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Case Study: Failure of Baldwin Hills Dam (California, 1963) [Draft Document]
This interactive PDF was developed to supplement the Dam Incidents and Failures Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS) webpage and contains information regarding the failure of Baldwin Hills Dam in California during 1963.
Northwest Alabama Regional Airport Exercise After Action Report/Improvement Plan: Muscle Shoals, AL, July 31, 2014
This exercise ran for 6 hours at the Northwest Alabama Regional Airport, Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It required response from multiple counties and municipalities in the area. The objectives of the exercise are: 1. Test the Northwest Regional Airport's Disaster Plan 2. Challenge responders, Emergency Management Services, Public Health, and hospitals with mass contaminated casualties. 3. Test local hazmat response - to include decontamination. 4. Evaluate the effectiveness of unified command 5. Evaluate local public information procedures and guidelines. 6. Review Explosion Ordinance Disposal (EOD) procedures.
LLIS Innovative Practice: Mass Care: Jefferson County, Colorado, Animal Response 'Exercise in a Box'
"The Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS.gov) team identifies innovative practices within the whole community and documents these practices for emergency managers to consider for incorporation when developing plans and exercises. The Jefferson County, CO Animal Response Team (J-CART) developed its 'Exercise in a Box' (EIAB) program--a scalable, comprehensive animal response exercise toolkit--to develop repeatable, functional, and highly effective exercises. The EIAB includes all required materials and instructions to conduct and evaluate an animal response functional exercise. By consolidating these materials and standardizing the exercise process, J-CART reduced barriers for emergency management personnel and volunteers to conduct and participate in animal response exercises. Jefferson County emergency managers maintain their familiarity with animal response incident management by conducting at least one exercise or deployment each year. Emergency personnel and volunteers can use similar exercise programs to gain experience in incident management for animal response emergencies."
Risk Assessment Forum White Paper: Probabilistic Risk Assessment Methods and Case Studies
"Throughout many of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) program offices and regions, various forms of probabilistic methods have been used to answer questions about exposure and risks to humans, other organisms and the environment. Risk assessors, risk managers and others, particularly within the scientific and research divisions, have recognized that more sophisticated statistical and mathematical approaches could be utilized to enhance the quality and accuracy of Agency risk assessments. Various stakeholders, inside and outside of the Agency, have called for a more comprehensive characterization of risks, including uncertainties, to improve the protection of sensitive or vulnerable populations and lifestages. [...] The goal of these publications is not only to describe potential and actual uses of these tools, but also to encourage their further implementation in human, ecological and environmental risk analysis and related decision making."
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Talladega Hazmat Tabletop Exercise - 2014: After-Action Report/Improvement Plan
From the 'Exercise Overview' section of the document: "This is a tabletop exercise scheduled for 4 hours at the Marjorie Sanford Building, Central Alabama Community College, Childersburg, Alabama […] [Core Capabilities]: 1. Planning; 2. Public Information and Warning; 3. Operational Coordination; 4. Environmental Response/Health and Safety; 5. Fatality Management; 6. On-scene Security and Protection; 7. Public Health and Medical Services . [Objectives]: [1] Evaluate operational coordination where multiple disciplines and multiple jurisdictions are responding to significant events. [2] Demonstrate fire and hazmat protocols in response to a life-threatening incident. [3] Test tactical communications between dispatch centers, responders, and other governmental organizations."
Dearborn CERT Supports Community Response Team in the United Arab Emirates
"An ongoing partnership between Michigan emergency managers and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is spanning language barriers and thousands of miles to build an international preparedness partnership. Given its desert environment, the UAE faces a number of climate-related challenges, including extreme heat and sandstorms. In addition, the country's relatively new infrastructure presents emergency response officials with new logistical challenges, such as evacuating very tall buildings in the event of an emergency. In 2008, the UAE visited official emergency response authorities of several countries, seeking ways to engage the country's youth and young adults in community service. UAE officials identified the United States' CERT [Community Emergency Response Teams] program and the Swedish Civil Defense League as models for training and engagement. To expand its CERT cooperation, UAE officials looked to partner with Dearborn, Michigan, a city, which according to the 2010 U.S. Census is home to the largest percentage (nearly 40 percent) of Arab-Americans in the United States. As a result of its large Arab population, Dearborn officials had begun an effort to translate the CERT curriculum into Arabic shortly before meeting with UAE officials in 2009. Kevin Sweeney, Michigan State Police Sergeant, and Brad Smith, Dearborn Emergency Management Homeland Security Director, spearheaded the translation effort with the support of others in the community."
Community Emergency Response Team (U.S.)
Operation Team Spirit: After Action Report/Improvement Plan: Morton, MN, May 29-30, 2014
"In the face of a disaster, the entire community is impacted. This impact can be readily felt especially in rural communities where resources to respond are limited. The destruction of the community's hospital can add to the stress upon other community medical providers and first responders. Providing field health and medical resources to replace the destroyed hospital's ability to care for victims and other medical needs is complex and requires significant coordination. In addition, managing fatalities in a small community can be extremely difficult without external support. The success is dependent on the effectiveness of procedures, communications, relationships, community emergency responders and cooperation/coordination with all responding partners and assets. The focus of this particular exercise was to evaluate the operations of an austere field medical system that has been set up to provide care to the community that has been impacted. Participants were evaluated on emergency reporting activity, communications, patient tracking, and influx/surge coordination among care areas. The full scale exercise provided an excellent opportunity to engage the participation of every member of the 16 county Southwest Minnesota region. The participants were able to see the results of the extensive planning, education, training, and data collection. The exercise was conducted in three rounds, each approximately 75 minutes. Evaluators were placed in each of the care areas, and two evaluators roamed throughout the entire system. Role players/victims were asked to provide evaluation and feedback on their experience as they were sent to various care areas for treatment/assistance."
OnTheMap for Emergency Management: Providing Population and Workforce Counts during a Natural Disaster [presentation]
From the DHS Lessons Learned Information Sharing webpage: "This webinar presentation highlights the Local Employment Dynamics Partnership among 53 states/territories. This presentation encompasses issues of the partnership including data sharing, accessing local knowledge, and using comparative data from all states, counties, regions, and WIAs [Workforce Investment Areas]. Specifically, this webinar presentation includes how the longitudinal employer-household dynamics program is beneficial to the U.S. Census Bureau."
Dowell, Earlene
FEMA Hazards Loss Modeling Task Force (MOTF) Situation Report #14: Colorado Spring Flood Risk, Final Report
"This is the final FEMA Hazards Loss Modeling Task Force situational report on the Colorado spring flooding. The report provides an assessment of the current situation, as well as impact assessments and evaluations of major changes since the prior report. It also looks at weather projections to provide information on pending risks and provides additional details regarding ongoing coordination between state entities and federal agencies. Highlights of the report include: Most of the mountain snowpack influencing Front Range stream flows has melted off with the exception of a few areas, with snow-water equivalent in the South Platte Basin averaging less than one inch remaining to melt. Some rainfall is possible through the weekend with near average temperatures. Most mountain snowpack has melted off, though some sites will continue melting and slightly influencing river stages · Seasonal snowmelt flood risk is diminishing. Weather conditions are near seasonal normal."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA. Modeling Task Force
LLIS Lesson Learned: Cybersecurity: The Need for Common Cybersecurity Terminology Between Information Technology and Emergency Management
"The 'Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS.gov)' team identifies lessons learned derived from real-world or exercise experiences within the whole community and documents these lessons for emergency managers to consider when developing plans and exercises. On May 14, 2012, representatives from FEMA Region II participated in a cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise (TTX) that focused on information sharing. During the exercise, participants noted a number of misunderstandings between emergency management and information technology personnel. The key findings from the TTX included improvements in communication and collaboration that could be achieved through implementation of a common cybersecurity terminology. The private and public sectors have developed several resources that could serve as the basis for this common terminology, which are outlined in this Lesson Learned document."
