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Game Day "Oilers VS Islanders"
From Champs to Chumps?
Both the franchises of the New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers dominated the NHL in the late 70's and throughout the 80's. Amazing how the mighty have fallen and it appears they can not get back up. The Islanders have been struggling for years with high draft picks but signing bad contracts, awful managing of the team has probably been the largest criticism. The Oilers have had some bad press for their management ability but in large part, it has been blamed on players in the organization. There comes a point where management has to step up and take some responsibility.
I am of the belief that a 18th-22nd place finish may be better but if were not good enough yet, there are some incredible players in the top 6 of the coming 2012 NHL draft. Yes, I know, there comes a point where you have to move forward but since the season has pretty much gone the way down the crapper, I say let it continue to be about development and start making changes to see what our future holds.
I love Anton Lander, but let's face it, like Paajarvi, he needs development time and lots of icetime to improve on his game. He has some offensive ability and is getting it stifled playing consistently on the 4th line. Let him round out and improve his game at the AHL level. Also it may be time to trade off Eager and either Gagner or Hemsky by the trade deadline. Its not the players themselves, it's the make up of the team that is more the problem IMO.
O'Marra is a good fit for that 4th line role and can win faceoffs. Let's see what we have in him for a longer spell before we decide if he is worth keeping into next year. With some good talent in OKC we can afford to bring up a Ryan Keller and really see what he can deliver on a 3rd or 4th line role. Also once O'Mark and Hartikanen are ready, I say it's time for the big show. On defence? Well they are doing exactly the same as I am suggesting with the forwards already. Young guys are getting some experience, the Oilers are seeing what they got in some older prospects in Plante and Teubert and I am sure evaluating their future as the season continues on.
Why do this you say? Why not? Do we really believe we can attain a playoff spot now? For the Oilers to do so, they would be the talk of the NHL should they come back to make the playoffs. At least if the Oilers don't win as many games, they are evaluating for the future and developing.
I am sure some of you will think I am crazy for thinking the Oilers should continue this season the way I just suggested but let me ask you. Is not Tamby and Lowe already following this process with our defence? We all knew no defence help was coming in. We knew it was a evaluation year on defence and in goal. Sure they started the year well, but in hockey it's what have you done for me lately. Fair or not fair, circumstances changes game plans. This coming 2012 NHL Draft, top end talent has either that potential 1-3 defencemen we need or 1 more top centre. Should we falter, the consolation prize? A Generational talent as scouts say in Nail Yakupov. Personally, I think the Oilers finish the year anywhere between 20th at best to as low as 26th.
(A tribute to the beginnings of a great team and another era of Incredible hockey)
Gametime 11:00 am CHED630am/Sportsnet-West
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Magnus Paajarvi, The Slump Continues...
If you can believe this... 4 games with the OKC Barons and not a single goal.
One assist and a nifty shootout goal is all he has to show for during his short AHL career. It appears that he's just having a goal scoring slump in life. Not just in the NHL.
While he has played pretty decent in Oklahoma, he's there to find his goal touch. If he's not scoring down there, he'll never get called back up to the Oil. It's looking like a long road ahead of Magnus.
I'm hoping he can turn it around soon. He's too good of a player to be a wasted talent. This isn't another Rob Schremp story.
-Written by Smokin' Ray-
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What Gets Us Found: edmonton oilers, Magnus Paajarvi, Oklahoma City Barons
Talk Is Cheap / The Oilers Crap Out Another Stinker
Despite a couple of brutal calls by the refs tonight, the loss only reflects on the team, not the refs.
The first period was one of, if not the worst period of Oiler hockey I've seen this year. After a start like that, you can blame anything you want, but losing is still your own damn fault.
I'm getting tired of all the talk and no show from the players and coaches. Cliches are starting to sound like cliches.
"We need to play a full 60 minutes."
"Our compete level was not at 100%."
"We need to get back to the basics."
Talk is cheap boys. Put up or shut up time.
What Gets Us Found: edmonton oilers
Game Day "Oilers VS Canucks"
"Burnt Toast" tonight OR "Oilers Branding" of Canucks?
(This piece of toast tasted quite delicious this morning with eggs on it for breakfast. Got my own Oiler Branding toaster for genuine Oilers toast. Not to mention got my Oiler scarf and Oiler gloves along with a cozy fluffy Oiler blanket to use during games)
Tonight RNH has his first regular season game in his hometown and has friends and family stoked to see him play. Let's hope he overcomes any nervousness and displays a top notch game for the Oilers tonight.
The Oilers have been playing a much better game as of late , so am thinking this should be a fairly good game. Last game the Vets Horcoff, Hemsky and Smyth did well in proving me wrong with no turnovers which goes a long way to a win for this team. Limit the turnovers and this team will compete any night of the week. Hard to say how either team will play so I expect good puck control varying by both teams in this game at various times.
This is the beginning of a long trip on the road for this team and a early road win against a divisional opponent would go a long way. They need 4 of 7 wins to remain even remotely in a playoff spot. Should they falter on this trip we will then only be discussing what draft placing we will have and watching to see the Stat padding that could go on with our three young guns.
It's Boxing Day! Let the boxing, show itself tonight in this game and hopefully it will be a exciting game to watch for us Oiler fans!
Gametime 8:00pm CHED630am/Sportsnet-West
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Alex Plante Recalled / More To It Than We Know?
The Oilers are in need of some help tonight (injury?) and I guess they need it from Alex Plante. He's been recalled from the Oklahoma City Barons.
Not sure if Plante will actually play tonight or not.
As steamed as I am that Colten Teubert wasn't recalled instead, I started thinking that this isn't cause Plante is the best choice, but more of an opportunity.
It's no secret he's on his last legs with the Oilers. This is make it or break it time. This is perhaps his last kick at the can? Or perhaps a little look for some other teams that might want to include him in a trade that's in the works?
Bah! I'm probably reading to deep into this...
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What Gets Us Found: Alex Plante, edmonton oilers, Oklahoma City Barons
Oilers 2012 NHL Draft Watch "Cody Ceci"
REVS 2012 Prospects List (Oct 3rd/11)
1.Nail Yakupov
2.Mikhail Grigorenko
3.Ryan Murray
4.Alex Galchenyuk
5.Morgan Rielly
6.Mathew Dumba
7.Nick Ebert
8.Filip Forsberg
9.Griffin Reinhart
10.Martin Frk
11.Derrick Pouliot
12.Cody Ceci
13.Olli Maatta
14.Zemgus Girgensons
15.Jacob Trouba
Today we examine the #12 ranked player from REVS 2012 Prospects List . Each player is unique in their own right and full of talent. The ranking does not reflect a mock draft of who a team may actually pick but rather who I would place as the best player available in that spot.
Cody Ceci
Pos: D
HT:6'2 ft
WT:203
Born: Orleans Onatraio, Canada
2009/10 Games 64 G 4 A 8 PTS 12
2010/11 Games 68 G 9 A 25 PTS 34
Cody was just returned back to the OHL after failing to make the team for the World Jr tourney for Canada. While disapointed in his own right. (I think he was more deserving then Oleksiak) Cody did also attend their summer development camp as well as the Research and Development camp this summer. No small feat either way.
Coming into this season his numbers offensively were respectable but he has done nothing but rise to the occasion and in half the number of games he has matched his his last season totals. Cody may not have made the Canadian team for the tourney but he should enjoy the time off over the holiday season cause his team looks poised for a good run for the OHL championship with about 4 other teams.
Cody is more of a two-way defenseman, but more then likely if he is too make it in the NHL he will be looked upon to think defence first, and chip in offensively when his own end is taken care of. His attention to detail in his own zone , is one of his top qualities, but he also has a great first pass to initiate the rush. Ceci already has respectable size, but is a good skater, and has great vision.
Game Day "Wild"
Not sure what many of you think about the Minnesota Wild these days, but regardless of what we think of them, they have become a solid powerhouse in the NHL this year. Something happened to the Wild over the off-season, they became a more well rounded team offensively. This team has it's fans 'going WILD' in excitement about some possible playoff results this year even. The question most people have is...."Can this last?"
The Wild have been winning with good goaltending, defence by committee and timely scoring, Oh, and good coaching. What really gets me about the Edmonton Oilers is the excuses we seem to accept. I get it, that we will experience down times and up times with this young team, but that can only be a reason for so many years in a row. You can't tell me, our defence is incapable of playing a solid defensive game just because they are young. Look at Minnesota and their defence core. Jared Spurgeon, Marek Zidlicky, Marco Scandella, Nate Prosser, Nick Schultz, Clayton Stoner, Justin Falk, Greg Zanon...should I continue? You see, there coaching staff has taught them to play a game with average defencemen. I would take the Oilers defence to the Wild's on paper anyday. But right now, today is not THAT day. The reason in my opinion is coaching. I'm sorry for those of you who do not agree with me, but our early season success is more then just luck and catching teams off guard early. The defence bought into the coaching early and the coaching has not been able to adjust our defence as other teams have started to capitalize on our weaknesses. Goaltending confidence comes from solid defensive play. To have solid stellar goaltending but then for the defence to give up chance after chance to be scored on is tough. A goaltenders mind can only stay focused so long with poor defence
As far as the forwards on our team, they need to start making better decisions with the puck, and I am not speaking of the young guys. Too many turnovers in the neutral zone on giveaways are killing this team. The Oilers veterans know better but continue to do so. Granted the defence has had their fair share of giveaways from pinching too much but we already covered some on that already. The guys giving the puck right back are Horcoff, Hemsky, Smyth, Eager and Gagner (but he is improving I might add). How can our veterans not be accountable for these kind of mistakes. On occasion when Hall, RNH or Eberle give up the puck, much is made of it (not often it happens) but the veterans do it almost every game or two. Watch the game tonight, I can almost guarantee you between Horcoff, Hemsky, and Smyth there will be 2-3 giveaways tonight. It happens every game.
Khabby has played well and I expect he will get the start again tonight as the Oilers are desperate to get back into the win column. Also, I have to say, I have been pleased with our PP, but isn't it amazing how much a PP can change when a 18 year old is running your PP? Wonder how many people still think RNH isn't heavy enough or big enough to play in the NHL. (I will cover more on this in another blog under my Prospect Focus). I have been pleased with our PK as well. But think about this team. 2 points better from a year ago with a wonder kid playing at a PPG and 2 other great players in Hall and Eberle playing like All-Stars. Not to mention a much improved PP and PK, yet only 2 points better? Am I missing something here? I said it a few weeks back and will say it again, Tamby and Lowe had no intention of rushing this rebuild on the defence front if no trade was attempted early on. They are ok with building through the draft and waiting til the feel they can get the best return on players at the deadline. Is that ok? Sure, but be prepared for another long season of games being meaningless in a couple months and Oiler fans just looking forwards to glimpses of future success and padding of individual stats for our favourite players.
Before I cover our prospect watch, I should say, as negative as I sound, I do still believe this team is going in the right direction player wise, just not coaching and management wise. And let me be clear, the players we all love to see or are hoping to see on the Oilers in the future have less to do with management and coaching and more to do with amateur scouting. Pro scouting is probably one of our greatest weaknesses and Management treats the casual fan like were stupid. C'mon, don't pay the Oiler fan a compliment and then smack him upside the head in the next moment. My dad was like that and you know what that created? Yep! Hatred for him. Tamby, Lowe and even Katz in my opinion need to be more honest about what our struggles are and accept some blame above the players.
Prospect Focus
So Anton Lander looks to be getting a bit of a push here tonight with some third line time centering Gagner and Jones. I actually like the look of this line and am interested in what will come of their potential tonight. Lander has struggled somewhat in the faceoffok but using Lander as a plug on a fourth line to me is a waste. I would rather Lander play third line here in Edmonton or down in OKC with the Barons on their 1st or 2nd line to improve his offensive game, cause we know he does have some decent offense as well. I would think, should Renney not like this experiment of Lander on the third line very long, we will see Lander heading to OKC for some development soon enough.
Now let's get ready to RUMBLE! Go Oilers!
Gametime 7:30pm CHED630am/Sportsnet-Oilers
Oilers 2012 Draft Watch "Derrick Pouliot"
Derrick Pouliot
Born: Weyburn, Sask, CANADA
2009/10 Games 7 G 0 A 1 PTS 1
2011/2012 Games 35 G 5 A 22 PTS 27
Pouliot's season started hot but has tapered off a bit as Joe Morrow came back from the Penguins camp to take back his #1 spot on the team. Pouliot has some offensive ability, but his greatest strength comes as being a point man on the power play. Pouliot's game is played better when he is the #1 option.
