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Participants will learn the legal requirements for evacuation and in-place sheltering. They will also learn how to recognize emergency conditions, how to report an emergency, and how to direct and assist other employees during different types of emergencies.
SafeResponse has developed this online training program for Evacuation Coordinators. This includes personnel who are responsible for directing and assisting employees during evacuations or in-place sheltering. Some of the examples used in the training program have been specifically developed for Ford Motor Company. These materials are included as examples only.
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According to the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), as well as state and provincial requirements, an employer must develop a written Emergency Action Plan that describes evacuation procedures.
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Each of the modules of the course has a summary and questions at the end. Completing each of these questions will reinforce what you have learned.
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The following is a list of 2016 box office number-one films in Italy.

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Letter To The Editor: Back To The IPRA
Submitted by c_clark
By CATHERINE OZMENT
I am the first Chair of the Community Development Advisory Board speaking in my capacity as a private citizen.
For a county that already struggles to comply with Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) requests, Council made a peculiar choice Tuesday to increase that workload. This may be due to an apparent lack of understanding among some Councilors about how CDAB came into being and the functions it served (and an unsurprising apathy among others).
CDAB exists because in 2017 people IPRAed code enforcement cases and paperwork, and the practices revealed were so problematic that the community demanded a standing body to review and provide input on the gap between what the code said and what was happening on the ground.
CDAB was given access to that material monthly so they could look for patterns and report back to Council on what was working and what wasn't.
(Readers unfamiliar with the saga might be surprised at what was found: the video archives live at https://losalamos.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx.)
People who advocated for the creation of CDAB (me, for example), were comfortable knowing appointed board members were able to do that work. Dissolving CDAB means that for there to be informed review and input, citizens will now have to file regular IPRA requests for the exact same material and make it available on their own.
So much for transparency.
Next time a Councilor defensively asks for an example of the problem with transparency in LAC, here's one: five Councilors just voted to make it harder for this public information to be in the hands of members of the public. Now wait for them to complain about the burdensome public information requests, as though we should feel badly about exercising our rights.
No issue in the last five years has created such sustained and vocal outrage in Los Alamos County as code enforcement of Chapter 18. Perhaps other issues should have created more outrage, but at this particular intersection of government betrayal and actionable public information, enough citizens hit their limit that Council had no choice but to act.
I hoped for incoming Councilors Havemann and Cull to have a peaceful start to their service, but unfortunately that won't be possible.
Here's hoping an informed electorate can once again compel our representatives to right action. I won't be sitting this one out.

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El yak (Bos mutus o Bos grunniens) es un mamífero bóvido de tamaño mediano y pelaje lanoso, nativo de las montañas de Asia Central y el Himalaya, vive en las altiplanicies esteparias y fríos desiertos del Nepal, Tíbet, Pamir y Karakórum, entre los 4000 y 6000 metros de altitud, donde se encuentra tanto en estado salvaje como doméstico.

La palabra 'yak' es del idioma tibetano གཡག་ - yag, o gyag, donde solamente el macho es llamado así, la hembra es una dri o nak.

Descripción
Los ejemplares salvajes (subespecie mutus), hoy escasos, son animales gregarios de pelo invariablemente largo (sobre todo en la zona abdominal, donde puede llegar hasta el suelo), denso y negro (en los animales viejos adopta un tono marrón) que cuelga a ambos lados del cuerpo y también de las extremidades, con una joroba sobre los hombros y cuernos largos de un metro de longitud que surgen a ambos lados de amplio cráneo, casi horizontalmente, para acodarse luego hacía arriba y algo hacia adentro. La cola es peluda a partir de su misma base y lleva en su extremo un gran mechón.

Los machos, que son más grandes que las hembras (estas solo alcanzan la mitad del tamaño de los machos), pueden llegar a los 2 metros de altura en la cruz —la cual aparece tan elevada debido a un alargamiento de la apófisis espinosas, que la cabeza parece empezar desde una posición más baja— y pesar hasta 1000 kilos. Las pezuñas poseen una superficie de apoyo amplia, mientras que las pezuñas secundarias rozan el suelo mientras escalan. Las hembras tienen dos pares de mamas. El cuerpo es alargado, lo cual se debe, en parte a que posee un par más de costillas (en total 14) que los restantes bóvidos.

Taxonomía

Linneo clasificó a los yaks domésticos como Bos grunniens () en 1766, posteriormente la variedad silvestre se clasificó como Bos mutus ("buey mudo") cuando se demostró que pertenecían a una misma especie se le debía asignar un único nombre científico. Generalmente en casos como este se aplicaría el principio de prioridad usado en la nomenclatura científica, que establece que debe permanecer como nombre específico el registrado en primer lugar, siendo grunniens el más antiguo.

Pero la Comisión Internacional de Nomenclatura Zoológica determinó en 2003 en la opinión 2027 que los yaks, al igual que otras 17 especies domésticas, debían nombrarse como su variedad salvaje, Bos mutus, para evitar la paradoja de que los linajes anteriores, los silvestres, fueran nombrados como subespecies de sus descendientes. Por lo tanto el nombre específico que prevalece para los yaks es Bos mutus, quedando el término grunniens como nombre trinomial que designa a la subespecie doméstica.

Los yaks pertenecen al género Bos, por lo que están cercanamente emparentados con las vacas domésticas (Bos primigenius taurus). Los análisis de ADN mitocondrial para determinar la historia evolutiva de los yaks han resultado un tanto confusos. El yak podría haber divergido del toro en algún punto entre hace uno y cinco millones de años, y hay algún indicio de que podría estar más cercanamente emparentado a los bisontes que a los demás miembros de su propio género. Se han encontrado fósiles de lo que parece ser parientes próximos del yak, como el Bos baikalensis, en Rusia oriental, sugiriendo una posible ruta por la que ancestros de bisonte americano similares al yak podrían haber entrado en el continente Americano.

Comportamiento

Son los ungulados que ascienden a mayor altura, pues pueden llegar a los 6000 metros sobre el nivel del mar. Se alimentan de plantas bajas y carecen de depredadores, aunque pueden sufrir el ataque (muy raramente) de los osos, lobos y leopardos de las nieves.

Los rebaños de yaks silvestres se componen de hembras, crías y animales jóvenes. Los machos viven en solitario o formando grupos de hasta 12 individuos. El yak permanece en los lugares que ofrezcan buenos pastos, frecuenta las zonas de hierbas y líquenes; si estos escasean, inmediatamente emigran hacia otro lugar. Su buen sentido del olfato les permite encontrar siempre los lugares más adecuados. Es un animal que distribuye su actividad al amanecer y el crepúsculo, siendo un buen escalador en terrenos rocosos abruptos y cubiertos de nieve. Para encontrarse a gusto necesita agua y le agrada además bañarse. Los yaks se apelotonan unos contra otros durante los temporales de nieve, girando su parte trasera hacia el viento. Los animales excitados yerguen la cola hacia arriba, como si fuese una bandera. Las manadas de lobos atacan a los yaks y capturan ante todo a los ternerillos. Por dicha causa un rebaño atacado coloca, de ser posible, a sus terneros en el centro.

Se perciben los gruñidos del yak durante la época de apareamiento. Los machos luchan entonces entre sí con fuerza, de forma que en no pocas ocasiones se lesionan gravemente. El periodo de celo empieza en septiembre, durando hasta finales de octubre. Las hembras alumbran a un ternero después de una gestación que ha durado unos 270 días. Las hembras de yak salvaje solo paren una vez cada 2 años. Alcanzan la madurez sexual al cumplir de 6 a 8 años de vida.

Domesticación

Los yaks han sido domesticados desde hace 3000 años. El yak doméstico tiene una altura hasta la cruz de 140 centímetros para un peso de 700 kilogramos, pueden cruzarse con las vacas domésticas y generar individuos fértiles produciendo más leche y de mayor contenido graso. De hecho, a esta característica se deben gran parte de las diferencias entre los yaks salvajes y los domésticos. Estos últimos son bastante más pequeños que sus antepasados silvestres, tienen cuernos más cortos e incluso muchos yaks domésticos carecen de ellos y el color del pelo puede ser negro, pardo, castaño, blanquecino e incluso manchado de varios colores. El yak es criado como animal doméstico de las zonas frías en extensas regiones de Asia, abarcando desde Afganistán y Bujará hasta Mongolia y norte de China. En fechas relativamente recientes se importaron yaks en el sur de Groenlandia, siendo el único animal doméstico de su tamaño que ha logrado aclimatarse a la perfección en la isla.

En Asia Central se los emplea para llevar cargas (llega a transportar una carga de 150 kilogramos a lo largo de empinados senderos de montaña), también se le utiliza para montarlo y tirar del arado. También se crían por su carne, apropiada para el consumo humano, produce una leche muy grasa (con la que se hacen quesos y mantequilla de gran calidad) si bien en menor cantidad que otros animales de raza bovina domésticos y pieles (resistentes y calientes). La cola del yak es utilizada como espantamoscas.

El yak se esquila una vez al año, siendo la lana de los animales adultos un tanto áspera y larga, pero permite elaborar perfectamente con ella mantas, cuerdas y otros objetos. Los excrementos secos son utilizados como combustible, muy apreciado en las zonas de su patria pobres en maderas, el yak es un animal muy apreciado por ello en el Tíbet, donde las familias adornan a sus animales con cintas tanto para diferenciarlos de los demás como por simples motivos estéticos.

Referencias

Véase también
 Buey almizclero
 Anexo:Especies de Artiodactyla
 Carrera de yaks

Enlaces externos

 ARKive - images and movies of the wild yak (Bos grunniens) (en inglés)
 more Information about Yaks / Wildyaks

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Baños de la Reina Archaelogical Site
The bay of Calpe with the vigilant rock of Ifach has been a landscape admired and appreciated by the different cultures that have been part of this land since ancient times.
The Roman site of Baños de la Reina in Calpe is an exceptional coastal enclave. Located in front of a bay with calm waters and sheltered by the Peñón de Ifach, it still submerges its rocky arms in the crystalline waters of Mare Nostrum today.
The sea and salt were the basis and the sustenance of the ancient Roman colonists, giving rise to fluid commercial exchanges that there is evidence of. This activity produced a small population who built their houses on the coastal dunes, resulting in selective and diversified urban planning.
After the passage of time and centuries of neglect, the popular imagination inherited the ancient legacy, identifying the pools as the "baths of the Moorish queen", which is how the site got its name. The existence of some drainage passages, now closed, adds to the myth: these were the tunnels that reached a mysterious palace which the "Moorish queen" used to get to her coastal bath. This popular belief is also an important part of the cultural heritage of the site.
The Baños de la Reina site consists of three parts:
1. Roman Vicus
The Roman site of Baños de la Reina is a coastal enclave that is known for its magnificent architectural design and its mosaics, one of the most important collections of its kind in all of Roman Hispania. Although only 25% of its surface has been excavated so far, it is enough to discern the magnitude of this Roman villae fitted with all kinds of luxuries 2,000 years ago. The pools carved out of the coastal rock, used to supply fresh fish, led to the name of the enclave which is still used today.
During the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, they constructed the first homes, a small thermal complex known as the "Muntanyeta thermal baths", and an industrial area which features the construction of a unique waterwheel carved out of the rock that supplied drinking water for the area. At the end of the 3rd century AD, a luxurious villae with a circular patio was constructed, fitted with an extraordinary private thermal complex. Finally, it is during the 5th and 6th century when traces of conversion to Christianity appear in this key navegation point with the construction of a modest church with a baptistry with a Greek cross and an adjacent cemetery.
2. Muntanyeta Thermal Complex
As a result of the remodeling of the coastal breakwater in 1993, the remains of this small 500 m thermal complex, known as the "Muntanyeta thermal baths", were uncovered.
Among the discoveries documented during its excavation, various pools had survived, as well as a natatio with cold water (frigidarium), which was accessed using three steps. Next to this were various ovens responsible for maintaining the appropriate temperatures in the hot rooms (caldarium) and warm rooms (tepidarium). The heating system developed by Roman engineers used hollow floors elevated by columns of bricks (pilae) and walls with air chambers made from ceramic tubes (tubuli) that facilitated the circulation of heat through the different rooms and kept them heated.
Joining these areas was a room with a floor formed by spikes (opus spicatum), as well as other complementary spaces intended for recreation, which were richly decorated with grey marble plates from Algeria.
3. The Roman Fish Farms of Baños de la Reina
The existence of large basins in the sea, carved into sandstone known as "pedra tosca", and popularly known as the "baths of the Moorish queen", led to the naming of the entire archaeological site.
The complex, carved from the same coast, consists of a large rectangular tank with an area of 165 m. Its interior was subdivided by natural stone walls, creating six pools with an opening in each one to connect them. Sea water entered through four canals, also carved from the rock, which allowed the free flow of water to all of the pools. These canals were covered with perforated gates, which allowed water to flow while preventing blockages and the escape of the fish inside.
While these fish farms or piscinae are associated with the farming of live fish, we cannot rule out its possible use as an aquatic garden in order to observe marine beauty, just like other Roman villae in the Tyrrhenian Sea, where these facilities, which were expensive to build and costly to maintain, represented the power and social prestige of their owner.
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The 2021–22 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team represented Vanderbilt University during the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by third-year head coach Jerry Stackhouse, and played their home games at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tennessee as a member of the Southeastern Conference. They finished the season 19–16, 7–11 in SEC Play to finish in eleventh place. They defeated Georgia and Alabama to advance to the quarterfinals of the SEC tournament where they lost to Kentucky. They received an at-large bid to the National Invitation Tournament where they defeated Belmont and Dayton to advance to the quarterfinals where they lost to Xavier.

Previous season
In a season limited due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Commodores finished the 2020–21 season 9–16, 3–13 in SEC play to finish in last place. They defeated Texas A&M in the first round of the SEC tournament, but lost to Florida in the second round.

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Departures

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2021 recruiting class

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Schedule and results

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See also
2021–22 Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball team

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Looking through the shrubbery, I was SURPRISED to see that verasion has been and gone in less than two weeks as far as the Shiraz and Pinot are concerned! I was going to post on that, but breen busy and lax.
Today I thought I better do a sugar level test and most of the varieties are at 15 Brix or about 8 Baum, getting there, close to what I want in my Portable Vineyard Backyard Wines- that is 12% Alcohol or better; that is, I need 22 Brix or better!
Vintage should be in less than two weeks if this is the case, end of February.
Today a large Carrawong(?), a crow sized native bird, bigger than a magpie, was scouting the vines for morning tea.... Not happy, may have to re-organise the whole yard, net the lot of them in one go rather than this poor attempt to keep them away.


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Born: Dec 19, 1888; Hungary Died: Nov 15, 1963; USA
Fritz Reiner was a legend among conductors. Universally admired for his music-making, widely disliked for his aggressive and exacting temperament, and survived by a legacy of definitive recorded performances, he was largely responsible for the artistic ascendancy of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and exerted considerable influence on generations of musicians.
Born in Budapest in 1888, he studied piano with his mother and, at the age of Read more 15, entered the Franz Liszt Academy -- an institution that also boasts Bela Bartók, Zoltan Kodály, Ernst von Dohnányi, George Szell, Eugene Ormandy, Georg Solti and Antal Dorati as graduates. Reiner gained conducting experience at a number of regional opera houses before eventually returning to Budapest in 1911 to serve at the city's Volksoper, where his reputation as a conductor of special abilities finally emerged.
In 1914 Reiner accepted a position at the Dresden Court Opera, where he formed a fortuitous relationship with both the conductor Arthur Nikisch and the composer Richard Strauss; Reiner would eventually give the German premier of Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, and would remain a devoted interpreter of the composer's works throughout his career. The economic chaos and emergent anti-Semitism that followed the First World War made Reiner anxious to leave Europe, and an invitation (in 1921) to become the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra provided just the right opportunity. From that point onward, Reiner's career was firmly rooted in the United States, where he became a citizen in 1928.
After resigning his post at Cincinnati Reiner became a professor of conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where his students included both the young Leonard Bernstein and Lukas Foss; Bernstein, in particular, credited Reiner with a great deal of influence in his development.
In 1938 he became the director of the Pittsburgh Symphony -- one of several positions that established Reiner as a fine builder of orchestras, with a talent for steering ensembles toward new levels of quality and success. A number of Reiner's well-known recordings stem from his tenure there. Guest appearances during his Pittsburgh years include those at Covent Garden and the San Francisco Symphony. From Pittsburgh he moved to the Metropolitan opera, where he remained on the conductor roster until 1953; his advocacy of Strauss' operas was especially strong there, and his performances of Salome and Elektra number among the most memorable evenings in the Met's history.
1953 was a watershed year for Reiner, since it was then that he assumed the directorship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This was to become his signature partnership, and the position that would establish his lasting legacy. His relationship with the orchestra was never a smooth one -- he was known for hostility and impatience in rehearsal, and for firing musicians for mistakes in concerts -- but he undeniably raised the ensemble from its status as a good American orchestra to that of one of the finest in the world. Unlike a number of other prominent conductors who excelled in narrow corners of the musical canon, Reiner maintained his excellent standards and clarifying precision throughout an especially broad repertory that crossed boundaries of nationality and style. He was as renowned for his performances of new works, such as Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra -- a piece that Reiner himself commissioned from the dying composer -- and Alan Hovhaness' Mysterious Mountain as he was for his Mahler, Strauss and Haydn. His tenure in Chicago also resulted in what was then an unprecedented volume of fine recordings, some of which still remain as favorites, despite the improved fidelity of modern competitors. Reiner resigned from Chicago in 1962 (after only nine seasons), and died the following year of heart failure. Read less
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3. Blake's 7: Lucifer (Audiobook)
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Many legends surround the aftermath of the collapse of The Federation, including the fate of Kerr Avon...
What happened to Avon after the death of Blake and the crew of the Scorpio? Paul Darrow's vivid re-imagining picks up Avon's story at the final moments of the final episode of Blake's 7 and follows him on his fight for survival, this time with no crew and no ship to help him.
The adventure continues years later as Avon, now an old man, finds himself a key player in the game of power politics being played out on a grand scale by The Quartet - four ruthless leaders in an uneasy alliance, who govern the world in place of the Federation. Old enemies resurface and dangerous new ones appear as the time comes for old scores to finally be settled...
Recorded on: 8, 9 and 10 October 2012
Recorded at: Audio Sorcery
Narrator Paul Darrow
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How FSU football received the lowest Academic Progress Rate in the FBS
Assigning responsibility for the Seminoles' near-failing grade.
By David Visser@DavidBVisser May 9, 2019, 5:33pm EDT
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Wednesday saw the release of the most recent Football Bowl Subdivision Academic Progress Rate (APR) data. These are the numbers used by the NCAA to determine whether or not student-athletes are pulling their weight in the classroom, as well as to penalize programs that fall too far behind. The latest feedback could have been far better for Florida State football, which finds itself dead last among 130 FBS teams.
Lowest-ranked FBS schools in newly released APR data (2017-18). All fall above the 930 benchmark to avoid penalties.
Florida State 936
East Carolina 937
Southern Miss 941
Tulsa 943
Bowling Green 944
San Jose St. 944
Texas Tech 944
Charlotte 945
BYU 946
Akron 946
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) May 8, 2019
But analyzing this data requires some perspective before blame is assigned. That begins by understanding just what the APR entails. Below is the NCAA's own description, along with a helpful graphic.
The APR, or Academic Progress Rate, holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic term.
The APR is calculated as follows:
Each student-athlete receiving athletically related financial aid earns one point for staying in school and one point for being academically eligible.
A team's total points are divided by points possible and then multiplied by 1,000 to equal the team's Academic Progress Rate.
In addition to a team's current-year APR, its rolling four-year APR is also used to determine accountability.
Teams must earn a four-year average APR of 930 to compete in championships.
APR Formula
To begin, it's important to emphasize that while this data is the most recent to be released, that doesn't mean that it includes this past school year (2018-2019). This is the most-recent four-year average, culminating with the 2017-2018 academic year.
Florida State head coach Willie Taggart did not take over at the helm in Tallahassee until December 5, 2017. So the 2017 fall semester was all but in the books. Taggart then had 15 days before 2017's Early Signing Period to salvage a Seminole class left largely unattended by what had become a lame-duck staff under Jimbo Fisher. At the same time, Taggart had to hire a staff of his own.
And the obvious chaos brought about by an entire regime change in the coaching ranks is further exacerbated by player turnover, which hurts a program's APR, even if that player was in good academic standing. And player attrition is often higher than normal when changing out a staff— for good reason. Those players were recruited by a different staff with their own goals and methodologies. It's not necessarily anyone's fault when a player transfers out after a coaching change— sometimes the fit just isn't there anymore.
Taggart and company needed badly to flip a poor culture at Florida State, one that let accountability fall by the wayside for both coaches and players. Scant repercussions awaited players who skipped classes under Fisher, and players are creatures of habit. But it's unfair and unrealistic to expect Taggart and his staff to have suddenly reconstructed FSU's broken culture immediately upon taking over. However, if they can't turn things around, the NCAA, unlike the Fisher regime, will enforce consequences.
What are the results of not making the 930 minimum APR? Here are the details from the NCAA:
The first penalty level limits teams to 16 hours of practice per week over five days (as opposed to 20 over six days), with the lost four hours to be replaced with academic activities.
A second level adds additional practice and competition reductions, either in the traditional or non-championship season, to the first-level penalties. The third level, where teams could remain until their rate improves, includes a menu of possible penalties, including coaching suspensions, financial aid reductions and restricted NCAA membership. The Division I Committee on Academics, which oversees Division I's academic infrastructure, has the discretion to apply appropriate penalties once teams have fallen below the benchmark for three consecutive years.
While postseason bans are commonly applied as a penalty in the NCAA enforcement process, they are not considered as a penalty for poor academic performance. Instead, the requirement that teams achieve a minimum APR is simply a benchmark for participation in championships. Just as teams must win in competition to be eligible for championships, they must also achieve in the classroom.
So are the 'Noles in trouble? No. As specified above, a rolling four-year average is used to determine punishments, so that programs dealing with drastic, sudden changes, are not penalized unjustly. Still, FSU's rolling four-year APR averages for the last few years show how the Seminoles have trended downward as the Fisher era ran its course. Florida State needs to get this ship righted.
2014-2015: 945
Of course, even for football teams keeping above the 930 threshold, APR averages can still matter. If there aren't enough six-win teams to fill all of the available bowl slots, five-win teams can be selected— but priority is given to those with the best APR results. The APR needs to rise as a sign of Taggart and his staff changing the culture in Tallahassee and holding players responsible for their actions, both on the field and in the classroom— if it winds up coming into play to squeak FSU into a bottom-tier bowl game, we'll likely be having a very different conversation altogether.
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Stan Collymore's biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story
Intro English association footballer
A.K.A. Stanley Victor Collymore
Is Athlete
Type Sports
Birth 22 January 1971, Stone
Star sign Aquarius
Stanley Victor "Stan" Collymore (born 22 January 1971) is an English former footballer who played as a centre-forward from 1990 to 2001. He held the English transfer record when he moved from Nottingham Forest to Liverpool for £8.5 million in 1995 and was capped three times at senior level by the England national football team. He is currently a football pundit.
Crystal Palace and Southend United
Aston Villa and Leicester City
Bradford City, Real Oviedo, and retirement
Post-football career
Collymore was born in Stone, Staffordshire. As a young boy he supported Aston Villa. A centre forward, Collymore played junior football for Cannock Peelers and Penkridge Juniors before starting his career as an apprentice footballer with Walsall, and also Wolverhampton Wanderers, before being released and signing for then Conference team, Stafford Rangers. It was there he caught the eye of several football league clubs by demonstrating the ability to score spectacular goals before being given his chance as a full-time professional with Crystal Palace at the age of 19, when he signed for them in December 1990.
After nearly two years of learning his trade as understudy to the prolific Crystal Palace partnership of Mark Bright and Ian Wright, Collymore dropped down a division in the autumn of 1992 to sign for Southend United and there scored 18 goals in 31 games to help keep the club in Division One (now Championship) when relegation had seemed likely.
Collymore enjoyed his time at Southend saying, "I count helping to keep Southend in the First Division in my season there as one of my finest achievements."
In June 1993, Collymore signed for Nottingham Forest in an initial £2 million deal rising to £2.75 million based on certain clauses being met, including an international cap. He was signed by newly appointed Frank Clark, who had just taken over as manager at the end of Brian Clough's 18-year reign as manager. Forest had just been relegated from the Premier League, but Collymore's good form in the 1993–94 campaign helped take them back to the top flight as Division One runners-up. He scored 22 Premier League goals in 1994–95 as Forest finished third in the league and achieved UEFA Cup qualification to secure their first European campaign of the post-Heysel era.
Halfway through the 1994–95 season, Collymore came close to joining Manchester United. Alex Ferguson was looking for a younger striker to sign as a possible long term successor to the 31-year-old Mark Hughes, and had identified Stan Collymore and Andy Cole as the two players who best fitted the bill. For a while it seemed certain that Collymore was on his way to Old Trafford, but United signed Cole instead and Collymore remained at the City Ground until the end of the season, by which time Newcastle United, Liverpool and Everton were in the hunt for his signature.
Collymore signed for Liverpool in June 1995, for an English record fee of £8.5 million. He scored on his Liverpool début against Sheffield Wednesday and would spend two years at Anfield. He scored at a ratio of a goal every 2.5 games and created many goals in a partnership with Robbie Fowler, ousting the veteran Ian Rush. He also scored two goals, including the winner, against Newcastle United at Anfield in a game that was regarded as one of the most exciting in the history of the Premier League – a game which helped severely dent Newcastle's title challenge (which they had led by 10 points at Christmas 1995) and eventually hand the title to Manchester United. In 2003, it was voted by viewers of Sky Sports as the greatest sporting moment in the channel's first ten years.
At the end of his first season with Liverpool, Collymore and Fowler's partnership was one of the most feared attacking partnerships in the Premiership (having plundered 55 goals between them), while Collymore had also received an International call up. Collymore was in the Liverpool side for the FA Cup Final, but was substituted in favour of Ian Rush (in his final appearance for Liverpool) in the 74th minute with the match still goalless, and watched from the sidelines when Manchester United's Eric Cantona fired home the winning goal with five minutes left on the clock. It would be the closest that Collymore would come to winning a major trophy in his playing career.
In the following season, Collymore again scored double digits and create several goals, as the team went closest to winning the Premier League title in the 1990s. At the time, Collymore was tainted together with team mates for the rise of a Spice Boys culture at the club, while on the pitch, his partnership with Fowler was not as prolific, and several off field issues arose that saw him in and out of the side, dropped by manager Roy Evans, and with Patrik Berger and later Michael Owen taking his place in the attack; with a move back to the Midlands planned for him at the end of the season.
Despite his controversies at the club, Collymore helped Liverpool to third place in the Premier League. After two seasons at Anfield the striker was sold to Aston Villa in 1997, for £7 million, making him Liverpool's most expensive sale at the time, and Villa's most expensive signing.
In the three years that he spent at the club, Collymore scored 15 goals but failed to hold down a regular place. Highs included being only the third Aston Villa player in history to score a hat-trick in European competition (the other two being his boyhood idols Gary Shaw and Peter Withe) and also bagging two goals against former club Liverpool in a 2–1 home victory. Poor form and Clinical Depression saw Collymore receive treatment at the Priory Hospital Roehampton for several weeks, and on his return to professional football he went on a three-month loan to Fulham, where he scored once in the League Cup against West Bromwich Albion. Ultimately he was allowed by manager John Gregory to leave on a free transfer to Leicester City, where, under Martin O'Neill, he regained some of the early form when he scored a hat trick against Sunderland in a 5–2 victory, in which Martin O'Neill went on record to describe the Leicester City side on that day, as the best side he has managed to date. Another highlight was scoring in a win against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. He was however cup-tied for the 2000 Football League Cup Final.
Collymore was notoriously involved as the Leicester City team was sent home from a four-day break in La Manga. Collymore let off a fire extinguisher in a hotel bar.
Shortly after, O'Neill left Leicester City to Manage Celtic and Collymore, Steve Walsh and others were forced to depart following the arrival of new manager Peter Taylor.
Given the potential of Collymore to have succeeded at both Liverpool and Aston Villa in his years in football, The Daily Telegraph wrote in 2004: "…that Until Wayne Rooney came along, Collymore was as naturally talented an individual as British football has produced in 40 years. According to John Gregory, one of his many former managers, he 'had everything Thierry Henry has got and more'. His tragedy, as director John Moulson's fascinating portrait of him revealed, was to be totally unsuited temperamentally to the business into which his enormous skills led him. The concept of being a team player was way beyond someone so self-absorbed."
He moved to Bradford City in October 2000 on a free transfer. He scored an overhead kick on his debut against Leeds United in a West Yorkshire derby at Valley Parade on 29 October, which ended 1–1. However, Collymore celebrated in front of the visiting Leeds fans and subsequently faced Football Association charges. He was substituted at half-time in his second game as Bradford lost 4–3 to Newcastle United in the League Cup, and missed the following game at Charlton Athletic because of flu and a sore wisdom tooth. In Collymore's absence, City lost 2–0, and manager Chris Hutchings was sacked two days later. Jim Jefferies was appointed as new City manager, and he won his first home game in charge 2–1 against Coventry City when Collymore scored Bradford's first goal. However, only a month later, Collymore, and other highly paid players Benito Carbone and Dan Petrescu were transfer-listed. Collymore was linked with various clubs, but eventually signed for Spanish La Liga side Real Oviedo on 31 January 2001, when he was greeted by 1,500 fans. He had played just eight games for Bradford, scoring two goals.
Collymore's début for Oviedo was as a second-half substitute away to Las Palmas on 4 February 2001, which resulted in a 1–0 defeat. He was again brought on during the second half of his home debut a week later against Villarreal, but was then dropped by coach Radomir Antić and warned to improve his fitness. He played just one more game for Oviedo, before he announced his retirement at the age of 30, on 7 March 2001, just five weeks after he had joined the Spanish club. A statement issued through his spokesman said, "Stan Collymore has decided, after discussions with his family and close friends, to give up playing professional football. He has just turned 30 and believes that the time is right to explore other career opportunities which are available to him." He was offered a chance to return to Southend United and he was also approached by Boston United and Wolverhampton Wanderers, but never made a return to football, and was also turned down for the manager's position at Bradford City, following the dismissal of Jim Jefferies in December 2001. Before the end of 2001, Oviedo began court proceedings against Collymore for breach of his contract.
After an impressive debut season in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil.
Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Collymore contributed to his biography Stan: Tackling my demons with Oliver Holt which was released to critical acclaim for its portrayal of the modern footballer.
In 2005 he played the character Kevin Franks in the film Basic Instinct 2 alongside Sharon Stone. Collymore is seen and heard regularly on television and radio in the UK, and owns Maverick Spirit Productions, a UK Television Production Company.
In 2007 Collymore went back to full-time sports broadcasting. He summarised for Australian television on the FA Cup Final between Manchester United and Chelsea at Wembley and the UEFA Champions League Final between Liverpool and AC Milan in Athens. Collymore was part of the BBC Radio Five Live commentary team in 2007–08 for the Champions League Final between Manchester United and Chelsea in Moscow and for the station's Premier League coverage that season.
He has hosted the weekly football magazine show, Central Soccer Night on ITV Central, and commentated on the 26th Africa Cup of Nations for British Eurosport. He is also a regular commentator and studio analyst for two foreign broadcasters, GTV (Ghana) & SBS Sport (Australia).
Collymore left 5 Live after the 2008 Champions League final to become a presenter and co-commentator on talkSport he also used to host the phone-in show, Call Collymore which was on after every Premier League game that talkSPORT covered. He also featured as an analyst on the station's matchday live programme. When he first joined talkSPORT he co-presented their evening show with Danny Kelly on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening on the football programme and commentated on the Saturday afternoon matches with Nigel Pearson, replacing Alvin Martin as co- commentator. For the 2009–10 season Collymore moved from Monday to Wednesday nights with Mark Saggers as well as keeping his commitments on Saturday afternoons. Collymore worked at the 2010 World Cup becoming the main co-commentator on talkSPORT and usually commentated with Jim Proudfoot on the biggest matches including the final and all of England's matches. He claimed on Twitter he was the subject of a move for the BBC to move to 5 Live and also do television work but he turned this down and remained on talkSPORT. He also used to appear on Kick Off on Monday to Wednesday nights usually with Mark Saggers and commentating on Champions League on those nights. As well as this he was a pundit on Channel 5 for their Europa League coverage. He has endeared himself to his fans on TalkSPORT by continually repeating his catchphrase "At this moment in time" while on air.
On 20 October 2008, in a landmark case that may have set a precedent for cases in the future, Collymore won more than £1.5 million in damages from his financial advisers, for the poor investment advice he had been given since retiring from professional football in 2001. The judge ruled that Collymore had indeed been given advice that was in breach of statutory obligations.
In May 2014, Collymore was criticised by a Royal Navy veteran after he wrote on Twitter: "Falklands? Wasn't anyone's. We just thieved it, as we do. What glory, what triumph. A f***ing island with sheep. Rule Britannia". Despite numerous demands, Collymore refused to apologise for the comment telling Falklands Radio that the comment was "unambiguous enough for [them] to use common sense".
The subsequent furore resulted in numerous complaints from the veteran community with some staging a protest outside of the broadcasters offices.
Collymore had a relationship with Ulrika Jonsson which ended after he punched her in a Parisian bar in 1998. Since talking in 1999 for the first time about his experience of depression, he has supported the charity Depression Alliance, and in 2011 raised £20,000 for it in three days.
In 2004, Collymore was accused of taking part in dogging at Cannock Chase by an undercover News of the World reporter. He lost his job at BBC Radio 5 Live over the incident.
He is a supporter of Republic, a campaign group that campaigns for an elected UK head of state. He supported the Labour Party before leaving them for the Scottish National Party in December 2015 after a notable minority of Labour MPs supported airstrikes in Syria.
He stated in his autobiography that he has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
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Diminished Israeli Labor Party explores new niche in social justice
Mazal Mualem February 12, 2019
Israel's once-powerful Labor Party is no longer perceived as a viable alternative to the ruling Likud, but it could re-establish itself as a fresh, young social justice platform.
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Avi Gabbay, chairman of Israel's Labor Party, arrives to vote during the primaries in Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. 11, 2019.
The top tier of candidates elected in the Feb. 11 Labor Party primaries consists of a diverse and high-quality team. Nevertheless, it also indicates that Labor has stepped back from center stage and no longer offers a viable alternative to the current government. Elected to the top two slots were two young Knesset members, Itzik Shmuli (39) and Stav Shaffir (33), both of them icons of the social protest movement in the summer of 2011. Both candidates managed to beat two former party leaders: Shelly Yachimovich came in third and Amir Peretz, a former Labor minister of defense, came in fourth.
Yachimovich and Peretz are both powerful and experienced social brands, too, but the very party that established the state and dominated every aspect of life so high-handedly for decades is now nothing more than a small faction championing a social agenda. The evidence can be seen in the polls of the last few weeks, which give it an average of six to seven seats (similar to the numbers the same polls give to Arab-Israeli Knesset member Ahmad Tibi's party). The party's chances of recovery are slim.
In 2015, Labor ran on one ticket with Hatnua as the Zionist Camp. The partnership with Hatnua head Tzipi Livni created a genuine alternative. It opened the door to a new government led by two experienced leaders, Livni and Labor's Isaac Herzog, under a banner of diplomatic opportunities. It contrasted sharply with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's approach to the peace process. But it is not the Labor Party of the 2019 election. In terms of diplomatic affairs, particularly the peace process, the party has been plagued by an identity crisis for years. Efforts by its leaders to appeal to the right have led to the emergence of a very different party from the historic Labor brand. While its members still identify with the center-left and support a two-state solution, most of their focus is on social issues. This orientation is evident in the kinds of legislation that the party supports.
Avi Gabbay, the current Labor leader, grew up in a Likud home. Shortly after being elected to this position, he promised to win 30 seats for Labor, including seats that would have otherwise gone to the Likud. Since then, he has managed to wear away what was left of the party's diplomatic agenda. From the beginning, he chose to veer right with statements in support of the settlements. While they caused many longstanding Labor Party members to abandon ship, they also failed to draw new supporters from the Likud. It was a lethal error that, as he would learn, would be very hard to fix.
Gabbay wore away even more at his party's diplomatic wing when he publicly deposed Livni and ended their partnership. Despite all the criticism she has faced, Livni is still the most senior political figure identified with the idea of a two-state solution. She is loud and clear in presenting a detailed alternative to the right on diplomatic affairs. With Livni and the Labor Party's social brand, Gabbay could have offered the public a far more comprehensive and complete product.
Gabbay is a relatively new political player. It has only been four years since he first entered politics in 2015 as a minister in Kahlon's Kulanu in the right-wing government. While he since managed to win the Labor leadership, he has never fully realized what that means, nor apparently attributed it any importance. He may always have seen the prime minister's office beckoning, but he ended up becoming the head of a niche party straddling the electoral threshold.
After the party's new list was elected in the primaries, Gabbay tweeted, "We will go from town to town and neighborhood to neighborhood over the next 57 days to bring the citizens of Israel back to our way, the way of [Israel's first Prime Minister David] Ben-Gurion and [late Prime Minister] Yitzhak Rabin." Gabbay was grasping at the founding generation of the Labor Party and its two most popular prime ministers, both of whom were great security hawks but equally great statesmen. In other words, he was trying to evoke a tribal sentiment. The problem is that quite a few people think that it is really Benny Gantz, chairman of the new Israel Resilience, who is carrying on the Rabin legacy.
In an interview with Army Radio on the morning after the primaries, Gabbay seemed pleased with the results, and rightfully so. After many tough days of terrible polls and initiatives to replace him, he could find some encouragement in the idea that his most prominent opposition in the party, Knesset member Eitan Cabel, found himself in an unrealistic slot on the party list.
Labor proved on Feb. 11 that it is still alive and kicking. After all, it did bring 30,000 members out of their homes to vote for the various candidates. It was no small feat, considering that the polls predicted the party's ultimate collapse. As it turned out, reports of its demise were premature. Labor will be running in the upcoming election with a very good list that exemplifies diversity. There are three Mizrahi — of Middle Eastern origin — men and three women in its top tier. There is also a good chance that it will recover in the polls. But even if Labor soars, winning more than 10 seats, it will still not be a major player. That era is over.
In his radio interview, Gabbay announced that under his leadership, Labor will do everything it can to replace the current government. On the other hand, he refused to commit to recommending the leader of the largest center-left party to the president to form the next government. Was it a strategic decision? Perhaps.
None of this changes the fact that the Labor primaries completed the process by which the historic party has transformed from the leading alternative to the right into a high-quality, niche social party, made up of combative and highly regarded members of the Knesset. Labor today offers a clear social-democratic agenda. On the other hand, its role as a political alternative to the right-wing government has been taken over by Gantz' new party. The polls show the general as widely deemed highly suitable to serve as prime minister.
Gantz has filled the vacuum left by Gabbay. The Labor chairman has not come to be identified with the banner of diplomatic affairs. Nor is he considered an alternative to Netanyahu, particularly given his low showing in the polls as being suitable for prime minister. Under other circumstances, if Labor had offered a political alternative, it is quite possible that Gantz (considered Rabin's political twin) would have found his place in the party.
Meanwhile, Labor and its leader must adapt to the new reality. Over the past few weeks, Gabbay has stopped making grandiose declarations that he will be the next prime minister, showing that even he has realized that his ascension to the prime minister's office is a pipe dream.
Sometime in the very near future, possibly right after the next election, the question of whether Gabbay is the right person to lead the party will become much more substantial. At that point, it is quite possible that Shmuli and Shaffir will compete for the role. Then the final turnabout will be completed.
Mazal Mualem is a columnist for Al-Monitor's Israel Pulse and formerly the senior political correspondent for Maariv and Haaretz. She also presents a weekly TV show covering social issues on the Knesset channel. On Twitter: @mazalm3


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One of the most sought after subjects with the future IAS aspirants, its immense popularity is evident from the fact that out of the top 10 rankers in the UPSC examination 3 are sociology candidates and out of the top 25 candidates, 12 have sociology as their subject. The main reasons for selection of sociology can be attributed to its ease of understanding and a well-defined syllabus, extremely interesting and require a short time for preparation of 6-8 months.
Our past survey shows that the sociology subject is not only preferred by the Humanities candidates but also the candidates from Engineering and the medical domain.
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Some people just know they have to prepare for UPSC CSE right from the beginning. However, there are many others who feel they can become really good IAS officers but don't even begin their preparation because of the myths about UPSC CSE preparation. Here's an attempt to bust all these myths in one go. O2 IAS Academy hopes that after reading this article, you'll take the first step towards building your destiny!
1Too much cramming
I can't study that much. I can't remember facts. Well, many students believe that civil services preparation is synonymous to cramming a million things. Certainly, it is not the case. UPSC CSE is an exam that makes officers out of students. They select policy makers of future and the people who make it to the final list are not the ones who memorize but the ones who analyze! A strong personality (or a resolution to create one) is all that you need.
2Political Interference in the job
Yes, we know you hear a lot in the news about the political pressure on bureaucrats. Names like Mr Ashok Khemka are commonly quoted as examples. Needless to say, every job has its pros and cons. A bureaucrat has all the powers to change the fate of millions of countrymen. And getting into the topmost services of the country ensures that you have all the legal means available to respectfully fight any kind of pressure that you might face as an IAS officer. Life is the biggest test after all, others are just a part of it.
3Luck Based exam
This could be true for some, but for most people, it is their hard work that takes them through. If the resolution is strong enough, clubbed with the right guidance, you'll surely turn your stars in your favour.
4Only for the intelligent
Not a record of being a topper, not even good scores in school or college, no degree from a prestigious university and not even a decent job. Are there any more reasons keeping you from starting your CSE preparation? Well, do add them to the list and throw that list away.
UPSC CSE tests people on their life skills - how they handle pressure , how they deal with problems in uncertain times, and how responsive they are to the needs of the society. These attributes have nothing to do with your scores in school or college. Rather, they are a part of your personality which gets polished through this preparation. If toppers were all that they wanted, they would have directly recruited all gold medalists of all prestigious institutes as IAS officers.
5Failure leads to unemployment
Firstly, failure shouldn't be on your mind while starting the preparation. An aspiring IAS officer must not base his life decisions based on the fear of failure. Yes, to be practical, you must complete your basic studies before starting full fledged preparation. Once you are into the preparation mode for UPSC CSE, there's no looking back in life. The knowledge and skills that you acquire while preparing would make you capable enough to create infinity out of zero. In fact, many of the biggest entrepreneurs in Indian education today were CSE aspirants once!
6Should have opted for Arts in school/college
Well, statistics show it, most of the students who crack UPSC CSE are from Science/ Engineering backgrounds. It does take a little more time to get accustomed to the new subjects, but you would ace them for sure.
7Zero social life
Gone are the days when students would lock themselves in their rooms for years and come out as IAS officers. Studying hard is a sure mantra that stands useful even today but the dynamic nature of the exam requires you to stay connected. Many students prepare in groups while others maintain a work-life balance to stay motivated throughout the process.
8Impossible without 'the midas touch of Delhi'
This was hundred percent true a few years back when all the key books and notes for UPSC CSE were available only in Delhi. The strategies of preparation used to be discussed in the streets of Mukherjee Nagar over tea. But now, technology has turned fortunes! With the advent of the internet, all books and notes are available online. Even the coaching classes can be taken through online portals of various institutes. The lessons from the best teachers of the country can now be accessed right from your home on YouTube.
9I will have to leave my job
This ain't true if you are disciplined enough to devote your weekends and off-hours sincerely to your studies. In fact, having a job keeps a lot of anxiety away and keeps you focussed on your goal.
10Language barrier
UPSC CSE is conducted in English as well as regional languages. So no worries about not knowing English as it would be required only for the qualifying papers (CSAT and English Language Paper in Mains). Nowadays, most of the study material and Test Series are available online in vernacular languages as well.