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The Sun finds drink-driving 'amusing'
Is driving over the speed limit a lark? Government figures tells us that in 2013, "3,064 people were killed or seriously injured in crashes where speed was a factor". Adding: "The risk of death is approximately four times higher when a pedestrian is hit at 40mph than at 30mph."
So here's the Sun to deliver: "SPEED DEMONS – Footballers speeding: Mario Balotelli, Roberto Firmino and Yaya Toure are just some of the names caught by cops for driving offences."
The sorry feature begins: "If you've got a fast car, you're always going to want to test the brakes, right?" No. Wrong.
In the recent aftermath of Lee Catermole getting a driving ban for accumulating too many points on his license, join SunSport in sharing other offenders.
License? In the UK, it's a driving licence. You are licensed to dive. But the Sun isn't listening. "[Nathan] Redmond was officially clocked at driving 71mph in his £80,000 Range Rover and given a £1,000 fine," we're told. "However, he escaped with six points in his license and his license wasn't suspended." Anyone else remember when the Sun was the apogee of the sub-editor's craft?
But that's not the worst of it. The Sun adds:
Amusingly enough, some of these lads aren't best known for their pace on the pitch…
Drink-driving kills – but it an be "amusing"
"Amusing"?
Speeding is amusing? Driving over the speed limit is funny? What about drink-driving? Is that good for a joke? The Sun notes:
Talk about being made an example of.
The Man City midfield stroller/player was handed the biggest driving fine ever – £54,000 – for drink driving in 2016.
You can't blame Facebook for everything wrong in journalism. Dire. Truly dire stuff from the Sun.
Posted: 12th, April 2018 | In: Sports, Tabloids | Comment
George Michael impostor linked to singer's death
The London Evening Standard freesheet has illustrated a story on the "disease that killed George Michael". It's done so with a picture of someone who is not George Michael (25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016 ). That's a look-alike, who might well be alive.
Not George Michael
Still not George Michael
George Michael's death has been attributed to heart and liver disease. He had dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver. The coroner told us:
"Inquiries into the death of George Michael have been concluded and the final post-mortem report received.
"As there is a confirmed natural cause of death, being dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver, the investigation is being discontinued and there is no need for an inquest or any further enquiries.
"No further updates will be provided and the family requests the media and public respect their privacy."
Illustrating a story with a celebrity is nothing new – but it's a good idea to correctly identify the dead star you're using to fuel the feature. The Standard says "260,000 people in the UK" suffer from dilated cardiomyopathy. Let's hope their doctors are better at identifying them than the Standard is at spotting one victim.
Posted: 12th, April 2018 | In: Celebrities, News, Tabloids | Comment
Transfer balls: Liverpool and the Moses Simon rumour
The BBC gossip page continues to be a haven for fake news and transfer balls. Today the BBC tells us: "Liverpool are considering a move for Gent's £13m-rated Moses Simon, 22, with Newcastle and Brighton also interested in the Nigeria winger." Who is Mosses Simon? And why would Liverpool want him?
The source for the Beeb's story is "HLN – in Dutch". I don't speak Dutch – not even as badly as him – so this is the story put though the Google Translate mincer:
Newcastle is interested in Simon
Newcastle has Moses Simon on his wish list. The 'Magpies' sent scouts to Nigeria-Serbia, but in that game Simon only started after 77 minutes. On Sunday, Newcastle was present at the Astridpark, where Simon impressed for the rest. Newcastle seems to be cut to size for the 22-year-old Nigerian winger, who last week in an interview with this newspaper said he wants to go to a Premier League club where he is more or less certain that he will play. Simon is aware of the interest. AA Gent is prepared to work on a transfer this summer "at the right price". (RN / NP)
Mentions of Liverpool: none.
Undeterred by the nonsense, the Mirror repeats the story:
Liverpool are said to be considering a move for Nigerian star Moses Simon.
Who says?
Simon is thought to be on the radar of Newcastle and Brighton but Liverpool have now entered the running. Belgian outlet Het Laatste Nieuws claim the Premier League trio are all monitoring the winger, who could make Nigeria's World Cup squad.
Simon is likely to cost around £13million, should he move on.
Nope. The Mirror links to the story on HLN – the same story we can see above. HLN makes no such claim.
But here it is again in the Sun. The paper's source? The same HLN article that makes no mention of Liverpool.
And the nonsense spins and spins. Website HITC notes:
Why Moses Simon would benefit from choosing Newcastle over Liverpool
He's wanted by Liverpool? Says who?
Although, after claims made by the Sun, this could happen anyway. Because it is understood that Liverpool are also very interested in a player who could provide a test of Mike Ashley's ambition due to his £13 million price-tag.
A link directs readers to the Sun's article – the one based on the non-existent story on HLN.
And here's the same balls on ESPN:
On ESPN
And apart from the bit about the report on Het Laatste Niews linking Moses to Liverpool, it's all true.
And here's the same balls on teamTalk:
And website The Sport Review adds:
Belgian outfit Het Laatste Nieuws, as quoted by the Daily Mirror, is reporting that Liverpool FC are one of a number of Premier League clubs interested in Simon.
But HLN never said anything about Moses Simon joining Liverpool. The Mirror's story is bogus.
But never minds the facts – get a load of the clicks.
Posted: 5th, April 2018 | In: Back pages, Key Posts, News, Tabloids | Comment
Raheem Sterling v The Sun: Manchester City and England star attacked
Manchester City and England forward Raheem Sterling is "obscene". Well, so the Sun told us. The same paper wants us to know: "RAHEEM STERLING has urged England fans to 'give love' and cut out the negativity." England fans, like, the Sun?
The plea for unity continues: "The Manchester City star was battered by Three Lions fans at Euro 2016 – there was even an internet hate campaign to bring him home early from the tournament." And it wasn't just on the Internet where the former Liverpool player was getting attacked.
To the Sun, Raheem Sterling was a"hate figure". The paper went studs up on the young athlete. "England failure steps off plane and insults fans by showing off blinging house," thundered the paper." Leave House & Garden and Hello! stuff for the newspaper editors end media barons, Sterling. Know thy place! And unnamed "source" opined: "Any normal person would hang their heads in shame after how they performed in France but these guys come home and show off about how rich they are." He's abnormal.
A "friend of Sterling" told the MEN newspaper:
"Raheem and his family are really upset that the fact he's bought a nice house for his mum is being used to hammer him by the media and make him the scapegoat for England's failure… He bought her the house as a thank you for all her support and help. Now to have his mum's private life and house being mocked and thrown into the public spotlight has left him furious and frustrated."
Law-abiding, tough, resilient, hard-working, talented athlete buys mum hard times who knew house. The basta…
And it got worse. Much worse. In 2016, the Sun – yep – told readers:
FOOTIE DRUG DEALER Semi-professional footballer turned to drug dealing so he could match the salaries of Prem stars
Which Premier League star do you think the Sun used to illustrate the story of an idiot, who lives in Bristol? We'll give you a clue: the player is not mentioned once in the story. Yep, it's Raheem Sterling.
Spot the obscenity
What is it about Raheem Sterling that annoys them so?
Here's what Sterling told BBC Radio 5 Live:
"I feel sometimes there is too much negativity. I'd love to hear some positive notes coming in, just to let the boys know everyone is behind them. Make the boys go off to the World Cup with a clear head knowing everyone is behind them and, trust me, you would see a better England. If we get behind those players, give them love, you wouldn't know how much that would boost their confidence. It's disappointing when you put on a shirt and get negative feedback but it's what the fans want — to see you perform well."
He's right.
Posted: 3rd, April 2018 | In: Back pages, Key Posts, Manchester City, News, Sports, Tabloids | Comment
Madeleine McCann: 600 wells of 'could' 'may' and 'belief'
Madeleine McCann news on the Daily Star's front page. The paper's lead news story is – get this – "TOP BRIT COP: WE MAY NEVER FIND MADDIE."
The "Top Brit cop" is "tough-talking detective Colin Sutton"? Who? And can a man who says something "may" not happen be accused of talking tough? The"we" part of the headline surely means all of us, the millions who have followed the story of the missing child ever since she vanished in My 2007.
Undaunted by the palpable lack of fact, the Star continues to tell readers on page 7 that Sutton "rejected the opportunity to head the Madeleine McCann inquiry" and "believes finding her her could be 'almost impossible'". Can you believe something that might not be possible; or can you disbelieve something that might be impossible?
Posted: 3rd, April 2018 | In: Madeleine McCann, News, Tabloids | Comment
Ant McPartlin drops into the therapy trap
At what point did a private man in a private vehicle involved in a collision in south-west London become a "scandal"? Ant McPartlin was driving when his vehicle collided with two other cars. He's ok. His mother was in the passenger seat. No, not Meghan Markle in a state of undress. His mum Christine. She's alright, too. A family of three and two work colleagues travelling in one of the other vehicles involved in the prang are also ok. None were hospitalised, although Shilpa Dandekar did suffer a cut lip, and her husband, Faheem says the whole thing has been a "nightmare".
Ant was carted off to the police station to help police with their enquiries. There are allegations that he failed a roadside breath test, and he has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving.
But in what way is any of that a "scandal", as the Daily Star calls it on its front page? Is there public outrage at Ant's accident? Surely not. If there is, well, get a grip. Ant's back in rehab, where, according to the Sun, he will spend "months". Maybe if it's scandal were looking for we should gawk less at Ant McPartlin and more at the therapy industry, which operates behind a soft-hinged revolving door. Does anyone ever graduate from pricey therapy suites, or is it all designed to keep you coming back for more, replacing the patient's initial obsession with one that keeps medics in jobs and business booming for whoever makes monogrammed towelling gowns and slippers?
Posted: 20th, March 2018 | In: Celebrities, News, Tabloids | Comment
Manchester United are not getting rid of 10 players this summer
Fancy making a guess at how many players are heading out of Manchester United this summer? The BBC says it's '10'. the source for the Beeb's news of this mass exodus of talent is the ever-trusty Daily Express. The Express, of course, is riding high on the back of its scoop that this winter would feature cold weather and snow. Sure enough, the UK was gipped by the 'Beast from the East'. Yes, the paper forecasts bad weather on its front page around twice a week but this time it was right. It might well be right again – Madeleine McCann will be found; dementia will be cured with rhubarb; the summer will bring a heatwave; and ten footballers will leave Old Trafford at the end of the season.
The Express lists the players heading to the exit: Luke Shaw, Juan Mata, Ander Herrera, Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Daley Blind, Matteo Darmian, Marouane Fellaini, Michael Carrick and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. It then tells us that the ten will be replaced with just five: Gareth Bale, Toby Alderweireld, Danny Rose, Willian and Fred. Will that happen? Reason says no. But we did have that snow…
Of course, in the clickbait world of online journalism, pretty much any claim, however outlandish, can be countered by another outlandish claim, So here's the Metro to tell us that Fred has already agreed to join Manchester City:
And if you don't believe the Metro, well, you know who else told us Fred is on his way to City? Yep. The Express:
Daily Express, Feb 9 1018
The Express offers no source for its story of ten players leaving United. But over in the Sun, we read: "Manchester United reportedly set for summer clear out with Luke Shaw, Ander Herrera, Chris Smalling and Anthony Martial among NINE facing axe'". The Sun does cite a source: the Daily Mail. And it reports:
Luke Shaw may as well start planning a joint leaving-do with Matteo Darmian and Daley Blind this summer…
Ander Herrera, Anthony Martial, Juan Mata and Chris Smalling are among those who cannot guarantee they will be at Old Trafford beyond this summer, when United will also have to replace Marouane Fellaini and Michael Carrick.
And from that the Express got its scoop of ten players leaving Manchester United.
Now… anyone know if it's going to be sunny this July?
Posted: 19th, March 2018 | In: Back pages, manchester united, News, Sports, Tabloids | Comment
Biased media won't save Ant McPartlin from drink-drive shame
The Press has been very much on the side of Ant McPartlin, 42, "getting over an addiction to painkillers following knee surgery"; separated from his wife Lisa, to whom he is prepared to give half of "his fortune"; his condition connived into a campaign we all can take heart from, turning McPartlin from a man who deserves a private life into a role model; his plight told in his own words; a "source" assuring Sun readers that divorce would be "the right thing for his health." This is "freakishly clean" Ant who in 2013 admitted to having taken drugs. Good old, Ant, then. But things have changed. Ant has been nicked for alleged drink driving.
McPartlin was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving when his car was involved in an accident in Richmond yesterday afternoon, not far from his London home. He allegedly failed a breathalyser test at the scene. He was taken into police custody at a South London police station.
Worse still: the Mini his Mini collided into was carrying a couple and a three-year-old girl. McPartlin was in the car with his mother, Christine.
Sympathy for Ant will be in shorter supply. But not yet. Old habits die hard. In the Press, the same old tired reporting holds sway. The Mail notes:
The divorce from his wife of 11 years is believed to be costing the star around £30 million of his estimated £60 million fortune.
His fortune. Not 'their' fortune.
And in the Sun:
After his rehab stint, which was revealed by The Sun On Sunday, Ant announced he was divorcing wife Lisa, 41, after 11 years of marriage. Legal experts say it could cost him £30million.
Let's see how long this episode can be spun for?
Posted: 19th, March 2018 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, News, Tabloids | Comment
Vladimir Putin: Daily Star says Russian leader will pop round your house to help out
Vladimir Putin isn't a bad bloke. Yes, he's the boss of a gangster state and his regime is implicated in a chemical attack on Salisbury. But those hankering for a return to the Cold War should read the Daily Star, whereon there is news to warm the very cockles our souls: "PUTIN: I'LL TURN OFF YOUR GAS."
"And while I'm at it, I'll put the bins out, air the upstairs and give the kitchen surfaces a once over" – Vlad
Good old, Vlad. He's really tidied up the Crimea.
Posted: 16th, March 2018 | In: Tabloids | Comment
Liverpool balls: no comment from United Nations On Carragher spit – yet
The Daily Mirror leads with a photo of former Liverpool player Jamie Carragher gobbing at a 14-year -old Manchester United fan. And it will not rest until every molecule of water in Carragher's spit has earned its own headline on the paper's clickbait-heavy website. There are 1.674 x 1021 molecules of water in a drop of water. That's a lot. But the Mirror has embarked on its mission with gusto.
There is no word on the incident – yet – from the UN, the Pope, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Prince William and other great moralisers on how Carragher's flob epitomises the great societal ills at the heart of football, the working-class people who still follow the game and society. But when they do comment, the Mirror will top and tail the words into sensation.
The following news stories have been broken on the Mirror's website:
Sky Sports to hold talks with Jamie Carragher after Liverpool legend's "unacceptable behaviour" in spit storm
"Inexcusable!" – Liverpool fans condemn Jamie Carragher after Reds legend caught up in spitting storm
"Vile and disgusting" Jamie Carragher's previous comments about spitting come back to haunt him after incident with Man United fan
Spit row pundit Jamie Carragher needs to learn that with great privilege comes great responsibility, says Alison Phillips
Lorraine Kelly slams 'horrible' Jamie Carragher after he was filmed spitting at 14-year-old football fan: "It's not acceptable"
Jamie Carragher breaks cover for first time since spit storm as he prepares for showdown talks with Sky Sports
"Filth!" Vinnie Jones wants Jamie Carragher sacked and reveals what he'd have done if he spat at his daughter
"I didn't see her": Jamie Carragher claims girl was out of sight after he was filmed spitting at 14-year-old and her dad
Jamie Carragher backed by former Liverpool team-mate after spitting at Manchester United fan and young daughter
"You couldn't make it up!" Football fans take aim at Joey Barton as he hits out at Jamie Carragher for spitting at fan
Danny Murphy reveals conversation with Jamie Carragher following Liverpool legend's spitting storm
Richard Keys reacts to Jamie Carragher spit storm after former Sky Sports anchor was sacked for sexist remarks
Jamie Carragher arrives in London ahead of Sky Sports showdown talks after spitting at fan and 14-year-old daughter
Big debate: Who should replace Jamie Carragher as MNF pundit if he gets the boot after his spitting shame?
Jamie Carragher is removed from first TV pundit role after spitting at Manchester United fan and 14-year-old daughter
Billy Joe Saunders blasts Jamie Carragher for spit shame, branding former Liverpool star a "sick w*****"
Jamie Carragher fans trying to justify his spitting are the worst sort of football supporters – you can't excuse the inexcusable
Gary Neville backs Sky Sports colleague Jamie Carragher after spitting shame and insists it "shouldn't stop us working together"
Jamie Carragher forced to watch moment he spat at football fan and 14-year-old girl during Sky interview
Jamie Carragher suspended by Sky Sports after spitting at football fan and 14-year-old daughter
Manchester United fans make brilliant Michael Carrick suggestion as Jamie Carragher is suspended by Sky Sports
Jamie Carragher apology: Full transcript as Sky Sports pundit admits 'disgust' with himself over spit shame
Why Sky Sports have cut Monday Night Football by half an hour after Jamie Carragher spit storm
Monday Night Football without Jamie Carragher – live updates as Sky Sports suspend pundit following spitting video
Police to quiz father of Jamie Carragher spitting victim because he filmed football pundit while driving
Sky Sports presenter Dave Jones' cheeky last remark as MNF FINALLY reference Jamie Carragher spit storm
Gary Lineker's Jamie Carragher tweet sparks row with Sky Sports' Geoff Shreeves
Body language expert analyses Jamie Carragher's live TV apology following spit shame
Jamie Carragher spits at football fan and his 14-year-old daughter in shocking video following Liverpool's defeat to Manchester United
Jamie Carragher's former Liverpool teammate hints at personal turmoil behind spitting shame
John Arne Riise urges people to "move on" following Jamie Carragher's spit shame
Spotter: Football 365
Posted: 13th, March 2018 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Sports, Tabloids | Comment
Arsenal balls: Lacazette's talking knee changes time
With Trinity Mirror's purchase of the Daily Express and Daily Star, football fans who get their news online can expect a tag-team movement of total balls. All titles use their websites as clickbait farms. The latest tosh involves Arsenal's Alexandre Lacazette, who has, says the Mirror, "given an update on his recovery from a knee injury".
In its dash for clicks, the Mirror tells readers approaching via Google's bots that Lacazette is bidding "for a quick recovery" (as opposed to hoping for a slow recovery and lots of sick pay and daytime telly?), illustrating the teaser with a photo of Arsenal's Hector Bellerin and, er, Robbie Lyle, presenter of the entertaining Arsenal Fan TV
Clicking into the story and readers are told Lacazette will be sidelined for "up to five weeks". Arsene Wenger's words to BeIn Sports that Lacazette could be out for "four or five weeks" are repeated. There's no word on any "quick recovery". That much is utter balls.
And then this spot some time illiteracy:
A return date on the pitch could occur against either West Ham on April 21 or Manchester United on April 28 with a return to first team training likely to begin at the start of April.
Lacazette underwent surgery on February 12. Four or five weeks after that take us up to mid March. Even if you add on a few days from the operation until Wenger spoke, Lacazette still looks likely to return well before April.
But having spun a nonsense story from a single photo of Lacazette's poorly knee as he work out in the Arsenal gym – one taken by the player and posted to his Instagram page – the Mirror's clickbait expert needs to hit his word count. So we get this:
Until Lacazette's return, Wenger will put his faith in Aubameyang, though the Gabon striker is unable to help in their quest to win the Europa League. Despite overcoming Ostersund 3-0 in the first leg of the round of 32 tie, a probable last 16 tie will occur on March 8 and 13, with a potential quarter-final on April 5 and 12.
That means Arsenal's most probable route back into the Champions League will rest on Danny Welbeck's form.
No. It won't because Arsenal are not a one-man team and Lacazettte will be back in March. In addition, the last 16 ties will be played on March 8 and 15. March 12 is a Monday. Europa League ties are played on Thursdays.
Apart from the story being factually inaccurate and based on total balls, it is spot on.
PS: But there is good news. Cop a load of the ads that wrapped around the balls. We counted – get this – 23 ads on this one story.
It's almost as if the words are just a trick to make you see lots and lots and lots of ads…
Posted: 21st, February 2018 | In: Arsenal, Key Posts, News, Sports, Tabloids | Comment
Private Cheryl Cole world to keep the limelight as Liam Payne goes solo again
Like you, everyone else thought Cheryl Cole / Surname and former One Direction extra Liam Payne would spend the next decades together in Instagramed bliss. But, then, we also thought "the nation's sweetheart" (Cheryl – source: all papers) would hang on in their with her first two husbands.
It turns out that Cheryl and Liam are not getting on well. The pair are "preparing to end their relationship", in much the same way as mere mortals prepare to end a bath or log off twitter. You know how it is: you pull the plug, see the water circling life's plughole, call your agent and announce that "crisis talks" with the rubber duck might not work.
A few unnamed "friends" helpfully call the Sun to say that Cheryl is "very private" – see photos of her arse and marriage in OK! – that she is an "amazing" mother to the couple's child, Bear, has been "left holding the baby", how she will "battle" on, and open Cheryl's Trust Centre, a place where "vulnerable young people" can feel her unique brand of love.
No word yet on who gets to keep the paparazzi.
Posted: 19th, February 2018 | In: Celebrities, News, Tabloids | Comment
Brendan Cox is publicly shamed
Who sets the news agenda that makes Israel the top story, China only newsworthy when our politicians are there for business and the allegation that Brendan Cox sexually harassed two women, a claim he denies, the lead issue on Sky and the BBC? Sky News led with Cox this morning on the telly, and the story is the second most vital on the BBC 's website, there after reaction to mass murder at a Florida school. And not that Cox (and, no, it's not nominative determinism; he denies it) is the main thrust of his own story. The Beeb's headline is: "Murdered MP's widower Brendan Cox quits charities."
The Telegraph pads it out, telling readers that Cox has quit two charities "set up in her memory after sexual assault allegations from his past resurfaced".
Brendan Cox denied sexually harassing two women while he was married to the late politician, but accepted "inappropriate" behaviour, saying: "I made mistakes and behaved in a way that caused some women hurt and offence."
Offence causing is a crime?
He has left posts at More in Common and the Jo Cox Foundation after the Mail on Sunday published accusations made by a former colleague while they both worked at charity Save the Children in 2015.
The Guardian hears from Jo Cox's sister Kim Leadbeater, who says the family would "support Brendan as he endeavours to do the right thing by admitting mistakes he may have made in the past". Mistakes he may have committed have been admitted to? Eh?
Well, it looks like they've had time to work it out because the Mail first reported the allegations in November 2015. Cox called them "untrue":
Are they any more or less untrue now they've been repeated?
