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Farewell Andrei
I remember it so clearly, we had seen a small genius at work at the Euro's in the summer of 2008 then there was much in the media that we may sign him. I
Barca had offered €15m for Arshavin, then Spurs came in with a €16m bid but he refused to downgrade from Zenit St. Petersborg to either club. Then on a snowy final day of the TW he signed for us.
I was excited.
But let's be honest, he never really fitted in, did he? 143 games, a few outstanding performances but not the Boy Wonder we were hoping for. Andrei was 27 when he signed and really should have had a bigger impact because he certainly had the talent.
Highlights: Of course the 4 at Anfield and his brilliant celebration but for most of us it is the winning goal at THOF against Barca. What a night that was ,and what a celebration; taking off his shirt to reveal a T-shirt with an image of his celebration at Liverpool. Do Russians do self-irony?
A loan period at Zenit was Wenger's response to Arshavin's weight issues and lack of consistency, followed by a return to Arsenal where he spent much of the 2012/13 riding the pine. A free transfer back to Zenit for a couple of seasons. After that it was all downhill.
Andrei has spent the last 3 seasons in the Kazakhstan PL (sounds a bit Harry Potter) where he was Player of the Season in 2016.
My memories are of a player who never fitted into the system Wenger developed. Arshavin was neither a speedy winger, an Ozil style creator or a Ramsey-like box to box MF. Why did Wenger buy him? Surely not on the strength of one excellent International tournament?
He retires aged 37 with a bundle of cash and a long, fairly successful career behind him, but for me it is a question of "what could have been"? In my opinion he should have signed for Barca and we could have signed Iniesta. Imagine Iniesta alongside a young Fabregas … dreamy.
written by Big Raddy
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Posted by Erik the Red
Quotes of the Year: Arsenal New Year(ish) Quiz
What a fine year 2013 was. We were the best team in England during the past twelvemonth, confounding the doom sayers and the "experts" who make a living from sitting on TV studio couches with too-tight trousers and bad haircuts. Now 2014 is a few days old and Gunners everywhere will be hoping for more of the same. Today, for a bit of a diversion, I thought we all might like a bit of fun. Below is a list of quotations relating to The Arsenal, all made during 2013. All you need to do is match the quotes to this list of fine (and not-so-fine) folk: Arsene Wenger, Piers Morgan, Sir Chips Keswick, Lord Sugar, Andrei Arshavin, Per Mertesacker, Ivan Gazidis, Alan Shearer, Tony Adams, Santi Cazorla, Andre Villas-Boas, Harry Redknapp.: All answers are at the end. Good luck. Arsenal Related Quotes of 2013
"No mobile signal in directors box, assumed was correct. Composed tweet in stand, got sent after game."
"Arsenal cannot win the league this season, no way, they haven't proved anything yet."
"I promised myself I would make sure I did things well and, considering the money that Arsenal spent on me, I didn't want to let anyone down."
"What does Wenger see in Ramsey? A complete and utter liability." (January 2013).
"We are on an upward spiral in terms of confidence and they (Arsenal) are on a negative spiral in terms of results. To get out of that negative spiral is extremely difficult."
"I wouldn't compare the two squads (Arsenal and Tottenham). Tottenham are much stronger, no doubt." (August 2013).
"It felt like the crowd (at Arsenal) was at the theatre – good seats, expensive tickets and they wanted to see a show, not to support the team."
"It can't just be all happiness, peace and pancakes."
"Don't mind and don't care." (On being asked by journalists for a reaction to Tottenham being knocked out of the Europa Cup by Basle).
"Yes there is a poster of Gareth Bale in Times Square, but he no longer plays for Tottenham – he now plays for one of our rivals!'"
"I am greatly honoured to have been appointed _______ of Arsenal Football Club. This is one of the great clubs in the game, recognised and loved by millions. I am looking forward to leading the Club to future success."
"If they just wanted a figurehead, they should have gone for me. It would have been a better visionary decision."
RockyLives
Scroll down the page to find the answers ………….
Answers to Quiz:
1. Lord Alan Sugar, after getting Spuds fans all excited about a non-existent Newcastle goal against Arsenal on the final day of the season)
2. Alan Shearer
3. Santi Cazorla
4. Piers Morgan.
5. Andre Villas-Boas
6. Harry Redknapp
7. Andrei Arshavin
8. Per Mertesacker (explaining why he roasted Ozil for not saluting the away fans)
9. Arsene Wenger
10. Ivan Gazidis
11. Sir Chips Keswick on being announced as Peter Hill Wood's successor as Chairman
12. Tony Adams, responding to the appointment of Sir Chips.
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Posted by RockyLives
Midfield squad ……. is it good enough?
Here is my outlook on the midfield hope you enjoy it .
Abou Diaby. Average player does his shift some games other games he's just unreliable and prone to giving the ball away.
Should he stay or should he go?
Tomáš Rosicky. Great player but he seems to have lost his way since the injury set back, can be unplayable at times but this season we have not seem him at his best.
Will he sign a new deal or will he be wanted elsewhere? Let's not forget he's getting older and we have players like the Ox who can play on the wing.
Mikel Arteta (vice-captain). I like the man from Spain, he's a grafter and a gifted player when he feels like it .
His form has been a little patchy this year but he does his best for the club.
Jack Wilshere. Wonder boy jack is one of the best English players in the England squad when he's not injured and he does an amazing job in midfield for Arsenal.
We've got to keep him – for a lot of us on here, he's the next to wear the captain's armband.
Aaron Ramsey. Love him or hate him, I personally think he's doing his best. Yes he's a youngster, but he can spot a pass and he can score a few and he's one for the future.
We must keep him .
Santi Cazorla. Excellent, fantastic footballer and one of the players of the season so far he works hard and he can cross dribble and shoot and he's gives 100% every game – another player who like to score.
Francis Coquelin. Not seen much of him as he's a bit part player and is often used as a sub. When he comes on he does very well and I'm sure some Spanish clubs will be after him in the future.
Andrei Arshavin. I liked the Russian with the basin haircut, he has lost his way or he can't regain his place in the team I can see him leaving in the not too distance future .
He will always be remembered for his one man show at Liverpool a few seasons ago .
MIDFIELD PLAYERS ON LOAN !.
Emmanuel Frimpong. This pong would not be out on loan, I'd recall him, he gets some tackles in and he is not scared of any player and he's built like Mike Tyson .
What AW will do with the pong we will have to wait and see.
I've friends who are Wolves fans, he went there on loan before he had an injury and the wolves fans loved him and chanted his name every game.
Ryo Miyaichi. What a waste of money simples, buy him then loan him out, will he ever play a first team game in the Premier League.
Denílson. He looks to be enjoying his loan spell back home and can't see him returning now or in the future but again I liked him when AW played him and he used him a lot.
I have not included the Ox or Theo as they play up front more than midfield but those two are another who in time will be a fantastic acquirement for Arsenal in the future.
What's your opinion on the state of our midfield?
Sheep Hagger ™.
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Posted by peachesgÖÖner
Santos – Arsène's worst value signing?
Is Santos Mr Wenger's worst ever signing? Some would say so; at £6.8 m he certainly appears to be an enormous waste of resources. The Brazilian has started just 13 games.
But is he worse than the £4m spent on Squillaci, (take away the "m" and the Italian would still have been expensive!)
Looking back at the signing and selling costs, AW has done a superb job but occasionally gets it wrong. For example, I would say that Hleb was a poor signing but we paid £11.2m and sold him two seasons later for £11.8m, so despite a unrewarding time on the pitch, Alex did well for the club.
What of Richard Wright? Cost £6m and arrived as the long-term replacement for Seaman. Sold on for half that having played just 22 games. He did win a PL Winners medal at AFC.
One of Richard's good days
And Gio Van Bronckhorst, Signing for £8.5m and started a meagre 42 appearances. A poor return for such a fine player who was well worth the £3m Barca paid for him – his 2 seasons cost Arsenal £5.5m. He played 105 games for Barca and won the Champions League.
Franny Jeffers. Our fox in the box signed with huge expectations for a huge£ 8m. Big Ears was just 20 years old when he signed and still a lad of 22 when he was sold to Charlton for £2.6 after just 13 starts. However, he won 2 Cup Medals during his time at Highbury A loss of £5.4m – well over half his purchase fee.
Reyes. A marmite player – to some the superb talent who was kicked out of the Premiership, to others he was a man who refused to adapt to the English game. Antonio came at a cost of £13m, and was sold for £8m which was a decent return in my opinion. Nonetheless, Arsenal lost another £5m on the deal
Edu. Lovely player. Bought for £6m and given a free transfer just 3 years later. Why a free? Another £6m thrown away. And before we dismiss £6m, remember this is a huge amount of money. It will buy you 40 Mini-Coopers or 3 Michu's or a house in Hampstead.
Corinthians of Brazil's Director of Football
Wiltord. A World Cup winner, a member of the Invincibles, scorer of the winning goal at OT in the Double season of 2001/2 and voted Arsenal's 33rd Best Player of All Time in 2008 (there really are some deluded fans out there!); it may be churlish to say Wiltord was an expensive flop but we paid £13m for him and he left on a free when his contract expired. Was he worth the money? I leave you to decide. £13m will buy a wing of a hospital.
But, in my opinion, the worst bit of business done by Mr Wenger is still at the club and he is a diminutive Russian. Arshavin cost us a whopping £15m, a club record, and how much can we sell him for? Zip. Thankfully, he has run down his contract and will be leaving in summer, but the cost to Arsenal has been immense. Not just the loss of the transfer fee but also a colossal wage to a man who has continually flattered to deceive. The loss on Arshavin's transfer fee equates to almost £250 for every person attending a home game and you can double that with his wages.
Would you rather have a Monkey (£500) or a Meerkat?
Какая пустая трата денег
Note: The above figures have come from different internet sources. They are not confirmed by AFC.
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How was it for you?
How much fun was that game last night? Not the first 35 minutes obviously but by the end of 120 minutes I couldn't actually remember how I felt when Reading's 4th goal had hit the back of the net.
Aaaarrrrrggggghhhh that was how I felt and it's also how I feel now because my whole match report has disappeared into the ether 😦
What to say quickly so that you can all carry on chatting? Bullet points it is then …………….
How can we concede 5 goals?
What an amazing come-back, although we do like to do that in this cup competition. Why isn't that desire there for some PL games?
Theo Walcott – what an absolute star he was last night, I shall be very upset to see him in another shirt. He's dangerous, so dangerous.
Olivier Giroud – looked comfortable last night as an Arsenal player. The difference between him and Chamakh is that he fills the space that he stands in whereas Chamakh always looks like he wants to be invisible.
Arshavin is going to need a month to recover from last night, he worked so hard, I can't believe he played the whole 90 minutes, he must have been exhausted even before Miguel had to go off injured and from then he had no chance of being subbed.
Well done again to the away supporters who were magnificent.
Bringing on Giroud and Eisfeld were important substitutions.
Hahaha to McDermott for bringing on a sub in injury time only for time to be added on for us to score the equaliser.
Any number of players could have scored any number of goals once we got started but why wait until you're four down to up your game?
It was fantastic, a real roller-coaster of a game and we're in the next round phew. If anyone wants to write some player ratings we can add them on.
peachesgooner
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Arsenal at Euro 2012? Interim Report
I can't speak for anyone else but my prime interest in what has been a very good tournament (so far) is the Arsenal players. After one round of games how are we faring?
Arshavin. AA had a super game and was involved in most of the attacking Russian play. Contrary to the pundits knee-jerk reactions, AA played in his normal position of right attacking midfield. He was pacy, beat his man at will and his passing was excellent. We have seen games like this from him before but they are few and far between. More of the same please and then let's get a juicy fee for him.
Rosicky. TR struggled in a team which look poor. Forced to go wide to find space he could not influence the game, and his own high standards he will disappointed. There were some tidy flicks, turns and passes but in a team with Milan Baros as the lone striker it was always going to be difficult against a Russia team possessing a fine midfield. Expect better tonight.
One for Irish …
Bendtner. Didn't score but played well. He plays a different role for Denmark than earlier in his career when he was primarily on the left. Used s a lone central striker he had his back to goal most of the game and looked to bring the onrushing midfielders into the attack. I thought he worked hard but without much success. His new role for Denmark is what I hoped Chamakh would bring to Arsenal – why didn't AW give Nik the same opportunity?
Szczesny. Nightmare of a game which will haunt him for years. A poor decision led to the Greek goal and another to his sending-off. It could be said that he took the red rather than concede a certain goal, in which case it worked well for Poland. Can't see him getting another game in the tournament.
RvP. Another man who disappointed. I cannot recall him being so wasteful in any game last season. Was it the expectation? Was he too tense? In his defence he created the chances and was in position to score, if he continues to find the space he will punish Germany.
Podolski. My first real look at him and I liked what I saw. Played much deeper than I expected. He is strong, direct and has a good shot. Early days but I can see why we bought him and why he scores so often.
The Ox. Needed much better service from an England team which showed no creativity. If Hodgson is looking to O-C to be the spark then he must tell the team to get the ball to him early. A few good runs and a couple of decent passes. He was understandably tense and frustrated with himself when things went wrong. We have signed a gem.
Walcott. 3 minutes of action. One touch. Better than Ashley Young.
All in all a bit disappointing. I hoped to see Koscielny start ahead of Mexes (who has the worst haircut I have ever seen) – perhaps he will get his chance later in the competition.
How are we doing? 5 out of 10. Have the ability – Could do better.
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Now is the time to make Arshavin Arsenal's Playmaker
'We cannot allow ourselves to indulge in sadness and melancholy'
Andrey Arshavin, December 2010 (after MU away game)
With the departure of Cesc Fabregas and the long-term injury to Jack Wilshere, Arsenal is left with a hole, in more ways than one. It is a cruel double blow to have neither of them available for this pivotal position, especially during this transitional period. Since the start of the new season, the much-changed Arsenal team has looked unfamiliar to us, as if it has lost its identity, its USP, its typical style of football, and the main reason for this is, nobody has been able to make the 'hole position' theirs until now. It comes as no surprise that our results in the League have also been well under-par, and now is the time to make some bold moves so we can regain momentum and confidence again, and shake-off this mantle of sadness and melancholy once and for all.
The Playmaker position, just off the striker – the Dutch call it 'de hangende spits' (the 'hanging-off' striker) was made for Dennis Bergkamp and vice versa, back in the mid-nineties. He epitomised what can be done to a team and its style of football if the right player takes up the no. 10 position. DB10 was always able to find space for himself, so the defence and midfield had an outlet, he was able to hold on the ball and allow the attacking midfielders to move forward, but he was just as capable to set up a quick attack for his fellow striker and wingers – often with an inch-perfect defence-splitting pass that would make you go weak in the knees for joy – or to take on defenders himself and score goals from just outside the penalty area, or inside the box. Dennis had it all: brilliant first touch, superb vision, a winner's mentality, a professional through and through, and somebody who took pleasure in doing beautiful things with a ball on the pitch. It was this quest for beauty that has made him such a special player and made him immortal to us, and, in a way, he made us all feel a bit immortal along the way.
Cesc Fabregas was a different 'no. 10' for us: more of an attacking midfielder than a striker, with a great ability to pass the ball within tight spaces and to boss the midfield area. However, what he had in common with Dennis was the ability to pick a defence splitting pass and to create something out of nothing, for which he also had the vision and touch. He was another great Arsenal player although not in the same category as Dennis, but then who is, or will ever be?
Jack Wilshere is a very promising player for both Arsenal and England. For me, he is our future 'nr. 10' as he is similar to Cesc in many ways, with great vision and a superb passer of the ball, very good in tight spaces and with a phenomenal fighting spirit and stamina. He came off age last year during our game against Barcelona, and to do so at such a young age is truly astounding. We are unbelievably lucky to have him, and I am sure he will be another Arsenal great. The only thing missing until now is Jack's goal scoring ability/record, and until this improves he can compensate it with his vision and passing ability, which should lead to setting up many successful attacks and assists.
So, who is going to fill this position for us until Jack returns?
