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Bird Calling Contest Conflict of Interest Amid Other Complaints at Highly Charged Meeting
Reports on May 10, 2017 School Board meeting –
by Joseph Chu, Piedmont High School Senior –
The Piedmont Board of Education convened on the evening of May 10, 2017. The meeting commenced at 7:00 p.m. The general purpose of board meetings is to make decisions regarding the School District and include public input as a part of their decisions such as: the budget, education policies, setting District goals, and forming a local education vision. Participating members of the Board for this meeting were Andrea Swenson, Cory Smegal, Amal Smith, and Doug Ireland along with Superintendent Randall Booker and Finance Manager Song-Chin Bendib.
This meeting's agenda included presenting the 2017 Arthur Hecht Volunteer of the Year Award to Hillary Cooper, hearing about the recent reports of anti-semitic, racist and other forms of hateful speech and conduct at Piedmont High School, and the assembly that was held at the high school to initiate student discussion and awareness about these issues. Other items included on the agenda included conducting a second hearing for approving the proposed levy of current School Support Tax Measure A, conducting a second hearing for approving 2017-18 Contract Openers between the District and Classified School Employees Association, a presentation for new math courses that are being proposed to meet the Secondary Math Pathways' requirements: Integrated Math 3 and Honors Math Analysis, and finally reviewing and discussing the recommended concept designs for Piedmont High School's new STEAM facilities, auditorium changes, and its projected costs and other concerns regarding its construction.
Announcements of the graduation dates for Millennium High School, Piedmont High School, and 8th Grade Graduation. The Millennium High School Graduation will take place on May 31st at 1:00 p.m. in the Veteran's Hall. The Piedmont High School Graduation will be held on June 1st at 5:00 p.m. in Witter Field. The 8th Grade Celebration Ceremony will be held on May 31st at 5:30 p.m. at Witter Field.
The most heated items of discussion during this meeting surrounded topics that were not on the agenda of the meeting. These topics were the recent events of anti-semitic, racist and other forms of hateful speech and actions, the newly appointed Athletic Director, Vic Acuna, and the firing of the former coach of the PHS Men's Basketball Team, coach Lavdiotis.
Dr. Kalamas, a Piedmont resident, expressed concern for incidents of racism and anti-semitism at Piedmont High School and discontent at what she said was a "delayed and anemic response" on the part of the school board regarding these issues. Kalamas also addressed her own concerns about nepotism and cronyism in the school administration. Board Member Swenson responded with a statement that she was "horrified by the systematic assassination of [the current] Athletic Director, Vic Acuna".
Among the other members of the Piedmont community who offered their own concerns and questions regarding the incidents of hateful speech and actions at Piedmont High School, Piedmont Police Chief Jeremy Bowers said that the Piedmont Police Department is committed to working closely with the community to address this problem and to continue investigating these incidents.
Several coaches and athletic professionals voiced their support for reinstating coach Lavdiotis and some expressed their disapproval of Athletic Director Vic Acuna.
Piedmont High School students Victoria Hou and Shannon Yan gave their opinions on non-agenda topics, as well.
Hou addressed the high school assembly that was held to initiate discussion and awareness for high school students regarding the incidents of hate speech and actions. Hou said that she hoped that the School Board would provide more clear and specific information regarding those incidents because she felt there was a general sense of confusion in the student body regarding this topic.
As a senior at Piedmont High School this year, I agree with Victoria Hou in terms of the feeling that the information that was given to students about those serious incidents was not clear and I have heard various stories about what actually happened. I would appreciate it if the school gave out an official statement about what exactly happened so that students and other members of the community can be on the same page about their understanding of these issues.
Yan proposed that the School Board allow high school students to be able to take more classes in economics and government, since there is currently only one class offered for each of these subjects, both being only a semester long and strictly offered to seniors. Yan said that there are other students who hope to be able to pursue these subjects more fully through additional classes.
After the session for addressing non-agenda topics had closed, the Board moved to its agenda topics.
Hilary Cooper gave her acceptance speech for the 2017 Arthur Hecht Volunteer of the Year Award. Piedmont High School AP Art student Tong Zhou presented a ceramic tree that she made to Mrs. Cooper for her service.
Next, the Board approved the tax level increase of 2% for the School Support Tax Measure A, and 2017-18 Contract Openers between the District and Classified School Employees Association.
Following these actions, a presentation was given to the Board about new math classes that would fulfill the Secondary Math Pathways' requirements: Integrated Math 3 and Honors Math Analysis. Integrated Math 3 would replace the Algebra II class of the traditional math pathway. Honors Math Analysis would cover the topics of Math Analysis as well as AP Calculus, AB's first semester's worth of coursework. This class would be part of the accelerated math pathway. A second reading for these new classes will be held on May 24, 2017.
Following this presentation, the board held a discussion about the cost and other logistic details for Option 2B of the series of concept designs for new Piedmont High School STEAM facilities. Cost estimates were based on compiled data from other local related school construction projects that have been happening within the past three years. The Board also discussed potential uses for any surplus from the budget they have for the STEAM facilities construction and the need to demolish and rebuild the current Alan Harvey Theatre, due to it's multiple safety hazards, structural degradation and need for more seating and restrooms. The Board's general consensus was that while estimates of cost must be carefully and accurately calculated to avoid overstepping the budget, construction must begin as soon as possible to reduce costs of the project, which are expected to increase as more time passes.
Mrs. Conn was at the Board meeting this evening to congratulate Hillary Cooper for receiving the Hecht Volunteer of the Year Award for 2017. She nominated Mrs. Cooper for this award. Mrs. Conn was also attending the meeting because she heard someone would come to the meeting to complain about the new PHS Men's Soccer Coach. She had written a letter in support of the new coach and came to this Board meeting to express her support for the new coach. But it turned out that this person with complaints about the new soccer coach never showed up so she didn't have to say much. She was impressed by how intense the beginning of the Board meeting was, especially around the topics of the new Athletic Director Vic Acuna and also the anti-semitic, racist and hateful speech/actions that happened recently at PHS. Mrs. Conn said that she will continue to write letters and do what she can to support the new soccer coach if more complaints are brought against him.
by Trang Le, Piedmont High School Senior
The School Board meeting held on the night of May 10th was incredibly crowded. Small groups of concerned parents, coaches, and PHS staff spoke in hurried, hushed voices over plastic cups of wine and complimentary cheese outside the City Hall. The small chamber in which the meeting was held only could accommodate a mere 48 people. The small room adjacent to it provided a livestream of the events unfolding, and all the seats in both chambers were taken. Even so, crowds of Piedmont residents stood outside the chamber or sat on the carpet within, looking for answers from the Board of Education concerning the recent occurrences of anti-semitism within PHS and PMS.
The Board opened with a statement acknowledging the hate speech, informing the audience of the assembly held at PHS that Monday. The Superintendent stressed to the critical audience that the School board prioritized students emotional state above everything else, and that these recent incidents do not define Piedmont. However, this and the complimentary cheese did little to sate the critical audience.
Quickly moving on, the Board addressed the recently dismissed Basketball Coach and emails about annual coaching positions. With this, the atmosphere of the room changed to a restless one and it was obvious that their actions roused resentment among the residents. The speaker cards were then gathered, read aloud, and the podium opened to whoever wanted to speak out on the topic of hate-speech and fired coaches.
The first and most controversial speaker, Alicia Kalamas, addressed both of these and more. She accused the School Board of their "anemic and delayed reaction" to the anti-semitism and racism on the school campuses as well as her emails. She also accused the Board of being racist themselves, briefly bringing up last years' Bird Calling Contest and claiming it was rigged to knock an African American student from their rightful third place. Her speech was very briefly interrupted to tell her that she was rapidly approaching her five minute speaking limit. Kalamas then finished her speech by addressing a potential firing of the Athletic Director, claiming that she had sent an email some time ago questioning his credentials and employment in the Piedmont Unified School District. Quickly wrapping up, she finished with a thinly veiled threat of legal action against the School Board if they did not properly address her concerns.
Editors Note: Opinions expressed are those of the authors.