Labour MPs Yvette Cooper thinks some sort of justice has been served. "Hopefully we are seeing a change in climate and culture where people are recognising that those in positions of power should not abuse [those] positions," Cooper told the Sky News programme Sunday with Niall Paterson.
And Labour MP Jess Phillips added – does she do anything other than talk to media? – "The fact of the matter is that it's not enough just to say 'oh, I'm sorry'. You have to show how you're going to change the way you are in the future and I think Brendan, more so than many I've seen in this area, is actually trying to do that."
One error and you need rewiring. How fair we are.
Public shaming of anyone who's behaved "inappropriately" is a sad ambition. What happened to the rule of law and the right to defend yourself? When did the British wing of Saudi Arabia's Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice start wathing us?
Posted: 18th, February 2018 | In: News, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment
Lisa Armstrong prepared to part with her half her fortune to get shot of Ant McPartlin
When Ant McPartlin's lawyers thrash out any divorce settlement with his estranged wife Lisa Armstrong, they may refer to the Sun's reporting on the family fortune.
In today's paper the news is that Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon have been "comforting" Lisa and offering "real support". That news of their good hearts should emerge just as Britain's Got Talent, the show on which the pair work as judges hits the PR circuit, is surely coincidental and not opportunistic tosh pulled from cynicism's deepest mine.
Of more interest is that Sun's news that Ant is "prepared to part with half his £62m fortune". You might suppose that money accrued by childhood sweethearts who've ben married for 11 years would belong to both of them. The message could be: "Lisa is prepared to part with half her fortune"?
And it's not £62m. Well, not according to the, er, Sun it isn't.
One thing is clear: in the tabloids the money is always his and not hers.
Posted: 16th, February 2018 | In: Celebrities, Money, News, Tabloids | Comment
The Sun teaches football fans how to look like fools
The Sun's website continues to break new ground. A series of articles by By Shiela Subyr teachers readers how to look like a young multi-millionaire seeking new ways to spunk his cash.
The other day, Neymar, the PSG star, "paired his snakeskin biker jacket with skintight leather trousers complete with racy lace-up sides." Shiela tells readers where they can how much for get the look and how much for in the paper's 'Sports' section.
An there's more. Lots more. And when Sheila's gone through the wardrobe's of player who look like extras from Rich Kids of Instagram, she'll doubtless work down the leagues until we find out what Barnet's substitute 'keeper is wearing.
In other sports news: Arsene Wenger's jacket unzips.
Posted: 14th, February 2018 | In: Fashion, Sports, Tabloids | Comment
VIP paedophile spotter Nick arrested by police that once believed him
Nick in the Sun – front-page news
The man known only as "Nick", on whose word police investigated an alleged VIP peadophile sex ring and trawled for 'victims', faces multiple charges relating to the possession of indecent images of children. Nick said powerful child rapists were responsible for murdering three children. He pointed the finger at the entirely innocent Tory politicians Sir Ted Heath, Leon Brittan and Harvey Proctor, and former top soldier Lord Brammel.
The Metropolitan Police launched Operation Midland in 2014, describing Nick's allegations as "credible and true". The accused declared their innocence. Police never found a shred of evidence to support Nick's claims. The Met paid out compensation. The investigation, which cost around £2..5m, was closed.
Reporting on this is varied. The Mirror buries the story of Nick's impending trial on page 4. Once Nick was the Mirror papers' biggest story:
The Sun splashes the story on its front page and on page 5 lambasts the police.
Bashing the police in the Sun
Over in the Mail, politics is to the fore.
It's of less interest why 'Nick' told his story than it is why his story was believed and became front-page news?
Posted: 8th, February 2018 | In: News, Tabloids | Comment
Jon Venables may never get out of prison
Jon Venables is back in prison. Venables, infamous for being the child who murdered a child, has been jailed for 40 months for possessing pornographic images of children and what the trial judge called with no little tautology, a "sickening" paedophile manual. The "Jazz Guide" as it was labelled on a laptop Venables kept hidden behind the headboard at his West Midlands home, showed what Mr Justice Edis called "vile" advice on how to rape children.
The Star says Edis thought the evidence show Venables was "at least contemplating carrying out sex attacks on children". It's worth looking at everything the judge said in summary. It might even be worth repeating what Venables told police as he was being driven to a police station: "This is my own fault. I've let people down. I've had stupid urges, inquisitive. I'm not going to be seeing this for a lot of years. It won't be slap on the wrist for me." He also claimed too having "no desire to have physical contact with children in real life."
Is downloading images from the 'dark web", the same as seeing images in a book and storing them in your head? And has Venables, as the Sun declares on its front page and once again in page 5, "GOT AWAY WITH IT"? And there's Denise Fergus and Ralph Bulger, the parents of James Bulger, the two-year-old Venables and his friend Robert Thompson murdered. Mr Bulger calls the sentence "an insult". He wants Venables' new identity made known. "Unmask the monster," says the Mail.
Here are the remarks – supplied by the Judicial Office – in full made by Mr Justice Edis at the Old Bailey as he sentenced Jon Venables.
The victim surcharge applies. I make a deprivation order for the laptop computer.
I make a sexual harm prevention order with the prohibitions set out in the order because those terms are necessary for protecting the public from sexual harm from you. That order will last indefinitely, that is to say until (if ever) the court discharges it.
You have been convicted of a sexual offence to which the Sexual Offences Act 2003 applies, and I certify that fact. You will therefore be subject to the notification requirements of that Act for an indefinite period.
The offences of which you have been convicted are such that you may be barred under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. Jon Venables, you have pleaded guilty at the first available opportunity to three counts of making indecent photographs of children contrary to s.1 of the Protection of Children Act 1978, counts 1-3 on the Indictment, and one offence of possession of a paedophile manual contrary to s. 69(1) of the Serious Crime Act 2015, count 4 on the Indictment. The relevant guideline suggests a sentence before plea discount of 12 months, or, after discount for the plea of guilty, eight months. The sentence I am about to impose will be much longer than that, but must remain proportionate to the offences with which I am dealing.
This case is unique because when you were 10 years old you took part in the brutal murder and torture of James Bulger. That was a crime which revolted a nation and which continues to do so, even after the 25 years which have passed since it happened. He was two-years old. The facts of what you did are notorious and there is no need for me to repeat them here. From all that I know about James' parents it is clear that you not only took his young life, but have also devastated theirs.
You received a life sentence for that crime, and after serving about eight years you were released subject to licence. That licence lasts for life, and there are conditions attached to it. Breach of the conditions means that you can be recalled to serve a further indefinite period of imprisonment under the terms of the life sentence. The commission of criminal offences while on licence is a breach of the licence and you have now been convicted on two occasions since your first release. This is the second of those convictions. In 2010 you were convicted for the first time of similar offences to those which are before me, and received a sentence of two years' imprisonment. Although entitled to release after half of that sentence, 12 months, you were detained until 2013 under the terms of the original life sentence. The immediate effect of the licence today is that you will not get credit for the time spent in custody awaiting today, and, more importantly, that there is no guarantee that you will be released when you have served the sentence I shall pass shortly.
The Parole Board is the body which has responsibility for deciding when you will actually be released in this case. What I have to decide is what punishment is appropriate for these offences. In that respect I am required to follow a guideline unless it would be contrary to the interests of justice to do so. Because the legal language of the offences has a technical meaning I wish to explain exactly what you have been convicted of.
You have pleaded guilty to 'making' the images listed in counts 1-3. This means that you downloaded them from the internet for your own gratification. You did not yourself create the images and you were not present when someone else did that. You did not intend to distribute or sell them. The point about child pornography is that it involves films and images being made of very serious sexual offences being committed against defenceless children. It is heart breaking for any ordinary person to see this kind of material. The consumer of it, you, therefore does two things. First, he emerges as a threat to children from real harm caused by his own offences against them. A person with a perverted sexual interest in children plainly poses a higher risk than one without. Secondly, by being a consumer of this dreadful material he causes others to make it and thereby promotes the commission of very serious and damaging offences by others. These are the reasons why the offence is regarded so seriously.
There were 1170 images, and moving images were included. 392 were in category A which is the most serious class of image. These include multiple images and films of penetration of children and also some images where the young victim appears to be in physical pain. Some of them were babies. Given your history, it is significant that a number of the images and films were of serious crimes inflicted on male toddlers. You did this using a browser called 'TOR' which allows anonymous browsing on the internet and access to what is called the dark web. It was designed to enable you to obtain these images without being detected.
In addition, you had a paedophile manual, which you acquired in the same way. This is a vile document which gives detailed instructions on how to have sex with small children, as it puts it, 'safely'. The use of that word in that document reveals the cynical brutality of its author. This manual was created by someone with some detailed anatomical knowledge and is designed to encourage its readers to perpetrate the most serious sexual offences against very small children. It is a direct incitement to do this. Although the maximum sentence for this offence is far lower than the maximum penalty for the other three offences, it is, in my judgment, no less serious.
Offences contrary to s.1 of the Protection of Children Act 1978 are specified offences and the court should consider whether an extended sentence should be imposed. Is there a significant risk of serious harm to the public from the commission by you of further specified offences? I accept that downloading images for private viewing does not directly cause serious harm to the public.
The existence of a market for this kind of depravity undoubtedly causes serious offences to be committed by others against children so that the images can be created. This does cause children all over the world to be seriously harmed. That dreadful fact does not appear to trouble your conscience at all. As a consumer of the products of this barbarous evil, you, along with many others, indirectly cause it to happen. The commission of these offences and the possession of the manual suggest that you have a compulsive interest in serious sexual crime against small children. The possession of the manual also suggests that you were at least contemplating the possibility of moving on to what are called 'contact offences', that is actual sexual crime against children. This is against a background where you know the very substantial penalties you face if you are caught.
