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The WWE's yearly Wrestlemania event is referred to as "The Showcase of the Immortals" for good reason. Every April, the WWE puts together a monster card that ends yearlong feuds and settles scores. This year is no different. The card for Wrestlemania 29 at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium features 10 matches, with nearly every title on the line. A cavalcade of drama and entertainment, Sean "Diddy" Combs is also scheduled to sing during the show.
With just eight days before the big event, take a look at all of the matches on this year's card and the predictions for each battle that will change the futures for all the WWE superstars involved.
Tons of Funk Tensai and Brodus Clay & The Funkadactyls Naomi and Cameron vs. Team Rhodes Scholars Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow & The Bella Twins Nikki and Bree: This will make for a fun opening match that gets the fans involved. Although Sandow and Rhodes are talented wrestlers, don't expect much of that here. Tensai and Clay will eat up their smaller opponents, while the antics of the Bella twins and The Funkadactyls will make for some hilarious moments.
Prediction: With the Rhodes Scholars status as a tag team in jeopardy before this match was announced, it wouldn't hurt them if they lost. Tons of Funk has been positioned as a mid-card tag team for over a month and a win would help them cement themselves in a weak tag team division. With either a big splash from Clay or a monster slam from Tensai, Tons of Funk will win this one.
Chris Jericho vs. Fandango: Y2J is a legend, but he's never been one to rely on his credentials alone. The nine-time Intercontinental Champion never shies away from a challenge. Fandango debuted over a month ago, but has yet to wrestle. His verbal skills have made for several interesting moments with Jericho and their match should continue the intrigue. But this time, Fandango will have to do more than talk.
Prediction: A solid back and forth heel/face match and a Fandango win via some trickery. This way Jericho doesn't lose credibility and Fandango gets bragging rights. A rematch will definitely be in the works at the next pay per view. That's when you'll see a better match.
WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No Daniel Bryan and Kane vs. Dolph Ziggler & Big E Langston, w/AJ Lee: This match kind of got thrown together at the last minute, but there's a definite history there. Add in how popular Hell No is with the ability of Ziggler and the power of Langston and it's easy to see this could be a fantastic match. Lee has also been "involved" with three of the four competitors and with the tag team titles on the line, she'll play a role in the eventual outcome.
Prediction: Hell No retains. It doesn't make sense for the WWE to have Ziggler in the tag team division while he's the reigning "Money in the Bank" winner. It'll be a great match though, with Lee scheming and skipping around the ring throughout.
Ryback vs. Mark Henry: The WWE's two toughest performers, this will be a war. With Ryback yet to be cleanly pinned and Henry's respect on the line, this match will be all about offense.
Prediction: This won't be a pretty match, but Ryback will win simply because he's younger and Henry is a proven commodity. Henry has already won a world title and done everything anyone has ever expected of him. Ryback, on the other hand, needs this win to continue his limb up the ladder.
Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett vs. The Miz: Two smart-alecky young performers with the Intercontinental title on the line? This will be good. The IC title has always been at the heart of the Wrestlemania card and this year will be no different. After weeks of insults, cheap shots and bickering, these two will finally settle their differences at Mania.
Prediction: Much like Ryback, Barrett is on his way up, but with better skills on the microphone and a more-polished in-ring repertoire, he's more poised to make a run at one of the bigger titles. The Miz has already won the IC title and had a lengthy run with the World Title two years ago, but after filming a movie this summer, he's had to work his way back up the card. This one can go either way, but if you're a betting man, the size and strength of Barrett may end up being too much for Miz.
Randy Orton, Sheamus & Big Show vs. The Shield Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins: In the few months they've been with the company, The Shield has taken out every WWE superstar in their path. Can they do the same with three former world champions in Orton, Sheamus and Big Show? The tension has built for weeks and with no escape this time, The Shield will have to finish the fight they started. Or suffer the consequences.
Prediction: The Shield will win, but the victory can come in a few ways. One could be via a clean win, with no cheating, but don't expect that. Instead, expect some weapon or outside interference from another young WWE superstar, who could join the group and make them even stronger than before.
World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio w/Ricardo Rodriguez vs. Jack Swagger w/Zeb Colter: Even conservative pundit Glenn Beck doesn't like Jack Swagger, but that doesn't mean he isn't dangerous. With his closed-border and tea party agenda, Swagger has destroyed the WWE mid-card on his way to Wrestlemania. Although Del Rio has been embraced by the American audience and has declared the United States his home, some fans have actually sided with Swagger.
Prediction: Both of these men are excellent performers. A 20-minute match is not out of the question, but don't expect to see a clean finish. With Rodriguez and Colter at ringside, anything can happen. It probably will. When it's over, Swagger will be victorious. With all the mainstream media attention he's gotten over the past three months, it would be silly to cut him down now.
Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar w/Paul Heyman (No Holds Barred Match; If Lesnar wins, Triple H must retire): The drama here is huge. Lesnar broke HHH's arm last year and Heyman has made derogatory comments about Triple H's wife, Stephanie McMahon. With the retirement stipulation in play, this has the potential of being Triple H's last hurrah.
Prediction: Triple H is far too young to retire and even if he's in the ring part-time, he's far too valuable to the company to be "retired." Although Lesnar needs a win in this situation as well if the WWE is ever going to make him the world title contender he once was, a loss to HHH won't destroy his momentum. In classic Wrestlemania fashion, this one will be decided after a plethora of twists, turns and near-falls, before Triple H wins with the Pedigree in the center of the ring.
The Undertaker vs. CM Punk: The dead man is 20-0 at Wrestlemania and Punk has something to prove after he lost the WWE title to The Rock. With the death of Taker's former manager, Paul Bearer and Punk's mockery of it over the past few weeks, this will be an emotional battle.
Prediction: This one will steal the show. Quite possibly Undertaker's last match, he'll leave it all in the ring. An amazing worker in his own right, Punk will make sure Taker goes out in style. That doesn't mean Punk won't resort to sleazy tactics to win either though. After he runs out of his bag of tricks, expect Punk to win after several successful attempts of his finisher, The Go To Sleep.