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One Response to "Bird Calling Contest Conflict of Interest Amid Other Complaints at Highly Charged Meeting"
These disgraceful incidents of bigotry at PHS cannot be allowed to be swept under the rug through polite discussion and ultimate benign neglect.
As I said in a recent letter to the Post: To paraphrase then Senator Howard Baker in 1973: What did the powers-that-be know and when did they know it?
More importantly, it is critical that the school administration, the parents and, most importantly, the students themselves understand that this is much more than a result of the times and current atmosphere in this country. In a school of privilege, there needs to be a high degree of accountability and expectation. The citizens and taxpayers of Piedmont have a right and a need to keep this topic in the cold light of day.


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Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms
Vienna House/Belwin-Mills, 2 vols.
What is thrown into the Rhine is sometimes fished out again; a gold ring in the legend, and poor Schumann in real life. But his own wedding ring is still there. 30 years later Brahms made a similar ritual gesture to Clara when he consigned selected letters to the Rhine from the deck of a steamer. Thence arose rumours that he was no mere penfriend but a co-respondent. No doubt the jettisoned letters went deeper than the rest. But they would surely still be found innocent at bottom. And there can hardly be any need for further concealment; the lacunae detectable in the first edition (Leipzig, 1927) might now be filled from the available holographs to provide a definitive text.
What the English language version needs is not a few additions but a new edition. Instead it has been reprinted unchanged with all its imperfections on its head-and in ours, if we're not careful. I fear that the work was skimped just to achieve simultaneous translation (London and New York, 1927). Commercial pressures seem to have squeezed out some 30% of the original contents. But if business was looking up, it wasn't in the dictionary; or we should have been spared such off-key expressions as the F flat major Trio and the A sharp major Serenade. There are four mistranslations in the first 20 pages alone. The whole text is distorted by the translator's conviction that Brahms's plain prose needed tarting up; so "dürfte ich" becomes "may I crave permission", "wie mir ums Herz wird" is "the tumult in my heart", and so on.
The foreword blandly claims that the admitted defects and abridgements do not really detract from the spiritual beauty of this testament of mutual devotion. But I doubt whether the condensed milk of the gospel will be to everyone's taste. Of course any translation, even one which manages to be both indifferent and partial, will at least make the lines easier to read between. But here one never knows whether those intimate and revealing flashes of reticence or silence (e.g. about Schumann's last illness, or about religion) come from Brahms, Clara, or the translator. Even some of the really illuminating phrases, such as Brahms's quotations from the Arabian Nights in 1854, and Clara's warning 40 years later that letter-writing calls for caution, are simply omitted. Sales targets are rarely hit by blanks; and my own prediction is that those to whom the subject is dear willfind the book unrewarding, and vice versa.
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Failing health
Published : Feb 27, 2009 00:00 IST
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A woman with enteric fever receiving treatment in a makeshift shed outside a primary health centre in Rayagada district, Orissa. A 2007 picture.-LINGARAJ PANDA
BY now it is a commonplace to bemoan the poor state of health services in India. Public provision of health services is inadequately funded, and their facilities are plagued by overcrowding and a shortage of essential items and of skilled personnel. They are also insufficiently accountable to citizens. Private involvement in health provision is beset by rising costs and problems of exclusion, huge and growing differentials in the services available to rich and poor, and in adequate supervision associated with various manifestations of moral hazard. As a result, Indias health indicators are among the worst in the world, which explains to a large extent its appallingly low position in the international Human Development Index.
All this is so well known that it scarcely evokes much reaction any more, apart from a defeated shrug of the shoulders, even among normally concerned citizens. What is more surprising is the apparent paucity of ideas on how to deal with the current mess, beyond the very obvious need to increase public spending on health. This is what makes the recently released Report of the Independent Commission on Development and Health in India, or the ICDHI, (Governance of the Health Sector in India: Has the state abdicated its role?, Voluntary Health Association of India, New Delhi, 2008) such an important contribution. The report, authored by former Union Health Secretary Javed Chowdhury and other ICDHI members, makes a number of important points and suggestions. Several of these are worth reiterating.
The first point, which is generally recognised but still deserves to be highlighted, is the sheer extent of the regional imbalances in both the process and outcome indicators for health. The average health status for the country as a whole is poor and the per capita spending on health is also low by international standards. Public health spending is indeed among the lowest in the world, both as a share of the gross domestic product and per capita.
But this disguises very sharp differences across States. At one end is a group of States (Kerala, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu) that accounts for 18.8 per cent of the population and has health indicators similar to those in more developed middle-income countries such as Venezuela, Argentina and Saudi Arabia. At the other end of the spectrum are the BIMARU-plus States (Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and Assam) that comprise nearly 42 per cent of the population and whose indicators are close to those for sub-Saharan Africa and other low-income countries such as Sudan, Nigeria and Myanmar.
The differences across States do not simply relate to the health outcomes but also extend to the financing of health expenditure and the implications for the people. Thus, the poorer States also had less public provision: in 2001-02, public health spending as a percentage of total health expenditure ranged from 7.5 per cent (or Rs.84 per capita) in Uttar Pradesh to 89.2 per cent (Rs.836 per capita) in Mizoram. However, not a single major State achieved the basic threshold level of Rs.500 per capita public health spending.
The regional disparities also extend to the availability of medical personnel. The availability of graduate allopathic doctors in the country as a whole is only 0.6 per thousand population, but they are unevenly spread, concentrated in the South and in more developed States (Punjab has more than five times the availability of Uttar Pradesh). Also, these doctors tend to converge on urban and peri-urban areas, leaving rural and backward areas especially deprived.
Even medical colleges are unevenly spread: the four southern States have 63 per cent of the colleges and 67 per cent of the seats. The States with the biggest shortfalls in medical personnel are predictably the BIMARU States along with Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, the north-eastern States, Orissa and Haryana. The regulation and monitoring of personnel also leave much to be desired: the statutory councils for doctors, nurses, dentists and others are almost dysfunctional. So people are forced to turn to private health services, and in the poorer States impoverished people are forced to pay because government provision is unavailable or inadequate. Thus, in the poorest States, illnesses involving hospitalisation are more prone to break poor families finances. The report cites National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) data to show that in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh more than one-third of those who were hospitalised fell into poverty on account of medical expenditure.
Not only are the private, or out-of-pocket, medical expenses borne by households far too high in India but there is also evidence to indicate that they have gone up sharply in recent times. According to the NSSO, urban hospitalisation costs increased by 126 per cent between 1995-96 and 2003-04, while rural hospitalisation costs increased by 78 per cent. It is alarming to note that private costs were often borne by households that simply could not afford them. In general, the ICDHI notes, one-fifth of the population that is just above the poverty line will automatically slip into poverty if they face even one serious health crisis.
One important item of medical expenditure for which the increase in costs has been particularly rapid is therapeutic drugs. The average drug expenditure met out-of-pocket is 75 per cent, once again those residing in the poorer States are the worst off. The share of drugs in the medical expenditure of households (both inpatient and outpatient) was as high as 90 per cent in Orissa and nearly that in Rajasthan, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. In no State was the ratio less than 61 per cent, indicating clearly that the health system is over-medicalised.
This growing expenditure on drugs reflects not only the impact of the new patent regime but also the lack of adequate regulation of the Indian drug manufacturing sector and a lax drug policy that allows the proliferation of non-essential and even irrational or hazardous drugs.
A crucial area that has recently come into the news is the absence of public health security, even in terms of the provision of basic vaccines and drugs. Lack of investment in public facilities has meant that in general they cannot meet the standards set by the World Health Organisation, and the policy of relying on private manufacturers to fill the gap has proved to be futile as they simply did not deliver. As a result, there is now a shortage of basic vaccines and other essential drugs, which is holding up crucial immunisation programmes and threatens a current and future public health crisis in several States. As for personal health, government health services are obviously inadequate, and the private health insurance schemes that are in existence cover very small pools of people and do not ensure risk-sharing.
So we have a system that is underfunded, under-regulated, irrational, hugely inefficient and very expensive, given the levels of peoples income. What is to be done about all this? The ICDHI makes several important recommendations, suggesting not only more public expenditure but also the allocation of funds, more and different types of regulation, new approaches to training and initiatives to change the current tendencies to over-medicalisation and to depend excessively upon curative rather than preventive health care.