Fact Sheet: Actions to Improve Chemical Facility Safety and Security-A Shared Commitment, Report of the Federal Working Group on Executive Order 13650
From the Department of Homeland Security's Lessons Learned Information Sharing website: "This is the fact sheet to the full EO [Executive Order] 13650 Actions to Improve Chemical Facility Safety and Security report which highlights current activities to improve chemical facility safety and security and provides a plan for moving forward. It is important to emphasize accomplishing this strategy requires a shared commitment among facility owners and operators; Federal, State, tribal, and territorial governments; regional entities; nonprofit organizations; facility workers; emergency responders; environmental justice and local environmental organizations; and communities."
United States. Department of Transportation; United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Department of Justice . . .
Alabama Emergency Management Agency Hurricane Exercise 5.22.14 Hurricane Romeo After-Action Report/Improvement Plan
From the introduction of the Exercise Overview: "This exercise is a Table Top Exercise, planned for the week of May 19th-22nd with a State Wide Component on Thursday May 22nd, 2014. For the purpose of this exercise the State of Alabama will be impacted by Hurricane Romeo, a Category 2/3 Hurricane making landfall just west of Mobile with 110 mph winds. Major wind & storm surge impacts will affect Mobile and Baldwin Counties and tropical storm force winds with the risk of tornadic activities throughout the rest of the state. Counties can conduct any combination of exercise play, from a Full-scale exercise, activation of their EOC [Emergency Operations Center] w/county stakeholders, or provide EMITS [Emergency Medical Information Technology System] injects only."
USACE-FEMA Senior Leaders' Summit
The USACE/FEMA [United States Army Corps of Engineers/Federal Emergency Management Agency] 2014 Senior Leader Seminar was hosted by the FEMA Region VII on May 22, 2014 at 9221 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri. In an ongoing union to work collaboratively in capturing agreed upon actions for correcting operational deficiencies, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) conducts an annual Senior Leaders' Seminar (SLS) to discuss high level operational and policy issues.
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS); United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Using Social Media for Enhanced Situational Awareness and Decision Support: Virtual Social Media Working Group and DHS First Responders Group
"High-impact and high-visibility events have revealed the proliferation and widespread use of mobile devices. Combined with the rise in popularity of social media, the subsequent explosion in available information now spans multiple platforms and formats. Historically, the emergency response community has leveraged multiple data sources, including land mobile radios, maps, computer-aided dispatch, crisis management systems, traffic cameras, geographic information systems, and windshield assessments to collect information. Now, responders can leverage social media as well, both to communicate and to gather and share real-time, dynamic information to enhance situational awareness and assist in decision-making. The volume and speed with which available information is disseminated, combined with an inability to identify, verify, coordinate, aggregate, and contextualize it, however, can leave this information unused and ultimately, un-actionable. This report discusses examples of how agencies currently leverage social media to enhance situational awareness and support operational decision-making, as well as challenges and potential applications."
Hurricane 'Romeo' 2014 Exercise: Covington County After Action Report
From the After-Action Report: "All 3 Objectives associated with the core capability rated (P) Performed without Challenges: The objectives were completed in a manner that achieved the objectives and did not negatively impact the performance of other activities. Performance of this activity did not contribute to additional health and/or safety risks for the public or for emergency workers, and it was conducted in accordance with applicable plans, policies, procedures, regulations, and laws."
LLIS: IAEM CEM and AEM Video Submission Process
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"The International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) requires Certified Emergency Manager (CEM[R]) candidates to document six professional contributions. One potential way of meeting this requirement is to produce a video for 'LLIS.gov', which qualifies as an Audio Visual professional contribution. This option is also available to Associate Emergency Manager (AEMSM) candidates, although not a requirement for certification. See the IAEM application/CEM NEWS webpage for any changes to the Audio-Visual category requirements."
Technical Manual: Overtopping Protection for Dams, Best Practices for Design, Construction, Problem Identification and Evaluation, Inspection, Maintenance, Renovation, and Repair
"Inadequate spillway capacity is a common problem with many dams. Thousands of dams throughout North America have been determined to have inadequate spillway capacity and would be overtopped during the inflow design flood (IDF), which is often equated to the probable maximum flood (PMF) or to some frequency flood associated with a particular return period. The PMF is defined as the flood that may be expected from the most severe combination of critical meteorologic and hydrologic conditions that are reasonably possible in the drainage basin under study (Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA], 2004). Reservoir inflow from storm events which exceeds the available storage and/or spillway discharge capacity can result in the dam being overtopped. Dam failure from overtopping can lead to a potential for loss of life and significant downstream damages. [...] This document assumes that a hydrologic deficiency exists at a dam and that traditional approaches to safely accommodate a larger design flood have first been investigated. Designers and dam safety personnel should fully evaluate all options available when dam overtopping is a possibility. While choosing an alternative that avoids flow over the top of the dam has clear engineering benefits, providing project-specific protection during dam overtopping can be a viable method in some instances to safely convey large flows downstream from the dam. Overtopping protection should generally be reserved for situations with some combination of very low annual probability of occurrence (e.g., 1 in 100), physical or environmental constraints on constructing other methods of flood conveyance, and prohibitive cost of other alternatives, or where downstream consequences of dam failure are demonstrated to be low."
Executive Order 13650: Actions to Improve Chemical Facility Safety and Security - A Shared Commitment
"Recent catastrophic chemical facility incidents in the United States prompted President Obama to issue Executive Order (EO) 13650 - Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security on August 1, 2013, to enhance the safety and security of chemical facilities and reduce risks associated with hazardous chemicals to owners and operators, workers, and communities. […] The EO established a Chemical Facility Safety and Security Working Group to oversee this effort, which is tri-chaired by the EPA, DOL [U.S. Department of Labor], and DHS and includes leadership and subject matter experts from each of the above listed Departments and agencies. The Working Group, its member agencies, and the broader community of stakeholders have practices, operations, protocols, and policies that address chemical facility safety and security but all recognize that improvement is necessary and requires a shared commitment from all stakeholders. Emergency responders, in particular, have needs to be addressed and capabilities to be strengthened so that they can better manage threats and hazards in their communities. This report summarizes Working Group progress, focusing on actions to date, findings and lessons learned, challenges, and priority next steps. The issuance of the report is a milestone, not an endpoint. Agencies, in coordination with the broad range of stakeholders, have transitioned to implementation of these priority actions, which will be completed over time. We recognize that the Federal Government must put in place a transparent, inclusive process with the engagement and commitment of all stakeholders."
United States. Environmental Protection Agency; United States. Department of Labor; United States. Department of Homeland Security . . .
Congressional Primer on Responding to Major Disasters and Emergencies [April 30, 2014]
"The principles of disaster management assume a leadership role by the local, tribal, and state governments with the federal government providing coordinated supplemental resources and assistance, if requested and approved. The immediate response to a disaster is guided by the National Response Framework (NRF), which details roles and responsibilities at various levels of government, along with cooperation from the private and nonprofit sectors, for differing incidents and support functions. A declaration of a major disaster or emergency under the authority of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, P.L. [Public Law] 93-288, must, in almost all cases, be requested by the governor of a state or the chief executive of an affected Indian tribal government, who at that point has declared that the situation is beyond the capacity of the state or tribe to respond. The governor/chief also determines which parts of the state/tribal territory they will request assistance for and suggests the types of assistance programs that may be needed. The President considers the request, in consultation with officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and makes the initial decisions on the areas to be included as well as the programs that are implemented. The majority of federal aid is made available from FEMA under the authority of the Stafford Act."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
McCarthy, Francis X.; Brown, Jared T.
Children and Disasters: An Integrated Approach to Disaster Planning, Response and Recovery
This is the webinar presentation slides on the National Mass Care Strategy:Children and Disasters: An Integrated Approach to Disaster Planning, Response and Recovery. April 28, 2014.
Lockwood, Bruce
Challenges and Opportunities for Hospital Training and Exercises
"This is the webinar slides for the Challenges and Opportunities for Hospital Training and Exercises webinar, presented by Scott Supernaw, System-wide Emergency Management Coordinator, Cone Health System, in Greensboro, NC. This webinar was hosted by LLIS.gov. The objectives of the webinar are: Identify some of the various regulatory and accreditation requirements for hospital emergency management and preparedness. Discuss some of the most common challenges to planning and executing emergency training and exercises in the hospital environment. Discuss some of the most common organizational and facility challenges to planning and conducting hospital training and exercises. Discuss some of the opportunities to overcome and grow participation and support for hospital training and exercises."
