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Posted on November 19, 2011 December 19, 2022 by Michael Taylor
Top 10 Minnesota Vikings Sports Bars
Bar Zia is one of the most popular Minnesota Vikings bars in Minneapolis. Photo Credit: Travis Philli.
If the Vikings are playing out of town or you can't get to ticket to the game, here is a short list of bars where you can watch your favourite team play. Some are full-fledged Minnesota Vikings bars, while others tend to attract Vikings fans on game day.
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The Minnesota Vikings are an American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings play at U.S. Bank Stadium. It is located in the Downtown East section of Minneapolis.
The Vikings joined the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion team in 1960. They took to the field the following year. Their new fixed roof stadium opened in 2016.
While their stadium seats 66,655 football fans, it is expandable to 70,000 seats for other events.
The Minnesota Vikings play in the North division of the NFL's National Football Conference (NFC).
Sometimes referred to as the Purple People Eaters, the Vikes won the NFL championship in 1969. In addition, they won the NFC championship in 1973, 1974, and 1976,
While the Vikings have made it to the Super Bowl four times, they have yet to win an NFL championship.
There is also no shortage of sports bars in the Twin Cities and other communities in Minnesota.
Meanwhile, a former Vikings great had even opened a sports bar in suburban Twin Harbors. Unfortunately, the bar has gone out of business.
You will find Vikings friendly sports bars all over the country. There are even a few north of the border in Canada.
Two short lists of the best bars follow. First is a list for sports bars in Minnesota. After that comes a list for sports bars in other parts of the country.
Here are 39 spots where you can root for the Vikes!
Minnesota Vikings fans.
The following sports bars are considered to be friendly to fans of the Minnesota Vikings. Some of them are full-fledged team hangouts.
Keep in mind that bars sometimes close, and fans sometimes migrate to other venues. What's more, bars sometimes decide to broadcast other events. So always call ahead to make sure the bar will broadcast the game you want to watch.
Sneaky Pete's – 14 North 5th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Telephone: (612) 333-8820.
Erik the Red – 601 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Telephone: (613) 249-5999.
Sporty's Pub & Grill – 2124 Como Avenue Southeast, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Telephone: (612) 379 8407.
The Pourhouse – 10 South 5th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Telephone: (612) 843-2555.
Crooked Pint Ale House – 501 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Telephone: (613) 877-6900.
Hell's Kitchen – 80 South 9th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Telephone: (613) 332-4700.
Bar Zia Food and Cocktail Lounge – 420 – 4th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Telephone: (612) 345-7347.
Best Minnesota Vikings Bars in St. Paul
The following sports bars in St. Paul are considered to be friendly to fans of the Minnesota Vikings. Some of them are full-fledged team hangouts.
Keep in mind that bars sometimes close, and fans sometimes migrate to other venues.
What's more, bars sometimes decide to broadcast other events. So always call ahead to make sure the bar will broadcast the game you want to watch.
St. Paul Tap – 825 Jefferson Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Telephone: (651)227-6315.
Alary's Bar – 139 East 7th Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Telephone: (651) 224 7717.
Dunham's Bar and Restaurant – 173 Lothenbach Avenue West Saint Paul, Minnesota. Telephone: (651-451-7431.
Tom Reid's Hockey City Pub – 258 7th Street West Saint Paul, Minnesota. Telephone: (651) 292-9916.
Poor Richard's Commonhouse – 8301 Normandale Blvd Bloomington, Minnesota. Telephone: (952-835-8308.
The Other Place Bar and Grill – O.P. – 3930 E Calvary Rd. Duluth, Minnesota. Telephone: (218) 733-0214.
Zaverl's Bar – 509 East Sheridan Street, Ely, Minnesota. Telephone: (218) 365-4218.
Mission Tavern – 13036 SW Horseshoe Lake Road Merrifield, Minnesota. Tel: (218) 765-3635.
Howie's Sports Bar and Grill – 101 9th Avenue North, Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Telephone: (320) 259-9324.
Joe Senser's Kitchen Bar – 2350 North Cleveland Avenue, Roseville, Minnesota. Telephone: (651) 631-1781.
Bunny's Bar and Grill – 5916 Excelsior Blvd, St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Telephone: (9552) 922-9515.
New Munich Hofbrau Bar & Grill – 611 Main Street PO Box 323, New Munich, Minnesota. Telephone: (320) 837-5211.
While some of these bars are Minnesota Vikings hangouts, others are NFL watch bars than tend to attract Vikings fans on game day.
However, sometimes bars close and sometimes fans migrate to other venues. In addition, private parties sometimes book bars for special events. Also, bars sometimes decide to broadcast other events.
As a result, you should always call ahead to make sure the bar will show the game you want to watch. Otherwise, you might be disappointed.
Syberg's Dorsett – 2530 Old Dorsett Road, Maryland Heights, Missouri. Telephone: (314) 785-0481. – "Home of the St. Louis Vikings Fan Club."
Wilhagan's of Nashville – 314 Wilhagan Road, Nashville, Tennessee. Telephone: (615) 360-9175. – "We are a Vikings Bar for pro-football."
Jack Doyles Restaurant and Bar – 240 West 35th Street, New York, New York. Telephone: (212) 268-1255.
TNT Sports Page – 14902 Preston Road Ste 716, Dallas, Texas. Telephone: (972) 661 1130. – "Home to the Minnesota Vikings Purple Haze Fan Club."
Blue Ox Tavern – 5825 West Sahara Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada. Telephone: (702) 871-2536. – "The Blue Ox Is Your Home for the Minnesota Vikings."
Topgolf Atlanta – 1600 Ellsworth Industrial Blvd N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. Telephone: (404) 475-4000.
KC Kitchen and Pizzeria – 3906 Waddell Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. Telephone: (816) 599-4533. – "Welcome Vikings Fans!"
The Historic Downtowner Saloon – 10 South New River Drive, Fort Lauderdale. Telephone: (954) 463-9800.
Kluddes Kitchen + Bar – 110 Orange Street, Redlands, California. Telephone: (909) 335-4863.
Flanerty's – 425 East Wells Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Telephone: (414) 278-8586.
Gestle's Place – 3801 Frankfort Avenue. Louisville, Kentucky. Telephone: (502) 742-8616.
Guava Beach Bar n Grill – 3714 Mission Blvd, Mission Beach, California. Telephone: (858) 488-6688.
Red Dogs Saloon – 2617 Wagon Wheel Street, San Antonio, Texas. Telephone: (210) 828-2582.
Bar None – 98 -3rd Avenue, New York, New York. Telephone: (212) 777-9755.
Aliota's Pub and Grill – 261 East Hampton Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Telephone: (414) 810-1656.
Rhodeside Grill – 1836 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, Virginia. Telephone: (703) 243-0145.
