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In Hate We Trust
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The Recent Spate of Outbursts Shift Spotlight Onto America's Dirty Little Secret.
Iowa 1968
One Day, as a second grader at Lowell Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa, a ruckus was brewing as the class was dismissed for recess. Shouts relayed through the swath of snott-nosed, chest-high playground denizens with phrenitic excitement.
"They're Coming!, They're Coming!"
Half the playground stampeded to the front of school to witness it's newest enrollees. I made my way over after the initial rush, curious about the hubbub, and saw a black mom and her two black children enter the school office. Was that it? Didn't seem like a big deal to me, but like the newest members of our south-end of town population, I was in the minority.
African-Americans lived in Waterloo, but were segregated to the north-end of town. There hadn't been a black family at Lowell, and the reaction to their presence was nothing short of educational. That was my introduction to racism and prejudice.
Small clicks of kids made horrible scary statements I hadn't heard before. Our newest Lowell brethren were left alone at playtime, except for me. I'd already been the object of ridicule, being literally the first kid to wear bell-bottoms at school (not my choice) and hanging out with my friend Kim who was taunted and teased daily. Kim wasn't a popular boy's name in 1968 Iowa. I hadn't yet given in to peer pressure, hell, I didn't even know what that was. Besides, we moved around alot in the early days so I wasn't beholden to any long-term friendships yet.
I played with my new found friends because I liked them. Kids are cruel, but the playing field is pretty even in the second grade. If you're encouraged to think for yourself, you're miles ahead of the pack.
My parents were Jazz musicians. Mom sang with Benny Goodman on a tour that included Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton and Hank Jones, along with many equally talented white musicians. Frequent rehearsals at the house brought people of all sizes, colors and temperament into my consciousness, but differentiation was never based on race, it was solely on the content of their personality.
Being white growing up in the sixties with no attitudinal predisposition towards race proved to be enlightening and infuriating. Because of my parents, I had the good fortune to decide for myself about this issue in particular, because my parents treated everyone like people. Crazy, right? Presumptive predication based on race, religion or politics was absent from my formative years allowing me the freedom to decide for myself.
As a white person growing up in America in the 60's and 70's you were exposed to n-word jokes, period. Sometimes in hushed tones when people of color were in earshot, other times loud and clear as if it were a challenge, but always derogatory with the malodorous stench of underlying hate.
I may not be an expert in human psychology, but after decades in the hospitality industry, managing behavior on a larger scale, I've come to learn how to read a face and translate one's vocabulary and inflection. Couple that with my experience as a fundamentally unbiased anonymous observer in the American white culture, I know how to recognize racism, and the bad news is that this country is rife with hate-filled ignorance and intolerance. It's getting better, but it's still present.
For years, the issue had been relatively buried, unless you regularly visited the Southern Poverty Law Center website, where they track hate groups. But the 2008 Presidential Election changed all that. I think racists were caught with their pants down, because they never in a million years would believe a black man could be elected president of the United States of America. To illustrate, check this stat from Compete.com on Stormfront.org:
Stormfront is a white supremacist website. Members of Stormfront would correct me here and describe themselves as white nationalists, but c'mon. Semantics aside, all you need do is browse through the site. As you can see, the traffic spiked in November, 08′ when Barack Obama won the White House and has slowly increased, reaching near November (2008) levels this August (2009). My guess is September will surpass last November (I'll try to remember to update). Similar traffic spikes were recorded on kkk.com, kkk.bz, kkklan.com, etcetera, etcetera.
Clearly the November 2008 election hit a nerve.
Unfortunate Update-
As predicted, web traffic increased substantially in September for stormfront.org in the month of September:
Bubbling to the Surface in 2009
In high school I dated a girl who originally hailed from Mississippi. She told me she was afraid of black people. "What are you afraid of?", I'd ask. "That they'll take over", she answered. "Take over what?", I inquired. "Take over the country".
To the feeble minded, that's what this is about. Reading through the mangled, incomplete and frighteningly evil thought processes displayed by some of the posters on stormfront, it becomes very apparent that a streak of disbelief, hate and paranoia has grappled the short and curlies of these confederate sympathizers.
As of this writing, President Barack Obama has been in office for a little over 8 months. His appointees are multi-cultural. Mr. Obama won the popular vote of the citizens of this great country, in addition to an overwhelming advantage in the electoral college. Republicans and former Bush appointees serve on his cabinet. President Obama has repeatedly sought bi-partisan support and central to his victorious campaign was the idea that we as a nation could achieve our mutually beneficial objective through cooperation and intelligent discussion.
Unfortunately for us, there are biggots who have enough money to sabotage the progress we're making.
One need only google Rush Limbaugh racist quotes, and 462k results appear. Mr. Limbaugh has made millions of dollars defiling his fellow man. But Rushbo is an entertainer, a clown, the motive behind anything he says is advertiser dollars.
A more complicated case is Rep. Joe Wilson. Joe has apologized to the President, and has been politically backpedaling since his disrespectful outburst on Sept. 9th, 2009. But he's a politician. He'll say whatever. Joe is a member of the "Sons of Confederate Veterans". Joe was one of only 7 state representatives in the state of South Carolina to defend the confederate flag.
The confederate flag is the defining symbol of the confederacy. The core belief of the confederacy, the motivation behind secession of the states involved and the civil war was the right to keep indentured servants. To own human beings as a commodity. To treat human beings as a possession, like a cell phone. How much effort do you expend when you lose your cell phone? As much as your child? As much as a close friend?
Defending the confederate flag is like flipping off Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and human decency. There's simply no place for it in intelligent society.
The white supremacists, separatists, nationalists or whatever want segregation. Good luck. Segregation from what? We all inhabit the same shrinking planet. We all depend on the same resources and all have the same needs. Go ahead and create your own putrid colony, but you'll eventually have needs that supersede your resources. Then what?
I don't understand it. When I break it down to it's lowest common denominator, where's the benefit in that position?
What would be the logical progression of secession or racial segregation? Which state in the union is completely self-sufficient? How long after splitting our gloriously diversified and interdependent nation into multiple individual nations would war erupt? How many wars would there be, and who gets the tanks?
It's a ridiculous proposition.
And let's face facts, if you found yourself in a life threatening situation, and at that precise moment if there were only one person in the world who could save your life, would it matter what color they were?
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FEATURES Fan Interview: Hockey Dad By Sophie Pengelly · August 10, 2016
Billy Fleming and Zach Stephenson are Hockey Dad. Photo by Chris Frape
[In our Fan Interviews series, we ask a fan to interview an artist they love. In this installment, Sophie Pengelly interviews the band Hockey Dad. Want to interview your favorite band on Bandcamp? Email us at 'writers@bandcamp.com' and let us know!]
My name is Sophie, and I'm a Music Journalism graduate from South Wales who's currently dipping in and out of minimum wage, bottom-of-the-food-chain jobs while riding out a semi-annual existential crisis. My talents include making long playlists of bad '00s pop music and asking for allergen lists at restaurants, but one day, I hope to fulfill my life goal of being a contestant on Coach Trip.
