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Berserk do things the hard way, after good press for their self-made debut they managed to swing a deal with Oakenshield records for their new album "Rites of Supremacy", which proves that Black Metal is alive and well in Spain. Despite a formidable language barrier, Bass player Lord Monk managed to shed some light on the origins and evolution of Berserk.
Sargon: Tell us some about the history of Berserk.
Lord Monk: Berserk was born in 1998 and the initial members were Forjstorm, LordMonk, Frozen Wind and Gog. Obitus (synths) joined us later.
In 1999, we recorded our first demo "Return of the ancient laws" in our garage with a computer. The demo was distributed by Europe with good reviews.
Gog leaves the band, and Nazak joins us as new vocalist.
Our first album "...From the Celtiberian Woods" was recorded in winter 2000/01, with the same PC. And last, Obitus left the band, and Berserk entered in studio to record the new CD called "Rites of Supremacy" in July of 2002.
Sargon: Tell us about the recording of "From the Celtiberian Woods", how did you record and get a deal with Oakenshield with such a low budget?
Lord Monk: We recorded the album in our rehearsal room with a computer. We sent it to Olivier Denis of Chanteloup Creations (French label) and he liked it. Olivier was interested in release the CD, but his label closed by unknown reasons. At that moment, Nico (friend of Olivier) appears and say us that he wanted to create a small label Oaken Shield (division of Adipocere). We accepted the deal, and our first CD was released by Oaken Shield and the second work too.
Sargon: What was the inspiration for Berserk's Celtic point of view? Do some people not accept a Black Metal band that doesn't write about Satan?
Lord Monk: We like the Celtic traditions and myths. People accept that we don't write about Satanism. There are many bands that don't write about it. We talk about dark themes, about paganism and anti-christianity.
Sargon: How is the metal scene in Spain? Do you get to play shows a lot?
Lord Monk: No, we don't play much. There are important bands in Spain but few gigs promotors that make tours and concerts.
Sargon: What kind of live show do you do, what kind would you like to do? As in what sort of props or extras do you or would you like to have?
Lord Monk: We play simple gigs because there aren't many resources. We always play in small places.
Sargon: What changes affected the band between the first CD and recording "Rites of Supremacy?" What did you want to do differently?
Lord Monk: The first progress that you can find between the two releases is the absence of synths. Now the Berserk's songs are stronger. Ourselves recorded our first CD in our garage rehearsal and the new one has been recorded in a professional studio and the sound is much better.
Sargon: What bands have inspired you and what bands have influenced the music of Berserk?
Sargon: What do you think of the Black Metal scene in general? Some bands have changed their sound and become more popular, do you think this is good for the scene or bad?
Sargon: Have you done many live shows? Do you have any tour plans for the new album?
Lord Monk: No. We would like to participate in a tour over Europe and America and show our music but this is very hard.
Sargon: What would you like to see for the future of Berserk? What direction will the next CD take compared to "Rites of Supremacy"?
Lord Monk: At this moment, we are making the songs of the new album that will be more aggressive, more elaborated and with more quality composition.
Sargon: What kind of songwriting process do you go through to create a Berserk song?
Lord Monk: First of all, we compose 3 or 4 riffs that make the main structure of the song, and then we begin to work in that. Later, we search riffs more specific to complete the song and we add the last arrangements.
Sargon: And last: is there anything else you want to say?
Lord Monk: Thanks for your interview. Keep alive the pagan flame.


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Craft kombucha that is locally made in small batches using high quality ingredients and traditional brewing methods is not the same as the big brand commercially produced kombuchas that you can buy in most grocery stores. Don't get me wrong here…I'm not saying commercial kombucha is bad; it's just different. See, scaling production and distribution for a kombucha business is a logistical nightmare because kombucha is a living beverage. It takes a lot of care and attention in every step of the process. To become a nationally distributed powerhouse in the industry, compromise is inevitable. And that's just business; as long as consumers know what's up, I don't think there's a problem. So, if you didn't know before, you know now.
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If we can't pronounce it or it's engineered in a lab, we don't add it. Yeah, I know. It seems weird that a healthy drink like kombucha would have uneccesary stuff added to the ingredient list, but start reading labels, and you'll find it's really very common. Kombucha only has to have water, tea, sugar, and kombucha culture. Anything else you find on and ingredient list is to enhance flavor, inhibit fermentation, improve shelf life, or boost probiotic count with lab cultured organisms.
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Walt Hazzard accomplished a lot as a basketball player. He helped UCLA to its first national title in 1964 while being named the NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Player, then played 10 seasons in the NBA.
His grandson, Max Hazzard, might never reach those heights. But he and the rest of the UC Irvine basketball team are in Seoul, South Korea, embarking on a remarkable experience in its own right.
The Anteaters will represent the United States in the fifth Asia-Pacific University Basketball Challenge beginning Sunday through Aug. 12. They will play a round-robin tournament against teams from Chinese Taipei, Japan, the Philippines, Russia and Korea.
Before practice Wednesday evening at UC Irvine's Bren Events Center, Max Hazzard recalled his thoughts upon first hearing about this excursion.
"I was like, 'I would love to go to Korea,'" said Hazzard, a junior guard and team captain. "Obviously, I've never been. I live in Koreatown, if that means anything. I love Korean food, so it'll be cool to get some authentic Korean food.
Seoul is a modern city, with high-tech subways and skyscrapers. There are also Buddhist temples and palaces to behold. Hazzard smiled when all that was mentioned.
Senior forward Jonathan Galloway and junior guard Eyassu Worku – also team captains – are equally jazzed about this adventure.
Sometimes when a team does something different – especially involving travel – it grows closer. Galloway believes that can happen here.
The Anteaters went 18-17 overall in 2017-18, 11-5 in the Big West Conference. They lost to Cal State Fullerton in the conference tournament championship game.
Galloway said he hadn't gathered much information on Seoul, either. But he knows it's going to be different than anything he's seen.
The players don't know much about what the level of competition will be like, though. Are they going to dominate, or be dominated?
"We have no clue of, like, the competition we're going to play," said Worku, a junior guard who prepped at Los Alamitos High. "We just kind of go over the rules, the FIBA (International Basketball Federation) rules, how it's different from American rules. But as for the competition, we don't really have any idea.
UCI was not even expecting to be in this position. Originally, Gonzaga was offered the trip but was unable to make it.
"We got contacted by a Korean-American coach who is working with the women's team at Gonzaga," Anteaters coach Russ Turner said. "And he had been working with the KBA (Korea Basketball Association) to try to bring Gonzaga to this tournament.
Turner said the KBA is paying a large portion of UCI's expenses for the trip.
"We feel really fortunate that our university has supported this, our donor community has supported this, and we're now in position to do something that these guys will never forget," said Turner, whose father Ron and son Darius made the trip.
This is a life experience, one Turner is indeed hopeful will strengthen his team.
"Many teams that get to experience trips like this feel that way, feel that the bonding is as valuable as the education," Turner said. "It's hard to put a value on the education, and I think it'll also be hard to put a value on the opportunity we have together to experience something that's unforgettable for every one of these guys altogether at the same time.