The suggestions are eminently sensible. It is foolish to argue that the overall lack of resources in a poor country is the fundamental constraint. The examples of our neighbours, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, show that much can be achieved in this regard even in the context of a relatively low-income developing economy. Indeed, it is sad to think that we still need to argue in favour of these very obvious and urgent requirements.
(This story was published in the print edition of Frontline magazine dated Feb 27, 2009.)
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Charlie Piggott
Updated on Aug 24, 2022
Occupation(s) Musician
Genres Music of Ireland
Role Musical Artist
Name Charlie Piggott
Born 14 July 1948 (age 67) Cobh, County Cork, Ireland (1948-07-14)
Instruments Tenor Banjo, Button Accordion, Tin Whistle
Associated acts De Dannan The Lonely Stranded Band Gerry Harrington
Books Blooming Meadows: The World of Irish Traditional Musicians
Similar People Alec Finn, John Faulkner, De Dannan, Frankie Gavin, Jackie Daly
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Charlie Piggott (born 14 July 1948) is an Irish traditional musician, best known as a founding member of De Dannan and has toured extensively in Europe, Canada, and the US. He grew up playing music in County Cork, where his first instrument was the button accordion. In the early 1970s Piggott played banjo in sessions at Galway's Cellar Bar with Frankie Gavin (fiddle), Alec Finn (bouzouki) and Johnnie "Ringo" McDonagh (bodhrán). In 1973, the group Dé Dannan was formed from sessions at Tigh Hughes, An Spidéal, Co. Galway. Piggott plays in the old style and many of his seminal recordings have caused him to be hailed as "one of the most influential Irish banjoists of the generation", but after damaging his index finger in an accident on tour he reverted to playing the melodeon. In 1976, he was a featured artist of the Smithsonian Institution, at the Festival of American Folk Life, for the American bicentennial. Today he plays a Black Dot Hohner Double-Ray, tuned C#/D. Piggott has revived many rare traditional melodies and has a reputation for performing them in accordance with the ethos of older players who have passed the music on. He later founded the Lonely Stranded Band with Miriam Collins (concertina) and Joe Corcoran (bouzouki, guitar & vocals) and their 1996 album met with great success. The new millennium saw him team up with the Sliabh Luachra fiddler Gerry Harrington to record a Clo Iar Chonnachta release: The New Road. Piggott has also established a considerable reputation as a lecturer, with a great knowledge of traditional music and musicians. He is co-author, with Fintan Vallely and photographer Nutan Jacques Piraprez, of Blooming Meadows: The World of Irish Traditional Musicians. Having worked for a long time as a professional musician in Galway featuring regularly on television and radio, he still plays at traditional music festivals in the area.
De Danann (1975)
Selected Jigs Reels and Songs (1977)
The Mist Covered Mountain (1980)
Star-Spangled Molly (1981) (see The De Dannan Collection)
Best of De Dannan (1981)
The Lonely Stranded Band (1996)
The New Road (2000)
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How Contagion predicted a pandemic - with screenwriter Scott Z. Burns and Dr Ian Lipkin
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In this episode, Irish Times Features Writer Patrick Freyne brings us back to the year 2011 and the release of the scientific thriller movie Contagion. Starring Matt Damon, Contagion tells the story of a deadly virus which explodes into a global pandemic, bringing society to its knees. Nine years on, in the midst of our own virus outbreak, it all feels eerily familiar. Freyne catches up with Contagion's screenwriter Scott Z. Burns and the virologist who advised the script and plotline for the movie, Dr Ian Lipkin. The pair explain how their working relationship began over a couple of cocktails in a Manhattan bar and was sealed on the agreement that this pandemic movie would be grounded in science rather than blockbuster action. So, nine years on from its release, what it is like looking back on Contagion for Burns and Lipkin? Has the pandemic played out like they expected both scientifically and politically?
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Samsung Electronics Wins Two 2015 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Awards for Sustained Excellence and Climate Communications
EPA recognizes technology leader for its ongoing leadership in protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency products and programs
Samsung wins 2015 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year–Sustained Excellence Award! Check out how eco-friendly Samsung is! http://goo.gl/7xviLn
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RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., April 6, 2015 /3BL Media/ – Samsung Electronics has won the 2015 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the third year in a row. This distinguishes Samsung as the only consumer electronics company to have earned this prestigious ENERGY STAR award for its continued leadership in protecting the environment through activities focused on providing products with superior energy efficiency for the third year in a row.
In addition, Samsung has also won the 2015 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Climate Communications Award for the second straight year for its efforts in further educating consumers about the positive effect energy efficiency and energy-efficient behaviors has on climate change.
"We are truly honored to have received two ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Awards for the second year in a row," said Gregory Lee, president and CEO Of Samsung Electronics North America. "Samsung is very committed to sustainability and developing both innovative and energy-efficient products while pursuing various ways to help the community. We are also proud to work with ENERGY STAR to raise awareness about energy-efficient behaviors that help protect our environment and fight climate change."
Samsung was selected from 16,000 organizations in the U.S. participating in the ENERGY STAR program for the two honors. The company's related accomplishments last year include:
Product Innovation: Samsung offers 711 ENERGY STAR-qualified models across multiple product categories. Four Samsung products received the Eco-Design and Sustainable Technologies Award from the Consumer Electronics Association earlier this year. The number marks the most among all manufacturers.
Consumer Promotion: Through its consumer promotions, Samsung highlighted the importance of the EPA's "Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR" campaign.
Corporate Citizenship: At Boys & Girls Clubs of America events throughout 2014, Samsung reached 150,000 youth across the United States and taught Club members and their families about the importance of saving energy and protecting the environment from climate change.
Also this year, two new major Samsung facilities are opening - Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., a state-of-the art energy-efficient campus in San Jose, California, later this year and Samsung Research America's new R&D center, built in accordance with LEED Gold and LEED Platinum certification standards in Mountain View, California, which opened earlier this year.
"Through their sustained participation with ENERGY STAR, Samsung Electronics is helping Americans save money, save energy, and do their part to reduce our nation's greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. "I applaud Samsung for earning EPA's highest ENERGY STAR award, the 2015 Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award, demonstrating a strong commitment to energy efficiency and to preserving a healthy planet for future generations."
A proud ENERGY STAR partner since 1996, this marks the seventh consecutive year Samsung has been honored by the EPA's ENERGY STAR program. Samsung has been recognized in the past as follows:
2014 ENERGY STAR Partner of the year – Sustained Excellence Award & Climate Communications Award
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2012 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Product Manufacturer Award
2010 ENERGY STAR Award for Excellence in Energy Star Promotion
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Here is where the Indianapolis Colts rank in terms of average, best and worst:
Average ranking: 13.0 (14th)
Best ranking: 12th (Multiple)
Worst ranking: 15th (USA Today)
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They had more first downs and more total yards than the Ravens but still lost by two touchdowns. The game came down to a few critical plays. Jonathan Taylor fumbled, and the Ravens scooped it up and scored. Officials ruled in favor of a Marcus Peters interception on a play that could've gone either way. And with 5:34 left, the Colts failed to convert on fourth-and-inches in the red zone. I'm in agreement with The Athletic's Stephen Holder: There's not a lot of talent on this Colts offense that will keep opposing defensive coordinators up at night. Indianapolis is a good team that should compete for a playoff spot, but they look like a group whose ceiling is probably the divisional round.
The offense didn't do enough against the Ravens. But the defense continues to be a strong unit that is good enough to carry them to the postseason.
Amazing what a difference LB Darius Leonard means to this defense, which surrenders 135 fewer yards a game when he's on field.
Recalibrated expectation: Get back to the postseason
The class of the AFC still resides in Kansas City, Baltimore and Pittsburgh, but the Colts are good enough to be a playoff team, especially with a seventh spot being added this year. Where in the AFC pecking order the Colts are is anybody's guess at the moment, especially with inconsistent play at quarterback and in the running game. There should be a better indication of where things stand after the Colts face the Titans, who lead the AFC South, in two of the next three games. -- Mike Wells
Philip Rivers and Colts fans have the right to be annoyed by the controversial Marcus Peters interception that changed the course of Sunday's 24-10 loss to the Ravens at Lucas Oil Stadium. Al Riveron said the call was "clear and obvious," but it was surely less so to most people outside Maryland. Still, not all the sins of a frustrating loss can be put on one play. The Colts' defense, so stout in the first half, was bested by Lamar Jackson in the second half, and the Indy offense managed just three points in the final three quarters. A disappointing loss for sure, but the Colts will find themselves back in first place in the AFC South with a win over the Titans on Thursday.
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Naina Bahadur Thapa: "Nothing Was Memorable Except Being With Intolerable Pain"
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I was having meal with my family members at home on that day.
When the quake hit, being very terrified, I ran outside with my grandchildren.
The most important thing was the life of grandchildren at that time.
I wanted to know about the status of my friends and relatives but I could not contact them. रेडियो, टेलिभिजन, समाचारपत्र, अनलाइन जस्ता समाचार स्रोतहरु तपाईंलाई जानकारी दिन कत्तिको उपयोगी साबित भए? मिडियाका कुन पक्ष कमजोर, कुन पक्ष सबल रहे? (How helpful were news media such as radio, television, newspapers, online news portals, etc in informing you immediately after the quake and the days following it? Please note their strengths as well as weaknesses).
Because of power cut, I was deprived of radio and television for the first four days. Later, I kept watching television, updating myself with every news.
I spent my time in anxiety because of damage in my house. I engaged in constructing a temporary residence.
Nothing was memorable except being with intolerable pain.
I think the new generation should build safe and strong buildings.
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Tory call to end '24-hour licensing'
Grayling calls for
'more robust rules'
If you thought the pub trade and brewing industry couldn't face any worse threats under the present Labour government -- here come the Tories!
Tory home affairs spokesman Chris Grayling said in a speech on 24 February that his party, if returned to power, would be "more robust about licensing rules".
"There is now a strong case to end Labour 24-hour drinking regime," he added. "It has not created a continental cafe culture -- it has just made things worse in many town and city centres."
Mr Grayling did not say precisely how the Tories would change the current legislation. This is understandable, as Mr Grayling does not understand the law he wishes to change.
There is no such thing as "24-hour licensing". Owners of licensed premises can now choose flexible hours within a 24-hour cycle. This means pubs can choose to stay open longer at weekends to suit the demands of their customers. Apart from airport bars, I don't know of any pubs that open for 24 hours. The only purveyors of alcohol that do open 24 hours are supermarkets.
If Chris Grayling did some research, he would discover that many pubs that extended their hours when the new law came in soon reverted to more restricted hours when their trade did not increase. Most of the pubs listed in the Hertfordshire section of the Good Beer Guide still close at 3pm and open again from 6 to 11pm: I choose Herts because that's where I live, but it is not untypical. No pub owner will stay open during the afternoon or the wee small hours if nobody walks through the doors.
Tony Payne, chief exectuive of the Federation of Licensed Victuallers, put it well when he responded to Mr Grayling: "If he has concerns about 24-hour drinking he should first find out how many pubs has 24-hopur licences. It is very few. Most 24-hour licences are held by supermarkets. If there are problems at premises, there are already powers to deal with them."
The simple fact, which Chris Grayling ignores, is that such problems as binge drinking and city-centre drunkenness have diminished since the law changed. Before the change, when all city-centre pubs had to close at 11pm, there was often mayhem. Chris Grayling ignores the improvements in order to jump on a bandwagon created by the Daily Mail to pillory the pub trade for problems it is not responsible for.
The Tories are coming...be afraid, be very afraid.
posted by Roger Protz at 10:17
Johnny Norfolk said...
I agree with the Tories.
We do not need 24 Hr drinking in public places.
What we should have if we want a more continental aproach is that any premises can sell drink between say 1000 Hrs and 2300 without a licence.
If there is any trouble thay are then made to apply. Any drinking outside these hours is a matter for the police to say yes or no.
This would have the effect of any cafe or snack bar could have a selection of drinks.
Our village post office would if it could.
It would reduce the power of the brewers and increase competition.
I have lived in france and Germany and where I lived there was no 24 hr drinking. But I could buy a beer at the supermarket cafe and often did.
The tories are comming be afraid.
You must be joking
Sam Tana said...
There is one place in Britain that often does have 24 hour drinking ... the Palace of Westminster. And look at the hooligans who frequent that den of iniquity!
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· June 16, 2020
For artists, inspiration strikes in a million places, across a million topics. For Mukt, their debut album Jogi sought the same in the couplets of seven of the subcontinent's foremost poets. Two years in the making, the Ahmedabad-based rock band raised half the money for this album through crowdfunding and the rest, through gigs since November 2019.
"After nearly 2 years of toil & trouble, here we are with an album which is a bit more than just music and lyrics, which are a bit more than just words," said the band.
Comprising of Tarun Gagdekar and Udit Bhavsar on vocals and guitars, Dhaval Yadav on percussions and vocals, Yash Joshi on drums, and Raag Jadav on bass, Jogi also features Joby Joy on the tabla as a recurring guest performer in most of the tracks.
At 57 minutes, the 7-track album might feel bloated at bits. 'Khajoor' rebounds between folk and hard rock, sounding like two different songs merged into one that doesn't necessarily work throughout its runtime of 7 minutes and 47 seconds. There are a couple of spots of jugalbandi between the percussion, which feels more appropriate for live performance than a studio album. However, the guitar solos after the chorus are remarkable in their own right. Gagdekar and Bhavsar's joyous riffs are the highlights on 'Doosra Banwas' and 'Garaj Baras'. Joy provides for some excellent tabla that really binds the tracks he features on.
'Nadi Ka Behna' is the track that stands out the most from the album. It allows all band members enough space to flex their prowess while enabling them to enjoy throughout.
The album ends on 'Andhayug', a dark and brooding track. Based on a 1953 play by Dharamveer Bharati that takes place on the last day of the Kurukshetra war, the track juxtaposes itself against a post-independent India while maintaining that wars have no real winner. The quintet does well at relaying the message through their ambient music, mixed with an AIR-announcement like reading of the poem.
Unfortunately, Mukt's debut tries to do a bit of everything at once but fails to grasp a single avenue they excel in. Although the album flirts with rock, fusion, and folk, it doesn't commit to any genre in particular.
One can only hypothesise what Kabir, Nida Fazli, and Kaifi Azmi might think of their works being reincarnated with electric guitars and screaming vocals. Their approval notwithstanding, Jogi is a worthy and fun effort at creating a melange between their illustrious works and modern rock.
Much of the album seems fit for stadiums, where one can envisage themselves screaming their lungs out with a raucous audience. With coronavirus still very much a part of our lives, there remains a bit of time till Mukt can get to that stage. Once they do, however, make sure you do find yourself a ticket.
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Why 'Make in India' is an anachronism
Prime Minister Modi's ambitious campaign to turn India into a global manufacturing hub plans aims to develop infrastructure and make it easier for companies to do business. The hope is to bump up manufacturing from 15 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) to 25 percent.
But the challenges were highlighted by a seemingly small gaffe: The program was launched with brochures distributed on a smart-looking USB flash drives that was made in China.
India imports two-thirds of its electronics, mostly from China. So does much of the world, including the US. The most American of products, from the world's most valuable company, Apple, is famously designed in California, made in China.
Both manufacturing and services now span enormous global networks, with pockets of strong expertise (like India, in services) supplying to the world.
And so, the enormous spend and resources for "Make in India" would give better returns elsewhere. Such as in our services industry. Or in building up a ecosystem for renewable-energy services and products, so that by 2020, India can dominate that sector.
Here're five reasons why:
Manufacturing (like services) is a globally-collaborative exercise today involving product design, software, hardware, and testing. The value lies in design, IP and software, and not in manufacturing. Apple manufactures almost all of its products outside the US, mostly in China. But its Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn makes 3 percent margin while Apple, in California, makes 30 percent margin. Value is where IP, design and software are. Not where manufacturing happens.
"Make in India" needs enormous investments in the ecosystem for a gradual build-up. "Local manufacturing" objectives are often an afterthought in India. India's Aakash tablet -- "the world's cheapest" -- was once purely an education project that got delayed and derailed by the "make in India" objective.
