It's always advisable in fantasy football to stay abreast of free agents that remain on the market that could provide surprisingly nice production. Now is not the time to be asleep at the wheel. Here's a look at some of the more valuable remaining IDP free agents from a fantasy perspective.
After playing in Pittsburgh for 10 seasons, the veteran Timmons decided to take his talents to South Beach prior to last season. Unfortunately, things didn't work as well for him as they did for LeBron James. Timmons went AWOL for the Dolphins first game of the season and then was suspended for the second game.
Timmons played in the remaining 14 games but finished with the lowest tackle total he's posted since 2009 and failed to post a single big play for the first time in his career. With the return of Raekwon McMillan from injury as well as the selection of Jerome Baker in this year's draft, Miami is looking to get younger at linebacker and decided to part ways with Timmons.
At 32 years old, Timmons is not the player he was eight or nine years ago but he has been one of the most consistent fantasy performers over the years. In six of the past eight seasons Timmons has posted triple-digit tackles and finished with LB2 or better numbers. He brings big-play potential, having put up 35.5 sacks, 13 forced fumbles, and 12 interceptions in his career. Timmons will likely have to wait into training camp or the preseason to latch on with a team that loses a linebacker or two to injury (looking at you, Philadelphia).
It's a bit surprising that Bowman is still a free agent after he had a very nice 2017 season playing for San Francisco and Oakland. Bowman finished with 127 total tackles and a handful of big plays, including 1.5 sacks and an interception. The numbers were good enough for low-end LB1 totals in most balanced 12-team league formats.
The main concern with Bowman is injuries, as he missed the entire 2014 season with a knee injury as well as 12 games in 2016 with an Achilles injury. Bowman did bounce back in 2015 with the 49ers, posting top-five fantasy numbers.
When healthy, Bowman has been a dominant fantasy force, finishing with LB1 totals in five of the seven seasons he's played (not counting the missed 2014 campaign). Bowman has graded out positively overall as well as against the run according to PFF in all seven seasons. In four of the seasons he's also graded out positively in pass rush and coverage.
At 30 years old, Bowman more than likely has at least one or two more productive seasons in him. It's unlikely the Raiders bring him back, as they signed former Kansas City Chiefs Derrick Johnson but there will be a market for Bowman as the preseason gets underway.
After a promising start to his career in Philadelphia that saw Kendricks post LB2 numbers is 2013, things began to trend in the wrong direction. In the next three seasons Kendricks saw a decrease in snaps, culminating with a career-low 272 in 2016. There were reports that the Eagles were looking to deal Kendricks heading into last season and luckily for both parties that did not happen.
An injury to Jordan Hicks forced Kendricks back into a prominent role on the defense and he stepped up grading out positively across the board according to PFF. Unfortunately, that performance was not enough to keep Philadelphia from releasing Kendricks on the same day they lost fellow LB Paul Worrilow with a season-ending ACL injury.
Kendricks will be just 28 years old when the 2018 season kicks off and has flashed big-play abilities. In his six years in the league, Kendricks has amassed 14 sacks, six forced fumbles, three interceptions, and five fumble recoveries. Ideally, Kendricks manages to secure a three-down role with his next team, but his struggles in coverage could make that difficult. From a fantasy standpoint Kendricks should be a late-round draft selection as roster depth with upside.
There has been some buzz regarding Vaccaro, the former Saints defensive back, as the Dolphins, Jets, and Colts have shown interest of late. Vaccaro has never quite lived up to the expectations he brought with him from the University of Texas and was the 15th overall selection in the 2013 NFL Draft.
One of the problems has been that only once in his career has Vaccaro managed to play 16 games — he finished last season on IR with groin and wrist issues. It's the performance that Vaccaro did put up in 2015 when he played 16 games that makes him an interesting fantasy option, as he finished with 104 total tackles, three sacks, and a forced fumble. Those totals were good enough for a high-end DB2 finish for Vaccaro.
With the proliferation of sub packages that defenses are employing, Vaccaro would be best served if he landed on a team that could utilize him in a hybrid linebacker role. In the successful 2015 season Vaccaro lined up within eight yards of the line of scrimmage on run snaps 375 times (87.3 percent). Should Vaccaro manage to secure that type of role, he could reach low-end DB3 production in 2018.
The Panthers released Boston prior to the 2017 season despite the fact that he played well and actually started 10 games. The Chargers signed Boston and he finally secured a full-time starting role alongside Jahleel Addae. Boston played a career-high 1,047 snaps last season and set career highs in tackles (79), passes defended (eight), and interceptions (five). Unfortunately, Los Angeles selected Derwin James with the 17th pick in this year's draft and have decided to let Boston test the free agent market once again.
The Indianapolis Colts had Boston in for a visit, but he left town without a contract. Still just 26 years old, Boston has shown very solid coverage skills, allowing just 48.4 percent of passes thrown into his coverage to be completed over four seasons. He also has put up seven picks in the last two years and 15 passes defended. There is DB2 potential regarding Boston as long as he can secure a full-time role on his new team.
The defensive line position is woefully thin when we look at the remaining free agents. It's a list that's littered with aging veterans who have seen a decline in production the past few seasons. At 33 years old, Ayers falls within that category, but a closer look reveals why I feel he's the best of a less-than-exciting lot.
An ankle injury hampered Ayers for most of the 2017 season in which he managed just a pair of sacks and two forced fumbles in 12 games. A closer look shows that while playing just 588 snaps for the Buccaneers, Ayers graded out positively in both-run stopping and pass-rush according to PFF's grades. He was also credited with 26 quarterback hurries and a team-high 17 hits.
In the 2015-2016 seasons Ayers did put up 15.5 and also 70 total tackles.
He will likely land a situational pass-rush role for a team in need of help off the edge (Detroit perhaps?). Ayers would bring the most value in big-play scoring formats as a late-round flier in deeper leagues.


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// MultipleEnumerationIssue.cs
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using ICSharpCode.NRefactory.CSharp.Resolver;
using ICSharpCode.NRefactory.Semantics;
using ICSharpCode.NRefactory.TypeSystem;

namespace ICSharpCode.NRefactory.CSharp.Refactoring
{
	[IssueDescription ("Possible mutiple enumeration of IEnuemrable",
					   Description = "Possible multiple enumeration of IEnumerable.",
					   Category = IssueCategories.CodeQualityIssues,
					   Severity = Severity.Warning,
					   IssueMarker = IssueMarker.Underline)]
	public class MultipleEnumerationIssue : ICodeIssueProvider
	{
		public IEnumerable<CodeIssue> GetIssues (BaseRefactoringContext context)
		{
			var unit = context.RootNode as SyntaxTree;
			if (unit == null)
				return Enumerable.Empty<CodeIssue> ();

			return new GatherVisitor (context, unit).GetIssues ();
		}

		class AnalysisStatementCollector : DepthFirstAstVisitor
		{
			List<Statement> statements;
			AstNode variableDecl;

			AnalysisStatementCollector (AstNode variableDecl)
			{
				this.variableDecl = variableDecl;
			}

			IList<Statement> GetStatements ()
			{
				if (statements != null)
					return statements;

				statements = new List<Statement> ();
				var parent = variableDecl.Parent;
				while (parent != null) {
					if (parent is BlockStatement || parent is MethodDeclaration ||
						parent is AnonymousMethodExpression || parent is LambdaExpression) {
						parent.AcceptVisitor (this);
						if (parent is BlockStatement)
							statements.Add ((BlockStatement)parent);
						break;
					}
					parent = parent.Parent;
				}
				return statements;
			}

			public override void VisitMethodDeclaration (MethodDeclaration methodDeclaration)
			{
				statements.Add (methodDeclaration.Body);

				base.VisitMethodDeclaration (methodDeclaration);
			}

			public override void VisitAnonymousMethodExpression (AnonymousMethodExpression anonymousMethodExpression)
			{
				statements.Add (anonymousMethodExpression.Body);

				base.VisitAnonymousMethodExpression (anonymousMethodExpression);
			}

			public override void VisitLambdaExpression (LambdaExpression lambdaExpression)
			{
				var body = lambdaExpression.Body as BlockStatement;
				if (body != null)
					statements.Add (body);

				base.VisitLambdaExpression (lambdaExpression);
			}

			public static IList<Statement> Collect (AstNode variableDecl)
			{
				return new AnalysisStatementCollector (variableDecl).GetStatements ();
			}
		}

		class GatherVisitor : GatherVisitorBase
		{
			static FindReferences refFinder = new FindReferences ();

