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Posts Tagged 'social housing'
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Thomas Tenison (1636- 1715) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1694 until his death. Archibishop Tenison School, Lambeth High St, and according to Wikipedia founded boys schools in Lambeth in 1685 and Croydon in 1714. A school for 12 girls began in Lambeth in 1706, and this was built as a new girls' school in 1863. In 1961 the school amalgamated with a nearby Church of England boys school and this building went out of use, though it was later used as an annexe to the combined school until this closed in 1974. It has since been demolished and replaced by a hostel.
Bennett House in Page St, Wesminster is a Grade II listed tenement courtyard block of flats built in 1928-30. It was a part of the Westminster Housing Scheme for the Grosvenor Estate and Sir Edwin Lutyens acted as consultant; the listing text calls it "An imaginative Lutyens treatment of a standard LCC type of housing block."
I admired the stark simplicity of the Unemployment Benefit Office on Chadwick St, Westminster. It remained in use – with changes in name – closing as a Job Centre Plus in 2017.
New office buildings seen from Old Pye Street in 1987. Parts of this still remain though rather more difficult to see.
The building on this corner still has the foundation stone laid by James S Burroughes in 1893, though it has moved a few yards around the corner and I think the site is now occupied by "modern purpose-built flats for single people and couples set in a city centre location" built by SAHA, the Salvation Army Housing Association and allocated through Westminster Borough Council's housing register.
Avocet House at 92-96 Vauxhall Bridge Road was the home of Avo Ltd, a company founded by Post Office engineer Donald Macadie who was fed up with having to carry separate meters for different measurements and in 1923 designed a meter than would measure Amperes, Volts and Ohms. The Avometer was the leading electical test equipment for many years. The company became too large for this site and bought land for a new factory at Dover in 1962. The company is now called Megger, and its testers are still made and in use around the world.
This 1865 Grade II listed building in a free version of Italian Renaissance style by H A Darbishire was an orphanage for children of Crimean War guardsmen. Later it became a Franciscan friary, and they added the statue of St Francis just visible at the far corner around 1960. When they moved on it became offices. Close to Westminster Cathedral, in 2017 it was bought by the cash-strapped Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster to be refurbished as a pre-prep for Westminster Cathedral Choir School, at a cost thought to be around £10million. The school is said to be the most expensive prep school in London, and sends pupils on to public schools including Eton and Winchester.
I don't know which shop this was in Upper Tachbrook Street, but it appeared to be selling clothing, jewellery and similar items. From the few details of the shop front which can be seen it looks rather like that now occupied by 'Mr CAD – For Everything Photographic'. This began around 1960 in Croydon, and although it at one time had nine branches at various sites from Colindale in north London to Brighton became just a giant Aladdin's cave in Windmill Rd full of secondhand gear, moving to these rather smaller premises in Pimlico but also supplying mail order around the world as "the largest independent photographic dealer in the UKW with "the biggest stock of used analogue photographic equipment worldwide specialising in film, cameras, lenses, enlargers, chemicals, paper, all manner of studio & darkroom hardware & software."
Clicking on any of the images above will take you to my Flickr album of over 750 images of London in 1987 selected from several thousand exposures I made that year
Tags:1987, Archbishop Tenison, Avometer, Friary, Lambeth, London, Lutyens, Mr Cad, new offices, Salvation Army, school, social housing, unemployment office
6 Years Ago: 24 Sept 2014 Poor Doors
Six years ago Class War were holding weekly protests outside One Commercial St in Aldgate against the seperate entrances to the building for those in social housing and private residents. The private residents came into a spacious foyer with comfortable furniture and a reception desk with a concierge on the main street, while social housing tenants entered a bleak corridor down a filthy and badly lit alley at the side of the building.
This was the ninth weekly protest and I think the eighth I'd photographed in the series, which continued for around another 20 protests. Although it didn't succeed in its main aim, the protests did take the issue onto the national agenda, and the alley leading to the poor door was cleaned up, resurfaced and given new lighting.
When the building manager came and escorted one of the residents out through the rich door, one of the protesters standing close to it moved in front of it, preventing it being closed. The manager made the mistake of moving away back towards the reception desk, and the protesters walked in.
They brought their banners in with them, and Ian Bone of Class War began to speak about the protest. The protesters made no attempt to stop residents who walked in or out past them, mostly taking little interest in what was happening.
Some of them were tourists staying a week in flats that are let on Airbnb; other flats in the building are permanently empty or only used for perhaps a week a year from foreign owners who hold them as investments, taking advantage of rising London housing prices to earn a good income when they sell.
Ian Bone had picked up the framed notice from the concierge desk as he spoke, reading out from it and making comments about how differently the rich were treated compared with the poorer residents. The woman who had been at the desk (it has someone on duty 24/7) had retreated with the building manager and was watching from a distance. He replaced the notice carefully beside a vase of flowers on the desk when he finished speaking, and stood beside them.
Later as I was photographing others I thought I saw out of the corner of my eye Ian hook the curved end of his walking stick around the vase, and we all heard the vase shatter as it hit the floor.
A few minutes later a couple of police officers arrived and talked with the protesters and the building manager.
After a few minutes of argument the protesters left the foyer and continued their protest on the pavement outside. There were more speeches, including from a local resident who stopped as he walked past to talk with the campaigners and backed their protest.
More police had arrived, and as the campaigners decided it was time to end the evening's protest and began to walk away, a woman officer stood in Ian Bone's way. Other officers came to surround him, and after some talking he was arrested, put in a police van and driven away.
At the police station he was shown CCTV of him pulling the vase from the desk and then admitted he had deliberately broken it. He was made to pay compensation for the broken vase, but no charges were brought against him.
Class War Occupy Rich Door
Tags:2014, Aldgate, arrest, banners, broken vase, Class War, foyer, Ian Bone, London, My London Diary, occupation, One Commercial St, Poor Doors, protest, social housing, vase
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Stirling (or Sterling?) Prize
ASH mocks the champagne celebration inside with Cava on the street
I was pleased to get this picture of what was a very difficult event for me to get any worthwhile photographs. I'm a great admirer of the work of Architects for Social Housing, a small group that punches well above its weight in pointing out the crimes, profiteering and failures of current housing policies pursued by local authorities and national government which amount to an attack on the poor.
A poster from a Class War supporter
Their detailed studies have laid bare the terrible effects of demolition of council estates, driving those on low incomes out of the central areas of London in a huge exercise of social cleansing and making excessive profits for the developers, as well as providing well-paid jobs for some council staff and ex-staff. Most of those London councils are Labour councils, including Southwark, Lambeth and Newham, though Tory councils are following similar shameful practices, and at the root of all this are the housing policies of Thatcher and New Labour.
A man holding his Stirling Prize invite stops to photograph the protest
Their reports have shown the financial incentives that result in demolition and new build schemes with little or no low rent social housing replacing large numbers of council homes, as well as the hugely damaging environmental consequences of such large schemes. Their detailed alternative development plans have shown how estates could be renovated and the number of housing units greatly increased without the huge social costs of destroying existing communities and retaining existing low cost housing, without the need to evict existing tenants and leaseholders.
Following the disaster of the Grenfell fire, they published a report within weeks that clearly identified the problems which had made it inevitable. ASH called for those responsible to be brought to justice, pointing out that similar disasters in other countries such as Japan had led to prosecutions within a few weeks – while we have an inquiry that is still proceeding which seems to have as its major aim the deflection of blame from those responsible for the defects and failures to the actions of the emergency services on the night of the fire. It's right of course that these should be examined and lessons learnt, but it wasn't the Fire Service which created a fire trap through cost-cutting , avoidance of proper fire safety measures and a sheer disregard for the safety of the people who lived in Grenfell.
Oliver Wainwright, the Guardian's architecture and design critic speaks before going into the prize event
ASH were protesting outside the highly prestigious Stirling Awards ceremony condemning architects for social cleansing, council estate demolition and housing privatisation and calling on architects to end wanton environmentally disastrous demolitions and to serve the needs of citizens with socially beneficial, financially viable and environmentally sustainable architecture rather than corporate profits. You can read more on their web site.