Derrick off the ice is nothing like the Derrick Pouliot you see on the ice. Off the ice, they say he's a shy, reserved young guy with impeccable manners. On the ice that disappears. To be fair, it's hard to be polite when you're causing your opponents fits.Pouliot is usually in complete control when on the ice. He has elite vision, sensing when to feed his teammates and when to carry the puck himself, almost always makes the right decision.
Before entering into the WHL his list of awards and honors he took home were.....
-Tournament MVP and a member of the tournament's "All-Star Line" at the Graham Tuer Bantam AA Challenge in Regina, Saskatchewan.
- Selected as the Top Defenseman and a member of the tournament's "All-Star Line" at the Hockey Hounds Major Bantam Tournament in Medicine Hat, Alberta.
- Called up by the Moose Jaw Warriors AAA midget team to play in the prestigious Mac's Midget Hockey Tournament in Calgary, Alberta, and recorded three goals and two assists for five points in four games.
- Selected to the tournament's "All-Star Line" at the GSHL Bantam AA Invitational in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
- Selected as the "Top Defenseman" and a member of the tournament's "All-Star Line" at the Western Canadian Bantam Championships in Weyburn, Saskatchewan.
Pouliot is the first to admit he still has work to do in his own end. He acknowledges he is trying to work on that a little bit more. Positioning and things like that. Derrick is considered a very special player, very smart with the puck. He sees the ice well, skates well, rushes the puck and jumps into the play. He's an offensive defenseman, but he's good on the back end, too. Pouliot is very consistent and pretty much brings it every game, so there's not much negative. To date he's been able to play at a higher level of hockey as he has progressed in his hockey career.
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Oilers 2012 Draft Watch "Martin Frk"
Today we examine the #10 ranked player from REVS 2012 Prospects List . Each player is unique in their own right and full of talent. The ranking does not reflect a mock draft of who a team may actually pick but rather who I would place as the best player available in that spot
Pos: F
Born: Karlov Vary, Czech Rep
2010/11 Games 62 G 22 A 28 PTS 50
2011/12 Games 7 G 1 A PTS 1
Martin Frk was injured in pre-season and has only recently returned to the lineup. Those close to him say he is still trying to get his game legs and his timing together but he has recently pulled out from the World Jr U20 Championships to which has raised some controversy. Some say it will hurt his ultimate draft status while others feel the scouts think they have a good read on his ability already. Only time will tell, but for me, warning flags are going up all over. Wish nothing but the best for Martin but wonder if this will end up in him falling around the same place Jurco fell last season. Could be one great late round pick up for one team if he did have his draft status fall. Martin just recently was selected to play in the annual CHL/NHL prospects game for Team Cherry. A good showing could go a long way for scouts alike.
Frk is a player in the mold of a power forward who has some slick hands and very agile. His height is average but already sits at pretty much 200 lbs. His ability to cradle the puck is elite level and his puck protection crossing the blueline is second to none. Frk has been known to have some doubt his work ethic on a occasional night but when his game is on, he plays the 200 foot game very well. His skating is not real agile but he is a strong skater very above average speed. Plays more of a north/south game on the ice. When paired with a playmaker Frk can snap a shot like it's a bullet coming out of a 7mm magnum. Martin will need to show some improvement in his game so Scouts know he still has it and his head injury is not still lingering but I still think he will be drafted regardless in the top 15 in the 2012 NHL draft
Game Day "Red Wings"
For those those of you who have been following my game day blogs for the Oilers, I am back from a 1 game absence. Thought Hockey Karma would have the Oilers win, if I stayed away, but to no avail, the Oilers still lost. Next up as of today, I will no longer be doing a game day prediction. Here is hoping that it brings changes and the Oilers start winning. No use in having a routine tradition if your not winning anyway. What I will be doing in each game day thread is staying true to my roots and giving some focus on a prospect who is a 1st year player on the club. Now onto our game day discussion......
Well, the atmosphere and excitement in Edmonton on this season certainly has changed in the past few weeks. As the Oilers prepare to do battle on the ice tonight against the powerful Red Wings, several fans are now starting to focus in on smaller victories. Some just want to at least see Hall/Eberle/RNH get a point each game and finish the year with a point a game. Would be good for their confidence and for the confidence of the team as they build around those three cornerstones.
Some fans just want to see Smyth score 30 or more this year and would be content. Others are just looking to see Ryan Whitney regain that scoring prowess he had last year before going down with his injury. And then their are others like myself who are watching the prospects of the 2012 Draft coming up in June this summer.
All in all, doesn't matter what any of these individual fans want, the Oilers will not be able to continue this path of rebuild. Granted, this is only year two of a rebuild, but a rebuild also means you are getting better each year without abandoning ship and re-routing half way in. This years team is only 2 points greater then last years team at the exact same point. Sure they have a better goals for and against then last year, but that is in large part to some stellar goaltending and shot blocking in the first 13 games. The other difference this year has been this team is usually in a place to still be in reach of at least a tie in every game and the Oilers have done well at getting on the scoreboard first. What is alarming is their inability to stop this rash of horrid turnovers each game.
The Red Wings are a team who will capitalize even more on the Oilers weakness of turnovers, so if they hope to be even close in this game, it will require some smart play moving the puck out of their own end. The PP has looked noticeably different with Potter back out there and the PK has been doing much better as well.
A couple concerns I am having is the play of Peckham and the playing of our fourth line. On defence, Peckham should not be making those blueline pinches he so often makes to keep the puck in play. Why? Because he is a defensive defencemen and can't usually make that play work. Too often he loses his feet out from under him and then is taken out of position. Also if Peckham wants to hit, he needs to remember not to take himself out of position to do that. This many games into his NHL career is looking bad on Theo. I like the toughness he brings and the passion but too many bad penalties, and at least one bad error every game, resulting in a goal has big worry signs up for me.
Prospect Focus:
Petrell is a weird character. I know you Finnish fans love this guy and I do too. He is a excited one and a damm good penalty killer, but 5 on 5 he is hurting big time. One of the strengths we heard was his aggressive forecheck. His forecheck is good, but seldom does he seem able to keep control of the puck and is usually just dumping the puck back in. Good attitude, apparent great character, awesome penalty killer but you have to wonder when the light will go on and his puck control will begin to show itself. I'm rooting for ya Petrell! Hurry up and bring your whole game around soon though, cause there is some good talent coming up from the minors soon enough that can take your spot.
Game Day "Coyotes"
After a few days off, If I may say so myself, us Oiler fans are craving some Oiler action. Of course not the same kind of action as displayed against Calgary on Saturday (Or should I say lack of action, on the part of the Oilers?)
Hall is back tonight and rumour has it Potter may be as well. Hall will help pick up the tempo that has been surely lacking and Corey Potter 'Powerplay', will be a welcome sign and some good puck movement from the backend will be a welcome addition. Not too much can be expected from these two, as they may not be quite as game ready, as they have been off anywhere from 2-3 weeks.
Shane Doan (the above picture) was a draft pick that never became reality for the Edmonton Oilers. Instead they bypassed him to pick up another player that never did pan out (not even worth mentioning the name). Maybe the team would have taken a different direction had he been a Edmonton Oiler, maybe not. Bottom line is, we now have some great top end talent that is bursting at the seams here in Edmonton.
Players that will be a part of the future include...Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Jordon Eberle. Those are stone cold locks, any others will be expendable even if they do have high upside. Until the Oilers and these young guns can learn how to consistently produce on the road, they will not be contenders though. My guess is, come next year at this time, we will see a greater consistency that has not been seen in quite some time. This team can score. This team can produce stellar goaltending on occasion. This team can shut a team down defensively. Now the question remains, 'how long till we see a consistent package of these area's?'
Looking forward to tonight's game with anticipation (If only I was able to watch a game without PVR'ing) Anyway, at least recording the game means I can break the game plays down much better.
Go Oilers!
My predictions for today's game
Gametime 7:30pm CHED630am/Sportsnet-Edn
REV'S Edmonton Oiler
Gameday Predictions Dec 15th/11
1. 1st game back and Hall collects a point or more himself tonight.
2. Inspired by the return of Hall and possibly Potter the Oilers are motivated to win this road game. Expect a Oilers win tonight.
3. The Oilers after a aweful PP against Calgary score tonight on the PP once again.
4. Eberle with a goal tonight to light the lamp.
5. RNH gets back on track and comes up with a road point or two.
(EV'S PREDICTIONS TO DATE: 66 for 124=53.2%
Man, that game against Calgary really was a kick in the backside of us Oiler fans. Hurts the predictions too when your team fires blanks. Here's hoping to a more fired up Oilers team.
As the great Ed Whalen used to say "In the meantime and in between time, that's it, for another edition of...REV'S PREDICTION" (bolded words are not Whalen's words)
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Tyler Bunz Cut??? What???
Just before I go to sleep after an exhausting night shift on a drilling rig, I scan twitter and I find out that Oilers prospect Tyler Bunz has been cut from Team Canada?!?
I thought he'd be a lock for sure. I guess I was wrong. It's too bad. I feel Tyler could have been a big part of a gold medal in a city that not only drafted him, buy support him as well.
Try not to be too sad Tyler. Your still a good goalie no matter what. Someone fu*ked up with the decision making that's for sure.
Remember this... The Nuge never played for Canada and look at him now.
-Written by Smokin' Ray Burnt-
What Gets Us Found: edmonton oilers, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Team Canada, Tyler Bunz
I don't get what the big deal is. Why not send Magnus Paajarvi down right now?
He's clearly struggling and the Oklahoma City Barons could use a talent like Paajarvi right now.
I say send him down now and it will work out best for both parties. MPS needs to find his groove.
-Smokin' Ray Burnt-
Oilers 2012 Draft Watch "Griffin Reinhart"
Today we examine the #9 ranked player from REVS 2012 Prospects List . Each player is unique in their own right and full of talent. The ranking does not reflect a mock draft of who a team may actually pick but rather who I would place as the best player available in that spot.
Born: Vancouver, B.C.
2010/11 Oil Kings WHL Games 45 G 6 A 19 PTS 25
This six-foot four, two hundred pound blueliner from the Edmonton Oil Kings has all the tools needed to have a successful pro career. A strong point is his shot, which isn't too surprising given his size. But scouts also tell say his mobility is another strength. Reinhart says he likes to think that he could be the next Shea Weber. A high expectation but even half as good as Shea Weber would be a blessing in disguise for the team who selects him.
Sad news for Oilers fans is that Griffin is also a big Vancouver Canucks fan. But since Calgary was Hall's favourite team he can be excused for that, growing up in BC. RNH also was a Canuck fan as well. Griffin is expected to go fairly early in the first round in 2012, and the team that drafts him will certainly be glad to get him.
Something limiting Griffin from being ranked higher in draft rankings is that, he's not great at using his size to play a physical game. It's not like he avoids all contact but scouts would like to see him be more aggressive to take pucks away from opponents. Griffin's still a very raw prospect, and he will likely need a few more years of development before he can step into the pro game. Current Colorado Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson is being used as an example of what not to do with Reinhart, as Johnson was brought into St. Louis too early, and some say that as a result his career has already been ruined.
(both are fight videos but show Griffin is a strong customer)
Game Day "Flames"
As the Oilers take to the ice at the Saddledome in Calgary tonight, I can not but help remember back to those vicious battles that took place between these two teams in the 80's. As a fan of hockey back then, we never really realized until it was too late, how we should have soaked up that bitter rivalry with every ounce of hockey passion we could muster.
I wonder who today's Glen Anderson is on the Oilers? Is it possible maybe a player like Hartikanen will turn into that player? Nope, not likely he has the scoring touch or the speed. Maybe we will never see a player who closely resembles Glen Anderson. All I do know, is our current team that we call our 'Oilers' is as Bi-Polar as they come. Granted, last night's game was against a struggling club. But the previous few games to that one, were against struggling clubs. Sometimes this team has its 'wheels flying' and is 'hell bent' but other times this team has a 'flat' and their play becomes 'childlike' on the ice.
At this moment, the Oilers are trying their best to resemble a playoff competitive team and good on them. To change the mind of the critics though will require a winning percentage of 60% or better. Their has been some struggles with our defence but in whole, if they are to play a simpler game (like last night) and limit the mistakes, they have a chance each night to win a hockey game.
