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Seattle Seahawks Predictions
November 13, 2020 Patrick Lombardi Seattle Seahawks 0
Nov 19, 2020; Seattle, Washington, USA; Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson (3) drops back to pass against the Arizona Cardinals during the first quarter at Lumen Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports
The Seahawks are having an historic season so far. Their offense is historically good. Their defense is historically bad. The Seattle Seahawks odds for winning the Super Bowl are as low as -1100, good for fifth best in the league. But questions abound: Is it realistic for a team averaging over 30 points per game, which has not allowed fewer than 23 points in any game, to be a realistic contender? Is there any reason to think their beleaguered defense can improve over the second half of the season? And can Russell Wilson, who is on pace to break Peyton Manning's all-time record for TD passes keep up his historic pace?
Can Russ cook the books?
Let's start with Wilson. Peyton Manning set the all-time record for touchdown passes in a season when he threw 55 for the Denver Broncos in 2013. Halfway through the season, Wilson has 28 touchdowns in 8 games, good for a pace of 56 TD passes. Throwing 3.5 TD passes a week is remarkable, but is it sustainable? The only team to hold Wilson under 3 TD in a game was the Miami Dolphins, arguably the best defense Seattle has faced so far this season.
Wilson's issue might be that he faces the excellent Rams defense twice, including this week. Additionally, the Jets, Giants and Washington games may not be close enough for Wilson to pad his stats. We'll say here that Russ ends with a cool 50 touchdown passes- an amazing mark, but short of the record.
Let's do game-by-game predictions the rest of the way to calculate the odds of Seattle winning the NFC West and figure out if they are indeed a legitimate Super Bowl contender.
Week 10: @ LA Rams
As we said, this will be the toughest test of the season for Seattle's offense. Only the Ravens (142 points allowed) have a stingier defense than the Rams (152 points allowed). Seattle's offensive line has greatly improved from the past few years, but Aaron Donald, arguably the most dominant defensive tackle in NFL history, leads a stout Rams defensive front that should have Wilson running out of the pocket all afternoon. The Seahawks defense will also be looking for some serious improvement after being run out of the building by Josh Allen, who threw for 415 yards while putting up 44 points.
Prediction: Rams 31-28
Record 6-3
Week 11: vs. Arizona (Thursday Night Football)
This must be the toughest week of football any team will face this season: two games against playoff-caliber divisional foes in five days. If this week goes well, the road to the NFC West will go through Seattle. If it goes poorly, the Seahawks will be looking behind their shoulder at teams like the Bears for the final playoff spot, and we could be asking questions like "has a team ever given up 130 points in 11 days before?"
Prediction: Seahawks 35-27
Week 12: @Philadelphia (Monday Night Football)
Seattle is currently 6-2 and in an absolute battle for their division title. The Eagles are 3-4-1 and might cruise to the NFC East crown with a losing record. The Eagles defense is a level above Seattle's D, but Carson Wentz is on the opposite trajectory of Russell Wilson, somehow getting worse by the week. Whereas Wilson has thrown twenty more touchdowns than interceptions this season, Wentz's ratio is dead-even; he has thrown 12 TD and a ludicrous 12 interceptions in 8 games. This game also functions as a mini-bye for Seattle, as they will have eleven days to prepare the Eagles after the short week against Arizona.
Week 13: vs. NY Giants
This is where the schedule really opens up for the Seahawks. The Seahawks can sit back at home and rout the inept New York teams in consecutive weeks. For what it's worth, the Giants are the far superior team, having recently given the NFC contending Bucs a run for their money on Monday Night Football. This could be a week where the Seahawks aren't forced to pass as much, particularly in the second half, which could throw a damper on Wilson's TD record chase.
Week 14: vs. NY Jets
If Seattle can't win this game, they may as well cancel their postseason plans. The Jets could very well head to Seattle with an 0-12 record, at which point Seattle might be a 18 or 19 point favorite in this game. In addition to the present, history is not on the Jets side either, their last win in Seattle was way back in Week 1 of 1997, in Bill Parcells debut as Jets head coach. Fun fact: Russell Wilson has four games this season with at least four touchdowns, while Jets QB Sam Darnold is still sitting on three TD passes for the entire season.
Record 10-3
Week 15: @Washington
The Washington Football Team is not as bad as you might think, but the Seahawks are just a much higher caliber of football team. Plus, who knows who will be playing quarterback in this game for a Washington team just playing out the stretch? Could it be Alex Smith? Dwayne Haskins? This is the type of game where, if Seattle fancies itself as a serious playoff contender, they need to beat Washington easily. Great teams should blow out 2-7 teams.
Week 16: vs. LA Rams
This would be a revenge game for Seattle if they do indeed lose their Week 10 matchup in Los Angeles. This could also be a game for the division title, if it features an 11-3 Seattle team against the 10-4 Rams. Excluding the NFC East also-rans, only the Bears have scored fewer points than the Rams in the NFC, which should make it difficult for them to sweep the high-flying Seahawks.
Week 17: @ San Francisco
This could end up being what they call in the business a "schedule win." Midway through the season the 49ers are already so banged up, it's tough to imagine who will still be available to play in what should be a meaningless Week 17 road game for them. Either way, Seattle already went to San Francisco and came away with a 37-27 win against a healthier 49ers team that was still very much in the playoff race. This game should be much easier, although a 12-3 Seahawks team might be locked into a playoff seed by the time this game kicks off.
A 13-3 record would almost certainly grant the Seahawks the top seed in the NFC playoffs and the lone first round bye. That would mean a matchup against the highest-ranked seed in the Divisional Round, which very well could be whoever the second best NFC West team is, since they would have an eminently winnable round game against a losing Eagles team. For argument's sake, let's say that team is the Arizona Cardinals. I'll say Seattle would struggle with Arizona, again. Kyler Murray might just be too elusive for their struggling defense. Throwing record amounts of touchdowns and hoping you outscore your opponents works in the regular season, but you can't allow over 30 points per game and succeed in the playoffs. I'll say Seattle loses 38-31 to Arizona.
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Nurses Critical in Assuring Health Needs of LGBTIQ Youth
Author: Concordia University
Synopsis: American teenagers bullied because they were gay have committed suicide over the past few weeks.
Five American teenagers, all bullied because they were gay, have committed suicide over the past few weeks.
The deaths have caused a media storm and raised a critical question: Did the social or healthcare system fail these adolescents"Absolutely," says Concordia University Professor Deborah Dysart-Gale. "Bullying and such resulting suicides are avoidable. Healthcare workers have tools that can help queer teens - no one needs to die because of their sexual orientation."
As Chair of the General Studies Unit of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Dysart-Gale's research normally addresses different research areas. But for a special issue of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, she produced a review article that's a call to action for nurses to leverage their position in society and clinical milieus.
The study argues that nurses can advocate for better healthcare and services for teenagers who are LGBTIQ: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersexed (people who are in the process of gender reassignment surgery) and queer. "My goal in writing this paper was to raise practitioners' awareness, since queer and intersexed teens are in the blind spot of the healthcare system," she says.