Supernaw, Scott
Chemical Facility Safety and Security Best Practices Template
This template provided by the Lessons Learned Information Sharing database (LLIS) is meant to be downloaded and completed in order to create a chemical facility safety and security practice that is innovative, promising or proven.
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS); United States. Department of Homeland Security
LLIS Lesson Learned: Mass Care Response: Pet Shelter Co-Location with Human Shelters
"The After Action Report / Improvement Plan (AAR/IP) from the response to the June 2011 tornadoes in Massachusetts revealed that responders did not locate pet shelters near human shelters, creating distress for individuals with pets. The AAR/IP recommended that decisionmakers plan to co-locate pet and human shelters or plan for a way to transport people to pet shelters. The AAR/IP also recommended pet shelter planning efforts include improving awareness of available resources, such as local Disaster Animal Response Teams' (DART) capabilities."
LLIS Proven Practice: Policy: Shelter-In-Place Guidebook
"The FEMA's [Federal Emergency Management Act] Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program developed this Guidebook to protect eight communities adjacent to the U.S. Army's chemical weapons stockpile. This Guidebook was made available to FEMA's State and local government partners whose residents might be asked to shelter-in-place in the event of an incident involving the stockpile. This Guidebook is intended for State and local planners and decision-makers. The introduction discusses the value of temporarily sheltering-in-place as part of a comprehensive protective action strategy and the different options for sheltering-in-place. The following chapters address (1) shelter-in-place planning, training, outreach and exercises and (2) initiating, maintaining, and ending shelter-in-place in an actual emergency. An appendix discusses the use of computer models to determine when it is appropriate to terminate an order to shelter-in-place and walks through a hypothetical scenario."
LLIS Proven Practice: Protective Action and Shelter-in-Place Coloring Books
"These guides and coloring books enable teachers to engage school children in family emergency planning, including learning to shelter-in-place plan to protect themselves and their families from a known hazardous chemical release."
Cyber Security and Homeland Security: Cyber Security for CIKR and SLTT
From the Abstract: "This is the presentation slides for the LLIS.gov Cybersecurity Webinar hosted by Michael Leking (Cyber Security Advisor, Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, DHS). The presentation slides discuss DHS' cyber responsibilities, [the Cybersecurity Framework, CSF], applicable assessments, the Cyber Resilience Review (CRR) and other valuable resources and tools related to cybersecurity."
National Action Plan: An Implementation Framework for the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy
"In 2009, Congress passed the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement (FLAME) Act (FLAME). In the FLAME Act, building on earlier reports from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) to develop a national cohesive wildland fire management strategy. The third and final phase of the effort to develop a cohesive strategy culminated with the release of The National Strategy: The Final Phase of the Development of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (National Strategy) and this National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy: National Action Plan (National Action Plan). This National Action Plan is a companion to the National Strategy and supports its implementation. The National Action Plan is the result of a collaborative effort by Federal, state, local, territorial and tribal governments and non-governmental partners and public stakeholders. The purpose of this National Action Plan is to provide a framework for implementation actions and tasks necessary at various scales. The actions identified herein have been developed collaboratively by and for stakeholders, as a proactive, collaborative approach to implementing the National Strategy. Scientific data analysis underpins all aspects of the National Action Plan. Using science and data analysis to support implementation planning and decision-making must continue. Coordinated engagement and action on the part of all stakeholders provides our best opportunity to restore and maintain landscapes, protect communities from wildfire, and effectively respond to wildfires when they occur. National actions are significant in the context of this national commitment and this plan describes the commitment made by the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), the nation's highest collaborative wildland fire group, to implement the National Strategy."
Wildland Fire Leadership Council
National Strategy: The Final Phase in the Development of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy
"In the past two decades, a rapid escalation of extreme wildfire behavior, accompanied by significant increases in risk to responders and citizens, home and property losses, costs, and threats to communities and landscapes have been observed., In the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act), Congress mandated the development of a national cohesive wildland fire management strategy to comprehensively address wildland fire management across all lands in the United States. Shortly after enactment of the FLAME Act, a three-phased, intergovernmental planning and analysis process involving stakeholders and the public was initiated and is commonly referred to as the Cohesive Strategy effort. The culmination of three-phases of planning and analysis is this National Strategy and a companion National Action Plan. The National Strategy is the result of a collaborative effort by Federal, state, local, and tribal governments and non-governmental partners and public stakeholders, in conjunction with scientific data analysis."
United States. Department of the Interior
National Preparedness Report [2014]
"This report marks the third National Preparedness Report. Required annually by 'Presidential Policy Directive 8: National Preparedness,' the 'National Preparedness Report' summarizes progress in building, sustaining, and delivering the 31 core capabilities described in the 'National Preparedness Goal' (the Goal). Each year, the 'National Preparedness Report' presents an opportunity to evaluate gains that whole community partners--including all levels of government, private and nonprofit sectors, faith-based organizations, communities, and individuals-- have made in preparedness and to identify where challenges remain. This year's report focuses primarily on preparedness activities undertaken or reported during 2013. The intent of the 'National Preparedness Report' is to provide the Nation--not just the Federal Government--with practical insights on core capabilities that can inform decisions about program priorities, resource allocation, and community actions. Based on stakeholder feedback, the 2014 report places a renewed emphasis on approachable language, clear visuals, and concise findings that are interesting and useful to preparedness professionals and non- experts alike. While the 'National Preparedness Report' focuses on domestic efforts, the Federal Government also engages with international partners and organizations to understand and collaborate on issues such as cybersecurity, supply chain integrity and security, and infrastructure security and resilience."
Enhancing TSA Officer Safety and Security: Agency Actions and Path Forward
"In response to the tragic shooting of Transportation Security Officer (TSO) Gerardo I. Hernandez and wounding of other TSA employees and a passenger on November 1, 2013, at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Administrator John S. Pistole called for a comprehensive review of the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) policies, procedures, and training to identify possible improvements to safety and security for TSA employees. The following report provides a summary of TSA actions as a result of this review. Its scope is limited to TSA employees serving to protect the public at our nation's airports. The agency's response focuses primarily on those areas with the greatest effect on safety and security for the workforce: mandatory training, improved communication systems and policies, and enhanced law enforcement presence. A total of fourteen recommendations were adopted. The steps outlined in this report represent a combination of alternatives identified by an internal working group or 'Integrated Project Team' (IPT) and ideas generated by TSA employees in response to a request for feedback from Administrator Pistole. The agency's response further reflects extensive feedback and participation by industry stakeholders including law enforcement, airport operators, the employee union, and various associations. TSA is greatly appreciative of the collaborative engagement of these stakeholders and remains committed to working closely with all involved entities in continued efforts to provide enhanced safety and security measures for TSA employees."
United States. Transportation Security Administration


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HOMEFIELD ADVANTAGE Forums
Evaluating Jay Gruden in 2018
By Voice_of_Reason,
April 4, 2018 in The Stadium
Cooleyfan1993
3 hours ago, justice98 said:
That's absolutely true, I just dont put this extra emphasis on game 1.
They havent won the 12th game of the year either in Gruden's tenure. They really need to do something about that.
just for clarification, do you mean week 12, or the 12th game of our season the past 4 years? cause if it's the first one, then false, cause we beat the giants 20-14 in week 12 in 2015 (that was our 11th game of the season though) and we beat the giants 20-10 in week 12 of this past season as well (also our 11th game of the season).
however, if you mean the latter, then yes that is sadly correct. all losses in week 13. 2014 L @ Colts 49-27, 2015 L Vs Cowboys 19-16, 2016 L @ Cardinals 31-23, and 2017 L @ Cowboys 38-14.
Warhead36
In fairness our last two season openers were against the Eagles who went on to win the Super Bowl and the Steelers who made the AFC Title game. We probably don't win those games regardless of how prepared we were. With that said, we were a Cousins pick in the RZ away from winning that game despite falling behind by double digits. And in 2014 we were just a bad team period but we opened on the road against a Texans team that went 9-7. I think people are overblowing our Week 1 woes.
