Is this a defective evaporator?
I think this evaporator is missing something - I think there should be a tube in the top of the core, connecting the restrictor plate type area halfway down, with the output tube to the accumulator. This evaporator doesn't have any such tube. Does this look correct?
Close up of location where I think there should be a tube welded to the center of the plate in halfway into the end of the core - separating the 2 halves of the evap, or something of that sort, rather than what appears to be a very subtle restrictor plate... of course, just a solid plate would render the core useless, but I don't see how this thing is supposed to function properly.
This looks like it is a single-pass parallel flow design. Liquid from the inlet goes down through the end section and fills the bottom manifold, then rises into the tubes in each plate where it boils. The top manifold should contain mostly gas. The baffle in the center may be intended to keep any liquid in the top from sloshing back and forth. The outlet needs to be able to collect gas from all the sections for it to work.
The problem is, the liquid refrigerant enters at the bottom, runs straight up the first tube, then fills the top manifold. The bottom manifold presumably never fills with refrigerant, nor does any other tube within the evap.
Re read the original post. The movement of lube into the evaporator is a classic example of the system being undercharged. There is insufficient amount of liquid (vapor) refrigerant exiting the accumulator to move lubricant back into the accumulator. All the lubricant that has been added to all the different locations has been 'stabilized' thru movement of refrigerant back to the evaporator. The accumulator is lacking lubricant for the same reason. All lubricants are moving thru the system with the flow of refrigerant. An undercharged system will produce the issues of this post and the first. There is no need for lubricant to be added to all the components as stated in the post...simply add lubricant to the compressor and accumulator...the system will stabilize and the lubricant. The accumulator is a storage location for lubricant....and if it is dry...as stated in your post....the compressor will fail due to lack of lubricant re supply.
The use of three cans (12 oz each) does not equal 36 oz of refrigerant in the vehicle. The cans almost always maintain a small amount of refrigerant and the manifold/hose assembly requires a certain amount of refrigerant to 'pre charge'. This probably equals an under charge of at least 4-6 oz. To insure correct lubricant movement, the system must be totally charged. Pressures and an assumption of how much refrigerant was charged from numerous cans is not an acceptable method to insure correct charge rates.
Refrigerant should be added to the system utilizing the correct recharge equipment to weight or determine by flow how much refrigerant is in the system.


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The final episode in the horrific Fryent Country Park murders case was concluded this week when two police officers who took photographs of two murdered sisters and shared them on two WhatsApp groups were jailed for misconduct in a public office.
by Chris Summers 6 December 2021
In June 2020 social worker Bibaa Henry was celebrating her 46th birthday with her younger sister Nicole Smallman in the park in north-west London when they were ambushed and stabbed to death by teenager Danyal Hussein.
If it had not been for the first COVID-19 lockdown the pair would probably have been celebrating in a pub or nightclub but instead they were in the park and by chance found themselves at the mercy of Hussein.
On 6 December 2021 former police constables Jamie Lewis (pictured below, right) and Deniz Jaffer (left) were jailed for two years and nine months each after what Mina Smallman – the mother of the murdered women – described as a "betrayal of catastrophic proportions."
But the motive for the killings was one of the strangest and most bizarre ever heard at the Old Bailey.
Hussein had done a deal with a demon.
Police found a contract, signed in his own blood, in which he promised: "For the Mighty King Lucifugé Rofocale: Perform a minimum of six sacrifices every six months for as long as I am free and physically capable."
In return Lucifugé Rofocale, a demon sometimes referred to as the "Devil's prime minister" would not only protect him from the police but also grant him untold riches through a lottery win.
To believe in demons, or Lucifer, is often nowadays assumed to be a sign of mental illness but in 2013 a poll by Yougov found 18% of British people and 57% of Americans believed in the Devil.
When Mrs Justice Whipple sentenced Hussein in October this year she said of his contract with a demon: "Bizarre though that may be as a belief system…it is not in itself proof he is mad…it's just the way he thinks."
Hussein refused to engage with a psychiatrist, Dr Ian Cumming, but the court heard there was no evidence he was mentally ill, although he did have autistic spectrum disorder.
Dr Jan Machielsen, a professor in early modern history and expert on the occult, said the Church of England and some other Christian denominations play down the influence of the Devil far more than they did in the past.
But he said: "Pope Francis speaks quite often of the Devil but because the media presents him as this great liberal, him speaking about the Devil doesn't make much sense so it gets edited out of the conversation. But for him the Devil serves the same purpose as the Devil has always served. He is the deceiver…he is there to lead people astray and you could argue that the Catholic Church, beset by things like the child sex scandal, needs the Devil more than ever."
Murder cases involving the Devil, demons or the supernatural are extremely rare in Britain and indeed in the United States.
Earlier this year Shahbaz Khan – on trial for murdering a Lancashire doctor and her 14-year-old daughter – blamed the killings on an ancient and malevolent spirit or "djinn" which he claimed lived in their house and then possessed him. He was jailed for life in October 2021.
But in the 1980s and early 1990s people were eager to believe worship of Satan and cavorting with demons was widespread and the reason for many horrible crimes.
The US, and to a lesser degree Britain, was struck by a "Satanic panic" – more than 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of sexual or ritual sadistic abuse were reported in which the victims had reportedly been targeted by Devil-worshippers.
Thousands of children were taken away from their parents, who were often jailed because of the erroneous reports, often fuelled by the discredited theories of Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder.
Then, in 1994, three teenagers were convicted in Arkansas of murdering three young boys as part of a Satanic ritual.
Jason Baldwin, 16, Jessie Misskelley, 17, and Damien Echols, 18, became known as the West Memphis Three and their case became an infamous miscarriage of justice.
It later emerged detectives had targeted Echols in particular because he loved heavy metal music – which included songs with lyrics about the Devil – and was a pagan.
In the US tropes of the Satanic panic live on in the QAnon conspiracy theory, but law enforcement has largely rejected the idea there are Devil-worshipping cults out there abusing children.
Fast forward to 2003 when a young Scotsman, Allan Menzies (pictured above), was jailed for life for the murder of his friend, Thomas McKendrick, who he stabbed 42 times.
Menzies, 23, had then drunk some of McKendrick's blood and ate part of his brain.
Menzies told the court he had been promised immortality by a blood-sucking demon called Akasha and said: "I knew I would have to murder somebody anyway, so … if you did not murder somebody you could not become a vampire."
But Akasha was a character – played by the singer Aaliyah – in a Hollywood film called Queen of the Damned, which Menzies had watched more than 100 times.
Hussein is believed to have been influenced by the internet, rather than Hollywood.
Dr Machielsen said the murder of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman was a "gruesome and terrible case" but he said he suspected Hussein heard about Lucifugé Rofocale on the internet.
He said: "In the secular age you have little shards of knowledge about individual demons having their own little wikipedia pages. I don't think someone like Danyal Hussein would have any conception about how the role of Lucifugé Rofocale fits together within…Christian theology."
Nowadays it would appear the greatest danger to us all is not Satanic cults but the internet.
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billthom56 says:
Many thanks to Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester for their hard work in researching and writing "A Special Kind of Evil: The Colonial Parkway Serial Killings." The Colonial Parkway Murders families very much appreciate your support. For our friends in the FBI, National Park Service and the Virginia State Police, it is your move.
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Cathy Grieve says:
Such a horrific attack on a mother-to-be and her child. Rage, jealousy and anger cause carnage; killing those they claim to love and leaving lives shattered.
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Q: jboss 7.1 xalan issue? I am attempting to create an Apache Jena based application on JBoss7.
Apache Jena uses Xalan 2.11.0
JBoss 7 ships with 2.7.1
When I attempt to call the application I get an exception, the root of which is:
org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.DVFactoryException: Schema factory class org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.xs.SchemaDVFactoryImpl does not extend from SchemaDVFactory
I suspect this is because of the difference in version.  I read through the Module documentation (https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/MODULES/Introduction) and attempted to change ot Xalan 2.11.0, but no luck: Jboss just froze on startup.  Has anybody done this successfully or, alternatively, does anyone know how to override the Xalan for a deployment?
Thx

