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 * Common code to handle map devices which are simple ROM
 * (C) 2000 Red Hat. GPL'd.
 * $Id: map_rom.c,v 1.23 2005/01/05 18:05:12 dwmw2 Exp $
 */

#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/byteorder.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
#include <linux/mtd/map.h>
#include <linux/mtd/compatmac.h>

static int maprom_read (struct mtd_info *, loff_t, size_t, size_t *, u_char *);
static int maprom_write (struct mtd_info *, loff_t, size_t, size_t *, const u_char *);
static void maprom_nop (struct mtd_info *);
static struct mtd_info *map_rom_probe(struct map_info *map);

static struct mtd_chip_driver maprom_chipdrv = {
	.probe	= map_rom_probe,
	.name	= "map_rom",
	.module	= THIS_MODULE
};

static struct mtd_info *map_rom_probe(struct map_info *map)
{
	struct mtd_info *mtd;

	mtd = kmalloc(sizeof(*mtd), GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!mtd)
		return NULL;

	memset(mtd, 0, sizeof(*mtd));

	map->fldrv = &maprom_chipdrv;
	mtd->priv = map;
	mtd->name = map->name;
	mtd->type = MTD_ROM;
	mtd->size = map->size;
	mtd->read = maprom_read;
	mtd->write = maprom_write;
	mtd->sync = maprom_nop;
	mtd->flags = MTD_CAP_ROM;
	mtd->erasesize = 131072;
 	while(mtd->size & (mtd->erasesize - 1))
		mtd->erasesize >>= 1;

	__module_get(THIS_MODULE);
	return mtd;
}

static int maprom_read (struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t from, size_t len, size_t *retlen, u_char *buf)
{
	struct map_info *map = mtd->priv;

	map_copy_from(map, buf, from, len);
	*retlen = len;
	return 0;
}

static void maprom_nop(struct mtd_info *mtd)
{
	/* Nothing to see here */
}

static int maprom_write (struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t to, size_t len, size_t *retlen, const u_char *buf)
{
	printk(KERN_NOTICE "maprom_write called\n");
	return -EIO;
}

static int __init map_rom_init(void)
{
	register_mtd_chip_driver(&maprom_chipdrv);
	return 0;
}

static void __exit map_rom_exit(void)
{
	unregister_mtd_chip_driver(&maprom_chipdrv);
}

module_init(map_rom_init);
module_exit(map_rom_exit);

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MTD chip driver for ROM chips");

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Manhattan College Names Alumnus as the New Vice President for Mission
Link: http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwgeeks/article/Manhattan-College-Names-Alumnus-as-the-New-Vice-President-for-Mission-20131015
From: Broadway World
October 15 9:39 2013
Riverdale, NY
Brother Jack Curran '80, FSC, Ph.D., a longtime member of the Manhattan College community, and most recently, vice president for development at Bethlehem University in the Holy Land, returns to the College this month as the new vice president for mission.
"It's great to once again be 'at home' as a Jasper in Riverdale - and to be a part of this academic community which, together with the alumni and trustees, brings to life the uniquely vital and exciting Lasallian Catholic mission at Manhattan College," Br. Jack said.
As the first alumnus to hold this position, Br. Jack is charged to assist the College community as they develop and expand new and existing programs to further promote Manhattan College's mission and its Lasallian Catholic identity.
For the last 16 years, Br. Jack served in senior administrative roles at two other Lasallian higher education institutions. At Bethlehem University, he established the Student Ambassadors program and the Alumni Relations office, as he oversaw its first capital campaign. As the vice president for student affairs at Saint Mary's College of California for six years, he assisted in establishing the Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action (CILSA) to encourage a culture of service and social justice education.
Throughout his more than 30-year career in education, Br. Jack has researched and published various works concerning the relationship between human rights and religion based on empirical data involving Muslim and Christian adolescents and young adults. He is also part of an international comparative human rights and religion project developed through Radbound University, The Netherlands.
Hailing from the La Salle Institute in Troy, N.Y., Br. Jack enrolled in Manhattan College in 1976, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated summa cum laude. He entered the Brothers of the Christian Schools in 1979, and went on to earn his master's and doctorate in social work from the
State University of New York at Albany. During the 1990s, he worked at Manhattan College as an admissions representative, resident director, and
assistant director of counseling and health, and also served as acting director of the department for one year.
In addition to his other roles, Br. Jack has worked as a mathematics teacher at St. Raymond High School and Good Shepherd Elementary School, as a coordinator of religious education, and as vocation director for the New York Province of the De La Salle Christian Brothers.
"Br. Jack brings to the position of vice president for mission a wealth of experience and an understanding of the opportunities and challenges of promoting Lasallian mission in the context of higher education," said Brennan O'Donnell, president of the College. "He is known as a dynamic and engaging administrator and a powerful spokesman for Lasallian values and Lasallian education."
About Manhattan College: Manhattan College is located at West 242nd Street near Broadway in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, one mile from the Westchester County line and accessible by MTA subway line No. For directions to the campus, visit http://www.manhattan.edu.
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"You've only got forty-five seconds left. You're gonna waste it," I remind her. It was cute - she took her wishes so seriously, like missing out on any opportunity to get something for nothing was enough reason to be brought up on charges. It was her way of clipping coupons, I guess. She could make a magic lamp last for a decade, not because there was nothing to wish for, but because...it was as if she was being scored on the quality of her choice and on her performance.
Welcome to the Wish Olympics.
I waited as patiently as I could. I had already made my wish; I wanted her to stay. It was late and her train was due to leave Penn Station at nine the next morning. Sleep wasn't an option - she could sleep on the train and I could sleep at work.
Her head might've been in the clouds, but her feet were firmly planted on the ground. She didn't trust airplanes or airports as they both made her uncomfortable, claustrophobic. She rode trains everywhere instead, had listened to the clicking of a thousand miles of rail on her way to visit me and would double that distance with her return trip home. She was to spend a day traveling each way and only three days here. Appreciate isn't the right word. I would've done it if I had had the money. I didn't, she did, so she came. As simple and as fiendishly complicated as that.
"I know," she said, and a pained look crossed her face. Something was formulating in her head and she was trying desperately to make it coherent so her wish would be transmitted to its destination in one concise piece instead of sounding like the ramblings of one of the local crazies. "I just...I want to get this right. Shhhhhh."
As I'm waiting through what is probably the longest minute in the history of minutes, I think about how sexual she makes eating a fortune cookie seem. Once, sitting at a wobbly table in some anonymous Lower East Side ChinaMex restaurant, I swear I saw a puff of smoke rise from her cookie as she cracked it open. It smelled like rose petals and gunpowder.
I'm so enthralled with the memory that I don't react as she leans across the gap between us and kisses me, hard and still, on the lips. Looks me in the eyes. "Finished. Thank you."
I nod, dumbly. I want to kiss her, but I want to keep looking at her far, far more.
She missed her train and I called out of work. We didn't sleep again until the next night, curled up under a blanket we both knew we'd be fighting over once we were both too unconscious to be polite, once the dreams took over.
Right before we slipped away (and only a few hours before she slipped away by herself, early the next morning) she asked if I had gotten my wish. "I did," I said, because it was true - I knew she wouldn't stay forever, but that one extra night was...it was enough, for now. "Did you get your wish?" I asked. She just smiled.
A few nights later, talking on the phone, she told me that she did get her wish, in a way - she had wished that I would get my wish. I think that breaks the rules, somehow, but I can't tell her that. I can't burst that bubble any more than I can tell her that after all of her concern, after the painstaking preparation that went into her simple request to the wish fulfillers and after the wonderful following day, her wish was made at 11:12.
Some fortunes are better off left inside their cookies.
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Temperatures are slowly climbing as is the humidity, and rainy season is winding down for the year. The garden is near to bursting with greenery, and the farm almost literally spills over with produce. The plants, weeds included, grow at least a meter over night it seems. Farmers everywhere collapse at the end of the day surrounded by the bounty from their fields, destined to rise early and repeat the same tasks over again. Visit a farmers market, buy some of that scrumptious loot to take home, and help them out a bit won't you?


