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Rads | July 20, 2013
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Grand Final Ticket Price Extortion
With all the fuss that usually surrounds the purchasing of Grand final tickets and with the arrival as a premiership force of the South Sydney Rabbitohs, you'd think that the NRL would embrace the challenge and sell out ANZ Stadium twice over so that it could accommodate the millions of Rabbitoh fans that would want to see their team winning another title for the first time in 42 years.
Unfortunately though, with the impending struggle for football honours also comes the utter extortion by the NRL in raising the ticket prices for the Grand Final by over 100%, so that the average footy loving supporter and many of the success starved Rabbitoh fans are possibly priced out of the market in the search for their Holy Grail of a 21st premiership.
The option of buying a Silver ticket for the big game with a seat in the area that would normally be considered General Admission (GA) for a club game is a good case in point. Last year these tickets cost $65 and were a good option for those of us who fork out hundreds to thousands of dollars a year to watch our team play but this year the unscrupulous, money grabbing NRL have seen fit to raise the cost of this ticket to $165 and instead of the average Joe/Joanne being able to join in with the rest of his/her supporting mates, he/she first has to think about going hungry for a month so that he/she can afford to buy what he/she has waited so long for, a South Sydney Grand Final ticket and in fact, a win in person.
Silver:
Adult – $165
Concession – $120
Junior – $95
Family – $425
But the ticket pricing structure is not the only sticking point for this little black rabbit. It seems that the management of the South Sydney Rabbitohs are now working on an underhanded deal with that elitist group of supporters called The Burrow (I call them the WACO's) and are now attempting to pull the wool over the eyes of the 99.9% majority of the other loyal Rabbitoh supporters, so that these vociferous annoyances can be placed in a prominent position come Grand Final day.
In essence, they want all WACO's to buy the maximum number of their ticket allocation (2 tickets) and with about 600 ticketed members to Bay 110 that makes a total of 1200, so if/when Souths make the Grand Final, the club will use their allocation of tickets from the NRL and SWAP those 1200 tickets with the WACO's in order to keep the group together.
In fact, the tickets that WACO's are being told to buy are in the nose bleed section up the back of the top deck and the cheapest ones in the stadium at $80 each. These seats are the ones that Souths will sell in their final allocation to all the eager ticket-seeking 'normal' supporters, so instead of everyone having the opportunity of gaining premium seating, late comers will be perched up in the nose bleed section while the WACO's will be all together in a prominent position because of their elitist and holier-than-thou status.
After all, you're not a TRUE SUPPORTER unless you're in The Burrow, so THEY say!
Apparently, this is all to be kept quiet at present, as the club management don't want this information getting out (woops) and then looking as if they are giving preferential treatment to the WACO's, whilst ignoring each and every other Rabbitohs fan. So for those of us long-suffering Souths supporters who are no longer a part of the Burrow, or in fact never were and don't come into calculatons for special treatment, or for the supporters who will travel far and wide to attend the game and still hope for a reasonable chance of a good seat, you and I will in fact be treated like second class citizens in order for this bunch of nondescripts to be afforded the luxury of becoming the Grand Final face of the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
So provided you can actually afford the cost of the ticket this year or don't mind the extortion and elitism behind the purchasing of tickets, if you get stuck up the top of ANZ Stadium and your nose starts to bleed, then you can thank the WACO's for the pleasure of watching them down below you in their premium positioning.
Please see the previous post for further ticketing information.
2013 Grand Final Ticketing Information
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Rads | September 13, 2013
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Fans Banned For Scum Sign | NRL | Triple M
The banner read "Scum: Forever In Our Shadow" (Source: Twitter)
South Sydney Rabbitohs supporters will have their memberships revoked after displaying a sign at the recent Sydney Roosters game that was deemed too offensive.
The banner, clearly directed at the rival club the Sydney Roosters, read: "Scum: forever in our shadow" and was almost immediately condemned by the Rabbitohs club officials.
After a meeting at Souths during the week, punishments were discussed and the club expressed their intentions to ban the main culprit and one or more of his accomplices who also held the sign.
"He has had his membership suspended and we are going through the process of eradicating it," a Souths official told the Daily Telegraph.
"We are going to ban him, no question about it."
"We have informed the NRL but there is a process to go through."
"We have also dealt with a few of his friends. We're not happy about it."
A general consensus said the banner was escalating a sporting rivalry to hatred and was widely regarded as going too far.
Rabbitohs CEO Statement
Rabbitohs CEO Shane Richardson has made the following statement regarding an offensive banner that was displayed at Friday's game at ANZ Stadium.
Friday night's blockbuster against the Roosters was outstandingly supported by our Members and supporters and we would like to thank you for all for your encouragement and involvement on the night.
The Burrow was again in fine voice. However, there was a small group of so called 'Rabbitohs supporters' in The Burrow who took it upon themselves to create an offensive banner, overshadowing the hard work that was put into the card display at run-out.
The Club would like to state that in no way do we condone the banner that was displayed, or any other derogatory messaging.
In fact, we abhor it.
The small group of 'supporters' should take note that we are investigating this thoroughly with the help of ANZ Stadium, CCTV footage and The Burrow to identify the people responsible for the production and placement of the sign. Those identified are not welcome at the ground and, if found to be Members, will have their Memberships revoked.
The Club encourages our Members and supporters to create signs and banners that support our team and our players, rather than criticising the opposition. The huge Nathan Merritt and John Sutton banners that have been unveiled in recent weeks show great support for the team and give them a real lift.
These other types of banners do not.
To all of the wonderful supporters who created that magnificent atmosphere on the night, we are so proud of you.
Souths holding the record crowd for a fixture match – who would have believed? WE DID!
Shane Richardson
South Sydney Rabbitohs
Rabbitohs Official Update
The South Sydney Rabbitohs have denied entry to tomorrow night's finals clash with the Storm, and put under review the Memberships of two individuals following an in-depth investigation into a number of incidents that have occurred at Rabbitohs games and other NRL events this season, including the display of a derogatory sign at last week's round 26 fixture against the Roosters.
The Rabbitohs are continuing investigations in regards to other Members' behaviour, including those that occurred last Friday night at ANZ Stadium in The Burrow area.
The two Members have been informed that they are banned from attending tomorrow night's second Qualifying Final between the Rabbitohs and Storm, that the NRL Integrity Unit has been informed about all incidents in question, and that their ongoing Membership status will be reviewed as per the Club's Customer Service Charter and Member Company's constitution, meaning there could be cancellation of this and subsequent year's Memberships.
"We regard highly the safety of Members and supporters at our games and events and unfortunately the actions of these Members have led us to take this course of action against them," Rabbitohs CEO Shane Richardson said.
"The action we have taken is supported by the NRL and ANZ Stadium, and hopefully this makes for a more enjoyable and safe game day experience for the majority as we enter a very exciting period of football for our Members and supporters.
"This is not the end of our investigation, and if other Members are found to have displayed inappropriate behaviour that can damage the reputation of the Club or put the safety of other Members and patrons at risk, then they will also face cancellation of their Membership and or total bans from attending NRL events in the future.
"As we said in our statement on Monday, we want to thank all of our Members and supporters who have got behind the team this season in a positive fashion, and we look forward to seeing a big contingent of Rabbitohs support in the stands at ANZ Stadium tomorrow night."
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The man behind the banner. Source: News Limited
THIS is the man who called the Sydney Roosters scum.
Meet Chris Dounis, an online tutor with the Australian Fitness Network and a fierce South Sydney supporter.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal Dounis is about to have his South Sydney membership officially torn up.
Dounis created a storm last Friday night when he raised an offensive banner at Allianz Stadium which read: "Scum: forever in our shadow."
Rabbitohs co-owner Peter Holmes a Court and the club immediately condemned the banner.
Typically, the NRL directed responses back to the club.
The Daily Telegraph contacted a surprised Dounis in Petersham on Wednesday.
"In the best interests of the club I don't think I should be saying anything," Dounis said.
"It's best if I don't. No comment. I have to run."
Dounis attended a meeting at Souths headquarters on Wednesday, where a punishment was discussed.
A couple of Dounis's friends will also have their memberships cancelled.
"We found out yesterday who he was and he came into to see us at 8.30 this morning," a Souths official said.
"He has had his membership suspended and we are going through the process of eradicating it.
The Australian Fitness Network website states Dounis is a University of NSW graduate with a bachelor degree in exercise physiology.
It also reads: "Chris is an accredited exercise physiologist with exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) and is currently undertaking a master's degree in exercise science and rehabilitation through Charles Sturt University."
"Chris has spent the last 12 months working in chronic disease prevention programs, personal training, strength and conditioning, and both acute (through Westmead Rehabilitation Hospital) and sub-acute rehabilitation programs."
NRL fans on social media were divided about the banner.
One wrote: "Souths fans are the most hard-core in the comp, closely followed by Dogs fans."
Another said: "Disgraceful act by Souths fans."
Yet another stated: "Sorry to disagree with PHaC (Holmes a Court) about the banner but I believe everyone is entitled to express their opinion."
The banner drew a fierce rebuke from Holmes a Court, who took to Twitter.
He wrote: "Love that the Rabbitohs broke a 105 year old attendance record, loved the blanketing of the stadium in red and green, love the passion of our incredible Members and Supporters.
"Didn't love the final score, nor this banner. Rivalry, yes, hatred, sorry, never.
"Rooster fans may be misguided and delusional, yes. Scum, sorry, never.
"The world could do with less hate, and sport is best when it is used to build communities."
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Update Regarding Investigation Into Offensive Banner and Other Incidents – South Sydney Rabbitohs
Thursday 12 September 2013 4:40 PM
Rads | September 9, 2013
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Souths chief condemns offensive banner – NRL.com
South Sydney chief executive Shane Richardson has condemned a section of the club's supporters following the unfurling of an offensive banner during last Friday's defeat by the Sydney Roosters in the minor premiership decider at ANZ Stadium.
A record crowd of 59,708 attended the game – the most for an NRL non-finals encounter – but as the teams ran onto the field a sign depicting the Roosters' logo with the words "Scum: forever in our shadow" written across it was held aloft.
"Friday night's blockbuster against the Roosters was outstandingly supported by our members and supporters and we would like to thank you for all for your encouragement and involvement on the night," Richardson said.
"However, there was a small group of so-called Rabbitohs supporters who took it upon themselves to create an offensive banner.
Richardson said the club is studying CCTV to find the perpetrators and if they are found to be members they will have their memberships revoked.
"The club encourages our members and supporters to create signs and banners that support our team and our players, rather than criticising the opposition," he said.
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The huge match-ups to watch in South Sydney Rabbitohs-Sydney Roosters showdown | The Courier-Mail
The huge match-ups to watch in South Sydney Rabbitohs-Sydney Roosters showdown | The Courier-Mail.
The key match-ups in Friday night's Souths-Roosters blockbuster. Source: DailyTelegraph
RARELY has a rugby league game thrown up as many blockbuster one-on-one showdowns.
When the Rabbitohs go into battle against their old adversaries at ANZ Stadium Friday night, much more is at stake than the minor premiership.
Representative jerseys, personal pride and confidence for the finals are all at stake.
It will be intense and personal.
Inside the meeting that saved Souths
1989 Rabbitohs: Where are they now?
THE SUPERSTARS
WE can only hope Sonny Bill is right to play because his clash with Sam Burgess is potentially the highlight of the season.
These two are arguably the best forwards in the world.
Burgess is rated by many as the best Englishman to play in the competition, a massive wrap considering Mal Reilly, Tommy Bishop, Rogers Millward, Cliff Watson and Ellery Hanley played before him.
Likewise, Sonny Bill is probably more talented than any Kiwi we've seen.
Sonny Bill is probably the best all-round athlete in the game. A genuine gamebreaker with deadly offloads and beautiful footwork.
He has 53 offloads to Burgess' 17.
Burgess' strength is his phenomenal workrate and aggression. He averages 140 metres to SBW's 100.
He flattened Sonny Bill in the opening round of the competition with one ferocious charge (video below).
Every moment matters: Sam Burgess rocks Sonny Bill Williams
It was the moment every rugby league fan waited for. Sonny Bill Williams was making his return to the NRL and Sam Burgess was ready to mark…
THE FULLBACKS
GREG Inglis and Anthony Minichiello are both previous winners of the global golden boot award.
Minichiello's strengths are his big-game experience that comes from 13 seasons of NRL football and rep honours for NSW and the Kangaroos.
He absolutely thrives under pressure and is one of the busiest fullbacks in the competition who handles the football an average of 30 times a game.
Inglis' strength is his power and pace, many rating him the most devastating attacking player in the history of the game.
A lot of his key statistics are twice as good as Minichiello's. Inglis has made 105 tackle busts this year to Minichiello's 51 – and he's even played three less games.
He's scored 13 tries to Minichiello's six and averages a phenomenal 150 metres per game.
The only question mark is his fitness and the knee injury he has been carrying since Origin.
Sterlo picks GI's footballing brain
THE HALVES
THE clash between Mitchell Pearce and Adam Reynolds could decide the game, the minor premiership – and who gets the NSW No. 7 jersey next year.
Certainly coach Laurie Daley will be watching from his north shore lounge room with keen interest.
Reynolds has by far the better kicking game. He has forced 23 line dropouts this year compared to Pearce's seven.
He has also got two 40/20s while Pearce has yet to get one.
Pearce has the better passing game and twice as many linebreak assists but is desperately missing Boyd Cordner's right-side running game.
His last two appearances against the Titans and Sharks have been poor.
Adam Reynolds feeling more relaxed on big stage
Steve Hart previews the key positional battles in Friday night's blockbuster between South Sydney and the Roosters.
THE FIVE-EIGHTHS
Apart from being great players, James Maloney and John Sutton are almost the exact opposites.
Maloney plays at 83kg, Sutton at 105kg.
Sutton has used his size and strength advantage to average more than 100 running metres a game and 61 tackle busts, almost double what Maloney has done.
At the same time Maloney has 20 try assists to Sutton's 10.
Maloney's weakness is that he averages 3.5 missed tackles per game and got caught out in Origin. He also makes three times as many errors as Sutton.
THE PROPS
George Burgess and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves are the standout front rowers this season, along with Cronulla's Andrew Fifita.
Both will play about 50 minutes of the game as the head enforcers.
No one in the game can break a tackle like Burgess, who has made an incredible 92 tackle bust this year. His opponent has made just 19.
