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Africa Cup switch: CAF succumbs to silent directive from Europe
AUGUSTINE MUKOKA, Lusaka
TEN days ago, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced a new format to the Africa Cup of Nations effective at the 33rd edition
set for Cameroon in 2019.
Twenty-four teams will make the party, an increase from 16 finalists that have traditionally competed for honours since 1996.
For sixty years now, the Africa Cup of Nations has grown from three teams at inception in 1957 to eight, 12, 16 and now 24. The latest change was made in addition to a switch in dates.
New CAF president Ahmad Ahmad's executive committee has moved the competition from its traditional January to February window to June and July when major events such as the World Cup and European Championship are held.
The switch in dates finally settles a long standing 'rift' that would emerge between European clubs and African countries over player availability.
A good number of players have seemingly welcomed the switch while others, prominently among them, former Uganda coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic believes the idea was to appease Europe.
Sredojevic, a Serb, is quoted by BBC Sport, "Though not directly, Africa succumbed to the pressure of Europe to have this tournament played when it's best for them. I have never believed some of these theories that come from Europe on having the AfCON in January and February."
A good number of African players in foreign leagues are delighted the change has come. This change is expected to give Europe-based players an opportunity to give their African countries undivided attention when summoned for national duty during this period.
Undoubtedly, the idea to switch the Africa Cup of Nations to June-July, is good but truth be told CAF has succumbed to a silent directive from UEFA. And this is why the likes of Manchester United coach Jose Mourinho say this is a "fantastic" development.
Oh, yes, fantastic in the sense that European clubs relying on African talent will compete for honours uninterrupted midway through the season. Although fantastic for Europe, it is also progressive for Africa.
The flagship football event on the continent will have an opportunity to maximise on television and commercial rights largely because during this period when major leagues are on recess broadcast houses will look for good to keep their viewership engaged.
And the Africa Cup of Nations is one such hot cake especially in a period when major leagues such as the Premiership, La Liga, Seria A and Bundesliga are on recess.
In addition to revenue, the tournament could be a good dress rehearsal for the continent's top nine in a year the World Cup is staged.
Teams that qualifying for the World Cup will find the tournament a good preparatory platform. The downside, however, is having players burn out having competed throughout the year without sufficient rest. This may make them prone to injuries.
For those players budding to break into the European league, a June-July Africa Cup is also the perfect platform. All major recruiters, scouts and coaches will set their eyes on the tournament, and a good number of them may even travel.
Admittedly, the pros of this development outweigh the cons. So even if CAF does not concede they have been arm-twisted, in arriving at the switch, they have some valid reasons to have obliged provided they demonstrate the benefits will trickle down to their members.
Perhaps, the only favour CAF may do us is to remind their colleagues in Europe ours is not a summer Africa Cup.
The weather pattern in Africa significantly differs from that in Europe or other countries in the West and Asia.
Depending on which region hosts the tournament in Africa, June to July will never bring the event any close to summer. The closest it may come to is a Winter Africa Cup of Nations.
Switching the dates may be good for African football, but increasing the number of teams from 16 to 24 may pose a challenge for a lot of countries on a continent beset by poor infrastructure and struggling economies.
This increase places a huge responsibility on hosting countries to have at least six good stadiums, 24 training venues, 24 good hotels and a good budget to organise a smooth event. Do African countries have the capacity?
Yes, some countries in North, West Africa and southern Africa may have a minimum of six stadiums, but these are less than half the members of CAF. The option to co-host will come in handy.
But the fact that some countries don't have sufficient infrastructure to host the event is the reason CAF has advanced to strip hosting rights from Ivory Coast and Guinea who were awarded the 2021 and 2023 editions respectively.
Yet countries like Zambia, with two international stadia, are hoping to jump on the bidding wagon for 2021. Wait a minute! It's an excellent idea for Zambia to bid for the event, but do we have better sports infrastructure than Ivory Coast? Those well-travelled will doubt.
In any case, Ivory Coast would argue they have hosted this tournament before although it was only eight countries that took part in 1984. Zambia, on one hand, can claim they are better placed having recently staged the Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations which is CAF's second biggest event.
However, a critical view into the motivation to increase AfCON finalists can as well be traced from a rather smart 'political' move by the new CAF president. Ahmad largely owes his ascendancy to the summit of CAF to Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) members.
And one of his major campaign promises was to review how West Africa was awarded five consecutive editions of the continental showpiece.
It would seem increasing the number of participants and claiming the two prospective hosts in 2021 and 2023 have no capacity is a more diplomatic way of sharing the cake equally rather than trying to point an accusing figure of alleged impropriety by those that came before the current decision as the reason behind the change.
Not a bad way of rewarding loyalty. After all, any winning candidate with a sense of gratitude would first look to those who put their heads on the chopping board for him or her.
Mind you, there is another CAF election in a few years and Ahmad will surely be seeking a second term. Ignoring the people and countries that catapulted him to the CAF top job is too risky a path to contemplate.
The remote way of looking at this expansion is the shift power from one base to another, but one cannot deny its potential to enrich the game.
An increase in the number of finalists means more matches on television, and that translates into increase income for CAF mostly from broadcast and commercial rights.
This, hopefully, will turn into better rewards for the participating teams and eventual winner. With increased revenue from 52 matches, I can hope CAF will increase the prize money for the winners from the US$4 million awarded in 2017 to a minimum of US$8 million which is what teams get for qualifying to the World Cup.
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This is really 2 recipes in one, the baked beans are vegan and the kangaroo stew… Well, it is kangaroo stew! I decided to try some kangaroo meat, as it is wild caught, free range, grass fed, lean meat. It is very similar to beef and it is advisable to slow cook it. Kangaroo meat is now sold in Australian supermarkets.
In a slow cooker or thermal pot, put chopped carrots, zucchini, tomatoes and kangaroo meat. Add a few stalks of chopped celery and a little water. Add salt and pepper to taste. Bring to boil and slow cook or put into thermal outer pot. Cook for around 4 – 6 hours.
For the baked beans: soak some black eyed beans in water overnight. In the morning, rinse well then add water to just cover. Bring to boil, then add enough tomato paste to thicken. Add a dash of Apple Cider Vinegar, 1/4 tsp stevia, and salt to taste (for a full 6 litre pot I use around 1 – 1 1/2 Tbs of Himalayan rock salt.) Add 1 Tbs cumin (this makes the flavour, I add apple cider vinegar and cumin to a lot of my tomato based dishes…) Stir until all ingredients are combined and bring to a boil again. Slow cook or thermal cook if you are able to for a few hours, otherwise simmer for around 1/2 hour before serving.
As we had baked beans left over from breakfast I served them with the kangaroo stew I made. It went together quite well!
©2014 Zaia at wholefoodcookery.com – recipe for baked beans and kangaroo stew, vegan, vegetarian, paleo, primal, low fodmap and gluten free.
Just a thought… If you are going to label something vegan, don't add any animal products within the recipe or write-up, it is actually really offensive and insensitive. It would be much better for you to do the Kangaroo Stew separately to the Baked Beans recipe, then on the Kangaroo Stew you could say "This goes nicely with the Baked Bean Recipe"… [with a link to the recipe]. This is the same on some other recipes. Vegan recipes should have no animal product or by-product including honey, eggs, etc. Thank you.
Hi Zaia. I was only saying to my sister today that I wanted to make my own baked beans. However I don't understand the part about "enough tomato paste to thicken". It seems to me that to thicken this to tinned baked beans consistency would require a bucket load of tomato paste which would be unpalatable. I just find this part very vague and don't really want to mess up umpty times experimenting. Could you elucidate please?
As you only just cover the beans with water to cook them, a lot of the water evaporates and so not much tomato paste is needed to thicken it. Another method is pre-cooking the beans, pouring the water off, then adding a bottle of passata (strained tomatoes) to the beans. Add all the other ingredients and bring to the boil again, then simmer as per the recipe. I hope this gives you some ideas!


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Chepino Saddle (, 'Chepinska Sedlovina' \'che-pin-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is the saddle of elevation 2526 m in north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, linking Probuda Ridge to the southwest to Bangey Heights to the northeast.  It is part of the glacial divide between Embree Glacier to the north and Ellen Glacier to the south.

The saddle is named after the settlement of Chepino in Western Bulgaria and the homonymous Chepino Valley in Southern Bulgaria.

Location
Chepino Saddle is centred at .  US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.

