanelli collection. Starting bid: £ 180.
The Roman part of the sale boasts an interesting series of Roman Republican bronzes including an extremely rare Semuncia for Luceria (Crawford 27/4), and a rare Semis of the Rostrum tridens series (Crawford 114/3). There is also an impressive selection of denarii including coins of Cn. Pompeius Magnus, Terentius Varro (Crawford 447/1a) and two rare denarii of Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius.
Lot 482: Aurelianus with Severina, double sestertius January-September AD 275. RIC V 1 (Sestertius). CBN 322-6 (Dupondius). Attractive light green patina. Good very fine. From the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection. Starting bid: £ 300.
The Roman Imperial selection includes a notable sestertius of Nero with Adlocutio on the reverse, an extremely rare Semis of Titus with Judaea Capta on the reverse, an interesting sestertius of Antoninus Pius with the Emperor in quadriga; a rare sestertius of Gordian I Africanus and an extremely rare double sestertius of Aurelianus and his wife Severina.
Naville Numismatics Ltd’s partnership with NAC guarantees highly professional numismatic service and certifies an unlimited warranty of authenticity for the lots it sells.
Lots can be viewed at the NN office in London, by prior appointment only.
The auction catalogue is available online.
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Complementary Information and Learning Traps
Annie Liang, Xiaosheng Mu
We develop a model of social learning from complementary information: short-lived agents sequentially choose from a large set of flexibly correlated information sources for prediction of an unknown state, and information is passed down across periods. Will the community collectively acquire the best kinds of information? Long-run outcomes fall into one of two cases: (i) efficient information aggregation, where the community eventually learns as fast as possible; (ii) "learning traps," where the community gets stuck observing suboptimal sources and information aggregation is inefficient. Our main results identify a simple property of the underlying informational complementarities that determines which occurs. In both regimes, we characterize which sources are observed in the long run and how often.
Quarterly Journal of Economics
https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjz033
10.1093/qje/qjz033
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Liang, A., & Mu, X. (2020). Complementary Information and Learning Traps. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135(1), 389-448. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjz033
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Experimental observations of steep temperature steps in dense magnetized plasmas
G. S. Chiu, S. A. Cohen
Plasma Physics Lab
Quasi-steady-state steep temperature steps have been experimentally observed in dense (> 1019m−3) linear magnetized helium plasma columns submerged in a high-density (> 100 mT) neutral-gas environment. The formation of such features is found to be favored by a high neutral gas density or a positive bias (≥ Vfl placed on the end plate. A rapid reduction in plasma density and electron temperature is observed to exist across the steps, as is a dramatic increase in neutral line radiation. Potential steps are inferred. Detailed Langmuir probe measurements have revealed three-dimensional structures. Possible mechanisms of formation are discussed.
10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.1248
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Nanoparticle targeting of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria for magnetic-based separations of bacterial pathogens
Hoang D. Lu, Shirley S. Yang, Brian K. Wilson, Simon A. McManus, Christopher V.H.H. Chen, Robert K. Prud’homme
Princeton Entrepreneurship Council
Antimicrobial resistance is a healthcare problem of increasing significance, and there is increasing interest in developing new tools to address bacterial infections. Bacteria-targeting nanoparticles hold promise to improve drug efficacy, compliance, and safety. In addition, nanoparticles can also be used for novel applications, such as bacterial imaging or bioseperations. We here present the use of a scalable block-copolymer-directed self-assembly process, Flash NanoPrecipitation, to form zinc(II)-bis(dipicolylamine) modified nanoparticles that bind to both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria with specificity. Particles have tunable surface ligand densities that change particle avidity and binding efficacy. A variety of materials can be encapsulated into the core of the particles, such as optical dyes or iron oxide colloids, to produce imageable and magnetically active bacterial targeting constructs. As a proof-of-concept, these particles are used to bind and separate bacteria from solution in a magnetic column. Magnetic manipulation and separation would translate to a platform for pathogen identification or removal. These magnetic and targeted nanoparticles enable new methods to address bacterial infections.
Applied Nanoscience (Switzerland)
Magnetic separations
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Lu, H. D., Yang, S. S., Wilson, B. K., McManus, S. A., Chen, C. V. H. H., & Prud’homme, R. K. (2017). Nanoparticle targeting of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria for magnetic-based separations of bacterial pathogens. Applied Nanoscience (Switzerland), 7(3-4), 83-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-017-0548-0
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Expert Reviews for the Newest Albums
in Rock, Alternative, Hip-Hop, EDM, and More
Japandroids – Celebration Rock
The highly anticipated followup to Post-Nothing burns on and on like the best sort of party
by Megan Ritt
on June 06, 2012, 8:00am
Think of being young, and summer likely comes to mind. It’s a classic trope of American youth that our summers were full of wild rides, big parties, and love affairs. We jumped in the pool fully clothed and smoked cigarettes outside the show, soaked in sweat, bruised from the pit. Summer tempts us to be that kid again, 17 and without responsibilities, brimming with hopes and passions.
We got a taste of that kid’s youthful ambitions on the Japandroids’ debut, 2009’s Post-Nothing, and appropriately we find him grown up a bit on their sophomore effort, Celebration Rock. Un-ironically titled and boldly optimistic, here Japandroids burn through an intense 35 minutes of scorching garage rock that rips into life, shot through with passion and loss.
Celebration Rock opens with fireworks, that eternal symbol of both summer and of sky-bound wonder, before guitar fuzz enters on “The Nights of Wine and Roses”. Here it still seems a lot like Post-Nothing, but Brian King’s vocals rip the sound wide open, the lyrics a marching cry for the young and confused: “We down our drinks in a funnel of friends/ And we burn our blends right down to the ends/ We don’t cry for those nights to arrive/ We yell like hell to the heavens.”
And this is about when you realize that Japandroids have accomplished a rare feat. They have built upon a decent debut, intensified and kept all the best parts while trimming the fat, and their follow-up is a true thing of beauty. They’ve retained the energy that pulses below the surface of the best tracks on Post-Nothing and infused it with more focus. Where Post-Nothing melts into a hazy dream, Celebration Rock does exactly what it claims to do—it burns on and on like the best sort of party.
But none of this would have an impact if it wasn’t earnest. In a culture saturated with irony, Japandroids lay their hearts on the line and it works. Their choruses are packed with heartfelt “whoa-oh-oh”s and the sort of percussion that’s guaranteed to make drummer David Prowse sweat all over his kit as he sings backup. The vocals are raw and sound stripped from a gritty rock show that you didn’t miss because it sounds as if it’s happening right in your headphones. On “Fire’s Highway”, King’s voice strains almost to the breaking point on the line “one night to have and to hold,” and he nearly breaks your heart in the process.
These are the same rowdy kids we saw in Post-Nothing, but they’re no longer just trying to “french kiss some French girls.” In “Young Hearts Spark Fire”, they told us to “keep tomorrow/ after tonight we’re not gonna need it,” but the narrator on Celebration Rock has learned some harder lessons. We’re still at the party, but things have shifted, and the perspective here is wiser. “Death has no respect for love/ and youth no respect for me,” King wails at the end of “Adrenaline Nightshift”. He mourns his innocence on “Younger Us”: “Give me that naked new skin rush/ give me younger us.”
Nowhere are the ideas of loss and recovery more clear than on ripping single “The House That Heaven Built”. The album’s climax runs hot and fast with a chorus that pays tribute to both the loss of a lover and the inevitable reality that life must go on: “When they love you (and they will)/ tell them all they’ll love in my shadow/ and if they try to slow you down/ tell them all to go to hell.” The lyrics, combined with King’s wide-open delivery, wrench the sore spot that comes after a breakup. He remembers the good times (“blush of our bodies in the heat of the night”) but also faces reality (“but you’re not mine to die for anymore/ so I must live”)–the very definition of growing up.
The frantic pace can only be sustained for so long, and the denouement arrives on closer “Continuous Thunder”, which runs slower as a point of relief. “If I had all of the answers/ and you had the body you wanted/ would we love with a legendary fire?” King asks gently. We’ve come through the fire and the intensity to a place of reflection. The song doesn’t answer this question but lets it hang, the process of growth still ongoing.
At the very end, the guitars dissolve into fireworks again, like the aforementioned thunder but also reminiscent of the frantic, passionate Jack Kerouac, whose alter ego in On the Road famously rhapsodizes that he loves people who “burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everyone goes ‘Aww!’” So too does Celebration Rock burn and burn, faster and harder, all the way through to the delirious end, a blur of an album that somehow helps you see more clearly. If you listen to it close and hard enough, you’ll be pleasantly exhausted by the end—like the end of a hard-living, hard-loving summer day — fireworks included.
Essential Tracks: “The House That Heaven Built”, “The Nights of Wine and Roses”, “Adrenaline Nightshift”, and “Continuous Thunder”
Feature artwork by Dmitri Jackson.
Album Review: Oh No – Ohnomite
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Facebook Faces Anti-Trust Lawsuits (REPORT)
(ConservativePeak.com)- Two major antitrust lawsuits were filed against Facebook on Wednesday, and those involved say the company must be broken up.
The suits were filed by the federal government as well as some states. They allege the social media company abused the power it has over the digital marketplace, engaging in what they term anticompetitive behavior in the process.
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking a permanent injunction from a federal court. If approved, it would require Facebook to divest some of its assets, including two other social media companies it acquired — WhatsApp and Instagram.
The case filed by the states are asking for Facebook to be broken up if it’s necessary.
The director of the Bureau of Competition at the FTC, Ian Conner, said in a statement:
“Personal social networking is central to the lives of millions of Americans. Facebook’s actions to entrench and maintain its monopoly deny consumers the benefits of competition. Our aim is to roll back Facebook’s anticompetitive conduct and restore competition so that innovation and free competition can thrive.”
Both of the suits focus on Facebook acquiring and controlling those two other social media apps. In 2012, Facebook said it purchased Instagram for $1 billion. Then, in 2014, it acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion.
About 14 months ago, Letitia James, the attorney general in New York, said she was leading a group of attorneys general that was investigating Facebook for practices they deemed potentially anticompetitive. In the end, attorneys general from more than 40 states signed the complaint.
The FTC’s investigation has been going on since June of last year.
As James announced at a Wednesday press conference:
“For nearly a decade, Facebook has used its dominance and monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition. By using its vast troves of data and money, Facebook has squashed or hindered what the company perceived to be potential threats.”
One of the other requests of the lawsuit is a requirement that Facebook must notify state officials if they plan to make an acquisition valued at $10 million or more.
Facebook responded on Wednesday, disputing the claims in the two cases. In a statement, Facebook’s vice president and general counsel, Jennifer Newstead, said:
“The most important fact in this case, which the Commission does not mention in its 53-page complaint, is that it cleared these acquisitions years ago. The government now wants a do-over, sending a chilling warning to American business that no sale is every final.
“People and small businesses don’t choose to use Facebook’s free services and advertising because they have to. They use them because our apps and services deliver the most value. We are going to vigorously defend people’s ability to continue making that choice.”
A former chairman of the FTC, William Kovacic, said competition watchdogs have the right to change their minds if new evidence suffices — referring to Newstead’s statement about prior approval. Kovacic said:
“There’s nothing in U.S. merger law that says an agency’s decision not to challenge a proposed deal immunizes that deal from future review.”
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THE History-BREAKER, THE JOKER And also the Approximately-Gentleman
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Iker Casillas, Carles Puyol, Andrés Iniesta, David Villa, Xavi, Fernando Torres, Cesc Fileàbregas, Xabi Alonso, Sergio Ramos, David Silva. They had been all existing on that podium in Vienna as Spain were crowned European champions. All of them repeated the trophy-lifting feat two many years later in Johannesburg as Section of Spain’s initially World Cup-winning squad.There was, even so, an individual missing. Arguably Spain’s most fun and eccentric player from past main tournaments did not receive any medals for his expert services. He was sitting in your own home, looking at on TV. “I was inside the squad for the two many years of qualifying for Euro 2008 And that i played almost every game,” Joaquín afterwards stated, “but in the end, I didn’t go to the championship. I believe I deserved to go And that i really feel sorry, higher than all, for myself.”These were being pretty tepid words and phrases by a far more mature Joaquín, as compared to the snide feedback that experienced landed him in hot water under Luis Aragonés. “At this time, the nationwide team can be a catastrophe,” he scolded right after Spain’s 3-2 defeat to Northern Ireland – David Healy’s hat-trick and all – in qualifying. “It’s chaotic and Luis doesn’t understand how to manage these challenging moments.” Joaquín did Perform a handful of times for his place after that, but it surely marked the beginning of the end.A huge identity and perhaps the Actual physical embodiment of Andalusia’s pretty individual wit and humour, Joaquín 1st burst on towards the Global scene in February 2002, within the age of twenty. “When I was called approximately Engage in with the Spanish countrywide team, I stopped at a company station and cried,” he mentioned on his very first connect with-up.By then, his name was presently on an exponential increase, set against the axis of anticipation that comes along with lots of a breakthrough youngster in Spain. Picked up by Genuine Betis in his early teenagers, the difficult winger would make his initial-group debut for Los Verdiblancos just just after his 19th birthday. Cheeky by nature, on and from the pitch, Joaquín took no time in any way to appeal his community, whether or not they supported Betis or not.
It absolutely was within the 2002 Earth Cup in South Korea and Japan where by his performances attained global audiences, Whilst that initial rendition ended with a sour Notice. During the quarter-finals from South Korea, Joaquín thought he’d create a golden goal, sending Spain by way of for their initially Globe Cup semi-ultimate. The goal, although, was dominated out, with the linesman adjudging – incorrectly, it turned out – Joaquín to acquire taken the ball away from Engage in right before he crossed to Fernando Morientes.Browse | Denílson and also the mercurial expertise of the lost legend“It’s like they had been using the piss outside of us,” the Betis midfielder told AS later that summer time. It absolutely was his miss out on in the subsequent shootout that had in the end Price Spain a place in the last four.Regardless of this disappointment, Joaquín’s talent was nonetheless cherished at home, especially in the south of Spain. Born just down the coast from Cádiz, he was bitten through the bullfighting bug as being a youngster. Even these days, he nevertheless harbours that aspiration of stepping right into a ring. “I convey to my spouse that I can’t get this concept from my head. She claims I’m having additional stupid by the day,” Joaquín laughed in 2019.To be a boy, it had been his mother, naturally, who persuaded him to turn from matador to footballer. “I utilized to go to the [bullfighting] school in El Puerto but my mother took me out through the 7 days and gave me a ball.” Joaquín shares his really like for bullfighting along with his brother Ricardo – considered one of 8 siblings – who also performed in the Betis academy.
All These in the Estadio Benito Villamarín would’ve been happy Joaquín followed his mother’s assistance in the long run. His shows in the eco-friendly and white of Betis were being earning him acclaim significantly and vast and maintaining him in the Spain squad. At Euro 2004, the winger started out the crunch group decider from Portugal in Lisbon, however Nuno Gomes’s second-fifty percent strike finished La Roja’s tournament there after which you can.Head mentor Iñaki Sáez stepped down that summer months and was succeeded by Aragonés. At club level, Joaquín was taking part in underneath his sixth unique manager, Lorenzo Serra Ferrer. Beneath the former Barcelona manager, Betis attained new heights – and so did Joaquín’s stock.The 23-year-outdated featured in each and every LaLiga fixture from the 2004/05 time, only failing to start one of these. Not a strong goalscorer by any extend of the creativeness, Joaquín’s undertaking was to provide and prevent down the correct wing, satisfying equally offensive and defensive duties to some tee.Examine | How Juan Carlos Valerón grew to become quite possibly the most sophisticated panish playmaker of his generationHe did come up with a behavior of finding The web with the Camp Nou in the direction of the backend of the campaign, as Betis pushed for any historic Champions League area, scoring two times inside of a manic three-three attract. His 2nd, a adorable complete in from the close to put up, had set the site visitors two targets in advance, but Samuel Eto’o and Giovanni van Bronkhorst rescued some extent for Frank Rijkaard’s Blaugrana.Forward of the final spherical of matches in LaLiga that time, it absolutely was widespread awareness that an Andalusian club would qualify for the Champions League for The 1st time given that its rebranding in 1992. What no person dared to forecast, however, was no matter if It might be Betis or Sevilla.
A gain at Son Moix would do it for Los Verdiblancos, but a late Authentic Mallorca equaliser brought about heartbeats to fluctuate inside the southern districts of Seville. Fortuitously for them, Málaga had dealt Sevilla a defeat within the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, confirming Betis’s spot at Europe’s major table for the first time.In the beginning of July that summer, Joaquín got married to ufa365 Susana and, although he was expecting his bride to arrive for the church, Betis president Manuel Ruiz de Lopera turned up that has a Specific guest. Per month just before, Serra Ferrer experienced guided Betis to just their second Copa del Rey triumph, beating Osasuna in overtime in the final on the Estadio Vicente Calderón. The trophy, within the president’s insistence, would make an overall look at Joaquiín’s wedding ceremony.Following a disagreement over the place to situate the trophy, Lopera put it centre stage. “There I used to be acquiring married Together with the Copa driving me,” the groom remembered some several years later on. “The many shots I’ve while in the album possess the trophy there within the background.”Inspite of attractive offers from elsewhere, Joaquín was not often tempted to divorce his beloved Betis. Chelsea were among the clubs to return in for him, nevertheless the midfielder stood José Mourinho up ahead of a gathering in Seville. “I understood if I went, I might finish up planning to England. So I didn’t go,” Joaquin later on admitted. “I spoke to Mourinho later on and apologised. And Later on he thanked me. He claimed: ‘I respect you being sincere due to the fact, nicely, that you are the primary footballer which includes said no to me’.”
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First Released Antibody Study Shows Coronavirus Infection Rate Could Be 50 To 80 Times More Widespread Than Previously Believed
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Scott Morefield Reporter
Stanford University research teams released data Friday from the nation’s first widespread community test for COVID-19 antibodies, and the results show the virus’s spread could be far wider than previously believed.
The study, conducted by two research teams who tested 3,300 Santa Clara County, California volunteers, “found that 2.5 to 4.2% of those tested were positive for antibodies — a number suggesting a far higher past infection rate than the official count,” ABC News reported.
The @stanford antibody testing is out – it estimates ~3% of people in Santa Clara County (CA) have been infected and recovered, 50-plus times the estimate of confirmed active cases. More evidence #SARSCoV2 is far more widespread and thus less dangerous than expected. pic.twitter.com/wWw7M6RXfM
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 17, 2020
In the county of almost 2 million people, researchers believe the virus could have infected between 48,000 and 81,000 people. On April 1, when the samples were gathered, the county had 958 reported cases. The study has yet to be peer-reviewed.
“Our findings suggest that there is somewhere between 50- and 80-fold more infections in our county than what’s known by the number of cases than are reported by our department of public health,” Stanford associate professor of medicine and study leader Dr. Eran Bendavid told ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer in an interview.
Bendavid pointed out that even an over 4% infection rate means the vast majority of people have not been infected with the virus, calling the decision to reopen the U.S. economy a “very difficult choice.”
“We have good confidence that we’re getting reliable information on the population,” he said. “And that can be done because we know what proportion of the people who are positive we’re missing using this test.”
Researchers reportedly set up three drive-through sites around the county and took finger-pricks of blood from volunteers, who were recruited using targeted online advertising. (RELATED: Doctor Tells Tucker His Company Has Had A Coronavirus Antibody Test For Three Weeks, Waiting On ‘Red Tape And The FDA’)
The ABC News report included a cautionary word from epidemiologist Dr. John Brownstein, who noted that online ads used to recruit subjects could skew the pool and that one county isn’t necessarily representative of the rest of the U.S. population. However, Brownstein said the research adds “to this confirmation of what we’ve expected, which is a much larger number of cases than we ever anticipated.”
“There has been wide recognition that we were undercounting infections because of lack of testing or patients were asymptomatic,” Brownstein told the outlet.
Meanwhile, a smaller sample of 374 tests administered in Johnson County, Kansas, showed a 3.8% infection rate, a result on the upper end of the Stanford study numbers.