Yes, Teubert last night made a bad line change and was out of position on a couple shifts that almost cost him but at least he is a rookie making mistakes. No raw rookie will come in to a NHL club and be flawless, even the best defencemen will make mistakes. What I do like about Colten, is his rugged play and how he takes his man out of the play. He is strong on the wall and covers his man well. On one shift last night, he must have made 3 big hits then eventually caused the puck to be turned back over to the Oilers, and all because of his strong body work on the boards. Maybe this is not his year were we see Teubert become a full-time NHL player, but we are getting closer, and that means another player of his sort will become expendable next year or the next. Who do you think it could be, who should be looking over his shoulder? Or do you think Teubert is bound to be a 7th defencemen in this organization?
Khabby continues to play well and showed some early season form last night. Here is hoping he can keep this up and help this team gain some respectability once again. Dubynk has started to fade some and looked shaky in his last few starts, but confidence is a big factor in success. If it were me (and I am sure many of you are glad it is not me), I would run the goalie rotation based on stellar and hot goaltending. If Khabby has a hot hand, run with him. If Dubynk excels, let him play the next game. There is pros and cons to this, but it does have some merit.
time to do battle with the hated Flames of Cowville!
Go Oilers!!!
Gametime 8:00pm CHED630am/CBC
1. Now that we have the Nuge playing more time on the PP and Belanger finding his rightful place off the PP, I see the PP putting up another goal or two tonight.
2. How can I not pick the Oilers to win this game? Exactly, as a Oilers fan, it would be against my better judgement even if I thought Calgary was the better team. Oilers win!
3. Gagner has been flying as of late and while he is, I am still banking on him putting up more points as well. Gagner will collect a point or better on the PP tonight.
4. Belanger has not been his usual high facoff % self as of late. However he has been putting points up. Last nights game he fared ok and against a better FO% team he will be in tough but should still finish 52% or better in the dot tonight.
5. Nuge continues to prove he belongs in the NHL. 30 Games and 33 points or more? Bank on it!
(EV'S PREDICTIONS TO DATE: 65 for 119=54.6%)
Was shocked Teubert was given so many mins in last nights game, but good on Renney who used this opportunity to rest some vets and give ice time to some rookies. What's up with Smyth's lack of scoring prowess? Thought he was a lock every game to score?..lol As a famous actor once said "I'll be back!"
Game Day "Avalanche"
Game Day "Hurricanes"
Oilers 2012 Draft Watch "Filip Forsberg"
Game Day "Blue Jackets"
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Corporate pirates gaming CA cap-and-trade system
18 Jul, 2013 by Wayne Lusvardi
Fictional pirate Jack Sparrow seems to be taking his tricky ways outside the lucrative "Pirates of the Caribbean" Disney movie franchise and into real life.
The Walt Disney Company joined forces on July 17 with Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Southern California Edison, and the Wildlife Conservation Society to endorse a clever plan to avoid costly hostage prices for buying California Cap and Trade emission credits.
Cap and trade is a system set up by AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Administered by the California Air Resources Board in quarterly auctions, it "caps" emissions in California, but allows companies to "trade" emissions "credits."
Part of the cap and trade idea was to use the money raised to fund green projects in California. But a new, piratical proposal would permit California industries to use the credits from cheaper forestry preservation projects in other states, and even foreign countries, to comply with the cap-and-trade requirements. Disney even wants to buy pollution credits in Jack's backyard in the Caribbean.
Bloomberg.com ran an article, "PG&E, Wildlife Group Unite to Back Foreign Offsets in California." It found the proposal would allow private industries to find cheaper ways to offset pollution than only from in-state mitigation projects. The proposal would mitigate pollution "at the lowest possible cost," said Michael Hertel, Edison's director of corporate policy.
Reportedly, San Diego Gas and Electric is already being allowed to buy cap-and-trade pollution credits in a wind farm in Canada. And a Federal Court of Appeals judge has recently ruled that mandating the purchase of only in-state green power in unconstitutional. That's because, under the U.S. Constitution, only the federal government can regulate interstate trade and foreign trade, not the several states themselves.
Forced to come up with ways to cut costs under AB 32, these companies seem to have been inspired by Jack Sparrow's words, "It's funny what a man will do to forestall his final judgment."
Better REDD than dead
Edison, PG&E, the Climate Markets and Investment Association, and the Disney Company have already endorsed a United Nations forestry preservation program called REDD, for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation.
In response, there is already a massive anti-REDD propaganda effort online by environmentalists in California.
And ironically, those Tea Party members paranoid about a globalist U.N. Agenda 21 imposing environmental regulations on U.S. communities have it backward. It is California that might export environmental regulations to foreign countries.
The opponents of the REDD program seem to be inspired by "Pirates" movie villain Captain Barbossa, who said, "Perhaps you'll conjure up another miraculous escape, but I doubt it. Off you go."
But like their character Jack Sparrow, we know Disney likely will escape. Allowing foreign pollution credits would end run California's plan to restrict the allowances to monopoly-like in-state projects where hostage prices can be exacted from industries, and green jobs created here.
Opposition living in Fantasyland
Opposing this proposal by private industry and public utilities are democratic legislators in low-income areas who were hoping to divert all pollution credits to projects within their jurisdictions inside the California.
State Senate Bill 535, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, is sponsored by state Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles. It limits the use of pollution credits to benefit mostly "disadvantaged communities." Critics have accused SB 535 of turning pollution into "political pork."
The justification for limiting pollution credit projects to in-state areas is that low-income areas are mostly impacted by air pollution and should get the benefit of green policies.
But that justification is pure fantasy. Low-income communities such as Oxnard, Oakland, Alameda and National City are located along the coastline and have relatively better air quality. Conversely, wealthy foothill communities like Pasadena, San Marino, Bradbury and Claremont in Southern California have poorer air quality.
As to the corporate pirates gaming the cap-and-trade system, as Jack Sparrow advised, "The only rules that really matter are these: What a man can do and what a man can't do."
Hank 19 July, 2013, 08:14
Lets say I set up a trading company or exchange in some part of the world, Iceland, Patagonia or Bulgaria for instance and I trade carbon credits worldwide. Who gives accreditation? The IPCC or the U.N. or some other prestiges institution with a fondness for sleazy or corrupt dealings. Having got my bona fides I start doing business trading credits to California industry from somebody somewhere and supply a fancy certificate in a beautiful frame.
Of course I might get shut down eventually, until then I have a tidy sum of money. Enough money to ease my way out of any legal troubles, that and a long list of enablers should protect me.
Of course the know it alls can claim they knew nothing and such schemes were "unanticipated & unexpected", as is always the case.
This could never happen in the real world, only in Hollywood.
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If you've kept up with these "State of the Kitchen" posts, you may feel as if you're stuck in something similar to the "Groundhog" movie. We are now in Week 3 of nothing being done. My cabinets have been sitting on my kitchen floor for 28 days. 28 days, y'all.
I was so upset. I put the pictures on Facebook, tagging Thomasville Cabinetry and Home Depot. (I also sent an email to the Rep and designer including the pictures.) Thomasville responded, requesting that I pm them with my information. I did, and the Supervisor of Consumer Affairs from the corporate office called me on Friday. I went through the whole thing: This house is 55 years old, we've been here for almost 13 years, the kitchen is the last thing that has to be updated inside, this is a once in a lifetime thing for me, all of the problems we've had, etc. First she asked if I wanted to get somebody to come out and scrape the glue off. Uh...no. She asked if I wanted the cabinets replaced. (DUUUUH!) I told her yes, because I'm afraid that in a few years the cabinets will fall apart. As it turns out, the Rep immediately ordered replacements upon receiving my email. I told the supervisor that my father was a woodworker, not by trade but by hobby, and he would have never let this fly. He would have torn them apart and would have redone them. I received a follow-up email assuring me that the quality manager will look over everything before they ship out. I'm very skeptical, but hopeful.
I received a couple of calls from Home Depot on Monday. 1 was from an assistant manager to let me know about delivery of the replacements. My new (and larger) utility cabinet is scheduled to be delivered to the store on Monday. How it's going to get from the store to my house is still in question. I asked her, and all she said was that she has contacted the installer. I made it clear that we were not going to come and get it. So, we'll see. The replacement doors, drawers, drawer face, and wall cabinets will be delivered to the house the following week.
The other call was to ask me when I was going to come by and pick up the undercabinet lighting. Ummmm....I picked that up last week. She had to check to see what they were holding (I could have told her it was the tile, but wanted to make sure that's what they had.), then confirmed it was the tile. I told her it is staying there until we need it, which may be about 3 weeks. Without getting into everything, I just told her that we were not happy, and it is staying there where it has less of a chance of being broken than in our basement. She said she will make a note of it staying there for 3 more weeks.
As far as the contractor is concerned: He was supposed to have called last Wed. after he talked to CG to see if he was going to be able to come out this week. I ended up calling him on Thursday evening and got the same story: They will start back on the 11th (next Tuesday) unless I wanted CG to come in and do something this week. I told him absolutely; whatever we could get done would be great. I told him about the 3 wall cabinets that will be replaced, but told him that if we could get the base cabinets in so I could get the countertop measured it would be good. He said he would talk to CG and get back with me on Friday. I finally received a call from him on Wed. This makes the 3rd time he has said he was going to call me and didn't. This does not make me happy. It's my expectation that when someone tells me they will call, they actually call. Even if it was to tell me that CG is taking a few days off or he wasn't able to get in touch with him.
He said that he texted me but didn't get a response. I told him that I never received a text & that I always return texts when I get them. Then he said that the CG was going to come tomorrow to get started. Uh, no he isn't. I told him from day 1 that I was leaving for a conference on the 6th. He said he didn't know how he got mixed up. He said that he will get with CG & talk about next week. I wish I had thought about this when I was on the phone with him: He should have already discussed this with CG since the contractor told me they would get started on the 11th. If CG has to work at the fire station on that day, does that mean that they won't get started then? UGH. Somebody had better be at the house on the 11th doing something.
CH went down to Home Depot on Monday and talked with the store manager. He took him our timeline, documented calls to the contractor, and the notes from the in-store and home meetings. He said he will look into it and call him on Wed. He ended up calling me on Tues. We keep getting apologies of promises that it will "be looked in to", but that's about it. The manager said that he has a call in to the contractor, but didn't think he was working on the 4th. I totally understand that construction people work hard & need time off, but we things should have already cranked back up. I asked the designer on 06/25 if they could go ahead and do something...anything. In fact, the contractor told me (on 06/16) that there may be something the electrician could come in and do. He was supposed to get back with me on that, but he didn't. I don't know if the designer talked to him about doing anything after our conversation on the 25th.
I'm sick of looking at these cabinets on the floor. I'm sick of looking at that strip on the floor and the ceiling. I'm sick of having the contents of my kitchen all over my dining room table and spare bedroom. I'm tired of going down to my parents' house if I want to cook something for supper. Last week, I cleaned out our sink in our laundry area so I could use it to wash dishes instead of going down to my parents'. It's slightly more convenient, but I still have to lug the dishes up and down the stairs. It's really a pain in the rear.
If it were up to CH, we would send everything back and start all over, but then I wouldn't get the kitchen I want. This is the kitchen I want. For this house, this is my dream kitchen. Right now, though, I feel like it's hell's kitchen.
Girl, I know. In my case, it's the husband who would be dragging his rear through it all and that's even worse if you can believe it. That's why I just keep things the way they are. I'm sorry you're having to deal with this but not one bit surprise. Keep putting the message out there. Word of mouth is everything and I certainly won't deal with them on anything. Hang in there!
Oh my! I don't know how your able to stand all this. I'd be so ticked! Hoping they'll get it together soon and that it really will be your dream kitchen come true.
Well...it is what it is. I think everyone we know knows how displeased we are with the way things are being handled by Home Depot.
"It's going to be beautiful...it's going to be beautiful!"
I'm so sorry you are still having problems. I think I mentioned before that I've heard this tale before about Home Depot and Lowe's cabinets. No way would I order from either after reading about your experience too. Keep after them!!
That's what CH wanted to do, but then I wouldn't get the kitchen I want. :( Money back would be nice...I just don't see it happening, though.
I was almost afraid to read this. I have no words except, I'm sorry.
Thanks. It is what it is. They start back on Tues. I'm made a list of things that need to be done so can mark each one off as it's completed.
I just keep thinking: It's going to be beautiful...it's going to be beautiful!


