Higher education can be pretty isolating sometimes. These online communities provide a space for people to connect, complain and organise.
Women Are Boring is a completely fabulous website that amplifies research by women and proves that women are anything but boring. Follow them on twitter, or better yet, write for them.
Herstory is a site/ cultural movement that has been created to tell the lost life stories of historical, contemporary and mythological women.
Feminist Press is an educational not-for-profit organisation that was founded to advance women's rights and amplify feminist perspectives. Check out the impressive list of feminist texts they have published.
The Women Who Write is a site founded by Ali Black (@draliblack) collecting stories and writings from women in academia from around the world. There are plans in the making for a conference for women in academia to be held in December 2018 in QLD, Australia – register your interest here.
Some amazing websites for women in science include (funnily enough…) Women of Science, which details stories of women in science and engineering, and Fem.S.T.E.M, which has some great articles on Science, Tech, Engineering, Math, Health and SciFi.
The Thesis Whisperer (just like the horse whisperer – but with more pages) and The Research Whisperer (just like The Thesis Whisperer with more money…) are blog newspapers dedicated to writing a thesis and doing research.
Some great sites with resources for grad students and early career researchers include, Next Scientist, The PhD Write Up, Shut Up and Write Tuesdays, From PhD to Life, PhD Positivity, PhD2Published and PhDStudent.com. Sites specifically for #WiA include Women in Academia and PG Women in Academia.
Think fashion and academia don't mix? Think again! Check out Chic in Academia, PhD Fashionista and Stylish Academic for some great tips and articles.
#Acwri (Academic Writing) is a twitter chat and peer support group for all those with an interest in academic writing.
@ERCchat (ECR Chat) is a fortnightly Twitter chat about all things Early Career. You can become a host and discuss a topic at their website. They also have a fun resources page and blog archive their old chats.
#survivephd is a hashtag tweet-up about getting through your doctorate moderated by Stephanie Kizimchuk (@StephKizimchuk) at Australian National University.
@WritethatPhD is a twitter account curated by Dr Mel to provide resources to help you 'write that PhD' (or assist someone else to make progress with theirs).
@shesinscience is an Instagram account highlighting interesting research from women scientists across the world.
@WetheHumanities (WetheHumanities) is a rotation curation twitter account that deals with all aspects of humanities academia.
The Women's Classical Committee (WCC UK,@womeninclassics) was founded in 2015 to support women in classics and promote feminist and gender-informed perspectives in classics.
Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies is a professional organisation established for women and men committed to gender equality and diversity in ancient world studies. This includes classics, ancient history, ancient languages and archaeology (all periods).
Feminist Review is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal setting new agendas for feminism.


Dr. Imran Haque, M. D. has been specializing in the field of Internal Medicine for more than ten years now. He is currently practicing in the state of North Carolina. He has two offices in the state – one in Ramseur and one in Asheboro.
Dr. Imran Haque has been providing the citizens of those two cities and the surrounding areas with medical care for about 15 years. He provides his patients with a number of services such as diabetes management, Physical exams, laser hair removal and Venus body contouring, 360 resurfacing, as well as ultrasound services, lab services, and weight management services.
In terms of education and training, Dr. Imran Haque received his higher education from the University of Virginia. He was a part of the Internal Medicine Roanoke – Salem Program. Currently, Dr. Imran Haque is a part of a few organizations and boards. He is a part of the team of experts who help maintain the Certification Program for Internal Medicine of the University of Virginia.
His practice is called Horizon Internal Medicine. Over the course of the past couple of years, Dr. Imran Haque, M. D. has been able to expand his services at the Horizon Internal Medicine. He has added two new services to list – Botox and dermal fillers. The practice of Horizon Internal Medicine involves more than a dozen other doctors and nurses. The citizens of Asheboro and Ramseur have been highly satisfied with the services of Dr. Imran Haque, M. D and Horizon Internal Medicine as whole. On the official website of the Dr. Imran Haque, patients have been leaving testimonials frequently. The reviews of his practice and services have been highlighting the friendly and caring nature of the internal doctor as well as the rest of the staff members of the local establishment.
Dr. Imran Haque M. D. has been greatly dedicated to the communities of Asheboro and Ramseur. He has become the most frequented internal doctor in the area. His practice has been growing in popularity and lately there has been talk of office expansion as well. The practice of the doctor and his team are on their way to reaching new heights.


Remembering the other day that I had a $20 credit on my Mojo coffee card, which allowed me to order a large flat white for 'free'.
Seeing the leaves on the trees change more each day. I love autumn, it's my favourite season.
Being able to run again. Just the thought of it makes me smile.
Reflecting on how far I've come since I first started running back in August 2009 - here's my first post on it (quite fun to read, must check my progress in later posts for the entertainment value).
Mumford & Sons. Those boys are made of win.
Being able to get into the kitchen and cook or bake something amazing. I guess we take for granted the skills we learn over a lifetime. There are so many people out there that wouldn't know the first thing about cooking and I feel a little bit bad for them. They don't know the joy of sitting down to eat an amazing meal they have prepared themselves from a bunch of fresh, healthy ingredients.
The realisation that these skills I've learned since childhood are thanks to my parents (mostly my mother), who always made good, healthy meals for the family when I was growing up, despite working full time. Such a small time window between her arrival home from work and dad's, yet there was always a meal on the table for him when he walked in the door. Lucky man.
My children. Dear lord they drive me crazy, but oh, how they make me laugh. I couldn't imagine a world that they didn't exist in.
Sleep. I love my bed. I remember as a child always wanting to stay up later. Now I can't wait to get into bed every night and snuggle in,comfy and warm.
This is just a small list, but it's done as I'd intended it to and cheered me up. Time for me to go cook some dinner and knit that sock.
I hope you're having a good day and have plans for a happy weekend. And, if you don't mind my asking, what makes you smile?
That's a lovely list. All wonderful points to make you smile.


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Hamza Khan, Tar JK, Rudas IJ, Eigner Gy: Iterative Solution in Adaptive Model Predictive Control by Using Fixed-Point Transformation Method, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES 12: pp. 7-15.
Kovacs Levente, Eigner Gyorgy, Tar Jozsef K, Rudas Imre: Robust Fixed Point Transformation based Proportional-Derivative Control of Angiogenic Tumor Growth, IFAC PAPERSONLINE 51: (Ghent) pp. 894-899.
Tar Jozsef K, Bito Janos F, Kovacs Levente, Faitli Tamas: Fractional Order PID-type Feedback in Fixed Point Transformation-based Adaptive Control of the FitzHugh-Nagumo Neuron Model with Time-delay, IFAC PAPERSONLINE 51: (Ghent) pp. 906-911.
Hemza Redjimi, József Tar: On the Effects of Time-Delay on Precision Degradation in Fixed Point Transformation-based Adaptive Control, In: Szakál, Anikó (szerk.) IEEE 30th Jubilee Neumann Colloquium : Neumann Colloquium 2017, Óbudai Egyetem (2017) pp. 125-130.
Eigner Gy, Tar J K, Rudas I J, Kovács L: LPV-based quality interpretations on modeling and control of diabetes, ACTA POLYTECHNICA HUNGARICA 13: (1) pp. 171-190.
Várkonyi TA, Tar JK, Rudas IJ: Improved Stabilization for Robust Fixed Point Transformations-based Controllers, JOURNAL OF ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENT INFORMATICS 17: (3) pp. 418-424.
Tar JK, Nádai L, Rudas IJ, Várkonyi TA: Adaptive Emission Control of Freeway Traffic Using Quasi-Stationary Solutions of an Approximate Hydrodynamic Model, JOURNAL OF APPLIED NONLINEAR DYNAMICS 1: (1) pp. 29-50.
Tar J, Rudas I: Adaptive optimal dynamic control for nonholonomic systems, COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS 28: (3) pp. 339-351.
Tar JK, Bitó JF, Nádai L, Machado JAT: Robust Fixed Point Transformations in Adaptive Control Using Local Basin of Attraction, ACTA POLYTECHNICA HUNGARICA 6: (1) pp. 21-37.