Despite progress in social acceptance and civil rights, LGBTIQ adolescents can be reluctant to consult a physician because they may experience misunderstanding, bias or homophobia. "Nurses' attitudes may be critical in determining LGBTIQ adolescents' satisfaction with their healthcare," says Dysart-Gale.
"Nurses are frequently gatekeepers of the clinical encounter, administering the typically heteronormative nursing assessment," she says, adding that gains in LGBTIQ trust could be as simple as asking patients if they are "partnered" rather than inquire if they have a "girl or boy friend" and asking if they are "sexually active."
Dysart-Gale is concerned that many government-funded sex-education programs in the United States teach abstinence until marriage rather than safer and alternative sex practices.
"Such curricula pose particular dangers for LGBTIQ youth, who are implicitly taught that heterosexuality is the only sanctioned sexual behavior and attraction to same-sex peers is illegitimate," she says, stressing that nurses can help reduce transmission of sexually transmitted infections by discussing safe LGBTIQ sex practices.
Nurses should be nonjudgmental, tolerant and supportive of LGBTIQ individuals in both the clinic and the community adds Dysart-Gale. "Nurses can build bridges of trust to patients. In the clinic, nurses can combat homophobia by informing themselves about the needs of LGBTIQ clients, and maintaining open and positive communication. They can advocate for institutional policies that are fair and inclusive."
The five American teens who killed themselves might still be alive had school nurses been able to provide support.
"Over time, nurses became more sensitive to the different needs of ethnic communities and they need to be equally sensitized to the queer community," says Dysart-Gale. "When practitioners are given the proper tools and best practices, they apply them."
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Utility of Predictive Systems to identify Inpatient Diagnostic Errors: The UPSIDE Study
Auerbach, Andrew D.
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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While much research has been conducted on patient safety since the Institute of Medicine published ?To Err is Human? in 2000, there is a comparative dearth of research on diagnostic errors in the hospital setting. The broad, long-term objectives of the proposed research is to better understand the incidence, causes, and risk factors for diagnostic errors in the inpatient setting. This work will provide foundational research for the development of interventions to reduce these errors, including predictive tools, targets for intervention, and a methodology for outcome assessment in future trials of interventions. To achieve this overall goal, we will carry out the following specific aims: 1) To determine the incidence of diagnostic errors among patients who die in hospital or are transferred to the ICU two days or more after admission to a general medicine service through a structured, standardized adjudication process of patient records, 2) To combine adjudication data with data from Vizient to determine which specific factors contribute to risks for diagnostic errors, and to use risk estimates to calculate incidence and impact of factors contributing to those errors, and 3)To create machine- learning models that can be used to retrospectively identify patients in whom a diagnostic error was likely to have taken place. The research will involve a retrospective evaluation of 2000 patients admitted to general medicine units at 20 US hospitals participating in a national research collaborative and which also contribute data to a benchmarking and purchasing organization (Vizient). Using the Safer-Diagnosis (Safer-Dx) and Diagnostic Error Evaluation and Research (DEER) taxonomy tools, both adapted for the inpatient setting, adjudicators will review electronic medical record data and determine the presence or absence of diagnostic errors using a rigorous training and continuous review process to ensure reliability across sites, adjudicators, and time. Standard modelling techniques will be used to understand the population-attributable risk of each of the DEER process failure points to diagnostic error as well as the contributions of several patient, provider, and system-level risk factors. Lastly, advanced machine-learning methods will be used to create models that can identify patients in whom diagnostic error occurred, with superior performance to standard approaches such as logistic regression. Together, these approaches will provide a broad and representative picture of the incidence of diagnostic errors among hospitalized patients who have suffered harm, develop models of patient and system-based factors that make a diagnostic error more or less likely, and build advanced, efficient, and scalable tools needed to support future surveillance and improvement programs for a variety of institutions. This research will establish a foundation from which healthcare systems can assess and achieve excellence in diagnosis in the inpatient setting.
This study seeks to accurately define the incidence of diagnostic errors among patients suffering serious inpatient events in a large network of US hospitals. Without a reliable method for determining the presence of diagnostic errors across many organizations, it is not otherwise possible to understand the incidence, impact, predictors, and underlying causes of these errors, to create and optimize future solutions to reduce diagnostic errors, to directly test the effects of these solutions, or to teach physicians how to avoid diagnostic pitfalls in the future. Our study addresses these issues while being responsive to the RFA?s goals of developing robust estimates of incidence and risk and using approaches that leverage electronic data, and our approach represents a novel application of rigorous outcome adjudication and advanced modeling techniques to the problem of inpatient diagnostic errors.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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MMA Fighter Saves Wife & Sister-In-Law From Deadly Tornado
By Clyde Aidoo
MMA Fighter Brian Brooks rescued his wife and sister-and-law from one of last weekend's lethal tornadoes that took 88 lives.
Many states and communities were hit hard by tornadoes last Friday and Saturday, including Brooks' hometown of Mayfield, Kentucky. While Brooks was home with his daughter and granddaughter Friday night, he received a very concerning phone call.
"It's my wife," Brooks told Fox News. "She calls and tells me she loves me, that she's trapped, and they're smashed. And she hung up."
Kentucky suffered the biggest impact of all the states affected by the tornadoes. There were at least 74 fatalities in Kentucky and at least 100 people missing. After receiving the phone call from his wife, Brooks took swift action to ensure that his wife and sister-and-law were not included in this tragic list.
"I jumped in the truck and flew to her," Brooks said.
Brooks' wife and sister-and-law were trapped inside the candle factory where Brooks' wife was employed. The business was destroyed by the tornado, and eight of this weekend's fatalities were people who were at this factory, which is owned by Mayfield Consumer Products.
If not for his colorful shoes, the MMA fighter may not have been able to find the two women.
"She knew it was me … she started hollering, 'Brian,'" Brooks said in reference to his sister-and-law recognizing him by his eccentric footwear. "I was like, 'Oh my God,' and started trying to pull, but the roof, candle wax barrels, bathroom walls, rafters, everything was on top of them."
After Brooks was able to pull them out, they were sent to the hospital and released Monday. Despite some bumps and bruises, both women are expected to make a full recovery.
"They didn't think they were ever going to see us again," the MMA fighter said. "I'm so grateful…I just want to say my prayers for everybody who wasn't so lucky."
Brian Brooks has an MMA record of 1-3. He made his debut in 2010 and most recently competed at Cage of Honor 78 in a TKO loss to Nathan Stearns in 2019.
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Victoria Harbour is one of the top tourist attractions of Hong Kong and remains the most popular attractions for tourists visiting the city. The harbour is always busy and is one of the busiest in the world. When taking a leisurely stroll across the promenade you can see the amazing skyscrapers and watch the boats, ferries and vessels travelling back and forth. The best place to admire the view of Victoria Harbour is from Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront promenade.
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Tsim Sha Tsui is one of the main shopping areas in Hong Kong. It is a giant world bazaar, where Hong Kong's glittering harbour is met by an alternate sea of stalls, shops, markets and malls.
Old Clock Tower
The Clock Tower was part of former Kowloon Station of Kowloon-Canton Railway since 1915. The main terminus building was demolished in 1978 leaving only the clock tower. It is a landmark from the Age of Steam and has been listed as a declared monument in Hong Kong since 1990.
Avenue Of Stars
The Hollywood style Avenue of Stars features plaques for honoured movie celebrities on the walk of fame. It also features milestones and sculptures about Hong Kong film industry, along with kiosks selling souvenirs. Avenue of Stars has been closed from Oct 8th 2015 onwards for repair and improvement works. It will be open again in 2017.
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At night Victoria Harbour is filled with tourists awaiting "A Symphony of Lights". The laser light show involves 40 buildings and skyscrapers and has been recognized by the Guinness World Records as the "World Largest Permanent Lights & Sound Show". The show involves colorful laser light show accompanied by synchronized music. The annual Chinese New Year fireworks are also held along Victoria Harbour and have become one of the biggest events of the year.
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9 Olympians In The 2018 Winter Olympics Who Have Day Jobs
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From the looks of what we see on TV, Olympic athletes seem to spend 100 percent of their time honing and using their superhuman skills in massive sports arenas in front of millions of people. But the reality for many Olympic athletes is that their competitive sport doesn't provide them with an even flow of income — it's mostly the sponsorships and ad campaigns that successful Olympians nab that do — meaning that many of them have to get part-time work. Yes, really: Olympians have day jobs like the rest of us, even the ones who will be participating in Team USA during the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongCheng! It's not all sponsorships, cereal boxes, and speaking tours for the average Olympian. Only a lucky few are able to support themselves financially off of endorsements they make after competing in the games.
Contrary to what many may assume, the International Olympic Committee doesn't actually pay athletes to compete in the Olympic Games, and the United States is one of the only countries that doesn't offer government support to its athletes. So, if you don't walk away with a medal, it could mean literally walking away in debt. And the numbers might not be as high as you imagine, either. The U.S. Olympic Committee awards $25,000 for gold medals, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze. While there are some national sports organizations that cover training fees and equipment for U.S. athletes — think of these as mini sponsorships — that doesn't cover their bread and butter.
With families to support, training to continue, and bills to pay, many of these athletes have to find the time to train for the all-consuming event, in addition to carrying out the tasks of a day job. They sleep less, they work more, they find the time to make money so they can afford to follow their dreams. Honestly, this is a fact that makes me feel pretty lazy about the way I live my own life, but that's a different story for a very different article so I won't go into that here.
If there's anything that we can learn from the Olympic athletes about time management and priorities, it's that if you want something, you find the time for it, no matter how difficult it is. If you're looking for some inspiration to get your life together (or if you're just interested in seeing what day jobs Olympians who will be competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics hold) check out this list of Olympians who work tirelessly to achieve greatness, working day jobs when they're not training for gold medals.
Rosie Brennan
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A Team USA cross-country skier who offers Nordic ski instruction to children in Alaska, and would eventually like to become a teacher.
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A Team USA short track speedskater who works as a real estate agent in Detroit.
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A Team USA curler who works as a pharmacist in the Twin Cities.
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The filibuster may need fixing, but it isn't the only reason Congress is largely dysfunctional
by The BDN Editorial Board March 11, 2021 March 11, 2021
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You've likely heard lately that the filibuster is broken. The filibuster, created as a tool to avoid a tyranny of the majority, has too often become a means to stall action in the U.S. Senate on legislation that one political party does not support.
With Democratic leadership — in the White House, U.S. House and Senate — pushing an ambitious agenda, there is a renewed talk of reforming or eliminating the filibuster.
A filibuster traditionally allows a senator to stall Senate action by talking on the floor. Now, just the threat of a filibuster is sufficient to stop a lot of legislation. A filibuster is ended by what is called cloture, a move that requires 60 votes, a difficult task when the Senate is divided 50-50, as it is now.
"The filibuster has become a significant problem in an era of intense polarization," said Rich Powell, a political science professor at the University of Maine.
The filibuster was rarely used until about 15 years ago, he noted, but now it is routinely used to stop many major bills, essentially requiring a supermajority to pass legislation.
That's why efforts to reform the filibuster — such as limiting when it can be used and requiring senators to actually hold the Senate floor by talking — deserve strong consideration, Powell said.
However, focusing on the filibuster may be too narrow a perspective. In reality, Congress itself is broken. In recent years, lawmakers are generally spending less time in Washington, passing fewer substantive bills in favor of massive omnibus legislation and often taking too long to confirm presidential nominees to courts and federal agencies.
Eliminating or revamping the filibuster without addressing other these and other impediments to bipartisanship and comity isn't likely to make much of a difference, said University of Maine political science professor Mark Brewer. A shortened work day and work week in Congress, for example, means lawmakers spend less time working together to negotiate bipartisan bills. Brewer also points to changes in campaign finance law and gerrymandering of U.S. House districts for increasing partisanship. Even the elimination of earmarks, often derided as pork barrel spending, has taken away a tool for brokering deals to pass legislation.
And, Brewer noted, most real filibusters just slowed down passage of bills. It didn't derail them. Even as filibusters were used to stall civil rights legislation in the 1950s and '60s, these bills were ultimately passed.
In 2017, a group of 61 senators, led by Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, encouraged the preservation of the filibuster.
"We are mindful of the unique role the Senate plays in the legislative process, and we are steadfastly committed to ensuring that this great American institution continues to serve as the world's greatest deliberative body," the senators, including Angus King, wrote in a letter to then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. "Therefore, we are asking you to join us in opposing any effort to curtail the existing rights and prerogatives of Senators to engage in full, robust, and extended debate as we consider legislation before this body in the future."
Although the makeup of the Senate has since changed — and the body is more closely divided — this remains a reasonable stance.
In an interview Thursday, King said he was ready to eliminate the filibuster when he was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012. After being in both the minority and majority party, he said he is now reluctant to eliminate the filibuster because it can be a needed check on harmful legislation. But, he said, he is willing to consider modifications to ensure that significant bills can once again be passed in the Senate.
There are downsides to ending the filibuster. After frustration with Republicans blocking judicial nominees, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, led an effort to end the filibuster for executive and judicial nominees. Democrats in the Senate used a majority vote — which bent or broke the chamber's rules — to eliminate the filibuster for most presidential nominees.
Since then, Republicans expanded that approach to Supreme Court nominees. McConnell shepherded three U.S. Supreme Court picks from President Donald Trump through close votes in the Senate. Justice Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by a 54-45. Justice Brett Kavanaugh was approved on a 50-48 vote and Justice Amy Coney Barrett received 52 votes. These are the lowest affirmative votes of any Supreme Court justices in 30 years.
The U.S. Senate, and Congress as a whole, has become increasingly rancorous and dysfunctional. Ending the Senate filibuster won't solve the deeper — and harder to address — problems that are at the heart of this dysfunction. But, as it is currently used, the filibuster threat is counterproductive to a functional democracy. Modifying the filibuster to limit its use could be a prudent way to see if it is fixable before considering more sweeping, and potentially harmful, steps.
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Mayor stabbed and castrated by jealous man
Mayor Dominique Leboucher, 55, from Bretteville-le-Rabet in France's northern Calvados region was stabbed and castrated by a 39-year-old electrician.
The attacker had no previous police record and was "clearly very much in love" with his girlfriend and suspected the mayor of having an affair with her, officials said Friday.
He subsequently committed suicide.
The mayor's wife reportedly said she did not believe her husband was cheating.
"I do not believe this thing about infidelity at all," said Yannick Guesnon, one of the mayor's deputies, adding that the attack appeared to be "an act of madness."
Albert Gibot, a pensioner in the village, said the attacker, a father of two, had "blown a fuse as his partner used to attend meetings of the local council in the evenings."
The mayor, who worked in insurance sales, first became a councillor in 2001 before taking up the post of deputy mayor in 2008.
He was elected mayor in March's municipal elections.
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Disney+ developing new Extraordinary Emma Moran comedy
A Star Original comedy series from new talent Emma Moran, follows Jen, a young, self-aware woman who lives in a world where everyone has a superpower… except her.
From BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Peabody Award-winning production company Sid Gentle Films, this is a fresh, innovative comedy about being young and finding your feet in a confusing world, when all you'll ever be is 'ordinary.'
Extraordinary is a celebration of the anti-superhero, giving people permission to embrace their general okay-ness. Extraordinary is executive produced by Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris (Killing Eve) and Charles Dawson, and created by Moran, a stand-out debut writer with an utterly distinctive voice.
Moran described "Extraordinary" as "somewhere between a sitcom and an existential crisis."
"This is young, female and fresh," Moran noted. "It's a story about real life and real identity crises — it just happens to be set in a world where superpowers exist. This show is uniquely British but with universal themes: everyone can relate to the feeling that we don't quite measure up."
Woodward Gentle added: "Emma Moran is Extraordinary. An extraordinary new writer with a brilliantly distinctive and ingenious voice. This genre curve-ball will chime with the crises everyone carries with them through their neuroses fuelled lives. We love it and are delighted that Liam and the team at Disney+ are behind us."
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$2,000 stolen from Cables
Paul Albani-Burgio / Fort Morgan Times
A burglar broke into the rear of Cables Pub and Grille early Sunday morning and stole $2,000 and a safe. Police have not yet identified a suspect.
By Paul Albani-Burgio | palbani-burgio@prairiemountainmedia.com | Loveland Reporter-Herald
PUBLISHED: August 10, 2017 at 7:35 p.m. | UPDATED: April 24, 2019 at 10:36 a.m.
A safe and $2,000 were reported stolen from Cables Pub and Grill early Sunday morning.
Fort Morgan Police Commander of Operations Loren Sharp said a man broke into the restaurant through its rear, causing significant damage to both the exterior and interior in the process.
The restaurant's owner was notified of the robbery via an alarm system, and authorities responded at about 5:56 a.m. Sharp said he could not confirm the time at which the burglary actually occurred because he did not want to leave Cables vulnerable to future burglaries.
Sharp said police are still working on leads in the case but have not yet identified a suspect. Those who had seen surveillance footage of the burglary said the burglar was a male and had also reported descriptions of his clothing to police. Sharp said he did not want to share those descriptions until he could confirm them via the footage.
"I wouldn't feel comfortable [sharing those] yet because they were trying to remember what they saw on a video and then telling us later, so it may not be accurate," Sharp said. "I would rather put the video or whatever out so that you can actually see what we can see."
Sharp said police are in possession of that footage but do not yet know if a suspect is identifiable in it because it is currently in a format that cannot be used by them and needs to be changed over to a format that can.
Fort Morgan Police Det. Todd Zwetzig is responsible for converting the footage to a format that can be used by police but has not yet had the time to do so, as he has been busy with other calls. However, Sharp said converting the footage is a quick process, and he is hoping to be able to distribute stills of the footage soon if they are clear enough for the suspect to be seen.
"We'll try to get something and try to put something out to see if anybody knows something and that would give us a better description of clothing," Sharp said.
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The Impermanence of Technology
The Audiophile Experience
In: December 2012
Peter D'Amario 3
For longer than I care to admit (OK, it admit it, 38 years) I suppose I've been an audiophile. I would not have labeled myself as such until a few years ago, but music, and the faithful reproduction thereof, have been important to me for a very long time.
For most of this time I've viewed the technology I use to listen to music as solid and reliable. Changing, of course, but fundamentally consistent. Amplifiers, turntables and speakers have evolved, but the notion of obsolescence was remote: I still use an AR-XA turntable that dates from the sixties; the technology is fundamentally the same as my VPI Classic 2.
The advent of digital has changed all that. Not so much the CD, but the dematerialization of music via digital technologies. Not only has this phenomenon upset the music industry, it has had an impact on the end-user. The pace of change is becoming increasingly more rapid and the fear of obsolescence more acute.
I'm resolutely not a Luddite: Some time ago I ripped all my CDs to a very large hard drive and I use a Logitech Squeezebox Touch front-end to listen to music. On the other hand, I have retained my SACD player (and use it regularly) and prefer my turntable and vinyl for serious listening. Nonetheless, there are challenges to a digital life, as I note below.
DACs are a reality for those of us who wish to play music from a streaming device, or to bypass the internal DAC in our CD players. But the explosion of choices has added complexity to the lives of audiophiles. The profusion of devices available, at widely differing price points (and all offering some real or imagined superiority) is mind-bending. Adding to this is the pace of technological change: these devices are constantly being upgraded, usually necessitating a new purchase (rather than just a software upgrade) to remain current. Last year I received a Cambridge Audio DAC Magic for review; a lovely piece of gear, beautiful-sounding. I was halfway through writing the review when — guess what? — the DAC Magic+ was introduced. I scrapped the initial review and am now listening to the new product.
The other boot dropped when I learned that the manufacturer of my Squeezebox Touch has discontinued the unit, without apparently introducing a direct replacement. If this turns out to be true, it's a real shame, because the Touch is a marvelous device at a very competitive price (and I shall treasure mine). Having said that, maybe that is what I get for buying an audio device from a company that makes mice and webcams.
The point is, between increasingly frequent upgrades and product obsolescence, the industry risks turning off the people whose purchases sustain it. It's all a bit like the hysteria over the next iPhone: once launched, sales decline after six months because "the next one" is about to be introduced and nobody wants last year's technology. Say what you will about my turntable: tt's as modern this year as it was last year, and next year it will remain equally relevant. And some of us derive a bit of comfort from that.
What is your view? Is technology (or the marketing of technology) simply moving too fast? Or is this simply the new paradigm? Let me know your thoughts.
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There is definitely a feeling of being "left in the dust" with the rate that companies are updating their products and it does leave an uneasy feeling for someone investing in some of these pricey products!
I really only officially started my hifi journey about a year ago after literally years of research and playing a game of double-dutch (if you will) with my entry or eventual purchase of some gear. Started off with headphones because they seemed to be the best bang for my buck as far as what it could get out of my listening experience. Then I bought an amp that was really a speaker amp but I got a mod where I could put a headphone output on it (sweet). So I then got some desktop speakers and a good source. Most of my listening has been with CD's over the years so I figured I'd get a CD player (naturally) but was careful to get one that had a digital input so I could start to download hi-rez music files and hear how I liked them. I had a vintage turntable that had been collecting dust for years that I "resurrected" and also got a nice phono stage to pair it with..
