Shkëlqim Muça is an Albanian professional football coach and former player.
He created the attacking trio Muça-Minga-Kola at Tirana that was probably the best and most prolific attacking trio in the Albanian football at all times. All three players combined have scored around 400 goals for Tirana in little more than a decade.
Muça has won several championships and Albanian cups with Tirana as a footballer and as a coach.
He has also been an Albania international player from 1982 to 1987, making 16 appearances and scoring 2 goals.
He will be remembered by football fans as one of the finest Albanian footballers of the 1980s, skillful with the ball, but also distinguished as an extraordinary assist man, and a strong shooter. Muça's skills have been shown many times on the pitch: he could play in the center or the right side of the midfield.
Muça has had one of the most successful coaching careers in the post '90 footballistic Albania, first as Tirana and Dinamo then as Flamurtari Vlorë coach.
He obtained the FIFA coaching license in May 2008.
In December 2015, Muça was employed as club chief by Partizani Tirana.
^ "Shkëlqim Muça - national football team player". EU-Football.info. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
^ "Shkëlqim Muça, shef klubi te Partizani" [Shkëlqim Muça, club chief at Partizani] (in Albanian). Panorama Sport. 23 December 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
^ "Albania - Championship Winning Teams". RSSSF.com. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
Tirana /tᵻˈrɑːnə/ is the capital and largest city of Albania and as well the heart of Albanias cultural and governmental activity. It is located on the center of the country surrounded by hills with the Dajti Mountain on the east. The city is located some 700 kilometres north of Athens,290 km west of Skopje,250 km south-east of Pristina and 160 km south of Podgorica. Tirana is a city with a history dating from the Paleolithic times back 10,000 to 30,000 years ago to the present day. The oldest settlement located in the area of the city was the Cave of Pellumbas, as argued by various archaeologists and its suburbs are filled with ancient Illyrian toponyms as its precincts are some of the earliest regions in Albania to be inhabited. One of the ancient monuments, the Tirana Mosaic is believed to have part of a 3rd century ancient Roman house. Later, in the 5th and 6th centuries, a Paleo-Christian Basilica was built around this site, Tirana was founded as a city in 1614 although the area has been continuously inhabited since antiquity.
An almost unimportant centre until the beginning of the 20th century, the Congress of Lushnjë proclaimed Tirana as the capital of Albania, Tirana is one of largest cities in the Balkan Peninsula ranking 7th with a population of 800,000 and the largest Albanian-speaking city in the world. The municipality, has a population of 800,986. It is the biggest Metropolitan area in Albania and the one with a population of over 800.000. Being Albanias primate city, Tirana is the political and cultural center of Albania. Almost all of the largest companies and scientific institutions have their headquarters in the city, the city is ranked in the Top 10 of the sunniest cities in Europe with a total of 2,544 hours of sun. As argued by various archaeologists and its suburbs are filled with Illyrian toponyms, as its precincts are some of the earliest inhabited regions in Albania. A castle possibly called Tirkan or Theranda, whose remnants are found along Murat Toptani Street, was built by Emperor Justinian in 520 A. D.
Arben Minga was an Albanian footballer, who played as a centre-forward and a central defender. He was known as Beni i madh and he was a six-time Albanian title winner. He began his career in Albanian Championship with KF Tirana, known as 17 Nëntori, in the early 1990s, Minga moved abroad to play in Romania in the 1992–1994, but came back to KF Tirana in the last two years. Capped 28 times by Albania, he played 20 games in European competition and he had represented his country in 12 FIFA World Cup qualification matches Scores and results list Albanias goal tally first. He subsequently went to Canada with his wife Nora Goxhi, a professional basketballer. It was there that he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, Minga died on 31 January 2007 of pancreatic cancer. Players in the 18th round of the 2006–07 Albanian Superliga games wore black armbands in his memory, ben Minga in memoriam video on YouTube His friend and fellow footballer Mirel Josa remembered that he had his Tirana debut in 1981 because Minga was suspended.
Futboll Klub Dinamo Tirana is an Albanian football club based in the capital city Tiranë. They currently compete in the Albanian First Division and they play their games primarily at the Selman Stërmasi Stadium. The club was founded on 3 March 1950 by the Interior Ministry of Albania during the communist regime under dictator Enver Hoxha. In 1995 the team were renamed KS Olimpik Tirana, in 1997 they returned to their original name, in the 2006–07 first qualifying round for the UEFA Cup the club were eliminated by PFC CSKA Sofia of Bulgaria. After finishing third in the table in 2005–06 season, Dinamo Tirana named Faruk Sejdini as their new coach, one of Albanias best teachers of footballing fundamentals, he had a spell at the club last term before being dismissed by president Besnik Sulaj. Having returned following a spell at Shkumbini Peqin, Sejdini said, on 23 October 2006, Faruk Sejdini was fired. At the start of the 2007–08 season, Agim Canaj took over as head coach and he has been replaced by Ilir Daja who led Dinamo towards the championship title, after a dramatic win against Partizani 2–1 in the final match, playing for 36 minutes with 9 players.
In the summer of 2008, Ilir Daja moved into a position as director in order to place for Marcelo Javier Zuleta from Argentina. The Argentinian coach brought him four Argentinian players, goalkeeper Daniel Bertoya, defender Alejandro Palladino, midfielder Agustín González. Zuleta only lasted for the first Champions League qualification match against Bosnians FK Modriča before he was replaced as coach by Artan Mërgjyshi, together with Zuleta, the four Argentinian players left the club. After Mërgjyshi left, Zlatko Dalić, the coach of Croatia U-21, was appointed as new coach for Dinamo. He signed a contract with the club. That deal was broken when Dinamo lost its game in the re-beginning of the 2008–09 season against Partizani. Shkëlqim Muça was appointed manager of the five days after of Zlatko Dalićs leave. In the 2009–10 season Dinamo won the championship again, registering its 18th success, Blue Boys Blue Boys are an Ultras group for the Albanian football team, Dinamo Tirana. The group were formed in 2008 and have hundreds of members in first few years and they organise meetings and trips to matches in Tirana and away matches in Albania and even abroad.
The Albania national football team is the mens football team that has represented Albania in international competition since 1946. It is controlled by the Albanian Football Federation, the body for football in the country. Albania was the winner of the 1946 Balkan Cup and the 2000 Malta Rothmans International Tournament, at the UEFA Euro 2016, Albania made its first debut at a major mens football tournament. Albania scored their first ever goal in a tournament and secured first ever win in European Championship. The National Arena will be after its completion in 2018, the ground of the national team. Albanias highest FIFA World Rankings was 22nd in August 2015, although it never played any matches, the Albanian national football team existed before the Albanian Football Association was created in 1930. FSHF was founded on 6 June 1930, and in, Albania joined FIFA, Albania played its first international match against Yugoslavia in 1946 which ended in a 3–2 home defeat at Qemal Stafa Stadium. In 1946, Albania participated for the first time in Balkan Cup in which Albania won by beating Romania 1–0 in the final, in 1954, Albania was one of the founding members of UEFA.
At the end of the tournament Albania ranked 9th in Europe, Albania participated for the first time in a qualifying phrase of a World Cup in the qualifiers of the 1966 edition in England. The team was drawn in the Group 5 which finished in the last position only one point from six matches. In the qualifiers of the UEFA Euro 1968 Albania had a draw 0–0 against West Germany that denied the Germans the participation to the UEFA Euro 1968 finals. In years, Albania did not participate in the qualifiers of the World Cup 1970, UEFA Euro 1972, UEFA Euro 1976, World Cup 1978 and UEFA Euro 1980 for unknown political reasons. The qualifiers of the World Cup 1990 were probably the worst qualifier in Albanias history as there were 6 losses in as many games with no memorable matches. In the qualifiers of the World Cup 2002, Albania recorded a 2–0 win over Greece which was the team that they beat during the qualifiers. Albania was able to make impact in the qualifying of the UEFA Euro 2004 by beating 3–1 Russia at Loro Boriçi Stadium.
Albanians are an ethnic group, native to Albania and neighboring countries. The term is used to refer to the citizens of the Republic of Albania. Ethnic Albanians speak the Albanian language and more than half of ethnic Albanians live in Albania, a large Albanian population lives in the Republic of Macedonia and Italy, with smaller Albanian populations located in Serbia and Montenegro. The majority of Albanians are nominally Muslims, and a minority are nominally Christians, during the 17th and 18th century Albanians in large numbers converted to Islam, often to escape higher taxes levied on Christian subjects. As Muslims, some Albanians attained important political and military positions within the Ottoman Empire, Albania gained its independence in 1912 and between 1945–1992, Albanians lived under a repressive communist regime. Between the 11th and 18th centuries, sizable numbers of Albanians migrated from the area of contemporary Albania to escape either various socio-political difficulties and/or the Ottoman conquest.
Another population, who became the Arbëreshë settled in southern Italy and form the oldest continuous Albanian diaspora producing influential, smaller populations dating to migrations during the 18th century are located on Croatias Dalmatian coast and scattered communities across southern Ukraine. The Albanian diaspora exists in a number of other countries, one of these is located in Turkey. Due to the Ottoman legacy, smaller populations of Albanians exist in Egypt, in Western countries, a large and influential Albanian population exists in the United States formed from continuous emigration dating back to the 19th century. The Albanians and their country Albania have been identified by many ethnonyms, from these ethnonyms, names for Albanians were derived in other languages that were or still are in use. The term for a people located in the area of contemporary Albania is first encountered in the works of Byzantine historian Michael Attaliates. He referred to them as Albanoi having taken part in a revolt against the Byzantine Empire in 1043 and these references have been disputed as to whether they refer to Albanians in an ethnic sense.
KF Tirana is an Albanian football club based in the countrys capital city, Tirana. The mens football club is part of the sports club SK Tirana. They play their games at the Selman Stërmasi Stadium in Tirana and they compete in Albanias highest tier of football. They have competed under the name of SK Tirana between 1927 and 1947, when the communist regime renamed the club 17 Nëntori Tirana, Puna Tirana. In 1991 KF Tirana retook its pre-1947 name and was divided into two branches, the multi disciplinary SK Tirana and the branch of KF Tirana. KF Tirana is the most successful Albanian team in European competitions, the club holds the record of being the highest ever ranking Albanian club according to IFFHS, having been ranked 31st in the world in 1987, as a result of the success in their 1986–87 campaign. In addition, KF Tirana is an ECA member, although still an unofficial event in the official FSHF footballing history, in 2012 historians revealed what is believed to be the first ever competitive football tournament in the country.
It took place in Fier between 7 and 14 April 1911, the tournament featured 8 teams and was played in a one-legged format, similar to that of other European competitions at the time. Erebara, P. Jakova, A. Hoxha, Anastas Koja, P. Berisha, Avni Zajmi, H. Fortuzi, pazari, L. Berisha, S. Frasheri, H. Alizoti, A. Gjitomi, and V. Fekeci. The captain was Erebara, and the name of the team was Gjurmuesit Republikanë, the name Agimi, was taken from the building in the centre of Tirana where they would hold meetings near to. The club was formed as a multi disciplinary one, but the emphasis on football was far greater than that of other sports, in 1925 the associations governing council was elected and its members were Avni Zajmi, Selman Stërmasi, B. Toptani, Irfan Gjinali and Anastas Koja, shortly after in the same year, the club played its first international match against Yugoslav team Crnogorac Cetinje from Montenegro. On 16 August 1927, which was the anniversary of the formation of the Agimi Sports Association, the clubs name changed into Sportklub Tirana.
Ancient mosaics from the 3rd century.
Castle of Petrelë, built in the 6th century by Justinian I.
Myslym Alla, coached Tirana from 1956 to 1972.
Elvis Sina, most-capped player in the history of Tirana with more than 500 appearances in all competitions.
Selman Stërmasi Stadium was renovated between 2014 and 2015.
Selman Stërmasi Stadium in its inaugural match.
Panajot Pano is considered one of the best Footballers that played for Partizani Tirana.
Ilir Daja, the current manager of the Flamurtari Vlorë.