The candidates are: Aaron Ramsey, Thomas Rosicky, Mikel Arteta, Yossi Benayoun, Robin van Persie and Andrey Arshavin. I cannot see Arsenal change the system to 4-4-2 in the near future, so I am going to base my views on the current 4-2-3-1 system. In the '2', Alex Song is our 'pure' DM and there is back-up for him from Emmanuel Frimpong and Francis Coquelin. For me the best partner to Song in the '2' is a typical box-to-box midfielder and either Aaron Ramsey or Mikel Arteta should play in that position. The DM's partner should be an all-round midfielder who can defend, and go forward, create chances for others and score goals himself. Both Arteta and Ramsey can offer this, and we are lucky to have two such good players to cover this position.
But who should play in the hole: who should be our Playmaker? Ideally, a player for this position should have vision, hold on to the ball really well, a great passer of the ball and ability to score goals with an average of 0.25 goals or higher, per game.
For me, for now, it is neither Ramsey, nor Arteta. For different reasons, I find it too early for them to be given this vital role in the team. I am not convinced that both of them have the vision that is required for this key position and with PL goal-scoring records of 0.16 goals per game (Arteta) and 0.12 (Ramsey), I do not feel they are prolific enough either. However, it is early days and both could claim this position over time.
Rosicky has the vision and the passing ability, but lacks the stamina and consistency to really claim this role. When TR played in this role this season, he gave Arsenal its identity back, but he cannot do this twice a week for us and his goal scoring record is not great either with only 0.13 goals per game. For me, Rosicky should be the second choice for the Playmaker role, and he is a good squad player for Arsenal to have (just think back to his second half performance against Udinese in Italy).
Yossi Benayoun could be a possibility, but as he is on loan at Arsenal I don't think we should give this position to him on a regular basis. His goal scoring record is the same as Arteta's (0.16 goals per game), so not bad but also not brilliant. I would like to see more of Yossi in an Arsenal shirt so I can make a proper assessment of his abilities.
This leaves me with two remaining possibilities: Robin van Persie or Andrey Arshavin. Both are options I would like us to try out, just to see whether it works. As a captain, RvP is isolated as our lone striker. If he were to play in the 'hole position' with either Chamakh, Park, or even Gervinho or Walcott, in front of him, he could be both a better leader of the team and improve our attacking options. He would not be a typical Playmaker, but fill in the role similar to the way Rooney does at MU. If we were to opt for a 4-4-2 formation, as many of us would prefer, this would work very well. It would mean a strong decrease in focussing on our passing game and continuous emphasis on breaking quickly – a bit like the Arsenal of the early parts of the last decade. We have the wing-players for it now with Walcott, Gervinho, Ryo and Ox, and with Chamakh and Park we have the typical strikers to make this system work for us. We could add to this strike-force at the next TW and all could be rosy again.
However, as I said earlier, I don't believe we will adopt a 4-4-2 system in the near future. In the current 4-2-3-1 system, we need a playmaker in the middle of the '3'. As we are not talking about a classical playmaker – as in a 4-4-2 formation in which the player next to the DM would be: a role that would fit both Arteta and Ramsey a lot better in my opinion – we need somebody in this role who can hold on to the ball in tight spaces, pass it with ease, find gaps in defences easily, makes good attacking decisions in a flash, and can score goals from just outside the box as well as inside the box.
For me, this player is Andrey Arshavin. Please don't get me wrong in thinking I am a huge fan of Arshavin: he is not consistent enough, and does not work as hard as is required, but then – as we all know – he is not playing in his best position either. Arshavin has a PL goal scoring record of 0.27 goals per game, which is the same as DB10 had for us. He is great passer of the ball and can split open defences easily. He holds on the ball reasonably well, although this is not one of his strong points. He can score from just outside the box, and I have no doubt he would link up well with RvP.
It is only a matter of time until Arshavin leaves Arsenal, but I think he deserves to be given the 'hanging-off'' striker position, just this once: at least until Christmas this year. He is our best option there and it would be cruel not to give him a last opportunity to show us all how really good he is. Why Arsene Wenger has not done this until now is a mystery to me, but hopefully the current lack of alternatives might change his mind.
TotalArsenal.
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Keep it tight or they'll kill us
Written by SharkeySure
Whilst still marvelling at the eloquence of yesterday's post by charybdis1966, I have to disagree with what I think is its central theme, namely that Chelski and Man IOU sit back in the belief that we can't really hurt them.
The game on Sunday kicked off in a very end to end fashion, with both teams attacking with abandon. After the opening skirmishes Chelski retreated a little for a couple of reasons.
1. Diaby's position. These days Chelski pass the ball around in their own half much more than they did a few years ago, and Diaby (ably supported by Song) was harrying Mikel and the Chelsea rear guard into mistakes or longer passes. In attempting to retain possession both Ramires and Essien were drawn deeper and closer to Mikel to offer more support.
2. Chelski were fearful of the early impact that both Arshavin and Nasri were having on the game, and it was also clear that Chamakh was going to give Terry (spit) and Alex a lot more trouble than they were used to from an Arsenal CF.
From memory, their goal seemed to come slightly against the run of play but nevertheless it was a very good goal, and once they have scored then we all know that its 'park the bus' time. So whilst I acknowledge that Chelski may have 'invited us into their lair' as a spider does to a fly, the difference is that I believe that was always our eight legged friend's original plan, but Chelski's was an adaptation to the unexpected circumstances they faced. I should give them credit for that but I won't, instead I'll simply say 'well played Mr Arachnid, enjoy your lunch' !
Man IOU's case is slightly different to Chelski's for the simple reason that Chelski do not change their system to play Arsenal, its still their tried and trusted 4-3-3, that either pushes on or sits (/gets pushed?) back. Red Nose gives up on his 4-4-2 whenever he plays Arsenal and has done for quite a while now. Fergie goes 4-5-1 with Rooney either up top on his own, or shunted out to the left wing, much to Andy Grays dismay; and workhorses like Fletcher and Park get their first starts of the season. His sole aim to is to crowd the midfield and prevent us from passing his team to death. He really does not expect to outscore us in an open game.
The Prawn Sandwich mob in the stands were aghast when Red Nose first started doing it, as it seemed to go against absolutely everything that the Club and Red Nose stood for. I believe it was after the flying boot to Beckham's forehead game, that Fergie ranted and raved like a frothing inarticulate loon and realised that it was better to shut the game down, even at home, than to see his team outplayed as they were on that day. He does not expect to outscore us in an open game, and resorts to safety in numbers to stifle our brilliant attacking play, well, what else would an Arsenal fan call it !!
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Goodbye Denilson – written by RockyLives
Written by RockyLives
In a game of many villains for us it may seem odd to pick out one, but I'm sad to say that Denilson does not belong in the Arsenal first team.
Before I elaborate, it's worth having a quick word for each of the other villains of the piece (and some heroes):
Alex Song: idiot for the first booking (he was carded for the dissent, not for the non-foul). Idiot for the second booking: when you're in a minefield you don't start doing Riverdance. Song knew that another booking would mean red yet he kept making niggly fouls. The obstruction that led to his second yellow would be a booking seven times out of ten. Aside from the bookings, he seemed leaden-footed and went marauding forward on too many occasions leaving us vulnerable in midfield, as if his goal against Bolton has made him think he's Thierry Henry.
Phil Dowd: many people's hate figure for allowing the Sunderland goal in the fifth out of four stoppage time minutes. But we all know that the official allocation of extra time is a minimum and anything above that is discretionary. After the flak that the ref in the Everton v Man Utd game took last weekend for blowing the whistle during an Everton attacking move it's not surprising that refs this week were hyper-sensitive to the issue. Anyway, we've benefitted in the past from extra-extra time goals ourselves. If I was going to take issue with Dowd (who was generally pretty good) it would be over the fact that Bramble twice scythed down our players on the edge of the box as they bore down on goal and neither foul produced a card.
Rosicky: he had a good game overall, but the penalty miss makes him a villain. However, even the best players fail to convert pens occasionally and there's no point dwelling on it.
Jack Wilshere: London made the point on here yesterday that in the first half he was leaking balls like a pair of torn underpants and perhaps should have been rested after the Braga game. He certainly struggled in the first half, but I thought he played very well in the second and, unlike the more experienced Song, was careful not to incur a second yellow.
Andrei Arshavin: will whoever has pinched his shooting boots please return them immediately to Mr A. Arshavin, Ashburton Grove, London N5. No questions will be asked.
Heroes: although Sunderland played really well and made a few half decent chances, Almunia, Kozzer and Squelchy all played well. Up front, Chamakh put in a tireless shift but in the last 15 perhaps he should have been replaced by Vela. Nasri and Rosicky also had good games overall.
And so to Denilson.
Let me start by saying I'm not a Denilson hater and I don't like scapegoating players. I was at the Wigan game when so-called fans were booing Eboue and I was not one of them. I was away at Fulham when a 17-year-old Alex Song was shamefully booed by the traveling support and I did not boo then either.
Two seasons ago I thought Denilson was a promising player, tidy on the ball and efficient with his short passing game. He was far from the finished article but, if he continued to progress, he had the potential to end up being a first team regular. What's more, he was Brazilian and we all know that Brazilians have an extra bit of brain devoted exclusively to footballing skills (it's in place of the 'don't cut down rain forests' bit of the brain).
Sadly little Den has not progressed and has, in fact, regressed. Two seasons ago he seemed able to maintain his focus and work rate. That's not the case now. He was rightly condemned for some of his woeful performances last year (being overtaken by the ref during a Man Utd break which led to a goal was a particular low point). Looking at his 37 minutes and 15 seconds yesterday it seems he's learnt nothing from that criticism. In that relatively short space of time I counted three occasions on which the Sunderland player he was challenging did a give-and-go, and Denilson turned to stand and watch the path of the ball instead of going with his man. It was as if he was a spectator while his opponent raced ahead into dangerous positions. Even Sunday League players know that when the man you're supposedly marking or closing down gives the ball and runs you're supposed to go with him. On other occasions when Sunderland won the ball in their own half and attacked at pace, you could see most of the Arsenal players sprinting back to cover – apart from one: there was Denilson, jogging gently back as if it was the end-of-game warm down.
To reluctantly steal a quote from Alan Hansen, it's as if his football brain is not fully developed; as if his awareness of what to do in crucial situations has gone adrift. I feel sorry for him, I really do. I would love nothing more than to see him turn into a world class midfielder. Elements of his game are still good – his short passing in particular – but it's not enough. He has become a liability and I have no doubt his inattention will lead directly to us conceding goals this year.
I have a sneaky hope that Arsène knows this too, which is why Denilson has slipped down the pecking order behind Wilshere and Diaby (and no doubt behind Ramsey too when he returns).
I will never boo him, I will never barrack him, and when he turns out for Arsenal I will support him, but I fear the time has come to say goodbye to Denilson.
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Wondering if and how your NFL team can make the playoffs in the coming season? Adam Rank and Marc Sessler have you covered in this ongoing series, as they provide five reasons why each of the league's 32 teams will make an appearance in the 2018 postseason. Today, Rank examines the New York Jets.
Good news, New York Jets. At least you aren't the Buffalo Bills. Oh, boy, I can hear you now, Bills fans, hanging out at Canalside and saying, "But Rank, we made the playoffs last year. The Jets haven't made the playoffs in seven consecutive years, which is tied for the third-longest active drought." And I'll have to admit that the fictitious Bills fans I have conjured up in my mind are among some of the most-informed of fans. But let me ask you this question: You technically made the playoffs last year, but what good did it do for you? It gave you a false sense of security and made you trade up for a quarterback who is never going to be as good as the guy the Jets got at No. 3 overall, Sam Darnold. Congratulations.
I'm a huge fan of Darnold, going all the way back to his time with San Clemente High School. (Go Tritons!) He's going to be a good one. And at one point during his NFL career, people are going to wonder why USC didn't win more games with Darnold and Bucs rookie running back Ronald Jones. Well, we're already wondering that out here in Los Angeles. The rest of the nation will follow suit.
But let me break down the best-case scenario for the Jets' quarterback situation: The guy who starts Week 1 starts the whole season. If it's Darnold, cool. If it's the vastly underrated Josh McCown, fine. Or even Teddy Bridgewater. Whomever. That quarterback needs to start killing it in Week 1, keep the mo' going through the season, pile up the wins and make the playoffs, easy-peasy.
The worst case would be for McCown to play a month, leading the team to a 1-3 start. Then coach Todd Bowles is pressured to start Darnold, and the rookie flames out. Finally, Bridgewater is brought in for Week 11, and that does nothing. The next thing you know, you're sending a 'sup text message to Christian Hackenberg at 2 a.m. We call this the realistic option. Kidding! I know Jets fans are probably all, "Why are you even writing this into existence? What's wrong with you, Rank?" Nobody knows.
My conjecture is that Darnold wins the gig and plays well.
If I'm keeping it real, I kind of dig the receivers room for the Jets. Robby Anderson established himself as a deep threat last year with six scores of more than 20 yards. In fact, as highlighted by Matt Harmon right here using Next Gen Stats, McCown became a more-than-capable deep thrower. He threw a touchdown on 22.5 percent of his pass attempts that traveled 20-plus air yards, finding the end zone at a league-high rate, according to Harmon.
Anderson could be that receiver who breaks the 1,000-yard drought. (Though it's fair to point out that, while he is clear of legal trouble after felony charges related to a January arrest were dismissed, he could still be disciplined by the NFL.) His talent is there for whomever is the quarterback of the Jets. Then you have Jermaine Kearse and Quincy Enunwa, and you've got a spicy receiving corps.
The Jets also added Terrelle Pryor, who did not work out in Washington. Like, not at all. The good news is, the Jets don't need him to come through. He's a luxury. Like the cousin of a groom at a bachelor party. If he comes in and mixes well with the rest of the group, that's an amazing bonus. If he becomes a problem, then you sit him in front of a video poker machine, excuse yourself to go up to your room to change out your pocket square and then disappear into the night.
Johnson was the Jets' biggest free-agent addition of the off-season, and it was the kind of thing that can help Jets fans recall the halcyon days of Darrelle Revis. Like a reboot. Like "Battlestar Galactica." Johnson seems confident enough. He told reporters that he expects the Jets to have the best secondary in the league. And yes, that sounds like the typical hyperbole you'd expect from a new signee, the kind of thing you're supposed to say. Like the contestants on the "Price is Right" who have to clap at every over-priced prize in the Showcase Showdown. Like, are you really that excited for an expense-paid trip to Huntington Beach, California?
But he might not be far off.
Safety Jamal Adams was a success as a rookie last year. You'll look back at Adams and Darnold in back-to-back years and be very impressed. Fellow second-year safety Marcus Maye will continue to improve. And Morris Claiborne, the team's top corner from a year ago, looks like one of the best CB2s in the league.
The key will be to improve in turnovers. The Jets had just 11 interceptions last season, ranking in the bottom half of the league, and they ranked 21st in passing yards allowed. But they were 10th in completions allowed per game, which could be considered a good thing. Or maybe a reflection of the fact that they are giving up too many big plays. Still, all of that should improve.
Bowles probably had visions of Karlos Dansby and Daryl Washington in his mind when the Jets chose Lee with the 20th overall selection in the 2016 NFL Draft (and passed on Myles Jack). But the linebacker has yet to really deliver. I mean, his second season was definitely better than his rookie campaign. And he had this nice run of games, as highlighted here by Pro Football Focus.
The Jets apparently have seen enough. Bowles has entrusted him to be the play-caller on defense and take on a leadership role. The early reports have been positive. He's still young (he won't turn 24 until October), so there is still a chance he develops into a nice player for the Jets.
Almost critical that he does.
So while it might be audacious to think you can challenge for the AFC East, sneaking into the playoffs on the AFC side really isn't that outlandish. I mean, the Bills got into the playoffs with a point differential of negative-57 last year. So, don't start thinking that you're out of this thing.