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Rabat, March 12, 2013
Previous suspicions reporting the participation of several members of the Polisario in fights in northern Mali, acting alongside Islamist AQIM and MUJAO, have just been confirmed by Paris daily newspaper "Le Figaro". The article reports the capture of a man belonging to the Polisario Front in the Tigharghar area.
The case dates back to February 23rd, when French Special Forces backed by the Chadian army stormed the massive Ifoghas. They wanted to dislodge a hundred irreducible AQIM terrorists and MUJAO fighters who had taken refuge there just after the fall of the great cities of northern Mali in the hands of Malian and French armies.
According to informed sources in N'Djamena, the Chadian armed forces who were the first to enter the massive Ifoghas informed the French of the presence of two or more members of the Polisario Front in the field. Moreover, apart from the man captured, it is believed that a dozen others lost their lives in the fight.
On the other hand, the Algerian army is said to have strengthened security around the Tindouf camps. For about a month, it has been virtually impossible to enter or exit the Polisario camps without an officer of DRS filling out a detailed form and waiting for the authorization of Ain-Naâja, Algerian headquarters of the army and DRS.
That said, and despite these drastic measures, connoisseurs of the region are skeptical of the measures taken by Algeria. "The worm is already in the fruit and it is awfully hungry. In this region, it is easy to just hand out money to pass the multiple check-points of the Algerian army and the Polisario," says a former colonel in the Algerian army, who has long served in the region.
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Taylor Swift gets snubbed for best album, and other Grammy nomination surprises
Taylor Swift's album "Lover" was snubbed during the nominations for the 62nd Grammy Awards, which were announced Wednesday.
(John Salangsang/Invision)
By Randall RobertsStaff Writer
Those who follow commercial pop music likely predicted that 2019 breakout artists Lizzo and Billie Eilish would earn a lot of love at the 62nd Grammy Awards, which they did. Those who bet against Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" failed to grasp what's been obvious to most everyone else all year: It's an eminently lovable and groundbreaking hit.
But a lot of stuff didn't go as planned. Bruce Springsteen didn't get nominated during one of the most fruitful periods of his life, for example. Beyoncé didn't earn an album of the year nod for "Homecoming: The Live Album." Kanye West wasn't named the Grammy Awards' Greatest Artist of All Time Ever.
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Little love for Taylor Swift's "Lover." Few artists in contemporary music have mastered the art of the album rollout as, well, masterfully as Taylor Swift, and this year's model, "Lover," was as flawless as ever. Going into Wednesday's announcement, work from the album was expected to garner half a dozen nominations. Instead, Swift landed three, and only one of them was in a major category: the title track from "Lover" earned her a song of the year nod.
The album of the year slight was made more acute because, as the year's top seller, "Lover" came with quite the pedigree.
Yes, her previous album, 2017's peeved, divisive "Reputation," failed to earn an album nomination. But Swift, who has banked 35 Grammy nominations in her career, seemed to take no chances this time. She lifted the veil on her once-neutral politics by releasing the LGBTQ-advocating song "You Need to Calm Down." She expressed support for the Democratic candidate in Tennessee's gubernatorial election. She did the interviews and the photo shoots. She made news, and avoided it, like a pro.
All that righteous energy and savvy marketing power makes it quite the shocker that "Lover" didn't earn an album of the year nomination. Work from "Lover" was eligible in three of the four major categories. It could be argued that Swift didn't help her cause when she began a public feud with industry titans Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta after they bought her back catalog. But who roots against the artist in such tussles?
Tanya Tucker snags song of the year nomination for "Bring My Flowers Now." Those who picked Tanya Tucker, 61, for their fantasy Grammy team won big this year. First nominated in 1972 for her country crossover smash "Delta Dawn," Tucker hadn't earned much notice since her last nod in 1993.
Country veteran Tanya Tucker was a surprise nominee in the song of the year category.
(Danny Clinch)
A quarter of a century later, the Tucker-sung "Bring My Flowers Now," written with Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth, landed a surprise song of year nomination. Taken from her Shooter Jennings and Brandi Carlile co-produced album "While I'm Living," the song's lyrics request a simple favor: "Bring my flowers while I'm livin' / I won't need your love when I'm gone." (The same could be said for awards trophies.) It's a classic country kind of couplet, addressing love and death in equal measure. Which is to say, not an expected Grammy choice in 2019.
