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"The Sugar River runs through it."
It has been said that if you want to feel humble, the best thing to do is to stand in your back yard, close your eyes and try to imagine what your property looked like 1,000 years ago. Open your eyes and note the differences that have taken place in the last millennium. Close your eyes again and try to imagine what your property will look like in the next 1,000 years. This exercise helps us realize that change is inevitable and whatever plans we have for the future will disappear over time.
1,000 years ago, I imagine that Butman Township was a vast forest where crystal clear streams flowed and wild animals proliferated. The township's first recorded settlers were the Lovell P.Sherman family. They arrived by covered wagon from Providence, Rhode Island in1878….133 years ago. They built a two story log house on sections 7 and/or 8 between Hilts and Sugar River Roads. They also built and owned the first store and post office. Lovell's daughter, Carrie Sherman was the first Post Mistress. Other early settlers included Truman Arnot, George Cunningham, Fances Burkett, Ira Babcock, Charles & William Westover, John Abbott and Aeron Brown. Other families soon followed. They all came to harvest the vast supply of lumber that was cut, unloaded and floated down the Sugar, Cedar and Pine Rivers into Saginaw Bay. In 1891, they built the first school house located near the property set aside for what is now the Butman Township Cemetery. Many of these early settlers and/or their children are buried "on the hill" in Butman Cemetery. Esther Abbot, the wife of John Abbott, was the first person to be buried there. She died in 1884 at the age of 34. There are now 696 people buried there….including Lovell and Carrie Sherman who both died in 1906.
The first "town meeting" was held at the Albright Lumber Company located at Butman and Grass Lake Roads. Grass Lake itself was located in the NW corner of section 20….now the south end of Lake Lancelot. Butman Township was formed in 1883 and was named for Myron Butman who lived in Saginaw but had business interests here. At a meeting held in the school house on April 7, 1884, the following settlers were elected: Lovell Sherman, Supervisor; George Cunningham, Treasurer and Frances Burkett, Clerk.
In or around the year 1914, Butman Township had grown to over 275 parcels (as shown on the plat map at that time). Today, there are approximately 4,000 parcels located throughout the township. The township boundaries are: Sargent Road (North), Wirtz Road (South), M-30 (East) and F-97 or Round Lake Road on the West. Since 1914, farming has been the primary source of income. There are a few small service type businesses but the schools and the post offices have long since disappeared.
The township entered the roaring twenties when a dance hall was built by Violetta (Cronk) Brooks near the point where Grass Lake Road now turns into Kings Way. The men had to pay 25 cents to dance all night but women and children were free. When more roads were paved and automobiles became popular, people from Saginaw and the Detroit area discovered the beauty of Butman Township and the recreational possibilities it presented. Land was being sold to hunters and people who wanted to build cabins or cottages near the water.
In the late 1960's, Isaacson and Associates, a development firm, recognized the possibility of building a community that would afford prospective buyers the opportunity to purchase land and build homes on lakes and golf courses. It was then that the Sugar Springs Development began to take shape. Some 30 land owners sold over 3,600 acres to Isaacson who divided the land into 3,000 parcels and added Lakes Lancelot and Lancer for fishing and recreational purposes. Isaacson, at the direction of the DNR, deeded property to the township for a boat launch on Lake Lancelot. The township operates and maintains the boat launch which is open to the public.
Paved roads were added; along with a sewer system, an 18 hole championship golf course, a restaurant, activities center, olympic size swimming pool, tennis courts, several beach areas, a horse riding stable, picnic areas, chalet and campgrounds. Today more than 1400 homes have been built in Sugar Springs. In the mid 1990's the Lakeside/Castleview Condominium Complex began to take shape at the southern end of Lake Lancer. A challenging 9 hole golf course (Lakeside Golf Course) has been completed and several condominiums have been sold. The contractor, DeShano Construction Company, is now the Sugar Springs Developer and this new complex is part of Sugar Springs. In 2003, DeShano also purchased property in the north end of section 29 that has been developed into 30 parcels known as the Willow Bay Development.
The 2010 census shows 1,999 permanent residents living in Butman Township and there are 1,979 registered voters. Sugar Springs residents represent some 60-65% of the total. The demographics show that most of the people living in the township are either retirees from the business world or those who own agricultural or hunting property. The majority of people who bought property and later built homes in Sugar Springs….retired from the auto industry, Dow Chemical, the school system or were employed by various full time fire or police departments. It should be pointed out that there are a substantial number of properties in Sugar Springs that are owned in absentia. A large percentage of the tax dollars paid on Sugar Springs properties come from those that maintain their main residence in other areas of the country. They reside mainly in Michigan but are also located as far west as California and as far east as Florida.
Butman Township tax dollars have had a tremendous impact on Gladwin County and we are the county's largest contributor. In taxable year 2007, Butman paid $4,681,736 in property taxes. $1,165,716 went directly to Gladwin Area Schools; a remarkable sum considering the fact that this money came from non-homesteaded property owners. In addition, the total dollars spent in Gladwin by Butman residents for goods and services has increased sales and contributed to the significant growth of businesses throughout the county.
In the past ten years, the Butman Township Board of Trustees has been dedicated to moving the township forward by implementing the following projects:
Charged with the task of overseeing an old clay pipe sewer system, the township privatized the waste water plant when it hired Earth Tech, Inc., an international firm, to operate and maintain our wastewater operations. The township recently installed an ultraviolet system to purify waste water before it enters the Sugar River. A laboratory has been installed to help us regularly monitor the quality of our water. Our lakes continue to be free of dangerous contaminants and we are dedicated to keeping it that way.
In 2000, a new fire department was constructed and is now operated by sixteen dedicated, well trained volunteers who have saved many lives and kept property loss at a minimum.
The township cemetery has been expanded with the addition of new grave sites, roads and other amenities.
The township has adopted the latest software and equipment to handle our tax programs, fire programs, billing system and general ledger.
The township hall and offices have been expanded to include needed storage space for township records; along with additional space for elections and hall rentals.
In 2002, a seven year program to re-pave 35 miles of Sugar Springs roads and construct other roads in the township, was entered into by the township and County Road Commission. We are in the last phase of completing this project.
The township is currently working with Agri-Valley Communications to build a communications tower in the township
In the summer of 2007, the township added re-cycling to our solid waste program.
There have been many other projects completed in the past ten years but the above are the most notable. Financially, the township is in good condition…. with adequate reserves in all funds. We look forward to the next 1000 years. We can only imagine what Butman Township will look like then.
Respectfully submitted for the Butman Township Board…
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Unterdorf Elementary School, Höchst
Written by: Dovetail
Dietrich|Untertrifaller
Radical approach to building design aims to set a new standard for Austrian schools
Höchst, Austria
A fixture in Scandinavian countries, cluster schools are gaining ground in Austria. The pedagogical approach behind these types of schools involves teaching in small groups, flexible spaces and diversified, preferably outdoor, open areas. There are no classrooms along the access corridors; instead, open layouts allow for different forms of teaching and learning. In recent years, schools in the region have been architecturally implementing these requirements in different manners. The architects have delivered a radical example of this approach in the recently completed Unterdorf Elementary School.
In a plain, elongated, ground-level wooden building, four identical clusters are placed on the east side; the special education classes and the administrative area are located on the west side. A spacious hall connects the special education area with the gymnasium. The clusters comprise two central classrooms, an open group area and a quiet room, as well as washrooms and wardrobes around a central lounge. Each lounge is topped by an elevated, truncated pyramid through which daylight flows.
A direct exit into a private garden and the outdoor classroom area provides outdoor space and enables short access routes. Large-area glazing provides the necessary transparency so that the teachers can always see their students when they are learning or playing in small groups in different rooms. These visual axes also act as a constant invitation to use the space in the middle, strengthening the sense of community within the cluster. The breaktime area in front of the hall is connected by several paths to Unterdorf's wider network of roads. Parts of the outdoor areas are available to locals as a freely accessible play and leisure area.
The entire school is of pure timber construction. The multi-layer, glued-together solid wood panel surfaces are unclad and the timber framework is visible in every room. Students benefit from the better learning environment and a pleasant, warm atmosphere within the building, which also saves on heating costs. The materials used are based on the fundamental principles of sustainability and ecological efficiency. The renewable, regional building material used dramatically reduced the gray energy factor.
A working group of teachers, community representatives and consultants was involved from the outset in the competition's bidding stage as well as the planning, and also regularly participated in the building meetings. This close cooperation was a key factor in the successful implementation of this forward-looking pilot project, which sets a new standard for schools in Austria and, hopefully, will stimulate further timber construction in Austria.
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'Blood and genes': China's alarming new military recruitment campaign
J. Michael Cole
Published 13 Aug 2015 15:49 0 Comments
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) last week released a new recruitment video that is unlikely to assuage growing fears in the region over an increasingly nationalistic and expansionist China.
The slick 4 minute 16 second video opens with the header 'Our Dream.' Accompanied by a surprisingly restrained soundtrack, this section appeals to China's youth. We see young Chinese graduating from university and engaging in various sports, including snowboarding. This is interspersed with images of Hong Kong's retrocession, all meant to cultivate pride in a 'new' China. 'We were born in the 1990s,' the accompanying text says, in Chinese. 'By then, China had already risen...with bright dreams, we want to shine like the new century...we want to become very strong.'
It doesn't take long, however, for the video to shift to bombastic music and visuals of a very different nature. The appeal to nationalism — and to China's territorial claims — is hard to miss, what with footage of the Diaoyutai/Senkaku islets in the East China Sea, which are also claimed by Japan and Taiwan, as well as various features in the South China Sea, a source of rising tension in recent years.
There are a few glimpses of the PLAN's humanitarian role, but this is contrasted with, and overtaken by, unmistakable militarism: endless footage of bombs falling, rockets being fired, things being blown up. There is definitely an element of signaling, and it's not meant to be reassuring. If we put this together with a campaign that included a video, aired on CCTV early last month, of exercises ostensibly simulating an assault on Taiwan's Presidential Office, the intention is to scare potential opponents, perhaps to win a war without having to fight.
In line with the martial video, the accompanying text shifts to something more troubling. Titled 'Call of Duty,' part two tells us 'Seventy-one percent of the globe we depend on is blue water...wherever there is blue water, we will be there to secure navigation...China's oceanic and overseas interests are expanding rapidly...our land is vast but we will not yield an inch of our territory to foreigners'.
