Luckyfinds: A Call to the "Iskolars ng Bayan"
A Call to the "Iskolars ng Bayan"
Where had all the UP graduates gone?
The article entitled A Call to all UP Alumni Honor and Excellence" written by Gee summarized Professor Solita "Winnie" Monsod's challenge to our State University graduates to uphold honor and excellence. This has become my favorite sponsors post.
Beginning with the Freshmen orientation, 'The Iskolar ng Bayan' egos have been nourished with sayings that 'We are the best of the best, the crème de la crème". And this has always been accompanied by a constant reminder that we owe our education to our country and our fellowmen.
Patriotism is taught and encouraged in hundreds of UP students. We were trained to fully appreciate the gift we have been given. The value of their education are so instilled in our young minds such that no form of hardships nor any lack of resources can prevent us from coming to school. But patriotism doesn't end with garnering excellent marks and graduating at the top of one's class. The true test lies in how we live heroic lives after we leave the University of the Philippines.
Many of the state university graduates occupy high positions in the government but have remained bystanders at the fringes of unfolding history. Perhaps we were not heroic enough to challenge the questionable, and to defend what is right.
Our generation have failed to acknowledge how much responsibility we ourselves bore for the continuation of the circumstances that have remained unjust. Sad to say, we often lack awareness of our stewardship responsibilities over the country's natural wealth and people.
Gising, Peyups! It is not too late to reverse the situation by returning to the basics. We can learn to be good citizens all over again. We should live our lives as we know how it should be lived. Everything else that each one of us become must be built on this premise.


KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- East Tennesseans were honored at Provision CARES Foundation's annual East Tennessee Cancer Impact Awards Dinner at Hotel Knoxville Thursday evening.
At the dinner, local individuals and businesses were acknowledged for their service and support provided to cancer patients and their families in the categories of patient advocate, volunteer, medical professional, community outreach and the CARES cancer challenge winner.
Provision serves cancer patients through education, wellness and research. Their signature program, Caring Plate which debuted in 2014, provides nutritious meals to cancer patients and their families.


Paying rent on time – This one is pretty straightforward. You have bills to pay. In order to meet the needs of your cash out, you need cash in! When people don't pay on time, it affects your ability to pay things like your mortgage, property taxes, insurance, salaries, and fix problems in a timely manner. You may even have to borrow money on interest in order to meet some of your obligations. Therefore, besides the stress involved when rent is not paid on time, it actually costs you money!
Maintenance Requests – Part of the job of a property manager is to fix things that break. If someone's oven is not working, air conditioner is blowing hot air, or toilet gets stuffed, it's your pleasure to ensure it gets the proper attention, and in a timely manner. Murphy's Law states that a major emergency service request, the kind that requires your personal attention, will come in just as you're about to sit down to dinner with your family.
Lease Compliance – Some people feel entitled to throw rave parties, in their condos, nightly at 3 a.m. Maybe it's a cultural thing? However, for the vast majority of us this is more than just a nuisance. At the very least, it prevents us from functioning properly, due to the lack of sleep. At worst, you're dealing with a rise in crime due to the abundant supply of alcohol and narcotics. As a property manager, besides the headache of dealing with the actual confrontations and frequent visits of police officers, this has a direct effect on your wallet. Unhappy customers take their business elsewhere. The people you are trying to attract, who pay their rent on time, are moving out, and the only ones moving in are the ones you don't want!
Evictions – Besides the actual stress of dealing with the court system to get a deadbeat evicted, the process can often take 6-9 months. This costs money, and ties up your property, preventing you from earning money from it. Let's not forget complications associated with evictions such as deadbeats trashing the apartment, generating noise complaints, and harassing other tenants.
In our highly-connected world where every new device seems to be "smart," what are some of the ways a landlord or property manager can leverage today's IoT technology in order to better serve their customer base, become more profitable, and make their job much more enjoyable?
There is a technology available today called Intelligent IoT Messaging, which is the ability for products and software to communicate with people and things in natural language over any messaging platform (such as Facebook, Twitter, SMS, and even WhatsApp!) The 'intelligent' part of the technology comes from its artificial intelligence, based on IBM Watson technology, the same technology that won first place in the 2011 Jeopardy challenge!
Making it easy for people to use will increase adoption of the service, and get you paid on time!
One of the key drivers of IoT technology in manufacturing is knowing when things WILL break down, instead of being informed you have a problem after the fact. The same technology can be applied to apartment complexes. You can IoT-enable the entire development by installing sensors on critical components, such as heat, AC, plumbing, appliances, etc. For example, your hot water heater can send you an alert over WhatsApp stating that a problem has developed with its machinery and that the pump will malfunction in five days. This will give you accurate, real-time data on the available lifespan of these devices, so that you can proactively schedule the maintenance window, instead of being called to an emergency while you're eating dinner with your family.
The biggest value of deploying "smart" technology comes not from its use or application, but from the data it provides. The intelligent chatbot can serve as a live dashboard to manage your business. For example, you can ask your chatbot, "Who hasn't paid yet? Who's late? Who's been late more than once? Etc." We can even get more specific, such as, "Show me everyone who's 45 days late in zip code XXXXX." The chatbot makes your property management system completely interactive. Let's go back to our 3 a.m. rave party host. You can ask the chat bot, "Show me all noise complaints of high severity." The chatbot will send you a list of all the areas in all your properties that have serious noise problems. The same can be applied to evictions. You can ask the chatbot to show you "all eviction notices." This will help you focus your cleanup efforts so that you can straighten out those trouble shots before it drags down your entire development. The natural language with artificial intelligence gives you super powers!
In conclusion, IoT technology is a tool that can be leveraged in order to better serve your customers, faster, and in an automated fashion, so that instead of spending lots of time chasing after people, organizing, and coordinating, you're able to spend more time doing what you do best, which is running your business. You may actually be able to also have time to finally have dinner with your family!
My question for you is, what kind of smart solutions would you like to see for your property?


The pitching is getting better in the third-round, but the position players are still hit-and-miss. Lance Berkman has been a stud, both in the outfield and at first base, but the rest of the lineup is spotty. If you want a closer, this has been a good round to grab one.
Best finds: That Berkman lasted until the middle of the 3rd round means everyone had a couple of shots at one of the most consistent offensive threats in the league. Buehrle has been an innings eater for nearly a decade. Ludwick has turned into a monster this year after struggling for years to latch on and fulfill his potential. Lester was coming off cancer surgery when he was scooped up late in the third round in '07.
Deepest position: Pitching. In addition to the starters listed above, Oliver Perez (Stars, 42, 2003), Jeff Francis (Razorbacks, 41, 2005), Dustin McGowan (Jive, 42, 2006) and Mike Pelfrey (Bats, 60, 2008) all went in the 3rd round.
Weakest position: Middle infielders. Peralta has been an enigma, and Johnson's a decent but not top-tier second baseman. If you scrape any deeper you get Erick Aybar (Jive, 53, 2007) or Jorge Cantu (Qillars, 53, 2005). Not exactly building blocks.
Lucky number: 42. Marmol was the only one to make the first team, but there are plenty of useful players here: Braden Looper (Dealers, 2000), Shawn Chacon (Eagles, 2002), Oliver Perez (Stars, 2003), John Buck (Roadrunners, 2005), Dustin McGowan (Jive, 2006), Adam Lind (Clippers, 2007).
Best 3rd ever: If you were looking for a closer, 2004 was a good year, with Lidge and Nathan going. Peralta and Lyle Overbay (Stingers, 44), Miguel Olivio (Pilots, 56), and Wily Mo Pena (Huskies, 57) highlighted the position players.
Deja Vu: Joe Nathan went to the Breakers at No. 56 in 2000, but was back in the draft four years later for the Blackhawks to snap up.
If The Season Ended Today, Part IV . . .
Playoff picture, awards and draft order if the MMDA played an 108-game schedule. Awards are selected by the game.


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Need to add storage capacity to your network quickly and easily? You need an NAS (Network Attached Storage) device. We review three leading contenders and pick a winner.
By Manek Dubash | May 7, 2003 -- 08:38 GMT (01:38 PDT) | Topic: Storage
One thing a network will always be short of is storage. As clients' hard disks grow, so do the volumes of data they want to store locally and share on a central server. Yet, for a small or medium-sized business, adding hard disks to a server to keep users happy is a tiresome and often time-consuming business. You need to take the server down -- which in itself is problematic in today's always-on environment -- and probably dismantle bits of the server's internals to find room for the mechanism, along with re-routing cables. It may entail installing new I/O cards and loading new drivers too -- adding time and complexity, not to mention potential instabilities. The bottom line is that it can be very costly. One alternative is to buy another PC-based server. This also gets expensive, not least because it will take time to set up and manage and, because of its complexity, will be less reliable than a dedicated file server. Effectively such a server bought purely for file sharing is wasting its potential. What's more, it has been estimated (by research company Gartner) that lost productivity from server downtime ranges from $200-$2,000 per hour for small businesses, and can be even higher for Web-based businesses. Far easier, then, to buy a network attached storage (NAS) appliance that simply plugs into the network and, after a little setting up, can simply be left alone. In fact, this ease of use combined with the plummeting cost of storage means that NAS has grown to become a very popular hardware category. NAS boxes are designed for file sharing rather than running applications, although they make useful backup devices too, since users can copy the contents of their hard disks whenever it suits them. This is likely to be important where the business or branch has no network manager to enforce backup policies. So the ideal NAS appliance will allow the administrator to manage disk space and set up private areas for users, serve a range of clients, and can be simply plugged into the network and start work with minimal configuration. All three products tested here can do that but some, as we shall see, offer considerably more. With that in mind we asked three NAS vendors -- Evesham Technology, Linksys and SnapAppliance -- to supply a solution they believed was suited to a small or medium-sized business, with a maximum price of around £1,000. We also asked Iomega to participate, but unfortunately, the company was unable to get a product to us in time.
Adding storage is easy to do, and all three of these products can handle the requirements of a home office, or small to medium-sized business. They are all easy to fit and work pretty much straight out of the box. Interestingly though, there's a fair difference between them in terms of functionality and price. The Snap Server 1100 is a good-looking device that offers just what it promises -- extra storage, with the additional benefit of portability. It's a professional-looking product, from user interface to box to documentation. However, in spite of its portability, the Snap Server 1100 falls down when it comes to price. Although the version we looked at contained 120GB, the 80GB version still costs £449, while the 80GB Linksys EFG80 costs only £416 and has the capacity to either add another mechanism or upgrade existing drives. So for a simple file storage device, the Linksys product takes top honours for flexibility. However, compared to Evesham's NAS-2108R, the feature sets of the other two products start to look threadbare. This NAS box can do pretty much everything you want from a network gateway at a price below £1,000 -- you don't even need to buy a switch or hub. However, you'd also have to budget for the time it will take to fine-tune the configuration to suit your network's circumstances which, in some cases, may not be trivial. And the usual caveats regarding all-in-one devices apply here -- should you need to upgrade one component, you end up throwing everything away. In summary, for portable NAS, the Snap Server 1100 is the product to go for. For a do-it-all approach, the Evesham NAS-2108R boasts a superb feature set and is hard to beat. But for essential NAS functionality the Linksys EFG80 GigaDrive delivers the goods at an attractive price, and so wins our Editors' Choice.
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Dear family and friends, we have gathered here today to joyfully acknowledge the wedding of Hope and Michael. They have requested your presence on this memorable occasion in order that you might share with them the pledging of their everlasting love on this day of commitment.
The commitment of marriage is one of the most important decisions two people will make in their lives. The vow of marriage is a pledge of their everlasting love uniting them in Holy Matrimony, whereby they commit to share all life has to offer, the good times and the bad, with patience and understanding. For a marriage to remain strong, your faith must never waiver due to the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Remember that the power of faith can conquer all obstacles.
A strong marriage is dependent upon many factors, beyond the love and respect you share for one another, there must be a strong sense of commitment and loyalty that bonds you, and above all a true friendship and willingness to communicate with one another. The willingness to accept and understand each other's strengths and weaknesses is the foundation for a successful marriage.
Today as you exchange the vows of marriage which unite you as husband and wife, let us reflect upon just what a vow is. By definition, a vow is a solemn promise or pledge that binds one to perform a specified act; a formal declaration of such a promise or pledge. The vows pledged today are a formal and public announcement of your deep and devoted love and commitment to each other.
I, Michael, promise to you Hope, to share with you all of my love and my life in good times and in bad, to respect and cherish you as my wife from this day forward. Nothing shall become more important than our love for each other.
I, Hope, promise to you Michael, to share with you all of my love and my life in good times and in bad, to respect and cherish you as my husband from this day forward. Nothing shall become more important than our love for each other.
The wedding ring is an unbroken circle which symbolizes unending and everlasting love and is a visible symbol which represents your inner commitment to one another. May your life together be blessed with everlasting happiness.
As I place this ring upon your hand, may our separate lives become one as we commit our ever lasting love to each other.
With the blessings of all the family and friends who are present, under the authority vested in me by the State of Connecticut, I now pronounce you Husband and Wife. You may kiss the bride.
May I now present to you Mr. and Mrs. Michael Strong.
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I don't care, you know.
I don't care about DeAngelo Hall's diarrhetic mouth, Clinton Portis' rubber legs or the vaccuum that is Albert Haynesworth's intellect.
I don't care if Mike Shanahan, Bruce Allen and Donovan McNabb are Sons of Washington or adopted sons passing through.
I don't care if Dan Snyder is sinner or saint.
For reasons that go way back, I do care whether the professional football team known as the Washington Redskins scores more points on a given Sunday than the team the National Football League schedules them to play.
It's a simple formula really:
1. Score more points than the other guy more often than not over the course of sixteen weeks, and chances are they will let you play another game.
2. Score more points than the other guy in that game and lo and behold they let you play again, and...
3. Everyone talks in reverential tones about how awesome, cool and sexy you are.
I vaguely remember the last time my favorite team was awesome and cool and sexy. I was 31 and had a full head of hair. I could still stomach cheap beer. Life was good.
Lots has happened in my life since then; stuff you don't care about and I don't feel like telling. Know what hasn't happened?
My favorite football team hasn't won.
Instead they have become an opponent. You know opponents. The Washington Generals are an opponent. Grenada was an opponent.
The Washington Redskins are supposed to be better than that.
I've had my fill of friends who don't follow football, or worse, root for other teams, looking at me Monday mornings with geniune pity or barely-disguised mirth.
I wish I could stop caring. Or at least I do for a few minutes after the latest soul-crushing loss. But of course I can't. I'm a lifer.
Then I wish like hell I could do something about it. Which of course I also can't. I'm a fan.
Tired of losing though. Like, alot.
I think it's time for a futile gesture.
Until the losing stops this dumb blog will wear black.
Hail dammit.
When you think about certain NFL teams, you tend to think about individuals. At mention of the Indianapolis Colts, one pictures Peyton Manning. His brother Eli is the New York Giants. If the subject is Green Bay, even three years after his departure it remains Brett Favre.
With the myriad changes surrounding them this year, who is it that people first think of when the conversation turns to the Washington Redskins?
Those old enough to remember the glory years of Joe Gibbs 1.0 may still think of the bespectacled one himself. Or if not him, at least some aspect of his teams—the Hogs, The Diesel, maybe Art Monk. For those too young to have known those championship teams, however, what name springs to mind?
The easy answer is new quarterback Donovan McNabb. Not since Joe Theismann in the early 1980's have the Redskins been led by name worthy of a storied quarterback legacy dating back to the first great NFL quarterback, Sammy Baugh, and sustained over the years by such as Sonny Jurgensen and Theismann.
But that almost feels like a disservice. Can McNabb, with unopened moving boxes still stacked in his living room, truly be the face and soul of a franchise? Do serious Redskins fans—those who know the roster and history—so quickly give away their hearts?
Certainly there are other candidates. Players at positions across the board that a proud fan can point to with conviction and say, "That guy could play for anybody."
With the addition of McNabb, the Redskins arguably now have "that guy" at almost any position one cares to think about; a player good enough to anchor the unit he plays on, and also carry on the legacy of Redskins greats at their positions going back to the days of grainy black and white...
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Occasional, recurring short-form posts about
the Washington Redskins, NFL and maybe even Life.
Almost like a blog.
Yeah, I know. Sorry—long week.
No way I let a gameday go without posting though.
Boiled it down to just a couple of things.
You know it's true. Today's game against the 0-2 St. Louis Rams and wet-behind-the-ears rookie quarterback Sam Bradford feels like a "must" win. Why? Because for the past nine months Redskins fans have slowly, inexorably built up hope and expectation that the Allen, Shanahan, McNabb Redskins are not just any other 4-12 team launching a new regime.
Against our better judgment, in the privacy of our hearts and minds many of us believe this team is at least a wild card hopeful; a team that could well find its stride down the stretch in time to qualify for the playoffs.
And everyone knows what can happen then. You get in, you get hot...
But all that knock-on-wood thinking ends today if the Redskins lay an egg and lose to the Rams. No disrespect to the good people of St. Louis, but losing to your team today would send Redskins fans hearts plunging into acidic stomachs and minds to places so dark M. Night Shyamalan might come calling.
It's not about the St. Louis Rams today. It's about find out whether or not the 2010 Redskins are legit.
CLOSING IT OUT
Through the first two weeks, I have been impressed with the Redskins game-planning and playcalling. The Shanahans and Jim Haslett have shown me preparation, professionalism and even cutting edge.
Where I'm a little nervous is what happens late in games. Dallas drove the field easily as time wound down and was one play from stealing a heartbreaker. Houston got the best of the Redskins down the stretch in a big way, and to me at least part of that seemed to be a result of better in-game adjustments...
There are any number of ways to contrast the NFL of a generation ago from today's game—the size of the players, the money they make and the media's breathless year-round saturation coverage...
But there may be no more revealing a data point, particularly to those who follow the Washington Redskins, than the legendary 5 O'Clock Club.
During the early 1980's, members of the Redskins' famous "hogs" offensive line and select others, including Hall of Fame members Russ Grimm and John Riggins, would gather after practice in an old equipment shed at Redskins Park to unwind, share camaraderie and throw back a few cold beers.
Thirty years later there is a certain warm innocence that resonates around that story, an endearing (if somewhat naïve) swashbuckling quality and "we're good enough to get away with it" roguishness.
That is largely because they were good enough. The strong foundation provided by the hogs played a central role in helping head coach Joe Gibbs lead the Redskins on a magical 12-year run, winning three Super Bowls, losing another and laying claim to be mentioned among the NFL's Mt. Rushmore of dynastic teams.
But there had to be more…didn't there? Even on a winning team, could having a handful of key players hanging out in a shed after practice drinking beer be considered a good thing..?
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Can't let this go unsaid. If I came to you after today's game against Houston and told you why I'd seen the Redskins' win coming, you'd think I was catching a wave.
That wouldn't do.
I'm not going to break it down into X's and O's...by gameday morning you will have read plenty of those if that's your thing. What I will do is tell you is what I was thinking as I watched the highlights of the Texans' 34-24 win over Indianapolis that has everyone buzzing.
Their heretofore anonymous young running back, Arian Foster, ran wild to the tune of 231 yards and three touchdowns. That's pretty good. From the looks of it (acknowledging we're talking highlights here) he repeatedly gashed the left side of the Colts defense. There was a matchup problem there the Colts did not or could not fix on the fly.
I think Redskins defensive coordinator Jim Haslett may have noticed.
The Colts best defensive player, safety Bob Sanders, left the game injured on the Texans's first offensive series. Based on recent history, Sanders is the one guy who seems to determine if the Colts defense is solid or awful. Oversimplified? Sure, a little. But not totally. The Redskins defense is not the Colts defense sans Sanders.
The Texans prepared for Indy all off season. Division rivalry. Raging inferiority complex. An underdog with limited expectations and a huge chip on its shoulder, sneaking up behind the neighborhood bully and whacking him upside the head with a shovel.
None of those factors apply against the Redskins today.
Redskins Media Edict: Things That Make You Go "Hmm."
The sounds of silence.
It's quiet. Too quiet.
Nature (and the media) abhors a vacuum.
Cliches become cliches for a reason...they generally bespeak an underlying truth.
Based on nothing more than having lived for a while in and around the periphery of today's 24/7/365 hypermedia scrum surrounding the Washington Redskins and the NFL, I'm thinking a game may be afoot.
Nothing—and I mean nothing—having to do with the Redskins goes unreported, unnoticed, un-parsed-to-death.
Two days ago local sports radio ESPN 980 announced on the air that the Redskins had issued what I believe they termed a "media edict," handed down by team officials at Redskins Park.
In it, reportedly, were new groundrules by which the media would be allowed to cover the team. Among the specifics mentioned were:
● no more Tweeting from pracice,
● no more reporting rumors as fact.
● a somewhat pedantic (and truth be told condescending) definition of what a rumor is.
I thought it was a joke at first. Really? An edict saying the press could no longer traffic in rumors?
Somewhere I was pretty sure W. Mark Felt rolled over.
Turns out it wasn't a joke. The station devoted several segments of the show on air at that time to discussing it, and the reaction of local Redskins reporter, columnist and commentator Thom Loverro, who was on at the time—voice rising another octave and unapologetic outrage creeping in— made me think "this is going to be quite the conundrum."
Since then? Bascially nada. Zip. Nicths.
No leaks of said edict—at least not that I have seen. Think a quick-scanned PDF of that piece of paper wouldn't have gone viral in a nanosecond?
No tongue-in-cheek Steinbergisms.
Not even a McKenna sighting.
I'm no reporter—I'm an independent observer who shares opinion, not a salaried finder of fact. I think what those guys do, for the money they get paid, is a pretty thankless task. I also think some of them get jaded to the point their objectivity gets compromised and it shows in their work.
But this isn't about the people doing—or in this case perhaps not doing—the reporting. This is about the fact that this could and probably should have been, given recent history, an absolute media (excuse the language) shitstorm about Dan Snyder and the Washington Redskins yet again trying to Manage the Message, Muzzle the Press and Rule The World.
Instead, it has become...
[speaking of cliches]
Listen—do you smell something?
Provided by a helpful (and fast) reader, here is a copy of the "edict" in question and link to the piece about it on TBD:
Synaptic Shotgun 9.16.10 - Wrapping up the Cowboys
Begging your indulgence, here are a few final thoughts on the Dallas opener before officially turning the page in order to focus, with proper deference and solemnity, on the mighty Houston Texans juggernaut set to invade FedEx Field on Sunday bent on putting the upstart Redskins and their delusional fans in their place.
Oh yeah. We've been listening.
● About the dropped balls. It's a different game if Mike Sellers can jog and catch at the same time, if Anthony Armstrong can hang on to the sweetest second down fade you'll ever see, maybe even if Santana Moss can catch a simple ball that hits him in both hands to convert near midfield on the penultimate drive.
It's a finished game if Carlos Rogers could catch a cold (warning: watch at your own risk).
If the teflon hands thing happens again, it's not my fault. I shot a $250 gift certificate from Dick's Sporting Goods to Redskins Park Monday morning. They have these.
● If the Redskins never throw another pass to Mike Sellers, it will be too soon. You don't invite Conan to tea and crumpets.
● I won't lie...I don't think I would have pulled the trigger on the 49-yard field goal attempt from the Dallas 31 with two minutes left in a three-point game. No way I could risk giving Tony Romo and Miles Austin the ball at their own 39, where just 30 yards gives them a good shot at the tying field goal. I would have punted, hoping to pin them back inside the 20, and asked my defense for one last stop.
A sincere nod of respect to Mike "Cojones de Acero" Shanahan.
● Another nod for Graham Gano. That was a big-time money kick. It's been a very long time since a kicker has earned the trust and confidence of Redskins fans. Yeah, it's too soon to unreservedly take that plunge at this point, but this wasn't a bad downpayment. Not bad at all.
● The Hold. I watched the final play of the game several times, anticipating the Cowboy fan perspective that the Barron holding penalty didn't affect the play. Happily, if for no other reason than my own peace of mind and sense of justice, that wasn't the case...
Welcome to the first regular season installment of the 2010 Washington Redskins' Key Stats Tracker.
This is a weekly feature that will run all season focusing on three specific statistical categories—turnover differential, third-down-efficiency and red-zone-efficiency—plus any specific observations/anomalies that stand out from any given game.
This week we look at the Redskins' season-opening 13-7 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.
Not a bad way to start.
(Game 1 - Redskins 13, Cowboys 7)
● Few games will better support the theory that turnovers are the single most important statistic in football. The Redskins got owned in areas commonly pointed to, like yardage (380-250), time of possession (34:03-25:57) and third down efficiency (38-23%). They scored just six total offensive points on two field goals. But they won the turnover battle.*
Season record of team forcing more turnovers: 1-0
● One of the lingering mental images I had of this game prior to visiting the stats page was of Dallas seemingly having their way with the Redskins in the running game. On both sides of the ball. It felt like Dallas ran at will and the Redskins barely crawed. So the final rushing numbers came as a bit of a surprise...
Among the seemingly endless storylines surrounding the 2010 Washington Redskins, one that has been largely overlooked is the potential career crossroads faced by defensive coordinator Jim Haslett.
By accepting the job that two-time Super Bowl winning new head coach Mike Shanahan offered, Haslett accepted both great opportunity and potential for a fall.
Succeed, and doors will reopen, including a possible return to the head coaching ranks. Fail, however, and the plateau Haslett found himself walking before Shanahan hired him could represent the highest level he will achieve again.
When Shanahan accepted the Redskins head coaching job in January, one of his first orders of business was hand-picking Haslett to craft the Redskins a championship defense.
If that wasn't challenge enough, Shanahan made it even more challenging with his decision to scrap the 10th-ranked unit Haslett inherited, dismantle the 4-3 style defense the Redskins have traditionally played and install an aggressive, ball-hawking 3-4 style defense bent on wreaking havoc.
Since his arrival, Haslett has preached an attacking style and implored his defense to "make plays." The onus will be on creating turnovers, and he has made it clear that unlike previous regimes, his players need not fear being summarily benched for making mistakes or giving up the occasional big play.
Haslett, with 25 years of experience in football, brings a brooding swagger to the job that at first blush makes his hiring look like a natural fit. After seven months of OTA's, minicamps and training camp, Haslett's players know by now that their new coach can talk the talk.
Asked what he wanted to see from his charges prior to the first preseason game, he said, "I want to see us go out just play hard and create panic and let it go."
One suspects they also know by now that back in the day he could walk the walk...
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Yeah, I went there.
I'm hearing more than a few "yeah but's" today. Can't say I'm surprised to hear them from Cowboy backers--it's what fans of the losing team do. I am a little surprised to hear it from Redskins fans.
I'm talking about the line of thinking that, yeah, technically the Redskins won, but it was more a matter of the Cowboys losing.
As if only Dallas made mistakes.
As if Tashard Choice voluntarily surrended the ball.
As if the Redskins didn't drop three or four routine catches, every one crucial to the flow of play, at least two which would have ended it outright.
As if the Redskins didn't gift the Cowboys three points with a muffed snap/hold on a routine chip-shot field goal after taking the three they had already earned off the board.
As if the Redskins didn't generously commit a motion penalty on a third-and-two with two minutes left that, if converted, would effectively have ended the game. This after clicking off runs of eight, ten, eighteen and seven leading up to it against a clearly finished Dallas defense.
Don't get me wrong. The Cowboys screwed up plenty last night. But they had plenty of help doing it. And the upstart (4-12 last year, if memory serves?) Redskins were pretty generous in helping keeping the Cowboys in the game to the bitter end.
No sir. Dallas didn't lose this one. Washington won it.
Argue otherwise if you must, but in your heart of hearts you know you're wrong.
Dallas Cowboys 7
More later...synaptic shogtun-style.
I wondered all week how to distill this game down to a single manageable piece. There are so many angles and layers, so many keys and so much intrigue, I could have easily written a trilogy.
As much time as one spends trying to predict, anticipate and best guess, however, it is often an offhand comment by a player that resonates most and points the way.
Redskins cornerback Carlos Rogers doesn't strike me as the head-game, counter-intelligence type (no disrespect intended), and I am quite comfortable thinking what he said yesterday is worth noting. As it happens, it was also a perfect jumping off point for a discussion about what the Redskins need to bring to the table against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night.
Talking about the injury-plagued Dallas offensive line, and how it could affect the Redskins' defensive approach, this is what Rogers had to say:
"Their back-ups pretty good; they all right. Like Coach said, they plan to us we got to play our defense, what we do. Whoever is in there, we still gonna run our blitz [and] make their line move. They got a lot of big guys so we do a lot of stunting, a lot of different things on the line where they have to move their feet. We think that's an advantage to us no matter who is in there."
Based on what we have heard all offseason, we had reason to expect defensive coordinator Jim Haslett to be aggressive right out of the box. But there was also reason to think he might try to protect his still-raw unit and maybe cross up Dallas up by not brining the heat, instead sitting back and making Dallas try to sustain long, multi-play drives.
Well, it doesn't sound like that's going to happen. Look for the Redskins to make good on all the tough talk out of Ashburn since January about attacking the football and looking to create turnovers.
The good news there, of course, is that the Redskins are going to lay some hits on Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and wreak some havoc. The bad news is that by going full blast after Romo and forcing him to scramble, they are going to force him to do the one thing he does best...slide in the pocket, roll out, buy time for his receivers to break off routes and find open spaces.
The Redskins haven't been an attacking, aggressive defense for a long time, and it is definitely a breath of fresh air to think of them turning up the heat and getting after people. Richie Petitbon seems like a very long time ago. The flip side of that, of course, is the high risk that accompanies high reward ventures.
We know nothing about Haslett's defense at this point. We don't know if they can contain the run, consistently pressure the passer, if Haslett can call a good game and make in-game adjustments...nothing. And it will take far more than just one first game to see how those things will evolve or devolve over time.
One thing seems certain, though. If they go down, they're going down swinging.
"Regardless of whether they were starting the whole five or not I think the most important thing is this is the season opener, we have to set the tempo for the defense and just set the tempo in general just as an organization," linebacker Andre Carter said. "Regardless of who is playing it's just important we go out there and play four quarters of our game."
Thinking about the defense got me going on what else the Redskins will need to do to come away with a win Sunday. It's not an exclusive list, of course, but if the Redskins can check more of these boxes than not it would be a hell of a start...
It's that time.
Turn it up.
Okay so it's more bazooka this time.
Tonight's loosely football-related event involving the Washington Redskins and Arizona Cardinals is the reason there is a "hate" component to my relationship with preseason.
Backups' backups will line up opposite backups' backups.
There will be no gameplanning.
There will be no setup, sequencing or flow to playcalling.
There will be no schematic adjustments.
After the first couple of possessions there will be few names, faces or numbers on the field anyone will recognize. Which matters little because by Saturday evening after final roster cuts we won't need to.
There will be even less reason than the last three weeks for any rational person on the sidelines, booths or playing field to give a genus rattus' empennage about the scoreboard at any point during the course of the evening.
Most of the players on the field tonight will have one thought in mind--lane discipline my ass, I'm making a play.
It's the Arizona Cardinals...without Kurt "Is My Wife Watching?" Warner.
It starts at ten o'clock pm.
My alarm goes off at five thirty tomorrow morning.
I'm turning fifty in six weeks.
Wish list for tonight?
2) Don't forget to thank someone I didn't have to fly to Phoenix.
1) Don't let anyone even remotely likely to make the final roster get anything worse than a scraped elbow, sore pinkey or bruised ego.
Yes, the NFL league scheduled it. Yes, it's going to be on television. Which means at least one sap (me) is going to not only be watching but actually trying to pay attention, from start to finish, because he has committed to doing another stream-of-consciousness recap.
But I gotta tell ya, if I wasn't, tonight would be a sapling falling in the proverbial woods with no one around to verify its auditory footprint.
I mean, it's not like you are going to be watching.


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Ladhood is a British coming of age comedy series that premiered on BBC iPlayer on 24 November 2019. Written by, and starring, Liam Williams, the series details the experiences of his adolescence, and serves as a television adaptation of his BBC Radio 4 show of the same name. The series also stars Lily Frazer, Andrew Alexander, Oscar Kennedy, Shaun Thomas, Samuel Bottomley and Aqib Khan. On 15 August 2021, Ladhoods second series was released. On 22 July 2022, it was announced that the third series of Ladhood would be the last.

Premise
Ladhood begins with Liam Williams encountering relationship and behavioural issues as he questions what has shaped his personality. The series then details the experiences of Liam and his school friends, Tom, Ralph and Adnan, while Liam overlooks and comments on events.

Production
In February 2019, it was announced that Williams' BBC Radio 4 show Ladhood was to be adapted into a television production. Williams expressed his gratitude to the BBC for the adaptation, thanking them for the "opportunity to consider the experiences of [his] youth and how they've shaped my adult personality". Of the commission, Chris Sussman, Head of Comedy at BBC Studios, stated: "We're thrilled to take Liam's brilliant series on a journey from radio to TV. He's a masterful storyteller, full of wit, warmth and compassion - which is surprising when you see what he was like as a teenage boy."

Initially commissioned as a five-part series, the BBC ordered another episode, bringing the first series of Ladhood to six episodes. The series is set and filmed in Leeds, where Williams was born. In February 2020, it was announced that Ladhood had been renewed for a second series of six episodes. Filming for the second series commenced in April 2021. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television, cast members were kept in a "cohort", followed social distancing when possible, and were tested for COVID-19 regularly.

In July 2022 a third series of Ladhood was confirmed. It was also announced that it would be the final series with Williams saying "It's been a bittersweet privilege to make this final full series of Ladhood with an unimprovable cast and crew and an excellent new director, Ruth Pickett. Thanks to everyone who's ever watched or contributed to the programme, not least producer Joe Nunnery for whose hard work and dedication I am almost inexpressibly grateful."

The third series aired on  BBC Three and iPlayer on 5 September 2022.

Cast
 Liam Williams as Himself
 Lily Frazer as Jess
 Andrew Alexander as Tom
 Oscar Kennedy as Young Liam
 Shaun Thomas as Tom Cragg
 Samuel Bottomley as Ralph Roberts
 Aqib Khan as Adnan Masood
 Abigail Thorn as Iona
 Nick Preston as Rupert

Episodes

Series 1 (2019)

Series 2 (2021)

Series 3 (2022)

Reception
After the first series premiered on iPlayer, Rebecca Nicholson of The Guardian published a review stating that Williams "captures the excruciating awkwardness of teenage life to a terrifying degree of accuracy", and that "it is full of moments that had [her] snorting with laughter". She added that Ladhoods "kind of northern teenage reminiscence is catnip", and that while "occasional moments are a little heavy on the archness", Ladhood has "intelligent, incisive humour that makes acute observations then takes them to the next level", and stated her interest in a second series. Hydall Codeen of Vice stated that Ladhood is "a topography of raw adolescent experience that will not just resonate with anyone who grew up in a small British town, but shed light on why they feel the way they do today". Bruce Dessau of Beyond the Joke commented that Ladhood displays "a type of laddish behaviour that has never gone away, but Williams puts his own deft spin on it". He added that "the dialogue is not always entirely convincing, but it is funny, with the references to Eminem, Natasha Bedingfield and shell suits striking a comedic nostalgic chord". Upon Ladhood being renewed for a second series, Shane Allen, Controller of Comedy Commissioning, commented: "Ladhood has a terrific concept which audiences have found really engaging. Liam's deft writing manages to both excoriate and celebrate the trials and tribulations of those formative late teen years as he traces back the roots of the person he then became in adulthood. With a superb cast and a soundtrack to boot, this keeps the BBC Three comedy flame burning brighter than ever." Fiona Campbell, Controller of BBC Three, added: "Ladhood is a brilliant series for BBC Three as it manages to perfectly blend nostalgia with the present day. With so many themes and stories that our audience recognises, and a strong sense of place and accents to boot, we can't wait for more."

References

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2022 British television series endings
2010s British sex comedy television series
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2010s high school television series
2020s British sex comedy television series
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Television series about dysfunctional families
Television series about fictional musicians
Television series about teenagers
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This time of year, there are lots of spooky things going on out there. On the Internet, we get horrified by looking at some of the techniques used in an attempt to trick Google into better rankings. Google wants you to earn your ranking on their search results. There's really no easy way to achieve page one. But that doesn't stop the SEO ghouls from trying.
Google spiders crawl the Internet looking into all the websites out there; millions of them. If they look through yours and find content that (a) matches some on another website and (b) was posted after that one was, then they'll drop your ranking. And they'll drop you hard.
Recently I got a call from some SEO ghouls in India who found us on a search for the phrase Blog Writer. Their client had been on page 2 and wanted to get to page 1. Problem is, they didn't want to earn it, so they hired this company from India who was paying their writers about $1 for 300 words of content. Naturally, the writers lifted content from another cell phone company website and dropped it onto the new site. Google dropped the client down below page 40. Scary!
If that's all I was offering writers to work on clients' website content, I'd post anonymously too.
This SEO company is looking for blog writers to create 300-word articles about technology – a B2B category – and he's only going to pay $1.20 per article. Technology is an area that takes time to write and because your audience is knowledgeable, you have to write something of interest for the company's prospects. Presumably, they know something about technology. But this SEO hack wants to pay only $1.20 per 300 word article. Of course, he'll mark that up and charge his client more. But the copy will be total crap.
I can't imagine which technology company the above SEO guy has as a client. Are there companies out there who actually want their website to have the cheapest content possible? Do they know this is going on? I highly doubt it.
When you see cute phrases like this, it's usually time to run the other way. Link farming is the SEO company's favorite way to rank sites higher. They set up these "farms" and plug your URL into them. The sites exist as nothing more than tons of pages with hundreds of links on them, usually pointing to other pages with links on them. Their goal is to rank their sites higher because of all the links. Then, when they place a link to your site, your rank benefits from their higher link authority. Problem is, these sites are now losing their value.
Even as Google is spanking this practice, the SEO hacks are trying to stay ahead of it by adding in some spun verbiage around the links and choosing meta data that's appropriate for each page. Like all such practices, this one won't work for much longer. Problem is, if your site is listed on these farms, you can bet the SEO companies won't bother to take them off and you'll be hurt.
I've written recently about content spinning. You can read more about it at this link; but I'll summarize it here. To avoid paying qualified subject matter experts, SEO ghouls will go in and pull bits and pieces from other websites, change just enough words to throw Google off, then use it on their client sites.
If content spinners come in to work on your site, they may also take the existing content from there and blend the words up to throw Google off. Pity the poor reader who stumbles into your site looking for good information. They'll find some kind of un-readable mess instead.
I saved the scariest for last. This is the one most companies practice. They park content online and don't update, optimize, or even think about writing to intersect with the changing search requests of their customers.
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The End of Shared Reality
People Are Not the Ideology
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I have been conducting ongoing conversations with people I've known for years on Facebook. To a person they insist that my positions are anti-trans or somehow harmful despite my insistence that I'm talking about an ideology and the connected attempts to make reality irrelevant. I'm going to excerpt the long email sent to me in order to respond to the misconceptions that frequently come up. I'm assuming without asking if I can share, because he offered to make the discourse public on Facebook. Frankly, I'm beyond frustrated and becoming angry with all of the people implying that I'm being bigoted, arrogant, and intellectually dishonest over something they've accepted without thought.
What they actually mean is that I am being a heretic. They don't understand that their assertions are no different from religious declarations. I'm a heathen for not accepting gender (the soul) as an important thing. It doesn't matter that not one of them can define gender or explain how it alchemically changes a man into a woman because he hates an essential part of himself. It's just a really bad look that I won't make their religious doctrines my own. Rather than continue the back and forth and address all of the misconceptions my hope is that this method of direct quoting can better illustrate that I'm not talking about individuals.
When he entered the conversation a week ago I made the point that people frequently misuse the conditions of people with intersex conditions to cast doubt on the biological fact that sex in humans is binary and immutable. Intersex people are cast as a third category between male and female, which makes the notion of binary sex wrong. Putting aside that we don't classify humans as a whole on the basis of any other disorder of development, it's just factually incorrect to declare that intersex conditions create a third sex. It's unsurprising that people with these conditions are offended by this fetishization. So a week later I find it a bit surprising that he has returned to his initial incorrect belief. These clear misunderstandings of the topic are what happens when someone has gathered what they perceive is enough information to refute someone, without understanding the topic.
People with intersex conditions are an example of variance within each of the two sexes, not between them. They are either male or female regardless of phenotype and chromosomes. This is a common tactic in discussing trans ideology: "It's wrong for you to be concerned with this thing when you're not talking about this other completely unrelated thing." There is no hypocrisy in not advocating for intersex children. Unlike children identifying as trans, there is no ideology creating exponentially more children with intersex conditions or treating them with evidence free medical protocols. People with these conditions represent .02% of humanity, two years ago 2% of US high school students identified as trans or non-binary. The number is .002-.014 percent of the general population.
There is a constant Motte and Bailey around gender and gender identity. There is an assertion that "no one is trying to ignore sex. It's just that we need to talk about gender to understand how sex isn't as important as you think."
I repeatedly asked this friend to define gender. He consistently ignored the question before directing me to a dictionary. There is nothing in the dictionary that matches the way that gender is used here. The only synonym I can think of is "wish fulfillment": "I would argue that much of what people enact- even if they feel very connected to their sex of birth-- is wish fulfillment." This is especially true of the number of males who feel very connected to their sex of birth still claiming to be trans. We're being asked to change laws and the definition of sex and woman for the sake of male wish fulfillment. If you can't define the concept you think important why expect others to accept or take up the concept?
Women are not women because it's a social category they chose. They are women because they were born female children and matured to female adults. I'm not a man because I identify with a social category, but because I was born male. These qualities are encoded in our genes, even if we hate our own biology.
This constant use of immutable qualities in others to argue for trans ideology is disgusting. Yes, there are individual trans people who are marginalized, because they come from marginalized communities. But marginalized people don't have the power to force people to accept lies under threat of losing employment.
After losing Twitter accounts to mass reporting for saying that sex is binary and immutable by males who swear they are now female, I must note that this is just projection. I take those people at their word that they believe they are women. It doesn't mean they actually are despite enacting wish fulfillment. If gender creates the condition for people to declare their sex different on the basis of declaration, there's no reason to believe in it. The impact on reality of this magic word is no different from any other.
Here, my friend is troubled by what he thinks, not by what I'm doing. Men were responsible for 99% of sexual assaults without the legal access to women's spaces now granted. He assumes that the reporting of incidents is accurate, despite the historic under-reporting of sexual assault, exposure, and voyeurism. Let's take as true that transwomen are no more likely to perpetrate assaults than anyone else, despite over half of trans identified UK inmates being incarcerated for rape and sexual assault. It would also be true that identifying as trans doesn't make them any less likely to perpetrate assault than other males. For all of the scaremongering gay men experienced, it was never based on their desire to be in women's single sex spaces. Putting that aside, in the few studies to look at the impact of making spaces unisex there has been a negative impact on the women and children in those spaces. He says that the rate of incidence is low, but I wonder at what rate of incidence do males assaulting females in formerly single sex single sex spaces become significant enough for concern.
The issue isn't transwomen, the issue is males entering women's single sex spaces on the basis of self identification regardless of how they identify.
There was a recent viral event of a male exposing himself in the women's area of Wi Spa in Los Angeles and one woman loudly protesting. It seems that her Instagram account has been suspended along with numerous accounts sharing her video on Twitter. This is what always happens when there is a viral event which shows marginalized people in a bad light, monopoly platforms step in to protect them.
I find the accusation of being anti-trans rights to be especially deceptive. When you ask what right trans people lack it amounts to external validation, the right to be seen as they wish, as the sex they identify with. This is not a right, as an expectation, it's just narcissism. What does a person born male saying that he is a woman know about being female?
It's not arrogant to suggest that people declaring themselves the opposite sex are enacting stereotypes. Gender ideology is based on sex stereotypes. What necessitates transitioning through exogenous hormones and cosmetic surgery to live authentically? What does that even mean?
There is an assumption that medical transition represents best medical practice rather than something that should be limited. Gatekeeping in the past was conducted to ensure that men didn't transition for easier access to women and children, and to ensure that psychological comorbidities were addressed. As a result of gatekeeping the rate of regret leading to detransition was below 1%. An important aspect of gender affirmation therapy, aside from the lack of gatekeeping, is that it's based on the self diagnosis of the distressed individual. To the degree that there is research on the efficacy of treatment, especially with children, it's based on a model using gatekeeping and evaluation by a medical professional. The only long-term study of post transition transsexuals conducted in Sweden found that they were 19 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population. So when my friend suggests that I'm ignoring the medical evidence for transition, I'm confused.
If post transition suicide rates remain so high what does that suggest about the evidence for transition? The fact is that there is no evidence to support any aspect of transition improving mental functioning, whether puberty blockers, hormones or cosmetic surgery. What are the health risks for not transitioning?
The process for adolescents begins with an off book use of a chemical castration drug to stop the critical developmental stage most likely to help the child grow out of their dysphoria, puberty. All of the long term impacts of skipping puberty are unknown. Along with smaller stature, missed cognitive development, and lower bone density, the most likely impact is adult infertility. This impact led a judge in a UK court case against the Tavistock gender clinic to conclude that children could not possibly give informed consent. It's worth asking if for children, diagnosing themselves, the cure is worse than the illness.
When my friend suggests that I'm ignoring evidence, he misses that the evidence supporting gender affirmation is low. In fact, an international panel evaluating clinical practice guidelines found gender affirmation to have the lowest evidentiary support. Zero of the six panelists would recommend the WPATH guidelines, only one would recommend the guidelines promoted by The Endocrine Society supported by every major US medical association. My friend trusts those medical associations more than he trusts my ability to understand what I read.
The long email ended with 4 questions, which was the primary aspect of the email I responded to so I'll briefly share them here:
I would suggest that people are generally unconcerned with the presence of transmen in men's spaces for the same reason they are an afterthought in trans activism. Sex matters and is immutable.
The "existence of trans people" question is always idiotic. What I think doesn't erase or change someone's existence even if I'm against changing laws to validate them. But here he answers the question himself. Trans people are biological males or females approximating the opposite sex because of the psychological disorder of gender dysphoria or because they simply want to.
Sex is material. Sexual attraction is both observable and measurable. A man lying about being gay isn't legally included in women's single sex spaces.
This is what I find frustrating. For the people committed to gender ideology the issues I focus on are a small problem. I'm not sure what that means. For an individual detransitioning after making permanent bodily changes, I imagine it's a huge problem. For the families dealing with emotional hostage taking of the ideology, it's not a small issue.
What all of this makes clear is that my friend, like so many advocates of the ideology, is unable to distinguish between the ideology and the people it converts. I have never said what trans people should or should not do. I have no wish to stand between people and their medical decisions. I don't care about identity separate from the people I care about. Stating the biological fact that sex is binary and immutable isn't anti-trans, unless reality itself is. Noting that there are male predators self identifying isn't anti-trans. Sharing the story of a detransitioner regretting his years on cross sex hormones isn't anti-trans. What advocates seem to miss, despite evidence to the effect, is that a growing number of detransitioners and a growing number of predators identifying into women's spaces will lead to a backlash against trans people and their actual needs. While he accuses me of saying concerning things about trans people, my friend is actually saying, "I don't like what you're saying about my ideology."
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James Edward Carr remains the most famous charge of Quinton Claunch and Rudolph Russell's Memphis label, Goldwax.
Carr recorded a clutch of late '60s singles for Goldwax that stand today as incontrovertible masterpieces. Foremost among them was The Dark End of the Street, a sombre and dread-filled ballad co-penned by two blue-eyed, soul-besotted country boys, but equally searing were sides like Love Attack and the desolate That's the Way Love Turned Out For Me.
While consistency was a problem on his albums, only a Dalek would be unmoved by his finest moments.
After almost two decades of virtual silence, Carr returned to live performance in the '90s, touring America's blues circuit and even venturing over to Europe. Yet his emotional instability continued to thwart him, and physical illness finally laid him low.
Plagued by clinical depression until the end, the Memphis-bred Carr had a voice to rival Otis Redding 's and sounded like he understood pain like no other soul baritone.
He died of lung cancer on 7 January 2001 at Court Manor Nursing Home in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Harmannus Reinder van Bruggen ('t Zandt, 2 augustus 1897 – Zwolle, 7 september 1964) was een Nederlands politicus.

Hij werd geboren als zoon van Aldert van Bruggen (1867-1935; veldwachter) en Harmke Lupker (1868-1935). Hij was hoofdcommies en eerste ambtenaar bij de gemeente Westdongeradeel voor hij in 1926 A. de Vries opvolgde als gemeentesecretaris van Workum. Van 1929 tot 1934 had Van Bruggen die functie bij de gemeente Appingedam en daarna werd hij de gemeentesecretaris van Emmen. In 1951 volgde zijn benoeming tot burgemeester van Dalfsen. Van Bruggen ging in 1962 met pensioen en overleed twee jaar later op 67-jarige leeftijd.

Zijn zoon Aldert is eveneens burgemeester geweest.

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Remembering Dick Hulbert: Friend and Mentor (1931-2018)
By Eric Olds
On November 20th, 2018, FEDSHRA and P&SVRR lost a long-time friend and mentor Richard "Dick" Hulbert when he passed away due to complications from pneumonia. Dick was a founding member of both organizations.
Born December 29th, 1931, in Marshall, CA, he developed an early fascination and love of all things electrical. With an inquisitive mind, he spent much of his childhood learning how to harness electricity for practical use. Under the direction of his father, he became well versed in the intricacies of storing electricity in and maintaining batteries, born out of necessity to supply his family's rural home with power from a small generator.
In addition, Dick learned at an early age a "can do" attitude as a result of growing up in a family that owned saw mills where workers met daily challenges with creativity and resourcefulness. Both of these traits would serve Dick well through his life including his time in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Upon learning of the unreliability of the electrical grid where he was stationed and finding there was a generator and battery bank available with no one to run and maintain it, Dick told his superior officer "I can do that" and henceforth was given only one task… "to keep the lights on."
After the war Dick worked at the family's sawmill in Cloverdale, CA just after they transitioned from steam powered donkey engines to diesel ones. Experience operating the diesel yarder would again prove helpful when Dick later moved to Roseville and hired on with Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) as a Diesel Electric Locomotive Electrician.
With extensive experience maintaining and repairing locomotives at the Roseville Shops and occasional work out on the line as a troubleshooter on malfunctioning units, Dick developed a skill set that ultimately led to his involvement on definitive diesel train restoration projects in California in the 1980's and 1990's. Dick was instrumental in assisting with the procurement of the Napa Valley Wine Train locomotives and cars from Canada as well as spearheading the restoration to operation of multiple historic diesels for the California State Railroad Museum (CSRM) that have for decades hauled millions of passengers on joyful rides into yesteryear.
After retiring from SP in 1993, Dick continued his volunteer work at CSRM until he was invited by Terry Stefani to have a look at the then dormant Placerville Branch as a possible candidate for excursion operations. Dick soon became a primary advocate for its restoration and he invited long-time friends and partners who he had worked with over the years like Frank Fuson, Hank Stiles, Robert Miller and others to join him in Folsom to make a go of it.
Dick and FEDSHRA volunteers pose with the Skagit motorcar during its restoration.
As the volunteer lead for FEDSHRA, Dick guided the restoration of the Skagit and other motorcars as well as the work opening up the dormant tracks removing brush, weeds, mud and debris that had begun to swallow up the line. When I joined FEDSHRA in 2004 and subsequently requested the opportunity to start weekend workdays for volunteers like myself who were not retired, Dick was quick to offer to mentor me and assist in over site until established.
Dick and FEDSHRA volunteers perform maintenance-of-way on the Placerville Branch.
In 2008, the inaugural year of the P&SVRR, Dick continued to mentor me in assessing and procuring the railroad's first locomotive for donation, the PACTIV 25 tonner. By then, Dick was slowing down physically and not long after that he graciously passed on leadership to capable others who could continue the work but remained as engaged as health and life circumstances allowed, physically assisting when able and always available to share wisdom and insight and his creative "can do attitude" with those of us carrying on the work.
Eric and Dick (in cab) and other FEDSHRA volunteers work on the PACTIV locomotive.
All of us who had the privilege of knowing Dick personally and working with him are blessed to have known a great man who embodied a rare humility and wisdom and loved inviting others to work with him and to guide them. FEDSHRA and P&SVRR are forever indebted to men like Dick upon whose work we have and are building a community treasure for new generations to enjoy.
Dick and Eric pose during on a motorcar run.
Thanks for your friendship and your guidance Dick!
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