Also surprising? Tucker was the only country singer to earn a major nomination. Unlike last year, when Carlile and Kacey Musgraves were vying for a trophy (Musgraves won album of the year for "The Golden Hour"), Tucker will represent Nashville come February. That is, unless you consider Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" to be a country song — in which case, country had a banner year.
Bon Iver's Justin Vernon was nominated for two major Grammy awards.
(Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Underdogs continue to outperform. In 2011, a shocked Justin Vernon accepted his best new artist trophy for Bon Iver's "Bon Iver" while wearing a sport coat he looked to have borrowed from the maitre d'. Since then, the artist hasn't exactly chased the charts, and with onetime collaborator Kanye West chasing the Lord, Vernon's cred has waned. Bon Iver's most recent album, "I,I" is as curious as its name, a challenging avant-folk album that has barely resonated in the commercial realm.
And yet, somehow, amid all the centrist singer-songwriters gunning for Grammys, Vernon's more experimental, oft-difficult tones have proven irresistible to voters — or at least the part of the electorate who didn't consider his early victory an aberration.
And though her music is in a whole other constellation than Bon Iver's —and she wears better clothes — the artist who performs as H.E.R. has carved out a similarly devoted demographic among Grammy voters. Hardly a household name, she's a critic's darling whose allure has nestled her way into the hearts of listeners eager to explore the creepier, more minimal side of rhythm & blues. The voters rewarded her adventure by giving her album "I Used to Know Her" a best album nomination, and her song "Hard Place" was acknowledged in both major song categories.
New Orleans group Tank and the Bangas were nominated for best new artist.
(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)
Best new artist award goes deep. By definition a nod to rising artists on the verge of breakout, this year the best new artist category celebrated generational shift with predictable, and deserved, nominations for artists Billie Eilish, Lizzo and Lil Nas X. Ditto both singer-songwriter-producer Maggie Rogers and Spanish pop sensation Rosalía, both of whom performed at Coachella earlier this year.
Three of the eight, though, have barely registered in the mainstream conversation. The Austin, Texas, hybrid funk-soul band Black Pumas hadn't even earned their own Wikipedia entry until Wednesday, but somehow made enough fans inside the Grammy electorate to make the cut for their self-titled debut album.
The inventive New Orleans band Tank and the Bangas first made news when it won NPR's "Tiny Desk Contest" in 2017. The rhythm-driven funk outfit channeled that success into an album called "Green Balloon," which helped earned them the nomination.
And the magnetic British folk and Americana singer Yolanda Quartey, who performs as Yola, has earned massive respect overseas. She made a dent Stateside this year with "Walk Through Fire," which was produced by the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach.
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Randall Roberts is a staff writer covering music and pens the weekly California Sounds column for the Los Angeles Times.
Here's what Jennifer Lopez said in Spanish at Biden's inauguration
Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez injects some Latin pride — and "Let's Get Loud" — into Biden-Harris inauguration with a familiar passage in Spanish.
Jennifer Lopez performs patriotic medley with showbiz flourish at Biden inaugural: Watch
Lopez performed an abridged "This Land Is Your Land" and "America the Beautiful" and added a Spanish-language section from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Lady Gaga goes full diva for moving national anthem at Biden inauguration: Watch
Wearing a red ballgown and a giant dove brooch, Lady Gaga performed an emotional and theatrical version of 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'
Jennifer Lopez performs patriotic medley with showbiz flourish
Trump pardons Lil Wayne and commutes Kodak Black, but snubs Joe Exotic
In his final hours as president, Trump pardoned Lil Wayne and commuted the sentence of Kodak Black. No such luck for "Tiger King" star Joe Exotic.
See Beyoncé, Ricky Martin, Aretha Franklin bring their A-game to past inaugurations
A look back at the star-studded lineups at previous inaugurations, including performances by Beyoncé, Ricky Martin, Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
With 'covfefe' and paper towels, Randy Rainbow bids Trump a not-so-fond farewell
Putting a spin on "Seasons of Love" from the musical "Rent," comedian Randy Rainbow's latest song skewers President Trump's most notorious moments.
Black musicians, led by Alicia Keys, ask Biden to create racial justice commission
Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Khalid and other prominent Black musicians detail "17 More Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America" in a new video.
Listening to Phil Spector: A three-minute thrill ride, then a reckoning with evil
In his brief but epochal heyday, Spector transformed pop music into teenage operettas and influenced musicians from Brian Wilson to Bruce Springsteen.