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'Sherlock Holmes 3' is finally happening
Elementary, my dear...
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A third instalment of Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes franchise is reportedly on the way, some eight years after the sequel hit cinemas.
The Iron Man star appeared as the titular detective for two films directed by Guy Ritchie, which also starred Jude Law as his formidable sidekick Charles Watson.
While a third offering has remained in development limbo, Variety reports that Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher will head for the streets of Victorian London as he takes over the franchise from Guy Ritchie.
This comes after Warner Bros confirmed last year that Downey Jr would return for a third film, but refused to reveal if Ritchie would return too.
The first instalment hit cinemas in 2009, while Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows was released in December 2011 and scored an impressive $545.4 million at the worldwide box office.
It also marks one of Downey Jr's biggest post-Marvel projects to date, after Endgame marked his final appearance as Tony Stark.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the final film will see Downey Jr earn "at least" $75million (£57.5m) for his part, thanks to a "back end" deal.
NME awarded Avengers: Endgame a five-star review upon its release, calling it "probably the best comic book movie ever"

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Conservative Commentators Hail Success Of Act Of Valor
By Lew Irwin on 28 February 2012
Mel Gibson The Passion Of The Christ
Picture: Francisco Valor - Photographs of a variety of stars as they took to the red carpet for the 5th Annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards...
The success of Act of Valor has given conservative Hollywood haters some of the most potent ammunition for their arsenal since Mel Gibson struck it big with The Passion Of The Christ. On Andrew Breitbart's BigHollywood.com website, Kurt Schlichter, a California attorney who spent 24 years in the Army and is a frequent contributor to the Hollyood-bashing site, wrote " Act is an unapologetically pro-military movie that doesn't have to pretend that the greatest threat to America is space aliens. It's got action -- holy cow, does it have action. It's got emotion -- real emotion, not that hacky 'emotional conflict' cookie cutter crap that your screenwriting seminars push. And it's got this thing called 'moral clarity.' ... Act of Valor rejects the kind of value-free nonsense you love to inject into your crummy, unwatched flops to generate the cozy moral ambiguity that allows you to pretend that there is no such thing as right and wrong." The website Conservativebyte.com commented, "Man is this great." At Townhall.com, conservative writer Doug Giles wrote, "Finally, a 21st century movie that doesn't portray our military as corrupt, stupid, confused torturers who murder innocent babies." The movie was widely bashed by the leading newspaper critics, including, surprisingly, Kyle Smith of the New York Post , who ordinarily wears his conservative creds on his sleeve. On Monday, Smith posted the transcript of a voicemail he received after writing his negative review. "I hope the f***ing movie makes like $500 million so you can f***in' be the little pussy that you are and be pissed off that it's, it's, it's a good movie. My son was in the Navy and you're the little pussy that sits behind a desk and writes s**t like this." The unnamed writer then invites Smith to call him at a number with a Connecticut prefix. Smith then offers "a few points" in rebuttal "1) No name is given on this message accusing me (I guess) of cowardice for not liking a movie. 2) I am an Army veteran, of the Persian Gulf War. 3) Neither the writer nor the directors of Act of Valor are veterans. 4) People in Connecticut talk like this?"
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A Coat of Glitter
By Keny Kakadia
Art is a way to express emotions; a moment of time spent to explore feelings, ideas and concepts. In this month of sparkles and shimmer where we see emitted rays of glorious shine, glimmer and gold. Let's celebrate the chemistry of art and glitter together by acknowledging a few magnificent artists who embraced glitter and shine in their works. They are unparalleled and talented in their own ways. In A Coat of Glitter you will find out about sparkling art and the artists involved meet a hand full of glitter here.
Ebony G. Patterson, is a Jamaica-born mixed-media artist. She creates colourful tapestries outlining the transformations of gender and body. Her art is blended with materials like glitter, sequins, fabric, toys, beads, faux flowers, jewellery, and many other embellishments. Patterson has presented her insulation in many art galleries, but the most recognised one was in 2016 at the Museum of Arts and Design, the art was called "Gangstas for Life series", in which she incorporated several commercially-woven Jacquard weavings with jewels and flowers in which she used restaged images of photographs that had been taken of murder victims in Jamaica. Another one at Arkansas Arts Center, the art is from the "Disciplez" Series and then "Strange Fruit" art at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina and she has achieved so much more.
Sara Shakeel is a talented contemporary Pakistani artist. She usually creates both digital and physical collages of photography. Shakeel art is always sparkling with glitters and shimmers. she superimposed gold glitter, Swarovski crystals, and galaxies onto images of stretch marks on the female body. By covering these stretch marks in glitter and crystals, she believes in promoting body positivity and empowerment. she turns woman's body imperfections into an art. In 2019, Shakeel collaborated with Reebok to create an ad for their body image awareness campaign in which she covered the muscles of athlete Jamie Green with Swarovski crystals in order to spread the message women's bodies are strong and beautiful. First gained fame through Instagram with over one million followers. Then in 2019 she released a capsule clothing collection in collaboration with the London-based retailer at Browns as well as displaying her piece in The Great Supper store.
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John M Armleder he is Co-founder of the Ecart Group (1969) and closely affiliated with the Fluxus movement since 1960 he created a polymorphic body of work which encompasses performance, drawings, sculptures and paintings. Generally characterized by a sense of deep interconnectedness between life and art, and the appropriation of objects and quotes, with monochrome or abstract paintings, his work is loaded with metallic colours and paints. Armleder gained international recognition with his Furniture Sculptureseries from 1979, bringing together iconic examples of design and paintings to reflect on the trivialization of the artwork as an ornamental accessory. The artist is also recognized for his celebrated series of Pour and Puddle Painting. He presented his work at Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland. In the winter of 2006-2007, a large exhibition including works from all eras of his career was shown at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Mamco) in Geneva, Switzerland. In April 2013, the Dairy Art Centre in London opened its doors with a large solo show paying tribute to Armleder's oeuvre. He often uses a dense scenographic hanging style, putting individual works into close proximity and creating installation-like exhibitions.
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Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is symbolised for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objects d'art. His primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art methods. His Symbolist pastiches of pale nudes, allegorical gardens and erotic content served as the basis for many American psychedelic poster designs in the 1960s. Early his paintings narrated on heavy subjects such as anxiety, doubt, sexuality, and death, but in later years, he turned toward landscape painting, exploring light and abstract patterns of nature. His most famous paintings are The Kiss(1907) and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (1907), which sold for a record auction price of more than 100 million dollars in 2006. Klimt uses materials such as cut opaline glass buttons, the cut, transparent stained glass set into the metal, the small mirrored plates, the mother-of-pearl buttons and the hollow brass rings used as applications. Additionally, Klimt used casein paint on dried plaster. Once dry, the colours look matt, increasing the brilliant effect and radiance of the gold and silver to reflect the golden era.
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'I was terrified': Blind man carried disabled son to safety as Hurricane Dorian raged
Updated: 9:57 PM EDT Sep 6, 2019
By Ralph Ellis and Erin Burnett
After the hurricane blew the roof off his house on Abaco, the real challenge started for Brent Lowe.Lowe said he waded through chin-high water to reach safety while the storm raged around him. He had to carry his 24-year-old son, who has cerebral palsy and cannot walk. And Lowe is blind."I was terrified," Lowe told CNN. "I didn't realize the water was that deep. I was thinking maybe knee-deep. It wasn't until I stepped off and I realized, 'Oh, I wonder if it gets deeper because that means I have to swim with him,' you know what I mean?"But thankfully, it didn't get over my head."The Bahamas took a beating during Hurricane Dorian, with Category 5 winds thrashing the islands and leaving at least 30 people dead, though authorities think the death toll will rise.Lowe, speaking from Nassau, said he was huddled in his house with his son, his sister-in-law, other relatives and some neighbors while the storm pounded Abaco. Then the roof came off."At that time, it was raining and raining hard," he said. "So I picked him up, threw him on my shoulder and when I stepped off my porch, my front porch, the water was chin-high, up to my chin. ... We all had to walk out into the water and into the wind to the neighbor's house."It was at least a five-minute walk, he said, but felt much longer. They finally made it to the neighbor's house, where he and his son stayed until they could be taken to a shelter, he told The New York Times.Now, having been evacuated to Nassau, Lowe says he's receiving the dialysis treatment he needs to stay alive. His son, meanwhile, is being cared for by his sister-in-law, he said."He is with her right now," Lowe said. "I really hope to get in contact with him because I really miss him. I want to see him."The future is uncertain for Lowe and his family. The destruction on Abaco was so complete they won't be able to go home for a long time."You know, I'm 49 years old. My son is 24 years old. I've been disabled for 11 years. And all the time, I've never asked anybody for anything. I just went about me and my family and took care of my family, me and my kids with the help of my ex-wife, and we did it."Lowe said that on Abaco, a live-in caretaker looked after his son when Lowe went to dialysis treatment. Post-hurricane, they don't even have a home of their own."We need a place to go," Lowe said. "I don't know exactly what we are going to do. We need help."
After the hurricane blew the roof off his house on Abaco, the real challenge started for Brent Lowe.
Lowe said he waded through chin-high water to reach safety while the storm raged around him. He had to carry his 24-year-old son, who has cerebral palsy and cannot walk. And Lowe is blind.
"I was terrified," Lowe told CNN. "I didn't realize the water was that deep. I was thinking maybe knee-deep. It wasn't until I stepped off and I realized, 'Oh, I wonder if it gets deeper because that means I have to swim with him,' you know what I mean?
"But thankfully, it didn't get over my head."
The Bahamas took a beating during Hurricane Dorian, with Category 5 winds thrashing the islands and leaving at least 30 people dead, though authorities think the death toll will rise.
Lowe, speaking from Nassau, said he was huddled in his house with his son, his sister-in-law, other relatives and some neighbors while the storm pounded Abaco. Then the roof came off.
"At that time, it was raining and raining hard," he said. "So I picked him up, threw him on my shoulder and when I stepped off my porch, my front porch, the water was chin-high, up to my chin. ... We all had to walk out into the water and into the wind to the neighbor's house."
It was at least a five-minute walk, he said, but felt much longer. They finally made it to the neighbor's house, where he and his son stayed until they could be taken to a shelter, he told The New York Times.
Now, having been evacuated to Nassau, Lowe says he's receiving the dialysis treatment he needs to stay alive. His son, meanwhile, is being cared for by his sister-in-law, he said.
"He is with her right now," Lowe said. "I really hope to get in contact with him because I really miss him. I want to see him."
The future is uncertain for Lowe and his family. The destruction on Abaco was so complete they won't be able to go home for a long time.
"You know, I'm 49 years old. My son is 24 years old. I've been disabled for 11 years. And all the time, I've never asked anybody for anything. I just went about me and my family and took care of my family, me and my kids with the help of my ex-wife, and we did it."
Lowe said that on Abaco, a live-in caretaker looked after his son when Lowe went to dialysis treatment. Post-hurricane, they don't even have a home of their own.
"We need a place to go," Lowe said. "I don't know exactly what we are going to do. We need help."
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Geronimo Stilton, top reporter for The Rodent's Gazette, keeps has a reputation of breaking the top news stories first to the citizens of New Mouse City. But lately, Sally Ratmousen of rival Paper "The Daily Rat," has been leaking Geronimo's secret scoop! Can Geronimo keep the lid on a surprise celebrity guest to the city's 100 year celebration or will Sally rat him out?
Born in New Mouse City, Mouse Island, GERONIMO STILTON is Rattus Emeritus of Mousomorphic Literature and of Neo-Ratonic Comparative Philosophy. He is the director of The Rodent's Gazette, New Mouse City's most widely read daily newspaper. Stilton was awarded the Ratitzer Prize for his scoops on The Curse of the Cheese Pyramidand The Search for Sunken Treasure. One of his bestsellers won the 2002 eBook Award for world's best-selling electronic book. In 2006 he won a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award and in 2008 he won the Cartoomics prize "Beyond Comics." His works have been published all over the globe. In his spare time, Mr. Stilton collects antique cheese rinds.