The education objective got diluted as focus shifted to manufacturing. But the ecosystem didn't exist: No single contract manufacturer could supply even a fifth of the numbers required. While the private-brand equivalent Ubislate was made in China and was sold in large numbers in India, the United Progressive Alliance's (UPA) Aakash got delayed, and, with the change of government, its fate is uncertain.
Tech manufacturing is no longer dependent on abundant cheap labour as much as other factors, especially capital. For years, India tried to woo Intel and others to set up chipmaking. The most persistent wooing happened when Dayanadhi Maran was IT minister. But, instead of "India" the focus became Tamil Nadu. Now, chip fabs don't require cheap labour. They need enormous capital investment, subsidised electricity, clean water and silicon, and qualified engineers. India lost the Intel chip fab to Vietnam.
India is now offering a 25 percent subsidy on capital spend and other breaks, for chip fabs, and two fabs are in the works: One near Delhi by a consortium including IBM, and the other in Gujarat, involving STMicroelectronics.
Manufacturing for exports is high-risk, with traditional sectors also approaching a tip-over point in automation beyond which it makes more sense for the West to source locally. Textile manufacturing is returning in pockets from India to the US, because it's cheaper to make the fabric there in automated mills, there's better control, and even the overall cost of making full garments isn't that much higher.
The clothing company American Giant used to buy fabric from India: Now it says it's cheaper in the US, and the total cost of making a jacket is only about a fifth higher in the US than in India. As the NYT reported the company has switched from a supplier in Haryana to one in South Carolina, where they found the control, quality and timeline justifies the 20 percent higher spend. China has also been facing the displacement of labour in its factories.
There are ways more jobs in services than in manufacturing. Wherever you build up competence, there's a global services opportunity. Whether in software for banking, or services for the space age-launching satellites and sending orbiters to the planets. And services generate enormous number of jobs. Even with increasing automation in services, newer jobs are created.
We are, however, slow to capitalize on global trends, especially when they go against the current grain of business, or when manufacturing may appear to face off with services. India is the world's BPO back office. But it continues to train hundreds of thousands of youngsters in BPO areas, while the trend is toward increasing automation of both voice (IVRS and voice recognition) and non-voice processes.
The opportunity of the future lies in using our knowledge to design systems and software that will disrupt our own BPO services industry. If we don't do it, someone else will -- an American or European tech company, probably using Indian developers. In this example, the Indian BPO industry will get disrupted anyway, and we won't get the technology upside.
Our few manufacturing success stories of recent decades, such as in automobiles, show the direction: Target local market first, invest in infrastructure, build up the ecosystem. It's a very long haul, and in a competitive global marketplace, it's a tough road. The money is better spent elsewhere.
(Prasanto K. Roy @prasanto is a technology analyst. The views expressed are personal)


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Brighton pays tribute to the death of Oscar Garcia's daughter
Albion has sent a heartfelt tribute to former manager Oscar Garcia following the death of his daughter.
The former Barcelona midfielder, who managed Brighton for a season in 2013/14, made the announcement via his Instagram on Thursday.
He posted a picture of his daughter Mariona, 21, with the caption, "Fly up my love."
Mariona is said to have fought a long battle with cancer.
Garcia was Albion manager in 2013/14
Brighton and Hove Albion tweeted the message of support this morning.
They said, "I'm sorry for your loss, Oscar. The thoughts of everyone at Albion are with you and your family at this difficult time."
Her younger sister Jana also took to Instagram to pay tribute.
She described her sister as "the best role model I could have".
In her post, she said: "You can't imagine how proud I am of you, always finding strength where there was none and fighting to the last day after day.
"I always knew you were too good for this bad and unfair world and that's why you had to go.
"From now on we will remember you with a big smile on your face and I promise I will enjoy the good things in life as you taught me, for you."
Tributes have been received from several football clubs and former teammates.
FC Barcelona, where Garcia started his senior career, tweeted: "FC Barcelona sends its condolences to former player and former club manager Òscar Garcia i Junyent and his family for the loss of his daughter. Rest in peace."
Espanyol, another of the 49-year-old's former clubs, tweeted: "Our former player Óscar Garcia Junyent's daughter left us.
"From RCD Espanyol we would like to extend our deepest condolences to family and friends. Rest in peace."
Valencia CF expressed their "deepest condolences", as did Celta Vigo.
Former basketball player Pau Gasol said: "At this time, you and your family be strong for Oscar".
Jordi Cruyff, a teammate of Oscar's at FC Barcelona in the '90s, also sent a message of support.
Current footballer Pedro Chirivella offered his condolences to Oscar and his family.
Oscar Garcia helped Albion lead to the play-offs in his only season at the club.
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4 Injured, Gunman Dead in Wisconsin Software Business Shooting
The man was armed with a semi-automatic pistol and extra ammunition
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Gunman Killed After Opening Fire at Wisconsin Building
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A gunman opened fire in a Wisconsin office building, and was killed after injuring several people. NBC 5's Jorge DeSantiago reports.
(Published Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018)
Four people were injured when a gunman opened fire at WTS Paradigm in Wisconsin Wednesday morning
The gunman died after being shot by officers
Police are still investigating more release details about the suspect and a possible motive
A heavily armed man opened fire on his co-workers at a Wisconsin software company Wednesday, seriously wounding three people before being fatally shot by police as employees ran from the building or hid inside, according to investigators.
Middleton Police Chief Chuck Foulke said officers shot the man within eight minutes of receiving calls about an active shooter at WTS Paradigm. Foulke said the man was armed with a semi-automatic pistol and extra ammunition, and fired at officers before he was shot.
Foulke said three people were seriously injured during the attack, while a fourth person was grazed by a bullet.
"I think a lot less people were injured or killed because police officers went in and neutralized the shooter," Foulke said.
The police chief said the motivation behind the attack was unclear and investigators didn't yet know whether the gunman targeted his victims. He didn't release the suspect's name but said he was an employee of WTS Paradigm and lived in nearby Madison.
Foulke said the investigation was ongoing but noted: "We have reason to believe the suspect was heavily armed with a lot of extra ammunition, a lot of extra magazines."
Judy Lahmers, a business analyst at WTS Paradigm, said she was working at her desk when she heard what sounded "like somebody was dropping boards on the ground, really loud." Lahmers said she ran out of the building and hid behind a car.
She said the building's glass entrance door was shattered.
"I'm not looking back, I'm running as fast as I can. You just wonder, 'Do you hide or do you run?'" she told The Associated Press.
She said she knew one co-worker had been grazed by a bullet but was OK. She didn't have any other information about the shooting but said it was "totally unexpected. We're all software people. We have a good group."
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University Hospital in Madison confirmed Wednesday afternoon that it was still treating three victims from the shooting, saying one was in critical condition and two were in serious condition.
Police conducted a secondary search of the office building after the shooting to ensure there were no more victims or suspects — and officers discovered some people still hiding in the building, which also houses Esker Software.
Gabe Geib, a customer advocate at Esker Software, said he was working at his desk when he heard what "sounded like claps." He said he then saw people running away from the building at "full sprint."
"We knew at that point that something was going down. A ton of people were running across the street right in front of us," he said.
Geib said he and his colleagues were still huddled in their cafeteria, away from windows, more than an hour after the shooting.
Jeff Greene, who also works at Esker, said police told those gathered in the cafeteria to go to a nearby hotel to make a statement about what they saw.
Three yellow school buses full of more than 100 people, including witnesses, were unloaded at a hotel about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the office building. Some people hugged as they were reunited with loved ones. Others stopped to pet a dog that had been brought by someone picking up a worker.
WTS Paradigm makes software for the building products industry. A Wisconsin State Journal profile from 2014 listed company employment at about 145 employees and noted the company was looking to move to a larger location at the time.
The company's website was down Wednesday.
A shopping center next to the building was temporarily put on lockdown at the direction of police.
Middleton is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of Milwaukee.
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NFLPA, USADA trading barbs over HGH testing
Posted by Mike Florio on November 12, 2011, 4:06 PM EST
On Thursday, the NFLPA made an HGH testing proposal, which commences with a population study of all NFL players aimed at determining the proper range of permissible, naturally-occurring HGH in their systems.
The proposal, made more than three months after the NFL and NFLPA agreed to conduct HGH testing as part of the new labor deal, has sparked criticism from anti-doping experts.
"The fact that they're saying this now is an absolute joke," U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart told Barry Wilner of the Associated Press. "It seems clear now they're protecting their dirty players by further delaying the implementation of this test and not honoring the agreement they made to start this test at the beginning of the season."
Per Wilner, experts believe a separate population study isn't necessary, and that it would require months to complete.
The NFLPA has not reacted favorably to Tygart's remarks.
"Mr. Tygart has had nothing but a negative influence on this process," NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said, via the NFLPA-licensed website ProPlayerInsiders.com. "Now that we know what he thinks of our players, it is clear that his agenda begins and ends with himself. Normally, I would call on him to apologize for calling our men 'dirty' but he isn't worth the effort. We will continue to work on an hGH testing protocol that is fair and transparent."
A neutral observer could regard Smith's remarks as the table-turning tactics of a trial lawyer. With the NFL, Congress, the USADA, and the Word Anti-Doping Agency contending that the union is simply trying to delay HGH testing as long as possible, Smith arguably has seized on Tygart's narrow term — "dirty players" — and broadened it to apply to all players, in the hopes of strengthening the resolve of all players to resist HGH testing.
Given the power of Congress to launch a comprehensive investigation regarding not only the HGH testing impasse but also the use of HGH by NFL players and the manner in which it has been obtained, both the NFL and the NFLPA need to realize that rhetoric and delay will eventually harm everyone's interests. Players will be exposed to interrogation (and possible criminal charges). The NFL will risk the same stigma that has undermined baseball.
The parties have agreed to conduct HGH testing. More than three months after the agreement was made, the NFLPA proposed for the first time a full population study of all NFL players. Without concluding that the NFLPA is trying to delay the implementation of HGH testing, it's easy to understand why the NFL, Congress, the USADA, and the WADA believe that's precisely what's happening.
36 responses to "NFLPA, USADA trading barbs over HGH testing"
Patriot42 says:
All the players union is up to is to protect themselves. I bet a quarter of the league is on juice.
badtimeoutcaldwell says:
The NFLPA is asking for all NFL players to be tested to establish a "baseline" for a "normal" HGH levels in NFL players.
That is simply ridiculous. That is like going to a bar and establishing a new "normal" blood alchohol level by taking the average of all the people in the bar. Considering there are several people who have likely been drinking in the bar, any "average" that comes out of that sample is likely to be much higher than it should be.
The fact that the NFLPA is fighting for this should tell us all we need to know about how idiodic and moronic their thought process is…
captainloaded says:
The science and the testing is there…..Smith is unwilling to accept the testing because it would be viewed as another loss on his end. The deal the players got to end the lockout has been widely panned. Accepting HGH testing will basically cost him his job.
ballergac says:
How sad and pathetic the NFLPA is acting.. but in saying that I think its smart, helps the once and/or current dirty players to get clean. Sad tactic but I could see why they would..
I think the NFL should collect (anonymously) the samples already provided by each player at the start of the season. By testing those samples, the NFL and the NFLPA will have no doubt about the magnitude of the problem. By not matching individuals with samples, no player would be subject to disciplinary action. The test could be validated (even with NFL athletes) and future tests could result in appropriate discipline.
scytherius says:
I just don't care.
snarkzilla says:
Give them the data, whether or not most experts believe it's unnecessary and stipulate that testing begins immediately. Start testing. Let NFLPA try to defend players who test positive by using the data.
There's something fishy going on. Why won't WADA give them the data whether or not most think it's useless?
gadgetdawg says:
The USADA seems to get it. The union will stall and stall until the dirty players can get the stuff out of their system.
ErikW65 says:
Scientist Don Catlin understands NFLPA's hesitation to allow WADA to test players for HGH
"Catlin, best known as the scientist who identified the designer steroid THG, says WADA is notoriously reluctant to share its data about blood screening for HGH.
"I'd like to look at the data, but WADA doesn't disclose its information so an independent scientist can review it," said Catlin, the founder of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory, the first anti-doping lab in the United States.
WADA has not shared information with other anti-doping researchers about the rate of false positives and false negatives since it began testing athletes' blood for HGH, said Catlin, now the chief executive officer of Anti-Doping Research, a Los Angeles nonprofit organization, making it hard to determine how effective the test really is.
"Every test will have false positives," Catlin said. "The question is, what percentage can a sport stand? "
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Just because Smith is playing games with the issue doesn't mean there aren't real scientific concerns with WADA's HGH test.
steelersfan1983 says:
NFL players wouldn't cheat! They are model citizens
buckybadger says:
Of course the league is full of guys on this stuff. I think anyone playing in the trenches is on it. I don't see a lot of natural builds out there these days. I am a firm believer in evolution but we ain't evolving that fast.
Start testing and if the players don't like it play somewhere else. It is for their own safety. I guarantee we start to see less concussions the moment they start the testing.
I don't want my employers to test me either and there is a good reason for it, now lets fire this joint up.
TeamBalco says:
I've got to back in the lab.
cliffordc05 says:
Football is headed down the same stupid path as baseball. We will see congressional committee hearings, players committing perjury, and the eventual suspicion and ridicule of all players. DeMaurice Smith's suggestion is ludicrous and the NFLPA is obviously delaying HGH testing as long as possible.
The reason that this is a stupid tactic is that once implemented it could be onerous if it is mandated by the government. The NFLPA needs to address this issue in a serious manner.
If this is any indication of the manner in which the NFLPA negotiates, it is no longer a wonder why the lockout took so long to conclude. DeMaurice Smith is a jackass.
childressrulz says:
who cares legalize all roids and let them juice up!
>I think anyone playing in the trenches is on it.
Josh Sitton: "Guys want testing; we want it to be fair. I don't want to be going against a guy that's 330 pounds that runs a 4.7 because he's on steroids or something."
lawyermalloy says:
Like ALL politicians, "Smitty" is simply protecting another term in office. He knows that if testing, which HE already agreed to, is implemented BFORE he is approved for another term, he probably WON'T be approved for another term.
gettingpwned says:
while i agree that i think a TON of guys in the nfl are on this stuff you can also argue that a lot of them are also physical freaks who do not have the same genetic make up that normal people have. otherwise normal people could bulk up to their sizes and play football if so desired. that's not the case. it's tough to say who's right. de smith is trying to protect his guys, and the nfl is scared of congress. so both are just trying to cover their @$$3$.
litemater95 says:
"Players will be exposed to interrogation (and possible criminal charges)."
De Smith will only allow his players be deposed through Twitter, that way they can say someone else hacked/controlled their account, and likewise be able to deny perjury.
waccoforflacco says:
We all know the superbowls the Steelers won were all because of the juice.
Since the Rooneys run the league we wont see any testing anytime soon.
The "Steel Cutain" was the juice curtain and Chuck Knoll knows all about it.
granadafan says:
The doping agency is 100% correct. The NFLPA is stalling with their absurd and baseless claims.
>I bet a quarter of the league is on juice.
Juice is steroids. The league already tests for steroids aggressively in and out of season and there's little chance a player won't get caught if he juices.
Nobody has a clue about how many players use HGH or even what its effects really are. There's no real agreement about either of those.
I seem to remember Raphael Palmeiro stating emphatically that he didn't use steroids. No one is admitting to it unless they get caught.
prior0knowledge says:
With so many NFL players getting hurt and playing hurt, I think HGH should be legal. After all, all it does is allows the player to heal faster. It does not improve performance like steroids do.
poorlittlepinkus says:
That sums up unions!
evrybdyhas1 says:
The NFLPA seems to be more concerned about protecting players using HGH then preventing its use. Perhaps all NFL players should be allowed to use any performance enhancing substance and ultimately solve the issues with retired players.
The fans will get crazy off the chart performances and the union won't have any old players to worry about and northern will the NFL.
It's unfair to assume that everybody juices and it requires a belief that the PED testing the league already does almost never works and is just showboating. But stay in fantasyland if you like.
Come on people. Your rivals only win because they all juice despite testing and because refs make bad calls that favor them.