WWE Champion The Rock vs. John Cena: The monster rematch from last year, except this time, the WWE title is on the line. After all the talking, the hatred, the blood that divides these two megastars, one will come out victorious with the WWE title.
Prediction: Cena wins after a long battle that sees both stars using all of their offense and even a few moves they haven't done in years. With the cameras flashing and the fans screaming, this will be a well-worked match with a series of climactic moments.
Do you agree? Who do you think will come out victorious this year?


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LISBON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday that the Pentagon remains committed the Lajes Air Base in Portugal's Azores despite deciding to cut personnel and operations there.
Panetta, speaking at a news conference in Lisbon with Portuguese counterpart, Defense Minister Jose Aguiar-Brancoin, also acknowledged that the cutbacks at one of the island's largest employers would be harmful to the area's economy.
"Let me make clear that the United States military is committed to Lajes Air Base," he said. "This is an important air base for us, it has some important airlift capabilities. It will remain a vital part of our global forward posture."
The cuts are expected to save the United States $350 million over 10 years and Panetta, on the first leg of a trip to Europe, outlined U.S. plans to try to help offset the damage.
He said the United States had agreed to delay the transition to reduced service and personnel levels until October 2014. He said the Pentagon would also maintain round-the-clock fire and emergency services at the base, and was committed to hiring three local people for every American stationed there.
He said a group of business executives who work with the Pentagon would soon visit the Azores to look at possibilities for business development in the islands.
The base employs some 650 U.S. military and civilian defense personnel, many of whom live on the island with their families.
The U.S. Defense Department is currently implementing $487 billion in cuts to projected spending over the next decade, a move agreed by Congress and President Barack Obama as part of efforts to cut Washington's huge budget deficits.
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For those of us grown weary of the tortured white male detectives/criminals who occupy so much prime television real estate, "Those Who Kill," which premieres Monday on A&E, offers some small comfort. Not only is the tortured detective lead a woman, she's played by Chloë Sevigny, a performer of inevitable creativity and fearlessness.
Here, she's Catherine Jensen, a new but fiercely brilliant homicide detective in the great city of Pittsburgh. Adapted by Glen Morgan ("The River," "The X-Files") "Those Who Kill" is based on a Danish program of the same name, and if the visual palette is less bleak than other Scandinavian programming, it's bleak enough. The psycho-social tone, meanwhile, is slate gray to ebony; Jensen, like so many TV detectives before her, is driven more by personal trauma than professional ambition.
Also like so many others before her, she seeks aid from an "unlikely" source. In this case, it's academic forensic psychologist Thomas Schaeffer (James D'Arcy), a guy so attuned to the criminal mind that he can feel the "energy of fear" left behind at a crime scene. (That his character bears a disturbing resemblance to Hugh Dancy's Will Graham in NBC's "Hannibal" is not D'Arcy's fault, although his unfortunate decision to sport the same sort of scruffy non-beard as Will may be.)
In the premiere episode, the two come together too quickly, as in with near-miraculous speed, discover and then solve a series of serial murders Before the Killer Strikes Again. Not surprisingly, they are often working at cross-purposes with Jensen's actual, and senior, partner (played by Christopher Michael Holley) and her boss (James Morrison). Indeed, the premiere is as by-the-numbers as it gets in the already bloated genre of moody procedural, enlivened only by a viciously scary killer and, of course, Sevigny, who roils in significant silence even when she is forced to reveal that her character is a cutter.
So, to repeat, some comfort, small in nature.
Still, when a brush with the killer prompts Jensen to admit: "I've been put in a box before," it's difficult not to take the metaphorical leap. Sevigny, and D'Arcy for the matter, may be able to turn "Those Who Kill" into something more than it appears to be in the premiere, but they will have to struggle and strain against the Troubled Detective box in which they find themselves.
A box that Sevigny now shares with several of her former "Big Love" costars: Mireille Enos, who starred in AMC's "The Killing," and Jeanne Tripplehorn, who recently joined the cast of CBS' "Criminal Minds."
That three women would go from a truly ground-breaking show like "Big Love" to broody procedurals (Ginnifer Goodwin at least went to "Once Upon a Time") says quite a lot about the current state of television, no matter what "age" it may be in.
Crime drama, long a television staple, has all but taken over prime time. This year's new hits — NBC's "The Blacklist" and Fox's "Sleepy Hollow," may offer a few significant twists (art thieves, baby farms, demons) but they remain, essentially, investigative procedurals. As is ABC's "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," "Grimm," Fox's "The Following," "Hannibal" and, of course, the slew of more traditional murder-mysteries like ABC's "Castle," Fox's "Bones," CBS' "Bluebloods," and "CSI" and "NCIS" in all their various forms.
ABC's "Scandal," which began as a political-publicity episodic, quickly turned to more murder 'n' mayhem plot lines. Even the more rarefied cable networks remain crime-and-punishment oriented — HBO's "True Detective," FX's "Justified" and "Sons of Anarchy," and Sundance's "Top of the Lake" last year, "Red Road" this year.
That potentially prestige dramas like "Those Who Kill" offer women equal opportunity to the tortured crime-fighter role is both encouraging and disheartening. Crime dramas are popular for many good reasons. They are a familiar, and therefore reassuring, format; they allow writers, and actors, to explore primal human emotions in high-definition circumstances.
They also provide a "natural" showcase for the graphic violence, random sex and personal anguish that has become prerequisites for serious drama.
But familiarity can breed contempt, and the genre is in danger of overexpansion. More and more, shows like "Those Who Kill" serve mostly to reinvigorate our appreciation for series that don't just think outside the box but ignore the box entirely.
AMC's "Mad Men," Showtime's "Masters of Sex," NBC's "Parenthood" and, of course, PBS' "Downton Abbey" manage to create drama without serial killers, disparate timelines or guns among characters dinged by life or even damaged, but not ravaged to the point of nihilism.