			SyntaxTree unit;
			HashSet<AstNode> collectedAstNodes;

			public GatherVisitor (BaseRefactoringContext ctx, SyntaxTree unit)
				: base (ctx)
			{
				this.unit = unit;
				this.collectedAstNodes = new HashSet<AstNode> ();
			}

			void AddIssue (AstNode node)
			{
				if (collectedAstNodes.Add (node))
					AddIssue (node, ctx.TranslateString ("Possible multiple enumeration of IEnumerable"));
			}

			void AddIssues (IEnumerable<AstNode> nodes)
			{
				foreach (var node in nodes)
					AddIssue (node);
			}

			public override void VisitParameterDeclaration (ParameterDeclaration parameterDeclaration)
			{
				base.VisitParameterDeclaration (parameterDeclaration);

				var resolveResult = ctx.Resolve (parameterDeclaration) as LocalResolveResult;
				CollectIssues (parameterDeclaration, resolveResult);
			}

			public override void VisitVariableInitializer (VariableInitializer variableInitializer)
			{
				base.VisitVariableInitializer (variableInitializer);

				var resolveResult = ctx.Resolve (variableInitializer) as LocalResolveResult;
				CollectIssues (variableInitializer, resolveResult);
			}

			static bool IsAssignment (AstNode node)
			{
				var assignment = node.Parent as AssignmentExpression;
				if (assignment != null)
					return assignment.Left == node;

				var direction = node.Parent as DirectionExpression;
				if (direction != null)
					return direction.FieldDirection == FieldDirection.Out && direction.Expression == node;

				return false;
			}

			bool IsEnumeration (AstNode node)
			{
				var foreachStatement = node.Parent as ForeachStatement;
				if (foreachStatement != null && foreachStatement.InExpression == node) {
					return true;
				}

				var memberRef = node.Parent as MemberReferenceExpression;
				if (memberRef != null && memberRef.Target == node) {
					var invocation = memberRef.Parent as InvocationExpression;
					if (invocation == null || invocation.Target != memberRef)
						return false;

					var methodGroup = ctx.Resolve (memberRef) as MethodGroupResolveResult;
					if (methodGroup == null)
						return false;

					var method = methodGroup.Methods.FirstOrDefault ();
					if (method != null) {
						var declaringTypeDef = method.DeclaringTypeDefinition;
						if (declaringTypeDef != null && declaringTypeDef.KnownTypeCode == KnownTypeCode.Object)
							return false;
					}
					return true;
				}

				return false;
			}

			HashSet<AstNode> references;
			HashSet<Statement> refStatements;
			HashSet<LambdaExpression> lambdaExpressions;

			HashSet<VariableReferenceNode> visitedNodes;
			HashSet<VariableReferenceNode> collectedNodes;
			Dictionary<VariableReferenceNode, int> nodeDegree; // number of enumerations a node can reach

			void FindReferences (AstNode variableDecl, IVariable variable)
			{
				references = new HashSet<AstNode> ();
				refStatements = new HashSet<Statement> ();
				lambdaExpressions = new HashSet<LambdaExpression> ();

				refFinder.FindLocalReferences (variable, ctx.UnresolvedFile, unit, ctx.Compilation,
					(astNode, resolveResult) => {
						if (astNode == variableDecl)
							return;

						var parent = astNode.Parent;
						while (!(parent == null || parent is Statement || parent is LambdaExpression))
							parent = parent.Parent;
						if (parent == null)
							return;

						// lambda expression with expression body, should be analyzed separately
						var expr = parent as LambdaExpression;
						if (expr != null) {
							if (IsAssignment (astNode) || IsEnumeration (astNode)) {
								references.Add (astNode);
								lambdaExpressions.Add (expr);
							}
							return;
						}

						var statement = (Statement)parent;
						if (IsAssignment (astNode) || IsEnumeration (astNode)) {
							references.Add (astNode);
							refStatements.Add (statement);
						}
					}, ctx.CancellationToken);
			}

			void CollectIssues (AstNode variableDecl, LocalResolveResult resolveResult)
			{
				if (resolveResult == null)
					return;
				var type = resolveResult.Type;
				var typeDef = type.GetDefinition ();
				if (typeDef == null ||
				    (typeDef.KnownTypeCode != KnownTypeCode.IEnumerable &&
				     typeDef.KnownTypeCode != KnownTypeCode.IEnumerableOfT))
					return;

				FindReferences (variableDecl, resolveResult.Variable);

				var statements = AnalysisStatementCollector.Collect (variableDecl);
				foreach (var statement in statements) {
					var vrNode = VariableReferenceGraphBuilder.Build (statement, references, refStatements, ctx);
					FindMultipleEnumeration (vrNode);
				}
				foreach (var lambda in lambdaExpressions) {
					var vrNode = VariableReferenceGraphBuilder.Build (references, ctx.Resolver, (Expression)lambda.Body);
					FindMultipleEnumeration (vrNode);
				}
			}

			/// <summary>
			/// split references in the specified node into sub nodes according to the value they uses
			/// </summary>
			/// <param name="node">node to split</param>
			/// <returns>list of sub nodes</returns>
			static IList<VariableReferenceNode> SplitNode (VariableReferenceNode node)
			{
				var subNodes = new List<VariableReferenceNode> ();
				// find indices of all assignments in node and use them to split references
				var assignmentIndices = new List<int> { -1 };
				for (int i = 0; i < node.References.Count; i++) {
					if (IsAssignment (node.References [i]))
						assignmentIndices.Add (i);
				}
				assignmentIndices.Add (node.References.Count);
				for (int i = 0; i < assignmentIndices.Count - 1; i++) {
					var index1 = assignmentIndices [i];
					var index2 = assignmentIndices [i + 1];
					if (index1 + 1 >= index2)
						continue;
					var subNode = new VariableReferenceNode ();
					for (int refIndex = index1 + 1; refIndex < index2; refIndex++)
						subNode.References.Add (node.References [refIndex]);
					subNodes.Add (subNode);
				}
				if (subNodes.Count == 0)
					subNodes.Add (new VariableReferenceNode ());

				var firstNode = subNodes [0];
				foreach (var prevNode in node.PreviousNodes) {
					prevNode.NextNodes.Remove (node);
					// connect two nodes if the first ref is not an assignment
					if (firstNode.References.FirstOrDefault () == node.References.FirstOrDefault ())
						prevNode.NextNodes.Add (firstNode);
				}

				var lastNode = subNodes [subNodes.Count - 1];
				foreach (var nextNode in node.NextNodes) {
					nextNode.PreviousNodes.Remove (node);
					lastNode.AddNextNode (nextNode);
				}

				return subNodes;
			}

			/// <summary>
			/// convert a variable reference graph starting from the specified node to an assignment usage graph,
			/// in which nodes are connect if and only if they contains references using the same assigned value
			/// </summary>
			/// <param name="startNode">starting node of the variable reference graph</param>
			/// <returns>
			/// list of VariableReferenceNode, each of which is a starting node of a sub-graph in which references all
			/// use the same assigned value
			/// </returns>
			static IEnumerable<VariableReferenceNode> GetAssignmentUsageGraph (VariableReferenceNode startNode)
			{
				var graph = new List<VariableReferenceNode> ();
				var visited = new HashSet<VariableReferenceNode> ();
				var stack = new Stack<VariableReferenceNode> ();
				stack.Push (startNode);
				while (stack.Count > 0) {
					var node = stack.Pop ();
					if (!visited.Add (node))
						continue;

					var nodes = SplitNode (node);
					graph.AddRange (nodes);
					foreach (var addedNode in nodes)
						visited.Add (addedNode);

					foreach (var nextNode in nodes.Last ().NextNodes)
						stack.Push (nextNode);
				}
				return graph;
			}

			void FindMultipleEnumeration (VariableReferenceNode startNode)
			{
				var vrg = GetAssignmentUsageGraph (startNode);
				visitedNodes = new HashSet<VariableReferenceNode> ();
				collectedNodes = new HashSet<VariableReferenceNode> ();

				// degree of a node is the number of references that can be reached by the node
				nodeDegree = new Dictionary<VariableReferenceNode, int> ();

				foreach (var node in vrg) {
					if (node.References.Count == 0 || !visitedNodes.Add (node))
						continue;
					ProcessNode (node);
					if (nodeDegree [node] > 1)
						collectedNodes.Add (node);
				}
				foreach (var node in collectedNodes)
					AddIssues (node.References);
			}

			void ProcessNode (VariableReferenceNode node)
			{
				var degree = nodeDegree [node] = 0;
				foreach (var nextNode in node.NextNodes) {
					collectedNodes.Add (nextNode);
					if (visitedNodes.Add (nextNode))
						ProcessNode (nextNode);
					degree = Math.Max (degree, nodeDegree [nextNode]);
				}
				nodeDegree [node] = degree + node.References.Count;
			}
		}
	}
}