Black Angus Steakhouse – 1350 North Tustin Avenue, Santa Ana, California. Telephone: (714) 558-3057.
Sports Garden – 1850 East Belt Line Road, Coppell, Texas. Telephone: (469) 464-4257.
Screaming Eagle American Bar and Grill – 228 East 4th Street, Waterloo, Iowa. Telephone: (319) 235-8865. – "Iowa's true Minnesota Vikings bar."
Wild Rice Bar and Grill – 205 Wild Rice, Wild Rice, North Dakota. Telephone: ( 701) 239-8470.
Because the Minnesota Vikings have a national following, there are sports bars in many cities that attract Vikings fans on game day. In fact, some are bona-fide Vikes hangouts.
Check out some of the sports bars where fans of the Purple People Eaters will feel welcome.
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Please send photos to the Accidental Travel Writer to be included. Please name your file "nfl-minnesota-vikings- fans-at" followed by the name of the bar.
Jakky Shanahan submitted these photos (above) of Minnesota Vikings fans Topgolf in Atlanta, Georgia.
Michelle Woodard submitted this photo (above) of the Minnesota Vikings Fan Club of St. Louis.
Travis Phillips submitted the above photos of Vikings fans at Bar Zia in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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33 Replies to "Top 10 Minnesota Vikings Sports Bars"
Nick Schook says:
Flannery's downtown Milwaukee has there back bar set up for Vikings games. Today was my 1st time attending and was pleasantly surprised. Bar was full of dedicated Viking fans about 40 in total. This is a good turnout as it's mostly Packer and Bear fans here. Found my new spot for Sunday's
Good to know! Hopefully, I ca check the place out in person!
Luke Rainbow says:
The Downtowner in Ft. Lauderdale has its own Purple section with purple beer at halftime. As Prez of the Miami Vikes Fanclub we welcome you.
Thanks for the information on the Downtowner, Luke!
Thank you very much for your input on Flannerty's, Nick! Let me check out their website.
Tony Pegel says:
I feel for you, sir. Apparently you have never been to see the Nashville Norsemen at Wilhagan's of Nashville. I challenge you to find a better Vikings bar anywhere. We've been meeting there for almost 30 years. We usually have 100-150 people, sometimes more. We sing the fight song every time the Vikings score. We have our own Skol Chant Drum. The staff is friendly, the food delicious and best it's all purple, not even a Titans game to be found anywhere. We have people from MN, OH, ND and elsewhere who plan there vacations around coming through Nashville for a game watch party with us. The owners know us and even tailgate with us when the Vikings come to town. (We had 4000 at the last tailgate.) And if you saw the NFL Draft you know we dominated the event even getting compliments from the Vikings and being asked by other team owners how we pulled it off. Nashville is Vikings Country. Come and see for yourself.
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Thank you very much for the detailed information on Wihagan's in Nashville. This place sounds like it might warrant a feature in the Accidental Travel Writer. Do you how have any photos of the establishment as well as fans watching games at the establishment?
Looking forward to joining the Ft Lauderdale gang this weekend!! Skol!!
Have a great time! And GO VIKINGS!
Wilhagens in Nashville, Tn! Home to the Nashville norsemen! Skol Y'all!
Thanks, Robin! This place seems to have lots of fans.
Wow! You're missing the best one! Wilhagans in Nashville TN! Home of the Nashville Norsemen Viking fan club. Anyone reads this, and happens thru Nashville during football season, come out and get loud w us! You WONT be disappointed! SKOL!!! 🍻🍻🍻
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Hey Jon! I've heard so many good things about Wilhagans that I'd like to do a feature on it in the Accidental Travel Writer.
Dan Rehome says:
Kluddes Kitchen & Bar (Home of the INLAND EMPIRE VIKING CLUB) in Redlands,Ca….. We sing SKOL VIKINGS after every Viking TD…
Thanks for the information on Kuddles Kitchen and Bar, Dan, Hope you guys haven't been affected by the wildfires raging through Northern California!
Wilhagan's in Nashville
Guava Beach Bar n Grill in San Diego
Wilhagan's seems to have a lot of fans! Will have to add them to the list. And thanks, Jim, for the head's up on Guava Beach Bar n Grill in San Diego!
San Antonio TX , Rod Dogs Bar and Grill
Thank you very much for the head's up! How could I have missed this place during my visit to San Antonio last year?
Dave Rukavina says:
KC Kitchen and Pizzaria
3906 Waddell Ave.
kckitchenpizza.com
Thank you very much, Dave. I'll have to check KC Kitchen and Pizzaria out!
Wilhagens in Nashville is not to be missed for a traveling Vikings fan.
Thank you very much for your input, Anna. Wilhagens seems to have a lot of fans. I'm gonna have to check the place out.
Robert Douglas says:
Gerstles in Louisville is about as much fun as you can have without being at the game!! Skol
Thank you very much for the head's up, Robert! Fan input such as yours is most valued. Let me check out their website.
Hi! Alison from Zaverl's bar here! Thanks for adding us to the list! This is so exciting! We are open still for Vikings games and have multiple TVS showing our favorite team, the Minnesota Vikings!
Hey Alison! Congratulations on making the list, and thank YOU very much for taking the time to thank ME! Best of luck to the Vikings AND to everyone at Zaverl's Bar! SKOL!
KATHRYN A WETTSCHRECK says:
Do you know of a sports bar in Davenport, Florida that have the Vikings games?
Can anybody help?
George Snider says:
#16 on your out of town list has closed. The NOVA Vikings fan club currently meets at Rhodeside Grill 1836 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA for the rest of the 2022 season. Google or check out fanclub on Facebook. It' a great group of fans if you are in the DC Area
Thank you so much for this update! I really appreciate feedback from fans like you. I'm updating the post now!
Michele P. Mutch says:
Enjoyed watching the Vikings game yesterday at Wilhagan's. Being from Mpls and wondering where to watch the game was a big concern. Lucky for us, we did our research after going to a sports bar in downtown Nashville and being disappointed. Made it to Wilhagan's by second half! Great atmosphere, friendly people, and great crowd. Tony the leader is great!
Great to know! Thanks so much for sharing your experience!
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On a beautiful sun filled Friday afternoon, Leah R. Vineberg and I sit under a tree to discuss her upcoming Fringe show, Tuesday Seeds of War: Draft 1: The Hunt. This solo piece presents a different format than most other shows in the festival this year.
Vineberg wears many hats, including, yoga and meditation teacher, performance artist, theatre maker, and spoken word artist, to name a few. This new project explores themes such as, longing for connection and the faith in ourselves to come back to the present moment. These themes are addressed by exploring an emotional landscape, which Vineberg refers to as 'The Pit'.