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At one week old, Helen is still working on uncurling. We're also working together on the proper times to be awake and asleep.
Whoa! Does she stretch with vocals, like her Grandma?


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MBBS in Southwestern University 2021-22
Southwestern University was founded in 1946 by pharmacists Matias and Anunciación Azna. Southwestern University's role in advancing medical education and research in the Philippines is well recognized globally. In 2015, the investment firm PHIMA took over the management duties of the university. PHIMA also owns the Sacred Heart Hospital- a leading tertiary care center in Cebu City.
Southwestern University has three campuses in the city. The main campus is located at Urgello St. The main campus has a 7-storey building equipped with the latest technology and the most advanced educational facilities. The teaching staff is well-experienced and comprises some of the most renowned scholars and academicians in the Philippines.
The Southwestern University MBBS program is very popular among students from South East Asia and other parts of the world. The university offers 50+ undergraduate and postgraduate programs
Southwestern University:Quick Overview
Acronym: SWU
Locations: Cebu City, Philippines
Eligibility: 50% in 12th
NEET requirement: Yes, qualify
Country Ranking: 71
World Ranking: 9579
Course Duration: 5 years 5 months
Medium of Education: English
Recognition:MCI and WHO
Student Helpline: +91-783 583 4444
Simple and easyAdmission Process at Southwestern University
Choose a University
Confirm your decision to join the university after reviewing all necessary details such as the fee structure, eligibility, course duration, and required documents.
Submit all the required documents to apply for admission. For any information related to documentation, feel free to contact our admission counselor.
Complete Registration Process
The Southwestern University admission committee will review and verify your documents. If they approve your candidature, you can complete the registration and complete your application process.
Get Invitation Letter
The Southwestern University admission committee will issue an admission letter to confirm admission. The admission letter is ideally issued within 2-3 working days.
Get Your Visa
Upon receiving the admission letter, you are eligible to apply for a student VISA at the Philippine embassy in India. Our counselor will help you through the documentation and interview process.
Fly To Philippines
Once the VISA is issued, you are all set to book your flight to University and join the MBBS course. Don't forget to share your itinerary with our counselor who will arrange a representative to ensure hassle-free onboarding.
Eligibility Criteria: Southwestern University
To enroll for the 5.5-year MBBS program at the Southwestern University, a candidate must fulfill the following eligibility criteria:
At Least 17 years of age at the time of admission.
Scored at least 50% marks in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
Completed 12th standard from English medium school
Appeared for the NEET qualification exam.
Note: There is no need for students to appear for TOEFL or IELTS. Application forms are accepted based on NEET scores alone.
Required Documents: Southwestern University
Passport( Minimum 18 months validity)
10th & 12th mark sheet
HIV Negative Test Certificate
NEET Certificate
10 Passport size photographs
Southwestern University Rankings 2021
Southwestern University is a popular destination for higher medical education and research in the Philippines. The university has been instrumental in raising the quality of medical education in the Philippines. The University is consistently placed among top-ranked medical institutes in the country.
The University is ranked 71st in the country
The University ranks 9579 in the world
Accreditation and Recognition
As one of the premiere MBBS institutes in the Philippines, Southwestern University has earned recognition from reputed global organizations and medical bodies. In addition to this, medical councils of most countries in the world have officially recognized the MBBS course at Southwestern University.
Medical Council India(MCI)
Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Philippines
Courses Offered at Southwestern University
Medical aspirants can apply for the following faculties at Southwestern University:
Faculty of Pre-Medicine
Faculty of Optometry
Faculty of Health and Allied Health Sciences
MBBS Duration at Southwestern University
The first year of the MBBS program covers Pre-Medicine. This is followed by four years of MBBS coupled with a 1-year internship. The internship has to be done at one of the university-affiliated medical centers.
Admission Intake: Southwestern University
MBBS students can apply for either summer intakes or winter intakes. The majority of the international students prefer summer intakes as there is more time to prepare and settle in the new environment.
The application process for winter intakes starts in July. Compared to summer intakes, the admission window for winter intakes is smaller. So students should try to complete the application process and documentation needs at the earliest.
The application process for summer intakes starts in February. As more students apply during this admission window, it is always wise to start and complete the application process as early as possible.
For any help, students are always welcomed to seek help from our admission counselors.
Hostel Facilities at Southwestern University
Southwestern University administration takes all necessary steps and precautions to ensure the comfort and safety of students. Everything that students need is available within the campus boundaries. The hostel environment is peaceful and stress-free. The amenities include:
Fully furnished rooms (2,3, and 4 Seater)
24*7 power backup
Regular water supply
Centralized cooling
Common kitchen
Mess serving Indian food
Study halls and reading rooms
Indoor Sports Center and Gym
CCTV-Security
MBBS Syllabus at Southwestern University
Pre Medicine (1 year)
During the pre-medicine year, students are taught mostly foundation topics such as Anatomy, Genetics, Physiology, Psychology, Histology & Micro-technique, Research Methodology, Systematic Biology, Radiation Biology, Calculus & Analytics, Geometry, etc.
MBBS + Internship in Southwestern University
The remaining 4.5 years are dedicated strictly to MBBS subjects. There is equal emphasis on hands-on learning as well.
Here's a small overview of the MBBS curriculum at the university:
The first year of MBBS covers subjects such as Physiology, Anatomy, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Physiology, History Of Medicine, Neuroscience, Preventive, and Communicative Medicine, etc.
During the second year, students learn general and clinical Pathology, Epidemiology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Surgery, Psychiatry, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Medicine, Art & Science of Med, etc.
The third-year course covers areas of medicine such as Microbiology & Para, Medical ethics, Legal Medicine, ENT, etc. There are also allied subjects such as Obstetrics, Radiology, Advanced Pathology, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Ophthalmology.
The fourth and final year covers advanced topics on Surgery, Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Ophthalmology, etc. Next, students have to apply for internships at affiliated hospitals.
The 1-year internship allows students to get a realistic sense of the life, responsibilities, and duties of modern healthcare professionals.
Note: This is a basic overview of the MBBS course curriculum. If you want to know more or have any questions, get in touch with an expert.
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Benefits of Studying MBBS at Southwestern University
Southwestern University has an excellent learning environment. It is complemented equally by a modern infrastructure and a well-structured course curriculum. Some of the primary benefits of studying MBBS at the Southwestern University include:
MBBS program in English
High quality of practical training
Academic staff with 100+ doctors
Affordable fee structure
No donation or capitation fees
Admission based on NEET score alone
Multiple scholarship programs
About Cebu City
Cebu City is known for its pristine sugary beach and Spanish heritage. Located right in the heart of the Philippines, this bustling metropolis is also popularly called the Queen City of the South.
Cebu City is the capital city of the province of Cebu and is the second city of the Philippines.
Cebu City is also home to five major universities: the University of San Carlos (1595), Southwestern University (1946), Cebu Institute of Technology (1946), University of the Southern Philippines (1927), and University of the Visayas (1919).
The city has a thriving student community. The cost of living is low and the city is well-connected to the rest of the world.
The city has a tropical climate. Most of the year is dry and sunny with occasional rainfalls between June and December. The city is a popular destination among international tourists. Major attractions include the white sands of Larawan Beach, Paradise beach on the Bantayan island, shark sighting at Oslob, and the scenic treks of Sirao and Osmeña.
Is the Southwestern University MBBS course recognized?
Yes, an MBBS degree from Southwestern University is recognized globally including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Medical Council of India(MCI). Upon completing the MBBS course, students are eligible to practice medicine in any part of the world. Southwestern University also offers MCI screening test guidance for Indian students.
Is MBBS in the Philippines a good choice for overseas students?
MBBS in the Philippines is worth all your time and effort. The MBBS course curriculum is at par with top global universities. The teaching pedagogy at Southwestern University is practically oriented. Plus, the course fee is very affordable.
Is IELTS required for admission?
No Southwestern University accepts admission on NEET score alone. There is no need to appear for IELTS or TOEFL.
Can the University tuition and accommodation fees be paid in installments?
Yes, you can pay the fees in two installments. For more details get in touch with one of our counselors.
Is the internship program part of the MBBS course?
Yes, internships are mandatory at Southwestern University. The duration of the internship is 1 year. You will have to apply at hospitals or medical care centers affiliated with Southwestern University.
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A net positive benefit for Northwest electric ratepayers. If the Treaty is to continue beyond 2024, the end result of all revisions should provide a substantial, measurable and positive "net value" for Northwest electric ratepayers. Otherwise, termination of the Columbia River Treaty's downstream power provisions is preferable.
Termination notice. The United States should serve Canada with notice of intent to terminate the Treaty, specifically the provisions that require the U.S. to pay Canada for downstream power benefits in the form of a "Canadian Entitlement." The notice of intent to terminate the Treaty will set a 10 year period to modernize the Treaty, if warranted. The historical record clearly illustrates the treaty's benefits were calculated on a 60-year lifespan. Both countries acknowledged conditions would change over time. A notice of intent to terminate the Treaty would provide sufficient time to modernize the Treaty and the downstream power provisions.
A rebalanced Canadian Entitlement. The U.S. currently overpays Canada about 70 – 90 percent for downstream power benefits from Canadian storage. This overpayment translates into approximately 3 billion kilowatt hours per year, and over the last decade has resulted in a Northwest electric ratepayer overpayment of approximately $1.25 billion.
More carbon-free energy in the United States. Since the current Columbia Entitlement results in an export of zero carbon emission energy out of the U.S. Northwest, it affects our nation's renewable energy supply and the domestic ability to firm variable renewable generation resources.
Operational flexibility for Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph and other hydropower projects. The Treaty must maintain and protect the operational flexibility of hydropower projects covered by the Treaty, which are the largest sources of clean, renewable power in the region. Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph are particularly critical to the hydropower system, representing about 46 percent of U.S. Columbia River generating capacity and 80 percent of active U.S. Columbia river storage capacity.
A complementary ecosystem function. Any ecosystem function incorporated into the Treaty must account for efforts already being undertaken under existing federal and state programs to protect fish and wildlife resources in the Columbia River and its tributaries. These are publically-developed programs through which Northwest electric ratepayers have invested over $15 billion, with hundreds of millions being spent annually on ongoing fish and wildlife programs.
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Cesar A. De Las Casas, MD, MPH, board-certified hematologist and oncologist. He earned his medical degree from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima in 1994. He completed his internship in internal medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1999, serving as Chief Medical Resident at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston and at Ben Taub Hospital in 1999 and 2000.
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For people with access to motion controls, this is pretty cool.
Built/tested on WMR, but other VR setups should work.
This build exposes OpenVR controller input for definition (you will need to define the controls).
One hand (right by default) is tracked for the weapon. *You will need 3D weapons* I have included a 3d weapon pack in the release, which I have rescaled/moved to work correctly. I've only tested the original doom weapons.
You will also need a doom wad file copied to the directory you unzipped to. Run the included batch file to start up (OpenVRDoom.bat).
I made the 3D weapons from a file called "st-models-complete.pk3" which I found somewhere on the internet. It wasn't completely compatible with this version of gzdoom, so I cut it down to just the weapons (which are). Hopefully the original authors won't mind me redistributing this!
No comfort options/teleporting etc. I've never suffered a moment of VR nausea, so I'm not the guy to implement these!
Fishbiter has updated gzdoom vr to work with vr controllers. Makes aiming and shooting pretty easy.
And I just found this, (optional) 3D models for guns and monsters.
r/SteamVR - Doom VR 3D models for weapons, monsters, items pack.
Heretic was the first shooter I ever played 23 years ago. So excited to try this one out!