Voice_of_Reason
Looking up random Redskins facts beats working. lol
Ha. I wouldn't have even thought of it.
samy316
2 hours ago, Warhead36 said:
It's not the fact that they've lost to the Eagles & Steelers in back to back years, but it's how they've looked in those games. I don't mind being competitive and losing by a field goal or even a touchdown, but to get their asses kicked by double digits and to look so pathetic on both sides of the ball is alarming. Even if you excuse the fact that both Pittsburgh & Philadelphia are Super Bowl teams, how can you play so poorly at home?
This year we have Arizona up for our opener, and this to me is the last straw. Arizona is NOT Pittsburgh or Philly, so if you come out looking like the same poorly coached and ill prepared team, Jay Gruden should immediately be on the hot seat. No more excuses. This is it. With how hard our schedule is beginning Week 3, we damn well better be 2-0 to start the year.
8 minutes ago, samy316 said:
We weren't even THAT BAD against Philly in week 1 last year though. We were starting a pretty nice drive to try to tie the game until the refs WRONGLY called a fumble (should have been an incomplete pass) which led to the 7 extra free points to the eagles. If not for that horrendous mistake by the refs (they even admitted to being wrong after the fact), we could have very well drove down the field to tie the game.
Also, i dont know why people are just assuming we should be able to beat the cardinals (not you, but I've gotten the sense that most here think we should beat them). Larry Fitzgerald is still on the cardinals, and he's way better than any of our WRs, who at this point are questionmarks as to their potential for this season. David Johnson is a pretty good RB. Bradford is a good QB when healthy.
Darth Tater
1 hour ago, samy316 said:
Um, we we were a Cousin's pick away from winning that game against the eventual SB winners and only lost by double digits due to a questionable call. That was one of Philly's worst offensive performances of 2017. We were supposed to lose anyway. Against the Steelers (also the favourites), we played a good team and displayed many of the shortcomings we'd show all season. We stunk all the way round in 2014 and were opening up as dogs anyway. The only ugly loss in an opener was the 2015 loss to a bad Miami team. We were dogs in that one anyway.
This will be Grudens last year, he is a really bad head coach. I was looking back, watching classic Redskins games from the Gibbs 2.0 and Shanahan era.I look at the TRASH Gibbs had to work with as a roster and he was able to make the playoffs TWICE including a season with Todd Collins as his starter. Look at how horrifically bad the roster was in 2012. These are perfect examples of how good coaches can make the most of what they have to work with. If you would have given Gibbs the roster that Gruden went 9-7 with and got smashed by Green Bay in the playoffs......Gibbs would have won the Super Bowl with that team.
With Cousins, Jackson, Garcone, Reed, and a really good offensive line....that team would have set NFL records. Under Gruden they were mediocre just like the coach.
TD_washingtonredskins
16 hours ago, Voice_of_Reason said:
I think if they lose week 1, the chances of going 10-6 are reduced more than the chances of them winning game 1 and going 6-10.
I'm not sure that made a ton of sense...
It makes sense and seems very logical given what we all think we know about the opponents.
But last year's opener is a perfect example of how we really don't know. That was a bad loss no matter how you slice it, but we ultimately lost to the Super Bowl champs despite feeling like we were opening the season against a .500-ish team.
I do agree though...the most likely path to a good season probably includes a win in the opener and, more than likely, a 2-0 start. Anything can happen of course, but that seems like a reasonable stance.
In 2016 however, we started 0-2 (again, the Dallas loss ended up seeming far less embarrassing than it did at the time) and were still entering Thanksgiving at 6-3-1. So, who knows how things will pan out.
31 minutes ago, TD_washingtonredskins said:
We're not pulling a rabbit out of our ass if we go 1-1 or 0-2 before the Packer game. We've got GB, @NO, CAR, DAL, with @NYG on the dockett after the first 2 games. If we're 2-0, and manage a .500 record after that, we can realistically hope for the wild card if we're 3-4 or 4-3, we might still have a chance to compete after that murderous stretch. If we're 1-1 or God forbid 0-2 before the Packer game, you can kiss any hope of wild card chances down the drain this year, given how hard our schedule is, and the greatness of all the other NFC teams.
I'd argue that this year is Jay's most important year to date. We don't have much room for error to start off bad, and hope for a rebound, when there are 6-7 teams in the NFC that can win 10+ games. Getting off to a good start is paramount if we hope to have a successful season. This is one of those years where how we start will set the tone as to how we'll play the remainder of the season. Go 1-1 or 0-2, and voices of change will get louder. 1-5 or 2-4, and we'll be looking at potential HC candidates by the end of October.
10 minutes ago, samy316 said:
I'd argue that this year is Jay's most important year to date. We don't have much room for error to start off bad, and hope for a rebound, when there are 6-7 teams in the NFC that can win 10+ games. Getting off to a good start is paramount if we hope to have a successful season. This is one of those years where how we start will set the tone as to how we'll play the remainder of the season. Go 1-1 or 0-2, and your seat is already warming up under a campfire. 1-5 or 2-4, and we'll be looking at potential HC candidates by the end of October.
Good points and, again, I agree with that mindset. My point is that you just never know. In 2016 at 0-2 I wouldn't have thought we'd win in NY, in Baltimore, and beat both the Vikings and Packers at home. Things happen.
What if New Orleans doesn't have a defense again and last year was more of a fluke? What if Dallas is a trainwreck or Carolina loses Cam Newton?
To be clear, I think 0-2 ends any playoff hopes too and it's one of the reasons I hated the soft start to the schedule. I'd rather open like we did in 2016 with a game we are expected to lose...but we have recent proof that 0-2 doesn't sink the ship, so I also won't tune out by mid-September if we haven't won yet.
But consider this: In 2016, if they hadn't opened slowly and lost to the Cowboys, they might have had the upper-hand in the division race right from the get-go. Also, while we found out that both Dak and Elliot would have very good years, both were rookies in their first game. The team didn't start the game well, had to come back, and then Kirk had a pick in the red-zone to put the nail in the coffin.
Does the 2016 season take on a completely different vibe if they beat Dallas to open the season? I don't know. Maybe. Even if EVERYTHING else plays out exactly as it did, you're now 7-2-1 going into that Thanksgiving game with a chance to essentially put a strangle-hold on the division with a win, given the sweep against Dallas.
Last year, they ended up playing a sloppy game, gave up 2 TD's early, and while they actually came back, they never appeared in rhythm. They only had 264 net yards, Kirk was sacked 4 times for 40 yards, the rushing attack was "meh" and they gave up net 365 yards. Sure, the Eagles ended up being very good, but they didn't play a great game either, however they played well enough to win a road division game going away.
Again, how different would the season have been IF the 'Skins came out firing on all cylinders and took a 14-0 lead instead of sleep-walking through the first 20 minutes of the game?
I get that the first game is not an end-all-be-all, and if you lose it the season isn't over.
But it's important to set the tone, it's important to show that you're prepared, and it's even more important if it's a road game you should be favored to win.
@Voice_of_Reason and @samy316 - I am in no way saying that I want to start 0-2 or look bad again. I love winning the season openers even in crappy years (2011 for example) because for the fans that game seems so much more meaningful. We've been picturing it for 4-5 months.
I am with you guys completely. I'm only saying that if we lose the Cardinals 30-28 it's going to feel like ****. But if we rebound and get to 3-3 at some point and peek at the NFC West standings later in the year to find that they are legit...a close road loss won't feel horrible.
Let's get to 1-0 though...Jay is due!
1 minute ago, TD_washingtonredskins said:
I would argue that 0-2 did sink the ship. We haven't made the playoffs when we've gone 0-2. So, the sink was effectively sunk. They managed to get back even a few times, but never overcome the loss.
Look at it this way, going 10-6 is really 2 games over .500. If you go .500, you win 8 games. Win 2 more than half your games, and you've had a really good season.