The incentive for you to live a quiet a law abiding life out of the public eye does not just come from penalties imposed by the criminal justice system, which is why there is an injunction in place to protect your life. You took a very great risk when you committed these offences and this suggests to me a compulsive desire which you could not control. You did this on a day when you were undergoing assessment in the contact of your life licence. This shows how manipulative and dishonest you are. There is no evidence that you have ever actually embarked on the commission of any contact offence. There is no evidence of grooming or, in this set of material, of you having been in contact with other men with a view to gaining access to children.
The pre-sentence report was prepared by someone who has had significant dealings with you. Its author concludes that you present a high risk of serious harm to children. It is agreed that the threshold for an extended sentence is met but submitted on both sides that the question is academic since the extended period of licence would add nothing to the powers which the Parole Board already has and will have for the rest of your life because of the life sentence.
I conclude that the risk you pose to the public is fully addressed by the fact that you are subject to a life sentence. That is a far more potent long term protection for the public than anything I can do today. I have read a pre-sentence report which contains information which, in conjunction with this conviction and sentence, will cause the Parole Board to examine the case when considering release with particular care. I have referred to the opinion of its author already, which will be part of the material on which any release decision will be made. Any evidence at all that you had turned your attention to any children in what I shall call 'the real world' would, of course, change this assessment and would probably also result in additional offences being charged with more extensive sentencing powers available.
The relevant guideline suggests a starting point of one year with a range going up to three years. However, the paedophile manual requires an uplift as do the previous convictions in 2010 for offending of this kind. It is a different kind of thing from the images and films because its purpose is to inspire actual offending. It is probably not designed to excite or to achieve sexual gratification simply by being looked at, but to give practical advice. It is extremely important that possession of this kind of thing should be clearly punished and I consider that a consecutive term is required.
Further, there are aggravating features as identified in the guideline. The offences were committed whilst on licence and in breach of a number of the terms of that licence. For the reasons I have stated already, this is a particularly serious aggravating feature in this case. Your breach of licence was manipulative, persistent and dishonest as well as seriously criminal in itself. The children depicted were often very young and vulnerable, there is discernible pain and distress suffered by some of the children depicted and the collection includes moving images.
The number of images is substantial, though much larger collections are routinely encountered in these cases. The proportion of category A images, almost exactly one third, suggests deliberate searching for and collection of this most repulsive material. In doing that, you accessed the dark web. For these reasons the sentence can properly be increased into the next category range within the guideline, which is usually reserved for offences involving distribution of images of this kind. This involves following the guideline by using its ranges, but by doing so flexibly when confronted with a wholly exceptional case such as this.
There is very limited mitigation apart from the plea for which you will receive full credit following the guideline. It is true that you were immediately candid with the police when arrested, but, as is common in this type of case, you did not have much choice. Your difficulties in living in the community are obvious, but you do not have the mitigation that you only offended on one day. Your offending went back some months and required ingenuity to keep it hidden. The offending is so serious that only an immediate custodial sentence will suffice. That sentence must be above the usual range in the guideline to which I have just referred for the reasons I have given. But for your pleas the total sentence would have been five years.
Giving you full credit of one third for those pleas as I am required to do, the sentence on you is as follows: Count 1: 32 months; Count 2: 2 years; Count 3: 18 months; Count 4: 8 months consecutive. This makes a total term of 40 months. At the half way point of this sentence you will be released from this sentence. Whether you will actually be released from prison at that point depends on what action is taken in relation to your life sentence.
There are many horrific crimes. But not of them were used by politicians and press for a cause.
A police medic did not punch a man in the face and head at London's Kurdish protest (video)
The police tell. They do not listen. They work to an agenda. Media should not be so monocular. It should exercise circumspection. The police make enough mistakes without any need to sensationalise the ordinary.
The Metro trails as story from a march in London by thousands of Kurds protesting against Turkey's military attack on the Kurdish city of Afrin in Syria. It's horrendous. Shame on the UK for not backing the Kurds.
This Metro's conjures the headline: "Police medic punches man in head at Kurdish rally." It is "shocking" says the paper of the moment a "Metropolitan Police medic repeatedly punches a man" in the head.
Only, he doesn't. The copper is hitting the man in the shoulder in what appears to be an attempt to get him to release his grip.
The minor incident was reported earlier in the Mail, which also needs a crash course in body parts:
Met police medic punches man in the head at Kurdish rally. Met police medic punches man in the head at Kurdish rally. A man wearing a Metropolitan police medic uniform has been filmed on top of another man who he punches repeatedly in the head as he lays on the road at a Kurdish protest rally in London.
The Mail adds: "The man tries to get up, without using much force but is pushed back down by the medic, who then punches him in the face four times". The Mail says that twice.
The face? No. That's a shoulder.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police says: "We are aware of a video posted on social media. We are in the process of establishing the circumstances of the incident. The Directorate of Professional Standards has been informed."
We're aware of it, too, and it'd be stupid to rush to judgement. No context is offered by the video. Just sensationalist reporting.
Meanwhile…in Afrin…
Posted: 7th, February 2018 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment
Referees confused over Liverpool v Spurs penalties prove VAR is rubbish
More reaction to Liverpool's 2-2 draw with Spurs. No VAR was used in the match, which featured two penalties for Spurs. It might have been three pens had the referee not spotted that Dele Alli dived. Liverpool were aggrieved by the decisions. Spurs were elated. Would VAR have helped? Well, that depends on which referee is sat in a sealed box reviewing the action on the telly.
NO pens says retired ref Mark Halsey in the Sun:
"HARRY KANE was in an offside position for the first penalty. Yes, the ball has come off Dejan Lovren before falling to Kane, but the Liverpool defender has tried to clear the ball knowing that Kane is behind him – and not knowing if the Spurs striker is offside or not. So Kane has clearly impacted on the Liverpool man, thus interfering with an opponent. The assistant should have flagged at this point so the Loris Karius foul is immaterial."
YES pens says former ref Graham Poll in the Mail: "Assistant Eddie Smart got Tottenham's penalty decisions spot-on… it topped a good afternoon for referee Jon Moss and his officials at Liverpool."
Well done Eddie Smart. The assistant got involved in both penalty decisions and he was right to do so. For the first penalty, he called for Jon Moss because Harry Kane was in an offside position and Smart could not be clear whether a Liverpool player had touched the ball before the Tottenham striker was fouled.
They discussed the situation and Moss decided that Dejan Lovren had played the ball, which meant Kane was onside before being taken down by Loris Karius…
And then Smart persuaded the referee, deep into stoppage time, to award the second penalty to Spurs.
To the naked eye it looked as if Erik Lamela had dived. People who had seen it numerous times on TV replays could not be sure, but Smart was. And he was right.
YES pens says former ref Dermot Gallagher on Sky:
"In the debrief after the game, they'll be told that they made the big, match-changing decisions correct on the day."
NO pens says ref Mark Clattenburg on the Times:First penalty
Pen 1. Was it offside?
This should not have been a penalty because it was offside….Second penalty
Pen 2.
This a tough decision. I believe that there is a suspicion of offside in the build up to the penalty. The ball is touched by Fernando Llorente and into Érik Lamela, who is fractionally offside in my opinion. As we have seen with VAR now, offside is a matter of fact and no benefit is given to the attacking team. Therefore, the penalty should not have been allowed. Once the offside is missed, It looks as though Virgil van Dijk goes to kick the ball and then tries to pull away his leg, but there is a still a bit of contact. It is a soft penalty, but not definitely a wrong call.
Clear as mud, then. Just the way we like it.
Posted: 5th, February 2018 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, Liverpool, Sports, Spurs, Tabloids | Comment
Why Sanchez gets kicked at Manchester United but not at Arsenal
Jamie Redknapp tells his Daily Mail readers that Alexis Sanchez "was born to play for Manchester United". After that kind of guff, you know you're in for a cavalcade of nonsense. And in "kicking little devil Sachez is the only way to stop him!" we get it in spades.
Sanchez is, you will recall, the player so good that he was let got by Barcelona, joining Arsenal, where he thrived, earning plaudits for his dynamism and skill. Now aged 29 and apparently reborn three matches into his new career at Man United, Redknapp is seeking signs of messianic homecoming.
Redknapp says Sanchez has been fouled "15 times" during his United career. That, we're told, is a foul every 17 minutes. "Against Huddersfield alone he was fouled seven times, the most for a single player in a Premier League game this season."
Or as the ,er, Daily Mail note in January:
Seven against Crystal Palace, four against West Brom, then three against Chelsea – Jack Wilshere knows how to draw a foul.
But never mind the facts because Redknapp has a to-deadline point to make, asking:
"Are opponents deliberately targeting the Premier League's best-paid player?"
No, not Wilshere. He's talking about Sanchez.
Figures have been updated, and Sanchez is now the PL's fourth most-fouled player (56 times fouled), one ahead of Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace; £60,00-a-week) and behind Watford's Richarlison (Watford; 1st place; £22,000-a-week), Dele Alli (2nd place: Spurs; £50,000-a-week); and Jordan Ayew (3rd place; Swansea City; £50,000-a-week).
Redknapp then gets tautological:
"Players are not going out to kick Sanchez because he earns £350,000 a week. It is simply because nobody can get near enough to get the ball off him!"
But they do get near him. You have to be very near a player to foul someone (unless you're Dele Alli).
And foul's only occur when Sanchez isn't being fairly dispossessed:
32 – Alexis Sanchez has lost possession of the ball more often today than any Manchester United player has in any Premier League game this season. Loose.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) February 3, 2018
Redknapp's not finished:
"It is no coincidence that Sanchez was fouled just four times in his last three games for Arsenal. His head was turned by the prospect of a move and he lacked the desire to get on the ball"
Arsenal's farewell performance came as a 66th minute substitute (Chelsea away). The two matches before that he played the full 90 minutes in each (West Brom away and Chelsea at home). Did he lack desire? Sky, which also employs Redknapp, says he was Arsenal's most vibrant and best player during the Chelsea game. The Mirror says Sanchez "looked dangerous" throughout when Arsenal took on West Brom.
Other highlights from Redknapp's insightful column: Arsenal need to "build a team who can deliver these wonderful performances every week." You think?
"Eddie Howe ticks every box" for "any owner" of a top 6 side looking for a manager. Although the boxes marked 'Big Cups Won" and "Availability" do look a little empty.
Posted: 5th, February 2018 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comments (4)
Queen did not shoot her seven dead swans for sport