The text then claims that China has 3 million square kilometers of ocean under its jurisdiction, a territory that includes as many as 6700 islands. 'The struggle over our sea rights is not over,' it continues. 'We will not yield even the tiniest speck of our resources.' Note that the text says 'resources', not 'territory', though the latter is implicit. In other words, territory and the resources it contains are China's alone. According to a recent report on the PLAN by the US Office of Naval Intelligence, the references by Chinese commentators to China's '3 million square kilometers of blue territory' would incorporate 'nearly 90 percent of the area within the major bodies of water within the First Island Chain, including the Bo Hai, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea.'
The third section of the video is titled, ominously, 'The Honor Gene.' 'Thousands of sea battles forged us...in very bloody combat...hot blood and the smell of gunpowder, we kept working hard, we kept growing....the passionate efforts of youth...forging in trials made possible the breakthrough...we maintain combat readiness...we are prepared for war,' the text says.
The last part of the video, 'Seeking the Blue Dream,' has a less alarming tone. 'Here with us, we will let you demonstrate your extraordinary talents...we give you the chance to sprout wings...the eyes of the entire world are watching us!... a strong motherland needs a strong navy...let us realize the dream of the great Chinese renaissance together', it intones.
In reality, there are doubts as to whether Beijing, the Central Military Commission, or even the PLAN itself really has the intention of turning the Navy into a global force, especially not in the current geopolitical context, where such an endeavour would risk increasing tensions with the US and and other Western navies.
This is partly the result of a lack of capabilities. Although the PLAN has conducted a number of live-fire exercises in the Western Pacific in recent years, that is a far cry from actual long-distance, months-long deployments. We are still probably years away (ONI says a decade) from the PLAN having the capability, cohesion, and interoperability for long-distance blue water missions. So at this point claims of a blue water PLAN are unrealistic. At best, the PLAN is a green water navy that is gradually moving away from its traditional role as a littoral combat force. Its ability to engage in combat in distant theatres of operation is even more questionable, and it will be several years yet before the PLAN can compete with better trained and more experienced opponents such as the US Navy or the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, let alone a combination thereof.
Bombast and appeals to nationalism make all the sense in the world as part of a campaign to recruit young people. However, the undeniably martial tone of the video, combined with references to blood and genes, will hardly contribute to China's efforts to dispel rising apprehensions about its future intentions.
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Here i'm again on one of the most fascinating and extreme object of the universe, the elliptical galaxy M87 in the Virgo constellation, famous and constantly observed and studied in all the frequencies of the light spectrum for the presence of the relativistic jet produced by the supermassive black hole in its core. The image is the product of two nights of observation. The galactic halo surrounding the nucleus is clearly visible as the jet of matter with a length of 5000 light years, expelled from the black hole at speeds close to that of light.
Testing the noise with the new camera and the collimation of the optics with the secondary mirror and the primary mirror.
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Sirius A and Sirius B, binary sistem distant from us 8600 light years. Sirius B is the light dot on the right. This star is big as the Earth so is very faint and hard to see with the telescope.
The beautiful Saturn Nebula is a complex planetary nebula distant from us 2300 light years or more discovered by William Herschel in 1782. The nebula was created by the faint star in the center, a hot dwarf with a temperature of 55000 K.
This simulation, created with an astronomical software, show the position of Pluto as in the real image obtained the telescope.
Here is for the first time, the dwarf planet Pluto or 134340 Pluto, distant from us in that night 4.9 billion km. In the past was a planet but now is officially a icy dwarf planet. Situated in the distant Kuiper belt, is smaller than Earth' Moon and around him orbit Charon.
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Home News Getting to know eNASCAR Heat Pro League JR Motorsports drivers
Getting to know eNASCAR Heat Pro League JR Motorsports drivers
by NASCAR Cup May 8, 2019
written by NASCAR Cup May 8, 2019
The drivers, one each selected to participate in the PlayStation and Xbox divisions for all 14 participating NASCAR teams, will compete in the 16-race season.
The next team to be feature is the JR Motorsports race team and their two first draft picks Tyler Dohar and Jason Keffer.
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Tyler Dohar
Hometown: Perrysburg, OH
Team: JRMotorsports
Console: Xbox
How much has gaming expanded or added to your interest in NASCAR?
Since I started gaming in 2005, I've gotten much more involved in NASCAR by watching flag-to-flag every race that has been televised. I've also visited the Charlotte area on multiple occasions to see the various race shops and museums.
Why do you prefer using Xbox?
Xbox one X for superior performance.
What made you decide to try out for the eNASCAR Heat Pro League?
Being around the community for so long, I had been waiting for any opportunity to get noticed. The pro league was a perfect way to do that.
A 16-race season is a long one. How do you plan to approach the races and get yourself in position to make the playoffs and eventually win the first eNASCAR Heat Pro League Championship?
By putting myself in the best position possible to win every race, either on speed or strategy. I've always got a trick up my sleeve.
Any other interesting facts you'd like to share about yourself?
My master's degree is in Business Administration and my undergraduate degree is in Opera Performance. I sing barbershop actively and still involved in choirs at Bowling Green State University (my alma mater).
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Jason Keffer
Hometown: Charlotte, NC
Console: PS4
I have been interested in NASCAR since 1997 when I watched my first race, which was won by Jeff Gordon (Daytona 500). It was always fun for me to watch and travel to the races but playing NASCAR Heat, Heat 2 and now Heat 3 has somewhat changed the outlook of racing for me. When Jeff Gordon retired, I was kind of searching for a new driver. I began to follow Chase Elliot naturally as he took over for Jeff Gordon as well as all the Hendrick drivers. NASCAR Heat has allowed me to play as other drivers (particularly in the Truck and Xfinity Series) and learn about the up and coming guys such as William Byron. Now I have more of an interest in the guys who move up the ranks to Cup and follow them more closely than I did a few years ago.
Why do you prefer using PlayStation?
I have always had a PlayStation. Going back to the PS1 days then to the PS2, PS3 and now PS4 I have stayed loyal to what Sony has provided. I think the game plays great on this console and in my opinion the best overall group of racers are on PS4. I want to race with the best and beat the best and it seems to me the best are on PS4.
I have done many things in my life such as joining the the Air Force at 17, which is uncommon. Even more uncommon is that I joined the Air Force as an enlisted Air Crew member which very few enlisted Air Force members get to do. After flying for 3 years (not a pilot but crewmember on AWACS) I decided I wanted to become an Air Force Office of Special Investigations Agent (AFOSI). This was another Air Force job with a highly selective process and even few get to become Federal Agents with the Air Force.
Again, I applied and was selected as a candidate and graduated from the AFOSI Academy in 2007 as a Special Agent. I deployed to Iraq in 2009 and participated in some amazing operations in fighting the War on Terror. Following my tour in Iraq I was assigned to the Foreign Dignitary Protective Service Detail in Washington D.C. where I conducted Protective Service Operations for Foreign guests of the Secretary of Defense. Again during that tour of duty I was able experience something only a few ever will.
Once my enlistment ended, I decided to utilize my GI Bill and attend West Virginia University (WVU). During that time, I took on the challenge of becoming the Veterans Council Student President during my senior year and organized an annual Golf Tournament to raise money for the student veterans, which still runs to this day. Following graduation, I moved to Charlotte, NC to take a job in banking where I conduct Financial Crime Investigations for one of the five Major banks in the United States.
The reason I state all of this is because I have always wanted a challenge and I have always worked to be part of something that very few do. When the Pro League was announced I decided that moment I wanted to be a part of this and I was going to work as hard as I could to show what I have when it comes to racing and marketing and I would give 100% at all times.
I also love racing and NASCAR and the fact that I could become of member of real team was amazing. All of the things I have done in my life but this, even though yes it is a video game has to be the most exciting so far. To be able to be a member of a team like JRM which is owned by a guy I watched race as a kid, I also watched Dale Sr. battle Jeff Gordon all those years (I was team Gordon though lol) and now here I am a member of Dale Jr's organization.
It really is an amazing opportunity and I am extremely happy I tried out and would do so again in a heartbeat. I hopefully have also shown my daughter that to be involved in something like this and to get to this level takes a lot of practice. I usually race at night after she has gone to bed but she will ask me about how the races went the night before on our drive to school. I constantly remind her that yes I am playing NASCAR but I have to keep practicing and getting better and she needs to do the same for basketball which is the sport she loves. Hopefully this has been another avenue for me to set a good example for her.
I have always been a patient driver. To me there is no reason to race up to the front and wear your car out or cause issues early in a race. Many people forget you cannot win the race on lap one but you sure can lose it. Many of these races seems to come down to some sort of strategy at the end regarding fuel mileage. I will admit I do not usually have the fastest car on the track each week but I do believe I have the most consistent car each week. I believe if I can keep the car clean and free from damage we can be up front at the end when it counts and just hope the other guys on the track show me the same respect as I typically show them.
I have a Bachelor's Degree in Criminology, 3 dogs (2 puggles and a Chocolate Lab/Pitt Mix), and My family also owns a restaurant in Uptown Charlotte on Tryon Street called The Wooden Vine.
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This is a review meant for all three books in the series (the three body problem, the dark forest and the death's end). What a story! The three body problem was suggested to me by a friend. I have never red anything Chinese and I was curious initially. Although the story progress was kind of slow in the beginning, I finally loved it. I continued with the amazing dark forest that moves the story line in another level. I just finished this excellent trilogy with the death's end, a grand finale for a series which I now consider as a classic. Totally recommended to everybody.
While the first novel in the series, The Three-Body Problem, relies heavily on scientific theory and actual historical events to help support the reader in understanding the near-future plot, The Dark Forest presents its story with much less reliance on centuries-old theories and foundations of science in order to drive the plot along. The return of some familiar faces help us connect to newcomers to the series quicker, but some characters I found ebbed and flowed in and out of Cixin Liu's second novel in the series without much growth to help us want to care about their outcome. Make no mistake, though, that while it sometimes feels like the plot lingers a littler far too long in some timelines, the actual breadth of the story and time it encompasses brings with it a satisfying-enough ending to the second novel to help answer some questions readers may have, but leaves some waiting for perhaps future explanation. With some truly surprising moments, and some that the reader should be able to guess pretty earlier on in the novels, this novel cements itself as a worth-while follow-up to Cixin Liu's first novel in the series. While I found that The Three-Body Problem hurls along, throwing scientific theory and laws of science at you to help you understand the problems faced by society in this near-future, The Dark Forest is allowed to breathe and really become a story of its own without the need to offer much groundwork to help readers understand.
This author has a wonderful way of transporting you to different worlds and times in one story. He did not disappoint in this continuation of what I would term a grand story line (trilogy).
a tour de force! excellent adult science fiction! THANK YOU!