If you go 0-2, you have to go 10-4 the rest of the way to pretty much ensure you are getting into the playoffs. Unless you are the Cowboys the year Emmit sat out, and have a HOF running back returning in week, 3, going 10-4 is hard under any circumstance, unless you are the Patriots. Or maybe Steelers most years. But that's it...
Just now, TD_washingtonredskins said:
oh, I'm not at all suggesting that you are saying otherwise, nor am I suggesting that the season is over if they lose the opener.
I'm just emphasizing that while you can't make the playoffs in September, you can work yourself out of them in September.
I think we are in agreement on most points, just adding further examples...
Just now, Voice_of_Reason said:
They entered a Thanksgiving Day game at 6-3-1 and holding a playoff spot. So, I would agree that more wins there helps...but they rebounded in 2016 to be in contention and only sunk their own ship in late home games against teams they should have beaten (Carolina and New York).
I'm sorry, but if a team is ever sitting with 3 losses out of its first 10 games, I don't really care in what order they got there. They did enough and had control of their own destiny for the final 6. December is where the 2016 Redskins failed in my book.
5 minutes ago, Voice_of_Reason said:
Yep, enjoying this conversation!
I'm sorry, but if a team is ever sitting with 3 losses out of its first 10 games, I don't really care in what order they got there. They did enough and had control of their own destiny for the final 6. December is where the 2016 Redskins failed in my book.
Actually, they failed when they hired Joe Barry, because that move essentially guaranteed a pathetic defense which the offense was unable to overcome.
Losing the opener didn't help. Giving up the drive at the end of the Detroit game didn't help. Giving up the drives in London against the Bengals didn't help. And not being able to stop Dallas at all on Thanksgiving was the final nail in the coffin. After that loss, it was as though the offense knew that whatever they did, the defense was going to give it up, so everybody kinda gave up the last 5 weeks of the season.
It was pathetic. But, in some ways, understandable.
Barry was the single worst non-head coach hire in the history of the organization. it was stupid on steroids, and obviously so.
I think the offense/kicking game was just as culpable in 2016. They were clearly the better unit, don't get me wrong.
But, they also...
Did next to nothing virtually all game against Detroit (including 1-2 red zone turnovers to keep points off the board).
Missed a chippy FG to win the London game
Looked pretty bad in Arizona, vs. Carolina, and vs. New York
The TEAM all had an equal share in 8-7-1...my larger point was that those last 3 games I reference are what sunk the ship. As it was happening, it seemed like we simply needed to win 2 of those 3. As it turned out, even just 1 would have been enough. Arizona and Carolina were worse than us. New York wasn't trying. In all three cases we looked awful and were pretty fortunate to even be in the two of those games that we were (Carolina destroyed us).
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We've been waiting for decades for our own Marvin Lewis, and now we have him.
Now, he just needs to match Marvin's success.
NoCalMike
That opening loss to the Steelers hurt more because it was in prime time to open the season, and early on the 'Skins had a ton of momentum I believe they forced a couple of turnovers. Wasn't it Josh Norman's first game and forced a fumble on Antonio Brown's reception? If I remember correctly the defense forced two turnovers inside the Steeler's 20 or 30 yard line and the offense had 3 points to show for it. The Steelers opened the game looking like garbage but the 'Skins couldn't capitalize.
It took the Steelers about a Quarter of football to get right and look like a football team again, while the 'Skins seemed to get worse as the game went on. It was embarrassing.
49 minutes ago, NoCalMike said:
Yes, until things spun out of control, the Steelers gave us chances to build a lead in that game.
The bad loss to start THAT season though was Dallas. We weren't going to beat the Steelers so I almost prefer getting that game out of the way. Even when we cut into the lead late and they had stalled a bit, they instantly went on a drive to re-extend their lead to two scores. It's almost like they knew what they needed to do to come out of that game with a road, season-opening win against an inferior opponent.
The Dallas loss was bad simply because they hadn't yet developed into what they were going to be. So, despite that loss being acceptable on paper...they weren't the same team in week 2 that they were once they hit their stride and gained their confidence. And, in fact, they looked pretty very beatable in that game. We could have iced it with a TD but instead threw the end zone INT.
I also consider the season-opener vs. Philly last year the same category. Yes, looking back it's acceptable. But, going into the season it's not like the Eagles were clicking yet. So, that was a winnable game that we let get away against (at the time) a team who hadn't figured out that they were good yet.
Oh yeah......ugh. That was bad. Game over if that TD happens.
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14 hours ago, samy316 said:
Could not have said it better myself. Add to it the fact of JG's dismal division record, and the fact he has never beat a good team to boot.
dyst
His teams never play with urgency or intensity and this preseason was no different.
7 minutes ago, dyst said:
Huh? In 3 out of his first 4 preseasons with us, we were 3-1 in preseason. 9-3 in preseason those 3 August's. Last summer we were 2-2. That's 11-5 (now 12-8 in August with us now falling to 1-3 this time.
That's a pretty good preseason record if you ask me
skins4eva
This will be Gruden's last year. He doesn't have what it takes. We all know that.
26 minutes ago, Cooleyfan1993 said:
Never go by preseason scores. The question is more how the starters played and how much they played and how ready the team is for the opener.
so far 0-4. Next one is in 9 days...
We'll see.
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Amos Edwin McKechnie pleaded not guilty to a single count of uttering threats before Court of Queen's Bench Justice William deWit. McKechnie is accused of leaving a threatening message on the voicemail of his lawyer, Kate Engel.
In a recording of the brief message played for the court, the caller, who identified himself as McKechnie, says he is in Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, where some people accused of crimes undergo mental health assessments.
"To hear (that), it scared me," Engel said.
Engel testified she first heard the message on April 2, 2018, while going through a backlog of voicemail. The message itself was left on March 13.
Engel said she contacted police after receiving the message and consulting with Tom Engel, the firm's senior partner.
Engel testified that McKechnie was a "needy" client with numerous opinions about the law. She said he would regularly instruct her to make what she believed to be "meritless" arguments.
"He was very convinced of his interpretation of the law," Engel said.
McKechnie was referred to Engel's office in 2017, retaining Tom Engel for a civil suit related to conditions in jail, court heard.
Kate Engel variously acted for McKechnie on family, civil and criminal cases. In February 2018, she was retained by Legal Aid to represent McKechnie on a criminal matter, court heard, which Engel recalled was related to harassment.
Part of Monday's hearing focused on whether the recording should be admitted as evidence.
Defence lawyer Allan Fay argued against allowing the recording, saying the Crown must prove the authenticity of the audio. He said the audio court heard came as an attachment to an email, and that the Crown introduced no evidence as to how the audio was transferred from the phone to Engel's inbox.
Justice deWit, who is hearing the case without a jury, eventually ruled that the audio was admissible.
Fay also pressed Engel on a previous incident in which McKechnie is alleged to have expressed to her the belief that he had the "legal authority" to kill correctional officers.
Engel said she did not report the remarks to the police because she had concerns about solicitor-client privilege and placing her client in legal jeopardy. However, she said she sent him a letter telling him to stop saying such things.
McKechnie, who is in custody, sat in the prisoner dock wearing orange correctional service coveralls. He has long black hair kept in a pony tail, as well as a long goatee and moustache.
The trial is scheduled to continue Tuesday.


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#dailynews60 : The Uttar Pradesh Police has sought a ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI), days after its complicity was suspected in the recent statewide violent protests against the amended citizenship law.
UP DGP OP Singh said on Tuesday that they had written to the Union Home Ministry, seeking a ban on the PFI after its Uttar Pradesh head, Wasim, and 16 other activists were arrested for allegedly masterminding the violence in the state capital during anti-CAA protests.
"We have written to the Union Home Ministry, recommending that the PFI should be banned," the DGP told reporters here.
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The PFI's role has been "established" in vandalism in the state, Maurya told reporters.
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When asked if the PFI will be banned, Maurya said, "The process is on. Such organisations will not be allowed to grow. If needed, they will be banned."
Wasim was arrested for allegedly masterminding the violence, police had said last week.