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Scientists record rapid carbon loss from warming peatlands
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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a direct relationship between climate warming and carbon loss in a peatland ecosystem. Their study published in AGU Advances provides a glimpse of potential futures where significant stores of carbon in peat bogs could be released into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases.
Peatlands currently cover around 3% of Earth's landmass and hold at least a third of global soil carbon — more carbon than is stored in the world's forests.
Peat bogs are particularly good at locking away carbon because of the cold, wet, acidic conditions that preserve meters-deep layers of ancient plant matter. Scientists have taken a keen interest in these enormous carbon reserves, questioning how much and how quickly the hotter, drier conditions in a peatland bog can trigger microbial processes that release carbon in the form of carbon dioxide and methane into the air, furthering the warming cycle as the gases trap heat in the atmosphere.
Enter DOE's Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments, or SPRUCE project, a unique whole ecosystem manipulation experiment in the forests of northern Minnesota. SPRUCE uses a series of enclosures to expose large peatland plots to five different temperatures, with the hottest of the chambers experiencing an increase of about 16 degrees Fahrenheit above and deep belowground. Half the enclosures also received elevated levels of carbon dioxide.
This futuristic experiment allows scientists to measure the effects of conditions this ecosystem has never experienced before, providing a glimpse of potential future climates.
"Because of DOE's investment in a large-scale experiment, we've been able to study whole ecosystem warming across a range of temperatures that can't be extrapolated from historical data," said Paul Hanson, ORNL ecosystem scientist and SPRUCE project coordinator. "In doing so, we have evidence that carbon losses will be anticipated for rapidly changing peatland systems in the future."
Hanson and his colleagues examined three years of SPRUCE data, tracking changes in plant growth, water and peat levels, microbial activity, fine root growth and other factors that control the movement of carbon into and out of the ecosystem. Together, these intakes and outputs make up what's known as the carbon budget.
The study found that in just three years, all warmed bog plots turned from carbon accumulators into carbon emitters — marking the first time whole-ecosystem plots have been used to document such changes. This fundamental shift in the nature of the bog occurred even at the most modest level of warming (about 4 degrees F above ambient temperature), and showed carbon loss rates five to nearly 20 times faster than historical rates of accumulation.
Warmer temperatures directly translated into greater carbon emissions, with the warmest of the experimentally heated plots emitting the most carbon dioxide and methane. The scientists were surprised to find such a linear relationship between heat and carbon loss.
"This is a very tight relationship for biological data," Hanson said. "These results were within the range of hypotheses that we allowed ourselves to think about, but the sensitivity of carbon loss to temperature was a bit of a surprise."
The decline of sphagnum moss, a key species in this ecosystem, contributed notably to the net carbon loss. A previous study by ORNL colleague Richard Norby detailed sphagnum's role in accumulating carbon in peat and its potentially irreversible decay as warming dries out bogs.
The SPRUCE data will inform a new wetland model for potential use in DOE's Energy Exascale Earth System Model project, which uses high-performance computing to simulate and predict environmental changes important to the energy sector. The wetland model accurately predicted the temperature effects but overestimated the impact of elevated carbon dioxide compared with the SPRUCE data, which showed no significant ecosystem-level effects after three years of treatment.
Co-authors are Paul Hanson, Natalie Griffiths, Colleen Iversen, Richard Norby, Jana Phillips, Avni Malhotra, Keith Oleheiser, Jeffrey Warren, Xiaoying Shi, Xiaohuan Yang, Jiafu Mao and Daniel Ricciuto of ORNL; Stephen Sebestyen and Randall Kolka of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Jeffrey Chanton of the Florida State University.
This research is supported by the Biological and Environmental Research program in DOE's Office of Science. The SPRUCE project is located in the USDA Forest Service's Marcell Experimental Forest.
UT-Battelle manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory for DOE's Office of Science, the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. DOE's Office of Science is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit https://energy.gov/science.
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A selective encryption method and apparatus consistent with the invention duplicates selected packets in a file or data stream and multiple encrypts the packets using multiple encryption keys. Each encryption key is valid for a specific segment of time so that changes in entitlement keys used for decryption can be made without negatively impacting a customer's ability to access content that has been paid for.
This application is also related to and claims priority benefit of U.S. Provisional patent application serial No. 60/409,675, filed Sep. 9, 2002, docket number 50S5152, entitled "Generic PID Remapping for Content Replacement", to Candelore. These applications are also hereby incorporated by reference herein.
Many conditional access (CA) systems deliver entitlement keys to subscribers or purchasers of content on a regular basis, commonly on a monthly basis. Such entitlement keys permit the purchaser to access content during the month that the key is valid. Content encrypted with this month's key generally cannot be accessed by next month's entitlement key. Consequently content can "age" and not be accessible. For example, if content is purchased for a one month period (i.e., the purchaser is entitled to access the content for one month) on July 15, and if new keys are automatically distributed on August 1, the purchaser's content may become inaccessible after the new keys are distributed. Thus, in order to fulfill the obligation of the provider to enable the purchaser to view the content after August 1, a new copy of the content is supplied encrypted under the new entitlement key. This, of course, means that the content is downloaded to the purchaser twice with the disadvantage of using double the bandwidth, and potentially providing an inconvenience to the customer and the content provider.
FIG. 6 is a flow chart of operation of a decoder consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.
To illustrate the concept of certain embodiments of the present invention, consider the data streams depicted in FIG. 1. A clear data stream  104 is shown at the top with packets all assigned a program identifier PID A. This data stream has packets of content such as packets 112, 116, 120 and 124, 128 and 132. Additional packets may appear in the data stream before, during and after this stream. Certain of the packets are selected for encryption in a manner that makes it difficult or impossible to readily decode the content without paying for it and obtaining an appropriate decryption key. In this example, packets 116 and packets 124 are selected according to a suitable criterion (such as any of those described in the above-referenced patent applications or other suitable packets).
The selected packet  116 is, in this example, duplicated twice to obtain three identical packets. These three identical packets are then mapped to three PIDs—in this example, PID A, PID B, and PID C. The packets are then encrypted using three different encryption keys—one for the current month (month 1), one for next month (month 2) and one for the following month (month 3). The packets are then reinserted into a data stream in the original location of packet 116 as packets 138, 140 and 142. In a similar manner, the selected packet 124 is, in this example, duplicated twice to obtain three identical packets. These three identical packets are then mapped to three PIDs—in this example, PID A, PID B, and PID C. The packets are then encrypted using three different encryption keys—one for the current month (month 1), one for next month (month 2) and one for the following month (month 3). The packets are then reinserted into a data stream in the original location of packet 124 as packets 150, 152 and 154.
When this process is completed for all selected packets, the multiply encrypted file or data stream  160 results. When the packets are appropriately selected, only a small percentage of the overall content is duplicated and multiply encrypted. Thus, only a small increase in bandwidth is used to implement this process, and full retransmissions of the content are unnecessary. Using this technique, in the current example, the content can be enabled for as many as three months with the decoder at the customer's premise simply accessing a different set of encrypted packets corresponding to the currently valid entitlement decryption key. The packets with currently valid encryption keys are identified by the PID associated with the present time period (e.g., month). In this example, three months worth of keys are provided, but this is not to be considered limiting since the time period for a valid key can be any suitable time period and the number of time periods depends simply upon the number of duplicate packets encrypted under different keys that are to be encoded and transmitted.
The process for creation of a data stream or file such as that of FIG. 1 is depicted in FIG. 2 as process  200 starting at 204. At 208, the packet selection criterion is established for selection of packets to encrypt (e.g., selection of packets containing slice headers). At 212, the number of keys N is determined in accordance with a number of time periods (e.g., months) for which the content is to remain valid. This number N also corresponds to the number of PIDs that are assigned and the number of duplicate packets that are generated. At 214, a packet is received and at 218 it is determined whether or not the packet meets the packet selection criterion established at 208. If the criterion is not met at 218, the packet is not encrypted at 222. If the criterion is met, the packet is multiply encrypted N times with N keys and identified by N PIDs at 226. This process repeats for each received packet at 214 until the last packet is received at 230, at which point the process stops at 234. In certain embodiments, user private data can be used to convey to the decoder which of the keys is valid during a particular time period.
Referring now to FIG. 3, an exemplary cable system is depicted as  300. In this system, a satellite antenna 304 receives a multiplexed stream of content from a satellite transmission such as a HITS™ (Headend In The Sky) feed. The received stream of content is received, demodulated and decrypted at a satellite receiver 308 and the content is passed along to a packet selector/PID mapper 312, the function of which will become clear in view of discussions to follow. Appropriate keys for use in the multiple encryption process and/or other content may be retrieved from a local storage 316. The packet selector/PID mapper selects appropriate packets for encryption and maps the incoming content from whatever source to a set of main PIDs for the unencrypted packets (and possibly one set of the encrypted packets) and a set of secondary or shadow PIDs for one or more sets of the duplicated packets.
The content then passes to encrypter  324 for encryption of the multiply duplicated packets under a plurality of encryption keys (one for each time period for which the content is to be accessible. A PSI/PMT inserter 320 then inserts Program Specific Information (PSI) and Program Map Tables (PMT) into the stream of content for use by the decoding side in decoding the programming The content is then modulated at a modulator (such as a QAM modulator) 330. The modulated stream of content is then transmitted via the cable plant 336 to the end users with decoder boxes such as Set-top boxes 340 and 344. The operation of the cable head end, including but not limited to the PID mapping and encryption can be carried out under control of a control computer 350.
The processes described above can be carried out on or under the control of any suitable programmed general purpose processor operating as a server/encoder such as that depicted as computer  400 of FIG. 4. Computer 400 can represent control computer 350 or an encryption processor, depending upon programming. Computer 400 has one or more central processor units (CPU) 410 with one or more associated buses 414 used to connect the central processor unit 410 to Random Access Memory 418 and Non-Volatile Memory 422 in a known manner. Output devices 426, such as a display and printer, may be provided in order to display and/or print output for the use of the MSO or user as well as to provide a user interface such as a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Similarly, input devices such as keyboard, mouse and removable media readers 430 may be provided for the input of information by the operator. Computer 400 also may incorporate internal and/or external attached disc or other mass storage 434 (e.g., disc and/or optical storage) for storing large amounts of information including, but not limited to, the operating system, encryption processes (for the encryption encoder), and keys for several time periods-current and future. The Computer system 400 also has an interface 438 for connection to the cable system or a selective encryption encoder. While depicted as a single computer, the digital content provider may utilize multiple linked computers to carry out the functions described herein.
An authorized decoder or set-top box such as  500 illustrated in FIG. 5 operating under the secondary CA system decrypts and decodes the incoming program by recognizing both primary and secondary PIDs associated with a single program encrypted with multiple keys. The multiplexed video data stream containing both PIDs is directed to a demultiplexer 504. When a program is received that contains encrypted content that was encrypted by a valid encryption key, the demultiplexer directs encrypted packets containing encrypted content to a decrypter 508. These packets are then decrypted at 508 and passed to a PID remapper 512. As illustrated, the PID remapper 512 receives packets that are unencrypted and bear the primary PID as well as the decrypted packets, possibly having the secondary PID. The PID remapper 512 combines the decrypted packets from decrypter 508 with the unencrypted packets having the primary PID to produce an unencrypted data stream representing the desired program. PID remapping is used to change either the primary or secondary PID or both to a single PID. This unencrypted data stream can then be decoded normally by decoder 516. Some or all of the components depicted in FIG. 5 can be implemented as program code running on a programmed processor running code stored on an electronic storage medium, and may form part of a television Set-top box or other television receiver.
A process suitable for use by a decoder consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention is illustrated as process  600 of FIG. 6, starting at 604. At 608, the process determines which key is currently valid. This can be accomplished by reading user private data in the program specific data associated with the program, for example, to determine a PID associated with the current time period and entitlement key. Packets are then received at 612 and demultiplexed to obtain packets with unencrypted data as well as encrypted packets encrypted under the currently valid encryption key. If the data is encrypted at 616, it is passed to a decrypter and is decrypted at 620. Unencrypted and decrypted data are then decoded at 624 until a last packet is received at 628, at which point the process stops at 634.
Those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention has been described in terms of exemplary embodiments based upon use of a programmed processor (e.g., computer  400). However, the invention should not be so limited, since the present invention could be implemented using hardware component equivalents such as special purpose hardware and/or dedicated processors which are equivalents to the invention as described and claimed. Similarly, general purpose computers, microprocessor based computers, micro-controllers, optical computers, analog computers, dedicated processors and/or dedicated hard wired logic may be used to construct alternative equivalent embodiments of the present invention. Moreover, although the present invention has been described in terms of a general purpose personal computer providing a playback mechanism, the playback can be carried on a dedicated machine without departing from the present invention.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first encryption key is valid for a first time segment and the second encryption key is valid for a subsequent time segment.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first encryption key is valid for a first month and the second encryption key is valid for a subsequent month.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the packets encrypted under the first and second encryption keys are identified by first and second program identifiers (PIDs).
5. The method according to claim 4, wherein one of the first and second PIDs also identify the unencrypted packets.
6. The method according to claim 4, further comprising generating user private data that identifies valid time periods for the first and second encryption keys by PIDs.
7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising transmitting the selectively encrypted digital video content to a receiver.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing the selectively encrypted digital video content on an electronic storage medium.
9. The method according to claim 1, carried out on a programmed processor.
10. A computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed on a programmed processor, carry out the method of selectively encrypting digital video content according to claim 1.
11. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the medium comprises one of an electronic storage medium and a carrier wave.
12. An electronic transmission medium carrying an encrypted digital video signal encrypted by the method according to claim 1.
14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the packets encrypted under the first and second encryption keys are identified by first and second program identifiers (PIDs).
15. The method according to claim 14, wherein one of the first and second PIDs also identify the unencrypted packets.
16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the determining comprises reading user private data that identifies valid time periods for the first and second encryption keys by PIDs.
17. The method according to claim 13, wherein the first encryption key is valid for a first time period and the second encryption key is valid for a second time period.
18. The method according to claim 13, wherein the first encryption key is valid for a first month and the second encryption key is valid for a second month.
19. The method according to claim 13, carried out on a programmed processor.
20. A computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed on a programmed processor, carry out the method of decoding selectively encrypted digital video content according to claim 13.
21. The computer readable medium of claim 20, wherein the medium comprises one of an electronic storage medium and a carrier wave.
22. An electronic transmission medium carrying an encrypted digital video signal encrypted by the method according to claim 13.
24. The decoder according to claim 23, wherein the packets encrypted under the first and second encryption keys are identified by first and second program identifiers (PIDs).
25. The decoder according to claim 24, wherein one of the first and second PIDs also identify the unencrypted packets.
26. The decoder according to claim 24, wherein the means for determining comprises means for reading user private data that identifies valid time periods for the first and second encryption keys by PIDs.
27. The decoder according to claim 23, wherein the first encryption key is valid for a first time period and the second encryption key is valid for a second time period.
28. The decoder according to claim 23, wherein the first encryption key is valid for a first month and the second encryption key is valid for a second month.
29. The decoder according to claim 23, wherein the selectively encrypted digital video content is stored on an electronic storage medium.
30. The decoder according to claim 23, wherein the selectively encrypted digital video content is received from a content provider.
31. The decoder according to claim 23, wherein the decoder forms a part of a television Set-top box.
32. The decoder according to claim 23, implemented using a programmed processor.
a first encrypter for encrypting the selected packets using a first and second encryption key.
34. The encoder according to claim 33, further comprising a program identifier (PID) mapper, and wherein the PID mapper identifies the packets encrypted under the first and second encryption keys by first and second program identifiers (PIDs).
35. The encoder according to claim 34, wherein one of the first and second PIDs also identify the unencrypted packets.
36. The encoder according to claim 34, further comprising a program specific information inserter that identifies valid time periods for the first and second encryption keys by PIDs.
37. The encoder according to claim 33, wherein the first encryption key is valid for a first time period and the second encryption key is valid for a second time period.
38. The encoder according to claim 33, wherein the first encryption key is valid for a first month and the second encryption key is valid for a second month.
39. The encoder according to claim 33, further comprising an electronic storage medium, and wherein the selectively encrypted digital video content is stored on the electronic storage medium.
40. The encoder according to claim 33, further comprising a transmitter, and wherein the selectively encrypted digital video content is transmitted from the transmitter to a receiver.
41. The encoder according to claim 33, residing at a cable system head end.
42. The encoder according to claim 33, implemented using a programmed processor.
44. The television set-top box according to claim 43, further comprising a demultiplexer, and wherein the demultiplexer identifies the packets encrypted under the first and second encryption keys by first and second program identifiers (PIDs).
45. The television set-top box according to claim 44, wherein the means for determining comprises means for reading user private data that identifies valid time periods for the first and second encryption keys by PIDs.
46. The television set-top box according to claim 43, wherein one of the first and second PIDs also identify the unencrypted packets.
47. The television set-top box according to claim 43, wherein the first encryption key is valid for a first time period and the second encryption key is valid for a second time period.
48. The television set-top box according to claim 43, wherein the first encryption key is valid for a first month and the second key is valid for a second month.
50. The computer readable medium according to claim 49, further comprising a code segment that controls remapping at least one of the first and second encrypted packets to a program identifier PID so that the unencrypted packets and the decrypted packets have a same PID.
51. The computer readable medium according to claim 49, further comprising a segment of code that generates user private data that identifies valid time periods for the first and second encryption keys by PIDs.
52. The computer readable medium of claim 49, wherein the medium comprises one of an electronic storage medium and a carrier wave.
a second segment of code that identifies the packets encrypted under the first encryption key by the first packet identifier (PID).
a third segment of code that identifies the packets encrypted under the second encryption key by a second packet identifier (PID).
54. The selectively encrypted digital video signal according to claim 53, further comprising a segment of code that identifies valid time periods for the first and second encryption keys by PIDs.