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The hard lives lived by some of Haiti's children doesn't often make the news. Recently however, the stoplight has been shone on those working as little more than child slaves, and the man fighting to put an end to their plight is more than an authority; he is a survivor.
At only 4 years old, Jean Robert Cadet was given away by his family to another, following the death of his mother. This family is expected to take a child in, feed, clothe and school it in exchange for the child taking on housekeeping duties. This explanation however, simplifies and even sugar-coats it, as often the children become little more than slaves, doing all the work without reaping the benefits. The practice is so common in Haiti that there is a name for these types of children; restavek.
Jean Robert Cadet's story is one that chronicles the horror such a child's life can become. Until he was 20 years old, he lived with a family who forbade him to smile, to laugh or to speak unless prompted. He was made to sleep under the kitchen table, and was often brutally beaten. The worse crime, though, was probably the sexual abuse he endured, a common feature in the lives of restavek children.
Today, Cadet has become a champion for the abolishment of this child slavery, starting the Restavek Foundation behind the slight might the now-illegal status of the practice in Haiti gives him. 2007 saw the ratification of two conventions of the United Nations putting a ban on child labor. Still, in Haiti the practice remains common, and children remain at risk, because the law is not efficaciously enforced.


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Q: How to retrieve db credentials using Spring Cloud Vault We have a spring-boot 2 application that connects to db2 database via DAOs.  The current application uses application.properties to store the credentials, like this:
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:db2://127.0.0.1:50000/bcupload
spring.datasource.username=db2user
spring.datasource.password=mysecretpa$$
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver

I would like to store username and password in Hashicorp Vault and retreive it at runtime using Spring Cloud Vault facilities.
I've examined this example from Spring Guides but I'm not understanding what to do with these values I retrieve them from the Vault.  How do convert them to properties that Spring Boot uses when connecting to my db2 data source?

A: Add the same property in vault and connect to Vault with Spring-cloud-vault Library. Have all Vault related configurations in

bootstrap.yml

Not required to convert that as a property. Above mentioned steps are enough

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You can find the source for Step 4 in the file STEP04.CPP in the directory EXAMPLES\OWL\TUTORIAL. In this step, you'll add the ability to draw a line in the window by pressing the left mouse button and dragging. To do this, you'll add a two new events, WM_MOUSEMOVE and WM_LBUTTONUP, to the TDrawWindow response table, along with functions to handle those events. You'll also add a TClientDC * to the class.
To start drawing the line, you have to look for the user to press the left mouse button. This is already taken care of by handling the WM_LBUTTONDOWN event.
Once the user has pressed the left button down, you have to look for them to move the mouse. At this point, you're drawing the line. To know when the user is moving the mouse, catch the WM_MOUSEMOVE event.
You then need to know when the user is finished drawing the line. The user is finished when the left mouse button is released. You can monitor for this by catching the WM_LBUTTONUP event.
You also need to add the EvLButtonUp and EvMouseMove functions to the TDrawWindow class.
In Step 3, you created a TClientDC object in the EvLButtonDown function that was automatically destroyed when the function returned. But now you need a valid device context across three different functions, EvLButtonDown, EvMouseMove, and EvLButtonUp.
You can catch the WM_MOUSEMOVE event and draw from the current point to the point passed into the EvMouseMove handling function. But WM_MOUSEMOVE events are sent out whenever the mouse is moved. You only want to draw a line when the mouse is moved with the left button pressed down.
When the mouse is moved, the EvMouseMove function is called. This function checks whether the left mouse button is pressed by checking DragDC. If DragDC is 0, either the mouse button has not been pressed at all or it has been pressed and released. Either way, the user is not drawing, and the function returns. If DragDC is valid, meaning that the left mouse button is currently pressed down, the function draws a line from the current point to the new point using the TWindow::LineTo function.
Event handling is discussed in "Event handling" in the ObjectWindows Programmer's Guide.
Device contexts and the TDC classes are discussed in "Graphics objects" in the ObjectWindows Programmer's Guide.
Predefined response table macros and their corresponding event-handling functions are listed in Chapter 3 in the ObjectWindows Reference Guide.


New Year can be considered one of the most beloved and popular celebrations in Georgia. Hospitality, wonderful traditions, old culture and delicious cuisine, all of them create a wonderful synthesis. The celebration of this beautiful day in Georgia is presented at a family dinner, with a beautiful tree, and decorations are all part of New Year holiday, while Christmas is strictly a religious celebration.
As the country is located between Europe and Asia, the mix of influences from the two continents has resulted in unique local traditions and customs – unlike what you find anywhere else: for example the fact that Georgians celebrate New Year twice.
On the 1st January there is the first New Year celebration. And only two weeks later, still in the mood of New Year, we celebrate Old New Year on 14th January.
According to the Julian calendar, the «true» New Year falls on this date and the Georgians are not the only ones who celebrate New Year on 14th January. It's a true happiness to have more time and opportunity to share the sincere and warm emotions with family and friends.
The holidays in Georgia start from 25th December. On New Year almost everyone meets his family at home and then goes out with friends. Mostly the people visit several places in one night. At midnight the family should be visited by the Mekvle. This is the person who is the first to congratulate on the New Year and bring in good fortune, health, and wealth. Everyone eagerly waits for this person to come through the door, after midnight, throwing candy and sweets. It means that all that year will be sweet and spent in harmony and peace.
Probably the most important aspect of these celebrations is the Georgian «Supra». Nowhere else you will find tables containing such healthy and unhealthy food at the same time. Georgian food is always very natural, the whole variety of spices and ingredients tastes fantastic, but there is always way so much food at the Georgian «Supra». It is very easy to overeat there, though the way to this fullness is extremely delightful.
A Georgian table cannot be imagined without the main dishes which are first and foremost Satsivi. This is a Turkey with walnut sauce, the crown of the fest and one of the most delicious dish you can ty in Georgia. And there is Gozinaki, caramelized walnuts fried in boiled honey, cooled and cut into rhombus shapes. This is the reason why everybody waits until midnight, because you cannot get a crunchy bite of this piece before the New year. In the midnight, when the bell rings, everyone puts the Gozinaki into each other's mouth. This signifies: As you get old, may you be as sweet as this candy.
In addition to the common decoration of the New Year's tree, the Georgians have their own special festive ornamentation called «Chichilaki» – an alternative to the Christmas tree and crafted by hand from wood and decorated with sweets, fruits and nuts, as a symbol of fertility and fruitfulness.
Every year a new «Chichilaki» must be purchased and placed nnext to the Christmas tree. This tree is burned at the end of the holidays, and takes away all the possible hardships.
Every region celebrates New Year on its own way. There are several activities on this special day. In the Tbilisi there are several concerts held outdoor in the center where everyone is welcomed to join and drink a glass of wine. Georgian bazaars and streets are joyful and full of colors.
Of course it would be very unusual for Georgians to celebrate New Year without traditional singing. It is said that melodies, aromas, and tastes stick in the brain to bring back memories better than anything else. In Georgia you can hear so many beautiful and original toast speeches, wishes and songs – especially around the two New Year celebrations.


