I had ealier posted an article wherein I had discussed the penchant of company executives to be the number one in their market. Maybe they have become convinced of the idea that the only way to make money is become number one in one's market from Jack Welsh of GE or maybe they have read the book on PIMS database which suggests that high profitability is linked with high market share in the served markets. In another article, I have also made comments of executive's obsession to grow fast by whatever means so that they can either become number one or become large enough to reap economies of scale.
In short, everybody wants to grow fast. However, we have seen that most companies which have grown fast land up into trouble for some reason or the other. Let us consider some examples. The best example in India is that of ICICI Bank. I remember that whenever I conducted a seminar on customer satisfaction and retention, I always used the example of my horrible experience with ICICI Bank. Invariably, I used to be asked the question that if ICICI was so bad then why was it growing so fast and why was is it so profitable? I really didn't have the guts at that time to go against what seemed like a stellar performance. Difficult to believe but at a point of time, ICICI was even valued higher than State Bank of India (SBI). Though, I used to give a logical reply, this was something that always bothered me as it didn't fit very well with what I was preaching.
However, now everything has come in the open. All of a sudden, one reads that ICICI is one of the worst performing banks on practically all the parameters that one can think of. They are paying for their aggressive marketing strategy in the retail sector by their high level of non-performing assets (NPAs), a fancy name for bad debts. In addition, I am sure that their ill-treatment of customers must be hurting them. Np wonder they are always in news for violating the law by sending thugs to recover the money.
Enron is another example. It was a darling stock of everybody. The company grew at a fast pace consistently, year after year. Similarly Krispy Kreme, a well-known US doughnut manufacturer, had a unbelievable growth ride before it came tumbling down. I think the same is true of Sahara Group in India. There was a time when you heard about them everyday in the business papers with respect to some big project that they were venturing into but today you hear about them for all the wrong reasons.
I am reminded of a country music song that says that "if it doesn't come easy, just let it go." Of course, here the singer is talking about love. It implies that you cannot push somebody to love you. Similarly, you just cannot become no. 1, 2, or 3 just by a aggresive approach. The reason is that when you turn aggressive, do you think that others will just keep quiet?
I think yesterday I saw a quote of Rai Bahadur of Oberoi in an advertisement which read "Don't chase money. Just do the right things." I have said this in a number of my posts. If the actions taken are the right actions, the results will be the best. In fact, I have gone as far as to say that performance should be evaluated based on actions taken rather than target achievement.
Recently, I was heartened to read an article in Mint which starts with the sentence, "The desire for growth is at the root of all evil doing." This article is an excerpt from Jack Trout's forthcoming book titled Insearch of the obvious. The article continues to say that the desire for growth is at the heart of what can go wrong for many companies. Growth is the by-product of doing things right. But in itself it is not a worthy goal.
So just growing fast is not a sensible objective. Growth will be automatic when you take the right actions. To support this, I would like to give an example. In 1978, I was posted in Patna by Escorts to look after tractor sales. We were number 3 or 4. For nine months, me and my boss took a number of actions to to streamline and expand our dealer network. I have always been an action oriented rather than target oriented person. As such, I didn't really bother about the numbers. Also, since Bihar contributed just 10-15 tractors a month, the management was not worried about Bihar. As such, I was not under any kind of sales pressure.
Any way, after 9 months when my boss came for his monthly visit/tour of Bihar, I met him at the airport. However, he didn't even wish me and the first thing he asked me was what is happening to achievement of targets. I was quite sure that our VP must have called him early morning. However, I found this to be a fair question. While travelling we reviewed the various actions that we had taken to see if we had done anything wrong. In fact, our review suggested that we had taken very effective actions.
Now I was worried. I knew that I could lose my job because my performance would be assessed on target achievement and I was nowhere close to it.
Anyway, as coincidence would have it, on the 30th of the same month I received frantic messages asking me to call my boss Mr. Chopra. I thought I was in deep trouble. Anyway, I called my boss and to my surprise found him very excited. He told me that we had sold 49 tractors that month and that he wanted to touch 50. We touched 50 and never looked back. We became the leaders in Bihar automatically by just taking the right actions. This experience has been a great learning experience for me. Till date, I always focus on taking the right actions rather than numbers and growth targets.
So is "growth" or "fast growth" bad for business? Should companies not look for growth? I believe that growth that is achieved by taking the right actions will bear fruit in the future. Any growth that is pushed through forcefully will always have adverse consequences in the future.
Everyday, we are reading about the doubt that people have of its financial strength / stability. This was the fastest growing bank and this is the only bank today which is having problems in the current financial turmoil. The connection between the two is quite obvious.
Another example which proves the correlation between fast growth and financial trouble is retailer Subhiksha. It continues to have problems. Mint continues to track the story of financial troublle of Subhiksha. I think this kind of story would help to people understand the operations of the company. On the other hand, I think such repoting also helps the companies as they will become more careful before they make ambitious plans.


We all remember when J-Lo's leg was the most exciting thing at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards right? Well, after seeing every one looking pretty in their prom dresses this year, I thought that I would whip mine out and channel my inner pop star.
Yes, this is indeed my prom dress from last year. I still love it- I went with a simple black chiffon dress and will probably keep it forever!
Here I'm wearing Clinique Cola Pop on my lips and I've gone for a bit of a slick back hair style. I feel like this is the kind of thing I'd go for on my first red carpet... or even if I did my prom again!
Would you wear your prom dress again and would you want to wear it on the red carpet? let me know!
You look amazinggg Holly, this is actually really similar to the dress I wore to my prom all those years ago ha!


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″Many people want to win on the field…″
Gary Burns
Pepe with the Portuguese Cup
Photo: EPA
Pepe's statements upon his arrival at the Dragan Stadium, hours after Porto had achieved a new double with a Portuguese Cup win.
Give it all: "It's not my fault that I went all out for my colors, I always did it where I played. No matter how many people wanted to win off the field, I always tried to win on the field. This is where I should speak, answer. helped me, the answer must always be given by the players"
FC Porto. Sergio Conceição praises: "He had the humility to understand why we didn't win last year"
FC Porto. Pinto da Costa after double: "I don't like selling player passes"
lies: "I don't care what they said off the field, in the courts, but let me tell you a lot of lies have been told… When I've made mistakes in my career, I'm not a saint… I admit, I've made mistakes, I've had mine human flaws, but I always apologized when I made a mistake."
Past in present: "And now, after 12 or 13 years of facts, with topics that happened outside of Portugal to tarnish what I did in football … I don't have words to say to these people, those who had the opportunity to be players , but maybe their gift was not to be a player, but to be something else"
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BALL – Pinto da Costa hints at the future of Conceição (Porto)
BOLA – Porto beat Tondela to win the 18th Copa Portugal (Portuguese Cup)
″I couldn't leave without winning this award″
Statements from Otavio, the player of FC Porto, who this Monday received the Golden Dragon as Footballer of the Year.
Speech: "I thought and I didn't say anything that I thought. It happened by itself, I'm very happy, I was looking for [o prémio] a lot of time. I saw others, I couldn't leave without winning this prize. Thank God I won and now it's time to make the most of it."
FC Porto. Pinto da Costa quotes Fernando Pessoa: "If, when I die, they want to write my biography…"
FC Porto. Pinto da Costa on Sergio Conceição: "Everyone who does this is my godchildren"
Did you tell the President that you want the Golden Dragon? "I never commented, asking for an award was not my style, it was deserved, I was very happy, many could have won. I am very happy".
Feeling: "This is something to be proud of, this is the best person in the club, everyone wants to win, this will go down in history. It will be kept under lock and key in the museum that I have. It will get worse." , nothing will come of it, it will be well stored.
Gala: "It's always great, because of covid-19, the gala concert has not been held for many years. It is always special, everyone wants to be part of the gala concert. Being a dragonado, he is even more special. We did a good job and this is proof."
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″Most competitive costume required, Pepe's costume″
Statements by Sergio Conceiçao after receiving the Golden Coach of the Year award at the Golden Dragons Gala
Golden Dragon cost: "I represent many people in this Golden Dragon. The first time I went to Olival with the president in 2017, he named the four essential pillars of FC Porto: rigor, competence, ambition and passion. Looking at it and being with it every day. My players, who don't usually wear a formal suit as they do today, but the most competitive suit that is required, which is Pepe's suit, give me great joy when I get up and go to work."
FC Porto. Villas-Boas and Golden Dragons: "May one day members and supporters vote and decide"
FC Porto. Flu rules Pepe out of Golden Dragons gala
Technical team and others: "With a super competent technical team, a health department, where there is not only Dr. Nelson Puga and therapists, but also an optometrist, pedologist, a number of people who work daily so that the players do not miss anything. and so that year after year they can get better and win, which is what we want."
Finally, a number of people who contribute to making this possible. This is not mine, this belongs to the people of Olival, who are always led by our great, my friend and godfather, the president."
Techniques: "Victory. Not forgetting the people in the kitchen, in the restaurant, the people involved in analysis and observation, the equipment technicians, because today everyone is a technician… [risos]🇧🇷 Lawn techniques too, because I am very picky about the height of the lawn. I think that every detail is important and matters. Finally, a number of people who contribute to making this possible. This is not mine, this belongs to the people of Olival, who are always led by our great, my friend and godfather, the president."
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A family: "Finally, to paraphrase our Gonzalinho [Borges], I want to dedicate it completely to my family, which is not easy, and parents, as always. Not being among us, they will certainly be very proud, not least because they have received two more extremely important people in the life of the club and that together they are up there watching us so that FC Porto becomes bigger , was getting better. , become stronger and win. And let's keep it up. Is always. Because we deserve it. We are also honest, serious, dedicated and competent workers."