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No Such Thing As Lone Wolf Addiction Recovery
Articles, Australia, International, Understanding Addiction
Jan052017 Jan052017
You would be hard pressed to find an addict that decided to consciously take that first dose with an intention of becoming addicted, losing friends and family and have their lives spiraling out of control. It could start innocent enough, as an experiment or a dare. Or for an emotionally weathered person to find himself at difficult stages in their life and they take their drug of choice to alleviate the depression and stress. If it was not tragic, it would be funny, really – to avoid stress, depression or unpleasant relationships a person throws himself into a temporary mirage of an oasis only to doom himself for the hardship that is nothing compared to the problems he ran away from, to begin with. Sadly the punchline for that joke never ends with a laugh.
Whichever the case for the addict to find himself in the deep chasm of addiction, it is quite impossible for him to claw his way out all by himself. The way out takes a lot of time, perseverance, and support from loved ones and professionals alike.
I would wager that any addict who has fought their addiction and won first tried to do it in secret, ashamed from the stigma associated with drug use. All of them fail because while addicts own mental power and will to become clean is a huge factor, there is no such thing as “mind over matter” when it comes to fighting addiction. There are a lot of obscured facets to an addiction and craving is just one of them.
Some use drugs as a retreat from their problems, a sort of coping mechanism. While this helps short term, it creates more problems very shortly afterward, losing a job and income for example. The actual solutions to these problems get blurred away in ups and downs of having an addiction. To become clean, the addict has to essentially re-larn how to cope with the world without the crutch of drugs.
Then there are those, that slip into addiction because of their lifestyle choices and external pressure. Such a simple thing as availability can be a huge factor for a person to become addicted. Just having a dealer who can provide and fellow users who consider it normal can make the choice to experiment and inadvertently get hooked very appealing. Keeping company with other users also gives the addict a biased opinion of drug use and misguided acceptance of peers.
Either path leads to semi-permanent brain damage and ever-increasing urge to use. When the body is repeatedly flooded with chemicals that alter brain functions and patterns, it re-writes itself towards the new stimuli. Drugs usually provide a sense of intense euphoria and happiness, but it is important to understand that they act as a catalyst for the brain itself to produce neurotransmitters like serotonin which provides the feeling of pleasure. Our brain naturally creates it but in much smaller amounts during various life activities. A nice meal, favorite chocolate, and sex provide the same chemicals. A drug simply tricks the brain and sends it into overload when it comes to producing it. Repeated drug use re-write the regular brain patterns and external stimuli become necessary to induce these feelings of happiness and contentment. Worse yet, ever-increasing amounts are required to reach the same peaks. This vicious cycle repeats ad infinitum until the addict dies of an overdose or fatal organ failure.
Get support.
It is never too late to become clean and is almost impossible without help. This help can come from many factors and sources, a good talk is all it takes in some lucky cases. Most require interventions by family and friends and more yet require inpatient rehabilitation programs, professional support, counseling and like-minded fellow addicts on their path to recovery. Successfully completing a rehabilitation course program gives the best chances for the addict to become clean for a number of factors. Such as inpatient rehabs provide refuge from availability and peer pressure of drug use. During their time there, the addict learns to cope without drugs in perfect peace and harmony, without the problems and company of other active drug users. The addict is taught structure and purpose, both in themselves and in their world. Counseling and on-going support from group therapy provide insight into the addiction and how to cope with in their lives.
By all means, become clean on your own, but when it inevitably fails, do not hesitate to seek help from friends, family, and trained professionals. It is never too late to be sober and genuinely happy.
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Gail Williams 0000-0002-4822-5263 The University of Queensland School of Public Health Ozone modifies associations between temperature and cardiovascular mortality: Analysis of the NMMAPS data Temperature enhanced effects of ozone on cardiovascular mortality in 95 large US communities, 1987-2000: Assessment using the NMMAPS data Does temperature modify short-term effects of ozone on total mortality in 60 large eastern US communities? An assessment using the NMMAPS data
Gareth J. Williams Bangor University School of Ocean Sciences Scripps Institution of Oceanography Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand School of Biological Sciences Local-scale projections of coral reef futures and implications of the Paris Agreement Patterns of Coral Disease across the Hawaiian Archipelago: Relating Disease to Environment
Gregory D. Williams National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Northwest Fisheries Science Center Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Experiments with seasonal forecasts of ocean conditions for the northern region of the California Current upwelling system
Ian N. Williams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Earth and Environmental Sciences Area Climate Sciences Department Vegetation controls on surface heat flux partitioning, and land-atmosphere coupling
Ian T. Williams National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases Surveillance for foodborne disease outbreaks - United States, 1998-2008
Jack E. Williams Trout Unlimited Flow regime, temperature, and biotic interactions drive differential declines of trout species under climate change
James H. Williams University of San Francisco 3.13: Incremental Energy System Costs in 2050 The Technology Path to Deep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts by 2050: The Pivotal Role of Electricity
J. D. Williams U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Soil and Water Conservation Research Unit Development of dryland oilseed production systems in northwestern region of the USA
Jeanne Williams University of Calgary Department of Community Health Services Self-reported allergies and their relationship to several Axis I disorders in a community sample
John Williams The Australian National University Crawford School of Public Policy University of California, Davis Possible pathways and tensions in the food and water nexus Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in California Agriculture. A White Paper from the California Energy Commission’s California Climate Change Center (PIER Program). Publication number: CEC-500-2012-031
John W. Williams Brown University Department of Geological Sciences National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geography University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Climatic Research University of Minnesota Limnological Research Center Novel and lost forests in the upper midwestern United States, from new estimates of settlement-era composition, stem density, and biomass Climate remains an important driver of post-European vegetation change in the eastern United States Novel climates, no-analog communities, and ecological surprises Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere Late-quaternary vegetation dynamics in North America: Scaling from taxa to biomes Vegetation and environment in Eastern North America during the Last Glacial Maximum Projected vegetation changes for the American Southwest: Combined dynamic modeling and bioclimatic‐envelope approach Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges Cahokia’s emergence and decline coincided with shifts of flood frequency on the Mississippi River
Kimberlyn Williams California State University, San Bernardino Department of Biology University of Florida Department of Biology Major in Botany Sea-level rise and drought interactions accelerate forest decline on the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA Sea-level rise and coastal forest retreat on the West Coast of Florida, USA
Kristen J. Williams 0000-0002-7324-5880 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Climate Adaptation Flagship Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity
Mark R. Williams 0000-0002-8081-8018 U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Soil Drainage Research Unit What is causing the harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie?
Mark W. Williams 0000-0002-9439-8480 University of Colorado Boulder Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research INSTAAR University of Colorado Boulder Department of Geography Snowpack controls on nitrogen cycling and export in seasonally snow‐covered catchments
Martin Williams King's College London Environmental Research Group Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security
Matthew J. Williams The University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding
Neal Williams University of California, Davis Department of Entomology University of California, Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology Modeling the status, trends, and impacts of wild bee abundance in the United States Agroecology: A Review from a Global-Change Perspective
Nicholas S.G. Williams University of Melbourne School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences Planning for cooler cities: A framework to prioritise green infrastructure to mitigate high temperatures in urban landscapes
Paul Williams Suquamish Indian Tribe The impacts of climate change on tribal traditional foods
Richard Williams 0000-0002-3263-2657 Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center United Kingdom Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Impacts of climate change on the fate and behaviour of pesticides in surface and groundwater—a UK perspective Climate Change Effects on Plague and Tularemia in the United States
Richard J. Williams 0000-0002-9876-0491 Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Impacts of climate change on indirect human exposure to pathogens and chemicals from agriculture
Simon D. P. Williams 0000-0003-4123-4973 National Oceanography Centre Revisiting GRACE Antarctic ice mass trends and accelerations considering autocorrelation
S. Jeffress Williams 0000-0002-1326-7420 University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Department of Geology and Geophysics SOEST U.S. Geological Survey Coastal Sensitivity to Sea Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region. A report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research National Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Future Sea-Level Rise: Preliminary Results for the US Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico Coasts. US Reports 99–593, 00-178, and 00-179 Wicked Challenges at Land's End: Managing Coastal Vulnerability Under Climate Change
S.O. Williams State of Victoria Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources DEDJTR Genomic selection improves heat tolerance in dairy cattle
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Quick Answer: Do Military Spouses Get Free College?
How much do military spouses get for college?
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My Career Advancement Account Scholarship Program, or MyCAA: The My Career Advancement Account Scholarship is a workforce development program that provides eligible military spouses with up to $4,000 in financial assistance for licenses, certifications or associate degrees to pursue an occupation or career field..
There are 2 main GI Bill programs offering educational assistance to survivors and dependents of Veterans: The Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship (Fry Scholarship) is for children and spouses of service members who died in the line of duty after September 10, 2001.
The military does not pay people more money because they have dependents. There is no increase in pay for getting married, or for having children. Base pay is base pay, period. … In most cases, BAH is paid for the location where the service member is stationed.
In the Army, a woman who becomes pregnant after enlistment, but before she begins initial active duty will not be involuntarily discharged due to pregnancy. She can’t enter active duty until her pregnancy is over (either through birth or termination).
Australia’s 57,000 Defence members received 9 per cent over three years. Under the current pay scheme, a non-commissioned soldier in the Australian Army earns about $59,500 annually (including uniform and service allowances). A mid-ranking infantry officer takes home around $84,000 (inc. uniform and allowances).
Wyoming. Wyoming offers free tuition and fees for the surviving spouse and dependents of qualifying resident veterans. The tuition waiver is good for 8 semesters over 8 years while attending the University of Wyoming or Wyoming community colleges.
Free college for your kids. … The GI Bill pays up to the full cost of in-state tuition and fees for public colleges for up to four academic years, or up to $17,500 per year for private colleges and foreign schools. To qualify for the maximum benefit, you must serve (or have served) at least 36 months since 9/11.
O-1: $38,256. Compared to enlisted service members with the same amount of experience, military officers make considerably more money. A freshly commissioned O-1 — 2nd Lt. (Army/Marine Corps/Air Force), Ensign (Navy) — earns $3,188 per month in base pay alone.
your spouse will be getting paid while in BMT given that all their paperwork lands in appropriate hands. They will be getting paid according to his particular rate [E-1 (Airman Basic), E-2 (Airman), or E-3 (Airman First Class)], whether they have children, etc. They get paid twice a month; on the 1st and on the 15th.
Adultery Defined by the UCMJ In most state’s civilian court, this act is not illegal, but in some states it is a Class B Misdemeanor. Within the military it is also against the Uniform Code of Military Justice and can be punishable by fines and jail time if processed and proven.
While stepchildren are covered and eligible for military privileges and benefits, other minor children are not, unless they fit into a narrow range of cases. … The court order must stipulate the child will be in the care and custody of the sponsor for no less than 12 consecutive months.
Unfortunately, the whole idea of visiting your spouse during deployment is highly unlikely. There’s a reason the military isn’t sending you with them! If you were to be truly flexible enough to jump on a plane whenever your spouse says “Go,” you would still have a horribly priced plane ticket.
Free Healthcare: Active duty military members and their dependents receive free medical care including appointments, surgeries, births and medicine that is obtained on-base. Housing & BAH: Most military bases offer free housing and if you live off base there is Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) compensation.
Who can qualify as a military dependent? Certain family members, such as a spouse or child under 21, are automatically entitled to dependency status; a Servicemember need only complete 1172 and provide the necessary proof.
Although not known as “military marriage pay,” service members do receive a pay increase as part of their housing and cost-of-living allowances after they get married.
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State of Craft 2018
2018 was intense! Craft 3, Commerce 2 Beta, and the Plugin Store were released right on schedule in April, and Craft 3.1 and Commerce 2 are currently just weeks away from stable releases (including Commerce’s new Lite edition). We also launched Craft ID, the new craftcms.com, and the Craft Partner Network, we hosted the second annual Dot All conference in Berlin, and we began streaming webinars to introduce Craft to newcomers.
It’s been a monumental year, and we’re extremely proud of all that we accomplished. But we’re even more excited about what it all means for the future.
All the refactoring work we put into Craft 3 has made Craft a much better development platform, which has already led to hundreds of stellar plugins, and is enabling us to build out new features faster and more elegantly than ever before.
The new craftcms.com gives us much-improved channels for publishing marketing and learning resources, like the new In the Field and Guides sections.
The Craft Partner Network is more than just a way for businesses to find a partner for their next big web project; it’s a sales tool for showing clients that Craft is a safe bet, and the preferred choice of hundreds of agencies around the world.
We can’t wait to start taking full advantage of these investments in 2019, with new Craft and Commerce features, new learning resources, and better sales resources for Craft agencies.
Craft Roadmap
Speaking of new Craft features, once Craft 3.1 is released we’re going to shift our focus to a few areas that could use some love.
Updater. We made a mistake bundling Composer directly into Craft for handling system and plugin installation/updates. It’s just way too time and resource intensive to be running on web requests reliably. We plan to fix that by offloading Composer to a web service.
Testing. We’ve heard developers loud and clear: Craft should be providing clear guidance and examples for writing unit and integration tests. We’re on it!
Accessibility. We’re going to give Craft a proper accessibility audit and begin working toward WCAG 2.0 compliance.
Content modeling & author experience. Craft has raised the bar on what sort of content challenges an off-the-shelf CMS can handle, with element types, Matrix fields, and flexible relationships. It’s time to raise the bar even higher.
Commerce Roadmap
We’ve got a lot of exciting things planned for Commerce, from new integrations with payment, shipping, tax, and fulfillment services, to multi-store. Luke and I had a chance to chat about the future of Craft Commerce on the inaugural episode of Commerce Minded, which is worth a listen if you’re interested in what’s to come.
Once Commerce 2 ships we’re going to start looking for a new senior Commerce developer to join the team. If you think you might be interested, please get in touch!
We’re heading down to Melbourne in February for Dot One Australia, a one-day microconference we’re hosting for our Asia-Pacific customers.
Later in the year we’re taking Dot All to Montreal for another three-day conference with more great workshops and sessions by and for the Craft community!
Craft CMS is Coming to Australia
Craft 3.1 Beta is Here
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New Zealand announce their ‘A’ squad to face India A; James Neesham makes a comeback
Posted On / January 17, 2020 / by CricketTimes.com Staff
Kiwi all-rounder James Neesham is widely popular on social media because of his hilarious takes on almost everything. But when it comes to playing for the national team, then he hasn’t been able to secure his place.
Recently, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) announced their T20I squad for the series against India, but Neesham didn’t find a place in the final 13. However, good news for his fans is that he has been picked for New Zealand A’s three-match One-Day series against India A.
NZC has named a 13-man squad, which includes quite a few familiar names like Tom Bruce, who is given the responsibility to lead the side.
The opening game will start on Wednesday (January 22) at Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln.
After the completion of the three-match unofficial ODI series, Bruce will join the senior team for the two T20Is on January 31 and February 2.
Players like Tom Blundell, Glenn Phillips, Todd Astle, who are in the ‘A’ squad, have a lot of experience and will give a tough fight to India A team. This would be an excellent opportunity for these players to shine and make their way in the T20I side ahead of the 2020 T20 World Cup in Australia.
The chief selector Gavin Larsen praised Neesham and said that he is in plans of NZC for the upcoming T20 World Cup.
“We see both Daryl and Jimmy as important all-rounders in the T20 format. With a traveling squad of just 13 and the need to balance the options for the series, Daryl gets this opportunity against India as a reward for his consistent form for the Black Caps,” Larsen was quoted as saying in Cricbuzz.
Here’s New Zealand A squad:
Tom Bruce (c), Todd Astle, Tom Blundell (wk), Mark Chapman, Jacob Duffy, Kyle Jamieson, Cole McConchie, Jimmy Neesham, Ollie Newton, Ajaz Patel, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, George Worker
TAGS: Ajaz Patel, Cole McConchie, George Worker, Glenn Phillips, INDAvNZA, Jacob Duffy, Jimmy Neesham, Kyle Jamieson, Mark Chapman, Ollie Newton, Rachin Ravindra, Todd Astle, Tom Blundell, Tom Bruce
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Adult Swim’s 2015-16 Slate Includes New Animated Series From Brad Neely, Miniseries From Jon Glaser
Denise Petski
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Adult Swim unveiled its 2015-16 slate ahead of its upfront presentation next week in NYC. It includes more than 30 new and returning series, pilots and specials. New additions include TV Sucks, a quarter-hour animated sketch show created by Brad Neely (China, IL) that features a collection of frenetic one-off bits, shorts, and songs, all filtered through Neely’s signature visual style. Also on the schedule are live-action comedy specials from Brett Gelman and Jon Daly, and a new mini-series from Jon Glaser. They join the recently debuted The Jack and Triumph Show and returning series, Rick and Morty, Mike Tyson Mysteries, Black Jesus and the Emmy winning Childrens Hospital.
“Adult Swim has always been known as a place for taking risks and for great talent trying interesting things,” said Christina Miller, president and general manager, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang. “Mike (Lazzo) and his team continue to raise the bar, always knowing what the Adult Swim fan wants; and this new slate of original programming adds to our growing line-up of successful primetime comedies.”
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The network has recently launched new streaming channels on AdultSwim.com. New programming includes The Venture Bros. and Tim & Eric channels, fan show Toonami: Pre-Flight and FishCenter, with more channels to launch later this year. Here’s the complete 2015-2016 programming lineup.
Original series and specials:
·TV SUCKS – TV SUCKS is a new quarter-hour animated sketch show created by Brad Neely (China, IL) that features a collection of frenetic one-off bits, shorts, and songs, all filtered through Neely’s signature visual style. Beware however, as this show hates you. Neely and Daniel Weidenfeld serve as executive producers, Dave Newberg as co-executive producer, with Titmouse, Inc. producing.
· UNTITLED GOLF SPECIAL – It’s 1966, and professional actors, Jon Daly and Adam Scott, go head to head in this televised golf championship. The competition is fierce, emotions are high, and both men are rarin’ to prove they’re the cream of the crop. Created by Jon Daly, who also serves as executive producer. Starring Daly (Kroll Show) and Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation), the half-hour live-action special is produced by Alive and Kicking, Inc.
· NEON JOE, WEREWOLF HUNTER – Set in the pretend sleepy enclave of Garrity, Vermont (aka “B&B Town, USA!”), Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter is the story of a neon-clad man with a mysterious past and a highly specialized skill set – hunting werewolves. When a sudden plague of inexplicable werewolf fatalities strikes, the Garrity sheriff’s department finds itself in over its head and the fate of the townspeople is left up to Neon Joe. Will he catch the beast before the next full moon, or will it live another day and kill again? This half-hour live-action mini-series is created by Jon Glaser (Girls, Parks and Recreation) and produced by PFFR.
· TIM & ERIC’S BEDTIME STORIES – Tim and Eric are back with two new Tim & Eric’s Bedtime Stories half-hour live-action specials that will air later this year on Adult Swim. The specials will be created by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, produced by Abso Lutely.
· UNTITLED BRETT GELMAN DINNER SPECIAL – Brett Gelman returns to Adult Swim for the third installment of his “Dinner” series of half-hour specials. New guests. New insanity. New brain for you after you’ve experienced it. Created and written by Brett Gelman and Jason Woliner, with Gelman and Woliner serving as executive producers, and produced by Abso Lutely.
· ROBOT CHICKEN DC COMICS SPECIAL III: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC (working title) – The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Friendship Is Magic surrenders the DC Comics multitude of heroes and villains to the demented whims of the Emmy Award®-winning Robot Chicken for a triumphant third time. This time around, Batman and Superman’s bromance takes a competitive turn and the fate of the universe somehow hangs in the balance! The all-star cast includes Seth Green, Matt Senreich, Breckin Meyer, Alfred Molina, Nathan Fillion, Weird Al Yankovic, Alex Borstein, Giovanni Ribisi, Jonathan Banks, Mae Whitman, Hugh Davidson, Dee Bradley Baker, Zeb Wells, Kevin Shinick plus Adam West and Burt Ward. The special is executive produced by Robot Chicken creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich and their Stoopid Buddy Stoodios partners, John Harvatine IV and Eric Towner, along with DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, and President, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Digital Series Sam Register. The special is directed by Tom Sheppard (Annoying Orange) and Zeb Wells. Head writers/co-executive producers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root and co-executive producer Kevin Shinick are joined as writers by veteran Robot Chicken writer Mike Fasolo, as well as Hugh Davidson (Mike Tyson Mysteries), Green, J. T. Krul, Breckin Meyer, Senreich and Sheppard.