Maps
 Vinson Massif.  Scale 1:250 000 topographic map.  Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
 Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

Notes

References
 Chepino Saddle. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
 Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links
 Chepino Saddle. Copernix satellite image

Mountain passes of Ellsworth Land
Bulgaria and the Antarctic

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Murder, Mystery, Revenge, The Sodder Children
Continuing my series of events that have influenced my writing, today we look at a horrific tragedy that has far more questions than answers. To lose a child is something every parent fears but to lose multiple children is something that most cannot bear to think about, especially where there are so many unanswered questions. Today, let's look at a mystery from Christmas, 1945 that still haunts us today…
The iconic small town in America symbolizes the perfect American dream; that place where children can run free down the streets, a place where no one locks their doors at night, and a place where everyone knows their neighbors. Beneath the façade of the image of the American Dream, some small towns harbor secrets that alter the dream into a nightmare. On Christmas Eve 1945 in the small town of Fayetteville, West Virginia, one family's small town dream turned into every parent's worst nightmare.
George and Jennie Sodder had made their home in Fayetteville, an Appalachian town, with their ten children. George was intelligent and hardworking, starting a career on the Pennsylvania railroad, working his way up the ladder of success, before launching his own trucking company, hauling dirt, freight, and coal. George was a well-respected and well-liked member of the community. He had immigrated to the United States when he was only 13, leaving Tula, Sardnia in 1895, and throughout his life, never speaking about what happened in Italy or why he left.
The events of Christmas Eve 1945 would haunt both George and Jennie for the rest of their lives. Around 12:30 that Christmas Morning, a wrong number phone called woke Jennie. As she was going back to bed, Jennie noticed that lights were on downstairs and the front door was unlocked. Jennie locked the door, noticing that Marion, her 17 year old daughter, was asleep on a sofa. Jennie returned to her bed and was almost asleep when she heard the sound of something hitting, then rolling, on the roof. The noise stopped and Jennie fell asleep. When she woke an hour later, smoke was coming into the bedroom.
George and Jennie grabbed 2-year-old Sylvia, whose crib was in their room, and rushed outside to find Marion, along with John, 23, and George Jr., 16. There was no signs of Maurice, 14; Martha, 12; Louis, 9; Jennie, 8; or Betty, 5; who all had bedrooms on the upper floor of the house. George tried to save them, breaking a window, slicing his arm open but the main floor of the house was engulfed with flames. He raced to the back of the house but a fire-escape ladder that he always kept next to the house was missing.
Frantic and desperate to save his children, George rushed to his coal trucks, thinking he could drive next to the house and climb the truck to enter the window. Unfortunately, the trucks which had been operating perfectly the day before, wouldn't start. In a last ditch gambit, George rushed to the rain barrel but the water was frozen solid. Five of his children were stuck in the house, four were outside, and one, the eldest son, was away in the army.
Marion, realizing that time was running out, sprinted to a neighbor's house to call the local fire department. There was no response from the department. A call was placed from a nearby tavern, but no operator responded to that call either. Not knowing what else to do, the Fire Chief, F.J. Morris was physically tracked down and he initiated a 'phone tree' alarm system, where the firefighters called each other to signify an emergency. By the time the fire crew, which was only two and a half miles away, reached the Sodder house, it was eight in the morning, and the house was nothing but a smoking pile of rubble.
Devastated, George and Jennie realized that the five children had perished in the fire. A horrible loss for any family, one that would be almost impossible to recover from. The fire chief ruled faulty wiring as the cause and George covered the house site with dirt, intending to plant a garden as a memorial to his fallen children. But there were questions…not a single body, not even a trace of bones had been found in the fire. Chief Morris suggested that the blaze cremated the remains, but the Sodders began to wonder if something else tragic had happened that night.
George had been an outspoken critic of Mussolini, not shying away from expressing his dislike of the Italian dictator and, from time to time, engaging in vocal and heated exchanges with other members of Fayetteville's Italian community. Back in the fall of the year, a man had arrived at the Sodder house selling insurance. When George Declined, the man became upset, saying, "You are going to pay for the dirty remarks you have been making about Mussolini." The older Sodder sons also recalled that just before Christmas, a strange car was parked along a highway, watching the younger Sodder children come home from school.
Still more questions arose. Jennie investigated how bones burn in a fire, discovering in private experiments that chicken and pork chop bones would not fully disappear in a fire. Consulting with an employee of a crematorium, Jennie discovered that bones could remain for two hours at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The Sodder house had burned to the ground in just forty-five minutes. A telephone repair man told Jennie that the lines to the house looked cut, not burned. And if the cause had been faulty wiring, how were the lights still on in the basement when the fire was going?
It wasn't long before sightings of the five Sodder children started coming in. A waitress claimed to have served them breakfast on the morning of the fire. A hotel worker in Charleston claimed the kids checked in with two women and two men a week after the fire, leaving early the next morning. Other's reported seeing the children in a car with Florida license plates.
The Sodders hired private investigator C.C. Tinsley, who discovered the identity of the insurance salesman who'd threated George before the fire. The salesman was a member of the coroner's jury who deemed the cause of the fire to be accidental.
With still nothing concrete to go on, the Sodders erected a billboard, with the pictures of the five missing children and offered a $5,000 reward for any information on the whereabouts of the children. They quickly increased the amount to $10,000. Letters, notes, and tips poured in from all over the country, with George personally investigating each one but he always came home disappointed. Nothing seemed to break in the story.
It wasn't until twenty years after the fire that something arrived in the mail, addressed solely to Jennie. The letter was postmarked in Kentucky but there was no return address. There was only a photograph inside the envelop, one of a man in his mid-twenties that bore an eerie resemblance to Louis Sodder, who was nine at the time of the fire. On the backside of the photo was a handwritten note, "Louis Sodder. I love Brother Frankie. Ilil Boys. A90132 or 35" The Sodders instantly hired a private detective who was dispatched to Kentucky…and never heard from again.
Most of the Sodder children have passed away now, only the youngest, Sylvia still living. They never lost hope that one day, they would find out what happened on that Christmas night in 1945. To have no trace of five children in the house is hard to write off, there surely would have been some remains considering the fire lasted less than an hour. With all the sightings and the cryptic letter, surely something should have turned up.
Theories abound as to what happened, compounded by the letter that was received. The numbers 90132 and 90135 are zip codes for Palermo Italy, which have no longer been in use since 2006. Could George's Italian roots crossed paths with a crime syndicate in Italy? There was speculation that with George's transportation business there was pressure on him to join the local Italian mafia, could his refusal have been what doomed his children?
Others look to his outspokenness towards the Italian Dictator. Could the followers of Mussolini and his National Fascist Party have extracted revenge on George for his speaking out against them? Would they even care about one man in America speaking out against the governments in Italy? Could it have been local members who hoped to bring that form of government to America?
There has been much speculation into what happened to the private investigator who was sent to Kentucky to look for Louis Sodder after the picture mysteriously arrived in the mail. Did the investigator simply take the Sodder's money and run? Why wouldn't he return, saying it was a dead end? No one knows exactly where he went or what happened to him.
George and Jennie Sodder were also cautious when they were investigating. Fearing that if they got too close the kidnappers would hurt the children, they didn't post the picture of Louis around. Many assume that the five children, if still alive, also feared what would happen to their parents if they returned. The children may have been warned that a horrible fate would await them or their parents if they tried to contact them.
After all this time, they still wondered what happened that night. When the family was outside the burning house, there were no screams coming from the upstairs. No one saw shadows of the children moving around. None of the children came to the windows asking for help. There was no sign of them that night.
As we move into a world where everyone has a digital camera and video recorder in their pocket, with the ability to post the pictures and videos online and have them sweep the globe in a matter of seconds, investigations like this one will rely more on the quick thinking and picture taking of strangers than on police and private investigators. The Amber Alert system, that sends the vital information of a missing children's case to millions of people across the country in seconds have proved quiet effective at finding kidnapped children in the pivotal first forty-eight hours of the investigation. Had something like the Amber Alert been around on Christmas Eve 1945, George and Jennie Sodder might have known what became of five of their children. So many questions remain unanswered to this day, with no light in sight, we may never discover the true fate of the Sodder children.
"Sodder Family." Unsolved Mysteries Wiki. Web. 2 Nov. 2015.
"History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian." History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian. Web. 2 Nov. 2015.
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Artificial intelligence is showing its power to automate and augment HR services for the better.
By Simon Kent
The march of AI into the realm of HR is unstoppable. According to Jessica Brown, director of strategic partnerships at SaaS platform Faethm, technology is already being used extensively to automate and augment HR activities, and the trend is unlikely to slow down any time soon.
Currently HR is least impacted by AI compared to other parts of the business. Faethm estimates 7.5% of HR processes have the potential to be automated in the next five years, compared to 12.2% across the UK workforce overall.
"The rate of augmentation is much higher though," she adds, "at 18% compared to 8.5% across the whole workforce. This suggests technology has a big role to play in complementing the work done by HR professionals across the UK. If it's done effectively, it could result in a productivity gain of up to 8% across all HR departments."
Frances Ibe, VP of product at SmartRecruiters confirms the pandemic has increased demand for AI-enabled HR tech, particularly within the recruitment function. More roles, more applications, and the need to reduce time to hire and bias have driven companies to make the move to AI.
"TA teams sifting through thousands of applications for each job role is incredibly time consuming and delays hiring," says Ibe. "Bringing in AI-enabled tech eliminates this challenge by narrowing down the best candidates for the position by cross-checking experience with the necessary qualifications."
Ibe shares significant results for businesses such as eCommerce technology provider Sana, which improved time to hire and managed to fill 90% of their roles on time and budget. Colliers International real estate reduced their dependency on external agencies from 80% to 5% in the first year of using AI, whilst also securing an increase in new hires volume by 47% in line with their growth targets.
"In terms of what's next for AI technology in HR, I believe we will see an increase in the adoption of AI to remove recruitment bias," Ibe says. "More than ever before, companies are aware of their shortcomings in diversity and inclusion and amongst our clients, it's top of mind as a challenge to overcome in recruitment. To remove recruitment bias, AI can assess data points around successful employees and objectively determine the best hires in a talent pool."
Certain recruitment is a volume process with repetitive decision-making and that presents fertile ground for AI. Approaches like this is where the technology has arrived for good. Online supermarket business Ocado is leveraging AI alongside digital assessment tools to save time for candidates and hiring teams within the groups' graduate recruitment process. The business has deployed Aon's AI-driven video interviewing platform, and in the first year, the business experienced tangible benefits: 300% growth in applicants and realising a gender split of 53% female to 47% male candidates, an improvement from the 36% female, 64% male hires in the previous year.
"Diversity is essential, not least because we're growing and evolving from a retail to a technology business," says Henry Clendon, emerging talent adviser for the Ocado Group, adding that the new system enables the business to look at behavioural qualities instead of just academic qualifications. "We don't just ask for senior software engineers, we want graduates who can grow with us, building a long career," he explains.
At every stage however, AI is not simply being deployed without forethought. Matt Hurley, director of service strategy and innovation at Shared Services Connected Limited (a joint venture between the UK Cabinet Office and Sopra Steria), says many HR departments are seeking to strike a balance between technology and human interaction.
"Too much technology and employees face losing a personalised experience," he notes, "whilst a lack of technology can also bring frustrations in other areas such as too much admin-heavy, monotonous work." Hurley explains getting this balance is crucial but there is no hard and fast rule as to what it should look like. "There needs to be a level of discovery to ascertain what works and then scale automation as needed," he says.
"We will see more of a blended approach between people and technologies such as AI and robots emerge in the workplace," he continues. "However, implementation does not mean overnight success. Leaders will need to outline how technology will be used to support existing functions such as HR – and not replace them – in order to get buy-in across the business." Hurley also says specific training will be required to equip workforces with the skills they need to work with AI tools effectively and productively.
Taking an equally pragmatic view to current trends, Tom Lakin, director of innovation for Resource Solutions, says there has been more discussion of AI in HR than actual widespread adoption. That said, he also believes the technology is improving -and at a rapid pace. "We're seeing massive improvements in the accuracy of AI and we're already seeing that AI is increasingly adding value to broader aspects of HR," he says.
Going forward, Lakin recommends that HR leaders consider using AI for any HR process that is repeatable. One key for AI success is to treat the technology like a new employee rather than a piece of software: "Nurture it. Teach it. Don't ignore it," he says. "You can't just plug in AI tech and leave it; it needs ongoing love and attention to unlock its benefits and to minimise risk."
But when done right, HR can reap the rewards. "In recruitment, volume hiring has seen significant usage of AI and AI-powered chatbots to screen, assess, and schedule interviews for candidates," says Lakin. "When done well, this use of AI benefits candidates through faster 24/7 support and benefits HR leaders by facilitating efficient recruitment funnels even during spikes in demand. The challenge here for HR leaders is to ensure that the automated process has been audited for bias, meets ethical guidelines, and improves candidate experience."
Lakin is adamant that HR should keep itself informed and up to date with the latest trends and possibilities within AI-powered HR tech. And naturally, he says, it is always important to seek out information regarding actual performance and worth in the workplace, rather than just looking for a silver bullet.
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The IDP Primer: Points
Interested in IDP but don't know where to start? Our IDP guru Duncan Smith shows that you don't need a degree in statistics to join the fun!
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By: Duncan Smith
Individual Defensive Positions or IDP is pretty scary huh? Well, I'm here to tell you it's not. I've already broken down the top rookies in this year's draft here, with this article I'm going to explain scoring in simple, understandable terms.
The chances are you are not here because you already play IDP but because you're curious about it, either you want it introduced or a league mate is pestering you to vote it in for this season.
With this article, I am going to introduce IDP scoring and explain why it doesn't have to be as complicated as you might think it's going to be. There will then be a follow-up article discussing how many starters you should have, positional breakdown, bench requirements, and general roster construction.
By the end of this series I hope to have shown, in simple terms, why you are more than capable of playing IDP and hopefully persuaded you why you should be.
In this article's planning phase, I had intended to lay out an argument that offensive fantasy scoring has become increasingly complex in recent years, therefore the idea that defensive scoring is too complex doesn't apply anymore.
Then I started researching IDP scoring and well, yeah the forefathers of IDP pretty much went out of their way to make the scoring system as complicated as possible. In some extreme cases, IDP scoring was seemingly invented as a way to test Excel spreadsheet capabilities to their limits. Players would have scoring multipliers added to their scores based on their position and likelihood of recording that particular metric.
Things like linebackers score 1 point for a tackle unless it's the third quarter of a Monday night game against a divisional rival +- 3 days of a full moon, in which event they score 2 points a tackle, but that can be overruled if it's the third Monday after Michaelmas. Defensive tackles score the same as linebackers except if they had tacos for lunch and other such nonsense*.
*I'm exaggerating for comic effect, DT's don't eat tacos, they eat pizza.
The excuse for this was that scoring needed to be weighted so that each position could score the same as each other across the board because this is how offensive fantasy works!
Huh, excuse me? Yes, a running back will score the same as a quarterback if he ends up throwing an 80-yard touchdown pass, but no he won't get it weighted by x5 to even him out with a quarterback who scores multiple a game.
So why would you weigh defensive scoring? Generally, defensive tackles don't score a lot, they rely on sacks and tackles for a loss to score, that's ok, that's fine. The way to get around that is to create positional scarcity, not require league participants to hold a master's in advanced calculus (that's a thing isn't it? We just call it Mathematics here).
Thankfully modern IDP has all but moved away from this type of scoring, so if someone tells you it's too complicated, they're still thinking about these scare stories from the bygone days of dial-up internet, Kangol hats, and Stifler's mom.
That's not to say there aren't differences to know, there are. In the main, there are three different groups of IDP scoring. These are Tackle Heavy, Balanced, and Big Play.
Tackle heavy naturally reduces the point value attributed to the big plays (i.e. sacks and interceptions) and relies on players racking up tackles to score big points. Big play is the opposite and ramps up the value of sacks and interceptions, meaning that a couple of fluke plays can have a huge impact on the scoring. Balanced tries to find a middle ground between the two.
I will mention at this point that I haven't included touchdowns in my big play examples, the reason being that they should be scored the same as on the offensive side of the game. So if you're in a 4 point TD league then defense TD's should be 4 points. The same goes for 6 point leagues.
A more recent way of scoring IDP is the IDP123 format. This format groups certain defensive actions into scoring groups valued at 1, 2, or 3 points.
I'm not going to go into a huge amount of detail regarding that scoring format as it is easily found on the internet, try AskJeeves or other appropriate search engines.
Stacked Scoring
The format I want to discuss first is stacked scoring. This is the format used in my main IDP league. To explain what it is first let me show you how we score for defense.
Touchdown – 6 points
Sack – 1 point
QB Hit – 1 point
Tackle for a Loss – 2 points
Interception – 5 points
Fumble Recovery – 1 point
Forced Fumble – 1 point
Safety – 2 points
Assisted Tackle – 0.5 points
Solo Tackle – 1 point
Pass defended – 1 point
Blocked Punt/PAT/FG – 4 points.
The premise is simple enough, defensive plays rarely happen in isolation and shouldn't be scored as if they do. What do I mean by that? Well, let me give you an example.
A sack, pretty straightforward right? Defensive edge tackles the quarterback while he's trying to figure out if his first read is open or if he should perhaps have a look at his second, quarterback hits the turf, edge does sack dance celebration. But let's consider what it actually is; a tackle, a tackle for a loss, a QB hit, a sack, a sack dance celebration… maybe.
By stacking the scoring you can still build up big point totals for big games but you also allow for the nuances of a game not played in black and white. It keeps the points awarded for each individual scoring play small and easily remembered, while still allowing for big plays.
As previously discussed a touchdown scores the same as it does on offense. An interception only scores 5 because it stacks with a pass defended. A safety only scores 2 because it will also stack with a tackle and a tackle for a loss, potentially a QB hit and sack.
This is a simple system that doesn't require a wealth of spreadsheets to calculate, you don't even need to take the points I've given as gospel, the system can be easily tinkered with to suit your league. There are things I would like to change in this league. For example, I think forced fumbles and fumble recoveries could score more, the risk, however, would be that it could lead to some wild stacked scoring, for example, a sack, QB hit, tackle, forced fumble, fumble recovery, and a touchdown plus yardage could lead to a pretty unbalanced score.
In addition, I would like to increase tackles to 1.5 and 0.75 points respectively, but the league likes this scoring and I'm just one man, not even a particularly powerful one at that, sob.
One note of caution regarding stacked scoring is to be very sure of how everything stacks, for example on our platform there is an option to score general tackling. If this option isn't disabled it will stack with your solo and assisted tackles boosting the points scored in a way you might not expect.
Hopefully, I've made a successful case for the simplicity of IDP scoring, even if you don't like the idea of stacked scoring I've given you some other options to look at.
Next time out I'm going to break down rosters, particularly starters and bench sizes. In the meantime be sure to check out Matthew's rookie tiers and The Social Media Sasquatch's Mock Draft 3.0 as we build up to draft day.
Duncan Smith – IDP Writer
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Lingchi is the roughly the word that the Chinese use to describe a form of torture whereby a person is executed by 1000 cuts. Dying the death of a thousand cuts has become a familiar business term that can have any range of meaning.
WAV Group fielded a question from large brokerage firm – "how do we reduce email in our company?" Communication in a company is good, but too much communication as an adverse impact. What follows is my reply.
Calculate the spoilage – If it takes each member of the company an hour to clean out their inbox each day, how many hours of productivity per day is the company losing?
You can only control how many messages you send. Do an exercise where you look at the emails that you send and count the number that you could have not sent. Set a goal for each person to reduce the number of emails sent each day by 20% – 1 in 5 emails sent by professionals is typically the number that is easy to reduce.
Carbon Copy is the devil. Never copy someone unless they are pivotal to the conversation.
We live in a forward world. We see something that we like and we forward it. Consider putting those things into a folder and creating one email per week with your highlights.
Reply with care. Don't just Reply to All. Reply with a purpose.
Turn off Read Receipt – If you are getting a read notice on all of your emails, you are insane. Turn that off.
Make it o.k. for managers to discourage email use and coach offenders.
Expand the range of weekly reporting to bi-weekly or monthly.
Develop a corporate bulletin board on your company intranet or send out a company newsletter with notes from around the company.
The new INBOX from Google makes it really east to get to zero everyday as it has a Boomerang-like function built in. I like it.