BALL – Enzo and Otamendi: world champion exceptions (Argentina)
Portuguese football has reason to rejoice as two more world champions will enter the national stages, the first to win the title as part of the Portuguese team, the only ones on the field yesterday, in Qatar, among 35 players who play in one of the top five leagues in the world, so called big 5.
Enzo Fernandez, 21-year-old midfielder, and Nicolás Otamendi, 34-year-old central defender, played 120 minutes for Argentina. would advance to the Argentine penalty as Montiel quickly put an end to doubts – and represented not only Benfica in the list of clubs of great prestige, but also a league of lesser expression, such as the Portuguese, the only one of the less media and powerful ones that had players in the final.
Neither in the starting lineup (see tables), nor in the 13 options used by the coaches – Montiel (Sevilla), Pezzella (Betis), Acuña (Sevilla), Leandro Paredes (PSG), Lautaro Martinez ( Inter) and Dybala (Roma) entered Argentina, from the French side they were also called Disasi (Monaco), Conate (Liverpool), Fofana (Monaco), Camavinga (Real Madrid), Kingsley Coman (Bavaria), Muani (Eintracht) and Thuram (Borussia). M'gladbach) – if they found other players who didn't play in the leagues of England, Spain, Italy, France or Germany, that's a clear sign of where the money and power come from to attract great players.
Some, like Enzo and Otamendi, are just over the top.ig 5 – if the midfielder was already in vogue among the richest in Europe, followed by Liverpool and Real Madrid, among others, now that he has won the World Cup and the best young player trophy in the competition … – but they shine enough to guarantee yourself a place in the best team in the world.

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Q: Call Python function from another script? I want to call a function in a.py from b.py. I am running this in a virtual environment.
a.py is located at /home/user/admin/, and so in b.py I have
import sys
sys.path.append('/home/user/admin')
from a import my_function

But when I run it I get
from a import my_function
ImportError: No module named my_function

Why isn't it finding the module?

A: Since you are running your script from within a virtualenv you may need to change the current working directory like this:
import os
filepath = os.path.realpath(__file__)
dirname = os.path.dirname(filepath)
os.chdir(dirname)

from a import my_function
# do stuff

Also you could try using a package with the following

*

*Create a __init__.py in /home/user/admin/ any folder with a file like this its recognized by python as a package. This file can be empty.

*Next you can import a from b like this:
from .a import my_function

This is a relative import, basically what you do is to tell the interpreter to import a from current package which is referenced by the dot. More details here
As a side note, don't harcode the file current path, instead use something like this:
import os
sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(__file__)) # in your case would be /home/user/admin

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How to get great photo prints from your smartphone
Reader Courtney wanted to know about where to go for prints directly from the phone, apps that offered choices on print size and quality.
How to get great photo prints from your smartphone Reader Courtney wanted to know about where to go for prints directly from the phone, apps that offered choices on print size and quality. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/10/26/get-great-smartphone-photo-prints-via-apps-target-cvs-mpix-and-more/1776827002/
Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY Published 3:10 p.m. ET Oct. 26, 2018
We get letters.
Reader Courtney of Denham Springs, Louisiana, wants to know about getting prints made from her iPhone.
She writes:
"A while back, I used the Walgreens app to do this; but I was very disappointed in the results. The photo was printed glossy; there was no 'matte' option."
Her question: "What is my best option (price+quality) for printing 4x6 prints from iPhone?"
Thank you, Courtney, for listening to the Talking Tech podcast and hitting me up on Facebook with a question.
The MPIX photo lab offers more choices for consumers than most competitors. (Photo: Screenshot)
Here's my answer.
Short version: You can't beat the apps that let you send the print to CVS, Walgreens, Target and Walmart for immediate access of small prints. They're cheap, they're quick, you can pick them up at the store and you don't have to pay those huge shipping fees.
That said, when you use this option, you get little to no choice. It's glossy and 4x6 prints all the way.
If you want choices, look to mail order, and photo-specific apps like Shutterfly or, my favorite, MPIX.
You get those choices you wanted on different papers and sizes, but you'll pay for it. The prints are affordable, at around 30 cents a piece, but the shipping will add up. On Shutterfly, I ordered 16 prints, and the cost to ship was $5.00, bringing the print price to over 60 cents a piece. (However, check for the frequent discount codes Shutterfly advertises to members, which often offer free shipping.)
MPIX is a pro photographers lab available to the public and has the widest selection of print sizes and types. Like the others, it has an app that lets you upload photos directly from your phone.
The shipping isn't cheap at MPIX either, and you'll wait a week for them to arrive, but here's a pro tip: Order $35 worth, and the shipping is free.
By the way, there are several apps available to upload photos for store pickup from CVS, Target and Walmart. They're called, 1 hour photo and Print Photos.
So that;'s the lowdown Courtney. Hope we helped. Thanks for writing into Talking Tech!
Readers, viewers, listeners—where do you get your prints made from your phones? What questions do you have about consumer tech? We're here to help.