Less than a week since I filmed my scenes for the new NatWest TV campaign, I was back with the crew to take the photographs for the national print campaign.
My role of businesswoman was brought back to life for the photos, with the hair and make-up team working hard to recreate my look.
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Q: Subset timeseries (date sequence) into a list I have a dataframe with a series of dates, here's a simplified version of it:
> eventdates
  dr.rank   dr.start     dr.end
1      14 1964-09-30 1964-10-06
2      16 1964-11-01 1964-12-24

I also have a time series of dates with values etc. associated with that, here's a much simplified version of the timeseries:
ts1964 <- data.frame(DATE = seq(from = as.Date("1964-01-01"), to = as.Date("1964-12-31"), by = "days"),
                     Q = 1:366)

What I am trying to do is subset by each date in eventdates, i.e.:
> filter(ts1964, ts1964$DATE >= eventdates[1,2] & ts1964$DATE <= eventdates[1,3])
         DATE   Q
1  1964-09-30 274
2  1964-10-01 275
3  1964-10-02 276
4  1964-10-03 277
5  1964-10-04 278
6  1964-10-05 279
7  1964-10-06 280
8  1964-10-07 281
9  1964-10-08 282
10 1964-10-09 283
11 1964-10-10 284
12 1964-10-11 285
13 1964-10-12 286
14 1964-10-13 287
15 1964-10-14 288
16 1964-10-15 289
17 1964-10-16 290
18 1964-10-17 291
19 1964-10-18 292
20 1964-10-19 293
21 1964-10-20 294
22 1964-10-21 295
23 1964-10-22 296
24 1964-10-23 297
25 1964-10-24 298
26 1964-10-25 299
27 1964-10-26 300
28 1964-10-27 301
29 1964-10-28 302
30 1964-10-29 303
31 1964-10-30 304
32 1964-10-31 305
33 1964-11-01 306
>

But I need to do this hundreds of times. What I would like to do is have each subset form an element in a list. I would normally be considering to using something like dlply in plyr but this isn't an option when I'm using dplyr. Could anyone advise on how I might achieve this otherwise? Thanks

A: We can use Map
Map(function(x,y) filter(ts1964, DATE >= x & DATE <= y),
                    eventdates$dr.start, eventdates$dr.end)

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Drew Stanton and Tim Tebow: 2 Sides of A NFL Coin FLIP
In some ways, the NFL is an unflinching meritocracy. With billions of dollars on the line nobody gets a scholarship. The players who can play, play. The coaches who can coach, coach. The executives pair one with the other. Anyone not pulling their weight is gone in a heartbeat.
Yet somehow, people slip through the cracks.
Good players get hurt, or put in the doghouse. Coaches get stuck with players they don't want. Players land into specific systems that hide their flaws and magnify their strengths—or the other way around. Problems with chemistry and synergy can make working relationships untenable. Success and failure in the NFL are, sometimes literally, a coin flip apart.
Drew Stanton and Tim Tebow are two sides of the same coin. Both moved across thousands of miles in their youth. Both became highly touted high school quarterback prospects. Stanton, a Rivals 4-star prospect, was Rivals' 6th-best pro-style QB. Tebow was a 5-star, and Rivals' No. 1 dual-threat QB. Both were multidimensional athletes who had real potential as baseball prospects. Both led their team to a state championship; Stanton in back-to-back years.
"Desire to win is unmatched . . . brings every intangible you want at the QB position."
- Mel Kiper
Stanton and Tebow attended in-state schools. Both contributed to their teams immediately in unconventional ways (Stanton a special teams gunner, Tebow a situational change-of-pace quarterback). They were strong, vocal leaders who often willed their team to win. Both gained yards on the ground both by accident and design, and through athleticism and toughness rather than speed.
Clearly, Tebow ascended to greater collegiate heights than Stanton did: with a much better coach and supporting cast, Tebow won a Heisman Trophy, and led his Gators to a BCS National Championship. Stanton cracked several Heisman watchlists throughout his career, but he and his inconstant Spartans simply weren't at that level. Stanton, however, didn't leave the record books untouched: he lead the biggest comeback win in NCAA history.
"I still believe the positives outweigh the negatives . . . He possesses all the physical tools to eventually emerge as a starting quarterback in the NFL, including the size, arm strength and athletic ability . . . also shows the toughness and competitiveness necessary to make it at the next level."
-Todd McShay
Tebow was unquestionably the better college quarterback, but Stanton was unquestionably the better professional prospect. Both quarterbacks went to the Senior Bowl; Stanton completed 8 of 12 passes for 63 yards and a touchdown and was named the North's Offensive MVP. As McShay said, Tebow's week in Mobile "could not have gone worse from an on-the-field standpoint."
Scouts, Inc. graded Stanton as an 87, an "Outstanding Prospect," a high second-round grade. Tebow got a 78, a third-round grade. Most observers (including myself) pegged Tebow as a third-rounder—whether as a long-term quarterback project, or as an an unholy marriage of Chris Cooley and Kordell Stewart: "fullback/H-back/tight end/linebacker."
"Has a well-built, natural frame with good arm length, broad shoulders, developed chest, good bubble, thick thighs . . . thick chest muscles, more in the line of a linebacker, with defined calves . . . Shows good athleticism, with nimble feet that defenses must always account for."
-CBS Sports
The Lions traded down to the 43rd overall pick to select Stanton. Per Scouts, Inc. that was right where he should have been drafted (he was their 41st-ranked prospect). But in the draft, as they say, it only takes one team to fall in love—and then-Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels was smitten with Tebow.
The Broncos dealt the 114th, 70th, and 43rd (!) pick in the 2010 draft to move up to #25 overall and take Tebow. That's right—the Broncos traded away the exact same slot the Lions used to draft Stanton, plus a 3rd- and 4th-rounder, to draft Tebow and make him their quarterback of the future.
"Smart, hard-working and patient with the football. I liked most that I rarely saw him rush things . . . poised in the pocket."
-Matt Miller
Stanton was not beloved by the Lions coaches; offensive coordinator Mike Martz wanted nothing to do with him. McShay said in the wake of the 2010 Senior Bowl that Tim Tebow needed to be completely torn down and rebuilt as a quarterback; Martz tore Stanton down like that but never rebuilt him. The Lions put Stanton on IR to save a roster spot, and he lost a season of mental and physical practice. Stanton's mechanics were ruined, and he was getting no coaching and no reps in Martz's complicated offense.
When Martz was fired after the 2007 season, the Lions simplified the playbook and called in a new quarterbacks coach: former Michigan QB coach Scott Loeffler. Loeffler undid what Martz had done, restoring Stanton's natural throwing motion. Stanton flashed a little of that magic in a preseason game against the Bengals; he threw a 50-yard touchdown and ran for another. I'm embedding this fan-shot video because it is terrible as it is awesome:
Stanton was again injured, and again stashed on IR, and again his progress halted. After one season working with Stanton, Loeffler was hired away from the Lions by the University of Florida—to polish up Tim Tebow.
It's here where Stanton's career as a Lion truly begins, with the hiring of Jim Schwartz and Scott Linehan. With every OTA, training camp, and preseason since Stanton has taken a step forward. Last season, Stanton did what everyone had waited for: he started and won a big game for the Detroit Lions. It wasn't always pretty, but he got the W. His contract ended after last season, but Lions GM Martin Mayhew brought Stanton back:
"Scott [Linehan] came in during year three and we saw a dramatic improvement in his ability, his throwing and his accuracy and all those things got better. But still, they weren't quite where you wanted them to be."
"We got into training camp and he had a pretty good camp, he made plays for us in the preseason. And then late in the year, we called on him to play and start and he won some games for us as a starter. I really didn't envision him doing that prior to this season, being able to get that done."
"I thought he showed a lot of improvement so we plan on having him here this year and seeing if he continues to improve that way."
Tebow went through nearly the opposite path. He was drafted by an organization that believed completely in his ability to be a premier NFL quarterback . . . and then the rug got pulled out from under him. McDaniels was fired, along with anyone who had any investment in Tebow's success. John Elway and John Fox were brought in to start a new-new era of Broncos Football, and Tebow suddenly had to prove his worth.
Last week, Fox trusted Tebow with the starting job, and Tebow delivered victory. Like Stanton's big win against the Packers, Tebow put some ugly stuff on tape—but he made it happen when it counted.
If you hadn't guessed, all of the above scouting blockquotes are about Stanton, not Tebow. It's not a stretch to say that Drew Stanton, as a player, is Tim Tebow's professional upside. They share weaknesses, only Stanton's aren't so weak—and where Tebow's stronger, like literal strength, it's less useful in the NFL.
While Tim Tebow's immaculate character borders on caricature, Stanton is quietly one of the best "good guys" around. His relentless charity work has earned Stanton a perennial stranglehold on the Lions' Robert Porcher Man of the Year award. There will never be a plaque immortalizing a Stanton motivational speech, but Stanton most certainly knows how heavy a football team is when you place one on your back and carry it.
In the infinite possibilities of other dimensions and alternate timelines, there are Drew Stanton who were drafted by a good team that believed in him, and he's now coming off his first Pro Bowl appearance. In others, Tim Tebows are moonlighting on special teams and goal-line offense packages.
In our corner of the multiverse, Tebow is the starting quarterback for a Denver Broncos organization that could be secretly hoping he fails. As Tebow faces the Lions this Sunday, Stanton will be be watching from the sidelines—possibly in street clothes, inactive as the Lions' third quarterback.
Will either have a long, successful NFL career? Eh, flip a coin.
tags: denver broncos, detroit lions, drew stanton, nfl, the quarterbacks, tim tebow
The Hidden Detroit Lions Offense: 1st and 2nd Down
The Lions lost to the Falcons on Sunday, due to an astonishingly poor performance by the offense, and particularly Matthew Stafford. Many noticed the Lions seemed to be "in a lot of third-and-longs," and blamed the lack of a power running game that could keep the Lions offense on schedule.
It's been my contention the Lions use their backs in nontraditional—but effective—ways. If they can run for three or so yards on first down, that gives Stafford and the 7+ yard-per-attempt passing attack two attempts to get seven yards. If they can mix in the screens and draws on which Best and Morris are varyingly effective, they can move the ball very well and score points in bunches.
This has been empirically obvious: through five weeks the Lions had the #2 offense in the NFL, racking up an impressive 31.8 points per game. Subsequently, I have been directing all parties inquiring RE: fat guards and white running backs to talk to that statistical hand.
However, something is not adding up. Maurice Morris and Keiland Williams combined for over five YpC against the Falcons, yet indeed the Lions were constantly facing second- and third-and-long.
Chart?
Chart.
1ST DOWN RUN MM KW NB PASS CJ NB BP TS WH
22/8/6.59 12/2/3.8 7/0/2.0 5/2/6.4 0/0/0.0 10/6/9.9 5/3/16.2 1/0/0.0 1/1/9.0 1/1/6.0 1/1/8.0
2ND DOWN RUN MM KW NB PASS CJ NB BP TS WH
20/7/5.3 7/2/6.6 3/1/12.3 2/0/-1.0 2/1/5.0 13/5/4.62 4/1/6.25 1/0/1.0 3/2/5.0 2/2/13.0 0/0/0.0
TOTAL RUN MM KW NB PASS CJ NB BP TS WH
42/15/5.98 19/4/4.8 10/1/5.1 7/2/4.43 2/1/5.0 23/11/6.91 9/4/11.8 2/0/1.0 4/3/6.0 3/3/10.7 1/1/8.0
The Hidden Game of Football is a seminal book which tops every serious football analyst's reading list (but which I still haven't read). In it, so I am told, the authors outline a new way of defining a successful football play. On first down, a successful play gains four yards. On second down, a successful play gains half the remaining distance to converting the first down. On third down, a successful play converts first down. This theory informs the analysis at awesome websites like Football Outsiders and Advanced NFL Stats.
The chart above is a breakdown of the Lions first- and second-down plays against the Falcons. The first number in each box is the number of plays in that category. The number after the first slash is the number of "successful" plays, and the number after the second slash is the average yards-per-play rate of categorical plays. So.
The Lions faced 22 first-and-10 situations Sunday (including plays wiped out by penalties). They gained at least four yards 8/22 times, and averaged 6.59 yards per play. That sounds kinda okay-ish until you look at the run/pass breakdown: the Lions ran on first down 12 of 22 times, were successful twice, and averaged 3.83 YpC. This meshes with my "3-to-4 yards on first down is okay" theory until we go a little deeper.
Maurice Morris ran seven times on first down, never successfully, and averaged 2.0 yards per carry.
Keiland Williams fared a little better. He gained 4+ yards twice on five carries, including a long one that swelled the average up 6.4 YpC. However, neither could compare to the first-down passing game, which was successful six of ten attempts and averaged 9.9 YpA.
Megatron was targeted five times on first down, successfully three times, for a 16.2 average (yes, the 54-yard touchdown was on first down). Non-Megatron receivers were successful on 3 of 4 targets, for 5.75 YpA.
On second down, things were not much better. The running game chewed up half of the yards needed for conversion just twice on seven carries, though the YpC was an impressive 6.57. Part of that is due to a long run by MoMo, but part of it is the "on schedule" effect: the Lions average distance-to-conversion on second down was eight yards. This includes sacks, penalties, etc., but those count in the game, too. The Lions simply aren't getting enough yards on first down, and it's making second down much harder to convert.
The Lions running game was successful on first- and second-down just 4 of 19 carries, despite an apparently-excellent 4.84 YpC. The passing game was a better-but-still-not-great 11 of 23 plays for 6.91 YpA. Here's the interesting bit, though: non-Megatron receivers were successful on 7 of 11 first- and second-down targets, for 6.09 YpA.
This points towards something else I've been saying: Stafford is pressing. He's trying to force it to Calvin (see CJ's second-down success rate above). Despite the totally ineffective running game, when Stafford spreads the ball around the offense works. I'm wrong about Maurice Morris being a solid first- and second-down tailback, but I'm right that if Stafford does his job that doesn't matter.
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The Fallen Watchtower Review: Lions vs. falcons
I did get something sort-of resembling a Watchtower up before the Falcons game on Sunday, if only just. Without any of the historical breakdown or schematic analysis, I just looked at season ranks and averages. It was done entirely on my iPhone in stolen moments. It looks like it:
The Falcons have the NFL's 17th-ranked offense, averaging 22.5 points per game. The passing attack has garnered a respectable-but-not-great 6.22 YpC, while the rushing game is netting a very solid 4.37 YpC.
The Lions defense is allowing a stingy 19.0 points per game, 7th-fewest in the NFL. Opponents are passing for a miniscule 5.55 YpA, while they're running all over the Lions at a 5.21 YpC clip.
The Falcons power running game directly attacks the Lions defensive Achilles heel. Then again, so did the 49ers, and their offensive output exactly matched my projections. Therefore, I project the Falcons to score 17-20 points, throw for 5.5-6.0 YpA, and run for 5.0-5.25 YpC. I have medium confidence in this projection.
The Falcons scored 23 offensive points, just above what I'd projected. Their passing game slightly outperformed expectations as well, gaining 6.23 YpA--matching their season average to 1/100th of a yard. The running game actually performed BELOW their season average, well below my projections: 4.16 YpC.
This is an example of what I call the "Whack-a-Mole" effect. When a defense has a glaring weakness in one area and they're going up against an offense with a corresponding strength, often the D will "sell out" the strength of their D to shore up the weakness. The net result is usually the same in terms of team scoring and overall per-play effectiveness.
This is best known to fantasy football fiends who are drooling over starting their stud running back against the worst run defense in the league. Somehow that never quite results in 200 yards and 3 TDs, does it? According to Mike Mady at Scout.com, the Lions were emphasizing the back seven stopping the run against the Falcons; could it be that pass coverage suffered as a result? I'll go back and look at this.
The end result of the defense's effort would have looked much better if the Lions' offense hadn't repeatedly hung the defense out to dry:
The Lions offense is still the 4th-best in the NFL, racking up 29.7 points per game. The passing attack is slightly slowed after last week's performance, but still high-flying at 6.99 YpA. The ground game is chugging along at 3.92 YpC.
The Falcons are allowing a ridiculous 7.97 YpA, surely a big part of why they're allowing a 22nd-best 24.5 points per game. The run defense is much better, allowing 3.84 YpC.
The Falcons defense is particularly ill-equipped to stop the Lions pass attack. I project the Lions to score 34-37 points, passing for 9.50-10.0 YpA and rushing for 3.50-3.75 YpC. I have medium confidence in this projection.
The brutal reality: 16 points, 5.72 YpA, and—surprisingly—5.2 YpC.
This is the worst underperformance of expectations I've seen since Daunte Culpepper got the Lions completely shut out by the Packers (I'd projected 24-28 points). Let's be clear, here: the Falcons allowed 8 YpA through six games and faced a team gaining 7 YpA and held them to less than 6 YpA. This does not compute.
This isn't Whack-a-Mole effect, either; if it were the Lions would have rolled up 200 yards on the ground and still scored 34-37 points. This has nothing to do with the Falcons defense and everything to do with the Lions offense playing like a shadow of itself.
Next up: numbers and film.
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Three Cups Deep: Lions vs. Falcons
This Sunday, the Lions lost their second straight game. They—especially, the offense—especially Matthew Stafford——looked nothing like the team that started the season 5-0, scoring 30+ points per game in the process. When the Lions gave up on the first half by running Keiland Williams twice in a row, the boo birds came out. You could hear them at points throughout the second half, as the Lions offense again failed to find the extra gear they had against Dallas and Minnesota.
It's amazing how quickly us fans get accustomed to success. Between December 24th, 2007 and December 18, 2010 the Lions won just five games. The Lions started the 2011 season with five consecutive wins and suddenly we're booing our our team.
I don't understand the entitled fan.
I'm hearing a lot about "wanting to see good effort," as if we'd rather watch a talentless team Rudy their way to a close losses than an extremely young, talented team grow into a dynasty before our eyes. So Matthew Stafford had a bad day at the office; why pouncing on him and ride him like he's Scott Mitchell?
I'm seeing lots of, "I paid good money for those tickets, I deserve to see better than that" today. Deserve to see better than what, 5-2? The Lions in sole possession of the top wild card spot?
Earth to Entitled Lions Fan: it's not because they're not trying, it's because they're not executing. Matthew Stafford isn't seeing the field like he's been all season. The receivers aren't bailing him out like they have all season. Somehow the gameplans which have worked to a "T" all season long aren't putting the players in a position to succeed. Blame the coaches, blame the receivers and yes—blame Stafford. But don't boo him.
When Stafford and the Lions most needed their fans to support them, the fans were booing them. When the defense most needed to the fans to be loud, they were quiet. When Matthew Stafford—and his confidence—were under attack from all angles, Lions fans didn't rally to his defense, they joined in the attack. I can almost hear some loser shouting from the stands, "HEY STAFFORD! WHERE'S YOUR CONFIDENCE, YOU LOUSY BUM!!"
One of the interesting things about soccer—primarily, English soccer—is that the diehard fans aren't called "fans," they're called "supporters." It's an important distinction. We should be supporting our team through thick and thin—especially when the "thin" is a slight lessening of the gloriously lovely "thick" our team has slathered all over the schedule to date. Double-especially when it was so very, very thin for so very, very long.
What's the point of keeping the little blue flame burning all offseason if we're just going to walk away the moment everything isn't perfect? Why spend the longest, bleakest football winter ever refreshing websites and frequenting forums just to turn around and boo the team you allegedly support? It makes no sense—and worse, it makes all the cheering from prior weeks sound craven and false; the worst sort of bandwagoning.
Lions fans aren't entitled to see winning football, any more than Lions players or coaches are entitled to their jobs. Everything that's gone wrong can be put right. Nothing's broken that can't be fixed. Everything that helped the Lions go 5-0 can help them go 6-2. If you're a Detroit Lions fan—a Detroit Lions supporter—then help them climb back up the mountain, don't kick dust in their eyes.
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Fireside Chat, Week 7: Lions vs. Falcons
Here's last night's Fireside Chat podcast:
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Fireside Chat tonight; 10:10 pm!
Hey, all, the Fireside Chat podcast is streaming LIVE tonight via Ustream! Check it out at http://tinyurl.com/firesidechats, about 10:10 pm.
The Fallen Watchtower: Lions vs. Falcons
Unfortunately, between MSU Homecoming, ESPN College GameDay coming to Michigan State, getting a chance to interview the GameDay talent, the all-day tailgate, and watching the game itself, there simply wasn't time to do the Watchtower up right.
The most likely outcome of the game is 35-17 Lions win.
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Milos Forman, director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, has died, aged 86.
A report from the Czech news agency confirmed the news, saying that he died on Friday (April 13) following a short illness.
The filmmaker was one of few foreign directors to gain both critical acclaim and commercial success in Hollywood. In 2012, Forman won the Directors' Guild of America lifetime achievement award.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, starring Jack Nicholson, went on to win five Oscars following its release in 1975. Amadeus (1984) won eight.
Figures from the film industry have paid tribute to Forman. British director Edgar Wright praised his "tremendous filmography that documented the rebel heart and human spirit".
Actor Antonio Banderas hailed Forman a "genius of cinematography and master in the portrayal of the human condition".
Forman's other work includes the rock musical Hair (1979), Ragtime (1981) and The People vs Larry Flint (1996).
The director studied at the Prague Film Academy before emigrating.