SEVENTEEN of the companies used by Rotherham Council do not have the policy statements on preventing modern slavery – which are required as part of legislation dating back to 2015.
The council itself is introducing an annual 'transparency statement' on modern slavery, though local authorities are not obliged to do so, and is to make those organisations "the first target for us" as it takes on a commitment to tackle the scourge of slavery.
It is estimated in the UK there may be 13,000 held against their will and forced to work, often after having documents like passports seized, and the Modern Slavery Act of 2015 seeks to address that, with major companies now expected to publish a transparency statement to clarify the actions they take to safeguard against worker exploitation.
Rotherham Council's ruling Cabinet have agreed they should adopt their own statement, to be updated each year, though a search of the organisations providing goods and services to the council have revealed the 17 without such documentation in place.
The council has already been involved in some operations with other agencies, focusing on business areas where employment rights are a known issue, such as hand car washes, with some offences discovered as a result.
The council has also agreed to update its enforcement policy, the rules which govern the methods it uses to track down and deal with criminals, to take account of the digital era.
They are aware of spurious waste disposal operators using social media platforms to advertise their services, which are unlicensed and may result in fly-tipping, with frequent identity changes.
The council wants to ensure it can trace them effectively, with concerns that residents may inadvertently find themselves committing offences by using unlicensed operators to get rid of their rubbish.
The council has insisted their intent is to hunt down illegal traders rather than acting against residents.