Because every cause needs a celebrity (and every celebrity needs a cause – ed), the Sun brings news that seven of Her Majesty's swans are feared killed by bird flu. Until now we'd no face to put alongside the illness. Finding birds to front a campaign to combat bird flu and raise awareness was hampered by the lack of famous birds. Orville, Emu and Bernie Clifton's ostrich are either resting or no longer seen as big hitters. And Alan Partridge is a work of fiction. But we've now got the Queen's birds, albeit seven dead ones, to shock us into action.
"Everyone fears the worst," says a swan watcher, words which could pretty much be used whenever fear stalks. It's hard to fear the best. But "the Queen is upset" and this is no time for nitpicking, nor wondering how swans are mourned but not pheasants, which the Queen has been known to kill with her bare hands when shooting them in the face proves insufficient sport. " She is an animal lover," says a source, and not only because she loves eating and killing them for larks, "and if they have bird flu, it's horrible."
The only damper on all this is that the Sun says the Queen's swans are "mute swans". So it looks like avian flu must look further afield for a spokesperson…
Posted: 5th, February 2018 | In: News, Royal Family, Tabloids | Comment
Recasting mosque murderer Darren Osborne as a grooming victim
How do you report on Darren Osborne? Yesterday at Woolwich Crown Court, Osborne was convicted of the murder of Makram Ali, 51, and the attempted murder of other Muslims outside a mosque in Finsbury Park, north London.
The Mirror calls him a "racist thug". An "ex-schoolmate" calls him a "complete dick". A former lover calls Osborne a "pill-popping sponger" who was banned from Toys R Us for "trying to steal Lego". He stole from his "blinded great-grandad" and served a two-year prison sentence for assault. He's the Sun's "twisted loser" – a "maniac". Darren Osborne, folks, a life-long bastard.
The Sun says 4 weeks; the Star and Guardian says three.
But the Sun says he "turned into a hate-filled extremist in just four weeks". The Star declares "3 Weeks To Turn Into Racist Killer". The Times classifies Osborne as a "a white loner" who was "rapidly radicalised after accessing far-right material on the internet". No circumspection. One minute you're browsing for photos of cats, online banking and asking to see a schoolboy's fillings and when he opens his mouth to show you gobbing inside it (as Osborne reportedly did), the next you stumble across a website, get brainwashed by murderous loons and go on a killing spree. To see is to do, runs the mantra.
How long before Osborne is described as a victim because police "believe the catalyst for Osborne's descent into hate was watching a BBC drama about a sex abuse scandal involving Muslim men, a swell as viewing extremist inline content" (Guardian)? Was he, you know, groomed?
More descriptions of Osborne, 48, are forthcoming in the Times. He's "unemployed". He's an "alcoholic". Seeking background to those conditions might tell us more about the kind of man who deliberately drives a van into people minding their own business. But it's the "radicalisation" that excites the old media, the State and police most. You can't control a man as easily as you can control what a man sees and hears. So we read this:
Police said that Osborne, from Pentwyn, Cardiff, acted alone and was radicalised soon after joining Twitter and immersing himself in far-right material online. He took a particular interest in Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the English Defence League, and Jayda Fransen, the co-founder of Britain First.
Commander Dean Haydon, the head of Scotland Yard's counterterrorism command, said that the first trigger for Osborne was a BBC television drama about the child-grooming scandal in Rochdale.
He was triggered. Like a switch going off (or on), the narrative is that Osbourne was a normal, average, rational and reasoned individual, a man whose motto was 'Live and let live', who never had a racist thought, and who after watching one show on the telly embarked on a mission to murder Muslims. There but for the grace of god, go we, eh. That's hope the internet is trammelled, censored and controlled by those who know best so that we too are not damaged.
The Mail: the web and BBC dunnit
Mr Haydon goes on the record: "That [a BBC TV show on rape gangs ] was the catalyst for him having a hatred for the Muslim community. From thereafter he accessed extreme right-wing material. He then became obsessed with that material and that sent him into a further spiral of him wishing to carry out an attack." Haydon called Osbourne a "devious, vile and hate-filled individual". Well, he did murder one man and try to slaughter many more. He did pledge: "I'm going to kill all Muslims." Haydon's appraisal of the convicted murderer is pretty spot on, but not needed. We, like the jury that took less than an hour to convict him, can make up our minds without police guidance.
But the police are not only there to tell; they are also there to censor:
The Met will not disclose the details of Osborne's hate-filled interviews, or the full note that he left behind in the van that contained various slurs against Muslims, for fear of inciting more hate incidents.
From being an alcoholic loner, Osbourne is now an inspiration. He watched the telly to be become a killer; you only need to read a note to flip the switch. You're all that vulnerable (aka: thick and in need to State-led supervision).
Osborne was also said to have become angered after the string of Islamist attacks last year in London and Manchester.
So not just the telly show, then. There was more.
Two nights before the attack he told people at his local pub that he was "going to kill all Muslims" and said that he was going to take matters into his own hands. Callum Spence, a soldier, told the court: "I heard him saying: 'All our families are going to be Muslim. They are all going to be terrorists.' Things like that."
The ravings of a deranged and violent criminal, who was, as the Guardian notes, thrown out of a pub near his home in Cardiff for making racist comments". But Harun Khan, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, says Osbourne is a terrorist. "The scenes we witnessed last summer were the most violent manifestation of Islamophobia yet in our country," he says. "We cannot be complacent and regard this as a one-off terrorist incident."
But it was a one-off, a rare crime, thankfully.
Why can't Osbourne be like other terrorists who we're told operate as lone wolves, gurning loons who represent only their own grotesque disregard for life and freedom, and have no truck with a greater cause and movement?
Khalid Oumar, a trustee of the mosque and founder of the Finsbury Park Attack victims' voice forum, puts the case for trust in ourselves well: "The scars will stay with them for ever, but the community is determined to go about daily life without fear and to stand together against victimisation and violence." Right on. Let's not let this be all couched in dispiriting victimhood. We're better than that.
Note: Darren Osborne has been sentenced to a minimum term of 43 years in prison. He'll die there.
Posted: 2nd, February 2018 | In: Key Posts, News, Tabloids | Comment
Manchester United balls: Marouane Fellaini 'embarrassed' by injury and 'bizarre' Mourinho as Spurs get lucky
When Manchester United lost 2-0 at Spurs to an offside goal and an own-goal, Marouane Fellaini came on as a substitute only to be substituted after just seven minutes playing time. Why? Well, the obvious guess would be injury to the big Belgian. "He came off because he had something in his knee," Jose Mourinho told media after the match. "Unlucky for him and unlucky for me. He came on with enthusiasm, but he has an injury in his ligament."
But the media loves sensation. And Fellaini's knee is not newsy enough in the race of clicks.
"Fellaini appeared angry as he took off his shirt as he made his way to the bench," says the Mail beneath the headline: "Horror show for Mourinho as Eriksen scores after 11 SECONDS to spark easy victory for Spurs that blows top-four race wide open; From super sub to super snub! Fellaini hauled off just SEVEN MINUTES after being sent on to rescue United at Wembley."
The Sun has a dig at both "bizarre" Mourinho and Fellaini, who was "embarrassed " by getting injured:
Get well soon, Fellaini.
Posted: 1st, February 2018 | In: Back pages, manchester united, News, Sports, Spurs, Tabloids | Comment
Well-paid BBC women are not thick as mince Grid Girl women
Spot the differences between the "BBC women on the march" for equal pay and 'Grid Girls' women being told they can't work at Formula One events. Clue: age and class.
First up, the women who know what's best for themselves and all women. The women taking a stand for equal rights, more money, opportunity and the sisterhood:
The women told they don't know what's best for themselves and who don't know their own minds, being presumably too thick and infected by misogyny to earn an honest living of their choosing. Thankfully, more intelligent and higher ranking women are here to lend these losers a steer.
And then this, in which the female expert in all things female schools two grown women no longer working the darts circuit in the right and wrong way to dress, earn money and conduct themselves. (Neither group is from the 70s – that's the 1970s for the 'babes' and the 1870s for the bluestocking.)
Posted: 1st, February 2018 | In: Broadsheets, News, Sports, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
Transfer Balls: Arsenal sell Giroud to Chelsea for less than agreed price
Arsenal have yet to hand over the £60m it'll take for Borussia Dortmund forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to join them. The BBC says the move "hinges" on two other transfers: Aubameyang to Arsenal, Giroud to Chelsea and Batshuayi to Dortmund.
We're told Arsenal want £35, for Giroud, 31.
No they don't, says The Metro, which declares: "Chelsea agree to sign Olivier Giroud from Arsenal for £15m."
They have? No. Of course not. That's the dire Metro, which can't even get Giroud's age right:
Football365 then gets itself in a mess over what words mean. Can you "give" a man to another – slavery? – and get £15m in return?
The Daily Express is also confused. It's not "agreed" if it's in 'inverted commas'. But it is agreed if the story states: "Chelsea have agreed a deal with Arsenal to sign Oliver Giroud."
The source for every one of these scoops seems to be Gianlica Dimario. Who he and why is his word taken as fact? He says he's a "journalist registered with the Court of Milan". On his website, we read (through the wonder of Google Translate):
With Dzeko, Chelsea has identified a new target for the attack. This is Olivier Giroud , for whom the Blues have found an agreement with Arsenal on the basis of 15 million pounds plus bonuses. The negotiation will be defined as soon as Wenger's team will define every detail with Aubameyang and Borussia Dortmund will have found a substitute for Gabonese, which could be Batshuayi.
The utter balls is underlined by the Express, which on the same page as its report that Giroud to Chelsea for £15m is a done deal, declares this morning:
Giroud crunch talks
06.15: Chelsea are expected to re-open negotiations with Arsenal today regarding the sale Olivier Giroud, according to Sky Sports expert Guillem Balague.
Balague says that Chelsea had an initial offer of £20million turned down by the Gunners.
"I read Giroud could go to Chelsea for £15m but I believe #CFC last offer was £20m and was rejected by #AFC," Balague wrote on Twitter.
"No negotiations took place after that rejection.
"But tomorrow contacts could be renewed."
To recap: Giroud has joined Chelsea for £5m less than a bid Arsenal rejected?
Oh, and in the Sun we read that Chelsea are targeting Tottenham's Spanish striker Fernando Llorente, 32.
Fact: Giroud has not signed for Chelsea.
Posted: 30th, January 2018 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Chelsea, News, Sports, Spurs, Tabloids | Comment
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Helen Elbaum, an orthodox mother, moved the entire Israeli public with her speech in her son's gay wedding. Rabbi Binyamin (Benny) Lau, a famous orthodox rabbi, came to congratulate: "the idea that two people seek to enter into a marital union is, in my eyes, a rescue from death to life," he said.
Earlier this week, Haim Elbaum and Yair Strauss, an orthodox Jewish couple, got married. The emotional wedding of the two soon became a daily conversation in every home in Israel, mainly thanks to the speech delivered by Haim's mother that went viral on social media and reached the news.
Helen's speech shed a light on a different, much more accepting, attitude of people within the orthodox community towards LGBT people in general and LGBT couples in particular.
The respectable Rabbi Benny Lau attended Haim and Yair's wedding as well. He came straight from his vacation to congratulate the couple. In an interview with the orthodox Jewish website Kipa, Rabbi Lau explained why he attended the wedding.
Zehorit Sorek, a member of the orthodox LGBTQ community also attended the wedding.