Sometimes they're just better players on a better team.
>I seem to remember Raphael Palmeiro stating emphatically that he didn't use steroids. No one is admitting to it unless they get caught.
Palmiero was being accused with cause. Sitton wasn't being accused. He was being interviewed along with several other players about drug testing.
ranksarot says:
There is a corporate CEO involved. That explains all the congressional interest. Corporate fat cats own the politicians and all of a sudden the politicians care about HGH testing. Its all making sense now. Corporation stands to make a lot of money, will the players get notification calls from India? The CEO should have kept his mouth shut and let all of us sheep buy into "player safety" hogwash coming from the gubmint. Now we know. Its all about the money isnt it?
nekelund says:
Long story short, the Union agreed to HGH testing. So, Smith and co., sack up and do it. Delaying the process is only going to get Congress involved, in which case they could very likely end up imposing a testing regime much harsher than you want.
The only result of trying to avoid HGH testing is to lose any support the Union may have had and any leverage in future disputes (and there will be some) over issues not clearly dealt with in the CBA.
If the NFLPA doesn't like what it agreed to, it should fire its leaders.
earthtopft says:
Tygart didn't mean to suggest that all of the players were dirty, but Mo admitted that anyway.
vahawker says:
De would certainly know all about negative influences on negotiations processes. The only reason not to start now is all the players that would be fined, suspended, and then turn into the amazing and extra in a Rck Maranis Honey, I Shrunk the NFL Player movie.
If they weren't doping…they wouldn't care. Leads me to believe it MUCH more widespread than they wants us to know.
eagleswin says:
Given the power of Congress to launch a comprehensive investigation regarding not only the HGH testing impasse but also the use of HGH by NFL players and the manner in which it has been obtained, both the NFL and the NFLPA need to realize that rhetoric and delay will eventually harm everyone's interests.
I like the way you try to imply the NFL is at fault in this as much as the NFLPA. The NFLPA is the only one stonewalling, the NFL is not trying to delay this but implying this isn't 100% the players fault is your way of supporting the players.
keepounding1234 says:
I know i'm going to get bashed for this. HGH is not "juice". It is not a steroid. It does not give superhuman strength like steroids. It can help with healing. It only adds a minimul amount of weight. I for one think manning should be prescribed hgh to help with his bone fusion in his neck.
waccoforflacco… You can't believe how much it hurts me to defend the Steelers… I have been an avowed Steeler hater since I was conceived in 196…and I will be one until I die…that being said…
What you SAY is true..what you IMPLY is false. Yes they were (likely) all on roids, BUT it wasn't against the rules at the time so they weren't "cheating".


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Rand Paul's wife says he hasn't spoken to his neighbor who launched attack in TEN YEARS as she reveals he has pneumonia and cannot breathe without pain
Kelley Paul, Sen. Rand Paul's wife, wrote an editorial for CNN's website, giving an update on her husband's condition
She said he's contracted pneumonia on top of the injuries he received when pummeled by neighbor Rene Boucher on November 3
Mrs. Paul also disclosed that her husband hasn't been able to breathe without pain since the incident
Throughout the op-ed she shames the media for coverage suggesting the Kentucky Republican was at fault
'The only "dispute" existed solely in the attacker's troubled mind,' she said, casting Boucher as unstable and an attention-seeker
She was especially angered that some news reports mocked Sen. Paul for mowing his own lawn and composting
By Nikki Schwab, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com
Kelley Paul, Sen. Rand Paul's wife, shamed the media in an op-ed for CNN and updated the world on her husband's condition, after he was attacked by a neighbor earlier this month.
'The average person takes 20,000 breaths a day. Since November 3, my husband, Rand Paul, has not taken a single one without pain,' she wrote.
She was angry that reporters were 'delighting' in headlines suggesting that the senator was at fault for the 'deliberate, blindside attack' by an 'attention-seeking person' the couple hadn't spoken to in a decade.
IN HEALTHIER TIMES: Kelley Paul (left) stands next to her husband Sen. Rand Paul (right) at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April 2016. Kelley Paul wrote a strongly worded editorial on CNN's website about the media's treatment of her husband
Kelley Paul (left) also disclosed that her husband Sen. Rand Paul (right) contracted pneumonia, the latest health hurdle after being attacked by a neighbor earlier this month at their Bowling Green, Kentucky home
Kelley Paul said her husband got sick while trying to return to Washington, D.C., to get some work done. Here Sen. Rand Paul (center) rides an elevator in the U.S. Capitol Building, while looking miserable
'The fact is, neither Rand nor I have spoken to the attacker in 10 years (since before his wife and children moved away) other than a casual wave from the car,' Kelley Paul wrote.
The attacker was identified as Rene Boucher (pictured) who Kelley Paul said she and her husband hadn't spoken to in 10 years
Neither of their families had communicated either, she said.
And they'd seen the neighbor less frequently once Rand Paul was elected to the Senate in 2010, meaning they split their time between the Bowling Green, Kentucky home, where the incident occurred, and Washington, D.C.
'The only "dispute" existed solely in the attacker's troubled mind, until, on a beautiful autumn day, he ran down the hill on our property and slammed his body into Rand's lower back as he stood facing away, wearing noise canceling headphones to protect his ears from the lawnmower,' Kelley Paul wrote.
The neighbor, identified as Rene Boucher, was charged with misdemeanor assault.
Boucher's lawyer has said the attack erupted from a 'trivial' dispute and wasn't politically motivated.
'This was not a "scuffle," a "fight" or an "altercation," as many in the media falsely describe it,' Kelley Paul said, labeling it, instead, as one-sided.
She noted how her husband had six broken ribs, with three displaced, a pleural effusion, a build-up of water in the lungs, and now had pneumonia, which he caught after flying back to Washington to try and do his job as a senator last week.
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'As we walked through the airport returning from D.C., he was shivering with a 102.5 [degree] fever, and the next morning his internist diagnosed pneumonia in his damaged lung,' she said.
She, meanwhile, has been 'distraught' over seeing her husband in so much pain, as she sees him labor through every breathe or heave over in coughing fits.
'There have been several nights where I had my hand on the phone ready to call 911 when his breathing became so labored it was terrifying,' she said.
Bringing up tomorrow's Thanksgiving holiday and mourning the fact that Rand Paul won't be able to play golf with his sons or take part in the neighborhood touch football game, she shamed the media for suggesting any of this was her husband's fault.
'This has been a terrible experience,' she said. 'Made worse by the media's gleeful attempts to blame Rand for it, ridiculing him for everything from moving his own lawn to composting.'
Since the attack, my husband Rand Paul hasn't taken a single breath without pain - CNN
Rand Paul 'hadn't spoken to attacker in 10 years'


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From an Alien Love Story to Major Lazer in Cuba: These Are the Latino Movies Playing Los Cabos Film Festival
Film 10.30.17 at 3:50 pm
By Manuel Betancourt
10.30.17 at 3:50 pm
Lead Photo: 'Camino a Marte' still courtesy of Los Cabos Film Festival
'Camino a Marte' still courtesy of Los Cabos Film Festival
Cannes may have the glittering galas, Sundance the snowy mountains, and Toronto more movie stars than you can handle, but we have to admit we have a soft spot for Los Cabos International Film Festival. For starters, we're fans of being able to hit the beach after catching premieres from up-and-coming Mexican filmmakers. Add in an impeccable lineup of Mexican and Latin American premieres of well-received prestige fare and throw in the organizers' commitment to nurturing a truly transnational networking film industry, and you can see why we're excited to fly down for another edition of the ever-growing festival. This year Los Cabos is yet again boasting some impressive galas which include films featuring Emma Stone, Steve Carrell, Natalie Morales, Jessica Chastain, Willem Defoe, Kristen Wiig, Frances McDormand, and Casey Affleck, among others.
As usual, though, we'll be keeping an eye on the Mexican projects that could use the fest's boost. That's why, while we'll definitely be checking out a certain sci-fi romance set in Baja starring Club de Cuervos' Luis Gerardo Mendez where he plays an alien, we're gonna be following closely the many films in the México Primero lineup which include docs on Cardenche singing, family dramas about dealing with trauma in Tijuana, and even a Willem Defoe flick. We've rounded out the fest highlights of Latino and Latin American films below. Take a look!