It wasn't long ago that Australian surf-rock duo Hockey Dad appeared on my musical radar and, contrary to the usual habits of Fickle Sophie, they've remained in daily rotation for months. The charisma and rawness of their EP Dreamin' drew me in, and I was eager to find out a bit more about the brains behind it.
Windang, Australia
Boronia Hockey Dad .
Having dipped in and out of projects in their native Wollongong since their early teens, Hockey Dad have recently joined the roster of Kanine Records, home of bands like Chairlift and Braids. With an upcoming North American headline tour on the horizon, plus a highly-anticipated full-length album, Boronia, Hockey Dad are well-positioned to make waves.
Dreamin' really captured the beachy, surf-rock sound that defines your music. Was this intentional, or did it just flow naturally, because of your surroundings?
I think it came naturally, just from where we were and what we were listening to at the time. Then, once we started hearing the sounds in the studio, we wanted to really go for that particular sound.
What's on your surfing soundtrack?
Can't beat some mid '00's surf movie music—we discovered so many bands just by watching those films. Classic Aussie bands like Sugar Army and British India always get you hyped to surf.
Is there a strong alt-rock community in Wollongong? Are there any real pioneers in the local scene?
Compared to what it was five years ago, the scene has increased enormously. Now it seems like every one of your friends at home is either in a really cool band, or is starting one next week. The pioneers would have to be the small venue owners who continue to put on live music every week and really support small bands.
You're about to set off on your first headlining North American tour—what are you expecting from the shows?
We don't really have any expectations so far. We are just hoping some people come out and enjoy themselves and hopefully come back for more. We're expecting the support act, Muuy Biien, to be killer.
How does Boronia differ from Dreamin' in terms of sound?
I guess there are a few more bells and whistles attached to these songs, which is a little different from Dreamin'. Also, all the new songs on the record were written at roughly the same time, which is different from Dreamin'. Maybe people will see the difference on the record, but we will have to wait and see.
And where did the album art for Boronia come from?
The photo is one Billy took when he was in Western Australia. It's his niece, Oceana, on these crazy sand dunes with super white sand. We just thought it really stood out and would capture people's eyes, so we made it the cover.
Hockey Dad. Photo by Ian Laidlaw
You guys have been playing shows since you were 13. Did you find that it was harder to be taken seriously when you were that young?
Maybe a little bit, right in the beginning. But it was never too hard for us to become a part of the scene. If you keep playing shows every week and show people you really want to be taken seriously, people will soon enough. I think starting so young made us feel more confident playing live. We have been playing together for so long, we each know what the other is thinking.
The name Hockey Dad stemmed from a video game in an episode of The Simpsons. If you were able to land a cameo on the show, how would you want to be written in?
I'd like us to be written in the same way all the pro baseball players were. Mr. Burns has to win a battle of the bands or something and he recruits me, Chad Kroeger, Lars Ulrich, and brings Lemmy back from the dead. Then, we still somehow get beaten by Homer and his friends, because we all suffer from hilarious mishaps that make us unable to play.
—Sophie Pengelly
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VIDEO: EG Fire Truck Comes Home
by Elizabeth McNamara | Dec 11, 2022
Above: The Ahrens Fox parked in the EGVFA Museum garage.
It was an emotional moment when the Ahrens Fox fire truck turned into the parking lot at the East Greenwich Veteran Fireman's Association parking lot Saturday (12/10/22) after a 60+ year absence. The truck spent the last several decades in South Meriden, Conn., where it first was used in fighting fires, as it had during its years in East Greenwich (1931 to 1958*), then shifted to parade and ceremonial duty.
East Greenwich was able to get the truck back because South Meriden didn't have the room for it anymore. With the EGVFA Museum's large garage, the Ahrens Fox had a home to return to, along with a bunch of very happy former volunteer firemen to welcome it back.
Leigh Johnson on the Ahrens Fox fire truck. Credit: EGVFA
Michael Procopio looks over the truck.
Jon Larsson looks over the engine of the newly returned Ahrens Fox fire truck.
James Cournoyer from the So. Meriden Volunteer Fire Dept. of Connecticut with Bob Farrell of the EGVFA Museum.
Bruce on December 12, 2022 at 6:45 am
My Father would have been happy to see this. He remembered that truck and The Mack from back in the day.
Hub Brennan on December 12, 2022 at 3:52 pm
Another wonderful EG moment. Thanks Leigh and Bob!!
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New Colts coordinator Rob Chudzinski believes in 'attacking'
Looking for clues about Chudzinski from his past experiences
New Colts coordinator Rob Chudzinski believes in 'attacking' Looking for clues about Chudzinski from his past experiences Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://indy.st/1NryeX2
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Rob Chudzinski, Special Assistant to the Head Coach and former Cleveland Browns Head Coach, talks with Offensive Coordinator Pep Hamilton during practice at the Colts facility on Wednesday, June 11, 2014.(Photo: Matt Detrich/The Star)
The Indianapolis Colts declined requests from several teams, including the San Francisco 49ers, to interview Rob Chudzinski for open offensive coordinator posts after last season.
Under contract with the Colts, the associate head coach could not explore outside opportunities without the approval of his current franchise.
So, Chudzinski remained in Indianapolis and now, months later, he's an offensive coordinator after all. After the firing of Pep Hamilton on Tuesday evening, the Colts installed Chudzinski in that role.
Insider: Pep Hamilton's ouster no sure fix for Colts
So, now would be a good time to look at what made Chudzinski attractive to those other teams in the first place and, perhaps, find out what might be in store for the Colts offense with him calling the plays.
One overarching sentiment about Chudzinski was offered by Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam when Chudzinski was introduced as the team's coach in 2013: "He is tremendously innovative. We are very bottom-line people. You look at results. The last two years, Rob was coordinator at Carolina and they scored 88 touchdowns. We scored 48."
Chudzinski had a lot of success integrating Carolina quarterback Cam Newton into the NFL when coaching him during his first two seasons. Newton had some of his best moments during those two seasons, throwing for a career-high 4,051 yards as a rookie and 3,869 yards in Year 2. Those remain the highest passing totals for the fifth-year quarterback.
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Another statistical observation of Newton under Chudzinski: The quarterback had per-attempt averages of 8 yards and 7.8 yards in 2011 and 2012, respectively. That underscores the fact that Chudzinski pushed the ball down the field (it helped that the Panthers had receiver Steve Smith back then). Compare those numbers to struggling Colts quarterback Andrew Luck's current average per attempt – 6.3 yards, 31st among the 32 quarterbacks with at least four starts – and there's a stark difference.
Interestingly, there's been much clamoring among Colts fans to adjust to a shorter, quicker passing game, something that might help Luck compensate for his apparent injury and help reduce some of his inaccuracy issues. It will be interesting to see how the move to Chudzinski impacts this.