Sevigny, like "True Detective's" Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, will no doubt bring something new and even bold to her version of the story. But wouldn't it be better if she were allowed a different type of story altogether?
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U.S. boat owners still struggling with fallout from Mexican tax investigation
At first, Thomas R. Spencer didn't think much about it when he saw tax agents come into the Coral Marina more than three months ago, checking boat by boat.
"I had one gentleman come by the boat and ask to see some papers. I said, 'What do you want to see?' He said, 'Where's the serial number of the boat?' I said I didn't know, just look around," Spencer recalled.
Little did Spencer know that he would be snared in an operation that has led to the broadest and most complicated seizure of foreign-owned sailboats and yachts in Mexico's history, punching a hole in the hull of the nautical tourism industry and even frightening property owners. Marina owners now bail furiously to stay alive.
The impounding of 337 mostly foreign-owned sailboats and yachts at 11 marinas around Mexico on Nov. 26 has affected not only hundreds of American and Canadian boat owners but also marinas, crews, dry docks and, more broadly, Mexico's reputation as a safe and reliable destination for boat lovers.
Nearly half the vessels have subsequently been freed. But at least 190 remain impounded, tied up in red tape and confusion in raids that initially seemed aimed at rooting out tax cheats and boat thieves.
Like many retired American sailors cruising Mexican waters, Spencer had difficulty communicating in Spanish with the federal tax agent the morning he came asking questions. But some things needed no explanation. Mexican marines posted at each wharf "had their big rifles out," and tax agents seemed to mean business.
Spencer started to worry. He contacted the person who surveyed his cutter rig when he bought it back in 1999, asking where he could find the Hull Identification Number, equivalent to a VIN on an automobile.
"He said it's probably on the starboard side of the hull," Spencer recalled.
It was too late. Spencer's 48-foot boat, Symphony, like 336 other mostly foreign-owned sailboats and yachts, was legally impounded, unable to leave harbor.
"There were four dinghies that they also impounded," said Arnulfo Espinoza Rodriguez, the dock master at the Coral Marina. They were the exception. Most of the seized boats were large vessels, a few worth millions of dollars, but "the vast majority are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Many boat owners were not at the marina that day. Since the marina is on the Pacific coast of the Baja Peninsula, only 70 miles south of the U.S. border, owners often leave vessels docked here while living elsewhere.
"If you weren't on a boat, there was an excellent chance you'd be impounded," said Richard Spindler, publisher of Latitude 38, a monthly magazine for sailors published in Mill Valley, Calif.
The problem, Spindler said, is that agents had little knowledge of sailboats, unaware that those built before 1972 were not required to have hull identification numbers. Even after that date, vessels built in Europe or Asia often don't have such a number.
Moreover, boat owners are not required to pay tax or duty if they have a 10-year Temporary Import Permit, which costs around $50.
Anger over the seizures led owners to fill the pages of Latitude 38 with letters of complaint, warning about travel to Mexico, even suggesting that buying real estate in Mexico could be risky amid arbitrary seizures. Many said they had complied with paperwork, provided serial numbers and offered proof that they'd paid for temporary import permits but still couldn't get their vessels back.
"Nobody knew what was going on," Spindler said. "I know of at least one boat that fled Ensenada. They sailed in the middle of the night."
Marina owners grew incensed at the harm the seizures were doing to their industry, and the lengthy delays in releasing impounded boats.
"All of us in the Marina association agree that what the government did was very stupid and unnecessary, and that it has hurt Mexico very much," Tere Grossman, owner of the marina in San Carlos on the Sea of Cortez, wrote this month in Latitude 38.
Grossman, who is also president of the Mexican Marina Owners Association, voiced exasperation with tax authorities in a telephone interview.
"These guys are driving me insane," she said. "They made a big mistake and they don't want to accept it."
Mexico's Tax Service Administration, equivalent to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, declined a request for an interview. But in a Feb. 17 statement, it said auditors already had freed 147 vessels and were doing paperwork to free more.
"With these actions, the government of the republic reiterates its commitment to promote legality and support tourism . . . for the benefit of Mexicans," the statement said, adding that boats were being freed "as their legal status in the country is demonstrated."
None of the boats impounded has proven to be stolen, Grossman said.
A little more than a decade ago, then-President Vicente Fox started what he called a "nautical stairway" program to encourage more marinas to open in Mexico and draw more foreign yachtsmen to the nation. The program gave a strong boost to nautical tourism.
While some of the seized vessels belong to wealthy "one percenters," others are live-aboard sailboats that serve as retirement homes for adventurous wayfarers without deep pockets.
"They don't know if they are going to lose their boats. Some of them sold everything, and all they have is their boat," Grossman said.
Many declined to speak to a reporter, fearing it would not help matters.
"Given the sordid ordeal I have been through since the end of November last year, until the boat is safe and in my hands I will not breathe a sigh of relief nor will I speak to anybody about my experience," one boat owner from Canada's Alberta province said in an email.
Spencer, the owner of Symphony, had better news. The impounding of his vessel was ended in early February. He's still not sure what to make of the experience.
"I've been in Mexico now since 2009. This is the first time I've had any problem," he said.


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Schools out for the summer and it's time for some traveling!!! I had one month to see as much as I could of South Asia. Certainly not enough time to spend in this part of the world, but enough to get a taste and a strong desire to return. I spent my first two weeks traveling around North India, hitting up on Delhi, Jaipur, Agra, and Varanasi before heading up to Nepal. I took so many photos that I decided to divide the pictures into two galleries. If you've made it though my pictures of India, and still feel like taking a look at Nepal, follow this link: http://joeygoertz.smugmug.com/Travel/Amazing-Nepal/13584370_M9Ge6#990710714_HUN6a Also, if your interested in seeing some clips from either country, check out the video: http://joeygoertz.smugmug.com/Videos/India/13716045_t7teV#1002629272_3rS9oRead More
If you are looking at eithor of these galleries, you must leave comments :-) . Enjoy!