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Man U v Arsenal: difficult days for the gentlemen of the press
By Bulldog Drummond
Imagine the problem: you work for the media and are given the clear direction that knocking Arsenal is the order of the day. But you find that in reality they are doing rather well. Unbeaten in League, League Cup and Europa since the second league match of the season. What on earth can you say?
One solution is to write the headline:
"xG secrets: Arsenal are wildly over-performing, and Mo Salah is having a great season"
which appears in the Telegraph.
If you are a regular here you will know that Untold does not possess a writer who can explain the validity of xG as either a meaningful measurement of the past nor a way of predicting the future. In fact we're slowly developing our own new site with the aim of predicting results: https://predictions.org.uk/ because we are getting so fed up with xG.
There are just a few articles up there at the moment as we have been playing with the layout etc, and one or two of them are lifted from Untold to help us get the design right, but it will hopefully start from here on to explain more fully a simple alternative to the expected goals approach.
And when there have been enough expected goals (without any explanation of how a club can score many more goals than xG predicts and it is the club that is wrong, not the theory) one can turn to the standard knocking copy. This from the same publication…
"Arsenal snarling and sneering their way to victory shows how conceptions of nastiness are changing"
Of course some of the publications do go completely off the rails as with the Express which ran the headline,
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"Arsenal news: 'It's a no-brainer' – Unai Emery told to complete big January deal"
This gives us advice from Vinnie Jones who tells us "Ozil must leave". There is of course at least one no brainer in that story but I am not sure it is the idea that Ozil must leave.
Meanwhile Arsenal have equalled the Premier League record that has been held since 2007 by Benni McCarthy, once of Blackburn. Aubameyang is the first player since McC to score a goal from each of ten consecutive shots on target in the Premier League. Another shot another goal and he will break the record.
Elsewhere the nonsense goes on as with
"Denis Suarez: Have Arsenal found their Aaron Ramsey replacement?"
in Give me Sport. And the answer to the question is no, because Denis Suarez is not home grown and Aaron Ramsey is, and Arsenal have no non-HG places avaialable. A non-HG player will need to be sold or removed from the squad to allow another one in.
Of course we can always rely on a laugh from the authorities at this time as with "Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have been charged following the game on 2 December 2018. It is alleged that, in the 32nd minute, they failed to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion."
Have you ever seen players conduct themselves in an orderly fashion on the pitch? I think that is rather a contradiction in terms.
As for today's game, if you have been reading the media you will probably have seen at least one headline along the lines of
"No Mesut Ozil, new formation: How Unai Emery must tinker his Arsenal side to end wretched 12-year run at Manchester United."
Arsenal are awful against Man U is the official media story of the day but it looks like one of those very contrived headlines. For example if we look at the last eight games between the clubs we get
Date Game Res Score Competition
09 Mar 2015 Manchester United v Arsenal W 1-2 FA Cup
17 May 2015 Manchester United v Arsenal D 1-1 Premier League
04 Oct 2015 Arsenal v Manchester United W 3-0 Premier League
28 Feb 2016 Manchester United v Arsenal L 3-2 Premier League
19 Nov 2016 Manchester United v Arsenal D 1-1 Premier League
07 May 2017 Arsenal v Manchester United W 2-0 Premier League
02 Dec 2017 Arsenal v Manchester United L 1-3 Premier League
29 Apr 2018 Manchester United v Arsenal L 2-1 Premier League
Not as good as I'd like them to be but even so, three wins, three defeats and two draws against another of the top six clubs isn't that bad is it? At least not when we are totally awful and not expected to get any of the goals we do get.
Arsenal are not yet title winning, I agree, but "wretched"? No. So why create this headline? Presumably just to knock Arsenal.
It was ever thus.
December 5th, 2018 | Category: Arsenal stories | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
16 comments to Man U v Arsenal: difficult days for the gentlemen of the press
Mackzydon9
Tony can I also be posting prediction on the new sites?
The new site https://predictions.org.uk accepts comments in the same way this one does. If you want to post an article, just email it to me at Tony@schools.co.uk and I will almost certainly post it. I'm looking for articles to get the site going.
LE GALL
"how a club can score many more goals than xG predicts and it is the club that is wrong, not the theory"
you said it all, bulldog
i had seen the title … sometimes, the conspiracy theorist in me believes that such columnists are paid only to run tests of resistance to Newspeak on their readers, just to see how gullible these readers would be, in case of propaganda need
seriously: having said that, i have to admit that seeing how far they have to go to malign our winning streak, is a wonderful treat
Sammy The Snake
Congrats on your new site! Hope it works out well.
I've found that Arsenal tend to give and receive a good number of corners in each game, and have made some money betting on it. Would love to hear more strategies on predictions.org.uk.
irony always has a way of catching up with you
right after i wrote my 09.36am comment, i switched to the guardian site, just to come across this:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/dec/05/arsene-wenger-unai-emery-arsenal
not all football columnists are of the same ilk, obviously … if only for this piece, ronay will have my respect from now on (he couldn't care less, of course, …)
A mostly pro Arsenal & Wenger article:
Samuel Akinsola Adebosin
Talking of prediction, in the tonight's big game clash at Old Trafford in the PL between Man Utd and Arsenal. For sure, Arsenal will beat Man Utd by 2 goals to nil in the match at fulltime plus the added time and carry the night.
The Arsenal 3-4-1-2 formation and the starting XI and on the bench 7 Gunners that I want to see Emery start and have on the bench are below.
Starting XI:
Leno;
Holding Mustafi Sokratis;
Belerin Guend'zi Tor'eria Kolasinac;
Ozil;
Lacazette Aubameyang.
Cech Lichtsteiner Jenkinson Elneny Ramsey Mkhitaryan Iwobi.
LE GALL and Sammy The Snake
Thanks for the link and I doff my cap to Mr Ronay.
Due to certain posters seeming intent on discrediting Wenger, his achievements, both distant and recent, as well as his his entire legacy it seems at times, I and a couple of others have deemed it necessary to defend the great man, but as is the norm it was pointless, so I for one just gave up.
But this kind of analysis is all I'm asking for. A fair even handed respectful take on what Wenger achieved for our Club.
I took the following segment (with personal comments) as a good example of what I mean:
"If it has been easy for Emery to pull the loose threads and produce a team who are, with a little luck, (perfectly true) unbeaten in 19 games then this is in part because he inherited an environment where the basics were already in place. (exactly).
The facts might not tally with the idea of Wenger running Arsenal into the ground.(Indeed, that certainly doesn't sit well with many). In reality he left the club with a strong squad of players, a fine and profitable stadium, an excellent training ground, sound recruitment structure, not all his doing, and good spirit (A 'good spirit' Given some posters comments you'd of thought they were stabbing each other in the back) with an absence of destructive egos (didn't Wenger get roundly criticised for solving that particular problem ?). Plus, of course, no strings to bind his successor, no looming presence in the stands, just room to breathe and build from a sound base. (Unlike one particularly red nosed 'dictator' I can think of)
Wenger gave a first-team debut to 10 of the 13 outfield players who beat Spurs on Sunday. (Amazing, you of thought from what you'd heard Emery had built this team from scratch). He signed the league's top scorer, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, whose movement was a striking contrast with that of Harry Kane in his current mode, which involves spending a lot of time walking backwards, reaching out with his hands for someone to grapple and spin off, like a man in search of the bathroom light switch late at night.
Wenger also left some decent defenders (Holding could at £2 Million be the bargin of the decade, and isn't the much derided Mustafi topping many European performance tables?) and a good spread of age ranges, not to mention enough depth in midfield to allow Emery to become increasingly brusque with Mesut Özil."
I don't agree with every word of the article, but it would be very odd if I or anyone did, but thats not the point.
It's the fact that rather than trash evrything Wenger did, especially in his final years, Ronay quite rightly highlights the enormous amout of good things Wenger was doing right up to the end of his tenure, and the wonderful overall state he left the club in, again unlike Fergie who despite spending £100's of Millions arguably left United in such a state they have still yet to recover from it, yet HE is never critisised.
No, Wenger wasn't perfect, nobody is, but he simply doesn't deserve the sort of ridicule he so often gets, shamefully as often as not from our own fans and ex players alike.
Well done and thank you for a ballnced and well thought out article Mr Roney.
And no I don't want Wemger back. I'm perfectly happy with, nay, over the moon with our incumbent manager and will give him the same unwavering support I gave our last manager, and the one before that, and the one before that, BUT it will not be at the expence of Wenger or anyone else for that matter.
OT: From yesterday's games
1. What causes me to post this, is yet another point from reading play by play commentary. Cardiff was given a penalty at some time, listed in the commentary as 34m. When the penalty was actually taken (and missed), the time is listed as 35m. I've seen this quite consistently, but I don't know if it is always the case. There should almost never be any difference in time form when the referee stops play to issue the penalty, and when the penalty is taken. Is the time the penalty issued wrong in this instance?
2. Brighton really wanted their game yesterday. Brighton scored early (penalty) at 24m. Four minutes later, Duffy is dismissed with a straight red. Three minutes after that (31), Brighton is forced into a substitution. Four minutes after that, CPalace inflicts a treatment on Brighton which results in the second substitution (no card, again) for Brighton. Brighton was already down 1 man, and are down 2 men for 4 minutes trying to treat their player who is subbed 6 minutes after the incident. At 81m Kevin Friend decides to even up the penalties, and gives one to CPalace (probably to thank them for injuring a Brighton player). Two minutes later at 83m, CPalace again inflicts a treatment on Brighton, who have used up their third substitution at 49m. So they again have to play more short handed for 7 minutes (into stoppage time?). And they won 3-1. CPalace received 3 yellow sin the game, but none associated with treatments they inflicted on Brighton.
Since I am asking for opinions on two games, I'll throw a third game at you; StateAid versus Cardiff under the "watchful" eyes of Graham Scott (referrturd). According to the states, StateAid committed only 9 fouls to Cardiff's 12. StateAid finished the game with 1 yellow, while Cardiff left with two yellows. No cards were issued for any of the 6 treatments in the game. Two of those treatments (one to each team) required substitution of the player hurt. No cards for rough play?
Just a bunch of bozos from 😈 Mike Riley's PGMO!
Re Wenger's legacy, didn't he very frequently state his objective was to leave the club in a position where the incoming manager could kick on?
Sure he would have loved another PL title as vindication of his approach, but it looks like he has achieved his primary objective.
Barney Ronay has written plenty of appalling articles mocking Wenger in the past, but credit for putting a proper perspective.
As a supporter of Wenger especially in the face of the gratuitous abuse directed at him, I am nonetheless very happy with the choice of Emery who seems to continue the club's ethos.
But I do miss Wenger's press conferences!
Nitram –
Proper!
My personal view of MSM robo blogs, is that they are -of course- run by concerns who, let us say, have more than a slight interest in the betting market, the advertising of which in the form of "debate" serves that interest admirably.
The only statistic that counts, in that most lucrative of businesses, is the odds & the amounts wagered
Whether we as individuals frequent the bookies or not, merely by writing on this blog we are assisting the advertising of interest in the game, in a small way -hey, even Tony's got Bet partner-no worries!
But in times when hedge funds can make money out of things failing and the rich get very rich and the poor are left to fend for themselves, we should not be surprised when fair play (&comment) is unusual, in every sphere
How many times did Wenger get this sort of support from the press?
We aren't the only club faced with the negativity from ex-players – but our ex-players often didn't reach the heights the Man U pundit did and Arsene / Arsenal certainly never plumbed the depths.
Wenger at least was dignified and protected his players unlike Mourinho so deserved some support.
Mourinho – for whatever reason – is creating an atmosphere at Man U and reaping the results.
But beware – he'll fire the team up for tonight a la Tony Pulis.
OT: Corruption
Interesting compare and contrast involving football and the Catholic Church.
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/12/05/the_global_observer/1544004881_278630.html
Another former FIFA executive pleads guilty to corruption (seen in multiple places).
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/dec/04/rafael-salguero-bribe-claims-2018-world-cup
Want to avoid going to jail for perjury? You just have to win the Ballon d'Or.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/luka-modric-corruption-case-dropped-13687096
Modric is a waste of oxygen.
WalterBroeckx
I completely agree with you Nitram! Excellent comment
Thanks Walter
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In Sesame's New Show, To Play Is To Learn
By Cory Turner • Aug 7, 2018
Originally published on August 13, 2018 10:18 am
Turn on your TV and surf the stuff meant for kids. I dare you.
You'll likely find a surfeit of fast action and fart jokes. And that's what makes Esme & Roy so unusual.
The new show, about an unlikely duo who babysit monsters, is Sesame Workshop's first animated children's program in more than a decade, and it deftly combines the Workshop's parallel passions — for learning and play. In fact, Esme & Roy is dedicated to an idea that can feel radical these days:
That learning and play aren't parallel at all. When done right, they should converge, each in service of the other.
The show's eponymous heroes are Esme, an enterprising little girl (and the show's rare human), and Roy, a lovable, yellow grown-up with horns. The premise of the show is captured in one line of its jazzy theme song: "When they play, they're gonna save the day and chase those monster problems away."
In one episode, the monster-sitters are hired to take a toddler named Fig and her big brother to the planetarium. But there's a problem, of course. It's raining, and Fig won't cooperate.
"If Fig won't put on her raingear by herself, we'll just help her," Esme says.
"Great idea, Esme," says Roy in a voice that manages to be both deeply gruff and disarming. "I mean, how hard can it be to put a little monster in a raincoat?"
Pretty hard, it turns out. But Esme finds a play-based solution to their Fig problem: They use cardboard, tape and scissors to turn their raingear into spacesuits.
This kind of play is known as guided play, because Esme and Roy provide some structure, but not too much. They essentially say, Let's make spacesuits! Not only is guided play a powerful vehicle for creativity; here, it's used to sneak in lots of other learning too.
"The first thing we need is helmets," says Fig's brother, a space enthusiast. "That's how we breathe in space. Next, we need warm space suits because space is very cold. And special jetpacks to help us move around."
How 'bout that for a science sneak attack?
"Guided play captures your imagination, it's fun, it keeps you motivated," says Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, who teaches psychology at Temple University. Her work studying the power of guided play influenced the show's development. "And we think that those features are an important learning tool for helping young children master skills."
Including academic skills, like vocabulary, geometry even engineering. Which is why Rosemarie Truglio, Sesame Workshop's senior vice president for curriculum and content, arrives at an interview with an outline of learning goals for every episode of Esme & Roy. Truglio bemoans the fact that play has been nudged out of many schools and daycare programs to make room for early academic instruction. It's not an either/or, she argues.
"Play can provide the platform to learn all of these content goals, in addition to very important social-emotional goals, as well as health goals," Truglio says.
On that last point, Esme and Roy's monster charges also have monster meltdowns, and the sitters have to jump into action with calming strategies, including positive self-talk and a song about belly-breathing.
"Take a deep breath, put your hands on your tummy. Feel your belly rise and fall," Esme sings when Fig's brother loses his patience with his recalcitrant little sister. "In through your nose, out through your mouth. It's not hard at all."
It's also not hard to imagine kids enjoying Esme & Roy. But parents beware: When you're folding laundry and overhear just how much thought went into this show, you, too, might find yourself on the couch. Taking notes.
Esme & Roy premieres Aug. 18 on HBO, and Sesame Workshop says it hopes to bring the show to an even wider audience in the future.
NOEL KING, HOST:
This weekend on HBO, the minds behind "Sesame Street" will unveil their first animated kids' program in more than 10 years. It's called "Esme & Roy." Cory Turner of the NPR Ed team reports.
CORY TURNER, BYLINE: Turn on your TV and surf the stuff meant for kids. You'll find a surfeit of fast action and fart jokes. And that's what makes "Esme & Roy" so unusual.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "ESME AND ROY")
MILLIE DAVIS: (As Esme) We've got a monster to watch.
TURNER: That's Esme, an enterprising little girl who runs a babysitting service for monsters. Literally, the kids are monsters. And Roy is her business partner, a lovable yellow grown-up with horns.
UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing) Esme and Roy.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN: Esme and Roy.
UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing) Monster sitters. When they play, they're going to save the day and chase those monster problems away.
TURNER: In one episode, the two are hired to take a toddler named Fig and her brother to the planetarium. But there's always a problem. This time it's raining and Fig won't cooperate.
DAVIS: (As Esme) If Fig won't put on her rain gear by herself, we'll just help her.
PATRICK MCKENNA: (As Roy) Great idea, Esme. I mean, how hard can it be to put a little monster in a raincoat?
TURNER: Turns out pretty hard. But as the theme song says, Esme and Roy know how to solve problems with play.
DAVIS: (As Esme) I know how we can get Fig to put on her rain gear and keep it on. We can turn it into a spacesuit.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) Whoa.
TURNER: This kind of play is known as guided play because Esme and Roy are providing some structure but not too much. The kid monsters are still in charge of making costumes out of cardboard, tape and scissors. And the folks at Sesame use this play to sneak in lots of other learning, too. Listen to Fig's big brother.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) The first thing we need is helmets. That's how we breathe in space.
TURNER: Did you hear that little science sneak attack?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Next we need warm spacesuits because space is very cold.
KATHY HIRSH-PASEK: Guided play captures your imagination. It's fun. It keeps you motivated.
TURNER: Kathy Hirsh-Pasek teaches psychology at Temple University. And her work on guided play had a big influence on the show's development.
HIRSH-PASEK: And we think that those features are an important learning tool for helping young children master skills.
TURNER: Things like vocabulary, geometry, even engineering, which is why Rosemarie Truglio, Sesame Workshop's senior vice president for curriculum and content, comes to our interview with an outline of learning goals for every episode of "Esme & Roy."
ROSEMARIE TRUGLIO: So - yeah, so - no, no, I just wanted to look it up. The content goal of that one is...
TURNER: Truglio says play has been on the decline and that "Esme & Roy" offers an answer to critics who say...
TRUGLIO: Oh, you know, but kids need to spend more time focusing on the academic skills, you know, learning about science and math and literacy. Play can provide the vehicle to learn all these content goals in addition to very important social-emotional goals as well as health goals.
TURNER: On that last point, "Esme & Roy's" monster charges also have monster meltdowns, and the sitters have to jump into action with calming strategies.
DAVIS: (As Esme, singing) Take a deep breath. Put your hands on your tummy. Feel your belly rise and fall. In through your nose, out through your mouth. It's not hard at all.
TURNER: It's also not hard to imagine kids enjoying "Esme & Roy." But parents beware. When you're folding laundry and overhear just how much thought went into this show, you, too, might find yourself on the couch taking notes. Cory Turner, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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That face when you spoil too much.
That's my secret, Cap. I'm always spoiling.
Mark Ruffalo has a history of being, well, a bit less than tight lipped about the Marvel movies, with Avengers: Infinity War presenting a crisis of secrecy for the actor. To put it less politely, dude spoiled the ending. And he will, probably fairly, never, ever live this down.
Last night, Ruffalo's appearance on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon cemented his status as spoiler extraordinaire, as Fallon, understandably, asked the big question: what can you tell us? And Ruffalo played along, for a spoiler fake-out that had the audience screaming.
I sincerely doubt Mark said the actual title of the new Avengers movie, but I do wonder what he said. I'm not very good at lip reading, but during that longer bleeped-out section at the end, there were definitely some swears.
Notably, this gag had some good wind-up, as Ruffalo had some fun with it on Twitter, which the Russos joined in on.
Honestly, that's probably a fair reaction.


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2012/2013 - Change Digital was looking for someone to handle a massive project they had just landed. The project consisted of a contract to provide content and a portal to publish the content. As they had focused on the sale of the content, the web portal that was promised was unspecified and dangerously open to scope creep and cost overruns. They needed someone to hit the ground running and try to save the project from blowing out. My specific job was to work with all the stakeholders, across the agency UI department, the South African developers, the client IT Director, client Brand Managers, SEO and social specialists.
Account Service: I was the point of contact to work between the Agency and the Client.
Digital Lead: I was responsible for the specification and project management of the build, using in house UI and a South African development team.
Based upon the objective of providing a health information portal to expose users to house advertising for products related to the editorial, sego optimised and available on web, tablet and mobile, I proceeded to start the UX specification.
Initially, we ran a brand workshop to position the web site properly. I initiated this because the client, Pharmacare, was a brand, but the website was going to carry Nature's Way and Bioglan 'sponsorship' and numerous ads from the pharmacare range of brands. We needed to have consensus on how the website was to present itself to the public, its values, associations, friends, image, and most importantly, its relationship to the other brands it represented. This was a classic case of the consensus being the most important element of the deliverable.
The brief also required the inclusion of a user's forum and I suggested a separate news centre, to focus the eDM management.
Next came analysis and IA to create tagging logic across product and editorial categories, allowing for cross category and multiple category relationships.
This also had to have forward planning to integrate with future eCommerce, thus including product relationship opportunities.
The most difficult logical challenge was that content kept flowing constantly into the site via xml, including tags, and it had to all work by default, but still with the ability to override and adjust or augment.
Also, the tags had to feed multiple navigation paradigms, topic, physical and x-reference.
All copy came tagged with tags from a publisher's master list which could be updated, but was supposed to be kept manageable. It was mirrored back to the publishing site CMS via xml for them to use.
multiple tags for x-reference, as deemed by the editor overseas.
Advertising x-reference was more difficult, as there was not always an obvious logical relationship, and that content was added on-site by the local editor.
Thus, each ad received its own tag, and that tag needed to be added to each editorial record, or a default ad for the category would be displayed. Again, category ads were based on the same unique tag every ad carried.
This enabled standard user oriented browsing with proper advertising relationships across health content, news content and forum content.
As a future-proofing option, ad-server scripts could also be applied to the pages and categories using the same interface, if required.
I also specified multiple navigation paradigms for user relevance - a topical and a physical options taking the cue from the sister site, health24.
The project included significant focus on social and on-site user generated content engagement strategies, including subscription based topic and program styled eDMs, i.e. the '10 week' programs with related discussion groups.
rotating home page content, to cycle articles.
responsive design and mobile CSS.
beefed up asset management to accommodate advertising and editorial images and custom tagging requirements.
- integrated with the content DB providing the content feed from South Africa so we never had tags without content.
Integrated Forum and News Centre as well as Health Editorial management.
Following the specification, I project managed the job to completion, coordinating a development team in South Africa and a UI team in Sydney. This was supported by myself at weekly meetings to maintain and elevate the client relationship.
As with any publishing site, organisation and x-referencing drives the application.


It's been 2 1/2 months since Carroll Shelby died and he will finally be buried. His body has been in a Dallas morgue since this death on May 10 and in the meantime there has been a battle between Shelby's three children and his last wife, Cleo.
His children – Michael, Patrick and Sharon – claimed Shelby had signed a statement that he should be cremated and his ashes split into four parts, one for each of them, the fourth for a plot in East Texas. Cleo Shelby disputed this claim, saying she had a directive giving her the rights to his affairs.
All this was headed for a civil trial on July 26, 2012 but both sides have now settled the matter. Under the new agreement, Shelby's ashes will be divided five ways, one for each of his children, one for the burial plot and another for Cleo Shelby.
So one of America's great sports car heroes will finally be laid to rest. The man who won so many races in the U.S. before co-driving to a win in the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans with Roy Salvadori in an Aston Martin. Ironically, Salvadori died on June 3, just weeks after Shelby.
Retiring due to heart troubles, Shelby went on to create the Cobra and will be celebrated at this year's Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and Goodwood's Revival. There was also a time when Shelby was aligned with Chrysler, helping create the Viper before returning to Ford.
One of the ironies in Shelby's drawn-out burial is that when you'd meet him and ask how he was, he'd often say, "Well, I'm on the right side of the grass."


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Posted on 26th January 2020 by admin in Northern Premier League, Vanarama with 0 Comments
The Non-League Paper is on newsstands today as football mourns the tragic death of Matlock Town midfielder Jordan Sinnott.
The 25-year-old, son of Watford FA Cup finalist and former Altrincham, Bradford Park Avenue, Farsley Celtic, Gainsborough Trinity and Port Vale manager Lee, passed away on Saturday night following a serious assault in Retford town centre on Friday evening.
As The NLP went to press with yesterday's Non-League action and news, tributes were flooding in for the popular player who started out at Huddersfield and went on to play for Altrincham, Bury, Chesterfield and FC Halifax Town before joining Matlock from Alfreton Town in August.
The Gladiators led emotional tributes, saying: "You weren't just a footballer, you were our friend and our brother."
You weren't just a footballer, you were our friend and brother. You gave us incredible memories and scored your first career hat-trick in your final game for the club.
Rest easy Jordan, we love, miss and will never forget you. pic.twitter.com/JB8ZCThCSZ
— Matlock Town FC (@Matlock_TownFC) January 25, 2020
Matlock's Northern Premier League fixture at Mickleover Sports was postponed before the competition later offered its condolences to his family, friends and teammates.
The Northern Premier League would like to extend its condolences to the family, friends and team-mates of Jordan Sinnott.https://t.co/5FWiKpUdeQ
— The Northern Premier League (@NorthernPremLge) January 25, 2020
Alfreton's National League North match at home to Gateshead was also postponed on Saturday after they learnt that their former player had been seriously hurt and was on a life support machine at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital.
Nottinghamshire Police have launched a murder investigation and are appealing for witnesses as a 27-year-old man remained in police custody on Saturday night.
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Critics say the way the State Dept. released its human rights report signals 'a lack of basic interest' in the matter
Yeganeh Torbati,
Mar. 3, 2017, 9:43 PM
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivers a statement after a meeting with Mexico's Foreign Secretary Videgaray (not pictured) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City, Mexico, February 23, 2017.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria
The U.S. State Department released its annual report on human rights around the world on Friday but the release was overshadowed by criticism that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave the report little of the traditional attention or fanfare.
Tillerson declined to unveil the report in person, breaking with precedent established during both Democratic and Republican administrations. A senior U.S. official answered reporters' questions by phone on condition of anonymity rather than appearing on camera, also a break with precedent.
"The report speaks for itself," the official said in response to a question about why Tillerson did not unveil it. "We're very, very proud of it. The facts should really be the story here."
The report, mandated by Congress, documents human rights conditions in nearly 200 countries and territories and is put together by staff in U.S. embassies. This year's report was largely completed during former President Barack Obama's tenure.
According to the report, Philippine police and vigilantes "killed more than 6,000 suspected drug dealers and users" since July and extrajudicial killings have "increased sharply" in the Philippines in the last year. Philippine officials say their government does not tolerate human rights violations or state-sponsored extrajudicial killings.
The report's language on Russia remained broadly similar to that of years past, noting the country's "authoritarian political system dominated by President Vladimir Putin."
President Donald Trump has said he would like to improve U.S. relations with Russia.
Traditionally, the secretary of state unveils the report with public comments emphasizing the centrality of human rights in U.S. foreign policy and highlighting specific findings.
Tillerson's Democratic predecessors John Kerry and Hillary Clinton gave public comments on the report in 2013 and 2009, their first years in the post, respectively, and continued to present it throughout their tenures.
In 2005, during Republican President George W. Bush's administration, the undersecretary of state for global affairs, Paula Dobriansky, presented the report on camera on behalf of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The Dalai Lama (L) meets with Paula Dobriansky, the U.S. under secretary of the State Department for Global Affairs and Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan April 21, 2008.
REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
So far in his one-month tenure, Tillerson has not held a news conference and has mostly refrained from answering questions from the media.
Human rights groups criticized the way the report was rolled out.
"It's just signaling a lack of basic interest and understanding in how support for human rights reflects what's best about America," said Rob Berschinski, senior vice president for policy at Human Rights First.
Berschinski was deputy assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor until Jan. 20, and helped coordinate the report.
On Friday, the U.S. official quoted from Tillerson's confirmation hearing to offer proof that he views human rights conditions as crucial to U.S. interests, adding, "These statements are very clear about our commitment to human rights."
In the introduction to this year's report, Tillerson wrote "our values are our interests when it comes to human rights."
But in his confirmation hearing, Tillerson sidestepped questions on human rights conditions in other countries, declining to condemn countries like Saudi Arabia and the Philippines, saying he wanted to see the facts first.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Friday said on his Facebook page he was "disappointed that the secretary of state did not personally present the latest report."
"American leadership in defense of basic human rights, on behalf of those whose voices have been silenced, is needed now more than ever," Rubio wrote.
(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick and David Brunnstrom; Editing by Yara Bayoumy, Leslie Adler and James Dalgleish)
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Free semi-weekly Web development newsletter with over 45,000
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During the festive period many people are glued to TV screens and they're bombarded with advertising, especially car advertising. But there's one advert that shows the truth – if you want to get through a city quickly, ride a bike.
Naturally, it's not a car advertiser that's showing this particular truth. The advert in question was shot by Hollywood director Paul W.S. Anderson for bookmaker William Hill.
The "clever fast" TV commercial promotes the speed of the William Hill smartphone and tablet app. Anderson, who has directed such films as Alien vs Predator, the Resident Evil series and the Three Musketeers, shot a sports car driver stuck in traffic as a cyclist rides past.
The concept for the advert was developed in-house by William Hill and then fleshed out by creative agency, Bark & Bite. The advert was produced by Mob Sport.