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As for his offensive philosophy, Chudzinski described it as "an attacking style" when he was introduced in Cleveland. A story in the local media there compared Chudzinski's scheme with that of Norv Turner's when he was the Dallas Cowboys' offensive coordinator in the 1990s and, later, the San Diego Chargers' coach. Those were systems built on power running and aggressive, downfield passing.
To be clear, Chudzinski won't be installing his offense here in Indianapolis. That can't be done on the fly. But getting a sense of how he's operated offenses in the past does tell us what his instincts and principles are. And it's very likely, we'll see those come through in some form or fashion now that he's got the Colts' play-call sheet.
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Haircuts in the movies and on TV: a supercut (VIDEO).
Hosts of the Bonnie & Maude podcast Eleanor Kagan and Kseniya Yarosh recently put together a variety show called "You Are Hair" in an effort to untangle some of hair-related tropes they had noticed in movies and on TV. Female characters, Kagan and Yarosh had noticed, are frequently defined, and define themselves, with their hair. A dramatic haircut is visual shorthand that signals a pivotal moment for a character—sometimes it's a "haircut of distress," and sometimes the character reclaims control of her life by taking control of her appearance. Cutting your hair is an impermanent act, but, in the movies and on TV, it is often a shocking and emotional one.
For the show's intro, the two put together a supercut of particularly charged scenes about hair, and we asked them if we could publish it on Brow Beat. Enjoy.


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By Stephanie Heinatz, Friend of the Inn at Warner Hall
It couldn't have been more than a couple of days after I shooed my 2-year-old son away from a wild mushroom growing in our front yard that Chef Eric Garcia from the Inn at Warner Hall asked if I'd be interested in going wild mushroom hunting.
"Sure," I said, eager and excited about learning something new, but also wrought with parental hypocrisy. Here I was, having just told my son that wild mushrooms could make him super sick, and I was agreeing to traipse through some unknown woods to pick decomposing matter growing wild on dead trees.
Steve Haas, Virginia's wild mushroom expert and owner of the Richmond-based Steve Haas Mushrooms, cultivates a wide variety of gourmet mushrooms in a chemical and pesticide free environment. He sells them at markets throughout the region and to fine restaurants all over the East Coast. In fact, that's how Chef Eric met him. Chef Eric has used Steve's very prized mushrooms for meals at Warner Hall.
Steve also believes strongly in education and showing people the beauty in mushrooms. That's why, when he's not growing his own, he leads people on mushroom forays.
Most people – at least those who don't chastise their children for touching wild mushrooms – associate mushroom hunts with the western part of the country. But, as Steve says, Virginia is home to thousands of acres of "old growth hardwoods" that provide the hearty environment for the mushroom kingdom's most prized varieties to grow.
The chilly, rainy, fall day Chef Eric and I met Steve at a wooded area in West Point couldn't have been more perfect for mushroom hunting.
And Steve's first lesson couldn't have been more perfect for putting my mind at ease.
Most people were raised to be afraid of mushrooms, he said. While you should have a healthy respect for them, always obeying the golden mushroom hunting rule of "if you can't identify it, don't pick it," the fungi foraged in the woods can provide some of the best eating.
Mushroom hunting, I quickly learned, is a peaceful, relaxing walk through the woods. During a three hour hunt – which could have been made shorter had I not locked my keys in my car before starting out – we made our way down trails, across creeks, over fallen trees and through piles and piles of leaves.
We learned that where a mushroom grows helps identify the type of mushroom. We learned to look for hardwood trees – poplar and oak – and avoid the pine. We learned to look down at the ground as well as up – mushrooms will grow up trees as well as along the ground and across fallen limbs. We learned that the tops and bottom of mushrooms are just as important as the color. Some varieties of edible mushrooms have a non-edible twin, with the only identifiable difference being the way the gills and pore of the belly of the mushroom is constructed. We learned that a poisonous mushroom can grow, literally, right next to one being used in cancer research.
And we learned that the colors of mushrooms – oh, the colors! – can be as vibrant as flowers.
As Steve said, during this hunt with Chef Eric, we hit the mother load of mushroom hunt finds – nearly 40 pounds of bright orange, chicken of the woods (pictured above).
I brought a big hunk of the chicken of the woods mushroom home to cook up. But before it hit the hot butter, I handed it to my 2-year-old and told him all about mushroom hunting and Steve's golden mushroom rule. He looked at, turned it over in his hands and ran his fingers all over the bright orange covering for no less than five minutes – an eternity in toddler time.
"There's a phobia about mushrooms as the big unknown," Steve told the Richmond Times-Dispatch recently. "But children are interested in them, so we can encourage them to look at the amazing colors, shapes and sizes while we teach them mushrooms' place in nature."
Want to see more images from the mushroom hunt? Visit the Inn at Warner Hall's Facebook page here.


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How to Write a Market Research Report
By M.T. Wroblewski Updated May 06, 2019
How to Write an Informal Business Report
What Is an Appendix in a Business Plan?
How to Issue a Corrected Audit Report
How to Write a Powerful Tagline
Motivational Speech Topics for Salespeople
Your blood is pumping. A new opportunity has emerged on your business radar, and it could propel your business in a captivating and profitable direction. It could be a new product or service line, a group of untapped consumers or even – keep your voice down now – a potential merger with a smaller competitor.
Before you get too far ahead of yourself, you know that it's smart to thoroughly vet this opportunity by commissioning a market research report. At some point -- probably after your staff has finished gathering the necessary quantitative and qualitative data – you must lay out your expectations for the written report. How you approach this task should get their blood pumping, too.
Issue Three Dictates
If your marketing team is new to the task, they're probably going to love your top three directives:
Tell a story. Tell a visual story, with lots of charts and graphs. Keep it brief.
They may not think they heard you right; after all, you did say you want a market research report, didn't you? And aren't most reports long, voluminous and yes, sometimes dull products?
Tell them to make no mistake: you expect a comprehensive effort that assesses every angle of this new business opportunity. You want the report, as they say, to "see around corners." But there are valid reasons that drive your directives.
The most compelling market research reports pivot on a story – about why that new product or service line holds such promise, why that group of untapped consumers could benefit from your offerings or why that merger would be a wise investment.
Like all good stories, this one might start with an anecdote or focus on one person – the "main character" – who could serve as your ideal customer. Telling the story of your research through his or her eyes, and with plenty of dynamic quotes, should flow directly into how pursuing this new opportunity would advance your business objectives. This is a crucial part of the story, too, since the opportunity wouldn't even be worth considering if it didn't conform with your business plan.
At this point, you might wish to share with your staff the experience of a well-known manufacturer of a men's fragrance that was ready to embark on a marketing campaign – targeted to men. Then the market research revealed that women, not men, make most of these purchases, and the finding transformed the campaign. Now there was an entirely different story to tell because the main characters shifted to women – who they are, what they do for a living, when they purchase men's fragrances and how they persuade the men in their lives to acquiesce to wearing a fragrance in the first place.
Tell a Visual Story
As much of the quantitative data as possible should be consigned to charts and graphs in the market research report, not the actual written content. Numbers are easier to read, and evaluate, when they're displayed in a graph rather than tucked into a dense paragraph, where the reader may struggle to interpret their meaning.
This point underscores another reality about market research reports: you may think it's being written for your benefit and that of your staff. And for now, it may be. Your audience may also include your business attorney and accountant. But some day, if it's appropriate, new stakeholders may read the report, too, and charts and graphs will make it easier for them to digest.
Of course, you can always overdo a good thing. Only relevant charts and graphs – or those that advance the fundamental story – should be included in the body of the market research report. Ancillary information should be relegated to the appendix – that document repository that comes at the end of a report.
Keep it Brief
By focusing on a compelling story and relying on visuals, your staff should find it easier to address your third cardinal rule. They should know that you will judge the value of their effort on its quality, not the number of pages. (It's up to you if you wish to tell them that many market research reports run from between 10 and 50 pages.) It will also help if they:
Use bullet points when they can.* Read each other's work and "peer edit" for clarity and concision.
Challenge each paragraph to the relevancy test. In other words, if a paragraph doesn't advance the basic story, strike it.
Heed Two Other Tips
You may hesitate to call it an "outline," but you should convey to your staff that the true value of their report will depend on its organization. So if they don't like the sound of establishing a step-by-step progression of the report, then turn them loose on PowerPoint, which will force the issue (in a good way). In the end, they may decide that this format – and not a paper report – is the best one for their findings.
As liberating as this may be, most market research reports hew to tradition, and necessity, by including:
A table of contents. A section on the research objectives. A section on the research methods. An executive summary. Detailed findings and, perhaps, the implications. Told in a dynamic manner, the fascinating finish should get everyone's blood pumping.
Infnitdatum: How-To Guide for Market Research Reporting and Insights 2016
InfoSurv: 10 Tips for Marketing Research Reports That Get Read
C+R Research: 5 Things to Remember When Writing a Market Research Report
Mary Wroblewski earned a master's degree with high honors in communications and has worked as a reporter and editor in two Chicago newsrooms. Then she launched her own small business, which specialized in assisting small business owners with "all things marketing" – from drafting a marketing plan and writing website copy to crafting media plans and developing email campaigns. Mary writes extensively about small business issues and especially "all things marketing."
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1 How to Write an Evaluation Report for an Organization
2 How to Make a Paragraph in an Email
3 How to Make an Executive Summary
4 How to Give a Feel-Good Speech to Your Employees


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One Conservative's Climate Change Confessional
OK, prompted by some comments to my recent post on our frigid February and by a ProJo letter to the editor which asked:
:Please provide the names of just two skeptics who work in the field of climate science and who have been published in respected peer-reviewed journals. Help me to escape the intellectual manacles that those "environmental clubs" like the National Academy of Sciences and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have duped me into accepting as good science.
I thought I'd explain where I currently stand on "Global Warming" (or Global Climate Change, for those of you who prefer that term).
First, I think that it's been conclusively proven that the Earth has warmed over the past 100 years.
Second, I also think it's been shown that the Earth's temperature regularly fluctuates. Which means…
Third, I don't believe that we should simply accept that today's warming is strictly due to anthropogenic (fancy, scientific sounding way of say "it's humans' fault") causes. (For instance, CO2 levels may have been higher in the past than previously believed).
For instance, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (here's a grain of salt to go with the IPCC, btw) recently downgraded humans' impact on the environment (though they said we are still more to blame than anything else). Nonetheless, there is, indeed, a scientific consensus that says that mankind needs to shoulder the largest amount of blame.
A well-publicized review by Naomi Oreskes–cited often by Al Gore–illustrated the breadth of the anthropogenic-as-cause consensus. However, some scientists have refuted both the methodology and the results of Oreskes paper. Unfortunately, you won't find their papers "published in respected peer-reviewed journals" because–they assert–they've been blackballed by leading scientific journals.
Two of the world's leading scientific journals have come under fire from researchers for refusing to publish papers which challenge fashionable wisdom over global warming.
A British authority on natural catastrophes who disputed whether climatologists really agree that the Earth is getting warmer because of human activity, says his work was rejected by the American publication, Science, on the flimsiest of grounds.
A separate team of climate scientists, which was regularly used by Science and the journal Nature to review papers on the progress of global warming, said it was dropped after attempting to publish its own research which raised doubts over the issue.
The controversy follows the publication by Science in December…[by] Dr Naomi Oreskes, of the University of California, [who] analysed almost 1,000 papers on the subject published since the early 1990s, and concluded that 75 per cent of them either explicitly or implicitly backed the consensus view, while none directly dissented from it.
Dr Oreskes's study is now routinely cited by those demanding action on climate change, including the Royal Society and Prof Sir David King, the Government's chief scientific adviser.
However, her unequivocal conclusions immediately raised suspicions among other academics, who knew of many papers that dissented from the pro-global warming line.
They included Dr Benny Peiser, a senior lecturer in the science faculty at Liverpool John Moores University, who decided to conduct his own analysis of the same set of 1,000 documents – and concluded that only one third backed the consensus view, while only one per cent did so explicitly.
Dr Peiser submitted his findings to Science in January, and was asked to edit his paper for publication – but has now been told that his results have been rejected on the grounds that the points he make had been "widely dispersed on the internet".
Dr Peiser insists that he has kept his findings strictly confidential. "It is simply not true that they have appeared elsewhere already," he said.
A spokesman for Science said Dr Peiser's research had been rejected "for a variety of reasons", adding: "The information in the letter was not perceived to be novel."
Dr Peiser rejected this: "As the results from my analysis refuted the original claims, I believe Science has a duty to publish them."
Dr Peiser is not the only academic to have had work turned down which criticises [sic] the findings of Dr Oreskes's study. Prof Dennis Bray, of the GKSS National Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany, submitted results from an international study showing that fewer than one in 10 climate scientists believed that climate change is principally caused by human activity.
As with Dr Peiser's study, Science refused to publish his rebuttal. Prof Bray told The Telegraph: "They said it didn't fit with what they were intending to publish."
Prof Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama, a leading authority on satellite measurements of global temperatures, told The Telegraph: "It's pretty clear that the editorial board of Science is more interested in promoting papers that are pro-global warming. It's the news value that is most important."
He said that after his own team produced research casting doubt on man-made global warming, they were no longer sent papers by Nature and Science for review – despite being acknowledged as world leaders in the field.
As a result, says Prof Spencer, flawed research is finding its way into the leading journals, while attempts to get rebuttals published fail. "Other scientists have had the same experience", he said. "The journals have a small set of reviewers who are pro-global warming."