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Jean-Gabriel Pageau
Born November 11, 1992 (1992-11-11) (age 26)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 09 in (1.75 m)
Weight 164 lb (74 kg; 11 st 10 lb)
Position Centre
Shoots Right
NHL team Ottawa Senators
Playing career 2012–present
Jean-Gabriel Pageau (born on November 11, 1992 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently a member of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL).
He was selected by the Senators in the fourth round (96th overall) of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.
Born in Ottawa and raised in neighbouring Hull, Quebec, Jean-Gabriel played junior hockey with the Gatineau Olympiques and Chicoutimi Saguenéens of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (LHJMQ/QMJHL).
Selected by his hometown Ottawa Senators in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, Jean-Gabriel began his pro career in 2012-13 with the AHL's Binghamton Senators, registering 7 goals and 29 points in 69 games before being called up to Ottawa on April 10, 2013. He stayed in Ottawa for the remainder of the season, registering two goals and 4 points in nine regular season games.
On May 5, 2013, Jean-Gabriel scored a hat-trick in game 3 of the Eastern Conference Quarter-finals series as the Senators defeated the Montreal Canadiens 6-1. In doing so, he became just the second Senators' player to register a hat trick in the playoffs, with Daniel Alfredsson being the first.
Following the season, Jean-Gabriel was honoured by his hometown. On June 18, 2013, he signed the official guestbook at the start of the Gatineau city council meeting and received a plaque. Gatineau Mayor Marc Bureau called him "a true ambassador for the city."
Career Statistics Edit
2009–10 Gatineau Olympiques QMJHL 62 16 15 31 20 4 1 0 1 0
2010–11 Gatineau Olympiques QMJHL 67 32 47 79 22 24 13 16 29 20
2011–12 Gatineau Olympiques QMJHL 23 23 16 39 12 — — — — —
2011–12 Chicoutimi Sagueneens QMJHL 23 9 17 26 13 16 4 10 14 6
2012–13 Binghamton Senators AHL 69 7 22 29 33 — — — — —
2012–13 Ottawa Senators NHL 9 2 2 4 0 10 4 2 6 8
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Lethbridge residents are invited to view the draft plan for the community's long-term vision for the Civic Common.
The draft Civic Common Master Plan was developed through consultation with the community over the past four months. Civic Common is the four-square-block area that includes land occupied by City Hall south to the Civic Ice Centre as well as the Civic Field, the Yates Theatre, the Old Courthouse, the YMCA, the Fritz Sick Centre and the Lethbridge RCMP detachment.
Thursday, Sept. 20, 4-7 p.m.
The draft master plan will also be available online starting Sept. 20 at www.lethbridge.ca/CivicPlan.
In April this year, a series of interactive sessions were held with stakeholders and community residents to begin forming a long-term vision for what was initially referred to as the Civic Precinct. This initial engagement activity directly influenced the draft master plan, including renaming the plan and area to Civic Common. The results of these initial community engagement activities were made available to the public in July and August along with opportunities for residents to provide online feedback.
A final master plan is expected to be ready for presentation to City Council for adoption in October of this year. Any future decisions about uses of buildings within the Civic Common area will be made in consultation with the organizations that own or occupy them.
The draft Civic Common Master Plan builds on the existing planning framework for this distinctive area of Lethbridge. The concept of a civic square was envisioned 37 years ago in the 1981 Town Square Concept Report. This report recommended construction of a new city hall in this area as part of an enhanced civic centerpiece – a part of the vision that was realized when the current city hall opened in 1999.


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Theater Around The Bay: The Great Blog Recap of 2015 Part II
Today we bring you three more annual round ups from three more of our core blogging team: Ashley Cowan, Will Leschber, and Dave Sikula! More tomorrow and the Stueys on Thursday!
The Top Five Thank Yous of 2015 by Ashley Cowan
1) You're inspirational, Molly Benson
Aside from the incredible PianoFight mosaic we all continue to marvel at each time we're in its proximity, you've managed to continue bursting through the creative scene while balancing parenting a small child (which I've personally found to be an incredibly difficult thing to do). You're acting, you're lending your voice to various projects, you're making art, and you're out there inspiring me to keep trying. So thank you and please keep it up!
2) You're so great to work with, San Francisco Fringe Festival
2015 was the second year I had the chance to be a part of the SF Fringe Festival alongside Banal+ with Nick and Lisa Gentile, Warden Lawlor, Dan Kurtz, Tavis Kammet, and Will Leschber. (And this year, Eden Davis and Katrina Bushnell joined the cast making it even stronger!) Now, I always love working with this dynamic bunch but this time around, I was returning to the stage after a two year hiatus and straight off of having a baby and returning to work full time. Thankfully, everyone was so flexible and kind that when I had to leave a show immediately after my performance (skipping the other pieces in the lineup and curtain call) to relieve our babysitter, I was greeted with support and understanding. It made all the difference so thank you again.
3) You trusted me to be a 90's (Rose McGowan inspired) teenager, Anthony Miller
Last year when I had to back out of TERROR-RAMA, I was pretty crushed. I don't totally know how I lucked out in getting a second chance with this October's reading of TERROR-RAMA 2: PROM NIGHT but oh, man, I loved it. After feeling a bit rusty and uncomfortable in my post baby body, Anthony Miller and Colin Johnson let me play this sexy queen vampire 90's teen. And I had the best time. Anthony's script is truly hilarious and under Colin's direction, the reading was a great success. But I was also left with that electric, "yes! This is why I do this!" feeling after I had the chance to be involved and for that, I'm super grateful. Thank you, Anthony. And thank you Rose McGowan.
4) You Made Me Love Being an Audience Member Again, In Love and Warcraft
One of my theatrical regrets from this past year was not singing praises or appropriately applauding creative teams when I had the chance. In this case, I didn't really take the opportunity to give a shout out to all involved in Custom Made's recent show, In Love And Warcraft. I was unfamiliar with most of the cast but, wow, they were delightful. The script was smart, sweet, and funny (and totally played to my nerdy romantic sensibilities) and the whole thing came together into such an enjoyable theater experience. I had such fun being in the audience and invited into a world of warcraft and new love. Thank you, thank you.
5) You Make Me Feel Tall and Proud, Marissa Skudlarek
In our two part Theater Pub blog series, Embracing the Mirror, Marissa and I uncovered new heights. Or, really, uncovered the heights that had been there all along and allowed us to kind of honor them. I'm so thankful that Marissa suggested this collaboration because the topic allowed me to reconnect with tall actress friends from my past while reevaluating my own relationship to my height. Plus, getting to do it with Marissa was a treat in itself. So thank you, Marissa for continuing to positively push this blog forward and allowing me to stand next to you!
Top Five 2015 Films That Should Be Adapted Into A Stage Play by Will Leschber
Hi all! Since I spend most of the year trying to smash together the space between theater and film, why not just come out with it and say which bright shining films of 2015 should end up on our great stages here in San Francisco. So here are the top 5 films of 2015 that should be adapted to a San Franciscan stage production…and a Bay Area Actor who'd fit perfectly in a key role!
Now, since my knowledge of the vast pool of Bay Area creative performers isn't what it used to be, lets just get fun and totally subjective and pull this recommendation list from a single show! And not just a single show… a single show that Theater Pub put up… AND I was in: Dick 3… Stuart Bousel's bloody adaptation of Richard III. Yeah, talk about nepotism, right? Booyah… lets own this!
5) Room
This film adaption of the acclaimed book by Emma Donoghue would fit easily into a restricted stage production with the cloying enclosed location in which most of the action takes place. It's a moving story dictated by creative perspective and wonderful acting, things that shine onstage. Brie Larson owns the film's main performance but it if a bay area actress could give it a go, I'd love to see Jeunée Simon radiate in this role. Her youthful energy, subtle power, and soulful spirit would kick this one out of the park.
4) Steve Jobs
Regardless of the Aaron Sorkin lovers or haters out there, this film is written like a three-act play and would work supremely well on stage, as it does on screen. It's talky and quick-paced as long as you keep up the clip of lip that the script demands. The perfect pairing to tackle this towering role of Steve Jobs and his "work wife" Joanna Hoffman (played respectively by Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet) would look excellent cast with Jessica Rudholm as Steve Jobs (Jessica is an unbelievably powerful performer and can command any room she steps into…perfect for Jobs) and Megan Briggs as the Joanna Hoffman character: resourceful, smart and can stand up to powerful chest-puffing men. Done!
3) Mistress America
This buoyant film by Noah Baumbach follows a New York pseudo-socialite, Brooke, embodied perfectly by Greta Gerwig, who has to fall a bit from her idealized youthful 20s phase of life towards something a bit more….self-realized…aka adulthood. At times a situation-farce houseguest comedy, and other times a story of searching for self discovery, the themes would read equally beautifully on stage. The second lead in this film is a bright-eyed, I-know-everything-in-the-world college freshman named Tracy, who befriends our beloved Brooke character. It's a dual journey. Allison Page has more confidence than all the college freshman I know. She'd play the crap out of that! And for the main Greta Gerwig part… this is a hard role to fill with quirk and empathy, so I'd say let's give Sam Bertken a shot at it! Sam as a performer has the whimsy of a confident yet lost late-20-something, but the charm and determination to persevere with her/his quirk intact.
2) Spotlight
This journalistic procedural which chronicles the story behind the Pulitzer-winning newspaper story of sexual abuse and the Catholic Church would be a heavy sit. But the story is powerful, the characters are true, and the setting lends itself to small scale theater. To play the stalwart Spotlight department newspaper lead editor, played by Michael Keaton in the film, lets go with Carl Lucania who'd give the role a nice imprint. AND to boot, the Mark Ruffalo character (who is the shoulder of the film, in my opinion) would be handled wonderfully by Paul Jennings. These two have the exact performing skills to juxtapose unrelenting determination and quiet, frustrated fury which fit perfectly for this story.
1) Inside Out
Now I hear you…animated films with complex imaginary landscapes and vistas filled with old memories might not immediately scream stage production. But if The Lion King, King Kong or even Beauty & the Beast can do it, I know some insanely talented set designers, costume designers and lighting specialists could bring this world to life. More importantly, the themes of passing away from youthful phases of life, how hard and lonely a childhood transition can be, plus learning that life isn't simply divided into happy/sad/angry/scared memories. The complicated reality is that our selves and our memories are colored with a mad mix of many diverse emotions and characteristics. Coming of age with this palette of imagination would be glorious on stage. And who better to play the central character named Joy, than the joyful Brian Martin. He just adorable…all the time.
Five Things I Learned on My Last New York Trip by Dave Sikula
1) "Traditional" Casting Is Over
Well, not totally, obviously, but as Hamilton showed (among so many other things), anyone can play anything. I'm old enough to remember when musicals had all-white casts, then, little by little, there would be one African American male and one African American female in the ensemble, and they always danced together. Gradually, you began to see more and more people of color in choruses, and they were now free to interact with anyone. Now, of course, pretty much any role is up for grabs by any actor of any race or gender – or should be. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see an Asian female eventually playing Hamilton himself. Whether this – and the other innovations of Hamilton – percolates into more mainstream fare remains to be seen, but it's certainly to be hoped.
2) A Good Director Can Make Even the Most Tired War-Horse Fresh and Vital
For my money, there aren't many major playwrights whose work has aged more badly than Arthur Miller. Yeah, Death of Salesman is still powerful, but the rest of the canon isn't faring so well. Years and years ago, I saw a lousy production of A View from the Bridge, and even then, it struck me as obvious, tired, and dull. Ivo van Hove's production, then, had a couple of hurdles to overcome: 1) it's a London import, and 2) it's, well, it's A View from the Bridge. Van Hove's 2004 production of Hedda Gabler (surely one of the worst "important" plays ever written) was enough of a revelation that I wanted to see what he could do with this one, and boy, did he come through. Tough, powerful, and visceral, it's nothing so much as what we hear Greek tragedy was so good at. It was so good, I'm anxious to see his upcoming production of The Crucible, and see if he can make another truly terrible play interesting.
3) Even a Good Director Can't Make a Tired Old War-Horse Work
In 2008, Bartlett Sher directed Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, a show I'd seen too much and from which (I'd thought) all the juice had long since been squeezed. By digging deep into the text and back story, though, Sher and company were able to make it vital, exciting, and relevant. Flash forward to last year and the reunion of some of the band to remount The King and I, another show whose time has all but passed. Despite breathtaking sets, more delving into two-dimensional characters by very good actors (Hoon Lee and Kelli O'Hara are doing superb work in the title parts), and marvelous staging, it just sits there. The problem to these tired old eyes is that musical dramaturgy of today doesn't always fit well with that of the early 1950s, and the show itself just has too many fundamental flaws to work anymore. It's a pity, because a lot of time and effort is being expended in a futile effort to make the unworkable work. In the words of Horace, "The mountain labors, and brings forth … a mouse!"
4) There Is No Show So Bad That No One Will See It
We've dealt with the awfulness of China Doll before. Despite barely having a script and offering audiences little more than the chance to watch Al Pacino alternately get fed his lines and chew scenery, it's still drawing people. Sure, that attendance is falling week by week, but last week, it was still 72% full and took in more than $600,000. Running costs can't be that much (two actors, one set), but even with what imagines is a monumental amount being paid Mr. Pacino, it's probably still making money. If I may (correctly) quote the late Mr. Henry L. Mencken of Baltimore: "No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
5) It's Still Magical
Despite the heavy lifting of New York theatre being done off- and off-Broadway and regionally, there's still something that can't be duplicated in seeing a really good show on Broadway that has a ton of money thrown at it – especially one you weren't expecting anything from. I went into shows like An American in Paris or Something Rotten or – especially – Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 knowing next to nothing about them and came out enthralled and invigorated by what writers can create and actors can do. In the best cases, they give me something to shoot at. (And in the worst, multiple lessons on what to avoid … )
Ashley Cowan is an actress, playwright, director and general theater maker in the Bay Area, alongside writer/actor husband, Will Leschber. Dave Sikula is an actor, writer, director and general theater maker in the Bay Area who has been in plays with Ashley and Will, but never both at the same time.
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Hi-Ho, the Glamorous Life: Macbeth is a Middle-Aged White Guy
Marissa Skudlarek is not afraid to say "Macbeth" as many times as she's worried she might have to see it.
"Do we really need another Macbeth right now?" Jason Zinoman wrote in last Sunday's New York Times. "A new revival, this one starring Ethan Hawke, opened on Nov. 21, four months after the previous Broadway production, starring Alan Cumming, closed. If you fail to see Mr. Hawke reveal what life, which as we know is full of sound and fury, signifies, not to worry: Kenneth Branagh will fill you in next spring, when he brings his production of Macbeth to New York."