Pilots:
· BAD GUYS – Taste. Design. Marketing. Looking fresh to death. These are things that are lost on modern-day terrorists, but one man is going to change the game forever. Bad Guys is a quarter-hour animated series about a bombastic, megalomaniac terrorist and his upstart terrorist organization; and their quest for global domination. World Governments and Fashionistas your days are numbered. Created by Paul Scheer (Fresh Off the Boat, The League) and Nick Giovannetti, produced by Bento Box.
· UNTITLED MILLION DOLLAR EXTREME PROJECT – A live-action quarter-hour sketch show in an almostpresentday postapocalyptic nightmare world. Created by Million Dollar Extreme.
· MR. NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE – Mr. Neighbor’s House is a children’s show hosted by Brian Huskey (Childrens Hospital, Veep). He’s like any other host of kids programming, except that he is barely able to contain the suppressed rage boiling underneath his quiet demeanor. From the safe confines of his home, he throws to various “educational” vignettes: puppets, animation, stop motion, spoken word and mixed medium elements that all blend together into one 15 minute show… that is NOT for kids. Created by Huskey, Jason Mantzoukas (Childrens Hospital, The League), and Jesse Falcon, who also serve as executive producers with Rob Corddry (Childrens Hospital, Hot Tub Time Machine).
· BALLMASTRZ 9669 – Thousands of years in the future no one cares about traditional sports anymore. The only game that matters is THE GAME, and the new breed of heroes that play it: BALLMASTRZ. Inside giant battle arenas the size of a small city, teams of Ballmastrz face off against each other using their own hyper-creative artificially intelligent combat weapons to attack, defend, and score. These are the BALLS. Obstacles and challenges test the physical, mental, and psychological limits of the players while entertaining the masses. The player or team that masters their Ball will master The Game in the most spectacular action sport ever played. This quarter-hour animated series is created by Christy Karacas (Superjail!) and produced by Titmouse.
· APOLLO GAUNTLET – Trapped in another world, a cop from Earth can finally fight crime the way he wants after acquiring talking magical gauntlets. Animated quarter-hour pilot created by Myles Langlois and produced by Six Point Harness.
· BUBBLEGOOSE AND JUICE – Two best friends, a neurotic “Bubblegoose” and slacker “Juice” sharing a tiny no bedroom apartment as they try to maneuver through an unpredictable, supernatural, bizarro world, while still keeping up with the latest kicks. This quarter-hour animated pilot is created by Carl Jones (Black Dynamite).
· HOT STREETS – FBI Agent Mark Branski and his partner David French investigate supernatural phenomena, secretly aided by his niece and her cowardly dog, Chubbie Webbers. There will be alien invasions, government conspiracies, monster infestations, and more. This quarter-hour animated pilot is created by Brian Wysol, with Seth Green, Matt Senreich, John Harvatine IV, and Eric Towner (Robot Chicken), Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty) and Wysol serving as executive producers. Produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.
· CREATACEOUS CALIGULA – Los Angeles has been crushed by a title wave of radiated water. From the depths of the La Brea tar pits comes out a gang of dinosaur freaks led by a T-Rex Caligula. They want to take over mutant Gross Angeles and destroy anything in their way. This quarter-hour animated pilot is created by JJ Villard (King Star King) and produced by Titmouse.
· DOBLE FRIED – Doble Fried is a 6-pack of carnival freaks who run a low-rent amusement park smack drab on the border of Mexico and Not-Mexico. Whether it’s 4:20, beer-thirty, or crazy clown time, these dudes are constantly trying to scam money and score lady lizard honey. It’s a rickety roller coaster ride from the deep fried, clogged heartland of our failure. This quarter-hour animated pilot is created by Matt Furie and produced by PFFR.
· FISTHEAD – The relationship between two brothers is put to the test, as one, a loose-cannon action hero with a fist for a head, indiscriminately destroys not only villains, but his normal brother’s life as well. This quarter-hour animated series is created by Sean Glaze and Chris Prynoski, and produced by Titmouse.
· OMG! EARTH – OMG! Earth is a quarter-hour stop-motion animated comedy series featuring small plastic action figures going on larger-than-life adventures in the real world. The show takes place against a backdrop of all the classic adventure environments, including the old west, the deep blue sea, and even the final frontier! The pilot is created by John Harvatine IV and Eric Towner, Ashley Arechiga, and Bradley Schaffer, with Harvatine and Towner as executive producers with Seth Green and Matt Senreich (Robot Chicken), Arechiga, and Schaffer as co-executive producers. Produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.
· THE POUND HOLE – The Pound Hole is Adult Swim’s first ever late night dance party; a contemporary Soul Train. Think The Grind meets Project X, where DJ Douggpound (played by Doug Lussenhop) remixes both the audio and visuals of this club into surreal, and sometimes violent, but always danceable situations. The Pound Hole is a live-action quarter-hour pilot created by Daniel Weidenfeld (China, IL), developed by Weidenfeld and Lussenhop (Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Portlandia), and directed by The Daniels, the VMA award-winning directing duo of DJ Snake and Lil Jon’s Turn Town For What video.
Returning original series:
· AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE FOREVER
· BLACK JESUS
· CHECK IT OUT! WITH DR. STEVE BRULE
· CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
· CHINA, IL
· THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW
· INFOMERCIALS
· THE JACK AND TRIUMPH SHOW
· MIKE TYSON MYSTERIES
· MR. PICKLES
· ROBOT CHICKEN
· RICK AND MORTY
· SQUIDBILLIES
· THE VENTURE BROS.
· YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING TO HELL
New acquisitions:
· KILL LA KILL
· SWORD ART ONLINE II
Returning acquisitions:
· AMERICAN DAD
· ATTACK ON TITAN
· BOB’S BURGERS
· CLEVELAND SHOW
· FAMILY GUY
· INUYASHA: THE FINAL ACT
· KING OF THE HILL
· NARUTO: SHIPPUDEN
· SPACE DANDY
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A Lifetime... Habits?
Make a new reward
A Lifetime of Riches - Is it as Simple as a Few Habits?
Try to make a new reward that is similar to the old reward.
If it is a coffee habit, the reward is a warm beverage and an excuse to sit still and reflect. For that reason, a substitute like herbal tea would work.
4 Simple Habits to Build Wealth Faster
kiplinger.com
Sure, making a lot of money helps, but research shows there are four behaviors that can be even more important to building true wealth. As a young child, did you ever dream of having $1 million in the bank? I used to think that way, but my perspective changed over the years.
Frugality means resisting the temptation to spend more than you earn.
Self-made millionaires choose moderation over extremes. They often buy used cars, don't live in the most expensive houses and don't try to time the investment market.
A defining characteristic of many millionaires are their willingness to work hard and stick it out in high-paying careers until they are financially independent.
one more idea
Blame is Useless
raptitude.com
'I hate the person who invented Mondays.' I saw that phrase on someone's Facebook status a week or two ago, and it made me smile. It's definitely an understandable sentiment. I remember miserable grade-school mornings, being dragged out of bed by my mom. All I could do was grumble bitterly, 'I hate the person who invented school!'
We have a tendency to find some part of our environment to scold — a person or thing — whenever we run into some kind of problem in our lives.
We search for a source to our suffering and we tend to ...
Why We Blame
Blame is a defense mechanism. What we’re defending ourselves from is our own responsibility for dealing with the unpleasant experience we’ve been given.
The benefit in blame is that it allows us to avoid feeling like we’re failing ourselves, that we lack the strength and maturity to come to terms with the reality of unfairness or bad luck.
The Blame Reflex
We can feel safe in pretending that our distress is not evidence of inadequacy in ourselves, but of one in someone else.
50 Personal Finance Tips That Will Change the Way You Think About Money
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We've certainly amassed a wealth of knowledge over the years covering the money beat-be it the dozens of "I got out of debt" success stories we've featured to the scores of psychological studies we've covered linking better financial decision-making to behavior change.
3 Financial Basics
Create a Financial Calendar: prevent yourself from forgetting quarterly tax payments and to get credit reports.
Check Your Interest Rate: Pay off loans, open saving accou...
Budgeting Like a Pro
Consider an All-Cash Diet, as limiting yourself to physical currency combats overspending.
Set aside 1 minute a day to check on your financial transactions, to identify problems, track goal progress and set your spending tone.
Allocate at least 20% of your income to financial priorities like emergency funds, debts and retirement fund.
Budget about 30% of your income for nonbasic spendings, like entertainment. Abiding by the 30% rule, you can save and splurge at the same time.
How to Get Money Motivated
Draft a Financial Vision Board, it motivates and helps you to stay on track with your financial goals.
Set specific financial goals stating the reason, the way, numbers and dates.
Adopt a spending mantra, a phrase that serves as a rule of thumb for how you spend.
Love yourself. Taking control of your finances is part of that.
Make bite-size money goals. Make the bigger ones but also small step goals to get there.
Don’t be a financial fatalist, and switch to more positive mantras.
Get your finances and body in shape. The discipline associated with regular exercising translates to managing your money well.
Appreciate what you have now, instead of being a consumerist.
Get a Money Buddy. Studies indicate people pick up good habits from friends with similar traits.
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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
NO TIME FOR LOVE
(director: Mitchell Leisen; screenwriters: Claude Binyon/adapted by Warren Duff from a story by Robert Lees and Frederic I. Rinaldo; cinematographer: Charles Lang, Jr.; editor: Alma Macrorie; music: Victor Young; cast: Claudette Colbert (Katherine Grant), Fred MacMurray (Jim Ryan), Ilka Chase (Hoppy Grant), Richard Haydn (Roger), Paul McGrath (Henry Fulton), June Havoc (Darlene), Marjorie Gateson (Sophie), Bill Goodwin (Christley), Robert Herrick (Kent), Rhys Williams (Clancy); Runtime: 83; MPAA Rating: NR; producers: Fred Kohlmar/Mitchell Leisen; Paramount; 1943)
“Watchable hokum.”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
A made in wartime predictable romantic pic about opposites attracting, that’s corny, filled with contrived situations and forced comical situations. But it’s watchable hokum due to star appeal and good chemistry between Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. It’s about a well-known sophisticated celebrity Manhattan lady magazine fashion photographer Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert) falling for a nobody macho sandhog Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray), whom she meets while on assignment to take photos of the men digging the subway tunnel. Though the two don’t get along at first by the end it all works out, as she ditches her wealthy but nerdy publisher boss (Paul McGrath) fiance at the Mirror for Mr. Muscles.
It’s based on a story by Robert Lees and Frederic I. Rinaldo, and is written by Claude Binyon. Veteran director Mitchell Leisen (“Practically Yours”/”Lady in the Dark”/”Easy Living”), the former art director,keeps things simplistic as a Battle of the Sexes and class warfare comedy, as the snobby Katherine must learn to let go of her superior airs and convince the proud democratic sandhog that she really cares for him and is not just after his bod and thereby will marry for love.
Katherine’s sister Hoppy (Ilka Chase) tries to be the rational one in the family, wondering how anyone, no less her smart sis, would not choose wealth over brawn. Darlene (June Havoc) is the floozy ambitious showgirl Ryan lusts after when confused about where he stands with Katherine. That the lovesick photographer hires the cocky Macho Man to be her assistant and her heavy equipment mover because she feels guilty she got him suspended from his job by publishing a photo of him fighting with his fellow sandhogs that got him in trouble with his bosses, is a plot device that keeps the opposites traveling together in the same circles and gives them a chance to get to know each other. To convince the sandhog, nicknamed for his strength “Superman,” that her intentions are sincere, Katherine’s sophisticated panty-waist composer friend Roger (Richard Haydn) helps her navigate her way in Ryan’s blue-collar world.
The pleasant but superficial film might have been good medicine for a war-weary country, but it has not aged well. Though Colbert’s dream sequence favorably caught my attention, that has her rescued by the boorish Superman, looking like MacMurray, showing she secretly has the hots for him while at the same time it cleverly pokes fun at Dali’s surrealism that was the rage of the art world in the 1940s.
REVIEWED ON 7/17/2012 GRADE: C+
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September 19, 2019Market Review: September 19, 2019
September 20, 2019Mid-Morning Look: September 20, 2019
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DJ Industrials
Stock futures point to a positive open for the Dow and S&P 500, with Asian and European markets also largely in the green. Markets are edging higher amid the return of U.S. and China to the trade negotiations table, as well as continuing to digest the latest round of action from central banks. U.S. and Chinese deputy trade negotiators resumed face-to-face talks for the first time in nearly two months on Thursday, ahead of higher-level talks in October, as the world’s two largest economies try to iron out their trade differences. In Asian markets, The Nikkei Index rose 34 points to 22,079, the Shanghai Index rose 7 points to 3,006 and the Hang Seng Index fell -33 points to 26,435. In Europe, the German DAX is up around 20 points to 12,480, while the FTSE 100 is little changed at 7,360. Friday is quadruple witching day for U.S. markets, when the quarterly expiration of futures and options on indexes and stocks occurs on the same day. It is a really quiet start to the day with no major economic data expected, or earnings and likely not many headlines out on trade, but there are three Fed speakers throughout the day that could possibly move markets.
· The S&P 500 Index edged higher 0.06 points, or 0.01%, to 3,006.79
· The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell -52.29 points, or 0.19%, to 27,094.79
· The Nasdaq Composite gained 5.49 points, or 0.07%, to 8,182.88
· The Russell 2000 Index declined -6.87 points, or 0.44% to 1,561.47
· 11:20 AM EST Fed’s Rosengren speaks in New York
· 12:00 PM EST Household Change in Net Worth for Q2
· 1:00 PM EST Baker Hughes Weekly Rig Count
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10-Year Note
· World economic growth is “fragile” and “under threat,” former International Monetary Fund director Christine Lagarde says, and is over-reliant on the actions of central banks
· St. Louis Fed President James Bullard issued a statement Friday explaining his dissent at this week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting, saying he wanted a more aggressive half-point cut due to signs the economy is slowing down. At the end of its two-day meeting, the FOMC voted 7-3 to trim rates by a quarter-point to a range between 1.75% and 2%
· Beyond Meat Inc. (BYND) said that former Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and Tesla Inc. (TSLA) executive Sanjay Shah will be the meat-alternative company’s chief operating officer. Shah was most recently senior vice president of Tesla’s solar business, a role he took on in 2018
· Steelcase (SCS) Q2 EPS 50c/$998M vs. est. 43c/$980.87M; sees Q3 revs $920M-$945M vs. est. $940.7M and EPS 33c-37c vs. est. 35c
· Scholastic (SCHL) Q1 adjusted EPS loss ($1.59) on revenue $232.6M, while backs FY20 revenue view $1.67B-$1.7B and Adjusted EBITDA of $140M-$160M and still sees year cap-0ex $75M-$85M (vs. $95M in FY19)
· Foundation Building Materials (FBM) 4.75M share Secondary priced at $17.00
Energy, Industrials & Materials
· Gasoline futures rallied on Thursday following reports of massive flooding in Texas, leading to concerns of a slowdown in refining activity and lower demand for crude oil. October gasoline futures settled +2.6% to $1.7007 per gallon
· California Resources (CRC) rebounds after saying it is not planning to hire advisors or plan a restructuring saying is actively looking asset sales to delever – company responds to weakness in shares yesterday, Bloomberg reports
· The nation’s top aviation regulator tested new flight-control software for the Boeing (BA) 737 Max in a simulator on Thursday and gave it a favorable review. New Federal Aviation Administration chief Stephen Dickson also toured the Max assembly line near Seattle
· Moody’s Investors Service downgraded McDermott Technology (MDR) corporate family rating to B3 from B2 to reflect the hiring of advisors to evaluate strategic options in light of the higher than expected costs and cash outflows
· TC Pipelines (TCP) upgraded to Buy from Underperform at Bank America
· Aerie Pharmaceuticals (AERI) announced the European Medicines Agency’s, or EMA, Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, or CHMP, has adopted an opinion recommending approval of the marketing authorization application, or MAA, for Rhokiinsa
· Jazz Pharma (JAZZ) Ivozall (clofarabine) received a positive generic recommendation from the European Medicines Agency’s CHMP
· Align Technology, Inc. (ALGN) announced a global distribution agreement for the award-winning iTero Element family of intraoral scanners with Zimmer Biomet Dental, a division of Zimmer Biomet (ZBH).
· Texas Instruments (TXN) raises quarterly dividend 17% to 90c from 77c per share
· Facebook’s (FB) Mark Zuckerberg met with President Donald Trump on Thursday during a visit to Washington where the CEO faced aggressive questioning from lawmakers about the social network’s failures to protect consumer privacy.
· Xilinx, Inc. (XLNX) announced that EVP and CFO Lorenzo Flores is stepping down from his position to pursue another executive opportunity
· Western Digital Corp. (WDC) said it entered into a definitive agreement to sell its IntelliFlash™ business to DDN and also agreed to expand their existing partnership through a multi-year strategic sourcing agreement
· Liberty Global (LBTYA) downgraded to Sell from Buy at Citigroup
· Xilinx (XLNX) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Bank America
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Last Thanksgiving in Oakdale Federal Prison
Last Thanksgiving in Oakdale Federal Prison (hopefully) Don writes through Corrlinks to all who have stood by him all these years. Even from the depths of my dismal circumstances, I have so much to be thankful for. My friends and family are always first to come to mind. I am Blessed to have family members who have stuck by me and worked for my freedom, and friends like you who have done so much for me in every way possible for so long. I wish I could repay the many “gifts” you gave me Now, as my time draws near, my release date approaches, I wish I could somehow repay you for what […]
Friends of Siegelman Don in Prison Oakdale Prison, Pardon Siegelman
Rove and Gonzales Resigned White House Posts
Rove, Followed by Scandal, Resigned The Architect of the Bush presidency resigned! Shocked White House watchers wonder how Bush 43 would function without Karl Rove. Chief Advisor to the president, Rove claimed he was leaving to spend more time at home. Most believed that impending investigations from the Senate Judiciary Committee dogging Rove as he vacated the West Wing were the real reason for leaving. He was wanted for questioning about his role in purging U.S. Attorneys who weren’t willing to bring partisan prosecutions for the championship of the republican party. As of June 2007, the Committee now wanted to question Rove about the Don Siegelman Prosecution, a prime example of political abuse of the Justice Department by “loyal Bushies.” […]
Friends of Siegelman Uncategorized Alberto Gonzales, Corrupt Prosecution, Countdown, Karl Rove, Summer 2007
Stonewalled! Emails Scrubbed and FOIA Requests Blocked
Rove’s Own Email Scandal and Other Stonewalls Back in the summer of 2007, a White House email scandal turned up the heat on Karl Rove. In the month of June that summer, Alabama was reeling from the Jill Simpson Affidavit which outed Rove’s direction in the Siegelman Prosecution. Furthermore, the draconian treatment during the sentencing of Siegelman and Scrushy by Judge Fuller added evidence of hidden agendas in the case. Karl Rove even began to hint that he may retire. A few months earlier, news hit the stands that Karl Rove was stonewalling requests for emails concerning the Attorneys General Scandal and the outing of Valerie Plame. Reports had surfaced that White House emails had been improperly housed and 22,000,000 emails […]
Friends of Siegelman Countdown to Release, Email Scandal, Political Prosecution Corrupt Prosecution, draconian sentencing, Email Scandal, Judge Fuller, June 2007, Supoenas
Shackles, Handcuffs, and Explosive Sentencing
Siegelman, Scrushy led off in shackles and cuffs Marshals applied shackles, chains and cuffs to Richard Scrushy’s and Don Siegelman’s ankles and wrists as though they were violent criminals. Don writes from prison that he “. . . could tell from Fuller’s anger and demeanor from the bench that he was going to sentence me to some prison time. When he said eighty-eight months, and before I couldn’t even divide it by twelve, I was being taken out a side door, shackled, chained and handcuffed. . .“ A stunned courtroom watched Don Siegelman and Richard Scrushy rushed out of the courtroom directly after the sentencing. Scrushy’s wife, Leslie and his children cried quietly upon hearing the […]
Friends of Siegelman Political Prosecution Corrupt Prosecution, Judge Fuller, Sentencing
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Duo Security Raises $30 Million to Accelerate Growth, Innovation in Preventing Data Theft
Redpoint Ventures Leads Series C Funding Round
Duo Security, a cloud-based access security provider protecting the world’s fastest-growing companies, today announced it has raised $30 million in Series C funding. New investor Redpoint Ventures led the round with participation by current investors Benchmark, Google Ventures, Radar Partners and True Ventures.