Welcome back to Kingspan Stadium, the home of Ulster Rugby, where tonight the Ulster squad face off against the Scarlets and go in search of their third competitive win of the season. Scarlets are fresh off the back of two convincing wins, making tonight's match up Ulster's most exciting in the newly formatted Guinness PRO14 competition. With only one point separating the top four places in the table, Ulster will be looking to capitalise on the hard work put in throughout the pre-season and cement their spot at the top of Conference B. Friday nights at Kingspan Stadium are part of what makes Ulster Rugby great and I encourage everyone here tonight to continue that tradition and to create the atmosphere that we have become famous for. Please join me in extending a warm welcome to the Scarlets and their travelling supporters who are looking forward to an exciting and memorable match. Finally, on behalf of Kingspan, I would like to wish the Ulster Rugby squad and management team the very best this evening as they continue to lay the foundations for a successful season ahead. To Ulster's committed fans, enjoy the game, lead the way and help ensure that this is an evening to remember at Kingspan Stadium.


Pinnacle Foods Group LLC, working in conjunction with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, is recalling certain Aunt Jemima Frozen Pancakes. The product may contain soy protein, an undeclared allergen. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to soy protein may run the risk of an allergic reaction if they consume this product.
The voluntary recall was initiated after the Company discovered there may have been a potential cross-contact with product that contained soy protein being produced on the same equipment. There have been no reports of illness as a result of this incident.
This recall applies only to the following products: "AUNT JEMIMA FROZEN PANCAKES" packaged in cardboard cartons with the UPC codes listed below, which were sold and distributed nationally, with a 'Recommended Use By Date' between November 1, 2011 up to and including October 16, 2012. This date can be found in the white box on the end of the carton.
This announcement applies only to the AUNT JEMIMA FROZEN PANCAKE products listed above and does not include boxed pancake mixes and syrups.
CFIA is working with the Pinnacle Foods Group to have the affected products removed from the marketplace. The CFIA is monitoring the effectiveness of the recall.
For information on soy, one of the nine most common food allergens, visit the Food Allergens web page at: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/labeti/allerg/allerge.shtml.


With Halloween over, and Christmas not quite here, it's time for the unsung hero of the holiday trifecta to shine. Thanksgiving means turkey and turkey, more than food, is an accurate way of measuring the volume of any space. Using the size of an average turkey as a base unit, any space can be defined in terms of how many turkeys will fill it. The Turkey Volume system is best used for measuring enclosed spaces, such as the size of your turkey storage freezer. Turkey Volume Guessing App brings the system of turkey volume into the 21st century with unparalleled accuracy.
The Turkey Volume system was first proposed in the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 as a superior method of measuring volume. Though actual turkeys may vary greatly in size, the Turkey Volume system is based on a standard roughly equivalent to 1.5 cubic feet (0.04 cubic meters). In the past, the process of turkey volume measurement has been messy and prone to salmonella infection. This led to the development of turkey volume guessing as a knee-jerk solution to safe measurement. Simply guessing the number of turkeys that would fill a space proved to be grossly inaccurate and left the measurement system in a state of flux.
Turkey Volume Guessing App uses modern technology to bring survey grade accuracy never before seen in the field. Simply use the app to snap a picture of the space you wish to measure. Then use the software caliper to outline the space. The app then calculates the precise number of turkeys required to fill that space. The results are graphically mapped on your photo and may be uploaded to the web for easy sharing.
Get your free copy for iOS or Android at turkeyvolumeguessingapp.com!
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Robots, Now Wielding Nunchucks
Don't tell Elon Musk, but the machines are turning into ninjas. Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology have demonstrated a new way to teach robots how to perform tasks, and demonstrated the technique's effectiveness by training one to use a pair of nunchucks.
Many robots now are able to watch a human's action and then repeat it, in a process known as learning from human demonstration. But the New Jersey team has taken that a step further. In a paper published in the arXiv, the researchers describe how human instructors can perform an operation and then evaluate their performance, giving the robot valuable extra data to understand what a good execution of the task looks like in order to hone their skills.
Clearly the approach works fairly well: in tests using a pair of nunchucks, the team taught a robot arm to deftly wield the weapons in under an hour. What could go wrong, eh?
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S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc. and Sin Hang Lee, MD offers American consumers reliable HPV genotyping
March 1, 2011 By Jonathan Leave a Comment
by: Rosemary Mathis, Director of SANE VAX, INC.
S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc. and Dr. Sin Hang Lee, on behalf of Milford Medical Laboratory, have agreed to offer a reliable human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping test using a PCR system with short target DNA sequencing for safe vaccination practice.
Recognizing the alleged flaw in the two FDA-approved HPV tests, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded a contract to a Dutch diagnostic laboratory to perform "reliable genotyping using a PCR system with short target sequences" for the HPV isolated from biopsy samples collected in the NCI.
S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded to promote safe, affordable, necessary and effective vaccines and vaccination practices. Dr. Lee said, "Milford Medical Laboratory will perform nested PCR with short target DNA sequencing for HPV genotyping on liquid-based cytology samples referred by S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc. at $50 per sample. Most health insurance companies will reimburse this cost."
Norma Erickson, president of S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc., said she is disappointed that the NCI has become a business partner of the vaccine manufacturers and is promoting an unproven virology-based clinical oncology practice, using prophylactic HPV vaccination of adolescents, HPV testing, and colposcopic biopsies to replace the proven effective Pap smear screening for cervical cancer prevention. Worse, Erickson said, they do not appear to have a reliable HPV genotyping test for good patient care and monitoring the vaccination program prescribed for the American women consumers.
Based on the clinical trial documents submitted to the FDA, the primary endpoint used in the evaluation of the currently marketed HPV vaccines was mostly cervical intraepithelial lesions 2/3 (CIN2/3), representing a spectrum of poorly defined, poorly reproducible, often self-reversing precancerous histological changes, not a truly malignant pathology, said Dr. Lee.
According to Dr. Lee, there are at least 13 high-risk HPV genotypes, and neither the NCI nor the vaccine manufacturers have data on which HPV genotypes are most prevalent in the mainstream young American women who are the target of HPV vaccination. The vaccines being marketed are effective against only two high-risk HPV genotypes, which are most prevalent in some foreign countries, such as Costa Rica.
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The Mercure Edinburgh Princess hotel is ideally located in the city centre of Edinburgh, just a few minutes' walk from the Edinburgh Airport shuttle bus and only fifty metres from Edinburgh Waverley railway station. The Edinburgh International Conference Centre is just a five-minute drive away, and attractions such as Edinburgh Castle, the Scottish National Gallery, and shopping on Princes Street are all within easy walking distance. The well-appointed rooms come with flat-screen televisions, tea and coffee facilities, complimentary Wi-Fi, and en suite bathrooms with hairdryers. The bar is ideal for relaxing, whether that be with a cool soft drink, a warming cup of coffee or hot chocolate, or a classic Glenfiddich malt scotch whisky, and the in-house restaurant serves popular local specialties such as fish and chips and chicken tikka masala, all for a fantastic stay in Edinburgh.
Hotel location was superb. Car park ticket properly. Location and breakfast was the saving grace.
Good for traveling with friends. Close to Edinburgh Castle. Good for sightseeing and located near shopping areas.
The only saving grace was a waiter. Staff were faultless. Check in was smooth and effortless.
Delicious dinner and breakfast. Delicious breakfast. The breakfast was totally unacceptable for the price.
Properly clean guest rooms. Sanitary towels in the bathroom. Carpet was dirty & threadbare.
Wine was cheap & nasty. Beautiful balcony view for the same price. Great benefit to visit.
Properly clean guest rooms. Everything was spotless. Linen and towels spotless.
Internet access designed. Free wi-fi. Internet and staff could not figure out.
Awful dated chairs and tables. Dated and dirty decor. Dirty looking twin room with the generator outside.
Most everything was dated and worn. Fixtures and fittings were old, worn and shabby. Awful dated chairs and tables.