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'A Day for Women' to be screened at Dubai International Film Festival - Daily News Egypt
Culture 'A Day for Women' to be screened at Dubai International Film Festival
'A Day for Women' to be screened at Dubai International Film Festival
What if the women, who spend their lives chasing their dream of providing a decent life for themselves and their children, decide to give themselves a break and spoil themselves by allocating one day every week to go swimming at one of the youth centres? Youm lel setat (A Day for Women) takes the audience …
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What if the women, who spend their lives chasing their dream of providing a decent life for themselves and their children, decide to give themselves a break and spoil themselves by allocating one day every week to go swimming at one of the youth centres?
Youm lel setat (A Day for Women) takes the audience beyond the norms for women living in one of Egypt's most popular neighbourhoods, and portrays the consequences of specifying a "women's only" day for swimming for a social class which, usually, simply seeks to survive economic crises. It also screens the effect of this decision on the social, psychological, and emotional state of those women.
Last weekend, Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) announced that the film will be screened at the Arabian Nights programme at the 13th edition of the festival—the film's first screening in the Gulf. The festival will take place from 7-14 December.
A Day for Women is directed by prominent Egyptian director Kamla Abo-Zekry and starring famous Elham Sahahin, who is also the producer. Other actors include Nelly Karim, Nahed El-Sebai, Hala Sedki, Ragaa Hussein, and Shaimaa Seif. The film also witnesses the participation of Mahmoud Hemida, Farouk Al Fishawy, Ahmad Al Fishawy, Eyad Nassar, and Ahmed Dawood.
The film is also set to open the 38th Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) taking place from 15-24 November, and will compete in the international competition with another Egyptian film "El-Bar El-tany" (The Other Land), directed by Ali Edries.
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As I had a late lunch, I checked out of my hotel slightly later than 4pm and waited for the next shuttle bus from the Westin Nagoya Castle to the Nagoya Station where I will board my next Shinkansen train. Travelling on the Shinkansen between cities in Japan is one of travel's best inventions, and that is one reason why I find China's push into high-speed rail will spur consumption through tourism growth in the country. My favourite parts of travelling in Europe was in Germany and Italy where their high-speed rail network connects their major cities (Hamburg to Berlin and Rome to Milan). Departing on an evening train from Nagoya, it took me less than a 1 hour and a half ride on the Shinkansen to reach Shin-Osaka station.
Upon reaching Shin-Osaka, I boarded the Midosuji subway line to Namba station, and transferred to the Kintetsu Nara line to take the train to Uehonmachi station where the Sheraton Miyako Osaka is located at. Arriving at the basement, I made my way up to the second floor following the signage which was pretty easy to follow. The best way is to look for a store selling Belgian waffles and the escalator beside it will lead to the Sheraton Miyako entrance. However upon entering the hotel, there is another escalator to bring guests to the the lobby. This hotel is also accessible for having airport buses to both Osaka Itami and Kansai Airport.
Starting at this point of my trip, my sister will join me for the journey so it would be twin beds from now on. Check-in was fast unlike the one in Westin Nagoya, and similar to the Sheraton Miyako Tokyo, the receptionist let me know I was upgraded to a club room, and this property actually had a club lounge as well. Next I was informed of the breakfast at the second floor restaurant though I had to request for late check-out myself. The room here is very basic, not unlike the Sheratons one gets in the United States, and it felt even more spartan than the one in Tokyo. The twin beds were large enough and there was actually ample seating including a couch by the window.
The bathroom was also smaller than the one in Tokyo and only a bathtub was inside though the toilet still has the additional fixtures for washing and cleaning. A good reason to stay here is for the day trip to Nara as the Kintetsu rail stops at the Nara city centre and just walking distance to the major sights in Nara. Another would be for the low rate offered in the hotel which could range around ¥8,000 per night for 2 person. This rate would make this one of the cheapest hotels I stayed in Japan.
When checking in, the receptionist provided vouchers and the breakfast here was similar to the offering in Sheraton Miyako Tokyo with the basics like scrambled eggs, bacon, and ham in addition to congee, salad and fruits. It was alright but nothing memorable about it. The club lounge at the top was also pretty small and perhaps the size of two guestrooms converted into a seating lounge with some cookies and beverage counter along with a coffee machine. For the price though, I think the hotel is a good deal and definitely worth it for the money if looking for basic accomodation in Osaka.
The next morning after breakfast, we walked around the neighbourhood and it seems that the area around the hotel is more like a residential area (again similar to the Sheraton Miyako Tokyo). I guess I should just stop comparing since they are after all owned by the same company. Location-wise, it is quiet and yet still very centrally located as well as having direct train link to Nara directly underneath the hotel. It was also a short walk to the Tsuruhashi 鶴橋 station from where I boarded the direct train towards Osakajokoen 大阪城公園.
Osaka Castle is perhaps one of the most recognizable landmarks of the city and it has a very large park and several office buildings around it. There is also a stadium beside of some sorts which hosts events and concerts for those keen to experience Japanese pop music. Be prepared for a long and tiring walk around the castle though due to some steep incline around the castle, and in my opinion the best views of the castle are from the bottom around the moat, so there is no need to climb all the way to the centre unless one is keen to visit the castle itself.
For lunch, we had it at Umeda 梅田 Station which is also directly linked to Osakajokoen, and as before I chose to eat at one of the restaurants on the top floor of the department stores in the area. We picked on a Kushi-Katsu outlet which serves various skewers that are deep-fried with breadcrumbs. With no English menu to order from, we picked from the set lunches. There were 2 plates for every diner in the restaurant and one plate consisted of the various dips and sauces. A similar compartmentalized plate holds the various kushi-katsu that is served in stages. The way to eat them was to dip the skewers in the corresponding sauce. Turns out to be nice and it is worth noting that Kushi-Katsu is a specialty of the Kansai area (Osaka and Kobe), and it is worth going to this restaurant just for the way these kushi-katsu was served since it was easy for diners to choose the right dips for the right skewers.
In the evening I decided to move to the St Regis Osaka for the next 2 nights, after getting some good deals on a Starpicks rate and thus we checked out at 4pm and headed to the St Regis which is located in the stylish Midosuji area. Meanwhile at night, a friend who has been living in Osaka for the past few years brought us for some local Okonomiyaki, another specialty of Osaka. The local eatery which I discovered to be called Okaru is not commonly found by travellers as it is neatly tucked in a side alley. However the okonomiyaki was suprisingly nice and the service was wonderful as well! The highlight of the dinner was when the server added in a well drawn picture of Hello Kitty and Mickey Mouse using the mayonnaise on top of the cooked okonomiyaki! The downpour during the evening did not dampen our mood for dessert after the meal and we had an excellent green tea (matcha) parfait with chestnut cake. This counts for a wonderful day spent in Osaka!