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What is moral reasoning? Are we being reasonable when we make moral decisions if we cannot supply compelling arguments, criteria, necessary and sufficient conditions, decisive empirical evidence and the like?
In MORAL VISION, Duane L. Cady critiques the contemporary inclination to model reason after textbook natural science, noting that our values are not conclusions of proofs or derivations but frameworks in which such reasoning may take place, frameworks that we struggle to understand and explain. Cady goes on to suggest a rich conception of reason beyond that of stereotypical science, one that reflects aesthetic, historical, experiential, and pluralistic aspects of moral thinking, one that widens and deepens descriptions of how moral thinking typically happens.


Get Out There and Ref!
I can't imagine ever losing the argument that Wrestling officials have it tougher than any other sport. This and other reasons seem to be developing a problem across all levels of officiating in the United States, the overwhelming lack of young officials.
Once in awhile Kevin and myself (Tommy) will mention high school officiating. While we do a podcast and website about college and international wrestling we don't try to say we know everything about officiating. I reffed youth Freestyle starting when I was 14. Throughout high school I would grow as an official and be able to do higher levels. I then was able to do a couple seasons of high school wrestling before I joined the Army. After the Army I coached for six years, but then due to changes with my job I no longer was able to put in the time commitment for coaching. I gladly threw back on the stripes and have been ever since.
I thoroughly enjoy officiating. Even as an athlete in college, it was a hell of a way to make $200-400 a week without working a real job. Most jobs open to 18-21 year-olds make very little hourly and I was able to rake in money doing something enjoyable. Sure some coaches rode me a bit, and you aren't going to be great at first. I liked the challenge though. It's something to work at and get better as you go. Now over a decade later I'm working as part of a small, growing company many hours and reffing is a great break from my day to day responsibilities. The extra money is still amazing too. You get used to budgeting what you normally make and then all the sudden you're cashing a bunch of checks you don't count on. I mean...who doesn't like extra money?
Outside of the supplemental income, I have fun with it. It's challenging, you build relationships with coaches & kids, and just get put in some interesting spots. Some may find it odd that on a Wednesday night I'm looking forward to reffing a dual where every call will be jeered by sometimes over a thousand people, but I love it. There's also some great camaraderie among the refs. Often I'm having a beer and a burger at the pub in whatever town I'm in that day after the event discussing interesting calls and sharing crazy stories. I really appreciate the different areas, different scenery, and the new experiences.
Somehow it's tough to find officials and therefore the average age of high school and college officials is getting to a critical spot. It's good exercise to ref an all-day tournament and how I feel sometimes getting tired at 32 I have no idea how the 62 year-old guys do it. Even as I am not the young guy in college anymore it's still very often I am the youngest guy on the crew at events throughout the year.
We need to do a better job of recruiting and retaining officials. It takes awhile to get good at it, and it's also very intimidating. While in football and baseball the coach giving you an earful may be over 100 ft away, in wrestling Tom Brands is practically in your back pocket. While you can chirp at me all you want (mat time gives me that luxury), there are better ways of going after young officials. We need that kid. Tell him later (calmly) where you disagreed with the judgement call. It's usually better if you tell the senior official of the event what you saw. We are constantly watching the younger (or new, never too late to start) official as much as possible but we do have our own matches to worry about.
If you're reading this and you aren't a coach or currently have a kid in high school, try to ref. You'll probably enjoy it a lot more than you think you would. We need refs. We certainly need younger refs (look at the age of the officials at the next event you're at). Get out there and ref! The sport needs it. I wish I had the time to coach still, but by reffing I get to stay involved and help the best sport in the history of man.


The European Commission is proposing what are effectively mandatory safety requirements for breast implants in Europe. This is the first time in the ten-year history of the two medical device directives that mandatory requirements have been on the agenda. Amanda Maxwell looks at the wider implications and asks whether the whole basis of medical device legislation in Europe could be about to change.


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February 26th, 2018: Dentacoin is now accepted means of payment for dental implants made by one of the world's leading dental implant manufacturers – Bredent. The supplier of Bredent implants – Dentamed – has an online shop for international deliveries with blockchain integrated functionalities and payments available only in Dentacoin! By implementing Dentacoin as the only available currency, the company has utilized numerous benefits, such as a simplified, highly automated and secure payment system and significant cost savings in transactions and logistics.
Bredent is an internationally operating company founded in Germany in 1995, which manufactures highly sophisticated dental implant systems and restorations. One of Bredent´s product – SKY fast & fixed – is established as an etalon for same-day implant restorations. The use of SKY fast & fixed enables dentists to offer their patients extraction, implantation and temporary restoration in a single day and at affordable costs. "We develop and produce optimally matched individual products, system solutions, for example in the implant prosthetic sector, and therapeutic concepts "Made in Germany". These enable dentists and dental technicians to realize and maintain high quality, cost-effective aesthetic restorations that ensure periodontal hygiene. Our competence and innovative power make us a leading example on the dental market," explains the Management.
Bredent has developed a concept for completely digitised implantation workflow, integrating laboratory and dentist, which leads to high efficiency, cost savings and higher dental care quality.
Therefore, the German-based manufacturer considers it consistent to use blockchain technology, starting from logistics and payment transactions. "We are really excited to be part of the Dentacoin project", shared Wolfgang Lechner, Export Manager at Bredent medical GmbH & Co. KG.
Attracting as partners a leading dental implant manufacturer like Bredent and internationally operating supplier like Dentamed is a huge step forward for Dentacoin towards its goal to bring the needed efficiencies in all areas of the dental industry.
Dentacoin is already implemented as means of payment at seventeen dental clinics around the world (in USA, Australia, UK, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Taiwan, Fiji, India) and more than 10 000 people are actively using the developed tools (Dentacoin Trusted Reviews, DentaVox Research Platform, Dentacare mobile app). Recently Dentacoin also announced strategic partnerships with Arklign, an end-to-end digital dental lab partner located in San Jose, California, and PCP Dental Recruitment, one of the fastest growing dental recruitment agencies in the UK. The currency cycle is closed.