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At the start of October I spent four days in Tennessee shooting sports once again under the tutelage of Peter Read Miller. (Aside: Peter teaches one or two sports workshops a year, and I can highly recommend them. See this article if you'd like to get a better sense of his workshops.)
I was looking forward to this trip because I was going to be able to shoot football (both kinds) for the first time in 40 years. Yes, 40 years. In college I shot football from the sidelines fairly regularly, but as my career took me other places I mostly gave up sports shooting and, in particular, football.
The cameras I used on this trip were the Canon 7D Mark II, the Sony A7r Mark II, the Nikon D4, and the Nikon D810.
Yes, two of those aren't what you think of as sports cameras (A7rII, D810). Three of the four cameras aren't what you'd normally consider for very low light work (all of the games I shot were outdoors at night). So you'd expect me to have some troubles, right? 40 years of not shooting the sport and a challenging set of cameras should do me in. Let's see how it went.
Let's start with the Canon 7DII. Yep, it's amazingly like a 1Dx in terms of form and function, only it uses a crop sensor. Because of the sensor size, you might expect it to be less low-light capable. My first assignment was the Maryville versus Dobyn's-Bennett high school football game. Maryville is a powerhouse and many-time state champion in Tennessee, and undefeated so far this year. Oh, did I mention this was a night game with a strong chance of rain?
The Maryville field is lit by only four very flickering light sets, two on each side of the field. The Maryville team often wears black uniforms, the end zones are painted black, and there are a lot of light blockers at both ends of the end zones. Coupled with rain showers at the start of the game and a fully covered night sky, I can't think of a better prescription for High ISO Testing ;~).
I was shooting the 7DII at ISO 6400 to 8000 during the game, mostly at 8000 once I decided that I couldn't keep the shutter speeds up high enough on the low-end of the light flicker (even with the 7DII's flicker detection enabled—which hobbles frame rate a bit—I could still see image-to-image exposure differences during practice). At the front of the 7DII I mounted the Canon 70-200mm f/2.8. I decided on the shorter focal length range as I had quite good access to the sidelines and could stay close to the action.
Let's see what we get:
Dark faces, dark uniforms, and a shot at the low end of the light flicker at ISO 6400 (note the slight magenta cast of the above frame). Still, when I boosted exposure slightly and shot at ISO 8000 I was getting quite usable frames:
While I was worried that ISO 8000 would really be pushing the crop sensor, as it turns out just a bit of judicious noise reduction was all that was necessary to turn in publishable shots. The primary problem I see with the 7DII at these extreme ISO values is that it tends to block up colors and it's tough to pull additional detail out of the deep shadows. After some early fretting over settings and performance, verified with a bit of excess sideline chimping on my part, I felt quite comfortable shooting with the 7DII. For the most part, it just felt and operated like a slightly smaller 1Dx, and tracked focus pretty much like I've experienced with the 1Dx in the past.
To put that focus performance into perspective, I'm going to actually use a slightly poor shot to start:
Besides being back-focused, this shot has motion blur in it. Why? Because I was already starting to turn, move and zoom the camera to where he was throwing, not only getting that blur but confusing the focus system (my previous frame of the quarterback was fine). I was already betting that the real shot on the play wasn't the bubble gum card shot of the quarterback throwing the ball, but what would happen at the other end of the play. Here's what I captured in the frames immediately following (actually a sequence of three shots of this catch):
One of the attributes of a good focus system is how it responds to rapidly changing conditions and instructions. I went from following a slower moving player to snapping my body around virtually instantaneously to faster action happening at a different distance to me. In the three-shot sequence of the touchdown catch, the first frame is ever so slightly front focused, while with the last two the focus system caught up to me. And yes, I moved the focus sensor position in all of this with the thumb pad. Overall, the focus system of the 7DII felt pretty much like I've encountered using the 1Dx. Nice.
Which brings me to a point about cropping. I could crop the previous frame to just the receiver catching the ball and have a very usable image for print. Indeed, that's often what you'd see in a newspaper or magazine about the game. Here I've left the Dobyn's-Bennett cornerback in the image for a couple of reasons. First, including him clearly shows us the goal line, whereas excluding him and cropping tight doesn't. Second, it shows how clearly he got beat on the play. The question of what to include or exclude has a lot to do with whether you're trying to illustrate what happened in the game, or whether you're trying to illustrate a player making a great play. I chose the former here, but there are plenty of pixels to be able to crop to the latter.
Here's an early frame from an 18-frame sequence taken at the highest frame rate:
The first thirteen shots are very nicely focused. However, the last few aren't, mainly because the play came straight at me and I ended up pretty much just framing the ball at 200mm ;~). In other words, I passed closest focus capability of the lens.
Overall, I was impressed with the 7DII. It survived a rain storm at the start of the game, it handled and shot just like a mini-1Dx, and even at ISO 8000 it produced very usable images. (That last shot is ISO 8000, 1/1000, f/2.8 at 200mm, by the way.) I can't overemphasize how dark this venue was. Back in the film era we simply wouldn't have been able to shoot these images.
Pity that Nikon hasn't thought to produce a D400 with similar attributes.
The next night I shot a different type of football, this time with a Sony A7r Mark II and a Nikon D4. I had the Sony 70-200mm f/4 on the A7rII, and my 400mm f/2.8 on the Nikon.
Frankly, I started out too conservative with the Sony. I set it to ISO 800, which was giving me shutter speeds of 1/160 at f/4. Not nearly enough to stop soccer, so I was trying to catch those peak "pause" moments that sometimes happen. After deciding that wasn't going to cut it, I jumped the Sony ISO 6400, which was giving me 1/800 to 1/1000, as in the above shot. Still a little slower in shutter speed than I'd have liked, but perfectly able to stop action without giving me noisy images (after a bit of judicious noise reduction, once again). At one point I experimented with ISO 12800, but those images proved to be a little tougher to output with strong edge acuity, and they were starting to block up color more than I care for. Basically, I had to apply too much noise reduction at that ISO value to make them truly useful. If I was also cropping, as you often do with sports due to your fixed position relative to the action, those ISO 12800 images weren't delivering the punch that an image like this one at ISO 6400 has in terms of acuity:
The real problem I then had with the Sony was simple: timing. No, not focus, as you should be able to tell from these shots. For those of you wondering, my focus settings were: Focus Mode AF-C, Area Mode Wide, Drive Speed Fast, Track Sens High, AF illumination off, Center Lock-on enabled, Face detection DISABLED, Pre-focus enabled. I experimented with a number of other combinations of settings, but in general found those that I just mentioned to work fine as long as I was getting the subject on the detection area.
Okay, you need a definition of "fine." Fine means that I was getting some (many) in-focus shots. However, in examining sequences, I see very few sequences where focus held perfectly on the subject. Also, the camera had a strong tendency to move to back focus if my subject didn't completely cover the focus sensor area being used. Yes, I could have changed off of "wide," but I found that this actually exacerbated the problem when the action was fast and I wasn't perfectly tracking the subject. In soccer, there's a lot of non-linear movement as the players stop and change direction. Having shot practice (and a half-time match with youth players), I'm pretty confident that I ended up with the best possible settings for the circumstances. Whether those would be the best for daylight or other sports I don't know yet.
But I diverge. I said the problem with the Sony was timing. That EVF lag, coupled with the 5 fps frame rate, meant that I tended to start bursts of shots a little late, and the frame rate wasn't fast enough to always catch the real peak action. For example this photo:
Where's the ball?
It's already gone. That little bit of lag in the viewfinder was enough so that I was missing peak moment a lot. Moreover, I couldn't start a burst of shots earlier in anticipation of peak moment because the frame rate was just slow enough to still not get the peak action most of the time, and the focus system again wasn't always getting every image in focus. Here's another example of not quite catching the moment due to the lag:
That said, if I had to use the A7rII as a sports camera, I think I could adjust my personal anticipation marker a bit and get more peak action shots. I'd probably give up on shooting bursts and try to adjust my shutter release timing to click a little earlier in anticipation of peak action.
Overall, I was impressed at how well the A7rII was doing under the very trying circumstances. With 42mp to crop from, reasonable noise handling, and fairly predictable focus performance, if someone told me I had to cover a game with the A7rII, I wouldn't throw up my hands in complaint and protest by burning my NPPA badge. The A7rII certainly wouldn't be my first choice, though, and by a fair margin. Still, it shows that the mirrorless bodies are starting to sneak into the fringes of DSLR performance realms.