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2005 Ohio State University Baseball Middle Tennessee vs Ohio State Feb 25, 2005 at Dothan, Ala. (Northcutt Field) Score by innings: R H E ———————————————- Middle Tennessee 001 000 021 – 4 9 3 Ohio State 101 006 00 – 8 12 0 ———————————————- Middle Tennessee inning 1 McNamee struck out. Hines struck out looking. Jaggers struck out. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Ohio State inning 1 Howell hit by pitch. Howell out at second p to 1b to ss, caught stealing. Rabin singled to shortstop. Caravati popped up to ss. Bourquin reached on a fielder's choice; Rabin advanced to second on a fielding error by 2b. Caughenbaugh reached on a fielding error by 2b; Bourquin advanced to third; Rabin scored, unearned. Zoeller grounded out to 2b. 1 run, 1 hit, 2 errors, 2 LOB. Middle Tennessee inning 2 Taylor flied out to rf. Beachum grounded out to ss. Eakes struck out looking. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Ohio State inning 2 Farinacci grounded out to ss. Dropped foul ball, E3. Stephen lined out to cf. Houser grounded out to 3b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, 0 LOB. Middle Tennessee inning 3 McKenry walked. Martin singled to right field; McKenry advanced to second. Archer grounded out to 3b; Martin advanced to second; McKenry advanced to third. McNamee walked. Hines grounded out to 2b, RBI; McNamee advanced to second; Martin advanced to third; McKenry scored. Jaggers grounded out to ss. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB. Ohio State inning 3 Howell grounded out to 2b. Rabin grounded out to p. Caravati singled through the left side. Bourquin singled to left center; Caravati advanced to third. Caughenbaugh singled up the middle, RBI; Bourquin advanced to third; Caravati scored. Zoeller walked; Caughenbaugh advanced to second. Farinacci grounded out to p. 1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB. Middle Tennessee inning 4 Taylor singled to center field. Beachum popped up to ss. Eakes flied out to cf. McKenry flied out to rf. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB. Ohio State inning 4 Stephen singled through the left side. Houser grounded out to p; Stephen advanced to second. Howell singled to shortstop; Stephen advanced to third. Howell stole second. Rabin struck out. Caravati struck out. 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB. Middle Tennessee inning 5 Martin singled up the middle. Archer flied out to cf. McNamee grounded into double play ss to 2b to 1b; Martin out on the play. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Ohio State inning 5 Bourquin singled through the right side. Bourquin advanced to second on a balk. Caughenbaugh grounded out to ss. Zoeller singled through the left side; Bourquin advanced to third. Farinacci popped up to 2b. Stephen flied out to lf. 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB. Middle Tennessee inning 6 Luebke to p for Madsen. Hines hit by pitch. Jaggers reached on a fielder's choice; Hines out at second ss to 2b. Taylor struck out. Beachum singled through the right side; Jaggers advanced to second. Eakes singled to third base; Beachum advanced to second; Jaggers advanced to third. McKenry popped up to 1b. 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB. Ohio State inning 6 Houser grounded out to 3b. Howell tripled to right center. Rabin walked. Rabin stole second. Caravati walked. Kelly to p for Blevins. Bourquin walked, RBI; Caravati advanced to second; Rabin advanced to third; Howell scored. Schneider pinch hit. Schneider to dh for Caughenbaugh. Woodward to p for Kelly. Schneider doubled to left center, 2 RBI; Bourquin advanced to third; Caravati scored; Rabin scored. Zoeller intentionally walked. Farinacci doubled to left center, 3 RBI; Zoeller scored; Schneider scored; Bourquin scored. Stephen struck out looking. Houser struck out. 6 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB. Middle Tennessee inning 7 Schirtzinger to rf for Caravati. Martin singled to first base, bunt. Archer struck out. McNamee lined into double play p to 1b; Martin out on the play. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Ohio State inning 7 Todd to 1b for Archer. Howell singled through the right side. Angle pinch hit for Rabin. Angle reached on a fielder's choice; Howell out at second 2b to ss. Schirtzinger grounded out to 2b; Angle advanced to second. Bourquin flied out to lf. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB. Middle Tennessee inning 8 Angle to cf. Zoeller to ss. Kennedy to 2b for Stephen. Fryer to c for Houser. Hines walked. Jaggers doubled to left center; Hines advanced to third. Taylor singled to center field, RBI; Jaggers advanced to third; Hines scored. Warren pinch ran for Taylor. Beachum flied out to cf, SF, RBI; Jaggers scored. Eakes grounded into double play p to ss to 1b; Warren out on the play. 2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Ohio State inning 8 Warren to rf. Schneider struck out, out at first c to 1b. Zoeller flied out to rf. Farinacci grounded out to 3b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Middle Tennessee inning 9 Fausnaugh to p for Luebke. McKenry struck out. Martin homered to right center, RBI. Todd grounded out to ss. McNamee grounded out to 3b. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Kelly faced 1 batter in the 6th.


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Home Fly Fishing Conservation 'Useless' Eleven Mile Dam on Colorado's South Platte River May Come Down
'Useless' Eleven Mile Dam on Colorado's South Platte River May Come Down
Will Poston
The US Forest Service and Coloradan entities introduced a proposal to remove a dam on the upper South Platte River. Lower Eleven Mile Dam is more of a diversion structure, but its effect on the river is the same. The structure prevents fish passage and sediment transport. Whereas many dam projects have clear 'sides,' this dam is classified as abandoned and serves no purpose. Removing the structure would restore connectivity in the immediate region, benefiting aquatic species and river functions.
Eleven Mile Dam, also known as Lake George Diversion Dam, was built in 1952 and was operated by Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU). In the early 1990s, however, CSU's special use permit expired, and the utility sought to transfer ownership, according to the project's description. Since then, the structure remained with no permit nor is it constrained by any water or diversion rights. "The structure is no longer operated and/or maintained and is no longer used, needed, or inspected by a specific entity," reads the proposal. The structure is useless, making its removal exceptionally plausible.
The proposal outlines how authorities will remove the dam from the river. Using heavy machinery, operators would first remove the built sediment behind the structure. Then, the concrete structure would be dismantled and removed, followed by stream bank and channel restoration. However, proponents still need to secure permitting and funding hurdles. Current estimates, put dam removal construction to begin by end of 2023.
The Coalition for the Upper South Platte (CUSP) has protected the watershed for more than two decades. The Coalition is very involved in the effort to remove Eleven Mile Dam and restore the watershed. Jane Mannon of CUSP said, "We are optimistic about the project timeline and our ability to engage partners to piece together the resources necessary to begin construction in 2023."
Local anglers and fly fishing businesses are excited about the project, too. Jon Easdon of Angler's Covey said: "This proposed project is great news for not only that part of 11 mile canyon, but for the entire stretch. Restoration and habitat improvement greatly encourages resident fish to thrive and would also give migrating fish a chance to move freely throughout the canyon. The proposed access improvements would also create more desirable recreation points, ultimately making use of this otherwise 'dead' area."
To learn more about this project, check out this description by the US Forest Service. Removing this useless structure is a no brainer, and thankfully the effort seems to have all the necessary support. But it is important to note the thousands of abounded structures dotting the country that are choking river ecosystems. If you want to make your voice heard, feel free to submit a comment here.
Pictures courtesy of Angler's Covey.
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The East River Soccer Complex is an expansive, six field complex in Bluefield, West Virginia that is host to several teams of the Bluefield micropolitan area. Youth, middle school, high school, and adult recreational soccer is held at the complex and is regulated by The East River Soccer Association. Field 1 is home to the Southern West Virginia King's Warriors that are a member of the USL Premier Development League. 2014 was the first season for the King's Warriors in Bluefield after a move from the Beckley YMCA, their home for two years. Five of East River's fields are full size which allows college and high school games to take place at the same time.

Fields
Field 1 is full length and features bleachers, a concession stand, press box, locker rooms, and an officials hospitality area. Field 2 is full size and offers bleachers as well. Field 3 is mainly used for the youth recreational leagues that take place at the complex. Fields 4, 5, and 6 are full size and are used for games and training. The complex was the site of the USCAA National Soccer Championship hosted by Bluefield College in 2004.

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External links
 Southern West Virginia King's Warriors Website
 Bluefield College Men's Soccer Website

Soccer venues in West Virginia
College soccer venues in the United States
Buildings and structures in Bluefield, West Virginia
Sports complexes in the United States

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[mythtv] LiveTV BufferSize in MB instead of GB?
> the obvious limitation on how long I can pause.
> I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions.
>     gc->setHelpText(QObject::tr("How large the live TV buffer is allowed to "
Sorry for the full quote, but this is an old post, so I think it is worth.
I think this would be a very nice feature, because RAM prices are low.
the maximum buffer should be higher than 4096 MB.


