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College Football Week One Talking Points
This is the first in a new series, examining the main talking points from the opening week of the college football season, from the eyes of an Englishman now living in the U.S.
The opening weekend didn't throw up many shocks, however here are my ten major talking points. Also a quick disclaimer before I begin, this is simply a shallow dive into the main stories of the week through the eyes of a fan, if you want more in-depth articles it's probably best to read the analysts articles.
1) Big Win for Auburn and Bo Nix
Bo Nix and the Auburn Tigers took down the Oregon Ducks 27-21 in the only surprise result between ranked teams last week. The true freshman Nix threw a go-ahead touchdown with nine seconds remaining in a legendary moment on his debut.
Nix struggled during the game, going 13-31 for 177 yards with 2 INT to match 2 TD's, but the five star phenom has Auburn fans feeling excited about the next three years. Auburn jumped to tenth in the AP Top 25 poll, and now face Tulane in their home opener on Saturday.
2) Oregon Big Losers in Week One
Oregon will feel distraught after an especially tough opening week loss. The team played well throughout and led right up until the final nine seconds, with a long recovery ahead if they want to compete for the College Football Playoff.
Senior QB Justin Herbert was the better QB in the game, going 28-37 for 242 yards and a TD. Receiver Johnny Johnson III built good chemistry with Herbert, to the tune of seven receptions for 98 yards. This is a tough loss, but starting this week against Nevada, their schedule helps them going down the stretch.
Bo Nix played beyond his true freshman status to earn the comeback win against Oregon last weekend. Photo: Ron Jenkins (AP).
3) Jalen Hurts Already Anointed Heisman Favourite?
Jalen Hurts proved the pre-season hype on him as a Heisman contender was justified in week one. The Oklahoma QB had a monster six touchdown game in their 49-31 win over a good Houston team. 332 passing yards and 3 TD's was matched with 176 yards rushing and another 3 TD's.
The Alabama graduate transfer smashed the Oklahoma record for single game yardage with 508, Baker Mayfield previously held it with 396 yards. Some call it the Lincoln Riley effect, but Oklahoma could have three consecutive Heisman Trophy winners come December.
4) Big Debut for Justin Fields
Another high-profile summer transfer showed up big in week one, Ohio State QB Justin Fields. The sophomore standout was key as Ohio State rolled over Florida Atlantic 45-21. He lit up the first quarter with 4 TD's, in a statement performance on his debut after transferring from Georgia.
This Ohio state team is loaded with NFL talent, and Fields has shown after week one he can take over from Dwayne Haskins. The team will face a tougher test this week against Cincinnati, but they have already shown this team will be a serious play-off contender this season.
5) Florida State Return Still on Hold
The Florida State Seminoles hoped to put last season behind them, but old demons returned in a 36-31 loss to Boise State in Tallahassee. The team collapsed in the second half after looking dominant in the first half.
QB James Blackman looked good with 327 yards and 3 TD's, but they let Boise State score 23 unanswered points to steal the win. This FSU team has plenty of NFL talent, but under Willie Taggart they struggle to close games out. 5-7 is not acceptable at FSU, and Taggart will feel the pressure even more after this loss.
A Florida State players reflects the mood of the team as they let Boise State come back for the win as the pressure piles on head coach Willie Taggart. Photo: Mark Wallheiser/AP.
6) Georgia State Win Upset of Week One
Another historic program currently struggling is Tennessee, and their home loss to Georgia State 38-30 was undoubtedly the shock of the opening week. It's been a while since Tennessee has been a title contender, but this is a new low for the once proud program.
A fourth quarter collapse gave the underdog Georgia State team the win. This is a historic win for their team and they deserve the plaudits. This season may prove tough for Tennessee fans in the ultra competitive SEC.
7) USC QB J.T Daniels Out for Season
Week one was brutal for USC despite a 31-23 win against Fresno State. This is because of a torn ACL for starting QB J.T Daniels, after being sacked in the second quarter.
Daniels was a five star phenom in California and was hoping to step up after a mixed freshman season. USC had PAC-12 championship hopes, which now lie in the hands of true freshman Kedon Slovis. The season just got a whole lot tougher for USC.
8) Running Backs Put on a Show
Running backs stole the show for a lot of Offences in week one. Clemson junior Travis Etienne led the way with 205 yards in their win against Georgia Tech. Fellow junior D'Andre Swift ran for 147 yards in Georgia's win over Vanderbilt. Jonathan Taylor got 135 yards and 2 TD's against USF.
Cam Akers of Florida State and Eno Benjamin of Arizona State are two more highly touted backs who ran for over 100 yards on opening weekend. All of these players are juniors, which means the 2020 NFL Draft running back class may be the best in years.
Clemson Running Back scampers past his sideline in one of his three touchdown runs to open the season. He will likely be a first round NFL Draft pick next year if he declares. Photo: Richard Shiro/AP.
9) UCLA Struggle Once Again
The Chip Kelly era started with massive promise, but is now in danger of flaming out. The once heralded coach is now on the hot seat after they lost their opening game 24-14 to Cincinnati.
UCLA struggled with ugly turnovers from QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson, and struggled for identity in a tough loss to a better Cincinnati team. The 3-9 record last year is well below expectations and this season hasn't started any better.
10) No Major Top 25 Surprises in Week One
Week one didn't provide much upsets for the top 25 ranked sides, other than Auburn upsetting Oregon. Ranked teams usually like to start the season with easier opponents to give them time to get up to speed before the real season starts.