A: JBoss 7 or JBoss EAP 6 ships with its own xalan version, that you can find among its modules,
in jboss eap 6.1:
<JBoss Home>/modules/system/layers/base/org/apache/xalan/main
if you want to use your own first you have to exclude jboss xalan with the below jboss deployment descriptor in /WEB-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml for war and /META-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml for ear:
<jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.2">
    <deployment>
        <exclusions>
            <module name="org.apache.xalan" />
            <module name="org.apache.xerces" />
        </exclusions>
    </deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

I excluded also Xerces, because usually they are bundled toghether.

A: Problem in the CBU (Carbon Based Unit)  I was playing with xalan when I should have been playing with xerces.  It is xerces 2.11 (DOH)

A: The easiest is to maybe deploy your application with /WEB-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml and explicitly exclude JBoss-provided libraries that you want to override, and then just package them yourself in the application, e.g. /WEB-INF/lib/xalan-2.11.0.jar
Here's an example of jboss-deployment-structure.xml:
<jboss-deployment-structure>
    <deployment>
        <dependencies>
            <module name="org.apache.xalan" />
            <module name="SOME.OTHER.MODULE.YOU.DONT.WANT.JBOSS.TO.PROVIDE" />
        </dependencies>
    </deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

I have not tested this, though. Try it if it works and report. We'll try another approach if that doesn't work.

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Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act Blocked Again in Senate and RELIEF Act Introduced
On October 17th, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) attempted another unanimous consent vote in the Senate to pass the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act (S.386) ("Fairness Act") which failed after Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) again objected. Instead of supporting the Fairness Act, Sen. Durbin introduced alternative legislation to resolve the immigrant visa backlog, namely the Resolving Extended Limbo for Immigrant Employees and Families (S.2603) ("RELIEF") Act. The bill is cosponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI). If passed, the RELIEF Act would:
Eliminate the current family and employment green card backlog over five years in the order in which applications were filed;
Classify spouses and children of LPRs as immediate relatives and exempting derivative beneficiaries of the employment-based petitions from annual green card limits;
Protect "aging out" children who qualify for LPR status based on a parent's immigration petition;
Increase the per-country cap for family-sponsored immigrants to 15 percent;
Eliminate per-country caps for employment based green cards; and
Extend the "hold harmless" clause from H.R. 1044, the House passed iteration of the Fairness Act, that exempts immigrant visa approved prior to enactment from the lifting of country caps to petitions approved for five years after enactment.
The RELIEF Act proposes to resolve the green card backlog by increasing the number of green cards. In contrast, the Fairness Act only eliminates the country caps. As discussed in the past, the Fairness Act's failure to increase the number of available green cards would result in dramatically increased backlogs for the rest of the world, while trying to bring down wait times for Indian born applicants. Though the RELIEF Act only has two additional co-sponsors at present, it is our hope that the bill will receive more traction in Congress. Nonetheless, the Fairness Act's momentum cannot be ignored, evidenced by the numerous attempts to pass the Senate version through unanimous consent. Given the uncertainty of the Fairness Act's passage, our firm continues to recommend commencing PERM filings for any employees eligible to file a PERM who were born in a country other than India or China. Additionally, we also recommend fling all I-140s using Premium Processing until the Fairness Act is passed or defeated. We will continue to follow the various bills and continue to keep our clients updated regarding any movement. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Federal Judges Enjoin USCIS' New Public Charge Rule
The Department of Homeland Security's ("DHS") new public charge regulations, initially scheduled to take effect October 15, were blocked by federal judges in five states. The rule would have redefined what constitutes a public charge. The courts have postponed the effective date of the rule pending final resolution of the cases. Furthermore, most of the court orders issued nationwide injunctions preventing USCIS from implementing the rule. The injunctions preserve the status quo – meaning, applicants may continue to file currently available editions of certain forms including the, I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, and I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status.
Although, DHS' public charge rule was enjoined by federal judges, the Department of State's ("DOS") new Public Charge regulation, which added certain definitions, including definitions of public charge, public benefit, alien's household, and receipt of public benefit, comparable to DHS's regulation, took effect on October 15. Despite the change, visa applicants are not requested to take any additional steps at this time. The DOS has not announced any changes to current visa application procedures as it is currently seeking approval of Form DS-5540, the State Department's version of USCIS's Form I-944, Declaration of Self Sufficiency.
We will continue to update clients on the status of this rule should it be found to be constitutionally introduced.
SEVP Upgrades Limit Student Access to Six Months
On October 11, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) Portal was upgraded to limit students' access to six months after their OPT ends. The SEVP Portal allows F-1 visa students on post-completion Optional Practical Training (OPT) and STEM OPT to review and update their data such as address, telephone, and employer information. Before the upgrade, students had access to their portal accounts indefinitely. With the upgrade, students will receive an email five months after their OPT authorization ends informing them that Portal access will end in 30 days. An additional SEVP upgrade, expected later this fall, will add another email informing student that their portal access closes in six months when their OPT ends.
Students are advised to print or save a copy of their portal record, including their Event History before losing SEVP access. Please note, these upgrades will not impact a designated school official's access to a student's record on SEVIS.
Diversity Visa Registration Now Open
Since October 2, the registration for the Diversity Visa lottery ("DV"), also known as the Green Card Lottery has been open for FY2021. Running until 12:00 PM on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, the DV allows a maximum of 55,000 "diversity immigrants" to obtain permanent residence in United States. More than 23 million applicants and their family members entered last year's DV lottery. The DV is an alternative to family or employment-based green cards. The purpose of the program is to encourage immigration from countries with low rates of immigration to the US. As a result, countries that already have high US immigration rates, such as China, India, Mexico, the Philippines, and numerous others do not qualify. Applicants from eligible countries are required to have a high school diploma or qualifying work experience. Applicants are not notified of selection. Instead, they must proactively visit the Entrant Status Check website between May 5, 2020 through September 30, 2021 to see if their application was selected. Individuals who are selected must prove financial support, obtain criminal and medical clearances, and be interviewed by consular officers before they are able to complete their immigration process.
USCIS Replaces "Foreign National" with "Alien" in Policy Manual
On October 8, USCIS updated its online policy manual, the agency's repository of immigration policies, by replacing all instances of the term "foreign national" with "alien" to describe individuals who are not citizens or nationals of the United States. An agency spokesperson noted that it is important for the agency to align its "internal materials with the INA." Though the term "alien" is used in federal law as a term of art, immigration advocates criticize it as derogatory and dehumanizing based on its extraterrestrial definition. The term "alien" emphasizes differences and institutionalizes "the other." Advocates assert that this was another step in the administration's continuing efforts to make the immigration system more hostile towards immigrants.
Trump Proclamation Bars Immigrants Without Health Insurance
On October 4, Donald Trump issued a presidential proclamation that would bar entry of legal immigrants who cannot prove that they will have health insurance coverage within 30 days of entry or have financial resources to pay "reasonably foreseeable medical costs." Approved health insurance includes, but is not limited to:
Employer-sponsored plans;
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Beginning November 3, the proclamation will affect individuals seeking immigrant visas, such as family-based immigrants and winners of the Diversity Visa Lottery, but would not apply to refugees, asylees, people entering as non-immigrants (H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.), and certain other groups. One analysis concludes that the suspension of entry of immigrants who lack health insurance may reduce legal immigration by 375,000 annually.
To date, the Department of State has not provided guidance regarding what proof of health insurance applicants are expected to produce. Our firm will continue to provide guidance on this issue as it develops.
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Well I have to start with an apology for not blogging for a while, but it has been a very busy time here at The Lodge! Since our last update, Spring has most certainly arrived in Verbier and we are enjoying fantastic spring skiing. But even with all the sun, the snow is still good up the mountain above Les Ruinettes. We had another heavy snowfall at the beginning of the week, with over 20cm of snow falling up the top, which was welcomed by everyone. Great news as this means the season is definitely not over yet!
But I cannot deny that we are enjoying un-seasonably warm temperatures both in Verbier and on the mountain too...there are some great goggle marks around to spot now! So although it is difficult to not start thinking about the summer, we are still enjoying every single moment of the winter season! There is availability to stay with us at The Lodge from Sunday 1st April 2012. We have individual rooms available for 3,4 or 7 nights until the end of April. Why not come and join us for the last available skiing of the season!
So what have we been up to here at The Lodge? Well, as you may, or may not know, I am running in the Virgin London Marathon on Sunday 22nd April 2012. In order to raise some money towards the two charities I am supporting - Mind and Virgin Unite - we decided that it was a good opportunity to have a little party!
Last Wednesday morning, 56 interestingly-dressed skiers and snowboarders met at Medran, the main lift station in Verbier, in order to take part in The Lodge Scavenger Hunt. With the very kind support from Mike, our Lodge Ski Instructor from European Snowsport, a challenge was set on the mountain using GPS tracking devices called Flaiks. A course is set around the mountain, whereby the Flaik devices check-point every time you reach each point. Mike can then collate the information at the end of the day and work out who has skied the fastest, the slowest, the furthest, etc.
We all met at Central Tbar after the mountain challenges for an aptly named "apres-hunt" party. Head Chef Dan rustled up a delicious offering of Jacket Potatoes, Chili con carne and salads, with a free drink thrown in for good measure. Scrummy homemade cakes, kindly donated by friends around Verbier, were also on offer (for a small donation of course!) - thank you to everyone who contributed on the day.
The afternoon ended with a fabulous prize-giving for the teams and an auction. Awards were handed out for The Best Dressed Team, Fastest girl, Fastest boy (106.2km/h, by the way!), Challenge Champions and the Tortoise Award, for the most distance covered. Sir Richard Branson was kind enough to support the occasion too and came along to help hand out the prizes to the winners, which was lucky really as the winning team were appropriately named "Richard Branson better be personally handing out the prizes".
After some brilliant Live Music, a lively Auction got under way, with some fantastic prizes to be bid for, including a case of Bordeaux wines, a Spa Experience at The Lodge with our very own Victoria and, what proved to be a very popular auction prize, a Private dinner for six cooked by Dan. All in all, a very successful and fun day, with brilliant weather, enthusiastic people and some very generous fundraising! In total, just over CHF3000 was rasied! Thank you to everyone who helped to support the day.
Stay tuned to see how I do on the "Big Day"!
All I know is that in 4 weeks time, I will be ready for a nice glass of wine...!
Hayley x
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Rob Kent-Smith, its head of GDP (gross home product), mentioned: "GDP slowed in the final three months of the 12 months with the manufacturing of vehicles and metal merchandise seeing steep falls and building additionally declining.
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"Declines had been seen throughout the financial system in December, however single month information will be risky that means quarterly figures usually give a greater indication of the well being of the financial system.
The ONS measured car manufacturing 4.9% down between October and December – its greatest decline for the reason that first quarter of 2009 because the trade battles Brexit uncertainty, weaker demand domestically and overseas and a crackdown on diesel.
Total manufacturing output was 1.1% decrease whereas building dipped by 0.3%.


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In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has threatened -- or implemented -- new tariffs on a slew of products entering the U.S. from all over the world. That means other countries are imposing their own tariffs, prompting some experts to question whether the country is on the brink of a trade war.
What does that mean for the Tennessee economy, and what role will they play in upcoming state elections?
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Karma Climbing Centre - a brand new indoor bouldering facility in the South East
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Karma Climbing; a brand new dedicated climbing facility based in Tunbridge Wells is set to open this year with its pristine new bouldering wall now in the production stages. The Karma Climbing team comprises of three dedicated and experienced Directors; Simon Fowler, Chris Searle and Andre Hedger, along with skilled Construction Engineer Danny Litchfield and the newest member of the team, Sandra Berlin as Operations Manager.
The very much welcomed and awaited wall will be open to all climbers of all ages and abilities and will include beginner climbing courses to children's birthday parties as well as improver technique tuition. Karma Climbing will also be offering outdoor rock climbing courses through Kent & Sussex Climbing.
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The opening date is yet to be announced with building work still in progress, but at least 1 month notice will be given prior to official opening. I suppose it's true what they say..... "all good things come to those who wait!"
The opening date has now been announced as 30th October 2015!
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Smash Bros.' Masahiro Sakurai discusses potential retirement in new column
Director reportedly writes in Famitsu that early retirement is something he's thought about
26th May 2021 / 11:08 am
Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai is reportedly considering the idea of early retirement from game development.
That's according to snippets of Sakurai's next Famitsu column published by Japanese blog ryokutya2089, in which he reportedly states that he'd recently thought about his life after game development, and that the idea of early retirement could appeal to him.
"Everything must come to an end," the director is said to have written, adding that he feels that right now, "it's better to stay busy and do my best, as long as I can put up with it".
Ryokutya has a long record of reporting accurate early Famitsu excerpts, though a full translation of Sakurai's column will likely provide clearer context later this week.
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ORIGINAL STORY CONTINUES: Sakurai reportedly goes on to state that he's also considering ending the Famitsu column after Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's DLC schedule is finished later this year. However, he reportedly says "this doesn't mean I'll stop working on games" at the same time.
Sakurai has penned his Famitsu column since the early 2000s.
Smash Bros.' Masahiro Sakurai discusses potential retirement in a new column.
The Smash Bros. director has discussed his punishing work-life balance many times in the past, including claims that he would use an IV drip and "go to work like normal" during the development of Ultimate, to avoid taking time off.
Last year, the designer said in a column that he passed out during a trip to the gym because he was tired and dehydrated.
During a 2019 interview with Nintendo Dream, Sakurai claimed that he had, however, taken some action to improve his working conditions during the development of Ultimate.
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Home News Brent Cross Shopping Centre Goldsmiths Jewellers Raid police arrest 5 men
Brent Cross Shopping Centre Goldsmiths Jewellers Raid police arrest 5 men
Police responding to a robbery this morning at Brent Cross shopping centre have arrested five men.
Officers were called to the smash and grab raid at around 02:30hrs on Wednesday, 4 May.
A group of at least a dozen suspects had smashed windows and stolen items from Goldsmiths Jewellers as well as attempting to steal items from Ernest Jones jewellers in the shopping centre.
The suspects made off from the scene on foot and on pedal cycles.
A search of the area was conducted by officers, with the support of police dogs and a helicopter.
Five men, aged in their 20s and 30s, have been arrested and taken to a north London police station where they remain in custody.
A quantity of jewellery and watches was recovered, in addition to weapons including sledge hammers and pick axes.
Enquiries continue to identify and apprehend the remaining suspects and to recover outstanding stolen property.
Inspector Fifi Gulam-Husen of Barnet police said: "The public should be reassured that Met officers respond rapidly around the clock to tackle crime across London. This morning's arrests demonstrate our determination to act with speed, intelligence and tenacity to catch criminals and to keep Londoners safe."