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How to get around town
In partnership with Warren County Public Transportation, Monmouth College is offering a new service, and it hopes it students get on board – literally.
Three days per week, a "Scot Shuttle" van, operated by the Warren Achievement Center, will help students run errands or dine at one of Monmouth's restaurants. Departing from the north entrance of Huff Athletic Center, the shuttle service will begin at 4 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and depart every 20 minutes. The last loop will be made at 6:40 p.m., and the service will end each night at 7 p.m.
Stops along the Monmouth loop will include County Market, ShopKo, Taco Bell/KFC, Petey's, Walgreens and the Public Square.
On Sundays, the Scot Shuttle will make a run to Galesburg, departing from the north entrance of Huff Athletic Center at 3 p.m. and returning by 6 p.m. Stops in Galesburg will include Applebee's, Lowe's, Walmart and Seminary Street.
The service for both the Monmouth and Galesburg shuttle loops is free to individuals with a Monmouth College ID, and it also available to the general public for a minimal cost.
"We are pleased to offer this service, which will provide convenient, affordable transportation for our students in Monmouth and Galesburg," said Don Gladfelter, MC's vice president for finance and business.
On busy travel dates at the college, such as the start and end of semesters, spring break, etc., there will be a shuttle to the Amtrak station in Galesburg, provided that at least eight passengers will be making the trip. The cost is $10 per person, each way. Reservations for the Amtrak shuttle must be made in advance at the Stockdale Center office.
The schedule is available online.


