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Resting-state functional connectivity of the amygdala subregions in unmedicated patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder before and after cognitive behavioural therapy
Jian Gao, Xiangyun Yang, Xiongying Chen, Rui Liu, Pengchong Wang, Fanqiang Meng, Zhanjiang Li and Yuan Zhou
J Psychiatry Neurosci November 01, 2021 46 (6) E628-E638; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/jpn.210084
Jian Gao
From the National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders & Beijing Key Laboratory of Mental Disorders, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China (Gao, Yang, Chen, Liu, Wang, Meng, Li, Zhou); the Advanced Innovation Center for Human Brain Protection, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China (Gao, Yang, Chen, Liu, Wang, Meng, Li); the CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China (Zhou); the Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Zhou); and the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Zhou)
Xiangyun Yang
Xiongying Chen
Rui Liu
Pengchong Wang
Fanqiang Meng
Zhanjiang Li
Yuan Zhou
vol. 46 no. 6 E628-E638
https://doi.org/10.1503/jpn.210084
Received May 16, 2021
Revision received August 3, 2021
Accepted August 25, 2021
Published online November 16, 2021.
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Jian Gao, PhD,
Xiangyun Yang, PhD,
Xiongying Chen, PhD,
Rui Liu, PhD,
Pengchong Wang, MA,
Fanqiang Meng, MA,
Zhanjiang Li, MD*,
Yuan Zhou, PhD*
Correspondence to: Y. Zhou, CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioural Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, PR China, zhouyuan{at}psych.ac.cn; Z. Li, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 5 Ankang Lane, Dewai Ave., Xicheng District, Beijing 100088, PR China, lizhj8{at}ccmu.edu.cn
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Aaron Rodgers ready to start 'airing it out' during London debut
by BBC Brk News October 8, 2022 00
Aaron Rodgers may need to pull his head coach aside and discuss some potential changes to the game plan.
Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers made the long trip across the pond to London for their game Sunday against the New York Giants.
But Rodgers is ready for a change. When reporters asked Rodgers during a media session Friday at the team hotel if he'd like head coach Matt LeFluer to let him throw the ball around some more, Rodgers didn't mince words.
"Hell yeah, of course," Rodgers said. "Matt's kind of in a grumpy mood right now. When he gets a little bit of rest and will be in a better mood, we'll talk about airing it out a little bit more."
The Green Bay Packers' Aaron Rodgers throws during the first half of a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sept. 25, 2022, in Tampa, Fla.
(AP Photo/Jason Behnken)
Through the first four games, the back-to-back NFL MVP's passing numbers are below his usual averages.
Giants running back Saquon Barkley is the league's leading rusher, and the Packers' backfield primarily consists of Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon.
AARON RODGERS: DEVELOPMENT OF PACKERS YOUNG RECEIVERS WILL FACTOR INTO 2023 RETURN
"Our backs are two of our best players, so we've got to get those guys involved," LaFleur told reporters after arriving at the team's hotel. "If you look at New York's defense situationally, they're one of the best in ball. Both in the red zone and on third down. So the running game can alleviate just some of the stress that gets put on you in those situations if you're not running the ball effectively."
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) scrambles during the first half of a game against the Detroit Lions Jan. 9, 2022, in Detroit.
(AP Photo/Lon Horwedel)
Another oddity this season is Rodgers has not scored a rushing touchdown.
Rodgers was also asked if he would do something similar to the Lambeau Leap in London if he does score a rushing touchdown.
GIANTS SHOW POSITIVE SIGNS POINTING TO DANIEL JONES PLAYING VS. PACKERS
"I might have to tag somebody in for me. I'm getting a little old for that," the 38-year-old said.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers walks off the field after not being able to convert a first down in the first half of a game against the Baltimore Ravens Dec. 19, 2021, in Baltimore.
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
The Packers are 3-1 and coming off an overtime win against the New England Patriots in Week 4. After that contest, Rodgers said he believed the way the team was winning was unsustainable.
The Giants and the Packers both landed in London Friday morning.
Rodgers mentioned he had plans to attend the U.S. women's soccer team's game against England at Wembley Stadium Friday. Instead, he said he will likely stay and the hotel and recharge.
The Packers are the last of the NFL's 32 teams to play a game in London. The Packers' opponent, the Giants, played in the inaugural NFL game in London at 2007.
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Il Tour Championship 2022 è stato il diciottesimo evento professionistico della stagione 2021-2022 di snooker, il quindicesimo valido per il Ranking, e la 4ª edizione di questo torneo, che si disputerà dal 28 marzo al 3 aprile 2022, presso la Venue Cymru di Llandudno, in Galles.

È stato il terzo ed ultimo torneo stagionale della Cazoo Series 2021-2022, che ha sancito il trionfo di Neil Robertson, il quale ha ottenuto il bonus di £. L'australiano si è aggiudicato la seconda edizione consecutiva di questa serie di tornei, classificandosi al primo posto con £.

Il torneo è stato vinto da Neil Robertson, il quale ha battuto in finale John Higgins per 10-9, rimontando dal 4-9. L'australiano si è aggiudicato così il suo secondo Tour Championship consecutivo, il suo 23º titolo Ranking, eguagliando a questa quota Judd Trump, il suo secondo evento Cazoo Series in stagione, dopo il Players Championship, e il suo terzo in carriera.

Robertson ha disputato la sua terza finale in questo torneo, dopo la sconfitta del 2019 contro Ronnie O'Sullivan e il trionfo del 2021 sullo stesso O'Sullivan, la 52ª in un torneo professionistico, la 36ª fra quelli validi per la classifica mondiale e la quinta in stagione, dopo i successi all'English Open su John Higgins e al Masters e al Players Championship su Barry Hawkins, e la sconfitta al World Grand Prix contro Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Higgins ha disputato la sua 100ª finale in un torneo professionistico, la 55ª fra quelli validi per la classifica mondiale e la sesta in stagione, dopo il successo al secondo evento della Championship League su Stuart Bingham e le sconfitte al Northern Ireland Open contro Mark Allen, all'English Open contro Neil Robertson, al Champion of Champions contro Judd Trump e allo Scottish Open contro Luca Brecel.

Robertson e Higgins non si sfidavano in uno scontro diretto dalla finale dell'English Open 2021, in cui a trionfare era stato l'australiano per 9-8. Si tratta della quarta finale giocata tra i due, la terza conquistata da Robertson.

Il campione in carica era Neil Robertson, il quale ha confermato il titolo. L'australiano è stato il primo giocatore a riconfermarsi vincitore di un torneo in questa stagione.

Durante il corso del torneo sono stati realizzati 33 century breaks, dieci in più della precedente edizione. Il miglior break è stato un 140, realizzato da Judd Trump, durante i quarti di finale.

Al termine di questo torneo, Mark Selby ha perso la leadership del ranking mondiale dopo 4 mesi e 26 giorni, a favore di Ronnie O'Sullivan, il quale è tornato numero 1 per la quinta volta in carriera, la prima dall'11 agosto 2019.

Montepremi

 Vincitore: £
 Finalista: £
 Semifinalisti: £
 Quarti di finale: £
 Miglior break: £
 Totale: £

Panoramica

Sviluppi futuri
Il 30 marzo 2022 il World Snooker Tour comunica che la 23ª edizione del British Open si disputerà dal 26 settembre al 2 ottobre 2022, presso la Marshall Arena di Milton Keynes, in Inghilterra.

Il 31 marzo 2022 il WST rende pubblica la prima parte di calendario della stagione 2022-2023, che comprende tornei da giugno a dicembre.

Aspetti tecnici
Dopo aver disputato l'edizione 2021 al Celtic Manor Resort di Newport, in Galles, in quanto unica bolla in grado di ospitare tutto lo staff necessario per i tornei, compresi i giocatori (assieme alla Marshall Arena di Milton Keynes, in Inghilterra), il torneo si svolge alla Venue Cymru di Llandudno, sede dell'evento in occasione della sua prima edizione del 2019, e che ha già ospitato in stagione lo Scottish Open. È, inoltre, la prima volta in cui il torneo si svolge anche nel mese di aprile.

Aspetti sportivi
Così come accaduto dal suo esordio nel tour professionistico del 2019, il Tour Championship viene disputato dai primi 8 giocatori figuranti nella classifica stagionale, tenendo conto di ogni evento valevole per il ranking svoltosi fino al torneo precedente a questo.

L'evento è valevole per la classifica mondiale per la quarta edizione consecutiva.

Viene confermato per intero il montepremi delle precedenti due edizioni; a partire da questa stagione, la Cazoo Series assegna una cifra minima garantita per la partecipazione valevole per la classifica mondiale, di £ nel caso del Tour Championship.

Il 17 giugno 2021 l'azienda rivenditrice di auto online Cazoo comunica di essersi accordata con la Matchroom Sport – principale azionista del World Snooker Tour – per sponsorizzare il Champion of Champions, lo UK Championship e il Masters, oltre che il World Grand Prix, il Players Championship e il Tour Championship – facenti già parte della Cazoo Series – nella stagione 2021-2022.

Il vincitore del torneo ha il diritto di partecipare al Champion of Champions 2022.

Copertura
Le seguenti emittenti e piattaforme streaming hanno trasmesso il Tour Championship 2022.

Partecipanti
Primi 8 giocatori della classifica stagionale, comprendente i tornei valevoli per il ranking tra il primo evento della Championship League e il Gibraltar Open.

Nota bene: nella sezione "precedenti partecipazioni", le date in grassetto indicano che il giocatore ha vinto quella edizione del torneo.

Tabellone

Century breaks
Durante il corso del torneo sono stati realizzati 33 century breaks.

Note

Voci correlate

 Tour Championship
 Cazoo Series 2021-2022
 Stagione 2021-2022 di snooker

2022
Cazoo Series 2021-2022
Sport a Llandudno

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Ryan Gosling Can't Accept His Golden Globes Win Without Thanking Eva Mendes and Their Daughters
by Mike Vulpo | Sun., Jan. 8, 2017 6:24 PM
Ryan Gosling is dancing and singing his way to the top of award season.
At Sunday night's 2017 Golden Globes, the actor scored his first of what could be many awards for his work in La La Land. Shortly after accepting his trophy, the actor got to thanking his extended family including Eva Mendes.
"I would like to try to thank one person properly and say while I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I've ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second, and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer," Ryan shared. "If she hadn't have taken all that on so that I could have this experience, it would surely be someone else up here other than me today. So sweetheart, thank you."
He continued, "To my daughters, I love you. And if I may, I would like to dedicate this to the memory of [Eva's] brother, Juan Carlos Mendes."
Golden Globe Awards 2017 Winners: The Complete List
La La Land is a musical about an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) who falls in love with a jazz musician (Ryan). The Damien Chazelle-directed film and the co-stars are considered award season favorites and were also nominated for Best Picture of the Year.
"Singing and dancing at the same time is a real situation," Emma previously told E! News' Marc Malkin when opening up about the experience. "It was definitely nerve-racking but...but it was galvanizing, you know? You get up there and you just really go for it. If you fail, you fall flat on your face and you learn."
And for those wondering if Emma and Ryan are tired of working with each other after three movies, it's absolutely not the case.
"We made two films together and now three, and so you know it's great to work with people you know," Ryan shared with E! News. "I think it brings the best out of them because you know one another, and you are able to help each other in a way that you can't if you're strangers."
Congratulations Ryan!
For complete Golden Globes coverage, watch E! News at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.
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      <Generator>VbMyResourcesResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
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      <Generator>SettingsSingleFileGenerator</Generator>
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  <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.VisualBasic.targets" />
  <!-- To modify your build process, add your task inside one of the targets below and uncomment it.
       Other similar extension points exist, see Microsoft.Common.targets.
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##### ****Validate Data in Cell and Mark Wrong With Color.VS2010.vbproj:**

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="4.0">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <ProductVersion>
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    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>{8547E5F5-4F46-4488-9DEF-A3A0E39E9478}</ProjectGuid>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <StartupObject>Validating_data_in_cells.Module1</StartupObject>
    <RootNamespace>Validating_data_in_cells</RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>Validating data in cells</AssemblyName>
    <MyType>Console</MyType>
    <OldToolsVersion>3.5</OldToolsVersion>
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <DebugType>full</DebugType>
    <DefineDebug>true</DefineDebug>
    <DefineTrace>true</DefineTrace>
    <OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>
    <DocumentationFile>Validating data in cells.xml</DocumentationFile>
    <NoWarn>42016,41999,42017,42018,42019,42032,42036,42020,42021,42022</NoWarn>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
    <DefineDebug>false</DefineDebug>
    <DefineTrace>true</DefineTrace>
    <Optimize>true</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>bin\Release\</OutputPath>
    <DocumentationFile>Validating data in cells.xml</DocumentationFile>
    <NoWarn>42016,41999,42017,42018,42019,42032,42036,42020,42021,42022</NoWarn>
  </PropertyGroup>
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    <Reference Include="Bytescout.Spreadsheet, Version=1.3.2.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f7dd1bd9d40a50eb, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
      <SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>
    </Reference>
    <Reference Include="System" />
    <Reference Include="System.Data" />
    <Reference Include="System.Deployment" />
    <Reference Include="System.Drawing" />
    <Reference Include="System.Xml" />
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      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
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    <Import Include="System" />
    <Import Include="System.Collections" />
    <Import Include="System.Collections.Generic" />
    <Import Include="System.Data" />
    <Import Include="System.Diagnostics" />
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    <Compile Include="Module1.vb" />
    <Compile Include="My Project\AssemblyInfo.vb" />
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      <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>
      <DependentUpon>Application.myapp</DependentUpon>
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      <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>
      <DependentUpon>Resources.resx</DependentUpon>
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      <CustomToolNamespace>My.Resources</CustomToolNamespace>
      <SubType>Designer</SubType>
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    <None Include="My Project\Application.myapp">
      <Generator>MyApplicationCodeGenerator</Generator>
      <LastGenOutput>Application.Designer.vb</LastGenOutput>
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    <None Include="My Project\Settings.settings">
      <Generator>SettingsSingleFileGenerator</Generator>
      <CustomToolNamespace>My</CustomToolNamespace>
      <LastGenOutput>Settings.Designer.vb</LastGenOutput>
    </None>
  </ItemGroup>
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.VisualBasic.targets" />
  <!-- To modify your build process, add your task inside one of the targets below and uncomment it.
       Other similar extension points exist, see Microsoft.Common.targets.
  <Target Name="BeforeBuild">
  </Target>
  <Target Name="AfterBuild">
  </Target>
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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
const DrawCard = require('../../drawcard.js');

class ThePrincesPass extends DrawCard {
    setupCardAbilities(ability) {
        this.reaction({
            when: {
                afterChallenge: event => event.challenge.loser === this.controller && event.challenge.defendingPlayer === this.controller
            },
            cost: ability.costs.kneelSelf(),
            target: {
                cardCondition: card => card.location === 'play area' && card.getType() === 'character' && card.isAttacking()
            },
            handler: context => {
                this.targetCharacter = context.target;

                this.game.promptForIcon(this.controller, this, icon => {
                    this.untilEndOfPhase(ability => ({
                        match: this.targetCharacter,
                        effect: ability.effects.removeIcon(icon)
                    }));

                    this.game.addMessage('{0} kneels {1} to remove {2} {3} icon from {4}',
                        this.controller, this, icon === 'intrigue' ? 'an' : 'a', icon, this.targetCharacter);

                    if(this.targetCharacter.getNumberOfIcons() === 0) {
                        this.game.promptWithMenu(this.controller, this, {
                            activePrompt: {
                                menuTitle: 'Sacrifice ' + this.name + ' to discard ' + this.targetCharacter.name + '?',
                                buttons: [
                                    { text: 'Yes', method: 'sacrifice' },
                                    { text: 'No', method: 'pass' }
                                ]
                            },
                            source: this
                        });
                    }
                });
            }
        });
    }

    sacrifice() {
        this.controller.sacrificeCard(this);
        this.targetCharacter.controller.discardCard(this.targetCharacter);
        this.game.addMessage('{0} sacrifices {1} to discard {2} from play', this.controller, this, this.targetCharacter);
        return true;
    }

    pass() {
        this.game.addMessage('{0} declines to sacrifice {1}', this.controller, this);
        return true;
    }
}

ThePrincesPass.code = '04096';

module.exports = ThePrincesPass;


1. Heat oil in a large saucepan, add the Tofu and fry for 5-8 minutes until golden.
2. Add the carrots and onion, cover and cook over a low heat for 3-4 minutes.
3. Add the rice, garlic, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, turmeric, salt and pepper, mix well then add the stock.
4. Bring to boil, stirring then lower heat, cover and cook gently for 10 minutes.
5. Add the beans, nuts, sultanas and sweetcorn, cover and cook for a further 10-15 minutes, until rice is tender.
6. At the end of the cooking time, if necessary uncover, raise the heat and cook for 1 minute to drive off excess moisture.
7. To serve - stir in the coriander and serve immediately.


Welcome to the our terrific third class page! Here you can see for yourself all the hard work and fun things that we will be getting up to this year!
This year, third and fourth class performed a nativity play called "Straw and Order" for the whole school and all of the parents. The girls spent a lot of time rehearsing and it paid off as they were outstanding on the day! It's not easy to learn lines off by heart, to sing so many songs and to act so brilliantly but the girls made it look like a piece of cake! We were all very proud of every single girl in third and fourth class. Our class fairy, Saffron Mary made a special delivery the morning of the play and gave us our very own worry plate. Luckily, any nerves that we had about perfoming the play quickly disappeared!
Thd day 98 Fm visited us in school!!
On the 7th December, we were so lucky because 98FM arrived to our school and performed a mini panto! It was Kyia's birthday that day too and the whole school and the boys' school sang happy birthday to her in the hall! We had the best day ever! We even got homework off that night! Thanks 98FM!
We are very creative in third class and we love Wednesday afternoons because this is when we get to do art. This year, we designed cool Christmas trees, stars, Christmas tree decorations, reindeer masks and penguins to sell at the Christmas Fair! Ms. Mc Hale was so impressed that she let three third class girls sell these at the fair! Tayo, Kyia and Brooke D were very persuasive sellers and helped to raise a lot of money for our school. Well done girls for all your hard work! We also decorated elfies and stuck photos of us on them. Check us out! Also look at the pretty penguins that we designed!
Third class love P.E. classes and we have been very busy doing impressive gymnastic moves! We love doing different rolls such as forward, pencil and back rolls.
We have also taken part in a ten week fitness programme called "Fit For Class" in which we played different fun games each week. We got cool wristbands at the end of thr ten weeks as a reward for all our hard work.
Ms Shaughnessy, Ms O'Dea and Ms Doherty organised a Football Blitz. We went on the 28th of October 2016. It was in Irishtown Stadium. We were so excited before we left. We got a private coach. Soon, we travelled through a massive tunnel. We had two Virgin Mary teams, 3rd and 4th. Some of us were in pitch 1 and the rest of us were in pitch 3. We wore wine and gold jerseys. We trained really hard. Then it was time to start the matches. I played in pitch 3. We won almost all of the matches. We lost one or two. My dad came to support me and the team. We brought our school lunches. Kyia's mam gave me a few grapes. Before we left the two Virgin Mary teams got to play against each other. It was fun. Then we left. We got back on the bus. We sang a lot of songs, a lot of songs!
This recount was made by Tayo. Thanks for listening. I had a brilliant day!


Telescope Optical Configuration: Ritchey-Chretien Cassegrain.
Telescope Prescriptions: GN Zemax model | GS Zemax model (GN=MK/Mauna Kea and GS=CP/Cerro Pachon).
Primary Mirrors: Each mirror is an f/1.8, 8.1 m diameter, 20 cm thick meniscus, and weighs 22,200 kg. Each was made from 55 blocks of low expansion (ULE-581) glass fused together at 1700 degrees C and slumped at Corning's Canton, New York facility. Each mirror blank was then shipped to REOSC Optique in Paris, France, for polishing of its reflecting surface to that of a concave hyperboloid. The measured surface accuracy is 15.6 nm (rms).
Secondary Mirrors: Each secondary mirror is 1.0 m in diameter. Each was prefabricated by Schott from Zerodur and then polished by Zeiss to a convex hyperbolic shape and lightweighted by 85%. The weight of each secondary is 54 kg. The rms surface accuracies are 17 nm for the Gemini N mirror and 13 nm for the Gemini S mirror. Each secondary mirror is mounted on a rapid tip-tilt and chopping mechanism designed and built by Lockheed. Tip-tilt correction is possible up to 200 Hz. The chopping capabilities are: any position angle on the sky at frequencies up to 3 Hz; amplitudes up to 15 arcsec on the sky; and a duty cycle of 87% at the above values.
Science Fold Mirrors: These are plane mirrors at 45 degrees that reflect the converging beam near the Cassegrain focus of each telescope to an instrument mounted on one of four side-looking ports of the Instrument Support Structure (ISS) or may be retracted to allow the beam to reach the up-looking instrument on the bottom port of the ISS.
Effective Focal Lengths of Telescopes at Cassegrain Focus: 128.12 m (f/16).
Plate Scale at Cassegrain: 1.610 arcsec/mm.
Field of View at Instrument Focal Plane: Maximum 10 arcmin diameter on the bottom port, and 7 arcmin diameter on the side ports due to science fold mirror size. Limiting factors on FOV are the diameter of the central openings of the WFS mounting rings in the WFS, the portholes in the ISS, and the Science Fold Mirror diameter. PWFS can also vignette the beam - the PWFS can reach an outer radius = 7 arcmin before one edge of their field starts to be vignetted (the 14 arcmin diameter is slightly larger than the instrument FOV because the PWFS are upstream of the Science Fold and ISS ports).
Mirror Coatings: For optimal infrared and visual performance and durability, the primary and secondary mirrors and the science fold mirrors now have protected silver coatings. Mirrors are recoated every 3-5 years to maintain performance. This compilation of reflectivity data (link will download xls file) describes coating performance across a broad range of wavelengths and over time.
Throughput: Throughput may be calculated as the product of the reflectivities of the Primary, Secondary and Science Fold mirrors. The bottom port does not use the Science Fold mirror but Gemini cannot guarantee instrument port assignment.
Baffles: Gemini has permanently installed baffles that are deployable with two positions - IR and Optical. They do not allow use of the full 7.5 arcmin field without vignetting. The Optical mode (extended) works at 12.0 arcmin, with extended diameter 2003mm. The IR mode (retracted) works at 3.5 arcmin with retracted diameter 1124.6mm. There is also a sky periscope at the center of the secondary mirror for IR instruments to see sky rather than the primary's central obstruction. This periscope is shuttered for optical instruments.


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Plan Your Monsoon Holiday: Get Relief from the Heat of Summer.
Are you planning a Monsoon Holiday? If not you must plan one once the monsoon sets in. The initial monsoon showers have finally struck India after a long waiting. It must have brought some relief from the prolonged unbearable summer this year. It is similar to spring in the colder countries of Europe and the west. The arrival of spring in these cold countries brings much joy and warmth after the chilling winter. Yet this is a season when many prefer to stay indoors. But monsoon can be the perfect time for a quick holiday trip to Digha. In this blog we consider why you must opt for a monsoon holiday.
Monsoon in India is very beautiful. The initial spells of the monsoons have meant we can finally switch off the Air Conditioners and welcome the cool breeze. Different people savor on the rains differently. For some it may be the joy of munching on hot "Pakodas" and "Bhajis" with the traditional Indian "Muri" may be very delightful. A long nap during a cool, monsoon afternoon may be heavenly for others. But everyone looks forward to the way monsoons rejuvenate all. It is also most revered because of the relief it brings from a long scorching summer.
Monsoons means less crowd. Visiting any tourist place during the rush season would mean extreme crowd. Monsoon is a time which is considered to be an off season for many. If you take a monsoon holiday during, you could avoid excessive crowds. If you are a lover of peace and tranquility, taking a holiday during monsoons may be the best thing for you.
You can see greenery everywhere. The rains of the monsoons bring with it lush greenery everywhere. Thus if you love trees and greenery you must travel during the monsoons.
The Monsoon is the best time to bargain for rates. Since monsoon is generally considered an off season, hotels and other travel related service providers provide attractive discounts for travelers. So it means you could travel and stay cheap at most locations.
Monsoon is the best time to relax. As a lover of books the rains could mean the best time when you can just sit back with a book in your hand and relax. So you could enjoy the awesome combination of fine tea, a book in your hand in a comfortable hotel room.
Visiting Sea a better option than visiting the mountains. Monsoons in the mountains brings with it lots of landslides and roadblocks. So against visiting the seas may be a better option during monsoon.


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What is the Government Buying? With Product Services Codes, We May Never Really Know
What does your agency use more: riveting machines, or software? Product Services Codes are the basis of federal purchasing, but often don't accurately capture costs and categories. Read Censeo Principal Aram Mazmanian's take on optimizing Product Services Code in this Federal News Radio feature.
The federal government purchases nearly $500 billion in goods and services each year, and policymakers and administrators are looking for ways to improve procurement to generate value for taxpayers. By establishing more effective sourcing strategies, agencies can save money and utilize their budgets to further fund desperately needed maintenance and modernization projects.
To create this lasting efficacy in public sector acquisition, the federal government must first understand what it is buying. Truly understanding what the government buys is the foundation for all important purchasing decisions: what to buy in the future, how to buy it, and whether to buy it at all.
The federal government maintains a database of every contract action above the micro-purchase threshold ($3,500), which totals more than 4 million line items every year. Despite this expansive data set, the government does not capture meaningful visibility into what agencies are actually buying.
This database contains a procurement classification field, called the Product Service Code (PSC). Unfortunately, PSCs are often inadequate to understand what is purchased. The federal government must find ways to use PSCs more effectively today, and, in the long term, must rethink the classification schema to get the most out of procurement data.
Product and Service Code (PSC) Classification
In the 1970s, the federal government developed the PSC classification, recognizing the importance of understanding and tracking the billions of dollars spent on goods and services each year. Reported within a centralized database called the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS), PSCs categorize purchases using a series of more than 5,500 four-digit codes.
About every five years, the federal government revisits these codes, but the codes have not undergone a full restructuring since their introduction. This lack of a full overhaul has resulted in inadequacies, limiting the government's visibility into public procurement and masking insights that could save billions of dollars.
Drawbacks to the PSC structure
PSCs are often outdated
PSCs were designed to categorize the goods and services that were being purchased at the time it was created. As such, some outdated PSCs that were important for the government's business activities in the 1970s, but are less relevant today, remain prominently in the system, while many products and services that have now become more prevalent are not classified at a level to make actionable business decisions. For example, there is a PSC specifically for riveting machines (3448), a frequently used code in the 1970s. In fiscal 2015, though, this code amounted to a minuscule $41,000 in governmentwide obligations. In contrast, IT software (7030), amounting to $5.3 billion in obligations, is a single code. Within this single, massive code, the types of software are so numerous that it provides little insight for making effective business decisions.
Many highly-utilized PSCs are non-descriptive
The PSCs contain many "catch all" miscellaneous codes such as R499 (other professional services) that provide very little information on what they contain. Ideally, these codes would be used sparingly because the categories in the rest of the system would be comprehensive and descriptive enough to capture most purchases. However, these non-descriptive categories are extensively used. Almost $50 billion in 2015 was classified as "other" products and services. The heavy use of these categories prevents the government from truly knowing what it has bought.
PSCs are inconsistent with any system used outside of government
Another significant drawback to PSCs is that only the federal government uses them, limiting a wealth of comparative analysis between private sector, foreign governments, and international institutions.
There are a number of commonly-used international classification schemas that would enable comparisons. For example, by April 2017, the United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC) will replace the Government of Canada's current system of commodity classification, and the United Kingdom Office of Government Commerce has stated that "UNSPSC is the recommended commodity coding structure for central civil government."
The UNSPSC has also been adopted by several states in the U.S. Being able to compare data using UNSPSC or another broadly-used classification structures could provide a wealth of information not available with PSCs.
With these drawbacks, it is clear the federal government needs to PSC classification, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)'s category management initiative provides a great opportunity to do so.
OMB's category management initiative establishes cross-agency teams to address improvement opportunities in acquisition categories common across departments and agencies. These opportunities may include building better acquisition packages, identifying best contracts, or improving management post award. As such, understanding what is being bought is key to making informed category management decisions.
Analyses performed for category management initiatives are often based on a mapping of PSCs, which limits the accuracy, usefulness, and effectiveness of these efforts. Additionally, because federal category scopes do not consistently align with conventional markets, the insights and business decisions that are drawn from the analysis may not reflect the true scope.
But what can we do now?
Making a wholesale change to how government classifies its acquisitions will take time, despite the effort and substantial support for category management initiatives. Knowing the time investment needed to update PSCs, agencies can take steps to use PSCs today to identify and support valuable category management insights.
Use PSCs in combination with other data attributes in order to identify specific and targeted acquisitions. While PSCs alone are not always enough to identify procured goods and services, they can serve as an indicator when used with other attributes such as NAICS or Description of Requirement. For example, while there is no specific PSC to identify graphic design services, one could assume that graphic design services are classified as a professional services-related PSC. By filtering for these PSCs and then searching for graphic design-related NAICS and text descriptions, one could find relevant graphic design contracts.
Use PSC combinations to define markets. Codes can often be combined to define a market and gain valuable insights. Revisiting the example of the highly-specific riveting machine code (3448), this PSC could be combined with other PSCs such as punching and shearing machines (3446) and others to understand acquisitions on metal working machinery.
Use XX99 codes only when necessary. The singular value of PSCs is to provide data on public sector purchases of goods and services. XX99 codes, which are vague and do not supply adequate information on purchase types and categories, are too often selected as the default rather than the exception. Contracting Officers should take the extra time to identify the accurate PSC code when available. The future data integrity will be worth it in the end.
With the momentum currently behind category management, there is a unique opportunity to rethink the federal government's acquisition classification system and take actions to improve it.


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Tag: tennis Grand Slam
Let's talk about female and gay power at the Super Bowl…sexism in the NBA and Russia…Matt Nichols' next move…Kobe's halo…news snoops in a snit…Looch a lamb in the slaughter…and other things on my mind
Another Sunday smorgas-bored…and it's Super Sunday, but you won't find anything super here…
At some point today, we'll see Katie Sowers on our flatscreens and another brick in the wall will come tumbling down.
Katie, you see, is female and gay, and females and gays aren't supposed to be central players in the Super Bowl game, North America's greatest gulp of sporting over-indulgence. Females, after all, know nothing about football (just ask any male lump sitting on a nearby bar stool or in a man cave) and gays are a distraction (ask Tony Dungy about that).
Except many of us know that simply isn't true.
If Katie's been a distraction down there in Miami, it's only because she's a she who does know football, and news snoops have sought her out for sound bites and anecdotal tidbits about the challenges of a societal double whammy—being female and a lesbian in an environment that registers 10.0 on the testosterone meter.
Never before has a woman attracted so much attention at the National Football League's showcase event, at least not since Janet Jackson allowed Justin Timberlake to play peek-a-boo with her right breast. And, on that matter, many lumps on many bar stools no doubt will fix their eyeballs on today's halftime proceedings, hoping for a re-enactment of Janet J's wardrobe malfunction, only this time it would be pieces of either JLo's or Shakira's skimpy outfits falling off.
Sowers is in Miami this very day as one of the San Francisco 49ers' offensive strategists attempting to plot ways of confounding and confusing the Kansas City Chiefs' defensive 11 in Super Bowl LIV, and if you don't care that she's the first woman and lesbian to coach in the gridiron colossus, I suggest you're among the 50 per cent of the population that isn't female and 95 per cent of the population that isn't gay.
This is huge. For women. For the LGBT collective. And it should be for society.
But we hear the same questions every time a gay athlete wiggles her or his way into the spotlight, don't we? Like: Does anybody really need to know who's lying beside them when the lights go out at night? If they want to be treated equal, why do they insist on making themselves out to be special just because they're gay? Why can't the gays just shut up about it already?
Well, it's a big deal because too large a segment of society still makes the choice of bedmates and romantic partners a big deal. Gays can lose jobs because of it. They can be denied jobs because of it. They can be denied service because of it. They can be denied housing because of it. They are bullied and beaten up because of it.
Sowers knows all about that, because her alma mater, Goshen College in Indiana, once rejected her as a volunteer hoops coach simply because she prefers the company of women.
"There were prospective students' parents that were concerned that if there was a lesbian coach, their daughter might catch the gay or whatever it might be, because people might think it's contagious," is how she remembers it.
What's that you say? That was more than 10 years ago? Well, lend an ear to Steve Sanders, an associate professor at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law.
"What happened to Sowers could still happen, depending on the place and jurisdiction," Sanders told the Indianapolis Star. "Many people are surprised that the legal protections from anti-gay and lesbian discrimination remain so spotty. If you're gay or lesbian, you can get married one day and, at least in some jurisdictions, be fired from your job the next day."
Goshen, a Christian school, recently delivered a mea culpa for its shoddy and shameful treatment of Sowers, but that doesn't excuse the reality that gays continue to be marginalized today.
As do women in sports.
Or perhaps you didn't catch Marcus Morris' sexist spewings the other night after his New York Knicks had absorbed a good and proper paddywhacking from the Memphis Grizzlies. Morris didn't appreciate Jae Crowder's (perceived) theatrics on the Madison Square Garden hardwood, thus he told news snoops that the Memphis forward has "a lot of female tendencies" like "flopping and throwing his head back."
Oh, yes, females be flopping and head tossing, Marcus.
Lest anyone misinterpret his remarks, Morris then described Crowder as "soft, very woman-like." None of that was meant to be complimentary. It was meant to shame a foe as a lesser-than. A woman.
So, yes, Katie Sowers' emergence as a Super Bowl coach is a "big deal."
No doubt girls and women will see, or hear about, Sowers and ask themselves, "Why not me?" Ditto LGBT youth. It builds belief in self. Isn't that something we should want for everyone?
It's not just about generating dreams, though.
Sowers is breaking a barrier, but knocking down a door only matters if it opens up a mind. Maybe, just maybe, her presence will convince the anti-gay constituency and misogynistic lumps on bar stools, in man caves and in men's pro sports that women and gays aren't lesser-thans.
I doubt it, but we can always hope.
Adam Silver
It's never a surprise to hear sexist squawkings from male athletes, but it seems shamefully out of place in the National Basketball Association, which features 11 female assistant coaches, a female assistant general manager, and four female referees. Moreover, 13 Women's NBA whistleblowers are female, and there are another 25 in the NBA G League. So Morris' bleatings fly in the face of the NBA's admirable and industry-leading diversity practices, and I'm sure commish Adam Silver was not amused.
At some point, it must have occurred to Morris that he has a mother, thus he offered a mea culpa which was as laughable as his comments were ill-advised. He claims to have spoken in "the heat of the moment," except he went off on Crowder a full 15 minutes after the Knicks and Grizzlies had engaged in a game-ending rutting session. "I have the utmost respect for women and everything they mean to us," he insisted in his apology. "I never intended for any women to feel as though in anyway I'm disrespecting them." Right. And every time a jock coughs up a gay slur, he claims: "That isn't who I am. I have gay friends."
Stephanie Ready of The Bounce had perhaps the most interesting take on the Morris sound bites: "I personally take offence to that," she told panelists Quentin Richardson and Caron Butler. "I personally am offended by the statement. I also happen to know that women are just inherently tougher than men, that's the reason why we give birth and you guys don't." The boys squirmed and fought off any urge to debate the point.
Rachel Llanes
Sexism is alive and well in Mother Russia, and Emily Kaplan of ESPN provides the evidence in an excellent article on the Kontinental Hockey Leauge-sponsored Women's Hockey League. "(Rachel) Llanes was one of several women to demonstrate skills at the KHL All Star Game," she writes, "but she was told she had to get her hair and makeup done before going on the ice. The KHL put out a promotional calendar for the WHL—which featured players posing naked, covered only by plants." Sounds like a cosmetics marketing campaign for Cover Girl: Faceoffs and Fig Leaves.
Hey, come to think of it, if we ever get a Women's National Hockey League franchise in the Republic of Tranna, we have the perfect team name—the Toronto Maple Fig Leafs.
Llanes, who plays for the sole Chinese-based outfit in Russia's WHL, decided that fig leaves aren't one size fits all and took a pass on becoming a calendar girl. "Part of being over here, you have to accept culture, even though there are some things you don't agree with," she told Kaplan. "The calendar, for example, I definitely don't want to be in that. But it's just the culture. Some things you can fight, some things you just go with. I'm playing hockey for a living. I don't need to complain."
Matt Nichols
You know that old bromide about an athlete can't lose a job due to injury? Well, fuggedaboutit. Matt Nichols was laid low by a shoulder owie last August, and he'll never take another snap for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Not ever. I'm not saying the Grey Cup champions were wrong to discard their now-former starting quarterback like a banana peel, but I feel bad for the guy. I mean, no one in the western precinct of the Canadian Football League is looking for an aging, brittle QB. Ditto Montreal, Ottawa and the Hammer in the east. Which leaves only the Tranna Argos. Hmmm. Bombers to the Boatmen. That's like telling a kid who just won a trip to Disneyland that he'll be going to the dentist instead.
Kobe Bryant is dead and grown men and women weep while the hosannas continue to pour down on the former Los Angeles Lakers great like wet stuff in a Brazilian rainforest. Fine. But here's what I don't get: Why is it considered bad manners for scribes and talking heads to tilt Kobe's halo by mentioning his rape case in 2003? It happened, it was a huge story, and no retro look at the life and times of Bryant is complete without it. So spare me the gnarly discord.
Gianna and Kobe
Thoughtful piece by Mad Mike McIntyre of the Drab Slab on media reaction to the helicopter crash that killed Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and "seven others" last Sunday. Like Mad Mike, I find it curious that so little attention has been paid to victims three-through-nine—John, Keri and Alyssa Altobelli, Sarah and Payton Chester, Christina Mauser and Ara Zobayan. It's as if their lives didn't matter.
Having said that, I don't need Mad Mike telling me that I should "learn all I can" about the "seven others." It's enough that I'm saddened that they're gone, especially the children. I'm not sure what it is about news snoops who feel the need to tell us what we should be thinking and how we should be reacting. I mean, Mad Mike wants us to study up on seven dead people, and a week ago Cassie Campbell-Pascall informed us we "better start" watching women's hockey. Or what? She'll show up on our doorstep carrying a court summons? If it's all the same to them, I'll choose my own reading material and my own entertainment.
High-Class Snit of the Week: "Alex Steen blew off media post-game, and the team's PR staff—who said earlier in the day he would for sure speak—wouldn't make him available, after playing his 1,000th game in his hometown and with all kinds of interview requests. Absolute joke," Mad Mike tweeted after Saturday night's skirmish between the St. Loo Blues and Winnipeg Jets at the Little Hockey House On The Prairie. Not to be outdone, Scott Billeck of the Winnipeg Sun chimed in with this: "Alex Steen, given a nice tribute by the Jets and a nicer one from the fans who stood to recognize his 1000th NHL game tonight, refused to talk to the media after the game. Classless." I have just three words for that level of media whinging: Boo freaking hoo.
Looch
Watched the Edmonton Oilers take Calgary to the slaughter house on Saturday night, so remind me again why the Flames recruited Milan Lucic. Oh, that's right. To be the team guard dog. To provide some spine. Yet when all hell broke loose between the bitter rivals twice in four nights, where was the Looch? Playing innocent bystander. Looch spent 27 minutes, 34 seconds on the ice during the latest home-and-home installment in the Battle of Alberta, and here's what he had to show for it: 0 goals, 1 assist, 0 time in the brig. Cripes, man, Calgary keeper Cam Talbot had a fight and two roughing penalties. Turtle Man Tkachuk chucked knuckles twice. Sean Monahan and Buddy Robinson dropped the mitts. Yet the supposed meanest dude on either side of the fray went all Switzerland. And they're paying him $5.25 million for that?
Just a thought: It must really rot Don Cherry's socks that he no longer has his Hockey Night In Canada pulpit to squawk about the kind of hoorawing that we saw from the Oilers and Flames. And, to think, he was silenced because of poppies.
Kasperi Kapanen of the Maple Leafs was scratched from the lineup Saturday night for what was described as "internal accountability." Just wondering: Is that an upper or lower body injury?
Since the start of the 2017 tennis season, here's the scoreboard for men's Grand Slam titles: Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic 13, Rest of World 0. The last player not named Nadal, Federer or Djokovic to win one of the four majors? Stan Wawrinka, at the 2016 U.S. Open. (Footnote: In the same time frame on the women's side, there have been 11 different champions, with only Simona Halep and Naomi Osaka winning twice.)
And, finally, I'd really like San Fran to win today's Super Bowl skirmish because of Katie Sowers. I just don't think they will.
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Let's talk about Mayor Brian Bowman bailing on the Blue Bombers…split screens and Benny on TSN…Sleepy Joe and Wile E. Coyote…CFL head counts…the Roger and Novak show…Simona Halep beating the bully…and fond memories of local tennis
Monday morning coming down in 3, 2, 1…and you won't find any aces in here but there are plenty of double faults…
So, Brian Bowman wants the City of Winnipeg to wash its hands of the Blue Bombers.
Mayor Brian Bowman
Was it something they said? Is it that 28-year, no Grey Cup parade thing? Someone at City Hall doesn't like Mike O'Shea's sideline look? Whatever the case, surely we can work this out, even if it means convincing Coach Mikey to shop at Mr. Big & Tall instead of finding his game-day attire on the racks at Sally Ann's.
Personally, Coach Mikey's t-shirt-and-shorts chic has never bothered me. I look at him as Coach Grunge. You know, the way Neil Young is the Godfather of Grunge.
Come to think of it, perhaps Neil Young will be Mayor Bowman's next target. No more official bragging about the Sugar Mountain kid skipping school at Kelvin High to earn his musical chops hither and yon with the Squires, Buffalo Springfield, CSNY and Crazy Horse. Who wants to be bragging on a high school dropout as a homeboy? Let the Republic of Tranna claim him.
And, hey, while he's at it, maybe Mayor BB can order favorite citizen Kenny Ploen deported back to Lost Nation, Iowa. After all, it's been more than half a century since K.P. had a hand in bringing the Grey Cup to Good Ol' Hometown.
Mind you, Mayor BB wouldn't know much about that. He wasn't around in the late-1950s and early-1960s, when Ploen, the Lincoln Locomotive, Choo Choo Shepard, Zazu, Kid Dynamite and the large lads in Blue and Gold won championships like kids collected bubble gum cards of their Canadian Football League heroes.
By the time Mayor BB squeezed out of the womb, those legends were long gone and so were the Bombers' glory days.
Mayor Steve Juba: Friend of the Bombers.
But I'll tell you who could have filled him in on those "best of times"—Steve Juba, one of his predecessors in the mayor's office. Trouble is, Steve left us in 1993, so he isn't available for a fireside chat with the present-day Hizzoner. If he were, no doubt Mayor Steve would regale Mayor BB in what it was like back in the day. You know, when the mayor of all the people actually embraced the connection between city and Winnipeg FC.
Once upon a time, the Bombers held a Blue and Gold intersquad game during training exercises. It was a huge deal. Anywhere from 17,000 to 19,500 locals would make their way to the real-grass football field on Maroons Road to take in the annual frolic, and I was among the east-side rabble on the night of July 21, 1960.
The opening kickoff tumbled near the Gold goalline, whereupon a return man scooped it up and began to skedaddle toward the right sideline. He had the awkward gait of peg-leg pirate and the giddyup of a sloth, but admirable escapeability. Would-be tacklers flung themselves at him in desperation without success, and he made it untouched to the far 35-yard stripe before an unknowing skunk shirt ruled him out of bounds.
I describe the game official as "unknowing" because the fix was in. The return man, you see, was Mayor Juba and the pre-arranged script had him lugging the kickoff back for a touchdown. Alas, someone forgot to clue in the sideline official. Didn't really matter, though. Mayor Steve had punked the audience.
Three years later, a Blue and Gold game official ejected Kenny Ploen and receiver Farrell Funston when they connected for a TD. On the first play from scrimmage. The rabble howled in protest, demanding that Ploen and Funston be reinserted to the fray. They hadn't paid $2 a pop to see some clown in a striped shirt turf two of their heroes. Upon closer inspection, however, it was discovered that the man in stripes was…you guessed it, Steve Juba. Yup, once again, Mayor Prankster had pulled one over on the Big Blue masses.
It was fun stuff. And a charming, folksy chapter in the historic bond between city and football club.
Yet, given his druthers, Mayor BB is inclined to bail on the burg's beloved (well, aren't they?) Blue Bombers. He's not interested in the City of Winnipeg occupying a seat on the board.
Mayor Steve must be spinning like a lathe in his cold, Blue and Gold grave.
One thing to keep in mind about Winnipeg FC: It isn't a community-owned operation. No one owns the football club. It's community-run.
A couple of words on TSN's innovative(?) split screen/live mic thingy during the Bytown RedBlacks-Montreal Alouettes skirmish on Saturday: The worst. We were forced to watch Antoine Pruneau and Henoc Muamba do absolutely nothing on the left side of our flatscreens for a dozen or more plays, while squinting at the right side of the screen to see what the other 22 players were doing. I'm all for new-fangled gadgetry, but this was a colossal failure. And, since I can't afford a 70-inch TV, I hope this experiment goes the way of the Indian head test pattern (Google it, kids).
Mike Benevides
Kirk Penton, as always, delivered the good stuff in his CFL column for The Athletic last week, and it included this gem from a former coach: "It was great to see one of us (coaches) on TSN. Benny (Mike Benevides) sounded like what he is—a solid football guy. He understands our game. He picks up the keys to the game and explains them. Without him, the rest of that group is no different than watching Entertainment Tonight Canada. A lot of expensive clothes and a lot of talk about nothing." Burn! Personally, I find Benevides uppity, if not flat-out arrogant. He doesn't talk as much as he lectures, as if the former players on the TSN panel are still in film study. Benny could spend a bit more time in wardrobe, too. He's not smoooooth like Milt Stegall. But, then, who is?
Anyone have a clue what's going on in Montreal? Or maybe this is a better question: Does anyone in Montreal have a clue, period? I mean, the Alouettes are a welfare case (read: no owner); they play in a half-empty house; they fired head coach Mike Sherman on the eve of the CFL season; now they punt GM Kavis Reed after twin Ws leveled their record at 2-2. Strange bit of business. But here's where it gets Rod Serling/Twilight Zone weird (cue the creepy music)—they've handed the keys to the shop to Joe Mack. That's like giving Wile E. Coyote another stick of dynamite. Nothing good will come of it.
Blue Bombers loyalists can tell the Larks all about Sleepy Joe and how he believed a brittle Buck Pierce was a better option at quarterback than Mike Reilly in 2013. It took present-day GM Kyle Walters more than three years to find his way out of the rubble that Sleepy Joe left behind, but we still feel an after-shock every now and then.
Sorry to report that attendance across the CFL is not on the rebound. The numbers continue to plummet everywhere but Calgary, and it's gotten so bad in the Republic of Tranna that they don't bother to take a head count. I agree. That's unacceptable. After all, how long does it take to count to 100? Maybe they can bring in the Army to do it for them.
Sports theatre doesn't get much better than what played out on Centre Court Wimbledon on Sunday, with Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer knocking the fuzz off tennis balls at the All-England Club. Five sets, tiebreaker in the fifth, three 'breakers total…bloody brilliant. And dare I say, the loser in this historic 7-6, 1-6, 7-6, 4-6, 13-12 tussle was the better player most of the afternoon. It's just that Djokovic won the points that mattered most in claiming his 16th Grand Slam title, and that included fighting off two match points against Federer's serve.
I must confess, while watching the very likable Simona Halep give bully Serena Williams a good and proper rag-dolling in the women's final on Saturday, I kept wondering if tournament officials would be required to dial 911 and call for a SWAT team to restore law and order. That is, I expected Williams to dig into her bag of angry theatrics and take the event hostage, much like she did in losing last year's U.S. Open to Naomi Osaka. Thankfully, she brought her prim and proper manners to the English party. But she's still a bully.
Halep worked a mere 56 minutes in winning her title. Djokovic needed four hours and 57 minutes to get the job done v. Federer. Each champion received a winner's purse of $2.95 million. Any complaints about pay equity? I hope not.
Since Federer claimed his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2003, it's been same old, same old on the men's tour. Only 10 men have won a major. That's it, just 10 in 17 years. Between Swiss maestro Federer, Djokovic and Rafa Nadal, they've collected 54 of the 65 majors, which is insane. Meanwhile, on the women's side, there have been 24 Grand Slam champions in the same time frame.
Winnipeg Lawn Tennis Club
I'm partial to tennis because it was my favorite beat at the Winnipeg Tribune. I spent countless enjoyable hours courtside at both the Winnipeg Lawn Tennis Club and the Canoe Club through most of the 1970s, and I have fond memories of people like Rick Borland, Judy Peake, Jo and Jack Brown, Eleanor O'Gorman, the Campbell sisters, Glen Booth, Jim Matthews, Al Skaletar, George Kylar, and so many others. So it pains me that the Winnipeg Sun would choose to ignore the National Bank Challenger tournament, which wrapped up at the WLTC on Sunday. The Drab Slab, meanwhile, did it right with young Taylor Allen's feet on the ground through the entirety of the event.
And, finally, here's something for the Winnipeg Jets rabble to chew on, and I'm guessing some might not like the taste:
Jordan Binnington salary: $4.4 million.
Connor Hellebuyck salary: $6.166,666 million.
Stanley Cup rings: Binnington 1; Hellebuyck 0.
Feel free to discuss among yourselves.
Author pattidawnswanssonPosted on July 15, 2019 July 15, 2019 Categories SportsTags All England Club, B.C. Lions, Brian Bowman, Buck Pierce, Buffalo Springfield, Calgary Stampeders, Canadian Football League, Connor Hellebuyck, Crazy Horse, CSNY, Edmonton Eskimos, Farrell Funston, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Joe Mack, Jordan Binnington, Kavis Reed, Kelvin High School, Ken Ploen, Kirk Penton, Kyle Walters, Mike Benevides, Mike O'Shea, Mike Reilly, Mike Sherman, Milt Stegall, Montreal Alouettes, Naomi Osaka, National Bank Challenger, Neil Young, Novak Djokovic, Ottawa RedBlacks, Rafael Nadal, Rod Serling, Roger Federer, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Serena Williams, Simona Halep, Stanley Cup, Steve Juba, Sugar Mountain, Taylor Allen, tennis Grand Slam, The Athletic, The Squires, The Twilight Zone, Toronto Argonauts, TSN, U.S. Open, Wile E. Coyote, Wimbledon, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Jets, Winnipeg Lawn Tennis Club, Winnipeg SunLeave a comment on Let's talk about Mayor Brian Bowman bailing on the Blue Bombers…split screens and Benny on TSN…Sleepy Joe and Wile E. Coyote…CFL head counts…the Roger and Novak show…Simona Halep beating the bully…and fond memories of local tennis
About a Barracuda on the judge's bench…those surprising Winnipeg Jets…same old, same old from Grapes…a pot calling a kettle white…kid stuff in Vegas…Box Car Willie Belichick…grappling with the idea of a new football league…women's tennis…Roger Federer's arms…and other things on my mind
I cannot survive in a 140- or 280-character world, so here are more tweets that grew up to be too big for Twitter…
I can't help but weep when I hear the many victims/survivors of diabolical Larry Nassar tell their stories of sexual abuse at the hands of the predator doctor when they were sweet, innocent little girls with dreams of Olympic Games gymnastics glory.
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, the Barracuda.
So it's damn straight that I gave a fist pump and let loose a mighty "hell ya!" when Judge Rosemarie Aquilina booted Nassar's sorry ass back to a jail cell on Wednesday, saying, "I just signed your death warrant" as she tacked 40-175 years onto the 60-year sentence the defrocked doctor is already serving on a child pornography conviction.
The lady judge rocks. Assistant Attorney General Angela Povilaitis rocks. Investigative journalists Marisa Kwiatowski, Tim Evans and Mark Alesia at the Indianapolis Star rock. The 156 women who appeared in a Michigan courtroom to confront Nassar with victim-impact statements rock.
And now Nassar can pound rocks. Or whatever it is that sexual predators pound behind bars.
Judge Lance Ito
Watching Judge Aquilina sentence former U.S. Olympic gymnastics/Michigan State University doctor Nassar, I couldn't help but think the outcomes of the original O.J. Simpson (Judge Ito) and Oscar Pistorius (Judge Thokozile Masipa) murder trials would have been different had she been on the bench. It's little wonder Judge Aquilina's nickname while serving in the Michigan Army National Guard was Barricuda. She's a nasty bit of business, in a good way.
Quick question for those who insist that we keep sports and the real world separate: How is that possible when the real world refuses to stay out of sports? Nassar was the top medic for USA Gymnastics and the MSU women's gymnastics teams. He sexually abused the girls. Sports, meet real world.
I woke up to a tsunami warning (true story) in the small hours of Tuesday morning, after a 7.9 shaker rocked and rolled offshore of Alaska, and I had visions of my high-and-dry, eighth-floor home in downtown Victoria being swamped and swallowed by the Pacific Ocean. Turns out the 'quake had all the bite of a Jimmy Fallon monologue. Yup, that tame. There's more oomph in American beer. So, after review, the tsunami warning was overturned due to goaltender interference. Just like every goal scored in the National Hockey League this week.
Moving on to more pleasant matters, it seems that most times I look up the Winnipeg Jets are winning another game. Who saw that coming? I mean, okay, at the commencement of their current crusade I figured Team Draft & Develop for a wild-card playoff spot. At best. But first place? In the NHL's toughest division? There was a better chance of the Paid Pinocchio in the White House, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, dissing her boss Donald Trump for his take on immigration.
Here's what I wrote re the Jets on Sept. 14: "It appears that the Western Conference road to the Stanley Cup is likely to go through Northern Alberta. If not, it'll be Southern Alberta, where the Calgary Flames are shaping up to be a force, even as ownership squabbles with politicos and beats the drums about relocation should the city refuse to pony up substantial coin for a new shinny palace. The trouble with the Jets—aside from the people behind the bench—is geography. Until they prove otherwise, they're still the third best outfit on the Canadian prairies." D'oh! D'oh! D'oh!
I note that two members of the San Jose Sharks—Tomas Hertl and Justin Braun—have issued an apology for calling Winnipeg a "dark and cold" locale with no smart phones, WiFi or any other 21st-century gadgetry. Apparently, the mea culpa should arrive by Pony Express, carrier pigeon or Western Union telegraph in time for the NHL playoffs.
This just in—Don Cherry doesn't like Europeans. Who knew? In related news, dogs don't like cats, Donald Trump doesn't like the FBI, and Taylor Swift isn't fond of Kim, Kanye or Katy. Seriously. Grapes needs a new script writer. Once again he's dredged up his antiquated Cold War-era lament about Euros taking jobs away from homebrews, in this case on the rosters of Major Junior outfits across our vast land. "What happens is, if you look at it, there's a Canadian kid not playing," says the resident curmudgeon/blowhard on the Hockey Night in Canada intermission feature Coachless Corner. "You're asking me, 'Do I believe in Europeans playing in (the) Canadian Hockey League?' No. I don't." Fine, Grapes, and while we're at it let's keep all those French kids in Quebec.
Paul Wiecek offers some interesting thoughts on the NHL misreading the climate of the day by hiring Kid Rock as the intermission act for its all-star frolic this afternoon in Tampa.
The way the Winnipeg Free Press sports columnist has it figured, the two of them deserve each other because the NHL is whiter than a virgin bride's wedding gown and Kid Rock's neck is redder than a rooster's wattles.
"If the Confederacy had won the U.S. Civil War, America today would look a whole lot like an NHL hockey game," Wiecek writes. "The NHL is not only the whitest professional sports league in North America—by a mile—it also has the whitest fans of any of this continent's four major pro sports. Again, by a mile. If you're anything other than white and heterosexual, you're every bit as much of a minority sitting in the stands at an NHL game as Dustin Byfuglien is skating out on the ice. Hockey is played by white people, for white people."
Canada's newspaper sports writers are white, white, white.
This is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle white. I mean, has Wiecek taken a look at press row in Canada (newspaper sports division)? Nothing but white, heterosexual, mostly male faces.
Full marks to the Freep scribe for calling out the NHL on the Kid Rock hire, because the guy has a fondness for the Confederate flag and a history of anti-gay/anti-transgender spewings. But Wiecek's own business has all the diversity of…well, the white NHL.
Ask Wiecek to name all the black sports writers with whom he's worked. Ask him to name all the openly gay sports scribes. None and none. Ask him to name all the women. Two. I worked at five different dailies. I recall one non-Caucasian colleague. Just one. In 30 years. I worked with only four females scribes. In 30 years. I worked with zero openly gay sports scribes. In 30 years.
At least the NHL has some African-American players. But blacks and gays can't even be called a minority in Canadian newspaper sports writing, because they simply don't exist.
So, signature scrawl is now restricted to kids in Sin City. That's right, only kids 14 and under are allowed access to Vegas Golden Knights players for autographs at the NHL club's practice facility, City National Arena. Adults need not apply. Seems it's a safety measure, because grown-ups were "pushing kids out of the way" and kids were "running into the street." My question: Why would a grown man want another grown man's autograph? Except, of course, to profit. In which case, he should get a life.
Box Car Belichick
Yes, kids, you can grow up to look like Box Car Willie after spending a night sleeping on a slow-moving freight train and still become a five-time (do I hear six?) Super Bowl-winning head coach. Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots remains the ultimate example of a man not letting success go to his clothes, so the next time a cynic takes a cheap shot at Winnipeg Blue Bombers sideline steward Mike O'Shea for his "goofy shorts," show him this pic of Belichick, taken scant seconds after his Patriots had won their eighth American Football Conference title on his watch.
Grappling guru Vince McMahon made it official last week, advising us that his aborted and gimmicky XFL from 2001 will reboot in 2020, sans the WWE-scripted shtick and the up-the-skirt cheerleader cams. Vince is going legit—from sleazy to squeaky clean—and he vows to hire only boy scouts ("Even if you have a DUI, you will not play in the XFL."). He'll order players to stand during the national anthem. He wants games to be completed in two hours or less. He wants us to "reimagine" football. Okay, I reimagine football in 2020 without Vince McMahon.
McMahon's no-bad boys statute seemingly rules out Johnny Manziel, the former Cleveland Browns quarterback who likes to brawl in bars when he isn't beating up women. So let's see…the National Football League has washed its hands of Manziel and the not-ready-for-prime-time XFL wants no part of him, yet the Canadian Football League is eager to welcome him with open arms. What part of embarrassing does CFL commish Randy Ambrosie not understand? (For the record, if Manziel shows serious interest in the XFL, bet the mortgage money that McMahon will turn a blind eye to his rap sheet.)
For those who insist that there's no depth in women's tennis, the past five Grand Slam events have produced five different champions—Serena Williams (Australian Open), Jelena Ostapenko (French Open), Garbine Muguruza (Wimbledon), Sloane Stephens (U.S. Open) and Caroline Wozniacki (Aussie Open). Five events, 13 months, five different champions. The men, meanwhile, have produced two different champions in that time frame—Roger Federer (three titles) and Rafael Nadal (two). I suppose an argument can be made that the universe would have unfolded differently for the women had mama Serena not been away having a baby, but that isn't necessarily so. After all, she won just one Slam in 2016. Might have been the same last year. The point is, there's intrigue on the women's side.
Is there anything more cruel in sports than what Simona Halep and Marin Cilic were forced to endure after losing their respective Aussie Open singles championship matches this weekend? She battled Wozniacki for three hours less 11 minutes, he 20-time Grand Slam champion Federer for three hours and three minutes. Then, after being vanquished, they likely just wanted to crawl into a hole and cry. Alas, they were required to loiter on court for the parting-gifts ceremony and boring speeches that seemingly droned on longer than the matches…then make a speech and smile…then listen to the victor's speech and smile…then pose for photos and smile. Half an hour later, they were permitted to depart and lick their wounds (which, in Halep's case, meant a retreat to the hospital for IV treatment). Like I said, cruel.
This week's notable quotable: Before meeting his Waterloo vs. Marin Cilic, Rafael Nadal was rocking the sleeveless look at the Aussie Open. The guy's got guns. Serious guns. Which did not escape the notice of commentator Jim Courier, who, during a courtside gab session about Rafa's fashion statement, asked Swiss maestro Federer if he'd be following Nadal's lead and show us his pipes. "That's not gonna happen," a laughing Federer said, glancing quickly at his chicken arms. "You know why? My arms are not like his arms. It's pretty simple."
This week's Stevie-ism from Steve Simmons of Postmedia Tranna, taking a cheap shot at the XFL: "Did anybody out there ask for another football league? Anyone?" I have a better question, Stevie: Does anybody in the Republic of Tranna know they have a professional football team? Anyone?
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The Woman in the Case is a 1916 Australian silent film based on a popular play of the same name by Clyde Fitch.

It is considered a lost film.

Plot
Julian Rolfe has an affair with Clare Foster as a young man, but then settles down to marriage with Margaret. Clare tries to blackmail Julian but Margaret destroys the letters. Clare murders Julian's ward, Phillip, and tries to frame Julian for it. Julian is sentenced to death but Margaret manages to get Clare to confess.

Cast
Jean Robertson as Margaret Rolfe
Loris Bingham as Clare Foster
Fred Knowles as Julian Rolfe
Herbert J Bentley as Phillip Long
Winter Hall
David Edelsten
Austin Milroy

Production
George Willoughby had toured with the play though Australia in 1911 and 1912 to great success. Over 300 people were involved in making the movie.

Fred Knowles was an English actor touring Australia. After making the film he enlisted in the AIF and was wounded in France in May 1917, losing an arm. However he managed to resume his career.

Two other films were made from the same play, in 1916 and 1922 (as The Law and the Woman).

Release
The movie was trade screened in May 1916.

Willoughby later revived the play in 1927.

It was announced that the Willoughby Company were then to make The Pearl of the Pacific based on a story by Randolph Bedford, but this film appears to have never been made.

See also
The Woman in the Case

References

External links

 Text of original play

Australian black-and-white films
Lost Australian films
1916 films
1916 drama films
Australian drama films
Australian silent feature films
1916 lost films
Lost drama films
Silent drama films


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