In particular they had come to point out that the winning entry, widely lauded in the press as marking a new era in social housing, is actually a a commercial venture owned by Norwich council and will not be offering secure council tenancies and that council homes were demolished to build it. They were particularly incensed that it was also nominated for (and won) the new Neave Brown Award, set up to honour the recently deceased champion and architect of council housing; they see this as an insult to the memory of our great architect of council housing.
A woman came to shout at Simon Elmer and pushed him
ASH's approach represents a threat to many architects who rely on the highly lucrative projects of major developers (named for Sir James Stirling (1926-92) whose 1977 major public housing scheme in Runcorn was demolished only 15 years after it was built, it should perhaps be better re-named as the 'Sterling' prize) and the protest was not well received by many of them – with one woman going as far as coming to assault Simon Elmer of ASH. But there were also some largely younger architects who expressed support.
It was a small protest and started rather late, when many had already gone inside to enjoy the 'free' champagne their very expensive tickets provided. The light was falling fast and it was hard to find an angle which worked to connect the protest and the event. I was pleased when the protesters decided to mock the champagne celebrations inside with a few plastic cups of cheap Cava (and I was holding cup of it myself when I took the picture at the top of this post. I left as it got too dark to photograph without flash, though perhaps I should have stayed, as more people arrived and the protest apparently got livelier later. But I'd been on my feet far too long and needed to get home and eat.
More at Stirling Prize for Architecture
Tags:architect, Architects for Social Housing, ASH, cava, champagne, council estates, estate demolition, Grenfell, Neave Brown, protest, social cleansing, social housing, Sterling, Stirling Prize
Hackney Housing
I took a short walk in Hackney before the protest outside the town hall to remind me exactly where Marian Court was, just behind the rather empty 'fashion village', an implant into the area with government money, £1.5m of Boris Johnson's regeneration funding after the 2011 riots. It seems if anything to have been an expensive way to prove that gentrification isn't an effective way to combat racist policing with a shoot to kill policy, and has failed to generate the promised jobs.
Marian Court appears to have been a well-designed small estate built for the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney in the late 1950s. It was built to the standards of the time and was in need of modernisation, and had been allowed to deteroriate. But as on many other council estates, rather than investing in the relatively modest cost of the necessary refurbishment, the council decided on an expensive scheme involving total demolition and the building of roughly twice as many housing units on the site by private developers, with a large proportion for sale at high market prices and others also at high prices as 'affordable' or shared ownership properties. Reports say that despite the roughly doubling of the number of units there will be 40% less social housing than at present.
The replacement flats in such schemes are almost always built to lower space standards than the existing properties, and demolition and rebuild involves an enormous environmental impact. Given our current problems with global warming and the impending threat of human extinction unless we take urgent actions to avoid this, demolition of existing buildings such as this should now be a rare last resort.
The human impact is of course also huge, with the estate being emptied. Those in social housing will have been offered rehousing, but usually in far less convenient places than this, targeted in part because of its central location and close transport links, and also probably with less security of tenure and higher rents. Leaseholders typically get compensation at far less than the cost of a similar property in the same area – or the new properties.
Schemes such as this effectively lead to social cleansing, despite the promises often made (but seldom kept) by local councils about residents being able to stay in the area or move back into the redeveloped properties. Those on low incomes are forced to move to the peripheries of the borough, to outlying borough or sometimes well outside London, away from jobs, schools, friends and other links in the community.
The protest at Hackney Town Hall, organised by East End Sisters Uncut and London Renters Union was over the failure by Hackney Council to provide suitable rehousing for two families remaining in Marian Court, both of whom attended and spoke at the event, and who seem to have been victimised because they particular housing needs and have stood up for their rights. You can see more about both of them and their issues with the council at Hackney don't victimise housing activists.
And a few pictures of the area including Marian Court in Hackney
Tags:Hackney, Homerton, housing, housing activists, London Renters Union, Marian Court, protest, Sisters Uncut, social cleansing, social housing, victimisation
Highgate to Stoke Newington
On the early May Bank Holiday – the one that should have been on May Day but isn't – Linda and I walked another short section of the Capital Ring, from Highgate to Stoke Newington.
After a short walk along footpaths and roads, the route joins the former railway line which is now the Parkland Walk. Quite a lot of this is in a cutting, though there are some embankment sections, but except where the line has bridges over roads the view is often very limited by trees and bushes which have grown beside the former line.
A long bridge takes you across the East Coast main line and its suburban outliers and into Finsbury Park, where both cafe and toilets were very welcome.
Across the park you join the New River, supplying water to London since 1613, thanks in particular to the efforts of Sir Hugh Myddelton, though I expect he had quite a few others to dig it for him (and it wasn't his idea in the first place.)
This goes along the edge of the Woodberry Down Estate, a large area bought by the LCC for housing in 1934, but only developed after the war as a 'utopian estate of the future'. Building began in 1949 and the 57 large blocks of flats were only completed in 1962. The estate included the country's first purpose built comprehensive school and a medical estate opened by Nye Bevan, but unfortunately was allowed to deteriorate over the years, and beggining in 2009 became one of Europe's biggest single-site estate regeneration projects.
The controversial scheme by Berkeley Homes, Notting Hill Genesis and Hackney Council will involve a loss of around a fifth of social housing in the area estimated by the council at around 320 homes and has been described as 'state-sponsored gentrification' with 3 bed flats selling for around £800,000 and many being bought up as investments by foreign investors rather than used as homes.
On the opposite side of the path, across the New River are large reservoirs of open water, part now a nature reserve with public access (and another tea room with toilets) and another used for sailing and other water sports. The remarkable Scottish Baronial castle built as offices for the water board is now a climbing centre.
From there it's a short walk to Clissold Park (another cafe and toilets – this must be the best provided section of the Capital Ring) and Stoke Newington Church Street, often described as a 'hipster hub'. Next to the park are the two churches of St Mary, the older locked but with an atmospheric and overgrown churchyard and the Victorian built in 1858 to the design of Sir George Gilbert Scott, open and well worth a visit.
As a final climax we came to Abney Park Cemetery, one of London's finest, set up in 1840 as a burial ground for non-conformists and the final resting place of around 200,000 Londoners, now a nature reserve. We looked up the train times from nearby Stoke Newington station and rather than rushing through to the station spent some time wandering around and finding a few of the better-known graves and some other interesting monuments.
In our rush from there the few hundred yards to the station I lost a little concentration and we went down to the wrong platform and caught a train going into London rather than out and had to re-plan our journey home. It turned out to be almost as fast.
More pictures from the walk at Highgate to Stoke Newington.
Tags:Abney Park, Capital Ring, cemetery, Clissold Park, gentrification, investment properties, London, loss of social housing, New River, Parkland Walk, social housing, Stoke Newington, Woodberry Down
Haddo
I woke up early this morning worrying about this picture, and that below of the Haddo estate in Greenwich, around Tarves Way off Norman Road close to Deptford Creek and Greenwich Station.
How is it that an estate which seems so neat and tidy and so well-loved both by the council and the residents behind their trim net curtains some 15 or 20 years after it was built in the 1960s (I can't find the exact building date) had deteriorated to such an extent that the Haddo Estate around Tarves Way was one of the first to be 'regenerated' under New Labour with the homes emptied and demolished only 20 years later around 2003 at a cost of £90m?
Back around 2000, and to some extent now, politicians indulged themselves blaming the architect of these and other schemes, though more often it was perhaps the builders or system developers who were at fault for disasters such as Ronan Point, a short distance across the river. But many of the estates that have been or are being demolished were well designed, decently constructed and basically sound, perhaps good for at least another 50 years.
Many of the faults were faults of their time, which could have been prevented by proper maintenance or corrected with relatively inexpensive melioration – new windows, insulation etc. Resident caretakers and appropriate security systems – like those that turned Trellick Tower from sink to highly des res could perhaps have saved Haddo. Instead even many estates that were built with resident caretakers lost them, replaced by the occasional quick drive-by visit from a man in a council van – and the occasional heavy-handed police raid.
More fundamentally we have to ask how it happened that a housing policy once driven by social justice and civic pride that built many fine estates changed over that period to one led by estate agents, developers and profit. It happened under a regime that sought to remove all power from local authorities by a process of pauperisation and emasculation, forcing them to sell off properties at cut price and preventing them from using the proceeds to replace them.
