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WTW: Life Isn't Fair / Brigid Kosgei Wins $58,000, Bernard Lagat 2020 Olympic Marathoner?, Bribes and Dads
The Week That Was in Running, July 1 – 7, 2019
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If you missed our coverage of the Lausanne Diamond League or Peachtree Road Race, catch up now:
LRC 2019 Lausanne DL Recap: Gebrhiwet Miscounts His Laps, Cheruiyot Runs 3:28 And SAFP Runs 10.74
LRC Bernard Lagat Runs 2:12:10 Marathon At Age 44 To Break US Masters Record
Speaking of Lausanne, only truly astute fans likely realized that reigning world 5,000 champ Muktar Edris of Ethiopia competed there. He was just 18th in 13:29.53. In his only other DL showing this year, he was just 11th in Oslo in the 3000 in 7:45.35.
That got me wondering. As the defending champ, Edris is eligible for an automatic entry into Worlds, but the Diamond League champion can also be given an auto entry and the DL champion in 2019 will likely be Ethiopian. Four of the five fastest men in the world this year over 5,000 are Ethiopian, and none of those four is named Yomif Kejelcha, who won in Lausanne. However, a country can only enter four athletes total. If I was in charge of picking the Ethiopian team, I'd hand the extra entry to the DL champion and leave Edris at home unless his fortunes change dramatically in the next few weeks.
More Proof That Life Isn't Fair / Brigid Kosgei Wins $58,000
Kosgei wins $58,000
$58,000 – amount of prize money that Brigid Kosgei won for winning the 2019 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race.
$2,500 – amount of prize money that Agnes Tirop ran for running 30:22 for 10K — the same time as Kosgei — but placing 2nd at Peachtree.
Kosgei picked up $8,000 for the win and $50,000 for beating Lornah Kiplagat's 30:32 course record from 2002. Tirop earned less than 5% of that amount despite running a time that only one other woman had bettered in 2019 before Peachtree.
In the end, the final 1.2 miles were very lucrative for Kosgei, the reigning London and Chicago marathon champ. At 5 miles (24:44), the leading trio of women were on 30:44 pace and needed to run the final 1.2 at 4:45.9/mile pace (they had been averaging 4:56.8 pace). Kosgei had more than enough in the tank as she averaged 4.38.5 pace all the way home.
Now the race does pay some modest appearance fees, so thankfully Tirop made a little more than $2,500 for such a good run.
In the men's race, the $58,000 went to Rhonex Kipruto, who edged Joseph Kimani's 27:04 course record from 1996 by three seconds.
Peachtree flew out LRC's Steve Soprano to help celebrate its 50th anniversary and you can read more about it here: Brigid Kosgei (30:22) and Rhonex Kipruto (27:01) Break Course Records And Win $50,000 Bonuses At 50th Peachtree Road Race
Stat of the Week I
0 – amount of prize money that Bernard Lagat won for running 2:12:10 to place 7th at the Gold Coast Marathon on Sunday, breaking Meb Keflezighi's US masters record of 2:12:20 in the process.
More: LRC Bernard Lagat Runs 2:12:10 Marathon At Age 44 To Break US Masters Record
Bernard Lagat Should Punch His Ticket To Tokyo If He's Top 3 At The US Olympic Marathon Trials
Lagat won Peachtree himself last year
Don't feel too bad for Bernard Lagat. We imagine Lagat got paid some way for his run in Australia through some combination of appearance fee and/or shoe contract bonus for breaking the US masters mark.
And even if he didn't get paid, Lagat set himself up nicely to make another Olympic team if he can finish top 3 at the US Olympic Marathon Trials. While we don't know if anyone in the men's race at the Trials that finishes top 3 will automatically make it to Tokyo 2020, we do know that Lagat now has a world ranking high enough that if he's top 3 at the Trials, he'll qualify for Tokyo 2020. That, of course, is assuming that USATF selects Lagat if he's in position to earn a bid from the IAAF (as opposed to requiring everyone to have a 2:11:30 standard). The good news is, USATF does seem to be leaning in that direction — though given its track record, we're not going to celebrate just yet.
Prior to last weekend, Lagat was ranked just 543rd in the world in the marathon. However, a 2:12:10 is worth 1123 points on the IAAF scoring table and 7th place in a Gold Label marathon is worth 40 bonus points, so Lagat gets credit for 1163 points (which is equivalent to a 2:09:56). Average that with the 1110 points Lagat got for running 62:00 at the 2018 Houston Half and Lagat would have 1136.5 points, which would rank him around 312th in the current rankings.
According to TokyoRankings.com, a site that uses the IAAF's World Rankings to track which athletes are in line for selection for the 2020 Olympics, any American man ranked in the top 400 in the world right now would be in position to earn an invitation from the IAAF, which will use the World Rankings to fill the 80-man Olympic marathon field after accounting for athletes with the auto standard.
More Lagat: 44-Year-Old Bernard Lagat Explains How He Broke The US Masters Record In Men's Marathon And Went From Marathon Afterthought To Olympic Team Contender
LRC Here's What We Know About The 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials
Stat of the Week II
70 – number of days between the Gold Coast Marathon and the Japanese Marathon Grand Championship — the race that will serve as the Japanese Olympic trials for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. We point that out as Gold Coast was won by former Japanese record holder Yuta Shitara in an Australian all-comers' record of 2:07:50. Shitara said he ran the race mostly as a training run — though it was the second-fastest marathon of his career.
According to Brett Larner, Shitara plans to run a 10,000-meter race in two weeks and then start training for the trials with his identical twin brother Keita (his brother didn't qualify for the trials).
As an identical twin that was much slower than my brother, I must admit I loved Yuta's quote about his future plans.
"We're going to win this together, the two of us. At the MGC Race nobody's going to be able to say our training was a waste…I've got nothing but confidence that I'm going to win. Even if we ran it right now I'd win."
More: JRN: Shitara a Day After 2:07:50 Gold Coast Win: "Even If We Ran the Trials Right Now I'd Win"
JRN: Shitara Rocks Fastest-Ever Marathon in Australia Two Months Out From Olympic Trials
*MB:Crazy or Studly? Shitara ran Gold Coast as a TRAINING run for Olympic Trials in 2 months. Says he'll also do 10k in 15 days
Stat of the Week III
1 – number of birth certificates and passports posted publicly online last week by Benfica, the club of Kenya's Edward Zakayo, who has run 13:03 this year at an official age of 17. Zakayo was trying to shut down critics who think he looks way older than 17. The only problem with the plan is the birth certificate was issued on March 17, 2016 — when he was purportedly 14 — so we doubt the documents will silence the critics.
Age cheating has certainly been an issue over the years, but relying solely on looks is dicey as some teenagers look quite old. The problem is, a couple of years can make a huge difference. Take a look at the following three photos: Eliud Kipchoge at (allegedly) 18, Alan Webb at 18, and Zakayo at (allegedly) 16.
Stat of the Week IV
505 – number of days that have passed since USATF put Vin Lananna on temporary administrative leave.
More: Ken Goe: Maybe it's time for different leadership at USA Track & Field: Oregon track & field rundown
*Ken Goe: Board of Directors' motives questioned as Vin Lananna bids to regain his presidency of USA Track & Field
Stat of the Week V/What's An Olympic Gold Medal Worth?
€500,000/$650,000 – asking price that Papa Diack allegedly said he needed to be paid to take care of the biological passport problems that ultimately led to 2012 Olympic 1500 champ Aslı Çakır Alptekin being stripped of her title and banned from the sport. The information comes from a new report by ARD in Germany.
More: According To A Report Published By French Prosecutors (And Seen By ARD), A Number Of British Athletes (Including A Gold Medalist) May Have Avoided Doping Bans Under Lamine Diack Allegedly an email contained a list of athletes whose blood passports showed clear signs of doping violations. *ARD Video Report
*MB: British gold medalist & 'sports icon' implicated in blood doping at 2012 Olympics "
*LRC Archives: 2012: Only Letsrun asks Alptekin about doing after she won Olympic gold