If you are looking at eithor of these galleries, you must leave comments :-) . Enjoy!
Jon Kilimnikon November 28, 2010
Hey Joey....
Love the pics and am enjoying your blog as usual.
I am dying to return to India since seeing your pics!!
Nice stuff.


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The Giants started the process of creating cap space this month by releasing several veteran players and it continued with a restructuring of linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka's contract.
Jenny Vrentas of the Newark Star-Ledger reports that the team has gained $1 million in cap space for 2013 by converting $1.5 million of Kiwanuka's guaranteed salary for next season into a signing bonus. The move doesn't cost Kiwanuka any money, but drops his cap figure from $5.125 million to $4.125 million by spreading the hit out over the remaining two years of his deal.
As a result, Kiwanuka will have a slightly higher cap number — about $500,000 — in 2014 and 2015. He doesn't have any guaranteed money headed his way, though, so the Giants could likely revisit the contract again in the future if they want to bring his cap hit to a more manageable level.
Along with the departures of Ahmad Bradshaw, Chris Canty and Michael Boley, the Giants have brought themselves into better shape with the cap. There's likely more work to be done in order to tender their restricted free agents, including Victor Cruz, as well as bring back free agents like tackle Will Beatty and tight end Martellus Bennett, however.


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West Ham United: Randolph, Byram, Fonte, Collins, Masuaku, Noble, Kouyate, Ayew, Lanzini, Antonio snodgrass Subs: Nordtveit, Feghouli, , Adrian, Sakho, carrol Fernandes calleri
ONE GINGER PELÉ ⚒⚒ pic.twitter.com/KzqjUaVqlk April 8, 2017
Swansea City:Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Mawson, Olsson, Fer, Cork, Carroll, Routledge, J Ayew, Sigurdsson, Subs: Amat, Sung-yueng, Nordfeldt, Montero,Narsingh, Kingsley,
La Vida Hammer
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 14:12
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 14:53
And Snodgrass starting instead of Carroll? I don't get it. If you wanted your best 11 I can't believe you leave AC on the bench.
Wait: sth strange in these team sheets. Swansea include: Fernandez, Carroll, Ayew, Nordfeldt, McBsnodgrass. If all of them play, and if we play Fernandes, Carroll, Ayew, Nordveidt and Snodgrass, it could be a commentator's nightmare. Is this for real?
Deluded Hammer
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 14:29
A white flag to me.
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 14:38
Try and keep the faith people, COYI!
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 14:52
Need the WH Fans at stadium in full voice if you can read us.
La Vida Hammer
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 15:05
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 15:40
Callieri on. Going from bad to worse.
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 15:42
Sakhos on the bench, hope Bilic goes bold and brings him and Carroll on in the 2nd half
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 15:44
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 15:45
Great strike!
Red Neck Iron
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 16:00
Good strike dreadful first half, looks like the same people trying whilst the others not too worried. Calleri on for Antonio! Words fail me bilic, you are an idiot.
Dartford Bhoy
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 20:38
fantastic goal but I am still not happy with his performance. Watched him closely throughout the game and his interceptions and tackles were nonexistent, a marked change from last season. I was more impressed with tackles from Byram and Musaka. It was a key part of our play and success from last season along with a never say die attitude.
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 15:59
Right no fkg sitting back in the second half, lets go for the second goal...COYI!
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 16:20
Could do with a second to settle the nerves. Time for Carroll?
Dicks is the man
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 16:48
why do managers have this fixation on players where they cant see how rubbish they are? what is with this calleri love fest? hes pants. carroll or sakho 100 times better
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 16:49
That underlines the gulf in ability. Lanzini is world class, Calleiri is second class
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 16:55
Callieri shouldn't be on the pitch
Collins was defender AND goalkeeper
What were Sakho and Carroll doing on the bench?
Loss of Antonio is big
Might still need points at Sunderland
Well, who cares -- that might just about see us safe this season. Whoo hoo.
Red Neck Iron
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 22:31
Phew but was there a worse game for us? Calleri is NOT a footballer! He doesn't even play with his head up! No shot, poor control, can't read the game. He reminded me of the Sunday footballer you stick up front just because you have no one else and well at least he can run about a bit. 3 points is everything. For me ginger pele motm, closely followed by Lanzini and nobes. Byram solid. Maskaku, fonte, snodgrass and apart from his goal kouyate were all totally anonymous! Why snodgrass got annoyed by his substitution baffles me.
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 17:21
Totally agree with the motm there Red Neck, we deserved that today though even though it was a very poor football match.
When Antonio went off and Noble getting booked (with the two match suspension), I thought here we go we are going to get beaten but to be fair play there was a real gutsy effort by the players epitomised by Ginge at the centre of defense....He was magnificent.
Swansea were piss poor and never looked like scoring but we are missing a load of first team players.....We won today without them!
Red Neck Iron
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 22:38
Yep 65 pretty much agree with your Antonio and nobes take on things and with calleri coming on I though ugh here we go again it just keeps getting worse! Much as I moaned about the game there was a sense that some of the players were gutsy and maybe trying hard just to get some of the basic right.
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 03:50
Managed to keep a clean sheet, and it seemed like the last two matches (well, the first half against Arsenal) they were working to shore up the defence. That could explain too why they look so unbelievably tentative at times -- deliberate, perhaps. Ayew had so many opportunities, I thought, to turn it on and push up, but so often he held things up and then the attack just dissipated. But maybe in these dire circumstances you have to walk before you can run. Collins was just the sort of player we needed for a match like this -- there wasn't anybody who was going to outmanoeuvre him or show him up with that extra bit of style, so his physical capabilities, which count for a lot, were used to the best effect. So many times I've been glad to have him in our side.
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 19:13
I was at the game Ashes seems Carroll had a slight groin strain and word had it Bilic would have put him on if we were chasing the game, Sakho was not risked again (and only a rumour) being kept for Sunderland match.