I was also using the D4 with the 400mm f/2.8 at the soccer game as my primary camera. How'd it do? Great, as you'd expect.
No problems following action and getting sequences in focus. No problems with timing. Here are two images from the sequence where the only goal was scored (by Tennessee).
It was a messy play, with a lot of ball ricochet happening and faces getting blocked from the initial header (about to happen in top shot). Here's one from the opposite end (ball didn't go in for Georgia):
A few more images from the match:
Some people think the D4 doesn't have enough pixels to allow you to crop or to show fine detail. I don't. Consider this already cropped image:
What's that mark on #37's leg, dirt?
With the right lens and right position, 16mp is plenty enough pixels, especially for the types of uses these images would tend to have.
I had originally brought the A7rII along to use as a second camera with a wider lens at the primary event I was covering, the Tennessee versus Arkansas football game on Saturday night. I was going to use it to supplement my usual primary camera on the sidelines, again the D4 with the 400mm f/2.8. But after getting a good feeling for how the A7rII handled at the soccer match the previous night and with a high prediction of rain, I decided to pull out my D810 and see how it fared instead. Not exactly an apples versus apples test, but in both cases I was looking at a high-megapixel, slow frame rate body just for those times when the action got close to me.
So let's proceed to the main game.
As with all three games, it was a night game and it began by raining during warmups and a bit into the game.
Let's start with some bubble gum card images:
You always want to try to catch the key players in isolation with classic positions or moves. If you're trying to improve your action photography, note one thing about so many of these images I'm showing: no leg plants. People are in the air, heels are lifted, legs are extended. You're trying to imply motion, and any leg that comes down to the ground—and especially ones that end with a foot flat to the ground—does the opposite. This is true of wildlife, too, which is one reason why I dabble in sports from time to time. It's a heck of lot cheaper going to a football game than Africa to practice.
Likewise, you want to see the eyes. With stadium lighting at night you're going to get shadows down into the helmets to start with (a bit of Shadows processing in Adobe converters helps with this), but the lower you go, the better off you are. Note that almost all my shots are looking up at the players, trying to get that elusive face. That meant that I was on my knees the whole game, but I had brought knee pads in anticipation of that.
Time for a little teaching point. (Okay, I've already made a few in passing, but let's be clear about this one.)
Tennessee was going to get the ball first. Rather than go down to their end of the field I decided that I'd gamble on sitting down at the end zone they were headed towards and finding me a good spot should they manage to move the ball. My reasoning went a bit like this: there was a huge crowd of photographers and videographers on the sidelines, along with the ESPN TV coverage team, and I figured I'd have an easier time of getting a position and holding it than trying to find one in the crowd. If Tennessee moved the ball, or had a breakout play, I'd be in position. If they didn't, I had nothing. It's a gamble, but a calculated one, as you'll see.
The ball is kicked. Away from me. I'm over 100 yards away from where the ball was caught. Here's a question for you: is my camera up and ready? I'll wait for your answer…
Yes, it was. Which was a good thing, because here's my first shot:
You guessed it: the first kick was run back the entire length of the field for a touchdown. Here's another shot in the sequence with the head coach (far left).
Now I mentioned above that 16mp is enough. Where'd this next shot come from?
You guessed it, it's a crop just on the coaching staff taken from one of the shots I took in the run-back sequence. I've got plenty of pixels to run in a newspaper or magazine. Plenty. But let's keep going. Here's our runner a little further up the field in the same sequence. I actually don't mind that camera has technically jumped to the sidelines for focus. First, that's where the story is getting told to the viewer (Touchdown!). Second, I'm far enough away—other side of the field—so that my depth of field is enough to actually keep the runner in acceptable focus.
Okay, you want calculations. Full frame, 400mm, f/2.8, width of the football field is 54 yards wide (about the same in meters). I'm a few yards back from the line, and the player in these shots is 30-40 yards ahead, so I'm easily 60 yards away, probably more. My DOF calculator tells me that I've got a DOF of at least five feet. And yes, I knew that going in. I was actually considering switching to f/4, which would increase my DOF to at least eight feet, but didn't.
Eventually I got this:
Yeah, refs get in the way from time to time. But notice that his feet are off the ground ;~).
Okay, so what did we learn from that little sequence? Be prepared, you never know what's coming your way.
But there's a bit of a sub-story. During warmups, I had noticed something really weird: the Arkansas kick-off returner kept misjudging even the practice punts he was fielding. They kept hitting his helmut (coach: check his eyesight!). Sure enough, guess what play is coming next after that touchdown? A kickoff to Arkansas right down where I'm kneeling. And what do I think is going to happen after seeing him misjudge those kicks in practice?
Yep, he's still misjudging catching the ball. I wish I were a bit forward of my position here, as his eyes are looking straight up at the ball.
All of these shots—the touchdown runback and the fielding of the ball on the helmut—were informed by the same thing: scouting. Tennessee had run back a couple of kickoffs for touchdowns in the previous two games. Even though I couldn't count on that happening, I was ready for it. Had I been at the other end trying to get ready for the first set of plays from scrimmage, I would have been behind the touchdown run and captured it with nothing but player's backs or best case sides.
For instance, this:
Not a terrible shot, but it's not particularly engaging. We can't see the player's eyes, and the shots that came after this had his back completely to us. Not. Going. To. Be. Published. Compare that to these:
Any one of those probably could have run with a story about the game. Every one has players eyes visible.
One of the things I was looking for all game was a shot of a quarterback throwing to an open receiver. In other words, seeing both players in the same frame. I was looking for that because of what I had seen in the way both quarterbacks like to throw. They move out of the pocket a lot, and if they move into the right place I get space where I can see the quarterback behind the receiver. Then it's just all about timing (that thing I trouble with on the Sony):
Now, another small point, about sequencing. Consider this shot:
Not going to win me any awards, even if we're doing a story on #5. However, I'll often start on a player where I think the action will go—here I'm anticipating run to my right, which was the fake—and then readjust as I figure out the play. Here is a frame two shots after that first one in the sequence:
Not great. But I saw Hurd (#1) completely break through that pile behind #5 and just adjusted. It's in sequences like these that you really need high frame rates and great focus performance.
So you're probably wondering how that D810 did versus the Sony A7rII, right?
Remember where I said I set up at the beginning of the game? I didn't move from that spot for a long, long time. Long enough to have Tennessee do exactly what I had hoped: come to the pylon I was right behind for a score. I'm so close to the pylon that the 400mm won't cover this. These shots are on the D810 and start at 200mm and get to 70mm:
Ouch. The D810's cranking along at 5 fps doing just fine, right up to that final shot, where for reasons I'm not totally sure of it has flipped focus to the background. Ugh, ugh, ugh. In looking at the image between these last two, focus is already being lost, even though the focus sensor is on the arm of #2 and the ball. It's probable that the focus system lost contrast as I was zooming, though I don't see why it should in examining the evidence. When that happens on Nikon bodies, the cameras tend to be very quick to rock focus back, even though my Focus Tracking with Lock-On value here was set to 4 (long). In theory, the focus should at worst case be on the helmut of the guy on the ground, as that's where it was prior to losing focus.
I've noticed this before: the Nikon's have a slightly more skittish sense of focus than the Canon's. Neither is perfect. Sometimes I find the Canon trying to hold focus in the wrong spot for too long, sometimes I find that the Nikon jumps off of focus too quickly, as it did here. Both camera makers give you some tools to adjust that, but as you might note, I had already set an adjustment telling my Nikon to be less skittish. I'm going to have to experiment with this situation some more, but I suspect that my zooming was impacting the focusing.
The good news is that I've got six images of the touchdown that are publishable, but just didn't get that last bit of ball extension. By the way, two images after this last one is nothing but green grass, as I ducked just in case Dobb's momentum got him all the way to my position.
Overall, I enjoyed my extended weekend shooting football. Indeed, I'd love to be doing more of this, as it's definitely good practice for wildlife shooting. So if any of you can get me sideline access to college or pro sports in the Northeast, let me know. I just might show up with a SUV-full of gear.