And of course it goes wider than housing. Under Thatcher and Thatcherlite New Labour, greed and personal ambition at the expense of others became the order of the day. Our ideas about community, strong after the war and the era of the welfare state which followed it where whittled away by a leader who stressed self-reliance and the individual (or at best the nuclear family) and told us there was no such thing as society. Back in the early 80s I could walk around estates like this carrying a large bag of expensive camera gear and never feel any danger, but fifteen years later things had changed.
Part of the equation was certainly the relatively high standards, both of internal space in the dwellings and the green spaces around the buildings which make them such delectable targets for demolition and replacement with properties at high market or near market (the unaffordable "affordable") returns.
I don't know much of the details of the Haddo estate, either before or after its replacement, but have seen what has happened and is if anything now accelerating at other council estates in London, the majority in Labour-run boroughs.
Plans outlined in the building press showed 'New Haddo' was to have 510 homes, around half built for market rate sale, a third for some kind of so-called "affordable" rent and 85 for shared ownership. In most such regenerations by the time they come to completion, ways have been found to increase the proportion at market rates, by claiming that the developer cannot make sufficient profit – a figure set ludicrously high.
There appear to have been no homes in the new development at real social rents which most of those in the properties in my pictures will have been paying, and which will almost certainly have been sufficient to have paid off the council's investment in building the estate.
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Tags:council housing, Greenwich, Haddo, New Labour, regeneration, social housing, Thatcher


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Words of Reconciliation, Volumen8
tianity is concealed by the rites and ceremonies in which it is draped. The other class is reproached for despising its most sacred institutions, and endangering their souls by turning away from the means appointed for their salvation. The fact is that the same essential life is produced in them both by diverse methods. Each comes in its own way into fellowship with God, and into communion with all who love Him. The one question each should ask is, "Am I living the life which I now live in the flesh by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me?" "Am I bearing about in my body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that His life also is manifest in me?"
There is truth, therefore, in the assertion of Professor Briggs, that men may find God either through the Church, the Bible, or the forms of the reason. He is not so far from any one of us that we must seek Him either by ascending up on high or going down into the abyss. These channels are not of equal importance and value. They merge, indeed, more or less into each other, and into one. But we cannot be too strongly assured that God is always waiting to enter into the heart of man and abide, by whatever channel He may find access. Every man, indeed, needs to be awakened to the fact that by virtue of his creation in God's image he has the germ of a divine nature within him, and that God, like the sun, is waiting to pour His quickening energy into it, and to make him a receptacle of His fullness.
Let us, then, by whatever means, and through every channel, seek to nourish and develop this consciousness of God in us. Without it we have no strength, no power of victory; with it we can do and endure all things.
"HE CAME TO HIMSELF."
One of the finest strokes in the incomparable parable of the prodigal son is this: "And when he came to himself." It brings before us the truth that beneath the outer self of a man who lives in the sphere of carnal pursuits, whose personality has been developed in this line of self-indulgence until the very substance of his natural life has been wasted in riotous living, there lies another self behind the outer consciousness, which is ready to make its voice heard and to recall the man to virtue and to God. And this inner self is the man's truest self. Its leading characteristic is its conscious relationship to the Father. "I will arise and go to my father."
It is essential to any man's recovery from the power of sin, that he become conscious that the tie that binds him to God is not and cannot be broken. The only possibility of recovery lies in the potency of this God-consciousness in man. There is no hope for man so long as he believes the tie severed between him and his Father in heaven. He must be brought to the conviction that, however far he may have wandered, there is the germ of a divine nature in him, and that the Father is ever waiting for it to recognize and to assert itself. The God within man must stir him up to seek the God without him who waits to receive, to endow with strength, and to bless him. This awakening in men, dead in trespasses and sins, of the Godconsciousness, this coming to themselves, is regeneration. "This my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found."
"THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME."
Dean Stanley, in his Christian Institutes (page 370), says of the concluding clauses of the creed, "I believe in the Resurrection of the Dead, and the Life of the World to Come":
The tradition that these words were derived from Gregory of Nyssa, whether borne out by historical evidence or not, has never been disputed on dogmatical grounds, and is important as showing that the orthodox Eastern Church was not ashamed of receiving its most solemn declaration of Christian faith from one who, had he lived in our times, would have been pronounced by some as a dangerous heretic. There can be no doubt in the mind of any one who has examined his writings—and it is freely admitted, indeed urged, by theologians without the slightest suspicion of latitudinarianism—that Gregory of Nyssa, held the opinion shared with him by Origen, and, although less distinctly, by Gregory of Nazianzus, that there was a hope for the final restoration of the wicked in the other world. And whether or not he actually drew up the concluding clauses of the so-called creed of Constantinople, there is no doubt that Gregory, of Nyssa^ was present, at the Council of Constantinople—that he, if any one, must have impressed his own sense upon them—and that to him, arid through him to the Council, the clause which speaks of the " life of the world to come" must have included the hope that the Divine justice and mercy are not controlled by the powers of evil, that sin is not eternal, and that in that "world to come" punishment will be corrective and not final, and will be ordered by a Love and a Justice, the height and depth of which is beyond the narrow thoughts of man to conceive.
Divine Presence In Nature.—The most advanced disciple of evolution has acknowledged as strongly as the most pronounced theist that there is a Force in nature at the back of all its other forces which, while itself the agent in the whole evolutionary process, is itself unaffected by any part of that process. The proof of this is, that Mr. Spencer declares again and again that this primal Force is persistent—in other words, that it continues unchanged amidst the constant transmutations of everything around it. Now if this position be accepted it will follow that the belief in evolution, so far from withdrawing the spirit of man from the presence of that transcendental Power that lies at the basis of the universe, is itself a belief in the perpetual necessity of that presence. Let the doctrine of Mr. Spencer be admitted, and whatever else the religious mind may deny, it will be compelled at least to confess that it has found at last in science the need for a Presence which transcends science. Its sense of communion with God will not only be preserved, but justified, and justified by that very doctrine of evolution which was hitherto supposed to be the source of its destruction. In that doctrine of evolution the religious man will still find himself in the immediate presence of the great First Cause. He will be forced to feel as powerfully as did the Brahman that there is really no link of the chain between himself and the divine object of his communion; that he is every instant face to face with a Power which is unsearchable, with a Force which is transcendental, with a Strength which is persistent, with a Mystery which is inscrutable, and that his own individual life is as really and as fully a product of this Mystery as if in all the realm of nature there never had been any life but his own.—Rev. Qeo. Matheson, D. D.
In Proportion as we are victors ourselves in life's conflict, we shall become helpers of those who come after us and who are left to struggle with life's temptations. The views to which we have attained of the organic unity of the race and of the fellowship between the living and the dead require this. The supreme example of this is our blessed Lord. After passing through death, He was able to pour the whole wealth of His being into the life of the race, and especially into that of His own chosen disciples who became the distributors of that wealth to mankind. So each one of us in our smaller measure may hereafter become a source of spiritual life and a minister of blessing to others, and especially to our own kindred with whom our fellowship in life is the closest and most tender.
The office of those " who have conquered in the fight" is to take their place as hands or feet among the members of the body by which the Head is conveying to the whole body of humanity the blessings of His salvation.
Ex-president White, in The Popular Science Monthly, quotes this remark of an eminent Anglican divine: "It is because they have mistaken the dawn for a conflagration that theologians have been so often foes of light."
Future Probation.—The New York Evangelist, of May 26th, contains a review of a recent book by Emory Miller, D. D., LL. D., on The Evolution of Love, in which it notices the author's theory of future probation as follows:
Dr. Miller holds to a sort of second probation. Not to the obdurate ; death puts the perverted into a more hopeless

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GT: Wizards @ Nets - 01/03/21, 6pm EST
NyCeEvO
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Post#221 » by NyCeEvO » Mon Jan 4, 2021 2:08 am
I have zero problems with Nash. Rotations aren't the problem. Going deeper into the bench (i.e. giving worse players more minutes) isn't going to help. The only slight adjustment I would consider is having Chiozza run more backup PG since Caris doesn't organize the unit well at all.
IMO, the issue is personnel, not coaching. I was clamoring for a 3&D wing and another 4/5 man during the offseason because I always felt that we were missing a wing defender who can cover 2s, 3s, & 4s as well as players who can actually fight for contested rebounds.
Post#222 » by Paradise » Mon Jan 4, 2021 2:13 am
Paradise wrote: Nash has to seriously work on rotations, timeouts. Among other things but it's glaring as hell.
Also, there is no point in trying to send guards to the paint if they won't be met with any resistance from Jordan.
He should never see the floor once Claxton is healthy..
The claxton stuff needs to just die. he is a d-league long shot that is a horrific rim protector/rebounder at the 5. he shouldnt see 1 second of real minutes this year
DJ: 0 4th quarter minutes
Allen: 3 4th quarter minutes
Re: GT: Wizards @ Nets - 01/03/21, 6pm EST
Post#223 » by DarkXaero » Mon Jan 4, 2021 2:14 am
NyCeEvO wrote: I have zero problems with Nash. Rotations aren't the problem. Going deeper into the bench (i.e. giving worse players more minutes) isn't going to help. The only slight adjustment I would consider is having Chiozza run more backup PG since Caris doesn't organize the unit well at all.
IMO, the issue is personnel, not coaching.
I don't think this is true. We have a legitimate rotation player in Tyler Johnson who is buried on the bench. TJ used to be a 6th man in Miami, and I realize that he had an awful year & a half before signing with us, but he played quite well for us in the bubble. He's a secondary shot creator/ball handler who can shoot off the dribble. We also have Bruce Brown who started 43 out of 58 games for the Pistons last season, and he's probably the best perimeter defender on the entire roster. He's a subpar player offensively, but he can make the corner 3, and he has some ball handling/playmaking ability as well. Then you already mentioned Chiozza.
Those are 3 options, that can all be tried over Shamet or the over reliance on Levert, who has arguably been the worst player in our rotation.
Post#224 » by CalamityX12 » Mon Jan 4, 2021 2:16 am
Papi_swav wrote:
CalamityX12 wrote: Rotation needs to change
Including going deeper into the bench, play the cheese, TJ, Perry, Kurocs(he was a starter not long ago),Brown(did we trade a cheerleader for another cheerleader?)
Game plan needs major renovation
I expect a fallout after this.....
Thank you, this is exactly what I said last game. But your boy Prok over here saying that is a knee jerk reaction and only a overreacting child would do that . We can't keep expecting heavy minutes to these guys this early in the season. And it seems like every game we have to fight to win and it comes down to the wire, except for our 1st 2 wins. It can be energy draining real quick.
Yea, its not like this is our 1st loss in 7 games, this is our 4th loss in 5 games... The last 5 games, we lost 4 of them and this one, can't blame shooting 2 for 239 from 3, it was not good basketball.
Miscommunication, poor attention, effort displayed is not that of a title contender by far, too much reliance of KD n KI by the 7th game... we were struggling vs the Wizards(no offense), we struggled against the Grizzlies without Morant(no offfense), we struggled vs the Hornets.. the ATL ok, a conference leader apparently that we split....
Not seeing improvements... we are not a team rebuilding, we signed the max stars, traded away future assets for current personnel, added coaches with high profile backgrounds and made a never before coach rookie as a head coach in what should be a window for the Conference title contention....
It's not like the Wiz played us hard and we tip our cap, they weren't impressive, we were bad to make them look better...
Also, over relying and killing KD n KI with high usage doesn't feel long term wise.... not to mention now what would be automatic losses if they both sit out....
It all went down hill sitting both in game 4.
Post#225 » by gigantes » Mon Jan 4, 2021 2:18 am
Paradise wrote:
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That just seems like an absurdly premature take, though.
Clax has demonstrated to me repeatedly that he's a beast of a player, mostly limited by his frailness. Sure he's gonna have his weaknesses no matter what, but he really takes it to a defense in ways that DeJordan and Fro are nowhere close to IMO. He also just might be an incredibly active high-switcher on D, which is worth something, too.
Post#226 » by Stone » Mon Jan 4, 2021 2:20 am
Where do you even start......
• Poor Shot selection, settling for low percentage shots
• Passing was atrocious, again we look unprepared and predictable.
• We are lacking athleticism and play with low energy.
• Nash has been horrific. Why did he not call a time out at the 3 minute mark.
• Why did Kyrie have to take it upon himself to call a time out earlier ?
• Why did he leave Jay on the bench when the Wiz had their last possession?
• Like Rucco said......settle down and get a clean look
• Way too many turnovers, they also had double the amount of our steals. Triple on the turnovers. They took 104 shots we took 81.
• This team is too good to be this bad.
This is flat out embarrassing from a team that won 33 games without Kyrie, KD. It's almost like they look star struck on the floor and our offensive sets aren't actually any too different from Kenny's system minus the iso ball from Kyrie, KD.
This isn't remotely a playoff level defense whatsoever and the bench isn't giving any offensive punch to mask the horrific interior D, rebounds and overall physical effort. Guess who we see next? Gobert, Favors and Embiid, Howard.
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He also spaces the floor and we can't get the with DJ or Allen which makes their poor rebounding and interior D in key moments even worse.
Post#229 » by NetsJets » Mon Jan 4, 2021 2:24 am
Wish we had a guy that can play with his back to the basket. Oh wait KD can...
Caris on every pull up
Post#231 » by Shark » Mon Jan 4, 2021 2:27 am
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I mean, if you want spacing you might as well go with Green as a small ball 5. Claxton isn't the answer at the 5 as much as I like him. Maybe you could give him some spot minutes at the 4 if Prince continues to be poor.
Rotations do play a big part... going deep into the bench does serves its benefits, some guys can be hits some guys could be misses. Before the injury, the then current rotations had TLC seeing no action in competitive minutes(so we're not counting blowout playtime).
Unfortunately to the injury to Dinwiddie and the massive letdown from Shamet thus far, TLC got a chance and look what we have? TLC is now, maybe forced, a real contributor. We wouldn't have had the other conditions not fell thru. Far from perfect but he's an example of getting his call.
Now to us fans, Caris as the lone option to lead a unit himself isn't working. Not passing the eye test and its relflective on the scoreboard and now in the Ws n Ls.... he needs a primary ball handler next to him to efficiently play his game. even in the bubble he also had a cheese and TJ(short period Crawford) helping him. That could be solved be either handling the split time with KD n KI so that KI can play with Levert as KD rests or bring on the Cheese(who also did admirable in the MEM gm) or TJ.... we lost Spencer, we need to bring up the others. Brown is another guy too....
Also the timeouts... he needs to work on... he'll learn hopefully
gigantes wrote: That just seems like an absurdly premature take, though.
Claxton hasn't seen the floor since he got injured last season and he was so good we ran lineups with him and Allen in the front court. I don't expect him to fix our woes but Claxton could actually switch on guards, block shots and hit outside shots. It's something to think about going forward.
We're paying DJ around 10 million to sit on the bench. We could dish out a matched offer for Allen worth over 60 million and he disappears on key possessions and it's been happening since the Sixers series. He still is inconsistent despite a nice stat line. Don't get me started on Caris...
It's not a thing to overlook when we have to pay this guy long term while having a kid with a rookie salary on the roster rehabbing with a similar skill set on a contender.
We need new injection... legs, energy, a team desire to win a game.... looking like Mean Girls out there with everyone having their own agenda
I don't think this is true. We have a legitimate rotation player in Tyler Johnson who is buried on the bench. TJ used to be a 6th man in Miami, and I realize that he had an awful year & a half before signing with us, but he played quite well for us in the bubble. He's a secondary shot creator/ball handler who can shoot off the dribble.
We also have Bruce Brown who started 43 out of 58 games for the Pistons last season, and he's probably the best perimeter defender on the entire roster. He's a subpar player offensively, but he can make the corner 3, and he has some ball handling/playmaking ability as well.
Offense isn't the problem. Despite Levert's struggles, we're still scoring the ball quite well as a team. Our main problems are wing/interior defense and rebounding. TJ, Bruce Brown, nor Chiozza are going to address any of those issues. But to address the players you mentioned...
Tyler Johnson has arthroscopic knee surgery towards the end of the 2019 season and is nowhere near as good as he was when we signed him to an offer sheet in 2016. Hence the reason why he had an awful year & a half. There's a reason why he wasn't already on another team when we were heading into the bubble...he's not that good.
And if one's play in the bubble was an indication of how good a player is right now, Levert should be playing like a really good 6th man. Now, Tyler Johnson is a slashing guard who can shoot some 3s. He's definitely no longer a 'shot creator/ballhandler who can shoot off the dribble'. While I'm sure he's a better spot-up shooter than Levert, there's no way he's a better ballhandler or shot creator.
The Pistons won 20 games and were clearly tanking last season. Brown being a starter on that team means next to nothing. Derrick Rose was clearly the better PG, but at this point of his career, he's better as a 6th man than as the daily starter.
Levert is still a better ballhandler You're massively overrating Brown's ballhandling/playmaking ability if you think he can essentially take over Levert's position and run the team
IMO, Chiozza is clearly the best ballhandler and facilitator out of the 3 players you mentioned. The main issue is that if he's on the floor for too long, the opposing team will take advantage of the size mismatch. I think Levert would look much better out there if he was paired with Chiozza, so that he could actually spend some time as a slasher and get his points from cuts to the basket and catch-and-shoot midrange shots. He's clearly struggling handling full-time ball distributor duties.
Imagine if we didn't have KD and/or KI, this would be a winless team... lol
Ahhh scary... plenty of time to turn it around but gotta get to that direction first!
Post#237 » by MrDollarBills » Mon Jan 4, 2021 2:58 am
Robert Covington could have been had. Instead, Marks chose to waste our window of opportunity by not getting a guy who is an established veteran.
Right now that Landry and Brown trade isn't helping us. I'm trying to stay patient but we don't have a large window of opportunity and KD already looks frustrated AFTER 7 GAMES, and rightfully so. Guys aren't stepping up, the bigs aren't doing their job.
This is quickly becoming a disaster.
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Offense is absolutely a problem, we're getting NOTHING outside of KD, Kyrie, and Joe (when he has good games). Have you look at KD & Kyrie's numbers? They're putting up awesome numbers on god tier efficiency that isn't sustainable, playing heavy minutes and yet we're still 3-4. Sure, the incredibly sloppy turnovers will reduce in frequency over time, and we'll perhaps start running better/more offensive sets as the season progresses. But our bench has been a huge problem and its a clear struggle offensively for those guys, and that's what I'm referring to. Our "depth" gets outplayed by the other team's depth.
Tyler Johnson averaged 12 PPG, 3 APG, and 3 RPG on 55.2% TS% in the 8 seeding games in the bubble. He followed that up by averaging 14 PPG on 58.7% TS% in the 4 playoffs games against the Toronto Raptors. It's incredibly unfair to bring up Levert's play in the bubble as a comparison to downplay what Tyler Johnson did there. Levert has been inconsistent his whole NBA career. Tyler Johnson has shown nothing but positive play here when he has actually been given playing time. I don't see why you feel the need to downplay or dismiss this. All I'm saying is that he deserves a chance and that he actually makes sense for our bench unit atm.
Bruce Brown was an okay starter on that Pistons team, and certainly proved himself to be a NBA player. I've mentioned what he actually showed last season: a legitimately really good perimeter defender who actually has some ball handling/playmaking skills, but a poor shooter who can only hit the corner 3. I said he has "some ballhandling/playmaking ability", and you somehow took that as "massively overrating Brown's ballhandling/playmaking ability if you think he can essentially take over Levert's position and run the team". What are you on, man?
Paradise wrote: He also spaces the floor and we can't get the with DJ or Allen which makes their poor rebounding and interior D in key moments even worse.
Marks was right to not pay Allen. He's not worth the money that he is looking for. He made some horrific errors tonight.
We need to see some changes quickly. This is not a championship roster as presented.
DarkXaero wrote: I don't think this is true. We have a legitimate rotation player in Tyler Johnson who is buried on the bench. TJ used to be a 6th man in Miami, and I realize that he had an awful year & a half before signing with us, but he played quite well for us in the bubble. He's a secondary shot creator/ball handler who can shoot off the dribble.
The bench's inefficacy is almost 100% because of Caris LeVert's unwillingness to pass the ball to anyone other than Jarrett Allen and looking only for his shot.
When was the last time LeVert kicked the ball out to someone for an open 3?
I would absolutely run Chiozza with the 2nd unit and move LeVert to SG. If he wants to be a black hole, he'll get the ball in the flow of the offense. The 2nd unit's possessions are basically all LeVert either holding the ball to shoot a brick or making one pass. What happened to 7 seconds or less?
This team needs a serious wake up call. Ever since the Charlotte game this team has been awful defensively and the offense has become a stagnate ISO fest.


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I mentioned in yesterday's post that I made some Christmas cookies over the weekend and they came out pretty darn good. Justin and I had plans to go to my friend Laurel's place for a tree trimming bash on Saturday night, so I wanted to make a dessert to bring with us. Something minty seemed like the obvious choice for a Christmas party, so I decided on mint chocolate chocolate chip cookies.
The recipe is similar to some other cookie recipes that I have posted in that they don't call for a boatload of butter – about half a stick as opposed to the full stick that some of the traditional recipes use. It doesn't affect the taste but they might get a little dry if you leave them sitting for a few days. Luckily that wasn't an issue here.
I doubled the recipe and made a batch of cookies to bring to the party, covered and refrigerated the other half of the dough, and made a second batch on Sunday to put out at my Mom's birthday bash. The dough refrigerates well, so that wasn't an issue.
He's probably trying to avoid getting coal in his stocking or something. Either way, I'll take the compliment.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl and set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter, brown sugar and white sugar for 2-3 minutes on medium speed, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally. Add in the egg, vanilla extract and peppermint extract and beat until combined. Set the speed to low and slowly add in the flour mixture. Mix in the chocolate chips by hand. If the dough is too sticky to handle, cover and refrigerate it for half an hour. Drop the dough by rounded tablespoon onto the cookie sheets, leaving some space in between each cookie. Bake the cookie sheets one at a time for 12-15 minutes, rotating the sheet halfway through. Leave the cookies on the sheet for 10 minutes and the transfer to a cooling rack.


A nuisance is an unreasonable interference with an owner's right to use and enjoy her land. The tort of nuisance must be understood if we are to understand the nature, scope, and justification of private property rights. As the latter task is among the most important ones facing legal and political philosophers in a democratic society, such as ours, the former is crucial. Yet, we lack anything like a viable theory of nuisance law. The two most prominent—the economic view and the physical-invasion view—both fail, doc-trinally and normatively. Things are so bad for nuisance that it has been called a 'legal garbage can.' We can do better, and we need to do better. Nuisance law protects owners by protecting their normative control, their capacity to determine what will happen on their land, and protects the core of their rights as owners of real property. Moreover, the scope of nuisance law helps fix the scope of this normative control; in other words, nui-sance is partially determinative of the normative boundaries of ownership. Looking at nuisance helps reveal a distinctive understanding of private ownership and thus, reveal property rights' place as partially constitutive of a just society. Looking at nuisance this way also helps us see why its core doctrines are what they are: the reasonability standard at the heart of nuisance, along with its core doctrines relating to locations, time, and the objectivity of nuisance all bring out a normatively attractive vision of nuisance law and, therefore, of private property rights.
Christopher Essert, Nuisance and the Normative Boundaries of Ownership, 52 Tulsa L. Rev. 85 (2016).


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Seahawks draft pick Shaquem Griffin runs a drill during Central Florida's pro day March 29 in Orlando, Fla. (John Raoux / Associated Press)
Legion of Griffins: Seahawks select LB Shaquem Griffin
The one-handed linebacker, who was the feel-good story of the draft, teams up with his brother.
By Tim Booth Associated Press
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RENTON — Shaquem Griffin had walked away from his cellphone, on his way to use the restroom, when it buzzed. His twin brother, Shaquill, recognized the 425 area code that flashed on the screen and started charging after his brother.
"I think I was more scared of him tackling me in the bathroom and not knowing what was happening than anything," Shaquem said.
What already was the feel-good story of the NFL draft got an even better storybook ending on Saturday when the Central Florida star linebacker whose left hand was amputated when he was child was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the fifth round.
The phone call from Seattle general manager John Schneider set off a wild celebration within the Griffin family , which had gathered at a hotel in the Dallas area after Shaquem spent the first two days at the draft in Arlington, Texas, waiting for a phone call that never came. It was the Seahawks — the team that showed the most interest in Griffin from the start — who gave Shaquem the chance at his professional aspirations and with it a chance to be reunited with his brother.
Shaquill, who was a third-round pick by the Seahawks in 2017, became a starter in his rookie season. The brothers played together throughout their youth and at UCF before Shaquill entered the NFL a year earlier.
"I couldn't ask for anything (else) in the world than the opportunity to be back with him," Shaquem said.
Added Shaquill: "I was going to be happy no matter what team that gave him the opportunity. At the end of the day that's all I wanted for him: for a team to give him a shot and give him an opportunity and take a chance on someone that is great."
For Seattle coach Pete Carroll what stuck out as the interview the Seahawks conducted with Griffin at the scouting combine.
"He was just so expressive and so open to tell his story and tell what this opportunity meant to him in a way that moved us all," Carroll said. "Just like those of you that have watched him he's an extraordinary young man. He has a lot of messaging that he's going to stand strong with and we're all going to grow from I think. And aside from that he's a really good football player."
Griffin was the player everyone was hoping would get a shot in the NFL after being a star at UCF despite playing with just one hand. He was the American Athletic Conference defensive player of the year in 2016 and the MVP of UCF's Peach Bowl victory against Auburn last season when the Knights went 13-0.
A groundswell of support got him an invitation to the scouting combine in Indianapolis, where he stunned onlookers by bench-pressing 225 pounds a staggering 20 times with a prosthetic left hand and then covered the 40-yard dash in 4.38 seconds. The performance at the combine turned Shaquem into a star, but it didn't guarantee a team would give him a shot.
"It's just so much. I'm extremely blessed," Shaquem said. "It definitely was a tough three days. A lot of anxiety these few days, but I am ready to get up there and go to work and start something great."
Shaquem's position in the NFL is still to be determined. He was a force as an outside linebacker rushing off the edge at UCF, but at 6-foot and 227 pounds with blazing speed, he could transition to being the bigger safety Carroll likes to have on his defense. Carroll said the intent is to start Griffin at weakside linebacker and let him use his speed in different areas on the field.
Griffin's college coach Scott Frost tweeted "About time," after the pick was made. Seattle general manager John Schneider said there was no extra pressure felt to draft Shaquem with his brother already on the roster.
"I think the thing that stood out to me was somebody told me they had sat down with (Shaquem) for five minutes and they gained the same inspiration from him as they did the first time they were able to sit down with John Wooden," Schneider said.
Griffin was waiting patiently in the green room through the first two days of the draft. He chose to spend the last day with his family at a nearby hotel watching. He sat through the entire fourth round without getting a call, but three picks into the fifth round the Seahawks called.
"It was up and down. The excitement, it's crazy because you're around so many great guys in that setting and you're in the green room and you're moving around and seeing how the anxiety is building up. Sometimes the pressure like that can break you and it is a lot of pressure," Shaquem said. "But I knew how it was going to go. I knew I wasn't going to be a first-round pick or anything like that. It was me making sure I was enjoying the moment that I was here in Dallas."
Aside from Griffin's selection, Schneider and coach Carroll made clear the Seahawks intent to re-establish the core tenants of how they want to play: run the ball, play aggressive defense and rely on field position.
It started in the first round with the selection of San Diego State running back Rashaad Penny and continued through the nine selections made.
Here's what else to know about Seattle's nine picks, including seven on the final day:
The end may be near for the longest-tenured Seahawks player.
Seattle traded up in the fifth round to draft Texas punter Michael Dickson, who left school early for a chance at the NFL. Dickson was regarded as the top punter available in the draft and could be a sign that Jon Ryan's tenure in Seattle is coming to an end. Ryan has been with the team since 2008 and has two years left on his contract with Seattle but counts $3.2 million against the salary cap in 2018 and $3.6 million in 2019.
Both Carroll and Schneider insisted Ryan will be part of the punting competition.
Dickson averaged 47.4 yards per punt as a junior, was a two-time Big 12 special teams player of the year, and was the Ray Guy Award winner in 2017. Perhaps most impressive, Dickson was the MVP of the Texas Bowl victory over Missouri after downing 10 of his 11 punts inside the 20-yard line.
"He can do stuff with the ball we haven't seen yet so we're really intrigued to see how that translates," Schneider said.
Runnin' down a dream
Seattle continued to focus on improving its run game on offense by drafting Washington tight end Will Dissly in the fourth round.
"We thought he was the best blocker in the draft," Carroll said.
Dissly arrived at Washington as a defensive end but transitioned to tight end for his final two seasons. While blocking is his strength, Dissly also had 21 receptions and two TDs as a senior. Dissly is the first Washington player drafted by the Seahawks since another tight end, Jerramy Stevens, was selected in the first round in 2002.
Position switch
It wouldn't be a Seattle draft without at least one player switching positions. But this one makes sense as the Seahawks intend to use Tre Flowers at cornerback. Flowers was primarily a safety at Oklahoma State, but his size makes him a perfect fit for cornerback in Seattle. Flowers is 6-foot-3 with long arms and has experience playing some cornerback in college.
Sliding down
A gem of Seattle's draft could end up being Ohio State offensive tackle Jamarco Jones, selected late in the fifth round. Jones was rated by Pro Football Focus as the No. 3 offensive tackle available in the draft, but was taken with the 168th overall selection. Seattle projects Jones as a left tackle.
QB calling
For just the second time in nine drafts, the Seahawks used a draft pick on a quarterback. Florida International QB Alex McGough was selected with Seattle's final pick, No. 220 overall in the seventh round. Seattle indicated this may be the year it takes a QB to develop behind Russell Wilson, the only other QB drafted by the team since 2010. McGough threw for 2,791 yards and 17 TDs as a senior, but suffered a broken collarbone in the opening minutes of FIU's bowl game in December.
McGough did run some read-option in college and his mobility makes him a logical backup option to Wilson.
Mountlake Terrace graduate Downs goes to Vikings in Round 7
Silvertips lose to Americans, fail to clinch playoff series
MP star Alivia White helps blaze trail in women's wrestling
The 2-time state champ signed with Iowa, which is set to roll out the first varsity women's wrestling team at a Power 5 school.
Lake Stevens tops GP, claims another Wesco 4A wrestling title
The Vikings found success all evening, racing to a 60-19 win over the Grizzlies in the de facto league-title dual.
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Hemmerling's OT goal pushes Silvertips past Broncos
Everett goaltender Tyler Palmer makes 37 saves in the win.
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Silvertips fall on road to Americans
Tyler Palmer makes 37 saves, but Everett loses 2-1 to Tri-City.
Tritons top Trojans in heavyweight NWAC hoops battle
Edmonds uses a 14-0 run to start the second half to take control of a game between top men's teams.
Arlington girls rally past rival Stanwood in key league showdown
Standout senior Jenna Villa pours in 29 points and the Eagles ride a third-quarter surge to victory.
Community roundup: Nominations open for county Hall of Fame
Plus, Jacob Eason signs a futures deal with Carolina, UW's Sami Reynolds gets a preseason honor and more.
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Archbishop Murphy names Cronin new head football coach
The Everett High School alum was the head coach at Cascade from 2012-13 and most recently was an assistant coach at O'Dea.
AquaSox's coaching staff for 2023 announced
Ryan Scott, 27, takes over for Eric Farris as Everett's manager for the upcoming season.


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FAA administrator Steve Dickson will step down midway through his term
By David Schaper
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FAA chief Steve Dickson testifies before a Senate panel in June 2020. Dickson announced he is leaving the FAA.
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration, who took over the agency as it was reeling from allegations of lax oversight in the aftermath of two Boeing 737 MAX airplane crashes, is stepping down.
FAA Administrator Steve Dickson is a former Air Force and Delta Air Lines pilot who worked his way up to be Delta's senior vice president of flight operations.
He came out of retirement from Delta to head up the FAA, which at the time was under intense scrutiny for certifying Boeing's 737 MAX jetliner, when two of the planes crashed and killed a total of 346 people.
The FAA had approved the new jetliner while knowing little about an automated flight control system that crash investigators blame for playing a significant role in the crashes.
Dickson refused to approve the 737 MAX to fly passengers again until he flew the plane himself, which he did in September of 2020.
Dickson told FAA employees in a letter that he was proud of his tenure, saying, "The agency is in a better place than it was two years ago, and we are positioned for great success."
He said his decision comes with "mixed emotions and a heavy heart."
"Nevertheless, after sometimes long and unavoidable periods of separation from my loved ones during the pandemic, it is time to devote my full time and attention to them. As I wrote in my letter to President Biden, it is time to go home," he told employees.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the 64-year-old Dickson "has been the FAA's steady and skilled captain."
In a statement, Buttigieg said Dickson's tenure "has been marked by steadfast commitment to the FAA's safety mission ... and his lifelong dedication to making sure our aviation system is the best and safest in the world."
David Schaper
David Schaper is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk, based in Chicago, primarily covering transportation and infrastructure, as well as breaking news in Chicago and the Midwest.
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Measuring the Value of Research : A Generational Accounting Approach
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This paper proposes a generational accounting approach to valuating research. Based on the flow of scientific results, a value-added (VA) index is developed that can, in principle, be used to assign a monetary value to any research result and, by aggregation, on entire academic disciplines or sub-disciplines. The VA-index distributes the value of all applications that embody research to the works of research which the applications directly rely on, and further to the works of research of previous generations which the authors of the immediate reference sources have directly or indirectly made use of. The major contribution of the VA index is to provide a measure of the value of research that is comparable across academic disciplines. To illustrate how the generational accounting approach works, I present a VAbased journal rating and a rating of the most influential recent journal articles in the field of economics.
JEL Classification: A13; A14; I23
Subject (DDC): 330 Economics
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James Nesbitt returns as Adam together with the rest of the beloved Manchester fifty-somethings.
This series opens with the sound of wedding bells ringing. But who is getting married? And to whom?
Starring James Nesbitt, Hermione Norris, John Thomson, Robert Bathurst, Siobhan Finnernan and Fay Ripley.


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import org.junit.Test;

import com.deleidos.analytics.common.util.JsonUtil;

/**
 * Test getting example system descriptors.
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 */
public class SystemDescriptorFactoryTest {

	@Test
	public void testGetExampleSystemDescriptor() throws Exception {
		System.out.println(JsonUtil.toJsonString(SystemDescriptorFactory.getInstance().getExampleSystemDescriptor()));
	}
}

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Home » Celebrities » I'm A Celebrity's Scarlett Douglas to replace Richard Arnold on Good Morning Britain
I'm A Celebrity's Scarlett Douglas to replace Richard Arnold on Good Morning Britain
A Place In The Sun host Scarlette Douglas has revealed she's set to replace TV presenter Richard Arnold as Entertainment Editor on Good Morning Britain over the festive period.
Speaking to showbiz expert Johnny Seifert last night as part of his popular Secure The Insecure podcast, property expert Scarlette, 35, was asked what on-screen plans she has secured for the future and whether her fellow I'm A Celeb campmates might be willing to give her a helping hand.
"Charlene [White] is on the Loose Women panel. Is there an 'in' for you there?" host Johnny asks her.
"Ooh, that's a good question!" Scarlette teases.
Johnny asks, "Have you ever had an audition for Loose Women?"
"Never!" she replied. "But – exclusive – I'm gonna have my own section on Lorraine and I am also covering on GMB over Christmas. So, you're not technically allowed to be across any other shows in daytime. So This Morning, Loose Women, Lorraine and GMB.
"You kind of can either do one or the other. Luckily and very nicely. They've allowed me to do both GMB and Lorraine."
Johnny asks in return: "So what are you doing on GMB? Good Morning Britain is if anyone does know what the acronym is Good Morning Britain."
"I'm covering Richard Arnold for his Christmas break," Scarlette reveals. "So I'm on their 28th, 29th and 30th of December, during the entertainment slot."
"Good times!" Johnny says. "It's a good time to do the entertainment on that these days because there's nothing to talk about, so you literally get a longer start you can just talk Christmas TV."
Scarlette will stand-in for Richard, 53 – who became the Showbiz Editor for ITV Breakfast programme Daybreak until the show was axed in 2014 before quickly being made Entertainment Editor for Good Morning Britain the same year – at the end of the year.
And as well as making several glam red carpet appearances since returning home from the Aussie jungle earlier this month – including at this year's MOBO Awards – Scarlette has also since hit out at her I'm A Celeb co-star Chris Moyles for allegedly "ghosting" her.
Claiming to have been messaging the radio DJ, 48 – who she argues has failed to respond to her voice messages – she also told Johnny on the podcast: "So Chris and I had met on the Ant and Dec Tour, so when I saw him, I was like, I've met you before."
She continued: "We've got a mutual friend , I am the voice of Capital Xtra and you are on Radio X next to the Capital Xtra studio And he's like, No way. So we had a really good bond since when we were in there.
"And then since we've come out, I kind of message him a bit, and he doesn't really get back to me. So if you're listening, Chris, can you please reply to my voice note?"
Scarlette then laughed: "I just think he's actually busy. And he's actually got a life outside of me sending voice notes. But when we were in there, we had this thing. So we both love the Hunger Games."
She adds, "So just randomly we'd whistle the theme, ok, obviously a bit better than that with the whistle. And we would just do that to each other all the time. And that was our thing.
"So I just send him voice notes during that whistle, and then he just doesn't actually listen to them."
Scarlette Douglas spoke to Johnny Seifert on the Secure The Insecure podcast.
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Matt is a Research Fellow investigating the heterogeneous integration of chemical vapour deposited aligned nanomaterials in nanoscale vacuum electronics devices. He is based in the Electrical Engineering Division in the Department of Engineering. He is a member of the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, the Cambridge Graphene Centre, and the Electronic Devices & Materials group.
He is a Director of Cambridge Xray Systems, a spin out company developing nanoengineered field emission Xray source. Dr Cole is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Chartered Scientist (CSci), and a Chartered Physicist (CPhys). He is a Eur Ing, a STEM advocate and registered STEM Ambassador. He is a member of the Founders of the Future Foruum and a named Forbes 30 under 30 (2016). His awards include the Sir MacFarlane Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Sir Kroto Medal from the NanoSmat Society, the Silver Medal from the Institute of Materials, Minerals, & Mining, and the Sir Royce Medal from the Institute of Engineering & Technology. Dr Cole has spent time as a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and as a research associate at Sharp Laboratories of Europe. He has held the Isaac Newton Trust Fellowship (2012), a Winston Churchill Trust Fellowship (2012-2013), an International Young Scientist Research Fellowship (2013-2014), the CAS President's International Fellowship (2015-2017), and Cambridge University's Oppenheimer Research Fellowship (2014-2017).
Dr Cole is a Fellow, College Teaching Officer, Admissions Tutor, and Director of Studies in Engineering at St Edmund's College, Cambridge University.
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Throughout the 19th century it was one of the most important lazarettos in the western Mediterranean; however it was not to be used for much longer. The last ship in quarantine docked here in 1919, and soon after the place closed down.
The buildings are now listed as a heritage site Bien de Interés Cultural. For many years the place was used as a summer holiday residence for civil servants of the Spanish Ministry of Health. The School of Public Health of Menorca has been held here every year since the 1980s.
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Cal Bears History
Dedicated to the History of the University of California, Berkeley
Cal History Stories
The Glorious '98 Big Game
Posted byLeslie Mitchell November 15, 2021 November 16, 2021 Posted inUncategorized
One of the most joyous Big Games ever for California fans was the glorious '98 game. No, not the unfortunate 1998 game, but the 1898 game. Not only was it a Cal victory, but it was the Golden Bears' very first Big Game victory, and it was especially sweet coming as it did after seven long, fruitless years.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOUR 1898 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS!
(Top row): "Kangaroo" Pete Kaarsberg, assistant coach Addison Kelly, head coach Garrett Cochran; Volney Craig, (Middle Row): James Whipple, Bart Thane; Charles "Lol" Pringle, Percy Hall, Fred Greisberg, Harry Cornish, Fred Athern (Bottom row): Lloyd "Wrec" Womble, Warren "Locomotive" Smith
The Big Game rivalry had not started well for our beloved men in Blue. The heavily favored Bears lost the first Big Game in 1892 by a score of 14-10. Then came some ties and more losses. As the 1898 Big Game approached, California's record was a tragic 0-4-3. And the 1896 and 1897 games had been lost 0-20 and 0-28. The song "Palms of Victory" had debuted at the '97 Big Game, with its lyric announcing: "We now declare our hoodoo's gone, Victory is here!" But, sadly, victory still eluded the Bears – perhaps because the Cal Band had not yet learned the dangers of that particular song, and had played it throughout the game.
Another possible explanation for California's lack of Big Game success was proffered by Cal Professor M.E. Jaffa, who studied the problem and concluded that the Bears were overfed! Professor Jaffa issued the following report: "Not only was the amount of food actually consumed excessive, but the amount of food wasted was very large. The average daily cost per man, 97 cents, greatly exceeds the amount paid by the majority of housekeepers. The cost of meat alone was 35 cents per man per day. Another large item of expense is ale, which costs nearly 20 cents per man per day."
But, of course, as all true sports fans know, the real solution to any team's problems is to fire the coach. And California did just that – twice in two years. The Bears said goodbye to Coach Frank Butterworth after the 1896 season. Butterworth had not been popular on campus. His players regarded him as a "slave-driver" and he seemed to be more interested in hobnobbing with San Francisco society figures than in coaching football. Butterworth's replacement, Coach Charles Nott, lasted only a single season. The Bears were winless in 1897, and California's 0-28 Big Game loss saw the end of Nott's coaching career. Nott did, however , keep his "day job" in Berkeley, for which he was probably better suited: Professor of Botany.
In 1898 California made the bold decision to hire a coach from back east with actual football experience. Garrett Cochran was only 22 years old, an 1897 graduate of Princeton, where he had been an All American end and led his team, nicknamed "Cochran's Steamrollers," to the 1896 national championship. He was hired to coach both football and baseball at California for the princely sum of $1,500 per year – even though Frank Butterworth tried to talk him out of taking the job.
Garrett Cochran (center, holding the football) with "Cochran's Steamrollers," his 1896 national champion Princeton team.
The Berkeley campus, like much of the country, was ablaze with patriotic frenzy and war-fever in 1898. The sinking of the American battleship Maine in Havana Harbor had the country eager for war with Spain, which was presumed to have done the dastardly deed. That there was no evidence of this was entirely beside the point. Professor Bernard Moses, the founder of Cal's political science department proclaimed: "The war with Spain . . . has shown that in spite of our joy in peace congresses, we are still possessed of a warlike spirit, and that underneath a veneering of cultivation, there remains the uneradicated qualities of the old Viking or ancient Germanic warrior." He proclaimed football to be the representative of that spirit.
Garrett Cochran fit right in with the martial spirit of 1898. Young and energetic, he recruited players from throughout the campus. Ninety California undergraduates tried out for the team – a record at the time. Unlike previous coaches, Cochran moved players to different positions based on their skills and abilities, and he encouraged the emergence of "star" players. And he instituted new plays and schemes he had learned while playing at Princeton. The "Cochran Revolution" was a triumph. As the Big Game approached, Cal had compiled a 6-0-2 record, outscoring its opponents by a total of 172-5 – a far cry from Cal's 0-3-2 record the prior year.
But seven years of Big Game futility had left Cal fans in desperate need of a victory to make the turn-around complete. California had repeatedly been favored in earlier Big Games, only to end up heading home to Berkeley without a win. And Stanford was no pushover in 1898, either. Its record was 5-2-1, and it had outscored its opponents 93-40 on the season. The Berkeley campus was in a frenzy. One enormous sign on campus proclaimed: "Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!" Classes were suspended during Big Game week, and spontaneous California rallies broke out in Berkeley and San Francisco. Two hundred Cal men signed a pledge to forego wearing neckties for an entire year if the Bears did not win the game!
The 1898 Big Game program
The game was played at Recreation Park in San Francisco on Thanksgiving Day, with 20,000 spectators in attendance. The California team was nervous. Despite their spectacularly successful season, they had been bitten by the Big Game jinx too many times to be confident of victory. So right before the game, Coach Cochran gave the team a pep talk:
Boys, this is the opportunity of your lives. A grander opportunity to immortalize you names, stamp them indelibly upon the pages of the history of your university, has never been given you. For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can't play any longer, we'll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder. Just think what it means! Here are twenty thousand people to watch you! Some of you have mothers and fathers and sisters here today. Yes, boys, some of you have sweethearts here, who are wishing and praying that you may win. Play, fellows, play for their sakes. Let your motto be, "Hit 'em again, harder, harder."
After a moment of dead silence, the team gave a mighty roar, and raced out onto the field.
The game started slowly. After the Bears kicked off, neither team could move the ball. Stanford had the first sustained drive of the game mid-way through the first half, moving the ball 40 yards, down to the California 20. But then they fumbled and the Bears recovered. California drove the ball 89 yards on runs by stars Warren "Locomotive" Smith, "Kangaroo" Pete Kaarsberg, Charles "Lol" Pringle, and Percy Hall, but fumbled at the one-yard line, Stanford recovering. Stanford ended up having to punt, however, from its own end zone. Stanford punter Chet Murphy botched the punt, kicking it almost straight up in the air. Murphy somehow caught his own punt on the Stanford goal line and took off running down the 110-yard long field – a play that was allowed under the rules of the time. Murphy ran 85 yards, getting all the way to the California 25 before Percy Hall caught up with him and, in the words of a newspaper account, "reduced the Cardinal hope to a helpless heap."
California star Warren "Locomotive" Smith
Murphy's failure to score seemed to dispirit the Stanford team. The Bears held them on downs, and regained the ball on their own 16-yard-line. California marched 94 yards on 18 plays, capped by a three-yard touchdown run by Percy Hall. The Bears missed the conversion, and so led 5-0, touchdowns being worth 5 points and conversions 1 point. (This was a change from the prior year, when touchdowns were 4 points and conversions 2 points.)
Team captain Percy Hall
The score still stood at 5-0 at the half, but the game would be all in California's favor in the second half. "Locomotive" Smith ran a punt back 35 yards early in the second half, and was tackled at the Stanford 2. "Lol" Pringle took it in for a touchdown. "Kangaroo" Pete Kaarsberg's kick was good and the Bears led 11-0. (Kaarsberg got his "Kangaroo" nickname from his ability to leap over opposing players at the line of scrimmage and come down running. In fact, he had straps sewn onto his pants which his teammates used to lift him and throw him over the line of scrimmage.)
"Kangaroo" Pete Kaarsberg
Stanford was never able to move the ball in the second half, running only 10 plays in the entire half, in contrast to California's 46 plays. Percy Hall and "Lol" Pringle each scored another touchdown in the second half, with Kaarsberg adding one more extra point. The final score: California 22, Stanford 0. The Golden Bears' first Big Game victory!
Charles "Lol" Pringle in April 1899, when he became "Guardian of the Axe." But that's another story.
The game statistics were even more lopsided. During the 70 minute game, California ran 122 plays from scrimmage to 43 for Stanford. All of Cal's starting eleven played the entire game, while Stanford was forced to make a number of substitutions to try to change its luck.
The yardage totals were equally overwhelming in favor of California:
Percy Hall 183 yards
Warren "Locomotive" Smith 131 yards
Charles "Lol" Pringle 82 yards
"Kanagroo" Pete Kaarsberg 61 yards
James Whipple 30 yards
Bart Thane 18 yards
Total Cal yardage
(including punt and kick returns): 882 yards
Stanford Rushing
Murphy 111 yards
Fisher 6 yards
Dole 5 yards
Clinton 3 yards
Wilson 2 yards
Total Stanford yardage
By order of the President of the University of California, all classes were cancelled the following Monday afternoon, and the team and their coach were honored at a mass rally on campus. The team finished out the season over Christmas vacation, playing Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland, and winning 27-0. The Bears went 8-0-2 for the 1898 season, outscoring their opponents by a total of 221-5. Best of all, they had won the Big Game!
GO BEARS!
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Wat Chalong is Phuket Town, along with the area looks beautiful. This building can be a temple in line with the reviews, and people describe gorgeous Thai architecture. One of the other attractions is nearby, too, a Big Buddha. Some of the reviews speak about firecrackers, which sounds cool when you're surrounded by beautiful scenery.
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