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 17:00
What a dreadful game. Got the win which was great given our poor form of late, hope this turns our performances around. Positives were Kouyates goal, Lanzini - class as always, Byram (getting better and better) and the ginger beast James Collins. Callieri should be released immediately, not good enough for league 1 even... Sunderland should be for the taking but for crying out loud play Caroll and Sakho!
Red Neck Iron
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 17:17
Surely he could have given sakho 15 mins at least, just to help him get up to speed for coming games, because if. Carroll hasn't fully recovered we are stuck with (wait for it,) Jonathan calleri up front with his magic boots and masterful football brain.
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 17:25
it's possible we can get 3 points next week, though I wouldn't count on it. there's so many players should depart in the summer. And we can't count on anyone good coming in.
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 17:40
Great to get 3 points. Had great day at grand national. Backed 10 horses between us but not the winner. 2 winners in other races. Hammers winning makes up for not backing winner in big race.lots of hammers fans here too.
Sat, 08/04/2017 - 22:30
It seems crazy when you have Carroll AND Sakho on the bench that you don't use them. Callieri was dreadful. On one header opportunity you would have thought AC would bury that in the back of the net. 2-0 game over. Instead we had another nail-biter. Maybe he's saving one of them for Sunderland and the other for Burnley ...
Dicks is the man
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 10:57
i agree ashes, bringing calleri on was an abomination. the shop was full of fresh, succulent turkeys but Bilic went for the last, dry and plastic skinned turkey in the shop.
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 00:12
today and good to see SO much more fight and spirit than Wednesday night. Collins was an absolute brick in defence.
Antonio is going to be a massive loss, though.
Isn't it amazing that the MOTD 'dodos' never ONCE mentioned Chekhou's great strike in their post match 'analysis'?
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 03:44
that was a great strike, and deserved mention.
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 05:00
But let's be realistic, if the opposition had any sort of class we would have lost. Next week is a must win as that should get us past the post but it's Sunderland, we all know that Defoe will score against us so where are the 2 goals that we will need going to come from. Callieri is shit so unless we play a striker either Carroll or Sakho we are no certainties. I know we need him desperately but I would not even contemplate using Antonio until he is 100 % as I would hate to see him do any more damage. Captain Courageous Mark Noble will miss the next 2 games due to his yellow card, what a waste but he is susceptible to the odd brain snap so nothing we can do about it. I must agree with the other comments on here about Collins, he and Lanzini where our best on ground but Callieri and Snodgrass for me where our worst, how Snodgrass can carry on like he did when coming off made me laugh, he has been shit since he arrived except or his first game. Byram had a better game and you could see with his last effort what his teammates thought of him, great defence. The time for me is right to put Adrian back in, a couple of times on corners in the game Randolph looked completely out of sorts but luckily Collins was there to cover. Next week will be interesting.
Red Neck Iron
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 09:15
Must admit I didn't expect Swansea to be so bad, but I agree if it was on another day the performance would have won us nothing. If we win next week that should pretty much be enough, so it may be worth risking people like Carroll and/or sakho. Defies pace and mobility is gona be a big problem for us with pele and fonte at the back. I'd like to see far more of fernandes than we currently are. Ginge in fonte out.
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 07:55
poor performance, but a great result. Pride West Ham. COYI
moore 6 legend
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 08:21
Mon, 10/04/2017 - 07:10
Glad Nev put the link in the top of the thread. Really shows what that means to the Big Ginger Pele. In a scrap, that's the spirit you want in the team.
moore 6 legend
Mon, 10/04/2017 - 08:00
Nice 1 nev X and Yes mate,theres your captain for sunderland
Red Neck Iron
Mon, 10/04/2017 - 11:04
I thought the same myself m6. Captain v sunderland
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 09:08
Went to the game yesterday,nervy affair & when calleri came on i had no nails left on my fingers!!
But to be fair to the team they showed a lot of fight,albeit we were fortunate swansea didnt turn up.
But a 6 pointer & has gave us a bit of breathing space,& nice to see how much it meant to slav at the end.
moore 6 legend
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 09:31
Yeah,that bit of magic from lanzini,calleri could have made a name for himself,poor volley dave,but just glad we got over the line COYI
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 11:27
Your not wrong stan about calleri,reckon i could have buried that pass from the little gem!!
La Vida Hammer
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 10:58
Dartford Bhoy
Sun, 09/04/2017 - 20:42
but getting better by the game for me. I hope he will develop to the potential that is clearly there unlike Calleri who doesnt know if his backside is drilled or countersunk when it comes to scoring goals!
Red Neck Iron
Mon, 10/04/2017 - 11:06
Dartford your assessment of ayew and calleri sounds about right to me.


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New mom Kim Kardashian was forced to abandon her elaborate plans to dodge the paparazzi when she gave birth last month after doctors urged the reality star to deliver her daughter five weeks ahead of schedule.
The socialite welcomed little North with her rapper boyfriend Kanye West on June 15, and her mom, Kris Jenner, reveals she and her daughter faced a mad dash to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for the birth when doctors told the socialite to drop what she was doing and get ready for labor.
During the premiere of her new program, "The Kris Jenner Show" on Monday, she explained, "I was doing (TV show) 'Good Day L.A.,' they had sent a limo for me to do it. I was off-line as it's live TV. I hate opening my BlackBerry after that, and then I've got an email from Kim marked 'urgent.' (It said,) 'I have to have the baby today. Get here today, fast!'"
Jenner quickly made plans to get home, pick up her pregnant daughter and hop into a decoy vehicle at a local hotel, where they ran into Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who was helping Kardashian plan a Father's Day surprise for West – a signed computer mouse.
She continued, "We get to the hotel, and we're so smooth, but. .. (then) I see Steve Wozniak and his wife, Janet, standing in the foyer. Kim then heads over like nothing's wrong to chat to Steve and Janet. She's acting like she's at a cocktail party and I'm panicking. Finally we get in the getaway car. And Kim lies down and then yells, 'Mom! Hit the floor!' We're in a Mini-Cooper and there was no room, but I did it."