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£1 with 5th portrait and Royal Arms reverse – not yet known, but see above.
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I have a £2 coin it is the first world war 1914-1918 2015 an the picture is, what looks like a war ship. Do you know the mintage of theses coin.
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Shared value is yet to take off in Australia, but more companies aspire to incorporate it into their business strategy, a report of ASX 100 companies found.
In the first report of its kind, called The State of Shared Value in Australia, the Shared Value Project sought responses from 163 companies, targeted at the ASX 100 as well as organisations with significant experience in the field.
Forty-one companies completed the survey and, of that number, 46 per cent said they are currently pursuing a shared value strategy or had done so in the past.
Shared Value Project Executive Director, Helen Steel, said that while shared value is in its early stages, awareness is growing.
"Shared value is somewhat in its infancy, although others would argue as it is the evolution of CSR it's been around for a long time, but I think most companies here are in the aspirational stage – aspiring to understand what shared value is and how it can benefit their organisation," Steel said.
"Certainly we're seeing a much broader understanding, or companies are talking more about shared value than before, and this is seen not only in the corporate sector but in the consulting sector as well, there's a lot more conversation.
In addition to economic and social return, 100 per cent of respondents agreed that a shared value strategy builds brand value for their organisation.
Stronger employee engagement is identified as another benefit, yet paradoxically the report also found "internal perceptions of what is meant by shared value and why it's worth the effort" is a major challenge for organisations.
"For shared value to be taken seriously as a competitive business strategy, perceptions within the organisation need to be changed," the report said.
However, the report also found that the terminology used by companies and how they define socially-focussed work is varied.
"Many companies who did not describe their strategy as shared value are in fact delivering strategies that create shared value – this raises the question of how important it is to have a shared vocabulary," the report said.
A further inconsistency highlighted by the report is the lack of a clear pattern between a company's core business and their shared value initiatives.
"It was interesting that there wasn't any correlation necessarily between the sector that the company operated in and the types of social issues that they were trying to address," Steel said.
"Financial services sector weren't necessarily trying to help with financial literacy or education.
Despite the challenges, Steel expects significant short-term progress in the shared value field.
"Companies, once they get it, are certainly adopting it quite quickly," she said.
"Companies are paying attention right now and I think Australia is an interesting market to conduct this sort of survey in.
"As a relatively small but very wealthy nation, once we decide to innovate and once we decide that there's value in this type of activity, the take-up I think will happen very quickly.


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We've probably known people who had a reputation of being lazy. In fact, people joke about their being a "couch potato," a word that means "a person who spends much time sitting or lying down, usually watching television." Thus, a couch potato is a lazy and slothful person, with nothing better to do than to lie around.
One of the traditional "seven deadly sins" is slothfulness. Sloth means "aversion to work or exertion; laziness; indolence." A sluggard is "a slothful person; an idler," and it means "lazy." Lazy means "resistant to work or exertion; disposed to idleness." Apparently all three terms are contemporary, but we believe that "laziness" is the more common.
We know that the Christian is to be earnest, fervent, diligent, and active. Paul says we are not to be "lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord" (Romans 12:11). This doesn't sound like a lazy and indolent person, does it! The Hebrew writer says that we are not to be "sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises" (6:12). This says that the spiritually sluggish person will not inherit God's promises. Paul writes, "Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord" (1 Corinthians 15:58). If we are "always abounding" in God's work, we cannot continue with a sluggish attitude toward life and work. Even Franklin recognized the value of diligence. One of his 13 virtues was "industry," and his principle was: "Lose no time, be always employed in something useful, cut off all unnecessary actions." While Franklin wasn't a true Christian, this is good advice.
Proverbs has much to say about the sin of slothfulness. "The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing" (13:4a). "The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway" (15:19). "He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys" (18:9). "Laziness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle man will suffer hunger" (19:15). "The desire of the sluggard puts him to death, for his hands refuse to work" (21:25). "The sluggard says, 'There is a lion in the road! A lion is in the open square!' As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is weary of bringing it to his mouth again. The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can give a discreet answer" (26:13-16).
As we can see, the writer of Proverbs has nothing good to say about the lazy or slothful person who refuses to work and be active. He counsels the sluggard, "Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise" (6:6). Have you ever observed ants at their ant hill? There is constant motion, continual activity, incessant work! We are to learn from this little, busy creature of God!
If we are intent upon leading the most comfortable life possible, we are acting contrary to Jesus' command that we should lose our lives and deny ourselves. . . . If we cannot give up our demands for comfort, for much free time and rest, for better pay, they will make it impossible for us to use our time and energy for Jesus. . . . So we have to let Jesus' words pierce our hearts, learn to abhor our softness and love of comfort and in faith renounce what would make us unfit to serve Jesus properly. That means, for instance, giving up our desire for special comforts, for the most beautiful home, for the best interior decorating and for the food that we especially enjoy.
Keeping Jesus in mind, whom we want to follow, we must repent and take a new path, for example if we have let our family or others serve us more than necessary, or if we have avoided difficult work and in these ways have left the path of Jesus. Jesus tells us, "I am among you as one who serves" (Luke 22:27). . . . When we serve others, not asking for anything special or unnecessary, and not expecting any comfort, we are not only on Jesus' way, we are actually bound to Him. That is why, in spite of all the sacrifice, it is not a difficult way.
Apparently there were some brothers in Thessalonica who were also lazy and refused to work. Paul writes, "We hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined live, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies" (2 Thessalonians 3:11). He says that these lazy ones are to "work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread" (v. 12). In contrast, the faithful brothers are commanded, "Do not grow weary of doing good" (v. 13). In one of Jesus' parables (the Parable of the Talents), He has the master say, "You wicked, lazy slave" (Matthew 25:26). Laziness and wickedness are directly related! This is a character trait that we need to renounce so that we can begin to live an active life of service to the Lord and to others.
 Schlink, You Will Never be the Same, pp. 166-167.


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15820 (1994 TB)
Large Trans-Neptunian Object
Space Reference » Trans-Neptunian Objects » 15820 (1994 TB)
Categorized as a Trans-Neptunian Object
Comparable in size to the U.S. state of Connecticut
Not a Near Earth Object
15820 (1994 TB) is a large asteroid whose orbit extends beyond the orbit of Neptune. NASA JPL has not classified 1994 TB as potentially hazardous because its orbit does not bring it close to Earth.
1994 TB orbits the sun every 90,100 days (246.68 years), coming as close as 26.96 AU and reaching as far as 51.72 AU from the sun. Based on its brightness and the way it reflects light, 1994 TB is probably between 92.163 to 206.082 kilometers in diameter, making it larger than 99% of asteroids, very roughly comparable in size to the U.S. state of Connecticut.
The rotation of 1994 TB has been observed. It completes a rotation on its axis every 6.50 hours.
No Close Approaches
1994 TB's orbit is 26.00 AU from Earth's orbit at its closest point. This means that there is an extremely wide berth between this asteroid and Earth at all times.
Orbital simulations conducted by NASA JPL's CNEOS do not show any close approaches to Earth.
1994 TB's orbit is determined by observations dating back to Oct. 13, 1994. It was last officially observed on Dec. 31, 2019. The IAU Minor Planet Center records 162 observations used to determine its orbit.
These objects have orbits that share similar characteristics to the orbit of 1994 TB:
535032 (2014 WP510)
1999 JK132
2001 FJ193
Semi-major axis: 39.34 AU
Inclination: 12.14°
Argument of Periapsis: 98.72°
Mean Anomaly: 2.18°
Diameter: ~118.981 km
Orbit Period: 90,100 days (246.68 years)
Avg. Orbit Speed: 4.75 km/s
Aphelion Distance: 51.72 AU
Perihelion Distance: 26.96 AU
Rotation Period: 6.50 hours
The position of 15820 (1994 TB) is indicated by a ◯ pink circle. Note that the object may not be in your current field of view. Use the controls below to adjust position, location, and time.