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NLP explores the connection between how you think (Neuro), how you communicate verbally and non-verbally (Linguistic) and your patterns of behaviour and emotional responses (Programming).
Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP originated in the mid 1970's when John Grinder, a professor of Linguistics and Richard Bandler, a student of Mathematics and Computer Science became curious about how really successful people achieved their excellent results. They were inspired by the works of Milton Erickson (hypnotherapy), Fritz Perls (Gestalt therapy), Virginia Satir (family therapy) and Ivan Pavlov's research into classical conditioning, which when applied in NLP is called Anchoring. They were encouraged by Gregory Bateson, who carried out pioneering anthropological studies into patterns of behaviour and communication in Bali and New Guinea; and carried out research into schizophrenia, how humans learn and psychiatry. Bateson played a major role in cybernetics and other systems thinking and Bandler and Grinder drew their concepts significantly from his work.
NLP explores not only what highly effective people do, but more specifically how they do it. This includes their external behaviour and language, the way they think and the internal mental processes that they use. NLP demonstrates that if you apply the same processes as these highly effective people, you can achieve the same successes in your life.
Eventually this methodology which Bandler and Grinder called Modelling led to a collection of methods and techniques that can be applied to any area of your life. By replacing old unhelpful thoughts and behaviours with those of highly successful people you can achieve the most extraordinary outcomes and accomplish goals you might at the moment feel are merely dreams.
When employing NLP in therapy, this methodology and these techniques are used to help clients significantly improve their life and realise their goals. In NLP Practitioner Training, students learn to apply these tools and principles in their own lives and also in the lives of others.
None of us were born with an instruction manual for our mind, and from infancy we have relied on what other people have said and what our experiences have taught us. This influences how we behave and react.
Putting it simply - we have been taught to how be and have learned what to have or what to expect from life. We also learn how to repeat or re - act to these experiences as a consequence of the information we have received.
In fact as you grow up you develop a theory of how the world works and though you might not have thought about it, have constructed this very personal view of the world and how you exist in it.
Terrible things happen to people from all walks of life and many of these things happen randomly and are truly out of our control. However the mental defences we have constructed shape our responses. Isn't it curious how two people who have experienced very similar things can react so differently? How one person might turn a negative experience into an opportunity for change and another stays stuck in the experience?
NLP challenges these responses by claiming that you are much more than the sum total of what other people have told you and what you have experienced so far in your life; and that there are an infinite amount of possibilities out there - more than you can possibly imagine, and that you can construct an alternative set of beliefs and strategies if the ones you have constructed so far are not working positively for you.
To unlock this potential, all you need is a methodology or an instruction manual for your mind and a curiosity and willingness to try something different.
NLP provides this by helping you understand how the information that you receive through your senses is processed, and how this impacts on your beliefs, values and strategies. This assists you to identify the areas in your life that you'd like to change.
NLP then shows you how to make elegant and effortless changes to make this transformation, accomplish your goals, and achieve truly exceptional outcomes.
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Q: Rename the value from JSON response I am getting the following JSON response:
{
    "systemDefence": 0,
    "sensorsDefence": [{
        "index": 1,
        "defence": 0
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        "index": 2,
        "defence": 3
    }, {
        "index": 3,
        "defence": 3
    }, {
        "index": 4,
        "defence": 3
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        "index": 5,
        "defence": 0
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}

With the simplified code i was able to receive and return a response to a web page field. But what i am trying to achieve now is to rename the value for "index" and "defence" with the following formula:

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Planned output should look like:
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defence : activated

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I have used the following script to rename the values but in this case doesn't work anymore:
JSON response:
{
    "temperature": 23,
    "light": 0,
    "noisy": 0,
    "air": 0,
    "humidity": 43.300000
}

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Any suggestion/solution is welcome.
Thanks in advance!

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To rise early and retire early in any given day is part of the Greek lifestyle, and this laid-back atmosphere is perfect for travellers looking for a relaxing trip. However, once the sun has set this relaxation is sometimes followed by heading out to enjoy some of the local nightlife. Athens, the country's capital city, offers visitors an amazing selection of nightlife activities, from cafes and bars to superb restaurants and live entertainment.
No visit to Greece would be complete without a trip to Athens, one of the most historically significant cities in the world. Visitors should not overlook the many awe-inspiring sights that this marvellous city has to offer. Athens is an impressive city that played host to many historic and legendary Greek events. It is a city with a unique combination of Western and Middle Eastern cultures. Some 40 per cent of Greece's population lives in the capital city.
Because of the 2004 Olympics the city of Athens underwent a huge renovation programme, and visitors can now enjoy the improvements that were made to one of the world's most popular holiday locations. New buildings were created, airports updated, and many shrubs and trees were planted along the edges of the city streets. The city has a modern subway system with a station at the central Syntagma Square that makes it easy to travel around the area.
In the old town of Athens is Plaka. This area of the city has been populated for more than 5,000 years. Resting on the east and north sides of the Acropolis, it provides visitors with an insight into a rich history, ancient churches and endless monuments.
Also worth visiting whilst in Athens are some of the surrounding hills. One such being the Acropolis (490ft above sea level). The city's most impressive attraction is the 2,500-year-old Parthenon atop the Acropolis. On the outskirts, Mount Pendeli, Mount Hymettos and Mount Parnitha surround the city.
Piraeus is an old Mediterranean seaport, and is one of the last old-style ports in use. This is the place where tourists can catch ferries to any of the Greek islands and even some international destinations. Close to this port, explorers will find some excellent beaches with great facilities. Ideal to relax and to soak up the sun.
For your holidays to Greece, other noteworthy sites include the Roman building Agora, the 1,500-year-old Temple of Zeus, Hadrian's Arch, and the Dionysos Theatre, the world's oldest.
Greek summers are typically warm and dry with a lot of sunshine. The hot summer days are often cooled by the Meltemi, or seasonal winds. The winter months of January and February also tend to be mild. However, it can be quite cold in the upper elevations of the north. Summer temperatures can peak at more than 40C, while winter days on the mainland remain in the low to mid-teens, and can sometimes even reach 20C.
The euro is the currency in use in Greece.


Convex signal reconstruction is the art of solving ill-posed inverse problems via convex optimization. It is applicable to a great number of problems from engineering, signal analysis, quantum mechanics and many more. The most prominent example is compressed sensing, where one aims at reconstructing sparse vectors from an under-determined set of linear measurements. In many cases, one can prove rigorous performance guarantees for these convex algorithms. The combination of practical importance and theoretical tractability has directed a significant amount of attention to this young field of applied mathematics. However, rigorous proofs are usually only available for certain "generic cases"---for instance situations, where all measurements are represented by random Gaussian vectors. The focus of this thesis is to overcome this drawback by devising mathematical proof techniques can be applied to more "structured" measurements. Here, structure can have various meanings. E.g. it could refer to the type of measurements that occur in a given concrete application. Or, more abstractly, structure in the sense that a measurement ensemble is small and exhibits rich geometric features. The main focus of this thesis is phase retrieval: The problem of inferring phase information from amplitude measurements. This task is ubiquitous in, for instance, in crystallography, astronomy and diffraction imaging. Throughout this project, a series of increasingly better convex reconstruction guarantees have been established. On the one hand, we improved results for certain measurement models that mimic typical experimental setups in diffraction imaging. On the other hand, we identified spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for the derandomization of data recovery schemes. Loosely speaking, a t-design is a finite configuration of vectors that is "evenly distributed" in the sense that it reproduces the first 2t moments of the uniform measure. Such configurations have been studied, for instance, in algebraic combinatorics, coding theory, and quantum information. We have shown that already spherical 4-designs allow for proving close-to-optimal convex reconstruction guarantees for phase retrieval. The success of this program depends on explicit constructions of spherical t-designs. In this regard, we have studied the design properties of stabilizer states. These are configurations of vectors that feature prominently in quantum information theory. Mathematically, they can be related to objects in discrete symplectic vector spaces---a structure we use heavily. We have shown that these vectors form a spherical 3-design and are, in some sense, close to a spherical 4-design. Putting these efforts together, we establish tight bounds on phase retrieval from stabilizer measurements. While working on the derandomization of phase retrieval, I obtained a number of results on other convex signal reconstruction problems. These include compressed sensing from anisotropic measurements, non-negative compressed sensing in the presence of noise and identifying improved convex regularizers for low rank matrix reconstruction. Going even further, the mathematical methods I used to tackle ill-posed inverse problems can be applied to a plethora of problems from quantum information theory. In particular, the causal structure behind Bell inequalities, new ways to compare experiments to fault-tolerance thresholds in quantum error correction, a novel benchmark for quantum state tomography via Bayesian estimation, and the task of distinguishing quantum states.