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Video/Transcript: Kirby Smart and Luke Fickell Joint Presser – Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl 2021
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We are now joined by our two head coaches. We'll start opening remarks from each of you. Coach Smart, we will start with you. Georgia head coach Kirby Smart, head coach of the ninth ranked Georgia Bulldogs.
KIRBY SMART: Just want to say thanks again to Gary and his staff. Known these guys so long. They've always done such a tremendous job with the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. Been part of my entire career, which we've mentioned a lot during the week, having played in it, coached in it, been a part of it.
Still disappointed that both teams don't get to enjoy the city of Atlanta because they do the finest job of anybody in the country of entertaining players during this week. That's always kind of the culmination of a season, in which you bring all those players together, they get to enjoy the sights, sounds, venues and food all over Atlanta. I hate that.
Seems like it's been a different bowl week, a lot of bowl practice before Christmas. But since the break, it's been unique that you're practicing kind of at your own location the entire time. Makes it more like a road game because your prep is all at home, then you get ready to go to the bowl site.
Got a lot of respect for Luke, the Cincinnati football team. What a tremendous job they've done there. The more and more you watch these guys, you understand why they win. Sound fundamentally, do good things on offense, defense, special teams.
Like I've said over and over, balanced across the three main phases, are as good as we've played. They don't have holes or weaknesses. Any time you have the number of seniors they've got speaks volumes to their ability to retain players but also keep those guys engaged and have them develop and become good football players in their program.
We're excited. We know we'll have a great turnout, ready to get to Mercedes-Benz.
MATT GARVEY: We'll now welcome head coach Luke Fickell of the eighth ranked Cincinnati Bearcats.
Opening remarks on the state of your team, getting ready to face Georgia.
LUKE FICKELL: Thanks, Matt and Gary.
As Kirby says, I have never been here. I have not had the luxury of being in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl as a player or coach. Been fortunate to coach a lot of bowl games, but have not been here.
It's kind of tough to say. We're really excited about it. Even coming down last night, having a great dinner, having our guys together. It's obviously different for our guys. What they know is the Birmingham Bowl, maybe the Military Bowl. Even though we were there for a little bit
longer in different venues and practice, they definitely know there's a difference. I think that's what they're excited about.
I said it earlier, obviously Coach Smart and them have done an unbelievable job. I think this is the best football team we've played since I've been at Cincinnati. I might catch a little bit. We played Ohio State last year, but it was the second game of the season. I didn't think they were where they were by the end of the year.
But this is a really good football team. Again, the same thing, all three phases with incredible players and athletes. It's going to be a great challenge.
I think for us and our program, for me as a coach, our guys as players, the only way you can measure yourself, what you've grown to be, what you've done, is to play against the best. So it's a unique opportunity for us to enjoy what we've had the opportunity to make it to.
As I keep trying to remind those guys, to not be satisfied for where we are right now, but it's a great way for us to measure ourselves as individuals, but really to measure us as a program to see where we are, where we've come, how we match up against some of the very best.
We're excited. Can't get here soon enough. I think everything from about noon on today will go pretty quick. The last game we played was an 8:30 or 8:20 game. Our guys are excited about getting up and getting rolling on New Year's Day.
MATT GARVEY: Thank you, Coach Fickell.
We will now open to questions for the media.
Q. You've talked about the goal for your team being to play and win conference championships. You've done that this year. You referenced how this bowl game is different than what you've played in the past couple years. How has that impacted your approach in talking with the team?
LUKE FICKELL: I don't think it's changed the approach. Obviously this year is a unique year in how you prepare for a bowl. I still think it's the same whether you're playing in the Birmingham Bowl or the Military Bowl, still you have the same things in mind that you got to be able to do. That's to be able to prep and prepare different this year, the development of young guys you usually get in bowl practice.
But it doesn't change how we go about things. I think it's a greater opportunity for our program and our young men to really measure themselves and measure where we've come as individuals and as a group against the very best.
In some ways what you do, what you prepare for is no different. I think your ability to kind of step back and really kind of analyze what it is you've done, where you're headed, you get a lot greater feel playing against a team like Georgia.
Q. How is James Cook doing under these horrible circumstances? How has the team rallied around him?
KIRBY SMART: He's not with us, really unfortunate. He got the news, I forget what day of the week it is now, I'm lost, but two days ago he woke up to the news his father
had passed. He immediately talked to Dell, Coach McGee, reached out. He actually already had a flight. He got a flight home. He wanted to go home and be with his family. We certainly understand that and support him.
Everybody handles these kind of things differently. James was close to his dad. Tough, tough environment for him. I know all the runningbacks have reached out to him, spoke with him. I've spoke with him a couple times. He's dealing with it the best he can. Appreciates all the support of
Dawg Nation, all our fan base. Your heart goes out for him.
You remember last year in the bowl game he got hurt early in the game against Baylor, didn't get to finish out the game. I know he knows he's got a lot of football ahead of him. Football is going to be there for a long time. This is a time for him to be with his family. We certainly understand that as coaches and appreciate that.
Q. Kirby, you expressed a lot of concern at the beginning of the week about COVID. At this point you've about exhausted all those tests. Are you guys going to lose anybody as a result of it? Coach Fickell, you, too, any players out as a result of this virus?
KIRBY SMART: I haven't really addressed that all year. It's not something that I'm going to start addressing now.
The important thing is the health and safety of our players. The protocols we have in place are there not to only protect our players but Cincinnati's players. I respect both conferences' policies. They've got their testing policies they follow, we have our testing policies we follow. We followed those to this point.
The guys who are able to play will be out there to play. The ones who won't unfortunately won't be out there to play. We have dealt with this all year and haven't disclosed that.
LUKE FICKELL: Same thing. I think the misconception sometimes is obviously we all have issues with COVID, we're all battling through the tough times, but the things that happen because of COVID, as well, that really add up.
I don't know that everybody kind of understands that. It's like the only thing you think about is COVID, and there are a lot of things that happen on the back end, whether you've missed practices, had time off, guys aren't as healthy. It's not just their lungs, the virus, it's the things that happen from guys being off.
We're in the same boat. Leave that to the medical staff. I think that our travel has been really good. We've been really smart. They've done a great job here at the hotel. Hopefully as of now we won't have much of any other issues, us as coaches can kind of maybe take a couple deep breaths and know who we got.
Q. Kirby, you mentioned the elasticity of 2020 wearing thin. When we talked with your players and assistants, most of them were saying we wish we could play more
games this season. Can you speak to that resiliency, what's happened for your program? End of the year you caught some momentum. And the black jersey decision, was that you or your leadership group?
KIRBY SMART: You'll have to ask Gary Stokan about that decision. That came from the higher powers that be.
As far as the elasticity, I think all our players would rather have played a complete season. We got one game kind of taken from us that we weren't able to play. Certainly would have liked to have played that.
If you asked the players, they would have liked to have played the non-conference opponents in terms of starting out with UVA. They're always going to say they want to play. We have to play by the standards, rules, safety precautions we have in place. Rightfully so.
I know each and every guy, including myself, would have loved to be able to compete and played every game we possibly could. I'm sure Coach Fickell would have loved to play some out-of-conference games as well. That gives you a chance to go out and represent your conference, play others. You really find out a lot more about where you are when you get a chance to do that. Unfortunately we haven't been able to do that.
In regards to the black jerseys, that was probably more so Gary's request. We're obliged. Those kids like wearing those. I don't know exactly the whole deal, but I think it has something to do with both teams wearing their home jerseys.
Q. Are you in favor of moving to an eight-game Playoff? A question you'll probably answer, is there one aspect of who you'll be playing tomorrow that worries you the most?
LUKE FICKELL: Yeah, I think all of us want to continue to play. You could talk for hours and hours and days and days about the Playoff system, what's going to happen. I think I heard Mack Brown or somebody told me Mack Brown said something last night that really made sense to me. When you start to have more guys that maybe don't play in the bowl games, so to speak, opt out, whatever it is, I think the way to continue to keep the stakes high and keep those guys involved might be some way, somehow expanding the Playoff.
I think that's a better idea than just the, We need to give a team like Cincinnati an opportunity to be in the Playoffs, the only way we're going to do that. Everybody earns an opportunity to be in the Playoffs. Sometimes the chips don't fall where they fall. You get your non-conference games canceled, you aren't probably going to have an opportunity.
I don't think we expand just to try to include everybody, but maybe to expand because it's going to keep the kids and the players more involved, which gives our programs a better opportunity to have the success and at least finish off the season the way you'd want to as a whole.