One of the key things that we teach salespeople is that your job in sales is to understand what it is that people do, and then to help them do it better. For only by understanding what people do; how they do it, why they do it that way, when they do it, and who they do it with, can you be in a position to really help them and show them what will make sense to them. Notice that the emphasis here is on the prospect: what makes sense to THEM. It's not about what makes sense to you, or what you would like to sell them. Notice also that we're not talking about asking prospects about their "needs," "problems," or "pain."
As D.E.I. Management Group President and author, Steve Schiffman says in his book "The 250 Sales Questions to Close the Deal:"
What if I ask the person to describe pressing business problems that he or she will face in the future? What if I build my proposal around those business issues? I might get a decent picture of what is going on in that person's world, but I will not get the whole picture. Even if you discover everything about the person's pains, needs, and problems, you will have only learned about certain parts of their situation - the parts that are currently causing pain and problems. You won't be getting the whole picture. What about the rest of your contact's situation - the things that don't fit in the categories of pain, needs, or problems? What's going on there? If I only ask about "needs," I don't know - and if you've only been asking the types of questions mentioned above, neither do you.
Let's explore this a bit more deeply. People will only make a decision to do something if it makes sense to them. I think that's something we can all agree on. So how do we know what will make sense to someone we meet for the first time, or whom we don't know all that well? That comes through asking questions and in taking a genuine interest in the people we meet with.
Many of us in sales were taught, at one time or another, that we need to be good listeners, and that we need to show we care by asking questions. Yet how many of us really do a good job at that? We are excited about our products and services - we want to jump right in and show our prospect that we have the fix for whatever ails them. We need to learn to fight that urge to "throw-up" on the prospect with our solution to their problem - for if we do this too soon in the process we're really just guessing at what makes the most sense to them.
An understanding of basic human motivation will help you ask better questions to arrive at the ultimate plan that will make sense to your prospect. As human beings, we are all drive by two primary motivating factors; the desire to avoid pain, or the desire to gain something. Or, to put it another way - we either want to fix something that isn't working, or we want to create a better future.
People who are trying to "move away from pain" will interpret issues as pain and may give us a list a problems, frustrations, and dissatisfaction. They may even use physical or emotional pain phrases like: "It's killing us", "We're bleeding", "It's a pain in the neck", "It's a real headache", It's a nightmare", "It's like pulling teeth".
People who are "moving toward gain" will interpret issues as results (i.e., objectives, goals, and outcomes). They may use phrases like" "What we'd like to see.," "What we think is possible.," "Our vision is.," "What we're excited about is.," "Our end in mind is.," "We'd like to create.," etc. Their language will give us some hints about where they would like to start. We'll just need to be aware of the language.
Our job in asking questions then, is to listen to what our prospect says and determine which mode they are operating in - listen to their language, and then ask more questions to find out more about their unique situation. In doing this, you will want to ask questions that relate to the past, the present, and the future. Asking about the past will help you determine what problems they may be dealing with that they want to fix. Asking about the present will focus in their present situation and the current "status quo". Future based questions will give you a sense of what goals and outcomes they hope to accomplish. All of these areas are important to gain a full sense of what will makes sense to the person and of what will lead them to buy.
That's great. I'm just curious, why five?
That's great. I'm just curious, where will they be? How did you decide on those locations?
That's great. What are your first year projections for those locations?
That's great. What kinds of challenges do you typically face when you open new locations?
You could probably come up with several other questions you could use here, but the point is that the question is squarely focused on them - and may not even have anything directly to do with your offering. Remember, your goal is to understand as much as you can about them. Through question like this you are developing a real conversation. A conversation in which your contact's comfort and trust level will increase, and one in which you will gain real insight into what they "do" - what they hope to accomplish as well as the problems they need to solve.
Only once you've gained a better sense of their past, present, and future - along with problems (pain) and goals (gain) are you in a position to make a real recommendation or proposal.
Moving quickly through this step can jeopardize your opportunities to build a real relationship and to add real value to the selling situation. Take the time to truly understand what your prospect does, and you will see your sales increase!


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SRA Takeover Presents…You Me At Six
6th January 2017 | Music
We have rockers You Me At Six in on the SRA Takeover for you to start the new year, no less on the same day the best release their new album Night People.
Josh and Max from the band joined Insanity Radio's Isobel Sheeran and Halina Hayre to present their own radio show exclusively for Student Radio. Covering the recording and performing of their new album and singles, the band also talk about their journey so far, festivals and what their own movies would be like!
Isobel had this to say on working with the guys:
It was really enjoyable working with Josh and Max from You Me At Six. They always had something interesting to say, and kept the energy up when discussing their passion for music. The band have a continued success with their new releases, and it was very exciting to talk about their fresh, new style to open 2017. Their charisma and enthusiasm made them entertaining to listen to, and we wish them all the recognition they deserve for the new album.
This hour long show is available for all Student Radio Association member stations to take on and play. If you'd like to play it on your station get in touch with our Music Officer at music@studentradio.org.uk
Thanks again to Josh & Max from the band, as well as Radioactive Promotions for helping to set our show up. If you want to check out the band's new album Night People, you can do on all streaming sites or go out and buy a physical copy, because CDs & Vinyl are neat!
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Is that a LS umbrella guy, or Jessica Biel's own UG? Can you send me an employment application?
Is there an umbrella guy for inclement weather too?
Is umbrella guy related to pointin' man?
Maybe. He does seem to have some proto-pointin' skills.
Not sure of the source of that particular umbrella guy. Hard to tell, but it looks like he may have been with Team Biel.
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Q: How is the result struct of localtime allocated in C? I was playing with the time.h file in C that helps us with time/day functions.
I came across:
struct tm * _Cdecl localtime(const time_t *__timer);