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21.06.2015 14:01 Russian economy shrank by 3.2 pct in first five months
Russia`s economy contracted by 3.2 percent in the first five months of the year, Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said on Friday Jun 19th, citing a preliminary estimate. Russia`s economy is sliding towards recession, hurt by weaker oil prices and sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. Ulyukayev said at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum that he expected the contraction in the second and third quarters of this year to be around 3.5 to 4 percent and that he saw a decline of around 2 percent in the fourth quarter. "Starting from the second quarter of next year, we will approach levels of 2 percent GDP growth or a little higher," Ulyukayev said. Russian industrial output fell in May at its fastest pace since October 2009, official data showed on Tuesday Jun 16th, underlining that the country`s sanctions-hit economy has yet to bottom out. Industrial output fell by 5.5 percent year-on-year in May, worse than a 4.5 percent fall a month earlier, Federal Statistics Service data showed. Particularly sharp falls were seen in the manufacturing sector, which collapsed 8.3 percent versus a year earlier. Production of machinery, consumer goods and cars performed especially badly. As in previous months, output of certain food items subject to an import ban introduced in response to Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict outperformed.
19.06.2015 12:34 Can Russia`s economic forum revive its fortunes?
International business leaders will be assembling in St. Petersburg in Russia for the country`s annual economic forum this week amid hopes that the country can still rebuild its investment outlook and relationship with the rest of the world. The three-day St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) started on June 18 and came at a difficult time for Russia. The country remains largely isolated on a political and economic level due to international sanctions on the country, imposed for Russia`s perceived role in the pro-Russian uprising in Ukraine, which it denies. Making matters worse in Ukraine, there has been an escalation of violence lately between pro-Russian rebels and the country`s armed forces, threatening a fragile official ceasefire, called the Minsk agreements, and potentially earning Moscow an extension of sanctions until the end of the year. Russia`s economy has been on a roller-coaster ride since the conflict erupted in spring 2014 with its currency and stocks hit hard by declining oil prices, capital outflows and soaring inflation. There are signs that the rate of inflation is slowing and the ruble has recovered some strength to trade around 55 to the dollar (from lows of around 70 in February) – factors which could buoy investor sentiment towards Russia.
17.06.2015 14:17 Why the G-7 Warning of More Sanctions Won`t Worry Russia
The world`s leading Western economic powers warned of fresh sanctions against Russia at the G-7 summit. Led by U.S President Barack Obama, they are a weak attempt at stopping Russia`s incursion into Eastern Ukraine and the escalation of violence there. Despite having the desired effect of hurting the Russian economy, discord in the West and Russia`s continued access to the global financial system means they lack bite. Western sanctions were first imposed on Russia following its annexation of Crimea in March 2014. The initial diplomatic measures (visa bans and asset freezes) were soon followed by more direct financial restrictions. Western financial institutions are not allowed to lend to Russian counterparts on a midterm to long-term basis, effectively isolating Russia from Western capital markets. The Sanctions Rationale. The rationale behind the choice of economic instruments to pressure the Kremlin has been based on a straightforward assumption. The Russian economy - critically dependent on oil and gas revenues (which together comprise about 72–75 percent of the country`s exports) - is unable to withstand the economic pressures of low oil prices and financial draught. The internal economic crisis in Russia, in turn, is calculated to generate two effects. First, it will prove too costly for the Kremlin to continue military involvement in Ukraine. Second, falling incomes and rising inflation will also weaken popular support for Putin and his rule and may bring about a change of policy (or leadership) in Moscow.
16.06.2015 12:10 Russia: Time to invest despite sanctions threat?
Despite the potential for more international sanctions on Russia, some investors and market analysts have argued there is value to be found in the country – but only for those prepared to handle the volatility. Sanctions on Russia, which were imposed by the West after the country`s annexation of Crimea and role in the conflict in east Ukraine last year, could soon be extended, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said. It comes as a ceasefire between the two countries -- known as the Minsk agreement -- looks shaky, with an uptick in violence in the region over recent weeks between the Ukraine military and pro-Russian rebels. Should sanctions be extended further, Russia`s economy could be in for a repeat of 2014`s rollercoaster ride, when its currency and stocks were hit hard by declining oil prices, capital outflows and soaring inflation. Despite this uncertainty, however, some market participants argued there were "bargains" in Russia. "There is significant opportunity here. The one thing with Russia is that it generally goes from being the worst (performing) stock market to the first stock market in a very rapid rate," Simon Fentham-Fletcher, chief information officer of Freedom Asset Management, told CNBC Europe`s "Squawk Box". His company specializes in investment in emerging markets, such as Russia. Certain sectors – such as retail and real estate – were thriving, Fentham-Fletcher said, speaking from Moscow.
15.06.2015 15:10 Russia`s Top 3 Obstacles to Economic Growth
The Russian economy has its fair share of problems, as the government knows all too well. But as the country slides into a deep recession this year, is the state focusing on the right ones? This question came to the fore last week when the government published a document on its website listing the three "main challenges" it sees to Russia`s socio-economic development. With the economy expected to contract by up to 5 percent this year and relations with the West at a post-Cold War low, the question of how the government chooses to pursue economic growth — and whether it succeeds — has rarely been so urgent. "This whole crisis has greatly exposed the need for more urgent action on attracting investment and creating diversification," said Chris Weafer, a senior partner with Moscow-based investment consultancy Macro Advisory. Here are the top three challenges to Russian socio-economic development, as listed in the government`s revised guidelines for action through 2018: 1. Cheaper Oil, Gas and Metals. 2. Geopolitical Tensions. 3. Not Enough Workers.
11.06.2015 15:17 World Bank slashes growth forecast for emerging economies
The World Bank has cut its forecasts for growth across emerging economies this year, warning that they face a double whammy from rising US interest rates and lower commodity prices. "Developing countries were an engine of global growth following the financial crisis, but now they face a more difficult economic environment," said the bank`s president, Jim Yong Kim, as the anti-poverty body published its twice-yearly Global Economic Prospects document. Growth in emerging economies is expected to be 4.4% in 2015, down from the 4.8% the World Bank was expecting in December. The World Bank`s senior economist, Franziska Ohnsorge, explained that while the crash in the global oil prices since last year has hit government revenues and undermined growth in exporting countries, it has so far not provided the expected boost to oil importers. Some of the largest downgrades are for oil-exporting countries, including Nigeria, Angola and Brazil, with South America`s largest economy expected to contract by 1.3% this year. However, the document reserved some praise for India, describing the country as a "shining star" for tackling its economic problems.
08.06.2015 20:45 Slow Chinese economy impact global
China`s economy had deteriorated recently but the weakness is likely to be more persistent than in the United States, Forsyth Barr broker Peter Young says. Credit had exploded since 2009 and officials were anxious to curb the boom before it became too large to control, he said. Tighter credit conditions had exposed China`s overcapacity, especially in certain sectors such as construction and heavy industry, prompting a sharp downturn in investment. "Given investment accounts for around 50% of GDP, this adjustment almost certainly has further to run. The authorities have resorted to targeted and small-scale macro stimulus as they endeavor to steer the economy along a new path." On some measures, China accounted for about 15% of global economic growth as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) and was similar in size to the United States. That meant a slowdown in China would have a significant impact on the rest of the world, including the direct impact of lower global aggregate growth but also through indirect impacts on supply-chain economies (other Asian countries), capital goods producers (Europe and the US) and commodity exporters, such as New Zealand and Australia, Mr. Young said.
04.06.2015 19:00 Russian Inflation Slows More Than Forecast in Boost for Easing
Russian inflation decelerated for a second month, setting the stage for the central bank to ease monetary policy further after the ruble`s crisis last year. Consumer prices rose 15.8 percent from a year earlier in May, compared with 16.4 percent in April, the Federal Statistics Service in Moscow said in a statement. The median estimate of 23 economists surveyed by Bloomberg was 15.9 percent. Prices gained 0.4 percent in the month, the smallest increase since August 2014. The continued slowdown means the central bank can focus on lowering borrowing costs as the economy enters its first recession in six years. The Bank of Russia has cut its benchmark interest rate three times to 12.5 percent after an emergency increase to 17 percent in December as oil prices stabilized and the ruble rebounded. Inflation may slow to 12 percent by year-end, according to the central bank. "If there are no new considerable external shocks, inflation will continue to slow down in accordance with our forecasts," Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said at a banking conference in St. Petersburg on Thursday. Price growth has started to ease "quickly" in recent months after a jump early in the year caused by the ruble`s weakening, she said. The central bank, whose medium-term inflation target is 4 percent in the medium term, will update its forecasts by the next rate meeting on June 15, according to Nabiullina.
03.06.2015 18:13 Russia`s Economy Contracts 4.2% but Outlook Improves
Russia`s economic contraction deepened in April as its key drivers deteriorated, but the country`s outlook has improved as oil prices have climbed higher, data showed. The economy ministry said gross domestic product contracted by 4.2% in April, compared with a year earlier, after shrinking by 2.7% in March. In the first four months of the year, the economy contracted by 2.4%, said the ministry. The data contrast with recent remarks by government officials, who have said the worst of the economic contraction was over. However, Alexei Kudrin, Russia`s former finance minister, warned late last week that the economy`s contraction was set to intensify in the second quarter. In April, Russia`s economy was dragged into contraction by a drop in manufacturing, mining, construction, retail sales and household incomes, as well as falling capital investment. The data showed that a drop in foreign trade, both in imports and exports, also put pressure on the economy, battered by Western sanctions and a rapid drop in oil prices. However, oil prices have partially recovered in recent months, paving the way for Russia`s economic recovery. The World Bank said Monday it sees the economy shrinking by 2.7% this year before growing by 0.7% next year and by 2.5% in 2017. In April, the World Bank had expected Russia`s economy to contract by 3.8% this year and by 0.3% next year.
01.06.2015 23:52 Russian manufacturing PMI falls to four-month low in May
Russian manufacturing activity shrank to a four-month low in May, the HSBC purchasing managers` index (PMI) showed on Monday, adding to evidence that the economy remains weak. The index`s headline reading fell to 47.6 from 48.9 in the previous month, slipping further below the 50.0 mark that separates expansion from contraction. "The stuttering nature of Russia`s manufacturing sector continued in May, with a rather disappointing set of survey data. Output, new orders and employment were all down since the previous survey," said Paul Smith, senior economist at Markit. The weaker PMI follows data for April which has served as a reminder of the drag on Russia`s economy from low oil prices and Western sanctions linked to the Ukraine crisis. However, inflation is now on a downward trend after currency weakness drove it to a 13-year high earlier in the year, and the latest PMI survey showed rapidly falling output and input prices for manufacturers. "The ongoing trend towards price level stabilisation suggests the macroeconomic environment is showing some sign of improvement," Markit`s Smith said. "This could, in time, help the manufacturing economy regain some lost ground over the coming months."


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Broadcast Upfront Presentations: Fox, Part 1
CHICAGO (thefutoncritic.com) - FOX will add three new one-hour dramas and four new half-hour comedies to its 2003-2004 programming slate, it was announced today by Gail Berman, President, Entertainment, FOX Broadcasting Company. The new fall dramas are SKIN, THE O.C. and TRU CALLING. The new comedies include ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, A MINUTE WITH STAN HOOPER, THE ORTEGAS and LUIS. Returning series include 24, AMERICAN IDOL, AMERICAN JUNIORS, BERNIE MAC, BOSTON PUBLIC, CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER PRESENTS, JOE MILLIONAIRE, KING OF THE HILL, MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE, OLIVER BEENE, THE SIMPSONS, THAT '70s SHOW, and WANDA AT LARGE. Also returning are FOX's Saturday staples COPS, AMERICA'S MOST WANTED: AMERICA FIGHTS BACK and the late-night sketch-comedy series MADtv.
Slated for midseason are the new dramas STILL LIFE and WONDERFALLS, the new comedy CRACKING UP, and the new reality series BANZAI.
"After finishing the year as the #2 network in Adults 18-49 for the third straight season, and by the closest margin in FOX's history, we head into the new season with stability and momentum," said Berman. "We're overwhelmingly dominant in Adults 18-34 and Teens � with strong female demos to complement our already powerful delivery of young men. This year our quality scripted programming will speak directly to these target demos, and our unscripted and variety series will be both noisy and groundbreaking. All told, they create a balanced schedule that sends a clear message: FOX is the one to watch."
FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY FALL 2003-2004 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE (all times PM ET/PT)
8:00-9:00 JOE MILLIONAIRE (WONDERFALLS will premiere in January '04)
9:00-10:00 SKIN
8:00-9:00 AMERICAN JUNIORS (AMERICAN IDOL will premiere in January '04)
9:00-10:00 24
8:00-8:30 THAT '70s SHOW
8:30-9:00 A MINUTE WITH STAN HOOPER
9:00-9:30 BERNIE MAC
9:30-10:00 CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER PRESENTS
*(AMERICAN IDOL results show will premiere in January '04; time slot TBD)
8:00-9:00 TRU CALLING
9:00-10:00 THE O.C.
8:00-8:30 WANDA AT LARGE
8:30-9:00 LUIS
9:00-10:00 BOSTON PUBLIC
8:00-8:30 COPS
9:00-10:00 AMERICA'S MOST WANTED: AMERICA FIGHTS BACK
11:00-12:00 MADtv
7:00-7:30 OLIVER BEENE
7:30-8:00 KING OF THE HILL
8:00-8:30 THE SIMPSONS
8:30-9:00 THE ORTEGAS
9:00-9:30 MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE
9:30-10:00 ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
The new dramas for the coming season are:
THE O.C.: DOUG LIMAN ("The Bourne Identity," "Go"), McG ("Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle," "Fastlane") and FOX, the network that brought you "Beverly Hills, 90210," invite you to visit THE O.C. THE O.C., otherwise known as Orange County, California, is an idyllic paradise � a wealthy, harbor-front community where everything and everyone appears to be perfect. But beneath the surface is a world of shifting loyalties and identities, of kids living secret lives, hidden from their parents, and of parents living secret lives, hidden from their children. RYAN ATWOOD (BENJAMIN MCKENZIE), a troubled teen from the wrong side of the tracks who is thrust into this world, will soon learn that nothing is what it seems. He moves to the O.C. when SANDY COHEN (PETER GALLAGHER, "American Beauty," "While You Were Sleeping"), an idealistic pro-bono public defender, invites him to stay in his guest house. Sandy's wife, KIRSTEN (KELLY ROWAN), wealthy and beautiful, former homecoming queen, perfect spouse, mother, and business woman, isn't happy that Ryan has moved in. And she's worried about how it will affect their teenage son SETH (ADAM BRODY, "Growing Up Brady," "Neverland"), a soulful dreamer ostracized by his peers. Making the whole situation more interesting is MARISSA COOPER (MISCHA BARTON), the heartbreakingly beautiful girl next door who seems to glide through life effortlessly. That is, until the indiscretions of her wealthy father JIMMY (TATE DONOVAN, "Hercules," "Mister Sterling") threaten to break her world apart. THE O.C. is a story of fathers and sons, husbands and wives, and the coming of age of three young people. Ryan's arrival is the catalyst for new alliances forged, old flames rekindled, and unlikely friendships born. It comes from Warner Bros. Television, Wonderland and Hypnotic.
-- Production Companies: Warner Bros. Television, Wonderland and Hypnotic
-- Executive Producers: Doug Liman, McG, Dave Bartis
-- Executive Producer/Writer: Josh Schwartz
-- Director: Doug Liman
-- Cast: Peter Gallagher as Sandy, Benjamin McKenzie as Ryan, Adam Brody as Seth, Mischa Barton as Marissa, Tate Donovan as Jimmy, Kelly Rowan as Kirsten, Melinda Clarke as Julie, Rachel Bilson as Summer, Chris Carmack as Luke
SKIN: JERRY BRUCKHEIMER ("CSI," "Black Hawk Down") and JIM LEONARD ("Thieves") team to create a new, intense character drama about a world you've never seen. SKIN is the story of two young lovers, desperate to be together, but who have two warring families who will do anything to keep them apart, and almost anything to destroy each other. ADAM (D. J. COTRONA), a 17-year-old Latino from east L.A., meets JEWEL (OLIVIA WILDE), 16, a wealthy, beautiful Westside girl, at a party. They fall for each other, passionately, purely, and completely, before they realize that their parents are at "war." Adam's Latina mother LAURA (RACHEL TICOTIN), a judge, and Anglo father MICHAEL (KEVIN ANDERSON, "Nothing Sacred"), the Los Angeles District Attorney, are prominent members of the city's judicial system. And, at the moment, Michael happens to be investigating and prosecuting Jewel's father, LARRY (RON SILVER, "Ali," "The West Wing," "Festival in Cannes"), the most successful producer of adult entertainment in Los Angeles. SKIN is about sex and race. SKIN is about politics. And most of all SKIN is about skin: complexion, beauty, desire, attraction, obsession, and prejudice in contemporary Los Angeles. SKIN is shot through with black comedy, passion, white-collar crime, scandal, naked ambition, and action. RUSSELL MULCAHY ("Queer as Folk," "1st to Die") directs SKIN, from Warner Bros. Television, Jerry Bruckheimer Productions, and Hoosier Karma Productions.
-- Production Company: Warner Bros. Television, Jerry Bruckheimer Productions and Hoosier Karma Productions
-- Executive Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman
-- Executive Producer/Writer: Jim Leonard
-- Director: Russell Mulcahy
-- Cast: Ron Silver as Larry Goldman, Kevin Anderson as Michael Roame, D.J. Cotrona as Adam, Olivia Wilde as Jewel, D.W. Moffett as Ziti, Rachel Ticotin as Laura, Pamela Gidley as Barbara
TRU CALLING: What would you do if you could relive a day? If you're TRU DAVIES (ELIZA DUSHKU, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), you'd save lives. Tru is a smart, sexy recent college graduate who � when her high-powered medical internship falls through � finds herself working the midnight shift at the New York City morgue. One night, Tru questions reality when she thinks she hears a beautiful murder victim asking for her help. But the next morning, our heroine wakes up to find that she is back at the beginning of that very same day � twelve hours before a murder that only she knows about is set to take place. With the clock ticking, Tru is compelled to traverse the city of New York over those next twelve hours to prevent this wrongful death, while at the same time rescuing members of her own family from their dangerous and self-destructive lives. Directed by renowned filmmaker PHILLIP NOYCE ("The Quiet American"), TRU CALLING combines the sexiness and speed of "Alias" with the procedural crime format of "CSI." TRU CALLING is from 20th Century Fox Television and Original Television and comes from executive producer/writer JON FELDMAN ("American Dreams," "Roswell," "Dawson's Creek").
-- Production Companies: 20th Century Fox Television and Original Television
-- Executive Producers: Marty Adelstein, Neal Moritz, Dawn Parouse
-- Executive Producer/Writer: Jon Feldman
-- Director: Phillip Noyce
-- Cast: Eliza Dushku as Tru Davies, Shawn Reaves as Harrison, Jessica Collins as Meredith, A.J. Cook as Lindsay, Heath Freeman as Cameron, Zach Galifianakis as Davis
The new comedies for the coming season are:
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: MICHAEL BLUTH (JASON BATEMAN, "The Sweetest Thing"), a widower, wants nothing more than to be a good father to his 13-year-old son GEORGE MICHAEL (MICHAEL CERA), so he resolves to quit the family business for good and move to Arizona to start a new life. But instead Michael's eccentric family pulls him back in when his father GEORGE BLUTH SR. (JEFFREY TAMBOR) gets arrested for shifty accounting practices at Bluth Co. This sends the family reeling, and when their assets are frozen, this puts a major crimp in each of their lives. LUCILLE BLUTH (JESSICA WALTER), Michael's mother, is a flamboyant, stylish and spoiled society matron who finds herself alone in her Balboa Bay Club penthouse without the financial means to maintain it. GEORGE OSCAR BLUTH II (WILL ARNETT), "Gob," Michael's older, wildly eccentric brother, has devoted his life to the field of magic but now he must contend with the possibility of getting a real job in the real world. BUSTER BLUTH (TONY HALE) is Michael's younger brother, a professional graduate student who is alternately cool and incredibly self-conscious. Michael decides to stay in Orange County and invites his sister LINDSAY FUNKE (PORTIA DE ROSSI, "Ally McBeal") and her family to move in with him and George Michael. Lindsay is married to the hapless TOBIAS (DAVID CROSS), a doctor who lost his license after performing CPR on a man who was sunbathing and didn't need it. Lindsay and Tobias are the ultra-permissive parents of MAE (ALIA SHAWKAT), "Maeby," who delights in finding unique ways to rebel against her over-indulgent parents. Michael reluctantly finds himself having to pull his offbeat family up by their bootstraps and slowly "teach" them how to live without the family's largess. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT comes from Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox Television. RON HOWARD ("A Beautiful Mind," "Parenthood"), BRIAN GRAZER ("The Nutty Professor 1 and 2," "8 Mile," "24"), DAVID NEVINS and MITCH HURWITZ ("The Ellen Show," "Golden Girls") serve as executive producers.
-- Production Companies: 20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Television
-- Executive Producers: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, David Nevins
-- Executive Producer/Writer: Mitch Hurwitz
-- Directors: Anthony and Joe Russo
-- Cast: Jason Bateman as Michael, Portia De Rossi as Lindsay, Michael Cera as George Michael, Alia Shawkat as Mae, Jessica Walter as Lucille, Will Arnett as Gob, Tony Hale as Buster, Jeffrey Tambor as George Bluth Sr., David Cross as Tobias
LUIS: LUIS (LUIS GUZMAN, "Traffic," "Punch-Drunk Love," "Boogie Nights") is living the American dream. He's the proud owner of a Spanish Harlem donut shop and the landlord of the building it's in. But a dream is only a dream, and you've got to wake up sometime. He wakes up every day ... to a cast of characters that includes an obnoxious elderly Irish woman who lives in a rent-controlled apartment; a Chinese delivery boy who swears he was a cardiologist back in the "Old Country" and doesn't speak English because "This is America � you speak Spanish"; and to TK (MALCOLM BARRETT) a young African-American kid who harasses his customers by trying to sell them "merchandise" he found in Luis' dumpster. Luis' family doesn't help much. His ex-wife, ISABELLA (DIANA-MARIA RIVA), constantly reminds him why they got divorced, but somehow she can't get enough of him or his donuts. Their daughter, MARLY (JACLYN DESANTIS), is responsible and hardworking but lives in Luis' building with her free-loading boyfriend GREG, a pretentious "artiste" who hopes to pay his share of the rent by selling his paintings. At least Luis has Ginger � his mint, '82 Olds Delta 88, and his trusted assistant RICHIE (CHARLIE DAY), who pines for Luis' daughter. Luis is not quite conservative, not quite liberal. He's a man who's got the world figured out � the world just doesn't know it yet. The series comes from creator and executive producer WILL GLUCK ("The John Larroquette Show") and 20th Century Fox Television.
-- Production Company: 20th Century Fox Television
-- Executive Producer/Writer: Will Gluck
-- Director: Jeff Melman
-- Cast: Luis Guzman as Luis, Jaclyn DeSantis as Marly, Diana-Maria Riva as Isabella, Malcolm Barrett as TK, Charlie Day as Richie
A MINUTE WITH STAN HOOPER: For ten years, "A Minute with Stan Hooper" has closed each episode of "Newsline," America's highest rated newsmagazine. In his "Minute" segments, STAN HOOPER (NORM MACDONALD, "Saturday Night Live," "Norm") has been telling real stories of real people that make up the fabric of America. But now Stan is making his "Minute" more honest. He no longer wants to comment on life from a studio in midtown Manhattan. He wants to live in the vanishing America he has been talking about for a decade - a place where ordinary people enjoy life's simple pleasures, where people have never heard of cappuccino. So, Stan and his wife MOLLY (PENELOPE ANN MILLER, "Kindergarten Cop," "Full Disclosure") are moving to Waterford Falls, Wisconsin. Stan thinks this small town they passed through on their honeymoon 15 years ago is the embodiment of the old-fashioned values and idyllic lifestyle he has been championing in his "Minute" reports. Except that the house that Stan and Molly rent comes with a butler, GARY (BRIAN HOWE). And the local cheese mogul's son, RYAN (ERIC LIVELY), who is dating a waitress, CHELSEA (REAGAN DALE NEIS, "Maybe It's Me"), temporarily moves in with Stan and Molly. And that the two guys who own the local diner, PETE (DANIEL ROEBUCK, "Agent Cody Banks," "We Were Soldiers") and LOU (GARRET DILLAHUNT) PETERSON, are a couple. Stan Hooper is a commentator on life, whose observations and insights will solve some problems while creating others. A MINUTE WITH STAN HOOPER is created by BARRY KEMP ("Coach," "Newhart") and Norm Macdonald, and produced by Paramount Television.
-- Production Company: Paramount Television
-- Executive Producer: Lori Jo Hoekstra
-- Executive Producers/Writers: Barry Kemp, Norm Macdonald
-- Director: Barry Kemp
-- Cast: Norm Macdonald as Stan Hooper, Penelope Ann Miller as Molly Hooper, Eric Lively as Ryan, Reagan Dale Neis as Chelsea, Brian Howe as Gary, Garret Dillahunt as Lou, Daniel Roebuck as Pete
THE ORTEGAS: Live from California's beautiful San Fernando Valley ... it's THE ORTEGAS. Based on the International Emmy-winning and hit BBC series, "The Kumars at No. 42," this inventive new series blends comedy, reality and improvisation into one wild, unique mix. LUIS ORTEGA (AL MADRIGAL, "2002 Montreal Comedy Festival") is the likeable young host of his very own talk show, thanks to his generous immigrant parents HENRY (CHEECH MARIN, "Nash Bridges") and ESMERALDA (TERRI HOYOS, "Town and Country"), who built a television studio in the family's backyard. Each week, the family -- including Luis' darling and often uncensored grandmother MARIA (RENEE VICTOR, "Never Trust a Serial Killer") -- welcomes actual celebrity guests into their home, smothering them with hospitality and homemade traditional Mexican snacks. And once they've step out of the back of the house and into the television studio, the talk show begins. At this point the entire family showers their guests with spontaneous and wide-ranging interview topics leaving the live audience wondering what could possibly be next. Look out Dave and Jay - Luis Ortega is on his way. As if Luis, Henry, Esmeralda and Maria are not enough, THE ORTEGAS will introduce their friends, family, and neighbors who inhabit this crazy world called "Van Nuys." They are all as colorful and entertaining as the Ortegas themselves. WALLY WOLODARSKY ("The Oblongs"), GAVIN POLONE ("Hack"), JIMMY MULVILLE ("The Kumars at No. 42") and DENISE O'DONOGHUE ("Whose Line Is It Anyway?") serve as executive producers. LINDA MENDOZA ("The Bernie Mac Show") directs this comedy from Pariah and Hat Trick Productions.
-- Production Companies: Pariah and Hat Trick Productions
-- Executive Producers: Jimmy Mulville, Denise O'Donoghue, Gavin Polone, Wally Wolodarsky
-- Director: Linda Mendoza
-- Cast: Al Madrigal as Luis Ortega, Cheech Marin as Henry, Terri Hoyos as Esmeralda, Renee Victor as Maria
-- The series slated for midseason are WONDERFALLS, CRACKING UP, STILL LIFE and BANZAI:
WONDERFALLS: Set against the backdrop of Niagara Falls, WONDERFALLS is a funny, provocative and magical one-hour dramedy about JAYE TYLER (CAROLINE DHAVERNAS), an underachieving twenty-something souvenir shop worker whose life is forever changed after she has what her family calls "an episode." That's when inanimate animal figures � toys, cartoon images, anything in the form of an animal � begin talking to her, and their cryptic messages set into motion a chain of events that invariably lead her into the lives of others in need. Described by its creators BRYAN FULLER ("Star Trek: Voyager") and TODD HOLLAND ("Malcolm in the Middle"), with tongues firmly in cheek, as "Touched by a Crazy Person," the series focuses on Jaye as she meddles in, muddles up, and ultimately betters the lives of herself, her eccentric family of overachievers, and the eclectic variety of strangers that cross her path. Over the course of this series Jaye will discover that the world around her really is a magical place, and that the seemingly random events in her life are actually all part of something much greater. WONDERFALLS is from 20th Century Fox Television and Regency Television.
-- Production Companies: 20th Century Fox Television and Regency Television
-- Executive Producers/Writers: Bryan Fuller, Todd Holland
-- Director: Todd Holland
-- Cast: Caroline Dhavernas as Jaye, Katie Finneran as Sharon, Tyron Leitso as Eric, William Sadler as Darrin, Diana Scarwid as Karen, Adam Scott as Aaron
CRACKING UP: BEN, an idealistic psychology student, gets more than he bargained for when he moves into the guest house of a wealthy Beverly Hills family. TED (CHRIS McDONALD, "Spy Kids 2," "Perfect Storm") the proud patriarch of the family, is a successful pharmaceutical executive. Ted's wife, LESLEY (MOLLY SHANNON, "Saturday Night Live," "Superstar"), is the happy homemaker and helpmate. Their three children are CHLOE (CAITLIN WACHS), the pretty cheerleader, who suffers from delusions of grandeur; PRESTON (JAKE SANDVIG), the all-American athlete, and TANNER (NATHAN NORTON), who they all consider the "troubled child." They may look like the picture-perfect clan, living the American dream in a gorgeous mansion, but on closer inspection, each member of the family proves to be crazier than the next. Ben and his fun-loving friend, LIAM (DAVID WALTON), soon find themselves playing in-house therapists to a brood of whackos. The household is the perfect training ground for a budding therapist and, although Ben is shocked by some of their more eccentric behavior, he is determined to help "fix" this family. They may be "cracking up," but they're also fascinating, lovable, and a whole lot of fun. CRACKING UP is written by MIKE WHITE, the award-winning writer and star of "The Good Girl," "Chuck & Buck" and "Orange County." The series is directed by PAUL and CHRIS WEITZ of "About a Boy" and "American Pie" fame.
-- Production Companies: 20th Century Fox Television and Brad Grey Television
-- Executive Producer/Writer: Mike White
-- Executive Producers/Directors: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
-- Executive Producer: Brad Grey
-- Cast: Molly Shannon as Lesley, Chris McDonald as Ted, David Walton as Liam, Jake Sandvig as Preston, Caitlin Wachs as Chloe, Nathan Norton as Tanner
STILL LIFE: STILL LIFE tells the story of an American family, the MORGANS, through the eyes of JAKE MORGAN, the eldest of BEN and CHARLOTTE MORGAN's four children. Jake was the golden child that every parent dreams of having. Following in his father's footsteps, he decided to become a cop. And, on his first day on the job, Jake was murdered. We rejoin the Morgan family a year after Jake's death. Jake now is our narrator, watching his family from beyond with amusement, longing and neverending curiosity as their true lives are revealed to him. Jake is not a ghost, but in many ways he is still a part of the lives of the people he loves, and he still has unresolved issues. His mother, CHARLOTTE (SUSANNA THOMPSON, "Dragonfly"), has been galvanized by tragedy to resume her dream of running for public office. His father, BEN (DAVID KEITH, "Daredevil," "Behind Enemy Lines"), a detective, must overcome the guilt he feels for his son's death and rediscover the lust for life he once had. Jake's younger brother, MAX (JENSEN ACKLES, "Dark Angel"), is a 21-year-old concert of darkness and light. His love-hate relationship with Jake is revealed in a love triangle with MAGGIE (MORENA BACCARIN), the girl they both love and owner of an art gallery. EMILY (AUDREY MARIE ANDERSON, "Moonlight Mile"), Jake's 19-year-old sister and best friend, is a haunting beauty whose life has been set adrift by the absence of her brother. She is looking for someone to give her that connection again, and the search could take her anywhere. His youngest sister, DAISY (JEANETTE BROX), is a precocious 16-year-old coming of age faster than she is ready. She is a positive, upbeat spirit buoyed by the belief that Jake is "still here." By turns heart-breaking and life-affirming, joyful, combative and complicated, STILL LIFE is a beautiful celebration of love, life and family. MARK PIZNARSKI ("Once and Again," "My So-Called Life," "Everwood") directs STILL LIFE, from 20th Century Fox Television and Original Television.
-- Production Company: 20th Century Fox Television and Original Television
-- Executive Producers: Marty Adelstein, Neal Moritz, Kip Koenig, Dawn Parouse, Marti Noxon
-- Writer: Kip Koenig
-- Director: Mark Piznarski
-- Cast: Jensen Ackles as Max, David Keith as Ben, Susanna Thompson as Charlotte, Audrey Marie Anderson as Emily, Jeanette Brox as Daisy, Morena Baccarin as Maggie
BANZAI: BANZAI, the hilarious spoof Japanese interactive entertainment show, invites viewers to predict the outcome of various funny and bizarre betting scenarios. Sample scenarios include "Mr. Shakehands Man" (How long can he shake a celebrity's hand before he/she pulls away?), and "The Michael Jackson's' Reverse Race Rendezvous" (Which Michael Jackson impersonator can moonwalk the fastest, on an ice rink?). Let's not forget "Lady One Question," who interviews unsuspecting celebrities in her own unique way. They are situations you would never expect to encounter, and you won't be able to take your eyes off of. Viewers at home can wager with friends and family to see who can best predict the comedic, outrageous and very unpredictable outcomes. BANZAI is from Radar and producers TIM BREADIN and GARY MONAGHAN.
-- Production Company: Radar
-- Producers: Tim Breadin, Gary Monaghan
The above is taken from FOX's press release concerning its upfront presentation.
[may 2003]
· 1ST TO DIE (NBC)
· 24 (FOX)
· ALIAS (ABC)
· ALLY MCBEAL (FOX)
· AMERICAN DREAMS (NBC)
· AMERICAN IDOL (ABC)
· AMERICAN JUNIORS (FOX)
· AMERICA'S MOST WANTED (FOX)
· ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT (NETFLIX)
· BANZAI (FOX)
· BERNIE MAC SHOW, THE (FOX)
· BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 (FOX)
· BOSTON PUBLIC (FOX)
· BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (UPN)
· CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER PRESENTS (FOX)
· COPS (FOX NATION)
· CRACKING UP (FOX)
· CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (CBS)
· DARK ANGEL (FOX)
· DAWSON'S CREEK (WB)
· ELLEN SHOW, THE (CBS)
· EVERWOOD (WB)
· FASTLANE (FOX)
· HACK (CBS)
· JOE MILLIONAIRE (FOX)
· KING OF THE HILL (FOX)
· LUIS (FOX)
· MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE (FOX)
· MAYBE IT'S ME (WB)
· MINUTE WITH STAN HOOPER, A (FOX)
· MISTER STERLING (NBC)
· NASH BRIDGES (CBS)
· NORM (ABC)
· OBLONGS, THE (WB)
· OC, THE (FOX)
· OLIVER BEENE (FOX)
· ONCE & AGAIN (ABC)
· ORTEGAS, THE (FOX)
· QUEER AS FOLK (SHOWTIME)
· ROSWELL (UPN)
· SIMPSONS, THE (FOX)
· SKIN (FOX)
· STAR TREK: VOYAGER (UPN)
· STILL LIFE (FOX)
· THAT '70S SHOW (FOX)
· THIEVES (ABC)
· TRU CALLING (FOX)
· WANDA AT LARGE (FOX)
· WEST WING, THE (NBC)
· WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? (CW)
· WONDERFALLS (FOX)


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Antisemitism in Latin America: The Lasting Impact of the AMIA Attack
This week, Fernando Lottenberg, the first Organization of American States (OAS) Commissioner to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, and Dina Siegel Vann, Director of AJC's Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs, join us to discuss the progress that's been made since the 1994 terrorist attack on the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, and the work left to do in Latin America.
Hero in Aftermath of Argentina Israeli Embassy Attack: We Must Seek Justice
On the afternoon of March 17, 1992, Israel's embassy in Argentina was reduced to rubble by a blast that killed 29 people – four Israelis and 25 Argentinians – and injured nearly 250. A group tied to Hezbollah, a proxy for Iran, claimed responsibility.
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Between April and October, over one hundred SHDM tenants took part in horticultural activities and projects right in their own living environment. The children—who particularly made their mark this year, by turning out in such large numbers to garden at the foot of their apartments, much to the great delight of their parents and neighbours—definitely inspired others and sparked word-of-mouth as well.
The gardeners were happy to see that the children were so interested in getting involved and were so attentive to the plants. "My children knew absolutely nothing about gardening, because they had never had access to a garden before, but now they are the ones who tell me what vegetables are growing, how to maintain them and when they are ready to be harvested!" stated a loyal participant.
Two major projects launched in the boroughs of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Saint-Michel–Villeray–Parc-Extension were set up thanks to Sentier Urbain, which was called upon to look after them. Within these two projects, there was a total of 35 workshops offering activities, supervision and horticultural advice, door-to-door rounds, emails sent out, promotional posters and telephone calls to promote the program. More than 85 participants landscaped 1240 square feet of land with 507 vegetable and herbal plants, 107 perennials, 26 shrubs, 15 fruit shrubs, 4 trees that were planted and 90 flowers, for the direct benefit of the participants.
The project on Rue Fielding, in the borough of Saint-Michel–Villeray–Parc-Extension, brought together a total of 66 people living in 20 of the SHDM's 84 housing units, representing a participation rate of approximately 23%. For its first year with Sentier Urbain, this project proved to be a real success.
As for the project on Rue Barclay in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, which was in its second year of operation, it once again brought together last year's 15 loyal participants, plus five new regular ones. This project is therefore well on its way to becoming self-sufficient and sustainable, which is the main objective of the projects initiated by the SHDM.
"In order to ensure that the community garden projects organized last year will continue on and on, two horticulture clubs are established within the Barclay and Fielding projects," pointed out Daniel Lavoie, Residential Operations Coordinator at the SHDM. Many tenants have in fact gradually joined these projects, on seeing the benefits for the entire community: socialization and encounters, learning, a sense of belonging and security, beautification, free access to local and healthy vegetable gardening products, etc.
The SHDM would like to thank all the residents who are involved in their community, its horticulture team, Sentier urbain, the Société de développement et d'habitation communautaire (SODHAC), Les Habitations Sherbrooke Forest Inc. and Habitations Terrasse Saint-Michel, all three of which are external administrators for the SHDM, for their professionalism in carrying out the responsibilities assigned to them by the SHDM.


Make the most of this Cheltenham Gold Cup tip 2019 with an exclusive free bet.
The AccaDoo Cheltenham Gold Cup tip landed last year when Native River did the business.
And we reckon Colin Tizzard's star is going to land a repeat next year.
Native River will be nine in March. So it is right to think there may still be some improvement to come from last season.
He has been a star of the staying division in the last two seasons.
In 2016/17 he won the Hennessey at Newbury and then followed up by winning the Welsh National.
He then won the Denman Chase at Newbury before finishing third in that season's Gold Cup.
To get so close to winning racing's blue ribband after such a gruelling season was some effort.
However, Native River bettered it last season.
Tizzard plotted a much easier path to Cheltenham and Native River only ran once.
That also came in the Denman Chase at Newbury and he won well.
Native River led from the off in last season's Gold Cup and had a herculean battle with Might Bite.
And his light campaign meant he had enough in the tank to see off that rival and land racing's biggest prize.
Tizzard has indicated that Native River will plot a similar course to last season.
It's hard to see any other outcome should he make it to Cheltenham in the same form as last season.
It's hard to see any of last season's rivals improving past him and last season's novices also have questions to answer.
Presenting Percy looks the best of last season's staying novices and he could be the biggest threat.
He was an impressive winner of the RSA Chase at last year's festival and it will be interesting to see how he copes in open company.
But Native River's lead from the front style makes him very hard to pass and we fancy he will be the first repeat winner since Best Mate.
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All Business Report
Today's leaders must push through turmoil
Opinion / 20 August 2015, 07:30am / Allen Shardelow
Allen Shardelow is the partner in charge at the Johannesburg office of global executive search and professional services company Heidrick & Struggles. Picture: Supplied
South Africa can be a challenging place to do business and these challenges offer unique opportunities. Business leaders increasingly have the chance to shape South Africa's future.
But the role that business plays in society, and the expectations about the role it should play, have shifted dramatically. Along with this shift, society's expectations and the public narrative about leadership have changed too.
Declining levels of public trust suggest that public and business leaders have not kept pace with increased expectations.
Global leadership advisory firm Heidrick & Struggles in association with the Saïd Business School at Oxford recently released "The CEO Report: Embracing the paradoxes of leadership and the power of doubt", which presents findings from its interviews with more than 150 sitting chief executives around the world. The report explores these issues along with the central question: how do leaders and senior executives develop the competence to lead in a changing world? The findings are instructive and contribute to the leadership debate in the South African context.
For chief executives, assessing the changes facing their companies or institutions in volatile times is difficult. Doing so under the real-time gaze of stakeholders ready to tweet and retweet assessments at a moment's notice compounds the challenge. It's no surprise that many leaders feel preoccupied with the pace of change.
Given the pressure to respond faster and faster to events, how can leaders ensure they assess the nature of the changes appropriately while also determining how and when significant change will affect their organisations? In other words, how can they lead continuous change while also responding constantly to it? The key, the research suggests, is to focus not only on the speed of change, but on its scope and significance as well.
The chief executives interviewed routinely spoke of the pressure today's pace of change imposed on them, citing factors such as disruptive new competitors and new market channels, often digital. Predictably, many cited technological innovations, particularly the rise of social media, as driving a ubiquitous sense of urgency and pressure for increased transparency. In fact, many chief executives view social media as a two-edged sword, both a powerful tool for engaging in public discussion, as well as a potential source of exposure to challenges on their leadership.
Some chief executives highlighted the importance of discerning the true speed of change. They cautioned that a more granular understanding of change helped them prioritise, delegate, and allocate energy and resources. The impact of scope can be difficult to predict: even systemic changes can have root causes that were initially contained and local – for example, the seemingly localised US sub-prime credit crunch that became a global crisis.
Pace of change
A pervasive sense of urgency can mask the fact that not all aspects are changing at the same pace, or even changing at all. Indeed, one chief executive pointed out that while his sector (banking) had faced substantial changes, in many respects its core principles remained the same.
Others emphasised the need for a long-term perspective: "The world has changed and stability is different than before," observed one chief executive, "although we have selective memory in the sense that we think we are living in the most turbulent times you can imagine."
And another offered a healthy dose of scepticism, saying: "There is this mantra at the moment that change is faster than it's ever been and therefore these kinds of issues are going to be greater… I don't really buy that."
When it comes to coping with the pace of change, chief executives referred to several rules of thumb. One described a "more principles-based leadership style" to "spend the time, rather than giving the answer, setting the stage and context and then have other people work out what the pieces are within it".
Highlighting the need for resilience, another said: "You have to look at almost everything as something that could kill you, and you have to have a battle plan for not only how you are going to… optimise it, but how are you going to survive it."
While the focus on the speed of change is not surprising, chief executives indicated that there were two additional, more subtle dimensions of change that a preoccupation with urgency could mask. On of these dimensions is the scope of change – the size and extent to which a particular event or trend is far-reaching.
The greater the scope, the more likely it will become significant and affect the organisation. Trends take different forms: for example, geopolitical upsets such as the conflict in Ukraine; economic changes (for example, in energy prices); or health threats such as the recent Ebola crisis.
The impact of scope can be difficult to predict. Some changes may be more evidently systemic, such as the recent global financial crisis; others may generate substantial attention but actually turn out to be more contained, with less impact.
The final dimension is significance, which refers to how deeply any change affects the organisation. Predicting and assessing significance as data accumulates is crucial. It means asking "how, how fast, and how much" an event will impact the business.
As one chief executive noted, "You have to begin to sort out the results you're getting. Are they a result of a broader macroeconomic or industry shift taking place, or are they more enterprise specific?"
The recent drop in the price of oil highlights the complexities involved in navigating the three dimensions of change. The sheer speed and scope of the price fall in the last 12 months has taken most by surprise, even though the fundamentals driving the price shift are well known: rising supply from shale gas in the US and weakening demand in other large economies.
While the full significance of the changes play out, the implications are likely to be far-reaching in scope and highly significant for many countries and businesses. Some industries face the possibility of significant knock-on effects in terms of growth, jobs, investment, and perhaps even industry restructuring.
Accordingly, how any given change will affect a company varies. Some changes will influence the business model, strategy, or operations of the business – technical changes. But other changes are more profound and foundational, challenging the organisation's mission and core values. What looks like a purely technical decision can also have value-based implications that make it foundational.
Cyber threats, for example, are likely to represent technical changes for most businesses but will be foundational for a smaller group, such as computer firms (though what may initially appear technical can quickly become foundational, as Sony's battles with cyber security suggest.)
More complex
Untangling scope and significance is vital. Seemingly large events may end up being relatively insignificant; others may be small in scope but prove highly significant because they trigger concerns inside the business or among external interest groups. For leaders of large and diversified entities, questions of scope and significance will be much greater as their environments grow more complex, and as stakeholders declare new agendas or more actively pursue existing ones.
Navigating change along its three dimensions requires different competencies. Global operations mean thinking about local conditions. They need the capacity to scan the environment for emerging trends that might appear isolated and contained, but are actually linked in hard-to-predict ways, creating ripples of significance that can bring destruction or opportunity.
The change landscape is constantly evolving, and any given event or trend will mean different things for particular industries, regions, and individual businesses. What's important is developing a multi-dimensional approach to change that helps leaders understand and prioritise actions, direct resources, and, crucially, reserve their own energy for significant, large-scale challenges.
Remembering that fast doesn't necessarily mean urgent or important is a critical first step in determining where to focus attention. Diagnosing the likely impact of events and trends means assessing scope and significance along with speed.
Increasingly leadership needs flexible, systemic thinking from those that are comfortable with uncertainty, complexity and constant change. These qualities need to become part of the national narrative on our leaders and how to best effect change.
Allen Shardelow is the partner in charge at the Johannesburg office of global executive search and professional services company Heidrick & Struggles.
** The views expressed here are not necessarily those of Independent Media.
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Wisconsin whistleblower statute; "opinion" alone is not "information"
State whistleblower laws
disclosures, information, opinion, public information, Wisconsin Supreme Court, Wisconsin whistleblower statute
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the state Department of Justice ("DOJ") did not violate the Wisconsin whistleblower statute when it demoted a top Internet detective, Joell Schigur, following concerns raised by the detective regarding the use of state agents to protect the attorney general at a political convention. In so holding, the court stated that the protections afforded by the state's whistleblower law did not apply to Ms. Schigur because she only voiced her "opinion" rather than disclosing concrete information about improper activity.
Ms. Schigur assisted in the development of the DOJ's Internet Crimes Against unit, which built her a national reputation as an expert on cyber predators. In 2006, she was promoted to director of the state's Public Integrity Bureau. In April 2008, Ms. Schigur told her superiors about a proposed plan to send state agents to serve as around-the-clock protection for then-attorney general J.B. Van Hollen at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Subsequently, Ms. Schigur sent an email communication to her superiors warning them that she believed using state resources at a political convention might be a violation of state law and the regulations governing the state's Office of Employment Relations.
In response, Mike Myszewski, then-administrator of the DOJ's Division of Criminal Investigation, told Ms. Schigur that he did not think the assignment amounted to political activity. Then, a month later, the DOJ demoted Ms. Schigur to special agent-in-charge. Ultimately, the DOJ decided not to send any agents with Mr. Van Hollen after purportedly concluding that he wouldn't be in any danger at the convention.
In 2011, an ALJ ruled that the DOJ had violated the Wisconsin whistleblower statute when it demoted Ms. Schigur. However, a Wisconsin county circuit court overturned that decision. The Wisconsin Court of Appeals affirmed the county circuit court's decision. As a result of that decision, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and Ms. Schigur appealed their case to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Wisconsin Whistleblower Statute
On appeal, the narrow question before the Wisconsin Supreme Court was "whether Schigur's e-mail communications to Myszewski are entitled to protection under [the Wisconsin whistleblower statute], given that 'only certain disclosures made in a particular way and regarding a subject matter covered in the statute will qualify for protection." In the words of the court:
Simply stated, we examine whether Schigur's opinion alone, as to the lawfulness or appropriateness of government activity is "information" such that it is entitled to protection under §§ 230.80-.89, whether other portions of Schigur's e-mails relating to the proposed security detail constitute "disclosure[s]" of information under Wis. Stat. § 230.81, and whether Schigur's disclosure is protected because the DOJ believed that Schigur had "disclosed information" under the statute.
"Opinion" Alone is Not "Information"
On appeal, Ms. Schigur made two specific arguments. First, Ms. Schigur argued that disclosure of a "belief", namely her opinion regarding the lawfulness or appropriateness of government activity, is disclosure of "information" under the Wisconsin whistleblower statute, and that the DOJ therefore could not discipline her for sending emails that disclosed her beliefs. Second, Ms. Schigur argued that the DOJ believed she engaged in protected activity, and that she was entitled to protection from discipline on that basis as well. In response, the DOJ argued that expressing a belief about unknown information is not "disclosing information" under the Wisconsin whistleblower statute, and Ms. Schigur forfeited her second argument by failing to raise it in the lower administrative proceeding.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court concluded:
1) an opinion alone, as to the lawfulness or appropriateness of government activity is not "information" as that term is defined in Wis. Stat. § 230.80(5); (2) under the specific facts of this case, and assuming without deciding that Schigur's e-mail contained "information" regarding the proposed security detail, the communication of the information to Myszewski, Jed Sperry, and Cindy O'Donnell was not a "disclosure" under Wis. Stat. § 230.81 because the information was already known to the recipients of the e-mails; and (3) Schigur's argument that the DOJ believed that she "disclosed information" rests on a misinterpretation of § 230.80(8)(c) and therefore fails. Accordingly, we affirm the decision of the court of appeals.
The major takeaways from the Schigur case are that an "opinion" alone, without more, does not fall within the Wisconsin whistleblower statute's definition of "information." As a corollary, even if Ms. Schigur's email communications had counted as information under the statute, the fact that the substance of Ms. Schigur's emails were already known to her supervisors meant that the communications were not considered disclosures under the statute. Or in other words, if the substance of the information is already known to whom it is communicated, then it cannot count as a disclosure under the Wisconsin whistleblower statute. Finally, the Supreme Court found that Ms. Schigur's claim that the DOJ believed that she "disclosed information" rested on a misinterpretation of the statute, and therefore availed her of nothing. As a result, the DOJ did not violate the Wisconsin whistleblower statute by demoting Ms. Schigur to special agent-in-charge.