The Series C round brings Duo Security’s total funding to approximately $48 million, which the company will use to accelerate investment in engineering and international expansion as it rolls out the most effective solution to prevent security breaches and data theft.
“Duo Security is providing a much-needed solution at a time when organizations are bleeding billions of dollars a year in losses from breaches and identity theft, despite huge spending on their complex legacy security systems,” said Allen Beasley, partner at Redpoint Ventures. “We’re proud to back Dug Song and his team in bringing the two-factor authentication market to all enterprises.”
“We’re delighted to welcome Redpoint Ventures to the Duo team,” said Duo Security CEO Dug Song. “This round of funding validates the work we’re doing with Duo Platform and will help us continue to reinvent easy and effective solutions in an industry overloaded with expensive, broken systems.”
Duo Security today also announced the upcoming launch of Duo Platform, extending the benefits of its patented technology to secure access for any user to any application from any device, including personal smartphones. Duo Platform allows IT teams to define policies for access, automate enforcement of controls based on risk, gain visibility into access-related security threats and get insight into the security profile of end user devices. Find out more at duosecurity.com/platform.
Duo Security is a cloud-based access security provider protecting the world’s fastest-growing companies and thousands of organizations worldwide, including Zillow, Etsy, Facebook, Paramount Pictures, Random House, Toyota, Twitter, Yelp, TripAdvisor, The Men’s Warehouse, Dresser-Rand Group, K-Swiss, SuddenLink, and more. Duo Security’s innovative and easy-to-use technology can be quickly deployed to protect users, data, and applications from breaches, credential theft and account takeover. Duo Security is backed by Benchmark, Google Ventures, Radar Partners, Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures. Try it for free at www.duosecurity.com.
Sally Lanier
sally@duosecurity.com
Note: Duo's Platform Edition is now known as Duo Access - with even more features. Please visit our Pricing page to view our latest editions.
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“A Life to Spare”: AQ14 Short Fiction from Andra Roventa
On January 20, 2015 January 20, 2015 By depaulundergroundIn Student Work
“A Life to Spare” by Andra Roventa
Berthold Pfeiffer bit savagely against the inside of his cheek to keep from grimacing at the sight before him. Dozens of corpses lay strewn in the filthy, rat-infested gutters of Dresden, many of them fresh and still saturated with blood and smeared guts. Pairs of glassy, vacant eyes watched him with accusing looks, silently screaming at him to divulge why they had been thrown into the street like used garbage. Try as he might, Berthold was unable to tear his gaze away from the pile of once-breathing, once-walking Jews that were now no more than slabs of bullet-filled meat.
Some of them were alive merely ten minutes ago, he thought in bewilderment, eyeing a bearded rabbi whose mouth was still agape, rigid and distorted. He must have died screaming. The 21-year-old S.S. officer shuddered, finally averting his eyes from that haunting, empty stare the deceased rabbi managed to give him.
A portly, bald commander cleared his throat as he watched two remaining officers drag what seemed to be the last body from the demolished apartment complex the S.S. men were loitering against. The German duo dumped the lifeless body of a teenage boy onto the rest before turning to salute their commanding officer.
“Is that all of them, then?” the rotund, elderly commander known as Jorgen Fitzgerald, inquired in a voice laden with irritation. It looked like he had other business elsewhere, and this “menial” task was not one of them.
One of the Germans who had discarded the final Jew gave a half-assed shrug. “You know these Jews, Herr Fitzgerald. Sneaky little devils. There might be a couple here and there hiding about—under the floorboards, behind a secret stairwell. You can never be too sure with them.”
The fat commander gave a snort, nodding in agreement. “Disgusting vermin, the lot of them.” He bent his rhino-like head to rest on his decorated breast, pondering for a moment. “Right, then. I’m late for a dinner party as it is. Someone needs to run through the perimeters to make sure we’ve taken care of every last one of them. I don’t want any runaways or it’s going to look messy on my part.”
He clasped his hands against his bulging belly, scrutinizing the ten-or-so soldiers that encircled him. Fitzgerald scanned each of them before narrowing his beady eyes on Berthold. The latter bristled but kept his surprise in check.
“Pfeiffer. You’ve been quiet today, boy. I don’t recall you doing much when we stormed the complex,” Fitzgerald barked at the blond man, furrowing his brow in contemplation. “Give me your rifle.” His fingers, which looked more like fat sausages than digits, impatiently wiggled as he reached out for the weapon his subordinate had strapped to his shoulder.
Berthold blinked, cocking his head in confusion. What did the Herr Commandant want with his gun? “My rifle?”
Fitzgerald gave him a shrewd stare and took the thing off him anyway. The older man proceeded to check the barrel and found it to be full of unused ammunition. He sulked at the prospect, turning back to the blond with a disappointed expression plastered to his pudgy features. “The Gestapo do not sit by and simply do nothing, do you understand? They don’t ignore the orders of their superiors and waste their time when they are on duty.”
Berthold could feel his mouth constrict into a frown of his own. “I wasn’t wasting-”
“Don’t patronize me, Pfeiffer. My stomach is quaking with hunger and I honestly won’t tolerate one of my soldiers being smart with me right now. You have done absolutely nothing. Your colleagues rid the world of a few worthless Jews and what did you do? Well?”
Berthold said nothing.
The Herr Commandant clicked his tongue as he shook his head vehemently. “You’re to go and check the complex for any stragglers. If you find them, you shoot them and then you bring them down here—and I promise you, there’s at least one skulking around up there. I want to hear a gunshot, do you understand me? I want to know that you’ve done your duty for the day.”
Without another word, the Gestapo officer turned on his heels with purposeful strides and made his way back into the lobby of the ravaged building. Shards of broken glass littered in places where they had smashed in windows earlier. Fragments of wooden panels covered the concrete steps as Berthold climbed the stairs. He slowed, pausing to catch any sound of movement coming from the nearby rooms. After meticulously checking the first four stories without luck, Berthold reached the fifth story. By then he was huffing from the vertical ascent.
As he was searching for any form of life that had managed to stash itself away during the slaughter, Berthold put in his best effort to ignore the crimson smears that covered the walls and floorboards. He disregarded the messy splotches on the floor where Jews had been executed, and he overlooked the peculiar spots on the furniture that resembled brain matter. There was one thing that the German could not eradicate from his awareness: the acrid smell.
The air was so heavy with the scent of blood that the well-trained officer could not stifle the gags that came out of his throat. The proof of carnage was right there, and it was wafting about his nostrils with a sickly-sweet, decaying odor. It made his stomach turn into knots.
And then he heard it—a shuffling of feet, there, just barely. It had to have come from one of the last rooms down the hallway. Silently, Berthold took step after step through the sea of destroyed furniture and knick-knacks until he stopped directly in front of a crooked doorway. With the tip of his rifle, he pushed the damaged wood back and entered.
Nothing seemed out of place. The room was a complete mess of post-violence like all the rest of them. His leaf-green eyes swept over the couch and peered into the bathroom before stopping abruptly. His body became as still as stone when he saw the person who had shuffled about moments before. Fitzgerald was right, the bastard.
Cowering before him was a girl who looked to be no older than eighteen. She stared up at him with wide brown eyes, watching him with absolute terror. Her coppery hair was curled at the edges and gathered into a silk bow tied at the back of her head. If the modest dress she wore weren’t covered in grime and blood, it might have been dainty and pretty, ideas that seemed out of place here, in the ruin, just like the girl herself.
Berthold’s gaze softened the moment he laid his eyes on the trembling girl before him. His muscles slackened, and he raised his palms up to show her that he meant no harm. “I’m not going to hurt you.” Her face stayed pallid and ghostly white, and he could see her shivering.
Pity flooded him. He couldn’t even begin to understand the trauma she had just experienced not an hour before. Her family, most likely, was heaped on the street below. “What’s your name?” he heard himself ask her, keeping his voice in the most calming tone he could manage, though he was shaking too.
The copper-haired girl stared at him, perplexed, as she got to her feet. “E-Emily. Emily Krantz.” Her voice was a broken whisper.
Her name. There was now a name to go with her face. He shouldn’t have asked her that. Berthold lifted his black cap off his head and ran his fingers through his oiled-back blond hair, a sigh escaping from his lips. Damn.
Her brown orbs glanced fearfully at the rifle he had rested on the bed before jerking her head in his direction. Her lower lip quivered and she choked out a sob. “P-Please don’t kill me.”
Without thinking he said, “I’m not going to kill you.”
Pure disbelief marred her beautiful features, and the German couldn’t blame her. He wouldn’t believe himself if he were in her position. She didn’t drop her guard, even when it was clear that he wouldn’t attempt to try anything conspicuous.
Berthold’s shoulders sagged visibly, and in that moment, everything hit him like a ton of bricks. Here was this innocent person, this girl whose parents had been brutally executed. It was likely she’d been tucked away behind a panel where she wouldn’t have been seen. He could only imagine how she had strangled her cries to keep from giving her position away when she heard her parents die.
If any of the other Gestapo men were the ones to have come across her, she would’ve been shot dead on the spot. He was the one Fitzgerald sent, however. He was the one who had found her. That had to mean something, right?
This girl, Emily, shouldn’t have had to look at him with petrified, doe-like eyes as if he were some three-headed beast. She didn’t deserve to be orphaned by the hands of the state. She had lost her loved ones, her household, and her right to live. This girl had no one. She was abandoned in the desolate country he called home, one that she had called home not too long ago. A home that Germany had deemed her unworthy of because of her “race”. What kind of people found it in themselves to repudiate someone who was evidently without blame? Someone who had no choice being who they were; a Jew? What did this child do to deserve such extreme hate? What did her people do to be put down like worthless dogs? He didn’t know. Berthold couldn’t come up with anything to convince himself otherwise.
He felt absolutely weak and useless. He had allowed himself to listen to his superiors without question, without a second thought because his whole life, he was taught to follow the directions of those who knew better.
No. He swallowed painfully, focusing on the blackened points of his scuffed-up boots. He had known better. He refused to acknowledge the atrocities taking place around him because he was a coward—he knew that whenever he pulled that trigger, he was committing a horrible crime. The other Nazis, they didn’t see the error in their ways. They were brainwashed into truly believing that they were doing the Aryan race a favor when it came to the elimination of the Jewish people. But Berthold knew better. And yet he did nothing. He’d looked away when his colleagues mercilessly blew Jews’ heads clean off. He’d stood silently in his place when families were separated and torn apart, and he’d squeezed his eyes shut when weeping Jews reached out to him in an attempt to diplomatically change their predicament.
He’d done nothing. The German government was getting away with murder by the thousands. No matter how many times his conscience screamed at him to speak up, to lay down his firearm, to take down his mask he wore as an S.S. and act like a human again, he’d stifle it.
Feigning ignorance was easier than swallowing a truth edged and thorny with awfulness.
The Gestapo had robbed him of the humanity he knew he was supposed to express. It had forced him to hide behind a sick, careless façade that he so desperately wanted to shed. No matter how much Berthold wanted to be free of them, he was aware of the shackles that kept him in place. There was no going back, now that he was a part of them. The moment those monsters tied a blood-red swastika to his forearm, the metaphorical knife was also placed behind his back, ever prodding him, daring him to step away from his duties and slide right into its pointed blade. No, Berthold couldn’t be free of it.
Shame bubbled up his throat in relentless waves. As he watched the caramel-haired girl who stood rooted to her spot, he could feel the corners of his eyes water. “I-I’m so s-sorry, Emily. For your parents’ end. For e-everything that has come to pass.”
Her eyebrows raised at his shaken apology. “I don’t think you were the one who hurt them,” she replied delicately with a confidence that sent the blond on edge. Why did she sound so sure?
He shook his head, taking wary steps towards the smaller girl. “Just because I didn’t point a gun in their direction doesn’t make me any less guilty. I stood by while the rest of them slew those Jews. Not attempting to prevent it still makes me a bad man.”
Emily unexpectedly reached out for Berthold, clutching his gloved hand without giving it much thought. “I’m still here. That’s proof that you’re not bad, right? An evil man wouldn’t have batted an eyelash once he saw me. All you are is…trapped…”
Trapped. She couldn’t have phrased it any better. He was trapped with no way out.
I want to hear a gunshot, do you understand me? I want to know that you’ve done your duty for the day.
Fitzgerald’s words hit him like a slap on the cheek. Berthold’s duty. He was supposed to shoot any survivors. Goddamn it. Emily immediately noticed his hand tense up within her slender one, and panic swept over her previously relaxed eyes.
“Get back in the panel, the one you were hiding behind. Do it now. And please, for the love of all things holy, don’t you dare move from that spot. I can’t be certain if anyone will come in later tonight to scavenge around. Wait out the night, and then try to see if you can sneak back out through the basement passage.” He tried to use his Gestapo “authoritative” voice to get her to comply at once.
It worked. Emily squeezed his hand before letting go and crawling back into a hidden square space behind the main headboard of the bed. When he crouched, he caught one final glimpse of her chocolate-brown eyes and what he saw froze him to the bone. They were glistening…with…tears? She mouthed a soft “thank-you” before disappearing completely behind the wood.
The blond German had to fight his own tears from slipping out as he threw a broken piece of furniture across the panel where she was concealed for good measure. She wasn’t going to get caught. He wouldn’t allow it. Dear God, he wouldn’t allow another soul to suffer.
The disheveled officer threw on his mask of cool indifference the moment he stepped back outside to meet the others. Despite his level of experience in the military, he wasn’t expecting the rant that would ensue.
Fitzgerald’s cheeks were a beet-red. “Did you take a nap while you were up there, Pfeiffer? And there was no blasted gunshot! I heard nothing!” he shouted, glaring angry daggers up at the younger inferior.
“I took extra time to check every possible hiding spot. There’s no one left.”
“What do you mean, no one left? You know damn well that some Jews manage to fit themselves inside the wall, o-or under the bed support–”
Berthold ground his words when he repeated, “There’s no one left.” On the outside, he kept his face stern and convincing. Inside, his heart was rattling against his ribs. He prayed Fitzgerald was hungry enough to want to leave already. He needed to get the Gestapo away from her.
For a long moment, the Herr Commandant didn’t say anything. He scrutinized the taller blond with such a ferocity that Berthold was sure he would spontaneously combust into flames. Finally, the heavyset commander grunted and turned to make his way back to his car, motioning for the rest of the S.S. to do the same.
A held-in breath pushed out of Berthold’s lips as he watched his comrades trudge off into the night. Thank God. Thank God they didn’t question his words.
With knowing, heavy eyes, Berthold cast them up the building’s front until they landed on the upmost story. Emily Krantz was holed away in one of those slapdash walls, cold and frightened and lonely. But she was alive. He had managed to keep the poor girl alive. But for how long?
He trembled at the thought, flickering his gaze to the bodies that continued to lay in that bloodied trench.
The hour was late as it was and the German knew he couldn’t linger any longer before someone began to notice his absence. With strenuous effort, he slowly backed away from the ruined apartments.
Emily was alive. She had not been killed. He had saved her. He had done something right for once in his miserable life as a man of the “law.” Would it last, though? Did he give her a day, a week, a month more? Would the Nazis ever catch up with her in the end? He paled considerably at that morbid thought. Would his efforts fall apart?
No, it couldn’t. Somehow, some way, he would make sure that Emily Krantz would make it through the war. Finding her so forlorn and vulnerable had been a cold bucket of water to his face. It had woken him up to the reality he had been denying for so long in order to salvage his crushed integrity. He wouldn’t allow another Jew to die because of him.
At least, he desperately didn’t want it to be so. But the truth smacked him upside the head, and Berthold cringed. No matter what he thought, he was a foreigner to his own body. It would do as his superiors commanded of him, wouldn’t it? And besides, he couldn’t speak out against them like a traitor. After all, the Third Reich had ripped out his tongue and free will long before he ever realized it.
Andra Roventa is a freshman at DePaul majoring in English and minoring in Pre-Law and Political Thought. She is from Grand Haven, MI but was born in NYC. She is a trilingual fraternal twin with an affinity for Harry Potter.
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Andra, your mother shared this wonderful writing with me and I say, thank you. It is brilliant, exciting, passionate and a creative use of unusual descriptors to authenticate the feelings, emotions, moral conflict and passions dwelling in the young mans soul. Jan Smith, Grand Haven, Michigan.
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N Lincolnshire planners back Egdon’s Wressle oil production plans – again
By Ruth Hayhurst on June 23, 2017 • ( 44 Comments )
Planners at North Lincolnshire Council have recommended approval of plans to produce oil at Egdon’s Wressle site near Scunthorpe – for a second time.
Their first report backing the scheme for 15-years of production failed to convince councillors. At a meeting in January, North Lincolnshire’s planning committee refused permission saying there was not enough information to allay concerns about risks to the environment and economy. DrillOrDrop report
Since then Egdon has appealed against the refusal and submitted a new application for the same site and almost the same development. The new application is due to be discussed at a special committee meeting on Monday 3 July.
In a 70-page report published today, the planners recommended that planning permission was “merited” for the new application. They said:
“There are no material adverse impacts of the development that would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits.”
They have recommended 17 conditions covering issues such as traffic, noise, working hours, protection of wildlife and restoration of the site.
Plan of the proposed Wressle oil production sites
Proppant squeeze and acidisation
At the January committee, objectors to the scheme and some councillors raised concerns about two production techniques which Egdon proposed to carry out at the site: proppant squeeze and acidisation.
In a proppant squeeze, a slurry of sand and gelled water is injected under pressure through perforations in the well casing into the surrounding rocks. The sand proppant keeps the fractures open and allows oil and gas to flow out more easily.
Acidisation involves injection of acid solutions through perforations into the surrounding rocks – in this case Ashover Grit sandstone – to again improve the flow of oil or gas. Egdon said it proposed to use about 50 cubic metres of dilute hydrochloric acid, ammonium biflouride and ammonium chloride. The mixture would create hydrofluoric acid underground, dissolving particles and solids that are blocking pores in the rock and the well perforations. The company says the acid reacts with the rocks and flows back to the surface to be treated with soda ash.
Both these techniques remain in the new application. Egdon has also said it still wants to include the option of a drilling a 20-30m sidetrack off the main Wressle-1 well. But the company has removed the option of radial drilling.
The application still includes installing oil and gas production equipment, electricity generating facilities, and a tanker loading plinth and replacing a temporary storage tank containment bund with a masonry version.
Is it fracking?
Egdon said it was not applying now nor in the future to carry out high volume hydraulic fracturing. Opponents said the proppant squeeze and acidisation amounted to an unusual and untested form of fracking that could not be monitored effectively.
The planners concluded in their report:
“It is considered that the proposed development does not constitute an application for “fracking”, but relates to conventional oil and gas production.”
British Steel objected to the previous application because it was concerned that the development could affect the quality of volume of water from its nearby abstraction borehole that supplied Scunthorpe Steelworks demineralisation plan. British Steel has since confirmed that its concerns have been addressed and it has not objected to the latest application. There has also been no objection from the Environment Agency.
Broughton Town Council has objected to the application and called for more research on acidisation and proppant squeeze before a decision was made.
At the time of writing the report, planners said they had also received more than 100 letters of objection. These covered issues including the proposed operation and the impacts on climate change, groundwater, ecology, landscape, noise, air quality, public health, highways, lighting, the local economy.