Hargreaves' strength is in other areas. He can hit the line with tremendous force and has made 26 offloads this season, three times as many as Burgess.
He also makes 20 per cent more tackles and less errors than the English front rower.
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Inside the secret meeting between George Piggins and News Limited boss John Hartigan that saved South Sydney Rabbitohs | The Courier-Mail
Inside the secret meeting between George Piggins and News Limited boss John Hartigan that saved South Sydney Rabbitohs | The Courier-Mail.
IT was the hour-long meeting between a rugby league legend and a senior Rupert Murdoch executive that kick-started South Sydney's extraordinary return to top-flight rugby league.
Here, for the first time, The Daily Telegraph can reveal details of a high-powered meeting between then News Ltd chief executive and chairman John Hartigan and former Rabbitohs chairman George Piggins.
At the time, Souths had been excluded from the premiership by News, a 50 per cent owner of the NRL.
But at the urging of ex-Rabbitohs media manager and passionate Souths man, Norm Lipson, Hartigan ventured to Piggins' South Coogee home in early 2001 to discuss the possibility of a shock Rabbitohs return.
It was a meeting where trust was born between warring parties.
Hartigan, Piggins and Lipson ate biscuits and drank tea made by Piggins' wife, Noelene.
George Piggins at his South Coogee home. Picture: Rohan Kelly
Lipson said he "broke the ice'', saying: "There's no animosity here, we are here to clear the air and work something out for South Sydney.'' Yesterday, Hartigan recalled the importance of the meeting as Souths, 12 years on, play for the minor premiership tonight.
"At some point, logic had to take over from litigious lawyers at 10 paces,'' said Hartigan, who was appointed to News's top position after the decision was made to axe Souths.
"To rub out a foundation club requires more than mathematics about revenue. People power is an amazing beast. When it's your footy club, everyone feels passionate. When it's South Sydney it is very different.''
Souths had enjoyed some court success for readmission but News could have continued to fight through the High Court.
Hartigan immediately saw the passion in Piggins' eyes. And the decision was soon made — bring back the Rabbitohs.
Former News Ltd chief John Hartigan. Picture: Simon Bullard
"Norm rang me and asked would I be prepared to meet with George,'' Hartigan said.
"I said I most certainly would and, if there was anyway through this, we will do whatever is necessary.
"Norm asked whether George would come into News Ltd, I said no and that I would be prepared to meet him on his own territory.
"I was even prepared to go into the heart of his territory at the Cauliflower Hotel (in Waterloo).
"But the meeting turned out instead to be at George's home with lovely Noelene making biscuits and tea.
"The negotiations up until that stage had been done through lawyers and all of a sudden you look eyeball-to-eyeball with a person who had such a high level of conviction.
"We walked away recognising that we had to do something to get Souths back playing football. Compromise was something both parties brought to the table.''
Piggins on Thursday recounted the meeting.
"We just spoke — John was there to see if there was any ground he could take and I was convincing the other way,'' Piggins said.
"We got on quite well. I like to deal with people who are upfront. Plenty weren't, but John was upfront. John wanted to know if we could handle it if we came back and we proved we can.''
George Piggins and wife Noelene at their South Coogee home. Picture: Rohan Kelly
Souths returned to the NRL in 2002. Now, finally, a premiership beckons.
"The interesting thing about the meeting was the mood of conciliation from George and News — an air of compromise,'' Hartigan said.
"We wanted to look at a range of options that might allow each party to get on with their business. They varied from such things as a merger with Cronulla.
"I hadn't met George before. No-one had ever doubted his conviction but I walked away recognising that level and for both parties trying to do everything we could to get Souths back on the paddock. There was a level of goodwill and trust.''
Hartigan now sits back and watches South Sydney's success with pride and delight.
"I couldn't be more delighted seeing Souths in such dominant form,'' he said.
"It's not rocket science. When you have Souths firing, you have yourselves one hell of a competition.
"Having guys like Greg Inglis running around in a Rabbioths jersey, I think it fires up everyone.''
After the meeting, Hartigan and Piggins shook hands warmly.
"And when Souths was reinstalled I rang George to congratulate him,'' Hartigan said.
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1989 Rabbitohs: Where are they now? | The Courier-Mail
1989 Rabbitohs: Where are they now? | The Courier-Mail.
Nick Walshaw Daily Telegraph
PAUL Roberts lost an eye for everything that made them great. "Yeah, pub fight," the 1989 Rabbitoh shrugs.
"There were two guys, big fellas, laying into my cousin. So, you know, whaddya do?
"I've gone running in to help but, as I did, one of them turned and glassed me. Drove it right into my face . . ."
GALLERY: Re-live the 1989 Rabbitohs
A Sydney bricklayer for 34 years and counting, Roberts is also the anonymous heartbeat for that most revered, recited and recollected Rabbitohs side of the modern era — the Class Of 1989.
And he has to be.
1989 South Sydney team who won the minor premiership.
Same deal Port Macquarie truckie Bruce Longbotton. Or Port Botany wharfie Steve Mavin.
"And if you wanna find Craig Coleman," Souths historian Brad Ryder says, "I know he collects my garbage bins every Monday morning."
Yep, while the current Rabbitohs are a humming mix of Hollywood dollars and Queenslander brilliance — of no less than eight men who boast Australian, English or New Zealand Test caps — the last mob of Redfern minor premiers weren't quite so shiny.
No, success in '89 was built on the type of fellas who turned cards at the Georges Hotel. Who would miss future reunions serving jail time.
Unshakable types who would tear in to help a mate . . . even when schooner glasses were being broken on tables.
The 1989 front row – Les Davidson, Mario Fenech and Ian Roberts.
"Oh, a complete mob of rascals," grins skipper Mario Fenech.
"And, sure, every one of us had our failings. But when we linked arms in that circle before games, when we looked each other in the eye . . . in 15 years of first grade I never saw anyone else look back at me like it."
Which is why, while everyone remembers this mob as the side which dropped the ball — quite literally in the case of Mavin — the real story is how, under the tutelege of coach George Piggins, they got within a whisker of the grand final in the first place.
How 22 years after his last game, Bronko Djura still has folk walk into the Wentforth Falls bowling club he manages and, upon hearing that famed moniker, ask to shout the old fullback a beer.
"Although if my parents had named me, oh, I dunno, Paul Smith," he grins, "you would've forgotten me five minutes after I gave it away."
George Piggins (R) coached the 1989 side.
Certainly there may be a little truth to that.
For while Les Davidson earned five Test jerseys and Phil Blake a Tooheys commercial, centre Mark Lyons works the Bunnies' dressing-room door on game days with almost the entire office staff having no idea who he is.
Elsewhere, "Turtle" Rampling is in construction. Ross Harrington runs the Lithgow Driving School. While lock Mark Andrews, well, he was just another face in that English crowd when our Jillaroos won the Women's World Cup recently.
"I've got seven kids and my daughter Emily, she was part of the side," Andrews says.
"It's not exactly nice to see your daughter getting bashed around, but to beat New Zealand for the first time ever — incredible. Especially when the Kiwis had already made shirts with 'Let's Go, Four In A Row'."
Les Davidson (R) was the brawn, Craig Coleman was the brains.
Asked about his own team's achievements in '89, when after 13 straight wins they would eventually bow out of the finals on consecutive losses, the warehouse boss continues: "That side found ways to win when we had no right to.
"And, yes, when it came to the crunch we came up short. But, geez, I thought we played above ourselves to get there."
Davidson agrees. Now working a crane at the Port Botany wharves, the ageing enforcer credits "more attitude than skill" for them conceding only 31 tries all year.
"At one stage we even agreed to get off the drink," Davidson grins. "Back then, that was a huge pact. But just like when we did go out, it was a case of one in, all in."
Which is why, 24 years on, these footballers still know the whereabouts of every mate. Why they meet more regularly than premierships sides and, as was the case over more than a few beers last Friday night at ANZ Stadium, pick up straight from where the last gag left off.
Like asking a one-eyed brickie how straight he now lays them?
"Funny thing was, I wasn't even supposed to be at the pub that afternoon," Roberts recalls. "It was a work day but, because it started to rain, the boss called us off early, took everyone to the pub.
"And, you know, I wasn't even staying long. But then the trouble started and when it's family, when it's a mate . . . well, whaddya do?"
1. Bronko Djura – Wentworth Falls Bowling Club Manager
2. Ross Harrington – Lithgow driving instructor
3. Steve O'Dea – Sales representative
4. Steve Mavin – Wharfie
5. Graham Lyons – Construction worker
6. Phil Blake – Manly rugby coach
7. Craig Coleman – Garbo
8. David Boyle – Cronulla strength and conditioning coach
9. Jim Serdaris – Electrician
10. Mario Fenech – NRL ambassador, Channel Nine personality
11. Les Davidson – Wharfie
12. Wayne Chisholm – Gold Coast builder
13. Michael Andrews – Warehouse manager
Interchange:
14. Mark Lyons – Wharfie
15. Tony Rampling – Construction worker
16. Bruce Longbottom – Port Macquarie truck driver
17. Paul Roberts – Bricklayer
Coach: George Piggins – Businessman, nursery owner
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Modern day rivalry lives on between traditional enemies South Sydney Rabbitohs and Sydney Roosters | thetelegraph.com.au
THE setting was the dining room table at Kerry Packer's Bellevue Hill mansion, the entree was oysters and the main course was a merger between the Eastern Suburbs Roosters and South Sydney Rabbitohs.
On the invitation list to the private dinner was powerful Roosters chairman Nick Politis, South Sydney patriarch George Piggins, breakfast radio king pin Alan Jones and the late, great media baron Packer.
The year was 1994 and the ugly, game-changing Super League war was in full swing. In between courses, Packer outlined the plan of how a merger between the 1908 foundation rivals and sworn enemies would work.
Then he handed over to Politis.
"I remember looking at George and I could see it in his eyes. And you know what, he could probably see it in my eyes, too," Politis said.
"We never really wanted to join forces, but Kerry wanted us to get together. We talked a little, but we were both too proud of the heritage of our clubs. We didn't want to lose our identities.
"There's too much history, too much tradition. So there was no deal."
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves gets Greg Inglis in a head lock. Picture: Mark Evans
Almost 20 years on, the thought of trying to convince these two clubs split by the boundary lines of Anzac Parade to merge seems about as realistic as attempting to broker a peace deal along the middle east's Gaza strip.
From Botany to Maroubra and Bellevue Hill to Bondi, rugby league people are simply born and bred red and green – considered more working class – or, alternatively, red, white and blue – a little more affluent.
Thanks to South Sydney owner Russell Crowe's beloved `Book of Feuds', both clubs promote their modern-day clashes as a celebration of why they `love to hate' each other.
Provided the Roosters beat the Gold Coast Titans at Allianz Stadium on Sunday, the Tricolours will set-up the ball game of the season next Friday night against arch-rivals the Bunnies, with the minor premiership at stake.
The last time the Roosters and South Sydney were both on top of the NRL ladder prior to this season was round two, 1984, while the last time they played each other in a last round clash for the JJ Giltinan Shield was 1968.
On that day, 45 years ago, the Pride of the League prevailed 24-22 in front of 39,933 fans at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Today, there's still just as much animosity.
"I'd be lying if I said both clubs didn't circle this game on the calendar. They hate us and we hate them," South Sydney co-captain Roy Asostasi said.
"Ever since I joined the Rabbitohs, round one is always a fiery encounter. Both foundation clubs and it comes down to a battle of the suburbs.
"It's the icing on the cake that we're both probably going to be battling it out for the minor premiership. It's a real curtain raiser for the finals."
Come next Friday night at ANZ Stadium, you can guarantee all the anecdotes about this wonderful, historical rivalry will get rolled out.
Like the gypsie who put a curse on Ron Coote when he switched clubs from Souths in 1972 after then-Roosters coach Don Furner kept showing up on his front porch. Or what about when Souths paraded Craig Wing as the Rabbitohs "buying back the farm" at a strategically-orchestrated press conference in 2007 – when Wing was still contracted to the Roosters.
Sam Burgess and Sam Thaiday both get ten in the bin
Burgess binned only three minutes into the game for slowing down the ruck, with Thaiday facing the same charge.
Deliberate? You betcha. That was Crowe and Peter Holmes a Court's polite version of a one-fingered salute at Politis and the blue-chip board room at Bondi Junction.
The Roosters managed to exact a pretty good square-up though. In the opening game of 2008, hooker Riley Brown hammered Wing with a borderline legal tackle, dislocating the Bunnies new pin-up's collar bone and sidelining him for the next three months.
Then there was the infamous Gladiator "thumbs down" in the opening game of 2009, when Crowe couldn't resist the temptation to put the slipper into the Roosters as the Bunnies powered to victory.
The following year, David Gyngell goaded Politis to return the favour when the script was reversed in the Roosters favour, but the Tricolours chairman, seated in an outdoor box at Allianz Stadium, simply opted to do his best Al Pacino impersonation.
Take it as fact, the Roosters king pin doesn't have a lot of time for the Hollywood theatrics of Crowe at Souths.
"In the old days, when George was running Souths, you had to respect him because he's from the old school," Politis said.
"Without him and Nick Pappas, there would be no Souths. Sure, we don't like each other because of our history, but there's still a mutual respect."
Piggins still recalls getting a phone call from Jack Gibson to arrange the meeting at Packer's place back in 1994.
"Not long after we sat down, Packer told us what the plan was," Piggins said. "I looked at Nick Politis and said `I've only got one question Nick, how much say would South Sydney have in the running of a combined club?
"He looked at me and said: `None'.
"I thought: `Well, there goes the oysters, I'm wasting my time. We agreed we would continue to go our own ways."
On Friday night, get set for another chapter to be added to one of the NRL's greatest rivalries.
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Souths lock in all four Burgess boys
By Billy Freeman 14:44 AEST Wed Jul 31 2013
South Sydney will remain the rugby league home of the four Burgess brothers, with 21-year-old twins George and Tom on Wednesday joining Sam and Luke in re-signing with the NRL club.
It's just the news Rabbitohs fans wanted to hear, with the Englishmen making a big impression for the NRL ladder leaders who are seeking their first premiership title since 1971.
George has signed a three-year deal to the end of 2016, while fellow prop Tom is committed for the next two seasons.
George especially has impressed in 2013, scoring six tries in 19 games and is a big chance to make his international debut for England by joining celebrated brother Sam at the end-of-season World Cup back in his home country.
Sam is a well-established international, having played 11 Tests for England and Great Britain, and is already signed with Souths until the end of 2016.
Luke, the oldest of the four prop brothers who has played 28 games for the Rabbitohs, is committed to the end of 2015. He only recently made his return from a pre-season shoulder injury in the NSW Cup, but has yet to be sighted in the NRL this year.
"It's really exciting to be with a club that is growing the way it is, and I'm looking forward to helping develop the winning culture that is building here," George Burgess said.
"I'm really pumped to be part of it with my brothers and teammates as well, and to be part of what I'm sure will be a bright future."
Rabbitohs coach Michael Maguire believed new re-signings George and Tom could be fixtures in the pack for the seasons to come.
"Both George and Tom have made an impact on the field for us since they have joined the first grade squad and they are both developing well as front rowers in the NRL," Maguire said.
"We have plenty of competition for spots in the front row at the Rabbitohs and they have both shown that they belong in the company of the other front rowers we have competing for positions in the forward pack.
"I'm looking forward to working with them and watching them build their games further alongside their older brothers."
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text:
\section{Introduction}