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Established in 1995 in memory of Cynthia Wynn Herman, MA '90, by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wynn, joined by others, to benefit students pursuing a degree in English with an interest in women's studies. Recipients may be a full-time of part-time and an in-state or out-of-state student. The scholarship may be renewable. Cynthia Wynn Herman, an alumna of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, was assistant director of the Writing Center and editor of the women's studies program newsletter.
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The purpose of this fund is to recognize a student who has demonstrated interest in the study of inequalities, especially gender, race, class and sexuality. More than one recipient may receive this award if funds are available. To qualify for this award, the recipient: will be pursuing a minor in women and gender studies or a masters certificate/concentration in women and gender studies, must be a full-time student, may be an undergraduate or graduate student, must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5, may be in-state or out-of-state, an international student, or a United States citizen, must demonstrate financial need.
Additionally, the student should also have a dedication to issues of social justice and the community. Preference will be given to students with demonstrated need for financial support and who face other barriers to a college education including, but not limited to: being a first generation college student, being an immigrant or the child of immigrants, being from the "global south" or other areas in which opportunities for higher education are limited, being from a low-income family, being a student who receives little support from home due to sexual or gender identity. This scholarship may be renewable by recipients if the funds are available. For more information about this fund, please contact Professor Angela Hattery.
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I don't want to stop, but pull into the gas station.
The children are asking me questions from inside the car that I can't hear well enough to understand.
I swipe my credit card in the pump's card reader.
The pump responds by prompting me to "SELECT WINDOW OR OUTSIDE".
The children are still talking to me. I still don't understand.
I hear the children asking me questions that I still don't understand through the closed car windows.
I cant find the "OUTSIDE" button.
At CAST last week, Pradeep Soundararajan gave a Lighting Talk about the importance of testers being able to recognize a bug. Tests may be of little use if the tester doesn't recognize the bugs triggered by the test.
So, do you recognize why I may have paused when I read the prompt on the gasoline pump? It wasn't the price of the $4 per gallon fuel. It wasn't because I had to think about how I wanted to pay.
I paused because I didn't see a button labeled "OUTSIDE". Plus, I already swiped my credit card indicating that I wanted to pay at the pump. And even if I were to pay at the cashier window, I would still be outside.
The developers and testers of the software in this pump may have not recognized this problem. Maybe the makers executed test scripts -- either automated or manual -- and were blind to the problem. Or maybe they didn't deem it important enough to change.
Sometimes familiarity with the technical details of a system can hide problems that are obvious to those that don't know the technology, the requirements documents, and the test scripts. As testers it is important that we be careful not to let our familiarity with a system make us blind to to bugs -- things that bug our users.
There are problems everywhere. If I don't know to recognize them then there aren't.
Users/Customers of the product I test, recognize bugs that I was unable to.
An important part of education for a tester like me is to keep learning different ways that different people use to recognize problems.
In the quest of learning ways to recognize problems, I learned that Specification/Requirement document is one such way to recognize problems.
When a customer finds a bug and reports it, do the developers or the management say, "Hey, but that's not in spec"?
If they don't, then some developers and some management people say that for testers who go out of specification. They are bound to fail more than those who don't say that to testers.
As an exploratory tester, I use the help of oracles to recognize a problem. Oracles ( not the database ) are principles or mechanism by which we humans identify problems.
An oracle might help me to find some problems in the product I test. How do I as a tester find more problems with the product I test?
By learning as many oracles as possible. In the process of learning, I learned that "emotion" is an oracle, too. That sweet lesson came from Michael Bolton who might acknowledge it to Jerry Weinberg.
Ok, now I have "emotion" as an oracle. What problems did I find with "emotion" as an oracle?
I initiate some action in the product as a part of my test, it takes more than a minute to allow me to do something else as it is processing that long.
As a tester, I am frustrated about the fact that, if each action takes that long, then I would run fewer tests as compared to the product responding in a jiffy.
You dont even need to be too smart to recognize that my "frustration" helped me shoot a performance issue with a few operations and functions within that product.
Rapid Software Testing ( www.satisfice.com/rst.pdf ) has a list of oracles that has helped me.
Sometimes other testers are surprised or wonder about how I found that bug. I wonder if they had the oracle - would they have wanted to wonder about it?
We ask a question, "How did you find that?"
People usually respond what actions they did as a reply to that question without recognizing that anyone could have done those actions but without recognizing the bug they wouldn't have found it.
James helped me learn - finding includes recognizing. I argued that not many thousands of testers who find bugs recognize recognition to be a part of finding bugs.
No, I wont unless I learn how to recognize it or more ways to recognize more problems with what I see.
a) I am happy with the bugs I find.
b) If I think specification will help me to find all bugs.
c) If I am not aware that "recognition" plays such a vital role.
d) If I don't want to test better.
e) If I don't know how to learn to recognize problems.
If we don't recognize this message as important for our testing career, we won't recognize many problems that are right in front of us.
While it took me a couple of minutes to write this comment, I see that Ben has enabled word verification to accept a comment to prevent spammers. In one occasion after typing a long comment, I type d the word that is displayed as an image, it asked me to enter again displaying the new word because there appeared to be a time out for that.
The frustration that I had when all the things I typed disappeared when the new word was shown helped me gain an oracle to find a problem these word verification might have.
I really like your example.
This is also a good example of what a bug report does not need in it.
We as "developers" don't need to know about the kids. All of the steps with the kids can be removed and the problem still exists.
Developers may or may not need to know about the kids. The steps with the children help explain the possible state of mind of the user -- which may be an important factor in deciding if something is a bug and if it should be fixed.
I suspect that being distracted by children is a common situation for people fueling their cars. Thinking of this user scenario can help a development team step into a user role and think about their software from the user's point of view.
Had I not been distracted by the children, might this have not been as big a problem? Maybe, or maybe not.
Considering various user states of mind and emotions can help us create better software.
I certainly agree, and depending on your developers / project owner you may need to provide LOTS of context.
The fine line is determining what information helps and what information distracts. I commented, because I read your post, and kept thinking "OK, what do the kids have to do with this?" I was expecting one of them to get out of the car, or have had some insightful help for the confusion had you only rolled the window down. I'm sure someone else will read the same story and think that the extra context is critical information.
There is certainly a problem in the example that you have given. The pump interface has a usability bug - the user interface and the instruction are incongruent. You are right. Over a period of time, many customers would waste their valuable time after being stumped with the instruction. Moreover, they might not feel good after the completion of their transaction.
Even though it looks like a simple bug, it can have severe implications. Any transaction is based on some level of trust. I wonder if a potential customer would suspect other problems in the system after being exposed to this bug. Your fuel tank was on empty so you probably had no other choice. Another customer of the gas station could take her business elsewhere.
I really liked the post and you have explained it wonderfully. I agree, that many a times a problem goes unsuspected and this is where real worth of a tester is tested.
I go by the rules of suspecting anything and everything in the software and this helps me.