Los Cabos International Film Festival runs November 8 – 12, 2017.
Director: Sean Baker
A six-year-old girl (the remarkable Brooklynn Prince) and her two best friends (played by newcomers Valeria Cotto and Christopher Rivera) run wild on the grounds of a week-by-week motel complex on the edge of Orlando's Disney World. Meanwhile, her mother (talented novice Bria Vinaite) desperately tries to cajole the motel manager (an ever-surprising Willem Dafoe) to turn a blind eye to the way she pays the rent. A film about but not for kids, Baker's depiction of childhood on the margins has fierce energy, tenderness, and great beauty. After the ingenuity of his iPhone-shot 2015 breakout Tangerine, Baker reasserts his commitment to 35mm film with sun-blasted images that evoke a young girl's vision of adventure and endurance beyond heartbreak.
Writer Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
Producer Chris Bergoch, Kevin Chinoy, Andrew Duncan, Francesca Silvestri, Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou, Alex Saks
Production Year 2017
Run Time 115
Camino a Marte
Director: Humberto Hinojosa Ozcariz
Emilia escapes from a hospital to travel through Baja California with her friend Violeta. She's been getting treatment for a while and it's clear this may well be her final chance to enjoy her life to the fullest—and truly, nothing is quite as life-affirming as the landscapes and vistas in this Baja road trip. On their way, the two free-spirited best friends stumble onto a man claiming to have come from another planet. As a powerful storm threatens to make landfall and cause utter destruction, this inscrutable young man (played by Club de Cuervos' Luis Gerardo Mendez) keeps saying he's come to Earth in order to witness the end of humanity. Emilia and Violeta think he is crazy, or perhaps just disoriented, but something makes them slowly start to believe him. And soon, concepts of love (which he decries) and humanity start seeming to be more weighted the more this end of the world nonsense starts to feel more real.
Synopsis By: Manuel Betancourt
Country Mexico
Genre Science Fiction, Romance, Comedy
Writer Humberto Hinojosa Ozcariz, Anton Goenechea
Producer Pablo Garcia Gatterer
Run Time 93
Ayer maravilla fui
Director: Gabriel Mariño
A being runs through Mexico City, taking hold of different bodies to get to Luisa, a young woman they've fallen in love with. These shapeshifting encounters remind us that you may yet find a deep connection with someone else, even in cities where you can be lonely while surrounded by millions of others. Gabriela Mariño's sci-fi tinged drama, shot in black and white, offers a riff on what modern-day romance can be all about.
Genre Science Fiction, Romance
Writer Gabriela Mariño
Producer Gabriela Gavica, Isaac Montecillo
A morir a los desiertos
Director: Marta Ferrer
Cardenche singing, born within the backdrop akin to slavery of the cotton laborers of Durango in the 19th century, is a tradition hanging on by a thread. To Die in the Desert is a close look at this music and the men which keep it alive.
Producer Alejandro Durán, Sebastián Celis, Nicolás Celis
Los días más oscuros de nosotras
Director: Astrid Rondero
Ana has a vague memory of her sister's death near their family home in Tijuana. When she returns for work, her encounter with Silvia, the tenant who now lives in the house and wants to buy it, forces Ana to confront the violent events of her past.
Writer Lila Nieto, Astrid Rondero
Producer Fernanda Valadez
Mis demonios nunca juraron soledad
Director: Jorge Leyva
A violent and alcoholic gold prospector lives with his wife near the border. She is convinced that a demon is stalking them, and he thinks his wife is cheating on him. Blinded by jealousy, he decides to seek both his wife's lover and the demon to strike them down.
Genre Thriller
Writer Jorge Leyva
Producer Lilia Velazco
Opus zero
Director: Daniel Graham
Paul, an American composer, and Daniel, a Mexican documentary filmmaker meet in Real de Catorce. Their encounter makes them face supernatural phenomena which seem to unearth a past buried in the desolation of the desert.
Country United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico
Writer Daniel Graham
Producer Julio Chavezmontes
Give Me Future
Director: Austin Peters
2015 was a landmark year for electronic dancehall superband Major Lazer. After topping the EDM charts with their international hit single "Lean On," the band continued its world tour, mounting elaborate shows not only in traditional destinations, but also in more challenging locations around the globe. Fueled by a dream of "making the world smaller by making the party bigger," the group furthered their mission of peace through music with a free concert in the unlikeliest of venues — downtown Havana, Cuba, where no American band at the height of their fame had previously been allowed to perform. Without knowing whether anyone in the country even knew who they were, they hoped to reach a potential crowd of 50,000. After half a million exuberant fans showed up, music history was made on a massive scale. In what began as a concert film intended to document this groundbreaking event, director Austin Peters turns the camera on a burgeoning youth movement, fusing exhilarating performance footage with authentic stories of cultural and political shifts in a country on the precipice of change.
Country Cuba, United States
Producer Jack Turner, Jay Peterson
Director: Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles
The directors of Mala Mala are back with their sophomore documentary effort. Dina, an outspoken and eccentric 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiancé Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge. Scott freezes when it comes to physical intimacy, and Dina, a Kardashians fanatic, wants nothing more than to share with Scott all she's learned about sensual desire from books, TV shows, and her previous marriage. Her increasingly creative forays to draw Scott close keep hitting roadblocks—exposing anxieties, insecurities, and communication snafus while they strive to reconcile their conflicting approaches to romance and intimacy.
Producer Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles
El Ángel en el Reloj
Director: Miguel Angel Uriegas
Amelia wants nothing more in the world than to stop time. She's got leukemia and she's sick of taking her medication and losing her hair. In her search to make her wish come true, Amelia meets Malachi, an angel who lives inside her cuckoo clock that'll take her on a wild adventure through the Fields of time where she'll meet two faires, Aqui and Ahora ("Here" and "Now"). As she travels to this fantasy universe, she'll have to come face to face with her fears and desires as she battled No-Time and attempts to get back home.
Genre Animation
Writer Rosana Curiel, Miguel Ángel Uriegas
Director: Sebastían Lelio
Marina (Daniela Vega), the transgender heroine of A Fantastic Woman, is beautiful, enigmatic, and plunged into a precarious situation after her boyfriend dies unexpectedly in her company. Fifty-seven-year-old divorcé Orlando (Francisco Reyes) wakes in the middle of the night, suffers an aneurism, and falls down some stairs, sustaining injuries that will come to haunt Marina after she takes him to the hospital and attempts to slip away before authorities and family members begin prying. Marina knows she's regarded with suspicion for her youth, class, and, above all, gender status. She expects to gain little from Orlando's demise, but the viciousness of Orlando's son, the cold-heartedness of Orlando's ex-wife, and the intrusiveness of a detective from the Sexual Offenses Investigation Unit force Marina to not only clear her name, but also to demand the very thing no one seems willing to give her: respect.
Country Chile
Writer Gonzalo Maza, Sebastián Lelio
Producer Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza, Pablo Larraín, Juan de Dios Larraín
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Following the now infamous 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match between Billy Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), this touching tale of groundbreaking feminist history also plunges us deep into the personal stories behind those two sports titans. And yes, that means showing King struggling with her own sexuality while wanting to fight openly for equal pay. Beyond Stone and Carrell, this playful film is stacked with A-list talent, including Sarah Silverman, Fred Armisen, Bill Pullman, and even Natalie Morales as Salvadoran Grand Slam champion Rosie Casals.
Genre Sports, Biopic, Drama
Writer Simon Beaufoy
Producer Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, Robert Graf
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Jeff SmithpetersDecember 23, 2022
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Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Congressman Buddy Carter (GA-01) sent a letter to Seileen Mullen, the Acting Assistant…
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Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a hold…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 1, 2022 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) announced today that he is accepting applications for…
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Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) last night sent a second letter to Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock…
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Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today sent a letter to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz demanding an…
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Cotton, Banks Introduce Legislation to Protect Children from "Gender-Transition" Surgery
Washington, D.C. — Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Josh Hawley (R-Missouri), Marco Rubio (R-Florida), James Lankford (R-Oklahoma), and Steve Daines (R-Montana) introduced…
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