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Op-Ed/Opinion
An Alum's Defense of Genderfuck
by Kat Clark
Editor's note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore's online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG.
Dear Swatties,
Given the recent threats to the continued existence of the Genderfuck Party and the questions surrounding its goals, I have decided to break the normally accepted boundaries of post-Swat life to come to the party's defense. In doing so, I also want to attempt to set the record straight on the party's recently fraught history.
In 2008, the Genderfuck Party was pretty much a disaster. Having heard about Sager before arriving at Swarthmore, I joined the planning committee because I loved the idea of Genderfuck and throwing a huge, queer bash. As a first year student, it was difficult to see just how far the party had veered off course. At the time, Genderfuck was still connected to the Queer Issues Symposium (then known as Sager), in name but not spirit. Even though I was technically affiliated with Sager, my responsibilities to the party prevented me from attending more than two of the Symposium's events. The symposium took place while I was off shopping for chips, throwing tinsel around Olde Club, and unsuccessfully dying fabrics in highlighter fluid. The party had few formal rules and very little oversight. It wasn't until 2009, when the Symposium announced its formal separation and several of its planners gave accounts of many students' bad experiences, that I came to fully understand the problems facing the party and how I had been complicit in creating such an unsafe environment. In spite of the formal disassociation and after holding meetings with the Symposium committee, a few of us who had been involved in the Party decided it was still worthwhile to maintain as a separate entity, but only by fully committing ourselves to its original goal as a queer-postive, sex-positive party for creative, non-normative performances of gender.
Fireside chats were held at DU and the WRC (at the time two of the party's venues) to discuss safety, sex positivity, and the problems of heteronormativity/sexism at Genderfuck. The party became closed to Swatties and queer Tri-Co students to ensure that people got the message of the party and so that we could limit the amount of random, potentially hostile guests. Arrangements were set up with PA's and SHC's to provide a safety net for people who felt uncomfortable, and the WRC became a dry space with lots of light and soft drinks and snacks for people who wanted to participate, but in a more low-key atmosphere. Finally, the slogan "Guys wear a dress, girls wear less" was publicly dropped and all descriptions of the party included explanations of what Genderfuck actually is, and the various ways in which one can take part in it.
These changes seemed to positively impact people's experiences at the party and so they were maintained. In 2011, the administration got much more involved, a more robust relationship was made with the PA's, and the party was relocated from three separate spaces to Sharples. Again, it appeared as though progress was made towards building a safer, better Genderfuck.
I find administrators now saying that the party has "mutated" over the past 6-7 years and has been run by organizers who never "wanted to take the full responsibility of it" disingenuous and personally offensive. It ignores these past efforts and falsely characterizes the current state of Genderfuck. More importantly, it avoids the difficulty of building a robustly safe and queer party space by simply opting out. At times, this campus-wide party has been organized by as few as two people who worked tirelessly to secure funds, hand out wrist-bands, escort Tri-Co guests, and clean up after the party, not because we "wanted to plan it and say that [we] planned it," but because we were committed to the party's original goals. It is especially troubling that these same administrators who profess to care about the goals of Genderfuck refuse to say the word, even after having heard our defenses of the party in a series of meetings and becoming familiar with the meaning of the term.
I am more than willing to admit that the party has had its problems and that the limited manpower has resulted in inefficient planning. The party needs to evolve and concerns over creating a safer Genderfuck always need to be addressed and be taken seriously. I think having more people involved in its organization and better coordinating efforts with DART, the SHC's, members of ASAP, and PA's will be a huge step forward. After that, there is only so much party planners can do. Without a serious campus-wide reflection on the purpose of Genderfuck and the impact of marginalization and victimization at social events, these goals will never be fully realized. As I said before to critics of the party, getting rid of Genderfuck doesn't get rid of the underlying problems. What it does get rid of is a party that is unabashedly queer and sex-positive, a party that aims to liberate Swatties, if only for one night, from the relentless bombardment of messages that say we are defined by our bodies and forever confined to conventional standards of self-presentation. Other opportunities for subverting gender norms, such as the brilliant move in recent years to genderfuck in class a few days before the party, are all part of a concerted effort to make Swarthmore as a school a safer, more accepting place.
For the administration to say that it embraces "a celebration of gender/queer identity," while placing the Genderfuck Party on the chopping block makes little sense. It unfairly provides all other parties with a free pass, while suggesting that radically queer gestures like genderfucking can only take place in dry environments. I don't mean to suggest that the administration is actually unsupportive of queer parties, but rather wish to emphasize that targeting Genderfuck while tacitly supporting other large scale events with similar histories of assault and dangerous levels of inebriation (like the Halloween Party) and the diffuse, underlying culture and structures of abuse is logically inconsistent and misplaces the original concern for student safety.
When I graduated last year, I passed on a cherished pair of 6 inch lace-up, patent pleather ankle boots to my only non-Senior roommate. I wore them in a Twiggy inspired outfit, complete with 5 o'clock shadow to accompany the exaggerated Mod maquillage on my eyes. The boots were purchased on eBay from a charming man who photographs elderly drag queens and gender-benders. He assured me upon confirmation of my purchase that the shoes would be shipped discretely in a plain brown box for my safety and warned me to practice walking in them before I wore them out. I share these details to emphasize the truly transgressive potential of Genderfuck. Dressing against normative standards of gender poses a very real risk of exclusion and violence, which is why even this simple exchange of goods took place out of view and established a unique, if only momentary, form of social solidarity. Genderfuck celebrates the courage of those who regularly participate in gender's subversion and encourages anyone and everyone to take part. It was never about simply taking off one's clothes or putting on a silly dress (although silly dresses are certainly to be encouraged and jokes can be powerful tools for uncovering the contingency of gender) but about considering how these brief gestures might lead to acceptance and self-love.
My hope is that my former roommate will still be able to wear my heels proudly with the sartorial sophistication that I know he is capable of. Denying him or anyone else that opportunity goes against Swarthmore's core values.
Alex Weintraub
genderfuck
MC Mazzocchi says:
More eloquent than anything I've said or will say. Thank you.
A junior says:
Post-Swat boundary-breaking or not, I'm glad you wrote this and the Gazette published it. I have had very negative feelings about Genderfuck for a long time, and this article reminded me of what's worthy in the concept.
Clara Badimon '10 says:
Beautifully written, Alex. Thank you for breaking the boundary and expressing yourself. While the Sager/Genderfuck party has certainly missed the mark in the past, I agree with you wholeheartedly in its importance and its potential. I hope that the current Swarthmore community recognizes this as well and that the Genderfuck Party will continue and will become a truly safe space for all.
Ben Adams '16 says:
The legacies left by people like you are the reasons I immediately fell in love with Swarthmore. Thank you!
Final Senior Exhibition: Miyuki Baker '12
After Genderfuck: Queer Parties Explained for the Ignorant
For first time in decades, no Genderfuck event this year
Rest in peace, Genderfuck
Just a phase: Genderfuck is over


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Q: How to use limit and offset to page through the data I am new to SQLite and I don't know how to use limit and offset to select a limit number of data from the database, I mean I know the query phrase, but how to use it in a cursor so I can get those data into a listview?
Currently I am using the code below to query data from the database and show them in a listview but it seems I query too much data for one query and the SQLite fail to grow, so I want to split the query into some smaller ones and do it in one time,someone suggested me to try limit and offset,but I googled it there are really not much about it on the Internet.
Would somebody kindly provide me the guide to this? an example or a tutoral, anything will do,thx
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        c = mDB.getHandle().query(table, columns, null, null, null, null, null);

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                R.layout.channelview,
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                new String[] {mDB.KEY_POSTER, mDB.KEY_CHANNEL, mDB.KEY_DBLINK},
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        adapter.setViewBinder(new ChannelViewBinder(this));

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A: pass the last argument with number as string like you need fetch 10 then you can do like this way
c = mDB.getHandle().query(table, columns, null, null, null, null, null,"10");

for more reference see How to use the LIMIT argument in an SQLite Query with Android


"Red" is what sets Donald Carlson aside from other glass artists. All colors of glass, with the exception of red, are easily made. The formulas are simple, do it right, and the true color is achieved. But with red, there are variables, and not always within the control of the artist, but to his enduring credit, Carlson is the master. Carlson produces simple, eloquent pieces that stand alone in their beauty, but his red's best demonstrate the artistic and technical control expected an outstanding glass blower.


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By glabwrites	Resist
Hot Air: Human Heroes
Babe Ruth, for at least half a century, was the most famous professional athlete in existence. Perhaps even the most famous person, period. His name was so intertwined with the game — and, by extension, with America itself — that Japanese soldiers in World War II running toward US positions would scream, "Fuck Babe Ruth!"
Sportswriters and even Hollywood screenwriters spun tales worthy of a descendent god about him. He visited a dying kid in the hospital and promised to hit a home run for him; he did so and the kid recovered. He got mad at the pitcher in the 1932 World Series, pointed toward the bleachers and immediately hit a home run in that very spot. He hit a dog with a vicious line drive once and scooped the critter up in his arms and ran down the street, still wearing his spikes, to get the pooch to the veterinarian
All bullshit. Pure bullshit.
Sports fans lapped it all up and sportswriters endeared themselves to their subjects by churning out such hagiographic drivel.
Here are a few facts about the Babe that the newspapermen of his day kept under their hats.
Ruth missed almost a third of the 1925 season when he was hospitalized for what newspapers characterized as the "big bellyache heard 'round the world." Supposedly, the Babe had eaten too many hot dogs at one sitting. The essential untruth of that story is easily debunked: people overeat all the time; they don't have to go to the hospital and miss several months of work. Nevertheless, that was the generally accepted spin. Truth was, Babe Ruth had either contracted a venereal disease (he was a profligate, nearly pathological swordsman, another factoid neatly glossed over by reporters) or was institutionalized so he could "dry out," the preferred terminology of the day for alcoholic rehab.
Ruth and his teammate Lou Gehrig originally were quite friendly but eventually became estranged. Sportswriters ascribed their chill to mutual jealousy or some other such innocuous human failing. The truth, once again, was far more fascinating. It seems one off-season the New York Yankees sailed around the world so they could play exhibition games in foreign countries. At one point during the barnstorming tour, several sources agree, Lou Gehrig burst into the Babe's room and the two had it out. Gehrig's wife, you see, was in Ruth's room at the time and either was drunk (she'd been trying to stay away from booze but Ruth got her drinking) or was in the process of having sex with the Yankee's cleanup hitter. Either way, Ruth and Gehrig did not speak for years afterward.
Two essential truths emerge:
The American public too often prefers whitewashed hokum to harsh truth
Professional baseball players forever have been young (both chronologically and psychologically) knuckleheads whose morals and everyday behavior resemble that of rutting hogs more than cultural icons.
God forbid journalists might reveal certain truths about our holy land's cherished sports heroes. That's the way sports reporting went until the spring of 1970 when baseball pitcher Jim Bouton's memoir of his 1969 season, Ball Four, was released by World Publishing.
Bouton told the unvarnished truth about what went on in Major League Baseball dugouts, clubhouses, team planes and hotels, and the saloons ballplayers frequented until the wee hours. Ballplayers routinely took methamphetamine pills, "greenies," before games. Entire teams would climb up to the roof of Washington's Shoreham Hotel so they could peep in guests' windows (the structure was L-shaped) in hopes of seeing women undress. Mickey Mantle and his coterie of pals drank like fish. General managers cheated players out of money as a matter of course. Ballplayers cheated on their wives and girlfriends just as frequently.
Bouton emerges from the baseball commissioner's office after being excoriated for writing Ball Four.
Ball Four was a rollicking, groundbreaking — hell, even revolutionary — sports book. It not only told the tale of pro baseball players in the late 1960s, it addressed race relations, anti-war protests, the generation gap, literacy and anti-intellectualism, labor unionism, and a plethora of timely, timeless topics. It was named one of the books of the century by the New York Public Library. Time magazine named it one of the 100 greatest nonfiction books of all time.
I read it in the summer of 1970 when I was 14 years old. I already was hooked on baseball, thanks mainly to my mother who faithfully followed the Chicago Cubs on her transistor radio as she kneaded bread dough. At that age, I was ripe to fall in thrall to a witty, comparatively sophisticated, iconoclastic jock. After devouring Bouton's book, I turned around and read it again, cover to cover. I've re-read it a dozen or more times since.
I loved the idea of poking authorities in the eye, sneering at hidebound fuddy-duddies, overturning the apple cart, and spitting into the wind. Ball Four changed not only the jock memoir forever but sportswriting in general as well. Over the next few years, I'd recognize that journalists like Mike Royko and Studs Terkel, my heroes, had been doing the same things in the political and social arenas too. Years after that, I discovered Molly Ivins who, too, was a rebel. They all — Bouton included — were cut from the same bolt of cloth.
Jim Bouton last week, Wednesday, at the age of 80. He'd been battling cerebral amyloid angiopathy and had suffered a debilitating stroke in 2012.
Tonight, I plan to dig through my boxes of books to find my well-worn copy of Ball Four. I can't wait to read it for the umpteenth time.
[ Here's a terrific interview with Bouton, aided by his wife, Dr. Paula Kurman, a speech therapist. Bouton, at the time of the interview, had great difficulty speaking and remembering. His final days must have been a special hell for such a gifted raconteur. ]
Bouton and his wife, Dr. Paula Kurman, dance outside their home.
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Yes indeed, 'Ball Four' was quite the exposé! Another column knocked right out of the park, Michael! 🙂