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Q: Can someone help me figure out my background issue? I have been having this problem throughout all of my projects recently. Basically, the background images that I link in my css only display if I have visited the link explicitly in the browser I am using. Once the link has been visited they display without issue. All of the images I have been using are ones I have uploaded to imgur.
Initally I thought it may be a configuration issue with imgur but I've changed all of my sharing options to public and am still having the same issue.
Here is the link to a codepen that shows the problem and below is an example of how I am linking the background images.
.goStat{
  border:1px solid rgb(180,80,80);
  box-shadow:0px 3px rgb(100,100,100);
  background-color:rgb(180,80,80);
  background-image:url("http://i.imgur.com/zdUjxxq.png");
}

There should be images shown within the top red button and three bottom bubble buttons shown in the display but none of them appear unless you visit the links. Have no clue why this happens and would really appreciate some clarification.

A: It seems there is a prohibition for "hot-linking".
Several sites do not allow it, because it is considered "traffic theft". One will use their bandwidth without any reference to their site and no advantages.

A: Try adding background-repeat:repeat as shown below:
`.goStat{
  border:1px solid rgb(180,80,80);
  box-shadow:0px 3px rgb(100,100,100);
  background-color:rgb(180,80,80);
  background-image:url("http://i.imgur.com/zdUjxxq.png");
 background-repeat:repeat
}`

It sounds like this is a common problem and the two threads below may be helpful if the above solution doesn't work.
why is the background image not showing here?
Imgur images not showing up in JSFiddle

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That's what a deipnosophist is! That is a cool word. I'm not a deipnosophist, by the way.
That's very true, good job! I'l let you know your prize soon. Right now, math. Cya!
Well, you get to add a character to a story that I'm about to write for Shruti. Give me the character/ personality description. Thanks!
What's the story about? I'll send the character to you ASAP.
Well, I want it to be about a girl who finds her inner talent by going to the beach. There she learns that nature is her best friend.
So, Lily, you can add a character to this story description. Thanks so much!!
I will do that ASAP. Thanks for what? Thank YOU! And I'm not that smart, I am just well practiced in the use of dictionary.com.