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What Are the Beard Awards' Favorite Cities for Food?
Over the past decade, New York City has dominated the Oscars of food; Chicago, hosting them for the first time, is just ahead of San Francisco for its claim to be America's second city of cuisine.
By Whet Moser
Tanya Baker, executive chef at The Boarding House, is one of Chicago's nominees for a Beard Award. Photo: Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune
Well, maybe a more interesting question is: what are the Beard Awards' favorite food cities besides New York? The biggest city in America hosted the awards every year until this year. New York City has its own regional Beard Awards category, presumably so it doesn't swamp Boston and Philadelphia. And the awards have given more recognition to New York than anywhere else.
This year they decided to recognize Chicago's prominence in the food world by celebrating the awards' 25th anniversary away from New York for the first time. But by the Beard Awards' own standards, is it the best food city in the country?
I decided to find out, by gathering Beard Awards results in some of the highest-profile categories for the past decade (not including 2015, since the awards haven't been given out).
My rules: Points were awarded for Outstanding Chef, Outstanding Restaurant, Best New Restaurant, Rising Star Chef, and Best Chef (the last of which is a regional award) as follows: five points for a national winner; three points for a regional winner; two points for a national nominee; and one point for a regional nominee, narrowed down to ten top American food cities. (I excluded restaurateurs because nominees often have restaurants in multiple cities.)
And Chicago comes in second to New York, but just barely.
Chicago has 116 Total Beard Points to San Francisco's 115. If you counted Napa Valley—with the legendary French Laundry in not-too-far-away Yountville and other regional nominees—in a bigger Bay Area category, it would lead.
Likewise, San Francisco would lead if you excluded Paul Virant's Vie in Western Springs, but… c'mon, it's still in Cook County. There are advantages to being sprawling and having a robust regional light rail system.
If there's a surprise, it's that Washington beats New Orleans, and New Orleans beats Los Angeles. But it also makes some sense. Washington is the nation's capital (and a world capital of money and power), and New Orleans bred what's arguably the nation's most prominent regional American cuisine.
And Los Angeles? Well, its ranking kind of suits the general national impression of Los Angeles restaurants. It gets plenty of points for national nominations, but it didn't win a national award in the chef and restaurant categories from 2005-2013; finally, Nancy Silverton of Pizzeria Mozza won Outstanding Chef last year. No Los Angeles chef has ever won a Rising Star award. It has surprisingly few regional nominations—but it's also in the same region as San Francisco and the Napa Valley.
And this is another year with San Francisco and Chicago battling it out in New York's shadow. In the categories I counted—sorry, mixologists, sommeliers, and pastry chefs—New York has six nominations to go with its own regional category. Chicago has two national nominations—Parachute, one of Chicago's picks, for Best New Restaurant, and Tanya Baker of Boarding House for Best New Chef. San Francisco has only one national nomination. As expected, both cities dominate their regional Best Chef categories, with three nominees each.
So expect Chicago to widen its lead tonight, as the third-largest city in the nation continues to establish itself as the country's second culinary city, while the entertainment capital of the world slowly plays catch-up.
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Novak Djokovic reaches ATP Finals last four after defeating Alexander Zverev
Tennis icon and world number one, Novak Djokovic beat Alexander Zverev 6-3 7-6(4) on Friday to seal a last-four spot in the London ATP finals.
The 33-year-old Serb will face U.S. Open champion Dominic Thiem in Saturday's semi-final while Rafael Nadal plays Daniil Medvedev as tennis fans brace for an expected mouth watering clash between Nadal and Djokovic in the finals.
Djokovic was defeated by Russian Daniil Medvedev in his group on Wednesday so he needed to beat Germany's Zverev to avoid a group stage exit, which he did comfortably.
Sunday's final will end the tournament's memorable 12-year stay in London before it re-locates to Turin.
"In contrast to the match against Daniil I found the right shots at the right time," he said. "I have tremendous respect for Sascha, a great player and not easy to return 140mph first serves. It was anybody's game for most of the match."
Djokovic wants to equal Roger Federer's record of six ATP Finals titles, while Nadal seeks a first ATP finals title in his career.


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Naperscene
Feeding the Frontline
By Julie Duffin
June/July 2020 View more Naperscene
Naperville restaurants have been serving meals to frontline workers since the beginning of the pandemic, thanks to the Naperville Helps campaign. Within hours of the stay-at-home order being announced, the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Naperville Alliance banded together to create the program as a means to support local eateries, medical staff, and first responders.
"The idea came from the community and we ran with it," says NACC president and CEO Kaylin Risvold. "We started a GoFundMe page with a goal of raising $10,000. I think we met that in the first six hours, so we kept increasing our goal. In less than five days, we raised more than $25,000. The
community's generosity exceeded all our expectations."
With a lot of behind-the-scenes coordination, the program has supported many first responders. Here's how it works: GoFundMe donations (gofundme.com/naperville-helps) pay for the meals. Restaurants sign up online to provide and deliver individually prepackaged meals to the Edward-Elmhurst Health system, the Naperville Police Department, and the Naperville Fire Department.
"The restaurants have been so grateful. One owner told us it helped cover payroll for the week. This is a win-win-win on so many levels," says Risvold. "Not only is it giving restaurants the cash they need, it's giving fantastic meals to our healthcare workers and first responders."
Over 1,000 meals per week are now being provided, a number that keeps growing—at press time over $76,000 had been raised to purchase meals.
"We couldn't do any of this if Naperville didn't rally around the businesses and all those working to keep us safe. It's a true testament to our town," says Risvold.
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Q: How to use or operator '''
make a test to test how much you understand the code for the project

what to do

functions:
print() input()

'''

I'm new to Python. I'm wondering why this program gives me 'correct!' when I enter any other words but not 'A' or 'a'. I want this program to answer me 'correct only when I type 'A', or 'a'. I think I still fully don't understand what or operator does or something else I should understand. Please help me out with this.
print('do you wanna take the test?(yes/no):')
answer = input()
if answer == 'yes':
    print('Q1. What do you need to think of first when to make a program?')
    print('A. What program I make? B. Write code first.')
    print('Choose which one is correct(A/B):')
    while True:
        A1 = input()
        if A1 == 'A'or 'a':
            print('correct!')

        else:
            print('Try again.')
            continue
else:
    print('May your heart be your guiding key.')

A: The statement if A1 == 'A'or 'a'  will be interpreted as if (A1 == 'A') or 'a' and since 'a' is always True(a non-zero value), the condition will always be True.
On the other hand, if you write the conditional statement as if A1 in ['A', 'a'], this will check if either A1=='A' or A1=='a'.

A: A1=='A' or 'a'

Check if A1='A' and then if 'a' is not None. Here the second check is obviously true, because the string holds the value 'a'
Therefore the condition that you need to use is
if A1 in ('A','a'):
    #statements to be executed if the if condition is satisfied.

That is, it will check if A1 holds any value given in the list ('A' ,'a')
Hope it helps!

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Street Fighter V: The 2nd Year Anniversary
Editorial Fight Friday
By Anthony Beaver / February 16, 2018
Two years on this very day, we were given Street Fighter 5. Two years. It doesn't feel like it's been that long, until you think of EVERYTHING that's happened up until now. I mean, if I told you at launch that Sagat was coming, Urien would have the cleanest suit in video game history, and Blanka would be here with the best costume Capcom ever made, would you have believed me? Well, this is the life we live now. We're going to talk about most of how we got there. If I try to tackle every detail then this is going to be long as hell.
But let us go back to February 16, 2016. All we'd gotten were some betas to feel the game out, and we had a few concerns with the netcode. At its worst, it was spotty but playable. At worst, it would drop mid match. Lovely. But to compound onto that issue came the problem that haunted Street Fighter 5 for quite some time: the lack of content. At launch, it came with versus, survival, online ranked, online casual, and if memory serves they had lobbies but they were trash. If you were here for the competitive side of things and wanted to hop online to play, you were fine. If not…welp.
Then again, I say "fine" as if the online consistently worked. If the connections weren't dropping then rage quitting was rampant. In fact, one of the first Diamond players WORLD COMBO was found to reach that status by constantly rage quitting. It let you keep your points and just move on. It was a rarity to NOT get rage quits. And if it wasn't a rage quit, then it was just a flat out drop in the connection. Online was rough, but when it worked, it worked alright. It just needed a lot of work at the time.
I won't get into the character selection in terms of it launching with "too few characters" because 16 is an acceptable launch number, I think. Odd how today 16 is too few. Then again, Street Fighter has a vast library of characters, so I suppose I get it? We saw the return of some pretty glaring omissions in Guile and Balrog, along with some nice additions in Alex, Juri, Ibuki, and Urien. It was almost as if Capcom remembered 3rd Strike existed. We also got Story mode somewhere in there, and it was…uh…it existed? It didn't really satisfy a lot of player's concerns with the lacking content. I thought it was good for a laugh, but not everyone agrees. Season 2, however, became the time where the game became to REALLY get good. In my opinion, anyway.
While people like legacy characters, I'm much more interested in new characters I've not seen before. So after seeing Akuma and feeling iffy about his new design, I was glad to see the next wave of characters. Kolin was fine, Ed is awesome, Abigail…um…is Abigail and we should all just let that be, Menat is everyone's waifu, and Zeku is just…Goddamn it, it's F.A.N.G. all over again. Anyway, they each came with their own reception; no one like Abigail and I would argue that has only changed a little, everyone loves Menat (see "I have a man, thank you"), and everyone else was pretty middle of the road. The roster was looking robust, and people were chilling out.
The rage quitters were finally getting punished, fight money was finally something we could get without grinding like our lives depended on it with missions, but public opinion had yet to change too much. By this time, if you hated Street Fighter V, your mind hadn't swayed because of the nice costumes or all the shiny DLC. Oh, and there was plenty. Premium costumes alone could make you spend way more than the base game, especially if you're a Chun-Li player. Colors, which were only unlockable via the survival mode, were able to be unlocked up until 10 for a fee, and there were other little things here and there besides the Season Passes of course.
Despite the eSports scene, the backing by many pro players, the Red Bull sponsorship, and the fact that you'd see this game at every tournament, there were still plenty of people who hated this game beyond how it played. There was the casual crowd who felt abandoned by the lack of stuff to do. Sure, they could do trials, versus, and online, but they wanted ARCADE MODE. When's arcade mode became a question asked more than "when's Sagat?" So then Capcom said, "Ya know what? Why the hell not?" And Arcade Edition was born.
While Arcade Edition has it's problems, mainly the fight money changes, it gave a lot more than it took. Extra Battles give you some damn good costumes and the Shadoloo grunt fights are helpful for those looking to get some extra fight money. Arcade mode wasn't just tacked on. It was a full fledged mode that is actually pretty fun to play through and see all the artwork at the end of each run and in the gallery. But screw all that, this game brought back SAGAT! YEAH, BOY THE KING IS BACK! …Is what I would say if I was one of Sagat's rampant fans. At the price of Sagat's return, we also got Blanka in the best costume Capcom has ever made, Sakura, and eye-candy Cody. Along with them, we get G and Falke. Now, this season pass did a lot differently: lets you know what you're getting and mixing some old with new being the main things and the best things. The frustration of waiting every 2 months for a character reveal? Done. We know who's coming and it seems we only need to wait a month per character if Blanka is any indication.
There was even more we could touch on; the balance of power in Season 2 where Urien, Balrog, and Laura were the devil, the memes, the V-Trigger changes and how that has made the game so much versatile, how the pros really feel when it comes to the game and their favorite characters like Chris T and Ken, and so on. But to talk about the details everywhere would be extensive. Think of this as a brief lesson that shows Street Fighter rising from being a bare bones fighter to being the great game we know today. We can joke that it took 2 years or whatever but I'm glad to have supported this game and I'm glad to see new players coming in as a result of the new additions. So far, Capcom has done well to bring this game back into gamer's favor. I look forward to seeing what they do next with it.
Also, I look forward to Dan in season 4 because we deserve better for ourselves.
Anthony Beaver
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Ambitious, quick tempered... but also a musical genius, inventor of the comédie-ballet and French opera, here are ten (little) things you might not know about Jean-Baptiste Lully.
There are enough anecdotes about the life of Jean-Baptiste Lully to make a film, which is exactly what Gérard Cobiau did. He made Le Roi Danse in 2000, which highlighted Lully's darker side at times and underestimated it at others.
He was born in Italy under the name Giambattista Lulli. The composer of Atys et Armide lit up French music and left his mark for centuries.
Lully could not escape his origins throughout his life. In the eyes of the French aristocracy he had two flaws - he was an Italian and a miller's son. Born in Florence in 1632, it is not known how exactly Lully managed to infiltrate the circle of the Duc de Guise, which took him to France to teach Italian to the Duke's niece, the Grande Mademoiselle. We equally do not know exactly how he moved from working in kitchens to being a dancer and violinist. What is certain is that he experienced a meteoric rise.
It is also clear that the composer worked hard to erase any trace of origins. In 1661, Giambattista Lulli naturalised and changed his name to Jean-Baptiste Lully. Hiding his roots proved harder, he tried to style himself as the 'son of Laurent Lully, a Florentine gentleman' but few were fooled. Despite his humble beginnings he became enobled through his work eventually rising to become Secretary to the King.
In 1653 Lully, or rather Lulli, entered the Court and appeared as dancer in the Ballet of the Night, on whose score he scribbled notes here and there. He significantly made the acquaintance of a young man who was also a good dancer with a promising future, Louis 'Dieudonné' of Bourbon, aka Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre.
As a dancer the young man entertained the King with his clowning and demonstrated his talent on the violin. He transformed those early loves and skills into the Ballet de l'Amour malade (1657) and the Ballet d'Alcidiane in the company of Marie Mancini, with whom the King was enamoured.
From his early meetings with Louis XIV, Lully realised that it was in his best interests to serve the monarch's desires. If the King wanted to laugh Lully would play the clown. If the King felt amorous, Lully would produce romantic ballets. If the King wished to no longer rely on Latin, to liberate himself from classical references, and to be represented as himself and not Apollo, then Lully gave him a lyrical tragedy.
In this way Lully gained the power he desired and became the Superintendent of Music for the King, crushing potential obstacles along the way. In March 1672 he purchased the rights to the librettos of the bankrupt poet, Pierre Perrin. This allowed Lully to reprint them in his own name that Pierre Perrin had produced with Molière. Molière was not the only one to pay the price, nobody other than Lully was able to put on an opera without paying royalties. Composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier had to wait until 1693, when he was 50, to premiere his opera Medée.
Through his acquisition of opera performing rights Lully established himself as the sole composer of this genre and gained success through his talent. But he also knew how to promote his work. He recruited actors, singers, dancers and musicians, and paid his most important business partners handsomely to guarantee their exclusivity.
In 1664, Lully was already well established when he began his collaboration with Molière. This fruitful union produced nine comédie-ballets. Not only did these works enable two great geniuses of the 17th century but they also enabled the composer to insert sung and danced melodies into the narrative. In addition Lully deployed all vocal styles and experimented with sung recitatives, the precursors to his lyric tragedies.
17th century France enjoyed many different musical genres - court ballet, tragedy, pastoral, comedy and some Italian operas, promoted by Cardinal Mazarin. But Lully went further by synthesising these styles in a unique genre: the lyric tragedy. The first of these French operas Cadmus et Hermione was conceived in 1673. Prolixe the Florentine composed one opera a year until his death in 1687.
Drawing upon his best work in each genre Lully brought a regal quality to the recitative, which went beyond the simple sung declamation and merged with the aria, to form a fluid whole. The composer also employed popular ballet scenes and used props and stage design to great dramatic effect.
Those who adulate him spoke of his "strength of character" while those who hated him portrayed him as a detestable man. In either case it appears that Lully was not the embodiment of sweetness. According to one anecdote Lully remarked when Louis XIV was waiting for the composer's response "the King is the master, he can wait as long as he likes". Few subjects if any could have spoken these words.
La Fontaine also paid the price, when Lully flattered him on a visit and requested a libretto for an opera but later preferred the work of Quinault who wrote Alceste, the poet responded with a few well-chosen verses from Le Florentin in which casts the composer as 'The Scoundrel'.
Amidst the opulent reign of King Louis XIV and his 'Pleasures of the Enchanted Isle' Festival such comments made little impact as Lully was married to Madeleine Lambert, daughter of the composer Michel Lambert, with whom he had six children. It was quite another matter with the arrival at court of Madame de Maintenon, who became close to the King. In 1685 Lully's liaison with a young page called Brunet came to the attention of the King. Brunet was sent away to a religious order while Lully lost the ear of the King who did not attend a single performance of Armida (1686).
It's not that there are intelligent ways to die of course, but it can be said that it is very clever to pierce one's foot with the cane used to direct the music and to develop gangrene. Whilst in full flight rehearsing 'Te Deum' for a performance for Louis XIV, Lully got quite carried away with his musicians and hit his toe rather too hard. His leg became infected but Lully refused surgery. There was no going back and the gangrene killed Lully on March 22nd 1687.
The works of Jean-Baptiste Lully were continually played until 1789 at which point certain fastidious revolutionaries considered the composer to be rather too monarchistic. For more than a century after his death Lully's shadow hung over French music and permeated throughout Europe. His Amadis de Gaule inspired Handel, while Gluck championed his Amide.
Lully's overture "in the French style" is equally present in the works of French composers Campra and Rameau and that of Purcell (in the ouverture to Dido and Aeneas), Handel and in Johann Sebastian Bach's Ouverture in the French Style. Lully's Air des trembleurs d'Isis in which the orchestra mimics shivering caused by the cold was later imitated by Vivaldi in Winter from his Four Seasons and also by Purcell in his Air of the Cold Genius from King Arthur.


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Colloborators, Snipers and 88s! Yank Magazine_July 16th 1944
Yank Magazine, July 16th 1944 British Edition
Feature: With the Forward Battalion by Sgt. Walter Peters, Yank Staff Correspondent
There were four days on the road to Cherbourg when everything seemed to happen-catching spies, hunting snipers, ducking the "incoming mail" and generally fighting a tough war." Heading paragraph
The first vignette Sgt. Peters discusses has to do with a woman spying for the Germans.
On their way to the front lines a gray haired old woman approached their jeep and told the correspondents that a woman was giving signals to the Germans from her hotel window at night. The old woman told the correspondents that she had told officers but they didn't do anything about it. A short time later a jeep full of MPs pulled up and the story was repeated.
Company B, 504th MP BN. Cologne, Germany, 1946
The jeep full of MPs and the correspondents then went to the hotel in question where they found three young women one of whom was "very undressed" according to Sgt. Peters.
The hotel room was in fact what it appeared to be and the MPs told the women all they wanted was the one who flashed the light at night. At first all was denied until the MPs began to search the room. They found a flashlight of German origin and eventually the one doing all the denying was found to be the one giving signals. The MPs believed the girls were imported by the Germans from another area in France to "entertain" the troops and of the three only the one was a willing collaborator.
This well known picture shows women with their heads shaved by the French resistance. They were accused of sleeping with the Germans and were considered collaborators. They were shamed by having their heads shaved and swastikas painted on the their foreheads as well as paraded naked down French streets..
French civilians cheered the MPs as they exited with the three women.
My dad was an MP stationed in occupied Germany 1945-46 and he told me once how they had to break up fights at houses of prostitution. He said the MPs were not concerned about the houses for that was a matter for the German police (who tolerated them because people were in a bad way) but were concerned about American troops beating the women and so forth. War is nasty business and people do what they must do to survive and these French women just like the German women from my dad's duty station were just trying to survive.
After they leave the village where the hotel is they are treated to a 9th Air Force bombing. They do not identify the bombers so they could be fighter bombers like P-47s or B-24 Liberators. During the Normandy campaign the Germans could hardly move at all during day light hours given the allied dominance of the air.
P-47 Thunderbolt, nicknamed "the jug" with invasion recognition markings so their own side would not shoot them down! The Germans called the fighter bombers "jabos."
The second vignette featured the jeep of correspondents driving through an area cleared of organized resistance but snipers still infesting the area. As they proceeded to the front they came across a mortar position that was shelling the Germans. The Germans replied with "screaming meamies" the American nickname for a nebelwerfer, a multiple barreled rocket launcher that sounded as frightening as it was destructive.
Towed "screaming meamie"
The next vignette has them arriving at another part of the front that is alive with German snipers and the medics are bringing in the wounded including a man with half his face blown off by a 20mm shell (probably from a flak gun deployed for ground use). Just as they are dealing with that shock another man runs up to the CO to tell him their lieutenant has just been hit in the arm and the bones are sticking out. The CO heads off in the direction of the platoon under fire.
All the major combatants of WW2 used snipers. They were used in a number of roles but one was to slow down an advance. These two German Army snipers (one is a spotter) could have been on either front and are wearing camouflaged late war uniforms. The rifle is a 98k fitted with a sniper scope.
The last vignette features the correspondents with a gung-ho but unnamed Colonel and his regiment penetrating into eastern Cherbourg. The correspondents are alongside a half-track as this famous Colonel speeds by in a jeep. Suddenly a 88mm opens up (A flak gun highly effective against armored ground targets as well as airplanes) and the half-track takes a hit. Presumably the shell goes through the thinly armored track because the Sgt. tells Preston they will have it ready to go to the following day!
An American tractor dragging off a captured 88mm gun. The 88mm dual purpose gun was one of the most feared weapons of WW2 because of its range and the destructive power of the high velocity cannon.
Yank often published the names of individual GIs. Here are the ones listed in the article in the hopes that maybe a family member looks up the name on Google and finds out something they did not know!
Cpl. Howard Hodgson of Calumet, Michigan (mortar crew)
Sgt. Kongslie of Upham, North Dakota (mortar crew)
PFC Eugene Rossman of Ellwood, PA (mortar crew)
Sgt. Frank Brusic of Passaic, NY (platoon leader Hv. weapons)
Captain Edmund Torkelson of Seattle, Washington (infantry company)
Pvt. Frank Volpa of Fresno, CA (infantry company)
Cpl. Thomas Donnely Jr. of Jersey City, NJ (infantry company)
S/Sgt. Marvin Bogart of Lima, Ohio (his halftrack took the hit by the 88mm)
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2 comments on "Colloborators, Snipers and 88s! Yank Magazine_July 16th 1944"
Martin Gibson November 22, 2013 at 2:55 pm Reply
If the bombers were from the 9th Air Force, then they were either light (A20s), medium (B26s) or fighter (probably P47, maybe P38 or P51s) bombers. The heavies (B17s and B24s) plus their fighter escorts were in the 8th, whilst the 9th was responsible for tactical air support. By saying that the aircraft were from the 9th but not specifying the types, the author is probably giving credit to the correct unit, without risking giving too much information to the enemy.
Martin, you are a fount of knowledge! I should have guessed about the B24s given they were heavies and probably employed elsewhere! I hope folks read your comments for you always add something good to my posts. Many thanks!


Arched Whitehall Building Annex over upper floors of Whitehall Building off Battery Park. New York, NY.
Arched Whitehall Building Annex (1911) (31 floors) over upper floors of Whitehall Building (1900) off Battery Park. New York, NY. Architect: Clinton & Russell.


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Campbell Soup Company Receives the Gallup Great Workplace Award 2010
Press Releases March 15, 2010
CAMDEN, N.J., Mar 15, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB) today announced that it has
received the Gallup Great Workplace Award for 2010. This marks the
fourth consecutive year that Campbell has received the award.
The Gallup Great Workplace Award is based on the most rigorous workplace
research ever conducted. A panel of workplace experts evaluated the
award-winning organizations. Campbell is among the winners because its
results demonstrate one of the most productive and engaged workforces in
the world.
"The winners of this award have established a new global standard for
engaging people," said Tom Rath, who leads Gallup's Workplace and
Leadership Consulting practice. "When compared to the millions of
workgroups we have studied around the world, the awardees have worked
tirelessly to create an environment that values people. They go far
beyond trivial perks to ensure that each employee has an emotional
connection to the company's mission and growth."
Engagement is a key part of Campbell's corporate strategy.
Accountability is stressed to all employees through a number of
practices that support engagement at all levels of the organization,
including recognition programs, business resource affinity networks and
opportunities for community involvement.
"Campbell's philosophy is firmly rooted in the belief that we must first
win in the workplace to win in the marketplace. We recognize that an
engaged workforce directly correlates to creating shareowner value,"
said Nancy Reardon, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources and
Communications Officer. "Our strong commitment to engagement starts at
the top and extends throughout the company. We are very proud of this
award from Gallup, as it recognizes our continued progress in building
an extraordinary workplace and company. While Campbell is acknowledged
as a leader in employee engagement because of high engagement scores,
it's the everyday actions that truly build an extraordinary workplace."
Campbell will receive the award at the Gallup Summit on April 27-29,
2010. During the Summit, Campbell and other Great Workplace Award
winners will present the best practices they applied to their workplace
and the improved business results they achieved through building an
engaged workforce.
Campbell Soup Company is a global manufacturer and marketer of
high-quality foods and simple meals, including soup, baked snacks, and
"Arnott's," and "V8." For more information on the company, visit
Campbell's website at www.campbellsoup.com.
About the Gallup Great Workplace Award
The award's weight and design equal the merit of the winners'
accomplishments. To create the award, Gallup designers collaborated with
R.S. Owens & Company, the company that produces many of the world's most
prestigious awards, including the Academy Award. The award consists of
two components: The top design features 12 etched crystal planes,
layered to convey the kinetic energy of an engaged workforce. The
crystal sits atop a concave-shaped pedestal base composed of polished
silver-plated legs and a satin-finish front display. The combination of
these parts results in a piece that evokes the nature of engagement
Anthony Sanzio (Media)
Jennifer Driscoll (Analysts)


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Floor time happens to be a prime opportunity to cause mischief... or so the pigs believe.
Our usual routine is to change the cage while they stretch their legs and look for opportunities to cause piggy trouble.
While they were gallivanting around, headbutting the blinds (Belka), squabbling over pigloos (Truffle), and beaning in unauthorized places (Peaches) I accidentally upended their pellet bowl. Upon returning with a dustpan I was greeted by the sight of four pigs huddled around the mess, gleefully crunching away.
No use crying over spilled pellets when you can eat them instead!


The digital revolution has brought us new gadgets and new things to do with them. The digital revolution also brings the digital economy, with machines capable of doing humans' jobs. Agar explains that developments in artificial intelligence enable computers to take over not just routine tasks but also the kind of "mind work" that previously relied on human intellect, and that this threatens human agency. The solution, Agar argues, is a hybrid social-digital economy. The key value of the digital economy is efficiency. The key value of the social economy is humanness.


A couple of posts ago I wrote about the Mahabharata War and how the tensions originated w/ Duryodhana's ego being damaged by Draupadi laughing at him. The story being, at its basest level, a story about the conflict within which leads to delusion. In that context, Duryodhana, as I said, represents "material desire." Draupadi represents spiritual power born from dispassion.
Karna is the sixth Pandava brother. Karna (material attraction and attachment" is placed amongst the Pandavas when their nemesis, Duryodhana represented "material desire" which is almost the same thing. So it would appear that in the battle that rages within, material desire/attraction/attachment is a bit of what is referred to in modern Western vernacular as a "frienemy", or a friend that can also be an enemy at times.
Except that all of this is revealed after the Kaurava empire has fallen and been taken over by the Pandavas. It is at this point in the Battle for the Great Within, when Fort Attachment has been rent asunder. It's power is now on the side of the Pandavas. Therefore, it is also at this point when desires become free from the pull of ego attachment. It's power and strength works solely for our betterment now.
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POINT NORTH
Point North will embark on their debut headline tour this spring, with support from Lil Lotus, Concrete Castles, The Home Team and Cherie Amour. Fresh off support tours with A Day To Remember, Sleeping With Sirens and Stand Atlantic/The Faim, they will tour their debut LP and recent newer singles across North America from March 7th – April 12th, 2022.Point North is building a new world, one positive, tangible action at a time. With their debut album, Brand New Vision- released in August 2020, Point North embraces an alternate reality that celebrates a break from predictability and normalcy for a world that is uncomfortable, a world that has meaning, a world in color -a place to feel something. With standout singles including "Brand New Vision" (featuring DE'WAYNE) and "Into The Dark" (featuring Sleeping With Sirens'Kellin Quinn) – the breakout single that enjoyed weeks of airplay on Sirius XM Octane peaking at #1, Point North has showcased both the passion and unbridled energy of the journey through the honest truths, dilemmas, and hardships we face as emotional creatures. Since the debut album release, Point North had a busy start to 2021, appearing as featured artist on singles from Kayzo x Black Tiger SexMachine, and Two Friends. They have recently followed up with new singles of their own "Nice Now", "Erase You" and "STITCH ME UP" which has pushed the band to over one and a quarter million monthly listeners on Spotify and over 100 million cumulative streams. The band rounded out the year supporting A Day To Remember and Asking Alexandria in sold out arenas across the US. Point North is Jon Lundin (vocals), Andy Hershey (guitar), and SageWeeber (drums).


Google is moving fast with some nice features on search (Answer engine, Knowledge Graph, Structured data, voice search..etc). Sometimes Google is shrinking organic opportunities for websites owners with direct answers and 0 click queries (weather, some featured snippets, flights, definitions..etc) and sometimes giving some new landscapes. I believe that Google Discover is a new opportunity to get targeted visitors. For those who don't know what Google Discover is, please speed jump to the end of this post.
How does Google discover works ?
How to optimize your content for Google Discover ?
4- Promote your content on different platforms and try to have engagement !
How to track Google Discover performance statistics ?
Launched in 2017, Google Discover (previously Google Feed) is used by more than 800M monthly active users in several languages [stat of September 2018]. Frankly it is a great potential to drive qualified traffic to your website ! Why qualified ? It is simply because Google is giving users contents (posts, articles, videos..etc) that is based on their interests or what Google thinks they are. It is obviously an interesting channel to target !
Some user's device information such as : time, contacts, agendas, applications, music and even the battery level.. surprised ?
With all this data and some intelligence, Google is able to predict users searches and interests [Bill Slawski wrote about an interesting patent on how Google Might Predict Query Intent Using Contextual Histories.
For SEO, the process is clear, site owners produce optimized contents to target queries users search for..Google Discover is queryless. People don't query to find contents, Discover predict what could be interesting for them.
Google Discover likes providing different formats of engaging contents from posts, news, images to videos. So try to produce contents in varied formats and types. Don't forget that Google Discover look and feel is very near to social media feeds (Twitter and Facebook walls). Google is aiming to take a step further providing an engaging online user journey.
Prefer high quality images on thumbnails. Google recommends providing large images that are at least 1200px wide. General Google guidelines for quality contents apply. Be sure that Google has the rights to display your HD photos by using AMP or by filling this opt-in form.
Google Discover is available in many languages and locations so don't miss this Internationalization and localization opportunity and try to get highlighted there for reaching new audiences. Quick tip : Make a list of most popular mobile APPs per targeted language /country and try to publish your content there.
Remember, Google Discover makes use of users actions on Apps and visited webpages. Try to get a maximum of reach on different platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, personalized email marketing..etc). I analyzed many contents that appeared in Discover and the majority had a good engagement metrics (social media and links).
This could be useful to have targeted engagements. So why not to boost your content for that signals.
Google Discover highlights engaging contents and mostly videos. Enrich your contents with high-quality videos.
Before becoming Discover, Google feeds only showed fresh news articles. Google Discover also provides evergreen content that could interest users. In your production process and editorial calendar, plan both of them.
This also applies to classic SEO approach. Find trendy topics that your target audience is looking for and write a quality content on it. For that i recommend to use Ahrefs keywords explorer to have some interesting newly discovered keywords.
You can also use Ahrefs content explorer to see what contents are getting more engagements (social shares and links). Also evolution over time of a given topic.
You can see that France national rugby league team is an interesting topic in the Sports category. By following the Sports category, we will be able to see what URLs Discover is displaying.
Being awesome on mobile is a must for Google Discover. Let's say in two words : Your website should be mobile compatible and has good web performance (speed) metrics.
Go to Aquisition>All Traffic>Referrals and search for googleapis.com entry.
This post is not a recipe for getting in Google Discover, it is more about test and learn and my personal thoughts.


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Bugasong est une municipalité des Philippines située dans la province d'Antique, à l'ouest de l'île de Panay. Elle est limitée à l'ouest par la mer de Sulu, au sud par la municipalité de Patnongon, à l'est par celle de Valderrama, au nord-est par la province de Cápiz et au nord par la municipalité de Laua-an.

Subdivisions
La municipalité de Bugasong compte 27 barangays (districts) :

 Anilawan
 Arangote
 Bagtason
 Camangahan
 Cubay North
 Cubay South
 Guija
 Igbalangao
 Igsoro
 Ilaures
 Jinalinan
 Lacayon
 Maray
 Paliwan
 Pangalcagan
 Centro Ilawod (Pob.)
 Centro Ilaya (Pob.)
 Centro Pojo (Pob.)
 Sabang East
 Sabang West
 Tagudtud North
 Tagudtud South
 Talisay
 Tica
 Tono-an
 Yapu
 Zaragoza

Notes et références

Municipalité dans la province d'Antique


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It's Always Football Season.com!
In Comparison, Is Rob Gronkowski A Big Tight End?
At 6'6" tall and 265-lbs, Patriots Tight End Rob Gronkowski is a big dude by any standards, but how does his size stack-up to other NFL Tight Ends?
Last week my wife commented "He's a big boy." while watching a news clip on Gronkowski. I replied "Yeah, he's an NFL Tight End, they're all big dudes." She continued, "He's bigger than most, though."
That got me to thinking.......how big is he compared to other Tight Ends in the league? So, I did a little research.
Below is the height and weight of the more prominent Tight Ends in the league this year. Keeping in mind that Gronkowski is 6'6" tall and weighs 265-lbs,
this list is of the top-10 fantasy football scoring Tight Ends this season, so far.
I have shaded in green the guys I consider bigger than Gronk, in yellow who are pretty much the same size, and red the guys I think can be considered smaller than Gronk.
J Witten 6'6" 263lbs
C Fleener 6'6" 251lbs
Gronk 6'6" 265lbs
J James 6'7" 261lbs
T Kelce 6'5" 260lbs
D Walker 6'2" 248lbs
A Hooper 6'3" 254lbs
C Clay 6'3" 255lbs
K Rudolph 6'6" 265lbs
Z Ertz 6'5" 250lbs
It's tough to put this list in order of physical size because there is a ratio of height and weight that needs to be accounted for. For instance, which guy is bigger - Austin Hooper at 6'3" and 254lbs, or Zach Ertz at 6'5" and 6'5 and 250lbs?
Certainly the height factor plays a big part when one is trying to leap for a thrown football, but the shorter, heavier stature can be a big plus after one catches the ball in wants to advance it thru a defense.
There are also these other very big dudes running pass routes in the NFL from the Tight End position:
J Graham 6'7" 265lbs
N Truesdell 6'6" 252lbs
T Eifer 6'6" 255lbs
J Cameron 6'5" 265lbs
M Bennett 6'6" 275lbs
J Cook 6'5" 254lbs
H Henry 6'5" 250lbs
A Seferian-Jenkins 6'5" 252lbs
J Thomas 6'5" 262lbs
AJ Derby 6'5" 255lbs
I Momah 6'7" 255lbs
If I had to put these TE's in an order of which one's I'd rather not attempt to tackle, Gronk would certainly be up at the top of the list somewhere, but there are plenty of other guys that bring that "big dude" size to the Tight End position in the NFL.
Steelers vs Browns: Looking Back At The Numbers
The Steelers Get Steamrolled By The Shorthanded Browns
Comparing Derrick Henry's Season To The 6 Players That Earned More Money Than Him In 2020


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Top 10 World's Highest Paid Actors 2018
1. George Clooney ( $239 million ) - Clooney brought in the highest ever earnings of his career. last June, British liquor conglomerate Diageo announced it would purchase Clooney's tequila company "Casamigos" for $700 million. For Clooney, that meant an estimated $233 million pretax from Casamigos, plus additional earnings from endorsements and older movies.
2. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ( $124 million ) - This year Johnson earned $124 million, which gave him the highest ever total for acting earnings in the history of Forbes' Celebrity 100 for the outlet's 2018 list. The major part of his earnings came from his blockbuster movies like "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle."
3. Robert Downey Jr. ( $81 million ) - Robert Downey Jr., star of the 'Iron Man' series, has almost doubled his income from last year including an estimate of $15 million for his brief role in "Spider-Man: Homecoming"
4. Chris Hemsworth ( $64.5 million ) - Chris Hemsworth earned $64.5 million from roles in "Thor: Ragnarok" and "Avengers: Infinity War".
5. Jackie Chan ( $45.5 million ) - Chan has earned millions from his movies including Kung Fu Yoga and the foreigner. He also earns a lot from theatres that he owns.
6. Will Smith ( $42 million ) - It has been reported that smith has earned $20 million from his recent role in Netflix's film "Bright". He also signed to appear in "Aladdin" and the animated comedy in Spies in Disguise" which you will see in 2019.
7. Akshay Kumar ( $40.5 million ) - Kumar has recently appeared in Bollywood's superhit "Padman" which has brought a big profit to him. He also endorsed around 20 brands, including battery manufacturer Eveready.
8. Adam Sandler ( $39.5 million ) - Adam Sandler is an American actor who made millions from his Netflix movie deal, which he signed in 2014 and extended for four films in 2017.
9. Salman Khan ( $38.5 million ) - Bollywood star Salman Khan has earned around $38.5 million from a combination of successful films that he starred in and produced, including 2017's "Tiger Zinda Hai". He also appears as a host of an Indian TV show "Big Boss".
10. Chris Evans ( $34 million ) - You will see this talented actor in Marvel's Avengers series as "Captain America". Evans is one of three Avengers on the highest paid actor ranking.
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not 'real'. These 'edible food-like substances' are often packaged with labels bearing health claims that are typically false and misleading. Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by 'nutrients', and plain old eating has been replaced by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. It seems that we have forgotten about the sheer peasure that can come from eating simple, healthy and, most importantly, real food. Michael Pollan's last book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, is currently an extraordinary American bestseller, which for hundreds of thousands of people has shown just how badly wrong the food industry has gone. In Defence of Food is his practical call to action - a bracing and eloquent manifesto that will enrich our lives and our palates, and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy and happy.
For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. His most recent book, about the ethics and ecology of eating, is The Omnivore's Dilemma, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature.