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Five Calhoun County schools to be recognized for sportsmanship by AHSAA; updates with other awards
MONTGOMERY – Five Calhoun County athletics programs are among 121 in Alabama that will be recognized Friday for their sportsmanship during the previous athletic year.
Donoho, Faith Christian, Jacksonville Christian, Piedmont and Oxford all will be recognized during the eighth annual Star Sportsmanship Luncheon being held in conjunction with the AHSAA's Summer Conference and All-Star Week.
All the schools recognized went through the 2014-15 school year fine and ejection free. The total represents a 21 percent increase from the previous year.
"I think it's huge to make it throughout the year without any fines or ejections," Faith athletics director Bradley Dawson said. "I heard (Alabama basketball coach) Avery Johnson talk today about surrounding yourself with great people. I think we have great people at Faith and it takes a team effort to accomplish this task.
"We have great coaches with high integrity, which makes my job easy. I hope we can continue to operate in a way where this is a common accuracy every year."
Of the 121 total, 32 are from Class 1A, 19 from 2A, 23 from 3A, 17 from 4A, 15 from 5A, 11 from 6A and four from 7A.
Piedmont is one of 18 schools being recognized for the first time. All the first-timers will receive a banner to commemorate the feat.
Donoho is being recognized for the fifth time, JCA the fourth and Faith and Oxford each the third. JCA also was awarded a $1,000 grant from the Alabama Media Group.
"You always want to have a model program," Bulldogs athletics director and football coach Steve Smith said. "You're not proud of any fines or ejections or things of that nature; sometimes it's hard to get through a year without making an honest mistake. We had that happen before.
"It says a lot for our coaches and our players for being able to practice self-control on the field, on the court and we try always to do things by the book. Every now and then we mess up and make a mistake, but you recognize it, deal with it and move on.
"I'm proud of our athletics program as a whole to get that banner. We've gone to a lot of places in the county and seen them hanging up there and never had one on our campus. It'd be nice to get one of our own."
Smith remembers vividly the circumstance that kept the Bulldogs from getting it in 2012. They had been exemplary on the field throughout the year – as they have been for many — but were hit with a fine for failing to report the victory that sent their baseball team to the state finals in a timely manner.
He was enjoying the post-game activities with the team and its supporters that night and it hit him about 3 that morning he hadn't reported the result to the state.
"We went through the whole year without any fine or ejection and the AD costs us there in the last week of the season," he said.
That doesn't happen any more on his watch.
"Every time since I'm calling, texting and putting it in the computer," he said. "They're getting it three ways from me."
Nine schools have been recognized for their sportsmanship six times since the program was developed in 2007-08, including Talladega's Alabama School for the Blind. Covenant Christian of Tuscumbia will be recognized for a record seventh time.
"We are very proud of the effort our member schools place on good sportsmanship practices," AHSAA executive director Steve Savarese said in a news release. "Being ejection and fine free is a reachable goal as these schools have shown us."
In other awards given at the conclusion of the All-Star Week, Faith Christian senior soccer player Josiah McDaniel was awarded an AHSADCA Coaches' Children's Scholarship, while Weaver and Jacksonville were among 10 schools awarded $2,500 need-based Lemak Award grants.
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Why are Noida Extension buyers sulking?
Track2Realty has in its possession various exchanged mails between the buyers and the builders which not only defies any civilized business correspondence but is also in contravention with the law of the land. In one such mail with a delayed project for more than three years, the builder has the audacity to put on record that they would refund only with some deductions, forget about delayed penalty. Incidentally, the builder has accepted unaccounted cash with the said buyer and hence the buyer knows the real fallout of the exit.
NCR property with health hazards of toxic air
Despite repeated attempts by Track2Realty, none of the developers with projects in the worst hit areas are ready to speak on camera. All of them are rather defiant that the construction ban is unfortunate disruptions and adversely affects the project timelines. The moot point nevertheless is can the builders in their collective consciousness shrug off the responsibility now? Do they wake up only when the NGT slaps the sector with construction ban? Can't they switch to responsible urbanisation for future generations?These questions may not bother them but what they can't afford to ignore is whether or not the housing sector in Delhi NCR would be paralysed if the city is not made worth breathing and worth living?" Unfortunately, there are more questions than what any of the stakeholders would like to answer with some honesty.
Chennai housing recovery faster than national average
The city with a penchant for villas is mostly moving towards the periphery locations. In those locations the land cost is still very affordable. The buyers, mostly local communities, are preferring these plotted villas. Since the developers do not have the construction finance to bother, they can even hold it in the wake of slow sales.
Mumbai's Tardeo leads India's top 10 most expensive housing locations
Even as India's middle-class grapples with the prospect of an uncertain future in their careers and financial ability – the main drivers of housing demand – the rise of India's super-rich continues unabated. According to Credit Suisse report, there were an estimated 3.42 lakh dollar-millionaires in India as on mid-2018 who collectively held around USD 6 trillion. It is forecast that 5.26 lakh Indian dollar millionaires' wealth will be around USD 8.8 trillion by 2023. Market fluctuations make very little difference to the personal networth of these individuals.
NCR's new business districts boast of over 30 mn sq ft of office space
The CP story is very old, one that spans about 50 years or more. It was NCR's central business district (CBD). It is still probably the CBD. But office space in CP is stagnated. The new business districts such as Cybercity, GCR, Aerocity and GCE are growing at a rapid pace, meeting an enormous demand for commercial office space. Now, it's a tale of two cities- Delhi and Gurgaon.
Are you serious about Kashmir real estate Mr builder?
I am today seriously wondering whether all the celebrating and self-congratulating developers have indeed got "Exclusive" draft of the policy of land acquisition in Kashmir? Does it include construction facing Dal Lake of Srinagar that is Green Belt? Have they done their business calculations and cost & benefit analysis over there? There are more questions than what the builders could answer at this point of time. But what could be vouchsafed is the fact that all these euphoric overtones are premature. None of the industry voices from the matured sectors with more potential to pull off in the State have displayed this kind of immaturity.
Sobha retains brand leadership; Embassy is the brand performer
In terms of the overall brand gain for the year, Embassy has been way ahead of the competition curve post the REIT listing. Embassy has jumped from its last fiscal ranking at Number 5 to now at Number 2. As a matter of fact, Embassy is just 0.4 brand score behind Sobha Limited. Moreover, Embassy has taken a lead ahead of Sobha in terms of NRI perception. Moving forward, Embassy Group with diversified portfolio could have an edge over Sobha Limited.
Chennai right sizing housing needs
Most of the analysts who track the local property market maintain that the emerging market realities and the economy of the region has changed the way people look at the housing. This change has been pretty fast in the last over a decade. It is a paradigm shift in the housing market of the city.
Jewar International Airport – Revival for Noida and Greater Noida?
Once completed, Jewar International Airport will not only ease traffic at Delhi's IGI Airport but also create multiple job opportunities and give decent impetus to the property market in Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway. These markets have been reeling under tremendous pressure over the last three to four years, and require a fresh injection of opportunity and intent to overcome this slump.
Chennai among global dynamic city
Is there something in the very DNA of the city that makes every global forecast refer Chennai as the future city on the global map? Analysts believe Chennai is not only the capital city of Tamil Nadu but is also the largest industrial and commercial centre in South India. The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) is the flagship Urban Local Body in the Chennai Metropolitan Area (CMA). The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) is the oldest municipal Institution in India.

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Week 6 DFS Short Yardage Outlooks
A look into short-yardage (and touchdown) outlooks throughout the Week 6 DFS pool
by Justin Howe, October 13 2016
Photo: Jeff Curry, USA TODAY Sports
Each week, I'll be touring the league's top dark zone outlooks – plays from inside the opposing team's 10-yard line – with DFS on my mind. I'm always looking for touchdowns (specifically multi-touchdown performances) to take down tournaments, so while the dark zone doesn't outright decide my GPP lineups, it certainly informs them.