Look for me on Twitter, where I'm @jeffersongraham, or feel free to e-mail me jgraham@usatoday.com
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Over 1,100 Cornellians tuned in for Spirit of the Hill Saturday night, featuring performances by several student groups plus an alumni gospel choir.
Spreading Big Red spirit around the world with Virtual Reunion
By Kaitlin Provost |
For the second year Cornell Reunion took place online, bringing together alumni from across the globe. Cornellians from six continents tuned in June 10-13, with alumni from Ithaca to the United Kingdom to Japan joining in the celebration.
Content from the weekend has already been viewed by thousands of Cornell households. Many who would not have been able to travel to join Reunion events in person were able to participate online this year.
"If there's one thing we learned from the pandemic, it's how wonderful it can be to connect with so many of you virtually," Michelle Vaeth '98, associate vice president of Alumni Affairs, said in a video to kick off the weekend's events. "No matter how long it's been or how far away you are, you can always come home to Cornell."
Clash of the Cornellians, June 11's trivia game, featured interactive polling that allowed audience members to play along at home while rooting for the four alumni contestants. Jeff Weintraub '91 won the game, with 2,500 points.
Throughout the weekend, Cornellians enthusiastically engaged with one another in more than 170 online events, including panel discussions and performances, virtual happy hours and trivia games, and a special celebration of the Class of 2020.
And 1,234 Cornellians made gifts totaling more than $179,400 toward undergraduate scholarships while registering for Virtual Reunion events.
"While I know we all look forward to our next opportunity to meet in person on campus, Reunion 2021 was another wonderful opportunity to reconnect with fellow alumni, near and far," said volunteer Erica Healy-Kagan '05, vice president of diversity and inclusion for the Cornell Association of Class Officers. "Reunion provides such a unique opportunity to engage with not only our own classmates, but also so many other incredible Cornellians, to share our love of our alma mater."
"It was a great weekend of fun and fellowship, and a chance to honor the Cornell Black Alumni Association's legacy," said Morris Melvin '75, co-chair of the CBAA 45th Reunion. "It's always a good time when you can get together with friends, many who may not have attended in person."
Events inspire conversations
Several of the weekend's events aimed to start dialogue that will continue long after the weekend's conclusion, on topics of diversity and equity. These included The Future of Cities event, moderated by David Folkenflik '91, media correspondent for National Public Radio; a panel discussion focused on the challenges women face in positions of leadership; a series of Mosaic events; and more.
In Friday's discussion about women in leadership, panelists included President Martha E. Pollack; NBC News' Kate Snow '91; chief executive officer of AT&T Business Anne H. Chow '88, M.Eng. '89, MBA '90; and U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, J.D. '10 (D-Kansas). Aleena Ismail '21 and Liz Davis-Frost '20, MPA '22, moderated the discussion and asked each panelist to speak about their experiences and career paths.
"There's no such thing, for women I know, as balance," said Snow, when asked about balancing home and work life. "You're never going to be perfectly balanced between home and work. I'm so thankful things are changing and we're having these discussions now."
"Balance is bogus," echoed Chow. "You have one life. In your life you have professional objectives and you have personal objectives, and you cannot separate the two. Life is an optimization equation."
Panelists shared candid personal stories about the importance of caring for one's own mental health, recognizing unconscious bias, speaking up and practicing self-care – no matter what career path you follow or what position you hold in an organization.
"You are not alone," said Davids. "None of us know what we're doing. Really, we're making a whole bunch of educated guesses. Push past the doubt."
June 12's Mosaic Forum focused on racial injustice. Noliwe Rooks, the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in the American Studies Program, Africana Studies and Research Center, in the College of Arts and Sciences, moderated the panel, and asked panelists to share their thoughts about systemic racism and advice for how we can all take a stand.
"None of our efforts are perfect," Rooks said, "But Cornell has, in this moment, embraced a campuswide conversation."
Panelist Zohra Ahmed, assistant professor of law at the University of Georgia, said the work to create change is ongoing and includes grassroots actions like having conversations, sending letters and mobilizing within community organizations. It's "small, patient, meticulous work," she said. "It's not glamourous… . We have to remain mobilized."
Connection across class years
Events also helped connect Cornellians across class years, with attendees spanning the Class of 1946 to the Class of 2021. Many students also participated in events like Spirit of the Hill on Saturday night, some as featured performers with the Glee Club and Cornell Chorus, Big Red Band, Yamatai and more.
More than 1,100 alumni tuned in to watch and listen, and many expressed the pride they felt after watching each performer. "Events like this remind me of what an amazing privilege it was to go to this incredible university," David Hoff '81 posted in the event's chat feature.
The Class of 1946 had a record-breaking 75th Reunion this year, made possible by the fact that classmates could join the event online without needing to travel. Eleven Class of 1946 members tuned in from across the U.S.
Other classes experienced a similar boom in attendance. "The [Zoom] breakout rooms enabled our classmates from across the world (U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Spain, Singapore) to spend a little time reconnecting with one another," said Jeff Berg, MBA '81, who attended virtual events for his Johnson Class of 1981. "Many of the participants would not have traveled back to Ithaca for an in-person Reunion, but Virtual Reunion enabled 50-plus classmates to attend."