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Fabric Revolution
Women Designers in 1960s Britain
This catalogue brings together the work of eight women designers: Barbara Brown, Shirley Craven, Ann Ogle,
Evelyn Redgrave, Gabrielle Fountain, Barbara Pegg, Linda Harper and Zandra Rhodes. All the following
textiles were made for visionary manufacturers Heal Fabrics and Hull Traders between 1958 and 1974. I wanted
to celebrate the impact these women had, especially Brown and Craven, on a hugely exciting and dynamic period in British design. They were ground-breaking leaders in their field, in a unique decade in cultural history, and their influence is felt today.
When I started my own business in 1992, post-war British textiles were what I concentrated on, because I loved
the power and originality of their design. I built a collection based on my taste and what was considered important at the time of manufacture. After we published our 2002 catalogue Post-War British Textiles, I had a phone call from Shirley Craven. She told me that her friend, the designer Doreen Dyall, had brought along our catalogue to their weekly catch-up in Café Valerie in Soho: they were both excited at seeing their work featured and paid attention to, which was surprisingly rare at that time. I went to visit Craven in her home in South London, and was struck by her style and force of personality. She retained a spirit of the sixties and had a strong sense of self that was inspiring to me.
Since the early nineties, Lesley Jackson in particular has done a huge amount to advance the scholarship of postwar textiles, highlighting the wider significance of design in this period. The textiles of the sixties ontributed to an aesthetic that was truly revolutionary, and comparatively short-lived. Now much more attention is being paid, but this period in British art, culture, and design is of iconic importance, and still merits a more concentrated focus and wider recognition.
Copyright © 2021 Francesca Galloway


Buttercup is as sweet as her name is! She can be timid at first but warms up nicely and is super sweet and cuddly once she feels comfortable around you. She is very quiet and does super well in her crate, She is pretty much house trained.
Buttercup can be a future internet sensation as she knows to smile… she loves to show off her pearly whites when you tell her how good of a girl she is. She is great with other dogs and although not cat tested we feel she would be a-ok with them.


My series profiling the backbench groups of Tory MPs often features groups with ideological goals, such as those representing the traditional right or Thatcherite wing of the Party. There have also been profiles of newer groups with less immediately ideological aims, such as Fresh Start or the Forty. My group this week, Deep Blue, straddles both of these categories. They come from a firmly centre-right standpoint, although they aim to focus not so much on immediate policy issues but more on what the longer-term direction of the Conservative Party should be if it is to win future elections.
The foundation of Deep Blue was the idea of Mel Stride, the Member for Central Devon. Stride decided to set the group up a few months ago, and the first meeting was held roughly two and a half months ago, after Stride took soundings and found there was "a strong appetite" from colleagues to get together.
Stride, who chairs the group, is an entrepreneur with a strong background in business and is a former President of the Oxford Union. He is PPS to John Hayes, who is the Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning. In my report on the Cornerstone Group, I listed Stride as a "friend" of Cornerstone, which is often seen as being on the traditional wing of the Party, while Hayes co-founded Cornerstone.
Members of Deep Blue include Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset), Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne), Nick de Bois (Enfield North) and Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove).
The Forty. The 301. The 2020. These are some of the groups formed by Conservative MPs after the last general election. Most are largely made up of, or driven by, 2010-intake MPs. Over the next few weeks, I'll be profiling some of these groups.
Today, we kick off with the Free Enterprise Group (FEG). The FEG is considered influential by sources at the Treasury, and George Osborne is said to think very highly of it, regarding it as the most important of the new groups to emerge.
Origins of the Group: The group initially formed out of concern at the anti-free market atmosphere that has developed in the last few years. The behaviour of the last government, in cosying up to big business cartels and corporatist interests, often gave people a mistakenly bad impression of the free market that didn't necessarily exist twenty years ago. Polling suggests 21st-century Britons are less receptive towards free enterprise than the Chinese, Americans and Germans. There is also a wider cause - making Britain globally competitive again. The FEG's website highlights startling statistics about our place in the world: the fact that we are now 83rd in the world for regulation, 94th for taxation, and so on. This concern derives not just from the fact that we are being overtaken by emerging markets like Brazil, but also established Western economies, like Germany, have become more free market than Britain.
I've found the following methods in yesterday's first day's debate on the budget - having earlier covered the speeches of Andrew Tyrie, John Redwood and Stewart Jackson.
1) Draw attention to the dire state of the public finances bequeathed by the last Government to this one.
"When countries that had public finances in a comparable state to ours last May are still fighting off the terrible spectre of sovereign debt default, it would be terrible folly to slow the pace of what is widely regarded as a necessary fiscal consolidation. Our policies are under intense scrutiny by the international bond markets, to which we are paying £120 million in interest daily. We cannot afford for our borrowing costs to rise, as they have elsewhere. We are paying 3.6% in the gilt markets on our staggering public debt. Other countries are paying rates closer to 8% or 9%, and Greece is paying a staggering 12.6%. We simply cannot afford to be complacent, as the Governor of the Bank of England made clear in a recent hearing of the Treasury Committee, at which he stated firmly that UK gilt rates would rise by three percentage points if we backtracked from the course of fiscal consolidation that we have outlined."
"Lastly, as has been mentioned, in particular by the hon. Member for Wirral South (Alison McGovern), there is concern about global inflation. Clearly inflation has been caused primarily by rises in the price of oil, metals and food, but in the UK, in particular, devaluation has had an impact. It has had a positive impact on exports, but it tends to import inflation too. What has not been mentioned today is the potential impact of quantitative easing - the policy of buying up to £200 billion of both corporate bonds and gilts. That has an impact on the money supply in this country and it is doubtless having an impact on inflation.
With RPI inflation at 5.5% - the figure was published yesterday-and our gilt rate at 2.37%, the real rate of return is negative on our bond markets and that is a very fragile situation for the markets. To put that into context, the last time that RPI inflation was at that level was in 1991. At that time, our five-year gilt rate was at 10.09%. Clearly if the markets woke up one day and decided that they were not going to accept such low negative interest rates any more, we would be in a much worse predicament. That underlines the need for continued fiscal consolidation."
2) Get specific when praising the Government's strategy.
"Finally, I want to mention the advances that we are making on skills, which are vital to ensuring that our work force can sustain the jobs that we will hopefully help to create in the economy with the additional measures that the Chancellor has mentioned this afternoon. It is fantastic that we will have another 250,000 apprenticeships over the next four years. I am heartened by that, because young people have for so long been cast adrift, and this will help to bring them into employment and training in a sustainable way, and also in a way that will perhaps enable them to garner the knowledge to create their own businesses one day and employ others, which is what we have seen over many years.
I welcome the university training colleges, and I am sure that the large industrial companies in the west midlands will welcome that approach. I hope that it will help people to acquire the skills to fill what those companies are describing at the moment as a void. Companies such as Jaguar Land Rover want to expand greatly, and they need a supply of skills to sustain any such expansion. They need skills from local people in the west midlands. We do not want to bring in people from other countries to fill that void."
"I want to talk about some specific factors that are important to business people, and therefore important to growth. There is a lot of talk about banks and the availability of capital, and about what the Government should do and what they have not done. Again, I want to comment based on my experiences in the constituency. The bank lending situation is getting better; there is no doubt about that, as the loans are beginning to come through. In Watford alone, under the enterprise finance guarantee loan scheme, 23 companies have already borrowed money amounting to £4 million. That is a comparatively small sample and it reassures me for the future that this scheme, which is to be expanded, does work, and that it does so in a comparatively short period of time.
It is very fortunate for us that interest rates are low, but the decisions made by businesses do not change when fluctuations are minor, such as 1% up or 2% down. Their decisions do change when the situation reaches a ludicrous point; I was once left with a loan on which I was paying 2% over base when the base rate was 15%. Variations such as 1%, 3% or 5% make little difference. Again, what matters is confidence in the economy and confidence that the Chancellor has done the right thing today. So I must encourage what the Government are doing on the fundamentals, because people and businesses will want to borrow money only when there is confidence in the future and confidence that we are doing the right thing."
"In the context of protecting the most vulnerable, let me first urge Ministers to continue to give full support to the welfare reform measures that are being pushed through by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The universal credit will be of major, long-term, significant and beneficial advantage to low-paid and poor people in our country, and it is a measure that those on the Treasury Bench should support in the years ahead.
Secondly, I should have liked to hear a little more about support for our charities. I was very pleased to hear about the £550 million of support that the Chancellor was offering to them in the form of various benefits, but I should have liked him to be more radical. There are many steps that we can take to ease the rules and regulations and break down some of the barriers that prevent social investment from various sources. We should be a bit more open in relation to the way in which money can flow from social investment to outcomes and social impact bonds. I should have liked to hear about personal tax deductions for charitable donations, and I should very much like the Treasury-either directly or through the big society bank-to help charities to procure local government services. They need that support to arm them in their continuing battles with bureaucracies."
"Turning to the Budget, there is no doubt that this has been the most difficult and gloomy time I have known for people in business-until today. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Chancellor on his well-crafted and clever Budget, which will cheer up the country. It has already cheered up Government Members and, as colleagues will have observed from the general atmosphere among Opposition Members three or four hours ago, it has absolutely cheesed off the Opposition. I am getting sick to death with Members on the Conservative and, dare I say, Liberal Benches being castigated for the absolute mess that the country is in. One party alone is responsible for that-Labour. It is because of the Labour party that we are facing debt interest of £120 million a day and because of the Labour party that we have the biggest structural debt in the G7.
I want to share with colleagues who were elected last year what the past 13 years have been like. As hon. Members will know, the last Prime Minister was previously the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I had the experience of listening to 10 of his Budgets, which he greatly enjoyed delivering. He used to come to the Dispatch Box and two thirds of the way through his speech he would wind Conservative Members up. Then he would make what he thought would be the headline-grabbing news item that would cheer everyone up. But then we would all go away and people would read the Red Book and within a few weeks we would find out that what he had told us was not in any sense accurate. So I congratulate the Chancellor on the new Red Book, because unlike the previous one it is not big enough to use as a doorstop, which is all that one was fit for."
Conservative MPs Mike Weatherley and Sajid Javid differ over whether to clamp down on "ticket touts"
Yesterday saw the Second Reading of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill, a private member's bill being promoted by Labour MP Sharon Hodgson.
The central measure in her bill is a proposal to make it illegal for an unauthorised individual to sell tickets for a sporting or cultural event at a price greater than 10% above face value, when those involved in putting on the event have successfully applied for protection from the unauthorised resale of their tickets.
"Music and other forms of creative expression are vital to the British economy. I have delivered a number of speeches in the House about the importance of the music industry to the country for overseas earnings and suchlike. The performing arts and sport sustain employment and tax revenues, which benefit all our citizens. There is, however, a blight that creams off revenues by exploiting an imperfect market and contributes nothing to the creative copyright holders. That blight consists of those who profiteer by exploiting excess demand.
"Ticket touts who take advantage of availability do nothing to promote our creative industries, and this is one of those rare examples where the Government need to step in to protect creative persons. There are five conditions for the formation of a perfect market, such as perfect knowledge of alternatives and so on. One of those conditions concerns the availability of supply. That is fine for physical products, which can be increased or decreased according to demand—for example, when manufacturing output is turned up, supply increases and the equilibrium price is found again. However, where supply is based on an individual, it is impossible for the number of hours in the day or the number of days in the year to be increased. A performer cannot be in two places at the same time. An imperfect market is then created, and prices rise due to a shortage of supply.
"The question is whether intermediaries should be able to take advantage of that imperfection against the wishes of those providing the service... My view is that the copyright owner who produces the good, whether it is a concert or a sports event, is the owner and should have control of it for various reasons. There are many reasons why a business might want to price at below full market value—in specific sectors, market penetration is one such reason; reward for loyalty is another. Football is a good example. There is differential pricing in stadiums, but clubs depend on their regular, grass-roots fan base, and this is recognised in the lower prices in certain sections. Many clubs have a young persons' section at half-price. They could easily charge full-price for that section, but they do not. If the argument of free market enterprise were applied to those tickets, young people would buy them and sell them on at a much higher value, but the club does not want them to resell those tickets at a higher price, as it knows they could, because it wants to encourage a loyal fan base and benefit the community.
"On the face of it, ticket touts provide a free-market service, but scratch a little deeper, and for some events that is a misguided and counter-productive service. The touts are exploiting a market abnormality to the detriment of the wishes of those who put on the event."


Elected six times to the House from the state of Georgia, Cynthia McKinney cut a trail through Congressional deceit like a hot ember through ash. She discovered legislators who passed laws without reading them. Party leaders who colluded across party lines against their constituents' interests. Black-skinned individuals shilling for the white status quo. She excoriated government lassitude over Hurricane Katrina, uncovering dark secrets. She held the only critical Congressional briefing on 9/11, introducing counter-testimony of scholars, investigators, former intelligence agents. As a member of the House Armed Services Committee, she held Rumsfeld to account for malfeasance by military contractors and missing billions in the Pentagon's budget. Then she hammered him on the reasons for the failure of NORAD air defenses on 9/11. She read truth into the Congressional Record, held town halls and hearings, led protests, showed up while others played along to get along, took the side of the people against the will of the Party. And when she got too truth seeking and speaking, the Republicans rigged the Democratic primaries to boot her out, leaving behind a trail of achievements mostly won singlehandedly. But McKinney rose again like a Phoenix, answering the call to run as 2008 Green Party candidate for President, challenging the corrupt two-party stranglehold on American democracy. Then it was on to the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, to be seized on the high seas and imprisoned in Israel. On to Tripoli, to serve as witness to the NATO terror bombing of Libya. On to Malaysia to serve on the War Crimes Commission... Often introduced as the Sojourner Truth, the Harriet Tubman of our age, McKinney reflects here on the Biblical figures of Esther, Deborah and Naomi. This is the Cynthia McKinney saga as it stands to date--what she saw, what she learned, and how she fought for change.