And that's not counting Patrick Stewart's Broadway Macbeth from 2008, or Kelsey Grammer's from 2000, or the Macbeth film that's currently in production starring Michael Fassbender. Or the ultra-hip, Macbeth-riffing theater piece Sleep No More. Closer to home, there were two Macbeth productions in the Presidio in September of this year (SF Shakespeare Festival and We Players). While actual statistics are hard to come by, it wouldn't surprise me if Macbeth were Shakespeare's most frequently-produced tragedy in the 21st century. And I'm pretty sure that it's the Shakespeare play I've seen most frequently (even though it's not actually one of my favorites).
So what accounts for the play's massive popularity? Some people will point out that it's Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and therefore suited to a short-attention-span modern audience. Others will argue that any play that features witches, apparitions, madness, and a big swordfight in the last scene is bound to be popular. (But Hamlet has all of those things except witches, and it isn't produced nearly so often.) Others will propose that Macbeth's "timeless themes" – ambition, corruption, guilt – explain its continued renown. But are its themes really more timeless, more worth hearing, than those of Shakespeare's other great plays?
Instead, I want to propose a clean, practical explanation. Zinoman writes that "simple old-fashioned star power" lies behind many recent Shakespeare revivals: "The great Shakespeare roles still have the most cultural cachet for actors, who get taken more seriously and, in many cases, are energized by performing the parts they read or tackled in school."
And what are the "great Shakespeare roles"? Conventional wisdom has it that Shakespeare's tragedies are "greater" than his comedies and that, of his dozen or so tragedies, four stand out above the rest: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth. So let's examine the heroes of those four tragedies, and what characteristics an actor must have to portray them.
Hamlet's age is a matter of some debate, but he's clearly a young man, a student at the University of Wittenberg. He must appear young enough, untried enough, for it not to seem weird that the Danes have allowed Claudius to take the throne, rather than crowning Hamlet. People often talk about the difficulty of finding the right actor for the role: by the time you have the technique to tackle such a massive part, you look too old to do it. While it is rare for a man who's literally college-aged to play Hamlet these days, it's still a young man's game. My sense is that once you get to be about 35, you're too old to play Hamlet.
Meanwhile, King Lear is an old man: a white-haired king, giving up his throne and going senile. The text specifies that Lear is over eighty ("four score and upward") but again, it can be difficult to imagine a real eighty-year-old with the stamina to tackle this massive role, not to mention the strength to carry Cordelia's corpse onstage in the last scene. A too-youthful Lear, though, is equally ridiculous. Let's say that, generally speaking, the role should be played by a man who's at least 65.
Then we come to Othello. He's middle-aged: a powerful general who has seen much adventure and is considerably older than his young bride Desdemona, but is still in the vigorous prime of life. And – oh, yeah – he's black. Thankfully, our theater no longer finds it acceptable for actors of other races to put on blackface to play Othello; but what this means is that only a subset of actors can put this role on their wish list.
So what do you do if you want to play a great Shakespearean tragic hero, but you're not old, not young, and not black? You play Macbeth. And who has the most power in the Anglo-American theater? What stars tend to be the biggest box-office draws? Middle-aged white men.
Michael Fassbender is 36; Ethan Hawke is 43; Alan Cumming is 48; Kenneth Branagh is 53. Of the four "great" Shakespearean heroes, Macbeth is the only one they can play, the only one that's open to them at this stage in their lives. The window for playing Hamlet or Lear is narrow; Macbeth could be any age from 35 to 65. Certainly, there are other excellent Shakespearean roles for men in this age range – Richard III, say, or Brutus – but those plays don't quite have the cultural cachet, or box-office appeal, of the Hamlet-Lear-Othello-Macbeth quartet.
And why are those considered Shakespeare's four greatest plays, anyway? Why do we privilege tragedy over comedy? Could it be (at least in part) because tragedy is a more "masculine" genre, but Shakespeare's greatest comedies tend to be female-dominated? Rosalind and Beatrice and Viola are amazing roles – yet we somehow consider it a far more daunting, courageous task for a young actor to play Hamlet than for a young actress to play Rosalind. People ooh and aah over Mark Rylance's portrayal of Olivia in the all-male Twelfth Night that's currently on Broadway; people never gush about female Olivias in the same way.
Our theater continues to privilege middle-aged white men over women and minorities; tragedy over comedy; Shakespeare over all other dramatists; familiarity over risk. That is the reason that Macbeth continues to haunt our stages. That is the play's real curse.
Marissa Skudlarek is a San Francisco-based playwright and arts writer. She's still a little irritated that she didn't get cast as Witch #2 in her high-school production of Macbeth. For more about Marissa, check out marissabidilla.blogspot.com or @MarissaSkud on Twitter.
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Introducing The Writers Of Pint Sized Plays IV! (Part One)
Pint Sized Plays IV is only a few weeks off and we're excited to have two writers who are contributing a play to Pint Sized for the very first time! Though Carl Lucania has been a staple of Theater Pub from early on, this marks his first time as part of the festival, while Peter Hsieh will be making his Theater Pub debut! We took a moment to get to know these guys a little bit better, and find out what drew them to Pint Sized, what challenges they faced, and what they're excited about both at Theater Pub and beyond!
So how did you hear about Theater Pub's Pint-Sized Play Festival and what possessed you to send something in?
Carl Lucania: I got in on the ground floor, having worked with all the Theater Pub founders at some point or other as an actor. I love to tell stories and enjoy writing, but I'd never written a play before.
Peter Hsieh: I probably saw stuff about it on Facebook, but it was during one of my meetings at Asian American Theatre Co's New Works Incubator that Sunil or Kirk brought up Theater Pub and my first time submitting was actually for the evening of sci-fi and horror that Sunil was producing. Also I like beer and short plays.
What's the hardest thing about writing a short play?
Peter Hsieh: Keeping it concise and to the point, there's no beating around the bush when it comes to short plays and a lot of times it is hard to know what to keep and what to change and what to get rid of.
Carl Lucania: The most difficult thing for me in any self-motivated project is blocking out the time to get it done. After that it seemed fairly intuitive; who doesn't have at least one good story that takes place in a bar?
What's the best thing about writing a short play?
Carl Lucania: That it isn't a full length play. That would make my head hurt.
Carl Lucania: Never One To Let His Head Hurt
Peter Hsieh: It is more focused, for me at least. When I'm writing a short play I usually know where to go and I more easily connect the beginning to the end to give it that extra kick. Also I feel there are a lot more production opportunities for short plays in terms of being an emerging writer, theaters may do maybe one new work a season that is a full length but produce an evening or weekend of five to eight short plays once or twice in their season.
Who do you think is a major influence on your work?
Carl Lucania: I was greatly influenced by Audrey, an 11 year-old whose short play got produced In Pub From Another World back in May. It convinced me to get over myself and contribute something.
Peter Hsieh: Keroauc. I've always loved his writing style, his form, his poetry, his sense of rhythm. I think I take a lot from his style and incorporate that in my plays and poems. American Haiku is so good it makes my balls hurt. Seriously. I am also a big fan of Sarah Kane, I've read 4.48 Psychosis more times than I've read any other play.
Peter Hsieh: Keroauc cool.
If you could pick one celebrity to be cast in your show, who would it be and why?
Peter Hsieh: Michael Fassbender. Hands Down. He is an awesome and incredible actor and I like him in everything he's been in. Hunger. Shame. X-men First Class. Heck I'd probably change the script so he takes off his pants so I can have some full frontal Fassbender in my play.
Carl Lucania: Since I've got an older woman of Italian heritage in the piece, how about Isabella Rossellini? I'd watch her do just about anything.
What is a writing project you are currently working on?
Peter Hsieh: I am currently working on a new full length play, which is about two high school friends who kinda hold these grudges against each other over different things. Things escalate when one beats the other at this video game and ends doing it with the other kid's mom. There will be flame throwers, chainsaws, fast cars, gaming, college applications, and a splash of futuristic dystopia. I hope to have a first draft by end of July so I'm pretty stoked.
Carl Lucania: I have this notion to try and adapt Isherwood's Christopher and his Kind into a sort of Cabaret: The Real Story type piece that includes some music of the Weimar era. I thought an adaptation would be easier than writing an original piece. I was wrong. So wrong.
Peter Hsieh: I have an art installation / open house gala of my monologue and poems called Collectives: Volume One going up July 12th at Avid Coffee in San Jose. There are these paintings, installations with headphones that play my poems and monologues mixed to cool music and ambience and stuff. There will be an auction there as well for my installations. Also on that same weekend Rama and Sita a play that I collaborated on with my friend Steve Boyle is going up as part of SJREAL's Late Night Series at San Jose Rep. My play Even Spies sit on Park Benches is being workshopped at West Valley College as part of Alpha Project, a summer festival of new plays and that is going up end of July and playing through early August I believe. We are also planning our next season for SJREAL so I'm looking forward to cool and innovative new season.
Carl Lucania: Good question. Anyone have any interesting parts for a middle-aged man with all of his hair and most of his marbles?
So what upcoming shows or events are you most excited about in the Bay Area Theater Scene?
Peter Hsieh: Wow, there are so many. I'm excited to see Bay One Acts when it goes up. No man's Land at Berkeley Rep. The Snow Queen at San Jose Rep this winter. Mutt by Christopher Chen at Impact. City Lights Theatre Co, has an amazing entire season that I'm really looking forward to, and I always enjoy their shows. There are a lot of them, but one thing that I am probably most excited about is the SF Olympians Festival this year, I don't think I've ever been in such an awesome and big festival with so many talented individual, and the fact that these are all new works by local Bay Area playwrights make it even more exciting, so I guess that one is probably the one I'm most excited for.
Carl Lucania: I'm pretty amped for SF Olympians. I love Greek mythology, love the creativity that goes into the telling and reinventing of these stories. Plus I've had the good fortune to be associated with some great pieces that have come out of the festival.
What's your favorite beer?
Carl Lucania: Big Daddy IPA. Read into that what you will.
Peter Hsieh: Shock Top Belgian White. Actually I like most Belgian Whites.
You may have heard it's our last show at Cafe Royale. What do you look forward to for the future of Theater Pub?
Peter Hsieh: Ah, I wish I had seen more shows at the Cafe Royale! I guess I look forward to being more involved and seeing more productions. I'm a big fan of new works and edge works and re-imagined classics and there is nothing more exciting than seeing your friends and peers do that sort of stuff.
Carl Lucania: My hope for Theater Pub is to continue to keep doing what it does best: to be a cross-breeding ground for amazing local talent and a place I can drink with people who always have something interesting to say. And for everyone involved to make a kajillion dollars so they can keep at it. Or at least have some great rehab stories to tell.
Don't miss Pint Sized Plays IV, playing five times this month: July 15, 16, 22, 29 and 30, always at 8 PM, only at the Cafe Royale! The show is free and no reservations are necessary, but we encourage you to get there early because we will be full!
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Q: Flask - (ProgrammingError) - Foreign key constraint when building postgresql database I'm currently trying to deploy my flask application to Heroku, but I am encountering an error during database initialization.
Here is my models.py file:
from app import app
from app import db
from werkzeug.security import generate_password_hash, check_password_hash
from sqlalchemy import create_engine, Column, Integer, String, Date, ForeignKey, event, Boolean, Table
from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker, backref, relationship