The last-minute production went off without a hitch and Kardashian and her mom eventually made their way into the hospital through the kitchen and via a secret elevator unnoticed.
During Jenner's show, she also duped fans into thinking she was debuting little North on the program by walking onstage with a dark-haired baby in her arms, but the tot actually belonged to her stylist.
Joking about the prank, she said, "Kim's just got to do that on her own time. Let her have her privacy for a little bit and calm down. And when she comes out, she comes out."


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New simulations reveal that turbulence created by jets of material ejected from the Universe's largest black holes can stop stars from forming.
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posted by Plus @ 10:25 AM
New simulations reveal that turbulence created by jets of material ejected from the Universe's largest black holes can stop stars from forming.
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posted by Plus @ 10:25 AM
Summer is the season for music festivals, and why not take in some science between acts by visiting the Guerilla Science tent at the Secret Garden Party this weekend. Plus was particularly tempted by dancing with fractals on Thursday 23rd with Impossible Objects, catching rays with Helen Mason on Friday 24th, hunting for Higgs with John Butterworth and searching for symmetry with Ben Allanach on Saturday 25th, and the Beatbox laboratory on Sunday 26th July.
Find out more about Guerilla Science at the Secret Garden Party on their website, and find out about Our dynamic sun from Helen Mason and Particle hunting at the LHC from Ben Allanach on Plus. And check out the Guerilla Science Freestyle featuring Ben!
posted by Plus @ 1:29 PM
Consumers, financial institutions, and most importantly regulators did not understand the risks being taken in the financial markets. That was one of the main causes of the current financial crisis according to the Government white paper, Reforming the financial markets, released last week. It is clear to all players in the financial market that they need to make more accurate assessments of the risks they and others are taking. But will they be able to take the more scientific approach needed for a deeper understanding of financial risks, when they were so easily bewitched by unproven claims that you can turn financial lead into gold?
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posted by Plus @ 10:22 PM
Happy to know about maths all over the world.
Yes we're in crisis - but this started with sub-prime and mortgage transactions in the USA, and we got sucked in as has everyone else because we're all hanging on their coat-tails.
And the USA does have proper scientific representtion in Government.
I agree with your comment about Alchemy, but you are almost implying that we might have avoided the crisis with a proper scientific adviser in the UK: desirable as it might be, this is a non-sequitur.
Sounds like the markets became the meerkats...
...case of never mind the maths, just feel the profit...
There have always been bubbles - wonder what the next one will be?
Did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad really win a landslide election on the 12th of June 2009? Many believe that he didn't, but only a full election re-run scrutinised by independent observers would bring absolute certainty. With this possibility thoroughly off the cards, as the Guardian Council has made clear, some analysts have had a long and hard look at the figures released by the very government accused of doing the rigging, to see if they reveal evidence of fraud.
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My name is R. Mansilla. I work at National Autonomous University of Mexico. After professor Mebane, we used Benford Law to test a fraud in the 2006 presidential election here in Mexico. The results could be found at:
Fancy crashing through the sound barrier in a rocket propelled car that goes all the way up to 1000mph? Well, we can't give you that experience, but we can get you as close as any maths magazine ever will. Last week we interviewed Andy Green, currently the fastest man on Earth (and Oxford maths graduate), who's now gearing up to break his own land speed record in his Bloodhound SSC — a pencil shaped car powered by a Eurofighter aircraft engine. The car is currently being simulated on super computers, exploiting the full power of computational fluid dynamics and all sorts of other bits of engineering maths, and it's just about to move into the construction phase.
You will be able to read our interview and an article on the maths that makes Bloodhound possible in the September issue of Plus, but meanwhile go and visit the Bloodhound SSC website. It tells you all there is to know about this engineering adventure, the car, and the team behind it. There's a substantial education programme associated to the project — you can sign up for engineering and maths based teaching resources, from instructions to build your own balloon powered car to experimenting with the speed of sound. You can also sign up for an email newsletter, or follow Bloodhound on Twitter.
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Scientists/cricket geeks have shown that the weather has a significant effect on the results of the Ashes cricket series between Australia and England when the series is held in Australia. The Australian cricket team is more likely to succeed after El Niño years, while the English cricket team does better following La Niña years, the opposite phase when the weather is cooler and wetter. But how significant is this effect and should the teams change their strategies accordingly?
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|Nonagricultural employment of minors
|Applies to every person that employs one or more minors, or who permits, allows, or suffers one or more minors to work at a site or workplace, on premises, or under work conditions controlled by that employer, except for those employers statutorily exempted.
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|Payroll Deduction
|The current payroll deductions rules (WAC 296-126-025) are in conflict with the statute and have been since the ruling of University of Washington v. Pope. This Court case addressed which deductions are permitted and that they were only permitted from the workers termination wages. The proposed wording also includes two new sections (WAC 296-126-028 and WAC 296-126-030) for wage deductions during on-going employment and adjustments for overpayments.
|Prevailing wage
|Various administrative and other requirements for prevailing wage rules. Coveres and defines different types of contractors.
|Minimum wages
|Provisions for wage recordkeeping, and minimum wage regulations for handicapped workers, students, and apprentices
|Family care
|Serves to establish a minimum standard allowing an employee to use the employee's sick leave or other paid time off to care for a sick family member.
|Agricultural employment standards
|Apply to persons employed in agricultural labor. The standards in this chapter beginning at WAC 296-131-100 apply only to minors employed in agricultural labor. The standards in this chapter do not apply to the immediate family members of the officers of any business engaged in agricultural production of crops or livestock.
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|Domestic Violence Leave
|Applies to all employees and employers. This allows victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking to take reasonable leave from work paid or unpaid to take care of legal or law enforcement needs and obtain health care. Family members of a victim may also take reasonable leave to help the victim obtain treatment or seek help.


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Jake Reeder, Riley Johnson and Trent Benedict make movies. And thanks to Web-era delivery systems like MySpace.com and YouTube, the Knoxville teenagers have reached an audience outside the confines of the bedroom community six miles southeast of Galesburg.
Jake Reeder, Riley Johnson and Trent Benedict are blowing up in this town of not quite 3,000.
Kids in the junior high, teachers -- from the high school and neighbors up and down South Street know their names. If all fame is relative, this trio of 15-year-olds will be billboard before long.
Reeder, Johnson and Benedict make movies. Along with actor Mitch Palmer, the freshmen at Knoxville High School founded Jumping River Monkey Productions and have made over 20 short films -- under-six-minute comedies and spoof flicks-- since the summer of 2007. Thanks to Web-era delivery systems like MySpace.com and YouTube, the three have reached an audience outside the confines of the bedroom community six miles southeast of Galesburg.
"We went to a basketball game at Rockridge and some kid walked up to us and asked if we were the guys from JRM Productions," Johnson said. "We told him we were, and he just said 'I really like your movies' and then he walked away.
"It was awesome."
Two of JRM Productions' most popular offerings are "Living Life in the Fast Lane" and "Breakfast," which each have over 1,000 views. Titles like "Boo Lassey the Magician," "Griffey and Riley" and "The Big Catch" have been viewed over 500 times apiece.
A whimsical ghost story that opens to the strains of John Carpenter's theme from "Halloween," "The Haunting of Jake Reeder" leads the pack with over 1,700 views.
Reeder, Johnson and Benedict didn't set out to be Knoxville's version of an entertainment factory. Armed with a Sony H-7 digital camera and a couple of laptop computers, the teenagers were just goofing off when they started.
"We always watched other people's videos on the Web and then we saw some of the stuff that Riley's cousin was doing," Reeder said. "I thought it was pretty cool, so we just started making a few of our own."
Johnson and Benedict credited Reeder as the driving creative force behind the videos.
"Jake thinks up the stories. He's always thinking of something," Johnson said. "All three of us have homeroom together and Jake has a notebook that he writes all his ideas in. He's always writing something down in there.
"Trent and I have fun and we like to do the filming. But Jake is the one who has the ideas."
Reeder caught the production-value bug, learned how to make on-camera special effects and taught himself simple editing techniques on programs like Windows Movie Maker and Sony's Vegas Studio.
Now, most JRM Productions videos take a few hours to shoot and a number of days to edit, sync music and lay down graphics.
"The first stuff we did was pretty bad," Reeder said. "But we learned how to do stuff like title overlays just by experimenting. It's fun."
Fun that hasn't -- for the most part -- offended adult sensibilities. The Reeder and Johnson parents have embraced their sons' newest passion.
"My first reaction was a little nervous because they were posting stuff on the web," Reeder's mom Kelly Schmidt said. "But it was obvious they were getting a lot of enjoyment out of it.
"Then people starting watching the videos. Now, when I go to work, people are watching them and looking for the new videos. I see how much fun other people are having with it."
Riley's mom, Dana Johnson, said she had just one concern when her son embarked on a digital-driven hobby.
"My only concern is that they have to be responsible with it," Dana Johnson said. "Other kids are looking up to them and adults -- including teachers -- are watching the videos they make.
"I did have to put my foot down once."
Dana Johnson demanded cuts from the "Griffey and Riley" short Reeder and his cohorts complied. Parents and filmmakers said viewers shouldn't expect the deleted scenes to be restored any time soon.
"There won't be a director's cut of 'Griffey and Riley.' The stuff is gone," Reeder said. "We had to erase it."
While portions of 'Griffey and Riley' had to be redacted, plenty of JRM Productions' work shows a slyer, more subtle -- Dana Johnson said "edgy" -- sense of comedic commentary. Titles like "Lunch: A Tribute to Knoxville High School's Lunch System" and "Breaking the Law" poke good-natured fun at authority.
People get the jokes. Teachers in the Knoxville school system have shown the films to their classes and offered the boys encouragement.
Johnson, who serves as JRM Productions' business manager, has bigger plans.
"One of our teachers called Ellen (DeGeneres) to see if we could be on her show," he said. "And we have a foreign exchange student at Knoxville this year. She said she was going to get her friends in Germany to watch our videos."
While Johnson and Benedict admit they are having fun and riding a wave, Reeder said he has long-term plans.
"I think I would like to go on and make movies," he said. "I think about that a lot."
And whether the future is near or far, Jake said being a YouTube filmmaker has perks.
"It's a great way to meet girls," He said. "Oh yeah."
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BALTIMORE – An Aberdeen, Md., auto dealership violated federal law when it fired an office worker soon after she disclosed that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today against Adams Jeep of Maryland, Inc.
In its suit (Civil Action No. 1:11-cv-02813) filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division, the EEOC charges that Adams Jeep harassed and discharged Amy Smith based on her disability, bipolar disorder, and her record of disability. The suit also charges that Smith was denied a reasonable accommodation of medical leave based on her disability and record of disability.
According to the suit, the EEOC says that Smith had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in or around March 2010. She began her employment in October 2009 as a telephone operator and was promoted to an accounts payable/receivables position. At the time of her diagnosis, Smith disclosed her disorder to the Office Manager and Assistant Manager. Soon after, the assistant manager, in the presence of the General Manager and Office Manager, called Smith a "pill popper" and "psycho." While out on a medical leave of absence and under doctor's care, Smith was fired.
Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits employers from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in employment. An employer is required to make a reasonable accommodation to the known disability of a qualified applicant or employee if it would not impose an undue hardship on the operation of the employer's business.
The EEOC filed suit under the Americans With Disabilities Act, (ADA), as amended through the ADA Amendments of 2008, and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement. The complaint seeks monetary and injunctive relief, including back wages, compensatory damages, the creation of and effective dissemination of effective anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, training and punitive damages for its callous indifference to Smith's federally protected rights to be free from discrimination based on disability.