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Puerto Rican Boxing Star Miguel Cotto Honored With 14th Annual Hennessy V.S.O.P Privilège Award [INTERVIEW]
Shirley Gomez | Jan 18 2018, 04:34PM EST
With a private dinner, a celebration that took place at Hunt & Fish Club in New York City on January 17, 2018, Hennessy, the world's best-selling Cognac, presented six-time championship boxer and philanthropist Miguel Cotto with the 14th annual Hennessy V.S.O.P Privilège Award following the last match of his accomplished boxing career.
Manny Gonzalez, Senior Director, Multicultural Marketing, Moët Hennessy presented Cotto with the award along with a donation to support the boxer's ongoing community efforts. "Hennessy V.S.O.P Privilège will like to present to the Hispanic Federation on their Puerto Rican hurricane relief effort a donation of $10K dollars," he said.
The Hennessy V.S.O.P Privilège Award spotlights individuals, such as Cotto, who are not only masters at their craft, but those who inspire and give back to their community through leadership, service, mentorship or the arts. "I feel very happy, very excited with this recognition I had and most of all grateful for the way they have treated me in New York," said the now-retired boxing star exclusively to Latin Times.
After receiving ten thousand dollars for the recovery efforts of Puerto Rico, Cotto informed us that he was immediately going to the island to continue working. "We have not stopped helping and working for Puerto Rico and always putting our best efforts," he said.
Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez is not only a multiple-time world champion but also the first Puerto Rican boxer to win world titles in four weight classes. He began boxing as a child to help with his weight loss, not anticipating it to end up being his career path.
After a 17-year professional career, Cotto officially retired with a record of 41 wins, with 33 knockouts, and 6 losses. His last match was with Sadam Ali. After the fight, Cotto confirmed it was his last fight, "It is. I want to be happy in my home and enjoy my family." Cotto then told the fans, "Thank you for supporting me at every opportunity. "I'm so glad to call Madison Square Garden my home."
Tags: Boxing, Miguel Cotto, Hennessy
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A Photo Diary of Macao: Asia's most unique Destination
Every corner of Macao is bursting with life; a visceral explosion of sights, sounds, flavours, and aromas.
Every corner of Macao is bursting with life; a visceral explosion of sights, sounds, flavours, and aromas. Nestled between Hong Kong and China, and with a unique Portuguese heritage; Macao is so much more than the glittering hotels and casinos it has become known for.
From its unique 'Macanese cuisine', its carefully preserved Portuguese architecture, its enchanting coastal charms, and the effortless charm of its people; Macao is a place that's unlike anything else in the world. If you're still looking for reasons to hop on a flight (and a ferry!) to Macao – check out our girl Hannah's Visual Diary of this truly unique destination.
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Q: media queries in SASS compiling but not displaying I'm building a website with responsive media queries. I have one query that adapts if the screen is 900px or less (max-width). I've created a mixin to help with managing my queries.
@mixin responsive ($breakpoint){
@if $breakpoint == phone {
    @media(max-width: 37.5em){ @content };  // 600px
}
@if $breakpoint == tab-port {
    @media(max-width: 56.25em){ @content };   // 900px
}
@if $breakpoint == tab-land {
    @media(max-width: 75em){ @content };  // 1200px
}
@if $breakpoint == big-desktop {
    @media(min-width: 112.5em){ @content };  // 1800px
 }
}

So, then I'll use it within SASS
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&__container {
    display: flex;
    padding: 5rem;
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 80%;

    @include responsive(tab-port) {
        width: 90%;
    }

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It compiles correctly
.div__container {
  display: flex;
  padding: 5rem;
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 80%;
}
  @media (max-width: 56.25em) {

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 width: 90%;
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But it doesn't actually show up on the website any different at 900px or less. What am I doing wrong?

A: Media queries work fine, but because of padding width is bugger than 80%.
.div {

  &__container {
      display: flex;
      // padding: 5rem;
      margin: 0 auto;
      width: 80%;
      border: 5px solid red;

      @include responsive(tab-port) {
          width: 90%;
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Example: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/MxgaVR


Disney World is the ultimate showcase for postmodernism and postmodern society because of the way it uses simulation to create the illusion we can overcome the limits of time and space, self and society. But many of the ideas it conveys are false, making it a realm of illusion in more than one sense.
What is the essence of Disney World?
Much of it revolves around Disney's effort to create the illusion for visitors that they have entered a perfect world, which more closely conforms to their desires. It creates this "perfect world" in various ways. For example, it encourages visitors to see the park through the eyes of a child and defines itself as a place that "brings dreams to life." But most essentially it creates a fictionalized version of a perfect world by inviting visitors to escape their containment in physical reality so they are no longer limited by time, distance, size and physical laws. In various attractions, visitors seem to float through the human body and through DNA; they travel to the past and future, and leave the earth. On the thrill rides, they defy gravity, moving at speeds and in ways that seem to violate what common sense tells them should be possible.
Disney World also invites visitors to escape the fallen state of society and the self. It creates idealized visions of American capitalism and political history, and draws visitors into a world of perpetual celebration, full of parades and fireworks, with costumed performers and endless invitations to fun. The effect is not unlike participating in a 365-day-a-year holiday, in which negative emotions are banished from life.
When you put all this together, it becomes obvious that Disney World offers visitors the fictionalized realization of humanity's deepest dream: transcendence. In Disney World, we transcend the mundane. In place of the world we normally find ourselves in, in which most opportunities are closed to us and most human motives are concealed, we go on a journey through symbolic worlds that are objective and material, but seemingly as weightless, carefree and fantastic as the imagination.
In all this, Disney undoes the dry "scientism" of the world view of contemporary societies. It was the German sociologist Max Weber who said that in the modern age we are witnessing the disenchantment of the world with the rise of science and the declining influence of religion. The creations of simulation culture, such as Disney, seem to be re-enchanting it for us with the new promise that art and technology can re-create our surroundings in the form of an updated version of contemporary romance stories, with mythologies of space flight, aliens, time travel and lost worlds.
But Disney World doesn't only offer objectified fantasies. Through the power of simulation, it also shows us the way technology will give us power over, and freedom from, the world. Disney takes the various possibilities of technology -- that one day we will go into outer space or travel freely across the globe or evolve a perfect society -- and it creates the simulation of these things so we can enjoy in fictional form, now, the powers we hope to enjoy, later, in reality.
These qualities make Disney World the ultimate showcase for the way technology will lead to transcendence of the mundane world. In place of the promise of modernism, which told us that we could realistically hope that technology would usher in an age of affluence, power over nature, and rationality, it reveals a "postmodern" promise that has emerged out of modernism, in which we are told that technology will allow us to escape the conditions of society and the physical world.
We can thus see in Disney, two trends that define the age: the desire to escape the constraints of life through the new magic wand of technology and the desire to pretend that we have done so in invented worlds of simulation. One might say that if the great myth or "meta-story" of America is the story of progress, then Disney World is a place that masquerades as the happy ending, in which progress culminates in a utopia of transcendence that undoes the fallen state of nature, society and ourselves.
These characteristics place Disney World in a long line of utopias invented by Western civilization. But unlike most others, which were rendered in fiction or put into practice in small communities, in Disney, a perfect world is seemingly brought to life with simulation and offered as a vacation paradise.
One of the ironies in all this is that Disney World falsifies our desire for a better world, even as it expresses it. On the one hand, it expresses our desire for an idealized existence that is innocent of evil and imperfection. But it does so by inviting us to regress to a state of happiness before the fall from childhood, with simplified visions of life that filter out the difficult truths of the self and society.
The contradictions inherent in Disney World are deepened by the fact that it is only able to show us its vision of utopia by turning us into passive consumers who are taken for rides. In Disney World, we can thus see a danger that is at the essence of our relationship to technology. In the way it does everything for us and encourages us to both think of ourselves as children and lose ourselves in images and fantasy, Disney reveals the way technology can promote narcissistic personality traits in those who use it.
Disney World is a cautionary tale that shows us, not only the wonders of the future, but the danger that progress might cause humanity to regress, allowing it to lose itself in an environment of automation, simulation and reassuring intellectual illusions. In Disney, we see the ultimate attempt to rely on technology, in which even experiences are manufactured for us by machines.


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First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by the world's greatest empire.
Over seven documentaries, First Australians depicts the true stories of individuals - both black and white - caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history.
We begin in 1788 in Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishmen (Governor Phillip) and a warrior (Bennelong) and end our tale in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia. First Australians chronicles the collision of two worlds and the genesis of a new nation.


Hi rhugh, I can't log into the forum using Tapatalk, are you aware of any problem with it?
Keen as for the season to start already!
Not Daniel Saifiti's profile. This was set up by Pride Petterson-Robati's grandfather Peter Petterson back in 2015.
We moved over to Xenforo forum software earlier this year and most of the profile photos were lost. Apologies for this. As for Craig Gower you get a player name depending on how many posts you have made. He is just who you are up to.
almost forgot what a win was like!!
Henry Perenara as the ref! Great!!
game day! Lets get the win!!


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Jared Goff Can Still Be The Answer…Seriously
By Chauncey TeleseFebruary 18, 2020February 25th, 2020One Comment
No seriously, Jared Goff can be the franchise quarterback the Rams traded a principal's ransom of picks for. It's an uncool opinion like saying "Frasier" is better than "Friends", mayo is the best hot dog topping, or that "Lincoln" is a top six Spielberg movie, but just because something is uncool that doesn't make it false.
Besides Les Snead, no other Ram took more crap and at times deservedly so than Jared Goff. Goff looked like he put it together in 2018 throwing 4688 yards, 32 TD's, and 12 picks. He made a Super Bowl and despite the Rams' offensive performance, that lent itself to the idea that Goff had his rookie season almost expunged from his record.
In 2019, the wheels came off and once again he looked outmatched, overwhelmed, and out of his element. There are a number of reasons for this drop-off and don't worry this won't absolve him of his sins. The point of all of this is to demonstrate that despite all his 2019 and his contract, the Rams are still in good shape with Jared Goff.
So, the seeds for the Jared Goff dip were planted in the Super Bowl. He was 19-38 with 229 yards and a pick. The eye test is even more damning as that offense moved like Jordan Belfort on ludes. Even in the first half of the NFC Championship against the Saints, he looked BAD. But in that game, he put together some incredible throws and got the Rams back into it. He couldn't do that in the biggest game of the year and there were some contributing factors.
That Pats defense was awesome against the pass and if the Rams had been able to make better use of Todd Gurley or any of the running backs, things might've been different. Now, the problem is two-fold in terms of perception.
His rookie season so tarnished his reputation that his first two Sean McVay seasons were looked at as a product of Sean McVay being awesome and Goff being a "Westworld" robot that McVay could program. No one gave him the benefit of the doubt that Goff's contemporaries, Dak Prescott and Carson Wentz, receive all the time.
Again, Jared Goff doesn't get a mulligan on 2019, his decision making in the midst of the rest of the offense taking a dip was atrocious. He still can't figure out what to do when he's pressured. In fact, he's worse under pressure than Gil Gunderson and is worse at improv than Michael Scott. That said, his 2019 stats weren't that different than 2018. He threw 4,638 yards (only 50 yards less), for 22 TD's (10 less) and 16 picks (only four more).
His completion percentage in 2018 was 64.9 and in 2019 it was 62.9. So why did Jared Goff look like he forgot how to play football? Well, despite being statistically close to who he was a year ago, the running game cratered so he was asked to do more than he was capable of. Also, it should be noted that he fumbled more and whether it's because of his little hands or just the frequency of pressures, that made him look worse.
So why is he the answer? Now the surface reason is that the Rams signed him to a 4-year $134 million extension so he better be the answer. Les Snead didn't do Jared Goff any favors by giving him that extension at that time. Sure, on one level it was great that the organization had the confidence to move forward. However, that also became the narrative equivalent to concrete shoes because every time he had a bad game his contract would be the go-to joke. Also, if they had simply waited, they could've structured it differently so that the current Rams wouldn't have to make him restructure now, kick the tires on trading Gurley, and trying to conjure cap space out of thin air.
It'd be wrong to ask Goff to take a Tom Brady style pay cut BUT they could've figured out a better deal. That said, Les Snead's other cap sins only put this one in Dirk Diggler style neon lights so he had no chance to fail. But that's all in the past.
Why is he the answer going forward other than they're stuck with him? Well, he's actually proven he could win in the playoffs whereas Dak and Carson have a combined three playoff games between them with zero wins. Goff is 2-2 and has a Super Bowl appearance. He didn't get there by being a game manager either. He was damn good in the 2018 playoffs (not the Super Bowl obviously). Also, when he has blocking and a decent running game he is very effective.
As it currently sits, the Rams are in the top half in terms of Super Bowl 55 opening odds, according to this article. While the defending champion Chiefs are the favorites (+500), the Rams sit at 11th (+2500). Can Jared Goff beat the odds and get them back to the desired top of the mountain?
The Rams are going to make that their biggest priority which should make everything else fall into place. McVay hiring Kevin O'Connell as his offensive coordinator should help as well because McVay often didn't properly assess his offense from week to week so having an extra set of eyes will put him in a better position to succeed.
O'Connell will also serve as his quarterback coach which Goff didn't really have last year. He still showed flashes of who he was in 2018 and yes he still needs to do better when the play breaks down and he's still making some idiotic Jameis Winston style throws, but he's not a lost cause.
Rams fans wanted to take him to LAX and put him on the first plane to nowhere but they shouldn't be so quick to do so. He's not Tom Brady and never will be but he can still be a damn good quarterback. Jared Goff should bounce back in 2020 and prove he's the guy, warts and all.
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Special Report: ANA Annual Meeting
ANA Daily Blog Day 1: Who stole the marketing industry?
Published on October 25, 2018.
Marketing executives who control the budgets of the nation's largest advertisers are in Orlando this week for the Association of National Advertisers annual "Masters of Marketing" conference. Ad Age will be on the ground to cut through the clutter and deliver you what you need to know about the four-day event, which kicked of last night with a dinner and performance by Train. In addition to Drops of Jupiter, the forecast here calls for rain and thunderstorms, which is perhaps appropriate for an industry facing its own storm clouds, including the growing threat of privacy legislation that could make digital advertising harder. For more on what to expect, check out our primer.
Follow along on this blog for what catches our eye at the event, which is now in full swing with presentations by Progressive, FedEx, Unilever, Bank of America and others.
5 p.m. ET, Oct. 25, 2018
CMO-less 'second stage' presentations are a hit
You know something is popular when even Michael Kassan can't get a good seat. The MediaLink CEO, and notorious mover and shaker, was stuck in the back of the room at ANA's "second stage" Thursday afternoon. In an experiment this year, the ANA added the venue to run programming concurrent with the main-stage fair. While the name of the stage suggests second-class status, that was hardly the case. A security guard had to actually turn people away for the morning session, which drew a standing room-only crowd for presentations by Terry Kawaja, CEO of digital marketing investment bank advisory firm Luma Partners; Rob Master, VP of media and consumer engagement for Unilever; and Nydia Sahagun, senior VP of segment marketing at Wells Fargo.
For the afternoon session, ANA rejiggered the seating and took round tables away to accomodate more people for a talk by Geoff Ramsey, chief content officer at eMarketer; and Lou Paskalis, senior VP of customer engagement and media investment at Bank of America. The main stage room still drew plenty of people, of course, but it looked half empty just because it is in a much larger room.
What's the lesson? It could be that attendees crave more wide-ranging discussions about timely topics. At the main stage CMOs from Ancestry, eBay and Cigna largely talked about their own campaigns. No one with a CMO title spoke on the second stage, where the line-up included Ramsey simply riffing on eMarketer reports about topics including voice search and advertising trends for over-the-top and connected TVs. Kawaja's talk was actually called "Fire your CMO: Marketing's Future Will Not Resemble its Past," which he used to describe why traditional brands are falling behind direct-to-consumer startups like Airbnb and mattress-seller Casper. Paskalis did not give a formal presentation; he just fielded questions from ANA executive Bill Duggan, including about how the bank hired a "brand safety officer" to help keep the bank's ads away from questionable online content. Paskalis also revealed that he was once a bartender, prompting this audience question from Kassan: "Can I get a Grey Goose, up with a twist, please?" —E.J. Schultz