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Ian Wright sends message to Alexandre Lacazette after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang goal vs Brighton
Arsenal news includes Ian Wright hailing Alexandre Lacazette for the part he played in the opening goal at Brighton
Charles WattsArsenal correspondent
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang may have got the goal that opened the scoring for Arsenal at Brighton - but Alexandre Lacazette played a huge part in making it happen.
The France international striker showed wonderful footwork in the box to twice leave Brighton players on the floor, before showing excellent strength to prod the ball into Aubameyang's path.
The Gabon international did the rest, curling a fabulous finish into the far top corner to register his 13th Premier League goal of the season, but he immediately celebrated with Lacazette - well aware of the part his strike partner had played in the goal.
And he wasn't the only person who wanted to give Lacazette credit, Gunners legend Ian Wright also wanted to have his say.
The club's second highest ever scorer took to social media soon after the goal to send a message to Lacazette - tweeting: "Your work for this team and all Auba's goals does not go unnoticed."
Meanwhile, Arsenal head coach Unai Emery has called on his players to follow Aubameyang's example by proving they too can be protagonists in the Premier League this season.
The Gabon international is leading the way in the race for the Golden Boot with 13 league goals, one ahead of last year's winner Mohamed Salah and Totteham Hotspur striker Harry Kane.
And Emery wants the rest of the Arsenal dressing room to feel inspired by the striker's form in front of goal as they seek to make an impact in their own position across the pitch.
"I want this statistic for the players and for Aubameyang," said the Spaniard in his pre-match press conference ahead of facing Brighton and Hove Albion on Boxing Day.
"I want all the players to be protagonists on the pitch, with a goal, or an assist, and to bring their best in the game."
Arsenal fans are saying the same thing about Liverpool clash after Lucas Torreira news
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Arsenal injury newsPartey, Jesus, Smith Rowe - Arsenal injury news and return dates after Manchester City clashArsenal injury news: All the latest fitness updates on Mikel Arteta's side following their FA Cup loss to Manchester City
Tottenham news: Arnaut Danjuma secures FA Cup fifth round place as Pedro Porro agreement reached
All the latest Tottenham Hotspur news and transfer gossip including reaction to Spurs' FA Cup fourth round win against Preston, Pedro Porro's future and Lucas Moura's recovery from injury
Real Sociedad make Martin Zubimendi announcement as Arsenal handed ultimatum for £52.8m transfer
Arsenal are being strongly linked with a move for the Real Sociedad, and only a few days remain of the January transfer window for a £52.8m deal to be completed


A special version of the latest performance powerhouse celebrates the return of a motorcycle classic to the MV Agusta line-up and latest technology evolution from Pirelli.
For riders who like their motorcycles like their Cajun food, blackened, Indian has a special treat, its new blacked-out hard bagger, the Chieftain Dark Horse.
Suzuki's SV650 Roars Into Showrooms In June - Prices And Pics!
A slice of motorcycle history rides back on the scene as Suzuki Motor of America gives a date a price for the new SV650.
The world of motorcycles is rich with models built for those starting in the saddle or riders who don't necessarily want a monster bike sitting in the garage. One such motorcycle is Yamaha's FZ-07.
When Harley-Davidson introduced the 2016 Pro Street Breakout, the latest addition to its Custom Vehicle Operations range, it was more than a new model but also a statement about the company's future.
Motorcycle manufacturers are doing everything they can to tempt new riders into the saddle. Suzuki's latest effort is the reintroduction of its popular SV650.
For ten years, BMW Motorrad's R 1200 GS Adventure has given motorcycle enthusiasts the opportunity to choose their own road and the model appears to be getting better with age.
A new model from Harley-Davidson which reaches back to a classic style rides out a day before Harley-Davidson releases its first quarter financial results.
Calling it 'Machina Non-Nudus' Suzuki's turn of a Latin phrase points to its aggressive new direction in the GSX series with its S1000F.
Although Clutch and Chrome doesn't ride into the off-road world of motorcycles much, when we saw this next press release, it was hard to move along without giving it some press.
Manufacturers who want to grab motorcycle headlines give their latest and greatest to a bike builder. Fans of the new Springfield will be glad to hear Indian did just that.
The motorcycle world is buzzing with the newly released prices and additional details for Triumph's new Bonneville T120, T120 Black, Thruxton and Thruxton R.
The latest British invasion continues with Triumph Motorcycle releasing more pricing for their latest models.
An interesting peek into the world of motorcycle manufacturer Honda will take place over several shows in Japan starting this weekend.
The North American motorcycle market continues its diversification with Kawasaki's latest model, the Z125 Pro.
Yamaha have released the prices for two of its highly anticipated 2016 motorcycle models with the neo-retro XSR900 and supersport touring FJR 1300ES enjoying a price tag.
As has been the case in the last few years, Indian Motorcycles used Daytona Bike Week to highlight the release of new motorcycles. This year it was the Indian Springfield enjoying the spotlight at the legendary motorcycle event.
Ducati is highlighting the equipment found its latest Multistrada 1200 Enduro, adding the tagline of 'Globetrotter Attitude' to its adventure motorcycle and latest addition to the motorcycle manufacturer's line-up.
A quick look at the Yamaha website and it's easy to think Yamaha have every genre of riding covered. Between the Yamaha and its Star brand, the Japanese motorcycle manufacturer has always managed to cover all the two-wheeled bases.