"We have got success in arresting the mastermind of the Lucknow violence. Wasim, Nadeem and Ashfaq of the PFI have been arrested. While Wasim is the state head, Ashfaq is the treasurer and Nadeem is a member of the PFI," Lucknow SSP Kalanidhi Naithani told reporters here.
Police seized placards, flags, pamphlets, literature, newspaper cuttings, banners and posters for the anti-NRC or CAA protest from them, the SSP said.
During interrogation, Nadeem and Ashfaq told police that they made the strategy for the December 19 protests and publicised it on social media, he had said.
Nadeem and Ashfaq incited people for the protest through WhatsApp and other platforms by sharing literature and video, Naithani had said.
Besides, in Shamli district of western Uttar Pradesh, 28 people, including 14 members of the PFI, were arrested for allegedly attempting to incite mass gatherings during anti-CAA protests.
"As many as 14 PFI members, including Mohammad Shadab, a prominent member of the PFI, have been arrested. Two PFI members are wanted. Another 14 people were also arrested in the district," Shamli SP Vineet Jaiswal had said.
On December 19, the situation was tense in Shamli and its Kairana town.
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Here is a selection of recently released audio recordings and videos that feature my performances (violin, keys, vocals, or all of the above).
KEYS & ELECTRIC VIOLIN by Koi Anunta. Violin recorded direct out of Fishman amplifier + LR Baggs DI.
DRUMS by Tom McGeoch, GUITAR by Jake Faun, BASS by Marco Barrientos.
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SOLO ELECTRIC VIOLIN by Koi Anunta. Recorded with LR Baggs DI, Fishman amplifier and Rode NT-1 room mic. MIXED by Paul Melio.
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VOCALS, PIANO, LYRICS, MUSIC performed and written by Koi Anunta. Recorded and mixed by Ali Nikou (Blaster Master Productions).
Very honored that a song I wrote, sang, and played on piano called "Mad Girl's Love Song" was chosen to be part of the soundtrack for the British film, "The Goodbye Girl" released 3/25/18. Here is the official trailer which features my song throughout! "The Goodbye Girl" is a film written, produced and directed by Aidey Pugh, starring Rik Garrad, Helen Tunnicliff, Millie-Grace Guy, Leon Child, Paul Jonah, Beverley Jacques & Tony Broadbent.
VOCALS, KEYS, ELECTRIC VIOLIN, LYRICS, MUSIC performed and written by Koi Anunta. Violin recorded direct out of Fishman amplifier.
Featuring ELECTRIC VIOLIN SOLO by Koi Anunta recorded in-studio using LR Baggs DI only. VOCALS, PIANO, LYRICS, MUSIC by Rome da Luce.
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Featuring ELECTRIC VIOLIN SOLO and KEYS by Koi Anunta. Violin recorded direct, no amplifier. VOCALS, LYRICS, MUSIC by Charlie Kim.


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There I go, searching for the route to success and someone pops up with this one - Nothing succeeds like success. Indeed! So, if I want to succeed, I must have already succeeded? Eminently sensible and easy to do, of course. Now, why didn't I think of that?
As a route TO success, it is about as useful as cold water is to start a fire. But...it is not entirely senseless as most such aphorisms turn out to be when you think of them.
Talk of success and, as a Tamilian, Rajnikant sort of pops up in you mind with the inevitability of the night following day. There, possibly, was a time when a director may...MAY...have told him that his Kannada-accented Tamil was a handicap. (Said director would stoutly deny any such accusation today. Lynch mobs are not exactly the sort of spectacle that you want to wake up to in the morning). Today...I am sure that, somewhere in Tamil Nadu, there are elocution classes for wannabe actors training them in THAT wonderful manner of dialogue delivery.
THAT, though, is not the end of it. You succeed in one thing and, presto, you are the fount of wisdom on ALL things. Your views on politics, on society and on history will ALL find takers; and, even those who deride your views, will...well...actually deride your views instead of merely ignoring them. If you chose to write a book on the String theory or Einstein's General theory of relativity, it would probably outsell Stephen Hawking - so what if you consistently flunked every physics exam you were forced to attempt, not to mention that the fact that your physics teacher did not commit suicide after one tuition session with you can ONLY be because he was an abnormally strong character?
Unfortunately, though, the day has not come when people start doubting Hawking's views of the Universe on the grounds that 'Trump says the stars are God's daisy chain' or some such, but it is on its way. The physical sciences are so obdurate...so unwilling to change, unlike the more forward looking social sciences. THERE we have successful businessmen, actors, and whoever having THEIR opinions treated with appropriate seriousness - on politics, sociology, history - and without piddly considerations about whether they have the knowledge to make those comments. Why should these physical science guys be any different?
Soon, the day will come when Hawking WILL have to defend his physics against such critics. We have made a start with Darwin...we will get to Einstein et al as well.
THEN will come the day, like someone once said of someone else, when Trump can repeal the law of gravitation.
I cannot be held responsible if you automatically think of the peculiar adhesiveness of people in power and their respective posts, the moment I say 'Letting go'. Yes, you guessed it right, I AM going to talk of the difficulty of 'Letting go' but WHY that should automatically lead you to think of people who bemoan the abolishing of crowns, I do not know.
Yes! Yes! I, too, find it difficult to let go. Especially, when I am engaging in conversation ('Oh! You call your monologues conversation?" you mutter. I heard you!) with someone. Short of holding the person by his button, I do everything to keep him around. So would you, if, like me, you are faced with fast disappearing backs every time and have been lucky enough to snag one unlucky victim. But THAT is not exactly the 'letting go' that I intend talking of, either.
A lady comments something sarcastic on Facebook, which seemed to say that, because I had not grown an unkempt beard, taken to drink and died of a broken liver (Yeah! Well! Hindi seems to associate emotions with the liver more than the heart - jigri dost, jigar ka tukda and all that), I was a mere butterfly flitting from flower to flower. So, even if the girl rejects you as something unfit for human company, she will still not let go of you apparently; you have to be a satellite revolving around her, with or without the help of liquor.
I also hear that parents find it difficult to let go of their children. First they find it rather tough to let go of the idea that their children can have opinions different from their own; then they find it tough to see them flit out of the nest and make a career elsewhere; and then they find it difficult that they have ceased to be the center of the universe for them. It is almost as bad for them as for the Sun to find that the Earth has decided to take up domicile in another star system. I do not even speak of those parents who think that their children have been sent down on Earth for the explicit purpose of fulfilling the dreams that they themselves failed to achieve, which goes to show HOW difficult we also find to let go of our dreams even when it is long after their expiry date.
THAT, though, is ALL hearsay for me. What I can vouch for is the difficulty in letting go of a job. Suddenly, you find yourself bereft of an answer to the question, "What do you do?" It is not exactly like I am Rip Van Winkle who does totally nothing (though I aspire to be) but apparently brushing my teeth, drinking coffee, reading books, watching a movie or even blogging are not answers to THAT question. If I give them those answers, I get a "Hahaha! But what do you REALLY do?" as though I had been regaling them with a fictitious account all along. I mean "I am retired" or "I retired as..." says nothing about what you are currently doing but those, apparently, are acceptable answers - provided you are old enough.
The worst case of not letting go of your office is when you keep visiting it after retirement, much like the tongue keeps visiting the vacant spot of a drawn tooth. THAT can be very traumatic, you know. Just as you are trying to digest the fact that your fond hopes - that your absence has caused your organisation to collapse - are misplaced, someone comes in and says, "You know, we were all pretty astonished that your absence could make such a huge difference. Efficiency almost doubled!" THEN, indeed, you are forced to let go!
To let go of what we have all accustomed ourselves to consider social obligations is probably tougher by far. In your doddering seventies, you still think that YOU have to go to the help of your sick child - even when all he is sick with is the flu - and even when the said sick child probably has children, who are gainfully employed and quite capable of taking care of it (AND screaming about the addition of a golden oldie to the 'take care' list? Sometimes, that too!). There comes a time when you need to face up to the fact that your social obligations are also at an end and it is about time for you to allow people to fend for themselves or seek such help as can be received from other more nimble people around. But, would you? No way!
You learn to let go of almost all of these; and, if you do not, the thing that you are grasping so possessively just yanks itself out of your grip and moves on. There is one thing, though, that ONLY death can possibly make you let go - THOSE opinions that you form without ANY reason for forming them. THAT is the friend which will NEVER leave you as long as you grasp it tightly.
Strange, isn't it, that the one thing that you need to be letting go of is the one thing that is so easy to hold on to? C'est la vie!
I am a rather strange person, as most of you know by now. When I see a wasps' nest, for example, I am not seized by an irresistible impulse to pick a stick and poke it, just to avoid being ignored by the wasps. That, I sort of feel, is the time when being ignored is not too bad an idea.
The problem, though, is that this only means that I am not geared for success. The idea, actually, is to walk around with that stick in hand, poking at anything that even seems likely to ignore you. So what if even bumblebees develop stings merely in order to ensure that you are assured that you are not being ignored?
In other words, without attention you might as well tattoo 'Loser' on your forehead. If you do not get attention naturally, the easiest way is to be controversial - that proverbial stick with which you disturb nests and set everyone buzzing.
THAT was a lesson which seemed well worth applying. Having lolloped around Social media, saying polite and what I thought were wise things, and having been so studiously ignored by everyone to the extent that I kept checking my own page to ensure that what I had put up was really being carried, I decided that it was time for a change of strategy. (Phew! You read THAT and made sense of it? Great).
That was my first attempt to say 'Here I am; Notice me' using the latest gimmick that I had learnt. Either everyone actually thought the Earth WAS indeed flat or, perhaps, they thought it was too crazy to be bothered about. Maybe the latter, considering that the lone comment on it was 'Don't walk too far; you may fall off the edge' and it got some 17 Likes.
Hmmm! This creating a controversy was not easy. My next attempt was effective, though. Hitherto, if I found something wrong in a post, I'd comment, 'Maybe you need to look into the logic of this'. I know! I know! THAT sort of comment is what only a wuss would write. I considered shifting to 'Are you an idiot?' but a bold idea struck me. What is the point in a controversial comment? The best thing was a controversial post. The next time I saw some such post in a Facebook group, I put up a fresh FB post.
WHAT a fury of comments and counter-comments erupted on that one! For once, I was not being ignored - everyone and his aunt wanted to crash the party. I was quite thrilled with my success when, at the end of the day, I found myself kicked out of the group and unfriended by every single person who was a member of that group and on my friends' list.
Uhoh! This controversy business is not as easy as it seems. You sort of needed to poke just enough to convert even the bumblebees to wasps, get them all stinging but leave enough of a back-door to gracefully exit your position on the 'Oh! I did not mean it that way' basis. THAT is going to take some learning for me. Hopefully, I will not end up getting kicked out of Facebook before I am done learning.
AND then...watch my smoke! I shall create the mother of all controversies every day and twice on Sundays!
"Look! Look! He is calling you mama."
I hastily wiped that incredulous look on my face and put on a suitably impressed look, as my friend's wife turned to me. Impressed look, it had to be, considering that this child prodigy of a three month old had taken just a nanosecond to look at me, divine our relationship and find the word to express it. Meanwhile, my mind was working feverishly to identify exactly how that screeched set of syllables meant mama ('Uncle', for those of you who know not what it means in propah English; 'maternal uncle' to the offspring of a sibling or just generally 'uncle' to the rest of the babes of the world.) I parse those vocal syllable and, hey yes, there was first a 'ma' and then a 'ma', separated by what Divine Providence equips parents to identify as nonsense syllables.
Hmm! When I had agreed to host these new-born parents and their baby for a few days, the only problem I had envisaged was an issue of insomnia. From what I had gleaned, babies did not particularly care if you slept when they slept, but took grave objection to your sleeping when they are awake - and have no compunction about screaming their objections lustily. Looks like there was a lot more to it than just that.
For one, the entire day was awash in baby-talk. No, not from the baby, it was quite content to do it infrequently. The parents, though, were at it all day - as though they were learning a new language and had to keep practicing it lest they forgot how to speak it. The baby looked as though it was bemused at having its role usurped by them.
If they had only kept it to themselves, I may have found a way to ignore it. The problem was that they WOULD try to get ME to converse with the baby, despite the fact that the baby showed a singular disinterest in discussing the thusness of things with me. Then, they would give me wounded looks at my refusal to learn this new lingua franca. When it got to the point where they started talking to ME in this mystery tongue, I had to throw my hands up and claim illiteracy.
"Look! Look! What he is doing now...the clever imp"
THAT was on the second day and, by then, I had stopped rushing to their room in a hurry not to miss the latest miracle wrought by the little one. The miracle would, I complacently thought, be the twentieth time in the day when the little tot had gone on all fours and butted the pillow. I had no clue how the pillow felt about it but I was all done feeling amazed by the feat.
I should have! I should not have waited till the screaming started again - as it did and would continue till I had duly gone over and stood witness to the acrobatic feat - before walking over leisurely. If I had, I may have saved my new laptop from getting drooled over, with the parents ecstatically clapping their hands and beaming with pride at the sight.
I jumped as though a red-hot skewer had been stuck up my...fundament, shall we say?
Cute, I assure you, was not the specific adjective that was on top of my mind at the moment. Unfortunately, there are social norms about hosts and guests, not to mention certain irrational social prejudices about committing verbal or physical mayhem on babies, otherwise...AND the caterwauling that resulted from my rescuing my laptop from its totally unnecessary bath...these modern kids...even for something to drool on, they prefer electronic devices!
Suffice to say that every time there were sounds of ecstasy from them, my BP shot up and I took a hurried inventory of my belongings. Yeah, my phone was supposed to be unbreakable and all that but when the irresistible force meets the immovable - or, in this case, unbreakable - object, who knows what the result would be? Especially since the irresistible force, when resisted, would merely shrug its shoulders, metaphorically, with a 'Nyanyanya' and move on to try its powers on the mirror. If the unbreakable object fails in being so, though, I may...MAY...also say 'Nyanyanya' but THAT would only be because my rage had rendered me inarticulate.
You must be sure then that I heaved a huge sigh of relief when their visit came to an end. You know what...I actually ended up missing that little mite, its smiles, its caterwauling and even its drooling. I am as irrational as the rest of humanity!


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World Vasectomy Day
One Generation More
Documentary about the resurgence of Jewish culture in Estonia follows one family as they celebrate Passover for the first time in 40 years.
Damned in the USA
Documentary on the censorship controversy in America involving pornography, art and blasphemy.
Boys From the Bronx
Writers Frederic Tuten and Jerome Charyn visit the Bronx to recall the world of their childhood.
Shop 'til You Drop
In the run up to Christmas, New Yorkers indulge in an annual shopping frenzy.
Harlem Diary:
Nine Voices of Resilience
A feature-length documentary that tells the story of nine young men and women constructing postive lives as they face the challenges of growing up poor in one of America's most famous African American communities.
Golden Eagle Award, 1994
Cable Ace, 1994
Final Judgement:
The Execution of Antonio James
Documentary looks at capital punishment with the story of Antonio James who was sentenced to death for first degree murder 15 years ago. He has served those years on death row at Louisiana's State Penitentiary at Angola, the oldest and largest maximum security facility in America. - NYTimes
Emmy Winner, 1996
Life Inside Angola Prison
This documentary intimately captured the day-to-day reality of six men living – and dying – in America's largest and oldest penal institution. In the process, it captured their innate humanity, and the relationships and community that they built to sustain one another.
For A&E and Channel Four International
Grand Jury Prize, Sundance, 1998
Academy Award Nominee, 1998
4 Emmy Nominations, 2 Emmy Awards, 2000
Inside Scientology
This film provides an unbiased look at the Church of Scientology and its relationship to the worlds of psychiatry, government, and the media. It looks back on the life of the church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and provides insight into the basic spiritual principles and beliefs of the Church. The story is told through exclusive interviews with ex-church members, religious legal experts, authors and affiliates.
For A&E
Guns In America is an hour-long program that explores America's love affair with guns. Part of a five-part series, the film is an effort to find common ground in a polorized nation where one side sees guns as a symbol of violence, and the other as a bastion of individual freedom and defense.