12:30 p.m. ET, Oct. 25, 2018
The 'FBI' invades ANA
Credit Terry Kawaja, CEO of digital marketing investment bank advisory firm Luma Partners, with the best self-plug this week. At the end of his presentation on the rise of direct-to-consumer brands like Dollar Shave Club and Airbnb, he put on an FBI jacket, which at first blush could have been interpreted as a reference to the ongoing criminal investigation into media buying practices, which has agencies under the gun. Turns out Kawaja was playing off the FBI acronym to tout his company, known for its Lumascape graphics that bring order to the sprawling scope of several industries. He revealed a slide that stated "Luma: Agents Facilitating Business Investment." The reference was not lost on Bill Duggan, group executive VP at the ANA, which has facilitated communication between the real FBI and ANA members about the probe. "If you walk around with this jacket, there is something else going on with the FBI you guys may have heard about in the trade press, you'll scare the hell out of a lot of people," Duggan quipped to Kawaja during an on-stage Q&A. -- E.J. Schultz
Drinking game du jour
Take a sip every time someone says "brand purpose." Certainly not a new phrase for this crowd, it was hammered home repeatedly at morning sessions from FedEx, Ancestry and eBay. In fact, Suzy Deering, the chief marketing officer for North America at eBay, even joked about the repetition of "trust" and "purpose" being perfect for drinking games. "You just heard from two great companies talking about how incredibly important purpose is," Deering says. Indeed, Ancestry's Executive VP- Global Chief Marketing Officer Vineet Mehra says the brand's purpose, "to enable journeys of personal discovery that collectively inspire a world of greater understanding and belonging," is turning into a movement.
And anyone with purpose fatigue won't get a break anytime soon.
"As marketers, we are just beginning to discover the power of unlocking purpose," says Rajesh Subramaniam, executive VP-chief marketing and communications officer at FedEx. Deering concurs: "Purpose is not going away." Guess we already know a key theme for next year's conference.—Adrianne Pasquarelli
11:30 a.m. ET, Oct. 25, 2018
Heaven is a place… in Orlando
At least on Thursday morning it was, when a packed room of ANA attendees stood up for a quick karaoke sesh led by Progressive Insurance Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Charney. Speaking about the importance of taking risks in marketing, Charney encouraged the audience to stand up and sing to Belinda Carlisle's classic hit, "Heaven Is a Place on Earth." Despite the lack of alcohol, and the early morning timeslot, the crowd happily acquiesced. —Adrianne Pasquarelli
Only @jeffcharney could get 3000 marketers doing this. #ANAMasters pic.twitter.com/s58wSLvipb
— donna wiederkehr (@dwied) October 25, 2018
@jeffcharney CMO of @Progressive just got 3000 people to sing at the #ANAMasters pic.twitter.com/oCtzcNAW3I
— Kym Frank (@KymFrank) October 25, 2018
When the CMO of @progressive gets the #ANAMasters crowd singing. Plus the Flo costumes! #anamarketers @ Rosen Shingle Creek https://t.co/lnOoM0HMxr
— Greg Wright (@G_J_W) October 25, 2018
Slow growth: 'An indictment on our industry'
For the third consecutive year, ANA CEO Bob Liodice used his opening remarks to urge marketing execs to "take our industry back." It begs the question: Who's got ahold of the industry now and why is it taking so long for marketers to retrieve it? Liodice did not identify a single bogeyman, instead ticking off a laundry list of issues that CMOs have been struggling with for years, including the opaque digital media supply chain. "Just 25% of CMOs' digital media investment reaches target audiences," he said. "This atrocity represents more than $20 billion of marketing waste annually and the inefficiency and ineffectiveness that comes with it." He also cited ad fraud, saying it was costing the industry $7 billion annually.
As for solutions, the ANA under Liodice has created a seemingly endless stream of initiatives. In his speech, he routinely plugged the "CMO Masters Circle," a group of chief marketers ANA first began convening two years ago to tackle major issues. (More on that below.) The newest program is called the "ANA Center for Brand Purpose," which Liodice says will launch next month. "Purpose" is a well-worn phrase at ANA conferences, referring to brands that use their marketing to plug some sort of social issue. But none of these programs will matter if brand marketing is not boosting the bottom line, and right now that's a problem. Liodice pointed to the Fortune 500, saying half of the companies on the list have experienced declining after-tax profits in the last three years. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is an indictment on our industry," he said. --E.J. Schultz
8:45 a.m. ET, Oct. 25, 2018
What happens in the circle, stays in the circle
It's not quite the Illuminati, but there is elite inner circle here at the Masters of Marketing, and not everyone is invited in. The ANA CMO Masters Circle was established two years ago by the ANA, but is only now experiencing a revival in attention. The group held private meetings that were closed to press early in the week, before the majority of the annual conference's 3,000 attendees had yet to arrive in Orlando. Around the same time, a new Twitter handle, @ANACMOMasters, began making the rounds with missives about marketing talent, leadership change, growth and issues.
Marketing can shape society and create sustainability. By acting together as marketers, we can be a force for good and for growth. @marcpritchard1, CBO of @ProcterGamble shares his thoughts at the Global CMO Growth Summit. #ANACMO @ANAmarketers pic.twitter.com/52ZLFObFUc
— ANA CMO Masters Circle (@ANACMOMasters) October 24, 2018
The private meetings, dubbed the CMO Global Growth Summit, started earlier this summer in Cannes, an ANA spokesman says, noting that it's a day-and-a-half of interviews and sessions with the leading CMOs who are part of the circle. Roughly 200 CMOs attended the sessions at ANA, and the sessions will continue in Cannes next year
ANA CEO Bob Liodice hailed the Masters Circle repeatedly in his opening remarks at the general session, noting that members are working with Facebook and Google on measurement accreditation, and furthering brand growth and relevancy. "The purpose of the Masters Circle is to align the agendas of the chief marketing officer and create a powerful leadership force to transform and grow the industry," Liodice says, promising that Marc Pritchard, ANA's Chairman and P&G's Chief Brand Officer, will take the stage tomorrow to fill us in on the outcome of the closed door meeting. --Adrianne Pasquarelli
5:30 p.m. ET, Oct. 24, 2018
ANA organizers are expecting more than 3,000 people to attend the conference here at the sprawling Rosen Shingle Creek resort. Registering for a conference and attending one are two different things, of course, but the printed ANA attendee list reveals the following:
... Procter & Gamble travels light:
Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard, who is chairman of ANA's board and has a speaking slot on Friday (is there a marketing conference at which he does not speak?) is only accompanied by three P&G colleagues.
... But U.S. Postal Service does not:
The federal agency, a longtime ANA sponsor, is listed as having 17 people here, not including CMO Jakki Krage Strako, who is slated to speak at a sponsored breakfast on Friday.
The agency presence is mixed
There are plenty of agency people here, as usual. But some shops brought a lot more than others. McGarryBowen registered 13 people, including founder Gordon Bowen and Chief Creative Officer Ned Crowley. Leo Burnett, by contrast, only has six people here, and DDB has only one person listed, as does 360i. By contrast, Deloitte, which like other consultancies is pushing onto ad agency turf, has 28 people attending representing its various divisions, including Deloitte Digital.
The mouse is in the house
Disney, whose Orlando theme parks are nearby, has several people here, including five from ABC. The list includes Rita Ferro, who just added ESPN ad sales to her plate.
Digital giants log in
When it comes to the number of attendees, Google beat Facebook, 19 to 10. Twitter also brought 10 people according to the list, as did Pinterest, which was slated to sponsor a breakfast called "Time Well Spent" bright and early Thursday morning at 7 a.m. Those out late partying might think their time is better spent in bed. -- E.J. Schultz


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