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If a quarterback gamble is inevitable, why wait?
February 19th, 2011 | Written by Rob Staton
The Rams' shot at Sam Bradford coincided with becoming the NFL's worst team
Every single year we hear it. "This isn't a good year for quarterbacks."
It's usually paired with the assumption that next year's class will be better. I haven't followed a draft where I haven't seen or heard this opinion somewhere.
Last year's class of quarterbacks was perceived as a poor one because the depth wasn't good after the top talent – Sam Bradford – left the board. In 2011 it's a supposed weak group because there's plenty of depth, just not a bona fide #1 pick like the one selected by St. Louis.
I understand why the 'weak class' argument is made annually because whether you're a fan or a pundit, everyone appreciates the importance of the position. Ideally you not only want someone who can win you football games, he also has to have good technique and all the off the field intangibles. He will be the face and identity of the franchise. People want their QB's to be more like Peyton Manning than Ben Roethlisberger, even though the latter has two Super Bowl rings.
It's easy to get behind drafting a Sam Bradford type quarterback. He says all the right things during interview – the answers are pretty dull, but that's ok. He's a student of the game who you just know spends hours watching tape while the rest of his teammates are winding down. He's in the facility almost as long as the coaches, if not longer.
On the field he's a pure talent with everything you look for – accuracy, a capable if not elite arm and he makes good decisions. It's easy to assume that at some stage in his career he'll win a Super Bowl for St. Louis, or that they will at least contend for one.
The problem is, prospects like that are always destined to go first overall unless the team making the pick already has a legitimate starting quarterback.
If he's the one defining quarterback prospect in the draft does it make it a weak class? Not for the team picking first overall. The team's who may need a quarterback in the 2-32 range however have cause for complaint. In that sense 2011 is a better year for those teams because there are four potential first round prospects – Cam Newton, Blaine Gabbert, Ryan Mallett and Jake Locker.
None are as highly rated as Bradford, but certainly all have reason to be drafted in the first 32 selections.
Seattle finds itself in a unique position because they are a team that would be picking much higher but for a history making 7-9 playoff appearance. In reality you will never find a Sam Bradford type quarterback with the #25 pick. Last year Tim Tebow was taken with the very same selection by the Denver Broncos. He was far from a flawless player and clearly the Broncos (or at least Josh McDaniels) bought into the 'Tebow factor' and hoped his driven determination to improve would solve some of his technical problems.
That's the type of gamble that presents itself when picking a QB late in round one.
The fact there isn't a Sam Bradford type quarterback this year is irrelevant to the Seahawks because they don't pick high enough to wonder whether they'll have a chance to draft them. On the other hand, the depth at the position offers at least the option to solve the team's biggest long term question mark even if they ultimately decide to pass.
Many will consider the prospect of drafting a guy like Ryan Mallett as unfavorable. He doesn't come across even half as well as Sam Bradford does and the negative euphoria surrounding him these last few weeks may leave permanent damage to his stock.
No doubt people will say, "wait till next year." I'm not a fan of that line of thinking.
Clearly the team should not feel forced to draft 'any' long term option at quarterback. The Seahawks aren't going to plough in carelessly ready to make a colossal gaffe on a player they aren't fully convinced with. Neither will they be entertaining thoughts of next year in their decision whatever it may be.
The Seahawks' intentions must be to select in the 20's or 30's every year. If they do so, it will mean the team has qualified for the post season year after year. In order to achieve that they will have to address the long term future at quarterback – a situation of great urgency now that Matt Hasselbeck is a free agent-in-waiting and will turn 36 in September.
We can look ahead to next year and acknowledge the possibility of both Andrew Luck (Stanford) and Matt Barkley (USC) declaring. We can also anticipate that both will be top 5-10 picks with Luck almost certainly the #1 choice.
Seattle would have to be a 0-3 win team to have a shot at Luck and maybe also Barkley. Considering they play in the weak NFC West I'm not entirely sure that's even possible. It was quite some achievement for St. Louis to be bad enough in this division to select first overall – something the Seahawks should strive to avoid even if the prize is a shot at Luck.
You end up coming back to a guy like Mallett, because that's the type of player we'll be discussing if Seattle succesfully maintains their place atop the NFC West rankings. He doesn't have all the intangibles you look for, but he's still clearly a talented quarterback.
Mallett's football IQ is among the best I've scouted but it's not often discussed simply because – to put it bluntly – he doesn't come across in such a positive way with his body language and during interviews. Christian Ponder is established as a very bright and intelligent individual off the field and I've lost count how many times I've heard people credit Ponder's game intelligence because of this fact. It's a mistake because his decision making is often terrible and he's much more erratic than Ryan Mallett.
For me the bigger gamble would be to draft Ponder any higher than round five and expect him to work out as a starter than it would be to take Mallett in round one and work on the 'intangibles'.
While ever the Seahawks enjoy success (and even at 7-9, winning the division has to be classified as such) they will almost certainly have to 'take a chance' on a quarterback one day. That will be the case whether it's Charlie Whitehurst, a round one pick, a mid/late rounder, a free agent or trade. They will not find a flawless diamond a la Bradford, Luck etc without experiencing one of the worst seasons in franchise history.
The argument of 'waiting till next year' can only be classified as an admittance that the team cannot hope to achieve the status of picking in the 20's again. The same problems will exist next year, only Hasselbeck will be a year older and it's not obvious we'll see the same level of depth at the position.
Taking a chance on someone might be inevitable. So why wait?
29 Responses to "If a quarterback gamble is inevitable, why wait?"
Joe McKenna says:
Why wait? Because the Seahawks already spent a 3rd round pick in this draft for a QB on whom they want to take a chance. Matthew just needs a decent line (and associated running game) and he can still be very good for 3 more years. This year is not the year for the Hawks to take a QB. They should develop Whitehurst as much as possible, and look for a day two QB next year (maybe Kellen Moore).
Oh, BTW, I totally disagree with your assessment of Mallett – I don't see why people call him accurate, yet question Locker's accuracy. Locker is inconsistent, and I see the same inconsistency in Mallett's 'accuracy'. I don't think Mallett makes good decisions as if he is a QB savant … and that despite having a great O-line, a defense that gave them the lead, a scary threat of a running game and some very good receivers. I would take Ponder in the 2nd and wouldn't touch Mallett until the 5th. However, I thik the Hawks should work on their real deficiencies before taking a luxury pick at QB – esp. when they already invested in that position in this draft.
Hi Joe, I appreciate your views (and welcome them) but disagree strongly with everything you say.
The Seahawks spent a 3rd rounder on a QB this year, but they also never felt confident enough to start Whitehurst last year. We're not talking about a young pup here, this is a guy approaching 30. Whatever people's opinions on Matt Hasselbeck are, there were times last year when benching him for Whitehurst would not have been a shocking turn of events. They never pulled the trigger.
I don't agree that Hasselbeck can play for three more years. If he starts in 2011 then he'll almost certainly be the oldest starting QB in the NFL. To project him starting at all as a 39 year old is unfathomable to me.
Kellen Moore will not be a day two quarterback next year. He's an UDFA who might find a home in round seven.
Jake Locker had a 55% completion rate last year as a four year starter. Mallett was at 65% as a second year starter in the SEC. Those numbers alone show the gulf in accuracy. When you break down the tape there is a significant difference between the two when it comes to accuracy.
To suggest Mallett is no more than a 5th round talent and Ponder would be a viable option in round two – I can't understand that line of thinking. But to describe a quarterback as a luxury pick is really an incredible statement. Clearly the Seahawks must find their long term option at QB. The pick spent on Whitehurst is irrelevant – when Green Bay were still starting Brett Favre and had Aaron Rodgers (1st rounder) on the bench, it didnt stop them spending a second round pick on Brian Brohm and then later bringing in Matt Flynn. If they have the flexibility to draft like that, Seattle certainly has now that Whitehurst is on the roster yet not even tied to the team beyond 2011.
I dont see why people complain about Whitehurst, or wasting a pick on him. He has never really been givin a chance yet. A third round pick is a mid rounder, not 2 first rounders that other teams have givin up for a QB. Matt just plain out worked Charley in competition . If ComPete Carroll stated Whitehurst the team would lose respect for Carroll when Matt competed hard and won the job. Not to say Charley cant be a starter in the nfl. The hawks got a guy no one is talking about from SF Nate Davis. Maybe some one can look at his film and see if you see what i see in him. If you dont bring Matt back I would develope Nate behind Whitehurst and see what you have. I would not draft a QB but beef up both lines. Locleer was a revolving door at right tackle. And at gaurd i dont see what people like in Unger has he done anything?? Do book end offensive tackles and draft a good offensive gaurd. They need depth in the defensive line. Before injurys Iwas really impressed how good the defensive line came together.
Not many people do complain about Whitehurst. However, he's on a one year deal now. If he doesnt start next year – when does he?
As for Nate Davis, we need to limit expectations there. He might not make it past camp. We're looking at a guy who was drafted by a member of the Niners front office who now works in Seattle. If he was that great a prospect, he would've been on San Francisco's roster because their QB situation was a mess. Doesn't mean he won't work out in Seattle, but it seems to be a long shot.
I'm not sure I would consider Locklear a "revolving door" at RT. Including the playoffs he only gave up 5 sacks, not a bad total. Its his untimely penalties and shoddy runblocking which make him replaceable and an upgrade desirable.
QB is definitely not a luxury pick. It's a need and an immediate one. Regardless of how you feel about Hasselbeck, you still need time to groom the next QB. It's unrealistic to expect a rookie to come in to make an immediate impact.
Even the oh-so-holy Sam Bradford wasn't as great as he was made out to be. First. his offensive line is acceptable, he has GREAT running support, a workable defense, and Joe Theismann once noted that over 90% of his passes were short 1-2 read throws. Truth is, most young QB need time.
As for charlie whitehurst. I simply viewed it as a dip. Some complain about how we just threw away our 3rd rounder this year for a backup, but I view it differently. I see it as a 3rd round for a chance at someone potentially good. That's why he got 2 years instead of 4 or 5 years. If he works out and could be a very good QB, then extend him. If not, then oh well. It's a 3rd rounder. At least, there is the attempt to find a good QB.
Ponder is not worth a 2nd round pick if for no reason for his A) durability and B) arm strength. I will be the first to tell you that arm strength isn't everything. You don't need a Terry Bradshaw, Brett Favre, or Dan Marino arm. You just need sufficient arm strength to make all the throws like a Joe Montana or Drew Brees. However, it's quite another thing to have a QB that is NOT able to make the required throws like a Jimmy Clausen or Christian Ponder. Jimmy Clausen for example is sufficient to make the short and intermediate, but is unable to arc his long throws (it SINKS at a point). Ponder has trouble with the long throws and even his short passes are greatly inconsistent with insufficient zip (from point A to point B) that the WR would already be downed in the NFL.
Agreed about Charlie Whitehurst. And it's a late 3rd-rounder too now, coincedentally thanks to a game he won. That late 3rd really is only a handful of spots ahead of the 4th rounder we got from the Pats. And it could be argued that we might have taken Golden Tate at 40 even though we got him at 60.
I think with four first round caliber guys this is the best draft in a long time in terms of QBs, and even after the first you have guys with starter upside. As you point out, there's no "can't miss" prospect at QB (has there ever really been?), but I think it's inevitable that at least one of these guys turns into a beast a few years from now. The best part for us is that any of the top five QBs in this draft could be that guy. And with all the d-line talent clogging the top 10 picks, someone "should" end up taking an Aaron Rodgers fall to us.
On a side note, despite the obvious blow to our draft from beating NO, one of the upsides is that clipboard jesus only ended up costing a late 3rd. To me that makes it seem like not such a big loss.
tom page says:
Why wait? Because the players available aren't worth the pick. QB's are always overvalued, they usually are drafted higher than their talent warrants. Going into last year's draft the top four QB's with potential first round talent: Bradford, Clausen, Tebow, and McCoy. Clausen was supposed to be the most pro ready prospect. After watching him play last year, I wonder whether he will ever be starting caliber quarterback. We don't know about Tebow because he didn't play enough. McCoy seemed to show some potential to develop into a starting caliber quarterback. Even two years ago when Mark Sanchez went at #5 I think was a reach. The Jets have a good team which has masked Sanchez weaknesses. Mark Sanchez skill set reminds me of Rick Mirer. Reaching for a QB because it is a position of need usually doesn't work out very well.
Curlin says:
I think the point though is that this problem isn't going to solve itself. QBs always get drafted a bit higher than their overall ability indicates … waiting won't change that. Unless we have a 2-14 year and get the first pick we are probably going to have to settle for a slightly overdrafted QB with risk and hope it works out. In this particular case, at least the two guys who might be a possibility both have the upside of being an elite player, even if it comes with a little extra "bust" potential. I think if you go back over the past decade, all of the quarterbacks drafted outside of the top 5 or so carried a decent amount if risk in one form or another. Some have worked out (Rodgers, Roethlisberger, Flacco to some degree), some have not. At some point we have to at least try to solve the problem though, or we'll just be resigning ourselves to mediocity (albiet in a worse than mediocre division).
I'm not sure about other people, but I never graded Clausen, Tebow or McCoy in round one. I always had Clausen as a R2 prospect and the archived evidence is there (googe: The Jimmy Clausen debate). Tebow I had as a R2-3 QB prospect and McCoy in the R5-6 range. This year I have Newton, Gabbert and Mallett with first round grades and Locker in R2. Overall it's a better class and any of those four at #25 wouldn't be a reach.
No, you clearly didn't follow the draft very closely last year. Yes, there were the Big 4 of last year, but only 2 were rated in the 1st round by most mocks (Bradford and Clausen) and Tebow and Colt McCoy were actually rated in the late 2nd to 3rd round by most drafts. Even then, as the actual draft proved, no one in the league actually rated Clausen in the 1st round, which this board and me (on a personal basis) rated as a 2nd rounder.
If you want the actual briefs of the scouting report I gave (irrelevant to Rob's scouting report)…
Sam Bradford- great accuracy… about as good as it gets for a college prospect. Decent mobility. Great pocket awareness. Great mechanics. Great touch. Great intelligence. Arm strength average, but sufficient to make all the NFL throws. Concerns: Durability (not an issue now because he bulked up) and injury concerns. Lean frame and has been injured twice in college career. Spread/Shotgun formation. Questions about transition to pro-system. Overall grade- Top 10 pick. He was NOT my top pick. Suh was and if I had to choose between Suh and Bradford, I would have picked Suh because of major legitimate concerns about Bradford's durability.
Jimmy Clausen- Mobility-ok. Pocket awareness-above average. Good mechanics. Good touch. Accuracy average and the completion % are inflated as the ball placement was bad- WRs had to readjust. Experience in pro-system. Concerns- slightly below body size. Arm strength-below average and an issue for the vertical pass as it sinks like a bomb. Character concerns. Overall grade- early to mid 2nd round.
Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy are rather self evident. The main player I was arguing about was Clausen as he was clearly overrated. In sum, one early to mid 1st rounder, 1 2nd rounder, 2 3rd rounders. I was in favor of passing on QB last year because it WAS a bad class.
By comparison, two years ago, the prospects were considerably better. Matthew Stafford was a top 5 pick. Mark Sanchez was a top 10 pick. Josh Freeman was a late 1st and early 2nd in my grades. Overall, everything happened like it should in the relative sense.
As for Mark Sanchez. I agree Mark Sanchez hasn't matched my expectation and grade ( top 10 pick) in the regular season, but he is quite another QB in the playoffs when he turns up his several notches. I see that as potential. If you can get it done in the playoffs against superior opponents, then it's only a matter of time because you get it all together in the regular season where the opponents are weaker.
This year, there are at up to 4 QBs that are worth a 1st round pick. Even Jake Locker is at worst an early 2nd round. And it doesn't end there. The depth in the 3rd-5th round pick are also considerably better than in the past. Colin K, Pat Devlin, Andy Dalton, Christian Ponder, Ricky Stanzi are all superior depth in the middle-late round prospects than in the past. If anything, this is a STRONG year depth wise for QB. The only reason there is the perception that it's a weak class is because there isn't a clear cut #1. Well, if Luck had came out this year, then what would this QB draft have been? The best since the 83 draft? I frankly don't remember a draft in the last decade that has the depth that this draft has in the QB position. If anything, I argue that this draft is superior to last year and next year's draft for the QB position because you'll have one top 5 pick and then… no one else.
FWBrodie says:
What a well-thought-out, logical piece. Some really great points. Every year it's "wait until next year when the QB class is projected to be better", wait for Sam Bradford, wait for Jake Locker, wait for Andrew Luck, squeeze the last couple drops out of Hasselbeck's crashing ability before we take a risk like that.
Al U says:
If no CBA has been, or looks like being, agreed by the time the draft rolls around do you see it being much more difficult for the Seahawks to address the QB position? Most mocks seem to predict the likes of Cincinnati, Arizona and San Francisco drafting other positions, implying that their QB needs will be addressed in free agency. Have you considered posting a mock for a scenario where there will be no free agency?
Hi Al U,
I think the mocks so far have considered that. Three of the top four quarterbacks go in the top ten, it's only Mallett that falls and I've had him in the first round before. When I mock CIncy, Arizona and San Fran going in different directions, it's not based on a free agency problem solver more considering that the options don't fit. It's not impossible, but I don't expect every team that needs a QB to grab one at the earliest opportunity just because the FA period remains a mystery. Having said that, there's a very real possibility all four of the best QB's go early, which increases the chances of another prospect falling to the Seahawks.