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Telltale Games Enters a New Development Era with Unity
Telltale's in-house game engine is on its last legs, as sources say the studio is shifting to Unity.
According to Variety, the highly anticipated The Walking Dead: The Final Season was the last to premiere on the in-house engine, with no confirmation as to which engine the studio is using to build the now delayed The Wolf Among Us: Season 2. Telltale Games has confirmed that Stranger Things is scheduled as their first project developed using the Unity engine.
A new engine may mean growing pains, however, as developers must adapt to Unity. The developers must also re-learn their workflow with Telltale's change in leadership from Dan Connors to Pete Hawley.
Hawley was previously Zynga's vice president, and before taking on the role of CEO at Telltale, he did his research. He saw that the company doubled in size over the last few years as the amount of released content increased. The issues that stemmed from that involved quality and innovation. While the original game formula was well-loved by players, it was getting old and predictable.
The in-house engine had a part to play in this as well, and Hawley saw that Telltale has moved away from more player agency like they had in the first season of The Walking Dead. Noticing the move to more narratives and the decrease of engagement and player interactivity, Hawley wants to move away from the four-choice well to a new, innovative structure. For now, however, he acknowledges that it's what people still know and love about Telltale, and hopes to not necessary reinvent, but go back to what Telltale's roots did best.
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VOICES OF REFUGEES
A Collection of Stories on Human Displacement
Mohammed, 33 years old, from Aleppo, Syria
Mohammed and his wife Rima have 5 sons; Nuri is 10 years old, Ali is 8, Abdul is 6, Ibrahim is 4 and baby Ahmed, who was born in the refugee camp in Greece, is only 7 months.
"In Syria, children are learning about war and hate. They see corpses on the streets, hear people discussing who has died that day, and see death every day. Our children are seeing things that are not even in films forbidden to under 18s in Europe. I don't want my children to learn in the school of death, I want them to learn in the school of humanity, I want them to learn about dignity, and love. That is why we came to Europe."
Photo & Story: Clara Veale
After fleeing Syria, Mohammed took his family to Kurdistan, in Iraq, where they lived for over a year. He says life was good there, but they found it difficult to find work to sustain their family. Eventually, they were forced to leave, and like many others, crossed Turkey to get on a boat destined to Europe.
Mohammed doesn't know how to swim, but had to convince his whole family to get on the unreliable smuggler's boat. When asked about whether he hesitated to get on the boat, he explained: "We had two choices: one, get on the boat even though no one knew how to swim, or two, go back to Syria and die under the bombs. Yes, there was the possibility that we would die in the sea, but we also thought about the possibility of living the dream life that everyone is yearning for."
"Rima was pregnant with Ahmed when we crossed over to Europe, and we both believed Ahmed would be born in the country of our dreams. But we didn't realize that we would be stuck in Greece waiting for our case to be processed for so long." Mohammed and Rima have been living in a tent at a rural refugee camp in Greece for the past 8 months. Their baby was the first baby to be born in the camp, 7 months ago.
Mohammed never considered himself much of a gardener, though his family had a plot of land in Aleppo that grew beans, tomatoes, and zucchini. But after several months at Ritsona refugee camp feeding his kids the same packaged croissants and juice boxes day in and day out, he grew frustrated.
"The food the military brings is very expensive. Why not bring tomatoes and potatoes? With those, we can eat for a week," he says.
In midsummer, Mohammed obtained seeds and dug out a small patch of the dry soil behind the camp. He planted onions, peppers, squash, and other nutritious vegetables that his family commonly ate back home. He pulls up a photo on his phone of a bowl of green beans.
"Last week we had one kilo," he says.
Photo & Story: Allison Voigts
"We had heard that some countries did not treat refugees well, but we thought that if there are 27 countries in the European Union, we would find one that will welcome us. We saw on TV people welcoming refugees at train stations so we thought it would be easy.
Most people think Europe is heaven, but now we know it's not true. Our life here is far from being the safe and proper life we believed we would get in Europe."
"My boys cry a lot here, in the camp. My son Abdul, he tells me "You lied to me, you said that we will have a nice life in Europe, but we don't." He is only 6 years old so he doesn't understand how difficult it is for us, but it still breaks my heart. I can't give them even the most basic things."
"Despite everything that has happened, I still have hope that one day, our children will be able to live the life of our dreams."


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Q: Excel 2003: Match value in column A with column B, then pull data from column B I am attempting to write a formula in Excel 2003.
Situation:
Column A corresponds to column B.
Column C corresponds to column D.
There are multiple rows in column A that match a single row in column C.
       Column A   Column B          Column C     Column D
  1    1247       ≥ 98.5%        1247         ≥ 98.5%
  2    1250       ≥ 99.9%        1250         ≥ 99.9%
  3    1258       ≥ 99.9%        1258         ≥ 99.9%
  4    1341       ≥ 99%          1341         ≥ 98%
  5    1341       ≥ 99%          1349         ≥ 99%
  6    1349       ≥ 60%          1376         ≥ 99%
  7    1349       ≥ 60%          1644         ≥ 60%

Problem
I need the values from Column D to replace the values in column B.
Attempt

*

*Select a value in column A

*Match this value in column C

*Based on value in column C, copy data from D.

*Paste data into Column B.
  =IF(ISERROR(MATCH(A1,$C$1:$C$,)),ERROR,VLOOKUP(A1,$C$1:$D$7,2))

When I use this code the incorrect values from column D are pulled.  B4 and B5 should have pulled value from D4 only.  B6 and B7 from D5 only.
Any suggestions?

A: There are three issues in your formula:

*

*The first lookup range is incomplete $C$1:$C$ and should be $C$1:$C$7.

*You're not using the match type and the extra comma will leave an error.

*You didn't specify whether the lookup is an exact match or approximate match. By default, VLOOKUP uses approximate matching, which is why you are getting wrong results.

The following should work as you intended it to:
=IF(ISERROR(MATCH(A1,$C$1:$C$7,0)),ERROR,VLOOKUP(A1,$C$1:$D$7,2,0))

However, you can shorten the formula with IFERROR:
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A1, $C:$D, 2, 0), "Error")

If you have to look through a large number of values, it would take a lot of time anyway, so that's why I removed the row limits. The IFERROR will try to evaluate the VLOOKUP first and if it returns #N/A, the IFERROR will return "Error" instead. Otherwise, it will return the value you're looking for from the VLOOKUP.
It should also speed things up a bit, since Excel doesn't have to first check for the MATCH and then evaluate the VLOOKUP.