For the Discovery Channel
Empowering people to author their own lives, rather than be abject subjects of someone else's narrative.
The Wildest Show in the South
The Angola Prison Rodeo
October brings rodeo season to Angola State Penitentiary. Over six thousand people gather at the prison to watch the inmate cowboys risk their lives in some of the most dangerous and bizarre rodeo events in the nation.
Academy Award, Nominee, 2000
IDA Short Documentary Winner, 2000
The Return of The Kamikaze Kid
The role of a rodeo clown has evolved from being a job, into being a sport. This film follows rodeo clown Rob Smets back into the ring after his second broken neck.
The Gospel According to Mr. Allen
The Addicts Rehabilitation Center (Ar.R.C.) in Harlem is one of the oldest rehab facilities in the country. This is the story three individuals struggling with addiction.
Shadows of Doubt:
The State VS. 85188 Vincent Simmons
Following the success of THE FARM, we received letters from throughout the world about the Vincent Simmons parole board scene. This film weaves together a complicated story about rape, survival, incarceration and healing.
For A&E Network, WDR, Germany and Channel Four
Casino Diaries
A 13-part series that follows the lives of big and small players in the casinos of Las Vegas.
900 Women:
Life In St. Gabriel's Women's Prison
78% of incarcerated women in the nation are mothers. This film follows three inmates at St. Gabriel Women's Prison, Louisiana's only maximum security correctional institute for women, and explores the theme of mothering behind bars.
For A&E Network and Channel Four
A Chance to Grow
Three families navigate the unpredictable terrain of a neonatal intensive care unit. The inevitable shifts in each baby's condition provide dramatic twists that challenge family stability and redefine parental love. Nurses and doctors reveal the challenges and rewards of working in the NICU, as well as complex ethical issues that they face.
These three one-hour episodes follow several inmates at Dixon Correctional Institute (DCI) in Louisiana as they deal with their crimes, doing serious time, and getting out. Watch as inmates learn to accept their crimes - from burglary to murder - and process their emotions as they face parole board.
For The Learning Channel (TLC)
Medicine Behind Bars
Three one-hour episodes that follow inmates and their health situations at Louisiana State Penitentiary, David Wade/Fort Wade Correctional Facility, and Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW).
For Discovery Health Channel
Body Piercing:
An in-depth look at the practice of piercing the body and its meaning to different people around the world. The film takes us from the fashionable, youth oriented body piercing fad found in the US to remote parts of Africa and South Asia, where piercing the body represents such things as religious devotion and tribal identity.
For The Discovery Channel and Granada TV
The Rodney Hulin Story:
Prison Rape in America
This short documentary takes the viewer to the heart of the prison rape problem, to meet the victims and the perpetrators, the indifferent officials as well as the isolated reformist administrators. The film not only explores the inside of prisons where rape is rampant but also the incarceration houses where it has been drastically reduced.
For Human Rights Watch
Crime in the Crescent City
Two-part series about New Orleans criminal justice system, including the homicide division, the District Attorney's office, the pathologist and a public defendant.
For Court TV
Pushing the boundaries of what's possible with stories that transform the world around us
Fight to the Max
A feature-length documentary that takes the audience inside the brutal world of prison boxing. At the center of the film is Clifford "The Black Rhino" Etienne, a former inmate of Angola State Penitentiary, who now fights professionally and is considered a contender for the heavyweight crown.
For Discovery Channel
Science Times:
Shaky Ground and Monarch Butterflies
For National Geographic
New York Justice
New York City is held together by a constantly changing set of laws and rules that guide us through an otherwise chaotic urban environment. This 5-part series delves into the stories of the people who fill this city.
The World's Most Dangerous Places
World Famous adventurer, Robert Young Pelton, takes us straight into the dark heart of the world's hot spots, war zones, terrorist dens and unforgiving regions showing us how to travel, explore, survive and come back alive.
For The Travel Channel, Discovery Canada and Granada
6x60 minutes
Series Executive Producer and
Episode Producer
After 9/11:
A documentary that follows six people who face the extraordinary task of putting the pieces back together after their lives were shattered on September 11th.
For Discovery Channel's 9/11/02 Memorial
Inshallah:
Diary of an Afghan Woman
Since 1993, when she founded the U.S. based aid organization Help the Afghan Children, Suraya Sadeed has led eighteen relief missions to her homeland, smuggling food and supplies through Taliban-held territory and setting up often clandestine schools and medical clinics.
For Oxygen
Justifiable Homicide
This documentary follows the story of Margarita Rosario, founder of Parents Against Police Brutality, as she challenges the NYPD to justify the brutal murders of her son and nephew, who were killed by two young detectives in The Bronx.
For Sundance Channel
Golden Globes:
Less than 100 film critics wield enormous power in deciding the financial success of Hollywood's major motion pictures. The film takes a humorous look at one of the industry's most important award shows.
For Trio Channel
Liberia:
An Uncivil War
In Liberia, the summer of 2003 was pure insanity: two armies were in the final battle of a fifteen-year civil war, holding the capital under siege while thousands died from mortar shells launched from afar. As the soldiers, mostly teenagers, fought a bloody urban battle, the nation prayed for American forces to show up and put an end to the violence.
For the Discovery Times Channel/BBC
Two Emmy Nominations, 2005
Special Jury Prize, IDFA, 2004
Working with communities on projects based
Cast the First Stone
Seventy-five inmates from Angola Prison and Louisiana Correctional Institution for Women, come together to perform the largest prison production of The Passion Play ever.
Secrets of the Code
The film takes the viewer on a spiritual road trip from ancient Europe to modern Israel in a feature documentary that covers the terrain touched upon in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Interviews were done with many of the leading teachers, art historians and spiritual guides of our time.
For Sony Home Video
This ten-part series follows Pulitzer Prize winning writer and reporter, Charlie LeDuff as he journeys through America's many subcultures. From a fight club in Oakland, to the gay rodeo in Oklahoma, from war re-enactors to male models, Charlie takes us deep into the diversity that is America.
For the Discovery Times Channel
Dear Talula
Following a routine checkup Lori received a call from her doctor telling her she had breast cancer. Within days of her diagnosis, Lori began filming every detail of the experience. With warmth and humor, DEAR TALULA reveals the most uplifting details of one woman's fight for life.
Best Short: Ashland Independent Film Festival, 2007
International Cancer Film Festival, 2008
Iron Ladies of Liberia
A look at the acheivements and struggles of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first woman elected as President of the African nation of Liberia.
Audience Award - Top 3 International Films, Encounters South African International Documentary Festival
Best Documentary, Banff World Television Awards
Best Documentary Feature, AFI Dallas International Film Festival
Millennium Development Goals Award, One World Media Awards
Big Snoop Dogg's Youth Authority
A feature documentary about Snopp Dogg's experience as a young man facing the obstacles of growing up black and poor in California. Once a state renowned for its innovative juvenile justice system, California is now considered to have one of the worst systems in America.
For Spike TV
The Farm: 10 Down
In 1998 THE FARM - a film about six inmates in Angola Prison, Louisiana's maximum security penitentiary - received critical acclaim. Now, ten years later, we go back inside Angola to reconnect with our characters and witness first hand Time's impact on their spirits, their bodies, their sense of hope and their sense of purpose.
For National Geographic Channel
Short film for Amnesty International. Illustrates post civil war rebuilding in Liberia.
For Amnesty International
The Road to Redemption
A documentary inspired by Liberian novelist Elma Shaw's moving novel Redemption Road. Elma's novel is the basis for this documentary to explore the stories of three women who were combatants in rebel armies during the civil war. This film celebrates the women of Liberia who together are building a future for this beleaguered African nation.
The Frackman
Frackman tells the story of accidental activist Dayne Pratzky and his struggle against international gas companies.
After the Spill:
The Last Catch
The Vasectomist
A urologist from Florida on a mission to save the planet "spreading the gospel of vasectomy". A modern day Don Quixote; part dreamer and part visionary committed to the impossible quest of lowering population on the planet, one vasectomy at a time.
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