The objectors include Frack Free Lincolnshire, which said today the acid would be injected through a principal aquifer.
“This is for an unusual form of fracking into sandstone not shale. All the usual major concerns over fracking apply.
“It’s only the obscene quantities of fresh water which is not applicable. Here they will use ‘only’ a tenth of the volume and therefore can slip below the radar of technical fracking.
“So the risks posed by high pressure hydraulic fracturing into deep sandstone formations using the vast array of hazardous chemicals with the addition of hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acids is arguably greater than typical fracking into shale.”
The group is organising a demonstration before the committee meeting.
2pm, 3 July 2017, North Lincolnshire Council Civic Centre, Ashby Road,
Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN16 1AB. The demonstration is due to begin a 1pm.
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PhilC . Wouldn’t it be great if all those self appointed chemistry experts and home garden environmentalists would present a simple formula for the reversal of species extinction, coral bleaching, sea level rise and polar ice disappearance. They seem quite happy ‘rearranging the deck chairs’ while the great majority of environmental and climate scientists point a finger of culpability at their beloved industry.
Fibonacci says:
It is very difficult to have any respect for Drill or Drop given the lack of journalistic integrity and intellectual honesty on the part of those who run this site. The idea that Drill or Drop remotely lives up to its claim of “independent journalism on fracking” is so absurd that even many of the anti-frackers admit it. How do Ruth and Paul expect to establish trust with an audience when their site description is such a blatant untruth?
I think everyone coming onto the site realises it is predominantly an anti o&g site however, it is a good source of information for pro frackers alike. It may be a good idea to bring a pro fracking journalist on board the team to even things up slightly.
Paul Seaman says:
DrillOrDrop is independent because it takes no money from organisations on either side of the fracking argument – thus its pieces are not constrained by the fear of upsetting its sponsors. We do welcome donations from individual readers, but again these donations do not influence our output.
Please draw our attention to any inaccuracies via the Contact page – we are always happy to correct any mistakes or amend pieces where a misleading impression may have been given.
We strive to present the views of the Oil and Gas industry as well as those of protestors. Recently we carried an in-depth interview with the commercial manager of Ineos (https://drillordrop.com/2017/06/07/interview-ineos-tells-opponents-delay-tactics-wont-work-were-not-going-anywhere/) and are hoping for more interviews with industry figures soon. We also spent a day at UKOG’s Broadford Bridge site (https://drillordrop.com/2017/06/14/ukog-boss-expects-oil-answers-on-broadford-bridge-in-weeks-but-questions-keep-coming-from-local-opponents/) and carried substantial quotes from the UKOG boss defending their operation.
What a pathetic display of attacks on our hosts Ruth and Paul, typical of the o$€¥£g attempts at intimidation, we all see that. We all get moderated without fear or favour or financial pressure, that is exceptional, few other sites can say that. Yes, we all get heated (not by gas) and moderated every now and then and I don’t detect any bias in that in any degree.
The attempts to drown out this site in anti anti epithets and sarcasm at all times of the day, just goes to prove its the anti anti Astro Turfers job to do just that, most of the protesters have busy lives families and jobs and far too busy to sit behind a keyboard all day and post multiple ID tsunamis of personal attacks and epithets.
That is an anti anti privilege.
Now you can all sit behind your o$€¥£&g keyboards and get bitter and acid to your lack of hearts content.
Thank you, Paul. Any disclosure as to what percentage of sponsors identify as anti-fracking? Personally, I wouldn’t be comfortable with identifying my organization as “independent” if I knew that we drew a large proportion of our sponsorship from those identifying with one side of an issue on which we were reporting. I would love to get your thoughts on the subject.
We have received donations from many different people, and are very grateful for their support. Donations make it possible for Ruth to travel to meetings (such as the one in Lytham tonight) and to planning meetings (such as the upcoming one in Wressle), and improve the depth and quality of the coverage we are able to provide. However, donors don’t seek to influence the blog, and we don’t keep records of donors’ attitudes to fracking. We are happy to take donations from individuals of all beliefs and none – how about it, Fibonacci?
Easy. Get the human population back to the level it was in the 15th century, or earlier.
Exactly. Stopping all hydrocarbon production tomorrow will greatly assist in doing exactly that.
This is something else that emerges malformed from these o$£&G fracker posts and that is this eugenics cry to reduce the worlds population to what was it? Back to the level it was in the 15 th century, or earlier?
I bet these posters do not intend to be one of the “reduced”? One wonders if the rest of us are expected so compliant and be grateful for the sacrifice?
Forgive me for getting off subject, but it has been proposed, so it is worth exploring for a moment dont you think?
There is an interesting connection to The Georgia Guidestones is a granite monument erected in 1980 in Elbert County, Georgia, in the United States by a man using the self-professed pseudonym Robert C. Christian.
A set of 10 guidelines is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient language scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Clearly there is some reference that the designers and commissioners of these stones propose to “maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature” One wonders what would happen to any who by accident or design, became number 500,000,001?
What is not said is how this genocide would be achieved? Consider the present population, according to whatever census figures you may believe, are currently around 7.5 billion, to achieve….sorry…..”maintain” 500 million only, that would require…..removing? eliminating? exterminating? culling? genocide? of around 7 billion individual human beings, each with their own unique and valuable contribution to the human species, not just in terms of cultural, social and racial diversity, but genetic diversity too?
When you consider that Albert Einstein was not a remarkable man, had many vices and did not have a remarkable brain and accelerated the human race understanding of physics by many decades? ask yourself if one or more of those…..eugenised…..were such a remarkable person? And similarly consider how many genius’s are sacrificed in wars and conflicts and desease and starvation across the world before and at the moment, how many mother Teresas? How many Gandhis? How many Buddhas?
Hitlers and Atillas and Pol Pots we have a glut of, but once in every while someone special comes along, maybe there are 7 billion of them?
One wonders how this eugenics would be planned to be achieved? And what conditions that remaining 500 million would be expected to live in? 500 million mindless drugged up slaves? or 500 million planetary masters? Perhaps the 500 million only refers to the intended masters and rulers? what of he rest, do they count? The thinking concealed behind this notion is horrifying in the extreme? And yet it is spoken here in plain sight, just as it was in Germany and across the world in the 1930’s, and several similar attempts since?
Maybe that was just a practice run? Can we expect mercy or humanity or even intelligence from such?
Hi Philip P, yes you are quite right, i dont think they are even capable of re-arranging the deckchairs, that requires some thought and planning, so instead all they can do is sell the deckchairs off to the highest bidder, knowing perfectly well they will soon go down with the rest of the ship, i expect that was where all the lifeboats went?
Its the same with the environment, these types have destroyed or are in the process of destroying all the carbon and heat sink lifeboats the earth, in its abundance has built up for hundreds of millions of years. the polar ice is melting fast, water levels are rising, all or nuclear facilities are at sea level, and what about fukushima, that is a radioactive elephant that gets more massive every minute. We have acidified the oceans, that was the biggest carbon sink, the atmosphere is expanding and becoming more volatile, the carbon sinks of the forests are all but gone, we have polluted and despoiled our way through ever natural ecological safety valve the earth has built up for millions of years and hoped that it all would never end. well it is ending and just more of the same old same old despoiling of what little remains of the earth’s defences that protect us, and everything on this planet, is simply suicide.
We have now destroyed so much that the oceans, the atmosphere and the land that they all are failing all around us, but the hydrocarbon imperative now wants the craziest things in its desperation to maintain the profit cash flow, it now wants the very land beneath our feet and to hell with the consequences for those of us that live on it and depend upon it for our life, our health and our food and water.
They simply don’t care, and anyone who dares to say stop is instantly leapt upon by the o$£&g astro-turfers to crush anything being reasonably discussed, because that must not happen. You see right here that its all about derision, personal attacks and turning everything that dares to challenge the o$£&g imperative, and then act all hurt and above such things if we do that back to them. you will notice they will always do that in concert, as many as possible, fake or multiple ID’s add their silly little sarcasm to back themselves up. Its all a fake, [edited by moderator], nothing more.
Oh they will make al sorts of excuses about driving cars and heating homes, but that is only because all the viable and now more efficient and affordable alternatives are deliberately sidelined and funding and tax concessions and even increased, like solar.media.
Politics, economics are all in turmoil, that is deliberate, because they think it keeps our minds off the o$£&g imperatives and the sheer ecological insanity of it. when was the last time there was a real truthful tv radio or indeed any film or official documentary on fracking and now proppant squeezing and acidisation? Not that i know of.
On the bright side we have seen some remarkable results in the elections and brexit and the loose canon trump, though frankly he seems more of an o$£&g executive than a President. his overruling of the standing rock embargo was simply dictatorial and against his own Army Core of Engineers recommendations.
This election has been a terrible but telling expose of the sheer incompetence, criminal activity and almost pathalogically uncaring actions and non actions of government and councils since the 1980’s.
That is now the focus to be put on this o$£&g alternatives are now showing themselves to be as viable if not more so than the o$£&g imperative and are emerging in spite of the system efforts to sideline them.
Am i hopeful of major change? Yes, i would have to be, or i would not bother to fight or post here., its going to be tough on everyone, but its tough on everyone all ready, and without turning this all around to some semblance of common sense and intelligence in energy and ecology matters its just going to get worse, so in my view it is the only way we CAN go, and that is out of this stranglehold monopoly of insane o$£&g same old same old proliferation and pollution and lets start to do something that actually reflects common sense and intelligence, not recidivism and stagnation.
Yes, this century could be the planet’s darkest ‘hour’. What we’re left with (the next generation at least) at the end, or even by mid-century, is of huge concern. All these oil and gas interests have come to a concentrated head under the Trump bandwagon. I see it like a gigantic boil full of puss that will have to get lanced one way or another and boy, it’s going to get messy for a while!
Long live your independence D and D. I think these criticisms are largely because you often get behind the usual smokescreens. Many of the controversial aspects of the industry, particularly regarding fracking, rely on public concealment, or ignorance of the realities.
I thoroughly agree, well done Drill or Drop!
Who is up for crowdfunding the UK based anti frackers for a one way trip to countries that actually have zero respect for the planet, they will find the UKs contribution to pollution is a mere pittance. Then once they are educated on world affairs they can return happy and content that they live in a lovely part of the world all brought about by thoughtful capitalists like myself. I suggest they start off with some genuine fact finding in China, they will be able to see just how genuine their renewable sector is (take breathing apparatus for the smog though!).
GBL you say – ‘the UKs contribution to pollution is a mere pittance’ . Why seek to change it then? http://www.economist.com/news/business/21702493-natural-gass-reputation-cleaner-fuel-coal-and-oil-risks-being-sullied-methane
Disingenuous as usual NottaGottaLottaDrillOrDroppaLuvva, this typical pathetic excuse for o$€¥£&g GottaProppaGandaTrolla another example of, its OK for some extremist regimes to run rough shod over the planet like spoilt children, so it must be OK for us to do it here too? What utter and absolute planet rot! True energy alternatives are the only intelligent way out of this mess, recidivist propaganda will not do anything but prolong the planet torture.
TW says:
D&D is doing a good job of coverage the general issues of UK onshore and not just fracking. While the coverage is mainly concerning ‘issues’ of the industry which lend itself to being more antis in its coverage I find on the balance it is fair amd neutral and resourceful (especially with photos coverage). So imo keep up the good works and remain true to your philosophy.
BTW Tory and DUP signed an agreement so no major policy change for frackers in the next 5 years.
Hopefully Comrade C will kick the bucket during the 5 years however I reckon a change of Conservative leadership and early election will be before the 5 years are up.
If the Conservatives don’t shift to the right they will lose their core voters and the UK will end up a larger basket case than it already is.
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Updated: Third Energy closes deal on onshore gas business – Alan Linn becomes ceo
By Ruth Hayhurst on July 9, 2019 • ( 12 Comments )
Third Energy has finalised the sale of its onshore business.
In a statement released today, the company said:
“Third Energy Holdings Limited announces that, following the satisfaction of conditions precedent, the sale of the entire share capital of Third Energy Onshore Limited to York Energy (UK) Holdings Ltd has completed today.”
The deal, first announced in April 2019, includes the onshore exploration, appraisal and production company, Third Energy UK Gas Limited, which operates largely in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire.
Also covered by the sale is Third Energy Trading Limited, which owns the electricity generating station at Knapton.
York Energy was incorporated in February 2019 and is described as an affiliate of Alpha Energy, a US company which invests in “overlooked conventional fields”.
Tom Read, the chief executive of Alpha Energy and one of two directors of York Energy, said today:
“We are very grateful for the support our development plans have received from all key stakeholders during the acquisition process, and we now look forward to deploying our engineering-led approach to being responsible owners and operators of these onshore assets.”
DrillOrDrop reported earlier this week that a North Yorkshire resident had instructed solicitors to put questions about the sale to the industry regulator, the Oil & Gas Authority.
Eddie Thornton, an anti-fracking campaigner, said he was concerned about what would happen to the former Third Energy gas sites if the owner went bust and could not fund future decommissioning costs.
The solicitors asked the OGA whether it had supported or backed the deal and what tests of York Energy’s financial capacity and viability had been carried out before the sale was approved.
“As far as we can see, this new fracking company has only existed for a year and has just £10 to its name.
“But the approval of the takeover must mean the Oil & Gas Authority is satisfied that Alpha Energy will be able to decommission all the outdated infrastructure they will inherit along with Third Energy’s drilling licences and future work commitments.
“The least our community deserves is the disclosure of the information the regulators saw before they approved the deal.
“Our fear is that it will be us, the tax payers, left with the clean up bill if Alpha Energy goes bust or retreats back to the Cayman Islands.”
Third Energy’s most recent accounts revealed liabilities of £63.9m. The company also appears to have failed a financial resilience test required by the government before it was allowed to frack the KM8 well at Kirby Misperton in Ryedale.
Today’s statement said Third Energy’s onshore business would continue to operate with the current management and staff.
The ultimate parent company of Third Energy Holdings Limited is Barclays Plc. In 2017, Barclays said it intended to dispose of Third Energy Holdings.
Update 10 July 2019
Third Energy announced that Alan Linn had been appointed chief executive officer of the onshore business.
Mr Linn, previously chief operating officer of Third Energy Onshore, said in a statement:
“I am very pleased that Third Energy Onshore has secured its long-term future, including the jobs of our team in Yorkshire, through acquisition by York Energy.
“The sales process has delivered a strong outcome for the business and prospects for growth. The recently published Committee on Climate Change report highlighted the important role indigenous natural gas must play in supporting delivery of the government’s 2050 net zero target for carbon emissions.
“Our focus will be on developing our onshore gas and power generation businesses.”
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What happened to this:
Mr Thornton’s concerns related to Third Energy’s finances.”
Has the OGA approved the sale? Do they have to? Or is the sale still subject to regulatory approvals (it doesn’t look like it). Why are Third Energy’s finances relevant?
Eli-Goth says:
Ask Eddie about his families finances, and interests in the heavily government subsidised wind energy industry and windcare. How much has he cost onshore unconventional exploration companies?
philip Tate says:
To a certain extent, Third Energy’s previous lack of finance is no longer relevant since it has abandoned the field of play. What is relevant is the ability of the OGA to determine “Financial Resilience”..
The OGA does not have in-house capability to make financial assessment and so it delegates the task to another arm of Government namely the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.. My point is simple : is it likely that the finest brains in Accounting are to be found here ? Are they not likely to be working for serious sums of money elsewhere ?
Given recent failure at Government level to assess the financial weakness of Carillion, Interserve, Serco or any of the Private Equity Partnerships running Care Homes such as Careline or Southern Cross , I have little confidence that the blotter jotters used by the OGA are sufficiently familiar with the arcane products to be found in company balance sheets that they can usefully take a reasoned view of an Operator’s Financial Resilience.
York Energy is nothing more than a financial construct . It does not own so much as an electric drill. Having come into existence in February, it has zero trading figures. It has never filed accounts. Is this really the sort of enterprise the OGA wishes to entrust with achieving Maximum Economic Recovery of Shale Gas. ? If has no more financial resilience than the local troop of brownies and considerably less skill at making flapjack.
Judith Green says:
The only reasons why financial resilience is really being discussed is that it’s a little wheeze that anti-frackers are using, Greg Clarke included, to prevent shale gas production going ahead. Any industry that goes bust seems to leave debts that others have to pick up (e.g. high street shops, steal industry etc etc). The focus on financial resilience is similar to the traffic light system, one rule for fracking – a different rule for other industries.
mapportunity says:
Irrespective of if people are pro or anti facking one thing is in common, the FREE MARKET philosophy!
FREE MARKET means price finding mechanism by the market as the believe is this is the most efficient way to determine the true costs.
ACCORDINGLY NO COMPANY IN ANY INDUSTRY SHOULD BE ABLE TO OPERATE WITHOUT FULLY PAID UP INSURANCE FOR THE KNOWN RISKS FOR THE DURATION OF THOSE KNOWN RISKS – that then reflects the risks associated and in fracking must include upto the end of the design life at the commencement of operations…..i.e no permits or authorizations to commence works should be issued until this insurance (being a bond covering reinstatement covering potential liabilities created by currently known risks!) is provided to the local councils.
This way there is no public risk of footing any liabilities created by other peoples actions!!!
THIS SHOULD BE A REQUIREMENT FOR ALL INDUSTRIES – NO PUBLIC COVERAGE NO LICENCES TO OPERATE THEREBY RETURNING TO THE EQUITABLE MAXIM
THOSE WHO CREATE LIABILITY MUST PROVIDE REMEDY which has been progressively removed to the privileged few where the public has been forced to bail them out, such as the banking crisis of 2008, and more recently Carrilion who left innocent parties with over 1.35 billion liabilities!!! NO INSURANCE – NO BUSINESS.
Sara May says:
Unbelievably nonchalant attitude
This was supposed to be a reply to Judith Green above and got posted as a reply I am sorry to the wrong person
I agree wholeheartedly with mapportunity’s comments. I deplore Judith Greens
I think It is an issue of honour to take responsibility for your own mess A word hardly used these days
Sara – you have such well constructed and reasoned arguments. I guess you don’t know very much about science.
You guess wrong. Blind guessing being the very opposite of scientific reasoning. In lab speak “assumption is the mother of all F**** Ups “
Seems like someone from the insurance industry sees an opportunity!
However, that suggestion has put paid to nuclear power, which in turn would remove alternative, intermittent energy sources, so back to coal! Oops-not a good example either.
I am not from the insurance industry.
Essentially society needs to decide what governance means.
Until someone can bring their creator into a court of law to present first hand knowledge and be cross examined we can only assume all living humans have equal authority and equal rights to the fruits of the creator.
From this we can deduce no one can prove authority to knowingly cause another harm, and
we can derive that governance can mean nothing other than the equal distribution of the creators benefit to all.
Currently it is claimed the best way to do this is through the “free market” to find the best long term solution.
So if privilege is being given (in this case via PEDL’s) then to uphold the foundational equitable maxim of who creates harm must provide remedy the public must be protected from known risks (without taking risks there can be no progress but known or reasonably concluded risks is key – integrating best knowledge as we learn from our mistakes).
So from your 2 offered alternatives there is no way Fukoshima can be cleaned up!!! This is a known risk, and not the first nuclear accident we have had. Does this mean we should stop nuclear power – in its current form as we have no right to knowingly cause another harm!!! There is alot of talk of safer alternatives to the current technology, so it would make sense to minimize further nuclear risks by funding research into safer forms of nuclear energy, possibly small scale thorium. We know many of the risks of coal, so similarly research for cleaner burning or other less harmful methods should be undertaken.
In general however more important is a rethink into the way we rape and pillage the planet 😉
Give these Anti Swampys an inch they’ll take a mile! Changing the laws and opinions to suit themselves!
Some of the most dangerous people on the planet!
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Road test: 2014 Subaru Forester 2.5i
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New crossover with class-leading AWD system aims for comfort over sportiness
by John LeBlanc | March 7, 2014
The 2014 Subaru Forester 2.5i won't exactly blow away Subie fans looking for a sporty WRX-like ride. But it gets the job done with a class-leading AWD system and a comfort-first driving feel.