A: I tested your formula, and it works. I only replaced $C$1:$C$, by $C$1:$C$7, (does this look ok to you?)

I guess you used the right formula in your worksheet, and this is a typo only here, since an error pops when trying to enter the wrong formula.
If this assumption is correct, and the error is somewhere else, can you specify what incorrect values from column D are pulled?

A: It does not look like this is causing issues in your example, but you might want to specify that exact matches are required on the lookups. You do this by adding a ",0" to the MATCH and VLOOKUP formulas. Like this:
=IF(ISERROR(MATCH(A1,$C$1:$C$7,0)),"ERROR",VLOOKUP(A1,$C$1:$D$7,2,0))

EDIT: Also, I think "ERROR" should be in quotes, since it seems you want the formula to print this out as a message. (Note that without the exact match requirement, the original formula would not return this ERROR, it would find the next closest result.)


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32011 detention in Libya
4Kidnapping in Syria, hostage negotiations, and rescue attempt
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5.1Death of perpetrator
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James Foley (journalist)
Foley at San Diego State University in 2012
(1973-10-18)October 18, 1973
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
c. August 19, 2014(2014-08-19) (aged 40)
Raqqa, Raqqa Governorate, Syria
Marquette University (BA)
University of Massachusetts Amherst (MFA)
Northwestern University (MA)
jamesfoleyfoundation.org
James Wright Foley (October 18, 1973 – c. August 19, 2014) was an American journalist and video reporter. While working as a freelance war correspondent during the Syrian Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in northwestern Syria. He was murdered by decapitation in August 2014 purportedly as a response to American airstrikes in Iraq, thus becoming the first American citizen killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).[1]
Before becoming a journalist, Foley was an instructor for Teach For America. In 2008, he became an embedded journalist with USAID-funded development projects in Iraq, and in 2011 he wrote for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes in Afghanistan, and GlobalPost in Libya. There, he was captured by Gaddafi loyalist forces and held for 44 days. The next year, Foley was captured in Syria while he was working for Agence France-Presse and GlobalPost.
Early life[edit]
Foley was born in Evanston, Illinois,[2][3] the oldest of five children born to Diane and John Foley of Rochester, New Hampshire.[4] He grew up in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, where he attended Kingswood Regional High School.[5] He was raised as a Catholic.[6][7] In 1996, he graduated from Marquette University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and Spanish,[8] followed by a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2002, and a Master of Arts from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2008.[9][10][11][12]
Foley began his career as a teacher in Arizona for Teach For America. In 1999, Foley decided to pursue his MFA in creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Upon completion of his MFA in 2003, Foley returned to Phoenix for one year before relocating to Chicago in the summer of 2004 and taking a job teaching writing to young felons at the Cook County Boot Camp. In 2007, Foley enrolled in Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.[13] Starting in 2008, Foley worked for USAID-funded 'Tatweer' development projects in Baghdad.[14] He helped organize conferences and training seminars for a program designed to rebuild Iraq's civil service, crippled by decades of isolation and autocratic administration. In 2010, he left Iraq and applied for military embed-journalist accommodation status in Afghanistan to become a freelance journalist.[15] He was an embedded journalist with U.S troops in Iraq, where his brother was serving as an officer in the United States Air Force.[15] In January 2011, Foley joined Stars and Stripes as a reporter on assignment in Afghanistan. Two months later he was removed from his post after being detained by U.S. military police at Kandahar Air Field on suspicion of possessing and using marijuana. On March 3, 2011, Foley admitted that he had marijuana in his possession and resigned his position.[16][17][18]
In 2011, while working for the Boston-based GlobalPost, Foley went to Libya to cover the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, embedding himself with rebel fighters.[13]
2011 detention in Libya[edit]
According to media reports, on the morning of April 5, 2011, Foley, fellow American Clare Morgana Gillis, a freelance reporter (Atlantic Monthly, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today), as well as Spanish photographer Manu Brabo, were attacked and captured near Brega, Libya, by forces loyal to Gaddafi; fellow photojournalist Anton Hammerl was killed.[19][20][21] When the shooting started, Foley and Gillis both heard Hammerl yell out, "Help!" Foley, Gillis, and Brabo were beaten by the pro-Gaddafi forces and then taken as their prisoners.[22][23][20] Foley stated: "Once I saw Anton lying there dead, it was like everything had changed. The whole world has changed. I don't even know that I felt some of the blows."[24] Gillis said, "We all glanced down at him as we were being taken by, and I saw him just lying in a pool of blood. And then we were put into the truck and our heads were pushed down. We weren't able to see anything that happened after that to him."[25]
Foley was released from jail 44 days later.[21] On May 18, Foley, Gillis and Brabo, as well as Nigel Chandler (an English journalist also being held), were brought to the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli after release. Foley returned to Milwaukee to thank the community for praying for his safe return.[26] In an interview, he said, "You go through different emotions when you're in captivity... These weird extreme ideas of where you are based on this capture. You don't want to be defined as that guy who got captured in 2011. I believe front line journalism is important [without it] we can't tell the world how bad it might be."[27] Foley also wrote an article for Marquette Magazine about how rosary prayers helped get him through his captivity.[28][29] His experience of being captured did not deter him; he quickly returned to Libya, and was at the scene of Muammar Gaddafi's capture with GlobalPost correspondent Tracey Shelton on October 20, 2011.[30]
Kidnapping in Syria, hostage negotiations, and rescue attempt[edit]
Further information: 2014 American rescue mission in Syria
During the Syrian Civil War, Foley continued working as a freelancer for GlobalPost, in addition to other media outlets, such as Agence France-Presse.[31] On November 22, 2012, Foley was kidnapped by an organized gang after departing from an internet café, along with his translator and British journalist John Cantlie, in northwestern Syria while on their way to the Turkish border.[32][33] Their taxi driver and Foley's translator were not taken.[34][35] They were reportedly working on a film depicting Cantlie's abduction and dramatic rescue by four members of the Free Syrian Army in July 2012.[36][37]
Sources close to the family said that they believed Foley was kidnapped by the Shabiha militia, a group loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He was later reportedly held in a Syrian Air Force Intelligence complex in Damascus.[38][39]