This is a personal viewpoint which I hope explains a little about how Canberra Nature Map evolved from a simple concept to a complex and sophisticated nature mapping website. Also see "Afterward, 5 December 2018".
The Canberra Spider Orchid, Caladenia actensis, was the inspiration for the creation of Canberra Nature Map (CNM) and its logo. This orchid is an endangered plant that is endemic to the ACT. When Aaron Clausen accidentally encountered these beautiful orchids he began a search to find out more about them and how to ensure their continued survival. Eventually he linked up with Michael Mulvaney who is a senior environmental planner in Conservation Planning and Research (CPR) in Environment ACT. Following discussion with Michael, Aaron decided to create a small website to map the location of these orchids using GPS technology.
After some months and continued discussions with Michael, the concept grew to cover rare plants in general. With Aaron's talent and professional IT experience, and Michael's long career in working as a botanist, biologist and ecologist they put together the basics for a website to map rare plants in the ACT.
In May 2014 I received an email from Michael, inviting me to join in helping with the running of the website, by being a Local Moderator for Tuggeranong Hill and Rob Roy Nature Reserves. This meant taking responsibility for the website content of these reserves. I cautiously accepted and began getting to know the website (username michaelb). I was very impressed with the concept and saw it had a great potential. It was also an opportunity to show off the great diversity of native flora that I had discovered in my area.
A short time later I explained my ideas for the project and its future and told them of my plans to use CNM to document the local flora in the above reserves as well as the nearby Murrumbidgee River Corridor using my stash of old photographs. Seeing my enthusiasm Aaron made me an administrator for the website so I could help with its development. Again I was cautious about this new role, but eventually found it to be very fruitful, and the three of us have done it ever since. During the 1970s and 1980s my public service career was in computer programming and systems analysis, and this background made me quite useful to the development of the website.
The amateur naturalist members often didn't know the difference between common plants and rare ones, so it was soon realised that, in order to optimise the recording of rare plants, we had to fully embrace reporting common ones. It was also very valuable to know about the complex flora communities that rare plants were part of. Then, by the end of 2014 we were receiving reports of exotic plants and noxious weeds. A few of our regular users were shocked and protested. At first we tried to separate them away from our normal records, but as they kept coming in we had to make an adjustment and embrace exotic plants and weeds as well. So we began to cover the whole range of wild plants. This has been extremely useful. Our knowledge of the whereabouts of rare plants has grown enormously since our humble beginnings. Also the Park Rangers have become involved and if a serious weed problem is reported then Michael can inform them immediately, and they can use the GPS location to go directly to the site and deal with it.
This is how our growth has happened, in a natural organic way, learning as we go, being responsive to the needs of our users and accepting their discoveries willingly.
It has been a huge job to create a plant species structure which is easy for amateurs to understand yet scientifically sound, as well as getting the spelling right for all those names, doing countless identifications, selecting the best photos for our species lists, etc. The efforts of Betty Woods and Michael Mulvaney need to be acknowledged here. Betty Woods kindly allowed us to bulk-import the photos of regional plants, with locations, from her and Don Woods' books. Also David Nicholls (ferns), Heino Lepp (fungi, mosses, etc.) and Tony Wood (orchids) were there for us from the start.
Our greatest success has been with plants, and now after several years of receiving sightings and much support from local enthusiasts, our plant species lists and photographs are quite excellent and the major source of information and education on the flora of the ACT.
At the time I joined CNM there was a very limited agenda, namely the mapping of rare plants with photographic data solely from modern digital cameras with GPS tracking technology. All my photos were from a pre-digital camera, and most of them were of common native plants. It was not difficult to persuade Aaron and Michael to broaden their horizons and accept historical photos without GPS data. So Aaron amended the reporting process and linked into Google Maps so that all that was required to give the location of a plant was to click on the point on a map. This utility is now given to users on request; such users are called 'Trusted Contributors' and have elevated privileges.
There has always been a big emphasis on accuracy of data. From the beginning CNM developed a strong relationship with the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). Our sightings are exported to them. In reality what happens is that on a regular basis they scan our website and take a copy of all new sightings that have come in since their last visit, as well as all those which have been edited in any way. They like our data because it is verified by experts, and they make great use of our photographs that become part of their galleries. We align our species names with theirs for this reason. Michael and Aaron have meetings with their staff at CSIRO when necessary to discuss any issues.
Aaron is a mountain biker and loves the great outdoors, and enjoyed photographing orchids and putting them on the website when he got home. But he realised that the process would be much quicker if he could take the photos and load them onto the Internet on the spot. So he started the development of an App, so he could do it with his iPhone. This required paying another party to do the work. Later he had someone do the same App for Android. This was very expensive and cost tens of thousands of dollars. Fortunately he has been able to recoup the money from government grants and nowadays he looks after the App software himself. But this broadening of the method for reporting has been a great boost to the reporting and also membership.
As the months progressed it became clear to Aaron that this project was very useful and practical and that the platform could be transferable to cover areas other than Canberra. So he then began rewriting the software in such a way that other areas and projects could be taken on without too much effort, provided there were the willing local experts. The new platform is called NatureMapr and CNM is its primary project.
After our successful beginning with plants we gradually broadened our coverage to include various types of fauna. We began with reptiles and frogs in 2015, linking up with ACT Herpetological Association through Geoff Robertson and with Frogwatch via Anke Maria Hoefer. Gradually our members took on this expanded coverage. When these two faunal groups were running well we added butterflies with the help of Suzie Bond. Then we became emboldened enough to try birds. This was a much more difficult task because we wanted to incorporate the Canberra Ornithologists Group (COG) database into CNM. They have been surveying birds around Canberra and nearby for many years, and their data is invaluable. We tried at first adding a part of the database, with about 1 million records. This being done the whole system collapsed and our software failed.
Despite Aaron's best efforts to fix it there was no recovery. The problem was the jump from several thousand records to over a million, and everything was going too slow and we kept having system crashes. So Aaron reluctantly cut the COG data out, and began a period of rewriting some of the more inefficient software.
Eventually we were ready and added back the COG data. This time things went more smoothly. By the beginning of 2016 the bird section was in full flight with Chris Davey as our leading expert. The contribution from bird enthusiasts grew well and we now have excellent photos of many of our birds and a happy relationship with the COG people who can use our website to explore their data in a new way.
In the winter of 2016 we quietly added mammals. Then in August 2016 we took on the enormous task of receiving sightings of all insects and other arthropods (mainly spiders but also centipedes, scorpions, etc.). Our founding experts here were Kim Pullen and Roger Farrow. The huge number of species and the number of different sorts of insects and spiders made this a very complex addition. Since I know very little about insects and spiders, my organising their addition has been 'a steep learning curve' to say the least.
Our members have been very keen to participate. In the second half of January 2017 the number of sightings of insects and spiders was roughly double those for plants. This was a significant moment for CNM and a gigantic leap forward from the original plan for the website. Gradually we are getting the support of specialist entomologists for more of the insect groups. Although at the time of writing we have 17 experts just for insects and other arthropods we need more to cover them properly.
Overall the development of CNM has been an enormous task, with thousands of hours of volunteer work. At the time I joined there were only about 50 members and just a few experts covering plants, fungi and mosses, etc. Since then our membership has grown to over 1000 and we have nearly 40 experts covering over 4000 species in the various fauna and flora groups.
We now map the location and abundance of most types of wildlife in the Canberra region, in a way that is useful to science and researchers as well as easy and enjoyable for members. This is our basic purpose.
We also aim to present the flora and fauna we have recorded in a way that is educational and informative, with species lists and photographic libraries. The website is a venue to communicate and share knowledge in a friendly setting which is run almost entirely by volunteers. We also provide the ACT Government with readily accessible and up to date locational information. This is used in decisions regarding the protection and enhancement of Canberra's natural treasures and is a significant benefit of the project. In return the Government provides funding for the website hosting expenses. From its very simple beginnings CNM has become a highly sophisticated and valuable wildlife mapping website and is a leader in this field.
For the future we are set up to extend the coverage of NatureMapr to other regions, such as we have done with ALCW, and there are several possibilities in the pipeline. We also intend to allow for reports using sound recordings of animals instead of photos. This is especially valuable for frogs, which are very hard to see let alone to photograph, and also birds. We would also like to include private properties as defined locations when they are managed for conservation purposes. The accuracy of our altitude data will be improved too, and lots more.
But for the moment we are taking a break from expansion. We are happy with the enormous progress we have made and want to consolidate for a while. Also Aaron is a new father and has increased family duties as well as his demanding professional career to cope with. However, there will be further growth and change in the future, when time allows. With technology always changing we will have to continue to evolve and we look forward to the challenges ahead.
Since the above essay was written CNM has continued to grow and develop. In the winter of 2017 we increased our coverage to include fish.
Our membership is growing quickly. We now have 1900 members and the number of moderators is now up to about 80. So the number of people using the website continues to grow as well, and at this point our success is a problem in itself. Some key modules in the system have been failing intermittently due to the volume of traffic on the website. So Aaron and new volunteer IT specialist Rohan Thomas are rewriting some of the underlying software to make it more efficient. A part of this has been the addition of a "Maintenance" utility which performs a lot of routine functions in the background and enables sighting reports to be completed faster. Because of this there is a delay time between when a sighting report is received and when the sighting appears in other parts of the website.
Aaron has also put a lot of his energy toward improving the performance of the smartphone Apps. They have been overhauled and new versions released. This should make contributing to CNM easier and smoother.
Earlier in the year we created a new website, the Atlas of Life Budawang Coast (ALBC) with a new group of administrators based in the Milton-Ulladulla area. To do this we reduced the area covered by our first coastal website, ALCW which is based in the Bega area. The new group covers the northern section of the coastline and mountain ranges adjacent to the CNM. So now we have three main websites with common boundaries supported by the NatureMapr platform. You can see the new boundaries for these two coastal projects at: ALCW boundaries and ALBC boundaries.
We have also created a new website for FrogWatch, which is a different concept in that it is strictly for accumulating data on frogs and accepts surveys with a number of species in each report. The main focus of the surveys by FrogWatch members is at particular "Points of Interest". The Points of Interest concept has been broadened for general use throughout our website network and allows us to monitor species present within a certain radius of a single point on the map. The FrogWatch website will also accept sightings and surveys from non-FrogWatch members away from the Points of Interest. Note that the FrogWatch website is not fully developed yet. Its project boundaries are the same as for CNM.
Another important change this year has been the addition of Audio reporting to the NatureMapr platform. All of our websites, CNM, ALCW, ALBC and FrogWatch accept Audio sightings. This is particularly valuable for frogs and birds, since all frogs and some birds are difficult to photograph. The audio file format used is MPEG4 (.m4a), which is comparable with iPhones.
Improvements have been made in our ability to bulk import data from historical surveys. These tools are available only to administrators but provide valuable information about species abundance and distribution for a great variety of species over time. This information is especially important for research purposes and adds significant value to our database.
In November the NatureMapr platform with the associated websites won the prestigious Banksia Community Award for 2018. It is given by the Banksia Foundation for sustainability at the national level.
As you can see we have been very busy, and the size and complexity of the NatureMapr system is such that the work of maintenance of the software is a very large job. So what was originally a hobby for Aaron is now much more than that and requires a lot of dedicated time, more than can be provided by a person who needs to earn a living and support a family. If he is to continue maintaining and developing CNM and the NatureMapr system he needs to have money coming in to support this work. Paying the bills from internet service providers is quite expensive. We are grateful for the support we have received from the ACT Government, the Australian Native Plant Society and the people running the coastal websites. However our current financial and workload situation is impractical and impossible for the future. So an important major step for us is to find long-term committed funding.
Another important addition has been the assistance of a talented IT specialist in Rohan Thomas, user name RohanT. Rohan is still learning the ropes but he has shown great enthusiasm and ability and has begun to make a significant contribution.


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Biografia
Short viene ricordato per essere stato il segretario privato di Thomas Jefferson quando quest'ultimo faceva il commissario per la pace in Francia. Short considerava Jefferson suo mentore. In una sua lettera, il terzo presidente americano definiva l'amico un "figlio adottivo".

Short fu uno dei primi membri e presidente (1778–1781) della Phi Beta Kappa del College di William e Mary, ed entrò fece parte del Consiglio esecutivo della Virginia dal 1783 al 1784. Durante la rivoluzione francese (1789–92), svolse in Francia il ruolo di incaricato d'affari degli Stati Uniti. Nel 1792, Short fu nominato ministro d'America nei Paesi Bassi e dal 1794 al 1795 prestò servizio in qualità di commissario per i trattati in Spagna. Nel 1804, Short fu eletto membro dell'American Philosophical Society. Sebbene non fosse mai riuscito a ottenere il prestigio che egli desiderava, e la sua amata, la nobildonna Alexandrine Charlotte de Rohan-Chabot, avesse preferito unirsi sentimentalmente a un altro uomo, Short fu un uomo d'affari di successo e divenne molto facoltoso.

Short morì nel 1849.

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State Gun Control Laws, Do You Know Your Rights?
Violence is on our streets, in our communities, and in our schools. Chicago weekend street violence has become a constant, so much so that no one seems to be surprised at the total number of people who are murdered on any given weekend. Whenever we have a school shooting or any other violent act in which a gun is used, the subject of gun control will inevitably be introduced soon thereafter.
Gun control, as we know it, is a regulation of the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, and use of firearms. Proponents of gun control argue that it is needed in order to control crime and to reduce violence. While opponents insist that there is a Constitutional right in this country to bear arms (own a gun) established by our founding fathers, and that right cannot be infringed upon or abridged by any laws enacted by the individual states. It should be noted that United States has some of the most liberal "gun laws" in the world. By comparison, such countries like the United Kingdom have very strict limitations on gun possession.
The Illinois Gun Control laws prohibit, the sale, possession, and use of such weapons as machine guns; rifles with barrel less than 16 inches; shotguns with barrel less than 18 inches or any weapon made from a rifle or a shotgun and has a length less than 26 inches. It is also illegal to possess or use stun guns (Tasers); explosive or metal piercing bullets, or silencers.
Persons serving a prison sentence; or anyone who had been convicted and served time for a felony.
At some point, if you decide that you want to own a gun, it would be a very good idea to take some form of gun safety course to prepare you for the handling and storing of a firearm in order to avoid any unfortunate accidents. If you have children in your home, remember, children will think that a gun is a toy. Take special precautions that your children will never be able to gain access to your firearm. You will also need to know what your state requirements are for purchasing a firearm.
If you are involved in a criminal case where the possession or use of a firearm is involved, or if you just need some legal assistance in understanding your rights and responsibilities as a gun owner, you should contact an experienced criminal defense attorney.
If accused of a crime, it is important that you know what your rights are, and how to protect them. The need for an experienced criminal defense attorney begins with the charge and arrest. Knowing your rights is the first step in the process, and continues thereafter through a possible trial to acquittal or sentencing. So if you are being charged with any crime, including murder, sexual assault or battery, and would like to discuss all of the potential defenses available to you, call the Law Offices of David Freidberg today, at (312) 560-7100, or send an email, for a no-obligation consultation.


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