...which seems to return a pointer to tm struct. I have found that return by address is mostly used to return new memory allocations.
If this is so, how does the above return actually work (the return address of a struct tm). Is the returned object defined somewhere?
Thanks

A: The pointer returned by localtime (and some other functions) are actually pointers to statically allocated memory. So you do not need to free it, and you should not free it.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/ctime/localtime/

This structure is statically allocated and shared by the functions
gmtime and localtime. Each time either one of these functions is
called the content of this structure is overwritten.

EDIT : Appending a few things mentioned in the comments.
A direct result of this shared data-structure is that localtime and similar functions are not thread-safe. The thread-safe solution varies with different platforms. localtime_r for POSIX and localtime_s for MSVC.

A: The man page says:

The return value points to a statically allocated struct which might be overwritten by subsequent calls to any of the date and time functions.

Also:

The localtime_r() function does the same, but stores the data in a user-supplied struct. It need not set tzname, timezone, and daylight.

A: Actually localtime usually returns the address of a static object. I suspect it looks like this:
struct tm *
localtime(const time_t *timer)
{
    static struct tm tm;

    /* Magic. */

    return &tm;
}

A: They return a pointer to a static struct local to the library. From the man page:
NOTES

The  four functions asctime(), ctime(), gmtime() and localtime() return
a pointer to static data and hence are  not  thread-safe.   Thread-safe
versions asctime_r(), ctime_r(), gmtime_r() and localtime_r() are spec‐
ified by SUSv2, and available since libc 5.2.5.

POSIX.1-2001 says: "The asctime(), ctime(), gmtime(),  and  localtime()
functions  shall  return values in one of two static objects: a broken-
down time structure and an array of type char.  Execution of any of the
functions  may  overwrite  the  information returned in either of these
objects by any of the other functions."  This can occur  in  the  glibc
implementation.

A: It returns a pointer to a piece of statically allocated memory (probably either a static variable defined inside localtime or a global defined somewhere in the C runtime library). You must not free such memory.
Obviously this function is not reentrant (but can be thread-safe if TLS is used).
You must be careful when using this pointer: never make any function calls that could call localtime/gmtime/... before you finished using that pointer, otherwise the content of the memory referenced by your pointer could change (in response to the new call to localtime) and you will be reading values relative to another time_t.
In general the design of the date/time library is quite outdated, this kind of optimization was worthwhile when the C language was designed, nowadays it only gives problems.
To address these problems there are at least two different improved versions of these functions: localtime_r (SUSv2, r stays for "reentrant") and localtime_s (Microsoft, s stays for "safe"). The sad fact for portability is that these do almost the same thing (they require the destination struct tm to be passed as a parameter), but differ in name and ordering of the parameters.

A: The pointed object that is returned by localtime function has static storage duration.

A: Just test it:
#include <time.h>

int main() {
  while (1) {
    time_t t = time(0);
    localtime(&t);
  }
  return 0;
}

On my system the memory stays the same.

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Earlandia is a genus of prehistoric foraminifera.

See also
 Arthur Earland (1866–1958), a British oceanographer, microscopist and expert on Foraminifera
 List of prehistoric foraminifera genera

References

External links

 Earlandia at WoRMS
 Earlandia at fossilworks

Prehistoric Foraminifera genera
Fusulinida

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