Quotes of the Week That Weren't Quote Of The Day
#1 That's A Big If…..
"Over these past few years, Kamworor has become the biggest name in the world of running, if we leave the marathon distance out of account. His achievements speak for themselves. The only thing missing on his résumé now is probably a world record. Therefore we are very excited that he has announced that he will be coming to Copenhagen to achievement a fast time."
–Henrik Paulsen, director of Sports at Sparta, the club that organizes the Copenhagen Half Marathon, talking about how Geoffrey Kamworor will be running this year's race.
MB: Kamworor to run Copenhagen Half on September 15 – Organizers say he wants a fast time. Any chance he gets the WR?
#2 Chris O'Hare on what it's like trying to do mile repeats while his baby son slept on the infield
"Yes, being a dad is hard and being a dad as an athlete is hard, but that shouldn't take anything away from what mums do.
"For a dad, for instance, when I think about women runners who come back from having children, I never had to sit out any time from my running. Yes, it made it inconvenient, slightly more difficult, but if I was motivated to do it, it was doable.
"My preparation in 2017 was more difficult than most other western world athletes, but my difficulties – they weren't struggles – my hurdles to overcome were nothing compared to what female athletes, and even women who are not athletes, have to go through in bringing up children."
–Chris O'Hare talking to Athletics Weekly.
#3 Allie O and Karisa Nelson Find A Home
"Welcoming Allie and Karisa to the team is a big moment for the Beasts. Adding the two collegiate champions to our roster demonstrates the team's growth as well as our continued investment into this part of our sport."
-Brooks Sports Marketing Manager Steve DeKoker, talking after the Brooks Beasts signed NCAA champions Allie Ostrander and Karisa Nelson to contracts.
*Brooks Signs NCAA Champs Allie Ostrander And Karisa Nelson To Sponsorship Contracts
*MB: Allie O and Karisa Nelson join Brooks Beasts
*MB: Allie O goes pro
As myself and Employee 1.1 at LetsRun.com are fairly new dads, I've noticed we've been highlighting a lot more articles on how elites balance being a parent with running. I can't imagine being a pro without full-time childcare help, but somehow Chris O'Hare made it work. Thus I loved this article:
GB Miler Chris O'Hare Talks About The Difficulty Of Balancing Pro Running With Being A Hands-On Dad O'Hare's wife works full time, so he's had to go to get creative to get his training in, at times running all his runs on the treadmill and even once getting some help from a friendly janitor at the Harvard indoor track.
Paul Chelimo also spoke to SPIKES about becoming a father in January.
Paul Chelimo Talks About How Hard It Is To Balance Being A New Father And Elite Distance Runner He picked up a hip injury from holding his daughter and had to take Mondays off as he had baby duties while his wife was in school. But after bombing in his first two races, he decided to focus solely on running by going to Kenya for a month and he got A LOT better.
And a non-fatherhood-related story on Seb Coe's record-breaking summer of 1979.
Athletics Weekly: A Look Back At When Seb Coe Set Three World Records In 41 Days It was 40 years ago in the summer of 1979 when Coe set WRs at 800m (1:42.33), 1,500m (3:32.03) and the mile (3:48.95).
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Track Podcast: Sifan Hassan World Record in Mile, Nijel Amos Back in 1:41s, Will Jager Ever Break 8? NOP / Bowerman Talk
2019 Ethiopian 10,000 Trials Results and Race Video: Hagos Gebrhiwet (26:48) and Letesenbet Gidey (30:37) Win
WTW: Shelby Houlihan Is an 800 Runner (Again), Anna-Emilie Møller Breaks 41 Year Old Record, + Is Muktar Edris Getting into Shape?
Evan Jager, Robby Andrews, and Eric Jenkins Definitely Are Out of USAs
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Monaco Recap: Justin Gatlin Defeats Noah Lyles, Ajee' Wilson Wins, Cheruiyot Over Ingebrigtsen, McLaughlin World Leader
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44-Year-Old Bernard Lagat Explains How He Broke The US Masters Record In Men's Marathon And Went From Marathon Afterthought To Olympic Team Contender
Bernard Lagat Runs 2:12:10 Marathon At Age 44 To Break US Masters Record
Brigid Kosgei (30:22) and Rhonex Kipruto (27:01) Break Course Records and Win $50,000 Bonuses at 50th Peachtree Road Race
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brown bread ice cream: I'm an Idiot!
I've always known that I am not the sharpest tool in the box. But this latest discovery has me feeling...extremely aggravated.
I've just discovered that one U.S. measuring cup is not the same as one Japanese measuring cup. Do you realize what this means?
It means I've been baking with my little Japanese measuring cup for an entire year under the mistaken assumption that one cup equals 200ml. Why? Because the stupid thing says quite clearly on its side in happy, cherry red: "200ml - 1 cup." So what did I do? I looked and I believed. I trusted my measuring cup! Well, there goes my innocence, my naive heart, my faith in measuring cups.
For anyone who didn't know (probably nobody but me): one U.S. cup equals 240ml.
Not that I've actually driven on the wrong side of the road--fine, I have driven on the wrong side of the road because when you move about all the time, it can get really confusing. BUT, I've never had an accident from driving on the wrong side of the road. However, that's really not the point I'm trying to make.
I actually don't have a point. I simply wrote this post to unload some self-scorn and to warn others so that they don't make the same mistake.
Come on, don't be too hard on yourself. Did my comment on Hsin-li's page spawn this? I actually didn't realize it either until about a year ago. But luckily, my Japanese measuring cup has two sides: one side is marked by cup, the other side marked by ml. I have always looked at the ml side (being a pharmacist and all, everything is about precision). Then one day after pouring in 240ml, I looked at the other side, and found out it was over the 1 cup mark.
At least now you know it wasn't you all this time. It's the damned Japanese measuring cup that threw you off.
I think this is wonderful news! It means that from now on, your baking will be much easier and less doomed. :-) I agree with Lynn--don't be too hard on yourself. There is so much to learn in every new culture. There is no time limit by which you are supposed to have learned everything!
Oh, no, what have I done? Now everyone seems to think my baking is going to magically undergo a positive transformation. I assure you all that I will find other ways to screw things up. I promise!
And, yes, I really owe my new-found knowledge to Lynn, let it be known.
Yes, and a tablespoon is a different measurement between Australia and the UK (and US too?). In Australia it's 20 ml, but in the UK and elsewhere it's 15ml! Why on earth that has happened stumps me.
Isn't it silly? Sometimes, it takes me ages to get started on a recipe because of all the convertions I have to make.
At least you didn't make the mistake my friend made, cooking with an American cookbook in England. Forgetting that there is a difference between Celsius and Farenheit, he hiked up the temperature of the oven while making ribs and ended up making a rack of carbon.
Oh my god, Jaime, that sounds just like something I would have done. I love it when I learn there are others like me out there in the world. Makes me feel less alone.
"1 1/4 cup of warm water..."
Again, thanks a lot, you have solved a mystery for me!
Hi Stu, I'm so glad this post has been helpful to you. Hopefully your breads will start turning out better after this. Fifteen years--that must have been awfully frustrating! Do let me know how it works out for you.
I told my lovely (Japanese) wife about this, and she could not believe it, so I showed her this page, and then did a conversion (online) and she too was shocked. Might have been why some of her baked items did not turn out, as she was using a Canadian cookbook my mother gave her.......TOO FUNNY!
So, do you know if teaspoons and tablespoons are different as well???
Stu, your poor wife. I'm sorry she had to be disillusioned this way. You know...I could be wrong, but I've heared Canadian and American measurements are sometimes slightly different as well. Might want to check that out.
Akemash-teh Omedeto Gozaimasu -- Happy New Year!


Hitting 35 years old, this Houston woman was ready to improve her decreasing chest volume. Dr. Vitenas performed the Breast Augmentation, placing 339cc saline implants. The patient's breasts went from a C to a D cup. It has been years since her chest had looked so full and round. She loved her restored body.


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Actress Mila Kunis shares her honest thoughts on motherhood.
Mila Kunis doesn't hesitate to get real about parenting.
The actress and her husband, Ashton Kutcher, have two children, 3-year-old Wyatt and 1-year-old Dimitri. Over the years, she's spoken openly about raising her son and daughter: from pregnancy to breastfeeding to parenting fails.
In honor of her birthday, we've rounded up 19 honest quotes about motherhood from Kunis. Enjoy!
Kunis arrives at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.
Ashton Kutcher (left) and Mila Kunis attend the 2018 Breakthrough Prize at NASA Ames Research Center in December 2017 in Mountain View, California.


One of my favorite Menlo Park parks is Sharon Park – located at the corner of Monte Rosa Drive and Sharon Park Road in the Sharon Heights neighborhood of Menlo Park. The circular loop around the small lake is a delight – with a couple of different ways to go around to make it less boring!
I enjoy wandering the park (while walking the dog!) with my camera at different times of the year. Here's a quick gallery of some photos I've taken at various times on my walks in Sharon Park.
Note – I added this post mostly as a test of the Shadowbox JS plug-in. I've added a folder in the InMenlo html directory called lrgallery which is where the Lightroom gallery output was uploaded.
See also the earlier Caltrain post – which also uses Shadowbox for a Quicktime movie file that I uploaded to the InMenlo media library directly.


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Taking their pursuit of severely electronified "hip-hop" global, Miami's Merck drafts Bulgaria's Esem for a dark ride through a mountainous amalgam of shimmering electronics and murky splatters of broken beatdowns. Unfortunately, Serial Human isn't totally free from the usual problems that plague IDM artist albums; the good songs are truly great, while some of the others are just fine. "Tjiccli" sprightly bounces along, layering more and more complexities in a blurring hall of mirrors, and sounding completely fresh, while elsewhere, "Bleece" resembles the backing track to National Geographic Explorer. In essence, this imperfection indeed makes Esem truly human.


The crew behind 'Episode VIII' is going to new extremes to prevent leaks. Here's why it might not work.
The modern world is full of modern idiot problems, and this one may take the cake. During the production of Star Wars: Episode VII, the Resistance base scene were filmed in a publicly owned area, leading to problems with hobbyists. Specifically, drone hobbyists — the kind who also published their footage online. For a property as secretive as Star Wars, this was a pretty big issue with no clear solution.
Now that production has begun in Croatia, the team there has dropped a little over $4 million dollars in security measures, according to a Croatian Star Wars fan site. What's that money go toward? 600 security guards, and anti-drone measures.
We here at Inverse do love to talk about both drones and Star Wars, so this is an excellent mid-point of our Venn diagram. We'd be remiss not to include some discussion about the potential for using trained eagles for a war on illegal drones. Why didn't Disney think of that?
Still, is this an over-reaction? These shots are all exteriors and when you get down to it, what is at risk here? Would Empire have been ruined if you'd seen some dudes playing in the snow of wherever they shot Hoth? The footage from the drones on the last film's set leaked and revealed absolutely nothing. If anything, Star Wars isn't huge on practical effects, so it seems hard to leak anything that the 600 security guards couldn't prevent.
There's also a crazy dude's attempt to make every Star Wars ship into a drone, as chronicled here, so give that a read. I wish they'd use these to patrol, and so does Croatia!


Dipset founder Jim Jones was arrested Wednesday close to his home in Fair Lawn, N.J. He probably could've gotten off with a warning if it wasn't for his infamous temper.
According to the Fairlawn-Saddlebrook Patch, Sergeant James Corcoran was on scene to handle a complaint about Jones' car being parked illegally in front of his residence -- the vehicle was also snowbound.
While the sergeant inspected the car, Jones approached him to ask what he was doing, according to Lieutenant Derek Bastinck.
Apparently, the sergeant found a reason to run the tags on the Harlem, N.Y., rapper's vehicle and once he did, the officer found that Jones had been ducking a couple of warrants for his arrest.
One warrant was for a motor vehicle violation in Paterson, N.J., and the next was for leaving snow on the sidewalk in front of his house.
At this point, Corcoran says he asked the rapper to go with him to police headquarters to straighten out the warrants and Jones wasn't in any mood to comply. He said no such warrants existed and according to the sergeant, he "got out of line."
"If [people with outstanding warrants] agree, we'll just have them come down and pay what they owe," Bastinck said, "but if they don't agree, they're placed under arrest."
This is one instance where Jones was surely unhappy to be home.


The BJP also featured several articles on photography in Edinburgh. So far, I have only read from page 501 to to the end of the journal, p.622.
However, the lists below include other pages with articles that might include some interesting references to Edinburgh. I hope to add more details from these pages later.


Chalk and Butter, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto June 9 - July 9 2011.
On the périphérique, we are driving out of Paris. I feel somewhat scared to be driving on the highway on a scooter. I am holding on tight to my driver, my arms circling him as my whole body is leaned on him. Arriving in an industrial neighborhood in an eastern banlieue, we cross over a bridge, over La Marne river, from where he points out an open-air dance hall. We slowly pass downtown, arriving in an industrial zone, now inhabited by cinema studios.
We zigzag in the parking lot until we find our lot, in front of his atelier. The building is huge. It has thirty-meter high ceilings. Its triangular peak has windows to catch the northern light; a day-long natural lighting system that offers the best conditions for a photographer's eye.
After walking across a long pitch-black corridor which allows us to cross the first shared atelier without disturbing their work, we arrive at his studio. The room is bright, the light is soft. A few flowery moulds are stored on one side, a washed-out ghostly Virgin Mary statue surveys all of our movements. Le Minotaure overshadows everything. The room is a mess of metal pieces, wood works, machinery and all sorts of mad engineer, magician-like artifacts. We pass it almost without noticing, as we have a specific task ahead of us.
Aligned on the wall, isolated from everything else, the two works are there. One vertical, one horizontal. They have never been seen. Hidden away in a collector's safe, they had just changed hands, as we say in the business. Their storage had inevitably caused the pieces to deteriorate, as their mechanical parts require continuous upkeeping. The new owner wants the motors to be restored for the paintings to be activated again.
We look at them briefly. One tableau has a black background, four very thin white rectangles and three circles, a blue, a red and a white one, all of different dimensions. The second tableau has a washed-out white background, but is more colorful. Its movable geometric forms are more disparate, and includes triangles, one azure green and the other of a greyer green. I touch the black pentagon to see the kinesis of the painting. There is also one big pale blue circle, three rectangles, a red, a grey and a thin forest green one.
I ask if we can turn over the paintings. I want to photograph their backs, their insides, their guts. We manipulate the paintings very carefully.
Behind the paintings are boxes that contain the mechanisms to animate the geometric forms. They have never been opened except by the artist himself, fifty years ago. The boxes are made of pressed wood. We lift the covers, one after the other.
What we find are wood reels on shafts, with pulleys that rotate with the aid of a black rubber engine belt. It is a small-gear steel and copper motor. The pulleys are sculpted by hand, and we can see the traces of time left by the rubber band. The black strap is tender and floppy in one, while it seems to have been constricted and disintegrated into powder in the other box. The metal used to tie the pulleys to the frame looks like recycled tincans.
I load the film in my camera, set it on a tripod, and proceed to take the pictures of both paintings separately.


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Q: Convolution integral for LTI system We know that any continuous time signal can be expressed as follows:
$$x(t)=\int_{-\infty}^\infty x(τ)δ(t-τ)dτ$$
I came across a certain relation regarding linear time invariant systems . Using $$x(t)*δ(t)=x(t)$$ we get , since it's an LTI system : $$x(t)*δ(t-t_0)=x(t-t_0)$$
How did we get here? Is there a property I'm not aware of?  I try to imagine the convolution graphically and since we have the x(t) how can  the multiplication with the dirac function give x(t-t0) for every point in the convolution integral?

A: How can the multiplication with the dirac function give x(t-t0) of every point in the convolution integral?
It can't, that is what the integral does.

-- I try to imagine the convolution graphically.

This is very helpful, but inside the integral, it is unnecessary.
Inside the integral it is just multiplication.
The integral operation handles the infinite summation for all values
of tau.
So I agree, the multiplication cannot get every point, that is why the
integral is needed.
If you find a good video/gif of convolution
some here,
you can think of each frame as the multiplication for a particular
tau.  The combined effect is the integration.
Hope that helps connect the visual to the equation.

A: A convolution is simply reversing one of the signals w.r.t the vertical (y(t)) axis and then  shifting it towards the right, left  continously till it reaches infinity at both the ends.in that process the signals comes across the other unshifted signal once and crossesthrough it.while doing so, at each instant it will have some common area,the plot of this common area is the convolution signal output.Now, If we take the impulse function in the same way,the common area will be simply get the other stationery signal.but, if we take a shifted version of the impulse in the same way,again we get the same unshifted signal as the common area but,at a different instant of time compared to earlier output,the reason is that,initially we have shifted by some t0 the impulse and started the sliding ..so the difference in time of the outputs is equal to the difference of intial shift of the impulse.


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Protests despite crackdown, Assembly of Sleepers, and the insatiable Revolutionary Guards - VOA Newstalk - 30 September 2009
Jamshid ChalangiThe following is a translation of highlights of last night's Newstalk on VOA. It is not a full transcript.
You can view Newstalk, September 30, on Windows Media - on Real Player.
For those unfamiliar with the show, Wednesday's episodes of Newstalk are very popular in Iran (8 PM to 9 PM). Wednesday's popularity is because of the two regular guests: Alireza Nourizadeh and Mohsen Sazegara. Nourizadeh is the director of the Center for Arab and Iranian Studies in London. Sazegara, a founder of the Revolutionary Guards, became a regime opponent and runs the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Host Jamshid Chalangi:
Mr. Nourizadeh, the most important news is tomorrow's 5+1 meeting. But let's talk about the student demonstrations [of Monday and Tuesday]. What's your take on them?
Alireza Nourizadeh:
After employing all its forces against the people, the regime thought that everything was over. IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari told Khamenei, The country has been pacified. But I believe that Ghods Day (NB Friday, September 18. Annual event in support of Palestinians and in opposition to Israel. Greens exploited the official rallies to take their protest back to the streets. For an overview of that day go here.) changed everything. Over 1.5 million protesters hit the streets and chanted their own slogans as opposed to those of the regime. They shouted, 'Neither Gaza, nor Lebanon, my life for Iran.' This restored hope in the hearts of people. It showed that this movement could not be stopped with murder, rape, or torture. The people realized what power they have and this power has been intensified by the events in the universities. I see this strength in the people's actions, in blogs, in web sites... Let's not forget that they have replaced university security chiefs with people whose hands are bloody. They've threatened the students, but despite everything the green wave crashed forth from the first day of the academic year.
Ahmadinejad was supposed to go to a university to mark the beginning of the academic year, but he was so terrified, he stayed away and cited jet lag.
When Mr. [Gholam Ali] Haddad Adel (NB Former Majlis Speaker and member of the Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution) went to Tehran University [on Monday] he thought... this is a man who said, The country shouldn't come to a standstill because three people died in Kahrizak [detention center]. Haddad Adel has a child, his daughter is married to Khamenei's son Mojtaba. He doesn't understand you can't say such things to parents who have lost their children. After Haddad Adel made that insulting comment, the students immediately paid him back in the university and made him leave with his head down. They made it clear that such people are no longer welcome in universities. (NB For footage of Monday's demonstration in Tehran University and chants against Haddad Adel go here). Ahmadinejad was supposed to go to a university to mark the beginning of the academic year, but he was so terrified, he stayed away and cited jet lag. We also saw how Education Minister Karman Daneshjou was greeted [at Sharif University on Tuesday]. We really have to applaud the students in Tehran, Shiraz, Tabriz, Isfahan...
Mr. Sazegara, how is this academic year different from last year?
Mohsen Sazegara:
In the past four years, Khamenei and his cohorts have tried to silence universities. Past and present student leaders have been arrested. Iranian universities have been the fonts of popular movements in the past 70 years. The coup plotters were extremely worried about the start of the academic year, as we've seen in secret documents which have made it out with the help of green supporters inside the regime. The regime has sought to instill a climate of fear. The previous days of unrest occurred during registration. Classes haven't even started yet. Many student Basij forces are falling apart. These kids don't want to be associated with murder and rape.
Mr. Ahmadinejad, bring out your supporters. Let's see them!
I'm amazed at the gall exhibited by Ahmadinejad. He was on Charlie Rose the other night. He just prattled on about how he'd won the election and the minority had to submit to the majority. Rose just laughed. In the past three months, we've consistently said, Mr. Ahmadinejad, bring out your supporters. Let's see them! If you have so many supporters, why are you afraid to show your face in universities? They sent Education and Science Minister [Kamran] Daneshjou to Sharif University and the kids called him 'Sub-diploma minister', because as you know Daneshjou has some problems with fake academic degrees (NB Nature magazine has proved that Daneshjou plagiarized scientific articles).
Mohsen Sazegara
I think that universities and high schools will be the scenes of demonstrations this year. They did a funny thing with Javad Larijani NB Another brother of Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani and judiciary chief Sadegh Larijani. Last week, Javad Larijani accused Mir Hossein Mousavi of resembling MKO leader Massoud Rajavi.) The students calmly filled the hall where he was to give a lecture. As soon as he started speaking, they got up and left.
The movement is going to seep out of the universities into the general public. The other day, cars outside Tehran University started honking in support and this stretched all the way to Ferdowsi Square.
Mr. Nourizadeh, there's talk of a plan [formulated by Rafsanjani, Haddad Adel,...] to find a resolution to this crisis. [Opposition leader and Etemad Melli Party chief Mehdi] Karroubi wrote a letter to Rafsanjani, as head of the Expediency Council... I mean Assembly of Experts... Rafsanjani has so many jobs I get them mixed up sometimes. Karroubi asked Rafsanjani why he wasn't carrying out his duties as President of the Assembly of Experts (NB whose constitutional role is to name the Supreme Leader, oversee his actions, and replace him if necessary. The Assembly convened last week and Rafsanjani lauded Khamenei in his opening statements]. Did Karroubi mean Khamenei should be replaced?
In the past 20 years, the Assembly of Experts has become a council of sycophants...
Even in Khomeini's time, the Experts didn't say much, but at least a few had some dignity and occasionally voiced personal views. But in the past 20 years, the Assembly of Experts has become a council of sycophants who get together twice a year and engage in a competition to see who can cozy up the most to the Supreme Leader. This statement that they released on the last day is shameful! Is this possible? Why did you complain about the Shah so much? The Senate and the National Majlis in those days never flattered the Shah so much! They linked Khamenei to the Heavens, called him 'the surrogate of Imam Zaman (NB Messiah)', said that 'the Supreme Leader's garb was sewn for him'... One is truly amazed... A man with a meter-long beard, 85 years old, close to death... How much are these privileges worth for a person like Ayatollah Khazali to disgrace himself like that at 90? Or look at that Mesbah Yazdi who falls at Khamenei's feet! It is unprecedented in the history of Shiism to fall at a marja's feet (NB Marja: 'source of emulation') There was a story: When [Ayatollah] Haj Hossein Ghomi returned to Iran from Iraq, people would run after him and his donkey and collect the donkey's droppings. But no one kissed his feet. Mesbah Yazdi kissed Khamenei's feet.
Alireza Nourizadeh
I believe that, once again, Mr. Karroubi has shown his courage by writing this letter to Rafsanjani. Some people say, Don't do anything to upset Rafsanjani and push him to the other side. No one's pushing Rafsanjani. But when he walks backwards for 60 km, what are you supposed to do? Rafsanjani led one Friday Prayer (NB July 17. Protesters again exploited the event and turned out in large numbers.), mild to the extreme, and the people really acclaimed him nevertheless. So many people told me, This isn't the Rafsanjani of yesterday, leave him alone. Ok, I left him alone. But he doesn't allow you to leave him alone! When he opens the Assembly with those words, it shows that some backroom agreements are being reached. You and I know that Mr. Khamenei will not concede. He's tasted absolute power and he's being goaded on by the IRGC: 'Pull out your sword! The world is awaiting you! The world of Islam and the world of the deprived love you!' Khamenei can no longer form a partnership with Rafsanjani, but Rafsanjani still harbors hopes.
Karroubi has lived up to his national duties. He's told the Experts that their heads are in the sand. I believe that this letter will be remembered in our history. In comparison, Mr. Mousavi's letter was a bit too moderate. Mr. Mousavi should not be afraid of being accused of seeking to overthrow the Islamic Republic. He should stop harping about the Islamic Republic. People are going to ask, 'Did our children die, did we suffer so we could return to June 12?' No! A fundamental change is required. Mr. Mousavi enjoys the respect and the love of the people, but if he wants to be a popular leader, he cannot move slower than the society.
Mr. Sazegara, we spoke of the crisis facing the regime. What are the solutions that the officials have proposed to resolve it?
Looking back on history, I don't think that a more useless council has ever existed.
I have to also praise Mr. Karroubi's courage.
As far as the Assembly of Experts (majleseh khebreganeh rahbari) goes... you know, people have been coming up with new names for it on the Internet: The Assembly of Sleepers (majleseh khoftegan), the Assembly of the Flatterers of the Leadership (majleseh chaplousan rahbari)...
Looking back on history, I don't think that a more useless council has ever existed. In the Shah's day, the National Majlis and the Senate at least did something. This Assembly of Experts has one duty: To appoint and oversee the Supreme Leader. As Mr. Karroubi said, If you're going to release statements that look like they're coming from Khamenei's secretariat, why spend all that money to convene. Just stay at home and release the statement.
For three months, the country has been ablaze: Crisis, killings, torture... Organizations under the supervision of the Leader have committed whatever crimes they could, and the accusation can also be leveled at the Leader himself... Then you have this Assembly releasing such a statement. They don't even dare name the people who have signed it or how many they were? One person, Ayatollah Dastgheib, voices a criticism, then you hear people saying, He should be dismissed! This Assembly should be dismissing the Leader, but instead the Leader says, No, Dastgheib can stay in the Assembly.
So you're saying that the solution to this crisis--
Hashemi Rafsanjani said that he has consulted with some people who are concerned about the country to find a solution. It appears that they are all members of the Expediency Council. The fundamental demand of the people is that the coup government which is supported by Russia must come down and be judged. The legal government, led by Mir Hossein Mousavi, must be brought to power. Then the people can talk to the legal government and voice their other demands. You can no longer tell the people to live within a constitutional framework where some Supreme Leader does what he wants, but that has to be a later demand.
The regime keeps trying to convince people that everything is back to normal. But as soon as two demonstrations took place earlier in the week, the regime rushes its troops and henchmen to the streets. The regime knows full well that the crisis is deep-rooted. No one is investing, no one is building anything...
The way to come out of this crisis, as Mohammad Reza Khatami (NB Opposition figure, brother of former President Mohammad Khatami) said in a interview, is to lift the heavy weight of the Ahmadinejad government from the shoulders of this society. That's the minimum demand of the people. No solution will work unless the people's rights are restored.
Mr. Nourizadeh, can we expect such a solution to become reality? Will, for example, Mr. Khamenei accept such an outcome? Many have said that the next demand may be the abrogation of the position of Supreme Leader.
The minimum demand of the people is the annulment of the election. Can Mr. Khamenei accept this?
The rift between the people and the regime is so wide and Mr. Khamenei is so determined to continue on this faulty path, that I believe that we have reached a point of no return. Mr. Khamenei thinks that if he succumbs to the will of the people, it will diminish his grandeur. And on the other side, the people who have lost their children, who have paid a heavy price and suffered, well they won't take a step back either. When you talk to young Ebrahim Sharifi (NB alleged victim of prison rape) and discover the horrors that he has experienced, when you see the pain of so many others, you can't expect them to just go back home if Mr. Rafsanjani declares that an agreement has been reached.
As Mr. Sazegara said, the minimum demand of the people is the annulment of the election. Can Mr. Khamenei accept this? Bowing to the will of the people is heresy to Mr. Khamenei! But he doesn't consider his illegal actions and those of his president to be heresy. I have no optimism whatsoever about these old, white-bearded individuals finding a solution. Is Mr. Mahdavi Kani going to find a solution? Or Khazali? Which one? Their solutions always revolve around safekeeping their own interests.
Despotism of the ugliest kind has taken over our country and until this tyranny is eradicated, the people will not stand down.
Many people have advanced the idea of free elections under the supervision of international observers.
The Majlis can impeach this government with a two-thirds majority. Khamenei can call for this.
But if there are new elections, no one will trust this Interior Ministry [which organizes elections] or the Guardian Council [which confirms the results]. Civil organizations in Iran and abroad can supervise and observe free elections. As a friend said, Our problem is over the ballot box and reconciliation can be found in the ballot box.
The regime will be demolished if it does not bow to the people's will.
These gentlemen of the regime have rigged the elections, carried out a coup d'état, killed and tortured people... And they keep swearing that they obtained the majority of the vote. If you had the majority, why did you have to arrest people, jail them... there are still people in prison... Today they released Saeed Hajjarian after three months, God knows in what condition. Where are the other prisoners? There's no trace of them.
Even this little talk of a solution has created turmoil in Ahmadinejad's camp and in newspapers like Keyhan. They're worried that Khamenei might agree with some kind of agreement. Khamenei is incapable of controlling his own camp.
As for the solution... The gentlemen will bow to the will of the people, otherwise... this nation has been put to the test. The people will paralyze the country. It is impossible for such a regime -- forget about the Islamic Republic, even the worst Stalinist government would not be able to stand up to the people. The IRGC is behind everything and tried to confront the people, but now [its chief ] Jafari is scrambling to get out of the way. The regime will be demolished if it does not bow to the popular will.
Miracles have occurred in ballot boxes in some countries around the world. We won't name them. Let's get back to Mr. Karroubi, whom you mentioned. Here's some footage of the protest at Sharif University and a slogan that was been chanted there...
(Video of student protesters shouting, 'Montazeri, Saanei, the true clerics!')
Montazeri and Saanei are the true clerics. But where are the others? Some clerics like Ayatollah Bayat Zanjani have spoken out, but where are the majority of clerics? We should also mention Ayatollah Kazemeini Boroujerdi who believes in the separation of church and state, and who was arrested several years ago and is still in prison. Where are the majority of clerics, Mr. Nourizadeh?
If you shake any of these senior clerics, billions in cash will fall out of their clothes.
They're busy getting their religious alms. A friend told me recently that one of the ayatollahs just paid for the weddings of a thousand seminarians. I thought, how wonderful! I was told that the representative of Ayatollah Sistani (NB Considered the most senior Shiite cleric, lives in Iraq) has built a residential complex for seminarians -- singles on one side and married ones on the other. I think they live in another world, Mr. Chalangi. They don't care about the majority of the people, just the hajis who can give them tithes. They just care about the Bazaari who pockets 5 billion and throws 200 million their way.
At the same time, Khamenei has destroyed the senior clergy and disgraced it. He made most senior clerics dependent on his regime.
When Ayatollah Behjat passed away, he left 140 billion toumans (NB about $140 million). According to his will, he wanted the money to be buried with him so that the Messiah could use it during his Coming. As soon as Khamenei found out, he sent two people to go and get the cash for own office. 140 billion toumans!
Ayatollah Lankarani left 94 billion toumans (NB about $94 million). If you shake any of these senior clerics, billions will fall out of their clothes. Did any of these senior ayatollahs take any steps to help the families which had lost their children? Perhaps that child had been the breadwinner of the family? Did they help any of these poor kids who were compelled to escape Iran? No!
Unfortunately this clergy which used to bring comfort to the people... Mr. Chalangi, these clerics used to accompany us from birth to death. We used to go to them to resolve issues. The clerics used to help the people. They used to have funds to lend to people in need. Now they just want to take. Have you ever seen a mullah give 5 toumans to anyone now?
Now they have power and money. Even the ones who have opposing views don't speak out, because they are afraid. The regime has evidence against them or their sons or kin.
We would like to see some of these clerics exhibit at least a speck of the kind of honor Ayatollah Montazeri has shown! From the day Mr. Montazeri said no to power, he has not taken one false step. (NB Ayatollah Montazeri was pegged to be Ayatollah Khomeini's successor until he complained about rapes and mass executions in the Islamic Republic's prisons in the late 1980s.) Everyone is now waiting for Montazeri to determine the future of the supreme leadership which he himself helped create. He has come very close to this issue, but he must now clearly state that this guardianship of the jurisprudent must come to an end. I truly believe that this is Mr. Montazeri's historical role.
Others like Mr. Bayat Zanjani and Mr. Saanei are looking at Montazeri for their lead. Many traditional clerics like Ayatollah Razi Shirazi or Ayatollah Mohaghegh Damad never really subscribed to the notion of a supreme leader. If Mr. Montazeri announces that he made a mistake, that he thought that the guardianship of the jurisprudent was feasible, but that such guardianship only belongs to the Innocents, then that's the end of the story.
Ayatollah Boroujerdi has suffered so much because he doesn't accept the notion of supreme leadership. He always said, let religion stay in its place, away from politics.
Mr. Nourizadeh, are there any historical accounts of what the first Imam (NB Imam Ali) left behind after his death? You spoke of Ayatollah Behjat's will earlier.
Of course. Imam Ali's home was a mud hut. He didn't have any wealth. You can't even compare those imams with the current senior clergy. How can you compare some sugar-peddling ayatollah (NB Some senior ayatollahs have the monopoly on sugar imports in Iran) with Imam Ali? These clerics are sitting on billions. And their children... Look at the financial corruption. They're unfortunately pillaging the country and discrediting religion at the same time.
Unfortunately, the IRGC which was martyred in the first decade after the revolution, turned to business in the second decade, and has become a murderer in the third decade.
Mr. Sazegara, in all this turmoil, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has bought the Telecommunications Company of Iran (For a report on this buyout, go here). Many have described this kind of behavior as that of an occupying force.
Unfortunately, the IRGC which was martyred in the first decade after the revolution, turned to business in the second decade, and has become a murderer in the third decade. Many of the old Guardsmen were war heroes. I still have many friends who were disabled in the war, some because of chemical weapons. But these people do not play any key role in this IRGC. The levers of power within the IRGC are mostly in the hands of upstarts, people like Ahmadinejad who didn't do anything special during the Iran-Iraq War. The strange thing they're doing... like an invading army, as you so aptly put it... They appear insatiable. They've poked their nose into politics, into state security, and the economy.
They're involved in making tractors, shipyards, rice imports, cigarette imports, trafficking... Anywhere you go in Iran, you see the hand of the IRGC. They have the Gharargah Ghorb (NB Gharargah Sazandegi Khatam ol-Anbia (Khatam ol-Anbia Construction Base), also known as Ghorb, is the main contracting arm of the IRGC and employs some 25,000 officers, engineers, and civilian contractors according to IRGC General Sattar Vafai.), oil contracts... The latest foray into business was the buyout of Iran's telecom. Sarmayeh newspaper had an excellent report on this. The Mehr Fund, which is the war chest of the coup plotters and was previously known as the Basij mutual fund, and the IRGC mutual fund have even bought the largest mine in the country outside of any competing bids, for a sum not even equal to the mine's six-month production. Nowhere in the world do you see the military buying the country's telecom. And the buyout was mired in questions. A private company was disqualified from making bids, then the Mehr Fund apparently pulled out in favor of the IRGC mutual fund.
In the context of the people's struggle, I'm happy about this. This huge company is linked to the population in numerous ways -- from phone booths to private lines -- and the people can express their opposition to the IRGC more easily by targeting the telecom.
The IRGC has run many of these companies into the ground. You need experience to manage a factory. Production in their tractor plant has fallen from 130 a day to 13, for example. They're bringing the economy to its knees, as they dilapidate billions of the nation's money.
My real concern is that the IRGC will try to divert attention by engaging in adventurism beyond Iran's borders. Firing missiles, adding to the problems of Iraq or Afghanistan...
The IRGC was engaged in the Iran-Iraq War and is now getting war reparations, except that it is Iran that is paying and not Iraq!
It's said that the IRGC was engaged in the Iran-Iraq War and is now getting war reparations, except that it is Iran that is paying and not Iraq! How true is this analysis?
This is not the IRGC of the war years. You now have a bunch of employees with uniforms, not war veterans. Their mission is to oppress the people. They don't know anything about the war. They're into the stock exchange and taking money to Dubai. They're submerged in corruption. They don't feel anything for their homeland or future generations. They're firing missiles to scare their own people. You think Israel is worried about their Seijil missile? They fired a missile from Astara to Sarbaz, but it came down near Kerman. That's 300 km off course! Iran is a large country and deserves a powerful and modern army. The Emirates just bought 70 of the latest US fighter jets.
Let me just mention the nuclear installation near Ghom. They take the IAEA and the 5+1 countries for fools. What did they have to build that for? Natanz had the capacity for another 60,000 centrifuges. They wanted to tell the US, this is near a holy site, don't attack it. Ghom is home to Massoumeh's shrine, but it also has sewers and the gentlemen of the regime engage in corrupt activities in some parts of it. Not every part of Ghom is sacred. There's also Saleh Abad and Manzariyeh, where they train terrorists.
Mr. Sazegara, tomorrow the 5+1 discussions will begin.
Russia has apparently changed its position. One reason is that the Iranian people have started chanting 'Death to Russia!' in the streets. The other reason is that the Obama administration has extended a hand to Moscow and modified its missile shield project. Russian President Medvedev said in New York that sanctions are on the table. As for the Chinese, well the US has put pressure on Saudi Arabia to limit oil exports to China if Beijing's position on Iran does not change. If Ahmadinejad retreats, it will be because of Russia's new position because the gentlemen of the regime depend on Moscow.
The green movement has announced that it does not favor nuclear weapons.
The regime has tried to pretend that the Iranian nation supports nuclear weapons, so if the people declare that they do not want such arms it will have a good effect on the international stage.
Thank you and good evening.
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Labels: Ali Khamenei, Assembly of Experts, IRGC, protest, VOA Newstalk
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Decoding The Politics Behind Novak Djokovic's Visa Battle With Australian Government
Current Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison seems to be gaining political mileage by denying the world's No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic entry in the first Grand Slam of the year.
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After five days of drama following Novak Djokovic's arrival in Melbourne, the Serbian tennis star was finally given a green signal on Monday to compete in the Australian Open beginning January 17 with the Federal Court overruling the Australian Government's decision to cancel his visa. (More Tennis News)
The Federal Court judge Anthony Kelly ordered the government to immediately release Djokovic from detention and restore his visa that was cancelled because he has not been vaccinated for Covid-19.
Novak Djokovic, a nine-time Australian Open winner who is aiming to clinch record-breaking 21st men's singles Grand Slam title, had earlier landed at Melbourne airport on January 5 with a visa and a vaccination exemption to take part in the event only to see the Australian Border Force (ABF) officials cancelling his visa with the backing from Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
According to the officials, the World No. 1 tennis player didn't fulfil the requirement to enter Australia with vaccination exemption. Despite the court ruling on Monday, there is still a cloud of uncertainty over the Serb's participation in the year's first Grand Slam with the Australian government warning to cancel his visa for the second time.
THE POLITICS AT PLAY
From a distance, the Djokovic-Australian government stand-off seems to be a case of two different schools of thought clashing on the issue of COVID vaccines.
Novak Djokovic has been a noted vaccine sceptic. In the past too, he has expressed strong disapproval of the vaccine mandate for travel and play. Through his social media posts, he has been advocating for an individual's choice to be respected when it comes to taking a jab for Covid-19.
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison (R) while attending the third day of the Ashes Test match between Australia and England in Sydney, Friday, January 7, 2022. (Photo: AP)
On the other hand, the Australian government has been following strict vaccination norms, not allowing non-vaccinated individuals to enter the country. The government has time and again reiterated how relaxing the rules may end up compromising public health.
However, the issue is not that black and white. A closer examination of the factors involved in the stand-off reveals the politics at play that goes beyond the binary debate over vaccination and non-vaccination.
During election campaigns, Australian leaders have often highlighted their strong border enforcement policies to win voters' trust. Prime Minister Scott Morrison's involvement in Djokovic's visa cancellation seems to be a continuation of this age-old Australian political tradition.
With his conservative coalition trailing in opinion polls, it is pretty evident that PM Morrison has a tough re-election campaign in the offing. Of late, he has had to deal with infighting in the coalition with his own lawmakers crossing the floor to vote against the government during the last sitting of the parliament in 2021.
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Amid this precarious situation only six months before the re-election, Morrison seemed to have found a clear-cut opportunity in turning the ongoing visa drama into an issue of law and order, and later using it to his advantage in the election.
PARALLEL TO IPL STARS
Novak Djokovic is not the first sportsperson to feature in a conflict with the Australian government over the issue of entry in the country during the time of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last year, as many as 38 members of the Australian contingent, who were part of the Indian Premier League (IPL), faced a similar situation while trying to return home after the cash-rich league was suspended midway due to increasing cases of coronavirus in India.
The Australian contingent that comprised cricketers, coaches and commentators, including the likes of Steve Smith, David Warner, Pat Cummins and Michael Slater, was left stranded in the Maldives due to a ban the Australian government had imposed on travellers from India.
Slater, a cricketer-turned-commentator, was at the forefront of the altercation with the Australian government back then with the former opener slamming PM Morrison openly on social media.
And did just read greed over common sense! Your government granted me permission to work so I can pay for 3 beautiful children through school and pay a mortgage. So where does common sense lie. Not on my end!
— Michael Slater (@mj_slats) May 5, 2021
"If our government cared for the safety of Aussies they would allow us to get home. It's a disgrace!! Blood on your hands PM. How dare you treat us like this. How about you sort out quarantine system. I had government permission to work on the IPL but I now have government neglect," Slater had written in a Twitter post.
In reply to his post, agriculture minister David Littleproud had accused Slater of 'acting like a spoilt prat' which added fuel to the fire in the controversy. At that time too, the Australian government, under the leadership of Morrison, had come in for criticism for blowing an issue out of proportion for political mileage.
(Ankit Kumar Singh is a sports journalist-turned-academician with a PhD in Mass Communication from the Banaras Hindu University. Views are personal)
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Should African debt be forgiven? The mitzvah of tzedakah contains a dual component; helping those in need and instilling in the donor the recognition that wealth is a gift from G-d. Giving money where it is politically correct and popular may make us feel good about ourselves but runs the risk of diverting charity dollars from more worthy causes. We must prioritize our needs, recognizing that we have to balance conflicting goals. On the one hand Judaism posits that the poor of the local community come first. In practical terms that means as long as people are dying waiting for medical treatment in Canada it would be difficult to justify giving large (or perhaps any) sums of foreign aid. Jewish law also states that our first priority in charitable giving is giving food to the hungry which would seem to indicate that at least some foreign aid to the extremely needy would be mandated - perhaps by diverting spending from "non essential services" or perhaps designating profits from discretionary spending such lotteries or "sin" taxes to facilitate such aid.
However the problem of aid to Africa is much more problematic owing to the hundreds of billions of dollars squandered on waste and outright corruption. Jewish law forbids giving charity to those whose integrity is questionable - let alone outright cheats - and would bar giving aid to corrupt officials. Under such circumstances any aid must be given directly to the poor and overseen by those who are free to act with integrity and dignity.
Judaism has always seen charitable giving as a last resort - only to be used when loans and investments are not feasible. Creating a society dependant on the largesse of other wealthier nations is a distortion of some of the deepest held Jewish values. The optimal approach, which can enable one to give tzedakah to literally billions of people, would be investment thereby creating jobs and wealth. This can and may only take place in an open transparent environment free from corruption. While I see no moral obligation to forgiving loans even when dealing with upstanding people (or honest politicians) - the granting of interest free loans is tzedakah in its highest form. Halacha even forbids requesting repayment of a loan when the debtor legitimately has no means of repayment. Thus the cornerstone of foreign aid would be a combination of investment, interest forgiveness and liberal loan repayment criteria where applicable.