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Honor the Wright Bros 1st Flight with a Donation to CA Capital Airshow Scholarship Program
It was only 117 years ago today that the Wright Brothers launched the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the famous Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
On December 14, three months after arriving at Kitty Hawk, the Wrights were finally ready to give their creation a try. They tossed a coin to determine which brother would make the first attempt. Wilbur won and climbed into the pilot's position. Forty feet down the rail, the Flyer lurched up, stalled, and smashed into the sand, slightly damaging the forward elevator. The Flyer was airborne for only 3.5 seconds, but the power of the engine and the responsiveness of the controls bolstered Wilbur's confidence.
With damage repaired, the Flyer was again ready for flight on December 17. The Wrights arose that morning to freezing temperatures and a 27-mile-per-hour wind. At 10:35 a.m., the Flyer lifted off the launching rail with Orville at the controls. The overly sensitive elevator control caused the Flyer to dart up and down as it sailed slowly over the sand, coming to rest with a thud 120 feet from where it had taken off. The flight was short—only 12 seconds—but it was a true flight nevertheless. This was the real thing, transcending the powered hops and glides others had achieved. A human had flown and their long-awaited dreams realized.
The Wright brothers made three more flights that day. On the second, Wilbur traveled 175 feet in a similar up-and-down course. On the third, Orville covered a little more than 200 feet in 15 seconds.
For thousands of years flying was just a fantasy, then in a single century, science fiction became reality. When airplanes were invented their purpose was simple, to take us farther and faster, but they accomplished so much more than we ever imagined. Now, on any given day, 100,000 flights transport people and products between any two points on Earth in a matter of hours. We are flying higher and faster than anyone could have ever imagined. Circumnavigating the globe in less than 24 hours, without stopping for fuel, undetected by radar, reaching speeds of almost 7,000 mph and we've even mastered space.
The airplane has profoundly changed the world and our lives. Each year the California Capital Airshow creates an experience for the public to take this journey in one weekend – witnessing in person how far we've come and how fast we got here. The annual event is actually a fundraiser to inspire and support the next generation through an annual scholarship program for High School seniors pursuing STEM careers.


KHADIJA LAPAHIE, SHIPROCK, NEARS HER FIRST PLACE FINISH IN THE VARSITY GIRLS' RACE, FOLLOWED BY BRANDY RAY, NAVAJO PREP.
After running roughly 4,800 meters on sand and hills you reach the base of a hill that inclines gradually but measures about 200 meters. At the top lies the finish line. Everything burns as you pour the last drops of your energy into reaching the top.
This is the challenge that 162 high school runners from Aztec, Bloomfield, Dolores, Gallup, Navajo Prep, Wingate, Shiprock, and Shiprock Northwest faced at the Bloomfield Cross Country Invite on October 12th. The course invited skilled technical runners and gritty runners to shine.


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Q: Nested property types in Vue.js Is there any way to track nested property types on Vue?
I have this props setup:
// ...
props: {
    navigation: {
        type: [Array],
        default: () => {
            return [
                { type: String, icon: "home" },
                { type: String, icon: "star" }
            ]
        }
    }
}

right now i have validation only for first level which is array, but nothing happens inside of it. Can i check types inside one of type level? Thx for help.

A: I don't think it's possible to directly type the array of objects using the type attribute as Vue prop validation says:

The type can be one of the following native constructors:

*

*String

*Number

*Boolean

*Function

*Object

*Array

*Symbol

Having said that it looks like you could define a validator function like:
props: {
    navigation: {
        validator: function (value) {
            if (!(value instanceof Array)) {
                return false;
            }
            for(var i = 0; i < value.length; ++i) {
                if (typeof value.icon !== "string") {
                    return false;
                }
            }
            return true;
        },
        default: () => {
            return [
                {icon: "home" },
                {icon: "star" }
            ]
        }
    }
}

A: In addition to typescript and library like vue-types, I find _.every and _.has from lodash can make pretty readable solution for validating complicated prop.

import every from 'lodash/every'
import has from 'lodash/has'

export default {
  name: 'navigation',
  props: {
    items: {
      type: Array,
      validator: items =>
        every(items, (item) =>
          has(item, 'home') &&
          has(item, 'star')
        )
    }
  }
}

You can even write has(item, 'home.adress.zip') for deep nest object!

A: vue-types makes this easy to do. In the following example, notice the Array of strings:
    props: {

        picNum: VueTypes.number.def( 3 ),
        pics: VueTypes.arrayOf( String ).isRequired, // RIGHT HERE!
        step: VueTypes.number.def( 1 ),
        className: VueTypes.string.def( '' ),

    },

Plus vue-types has more helpers for defining the shape of objects, etc. Super nice to use with Vue props!

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There's nothing better than warm soup on a brisk evening in November – except, of course, gathering together with friends and neighbors for the annual Corcoran Soup Cookoff!
Mark your calendar for Wednesday, November 16th from 6-8pm at the CNO office (3451 Cedar Avenue South) and plan to bring the whole family! Bread, beverages, and desserts will be provided.
Bowls and utensils will be available, but we encourage you to bring your own mug or bowl for soup.
There will be plenty of space to mingle and eat, along with childcare activities.
Any and all are encouraged to enter! If possible, all entries need to bring their soup in slow-cooker to stay warm and with proper serving utensils.


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LGBT Rights Abroad Are|a Top Priority for U.S.
Travis Sanford / December 7, 2011
WASHINGTON (CN) - Saying that he is "deeply concerned by the violence and discrimination targeting LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered] persons around the world," President Barack Obama ordered all federal agencies "engaged abroad" to ensure that "U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons."
It is the first time that the U.S. government has developed an international strategy for addressing the rights and status of LGBT people.
Specifically, Obama ordered all government agencies engaged abroad to combat criminalization of LGBT status and conduct, ensure that U.S. Foreign Aide promotes the protection of LGBT rights and to train personnel to ensure that LGBT refugees and asylum seekers have equal access to protection and assistance.
On the same day Obama's presidential memorandum was released, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expanded on the new emphasis the U.S. would place on LGBT rights - internationally - in a speech celebrating International Human Rights Day at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
"The Obama Administration defends the human rights of LGBT people as part of our comprehensive human rights policy and as a priority of our foreign policy. In our embassies, our diplomats are raising concerns about specific cases and laws, and working with a range of partners to strengthen human rights protections for all. In Washington we have created a task force at the State Department to support and coordinate this work. In the coming months we will provide every embassy with a toolkit to help improve their efforts. And we have created a program that offers emergency support to defenders of human rights for LGBT people," Clinton said.
As part of these efforts, the State Department will give $3 million to support organizations advocating for LGBT people, she said.
Clinton struck a note of humility saying, "I speak about this subject knowing that my own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. Until 2003, it was still a crime in parts of our country. Many LGBT Americans have endured violence and harassment in their own lives, and for some, including many young people, bullying and exclusion are daily experiences. So we, like all nations, have more work to do to protect human rights at home."
In a briefing after the speech, a senior State Department official said that Clinton's speech was well received because of its humility and the straightforward way Clinton equated gay rights with human rights.
When asked if the administration considered marriage a human right and if the ability of LGBT people to marry would be used to evaluate a country's progress on LGBT issues, the official demurred, saying that no matter what one thought about gay marriage, most people agreed that LGBT people ought not to be killed or imprisoned for who they are and who they love.
The State Department already includes a section on LGBT human rights in its annual Country Reports and the official said no new score card on the issue was proposed but that the department would be enhancing those sections of the reports.
FDA moves to ease rules for blood donations from gay men January 27, 2023
Rights court agrees to hear cases against Russia over eastern Ukraine conflict January 25, 2023
Lower-level Oath Keepers convicted on top charge of seditious conspiracy January 23, 2023
Rights court fines Lithuania for putting warning label on LGBT children's book January 23, 2023


Tourance is all about the soft, the sumptuous, the luscious & the lavish. With a heavenly flower petals texture, it's perfect to curl up on the sofa with our throws, take a stroll in the park in style in scarves like MOROCCAN MUSTARD LONG SCARF, which was featured in Oprah's Favorite Things in 2015. It's luxury for daily liviving Throws, Baby Blankets, Robes, Ponchos, Scarves, Beanies, Coats.


Located in the state capital of Frankfort, Kentucky State University is the Commonwealth's most unique and diverse public liberal studies institution. The Division of Education and Human Services in the College of Professional Studies is dedicated to the University's rich heritage as well as its bright future. The Division serves traditional residential students as well as community students from Franklin and surrounding counties. Our goal is to prepare caring and competent teachers who will be liberators of knowledge for future generations of Kentuckians.


Do I even have to tell you? MAJOR IMPROVEMENT. WOW!!! Dang girl, I compared before, and second day to this photo and wow. Keep it up, and please keep us updated I would like to see you at the six to eight week mark, and beyond.
The expression thing will come and go I have a feeling, on days I am pissed (see the last few, lol) I just want to die when I see the pictures, even though I'm improving.
you're skin is clearing up, especially on the forehead.