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thoughts on smoking, cancer and government
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Recently I was talking about unhealthy habits to my students – I teach academic English to NESB students – and smoking came up. A student from Saudi Arabia piped up: 'smoking isn't unhealthy'.
Now, considering that this same student, a married man aged around thirty, had previously told me that, in ancient times, humans lived to be over 900 years old – 'it says so in the Bible' – I wasn't entirely surprised, and didn't waste too much time in arguing the point. Actually, I think now he probably mentioned the Bible to show or suggest that Moslems and Judeo-Christians might agree on some things!
Of course, this student was a smoker. Many of my male students are. These students are predominantly Chinese, Vietnamese and Arabic speakers, that's to say from countries whose governments have acted less forcefully in dealing with smoking than has the Australian government. I myself smoked. albeit lightly, until the age of 24 (a long time ago). Now, having been diagnosed with bronchiectasis, I'm extremely intolerant of cigarette smoke, not to say smokers.
I'm currently ploughing though Siddhartha Mukherjee's classic Emperor of All Maladies, and have just finished the section on smoking and cancer, and the battle with tobacco companies in libertarianism's heartland, the USA.
Cigarette smoke contains a number of carcinogens – but what is a carcinogen? It's basically a product or agent that has a reasonable likelihood of causing cancer, which doesn't of course mean that it will cause cancer in every instance. You can play Russian roulette with the 60 or more well-established carcinogens in cigarette smoke, and risk-taking young men in particular will continue to do so, but it's a massive risk, and the dangers increase with age and length and frequency of use. Lung cancer is the most regularly cited outcome, but as the US surgeon-general's 2010 report shows in vast detail, cancers of the larynx, oral cavity, pharynx, oesophagus, pancreas, bladder, kidney, cervix, stomach and liver can all be induced by this inhaled chemical cocktail. And cancer isn't the only issue. There is the problem of nicotine addiction, as well as cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, and fertility and foetal developmental effects.
With all this evidence, why do people still smoke, and why don't governments step in? Drugs with far less devastating effects are illegal, so what gives?
Of course the role governments should play in determining or influencing public health has always been debated, as has the efficacy of banning particular substances and practices. The situation isn't helped by the facts on the ground, an ad hoc regime in which relatively harmless substances such as marihuana are banned almost worldwide, while proven carcinogens like tobacco, costing millions in treatment, are merely 'discouraged' to varying degrees. Similarly, in some countries you have 'cults' like falun gong being treated as highly dangerous and criminal while more mainstream 'cults' such as christianity, no less or more nonsensical, being given a free ride. None of which promotes faith in government decision-making regarding our physical or psychological health.
Even so, I believe governments should play a role. We pay taxes to government so that it can organise our particular state more effectively for all of its citizens – and that means subsidising education, health and general welfare, to reduce inequalities of opportunity and outcome. Democratic government and an open society helps to reduce government ineptitude, ignorance and corruption. The science and technology sector in particular – a proudly elitist institution – should play a more significant role in government decision-making. But a real weakness of capitalist democracy is that political leaders are too often swayed by business leaders, and the money and influence they bring to the table, than by knowledge leaders. This obeisance paid to business success, with insufficient regard paid to scientific evidence, is possibly the greatest failing of modern political society.
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a brief history of radical mastectomy
Dr William Halsted
Siddhartha Mukherjee is an oncologist, an academic and an astonishingly gifted writer and story-teller, in the Indian tradition of seemingly effortless, self-effacing wordsmiths. I read, and learned heaps from, his 2016 book The Gene a while back, and now I'm being educated by his first book The Emperor of all Maladies, a history of cancer.
The book twists together different threads of cancer treatment in the modern era, most notably various forms of chemotherapy, and surgery. I'm focusing solely on surgery here, as it pertains to breast cancer, because it highlights the relation between experts (very predominantly male) and sufferers (exclusively female).
The term mastectomy is a bit of a mystery, at least to me. The suffix –ectomy is clear enough, meaning 'cutting out', or surgical removal, and 'lumpectomy' is a slightly dismissive term for the surgical removal of lumps (from the days when full-blown excision was king) . Maybe mastectomy refers to the removal of a mass of tissue, though why it wouldn't be called massectomy or masectomy, and why it refers only to the breast, I don't know. It has nothing to do with mast cells.
The radical mastectomy – the concept refers to 'root' as in rooting out, rather than quasi-political radicalism – is most associated with an American physician, William Halsted, though radical surgery in the treatment of cancer was far from unknown when Halsted began practising in the 1870s. Cancer at the time was recognised as the growth and spread of malignant tissue, at mysteriously varying rates, and the surgical removal of that tissue seemed the obvious response. Nineteenth century developments in anaesthesia helped to make the procedure more bearable for all, but operations in the US were often ad hoc and unsanitary. In the late 1870s Halsted made a trip to Europe, which radically changed his outlook and practice. He encountered and absorbed the ideas of various pioneers in surgery and anatomy, including Joseph Lister, Theodor Billroth, Richard von Volkmann and Hans Chiari, then returned to the US, and in the 1880s he quickly established a reputation for boldness and skill as a surgeon. Having become familiar with cocaine, which he recommended as an anaesthetic, he soon became addicted to the drug, which gave him seemingly boundless energy. He tried using morphine to kick the habit, and then found himself in a struggle with both drugs, but this barely damped his work-rate.