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Parents vs. Coaches: A view from outside and inside
You're always told as child that plays sports, "The older you get, the more it becomes about winning and the less it becomes about everyone playing." Everyone wants to win, that's the ultimate goal in any team sports since the beginning of organized athletics.
I sincerely believed in that philosophy. It turned out however, I was gravely mistaken.
The further and further I went through high school, the more and more I would hear about parents clashing with coaches of varsity sports on one of two matters: Their kid was not getting the playing time they thought the deserved, or they thought the coach was being too harsh on the athletes.
None of these accusations were ever proven or forced anyone out of a job at Madrid High School in my four years. But in other school districts, other coaches did not have nearly the same experience. In fact, quite a few of them were left out on an island by their administration.
Two of the most recent examples of this in the state of Iowa happened at programs that were accustomed to having success. There's the old cliché that, "Winning solves all problems," however, these two cases have shown that even winning has not been able to spare them the grief of frustrated parents.
Attacking Intense and Aggressive Coaching
Joe McQuerry was the Des Moines Roosevelt Roughriders boy's track coach from 1990 to 2019 and led the Roughriders to 16 conference titles and a tied for a state championship in 1999 with Iowa City High School. McQuerry was notified by Des Moines Public Schools that his contract would not be renewed for the 2020 track season.
McQuerry opened up about what he was told by the Roosevelt administration to WHO-TV in Des Moines.
"These words were said to me, I'm not paraphrasing here. When you tell me that today's kids aren't tough enough for my coaching, today's kids need more slack and less or no consequences, that just blew me away," McQuerry said to Channel 13.
I didn't have to go far to find someone who had been scrutinized like McQuerry had been for his coaching style. Actually, all I had to do was look at my family tree and look up one spot to my own father.
My father was a high school football coach in the state of Iowa throughout the 90s. He had stops as an assistant at Madrid (which he is an alum), Pekin and North Polk and was a head coach at Corwith-Wesely-Luverne for two seasons and head coach at Red Oak for two seasons before leaving the field altogether in 2001.
"I've dealt with the idea that 'you can't yell at my kid' and it's just a different aspect and a different world. A lot of people have seen the movie Junction Boys with Bear Bryant at Texas A&M and his ideas of withholding water from players and things of that nature has left a stigma on aggressive coaching," My father said.
"I think there's a misalignment there in thinking 'well everything is bad and everything you're doing to my child is bad'. We've gotten to the point in our society that we can't give constructive criticism."
My mind flashes back to coaches like Tom Izzo, who have received flak for simply holding his players accountable.
"The idea of coaches yelling at kids really comes from the passion and excitement we have, if I'm raising the level of my voice and I'm trying to get you to do something, it's because I can believe you can achieve it. If I'm not doing that to you, that's a bad sign because I don't think you're capable of doing the job," My father said.
I've never batted an eye at coaches who are intense and aggressive in their style of coaching. I played for one of the most intense coaches you will find in the state of Iowa in Randy Hinkel, and I was a regular name that came out of his mouth when he was yelling.
It forced me to grow up quick and learn to do things right all the time.
Attacking Coaches Who Don't Give Everyone Playing Time
Tori Braby has been the volleyball coach for the Mount Ayr Raiders, a small Class 1A high school in southern Iowa, for the past seven seasons. In her tenure, the Raiders had a win/loss record of 126-85 and won three conference championships. It was announced on December 10th that Braby would be resigning from her post.
The reason? Sports politics, and for those who may not be familiar with the term, it translates into parents are upset with the playing time their kid isn't getting.
Braby spoke with KCCI-TV in Des Moines about what pushed her to decide it was time to leave the sidelines.
"I've had a parent send me about 22 emails in one day, upset that her daughter wasn't playing," Braby said. "Sports is not everything."
According to KMA Radio, in her letter of resignation Braby cited that she felt "defeated and by parents and politics," and the "negativity" she was dealing with affected her "personal mental health and the ability to raise (her) 3-year old daughter."
More than anything, most parents will complain about the lack of playing time their son or daughter is getting, and according to AC/GC assistant football coach Kurt Matthewson, it stems from something bigger.
"What's changed the most is how much more serious this focus is with players, parents and even coaches about playing at the next level and getting that scholarship," Matthewson said. "More specifically, it went from three or four sport athletes were much more common and then it started to go into the cycle of 'You have to focus on one sport, you have to work on that year-round'. The thinking was that you have to play that sport year-round to get noticed."
Specialization had become much more common throughout my youth and into my high school years, but studies and reports have shown, including this one from USA Today, that many elite athletes played multiple sports in high school.
Matthewson, who has spent much of his adult life as an assistant football coach at Madrid High School and more recently at an AC/GC program under the direction of his son Cody, says that the parent pressure isn't anything new, but it has become much more noticeable than it once was.
"They've always been a part of the equation, but it's become so prevalent that it's come to the point where coaches are resigning and they just can't hack it anymore," Matthewson said. "The common thread there is that 'if my kid can't get the position he or she wants or the time he or she wants, they can't get that scholarship he or she deserves'. It's not a formula for success.
Parents complaining about playing time is something I noticed even back when I was in little league. I had other kids tell me the only reason I was playing in baseball was because my dad was the coach (I had the 2nd best batting average on the team, but who's keeping track?) and other parents would come to my dad's door at 10 p.m., at night wondering why their kid wasn't playing more.
As my father put it, parents of today are going further than ever to assure their kid gets what they, as parents, think they deserve.
"The 'helicopter parent' was becoming vogue during my coaching tenure and now it's advanced so much they've been referred to as 'lawnmower parent'," My father said. "It's not enough that the parents are hovering over the child, it's now to the point where the parent is out in front of the child and mowing down all obstacles."
Major Concerns
Justin Johnson is in his 2nd year as activities director at Madrid High School, which oversees athletics and other extracurriculars such as choir and band. While he says he has not experienced these parent-coach issues, it still raises some concern from him.
"You would hope and wish that the parents would support the coaches and you do everything you can as an activities director to support coaches and help build those relationships with those parents," Johnson said. "That way it's not going to be something that will revolt against them, and the best way to make sure that doesn't happen is by communicating and having a respectful relationship."
From a coaching aspect, Kurt Matthewson's concerns don't lie as much as what happens in the field of play, but more so of what the kids take away from the game.
"I honestly believe that the biggest risk factor and what I am most concerned about is that these parents don't have their eye on the ball," Matthewson said. "They're not providing the life lessons that their children should be learning in that, if you're not getting the time or you're not playing as much as you want to play or not playing the position you want to play, what are you doing to earn that?"
Matthewson's point echoes one that had been preached to me throughout most of my high school years by my old head coach.
"Instead of asking 'are you working in the offseason' or 'how hard are you working', parents are attacking the coaches and using that as the avenue to get someone onto the field, or the court, or the diamond," Matthewson said. "I think it's a terrible lesson to teach children. Your job as a parent is to turn them into a respectful, responsible citizens."
Is there a fix?
Coaches, administrators and school districts as a whole, have continuously searched to find a solution to the unsettling trend of parent pressure pushing coaches out of jobs. Madrid AD Justin Johnson says the solution can begin to be fixed with simple boundaries.
"You need coaches to established expectations. Expectations such as 'we're not going to talk about playing time and if we are, we need to have a respectful conversation', something of that nature," Johnson said. "We, as administrators and coaches, need to do our best and hopefully learn from it and grow from it."
While that suggestion is a great start, Matthewson believes that the solution will not come quickly.
"It didn't get to this point overnight and it's not going to be resolved overnight. It's going to be small layers and small chips away at this stone that got us here," Matthewson said. "It's going to be small building blocks that will get this situation back where it needs to be. But the issue really starts with the parents, and that's a tough issue to resolve."
Matthewson cited how the associations and unions like the Iowa High School Athletics Association and the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union have sent our memorandums about how parents should treat coaches and officials. He also noted how athletic directors need to step up and hold parents accountable and send messages along the lines of "abuse and harassment of my coaches will not be tolerated".
Clashing of parents and coaches is nothing new in American society. It's been happening well before my generation came to be, and unfortunately it will be a part of generations well after we are gone. However, the fervor at which these clashes are happening is higher than it has ever been before and it is cause for alarming concern.
The main focus of high school coaches is not even to put out a winning product year in and year out, it's to teach boys and girls life lessons such as accountability and responsibility. After four years of being taught those life lessons, coaches hope that the boys and girls can apply said lessons and transform into joyful young men and women.
The late Ed Thomas, former high school football coach at Aplington-Parkersburg High School always told his players, "If all I ever did for you is teach you the X's and O's of football, I have failed you as a coach."
If all these parents ever care about is X's and O's, they will destroy the most sacred of events teenagers enjoy, and they will have no one to blame but themselves.
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