Concern about bias within climate research has spread to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose findings are widely cited by those calling for drastic action on global warming.
In January, Dr Chris Landsea, an expert on hurricanes with the United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, resigned from the IPCC, claiming that it was "motivated by pre-conceived agendas" and was "scientifically unsound".
This is why I'm not ready to buy consensus. It's easy to have one when you exclude the work of those whose research indicates otherwise. But it's more than a "conspiracy theory" that gives me pause. I also blame the cows.
More seriously, there is also convincing research pointing to another cause. The sun. Both Danish climatologist Henrik Svensmark (Danish National Space Centre) and Israeli astrophysicist Nir Shariv are pointing to the Sun as a major cause. (I know, sounds kind of weird to actually blame the sun for warming the Earth). According to the story detailin Svensmark's research:
Henrik Svensmark…believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere.
This, he says, is responsible for much of the global warming we are experiencing.
He claims carbon dioxide emissions due to human activity are having a smaller impact on climate change than scientists think. If he is correct, it could mean that mankind has more time to reduce our effect on the climate.
The controversial theory comes one week after 2,500 scientists who make up the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change published their fourth report stating that human carbon dioxide emissions would cause temperature rises of up to 4.5 C by the end of the century.
Mr Svensmark claims that the calculations used to make this prediction largely overlooked the effect of cosmic rays on cloud cover and the temperature rise due to human activity may be much smaller.
He said: "It was long thought that clouds were caused by climate change, but now we see that climate change is driven by clouds.
"This has not been taken into account in the models used to work out the effect carbon dioxide has had.
"We may see CO2 is responsible for much less warming than we thought and if this is the case the predictions of warming due to human activity will need to be adjusted."
Mr Svensmark last week published the first experimental evidence from five years' research on the influence that cosmic rays have on cloud production in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Journal A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. This week he will also publish a fuller account of his work in a book entitled The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change.
A team of more than 60 scientists from around the world are preparing to conduct a large-scale experiment using a particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland, to replicate the effect of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere…Mr Svensmark's results show that the rays produce electrically charged particles when they hit the atmosphere. He said: "These particles attract water molecules from the air and cause them to clump together until they condense into clouds."
Mr Svensmark claims that the number of cosmic rays hitting the Earth changes with the magnetic activity around the Sun. During high periods of activity, fewer cosmic rays hit the Earth and so there are less clouds formed, resulting in warming.
Low activity causes more clouds and cools the Earth.
He said: "Evidence from ice cores show this happening long into the past. We have the highest solar activity we have had in at least 1,000 years.
"Humans are having an effect on climate change, but by not including the cosmic ray effect in models it means the results are inaccurate.The size of man's impact may be much smaller and so the man-made change is happening slower than predicted."
Shariv–independently–came to essentially the same conclusion:
Dr. Shaviv reconstructed the temperature on Earth over the past 550 million years to find that cosmic ray flux variations explain more than two-thirds of Earth's temperature variance, making it the most dominant climate driver over geological time scales. The study also found that an upper limit can be placed on the relative role of CO2 as a climate driver, meaning that a large fraction of the global warming witnessed over the past century could not be due to CO2 — instead it is attributable to the increased solar activity.
CO2 does play a role in climate, Dr. Shaviv believes, but a secondary role, one too small to preoccupy policymakers. Yet Dr. Shaviv also believes fossil fuels should be controlled, not because of their adverse affects on climate but to curb pollution.
"I am therefore in favour of developing cheap alternatives such as solar power, wind, and of course fusion reactors (converting Deuterium into Helium), which we should have in a few decades, but this is an altogether different issue." His conclusion: "I am quite sure Kyoto is not the right way to go."
And there are more potential causes, in addition to Solar Activity, there are Milankovitch Cycles and "large Igneous provinces." In other words, there's a whole lot more to consider.
And this is where I come down. I'm all for reducing pollution and insofar as that includes reducing our CO and CO2 and methane, I'm all for it. But I don't think that the current hysteria that blames humans is justified nor that we should be devoting so many resources to stave of the current, hip and trendy version of impending Armageddon.
In a nutshell, we should keep researching–which means being open-minded about alternative theories–but should do so with a little humility (it ain't just us causing the change) and be pragmatic and fiscally sane in our approach.
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To pull just one thing out of your post: I don't think anyone rational is arguing that adverse climate change is "strictly due to anthropogenic causes."
It just drives me to distraction to see so many people "la la la" their way around this issue, casually tossing an "it hasn't been proved!" out the window of their metaphorical Hummer.
To "be pragmatic and fiscally sane in our approach" is in general good advice no matter what we do, but even skeptics such as yourself ought to look at this as a kind of modern-day Pascal's wager. If I'm wrong, than the worst consequence is that we've spent some extra money and have cleaner air and more renewable energy. If you're wrong, we're screwed.
mrh,
A bit off topic (okay, a lot off topic) but I can't help myself. Do you use the same "Pascal's Wager" logic with abortion?
SusanD
From answers.com:
"Pascal's wager
An argument according to which belief in God is rational whether or not God exists, since falsely believing that God exists leads to no harm whereas falsely believing that God does not exist may lead to eternal damnation.
[After Blaise PASCAL.]"
Exactly SusanD,
I apologize for hijacking the post but I just wanted to see if mrh applies the same logic to his own life.
The abortion debate centers on the unanswerable question, when does life begin (just as the existence of God is an unanswerable question that Blaise tried to answer).
If a society believes life begins at conception and lives accordingly (by being pro-life) the result of being wrong may be some unwanted children.
If a society believes life begins at birth and lives accordingly (by being pro-choice) the result of being wrong is the murder of 1.4M children a year.
But this logic exercise in the global warming debate is not appropriate because a question on CO2's role in the weather is an answerable question (it just lacks funding because its not a politically correct question).
"If I'm wrong, than the worst consequence is that we've spent some extra money and have cleaner air and more renewable energy. If you're wrong, we're screwed."
Reading what you want to and missing my point. I didn't say we shouldn't spend money to have cleaner air and renewable energy. In fact, I said there's value in doing that in and of itself. I also didn't say that humans didn't contribute–thus I'm not a "skeptic"–I'm just not convinced that curbing human contributions will have the effect that we're told it will. And neither are the scientists I mentioned. A majority ain't a consensus.
That's why I think we need to spend money on research–and allow discussion–on other possible reasons for the climate change. I don't think we should put all of our eggs in one basket.
Reading what you want to and missing my point.
No, just reading sloppily.
I guess my point is, non-anthropogenic climate change isn't really a critical policy issue, right? So by all means, let's continue the research and learn all we can about what causes climate change.
I'm just not convinced that curbing human contributions will have the effect that we're told it will.
Well, we'll never really know until we try won't we? Maybe it's not you I'm arguing with — it's the people who dismiss all human influence and want to cling to the current state of energy affairs.