"Reunion has always been about celebration and community," said Kate Freyer, director of Reunion and Campus Alumni Engagement Events. "This year more than ever, we saw generations of Cornellians use Reunion to rally around some of their youngest members, the Class of 2020, and today's students, to show them the magic of this Big Red support network."
Celebrating the Class of 2020
To wrap up the weekend, Cornellians gathered June 13 at a virtual ceremony for the Class of 2020, celebrating the unique journey of these alumni. The event featured remarks by Pollack, deans from each college and several well-known alumni – including appearances by Jimmy Smits '82, Snow and Bill Nye '77.
"This has been an extraordinary year, but you got through it," said Nye. "Here we are, and you all will tell stories for the rest of your life about getting through this."
Nye offered advice for the Class of 2020, saying, "Everyone you'll ever meet knows something you don't. Respect that, and learn from that, and use that knowledge to make your life better and make the lives of the people around you better."
"Class of 2020, you are the best of us," said Snow. "We celebrate your resilience and your triumph over the last year."
"All of you have moved on from your lives as Cornell students into your lives as Cornell alumni," Pollack said. "I truly look forward to welcoming all of you back to Ithaca at many in-person Reunions to come."
Many of the featured Virtual Reunion events were recorded and are available to view on demand.
Kaitlin Provost is a writer with Cornell Alumni Affairs and Development.
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Tag Archives: jurgen klopp
I LOVE the FA Cup (just a pity foreign managers are trying to destroy it)
I love the FA Cup.
For me it will always be the greatest cup competition on earth.
I grew up in the 90s (was born mid-80s) in a working class family in North-East London. We did not have the money for Sky TV. That meant the only football I got to watch was the FA Cup.
It was actually the FA Cup that made me fall in love with The Arsenal.
Watching the FA Cup semi-final between Arsenal and Tottenham in 1991 as a 6-year-old, I had decided to support whoever loses (I grew up in a family with little interest in football). 6-year-old me's favourite colour was also red, so I was hoping Arsenal would lose so that I could support them.
I do not remember the game but Arsenal lost, and from that moment I became an Arsenal fan.
My next real memory of Arsenal was the 1993 FA Cup Final.
Back in those days the FA Cup Final was an all day event. The BBC would start off in the teams hotel for breakfast, live broadcast the coaches going into the stadium players on the pitch and so on.
I remember being in my kit, going out to the garden to kick a balloon pretending I played for Arsenal – no player in particular. At this point in my life the only connection I had with Arsenal was the kits I was bought. From memory I had never watched another game on TV since 1991, and did not know the players.
It finished 1-1. I do not remember watching the replay. It was past my bedtime.
The 1994 European Cup Winners Cup followed and that was it, I was hooked. But it all came from the FA Cup.
My love affair with the competition leads me to being extremely offended with the way managers, the media and the FA themselves treat the competition.
For as long as I can remember, people have questioned "the magic of the cup" and talked about its decline. But clubs, TV companies and the authorities are killing it themselves.
Tonight we play Bournemouth away. We will get some obnoxious pundit talking about the demise of the cup, whilst ignoring the fact that playing a game on a Monday night is part of the problem.
In recent years we have seen more games then ever be played on a Friday night, Saturday lunch time and Saturday afternoon.
3rd round FA Cup day used to be a day out. Sit in the pub with a huge accumulator watching the 3o'clock kick offs come in. With them now spread out over 4 days, it just is not the same.
The FA have removed the European place for the runners-up (if the winners had already qualified through the league). No longer will you get Millwall having a favourable run and going on a European tour.
A place in Europe was a well deserved prize for a lesser club if they had made it through to the final only to face and lose to one of the big boys.
The change happened from 2016, which denied Crystal Palace fans a European tour. Likewise Watford last year; thrashed in the final, no European football to help drown their sorrows.
For clubs like Palace and Watford, a cup run was their best chance of European football. Hull City, Stoke City, Cardiff City & Southampton have all qualified for Europe in recent years having finished runners-up in the cup. By removing the chance of getting into Europe as losing finalists, the FA enforce the view that survival in the Premier League is more important.
We then have the clubs themselves.
I have no issues with managers but out changed XIs in the cup. They have a squad of 25 players. It is there job to shuffle the pack and use them how they see fit. And with the top 6 especially, they have a wage bill of hundreds of millions and a squad filled with internationals.
What I can not stand is the (usual foreign) managers moaning about the cup.
We have Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola recently moaning about replays. About how England should scrap either the League Cup or FA Cup.
I am sorry, but these are foreign men who simply do not get English football. They want to come here, be paid millions, but then change the things that the fans love. If they do not want replays, if they do not want 2 domestic cups, maybe stick to managing in Spain?
Klopp yesterday talked about how in the replay against Shrewsbury Town he will be putting out the U23 team and Neil Critchley, the U23 manager will be taking charge.