The NCAA does try to provide showcase games in the opening week, but more needs to be done to ensure we get bigger games in the opening week. For now the AP top 25 has stayed largely the same other than Auburn and Oregon moving.
That wraps up my brief look at some of the major talking points from the opening weekend of college football. Do you have any thoughts on these points or your college football team? Let me know either in the comments section below or find me on Twitter @JWjournalism. Finally, a massive thank you to anyone who reads this I really appreciate it!
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Will there be a European NFL franchise anytime soon?
After experiencing the first of the three NFL international series games at Wembley stadium last Sunday between the Miami Dolphins and the Oakland Raiders, in the aftermath I found myself wondering as a fan, will there be a fully fledged international franchise in the NFL anytime soon?
The idea for the first NFL franchise to come from outside the United States of America has been slowly building momentum since the first international series game at Wembley in 2007. That one game has now turned into three regular season games with the promise of more to come in the ensuing years. This growing momentum could well lead to a permanent NFL franchise in the next 10 years, but could it work logistically?
Many at first glance would simply dismiss this idea with a quick "no", citing the vast distance that would be between every other NFL franchise in America and a European franchise. The move would also meet with a widespread resistance from within the NFL, as I'm sure a large majority of the current 32 NFL franchises would not be willing to travel across to Europe to play, despite the obvious commercial benefits of the NFL branching out into Europe.
When actually giving this idea some thought some other considerations have to come into play also. Firstly history, whilst this may sound a bit strange to hear at first we must first look at the success and ultimate failure of NFL Europe when discussing a permanent franchise in Europe. Whilst NFL Europe contained some good players during it's tenure from 1991 and 2007. The league was supported by the NFL with the teams using the European teams as a development league for young players not yet ready for the NFL. Alongside these players were those in the later stages of their career or free agents not picked up by the NFL after college. The attendances were steady if not spectacular with an average of just over 20 000 across the league for their final season in 2007. Whilst the attendance of 83 459 for last Sunday's game is very impressive and shows the support the NFL has in Europe, yet could this be realistically sustained across a 16 week season?
Another factor to consider is the logistics with starting an NFL franchise. This is something that is difficult enough to start in America, let alone Europe with the last NFL franchise being the Houston Texans in 2002. The infrastructure needed to start the franchise would take several years to put in place, with obvious factors such as training facilities alongside finding a permanent stadium would all be things to organise. Aside from the infrastructure the actual roster itself would pose problems as it would likely be much harder to attract top line players to join a team so removed from their own culture, despite the growing international flavour of the NFL.
With all these factors considered for me the most logical step is to carry on with what the NFL is planning at the moment, to slowly increase the level of support in Europe with a gradual increase in the amount of games hosted in Europe to effectively gain the required support needed before any thoughts of a permanent franchise can be considered. For now the NFL has the right recipe for success with a crucial market such as Europe, it's now up to them to follow through with it.
Posted in American Football, American sports, College athletics, NFL, Uncategorized and tagged Europe, International series, Miami Dolphins, NCAA, NFL, NFL Europe, Oakland Raiders, Wembley on October 3, 2014 by brfcjordan95. 2 Comments
Why NCAA should pay College athletes
First of all, I want to make it clear that I do not claim to be an expert on this subject or indeed have an abundance of expert knowledge on this subject. This is simply written by a regular college sports fans who doesn't understand how it's fair for Universities and head coaches to collect millions of dollars from college athletics, yet the athletes themselves are forced to live a hand-to mouth existence until they complete their degree or turn professional in their respective sports.
This is a topical subject at the present moment as a judge ruled in favour of student athletes only a few days ago that they can sell the rights to their names and images, with the money being given to them once they've completed College. Although it's unlikely to generate mega sums for student athletes the opportunity to be given $20 000 dollars after 4 years of College is a lot better than current athletes receive. Lead plaintiff in the case Ed O'Bannon, former UCLA basketball star, stated he joined the lawsuit against the NCAA after he saw his image used in a NCAA licenced video game that he was not paid for.
The role of "improper benefits" and the rules sanctioned by the NCAA are constantly being challenged or broken by student athletes. A Notable example is include Reggie Bush being forced to hand back his 2005 Heisman Trophy, awarded to College football's best player that year, for receiving "improper benefits" whilst at USC between 2003-2005. For many student athletes the problem occurs when Universities "boosters" get involved, "boosters" are linked to Universities and help with their funding. The problems however is that whilst many student athletes become nationwide stars they are not allowed to receive any benefits from their status.
Whilst the NCAA stance that student athletes are students first and University should only be about furthering their education is a very noble idea in principle, it's hard to see past how NCAA athletics have simply become farm systems for professional sports such as the NFL,NBA or MLB. It does seem absurd in 2014 that whilst the Universities receive tens of millions of dollars a year from NCAA athletics, and coaches receive millions of dollars a year that the actual players themselves cannot even have someone pay for their breakfast as this would be deemed a NCAA violation under the "Improper benefits" policy.
Whilst I am not suggesting that College players should start being paid an astronomical amount, I simply feel they should be fairly compensated for their efforts with a modest salary that will allow them to have a slightly better existence whilst at College. For many players, they commit NCAA infractions for simple things such as having a meal paid for them or being given money for clothes. This is something most regular teenage students do yet when the NCAA are involved it's deemed students are using their status for benefit, therefore forfeiting their amateur status.
In the last few years it has become common for College athletes to declare for the NFL or NBA draft increasingly earlier than in the past. Whilst many who follow College sports are trying to work out how to keep students in College for longer so they can complete their degrees, it seems simply that these students jump at the first opportunity they get to go professional and earn enough money to take care of themselves and their family. For College football players they have to wait 3 years whilst for the NBA players can declare at any time during their College career.
The final comment is that throughout the years their have been plenty of incredible College players who have been unable to convert their considerable talent into the money they deserve for an abundance of reasons such as injury or NCAA violations, and this is exactly why College athletes should receive a modest salary in a billion dollar industry as it seems highly unfair in my opinion that players such as Marcus Dupree, Melvin Bratton and Maurice Clarett should be have their dreams of reaching the NFL taken away and yet not be compensated for their previous efforts of playing in front of 60- 80 000 fans. If the University and Coaches should receive mega bucks benefits from College athletics, shouldn't the players receive a small portion of that too.
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Photo credit goes to http://www.thesportspost.com , Julie Jacobsen and http://www.ap.org and http://www.wisecholar.com
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| Penn tennis travels to Tennessee to spark early-season success
Penn tennis travels to Tennessee to spark early-season success
Quakers to face MTSU, Vanderbilt in weekend trip
By Sara Young 01/18/17 11:09pm
Senior captain Matt Nardella and the rest of Penn men's fencing open the season this weekend by traveling to Tennessee to take on Middle Tennessee State University and Vanderbilt University
Credit: Alex Fisher
While many of us look forward to a weekend brimming with what we'd contend are some pretty ambitious party plans, Penn men's tennis has something bigger and a bit more impactful in its scopes: a weekend-long, tension-packed double matchup in Tennessee.
Led by coaches David Geatz, Brian Ward, and four talented seniors – including captain Matt Nardella – the Quakers will make their exodus on Friday morning for the 12-hour ride to Tennessee to face off against Middle Tennessee State.
Following that, the 12-man crew will hop right back on the bus on Sunday, heading to Nashville to compete against Vanderbilt in a historic first-ever contest between the two teams. There, the Red and Blue will seek to expand upon the weekend's success and break into the early-season victory streak that they've shown they are capable of.
In recent years, the outsets of each season have marked fruitful periods of play for Penn. For this collection of ambitious players, it won't be a mere hope to continue that pattern of performance into the new year; it'll be an expectation.
Penn men's tennis proud of its multiculturalism
Nardella is looking forward to helping carry his team to the triumph it's been training for against a team it has no experience against and no history of play to draw upon.
"We know that [Vanderbilt] is in a strong conference top to bottom, so they're going to be tough," he said. "They've got a couple of great guys, so we know it's going to be a tough match."
Junior captain Josh Pompan attested to the strength and relentlessness that the Quakers are sure to confront in Nashville, but he has high expectations for himself and his teammates.
"They're all brutally tough at this stage. When we go there, they're all going to be yelling and screaming at their own court," he said. "I know a few of the guys from northern California on the team, so it's going to be a fun one, but it's going to be brutally tough. But we've been training for it, so hopefully we'll get the job done."
Last season, the team graduated several key players, but the Red and Blue have done well in recruiting those who are capable of filling the gaps that last year's seniors left in their wake.
"We had a large senior class last year, so we lost a couple of big contributors. We have a couple of newcomers, and a lot of guys are looking to prove themselves early on. We're looking for a few more guys to break in," Nardella said of the shift in point contribution.
Pompan seemed optimistic for the future: "We lost two good captains last year, but we've got three really good freshmen who've been working really hard, and it's going to be exciting because we don't really know the doubles pairings yet. Hopefully we'll get it done and start getting into a groove every weekend from now on."
To stay focused on the court during grueling and verbally taxing matches is no easy task, but Penn players have a custom of composure that keeps performance levels unaffected.
"It all starts from focusing [on] one point at a time for each match. If everyone goes out there and does their job, you don't have to worry. Even though tennis is a team sport, it all ends up being an individual contribution; you just go out there and play your best, and if everyone does that, we'll get the victory," Pompan said.
As the Red and Blue take to the courts this weekend, they can remain unperturbed in the face of unruliness, play with passion, and overcome the opposition knowing that their friends and supportive classmates are back on campus drinking to their accomplishments.

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I like the way you put that. Every program that loads when you boot and stays in memory slows your PC just a tiny bit, and increases the odds that something won't work properly. So it's best to assume that you should probably disable most of them.
I'm not talking about software you don't want at all, which is a whole other issue. I'm talking about programs you want to keep, but don't have a legitimate reason to always run in the background. Personally, I like WinZip and Photoshop, but I don't need little pieces of them running at all times.
What should you allow to autoload?
* First and foremost, security programs like your antivirus and firewall. Without these running in the background, your PC's security is compromised.
* If you have a laptop, it probably came with an autoloader that monitors battery life. That's worth keeping.
* It's possible that something, perhaps your sound card or backup program, just won't work properly without it's autoloader running. A little research and experimenting should tell you if that's the case.
* Some utilities need to be up at all times to do their job. These include Copernic Desktop Search, which must index your files in real time, and VistaStartMenu, which improves Windows' user interface. With such programs, you need to decide if they're worth the extra overhead.
Before you disable any autoloaders, create a system restore point. In XP, select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Restore. Select Create a restore point, click Next and follow the wizard. In Vista, click Start, type sysdm.cpl and press ENTER. Click the System Protection tab, then the Create button.