One more thing on scientific consensus. It's worth noting that Dr. Peiser, whom you quote above, works with the "International Policy Network," and organization that has has received $295,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. Just sayin'.
WJF — I do not believe the cases are parallel, but this is probably the wrong forum that particular discussion. If you're interested, feel free to email me at mattATunlikelywordsDOTcom.
….and Al Gore sells carbon offsets to himself. The whole debate is rife with self-interested parties.
As far as knowing unless we try, well, sure, but the pressure is to do more, faster knowing what we know…and not really worrying if the consensus happens to be wrong. But what if it is? Isn't it worth diverting some of that billions in new technology (incidentally, plenty of interested parties promoting those, too) geared towards reducing anthropogenic carbon production into research in other areas? Ya know, just in case it happens to be something else, like the sun, causing the problem?
Here's an example of how consensus– often fed by self-interest–can hinder finding a true scientific solution to a problem. (The key portions are about half-way down. It's a long interview).
Btw, the scientist won the Nobel Prize.
for the other side of the debate not featured in "an inconvenient truth", watch "the great global warming swindle" now online at youtube.
among the highlights:
co2 increases FOLLOW not precede temperature increases. Thus, they are a result not a cause of temperature increases.
and there's something reassuring about seeing the founder of greenpeace call out environmental extremists.
"co2 increases FOLLOW not precede temperature increases."
Really! Doesn't that put a bit of a dent into the whole theory of anthropomorphic global warming?


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Procalcitonin in the assessment of bacteraemia in emergency department patients: results of a large retrospective study
So Young Kim, Tae Dong Jeong, Woochang Lee, Sail Chun, Won Ki Min
Department of Laboratory Medicine
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of procalcitonin in the assessment of bacteraemia in patients in the emergency department, both alone and in conjunction with existing inflammatory markers of bacterial infection. Methods: We enrolled 3305 cases (range 20–90 years) for which we retrospectively compared procalcitonin concentration, blood culture results, body temperature, absolute neutrophil count, and C-reactive protein concentration. The positive predictive value and the negative predictive value of procalcitonin were established at different cut-off concentrations. Receiver operating characteristic curves were plotted, and the areas under the ROC curves calculated, to allow assessment of the diagnostic accuracy of (a) a combination of three existing inflammatory markers of bacterial infection (body temperature, C-reactive protein, absolute neutrophil count), and (b) this combination with procalcitonin. Results: Positive predictive values of procalcitonin using 0.1, 1, 2, and 5 ng/mL as the cut-off values were 21.2, 32.2, 34.2, and 37.0%, respectively. Negative predictive values of procalcitonin using 0.1, 1, 2, and 5 ng/mL as the cut-off values were 95.1, 92.2, 91.1, and 89.0%, respectively. Areas under the curve of three inflammatory markers (absolute neutrophil count, C-reactive protein, and body temperature) combined was 0.879; areas under the curve of these markers combined with procalcitonin was 0.932 (p = 0.018). Conclusions: When procalcitonin is used as a serum marker for ruling out bacteraemia, a cut-off of 0.1 ng/mL may be used. Procalcitonin improves the diagnostic accuracy of existing markers of bacteraemia.
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Kim, S. Y., Jeong, T. D., Lee, W., Chun, S., & Min, W. K. (2015). Procalcitonin in the assessment of bacteraemia in emergency department patients: results of a large retrospective study. Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, 52(6), 654-659. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004563214568685
Kim, So Young ; Jeong, Tae Dong ; Lee, Woochang et al. / Procalcitonin in the assessment of bacteraemia in emergency department patients : results of a large retrospective study. In: Annals of Clinical Biochemistry. 2015 ; Vol. 52, No. 6. pp. 654-659.
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Q: How can I modify ActiveAdmin redirect? I am working within active admin to have an admin dashboard for my model - however when i go to localhost:3000/admin/login and login I get redirected to localhost:3000 instead of being pointed to localhost3000/admin/dashboard.
How can I adjust this? - Tried modifying the load path to
  config.load_paths = [File.join(Rails.root, "admin", "dashboard")]

I also checked my routes and I think the crux of it is that my rails root is / but I mean , shouldn't it be for any other user on the site?
Thanks for any clarification !

A: When you add devise routes in the config/routes.rb file, you can pass some options:
# config/routes.rb
devise_for :users, ActiveAdmin::Devise.config

ActiveAdmin::Devise.config looks something like this:
{
 :path=>:admin,
 :controllers=>
  {:sessions=>"active_admin/devise/sessions",
   :passwords=>"active_admin/devise/passwords",
   :unlocks=>"active_admin/devise/unlocks",
   :registrations=>"active_admin/devise/registrations",
   :confirmations=>"active_admin/devise/confirmations"},
 :path_names=>{:sign_in=>"login", :sign_out=>"logout"},
 :sign_out_via=>[:delete, :get]
}

The :path=>:admin option in this case tells devise that /admin is the root path.
Check this in your code.

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Edited by The_Mansplainer, 07 December 2018 - 11:03 PM.
Fosknow... are you throwing a tantrum again?
It was easier to play a lot back before WG made changes that increased the frustration factor. I play seldom now (not in the last month or more) but I still check in to see how my mates are doing and what's new. These avatars are amusing. How long before we can send each other flowers to put in our garages?
I'd be up for sending bouquets. It's all so violent, explosions and shooting, where's the love?
I can understand the frustration. I can't comprehend why some people even play. They obviously think it's pubg or fortnite with tanks because clearly they have no love or understanding of tanks and no clue how to work as a team or play a tank in the role designed.
I rage quit today after numerous horrible experiences.
Me too last night, it can be so infuriating sometimes when you just get team after team of dollopers and watch your winrate take a hit. I got killed twice last night because of nubs on my azz when in the ARL. Pop forward to take a shot, try to reverse back into cover - NOPE - shot three times and dead because of a stupid Stug.
Then another battle, nobody moves in spawn, all turning turrets looking at eachother. Off I go in my HT down to find a spot where I know ill be able to pick off a few lt/mts once they have been spotted on the left by my teams lts/mts. Nope, they are all directly behind me following like sheep.We got pincered either side and lasted about 1 minute.
That sounds about right. I am only tier v but every map I know where I want/need to go only to look back and see everyone else looking at each other. It's like a tank meme in action.


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Q: multipath, device mapper, and disk i/o scheduler We have two machines with a multi path SAS controller, each with 12 physical disks attached.
We were looking into some I/O speed oddness, and noticed that on one machine, where /dev/mpath/mpath*p1 maps to dm-13 through dm-24 in various ways, dm-13 and dm-14 have an io scheduler of "cfq" in place. The other dm devices in that list have "none" and it appears to not be able to be changed.
I believe the other devices are presented as a different set of dm-* mappings, and those DO have cfq set.
On the other machine, none of the devices selected to be in /dev/mpath/mpath*p1 have corresponding dm devices with a scheduler set.
I'm sort of out of my element here, but since iostat DOES show that some of the requests are being merged on dm-13 and dm-14 of the first box, and none of the others on either box, I suspect we are paying some price for this.
Am I digging in the wrong hole, or is this an issue? If so, how can I fix it, since echo cfq > /sys/block/dm-15/queue/scheduler does not have any effect when "none" is the only currently listed option?

A: I have found the answer to my own question.
We have a slightly unusual setup perhaps, where /dev/mapper/mpatha is the whole disk and /dev/mapper/mpathap1 is the first partition on that disk.
Since we built the software raid array using /dev/mapper/mpath?p1 devices, these never have a scheduler, since they really ultimately defer to the actual underlying disk, which is the /dev/mapper/mpatha device.
All our /dev/mapper/mpath? devices have a scheduler (which I have changed to 'deadline' now) and all /dev/mapper/mpath?p1 devices do not.  This is also identical to how LVM works -- the underlying disks have a scheduler, but the individual mappings to logical partitions do not.

A: If this is Red Hat or CentOS, please use the tuned-adm utility to shift your profile to the "enterprise-storage" profile:
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Home » Nuclear Power and Blockchain, Crypto Exchanges Boost Hiring + More News
Nuclear Power and Blockchain, Crypto Exchanges Boost Hiring + More News
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today's crypto news.
The Chinese nuclear industry is tentatively looking at blockchain technology adoption proposals, reports media outlet The Paper. In the report, nuclear energy officials point to the fact that domestic energy companies, electric vehicles and liquefied natural gas (LNG) providers have all variously implemented blockchain-powered smart contracts, supply chain financing, billing and credit-related solutions. The authors ask if the Chinese nuclear industry, which is responsible for generating around 5% of the Middle Kingdom's total power, should follow suit.
Chinese business conglomerate Tencent has launched a blockchain accelerator program, per an official announcement, and reported by Chain DD. Tencent has issued an open call for applicants. It says that it wants to hear from startups providing industrial-level blockchain solutions, those looking to develop blockchain-related infrastructure and those looking to create new services and applications that make use of blockchain technology. The application deadline for interested startups is June 6, says Tencent.
OKEx Pool, a mining pool built upon the top cryptocurrency exchange OKEx, is now among the first batch of mining pools to join Ethereum (ETH) 2.0 Topaz testnet as a validator. Per the press release, OKEx Pool and OKEx will generate traffic and attract the attention of users and development teams, while working with the ETH network will allow mining pools to grow together and share future dividends.
Nasdaq, the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization, has entered into a long-term, non-exclusive, collaboration agreement with enterprise blockchain software firm R3. Per the announcement, Nasdaq's Market Technology business will leverage R3's enterprise blockchain software Corda, in order to support new institutional-grade assets utilizing Corda Enterprise to manage the complete asset lifecycle for new and existing market infrastructure operators.
Crypto exchanges and business connected to them have been expanding their workforce in anticipation of greater investor interest brought by the Bitcoin halving, as well as the investor in alternative assets amidst the pandemic-caused instabilities in traditional financial markets. Per Bloomberg, Coinbase lists dozens of openings; Kraken will recruit 350 instead of the planned 250 people this year; Binance added 25% to their 1,000 employees in the first quarter and is expanding the team supporting its new Binance Pool; and OKEx said it will announce a global hiring initiative in May to expand its workforce of more than 1,000.
Crypto adoption news
The CEO of a Russian crypto exchange says that global governments' reactions to the coronavirus pandemic's economic fallout are playing right into crypto's hands. Per RBC, the head of the XenaExchange trading platform states that central banks have already started printing money as an attempt to stave off financial chaos, while crypto markets have matured and bitcoin (BTC)'s forthcoming halving event leaves crypto poised to have its day in the sun when fiats begin to buckle.
The Crypto Valley may shrink by 90% and become a Death Valley, warns Lorenz Furrer, vice president of the public-private association Swiss Blockchain Federation. CNN Money reported in April that the association conducted a survey March 31-April 3, asking the country's 800 blockchain firms about the impact of the pandemic to their business. 200 responded: 4-5 said they are looking at bankruptcy in the next six months, while 88% said they wouldn't survive without state aid.
KR1 plc, the London listed cryptocurrency and blockchain investment company, has invested a total of USD 75,000 in the Union Finance project, a credit mutual built on Ethereum. According to the press release, KR1 was joined in the Union seed round by 1kx, CoinFund, and a number of Ethereum DeFi angel investors. The company will receive a yet-to-be-determined amount of discounted tokens from this seed round participation.
US District Judge Richard Seeborg of the Northern District of California has given preliminary approval for a USD 25 million settlement proposed by the Tezos Foundation to settle claims and end a consolidated class-action lawsuit, reports Law.com. The case was brought on behalf of investors who alleged that the initial coin offering on the Tezos (XTZ) blockchain violated U.S. securities laws. The judge described it as new terrain in this litigation, as it seems to be the first class action settlement of its kind connected to an initial coin offering.
The Cayman Islands Government has proposed a framework for virtual asset service providers in order to advance the financial technology capabilities of the jurisdiction, while complying with newly adopted international standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), they say in a press release. A virtual assets bill and amendments to four other bills were gazetted on Tuesday, 28 April and will be presented by the Minister of Financial Services at the next meeting of the Legislative Assembly. The framework would provide for the supervision of persons and entities facilitating virtual asset activities as a business, the government says.
Scam news
A fake crypto fundraiser that claims to be raising money for organizations helping Tokyo host the Olympic Games next year is now doing the rounds in Japan. The Olympic Games had been slated for summer this year, but have been pushed back to Summer 2021, in a move that is likely to set the Japanese organizers back millions of dollars. Per Trend Micro, the bogus email asks for crypto donations, and pertains to have been written by a member of the International Olympic Committee.
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Politician, Arabist and former diplomat Petra Stienen presents a talkshow about refugees. After the world premier of the touching Dutch documentary Vergeet Mij Niet, Stienen will talk about the Dutch refugee policy with director Jan-Jaap Kuiper and Toon Peters, manager of De Verrekijker, the elementary school for refugee children in the film. A Matter of Act guest of honour in this talkshow is Navanethem Pillay, former High Commissioner for human rights of the United Nations and the first non-white judge of South Afrika.
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▸ News ▸ Week 13 Officiating Video: Pass Interference Clarification, Blocks and Tucks, and The Review of the Week in Tampa Bay
Week 13 Officiating Video: Pass Interference Clarification, Blocks and Tucks, and The Review of the Week in Tampa Bay
by Josh Lewis - December 5, 2014 8
NFL Vice President of Officiating Dean Blandino today released the Week 13 media video covering noteworthy calls and penalty enforcements from last week. Pass interference, blocks and tucks, and too many men on the field calls were all highlighted (view the video here).