I use a simple but logical formula to project each player's red zone outlook. I first develop a projection for the team's overall dark zone snaps, both passing and rushing, by comparing their totals to those faced by their opponents over the last three weeks, then weighting it 60% in the offense's favor. I then apply each player's dark zone share to that projection, then apply that projected touch total to the player's dark zone success rate. Ultimately, the process spits out an often conservative expectation for dark zone scores. And since these are the most common and predictable touchdowns, I come away with a strong expectation for each option's ability to score touchdowns and tilt contests.
Here's a rundown of who catches my eye for Week 6:
Passing Game Notables
Martellus Bennett
We may be looking at a pretty even timeshare here: both tight ends are seeing 80% or more of Patriots snaps, and both are crucial cogs to the passing game. That could mean a threat to Gronkowski's throne as the NFL's elite dark zone producer from the TE spot. Over three games together, Bennett has drawn 3 of the duo's 4 targets from inside the 10, scoring on two of them. Still, Gronkowski is the league's most gifted and feared weapon at the position, and positive progression toward his mean is almost certainly on its way. Most likely, the two will trade off a handful of multi-touchdown outbursts, and one will likely wind up a top-5 tight end scorer each week. They'll be harder than usual to predict, but the resultant weekly dip in ownership could cement one (likely Gronkowski going forward) or both as upper-crust GPP options in each and every game.
Never especially efficient near the end zone, Nelson has bucked that trend through four 2016 games. He's dominating attention from there (6 of Aaron Rodgers' 12 targets) and scoring touchdowns at a great clip (4 of 6). You'd be foolhardy not to expect him to produce at least one against Dallas, a defense that's struggled to defend the pass from inside the 10-yard line. They've allowed six such TDs thus far, including two late ones to Brandon Lafell last week.
A perfect storm could be brewing for Wilson's GPP prospects. His slow start has been frustrating, but he's been efficient in the dark zone – three of his five passes from there have gone for scores. And he faces a Falcons defense that's allowed 8 of its 14 dark zone passes go for touchdowns. This game has shootout potential, and Wilson's value would skyrocket with several easy TD opportunities. His surrounding crew is healthy, Jimmy Graham is integrally involved, and we have yet to see Wilson run the ball near the goal line.
Thomas' underneath work is growing and growing in value, to the Saints and to DFSers. Over the last two games, Thomas has been featured heavily on quick-hitting throws near the end zone. He's seen three targets from there and scored on two of them. Neither Brandin Cooks nor Willie Snead IV have never been a threat in close, and Coby Fleener is still a lost doe in this offense. Thomas could actually carry the best chance of all the Saints weapons to cross the goal line.
T.Y. Hilton
Dwayne Allen
Jack Doyle
These guys look like solid touchdown bets on sheer volume alone. The Colts have their issues for sure, but finding opportunities to score isn't one of them. And no team has thrown more from the dark zone over the last three games. Even in a tough matchup, Hilton and his tight end teammates deserve our attention as we seek out multi-touchdown games. Hilton is Andrew Luck's preeminent all-around target, putting him squarely on the map on all levels of the field. And while Hilton has scored in each of the last three weeks, note that no receiver has been tackled inside the 2-yard line more this year (3 times). Also consider that Luck's love for peppering TEs with short-yardage throws dates all the way back to Stanford, so Allen and Doyle are in play for short scoring flips.
Zach Miller
With Brian Hoyer under center, Miller has become the passing game's engine in the dark zone. Over Hoyer's three starts, four of his seven dark zone throws have gone Miller's way. It gets even better: Miller scored on 3 of those 4, and in fact carries an 86% dark zone touchdown rate across 20 games as a Bear. As long as Hoyer is quarterbacking, we have to expect Miller to soak up his attention in scoring position. He's already underpriced industry-wide, and his GPP appeal is high with all of this TD potential. He'll likely be underowned, too, considering the many tight end bargains on the week's slate.
It's not as consistent as we'd like to see, but Mariota is prone to posting games of surprisingly high dark zone volume. Across 17 games as a pro, he's thrown four or more such passes five times, and this year his sits tied for fourth in the league. In Week 6, he'll face the Browns, who have allowed a whopping 7 of their 11 dark zone passes thus far to score touchdowns. Mariota's salaries have swollen a bit across the industry, but not prohibitively so, and my TD projections say he's totally worth it. He remains a strong cheapie for GPPs, with weekly multi-TD potential and an ownership profile that often blends in and lands in the single digits.
Michael Crabtree
Seth Roberts
Intensive DFSers are familiar with the short-yardage exploits of Crabtree and Roberts. Amari Cooper is an electrifying talent in many ways, but he's still not a focal point inside the 10. Across 21 NFL games, he's been looked at from there just 4 times. Over that span, Crabtree (11) and Roberts (7) have combined to soak up more than half the team's targets. Both make for intriguing stack plays against a Kansas City defense that's been thrown at a lot in the dark zone. Roberts has been more efficient, but he's a deep-GPP stab only; Crabtree is a more universal option.
Jacob Tamme
For several years now, Julio Jones' brilliance has failed to transfer into the dark zone. There's nothing he can't do on a football field, it seems, except for produce near the goal line. Since 2013, Jones has drawn just 18.7% of Falcons targets from inside the 10, and his 23.1% touchdown rate is very poor. With the Falcons offense looking like a semi-juggernaut, we want in on their likely scorers. That makes Tamme a shrewd GPP stab. He'll see next to no ownership while facing the Seahawks, but more importantly, he's Matt Ryan's premier target in the dark zone. Over the last three weeks, Tamme has seen 4 of Ryan's 10 looks from there. There's a nonzero chance he makes up for a three-catch Sunday by scoring on two of them.
Running Game Notables
DeMarco Murray
Murray would be enough of a dark zone threat on his rushing, where he's seventh in attempts and tied for fifth in touchdowns. But he also figures into his team's passing-game plans near the end zone. He's already received five targets from there, more than any other back. All told, his 14 looks (rushes + targets) lead the league, so you're hard-pressed to find a safer TD bet on this week's slates. My model projects Murray to 1.38 touchdowns, and that could be low-balling him against a Cleveland defense that's weak against the run.
The 49ers are nightmarishly bad, but Hyde's value has never been higher. Chip Kelly's pace-up offense manages to find the dark zone more often than many think, and Hyde is their engine there. He's taken a carry or target on 11 of the team's 21 snaps from inside the 10. We don't know quite what Colin Kaepernick will bring to a Chip Kelly offense, but we know he won't be trusted with the offensive keys – that's Hyde's game, both in the dark zone and out.
Ryan Mathews
Mathews is always a name (and salary) to monitor in putting together a GPP portfolio. Over his three full games, he's fourth league-wide with 10 dark zone rushes. It's clear where Doug Pedersen's preferences lie near the goal line – Carson Wentz has thrown just five passes from there. The Eagles may or may not see gobs of scoring opportunity at Washington, but we know when they do, it'll be Mathews with the ball in his hands more often than not. That kind of clear pathway to 4x value puts Mathews into GPP conversations.
McCoy's a fantastic play this week for many reasons – and one is his untapped touchdown potential. He's scored at a decent clip thus far, with three scores in five games. But consider that he's been tackled at the 1-yard line a league-high 4 times. Facing the 49ers, McCoy projects to an overwhelming share of the Buffalo backfield on all levels of the field, and it would be an upset if he didn't see multiple short shots at the goal line.
Tevin Coleman
One of the season's more surprising (to me) subplots has been the wonky (and wildly successful) two-man backfield in Atlanta. Last year, Devonta Freeman monopolized the opportunity in all facets; in 2016, Coleman has split passing-down work and cut deeply into that share near the goal line. He's taken five dark zone rushes thus far (to Freeman's nine) and scored on three of them. Obviously, rostering a back facing Seattle always carries a strong degree of risk, so Coleman is a GPP-only option anyway. But matchup be damned, he's a strong one.
My projection model is in love with Gore, especially this week. And the primary reason for that is his projection of 1.15 dark zone touchdowns, second-highest of the week's slates. Much of that is owed to his matchup; the Texans boast a generally sound defense, but it's declining due to key injuries and has been run on in the dark zone a robust 25 times (14 over the last three weeks). Gore fully dominates the Colts backfield, and he's scored on two of three dark zone rushes over that same span. His outlook is rarely sexy, but the numbers suggest it is this week. His multi-TD potential is well worth a small chunk of your portfolio.