I tried to get components that had some sort of flexibility like the CD player that has the digital input or the amplifier that has a headphone output. These aspects make me feel like they will help tide me over as I inevitably watch the latest and (supposed) greatest get announced every few months or so. My amp has a lifetime warranty which is super rare and this gives me a feeling of security. Also if there are any improvements made to their product line, many of the improvements are made available to owners. It helps you build a relationship with a company. I like that. There are some companies out there that offer trade in programs for when you want to step-up to a better higher priced model they offer, but don't want to loose money by selling what you have already to fund the purchase. I WISH more companies would offer something like this. Some of the biggest and fastest changes are happening (as I think you mentioned) in the computer audio world and I feel that this is a particular place that would be smart to invest in if a company offers trade in programs or the ability to send your gear to them for upgrades should you feel the need to. The analogue world does seem pretty stable in regards to innovation, it's really this digital side that's moving like crazy. It is exciting.
I thing one of the best things about a technology advancing quickly, and specifically the digital music playback realm, is that we are seeing a MUCH wider gamut of prices and products that are available. Now someone who has only $100 or even $50 can find a DAC to pair with their computer or digital player. I think this is pretty great 🙂
DigiPete
I think you are missing the bigger picture.
Technology is changing, the population is changing, the focus is changing.
So what will everything look like in 2030?
I think the independent audio industry as we know it today is largely gone!
Augmented reality of all sorts will incorporate all types of human sensoric inputs where sound will be an integral part.
All sensory stimuli will be controlled by embedded computers and tailored to your personal preferences and environment
Sound quality and predictability will be better – but not a stand-alone utility.
Will we still have audiophiles in 2030 – Yes & No – they will mostly be sensophiles.
In 2030 Audiophiles will be as hip as the few people still do morse code on HF!
But hey – I might be one of them!
wease
Its like getting rid of my 10 yr old cd player. When its all about the la6and greatest. Nevrr again, i did it with a digital amp 10 yrs agp. The sound was so bad i wanted to scream and pull my hair out. NEVER AGAIN. My current cd player is not just good enough, its outstanding. Anyone who says cd sucks,then blame the recording not the player.Ive got a 20 yr old amp,that works perfect, why chase the latest? It just marketing.
Im still amazed with system i put together many yrs ago.
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4 Android apps that can help you quit smoking
The graphic visuals on cigarette boxes and advertisements against smoking before movies may put you off, but there is a reason why they are posted. Smoking and smokeless tobacco kill nearly 6 million people globally every year, says the World Health Organization (WHO). That's one death every six seconds. Still, people continue to smoke. For those who want to quit, it's a tough battle. For many smokers, it may take 30 or more attempts to actually quit smoking, according to research by the medical journal BMJ Open. If you have decided to quit smoking, several smartphone apps can assist you in kicking the butt.
These apps will not work until you have a firm resolve to quit smoking, as most of these only act as motivation to stop you when you are craving for a smoke. So, if you need some support, these apps may come in handy. Quit smoking slowly: This app can slowly help you cut down on your daily cigarettes and slowly quit smoking. You can set initial parameters and preferences related to daily cigarettes smoked, the cost of a cigarette, and a deadline before you want to quit smoking Wide Info.
Based on the parameters you set, the app prepares a daily timeline of cigarettes you are allowed to smoke. You can smoke when the screen turns green. Thereafter, the screen turns red for a certain duration. The app also keeps track of monthly, weekly, and yearly savings and gives motivation tips to keep the journey going. The app has more than 100,000 downloads on the Google Play Store. Quit (Quit Smoking): This app provides users with various health metrics. This acts as a motivation tool for users to move toward their target. It includes metrics such as 'After 8 hours without tobacco' and 'After 24 hours without tobacco'.
The app also has statistics including savings, time, and a feature that starts a timer before the urge to smoke ends. The app has more than 500,000 downloads on the Google Play Store. Quit Smoking – QuitNow!: This app will allow you to join a community of users who have decided to kick the butt. The app requires users to fill in their personal information and the date they decided to quit smoking. Once the details have been filled in, the app will show you statistics on how much time and money you have saved. The app lists 15 achievements that you can unlock during the journey, such as 10 cigarettes not smoked, no smoking for five days, etc.
The most powerful aspect of this app remains the community and chat support that will never let you feel alone during the journey. The app has been downloaded 1 million times on the Google Play Store. Smoke-Free, stop smoking help: This app will come in handy for users who derive motivation from statistics. The app will tell users how much money they have saved, how long they have been smoke-free, and how many cigarettes they have avoided. It allows users to add smoke cravings and also gives tips to avoid them. The app also has a diary entry feature, which allows users to jot down thoughts and cravings. Users also can upgrade to the Smoke Fee Pro version to unlock missions and other interesting features. The app has more than 500,000 downloads on the Google Play Store.
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Stephen King talks about story being the collison of two unrelated ideas – the ideas behind Little Bones weren't entirely unrelated but they collided one sunny Sunday afternoon as I was driving back from a Readers Day that author Sarah Webb and I had programmed at a hotel in Dublin Airport. It was about 5pm in the afternoon and pre M50 so a LONG drive home (I once counted 35 sets of traffic lights) but as I put on the radio and pulled out of the car park a documentary was starting on RTE about Kerry born playwright George Fitzmaurice. Fitzmaurice is best remembered for his play The Country Dressmaker which he submitted to the Abbey Theatre. It was such a success that it rescued the theatre after the problems of John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World in the same year. Born in 1877, Fitzmaurice became introverted and isolated as he grew older and died in 1963, in a rented upstairs room in No.3 Harcourt Street, Dublin. He was aged 86 years and left no will and few personal belongings – apart from a copy of every play he had ever published and a few in draft form, which were in a suitcase under his bed.
It was Fitzmaurice's suitcase that caused the collision of ideas.
Several years previously I'd watched an RTE TV documentary about a young Irish girl who was living in lodgings in Manchester. Belinda Agnes Regan discovered she was pregnant before she left Ireland but, unmarried, had no choice but to hide the pregnancy. She delivered the baby herself, incredibly in a room she shared with another much younger girl who apparently slept through her ordeal. Wrapping the baby in a shawl, she crept to the bathroom but when she returned, the baby wasn't breathing. Hiding the body in a suitcase, she left it under her bed, returning home to Ireland to talk to the family priest. While she was away, the body was found by her land lady and she was arrested for infanticide.
These two stories, quite separately lit a light bulb in my head and on the drive home I started wondering about dress makers and what would happen if the bones of the baby had ended up in a dress – a wedding dress – the crucial thing that Belinda Agnes Regan must have yearned for, for nine long months. At that point I had no idea who owned the dress, or how the bones got there, or WHY…
Stories can take a long time to develop, and to find their way. I was struck by the image of the bones being found by accident in the home of a beautiful young artist. Cathy Connolly jumped off the page as a character from early in the very first draft – her quest for the truth becoming a theme for the book. More often in trouble than out of it, she is so real to me now that I can hear her talking whenever I think of her.
Writing and rewriting what started life as The Dressmaker , the characters and story grew, developing over time. While the story didn't change, when Bonnier's Twenty7 signed the Cat Connolly trilogy, the title of the first in the series did – to Little Bones. And very soon Little Bones will out in the wild, and you can meet Cat Connolly, laugh with her and cry with her, and step right into her world.
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Is Greyhawk Relevant?
August 2, 2010 April 25, 2018 Greyhawk GrognardUncategorized4E, RPG, World of Greyhawk13 Comments on Is Greyhawk Relevant?
One of the worthies over at EnWorld posted the following:
I'm sure that many of us have played at some point or another in the world of Greyhawk. This was Gygax's world, home to some of the greatest classic dungeons in D&D. It is for that nostalgia factor that we hold it in such high regards.
Yet as time has gone on and the hobby has evolved, I have to wonder if it still holds up all these years later.
One of the questions I ask is why WotC would ever want to re-release Greyhawk. They might get some sales based on nostalgia, but what really sets it apart enough to draw in a new crowd? My fear on this is that, as a generic setting, it will be outshone by other generic settings, most notably the Realms. It doesn't offer the wide range of cultures that other settings do. There's nothing geographically or culturally that really sets it apart.
But what of the classic dungeons? My guess is that they'd rather release those in books like Tomb of Horrors. Rather than put out a setting about dungeons, put out books on dungeons.
Does GH need reinvention? I would say yes. It needs to be set apart somehow.
I don't know what Greyhawk needs, or how to make it more relevant to the modern-day gamer. I wish I did. I would hate to just see it fade away, yet that seems to be what's happening. Should it be another continent on the same planet as the Realms? Does it need a makeover?
As you might imagine, gentle readers, I do indeed have a thought or two on this subject.
First off, the question of relevancy depends on the context. Is Greyhawk relevant in terms of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, and those who play it? Not really, unless folks have taken the older material and converted it for use in the new version (and many certainly have, and nothing's wrong with that, if 4E is your thing, it just happens to not be mine). So if you define relevancy by product sales, Greyhawk probably isn't very relevant right now (that could always change, of course, if WotC ever decides to release a 4E version of the setting, Istus forbid!).
That being said, 4E sales are not the be-all and end-all definition of relevancy. New material is still being created for the World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting, by myself and many putting out better stuff than I. Many more people, by several orders of magnitude, still play in the World of Greyhawk setting despite the fact that WotC isn't putting out new product. So in terms of actual use, Greyhawk is indeed "relevant", because people are actively using the material that's out there, and making new material of their own.
I suppose it all comes down to how one measures relevancy. Sales, or fun?
Some of the comments in that EnWorld thread are well worth reading, btw. Some excellent insights, especially the bits about how the various nations of the Flanaess should be constantly skirmishing with one another, rather than all engaged in a continent-wide conflict. Precisely how I envision the Flanaess, and a vision that I think meshes with Gygax's Dragon magazine articles from the early 1980's on the subject.
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It's relevant to younger gamers even if they don't realize it in the same way that the Beatles and Pink Floyd are relevant to modern indie music fans.
It's relevant to me not only as a huge element of my past D&D gaming but as an example of a setting that, despite having been designed for mass appeal and overhauled for publication, had its genesis in ACTUAL PLAY rather than focus groups and branding. It's clearly an individual labor of love from an era of artisanal RPG products.
The less relevant Greyhawk is to WotC, the better, given their absolutely god-awful handling of the property in the past.
To me, the Folio version is very nearly perfect, a great "bird's eye overview" counterpoint to my equally-revered Wilderlands. It's done the way I want a product of its sort to be done.
I don't see ever running a Flanaess campaign again, although the notion strikes me occasionally to run a "classic" Greyhawk campaign for new gamers. But I still read the Folio as an example of what I should be aiming for, the same way I read the Arduin Grimoires despite having no intention of running an Arduin campaign in the future.
Grendelwulf says:
Sales are one thing with their "market has spoken" sort of judgement.
Yet, like all true classics, Greyhawk has stood the test of time. After twenty-five years of fan-based love, continuance, and support, AFTER it was essentially abandoned (by the powers-that-had-been when its creator parted ways with them) it is STILL with us. Boccob be praised! 🙂
Greyhawk will always be around. Yes, it is the no-frills-non-bells-and-whistle-no-extras-no-corinthian-leather-seats-etc D&D setting. But it was and is always so much more. So much can always be taken from elsewhere and given to it, molded and added to it. Un like the other pre-packaged worlds-in-a-box that everyone can't help but stay on the same page with. Heck, when Forgotten Realms came out, I even adapted it partially as another continent on my own Oerth. I am sure others did.
Greyhawk is the one size fits all that can be sculpted into what every DM & their playing group wants to make of it.
Even if the 4E treatment comes to Oerth, and it has in some ways, that's okay too. Greyhawk is in everything because it sprang from the spirit of the game & its creator.
silentsilverhawk says:
The very definition of it NOT being steam-punk-esque, high-science, magic-null, made up like a spooky film, or macro-scale adventuring (attribute those to whichever of the other commercial settings out there that you like) is just one of the bigger reasons for my always having been intrigued by Greyhawk.
Sometimes, these things do not need a plethora of gadgets, gaskets, quirks like sentient robots or bloodlines that give monumentally powerful abilities to command whole nations to be interesting. They're good on their own merits and don't require that they do things in unique ways, or with quirky little tricks and doodads. Sometimes, that thin veneer of 'uniqueness' or the ability to define something for branding purposes hides the fact that the writing, the originality, the story or the lasting appeal really isn't actually very well supplied.
But Greyhawk? The fact that it still has adoring fans who carefully and lovingly dote on the aging realm should tell everyone something pretty important – Greyhawk was built to last and, for me at least, it will continue to last specifically because the writing and the world itself isn't pigeonholed by some sort of branding quirk.
In it's heart lies much of the foundation for everything that came after it. The later settings, as they streamed in, found they had to be branded to be different from Greyhawk. Greyhawk still exists, and everything that comes after has to be distinguished from it… That feels pretty damn relevant to me.
scottsz says:
I concur with the previous comments.
Greyhawk is forever.
I think the more we can post about the details of the world, whether it be details of the Folio or modules that were incorporated into the setting, the more it will reach a younger generation of players.
Zachary The First says:
It's relevant to me.
carsonb says:
I have been playing since the D&D red box Basic Set and AD&D 2nd Edition so, like many of the older gamers, I couldn't avoid being exposed to Greyhawk if I hadn't wanted to.
Greyhawk's strongest aspect, and, IMHO, where it outshines every other campaign setting (with the possible tie with Eberron) is political intrigue.
Sure, you can design political intrigue into Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, and probably even Dragonlance in you tried hard enough. However, Greyhawk seemed made for these sort of plots.
Cyric says:
You know what they did to the Forgotten Realms in the 4th Ed. so better hope that WotC never prints anything about Greyhawk until an oldschool inspired 5e.
It's more than enough that they'd destroyed one world…
Anthony Emmel says:
I think the EnWorld poster missed the point and the relavance. If by not as "culturally diverse" he means there's no Drow orc kings, dragon men or tielflings riding on gelatinous cubes mounts, he's probably right.
The beauty of Greyhawk is in the setting itself. You can run many different genres. Urban sword and Sorcery? Bandit Kingdoms or Greyhawk. Fey fantasy? Celene. Horror fantasy? The Great Kingdom. Arabian fantasy? Zeif and Ekbir.
Yeah, considering the number of cultures represented in the Flanaess, including some with no analogs in human history, the "not diverse enough" charge is insane.
Robert Fisher says:
Bah! Whenever anyone asks, "Is — relevant?" just ignore them. What does that even mean? Nothing. What does answering that question tell us? Nothing. Relevancy is very relative. Without a very specific context, the word shouldn't be used.
Hedgeknight says:
It's as relevant today as it ever was because it lives within the hearts of those who love it and will pass it on to others.
Matthew Lane says:
My question is, can you really have greyhawk without the Vancian spell-casting system?
Blakdout36 says:
When I got back from Gen-Con, the first thing I did was start drawing a map of the area around "Vlekstaad" (the capital of the the "Hold of Stonefist"). I'm fired up to DM a Greyhawk game! It is still relevant to me and always will be.


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Snub Pollard
Australian actor (1889–1962)
Pollard in 1925
Harold Fraser
(1889-11-09)9 November 1889
19 January 1962(1962-01-19) (aged 72)
Burbank, California, U.S.
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California, U.S.
Actor, comedian
Harold Fraser (9 November 1889 – 19 January 1962), known professionally as Snub Pollard, was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became a silent film comedian in Hollywood, popular in the 1920s.
BLOW 'EM UP (1922) - Snub Pollard
THE MOVIES (1922) - Snub Pollard
"It's a Gift" (1923) starring 'Snub' Pollard
WHIRL O' THE WEST (1921) (ext) - Snub Pollard
1920s Silent Comedy Film Starring Snub Pollard
1 Career
2 Death and recognition
3 Selected filmography
Publicity Photo
Born in Melbourne, Australia, on 9 November 1889, Pollard began performing with Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company at a young age. Like many of the actors in the popular juvenile company, he adopted Pollard as his stage name.[1] The company ran several highly successful professional children's troupes that traveled Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In 1908, Harry Pollard joined the company tour to North America. After the completion of the tour, he returned to the US.[2] By 1915 he was regularly appearing in uncredited roles in movies, for example, Charles Epting notes that Pollard can clearly be seen in Chaplin's 1915 short By the Sea.[3] In later years, Pollard claimed Hal Roach had discovered him while he was performing on stage in Los Angeles.[4]
Pollard played supporting roles in the early films of Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels. The long-faced Pollard sported a Kaiser Wilhelm mustache turned upside-down; this became his trademark. Lloyd's producer, Hal Roach, gave Pollard his own starring series of one- and two-reel shorts. The most famous is 1923's It's a Gift, in which he plays an inventor of many Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, including a car that runs by magnet power.
In early 1923, shortly after his second marriage, Pollard returned with his wife Elizabeth to see his relations in Australia. His visit attracted considerable attention, and he appeared again in several theatres to speak about the motion picture business.[2] On his return to the US, he left Roach and joined the low-budget Weiss Brothers studio in 1926. There he co-starred with Marvin Loback as a poor man's version of Laurel and Hardy, copying that team's plots and gags.
In later years, Pollard claimed the great depression wiped out his investments, and he had been unable to "adjust to the talkies."[4] However, in the 1930s, he played small parts in talking comedies, and was featured as comic relief in "B" westerns. Pollard's silent-comedy credentials guaranteed him work in slapstick revivals. He appeared with other film veterans in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939), The Perils of Pauline (1947), and Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). He also appeared regularly as a supporting player in Columbia Pictures' two-reel comedies of the mid-1940s.
Forsaking his familiar mustache in his later years, he landed much steadier work in films as a mostly uncredited bit player. He played incidental roles in scores of Hollywood features and shorts, almost always as a mousy, nondescript fellow, usually with no dialogue: In Wheeler & Woolsey's Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934) he played a drunken doctor and at the end of Miracle on 34th Street (1947), when a squad of bailiffs hauling sacks of mail enters the courtroom, Pollard brings up the rear. In Singin' in the Rain he receives the umbrella of Gene Kelly after his famous "Singin' in the Rain" scene. In Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles (1961), Pollard plays a Broadway beggar. His last film, Twist Around the Clock (1962), shows him wordlessly reacting to a curvaceous woman dancing energetically.
Death and recognition
Harold Lloyd (center) early in his career with Pollard (lower left) and Bebe Daniels
Pollard died of cancer on 19 January 1962, aged 72, after nearly 50 years in the movie business.[5] His interment was at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).[6]
For his contributions to motion pictures, Pollard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6415½ Hollywood Boulevard.[7]
Sally Scraggs: Housemaid (1913, Short) as Butler
A Coat Tale (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard)
By the Sea (1915, Short) as Ice Cream Clerk (uncredited)
His Regeneration (1915, Short) as Extra (uncredited)
Giving Them Fits (1915, Short) as Luke's Co-Worker (as Harry Pollard)
Bughouse Bellhops (1915, Short) as Moke Morpheus (as Harry Pollard)
Tinkering with Trouble (1915, Short) as Sourball Joe (as Harry Pollard)
Great While It Lasted (1915, Short) as Hugo Snubb
Ragtime Snap Shots (1915, Short) as Snub Larkin (as Harry Pollard)
A Foozle at the Tee Party (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard)
Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard)
Peculiar Patients' Pranks (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard)
Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster (1915, Short) as Tin-Horn Tommy (as Harry Pollard)
Police (1916, Short) as First Flophouse Customer (uncredited)
Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary (1916, Short)
Luke Lugs Luggage (1916, Short)
Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury (1916, Short)
Luke, the Candy Cut-Up (1916, Short)
Luke Foils the Villain (1916, Short)
Luke and the Rural Roughnecks (1916, Short)
Luke Pipes the Pippins (1916, Short)
Lonesome Luke, Circus King (1916, Short)
Luke's Double (1916, Short)
Them Was the Happy Days! (1916, Short)
Luke and the Bomb Throwers (1916, Short)
Luke's Late Lunchers (1916, Short)
Luke Laughs Last (1916, Short)
Luke's Fatal Flivver (1916, Short)
Luke's Society Mixup (1916, Short)
Luke's Washful Waiting (1916, Short)
Luke Rides Roughshod (1916, Short)
Luke's Lost Lamb (1916, Short)
Luke, Crystal Gazer (1916, Short)
Luke Does the Midway (1916, Short)
Luke Joins the Navy (1916, Short)
Luke and the Mermaids (1916, Short)
Luke's Speedy Club Life (1916, Short)
Luke and the Bang-Tails (1916, Short)
Luke, the Chauffeur (1916, Short)
Luke's Preparedness Preparations (1916, Short)
Luke, the Gladiator (1916)
Luke, Patient Provider (1916, Short)
Luke's Newsie Knockout (1916, Short)
Luke's Movie Muddle (1916, Short) as Projectionist
Luke, Rank Impersonator (1916, Short)
Luke's Fireworks Fizzle (1916, Short)
Luke Locates the Loot (1916, Short)
Luke's Shattered Sleep (1916, Short)
Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle (1917, Short)
Luke's Lost Liberty (1917, Short)
Luke's Busy Day (1917, Short)
Luke's Trolley Troubles (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke, Lawyer (1917, Short)
Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke's Lively Life (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley (1917, Short) as Cafe Waiter
Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke, Plumber (1917, Short)
Stop! Luke! Listen! (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke, Mechanic (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke's Wild Women (1917, Short)
Over the Fence (1917, Short) as Snitch, Another
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients (1917, Short)
Pinched (1917, Short)
By the Sad Sea Waves (1917, Short) as Snub
Birds of a Feather (1917, Short)
Bliss (1917, Short) as Snub
From Laramie to London (1917, Short)
Rainbow Island (1917, Short) as Snub
Love, Laughs and Lather (1917, Short)
The Flirt (1917, Short)
Clubs Are Trump (1917, Short)
All Aboard (1917, Short) as Passenger with trunk
We Never Sleep (1917, Short)
Move On (1917, Short)
Bashful (1917, Short) as Snub the Butler
The Big Idea (1917, Short) as Snub
Step Lively (1917, Short)
The Tip (1918, Short)
The Lamb (1918, Short)
Hit Him Again (1918, Short)
Beat It (1918, Short)
A Gasoline Wedding (1918, Short) as Snub
Look Pleasant, Please (1918, Short) as Snub (as Harry Pollard)
Here Come the Girls (1918, Short)
Let's Go (1918, Short)
On the Jump (1918, Short) as Snoopy Sam – The House Detective
Follow the Crowd (1918, Short)
Pipe the Whiskers (1918, Short)
It's a Wild Life (1918, Short)
Hey There! (1918, Short) as The New Director
Kicked Out (1918, Short)
The Non-Stop Kid (1918, Short) as Snub, the butler
Two-Gun Gussie (1918, Short) as Snub
Fireman Save My Child (1918, Short)
The City Slicker (1918, Short) as Snub
Sic 'Em, Towser (1918, Short)
Somewhere in Turkey (1918, Short) as His Assistant
Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918, Short) as Snub (as Harry Pollard)
An Ozark Romance (1918, Short)
Kicking the Germ Out of Germany (1918, Short)
That's Him (1918, Short)
Triple Trouble (1918, Short) as Flop House Tramp (uncredited)
Bride and Gloom (1918, Short)
Two Scrambled (1918, Short)
Bees in His Bonnet (1918, Short)
Swing Your Partners (1918, Short)
Why Pick on Me? (1918, Short) as Harry Ham
Nothing But Trouble (1918, Short)
Back to the Woods (1918, Short)
Hear 'Em Rave (1918, Short)
Take a Chance (1918, Short) as Simplex Joe (as Harry Pollard)
She Loves Me Not (1918, Short)
The Danger Game (1918, Short)
Wanted – $5,000 (1919, Short)
Going! Going! Gone! (1919, Short) as Snub
Ask Father (1919, Short) as The Corn-Fed Secretary
On the Fire, aka. The Chef (1919, Short) as The Assistant Chef
I'm on My Way (1919, Short) as The Neighbor
Look Out Below (1919, Short) as Snub
The Dutiful Dub (1919, Short)
Next Aisle Over (1919, Short) as The Henpecked Husband
A Sammy in Siberia (1919, Short) as Count Pop-up-skyvitch – the Bolshevik Officer
Just Dropped In (1919, Short)
Young Mr. Jazz (1919, Short) as Snub (as Harry Pollard)
Crack Your Heels (1919, Short)
Ring Up the Curtain, aka. Back-Stage! (1919, Short) as The Leading Man
Si, Senor (1919, Short)
Before Breakfast (1919, Short)
The Marathon (1919, Short) as Snub
Pistols for Breakfast (1919, Short)
Swat the Crook (1919, Short)
Off the Trolley (1919, Short)
Spring Fever (1919, Short) as The Unwelcome Suitor
Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919, Short) as Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
Just Neighbors (1919, Short) as The Neighbor
At the Old Stage Door (1919, Short)
Never Touched Me (1919, Short) as Jealous Admirer
A Jazzed Honeymoon (1919, Short)
Count Your Change (1919, Short) as Billy Bullion
Chop Suey & Co. (1919, Short)
Heap Big Chief (1919, Short)
Don't Shove (1919, Short)
Be My Wife (1919, Short)
The Rajah (1919, Short)
He Leads, Others Follow (1919, Short)
Soft Money (1919, Short)
Count the Votes (1919, Short)
Pay Your Dues (1919, Short)
His Only Father (1919, Short)
Bumping into Broadway (1919, Short) as Director of Musical Comedy
Captain Kidd's Kids (1919, Short) as The Valet
From Hand to Mouth (1919, Short) as The Kidnapper
His Royal Slyness (1920, Short) as Prince of Roquefort
It's a Gift (1923, Short) as Inventor Pollard
The Yokel (1926, Short)
The Doughboy (1926, Short)
Double Trouble (1927, Short)
MItt the Prince (1927, Short)
The Big Shot (1929, Short)
Ex-Flame (1930) as Boggins
The Road to Singapore (1931) as Photographer at Birthday Party (uncredited)
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)
The Midnight Patrol (1932)
Bars of Hate (1935)
Just My Luck (1936)
Riders of the Rockies (1937)
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts (1937)
Special Agent K-7 (1937)
Sing, Cowboy, Sing (1937)
Nation Aflame (1937)
Frontier Town (1938)
The Utah Trail (1938) Pee Wee
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Phony Express (1943) as Sheriff
Bowery to Broadway (1944)
The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) as mail-bearing Court Officer
Back Trail (1948) as Goofy
Johnny Belinda (1948) as juror (uncredited)
Adam's Rib (1949) as Man in courtroom (uncredited)
All About Eve (1950) (?)
Singin' in the Rain (1952) as the Man receiving umbrella from Lockwood after the song "Singin' in the Rain" (uncredited)
Limelight (1952) as Street Musician
The Fast and the Furious (1954)
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
Twelve Hours to Kill (1960)
Who Was That Lady? (1960)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Studs Lonigan (1960)
Pepe (1960)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Master of the World (1961)
The Ladies Man (1961)
Homicidal (1961)
The Errand Boy (1961)
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Twist Around the Clock (1961)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
^ Another well-known performer in the company, Daphne Trott also did so. They were not related.
^ a b "An Australian off the Screen – SNUB POLLARD COMES BACK – Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885–1939) – 5 Apr 1923". Trove. 5 April 1923. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
^ Epting, C.L. (2016). Bebe Daniels: Hollywood's Good Little Bad Girl. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-4766-2532-4. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
^ a b "SILENT FILM DAY STAR LOOKS BACK" Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld.) Fri 11 May 1951, p. 3. Retrieved 17 December 2016
^ Blum, D. (1963). Daniel Blum's Screen World 1963. Screen World 1976. Biblo-Moser. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-8196-0304-3. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
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