As we covered on Sunday, and in what Blandino dubbed the "play of the week," the situation in Tampa Bay Sunday drew lots of attention. You'll recall that the Bucaneers offense had too many players on the field during a play in the 4th quarter, the Bengals head coach then attempted to challenge the play once it was over (it's not reviewable), and the eventual review from upstairs explained a complicated set of circumstances that is rarely seen on the field.
The tuck rule was also discussed as a play during the game between Bills and Browns led to Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel being – what many thought – sacked, but turned out to be an incomplete pass as he was ruled to have been in a forward passing motion. The ball then hit the helmet of the defender, thereby knocking the it loose and to the ground. Because Manziel was not attempting to tuck the ball and he was in what was determined to be a forward motion, it was ruled an incomplete pass.
During Monday night's game, Jets Tight End Jeff Cumberland (#85) was not flagged for an illegal clip/block because of where he was lined up at the snap. Remember, players lined up outside the tackle box at the snap are allowed to block low toward their own goal line from the side and are not subject to the 'peel back' rule. This is precisely what Cumberland did. Blandino emphasized that the Competition Committee will review this no-call rule in the offseason in an effort to increase the focus on player safety.
Pass interference clarification was discussed this week as well. Pass interference calls are usually big yard gain/loss calls, so the league has been training game officials to really make sure a receiver was interfered with if a pass interference flag is thrown. The rule states that a defender cannot significantly hinder an eligible receivers ability to catch a pass. Whether the defender is looking back at the ball or not is not necessarily a determining factor for calling pass interference; the officials must focus on whether or not the receiver's ability to catch the pass was significantly affected.
Finally, during the Panthers at Vikings, NFL sideline crews alerted the officials in New York that teams were heating up balls on the sideline using the gas heaters, which is not allowed. Blandino's office issued reminders to each team this week reminding them that the use of heaters, or any other methods of altering the game ball, is prohibited.
Josh Lewis
Flopping for flag can flip flag in face of flopper
Quick calls: Week 14
8 thoughts on "Week 13 Officiating Video: Pass Interference Clarification, Blocks and Tucks, and The Review of the Week in Tampa Bay"
The Glenn says:
Oh my! Talk about CYA!!
So, if I got that correct: The replay officials didn't notify the on field official of the 12 men on the previous play because they wanted to make sure how it would enforced *IF* the offense didn't line up for a play in time on the NEXT play?
A penalty is a penalty. They should NOT be waiting to see if they can end the game or not. Call the penalty. Enforce the yardage. Carry on.
They missed it on the field…they missed it in the replay booth…they missed it period.
And they got saved by Marvin Lewis breaking the rules (knowing his only penalty would be a timeout) and drawing their attention to it.
This video makes it worse than the initial explanation in my book.
I'm glad they got the call right…I'm disappointed that they can't admit they blew it in the first place.
And THEN they reset the clock to the time of the foul as it was a live ball foul anyway!
This makes less sense in regard to the above where they wanted to make sure the team got set legally before 10 second were left! LOL!
Part 2: The only way that's still attempting a forward pass in Cleveland is if Johnny is trying to pass it into the defenders ear hole. People with two functioning eyes can see him not throwing the ball forward but pulling the ball back in.
Lastly the cherry picked example of pass interference are nice and I would agree with each call in the video.
But we could post dozens of example that look more like the first that get no call and more like the second that get called.
Its the inconsistency that drives us crazy…
1, 2, 3,4 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
@TheGlenn they would never admit to screwing up a play that ultimately didn't matter to the outcome of the game, so they stuck to their guns. I still think it's bogus.
@TheGlenn PI is so subjective sometimes. Other times, the speed of the game is too much for the officials. In today's Bills-Broncos game, Stephon Gilmore got called for it when replays showed he arrived at the same time as the ball. However, at full speed and with how hard he hit the receiver, it looked like it. Some officials cannot interpret things as fast as the game is played and that's why we get some bad calls. They call 'em like they see 'em…
@Matt Yea, I've saying CYA since the second tweet from Blandino last week.
But the PI calls are way too inconsistent. That Bills one was tough, but the defender did everything right and still got called for a penalty! And then the unsportsmanlike comes BECAUSE tempers flared after the flag.


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Selling Sickness: An Ill For Every Pill
Directed by Catherine Scott
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Selling Sickness: An Ill For Every Pill from Icarus Films.
SELLING SICKNESS exposes the unhealthy relationship between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry.
Drug manufacturers today fund aggressive marketing campaigns designed to create public awareness of previously unknown diseases, or known by less dramatic names. Shyness thus becomes branded as 'Social Anxiety Disorder,' constant worry becomes 'Generalized Anxiety Disorder,' and premenstrual tension is now 'Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.' The sale of SSRI anti-depressant medications used to treat these and other diseases, such as Paxil, Zoloft and Prozac, has become an annual $20 billion market.
The film features commentary from paid medical consultants to the drug companies, patients, researchers, patient advocates, advertisers, attorneys, and psychiatrist Dr. David Healy, a critic of the pharmaceutical industry. SELLING SICKNESS also visits trade shows and professional conferences to show how the pharmaceutical industry promotes the use of its drugs within the medical community.
Co-written by Ray Moynihan (author of the book Selling Sickness, 2005), an internationally respected health journalist and current guest editor at The British Medical Journal, the documentary reveals aspects of the drug trade not mentioned in commercials or magazines, including the deceptive use of clinical trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies, the highly addictive nature and many adverse side effects (like suicidal impulses among adolescent patients) of popular SSRI anti-depressants. At an FDA hearing in Washington, D.C., the testimony of parents who have lost their children to suicide starkly emphasizes the need for greater regulation of these heavily promoted and prescribed anti-depressants.
In a society where the techniques for selling diseases has become even more sophisticated than the medical science which develops cures for them, where everyday emotional problems are touted as epidemic diseases, SELLING SICKNESS sounds a vitally important cautionary note.
" * * * [3 stars]! Recommended! A thoroughly researched and well-made film."—Video Librarian
"Provocative… Bracing… A welcome, bitter tonic to the surfeit of glossy advertising and lucrative enticements that surround any practicing physician today."—Journal of the American Medical Association
"Disturbing! Should make you think twice before popping a pill."—The Mercury
"A thought-provoking film… although its critical intent is apparent throughout, it provides a complex account… this film is sure to prompt a valuable discussion about the medicalization of everyday problems, the difficulties of anticipating atypical reactions to new drugs, and the impact of new advertising and marketing methods on the relationship between doctors and patients."—Bulletin of the History of Medicine
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Adolescence, Advertising, Advertising & Marketing, American Studies, Bioethics, Biology, Business Ethics, Business and Economics, Communications, Economic Sociology, Ethics, Health Care Issues, Health Issues, Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology, Science and Technology
Newsweek Interview with Ray Moynihan
New York Times Profile of Dr. David Healy
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What is happiness? And how do we get more of it? Visiting leading figures in positive psychology and observing clinical experiments, this is a light-hearted but serious investigation.