Hasted had become particularly interested in Volkmann's surgical work on breast cancer, and noted that, though the surgeries became more extensive, the cancers returned. An English surgeon, Charles Moore, was experiencing the same problem. Moore's painstaking analysis of the operations and the following relapses showed that malignant cells had begun to proliferate around the edges of previous surgeries. It seemed clear to him that the surgeries just weren't extensive enough, and by limiting the surgery to the clearly evident cancerous tissue, and not widening the margins to ensure that the malignant region was properly cleaned out, surgeons were exercising 'mistaken kindness'. Of course, the problem with this argument was that more radical surgery could itself be life-threatening as well as permanently disfiguring and debilitating. What was also not known at the time was the detailed mechanism of cancer's metastatic spread throughout the body via the blood and lymph systems. However, this was a time when medical expertise tended to go unquestioned. Halsted and his surgical followers were considered heroes, and the delayed return of the cancers tended not to be dwelt on. The surgeons certainly did buy time for their patients, but often at great cost. Volkmann, for example, had taken breast surgery further by removing not just the breast but the muscle beneath it, the pectoralis minor, to try to ensure the complete removal of the cancer. Impressed, Halsted took things to the next level, cutting through the more vital pectoralis major, essentially killing off movement of the shoulder and arm. Radical mastectomy had now truly arrived, and was to become even more radical, with the collarbone and the group of lymph nodes beneath it becoming the next target, and it didn't stop there, as cancer kept recurring. As Mukherjee describes it:
A macabre marathon was in progress. Halsted and his disciples would rather evacuate the entire contents of the body than be faced with cancer recurrences. In Europe, one surgeon evacuated three ribs and other parts of the rib cage and amputated a shoulder and a collarbone from a woman with breast cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, p65
There were, of course, no female surgeons at this time, and precious few female doctors, and the male-female power imbalance was coupled with that of the expert and his suffering if not panicking victim to create a kind of juggernaut of largely unnecessary suffering. It took years to reverse this radicalising trend. Nowadays, radical mastectomies are very rarely performed, but with so many giants in the field – who often controlled the nature of clinical trials related to cancer – having earned their reputations through their surgical expertise, change was slow in coming, in spite of a gradual increase in often heroic dissenting voices. For example, Rachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring, refused to undergo a radical mastectomy, which would in any case have offered only brief respite as the cancer had already spread to her bones. Changing attitudes to experts and their secret and superior knowledge was of course a feature of the sixties and seventies, when the turning point really occurred. Developments in the field of course played their part. The knock-out blow for the procedure is largely associated, according to Mukherjee, with another surgeon, not unlike Halsted in energy and drive.
Bernard Fisher had been analysing the data of Halsted's critics, notably Geoffrey Keynes in England and George Crile in the US, and became increasingly convinced, for a number of reasons, that radical mastectomy was a wrong-headed approach. In 1967, Fisher became the chair of a national consortium in the US, the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP), and began an uphill battle to run large-scale trials to test the efficacy of different treatments of breast cancer. Patients were reluctant to engage, and most surgeons were hostile. The process took years, but results were finally made public in 1981. Here's Mukherjee's summary.
The rates of breast cancer recurrence, relapse, death and distant caner metastasis were statistically identical among all three groups [i.e treated with radical mastectomy, with simple mastectomy, or with surgery followed by radiation]. The group treated with the radical mastectomy had paid heavily in morbidity, but accrued no benefits in survival, recurrence or mortality.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, p201
Dr Bernard Fisher
So. Richard Feynman once famously/notoriously said 'science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says science teaches us such and such, s/he's using the word incorrectly – science doesn't teach us, experience teaches us.' I agree. Science isn't a person, let alone an expert person. Science is, to me, an open-ended set of methods based on experience. Experience creates new methods out of which new experiences are created, and we move on, trying to right the wrongs and to minimise the damage, while always maintaining our skepticism.
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What's Next for the Cast of Hamilton?
Even without its original stars, Hamilton the musical will live on—on stages from New York to California; in the Hamilton Mixtape, an original album of Hamilton covers and musical riffs that is rumored to drop this fall; and the PBS documentary, Hamilton's America, which will premiere on October 21.
But we can't help but wonder, how do you follow up an experience like Hamilton? From the silver screen to Netflix to another Broadway stage, here's what's next for the cast.
After a haircut and a much-needed vacation—Miranda is currently traveling in Puerto Rico—the Tony winner will get back to work, focusing on Moana, an animated film he scored for Disney, and Disney's revamp of Mary Poppins where he will play Jack, a Dick van Dyke-esque lamplighter. As if that weren't enough, he's also promoting his new single with Jennifer Lopez, "Love Make the World Go Round," a tribute track that is raising money for victims of the Orlando shooting.
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HA! Ok so this is a very fake picture (thank you, internet) but a very real situation. #blackish is happening, see you next season. @blackishabc #someonehasphotoshopSKILLS
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While the above photoshop job is a fake, it tells a true story: Daveed Diggs will appear on ABC's Blackish next season. In 2017, he is also slated to appear in Wonder, a feature film from directer Stephen Chbosky, alongside heavyweights like Julia Roberts and Mandy Patinkin.
Renée Elise Goldsberry
For now, Goldsberry is still starring in Hamilton as Angelica Schuyler, but she will leave the musical sometime this fall (no date has yet been confirmed). Earlier this summer, it was announced that the Tony-award winner will join the cast of Altered Carbon, a Netflix sci-fi drama, based on a book of the same name. She will also play the titular role in HBO's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, based on the true story of a woman whose cells led to numerous medical breakthroughs, but were harvested and used posthumously without her permission.
Phillipa Soo
Following her starring role in Hamilton, Soo will return to the stage in Amélie, a new Broadway musical. Soo actually originated the titular role in an earlier productions of the show. According to Playbill, it is slated to open in early 2017. She also lends her voice to a character in the aforementioned Moana, which will arrive in theaters this December.
Post Burr, Leslie Odom Jr. is striking out on his own, first with a solo jazz album, a selection of which can be heard above.
Odom talks Tonys, here.
Jonathan Groff
Groff was the first of the Hamilton cast to leave, cutting out early to star in David Fincher's new Netflix series about FBI agents, Mindhunter. It's expected to debut in 2017.
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Q: Missing AVX-512 intrinsics for masks? Intel's intrinsics guide lists a number of intrinsics for the AVX-512 K* mask instructions, but there seem to be a few missing:

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*KSHIFT{L/R}

*KADD

*KTEST

The Intel developer manual claims that intrinsics are not necessary as they are auto generated by the compiler.  How does one do this though?  If it means that __mmask* types can be treated as regular integers, it would make a lot of sense, but testing something like mask << 4 seems to cause the compiler to move the mask to a regular register, shift it, then move back to a mask.  This was tested using Godbolt's latest GCC and ICC with -O2 -mavx512bw.
Also interesting to note that the intrinsics only deal with __mmask16 and not other types.  I haven't tested much, but it looks like ICC doesn't mind taking in an incorrect type, but GCC does seem to try and ensure that there are only 16-bits in the mask, if you use the intrinsics.
Am I not looking past the correct intrinsics for the above instructions, as well as other __mmask* type variants, or is there another way to achieve the same thing without resorting to inline assembly?

A: Intel's documentation saying, "not necessary as they are auto generated by the compiler" is in fact correct. And yet, it's unsatisfying.
But to understand why it is the way it is, you need to look at the history of the AVX512. While none of this information is official, it's strongly implied based on evidence.

The reason the state of the mask intrinsics got into the mess they are now is probably because AVX512 got "rolled out" in multiple phases without sufficient forward planning to the next phase.
Phase 1: Knights Landing
Knights Landing added 512-bit registers which only have 32-bit and 64-bit data granularity. Therefore the mask registers never needed to be wider than 16 bits.
When Intel was designing these first set of AVX512 intrinsics, they went ahead and added intrinsics for almost everything - including the mask registers. This is why the mask intrinsics that do exist are only 16 bits. And they only cover the instructions that exist in Knights Landing. (though I can't explain why KSHIFT is missing)
On Knights Landing, mask operations were fast (2 cycles). But moving data between mask registers and general registers was really slow (5 cycles). So it mattered where the mask operations were being done and it made sense to give the user finer-grained control about moving stuff back-and-forth between mask registers and GPRs.
Phase 2: Skylake Purley
Skylake Purley extends the AVX512 to cover byte-granular lanes. And this increased the width of the mask registers to the full 64 bits. This second round also added KADD and KTEST which didn't exist in the Knights Landing.
These new mask instructions (KADD, KTEST, and 64-bit extensions of existing ones) are the ones that are missing their intrinsic counterparts.

While we don't know exactly why they are missing, there is some strong evidence in support of it:
Compiler/Syntax:
On Knights Landing, the same mask intrinsics were used for both 8-bit and 16-bit masks. There was no way to distinguish between them. By extended them to 32-bit and 64-bit, it made the mess worse. In other words, Intel didn't design the mask intrinsics correctly to begin with. And they decided to drop them completely rather than fix them.
Performance Inconsistencies:
Bit-crossing mask instructions on Skylake Purley are slow. While all bit-wise instructions are single-cycle, KADD, KSHIFT, KUNPACK, etc... are all 4 cycles. But moving between mask and GPR is only 2 cycles.
Because of this, it's often faster to move them into GPRs to do them and move them back. But the programmer is unlikely to know this. So rather than giving the user full control of the mask registers, Intel opted just have the compiler make this decision.
By making the compiler make this decision, it means that the compiler needs to have such logic. The Intel Compiler currently does as it will generate kadd and family in certain (rare) cases. But GCC does not. On GCC, all but the most trivial mask operations will be moved to GPRs and done there instead.

Final Thoughts:
Prior to the release of Skylake Purley, I personally had a lot of AVX512 code written up which includes a lot of AVX512 mask code. These were written with certain performance assumptions (single-cycle latency) that turned out to be false on Skylake Purley.
From my own testing on Skylake X, some of my mask-intrinsic code which relied on bit-crossing operations turned out to be slower than the compiler-generated versions that moved them to GPRs and back. The reason of course is that KADD and KSHIFT was 4 cycles instead of 1.
Of course, I prefer if Intel did provide the intrinsics to give us the control that I want. But it's very easy to go wrong here (in terms of performance) if you don't know what you're doing.

Update:
It's unclear when this happened, but the latest version of the Intel Intrinsics Guide has a new set of mask intrinsics with a new naming convention that covers all the instructions and widths. These new intrinsics supercede the old ones.
So this solves the entire problem. Though the extent of compiler support is still uncertain.
Examples:

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*_kadd_mask64()

*_kshiftri_mask32()

*_cvtmask16_u32() supercedes _mm512_mask2int()

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At the North Pole, the Christmas rush is on. Everyone from elves to reindeer are merrily preparing for Santa Claus's yearly sleigh ride. Everyone except Santa! Feeling forgotten by the children of the world, old St. Nick decides to skip his gift-giving journey and take a vacation.
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The third edition of Krakathon was organized over the weekend 20⁄21 of October 2018.
The term Krakathon derives from hackathon (itself being a marathon of computer programming & usually mathematical challenges) and the Kraken (signifying the most dangerous sea creature). Participants are called pirates and they are given a set of challenges to solve in order to score points. The teams having the highest scores are seen as the pirates sailing closest to the Kraken :-) thus gaining reputation as brave & tough pirates.
Teams are made of up to a maximum of six participants. The competition runs for 24-hours. I participated in this year's Krakathon with my colleagues thanks to a corporate sponsorship by LSL Digital. Our team name was Wachawi which means "sorcerer" or "wizard" in Swahili.
This year twenty teams from different companies and universities participated. Some companies even had more than one team representing them, e.g the Mauritius Commercial Bank having two teams and Spoon Consulting having three teams.
The competition was tough and yet very exciting.
On Sunday at 14h00, we were tired, sleepless, but overall happy with the team spirit, collaboration and enthusiasm to spend 24-hours solving the craziest problems.
Yes, after the announcement we were disappointed that Rubiks got ahead of us at the last five minutes. That could be clearly seen on our faces. Disappointed but not defeated. Team Wachawi will be back next year!


The Power and principle of the Master Mind no doubt works wonders for those seeking riches in their lives.
I would like to point out also how this principle is one that we make a part of our everyday lives in practical matters as well, specifically with family, friends, acquaintances and the like.
Psychologists often talk about friendships, companionships and such in which the dynamic tends to involve one or more people leeching the energy of another, and refers to them as examples of a "Toxic Relationship". You probably know the kind; they are the otherwise well-meaning people in your circle who come to you with their problems, or are constantly asking for favors which they may or may not be able to return in the future, always asking to borrow things from you, just to name a few examples. Now these traits are not necessarily red flags on their own… unless it would seem that they are the foundation of which your relationship is built upon. If every other encounter with these types of people leaves you feeling emotionally drained, that's a major clue that you need to reconsider the company that you are keeping.
Now in the case of family, well that's a tougher one, because that's more or less "the hand you were dealt" so to speak. But when it comes to friends or acquaintances, those are groups of people that you do have control over. So to build your Master Mind group, you want to look for like-minded people filled with the same positive energy as you, who can contribute to your mutual cause and produce amazing results, be they in business, the pursuit of riches, or just growing as people.
*WARNING!* Allow me to warn you of a very easy trap to fall into. Some people may think "well, maybe if these otherwise negative people hang around me for long enough, I might start to rub off on them a bit, they may try harder, learn lessons easier, etc." While this may be a noble line of thinking, more often than not, it tends to backfire pretty heavily. What ends up happening is the reverse effect; the negative person/group rubs off on the stable member clinging to their positivity. So instead of a "Master Mind" group, you end up with a… "Mess-ter Mind" group if you will. I've fallen into this trap myself lots of times, so I can attest that it can be a tricky obstacle to overcome.
Don't let that happen! Clean up the "Mess" and gather the individuals that will work with you to achieve the greater cause, and before you know it, like a well-oiled machine, you will be propelled to great heights in life.
Here's to Mastering the Power of the Master Mind!