Liverpool have a squad that is paid £264million. It contains over 20 players capped by their country.
Klopp put out a team that contained experience centre backs Joel Matip and Dejan Lovren; behind them was Adrian in goal. Fabinho, Takumi Minamino & Divock Origi were also in the team.
An experienced team, they were 2-0 up against Shrewsbury Town – 16th in League One. They drew 2-2. Mo Salah, Firminho and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain were all bought on to try and grab a winner.
Instead of deflecting and moaning about replays, Klopp should be calling out the performance of his own players who let a 2-0 lead slip.
Shrewsbury Town's wage bill is just £3.5million. That is less than what most Liverpool players earn. The youngsters who started for the Scousers will also be on more money than any Shrewsbury Town player.
Liverpool might have already played 37 games this season; but Shrewsbury Town have played 36.
Whichever way you look at it, Klopp has no excuses over his side drawing against Shrewsbury. And his post-game comments shows that he just does not get the magic of the cup. It is no wonder that Liverpool have never made it past the 5th round under Klopp with his attitude.
And it is an awful attitude.
My problem with the likes of Klopp and Guardiola is these are not men who going to spend decades in the English game. Both will soon move on to their new paymasters. But whilst they are here, they are determined to wreck the greatest cup competition on earth. It just is not right.
If you can not respect the country you are living in, its customs, then maybe you should find another country.
Scrapping replays, letting the U23 manager take change, it is damaging in the long term.
The FA Cup is why I fell in love with football. It builds greater bonds for the children of Shrewsbury, Oxford and Exeter to their local club. Taking them out of the grasp of those super clubs that are hundreds of miles away.
A replay against Liverpool at Anfield will earn Shrewsbury Town in the region of £1million. It will mean a new training ground, or a new stand. It will transform the club. Transform the town.
But Klopp is sitting there in his ivory tower earning himself more money than Shrewsbury's annual turnover, commenting about English football and English competitions. It shows he just does not understand.
Liverpool fans should call out Klopp. Make it clear that they do not agree with his stance. Likewise if Guardiola, Mikel Arteta or Jose Mourinho make disparaging comments, fans of Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea should make it clear that they disagree.
The FA Cup is the fans competition. From non-league to Premier League. If you do not understand its importance in English football, then you do not understand English football.
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Unai Emery has best "first season win ratio" of top 4 rivals
Unai Emery's win percentage after 47 games stands at 61.7%
This is higher than any of Mauricio Pochettino's, Pep Guardiola or Jurgen Klopp's 1st season in England:
Unai Emery: 61.7%
Pep Guardiola: 58.9%
Mauricio Pochettino: 50.9%
Jurgen Klopp: 44.2%
Now I expect Liverpool fans to moan that "Jurgen Klopp came half way through the season". So these are the year by year figures:
2015/16: 44.2%
2018/19 – 61.7%
Emery's record v Pochettino is also favourable, with the long-term Tottenham manager only bettering Emery's current win %age once:
Pochettino:
Emery:
Unai Emery's (current) win ratio is Arsenal's 3rd best of the decade::
UE – 2018/19: 61.7%
AW- 2017/18: 51.7%
AW- 2012/13: 54.71%
I know it is early in Unai Emery's career but:
Arsene Wenger: 57.2%
Of course, a good win ratio is nothing if it does not lead to winning trophies.
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The Myth of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Last night Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain scored his 1st goal in 12 games for club and country.
Since joining Liverpool, he has played less than 50% of the available minutes. Let's stop pretending that he is anything but an average, inconsistent footballer.
It almost feels with Oxlade-Chamberlain that there are multiple agendas at work.
Firstly you have the media. Every time he has a good game, they bash on about how much he has improved since leaving Arsenal for Liverpool – even though he hasn't. This suits their duel agenda of bashing Arsenal and praising Liverpool.
Then we have The Arsenal fans, who blamed Oxlade-Chamberlain's lack of progression on Arsene Wenger.
Now whenever Oxlade-Chamberlain has a good game, they use it as a way to bash the Frenchman. To highlight how much a player can improve under a "proper coach" like Jürgen Klopp. There are plenty of things to criticise Wenger for, but Oxlade-Chamberlain's lack of drive to improve himself is not one.
The reality is Oxlade-Chamberlain has not improved. He is still the same inconsistent ball of frustration he was at Arsenal.
Capable of moments of brilliance, such as his goal last night against Manchester City, and then weeks and weeks of dross and poor performances and miss placed passes.
He will stick one in the top corner (every 10-15 games) then spend put 4 crosses in a row over the bar. Or over hit half a dozen cross field balls. Or run with his head down until he is suddenly over the by-line.
The only difference now, for Arsenal fans, is we do not notice the average 10 performances in between two great games because we no longer watch him every week.
We see him when he scores a screamer, like against Manchester City, and think "gosh hasn't he improved", forgetting that his last decent game – also against Manchester City – was a dozen games ago.
The fact that in a fully fit midfield, he does not start for Liverpool. That he has started less than 50% of the league games under Jürgen Klopp. Averages 46 minutes a game in the Premier League (which drops below 40 minutes when you add Champions League and the cups) shows that even Klopp does not trust him.
He was fantastic last night. As were Liverpool. No one saw them beating Manchester City, and he was key in that. But that is the point.
Sandwiched between his 2 9 out of 10 performances against Manchester City, he went missing against Swansea, WBA and Southampton. And barely got off the bench against Huddersfield, Tottenham and Watford.
Since joining Liverpool, he has played 90 minutes just 8 times. He is often the first man taken off when he starts.
Liverpool fans would agree that he has been a flop, that he has been average. The only reason they do not is because they do not want to admit Arsenal got one over them, that he was not a waste of £40m. Their fans are deluded that everything Jurgen Klopp is great – even though this will be his 3rd season without a trophy.
Last night was his 5th goal of the season. Not exactly Ballon D'or worthy is it? In fact, he has now drawn level with Arsenal left back Nacho Monreal.
He is not exactly doing what Mo Salah is doing for Liverpool, or what Raheen Sterling is doing for Manchester City. He isn't even out performing Aaron Ramsey at Arsenal.
Let's call a spade a spade. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is still the frustratingly inconsistent player that many fans called "dead wood" and were happy to get £40m for.
And no amount of Nivea will change that.
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Q: Jenkins build failure with maven dependencies I am having trouble compiling and packaging an application (jar) with Maven through a Jenkins build since I have dependency that is not available through artifactory. The dependecy is installed on remote servers at a specific location. Is it possible to compile and build my app so that I can deploy it to the remote servers where it will then reference the dependent jar?
FYI, for my local development I installed the jar into my local repo.

A: You should be able upload the 3rd party jar into artifactory which would then allow jenkins to access it during the build
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The UN, the UNA and Climate: Looking Ahead to Paris COP 21 in December 2015 | EV & N – 176 – CCTV
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The UN, the UNA and Climate: Looking Ahead to Paris COP 21 in December 2015
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Graph: Time history of atmospheric CO2
The Context for Transition Studies
Climate change deniers have grasped that markets can't fix the climate
Atomic Scientists: Doomsday Getting Even Closer
Severn Cullis-Suzuki speaking at Rio in 1992
Copenhagen closes with weak deal that poor threaten to reject
"Get It Done": Urging Climate Justice, Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic-Checks UN Summit
Study: Sea-level rise threatens 1,400 U.S. cities
Angry Kid
Exxon Hates Your Children
Ad Council Global Warming Ad
Divest Harvard Plans Weeklong Sit-In
For further elaboration of "Transition Studies" see:
Moving Toward the Transition: Climate Change, Capitalism and What Comes Next…
What Now? What's Next? Envisioning the Transition to a Sustainable World
Universities and the Paradigm Shift: "Transition Studies" in Higher Education
Three Prophetic Voices on the Coming Climate Transitions
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Cambridge Community Television – CCRA series
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The UN at 70: A Year for Bold Action – UNA-USA Members Day at the UN
Harvard's high-profile alumni join fossil fuel divestment campaign in open letter
University faces hearing in a lawsuit that argues Harvard has a duty to fight climate change by dumping fossil fuel companies from $36bn endowment
In an open letter, released as the university was being taken to court by its own students, more than 30 former Harvard students signed on to a campus campaign. Photograph: Lisa Poole/AP
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Some of Harvard's most prominent graduates – from Hollywood star Natalie Portman to environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr and the scholar Cornel West – called on the world's richest university to dump fossil- fuel companies from its $36bn endowment.
In an open letter, released on Friday as the university was being taken to court by its own students, more than 30 former Harvard students signed on to a campus campaign calling on the university to fight climate change by divesting from coal, oil and gas companies.
The alumni included Maya Lin, the architect of the Vietnam war memorial, Nobel laureate Eric Chivian, Pulitzer prize-winning author Susan Faludi, academics, preachers, former US senators and Securities and Exchange commissioners as well as Bill McKibben, the founder of the group 350.org, which has driven the campus divestment campaign.
"As Harvard's own researchers have done so much to show, global warming is the greatest threat the planet faces," the letter says. "From the typhoon-battered Philippines to the disappearing islands of the Pacific to the water-starved towns of California's drought-ridden Central Valley, this issue demands we all make changes to business as usual – especially those of us who have prospered from the systems driving climate change.
The letter, released just hours before the university faced a hearing in a lawsuit filed by students arguing that Harvard has a duty to fight climate change by pulling out of fossil fuel investments, suggests Harvard will face continued pressure in the months ahead over its endowment policies.
The alumni called for an old-style teach-in at Harvard on 12 April, followed by several days of sit-ins and rallies.
Over the last two years, the university has faced rising demands from students and faculty to set an example by winding down its direct investments in coal, oil and gas companies, thought to be worth at least $79m. It is believed indirect investments in fossil fuels are much greater.
Since then, a number of other universities have taken steps to divest. Stanford last May announced it would get rid of investments in coal companies. The heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune decided to move out of fossil fuels last September.
Natalie Portman Joins Calls for Harvard to Sell Off Stocks in Big Energy Firms
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Notable Harvard alumni including Natalie Portman and RFK Jr released a letter Friday calling on their brethren to join current students in demanding that Harvard sell off stocks in companies that deal in fossil fuels.
Harvard students have been engaged in a long battle to get the university to divest its $35.9 billion endowment from coal, gas, and oil companies that students say contribute to global warming.
On Friday, lawyers for the university asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed last year by Harvard students demanding that the school has a duty to stop financially supporting companies that contribute to climate change.
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Keystone XL needs a one-two punch
President Obama says he'll veto the latest attempt by Congress to push through the Keystone XL pipeline but he hasn't yet committed to rejecting this dangerous proposal outright. That's where we come in. Robert Reich says, "Tell President Obama that he should stop Keystone XL for good and do it now."
The Prosecution of an American President
Thom Hartmann talks with Vincent Bugliosi, Renowned Prosecuting Attorney / Author of several books, including his exposé The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, now a documentary feature film "The Prosecution of an American President", who lays out the case for prosecuting former President George W. Bush on murder charges.
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"Daily Show" executive producer David Javerbaum talks with FRONTLINE about the state of television news. Part 3 of "News War: What's Happening to the News" puts viewers on the front lines of an epic battle over the future of news, examining the forces which are remaking the economics of the business and challenging the very definition of news. Watch it on air and online at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/ beginning February 27.
In "News War: What's Happening to the News," coming Feb. 27, 2007, at 9 pm on PBS (check local listings). America's major network news divisions and daily newspapers are under siege, facing mounting pressure for profits from corporate owners, and growing challenges from cable television and the Internet. FRONTLINE talks to network executives, journalists, Wall Street analysts, bloggers, and key players at Google and Yahoo! who are all battling for survival and market dominance in a rapidly changing world of news. FRONTLINE also goes inside the embattled newsroom of "The Los Angeles Times," one of the last remaining papers in the country still covering major national stories. Under severe pressure from Wall Street to cut costs and to compete for "eyeballs" in a new media world, editors at the paper are urgently trying to figure out what this means for their future news coverage and their public service mission.
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Bush Administration Convicted of War Crimes – Dr. Francis Boyle
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Former U.S. President George W. Bush recently dedicated his Presidential Library in Dallas. The ceremony included speeches by President Obama, ex-President Bush, and every other living ex-president. But none of the speeches so much as mentioned to Iraq war — the undertaking that dominated George W. Bush's presidency, and will define his historic legacy.
This omission might be due, at least in part, to the fact that Mr. Bush is now a convicted war criminal who dares not travel abroad out of fear of being arrested.
In February 2011, Bush was forced to cancel a scheduled appearance in Geneva, Switzerland after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint charging him with violating international treaties against torture.
His trouble increased dramatically a year ago when Bush — along with former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and several other top Bush administration officials — were convicted of war crimes in absentia by a special war crimes tribunal in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission was convened and conducted according to internationally recognized procedures and rules of evidence, and the week-long hearing ended with the five-member panel unanimously delivering guilty verdicts.
What is the significance of that tribunal? Is its verdict legally binding? Are there troublesome aspects to the idea that a foreign tribunal can sit in judgment of a U.S. President — whatever we may think of his actions? We will discuss these vitally important questions with Dr. Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He served as a prosecutor at the tribunal.
Mayor Of London Warns George Bush He Might Face Arrest As A War Criminal
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Keith Olbermann talks with Jonathan Turley (law professor) about a piece in the conservative Daily Telegraph where Boris Johnson, Mayor Of London, advises George W. Bush not to bring his book tour to Britain, because he could face arrest as a war criminal.
The Dirty Secrets of George Bush
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A number of allegations have been written about and several local, state, and federal investigations have taken place related to the notion of the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport as a CIA drop point in large scale cocaine trafficking beginning in the latter part of the 1980s. The topic has received some press coverage that has included allegations of awareness, participation and/or coverup involvement of figures such as future presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush, as well future Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon (who was convicted of numerous felonies including drug and racketeering charges in 1997). The Mena airport was also associated with Adler Berriman (Barry) Seal, an American drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the CIA and the Medellín Cartel.
A criminal investigator from the Arkansas State Police, Russell Welch, who was assigned to investigate Mena airport claimed that he opened a letter which released electrostatically charged Anthrax spores in his face, and that he had his life saved after a prompt diagnosis by a doctor. He also claimed that later, his doctor's office was vandalized, robbed, and test results and correspondence with the CDC in Atlanta were stolen,
An investigation by the CIA's inspector general concluded that the CIA had no involvement in or knowledge of any illegal activities that may have occurred in Mena. The report said that the agency had conducted a training exercise at the airport in partnership with another Federal agency and that companies located at the airport had performed "routine aviation-related services on equipment owned by the CIA".
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