Conventional wisdom tells you to disable autoloaders in msconfig, but that's not really the best place to start. Applications with autoloading modules often react to such disabling by correcting your "error." If you want an autoloader to stay off, tell the application, not msconfig.
Most programs that autoload by default have an option to make them behave better.
the pop-up menu. If nothing seems appropriate, launch the main application and look there. Examine the various menus and setting dialog boxes for options to load at startup or display something in the system tray. Uncheck all such options.
Turn off as many autoloaders this way as possible.
But you'll have to go to msconfig eventually. Not all autoloaders in the systray can be turned off as described above, and not all autoloaders put an icon in the systray. So select Start, Run (just Start in Vista), type msconfig, and press ENTER. Click the Startup tab.
All you need do now is uncheck the autoloaders you don't want, and hope they stay unchecked. If you're not sure what a particular autoloader does, look it up at http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php.


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Purpose Driven Life Gets a 10th Anniversary Makeover: PW Talks with Rick Warren
By Marcia Z. Nelson |
Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., talked to PW in the middle of a media day in New York (PW was number 7) to publicize the 10th anniversary edition of The Purpose Driven Life (Zondervan, Nov.). The new edition contains two new chapters, QR codes, and links that provide video introductions and audio messages. The original book, published in 2002, has sold 32 million copies in 50 languages.
Why a new edition and not a new book?
Three reasons: There are new things that I've learned; a totally new audience I'm going after; and new methodology I can use to get the message out. We didn't have social media 10 years ago.
Please explain.
My first goal is to go after a new generation of readers. I've spent the last ten years speaking at universities. What I'm finding is a lot of young adults in their 20s who feel like their life is in limbo--there's a lot of low-grade despair and discouragement among young adults. Even people who are in their 20s need to think about what matters most in life, we've got all new tools. There was more I needed to say about these things, and there are 25 hours of teaching added to the book in audio and video.
Will there be a new book at some point?
I have about four other books in me I want to release. I'm a crazy writer. The Lord's Prayer: The Hope You Need is three-fourths finished, and we will serve no wine before its time. I've got eight more years as pastor of Saddleback. Once I'm out from leading an enormous church, I'll have a lot more time to move into my second love, which is writing.
You have a lot of claims on your time. How do you set priorities?
Once (Purpose-Driven Life) went into the stratosphere, it brought in enormous amounts of money and attention, and I didn't know what to do with it. I began to read the scripture, and Kay and I became reverse tithers; we give away 91 percent (of our income) and live on 9 percent. The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence.
Is that where your AIDS activism comes in?
It's the worst plague; it's a sheer humanitarian issue. If Jesus were walking around on earth today, he'd be hanging around with people with AIDS and crack addicts. That's where we can show the most unconditional love.
How's your health? You've been involved in the Daniel Plan diet [a program headed by three physicians, including Dr. Oz].
At Saddleback we dunk people underwater for baptism. One baptism day, I'm baptizing 867 people, and about number 500 I think, 'Good grief, we're all fat, everybody's heavy, I'm overweight.' So I said to the church, 'I need to lose 90 pounds, --anybody else want to join me? Twelve thousand of my members signed up, and our church lost 250,000 pounds. We'll start a second wave in January. I'm healthier than I've been in my entire life.


ST. LOUIS – The Rev. Dr. James Reese, now approaching the 70th anniversary of his ordination in the Presbyterian Church, believes learning about stewardship is a cross-cultural exercise. He asserts approaches to charitable giving, especially in the context of the church, are formed by a community ethos — and he has the data to back it up.
Presenting the workshop titled "Stewardship in Racial-Ethnic Communities" at the 2018 Stewardship Kaleidoscope conference in St. Louis, Reese brought his decades of experience to help answer questions of what really happens inside racial-ethnic communities to motivate and drive generosity. Reese is Minister of Specialized Interpretation at the Presbyterian Foundation.
Opening his time with a recitation of Psalm 133, Reese reminded attendees "the image of our community being good motivates us." And the understanding of "good" within each setting is what helps to define the way groups respond to requests for giving.
Reese has been a student, practitioner and advocate of racial-ethnic diversity within the Presbyterian Church since he began ministry. As the pastor of three congregations in south Alabama in the 1950s, he says his salary was provided by the Board of American Mission located in Pittsburgh, noting many African-American congregations were similarly funded as a "mission" of the northern church.
Through the 1960s he saw a twofold increase in the number of racial-ethnic persons who became candidates for ordained ministry in the Presbyterian Church. During the work of reunion in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Reese worked to ensure concern for racial equity was included in the articles of reunion.
Reese acknowledge the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) goal, set at the 1996 General Assembly, of having 20 percent of its members be non-Caucasian by 2020. As of the end of 2017, that number was nine percent.
As a reminder of the history of tithing in the denomination, Reese said that when the United Presbyterian Church was formed in 1858, there were two primary standards. First, members who wanted to receive communion could not hold slaves. Second, tithing was an expected component of membership and congregational reports to the General Assembly included the number of tithers on the membership role.
Although the denomination never grew to more than 325,000 members, Reese said it was able to support "an immense amount of mission" — including worldwide missionary efforts, African-American churches and schools, and other mission — because they had a commitment to tithing.
Careful to note the broad range of experiences within racial-ethnic communities, Reese provided data to support the idea of unique approaches in broader groups, noting Caucasian givers across mainline denominations give approximately 3.5 percent of their income.
African-Americans, he said, see giving as a spiritual discipline that derives from a strong sense of "paying it forward" and doing good in the community as a source of support. "God has been good to me, so I want to give," Reese said, is a common sentiment of the motivation for giving. The most recent per capita data shows African-Americans give at 3.8 percent.
Loyalty is a key motivator for stewardship in Asian communities as exemplified by a statement made by C.W. Choi regarding the Korean perspective. Stewardship is not merely the act of fundraising, said Choi, "it is about trust, faithfulness and discipleship." The most recent per capita data shows all Asian groups give at six percent. As a subset, Koreans give at eight percent.
In Latino populations, Reese posited the ethics of community and shared interest — such as helping family and neighbors with immediate needs — are primary motivators in stewardship. Giving preserves the unity of close kinships and allows those with resources to give back in consideration of others who are in need. The most recent per capita data shows Latino church goers give at 3.8 percent.
For Native American congregations, Reese holds that the culture of giving is based in a sense of reciprocity, mutual exchange and respect for the giver. Since communal ownership of land and resources is a common perspective, generosity is seen by many in this population as a way to strengthen and preserve the community. No data was available for Native American per capita giving.
Concluding his presentation, Reese encouraged participants to learn about different racial-ethic groups' approach to stewardship, saying the kernels of truth found it each attitude may influence how they approach giving in their contexts.
"All of us are richer because of each other, all of us are poorer without each other," he said.


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Why Synergy Doesn't Happen
Lesson 3 from: Creating and Leading Incredible Teams
Shane Snow
Leadership & Management > Creating And Leading Incredible Teams > Why Synergy Doesn't Happen
3. Why Synergy Doesn't Happen
Why Collaboration Matters
Cognitive Diversity
Team Problem Solving
Identifying the Powers that Matter for your Team
Picking The Optimal Team Members
How Innovation Happens Inside the Zone of Friction
How to Avoid the Number One Team Trap
Getting in The Zone as a Group
Stabilizing Groups with Too Much Friction
Provoking Groups with Not Enough Friction
The Ultimate Guide to Brainstorming
The Secrets of the World's Best Teams
How to Become Intellectually Humble
How to Expand Your Mind
How to Beat Your Brain's Natural Biases
How to Broaden Other People's Minds
How to Create Unity on a Diverse Team
How to Not Fall into the Culture Fit Trap
How to Operate in a Team Full of Misfits
How to Think About, Harness, or Avoid Core Values
Practical Ways to Apply These Lessons to Your Team
Ushering in the Future of Collaboration
And first, I wanna talk about a lie that we've been told our whole life, which is the lie of synergy. Synergy is that thing that they say where one plus one can equal more than two, and when you get groups of people, sometimes you can have it. Turns out that this does not usually happen, and this is the first thing to understand in order to properly get at that question of how do we become better rather than destroying ourselves? I wanna start with a story that took place during kind of the great nuclear stand off we had after we invented nuclear energy or learned how to harness it. Then, we started making bombs, starting pointing them at each other, and we had this Cold War stand off. During the Cold War, there was this sort of ongoing competition between Russia, the Soviet Union, and the nations known as the West. This competition was not just over politics and economies, it was over anything that could be a proxy for that. So chess and going to space, and in one area where the Russi...
ans and the Americans competed, there was no competition and that was hockey. It turns out in hockey, the Soviet Union never lost. They had this dynasty that they called the Red Army that for decades and decades, from the 50's through the 80's, they were so good that they won just about every major international championship. They'd go years and years and years without losing a single match to the point that the one time that the US beat them, they called it a miracle on ice. And even then, they had all sorts of excuses because they put in the B team 'cause they thought they were gonna win. And there was politics going on, even then they almost won in this miracle that happened. So here's the starting line-up for my favorite crew among the Red Army. This guy, Viacheslav Fetisov. I'm probably gonna butcher these pronunciations. Vlog can help me out if I do this. This guy was a natural born leader. He was this decorated hockey god, he would score more points than anyone in the leagues, besides maybe Wayne Gretsky and some of these other classic hockey heroes in Canada. But on the Soviet team, he was unstoppable. They said he was charming and terrifying, like a bear, you can imagine. Then, there was his buddy, Alexei Kasatanov. He was disciplined, he was extremely patriotic. He was unflinching, you could hit a hockey puck at his face, he would not move. And he was the best friend of Fetisov on and off the ice. Then, you have Krutov, who was the forward. He was known as the Russian tank. He was five feet nine and 200 pounds, and he was like a beer keg on skates. You couldn't knock him over, and there was Sergei Makarov, he was the sniper. Goalies hated him, they feared him. He could make a goal from anywhere on the ice. He was super reliable, there was Tretiak, the goaltender, who was known for being fearless and stoic and quick thinking, and then there was my favorite, there was the team captain, Valery Vasiliev, who was known for punishing opponents while hungover from all night partying the night before. He was the guy that everyone on the team was friends with. He would party with them, he was there for them. They knew they could count on him personally, no matter how hard he pushed them, and he even once finished a game after having a heart attack on the rink. So, you can imagine, these guys were monsters. I would be terrified to play against them. So, they were unstoppable for years and years and years, and then, when the Iron Curtain came down, Berlin Wall fell, and they were finally allowed to play for anyone other than the Soviet Union. So they got recruited by all these American and Canadian NHL teams and given these massive salaries. And so, they one by one left Russia to go to these teams. Massive salaries, my favorite quote I saw in a news report during this time, one of these guys, who said, "In my country, I am like homeless dog. "In this country, I have million dollars." That was his thing, so they didn't get paid much, but they had this incredible patriotism. But when they could go play for million dollar salaries, they did. They were welcomed as heroes and stars, and every team kind of got different ones, right? They all went to different teams, and they were going to change the way that the NHL played hockey. And they all sucked, all of 'em sucked. Guys that would make 70 points a season would make three points a season. Suddenly, they just didn't have it. There's something magic about what they had when they were together, but they went to the NHL and it became very obvious that these were not, they were great individual players, but they weren't the best individual players. It's actually only when they were together that they were that good, and so, slowly and slowly the news headlines changed from the Russians are here to change the NHL to the Russians are no longer starting on their teams and why did we pay them so much money? And they got traded from team to team, and Fetisov, the guy who was charming and terrifying like a bear, he went into a slump. He was fairly depressed, he wasn't even the top ten scorers of his own team for the New Jersey Devils. Whereas, he was the best, so... I tell you this story to introduce this lie that we've been told our whole lives. This lie of synergy that when we come together, two human beings can equal more than two. Turns out that this almost always doesn't happen, that in the history of hockey, this Russian army team is kind of the only example that you see of that actually happening. And yet, there's been hundreds and thousands of hockey teams that they have to work together because that's the game. Teamwork is what you do, but you don't get better with each other. You actually just are with each other. Turns out that science has proven that two heads are usually not better than one, which is, you know, that kinda sucks almost as much as going and getting a million dollar salary and not making any points. Even though, this is one of my favorite, weird clip art things. This is us as happy cavemen, the reason we won planet Earth was because we could work together. We have fragile bodies compared to the saber tooth tiger, compared to the wooly mammoth. It's hard to survive when you have bodies like ours, and yet we have these great brains. And we had features that other animals did not that allowed us to win by banding together. So we could form tribes, we could make fire, we could invent things so that we can survive with our great brains, even though we were not as fast as the cheetah. And there's all these things, all these features that equipped us to do this. So there's a reason that we're dogs' masters, and they love us so much, rather than the other way around. One of those reasons is we can make whole range of sounds with our vocal chords that dogs cannot. So we can communicate, versus other primates, you can see the whites of our eyes are three times the size of any primate, which means when I'm looking at something, when I'm working on something, you can tell what I'm doing and you can help me out. It becomes extremely useful when we're collaborating, when we're trying to survive. This is also one of my favorites. This, yes, is a hipster and a gorilla, I like that one. Our brains are equipped for this thing called empathy, which means that we mirror each others' emotions, that we feel what other people are feeling. So when you're being chased by a saber tooth tiger and you're filled with adrenaline, I will fill up with adrenaline too so that I can run also and maybe help you out. So we can band together, and we can defeat the threat. This also helps us to care about each other and to want to work together, even when it's my personal best interest not to because this is how we survive. So we've got all these things that equip us to be really good at making things together and beating any other species that's been on this planet, but that doesn't mean that we add up to some sort of synergestic multiple together. Turns out that when researchers put people in rooms together to shout as loud as they could, they said, "Yell at the top of your lungs as loud as you can," and it turns out that when you're in a group of six, you will yell 74 percent as loud, even if you think you're yelling at the top of your lungs. Turns out that when they put people for the tug of war, if you're tugging on a rope by yourself, you'll exert more force than if you're in a group, even if, like these two kids, you think you're tugging your absolute hardest. Now, some people will say this is social loafing. Someone on this team is not holding up their end because they're in a group, that happens a lot. Some will say, "Well, it's the coordination of your arms "and feet and everything when you're doing a tug of war." That happens too, we've all seen that. The bigger our company gets, the slower it will get 'cause you would have to coordinate. All that's true, but even if you think you're pulling your hardest, subconsciously, psychologically, you will do a little bit less when you're in a group, which is strange. And there's reasons that they hypothesize for it, but nonetheless, it's true. This is one of my favorite sequences of stock photos that I like to call, "White Guy Leads Brainstorm Session." So over and over, researchers have shown that when groups of people sit around a table to brainstorm ideas, they will come up with fewer ideas and fewer good ideas than those same people will brainstorming on their own. And then, if they just combine their lists, it's sort of depressing. My favorite quote on this, second favorite quote, actually. "Business people must be insane "to use brainstorming exercises," according to one of the researchers that knows. Most favorite quote is the one that goes something like, "As surely as cigarettes lead to cancer, "brainstorming leads to not as good ideas," so... This is just something that happens, and there's reasons for this that they pause it. When we were surviving around the camp fires, the worse thing that could happen is for us to be kicked out of the tribe to have to go fight the saber tooth tiger on our own. So we will subconsciously hold back risky propositions. Even if we're told any idea's a good idea, that doesn't actually happen. Even if we think, "No, I'm gonna be as risky as possible," subconsciously, our brains prevent us from doing that. And then there's also this thing, another great stock photo. When humans come together to work things out, we often tend to fight, we disagree. We are different, and that leads us to get in each others' faces, to slow down the bigger group of people that's working on something. The more likely it is, that group will have problems, even to the point of trying to destroy each other. Sometimes, our collaborations turn into, "Let's get rid of that other person "or that other group so we can get our way." Again, think about congress, but the reality is... we need more than one person to build anything important. You can't build a building by yourself. We built civilization and cities and society because we could work together 'cause we had those features, even though they slow us down. You can't do a heart surgery with just one person. I dare you to try. You can't clean the stadium between games with just one person. Anything that's big or that's important to us requires collaboration. So we endure this loss of productivity that comes with group work. We endure the squabbles and the fights that we get into when we have to work together with people who are different. We even get to the point where we put up walls against other people who are not like us and put them on the ground so that we don't have to deal with their different way of seeing things, and then things escalate and we beat out plow shares into swords. And we turn the wonderful science of nuclear energy into a bomb. It sucks. And yet, every once in awhile, I'm sure you've felt this. We're part of a group of people where it seems like whatever is going on is magical. Like we can kind of do the impossible, like together we can see further. This happens, you've felt this. Anyone that's started a family knows that once in awhile, one human plus another human can equal more than two, and this is a beautiful, amazing thing. This is how every great social movement happened is when people linked arms and put their heads together and became more than the sum of their parts. Social movements don't happen when the majority of people get on board with something. It happened when groups of people who are under matched and underfunded somehow mange to change the world. So this happens, it's just rare, which brings me back to the Red Army. So after a few years of these Russian hockey players not doing very well in the NHL, a coach of one team, Scotty Bowman, who is the coach of the Detroit Redwings, he started quietly gathering up these hockey players again. And he traded for a bunch of these players. He got them for good prices and put them all back on the same team again, and it was a new, reborn Russian Five. And he did this, and then he said, "You know what, do whatever you want. "I'm not giving you a playbook, just play however you want." And then that first year that they were back together, they won more games than any NHL team. The second year, they won the Stanley Cup. The third year, they won the Stanley Cup. All of their starters won awards and trophies, and they were suddenly unstoppable again. And these guys were not young. This was years, they were on the cusp of aging out of this sport. They were certainly not the best players out there anymore, and yet together, this is my favorite quote from Fetisov, "Back together again, it was like "a fish being back in water." There was something magical about what happened with these guys, and we're gonna explore the underlying science of what made them tick and what can also make us tick a little bit better. But the fundamental truth is that when humans come together, we either break down or we break through.
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Our Legal System Needs Urgent Revision!
By Voices of Women | November 24, 2019 in CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
I refuse to call the Legal system in this country, a Justice system. It is far, far from being just. In fact, the system too often allows for gross miscarriages of justice, damaging many innocent people, to varying degrees.
Take the case of Susan Cox Powell. In 2009, Susan mysteriously disappeared one night in Utah, leaving behind a husband and two young sons. Her husband, Josh Powell, was not arrested, despite an overwhelming amount of facts that very strongly pointed towards the conclusion that he was behind the disappearance, and likely death, of his wife.
Josh Powell said, "he'd taken his two sons on a sudden late-night camping trip the night his wife was last seen, despite freezing temperatures and a snowstorm." Source: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dateline-investigates-the-disappearance-of-susan-powell-in-new-2-hour-special.html/ Retrieved 11/20/19. After the disappearance, one of the sons, when being interviewed separately from their father at a police station, said that his Mom had gone on that trip too! She never came back.
I understand the hesitation to declare a person guilty until there is enough evidence. Innocent until proven guilty. Susan's body was not found. But Susan had confided in female friends, letting them know that Josh was a controlling, abusive husband. And Susan had consulted a divorce lawyer. We know that one of the most dangerous times for a victim of domestic violence is when the abusive partner finds out that his partner has decided to leave the relationship.
Following the highly suspicious disappearance of Susan, the two sons, Charles and Braden, (then ages four years and two years), were initially allowed to stay living with their father, Josh. I see this, in basic terms, as allowing a suspected murderer to be allowed to freely take care of two very young children. Josh had moved in with his father. When Josh's father was arrested for child pornography, the situation was re-visited and Charles and Braden went to live with the parents of Susan Powell, their grandparents. A judge ruled that Josh Powell could see his sons, with supervision. Supervision in the form of a social worker being present.
In 2012, a social worker arrived with Charles and Braden at a house that Josh was renting. Charles and Braden entered the house. Josh shut the front door on the social worker before she had a chance to enter. Then, in the spirit of pure evil, "Josh killed himself and his two children in a murder-suicide, attacking the boys with a hatchet before setting his home on fire, leading to an explosion." Source: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dateline-investigates-the-disappearance-of-susan-powell-in-new-2-hour-special.html/ Retrieved 11/20/19.
Meanwhile, despite so many reasons to back up the innocence of Rodney Reed, Rodney Reed "has spent the past 22 years in prison after being convicted of the 1996 murder of Stacy Stites." Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/rodney-reed-jason-flom-wrongful-conviction-interview-913170/ Retrieved 11/20/19. For example, "Rodney Reed and Stacey Stites were having a consensual sexual relationship." Source: https://www.innocenceproject.org/10-facts-you-need-to-know-about-rodney-reed-who-is-scheduled-for-execution-on-november-20/ Retrieved 11/20/19. So, accusing Rodney Reed of rape and murder makes no sense. By the way, Rodney Reed is a black man. Furthermore, a prison-mate of Jimmy Fennell's, (Jimmy Fennell being the man who had been engaged to Stacey, and both Jimmy and Stacey being white people), reported that he had heard Jimmy Fennell confessing "to murdering Stacey stating, "I had to kill my n*****-loving fiancée". Note: Jimmy Fennell "served a 10-year prison term for a sex crime and kidnapping" after Stacey Stites was murdered. Source: https://www.innocenceproject.org/10-facts-you-need-to-know-about-rodney-reed-who-is-scheduled-for-execution-on-november-20/ Retrieved 11/20/19.
Rodney Reed was due to be executed in Texas today, November 20th, 2019. Fortunately, this execution was halted. Just five days ago! But, … Bitter-sweet. Innocent people in prison for decades for crimes they did not commit?! Where is the justice?!
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To Trust, or Not to Trust?
By Voices of Women | November 9, 2019 in GENERAL NEWS
To trust, or not to trust? That is the question. After exiting from a relationship in which one was abused, how ought one best approach the issue of trust? In my case, possibly unusually, despite having been quite severely abused, both physically and emotionally, I did not struggle to trust future men who entered my life as potential partners. Am I saying that this is a positive thing?
On the one hand, I believe it is. For it means that I was not allowing the bad behavior/character of my abusive ex-boyfriend to lead me to automatically distrust other men, therefore giving any new man in my life a fair chance to show me naturally whether he was to be trusted or not.
On the other hand, I am questioning the ease with which I trust men. Is this innate trust that I seem to have perhaps one of the factors that led me deeper, further, into an abusive relationship? Trusting when it wasn't earned, when it wasn't deserved. Trusting when to others it would have been obvious that the man cannot be trusted!
In the abusive relationship that I found myself in, and in a subsequent long-term relationship in which my partner was, unbeknownst to me, cheating on me, I most definitely had a habit of giving the man I was with, the benefit of the doubt. Again, and again, and again. And that was despite my doubts, my suspicions, the warning signs! So, given that I did see the "red flags", we can say that this is not a case of blindly trusting. So, on what basis has my trust lived?
I have asked myself this question. My deep well of trust was not born out of naivety. I saw the signs that pointed towards reasons to either at least suspend judgment as to whether something that he said was true, or to veer towards distrusting his future actions in advance because of so many past let-downs. Let-downs like the broken promises to change, to do better. So, why did I keep trusting? Actually, I think the more pertinent question is: Why did I keep hoping? Hoping that things would change for the better. Hoping that he would stop hurting me, in any form. I think the simple answer to that, although it is actually more complicated, is twofold. 1. Since I find it so difficult to "wrap my head around" the fact that a person can and does hurt another person, especially his/her partner, I struggle to believe, or perhaps to accept, that a person would not want to change his/her behavior and work seriously hard on doing so. And 2. Because I wanted so very much for him to change, as there were some things about him and our relationship that I loved, I didn't want to lose those things and I fantasized about his cruel 'side' leaving him.
So, when does one give up hoping that things will change? When is enough, enough?!
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Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
by Matthew Danger Lippman | Apr 1, 2014 | Album Review | 0 comments
NOTE: This review was written immediately after returning from a Mac DeMarco concert in Cleveland, in which he and his touring bassist licked me in the face (I gave Mac a Valentine and asked for a kiss in return. He obliged me.) and then I talked to him and essentially stared at him as he smoked outside the venue. So what I'm trying to get at is that this may not be the most objective review. But does objectivity have any place in rock criticism anyway?
Mac DeMarco has had a busy year. The Montreal-born, Brooklyn-inhabiting indie rock prankster (who has described his sound as "jizz jazz," a mix of surf rock textures, jangle pop guitar tones, and soft-spoken crooning) found himself an indie sensation after releasing debut album 2, working with Tyler, the Creator, and developing a beloved live act, known to feature spontaneous nudity and bizarre, profane covers of played-out classic rock chestnuts like "Tears in Heaven" and "Takin' Care of Business." His fanbase has grown immensely, and yet he still dresses like a janitor. He has generally become known as the lovable, immature slacker king of indie pop.
Which makes his new album Salad Days, all the more surprising. It is an album of maturity and wisdom, with lush textures and reflective lyrics on aging, feeling lonely, and accepting responsibility. The eponymous, image-obsessed subject of "Blue Boy" is told gently to "calm down, sweetheart, grow up." The Kinks-y title track reflects on a man who, at age 23, is "acting like [his] life's already over," before shaking it off with an assured "act your age and try another year." The music is about as smooth as bedroom pop can get, with his distinctive guitar tones filled out with melodic basslines and lurching synths.
Of course, it is all delivered with the good humor and easiness that Mac is known for. In modern music lexicon, "mature" is often synonymous with "maudlin," which DeMarco does not once dip into on Salad Days. For all his newfound maturity, he is still a devoted pop connoisseur, which means that even the heaviest moments on the album are delivered with breezy swagger and irresistible melodies. Album centerpiece "Passing Out Pieces" reflects on the toll his popularity has taken on his private life, with Mac reminding himself that "nothing comes free." But the song is anchored by a mammoth synth horn line that gives the song a Bowie-esque groove. The catchy melodies of "Goodbye Weekend" make Mac's requests to not "go telling me how this boy should be leading his own life" sound outright joyous. For all its more serious topics, Salad Days is first and foremost a pleasurable and fun listening experience.
Salad Daysis an absolute delight to listen to. It is stacked with assured, gorgeous pop songs infused with the good nature and humor that Mac has become known for. The man once known for his ironic sensibility and bizarre humor has quickly become the most genuine figure in indie rock.
(And he licked my face last night. Frantically. I just wanted to mention that again.)