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Martin Redmayne, Baron Redmayne PC DSO TD (* 16. November 1910; † 28. April 1983) war ein britischer Politiker der Conservative Party, der sechzehn Jahre lang Abgeordneter des House of Commons war und 1966 als Life Peer Mitglied des House of Lords wurde.

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Zweiter Weltkrieg und Unterhausabgeordneter
Redmayne, Sohn eines Bauingenieurs und Landwirts, absolvierte seine schulische Ausbildung am Radley College. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges leistete er seinen Militärdienst in der British Army und fand 1943 unter anderem Verwendungen in Italien. 1944 wurde er für seine militärischen Verdienste mit dem Distinguished Service Order und war zunächst Kommandeur des 14. Bataillon der Sherwood Foresters, ehe er zuletzt zwischen 1944 und 1945 Kommandeur (Commanding Officer) der 66. Infanteriebrigade war und mit dieser an Gefechtseinsätzen in Italien und im Nahen Osten teilnahm. 1945 wurde ihm der Rang eines Ehren-Brigadiers (Honorary Brigadier) verliehen.

Bei den Unterhauswahlen vom 23. Februar 1950 wurde Redmayne als Kandidat der konservativen Tories erstmals zum Abgeordneten in das House of Commons gewählt und vertrat dort bis zu seinem Verzicht auf eine erneute Kandidatur bei den Unterhauswahlen am 31. März 1966 den Wahlkreis Rushcliffe.

Aufstieg zum Chief Government Whip und Oberhausmitglied
Nach dem Wahlsieg der Conservative Party bei den Unterhauswahlen am 25. Oktober 1951 übernahm er bis zur Niederlage seiner Partei bei den Unterhauswahlen am 15. Oktober 1964 zahlreiche Funktionen: Zunächst wurde Tremayne, der 1952 mit der Territorial Decoration ausgezeichnet wurde, 1951 Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer der Regierungsfraktion (Government Whip) und war zwischen 1953 und 1959 Lordkommissar des Schatzamtes (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury). Zugleich fungierte er von 1955 bis 1959 als stellvertretender Parlamentarischer Hauptgeschäftsführer (Deputy Government Chief Whip), ehe er 1959 als Nachfolger von Edward Heath Parlamentarischer Hauptgeschäftsführer (Government Chief Whip) sowie zeitgleich Parlamentarischer Sekretär des Schatzamtes (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury) wurde. Beide Ämter hatte er bis zum Wahlsieg der Labour Party bei den Unterhauswahlen am 15. Oktober 1964 inne und wurde 1959 auch Privy Councillor.

Tremayne wurde am 29. Dezember 1964 der erbliche Titel Baronet, of Rushcliffe in the County of Nottinghamshire, verliehen. Zuletzt wurde er nach seinem Ausscheiden aus dem House of Commons durch ein Letters Patent vom 10. Juni 1966 zum Life Peer gemäß dem Life Peerages Act 1958 mit dem Titel Baron Redmayne, of Rushcliffe in the County of Nottinghamshire, erhoben und gehörte damit bis zu seinem Tod dem House of Lords als Mitglied an.

Während sein Titel als Baron mit seinem Tode erlosch, wurde sein Sohn Nicholas John Redmayne nach seinem Tod Erbe des Titels als 2. Baronet.

Weblinks

 Eintrag in Cracroft's Peerage
 Eintrag in Leigh Rayment Peerage

 Eintrag in der National Portrait Gallery (London)
 Eintrag in The Generals of WW II

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Abgeordneter des House of Commons (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Politiker (20. Jahrhundert)
Life Peer
Mitglied des House of Lords
Mitglied des Privy Council (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Conservative-Party-Mitglied
Brigadier (British Army)
Person im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Baronet
Companion des Distinguished Service Order
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Geboren 1910
Gestorben 1983
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Theatre Mirror Reviews - "Breath, Boom"
With THE BLUE DEMON, the Huntington proved itself an enchanter. With Kia Corthron's BREATH, BOOM, the Huntington's eagerness to turn social worker swamps Ms. Corthron's play about black girl gangs in New York. If Pearl Cleage's CHAIN is an aria and John Henry Redwood's NO NIGGERS, NO JEWS, NO DOGS is a chamber piece, the Huntington production of BREATH, BOOM is Grand Opera itself.
Based on Ms. Corthron's research and teaching girls on Riker's Island, BREATH, BOOM traces the life of Prix (pronounced 'Pree') from ages 16 to 30: raised by a neglectful mother and an abusive stepfather, Prix becomes, over the years, a gang leader, a convict, a drug dealer and finally, too old to be part of the gang scene. Her sole comfort is fireworks --- watching them, drawing them and, finally, constructing them. Ms. Corthron's script has its flaws --- despite its ultra-Realism, the dead stepfather pops up as a taunting ghost; Prix's street-poetry monologues grind the show to a halt; the lyrical shift to an outdoor picnic evokes the "Somewhere" ballet from WEST SIDE STORY, and --- as a drama --- BREATH, BOOM ends where it should begin, with the older-but-no-wiser Prix finally reaching out to her mother, who served time herself and has since contracted AIDS. This mother-daughter thread is the buried heart of BREATH, BOOM and is slighted in favor of Ms. Corthron's depiction of gang life: the girls carry razor blades in their mouths as ready weapons; wanting out of a gang means getting yourself killed; the older Prix is beaten in prison, led by the daughter of a childhood friend --- even more startling are the flashes of street humor, as matter-of-fact as the horrors (i.e., Prix's cousin Angel sports a photo album, composed of family and friends, guilty or innocent, killed in the line of fire). Though Ms. Corthron presents Prix as much a victim as a victimizer, she keeps an arm's distance from her creation --- I'll admit, anyone who goads a fellow cellmate into hanging herself is hard to love --- but if a playwright is cold to his/her subject matter, why should the audience warm up to it? To be honest, I ended up not caring about Prix --- she more than gives as well as gets --- she and her peers are little more than statistics. Ms. Corthron has broken the ground and planted the seed on the subject of black girl gangs; it may take another playwright to branch it out.
Aside from the Wang and the other import houses, the Huntington stage is a barn, as high as it is wide --- to fill it from floor to flies risks dwarfing the actors and thus the action (as was the case of B.U.'s recent production of AMADEUS; David P. Gordon wisely shrunk the proscenium with his designs for THE BLUE DEMON). For BREATH, BOOM, Adam Stockhausen has designed Big, all steel and graffiti --- an urban Island of Lost Girls; paradoxically, his overwhelming prisons and sordid domestic interiors have a terrible enchantment about them: safe in our seats, we can study, fascinated, how the Other Half lives. Between the Messrs. Gordon, Bookman and Desjardins, this is as Grand Opera-ish as it gets --- but if BREATH, BOOM had been presented next door in B.U.'s Studio 210, sans sets and special effects, and with the same cast in your face, it might have been shattering.
To continue the G.O. motif, director Michael John Garcés has directed Big as well, all gut emotions, grand gestures --- to help fill in the towering sets? I don't believe even the toughest of girl gangs behave THIS tough 24/7, and the actresses' belting only distances the audience even further. Rick Sordelet's fight choreography is just that  choreography, as safe and harmless as a puppet show (Comet's trashing would be more effective if it were concentrated rather than flopping about all over the stage; when Prix gets her head dunked in a toilet, it comes out bone dry). I'm not saying violence must be graphically depicted onstage, but if a playwright puts it into a script --- and here, Ms. Corthron's violence is justified --- then the powers that be must try to carry it out convincingly; otherwise, more distancing.
May Kellee Stewart (Prix) forgive me when I say that her loveliest moment is her curtain call where she smiles and becomes a pretty, friendly young woman. Up until then, her Prix, though excellent in declamation, is a tundra, frozen and blank --- there no fire under the ice. Since Prix ages from 16 to 30, any actress playing her will be more convincing at beginning or end; Ms. Stewart is believable at 16. Though she is only in four brief scenes, Jacqui Parker sketches in a memorable (nameless) Mother: warm, battered, maker of mistakes, and believably human. Dwandra Nickole is far too old as the sweet, stupid Comet, but she has a near-hilarious bit waiting for a three-ring phone call; and Zabryna Guevara is sassy as Angel, becoming a Tough-Love mother by play's end. Chinasa Ogbuagu, who was excellent in the title role of B.U.'s production of VENUS, is memorable as two minor inmates; I hope she will stay in our area once she graduates. The dazzler of the show is Ramona Alexander as Jupiter, Comet's daughter. I had seen Ms. Alexander in last year's deconstructed UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (Coyote Theatre) where she was a comical lab-coated voice of reason; here, she was decades younger, as feral and deadly as a cat out of hell --- the next generation. You'll remember Ms. Alexander --- not only for her impact, but because that's her photo on the Huntington posters and programs.


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Uncle Charley Monologue
Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005), an acclaimed 20th century American play and screen writer, most famous for conflicting guilt and hope within characters in his plays. Miller, born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, New York City into a family of immigrants from Polish and Jewish descents, Miller had spent most of his youth surrounded by literature. With his mother, which whom he was very close to, being an educator and a novel enthusiast. After graduating high school Miller began working to save up and attend the University of Michigan. Once there, Miller majored in journalism and soon after wrote his first play 'No Villain'. From there Miller received many awards and began to take interest into playwriting. Miller then switched his major and …show more content…
For example, the character Willy Loman, when he discusses his American dreams to his sons, Biff and Happy. In 'Death of a Salesman' while reassuring Happy, Biff and himself, Willy claims that he is going to be "Bigger than Uncle Charley! Because Uncle Charley is not-liked. He's liked, but he's not-well liked" (Miller 1277). Even though Uncle Charley is a successful businessman Willy is yet to believe that he can be even more successful than Uncle Charley based of the 'minor flaw' of Uncle Charley not being "well-liked". Willy lacks sense of reality there because he doesn't consider the fact that he is 63 years old and has yet to reach his big break unlike Uncle Charley. Willy reassures himself on his unsuccessful life by believing that he going to 'bigger' than Uncle Charley due to the irrelevant 'flaw' that Uncle Charley isn't "well-liked". In the literary criticism 'Death of a Salesman' Terry Nienhuis explains that the reason behind Willy calling out his brother Ben is because he has '…superficial values" (Nienhuis 1) and "…is obsessed not only with financial success, but also, more specifically, with appearances and impressions and with being considered important and "well-liked" by others" (Nienhuis 1). Willy lives by his own philosophy, thinking if someone doesn't abide by it they're only liked and not "well-liked". Another indication of the theme in 'Death of a Salesman' …show more content…
For example, an indication of the theme through the language is when Willy explains to Linda why he can't work in New York instead of New England. In 'Death of a Salesman' when explaining to Linda Willy says "They don't need me in New York. I'm the New England man. I'm Vital in New England" (Act I. line 24). This quote shows Willy's lack of awareness of reality because he believes that he is vital to the company, but in reality the company is vital to him and his reassurance of himself. The company doesn't 'need' Willy in New England, but he's merely the guy that goes on call when there's no one else. Also 'the women' is there so that's more of a reason for Willy to say he's 'vital' in New England but in reality he simply just wants to be with her. Besides Willy's entire life relies on his job because he's the only source of income, so without out it Willy's family would be financially corrupt. In the literary criticism "CRITICAL CONTEXTS: Arthur Miller 's Death of a Salesman: History of Criticism" Amy Sickels explains that "Loman is flawed in his skewed idea of what makes a person successful, but he refuses to give up that popular vision" (Sickels 81). Since Willy refuses to give up his 'vision' he lacks the sense of reality that he's not 'vital' to the company. Another indication of the theme in 'Death of a Salesman' is when Ben assurers Willy that his
Summary Of Willy Lom A Dreamer's Nightmare
Unable to come to terms with his failure as a salesman, Willy resorts to conceit and inflated reality to fit his concept of success in his chosen. Willy insists that he is the man of his position when he malevolently assures his family that "they don't need [him] in New York. [He] is the New England man. [He] is vital in New England" (Miller 14). Willy's boasting expose a sense of vulnerability.…
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Willy Loman wants to ensure his independence by proving that he can be a well-loved and successful salesman in business, regardless of that he meets a lot of adversities in his career as a salesman. Willy's biggest dream is to be like Dave Singleman, a successful but rare salesman who can make a living by "picking up his phone and calling the buyers" when he is eighty-four years old. After Willy meeting Dave, Willy feels that he can be a highly respected and valued salesman and ensure his success by hard working. However, since Willy lacks ability, he cannot become a rich and respected salesman, even though he drives to New England every week when he is young. As he gets older, the situation gets worse.…
Theme Of Lying In Death Of A Salesman
. [is] Willy who failed as a father by" forcing Biff to become a salesman instead of letting Biff be whatever he wants, like Charley does (Ardolino Par. 14). This is also how Willy`s parenting is different from Charley`s, which then causes Bernard to be a success and Biff to not be. Willy demonstrates this when he claims that "if [Biff] hadn`t flunked [high school he would have] been set be now!"…
Willy Loman Failure
Willy becomes jealous of Charlie's achievements, maybe because Willy never obtained the American Dream he desperately chased his whole life. Charlie appears to be a caring neighbor for Willy, even paying for Willy's bills when he can no longer pay for his own. Willy refuses to show Charlie any respect despite his kindness towards Willy, until in the last parts of the play when he comes to the realization that Charlie might be his own real friend left. Charlie also acts as the character of commonsense and reason, even proposing a reasonable solution to Willy's financial…
Failure In Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman
As a result, he will attempt to escape from the situation. In the play, the title character, Willy, a prideful man, who was successful as a salesman and a head of the household, lives in his past. Therefore, when he faces a failure of getting fired and raising independant sons, he feels useless, thus suicides himself. It is this plot that Arthur Miller explores in the play Death of a Salesman. However, escaping from a failure does not solve the problem fundamentally, but it is pawning off the responsibility onto others who are remaining.…
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An Analysis Of Willy Loman's Tragedy
Despite his promises; the respectable ties Willy had to his father and; seniority, he denies Willy the honour he deserves and fires him. Willy summarizes Howard's wrong in stating, "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away – a man is not a piece of fruit" (Miller 61, 62). Willy is angry that Howard will not place him in a more suitable position as he requests but rather discards him with no regard to the respect he deserves or the seniority entitled to him. He essentially takes away the last strands of hope Willy has in himself: he had hoped to work and provide for himself just as Dave had. It was in Howard's hands to help Willy achieve his lifelong goal, out of respect to his father's wishes and to his own promise.…
Failure Of The American Dream In Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman
Willy believes that being "well liked" is the way to be successful as a salesman. It 's difficult to know if Willie was ever a good salesman. We know that he was doing something that he wasn 't good at, placing all his faith in something magical could happen. He did the same thing with Biff, filling him with the nonsense that anything could happen because he was "well-liked." He didn 't have to learn Algebra, he would succeed because…
The Role Of Charley In Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman
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The American Dream And Success In Death Of A Salesman
Schultz noted, "Ironically, what makes Willy feel like a successful salesman causes him to feel insecurities regarding his fatherhood and other aspects of his life as well." (Schultz, 2010, para. 18.) Miller presents Willy's high expectations of his son Biff but these expectations are not backed with good advice and correction of bad actions of Biff. The film (n.d.) exemplifies this in the following conversation: 18:45 Willy: Bernard, look at Ber- . .…
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Q: Converting a statement This is from "How to Prove It: A Structured Approach" by Daniel J. Velleman. In the selected exercise the goal was to negate the statement, but I'm more interested in its form.
The statement is: Everyone has a roommate who dislikes everyone.
Let $R(x,y)$ stand for $y$ is $x$'s roomate and $L(x,y)$ stand for $x$ likes $y$. Then the statement becomes:
$\forall x \exists y(R(x,y) \land \forall z \neg L(y,z))$.
My question is - why is this the case?
Why wouldn't a conditional statement be used here such that that the statement becomes
$\forall x \exists y(R(x,y) \rightarrow \forall z \neg L(y,z))$.
What would this statement mean if it were translated into English?

A: In the first case, everyone has a roommate, not in the second case. If we translate your proposal:
For every person $x$, there exists and another person $y$ such that if this person is the rommate of $x$, he dislikes everyone.
We could say that everyone has a bad influence on at least one person...

A: "Every person X has a person named Y who, if X and Y are roommates, then Y dislikes everyone." Notice that this is always true as long as there is someone who isn't X's roommate: if I were X, for instance, then I could take Y to be Hilary Clinton and the statement would hold (for I am not roommates with Hilary Clinton).

A: In the original sentence, the roommate who dislikes everyone does so regardless of who his own roommates are.  So $L(y,z)$ is independent of $R(x,y)$.
Remember that
$$\phi \to \psi \equiv \neg (\phi \wedge \neg \psi) \equiv \neg\phi \vee \psi$$
So
$$
\forall x\exists y(R(x,y)\to\forall z \neg L(y,z))
\equiv
\forall x\exists y(\neg R(x,y) \vee \exists z L(y,z))
$$
This translates to: For every person x, there exists a person y who is not x's roommate or likes a person z.  Like Patrick says, this is satisfied as long as there are two people who are not roommates.

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I feel like 2018 was a massive beauty year for me. There were a lot of skin woes of epic proportion. I mean, I've had it all – rosacea, acne, eczema, general blah skin. It all set up home on my face last year and I've never had so many tears. It's fair to say this was all temporary and most definitely a result of stress, a crap diet, flying and a waning fitness regime. But I sure did learn what the best beauty products of 2018 were.
Over the last 12 months, I've learned more about skin and specifically, what products it does and doesn't need than ever before. And I've written ALOT of beauty in my time working on magazines! I discovered what the hell to do when your skin is dry yet spotty, puffy but sallow and stressed out as well as in need of some anti-ageing action. It has been one hell of a beauty rollercoaster to say the least.
Straight off the bat I have to say that not all skin is the same, some respond best to a simple regime whereas others are a little more high maintenance (hi there!). As someone who is deeply passionate about skincare, I've come to realise that there is only so much I can do myself and there's a limit to what topical products can do. You can read about what treatments I've had HERE and how to build amazing skin from the inside HERE.
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Dealing with hormonal acne was not familiar territory for me and I found myself getting really anxious about the solution. It wasn't bad enough for a prescribed treatment like Roaccutane but I desperately wanted something to wipe the slate clean so to speak. There's something about having acne that made my skin feel dirty even though it was far from it. I was torn between a softly softly approach or a more aggressive form of treatment.
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Replacing their ever-popular Good Genes Lactic Acid with Glycolic Acid, Sunday Riley has given me so many amazing skincare discoveries 2018 but my top product from their collection has to be this heavyweight treatment. As both a moisturiser and a mask, it basically sets the reset button on your skin by unblocking pores, removing any nasties and smoothing out any fine lines.
With lactic acid, prickly pear extract and purifying lemongrass it can help with sun damage and just generally bring the glow back to lacklustre complexions without stripping the skin. I use it every day in the morning and evening but if you feel like it's overloading your skin, reducing it to three times a week works a treat.
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It's perfect, not only for problem skin, but for anyone that works in a town or city and is exposed to pollutants and wants some anti-ageing protection.
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Q: Что не так с getchar() или книгой Ритчи "Язык программирования Си"? Потянуло на изучение Си. Для "первого прыжка в воду" чтобы научится плавать, выбрал книгу Брайана Кернигана и Денниса Ритчи "Язык программирования Си". Во время изучения материала столкнулся с непонятным явлением подсчёта символов (п. 1.5.2 из книги). Итак, подробнее:
(отрывок из книги)... применим также инструкцию forвместо while, чтобы продемонстрировать другой способнаписания цикла.
#include <stdio.h>

/* подсчет вводимых символов; 2-я версия */
main()
{    double nc;
    for (nc = 0; getchar() != EOF; ++nc)
        ;
    printf("%.0f\n", nc);
}`

Наконец, заметим, что если ввод не содержит ни одного символа, топри первом же обращении к getchar условие  в while или for не  будет  выполнено и  программа  выдаст  нуль,  что  и  будет  правильным результатом. Это важно. Одно из привлекательных свойств циклов while и for состоитв том, что условие проверяется до того, как выполняется тело цикла. Если ничего делать не надо, то ничего делаться и не будет, пусть даже тело цикла не выполнится ни разу.
Судя по книге, при нажатии на Enter - программа должна выдать 0.
Что по итогам у меня - перенос строки и новый запрос на ввод от программы :))
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На скриншоте выше - первые и последующие Enter`а - пустые, ввод никакой не осуществляется, помимо самого нажатия клавиши.
Что я делаю не так или чего я не понимаю?


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The MWCConnection 2022 Postseason Top 10 Players
Who were the top players in the conference this season?
By MikeWittmann@Mike_SBN Dec 9, 2022, 9:00am PST
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If you haven't been able to see the rest of our Kickoff Week coverage from this week, be sure to catch up on the content we rolled out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
There are many ways to measure the strength of a team or conference. During this week, we've tried to capture that from as many angles as possible. Today's post is a simple list of what we view as the top ten players in the Mountain West Conference. Yes, it's hard to compare different positions and sides of the ball, but it's also hard not to make a top 10 list of best players when doing internet blogs.
Here's our preseason list for comparison.
Without further ado, here are the top ten players in the Mountain West after the 2022 season, voted on by the MWCConnection team.
This is 2022 preseason list
1) QB Jake Haener (Fresno State)
2022 stats: 2432 passing yards, 73.5%, 17 TDs, 8.5 ypa
2) RB Brad Roberts (Air Force)
2022 stats: 1612 rushing yards (5.2 ypa), 15 TDs
3) RB George Holani (Boise State)
2022 stats: 1059 rushing yards (5.3 ypa), 22 receptions for 153 yards, 13 total TDs
4) DE David Perales (Fresno State)
2022 stats: 45 tackles (30 solo), 15 tackles for loss, 10.5 sacks, 2 FF, 1 INT, 3 passes defended
5) DL Jonah Tavai (San Diego State)
2022 stats: 56 tackles (29 solo), 12.5 tackles for loss, 9 sacks
6) WR Jalen Cropper (Fresno State)
2022 stats: 74 receptions, 984 receiving yards (13.3 ypc), 5 TDs
7) LB Easton Gibbs (Wyoming)
2022 stats: 111 tackles (58 solo), 8 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, 1 pass defended
8) WR Tory Horton (Colorado State)
2022 stats: 71 receptions, 1131 receiving yards (15.9 ypc), 8 TDs
9) DL Viliemi Fehoko (San Jose State)
2022 stats: 65 tackles (39 solo), 18.5 tackles for loss, 9 sacks, 2 FF, 1 pass defended
10) QB Chevan Cordeiro (San Jose State)
2022 stats: 2885 passing yards, 60.8% 20 TDs, 7.5 ypa, 215 rushing yards, 8 rushing TDs
Team Breakdown:
Fresno State: 3
San Jose State: 2
Air Force: 1
Boise State: 1
Colorado State: 1
San Diego State: 1
Wyoming: 1
14 total players received votes. Those who did not crack the top 10 were: Elijah Cooks, Taylen Green, Austin Ajiake, and DJ Schramm
There are six players on the offensive side of the ball, which means the other four players play defense. Position-wise, there is 2 quarterbacks, 2 running backs, 2 wide receivers, 3 defensive linemen, and 1 linebacker.
The Bulldogs occupy 30% of the list. But the list is also balanced, with seven teams having a representative.
Haener and Roberts were more or less the consensus top two players, but split votes in those spots.
Haener was also the top player in the preseason voting. He is one of four players who carry over from the preseason list.
JL Skinner (2nd) and Caden McDonald (4th) were the biggest drops, leading the six players who dropped off the list.
Roberts jumped from 7th to 2nd, while Holani and Perales led the group of six players receiving no preseason votes to making the list.
There it is. So let's hear it. Who did we snub? Who did we put on here that shouldn't be? Let's hear your feedback in the comments section.


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Primary Indicators of Performance under WIOA
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1 What are the primary indicators of performance under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act? Proposed identifies the primary indicators of performance that States must include in their Unified or Combined State Plans. The primary indicators are applied in numerous places across all of the WIOA proposed regulations. Though the indicators may appear under other components of the regulations the indicators are aligned and the same and do not vary across the regulations. The Departments have considered a variety of approaches to define the primary indicators of performance, which will be applied to each of the core programs outlined in sec. 116(b)(3)(A)(ii) of WIOA. Specifically, these indicators will apply to the core programs administered by ED's Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, ED's Rehabilitation Services Administration, and DOL's ETA. WIOA presents new opportunities for system alignment through performance accountability. The ED and DOL envision a performance system whereby all programs' primary performance metrics share a common language that supports comparability and facilitates enhanced consumer choice and better programmatic decisionmaking. Proposed (a)(1) identifies the six primary indicators that will be applied to the core programs identified in sec. 116(b)(3)(A)(ii) of WIOA. The DOL is also planning to leverage these indicators to streamline reporting for other DOL programs, such as the JVSG program, and other discretionary grant programs. To that end, the Departments invite comments specific to this issue. Proposed (a)(1)(i) implements the first statutory performance indicator in sec. 116(b)(2)(A)(i)(I) of WIOA and requires States to report on the percentage of participants in unsubsidized employment in the second quarter after exit from the program. This statutory language requires States to measure the employment rate of participants in the second quarter after exit from the program. In contrast, WIA's first indicator of performance required States to report on an entered employment rate. The WIA indicator measured individuals who were unemployed at the time of entry into the program and after receiving services, obtained employment, thus allowing the Departments to evaluate whether the WIA services were effective in helping unemployed individuals obtain employment. The proposed WIOA indicator is different from WIA's entered employment rate indicator in two ways: (1) The time period for measurement in WIOA is the second quarter after exit instead of the first quarter; and (2) the statutory language under WIOA does not specify that the indicator is to measure entry into employment. The Departments plan to calculate both an employment rate for all participants in the program regardless of employment status at program entry and an entered employment rate for participants who were unemployed at the time of program entry. The Departments seek public comment on whether and how to collect information on the quality of employment and how WIOA's programs help employed and underemployed individuals find new or better jobs. Proposed (a)(1)(ii) implements WIOA's second statutory primary indicator of performance and is similar to the first, except that the time period for measurement is the fourth quarter after exit. This statutory language requires States to measure the employment rate of participants in the fourth quarter after exit from the program without regard to whether those participants were employed in the second quarter after exit from the program. Under WIA, this indicator is a retention measure that analyzes whether individuals who were
2 employed in the first quarter after exiting from WIA services were still employed in the second and third quarters. As a retention measure such as the approach under WIA, this indicator would have counted participants who were employed in the second quarter after exit and measured of this group, who were still employed in the fourth quarter after exit from the program. The Departments seek comment on the advantages and disadvantages of collecting or reporting the employment retention rate in addition to the employer rate. Proposed (a)(1)(iii) implements WIOA's third statutory indicator found at sec. 116(b)(2)(A)(i)(III) and measures participants' median earnings in the second quarter after exit. This indicator measures median earnings at the same time frame as the first indicator measures the employment rate of participants. The use of a median is a shift from the use of an average under WIA and is based on the language provided in WIOA. Proposed (a)(1)(iv) implements WIOA's fourth statutory indicator and measures post-secondary credential attainment and high school completion of program participants during participation in the program or within 1 year after exit. The proposed regulation defines this measure with the same language as the statute and includes the statutory language limiting participants who obtain a secondary school diploma or its equivalent to be included in the percentage counted as meeting the criterion only if the participant is employed or is enrolled in an education or training program leading to a recognized post-secondary credential within 1 year after exit from the program. The Departments specifically seek comment on clarifications that will be necessary to implement this indicator. Proposed (a)(1)(v) measures the percentage of participants who, during a PY, are in education or training programs that lead to a recognized post-secondary credential or employment, and who are achieving measurable skill gains, which the Departments are defining as documented academic, technical, occupational or other forms of progress, toward the credential or employment. The Departments are considering using this indicator to measure interim progress of participants who may be enrolled in education or training services for a specified reporting period. For example, if a participant is enrolled in a 4-year registered apprenticeship program, the indicator would track the skills the participant gains throughout the reporting period, not just at the end of the 4-year training program. For low-skilled adults, this proposed indicator provides an opportunity to track progress in reading, writing, mathematics, and English proficiency while they are participating in an adult education program prior to completing the high school credential and entering post-secondary education or training or employment. The measurable skill gains indicator will encourage local adult education programs to serve all low-skilled adults as Congress intended. Another example pertains to a participant who is training for multiple fields in the YouthBuild program. Such an individual may be pursuing certifications that require several years of experience, specific study hours, and demonstration of skills and knowledge prior to the final certification exam. The measurable skill gains indicator would capture documented progress on interim milestones leading up to the final certification. The measurable skill gains indicator is intended to capture important progressions through pathways that offer different services based on program purposes and participant needs and can help fulfill the
3 Departments' vision of creating a workforce system that serves a diverse set of individuals with a range of services tailored to individual needs and goals. In using this indicator as a measure of interim progress of participants, the Departments are considering how States can document progression during participation in an education or training program in a standardized way. Documented progress could include such measures as: (1) The achievement of at least one educational functioning level of a participant in an education program that provides instruction below the post-secondary level; (2) attainment of a high school diploma or its equivalent; (3) a transcript or report card for either secondary or post-secondary education for 1 academic year (or 24 credit hours) that shows a participant is achieving the State unit's policies for academic standards; (4) a satisfactory or better progress report, towards established milestones from an employer who is providing training (e.g., completion of on-the-job training (OJT), completion of 1 year of an apprenticeship program); (5) the successful completion of an exam that is required for a particular occupation, progress in attaining technical or occupational skills as evidenced by trade-related benchmarks such as knowledge-based exams; and (6) measurable observable performance based on industry standards. The Departments seek comments on the proposed indicator and request comments on the ways States can measure and document participants' measurable skill gains in a standardized way, including whether time intervals are required and what time intervals might be. The Departments also seek comments on whether the performance targets for this indicator should be set at the indicator (i.e., measurable skill gains) or documented progress measure (e.g., attainment of high school diploma) level. Proposed (a)(1)(vi) implements the sixth statutory primary indicator related to effectiveness in serving employers. Under WIOA, the Departments are required to consult with stakeholders and receive public comment on proposed approaches to defining the indicator. As part of this requirement, the Departments have already sought public input on performance indicators generally and on the business indicators specifically through several avenues, including a town-hall meeting that addressed all of the primary indicators, a town-hall meeting convened with employers, numerous town-halls and webinars on WIOA across the country, and consultations with State Administrators for the AEFLA and Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) stakeholders. Because the Departments have not previously used this indicator, it is important to hear from States and stakeholders on what they consider core functions of their services to employers in order to best determine how to understand and measure the effectiveness of the services provided. Additionally, it is critical to hear from employers on the attributes of services that they find effective. In drafting the potential proposals described below, the Departments consulted with a wide range of representatives to develop the indicators of effectiveness in serving employers as required by WIOA sec. 116(b)(2)(A)(i)(VI). See WIOA sec. 116(b)(A)(2)(iv) and 116(b)(4)(B). Based on the consultations, the Departments have established several potential approaches to measuring the effectiveness of serving employers, including potential measures that could be
4 used. One of the Departments' principal concerns in crafting a final definition of this indicator is minimizing burden that measuring this indicator will impose on employers in order to avoid discouraging employer engagement with the workforce and education systems. The Departments value the interaction of employers with the workforce and education systems and do not want to impose any barriers to that interaction. With this in mind, the Departments' proposed approaches aim to minimize employer burden while still attempting to measure the effectiveness of how the Departments' programs serve employers. One approach to measure this indicator is to measure employee retention rates tied to the employment they obtained after receiving WIOA services. Under this approach, States would be required to use wage records to identify whether or not a participant matched the same Federal employer identification number (FEIN) in the second and fourth quarters. This approach has the lowest burden on employers, as it requires no action from the employer. Under this approach, WIOA's services are effectively serving an employer if that employer hires a WIOA participant and the participant is still employed by that employer in the fourth quarter (up to a year) after program exit. The Departments would be interested in specific comments around the feasibility of this, and if it measures the systems' effectiveness in serving employers. Another potential way to define this indicator would measure the repeat/retention rates for employers' use of the core programs. The Departments seek comments around this approach, including how States could capture this data, the feasibility of capturing and reporting this data, and if this indicator would measure the efficacy of the services provided to employers. The Departments are also considering using the number or percent of employers that are using the core program services out of all employers represented in an area or State served by the system (i.e., employers served) as a measure of the effectiveness of serving employers. Employer usage may reflect the effectiveness of the system's ability to reach out to employers, convey the services the core programs provide, and meet employers' needs. The Departments seek comment on the feasibility of capturing this data accurately, the validity of such an approach in measuring effectiveness of program services, and the usefulness of this approach in managing employer services. The Departments are proposing to look at this as a shared indicator across programs, as many employers are served by multiple programs. Another approach could be to apply this measure to individual core programs. The Departments seek comment on the relative merits of each approach. The Departments also seek comment about whether a single metric for this indicator would sufficiently capture effectiveness in serving employers or if this indicator should encompass a combination of metrics, including how these metrics could most effectively be combined. Understanding that an array of programs provides services to employers, the Departments seek public comment on additional ways to measure the core programs' effectiveness in serving employers. Proposed (b) applies the six indicators outlined in proposed (a)(1) to the adult and dislocated worker programs under title I of WIOA, the AEFLA program under title II of WIOA, and the Vocational Rehabilitation program as amended by title IV of WIOA. Proposed (c) applies the primary indicators of performance in proposed (a) (1)(i)-(iii) and (vi) that States must include in their Unified or Combined State Plans for the
5 Employment Services as amended by WIOA title III. Those indicators of performance which apply to the Employment Services are: (1) The percentage of program participants who are in unsubsidized employment during the second quarter after exit from the program; (2) the percentage of program participants who are in unsubsidized employment during the fourth quarter after exit from the program; (3) the median earnings of program participants who are in unsubsidized employment during the second quarter after exit; and (4) the effectiveness in serving employers. The Departments also seeks comments on how to best measure the Wagner-Peyser Employment Services' effectiveness in serving employers. Proposed (d)(1)-(6) identifies the primary indicators of performance that States must to address in their Unified or Combined State Plans for the youth program under WIOA title I. The youth indicators apply universally to the youth workforce investment program and, therefore, apply to in-school and out-of-school youth as defined in WIOA sec. 129(a)(1)(B) and (C). Proposed (d)(1) implements the first statutory indicator for youth, which measures the percentage of program participants who are in education or training activities, or in unsubsidized employment, during the second quarter after exit from the program. Under WIA, States report on a placement rate, this measures a youth s placement in either education or employment, after exiting from the program. The WIOA indicator differs from WIA's placement rate in three ways. First, the time period for measurement in WIOA is the second quarter after exit instead of the first quarter after exit. Second, the placement rate under WIA only allowed post-secondary education to be reported; whereas, under WIOA, any education, including secondary and postsecondary, is reported. Third, the placement measure under WIA excluded those youth who were enrolled in post-secondary education, employed, or in the military at the time of participation; WIOA's indicators do not make these exclusions. WIA's measure provided insight into how many youth came to a program not enrolled in post-secondary education, employed, or in the military, and then after receiving services, obtained employment or were placed into postsecondary education or training program. Under WIOA, this indicator does not provide for this exclusion and the Departments' proposed indicator measures placement in the second quarter after exit of all participants. Proposed (d)(2) implements the second statutory indicator that applies to the WIOA youth program under title I. This indicator under sec. 116 of WIOA is similar to the first indicator in that it is the percentage of program participants who are in an education or training program or in unsubsidized employment in the fourth quarter after exit. The Departments propose that this indicator measure whether a participant is in education, training or unsubsidized employment in the fourth quarter. Proposed (d)(3) implements the third statutory indicator that applies to the youth program under WIOA title I. This indicator measures median earnings in the second quarter after participants exit from the program. States must report the median point for earnings for all program participants in unsubsidized employment in the second quarter after exit. This indicator measures earnings in the second quarter after exit, which is the same time frame in which the States will measure if program participants are in education or training activities or unsubsidized employment. Proposed (d)(4) implements the fourth statutory indicator and measures post-secondary credential attainment and high school completion of program participants who have exited from the youth program under WIOA title I. The language of the proposed regulation is the same as
6 the indicator in (a)(1)(iv). The Departments have provided an in-depth explanation of this in the preamble for (a)(1)(iv) and therefore, refer readers to this section for more information on this definition. Proposed (d)(5) implements the fifth statutory indicator and pertains to measurable skill gains. The language of the proposed regulation is the same as the indicator in (a) (1)(v). The Departments have provided an in-depth explanation of this in the preamble for (a)(1)(v) and refers readers to this section for more information on this definition. Proposed (d)(6) implements the sixth statutory indicator and is the same language for the indicator in (a)(1)(vi). The Departments have provided an in-depth explanation of this in the preamble for (a)(1)(v) and refers readers to this section for more information on this definition.


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Robert Flaherty
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Robert Flaherty, in full Robert Joseph Flaherty, (born February 16, 1884, Iron Mountain, Michigan, U.S.—died July 23, 1951, Dummerston, Vermont), American explorer and filmmaker, called the father of the documentary film.
When he was a boy, Flaherty's family moved to Canada, and as he grew up he explored and photographed vast regions of the country's northern territory. His first film, Nanook of the North (1922), a dramatic interpretation of the Eskimo way of life, was based on 16 months of living with them and filming their lives. His film was an international success, and its subjective presentation of reality set a model of excellence for nonfiction filmmaking, foreshadowing the documentary movement of the 1930s. John Grierson, the founder of the movement, first used the term documentary in a reference to Flaherty's film, Moana (1926), set in the South Seas, a record of a people untouched by the corruption of civilization.
Nanook of the North
Scene from Nanook of the North (1922), documentary film directed by Robert Flaherty.
Courtesy of International Film Seminars, Inc.; photograph, the Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive, New York City
In the 1930s and '40s Flaherty's most famous films were Tabu (1931), codirected with the German director F.W. Murnau, Industrial Britain (1932), made with John Grierson, Man of Aran (1934), The Land (1942), and Louisiana Story (1948).
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…and the narrative documentaries of Robert Flaherty, whose Nanook of the North (1922) and Moana (1926) were unexpectedly successful with the public and with critics.…
Fred Zinnemann: Early life and work
…then assisted groundbreaking documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty, an experience that would greatly influence both Zinnemann's own feature films, which were imbued with rigorous authenticity, and Zinnemann's character, as he was much impressed by Flaherty's spirited independence. Zinnemann spent the next decade making documentaries, including his directorial debut (with codirector Emilio…
…with the pioneer documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty to form a production company in 1928. The following year the pair traveled to the South Seas to film Tabu; Flaherty, however, objected to Murnau's desire to incorporate a fictionalized love story into what was ostensibly an objective documentary of Polynesian life. Though…
Iron Mountain, Michigan
July 23, 1951 (aged 67)
Dummerston, Vermont


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CAA will be implemented after Covid vaccination ends: Amit Shah
By Press Trust of India on 1:21 am February 12, 2021 No Comment
THAKURNAGAR: Union home minister Amit Shah Thursday said the process of granting Indian citizenship to refugees under the CAA, including to the Matua community of West Bengal, will begin once the process of Covid vaccination has ended.
Accusing the opposition parties of misleading the minorities about the Citizenship (amendment) Act, he said its implementation will not impact the citizenship status of Indian minorities.
Shah said the Modi government had in 2018 promised it will bring in a new citizenship law and kept it when the BJP was voted to power in 2019.
He said, after the country was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, its implementation had to be kept in abeyance.
"Mamata didi said we made a false promise. She started opposing the CAA and saying she will never allow it. The BJP always fulfils the promises it makes. We have brought this law and refugees will get citizenship.
"As soon as the Covid vaccination process ends the process of granting citizenship under CAA will begin," he said, addressing a rally here in the bastion of the Matua community.
Matuas, originally from East Pakistan, are weaker section Hindus who migrated to India during the Partition and after the creation of Bangladesh. Many of them have been accorded Indian citizenship but a sizeable section of the population has not.
Shah said Banerjee will not be in a position to oppose the implementation of the CAA as she will cease to be the chief minister after the assembly polls likely in April-May this year.
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Jackpot — A Fomo3D adventure
Examining the data behind the game's first big winner
On August 22nd, at 7:04:12 AM UTC, some person or set of people, somewhere in the world, received a sudden windfall of just under $3 million (or 10,469.66 ETH to be specific) by winning the jackpot of a game that is perhaps one of the most intriguing sociological experiments in Ethereum's history.
Questions abound as to the methodology utilized to arrive at the hotly contested victory and to the legitimacy of the winner. Did he/she "cheat" the system in some way? Is the PoW3HD team somehow connected to the winner? Were the blocks artificially stuffed with extraneous transactions in order to ensure no one else had a chance of winning? Was there a bot used to control the flow of the game?
We decided to take a slightly deeper look into the on-chain data to help make more sense of the event.
What is Fomo3D?
Described by its creators as a parody of the crypto/ICO industry, Fomo3D is an intricate lottery game run by smart contracts on Ethereum that has grown to become one of the most popular decentralized applications in the industry today.
The primary game mechanics for the 'long' running version of the game are as follows:
To play, one buys a 'key' from the Fomo3D smart contract in exchange for ETH, which goes into a central pot.
There exists a countdown clock which is constantly ticking down but is increased every time a new key is bought.
Each time a new key is bought, all existing holders of keys get a portion of the new key sale's funds, proportionate to the number of keys they hold.
The round ends when the clock ticks to zero. The last person who bought a key before the clock winds down is the winner of the round.
Every key buyer can also choose a 'team', which is effectively a choice as to how the central pot will be split (amongst the winner and other sectors of the Fomo3D ecosystem), should they be the last person to buy a key.
All the ETH earned from the game is stored in a user's 'vault', from where withdrawals can be made at any point.
Have a look at the detailed rules here.
Examining the jackpot winner
It is a significant event that someone actually won the round in Fomo3D because firstly, there were several thousand users (with vast war chests) competing for the chance to be the last key in.
Adding to this, the pyramid-scheme-like nature of the game had many convinced that there would always be another key buyer (seeing as keys are relatively inexpensive) that would be drawn to the game as it had such a tantalizing possibility of victory.
Examining the data for the winning address for this round of Fomo3D, we will refer to the winner as JackpotWinner. It appears like JackpotWinner has only been truly active for a little over a week, receiving his/her initial ETH funds in chunks from Shapeshift transactions. It's important to realize here that we cannot know for sure whether there is one or multiple human beings behind JackpotWinner or if it's an automated bot entity whose aim is to systematically win the game.
The transfer of the spoils between the Fomo3D smart contract and the winner. Source: Etherscan
First we examine the possibility that JackpotWinner somehow managed to bombard the blockchain with transactions such that the miners had no choice but to include his/her transactions above others. The payout of the winnings happened in block number 6191962. Looking closer at the block, it appears to have been mined by an established, operating, mining pool and contains many seemingly independent addresses that also have had interactions with Fomo3D at a very similar time as JackpotWinner. The gas pricing is also well within normal bounds. Additionally, on a surface-level network analysis, there appear to be no material connection between JackpotWinner and the mining entity.
Over the course of 5 hours on August 22nd however, we notice JackpotWinner making a series of calls to the Fomo3D smart contract — 46 to be exact.
We see JackpotWinner successively hitting the FOMO3D:Long contract, calling the buyXid(uint256 _affCode, uint256 _team) function — to effectively buy a key with each transaction during this time period of intense competition with other players.
He/she only directly paid around 2.76ETH (1.96ETH in transaction fees and 0.8ETH to purchase keys) to win a whopping 10,469.66 ETH.
Taking this into consideration, another, more insidious possibility to explore through the data is to see whether JackpotWinner is in any way related to a bigger entity (such as the PoWH3D team themselves). The first place to look is the distribution of addresses that JackpotWinner transacts with and sends ETH to.
Jackpot Winner ETH transaction recipients
What is striking about this distribution is the there exist 46.6% of transactions where the address 0x18e1B664C6a2E88b93C1b71F61Cbf76a726B7801 is the recipient of funds from the JackpotWinner. Looking into this address, we see that it is in fact a contract that was created by JackpotWinner on Aug 18th, 2018 at 10:49:31 PM UTC. The vast majority of transactions to this address are merely calls to the Fomo3D:Long contract (or to related auxiliary contracts for the game) that are effectively routed through this 'routing' address (see below).
Source: Etherscan
The other addresses that make up a large percentage of the recipient base for JackpotWinner are also either Fomo3D contracts or auxiliary supporting addresses. This fact indicates that JackpotWinner is either a component of an automated botnet that systematically interacts with the Fomo3D contract ecosystem and/or a part of an elaborate scheme by the PoWH3D team themselves to funnel money through their own creation.
Another data point that serves as a clue is the Fomo3D leaderboard, which states the number of keys owned by JackpotWinner and the teams he/she has chosen. It is intriguing that the 'bear' team is one of the choices as it is the option that is meant to be chosen by those that want 0% of a rounds winnings to go to P3D token holders (PoWH3D's own token).
Source: fomo3d.eu
If JackpotWinner was in fact connected to PoWH3D, it would not make rational sense for the organization to devalue the contribution of their own P3D token (albeit it being outside the scope of the game) merely for the sake of leading us all on a wild goose chase.
While a closer examination of the winning address and the corresponding transactional relationships does shed some light into what could be going on, to truly uncover any substantial pattern-recognition in the game, we need to go through more rounds and cycles of winnings.
JackpotWinner, with its systematic interactions with the Fomo3D infrastructure and 0x2c389A86A686AC7Ee98Ac2606802b5bB4a2186C1, which is the the recipient of a large chunk of JackpotWinner's funds, appear to have been expressly set up in the past week and a half to prepare for this moment in time, when they could claim the winnings for round 1.
As always, it is easier to rationalize a logical sequence of steps after the fact but much harder to predict the same before the occurrence itself (especially in such an early, developing game ecosystem).
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Under the hood of the world computer
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Jockey Club misled public in saying Olympic stables issue was resolved, says trainer Sean Woods
He was responding to comments by Jockey Club executive director of racing Bill Nader that the matter was virtually over
by Alan Aitken
on Thursday, June 4, 2015 10:45 PM
Trainer Sean Woods has moved out of the Olympic stables. Photo: Kenneth Chan
Relocated trainer Sean Woods believes the Jockey Club has misled the public over the Olympic stables situation after claiming issues for trainers based there have been resolved.
In April, Woods and fellow Olympic stables trainers Andreas Schutz, David Ferraris and Michael Chang Chun-wai co-signed a letter to the Jockey Club requesting a move back to the main stabling block at Sha Tin.
They expressed the view they were "not on a level playing field" with other trainers and this disadvantage manifested itself in poor results with an ongoing effect on their future results and business. Two meetings between the trainers and club management ensued and Woods moved back to the main stables at the north eastern end of Sha Tin on Tuesday.
People are getting a different impression of what's been said and not said. The starting issues have not been sorted out
Sean Woods, trainer
Executive director of racing Bill Nader told the Post that Woods would be the only trainer moving and that the matter was virtually over. "It was really the two guys who are staring down the barrel of a second strike for not meeting the club's performance criteria - Sean and Andreas - who were the ones looking to change something, to reinvent themselves, at least in terms of perception," he said.
Woods said these comments led the public and owners to wrong conclusions about a situation with ongoing consequences.
"People have been led to believe that Michael and David are very happy to stay where they are but they were the people who signed the letter, with me and Andreas, for all four of us to be moved from the stables," he said.
"People are getting a different impression of what's been said and not said. The starting issues have not been sorted out - even if they give you more staff, the staff aren't getting their fair share of money. It's over for me because I've moved, but none of the things that we've brought up have been addressed - none.
"Doing anything out of the Olympic stables - from working a horse to swimming a horse - takes longer and needs more staff.
"We lost all our good staff over a period of five or six years, the perception of the Olympic stables is what it is and we've still a lot of negative things about it we have to deal with."
Ferraris said the four were unanimous but added some issues had been addressed with the pool and extra staff and he would be staying put.
Chang said: "Some things have changed, I am happy to stay. The perception that the Olympic stables are a disadvantage is not good, it doesn't help to bring owners, but my best seasons have been there and the Olympic stables are actually a better environment for training than the old stables, even if it means using different methods."
Some things have changed, I am happy to stay. The perception that the Olympic stables are a disadvantage is not good
Michael Chang Chun-wai, trainer
Meanwhile, Able Friend leaves for England early tomorrow morning for his shot at the Group One Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 16.
Trainer John Moore believes the horse's "calm demeanour" will hold him in good stead for the trip, which will take up to 22 hours via Dubai to the Newmarket stables of Michael Bell.
"It is the first time he has been on a plane since flying to Hong Kong from Australia but I don't think he would be the type of horse that it will be a problem for. He has such a fabulously calm demeanour and for that reason I don't think it will be stressful," Moore said.
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1MISTER MONTE 4/6/6/5/0/5 8
2SKY GEM 0/0/0/9/9 7
3GOLDEN KID 7/7/8/8/0/5 14
4GOOD RUNNERS WAY 0/0/9/0/5/2 9
5CAPTAIN BOSS 0/8/9/6/9/8 3
6ABOVE 7/8/7/7/5/3 12
7WHAMPOA STAR 9/5/0/8/3/9 5
8LETSGOFREE 0/8/0/8/5/7 10
9YOUNG GLORY 3/7/0/3/0/0 4
10PROUD SKY 4/1/4/9/4/4 6
11LITTLE FANTASY 4/3/3/3/1/4 13
12CELEBRATIO... 4/9/7/5/5/7 1
13INVESTOR BOOM 0/8/4/8/8/6 11
14ROCKET GO 0/0/0/0/8/0 2
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After the extreme heat of last week temperatures of around 30C were reported in sections of the lower Howqua River and parts of the Ovens River. Trout health is affected once water temperatures get above 20C.
ATF President Terry George said fishing groups recognised the importance of improving riparian (river bank) vegetation to improve water quality and temperature.
Anglers can help by not targeting fish during extremes of weather. Please see VR Fish's & ATF's Helping Trout in Hot Weather brochure at: https://www.vrfish.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/VRFish_Trout_Posterweb.pdf for more information or ATF's Facebook page.
Fish deaths should be reported to the EPA Hotline on 1300 372 842. Details can also be emailed to [email protected].
Goulburn Broken and North East CMAs are continuing to work with urban and rural water authorities the EPA, fishers and other agencies to monitor water conditions across the catchment.
Grants for recreational fishing groups to carry out revegetation works are available through the Victorian Government's Angler Riparian Partnership Program, Recreational Fishing Licence Trust and other funding programs as they become available. Contact North East or Goulburn Broken CMAs for more information.


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Members of public suspect Chinatown Point CNY mascot is a rat recycled as an ox
But it is actually an...
Joshua Lee | January 19, 2021, 04:25 PM
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The Chinese New Year decoration outside Chinatown Point has come under the spotlight.
Members of the public are speculating whether the mall is really going green by recycling, reducing and reusing -- by turning the mascot for the Year of the Rat into the mascot of the Year of the Ox -- by utilising a few finishing touches.
It is an otter
Shin Min Daily News reported that several readers opined that this animal sculpture below is not fitting for the Year of the Ox.
Courtesy of Shin Min Daily News
A second sculpture has the ears and whiskers of a mouse, but with horns and a nose ring affixed — like those on a cow.
"It is the Year of the Ox, but no matter how long I looked at it, I can't tell what animal this is," one reader told Shin Min Daily News.
Some readers also told the Chinese paper that it appeared that the mall had recycled the decorations from 2020's Chinese New Year, which was the Year of the Rat, and added horns to make it suitable for the Year of the Ox.
One reader said that she doesn't mind if the mall recycles decorations in the name of sustainability, but more work needs to be done with regards to the sculptures' aesthetic quality.
Specially-designed by local artist
In response to queries from Shin Min, Chinatown Point said that the animal causing mass confusion is neither rat nor ox, but an otter.
The mall said that they chose to feature otters because these animals are well-liked locally.
The otter sculptures were specially designed by a local artist.
Chinatown Point added that these otter sculptures can be re-used for different occasions.
"We added caps and horns to the otters this year to celebrate the Year of the Ox but these 'add-ons' can be removed."
From Jan. 21 to Feb. 28, Chinatown Point shoppers can receive a limited-edition otter toy.
Year of the Tiger mascot
In response to the shape-shifting mascot, one person doctored an image of the otter to depict what it would look like in the Year of the Tiger:
Chinatown Point subsequently clarified that the mascots are indeed otters:
We would like to clarify that the mascots placed around the mall are in fact otters! We chose to incorporate Otters as part of our Lunar New Year décor this year to signify a local favourite. We have commissioned Local artists to design this character specially for this campaign! As part of our efforts to support recycling, the localised otter mascots have been made such that they can be adapted for a number of campaigns. To tie-in with the CNY Year of the Ox, detachable elements such as horns and caps were added.
As part of our Lunar New Year campaign (21 January – 28 February) at Chinatown Point, shoppers stand to redeem exclusive gifts like the limited-edition otter plushies.
Top images courtesy of Shin Min Daily News.
Dutch designer apologises after comments on M'sia's culture & the baju kurung goes viral
Malaysian netizens were angered by her comments.
Burmese actor becomes viral sensation after posting photos of himself in monk attire
S'pore man allegedly uses credit card he found to buy 4 bottles of wine, coffee machine & more
Shopping spree.
Never-say-die elderly man on PMA returns to Waterway Point shop to shoplift another wallet after 1 year
Lightning not only thing that strikes twice.
NSF given 18 months' probation for cheating MSF of S$2,500 in Covid-19 grants
He made eight false declarations on behalf of his parents and friends.
Pilot for S'pore nightclubs & karaoke outlets deferred due to rise in community cases
Deferred until further notice.
Win a 2D1N staycation, S$888 cash ang baos, OSIM massagers & more at Chinatown Point this CNY 2021
Huat ah.
Up to 70% off steamboat items at Jurong warehouse from Jan. 23, including abalone, kurobuta pork & more
81-year-old man to be charged for operating 2 unlicensed massage establishments in Hougang & Aljunied
He could also be convicted for operating a non-permitted enterprise during Circuit Breaker.
Korean YouTuber says sorry to Chinese fans for liking a comment that says kimchi is a Korean dish
That's quite a pickle.


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Bragg Gaming Group Appoints Richard Carter as CEO
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Bragg Gaming Group has announced that its board member Richard Carter has stepped into the role of CEO of the Company.
In addition, board member Paul Godfrey assumed the role of Chair of the Board and board member Lara Falzon moved to the role of Audit Committee Chair.
Prior to joining the Bragg Board of Directors in 2020, Carter was CEO of sports betting solutions and services provider SBTech for five years.
"I'm excited to be leading Bragg in its next phase of growth and helping to shape the future of the company, as we continue to provide next generation premium content and tools to our B2B partners. Bragg has the cutting-edge technology, the data driven insights, the player engagement tools and the premium content that ideally positions the Company to capture an increasing proportion of global iGaming market. I'm eager to leverage these strengths to expand Bragg in both our core European markets and in the rapidly growing North American iGaming market," Carter said.
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Dallmeier, an expert in video technology for casinos, has been shortlisted in two categories for the upcoming European Casino Awards 2023, its Panomera W8 360° cameras as "Best new innovative product" and Casino Automation Technology CAT as "Best table gaming product".
The Panomera W8 is a 360° camera with 4K resolution ensuring complete 360° coverage without a "blind spot" below the camera. Six sensors are arranged in a circle, a seventh sensor covers the overall scene and an eighth sensor captures the blind spot below the camera. From these eight images, the software then stitches a complete image of the half-sphere around the camera location that has been captured without gaps. Within this overview image, multiple operators can open any number of detail areas with a mouse-click and zoom in and move around in these areas as if it was a PTZ cam.
Casino operators who use such systems report that they regularly reduce the time needed from the detection of an incident to the resolution – e.g., by catching an offender – by a factor of up to 10 or more.
Furthermore, the overall costs for monitoring the gaming floor are reduced. Although the costs per camera are higher than a PTZ system, far fewer cameras need to be installed. The resulting savings in installation, infrastructure, and maintenance as well as in operation itself outweigh the additional costs for the cameras themselves.
Reference is made to the announcement from Gaming Innovation Group Inc. (GiG) on 15 December 2022 regarding the acquisition of casino affiliate websites Askgamblers.com, Johnslots.com, Newcasinos.com and several smaller domains from Catena Media Plc.
As stated in the announcement, GiG will finance part of the initial consideration through a share issue and the Board of Directors has approved commitments of EUR 10.2 million from a group of investors to finance the equity part of the acquisition. Pursuant to agreed terms, the share price has been set to NOK 25.61, which represent a discount of 2.6% from the volume-weighted average share price for the GiG share so far in 2023.
4,267,112 new shares will be issued, and the number of outstanding shares will increase by 3.5%, from 122,786,526 to 127,053,638. The new shares are expected to be issued and admitted to trading next week and will be issued under the Company's 150,000,000 authorized shares.
Closing of the acquisition is expected by end of January 2023.
The European federation of gaming machine trade associations, Euromat, has added Spain to its membership.
The organisation has welcomed the Club de Convergentes as its 14th country member. Novomatic, Merkur, Zitro, Aristocrat and Bally Wulff are among the Club de Convergentes' members.
Euromat now covers 11 countries and has nine corporate members. Last year it added Serbia and three new corporates into its membership.
Bernhard Teuchmann, president of the Club de Convergentes, said: "Joining Euromat and collaborating more closely with our colleagues across Europe reflects our desire to continue to grow our sector responsibly and ensure that we have the best possible offer for our customers.
"We want to play our role in helping to raise the standards for our industry across Europe and learn from the experience of others."
Euromat president Jason Frost said: "Having the Club de Convergentes in Euromat is a vote of confidence in our association and its capacity to benefit its members.
"The Club de Convergentes shares our belief that our industry is stronger when working together to share knowledge and expertise, while always making the case with policymakers for a better business environment."


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Car Books – Overdrive
Continued from Car Books – First Gear, Second Gear, Third Gear, Fourth Gear, Fifth Gear
And I did just that with my very next car book. After finishing Once Upon a Car: The Fall and Resurrection of America's Big Three Automakers – GM, Ford, and Chrysler by Bill Vlasic,
I saw at the end of the book that Vlasic had previously coauthored with Bradley Stertz, another book about the merger of Chrysler with Daimler-Benz, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz entitled Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off with Chrysler.
Since I had just read about the breakup of the marriage of these two companies after the financial meltdown of 2008, I thought it would be interesting to read about how the marriage had begun. I was in for a big surprise.
Interestingly, many of the same players were involved and same tactics. Kirk Kerkorian who had tried to take over GM in 2006 had actually tried to take over Chrysler in 1995, using the same tactics and the same person, Jerry York. As with his failed attempt to takeover GM, his earlier run at Chrysler also ended in failure. But the close call got Chrysler realizing how vulnerable they might be and so began secretly working a deal to develop a joint venture or joint development project with Daimler. The talks appeared promising for a while but ultimately fizzled out and were discontinued.
Then a few years later, internal analyses were done by many of the car companies with the short-term projections showing that there was going to be a huge overcapacity of automobile manufacturing globally. Several car companies were already in dire financial situations and the consensus was that with the overcapacity, the industry was ripe for consolidation.
Separately, Ford, Chrysler, and Daimler-Benz each were developing merger strategies and almost simultaneously, Ford approached Daimler-Benz at the same time Daimler-Benz approached Chrysler which itself was secretly preparing to approach Daimler-Benz. It made for an interesting love triangle.
Secret talks continued among the three carmakers until the Ford-Daimler deal was vetoed by the strong Ford family (which owned 40% of the voting shares) when it was divulged that Ford would not be the buyer in the Daimler deal, but rather the bought company.
With the Ford talks off the table, Daimler-Benz could then focus its efforts 100% on Chrysler. But on multiple occasions, the executives involved ran into snags that jeopardized derailing the whole deal. One huge question was whether the new company would be chartered in the US, in Germany, or in a neutral country (The Netherlands). National pride prevented the Daimler-Benz team from settling on anything other than a German corporation since Mercedes-Benz, the crown jewel of German industrial might, had been the original inventor of the automobile. But when it was learned that the tax advantages of the combined companies favored an AG company, Chrysler readily agreed for the good of the new company.
Another major hurdle was the exchange rate of outstanding Chrysler and Daimler shares for shares in the new combined auto company. With Daimler's share price to earnings per share (price-earnings ratio) more than double Chrysler's, Daimler shares would be exchanged one-for-one in the new company. The rub was what portion of a share in the new company would Chrysler shareholders get when they exchanged their existing Chrysler shares. Since many in the US thought Chrysler shares were undervalued, this was Chrysler's one chance to rectify that. Intense negotiations went back and forth between the two corporate teams before final terms were agreed upon.
When the deal was on the verge of consummation, even the name of the new company proved divisive. Both companies wanted their name first in the combined name and had gone back and forth multiple times. The company name remained in doubt up until the very day both boards were voting on the proposed merger. In a last minute call from Chrysler CEO Bob Eaton to Daimler-Benz CEO Jürgen Schrempp, Eaton threatened to cancel the deal if the Chrysler name didn't come first. Schrempp indicated that for him, that was also a showstopper.
On the precipice of failure, Eaton quickly met with his current president (Tom Stallkamp) and former president (Bob Lutz, who rarely got along with Eaton) about the name issue. Schrempp had offered two options and when Lutz said he thought DaimlerChrysler sounded classier than Daimler-BenzChrysler, Eaton agreed. In exchange, Chrysler won a concession to be able to pick a future board member making it sound almost like draft negotiations for a professional sports team and team name.
Keeping all the negotiations secret for so long was extremely difficult and even involved some subterfuge at times. When rumors began to surface at Chrysler that something BIG was in the works, Hyundai cars were discreetly, but strategically placed on Chrysler's site as a ruse and a bogus trip to Korea arranged (through talkative assistants) to supposedly explore a potential linkup with the financially strapped carmaker.
After four months when the news finally broke, it was huge—the largest corporate merger in history! And several months later when all the approvals were obtained and Day 1 of the new company (17 November 1998) was celebrated on Wall Street and at every combined company location, it was a huge, huge party.
As with any marriage, the wedding and honeymoon were joyous occasions but it wasn't long before major differences in culture and business processes became major stumbling blocks. From the Daimler perspective, no action could be taken or decision made that would tarnish the ultra high-class Mercedes image. From the Chrysler perspective, this attitude was not endearing especially considering that Chrysler enjoyed the most cost effective productivity of any carmaker and Daimler sorely needed to improve their profitability per vehicle. One of the major factors that originally attracted Daimler to Chrysler in the first place was this very large advantage in cost structure (Chrysler made a larger profit margin selling reasonably priced vehicles than Daimler did selling much higher-priced vehicles).
Within a year of the formation of DaimlerChrysler, it was obvious that the "merger of equals" was anything but that. Even executives within the company admitted it should never have been portrayed that way. With the real authority of the company vested in the old Daimler CEO, Schrempp, Chrysler took a subordinate role in the corporation and numerous executives left to pursue other opportunities, including the former Chrysler CEO, Eaton.
The book closes within two years of the merger hoopla and Chrysler doing poorly financially. It is no surprise that the "merger made in heaven" fell to Earth within just a few short years with Daimler dumping Chrysler in 2007 (as covered in Vlasic's other book previously mentioned). While I knew from history that the marriage had not even lasted a decade, this book gave me inside knowledge of the tumultuous relationship the companies had had and valuable insights through the players own words as to what brought it all about.
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BREAKING: Arsenal Sacks Head Coach, Unai Emery, Appoints Interim Coach
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Arsenal's Spanish head coach Unai Emery gestures during their UEFA Europa league Group F football match between Arsenal and Eintracht Frankfurt at the Emirates stadium in London on November 28, 2019. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images)
Premier League side, Arsenal FC, have sacked the manager of the club Unai Emery after spending 18months with the club.
This was made known in a statement by the club this morning.
The statement reads; "We announce today that the decision has been taken to part company with our head coach Unai Emery and his coaching team".
Speaking on behalf of the club and its owners, Josh Kroenke said, "Our most sincere thanks go to Unai and his colleagues who were unrelenting in their efforts to get the club back to competing at the level we all expect and demand. We wish Unai and his team nothing but future success."
According to the statement, the decision was taken due to the club's recent poor performance in different competitions.
The Spaniard oversaw a disastrous run of form that saw his side go seven games without a win for the first time since 1992.
Touted to be the messiah the Gunners wanted, Emery, 48, was appointed in the summer of 2018 following the departure of Arsene Wenger.
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He guided the Gunners to fifth in his debut campaign, one point adrift of Spurs, before losing 4-1 to Chelsea in the Europa League final.
His side also went 22 games unbeaten combined with a run of 11 straight defeats.
However, the past weeks have been disappointing and the final straw was the Europa League defeat at home to Frankfurt.
The club said the decision has been taken due to results and performances not being at the level required.
Freddie Ljungberg is now the interim head coach of the club pending when a new head coach will be appointed and announced.
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