I think there's a lot of things to be said about that.
KIRBY SMART: I would concur with Luke. I've always been of the opinion the decisions and the outcomes and the championships and the trophies should be decided on the field. It's harder and harder every year to agree it's decided on the field because there's somebody arguably that's left out.
Always go back to the year that we were in it, Alabama sits at home, doesn't play in an SEC championship game. They're the four seed. You could argue that, in fact, may have helped them with one less game. They won a national championship from a four seed.
What's to say the fifth seed, sixth seed or seventh seed doesn't get hot, doesn't play well, doesn't have an opportunity to win?
The problem I have is where that clear line leads to what number that is. To say that it's just eight, because that's double four, I think you're going to have major issues at nine and 10. If you'd done that this year you would argue
Luke and I would be sitting here saying we should be in. You're going to have to pick a number.
If we were going to do it, I would be in favor of saying let's go to 12, have eight teams play out, maybe the first four get a bonus or a bye or something like that. I would just rather go further than eight if we're going to do it.
If they did that, somebody within that back five, six, seven, eight is going to win a national championship at some point. That's giving everybody a realistic shot.
At the end of the day how are all college sports decisions made? They're done on the field, in a championship environment. We're one of the few that's not done that way. It makes it different.
I'm sure people can argue just the opposite of that, as well.
Q. Kirby, the fans when it comes to players that haven't played a lot, that get more exposure in this bowl, will see the game itself. Is there as much if not more value in these guys getting more practice reps leading up to the game?
KIRBY SMART: I'm not understanding your question. You're saying an example of last year…
Q. In general we're going to see guys playing a little bit more than they did during the season. Is there as much value in practice reps as there is in what we see on the field in the actual game?
KIRBY SMART: I don't think so. Those guys, like last year, you take Lewis and Samari, they got a ton of practice reps in bowl practice last year. We don't just practice the ones, we practice everybody. They would have been with the twos, they would have got a lot of reps. Same amount of work.
Sometimes in bowl prep before we get ready for the game, we actually do more reps with the twos because the ones have had the body of work, played the most snaps. In a traditional year we would double up on the twos and threes, they would get more work. In the games, the ones would end up playing more.
I also think you can't value that practice experience they get over that game experience they get. I would argue the game experience is what is so valuable because they get tons of practice experience. What they don't get is that game experience, the nerves of I've got to go out there and be the guy.
Obviously every team in bowl season because of injuries,
COVID, opt-outs, there's probably going to be guys that play more at one position than they have all year. You find out more about them when they go out there and play.
Q. Another year where your offensive line is going to feature a different look with Ben not there. Can you speak how that's going to look Friday afternoon?
KIRBY SMART: Yeah, we've practiced a lot of combinations there. Trey was out. Trey was already out the last game. That's not something new. We feel like Van Pran has grown up a lot over this time, be able to play some at center, get some work. He's also worked at guard.
Warren played last year in this game at guard, played last game at center. Jamari has played a lot at guard last year and also played tackle. Xavier Truss, Broderick Jones, I'm excited to see all those guys go out and play.
I completely answered your question (smiling).
Q. Coach Fickell, you're going to be excited to answer this question. Gerrid Doaks and James Wiggins were a little bit banged up in the title game a couple weeks ago. Do you have any updates on their status?
LUKE FICKELL: We have another practice today, so we usually don't make those decisions till after the practice today to see how they are.
But that's kind of some of those things that I was talking about earlier about everybody just talks about COVID. There's a lot of other factors that even come along with
maybe some of the COVID. James Wiggins coming back from COVID and being off for 14, 15 days, what we saw happen with him in the last game.
We don't know. We still got some time left. We'll go out and practice today, see who we've got.
Q. Just with 2020, how the season has played out, pandemic, having to adjust, what lessons will both of your teams take from this season moving forward, whether you win or lose? The uniforms are nice, fans really like it. Can your fan bases expect a little bit more moving forward?
KIRBY SMART: The thing I would take from 2020 is mental agility. You just better be able to change. Walking on the practice field, when you find out so-and-so is out, next guy has to bump up. He had all the reps. The other guys have to take it.
You found out at flex because it took them 27 hours to get
the test results back. You better be able to adapt and change rapidly. Never ever, ever, ever give up. Don't quit on it. Keep fighting, pushing through. We're teaching our kids some valuable lessons.
There's a lot of people in the world today, in America today, I'm not going to say use COVID, use the pandemic maybe to do less. These kids have actually done more, okay? They've done more through the pandemic because they had to work twice as hard to stay available.
They had to practice twice some weeks, meaning practice for Missouri once, practice for Missouri again, practice for Vandy once, practice for Vandy again, practice longer.
I'm proud of the fact I had to work twice as hard, and I did. I didn't take the easy road. It would be easy to say let me stay home and avoid some of these things. I'm proud of that.
As far as the uniforms, I don't really get into the uniforms. The players do, the recruits do. I like listening to my players when it comes to that. A lot of our design came from Nike. They come up with the ideas, then we say whether or not we're going to jump onboard with it.
I don't like distractions and things like that. If it's important for the players, I like for them to know beforehand. I'm not big into surprises for the locker room.
LUKE FICKELL: I would go right along with Coach Smart. For us as a coaching staff, for me as a coach, the availability to improvise, adapt, continue to overcome, never too high, too low. With all the interruptions you've had to deal with this year, starting all the way back from last March of time off, the balance between your players as you come back, your ability to kind of understand the situations.
We were in camp when the Big Ten and the Pac-12 canceled. Your ability to manage, our ability to manage, the emotions of our kids, the ups and downs, I think was something that I don't think any of us as coaches will ever forget. Hopefully we all learn from it.
I think for our kids in general, as well as the coaches, you find out a lot more about yourself in these kinds of times. The high, high end people, high end kids, obviously deal with these things a lot better because they're more disciplined in what they do.
I think it has kind of exposed or helped in a lot of ways. I told our guys, this year, six, seven months, can be a real benefit for all of us, for you guys in particular, 18- to 22-year-olds for the rest of your life, if you can handle and
manage all the things we're going to go through.
You don't really know what you're made of until you're thrown into some of those situations. That's what I'm so excited about for our guys, see them make a decision in camp to continue to push forward, not knowing what is at the other end, whether it's going to be a bowl game or even a season, a good season or a bad season, to continue to keep their heads on straight, keep pushing, grinding.
We went through camp at a normal time, came back, had three and a half weeks till our first game. The decisions they made, the ability to kind of handle it, has told me a lot about them. I know it will benefit them in the long run to whatever it is that they do.
Q. Kirby, how many early enrollees have practiced with you on campus already? Your impressions getting to see them up close for the first time?
KIRBY SMART: I wouldn't single anybody out of that group. I called them up yesterday, their last practice, I talked to them. I don't even know exactly. I would guess and say nine maybe, eight or nine. I think we had three DBs, a linebacker, two linemen, a receiver and runningback. Whatever number that is maybe.
They all did a tremendous job. I mean, you talk about an intimidating environment. I'm walking in, most of these kids, they usually come where they've been on official visits, know guys, hung out with guys. Literally it will be the first time I've seen some of them face-to-face other than maybe ninth or 10th grade in camp. I'm worried about recognizing them.
They were out at practice, did a tremendous job jumping in. They were able to help us with our numbers being down. We were able to help ourselves. I left out the D-line, had a couple of them there, too. They were able to help us out in terms of practice and depth and give us a good look.
It's always exciting to get those guys out there.
Q. After Friday's game, you'll be looking towards the 2021 roster. The transfer portal is new to a lot of people. We don't quite understand how you handle it. Can you give us some insight into how each staff monitors the transfer portal, who is watching it, how you reach out to the kids, how many kids have already reached out to you?
LUKE FICKELL: That's a bomb right there to be honest with you. I mean, when it first started, I think we were monitoring it every day with our recruiting people. It's overwhelming, to be honest with you.
We're in the fourth year of our program. It's not a big way we want to build our program. I'm not saying we still don't monitor and look at it. We use it in a way that obviously can better our program. A lot of those guys that we have taken via the transfer portal in the last couple years are guys that are coming back home, somebody that we've known for quite a while, we recruited coming out of high school, we have a relationship with at one point in time.
Like anything, you think it might look better, but in reality it's not always the case. Then you always got to worry about your guys, too. I'm not a big fan of it, to be honest with you. I've said it from the get-go. I don't think you want to give kids easier ways to take the easy route where they could throw their name in something, think it's going to be easier if they go from Georgia to Cincinnati or whatever.
I think it's a balance in a lot of ways. I know we don't want to build our program that way. All of us are going to use it maybe specifically on something they might need.
KIRBY SMART: I would just say ditto because, I'll be honest, he said everything that I would want to say.
The only thing I would say is we don't have to monitor it because you guys do so hard. Every time somebody goes in it, you write an article. We don't have to monitor it, you guys do it for us (laughter). As soon as somebody is in it, we know.
I think people think we have people sitting down there checking on the ticker every three minutes. Since y'all are checking the ticker every three minutes, I don't have to. It will be a story on the front lines that so-and-so jumped in the portal.
It's a need base for us. If I had my preference, I would rather not use the portal because schools like Cincinnati and Georgia shouldn't have to, you should be able to go out and recruit the right kind of guys.
Q. This will go down as the year of the virtual meeting and Zoom. Can you talk about both the advantages of what Zoom and virtual has brought you and also the disadvantages.
KIRBY SMART: I guess the advantages for us is you might save a little time gathering together, staff meetings. We still do most of our meetings by Zoom. We have one or two staff meetings a week where we're all together. But to cut down risk, people being in closed spaces for a long amount of time, we do a lot of stuff by Zoom that we never would have done before.
As a coach being in an academic meeting, he's working on a script that they're not talking about his players, now he's sitting on Zoom, he's able to do what he's got to do, not sit
in a meeting away from his office. He can be at his desk multi-tasking. That can be a advantage. It also could be a disadvantage if it's a distraction for you.
In recruiting it's very different. I never probably would have gone face-to-face with as many prospects via Zoom if they were coming to our campus. Now I get to see them face-to-face any time I want by FaceTime or by Zoom. You start to use those things more often, but that's the biggest difference for us.
LUKE FICKELL: I would say no benefit other than I've become a little bit more tech savvy. I don't know if that's a benefit. I got young kids at home, if I need something done, they can teach me how to do it.
I don't like it. It's a means for what we have to do this year. It's made us improvise. If anything it's made us learn how to adapt. But we love to be face-to-face. To have a meeting where you can't look a guy in the eye, get a response, is very, very difficult. We've had to do it. We've had to manage it.
We've done a better job at findings ways to still keep us together whether they're in big, big spaces, which isn't as good either, but I've found those ways to create other ways to communicate.
Big group meetings are just so tough on Zoom because you can't get the responses, you can't tell who's not sure what's going on based on a look. Same thing in recruiting. We have to do it, but I don't enjoy it.
Whether it can help you with efficiency and maybe in time, to really build relationships and get to know people, for me, it's difficult. I know the newer age kids are much more adept at it. They find dates on Zoom and social media. I don't think it's a good thing for us in our program how we like to do things.
Q. Coach Fickell, on the transfer question, you don't like the term 'Power 5'?
LUKE FICKELL: Then why do you keep saying it?
Q. Just to bother you, apparently (laughter). I know you have played some Power 5 non-conference games. In a game like this, specifically on offense, is there any impact or benefit from guys like James Hudson, Michael Young being in this game coming from some top tier programs?
LUKE FICKELL: I think they got a better grasp of what they're going to see. Anybody that says there isn't a bit of a difference probably doesn't know college football as well.
There is still a difference in what I call the bluebloods on the top, top end and all the others, whatever conference they're in.
I think in some ways, yeah, it does. James Hudson obviously at Michigan, Michael Young at Notre Dame, I think they have a good grasp of playing against those guys. I think maybe they can give some insight.
I don't know that it's going to be that much different. We played Ohio State, a great opportunity for us, last year which I think gives us a little bit better indication of the type of players we're going to see, whether it's the transfer guys or the guys within our program.
It's not hard to turn on the film, have an idea of what it is you're looking at that might be a lot different than what you've seen most of the year. But that's what you love. If you're a competitor, what more could you ask for than to be able to measure yourself against the best. That's what you're challenging for.
Q. This has been such an exhausting year. Do you know what you're doing after this game? Are you sending your players home for a while or do you not want to risk that? Do you have any feel for what the next few months is going to look like in terms of an attempt to get back to normalcy? Is it too hard to predict?
KIRBY SMART: I've got plans to go see juniors, seniors. I'm going to visit with guys on our roster. It never stops. You know that as well as anybody. It's just the beginning of the next.
There won't be any time off in terms of that for us as a staff because our 2021 team will be shaped from the minute that game ends, this game ends. It starts taking shape probably the second it ends. It begins to take shape.
We'll be visiting with guys, sharing time with their family, sharing information, making sure they can make good decisions in what they do.
As far as for our players, school starts back January 13th, which is very unique because we've always had 3rd or 4th start dates. They went from the game back to school, which I never think is really fair for guys not to get a true break. It's been part of the burden of bowl game when you have a guy and he has to practice the whole time, doesn't get to go home. All of a sudden he comes right back to school.
I'm very happy that our players get to disconnect a little bit and go be with their families, who they haven't been able to be with. They got a little time for Christmas, two or three days. Now they'll get up until the 13th to be with their families, visit, do what they need to do and come back.
We'll be in protocol when they come back, continue to test, do things like that.
LUKE FICKELL: Very similar. I think for our guys, knowing that have an opportunity to go home, we start back on the 11th. We'll get most all of them back to campus. The idea is the 10th. There still could be some things virtual. We have a guy that is from Germany. We're going to allow him to go home for two weeks.
It is a good opportunity for those guys that have been here, haven't really gone home, haven't really seen their families much at all, to have at least hopefully nine, 10 days to be able to leave.
For us as coaches, obviously you have a list of plans on what you got to do. For the first time maybe we have to do a little bit like what Coach Smart has to do, visit with a few of our juniors just to see where they are, what they want to do.
The unique thing is, I'm going to be visiting and going around with probably a few of our senior families as well. Some of the opportunities that they might have, which is going to keep us probably a bit busy. I'm going to try to do it as much myself to try to give hopefully some of these other guys an opportunity to get reacquainted with their families a little bit, decompress.
We have plans, the same thing. We don't know how it's going to look, how it's going to happen, we have plans to get rolling back on the 11th building this team and program for the following season. I know it will be different. It will look a little different, different protocols.
I think after a year like this, I know we'll do some things a little bit different with the older guys as opposed to the young guys. We got a long way to still go, especially with the young guys in our program. We're going to lose a lot of really good seniors.
Q. I hope I'm not breaking protocol to ask a question to Gary. The jerseys, I am guessing that had to do with TV. Can you comment on how that worked out?
GARY STOKAN: Kirby is too kind to me, given me way too much credit. I know the Georgia Bulldogs had the
opportunity to wear the uniforms they wanted. I've always professed to coaches and A.D.s in our Kickoff games and bowl games, I just think the field looks great when you have both teams wearing colored uniforms. Looks great on TV and on the field.
At the end of the day both Coach Fickell and Coach Smart made their decisions on their uniforms.
KIRBY SMART: I guess I should say it was brought to me in a light that it was encouraged to be colored. I'm assuming we both couldn't be in red, therefore somebody couldn't be in red. That was the way it was presented to me. It wasn't a narrative where we died to wear black. It was where we had to wear one of or two dark colors, only two colors.
LUKE FICKELL: I'm a lot like Kirby. I find out what we're wearing usually on Thursday of a normal game Saturday when our social people send out the reveal. We have a little small group of guys, three or four seniors and the strength coach, that kind of decide on what we're wearing. They give me the update on it. I'm similar, I don't want some surprise.
Our kids love and enjoy mixing some things up when we have an opportunity because we have some combinations to be able to do it. It was presented to me the same way probably it was to Kirby.
Q. Coach, you've mentioned the Ohio State game a couple times. How do you use that with these guys to say maybe it didn't happen the way you wanted it to, but this is just as good a team, allows us a chance to prove ourselves on that type of stage?
LUKE FICKELL: It's always a measuring stick. I think this year obviously being unique, the bowl game being unique, it's not as much of a bowl game experience. Unfortunate for our guys. The experience is, hey, if you're a competitor, you get an incredible experience. If you were really excited about we're missing out on some things we could have done here in Atlanta, I feel bad for those guys. But ultimately if you are a competitor, you get an incredible experience of playing against the very best.
We had an opportunity last year to measure ourselves against some of the very best, didn't do as well. Hopefully we learned as coaches and players there's some things you got to do a lot better when you're playing against the best.
All those experiences give us an opportunity hopefully to grow. We'll find out if we did.
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Q: What does 'with strategy.scope():' or 'with tf.distribute.experimental.TPUStrategy(tpu).scope():' do to the creation of a NN? In the code here:
https://www.kaggle.com/ryanholbrook/detecting-the-higgs-boson-with-tpus
Before the model is compiled, the model is made using this code:
with strategy.scope():
    # Wide Network
    wide = keras.experimental.LinearModel()

    # Deep Network
    inputs = keras.Input(shape=[28])
    x = dense_block(UNITS, ACTIVATION, DROPOUT)(inputs)
    x = dense_block(UNITS, ACTIVATION, DROPOUT)(x)
    x = dense_block(UNITS, ACTIVATION, DROPOUT)(x)
    x = dense_block(UNITS, ACTIVATION, DROPOUT)(x)
    x = dense_block(UNITS, ACTIVATION, DROPOUT)(x)
    outputs = layers.Dense(1)(x)
    deep = keras.Model(inputs=inputs, outputs=outputs)

    # Wide and Deep Network
    wide_and_deep = keras.experimental.WideDeepModel(
        linear_model=wide,
        dnn_model=deep,
        activation='sigmoid',
    )

I don't understand what with strategy.scope() does here and if it in any way affects the model. What does it do exactly?
In the future how could I figure out what this does? What resources would I have to look into to figure this out?

A: Distribution strategies were introduced as part of TF2 to help distribute training across multiple GPUs, multiple machines or TPUs with minimal code changes. I'd recommend this guide to distributed training for starters.
Specifically creating a model under the TPUStrategy will place the model in a replicated (same weights on each of the cores) manner on the TPU and will keep the replica weights in sync by adding appropriate collective communications (all reducing the gradients). For more information check the API doc on TPUStrategy as well as this intro to TPUs in TF2 colab notebook.