John LeBlanc, Driving
At $30,795, the base Forester 2.5i is priced competitively with its class peers.
The 2014 Forester gains more ground clearance over the previous year's model which makes it a suitable CUV for Canadian winters.
PHOTO: John LeBlanc for Driving
The interior of the new Forester is well-appointed with most everything in its logical place.
The new Forester benefits from an increase in rear cargo space - from 974 litres last year to 949 litres in this year's model.
The new Subaru Forester 2.5i comes equipped with a CVT transmission.
Always a comfortable, modest and casual driving machine since the first version arrived in 1997, it’s been easy to think of the Subaru Forester as the Birkenstock sandal of the compact crossover crowd. However, like the current Subaru Impreza compact and slick-looking Legacy Concept from last year’s auto show season, the Japanese automaker seems to be moving the all-new, 2014 Forester towards more mainstream Nike sneaker buyers.
To better battle compact crossover rivals like the Ford Escape, Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4, the fourth-generation, five-passenger, all-wheel-drive Forester is bigger inside and out, has more high-tech goodies, and a few mechanical upgrades, too.
The topline, $34,145 (all prices include freight and pre-delivery inspection fees) 2014 Forester 2.0XT Touring is a good example of Subaru trying to run with the best sellers in this class. The 2.0XT’s new 250-horsepower turbocharged 2.0-litre gas engine, producing 258 pound-feet of torque, is only challenged by the Escape’s 231 hp and 270 lb-ft 2.0L turbo-four. But I did not drive that Forester.
Instead, my tester was a base model Forester 2.5i. Its $30,795 price included a $1,300 continuously variable automatic transmission and an $1,800 Convenience package that added a 10-way power adjustable driver’s seat, backup camera as part of an upgraded centre dash information screen, paddle shifters, 17-inch alloy wheels, rear cargo cover and automatic headlamps.
As a point of reference, a $30,914 Ford Escape SE 4WD, $29,985 Honda CR-V LX and $30,890 Toyota RAV4 AWD XLE are all comparatively equipped and competitively priced.
The 2014 Forester gains more ground clearance over the previous year’s model which makes it a suitable CUV for Canadian winters.
Some fans of Subaru’s rally car-inspired WRX sports compacts have asked why the Japanese automaker doesn’t offer a “Forester WRX.” For them, the Forester 2.0XT may come closest to offering a bit more performance in this practical package. But between its modest horsepower and the new, fuel-efficiency-first CVT, my Forester 2.5i could only manage a lacklustre zero to 100 km/h acceleration time of almost nine seconds. That’s not only slower than its rivals, it almost guarantees the Subie cute-ute won’t be seen at the starting line of any rallies anytime soon.
Deciphered, the “2.5i” badge on the Forester’s rump translates to a carryover, non-turbocharged 2.5 L four-cylinder gas engine that makes 80 less horsepower and 84 less lb.-ft. of torque than the Forester 2.0XT. The 2.0XT Forester’s CVT gets artificial gear change programming. The 2.5i models do not, and makes the Convenience package’s paddle shifters seemingly for show only.
Not only is the Forester 2.5i slow, you’re also saddled with the typical CVT behaviour that feels like the transmission is one step behind the engine when you put down your right foot on the throttle. When trying to time the acceleration runs, the Forester 2.5i’s CVT acted like an on-off button: at first push, there’s little reaction from the engine department, then a flood of revs that create more noise and commotion than actual forward acceleration.
The Forester 2.5i’s CVT doesn’t help much if you’re a compact crossover owner who needs to tow, too. While its rivals can haul as much as 680 kilograms, the Subaru’s towing capacity is limited to just 453 kg.
Of course, one big reason automakers are jamming CVTs where conventional automatics use to be are the benefits of improved fuel economy. In that regard, the 2014 Forester scores over its predecessor. With 8.3 litres per 100 km city and 6.2 highway estimates, this year’s Forester 2.5i is more efficient than the 2013 model’s respective 9.9 and 7.5 numbers. In my time with the Subaru, I recorded a 10.8 L/100 km average. That said, enthusiasts should stick with the 2014 Forester’s six-speed manual gearbox. Its 9.4 L/100 km city and 7.1 highway ratings don’t exactly make it a gas guzzler, and Subaru’s hill-holder feature makes it even easier to drive for inexperienced stick-shift drivers.
As before, the Japanese automaker makes AWD standard on every 2014 Forester. CVT-equipped models get a slightly different setup than the manuals. Dubbed X-Mode, Subaru has managed to get the Forester’s engine, transmission and brakes to work together to dollop out torque independently to all four wheels for the best traction possible. I drove this vehicle before the snow fell. But when driven briskly in dry corners, I could feel the X-Mode working from front-back and side-to-side.
And although these types of light duty vehicles rarely leave the pavement, the 2014 Forester gains a bit more ground clearance this year (Subaru says a class-leading 221 millimetres) to help navigate over unplowed laneways or deeply furrowed cottage roads.
As good as the Forester’s new X-Mode is, it couldn’t stop the 2014 Forester 2.5i from rolling too much in the corners and it didn’t deliver more feel from the electric steering system. Unlike the fine driving Escape, the Forester 2.5i seems tuned for comfort first, which it delivers, especially over bad pavement. Wannabe rally drivers also won’t be pleased that the Subaru’s front seats don’t offer much in the way of lateral support.
So the 2014 Forester 2.5i is no rally car. But at least its roomier cabin is now on par with its rivals for passenger and cargo space. The Subaru’s seating has been raised for better outward visibility (something not to be taken lightly in an era where high waistlines can sometimes make seeing out of vehicles nearly impossible). In the second row, only NBA starters would have reason to complain about the amount of leg- and head-room — it’s that spacious. And rear cargo space goes from 949 litres to 974 over last year’s Forester.
For you shoe buyers out there, feel free to call the new 2.5i the BirkeNike of Foresters. The Forester 2.5i is less of a radical departure than the turbocharged 2.0XT models. With arguably the most sophisticated AWD system in its class, lots of ground clearance and a comfort-first driving demeanour, the Forester 2.5i won’t scare off existing Subaru fans.
The new Forester benefits from an increase in rear cargo space – from 974 litres last year to 949 litres in this year’s model.
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Engine 2.5L DOHC four-cylinder boxer
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Price (base/as tested) $25,995/$30,745
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Natural Resources Canada fuel economy (L/100 km) 8.3 city, 6.2 highway, 10.8 as-tested
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Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us […]
Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us of some dates where the local, state, national, and global perspectives entwine.
On 3, Monday June 1844, Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States, born (d. 1899)
On 3, Sunday June 1894, Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist, expert on Byzantine law, died (b. 1812)
On 3, Saturday June 1944, Hans Asperger publishes his paper on Asperger syndrome.
On 3, Saturday June 1944, Edith McGuire, American sprinter, born
On 3, Wednesday June 1959, Singapore becomes a self-governing crown colony of Britain with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister.
On 3, Wednesday June 1959, Real Madrid beats Stade Reims 2–0 at Neckarstadion, Stuttgart and wins the 1958–59 European Cup (football).
On 3, Wednesday June 1959, Kinahan Cornwallis, British diplomat, died (b. 1883)
On 3, Tuesday June 1969, Melbourne-Evans collision: The Royal Australian Navy aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea. Frank E. Evans is cut in half and sinks, killing 74 crew.
On 3, Tuesday June 1969, Dean Pay, Australian rugby league player, born
On 3, Tuesday June 1969, While operating at sea on SEATO maneuvers, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne accidentally rams and slices into the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea, killing 74 American seamen.
On 3, Tuesday June 1969, Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician, composer and writer, born
On 3, Sunday June 1979, A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill until it was surpassed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
On 3, Sunday June 1979, General elections are held in Italy.
On 3, Saturday June 1989, Fighting breaks out in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic between ethnic Uzbeks and the Turkish minority; more than 100 people are killed by June 15.
On 3, Saturday June 1989, The world’s first HDTV broadcasts commence in Japan, in analogue.
On 3, Saturday June 1989, Imogen Poots, British actress, born
On 3, Saturday June 1989, Jillette Johnson, American singer, born
On 3, Saturday June 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian philosopher, politician, revolutionary and Shia Muslim religious leader, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran, died (b. 1902)
On 3, Saturday June 1989, John McCauley, RAAF Senior Commander, died (b. 1899)
On 3, Friday June 1994, Jack Cowie, New Zealand cricketer, died (b. 1912)
On 3, Thursday June 1999, Charlene Pryer, American professional baseball player, died (b. 1921)
On 3, Wednesday June 2009, Australia avoids a recession after the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals the economy for the March quarter grew by a 0.4 per cent from the final quarter of 2008.
On 3, Wednesday June 2009, A skit involving terminally ill children and the fictional ‘Make a Realistic Wish Foundation’ (a parody of the Make-a-Wish Foundation) causes public outrage after airing on an episode of The Chaser’s War on Everything on ABC1. The skit involved The Chaser members Chris Taylor (as the foundation spokesperson) and Andrew Hansen (as a doctor). The premise of the skit was that if the terminally ill children are only going to live for a few more months before dying, it is not worth spending money on lavish gifts for them. It portrayed the children requesting extravagant items such as a trip to Disneyland and the chance to meet Zac Efron, with Taylor and Hansen instead giving them a pencil case and a stick respectively. The skit concluded with Taylor stating “Why go to any trouble, when they’re only gonna die anyway”. Following public criticism of the skit, both The Chaser and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation issued statements of apology. The ABC subsequently suspended the series for two weeks following the controversy. The series returned on 24 June.
On 3, Wednesday June 2009, David Carradine, American actor, died (b. 1936)
On 3, Wednesday June 2009, Koko Taylor, American musician, died (b. 1928)
On 3, Tuesday June 2014, Queensland Treasurer Tim Nicholls hands down the State budget, revealing the Government’s plans to privatise $33.6 billion worth of assets to bring the budget back into surplus. The Government blames a crash in coal royalties and a deferral of federal disaster relief payments for the blowout. Resources for sale include long term leases on the Townsville and Gladstone Ports, and selling power companies Stanwell and CS energy, despite public fervour against privatising assets in the state.
On 3, Tuesday June 2014, Gordon Bennett, 59, artist, died
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No Great Man Ever Complains of Want of Opportunities
Don’t wait for opportunities. Find them. Create them. Make the best use of them.
“ If you wait for everything to be perfect before taking action on your dream, you’ll never take the first step “ – Gail Lynne Goodwin.
Often we sit back and wait telling ourselves we have just not got the right opportunities to manifest our best potential. But who is going to give us that opportunity? In this dog-eat-dog world, people are ready to pounce on every opportunity, so how would you make the cut?
So many times we see men and women of infinite potential not realizing their dreams, their talent wasted because they didn’t take positive action at the right time.
Carpe Diem (seize the day) should be the mantra for any individual who wants to succeed in life. Success does come to those who wait but why not make your wait worthwhile and grab everything that comes your way, meanwhile? Surely you will be all the richer for it?
Successful men have not reached the pinnacle of their careers by stepping back and waiting for an opportunity to present itself to them. No, they, in fact, step forward and make hay and even make sure the sun shines when they do it! They take destiny in their own hands, no lines on their palms ( except toil and sweat), talking parrots or crystal balls can make them stray away from their path.
Man maketh the opportunity, opportunity does not maketh the man. Decide for yourself whether you want to do things or just lie back and watch other people do things and achieve dreams that were once yours.
Life has a purpose when you have a goal. Write yours down. When you have a dream that is so real you can almost feel it, you will be self-motivated towards fulfilling it. Success knows no excuses, it is only for those who value their dreams and set forth to achieve them. Set realistic goals and also prepare a timeline for them. Some goals can take a lifetime to achieve but if each step you take gets you one step closer to your dream, then each of those steps counts.
Striking the iron while it is hot works. The thing is, you do not own that iron, and you certainly do not know when you have to strike it and whether it will be hot when you do. So what do you do? Be prepared to take that iron down as soon as it appears and strike it real good. Opportunities do not come knocking at leisure. They come and go and many a time, they never come back because somebody else grabbed it instead of you. Do not be that person who was not prepared. Be on your toes, always.
Seek inspiration
Follow lives of successful men, you will be surprised to find out that most of them started out small but they never let that be a hindrance. Let them be an inspiration to you. Money or the lack of it was never an excuse for them. Many, if not all, have even been ridiculed at by others because they dared to be different. But they never let that be a hindrance and just shrugged and continued with their dreams and create their opportunities. Look, where they are now!
Take that road to create your opportunities
Brace yourself and take the path you have chosen for yourself. Come rain, come sun, keep walking. Do not let anything intimidate you. At the end of the road, you will have evolved as a wiser individual. Do not be scared of your own dreams. Challenge yourself and take down everything. Have a heart of steel and courage and iron determination.
Do not be let down
Grab every opportunity you can. Be prepared but also realize that you cannot foresee everything even with all that preparation. A positive attitude is key. When life gives you lemons, sell them and earn a profit. This should be your mantra.
Get rid of the negative energy around you
All those critical voices around you can dampen your spirit and throttle your dreams. DO NOT let them. Listen, nod, agree but take in only positive criticism. Let it be constructive towards making you a better individual instead of letting it define you.
Achieving the ‘big dream’ is dissecting the big dream into various smaller dreams. Your current achievements might seem like baby steps to you but then, even babies reach their destination right? Simply do not let go of your dream, constantly tell yourself what you want, what you desire, how you see yourself. Keep memos, journals or post-its where you can see them every day, they will be constant companions and keep you focused.
Most of the people find it hard to maintain a positive outlook towards the external world. If you look at the world with a broader perspective, you would see that there are opportunities to grow professionally, socially, financially and as an individual too. Social media and the never-ending world of the internet have further widened the scope of opportunities. Read on to know how you can create a plethora of opportunities for yourself by simply changing your perspective of the world around you and inside you.
Change your attitude and see the external world changing
We live in a society where even after working hard and giving your best shot you wait for a reward on part of society. It is a misleading truth since it is your own responsibility to create opportunities for yourself and make best use of your abilities. Take the employment scenario for example, there are least chances that a multinational company approach you with a job opportunity.
One has to go and look for it. If you do not get a job then you must create one for yourself. You must learn ways to work on your personal growth so that you can see opportunities or create them. If you develop a positive outlook, the world seems full of opportunities. It simply means you always had opportunities but simply couldn’t see them.
Learn to rely on your abilities
Analyze the market; you will see that many entrepreneurs have successfully set up their own business and are doing great. There is a steady demand for products in the market. There is a need to push yourself forward and rely upon your own abilities. If you believe you can bring about a change then you really can do that. A writer must move a step forward and publish his/her book. A singer must release his/her own album and those who wish to see a changed society must work towards it. Do not wait for others to give you an opportunity, create one for yourself.
You can hardly think of winning if you always keep yourself among those who do not wish to make progress in life. If you interact with positive people, you find innovative ways to create new opportunities since it motivates you to grow in life. You can never afford to let your less motivated friends discourage you or pull you back, watch the company you keep.
Learn to volunteer
You see opportunities all around you when you learn to volunteer. It increases your self-confidence, which enables you to channelize your energy in a positive direction. You feel capable of doing more and life satisfaction is at its peak. You feel good about yourself and see things in a positive light.
When you volunteer, you stay in touch with people who motivate you to make achievements in life. People who volunteer are less prone to depression and anxiety since they have winners all around them. When you are full of positivity, your world is full of opportunities.
Make effective use of your will power
Your success or failure also depends upon you will power to succeed. It is quite natural to quit in between when you find it hard to get success but those who do not give up find a way out somehow. It is a world known fact that successful people turn their challenges into their opportunities and set new standards of success.
Keep yourself fully prepared
Almost all of us get opportunities that could change our lives forever but we hardly use those opportunities to our advantage. When we get an opportunity, either we are not prepared to give our best or do not even see that this could prove to be a turning point in our life. Keep yourself all prepared, be aware of your surroundings and work hard even when there is no urgent need. This way you can make the best use of your skills and prove your worth to all others around you.
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Effects of Interactive Computer-Based Instruction in Elementary Algebra on Community College Achievement in Intermediate Algebra
Sandruck, Bernadette
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ABSTRACT Title of dissertation: EFFECTS OF INTERACTIVE COMPUTER-BASED INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA ON COMMUNITY COLLEGE ACHIEVEMENT IN INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA Bernadette Anne Beyer Sandruck, Doctor of Education, 2003 Dissertation directed by: Patricia F. Campbell, Associate Professor Department of Curriculum and Instruction This study assessed an existing developmental mathematics program from a mid-sized suburban community college to compare the achievement levels, success rates and retention in intermediate algebra of 50 students who were taught elementary algebra in a traditional classroom setting with 62 students who completed elementary algebra in an interactive computer-based environment. Differences in performance were assessed in five ways: (a) final grade in intermediate algebra, (b) number correct on Part 1 of the Maryland Bridge Goals Assessment (BGA), (c) percent scores on with-in course unit examinations, (d) pass rates for intermediate algebra, and (e) retention rates and completion rates in intermediate algebra. Students were categorized as passing intermediate algebra if they earned a grade of C or better, all other students including withdraws were categorized as did-not-pass. Retention rates were based on the number of students who officially withdrew from the course whereas completion rates were based on the number of students who completed the first three unit examinations. The mathematics program for both elementary algebra and intermediate algebra was highly structured with department-specified lesson plans and examinations. The results of the study supported the null hypotheses that there were no statistical differences in performance in intermediate algebra between the two instructional groups from elementary algebra. In preparation for the regression analysis, the two groups were evaluated for similarities in age, gender, ethnicity, high school mathematics background, credits attempted, study hours per credit, work hours, absentee level, time-of-day of instruction, and achievement in elementary algebra. The two instructional groups were demographically similar across all of these variables except time-of-day with evening classes populated predominantly by students who had computer-based instruction in elementary algebra. Interviews with 24 students from three focus groups indicated that students appreciated the flexibility of computer-based instruction and that returning to the traditional format of teacher-led instruction required no adjustments.
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Neil Perry serves up cell-based meat
3rd September 2020 | Eativity editors
Vow, an Australian-based innovative food company developing meat products directly from animal cells, has held a culinary demonstration of its multi-species meat platform, prepared by renowned Australian chefs Neil Perry and Corey Costelloe.
Perry, Australia’s most famous chef and founder of the Rockpool restaurant empire, is an advocate of Vow and helped design the dishes for the product demonstration.
“The work Vow is doing is awesome,” he says. “Blending deep technology with the culinary world opens a new creative era in food, and does so in a way that’s sustainable for future generations. I think that’s an incredibly exciting thing to be a part of.”
Chefs Corey Costelloe and Neil Perry prepare dishes for the demonstration.
Six different animal species were selected from Vow’s diverse cell library and cultivated for this product demonstration and included kangaroo, pig, lamb, alpaca, rabbit and goat.
“Until now, the cultured meat industry has focused on better ways of making the meat we most commonly eat today,” says George Peppou, co-founder and CEO of Vow. “This milestone demonstrates that we can grow the cells of any animal, not just those we can farm, marking a turning point for the cultured meat industry and our food system.
“To make food without compromise we must stop looking backward to how our ancestors produced and ate food and instead choose how we will eat in the future.”
Vow’s goat cheeseburger sliders.
Vow has only been in operation for 16 months, but has already built an impressive team of scientists, engineers and designers: “Our rapid progress has taken us out of the lab and into one of Australia’s best kitchens,” says Tim Noakesmith, co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Vow. “Now we’re turning our focus to building a meat prototype that outperforms the sensory experience of any conventional meat we know.”
Vow now aims to build a world-class food-science and culinary team to develop new products aimed at markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
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With global demand for meat products growing every year, Vow is rebuilding food from the ground up. Vow’s approach will reduce the pressures on traditional animal agriculture to meet this global demand, while also benefiting human health, reducing animal suffering, lowering the meat industry’s carbon footprint and promoting food security.