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Major Babyface Plans For Roman Reign's Revealed
Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter
At this time, WWE's plan is to fast track a Roman Reigns bayface push.
WWE officials reportedly feel that Reigns has the potential to be one of the next big Superstars for the company. WWE intentionally put Reigns in a big spot on Monday (spearing Big Show) to make him look impressive. They were very happy with the way his spear on The Big Show looked.
Speaking of spears, WWE has added a new video called "Most Devastating Spears!" to their official YouTube channel. You can watch the new video, with the aforementioned Reigns spear on Big Show included as part of the package, directly below:
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When we talk about love it sounds more like a concept than an actual thing. Love may be a force, like gravity. Gravity can't be seen but it's constant and measurable. Gravity is measured by the amount of attraction between anything with mass and energy. Gravity pulls things together.
If love were tangible what would it do?
Titus 3 NIV - "3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior."
Love appeared so it could save you. Of course it's Jesus who saves but it's God's love that manifested as Jesus. In this case God's love became something and did something.
Ephesians 2 NIV - "4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus."
God's love draws us together WITH Christ. Love is God's motivation but the effects of love are reconciliation and connection.
God's love toward us was more than just an emotion and more than a neurochemical in his brain, it was something that came from him to accomplish something. God acted on that love, expressed that love and it accomplished something.
It's as if love is a force that emanates from God and manifests as a reconciliatory substance. What if we could transmit love as well? Since God's love has been shed abroad in our hearts, what if we can reflect that force into the world around us? What if love went beyond abstract ideas and actually touched people?
Yes, our actions of love can be felt by people but what if the actual love we have in our hearts toward people made a difference?
Think about this. How do the people in your life respond to you when your heart and thoughts are actually feeling love toward them in that very moment? If you're angry at someone and that's what you're aware of while you're in front of that person, how do they respond to you? There are many factors in this scenario but people can tell and feel our feelings toward them. If this is true of horses it's also true of people.
I urge you to introduce love into your business, relationships, ministry and even toward yourself. Love is a choice but it's a necessary choice, you can to lead with it and change the environment of your home or workplace.
Try this exercise. If you are married, put thoughts and feelings of love in your heart, mind and emotions toward your husband/wife first thing every day and see what happens. I'd love to hear how it affects your relationship.
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Posted on November 30, 2018 @ 07:00 by PoliceOne in EMS, FIRE, POLICE, Uncategorized
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DENVER — Broncos star Von Miller announced Thursday he would be donating $200,000 to Shield616 alongside about 20 teammates and the Broncos organization. Shield616 is a non-profit dedicated to supplying law enforcement with protective kits to keep them safer while on duty.
"The initiative will also include programming to improve law-enforcement relations in the community," the Broncos said in a press release.
The Broncos will be joining the efforts of FOX31 and Channel 2 to Support the Shield, our effort to support local law enforcement following the loss of three deputies in the span of five weeks in early 2018.
The team said the donation will be enough to supply Colorado Springs-based Shield616 with 125 protective kits to first responders. Each kit includes a ballistic vest, ballistic helmet and a wound trauma kit. They are designed to better protect first responders against automatic weapons and assault rifles compared to standard protection equipment.
"When I heard there's been more than 300 mass shootings in the last year alone, I felt like we needed to do something for those who protect us," Miller said through Thursday's press release. "I hope that we can all help bridge the gap and work to improve relationships with law enforcement in our communities."
The team said once Miller began the effort, nearly 20 players decided to join him in donating. President and CEO Joe Ellis, President of Football Operations/General Manager John Elway and Head Coach Vance Joseph also contributed.
"Miller, his teammates and the Broncos will also maintain relationships with the selected first responders through volunteer opportunities, programming with area kids, roundtable discussions and other initiatives," the Broncos said, explaining that each Shield616 donor will be paired with a first responder.
"It takes the unification of an entire community to not only better protect our first responders with physical armor, but to break down barriers between first responders and the citizens they serve," Shield616 Founder and President Jake Skifstad said in the Broncos' statement. "It's priceless to see complete strangers invest in the safety of first responders, changing their lives and the lives of their families. We are humbled and proud to see that Von Miller, his teammates and the Broncos are utilizing their God-given leadership gifts and influence to not only better protect our protectors but to also help build positive community relations."
The Broncos will present the protective kits to local police officers and firefighters after practice on Dec. 20 at UCHealth Training Center.
FOX31 and Channel 2's "Support the Shield" initiative raised money for both Shield616 and C.O.P.S. (Concerns of Police Survivors). During our partnership with Safeway, viewers raised $442,429 for the organizations. That is in addition to a phone-bank campaign that raised more than $240,000 early this year.