Stewart's likely return to action won't come with a lot of fanfare – he's an aging, marginal workhorse whose short-yardage role is undermined by a crowded backfield. But someone is likely to score a short touchdown or two on the Saints this weekend. No team has been run against more in the dark zone (22 attempts), and only the Chargers have allowed more ground scores from there. It's anyone's guess as to how that opportunity would be divvied up, and Stewart has never been an elite short-yardage producer. But, again, somebody is going to, and Cam Newton is awfully expensive.
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Solly Msimanga joins Breakfast with Martin Bester after he announced he is stepping down as Mayor.
South African politician and former mayor of The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Solly Msimanga, joined Martin Bester on Breakfast to discuss pertinent issues in the country, as well as the capital city of South Africa.
Msimanga was sworn into office in 2016 - all thanks to a coalition with the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). This after no political party managed to secure an outright majority at the polls in Tshwane.
Msmimanga also Martin Bester he has never had the famous Mayor chain before. He has never seen it nor has he worn it.
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Red flags are waving in battle over Civil War relics
To say the Confederate Flag does not represent some form of racism is a ridiculous thought. But at the same time, it's important to note the impossibility of looking at those days in US History in generalized terms today.
Officials took the bull by the horns regarding the hot button issue of displaying the "Stars and Bars" on public property. Calling for Confederate Battle Flags to be removed from capitol grounds -- and other such public places -- this week was the right decision.
My only concern is not to take it too far. We can't assume racism is the only motivation for the flag's existence in modern culture. Could it hold historical value overall and special sentiment for Southern heritage?
We can say we don't want to see the flag waving at the state capitol and we can say we don't want to see it on store shelves. But, I would hope that we've come far enough not to let a symbol divide us any further than that. Americans tend to be opinionated, and we are oftentimes offended.
Nonetheless, we all have rights. Who are we to question, for example, why a reenactor wants to buy Confederate uniforms and badges or why someone exploring genealogy wants to boast their Southern pride by hanging up a flag on their own property.
Unfortunately, a reportedly crazed and racist gunman who recently killed several black churchgoers brought newfound urgency in some groups seeking to put the symbols out of sight for good. Several photos emerged since the killings occured more than a week ago of suspect Dylan Roof pictured with a confederate flag.
Whitewashing history certainly won't solve the problems related to racism and violence in this country.
How far can we go in taking away the Southern emblem? What about other relics? What will tomorrow's history lessons teach future generations about today?
I hope we can preserve history to be as accurate as possible. Forbidding the sale of items featuring the symbols of the Old South doesn't change the slavery-related history we want to forget. However, dictating that someone can't buy certain items sets our clocks back even further. It just seems like shallow behavior to me.
Imagine living in this country more than a century-and-a -half -ago -- , a time when many people wouldn't hesitate to die for what they believed in, to the point that a national conflict brought brother against brother in a fight on opposite sides of American Civil War battlefields. When reflecting back on the south's radical history, for instance, it's important to note that many honorable soldiers of the Confederacy weren't even slave owners and others were drafted to put on the uniforms. Many were mere boys who faced the harsh reality of what their uniform meant in prisons, disease and death.
The war was looming long before 1860 and those who fought in it knew American society was so deeply invested in its "causes" that no doubt would the conflict continue off the battlefield despite Robert E. Lee's surrender in 1865. How to repair the war-torn nation was another battle to endure in itself, that evidently was never fully resolved, all these years later.
Now, I'd like to touch upon just a few histoical accounts leading up to the war that drew my interest in particular into that time period.
I can imagine all the talks about the war in households everywhere. The newsmen clamoring for headlines, the widows retelling stories again and again to children and veterans being asked to recall the time they camped hundreds of miles away, walking oftentimes without shoes. That is the true fabric of culture and heritage, North and South -- keeping the stories, memories and history going through the ages. It was a long and horrific conflict and communities wanted to honor military leaders with statues and monuments. Schools, streets, parks and buildings were also named for generals.
Much of my interest in the CIvil War can be connected to the unique heritage of the antebellum south that many seem to scoff at these days. Admittedly, I haven't studied the flags of that time period, but If you currently have the scandalous flag posted on your Facebook profile or hanging up in your house, you should enjoy the abundance of information available to learn more about it other flags because of accurate record keeping, storytelling and photography.
Obviously, the main cause of the CIvil War was, in fact, the institution of slavery. Even famous and admirable Americans who had inherited the "property' back then knew slavery was immoral, but even they didn't know how to put an end to the problem once and for all.
The "fire bell in the night" rang louder when with the addition of new territories to the Union.
In fact, Congress passed two bills forty years before states began seceding from the union that, together, were known as the Missouri Compromise. To sum it up, Maine was admitted to the Union as a free state. Missouri was admitted as a slave state, although slavery would be prohibited north of a 36-30 line (southern border of Missouri) in the western territories of the Louisiana Purchase—Missouri was an exception.
It was Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter a few months later, which holds some wisdom that I can't help but refer to as a Civil War buff in 2015.
"...but this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper," Jefferson warned.
History credits another famous politician with holding the Union together a little while longer. Seasoned Kentucky Senator Henry Clay was able to tackle the Congressional debate in 1850 with the Missouri Compromise. The nation was obviously divided and conflict inevitable if slavery continued.
The Compromise basically offered to appease both sides surrounding the issue of slavery. It included plans for the Texas territory, creating territorial governments with "popular sovereignty" for New Mexico and Utah to allow voters to decide to permit slavery and admitted California as a free state. The compromise abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia and created new laws regarding runaway slaves.
Many historians point to one particular incident that happened in the Senate chamber in May of 1856 as the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" that eventually led to the Civil War.
I agree this story seems like a defining moment in that road to war, and must be included in this blog:
Democratic Rep. Preston Brooks, of South Carolina, attacked Republican Senator Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, with his cane for a speech made by Sumner, known as "Crime against Kansas" two days earlier. Sumner made bold insults about Stephen Douglas and a relative of Brooks, Andrew Butler -- based on their opposiing views on the institution of slavery. Brooks felt compelled to defend his honor. The beating almost killed Sumner.
The attack was a reflection that the American public was growing more divisive on the expansion of slavery. WIth all the drama leading up to the war and its intensity, it's not surprising that we continue to be divided on many issues regarding cultural issues today.
People tend to be passionate about what they believe in.
Whatever the case, mulifaceted Civil War History will continue to capture our interest for a long time to come and for many reasons (President Abraham Lincoln, most importantly, in my opinion.)
How do you feel about the flag controversy?
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Civil wars have always been the cause of many deaths. Well, if you ask me, war in general is something that I would love to avoid. Not a lot of people can say this, especially since there are those who have things that they want to fight for. In my opinion, we need to think about ways to make wars non-existent anymore. I will try to talk about how we can end all of this, but it is a tall order.
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What will the Lexus LC Convertible Look Like?
Japanese website Response is reporting that a Lexus LC convertible will be released in 2019 alongside the coupe's first visual refresh. This may seem like an ambitious timeline, but stranger things have happened.
Flagship convertibles may be a small segment in overall sales, but there's no questioning its prestige — an LC convertible is a logical step for Lexus as they expand the top-end of their lineup.
Response claims the LC design update will include a more aggressive front-face, including massive daytime running lights that extend into the hood. Technical challenges aside, the dramatic DRLs would be an impressive sight.
There's also mention of a 3.0L turbocharged V6 with 443 horsepower being introduced with the LC, and I'm of two minds — the engine would be a perfect addition to the Lexus powertrain lineup, but not at the expense of removing the V8 character from the LC coupe.


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Premier12 2019: better pitching, closer games, more emotions
The pitching level in 2019 was significantly better than in 2015, marking also an increment in the level of play.
On Sunday 17 November, Japan beat Korea, 4-3, in the Championship Game of the Premier12 2019, in front of almost 45,000 enthusiastic fans that packed the Tokyo Dome. This game put an end to an extremely successful Premier12, a tournament with great pitching and emotive games.
Comparing the numbers of the 2015 and 2019 Premier12, one thing is clear. The pitching level in 2019 was significantly better than in 2015, marking also an increment in the general level of play.
All the pitching stats were better in 2019, but one number, in particular, stands out: the ERA (earned run average) in the tournament decreased 0.91 from 2015 to 2019. In the previous edition, pitchers combined for a 4.37 ERA; while in 2019 the total ERA was 3.46.
Also, the number of strikeouts shows the pitching improvement in this year's edition. In 2015 the stats recorded 568 strikeouts, an average of 14.9 per game (38 games played in 2015). This year, the gross number of strikeouts was 553 (only 15 fewer strikeouts than the previous edition), for an average of 17.3 (32 games played in 2019). It's an increment of 2.5 strikeouts per game.
On the other hand, as a consequence, the number of hits decreased. In 2015 pitchers allowed 17.8 hits per game (677 hits for the tournament). This year, pitchers gave up an average of 14 hits per game (a total of 448). The overall batting average lowered from .267 to .221.
However, the number of home runs didn't decrease as much. In the first edition of the Premier12, a total of 58 home runs were hit, an average of 1.53 homers per game. In the 2019 edition, fans witnessed 46 homers, 1.44 per game with 20 of those homers hit at Charros de Jalisco Stadium, for the Group A.
As a result of better pitching performance, fans around the world were able to see closer games with more emotion and intensity. Half of the contests played in 2019 were decided by three or fewer runs, including eight of the 12 games of the Super Round, the Bronze Medal Game and the Championship Final.


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Navarro report calls for 'urgent' investigation of election
by WorldTribune Staff, December 21, 2020
Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to President Donald Trump, released a report on Dec. 17 saying that irregularities in the 2020 election are substantial enough to overturn the results and a full investigation should be launched before Jan. 20.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro
Titled "The Immaculate Deception," the report supports the claim that the election "may well have been stolen" from Trump. Navarro, who is director of the White House Office for Trade and Manufacturing Policy, said he produced the report in his capacity as a private citizen.
"If these election irregularities are not fully investigated prior to Inauguration Day and thereby effectively allowed to stand, this nation runs the very real risk of never being able to have a fair presidential election again," Navarro said in the report.
In the report, Navarro examines six types of irregularities in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
The charts below, which detail widespread evidence (check mark) and some evidence (asterisk) of fraud and irregularities, were included in Navarro's report.
Outright Voter Fraud
This includes large-scale manufacturing of fake ballots and bribery, along with the use of ballots cast in the names of dead voters or by ineligible voters such as felons and illegal immigrants. Others include ballots counted multiple times and those cast by illegal, out-of-state voters.
Ballot Mishandling
Navarro calls it a "multifaceted problem" that was featured in five out of six of the battleground states. It includes such factors as no voter ID checks, signature match check abuses, "naked ballots" that lack an outer envelope, and broken chain-of-custody records.
Contestable Process Fouls
Navarro said these irregularities include abuses regarding poll watchers and observers, such as denial of access or lack of meaningful access, as well as violations of state law in the area of mail-in and absentee ballots. It also includes illegal ballot curing by poll workers and violations of voter registration procedures.
Equal Protection Clause Violations
The 14th Amendment features the Equal Protection Clause, which mandates that no state may deny its citizens equal protection under the law. Navarro identified questionable practices in this regard as applying higher standards of certification and ID verification to in-person voters compared to mail-in and absentee balloting, and different standards of ballot curing for different counties.
Voting Machine Irregularities
Navarro identified two major types of voting machine irregularities: large-scale inaccuracies and vote switching from one candidate to another, which caused vote surges in favor of one candidate.
Significant Statistical Anomalies
Navarro identified such phenomena as significant changes in absentee ballot rejection rates compared to prior elections, and unusual vote surges.
Navarro concluded the report by saying: "The failure to aggressively and fully investigate" the irregularities "signal a failure not just of our anti-Trump mainstream media and censoring social media but also of both our legislative and judicial branches."
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Little Fish Swimming In A Big Fish's Wake
This isn't a call out post, though in some cases you'll be able to read between the lines. That's not the purpose. Two of the few individuals I'll single out by name are John Green and E.L. James, and they are largely passive players in the current online dramas their names keep surfacing in. This post is neither a condemnation of them or an endorsement. I bring them up here as examples of authors who have recently been made, perhaps unwillingly, into banners for much larger crusades.
With that in mind, I have to address something that has been bothering me ever since the #AskELJames hashtag last week. For anyone unaware, an individual who is either woefully out of touch or disastrously optimistic thought it would be a great idea for E.L. James to do a Twitter Q & A, in which fans would be able to ask questions and hashtag them with #AskELJames in the hopes of getting their queries answered. A domestic violence prevention group that has protested Fifty Shades of Grey many times in the past came up with the idea that critics of the violence, rape, misogyny, homophobia and racism in the books should flood the tag with questions about all of these issues, to see if James, who is notorious for hostile responses to criticism, would address any of them. But in the hours leading up to the event, some of the questions became, well, mean. People insulted her weight, her intelligence, her appearance, all the standard issue internet hate one would expect to get from just, you know. Being on the internet.
People felt sympathy for her, and that sympathy turned into statements like, "You have to feel bad for her," which seems harmless in the rhetorical. But then it became an order, "You have to feel bad for her. Nobody would like to hear those things said about them," before finally throwing in the b-word: "You have to feel bad for her. Nobody would like to hear those things said about them. This is bullying."
One author came to James's defense with a blog post imploring us to all be nice, and categorizing the event as a mean-spirited free-for-all in which an innocent author was attacked for no reason and with no means of protecting herself. People online are, after all, people in real life. Comparisons to Cersei's walk of shame on Game of Thrones were made. E.L. James was, truly, a martyr to the irredeemable beast that is social media.
One thing everyone seemed to overlook was the fact that James herself famously said that criticism would be easier to take "with a nice fat paycheck," and that she has behaved atrociously toward people on-line since her days in the Twilight fandom. But what goes around comes around is no longer fair, it seems; you should be able to have your cake and shit on everyone else's without criticism or retaliation.
At the same time, a storm that had been raging for weeks seemed to have been blowing over. It concerned YA author John Green and a tumblr post made by a fan who criticized Green's interaction with teens. Weeks ago, Green posted a rebuttal to defend himself from allegations of child sexual abuse that were never made. To be frank, I can see why he leapt to that ardent defense, as being an adult man with unfettered digital access to many teenage girls is a position that requires extreme caution. But when YA bloggers and readers pointed out exactly that, authors came out in droves to defend Green from allegations which, again, were never made. The Tumblr user was driven off the site by fans angry that Green had announced he would limit his use of social media. One author stated they "genuinely had reason to distrust male authority figures," and were "ill" over the controversy, implying that teens who disagreed with them did not have a good enough reason to discuss the issue or their instincts when it comes to adult men.
A teen writer, Camryn Garret, wrote an op ed for The Huffington Post in which she pointed out the connection between silencing teens and fostering rape culture. And yet again, authors rode to John Green's defense, with one of them calling Garret's piece an "attack," as though a teen writer openly acknowledging the power imbalance between bestselling authors with broad social media platforms and their largely anonymous readers put Green in very real danger.
Yesterday, news broke that another YA author, this one much further down the food chain than the others, had announced their resignation from the young adult genre entirely. They would no longer write YA due to the toxic culture that had formed on social media, and their decision was made not in defense of John Green, but in defense of one of the midlist names defending John Green. And of course, the merry-go-round began spinning again, with authors and readers lamenting the loss of this valuable voice and vowing to buy and promote their books.
So it would seem that the tide is turning back toward the Be Nice culture of yore, where readers stayed silent and were happy for the crumbs authors threw to them, and authors with smaller distribution gazed lovingly up at those who had made it. Interestingly enough, the only people who haven't been weighing in on this subject are Green and James themselves. They haven't defended themselves half so ardently as the handful of midlisters and bestsellers who stepped up to the plate to decry public response. So I have to wonder…
Is Be Nice the new marketing tool?
One of the easiest ways of garnering sympathy on the internet is to invoke the word "bully." That accusation has so much power for a word whose meaning has largely been erased through misuse. Bullying implies a power dynamic, the strong preying upon the weak. In what conceivable way was James, arguably the most successful author of all time, disempowered by the voices of dissent in her social media Q&A? At what point was Green brutally oppressed by a larger discussion of concerns that had long gone unexamined with regards to YA authors and their access to teens through the internet, a discussion in which he was no longer the subject but merely the catalyst? More puzzling still is the "abuse" some of the authors defending them believe they've been unfairly subjected to when others have disagreed with them, even mildly.
Make no mistake: some comments made about both Green and James were inappropriate and mean for the sake of meanness. Lines were crossed. But that doesn't mean they were bullied, any more than a handful of pebbles could bully a mountain. Neither of them are known to be silent in the face of criticism, so why the endless posts and tweets and arguments to support them?
Because if you care hard enough and loud enough, you'll get a prize.
And that's really all it is. If you call upon others to Be Nice, you appear positive and constructive, regardless of who or what you're trying to silence with that attitude. If you flounce loudly from your own genre, you're making the ultimate sacrifice to positivity because you're just too Nice to handle all that negativity. If you can call enough attention to your niceness, the big fish might notice you. They might tell all the minnows in their pond about you. One day, you might even leap from your tidal pool into the vast ocean of their popularity, because you did them a solid by defending them.
Is this cynical of me? Maybe. But consider all of the authors out there who don't put up Fifty Shades or The Fault In Our Stars numbers, many of whom are people of color, GLBTQA+ authors, young women writers (including Camryn Garret), who face hatred on social media and their blogs every day while they're just out there trying to make their voices heard. Do they receive this kind of impassioned defense? Do they merit pages long blog posts, a series of tweets spread out over weeks, a rallying cry that this is the final straw, all of this meanness must be stopped?
No. They don't get that. Because there's nothing in it for a little fish to defend another little fish. And if they sit back and watch that other little fish get eaten? Less fish in the pond means more chance of getting the fish food.
John Green and E.L. James have always been very good at supporting their fellow authors and seem eager to do it, but I've never seen an indication that they do this as a reward for their faithful legions of white knights alone. So what do authors seek to gain from shutting down valuable discussion about real issues, and lumping legitimate criticism in with insults and personal attacks?
If it's an attempt to gain readers, count me out. I've been turned off by a lot of authors in the past two weeks. The "haters" didn't alter my personal opinions of John Green or E.L. James, but I certainly see the defenders in a new light, and it's not positive.
But maybe that's just me, not being Nice.
DRAWN THAT WAY, by Bronwyn Green
Hey there, Trout Nation! Here's another title from the anthology that got flattened under an avalanche of writer politics bullshit not too long ago! This one comes from #MerlinClub member and the Ann Perkins to my Leslie Knope, Bronwyn Green.
Tristan Weaver, accountant for a successful video game company, is in way over her head. Honestly answering a company-wide survey and criticizing the sexist stereotypes used in the company's games was enough to catch her boss' attention. But speculating on his sex life within his earshot has unexpected consequences when her hot, but nerdy, boss invites her to model for him.
Owner, artist and lead developer of Brecken Games, Rory Brecken, has a strict no fraternizing with employees rule. However, when he overhears Tristan's conversation with her friend about his rumored kinks and begins to suspect her curiosity about the submissive side of sex, he's more than a little tempted. When her interest is undeniably confirmed, he suggests a onetime only, colleagues-with-benefits hook-up.
Though neither want a relationship, once isn't enough for either one of them. As their encounters become more intense, Rory makes a huge mistake that may cost him the woman he's coming to love.
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Drawn That Way is the second book in the Bound series, which Bronwyn is writing with Jessica Jarman. It can be read as a stand alone, though I heartily recommend Jarman's London Bound, as well.
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DON'T DO THIS, EVER (An advice column for writers): Dudley Dursley edition
Believe it or not, one of the questions I'm most often asked by people who don't already know that I know absolutely nothing is, "Do you have you any advice for someone who wants to be/is a writer?" I'm the worst person to ask. Everything I have in my writing career, I got by falling into it ass backwards. Sure, I've worked hard for a long time, but to be honest, most of that work has been pointed firmly in the wrong direction. Then fate or some cosmic entity sees me struggling like a wind-up toy in a corner, and it's like, "Awww. That's really sad for her. You know what? Let's just turn her around." Something just happens, and I've arrived at some goal or achievement I feel I've done very little to earn. So, I don't generally have any advice as to how to be a successful writer. Also, I have very little social media savvy. I talked about cutting my vulva with a pair of scissors on my twitter feed last week (@Jenny_Trout, in case you want in on all the vulva-maiming action).
I am a gossipy little streak of nonsense, though, so allow me to use someone else's drama to craft some advice for you. Or, like Willam Belli says, "I'm going to teach you how to be better, through the faults of others."
An author wasn't happy the week that her latest book released:
Writers, and I'm gonna be real here, especially female writers, have a really rough time balancing work and family pressures. I know that even though I'm the primary income in my household, my job is the one that's most flexible and doesn't require me to leave the house, so it's always going to fall to me to make dinner, keep things straight for school, do the bills, do the phone calls, let the dogs out, give the kids baths, etc. It's not that my husband is just too big and manly to help out, but he works a weird schedule and his job is pretty stressful, too. He's always tired, he's always asleep when the rest of the world is going on, so it falls to the person who is conscious (mostly) to do a lot of this stuff. And yes, the pressure is overwhelming when you're sitting there, cooking a grilled cheese, and you know that you have a ton of work waiting for you in the next room, but your co-parent can't exactly tell his job, "Hey, I'm going to need to leave for an hour so I can go make my kids' dinner because my wife needs a solid eight hours to work." It sucks so, so much to work from home, in this aspect.
So, I understand Author's frustration at having to leave a sick kid to go on a book tour. I missed my kids so much on a two-day tour that my husband had to drive to Columbus, OH to get me, because I was a wreck. I know it must have sucked to go to a huge, mentally and emotionally draining expo when she wasn't a hundred percent. That must have really sucked, and I know, believe me, I know, what it feels like when you work hard on something and it doesn't do as well as you'd like it to (See also: Jenny's entire career, 2009 to 2012). But there are a couple different reasons why authors cannot put out a message like this.
One of those reasons is that, wow. It sounds extremely entitled, doesn't it? I'm not the only blogger to think so. In fact, I found out about this whole kerfuffle from Tez Miller's blog. I'm linking because I don't want you guys to think I'm straight up stealing her post when I now go on to say basically every single thing she already said. The reason our opinions are going to line up so neatly is because, well. Common sense.
The first mistake Author made was announcing that her book didn't achieve list placement. Just a heads up: you don't ever have to tell anyone how your book is performing. Ever. None of her readers would have noticed the book didn't place, unless they're particularly interested in the list placement of every author they've read. In fact, the first time you make a list, you get to keep saying, "Blabbity Blah Bestselling Author" for the rest of your career from the very first time you get placement, and pretty much everyone keeps on assuming all your books are bestsellers because of that. Seriously, I'm "USA Today Bestselling Author" Jenny Trout, because one book that came out in 2006 made the list one week and then dropped off and nothing of mine ever sold that well again. You just throw the title around and everyone assumes things are fine. The only people who notice that you're not making a list is your publisher, your agent, and any of your particularly dedicated adversaries. But if you feel like being real about how a book is doing, you can. Nobody's stopping you. Just know that you don't have to.
If you are going to say something about your book not selling well, you might want to go with, "I'm disappointed that this book isn't doing better, because I was really enthusiastic about it. Oh well, I hope everyone who's reading it enjoys it!" I have heard from some readers that this kind of thing makes them uncomfortable; I'll often refer to my fantasy series as "the one nobody read," and I suppose that can come off a little ungrateful. After all, what about the people who did read it? Are they chopped liver? On the other hand, as someone who thrives on thinking I've got access to something secret, I love hearing that I'm a part of something obscure, so I guess it could go either way.
But what Author does here isn't just, "Oh, my book isn't performing the way I'd like it to." She blames her readers for not pre-ordering. She can't "count" on her loyal readers to boost her numbers and assure list placement anymore, and that's why she's disheartened with writing. That seems unfair, and that was her second mistake. The people Author has a real issue with here are the people who aren't buying her book. So why shit on the people who did buy it, by accusing them of not delivering on the promise the author assumed the readers have made? Why tell "core fans" that they've let you down, instead of saying, "Hey, thanks for buying and enjoying my latest book?"
The third mistake Author made here was to mention that all of her previous thrillers had made the NYT list. As in… none of her thrillers had ever not become New York Times Bestsellers. It is at this point, dear readers, that the patience of pretty much any author would wear thin. Making the New York Times Bestseller list is a dream of every novelist. If they say it isn't, they're lying. Everyone who says, "I don't really care about list placement," is going to be on the phone with every member of their extended family, their graduating class, and their dentist's office staff within minutes of hearing that they placed on the list. People go their entire careers without ever getting close to the NYT. It is the very definition of "brass ring" for genre fiction authors. If the worst thing happening in your career is one of your books not making the New York Times Bestsellers list when all the ones before it did, you might wanna reframe your complaint. This comes off a little like Dudley Dursley counting his birthday presents. Or, as one twitter user put it, "But I ALWAYS win first place!"
She goes on to say that those thrillers that did make the NYT "didn't sell gangbusters." But they made the New York Times bestseller list. Here's another tip: keep your career in perspective. You're always going to feel like you're not doing well enough, or that you could be selling better. That's called insecurity, and if you're a writer, well, congratulations, you have a wealth of it. If your books are becoming New York Times bestsellers, they're selling well. Unless every other book under you on that list had extremely bad sales all at once, trust me. Your book is selling just fine.
The last tip I want to impart here is, don't threaten to withhold from your readers. Whether Author intended to or not, she implied that she wouldn't continue writing her series unless her fan base pre-ordered and got her on a list. And that's crappy. It's crappy when an author doesn't finish a series, anyway–and I should know; I have two unfinished series out there, mea culpa–but it's extra super crappy when an author claims their bestselling series is in danger because readers aren't doing enough to directly benefit the author's wallet.
So, if you're a writer, or plan on being one, there's some advice. Do not blast your readers on social media for getting you thirty-six presents this year instead of thirty-seven. And if you do… avoid zoos.


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Josie Manning: making tackles and forcing fumbles
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By Carin R. Kirkegaard; photo courtesy of Dave Tweed
Josie Manning, sophomore, junior varsity starting kicker and varsity backup for the Rock Canyon High School (RCHS) Jaguars has the fans out of their seats cheering. Although Manning is the first female kicker for the Jaguars it is her production on the field that is getting her noticed. Only three games into the football season, Manning has two tackles and a forced fumble to her name.
It was a pulled hamstring in soccer that prompted Manning to look at football as an alternative to her main sport. In soccer, Manning said, "I had a big boot and could kick the ball really far." When the football team was looking for kickers she thought it made sense to give the sport a try. In the spring of her freshman year, Manning tried to catch Jaguar Head Coach Brian Tinker multiple times to ask him about trying out for the kicker position, but she always just missed him. Manning thinks her tenacity in tracking the coach down was a way to show her perseverance and dedication to becoming a kicker. When she finally made it to the try-out field and the coaching staff had her kick some extra-point kicks, she didn't miss one.
Now as the starting kicker for the junior varsity football team, Manning is using her "big boot" for the Jaguar kick off. Standing at the end of the field after kicking the football, Manning said it can be a little scary when these players, all bigger than her, are running full speed directly at her and if needed, she may have to stop them. From the stands a fan would never know. In the game against Douglas County, Manning stood her ground watching the kick returner getting by the RCHS special team defenders. Manning didn't even flinch. She leaned into the runner, tackling him and forcing a fumble for her team.
"When it comes to sports, I don't let too much stand in my way. I'm always trying to better myself on any playing field no matter what," said Manning.
In a family with a lot of boys, Beth Fling, Manning's mom said her daughter is the only one who is playing football. Like most parents whose children play the sport, Fling admits that she was a little worried about the hits and tackles. In the end though, Fling is proud of what Manning is doing. "It's amazing that she has the guts to do it," Fling said.
Off the field Manning is a member of the RCHS student council. She loves to spend her free time sketching and was recruited by the sophomore team to play on the powder puff football team during homecoming week.
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Q: Why don't I get an error if a column referenced in a negative filter doesn't exist, and how might I add the error message? Take the following two dataframes:
onedf<-data.frame(ID=c("a","b","c"),
                  Count=c(7,80,23))

anotherdf<-data.frame(Car_ID=c("b","c","d"),
                      Color=c("red","green","blue"))

In an effort to get a filtered version of onedf where IDs are only preserved if they don't appear in anotherdf, I mistakenly refer to anotherdr$ID in the code below:
filtereddf<-onedf%>%
  filter(!(ID %in% anotherdf$ID))

Why is there no warning or error message produced, given the fact that no column named ID exists in anotherdf?
The result of running the above is simply filtereddf actually being an unfiltered version of onedf.  I think, however, that the code should brick, and alert me that anotherdf$ID does not exist.  If this happened, I would know to check my column names within anotherdf and would end up being able to correctly edit my code to
filtereddf<-onedf%>%
  filter(!(ID %in% anotherdf$Car_ID))

ultimately resulting in the filtereddf being a single row,

In practice, this filter is one of many steps in a project, and so the fact that no filtering and no error message is delivered makes this challenging to diagnose as the culprit in the ultimate erroneous output.
Is there a way to achieve this filter in such a way that this misnamed column reference would spark an error, or perhaps a way to force filter() to validate the column name?

A: The reason it is giving the full row is because if the column doesn't exist, it returns NULL, and when we do a filter with %in% on NULL, it returns FALSE. Negating (!), changes the FALSE to TRUE and thus we get all rows
anotherdf$ID
#NULL
onedf %>%
    filter(ID %in% NULL)
#[1] ID    Count
#<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

onedf %>%
    filter(!ID %in% NULL)
#  ID Count
#1  a     7
#2  b    80
#3  c    23

It can be easily understood, if we create a column with mutate
 onedf %>%
    mutate(flag1 = ID %in% anotherdf$ID, flag2 = !flag1)
#   ID Count flag1 flag2
#1  a     7 FALSE  TRUE
#2  b    80 FALSE  TRUE
#3  c    23 FALSE  TRUE

We could force to stop if there are no columns with that column name exist in 'anotherdf'
onedf %>%
     filter({stopifnot(exists('ID', where = anotherdf)); ID %in% anotherdf$ID})
Error: Problem with `filter()` input `..1`.
✖ exists("ID", where = anotherdf) is not TRUE
ℹ Input `..1` is `{ ... }`.
Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.

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Gov. Chris Christie is not out of the Bridgegate scandal just yet
Gov. Chris Christie was acquitted of all charges in Bridgegate in March 2014.
Two former New Jersey officials cleared an obstacle to getting information on a report that vindicated Gov. Chris Christie in a probe of a politically motivated bridge traffic snarl and implicated them.
Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni sought the data as they fight charges alleging they conspired to misuse the resources of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and caused four days of gridlock near the George Washington Bridge in September 2013 to punish a mayor who wouldn't support Mr. Christie's re-election campaign.
Mr. Christie is considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination for the 2016 election. The scandal over the lane closures that created the traffic jams had threatened to derail those ambitions.
U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in Newark, N.J., said in a letter filed Thursday in Newark federal court that he doesn't object to the officials' demand for notes relating to the investigation.
Issued in March 2014, the investigative report, prepared by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP as outside counsel for the governor's office, concluded Mr. Christie had no prior knowledge of the lane closures.
The report blamed the closing of lanes on the New Jersey side of the bridge approach, ostensibly for a traffic study, on Ms. Kelly, a former Christie deputy chief of staff, and Mr. Baroni, a former Port Authority official. Both face trial in November. David Wildstein, a former Port Authority official who has pleaded guilty, was also blamed in the report for the lane closures.
Rough notes
In his May 27 letter to U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton in Newark, Ms. Kelly's lawyer, Michael Critchley, said he sought a subpoena for Gibson Dunn to turn over "rough and/or draft handwritten and typed notes of interviews" conducted during the investigation.
Gibson Dunn hasn't filed a response to the subpoena demand. Randy Mastro, the Gibson Dunn partner who led the probe, didn't immediately respond to voice-mail and e-mail messages after regular business hours seeking comment.
Mr. Critchley said the law firm's failure to keep the raw notes from more than 70 interviews was "troublesome to say the least." He told Ms. Wigenton the records were those witnesses' "actual contemporaneous recitations of the facts" related to the indictment and that two witnesses have already said summaries of their statements later made public weren't accurate.
Mr. Fishman's office requested the same materials and was told none existed, Mr. Critchley told the judge.
Mayor, governor call truce on MTA feud
Ex-Christie ally David Wildstein to plead guilty in 'Bridgegate' probe
Three ex-Christie allies charged in 'Bridgegate' scandal
Two ex-Christie allies plead not guilty in 'Bridgegate' scandal
NYPD looks to recruit more Muslim officers
Wildlife officials to crush ivory in Times Square as a symbolic gesture
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Appeals court rules top U.S. officials can still pay damages for violating 9/11…
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Analysis of alexander pope& 39s essay on man
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On analysis of alexander man pope& essay 39s. But all the appetites which take their origin from a certain state of the body, seem to suggest the means of their own gratification; and, even long before experience, some anticipation or preconception of the pleasure which attends that gratification. The Maya graphic system was recognized from the first to be distinct from the Mexican. The general tendency of this advance of ideas is as yet very imperfectly realised. In 1150 the statutes of the chapter of Lausanne direct that all duels shall be fought before the provost—and the provost was Arducius, Bishop of Geneva.[502] In 1201 we see the Abbot of St. III.–_Of Universal Benevolence._ THOUGH our effectual good offices can very seldom be extended to any wider society than that of our country; our good-will is circumscribed by no boundary, but may embrace the immensity of the universe. It can set before us the most grotesque aberrations of dress, carriage and manners. Could any contemporary author exhibit such control? But the semi-educated imagination sees always the same things and sees them in the same way; and its use in the writing of fiction results as we have seen. I think we find in this behaviour a clear instance of laughter becoming an ingredient in the attitude of throwing off a customary restraint. e._, is emphatic. When a young officer exposes his life to acquire some inconsiderable addition to the dominions of his sovereign, it is not because the acquisition of the new territory is, to himself, an object more desirable than the preservation of his own life. The sensation excited in me by a piece of red-hot iron striking against any part of my body is simple, absolute, terminating in itself, not representing any thing beyond itself, nor capable of being represented by any other sensation or communicated to any other being. A writer who undertakes to discourse on laughter has to encounter more than one variety of irritating objection. He has been for years employed in the garden. Leave things, that are so, separate. Neither would the removal of necessary regulation of library traffic–the free distribution of books through the appointed public agencies. Our libraries are getting used to acting as a unit. Human life itself, as well as every different advantage or disadvantage which can attend it, might, they said, according to different circumstances, be the proper object either of our choice or of our rejection. Thus, in 794, a certain Bishop Peter, who was condemned by the Synod analysis of alexander pope& 39s essay on man of Frankfort to clear himself, with two or three conjurators, of the suspicion of complicity in a conspiracy against Charlemagne, being unable to obtain them, one of his vassals analysis of alexander pope& 39s essay on man offered to pass through the ordeal in his behalf, and on his success the bishop was reinstated.[1235] That this was strictly in accordance with usage is shown by a very early text of the Salic Law,[1236] as well as by a similar provision in the Ripuarian code.[1237] Among the Anglo-Saxons it likewise obtained, from the time of the earliest allusion to the ordeal occurring in their jurisprudence, down to the period of the Conquest.[1238] Somewhat similar in tendency was a regulation of Frederic Barbarossa, by which a slave suspected of theft was exposed to the red-hot iron unless his master would release him by an oath.[1239] Occasionally it was also resorted to when the accused was outsworn after having endeavored to defend himself by his oath or by conjurators. The activities of the library are at present a good deal like those of the amoeba–stretching out a tentacle here, withdrawing one there; improvising a mouth and then turning it into a stomach; shifting and stretching about; somewhat vague and formless, yet instinct with life, appetite and caution, and vitalized with at least the germ and promise of intelligence. Thus, the time was, according to this system, when the Moon was a body of the same kind with the Sun, the fiery centre of a circular stream of ether, which flowed continually round her; but her face having been crusted over by a congeries of angular particles, the motion of this circular stream began to languish, and could no longer defend itself from being absorbed by the more violent vortex of the Earth, which was then, too, a Sun, and which chanced to be placed in its neighbourhood. This is, on Massinger's part, an echo rather than an imitation or a plagiarism—the basest, because least conscious form of borrowing. [61] Ed. There is an excess of character and _naivete_ that never tires. The sally of cruel meaning out of what looks harmless nonsense, or a mere verbal slip—as in the polished rebuke of a Master of Trinity to a too confident Junior Fellow, "we are all fallible, even the youngest of us"—has a wounding force greater than that of a direct mode of statement. The Smell, too, may very probably suggest some even tolerably distinct perception of the Taste of the food to which it directs. Philosophers have, of late years, considered chiefly the tendency of affections, and have given little attention to the relation which they stand in to the cause which excites them. Lead was not unknown to the Aztecs before the conquest. of snow) (December). ix., p. OATHS AS ORDEALS. These body measures, as far as I have found them named, are as follows: _quequebem_, from the ground to the knee. We have, I think, a stronger fellow-feeling with him than we have with Bertram or Waverley. The contempt and hatred which {276} may be thrown upon him by the ignorance of mankind, he considers as not belonging to him, and is not at all mortified by it. Again, the earlier writers, those whom we look upon as our historical authorities, have been more explicit and ample in their description of Mexican native literature than of that of Yucatan. Was this accident or design? But the man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be, and who does not, upon many occasions, give credit to tales, which not only turn out to be perfectly false, but which a very moderate degree of reflection and {299} attention might have taught him could not well be true. Savage life supplies us with clear cases of inter-sexual jocosity besides that of the teasing which, as we have seen, is a two-sided game. A writer tells us that a common fireside amusement among certain savages is to tease the women till they become angry, which always produces great merriment. One, who is really anxious to do his duty, must be very weak, if he can imagine that he has much occasion for them; and with regard to one who is negligent of it, the very style of those writings is not such as is likely to awaken him to more attention. In 1864, the Mexican government appointed a commission to survey the celebrated ruins of Teotihuacan, under the care of Don Ramon Almaraz. At the common inns on this side the Simplon, the very sheets have a character for whiteness to lose: the rods and testers of the beds are like a peeled wand. But they are placed at so great a distance that they are almost quite out of sight. Unfortunately there are practical obstacles that do not present themselves in the case of the algebraic sum. He is not to take up with ready-made goods; for he has time allowed him to create his own materials, to make novel combinations of thought and fancy, to contend with unforeseen difficulties of style and execution, while we look on, and admire the growing work in secret and at leisure. Does this resemblance then consist in their being partially the same? It is not a very inspiring thing simply to sit down and watch a pile of books–hardly more so, I should think, than to take care of a pile of bricks or a load of turnips. The first of these occurs at a place called Ostend, between Hasborough and Bacton, about half a mile from the latter place. And for a contrary reason, how disagreeable does he appear to be, whose hard and obdurate heart feels for himself only, but is altogether insensible to the happiness or misery of others! 2.[205] [Illustration: FIG. I am not one of those who trouble the circulating libraries much, or pester the booksellers for mail-coach copies of standard periodical publications. It is true, that many paupers, who have long been subjected to a very different system, are scarcely receptive of any of the impressions which belong to human nature; but with a higher class of patients, this can seldom or never be the case, unless it be in cases of absolute dementia. Professor Ward considers that greater emphasis should be laid upon the psychic than upon the physical impressions recorded by the "mind-stuff." [52] Hudson's "Psychic Phenomena," p. In fact the man _per se_ is about the most helpless of animals. Here, for the second time, we must touch on the views propounded by authorities on the subject under the name of Theories of the Ludicrous.
Supplementing these printed records may be all sorts of manuscript material–letters, diaries, reminiscences or narratives written or dictated especially for the library by persons who have something locally interesting to tell. Again, we will suppose that the same company owns an elevated railway and a surface trolley line. The river forthwith returned to its old channel, and next morning the multitude which assembled to witness the combat were astounded to see the miracle. The earliest laughter of the child seems to illustrate this element. It was truly terrific! I do not find the old homely welcome. This change is undoubtedly a simplification of the language, in point of rudiments and principle. It was vicious whenever it obstructed the general good. Cases of suspension and cases of gradual decay of mind, as well as cases of Hypochondria, are of this description. So far, that is a good thing. When a boy I had my arm put out of joint, and I feel a kind of nervous twitching in it to this day whenever I see any one with his arm bound up in consequence of a similar accident. This is one way of shewing our gratitude, and being even with him. This little girl seems, up to the age of three, at least, to have been curiously indifferent to pain. Almost every one has a feeling that he has a real interest in the one, but that his interest in the other is merely imaginary; that his interest in the one is absolute and independent of analysis of alexander pope& 39s essay on man himself, that it exists with the same force whether he feels it, or not, whether he pursues, or neglects it, that it is a part of himself, a bond from which he cannot free himself without changing his being, whereas the interest which he takes in the welfare of others is a voluntary interest, taken up and dismissed at pleasure, and which exists no longer than he feels it; that his interest in his own welfare, however distant, must affect _him_ equally at present, since he is really the same being who is to enjoy, or suffer hereafter, but that with respect to the feelings of pleasure, or pain which another is to enjoy or suffer, he neither has any direct present interest, nor can have an indirect future interest in them: they are nothing to him. Moore, as the Squire of Dames, chimes in with the cue that is given him. But _I_ am not in reality more different from others than any one individual is from any other individual; neither do I in fact suppose myself to differ really from them otherwise than as they differ from each other. The pleasure I anticipated at that time in witnessing her dullest performance, was certainly greater than I should have now in seeing her in the most brilliant. 'Charity covers a multitude of sins.' Wherever it is, there nothing can be wanting; wherever it is not, all else is vain. But the poet is 'married to immortal verse,' the philosopher to lasting truth. 1, 2, 3, and 4.), indeed, virtue did not so much consist in those moderate and right affections, as in the habit of this moderation. Besides his want of early culture, being one of the middle class of patients, he was wholly left without mental food or exercise. Accordingly, we find that it was not always a matter of course for a man to clear himself in this manner. But such inability may be due to the absence of a sufficiently delicate introspection. It is not in being rich that truth {147} and justice would rejoice, but in being trusted and believed, recompenses which those virtues must almost always acquire. Is there such a book on my shelves? There are certain established modes of address, and certain answers to them expected as a matter of course, as a point of etiquette. As the wise G?the says: "_Seltsam ist Prophetenlied, Doch mehr seltsam was geschieht._" As to the supposed reference to the cross and its worship, it may be remarked that the native word translated "cross" by the missionaries, simply means "a piece of wood set upright," and may well have had a different and special signification in the old days. Another of the modern ceremonies which is imbued with the old notion, common to them as to all primitive people, of a soul with material wants, is that called "the feast of the food of the soul." Small cakes are made of the flesh of hens and pounded maize, and are baked in an underground oven. ] In this remarkable figure we observe the development and primary signification of those world-wide symbols, the square, the cross, the wheel, the circle, and the svastika. The politician, like the prostitute, has to court the populace; she is a woman of the streets–he is a man of the streets. The hardiness demanded of savages diminishes their humanity; and, perhaps, the delicate sensibility required in civilized nations, sometimes destroys the masculine firmness of the character. It is not the Latin erudition that sinks _Catiline_, but the application of that erudition to a form which was not the proper vehicle for the mind which had amassed the erudition. The young partridge, almost as soon as it comes from the shell, runs about among long grass and corn; the young grouse among long heath, and would both most essentially hurt themselves if they had not the most acute, as well as distinct perception of the tangible objects which not only surround them but press upon them on all sides. We are eager to assist them in completing a system of happiness that approaches so near to perfection; and we desire to serve them for their own sake, without any recompense but the vanity or the honour of obliging them. But the pictures of Waldeck and some other travelers do not deserve any confidence, and should not be quoted in a discussion of the subject. This was imitated by the Wisigoths, and its principle was admitted and enforced by the Church before the introduction of the Inquisition had changed its policy;[1623] but modern Europe, in borrowing from Rome the use of torture, combined it with the inquisitorial process, and thus in civilized Christendom it speedily came to be used more recklessly analysis of alexander pope& 39s essay on man and cruelly than ever it had been in pagan antiquity. There will always continue to be, therefore, some circulation from a distant reservoir of books that cannot be seen and handled by the reader for purposes of selection. Armorial bearings of this character present charges, the names of which resemble more or less closely in sound the proper names of the family who carry them. Somewhat similar to failures of this sort are those that arise from lack of initiative. He may not, however, always have acquired it; and it very frequently happens that he has not. Under what auspices shall it take place and toward what end shall it point? It may be, for instance, that near your library is the home of some great industry employing large numbers of intelligent mechanics who would gain both enjoyment and benefit by reading some of the technical literature bearing on their work. With them mental contacts may be numerous, wide, and easy. In the divine nature, according to these authors, benevolence or love was the sole principle of action, and directed the exertion of all the other attributes. Thus we say the same tree, the same forest, the same river, the same field, the same country, the same world, the same man, &c. The babble of the second and third months, which is made up of a reiteration of many vocal and consonantal sounds, may prepare for laughter, as it certainly does for speech. At first sight this may seem to be a fact of interest only to library workers, and not at all to the public. We expect in each rank and profession, a degree of those manners, which, experience has taught us, belong to it. In much the same spirit the other little girl, M., delighted, when two years old, in untying the maid's apron strings and in other jocose forms of mischief. A mon avis, une mystification sans grande portee et _much ado about nothing_." I have but an indifferent opinion of the prose-style of poets: not that it is not sometimes good, nay, excellent; but it is never the better, and generally the worse from the habit of writing verse. To the east a very lofty arch presents itself of the early gothic. Thus the artist Le Moyne de Morgues, writes: "Defuncto aliquo rege ejus provici?, magna solemnitate sepelitur, et ejus tumulo crater, e quo bibere solebat, imponitur, defixis circum ipsum tumulum multis sagittis."[69] The picture he gives of the "tumulus" does not represent it as more than three or four feet in height; so that if this was intended as an accurate representation, the structure scarcely rises to the dignity of a mound. It has been urged that all laughable things affect us by way of a shock of surprise followed by a sense of relief. He who reflects thus will find much to entertain him in the way of make-believe, when he examines the foundations of imposing reputations, or of the proud boast of political leaders that they carry "the Country" with them. There is absolutely no reason why the protection of "civil-service" regulation should be thrown over these libraries, and every reason why they should be free from the harassing and embarrassing petty annoyances and restrictions that are inseparable from such regulation. This ability {15} to recognise what we see as not of a particular kind of thing, without calling up a definite idea of this kind, extends to combinations and arrangements of parts in a whole. As these words prove that the foot-length was one of the standards of the Aztecs, it remains to be seen whether they enlighten us as to the _octacail_. On January 15th, 1825, another large mass of earth was detached from the light-house hills, and fell with great force on the beach, extending in breadth above three hundred yards from the cliffs, covering an area of twelve acres, and containing, it was supposed, not less than half a million of cubic yards of earth.
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