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Normal leukocytes
The five major categories of leukocytes in mammals are neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes. The first three collectively are called granulocytes, because they contain granules in their cytoplasm, and the latter two collectively are called mononuclear cells in reference to their round nuclei. These collective terms are somewhat misleading since some granulocytes have barely perceptible granules and most monocytes do not have round nuclei. Granulocytes of most mammals are classed as neutrophil, eosinophil, and basophil based on the reaction of their specific granules with the dyes in polychrome blood stains, called Romanowsky stains.
The prototype species for granulocyte classification are humans, in which neutrophil granules are small and pink with weak affinity for azure complexes, basophil granules are deep purple because of strong affinity for the azure complexes, and eosinophils are intensely orange because of strong binding of eosin. Classification of granulocytes in animal species is based in part on homology of appearance to human granulocytes and in part on demonstration of homology of enzyme content and function.
There are many differences, some subtle and some obvious, among species and within species.
Mature neutrophils
Synonyms: Polymorphonuclear cell (PMN), segmented neutrophils
Camelid neutrophil and eosinophil
The segmented neutrophil, or the heterophil in birds, reptiles and some mammals, is the predominant granulocyte. In many species it is the predominant leukocyte in health. In health, usually only mature neutrophils are released from marrow to circulate in blood. Since mature neutrophils in prototypical human blood have nuclei that are segmented into lobes of condensed chromatin connected by filaments, mature neutrophils are called segmented neutrophils (“segs” or “neuts”). The mature neutrophils of many animal species do not have a distinct lobe and filament arrangement (they do have constricted nuclei or irregular/knobbly nuclear outlines), nevertheless, they also are called segmented neutrophils. Neutrophils are part of the innate immune system and are the first line of (and are essential for) defense against bacterial pathogens. Neutrophils have a short half-life – they only persist for 10-15 hours once they have been released into peripheral blood (Carakostas et al 1981). When analyzing blood, we are only sampling the circulating neutrophil pool and not the marginating or reserve pool in marrow. In most species, other than cats, the circulating to marginating pool ratio is 1:1 (Carakostas et al 1981) (it is estimated at 3:1 in horses). Release of neutrophils from the marginating pool occurs in response to corticosteroids (endogenous or exogenous), which downregulate adhesion molecules responsible for margination (or patrolling of the endothelium via selectin-mediated rolling) and has the potential to double the mature neutrophil count (so-called “stress leukogram”).
Immature neutrophils
Normal neutrophils of different species
In some animals, immature neutrophils may be seen in peripheral blood and their presence is called a left shift. The presence of increased numbers of immature neutrophils (i.e. above the established reference interval for that species) usually indicates a response to inflammatory cytokines and an inflammatory leukogram. The most common type of immature neutrophil seen in blood is the band neutrophil, which is one stage less mature than a segmented neutrophil. Band neutrophils are distinguished from mature neutrophils by the shape of their nucleus, which lacks the clear segmentation (a segment is defined as a >50% constriction in the width of the nucleus) and irregular outline of the mature neutrophil. Under some situations, stages earlier than bands are released (e.g. metamyelocytes; see below). A left shift is usually (but not always) accompanied by toxic change (toxic change may not be seen if there is a mild left shift or if there is only release of immature cells from marrow without accelerated maturation). However, immature neutrophils can also be released prematurely in bone marrow disorders, such as leukemia or severe bone marrow injury (immature neutrophils are usually not toxic in this setting either).
Immature neutrophil versus monocyte in a dog with a degenerative left shift
Neutrophil precursors from the blood smear of a cow with severe inflammation.
Immature neutrophils are classified based on their stage of maturation. The earliest identifiable specific neutrophil precursor is a myelocyte, which differentiates into a metamyelocyte, then a band neutrophil, and finally to a mature segmented neutrophil. Only the myelocyte is capable of division – all the more mature stages (metamyelocyte, band, segmented neutrophil) are incapable of division (post-mitotic). The primary criterion for differentiating immature neutrophils from each other is the shape of their nucleus, which starts to indent or constrict as the cell matures. A myelocyte has a round nucleus, a metamyelocyte has an indented or kidney-bean shaped nucleus and a band has a horse-shoe or parallel-sided shaped nucleus (for a compiled image of immature neutrophils, please refer to the left shift or toxic change pages). It is important to distinguish between immature neutrophils and monocytes, particularly in the dog where these cells can resemble each other (see monocyte below). This is accomplished by looking at all features of the cell (nuclear chromatin, nuclear shape, nuclear location in cell, cytoplasm color, cytoplasmic borders, presence or absence of vacuoles and granules) in concert (see image to the right).
When performing a differential cell count, we classify neutrophils into the “segmented” category if the nucleus has regions that are distinctly constricted (more than 50% of the width of the nucleus) or has lateral protrusions resulting in irregular nuclear margins. A cell whose nuclear margins are smooth and parallel (or nearly parallel) is a “band” neutrophil and should be counted as such. More immature stages are classified by their nuclear shape, as described above. Note that cells between these well-defined stages will always be seen in blood. Under these circumstances, the cell in question will be placed in the more mature category, i.e. a cell with nuclear features halfway between a band and a segmented neutrophil will be called a segmented neutrophil. More immature neutrophils can be counted separately as their specific categories or grouped together as “band” neutrophils. At Cornell University, all immature neutrophils (band neutrophils, metamyelocytes and myelocytes) are grouped into the “band” category of our differential cell count. Using the image above as an example, the cells B through D would be counted as “bands” and only cell A would be counted as a “segmented” neutrophil. However, if we observe stages that are less mature than a band neutrophil (metamyelocyte or myelocyte), we provide this information in the results (e.g. the left shift extends to myelocytes). The presence of these more immature stages usually indicates more severe inflammation than the presence of band neutrophils alone.
Species variation of eosinophils
Eosinophil granules in most animals are orange but there are always exceptions, particularly in exotics. The granules in eosinophils of iguanas and some birds are actually pale blue. In general, nuclei of mature eosinophils are shorter and less segmented than neutrophil nuclei and the cytoplasm, if visible, is pale blue. Marked species variation exists regarding the number, size, and shape of eosinophil granules.
The most intraspecies variation is found in dog eosinophils. Marked variation in granule size, number and shape occurs within and between individuals of any breed. A specific and predictable morphologic variant of the eosinophil is seen in Greyhounds, other sighthounds (eg, Whippets, Deerhounds) and in some Golden Retrievers. Eosinophils in these breeds lack visible granules and appear as cells with slightly segmented nuclei, gray cytoplasm, and vacuoles. They are sometimes mistaken for toxic neutrophils or monocytes and are called “vacuolated” or “gray” eosinophils (see representative images of these eosinophils in the dog blood gallery under the hematology album). On the ADVIA hematology analyzer, they drift over into the monocyte gate (contain less peroxidase than neutrophils or normal granulated eosinophils).
Basophils
Basophils of different species
Prototypical basophils of human blood are filled with small, round, dark purple granules. Similar basophils are found in horses, camelids and ruminants. These cells contain many small deep purple granules that obscure the nucleus in many cells. Some basophils have few granules, which probably is the result of degranulation in the sample. Low numbers of basophils are commonly found in blood of healthy cattle and horses, but less so of camelids.
Canine basophils are difficult to recognize since many do not have readily apparent granules. This is because the granules are a pale lavender versus purple. The major identifying features of canine basophils are the long and folded nucleus, described as “ribbon-like”, and the unusual gray to lavender hue of the cytoplasm. Some basophils contain a few obvious light purple granules (granules are more easy to see in cells that are ruptured). Basophils are rare in blood of healthy dogs. Feline basophils are packed with small, slightly oval granules that are pale lavender rather than deep purple. The nucleus in many appears to have vacuoles, which are actually granules lying on top of the chromatin. Basophils are rare in blood of healthy cats.
Variability in bovine lymphocytes
Lymphocytes of different species
Most of the lymphocytes that circulate in healthy dogs, cats, camelids and horses are small (mature) cells that have round nuclei with smooth, dense chromatin and a small rim of light blue cytoplasm. The chromatin is so dense because it is mostly heterochromatin (the cell is not actively transcribing DNA). Lymphocytes must be distinguished from nucleated red blood cells (see below). Some lymphocytes in all species may have increased amounts of very light blue to colorless cytoplasm. These are not called reactive but are just considered to be normal “variants”. Some lymphocytes are slightly larger and have a finer, looser chromatin pattern. The lymphocytes found in blood of normal ruminants are quite variable in appearance. Many are intermediate lymphocytes with loosely clumped chromatin and fairly abundant cytoplasm. Not all lymphocytes in blood smears are round. Some are distorted into other shapes by the mechanical forces applied to them during smearing and some are molded by contact with red cells. We generally size lymphocytes by their nuclear size in relation to neutrophils (which are the same size across species) as shown in the table below. Also, normal lymphocytes need to be differentiated from nucleated red blood cells, reactive lymphocytes and neoplastic cells (which could be myeloid or lymphoid). More information on this is given below.
Sizing of lymphocytes
Lymphocyte size Nucleus size in relation to a neutrophil
Small Nucleus of lymphocyte can fit inside a neutrophil
Intermediate Nucleus of lymphocyte is the same size as a neutrophil
Large Neutrophil can fit inside the nucleus.
Other lymphocytes that may be seen in blood are:
“Reactive” lymphocytes are associated with an immune response. They can vary in size (small to large), but have clumped (heterochromatin) chromatin and usually increased amounts of deeper blue cytoplasm that is quite smooth. Some can have clear cytoplasmic vacuoles. It is important to differentiate reactive large lymphocytes from “blasts” associated with a leukemia (see below). We use a variety of techniques to distinguish between them including cytologic features, clinical findings, and the rest of the hemogram results. Reactive lymphocytes can be seen in any animal but are fairly common in the blood of young animals, especially ones that have been recently vaccinated.
Granular lymphocytes: These are also found in low number in healthy animals (comprise between 1-10% of all lymphocytes). Granular lymphocytes are distinguished by the presence of small red granules collected into one area of the cytoplasm, usually within an indentation of the nucleus. Granular lymphocytes are either cytotoxic T cells or natural killer cells. Increased numbers of granular lymphocytes can be seen in reactive conditions (e.g. Ehrlichia canis infection in dogs, chronic renal disease in dogs) or as part of a primary leukemia (leukemia of granular lymphocytes).
nRBC vs lymphocyte
Lymphocytes versus nucleated red blood cells
Very late stage nRBCs, such as the metarubricyte, are distinguished from lymphocytes by their polychromatophilic cytoplasm and pyknotic nuclei. Earlier stages, such as the basophilic rubricyte, though more of a problem, have a deeper blue cytoplasm and a more coarsely condensed chromatin pattern compared to the lymphocyte.
The overall context of the smear can also be factored in; e.g, nRBCs would be expected to accompany marked polychromasia (regenerative response). This is not true of camelids and cats, where nRBC are frequently seen in blood in various situations, not only regenerative anemias.
Reactive lymphocytes versus blasts
It is important to distinguish large reactive from neoplastic hematopoietic cells (“blasts”). The latter are not seen in normal animals but only in animals with hematopoietic neoplasia (acute leukemia, lymphoma with a leukemic phase or rarely in myelodysplastic syndrome). Note that differentiating reactive lymphocytes from leukemic “blasts” can be very difficult in animals with low numbers of problematic cells, so-called “big blue” cells. The presence of neoplastic cells indicates a leukemia, whereas reactive lymphocytes indicate antigenic stimulation (very different meanings). The reason we call the cells “blasts” is because we cannot conclusively determine their lineage by their morphologic features; other tools, such as immunophenotyping and cytochemical staining are required. For more information on how we distinguish between these two very different types of leukocytes in blood (reactive or neoplastic), refer to the “big blue” cell page.
Monocytes
Monocyte variations
Monocytes are the leukocyte that is the most problematic for identification, because they can be fairly variable in size and appearance. They are often larger than neutrophils and are usually the largest leukocyte, but there are no consistent species differences. The nucleus can be round to kidney-shaped to pseudo-lobulated (can mimic a neutrophil). It can even occasionally be band-shaped, especially in dogs, and may be confused with band neutrophils. However, the chromatin of monocytes is less dense than neutrophils, and is described as lacey to slightly clumped. The cytoplasm is usually smooth and blue-grey and may contain a few variably-sized vacuoles, and occasionally a few very fine pink-red granules. Some, like the equine monocyte, resemble lymphocytes. The texture of cytoplasm in a monocyte is slightly grainy or coarse compared to lymphocyte cytoplasm, which is very smooth and glassy.
Interpretation of changes in individual leukocyte numbers and presence of abnormal leukocytes in blood, e.g. mast cells, histiocytes.
Leukocyte patterns: Physiologic leukocytosis, stress leukogram, inflammatory leukogram, leukemia
Morphologic features of nRBC and interpretation of increased numbers in blood.
Morphologic features of immature neutrophils
Morphologic features of toxic change in neutrophils.
Quick test guide: Quick guide for interpretation of changes in hematologic test results
Atlas: For image compilations.
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28 Institutions Unite to Close Equity Gap in Degree Completion in Greater Chicago
Program Spotlight: Partnership for College Completion
Partnership for College Completion team shows off their commitment to equity at a 2019 summit.
“If you build it, they will come.” This idea not only worked well for Kevin Costner’s character in the movie Field of Dreams, it’s proving highly successful for the Partnership for College Completion (PCC).
PCC’s regionally-focused Illinois Equity in Attainment (ILEA) initiative has attracted a larger-than-expected cohort of institutions focused on a common goal: closing the racial and socioeconomic equity gaps in degree completion in the Chicago area by 2025.
“When PCC launched ILEA in Fall 2018, we hoped to attract 15 diverse colleges and universities who are equally concerned about these long-standing issues and wanted to work together to address them with urgency,” said Lisa Castillo Richmond, managing director, PCC. “The response was so strong, we nearly doubled our goal—attracting 28 committed institutions. Seeing this level of enthusiasm, commitment and support was so inspiring.”
The ILEA cohort is comprised of 11 four-year universities, including DePaul University and Northern Illinois University, and 17 community colleges, including Joliet Junior College and all seven City Colleges of Chicago.
Together, these institutions collectively serve 40% of all undergraduate enrollment in the state—nearly 42% of all enrolled African American undergraduate students and nearly 68% of all Latinx undergraduate students.
Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which upturned higher education overnight, the ILEA colleges and universities are on their way to achieving positive results. Over the last year, guided by direct support from PCC, each institution created a campus-level equity plan—a customized roadmap containing specific targets for student success and to increase college completion rates, particularly for low-income and first-generation college students.
The pandemic delayed the finalization and release of these plans, but Lisa said the crisis underscored the urgent need to prioritize equitable approaches. “If anything during this time, colleges and universities have realized that their equity work is more important than ever.”
This spring, ILEA institutions shifted resources and supports to some of their most vulnerable students because they understood how existing inequities were further exacerbated by the pandemic. The equity plans were released in August 2020, and institutions will move into implementation this fall. Several innovative strategies include:
One community college will add student wrap-around services, including a food pantry, a new Math Success Center, and a faculty-led retention project designed to eliminate graduation disparities for Black, Latinx and Pell-receipt students.
Another community college expects to see significant impact through a new first-year student experience program and the hiring of coaches to support student onboarding persistence in their first year. It will also adopt new hiring practices to attract and retain diverse faculty to better reflect the community it serves.
One four-year university will expand academic support for English Language Learners and peer mentoring for students of color, while implementing new initiatives for African-American, Latinx and low-income students. It will also increase wrap-around support for low-income students, including access to mental health counseling, connections to legal and social services, and resources to address housing and food insecurities.
With support from ECMC Foundation, PCC will advance its work to implement key components of the ILEA initiative. This work includes a full gamut of activities, from very high-touch tactics to low-touch and scalable ones.
For example, on the low-touch side, PCC offers an ongoing webinar series, delivered monthly, to share national evidence-based best practices for addressing gaps in equity or overall student success on campus. Once the pandemic hit, PCC added programming, including webinars and virtual meetings, new regularly updated resource pages, and a new newsletter that went out weekly during April and May with information.
PCC’s high-touch activities include semi-annual summits—full-day events attended by each institution’s each institutional team composed of faculty, department chairs and college presidents. Through speakers and workshops, these learning opportunities are meant to drive collaboration and shared learning across ILEA institutions. These events will be virtual throughout 2020, which offers a rare silver lining during the pandemic: being able to serve far more people, specifically faculty, from partner institutions at PCC events. Presentations can also be recorded and repackaged to be made more modular, giving ILEA more flexibility to reuse and share important content.
On the deepest level of support, PCC just launched our first Equity Academy, specialized professional learning opportunities for college presidents and faculty. These include a series of conferences, seminars and webinars, in which participants are required to commit to one full year of continuous engagement. Funded in part by ECMC Foundation, the Equity Academies will teach ILEA institution members a set of skills that will directly contribute to creating equitable outcomes on their campuses. The first Equity Academy for Presidents and their Cabinets, in partnership with the Aspen Institute, kicked off a year-long series of workshop with eleven ILEA teams in late July 2020.
“As challenging as this year will be, we do see innovation and creativity in student supports emerging in many places that would generally have taken years to develop and implement,” said Lisa.
She adds, “We’re excited to help these institutions close long-standing racial and socioeconomic equity gaps—and work together to establish northeastern Illinois as a national leader in equity in degree completion.”
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Test Drive: 2015 Subaru Legacy 3.6R
By Paul Williams
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A big surprise at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show was the introduction of the Subaru Legacy Concept. Such striking sheetmetal from the historically conservative automaker was both welcome and timely. There was even a smattering of applause from the floor!
But would the concept translate to the production model? One is so often deflated when a warmed over version of the outgoing car finally debuts.
In this case I’m happy to say that the 2015 Subaru Legacy, while losing some of the more dramatic features of the concept, retains much of the concept’s styling and presence. It’s a handsome car – a large midsize, I guess you’d call it – with a sporty coupe-like profile that really livens up the Legacy.
So, well done Subaru! This is a smart-looking car that should elevate its stature within a category of similarly eye-catching models from Ford, Hyundai, Kia and Chrysler.
...this engine’s forté is in smoothness. Unless you’re accelerating aggressively, it’s just about silent in operation.
The new Legacy is about the same size as the outgoing model, but provides more interior room and slightly larger cargo capacity. Underneath, the chassis is stiffened, suspension ratings increased and steering is enhanced with a new quick-ratio electric power-assisted system.
Like all Subaru products except the BRZ, the 2015 Legacy arrives with standard all-wheel drive. Mated to an automatic (continuously variable) paddle-shift transmission, it’s a system that requires no driver input. Operating in the background and now supplemented with active torque vectoring (applies brake pressure to the inside front wheel to facilitate more precise cornering), the all-wheel drive system adjusts automatically to the terrain as required.
Most Legacy models arrive with the 2.5L, four-cylinder engine, but our Lapis Blue Pearl $32,721 (includes freight and fees) tester was the six-cylinder Legacy 3.6R Touring. This entry-level six-cylinder model includes 17-inch alloy wheels, power tilting and sliding sunroof, windshield wiper de-icer, leather-wrapped steering wheel, fog lights and dual-zone climate control.
The Touring designation supplies a rear/side (blind spot/cross traffic) vehicle detection system, an audio/app system with 157 millimetre (6.2-inch) touch screen display, side mirror integrated turn signals, auto-dimming rear-view mirror with compass and auto-dimming side mirrors with approach lighting.
All Legacy models are now equipped with a one-touch turn signal, rear view camera, 10-way power driver’s seat, automatic on/off headlights, electric parking brake and heated front seats.
The key-differentiating feature with Legacy 3.6R, however, is the engine, which carries over from the 2014 model and makes 256 hp at 6,000 rpm and 247 lb-ft of torque at 4,400 rpm. This 3.6L, dual overhead camshaft, horizontally opposed “boxer” engine offers competitive (for an all-wheel drive, six cylinder sedan) fuel economy at a projected 11.9/8.2 L/100 km.