class User(db.Model):
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    password = db.Column(db.String(255), nullable=False, server_default='')
    email = db.Column(db.String(255), nullable=False, unique=True, index=True)
    confirmed_at = db.Column(db.DateTime())
    authenticated = db.Column(db.Boolean(), nullable=False, server_default='0')
    company_name = db.Column(db.String(100), nullable=False, server_default='')

    roles = db.relationship('Role')

    def __init__(self, email, company_name, password):
        self.email = email
        self.company_name = company_name
        self.set_password(password)

    def get_id(self):
        return self.email

    def is_active(self):
        #True, as all users are active.
        return True

    def is_authenticated(self):
        #"""Return True if the user is authenticated."""
        return self.authenticated

    def is_anonymous(self):
        #False, as anonymous users aren't supported."""
        return False

    def set_password(self, password):
        self.password = generate_password_hash(password)

    def check_password(self, password):
        return check_password_hash(self.password, password)

    def __repr__(self):
        return '<User %r>' % (self.company_name)

class Role(db.Model):
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = db.Column(db.String(100))
    user_id = db.Column(db.String, db.ForeignKey('user.id'))`

Here is my db_create.py file:
#!flask/bin/python
from migrate.versioning import api
from config import SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI
from config import SQLALCHEMY_MIGRATE_REPO
from app import db
import os.path
db.create_all()
if not os.path.exists(SQLALCHEMY_MIGRATE_REPO):
    api.create(SQLALCHEMY_MIGRATE_REPO, 'database repository')
    api.version_control(SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI, SQLALCHEMY_MIGRATE_REPO)
else:
    api.version_control(SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI, SQLALCHEMY_MIGRATE_REPO, api.version(SQLALCHEMY_MIGRATE_REPO))

When initializing my database, I am receiving the following stack trace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "db_create.py", line 7, in <module>
    db.create_all()
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask_sqlalchemy/__init__.py", line 895, in create_all
    self._execute_for_all_tables(app, bind, 'create_all')
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask_sqlalchemy/__init__.py", line 887, in _execute_for_all_tables
    op(bind=self.get_engine(app, bind), **extra)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/sql/schema.py", line 3404, in create_all
    tables=tables)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1616, in _run_visitor
    conn._run_visitor(visitorcallable, element, **kwargs)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1245, in _run_visitor
    **kwargs).traverse_single(element)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/sql/visitors.py", line 120, in traverse_single
    return meth(obj, **kw)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/sql/ddl.py", line 713, in visit_metadata
    self.traverse_single(table, create_ok=True)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/sql/visitors.py", line 120, in traverse_single
    return meth(obj, **kw)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/sql/ddl.py", line 732, in visit_table
    self.connection.execute(CreateTable(table))
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 729, in execute
    return meth(self, multiparams, params)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/sql/ddl.py", line 69, in _execute_on_connection
    return connection._execute_ddl(self, multiparams, params)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 783, in _execute_ddl
    compiled
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 958, in _execute_context
    context)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1159, in _handle_dbapi_exception
    exc_info
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/compat.py", line 199, in raise_from_cause
    reraise(type(exception), exception, tb=exc_tb)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 951, in _execute_context
    context)
  File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py", line 436, in do_execute
    cursor.execute(statement, parameters)
sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError: (ProgrammingError) column "id" referenced in foreign key constraint does not exist
 '\nCREATE TABLE role (\n\tid SERIAL NOT NULL, \n\tname VARCHAR(100), \n\tuser_id VARCHAR, \n\tPRIMARY KEY (id), \n\tFOREIGN KEY(user_id) REFERENCES "user" (id)\n)\n\n' {}

Does anyone know what is causing this?
Thanks!

A: Type mismatch problem: You defined the foreign key as String type for Role table:
user_id = db.Column(db.String, db.ForeignKey('user.id'))
while it's Integer in User table:
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True).
Change one of them so two fields (Field name and the Foreign Field name) are using compatible field type.

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Il Liceo Unitario Sperimentale (LUS) fu un esperimento didattico degli anni 1970 a Roma, che ebbe una vasta eco non solo per la sua valenza pedagogica, ma anche per essere diventato un simbolo culturale.

Storia
Il Liceo Unitario Sperimentale fu fondato nel 1970, ed ebbe come prima Preside la Professoressa Anna Maria Perrone Pecchia. Ebbe come sua ispiratrice e protettrice la signora Eleonora Moro, moglie di Aldo Moro, che si era appassionata all'idea di poter riformare la scuola secondaria italiana, estendendo in gran parte il metodo non-direttivo di Maria Montessori anche alla scuola superiore. All'epoca dell'istituzione del Liceo, la Presidente dell'Opera Nazionale Montessori era Maria De Unterrichter Jervolino, ed Eleonora Moro, non in buoni rapporti con lei, istituì in quegli anni la sezione romana dell' O.N.M.

Il LUS si spostò in pochi anni in tre sedi diverse: la prima a via Livenza, nel centro di Roma, dove furono attivati solo i primi due anni di corso. A seguito dell'aumento del numero delle classi, e con una sede ormai inadatta, il Liceo fu trasferito in una palazzina a via Alfredo Panzini, nel quartiere di Montesacro. Divenuta la palazzina inagibile, gli studenti e gli insegnanti decisero di occupare uno spazio abbandonato nell'agro romano, alla Bufalotta. Nell'anno scolastico 1973-74 venne aperta anche una Succursale in Via India, nel Villaggio Olimpico di Roma, zona limitrofa a tre quartieri della Roma benestante quali i Parioli, il Flaminio e Vigna Clara. Dopo il 1976, il Liceo progressivamente perse molte delle sue caratteristiche sperimentali fino ad essere chiuso nel 1979.

Esperienze didattiche
Il LUS tentò varie sperimentazioni didattiche. Tra di esse, l'abolizione dei libri di testo, l'abolizione di una valutazione basata sui voti, la possibilità da parte degli studenti di scegliere il proprio piano di studi fondato su temi e materie facoltative.

Tante innovazioni fecero sì che il Liceo non si caratterizzò per una attenzione nei confronti delle materie tradizionali. Ciò nonostante, il Liceo realizzò iniziative culturali che ebbero ampia risonanza. Tra di esse lo spettacolo "Mica sarai femminista". con la regia dell'insegnante Vilda Ciurlo, e che negli anni Settanta fu ampiamente discusso dalla stampa.

Riferimenti culturali
Il Liceo Sperimentale divenne fonte di ispirazione, soprattutto ironica, per il cinema, la letteratura e i mass media.

 Il Programma radiofonico Alto Gradimento di Gianni Boncompagni e Renzo Arbore aveva creato un personaggio, lo studente dello Sperimentale Verzo, che in un forte e sgrammaticato romanesco ripeteva gli stereotipi della cultura "sinistrese" dell'epoca ("stamo a fa' un comitato politico per l'abolizione delle lingue morte in Angola").
 Nel film di Nanni Moretti Ecce Bombo, ossia la vicenda di uno studente che all'esame di maturità si presenta con una tesina dedicata alle poesie del suo compagno di banco (Alvaro Rissa). Nello stesso film, si riporta l'episodio di un supplente che prende servizio perché "deportato" dai suoi amici; anche questo episodio si ispira ad un avvenimento effettivamente avvenuto allo Sperimentale. Nanni Moretti in quegli anni era sentimentalmente legato ad una insegnante del Liceo, Mariella Gramaglia, e da lì era venuto a conoscenza di questi episodi.
 Il romanzo Porci con le ali, di Lidia Ravera e Marco Lombardo Radice, aveva tratto anche ispirazione da vari episodi di vita dello Sperimentale, soprattutto per quanto riguarda i rapporti tra studenti e insegnanti.
 Nel romanzo Berlinguer e il Professore di Gianfranco Piazzesi: "ma prima di studiare la letterature vietnamita, non farebbero meglio a studiare un po' di letteratura italiana?"

Note

Bibliografia
 Marco Lombardo Radice e Lidia Ravera (con gli pseudonimi di Rocco e Antonia), Porci con le ali. Diario sessuo-politico di due adolescenti, 1ª ed., Savelli editore, Roma, settembre 1976.

Voci correlate
 Metodo Montessori
 Don Lorenzo Milani
 Provvedimenti delegati sulla scuola
 Storia dell'istruzione in Italia

Collegamenti esterni
 Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, Il Liceo Unitario Sperimentale di Via della Bufalotta a Roma.
 C'ERA UNA VOLTA IL LICEO STATALE SPERIMENTALE.
 Il Liceo Unitario Sperimentale di Roma (1971-1979). La testimonianza di Giulio Savelli, ex-studente (terza parte).

Liceo Unitario Sperimentale (LUS)


What kind of things have you been doing as part of the PCDA in the last 6 months?
Charlotte: The PCDA is a job where you never do the same shift twice. The first 4 months is about the training and university work where we learn the legislations, however when you go onto division with your tutor every job you go to is different and you deal with different people daily. The types of jobs you do are domestic, theft, burglary, assaults and many more.
Jonathan: As part of the PCDA in the last 6 months, I have been through the first phase of training school at Hucknall, attended Derby University for the university input and I am now currently on my tutorship phase on response.
Rosalee: For the past 6 months most of my time was spent in the classroom learning various modules relating to our police duties; I have completed OST, NICHE, AIRWAVES and COMPACT to name a few. I arrive at training school for 0845 am for a 0900 start. I have participated in group discussions, classroom activities and learning modules mostly related to Policing Powers and Legislations. There are days when we have guest speakers – mostly current or former serving officers who are experts in their field of work, who provide us with useful knowledge and past experience that I find very informative.
I attend university one day per week as part of the PCDA. Completing modules related to policing. I have had the pleasure of being in the company of some very knowledgeable lecturers, whose sole aim is to make sure that we all complete the PCDA with exceptional grades.
I have started my tutorship which I love. My tutor is a natural at what he does and is determined to help me see this through. I have gained experiences that I wouldn't have and I have conquered fears I never thought I would. My rota team has now become my new family and I am welcomed with open arms. The most important thing for me is at the end of the day I know that I have done a good job with the help of my team.
What advice would you give to anyone thinking of undertaking the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA)?
Charlotte: If you want to join the police force as a constable, this is a good way to join as you are getting front line police experience as well as getting a degree. However be prepared to work hard and get involved in discussions in sessions otherwise you will struggle.
Jonathan: I would advise anyone looking to undertake the PCDA to go for it as they might just surprise themselves as to what they can achieve. It is hard work and it is challenging studying whilst working, but the rewards and benefits are worth it as it is an excellent career. Nottinghamshire Police are investing in their apprentice officers and at the end of the three year probation they will come away with a BA in Professional Policing and experience in the role of a police constable, which may also help them with any future career progression.
Rosalee: My advice I would give is to go for it, there is a real opportunity for you to go higher within the force. If you have a passion for helping people, if you want to make a difference in your community then why not join the police force. The opportunity to work and study while doing what you love is all the motivation you need. Come with a positive attitude, but most importantly be yourself.
How did you find the PCDA recruitment process?
Charlotte: I found the process well laid out and easy to understand.
Jonathan: Due to being recruited internally I found the recruitment process to be straight forward and was fully supported by my managers, however I did have a few issues with the Multi-Force Shared Service (MFSS), which were resolved by my line manager at the time and the teams at Nottinghamshire and MFSS.
I found the seminars put on by Nottinghamshire Police to be useful in preparing me for the assessment centre and full of information as to what the PCDA is.
Rosalee: The recruitment process was very good. It was well explained during the workshops set up by Nottinghamshire Recruitment Team. We were given all the resources needed for a successful recruitment. Extra help was offered for those who needed it.


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Q: What's the purpose of UNIQUE in MySQL (InnoDB) To me, the UNIQUE keyword is for better structuring your table (putting aside the PRIMARY KEY, which is for identification purposes). For example, files. If you don't want to add the same file to the database you could use its SHA-2 hash key as a UNIQUE KEY. But SHA-2 is 512 characters, and InnoDB has a limit of 255. Why does MySQL have this limit and how does one use larger, more reliable, unique keys such as SHA-2

A: SHA2-512 gives 512 bits which is 64 bytes. Or char(128) in hex.
The unique index key length is 1000 bytes for MyISAM and 767 for InnoDB in MySQL 5.5.
Unique is used to enforce natural uniqueness when you choose to have an AUTO_INCREMENT surrogate primary key. Or superkey uniqueness when you want to enforce subtypes. etc.
Edit:
To enforce uniqueness over LOB values, you just hash it and add a constraint. If you have enough rows to have a measurable risk of collisions, then why do you have so many LOB values in the database?

A: In MySQL UNIQUE is for indexing. Better not to use it for checkign uniqueness of text fields.
I always check data integrity and uniqueness in application, not MySQL.


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