Cosmologists are making rapid progress in our understanding
of the structure of the large-scale Universe.  On the largest
scales, the chief source of information is the cosmic microwave background
(CMB) anisotropy and polarization,
particularly the all-sky data from WMAP
\cite{wmapbasic,wmapspectrum,wmappol,wmap3basic,wmap3pol,wmap3imp}.
There have been tantalizing hints of unexpected behavior in the
largest-scale modes of the CMB anisotropy.  The COBE DMR
detected a lack of anisotropy power on the largest angular scales
\cite{bennettcobe,gorskicobe,hinshawcobe},
and WMAP has confirmed this result \cite{wmapbasic,wmapspectrum,wmap3basic}.
There is evidence suggesting that these largest-scale modes
are inconsistent with statistically isotropic theories
because of correlations between modes and/or asymmetry between
hemispheres
\cite{costaetal,copi,schwarz,hansen,land,bernui2,bielewicz,copi2,bernui};
however, there is disagreement over how to interpret these
results \cite{land,bielewicz,efstathiou}.
In particular, these results are subject
to the classic problem of a posteriori interpretation of statistical
significances: if an unexpected anomaly is found, and its statistical
significance is computed thereafter, one cannot necessarily
take the significance
at face value.  (After all, in any large data set, something unlikely
is bound to occur.)

The best way to resolve this situation is of course to obtain a new,
independent data set probing the same physical scales.  Unfortunately,
large-angular-scale CMB
observations are already at the ``cosmic variance'' limit,
and other
independent probes of these ultra-large scales are few.  Observations
that may provide independent information on these scales
are therefore of considerable interest.
Large-angular-scale CMB polarization data provide some relevant
information \cite{dore,skordis}, although the number of independent modes
probed is small and the results may depend on the details of reionization.

The scattering of CMB photons in clusters of galaxies may shed light
on this puzzle.
This scattering induces a polarization signal \cite{sazonov}, which is
determined by the quadrupole anisotropy in the photon distribution at
the cluster location.  This ``remote quadrupole''
signal probes large-scale modes of the
density perturbation field that are different from those probed by the
local CMB, so by measuring these remote quadrupoles it may be possible to
get around the cosmic variance limit \cite{kamionloeb}.
It has therefore been proposed
that a survey of remote quadrupoles may shed light on
the puzzle of large-scale CMB anomalies \cite{seto,baumanncooray}.

The remote quadrupole signals from different clusters are strongly
correlated with
each other and with the local CMB anisotropy \cite{portsmouth}.
It is therefore not obvious how to design a survey to obtain
the maximum amount of new information.  In addition, we wish
to know what physical scales of perturbation are probed
by a given survey; this will depend on both the redshifts
and the angular distribution of clusters observed.
In this article I will develop a formalism for determining the independent
fluctuation modes that are probed by a survey of remote quadrupoles.
For a survey that sparsely covers a large area of sky,
the largest-scale modes probe comparable length scales to the first
few CMB
multipoles, with Fourier-space window functions that are narrower
than that of the local CMB.  Determination of these modes
may be expected to provide insight into the interpretation
of the possible anomalies in the large-scale CMB observations.
The value of a sparse large-area survey for this purpose
has been noted elsewhere \cite{seto}.  This
paper provides the first detailed assessment of the amount
of information available in such a survey.

The correlation function of remote quadrupole measurements
is quite complicated, depending on both the clusters' redshifts
and their angular separation \cite{portsmouth}.  At fixed redshift,
the remote quadrupole is a spin-2 field on the sky, so it
is natural to express it as an expansion in spin-2 spherical
harmonics.  Because it is predominantly derived from scalar perturbations,
at any given redshift it contains (to a good
approximation) only $E$ modes, with no $B$ contribution.
This should provide a valuable check on systematic errors in any
future survey.

At low redshift, the measurements naturally
become strongly correlated with the local CMB temperature quadrupole.  As
a result, the five coefficients $a_{2m}$ of the local
quadrupole can be easily measured from a survey of only a few low-redshift
clusters \cite{baumanncooray}.

The spherical harmonic basis diagonalizes the angular
correlations, giving a sequence of correlation functions that depend
only on redshift.
It is much simpler to determine and count
the independent normal modes in the spherical harmonic
basis rather than in real space.
For a survey that covers only part of the sky, of course, the
individual spherical harmonic coefficients will not be measured.
However, just as in the case of the local CMB we can still use the
spherical harmonic basis to count the number
of modes that can be measured, scaling the results by the
fraction of sky covered.

On smaller scales, a remote quadrupole survey provides insight
into the growth of structure in the recent past
\cite{baumanncooray,CoorayBaumann,CHB,seto}.
The remote quadrupole signal, like the local CMB,
contains contributions both from the surface of last scattering
and from the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect
resulting from time variations in the gravitational potential along
the line of sight \cite{sachswolfe}.  (See, e.g., \cite{hureview} for an overview of the
physics of CMB anisotropy.)
Since the ISW
contribution to the remote quadrupole measurements differs
from that of the local quadrupole, it is possible to extract information
about the recent growth of perturbations.  The formalism
developed in this paper provides
a method of quantifying
the amount of extra information that can be obtained from such
a survey.

If a cluster has a peculiar velocity, then there is a kinematically
induced polarization signal as well as the
signal considered here \cite{challinorfordlasenby,shimon}.  This kinematic contribution can
be removed through multifrequency observations \cite{CoorayBaumann},
and will be ignored in this paper.  In addition, we will not consider
the polarization induced by scattering off of diffuse structure
\cite{liudasilva}; rather, we will envision a survey directed
at specific clusters of known redshift.

This paper is structured as follows.  Section \ref{sec:formalism}
develops the formalism for calculating the correlation function
of remote quadrupole measurements.  Section \ref{sec:surveymodes}
shows the information that can be obtained in hypothetical
remote-quadrupole surveys on a shell at a single redshift as well
as in volume-limited surveys,  and
section \ref{sec:discussion} contains
a discussion of the significance of these results.  Some more
than usually boring mathematical steps are contained in an appendix.

\section{Formalism}
\label{sec:formalism}

\subsection{Remote quadrupole in a single cluster}

We will assume a flat spatial
geometry and label any cluster's comoving position
with an ordinary 3-vector ${\bf r}$, with spherical coordinates
$(r,\theta_{\rhat},\phi_{\rhat})$
defined in some fixed earth-centered coordinate system.

For any particular cluster,
we will find it convenient to introduce
a second coordinate system,
denoted by a prime,
which will have its $z'$ axis is aligned with $\rhat$, the direction
from earth to the cluster.
To be specific,
let the
primed coordinate system be obtained from
the unprimed by rotating through an angle $\theta_{\rhat}$ about the $x$
axis and then by an angle $\phi_{\rhat}$ about the (original) $z$ axis, with
the third Euler angle set to zero.

Suppose that an observer in that cluster
at the cluster look-back time measures the CMB anisotropy,
conveniently recording the results
using the primed coordinate system:
\beq
\frac{\Delta T}{T}(\nhat')=\sum_{l,m} a_{lm}({\bf r})
Y_{lm}(\nhat').
\eeq
The quadrupole spherical harmonic coefficients are
\beq
a_{2m}({\bf r})=\int d^3k\,\Delta_2(k;r)\delta_\Phi({\bf k})
e^{i{\bf k}\cdot{\bf r}}Y_{2m}^*(\khat').
\eeq
Here $\delta_\Phi$ is the Fourier-space perturbation in the
gravitational potential.  On the
large scales of interest to us, the quadrupole transfer function contains
Sachs-Wolfe and ISW terms:
\begin{widetext}
\beq
\Delta_2(k;r)=-\frac{4\pi}{3}\left(j_2[k(\eta-\etarec)]+6\int_{\etarec}^\eta
d\eta' j_2[k(\eta-\eta')]\frac{\partial}{\partial\eta'}
\left(\frac{D(\eta')}{a(\eta')}\right)\right).
\eeq
In this expression $j_2$ is a spherical Bessel function, $a$
is the scale factor normalized to unity today, $\eta=\eta_0-r$ is conformal
time ($d\eta=dt/a(t)$), $\etarec$ is the conformal time of recombination,
$\eta_0$ is conformal time today,
and $D$ is the matter perturbation growth factor normalized to unity
at high redshift (e.g., \cite{padmanabhan}).  We assume that the dark
energy is spatially uniform, e.g., a cosmological constant.
In addition, we assume instantaneous recombination and ignore reionization.
Most of the quadrupole signal seen by observers in the cluster
is due to photons that come from last scattering (just as most of the
local quadrupole signal is), so neglecting reionization is a good approximation
in this context.  On the other hand, we cannot ignore reionization
when considering the correlation between the remote quadrupole signal
and the local CMB {\it polarization} quadrupole, as discussed below.
We work in units where $c=1$.

The observed cluster polarization signal is proportional to the
$m=\pm 2$ spherical harmonic coefficients:
\beq
p_\pm({\bf r})\equiv (Q\pm iU)({\bf r})=Na_{2\pm 2}
({\bf r}).
\eeq
where
\beq
N=\sqrt{\frac{3}{40\pi}}\tau,
\eeq
and
$\tau$ is the cluster optical depth.  We want to study
the behavior of $p_\pm$ as a function of cluster position ${\bf r}$.
Since $p_\pm$ are complex conjugates of each other, we
need only compute one of them.  Let's focus on $p_-({\bf r})$, which
we will call simply $p({\bf r})$ from now on.

The  observed signal is
\beq
p({\bf r})=Na_{2-2}({\bf r})
=
N\int d^3k\, \Delta_2(k; r)\delta_\Phi({\bf k})
e^{i{\bf k}\cdot{\bf r}}Y_{22}(\khat').
\label{eq:b}
\eeq
Using equation (\ref{Y22equation}), we can write $Y_{22}(\khat')$
in the unprimed coordinate system:
\beq
p({\bf r})=
N\sqrt{\frac{4\pi}{5}}
\sum_{m=-2}^2(-1)^m \Ytwo_{2-m}(\rhat)
\int d^3k\,\Delta_2(k; r)\delta_\Phi({\bf k})
e^{i{\bf k}\cdot{\bf r}}Y_{2m}(\khat),
\eeq
where $\Ytwo_{2-m}$ is a spin-2 spherical harmonic.

For a fixed distance $r$, $p$ is a spin-2 function of direction
$\rhat$, so it is natural to
expand in spin-2 spherical
harmonics:
\beq
p({\bf r})=\sum_{L,M}p_{LM}(r)\ \Ytwo_{LM}(\rhat),
\label{eq:ylmexpansion}
\eeq
with coefficients given by
\begin{align}
p_{LM}(r)&=\int d^2\rhat\,p({\bf r})\ \Ytwo_{LM}^*\\
&=N\sqrt{\frac{4\pi}{5}}\sum_{m} (-1)^m
\int d^3k\,\Delta_2(k; r)\delta_\Phi({\bf k})Y_{2m}(\khat)
\int d^2\rhat\  \Ytwo_{2-m}(\rhat)\ \Ytwo_{LM}^*(\rhat) e^{i
{\bf k}\cdot{\bf r}}.
\label{blmequation}
\end{align}
By expanding the exponential in spherical harmonics as shown
in the Appendix,
we can express the coefficients in the following form:
\beq
p_{LM}(r)=i^L\int d^3k \,\Delta_2(k;r)\delta_\Phi({\bf k})
F_L(kr)Y_{LM}^*(\khat),
\label{eq:plm}
\eeq
where
\beq
F_L(x)=\sqrt{20\pi}\sum_{\lambda=L-2,L,L+2}
(-1)^{(\lambda-L)/2}(2\lambda+1)
\begin{pmatrix}
2 & L & \lambda\\
2 & -2 & 0
\end{pmatrix}
\begin{pmatrix}
2 & L & \lambda \\ 0 & 0 & 0
\end{pmatrix}
j_\lambda(x).
\eeq

\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=3in]{corrz2.eps}
\includegraphics[width=3in]{corrz3.eps}

\includegraphics[width=3in]{corrz4.eps}
\includegraphics[width=3in]{corrz20.eps}
\caption{Correlation functions $\xi_l$ for $l=2,3,4,20$.}
\label{fig:corrfuncs}
\end{figure*}

It is straightforward to check from equation (\ref{eq:plm})
that all
coefficients $p_{lm}(r)$ are real.  In the terminology of
CMB polarization \cite{eb1,eb2}, this means that the remote quadrupole
data form an $E$-type spin-2 field at any given distance,
with no $B$ modes.  The absence of $B$ modes arises because we have
considered only scalar perturbations as the source of the CMB quadrupole.
If tensor perturbations were included, then in principle a $B$
component would arise.  Considering the difficulty of
detecting a remote quadrupole signal at all, the prospect of searching
for a subdominant $B$-type signal sounds extremely daunting.
It is probably more realistic, therefore, to search
for the scalar ($E$-type) signal in such a survey, using
the predicted absence
of $B$ modes as a check
on systematic errors and noise (see Section \ref{sec:discussion}).

\end{widetext}
\subsection{Correlations between clusters}

Suppose that many clusters have been observed at many
different positions ${\bf r}_i$.
To determine the amount of information that can be obtained
from such a survey, we need to know the correlations $\langle
p({\bf r}_i)p({\bf r}_j)\rangle$.  The full correlation function
depends on
the directions as well as the distances of the clusters \cite{portsmouth}.
The correlation functions are simpler to work with in spherical
harmonic space, as the orthogonality of the spherical harmonics implies
that there are no correlations between $p_{LM}$ and $p_{L'M'}$:
\beq
\langle p_{LM}(r)p_{L'M'}^*(r')\rangle=\xi_{L}(r,r')\delta_{LL'}\delta_{MM'}.
\label{eq:plmcorr}
\eeq
The correlation function is
\begin{align}
&\xi_{L}(r,r')=\langle p_{LM}(r)p_{LM}^*(r')\rangle=\nonumber\\
&\int_0^\infty dk\,k^2\Delta_2(k;r)\Delta_2(k;r')F_L(kr)F_L(kr')P_\Phi(k),
\end{align}
where the power spectrum $P_\Phi$ is given by
\beq
\langle\delta_\Phi({\bf k})\delta^*_\Phi({\bf k}')\rangle=P_\Phi(k)
\delta^{(3)}({\bf k}-{\bf k}').
\eeq
On the scales of interest, $P_\Phi(k)\propto k^{n-4}$ where $n\approx
1$ is the spectral index.

\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=3in]{corrzp2justt.eps}
\includegraphics[width=3in]{corrzp2.eps}
\caption{Correlation functions $\xi_l^\perp$ for $l=2$.  In the
left panel, only the correlation with the local temperature
quadrupole has been projected out.  In the right panel, the
correlation with the polarization quadrupole has also been
removed.}
\label{fig:corrperp}
\end{figure*}

Fig.~\ref{fig:corrfuncs} shows the correlation functions $\xi_l$
for several values of $l$.  In calculating
the ISW integral and in converting from distance $r$ to
redshift $z$,  a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology with
$\Omega_m=0.3$ and $\Omega_\Lambda=0.7$ was assumed.
The results are normalized to WMAP on large angular scales.
At low $l$, the correlations are extremely broad, meaning that
even a survey covering a wide range of distances will contain
few independent modes per $(l,m)$, as we will see in section
\ref{subsec:volume}.

Remote quadrupole measurements are in general correlated with
the local CMB anisotropy and polarization.
To assess how much independent information
is contained in the remote measurements, we need to know
how strong these correlations are.  Let us begin
by considering correlations with the locally-measured
temperature anisotropy.  If the anisotropy
spherical harmonic coefficients are $a_{lm}$,
then the cross-correlation is
\begin{align}
\zeta_{L}(r)&\equiv\langle p_{LM}(r)a_{LM}^*\rangle
\label{eq:zeta}
\\
&=
\int_0^\infty dk\,k^2\Delta_2(k;r)\Delta_L(k;0)F_L(kr)P_\Phi(k),
\end{align}
where $\Delta_L$ is the appropriate transfer function.

If we wish to study only the information in a remote quadrupole data
set that is independent of the local anisotropy, then we should
project the mode coefficients onto the space orthogonal to
that probed by the local CMB:
\beq
p_{LM}^\perp(r)=p_{LM}(r)-\frac{\zeta_L(r)}{C_L}a_{LM},
\label{eq:ortho}
\eeq
where $C_l\equiv \langle a_{lm}a_{lm}^*\rangle$ is the usual CMB
angular power spectrum.

We can define
a correlation function $\zeta_L^E$
and perform a similar projection to remove the portion of the signal
that is correlated with the CMB polarization anisotropy coefficients
$a_{lm}^{E}$. (There is no significant correlation with
the $B$-type CMB polarization.)
In performing
this
projection, it is important to include the effects of reionization,
as most of the low-$l$ polarization signal comes from post-reionization
scattering.

Fig.~\ref{fig:corrperp}
shows the correlation functions $\xi^\perp_l$ corresponding
to the projected coefficients $p_{lm}^\perp$ for $l=2$.
As we will see, the difference
between $\xi_l$ and $\xi_l^\perp$ decreases at higher $l$'s.
In performing the projection, the Universe
was assumed to have completely reionized at $z=11$, but the
results do not depend strongly on the details of reionization,
unless there was considerable patchiness on large scales.

The r.m.s.\ power due to all modes at a given $l$ is
\beq
p_l(r)=\sqrt{\frac{2l+1}{4\pi}\xi_l(r,r)},
\eeq
and similarly for $p_l^\perp$.  As Fig.~\ref{fig:rmssignal}
indicates, the quadrupole $l=2$ dominates the unprojected
power at low redshift,
but power shifts to smaller angular scales (higher $l$)
as the redshift increases.  At $l=2$, the projected power
is much less than the unprojected power at all redshifts: the modes
$p_{2m}$ are strongly correlated with the local temperature
quadrupole at low $z$ and with the polarization quadrupole
at high $z$.  Modes with $l>2$ are comparatively weakly correlated
with the local signals over some redshift ranges.

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=3in]{diagsignal.eps}

\includegraphics[width=3in]{signalvsl.eps}

\caption{The r.m.s.\ signal per multipole.  The left panel
shows the signal in modes $l=2$ (solid, black), 3 (dashed, red),
and 4 (dot-dashed, green) as a function of redshift.  The bumps
at $z\lesssim 0.5$ are due to the ISW effect.  In each case, the three
curves from top to bottom are the total signal, the result of projecting
out the correlation with temperature quadrupole, and the result of projecting
out both temperature and polarization.
The right panel shows the signal as a function of $l$ for redshifts
$z=0.1$ (solid, black) 1 (dashed, red), and 2 (dot-dashed, green).
The upper curve is total signal, and the lower curve is the
result of projecting out the correlations with local temperature
and polarization.}
\label{fig:rmssignal}.
\end{figure}

All correlation functions except $\xi_2$ go to zero as $z,z'\to 0$.
This is expected: at low redshift, the remote quadrupole $p({\bf r})$
contains precisely the same information as the local quadrupole
coefficients $a_{2m}$, so it must transform as a quadrupole
itself.  Indeed, it is straightforward to check from equation
(\ref{eq:plm}) that
\beq
p_{lm}(r)\to N\sqrt{\frac{4\pi}{5}}a_{lm}\delta_{l2}
\qquad\mbox{as $r\to 0$}.
\label{eq:quadcorr}
\eeq

The real-space correlation
functions are easily computed from the spherical harmonic space functions.
The correlation
between remote quadrupole signals of two clusters at locations ${\bf r}_1,{\bf r}_2$
is
\beq
\langle p({\bf r}_1)p({\bf r}_2)\rangle=
\sum_{L=2}^\infty\frac{2L+1}{4\pi}\xi_L(r_1,r_2)P_L(\rhat_1\cdot\rhat_2)
\eeq
using equations (\ref{eq:ylmexpansion}) and (\ref{eq:plmcorr}) and
the spherical harmonic addition theorem.
Similarly, the correlation between a remote quadrupole measurement
$p({\bf r}_1)$ and the local CMB $(\Delta T/T)({\bf r}_2)$ is
\beq
\langle p({\bf r}_1)(\Delta T/T)(\rhat_2)\rangle=
\sum_{L=2}^\infty \frac{2L+1}{4\pi}\zeta_L(r_1)P_L(\rhat_1\cdot\rhat_2).
\eeq
Once the initial investment of calculating the $l$-space
correlation functions has been made, these formulae allow rapid
calculation of real-space correlations.

\section{Scales probed by remote quadrupole surveys}
\label{sec:surveymodes}
\subsection{Survey at a fixed redshift}

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=3.2in]{shellwindows2-noproj.eps}
\caption{Window functions.  The quantity $W_l^2/k$, which is
proportional to the mean-square power in multipole a given multipole, is
shown for a survey at $z=2$ for $l=2$ (solid, black), 3 (dashed, blue),
and 4 (dot-dashed, red).  In each case, the left (thicker) curve
is the window function for the total signal $p_{lm}$,
and the right (thinner) curve is the window function for $p_{lm}^\perp$.
All
functions are normalized
to integrate to one.
The bars above
each window function show the 25th, 50th, and 75th
percentiles.  The green bars at the top of the plot indicate the
percentiles for the $l=2$ and $l=10$ multipoles of the local CMB anisotropy.}
\label{fig:window}
\end{figure}

We next examine the length scales probed by the various multipoles, assuming
an all-sky survey  has been used to estimate the
coefficients $p_{lm}$ at some fixed redshift.
We can write the signal as
\beq
p_{l}^2(r)=\int dk\,k^2 P_\Phi(k)W_l^2(k; r),
\eeq
with $W_l(k;r)=\frac{2l+1}{4\pi} \Delta_2(k;r)F_l(kr)$.
Since $P_\Phi\propto k^{-3}$, the quantity $W_l^2/k$ is
proportional to the power per wavenumber interval $dk$.  Similarly,
we can define a window function for the quantity $p_l^\perp$ that results
from projecting out the part of the signal that is correlated with
the local CMB.

The first few window functions are
shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:window} for $z=2$.  Window functions
corresponding to both $p_l$ and $p_l^\perp$ are shown.
The range of scales
probed by the various window functions are indicated with horizontal
error bars, and for comparison the ranges corresponding to the
local CMB power spectrum $C_2$ and $C_{10}$ are also indicated.
Because of the ISW effect, the local CMB window functions are quite
broad.

The first few unprojected modes probe scales as large as the CMB
quadrupole but with narrower window functions.  As noted earlier,
these are significantly correlated with the local CMB polarization
multipoles.  Nonetheless, considering the likelihood that large-angle
CMB polarization multipoles may be contaminated by foregrounds
or systematic errors,
the unprojected modes will still provide valuable new
information on the largest-scale perturbations in the Universe, or
at least test our understanding of large-angle polarization data.
(The remote quadrupole survey will of course be susceptible
to systematic errors and foregrounds as well, but the susceptibility
will be different from that of the local polarization multipoles.)

The projected modes probe smaller scales, but they are still
in the gigaparsec range, comparable to the first 10 or so CMB
multipoles, and in some cases have narrow window functions.
In practice, the projected modes at $l=2$ ($p_2^\perp$) are
unlikely to be reliably measured, because the correlations
are so strong, but projected modes with $l\ge 3$ will allow
us to probe these large scales.

Fig.~\ref{fig:sigvsscale} shows the r.m.s.\ power $p_l$ and $p_l^\perp$
per multipole, plotted against the effective scale for each
multipole.
In interpreting this plot, bear in mind that each point represents
the r.m.s.\ signal from all $2l+1$ modes at a given $l$.

\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=5in]{signalvsscaleall.eps}
\caption{The r.m.s.\ signal  vs.\ effective length
scale.  The upper plots are for a survey at $z=2$, and the
lower plots are for $z=3$.  On the left the
total signal $p_{l}$ is shown, and on the right is the projected
signal $p_l^\perp$.
The horizontal error bars indicate 25th, 50th,
75th percentile contributions to the signal. Multipole
$l$ increases from left to right within each plot.
The dashed green bars at the bottom indicate the window functions
for the local CMB anisotropy at $l=2$ and $l=10$; the vertical
position of these bars is arbitrary.}
\label{fig:sigvsscale}
\end{figure*}

In order to measure the quantities $p_l^\perp$, in principle
we need an all-sky cluster survey, knowledge of the local
CMB anisotropy and polarization spherical
harmonic coefficients, and knowledge of the
correlation functions $\zeta_l(r)$ and $\zeta_l^E(r)$ in order to project out
the local contribution.  In practice, of course,
difficulties are likely with all of these.  Section \ref{sec:discussion}
contains some discussion of how to mitigate these problems.
For the moment, observe that information on large physical
scales is found at large angular scales.  We must survey a large fraction
of the sky if we want to address the puzzles in the large-scale CMB
with this technique.  However, note that at redshifts $z=2$-3
the
signal drops fairly rapidly as a function of $l$.  This is good
news: it means that a relatively sparse survey can measure
the low-$l$ modes without excessive contamination from small angular
scales.

\subsection{Volume-limited survey}
\label{subsec:volume}

In the previous subsection, we considered surveys at a fixed redshift.
We now imagine a volume-limited survey out to some maximum
redshift $z_{\rm max}$.  Let us continue to assume an all-sky
survey, so that it is natural to think of the survey in spherical
harmonic space.  In this case,
our survey provides estimates of each of the functions $p_{lm}(r)$
at multiple values of $r$.

For each $l$, we can enumerate a list of signal strength
eigenmodes $\psi_{nl}$ that are solutions to
\beq
\int_0^{z_{\rm max}}\xi_l(r,r')\psi_{nl}(r')\,r'^2\,dr'=
\lambda_{nl}\psi_{nl}(r).
\eeq
The mode functions $\psi_{nl}(r)\ \Ytwo_{lm}(\rhat)$ form an orthonormal
basis, which we can use to express
the signal $p({\bf r})$.
The mean-square signal in each mode is
the eigenvalue $\lambda_{nl}$, so these modes provide
a useful guide to tell us where the signal is strong.

For each
mode, we can calculate a window function and hence
assign a range of wavenumbers probed as we did for the surveys at fixed
redshift.  Results are illustrated in Fig.~\ref{fig:sigvol}.

As one would expect, the mode with highest signal at
each $l$ corresponds
to a simple weighted average of $p_{lm}$ as a function of $r$
with positive weight everywhere.  The next mode
is essentially a difference between low- and high-redshift
signals, and subsequent modes contain more radial oscillations.
As Fig.~\ref{fig:sigvol} indicates, only the first
couple of modes are likely to be measurable at any given $(l,m)$.
Once again, the $l=2$ modes are strongly correlated with
the local CMB polarization.  Assuming the large-angle CMB polarization
has been well measured, they provide relatively little new
information; modes with
$l\ge 3$ are the richest source of independent data on
large-scale perturbations.  On the other hand, if the first few
CMB polarization multipoles are uncertain due to foregrounds or systematic
errors, then the $l=2$ modes of a remote quadrupole survey may help to fill
in this gap.

A comparison of Figs.~\ref{fig:sigvsscale} and \ref{fig:sigvol}
shows that significantly more large-scale information can be obtained
from a volume-limited survey than from a survey on a shell.
There is, of course, an obvious
price to pay:
many more clusters must be observed to estimate all these modes.

\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=5in]{sigvsscalevolall.eps}
\caption{The r.m.s.\ signal  vs.\ effective length
scale.  The upper panels show the results of a survey
out to a maximum redshift of 2, and the lower panels are for
a maximum redshift of 3.  The total signal $p_l$ is plotted
on the left, and the projected signal $p_l^\perp$ is on the right.
The horizontal axis indicates the length scales of each
mode as in Fig.~\ref{fig:sigvsscale}.
Solid black bars are the highest signal-strength eigenmode
as a function of $l$.  The dashed red bars are the
second mode for each $l$, and the dot-dashed blue bars are the
third mode.  Multipole $l$ increases from left to right
within each category.
The long-dashed green bars at the top indicate the window functions
for the local CMB anisotropy at $l=2$ and $l=10$; the vertical
position of these bars is arbitrary.}
\label{fig:sigvol}
\end{figure*}

\section{Discussion}
\label{sec:discussion}

We have seen that
an all-sky survey can probe the gigaparsec-scale Universe, measuring
fluctuation modes that are independent of the local CMB.
In surveys at redshifts around 2-3, the large-angular scale modes
provide data on perturbations on the same length scales as the
first few CMB multipoles, but with quite narrow
window functions.

The results shown in the previous section were for an idealized survey:
in addition to full sky coverage,
the local CMB anisotropy coefficients $a_{lm}$ and the
cross-correlations $\zeta_l(r)$, as well
as the corresponding quantities for polarization,
were assumed to be known in order
to compute the projected signal $p_{lm}^\perp$.
We must ask what happens if these assumptions are replaced
by more realistic ones.  The most complete way to answer
these questions would be to assume a precise survey geometry
and compute the resulting Fisher matrix.  We will not perform
such a detailed analysis here; we can, however, make some general observations.

In
a survey that covers a fraction of the sky $f_{\rm sky}$,
only band powers with width $\Delta l\sim
f_{\rm sky}^{-1/2}$ can be recovered, not individual multipoles.
Furthermore,
the lowest-$l$ modes
cannot be recovered at all.  For the goal of probing
the largest scales, therefore, large sky coverage
is essential independent of the choice of redshift.
A survey with $f_{\rm sky}=0.1$, for instance (4000 square degrees)
would be able to recover only a single mode in the $l=2$-$3$ band.

On the other
hand, the power drops fairly
rapidly as a function of $l$, so contamination
of the low-$l$ modes from high-$l$ power is modest.  In other
words, in order to probe large scales, we should
survey as much sky as possible, but the survey can be sparse.

Next, let us consider uncertainties in projecting out the local CMB
contribution (i.e., going from $p_{lm}$ to $p_{lm}^\perp$).
For all $l>2$, this projection is
subdominant to the primary signal over some
range of redshifts, so independent information
should be obtainable from these modes.

The $l=2$ modes
are a different matter, as the correlations are extremely strong
there.  As Fig.~\ref{fig:rmssignal} indicates, the projected
coefficients $p_{2m}^\perp$ are much smaller than the unprojected
coefficients $p_{2m}$ at all redshifts.  At low redshift, the culprit
is the temperature quadrupole, while at high redshift $p_{2m}$ becomes
very strongly correlated with the polarization quadrupole.
To put the situation pessimistically, accurate extraction of
$p_{2m}^\perp(r)$ may never be feasible.  To extract information about
large-scale perturbations that is independent of the local CMB, we
will look to modes $p_{lm}$ with $l\ge 3$ (or, in the case of a
partial-sky survey, by modes that cover the largest available angular
scales but are orthogonal to the quadrupole).

A more optimistic interpretation is that
measurement of $p_{2m}$ at a couple of different redshifts
can allow us to determine the {\it local} CMB temperature
and polarization quadrupole coefficients (that is, the 5 coefficients
$a_{2m}$ and the 5 coefficients $a_{2m}^E$).  Since direct
measurements of these coefficients may be contaminated by foregrounds
or systematic errors (especially in the case of polarization), such an
independent determination of these coefficients will be important
in assessing the significance of the large-scale anomalies in
the CMB.  Furthermore, by measuring $p_{2m}$ as a function of redshift,
we may be able to test our theoretical predictions of the cross-correlation
functions $\zeta_2,\zeta_2^E$, thus providing a probe of the recent ISW effect.

A common question is whether a remote quadrupole survey can ``beat cosmic
variance.''  The answer depends on precisely what we mean by this
phrase.  Fig.~\ref{fig:modecount} provides one possible answer.
The figure shows the cumulative number of independent
modes on scales larger than a given value for ideal all-sky surveys
out to a specified redshift.  All of the signal eigenmodes are
included in this count.  The number of modes contained in the all-sky
CMB temperature anisotropy data (without polarization) is shown for
comparison.  Although a survey that went all the way out to $z=\infty$
would ``beat'' the local CMB, realistic surveys never do.
The amount of new information can be comparable, however, on some
scales.  In particular, the number of new modes obtainable
by a remote quadrupole survey in the range $k\sim 0.002h/$Mpc
is about the same as that contained in the local CMB (because
the slopes of the cumulative curves in Fig.~\ref{fig:modecount}
are about the same there).
Considering the
unsettled state of our understanding of gigaparsec-scale perturbations
and the hints that something surprising may be going on there, it is
clear that there is valuable information to be gained.

This article has focused primarily on the largest-scale information
contained in remote cluster surveys.  The formalism described here is
also useful for surveys designed to probe the ISW effect
\cite{baumanncooray,CoorayBaumann,CHB,seto}.
Such surveys provide a powerful
probe of the recent growth of structure
and hence may shed light on the nature
of dark energy and the growth of structure.  Because the ISW effect
is most important at low redshift (see Fig.\ \ref{fig:rmssignal}),
such a survey will be quite different from those considered here:
the best approach appears to be a denser survey of a smaller area
of the sky at low redshift.
In planning a survey to probe the ISW effect,
it will be important to quantify the number
of independent modes that can be probed.  The detailed answer
will depend on the precise locations of the clusters to be surveyed,
but a simple estimate obtained by
counting
modes in spherical harmonic space and scaling by $f_{\rm sky}^{-1/2}$
should provide valuable guidance.

Clusters are of course not randomly distributed ``test particles'':
they are overdensities.  One might worry that this would lead to
biases in the modes recovered from such a survey.  A remote quadrupole
survey (even a small-scale one optimized for characterizing the ISW)
primarily probes scales of several hundred Mpc or more, which is
considerably larger than the scale associated with the formation of
individual clusters.  One would therefore not expect significant bias
due to the locations of individual clusters.  On the other hand, the
modes recovered from such a survey would presumably be correlated with
tracers of large-scale structure on hundred-Mpc scales.  In analyzing
the results of such a future survey, one would want to characterize
those correlations, presumably via $N$-body simulations.  For the
gigaparsec-scale surveys that are the primary focus of this paper,
of course, clusters can be taken as randomly-distributed test particles.

In a detailed Fisher-matrix
analysis of a potential survey, the real-space covariance matrix
$\langle p({\bf r}_i)p({\bf r}_j)\rangle$ will be needed, as will
the correlation with the local CMB.  The
formalism in this paper provides a useful way to compute these quantities.
The full covariance matrix can be computed with and without
the ISW effect, and Fisher matrix estimates of the errors with which
ISW parameters can be reconstructed can be computed quickly
and easily for any desired survey geometry.

A survey of the sort considered here will surely be a daunting task.
The signals are sub-microkelvin, and there is unfortunately no
shortage of confusing signals.  Some signals (diffuse Galactic
foregrounds and the kinematic signal due to the cluster's peculiar
velocity) can be
distinguished by their spectral signature, assuming a multifrequency
survey, but detailed information on the spectral and spatial properties
of polarized foregrounds will be necessary.
The three-year WMAP data have advanced the state of knowledge
in this area considerably \cite{wmap3pol}, and further information
will come from
the Planck satellite \cite{tauber} as well as ground-based experiments.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=3in]{cumulz.eps}
\caption{The cumulative number of modes as a function
of scale.  From bottom to top, the solid curves show predictions
for surveys with $z_{\rm max}=1,2,3$.  The red dashed curve
shows the number of modes probed by the local CMB anisotropy,
and the green dotted curve shows the results of a hypothetical
remote quadrupole all-sky survey out to $z=\infty$.}
\label{fig:modecount}
\end{figure}

Of potentially greater concern is the intrinsic CMB
polarization (both due to last scattering and reionization), which
will be lensed by the cluster itself.  In order for the remote
quadrupole survey to be detectable, we will probably need detailed
knowledge of the cluster optical depth as a function of position on
the sky, and possibly the projected mass density as well.  With this
information, we can construct a template for the remote quadrupole
signal and use it to fit for the two parameters that determine the
remote quadrupole at that cluster [$Q$ and $U$ or equivalently the
real and imaginary parts of $p({\bf r})$].  Since the background
polarization is not expected to be spatially correlated with this
template, this will help in separating the signal from the confusing
background.  In the near future, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich surveys will
provide a wealth of detailed cluster data \cite{SPT,ACT}, so there is
reason to hope that such an approach may soon be feasible.

In any remote quadrupole survey, assessment of the errors
will be crucial.  For instance,  errors in determining the optical
depths $\tau$ of the clusters can induce spurious signals.
Just as in the case of CMB polarization maps, a valuable diagnostic
can be obtained by considering the decomposition of the
data into $E$ and $B$ modes \cite{eb1,eb2}.  At any fixed redshift $z$,
the remote quadrupole data consist of a spin-2 field on the sphere
that is derived from a scalar perturbation (assuming that
primordial tensor perturbations can be neglected).  As noted
in Section \ref{sec:formalism}, the true signal ---
everything calculated in this paper ---
should therefore consist only of $E$ modes, precisely as in the
case of scalar perturbations in the CMB.  Noise and systematic errors, on the
other hand, are likely to populate E and B equally \cite{zaleb}.
When analyzing results of an actual survey, therefore, the B
modes can be monitored to determine the errors.
In practice, for a partial-sky survey with sparse sampling,
there will be significant $E$-$B$ mixing \cite{LCT,bunn,bunnerratum,bunnetal},
but this technique should still provide a valuable check.

\paragraph*{Acknowledgments:}
This work was supported by NSF Grants 0233969 and 0507395
and by a Cottrell Award
from the Research Corporation.  I thank
Max Tegmark and the MIT physics department
for their hospitality during the completion of this work,
and an anonymous referee for helpful comments.

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Tunisia Breaks Free
The events unfolding in Tunisia before our very eyes constitute a sharp break in world events, albeit a break that has emerged from years of grinding contradictions that have now come to a head. These events represent a break from US-backed "color revolutions," feigned revolutionary upsurges by reactionary Islamists masquerading as harbingers of progress, and forms of reformist and guerilla-style revolutionary elitism. Popular self-organization from below has scored a victory that—although limited in nature—has had profound effects in transforming the consciousness of people around the Arab world and indeed globally.
The revolt in the streets of Tunis had their origins in the rural southern regions of the country, specifically in the town of Sidi Bouzidi. There, mostly rural workers took to the streets in December "with a rock in one hand and a cell-phone in the other" (according to Rochdi Horchani, a relative of Mohamed Bouazizi—the 26 year old street vendor whose self-immolation sparked the current round of resistance) to challenge the regime of Ben-Ali.
The challenge came after three decades of ruthless repression at the hands of Ben-Ali's Mukhabarat (secret police). The US and French support for the regime went very far as Tunisia was upheld as an exemplar of behavior considered acceptable to the interests of the American and French ruling classes. Tunisia was to be a place of robber-baron dictatorship (Wikileaks cables reveal that something like 50% of the economy was in one way or another under the control of Ben-Ali's family and 6 other clans). All of the repression occurred with the blessing of Washington and Paris, for as long as the people were docile and timid before their oppressors, no complaints about human rights abuses seemed to matter.
Unlike similar demonstrations against the regime that had broken out in the spring, the people of Sidi Bouzidi made a huge effort to get the news of their demonstrations out to a broader public. They succeeded dramatically. Images from the south were seen via the internet and pirated satellite television.
Then came more eruptions across the country—and the entry of thousands of urban working-class citizens into the battle. The explosion was more than the police could handle and so Ben-Ali called on the military to enter the mix with guns drawn: and the orders were refused.
We do not know exactly what transpired in the halls of power, but the ruling RCD party maneuvered for its own survival following the military refusal by pressing Ben-Ali to flee—and flee he did. First he tried to touch down in Paris, but the shrewd Sarkozy government refused him asylum, recognizing that inflaming anti-imperialist tensions was probably an unwise decision at this given juncture. Ben-Ali has taken refuge in Saudi Arabia now—though the new (second) interim government is trying to have him brought into custody.
Unlike recent "color" revolutions in Eastern Europe or Central Asia, millions of dollars of George Soros' "democracy promotion" aid did not contribute to the effort and no liberal opposition parties were significant participants. The dissension from the regime by the largest trade union confederation (which had previously been the handmaiden of the regime) turned the struggle from one isolated among youth and rural workers to a general uprising against the regime.
Popular forms of democratic organization—including neighborhood councils, elected committees at some work-places (especially journalistic enterprises), and street-level organizing—have played the leading role in events in Tunisia, not the Islamist Ennahada party or the Progressive Democratic Party (which has become the new ruling party in the interim government with the blessing of the army and has acted in concert with the former ruling RCD party and the army to try and diffuse the street protests). In fact, the only party of significance to have an active role in the revolution has been the Tunisian Workers' Communist Party. The party's leader Hamma Hammami has gained in popularity after being arrested shortly after the demonstrations began and after he spoke out publicly against any Islamist opportunism in the revolutionary process by the moderate Ennahada party.
The significance of Tunisia, like Kant said of the French Revolution, is in a sense not in its local character, but in the reverberations it has around the world. It is what the revolution in Tunisia means to the rest of the Arab world and indeed the entire world itself.
It means that even in the most unlikely of places, in the quietest places, in the places that one would never expect—revolution can erupt. Revolutions erupt because of deep seated contradictions in society, contradictions that come to a head due to many idiosyncratic events (in the case of Tunisia, the self-immolation of the street vendor) but whose roots are deep, grinding and persistent.
Furthermore, the revolutionary process in Tunisia means that the world is not doomed to the pseudo-resistance of Islamist and other rightist factions masquerading as progressives via their "anti-imperialist" credentials. The Islamists have played next to no role in the revolutionary process of Tunisia; the unions, youth, and even the left have played a much more instrumental role in pushing things forward.
The emergence of the 14th of January Front is a promising development, but not as promising as the emergence of popular forms of democracy in the workplaces and neighborhoods. Multiple circumstances have been reported of journalistic staff removing their editors and creating popular committees to replace them; anecdotal evidence suggests this is more widespread than was first thought. These forms of popular democratic resistance stand in stark contrast to the elite-guerilla model of resistance (a vehicle of the left in the history of Latin America, for instance but quite rightist in the cases of Algeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc.) which has dominated the region for quite some time, exemplified on a regional level by Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb.
The possibility of working-class revolution has now been put back on the horizon, minus all the trappings of the Cold War system of containment (from the USSR and the US). This is happening in Tunisia, but it has already touched off serious convulsions in Algeria, Yemen, Egypt and non-Arab Albania. With an acceleration of this kind of struggle and the emergence of a regrouped, refounded and reconceptualized international left, the hope of worldwide social change can become a reality.
Let us be clear about what has happened: popular forces of Tunisia have led a political revolution, one that is still ongoing and could be pushed in a much more radical direction. This is not just any political revolution, however, it is a political revolution with a social revolutionary current that is extraordinarily strong—albeit with weak organizational forms in terms of revolutionary organization. The voices in the streets, especially from the youth and workers, are calling for vast changes to the social system and the government. Substantive equality (rather than formal) and popular democracy are on the agenda of the masses of people.
The army, popular with the people after its dissension from Ben-Ali and now seemingly from the interim government, remains the major arbiter between the popular organization of the masses and the elite opposition parties (as well as the RCD, the former ruling party). Further challenges to the political regime could lead to the dissension of middle-class elements from the ranks of protesters, not to mention the fact that these could trigger a reaction by the leaders of the armed forces. If the masses persisted, it is difficult to imagine a scenario in which the rank and file of the national guard would massacre the very people they were hugging and kissing before, but that remains to be seen.
The program of the 14th of January Front, printed below, is meant to address this impasse and to push things in a direction that will solve the root of this social crisis. We must be clear about limitations however: if radical workers' revolutions do not spread, they can be choked off and subject to reaction not only from without (France, the US), but also from within. This is not yet such a radical workers' revolution, but it has put the question back on the horizon in a way that has not been done for quite some time.
Founding Statement of the 14th of January Front (Tunisia)
As an affirmation to our involvement in the revolution of our people who are struggling for their right to dignity and freedom, whom their sacrifices resulted in dozens of martyrs and thousands of injured and detainees, and in order to complete the victory against the internal and external enemies, and in response to the ongoing attempts for plundering the people's sacrifices, 14th January Front is formed as a political frame working on advancing our people's revolution towards achieving its goals and to confront the anti-revolution forces. It includes the founding forces of political parties and progressive and democratic organizations.
The Front's urgent tasks are:
Bringing down Ghannouchi current government or any government that includes symbols of the former regime.
Dissolving the RCD, the confiscation of its headquarters and property and Bank accounts as they belong to the people, and dismissing its members.
Formation of temporary force that enjoys the confidence of the people and the progressive forces of the civil society political, associations, unions and youth organizations.
The dissolving of the House of Representatives and the advisers council and all current false bodies, and the Higher Council of the Judiciary, and the dismantling of the political structure of the former regime, and to prepare for elections of a constituent assembly within a period that does not exceed one year, for the formulation of a new democratic constitution and a new legal system that will govern public life ensuring political and economic and cultural rights of people .
Dissolution of the political security and enact new security policy based at respect for human rights and the law.
Trial of all those who has been proven to loot the people's money and/or commit crimes such as repression, imprisonment, torture and killings, whether by decision making, ordering or/and execution. Trial also of all of those proven to have taken bribes and misconduct of public property.
Confiscating the property of the former ruling family and those close to them and their associates and all officials who took advantage of their position to gain wealth at the expense of the people.
Providing jobs to the unemployed and taking urgent measures for their benefit such as issuing unemployment benefit system and social and medical security and improving the purchasing power of the daily-wage workers.
Building a national economy which services the people by putting the vital and strategic sectors under state control and nationalising the companies that were privatised and drafting an economic and social policy that breaks-up with liberal capitalist approach.
Guaranteeing public and individual liberties and primarily the freedom of demonstration and organisation, the freedom of expression and the press and the freedom of belief and the release of all those under arrest and declaring a general amnesty.
The Front salutes the support of the masses and the progressive forces in the Arab world and the world for the revolution in Tunisia and calls upon them to continue their support with whatever means possible.
Opposing normalisation with the Zionist state and criminalising it and supporting all the national liberation movements in the Arab world and worldwide.
The Front calls upon the masses and the progressive and democratic forces to continue their mobilisation and their struggle using all legitimate forms especially street protest until their objectives are achieved.
The Front salutes all the committees, the organisations and the forms of self-organisation of the masses and calls for the broadening of their actions in public life and the running of all aspects of the daily life.
Glory to all the martyrs of the uprising and victory the masses in revolt.
Tunisia 20 January 2011
The League of Left Workers
The Uniting Nacerists Movement
The National Democratic Movement
The National Democrats
The Baath Movement
The Independent Leftists
The Tunisian Communist Workers Party (PCOT)
The National Democratic Labour Party
[Translated by Raida Hatoum and Nadim Mahjoub]
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The Bill James Baseball Handbook is 622 pages of baseball goodness. Here are some of our favorite tidbits.
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The Bill James Handbook is 622 pages of baseball goodness. It's easy for me to say that – I was one of many who worked on it at the end of the regular season and through the beginning of the postseason. But as a full-fledged baseball nerd, it's a lot of fun to poke around on random pages looking for stories within the numbers.
Here are a few that I liked:
Page 78: Mariners didn't make postseason, but surpassed expectations
The Mariners won 89 games, but were expected to win only 77 by Pythagorean expectation. They exceeded their expectation by the largest amount, 12 wins. On the other side, the Dodgers were expected to win 103 games and won 92. They finished the most beneath their Pythagorean expectation (11 wins).
Page 388: Billy Hamilton wins every footrace
Billy Hamilton had the fastest average time on attempts to steal second base this season, 3.39 seconds on 27 timed attempts. That just edged out Adalberto Mondesi of the Royals (3.41), Mallex Smith of the Rays (3.42), Jarrod Dyson of the Diamondbacks (3.42) and Dee Gordon of the Mariners (3.43).
Page 425: Palka king of avoiding flyouts, hitting homers
White Sox outfielder Daniel Palka hit 22 long fly outs and 27 home runs. How do we define a long fly out? You'll have to read the book! But we can tell you that Palka was the only player with at least 20 home runs who had more home runs than long fly outs (Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge came close).
Page 443: 'Shark' bitten
Oh how the decent pitchers have fallen. Giants pitcher Jeff Samardzija had more 1-0 counts (93) than 0-1 counts (89) in 2018. That's a sharp drop for a pitcher who typically has strikeout-to-walk ratios in the 3s or higher. A check of Baseball-Reference shows that after 1-0 counts, opponents hit .310/.462/.535 against Samardzija last season. Yikes!
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The most successful team with instant replay was the Royals, who had 33 of 42 challenged calls overturned, a 79 percent success rate. The Royals were second-best in 2017, successful on 71 percent of challenges.
The least successful challengers in 2018 were the Brewers, who were successful on 7-of-34 (21 percent).
Pages 594-595: Milestone watch
Per Bill James' The Favorite Toy methodology, Edwin Encarnacion has a 54 percent chance to hit 500 home runs. Nick Markakis has a 41 percent chance to reach 3,000 hits and Nolan Arenado has a 15 percent chance at 2,000 RBI, within striking distance of Hank Aaron's record 2,297. Those are three names I wouldn't have expected to have those sorts of chances at those kinds of milestones.
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Brevity is the talk of the times. People addicted to Twitter Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat no longer have time for long, winding conversations and such behaviour has trickled down to their reading habits as well.
In such times, short story format works well to engage with the audience. Author Priyanka Sharma Kaintura's latest book My Jiffies explores this genre and presents an interesting collection of stories for the reader. According to her people are increasingly losing their attention span and short stories are a perfect solution to keep them hooked to a book. She explains, "People at large are attracted to brevity now. We are in the era of tiny tales, short films, WhatsApp relationships and emoji conversations." Her book makes for many short and quick reads. One can pick it from anywhere and read the page that opens up without flipping back as every page is an independent story or a poem.
While My Jiffies explores many themes, the underlying colour palette of love is common amongst most stories, if not all. "It could be the love for a person or a place or a situation or nature or the divine or a love for love itself," shares Priyanka.
Most of her stories have been inspired from real life in some way or the other. "My Jiffies are my observations of people. The situations are real, the interpretations are my own, but the characters are fictitious," she explains.
My Jiffies also has a strong online presence on Facebook, as Priyanka has written many other short stories there apart from the ones that are published. "The beauty of the online world is in its instant gratification. The writer can interact with the reader right there and then. It's immensely fulfilling to listen to your reader, and know how they interpret what you narrate. Also the convenience of eBooks shouldn't be overlooked. Having said that, the pleasure of having a reader express how he or she carries the book with them or keeps it on the bed side is supremely rewarding," she says.


If you watched TV, went to the movies, or listened to the radio in the 80s and 90s, you probably heard Suzanne Ciani's work, whether you knew it or not. Suzanne is a five-time Grammy nominated composer, electronic music pioneer, and neo-classical recording artist whose work has been featured in countless commercials, video games, and feature films. This documentary explores Suzanne's life and innovations through her own eyes, under the direction of Brett Whitcomb (whose documentary GLOW: THE STORY OF THE GORGEOUS LADIES OF WRESTLING inspired the Netflix series of the same name). From her earliest days learning the piano, to becoming a master of the Buchla synthesizer, to her multi-million dollar advertising ventures (she created the Coca-Cola "pop" and "pour" sound effects!), and the first solo female composer of a major Hollywood film (THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN) to her successes in the world of New Age music in the 80s and beyond, the film is a journey into Suzanne's mind and the creation of a whole new genre of electronic sounds.
This brilliant short experimental documentary revolves around the life and work of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, best known for her groundbreaking sound treatment of the DOCTOR WHO theme music created inside the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop. A collage of sound and image created in the spirit of Derbyshire's unique approach to audio creation and manipulation, this film illuminates such soundscapes onscreen while paying tribute to a woman whose work has influenced electronic musicians for decades.
Thanks to our wonderful beverage sponsor Muskoka Brewery.
Prizes courtesy of our friends at June Records and Moog Audio.


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Moszczana (ukr. Мощана) – wieś na Ukrainie w rejonie żółkiewskim obwodu lwowskiego.

Znajduje się tu przystanek kolejowy Moszczana, położony na linii Lwów – Rawa Ruska – Hrebenne.

Historia
Pod koniec XIX w. część wsi (okolicy szlacheckiej) Kamionka Wołoska w powiecie rawskim.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

 Мощана (Moszczana) na stronie Rady Najwyższej Ukrainy

Wsie w obwodzie lwowskim
Rejon żółkiewski

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