But while delivering a horsepower increase of 46 percent over the 175 hp four-cylinder engine, this flat-six doesn’t provide a commensurate increase in acceleration, requiring 7.5 seconds to reach 100 km/h from standstill compared with 8.8 seconds for the flat-four. Granted there is some additional punch, but this engine’s forté is in smoothness. Unless you’re accelerating aggressively, it’s just about silent in operation.
Inside, the Legacy is fully redesigned, and like the exterior its lines are clean, tidy and pleasing. Driving this car for an extended distance, I found the cloth-upholstered seats comfortable and easy to adjust for a fatigue-free driving experience. The doors, however, were stiff and the trunk-lid likewise required extra effort to open and close.
Outward visibility is excellent in the new Legacy, well supplemented by the side/rear detection system that flashes warnings in the rear-view mirrors and instrument panel. The big side mirrors were appreciated, as were their blind-spot monitors.
Speaking of the instrument panel, the controls are easy to identify and use although the tiny display for the clock at the base of the centre stack is often doubly challenged by the driver’s right hand on the steering wheel, perfectly positioned to block its view. Likewise the diminutive exterior temperature display is hard to locate at a glance.
I had some difficulty with the voice activation system, which for both my partner and myself was never able to make a phone call as requested.
The Subaru Starlink system with which the Legacy 3.6R is equipped is accessed via the central touchscreen display and uses the Aha app to access web based content (music, weather, news, podcasts, etc.) via your cell phone. With Android phones it streams, but iPhones require you to plug your device into the USB port. Either way, it’s a system that offers a lot of content but you’ll be paying for it via the cost of your cell phone service. Depending on your plan, the cost will vary.
Navigation, peculiarly not available on the Touring model, is a separate system. You’ll need to purchase the more expensive Limited model to get that, although in select markets Starlink does offer XM Traffic, a paid service.
I had no issues with the roominess of the Legacy 3.6R. Easily accommodating four adults, there’s plenty of legroom and various storage bins for your odds and ends. The trunk at 425L is average for the segment, but seemed to fill up quickly. The split-folding rear seats add more cargo space, but one of them wouldn’t respond to the release lever, located in the trunk. It took two people to release it, one pulling the lever and one dropping the seat. Likewise the fuel filler door took prying with a credit card to open.
Minor issues aside, I think Subaru has made great strides in design, standard equipment, and chassis refinement in the new Legacy. Its standard and proven all-wheel drive gives Legacy a big edge, although some of its competitors are offering this feature now (Chrysler 200C, Ford Fusion).
Our trip, close to 1,500 km of mostly highway driving, returned 8.2 L/100 km, which precisely matches the “official” projections. Regular fuel is recommended.
I think with the 2015 Legacy, Subaru has found styling that will appeal to consumers and which will endure into the future. The enhanced level of standard equipment is competitive with other brands (except for the missing navigation system) but all brands are having a tough time keeping up with the Koreans (Hyundai, Kia) as they continue to include formerly luxury features in mainstream models. That bar just keeps getting raised!
Legacy is built in Indiana, feels solid and you know it will be superb when the snow flies. Design appeal notwithstanding, however, for many Canadian midsize sedan intenders, standard all-wheel drive and Subaru reputation for toughness and reliability may tip the scales in Legacy’s favour. The main decision to make with Legacy, though, is about the engine. A very attractive alternative is the four-cylinder Limited with Technology model that includes every option Subaru offers, including leather, navigation, the desirable Subaru “Eyesight” safety system and 18-inch alloy wheels. It’s only $1,600 more than the 3.6R Touring and gives you better fuel economy, too. Personally, I think you gain much more than you lose.
But if you want silky smooth performance from your Legacy, the 3.6R Touring doesn’t disappoint.
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About Paul Williams
Paul Williams is an award-winning Ottawa-based automotive writer and a member of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada. He’s active in several enthusiast car clubs, and if it’s got a motor and wheels, Paul probably likes it.
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This “bad is black” effect may have its roots in our deep-seated human tendency to associate darkness with wickedness.
Across time and cultures, we tend to portray villains as more likely to be active during nighttime and to don black clothing.
Similarly, our heroes are often associated with daytime and lighter colors..
BlackBlack is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery.
Hatred, anger, aggression, passion, heat and war While red is the color most associated with love, it also the color most frequently associated with hatred, anger, aggression and war. People who are angry are said to “see red.” Red is the color most commonly associated with passion and heat.
color blackBlack mystery/death Of all mysteries, death may have been the biggest. Ancient people were completely “in the dark” about what would happen to them after death, and so it was (and is) represented by the color black in many cultures.
Black can be considered unlucky too given it’s association to the darkness and secrecy.
The phrase “black is beautiful” referred to a broad embrace of black culture and identity. It called for an appreciation of the black past as a worthy legacy, and it inspired cultural pride in contemporary black achievements.
Red is a rainbow color. Green sits next to blue. And there’s no BLACK in rainbows.
It can be linked with death, mourning, evil magic, and darkness, but it can also symbolize elegance, wealth, restraint, and power. As the first pigment used by artists in prehistory and the first ink used by book printers, black played an important role in the development of art and literature.
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Creating and finishing
Wide play
Developing inside forwards
By: Roy Hodgson
Download session
Up to two thirds of pitch
Balls, bibs, cones, 2 goals
No. of players
22 players + 2 goalkeepers
Rotational passing practice: 15mins, Semi opposed pattern: 20mins, Small-sided game: 20mins
This session is all about working on opportunities for wide players to receive the ball infield – it helps them to understand how and when to come inside to receive and it also shows them the impact it has on our attacking team shape.
This session is taken directly from our Crystal Palace training ground at this phase of the season. It’s a very simple session but I feel it is important that the players are constantly given the opportunity to rehearse how we want to attack as a team.
This is a session that could typically be done on a match day -2. It doesn’t need lots of coaching as the practice coaches itself.
ROTATIONAL PASSING PRACTICE
We set up on half a pitch. We’re using 22 players positioned around the pitch as shown, and we focus on the rotation of the full backs and the wide players.
The players pass and follow their pass, working the ball around the area. After following the ball to the next station, each player should take up a position at the back of the queue where they passed the ball to, as shown [1]. When one player passes and moves, the player behind becomes the new passer the next time the ball comes around.
1. The players pass and follow their pass, working the ball around the circuit
2. The wide midfielders should come inside to receive and work on closed and open turns
3. After following the ball to the next station, each player should take up a position at the back of the queue
4. The player behind the passer becomes the new passer when the next ball comes around
5. We want to see the wide players using good timing when they come inside to receive
We want to see the wide players working on closed and open turns and making well-timed and correctly weighted passes, as well as using safe side passing.
SEMI-OPPOSED PATTERN OF PLAY
We set up on half a pitch. We’re using 22 players including a goalkeeper. The players are split into a red team of 18, with four centre midfielders, two right backs, two left backs, two right midfielders, two left midfielders and four centre forwards. The players are set up in their usual match positions, as shown, with two players waiting in each position and with two of the centre forwards waiting off the pitch ready to rotate in. The blue team is made up of three centre backs and the goalkeeper, who are set up to defend the goal that the reds are attacking. We also use two additional coaches to help put some pressure on the wide midfielders.
The ball starts on the halfway line with the centre midfielders, who pass to each other and then pass out wide to the right back. The right back passes inside to the right midfielder, who moves to receive. To add realism to the move, the midfielders are pressured by a coach as they receive the ball, encouraging them to use good timing and a firm physical presence.
They pass to the centre forwards, who move from outside the D to attack the penalty area against the three blue defenders, as shown [2a].
1. The centre midfielders start play and pass the ball out wide to the full back
2. The full back passes inside to the wide midfielder, who moves inside to receive
3. A coach puts pressure on the wide midfielder to add realism to the move
4. The forwards move to attack the three centre backs and try to score in the goal
When the attack is dead, the coach plays a second ball into the strikers and they try to score again, as shown [2b]. When the second attack is dead, the coach plays a third ball into the strikers who try to finish once again.
1. When the attack is dead, the coach plays a second ball into the forwards and they try to score again
2. A third attack is launched by the coach before players reset for the next passing sequence, with the waiting players taking their turn to rotate in
After the final attack has played out, the players should reset for the next passing sequence, with the waiting player stepping forward at each position to take their turn. The two centre forwards should also swap with the waiting strikers.
After running the sequence again, vary the play so the ball comes down the opposite wing next.
SMALL-SIDED GAME
We set up between the penalty areas of a normal pitch, with a goal and a goalkeeper at each end and a wide channel marked on either side of the main area. We’re using 16 outfield players, split into two teams of six plus four neutral players who play as wide defenders and wide midfielders for the team in possession.
We play a normal 6v6 game plus keepers but no players from either of the teams of six can enter the wide channels. Indeed, only one of the neutral players is allowed in each wide channel at a time, as shown [3]. This condition creates a situation where the wide defenders and wide midfielders are always on different lines, with one having to move inside to receive the ball.
1. Play a normal 6v6 game plus keepers
2. Four yellow neutrals play as wide defenders and wide midfielders for the team in possession
3. Only one neutral is allowed in the wide channel at a time, so the wide defenders and wide midfielders are always on different lines
4. Here the wide midfielder moves inside to receive from the wide defender and is in a position to create a scoring opportunity
What are the key things to look for?
One of the key things we are looking for during this session is for players to create space to receive in the pocket. This might come from individual movement from a wide player or a run from the centre forward. We also want to see that players recognise the right time to receive in the pocket.
Another key point is that the wide midfielder should work with the full back on being on different lines. We also want to see different styles of receiving technique from the players.
What are the typical mistakes players might make and how do I avoid them?
Players sometimes try to force the play when space is too tight, or select the wrong turn when receiving under pressure.
Chris Hughton
Wide attacking runs and crosses
This training session encourages players to make attacking runs in wide areas of the pitch leading to crosses into the penalty area. The session is p...
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9th Annual Wyland National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Returns Aug. 1-30 in Support of Water Quality Month
Campaign reminds people that even during tough times smart water use matters; Participants can nominate a charity in their city to receive a new-generation 2020 Toyota Highlander XLE Hybrid and win thousands in eco-friendly prizes
DALLAS, TX, July 31, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ — The annual Wyland National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation will relaunch in August as part of national water quality month, Aug. 1-30. The program, which was postponed in April due to the coronavirus, encourages residents across America to make small changes in their lives to better manage our water resources and improve the health of our ocean, lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands.
Presented nationally by the Wyland Foundation and Toyota, the campaign rewards residents who take part with a chance to win $3,000 toward their home utility bills, home irrigation makeovers, environmentally friendly cleaning products, and hundreds more eco-friendly prizes. Residents can also nominate a deserving charity in their city to receive a 2020 new-generation Toyota Highlander Hybrid XLE. Cities with the most residents that make pledges qualify for over $50,000 in prize drawings. Residents make their pledges online at www.mywaterpledge.com throughout the month of August.
This year, the campaign will provide residents with more opportunities to get involved safely from home, including making water-friendly lifestyle changes on behalf of their city, undertaking home-based environmental projects that add up to cleaner, safer communities, and sharing tips and strategies with friends and neighbors. In addition, the campaign includes lesson plans, student activities, and home-based projects for teachers and parents to engage children about water conservation and environmental health in their community.
“It’s more important than ever to maintain smart habits that support the health of the world around us — especially when it comes to our water and air,” said marine life artist and conservationist Wyland. “If the COVID-19 virus has taught us anything, it’s that we can change behaviors for the benefit of everybody.”
The non-profit campaign, which has included numerous live events, educational tours, and hundreds of city-led activities over the past decade, is presented in association with The Toro Company, EPA WaterSense, National League of Cities, Conserva Irrigation, and Earth Friendly Products (makers of ECOS). Last year, mayors from 39 states encouraged residents to make more than 740,000 pledges to promote drought resiliency, protect watersheds, and reduce stress on aging water infrastructure The Challenge encourages residents to follow their city’s progress throughout the month and to use that information to encourage friends, neighbors, businesses, and civic groups to get involved.”
About the Wyland Foundation
Founded in 1993 by environmental artist Wyland (best known for his series of 100 monumental marine life murals), the Wyland Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, protecting, and preserving the world’s ocean, waterways, and marine life. The foundation encourages environmental awareness through community events, education programs, and public art projects. www.wylandfoundation.org
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TRI Transfers Off-site for Further Waste Management (in pounds), by A & W Ready Mix Concrete Plt 1 (TRI ID 37764WRDYM151KY) for AMMONIA chemical, for All counties, U.S., 2007-2014
Transfers to Recycling
Transfers to Energy Recovery
Transfers to Treatment
POTW Transfers - Treatment
Other Off-site Transfers
Transfers Off-Site for Disposal or Other Releases
1 2007 0 0 0 0 0 . . 0
Transfers to Recycling are Section 6.2, sum of Solvents/Organics Recovery (M20), Metals Recovery (M24), Other Reuse or Recovery (M26), Acid Regeneration (M28) and Transfer to Waste Broker - Recycling (M93)). Transfers to Energy Recovery are Section 6.2, sum of Energy Recovery (M56) and Transfer to Waste Broker - Energy Recovery (M92)). Transfers to Treatment are Section 6.2, sum of Solidification/Stabilization (M40, except for metals and metal compounds), Incineration/Thermal Treatment (M50), Incineration/Insignificant Fuel Value (M54), Wastewater Treatment (excluding POTWs) (M61, except for metals and metal compounds), Other Waste Treatment (M69) and Transfer to Waste Broker - Waste Treatment (M95)). Transfers to POTWs (non-metals) are Section 6.1 (except metals and metal compounds). Transfers to POTWs (metals and metal compounds) are Section 6.1 (metals and metal compounds only). Other off-site transfers are Section 6.2 sum of amounts with no code or invalid code.
Transfers off-site to disposal or other releases not including transfers to POTWS of metals and metal compounds are Section 6.2, sum of Class I Underground Injection Wells (M81), Class II-V Underground Injection Wells (M82,M71), RCRA Subtitle C Landfills (M65), Other Landfills (M64), Storage Only (M10), Solidification/Stabilization - Metals and Metal Compounds only (M41), Solidification/Stabilization (M40 metals and metal compounds only), Wastewater Treatment (excluding POTWs) - Metals and Metal Compounds only (M62), Wastewater Treatment (excluding POTWs) (M61 metals and metal compounds only), RCRA Subtitle C Surface Impoundments (M66), Other Surface Impoundments (M67, M63), Land Treatment (M73), Other Land Disposal (M79), Other Off-site Management (M90), Transfers to Waste Broker - Disposal (M94 or M91), and Unknown (M99).
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Discovery Channel Preps For ‘Shark Week,’ Insists They Will Have New Information This Year
Posted on July 4, 2014 by Dan King
SILVER SPRING, Maryland –
For the 26th summer in a row, the Discovery Channel has begun to insist that new information has been learned about sharks, as they gear up for their annual Shark Week lineup of programming. For the past fews weeks, the cable channel has begun heavily promoting Shark Week programming by telling viewers in no uncertain terms that they have new information about sharks which was not available last year.
Shark Week ads currently running on the channel all play up the same angle. One 30 second spot simply shows footage of a swimming shark while Discovery Channel regular and Shark Week 2014 host Mike Rowe says:
“We’ve known about these mighty sea beasts since the dawn of time. But this year, we might finally have them figured out.”
It’s important to note that not even the Discovery Channel is claiming that sharks themselves have changed substantially in the past year. Indeed, sources close to sharks tell Empire News that, while individual sharks may have been born or died in the past year, the sharks as a species have not changed substantially in several centuries.
Discovery Channel CEO David Zaslav said in a press conference earlier this week that he was excited to get to report all the developments in the human-shark relationship to viewers each summer. Says Zaslav, “People are learning new things about sharks every day. And the public at large relies on us to bring them that information once per year in a grand celebration of knowledge. Sure, they could just keep up with any new shark information as it comes out just by using a few Yahoo! News alerts, but why go through all the trouble?”
In the same conference, Zaslav responded to critics of Shark Week, who have recently begun to allege that the week of programming is not educational at all, but simply an almost voyeuristic celebration of stories of swimmers being maimed, secretly aired under the guise of learning. Zaslav says this claim couldn’t be further from the truth but that “For the record, we will be telling all the gory details of every shark attack that took place in the past year. For learning, though, not for fun.”
Empire News was able to speak to Roger Finn, a shark currently living off the cost of Australia. Mr. Finn had not been aware of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week until we spoke to him, but once he became informed he had some strong views on the subject.
“Is this a joke? No, there isn’t new stuff to cover about sharks every year.” Said Finn. “I mean sure, we have a vibrant culture and we do lots of things with each other, but it sounds to me like all these programs are just about times that we tried to eat people, and that process really hasn’t changed in millennia.”
Zasalav claims that they really do try to incorporate at least one new fact every year during Shark Week. He says this year scientists had discovered that the long-held belief that women who were menstruating should not swim near sharks was really just an old wives’ tale.
“As our research team has discovered, even sharks have no interest in eating a woman who is on her period.” Said Zasalav.
“Not for nothing, but why exactly are you singling us out here?” Asked Finn. “You know, lots of other animals kill more people than sharks. Cows, for example. Cows kill more of you than we do. Mosquitoes? They’re like the #1 human killer of all time. I really can’t help but feel like you guys are really being jerks about this. It’s almost racist.”
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ExxonMobil Managing Director Peter Graham said production started after the project’s LNG Plant cooled the gas to a temperature of 160 degrees Celsius.
The project is forecasted to produce 19 billion dollars for the country; approximately 38 billion kina.
Mr. Graham said the PNG LNG team should be congratulated on achieving this major milestone ahead of schedule. He said completion of commissioning activities and the first LNG production ensures the project remains on target for its first LNG cargo before the middle of 2014.
Work on the second train is progressing and LNG production from this unit is expected to start in a few weeks’ time. The project did report some obstacles such as flooding, infrastructure and extremely steep slopes.
Startup of the PNG LNG Project is a phased approach with production ramping up in coming months.
Mr. Graham said ExxonMobil is looking forward to the benefits that the project will provide to Papua New Guinea and its citizens.
He said the 19 billion dollar project is expected to produce over 9 trillion cubic feet of gas in its lifetime.
It is an integrated development that includes gas production and processing facilities in the Southern Highlands, Hela, Western, Gulf and Central Provinces.
So far, more than 700 kilometers of pipeline connect the facilities which include a gas conditioning plant in Hides and liquefaction and storage facilities near Port Moresby with a capacity of 6.9 million tons per year.
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Facebook Reportedly Planning to build facility Near Microsoft’s Headquarters
the social media giant has continued to expand its footprint
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Social networking giant Facebook is working towards expanding in the US state of Washington, setting up a sprawling office project right in the backyard of Microsoft.
The company’s massive project is currently being referred to as “Building X” project. Facebook approached the city with plans for a 650,000-square-foot campus, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported late on Tuesday.
“The company has not yet applied for building permits but a project schedule sent to the city shows that it hopes to demolish existing buildings on the allotted land as soon as May,” the report added.
The site of the project is along Willows Road, where the social media giant is shortlisting buildings on two parcels it bought earlier this year for $20 million. Microsoft has 128 buildings in a massive campus in Redmond, Washington State.
Despite being hit by massive security breaches and facing fire over its handling of user data and the spread of misinformation, the social media giant has continued to expand its footprint. According to a report in GeekWire, Facebook also has leased space in two downtown Bellevue office towers and is eyeing a project in the Spring District development.
At the same time, the social media giant would occupy a 384,000 sq feet, $246 million office project in the South Lake Union neighbourhood in Seattle.
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The X International Youth Ecological Forum took place in Yakutia
The X International Youth Ecological Forum was held in Yakutia under the auspices of the international organization "Northern Forum", the press service of the head of the region reports. The motto of the event was “Clean City - Clean Planet”.
During the period from 01 to 10 August 2014 in Yakutsk, participants from the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Hokkaido Prefecture (Japan), Heihe City (China), the capital and regions of Yakutia discussed environmental issues. An extensive scientific, educational, cultural and excursion program was organized for them, including a trip to the natural park "Lena Pillars".
The main organizers were the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Family Policy of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Ministry of Federal Relations and External Relations of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), district "city of Yakutsk".
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