During negotiations from November to December 2013, Foley's captors demanded €100 million in ransom (approximately US$132 million) from Foley's family, GlobalPost (his employer), and the U.S. in exchange for his release.[18][40][41] The chief executive officer of GlobalPost, Philip Balboni, stated that the company spent millions on efforts to bring Foley home, including hiring an international security firm, Kroll Inc.[42] In September 2013, the firm was able to locate Foley and track his location. He was moved many times during his captivity.[41][43][44] Kroll's research led to GlobalPost reporting that Foley was being held in a Damascus prison run by Syrian Air Force Intelligence, along with at least one other Western journalist, possibly Austin Tice.[42]
In June 2014, ISIS released Danish photojournalist and fellow hostage Daniel Rye Ottosen, and Ottosen called Foley's family to recite a memorized message that came to be known as Foley's final letter. In it, Foley addressed members of his family, and described his captivity in a cell with seventeen other hostages, who passed the time with improvised strategy games and lectures. The family released the letter on their Facebook page shortly after Foley's death.[45]
In July 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama authorized a "substantial and complex" rescue operation after the U.S. intelligence community said a "broad collection of intelligence" led them to believe that the hostages were being held at a specific location in Syria. However, the mission failed because the hostages had been moved.[46] The operation involved special operations forces from multiple branches of the US military, including: the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, helicopters, fixed wing aircraft, and drones.[47] When Delta Force commandos landed in the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa, they were met with gunfire, and it became apparent that the hostages had been moved.[48] ISIS suffered numerous casualties, while American forces suffered a single minor injury. The operation was only declassified after Foley's death. It represented the first confirmation of U.S. troops operating on the ground within Syria during the Syrian Civil War.[46]
On August 12, 2014, ISIS sent Foley's parents an email saying that U.S. government—unlike other governments—had refused to pay ransoms or negotiate prisoner exchanges, and saying that they would kill Foley.[49] The email's authors said they had left the U.S. alone since its "disgraceful defeat in Iraq," but would "avenge" the U.S. bombings, initially with the death of Foley.[49] John Foley, the father of James, said he didn't realize how "brutal" his captors were. Even after receiving the email, he held out hope that his son's release could still be negotiated. The family had reportedly been preparing to break U.S. law by offering to pay a ransom for his release. Due to his nationality, Foley's captors subjected him to regular torture and mock executions during his captivity.[50]
Beheading[edit]
See also: ISIS beheading incidents and Beheading video
Foley's whereabouts were unknown to most until August 19, 2014, when ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube entitled "A Message to America". Though quickly deleted, it continued to circulate elsewhere on the Internet.[note 1] Filmed in several takes,[53] the video started with Obama's announcement of the first U.S. airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq. It then cut to Foley kneeling in the desert next to a masked, black-clad ISIL terrorist and reading a long message expressing regret.[9][54] After Foley finished the message, the murderer condemned U.S. airstrikes and threatened that any aggression by America would "result in the bloodshed of your people."[55]
The actual beheading took place in less than ten seconds, although the entire recording was longer than four-and-a-half minutes.[54][55] It did not show the actual moment of Foley's decapitation and spraying of blood from his open neck as he struggled to breathe, unlike previous beheading videos, which typically showed the entire act.[54][56] After Foley's beheaded corpse was shown, his murderer revealed that ISIL was holding another American journalist, Time magazine contributor Steven Joel Sotloff, and that he would be murdered if President Obama failed to halt air strikes against ISIL.[9][57] A video showing the beheading of Sotloff was released on September 2, 2014.[58]
The video of Foley being beheaded was shot at an unknown desert location, and media sources gave the name Jihadi John to the man (later discovered to be Mohammed Emwazi) who made the threats and spoke with a "Multicultural London English" accent.[59][60] The video was produced and distributed by Al-Furqan Media Foundation, a media outlet of ISIL and part of its propaganda arm, the Al-Itisam Establishment for Media Production, which targeted Western and non-Arabic speaking audiences.[61][62]
Foley's family confirmed his death on August 19.[63][64] His mother, Diane Foley, posted on the Free James Foley page on Facebook: "We have never been prouder of our son Jim, he gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people".[8]
On August 20, the United States National Security Council confirmed that the video was authentic.[65] ISIL appeared to have used post-production techniques on the murder video.[66][67][68]
On August 22, fellow hostage Peter Moore, who had been held in Iraq, called on Foley's captors to release his body to his family.[69] British analyst Eliot Higgins offered photographic and video forensic evidence that Foley was murdered at a spot in the hills south of the Syrian city Raqqa.[70][71][72]
Foley's remains were never recovered, despite efforts to do so.[73]
Death of perpetrator[edit]
The U.S. Justice Department conducted a criminal investigation into Foley's death. Attorney General Eric Holder said in 2014: "We will not forget what happened and people will be held accountable, one way or the other."[74] Mohammed Emwazi, who murdered Foley, was killed in a targeted drone strike in Raqqa in November 2015.[75]
Video[edit]
In response to the widespread posting, viewing, and commenting on the video depicting Foley's murder, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe warned "We would like to remind the public that viewing, downloading or disseminating extremist material within the UK may constitute an offence under terrorism legislation." He went on to explain that while viewing the video was technically a crime, his officers would be focused on tracking down those who shared the footage or glorified it.[76] Twitter and YouTube executives also warned objectionable material would be deleted and accounts that posted it, or spread it, would be blocked.[76]
Legacy[edit]
Pope Francis called Foley's family to express his condolences.[77] Foley's brother said he believed the U.S. government could have done more to save James during hostage negotiations, adding he hoped the government would "take another look at our approach to terrorist and hostage negotiation."[78] In 2014, Foley's family started the James W. Foley Legacy Fund to work in three areas: "building a resource center for families of American hostages and fostering a global dialog on governmental policies in hostage crises; supporting American journalists reporting from conflict zones and promoting quality educational opportunities for urban youth."[79] Former students and colleagues from Lowell elementary (where he taught for three years) have since started a scholarship in his name.
The James Foley Scholarship in the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication was established at Marquette University in his honor.[80][81]
On August 22, 2014, Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sculpture depicting the face of Foley, made of four tons of sand on the beach of Puri city in the eastern province of Odisha. The sculpture, with a message reading "Don't kill innocents!", drew a sizeable crowd on the beach.[82]
The Boston-based GlobalPost, for which Foley had been a contributor, released a statement saying, "While we continue to send staff correspondents to Syria, we no longer accept freelance work from that war zone."[83] Agence France-Presse (AFP) also released a statement saying that it would "no longer accept work from freelance journalists who travel to places where we ourselves would not venture."[84]
In 2016, the documentary film Jim: The James Foley Story was released, directed by Brian Oakes and distributed by Dogwoof.
English singer Sting wrote and recorded "The Empty Chair", a song about Foley's fate, appearing as the last track on his solo studio album 57th & 9th released in November 2016.[85] The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
According to Charlie Savage, writing in The New York Times, Foley's mother Diane has called for the individuals who murdered him and abused him to be given a fair trial, not tried through a Guantanamo Military Commission.[86] She argued that an unfair trial would aid the terrorist cause.
The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation (JWFLF) was established following his death. His family and friends felt challenged to continue his legacy of commitment to the truth and compassion for those without a voice. The foundation seeks to "advocate for the safe return of Americans taken hostage [and] educate student journalists about staying safe in dangerous situations."[87]
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The Patriots have lost two close games in a row, so you know what means: Tom Brady is an aging system quarterback for the sixth straight year, Rob Gronkowski is finished and already prepping for his role in Creed III (he'll play Son of Thunderlips), and Bill Belicick's annual sabotaging of the team he spends an unhealthy amount of time building is upon us.
Forget the fact that they're still paced for what should be an 11-5 finish, with home-field gimmes against the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets on deck. Doom, I say! Forget the fact that they have enough championship DVDs to tell you that this is part of the process. Gloom, I crave! And most importantly, forget the fact that they were simply on the wrong end of game-deciding/ending plays in back-to-back weeks. Brady destroyed a cell phone and your guys are cheaters!
Now, this is not an attempted deflection effort to say that everything is sunshine when it's obviously not.
The Patriots absolutely have some legitimate issues that need sorting out sometime between now and Atlanta (if they get there for the fourth time in the last five years), but I feel like we're choosing to ignore certain aspects of a two-game losing streak (the horror!) for the sake of our 'oh my, the dark days are here once again!' attention-seeking takes.
If Gronkowski is on the sidelines in the last play of the Miami Miracle game, the Patriots prevent Kenyan Drake from scoring. If that happens, you're instead talking about the resurgence of the Brady-Gronkowski connection, and how you still can't count this battered duo out for one more ride to glory no matter their in-season slumps and struggles. And if the Patriots don't take about six billion pre-snap penalties in Pittsburgh, they're definitely in a position that doesn't require them to play with the pressure of a legitimately last-second score on their back. And we're instead talking about how the Patriots held a dominant and versatile Steelers offense to just two touchdowns (and 17 points in total) at Heinz Field.
Everything about the Patriots' struggles feels correctable. From the penalties to the personnel, and even to Brady's questionable on-field decision-making, especially late in a failed comeback attempt against the Steelers.
I mean, the difference between this Patriots team being 11-3 and 9-5 is so ridiculously thin it can be measured in inches and jukes. But the tone around this team would lead you to believe they're 7-7, largely because of nonsensical sky-is-falling crap centered around the audacity that this team isn't going to finish with 12 wins for the ninth year in a row. As if that's normal.
Sure, 'normal' around here is unparalleled excellence, and this has been a slight deviation from that. People are quick to yell about just that, too, adamant that this is indeed their new reality, and that they're simply not good enough to win this year.
But the same dudes saying "I've been a Pats fan all my life, but these guys don't deserve to win and are going nowhere this year" are the same that love to talk about where they were during Malcolm Butler's interception and the 28-3 comeback.
They'll boast about the 'GOAT' status of Brady and Belichick, but will also tell you that both no longer cares about winning. When a loss comes, they'll often center their entire argument that the Patriots are crumbling around the undeniable fact that people, uh, get older. But they will also discount wins or sequences that benefitted the Patriots because their younger counterparts found ways to screw things up, completely contradicting themselves. If that fails, they'll cling to the "this just doesn't feel like a Super Bowl team" cop-out of a narrative, as if the Eagles felt like a Super Bowl team last winter.
To anybody outside the six-state segment of the country, this comes across as the work of the mentally deranged, as you're legitimately complaining that this roster doesn't compare to a roster that won the most coveted trophy the sport has to offer.
It also shows a lack of awareness in regards to the reality of the 2018 NFL season, which doesn't really have anything close to a true powerhouse. The Los Angeles Rams appeared to be the closest thing to a sure-bet, but their quarterback suddenly stinks and their once vaunted defense has been 'meh' from the jump. The Saints look good, but Drew Brees has been average at best in back-to-back-to-back weeks now (I would wonder if the cliff has come for him, too, but I can't seem to find anybody screaming about it). Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are obviously great... unless it's a primetime game against an even somewhat competent team, which certainly bodes well for their postseason chances. Hell, I mean even the Cleveland Browns -- yes, those Cleveland Browns -- were alive in the postseason race up until Pittsburgh's victory.
In other words, the Patriots -- despite their status as the worst 9-5 team ever -- do indeed have a chance to have everything once again play out to their advantage this winter. And as history has proven again and again, especially with this team's most recent championship runs, that's really all they need to be considered a legitimate threat for another Lombardi.
That's closer to 'reality' than any doomsday scenario peddled -- or pissed down a leg -- after 14 regular-season games.
So perhaps it's best to sit out this latest round of grave-dancing.