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Seattle, WA — Tuesday, Sept. 25: Seattle Seahawks coach and executive vice president Pete Carroll today called upon the NFL to reverse the game-ending call Sunday that gave his team a 14-12 victory over the Green Bay Packers at CenturyLink Field.
"We've reviewed the tape and the Packers player clearly intercepted the ball in the end zone," Carroll said. "We will therefore not accept the awarded victory from that play, and we urge the league to award the win to Green Bay instead, which rightly deserved it. This is not how the Seattle Seahawks want to win games."
Wouldn't it have been great if Pete Carroll had sent that news release the day after the botched call that unfairly gave his team a victory?
This is what Carroll really said:
"They see it, they don't see it. That happens with the officials. And so the result is they called it, the league backed it up, game over, we win."
In other words, Carroll, who undoubtedly reviewed the play like millions of other Americans, condoned the lie of a win and ran. And that is perfectly acceptable in American sports.
But why is it?
Why do we raise our children to be virtuous, press them into playing sports, which gives them so many benefits — chief among them the quality of sportsmanship — and then teach them to lie en masse when an unambiguously incorrect call favors them or their team?
We all do it. We rationalize the larceny away. "It's part of the game," I have explained unconvincingly to my wife. "Sometimes you get a bad call; sometimes you lose one."
That's true. But in cases this clear, does that make it right?
When I was a kid, I was given a book of football short stories. In one story I'll never forget, a high school glockenspiel player in the school band is discovered to have an arm like a cannon when the football sails out of bounds, and he fires it back onto the field. Within a week, he is transformed from bespectacled band nerd to Big Man on Campus — the letter sweater, the cheerleader girlfriend, contact lenses, the whole thing.
As quarterback, he leads his team to victory after victory. Then, in the state championship game, with time expiring, he tiptoes 30 yards down the sidelines for a score. The referees stand with theirarms signaling touchdown. The home crowd is delirious. The pretty blonde cheerleader grasps the player's school ring hung on a chain around her neck and cries tears of joy. All is bliss.
Except in the heart of our hero.
He and only he knows that he stepped out of bounds on the 15. What to do?
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Zumba instructor's lawyer joins supreme court case
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The lawyer for a woman accused of using her Zumba studio as a front for prostitution in Maine is joining a supreme court fight over privacy violation charges.
Prosecutors have appealed to reinstate 46 invasion of privacy counts that were dismissed against Alexis Wright's business partner. Wright faces 46 identical counts, as well as 60 other charges, and her lawyer says she will submit legal briefs and attend the supreme court arguments.
Wright and Mark Strong Sr. are accused of videotaping prostitution clients without their knowledge.
The judge who dismissed the counts against Strong concluded that people engaged in criminal conduct should not expect the same privacy rights as others under a state law aimed at protecting the privacy of people in dressing rooms.


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Retractions of Scientific Research Papers Going Up
Ed Silverman over at Pharmalot reports on the media coverage of a new study published by the Journal of Medical Ethics which shows a disturbing trend — more and more journals are retracting journal articles they previously published.
Worse yet, nearly 32 percent of the retracted papers are not noted as retracted. "Retracted" in scientific language means that the paper has been withdrawn and should be ignored — as though it never existed in the scientific literature. Retractions generally occur because of sloppy research and errors in the data calculations, collection or statistics, or because of fraud.
Is this a trend pointing to lower quality research and sloppier methods being employed? Or perhaps that because more people than ever can read the scientific research, more mistakes are being found after publication?
The data are hard to resist. I've graphed them out below, with 2011 estimated data based upon the 210 retractions so far this year (through July 2011):
What we see here is that only 10 years ago — modern times by any standard — only 22 retraction notices were published. Out of the thousands of research papers published every year, just 22 were retracted.
For 2011, it's on course to hit 360. The surge from 2001 to 2006 represents over a 500 percent increase, while the increase from 2006 to 2011 is only 159 percent. These are very scary numbers.
According to the blog article, "After studying 742 papers that were withdrawn from 2000 to 2010, the analysis found that 73.5 percent were retracted simply for error, but 26.6 percent were retracted for fraud."
But as regular readers of World of Psychology know, we don't really care about the numbers — not without proper context. After all, the amount of articles published every year has also gone up. So here's a nice graph that demonstrates how retractions per 100,000 papers published has also skyrocketed in the past decade. Something is definitely amiss.
Retractions due to fraud are also on the rise:
Ivan Oransky, the executive editor of Reuters Health and a co-founder of the Retraction Watch blog that began recently in response to the spate of retractions, writes us that the simple use of eyeballs and software that can detect plagiarism has made it possible to root out bad papers. […]
And why is there more fraud? As the Wall Street Journal notes, there is a lot to be gained — by both researchers and journal editors — to publish influential papers. "The stakes are so high," The Lancet editor Richard Horton tells the Journal. "A single paper in Lancet and you get your chair and you get your money. It's your passport to success."
A few notable retractions include an episode at the Mayo Clinic, where a decade of cancer research – which was partly taxpayer-funded – was undermined after the clinic realized that data about harnessing the immune system to fight cancer had been fabricated. A total of 17 papers published in nine research journals were retracted and one researcher, who maintained innocence, was fired.
All of which is to say that the foundation of our science — peer-review publication — is increasingly suffering from problems that make it tougher and tougher to not take anything read in a journal with a grain of salt.
The scientific process has a solution to this problem, of course — it's called replication by other, independent researchers of one researcher's initial findings. However, in this fast-moving world, few people wait for replication any longer, and are quite happy to trumpet findings from tiny studies done on a few undergraduate college students.
The other solution is peer-review. Peer-review is the process where journals vet incoming scientific articles by reviewers (who are usually experts in the topic they are reviewing). Those reviewers are supposed to be able to objectively pass judgment on the research and determine whether it is worthy of publication in the journal the study was submitted to.
But as I'll write in a future blog entry, the current peer-review process is horribly broken — another one of the possible reasons for the rise in retractions. Until the process is fixed, it's unlikely to help curb the rise in retractions.
The upshot is simple but disturbing — we can no longer reliably or generally trust research findings published in virtually any journal — medical, psychological, or otherwise — without taking those results with a grain of salt and waiting for replication to confirm the findings.
Read the full entry: Retractions Of Scientific Studies Are Surging
Grohol, J. (2018). Retractions of Scientific Research Papers Going Up. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 22, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/retractions-of-scientific-research-papers-going-up/
Last updated: 8 Jul 2018 (Originally: 10 Aug 2011)