Sea-Town says:
Why wait? Simple. Just because a guy is considered a first round prospect doesn't mean he is a first round talent. Teams get in trouble when they reach for a perceived need. Now do the Hawks need a QB? Hell yes. Whitehurst is clearly not the answer and Hass is at the end of the road. The problem with taking one of these QBs is that most of them have never payed under center, nor with a FB lined up behind them. Most QBs from spread offenses (sans Bradford) take time to develop. So if the Hawks reach for a spread QB just to fill a need, they are getting a guy who will needs lots of time to get ready and with the uncertainty of the labor situation, the Hawks would be potentially taking a guy who will be behind the 8 ball from the start and will most likely not contribute for 2 years, if at all. This draft is deep at DL and OL boith major need areas as well. The Hawks would be much better served to draft say a bookend RT or DE/DT and then look for a QB in rds 4-7.
The point I tried to make Sea-Town is that if the Seahawks continue to pick in the 20's or 30's (which has to be the aim) the team will only ever face the same questions every year. I'm not arguing any old QB should be drafted, but at the same time I think we have to appreciate that a quarterback tagged to go in that range won't be of the Sam Bradford/Andrew Luck standard. Ryan Mallett could very easily be available at #25 and he has a lot of positive qualities. A lot of people would still see the team pass (and I have seen this case made) because next year, Luck and Barkley may be available. The team will have to be very poor to have a chance at either and there may not be an alternative option if the team finds itself picking outside of the top-5/10.
Mallett is more than just a spread offense type QB. His offense incoporates some spread methods, but he does take snaps under center and he is tasked with making more than 1-2 reads, making audibles and running his offense.
Honestly, I am not against the Hawks taking Mallett. I just think there are other need areas that can be addressed with players who have a better chance of actually contributing next year. The Hawks picking #25 this year is the biggest fluke. Realistically this team should be picking in the top 10 and, quite frankly, they should be picking in the top 10 next year as well. The Rams, with a more productive Bradford and defense will pass the Hawks and the 49ers, with better coaching and better QB play, will pass the Hawks as well. The Hawks schedule looks brutal on paper right now, so a top 5 or 10 pick could be reality. This team has so many holes to fill (OL, QB, DL, Secondary) that, in my humble opinion, it would be better to take a player that has a real chance of contirubuting and then rolling the dice in the later rounds on a QB and then next year if they are in the top 10, go all out for Luck/Barkley.
But the team can't plan like that. They can't assume a bad year next year or an improvement from the Rams. Even if the Seahawks won four games they might pick 3rd or 4th overall and still not get a shot at Luck or Barkley. What if the teams won't trade down and would rather take the two highly rated QB's? What if Barkley stays at USC? These are all things we can't answer this year yet we're willing to let it impact our draft board?
And if we take a player with a greater chance of contributing and go 8-8 or 9-7 and win the west because they help significantly improve an area of the team – we won't be picking early. This is the point of the article really – we can't look at next year as always being the best year to draft a QB. One day we'll have to pull the trigger on someone and it might be a guy like Ryan Mallett. I'm not saying draft at all costs regardless of who's on the board, but waiting is only an option for me if you either don't rate Mallett or if a player suffers an unexpected drop.
There is no guarantee that Barkley is coming out next year. People assumed last year that Andrew Luck was coming out this year and guess what? Even as the clear cut favorite #1 pick, he still went back.
If anything, Barkley is MORE likely to return because his 4th year is the year that the bowl bans are lifted. After Luck, the depth next year in the QB position is weak.
Next year? The Seahawks are not in a position to be choosing their first round pick based on how he will contribute next season. Not even close.
schnrb02 says:
I do not think the Seahawks will take a shot at a QB with the 25th pick. So if they cannot trade up for Newton, Gabbert, or Locker then maybe they could trade the pick for early picks in rounds 2 and 3. Then maybe they could select Christian Ponder (QB Flordia St) in round 2 and maybe Jurrell Casey (DT USC) in round 3 if everything goes right. I'm not looking into this to much, just a thought for the upcoming draft. Go Hawks!
I will be surprised if Ponder is taken in round two.
I like Mallett a lot. The complaints against him are ephemeral, but his positives are all measurable, with a demonstrated track record as added evidence. I also like Locker enough to take him as some mock drafts suggest. The problem is that I see all of the big 4 gone by pick 20. Long gone. Mocks are one thing, front office needs another. Who wants to be the guy who passes on a Pro Bowler when you have a hole at QB? All of the big 4 have that potential.
So given that, do you wait to the late second to see if Kaepernick is there, or jump on him in the first? In the second you could grab Dalton, who I think has a lot of upside. And Enderle or Stanzi are reasonable in the fourth, and offer more potential than many give them credit for. There is a LOT of depth in this class. The question we can't answer is who the Hawks front office likes the most, what their board says.
Rob, I like your site a lot. I have to note that when you post on .net you can be a real jerk, and most of your comments are wasted on me, but when you get to run your own show a different side of you comes out. Well done.
Thanks for the kind words about the blog Kyle. I welcome honesty so I am sorry you feel that in other cases I have been a jerk, obviously that was not my intention.
It may be due to the nature of the .net message board, where there's not a lot of space and so comments may be misunderstood. I apologize if I was overly blunt here. Thanks again.
There is no question that a non-top 10 QB will have at least one serious flaw. (Many top 10 QB's do as well.) The question for me is "what kind of red flag should make us pass on a prospect, and what kind of red flag is an acceptable risk?"
If it's true that Ryan Mallet does cocaine, drinks and drives, "aggressively" pursues women, and is more interested in partying than working on his development as a QB, does that override his potential as a QB at the NFL level? Is it worth drafting someone who will very possibly turn out to be the next Ryan Leaf over someone else at another position who will likely be more productive?
On the flip side of the coin, does the fact that Jake Locker appears to have insufficient accuracy for a starting NFL QB outweigh the attraction of his personal character?
I think both Ryan Mallet and Jake Locker have bigger or more serious red flags than Drew Brees did in the year he was drafted in the second round. I would much rather draft someone whose red flag was "not tall enough" or "doesn't have good mechanics." But that's just me.
If I'm being honest, I also have to admit that a part of my distaste for drafting Mallet stems from the fact that I simply don't want to have to root for him. I can't imagine being a Steelers fan, for example, and having to choose between rooting for Ben Roethlisberger to win or for my favorite team to lose.
Jim Q. says:
I agree, if QB is the number one most important position, there is no doubt that the Seahawks MUST draft a good QB prospect sooner rather than later, so why wait is an excellent question. I don't think there is much QB help by trade or FA as many that could be available are available because they are not worth signing, are near the end of their careers or they are average to sub-par players and/or they cost too much in trade and/or money.
I think a lot of people are of the opinion (rightfully so) that the Seahawks need to draft OL, DL, DB, etc., and they do, however they do have more than just a first round draft pick to accomplish that so why not get the number one most important need and then subsequently pick BPA for the other needs and perhaps fill a hole or two through free agency? Sounds like a plan to me, but what are JS/PC thinking?
Guess we'll find out before long……………
Jim Kelly says:
As for the importance of drafting positions, I think the following is the blueprint for their order:
This year I think the Seahawks should draft in this order of importance:
I always feel that running back and linebacker should be drafted for depth and special teams. Even though the Hawks need receiver help, rookie receivers hardly ever produce, and you're just as likely to find a star receiver in the later rounds as in the first round (And as much as it pains a former receiver to say this, the position is more an accessory, than a requirement for success.). Special teams performers can be found late in the draft, or as undrafted free agents.
I didn't include quarterbacks because qbs are wild cards. They are the most important position in sports, hands down. (Pele was the greatest soccer player ever, and he had only two championships. Michael Jordan never won a championship until he had at least two other all-stars on the Bulls. Felix Hernandez didn't win the World Series last year with the M's. Wayne Gretzky never won a Stanley Cup without Mark Messier.) If you get a chance to draft a franchise qb, or even an upgrade at qb, you should do it. With the introduction of the T formation, the qb became more important than any other position. With the exception of the center, no one touches the ball as much as the qb. The most important aspect of the qb isn't that he gets so many touches, but that he directs where the ball goes. That puts the onus of drafting a qb in a different category of importance.
Rob, I like how you change your mocks. If you did minor tweaks, then they'd be boring, and we'd probably not visit your site as often. But because you change it, I keep thinking how those change would affect the Hawks in the upcoming season, and the future. Good job, thanks, and have fun.