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Q: Casting BigInt to Int in Spark Hi I'm trying to cast a BigIntto an intin order to generate Rating classes.
I only want to use instances that are small enough to fit into an in I use the following code:
val tup=rs.select("kunden_nr","product_list")
val rdd=tup.rdd.map(row=>(row.getAs[BigInt](0),row.getAs[Seq[Int]](1)))
val fs=rdd.filter(el=>el._1.isValidInt)
fs.count()
rdd.count()

The fs count delivers the following exception in Zepplin:
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Long cannot be cast to scala.math.BigInt

A: Casting is like changing "the glasses" your code use to represent what is referenced by your value and not actually changing the referenced content nor changing the reference to point to a new BigInt instance.
That implies that you need to get your value with the type it really has and then build a BigInt instance from it:
BigInt(row.getAs[Long](0))

Following the same reasoning, you can create an Int instance from the Long as follows:
row.getAs[Long](0).toInt

But it might overflow the integer type representation range.

A: When I use below to cast , the value of number will be changed!
table.col("id").cast("long") //java

A: I noticed that the overflow is happening for me fairly often with .toInt
so I tried Adding the remainder and the quotient.
((rec.getLong(0) % Int.MaxValue) + (rec.getLong(0) / Int.MaxValue)).toInt

This was better as I was getting 232 unique values in place of 234 but with toInt I was getting 6 unique values in place of 234.

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John Mark Karr was arrested in Thailand in 2006 -- but then released two weeks later -- in connection with the 1996 death of JonBenet Ramsey. JonBenet Ramsey was found strangled in her Boulder, Colorado home on December 26, 1996; the killing was heavily covered in the media, helped along by photos of the young victim's many appearances in junior beauty pageants. Authorities began to suspect in 2006 that John Mark Karr might have killed Ramsey, based on comments in emails Karr sent to documentary filmmaker Michael Tracey. Karr had been arrested in California for possession of child pornography in 2001, left the United States soon after, and had since drifted around Central America and Asia teaching English and taking other transient jobs. Shortly after his arrest in Thailand, Karr set off a media frenzy by telling reporters that he "was with JonBenet when she died" and that the death "was an accident." But by the time Karr was flown back to Los Angeles and then on to Boulder County Jail, questions had arisen about the accuracy of his confession. Among other things, his ex-wife told authorities that Karr had been with family in Georgia during the holidays in 1996. On August 28 of 2006, Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy announced that DNA taken from Karr did not match DNA found at the scene of Ramsey's death, and said that charges would not be filed against Karr. Karr was later extradited to California based on the outstanding 2001 pornography charges there, but he was ultimately freed on those charges as well. In 2010, The Daily Beast reported that Karr was living as a woman under the name of Delia Alexis Reich.
According to the teaching resume he provided to an Asian teaching service, John Mark Karr graduated from Regents College in Albany, New York… The Boulder Daily Camera reports Karr's birth date as 11 December 1964… Karr was married to the former Quientana Shotts from 1984-85 (he was 19 and she was 13 at the time of their marriage), and to the former Lara Knutson from 1989-2001… According to this CBS News article, Karr has twice married teenage girls, one 13 (the marriage was annulled) and one 16 (Lara Knutson, who divorced him).


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Mike Tauchman Biography
( 1990 - )
First published on:April 16, 2019
by Jorge
Facts of Mike Tauchman
Michael Robert Tauchman
Famous Name
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Past Team
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No. of Siblings
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Eileen Ristau Tauchman
Mike Tauchman is an American Professional Baseball player who plays in the Major League Baseball (MLB). Mike Tauchman currently plays for the New York Yankees as their Outfielder. Previously, Mike Tauchman has played for Colorado Rockies.
As an Outfielder, Tauchman reportedly earns around $557,000 as his yearly salary from the New York Mets. Further, he has an estimated net worth of over six digits. Well, he is married to his beautiful wife, Eileen Ristau Tauchman.
Salary-$557,000
Mike Tauchman has an estimated net worth of over six digits. Further, the MLB player has an average salary of $557,000 annually. Tauchman so far has made earnings of $786,765 from his entire MLB career. He reportedly signed a 1-year contract worth $557,000 with New York Yankees on March 23, 2019.
Some of his career earnings and contracts are tabulated below:
YEAR TEAM SALARY
2013 Colorado Rockies $10,000
2017 Colorado Rockies $131,535
2019 New York Yankees $557,000
As per the reports, he is 34th best-paid player of New York Yankees while Giancarlo Stanton is the top paid player of the team with an annual salary of $26,000,000.
He reportedly signed a 1-year contract worth $557,000 with New York Yankees on March 23, 2019. In addition to this, he signed a one-year contract with Colorado on March 18, 2018, worth $547,000.
His current contract provides him an adjusted salary of $443,260 along with $557,000 guaranteed.
Moreover, as of 2019 financial ranking, he is one of the least paid players of MLB whereas Manny Machado, Miguel Cabrera, etc are among the highest earners in 2019.
Moreover, a player with such fame is obvious to earn an additional amount of money via different endorsement deals. However, there aren't any rigid information about his association with different brands in the media yet.
Wife-Eileen Ristau Tauchman
According to Mike's Instagram, he is married to his beautiful wife, Eileen Ristau Tauchman. Further, they met at the same university and fell for each other. They were dating each other since 2012 and got married on January 7, 2017.
Well, Mike claims his wife "the love of my life.." He also remembers the wedding days claiming that it was the best day of his wife and she is the best thing that happened to him.
Mike and Eileen's wedding ceremony SOURCE: https://www.feelingthevibe.com
Despite the busy schedule, Mike spends quality time with his love and family and go for some refreshment and relaxation. In other hands, his wife also goes to watch his games and cheer him up. Mike also takes her for dates on fancy restaurants. There is no further information about his spouse rather than her University.
Mike and his wife Eileen Ristau clicked on July 19. SOURCE: Twitter
Despite being married for this long, they haven't had their first baby yet. They may not be ready for the parenthood yet. But, they have a pet dog with whom they are polishing their parenting skills. Undoubtedly, they won't take much time either.
Introducing the newest addition to the family @kota_rescuehusky #handsomeboy
A post shared by Mike Tauchman (@mike_tauchman) on Aug 2, 2017 at 1:50pm PDT
Talking about his body measurements, the famous MLB star is 1.88 m in height and weighs around 100kg.
Mike Tauchman was born on December 3, 1990, in Palatine, Illinois to parents whose names aren't in the media yet. As per his nationality, he is American and belongs to the White ethnic group. Further, his star sign is Sagittarius. He grew up along with his siblings, Julia.
Tauchman attended William Fremd High School in Palatine, Illinois, where he played baseball and was the gridiron football team's quarterback as well. During his senior year, he led a second-half comeback in a game against future NFL quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. He enrolled at the University of Bradley and played the Bradley Braves college baseball.
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In the 10th round of the 2013 MLB draft, the Colorado Rockies selected Tauchman. For the first time on June 27, 2017, the Rockies called Tauchman to the majors.
On March 23, 2019, in exchange for Phil Diehl, the Rockies traded Tauchman to the New York Yankees and eventually made the roster for the Opening Day of the Yankees.
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include_recipe 'mysql-multi::_find_slaves'

# drop MySQL master specific configuration file
template '/etc/mysql/conf.d/master.cnf' do
  source 'master.cnf.erb'
  variables(
    cookbook_name: cookbook_name
  )
  notifies :restart, 'mysql_service[default]', :delayed
end

execute 'grant-slave' do
  command <<-EOH
  /usr/bin/mysql -u root -p'#{node['mysql']['server_root_password']}' < /root/grant-slaves.sql
  rm -f /root/grant-slaves.sql
  EOH
  action :nothing
end

# Grant replication on slave(s)
node['mysql-multi']['slaves'].each do |slave|
  template "/root/grant-slaves.sql #{slave}" do
    path '/root/grant-slaves.sql'
    source 'grant.slave.erb'
    owner 'root'
    group 'root'
    mode '0600'
    variables(
      user: node['mysql-multi']['slave_user'],
      password: node['mysql-multi']['server_repl_password'],
      host: slave
    )
    notifies :run, 'execute[grant-slave]', :immediately
  end
end

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