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THE LAW SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
FACULTY & SCHOLARSHIP
APPLY TO LAW
CHARLES WIDGER SCHOOL OF LAW /
Annual Villanova Law Review Norman J. Shachoy Symposium, 3/18
"The Consensus Rule:
A New Approach to Admissibility of Scientific Evidence"
Laurence E. Hirsch '71 Classroom (Room 101)
John F. Scarpa Hall
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
299 North Spring Mill Road, Villanova, PA 19085
Edward Cheng, Hess Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, has initiated a comprehensive proposal for a new federal evidence rule (702A), governing the admissibility of scientific expertise, to replace the Daubert regime (which gave federal judges a gatekeeping role). Building on the substantial body of literature critical of Daubert, the proposed rule would base admissibility decisions on consensus among experts within the relevant scientific communities, rather than relying on judges or jurors.
The 2022 Villanova Law Review Norman J. Shachoy Symposium will focus on—and critically evaluate—Cheng's proposal, by bringing together leading scholars and judges to discuss whether the proposal is a return to Frye's "general acceptance" standard, Daubert's failures, with respect to the crisis in forensic science, the support for the proposal from recent sociological studies, and, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for consensus scientific expertise in a regulatory context.
This program is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 3 Substantive In-Person CLE credits. Please note registration prior to the event is required.
The annual Villanova Law Review Symposium is named for Norman J. Shachoy '58 COE, '61 CWSL who served as Editor-in-Chief, Volume Six of the Villanova Law Review. The naming was made possible through his generous support, along with that of his son N. James Shachoy '86 CWSL.
Villanova University will continue to monitor local and national public health and safety guidelines. For more information, please see the University's latest COVID-19 guidance.
*Subject to change
9:00 a.m.: Welcome & Introductory Remarks
Catherine J. Lanctot, Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Amanda Harding '22, Editor-in-Chief, Villanova Law Review
David S. Caudill, Professor of Law & Arthur M. Goldberg Family Chair, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
9:20 a.m.: Introduction to the Consensus Rule
Edward K. Cheng, Hess Chair in Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
10:00 a.m.: Break
10:15 a.m.: Panel 1 – Interdisciplinary Insights from Studies in Expertise and Experience
Harry Collins, Distinguished Research Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Robert Evans, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Martin Weinel, Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Moderated by David S. Caudill, Professor of Law & Arthur M. Goldberg Family Chair, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
11:30 a.m.: Panel 2 – Judicial Responses and Parallels in Regulatory Contexts
Hon. Jed S. Rakoff, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York
Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin, Former U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York and Of Counsel, Stroock
Wendy E. Wagner, Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Moderated by Michael Risch, Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
12:30 p.m.: Response
12:45 p.m.: Q&A and Concluding Remarks
About the School Home
Dean Mark C. Alexander
Villanova University Charles Widger
299 N. Spring Mill Rd.
610-519-7000 Contact Law
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law is approved by the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association, 321 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60654, (312) 988-6738


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EMU practicum student Amber Olson works with a student outside.
Free to pursue their interests, the seven two-year-olds spread about the room, some pushing toy cars and trucks across the floor, others shaping green playdough at a low table.
And at another table, early elementary education practicum student Kelsey Troyer led a lesson: Her own.
But that's only part of the picture, because the ELC is also a place where EMU students gain real-world education experience.
Elementary education students studying classroom management and organization meet in the college classroom twice a week, but for their third session spend time at the ELC, located in Park View Mennonite Church just blocks from campus.
While many education courses at EMU have a practicum component, the ELC is unique, as it is EMU's "very own lab school," Yoder said. This means that Yoder and ELC director Rachel Diener are "equally invested in student progress and learning. We are colleagues and co-teachers, and share philosophy and goals," Yoder said.
The ELC experience challenges EMU students to think on their feet both responsively and proactively.
As students meandered to and from her table, Troyer invited one or two at a time to join in mixing blue and pink shaving cream on pieces of black paper.
Troyer had designed the lesson to help students explore what happens when colors are mixed, and to play with patterns. But with the ELC classroom's lead teacher Erin Williams taking notes and giving feedback, Troyer was the one learning.
"What could you do to help support her?" Williams asked Troyer when one student hesitated at delving into the shaving cream mess.
The little girl laughed as she mixed the colors.
With shaving cream now up the girl's arms to her elbows and over the edges of the paper, Williams reflected for Troyer: "Maybe next time, use bigger paper," she said.
She's also learning how to be careful with words.
Across the hall in the four-year-olds classroom, her classmate Cody Trumbo, too, was also teaching and learning.
He had prepared magazines, scissors and glue sticks on a nearby table for a collage-making project, and went to gather recruits from among a group of students huddled around the water play table.
"Umm, no," one honest student replied.
Diener stepped in with some advice for Trumbo, suggesting that he not ask permission but instead tell the students it is their turn.
"It's all about phrasing," he reflected later. It's called "polite command," and it has to be clear and not indicative of choice when there isn't any.
Trumbo said the types of things he and other practicum students are learning at the ELC are practical – like how to engage students with differing levels of motivation, or getting a sense of one's own teaching self in a real-life setting.
In retrospect, too, past ELC practicum students – and there are over 500 of them, Diener said – value their time at ELC.
Alyssa Green, an EMU graduate who is now a kindergarten teacher in a nearby public school, said that her ELC experience taught her to be conscious of students' perceptions of her words and actions, and that simple language changes can promote student sharing and creativity. The ELC's emphasis on exploratory play, too, has shaped her instruction methods.
"It truly stuck with me that play is still so important for young kiddos!" she said recently.
Victoria Messick, also a senior, said that the child-centered learning environment embodied what she had learned in coursework: letting learners guide themselves. "I recognized how important it is as a teacher to make meaningful connections between the child's lived experiences and learning," she said.
The other students in the ELC – the children – benefit, too. Yoder said that her own daughter attended there when she was four, and is now a college freshman studying to be a teacher.
The ELC was founded in 1977, when EMU's education department saw the need in its program for the early childhood education students to work more closely in an early learning setting. The department wanted the students to have opportunities to observe and work with young children in a learning environment appropriate to their developmental needs.
The ELC curriculum is based on the Developmental Interaction Theory of child psychology, which "attempts to nurture the physical, emotional, mental, social, creative, and spiritual self of each child." Children are "developing human beings" and learn most easily by actual, unhurried involvement with people, activities and the environment. The curriculum changes and evolves in response to cues and suggestions from students.


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MARTA gets $12.6 million federal grant for rapid transit bus line
March 8, 2018 by Collin Kelley
The City of Atlanta and MARTA has received a $12.6 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant from the United States Department of Transportation. The grant will help fund a $48.6 million, 9.4-mile route of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) from Summerhill – where the former Turner Field area is being redeveloped – to the Arts Center Station in Midtown.
"This TIGER grant is more than an investment in our city's infrastructure, it is a long overdue investment in an often-overlooked area of our City," said Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. "The dividends paid by investing in South Atlanta will boost our economy and lift up communities long-waiting for opportunity. This news is further evidence of what can be accomplished when we reach across partisan and governmental lines to work together for a common good."
The Summerhill Bus Rapid Transit is an approximately 9.4-mile bus rapid transit route connecting the Summerhill neighborhood of Atlanta anchored by Georgia State University to MARTA's heavy rail system and the Atlanta Streetcar. The route will include stations and vehicles linking Midtown, Piedmont Park, Downtown, existing MARTA stations, and the new Summerhill mixed-use development. The Summerhill mixed-use development from Georgia State University and Carter will feature a mix of housing, offices, retail, restaurants and more around what is now Georgia State University Stadium.
This announcement represents the very first installation of BRT in the state of Georgia. BRT is a high-capacity transit system that utilizes existing roadways and dedicated lanes to quickly transport passengers throughout a city or region via bus. BRT lines are connected to local traffic grids so they trip lights, stop less frequently than traditional buses, and have pre-pay ticketing systems.
The project also includes the purchase of approximately five new bus rapid transit vehicles that will operate in a mix of exclusive and shared roadways and the installation of approximately 30 transit station locations with level boarding along with other conveniences.
"We are incredibly excited to see BRT in Atlanta," said Robbie Ashe, MARTA Chairman. "BRT has been widely successful in the United States and abroad, and I'm excited to see it come to Atlanta. We look forward to working with US DOT and the City on this transformative project."
Tags: Arts Center, Atlanta, BRT, bus rapid transit, Intown, MARTA, Summerhill, transportation
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Most of them do not come from cycling families. They are middle and high school youth who just need something positive to get excited about. El Grupo provides that and more.
In just around five years, El Grupo has gone from a rag-tag group of kids riding old steel-framed bikes to a respectable team as the best junior team in Arizona in 2010 and a central player in local and regional bicycle advocacy.
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Learn more about El Grupo and what they're up to on the group's website.


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