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Sabourin unleashed a stream of outbursts — "He's lying!" for instance — that prompted a judge to warn that he might remove her from court. PHOTOS: Alec Baldwin in His Element: 9 Photos of the New York Actor Baldwin sometimes came close to playing director, dilating on points he wanted to make, telling Sabourin's lawyer he sounded nervous and musing about having thought of turning Sabourin's voicemail messages into a play. And the famously testy actor left court with an acerbic comment for news photographers. Baldwin and the Manhattan district attorney's office say it's a case of an acquaintance with a movie star turning into harassment. Sabourin says it was a romance that fell apart. Baldwin, 55, said he met Sabourin at a lunch with a mutual friend in 2000 in Montreal, where Baldwin was filming a cameo in the sci-fi comedy The Adventures of Pluto Nash. Sabourin, 41, hails from the Montreal suburb of Candiac and was working as a publicist for the movie. She also has appeared in some Canadian films and TV series. Ten years later, the friend asked Baldwin for a favor, the actor testified: Would he give some career advice to Sabourin? PHOTOS: Alec Baldwin's Crazy Summer So Baldwin and Sabourin met at a New York restaurant in 2010 for what he characterizes as an hour-long chat about her acting prospects and she calls a romantic dinner that ended in a sexual tryst, which Baldwin adamantly denies. Baldwin says he communicated with her afterward only to convey suggestions about acting classes, but she quickly shifted to professing her love and pleading for his. She began leaving as many as 30 voicemail messages a night and sent a raft of emails that grew increasingly ominous in March 2012. 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First of all, how's everybody doing? I've been away from the forum for quite a long time... probably a few years actually. I stopped playing KA for a while after I started having trouble finding time to play and I started getting impatient with the little quirks this game presents on occasion when modding it.
But, I've gotten the itch again, and I've been wanting to get back into the game. I've still got the issue of never having enough time, but I tried playing Bridge Commander, and Star Trek Online is kind of fun, but it just isn't the same. I don't know what it is about KA, but it's just the best ST game that's ever come out, and probably the best Star Ship simulator for that matter. I've seen some new mods that have come out that really excite me, simple stuff usually, like weapon mods for Fed ships that make them fire more like they do in the show/movies as well as some really detailed and intricate remodels of ships.
Anyway... this is the suggestion forum, so surely I must have some sort of suggestion, no? Well here it is... and it's probably been made before (I haven't done THAT good of a job of lurking) but here it is... I know it would take a LOT of time and effort on the part of those among us who know how to program and work with the game engine and all of its inner workings, and maybe it's just impossible given the age of it... but here goes. (Have I got you on the edge of your seat yet?)
Using the game engine to create a sort of free-to-play KA/Star Trek MMO. Well, perhaps MMO isn't really the proper word for it, maybe a better term would be a persistent game world where people can come and go and play together. If any of you have ever played Day-Z you may understand where I'm coming from with when I say that. It starts with a download for everybody who is interested to get, with standardized ships, weapons, systems and all that... everything is the same. The pick of the litter with each respective mod is used, and balanced for the sake of gameplay, optimized to run smooth and reliably. (A few of you are laughing right now, and it's okay... I don't blame you for thinking I'm insane right now) There would be (a) centralized server(s) where people could log on and explore, battle, or whatever.
A player starts off in the system of their respective faction's home world (and playable factions can/should be limited for the sake of simplicity) and they can warp around anywhere they want... if they encounter another player in their travels, it is up to them how they deal with it. I mean... just thinking of all the possibilities is exciting. Of course, the game engine won't allow for any sort of leveling or mission system on the fly (I don't think at least) so fleets with Admirals, Captains, and other such ranks may be a way for people to advance, or perhaps league play where people are allowed to use certain class ships and what not.
I dunno, I haven't really hashed out all the details, I just miss playing Klingon Academy in its hay day. Nothing matches the satisfaction of blowing a huge chunk of your opponent's ship away, or defeating a ship much more powerful than yours using nothing but your wits and some creative thinking in a PvP situation. No other Star Trek game has ever really been able to match that.


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The union reminded its 2,000 players Saturday about the dangers of concussions and that there will be a new set of eyes on the sidelines this season.
ESPN obtained an email from NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, who told the players about the league's concussion guidelines and also made them aware of the independent medical specialists who will be on each sideline during games.
"Before you all take the field tomorrow, we wanted to make sure that you were aware of ... important changes we have implemented to protect your health and safety.
"First, as the NFL announced at the Super Bowl -- at our insistence -- they have agreed to have 'Unaffiliated Neuro-trauma Consultants' this season. These experts are independent of any Club, are specialized in concussion treatment, and are there to observe or perform all concussion examinations.
"... We will continue to stress the importance of workplace safety. If any of you have questions about either of these developments, or if you want to raise issues, please contact your player representative."
The concussion experts, who will not be paid by the teams, either will be neurologists, emergency medical doctors or EMTs with head-trauma expertise. They will "make the determination of whether a player should be taken to locker room for the concussion IMPACT test, which is now programmed into an iPad and will take 8 to 12 minutes to complete," ESPN wrote.
Fox Sports reported Smith said in the same letter that the NFLPA is keeping a close eye on field conditions. That's a heightened worry after it was feared that Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III might have aggravated a knee injury during last season's playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks because of poor sod at FedEx Field.
"Given some of the issues that we witness with respect to unsafe field conditions last year," Smith wrote in the email, which was obtained by Fox Sports, "an NFLPA field inspector will attend and observe NFL-conducted field-testing sessions to ensure the playing surface is as safe as possible."
For now, there will be one field inspector for the union. He will coordinate with the league and teams on which field or fields he will monitor each week.
Smith wrote about the importance of stressing "workplace safety," which includes making sure the natural and artificial playing conditions are up to par and not, as Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said of FedEx Field's grass in the days following RGIII's injury, "horrible."
-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor