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Truss once again topping the CONHome ratings – politicalbetting.com
As we pointed out here the September CONHome Cabinet rankings seemed to be a good indicator of who would get sacked in the re-shuffle and who would do well. We have now got the latest figures which once again have Liz Truss right at the top with Grant Shapps now taking bottom place with Patel not far above.
First - for a change
TheWhiteRabbit Posts: 11,648
"Rishi-Liz battle"
Do we know what their relationship is like?
Third like Lord Frost.
Random thought - I wonder if it could be in Boris's interests to let Sunak do what he think needs to be done to raise taxes, then sack him and install a new Chancellor. That might to some extent restore his credit, particularly if the new Chancellor can start off with a token tax cut or two.
That would be a true Machiavellian move - getting rid of a rival and boosting his support in the party at the same time.
Priti Patel in trouble there.
Failure to sack Cressida Dick, and to stop the Channel boat crossings.
Failure to stop Insulate Britain will trump both of those.
TheWhiteRabbit said:
Don't start rumours, please...
She is about to give her conference speech
Her reception will be interesting especially on cross channel migrants
I am shocked.
Only 27 fuel tanker drivers from the EU have applied to work in Britain under the government's emergency scheme to tackle the petrol crisis, ministers have been told.
It means only a fraction of the 300 visas available for HGV drivers in the fuel industry are set to be taken up in a setback to efforts to replenish supplies.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/supply-crisis-military-moves-in-with-tanker-deliveries-to-petrol-stations-d00gls0bc
Not that sort of relationship!
Mogg is also pretty popular - and has zero chance of becoming leader.
I think Truss is more likely a decent trading bet than a real favourite for the leadership.
The fact that JRM is up there says a lot about Tory Party members.
Here's how it's gonna play out in 2024:
Johnson narrowly fails to achieve a majority. Starmer cobbles together a 'government of losers'. Johnson resigns. JRM elected Tory leader. Starmer calls a 2nd election.
Tory's toast or Tories toast?
TheScreamingEagles said:
I'm surprised they actually managed to find 27.
I did read a while back that it was quite friendly, he succeeded her as Chief Secretary and was based around that and the transition.
RochdalePioneers Posts: 15,422
Anyone would think that being imprisoned on an airfield at Christmas with no food or toilets would be welcomed by these eastern european peasants. Bloody ingrates.
Too much time reading @TheScreamingEagles posts has dirtied my mind, clearly.
Truss did Boris' warm up speech in 2019.
I left that room utterly convinced that she could win a two horse race.
I see there's a risk that she doesn't make it that far though.
He's been banging the drum pretty loudly against tax rises, probably the only one, that will make him popular.
A went to a fringe event I think from memory in 2015 where she was one of the speakers. One of the subjects being addressed was the UK's low productivity.
I left that room convinced that she could be a real contender.
eek said:
Who would have thought Brexit and the associated rhetoric would put off people coming to the UK.
Can I be the first PB Nat to suggest that the Chinese invasion of Taiwan, and the ensuing global war which will wipe out maybe a third of humanity, rendering much of the globe uninhabitable, can only be good for the cause of Scottish independence? And will actually increase SNP representation at Holyrood?
No, they will still not get indyref2. Even if we face a nuclear holocaust if we Tories are in government and any of us are still alive we will still not give Sturgeon indyref2.
Indeed the loss of Taiwanese independence and return to unity with China would suggest a global trend in the opposite direction
You are HAL 9000 and I claim my five pounds.
The top of those rankings is a real horror show. Apart from Ben Wallace, who I have never heard of, Nadhim Zahawi is the first in the list who is not a genuine fruitcake or appalling second rate hack. When did the politicians in this country become so poor quality?
Fake news.
Shows how out of touch you are, you probably just oppose them because they're Tories.
The only fruitcake or hack ahead of Zahawi is Mogg.
kinabalu Posts: 26,498
How come the Magnificent Muscly Man is so low in these ratings? Is he not loved by his own?
The problem for the government is that they have both caved into pressure to make the points-based migration system offer visas to people we need, and have made it so appallingly unattractive that nobody is interested.
The clear aim of the new migration system is not to allow migration. Hence all the comments over the last few days about the need to transition the economy. But rhetoric doesn't put fuel in petrol tanks or turkeys on the Christmas table, so better use the new migration system.
The problem is that by making it 5,000 only and fuck off at Christmas, we are being shunned. Saying "we need a painful transition, suck it up for Britain" would be one thing. But instead they panicked, tried to open the door and nobody is coming. Which makes it their fault. Had they toed the line and said no, they could have tried to blame industry. Now they can't as they have accepted that people are needed.
No wonder he quoted the Muppet Show. They really are.
Sky breaking
330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church since 1950
Maybe I'm being too harsh on Sunak, although I think EOTHO was a disastrous idea that probably killed people. But Truss? Frost? I would worry about them running the school tombola. The Tories have plenty of smart people in their ranks, but the top of this list looks like a freak show.
Mr. Pioneers, I agree with much of that. The PM is inadequate, unless one is seeking advice on infidelity, but worth recalling the muppetry is green-related. Fittingly, given the war on gas and internal combustion engines.
NickyBreakspear Posts: 157
Ben Wallace is the Defence secretary, who appears to be competent.
NickyBreakspear said:
Yes I can't comment on him as I have never heard of him.
RochdalePioneers said:
But it does allow the Government to throw the problem back into the industry's face, you asked for permits - we gave you what you asked for.
Who's that a problem for?
Its a problem for Remoaners who wanted freedom of movement restored.
Its a problem for employers who wanted a return to people being shipped like a commodity in a 21st century triangular trade.
For those who want employers to improve both pay and conditions for their employees - and conditions are reportedly just as critical as pay - this is not a problem.
The 'door' to bringing people in as a solution has been opened and behind that door was a goat not a car. Time for those who were calling for movement as the solution to switch.
Deal with pay and conditions. Quit whining.
EU freedom of movement = the Atlantic slave trade. Well, it's a view, as they say.
(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
Watched the first episode of the New Labour documentary last night. Contrast between scope and scale of change back then, and cautious incrementalism under display from Keir Starmer, was brutal.
Yep. Starmer only scratching the edges so far.
kinabalu said:
Yes, I thought the same. We're always told, with some justification, that Boris's lovable rogue persona tickles the fancy of vast swathes of the country. And yet the most ardent Tories in this poll seem not to be as enamoured as the voters. I can only guess that the Tories polled are skewed to the fiscally dry, traditional values branch of the party.
TOPPING Posts: 32,889
All I believe @RP was saying was that there will inevitably be a perhaps painful transition period. Where things such as shortages, price hikes, etc will feature until a new equilibrium is reached.
It is not a question of whether this high wage, high price, high tax economy is a good or bad thing; we can discuss that later when we look at the economics of such a strategy.
It is a question of whether people realise that moving to a high wage, high price, high tax economy involves some "can't get to there from here" adjustments. They might be painful; we shall see. We will also see whether the govt can see through the pain without caving so we can get to a high wage, high...well you get the point.
Mogg on Insulate: "They are willing to risk people's lives, when they haven't even bothered to insulate their own homes."
Frost has done an absolutely fantastic job in the negotiations with the EU getting a deal that could be brought through Parliament, something Robbins utterly failed to do. Getting a zero-tariff, zero-quota trade deal that we were told was cherrypicking and impossible. And now he's dealing with Article 16, using the powers he negotiated in the first round of negotiations.
That has shown tremendous talent, while Barnier etc have moved on he is stood there having nearly finished cleaning up the horlicks that Robbins and May made of the whole thing agreeing to deal with NI first.
As for Truss - her performance over the past couple of years has been excellent, just excellent. She did more for our international relations than Raab ever did - and her predecessor Liam Fox too who failed to sign the rollover deals she managed to get.
And thanks to Mike for including my name in the header.
S'much appreciated.
I was back in Rochdale yesterday managing the removers as my parents are moving up here (after 41 years in the same house). Whilst I've seen how busy the town is getting over the years, it really hit home yesterday with absurd traffic levels.
Quite simply there are too many cars, too many houses, too many people. For 20 years the council have allowed houses to be built and built and built along the Rochdale > Littleborough road to the point where its now ludicrously busy.
New houses means you need new roads. New schools. New infrastructure. But there has been none of that. Just people piled on top of people so that you can barely move. Yes I know my perspective has shifted having moved to the country. But at which point do councils have a requirement to actually stop and plan rather than just let developments go up everywhere?
Treating people as a commodity and shipping them around for minimum wage is a modern day comparable mindset, yes.
I daresay the Africans would have preferred FOM and to be treated as citizens, sorry subjects, of HMTQ equal to the natives, both in the UK and in the Empire (which would include UK registered ships). And for slave trade sugar to be declared illegal much as [edit] blood diamonds and ivory have been/will be in the EU.
I have some dim recollection that many of the the worst victims of modern slavery come/came from non-EU countries, not entirely surprisingly (i.e. as illegals, their gangmasters had an automatic hold on them).
We are witnessing the most profound change to our country in decades and if it works it will see the country transformed but I believe for this to succeed it needs more than a one term conservative administration
And here is the question, will the people be patient to give this change the time it needs or will those wanting to go back to free movement from the EU actually win through and rejoin the single market
No they didn't. 5,000 for each was nowhere near enough, on terms that were prohibitively tight. Industry will throw it back at them - we asked for people, you agreed we could have them and then you fucked it up.
Its a problem for people expecting a nice Christmas...
And yet you still advocate for even more immigration to fill minimum wage jobs? Rather than have businesses raise pay rates or invest in automation?
Do you not see the flagrant hypocrisy? How can you have "stop and plan" if there's free movement? You can't "plan" when ten million people net have arrived in a few years.
At this point in Blair's leadership, he was pushing through the Clause 4 reforms that defined Blairism in the eyes of the party.
What's Starmer's Clause 4?
I think this might be a local peak for Truss. Foreign Secretary is a really difficult job to make an impression with. All the important bits, with potential for crowd-pleasing, are handled by other ministers: trade deals, EU-baiting, defence cooperation. And the PM will swoop in for the highlights of the rest of international diplomacy.
It leaves the Foreign Secretary with the task of cancelling their holiday to look impotent in the face of the latest international crisis. Though at least Truss will probably be capable enough to do both parts of that job, unlike Raab, who was only able to manage the latter.
If she manages to make more of the job and maintains a strong positive profile, then she will have done well.
So what you are saying is that Freedom is Slavery, right? I'm sure I've heard that line before somewhere... 🤔
Christmas trading begins in earnest in four weeks yesterday.
There isn't time to be pratting around with visas etc, it isn't happening. The door has been opened and there's nothing there.
Companies that want stock on shelves need to pay whatever it takes. Any companies that fail to do so, hopefully they lose profits and market share to those that do. Consumers will take their hard earned money to whichever company manages to have stock available - Amazon don't seem to have any issues with availability.
So industry can't be bothered to go looking for recruits for the visas they were offered, but want yet more visas made available?
Moving to the Broch is quite a contrast to be fair
MattW Posts: 11,752
Rather concise for him. However, spot on.
Given that he has been correctly pointedly personal at them, does anyone know what the EPCs are on Mogg's Houses?
(These things are overwhelmingly public,)
No Freedom is not Slavery.
Employers thinking they can evade paying a good wage by just ship people over in shitty conditions instead . . . you don't see the parallel or issue with that?
Giving people the right to live, work and study in 30 European countries is in no conceivable way comparable to slavery.
July 4, 1387. At 12.36
TOPPING said:
Yes. We have gone all the way through the stages of Brexiteer denial. This won't happen its just Project Fear, then this is absolutely not happening, then this is happening but its happening elsewhere please don't blame Brexit, now its a designed-in feature. Its good that we have growing shortages because the economy is in transition.
So the test will be how many people will be happy to suffer the consequences of this transition. The promise was jam tomorrow, the offer has now been changed to an empty jam jar.
The reason why the botched visas scheme is a problem is simple. In doing so the government has recognised that this transition is going to be bloody awful. But in not offering enough visas or visas on terms that anyone will accept it can't just blame industry who say "give us people" as the government agree they need people.
They should do one of two things. Hold the line. Yes this will be a rough winter, yes there will shortages and outages and less stuff available will cost you more, but the jam we promised is coming. OR, try and pass the blame for the rough winter onto greedy business leaders whose fault it is. They appear to be riding both horses.
The PM said it was 127 on Breakfast.
It's a problem for people on fixed incomes who do not have the ability to negotiate inflation-busting pay rises. In other words, the principal Tory voting demographic.
TBF I'm not sure I'd want the Defence Secretary on the front pages the whole time!
Yes, if Boris wins the next general election then the next Tory leader would likely be one of Truss or Sunak who would then of course become the next PM.
However, if Boris loses the next general election and Starmer becomes PM, probably of a minority Labour government then others will come into play too. In particular Jacob Rees-Mogg, now on a +66% approval rating in the ConHome Tory party members survey even ahead of Rishi, would be a contender to be leader of the Conservative party and leader of the opposition to a PM Starmer. Ben Wallace must also be a contender as well in such circumstances given his solid performance as Defence Secretary and popularity with the membership
Last Christmas we were isolated on our own not allowed to be with our family
This Christmas we will be together as a family once more and to be honest if we cannot get turkey then we will find an alternative
It most certainly will be a joyous Christmas no matter if a few other things are unavailable as well
He tells the urban middle class that their lifestyle has been dependent upon exploitation for too long and that they will now have to pay more so that said exploitation can end.
Shipping people in so that 12 working adults live in a 3 bedroom home, in order to pay them a pittance because they're desperate and evade having to offer good terms and conditions is the same mindset and is comparable though.
Maybe the ones who downloaded the application forms?
PJH said:
mickydroy said:
Robinson doing a robust job of combatting the PM's pitiful bluster on R4 this morning
We may be a few years yet before the public see through the bluster and the jokes and realise they have been totally had. But they will and the fall will be brutal.
I totally agree, that when the reckoning happens to the Tory party, it will be brutal, and they will go down to a drubbing, we have never seen before, but I have to add a but first, they need to win the next election first. Then the one after that they will be turned on, anyone but Tory party will walk it
I've been thinking along these lines too. I reckon the next election will be a good one to lose, as I can see the Tories managing to kick most of the cans far enough down the road to get re-elected. Then the chickens will all come home to roost. (Sorry for mixed metaphors).
If Labour win, they will get no credit from the actions they will have to take to clear up the mess (a bit like 1974).
As it happens, Labour have too big a mountain to climb to win in 2023/4. They might deprive the Tories of majority. That is entirely possible especially if the economic shit coming is as dire as I think it will be. So a minority Labour administration gets the blame for failing to clear up the mess. I can see some of the more thoughtful Tories thinking that might be a better way to go.
It's never a good election to lose
Except if you're Ruth Davidson.
According to the media, she won every election she ever lost.
They tend to ship themselves, though. As someone said, the only thing worse for poor countries than being exploited, is not being exploited. And it doesn't look like minimum wage when you turn it into zlotys.
I think you need to step back from big concepts like "free movement" and "single market". Those won't be front of wind this winter if this plays out as badly as even the government now say it will. Most people are not that ideological. "What works" is what they want. And the government are refusing to do what it takes.
I don't get their inflexibility on these things. Not just the labour force where they are riding both horses and in danger of falling between them into the mud. Javid is refusing to use private hospitals to clear the NHS backlog. Why not? Public money paid to private firms to deliver public service that the monolith has failed to do.
You'd think they'd be all over this. Blair did it without hesitation - do what works when in crisis. Are the government really trying to pretend there is no NHS crisis the same way they are denying there is a fuel crisis or an energy crisis or a manufacturing crisis or a logistics crisis?
Frankly I don't, and if you genuinely think the two are equivalent then you don't know much about the slave trade, or EU FoM, or quite likely both. All joking aside the comparison is insulting and simply confirms the extent to which Brexiteers like you have become detached from reality.
What was the process for this?
Does rather remind me of "nothing done in X months" type of complaints, when the minimal process actually takes X+3 months. Often happens.
"You are HAL 9000 and I claim my five pounds."
How many times have you robotically parroted that same message? She's not even a part of the conversation?
My Christmas ducks are in a row. In the freezer.
Acceptance of Brexit - Make Brexit Work.
MattW said:
Agencies / Companies pick up the phone and ask do you want to come back? Do you know anyone who can do x and wants to work in the UK?
If JRM is the Tory Corbyn and Starmer tried to do a May 2017 snap election to get a landslide against him it may not work out as he planned, as May discovered too
Yes getting a dozen plus people in a tiny shitty flat in order to all work for minimum wage were willingly shipped.
But employers were facilitating the shipping. There were companies who were not even bothering to look in this country for staff as it was cheaper and easier to fly in staff from abroad and given them shitty beds in crowded flats and they had to work in conditions not exactly far from modern day slavery.
That's why now that such migration has been halted the largest squealing is from employers who can't get away with shipping people like commodities instead of from people themselves.
Shipping in implies those who came had no choice. They did. Slaves didn't. As a country, we chose to allow 12 adults to live in three bedroom houses and to make it as hard as possible for employees to organise collectively in order to secure good wages and working conditions. That had nothing to do with freedom of movement.
Northern_Al said:
That's just a slogan with no detailled policy behind it.
Blair's Clause 4 charges were serious actual policy, that he had to do the hard work of selling to his own party.
The PM says that they asked the hauliers to give them the names of the drivers they wanted visas for and the government would sort it. They provided 127. So far.
Yes maybe it's one of those jobs where it's a mark of success if you're not a household name.
Mind you, with Polish labourers, you never see watermelon smiles....
Yep but as we are aware no government, no politician can admit blatantly obvious truths such as this will hurt but the destination may well be sunlit.
Instead it is relying on people not noticing or caring at the planning stage (now), and also on people blindly parroting the strategy of saying this bug is now a feature (eg. @PT).
Tomorrow will come, however and, as the oldest economic/mathematical rule states, you can't get to there from here.
nico679 Posts: 603
Exactly . The key thing is choice and if people want to move they can . This freedom now flushed down the toilet and celebrated as if it's a big win by the Brexit cult . Brits are now second class citizens in Europe with less freedoms than 27 other countries in the EU .
People can 'have a choice' to engage with modern day slavery, but that doesn't make it the right thing to do.
Especially when employers have 'bonded' the people they've shipped in putting them in debt to pay for their shipping transport, accomodation etc and then make them work off their debts.
You're in complete denial if you think modern day slavery doesn't exist and that free movement didn't facilitate it. And the reason all the complaints now are coming from employers and not people show who is suffering now the flow of modern day slavery has been brought to a halt.
Yes. FOM provides a labour pool when you can't attract local labour. The pay and conditions are not a direct result of FOM - we can still pay sane wages and not force 6 in a room conditions.
"Ah but an endless labour pool allows people to be exploited". Yes and no - a restricted labour pool also offers the same opportunity of the legislative and societal framework allows it to be so. Have workers of whatever origin unionised and protected by working time regulations and HSE laws and the exploitation doesn't have to be there. It isn't elsewhere in western Europe with FOM.
No they were pure centrist virtue signalling. Necessary, useful work perhaps, and I agreed with the change, but it really just aligned de jure and de facto policy positions.
So where is the 27 from?
Are we in journos can't count territory? Or just reporting of very early numbers?
Blair didn't stand to lead the Labour Party on, and wasn't elected on, a far left platform I suppose.
Nor was he was committed to Trot politics as Starmer was in less opportunistic days.7
Starmer is Kinnock, not Blair.
Slavery is illegal.
I hear plenty of people complaining about not being able to find petrol or products in the shops.
But many/most of the victims in the UK are from outwith the EU.
It's the lack of immigration controls, which you have justified to me on this site, that has been the problem.
I wouldn't be so quick to write him off as a leadership contender. Similar to Boris Johnson, he has a persona/character well developed. He's popular with the membership. He's appeared on HIGNFY and is probably one of the best known members of Cabinet.
One thought I have had for years is that the government could have driven the kind of industrial transformation that Beaker is now such an advocate of. Instead of just piling on a Corporation Tax cut they could have made it conditional.
Let big companies only pay 19% tax if they are a living wage employer. If they maintain no forced waiving of working time rules. If they give proper maternity and sick pay. That would have had a huge impact on pay and working conditions.
Instead we have people like Johnson triumphing the slashing of both corporation taxes and corporate responsibility, then working why companies are paying low wages and imposing poor conditions as direct result of their own policies to deliver exactly that.
Yes the practices that (ultra free marketeer) PT is attacking are simply the results of unfettered free market capitalism. My first job, back in the day when Tories decried the minimum wage as a tax on jobs and an attack on freedom, paid £1.50 an hour. Not a Pole or a Romanian in sight. Just good old fashioned British exploitative employers. Free market capitalism at work.
nico679 said:
We are second class citizens in our own country. Anyone who holds an Irish passport in the UK has won life's great lottery!
This is a profoundly illiberal government that is systematically taking rights away from UK citizens - freedom of movement is just one.
He had a run in with Carrie about flying pet dogs out of Afghanistan.
That withdrawal was only a month ago, but we seem to have forgotten all about it. Doubt the Afghans have.
On topic, Stephen Bush of Statesman's email this morning - an interesting comment:
"The central reason why Patel's stock is not as high as it once was among Conservative activists is the perception that her department is failing: that she is unable to prevent more people coming here on boats in search of a better life, that we have de facto decriminalised most crimes other than murder and speeding, that the Metropolitan Police is poorly run, and so on.
Now, the wheel of politics has plenty of turns and it's possible that this time next year we're once again talking about how much activists and MPs love Priti Patel. But the concern among some MPs who believe - rightly in my view - that Patel was integral to their 2019 re-election is that the fall in the Home Secretary's stock among party activists is the first sign that the government's advantage as far as crime and security is concerned might once again be about to come under serious threat in the country as a whole."
Modern day slavery absolutely does exist.
If you think it doesn't, you need to educate yourself.
I have no problems with the market finding a free market rate and £1.50 per hour before the minimum wage existed isn't that different to the £2.00 I was paid in my first job post-minimum wage.
But employers paying to ship people around like they are commodities and putting people into debt to pay for them to be shipped around . . . I don't view that as part of the free market.
There have been plenty of cases of trafficked women having their passports taken and forced to work as prostitutes. Literal sex slaves. "you need to educate yourself" - FFS why do you post this self-satisfied guff?


Gospel meeting at the close of the 2011 conference.
Gospel from Isaiah 53 by Mark Bonnell.
Gospel from John Stubbs at the 2007 conference.
Gospel preached on Sunday night of the 2006 Midland Park conference by David McAllister.
Gospel preached on Sunday night of the 2006 Midland Park conference by Michael Penfold.
Gospel delivered on Saturday night of the 2006 Midland Park conference by David Oliver.
Gospel delivered on Saturday night of the 2006 Midland Park conference.


Meet Mayla Highmountain at Thunder Totem in Highmountain.
Spiritwalker Ebonhorn remains in great danger. He and Mayla have returned to Highmountain, but I believe they still need our aid.
Let us journey to Thunder Totem and do whatever we can to mend Ebonhorn. Perhaps our deeds will strengthen the bond between our peoples.
Ebonhorn has spoken of ancient wards that must be maintained in Highmountain. Wards that hold back a great darkness.
This may be tied to the evil that grips him now.
We must hope that Spiritwalker Graysky can tell us more.
Upon accepting, Baine mounts a wyvern and flies away. The NPCs that were partying at the beginning of the questline are now partying again, along with the fighting guards and void creatures and their void-trapped counterparts in the tents. So is Baine duplicated in his tent.


This is Broke Leg Falls in Menifee County, KY. Below the waterfall there once was a beautiful forested gorge. The area was destroyed by a tornado in 2012. In this photo I attempted to feature the remaining beauty, and hide most of the devastation.


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        $this->session->getFlashBag()->set('my_second_bundle_error', 'hey, error dude!');

        // When
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        // When
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        $messages = $this->flashManager->get('success', 'MyCustomDomain');

        $this->session->getFlashBag()->set('my_bundle_success', 'my_bundle_success_message');
        $messagesWithoutDomain = $this->flashManager->get('success');

        // Then
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        foreach ($messages as $message) {
            $this->assertSame($message, 'My bundle success message!');
        }

        foreach ($messagesWithoutDomain as $message) {
            $this->assertSame($message, 'my_bundle_success_message');
        }
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     */
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    {
        return new Session(new MockArraySessionStorage(), new AttributeBag(), new FlashBag());
    }

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        return new FlashManager($this->session, $this->translator, $types, $classes);
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Debunking 7 equity crowdfunding misconceptions
The lowdown on equity crowdfunding and some common misconceptions care of upSTART 2018 Major Sponsors, Seedrs.
"Equity crowdfunding can often be a shrewd way to fund a business. Yet there are certain misconceptions that could lead to an entrepreneur mistakenly discounting it as a viable funding option:
1. A capital injection is the sole benefit from equity crowdfunding
Not so. Although funding a business is the main objective of equity crowdfunding, there are other valuable benefits on top:
It's an excellent way to engage with existing customers.
It may help a business to attract new clients.
Equity crowdfunding may create brand evangelists who could help publicise the company.
A business may receive crucial feedback on developing their existing service/product, along with opinions from investors on what else they'd like to see the company offer.
2. Managing a lot of investors takes lots of time
This depends on the equity crowdfunding platform you decide to go with. At Seedrs, because of the Seedrs Advantage Nominee structure, a company may have many investors but will only need to deal with one: Seedrs. This also means that there won't be a complicated cap table which may put off VCs from investing in the future.
However, if you opt for an equity crowdfunding platform without a nominee structure, it's possible to have hundreds or even thousands of investors on the cap table, which can result in a tremendous amount of work and even delays if consents are needed on important decisions.
3. Equity crowdfunding platforms won't attract investment from angels
Depending on the company that's raising, angels, venture capitalists (VCs) and general investors may all invest. What's more, angels and VCs look to equity crowdfunding platforms like Seedrs as it often provides access to deals they would otherwise not be able to participate in.
4. The use of a crowdfunding platform will alienate VCs and institutional investors in future rounds
As long as the capital raised is wisely invested by the company, it may place it in a better position if an institutional round is desired in the future. And VCs may view an equity crowdfunded round as validation for the business.
At Seedrs we've witnessed many companies go on to raise further rounds exclusively with a VC or with a VC alongside the crowd. For instance, Landbay received investment from Zoopla and Perkbox raised alongside Draper Espirit.
However, it's worth noting that without a nominee structure in place to manage shareholders, VCs and institutional investors may not be attracted to investing in a business.
5. Businesses choose to crowdfund as they can't attract capital from angels or VCs
Equity crowdfunding should not be seen as a last resort. In fact, VCs diversify their portfolios by investing on Seedrs. For example, Beeline had both Seedcamp and Truestart invest in their round. Many entrepreneurs view equity crowdfunding as preferable to taking on debt to fund growth as servicing it may put a strain on finances.
6. The platform and the crowd is all that's needed
Entrepreneurs actually need to put effort into generating stories to create PR and they need to work on an excellent pitch. They need to ensure that their contacts, customers, friends and family are all aware of their campaign.
Your pitch may be superb, but investors who hadn't heard of your business prior to your pitch may not decide to invest until you've already reached a fair amount of the investment target. This is often because they want to believe a company has a decent chance of reaching the target before they'll commit to investing.
7. Equity crowdfunding is the easy way to get funded
It takes an investment in thought, creativity and team engagement by the entrepreneurs and their teams to reach an investment target. However, at Seedrs we've put a lot of effort into making the process as efficient as possible."
Contact Seedrs – and avoid equity crowdfunding misconceptions.
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Published on: 16th June 2018
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Leading online database to remove 600,000 images after art project reveals its racist bias
ImageNet Roulette was launched by the artist Trevor Paglen and the AI researcher Kate Crawford
Courtesy: ImageNet Roulette
ImageNet, one of the largest, publicly accessible online databases of pictures, has announced that it will remove 600,000 images of people stored in its system.The news follows the launch of an online project by the artist Trevor Paglen and the AI researcher Kate Crawford who revealed the troubling and often racist ways in which the artificial intelligence used by ImageNet categorises people.Paglen and Crawford's ImageNet Roulette went viral this month as users uploaded photographs of themselves which were then classified by ImageNet technology.While white people are regularly assigned wildly inaccurate job descriptions—one editor for the Verge, for example, was categorised as a "pipe smoker" and a "flight attendant"—for people of colour, the technology is far more sinister with social media users reporting that they had been described with racist slurs and other highly-offensive terms.As the database is widely used to train machines how to "see" and law enforcement agencies, private employers and schools in the US are increasingly using facial-recognition technologies for security purposes, the implications are far-reaching."As AI technology advances from research lab curiosities into people's daily lives, ensuring that AI systems produce appropriate and fair results has become an important scientific question," ImageNet says in a statement posted on its website.Although the statement does not refer to Paglen and Crawford's online art project, it was published just five days after the opening of the duo's Training Humans exhibition at the Fondazione Prada's Osservatorio venue in Milan (until 24 February 2020), which brought renewed attention to ImageNet's flawed categorisation systems. "This exhibition shows how these images are part of a long tradition of capturing people's images without their consent, in order to classify, segment, and often stereotype them in ways that evokes colonial projects of the past," Paglen says.No matter what kind of image I upload, ImageNet Roulette, which categorizes people based on an AI that knows 2500 tags, only sees me as Black, Black African, Negroid or Negro. Some of the other possible tags, for example, are "Doctor," "Parent" or "Handsome." pic.twitter.com/wkjHPzl3kP— Lil Uzi Hurt (@lostblackboy) September 18, 2019 Racist technologyImageNet was created in 2009 by researchers at Princeton and Stanford universities. It assembled its collection of pictures of people by scraping them off the internet from websites such as Flickr. These were then categorised by Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. The prejudices and biases of these low-paid, crowd-sourced labourers are inevitably reflected in the AI system that they helped create.ImageNet says it has been "conducting a research project to systematically identify and remedy fairness issues that resulted from the data collection process" for the past year. It has identified 438 categories of people on its database, which are "unsafe", defined as "offensive, regardless of context." A further 1,155 labels are "sensitive" or potentially offensive, depending on the context in which they are used. All the images associated with these categorisations are now being removed from the database. In response to ImageNet's announcement, Paglen and Crawford said that ImageNet Roulette had "achieved its aims" and would no longer be available online after Friday 27 September."ImageNet Roulette was launched earlier this year as part of a broader project to draw attention to the things that can—and regularly do—go wrong when artificial intelligence models are trained on problematic training data," the duo write on the project's website."We created ImageNet Roulette as a provocation: it acts as a window into some of the racist, misogynistic, cruel, and simply absurd categorisations embedded within ImageNet. It lets the training set 'speak for itself,' and in doing so, highlights why classifying people in this way is unscientific at best, and deeply harmful at worst.""The research team responsible for ImageNet [has now] announced that after ten years of leaving ImageNet as it was, they will now remove half of the 1.5 million images in the "person" categories. While we may disagree on the extent to which this kind of "technical de-biasing" of training data will resolve the deep issues at work, we welcome their recognition of the problem. There needs to be a substantial reassessment of the ethics of how AI is trained, who it harms, and the inbuilt politics of these 'ways of seeing.' So we applaud the ImageNet team for taking the first step.""ImageNet Roulette has made its point—it has inspired a long-overdue public conversation about the politics of training data, and we hope it acts as a call to action for the AI community to contend with the potential harms of classifying people," they say. • Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford's investigative article about ImageNet, "Excavating AI", is available here
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Future of RNs in aged care in spotlight
A large group of aged care nurses, specialised carers, advocates and local residents gathered at Springwood yesterday for a community forum to discuss the future of registered nurse staffing in aged care.
Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association (NSWNMA) have been increasing public awareness of the potential risk to legislation which requires nursing homes across the state to be staffed with registered nurses, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
General Secretary of the NSWNMA, Brett Holmes, said the current law stipulates nursing homes in NSW must have a registered nurse on duty at all times and a director of nursing appointed.
"As a result of changes to the federal law last year however, the NSW government must now decide whether or not to retain that requirement and is conducting a review," Mr Holmes said.
"We maintain that it is in the best interests of residents for a registered nurse to be employed around the clock in these care settings.
"Registered nurses in nursing homes often prevent unnecessary trips to emergency departments or prolonged hospital stays, and they can provide immediate skilled, clinical care to residents with complex, high level needs."
Local candidates running for the seat of Blue Mountains in the state election were also on hand to address the community forum and express their views on the issue, including Trish Doyle (NSW Labor) and Alandra Tasire (NSW Greens). Liberal MP and candidate Roza Sage did not attend but provided a written statement to be read out on her behalf, in which she confirmed her support for the retention of registered nurses around the clock in aged care.
The NSW government introduced an interim measure in June 2014 to maintain the current requirement as consultations occur with the aged care sector. A decision is due by December.
"It is concerning that many nursing homes could lose the registered nurse requirement, if the government decides not to transfer that same requirement into new legislation," Mr Holmes said.
"We are calling on the Ministry of Health to ensure the requirement is permanently legislated for nursing homes in NSW and will continue to lobby on behalf of registered nurses, enrolled nurses and assistants in nursing for safe staffing and high quality of care across the aged care sector."
Attendees at the community forum took the opportunity to sign a petition circulated by the NSWNMA, which insists on registered nurses 24/7 in NSW nursing homes. Further details on the petition can be found here.
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Q: Insert a new directory path to PATH in .cshrc file fail I want to add a additional directory to PATH in .cshrc in my home directory .
But after I put the path to it ,It still not working . I don't know what's the problem ...
After I add this directory to .cshrc I type the name of program to use it , But it can't find ...
I want to add a directory called .tools in my home directory
The original file
set path = (. ~ /sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin)

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set path = (. ~ ~/.tools /sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin)

A: The shell reads ~/.cshrc only once, at start-up. Therefore, any changes you make to the file will not be picked up immediately. You can either start a new shell, or type source ~/.cshrc to make the current shell reread the file.

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		$username = $_POST['username'];
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		$data =  array('username' => $username);
		$this->load->model('admin/login_model');
		if ($this->login_model->login_admin($username,$password)==1){
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		$this->form_validation->set_rules('username', 'Username', 'trim|required|xss_clean');
		$this->form_validation->set_rules('password', 'Password', 'trim|required|xss_clean|callback_check_database');

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			}
			return TRUE;
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			$this->form_validation->set_message('check_database', 'Invalid username or password');
			return false;
		}
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}
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Edinburgh embarks on 20mph scheme rollout
By Natalie Middleton / 4 years ago / Latest News / No Comments
Edinburgh Council has launched the first zone in the capital's new 20mph limit rollout.
Edinburgh's multi-million pound 20mph scheme will affect more than 80% of the city's roads
Around 50% of Edinburgh's streets already have a 20mph limit. Approved by councillors in January 2015 following public consultation, the project extends 20mph speed limits to approximately 80% of Edinburgh's streets.
The first of the new schemes went live yesterday (Sunday 31 July) and covers all residential, shopping and city centre streets in the capital under a Traffic Regulation. A further five zones will be rolled out up to 31 January 2018.
Chief Inspector Mark Rennie of Police Scotland said: "We remain committed to casualty reduction on our roads and whenever we observe motorists disobeying the 20mph speed limit, or where the public tell us there is an ongoing problem, we will respond appropriately.
"Changes to road layouts, proper signage and continued engagement with the public are the keys to ensuring the speed limit is adhered to, however, police will give due attention to areas around schools to ensure public safety."
In response, IAM RoadSmart says it is unconvinced of the value of the scheme.
Neil Greig, policy and research director, said: "It's a blanket approach. On some streets, 20mph is a speed that you might aspire to rather than need to limit yourself to. But there are others where it looks and feels safer to go over 20, and that's potentially confusing because drivers take their cue from the environment.
"If you look at the evidence, what seems to work is measures like speed bumps and narrower roads. Covering whole areas in one 20mph limit and putting up some signs is a cheap way to do it. We'd rather see investment made in dealing with the streets where there will be the most benefit."
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FASD Elephant™ #002: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) History and Diagnostic Introduction
January 18, 2019 August 1, 2007 by Michael Harris
The earliest known observation of possible links between maternal alcohol use and fetal damage may have been made in 1899 by Dr. William Sullivan, a Liverpool prison physician who noted higher rates of stillbirth for 120 alcoholic female prisoners than their sober female relatives and suggested the causal agent to be alcohol use (Sullivan, 1899).
This view contradicted the predominant theories of the day, which were that genetics caused mental retardation, poverty, and criminal behavior. A case study popular in the early 1900s by Henry H. Goddard involved the Kallikak family and shows the bias of the time period (Goddard, 1912), though later researchers conclude that the Kallikaks almost certainly had FAS (Karp, R.J., et al, 1995).
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, or FAS, was named in 1973 by two dysmorphologists, Drs. Kenneth Lyons Jones and David W. Smith of the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle. They identified a pattern of "craniofacial, limb, and cardiovascular defects associated with prenatal onset growth deficiency and developmental delay" in eight unrelated children of three ethnic groups, all born to mothers who were alcoholics (Jones, K.L., et al, 1973).
While many syndromes are eponymous, or named after the physician first reporting the association of symptoms, Dr. Smith named FAS after alcohol, the causal agent of the symptoms. His reasoning for doing so was to promote prevention of FAS, believing that if people knew maternal alcohol consumption caused the syndrome, then abstinence during pregnancy would follow from patient education and public awareness. Nobody was aware of the full range of possible birth defects from FASD or its prevalence rate at that time, but admitting alcohol use during pregnancy can feel stigmatizing to birth mothers and complicate diagnostic efforts of a syndrome with its preventable cause in the name. Over time, the term FASD is coming to predominate.
Diagnostic Systems
Since the original syndrome of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) was reported in 1973, four FASD diagnostic systems that diagnose FAS and other FASD conditions have been developed in North America:
The Institute of Medicine's guidelines for FAS, the first system to standardize diagnoses of individuals with prenatal alcohol exposure (Institute of Medicine (IOM), Stratton, K.R., Howe, C.J., & Battaglia, F.C. (1996). Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.),
The University of Washington's "The 4-Digit Diagnostic Code," which ranks the four key features of FASD on a Likert scale of one to four and yields 256 descriptive codes that can be categorized into 22 distinct clinical categories, ranging from FAS to no findings,
The Centers for Disease Control's "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Guidelines for Referral and Diagnosis," which established general consensus on the diagnosis FAS in the U.S. but deferred addressing other FASD conditions, and
Canadian guidelines for FASD diagnosis, which established criteria for diagnosing FASD in Canada and harmonized most differences between the IOM and University of Washington's systems.
Each diagnostic system requires that a complete FASD evaluation include assessment of the four key features of FASD–prenatal alcohol exposure, FAS facial features, growth deficiency, and central nervous system damage. A positive finding on all four features is required for a diagnosis of FAS, the first diagnosable condition of FASD that was discovered. However, prenatal alcohol exposure and central nervous system damage are the critical elements of the spectrum of FASD, and a positive finding in these two features is sufficient for an FASD diagnosis that is not "full-blown FAS."
Diagnoses and diagnostic criteria will be described in detail in the next podcast.
Feedback or comments may be sent to: Michael__at__FASDElephant__dot__com.
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FASD Elephant™ #003: The Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Diagnosis


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Global Remix - Thinkers50 Europe. Global Remix - Thinkers50 Europe.
The new context, part 1. How do you make sense of a colliding world? From migration to a new populism, a new machine age with a social purpose, the rapid growth of robotics and biotech, the fusion of geographies and sectors, cultures and religions, what are the consequences and opportunities for business? This "debate-style" session brings together three experts to explore what matters most, and what business should do next.
Alf Rehn is a Finnish academic with a lifelong love of trashy popular culture. Based at the Åbo Akademi University in Turku, he is author of Dangerous Minds and Trendspotting. He is also the funniest and most outrageous thinker you will ever meet, exploring issues of new technologies, power, exclusion, creativity and innovation, using counter-intuitive analyses of core assumptions within business.
Mona Hammami Hijazi is director at the Office of Strategic Affairs, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court. Her new book The Giving World offers a new approach to the many significant social and economic challenges faced by the developing world. These include tackling poverty and disease, reducing crime, and creating the infrastructure and security to foster economic prosperity.
Alexander Betts achieved fame with his TED talk "Our refugee system is failing; here's how we can fix it" and became a leading commentator on the rise of populism across Europe, and offers new solutions to a global problem. He is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs at Oxford University, and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.


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Bears Bureau: The Massacre on Folsom Street
Yeah I still haven't gotten over this and I'm going to let you know about it
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The Mile High. What is my home away from home in the Bay Area. A place that allows me to watch my hometown team in the California Golden Bears face off against my adopted city and the Colorado Buffaloes. During the bye week and as I made my trek to Boulder, I told anyone and everyone I knew that facing Colorado at this time was a recipe for disaster. A new coach that would unquestionably motivate the Buffs 1000x better, a game where both Cal and Colorado fans knew that the result could possibly swing on a pendulum, and a crowd that wiped the floor with anything else I've seen in person this season.
And yet, this wasn't a surprise. I was firmly in the boat that Cal would open the game strong and turtle to end of the game in the vein of a 27-17 game. Then I found out the Golden Bears traveled to Boulder only 20 hours (????) before the game. In my 12 years I've been traveling to Boulder, this was the most the altitude has ever gotten to me, let alone a football team running hard and often. I was perplexed yet I bit my tongue because maybe there was something I was missing here. I told Avinash about the Bears travel plans in the Folsom Field pressbox as I sat there for the first time professionally covering a game on the road and he looked at me as if I was from an asylum. Yet after all that, it was far from the most insane thing to happen that day.
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My view from the press box at Folsom Field
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This isn't Pullman. This isn't facing Notre Dame in South Bend. And hell, it isn't even Arizona last season. This was a self deprecating and embarrassing, massacre. Everything we have come to know about this season was flipped on its head and it is imperative that the proper people be held accountable and the proper people are praised. More on that later. But it is crucial to stress that there are no cutting corners here. No excuses. Nobody played well enough to win the game. No one coached well enough to win the game. And that's how you get the results and pictures of Saturday. It's time to show up or go home. Does Cal want to be a bowl team? Well they better show me. Are they going to wilt and spiral, and go down quietly with a 3-9/4-8 record? It's time to show me.
The ball is in the Bears court. A lot of people after this game know Cal's identity and trajectory. I myself have been one of the most patient people in the Justin Wilcox era but this does it. It's time for them to prove to me and the rest of the fans who they are and what the future holds. It's reality check time and there is zero breathing room for everyone.
Folsom Field after the game via Avinash's twitter
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I'm just going to make this blunt instead of going coach by coach. The Cal coaches didn't put the players in spots to maximize their opportunities. Bill Musgrave insisted on the short passing game and empty sets in the early goings against a defense that had given up over 300 rushing yards per game. And yet there were two plays that told me everything I needed to know about what the California Golden Bears are. Cal tries an angle toss, Jaydn Ott is blown up in the backfield for what feels like the millionth time. What was peeving was that Jermaine Terry II came on the counter to block and had loads of space to block, but blocked thin air. The other play was Jack Plummer rolling on play action on 4th&2 from the Colorado 39. The play was successful and Cal got a first down. The problem? On the play action there was no one in the backfield to fake it to, no deception. Two weeks of preparation and where are the assignments?
Angus McClure didn't prepare the offensive line well enough. Colorado continuously shot the A and B gaps throughout the day and Cal had no answers. The sideline from the box was quiet, more passive instead of active. Is there something more to this? It's hard to say but Colorado had their crowd and sideline rocking and no coaches had to come around to fire them up. Every coach simply needs to be better.
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Make ZERO mistake about this. Colorado went out and WON this game. They wanted it more, they executed better, their crowd was behind them. They played better and hustled better. There's no cutting corners here.
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Dalton Kincaid: Buy
One of the most impressive performances from the weekend came from Utah Tight End Dalton Kincaid. I was skeptical of how Kincaid would rise up as the Utes premier pass catcher after the season ending injury to Brant Kuithe, simply because Kyle Whittingham uses his wide receivers in a unique way that sheds more of a light on tight ends down the seam. I thought Kincaid would have too much of a focus on him to produce at a consistent level but he's proven me wrong and certainly proved USC wrong. Not convinced? Take a look at the records he broke and got close to against the Trojans.
Kincaid: 16 rec, 234 yards, 1 TD
Cam Rising was 16/16 when passing to Kincaid. I mean what the hell. Kincaid put his name among the Utah greats with the second most receiving yards in a game in school history and the most of any tight end in a single game (Carl Harry had 255 receiving yards in a game as a wide receiver). He's stepped up to the plate in numerous ways since Kuithe went down and is now becoming a NFL target.
Michael Penix Jr: Buy
Cal fans, it is time to get scared. The only thing that was stopping the Washington offense was Michael Penix Jr's health and here he is in one piece and seizing the opportunity like no other. Him and Kalen DeBoer are a match made in heaven, from Indiana in 2019 to Washington this season. It couldn't be anymore obvious than after the game vs Arizona this past weekend, where he obliterated UW's previous school record for passing yards in a single game with 516 through the air (the previous record was held by Cody Pickett with 455 yards in 2001). The combination of Penix and his receivers of Ja'Lynn Polk, Jalen McMillan, and Rome Odunze are one of the deadliest combinations in the whole country let alone the West Coast. They don't really run the football and honestly they haven't really had to yet, because they haven't put up anything less than 32 points in a game so far.
Mike Sanford, Montana Lemonious-Craig, and Folsom Field's atmosphere: Buy
In what is probably the most indirect way of saying this, Colorado went out and seized the moment against the Bears. Here are the three people/groups responsible for the Buffs coming out on top and I was impressed with every last one of them. Mike Sanford, the interim HC for Colorado came out and had CU reenergized and refocused, with a commitment to the little things. His passion was evident, his desire to bring up his players was evident, and the buy in from said players was night and day compared to Karl Dorrell.
As for Montana Lemonious-Craig, he was Colorado's MVP for the game. He had a bit of a quiet first half but once the second half came and JT Shrout came into the game, he came alive and gave the Cal defense all kinds of trouble on the perimeter. From screens to deep passes on trick plays to the eventual game winning touchdown, Lemonious-Craig was a one man wrecking crew for the Buffs offense and essentially kept them afloat after Deion Smith's injury.
His final statline was 8 rec, 119 yards, 1 TD.
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The last compliment goes to the Folsom Field crowd and mostly the students, who showed up and showed the hell out for the game. It may have been parents weekend in Boulder, but the crowd didn't need any additional motivation. Folsom Field was over 50 thousand people strong, with a white out theme that had all of the Flatirons rocking. It was continuously loud, continuously bothersome for the Cal offense, and was far and away the best college football crowd I've seen this season in person. I mean just take a look at how packed it was. Imagine had Cal been in an 0-5 position.
Colorado deserves a good football team. 0-5 and they packed their stadium regardless.
Cam Ward and the Washington State offense: Hold
Probably the most disappointing performance of the weekend other than Cal goes to Washington State and their offense led by Cam Ward. Nakia Watson is still out with an injury but they simply didn't get anything going in Corvallis. They ended with one yard of offense after the first quarter. You can't have that on the road in conference play. And Cam Ward is the leader of the offense, so the responsibility falls on him and the offensive line to perform better. Oregon State had five sacks through six games and ended up sacking Ward six times in the game. Not good at all from the Cougars and it remains to be seen what their identity exactly is for the rest of the season on offense.
That's all for the week 4 of conference play as everyone regroups and focuses towards the back half of the season. Here's to hoping Washington isn't as chaotic with me present once again.
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Everything about the Cal approach was wrong. They came out flat though Ott's first run was 12 yards. Why not establish the run? Then we moved to an empty set offense where it's obvious that Plummer was going to pass. That failed. They tried a screen or two, those failed except for the 5-yard TE screen to Terry where he looked pretty good. Why the heck can't we utilize our tight ends? Musgrave never adjusted and kept running low percentage plays. The D was OK and good enough to win, but of course the first team to 20 points (Colorado) ended up winning the game. This is 2 contests in a row where we were manhandled at the line of scrimmage. If you look at the size and weights of our O-linemen they should be successful instead of whiffing all the time.
Jimmy Chitwood
Oct 20, 2022·edited Oct 20, 2022
Great stuff TD. Had this game pegged as a must win, yet fully expected it to be a dog fight, with an L a likely possibility. The 15 point spread was baffling for a Wilcox offense. Wasn't the least bit surprised with the loss, given all the reasons you mentioned. Wilcox teams don't travel well, are often unprepared, and Musgrave fails to make in game adjustments. Then he comes out with a pass heavy game plan v. the 129th ranked rush D in the land? Laughably bad - this coaching staff is doing a disservice to the kids.


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Artful art songs
by The Other Press April 14, 2012 April 14, 2012
The rising musical stars of Douglas shine in Arts at One
By Kealy Doyle, Contributor
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s the winter semester draws to a close, the Douglas College music department is wrapping up in grand style. This week's Arts at One was a celebration of skill and musicianship which also acknowledged an audience challenged in recent weeks by some rather difficult music. The scholarship winners brought their 'A' game to pieces familiar and new and were warmly received.
It was a barnstormer of an opener. Stefani Yap put the piano through its paces with a hugely dextrous rendition of the third movement from Haydn's "Piano sonata No. 62 in E-flat major." The Presto is fast, strident, and proud, but always accessible. Those wonderful melodic trills were a delight. Special mention must go to Yap for her excellent attention to dynamics; she gave busy music room to breathe. It was these little touches that elevated her and many of her fellow performers from the merely 'good' to 'great.'
Those sensitive dynamics were also at work in Spencer Waugh's version of "Stella Australis," by Argentine composer M. D. Pujol. There were some lovely arpeggios in this moody Spanish guitar piece of sunburnt landscapes and gentle Mediterranean zephyrs. It was a moment to reflect before launching into another vigorous piano session.
Amy Teo-Poh began Schubert's gorgeous "Impromptu in G-flat Major No." without a moment's hesitation. Anchoring the melody with a tremendous series of oscillating triads that hardly let up throughout the five-minute piece, Teo-Poh made easy work of this romantic, deeply felt meditation. The feeling of satisfaction as the melody returned home after its anguished wanderings could hardly be expressed. It was a rewarding piece for both the performer and the audience.
Teo-Poh finished with a less familiar piece, the "Lament of Lady Zhao Jun" by Chinese composer Doming Lam. The audience was instantly transported to the Far East with the first strains of the simple but exotic pentatonic melody. It played with tempo and discordance, never quite settling into the harmonic chord. Despite some delicate work at the higher end of the keyboard, it grew into an unsettled, raging lament with only occasional glimpses of relief and harmony. To hear it played with a full orchestra would be quite something.
It was then time for a complete change of pace: enter mezzo-soprano Melissa Purnell. She began with "Le papillon et la fleur," a lovely vocal piece by well-known Romantic composer Gabriel Fauré. These art songs are singers' showcases, and, expertly accompanied by pianist Christian Bideau, Purnell soared. Her mature, rich voice was well-suited, her technique was excellent, and she sang with interest and emotion.
Purnell's masterpiece and perhaps the best piece of the concert, however, was Richard Hageman's "Do not go, my love," a mournful early 20th century art song set to a short work by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. It is Hageman's best-known art song, and deservedly so. This had shades of Purcell's haunting Dido and Aeneas and the melodic French chansons of Reynaldo Hahn. Purnell's performance was superlative: this was not simply a piece to sing but to act, and she did so tastefully and with no trace of self-consciousness.
Purnell was joined for her final piece by soprano Leanne Gilder. Mozart's "Sull'aria" from The Marriage of Figaro is one of the best-known female duets in classical music (the eagle-eared will remember it from The Shawshank Redemption). With charming use of props, Purnell and Gilder gave an accomplished account of this beautiful duettino. Purnell was excellent, Gilder's voice strong, and the harmony pleasing. It left a smile on this audience member's face.
Their accompanist Bideau took up the baton next with a revisiting of a challenging François Morel étude. It was as complex and unpredictable as in the first hearing, but left the audience in no doubt of Bideau's prodigious skill as he mastered every tempo, dynamic, and note on the keyboard. He is an enormously accomplished performer with command of the subtle touches—a pause here, a softening there. His is a career to watch with interest.
Last but by no means least was an astonishing work by Georges Guilhaud. His "First concertino in G minor" was a brilliant setting of classical motifs to alto saxophone. Accompanied by Williams Budhiharto, Kelvin Lui sent shivers through the room with an opening arpeggio almost worthy of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." The sax's full, throaty elegance worked perfectly—in its higher register, it was positively piercing. A stunning work that was well performed.
The Arts at One series finishes for the winter semester on April 5 with student ensembles. Performances are free to attend and begin every Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre, New Westminster campus.
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When my college bestie Haley told me she was coming to visit from Santa Barbara I immediately started counting down the days until her visit. We have been friends for over eight years and despite the distance we still manage to constantly keep in touch. I wanted to do something special to celebrate our friendship and make the weekend a bit more exciting so I turned to the Courtyard Boston Downtown. What better way to celebrate a girls night than with a sleepover at a downtown Boston hotel?
The Courtyard Boston was recently renovated and is a beautiful space to spend a weekend in the city. I loved the performance themed artwork adorning the walls of the hotel and the bright pops of chartreuse and deep purple. It's trendy and feels ultra-luxe and upscale without a lofty price tag. I couldn't have asked for a better experience at the hotel!
After checking in to room 1211 we hung our outfits in the closet and took over the bathroom to get dressed for the evening. The room was a nice size with a large bathroom, two double beds, a desk, and a simple coffee maker. Once we were dressed we headed to the hotel bar and restaurant Post No. 10 for a glass of prosecco and apps. We headed to Trade for dinner and drinks at West Bridge and I turned in for an early evening. There's nothing better than settling into a luxurious bed with fluffy pillows and soft sheets after a night on the town. It was arguably more comfortable than my own bed!
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